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Before getting too far into the new year, it's important to develop a realistic record of where you ended 2011 and how your financial situation changed during the year.
You'd think everyone would already know where they stand, but such financial self-awareness is the exception.
Building such a record takes time and effort. Creating an annual report of your finances, however, can provide an invaluable record that only you can assemble. Done properly, it should illuminate your future, paving the way to important financial decisions and helping you make smarter choices.
[See 50 Ways to Improve Your Finances in 2012.]
Planning efforts are helped by a predictable future, and we've been spared some of the crisis headlines and volatile markets that we saw last year.
Also, 2012 is off to a much better start than most experts thought just a few weeks ago. The U.S. economy and jobs outlook are stronger than expected. Stocks are back to prerecession levels. Even Europe is lurching its way to patchwork debt-crisis agreements, which seem likely to help the region avoid big loan defaults and bank failures that could harm the United States.
We also know that interest rates and inflation should remain low for some time. When calculating investment returns, it makes sense to target modest annual gains of 3 to 5 percent. Retirees have gotten 3.6 percent increases in Social Security income due to the program's annual cost-of-living adjustment. Medicare costs for seniors are closer to being under control than they've been in many years.
There will be very disturbing debates in Congress about the need to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and even Social Security. But any changes in these programs should have, at most, a minimal effect on plans for anyone within 10 years of retirement.
With this backdrop, consider four sections for your annual report: income, expenses, investments, and other assets. Much of this work can be a natural companion to the work you already do to file your income taxes. Even if someone else does your tax returns, you probably need to assemble the W-2s, 1099s, brokerage statements, and other documents that tell the story of what you earned and what you spent in 2011.
If this is the first year you've done an annual report, you'll also need to pull the same documents for year-end 2010 so you can do year-over-year comparisons. But you should have all the major documents readily at hand from last year's tax returns.
[See Investors Scramble as Fed Extends Low-Rate Policy.]
Income. This is not the taxable income number from your W-2 and other income statements that will be entered on your tax return. It should represent the annual value of your paychecks plus any other dollars that were actually provided to you as cash in hand. It would not include earnings on investments unless you cashed in the investments and converted them to cash. How much cash did your family unit (you, spouse, dependents, etc.) receive that was available to be spent or saved? How does this total in 2011 compare with 2010?
Expenses. Tracking what you spent in 2011 is the single biggest component in building your annual report. It's also the most valuable. Spending categories might include groceries, domestic (household goods, clothing, grooming), home maintenance, car (gasoline, maintenance and repairs, payments), utilities, home mortgage, entertainment (movies, meals, periodicals, sundries, cash withdrawals, and similar discretionary spending items), charity, healthcare, travel, insurance (you can include auto insurance here or under cars), educational spending, and taxes. Use online banking and credit card statements to generate as much of your expense report as possible.
Investments. Include changes in all of your investment accounts as of the end of the year. This review also should be part of a broader assessment of your investments. And, yes, you should do this more often than once a year.
Look at all your investments, including active retirement accounts.
If you have an approach to diversifying your investments (and you should), review it and make sure this is still your approach. Then look at the changed values of your holdings and make sure to adjust your portfolio so your holdings meet your diversification objectives. Include CDs and any cash balances in bank and brokerage accounts as well. Add them all up and see how they fared at the end of 2011 compared with year-end 2010.
While you're at it, spend some time to determine how much money you paid other people to handle your investments and retirement plans in the form of trading fees, management advisory fees, and account servicing fees. If you own mutual funds, you'll need to look at their prospectuses to find some of the fee information.
If you have a 401(k) through work, your employer should be able to help you find out about fees as well. There are big variations in fees among mutual funds and investment firms. Because most retirement funds are invested for 30 or 40 years, paying smaller annual fees will save you many thousands of dollars.
Other Assets. What nonfinancial assets do you own that you could sell and convert to cash? This won't take long, and it needs to be done. If you own your own home, how much money would you clear if you had to sell it? You won't know this for certain unless you put your home up for sale. But you can get a good idea.
If you live in a large city where real estate values are closely monitored, you should be able to get a good idea of how housing values have changed over time. Also, what's your home's appraised value for property taxes? Did it change last year because of weakness in housing values? What did homes like yours sell for during 2011? Such comparable sales figures are available from local multiple listing services and real estate agents. Many newspapers publish home sales prices and keep this information on their websites.
What's the resale value of your car(s)? There are online tools to provide this information. Do you own other tangible assets that have cash values—a boat, jewelry, antiques, and the like? Total their cumulative cash resale value as of the end of 2011. If you can, compare it with the year-end 2010 values. If you can't, it's still good to know what your assets would bring on the market. And you can see next year how much their value has changed.
After you've done your first report, annual updates don't take much time. Over the years, these reports will also give you a solid idea of the financial costs of how you live.
As you approach your retirement years, you will have a good basis for determining how much money you will need to spend and whether your retirement income will support this lifestyle.
The hardest part of doing your annual report? Getting started.


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A child's trial and his contributions
Shane Rogers' journey will aid future patients
Video: A child's cancer journey
Years from now, when Shane Rogers' cancer is in the rear-view mirror and he is cancer-free, his mother Kristen says she won't look back on his treatment period in despair, but with gratitude and hope.
"I had been losing my faith in society," Kristen Rogers says of the time before her son's illness. The caring response of her community to her family's ordeal changed that, she says. Now the Rogers family is paying that compassion forward by helping other families — in two very different ways.
First, the family launched a comfort-and-care program to help children diagnosed with cancer. The family also agreed to participate in a clinical trial that tracks Shane's treatment side effects so that oncologists everywhere can learn what works best for children of different ages, ethnicities, genders and with other individual characteristics.
"The reason the childhood cancer survival rate is so good now is because so many families agreed to participate in clinical trials," says Kristen Rogers. "I know how important they are for bettering society. It was a no-brainer."
"It's because of families like Shane's that we are able to move the knowledge forward."
— Jay Balagtas
According to the National Cancer Institute, 5-year childhood cancer survival rates increased from 58 percent in the mid 1970s to almost 80 percent today. The improvement is due to significant advances in treatment, resulting in a cure or long-term remission for a substantial proportion of children with cancer. Better treatments are the result of pediatric cancer clinical trials, in which a majority of childhood patients participate.
Because of the Rogers family's participation in a national clinical trial tracking childhood leukemia treatment side effects, Shane's experience will help inform future treatment protocols for other children with the same illness.
"It's because of families like Shane's that we are able to move the knowledge forward," says Jay Balagtas, assistant clinical professor and Shane's oncologist at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. As the cancer center's principal investigator of the Children's Oncology Group (COG), Balagtas oversees pediatric clinical trials offered to UC Davis patients. COG trials allow physicians from throughout the nation to track side effects of various treatment regimens, information that contributes to a massive and useful database.
To be sure, Shane has endured many side effects since his 2012 acute lymphatic leukemia diagnosis. In addition to the wrenching bone pain that first sent the 7-year-old to the emergency room, Shane has experienced extreme nausea, hair loss, steroid-induced diabetes, muscle weakness that temporarily confined him to a wheelchair, dehydration, weight loss, confusion and sodium loss.
Shane, who recently celebrated his 9th birthday with more than a dozen friends, will have at least two more years of cancer treatment. Shane lives with his family — mom, Kristen; dad, Sean; and sister, Reese, 4. Shane is back in school but still beset by treatment side effects, including medication-related diabetes. Kristen Rogers chronicles Shane's journey on a Facebook page called Shane's village. In a recent post, she described how she stayed awake with Shane as he struggled with nausea from extremely low blood sugar.
"As I lay here next to Shane while he sleeps, I can't help but listen to his every breath," she wrote. "I want to scream out of frustration, but mostly out of fear... But I am just too tired."
