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The hottest new thing on Wall Street is cooling down.
High-frequency trading firms — the lightning-quick, computerized companies that have risen in the last decade to dominate the nation's stock market — are now struggling to hold onto their gains.
Profits from high-speed trading in American stocks are on track to be, at most, $1.25 billion this year, down 35 percent from last year and 74 percent lower than the peak of about $4.9 billion in 2009, according to estimates from the brokerage firm Rosenblatt Securities. By comparison, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase each earned more in the last quarter than the high-speed trading industry will earn this year.
While no official data is kept on employment at the high-speed firms, interviews with more than a dozen industry participants suggest that firms large and small have been cutting staff, and in some cases have shut down. The firms also are accounting for a declining percentage of a shrinking pool of stock trading, from 61 percent three years ago to 51 percent now, according to the Tabb Group, a data firm.
It is a swift reversal for trading firms that have often looked to other investors like profit machines, thanks to high-powered software and superfast data connections that can take advantage of small changes in the price of a stock.
High-speed trading is far from disappearing from the market, but the struggles facing these firms have been greeted with enthusiasm by some traditional traders and investors who have viewed the firms as formidable adversaries, or worse, market manipulators that create sudden spikes and drops in share prices. Peter Costa, a longtime trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, said the fading presence of the firms could "restore some order to stock markets."
Regulators are still grappling with whether the rise of high-speed firms has been a net benefit or loss for investors, so it is hard to pinpoint what effect the decline of these firms will have on the markets. Many market experts have argued that the technical glitches that have recently hit the market have been a result of a broader trend of the market splintering into dozens of automated trading services and a lack of human oversight.
The challenges facing speed-focused firms are many, the biggest being the drop in trading volume on stock markets around the world in each of the last four years. This has made it harder to make profits for traders who quickly buy and sell shares offered by slower investors. In addition, traditional investors like mutual funds have adopted the high-speed industry's automated strategies and moved some of their business away from the exchanges that are popular with high-speed traders. Meanwhile, the technological costs of shaving further milliseconds off trade times has become a bigger drain on many companies.
Among the firms scaling back is the Chicago Trading Company, which this year earned a spot on a government committee formed to explore the emerging phenomenon of high-speed trading. Since then, the company has been making cuts to its New York office, according to people with direct knowledge of the moves. The company's chief executive, Eric Chern, said some employees had been moved to Chicago and 10 had left the firm. He declined to comment directly on the changes, but he did say that "the market environment always plays a factor in all our decisions."
Douglas Cifu is the president of Virtu Financial, a big player in the industry. "There was this mythology that you could get 90 computers, some Harvard Ph.D.'s and you would turn on your machines and make money," he said. "It's just not the case."
Virtu has not cut back, but it has acquired smaller firms that were struggling to continue operating on their own. Last month, Virtu bought Nyenburgh, a company that specialized in the most popular type of high-speed trading, known as market making, of European stocks.
At the same time that the firms are making trims, regulators around the world have increased their scrutiny of high-speed traders, and the structure of the financial markets has continued to shift. Executives at the trading firms worry that new regulations could curtail business even more, but so far regulators in the United States have taken few steps to rein in trading practices.
The diminishing presence of these traders in the markets has not hurt the overall performance of stock prices. Leading indexes have been on a steady climb for the last few years. For high-speed traders, rising prices are actually a part of the problem: climbing stock markets tend to be calmer stock markets, providing fewer trading opportunities for high-speed firms.
Several studies have found that the primary impact of high-speed firms has been a steady decline in the cost of placing trades for ordinary investors. Now that the high-speed firms are shrinking from the market, there are some indications that trading costs may again be rising.
For the firms themselves, the declining revenues and climbing costs have led to talk of mergers and consolidation. Bart Lijnse, the head of Nyenburgh, which is based in the Netherlands and was acquired by Virtu last month, said that a small firm like his could not afford the big technological costs of remaining competitive in the industry.
"In order to compete, you need to be like a global firm," Mr. Lijnse said.
The contraction is also pushing the firms to move into trading of other financial assets, like international stocks and currencies. High-speed firms accounted for about 12 percent of all currency trading in 2010; this year, it is set to be up to 28 percent, according to the consulting firm Celent. But executives at several high-speed firms said that trading in currencies and other assets was not making up for the big declines in their traditional areas of United States stocks, futures and options.
Sun Trading in Chicago bought a firm that allowed it to begin the automated trading of bonds earlier this year. That did not make up for the 40 employees the company cut in 2011. The firm's chief financial officer, Chris Malo, said his team was preparing for the possibility that the high-speed trading business would only become more challenging.
"People think it's easy money, and it's not," Mr. Malo said.
Like most such firms, Sun Trading is privately held and does not disclose its financial results. But Timber Hill, which is one of the few high-speed firms that releases its financial results publicly, provides a unique window into the trends.
The firm's founder, Thomas Peterffy, said that firms like his "had a field day" in 2008 and 2009. Share prices were plummeting, and the volatile conditions were ideal for high-speed firms. In addition to the high volume of trades in those years, share prices were moving around wildly, allowing computer programs to take advantage of dislocations in prices. Timber Hill, which trades stocks but specializes in options, made a $328 million profit, before taxes, in 2009.
Since then, though, the amount of stock trading done by Timber Hill fell 27 percent between 2009 and 2010 and 38 percent between 2010 and 2011.
Mr. Peterffy said that the much larger problem had been the rising cost of technology required to stay in a business that is not producing more revenues. One example is the data sold by the exchanges. Until recently, most firms bought a data package from Nasdaq that cost about $1,000 a month and gave traders a feed that includes all orders submitted to the exchange. In August, Nasdaq introduced a new, more comprehensive data package that costs about $25,000 a month. Many firms say that they have to sign up for new technologies if their competitors do.
"It gives no benefit to anyone, that's what I find so frustrating," Mr. Peterffy said.
In the first half of this year, Timber Hill's earnings were only about a quarter of what they were in 2009.
Mr. Peterffy has departed from many of his competitors by calling for regulators to slow down the markets. At the same time, he has been preparing for the challenges by bulking up the other business he leads, Interactive Brokers, which takes and executes orders for retail investors.
The work Timber Hill does, Mr. Peterffy said, "is a good business for us, but there are no barriers to competition and it's not going to last forever."


