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MetroPCS Delivers It All with New KYOCERA Hydro XTRM, Combines Nationwide 4G LTE, Affordability and Durability
New water-, dust- and shock-proof smartphone now available for $169 with nationwide 4G LTE service for just $40, period
BELLEVUE, Wash. and SAN DIEGO -- November 8, 2013 - Consumers looking for the best value on a smartphone that can handle the drops and splashes of everyday life and deliver nationwide 4G LTE speed need look no further than MetroPCS for the new Kyocera Hydro XTRM. The waterproof, dust-proof and shock-proof Android™ smartphone is available at MetroPCS, a brand of T-Mobile US, Inc. (NYSE: TMUS), for just $169 plus tax and can be paired with any of MetroPCS' affordable nationwide 4G LTE plans, starting at just "$40, period."
In a recent survey* of online visitors to MetroPCS.com, waterproof and shock-proof capabilities were the second and third most desired features for upcoming phone purchases, trailing only 4G connectivity on consumers' want lists. The Hydro XTRM meets those demands, with nationwide 4G LTE and the ability to take on water and jarring drops with ease.
"We know that drops, falls and splashes can't always be avoided and our customers demand a smartphone like the Hydro XTRM that can handle their every day life," said Tom Keys, COO and executive vice president of MetroPCS. "MetroPCS is delivering a life-proof experience by combining the durability of the Hydro with the predictability and affordability of our unlimited data, talk and text service plans to help consumers deal with all of life's surprises - and we're doing it on a nationwide 4G LTE network they can rely on."
Designed to be sleek and stylish while withstanding the punishment of day-to-day use and more, the Hydro XTRM is IP57 certified to protect against dust and water immersion for up to 30 minutes in up to 3.28 feet of water. Shock-resistant construction built to Military Standard 810G means the phone can handle bumps and drops, while Kyocera's state-of-the-art Smart Sonic Receiver technology allows users to hear conversations clearer than ever before in noisy environments.
The Kyocera Hydro XTRM's 4-inch, impact-resistant touchscreen and reinforced housing ensure greater screen protection. Powered by Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), the Hydro XTRM's 4G LTE connectivity offers fast Web browsing and multimedia streaming capabilities.
"The Hydro XTRM is the most rugged of the Kyocera Hydro Series, which has become the consumer-preferred standard for durable and affordable waterproof smartphones, said Eric Anderson, senior vice president and general manager of sales and marketing at Kyocera Communications Inc. "This is the right device for people looking for a phone that strikes the perfect balance between looking cool, working hard and keeping up with their active lifestyles."
Additional features of the Kyocera Hydro XTRM include:
1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processor for easy multitasking and quick application response
5 megapixel camera with flash and video camcorder and 1.3 megapixel front camera
Google Mobile™ services including Google Play, Google Search™, Google Navigation™, Google Maps™, Google Talk™, Google+™, Gmail™, and YouTube™
Mobile Hotspot capable (additional fees may apply)
Wi-Fi calling support
Powerful 2000 mAh Li-Ion battery plus added energy-saving features - MaxiMZR and Eco Mode apps for managing and conserving power consumption
For more information, please visit:
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About MetroPCS
MetroPCS provides the freedom and convenience of unlimited, no-annual-contract wireless services on an advanced nationwide 4G LTE network for a flat rate. With MetroPCS, customers get great value and a wide variety of device choices from leading brands. A flagship brand operated by T-Mobile US, Inc. (NYSE: "TMUS"), MetroPCS products and services are available online and across the United States through a network of company-owned stores, authorized dealer locations, and leading national retailers. For more information, please visit www.metropcs.com.
About Kyocera Communications, Inc.
Kyocera Communications Inc. is the headquarters for Kyocera wireless devices in the Americas. Designed with durability, dependability and long-term value as priorities, Kyocera mobile phones help people feel comfortable with new technology and use it to connect, perform and outsmart life's challenges. At the heart of Kyocera's products is a belief that one size doesn't fit all and that people should do more with phones instead of being confused by them or having to alter their lifestyles to accommodate them. For more information, visit www.kyocerasmartphones.com or follow the company at www.facebook.com/kyoceramobilephones or www.twitter.com/kyoceramobile.
Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO) (TOKYO:6971) (http://global.kyocera.com/), the parent and global headquarters of the Kyocera Group, was founded in 1959 as a producer of fine (or "advanced") ceramics. Kyocera specializes in combining these engineered materials with metals and integrating them with other technologies, such as solar power generating systems, printers, copiers, mobile phones, electronic components, semiconductor packages, cutting tools and industrial components. During the year ended March 31, 2013, the company's net sales totaled 1.28 trillion yen (approx. USD13.6 billion).
*1,623 responses received July 2013 - September 2013 in online survey of www.MetroPCS.com site visitors when asked about important features that respondents would like to see in their next phone purchase.
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Photo: Gage SkidmoreA couple of years ago, Newt Gingrich was sounding like a climate activist. The former Republican speaker of the House posed with current Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a couch in front of the Capitol for a 2008 ad sponsored by Al Gore's organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection. "[O]ur country must take action to address climate change," Gingrich said, calling on Americans to "demand action from our leaders."
In his new book To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine, Gingrich pushes a strikingly different view, decrying "the doomsday theory of climate change," which he attributes to the "high-tax, big-bureaucracy, job-killing, and government-centralizing environmentalism of the Left."
A vehement critic of the Obama administration — opposing its approach to the Gulf oil spill, energy and climate legislation, and much else — Gingrich calls for a "green conservatism — a new pathway to environmental stewardship." He characterizes this philosophy as "optimistic, positive … entrepreneurial, market-based, and incentive-led." He calls the Tea Party movement "a good way to spread green conservatism."
Gingrich is busy these days promoting his book — and himself. He's mulling a 2012 presidential bid, planning to make a decision on whether to run by spring of next year. I spoke with Gingrich recently by phone about BP, global warming, green conservatism, and Rwandan gorillas.
Q. What's your take on the BP spill and the response of the Obama administration?
A. The president has been floundering. The U.S. government underestimated the scale of the disaster for the first couple of weeks after the spill. Then you have a complete failure to coordinate potential resources from foreign countries that offered assets that could have helped cope with the oil flow. I don't think the government even understood what they were being offered because the bureaucracy is so incompetent and the disorganization is so complete.
Q. What would you have done differently?
A. You've got to fundamentally overhaul MMS, the Army Corp of Engineers, and the Coast Guard's emergency response system. You have to rethink these agencies because our current bureaucratic structure does not allow modern technology to get into the government very rapidly. So you've got long-term civil servants who may have been technically capable 25 years ago but they are now in the new world with new technologies and very often don't understand what they are dealing with.
Q. Would you also tighten the safety standards for offshore drilling and require stricter enforcement of these standards?
A. They've got to look very carefully at what actually went wrong. We frankly don't understand fully what went wrong.
Q. Do you think the safety measures are adequate as is?
A. I don't think we know.
Q. In your book, you say a core theory of green conservatism is that "wealth and freedom generally lead to better environmental practices." BP had loads of wealth and freedom — then it ignored safety measures and the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded. How do you reconcile this?
A. Well, sometimes greed and stupidity undermine the benefits of wealth and freedom. BP should be required to pay every penny of the cleanup and be held accountable for all the damages done to any party by this disaster. That provides a signal to other companies: Don't be stupid.
But wealth and freedom as a general rule make it possible to produce more things better. There are over 30,000 wells in the Gulf — we've had one blowout in 30,000 wells. I think you learn from the mistakes. You figure out new and better approaches and you go back and try again.
Q. So are you saying that wealth and freedom sometimes confer environmental benefits, but in this case they didn't?
A. In this case there was a mistake. And you're going to have mistakes.
Q. How can we prevent these kind of mistakes if not with better regulatory oversight?
A. You try to ensure that the best [drilling] practices are followed. But you also have to recognize that sometimes there will be things that happen that you can't control. It's like having car wrecks. You have to build a response system.
Q. Do you think greed and stupidity are a part of human nature?
A. Sadly, yes.
Q. How can wealth and freedom confer the greatest environmental benefits if humanity is fundamentally greedy and stupid?
A. Political systems also have greed and stupidity. But they are more centralized and politicians have more power.
The point isn't that wealth and freedom will lead to utopia. The point is, if your choice is between greed and stupidity in bureaucracies and greed and stupidity in free markets, as a general rule, free markets produce greater wealth and greater opportunity for more people.
