Anybody know or heard of CJM furniture refinishing on St Croix?
A well-known rental mgmt company on Stx withheld $500 of our deposit after we moved --pending the cost to repair a water ring on a table. While I might have argued that a water ring on a wood table in rental condo in the VI is standard wear and tear, I didn't argue.
7 months later I was sent an invoice with the initials "CJM" refinishing but no address or contact info. Looks homemade, and now includes refinishing a dresser and end table (which as you can imagine I also take issue with). Total invoice: exactly $500.
By rental contract, they were supposed to settle any outstanding charges and return our remaining deposit within 60 days, but they took 7 months.
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"Final Builds of 10.8.2 and 10.7.5 Maintain OS X Battery Life"?The Mac Observer?9/22
"Apple goes against grain, extends support for Snow Leopard: If Apple had done the expected and not patched Snow Leopard, the number of users running a retired edition of OS X would have ballooned to 47 percent"?Computerworld?9/21
"Flashback malware for OS X appears to be going extinct"?MacFixIt?9/21
AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"Aperture 3.4: May quit unexpectedly on launch after updating"?Apple Support?9/22
"Q&A MacFixIt Answers: We answer reader questions about using Maps from iOS 5 on iOS 6, Time Machine backups, and more."?CNET Reviews?9/21
"Mac Files of the Weird: iCal Calendar not Available when Creating new Event"?Run Around Tech?9/21
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"How To Use Your Mac Dock to Toggle Login Items & Other Dock Tips"?The Mac Observer?9/22
"Speed testing Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion"?ThinkDigit?9/22
"Head-to-Head: iTunes Match versus Amazon Cloud Player"?TechHive?9/21
"Ask the iTunes Guy: More iTunes Store questions"?Macworld?9/21
"MacPhun Snapheal 2.0 review: The new version of Snapheal has a range of brush-based adjustments to allow for more fine control over image correction."?Macworld UK?9/21
"Gemini For Mac OS X Great At Blasting Away Duplicate Files"?MacNews?9/21
"Bypass The Mac App Store To Update Mountain Lion Software"?Cult of Mac?9/21
"Growl On The Mac Is Back! This Time It Works With Notification Center In OS X Mountain Lion"?Mac 360?9/21
"Did You Really Click That Button? Should You Click Again? Use This Click Tool On Your Mac To Know"?Mac 360?9/21
"End The Background Noise On Skype Or FaceTime With Push To Talk On Your Mac"?McSolo?9/21
"Are Email Attachments Driving You Nuts? Try The Attachment Tamer On Your Mac"?Mac 360?9/21
"Writedown Is The Inexpensive Mac Text Editor That Uses Markdown"?NoodleMac?9/21
Op/Ed
"iOS / Mac Dev. creates MAME arcade machine powered by an iPhone"?9 to 5 Mac?9/22
"Apple Most Valuable Brand, OS X 10.8.2 Update, Launchpad Manager, and More"?Low End Mac?9/21
"To Defrag, Or Not To Defrag Your Mac? That's The Friday Question"?BohemianBoomer?9/21
"On Cleaning Mac Caches, Customizing, Optimizing, And Disaster Preparation (oh, and a note on viruses)"?TeraTalks?9/21
"Microsoft Office for Mac Updated for Retina Display, Secondary Mobile Displays, and More"?Low End Mac?9/21
"Apimac Secret Folder is now ready for OS X Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper"?Apimac?9/21
"BuildEdge PLAN for SketchUp Mac Beta now available"?Architosh?9/21
"Apple co-founder sees future as computer's pet"?Brisbane Times?6:48 AM
"T-Mobile USA invites iPhone users to HSPA+ networks"?PCWorld?9/22
"The iPhone 5 scene at Apple's retail stores"?Macworld?9/22
"Slick Window Display Promotes New iPhone 5"?ifoAppleStore?9/22
"50 iPhone 5s stolen from London store in worldwide spate"?Crave @ CNET?9/22
"Wireless carriers hope to temper iPhone 5 margin pain"?Reuters?9/22
"iPhone 5 matches monthlong sales figures for 4S in just 3 days: ComScore report says the first three days of online preorders for the iPhone 5 matched the earlier Apple record set by the iPhone 4S over the course of a month."?CNET News?9/21
"Transit app developers see iOS 6 Maps as a chance to shine"?Ars Technica?9/21
"Early iPhone 5 Purchases Trend Toward iPhone 4S Upgraders and Black Models Amid Long Lines"?MacRumors?9/21
"Apple union's 'Day of Solidarity' to protest working conditions: As the iPhone 5 hits stores today, an Apple workers union asks store employees to demand better conditions in France and at Foxconn."?CNET News?9/21