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Sgt Michael Roy
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE N.C. (July 9, 2009) Sergeant Michael C. Roy, 25, of North Fort Myers, Florida, died July 8, 2009 while conducting combat operations in Nimroz province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He was assigned to 3d Marine Special Operations Battalion, Marine Special Operations Advisor Group, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Roy joined the Marine Corps on Sept. 25, 2001 and was trained as a rifleman. He was promoted to Sergeant on Oct. 10, 2005, joining MARSOC on March 15, 2008. His decorations include a Navy Achievement Medal, a Combat Action Ribbon, a Navy Unit Commendation, three Navy Meritorious Unit Commendations, two Good Conduct Medals, the National Defense Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, a Humanitarian Service Medal, four Sea Service Deployment Ribbons, and a NATO Medal-ISAF Afghanistan.
A military press release announcing a death in combat is a stark missive.
Name. Rank. Age. Hometown. Where. The few standard words on how - in combat, from small arms fire, in a rocket attack, or the much-too prevalent "of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device."
Between the sparse, few sentences, though, there also can be found a glimpse of a life that is more than a statistic, more than a casualty of war.
The statement released for Sgt. Michael C. Roy, who died in Afghanistan Wednesday, gives us that small look.
With nearly eight years in, 25-year-old Sgt. Roy joined the Marines young - real young. His decorations and his rise through the ranks tell us he served his country competently and well. His joining the Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command last year tells us he had no fear - or that fear didn't matter.
To become a MARSOC member, Sgt. Roy had to undertake and complete special forces training designed to "enable him to function in remote, ambiguous and complex environments with limited support," according to the special unit's Web site, which also outlines core duties that may be assigned. Those duties include training and assistance to foreign governments, security force assistance, special reconnaissance, counterterrorism and direct action, which the Corps defines as "short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive actions taken to seize, destroy, capture, recover or inflict damage in denied areas."
Sgt. Roy died in Nimroz province in southwestern Afghanistan. Nimroz is an area of intense unrest where, in April, suicide bombers tried to kill an Afghan minister and killed three others instead.
Fighting has been heavy there since last year and, according the news reports, the Marines have been in it helmet high.
Sgt. Roy's career may have been cut short but the announcement of his death tells us that career had merit and moments of valor.
We thank Sgt. Roy for his service and his sacrifice. Our condolences to his family on their loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with both.
- Breeze Newspapers editorial

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Word up.legitimatebeef wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:18 pmFed in the final. Again.
Greatest sportsman of our time. Federer is kind of like Tiger, if Tiger had kept his shit together and never ran over a fire hydrant etc.
I was also happy to see Caroline Wozniacki (sp) finally win a major. She has had the unfortunate fate of being considered a 2nd rate but attractive player. Now we all know she is a good player and attractive. No Serena, of course, but competitive with the best.


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Rob, I know a lot about the Dirtsurfer but I have never seen the Grassboard live, and I wonder If it might be more suited for kite boarding, Doe's that explain my curiosity to you?
I think the reason 2 wheeled boards are uncommon in Dirtboard competitions are the fact that they turn to slow and to big, and are harder to jump,
I like the Dirtsurfer because the feeling is so much more like on water then on ordinary pivot steering boards, and the stability that increase with speed, that's well worth the lack of stability when standing still or going really slow, I'm not into jumping eather, I do that on water or soft snow because I crash to often ;o)
At last I really think you should try one of the 2 wheelers, you might like it! Have you ever surfed on water or powder snow?


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I bought this Integrate Diamond Lipgloss from Adambeauty…it was the only shade left in the sale and I kind of felt sorry for it.
Integrate is by Shiseido – it's spokesperson was once the holy Angelina Jolie. The brand has hits and misses – their mascara is terrific; their eyeliners are average.
This is their diamond lipgloss, filled with micro sparkles:
The shade is OR249. The tube itself is fairly small and compact and the shade is a sheer, sparkly, juicy warm citrus. Perfect for summer and travel, methinks.
On the lips:
My lips are quite dry at the moment (despite all the lip balms I own!). But I think it's a rather pretty lip gloss, suitable for day to day wear because the sparkle is so fine (even though it is abundant).
What do you think?


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Visit Vocations Toronto at www.vocationstoronto.ca, a resourceful site in answering these questions.
Already in Isaiah 42, the first reading today, we can sense this deep
longing for a savior who will have the spirit of God guiding him. All of
us want to be saved when we find ourselves in difficult places of life. We
are invited to meet the Lord Jesus as our Savior. Isaiah reflects the
longing of the people and in time the Savior comes who brings light into
the darkness.
Jesus can bring light into our darkness if we let Him do that. It is
important that we come to see how we deal with the darkness around us.
What do we do when we feel conflict, when we are aware of our own
brokenness, when we are tempted to things not good for us? Quite often we
do nothing until we find ourselves with problems in our lives because of
our actions!
What do we do when others cause problems in our lives? What do we do when
outside circumstances create difficulties for us? What do we do when we
lose a job, when we don't have enough money, when life seems impossible?
Looking at how we respond to life tells us about our belief in a Savior.
The reading from the Acts of the Apostles today tells us that whoever fears
him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him. Do we even think of God? Do
we ask the help of God? Do we have a confidence that God will get us
through every situation? We are invited to live in the Spirit as Jesus did
and begin to trust completely that God will walk with us and show us the
The Gospel of Matthew today shows us the baptism of Jesus. The life of
Jesus changes from this point forward in a way that we can see. Jesus
walks with God and begins to relate to others, proclaiming the Kingdom of
God. May we come to rejoice in our own baptism and to know that we are
changed. May we live our lives as people called by the Lord to proclaim
His Kingdom. We can only do this if we are completely open to His help, to
a complete conversion, to an awareness that nothing else in life really has
meaning outside of the Kingdom. My sisters and brothers, let us walk in
the light of the Lord!
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Why, Despite Everything, Humans Should be Given a Second Chance
This is meant to be a happy post, to keep my dear readers reading rather than running away in disgust at the gloom and doom I usually radiate. So here is my list of wonderful things that humans have created:
1. Chocolate. True, the ingredients are from nature, but people invented the formula for chocolate. It is food for goddesses and anyone else sane. It is said to contain chemical ingredients similar to those that are unleashed when one falls in love. It should be called 'the little orgasm', and it should be declared the national food of all countries. Eating chocolate is good for you, researchers have established (too lazy to find the link now but this is true). The only bad thing about chocolate is something called 'white chocolate'. It is an imposter and should be shunned. The best, absolutely the best chocolate is a home-made truffle. I make a mean chocolate truffle.
