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This could have been a great car, but some issues keep it from even coming close. For one, this is the loudest car I've ever owned. It rattles, creaks, and squeaks like no other. On a typical drive I'll hear rattles from the sunroof, dashboard, some random panels on the drivers side, and the cargo area. The brakes make a grinding noise every morning when I depress the pedal. Some of the noises are so loud it makes the driving experience miserable, especially for a 2011 model. If you're considering one of these, I highly suggest driving with the stereo off so you can hear for yourself. I'll likely never buy a Toyota again after this experience. I've driven 15 year old cars quieter than this.
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I just bought a 2011 RAV, and for me it was a no brainer. I've always had Toyota's -- so maybe I'm biased in that direction -- but the test drives convinced me.
I live in the Sierras, so I need a vehicle with high clearance. At first, I wanted a jeep, but driving two of the Liberty's was like driving a car weighed down by boulders. I couldn't believe how sluggish the Liberty was....Then I drove the RAV -- the thing took off like a rocket. It was almost too responsive -- I tapped the pedal and it would lunge forward. And the MPG is almost as good as that of my aging Corolla...
It could be that after a while paint chips will fall off, or whatever, as others have said. But I am happy so far.
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2011 Toyota RAV4 SUV Sport 4dr SUV 4WD (3.5L 6cyl 5A)
Love the dealer.
Hate this "SUV".
I live in the northeast; I've always owned a 4WD to insure mobility in the winter months.
This vehicle does not fit that bill, in the least.
If you need a vehicle that needs to be functional and not just cute, find something else.
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2011 Toyota RAV4 SUV Limited 4dr SUV 4WD (2.5L 4cyl 4A)
2011 RAV4 Limited 4cyl. 4x4.
For me (6'3") I find seat bottom short and uncomfortable. Mom (5'4") loves the seats. Ride isn't terrible but still bounces around like SUVs do. Rides nicely on highway. One of the quieter vehicles. Visibility is pretty good. Storage and cargo space is great.
Mom is averaging 14mpg because she drives short 3-5 mile trips to the store or doctor and frequently sits in traffic. But, it's still 3-4mpg below lowest EPA estimate. 1 highway trip 1000miles I averaged close to 30mpg.
There is no hill holder on the 4cyl. 4wd model. Car rolls back quickly and easily if stopped on incline and remove foot from brake. Very disconcerting. Only thing my mom does not like.
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2011 Toyota RAV4 SUV Limited 4dr SUV (2.5L 4cyl 4A)
Have a 2011 Rav 4 Limited, owned for close to 2 years now.
Have had in shop 3 times for rough start and idle.
First time they reprogrammed ECM.
Last two times no error code registered and dealer can't replicate; so nothing they can do.
Rear View camera only works intermittently.
Dealer can't fix unless malfunctioning when car is in shop.
Paint is poor quality too many chips to touchup.
Engine on occasion has raced out of control, not a floor mat issue, but Toyota doesn't know what is wrong.
Front cup holders are awful.
Traded from a 2006 Hyundai Sonota and wish I had it back.
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2011 Toyota RAV4 SUV Limited 4dr SUV (2.5L 4cyl 4A)
I will never gain buy a Rav 4 and I am doubting if I buy another Toyota. Bad Paint, broken rear-view mirror, pieces falling off my inside and outside my vehicle and no help from Toyota everything is a outside force they can't prove that its a factory defect. WOW Really, my car doesn't have a dent on it on the outside or inside
it still smells new and just think my car just made a year old in June 2012 can't wait for another two years to see what else falls off. I have always stood up and preferred Toyota vehicles over any other brand but it seems to only be their older models. It doesn't matter how long the car runs if it has fallen apart before you can put the miles on it is worthleless
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In April 2012 I bought a Toyota Rav 4 2011.
It is July 3 2012 and already there is a penny size paint chip that came off the hood.
The dealer will not even report it let alone have it fixed.
There are lots of reports of bad paint being used on Rav4s for years.
And Toyota ignores it.
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2011 Toyota RAV4 SUV 4dr SUV 4WD (3.5L 6cyl 5A)
I bought this RAV4 for Toyota quality. I wanted a quality, V6 , 4x4 small SUV. Overall, I am satisfied so far. (I just got the base model-keep in mind).