"Apple fans and critics converge in Paris for iPhone 5"?CNET News?9/21
"Labor protest at Apple iPhone party in Paris"?Reuters?9/21
"iPhone 5 launch-day mania: Apple's map troubles haven't stopped the iPhone 5 launch-day crowds. CNET Update talks to fanatics in line at the Cube in New York City."?CNET News?9/21
"Apple iPhone 5 launch: Queues go global as Samsung offends millions"?Computerworld?9/21
"iPhone 5 launch draws Apple fans across the world"?New York Post?9/21
"A short, wonderful tale of iPhone 5 lines across North America [Slideshow]?BetaNews?9/21
"Live on Fifth Avenue from Apple's iPhone 5 launch (updated)"?Fortune?9/21
"Hundreds lining up in Sacramento to buy iPhone 5"?Sacramento Bee?9/21
"iPhone 5 launch live from Apple Store Montreal"?iMore?9/21
"iPhone 5 buyers flood stores, jam phone lines as they rush to purchase, activate smartphones"?Vancouver Sun?9/21
"iPhone 5 launch live from the Regent Street Apple Store in London"?iMore?9/21
"Waiting For The iPhone 5 (Video)"?Forbes?9/21
"iPhone 5 queue hysteria captured in launch-day photos"?Crave @ CNET?9/21
"iPhone 5 lines from around the world [Video]?BGR?9/21
"Wal-Mart, Apple, Amazon and Google: In corporate battles, customers may be casualties"?Washington Post [Free Registration Required]?9/21
"London iPhone 5 Madness: 'You must be CRAZY to buy Apple'"?The Register?9/21
"Woz on iPhone in 40 years: 'I won't want you humans'"?SlashGear?9/21
"Woz in Brisbane, Australia with his iPhone 5 (with video)"?MacDailyNews?9/21
"Tales From The Front Of The iPhone 5 Line: Stick It In My Veins"?TechCrunch?9/21
"Singapore lines up for the iPhone 5"?CNET News?9/21
"Crowds queue to snap up latest iPhone"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?9/21
"Sprint Nearly Sold Out of iPhone 5 at Many East Coast Spots"?AllThingsD?9/21
"Best Buy, other retailers delaying iPhone 5 preorders"?Electronista?9/21
"Smuggled iPhone 5s Sell for as Much as $3,700 in Moscow"?ABCNews?9/21
"Smugglers take iPhone 5 to China, but supplies thin"?Reuters?9/21
"Apple store assistant sought after hundreds of iPhone 5s are stolen"?The Independent?9/21
"Burglars in Japan First to Get Hands on iPhone 5"?WSJ Blogs?9/21
"Look At All These iPhone 5s Flooding FedEx's Distribution Center [Image]?Cult of Mac?9/21
"Marketers hijack iPhone 5 launch"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?9/21
"Apple's Siri continues dominance over Samsung's S Voice"?Electronista?9/21
"New Google Voice Search, Siri are closely matched (hands-on)"?CNET?9/21
"Google's November Assault on Microsoft and Apple"?TheStreet?9/21
"London Underground offers offline maps to those who updated to iOS6 and no longer have schedules"?9 to 5 Mac?9/21
"Starbucks to support Passbook in iOS 6 by end of September"?Macworld?9/21
"Airlines, Theaters, More Sign On for Apple's Passbook"?PC Magazine?9/21
"Worry not, Snapseed lovers: Google's Vic Gundotra says Nik Software's products will live on"?The Next Web?9/21
"Apple rep pitches iPad possibilities: About 30 community members gathered Wednesday for a presentation that Watauga County Schools administrators hope will put wheels in motion for a technology initiative for K-8 students."?Watauga Democrat: Boone, NC?9/21
"The New York PD wants to help find your iPhone: Police at 5th Ave. Apple Store to register new iDevices, will do Android too."?Ars Technica?9/21
Non-Apple News
"Nintendo teases Wii U Gamecube downloads"?TG Daily?9/21
"Xperia Ion Ice Cream Sandwich update rolls out"?TG Daily?9/21
"Sony explains lack of 12 GB PS3 in US"?TG Daily?9/21
"Scottish researchers develop software that allows humans to talk to robots"??9/21
"Who Steve Case is betting on now: Tech's slightly graying elder statesman is not so bullish on major media companies."?Fortune?9/21
"Winklevoss twins steer new course"?Financial Times [Paid Membership Required]?9/21
"More Boeing planes to get wireless, cellular connectivity"?PCWorld?9/21
"RIM updates BlackBerry Mobile Fusion device management suite"?ZDNet?9/21
"RIM CEO Apologizes For Yet Another BlackBerry Outage, Details How Many Users Affected"?TechCrunch?9/21
"RIM fixes BlackBerry outage that hit Europe, Middle East, Africa"?CNET News?9/21
"Google Apps users get email and contacts migration tool"?ZDNet?9/21
"Q&A: Google's VP of enterprise Amit Singh at Dreamforce '12"?ZDNet?9/21
"Google shuts once-feted China music download service"?Reuters?9/21