Q. What is your position on climate change? How much of a threat do you think it poses?
A. It's an act of egotism for humans to think we're a primary source of climate change. Look at what happened recently with the Icelandic volcano. The natural systems are so much bigger than manmade systems. I am very dubious about claims that we know precisely what's going to happen. And I'm very suspicious of the use of those claims to create much larger governments with much greater bureaucratic controls over our life.
Q. In 2008, you appeared in an ad with Nancy Pelosi in which you said that America "must take action to address climate change." Why have you flip-flopped?
A. I haven't flip-flopped. The actions I would take would include nuclear power and the use of renewables. For much less cost than what Al Gore wants to spend, you can incentivize dramatic changes.
Q. I'm sorry, I'm confused. You've said on the one hand you're not sure climate change is human-caused. On the other, America should take action to address climate change.
A. I think the carbon of the atmosphere is something we should deal with. To give you an example, if you had the same percent of American electricity from nuclear that you get in France, you would take 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year out of the atmosphere.
Q. You have applauded CEOs of GE and Duke Energy and Wal-Mart and other major industry executives for leading environmental progress in the country. These same executives are supporting a regulatory cap on carbon, saying they need federal regulations that provide market certainty.
A. What they are really telling you? They're telling you they are so afraid that the Environmental Protection Agency will be used that they would rather have a law than have the Environmental Protection Agency make their life even more miserable.
Q. So you think these people actually aren't concerned about climate change and don't support a cap on carbon emissions?
A. I'm just saying there are a lot of people who are driven to take positions because they are genuinely afraid the government will make their life even more miserable through regulatory devices.
Q. You vehemently oppose a cap on carbon emissions. Economists say that greenhouse gases are imposing costs on the public that the emitters aren't paying. Why should the public have to pay these costs?
A. Creating a regime to regulate carbon emissions would profoundly change the entire economy and guarantee the export of an amazing number of jobs to China and India. I regard the cap-and-trade bills as full employment acts for China and India.
Q. Your energy proposals consist largely of incentives — essentially, subsidies. You've also fought efforts to remove subsidies from fossil fuels. If you support free, open, and competitive markets, shouldn't you support removing subsidies that distort the market?
A. Not if you believe that a low-cost energy regime is essential to our country — both in terms of its internal transportation cost and its competitiveness in the world market.
Q. Fossil fuels are not low-cost when you consider their external toll on national security and the environment.
A. I don't think you can find any rational economic model that cuts the use of carbon by 83 percent in the time frame people are talking about without crushing the American economy.
Q. You have supported nuclear, solar, wind, smart grid, and other emerging technologies. Do you see incentives as the only way to push these markets to evolve?
A. Absolutely. There's no evidence in American history that regulations and punishments work to create a better future.
Q. The Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act are widely lauded as successful legislation. Would you support rolling them back?
A. Depends on what you mean by rolling back.
Q. Do you think the government should have specific targets for clean water and clean air that can't be surpassed?
A. Not necessarily.
Q. You don't think a law should say the air has to be X percent clean?
A. No, I don't.
Q. You describe yourself as passionate about the environment. What experiences in your life shaped your commitment to this issue?
A. Growing up, I loved the natural world. I wanted to be either a zoo director or an invertebrate paleontologist when I was young.
Q. You argue that many environmental problems have been ignored due to what you call "the global warming obsession." What do you think are the biggest environmental challenges we're facing?
A. We have a substantial biodiversity problem, particularly in the Third World where I think there is a grave danger that you're going to lose an amazing number of keystone species like mountain gorillas. We have to create economic policies that sustain those habitats. Local people have to have an investment in the preservation of species or it won't happen.
My wife Callista and I went hiking in Rwanda in February and went up to look at mountain gorillas at about 9,500 feet, and many of the people who were with us — porters helping us do the trek up the mountain — had formerly been poachers. So the wilderness skills that had made them effective poachers turned them into effective guides.
Q. In your book you call for citizen leadership to protect the environment. What do you do in your personal life to promote sustainability? What kind of car do you drive, for instance?
A. I drive a hybrid, if that helps anything.
Q. And your home?
A. All I can tell you is I'd bet you a great deal of money that the carbon footprint of my home is radically smaller than Al Gore's. I'll leave it at that.

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This week's stand outs on the Nintendo front have to be the classic Sonic & Knuckles and a Wii port of Phoenix Wright's second DS adventure.
S&K is the one and only VC game this week and is one of my all time faves. Check it out if you've got any spare points cluttering up your account. Sega even managed to maintain the 'lock-on' gimmick for the downloadable game- which means that if you have Sonic 2 & 3 on you VC, you can go back and use Knuckles in them! Cool stuff.
The second notable is the cartoony lawyer 'sim' sequel- Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All. If you've never played this on the DS, then It's definately worth a look. The Phoenix games are a little kooky, very different from what you're probably used to, and pretty fun to boot.
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney®:
Publisher: Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Blood, Mild Violence, Suggestive
Price: 1,000 Wii Points™
Description: Phoenix Wright is back as the second game in
the popular Ace Attorney hand-held franchise comes to the WiiWare
service. As Phoenix Wright, you'll play through four shocking new cases
in first-person perspective. The game features two unique game play
modes. In Investigations Mode, you'll survey crime scenes, interview
witnesses and gather evidence. You'll then present findings, listen to
testimonials and examine witnesses in Court Mode. JUSTICE FOR ALL
also includes a new "Psyche-Lock" feature that allows Phoenix to use a
line of questioning to reveal inconsistencies in witness testimony.
Art of Balance
Publisher: Shin'en Multimedia
Players: 1-2
Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Wii Points
Description: Grab your Wii Remote™ controller and
build a balanced stack in this physics-based puzzler, featuring 100
levels that challenge not only your skills but also your imagination.
The game is easy to pick up and hard to put away. Play alone or invite a
friend to grab a second Wii Remote controller and drop in at any point
for co-op play. There's even a dedicated two-player split-screen
"versus" mode for extra fun.
WarMen Tactics
Publisher: CALARIS
Players: 1
ESRB Rating:
T (Teen) – Blood, Violence
Price: 800 Wii Points
Description: In the year 2013, civil unrest across the globe has
prompted world leaders to merge the police and military into a single
force called the Department of Control. This force is opposed by a
resistance made up of former military members who refused to join the
Department. Marco is one of them, and the game tells his story. Join
Marco as he is deployed on a mission to destroy scrambler devices placed
around the city. Created to reflect the realities of urban warfare, the
game requires players to take cover behind walls and other obstacles as
they strive to defeat enemies and advance to the next post.
Nintendo DSiWare
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating:
E (Everyone) – Mild Cartoon Violence
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi
Description: Meet Spotto, a plucky duck on a mission. Ill-behaved
ghosts have kidnapped Chikkie Wowwow, President Wowwow's daughter.
Spotto, being the world's foremost Bombirdier, must follow these ghosts
to a haunted house and use his trusty bombs to blast the baddies. Take
control of Spotto, adjusting his aim with the stylus and trying to toss
bombs into the ghosts' mouths in 50 "explosive" stages. Along the way,
you'll avoid obstacles (or use them to your advantage), find powerful
Super Bombs to inflict even more damage and even encounter a
frighteningly large ghost or two. With multiple modes of play and
numerous solutions for successfully blasting ghosts to pieces, this is
one haunted house you'll want to visit often.
Spaceball: Revolution
Publisher: Virtual Toys
Players: 1
Rating: E (Everyone) – Mild Fantasy Violence
Price: 500
Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Spaceball: Revolution will put your
intelligence and skill to the test as you solve puzzles in a futuristic
environment. Copy the figures that appear on the top screen, using
energy balls that make the boxes correctly change color. It won't be an
easy task. Different obstacles will be thrown into your path,
challenging you to polish your aim and think rapidly. Fifteen different
levels are waiting for you in Spaceball: Revolution. Are you up
to the challenge?
Scrabble Classic
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Players: 1-4
Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Scrabble, one of the world's most popular board
games, is enjoying a tremendous surge in popularity, both online and in
the real world. Scrabble for the Nintendo DSiWare service allows
you to play this exciting game in both Single Player and Multi-Player
Real Soccer 2010
Publisher: Gameloft
Players: 1-4
ESRB Rating:
E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Real Soccer is back for the most exciting
season yet. Choose from more teams than ever before and compete in new
stadiums around the world. Lead your team to victory on the field and
make tactical decisions as the coach.