Through the Facebook page and another website called CaringBridge, the Rogers family also shares expressions of hope and gratitude, messages that in some cases have spread far and wide. Their request for followers to post pictures of themselves holding "Shane, you got this" signs spread quickly. People — even strangers — from around the country and beyond posted photos, including a police chief in Mississippi, a SWAT team that made Shane an honorary member, and a boy in Big Bear who wrote "Shane, you got this" in snow.
Shane's father, a former Marine, was particularly moved by the picture of an entire Marine platoon in Afghanistan whose members shaved their heads in solidarity with Shane.
"My husband just broke down in tears," Kristen Rogers says.
The family received a similarly overwhelming response when asking for help moving to a one-story home. Kristen had been carrying Shane up and down stairs to the bathroom and throughout the house because Shane could not walk. She was afraid she would fall and injure him.
Kristen Rogers was stunned when an entire firefighting crew drove up in fire engines, wearing uniforms and bearing offers to help move furniture.
"Shane said, 'Mom, there are fire trucks here!'" she recalls.
Families from Shane's school, soccer teams, nearby homes and churches stopped by. A stream of visitors carried boxes from the home and helped pack the truck. At Shane's birthday party in August, a local sheriff's squad car and a fire truck — both with sirens blaring — rolled up, offering Shane and his friends some hands-on thrills.
The Rogers family will choose to remember these moments. But Kristen says they won't forget the difficult times, if only to use them to help other families through their journeys. Kristen Rogers says she barely thought about childhood cancer until a few months before Shane's diagnosis, when she began following the Facebook page of a young girl with cancer named Jessie Rees who launched a program distributing jars with little treats and toys for sick children. Jessie, who lost her battle with cancer, called them "joy jars."
"I remember I couldn't even imagine what it was like for her parents," says Kristen Rogers. "But in every picture they were smiling."
Only months later, the Rogers family was facing childhood cancer, too. But through the fear, agony and bewilderment, they endured with the help of the community's kindness. Now they are giving back.
Through their comfort-and-care program, they raise money to buy new comforters and teddy bears for children in cancer treatment at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"UC Davis Medical Center has done so much for us, and I want to do something to give back," says Kristen Rogers. "It is my life's mission now to be able to tell a family who five minutes ago had been told that their child has cancer that they will smile again."


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Air Force chief of staff lands in Fort Smith, lawmakers ready for visit
Thursday night, 40/29 News was the only local news station when the chief of staff's plane landed at Fort Smith Regional Airport.
The future of the "Flying Razorbacks" may be in the hands of Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III and his visit to the 188th Fighter Wing Friday.
Thursday night, 40/29 News was the only local news station when Welsh's plane landed at Fort Smith Regional Airport.
Welsh was greeted by several high-ranking military officials including: 188th Fighter Wing Commander Col. Mark Anderson, Arkansas National Guard Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. William Wofford, and Lt. Gen. Harry Wyatt, director of the Air National Guard.
Welsh and others will tour the 188th Fighter Wing along with members of the Arkansas and Oklahoma congressional delegations.
In 2005, David Burns, a supporter of the 188th Fighter Wing, was witness to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) visit.
"This is definitely going to top all of that," said Burns.
Burns witnessed the arrival of Welsh at the airport's fixed-base operator, TAC Air Thursday night.
Supporters of the 188th are hoping Welsh's visit will stop a proposal to end manned A-10 missions and switch to drones.
"At the end of the day, the chief of staff actually gets to decide where the forces need to be. Our argument was that we were the very most cost-efficient base and invited him out to come out and see that," said U.S. Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas.
Lawmakers said there is another side to this story, that drones could have some positive impact on the fighter wing's future.
"Is there an upside to having a possible unmanned mission?" our reporter asked.
"We want to keep job loss to a minimum, so if we go to the unmanned mission, the job loss would not be very great at all so that's a real positive. The other positive of the unmanned mission is that is a mission that's not going to go away, " said Boozman.
Supporters say they're humbled the fighter wing was chosen for the next generation of Air Force technology, but it's the manpower that makes the 188th Fighter Wing more viable to our nation's defense.
"We need them and that's kind of the angle that we're going at. The drone mission -- it'd be great to keep the base open, but at the same time we need a flying mission here that we're vital to protect the United States of America, and our men and women will do that here,' said Burns.
"We're working very hard to keep our fighter wing here and that's what this is all about with this visit, but we are also working very, very hard to make sure there is a viable mission, you know, 50 years from now," said Boozman.


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Osprey Packs will be expanding its local headquarters and relocating its distribution center to Utah in 2015, the company announced last week.
"The decision to relocate our distribution function to a transportation hub, such as the Wasatch Front, is an exciting and necessary move for Osprey," said Tom Barney, CEO of Osprey Packs, in a written statement. The Wasatch Front is the metropolitan area of Utah, which includes Salt Lake City.
The company has been growing rapidly in recent years and in 2006 the started adding supplemental warehouse space in and around Cortez, said Barney.
The company plans for the new consolidated distribution center, which will be staffed by 20 people, to open by mid-2015. Some staff members will be relocating from Colorado, and some will be hired in Utah.
Currently, 17 people work for Osprey's warehouses locally and all 17 will be offered incentives to move to the Salt Lake area, Barney said.
As part of the expansion, the company plans to convert warehouse space into offices in 2015, which will allow all the employees, who are part of headquarters to work in one building. The company also hopes to add a fitness center and some form of kitchen, which could allow local restaurants to serve meals for employees on a rotating basis.
Osprey employs 74 people locally and hopes to fill four positions soon. It also may add staff members to headquarters as it continues to expand, he said.
Moving the distribution center to Utah helps solve the company's space constraints.
Currently, the company's storage is spread over five warehouses, three in the industrial park and two within city limits.
Osprey Packs considered consolidating warehouse operations in Cortez, or moving to Long Beach, Calif., Phoenix, Kansas City and the Salt Lake City region, Barney said.
"We gave all these markets a good, fair shot," he said.
Ultimately, the company decided on the modern and large warehousing market in the Wasatch Range. After the move, the company will use the national rail network for distribution, which will significantly reduce the company's carbon footprint. The company currently receives and distributes by truck.
Osprey also maintains a product development office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, near the factories where they manufacture their products and a design office in Mill Valley, Calif.
Barney said the company plans to keep headquarters in Cortez.
"There's no wavering of our commitment," Barney said.
The owner and founder of Osprey, Mike Pfotenhauer, and his wife, Diane Wren, also plan to move back to the Dolores area from California, he said.


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Change often brings with it unintended consequences, and the issue of reflective roof surfaces in North America is no exception. In the late 1990s, U.S. cities in northern climates started to mandate the use of reflective roof—more for politics, feel-good, pseudo-environmental reasons than sustainable, resilient and durable reasons. In my estimation, cool roofs often did more to lower the quality of buildings than enhance them. Furthermore, code and standard changes were made with no understanding of the result and no education to the architects of America.Although the resulting unintended consequences affected commercial and residential buildings, it was the often-catastrophic results on low-slope residential buildings that went untold and left homeowners with tens of thousands of dollars of corrective work on basically new residences.
Following is a summary of how these concerns evolved in wood-framed residential construction. I've included case studies of failures, potential solutions and lessons learned.