Acceleration and power is great. Ride could be better, but not bad. Terrible air vibrations when driving with rear windows down (my Liberty did same thing?) Overall interior and exterior functionality is really good. Except...Toyota, this SUV needs a flip-up rear hatch! V6 engine is a little loud for a new Toyota...could be the upgraded alternator. Gas mileage is good...24.2 mpg average...about 28 hwy driving conservatively. Hopefully will increase with synth. oil next month. Overall...7 out of 10 stars so far.
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2011 Toyota RAV4 SUV Limited 4dr SUV 4WD (3.5L 6cyl 5A)
15K mile Update - Well the tapping noise is gone but honeymoon is over. I still like the RAV4, but now all the little things are starting to poke their heads out. - It definitely rides more like a truck now than when I bought it, with the suspension sending me jarring messages over all but the best of roads. - There are also little rattles and squeaks coming from the riser by my head between the driver and passenger door. - The driver's side window rattles a little (just a tiny amount but it's definitely noticeable to me) - The noise from the rear when doing 25mph or less is horrible. It sounds like a squeaky/rattleing cage. I've looked at all the seals, made sure everything was tightened and nothing helps. - Gas mileage has been stagnant...still 18-20 city and 22 - 25 highway. Other than that, it does what I need it to do (hauling kids to sports, school activies, shopping runs, etc.) so I won't complain too much. My next vehicle will probably not be another RAV4 but I wouldn't downplay it if someone told me they were considering buying one.
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2011 Toyota RAV4 SUV 4dr SUV (2.5L 4cyl 4A)
being my first new car I should think I'd love it, or at least like it, but I hate this thing.
It is too cramped feeling inside, the cup holders are ridiculously worthless and out of reach, it's such a stripped down model I can't believe I paid what I did for this.
I have always driven luxury-level cars which seem to be a thing of the past, but this is bottom of the barrell in my view and I can't wait until I can get rid of it.
this will not be good when I go on cross-country trips and won't be able to have a cup of ice water or tea close at hand
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By Katie Levine on March 30, 2012
Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche are LEGENDS of the voice over world. Between the two, you've heard them in Animaniacs, Ninja Turtles, Jimmy Neutron, The Simpsons, Back at the Barnyard, Justice League, Dexter's Lab, Ultimate Spiderman, Futurama, Looney Tunes, Toucan Sam, Harvey Birdman, Johnny Bravo, and together as PINKY AND THE BRAIN. I love these guys so much and how they play off one another that I had them on together. "Countries of the World" and Orson Welles are GUARANTEED in this episode. I promise it will make you happy on a deep, deep level. Language alert for tiny ears! There's a bit of swearing (when is there NOT on this show?) but lots of fun and hugs, too!
Follow @yakkopinky and @mauricelamarche on Twitter and check out Rob's podcast!
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Neil does not read those but the readers are great and both have very NDT-ish voices.
Quote overheard on April 2nd:
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One of the best! I'm very thankful my co-worker wasn't here to see me laughing all alone at my desk this afternoon. Rob and Maurice are wonderful. Thanks Chris!
That was INCREDIBLE! Thanks Chris for always stepping up your game on the show.
I remember first seeing the "Nations of the World" song not on TV but within the videos they had running on the movie screen at the Warner Bros. Studio Store. It was Summer 1993, shown months before Animaniacs premiered, but the moment I saw it, I knew it was perfect. (I wasn't alone either — everyone in the entire place was fixated on the screen when played.)
I especially adore Maurice's Orson Wells impersonation, ever since I discovered he did it in Animaniacs AND The Critic AND in the monumental scene in 'Ed Wood' (all in the same year!)
Thanks for this great episode, Nerdist. Please have both Rob and Maurice on again soon!
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Fantastic! I could've listened for hours. Such great voices. Going to watch Animaniacs now.
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This was a great episode. Thanks for making it happen Chis. Rob and Mauice were tons of fun to listen to, I really enjoyed their chemistry and great stories.
Pinky and the Brain and TMBG! March was a great month to be a Nerdist listener.
That was incredible. SO much fun. I think I know another podcast that rightfully belongs on the Nerdist network.
I'm going to have to stop listening to podcasts- it can't get better than this. Every new voice just made me lose it a little more.
Nerdist is on a role with this and today's YMIW , shoot!
