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Eisenhower Dollar Die States

“Die State” is a way of expressing the appearance of dies as they age.

On struck coins, increasing die age appears as increasingly crude metal flow off minor devices, as muddled details and as “die flow lines” (increasing coarse generally radial lines seen in fields and on major devices).

Del Romaines laid out the typical appearance of coin dies as they age, expressed in percent of the die’s life.   He determined for all coin metals and sizes (except Ikes which he did not study) that his percentages hold for all the series he studied, even though the absolute production numbers change as a function of coin size and hardness of planchet metal

The Ike Group proposes that the much larger Ike coupled with its hard and abrasive CuNI-clad layer not only wore out the W-1 steel dies used for the 1971 and most 1972 Ikes faster than dies in other series but the dies also aged prematurely within that framework.  We found that Del’s definitions and percentages did not apply to 71-2 Ikes and suggested revised definitions based on use of a 10 X loupe.

The dies used for the 1973 and on Ikes, however, do fit well into Del’s die-state framework except these Ike dies were not pushed as hard as the dies of other series so a greater proportion of these Ikes are in earlier die states.   Even so, it’s likely these dies produced 250,000 Ikes on average thanks to the newly employed 52100 die steel.

Del Romaines, the father of Die States

The “state” of a die is the amount of wear it shows.  Credit Del Romines with the first serious attempt to match die states (the degree of die wear) with the numbers of coins struck in each die state.  Working meticulously in the 1980’s and 1990’s, his research provided the first understanding of just how fast dies age through their die states.  Del proved that dies spend more then half their life in a state of heavy wear.

Del determined the production of each die state expressed as a percentage of average die life and arrived at the conclusion that these percentages held for all dies regardless of size or hardness of the planchets being struck.  He did not include Ikes in his studies, however.

Here are Del’s definitions and percentages for the Die State parameters he created.  Note that Del’s primary work was on cents where the smaller letter devices can wash out more severely in advancing die states than is the case with the lettering on Ikes:

  • Very Early Die State (VEDS):  0 – 0.21% of a die’s average life;   has “the intact original die surfaces” (usually  not flat-smooth and sometimes showing microscopic die cracks (“heat checks” from the final die hardening heat treatment)) “with no metal movement lines” (die flow lines) except microscopic beginning just as a die enters EDS.
  • Early Die State (EDS):  0.21 – 2.63% - has “only very minor metal movement lines, normally starting from the designs that are the highest relief in relation to the field and will run from the letter, date, or design toward the rim.  All macroscopic detail will be as sharp as VEDS”  (“macroscopic” means visible to naked eye).
  • Middle Die State (MDS): 2.63 – 9.13% - will have “lost all of the microscopic markings of the new die and some of the macroscopic designs will have begun to fade.  On a doubled die coin, some divisions and/or separation lines will have blended with the doubling and will create an appearance of Class VI (Class VI is a type of doubled die (hub doubled die) without separation so letters typically just appear broader).  Heavy metal flow lines will be evident on the tops of all or most lettering near the rim in the form of a sloped, lined smear and the lettering no longer has sharp edges” (somewhat paraphrased and expanded for clarity).
  • Late Die State (LDS): 9.13 – 35% - coins “will have lost most of the macroscopic detail.  Very heavy metal flow lines will be evident”.
  • Very Late Die State (VLDS)35% and on - coins “will have lost all major detail.  The metal flow lines will be extremely heavy and in many cases may join the lettering to the rim with very heavy lines which are almost solid at times.

Del began his die state research in the 1970’s by gathering over a thousand 1960 obverse doubled die Lincoln cents (2-R-VI) to arrive at a tight range of mintages for each die state.  Why the DDO Lincoln?  Because it is a one-die coin!  He placed each DDO cent in the pile that corresponded to one of his 5 defined die states and thereby developed a population and percentage for each die state.  Was that a meticulous piece of work, a labor of love, or what!

In 1996 Del published in the March-April edition of CONECA’s ErrorScope the only account of his die state research in a numismatic journal.  In that article, and in other accounts provided by his private publication and comments by others who knew him well, Del expanded and slightly revised his die state percentages to encompass gold and silver coins, nickels, clad quarters and clad half dollars.   He knew that average die production (average number of coins struck per die) varied with the size and metal of the coin being struck but he found that the percentage struck in each die state was basically the same.

As to some reasonably hard production numbers, here is part of a 1972 US Mint report on average obverse die production for the various 1971 coins (the reverse dies lasted about 20% longer):

One Cent                    1,000,000
Five Cent                       170,000
Twenty Five Cent       155,000
Fifty Cent                      150,000
One Dollar                    100,000

Nickel-clad Ike Dollar Die States

Del never studied the Eisenhower Dollar.   The authors suspect if he had tried (and he may have), the change to more resilient 52100 die steel in late 1972 would have made his meticulous approach difficult, especially since there is no way he could have accumulated large one-die samples of a one-die Ike let alone a one-die 1971-1972 Ike and a one-die 1973-and-on Ike.

The Ike Group therefore took up the challenge, looking at Ikes from a die-state perspective, examining separately those struck with struck with W-1 tool steel (1971 and most 1972 Ikes, hereafter “71-2 Ikes”), and those struck with the more resilient 52100 tool steel (1973-and-on, hereafter “73-on Ikes”).

’71-2 Ike Die States

We found Eisenhower ’71-2 dies did not behave as Del described:

  1. Metal flow off minor devices generally was toward the central device more than toward the rim (Figure 1).
  2.  Die flow lines seemed to occur and advance faster than Del described (Figure 2).
  3. At times, the most severe die flow lines occurred in regions of greatest change in relief on the central device and these changes were often more advanced than one would expect based on die-flow smearing of the minor devices (Figure 4):  at other times, the strongest flow lines were in the fields and the central device remained smooth.
  4. Minor devices held up better than one would expect based on Del’s definitions.
  5. Some ’71-2 Ikes displayed premature “orange skin” on the central device, normally a marker of LDS and VLDS, well in advance of any “heavy flow lines” on the field or “smearing” of letter devices (Figure 5).

Die Flow Lines and Orange Skin  -  “What causes die flow lines and Orange Skin?” you ask.  Good question!   A coin being struck is subject to roughly 100 tons per square inch pressure:  this pressure is great enough to cause some molecules of die steel and some molecules of the tough copper-nickel alloy of the planchet’s outer layers to penetrate each other’s surfaces, that is, to become inter-woven and bonded.

As the planchet metal becomes somewhat plastic under the intense pressure, it “flows” to and into the rim and the central device.  This flow rips some die steel molecules out of the die’s surface.  It’s a kind of erosion, akin to a sandy or gravel bank exposed to water flow.  Inevitably tiny crevices form and continually coalesce and enlarge until one has large-scale erosion patterns.  The process of flow erosion on a die’s surface is similar.   Die flow lines in some regions of the die start small and get larger and larger as a die ages, generally wherever the change in relief is greatest or wherever in the fields the linear flow toward either rim or central device is greatest.

“Orange Skin” may be akin to the pattern of nodes and valleys that form when waves (die-flow lines) come at each other from different directions, perhaps due to a die settling somewhat.  We think Orange Skin may be more prevalent in the 71-2 Ikes than it is in other coin series and certainly more prevalent than in 73-on Ikes because of the severe “die sink” problem the Mint encountered with its 71-2 W1 die steel.  In other words, more severe die settling caused more significant changes in planchet metal flow directions as the die aged.

Planchet Metal Flow Zone of Balance  -  The authors suggest that planchet metal flow in smaller denominations starts from a “zone of balance” roughly midway between rim and central device such that planchet metal flows a relatively short distance from that zone toward the rim and a relatively short distance from that zone toward the central device.  We think that the Ike’s much larger central device volume (think of volume as the cube of linear dimensions) may have moved the “zone of balance” closer to the rim, perhaps somewhere within the peripheral letter devices rather than between those devices and the central device.  If we are correct, these minor devices would have suffered less die-flow erosion compared to smaller coins and it could be seen in either direction rather than just toward the rim.

