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Chapter VIII
Every half tide Billy raced out the south wall over the dangerous course he and Hall had traveled, and each trial found him doing it in faster time.
"Wait till Sunday," he said to Saxon. "I'll give that poet a run for his money. Why, they ain't a place that bothers me now. I've got the head confidence. I run where I went on hands an' knees. I figured it out this way: Suppose you had a foot to fall on each side, an' it was soft hay. They'd be nothing to stop you. You wouldn't fall. You'd go like a streak. Then it's just the same if it's a mile down on each side. That ain't your concern. Your concern is to stay on top and go like a streak. An', d'ye know, Saxon, when I went at it that way it never bothered me at all. Wait till he comes with his crowd Sunday. I'm ready for him."
"I wonder what the crowd will be like," Saxon speculated.
"Like him, of course. Birds of a feather flock together. They won't be stuck up, any of them, you'll see."
Hall had sent out fish-lines and a swimming suit by a Mexican cowboy bound south to his ranch, and from the latter they learned much of the government land and how to get it. The week flew by; each day Saxon sighed a farewell of happiness to the sun; each morning they greeted its return with laughter of joy in that another happy day had begun. They made no plans, but fished, gathered mussels and abalones, and climbed among the rocks as the moment moved them. The abalone meat they pounded religiously to a verse of doggerel improvised by Saxon. Billy prospered. Saxon had never seen him at so keen a pitch of health. As for herself, she scarcely needed the little hand-mirror to know that never, since she was a young girl, had there been such color in her cheeks, such spontaneity of vivacity.
"It's the first time in my life I ever had real play," Billy said. "An' you an' me never played at all all the time we was married. This beats bein' any kind of a millionaire."
"No seven o'clock whistle," Saxon exulted. "I'd lie abed in the mornings on purpose, only everything is too good not to be up. And now you just play at chopping some firewood and catching a nice big perch, Man Friday, if you expect to get any dinner."
Billy got up, hatchet in hand, from where he had been lying prone, digging holes in the sand with his bare toes.
"But it ain't goin' to last," he said, with a deep sigh of regret. "The rains'll come any time now. The good weather's hangin' on something wonderful."
On Saturday morning, returning from his run out the south wall, he missed Saxon. After helloing for her without result, he climbed to the road. Half a mile away, he saw her astride an unsaddled, unbridled horse that moved unwillingly, at a slow walk, across the pasture.
"Lucky for you it was an old mare that had been used to ridin'--see them saddle marks," he grumbled, when she at last drew to a halt beside him and allowed him to help her down.
"Oh, Billy," she sparkled, "I was never on a horse before. It was glorious! I felt so helpless, too, and so brave."
"I'm proud of you, just the same," he said, in more grumbling tones than before. " 'Tain't every married women'd tackle a strange horse that way, especially if she'd never ben on one. An' I ain't forgot that you're goin' to have a saddle animal all to yourself some day--a regular Joe dandy."
The Abalone Eaters, in two rigs and on a number of horses, descended in force on Bierce's Cove. There were half a score of men and almost as many women. All were young, between the ages of twenty-five and forty, and all seemed good friends. Most of them were married. They arrived in a roar of good spirits, tripping one another down the slippery trail and engulfing Saxon and Billy in a comradeship as artless and warm as the sunshine itself. Saxon was appropriated by the girls--she could not realize them women; and they made much of her, praising her camping and traveling equipment and insisting on hearing some of her tale. They were experienced campers themselves, as she quickly discovered when she saw the pots and pans and clothes-boilers for the mussels which they had brought.
In the meantime Billy and the men had undressed and scattered out after mussels and abalones. The girls lighted on Saxon's ukulele and nothing would do but she must play and sing. Several of them had been to Honolulu, and knew the instrument, confirming Mercedes' definition of ukulele as "jumping flea." Also, they knew Hawaiian songs she had learned from Mercedes, and soon, to her accompaniment, all were singing: "Aloha Oe," "Honolulu Tomboy," and "Sweet Lei Lehua." Saxon was genuinely shocked when some of them, even the more matronly, danced hulas on the sand.
When the men returned, burdened with sacks of shellfish, Mark Hall, as high priest, commanded the due and solemn rite of the tribe. At a wave of his hand, the many poised stones came down in unison on the white meat, and all voices were uplifted in the Hymn to the Abalone. Old verses all sang, ocasionally some one sang a fresh verse alone, whereupon it was repeated in chorus. Billy betrayed Saxon by begging her in an undertone to sing the verse she had made, and her pretty voice was timidly raised in:
"We sit around and gaily pound, And bear no acrimony Because our ob--ject is a gob Of sizzling abalone."
"Great!" cried the poet, who had winced at ob--ject. "She speaks the language of the tribe! Come on, children--now!"
And all chanted Saxon's lines. Then Jim Hazard had a new verse, and one of the girls, and the Iron Man with the basilisk eyes of greenish-gray, whom Saxon recognized from Hall's description. To her it seemed he had the face of a priest.
"Oh! some like ham and some like lamb And some like macaroni; But bring me in a pail of gin And a tub of abalone.
"Oh! some drink rain and some champagne Or brandy by the pony; But I will try a little rye With a dash of abalone.
"Some live on hope and some on dope And some on alimony. But our tom-cat, he lives on fat And tender abalone."
A black-haired, black-eyed man with the roguish face of a satyr, who, Saxon learned, was an artist who sold his paintings at five hundred apiece, brought on himself universa1 execration and acclamation by singing:
"The more we take, the more they make In deep sea matrimony; Race suicide cannot betide The fertile abalone."
And so it went, verses new and old, verses without end, all in glorification of the succulent shellfish of Carmel. Saxon's enjoyment was keen, almost ecstatic, and she had diffculty in convincing herself of the reality of it all. It seemed like some fairy tale or book story come true. Again, it seemed more like a stage, and these the actors, she and Billy having blundered into the scene in some incomprehensible way. Much of wit she sensed which she did not understand. Much she did understand. And she was aware that brains were playing as she had never seen brains play before. The puritan streak in her training was astonished and shocked by some of the broadness; but she refused to sit in judgment. They SEEMED good, these light-hearted young people; they certainly were not rough or gross as were many of the crowds she had been with on Sunday picnics. None of the men got drunk, although there were cocktails in vacuum bottles and red wine in a huge demijohn.
What impressed Saxon most was their excessive jollity, their childlike joy, and the childlike things they did. This effect was heightened by the fact that they were novelists and painters, poets and critics, sculptors and musicians. One man, with a refined and delicate face--a dramatic critic on a great San Francisco daily, she was told--introduced a feat which all the men tried and failed at most ludicrously. On the beach, at regular intervals, planks were placed as obstacles. Then the dramatic critic, on all fours, galloped along the sand for all the world like a horse, and for all the world like a horse taking hurdles he jumped the planks to the end of the course.
Quoits had been brought along, and for a while these were pitched with zest. Then jumping was started, and game slid into game. Billy took part in everything, but did not win first place as often as he had expected. An English writer beat him a dozen feet at tossing the caber. Jim Hazard beat him in putting the heavy "rock." Mark Hall out-jumped him standing and running. But at the standing high back-jump Billy did come first. Despite the handicap of his weight, this victory was due to his splendid back and abdominal lifting muscles. Immediately after this, however, he was brought to grief by Mark Hall's sister, a strapping young amazon in cross-saddle riding costume, who three times tumbled him ignominiously heels over head in a bout of Indian wrestling.
"You're easy," jeered the Iron Man, whose name they had learned was Pete Bideaux. "I can put you down myself, catch-as-catch-can."
Billy accepted the challenge, and found in all truth that the other was rightly nicknamed. In the training camps Billy had sparred and clinched with giant champions like Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson, and met the weight of their strength, but never had he encountered strength like this of the Iron Man. Do what he could, Billy was powerless, and twice his shoulders were ground into the sand in defeat.
"You'll get a chance back at him," Hazard whispered to Billy, off at one side. "I've brought the gloves along. Of course, you had no chance with him at his own game. He's wrestled in the music halls in London with Hackenschmidt. Now you keep quiet, and we'll lead up to it in a casual sort of way. He doesn't know about you."