2. Buttons, zippers and safety pins; all things to hold us together. Nothing else has come close to these nifty inventions, not therapies or antidepressants, not even velcro (which sticks too much). Where would we be without these helpers? Imagine Bush trying to march looking militant while his toga disintegrates all around him. Sorry, maybe you don't want to imagine that.
3. Vermeer's paintings, especially his blue tones. They are a good substitute for illegal drugs.
4. Dickinson's poetry; so innocent that it covers the most obscene with equal surety.
5. Taj Mahal. Though I've never been there, so this is provisional. But based on the pictures I've seen it is an eternal ode to love.
6. The ancient South American feather murals. I want one!
7. A little medieval wooden head of Christ in a tiny rural church somewhere in Scandinavia.
8. Physicians Without Borders.
9. Blogs.
10. Emergency Rooms, for reasons that to me are obvious.
11. Pesto, another food for goddesses, and freezable!
12. French kissing, though only by people who know what they're doing.
13. Siberian throat-singing, because it is so inexplicable, and sounds to me like an attempt to French-kiss oneself.


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Introduction to Conservation
At some point in your hunting career you will have to grapple with difficult questions that society and non-hunters may ask of you: If a hunter's basic goal is to kill, why is it important for a hunter to have respect for that animal? Can you kill something you respect? Should you? Should hunters also be conservationists? Why?
Most hunters have immense respect for the wildlife they hunt—and for the wildlife they don't hunt. They also respect the land that supports wildlife. Hunting can teach you to understand the cycles of nature and make it easier to accept that death is a natural and important part of life.
Being a responsible hunter means respecting wildlife and giving something back in exchange for the continued privilege to hunt year after year. As a group, hunters have done more to help wildlife than anyone else. Through their support for wildlife management and conservation programs, hunters are directly responsible for many of the healthy wildlife populations we enjoy today.


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More words from the road… the roads of nations far away. This is sent all the way from Japan – at the time of writing, it's where Johnny Foreigner are on tour. All words, as always, from frontman Alexei Berrow.
Previous diary installments:
July 2
We rehearse for a few hours at a big complex in studentville called Rich Bitch. Me and (bassist) Kelly spent our college years at this place and every room holds some long-forgotten memory. My first proper girlfriend cheated on me with some guy who still works behind the desk, aha I totally showed him. At the end two work experience kids burst in and ask for autographs, which weirds us out slightly.
July 3
Plan first festival weekend. Phone up man in charge of ZOO8, tell him 'cause Redfest's cancelled we're going to come down on the Friday and hang out and camp. "Um, yeah," he says. "Maybe you can do that." That's a bit odd, I think.
July 4
Phone up man in charge of ZOO8: None of these rumours flying around are true, are they? "Ha ha, no,"_ he says, "bye!"_ That's a bit odd, I think. Go to the BBC in the mailbox for an interview, about how we represent a fresh and exciting up-and-coming Birmingham indie-rock scene. The receptionist is blind, we don't know where we have to go, but eventually we find studio seven, which is hotel wardrobe size, where we spend like, two hours (we snuck out to go to a bar for 15 minutes) staring at a load of Blake's 7_ controls and lights while a little voice from London apologised at us. Eventually we get interviewed and confuse lovely interviewer woman by constantly referring to dead bands. Does anyone on here remember The Starries? Sunset Cinema Club get our imaginary prize, even though they're from Redditch, which is like a twilight zone suburb at the end of the line.
July 5
Phone up man in charge of ZOO8. No answer. Phone friends at ZOO8. Hear various stories of rape and mutilation and zombies in the cash room. General consensus: there may be a gig, there won't be money. Disaster.
July 6
Hear more stories, decide to stay inside. We're bare skint as it is, our finances for the summer being based on getting loads of money for Redfest and this and thus being able to afford to play the ones that barely cover diesel. As it turns out, no one got paid and we'd have been stuck in a zoo forever. Maybe in a parallel universe we still are.
July 10
Wrexham Central Station, a warm-up festival show. One of the most disheartening shows ever, really. People just stand and stare at us. It's like we're talking Esperanto, every time we ask a question you can hear people shuffling shoes. At the end I go right into the crowd to this pointy shoe (natch) boy and scream and sweat into his face. He doesn't even move, doesn't even flinch. We wrap up the bread on the rider and head home. In the next couple of days, we'll get a flurry of MySpace messages and adds from people at that gig, all giving posthumous answers and apologising for everyone else's conduct. It's sort of sweet.
July 11
2000 Trees Festival. Mud! Brand new white trainers! We roll up just as Tubelord start, the organisers let us run down the field to go watch. I could go on forever about Tubelord. They = the future. We play in a mini squall, people dance in the rain, it's pretty good fun. Me and Kelly's pedals are almost submerged by the end, and all our stuff gets caked in mud. It still is caked in mud. Drink straight gin in dressing room and film rain, go home and scrub Cheltenham off my trainers.
Johnny Foreigner - 'Salt, Peppa and Spinderella' (released Sept 8) on Vimeo
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July 12 Lounge on the Farm festival. Trainers still wet. Mega haul the next few days, we have a second driver called Ren. Who, I found out last night, was convinced I was gay, and anything I said to suggest otherwise was just sarcasm. Anyway, get to Lounge on the Farm: it's on a farm, and farms stink. Meet Martin, new soundman. Realise we have a three-man crew like Real Bands. Yayyy. Gig is superfun, we stand around backstage and talk to people (I can't say fans without cringing slightly) thru a mesh fence, it's well showbiz. See LC!, they're amazing, realised how much we missed each other. Spend, like, 20 minutes then drive up north for T in the Park. Six-hundred miles, no stopping. We = Hardcore.