Not only is the Ike significantly larger than other modern coins, the flow distance from the zone of balance to the central device would be disproportionately longer.

Since die wear would be proportional to the volume and distance the planchet metal moved as well as the hardness and abrasiveness of the planchet’s surface metal, we have a good explanation for the relatively short life span of Ike dies (see TABLE 1) as well as the earlier appearance of “flow lines” on Ikes compared to any other coin.

Ikes show Variable Changes as They Age  -  Compounding these observations and deductions, 71-2 Ikes vary considerably in the manner each shows its age.  Some Ike dies maintained or achieved an almost pristine central device while the fields became deeply furrowed.  Some dies show early smearing of IN (IN GOD WE TRUST) before significant flow lines developed there.  Many Ikes show premature orange peel on their central devices.  In fact, if the die state of individual 71-2 Ikes was determined by their individually most advanced localized changes, 95% of ’71-2 Ikes would have to be categorized as LDS and VLDS.

One approach to dealing with this dilemma would be that used in grading coins, multi-factorial analysis that weighs a number of die-state “grading” factors simultaneously to arrive at a single composite die state “grade”.  The authors suggest formalizing such a system for 71-2 Ike die states would be exceedingly difficult and not worth the time and effort – especially since there is an easier approach.

Adjusting Del’s Die State Definitions for 71-2 Ikes  -  While the authors have the utmost respect for Del’s pioneering work, we feel that making the 10 X loupe the defining parameter for die state determination is a good approach for 71-2 Ikes:

  • VEDS – no die flow lines visible under a 10X loupe anywhere on the coin.
  • EDS – earliest 10X die flow lines but no significant 10X smearing of any device.
  • MDS – substantial 10X die flow lines beginning and early 10X smearing of most minor devices.
  • LDS – marked 10X flow lines and moderate 10X smearing of most minor devices.
  • VLDS – coarse die flow lines and marked 10X and/or naked-eye smearing of some minor devices.

We think these definitions are clear, require only a loupe, and result in 71-2 Ike die-state percentages that are in line with Del’s percentages.  It is possible that our definitions would work well on other denominations, arriving at the same relative percentages as Del.   Our definitions might also prove more “user friendly” and thus help propel die states into the center of numismatic study and collecting.   Our hobby has exploded with the advent of TPGs and Internet venues:  think of the revolution an appreciation of die states could bring.  We might all start “seeing” die states very much the way we look for, “see” and pay for higher mint-state grades

 ’73-on Ike Die States

We believe both Del’s die-state definitions and our own work reasonably well with 73-on Ikes because the 52100 die steel Ike dies behaved like smaller denomination dies: there was no premature die aging and the pattern of aging fits Del’s descriptions quite well.

It’s interesting to note that the Mint apparently chose to take advantage of the superior production qualities of the new die steel and did not push these ’73-on Ike dies into VLDS (possibly Gasparro’s last Ike hoorah, as the SBA dies were pushed very hard in their first year (1979).  In other words, by avoiding VLDS die states, the Mint obtained better looking Ikes by giving up potentially much greater production per die.  Even so, the Mint on average probably got more than double the production from the 52100 dies, at least after they worked out the bugs (in 1972, the “new” dies were famous for cracking up, sometimes explosively).

We note that the letter devices inside the rim still do not show much smear toward the rim:   the neutral zone still appears to be in the vicinity of these letters.

Because there are few if any VLDS ’73-on Ikes, we have adjusted Del’s percentages for each of the remaining die states.  Then, using an internal April 1974 Mint memo giving an average Ike obverse die life of 256,128 strikes (5 dies, 1,280,640 pieces in April, 1972), we projected Del’s percentages for 250,000 pieces:

VEDS  =   0.7%    =       1,750
EDS     =    8%      =    20,000
MDS    =  30%     =     75,000
LDS     =   61%     =   153,000
VLDS  =    0%

Therefore, almost half of 1973 and later Ikes are MDS or better.

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DCHAS folks,

Once upon a time, at a previous company, I had an offer from a na=EFve fire sprinkler company to conduct hands-on

fire extinguisher training free of charge.=A0 I explained that I had 1500 employees and that I would put all of them through the training.

"No problem", said the sprinkler company representative, "We consider it a public service".=A0

So I countered with, ..."and I have another 5000 employees at a sister plant 15 miles away - would you train them as well?"=A0

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"How about we train people to fight their way out of a fire using an extinguisher,

and reinforce the idea that they should never put property ahead of their own safety?"

=A0My boss, being no dummy, took a microsecond to decide, and said, “train them all, and put me in the first class!”

…and that’s how I managed to get 6500 employees trained to use a fire extinguisher.

NOTE: The fire sprinkler company quickly learned that they needed to charge $1 per extinguisher to re-charge the used ones.

With that small change in the agreement, we continued to have the sprinkler company come on-site to train new employees

once a year, at a cost of about 35 cents per employee. Soon we opened up the training to family members as well.

The sprinkler company never won the contract to provide fire sprinkler services to the company, but said that word-of-mouth

from all the people they’ve trained has kept them in business for many years.

FURTHER NOTE: This happened about 20 years ago. Costs have gone up, and there are air pollution prohibitions against smoky fires

that prevent the kind of training we did back then. However, the argument still works !

LAST WORD: I realize that the events I described happened in industry, and “things are different in industry”.

Years earlier when I taught techniques of laboratory experimentation in a large university, I always included a quick discussion

about fire safety in the lab, as part of the curriculum! =A0This included the chemistry of fire and ignition, the fire triangle,

types of extinguishers, the basics about using a fire extinguisher, and ended with a live demonstration.

While not the same as hands-on training facing real flames, it’s not a bad second choice,

and might circumvent the ridiculous policy issues we’ve been reading about.

_____________________________________ __________

Marc Majewski

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So You Want to Be a Rock Star?
In order to impress a girl, Arnold gets his friends and Sam to start up a band. After practicing a few times, they realize that Arnold is terrible and ask Sam to fire him.
29 Nov. 1985
Speak No Evil
Arnold and Drummond have a difference of opinion when Arnold and his friends consider throwing fruit to protest a local civic group that is against black people.
6 Dec. 1985
Arnold's Bad Rep
Feeling peer pressure from the guys, Arnold lies about having sex with his girlfriend. However when the actual opportunity arises, he is anything but ready.
13 Dec. 1985
It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To
With Sam depressed that no one will come to his birthday party, Drummond pulls some strings and gets the popular kids TV show host Captain Jack to appear. However, the plan does not work out very well for Sam when the kids at the party ignore him and pay more attention to Captain Jack.
10 Jan. 1986
Arnold's Initiation
Arnold's desire to join a coveted elite club at school has serious consequences for the busboy at the local hamburger joint when the prank prompts the busboy's unsympathetic boss - without investigating the situation - to unmercifully fire him on the spot.
17 Jan. 1986
Kimberly makes a return visit home and all seems well with her, except that she's hiding a dark secret. The fact that she has been utilizing the dangerous Bulimic practice of staying thin by eating and then regurgitating it back out in the bathroom. She does her best to hide this from everyone until it becomes all too clear that her health is in jeopardy.
24 Jan. 1986
Sam's Big Brother
Arnold gets jealous when Sam begins spending more time with Willis and he is the odd man out.
31 Jan. 1986
Arnold's Tangled Web
Arnold overhears Drummond's phone conversation where he authorizes the firing of a poorly performing employee. Knowing he is getting an F in geometry (and fearing similar treatment from his father), Arnold turns to a con artist to forge his report card and Drummond's signature. But things backfire when Drummond - elated when he thinks his son had done outstanding in the class - plans to have him enrolled in an advanced placement course.
7 Feb. 1986
Lifestyles of the Poor and Unknown
Sam considers getting into a fist fight with a new kid in school who is constantly picking on him. Drummond and the family are featured on a television show about the rich and famous.
21 Feb. 1986
The Big Bribe
Seeing that Arnold is afraid to ask out a pretty girl from his school, Willis bribes her with concert tickets so that she will ask him out. The plan backfires when Arnold eventually finds out.
28 Feb. 1986
The Photo Club
Arnold gets locked in a closet with his schoolyard rival Lisa.
7 Mar. 1986
The Front Page
In the last completed episode, Arnold discovers a steroid ring operating among athletes at his school and tries to publicize it in the school newspaper.