Publications/Podcasts
"5by5 | The Critical Path #55: Gravity Well"?asymco?9/22
"Gene Steinberg meets Alexander Adam, from Quasado, Mac|Life columnist Adrian Hoppel, and The Mac Observer's John Martellaro this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?9/21
"Hossein Yassaie: Meet the man with the big Imagination/The technology chief played a vital role in developing Apple's new iPhone5 ? but there is a lot more to come, he tells Gideon Spanier"?The Independent?9/21
"David Pogue: iPhone Improved in Every Possible Way/New York Times technology columnist David Pogue and Daring Fireball tech blogger John Gruber discuss the iPhone 5." [Video Report]?Bloomberg?9/21
"iPhone 5 Ships! Selling your iPhone, Apple Care, Maps (Podcast)"?Insanely Great Mac?9/21
"iPhone 5 camera powered by Sony sensor: Photography is ever more important in smartphone usage, and a close-up view shows that Sony got the coveted spot supplying the sensor for Apple's new smartphone."?CNET News?6:50 AM
"iPhone 5 jailbroken, but not yet available for us"?Crave @ CNET?6:58 AM
"Cracked! Hacker Claims to Jailbreak the iPhone 5."?AllThingsD?9/22
"Some iPhone 5 orders arriving with cosmetic damage"?Electronista?9/22
"iPhone 5 Users Reporting Yellow Tint On Their Displays [PHOTOS]?Redmond Pie?9/22
"Apple A6 Die Revealed: 3-core GPU, AnandTech?9/21
"Confirmed: Apple's A6 uses triple-core GPU/It's the same GPU as in the iPhone 4S, there's just more of it."?Ars Technica?9/21
"Could Apple's A6 be a 'big-little' processor?"?EE Times?9/21
"iPhone 5 More Repairable than iPhone 4, 4S, Says iFixit"?eWeek?9/21
"Apple can replace broken iPhone 5 screens in the store, says report"?CNET News?9/21
"The Verizon iPhone 5 is GSM unlocked, tested with AT&T"?iDownload Blog?9/21
"Amid record retail launch, iPhone 5 online ship times slip to four weeks"?Tap For Mobile?9/21
"Google homes in on Maps app for iOS 6, report says: The company is reportedly working on a Google Maps app, but there is rampant confusion over whether it was actually submitted for approval in the Apple App Store yet."?CNET News?9/21
"The Apple iPhone 5 has reportedly been jailbroken"?The Next Web?9/21
"The iPhone 5 lets you put 16 apps inside a folder"?iDownload Blog?9/21
"Researchers hack iPhone, steal data: White-hat hackers broke into the developer version of iOS 6, meaning Apple's new iPhone 5 could be vulnerable"?CSO?9/21
"Asian Suppliers of iPhone Components Scramble to Meet Orders"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9/21
"Apple Cuts Display Orders to Samsung, Loses Patent Case in Germany"?Patently Apple?9/21
"Taiwan market: Parallel-imported iPhone 5 available for sale at 40-50% higher prices, says newspaper"?DigiTimes?9/21
"PSA: Don't leave negative reviews for non-widescreen apps -- developers are updating as fast as they can!"?iMore?9/21
"iPhone 5 Unboxing - Both Black and White Models - AKA the obligatory iPhone unboxing (Video)"?Insanely Great Mac?9/21
"The iPhone 5 Gets Unboxed"?Mashable?9/21
"iPhone OS 3: Let's Build an App List"?Low End Mac?9/21
AppleCare/Helps
"iBooks and iBookstore: Parental Controls in iOS 6"?Apple Support?9/22
"Developers claim Safari in iOS 6 breaks Web apps with aggressive caching: The HTTP specification says one thing, Safari does another."?Ars Technica?9/21
"How to Clean Your MacBook Safely and Effectively"?Mactuts+?9/21
Price Trackers/Deals
"There are no new item in The US Apple Store, 99 were unchanged, and seven were Sold Out."?While Supplies Last?6:52 AM
"Velocispider For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $2.99)"?Apple Sliced?9/22
"Hanger For iPhone Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?9/22
"R-Tech Commander Colony For iPhone Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?9/22
"There are no new item in The US Apple Store, 106 were unchanged, and one was Sold Out."?While Supplies Last?9/22
"iPhone Buyer's Guide... $0 To $950 - The Best iPhone Prices, Deals, Reviews And Information"?MacReviewZone?9/22
"ProCam For iPhone Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?9/21
"Don't Run With a Plasma Sword For iPhone and iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $1.99)"?Apple Sliced?9/21
"Battle Monkeys For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $1.99)"?Apple Sliced?9/21
"iPad (2012) Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?9/21
"MacBook Air Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?9/21