July 13
T in the Park. Once I spent the night on LC!'s bus and it was like being from the future, you fall asleep at 80mph and wake up at yr destination. And this is sort of like that, only waay more cramped. I think I win at four hours sleep, and that's only 'cause I shotgunned the floor. Still, everyone's pretty excited to be at T. We put a tent up next to our van and watch as the tour buses all pull in and avoid destroying it. *R.E.M. *have three buses and they get their own little courtyard. Maddy (JoFo tour van) ends up being dwarfed on all sides: it's definitely an indie-cool moment. We have tokens that allow us one (1) visit to the meal tent, so we wait 'til midday and have like, five courses each. Stagger out to van and try and stay awake with various gin cocktails. The gig is ok but the monitor mix is pretty sketchy. I beg audience for cigarettes, result. Run off to watch The National, let crew pack stuff,_ ahaaaaaaa. The National are pretty good but not as amaze as I was hoping, I think I built it up too much. I REALLY WISH I'd seen them when they toured _Alligator and Matt was still manic… We sneak into the photo pit for R.E.M., get chucked out. Kelly and (driver/TM) Lea and Martin manage to get to side stage; me and (drummer) Jun go and spend Too Much Money on food. Hang around at aftershow party – I swear, we're the most famous people in there. Which kinda defeats the point of going to such nights. Back to van, finish gin/vodka/blackcurrant thing whilst watching immense fireworks (Kelly in cocktail mode). Sleep until airport.
July 14
At least, I would if we'd have been clever. Stop at Tebay (yay, Tebay) to try and turn musical gear into luggage. It's like making a puzzle with no idea what it should look like. Manage eventually, making good time on the longest legs we've ever driven, then van breaks down five miles from airport. Lesser bands would worry at this point, but we laugh in the face of mechanical errors. Tow-truck to service station, taxi to airport, leaving crew stranded at various towns; meet (manager) Anthony, catch plane to Ibiza, arrive in time for a quick swim in our villa's pool before bed. (Alexei in pool pictured... sorry Alexei - Ed)
"Just something about this place. It's magical…" says our rep. As we find out, it's not magic, it's just a fuck load of drugs and tourists, but the effect on a sleep-deprived and stony broke band like us is pretty magic. We're only the support band. The Enemy should be staying in this luxury villa, but they chose the hotel instead. The hotel is the party zone. "This is yr house man," says rep as he chops off a lump of hash for us. "Treat it like yr home." So at four in the morning the three of us are in our pants in the swimming pool, drinking gin and juice, listening to the crickets in the palm trees, and wondering how we got here. Moments like this make up for van-beds and debt-collectors 10,000-fold. We chose bedrooms (I get a whole floor to myself) and try and sleep as little as possible.
**July 15
Ibiza. Wake up, get in pool, start day. Amaze. Drive out to venue along a massive buggy track (like, horse buggy). There's a million people around taping stuff down and pressing buttons, the sound is superb. We do an interview for Channel 4, all lined up on a balcony with the stage in the background. We have another WTF are we doing here moment. they give me a camera to take random footage. I don't think they'll use it, 'cause it's just me and Kelly zooming in on really badly dressed people and slagging them off. Spying on people with a video camera from a balcony served a purpose tho – we realise how out of place we are. There's not one person with a band t-shirt on. It's a mini festival, and the venue's been up-scaled because The Enemy are such a big draw over here. There's food stalls and clothes stalls, all really, really expensive, and it's like_ ladland_. I get well nervous until two seconds into the first song when we all realise that these people DANCE TO ANYTHING, and we go down great; everyone's from England and happy to be away, everyone's on pills and the sun goes down halfway thru our set and at the end I jump into the crowd and get the sweat hugged out of me and stagger upstairs and pass out. Not the most meaningful gig ever, but a major fun holiday. We watch The Enemy and they're shit. I think they're going to be massive. The crowd response is fervent and righteous, like Nuremburg.
We cadge a minibus to the party-zone for the aftershow. We're so cool, we arrive before it's even started. We hang round drinking illicit booze in the courtyard. There are St George flags everywhere, ugly girls flashing in the windows, everyone's chanting shitty songs – we can see why The Enemy chose to stay here instead. The party starts and all we can think about is our precious empty villa with its pool and booze cupboard. The DJ insists on having two songs on the go at the same time. Invent scenario in head of how it's just a strange OCD manifestation he has, and he's never heard of mash-ups or 2manydjs. Me and Kelly try traditional social escape route of drinking imported booze really obviously to ensure being asked to leave, but instead the promoters come over and give us drinks tokens. Then we get recognised a bit and get more tokens while kids on pills tell us how awesome/beautiful/meaningful we are. End up on leather sofas with promoters drinking variety of free drinks and smoking hash while girls with immaculate tans and miniskirts and meaningless oriental tattoos perch on our knees and hang off our every slurred word with wide doe-eyes like we're their priests. Reminds me of watching Matt King Adora chat up 14-year-old girls in dingy Birmingham indie clubs. We're never going to be a groupie band, but in Ibiza it seems more or less expected. We go back to luxury villa, girls come back to luxury villa, we get stoned and go to sleep. Clearly not how The Enemy started out..
July 16
Wake up, get in pool, start day, sweet routine... Girls have been delivered elsewhere. Everyone but me goes out for lunch. I lie under a palm tree with my feet in the water trying to write songs, then realise turning into Sting is even worse than The Enemy, so I go inside and read V, which is a fucking epic amazing alien invasion story. We're not flying out 'til the evening, so we go out for dinner. I try and pronounce stuff in Spanish and the waiter gives me utter evils. A man with a guitar keeps interrupting us playing songs. We walk around the city walls where pirates did once go, get caught up in a mad procession in the town, then go pick up our stuff and fly home. The flight back is totally school trip – one of the stewardesses picks up the mic and says, "Excuse me, you can take pictures of yrselves but not us thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuu."_ Get back home, fall asleep in rubbish swimming pool-free house. Massive thank yous to the Ibiza Rocks people for being so friendly and hospitable to us. I lied, there was one guy in a band t-shirt, a massive ancient Pixies top. He was the man in charge and he invited us back next year. Uns uns!
