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Thursday, 19 May 2005
The blade gleams Silver as it flashes out of the deep shadow ...
Morricone, Ennio
Price: $16.95
Audio CD
Product Description
Includes music from: "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage", "The Cat O' Nine Tailes" [sic], "Four Flies on Grey Velvet" and an Interview between Dario Argento, the Maestro of Horror, and Claudio Fuinao about the trilogy.
16 Track total (Including Interview)
Footlight Store: 113 East 12th St. NY, NY 10003 (info-at-footlight.com )
Welcome to A Fistful of Dario: The Dark Cinema of Dario Argento, my tribute/homage web page
Cinequest Tribute - Dario Argento: Master of the Macabre
Alan Jones, International Film Journalist
Dario Argento
(Alan reports all things Argento related on the darkdreams.org Dario website
run by Nick Dawe)
Dario Argento: Master of Horror
Dario Argento: Master of the Macabre
Quentin Tarantino adores him. Clive Barker wants to be him. And John Carpenter directed 'Halloween' in homage to his work.
Master of Colors
Wednesday, 18 May 2005
Schapelle - Not Only in America
There was a story linked to the particle (April 14, 2005) involving a camel suit which an airport baggage-handler took out of a travellers' bag and wore out on the tarmac. (Tho' this didn't wear it out. <g>)
It was about a young woman in a group travelling from Australia to Bali in whose unlocked bulky sports bag a large bag of marijuana was found. This is a capital (firing squad) offence in Indonesia. She is claiming it was -- unknown to her -- put into her bag as part of an ongoing arrangment to smuggle goods between domestic airports, and that it had missed being taken out. There is at least one report of a man who phoned the consul in Bali having found a bag of grass in his luggage on arrival at his hotel and being advised to quickly dispose of it and not report it.
The whole thing has blown up into an incredible scene, rather along the lines of The Big Carnival (aka Ace in the Hole). Maybe it could be pitched as "OJ Case meets Elian on the Midnight Express"? It has ramified into some serious matters involving home affairs (like the extent of corruption in airport staff, with a cocaine smuggling ring just arrested and many passengers reporting they lost valuables from their cases in transit), international incidents (e.g., interfering in overseas criminal trials, death threats to Indonesian diplomats in Australia, groups at the court picketing in favour of the death sentence), websites, petitions, T-shirts, songs being written, etc, etc, while a rich businessman has taken up her cause. The judicial systems are fairly different so there's a lot of room for confusion, and also the rules about the kind of media coverage and the legality of commenting on sub judice cases seems closer to the US free-for-all than the usual Australian restrictions. It just goes on ... (This is the latest Schapelle Corby)
And for all the non-usians out there who get slightly irritated by references to obscure US personalities, here's 100 Aussie names you can throw around to confuse them (I've heard of nearly all of them, tho I don't know anything more than that about quite a few). Meanwhile usians & other non-Ozzies can make yourselves sound familiar with Oz affairs, if you so wish. Impress your friends! Break the ice at parties!! Readers' Digest Australian Trust Survey
Sunday, 15 May 2005
Crafty Stuff
More Disintermediation
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A group of Bosnian refugee ladies who make socks, slippers and rugs in America. They survive on the income they make in knitting these things.
Yet another fibre alternative. Well, I could make a joke about fibbers, but it'd be nasty.
Banana Silk fibber yarn is made from the fibber of the banana tree. The fibber is refined, processed and skeined in Nepal by women. Banana trees are renewable, sustainable and produce environmentally friendly by-products. Only the decaying outer layers of the trees (aged bark) are harvested and soaked under water to quicken the natural process. When all of the chlorophyll structures are dissolved, the cellulose fibbers remain. They are extracted, washed and crushed by hand to make it suitable for spinning into banana yarn.
To make our banana fibber yarn vibrant, brilliant, and saturated with colour, the yarn is hand-dyed. Women's groups in Nepal carefully make each yarn skein. They come in 100 and 200 gram skeins. 200 grams contain about 135 yards. We currently offer 9 different colours of banana fibber yarn.
Thursday, 12 May 2005
Some Sydney Stuff; Good Example or Horrible Warning
31 May 2005
An aerial view of Sydney taken in the early '60s. With fly-pasts of Gladesville, the unfinished Opera House, Maroubra, Coogee and Bondi beaches, through to Watsons Bay and the North Shore.
Some Links to info on the Strand Arcade, Sydney, a restored 19th century retail site.
Catherine Aird
Pseudonym of Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. She was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. She is the creator of Inspector Sloan, CID department head in West Calleshire, England
Catherine Aird is the author of more than twenty crime novels and story collections, most of which feature Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan. She holds an honorary M. A. from the University of Kent and was made an M.B.E. Her other works include Amendment of Life (St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003) and Little Knell (St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001). She lives in England.
His Burial Too
Ms. Aird's version of a "locked-room" mystery is an intriguing one. Her dry wit and intelligent writing make it an excellent example of thie genre. Not only that, but the book in its entirety takes place during the space of one day. It can't get much tighter than that. It all begins when an arm is seen amongst several tons of broken plaster in a locked church bell tower ... But its her characters that make the story so special - the enigmatic Sloane, the bumbling Sergeant Crosby and the colourful Superintendent Leeyes. Ms Aird is a master craftsman of the the cozy mystery formula.
Published Bantam; 1973 Reissue 1986 ISBN: 0553139495. 1st Bantam Printing
A collection of snarky literary criticism, comments, and fiction. Where else can you find Jean Baudrillard and cat snot in the same post? Nowhere, I'd bet.
Wednesday, 11 May 2005
Los Alamos blog & assorted links
obsidianwings.blogs.com/ obsidian_wings/2005/04/contest.html
Free Online Graph/Grid Paper PDFs
Includes Dots (Like normal graph paper - but with dots instead of lines); Hexagonal; Celtic Knotwork Graph Paper [?!? Wow] ; Asymmetric (Asymmetric graph paper is typically used for knitting patterns. Knit stitches are wider than they are tall. You can set your own width to height ratio.) and Multi-Width.
Struggle for Atomic Facts
More Atomism
Blogs seem to be everywhere. But this one is unusual, in that the Los Alamos National Laboratory, isolated in the mountains of New Mexico, has a long history of maintaining the highest level of federal secrecy.
The blog ( www.lanl-the-real-story.blogspot.com) went public in January and since then has registered more than 100,000 visits, with more than half a million pages viewed and more than 5,000 comments. Discussions run on a variety of topics, from the sanctity of retirement benefits to the likely identity of the next contractor who will run Los Alamos.
Since most messages are anonymous, there is no way to know how many laboratory employees contribute to the blog. Even so, from the sheer volume, detail and differing styles of the messages, the number is clearly many more than a handful. The language, often studded with obscure acronyms, suggests that the authors have a deep knowledge of the laboratory's exotic culture.
[Current news is about a death, see story at www.freenewmexican.com/ news/13584.html which details another nasty incident, recalling www.parrot-farm.net/%7Eroberts/ blog/Raspberry_Jam_Lost ]
UPDATE 2006: The LANL blog has been moved to its final resting place, at www.parrot-farm.net/ ~roberts/ lanl-the-real-story
LANS officially assumed the LANL contract June 1, 2006. This blog shuts down July 1.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Last Post
This is the last post to LANL, The Real Story . 869,847 visitors, 3,274,719 page views as of today.