Hands down my fav podcast to date. Thank you so much for this.
A a child who grew up on just about every cartoon this pair has been on, this was an eargasm.
I for one welcome are mice overlords,how sweet would a pinky and the brain movie be.
OMG! A porn-grade Pinky and The Brain is be the single greatest thing I've ever heard on this podcast.
When they asked if Rob still knew the Nation song, and he just dove into it, the grin on my face could not have been wiped away. Fantastic!
Oh, I'm ready to pee I'm laughing so hard!
This entire episode was an epic win. Also, how sweet is it that they call Chris "Chrissy"? Serious milk out the nose episode you guys. Saving forever!
pinky:where are we going brain?
brain:home pinky
pink:why are we going home brain?
brain:to prepare for tomorrow night
pinky:what are we going to do tomorrow night brain?
brain:the same thing we do every night pinky
these two are so effin adorable and fun to listen to
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Was about to go to sleep but I decide to check the website before and as soon as I saw Pinky and The Brain, I just had to listen. Maurice's Sam Kinison….nailed it!!!!! Great episode!
An instant classic – voices from my childhood. I'm so glad that I got to listen to this today, especially since I was grinning like a goof while waiting for my food at a local superstore food court – in South Korea.
omg, this was fantastic Great job on putting these two on the same time. Really made it better than separated.
Downloading Talkin Toons with Rob Paulsen now.
This was one my favorite episodes of podcast ever! Please get Andrea Romano please!
Holy CRAP, that is the best natural Shatner I've ever heard.
I am now listening to this podcast. As an animator I am nerding out. I bet the director during Pinky and the Brain probably died laughing. ViVA Québécois!
I already listened to 3 of the talkn' toon podcasts. This was not one of the best ever it WAS the best fucking ever. Thanks so much for giving us this and letting us know about another great podcasts!
OW! Ow ow ow ow ow, can't stop laughing! I will definitely be listening to this one again.
this was one of the greatest podcasts to date that orsen wells commercial bit is the best i remember hearing the real one an you cant tell the difference. rob an maurice need to come back again
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- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup finely chopped shallots (about 2 medium shallots)
- 1 1/2 pounds mixed wild mushrooms, coarsely chopped
- Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 pound pizza dough, divided in half
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling
- 3 tablespoons fresh tarragon leaves
Preheat oven to 500 degrees with rack in lowest position and a pizza stone on rack. Melt butter in a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Add shallots; cook until softened, about 2 minutes. Add mushrooms, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper; cook until mushrooms are softened and golden brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Add wine, bring to a boil, and cook until absorbed, about 1 minute. Add cream; cook, stirring, until mostly absorbed, about 4 minutes. Transfer to a plate, and let cool.
Gently stretch each piece of dough into a 6-by-16-inch rectangle, and place on parchment. Brush dough with oil, and spread with mushrooms, leaving a 1/2-inch border. Transfer pizzas on parchment onto pizza stone, and bake until crust is golden and crisp, 10 to 12 minutes. Drizzle with oil, sprinkle with tarragon, and cut into wedges.
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Made half the recipe, as written. Delicious, delicate. Even my meat-cheese-pizza-lovin' companion thought it was wonderful. All gone!


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Ok let me check facebook again.... crap NOTHING! I am NOT going to be drawn into that new freakn game CANDY CRUSH....... that stuff is addicting......... BUT I may like it....... Hmmmmm
Might not have clean laundry.......... then I will be on the news like that lady who's kid got sent home 25 times cause she stinks badly.......... that would be a negative.
Maybe I will go outside........ and stop being a INTERNET ZOMBIE..........
It is so beautiful outside today. I am just going to have to peel myself off this computer and enjoy it!
Bye FACEBOOK, bye pinterest, bye computer... off to seize the day.
Ok wait one more look ha ha haaaa NOTHING!
Later Peeps,
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Tobias Wolff | |
Wolff at Kepler's in Menlo Park, California, April 25, 2008 | |
Born | Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff June 19, 1945 Birmingham, Alabama, United States |
Occupation | Writer |
Genre | memoir, short story, novel |
Spouse | Catherine Dolores Spohn (m. 1975; 3 children) |
Tobias Wolff | |
Wolff at Kepler's in Menlo Park, California, April 25, 2008 | |
Born | Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff June 19, 1945 Birmingham, Alabama, United States |
Occupation | Writer |
Genre | memoir, short story, novel |
Spouse | Catherine Dolores Spohn (m. 1975; 3 children) |
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American author.[1] He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army. He has also written two novels, including The Barracks Thief, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and an array of short stories.