During the industrialization of America's large cities throughout the 1800s, the need for labor caused populations to explode. To house the labor migration, row houses (3- to 4-story structures, often with a garden level and four or more narrow units) were constructed approximately 3-feet apart, block after block, creating medium-sized apartment blocks. Most of these row houses were wood-framed, masonry veneer with low-slope roof structures. The interior walls and ceilings were finished in cementitious plaster, which provided a durable, fire-resistive finish. The plaster also performed as an effective air and vapor barrier, preventing interior conditioned air from penetrating into the non-insulated walls and ceilings where it could condense within the walls and roof on cold days.Heating costs were low, so little—if any—insulation was installed in the walls and roof. Roofs were composed of built-up asphalt and coal tar, both smooth and aggregate surfaced. Attic spaces often 4 to 6 feet in height were vented via static vents. Any conditioned air that passed to the attic was able to dissipate through these static vents. This method of construction performed without significant attic condensation, and the roof systems and roof structure served these buildings for decades.
In the mid 1990s, researchers (theoretical researchers with no architectural, engineering, roofing, construction or practical building technology experience or knowledge) at research institutes conducted studies into the effects of minimizing solar gain through the roof via a reflective surface. Based on the researchers' algorithmic findings and recommendations (regardless of their validity), environmental groups used the concept to promote change. Large cities started introducing new energy codes with reflective roofing requirements and prescribed reflectance values. These new codes contained greater insulation requirements, which was a benefit. However, in this one code adoption, roof systems, such as coal-tar pitch, that had performed for centuries were no longer permitted. Consequently, roofing contractors went out of business and so did some roofing material manufacturers because of unproven and suspect research.
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For undrafted Archibald, that is pretty neat!herb wrote:And just like that, Sauve has been sent down. Pelletier and Archibald have been called up. It would be Archibald's first NHL game if he played tomorrow.
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Death from the Skies!: The Science Behind the End of the World
Penguin (Non-Classics), August 2009. Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good. Item #224053
With wit, humor, and an infectious love of astronomy that could win over even the science-phobic, this fun and fascinating book reminds us that outer space is anything but remote. The scientist behind the popular website badastronomy.com, Philip Plait presents some of the most fearsome end-of-the-world calamities (for instance, incoming asteroids and planet-swallowing black holes), demystifies the scientific principles at work behind them, and gives us the odds that any of them will step out of the realm of sci-fi to disrupt our quiet corner of the cosmos. The result is a book that is both terrifying and entertaining?a tour of the violent universe we live in, written with an enthusiasm that every stargazer will appreciate.
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KDirStat 2.2.0
This provides both a graphical and numeric display of used disk space.
Files are kept apart from directories in separate items to prevent cluttering of the display. Different colors in the directory tree visually separate the levels. Plus, the time of the most recent changes within an entire directory tree are display so you can easily see what object was changed last and when.
This stays on one file system by default and reads mounted file systems on request. It can scan FTP or Samba directories, or any other protocols KDE supports.
Predefined cleanup actions let you delete a file or a directory tree, move it to the KDE trash bin, compress it to an archive, or simply open a shell or a Konqueror window. You can also add your own cleanup commands or edit the existing ones.
There's even a report facility that will send an e-mail message requesting the owner of a large directory tree to please clean up unused files.


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GAO cites coordination by six agencies overseeing 65 initiatives.
Though overlap in federal programs has been criticized in recent years, a review of 65 solar energy programs spread over six major agencies found "no clear instances of duplicative initiatives" and uncovered evidence of regular dialogue among officials at separate agencies.
The Government Accountability Office in a report released earlier this week reviewed solar-related renewable energy projects -- a source of political controversy in the past year since revelations of a $535 million loan default by the bankrupt company Solyndra -- at the Agriculture, Defense and Energy departments along with the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation and NASA.
"The initiatives are fragmented in that they are implemented by various offices across the six agencies and address the same broad areas of national need," the auditors found. "However, the agencies tailor their initiatives to meet their specific missions, such as DoD's energy security mission and NASA's space exploration mission. Many of the initiatives overlapped with at least one other initiative in the technology advancement activity, technology type, funding recipient or goal. However, GAO found no clear instances of duplicative initiatives."
The report was requested by Reps. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee; and Andy Harris, R-Md., chairman of that panel's energy and environment subcommittee. It contained no recommendations, but the agencies generally agreed with the results.
Of the 65 projects, which cost some $2.6 billion in fiscal 2010 and 2011, more than half supported solar projects exclusively, while the rest sustained solar and other renewable energy technologies. Many are grants and contracts given to universities, industry, researchers and federal laboratories. Some of the funding came from the 2009 Recovery Act.
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Ex-inmate misses job interview to help driver in crash
WESTPORT, Conn. - A former inmate on his way to a job interview is being lauded for helping the driver of a car that flipped over on a Connecticut highway.
Aaron Tucker was traveling by bus through Westport Wednesday when he saw the crash and jumped off to help the driver.
Tucker, who lives in a Bridgeport halfway house, helped rescue the driver from the smoking car and wrapped his dress shirt around the man's head to stop a wound from bleeding.
The bus left the scene and Tucker missed his interview. But he says he's since gotten other job offers.
He tells WABC-TV it was "the right thing" to do.
A GoFundMe was set up to raise money for Tucker, who served nearly two years in prison on a weapons charge, and his 21-month-old son.


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|Final Fantasy VI OSV
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|Catalog Number: PSCN-5001~3 (reprint NTCP-5001~3)
|Released On: March 25, 1994 (reprint October 1, 2004)
|Composed By: Nobuo Uematsu
|Arranged By: Nobuo Uematsu
|Published By: NTT Publishing
|Recorded At: Sunrise Studios
|Format: 3 CDs
Disc One01 - Opening Theme
02 - Colliery Narshe
03 - Awakening
04 - Locke
05 - Battle Theme
06 - Fanfare
07 - Edgar & Mash
08 - Kefka
09 - Mt. Kolts
10 - Returners
11 - Shadow
12 - Troops March on
13 - Cyan
14 - The Unforgiven
15 - The Mystic Forest
16 - Mystery Train
17 - Wild West
18 - Gau
19 - The Snake Path
20 - Kids Run Through the City Corner
21 - Under Martial Law
22 - Celes
23 - Save Them
24 - The Decisive Battle
25 - Metamorphosis
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Disc Two01 - Tina
02 - Coin Song
03 - Techno de Chocobo
04 - Forever Rachel
05 - Slam Shuffle
06 - Spinach Rag
07 - Overture
08 - Aria di Mezzo Carattere
09 - The Wedding Waltz ~Duel
10 - Grand Finale?
11 - Setzer
12 - Johnny C Bad
13 - The Empire "Ghestal"
14 - Devil's Lab
15 - Blackjack
16 - ??
17 - Mog
18 - Strago
19 - Relm
20 - Another World of Beasts
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Disc Three01 - New Continent
02 - Catastrophe
03 - The Fierce Battle
04 - Rest in Peace
05 - Dark World
06 - The Day After
07 - Searching Friends
08 - Gogo
09 - Epitaph
10 - The Magic House
11 - Umaro
12 - Fanatics
13 - Last Dungeon
14 - Dancing Mad
15 - Ending Theme
16 - The Prelude
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Editor's note 3/13/2013: While this album is no longer in print, you can get the same music via iTunes (see link above). The tracklist on this page reflects translations of the original disc-based release of "Final Fantasy VI Original Sound Version" and not the newer iTunes release.
Squaresoft's 1994 Final Fantasy VI decided the series's general direction--a more plot-based, event-based, character-based RPG than was normal at the time. While Final Fantasy VII secured that direction as a trend, it was its Super Famicom predecessor that had taken steps in that direction. Uematsu's score reflects this shift in every sense: every character has his/her distinct theme, and events are scored with an operatic sense of grandeur. Indeed, there is even a mini-opera within the game, and within its soundtrack.
The synthesizers used in Final Fantasy VI's music are incredible. In contrast to the much more flat sounds of the previous two games, everything here, from woodwinds to strings to brass, has a surprisingly deep and resonant sound. Full use is made of the very complex range of instruments that the Super Famicom could produce, and the recording quality is exceptional. Although the SFC sound chip still leaves a slightly muffled sound to the more complex compositions, and some of the higher notes are still not handled well by the synth (as in "Returners") it generally has a very nice, clear sound to it for something of this era.