Prehistorik Man
Publisher: Interplay
Players: 1
ESRB Rating:
E (Everyone) – Mild Violence
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Life is hard for Sam the Prehistorik Man. With
three-and-a-half hours of work each week, there's barely time to fit in
all the sleeping, eating and cave-painting that needs to be done. When
greedy dinosaurs guzzle his village's winter food source, Sam gets mad.
Armed with his best club and his powerful hunter's voice, Sam needs your
help to proceed through 22 levels of food-gathering and
dinosaur-bashing. With fast-paced action, hundreds of secret areas,
weapons and unlikely vehicles to find, you'll need to be smart.
Well…smarter than Sam, anyway.
Virtual Console
Sonic & Knuckles
Original platform: SEGA Genesis
Publisher: SEGA
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Wii Points
Description: Sonic, the world's fastest hedgehog, continues his
adventures in this fourth installment of the Sonic The Hedgehog™
series. This time, he buddies up with his former enemy, Knuckles the
Echidna, in order to defeat the evil Dr. Eggman (a.k.a. Dr. Robotnik).
At the end of Sonic The Hedgehog 3, Dr. Eggman's ultimate
orbital weapon for global domination, the Death Egg, was badly damaged
in an epic battle with Sonic. The Death Egg, losing power rapidly,
hurtled back down to the planet below and crash-landed on the mysterious
Angel Island again. Now Sonic and Knuckles must put a stop to Dr. Eggman
once and for all before Eggman and his no-goodniks find the secret to
Angel Island's floating power, the Master Emerald. This game features
Lock-On Technology, which allows you to play as Knuckles in other Sonic
titles available for the Virtual Console, including Sonic The
Hedgehog 2 and Sonic The Hedgehog 3, as long as these titles
are part of your Virtual Console library.


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Detroit Pistons Draft Dreams: Kyle Singler
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like Kyle Singler's college career flew by. Dukies have a habit of seeming like they're in college for about nine years (Christian Laettner and Grant Hill, for example), but Singler's four-year career went by really quick. He was obviously a very good college basketball player. Will that game translate to the NBA, though?
Measurables: 6-foot-8, 230 pounds, senior F from Duke
Key stats: 16.9 points, 6.8 rebounds, 1.6 assists per game while shooting 43 percent from the field and 32 percent from three
Projected: Second round
How would he help the Pistons?
I'm not convinced that he would. But I'm also a proponent of teams taking the best available player regardless of position in the second round. Second round picks are usually longshots to make a roster. A large percentage of guys never amount to much in the NBA. So even if the Pistons are fairly solid at the forward spot, a player like Singler may very well be the guy who has the best shot to make a roster when the Pistons pick.
These are the things he has going for him: he's a decent 3-point shooter, he rebounds well for a guy who operates on the perimeter a lot, he's a good passer for his size and he's won a lot of games while being asked to play different roles during his Duke career. If the Pistons lose Tayshaun Prince and Tracy McGrady to free agency and with the assumption that Jonas Jerebko is going to be counted on to play at least some of his minutes at the four, the Pistons actually could be in a position to add depth. Singler, as a guy who can shoot but is also big and strong enough to give some minutes at the four, might not be a bad pickup if he's available and all of the promising bigs in the draft are off the board.
He'd also be the best trick shot artist on the team since Rasheed Wallace:
How wouldn't he help the Pistons?
Singler won't score inside. He can hit a midrange jumper, but a high percentage of his points in college come from 15 feet and out. He also didn't shoot the ball well his senior season after being near 40 percent from three during his first three seasons. The Pistons also have a forward on the roster who is a bit too perimeter happy in Charlie Villanueva.
As much criticism as Villanueva has taken from fans, there's a big difference between him and Singler: Villanueva is much more athletic. While Villanueva can surely slide over to the three and at least be OK athletically at the position, Singler still has to prove he can do that at the NBA level.
What are others saying?
"The fact that Singler has been a role-player essentially throughout his college career, doing so on a competitive and winning team throughout, will play in his favor, though. He is not the type of player who will need to make a huge transition in his style of play to make an impact. Furthermore, he's ready to contribute immediately, as he's a mature player both physically and mentally, who has been coached by one of the most respected men in basketball over the past four years. These things, along with his strong intangibles, could all look very attractive to a good team drafting in the second half of the first round looking for a solid piece to add to their rotation."
"NBA execs look for similarities for help in projections, so anything Singler can do to separate himself from (Gordon) Hayward would be great, and that starts with his perimeter shot. Hayward was good his first season and bad as a sophomore, and Singler is working on an "average, good, good, average" run over his four years. Of course, this season could end up as an excellent one from deep, starting with his 5-for-9 performance against Oregon. Combine a sharpshooter with the fighter/hustler Singler has proved to be in the past against a team like Michigan State? That's a guy every team will covet."
"Singler needs little room to get off a shot with his high release point in a 6'9 body … When he's not spotting up, he shows offensive versatility in that he can hit a number of different types of shots in different ways … Reliable mid-range game with ability to shoot off dribble, although prefers to catch and shoot… High basketball IQ, high awareness of what's going on around him which helps him defensively off the ball, as well as with the ball in his hands in regards to finding teammates cutting to the hoop… Sees court well for 6'9 forward … Fiery and competitive kid who just has a great overall feel for the game."
Hickory High's Similarity Scores
- Darius Morris
- Derrick Williams
- JaJuan Johnson
- Jeremy Tyler
- Perry Jones (Staying in school)
- Kemba Walker
- Nikola Vucevic
- Jimmer Fredette
- Kenneth Faried
- Isaiah Thomas
- Marcus Morris
- Ben Hansbrough
- Brandon Knight
- Keith Benson
- Donatas Motiejunas
- Shelvin Mack
- John Henson (Staying in school)
- Kyrie Irving
- Nolan Smith
- Bismack Biyambo
- Demetri McCamey


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Lucio is a timeless classic. Classics enjoy each other's company. Live long and fit everywhere.
Lucio is an organic form. To balance against all the straight lines found in the modern home.
The combination of the form, the mirrors and the backlit LED panel creates a cozy lounge atmosphere.
The backlight serves as a nightlight. For those who need to get out of bed in the night, big and small.
"I'm really fascinated by Lucio as a design. I was looking for a piece on my wall, accompanying my B&O stereo. Lucio fits perfectly on the wall, creates a really cosy ambience. I enjoy it every day and it always gets a lot of attention from my friends when they come for a visit."
Ana Isabel, Spain
"I have had Lucio now for a few years on the wall between the dining room and living room. I enjoy inviting friends to dinner parties and Lucio always helps set the mood with its cosy glow. The mirrors connect the living room with the dining room, making the whole space more feel like one. Lucio creates this special feeling I enjoy of being in a nice lounge, yet being at home."
Sigurður Kristjánsson
"We have Lucio on a central wall in our apartment, facing our living room window. During summer nights, it is amazing to watch how the evening glow of the sun plays with Lucio and its backlight feature. It feels like a very lively art installation on the wall. Its classical shape makes me think that although I would move, I would always find a new place for Lucio. It is a very special piece we enjoy very much."
Arnar Einarsson, Reykjavik
"I have had Lucio in my apartment since 2008. I have moved a few times since then, but always found it necessary to have Lucio on the wall. There is something about the mirrors and the cozy backlight. Especially when you sit close to it, you can gaze into the mirrors and let your mind wander. It somehow helps me relax when I get home after a busy day."