Tobias Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Rosemary (Loftus) and Arthur Samuels Wolff, an aeronautical engineer.[2] Wolff's father was from a Jewish background, though Wolff did not discover that until he was an adult (Wolff himself is Catholic).[3][4] Wolff lived with his mother in Chinook, Washington up in the North Cascade Mountains, while his brother and father lived on the East Coast. He and his mother had drifted from place to place before she finally remarried and relocated to Chinook. For most of his childhood Tobias changed his name to Jack Wolff, after having the same name as a girl in class at a young age. As a kid Wolff busied himself with a local paper route as well as attending Boy Scouts. After attending Concrete High School in Concrete, Washington, Wolff applied to and was accepted by The Hill School under the self-embellished name Tobias Jonathan von Ansell-Wolff III. He had forged his transcripts and recommendation letters in order to get in and was later expelled.[5] He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War era.[5] He holds a First Class Honours degree in English from Hertford College, Oxford (1972) and an M.A. from Stanford University. In 1975, he was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford.
Wolff is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, where he has taught classes in English and creative writing since 1997. He also served as the director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford from 2000 to 2002.
Prior to his current appointment at Stanford, Wolff taught at Syracuse University from 1980 to 1997. While at Syracuse he served on the faculty with Raymond Carver and was an instructor in the graduate writing program. Authors who worked with Wolff while they were students at Syracuse include Jay McInerney, Tom Perrotta, George Saunders, Alice Sebold, William Tester, Paul Griner, Ken Garcia, Dana C. Kabel, Jan–Marie Spanard, and Paul Watkins.
Wolff is best known for his work in two genres: the short story and the memoir. His first short story collection, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, was published in 1981. The collection was well received and several of its stories have since reappeared in a number of anthologies. Its publication coincided with a period in which several American authors who worked almost exclusively in the short story form were receiving wider recognition. As writers like Wolff, Raymond Carver and Andre Dubus became better known, many proclaimed that the United States was in the midst of a renaissance of the short story. (The 20th-century North American version of realism these writers used was often labelled Dirty realism).
Wolff repudiated this characterization. In 1994, in the introduction to The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, he wrote:[citation needed]
To judge from the respectful attention this renaissance has received from reviewers and academics, you would think that it actually happened. It did not. This is a rhetorical flourish to give glamour, even valor, to the succession of one generation by another. The problem with the word "renaissance" is that it needs a dark age to justify itself. I can't think of one, myself... The truth is that the short story form has reliably inspired brilliant performances by our best writers, in a line unbroken since the time of Poe.
Wolff's 1984 novella The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for 1985. Most of the action takes place at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where three recent paratrooper training graduates are temporarily attached to an airborne infantry company as they await orders to report to Vietnam. Because most of the men in the company fought together in Vietnam, the three newcomers are treated as outsiders and ignored. When money and personal property are discovered missing from the barracks, suspicion falls on the three newcomers. The narrative structure of the book contains several shifts of tone and point of view as the story unfolds.
In 1985, Wolff's second short story collection, Back in the World was published. Several of the stories in this collection, such as "The Missing Person," are significantly longer than the stories in his first collection.
Wolff chronicled his early life in two memoirs. This Boy's Life (1989), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography, concerns itself with the author's adolescence in Seattle and then Newhalem, a remote company town in the North Cascade mountains of Washington State. The memoir describes the nomadic and uncertain life Wolff and his mother experienced after the divorce of Wolff's parents and then his mother's subsequent marriage to an abusive husband and stepfather. In Pharaoh's Army (1994) records Wolff's U.S. Army tour of duty in Vietnam. A third collection of stories, The Night in Question, was published in 1997. Our Story Begins, a collection of new and previously-published stories, appeared in 2008.