This blog will remain on-line for some as yet undetermined period, but I have turned off the ability to comment on existing posts, and there will be no more submissions accepted. The Los Alamos Historical Society has requested that I burn a copy of the blog to DVD so that they could archive it, and I will do this. In addition, I may install a stand-alone version of the blog on computer at the Los Alamos Museum where visitors will be allowed to browse a "live" copy of LTRS, but not make any modifications to it.
Tuesday, 10 May 2005
By kayak from Germany to Australia
[Full story not included here - see at URLs.]
from the NSW Sea Kayaker Magazine Edition 50
Oskar Speck's Epic Journey From Germany to Australia
Reprinted with the kind permission of Australasian POST magazine
Incredible Journey
by Oskar Speck
As told to Duncan Thompson
Mr Oskar Spec, citizen of Hamburg, Germany, introduced the kayak to us in 1939.
He paddled it here — alone!
For seven years he paddled it, from Ulm on the Danube, to Australia, skirting the wrath of great seas and oceans, slipping from island to island, in a craft never designed for the sea.
That you did not hear of his arrival was either his fault nor yours.
For Speck chose a wrong period in world history for his amazing voyage — 30,000 miles in a frail frame-and-canvas canoe. For the kayak, the longest way round hugging the coastlines of the world is the only way home.
Germany was at peace (and in poverty) when Speck left Ulm in 1932.
Seven years later, in September 1939, he coaxed his kayak through the surf and on to the beach at Saibai, an island 60 or 70 miles north from Thursday Island. Officially, Saibai is Australia proper. At his bow, often smothered in the flying surf, fluttered the tiny Swastika which he had brought from Germany with him.
Three Australian police were waiting for him to berth his kayak. If this was the
German invasion, these cops could handle it. "Well done, feller!" they said, shaking his hand warmly. "You've made it — Germany to Australia in THAT. But now we've got a piece of bad news for you. You are an enemy alien. We are going to intern you."
They did just that.
Speck went behind barbed wire at Tatura, Victoria ... Censorship clamped down on
the story of his voyage.
So that is why you have never heard of Oskar Speck.
Thursday, 5 May 2005
Bolkein & Beyond
Martins lopsided view of the film is that he thought was excellent but would have been so much better as a musical...[ahem - I think he means $AU1 is about $US0.75, not that $40 is. It has sometimes felt that way, tho'. The UK pound is still quite daunting.]
Pearson has taken some of the better parts and assembled a CD that he is counting on to make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. The said CD is entitled "The Unfinished Spelling Errors of Bolkien, being a three part musical synopsis of book and file LOTR."
It is a collection of songs, ( MP3 sample: www.solsup.com.au/greenman/gandalfsong.mp3) and narrative (MP3 sample: www.solsup.com.au/greenman/narrative.mp3)
You can contact Martin Pearson by email on email@example.com or by snail mail at
Martin Pearson
PO Box 2373
Richmond South 3121
It costs $40 for the double CD. That is in Australian dollars which is
probably about 75c US
... and related to another book recently adapted for film:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Douglas Adams
Friends and colleagues remember the man behind the Guide
[includes] "A much better tribute to Douglas is the new, final radio series ( www.abovethetitle.com/) based on the fourth and fifth Hitchhiker books. The reason those books don't work very well is because they were rushed so there is almost no editing. Douglas needed a good editor or producer to make his work really shine and what Dirk Maggs has done with these final eight scripts is extraordinary and exactly what an editor would have done with the books had there been time.'
(Art imitates Life imitates Art? Or should that be Life imitates Art imitates Life? An Eternal Golden Braid.) Another in the world of stranger-than-fiction obituaries.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/ Operatic-exit-for-polisher-of-despots-sullied-images/ 2005/05/04/1115092565949.html
www.smh.com.au/text/articles/ 2005/05/04/1115092565949.html(Text-only)
Being Fractal
(See at moments.circumtech.com/1996/12/beingfractal a fine piece from an excellent site.)
... which brings me to:
Sierpinski Sieve
A fractal described by Sierpinski in 1915 and appearing in Italian art from the 13th century (Wolfram 2002, p. 43). It is also called the Sierpinski gasket or Sierpinski triangle ... Surprisingly, elementary cellular automaton rule 90 also produces the Sierpinski sieve (Wolfram 2002, p. 870).
Sierpinski Carpet
A fractal which is constructed analogously to the Sierpinski sieve, but using squares instead of triangles.
See also:
Lindenmayer System, Pascal's Triangle, Rule 90, Sierpinski Arrowhead Curve, Sierpinski Carpet, Tetrix
Wolfram, S. A New Kind of Science. Champaign, IL: Wolfram Media, pp. 870, 931-932, 2002.
Online banking fees for the five major Australian banks:
(This needs to be put into a table, sorry will have to wait)
Bank Account: Transaction; Inquiry; BPAY
ANZ Transact: nil; nil; nil
ANZ Access Advantage: nil; nil; nil
ANZ Equity Manager: nil; nil; nil
Commonwealth Streamline: 30c; nil; 30c
National Passbook: 20c; 20c; 20c
National Smart Access: nil; nil; nil
National Smart Direct: nil; nil; nil
National Tertiary Student: 20c; 20c; 20c
St George Freedom: nil; nil; nil
Westpac Classic: 25 cents; nil; 25 cents
Westpac Classic Plus: 25 cents; nil; 25 cents
Commonwealth's online transaction fee to rise to 50 cents on July 1.
Source: The Australian Consumers Association's flickyourbank.com.au
Cheering you up a bit, perhaps, this eBay store:
'Twas early in the morning upon the fifth of May
When seven police surrounded him as fast asleep he lay.
Bill Dargin he was chosen to shoot the outlaw dead
The troopers then fired madly, and filled him full of lead
They rolled him in a blanket and strapped him to his prad
And led him through the streets of Forbes to show the prize they had.
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Wednesday, 4 May 2005
Some Kind of Courage
By Nora Boustany
The Washington Post
Posted May 1 2005
Dmytruk, 48, made sign language her vocation and today interprets for Ukraine's state-run television.
Her face and hands appear in a little box at the bottom of the screen as she sends out the news on the mid-morning and early afternoon telecasts to the hearing-impaired.
During the tense days of Ukraine's presidential elections last year, Dmytruk staged a silent but bold protest, informing deaf Ukrainians that official results from the Nov. 21 runoff were fraudulent.
Her act of courage further emboldened protests that grew until a new election was held and the opposition candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was declared the winner.
... "After every broadcast I had to render in sign language, I felt dirty. I wanted to wash my hands."
The opposition had no access to the state-run media, but Dmytruk was in a special position as a television interpreter to get their message out.
On Nov. 25, she walked into her studio for the 11 a.m. broadcast ... The newscaster read the officially scripted text about the results of the election, and Dmytruk signed along. But then, ... In her own daring protest, she signed: "I am addressing everybody who is deaf in the Ukraine. Our president is Victor Yushchenko. Do not trust the results of the central election committee. They are all lies. ... And I am very ashamed to translate such lies to you. Maybe you will see me again," she concluded, hinting at what fate might await her. She then continued signing the rest of officially scripted news.
Monday, 2 May 2005
The Zen of Computers
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry, each only 17 syllables, 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third.
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
The Web site you seek
Can not be located but
Countless more exist.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao - until
You bring fresh toner.
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.