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During the iPhone SDK Roadmap event today, Apple strolled up to RIM, slipped out a glove, dropped a brick into it, and slapped out one "boom" of a challenge.

Blackberry is an email monster, no doubt about it. Intoxicating "push" delivery and back-end IT administration have made it the darling of the enterprise world. But it isn't without problems: due to the centralized server-model RIM utilizes (where all mail is collected by RIM prior to being pushed out to end-users), there's a single point of failure for all Blackberry users everywhere (as seen in two recent, service-wide outages) -- and a single point of exploit as well (where an attack on RIM's server could compromise the privacy and security of the entire user base).

Read on for more!

Apple is eager to exploit this weakness -- so eager, in fact, they went right into the belly of the beast itself: they licensed Microsoft ActiveSync to provide direct Exchange support for iPhone.

Come the iPhone (and iPod Touch) 2.0 firmware update targeted for a late June release, every user will be able to enjoy instant "push" access to a wide gamut of Exchange services, including:

  • Push email. Write a message, it appears instantly (web congestion notwithstanding) on another Exchange user's client.
  • Calendar integration. Add an event and, "boom", it's in Exchange.
  • Push contacts. Create or update a contact and everyone sharing gets the update right away.
  • Global address list. You get your company's contacts, updated live all the time.
  • Enterprise level security. Including Cisco IPsec VPN, authentication and certificates, 802.1x, policies, configuration tools, and remote device wipes.

Still not convinced Apple has slid up to RIM's lunch, fork in hand? Phil Schiller, VP of Marketing, displayed a nice slide showing iPhone's simple Exchange connection (iPhone - Exchange) compared to RIM's more complex model (Blackberry - NOC - Message Server - Exchange).

"Microsoft has come up with a much more advanced architecture, where the iPhone can work directly with the Exchange server in a more reliable and affordable way." (Engadget)

"You should ask [RIM if Apple is sending them a message]... we're not sending them a message, we're sending customers and developers a message that we're trying to serve their needs." (Engadget)

"Why aren't CIOs really worried about security? Every email message sent to or from a RIM device goes through a NOC up in Canada. Now, that provides a single point of failure, but it also provides a very interesting security situation. Where someone working up at that NOC could potentially be having a look at your email. Nobody seems to be focused on that. We certainly are."

Bringing up Nike and Disney, while a little nepotistic given the relationships, as well as pointing to academic institution Stanford, put some real-world business deployment on the table. Apple sure does seem serious.

So, should RIM worry? Will legions of CrackBerry addicts give up their hardware keyboards and defect, en-masse, to Apple's Mobile Platform? Or are they immune to the famed Reality Distortion Field, and laughing even now at Apple's eye-candy attempts to woo IT? Is Gruber right, "This doesn’t make the iPhone a BlackBerry killer, but the iPhone can do more BlackBerry-ish things than the BlackBerry can do iPhone-ish things." What do you think?


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The definitive review of Apple's lighter, thinner, faster, stereo, 64-bit iPad Air.

The first iPad was advertised as magical and revolutionary, Apple's most advanced technology at an unbelievable price. It lifted the tablet from a decade of obscurity and made it not only a household name, but a household product. The iPad 2, however, proffered that technology alone was not enough. It was thinner, lighter, and faster, but also more confident. It defined post-PC even as it made the computer itself far more personal. The iPad 3 was new and "resolutionary", but at the expense of thinness and lightness. The iPad 4, twice as fast. Both brought specs to what Apple had previously framed an experience fight, and the latter was overshadowed almost entirely by the fresher, smaller iPad mini. When it came to the full-sized iPad, it seemed Apple had hit a wall.

Enter the iPad Air. Where the limitations of 2012 dictated Apple had to choose between Retina and lightness, the advances of 2013 mean that Apple - that we - can now have both. But is it just more specs, or is it once again getting technology out of our way? Is it simply thinner, lighter, and faster, or has Apple recaptured the delight and the magic? Is it merely a step forward, or is the iPad Air truly another leap?

iPad Air evolution

As always, this review will focus on what's new with the iPad Air. For everything that's come before, including and especially the 9.7-inch, 2048x1526, 264dpi Retina display, but also for the context, check out our previous iPad reviews.

iPad Air packaging

iPad Air packaging remains largely unchanged from previous years. The cardboard box contains the small Apple pamphlet, the USB to Lightning cable for charging and connecting to a Mac or Windows PC, and the USB power adapter for connecting to an outlet.

There's only one notable difference between this box and that of previous generations - it says iPad Air right on the side.

iPad Air design

iPad Air design

The physical transformation from iPad to iPad Air is the single most important update to Apple's full-sized tablet this year, and alongside the iPad 2 redesign, one of the most important updates in the brief history of the device. Or rather, the benefits accrued from the transformation are. With the iPad Air, Apple finally brings Apple's their new tablet design language, begun with the 4-inch iPod touch and 7.9-inch iPad mini in 2012, to the 9.7-inch form factor. What took so much longer, and what makes it so much more impressive, is what Apple has managed to cram into this new 9.4 inches (240 mm) x 6.6 inches (169.5 mm) x 0.29 inch (7.5 mm), 1 pound (469 g) glass and aluminium chassis. But we'll get to that later.

Along with the iPad mini-style design also comes the iPad mini-style bezels. Narrower on the sides, it means the screen now fills more of the surface than ever, creating a more immersive experience that ever. Software, first introduced with the iPad mini last year, rejects unintentional touches around the edges, and rejects them well enough I've yet to have a misfire. Metal buttons replace the old plastic ones, including the discreet volume up and down buttons. They feel great. And the new colors look great as well. Previously, the original iPad came in only black and aluminum. The iPads 2 through 4 gave you your choice of white or black faceplates, but consistent aluminum backs. Now, the faceplates remain white or black, but the backs match the silver and space gray finishes of the 2013 iPod touch and iPhone.

Back to the transformation. Almost an inch narrower than the original iPad, almost half as thin, and lighter by a third, the difference is striking. When Apple first introduced the iPhone 5 the running joke was that it felt so thin, so light, it couldn't be real. It had to be a toy or blank or a dummy. The iPod touch 5 and iPad mini stretched that joke about as far is it felt it could go. But the iPad Air stretches it again, and beyond credulity. Yes, a pound is still a pound, but for something with a screen this vast, when you hold it in your hands, the weight per square inch once again makes you doubt your senses. When you pick it up for the first time, it makes you damn near doubt reality.

Absent a Retina display, and anything approaching the same processing power and radio technology, the original now feels like a tank - something better suited as a bludgeon for home defense than a tool for home computing. By contrast, the iPad Air really does feel... like air. There is still heft to it, still weight, but nowhere nearly what you'd expect.

It's when you see the design generations, from the squared-off original iPad, to highly tapered iPad 2, through the ever-so-slightly thicker and heavier iPad 3 and iPad 4, that you really appreciate how far Apple's 9.7-inch tablet has come in only 3 and a half years. More to the point, how far the iPad Air has really pushed it.