Oskar Erlingsson, Iceland
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Sunday, December 25th, 2005
How to become an independent programmer in just 1068 days. If you watch the Evening at Adler video you'll come across a part where some of the guys on the panel talk about how much it costs to make the transition to doing the independent macintosh programmer thing. Specifically Jason Harris who apparently went deep into credit card debt when making the jump. He's out of debt now, but.... yikes. When I started writing software on the side for fun, it never really crossed my mind that I would be able to support myself and do it full time. Of course, the dream was there in the back of my head, but I didn't think it was actually attainable. I figured my best bet was to become a good enough programmer to work for a decent mac company some day. So in the beginning my objective with the software I wrote was to make enough money to buy toys. Toys being upgrades to the latest version of CodeWarrior and even for a period of time REALbasic. I never actually made any money off the apps pre-voodoopad, but it was fun anyway so I kept on coding. Then I discovered Project Builder (soon to be Xcode) and Interface Builder, and I could thankfully stop spending money on IDEs. Actually, that's not true. I kept on buying CodeWarrior because I really liked their IDE and how fast the compiler was, it just smoked gcc. However I never actually used it very much for anything but java because I couldn't get any real cocoa work done with it. But I kept on thinking the next version ... *this was the one*. Unfortunately they never really got there and CW Pro 9 was the last release I bought. Anyway, so when I started selling VoodooPad (and astonishingly people were buying it) my goal was to be able to make enough money off it to buy a 23" cinema display which I was lusting after at the time (now I'm lusting after a cintiq). That was the goal. If I made that I'd be in heaven. So Lesson #1 - Think small and make sure you really like what you are doing. After I won a place in the Mac OS X Innovators Contest people really began to notice my application and I got to buy my cinema display and eat mexican at least once a week. Wooohoo! I was in heaven. And then the money kept on coming in. Not even close enough to live off of, but enough to make me worry about little things... like getting sued. So my next goal was to save up enough money to incorporate as Flying Meat Inc., so if I did get sued they wouldn't take my house. So I did that, and eventually setup my own company bank account for eSellerate to deposit into. Goals are good. When you make them, it lets you know you are on the right track. Lesson #2 - Setting goals are good. If you make them that means you are on the right track. At 2003's OSX Con the winners from the innovators contest were up on stage to talk and answer questions from the crowd. One of the questions from the audience was something along the lines of "So, how many of you guys are actually able to make enough money to live off this?". Paul Kafasis, Brent Simmons, some guys from the Omni Group, and Oliver Breidenbach were able to raise their hands. Myself and some other guys weren't. Damnit, I want to work for myself. Ok, I've got a new goal now. "Gus the indie programmer". But this one is obviously going to take a bit more time, and I can't just jump ship and hope for the best. I've got a house to pay off and stuff. I'd have to take out a loan... I hate debt. HATE IT. So I needed to sit down and figure out exactly how much I'd need every month to get by. I think it was about this time that the "goals" cgi script was born. It was a simple little python script that connected to my sales database that was updated for every sale made. It printed out little statistics like how much I made today, how much I would have made if eSellerate wasn't taking their cut, how much I made within the past 7, 30, 60, 180, and 365 days, how much I've made this year, and the kicker- what percentage I was supposed to make for the time period to make my goal. And what the heck, I'll throw in a second "woohoo" goal while I'm at it. I also had little bars setup for every month that would go green if I made the goal for the month, and red if I didn't. The filler space was painted black. Here's what March-Dec 2003 looked like. (Two bars for every month, a small one for the real goal, the taller one for the w00t goal). Notice the complete lack of any green. But that's ok.. notice the upwards trend. (07/July was when I won the award.) I checked this script religiously. Every day, every hour, every 5 minutes sometimes. There were times when the day job was particularly rough and I just stared at the thing, praying for some green to magically appear. Time went on... and then this started happening in 2004: Not. Good. August was a particularly bad month, and very depressing. I saw my dreams slipping away. So very not good. What happened!?! Well, I had released VoodooPad 1.1.1 in December of 03', along with VoodooPad Lite. I had my best sales day ever... resulting from making a free version, go figure. That was the peak, then I came out with a couple more updates in Jan and Feb. After that I really started working on VoodooPad 2.0, aka "The release that just would not happen". Bah. I planned for way too many features in there, and broke it in so many different ways early on. Bad idea. No releases = No money. Lesson #3 - Steadily improve your product. Big jumps in functionality means lots of time without updates, and releases are where you get nice spikes in sales. I make a public beta in September, then I had the marriage thing happen, and more public betas. VoodooPad 2.0 was released in December of 2004. OMFG I SEE GREEN. Wow. I attributed the huge spike to a couple of things. A nice new big release that people liked (duh), and another that took me a little longer to figure out... people feel more comfortable with a 2.0. Now, I don't think you can release a 1.0 and then a 2.0 a week later... but if you have your name out there already from being talked about on blogs and news sites, and then people see a big shiny X.0 release they think "hey, I should check that out". That's my theory anyway, and I'm sticking to it. So. I made the the goal. Time to quit the day job! Lesson #4 - Don't quit your day job. Just because I made my goal this month didn't mean I was going to next month, or the month after that. I figured it would be much safer to just bank all that money and only spend it when I needed to. That way I would have a nice pad of money for the months that weren't so good. This was another part of my long term plan- I absolutely needed at least 6 months worth of my "salary" in the bank before I would jump ship. Lesson #5 - Have money in the bank for a rainy day. Shit happens. You've got a great mp3 player, and then Apple comes out and gives one away for free. Which leads to the release of FlySketch- Lesson #6 - Don't put all your eggs in one basket. I wrote FlySketch so that should anything happen that would make sales of VoodooPad tank, I'd have another app to lean on for cash. Plus now I get to do fun things like sell bundles at a discount which is good for sales as well. Plus my mind wanders so it's good to work on something other than a desktop wiki all day long. Moving right along... So it turns out that I did end up making my goal for Jan '05. And Feb, March, April, and so on. Every month that passed my confidence in going indie increased. I talked it over with the wife, and we decided that when we moved to Seattle that I'd be doing this full time. For the first six months I'd have to make X amount of dollars, and the second six months (which starts in Jan '06) I'd have to make more... and so on. Here's a fun pic: Click on it for a larger image. No, I won't tell you what the dollar amounts are. I'm not getting rich, but I will be able to give myself a raise next month as planned. I'll say this- I'm paying myself more than my first job, but less than my last job. I'm not getting rich but I'm doing alright. If I lived somewhere a little bit cheaper I'd be doing better... but that's ok, it's really nice up here in the north west. One more, because I'm getting tired of typing. Lesson #7 - It's not good enough to write and sell something that people want, it has to be got to be something they'll spend money for as well. (I hope that doesn't come off as me being some money grubbing so and so. But if I want to do this full time, then I need to be able to pay for the house, food, and the dogs like occasional treats every now and again which cost money as well. At least the commute is only 12 seconds, I save a lot on gas that way.) I've seen some cool ideas come and go, but for whatever reason they just didn't stick with people. And I imagine that can be pretty upsetting if you spend a lot of time working on it and it goes nowhere. Try to look at your app with a critical eye. Take FlyGesture for example- there is no way I would ever be able to go indie with that app, it just doesn't appeal to enough people. It has its fans, but not the same way as VoodooPad does or even FlySketch to an extent. If you aren't seeing growth in your sales... well, you better have another plan. Implementation counts too. Sure, you could write it in java, but you're going to be spending a lot of time making it a mac application. Carbon is cool, but hard to learn. REALbasic is nice for some things, but I haven't really seen a compelling consumer grade application written in it. Just use Cocoa, you'll be happier in the long run. Yes Objective-C is a funky language to learn, and it's C under that... but you can do it. I did. The only class I ever flunked was... wait for it... cs103, intro to computer programming in C. So you don't even have to be a good programmer. (Mr. Job Interviewer, you want me to write a bubble sort routine? Crap, I'm screwed- you might as well just move on to the next job applicant.) You've got to make it look and feel nice as well. Make it a Macintosh application. Someone commented to me the other day that both Brent Simmons (maker of NetNewsWire) and myself seem to have a sense for making usable user interfaces. I then pointed out that we both just try and figure out what Panic would do. WWPD? Stick it on a bracelet and you are set. Emulate who you want to be like, but don't copy because that's lame*. I guess that's lesson #7 1/2 . So that's it! Gus's risk-free-no-money-out-of-your-own-pocket path to sticking it to The Man! Just plan, set realistic goals, meet those goals, diversify, save up, add four cups of patience, and have fun. And most importantly- work your ass off. It's not difficult, it's just not easy. It takes time and patience and hard work. Now it's your turn- go make a better widget. (Just don't go making another note taking application because that's what we don't need another one of.) * I totally ripped off a specific visual effect from Transmit 3.0, and put it in VoodooPad 2.5. Can you guess what and where it is? (Update: edited for typos.) comments (38) # posted 10:11 pm (uct-6) |
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This is how the Buddha most often refers to himself. So you'd think that it would be clear and well understood, in fact the PED notes that in Pāli texts even non-Buddhists were supposed to understand it. However Buddhaghosa gives as many as eight possible derivations, of which two are most common. Firstly it is analysed as tathā + gata. Tathā is an adverb meaning "thus, so, in that way, likewise". Gata is a past-participle formed on the verbal root gam - gam if you don't know is wildly irregular, as a first person singular it is gacchāmi, as in "buddhaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi". So this interpretation tells us that the noun means "thus-gone". This is not very helpful. Sometimes we are told that it means that the Tathāgata has gone to nibbāna, but this assumes that nibbāna is somewhere you can go, and this is not sustainable. PED notes that Mrs Rhys Davids suggested "he who has won through to the truth", but this is quite a leap from thus-gone.