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File size: 14526 Kb
Date: 03/24/2006
Install support: Install and Uninstall
OS: Win95, Win98, Windows2000, Windows2003, WinME, WinXP
System requirements: PIII-750 / 128M RAM / 3D Video 32M
Language: English
Snowy: Lunch Rush 1.0
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Do you have an appetite for fun? Then join Snowy the Bear as he sets out to run the best restaurant in town! Using nothing but your drive to be rich and famous, send Snowy scampering all over his shabby restaurant to seat customers, take orders, serve food, collect money and clear tables. Combos and other special feats can help you earn enough cash to keep the restaurant open, make repairs and upgrade to swankier locations. Things start off slow, but soon, the heat is on! Its not easy satisfying a room full of hungry patrons as you wait on drive-thru customers and take reservations over the phone, but with Snowys musical talent and help from the dessert tray, you might survive the shift. Snowy: Lunch Rush comes with a Career Mode, unlockable Endless Modes, superb animation and a side order of fries. (Just kidding! Youll have to supply your own snacks.) Download the free trial version now!
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Don't Worry About the Money: Why Stressing About Student Loans is Unnecessary
I find that students worry about money far more than they should. These worries start during the applications process when the high tuition price tag leads many to make admissions decisions on the basis of finances. Don't do this. Every college in the nation has plans set up to help you afford its education. For most students, educational loans are a necessity. And these types of loans should never frighten you.
Student loans are very different than other types of loans. While you may be seen as a credit risk if you hold $1000 in outstanding credit card debt, carrying twenty times that or more in educational debt does not have the same financial stigma (assuming you make your minimum monthly payments, of course). These types of loans are considered "good debt" because they represent an investment. Further, students loans are incredibly common. 65.7% of graduates go into the real world with loan repayment beckoning and with an average debt of $19,237.
Colleges loans common and harmless, and may even help you financially as well if you're smart about repayment. Consider these comments from John of FreeCollegeBlog.com:
If the student loan is subsidized, chances are that your best bet is to make the monthly minimum payments and forget about it. Most investments, even safe ones like government bonds, can get a better interest rate than what you're paying to the student loan. It might just be 1 or 2% difference, but over the life of the payments you could earn thousands more from investing than you saved by avoiding the almost non-existent interest fees.
In other words, you might actually be able to make money by intelligently investing the capital you've earned as a result of your education. Read the rest of John's investment analysis in his Pay off students loans, or invest? article.
The major point to take away is that educational loans are not scary. It may be daunting now to look ahead to the future and see an eventual debt of $30,000 and a repayment plan stretching 10 years after graduation, but this should never influence your ultimate application decisions. Notice that in my 10 things to think about when picking a college article, I never once mention the cost. Pick a school that you love without worrying about the money. You never know when a handsome financial aid package will be dropped in your lap, even potentially after you've already become a student.Have any insight on this topic? Want to ask a question or make a suggestion? Click here to leave a comment.
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This is a continuation of my Seoul trip photos. This part is all about the tallest point in Seoul – the YTN Seoul Tower, popularly known as the Namsan Tower. It is a dating spot commonly seen in Korean dramas where the characters hang a "lock of love" on a chain fence by the tower's base.
Did you know that they remove some locks to make room for new ones? Of course, they retain some rusty locks to give it character. Unbelievably, some couples are getting more creative or should I say resourceful for this tradition. Love Cellphone Cases anyone? I tried to find the Tiffany x Tom Hiddleston lock to no avail. Perhaps the fans beat me to it or they actually removed it after the shoot?
More than just being a 360-degree observation deck for Seoul's skyline, it actually holds the transmission antennas for different TV and radio stations. There are also plenty of attractions at the base of the tower such as traditional performances by the pavilion, a gift shop, a cafe, and the weekend arts & crafts market.
A uniquely cute history of Korea is also presented at the Teddy Bear Museum on the lower ground level. The admission fee into the museum is separate from the observation deck but you can avail of a combination ticket should you wish to see both.
We went here on two separate occasions – day and night. We were supposed to stay here for 1 hour from sunset till the evening (you can stay as long as you want, btw). But we got lost and and came a bit late and forgot to bring the tripod so we returned on weekend morning to take better photos.
- Bring a tripod especially when shooting at night.
- Bring a polarizing filter and/or your lens hood if you're shooting at night from the observation deck – the lights from the in-house candy store reflects on the glass too much.
- If on a budget, there is no dire need to go up the observation deck. The entire N Seoul Tower is situated high on Namsan Mountain enough for you to see a good stretch of Seoul's horizon even if you'll just stay at the roof deck where the locks of love are located.


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What's hot for 2012 weddings might be easier to accomplish than ever before! As society's values change, so goes the décor and wedding trends. That's good news for brides who want the wow factor without the headache!
According to Pantone Pallette Predictions, simple, undone textures are emerging but with strong attention to details. Soft colors found in the world around us collide with a movement that is ever turning the beauty of nature. Hues of blue, grey, and yes, even turquoise, or nudes with soft oranges and or pink accents are cast upon simplistic linens bare of floral arrangement for wall hangings and canopies. Strategic lighting and drapery whose fabric speaks for itself create a fresh and light mood.
Wedding Business Today predicts brides will look to nature for the reception table décor and that's no surprise. It might come as a shock but Brides.com is putting at ease those blushing brides who want their dress to blush too! That's right, ultra soft hues of pink, peach, sliver, lilac and even green are gracing the wedding gowns. Still a rarity, it's becoming a trend for the bold bride who is comfortable with what she wants.
And who wants a boring wedding cake when you can have your cookies and eat it too instead? Oh yes, the cupcake trend meets the cookie monster bride! Cup cake towers are replacing traditional wedding cakes or simply added as an elegant bonus to the cake table. Last year's naughty candy bars donned cupcakes but this year your favorite cookies are the rage. For those who opt for the cake, an imperfect perfection with texture is the rule.
Hair styles always seem to be characterized around the dress so it's no wonder we'll see a lot of brides with a more natural look. This year it's the bridal hair styles that will be the something old! Styles set by Grandma's tried and true pin curls are surprisingly easy to don with accents. Great for a bob or long hair, soft waves are in! The more natural the style, the less structured but with the right setting and accents still adds elegance fitting for the bride.
No matter what trends are shaping up this year, the wedding is always defined by bride's individual taste and a reflection of all the reasons she fell in love with her own prince charming. Happy planning from us at SEO.


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Ports of Indiana > About Us > Staff > Kasia Kaffenberger
Administrative Assistant
Role: Provides accounting and administrative support for port operations.
Joined: August 2013
Background: Previously worked as a machine operator at Infinity Molding & Assembly and a staff writer at the Mount Vernon Democrat. Earned associate's degree from Ivy Tech.


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This blog is an exploration of life purpose -- why we are here; what matters. It examines the spiritual tasks and truths that help us navigate, to do what we came here to do. Despite our amnesia. Despite pain and fear and loss. In the garden of shadow and light we cling to the day and lose it. This blog is about seeing through the dark.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Number Twenty
We didn't come here for happiness or unhappiness. We came to overcome what's compensatory and automatic: the habitual, corrosive solutions to our pain. We came to lean how to love while every impulse sends us back to the familiar ways. Back to the flaw, the separation, the breakdown where we began to lose each other.
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Spring has finally arrived! I felt like using my green (it appears to be teal when toned down) eye pencil, and chose Urban decay's Woodstock for a fun contrast. The colors remind me a bit of a pink rose, or maybe pink waterlilies?