Soon, the Englishman who had tossed the caber was sparring with the dramatic critic, Hazard and Hall boxed in fantastic burlesque, then, gloves in hand, looked for the next appropriately matched couple. The choice of Bideaux and Billy was obvious.
"He's liable to get nasty if he's hurt," Hazard warned Billy, as he tied on the gloves for him. "He's old American French, and he's got a devil of a temper. But just keep your head and tap him--whatever you do, keep tapping him."
"Easy sparring now"; "No roughhouse, Bideaux"; "Just light tapping, you know," were admonitions variously addressed to the Iron Man.
"Hold on a second," he said to Billy, dropping his hands. "When I get rapped I do get a bit hot. But don't mind me. I can't help it, you know. It's only for the moment, and I don't mean it."
Saxon felt very nervous, visions of Billy's bloody fights and all the scabs he had slugged rising in her brain; but she had never seen her husband box, and but few seconds were required to put her at ease. The Iron Man had no chance. Billy was too completely the master, guarding every blow, himself continually and almost at will tapping the other's face and body. There was no weight in Billy's blows, only a light and snappy tingle; but their incessant iteration told on the Iron Man's temper. In vain the onlookers warned him to go easy. His face purpled with anger, and his blows became savage. But Billy went on, tap, tap, tap, calmly, gently, imperturbably. The Iron Man lost control, and rushed and plunged, delivering great swings and upper-cuts of man-killing quality. Billy ducked, side-stepped, blocked, stalled, and escaped all damage. In the clinches, which were unavoidable, he locked the Iron Man's arms, and in the clinches the Iron Man invariably laughed and apologized, only to lose his head with the first tap the instant they separated and be more infuriated than ever.
And when it was over and Billy's identity had been divulged, the Iron Man accepted the joke on himself with the best of humor. It had been a splendid exhibition on Billy's part. His mastery of the sport, coupled with his self-control, had most favorably impressed the crowd, and Saxon, very proud of her man boy, could not but see the admiration all had for him.
Nor did she prove in any way a social failure. When the tired and sweating players lay down in the dry sand to cool off, she was persuaded into accompanying their nonsense songs with the ukulele. Nor was it long, catching their spirit, ere she was singing to them and teaching them quaint songs of early days which she had herself learned as a little girl from Cady--Cady, the saloonkeeper, pioneer, and ax-cavalryman, who had been a bull-whacker on the Salt Intake Trail in the days before the railroad.
One song which became an immediate favorite was:
"Oh! times on Bitter Creek, they never can be beat, Root hog or die is on every wagon sheet; The sand within your throat, the dust within your eye, Bend your back and stand it--root hog or die."
After the dozen verses of "Root Hog or Die," Mark Hall claimed to be especially infatuated with:
"Obadier, he dreampt a dream, Dreampt he was drivin' a ten-mule team, But when he woke he heaved a sigh, The lead-mule kicked e-o-wt the swing-mule's eye."
It was Mark Hall who brought up the matter of Billy's challenge to race out the south wall of the cove, though he referred to the test as lying somewhere in the future. Billy surprised him by saying he was ready at any time. Forthwith the crowd clamored for the race. Hall offered to bet on himself, but there were no takers. He offered two to one to Jim Hazard, who shook his head and said he would accept three to one as a sporting proposition. Billy heard and gritted his teeth.
"I'll take you for five dollars," he said to Hall, "but not at those odds. I'll back myself even."
"It isn't your money I want; it's Hazard's," Hall demurred. "Though I'll give either of you three to one."
"Even or nothing," Billy held out obstinately.
Hall finally closed both bets--even with Billy, and three to one with Hazard.
The path along the knife-edge was so narorw that it was impossible for runners to pass each other, so it was arranged to time the men, Hall to go first and Billy to follow after an interval of half a minute.
Hall toed the mark and at the word was off with the form of a sprinter. Saxon's heart sank. She knew Billy had never crossed the stretch of sand at that speed. Billy darted forward thirty seconds later, and reached the foot of the rock when Hall was half way up. When both were on top and racing from notch to notch, the Iron Man announced that they had scaled the wall in the same time to a second.
"My money still looks good," Hazard remarked, "though I hope neither of them breaks a neck. I wouldn't take that run that way for all the gold that would fill the cove."
"But you'll take bigger chances swimming in a storm on Carmel Beach," his wife chided.
"Oh, I don't know," he retorted. "You haven't so far to fall when swimming."
Billy and Hall had disappeared and were making the circle around the end. Those on the beach were certain that the poet had gained in the dizzy spurts of flight along the knife-edge. Even Hazard admitted it.
"What price for my money now?" he cried excitedly, dancing up and down.
Hall had reappeared, the great jump accomplished, and was running shoreward. But there was no gap. Billy was on his heels, and on his heels he stayed, in to shore, down the wall, and to the mark on the beach. Billy had won by half a minute.
"Only by the watch," he panted. "Hall was over half a minute ahead of me out to the end. I'm not slower than I thought, but he's faster. He's a wooz of a sprinter. He could beat me ten times outa ten, except for accident. He was hung up at the jump by a big sea. That's where I caught 'm. I jumped right after 'm on the same sea, then he set the pace home, and all I had to do was take it."
"That's all right," said Hall. "You did better than beat me. That's the first time in the history of Bierce's Cove that two men made that jump on the same sea. And all the risk was yours, coming last."
"It was a fluke," Billy insisted.
And at that point Saxon settled the dispute of modesty and raised a general laugh by rippling chords on the ukulele and parodying an old hymn in negro minstrel fashion:
"De Lawd move in er mischievous way His blunders to perform."
In the afternoon Jim Hazard and Hall dived into the breakers and swam to the outlying rocks, routing the protesting sea-lions and taking possession of their surf-battered stronghold. Billy followed the swimmers with his eyes, yearning after them so undisguisedly that Mrs. Hazard said to him:
"Why don't you stop in Carmel this winter? Jim will teach you all he knows about the surf. And he's wild to box with you. He works long hours at his desk, and he really needs exercise."
Not until sunset did the merry crowd carry their pots and pans and trove of mussels up to the road and depart. Saxon and Billy watched them disappear, on horses and behind horses, over the top of the first hill, and then descended hand in hand through the thicket to the camp. Billy threw himself on the sand and stretched out.
"I don't know when I've been so tired," he yawned. "An' there's one thing sure: I never had such a day. It's worth livin'twenty years for an' then some."
He reached out his hand to Saxon, who lay beside him.
"And, oh, I was so proud of you, Billy," she said. "I never saw you box before. I didn't know it was like that. The Iron Man was at your mercy all the time, and you kept it from being violent or terrible. Everybody could look on and enjoy--and they did, too."
"Huh, I want to say you was goin' some yourself. They just took to you. Why, honest to God, Saxon, in the singin' you was the whole show, along with the ukulele. All the women liked you, too, an' that's what counts."
It was their first social triumph, and the taste of it was sweet:
"Mr. Hall said he'd looked up the 'Story of the Files,'" Saxon recounted. "And he said mother was a true poet. He said it was astonishing the fine stock that had crossed the Plains. He told me a lot about those times and the people I didn't know. And he's read all about the fight at Little Meadow. He says he's got it in a book at home, and if we come back to Carmel he'll show it to me."
"He wants us to come back all right. D'ye know what he said to me, Saxon t He gave me a letter to some guy that's down on the government land--some poet that's holdin' down a quarter of a section--so we'll be able to stop there, which'll come in handy if the big rains catch us. An'--Oh! that's what I was drivin' at. He said he had a little shack he lived in while the house was buildin'. The Iron Man's livin' in it now, but he's goin' away to some Catholic college to study to be a priest, an' Hall said the shack'd be ours as long as we wanted to use it. An' he said I could do what the Iron Man was doin' to make a livin'. Hall was kind of bashful when he was offerin' me work. Said it'd be only odd jobs, but that we'd make out. I could help'm plant potatoes, he said; an' he got half savage when he said I couldn't chop wood. That was his job, he said; an' you could see he was actually jealous over it."
"And Mrs. Hall said just about the same to me, Billy. Carmel wouldn't be so bad to pass the rainy season in. And then, too, you could go swimming with Mr. Hazard."
"Seems as if we could settle down wherever we've a mind to," Billy assented. "Carmel's the third place now that's offered. Well, after this, no man need be afraid of makin' a go in the country."