"MacBook Pro Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?9/21
"Refurbished MacBook Air from $679, free shipping, Mountain Lion"?FairerPlatform?9/21
Deal Brothers Daily Deal: Mac mini 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5:? $1189.00 Delivered
Reviews
"Apple iPhone 5's A6 Outshines Rivals in Performance Tests: Apple iPhone 5 is said to have a tri-core PowerVR SGX 543MP3 GPU running at a higher speed"?International Business Times?6:57 AM
"Apple's iPhone 5 outperforms Android Galaxy S III and RAZR M"?TG Daily?6:49 AM
"iPhone 5 Camera Battle: Is It the Best Smartphone Shooter?"?Gizmodo?9/22
"iPhone 5: The First Hour"?SplatF?9/22
"Apple iPhone 5 first impressions: Beauty is in the hand of the beholder"?ZDNet?9/22
"iPhone 5 review: Apple's latest smartphone gets a bigger screen, LTE, and more power ? but does it keep the crown?"?The Verge?9/21
"Watch This: Josh demos the iPhone 5 on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon"?The Verge?9/21
"Review: Style triumphs over substance in iPhone 5"?Boston Herald?9/21
"iPhone 5 Teardown"?iFixit?9/21
"Shootout: iPhone 5 versus iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and Galaxy S III"?Bare Feats?9/21
"Hands on with the iPhone 5"?Macworld?9/21
"iPhone 5: First Thoughts And Random Impressions"?MacStories?9/21
"iPhone 5 Benchmarks: 30% to 160% Faster than iPhone 4S"?The Mac Observer?9/21
"What's The Difference -Comparing The iPhone 5 to the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4"?MacReviewZone?9/21
"Kindle Fire HD vs. iPad: How does the new Kindle Fire HD compare with the best tablet on the block?"?CNET Reviews?9/21
"Review: First crop of iPhone 5 cases available now"?GigaOM?9/21
"DaVinci Resolve: Which GPU provides the best acceleration on the Mac Pro?"?Bare Feats?9/21
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"Local search Field Test: Apple Maps vs. Google Maps/In part two of our Apple Maps app testing, we decided to perform local searches of landmarks and other locations and the results were clearly lopsided."?CNET Reviews?9/21
"Review: iPhone 5"?Gizmag?9/21
"Lab Tests: iOS 6 and iOS 5 performance differences"?Macworld?9/21
"iOS App Review: Layout brings collages into the iPad age"?Macworld?9/21
"MacMost Now 764: iOS 6 Maps App Turn-By-Turn Directions"?MacMost?9/21
"iOS 6 Maps Got You Down? Navigon may be your answer!"?Best App Site?9/21
"'Jasmine' is the YouTube iPhone app you should be using (from the developer of Alien Blue)"?VentureBeat?9/21
"Review -Savi Contacts: a Great Substitute for iOS 6 Users"?The Mac Observer?9/21
"Penultimate: Just Shy Of The Ultimate iPad Note Taking App"?The Mac Observer?9/21
"This Week in Apps I Like ? National Parks, The Photo Cookbook, Paper, Articles, IncrediBooth"?7/Apps Blog?9/21
"iOS Game Review: Battles will charm you in Outwitters"?Macworld?9/21
"Jewel Factory Review"?148Apps?9/21
"Epic Adventures: La Jangada Review"?148Apps?9/21
How-To/Tutorial
"How to Downgrade Back to iOS 5"?Mac|Life?9/21
"How to Transfer Everything from Old iPhone to New iPhone 5 the Easy Way"?OS X Daily?9/21
"Get started with the iPhone 5"?Macworld?9/21
"So You Just Got an iPhone 5... Let's Get Started"?Touch Arcade?9/21
"Uploading an iDVD to Youtube"?iLifeHelp?9/21
Tips
"iOS 6: Messages Now Automatically Selects Last-Used International Keyboard For Each Contact"?MacStories?9/22
"The Grand Central Apple Store Reportedly Has No Lines, And Plenty Of iPhones"?Business Insider?9/21
"Updated: Top 12 ways to trade old iPhones for cash now that you have your iPhone 5"?9 to 5 Mac?9/21
"iOS 6: Talking to Siri and saying 'hi'"?TUAW?9/21
"Get Weather on iPad with the Clock App"?OS X Daily?9/21
"Here's where to get LTE on your iPhone 5"?The Verge?9/21
"Watch out! iOS 6 can jack up your phone bill?Steer clear of sticker shock?follow these steps to disable the iO6 features that can eat up your iPhone or iPad's data plan"?InfoWorld?9/21
"The iPhone 5 Weather app can function as a world clock"?iDownload Blog?9/21
"Get Siri to tell you the temperature in centigrade"?Mac OS X Hints?9/21
"Want an iPhone 5 today? Go to a carrier store"?VentureBeat?9/21
"How to get an iPhone 5 with unlimited data"?CNNMoney?9/21
"So you hate iOS 6 Maps? Here are your best alternative options"?Digital Trends?9/21
"Hate iOS 6 Maps? Here's What To Do ..."?Forbes?9/21
"Don't Like the iOS 6 Podcasts App? Get Rid of It"?Kirkville?9/21