Read on for more pictures and the product list!
Looking back on it I shouldn't have played safe with the green liner because I made it look patchy trying to tone it down. I had to work that day and wear a red top, so I already look totally mismatched on most days. It would have looked nice if I lined my waterline too, but lately my eyes are too sensitive for that. I was experimenting with my lip liner too, and the great conclusion is: I need to buy MORE colors! :)
Product list:
Chanel Vitalumiere aqua foundation
(still undecided wether I like this foundation, review coming soon)
Benefit Erase paste concealer
MAD minerals founation in fair
MAD minerals satin glow finishing powder
Old matte pink eyeshadow as a blush
Catrice Harbour bridge eyeshadow (matte sand color in crease)
Urban decay Woodstock eyeshadow
Shiro cosnetics Likelike eyeshadow
Yves rocher waterproof eyepencil in 03 Vert
Gosh white kohl pencil
Maybelline The falsies waterproof mascara
Yves Rocher lip pencil in 01 Rose
Maybelline watershine fusion in Shakin' Mauve
Did spring hit wherever you're living yet?
It feels so nice to see some sunlight before and after work again :)


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I have all that much time today to write this up and it is going to be one of those multi-part blogs given the depth of the historical literature I am digging into. So this is Part 1. The topic centres on an agreement between the US Federal Reserve System (the central bank federation in the US) and the US Treasury to peg the interest rate on government bonds in 1942. What the agreement demonstrated is that a central bank can always control yields on government bonds, which includes keeping them at zero (or even negative in the current case of Japan). What it demonstrates is that private bonds markets, no matter how much they might huff and puff about their own importance or at least the conservatives who are 'fan boys' of the bond markets), the government always rules because of its currency monopoly
There is a rich set of documents now available, which help us understand what the 1942 agreement was all about.
There was also a special edition of the – Economic Quarterly, a quarterly publication put out by the US Federal Reserve Bank Richmond branch in the Winter of 2001, which "commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Accord".
It is very interesting to read through the historical documents and the more recent (2001) interpretation of them.
On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour, which provoked the US to formally enter the World War 2 conflict in an allied alliance with the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.
On December 11, 1941, war was declared between Germany and Italy and the US.
In April 1942, as the US ramped up the prosecution of its War effort, the Treasury Department requested that the US Federal Reserve Bank use its monetary policy operations to maintain:
… a low interest-rate peg of 3/8 percent on short-term Treasury bills. The Fed also implicitly capped the rate on long-term Treasury bonds at 2.5 percent.
That is, control yields on government debt across a broad maturity range. By controlling the short-end of the yield curve (the structure of interest rates by maturity of the debt), the central bank would condition the longer term rates.
And they could directly control the longer rates, which would then influence the cost of investment type borrowing by the private sector.
All in a day's work for a central bank that works in harmony with the fiscal authority.
The aim of the US Treasury was:
… to stabilize the securities market and allow the federal government to engage in cheaper debt financing of World War II …
Fairly simple.
The President, Harry Truman and the Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder were both, not only motivated by a desire to keep the 'cost' of borrowing down for the Government, but also, importantly, "to protect patriotic citizens by not lowering the value of the bonds that they had purchased during the war".
What did they mean by that?
To fully understand that, we need to briefly understand how bond markets operate.
Ignoring specific nuances of a particular country, governments match their deficits by issuing public debt. For Eurozone Member States this is a funding operation, for other fiat currency issuing states it is a reserve draining operation.
What needs to be understood that in this fiat currency era where nations can float their exchange rates at will (if they issue their own currency), the act of issuing debt is a totally voluntary act for a sovereign government.
The only purpose debt-issuance serves is when it is used as part of a monetary operation (to maintain central bank control over target interest rates). And even then, it is unnecessary because the central bank can just pay a competitive return on excess reserves.
It does not have to drain them via open market operations (selling debt in return for extinguishing reserves).
But what we clearly know is that for a currency-issuing government, the debt issuance is entirely unnecessary for its spending decisions.
The practice of debt-issuance gives the impression that the borrowing is funding the spending but that is a chimera. The arrangements that motivate that perception are ephemeral and can be altered by the government should it have the will to do so.
Which is what happened in 1942 in the US.
To understand bond market auctions etc, we distinguish between a primary market and a secondary market.
Governments (more or less) use auction systems to issue debt. The auction model merely supplies the required volume of government paper at whatever price was bid in the market. Typically the value of the bids exceeds by multiples the value of the overall tender.
The primary market is the institutional machinery via which the government sells debt to a select group of nominated banks and financial institutions, who 'make the market'.
The secondary market is where existing financial assets (that were previously issued in the primary market) are traded by interested parties. This is where the speculators live.
So the financial assets enter the monetary system via the primary market and are then available for trading in the secondary.
Clearly secondary market trading has no impact at all on the volume of financial assets in the system – it just shuffles the wealth between wealth-holders. In the context of public debt issuance – the transactions in the primary market are vertical (net financial assets are created or destroyed) and the secondary market transactions are all horizontal (no new financial assets are created).
Please read the following introductory suite of blogs – Deficit spending 101 – Part 1 – Deficit spending 101 – Part 2 – Deficit spending 101 – Part 3 – for basic Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) concepts.
The way the auction process works is simple. The government determines when a tender will open and the type of debt instrument to be issued. They thus determine the maturity (how long the bond would exist for), the coupon rate (the interest return on the bond) and the volume (how many bonds).
The issue is then put out for tender and demand relative to the fixed supply in the market determines the final price of the bonds issued. Imagine a $1000 bond had a coupon of 5 per cent, meaning that you would get $50 dollar per annum until the bond matured at which time you would get $1000 back.
Imagine that the market wanted a yield of 6 per cent to accommodate risk expectations. In this case, the bond is unattractive and so they would put in a purchase bid lower than the $1000 to ensure they get the 6 per cent return they sought.
The general rule for fixed-income bonds is that when the prices rise, the yield falls and vice versa. Thus, the price of a bond can change in the market place according to interest rate fluctuations.
When interest rates rise, the price of previously issued bonds fall because they are less attractive in comparison to the newly issued bonds, which are offering a higher coupon rates (reflecting current interest rates).
When interest rates fall, the price of older bonds increase, becoming more attractive as newly issued bonds offer a lower coupon rate than the older higher coupon rated bonds.
So for new bond issues the government receives the tenders from the bond market traders which are ranked in terms of price (and implied yields desired) and a quantity requested in $ millions. The government then issues the bonds in highest price bid order until it raises the revenue it seeks. So the first bidder with the highest price (lowest yield) gets what they want (as long as it doesn't exhaust the whole tender, which is not likely). Then the second bidder (higher yield) and so on.
In this way, if demand for the tender is low, the final yields will be higher and vice versa. There are a lot of myths peddled in the financial press about this. Rising yields may indicate a rising sense of risk (mostly from future inflation although sovereign credit ratings will influence this).
But rising yields on government bonds do not necessarily indicate that the bond markets are sick of government debt levels. In sovereign nations (not the EMU) it typically either means that the economy is growing strongly and investors are willing to diversify their portfolios into riskier assets. It is also usually a time that the central bank pushes up rates and bond yields more or less follow.
The point is that if the central bank pushes up the demand for extant government bonds in the secondary market, it will, other things being equal, push up the price and the yields will fall (even though the coupon is fixed).