"No good man," Saxon corrected.
"I guess you're right." Billy thought for a moment. "Just the same a dub, too, has a better chance in the country than in the city."
"Who'd have ever thought that such fine people existed?" Saxon pondered. "It's just wonderful, when you come to think of it."
"It's only what you'd expect from a rich poet that'd trip up a foot-racer at an Irish picnic," Billy exposited.
"The only crowd such a guy'd run with would be like himself, or he'd make a crowd that was. I wouldn't wonder that he'd make this crowd. Say, he's got some sister, if anybody'd ride up on a sea-lion an' ask you. She's got that Indian wrestlin' down pat, an' she's built for it. An' say, ain't his wife a beaut?"
A little longer they lay in the warm sand. It was Billy who broke the silence, and what he said seemed to proceed out of profound meditation.
"Say, Saxon, d'ye know I don't care if I never see movie pictures again."Next


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So, McElroy had a abdominal injury all week, and now all of a sudden has a concussion? This smells that, Rex and co were too scared to start Mark at home and are still coddling him. Pathetic.
Rex has 4 days left as head coach. Almost time to celebrate.
there's no conspiracy, but i almost wish there was one.
this just shows complete ineptitude at every level of the franchise.
i've been a longtime Rex supporter, but either he doesn't know what's going on with the team or he doesn't have the balls to come right out and say it.
bring in a new GM, and let him clean house.
Concussion symptoms don't always show up immediately. It can be days later.
For example, a QB is sacked 11 times on a Sunday. He lifts weights on Thursday. Symptoms show up.
In a league so focused on head injuries, please. They're not faking one to support some conspiracy to give Sanchez one last start on the road. Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?
If Rex knew he was being fired or planning to quit , they maybe his pride and stubbornness might lead to this type of decision otherwise the conspiracy talk is just nonsense.
Im not a big conspiracy guy but this one stinks to high heaven.....

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The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all babies be exclusively breastfed for the first six months, but according to the CDC in Kentucky, only 58 percent of babies are ever breastfed, and only 12 percent of babies are exclusively breastfed at 6 months. Part of the reason that breastfeeding rates are so low is that women often do not grow up seeing other women breastfeed.
Bryan Scott Macdonald married Melissa Gale Keeling on Dec. 31 in Finchville, KY at the Misty Valley Wedding Chapel. Melissa's daughters, Alisha Marie Polly and Amber Blair Polly, were in attendance by the bride's side at the ceremony.
Brittany Tindle and Troy Valley would like to announce the birth of their son, Donald Bradyn Valley.
Bradyn weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Bradyn was welcomed home by his sister, Jasmine Valley and his brother, Cameron Tindle.
Why is David Young a Healthy Hero?
David, who is pictured with Geri Travis, owns and operates The Tea Cup. He has spent his life eating healthy and using a technique called juicing. He is also an advocate for healthy supplements. David participated in the Spencer County Biggest Loser Program and also prepared a healthy Biggest Loser breakfast and lunch for other participants to purchase at the Tea Cup. After work every day he walks 3 miles.
"Good food and good friends. What more could you ask for?" asked Gary Kehne when he humbly stood before the Spencer County-Taylorsville Chamber of Commerce luncheon Thursday afternoon and accepted the award for Citizen of the Year.
"There's nobody more deserving of this award," said Chamber President Cara Lewis, who presented Kehne with a plaque after touching on some of the many volunteer organizations of which he has long been an outstanding member.
Birthdays are a good time to sit back and reflect on the past: Remember your accomplishments, admit your defeats and prepare for the future by learning from your mistakes.
So it was on his 57th birthday on the last Wednesday of 2010 that retiring state Sen. Gary Tapp (R-Shelbyville) sat down with Landmark Communications and talked about walking away from 12 years of work in Frankfort as first a member of the House and for the last eight as a senator.
As the 2011 legislative session gets under way in Frankfort, many predicted a slow session without many results because of the upcoming governor's race, which has Senate President David Williams seeking the Republican nomination.
But the session started off fast, with several bills being pushed to the Senate floor in the first week and the discussion of a statewide smoking ban.
"I know we've discussed it before, but I don't ever recall voting on it [a statewide ban] before," Rep. Brad Montell (R-Shelbyville) said.
One longtime employee of the county was replaced and others had their positions modified as part of a marathon Fiscal Court meeting on Monday.
The incoming court, which included new Judge Executive Bill Karrer, made the personnel announcements at the close of a seven-hour meeting – more than half of which was spent in state-authorized private executive session.
Ringing in the new year was hardly done in a traditional way for Spencer County Sheriff Buddy Stump.
Stump, who last November won a narrow election over sitting sheriff Steve Coulter, scrambled to assemble a staff on New Year's Eve when Coulter confirmed his rumored early resignation — two days before the state-mandated end to his term.
When Steve Coulter hands over the keys to the Spencer County Sheriff's Office to Buddy Stump at the first of the year, he will leave with few regrets.
"I am proud of what we have done," said Coulter, who has been county sheriff since 1994. "I think we have served the citizens well."
Again, he will leave with few regrets. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have any: "I just hate that it had to end this way," he said.
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Interest rates are at historic lows: less than 4.5% on a 30-year-fixed and below 4% on 15-year fixed rate loans. And prices are low, too - at or near bottom in most of the country. Together, these items mean that affordability is near an all-time high. It's like a massive, pre-holiday sale on real estate! Nevertheless, home sales are only "gradually" creeping up, according to the most recent data published by the National Association of Realtors. And sellers are clearly still feeling price pressures; on Trulia's October price reduction report, an all-time high 27% of American homes listed for sale had had their price cut at least one time! So, what's stopping buyers from running out to grab up all these affordable homes at affordable rates? And what can savvy sellers (and listing agents!) do to offset these obstacles?1. (Perceived) difficulties in qualifying for a mortgage. Mortgage guidelines have tightened up significantly over the last few years, now requiring good (but not perfect) credit, documented income, a proven stable job history and cash for down payment and closing costs. Some buyers find it difficult to scrape the down payment money up; others find that they can qualify, but not for a large enough mortgage to buy any home worth owning (banks have tightened up debt-to-income ratios, too). Many would-be buyers don't even consider themselves serious prospects, disqualifying themselves in their own heads because they heard somewhere that a 20 percent down payment is necessary - in actuality, many buyers can qualify for a 3.5 percent down, FHA loan. Between actual difficulties qualifying and perceived difficulties that don't actually exist, lots of buyers are not biting because of loan "issues." Seller Solution: Ask your agent to have a mortgage broker colleague prepare flyers reflecting various loan options, to give open house attendees a reality check about what it would actually take - including down payment, closing costs and monthly payment - to buy your home. Also, consider offering closing cost credits or being willing to chip in for lender-required repairs to empower buyers who are struggling with mortgage qualifying to close the deal.2. Fear of buying a foreclosure. The ongoing robo-signing/foreclosure fraud scandal and the resulting foreclosure freeze is beginning to play a role. If you haven't heard, two of America's largest mortgage servicers have frozen foreclosures and resales of foreclosed homes in 23 states, and Bank of America, the largest lender in the land, has frozen them in all 50 states, all because sweeping fraud and improprieties have been revealed in the way the banks are processing foreclosure documentation. 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If you live in a market that has had recent increases in home values, include that data in your marketing - make sure buyers are aware that they may already have missed the very bottom, and create a sense of urgency to buy your home before prices go up even more.5. Unemployment/underemployment. Take California, for instance. The national unemployment rate is 9.6%; California's is a whopping 12.8%. But right around the same number of Californians are underemployed, meaning they work part-time, but want full-time work. That's right, a quarter of Californians are unemployed or underemployed, and -- right again! - none of those people are buying homes. On top of that, many people who do have jobs lack job security, the confidence of believing they'll be able to keep their jobs in the future. Interest rates could be zero, and people will not buy homes as long as they have no jobs or job security.Seller Solution: If there are major employers in town that are within an easy commute of your home, both you and your agent should consider marketing it directly to employees there. Share your home's listing with Facebook friends who work there or even send an email out to your own contacts, if you work there yourself! Major companies' Human Resources Departments might help you get the word out to their employees - especially if you offer some incentive to an employee who buys your home, like a year's worth of subway passes. If you have universities nearby, there are likely online bulletin boards that offer housing options directly to relocating professors and employees. 6. Need to keep options open. Because home values are so volatile, currently, there's no guarantee that you can resell today's new home tomorrow without taking a loss. If we've learned anything from this crisis, we all know that it just doesn't pencil, financially, to buy a home on today's market unless you plan to own the home for at least 7 years (give or take a year or so, depending on how your market has fared in the housing recession). Many Americans don't want to be tied to one location, given the changes in the job market, because they simply don't want to be stuck in one place, geographically speaking. They want to be free to meet someone via online dating and move if the match sticks. They want the freedom to move across the country or even to the next city or state for a job, if that's the direction their career takes them. The more mobile the person, the less likely they are to buy a home. Seller Solution: Price your home well - if it's been lagging on the market, make sure you get aggressive and cut the price below a common buyer search cut-off price point (see this post for more details: Sellers: 5 Signs It's Time to Cut the List Price of Your Home). Even buyers who are seriously in the market, get nervous about buying a home when it seems a bit overpriced, because they fear the price will drop some more in the coming months and years, extending the period of time before they can sell it at a break even or (hope beyond hope) a profit! Don't let overpricing cause you to lose buyers who otherwise would have bitten the bullet, pulled the trigger and hopped off the fence in order to buy your home.