Some view Final Fantasy VI's score as Uematsu's magnum opus. Uematsu himself said in the Front Mission Gun Hazard liner notes that with FFVI, he had accomplished what he had set out to do when he began to write music for video games. "It is also significant that many people see the post-FFVI era as the mark of Uematsu's decline, and also that of the series. I will say up front that I disagree with that statement."
What, then, did Uematsu accomplish in Final Fantasy VI? Well, it is a true feat: a soundtrack where not only is every track listenable, but almost every track is either exceptional, or at least very good. Yes, that is right. Almost every track here is truly a very good, or even a great composition.
Start, for instance, with the main theme. It first appears in the opening theme. Following the sweeping introduction, it is presented as a march. The main section is played on a woodwind, and it holds back: holds back both from using the entirety of the composition, and also from over-indulging itself in pseudo-dramatic overtones (unlike the first :20 or so of the track...). The theme re-appears in "Awakening," but here it is even more restrained, longing, and almost sad. At the end of disc 1, it is heard in "Metamorphosis" as dissonant, frantic, and certainly no longer beautiful. Directly following, the main statement of the theme appears at the beginning of the second disc. "Tina," the world map theme, presents the theme as a march once again, but this second time the composition is played in full, and the last section completes both the dramatic arc and the melody of the piece. The theme shows up at the end as well: it is stated twice, both times as a calmer and more reserved statement of the theme, used as a bridge between other sections of the track.
Although I have no great love for "Umaro" or "Gogo," the rest of the character themes are exceptional. The uplifting melodies in "Lock" and "Setzer," the beautiful strains of "Relm" and "Celes," the playful and truly haunting "Cefca": Uematsu excels here in every way. Final Fantasy VI is the paradigm of Uematsu's talents at creating diversity with utter coherence.
And not just the character themes, either. There is exceptional diversity throughout the album. In tone, in style, and in melody, Uematsu put the two years spent on the soundtrack to exceptional use. The three main town themes in the game are distinctly different from each other. "Kids Run Through the City Corner" is the typical Uematsu town theme, with a very well composed peaceful melody. "Under Martial Law," on the other hand, has a much more reserved, darker nature to it: pay attention to how the melody shifts from the left channel to the right and back, to reflect the call and response form of the track. Finally, the post-apocalyptic town theme, "The Day After," reflects the darker nature of living in the world of ruin, but also has an element of hope.
Most interesting is the fact that Final Fantasy VI actually has an opera in it. The 'singing,' of course, is entirely in synth voices, but the voices actually sound okay here. My knowledge of opera is limited to a little Beethoven opera, a little Mozart opera, and a little Wagner, but I can tell that Uematsu is doing a good job at least replicating the general sound of the various styles heard within the genre. The composition is purely within Uematsu's style, but it also adheres to a classical sound, and the result is magnificent. The "Overture" and "Wedding Waltz ~ Duel" pieces have appropriately epic sounds to them, while the aria itself is actually a very beautiful piece of music. Even the comic and supposedly impromptu "Grand Finale?" is a very good piece, as long as one knows something about the general intentions for the track.
I could say so much about the other battle themes, for they are all excellent, but I will only talk about the final battle music, "Dancing Mad." This is a very long piece that goes through several sections, and while they are each very distinct in their own right, the organ is present throughout: one section is even in a distinctly baroque style. The Black Mages tried to re-invent the track in their style with their first album, and while the result was not bad, it lost some of the feel of the original.
The ending theme is simply incredible. It combines every character theme into a single composition, ending with the Final Fantasy theme itself. At 23 minutes, it is one of the longest tracks on any CD I own, and yet, it feels so much shorter than it is. The music changes tone and pace in a heartbeat, and yet manages to work coherently.
There is really nothing I can do to criticize this soundtrack. Some say that Final Fantasy VI is where Uematsu hit the summit of his capability, and the soundtrack itself is enough to be a summit for many. However, while his later soundtracks have many tracks that are generally more dispensable, they also characterize a progression away from, and yes, perhaps above what Final Fantasy VI accomplished. Uematsu is quoted (in English) in the liner notes for this soundtrack. "The important thing about producing power with fertility is not to be particular about one exact point but to have the superfluous flesh like an amoeba surrounding it[.]" I think about this whenever I listen to Uematsu's music, and it explains his style very well.
Reviewed by: Ben Schweitzer
Dear God, this soundtrack takes me back. It takes me back to the days when there was no such thing as an "old-school" gamer because the transition to all-graphics gaming hadn't become a reality yet. Want to relive those feelings without having to play through that 30-hour game again? Have no fear, the FFVI OST is here!
All of the music you know and love (if you played the game) is here. It's so sweet. Even those digitized vocals sound marvelous (that's right, the opera in original format!). Some of the most astounding music ever created on a keyboard has to be the last boss theme "Dancing Mad". 17 minutes long, oh yes! Consisting of all those "pillars" of bad guys before and then including angelic-Kefka...Phew, the music is the bomb.
I also enjoyed the 21 minute ending theme which recaps the theme music to every character and has some other music to go with it. Disc 3 is easily the best of the 3 discs, but disc 1 is fun too. It's too bad the middle discs are always the least creative, or so it feels in the Uematsu collection (though the opera is on disc 2).
Luckily, this CD is still being reprinted to this day. In other words, it's an easy find and a must-buy!
Note: Track 16 of disc 2 is named "??"...it's not a misprint in the book and it's not some track we couldn't translate, that is the name of the track (it's Gogo's theme).
Reviewed by: Patrick Gann


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Linux, Open Source Put to Test in New Motorola Smart Phone
Motorola is moving Linux and open source into the smart phone space with its new A780 handheld.
featuring MontaVista Software's Linux operating system and now the open source Berkeley DB data manager, but analysts say Linux remains on hold in mobile phones because Microsoft, Palm, and Symbian operating systems still dominate the space.
Few doubt there is significant opportunity for Linux and open source in the mobile device market, and efforts such as the A780 -- to be among the first Linux smart phones available in the U.S. when released before the end of the year -- are evidence. The Linux operating system -- pushed most in the mobile space by MontaVista and supporters such as OpenWave -- offers flexibility and freedom from licensing issues that have scared off Asian manufacturers.
Even though there is a lack of the kind of lock-in that exists in the desktop and server markets, Linux has yet to be fully proven and demonstrated on the go, according to Yankee Group analyst John Jackson.
"There's an opportunity, but it is not clear how successfully or effectively it can be exploited," Jackson said.
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Motorola does not even mention the MontaVista Linux or open source Berkeley DB in its description of the A780, but backers of Linux and open source in mobile devices, such as MontaVista product marketing manager Jacob Lehrbaum, said the industry is rapidly accepting Linux for its openness and flexibility.
Aimed at mobile professionals, the A780 offers PDA capability, full-motion video recording, and a color touch screen. The handset supports faster, EDGE network connectivity, and can also display Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, MP3, and JPG files.
Through the cost curves with Linux
Yankee Group's Jackson said users, as well as wireless handset manufacturers, are most interested in the operating system that works best for their needs.
"Motorola has built a mass-market smart phone with a view to running Java over MontaVista Linux," Jackson said of the A780.
The analyst said past Linux smart phone efforts had failed and that the use of Linux over Palm, Symbian, or Microsoft operating systems has been limited to small amounts in Europe and Asia.
Still, Jackson said a couple of vendors "with significance" have validated MontaVista's Linux platform as one that is suitable for mobile communications and applications.