So it was a simple monetary operation by the central bank to control yields at whatever level they desired. In doing so, there were allegations raised (by conservatives and central bankers) that the central bank was being politicised.
This came to a head during the Korean War and conflict between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve saw the 1942 peg scrapped. More about that in Part 2.
But the whole 'politicisation' ruse is interesting because the original legislation establishing the Federal Reserve Bank system in the US (the Federal Reserve Act 1913) clearly allowed the the Federal Reserve Banks to buy unlimited amounts of Treasury bonds directly from the Treasury.
In 1935, the Federal Reserve Board was "renamed and restructured".
Prior to 1935, that power to by unlimited amounts of US Treasury bonds directly from the Treasury was used regularly. The first time this was used was in 1917.
There was an article in the New York Times (March 28, 1917) – Reserve Banks Lend M'Adoo $50,000,000 – which said that:
To maintain the working level of the general fund of the Treasury, Secretary McAdoo has borrowed on Treasury certificates from the Federal Reserve Banks $50,000,000 at 2 per cent per annum … The Federal Reserve Banks subscribed with such promptness that at 3 P.M. today the entire amount had been taken.
The Secretary of the Treasury Mr McAdoo said that the "twelve Federal Reserve Banks … are fiscal agents of the Government".
Part of the funds went to pay the sale price of the Danish West Indies, now the US Virgin Islands.
The other interesting aspect of the 'loan' was that the private bond markets were not interested in the deal and a spokesperson said that "other institutions would not care to invest their funds in these securities at the very unattractive rate".
The prevailing market rate at the time on short-term Treasury certificates was 3 per cent.
So the principle was clear. At a time when competitive market rates were deemed higher than the government wanted to pay on any debt it issued, the solution was simple – get the central bank to buy the debt.
In 2014, Kenneth D. Garbade published a Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report – Direct Purchases of U.S. Treasury Securities by Federal Reserve Banks – which recounts the way the central bank in the US could purchase unlimited amounts of treasury debt by creating funds out of thin air and how that capacity was eventually constrained.
Garbade documents how the Federal Reserve Board has some reluctance to purchase directly and considered "that the normal services of the Bank as fiscal agent will best be rendered by assisting in distributing Government securities rather than by acting as a purchaser of them."
That is, buying government bonds in the secondary markets (once they had been issued via tender) from non-government bond holders.
Eventually, the growing central bank consternation about direct purchases led to a legislative change.
In 1935, the 1913 Federal Reserve Act was qualified by the the Banking Act of August 23, 1935, which meant that the Federal Reserve Banks could only purchase government bonds "in the open market" – that is, the secondary market.
The upshot of this new legislation was that the "proviso explicitly prohibited direct purchases of Treasury securities by Federal Reserve Banks."
So a voluntary financial constraint was imposed on the relationship between the central bank and the US treasury despite history telling us that the central bank direct debt purchases from the Treasury between 1913 and 1935 had gone "without incident".
It was conservative antagonism that led to the 1935 constraints. So we understand them to be purely ideological and political.
The debates at the time made it clear that the legislators knew there was smoke and mirrors at work here.
It was observed by the US House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency, which was overseeing the legislation that:
There is no logic in discriminating against obligations which, being in effect obligations of the United States Government, differ from other such obligations only in that they are not issued directly by the Government.
In other words, it was flim flam to prohibit the central bank from purchasing debt from the Treasury directly when it could simply signal to the private bond markets that upon issue, it would buy unlimited quantities of bonds from them (indirectly).
These sort of accounting ruses dominate government fiscal operations today and place a smokescreen over what is really the intrinsic nature of the monetary system.
It is also the way that the ECB is getting around the Treaty of Lisbon constraints, which prevent bailouts of governments.
If the central bank is creating demand for financial assets (bonds) in the secondary market then people can be tricked into believing that it is the private sector that 'funds' government, despite the reality being that it is the same government that issues the currency in the first place and has to spend it first before it can borrow it back.
Of course, the effect of pointless exercises like that are that they provide the neo-liberals with ammunition by linking government deficits with public debt buildup and then all the rest of the nonsense about 'mortgaging the grandchildrens' futures' and the like are wheeled out on a largely ignorant public to engender political support for austerity-type fiscal stances.
It is all a total ruse and the US House Committee in 1935 clearly knew that.
But their colleagues in the US Senate changed the legislation to prohibit "direct purchases of Treasury securities by Federal Reserve Banks" although the Senate Banking Committee "did not explain the reason for the prohibition".
Kenneth Harbade cannot find a clear answer to why they introduced this prohibition against the wishes of the Treasury at the time, which considered it essential to have that direct capacity in times of emergency.
The obvious reasons are entertained in the Report.
First, "direct purchases may have been prohibited to prevent excessive government expenditures".
Second, to prevent "chronic deficits" and force the government to the "test of the market". As if the private bond markets have the interests of the entire nation at their hearts.
In relation to these motivations, it is clear that the neo-liberal expression of this over the last three decades has overwhelmingly imposed massive political restrictions on the ability of the government to use its fiscal policy powers under a fiat monetary system to ensure we have full employment.
In Europe they took the constraints to one higher level of idiocy by banning any ECB bailout (since violated) and imposing the Stability and Growth Pact. But in other monetary systems where the national government still issues the currency, the voluntary constraints are also oppressive.
We now accept very high unemployment and underemployment rates as a more or less permanent feature of our economic lives because of the ideological constraints imposed on government.
The collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, which freed currency-issuing governments of any financial constraints, did not prevent the logic that applied in the fixed exchange rate-convertibility days from being imposed despite the economic fact that it does not apply in the fiat currency era.
As a result, governments impose voluntary constraints on themselves to satisfy the dominant ideological demands of the elites.
However, the 1935 shifts were not to last very long. The 1935 prohibition of direct central bank purchases of US Treasury debt were relaxed in 1942, which is where I began.
From 1942, the Treasury borrowed "huge sums of money" from the central bank as part of its war effort.
In this blog – Time for fiscal policy as we learn more about monetary policy ineffectiveness – I considered some of the views of the Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Marriner Eccles in 1935.
Mariner Eccles wrote at the time that by allowing direct purchase of debt by the central bank the nation could:
… avoid the necessity of having the Treasury offer Government obligations for sale on the open market at a time when the market is demoralized and an additional public offering might add to the confusion and demoralization of the market and do incalculable harm to the Government's credit and to the holders of outstanding Government obligations."
Eccles went further though and believed that the Treasury should never be at the behest of the private bond markets. He said:
If the market situation happens to be unfavorable on any given day when a financing operation is up … the Federal Reserve System should be in a position where it can take care of it by a direct purchase from the Treasury of an issue of securities.
Whether a government buys debt directly from the Treasury or indirectly makes little difference in this respect. The former avenue is always preferable from a Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) perspective because it cuts out the corporate welfare element inherent in exclusive primary issuance to non-government dealers.
The 1942 amendment allowed the central bank to buy debt directly from the Treasury but only up to a certain limit ($US5 billion).
In Part 2, we will examine the breakdown of the pegged arrangement as central bank politics overcame the pragmatism of the US Federal Treasury.
Reclaiming the State Lecture Tour – September-October, 2017
For up to date details of my upcoming book promotion and lecture tour in Late September and early October through Europe go to – The Reclaim the State Project homePage.
I have run out of stock of the discounted book offer. I might have some more in mid-October. But you can still purchase the book at various bookshops including Amazon, Pluto Books, Barnes and Noble, Dymocks, Readings etc.