Johnny Foreigner at Latitude Photo: Toby Price
July 18
Latitude. Another full weekend. Latitude is in a lovely forest, everyone seems well relaxed, we park up behind the stage. As soon as we get out of the van a lady from the BBC starts interviewing us: what do we think of the festival? Um, nice trees? Get entire crowd to sing start of 'Cranes…', everyone declares show to be awesome and the BBC come back and interview us up a bit more. We mix drinks and all go to watch Death Cab. They're beautiful as, but then I get really lost and have to ask someone in a Johnny Foreigner shirt which way to the stage I played on. Cringed. We have a minor trauma trying to park the van in the artist's car park. "I locked the gates because it's gone dark,"_ says the most annoying woman in the forest. Meet Industry Friends in VIP area but again it's lacking in VIPs. Death Cab's agent offers to buy me a drink and I really wish I'd said: Can I have a glass of please please please can we tour with Death Cab please please please? But I don't. Go sleep in van.
July 19
Lovebox is ok, I suppose. After all the other festivals this seems more like a giant school fete. Lethal Bizzle plays after us, I really want to call him Jizzy Tissue (Jeremy Clarkson jokebook), but his entourage is kinda intimidating (in a media-frenzy way as opposed to a hip-hoppery-thug way). Watch some amazing American folk woman whose name I forget,_ duh. Get given two meal tickets, yay_, drive to a real house for the night but I still sleep in the van. Me like van.
July 20
Truck was super-fun. I got really drunk and had an awesome time.
Johnny Foreigner at Truck Photos: Lucy Johnston
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July 24
Dublin. We're practised at Ireland now: what you do, yeah, is get really cheap early morning flights and, like, just hang around for half a day, then stay drunk 'til the following early flight home. There're about 30 people to see us but in the three hours between doors and stage time they all seem to have become our best friends, and it feels weirdly like a homecoming. Fight Like Apes keep putting drinks on the stage, thus inventing and winning another way for me to start picking bands. We get a MASSIVE booze rider which we have no room for and go back to a man we just met called Patrick's house. It feels like we spend about ten minutes there before the taxi comes. Dublin airport at 4am drunk is the most fun thing ever. It's also the most crowded building ever (like, even Tokyo subway trains have more room). We have to walk about a mile thru corridors to our boarding area, all the windows are opaque and the sun's coming up… maybe we were a bit gone but it was well pretty. Fly back, sleep.
July 26
Our MySpace page is going crazy. We had a feature on MySpace USA and we spend the day clicking 'ye's on a broad cross section of our desired demographic. A lot of our new MySpace friends seem to love R&B, which is nice. I actually can't wait to go back to America.
July 27
We go to record demos with our friend Dom from Sunset Cinema Club at a little studio in Redditch. Before we signed our deal proper we'd always come here to record, and we're the last band he'll do here, it's a sad moment. He plays us some other bands he's done's songs, new Shocked Elevator Family stuff that sounds like Joan of Arc and is incredible, and Shana Tova and Little Dipper. Shame we can't be interviewed about Birmingham music now we actually know what's going on. It feels awesome to hear our own new songs back again. We dine on KFC and I spend too long on guitar overdubs, it's like old times.
Next month… We do more crazy-crazy I'm in a band stuff. I'm sorry there's no pseudo-witty postscript, I'm about to go play Summersonic and I'm like SUPER NERVOUS...
Johnny Foreigner can be found on MySpace here and they play live in the UK as follows:
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The Next Generation of In-Car Entertainment
May 12, 2014 6:37 AM PT
Over the next several months, we will see a massive step forward in the systems we use in our cars to connect to our phones, listen to music and watch videos. As I write this, the new Kenwood Excelon DNN991HD is being installed in my project car, and it promises pretty much everything but the kitchen sink. In August, Jaguar will start supplying a new AV system provided by Intel and compliant with Apple's CarPlay system. This is on top of the driving improvements, which will include laser lighting, lights that make rain and snow almost invisible, and improvements in automated driving up to and including self-driving cars.
I'll share some thoughts about what's coming and close with my product of the week: the MyCharge Amp 6000 Power Bank.
Looking Back
In car audio visual technology has been a mixed bag for the last decade. A system is designed into a car almost at its inception, which typically makes it at least three years old when it shows up on a new car. Car companies rarely update the AV system, so that by the end of a model's typical five-year run, it is as much as eight years old.
I remember driving a new Lamborghini a few years back and finding it had the same AV system as our old Audi TT, which was more than five years old at the time. All of the stuff like Bluetooth integration and navigation was way out of date -- and while the system sounded OK, it really wasn't competitive with what was shipping at the same time in mid- to high-end Toyotas.
I struggled to believe that anyone wanted to pay more than US$200K for a car with an out-of-date sound system. Then again, in an exotic, the engine is the sound system you are supposed to be enjoying -- but even I get tired of listening only to an engine on an hour or more freeway drive. I belong to Club Sportiva and get to drive a number of true exotics (it's a great way to have the feeling of owning lots of exotic cars like billionaires do without the cost or headaches). In general, the sound systems in many of these exotics are a decade or more out of date.
Back in the '70s, you could easily update your stereo with a plug-in upgrade, but that stopped working a couple of decades ago when automakers got cute and decided to integrate them more tightly to the car.
Last Generation
The situation improved somewhat with the last generation of AV systems in cars, which did a better job of integrating your phone wirelessly to your stereo. You typically could pump your music and your phone features wirelessly to your car and control the tracks you listened to and handle your calls mostly while leaving your hands on the steering wheel.
Some cars have voice-command capability, but it is pretty rudimentary -- and most systems still require you to learn the specific commands needed to operate the system. You can play DVDs now, if the car has that option, but only in the back seat or while the car is stationary -- and even then, the video often won't show up on the front screen.
The dedicated Apple cables went away (for the most part), and you could connect most phones to your AV system for both music and phone, and sometimes video. Backup cameras got better, and cars got both satellite radio and traffic updates -- either standard with navigation or as an additional cost upgrade.
Toward the end of the cycle, cars started getting hard drives you could rip music to, and car makers started upping significantly the power of their systems (Jaguar's premium system for its F-Type is 770 Watts), and doing creative things with speakers (Audi's system has pop-up tweeters).
Things got a lot better, but replacing the stereo often got harder, suggesting we clearly had room for improvement. That improvement is coming first in the aftermarket and then built into cars that will shortly become more modular.
The Kenwood DNN991HD
The DNN991HD is the first of the next generation of AV systems for cars. I'll know later this week how much of what it promises actually works (there is some risk getting the first of anything, as promises often lead reality).