A second, even less likely explanation analyses the word as tathā + āgata. This rests on a sandhi rule which says that ā + ā = ā, so it's not impossible. Āgata is again a past-participle, and means "come" (the ā- prefix indicates motion towards). In this case tathāgata is said to mean "thus-come", presumably a reference to the fact that a Tathāgata has manifested in the world (which has a Mahāyāna ring to it).
Prof. Richard Gombrich offers a way out. He points out (in the 2006 Numata lectures soon to be published as What the Buddha Thought by Equinox Publications) that as the second member of this kind of compound -gata loses its usual meaning and means simply 'being'. He gives an example from Coulson's Teach Yourself Sanskrit citragatā nārī means not "the woman has gone into the picture, but "the woman in the picture". On this model Gombrich suggests that tathāgata means something like "one like that". The fact the Buddha referred to himself as "one like that" is indicative of the impossibility of fully explaining his enlightened experience. Gombrich also notes that the term can apply to any enlightened person, for example at MN 1.140 :
Bhikkhus, when the gods... seek a bhikkhu who is liberated in mind, they cannot find anything... One thus gone (i.e. tathāgata) is untraceable here and now. (Alagaddūpama Sutta = MN 22, Ñāṇamoli, p.233)On the same model we might say that another common epithet for the Buddha, sugata, probably means "one who is good or well".
I'm not sure who first realised that sūtra is a hyper-sanskritisation. I have seen it in a book by K.R. Norman who is an expert philologist and has published many detailed etymologies, but it seems to have become common knowledge. The story here is that the Buddhist use of the Sanskrit word sūtra is based on the mistaken notion that the Prakrit (especially Pāli) word sutta derives from the Sanskrit word sūtra. This is understandable since Pāli resolves almost all conjunct consonants to double consonants. But if you ever look at a Brahminical sūtra you can easily see that they are an entirely different genre of texts, with more in common with abhidhamma style texts - they are terse, almost like bullet points. There is none of the narrative style of the Buddhist sūtras. It is far more likely that sutta derives from another Sanskrit word, sūkta. Both sūkta and sūtra resolve to sutta in Pāli. Sūkta means well spoken from su + ukta. Su, as above, means "good or well". Ukta is a past participle formed (irregularly) on the verbal root vāc - speech or words. Sūkta is a name for the verses of the Vedas and it seems likely that this is another case of conscious imitation of Brahmins by Buddhists - other examples include Tevijja the Buddha's three kinds of special knowledge vs the three Vedas; and the three fires of greed, hatred and delusion vs the three sacred fires of the Vedic sacrificial enclosure. So the use sūtra by Buddhists derives from the early Prakrit traditions, and is called a hyper-sanskritisation because it seems like an over compensation - picking a familiar word and using that to make it sound pukka.
A śramaṇa (Pali samaṇa) was an ascetic practitioner in ancient India. In Buddhists texts they are very frequently contrasted with brāhmaṇa, the Brahmins, both ascetic and householders. The Buddha practised with śramaṇa teachers before his enlightenment and learnt meditation techniques from them. The root of the word is śrām meaning "to exert oneself, to labour, toil", but also "weariness". Incidentally it is the 'r' in the Sanskrit that forces the 'n' to become retroflex 'ṇ' and this is retained in the Pāli 'samaṇa'. Śrāma then, is toil, and a śramaṇa (short 'a' in this case) is one who toils, i.e. 'a toiler'. It can be used in various contexts so that Vedic texts for instance sometimes talk about exerting oneself in sexual intercourse, but most relevant to Buddhism is the exertion at tapas or the generation of heat, an ancient Vedic metaphor for ascetic practice. We also find it in the word āśrama (Anglicized to "asharam") - meaning a place of striving. What makes the word śramaṇa particularly interesting is that it found its way into English via quite a tortuous route.
Probably in its Prakrit form ṣamaṇa it was introduced into central Asia, where for instance in Tocharian it became ṣamāne. From where it made it's way to Chinese as sha men ( 沙门 or perhaps 沙弥 ) - a general term for Buddhist monks. Siberians then seem to have borrowed the word to describe their "shamans". It survives in the Evenki language, a member of the Tungus group of languages in Siberia as šamān. From here it entered the Russian vocabulary as shamán. In German this became schamane and then finally it was adopted in English in the familiar spelling, shaman, in 1698. The route is somewhat speculative, but plausible and makes for a good tale! This etymology is assembled from many sources, which contain a variety of spellings!
Loka is a word that gets quite a workout in Buddhist Pāli and Sanskrit. It is usually translated simply as 'world' but this can disguise its the background and connotations. The Sanskrit grammarians like to derive words as far as possible from notional verb roots. Loka is derived from the root lok. It means to see behold or perceive. It may be familiar to you in another form. In the name Avalokiteśvara it occurs in the word "avaloka" meaning 'look upon', hence the name in this form means "the Lord (īśvara) who looks upon [suffering beings with compassion]." Because of a fluidity around the syllables 'ra' and 'la' it is also related to the root rok meaning "light, lustre, brightness". The earliest uses, in the Ṛgveda, give the suggestion of a clear space in which one can see - perhaps a forest clearing. So the word has always had the connotation of perception and perceptual range - the world is just what one can see or percieve. It may be that this is an old Indo-European metaphor because we use world in this sense as well: e.g. "a world of his own". One of the Buddha's epithets in the Buddha Vandana is "lokavidhu" - knower of the world, ie one who knows his 'own world', or the 'perceptual world. In English the word comes to us, via Latin, in terms like location, local, and locus.
This is a term that is typically translated as house-holder but Jan Nattier points out that the implications of it are hidden by that translation. The term literally means house (gṛha) lord (pati) and she notes that there is a general consensus on translating it. However the context of use reveals that it indicates considerable financial means - Edgerton actually suggested "capitalist" in his dictionary of Buddhist Sanskrit. The term is also mentioned in lists of castes alongside brahmaṇa and kṣatriya, and the people to whom it is applied are usually merchants or guild leaders - Anathapiṇḍika's brother-in-law for instance is called gahapati. Nattier concludes that it most likely applies to someone of considerable influence and power, perhaps a "leading citizen" but who is not a member of the two higher castes. (Nattier, p.22ff.)
- Ñāṇamoli. 1995. The Middle Length discourses of the Buddha. Boston : Wisdom Publications.
- Nattier, Jan. 2003. A few good men : the bodhisattva path according to 'The inquiry of Ugra (Ugraparipṛcchā). Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press.
See also:
- Philological Odds and Ends II: cakravartin, cintāmaṇi, yoniso manasikara, pāramitā, etymology.
- Philological Odds and Ends III: bodhisattva, anagārikā, samyak/mithyā (Pāli sammā/micchā)
- Philological Odds and Ends IV: vrata, mitra, kavi


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I suspected that sort of thing.
That said, I think for the things that I do, I could still argue that a 3D map of the space completed would be feasible... perhaps not terribly useful - but for what I do, eye-candy actually does have merit when presenting to non-tech heads. If it is plotting in one direction the time that you are testing over (say +/- X), then another direction (say +/- Y) the performance score of your code, and then in say the Z +/- direction perhaps the series of evolutions that you do. That way I could show them with pretty charts that as the cycles of the code went on, I moved away from certain points and towards others. I see your point at the level of usefulness of this - but I still raise my question of if there is a way to in Perl to make 3D plots - I haven't seen it, but then I honestly haven't looked all that hard in the past bit (I looked over a year ago I can recall). ------------------------------------------------------------------- There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
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This month, Skrillex dropped not one but two new albums: Quest For Fire and Don't Get Too Close.