That is enough for today!
(c) Copyright 2017 William Mitchell. All Rights Reserved.


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Published on: March 5, 2014
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In Alluring Turmoil, we were introduced to Lexi Sloane's two best friends, Bradi and Erik. Alluring Ties will take you on a journey into their pasts and bring you to their present.
Bradi St. James is a force to be reckoned with. She's strong, independent, and has something to prove. All of her life, she's watched the world around her and is determined to have a different fate from what she's grown up with. The path you've always believed to be the right path, may not be your destiny after all.
Erik Jenson is a kind man. A nurturer and the kind of friend everyone wants to have. Growing up surrounded by friends and family who support him, he's a confident man. The choices he must make and the chances he must take as he lives and grows make him the strong, loving man he becomes.
Alluring Ties is a companion novella to the Bayou Stix series. It's Book 2.5 Bayou Stix. It is NOT recommended to be read as a standalone book.
Alluring Ties contains explicit sex, including some male/male, strong language and is not intended for anyone under the age of 18 or anyone who does not like M/M romance.
Alluring Ties is a companion novel to the Bayou Styx series by Skye Turner. It comes after the first two books, however, it tells of the history of Erik and Bradi. This book was great. I laughed and cried through it. I loved reading how Lexi and Erik met Bradi and the relationship that grew over the course of the seven years prior to Alluring Turmoil. The book also gives the history of Bradi's and Micah's relationship. Although, I would love to read a full length book on both Bradi and Erik, it was refreshing to read how all of the characters met and how their lives intertwined with each other.
Bradi is loud. Not obnoxiously loud, but has a fun personality. When we meet her, it is the start of college for Bradi and Lexi. Bradi has decorated her side of the dorm room with zebra prints, hot pink and lime. However, Bradi is the second greatest friend to Lexi who sees through her BS right off the back. Bradi comes from a single mother, who as she states is "a whore. Straight up. Not a prostitute and she's not trashy, but she's a whore." Bradi does not want to be anything like her mom. She wants to be independent and make her own way without needing a man to give her everything that she wants. She does not want to be a kept woman. I can not blame her, Bradi is stronger than that. The old saying that beauty is only skin deep goes a long way in describing Bradi. Yes, she is beautiful, but she is also smart and hardworking. She is the kind of friend that every woman needs. She will tell you straight up how it is, but yet will be there for you when things are really bad.
I say that Bradi is the second greatest friend to Lexi, because the other is Erik. Yes, when we meet Erik, Bradi all but falls into a pile of mush for him. He has to tell her that he is gay and that although she is beautiful, she is just not his type. He also says the same thing to his roommate Micah. Micah is not gay either and does not care that Erik is, but would prefer if Erik not check him out. These two bond over the fact that Erik tells Micah that he is not his type and that he blondes. Erik is the serious friend that Lexi needs. Of course he knows her history. Also, Erik has his own struggles. He is gay, he is out, yet he has not met the one person that he knows will make him completely comfortable in his skin. As he puts it he is seeing Joe who is pushing him to be more open about their situation, but Erik is not sure he is ready for a relationship. He is not embarrassed or ashamed. To me, it seems that he has not met that one guy that will make him feel completely comfortable in his skin. And I love the scene later in the book when Erik realizes that Alec is the man for him! "Alec smiles back at me and takes my hand. They're resting on the table top for the world to see, but I don't care. I want everyone to know the love I have for this man. He's my world. He's my present and he's my future." I loved this line. This showed me that Erik found his true love who made him completely comfortable in his skin. Totally swoon-worthy!!!
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JACKSON, Miss. - Authorities call it a hate crime by two White teens against a middle-aged Black man, "murder by physically assaulting and purposefully using a 1998 Ford F-250 to run over James Craig Anderson."
Defense lawyers insist the incident had nothing to do with race. One of the teen's attorneys said the group was on a beer run that morning, not out looking for a Black man to assault, as prosecutors claim.
Regardless of whether race had anything to do with the killing, that's how it's being seen by many who live far away from Mississippi's capital. Stoked in part by security-camera footage showing Anderson being run over, people across the country have begun to sound off on social-media pages created for and against the defendants, filling them with shrill, often hateful comments.
Pages have been set up to solicit prayers for the victim and one of the suspects, but the posts have become more heated since the surveillance video was made public. Another Web page calls for the executions of Deryl Dedmon and John Aaron Rice, who were 18 when the 49-year-old Anderson was run down on a Jackson street just before dawn on June 26.
Both were initially charged with murder, though the charge against Rice was reduced to simple assault after a detective testified Rice left the scene in a separate vehicle before Anderson was run down.
The ACLU of Mississippi said it is monitoring the investigation.
"The murder of James Craig Anderson was a cowardly act of violence that reminds us of the racial hatred that continues to plague the South," said Nsombi Lambright, the ACLU's executive director for Mississippi.
Despite the angry, racially tinged rhetoric posted by Blacks and Whites alike, the situation could provoke level-headed discussions about race relations, said Gerald Rose, founder of the Atlanta-based New Order National Human Rights Organization. His group and others are planning a trip this month to the scene of Anderson's death.
Rose said people from California to Virginia have contacted him about Anderson's death.
"When I saw the video, I shed tears. That could have been me or it could have been my sons," said Rose, who is Black. "We want to call for a healing process, and at the same time we are aware racism is still alive. I can't believe stuff like this is going on in the year 2011."
The intense focus on the case comes as Mississippi has been coming to terms with its history of racial violence, including the beating, jailing and killing of civil-rights activists in the 1960s. State leaders recently commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, and Gov. Haley Barbour signed legislation providing initial funding for a national civil-rights museum.
The surveillance video, obtained by the Associated Press and other media, shows a white Jeep in which Rice was allegedly a passenger leaving a hotel parking lot at 5:05 a.m.
Less than 20 seconds later, a Ford truck backs up and then lunges forward. Anderson's shirt is illuminated in the headlights before he disappears under the vehicle next to the curb. The Metro Inn provided Jackson police with the video, which prosecutors said has been vital in the investigation.
The video also shows hotel staff and guests hurrying to the street to help Anderson. Some of them paced back and forth in apparent disbelief while calling police on their cellphones. None of the people allegedly involved in the incident was a hotel guest.
Dedmon is charged as the driver of the green Ford F-250. He's being held in the Hinds County jail on an $800,000 bond. Rice posted a $5,000 bond and was released, though Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith said a grand jury expected to meet in the coming weeks could still indict Rice on a murder charge.
If convicted of a hate crime, the teens' sentences could be increased. Attorneys for both dispute that their clients were involved in a racially motivated attack.
Dedmon's attorney, Lee Agnew, said during a court hearing in July that he had seen nothing to back up the "racial allegations." Agnew did not respond to messages left this week by the AP.
Rice's lawyer, Samuel Martin, declined to comment this week. During a bond hearing last month, Martin suggested during a line of questioning with a police detective that Rice had no knowledge of any plan to indiscriminately attack a Black man.
Jackson police Detective Eric Smith testified that Dedmon had been robbed by a Black man in the weeks before Anderson's death and was looking for "some sort of revenge" when the group left a party in Rankin County, allegedly in search of a random Black person "to mess with." Seven people headed to Jackson in two cars, with Dedmon and Rice in separate vehicles.
The district attorney has said racial slurs were used.