"How to track your iPhone 5 delivery if you're in the UK"?iMore?9/21
"iPhone 6 release date: iPhone 5S scenario says you're not going anywhere for awhile."?Beatweek Magazine?7:02 AM
"Samsung drags iPhone 5 into never-ending legal battle"?Crave @ CNET?6:59 AM
"Apple (AAPL) vs Samsung, Looks Like We'll Be Doing This All Over Again"?Wall Street Pit?6:59 AM
"The iPhone 5 front is not flush with the frame"?Fayez Mohamood?6:46 AM
"Apple: Sympathy for iOS 6 Maps"?Barron's?9/22
"iOS 6 maps has wrong location for Apple Store"?The Register?9/22
"Apple's iPhone 5: The Chinatown factor"?Fortune?9/22
"Is Apple's new maps app upsetting? The OpenForum chimes in: Apple ditched Google for maps, and many users are upset."?Ars Technica?9/22
"Why maps matter to Apple, Google and others"?TechHive?9/22
"The Macalope Weekly: Seen it"?Macworld?9/22
"In Apple-Google maps war, consumers lose"?MarketWatch?9/22
"LTE Prime Time: Four Unexpected Ways to Play the iPhone 5"?Barron's?9/22
"Apple And That Swiss Train Watch"?Forbes?9/22
"A Flawed Samsung and iPhone Drop Test (the Galaxy Lost)"?eXtensions?9/22
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Gil Bellows, Elisabeth Shue, and Eva Link
As I have said before in prior reviews of horror flicks, Jason, Freddy and Michael Myers do not scare me.? However, the depiction of truly insane people freaks me out.? Any time I see a female walking around in white pajamas with hair in her face and one crazy eye showing, I?m ready to run for the border.? Call it The Ring effect.? House at the End of the Street involves that kind of insanity, and I found it enjoyably disturbing.
House at the End of the Street is the story of Elissa Cassidy (Jennifer Lawrence).? Elissa just moved from Chicago to a new small town with her mom Sarah (Elisabeth Shue).?? They are able to rent a huge house because a gruesome double murder occurred in the neighboring house.? Awhile back, a family lived in the home with their daughter Carrie Ann (Eva Link).?? Carrie Ann brutally murdered her mother and father one night and escaped into the woods.? The police believe that she drowned, but her body was never found. The urban legend around town is that she is alive, and roaming the forest.
Elissa is curious about the house and the family?s story.? She is even more intrigued when she meets Ryan Jacobson (Max Thieriot), the sole survivor of the family tragedy.? Max was living with another family member at the time of the tragedy and he moved back to the family home when his family died so that he could feel close to them.? Elissa is not impressed by the snobs at her new school and Max seems sad, sweet and alone.? Much to her mother?s dismay she befriends Max and they develop a relationship.? All is going well, until secrets start to unravel and Elissa is dragged deep into the horror of the Jacobsen family.
House at the End of the Street is entertaining.? Jennifer Lawrence brings a bit of Katniss Everdeen to the role and is a tough heroine.? Elisabeth Shue also does well as the mom in this film.? (Although I could not stop thinking about Adventures in Babysitting every time I saw her).? Director Mark Tonderai definitely builds the suspense throughout the film and gives viewers just enough story and chills to keep you engaged throughout the film. True horror junkies who want to see a lot of blood and gore will not find that in this film; but there are some scenes that may make you jump in your seat.
Unfortunately, House at The End of the Street has the same pitfalls that many horror films do.? The heroine does incredibly stupid things like wandering around abandoned woods in the middle of the night, opening her door when she hears a strange noise outside, and going into dark basements in a house where a double murder occurred.? Who does that?? It is the sort of stuff that makes you want to hurl popcorn at the screen in incredulous disbelief.? In addition, there are some points of the film?s plot that I?m still struggling to understand and are frankly inexplicable.? Finally, the plot of House at the End of the Street is reminiscent of another incredibly popular horror film.? I won?t name the film because I think it will give too much away.? But in that respect, I?m sure that fans of the genre may see it as just a ripoff.
In any event, I thought the film had enough twists and turns to keep me engaged.? I give House a 0.06% rating and recommend tossing back a Corona with this one.