In this case, the feature list is pretty impressive: built-in Nuance speech recognition (think Siri); integration with your car's systems (gauges, parking sensors, OnStar, etc.); WiFi Sync (it will connect to a WiFi hotspot for updates or to stream media); WiFi Hotspot (you can attach a 4G accessory, turning it into an in-car hotspot); connections and apps for most social media, calendar, and email programs; HDMI support so you can stream videos off your phone or tablet to the screen(s); and updated traffic reports including photos from nearby traffic cameras while you drive, to show you how bad it actually is. (Traffic in the Silicon Valley has gotten so bad recently the freeways for about six hours are basically short-term parking lots).
The gauge thing is actually pretty cool. If you've ever been in a Nissan GT-R, it was the first car with this capability. In the center dash screen, you could pull up a wide variety of gauges that both looked cool and impressed your passengers.
Jaguar Sync
Jaguar Sync, due in August, goes beyond its current effort, which just connects the phone and music functions of your smartphone to the AV system.
Sync will allow you to push through apps, and that means you should be able to use the navigation system on your phone if you want. Waze currently is the best in market, and this would potentially put Waze on your screen rather than the default navigation application.
This also means your application and AV preferences move with you to other cars, along with your phone. Imagine getting into a rental and having all of your destinations, your address book, your music preferences, and even your music services from your phone readily available on your dash. This could lead to a whole bunch of new apps that you could run through your phone to your car -- and this is all just the start.
What's Coming
There is a lot of cool stuff coming. Over the next few weeks, I'll be trying some of it out and will tell you about it. Granted, first I have to get this new receiver in my car, but then comes the infrared camera. Infrared cameras allow you to see warm objects in pitch black light or through weather. They connect through your AV system to give you a look ahead and are particularly good at helping you avoid hitting animals and people.
Intel is pushing a system to market that allows a car's lights to rapidly modulate based on sensors that see raindrops and snow. I've seen this work and it almost makes both disappear, so you get an unobstructed view.
Intel also is behind several efforts to significantly improve in-car entertainment. Nvidia is very active here as well, mostly with in-car entertainment, and it is aggressively behind the effort to modularize these systems so that they can be updated after you buy your car, and so dealers can do upgrades to stock so that you don't buy a car with an out-of-date AV system anymore. (Currently Tesla leads, but Audi and BMW are close behind.) These improvements include virtual dashboards and advanced heads-up displays.
Of course, we already have self-parking, and Google has just started testing its self-driving technology in cities as the last big step before releasing this technology to the market. Some estimate that folks born next decade, at least in developed countries, will never learn to drive. (I could argue there are a number of people on the road now that are in that group, but let's not go there).
Wrapping Up: Oh My
There's also the coming laser headlights light tech -- check it out, it's wicked cool. I can't wait until Cortana's on board, which will be just a few weeks from now, after she gets her new/old voice. Windows phone users then will actually get an AI assistant in the car, and this is still just the start of what will be an amazing number of changes coming to in-car AV systems. They will become both increasingly connected and vastly more intelligent.
Personally, I don't think I'm ready for my car to be smarter than I am, but I'm looking forward to the day when a cop comes to my front window and I say from the back seat "hey, don't look at me, I wasn't driving!" That day is fast approaching.
Product of the Week: MyCharge 6000 Power Bank
I was traveling back from Las Vegas last week, and my Kindle was nearly dead -- I'd been watching some Netflix movies while I waited. In a panic, I went looking for a plug to charge from and everyone had one, two, or even three people in a similar situation sucking power to their starved electronic devices. Most of these folks were sitting uncomfortably on the floor. So I went hunting for a fix and found the MyCharge Amp 6000, which in the airport costs about $80 and on Amazon costs about $50 (suggesting you might want to buy one before you need it).
It gives an advertised 27 hours of additional power to your phone, and it took my Kindle from drained to full while I continued to watch streamed and stored content and played a considerable number of games -- I was in the airport for more than five hours, thanks to a delayed flight.
It has two USB ports, so you can charge both your phone and your tablet at once. It uses the same cable you use to charge your phone to charge from -- unless you have an iPhone, of course -- and it weighs in at around seven ounces, so it isn't too heavy. (There are bigger and smaller products available, but this size seems to provide the best balance between power and weight.)
Because the MyCharge AMP 6000 kept me from having to camp out at a power plug and run out of things to play with on the plane, it is my product of the week.


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The mentally ill typically exude an unspeakable sense of suffering. Apart from mental suffering, many of them are afflicted with numerous physical ailments, which are usually left unknown because of clothing covering them or because patients lack the ability to properly take care of themselves. After studying more than 300 patients with schizophrenia, Wu Pai-yao, an attending physician in the department of dermatology at Tri-Service General Hospital, discovered that as much as 96.6 percent of his patients had at least one type of skin disorder, but that less than 20 percent of them were actually aware of their skin condition.
Shen Cheng-nan, a geriatric psychiatrist, says that people with chronic mental illness usually lack insight — the ability to recognize one's own illness — and display poor self-care. Shen also says that the mentally ill do not usually complain about being sick, so the only way they can get proper medical treatment is by regularly receiving health checkups, which should include thorough examinations of the mouth, scalp and body.
Wu, along with his brother — another psychiatrist — both discovered that their patients often had neglected skin problems, so they decided to conduct further research, the results of which were presented at a Taiwanese Dermatological Association conference on Nov. 25. Out of the 337 schizophrenic patients they studied, whom were all given meticulous head-to-toe examinations, more than 90 percent of them had at least one type of skin disorder, yet less than half of them were aware of this.
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3. humid adj.
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Wu says that the connection between obesity and mycoses can be explained by obese people sweating more, and having more skinfolds, and Taiwan being so humid. On the other hand, people with diabetes are immunocompromised and it usually takes longer for sores to heal, which means they have a higher risk of bacterial infection. Wu also discovered that doctors typically notice the rashes located on the hands and feet of people with severe mental illness, but says that they usually neglect infections and eczema because they are hidden under clothing.
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Increasingly, however, IT administrators are under pressure to get a handle on their logging practices and manage log data. Regulations such as SOX and HIPAA require some type of audit trail, making log management critical for demonstrating compliance, while the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard specifically calls out the need for log review. Also, the latest changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) require better log collection for legal evidence.
"We have seen a shift in the market toward regulatory and government-based standards to drive purchases of log management systems," says Chris Pick, vice president of products and marketing for NetIQ.