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Tori Spelling's Favorite Diaper Bags
Tori Spelling: My 5 Favorite Diaper Bags
Tori Spelling: My 5 Favorite Diaper Bags
We're excited to bring you a new post from mother and actress Tori Spelling! Every other week, we're bringing you the best parenting and lifestyle advice from ediTORIal by Tori Spelling, which is Tori's daily blog about everything from food and fashion to parenting and relationships. This week, Tori shares her favorite diaper bags.
As baby number four bakes in my belly, I'm having fun getting ready for his or her arrival. Even though this isn't my first rodeo, so to speak, there are a few things I like to start fresh with when each of my little ones arrives.
Related: Dean McDermott's Back-to-School Mac and Cheese Recipe
One of my favorites, of course, is a stylish diaper bag. Any practiced mom knows that baby bags take a lot of wear and tear, so a new one is always a welcome investment. With that in mind, I wanted to share a few of my favorites on the market right now. So, without further ado:
More great reads from Tori Spelling:
Foodista Lunch Box Recipes Lil Ones Will Love
Stella's Chic Hand-Me-Down Style
Finn's First Headshot
Dean's Delicious Grilled Pizza
An Anniversary Gift Guide


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|Kristinn Gudjonsson, Joachim Metz
|Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Plaso (plaso langar að safna öllu) is the Python based back-end engine used by tools such as log2timeline for automatic creation of a super timelines. The goal of log2timeline (and thus plaso) is to provide a single tool that can parse various log files and forensic artifacts from computers and related systems, such as network equipment to produce a single correlated timeline. This timeline can then be easily analysed by forensic investigators/analysts, speeding up investigations by correlating the vast amount of information found on an average computer system. Plaso is intended to be applied for creating super timelines but also supports creating targeted timelines.
The Plaso project site also provides 4n6time, formerly "l2t_Review", which is a cross-platform forensic tool for timeline creation and review by David Nides.
- 1 Supported Formats
- 2 History
- 3 See Also
- 4 External Links
Supported Formats
Storage Media Image File Formats
Storage Medis Image File Format support is provided by dfvfs.
Volume System Formats
Volume System Format support is provided by dfvfs.
File System Formats
File System Format support is provided by dfvfs.
File formats
TODO expand this list
- Apple System Log (ASL)
- Basic Security Module (BSM)
- Bencode files
- Chrome cache files
- Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) Database File (EDB) format using libesedb
- Internet Explorer History File Format (also known as MSIE 4 - 9 Cache Files or index.dat) using libmsiecf
- Java IDX
- OLE Compound File using libolecf
- Property list (plist) format using binplist
- SQLite databases
- Syslog
- Windows Event Log (EVT) using libevt
- Windows NT Registry File (REGF) using libregf
- Windows Shortcut File (LNK) format using liblnk
- Windows XML Event Log (EVTX) using libevtx
Bencode file formats
- Transmission
- uTorrent
ESE database file formats
- Internet Explorer WebCache format
OLE Compound File formats
- Document summary information
- Summary information (top-level only)
Property list (plist) formats
TODO expand this list
- Airport
- Apple Account
- iPod/iPhone
- Install History
- Mac User
- Software Update
- Spotlight
- Spotlight Volume Information
- Timemachine
SQLite database file formats
- Android call logs
- Android SMS
- Chrome cookies
- Chrome browsing and downloads history
- Firefox browsing and downloads history
- Google Drive
- Launch services quarantine events
- MacKeeper cache
- Mac OS X document versions
- Skype
- Zeitgeist activity
Windows Registry formats
TODO expand this list
- AppCompatCache
- CCleaner
- MountPoints2
- MSIE Zone
- MSIE Zone Software
Plaso is a Python-based rewrite of the Perl-based log2timeline initially created by Kristinn Gudjonsson. Plaso builds upon the SleuthKit, libyal, dfvfs and various other projects.


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Report: iPad 5 to Sport Thinner Design, Debut in October
It's a new year, and you know what that means — new iPhone and iPad rumors!
Apple news site iLounge today offered up a few details about the upcoming fifth-generation iPad, as well as Apple's new iPhone models. Jeremy Horwitz, iLounge's editor, claims to have seen a model of the so-called iPad 5, and said the device will sport many of the same features seen on the iPad mini.
Specifically, the new iPad will be "a lot smaller than one would guess was possible," he said. When held in portrait orientation, the bezels to the left and right of the 9.7-inch screen will be practically nonexistent. The space above and below the screen will be just big enough to accommodate the camera up top and Home Button down below.
"Beyond that, it's noticeably thinner, as well, which is to say the fifth-generation iPad will be smaller in every dimension than its predecessors," Horwitz said. The report notes that it's actually so much smaller and thinner than the current iPad that Apple is likely working on a full redesign of the interior.
"It wouldn't be a surprise to see the new iPad remain roughly on par with the fourth-generation model in processing capabilities, with the improved screen, dramatically lower size, and reduced weight becoming the key selling points," he added.
As for when the fifth-gen iPad will make its debut, Horwitz said Apple was originally targeting a March launch, but it now appears we'll have to wait until October, possibly because some components are limited at this time.
Meanwhile, Horwitz's sources claim the next-gen iPhone, to be called the iPhone 5S, will look near identical to the iPhone 5, but with a larger rear flash. The iPhone 5S, as well as the much-rumored low-cost iPhone with a plastic shell, will both be released at some point this year.
In addition, the rumored "iPhone Math" phone, which we first heard about earlier this week, is currently in "early prototyping stages," but will not arrive this year.
"It supposedly has a 4.7-inch screen, at least for the time being," Horwitz said. "It might never make it to market, and plenty could change before it does. Consider it Apple's 'just in case / Plan B' hedge against ever-growing Android phone screen sizes."
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Sharon Osbourne has undergone drastic cosmetic surgery on her private parts.
The rock matriarch and wife of Ozzy Osbourne had a reconstructive procedure carried out on her vagina in 2011, and although the operation was painful, she is delighted with the results.
Osbourne remained coy following the procedure, confirming only that she had undergone "a little bit of lady surgery downstairs", but now she has spoken out about the operation.
She tells U.K. talk show host Graham Norton, "(It was) just excruciating. Having it tightened was the worst, it hurt a lot."
Asked if it was worth the pain, she replies, "My husband thinks so. It's back the way God wanted it to be."


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Day 2
Monday. September 13, 2010
The boyfriend and I woke-up to the sounds of two billy-goats fighting to the death using spoons, blankets and old cassette tapes as weapons. At least, that's what it sounded like; in actuality it was room service delivering our breakfasts.
I use the term "breakfast" lightly, as what our silver-domed trays revealed was something more akin to after-birth than food. What must have been powdered eggs had a texture that reminded me of the phlegm I used to cough up back when I smoked clove cigarettes. And the bacon? It was like really juicy, succulent, pan-fried Dr. Scholl's inserts.
Chop and fry and add to omelette!