Happy first weekend of fall! There's lots going on - and admission is free to all the events listed below.
ALOHA
Aloha Library Debut: The new Aloha Library officially opens at 10 a.m. Saturday, with festivities starting at 11. BATTLE GROUND
Game On: Bring the whole family to game day. Board games, cards, puzzles and snacks. 1-5 p.m. Saturday.? BEAVERTON
Nature Day in the Park -- Whispering Woods Natural Area: Learn about habitat and trail improvements. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday.
Pink Pig Puppet Theater Puppet Show: Three stories that pit little guys versus big guys. Geared to ages 4 to 8. 10:30-11:15 a.m. Saturday.
CAMAS
Camas-Washougal Fire Department Open House: Includes appearance by LifeFlight helicopter, kitchen fire demo, home exit drills, Vancouver Police K-9 unit. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday at Station 42, 4321 N.W. Parker St., Camas. CANBY
Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival: Fiber craft demonstrations, junior spinning contest (kids under 13 who have been spinning less than one year), spinning/fiber crafters circle, duck herding demonstration, sing-along, more. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.
CORVALLIS
Corvallis Fall Festival: Artists, music, "art discovery zone," street dance, more. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday.?
HAPPY VALLEY
American Girl Club: Stories, books, kits and refreshments. 3 p.m. Sunday at Barnes & Noble Clackamas Town Center. ?
HILLSBORO
Orenco Heritage Days: Arts and crafts fair, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 1255 N.W. 228th Ave.; community parade, 2 p.m.; community potluck, 5 p.m.
TNT Martial Arts Open House: Includes anti-bullying workshop for families with children ages 5-11. Parent must attend with child. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. ? LAKE OSWEGO
Train Rides: Bring a picnic. Noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Donations welcome. ? NORTH PORTLAND
Baltimore Woods Wildflower Planting: Plant native wildflowers in the newly de-paved Baltimore Woods meadow as part of Portland RiverFest celebration. Gloves, tools and training provided. 9 a.m.-noon Saturday.
River Fair at Cathedral Park: Explore riverfront paths and trails, bridges, wildlife viewing and history as part of Portland RiverFest. Event also includes face painting, kids activities, balloon art, martial arts demonstration, Mad Science, Mr. Ben, Eartha the Clown, and a walk-through "Claudia Chinook." 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday.
NORTHEAST PORTLAND
Aaron Nigel Smith: CD release party for "Welcome to the Village," originals and covers for children. 3 p.m. Saturday, Music Millennium, 3158 N.E. Burnside St.
Mid-Autumn Festival: Enjoy activities celebrating a harvest holiday from Vietnam and China. 2-3:30 p.m. Saturday.?
OREGON CITY
Oregon City Safety Fair: Kids encouraged to build free keepsake birdhouses (supplies limited). 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. ? SOUTHEAST PORTLAND
Children's Discovery Craft Carnival: Environmentally friendly hands-on craft activities for families and children under 12, live music by the Alphabeticians, snacks. Sponsored by Johnson Creek Watershed Council and Umpqua Bank. 1-4 p.m. Saturday.
Discover The Arts Open House: Art workshops, classes and performances for all ages and levels. 2-5 p.m. Saturday.
Oregon Rail Heritage Center and Portland Streetcar Central Loop Grand Openings: See the city of Portland's three steam locomotives (the trains that run the Holiday Express excursions from Oaks Park) in their new home. Kids' activities, live music, prizes and giveaways, guided "tours" of the engines, free rides to center via eastside streetcar. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.?
Rose City Rowing Club: Introduction to rowing for students in grades 8-12. Part of Portland RiverFest. 9-11:30 a.m. Saturday.
TaborFest: Youth art, Spanish classes, music, yoga, acupuncture and writing workshops, square dancing. Starts at 10 a.m. Saturday.
SOUTHWEST PORTLAND
Hoyt Arboretum Signage Celebration: To celebrate the completion of 250 new directional and interpretive signs, the arboretum will host guided tours, live music, children's activities, a climbing wall and a scavenger hunt with prizes. 2-5 p.m. Sunday.
"The Hobbit" Party at Annie Bloom's: Celebration of 75th anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien classic includes pi?ata, crafts, trivia and treats. 2-3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Preschool Story and Stroll: Geared to ages 2 to 6. Registration required. 10:30-11:45 a.m.
Saturday Guided Nature Hike: Join a park naturalist to explore Tryon Creek State Natural Area. Parents must accompany kids. 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday. This week's topic: Forest Fungi.?
VANCOUVER
Harvest Fun Day: Compete in pie-eating and corn-shucking contests, make a life-size scarecrow, learn to square-dance, experience life on the farm. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday.