Part of the challenge is the need to look at logging from an enterprise perspective, and move toward having a common and centralized repository for all logging data.
The ultimate goal is to have this single repository used for a variety of purposes, from satisfying auditors and responding to e-discovery requests (see "How to Deal with New E-Discovery Rules") in the event of a lawsuit, to managing real-time security threat analysis and network and applications troubleshooting.
"Logging standards and practices typically do not exist across an organization, and they are difficult to enforce even if they do exist," says Jay Leek, manager of corporate IT security services at Nokia.
|Three Steps Toward Better Logging
Despite the complications, there are three simple steps organizations can take to make logs more manageable.
Leek suggests enlisting the aid of the internal legal staff to help bring about this unification; there are numerous regulations that require logs to be kept for varying time periods, and in some cases disposed of after established deadlines for privacy reasons. For example, HIPAA mandates a seven-year retention period, while PCI requires one year. It gets more complex for global corporations, where European and Asian laws come into play. And logs need to be intact if they are going to be used as evidence in civil or criminal proceedings, placing other requirements on their use. Given the contradictory legal requirements, having lawyers as partners becomes essential.
"We need to bring together IT and legal departments to help put in place overall enterprise IT logging standards," adds Leek. "Lawyers tend to not be very technical people. If you can make it simpler for them, they will make things simpler for you. But don't let your legal department run a logging project; instead, incorporate their advice, and try to speak the same language."
A primary objective should be to prevent departments from setting up their own log management tools, creating multiple places where logs live, says Matt Stevens, CTO of the information and event management group at RSA, the security division of EMC. "You need analysis across the enterprise and to make it accessible for all users, and log management needs to be an element of the overall management infrastructure," he says.
Log management is also now part of the overall network security infrastructure. As blended threats become more frequent and more corporate applications make deeper use of the Internet for connectivity, having a unified logging repository becomes another tool in the security chest to protect the enterprise.
"It is not your father's security landscape anymore," says Robert Whiteley, an analyst with Forrester Research. "Nowadays, threat mitigation is deeply embedded into the overall network infrastructure. But how well you maintain your environment is critical, and there is a huge range in terms of how data can be exposed for analysis and manipulated."
LOG MANAGERS VERSUS SIMs
In some cases, a log management tool is seen as the first step in the analytical chain. But the market for such tools has become confusing, with dual product lines from log management vendors that have branched out into the security information management (SIM) space, and SIM vendors that offer other versions of their products for log management.
"Increasingly our midsized customers want to just get their auditors off their back and don't necessarily want to implement a full-blown SIM," says Tracy Hulver, vice president of marketing and product development of netForensics.
The issue is that the two approaches--SIMs and log management tools--serve different masters and are often two different products, with SIMs focused on correlation and real-time alerts, and log managers emphasizing long-term archiving and evidence preservation. "Log management is more useful for ad hoc, after-the-fact investigation, while SIM is more concerned about codifying the business rules and notifying the security team to respond to a problem," says Hugh Njemanze, CTO and executive vice president of engineering of ArcSight.
As a result, some of the SIM and log management product lines have been developed independently, even those sold by the same vendor. For example, netForensics and NetIQ don't offer a common repository for their two product lines, although the former is working toward this goal and hopes to have a unified repository by the end of this year. "In the past we had a single repository for our SIM and log management product lines but there were some issues," says NetIQ's Pick. "Now we have a SQL database on the real-time side for the SIM, and have flat files that are indexed for the log archive server."
Another difference between log management tools and SIMs is how they analyze data. Most log managers do "free text" searching, which is useful for finding particular records that can be used for legal evidence. SIMs tend to normalize and analyze network events and can correlate different conversations between computers or IP addresses, which is useful in resolving incidents or tracking down exploits.
Choosing between a SIM and a log management tool depends on your organization's log management goals. If compliance and auditing requirements are your pressing issues, then start with a traditional log management tool. If you're more worried about breaches, start with a SIM.
In the end, you may decide you need both.
Whichever type of product you choose, reporting capabilities are critical. NetForensics' Hulver says most customers want many different items in their reports, so his company provides some templates, but also makes it easy for clients to create their own.
Customized reports are crucial for compliance purposes, but some aspects of the reporting process are also needed for real-time threat analysis. "We put all the information online so the security professional can solve problems immediately," says Jim Pflaging, president and CEO of SenSage. "You can also set rules that look into the past, and can do threshold and violation alerts based on long-term trend analysis. That also has advantages for compliance."
How a product handles ordinary network traffic flow is also important. Some products, such as netForensics' nFX Log One and RSA's enVision, don't offer the ability to import this information, making it more difficult to correlate particular network events with security breaches. "It is on our 2008 product road map," says Hulver.
In addition, IT staffs need to work with logging application program interfaces that can import other kinds of logs--such as those from custom applications--into a central repository, and query mechanisms to search through this archive to get the right kinds of information out of it. "Many times there are custom ERP applications that make use of .NET or J2EE that require their logs to be aggregated, so it's a must to have an extensible API to do that," says Pick.
Another factor in a purchasing decision is how scalable and extensible a solution will be, and what happens to the existing repository when new logs are imported or added. Vendors have adopted their approaches to address this issue. "We can easily extend our data schemas without having to change the underlying database or the collection process. We have built a relational approach without all the overhead associated with the relational database," says Pflaging.
"We developed our own purpose-built, object-oriented database that allows us to scale to billions of daily events," says RSA's Stevens. "We can easily generate metadata when new data sources are added to it."
|How to Deal With New E-Discovery Rules
Federal regulations require companies to take stock of the data they keep and how they manage it.
Many different technologies, including log management tools, can gather information to help satisfy the latest federal rules on electronic evidence discovery. And that's a good thing because in a recent survey of IT managers by Osterman Research, more than half said they'd rather have a cavity filled than respond to an e-discovery request.
Last December, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were updated to address electronically stored information in the pre-trial discovery process.
The new rules require that companies be able to identify relevant electronic evidence in a timely and complete way, with exceptions granted for data that's not reasonably accessible or not kept as a matter of routine operations.
So before you head to the dentist, consider what kinds of tools you currently have, what kinds of information are already being collected, and whether any of this is suitable for e-discovery purposes.