Whether he is writing fiction or non-fiction, Wolff's prose is characterized by an exploration of personal/biographical and existential terrain. As Wyatt Mason wrote in the London Review of Books, "Typically, his protagonists face an acute moral dilemma, unable to reconcile what they know to be true with what they feel to be true. Duplicity is their great failing, and Wolff's main theme." He has also spoken of the personal nature of his work elsewhere: "I have to be able, with a straight face, to tell myself that something is nonfiction if I say it's nonfiction. That's why, although there are autobiographical elements in some of my stories, I still call them fiction because that's what they are. Even though they may have been set into motion by some catalyst of memory."[6]
In 1989, Wolff was chosen as recipient of the Rea Award for the Short Story. Wolff has received the O. Henry Award on three occasions, for the stories "In the Garden of North American Martyrs" (1981), "Next Door" (1982), and "Sister" (1985). In 2008, he was awarded The Story Prize for Our Story Begins.
Wolff's work has found a wider audience through its adaptation to film. This Boy's Life became a feature film directed by Michael Caton-Jones which starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Ellen Barkin.
In 2001, Wolff's acclaimed short story "Bullet in the Brain" was adapted into a short film by David Von Ancken and CJ Follini starring Tom Noonan and Dean Winters.
Tobias Wolff's older brother is the author Geoffrey Wolff. A decade before Tobias Wolff wrote This Boy's Life, his brother wrote a memoir of his own about the boys' biological father, entitled The Duke of Deception.
Wolff's mother, having settled in Washington, D.C., eventually became president of the League of Women Voters.
Tobias Wolff is married and lives with his wife, Catherine Dolores Spohn, and three children in California.
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p.s. Once articles are snapped up, you can check to see what sites are using them. Copy a sentence out of the second paragraph of your article, put quotes around it, and do a search for the entire sentence! It works wonders!
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161 of 179 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
4.5 stars... "Every Time I Close My Eyes, It's Like a Dark Paradise",
This review is from: Born to Die (Audio CD)
Lana Del Rey went viral seemingly overnight last summer with her "Video Games" video clip, subsequently followed by the "Blue Jeans" clip, and from pretty much out of nowhere in a matter of 6 months, she played at Saturday Night Live recently. There has been discussion whether Lana's rapid rise has or hasn't been carefully orchestrated by her label Interscope, but now that the album is finally out, let's put aside all hype and suspiscion, and focus on the music.
"Born To Die" (12 tracks; 50 min.) can be divided in 3 sections. The first 4 tracks are slow-burners, pretty much in the vein of "Video Games" but check out in particular "Off To the Races", an album highlight. The middle section of the album (tracks 5 though 8) brings slightly faster tracks, and shines thoughout. "Diet Mountain Dew" is delightful, with playful lyrics like "Diet Mountain Dew baby New York City/Can we hit it low now down and gritty". Likewise with "National Anthem" (not to be confused with Radiohead's "The National Anthem"). After a brooding "Dark Paradise" (see my review title), comes "Radio", by far the most readily accessible track on this album (chorus: "Now my life is a sweet cinnamon/like a f**king dream I'm living in"). The last third album slows back down, and contains several other highlights such as "Million Dollar Man" (which reminds me of early Fiona Apple, think Never Is a Promise/The Child Is Gone/Pale September). The album ends appropriately with the self -explaining "This Is What Makes Us Girls". In all, this is quite the album. Mostly dark, brooding, biting, yet funny and playful at times. Definitely not for anyone in a hurry. I can't imagine this album will be a mainstream success (this is MILES away from Adele's "21"), but I could be wrong and I hope I am. Much has been made of Lana's maligned SNL appearance (which was really not all that bad), and I personally can't wait to see her bringing these songs in concert. This album proves that Lana is the real deal, period, forget all the hype and everything else. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! *UPDATE* (June, 2012) I saw Lana Del Rey in concert this past weekend at the Irving Plaza in NY, and what a show that was. Forget about the "deer in headlights" SNL perfomance. She put on a thrilling 50 min. set focusing on the "jazz-lounge" tracks from the album (with a live band consisting of piano, 3 violinists and a guitar). Lana was confident and in control throughout the show, which was a sing-along for most of the crowd. Great show all around, although I hope she will expand her live shows to a bigger band so that she can bring "trip-hop" songs like "Diet Mountain Dew", "Radio" and "Off To the Races" live. But if you can catch her live, don't miss it!
84 of 93 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best disappointment Ever,
This review is from: Born to Die (Audio CD)
I was one of those people who saw Lana Del Rey perform on Saturday Night Live, had never heard of her, and thought she did awful. After I decided to research her two songs and saw her videos on YouTube... I thought her songs were actually very good.