But during the hearing in July, Martin suggested the teens went to Jackson to buy beer because it isn't sold that late in Rankin County.
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Day 14 - Thursday - June 21 - North Copeland Island to North Rendezvous Island
Crossing Desolation Sound with Kinghorn Island straight ahead.
The strong winds and a pain in my shoulder kept me up most of the night so I got off to a late start launching at 11am. The day started with beautiful clear skies and a wind out of the south that helped to push me along all day.
Crossing Desolation Sound was the only real obstacle on today's paddle. The weather was cooperating though and the four-mile crossing went without a hitch. Kinghorn Island out in the middle of the sound did come in handy as a windbreak. As the wind was coming out of the south west at around 15mph I went around the south east side of the island and was able to stay in it's wind shadow all the way to Redonda Island on the north side of the sound.
Refuge Cove
I stopped at Refuge Cove to check out the marina and fill my water bottles. The small store there did not have much in the way of supplies, and the water faucet at the dock had a sign indicating the water was not potable.
Heading up Lewis Channel north of Refuge Cove.
As I headed out of Refuge Cove into Lewis Channel, I got my first look at snow-covered peaks off in the distance. This was why I had come all this way to paddle and the scenery in front of me made it all worthwhile. The wind was still blowing, but now that I was in the confines of Lewis Channel, the waves were not as big a problem as they had been while crossing Desolation Sound. The clouds started to thicken, and the sky got darker, but the rain held off with not much more than a scattered drizzle. There were no good spots to camp along Lewis Channel as the shoreline consisted of boulders and shear rock all the way to the waterline. Above the rocks was an impenetrable wall of vegetation.
Lewis Channel
I continued paddling up Lewis Channel to it's junction with Calm Channel, Deer Passage, and Sutil Channel. The Rendezvous Islands, my destination for this evening, were located right at the intersection of these channels. The southernmost of these three islands is a BC Marine Trail Park. There was supposed to be campsites at both the northern and southern ends of this island but after looking carefully, I could find neither. My only alternative now was to keep going and hope I would run into a suitable campsite soon. When I reached the north tip of the northern most Rendezvous Island, there at last, was a place to land with a level tent site above high tide. This campsite was interesting in that it was located on a tiny island connected to the largest of the Rendezvous Islands by a gravel beach. This beach is exposed at low tide and covered at high tide, cutting off access to the larger island.
Rendezvous Island appears off in the distance in Calm Channel.
After landing at 6pm I set up my tent, had something to eat, and fell asleep early. I had covered 24 miles today in seven hours.
My campsite at the north end of North Rendezvous Island.


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Apple iPhone 6s Plus vs Motorola Moto X Pure
The iPhone 6s Plus takes the torch from its predecessor, Apple's first phablet, and keeps things largely the same externally, but has copious amounts of upgrades on the inside, namely a new 12 MP camera module, a pressure-sensitive 3D Touch display, and a screeching A9 chipset.
Meanwhile, a fresh Motorola batch has arrived, and the Moto X Pure is at the high-end of the new Moto trio, with specs like a 5.7" QHD display, and a 20 MP camera. Which of the two big-screeners mixes things up better? Read on to find out...
Moto X Pure looks like a work horse to the thin iPhone 6s Plus, yet offers much better screen-to-body ratio.
The iPhone 6s Plus has stayed largely unchanged from its predecessor, with a thin aluminum unibody that is a tad on the large side for the screen's 5.5" diagonal. The aluminum used this time, however, is the highest-grade 7000-series, making the phone more durable, while a new display tech has put on ounces and girth compared to its predecessor. Motorola, on the other hand, didn't go all-premium with the Moto X Pure design, focusing on providing a great 76%+ screen-to-body ratio, and only infusing a touch of classy materials with the metal side frame of the handset. You can use the Moto Maker tool while ordering the Pure, and have the phone tailored to your tastes with numerous combos of front, rear and side frame colors, as well as personalized engravings – all for free, of course.
The Moto X Pure is a good 50% thicker than the iPhone 6s Plus, at 0.44" (11mm), which makes it look elegant as a tank. It's lighter, though, and lies well in the hand, providing a firm and comfortable grip, compared to the skinny iPhone. Motorola throws in many perks at the front of the X Pure, such as two stereo speakers, plus an LED flash for the selfie camera. The keys on both handsets are easy to feel and press without looking, with good tactile feedback, but more so on the iPhone 6s Plus.
158.2 x 77.9 x 7.3 mm
6.77 oz (192 g)
Apple iPhone 6s Plus
153.9 x 76.2 x 11.06 mm
6.31 oz (179 g)
Motorola Moto X Pure Edition (2015)
With two big and quality displays in the offing, the phablets won't leave you hunkering for more.
The 5.5" 1080x1920 pixel display on the iPhone now comes with a new pressure-sensing technology that Apple dubbed 3D Touch, and it allows the panel to distinguish between a light tap or hard press, and react accordingly, introducing new horizons for contextual menus.
The Moto X Pure is equipped with a 5.7" LCD display that sports the hearty 1440x2560 pixels of Quad HD resolution, returning a higher, 515ppi pixel density, so everything looks as crisp as they come.
When it comes to colors, the iPhone 6s Plus is a tad on the colder side of the spectrum, but not by much, while the Moto X Pure keeps things closer to the reference 6500K white point, but introduces a hint of green throughout the image. The standard RGB gamut color presentation is great on both handsets, with no oversaturation, though the iPhone 6s Plus has more spot-on red hues than the Moto X Pure.
Besides being much brighter, which aids in outdoor visibility, Motorola's panel also offers lower minimum brightness than the iPhone 6s Plus, making it more comfortable for reading in pitch darkness.
Display measurements and quality
The CIE 1931 xy color gamut chart represents the set (area) of colors that a display can reproduce, with the sRGB colorspace (the highlighted triangle) serving as reference. The chart also provides a visual representation of a display's color accuracy. The small squares across the boundaries of the triangle are the reference points for the various colors, while the small dots are the actual measurements. Ideally, each dot should be positioned on top of its respective square. The 'x: CIE31' and 'y: CIE31' values in the table below the chart indicate the position of each measurement on the chart. 'Y' shows the luminance (in nits) of each measured color, while 'Target Y' is the desired luminance level for that color. Finally, 'ΔE 2000' is the Delta E value of the measured color. Delta E values of below 2 are ideal.
These measurements are made using SpectraCal's CalMAN calibration software.
The Color accuracy chart gives an idea of how close a display's measured colors are to their referential values. The first line holds the measured (actual) colors, while the second line holds the reference (target) colors. The closer the actual colors are to the target ones, the better.
These measurements are made using SpectraCal's CalMAN calibration software.
The Grayscale accuracy chart shows whether a display has a correct white balance (balance between red, green and blue) across different levels of grey (from dark to bright). The closer the Actual colors are to the Target ones, the better.
These measurements are made using SpectraCal's CalMAN calibration software.
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1. yourmom (Posts: 82; Member since: 21 Feb 2015)
More polished interface ?? LOL plain Android is much better anyday . At-least we can move around icons easily and set a wallpaper in few steps compared to a more Polished OS
2. palmguy (Posts: 946; Member since: 22 Mar 2011)
Music player looks better, more polished, based on what, defined by who?