Removing a hundredth of an inch from any modern mobile device is the engineering equivalent of a racing up a near-vertical slope. In low oxygen. While chained. It's arduous. Removing as many hundredths of an inch as Apple did with the iPad Air, while not only maintaining past pixel density but increasing performance, is herculean. It's flabbergasting.

In order to achieve the iPad Air's astounding thinness - which more practically translates into its lightness - Apple has done a number of things. They've thinned down the display itself, lessened the amount of LED required to light it, and increased power efficiency in several other ways all in service of reducing the size of the battery needed to drive it. From 42.5 watts in the previous generation, it's now down to 32.4. The iPad Air can be less thanks to the sum of its parts.

And here's where we come to the benefits. The narrowness makes the iPad Air an absolute joy to hold, and especially to thumb-type with. It's still not an iPad mini, it still can't fit in a back pocket or the palm of most hands, but what the iPhone is to one-handed ease of use, the iPad Air is now to two. More importantly, it makes the iPad Air something that can be held while standing, sitting, or lying down for far longer than any full-size iPad before it. That translates into an easier time holding it while looking at recipes in the kitchen, while reading comics on the sofa, while watching movies or TV shows in bad.

When the iPad was introduced, Apple showed it on laps or on tables, because after a few minutes of use, that's inevitably where its weight forced it to go. The relative lightness of the iPad Air extends the time it can be held in the hands considerably, which makes a full sized tablet more usable, for more people, in more situations. That's the huge win here.

Apple's senior vice-president of design, Jony Ive, has long stated that his goal with the iPad was to achieve a state of inevitability, where the inessential was stripped away, where the unneeded was out of sight, where all that was left was you and the screen, lit up with whatever you needed or wanted at that specific moment. With the iPad Air, which he confided was years in the making, that tabula rasa ideal has been made even more manifest. In that regard, in every regard, the full-sized iPad finally joins the rest of Apple's iOS device lineup, and joins it in style.

iPad Air stereo speakers and dual mics

The iPad Air is the first full-sized Apple tablet to get stereo speakers. The iPad mini got them last last year, and when the design was carried over, the stereo speakers were carried over with it. They sound good, especially now that they're pointing out again, and not down like they were on the iPad 2-style highly tapered chassis.

It's arguable, though, how much value stereo speakers really provide when they're so close together, and when they're restricted to only one edge of the iPad. After all, hold it in landscape to watch a movie or TV show, and you can enjoy stereo coming from just one side. In an ideal world, there's be speakers on all four sides, so no matter which way you hold it, it could intelligently project sound from both sides. Maybe one day?

There is one big advantage to having speakers on either side of the Lightning connector - you no longer have to worry about how you hold the iPad Air in landscape mode. With the previous generation full-sized iPad, holding it with the speaker side down meant your hand had a high likelihood of covering it, effectively killing the sound. Now, even if and when you cover one speaker, the other still comes through loud and clear.

Speaking of loud and clear, the iPad Air also doubles up on microphones. That allows iOS to pick the best mic possible for FaceTime, Siri, and other use-cases, and employ the other one for noise cancellation. The result is better audio capture in a wider variety of situations. Now all we need is some of that hot, iPhone-style, beam-forming action.

iPad Air Apple A7 64-bit performance

Everything you need to know about Apple's all-new 64-bit A7 system-on-a-chip, and the next generation Cyclone processor

The iPad Air shares Apple's new, unified mobile chipset platform - the Apple A7. Previously, full-sized iPads required a special variant of Apple's in-house chipsets in order to push around their massive 2048x1536 Retina displays. The A5X quad-core GPU on the iPad 3 was barely up to the task and Apple replaced it 6 months later with an Apple A6X, based on their first custom-CPU, the Swift. The monstrously powerful Apple A7 needs no puny X. It needs only its next-generation custom-CPU, the Cyclone, clocked ever-so-slightly faster, and a PowerFX Series 6 "Rogue" GPU - likely the G6430. It's 64-bit. It supports OpenGL ES 3.0. It includes an Apple M7 motion coprocessor. In Apple-parlance, it's a screamer.

The A7 is ridiculous in the iPhone 5s, a netbook-class chip stuffed into a phone-sized shell. It's not quite as ridiculous in the iPad Air, but it's still incredibly impressive. With it, iOS 7 flies, apps open instantly, and games like Infinity Blade 3 knock your eyeballs into the back of your skull. Perfunctory benchmark time. iPad Air on the left, last year's iPad 4 on the right.

Despite all this power, it doesn't get anywhere nearly as hot as the iPad 3 did, and its efficiency helps double iPad 4 performance even with the considerable decrease in volume. The inclusion of the M7 motion coprocessor helps here as well. While no one is likely to strap an iPad Air to their arm and go jogging, it could easily be in a backpack during a hike, excursion, or exploration. More importantly, it can be used to determine when the iPad isn't moving, so other services can be reduced in frequency or powered down, once again increasing efficiency.

The the iPad Air in 2013 enjoys more raw power than the MacBook Air did at launch in 2008, and with Apple's own, in-house silicon, is astonishing. It demands the question: how will the operating system and software evolve to take advantage of all this hardware?

iPad Air... and no Touch ID

While the iPad Air does have the Apple A7 chipset, including its secure enclave, it doesn't have the Touch ID fingerprint identity sensor introduced a month earlier on the iPhone 5s. Since Apple is still struggling to meet demand for the iPhone 5s, perhaps they simply lack the capacity to produce enough Touch ID sensors for the iPads as well. Whatever the reason, the absence is notable.

Once you get used to Touch ID, like broadband or Retina, is hard to go back. It becomes learned behavior. It becomes muscle memory. It now takes me over 10 seconds to unlock my iPad Air, 8 of them spent wondering why Touch ID isn't working, remembering its because Touch ID isn't there, cursing, and then swiping to enter my passcode. Like an animal.

Also, because the iPad Air is much wider than an iPhone, it takes a much longer gesture to swipe from the Lock screen to the Passcode screen, which means if you're in a rush or haven't habituated the right length, it'll bounce back on you, mockingly.

One day, perhaps as soon as next year, Touch ID will be deployed across Apple's iOS lineup, and it will tie into iCloud Keychain to make a truly ubiquitous, mainstream security solution. Until then, it remains a promise not yet fully delivered.

iPad Air iSight camera

Disappointingly, the iPad Air's rear-facing iSight camera is the same 5 megapixel, 1080p video shooter as the iPad 3 and iPad 4. Not only didn't it get updated to match the current generation iPhone, it didn't get updated to match the 2011 iPhone 4s. While even the idea of taking photos with an iPad gets routinely mocked, the truth remains that for some people, the iPad is their only modern camera, and for others, it's simply the device they have in hand when something important to them happens.

In daylight, the iPad Air iSight is pretty good, whether for standard shots, macros, or high-dynamic range (HDR) It's in low-light where its weaknesses are revealed. It's just far too noisy for even "every day" photography, and the lack of a flash makes it all but unusable in extreme low-ight. And that's a shame, because we know Apple can do better optics than this.

iPad Air vs. iPhone 5s in daylight, from left to right:

iPad Air vs. iPhone 5s in low-light, from left to right:

iPad Air vs. iPhone 5s macro, from left to right:

iPad Air vs. iPhone 5s HDR, from left to right:

Video is similar. The iPad Air is fine when the lighting is good, not so fine in low-light. The dual mics help improve audio quality, but not as much as the triple mics, and beam-forming, in the iPhone 5s.

iPad Air vs. iPhone 5s 1080p video:

The iPad Air does get the same, amazing, Apple A7 image signal processor (ISP) which makes the most of the data it does manage to get off the sensor. It does a good job focusing, exposing, and balancing images. Unlike the iPhone 5s, however, Apple doesn't surface Panorama, Burst, or Slo Mo modes, or real-time filters for the iPad Air.

You can still take up to 10 photos a second by holding down the shutter button, you just don't get the real-time processing and fancy image selection interface. Likewise, you can also add iOS 7 filters in post via edit mode, you just don't get them real-time during capture.