Needless to say after buying her album and listening to all her songs, I've found my favorites- Lolita, This Is What Makes Us Girls, and Off to the Races. Her song writing skills are amazing (and yes she actually writes her own songs like a big girl) and her singing is very weird and unique, but I LOVE it! LOVE THIS ALBUM. Can't wait for her to release another one.
70 of 80 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Lana Del Rey's Avant-Garde "Born to Die",
By Rich Vergo (The Jersey Shore) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Born to Die (Audio CD)
For all the critics who blasted Lana Del Rey's SNL vocal performance, missed the point: it's about songwriting, stupid. As it was for Dylan, who also has an underwhelming singing voice, Del Rey's songs are about to change the direction of pop music. Lyrically expressive and experimental with music composition that fuses the 40's, 50's, 60's and present day sounds into dark, moody, atmospheric experiences; and wrapped in a package of modern hip beats that takes her songwriting to fascinating art pop heights.
Every song presents an intriguing angle or point of view that makes one drawn deeper into its musical arrangement. Haunting melodies are sung with surprising twists that stay with a listener for days after hearing them. The true testament to a well written song is when other artists cover it. We just might see that happen in the future with some of Lana's music, where better vocalists can interpret her superbly written melodies for a more thrilling experience. In the meantime, Del Rey's "Born to Die" album is about to change the present day notion of what pop music should sound like. *********************************************************************************************************************** August 23, 2013 FYI.....On this week, 19-months after the release of "Born to Die," the album is ranked number 20 in sales and an amazing 81 weeks on the Billboard Top 200 Album Charts with total worldwide sales exceeding 4-million according to IFPI. It was the fifth best selling album during 2012 beating out P!nk (The Truth About Love), Rod Stewart (Merry Christmas, Baby), Rihanna (Unapologetic), Mumford & Sons (Babel) and Maroon 5 (Overexposed). So what can Del Rey's critics say now? They don't have a clue for what makes great music. Any new artist would "Die" to have this kind of success. Not to mention, her songs being in film and commercials, including, "Blue Jeans" in Nespresso's commercial with Penelope Cruz and "Young and Beautiful" in The Great Gatsby movie. Let's not forget Cheryl Cole's superb cover of "Ghetto Baby;" a great song that was unbelievably dropped from the "Born to Die" album. The continued attraction of new Lana Del Rey Fans has a lot to do with the dance remixes, especially, the transforming remix of "Summertime Sadness" done by French House DJ producer Cedric Gevais. This amazing journey of Lana Del Rey confirms much of what I wrote in February 2012 - It's about great song writing and how it transcends when performed in other genres.
33 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Getting past the hype, and the counter hype, and the counter-counter hype and it's...it's a darn good album!,
By Andsoitis "gamer girl" (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Born to Die (Audio CD)
I was one of the few people apparently left in the span of the universe who hadn't heard of Ms. Grant (or all her internet controversy) until I saw her on SNL. Well, suffice it to say, it wasn't the greatest performance on the planet, but it got me interested in her and her music. I did some Youtubing, and fell so in love with her music (including her first album). I couldn't stop playing it. Literally. It's all I though about for days, anxiously awaiting the release of this album. And I wasn't disappointed.