The boyfriend, too sleepy to deal quickly with the delivery, neglected to tip and felt guilty as a result.
"I've got a tip for them," I growled, "Don't bring me this garbage to eat!" We determined then and there to forgo the "luxury" of room service and take our morning meal at the buffet, where we could be discerning, from then on.


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|Faith in Place is a nonprofit with a long history of inspiring positive environmental behavior change in partnership with religious congregations. Faith in Place was founded in 1999 (incorporated in 2004) in Chicago, IL, where most of the staff and the majority of outreach continues to happen. There are also outreach staff working in Champaign and Waukegan, IL, where they interact with diverse congregations in those geographic areas.
As a result, Faith in Place has partnered with more than 1,000 congregations of all faiths from every corner of Illinois - Baha'i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, and Zoroastrian - to educate, connect, and advocate around the teachings of faith for living out practices of better Earth care.
Faith in Place's mission is to inspire people of diverse faiths to care for the earth through connection, education, and advocacy. Unity of purpose emerges from an astounding diversity of beliefs and belief systems. This mission is implemented through four program areas at partner congregations: 1) energy and climate change 2) water preservation 3) sustainable land and food and 4) environmental advocacy.
Faiths in Place's outreach staff accomplish goals in each program area. They are effective because they are trusted allies in their local communities. The outreach team is trained to be conversant with faith traditions and faith life, and has the unique ability to offer a wide range of resources from within our program areas to local congregations and congregants. Staff meets the congregation where their initial enthusiasm resides and works to move them up the ladder of engagement of Faith in Place's programs. This means that Faith in Place brings long-lasting value and long-lasting relationship to a spectrum of environmental programs.
Faith in Place's current allied congregations are located throughout Illinois ranging from the lowest to highest income areas of Chicago and Waukegan, to affluent suburbs, and to rural congregations and cities throughout central and southern Illinois.
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|United States of America
(Chicago, Illinois)
|Duration of Project
Faith in Place was founded in 1999 in Chicago by Rev. Dr. Clare Butterfield and Steve Perkins out of the idea that religions organizing around environmental issues should foster transformation on both personal and collective levels. In 2010 Faith in Place expanded to central IL with an office located in Champaign-Urbana. In 2014 Faith in Place again expanded to Lake County with an office based in Waukegan, IL. As a result, Faith in Place has partnered with more than 1,000 congregations of all faiths from every corner of Illinois - Baha'i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, and Zoroastrian - to educate, connect, and advocate around the teachings of faith for living out practices of better Earth care. Rev. Brian Sauder is the current Executive Director and President of Faith in Place.
|Mission Statement
Faith in Place inspires people of diverse faiths to care for the earth through education, connection, and advocacy.
|Partner Organizations
|Chicago Wilderness Society
Donors Forum
Illinois Environmental Council
US Climate Action Network
|Long-Term Goals
|By 2020:
• Unrestricted annual revenue of $500k from individuals and partner congregations
• Five office locations throughout Illinois
• All office locations fully staffed by local people of faith, working to inspire local congregations to better Earth care, reflecting the theological and social diversity of Illinois
• A Board that fully reflects the geographic and religious diversity of Illinois
• Programs that regardless of religion, age, race, or any socio-economic class are relevant and have measurable positive environmental impact for partner congregations
• A new website, better telling the positive environmental impact of Faith in Place's partner congregations
• Five Congregation-Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms started at Faith in Place's partner congregations (two in existence now), donating tons of food to local food pantries
• Faith in Place has more than 1,000 partner congregations, who have all implemented at least one of Faith in Place's programs. In five years at least 500 of them will have active Green Teams, enacting Faith in Place programs on a regular basis
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|Rev. Brian Sauder, Executive Director
Faith in Place
70 E. Lake St., Suite 920
Chicago, IL 60601
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Monarchs Defeat UNCW, 84-65, Now Tied For Fourth In CAA
By ODU Athletics
Feb. 18, 2009
WILMINGTON, NC-- Sophomore forward Frank Hassell scored 19 points and Marsharee Neely added 14 to lead the Monarchs (17-9/10-6) to an 84-65 victory over UNC WIlmington Wednesday night. ODU is now tied for fourth with Drexel and Hofstra.
Five Monarchs scored in double figures tonight. Joining Hassell and Neely were red-shirt freshman Kent Bazemore with 13 and sophomore forward Keyon Carter with 12 points. Every Monarch who played tonight scored and grabbed a rebound.
With the score, 16-15 at the 12:36 mark of the first half, ODU went on an 11-0 tear to take a 27-15 lead wwith 10:34 left in the half. ODU led 46-33 at halftime.
In the second half, the Monarchs started the half off with a 12-0 run to build the lead to 58-33 with 15:43 left in the game.
The Monarchs dominated the board, outrebounding the Seahawks, 40-25. Keyon Carter led all rebounders with eight. Ben Finney and Kent Bazemore hauled down six rebounds each and Frank Hassell had five.
ODU came up with seven steals on the night led by Ben Finney with four.
ODU finished the night shooting a blistering .610 from the floor, while UNCW shot .404. This was the second best shooting performance since the .617 the Monarchs shot against Georgia State.
Hassell hit nine-of-13 from the floor, while Neely was six-for-nine and Finney hit four of five of his shots from the field. Kent Bazemore was five-for six and Carter was five-of 10.
UNCW was led by Chad Tomko with 18 points and Kevon Moore with 11. ODU sweeps the two-game series from the Seahawks.
THe Monarchs are now tied with Drexel and Hofstra for fourth in the CAA with 10-6 league records. VCU is now in first at 12-4, followed by Northeastern and George Mason at 11-5. James Madison drops to seventh at 9-7. The Monarchs return home to host Liberty Saturday morning at 11 am in the annual ESPNU Bracketbusters game.


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Democrats are suggesting that there could be a potential "panic" when Americans file their income-tax returns, if fear builds that the Treasury Department might not be able to immediately refund all that it owes to taxpayers.
Expecting a federal tax refund? Perhaps you should hurry up and file.
As House Republicans struggle to coalesce around a strategy for embracing an increase to the nation's $17 trillion-plus debt ceiling so the nation can keep paying its bills, Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee are floating a new bogeyman if the delay continues.
A wave of bank runs by worried depositors was blamed for helping to drive the United States even deeper into the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Now, suggest the Democrats, there could be a potential "panic" when Americans in upcoming weeks file their income-tax returns, particularly if fear builds that the Treasury Department might not be able to immediately refund all that it owes to taxpayers.
"Failure to act quickly [on the debt ceiling] will endanger our economic recovery and send a signal to American taxpayers that their refunds may be in jeopardy, potentially raising unnecessary panic among families awaiting their tax refunds," wrote the Democrats in a letter Monday to Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. The letter was circulated by ranking member Sander Levin, D-Mich., and signed by other Ways and Means members.
The letter goes on to say, "Past Republican default threats" have cost Americans hundreds of billions in lost retirement savings, increased the costs of owning a home, and even jobs.
"Let's not add delaying refunds to the list," the letter states.
"First come, first served," said one senior Democratic aide on Wednesday of the millions of refunds paid out each year, adding that "Treasury can only pay out what it has."
In fact, Boehner has made it clear that he and other House Republicans do not intend to let the nation default on its bills, and that they will pass a debt-ceiling increase. But the question remains: How soon can he and his conference agree on how to proceed?
Administration officials are already warning that the Treasury Department will run out of "extraordinary measures" to keep government afloat by the end of February if Congress does not approve the hike in the nation's borrowing limit.
Democrats are now suggesting that timeline might become even more contracted if there is a greater-than-usual number of tax filers in the coming weeks.
The filing period began Friday--already a week later than usual because of the government shutdown last year--meaning that some filers have been antsy to get going.
Democrats are preparing a "fact sheet" outlining this tax-refund doomsday scenario, said the aide.
The fact sheet will note that 110 million Americans received tax refunds in 2013, averaging $2,700 each. It will also point out that 40 to 50 percent of refunds generally are distributed by March 1.
To back up their history, they point to two filing-session charts from the Internal Revenue Service, for March 1 of 2012 and 2013 , and for the end of years 2012 and 2013.
Democrats say they are now monitoring to see whether there is a heavier-than-usual volume of first-week filings.