Most of Friday seemed like another day in the Fed rally until stocks slipped in the late afternoon.?Stocks are still much higher than might be expected for such a morose economy.
By Christina Rexrode,?AP Business Writer / September 21, 2012
An investor looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company Friday in Shanghai, China. Friday's decline in stock prices were small but represented a break from the recent rally.
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The market took a recess Friday from the Fed rally.
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Stocks have been pushing higher for weeks, not because investors think the economy is healed but because of expectations, then confirmation, that the Federal Reserve would step in and try to fix it.
Most of Friday seemed like another day in the Fed rally, which began in earnest early this month, until stocks slipped in the late afternoon. The Dow Jones industrial average rose as much as 50 points before falling into the red in the last half-hour of trading. It's just the fourth day in September that the Dow hasn't managed a gain.
Still, the declines were small. The Dow lost 17.46 points, or 0.1 percent, to 13,579.47. The Standard & Poor's 500 fell in the final minutes of trading, closing down a minuscule 0.11 point, or 0.01 percent, to 1,460.15.
The other main index, the Nasdaq composite, rose four points, or 0.1 percent, to 3,179.96.
Despite the Friday blip, stocks are still much higher than might be expected for such a morose economy. This month, the Dow and the S&P started trading at levels not seen since December 2007, nine months before the fall of Lehman Brothers investment bank. Since the start of June, the Dow has popped nearly 1,200 points.
But the stock market's party mode doesn't mean the underlying economy is healed ? far from it. The summer rally is mostly the result of vows by the Federal Reserve and other central banks, like the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank, to do more to try to help.
But the promises are also an unsettling reminder: The central banks think the economy is so bad that it can't bounce back on its own.
"It's just a big illusion," said Bob Phillips, managing partner at Spectrum Management Group in Indianapolis. The economy, he said, is still a "no man's land" plagued by high unemployment and slow growth.
The signs were obvious Friday: The Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate rose in 26 states last month. The World Trade Organization cut its estimates for growth in global trade for this year and next.
In Europe, Spain was reportedly close to asking for a bailout from Europe. The finance minister of Germany, which has paid for much of the previous bailouts, shot back that Spain doesn't need it.
It's all a reminder that there's only so much the Fed can do. It can't fix the fiscal cliff facing the U.S. government, the higher taxes and government spending cuts that take effect next year unless Congress acts. Others worry that the Fed has used up all the tricks that have previously fueled the stock market.
Phillips said he's worried about "a nasty correction at the first hint of any less-than-stellar news."
Timothy Leach, chief investment officer for U.S. Bank wealth management in San Francisco, said central banks are buying time more than fixing underlying problems.
"But at least they're taking some of the pressure off," Leach added, "allowing policymakers some additional time to try to achieve those real solutions."
Other big moves on the market:
?The price of gold briefly hit a high for 2012 on the news that Spain might get extra bailout funds. Such rescue packages can often cause inflation, and many investors buy gold as a hedge against inflation
?Homebuilder KB Home swung to a quarterly profit by selling pricier homes. KB Home's stock jumped $2.15, or more than 16 percent, to $15.26.
? Darden Restaurants, parent of Olive Garden and Red Lobster, reported a higher quarterly profit. The stock rose $2.49, or more than 4 percent, to $57.21.
Oswalt will be placing his machines in and around his community in Omaha, Nebraska where he resides with his wife Jennifer and three children.
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SproutHealthy Vending is a national leader in the booming vending industry bringing all-natural and organic snack options to schools, offices, and communities all over the country.
Brian is a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a combat pilot, and has an undergraduate degree from the United States Air Force Academy. He still serves as a LtCol in the Air Force as a member of the Iowa Air National Guard. Brian was also a four-year letter-winner playing baseball at the Academy.
Jennifer is a local psychologist that graduated from Buena Vista University in Iowa for her undergraduate degree, and she received her PhD from the University of North Dakota.
?Jen and I love to run together. We have run the Lincoln Half Marathon, Corporate Cup, Omaha 10K, among others. We are an active family and when we stumbled upon this opportunity we knew it was perfect for us,? Oswalt shares.
?We were motivated to become operators because we know there is a real need for healthy vending in our community, schools, and work places. We strongly feel that healthy living is just getting started here in Omaha,? Oswalt says. ?Jen and I are confident Omaha will accept healthy vending with open arms.?
Oswalt continues, ?My wife and I couldn?t be more excited to bring healthy vending to our town. Omaha is comprised of great, ambitious people and we can?t wait to provide a way for the public to have alternate, healthy vending options. We all lead busy lives, and although home cooked meals are the best choice for a healthy lifestyle, sometimes it is necessary to grab something quick. It will be nice knowing that Omaha will have healthy products to choose from when vending is their choice to eat.?