Her song Video Games is very sweet, so it made me cry. It conveys love in a very pure way, partially because of its older style sound and partially because of the way her voice really draws out the melody of the song that is reminiscent of Karen Carpenter. The video for both that song and Born to Die are indeed works of art in a way that few artist still even attempt to accomplish. Her songs tend to have a strong orchestra presence to them that resonates with her voice, and it's generally soothing. She is evocative of the 50's and 60's era performers, particularly the Hollywood, young actress type and all the fame chasing that comes with it. It's tragic but real at the same time. It's definitely a cleverer dynamic than most popular artists of our time. I think it's important to remember where all the criticism comes from and why. We as a culture are so oversaturated with overproduced musicians these days. What with ginormous theatrical performances from some of the big names that include large amounts of pyro and lights, few people truly appreciated the more live, personal style that her music touches on. It's not made to be blasted in some huge auditorium like a Kanye/Jay-Z concert. It's made to be appreciated on a deeper level than that. Just because an artist does not have the huge, Beyoncé level stage presence and diva gear doesn't mean they don't have talent. It's just different. Variety should be appreciated, not degraded. Not to mention the fact that she's a women seems to make many feel as though her looks and the bashing thereof should be the central focus. It doesn't matter about her family's supposed money (by the way that's not all true, and even if it were, a kid who comes from a good family isn't allowed to write good music?), the realness of her lips (yes they are real), endless pointless debates about how `authentic' she is, as if we will ever really know or as if there is anyone in music who doesn't have a huge amount of marketing behind them anymore...all of these things take you away from the real heart. It's an amazing album. It's sweet and entertaining. It makes you happy. It's music you can play almost anywhere. It's witty writing lyrically. And yes she did write most of this album by herself. It resonates with both young and old. It reaches further back in time for its historical nod to a genre than the overwhelming majority of modern music. She is 25 years old and has become one of the biggest names in a very short amount of time. Yes she has a bit of shyness to overcome, but she will. She isn't perfect, but she has great potential. It is my opinion that we should judge music by how music makes us feel, and not all the outside factors surround it's production. The album is one of my all-time favorites, and in watching her live interviews and other performances, she's definitely someone special and I expect more great things from her in the future. Step back from all that you've heard about her...and just hear her, without all the cynicism. Give it a chance to wow you. It might just become one of your favorites.
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fresh to Death,
By Sherrie Jackson (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Born to Die (Audio CD)
According to one critic, the slang phrase I've used for my review title has been 'out of style' for many eons. I'd never heard of it, which must mean two things: 1) I'm not hip, and 2) I ain't worried about it. Lana del Rey, who uses the phrase in her song 'Blue Jeans,' doesn't seem to be worried, either.
While husky altos, hip-hop beats, and '60s melodic stylings have been done before, I've never heard them meshed together, let alone so perfectly, a true feat of acculturation that is exciting and revelatory. Her music is interesting, and layered, and each layer is interesting; and that's the difference between albums you listen to every now and again and albums you listen to all the way through twice a day. What I want first and foremost from the music I listen to is a great melody. And I have to say, Lana del Rey's album has that in spades. The melodies are just magnificently beautiful, and while that might seem like an overstatement, I'm okay with it. I've heard plenty of gorgeous music in my lifetime because that's what I gravitate to, and I know this is the goods right here. I find it pretty much ingenious that her songs are backed by some hardcore beats, and on top of that, the kind of lush instrumentation you might expect from a cinematic score. While apparently that golden alto is not exactly her natural register, she uses it to gorgeous effect, most notably in 'Video Games' but also in the sublime opening verses of songs like 'Born to Die,' 'Summertime Sadness,' and 'Radio.' I really, really love it. Which is perhaps why I have a hard time accepting her upper-register turns, for example in 'Off to the Races.' But in other places, like 'This Is What Makes Us Girls' and 'The Lucky Ones,' it's easier to digest, as she sings outright rather than creating an affect. For me, the jury's still deliberating - is her persona solidified, or is she still experimenting? The only songs that I have to mostly tolerate are 'Off to the Races' and 'National Anthem' - ironically the two that lay reviewers on several sites regularly cite as favorites. I know that she's not trying to come off literally as a rapper, just someone who appreciates the genre, but for my personal tastes I'd rather her keep it to a minimum. And I think she uses rhythmic phrasing to great effect elsewhere; it's lower-dosage and easier to swallow. I believe this album is a major accomplishment, for the reasons I've listed above and in spite of what I perceive to be shortcomings. I would recommend getting the deluxe version, because the three additional songs are amazing. I love the harmonies in 'Without You'; 'Lolita' is the most aggressively hip-hop of the album, with (Asian) Indian overtones and flashes of pseudo-reggaeton. 'The Lucky Ones' is preciously grandiose and ends with another beautiful string-section meditation. My favorite song should be 'Born to Die,' but it's actually 'Radio.' As mentioned above, the opening gives me chills; and the chorus just rolls along so effortlessly, easy rhythms married to a flirty melody; the beat is, as usual, top-notch. Yeah, she drops the F-bomb, but it's not in-your-face, and I really don't think she meant it to be startling. It rolls along with everything else, just a part of the tapestry. Listening to the lyrics, I wonder if they're not subtly aimed at her audience? "Their heavy words can't bring me down" from the first verse; and the second verse: "American dreams came true somehow/I swore I'd chase until I was dead/I heard the streets were paved with gold/That's what my father said." Mmmmm-hmm. And ending, of course, with "How do you like me now?" I'm saddened by the professional music critics who, very obviously, knew what they were going to say about del Rey's music before the album even dropped and stuck to their guns even after listening - if they even gave it the thorough listen each musician deserves. How anyone who gets paid to place a value on music can truly absorb the vast majority of these songs and not come away with an appreciation of the constantly superior melodies, sublime but never over-powering beats, and moments of lyric beauty, I will never understand. This is the only album that has pulled F+TM's 'Ceremonials' out of heavy rotation in my stereo and car. Five stars, and keep up the good work, Ms. Grant.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
At last a good album!,
By Robin M "robin_M" (CA, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Born to Die (Audio CD)
Over the years CD albums have really become poor. Usually with one or two good tracks and the rest fillers.