Perhaps Apple doesn't feel iPad Air owners would enjoy those features, or perhaps the 5mp sensor simply isn't up to the task. Either way, it's also disappointing. As it is, the iPad Air remains a secondary camera with the potential to be much, much more.

iPad Air FaceTime HD camera

Unlike the iSight camera, the iPad Air's front-facing FaceTime HD camera did get updated this year. It's still the same 1.2 megapixel, 720p shooter as the iPad 4, but like the iPhone 5s, it's gone from 1.75 to 1.9 microns and switched to a back illuminated sensor (BSI).

iPad Air vs. iPhone 5s selfies, from left to right:

Compared to the iPad 3 or iPad 4, in well-lit situations, you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference. Both of these improvements, however, help in low-light situations. So, if you've always wanted to take darker, more brooding selfies, or engage in more FaceTime calls after dark, you'll be happy.

iPad Air MIMO Wi-Fi and radios

The iPad 3 was the first iOS device to get long term evolution (LTE) 4G networking, though with support for only a few areas. The iPad 4 greatly expanded the LTE footprint, and now the iPad Air takes it about as far as current generation technology allows. In other words, it supports more segments of more bands in more places. Here's the official cellular networking support, according to Apple:

  • UMTS/HSPA/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
  • CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (800, 1900 MHz)
  • LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26)

Apple keeps an updated list of the countries and carriers with official iPad LTE support.

Over the last week and a half of tests, I've gotten roughly the same speed as I've always gotten with iPads on Rogers LTE network in my area, between 35 and 55mbps, with occasional dips down into the 20s and peaks up in the 60s. With tethering, which seems to be provisioned differently than on-board LTE, I've been getting between 75 and 95mbps. Since, even at its thinner size, the iPad Air maintains the same battery performance as previous iPads - some 24hrs - it remains the single best Wi-Fi Hotspot I've ever owned.

U.S. Assisted Global Positioning System (GPS) and Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) remain exclusive to the cellular iPad models.

The iPad Air is now the first iOS device to get multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) Wi-Fi. That means there's support for multiple antennas for both transmission and receipt, and the iPad can intelligently choose between them to ensure the best signal possible. Theoretically it should allow the iPad to get and stay connected better. In practice, this has been my experience. iPad Air Wi-Fi has been rock-solid.

Unfortunately, the iPad Air didn't get faster 802.11ac Wi-Fi, which Apple now supports with the Mac and with their Airport routers and Time Capsules. 802.11ac isn't widespread yet, but it would help with race-to-sleep, letting data transfer quickly so it can power down quickly. If it was an either/or choice, MIMO will likely help more people more of the time, and hopefully next year will provide for both.

Bluetooth is still 4.0 Low Energy (LE), which isn't a problem because that's still the state-of-art. What'll be interesting is what Apple does with it, including direct device setup, game controllers, iBeacons, and more.

iPad Air and iOS 7

iOS 7, while spatially identical to previous versions, is a radical rethinking and redesign of many of the core concepts and priorities of Apple's mobile operating system. Built on a physics and particle engine, it uses layers and blurs to hint at depth, rips away textures and boundaries in deference to content, and focuses on unified palettes, alignments, and typography to enhance clarity. Change is hard. People are adverse to it, and sometimes with good reason. Objectively, there can be clear wins or opportunities for a better, brighter future, yet subjectively, things can just look and feel wrong.

For some, iOS 7 represents the first, true post-iPad version of iOS - something considered with the iPad in mind, taking better use of its larger canvas, and what it enables. For others, iOS 7 seems rushed on the iPad, and smacks of the very stretched-out-phone interface Apple has historically mocked on Android.

A case can be made for both. Apple changed directions back in November and then sprinted full out at the June beta deadline. And they missed it for the iPad. It shipped 2 weeks later. Even so, like the iPhone version, some parts of it are breathtakingly beautiful. Others still look unfinished. Many are somewhere in between.

Overlays in particular, from the Notification Center and Siri redesigns to the all-new Control Center, seem to still be in search of their proper scale and information density.

Photo Booth, the only iPad exclusive built-in app, has been updated to match the rest of iOS 7, though it's simple enough the changes don't make much difference.

Here's a static glimpse of how the rest of the built-in apps, redesigned for iOS 7, look on the iPad.

Sadly, there are still no built-in Weather, Stocks, Compass, Calculator, or Voice Memos apps for iPad the way there are for iPhone and iPod touch. App Store apps can fill the gap, of course, be it remains a point of confusion for people who buy both devices and expect feature parity and consistency from Apple.

As with the iPhone and iPod touch version of iOS 7, multitasking has a new, much improved card-based visualization, and is complemented behind the scenes by a new, also much improved intelligent, just-in-time backgrounding system. AirDrop allows for simple, peer-to-peer Wi-Fi sharing between iOS devices. (Though, bewilderingly, is a different protocol and is thus not compatible with the OS X feature that shares its name...)

Safari, however, doesn't get the excellent new rolodex interface for Safari tabs. Perhaps it didn't translate as well to the wide screen, leaving Apple to implement something closer to traditional, desktop Safari tabs, but they're nowhere nearly as usable.

FaceTime audio lets you place clear, human-sounding calls to other iOS devices, and does for voice what iMessage did for SMS.

There are also a host of new security, enterprise, and other features. For an in depth look at all of that, and more, check out our full iOS 7 review.

iPad Air and apps

Apple now has over one million apps on the iOS App Store, almost all of which can be run on the iPad Air. However, just under half of those - 450,000 at last count - are either specifically for the iPad, or include alternate interfaces optimized for the iPad. Included in that number are not great apps in every category, but often multiple great apps in every category, by indie dev craftspeople, to studios like EA, to the biggest software and services companies on the planet, like Google and Microsoft. What's more important than the ever-growing number of apps, however, is how they feel on the iPad Air.

For decades there's been talk of the "thin client", an ultra-light computing appliance that, thanks to networks (now the cloud), could provide all the utility of traditional workstations, but with almost science-fiction like convenience. Back then, however, thin clients sucked. Many, shackled to the web, still suck. But the iPad Air, with its blend of native power, constant connectivity, and much lighter form factor, achieves something more. It can access anything and everything the "thin client" of ancient enterprises past imagined, in a design sleeker than even Star Trek managed, but it can do it with all the muscle of a modern computing platform in its own right. And it can do it not with software carted over from the desktop or locked in the browser, but with apps born for mobile.

I've often joked that I wish I still worked in information technologies (IT) so that I could sip an adult beverage with a tiny umbrella in it, and manage my server room from poolside. Amazon once joked that the iPad was too heavy for poolside use - that it would strain our bikini clad arms. Neither of those things are funny any more. The iPad Air's big screen combined with its lightness and app like Edovia's Screens 3 make it a serious possibility. It's not as light as the iPad mini, but it's bigger and for things that require space, whether it be VNC for remote computing or a large canvas for local drawing or painting, it's a much better balance.

Best apps new iPad Air owners should download right now!

Likewise for entertainment, including watching videos and reading. Comic books and graphic novels especially. The 9.7-inch Retina display has always been the perfect size and quality to enjoy sequential, illustrated, story-telling, but it would get heavy after a while, even when compared to a trade paperback. Whether it's buying collections on iBooks or Kindle, devouring back catalog in bulk in Marvel Unlimited, buying the latest issues in comiXology, or using one of the other outstanding comic book reading apps, the iPad Air is, again, the best balanced platform in digital today.

As if to highlight not only the new power, but the new portability of the iPad Air - and new precision of the Retina iPad mini - Apple has also gone and made their iWork and iLife suits free with any new hardware purchase. That includes Pages for documents, Keynote for presentations, Numbers for spreadsheets, iPhoto for images, iMovie for video, and GarageBand for audio. Like Apple's built-in iOS 7 apps for iPad, the iWork and iLife apps have been redesigned for iOS 7. What's more, Apple has back ported their engines to OS X, making them not only compatible with the - also now free - iWork apps for OS X, but with the web-based iWork for iCloud as well.