As for smart phones in general, however, Jackson said there remains "a lot of sound and a lot less fury."
"It's just a question of who can traverse the cost curves into a market success," Jackson said. "Right now, it looks to be Symbian. Linux is a bit of a dark horse because it's an unproven commodity."
Higher-level OS, higher-level barriers
IDC analyst Alex Slawsby said the smart phone and wider mobile market present an opportunity for Linux and open source because it is newer than the desktop and server markets.
"In the phone world, it's a different paradigm," Slawsby said. "No one's got a lock on anything."
However, Linux in hand has been limited in the U.S. largely to the Sharp Zaurus PDA, and there are other barriers to using Linux in a handset, Slawsby said.
"There are higher barriers to overcome to build higher-level operating systems in smart phone devices," Slawsby said. "[Linux and open source] haven't had much impact, but it's something that at least is drawing interest for its flexibility. Down the road, it may have some potential, given the flexibility it gives you on phone design."
For now, Linux may be suffering from a lack of support -- tool kits, toolsets, literature, etc. -- compared to that provided for developers by other operating system vendors, particularly Microsoft, Palm, and Symbian, according to Slawsby.
"The concern, though, is it is even harder to develop a Linux phone than one based on Microsoft or Symbian," he said. "When it comes to Linux, it's more difficult."
Adding that most users are not aware there is software in their cell phones, Slawsby agreed that the brand or type of operating system in a smart phone is not as important as its capabilities.
"A smart phone is such a hugely marketable concept, but when it comes down to it, the technology is sort of like Bluetooth. It's just progressing -- and slowly -- because the true benefits have not been articulated clearly."
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Robert Toombs, Letters to Julia Ann DuBose Toombs consists of correspondence from Robert Toombs to his wife, Julia Ann DuBose Toombs in Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia from 1850-1867. During 1850-1859 his letters come from Washington, D.C. while he served in the U.S. Senate. During the Civil War, he wrote from Virginia (1862) and Atlanta, Georgia (1864). Following the war, letters are written from Paris (1866-67) while he was in exile. The correspondence generally discusses current events; his land holdings in South Georgia, Alabama, and Texas; people; other soldiers; and his wish to be with his wife and family.
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Lakers' Practice Featured on NBA TV's Real Training CampOn Monday, NBA TV broadcast an L.A. Lakers' practice during a three hour "Real Training Camp" episode. Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum did not participate in the practice because they are both recovering from offseason knee surgery but both players were on the sidelines; Bynum could be seen icing his knee, while Bryant watched the action intently and often offered suggestions/comments to various players. Ron Artest and Sasha Vujacic wore microphones but the two most disappointing things about the show are that Coach Phil Jackson did not wear a microphone and that NBA TV commentators Marc Fein and two-time All-Star/two-time NBA champion Norm Nixon kept up their ongoing, inane conversations as Jackson and various Lakers' assistant coaches instructed the players. The point of the broadcast should have been to give viewers the opportunity to listen to how Jackson runs a practice, not to hear Fein and Nixon banter.
Nixon repeatedly marveled at how simple and basic the practice was but I think that this deceptive simplicity is actually the touchstone of Jackson's coaching genius (as it was for John Wooden, Red Auerbach and Vince Lombardi); coaching is not about making things complex and it is not about the vaunted "in game adjustments" with which some media members are so obsessed: coaching is about preparing players in practice to deal with the most likely scenarios that will happen during games and coaching is about making sure that players are well schooled in the fundamentals. The Lakers practiced basic fast break drills, they practiced defensive rotations, they practiced how to pivot and they practiced how to run the Triangle Offense. Coach Jackson did not scream, he did not berate and he did not talk at length just to hear himself speak; Jackson simply explained what they were going to do in each drill and how the drill related to game action (for instance, the Triangle Offense drills prepared them to counter various kinds of defensive pressure with precise cuts, pivots and passes). I could not hear everything Jackson said but I did my best to tune out Fein and Nixon and to also read Jackson's lips when his face was on camera.
During one of the drills, the Lakers used the toss back device; old school fans probably remember when former ABA player George Lehmann demonstrated the toss back during one of those classic Red on Roundball sessions. The toss back consists of a panel of taut strings that can be deployed at various angles; players toss the ball at the panel and it comes back to them so that they can shoot, pass or rebound (depending on the drill). In this case, each player started at the top of the key, passed to the toss back, caught the ball and shot a jump shot from the free throw line extended; this replicates a Triangle Offense option known as the guard around (something that neither Nixon nor Fein explained), which you see many times during a Lakers' game: a player at the top of the key passes to a player at the free throw line who then pivots, sets a screen and gives the ball back to the first player for an open shot (the first player can also drive or pass after receiving the return pass, depending on how the defense reacts). So this seemingly simple drill actually teaches the players how to correctly deliver the first pass, how to catch the ball on the move and how to hit a shot that will be useful during game situations.
It would have been nice if either of the hosts would have provided some historical context about the toss back--and Lehmann--but Nixon merely mentioned that the toss back was used back when he played in the league. Neither he nor Fein said anything about Lehmann and they soon went back to talking over the coaches. Regular 20 Second Timeout readers may recall that Larry Miller--the ABA's single game scoring leader--told me that Lehmann was his favorite teammate: "If you gave him the ball he could shoot it but he could also pass it. When he was running the fast break, if he didn't shoot the ball he knew that I was on the wing somewhere and then I would get the ball and I could take that one step and take an easy jump shot."
The pivoting drills were very interesting. Jackson explained that there are inside pivots, outside pivots, inside reverse pivots and outside reverse pivots and that which pivot a player uses depends on where he is on the court and how the defense is guarding him. Players who pivoted incorrectly during the drills were gently corrected by Jackson or one of the assistant coaches. Pivoting is a vital skill for all basketball players (not just post players) and it is essential in the Triangle Offense; whether a player receives the ball in the low post, the high post or on the perimeter he must be able to make the right read, execute a crisp pivot and then pass, shoot or drive.
The Triangle Offense drills began with assistant coach Chuck Person shooting a free throw. If Person made the free throw then the players inbounded the ball, went down court and ran a Triangle Offense set that Jackson had just described, while if Person missed the free throw they rebounded the ball, scored and then inbounded the ball. Jackson described four different Triangle sets and had the first group of five players run each set before the next group of five players took the court. The four sets included (1) feeding a cutting big man in transition, (2) passing to the wing in the corner who passed back to a guard near the top of the key for a jumper, (3) a guard shooting a pullup jumper in transition and (4) a pass to the corner followed by a return pass to the guard, a ball reversal and a pass to a cutter (these descriptions may not be precise because I am working off of what I remember Jackson saying as I tried to tune out Fein and Nixon). Jackson emphasized the importance of proper spacing, correct footwork and good timing; the players must learn to read the defense and react accordingly, which is only possible if each player is in the right place at the right time doing the right thing.
At one point, a confused looking Artest asked no one in particular if the Lakers had not taken a certain action out of the playbook last season. He then walked over to Derek Fisher and Fisher patiently explained that the option had only been taken out of the playbook for one particular playoff series. It sure would have been interesting to hear Nixon elaborate on that point but I guess I just have to be grateful that Nixon and Fein stopped talking long enough that I could actually hear the Artest-Fisher conversation. Artest then went back on the court and helpfully told the other players what Fisher had said. Later, Fisher and Pau Gasol tried to explain certain Triangle Offense options to Artest but instead of hearing Artest's microphone we heard Nixon and Fein talking. At one point, Artest marveled about how quickly new Laker Steve Blake has picked up the Triangle and he even asked Blake about this; Blake mentioned that he had come before training camp to do some work with Coach Jackson. Blake said that he already felt comfortable with the reads but was still a little confused about some of the terminology and Artest replied that during timeouts in games Jackson uses a lot of that terminology but even if the players don't understand what Jackson is saying they just go out on the court and make the right reads.