"There are now 38 states with some form of mandatory disclosure laws," says Robert Whiteley, an analyst with Forrester Research. "It is only a matter of time before everyone has to worry about compromised assets and the potential for legal action."
In any legal challenge, first take a look at the time frames involved, and whether you actually have the data you think you have. Some data may already have been removed from your archives because of how you set up various systems.
Osterman's survey found that 25 percent of the organizations polled purge their email manually or automatically after 90 days or less. This may not be suitable when laws such as SOX, HIPAA and various European laws require archives of multiple years worth of information. Look at how your email system can create longer-term archives for these purposes. Nearly one-third of organizations Osterman surveyed admitted that, even if they had to, they would not be able to produce an email that is a year old.
"Organizations have had to pay fines in certain cases when they had destroyed or missing records," says Larry Dietz, managing director at security consulting firm Tal Global.
Products such as LiveOffice Managed Messaging Services can help store and index Microsoft Exchange email, set predetermined retention periods, and automatically archive messages to offload the active email servers.
Second, understand what kind of data is actually required for evidence. Email usually comes to mind first, but other data can be requested in these types of legal actions, including instant message logs. Reuters this year started selling Messaging Compliance Manager, which allows customers to log all Reuters Messaging communications for up to seven years.
However, legal requests can go beyond messaging applications. "Security logs can be an issue in cases of intellectual property theft or financial malfeasance," says Dietz. "The SIM might contain the pointers for what evidence is needed to respond to the lawsuit, rather than have the actual evidence themselves."
Third, if you do actually have the data, what steps are you taking to safeguard logs for evidentiary purposes? If and when you do get sued, you will have to show that the log data your systems have collected has not been tampered with, and that some form of digital signature is still intact.
"There is no clear point-by-point situation that is the court-approved method of collecting log information," says Anton Chuvakin, director of product management at LogLogic. "Everything is subject to case law and judicial interpretation. But if logs are collected in the normal course of business, and if this process were relatively solid and protected, then they would be likely admitted as evidence."
Standby in the logging world is syslog, which provides a framework for collecting and storing log data but has well-known performance issues and can drop some data during periods of high network use. Some vendors also support a more recent version called syslog-ng (for next generation) that includes delivery using TCP instead of UDP.
"Syslog-ng tries to solve that problem with guaranteed delivery, but that can slow down the collection process," says ArcSight's Njemanze. The trade-off is having a high-performance collector that misses log events but keeps up with real-time traffic analysis for threat mitigation, versus having something more complete but lags behind in real-time collection.
"When you are capturing all this log data you shouldn't be forced to filter or normalize any of it, because that slows things down," says Stevens.
As a result, LogLogic offers two different log management product lines. One stores its logs in a SQL database, while the other uses raw files. "It is important to do both," says Anton Chuvakin, director of product management of LogLogic. "Some users of log data want the flexibility to do visualization and compliance reports, while others want to be able to do full text searches."
"In practice, most of our customers tend to go with traditional syslog because they want to see current messages, even if this means that they lose a few in the collection process. Whichever method you employ, make sure that the system you use to capture logs has the capacity to keep up with the message traffic," says Njemanze.
"Syslog is pretty bad and has all sorts of issues, but it's also really common, and there are millions of devices that write to its format," says Chuvakin. "Sometimes convenience can override security concerns."
Without a doubt, log management is a tough task to tackle, but the security and compliance benefits it can provide have become essential. And while the market of available tools that can help ease the process is rather convoluted, it may become clearer as vendors hone their products. Both log managers and SIMs will continue to converge as vendors add features to complement and extend their product lines. For the next few years, however, it is likely that IT and security managers will need both kinds of products to satisfy multiple needs.
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Quite fairly the HTC One V didn't receive half as much fanfare as the HTC One X and HTC One S when they were first announced. It has a lowly single core processor, a modest 3.7in screen, and only a 5MP camera. But if you prefer your phones a bit more cost effective and pocket-friendly, this is the phone you should be lusting after.
It all kicks off with a great design. Following directly on from its forbear, the HTC Legend (and prior to that the HTC Hero), the HTC One V sports an angled bottom section. This jutting jaw serves little obvious practical purpose and may not be to everyone's taste, but we rather like it as nice signature touch.
What really sets the design off though is the all aluminium body. Finished in a fetching anodised grey, it looks and feels great. The single piece wraps round the whole body aside from the screen and two small plastic panels on the back. These plastic sections are there to let the phone signals out and are finished in a nice soft-touch grey.
The bottom section does slide off as on the Hero and Legend but while you can access the SIM and add a microSD card, you can't remove the battery – a trend that's becoming common thoughout the smartphone world. The use of a full size (rather than micro) SIM is unlike the rest of the HTC One range, though, and may be a plus point for those looking to upgrade with the absolute minimum of effort. The microSD is also a welcome and surprising bonus. That said, it is also an essential feature as you only get 4GB of onboard storage. At least the slot will accommodate cards up to a whopping 32GB.
Getting back to the design, not only does the use of metal for the body give this phone a touch of class but so does the fit and finish. It feels solid and very well put together, and there's a real finesse to the whole thing. There are only two ever so slight things to note.
The first is the seam where the plastic cover for the bottom section meets the metal of the chassis. There's a gap that is just a gnats whisker wider than we'd like.
Similarly nitpicky is the screen which is actually raised about a millimetre or so above the surface of the chassis where it meets the jaw. This you notice as you slide your fingers from the jaw onto the screen. It's a very little thing but, it caught or attention. We suspect it may be a ruse to keep the perceived phone thickness lower by making the chassis slim and raising the screen out of it.
Features wise you've got a headphone jack and power button up top, 5MP camera with LED flash on the back, volume on the right edge and the microUSB charging socket on the left. Below the screen are the three responsive and easy to use touch sensitive buttons for navigating the device. All very simple and straighforward. Unlike on many larger phones the power button on this handset is easy to reach when using the phone one handed.
In fact one of the most loveable things about this handset is how it fits so snugly in the hand, its dimensions of 120.3 x 59.7 x 9.2 mm making one-handed use a cinch. In contrast something like the HTC One S is nearly 10mm taller and 5mm wider, and it really feels it. The only concern here is that the jutting jaw may make the bulge in your trouser pocket that bit more noticeable.
A final nice little touch is a slim LED strip that sits between the headphone jack and power button. This glows orange when charging and green when you've a notification.
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