They're among the finest tablet apps ever made, and including them as a prompted download for every new iPad Air owner, as soon as they visit the App Store, provides enormous added value.

Throw in games ranging from the console-quality Infinity Blade III to the hugely addictive Letterpress, and it's fair to say science fiction is going to have to try an awful lot harder if it wants to keep impressing us with its software, because the App Store is doing it for real right now.

iPad Air services and support

Everything you need to know about Apple's iCloud -- PC-free, iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, Photo Stream, Documents in the Cloud, Find my iPhone, Find my Friends, and more!

iCloud comes free with every Apple device, including the new iPad Air. It lets you wireless backup your data to Apple's servers, and wirelessly restore it if you ever need to re-install iOS or switch devices. iCloud also lets you re-download anything you've bought on iTunes, the App Store, or the iBookstore, including music, movies, TV shows, apps, games, and iBooks. Photo Stream keeps recent photos both safe and available on all your Apple devices, as Documents in the Cloud does with your files. iWork for iCloud will let you access iWork documents specifically from any computer with a modern web browser installed. There's a free version of the currently U.S.-only iTunes Radio service, as well as the paid iTunes Match music locker service. If you want additional iCloud storage, it's expensive but you can buy it.

Apple Stores, especially when combined with iCloud, whether extended by AppleCare+ or not, provide remarkable customer support for iPad Air owners. Apple specialists can help you test a tablet to make sure it's what you want, help you set it up, teach you how to use it, and if anything goes wrong, help you fix it. It's a feature not always included on competitive checklists but anyone who's ever needed to avail themselves of it knows just how important a feature it is.

iPad Air and accessories

Thanks to its redesign, the 2013 iPad Air isn't compatible with any previous generation full-sized iPad cases. Pouches, backpacks, various bags, sure. Anything approximating a form-fitting case, not at all. Apple, for their part, released new versions of both their Smart Cover and Smart Case the iPad Air, to protect it at least until other vendors could catch up and offer alternatives.

The Smart Cover is an excellent compromise of good looks, good protection, and good functionality. If all you want to do is protect the screen of your iPad Air, without a lot of bulk, but with something that's easily removable and has ability to stand it up for typing or viewing, and you don't care that it's polyurethane instead of leather, you want the Smart Cover. However, if you like the Smart Cover-style magnetic closure and roll-up stand, but really don't want to risk any damage to the back of your tablet, and you like leather better than polyurethane, the Smart Case is an okay solution. (I love Apple's Smart Cover; not so much their Smart Case.)

Anything else that depended on the exact shape of previous generation iPads, including stands and attachments that were cut to the specific angle of the backing, won't fit properly either.

Apple's Lightning to adapters - HDMI, VGA, SD, USB - work fine, as do Bluetooth and other accessories not dependent on physical shape.

iPad Air pricing and availability

Current iPad models and price points

The iPad Air comes in four capacities, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB. They start at $499 for 16GB and max out at $799 for 128GB. Add in the $130 cellular option, and it becomes $629 for 16GB and $929 for 128GB.

It's currently available for purchase in the U.S., Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China (Wi-Fi models only), Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao (Wi-Fi models only), Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and U.K. with other countries to follow.

iPad Air buyers guide

There's a lot to consider before you buy or upgrade to a new tablet, even a new iPad. What's more important, portability or productivity? Can you live with an older, cheaper model or do you really need a newer, more expensive version? Which color, what capacity, and if you want cellular data, on which carrier? There's never been more to choose from, which means it's never been harder to choose. That's where the 2013 iPad buyers guide comes in:

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Some might argue that, with the iPad Air, Apple once again offers the best full-sized tablet on the market, and by a wide margin. Poppycock. With the iPad Air, it's gone beyond that now. Like with the iPhone 5, there's simply no other company on earth capable of making this level of hardware. No one else is even close. It's taken Apple a decade or more of foresight and investment in everything from chipset engineering to component logistics to material design, and it's not clear how many others are willing to invest that much time, effort, and money into producing the best when good enough often sells well enough. As a customer, however, I want the best. Lowest price isn't the most important feature for me, and good enough isn't always good enough. Value can be more important than cost, and that's exactly what Apple is delivering with the iPad Air.

It's still not for everyone, and still not for every task. Even with a keyboard, the iPad Air will never replace the almost-as-light, almost-as-inexpensive MacBook Air for traditional computing. OS X is a full on, multi-user, multi-window, drag-and-drop operating system that can run Photoshop and Final Cut Pro X, and not only can't an iPad do that, I wouldn't want it to. There's something to be said for using the best tool for the job. As much as the iPad isn't a MacBook, the MacBook is no iPad, and as a computing appliance - a way to carry data with me, access it quickly, and act on it directly - the iPad Air is unmatched.

When Steve Jobs introduced the original iPad, he said it had to prove its right to exist between the phone and the laptop, not as the phone or laptop. The iPad 2 got closer to that vision and that ideal, and the iPad Air gets closer again. It is, more viscerally than ever before, the internet and apps in your hands and at your fingertips.

Magic and delight fade with time, technology struggles to keep amazing, and formerly unbelievable prices get undercut. Yet experience can remain immersive enough that even it can still transcend whole new generations of thinness, lightness, and speed.

Turns out Apple didn't stop when they hit the full-sized iPad wall. They smashed through it. The iPad Air is more than just a step forward, or a leap. The iPad Air damn near takes to the sky.


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The image and video processing and computer vision community in Israel is a world leader in these areas with a significant presence in the academy and industry, including startup companies. The IMVC conference is a unique opportunity for young companies that develop vision technologies to get exposure to local and foreign investors that operate in Israel and to large local and international companies.

Last year we organized the startup competition for the first time in the IMVC, which turned out to be a great success and attracted a lot of attention. Each startup representative has presented his/her company in front of the judging panel and the track audiences, followed by a short Q&A session. The winning startup was announced at the keynote session at the end of the day.

The promising startup competition in Vision offers young companies
a unique opportunity to present their technology in the leading vision conference in Israel

We are looking for exciting young startups with innovative technology in the field of computer vision to join the startup competition this year.

Participating in the startup competition can be an exciting opportunity for you to be exposed to the computer vision community in Israel, and to the major stakeholders active in this field.

The first stage of the IMVC startup competition qualification process consists of initial screening done by the IMVC organizers and the startup competition judges:

The leading companies will participate in the startup competition track during IMVC 2015.
We will then announce the most promising start up in the field for 2015!

If this is of interest for you, we kindly ask you to submit the following information:

  1. Company stage and position
  2. Profile (biography) of founders
  3. Short description of the company's technology and innovation
  4. Expected impact of the technology developed

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Uri Arazy
Director, Intel Capital Israel

Uri represents Intel on the boards of Aternity, Fortscale, Gigaspaces, Interlude, Jordan Valley, Panorama Software and ReduxIO, as well as IATI (Israel Advanced Technologies Industries association). He managed the investments and exits in Anobit (acq Apple); Omek Interactive (Intel); Riverhead (Cisco); Passave (PMC Sierra); Topio (NetApp); and Aeroscout (Stanley Black & Decker). Prior to Intel Capital, he led Intel Israel IT, Intel's Corporate Engineering Computing, and was part of the Fab 8 startup team, where he managed the Automation, Supply Line and Strategic Planning Departments. Prior to Intel, he was Network Specialist with HP and Programmer/Analyst in the Israel Defense Forces.