Those little glimpses sure explain a lot about how Artest played on offense last season!
After the practice, Nixon asked Coach Jackson what areas the Lakers most needed to improve and Jackson replied, "Last year, our bench didn't score very well for us at times and let us down in some of the ball games by not holding their end of the bargain up. We really wanted to build our bench a little bit with some experience and speed. Those are the two things. Luke Walton was injured last year, played 20 games. He really was kind of a playmaker off our bench, kind of held the glue together some times, and we missed him out there on the floor. This year if his injury or what he is dealing with right now becomes a problem then we have Matt Barnes who came in with great speed and quickness. Steve Blake is a experienced, playmaking guard who already understands a lot of the concepts of basketball that we are trying to emphasize. He looks like he will be a pretty good fit. He is not particularly a scorer but he will help guys get to the basket and score. Theo Ratliff is a guy who is an old dog in this game. He is an alligator, he knows how to go down there and wrestle and he knows how to block shots."
In other words--even though "stat gurus" (and certain so-called experts) insisted that Kobe Bryant would not have had to hit so many game winning shots if Bryant had not allegedly been so inefficient early in games--Coach Jackson confirmed what I repeatedly said about the Lakers' bench and their lack of depth.
Later in the interview, Coach Jackson revealed that he did not make his decision to come back until his doctor assured him that certain ongoing medical issues were not severe enough to possibly cause Jackson to have to miss extended periods of time during the upcoming season. Jackson also said that he spoke with Bryant, who urged Jackson to lead the Lakers on their quest to claim a second "three-peat" (which would be the fourth "three-peat" of Jackson's career) and who told Jackson that during the summer he had kidded LeBron James that James should find a city that James would be happy to play in and where he could win yet another regular season MVP--but that Bryant and the Lakers were going to capture the more meaningful prize, an NBA title.
Regarding James and the Miami Heat, Jackson said, "We're the champs but they're favored and I think that's a real incentive, a wonderful incentive for us."
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History of the Library - The Athena Club 1903 - 1907
(Athene or Athena was the goddess of wisdom and of the arts and sciences in Greek mythology)
In October of 1903 a group of 19 young women met to organize a club. The name Athena Club was chosen. They decided that every three months, each member should pay the sum of 25 cents into the treasury.
One member, a Mrs. Clyde Nichols, suggested starting a free reading room on a small scale, and as the club grew, to secure the necessary means to enlarge it. The club voted to undertake the project and money, books and magazines.
The formation of a library was one of the main objectives of the group and to finance the purchase of books, many social events, such as oyster suppers and strawberry festivals were conducted.
On January 26, 1904 the Glendora Reading Room was opened, offering some books and magazines to eager readers. Volunteers staffed the reading room. The exact location of this first reading room is difficult to pinpoint. One location given is a storeroom on the northwest corner of Michigan (now Glendora Ave.) and Meda; another is in the back rooms of what later became Reed's Hardware at Michigan and Meda (southwest corner). Another location reported is between Meda and Bennett on Michigan and still another mentions that a Mr. Weaver gave the club a building for the reading room.
When the reading room opened, a Mrs. McCormick was overseer in the daytime and a Mrs. Shepherd in the evenings. A list of standard and popular magazines had been ordered and a number of older magazine issues were on the shelves.
As activity increased it was realized that the reading room was not adequate and the Athenas rented Frank Odell's house (Odell was a father of charter member Verna Odell), south of the Weaver building and just north of the wash (approximately where the Village book store now stands). The Library was in one room and the librarian had the rest of the house rent free and received $12 a month.
Every month about 12 of the first class magazines were received, along with several weekly papers and two daily papers. The Women's Christian Temperance Union also generously donated to enable the Athena Club to purchase books. The patrons grew as did the library.
Through the Glendora Gleaner (the local newspaper) the ladies of the Athena Club notified those who had kept books over two weeks that they would be taxed two cents a day until their return.
On March 11, 1905 a public meeting was held at Forrester's Hall to discuss the plans for a public hall, library and library rooms. Everyone was encouraged by the attendance and the interest show by the citizens of the town. It was decided that the matter of incorporating the club would be brought up at their next business meeting. In this way they hoped to sell shares in the building and get the support of all of the citizens of Glendora. No further mention of this endeavor can be found.
In January 1906 the Athena Club decided to move the Library into the Fager building and Mrs. Kingsley was engaged to act as Librarian. It was decided to hold a dime social that month to raise money to pay the expenses of moving, renewing magazine subscriptions and the rent.
On February 7, 1907 the Gleaner noted that the Athena Club held its regular meeting. Owing to the inclement weather only a small number of members were present and no business of importance was transacted. There was no further mention in the newspaper of the Athena Club or the little Glendora Library until March 1909.
The Athena Club faded after February 1907 and apparently the reading room book collection was abandoned for several years until the time the Athena Club became part of the then newly-formed Glendora Woman's Club.


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My first time trying them. Melissa did a great job of communicating promptly with me, and when I picked up the car, Grey was very helpful and supportive in his interaction with me. I needed new Struts and a Caliper, and I am very pleased with the work that They did on my car. Will definitely go back again for other service needs. Thanks!
Fast, Fair, and Honest
The best people, the best prices, the best service in the whole area!!! We'll always use Crabapple Automotive...always!
Honest,accurate, reasonable Best shop I have even found in Georgia in my 10 years here. Grey and crew are the nicest folks!!!
Grey and the crew have taken care of my vehicles for a number of years... fronm basic tune-ups to transmission servicing to suspension work and alignments ... they do it all. If there is ever any sort of discrepancy, they do there best to rectify the situation to the customer's satisfaction. Gray is an honest, fair & reasonable, as well as talented, master mechanic. I highly recommend Crabapple Automotive.
These people are the most humble, honest mechanics i have ever met! They treat you like family and they do everything they can to assist you in your car needs! They've been servicing my car for years and have yet to disappoint :)
Crabapple Automotive's owner, Gray, has been working on my two cars and my moms, for the past 10 years. He's very honest, his staff is friendly and treats me with respect. They have always fixed any issue that I've had on any of my cars within a reasonable timeframe. I recently took my Honda into the dealership to get fixed and they quoted me more than half of what Gray charged me. I would recommend Gray and his staff to anyone who is looking for an honest shop!
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Great service, great people. Fixed my 2013 Genesis Coupe 3.8 quickly. Showed me exactly what they were going to do before the job and car is running great again, even a month after the work was done. Will definitely come here again and recommend.
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Super fast and friendly! Helped me in 10 min when a chain wouldn't after 2 hrs
Reasonably priced and good, honest, reliable mechanics.
This place is the best! I have been going here for many years. I recently went to get an oil change at a different location and they pushed me to get a coolant flush and that my air filters needed to be replaced. I decided to take it to Grey to get that done. When I came here, they told me they didn't see any reason why those things needed to be done. Crabapple Automotive is honest and the best around! Would recommend to anyone!
On a rare occasion, they misdiagnosed my A/C compressor, and then refunded my diagnosis cost! Called me very sincerely and offered that the owner could exclusively look at my car the next time I come in (which was a very nice gesture.) That's a 5-star move right there. Everyone I've spoken to is extremely nice and personable.
Grey and his guys are awesome. Lowest price around and they do great work. My quote from Dodge was $1500 - Grey did it for $300 and had everything fixed in a day.
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They replaced a fuel pump on my truck, they did fast good work at a reasonable price will definitely revisit in the future
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Lovely local mechanic shop and they treat you like you're part of their community not just the client.
Grey and the team did an outstanding job for my car repairs. Fair and honest people to work with. Great customer service!