The upshot of their strategy is that House Republicans who are worried about getting slammed by constituents for passing a clean debt-ceiling increase should think about something else: constituents getting angry over delayed tax refunds.
Boehner's office had no immediate comment Monday on the Democratic strategy or the letter. And a Treasury Department spokesman responded only by pointing out that Secretary Jacob Lew has previously stated--regarding potential tax refund delays--that "we ought not to be doing things that interfere with the ability of the government of the United States to meet all of its obligations on a timely basis."
This article appears in the February 6, 2014, edition of NJ Daily.
(Image via Robynrg/Shutterstock.com)
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It's chilly out there. Warm your cockles with this cozy soup from Martha Rose Shulman's excellent cookbook "The Very Best of Recipes for Health."
Pureed Red Pepper and Potato Soup
Adapted from "The Very Best of Recipes for Health," by Martha Rose Shulman (Rodale). Serves 6-8.
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for serving
1 medium onion, chopped
1 large carrot, chopped
4 large garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon tomato paste
2 pounds (4 large) red bell peppers, cut into large squares
2 teaspoons sweet paprika
1 pound russet potatoes (about 2 medium), peeled and diced
2 quarts vegetable stock or chicken stock
Bouquet garni with a bay leaf and a couple sprigs each of thyme and flat-leaf parsley (wrapped in cheesecloth and tied, or just tossed into the soup to be removed later)
Ground black pepper
Croutons (optional)
Thyme leaves for garnish


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Enable | Disable Admin | Domain Names |
Update Mode | Working Directory | AWStats URI | Site Domain | Site Aliases | Update Interval | Update Offset | Secured Connection | Authorization Realm |
|Description: Specifies whether to enable Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions. When enabled, Microsoft FrontPage can be used to publish web content. A web administration console is available at URL http://your.domain/_vti_bin/_vti_adm/fpadmcgi.exe.
Additional FrontPage Server Extensions packages must be installed in order to make this work properly.
|Syntax: Select from radio box
|See Also: Disable Admin, Domain Names
|Description: Specifies whether to disable the web administration console for Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions. The web administration console is available at URL
Additional FrontPage Server Extensions packages must be installed in order to make it work properly.
|Syntax: Select from radio box
|Tips: [Security] Disable the administration console when you no longer need to manage users or change configurations.
|See Also: Enable, Domain Names
|Description: Specifies the virtual servers that provide Front Page Server Extensions service. When a web site is assigned to multiple domain names or service ports, FrontPage access is only available to the domain name and port combinations specified in this list.
Additional FrontPage Server Extensions packages must be installed in order to make it work properly.
|Syntax: Domain_name:port[, ...] The virtual server name is comprised of domain name and port number.
|Example: For a web site with domain name "www.mydomain.com" accessible via both HTTP and HTTPS connections, the name list should be something like:
www.mydomain.com:80, www.mydomain.com:443
|See Also: Disable Admin, Enable
|Description: AWStats is a popular log analyzer that generates advanced web server statistics. LiteSpeed web server seamlessly integrates AWStats into its WebAdmin console.
|Description: Specifies how AWStats statistics are being updated:
|Syntax: Select from drop down list
|Description: Specifies the "DataDir" parameter in the AWStats configuration file. All results files and AWStats databases will be stored there. This directory should be writable by the owner of the document root of this virtual host. Usually the working directory should be set to under the virtual host root like $VH_ROOT/awstats/.
|Syntax: A path which can be absolute, or relative to $SERVER_ROOT, or relative to $VH_ROOT.
|Description: Specifies the URI where the AWStats results can be accessed in this virtual host.
|Syntax: uri
|Example: If this URI is set to /awstats/ for the virtual host www.example.com, then the full URL to the AWStats page would be http://www.example.com/awstats/.
|Tips: The URI should be unique on this virtual host. Otherwise, overlapped content will be inaccessible.
|Description: Specifies the main domain name of this web site. It controls the "SiteDomain" parameter in AWStats's configuration file. It is used by Awstats to generate full URL paths. If not set, the name of this virtual host will be used.
|Syntax: domain name
|Description: Specifies all other possible domain names, IP addresses, and host aliases that this virtual host can be accessed with. This value is used to populate the "SiteAliases" parameter in AWStats configuration. It is used to analyze the referrer field in log files and to help AWStats to decide if a referrer URL is a local or external URL. For best performance, use the the minimum number of possible name/address combinations.
|Syntax: A list of domain names and IP addresses.
|Example: www.myserver.com localhost 127.0.0.1 REGEX[mydomain\.(net|org)$]
|Description: Specifies how often AWstats statistics are updated. Options are daily or hourly.
|Syntax: Select from drop down list
|Description: Specifies when the update should be performed during the Update Interval.
|Syntax: Number of seconds.
|Example: Set this to 3600 to start statistic processing at 1AM for "Daily" update.
|Tips: If many virtual hosts are hosted on one server, it is recommended to spread out the "Update Offset" to avoid multiple AWstats processes running at the same time and server overload. Log processing is a CPU and I/O intensive task.
|Description: Specifies whether HTTPS is used to access AWstats statistics.
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As baseball's regular season winds down and pennant races heat up, Major League Baseball has made a major update to one of my favorite iPhone applications, MLB @ Bat (iTunes link). Version 1.2 sees some widely-desired additions to the application. Not only can you view the same basic information you could in 1.0, but the MLB has now added much of the information you had to open Mobile Safari in the past into the application. You can now view player stats, current lineups, play-by-play, and pitch-by-pitch updates, including pitch choice, location, and speed.
While the update most likely uses WebKit to pull down information already on the MLB.com website, it's nice not to have to quit out of the application to get the extra data. The new information is accessible by clicking an arrow in the primary display field next to the desired game. While the new graphics aren't exactly pretty, we're glad to see MLB continue to update the application on a fairly regular basis.
Some users continue to be upset at the subscription nature of the application (it currently costs $4.99 for the remainder of the season with unknown pricing for next season). It is hard to deny that MLB is making a legitimate attempt to make the app as robust as possible by adding major features at no cost to users. The bottom line is that people who are annoyed by the subscription are never going to pay, but there are plenty of us who really do like the app and are more than willing to continue to fork over our hard-earned money. Now, if only the NFL would follow suit.


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Famed Designer Todd Oldham To Serve As Mentor To The Contestants
Designers Jonathan Adler, Kelly Wearstler And Editor In Chief Of ELLE DECOR Magazine, Margaret Russell Return As Judges
NEW YORK � April 15, 2008� Bravo's hit series "Top Design" is back with a new season, a new look in high-definition, new producers and a new host. Celebrated fashion model and design aficionado, India Hicks, will host the interior design competition series and world-renowned designer Todd Oldham returns as the contestants' mentor. Jonathan Adler will reprise his role as head judge along with Margaret Russell, Editor In Chief of ELLE DECOR magazine, and interior designer Kelly Wearstler as series judges. "Top Design," produced by the Emmy-nominated Magical Elves ("Project Runway," "Top Chef") is currently in production and is set to air on Bravo in third quarter 2008.
The second season of "Top Design" will follow professional designers as they live together in a decked-out loft, compete to create the "Top Design," and a chance to win a $100,000 cash prize and a four-page editorial showcase in ELLE DECOR magazine. The stakes are high and eccentric personalities and creative egos combine to fuel the competition, all while the contestants are being critiqued by some of the most influential names in the design industry. "Top Design" was Bravo's highest series premiere ever, averaging 1,387,000 adults 18-49 and 1,859,000 total viewers and the first season averaged 1,152,000 total viewers.
"Top Design" host India Hicks, is the daughter of famed interior decorator David Hicks and Lady Pamela Hicks. Born in London, England, she was named in honour of her grandfather, Lord Mountbatten of Burma � the last Viceroy to India. Her godfather, HRH Prince Charles, chose Hicks to be a bridesmaid in his wedding to the late Lady Diana Spencer in 1990. Over the past ten years, Hicks has enjoyed a successful career as a fashion model, being photographed by some of the world's most renowned photographers for the industry's top fashion campaigns including Ralph Lauren, Banana Republic, and Bill Blass. In 2003, Hicks and her partner David Flint Wood published an interior design book entitled, Island Life: Inspirational Living and in 2005 Hicks published the sequel, Island Beauty. Flint Wood is the father of Hicks' four children and they currently live on a small island in the Bahamas, where they built two plantation style guesthouses. They also invested in and redecorated an 1800's building, which now serves as a restaurant and hotel. In addition, Hicks is the creative director of a successful shop where she sells clothes, bed linens and eccentricities gathered from her travels around the world. Most recently, Hicks became a creative partner to Crabtree and Evelyn. Her first collection, Island Living, was so successful that a second collection is now in production. In addition, Hicks is heavily involved in several charitable organizations including a small community school in the Caribbean to which she donates ten percent of her proceeds from the Island Living Collection and book sales.