His first full-length releases since 2014's Recess, the feature-packed projects see the EDM poster child turned electro-pop maven enlisting everyone from Four Tet and Fred Again to Missy Elliott and Justin Bieber for a hard-hitting, stylistically diverse set of bangers that confirm his status as one of the world's most talented producers.
In recognition of the release, we're revisiting our 2012 interview with Skrillex, which you can read in full below.
The ubiquitous Skrillex - Sonny Moore on his birth certificate - is possibly electronic music's hardest working artist/producer, with a relentless touring schedule and a speaker-bursting editing and production technique. Recent EPs Bangarang and More Monsters and Sprites only served to cement his reputation as a sound-mangler of the highest calibre.
Over the past 18 months, he's served as one of the most recognisable poster boys of electronic music's rapid rise in the US. It's not just his countrymen and women who have taken to the sound though - he's been playing to sell-out crowds in huge venues across the world.
With a recent project involving the surviving members of The Doors under his belt, three Grammy awards resting on his mantlepiece and plenty of other high-profile collaborations and epic live shows on the way, you can't help but be impressed with what the 24-year-old has achieved so far in his short career.
We caught up with him on perpetual tour in the States to find out about his live show, his production on the road and his hectic schedule.
You seem to be permanently on tour. How's that going and do you use the tour to let tracks change and evolve?
"It's going really cool... the last EP [Bangarang] is killing it and I've got a bunch of unreleased bits and pieces that I'm playing out that seem to be going down really well. I'm always on tour so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.
"I was only home for about four days in the second half of last year... And one of those was a show day when I was just hanging out."
So you must have a little studio set up on the road with you at all times?
"Yeah... I've got a MacBook Pro running Ableton Live with two little KRK monitors and a Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 interface. I've got a little two-octave Alesis controller, which I never even seem to use because I end up drawing everything in with the mouse. I've got a guitar too. I love Ableton Live but I use a ton of other plug-ins and soft synths along with it. I started with Fruity Loops back in the day, then Reason and then I learnt Pro Tools but I kinda hated it so I got Ableton Live, which is just so incredibly intuitive."
Have you had a look at Fruity Loops recently? With the beefed-up FL Studio?
"Fruity Loops is an amazing bit of software but I'm Mac-based now so I can't run it. I started out running some PC I got for Christmas but I'm a Mac guy now... Otherwise I'd love to be able to jam with FL Studio.
"I know in Europe there are still a lot of PC users, which is cool as there's some great third-party software. When I was working with Noisia in their studio they had a ton of crazy plug-ins that I'd never even seen before. You can get some crazy freeware shit for PC too, which you can miss out on with OS X."
Has your gear setup changed much from your Kill Everybody days?
"Not really, no. Mainly because I've never had a chance to sit down and find out how I'd like it to change. I was never really a DJ... I just kinda figured it all out at once as I started to tour. I was making music and producing and I just had to start to DJ as I got more into touring.
"I'm still trying to figure out what being a producer/DJ really means to be honest... But it's kinda working out though and I'm happy and excited by it."
And you have a tour schedule that might finish off lesser mortals...
"Dude, you have no idea! Sometimes it's the flying schedule that can really fuck you up. I've played at festivals in Budapest, slept for an hour at the hotel then got up to fly toSouth Texas the next morning to sound-check at another festival. It can be really crazy. I seem to spend a minimum of eight hours a day in transit of some sort or another... that's eight hours of your life gone. People always ask if I suffer from jet lag but it's kinda become really normal for me... Although the jet lag does become a factor and you're pretty much always tired."
Those KRK monitors of yours must endure some serious punishment?
"Yeah... [laughs] When I did the last EP [More Monsters And Sprites] I did it all so quickly that I actually did the whole thing with the right speaker blown! I'm pretty happy with my sonics though so, if it does ever cause any grief live it's a good grief, for sure."
You're famed for your ferocious editing skills - are those all self-taught?
"Pretty much all self-taught, man. Back when I was using Pro Tools I had a friend kind of mentoring me in the very basics of mixing, compression and EQ. He was a rock producer though, so it was definitely a lot different from the sonic direction I try to head in now.
"If you saw how I work, I think it's definitely quite unconventional just because it's all self-taught - I didn't learn conventional production methods. I'm kinda stubborn in some ways too in that, at one point, what I do would definitely not be considered 'production', it would just be considered noise, which is so wrong.
"I like the fact that I do things in very minimal, unconventional ways and that I can carefully craft records on laptops - and blown speakers!"
Care to impart any editing tips or tricks to the readers?
"You know what, I work really fast and I've come to realise that the reason for that might be because I don't use a mouse - I just use the trackpad. It feels a bit like Minority Report when I'm touching and sliding everything [laughs]. Other than that, for editing it all depends on what you want to do on each track. On some tracks, everything is audio by the end of a mix-down whereas on others I have live synths MIDI-triggering whatever soft synths I'm using, with automating parameters going wild all the time. So, as far as actual editing tips go, I'm not sure, really.
"At the end of the day it's not so much the editing style that matters, it's more about having a real cool, concrete idea. Even if it's a whole line of bits and crazy parts, it still has to stick with you and have... almost like a phrase."
Is your modus operandi set in stone now or is it something that can change depending on how you feel at any given time?
"It's usually about how I'm feeling at the time... I'll never abandon what I've done before but I want to keep growing. I'm always creating new synth sounds and samples when I work, which often take me off in a certain direction, but it's always about who I am."
How do you go about choosing what software and plug-ins you use?
"A lot of it is word of mouth... I knew Noisia were using NI's FM8 and as they're such brilliant producers, that made me want to try using it too. Word of mouth works because I'm always moving so fast that it's hard to sit down and completely learn something new. Native Instruments are pretty standard, and for good reason - Massive, Reaktor and FM8 are all amazing.
"If there's one company that can do it all then it might be Native Instruments. Massive and wavetable synthesis is more plug-and-play... you open up an oscillator, fuck with the wavetable and for some people that can be your sound. FM synthesis though, especially from scratch, is so elemental and fun to build sounds with."
How do you bounce back from having your laptop and hard drives - with an entire unreleased album on them - stolen a year back?
"You never bounce back from that, man. It wasn't just my album it was four years' worth of all my other work too. There's not a night that passes when that doesn't still sting. You move forward and you make new records but I've honestly never been more devastated."
How do you create those brilliantly mashed-up vocals that you use?
"I do most of my vocals - aside from a couple of little one-shot vocal samples. I record everything into the Saffire with an SM58 then scratch it with loads of plug-ins. I don't do much vocoding to be honest. All my vocals are usually done with Melodyne and a ton of other plug-ins to make it sound weird. I've used vocoders with guitar notes and fucked up all the formants, which is pretty cool, but I don't tend to use them for vocals."


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Abercrombie & Fitch: Hollister sales associate Umme-Hani Khan thought she was doing everything right:
She wore flip-flops and long-sleeved shirts and jeans she bought at the trendy clothing store, and the hijabs, or headscarves, she wore matched company colors.
But four months into her job, in February 2010, a district manager spotted her at the store where she worked in San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco, and asked her to remove her hijab.
Khan, a 19-year-old who worked part-time in the stockroom, refused, citing her Muslim faith. Within two weeks, the district manager and the head of corporate human relations at Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister's parent company, agreed Khan should be fired for violating the company's "Look Policy," which bans headwear.
Now a federal judge says that Abercrombie & Fitch owes Khan damages. U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers wrote that "reasonable jurors could determine that by offering Khan one option – to remove her hijab despite her religious beliefs – Abercrombie acted with malice, reckless indifference…"
Abercrombie has long been criticized for its hiring practices, often for favoring more attractive job applicants who fit the retailer's young, preppy look. When Khan's case landed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal office that oversees employee rights, attorneys there were already working on two similar cases involving Abercrombie.
In both cases, one out of Tulsa, Okla., the other out of Northern California, the EEOC claimed that Abercrombie refused to hire two women because they wore hijabs.
Abercrombie said in a statement to NBCNews.com on Tuesday that it does not discriminate based on religion and that the company grants "religious accommodations when reasonable." The company would not comment further, saying it does not discuss pending cases.
William Tamayo, the regional attorney for the EEOC who oversaw Khan's case, said Abercrombie is contradicting itself.
"The employer will say that they don't discriminate, but their filing says, 'We have the right to discriminate,' " Tamayo said.