I have used this Chevron Station for gas, battery, car maintenance and more. From the mechanics to the owner they all are friendly,professional and go above and beyond to make sure my car is safe and in good repair. This station is well run and has done there very best to accommodate me even on short notice. They have been a complete gas and mechanical service for me. They are the best! I depend on Gary and his group and am never disappointed. Thank you! Lastly, I drove in at the end of the day and they helped me to get my car phone working.No charge and with a smile. This is the best shop for my car's needs!
Crabapple Automotive is our "GO TO'' maintenance establishment for everything! The entire staff is always warm hearted and very supportive! They are very reliable and eager to please. Their main goals are to keep their customers satisfied and safe. They have serviced our families automobiles for about five or more years and each time we have departed with huge smiles on our faces due to the expertise of Gary and his establishment! The BEST place ever!
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Crabapple Automotive delivers all your automotive needs with a difference! When you walk into the office you know you are going to get personal care and follow up surpassed by none. No rip off because you are a women. Parts removed are there to see when you pick up your car. True estimates not a bait and switch like the national chains. If your care needs a reliable home for anything from emission testing to engine overhaul, Crabapple Automotive is the place to be.
High Quality Work & Great Customer Service
Grey and the crew have taken care of my vehicles for a number of years... fronm basic tune-ups to transmission servicing to suspension work and alignments ... they do it all. If there is ever any sort of discrepancy, they do there best to rectify the situation to the customer's satisfaction. Gray is an honest, fair & reasonable, as well as talented, master mechanic. I highly recommend Crabapple Automotive.
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I can't say enough about how awesome my experience was at Crabapple Automotive! I was in a real bind and needed my brakes fixed quickly. Not only did they do the job quickly, the price was extremely reasonable. Would highly recommend Crabapple Automotive!
High quality service, makes you feel like family!
These people are the most humble, honest mechanics i have ever met! They treat you like family and they do everything they can to assist you in your car needs! They've been servicing my car for years and have yet to disappoint :)
Great auto shop
After months of dealing with other auto shops to fix a minor problem with my car I decided to try this place glad I did the fixed the problem that turned out to be a sensor and also fixed my brakes they did the job on a Sat when everyone else is closed and did it fast and affordable I am very pleased with crabapple automotive I would recommend them to anyone and will definitely use them again..
Friendly, honest, and efficient.
Most auto repair places will take you through the grinder trying to sell you things you don't need, whether they'll knowledgeable enough to know that they're doing it or not. These guys know what they're doing. They keep us all coming back through their honesty and ability to explain things in simple terms. You'll never leave this place feeling like you've been ripped off. I'll bring all my cars here for years to come!
Great service. Fair prices
Grey is great. Fair and decent. Hard to find in the auto biz. Highly recommend
Gray and his team go the extra mile
I would not take my cars any where else.
Excellent service/reasonably priced
These guys are great. I feel especially comfortable because not only do they do a great job, but I also get a little something more: respect. As a woman, I want to know that I'll be treated fairly. Trustworthy, fair prices and quality service. Can't beat it so I take my business there.
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In Zimbabwe, where money has been reduced to worthless paper due to hyperinflation, citizens are forced to panning for gold to pay for bread to stave off hunger.
Hyperinflation is an economic phenomenon, the root of which can be complex–but generally blamed on an increase in money supply, which consequently reduces the value of the money in stock. In Zimbabwe, as of 2008, the inflation rate is estimated at 516,000,000,000,000,000,000% (516 quintillion).
The sordid history of how great increases in money supply led to hyperinflation is chronicled in the wiki entry for Hyperinflation In Zimbabwe, which started with the government printing new currency to pay off international debts in 2006.
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Blue Velvet opens with a disarmingly weird shot of blue-velvet curtains shuffling almost nervously before parting to display several loving slow-motion shots of Rockwellian Americana—bright flowers against a white picket fence, a fireman waving jovially from his truck, schoolkids marching along a crosswalk. A man watering his lawn suffers a stroke under the noonday sun, and we pan down, way down, until we see insects scurrying in a frenzy under the grass, their buzzing and clicking amplified to horrific effect. Gradually we begin to understand that something sinister is going on beneath the all-American façade. Something vaguely disturbing and somehow organically evil. This brilliant opening montage holds the whole of Blue Velvet in microcosm, the contention that beneath the surface of the American Dream festers a malevolent rash of violence and moral decay.
Written and directed by David Lynch (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive), Blue Velvet is a powerful and hallucinatory film that documents a young man's coming of age against a backdrop of perversion, sadomasochism, and violence. This is a film that delves into the black side of human nature in a way that few films have ever accomplished. It's a film that will stay with you—like the stuttery twitch-memories of a nightmare—long after its end credits scroll.
Kyle MacLachlan portrays Jeffrey Beaumont, a college boy called home to visit his father, who's in the hospital suffering from the opening-montage stroke. Wandering toward his childhood home from a brief and difficult visit at the hospital, Jeffrey finds a severed human ear in a field. After taking the ear to the Lumberton town detective, he finds himself irresistibly drawn into a mystery that will lead him deep into a disturbing, depraved underworld that is rendered all the more powerfully because we see only its outward effects. We see little of the undoubtedly hideous underpinnings, the fleshy machinations—we see only the anger and utter strangeness of its top couple of layers. In a key scene toward the end, we see the odd and terrible result of a scene of violence, but we don't see how it played out. The horror remains unspoken, unseen, and because of that, it lingers in your subconsciousness.
The film tells parallel love stories—one young and innocent and the other twisted and horrifying. The first, between Jeffrey and high school girl Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), is something right out of a 50s sitcom, purity and puppy love mixed with a healthy dose of boy-detective-meets-prom-queen. The second, between sadistic psychopath Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) and past-her-prime torch singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) is a study of sexual depravity and misogyny. It's when the love stories interconnect—when Jeffrey gets in over his head by peeping on the seductively horrific goings-on in Dorothy's bleak apartment—that Blue Velvet simmers with raw, exposed-nerve power.
This is a strange and unforgettable film, in which abhorrent violence and evil coexist dreamily with good old-fashioned American values and iconography, waking us up to the fact that evil has always throbbed beneath our pretty surfaces—and always will.
The performances are terrific. Hopper steals the show as Frank, roaring his way through the part in a way that will quicken your pulse. Rossellini is sad and unforgettable as Dorothy, in a humiliating role that received negative press from Roger Ebert. MacLachlan and Dern are appropriately young and naïve in their roles.
Frankly, I was hoping this new special edition would look better than it does. A direct comparison with the original DVD shows a subtle improvement in image quality, but nothing earth-shattering. Both DVDs provide a nice anamorphic transfer of the film's original 2.35:1 theatrical presentation. The image quality of both shows source-element age, a general softness, and some murkiness. Detail is somewhat better on the new release, but colors seem more accurate on the older release. I wouldn't buy the new version in hopes of a dramatically better picture.
Again, my expectations were a bit dashed by the advertised Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track. Of course, I realize that the original elements were stereo, and a 5.1 recreation would be a dubious pleasure (particularly if such a remix were to occur against Lynch's wishes), but I still found myself looking forward to the dynamic track promised on the packaging. I noticed absolutely no activity in the rear soundstage—false advertising in my book. Why advertise a surround experience when you get nothing of the sort (regardless of Lynch's audio preferences)? As is, this is a perfectly serviceable stereo track that accurately captures the original theatrical experience, but it certainly ain't a 5.1 track.