Todd Oldham, the contestants' mentor, is a respected designer whose career spans more than 20 years. Distinguished as an innovator of accessible design, Oldham is the founder of Todd Oldham Studio, a multifaceted, full-service design studio. Originally a New York fashion designer, and the host of "Todd Time" on MTV's House of Style, Oldham's career has evolved to include all areas of design, from interior design, film and photography, to furniture, graphic art, and a collection of floral designs for FTD.com. Oldham is the author of Hand Made Modern, and has hosted HGTV's "Hand Made Modern" series of specials. In 2002 and 2003 Oldham designed his own line of dorm room furnishings for Target. He designed The Hotel in South Beach as well as Enoteca Spiaggia, a restaurant collaboration with James Beard award-winning Chef Tony Mantuano, to open in South Beach in 2008. Other projects include a 400-page monograph on the life's work of artist Charley Harper published by Ammo Books. In October 2007, Oldham became the Design Creative Director for Old Navy. In his latest design endeavor, he turns his creative eye to carpet, collaborating with Durkan Hospitality to produce a series of flexible and versatile floor coverings. The first collections of the aptly named T.O.D.D (Todd Oldham Designs Durkan) series launched at the Hospitality Design Expo 2008 in April.
"Top Design's" lead judge, Jonathan Adler, is known for a design aesthetic which pairs modernist forms with bold colors and groovy graphics. Since receiving his first order for pottery from Barneys New York fifteen years ago Jonathan Adler's eponymous company has grown to become an internationally recognized lifestyle and home furnishings brand offering tabletop, bedding, bath accessories, furniture, rugs, pillows and lighting. The company motto, "If your heirs won't fight over it, we won't make it", reflects Adler's commitment to impeccable craftsmanship and panache. Jonathan Adler has seven company-operated stores nationwide as well as a thriving consumer website. Through its wholesale division, the company sells its groovy home d�cor in over 1,000 locations worldwide. Additionally, Jonathan Adler is one of the country's leading interior designers, working on luxury residential projects as well as large-scale commercial projects, including the celebrity hot spot Parker Palm Springs hotel.
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Attention aKademy participants! The mission, if you choose to accept it, is to update at least a single unwritten entry in the new KDE User Guide. You can see the current content here. The best submission received by Saturday 12 noon will win a book from the great collection of O'Reilly books (including a signed Samba book, C++ Pocket References, and the entire Linux Webserver CD Bookshelf and much more to choose from). Read on for full details.
This competition is only open to people at aKademy - we will be running similar open competitions in the future. Submit your work in plain text to firstname.lastname@example.com before midday on Saturday (28th). Take a look at the content in Part I to get an idea of what we're looking
Rumors suggest that entries for Part II, Chapter 12 "Tinkering Under the Hood", covering the undocumented wonders of KDE's config files, daemons and underlying technologies, are in with a great chance.
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kstart and kdcop
I don't think either of these have a particular section in the User Guide (yet!), but they'd also be bits that a developer could write a little bit about.
By Philip Rodrigues at Thu, 2004/08/26 - 5:00am
Re: kstart and kdcop
Wow I've never even heard of Kstart... and most of KDcop's features don't seem to work (or im not using them right...) too bad I can't RTFM! ... or maybe RTFUG... yeah thats more accurate
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Re: kstart and kdcop
The type option set the window type to one of those listed in the NET WM specification:
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Actually, its Write TFM!
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Competition Impossible
"Competition Impossible" sounds like a book about the dangers of software patents.
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LG G2 vs Motorola Moto X
posted by John V. / Sep 18, 2013, 4:17 AM
Neither company is heralded as the elite force in the Android space right now, as the two trail Samsung no doubt, but LG and Motorola have been making some noise with their recent flagship Android smartphones. Just a month ago, the Motorola Moto X showed us how it's possible to make Android easy to use – while also giving consumers the power to personalize the design of the handset. And even more recently, the LG G2 has proven to be a remarkable figure as well, seeing that it's rich in the specs and features department. With these two poised to challenge one another, it's only natural to stack them up side-by-side to figure out which one has the staying power to outlast the other.
Each handset has a unique appearance to them, giving them distinctive looks to call their own, but in the end, we'll give it to the Moto X for having the more interesting design. Sure, LG has done a wonderful job in minimizing the size of a handset with a monster sized 5.2-inch display, while also having the slimmer profile as well, but the Moto X's customizable design is something that we don't see too often amongst smartphones in general. On top of that, some will surely appreciate the more compact and natural feel of the Moto X, which is significantly easier to handle in our hands. From being able to choose the type of back casing on the Moto X, to the accent colors around its camera lens and physical keys, we totally dig its vast customizable element.
5.45 x 2.79 x 0.35 inches
138.5 x 70.9 x 8.9 mm
5.04 oz (143 g)
Motorola Moto X
5.09 x 2.57 x 0.41 inches
129.3 x 65.3 x 10.4 mm
4.59 oz (130 g)
5.45 x 2.79 x 0.35 inches
138.5 x 70.9 x 8.9 mm
5.04 oz (143 g)
Motorola Moto X
5.09 x 2.57 x 0.41 inches
129.3 x 65.3 x 10.4 mm
4.59 oz (130 g)
To see the phones in real size or compare them with other models, visit our Visual Phone Size Comparison page
This one is a no-brainer folks, as the LG G2 undeniably has the more attractive display. Before talking about the specs, we need to mention about the almost non-existent bezels on the left/right sides of the LG G2's display, which one-ups what Motorola has done with its own device. And then there's the specs portion! For the LG G2, it's sporting a ginormous 5.2-inch 1080p advanced IPS LCD screen that shines brightly with its impeccable details and superior outdoor visibility. Meanwhile, the Moto X's 4.7-inch 720p AMOLED display is still a pleasant one to look at, as its saturated colors still give it an attractive glow, but as a whole, it can't compete against the specs heavy and outstanding visibility of the of LG G2's display.
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31 Comments
1. zachattack
Posts: 621; Member since: Jul 31, 2013
You can't even compare these phones.... one is a god, the other a peasant. Literally why even try comparing these phones. The G2 is on a whole different level
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 4:33 AM 4
3. papss unregistered
I have to agree... The G2 is a beast and the motox is typically average Moto who hasn't competed with anything since they were purchased.
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 5:41 AM 0
10. taikucing unregistered
so true. Moto X is a mid range phone. Motorola needs to make a flagship phone
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 8:03 AM 0
20. barondebxl
Posts: 180; Member since: Nov 04, 2011
What a blasphemous statement.
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 6:34 PM 0
2. D.Aceveda
Posts: 432; Member since: Jun 30, 2012
This is just like comparing all the flagship models of this year to iPhones. No comparison. Also. Whats the point of making these "VS" articles if you never out right declare one phone the victor? It's always, "Phone A is good there is no doubt the specs are great, but Phone B is good too and for the price etc etc" How about "Phone A wins", "Phone B wins" I feel like I am the only person who notices the stupidity of these "VS" articles
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 5:41 AM 6
4. gust3r3u
Posts: 84; Member since: Apr 11, 2013
Lg g2 wins , Moto x back to the drawing board ...DONE
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 5:56 AM 1
25. sarge77
Posts: 202; Member since: Mar 14, 2013
Didnt the moto x score high in the 3d benchmarks and 1080p play back as well as had decent battery life while playing videos and decent web browing as compared to gs4 ,so overall it truely isnt a bad phone.
posted on Sep 19, 2013, 7:55 AM 0
7. zachattack
Posts: 621; Member since: Jul 31, 2013
Highest end compared to not even in the competition lol
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 7:14 AM 0
9. roldefol
Posts: 4744; Member since: Jan 28, 2011
I get that every new phone gets compared to every other phone. And while G2 vs. Moto X isn't nearly as ridiculous as G2 vs. iPhone 5, it's still a stretch. The main advantages of the G2 are the S800 and the huge, top of the line screen. The Moto X cannot touch those. And the main advantages of the Moto X are active notifications and stock interface. The G2 cannot touch those. It's a matter of personal priorities and only the user can determine that.