When asked, The Oswalt?s like to describe Sprout Healthy Vending as alternative vending options that are good for you and promote a healthy lifestyle. They want to maintain their own healthy lifestyle and what better way to do so then to run a healthy vending business. With three young, growing Husker fans in the house, there will be no shortage of taste testers.
?Our ultimate goal is to have Sprout Healthy Vending machines everywhere in Omaha where there is a need for vending,? Oswalt states.
The Oswalt?s are thrilled with their choice to partner with Sprout Healthy Vending. ?The Sprout Healthy Vending staff has been one of the most professional staffs we have ever worked with. It is apparent that everyone in the staff has a vested interest in our success of bringing healthy vending to Omaha,? Oswalt shares.
Co-Founder Chris Wyland echoes the sentiment, ?With nearly 80 operators today, and being one of the most sought after business opportunities out there, Sprout keeps growing rapidly by the day and we are acquiring fantastic locations all over the country. We are thrilled to announce the addition of the Oswalt Family to our ever-expanding Sprout Family. They are motivated and a perfect representative to have out in Omaha.?
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LONDON (AP) ? Hours after a British soldier in Afghanistan told medics she was suffering from stomach pains, the Royal Artillery gunner unexpectedly gave birth to a boy ? the first child ever born to a member of Britain's armed forces in combat.
Britain's defense ministry said Thursday the soldier told authorities she had not been aware she was pregnant and only consulted doctors on the day that she went into labor.
The soldier, who arrived in Afghanistan in March, delivered the child Tuesday at Camp Bastion, the vast desert camp in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province where Prince Harry is deployed and a Taliban attack last week killed two U.S. Marines.
"Mother and baby are both in a stable condition in the hospital and are receiving the best possible care," the ministry said in a statement. It said a team of doctors would fly out to Afghanistan in the coming days to help the soldier and her son return safely to Britain.
The U.K. does not allow female soldiers to deploy on operation if they are pregnant. Although the soldier's child was conceived before her tour of duty began in March, she is not likely to face censure. Britain has sent female soldiers home from wars after they became pregnant ? including about 60 from Afghanistan ? but hasn't previously had a servicewoman go into labor in a war zone.
In 2009, the U.S. military in Iraq issued a policy that could punish soldiers who became pregnant there and their sexual partners ? then quickly rescinded it after a storm of criticism.
The British soldier, a citizen of Fiji, is one of about 500 British military women serving in Afghanistan. She is also among around 2,000 Fijians who serve in the British military, even though the country became independent from Britain in 1970.
Camp Bastion, which hosts the U.S. Camp Leatherneck, is home to most of Britain's 9,500 soldiers in Afghanistan, including Prince Harry ? who arrived there earlier this month to serve as an attack helicopter gunner. Last Friday, a Taliban assault on the base ended up with two U.S. marines killed and six American fighter jets destroyed.
Maj. Charles Heyman, a retired officer and author of "'The British Army Guide" said the unexpected birth would cause some concern at the base.
"This sort of thing makes life difficult for everyone else, but the important thing is the welfare of the female soldier. This could have gone wrong and we don't know if the attack on Camp Bastion might have forced the birth," said Maj. Charles Heyman, a retired officer and author of "'The British Army Guide."
Heyman said it may have been "that the excitement of the tour masked the symptoms of the pregnancy."
Belinda Phipps, chief executive of the National Childbirth Trust, a British parenting charity, also suggested the soldier's demanding work could explain why she either didn't know she was pregnant, or had attempted to ignore the signs.
"It could be that she was so very focused on other things, and because she was in a life-or-death scenario, that she simply didn't recognize that she was pregnant," Phipps said.
Phipps said the pregnancy may not have been obvious to the soldier's colleagues. "Not everyone has a very big baby bump, some women carry their baby far inside," she said.
Patrick O'Brien, a consultant obstetrician at University College London Hospital, said cases of unnoticed pregnancies were unusual, but that he encountered at least one each year.
"There are some women who have very irregular periods, often women who are very fit and exercise a lot. There are women who don't have sickness during pregnancy. Some women ? particularly those who are overweight ? don't recognize they have put on weight, or feel the baby moving," O'Brien said.
Many cases involved women who refused to accept that they were pregnant and attempted to disguise it, particularly young women living at home.
"It's not just that they hide the pregnancy from their parents, they often become in denial of the pregnancy," he said.
"If you have a combination of any or all of those things, a pregnancy can go undetected, or the woman can be in denial of it if the implications to their life are so great," said O'Brien, a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist.
A study published in 2011 by Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary said that denial of pregnancy was more common than expected, suggesting it occurred in around 1 in 2,500 births.
In a 2002 German survey of Berlin obstetric hospitals, researchers found that 40 percent of women who didn't realize they were pregnant had seen doctors who also failed to spot the signs.
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