"They're working on fears and stereotypes and the belief that customers and women who are Muslim are going to hurt sales negatively."
Before taking the case to court, the EEOC approached Abercrombie about changing its "Look Policy," but Tamayo said those talks stalled.
According to court records, Abercrombie rejected a deal because the EEOC wanted "all employees to be allowed to wear headscarves in the future and did not permit consideration on a case-by-case basis."
Abercrombie said in court records that store associates "reinforce the aspirational lifestyles represented by the brands," and that they are "a central element in creating the atmosphere of the stores."
Abercrombie argued to the court that store associates should be classified as "living advertisements," and that their appearance is protected by commercial speech.
Judge Rogers found that argument wanting, noting that employees may wear other brands.
The judge also noted that Khan had been interviewed wearing a headscarf and that her job was to fold clothes in the stockroom, where she wasn't visible to customers. In the four months that she worked at Hollister before the district manager spotted her, she was on the floor just one to four times a shift.
Finally, the judge said, no customers had complained, and Abercrombie couldn't show that Khan's hijab had hurt sales.
But Rob Frankel, a brand consultant in Los Angeles, said Abercrombie should be allowed to demand that employees stick to a dress code.
"If I tell you, 'No burkas, no yarmulkes,' I'm not suppressing your rights; I'm creating brand consistency," Frankel said.
Frankel, who has never consulted for Abercrombie, said the company has been lagging of late. He said that if the retailer were to approach him about branding, he would tell them their product needs an overhaul: "I would tell them that their light is fading fast, and they better change fast."
Khan's case heads to trial later to determine what damages Abercrombie owes her.
Published in Today.Com on Sept. 11, 2013, by Isolde Raftery


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According to an article published in CNN.com, a burglar in southern Spain, who stole an old Super 8 camera and tapes from a home, discovered to his horror the graphic video content of a man sexually abusing boys.
The burglar put three tapes in a brown envelope, hid them under a parked car, and then called police from a public phone, directing them to go find it.
Inside the envelope, police found a note with the home address of the suspected pedophile and a message from the burglar:
"I've had the misfortune that these tapes have fallen into my hands and I feel obligated to turn them in so that you can do your job and put that (expletive) in prison for life."
Spanish national police confirmed Thursday (December 19, 2013) they arrested a 64-year-old suspected child molester this week at his home — the one that had been burglarized — in the southern provincial capital of Jaen.
The suspect is a local football (soccer) coach who lived alone. He lured some of his young players into watching pornographic videos together, and then sexually abused them, police said.
Police have identified four minor boys who were victims of the alleged abuse, including a 16-year-old who may have been abused for six years.
The suspected pedophile had reported the burglary at his home to police, listing various electrical appliances that were stolen. But he didn't mention the camera or the tapes, police said.
At his home, police said they found other tapes with graphic content of sexual abuse of boys.
The police are still looking for the burglar, the one "with a conscience," said a police officer in Jaen.
Life works in mysterious ways and this was just an example of it.


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Remembering the life and impact of one of our own
Being a gearhead can mean so much more than being passionate about gear. That is the conclusion I've come to after pondering the loss of Barry Weber. Maybe you recognize the name and face from various guitar shops and gear shows you've been to. He's certainly frequented them all over the country. Maybe you know him as FrankenStrat2 on The Gear Page forums. Or maybe you've never heard of him before. If so, allow me to introduce you to who he was.
Weber was president of Edith Weber Inc. on Madison Avenue in New York City. Edith Weber Antique Jewelry has specialized in fine antique jewelry for more than 50 years. That's what it said on his bio page for Antiques Roadshow, for which he was an appraiser—maybe you'll recognize him from his many TV appearances. Despite having a distinct career and identity in a completely different industry, Weber had another side to him. He was also a gearhead.
He played a mean slide guitar. He devoured guitar magazines. He was constantly on the lookout for gear. He loved jamming with his buds. He particularly enjoyed trying to get great tones out of anything, especially gear that was unfamiliar or gear that was always pigeonholed as only suitable for a particular kind of music or playing. He always viewed the challenge with an open mind.
Bladder cancer took Weber's life at the early age of 59. He had pretty much beat the disease at one point, but it came back aggressively and won this time. News of his passing triggered emotional responses in a Gear Page forum thread that revealed much about who he was.
Not only did people comment on his amazing slide technique, they talked about his penchant for putting jams together among forum members. Operators of gear shows spoke of his willingness to moderate panels, organize social gatherings around events, and help with anything when asked. People who bought gear from him or sold anything to him described how their business transactions were secondary compared to the friendships that emerged. There was talk of his willingness to let you play his guitar or amp. There was talk of his patience to teach people simple amp mods. There was talk of how assertive he was in trying to preserve quality discourse on the forum, and there was talk of his fairness when debating the qualities of gear companies and products.
People posted pictures of Weber playing guitar and hanging with friends at gear gatherings all over the country. They posted audio clips and YouTube videos of him playing at jams and emceeing gear forums. His tone and his personality were captivating. One forum member talked about Weber helping him find the motivation to play again after putting the guitar down for a while to deal with some deaths in the family. Another person talked about dealing with a table saw injury that jeopardized his ability to play. After reading about it on TGP, Weber sent him a note, called him, and assured him he would be able to play again. He was right.
I didn't know Weber well, but I had the chance to shake his hand and hear him play at gear shows a few times. A friend who has been a part of his legendary Casa Weber jams for years introduced me. My brief encounter with Weber resonates with the stories I've heard and the outpouring of love on the Gear Page thread. His personality and his positive nature had a way of influencing the entire room and, apparently, entire lives.
Weber's name isn't famous for being on large venue marquees or the grill cloths of notable amps, but that doesn't mean he wasn't one helluva gearhead. As far as I know, he might've been the consummate gearhead. And judging by the type of person he was to so many friends and fellow guitarists online, we're certain he was so much more than just a gearhead to his closest friends and family members. To them and everyone else whose life Barry Weber touched, we here at Premier Guitar extend our deepest condolences and heartfelt wishes for comfort and peace as they deal with his loss.
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Norfolk, Virginia
The jumbled knot of loyalists arrived early at the U.S.S. Wisconsin, toting signs and chanting slogans as they trudged toward the ship's wooden gangplank to catch a glimpse of Mitt Romney's new No. 2. When the Republican nominee introduced Paul Ryan, a cheer went up from the spirited crowd. As he clambered up to the simple wooden podium to the theme from the movie Air Force One, Ryan paused to soak in the moment. "Wow," he said, marveling as the audience applauded, the World War-era battleship named for his home state rising behind him under a gunmetal sky.
Which may have been the thought on everyone's minds. Romney shook up the presidential race Saturday morning with a single stroke, tapping the architect of the Republican Party's most audacious–and controversial–fiscal policies to fill out the GOP ticket. It was a chancy play by a cautious candidate, one that could infuse a nasty and tedious race with fresh life and new import.
It may also signify an overhaul of the Romney camp's theory of the presidential race. For more than a year, Romney has framed the contest as a referendum on a failing president. Now he has made it a choice between two sharply different governing philosophies, and he touted his new running mate as "an intellectual leader of the Republican Party" with a distinct vision for the nation's future. Ryan "has never been content to simply curse the darkness," Romney said, speaking to a crowd of some 2,500 in this southern Virginia port city. "He'd rather light candles."Ryan, 42, is a seven-term Congressman who represents a swing district in southern Wisconsin. He is the chair of the House Budget Committee, a perch from which he has played a pivotal role in shaping Republican policy on deficit reduction and entitlement reform. Ryan is best known for his "road map" for balancing the federal budget, which prescribes deep cuts to social programs. Ryan is a proponent of privatizing Social Security, turning Medicaid into a block-grant system administered by the states, and transforming Medicare into a voucher system to purchase private insurance. Though he cast a series of budget-busting votes during the Bush Administration – including for TARP, Medicare Part D, massive tax cuts and the Iraq War – Ryan's meteoric rise within the party in recent years has been fueled by his reputation as a budget hawk who, like Romney, enjoys digging through data.
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In some ways the similarities end there. The patrician GOP presidential nominee, 65, has chosen an earnest and youthful Catholic with Rust Belt appeal and an ability to articulate controversial policy in plainspoken language to middle class voters. The duo have dramatically different backgrounds. Romney has run as a corporate turnaround specialist who disdains Washington. Ryan has spent nearly his entire professional life in the capital, rising from Senate aide and think-tank staffer to one of the party's intellectual figureheads. He is the first vice-presidential nominee to hail directly from the House in decades. And while he's a familiar figure on the national stage — often elevated not by Republicans but rather Democrats, who have harnessed is budget blueprint for political benefit — he has no foreign policy or executive experience.