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 7:59 AM 2
11. Googler
Posts: 813; Member since: Jun 10, 2013
Agreed. I'm thinking of picking up the X so I've been reading a lot about it. I believe the Verge had the best review, it started out by saying the specs didn't make sense but the more it was used, the more it was hard to let it go because Motorola designed it purely for the user experience. I also talked to a guy who owned the X and the HTC One and said surprisingly the X was a faster phone. It's not all about specs, it's about optimizing the OS, which Moto has done a fabulous job with. So right now I'm waiting to see what the Nexus 5 will be and for the X to drop in price before making that call. Might even get the G2, it's an outstanding handset as well.
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 8:29 AM 1
12. roldefol
Posts: 4744; Member since: Jan 28, 2011
I'm waffling between the Droid Maxx (essentially a bigger Moto X with a massive battery) and G2. I still can't decide which way to go. My perfect phone would be a Moto X with a 5" 1080 screen (which I thought the Maxx would have, but alas it's only 720). But I can't wait for perfect, and I'm left trying to decide if the screen is more important than the UI.
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 8:51 AM 1
13. Penywyz
Posts: 255; Member since: Aug 13, 2013
I've never seen an LG smartphone that was better quality or more reliable than a higher end Motorola. Go with the Droid MAXX, I have an ULTRA and it's the best smartphone I've had. The X8 runs the phone flawlessly. (8 cores) Touchless controls rock, I use the quick access to the camera quite often, and it's one of the snappiest most responsive phone's I've ever had. If not the quickest and most responsive. The active notifications are a really nice touch too. Plus Motorolas and Nokias usually test out highest on Verizon's network for signal quality. The 720p is kind of a moot point at this screen size. The average human eye has trouble differentiating between 1080p and 720p under 36" Now if you were talking TV or home appliances I'd go with LG all day.
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 9:16 AM 0
16. roldefol
Posts: 4744; Member since: Jan 28, 2011
I'll have to see the two side by side. 720 vs 1080 really depends on screen size. In the 4.5-5" range, 720 is plenty sharp. Once you start pushing into the 5-5.5" range, you start seeing pixels again. So 1080 is actually appropriate for those devices. So that puts the Moto X solidly in the size range for 720 (RGB stripe,at that), but in the 5" Maxx it's borderline.
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 12:36 PM 0
14. Googler
Posts: 813; Member since: Jun 10, 2013
I was worried about the screen on the N4 when I was considering that phone. Without having the opportunity to see one in real life, I pulled the trigger and was fortunate to get one in the first wave. After powering it on, the screen blew me away. Is it as good as some other screens out there? Probably not but it's more than impressive for me. If the X is like that, it's the least of my worries. The only concern with the X is upgrade support, I'm a big fan of the Nexus series. Then again, the latest updates haven't been that significant after Project Butter was released. I'll have to see them both in person, both cost a lot more than the N4 so the risks are higher. Maybe my age is starting to show, I'm more interested in simplifying my phone right now so the X appeals to me.
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 10:13 AM 1
15. lyndon420
Posts: 6746; Member since: Jul 11, 2012
To the whiners: both these phones are new and available to the public now. They are both geared towards the same consumer. I could see if maybe they were comparing a tablet to a phone - that would justify the complaints. Oh well...life is short and I get more out of the comments than the articles anyway.
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 12:02 PM 0
17. zachattack
Posts: 621; Member since: Jul 31, 2013
Well they are definitely not geared towards the same people. I wouldn't touch a motorola with a 10ft pole. The maxx hasa slightly bigger battery, why pay 300$ for essentially last years phone. Why even look at a motorola period. The G2 is the best phone available at the moment. It's also available for 140$ on verizon so just keep that in mind when you look at the ugly motorola phones
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 2:49 PM 0
18. roldefol
Posts: 4744; Member since: Jan 28, 2011
But that's mostly your opinion/spin. In my view the two phones are completely competitive (apart from price), because I'm looking at the whole experience - camera, UI, speed of updates, calling quality, battery life, audio quality, build and materials. If your only concern is fastest processor and highest screen resolution, fine, Motorola can't compete. I want the whole package though.
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 3:41 PM 1
19. Penywyz
Posts: 255; Member since: Aug 13, 2013
That being said, if you look at the speed an benchmark tests the X8(which is not last year's technology)beats a lot of flagship phones in a lot of tests. Especially in FPS. The difference in Processing speeds between the two will be relative. I work for a very large US provider, and the LG's are probably the worst smartphone we sell as far as quality. And that's saying something considering how much trouble we have out of iPhones. Doesn't matter if it's our free one or so called "Flagship" phones the LG's have just been bad. +1 roldefol
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 3:49 PM 0
24. zachattack
Posts: 621; Member since: Jul 31, 2013
Well now that is an opinion for sure. LG came up from behind and killed off any competition so now we just have to wait till next year. It's pretty apparent that the G2 isn't anything less than premium. The Maxx is a rehash being pawned off for 300$. Same UI with a new processor that's not even that new. Sorry i think motorola wins the bad quality award.
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 11:27 PM 0
23. zachattack
Posts: 621; Member since: Jul 31, 2013
The build quality on motorola isn't winning any awards. Neither is the UI when it's paired a long side the much hyped 8x processor and the bad 720p screen. The battery life also will probably guaranteed be better on the G2. Just telling it like it is, better is better!. The only thing that motorola x might have on the G2 is UI. You will never get the whole package. Each phone has flaws and i'm pretty sure the G2 sound is it's downfall. Then again i heard everyone praise the call quality and sound so... in a way it is the total package. Either get over the better version of touchwiz or buy a worse phone for more money (razor maxx)
posted on Sep 18, 2013, 11:23 PM 0
27. roldefol
Posts: 4744; Member since: Jan 28, 2011
My big problem with all of this year's Motorola phones, whether you accept them as flagships or not, is pricing. If you cannot match your competitors on the most basic specs such as storage, you are not pricing your product competitively. Motorola is trying to match/beat iPhone pricing, when in fact its main competition is the One (32 GB), Lumia 92x (32 GB), and S4 (16 GB+SD). Sorry Moto, you're not Apple; you have to use value pricing. It should be: Moto X 16 GB - $150 Moto X 32 GB - $200 Droid Ultra - $150 Droid Maxx - $250 I personally see the Moto X as an upper-midrange/lower-high-end product, and the Droid Maxx as a flagship. If both devices were priced in line with their capacity and performance, comparisons would be fairer.
posted on Sep 19, 2013, 8:29 AM 0
28. mustafa.muhammad
Posts: 2; Member since: Sep 20, 2013
Thank you for fixing the G2 numbers in the database, but the numbers are still old here (and I think in other comparisons), when I add a phone and choose the G2 it gets fixed (the new numbers appear), please remove the old numbers and put the new in all the comparisons. Thanks again for fixing.
posted on Sep 21, 2013, 12:31 AM 0
29. gedansky
Posts: 1; Member since: Oct 14, 2013
I see a LOT of comments that show that people haven't been following the Moto X very closely or ready all the reviews, or they would know that the Moto X has done for Android, what the iPhone did for IOS... Dispel the concept of specs and make it about balance and performance. All the reviews say basically the same thing... The Moto X is so well refined, with its proper balance of CPU, GPU, and software, that it equals or out performs virtually every smartphone out there. If you are looking for sheer physical size of product or spec, or customized UI there are some great phones out there. But, if you are looking for the best combination of speed, reliability, and ease of use (one handed use, ease of access etc), then the Moto X is the choice. It's VERY hard to move away from specs as a driving factor, even when you understand. But, couple it with a simple fact... Motorola makes the best radios in the industry, and, their phones spend far less time in the shop than LG's, and it's a lot easier for me to consider the Moto X over the G2. But, I also don't want to carry a big screen TV in my pocket,
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