Ori Bendori
General Partner, Carmel Ventures

Ori joined Carmel Ventures in October 2004 as a General Partner, with over 25 years of management leadership in the Hi-Tech industry. He is focusing primarily on investments in the areas of Communications, Infrastructure, Semiconductors and Energy. Ori served as a board member of CopperGate that was acquired by Sigma Designs for $180M in 2009. He was also the first investor and board member of DesignArt Networks that was acquired by Qualcomm in 2012. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Optimal Plus, Reduxio, LiveU, Adapteva and MultiPhy.

Prior to joining Carmel Ori served as a VP & General Manager of the Enterprise Internetworking Systems Division at Avaya. Prior to this role he served as VP & General Manager of the LAN Systems Group at Lucent and before that as CTO of Lannet. He began his career in the Israeli Aircraft Industries.
Ori served as a Major and Fighter Pilot in the Israeli Air Force for 19 years.

Amir Fridman
Director Corporate Business Development, SanDisk Corporation

Amir Fridman leads SanDisk corporate business development and venture's investment opportunities in Europe and Israel. Previously, he was director of OEM strategic marketing and Mobile BU product management. Fridman joined SanDisk in November 2006 through the acquisition of msystems Ltd.  Fridman earned his Bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from Bar Ilan University and MBA from Tel Aviv University.

Mony Hassid
Managing Director at Qualcomm Ventures

Bringing over twenty years of working experience in R&D, Engineering, Advanced Technologies, Business Development, Corporate Ventures Capital Investments and Corporate M&A.

Current role - Managing Director - Qualcomm Ventures

The current portfolio includes Wilocity, Magisto, PanoramicPower, Corrigon, TabTale, Silu, Pontis and Mantis Vision.

M.Sc Electrical Engineering with Cum Laude - Tel Aviv university
MBA with Cum Laude - Tel Aviv university

- Specialties: Areas of expertise - New Media, Mobile Internet, Cloud Services, Cellular and Wireless, Digital Home, Infrastructure (Cables, Telcos, Cellular), Enterprise Mobility and Semiconductor.
- Scorecard - Built the Israel office of Motorola Ventures from scratch in 2004 and invested in 16 startups in 8 years with an outstanding ROI (5 exits of 9 digits) and a meaningful synergy & strategic gain for Motorola. Probably, the most active and appreciated strategic investor in Israel at that period.
Exits up-to-date includes Onavo (acquired by facebook; 2013) Broadlight (acquired by Broadcom; 2012), Amobee (acquired by Singtel; 2012), Designartnetworks (acquired by Qualcomm; 2012), Worldmate (acquired by CWT; 2010), Coppergate (acquired by SigmaDesign; 2009), Lumus and MobilEye.
- IATI (Israel Advanced Technology Industries) board member

Eden Shochat
Partner, Aleph

Eden Shochat is an equal partner at Aleph, a $150 million venture capital fund focused on serving Israeli entrepreneurs who want to build big, scalable, global businesses.

Prior to founding Aleph, Shochat was a general partner at Genesis where he focused on seed-stage investments, was a co-founder of, the world leader in massive, web-scale face recognition in social networks, recently acquired by facebook and co-founded and was the CTO of Aternity, where he led the strategic product direction for its dominant user-experience monitoring platform.

Entrepreneurship is a passion for Eden, who started The Junction that was voted as the #1 startup program in Israel, is one of the organizers of the annual Geekcon geeks conference and teaches at the IDC (Herzeliya interdisciplinary center) Zell entrepreneurship program.

Startup Competition - Judges

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With federal probes coming from everywhere, lawsuits pouring in and a tally of recalls that seems to never end, General Motors looks a lot shaken than it did at the start of the year.

Back then, in January, the No.1 US automaker was just fresh out of government ownership – after the Federal treasury sold the remainder of the stakes owned in December and the first female in the industry was leading as the new CEO.

Then it all came down on their heads, as the late February recall of some 2.6 million cars equipped with defective ignition switches proved to be incredibly late. Now, the worldwide total of cars and trucks with problems the automaker is attempting to resolve has grown to 15.2 million.

It certainly looks like the executive team now wants to jump the gun and voluntarily call back any single defective car – before any federal authority could have the time to say they were late on that too.

On the other hand, these moves – no less than nine recalls were announced since last Thursday are wearing down on consumer faith and patience. A survey on points to shoppers being 51% less confident of the overall safety record of the industry in the US, after five days earlier the tally was at 44%.


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Why do non-musical celebrities make records?

A new book prompts Elisa Bray to ask whether celebrities should ever commit themselves to vinyl
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Last week, supermodel Agyness Deyn appeared on the live music stage, performing with new-wave indie-pop band the Five O'Clock Heroes. She provided vocals for their single, "Who", and her pretty face for its video. Deyn is the latest in a line of supermodels turned singers, following in the footsteps of Kate Moss, who joined ex-boyfriend Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles onstage and co-wrote the odd album track. She would no doubt repeat the exercise at this year's Glastonbury if she could only persuade boyfriend Jamie Hince's band The Kills – and if she has forgotten the embarrassment of being booed off Babyshambles' stage in Florence. And then there's Naomi Campbell, who first featured on Vanilla Ice's Cool as Ice album and then blew it with a solo album in 1995, Baby Woman, which was not only a critical flop but a commercial disaster too, not even breaking into the Top 75.

Actresses, too, have been lured to explore their musical sides; this year has seen a trend in actresses releasing their own albums: Scarlett Johansson with her album covering Tom Waits tracks Anywhere I Lay My Head, and Minnie Driver's second album Seastories, made with the helping hand of alt country star Ryan Adams and his band the Cardinals. Juliette Lewis is the best success story with her punky rock band the Licks. But the successful crossover of the latter is the anomaly here. Most celebrity vanity projects over the years have been very awful indeed.

Tom Hamling has devoted the last decade to collecting 120 examples of them for a new book Celebrity Vinyl, which satirically critiques the celebrities, music and graphic design of every album in his collection. While Hamling was working for a large New York advertising agency in the autumn of 1999, he received an email that would spark the beginnings of his discovery of the disastrous celebrity album – and of the number of celebrities who have tried their hand at recording their own album. Bruce Willis, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Eddie Murphy, John Travolta, Chevy Chase and Muhammad Ali are just some of the egoists to be convinced of their own musical talents and to have indulged them.

The email informed all staff members that, to herald the new millennium, the company would be updating its entire in-house music library, replacing all vinyl records and cassette tapes with compact discs. Staff members were invited to take home whichever old albums they would like. Hamling went home that night with Bruce Willis's The Return of Bruno, Ethel Merman's The Ethel Merman Disco Album and Shaquille O'Neal's I'm Outstanding. It was the foundation of what would become what he says is the world's biggest celebrity-vinyl collection.

Since then, he has been steadily rooting through the ubiquitous 99c bins at record stores surrounding his West Village, New York apartment and then scouring flea markets across the globe from Brooklyn and Queens to Los Angeles, Nashville, and finally London and Hong Kong. "Sometimes I feel like Dr Richard Kimble in search of the one-armed man. Except my one-armed man is the inaudible shriek of Jennifer Love Hewitt," he says of his ongoing quest.

But what convinces these celebrities, at a particular point in their lives, that they can begin a successful career in music? "There's no question that the music on these albums is comical," says Hamling. "The cover art is ridiculous. But the true humour in this collection lies in the unseen. I mean, what kind of backroom discussion did it take to convince Emmanuel Lewis and the cast of the sitcom Webster to make an album warning kids about the dangers of molestation? Can you imagine the sound engineer in Burt Reynolds's recording session? Did that guy have to sit behind a soundboard and pretend to enjoy the noises and gurgles coming from the booth? Can you imagine trying to tap your feet or give a "thumbs up" sign to that? And what about the first time Ed McMahon went to the mailbox to get his first royalty cheque? What did that look like from a distance?