The main draw of this new release is the inclusion of supplementary materials. First up is a nice 70-minute documentary titled Mysteries of Love, an talking-heads look at the making of Blue Velvet. Many members of the cast and crew are featured in recent interviews, including MacLachlan, Dern, Hopper, and Rossellini. We also get words of wisdom from producer Fred Caruso, cinematographer Frederick Elmes, and editor Dwayne Dunham. Unfortunately, the one missing link among the recent interviews is Lynch himself, although the piece features many late-80s interview segments with the director. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to these people reminisce about one of my favorite films, but even at 70 minutes, the film could have probed more deeply into the film's mysteries.
Next is a Deleted Scenes Montage, which is not a collection of scenes so much as a collection of stills edited together to give you a sense of what was deleted from the original cut. Apparently, the full scenes are lost. Ten scenes are reconstructed here, albeit in a frustrating way. I've never been much of a fan of still galleries, and this definitely has that feel. Had the scenes been complete, some of these would have been fascinating, particularly the grim A Gift From Frank.
Next is a 2-minute snippet from the original Siskel & Ebert review that aired on TV. It's an entertaining but obviously brief debate, showcasing the decidedly hot-and-cold public reception of the film. This piece made me realize what a terrific critic Gene Siskel was.
You also get a photo gallery, a theatrical trailer, two TV spots, and few amusing Easter eggs that are very easy to discover. You also get a chapter-selection menu!
Blue Velvet is David Lynch's best film, a straightforward narrative bloated with Lynchian weirdness and horror. You need to own this film. But if you already do, you need to ask yourself whether the supplements and marginal imrovements in image/sound quality are worth the extra money.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The dollar rose against the euro Monday as disappointing German inflation data were the latest to signal the European Central Bank could be forced to ease monetary policy this week to fight low inflation.
The euro EURUSD +0.05% fell to $1.3598 from $1.3635 late Friday. German inflation for May missed expectations, with the EU-harmonized annual reading falling to 0.6% from 1.1% in April. The soft inflation reading in the euro zone's largest economy increased chances that overall inflation data, due Tuesday, could also be a disappointment. Separately, data showed the region's manufacturing growth slowed by more in Maythan initially estimated.
"Once you start seeing the effects in Germany, it becomes an easier decision," said Andrew Dilz, a currency trader at Tempus, Inc., referring to German inflation data.
"But in the back of our minds, and the reason we haven't blown through $1.36 yet, is that outside risk [the ECB] won't actually do anything," he said.
The euro has fallen since ECB President Mario Draghi hinted that easing could come in June.
The ECB will issue a decision on Thursday, followed by a press conference by ECB President Mario Draghi. Market participants are widely expecting the central bank to cut rates, with some forecasting negative deposit rates. At the same time, the Federal Reserve is on track to finish its stimulative bond-buying program by year end, setting up for eventual rate hikes. Higher U.S. rates should make dollar-denominated assets more attractive to investors. Read: ECB expected to slash rates, hold back on QE bazooka
"Bond and FX investors are desperate to see the 'higher USD/higher US rates' trade come to fruition. As this week gets going, our sense is that they'd like to take a looser ECB and neutral-to-better US data as a new 'trigger point' for that divergence," said Stephen Gallo, European head of foreign-exchange strategy at BMO Capital Markets, in a note.
The ICE dollar index DXY -0.03% , which pits the greenback against six other currencies, rose to 80.634 from 80.379 late Friday. The index is heavily weighted toward the euro. The WSJ Dollar Index XX:BUXX -0.03% , which measures the dollar against a wider basket of rivals, rose to 73.45 from 73.17.
U.S. manufacturers expanded at the fastest rate this year in May, with the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index rising to 55.4% from 54.9% in April. The ISM corrected a previous number that was skewed lower by seasonal-adjustment errors. Data released Monday also showed construction spending in April rose 0.2% to a seasonally adjusted rate of $953.5 billion, missing forecasts of a 0.8% increase.
Elsewhere, China's manufacturing sector expanded by more than expected in May, with China's official manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index rising to 50.8 from 50.4 in April. Read: The 3 most important charts of the global manufacturing PMI data
The British pound GBPUSD +0.01% inched down to $1.6747 from $1.6762 late Friday. The Bank of England is scheduled to issue a decision on Thursday, with most economists expecting no change in policy.
The Australian dollar AUDUSD +0.05% dropped to 92.46 U.S. cents from 93.11 U.S. cents late Friday. Australian data released Monday showed the number of approved home-building permits dropped 5.6% in April from March. The Reserve Bank of Australia is scheduled to issue its monetary-policy decision on Tuesday, local time.
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|March 25, 1999, 01:00 PM
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I was recently invited to act as a backup to a bow-hunter. He would like to take a black bear with his bow, I would tag along with my .303 to keep him from becoming bear-lunch if he fails.
I do not think that trusting me on this is a good idea. However, I realized I would like to try hunting, small game to start with, deer later.
I realized that I lack any idea as to where to find game, when and where it is legal to hunt and what to do with the critter if and when I succeed.
Could any Minnesotans on TFL clue me in on these questions? Also, would anyone like to take a complete neophite along next time they go hunting?
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Better, yet, can the Minnesotans on this list suggest where I can walk around and plink that is not too far from Minneapolis (I have one place, currently, 4 1/2 hrs away)?
|March 25, 1999, 05:24 PM
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Mr. Rat,
I would be very surprised if you could legally have a firearm in the field while your friend is hunting during the archery season. The state Game management agency in Minnesota would probably confiscate your .303, remove your hunting privelege for at least five years, and take away your birthday.
|March 25, 1999, 05:33 PM
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Actually, he plans to go during the rifle season. His object is to challenge himself...but not to become bear food if he overestimates his skill with the bow.
He normally hunts bear, deer, elk and boar with 30-30 and a 45-70 carbine, just wants to try something different.
|March 25, 1999, 07:10 PM
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CR, be carefull, if you shoot that bear you'll be killing one of my friends...grin
actually I think if you don't have a bear license and you shoot one, your in big trouble, better check with the DNR first.
The few bear hunters I know carry handguns as backup but don't know if that's ok or not.
why don't you try one of the game farms for pheasants? a dog is nice, but you can still flush them with out one. try to stay away from the public hunting lands close to the cities, some pretty loosely wound people there. may not have to drive 4.5 hrs but a couple hours wouldn't hurt.
Don't do much hunting around here anymore but if we head for one of the game farms I'll let ya know. most of my hunting is in S. Dakota
shooting prairie dogs. Burnsville range is having a IPSC style fun shoot soon, maybe ya want to come?? you'll have to call for details, I'm at work now so I don't know when it is. stay well and shoot safe.
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JUNE UNDER THE SUN: There are many things to like about the Palm Springs and Desert Resorts Restaurant Week. Chief among those things? The fact that the area is renown for being home to many excellent eateries. (When we see the occasional restaurant week in an area that isn't known for its dine-out scene, well; we applaud that, too, because you can only build from there.) But the great dine-out choices aren't the only reason we're sweet on the P.S. eat-out event; we love it because it happens the first week of June. Right? Do we need to say anything else there? If you've been to Palm Springs in June you know you don't need to pack your parka; heck, you barely need more than a bathing suit and sarong. That's some most awesome audacity, right there, planning a major food event in the hottest period on the calendar. And our personal postscript? As we've said in this space, we absolutely love Palm Springs at its hottest. Sweet, sweet heat.
NOW, THE RESTAURANTS: We've taken our time getting to the list because the list is so big we can hardly dig in. But here are a few names you're likely to like: bluEmber, Johannes Restaurant, Las Casuelas Terrazza, and Spencer's Restaurant. One look at the list tells you the venues run from La Quinta to Rancho Mirage to what is perhaps the eatiest strip in all of the desert, Palm Canyon Drive. There will be a lot of night dining options, of course, but we'll be happiest at 2 p.m., when it is capping 100 degrees, and we're under a mister downing a giant fresh avocado-laden salad and an Arnold Palmer, extra ice. Summer in P.S.