Supporters in Norfolk predicted the pick would energize fiscal hawks and Tea Party activists, many of whom harbor lingering suspicions about Romney but perceive in the selection a commitment to govern as a conservative. "It will unite conservatives, libertarians and others around this ticket," says Marie Kessler, a Norfolk student lingering at the edges of the rally. Ryan, who had been urged by leading conservatives to leap into the race himself, is a favorite of party bigwigs and grassroots activists alike.
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His selection invites an onslaught of attacks from Democrats, who have pounded Republicans over Ryan's budget since it became the party's blueprint. Obama himself has used Ryan as a foil throughout his administration, seizing on the Badger State Congressman's budget to argue that the GOP's fiscal policies disproportionately benefit the wealthy. "It is thinly veiled Social Darwinism," Obama said of the Ryan budget plan in April. "It is antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everyone who's willing to work for it – a place where prosperity doesn't trickle down from the top, but grows outward from the middle class."
Romney embraced Ryan's budget during the Republican primaries. Now – perhaps knowing that he would be forced to defend the doctrine anyway — he has made it a central focus of the campaign, even if, as aides signaled, he does not intend to embrace every detail. Ryan, who has complained in the past about opponents who "demagogue" his positions, said in Norfolk that he welcomed a frank discussion about the nation's future. "They are more worried about their next election than they are about the next generation," Ryan said of Democrats. "We won't duck the tough issues. We will lead. We won't blame others. We will take responsibility. And we won't replace our founding principles; we will reapply them. We will honor you, our fellow citizens, by giving you the right and opportunity to make the choice."
Word of the pick broke late Friday night, just hours before Romney was set to kick off a a four-day bus tour through Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Ohio, a quartet of battleground states that will determine the winner in November. His campaign formally confirmed the choice Saturday morning with press release announcing the second half of "America's Comeback Team." Almost immediately, the Obama campaign released a video labeling Ryan "the mastermind" behind the "extreme" Republican budget. "They'll drag him through the mud. It's going to come," says David Jones, a Norfolk technical analyst who gushed about Ryan. "But they would have attacked anyone full force."
That battle can wait; on Saturday morning, Republicans were brimming with enthusiasm. The modest but jubilant crowd of some 2,500 chanted Romney's name as he took the stage, and broke into raucous cheers when he announced Ryan as his pick. Romney recovered quickly from an awkward moment when he mistakenly introduced Ryan as "the next president of the United States."
"Every now and then I've been known to make a mistake," Romney said, smiling. "I did not make a mistake with this guy."


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In December 2011, Google announced a solution to display appropriate mobile content in search results, even if the mobile URL is a duplicate of a desktop page and has less link equity. They called this update Skip Redirect/Old Possum.
Faster mobile browsing. [launch codename "old possumâ€, project codename "Skip Redirectâ€] Many websites redirect smartphone users to another page that is optimized for smartphone browsers. This change uses the final smartphone destination url in our mobile search results, so you can bypass all the redirects and load the target page faster.
Apparently this is something that the majority of SEO consultants are unaware of, as there have been a large number of posts in the past month or so singing the praises of responsive web design as a solution to an inherent link equity problem mobile URLs face. There have been so many that I have grown tired of repeating myself in responding to them.
What none of them seem to be aware of is that for mobile URLs in Google, which has 99% of the mobile market share by some estimates, mobile URLs that are properly redirected can rank ahead of traditional desktop URLs.
Unfortunately it doesn't happen in every case yet, but the change that they announced is in the search results. For example, a number of restaurant queries display mobile URLs for smartphone search results. A search that I did for a restaurant in the Wicker Park area of Chicago, [mac's american pub], shows the www for the desktop…
And the tablet…
…but when you do the same search on a smartphone (smartphone pics from Galaxy S running Android 2.2 and Nexus One running Android 2.3) you get the same page in the first position, with its mobile URL:
If a mobile URL displays in the smartphone search results regardless of link equity, it means that link equity is not an issue when ranking these duplicate URLs.
As I explained in Search Engine Land, and more recently in this Mediapost interview, a hybrid of responsive web design and mobile first is best for SEO, as it accounts for mobile search behaviors that transcoding desktop content can't offer, and brings more search traffic from mobile devices in the process. However, if you must duplicate desktop URLs on mobile URLs, Skip Redirect/Old Possum will allow you to rank those mobile URLs, regardless of link equity.
A few more shots of this phenomenon in action leave more questions than answers, but it's clear that for some domains and queries, Skip Redirect/Old Possum isn't something that will happen in the distant future, but something that's happening today.
Results for Chicago restaurant [publican], for example, show a mobile URL from the Citysearch mobile site:
And two mobile URLs appeared for the query [street festivals chicago] for Metromix's mobile site:
Results don't just happen for local queries, as Old Possum appeared for the query [obamacare] as well:
For the most part, however, Old Possum was evident mostly for Yelp.com, Metromix.com and Citysearch.com, even if other sites had set up mobile redirects properly.
A few mobile URLs also appeared next to results that normally display mobile URLs in smartphone search, like this query for [tacos]:
This lack of uniformity indicates that this is probably a test before Google rolls these changes out to many more sites, but the big takeaway is: mobile URLs in smartphone search results are here.
Have you seen Old Possum in the wild? Please post queries and platforms you've seen it for in the comments.
For more on how this affects your SEO strategy, see my columns this week in Search Engine Land and Marketing Land.


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Summer is almost over and before we know it the kids will be back to school! Many Canadians are looking for creative ways to feed their family everyday meals that are tasty, nutritious and easy to prepare. And with parents starting to think about getting ready for back-to-school, it's more important than ever to find new ways that we can eat well that are budget-friendly, too. Canadian Turkey can help you get back-to-school ready with easy and delicious recipes that will please every member of your family!
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Turkey is a protein-packed staple that can be the anchor of any meal – breakfast, lunch or dinner. It works to fuel your family with essential protein and nutrients. Turkey packs a big punch with each 100-gram serving providing about 30 grams of high quality lean protein. Turkey is also packed with nutrients like vitamin B12 (important in keeping your nervous system – the body's electrical wiring – working well), selenium (an antioxidant mineral) and zinc (for a strong immune system).
- Batch It!
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A tasty recipe the entire family will enjoy is this Quick and Tasty Honey Lemon Rosemary Turkey Tenders recipe. Give it a try and see how easy it is to prepare a meal that is both healthy and delicious even in the middle of back to school craziness!
Quick & Tasty Honey Lemon Rosemary Turkey Tenders
Prep time: 15 mins.
Cook time: 20 mins.
Serves: 4-6
3 lbs. Canadian turkey tenders OR 3 lbs. Canadian turkey breast, sliced into tenders
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tsp. olive oil
2 tbsp. honey
1/2 lemon, squeezed
3 tbsp. rosemary, chopped
1/2 c. olive oil
- Combine all ingredients to make the marinade.
- Season the turkey with salt and pepper to taste.
- Combine tenders and marinade in a glass container.
- Marinate for a minimum of 2 hours. At this point, you can store in the fridge up to 2 days or freeze up to 1 month. If using from frozen, defrost and then follow cooking directions.
- To cook, heat a non-stick frying pan or skillet to medium heat.
- Cook the tenders for 6-8 minutes per side, until lightly browned and cooked through. Cooking time will depend on the thickness of your cuts, so use a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the meat to check for doneness, 165°F (74°C).
- Serve immediately.
TIP: Change up the marinade to create different flavours of tenders. You can freeze the tenders in the marinade to have a variety on hand for busy weeknights.
Spicy Peanut
Combine 1/2 c. peanut butter, 2 tbsp. sesame oil, 1 tbsp. thai chili, 2 tbsp. green onion, 2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar
Orange Pepper Lime
1/3 c. orange juice, 1 tbsp. pepper, 1 tbsp. vegetable oil, 2 tbps. garlic, 2 tbsp. lime
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3 tbsp. sun-dried tomatoes, 2 tbsp. olive oil, 2 tbsp. balsamic vinegar, 2 tbps. white wine
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