"It's not a study in pop culture. Or kitsch. Or really even music, for that matter," says Hamling. It's a study in the consecration of fame. An examination of the veneration of the C-list. While the majority of my collection falls in the 1970s and 1980s, a closer chronological look will reveal that this collection spans 33 years, meaning celebrities and their egos do not change, even though the size of their belt buckles may. A celebrity ego is always a celebrity ego. Jerry Lewis begets Leonard Nimoy; Nimoy begets David Hasselhoff; Hasselhoff begets Alyssa Milano. And so it goes."

Rooting around further you can find songs by Paris Hilton, Kevin Bacon and Lindsay Lohan. It seems celebrities will always be in love with their own voices.

'Celebrity Vinyl' by Tom Hamling is published 30 June (Mark Batty, £14.95)


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Patricia Beer is one of the 10 poets on the shortlist for the pounds 5,000 T S Eliot prize who will be featured in the Daily Poem this week. The winner will be announced next January, after an Oscars-style process in which the 1,850 members of the Poetry Book Society will each have a vote. She was born in Exmouth, Devon. She studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and taught English literature in Italy and at Goldsmith's College. She gave up teaching in 1968 to become a full-time writer. This poem appears in Friend of Heraclitus, published by Carcanet at pounds 6.95.


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The Colour of Justice (Tricycle Theatre)

Potent re-enactment of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, coinciding with the furore surrounding the fate of the policemen involved in the case. To 6 Feb

The Street of Crocodiles

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Triumphant revival of Theatre de Complicite's surreal and searing plunge into the imagination of Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz. To 20 Feb

Oklahoma! (Lyceum Theatre)

Widely regarded as the best ever, Trevor Nunn's glorious production of the Rogers and Hammerstein classic fully deserves its West End transfer. To 26 Jun

The Winter's Tale (RSC, Stratford)

An amazingly rich and complex performance from Antony Sher in Gregory Doran's Romanov-style production. In rep to 4 Mar

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It's third time lucky for this much-rewritten musical (right). In Conall Morrison's starkly involving production, it finally emerges as a tighter, magnificent show. To 13 Feb

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Fabricio Coloccini hopes to end transfer speculation, insisting he will give '100 per cent' to the Newcastle cause

Newcastle captain had told the club he wanted to return to Argentina

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Fabricio Coloccini has spoken about the problems that forced him to seek a move away from Newcastle during the January transfer window.

Coloccini met with club officials on January 10 to inform them of his desire to return to Argentina and last Wednesday he said he would not be returning after talks about negotiating a release form his contract head broken down. At that point he was warned he would face legal action for breach of contract and that forced a dramatic u-turn.

The 31-year-old posted a letter on the San Lorenzo website at the weekend, in which he raised the possibility of leaving St James' Park in the summer.

For now he will continue as Newcastle captain and he will lead the side out at Aston Villa tonight in a crunch relegation fight.

"I think everybody has problems outside of their work in life," he said today. "It is difficult, but now I am here and all I have in my head is to make sure we are in the Premier League next year. That is my only objective.

"I heard in the city and around the club that the fans think I have my head elsewhere thinking about other things, or that I am not the same player as last season but like I say, for me football is my life, I love it. When I am on the pitch, I give everything to win.

"I give 100 per cent. I did that at Newcastle, Deportivo La Coruna or any club I've played at. The fans have to know and be sure that when I am the field, I give 100 per cent. I am the captain of the team and I take the responsibility.

"Everybody in life has problems and it is normal. That is life.

"I am alone here with my family. We don't have grandparents here or uncles and aunties. It does make it difficult, not for me personally because I come to work everyday, but for my kids and wife.

"Here though, the club and the fans are my family at the moment. The love that they give to me with my song and on the pitch for me is fantastic. It's the best present they can give me.

"I never spoke to any team, the only reason to go back to Argentina would have been personal problems but they knew I am a supporter of San Lorenzo and the fans were excited because they thought 'he supports us and this is a big chance to come to San Lorenzo'.

"The last few weeks, there has been a lot of talk about my future but I am staying here, and of course I will give 100 per cent like I always do. I have been here five years and Newcastle has given me a lot and done a lot for me. I have to be true to the club. I will give 100 per cent.

"I love football and once I am on the pitch, it is different. The problems I have are outside the pitch. I think if you look at a game like Norwich or the last few games, I have played normally. The results were not the best, but I have given everything to try to win."


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Mike Tyson's decision to fight in Milan has already started a rush for tickets. Two months before Tyson's second European fight and seven days before the 10,000 tickets are made available, the organisers said yesterday they had already been flooded with calls for seats.

"We got calls from Paris, London and other European cities demanding tickets at any price," said a spokeswoman for the box office at the Filaforum, the sports arena where Tyson will fight the American Lou Savarese on 20 May. Ticket prices have yet to be announced but reports said the dearest seats could cost as much as £650.

"In Milan, people are going to attend a super event, because Tyson is a superstar not only in boxing but also as a person," the British promoter, Frank Warren, said. "We expect an impressive response."

When Tyson fought in Manchester on 29 January, when he stopped Julius Francis in the second round, the 21,000 tickets were sold out in two days, with demand exceeding 50,000.

Tyson, who has a record of 47 wins (41 knockouts), three losses and one no-contest, will travel to Milan 10 days before the fight with Savarese, staying in a luxury downtown hotel and training in the New-Trefor gym. "Tyson loves Milan, visited briefly in 1991, and insisted he wanted to fight here," Warren said. "Being a shopaholic he will enjoy all the stores in Milan."

Milan has lots of luxury shops, including those of Armani, Versace, Ferre and Krizia. While staying in London before the Francis fight, Tyson spent over £650,000 on jewellery, clothes and other items, and ordered a sports car.

The fight at Filaforum - which has hosted the world ice hockey championships and a Davis Cup final - will be shown on a six-hour delay in the United States on Showtime. The organisers added that they were negotiating television rights with networks from 120 countries, including China and Australia. "Television watchers will be by the billions," Warren said.

Savarese, with 39 wins and three defeats on his record, is expected to be a tougher opponent than Francis. "It's a fight Tyson can't afford to lose," Warren said. "Savarese is a tough opponent, with a big opportunity to upset the odds."

The bout was originally planned to be staged in April but was postponed to 20 May because Tyson, who will be 34 on 30 June, reportedly demanded more time to prepare. The undercard will include Zab Judah's first defence of the IBF junior welterweight title.


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The special value of the Commonwealth is that it brings together nations in many different phases of development, which view current affairs through the prism of their own experience.

At best, this makes it a forum of impassioned and significant debate, in which mutual understanding can be enhanced. But when tolerance of alternative ideas gives way to indifference or cynical acceptance of what should be loudly denounced, the organisation risks sliding into irrelevance or worse.

Sri Lanka is a functioning democracy and has been at peace since the end of the Tamil Tigers’ insurgency four years ago. But the coming of peace has done nothing to moderate the autocratic behaviour of a regime which displays many of the worst features of a dictatorship.  Mahinda Rajapaksa and his clan see criticism as treachery and dissent as a hostile act.

Life for conscientious journalists has long been extremely hazardous in Sri Lanka, but their ranks have now been joined by many others: student leaders, university lecturers, trade unionists, human rights activists, lawyers and judges are among those who have been subjected to vilification, intimidation and physical attack, as a new Amnesty International report published yesterday, entitled Sri Lanka’s Assault on Dissent, spells out.

Only three months ago, the Chief Justice was quite wrongly impeached and sacked. Persistent critics of the regime can vanish without trace: as The Independent’s new online campaign, Voices in Danger, reported on Monday, Prageeth Eknaligoda, a political journalist and cartoonist, disappeared in January 2010 and has not been seen since.

It is against this backdrop that Canada has threatened to boycott the November Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo, unless the regime mends its ways. Canada’s should not be a lone voice. Democracy by itself is not enough: without respect for the right to dissent and criticise, it is but a fig leaf for tyranny.


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