5. yourmom (Posts: 82; Member since: 21 Feb 2015)
see pros for 6s
19. sgodsell (Posts: 6524; Member since: 16 Mar 2013)
The iPhone 6s+ has a single speaker on the side with a 5.5" 1080p display. The Moto X pure/Style has front facing stereo speakers with a a brighter 5.7" 1440p display. But yet the Moto X is physically smaller then a iPhone 6s+. There was no mention of the 4 IR sensors on the front face of the Moto X for its touchless controls. Not to mention the price difference. You are paying more than double the price for the iPhone 6s+.
22. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
Overall package is better on the 6S. You're in denial.
25. TheWeasel (Posts: 403; Member since: 26 Dec 2014)
For over twice the price, it had better be. But even then, it's not even that much of an advantage.
26. Scott93274 (Posts: 6018; Member since: 06 Aug 2013)
So that's why you chose the Moto X Pure over the new iPhone? I don't understand, you're contradicting yourself... Please explain why you think the iPhone is better, but you're buying the Moto X Pure instead?
29. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
Because A. I have the iPhone 6 as my work phone and an iPad Air 2 as my daily driver and B. I wanted a new Android phone that's stock Android as my daily driver.
Get off my back.
35. Scott93274 (Posts: 6018; Member since: 06 Aug 2013)
I'm sorry, it's just that your "body was ready" for the new iPhone... I was curious why that changed.
39. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
That was a doppelganger of me made by meanestgenius.
3. tacarat (Posts: 847; Member since: 22 Apr 2013)
I thought they lower battery life was a trade off for more features and screen brightness. That's why the investment in fast charging was made.
4. combatmedic870 (Posts: 982; Member since: 02 Sep 2015)
Wow....the motos screen blows away the iphone6s in the charts!
6. Astonvan (Posts: 237; Member since: 14 Aug 2015)
Lenovo is screwing motorola' series. there was no need for a 5.7 inch screen ,its too big and the price these motorola guys were bragging about its nothing but BS. in our country the moto x priced about $461 for the base model similarly priced like moto x2 .where as the rivaling oneplus 2 is sold for the same price $399. if oneplus two had good support and after sales service like i moto i would've readily bought it. Bloody lenovo ,bloody chineese company.
7. Astonvan (Posts: 237; Member since: 14 Aug 2015)
And they are comparing it with a high end phone like iphone 6s plus.
11. Planterz (Posts: 2120; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
Too big? It's being compared to the iPhone 6s+, which has a smaller screen yet larger overall dimensions (thickness aside). iPhones have always been a demonstration of poor use of space. Not to mention the resolution...
17. TheWeasel (Posts: 403; Member since: 26 Dec 2014)
Just because you didn't want a larger screen doesn't mean most others didn't.
23. Astonvan (Posts: 237; Member since: 14 Aug 2015)
Moto x used to be a compact phone before lenovo aquired it.
41. Scott93274 (Posts: 6018; Member since: 06 Aug 2013)
And the iPhone use to have a 3.5" display until the mobile phone industry trend moved to larger and larger displays. Not everything is Lonovo's fault.
40. SupermanayrB (banned) (Posts: 1188; Member since: 20 Mar 2012)
5.7" display is too big for who? Dudes that're 5'7"? The 6s Plus is .2" smaller yet the device is larger. No one's complaining about that. Motonovo did a good job with this phone. It's flagship-ish. Could've been a little better but overall a good phone.
43. Astonvan (Posts: 237; Member since: 14 Aug 2015)
5.7 is too big for and for many people i know. Phablets trend should get over.If you want a much bigger dispay why not get a tablet.
8. cnour (banned) (Posts: 2305; Member since: 11 Sep 2014)
I don't understand how you compare an iPhone with other smartphones. iPhone is another level. Please compare between the others only.
9. SirYar (Posts: 351; Member since: 02 Jul 2014)
Yeah, iPhone can't even compete with other High End phones so it has its own level of Overpriced-End.
16. TheWeasel (Posts: 403; Member since: 26 Dec 2014)
I know, right? The Moto X held its own pretty well against the iPhone, so why would someone pay almost twice as much for the iPhone for only a marginally better performance? Just set that thing aside and start comparing the Moto X with other things that offer better bang for buck.
37. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4974; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
I don't understand how you can type with your head so far up Cook's behind. I guess there's just some things we'll never know the answer to.
10. Planterz (Posts: 2120; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
These iPhone vs whatever comparisons never mention how much iTunes sucks and the lack of a simple drag-and-drop file system makes transferring files (pictures/music/video) a PITA.
13. cnour (banned) (Posts: 2305; Member since: 11 Sep 2014)
You head sucks and not iTunes. Very easy tu use this iTunes.
14. TheWeasel (Posts: 403; Member since: 26 Dec 2014)
Even easier to use a simple file system where you can drag and drop files to and from devices, but that doesn't "just work" for Apple, apparently.
They have to make it a real chore just to move and synchonize my thousands of songs. Not to mention photos or videos.
I feel bad whenever some less tech savy people I know come up to me with the iPads they bought to download and watch videos come to me asking me to download a video for them on it. I reluctantly have to try to explain to them that the iPad's operating system won't let them download videos or music directly and that they'll need a laptop or computer to transfer those files or get a third party app that will let them download files.
The saddest part is when some of these people don't actually own computers. But hey, "It just works", right?
15. Astonvan (Posts: 237; Member since: 14 Aug 2015)
Maybe thats coz you havnt tried transfering files to anything other than iphone.
38. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4974; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
Your head sucks? What do you have 5 year olds writing your material now?
12. jeroome86 (Posts: 2314; Member since: 12 Apr 2012)
Motorola abandons their phones to quick with updates. Love imessage too. Do wish apple trim them bezels though. Have to see what the 7 brings.
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He peered through the window, almost charmed by the gallant light. It's bestowing honor, he thought, sitting like a crown across the swaying wheat field. He had been thinking this way for days now. Light was gallant and honorable, rivers had dignity, the tea table with fragile legs her mother had given them had manners.
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He was the diner's only customer. The waitress was heavy-set with a firm but friendly face. She placed a glass of water on the table and he asked her what type of beer they had. She looked up from her pad. "If you want fancy beer you'll have to wait until you get to Omaha."
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Then he thought of Copernicus in his tower making near-sighted observations of Mars and realized his image of the past was as distorted as his conception of his marriage had been. That he had thought she was an honest woman and he a proud man, when in truth he had known inside his own ignorant heart that someday the spear would be for him. The strange truth was that now it was over he knew he had never cared. All the years thinking there was some sort of bond, that what he thought they had built together had the right to have meaning when in the end it was dust.
He ate as much of the thick stew he could and finished off the beer. He had no reason to rush and considered having another one. Then he thought that clouds are wise because they know how short their life will be, and decided to get back on the road.
The waitress took his money and began to count the change with the confident skill people who work cash registers develop over the years.
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Serena Williams: 'She was a spoiled brat!' - talkSPORT host lashes out after US Open final
Serena Williams has been condemned for her behaviour during the US Open final
SERENA WILLIAMS has been labelled a 'spoiled brat' by former England cricketer Darren Gough after her US Open final outburst.
The 23-time Grand Slam champion has been both criticised and praised after she lashed out at umpire Carlos Ramos during her Flushing Meadows final defeat against Naomi Osaka.
The Spaniard warned Williams for receiving coaching from her team before docking her a point for smashing her racket.
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Serena Williams attempted to comfort Naomi Osaka after her US Open final
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"No matter how good she is as an athlete, no matter how good she is as a female, she's got to obey by the rules," he added.
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