I heard Lana Del Ray "Off to the races" online and wanted to get the CD. I generally like the quality of sound on a CD over MP3 and like to have the item physically on hand, also you get an insert which I like to read. I was blown away with this CD, her voice is very unique and the tracks are 'dark' much like Portishead (without all the distortion). I have to say most of these tracks are keepers. Particular good songs to me were Born to die, Dark Paradise, Video games and Summertime Sadness. But the others are close behind. I was taken back to my youth with having a CD on repeat for literally days!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Born to Die (Audio CD)
Man, nothing scares me any more, you know what I'm sayin? I first heard of this chick a few months ago via that song 'Video Games' on the radio. I thought she was pretty creepy and steered left. Then, I was trying to find some new stuff for a friend of mine who is also pretty creepy and I was instantly like ah-ha and peeped out this album, and suddenly I feel like I have been lured into some kind of a witchs grip, because I can't get it out of my mind...
Really there is some real talent in this bit. Some times she goes low, with this Jessica Rabbit style darkness, other times she goes all radio pop teen high and sexy, but then you realize it's still dark as death. The whole thing has the scent of death covered in cinnamon. It's really kind of freaking me out, but i can't turn away... All original stuff, written by the talent herself, a good mix of old fashioned sultry blues and modern electro pop...sometimes w/psychedelic skews to throw everyone off... i like it. Check out some of the tracks BLUE JEAN, SUMMERTIME SADNESS and maybe that one DIET MOUNTAIN DEW... I think you might dig it.
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Didn't expect to like this album at all. Turns out it's great.,
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I'm not really a huge fan of "Video Games", so didn't expect I'd like the rest of Lana Del Rey's music. I liked "Born to Die" quite a bit more, enough to check out the rest of the songs on the album. Surprisingly, there are about 8 songs on the Born to Die Deluxe Version that I really really like. Many of the rest are strong as well. 9 times out of 10, when I hear a song I like and begin digging into other songs by the same band/artist, I usually find that there are maybe 2 that I like on an album (at most). That's depressing since I grew up listening to a CD from start to finish. So kudos to Lana Del Rey for putting together a complete album with very little filler. Of course music tastes are all about individual opinion, but I'm impressed.
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Blues for the Babes,
By Marsalis Higgs (Anywhere, USA) - See all my reviews
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As soon as you hear "Feet don't fail me now . . ." sung in that gorgeously sedated voice, you are transposed into Born To Die, a netherworld of angst-ridden privileged youth, circa Anytime America, where the grass is greener on the other side but may contain horrific vermin crawling closely underneath. Imagery, I believe, is everything in Pop music and Lana Del Rey has mastered this concept without having a gang of male dancers wagging behind her. Her imagery is quite old-fashioned: through her sweetly nihilistic lyrics, which paint vast portraits in ways that can only be described as poetic, evoking powerful feelings and desires with familiar phrases and repeated words, as if conjuring up a past life you'd forgotten about. With Born To Die, Lana Del Rey has crafted one of the most brilliant Pop albums of the last decade and yet this is only her debut.
Borrowing lines and sayings from spirituals and hymns against a muted trip-hop beat, "Born To Die" manages to align the moodiness of aimless adolescence with the heartbreak of religious redemption. The sumptuousness of the chorus is broken for a breakdown of strings and breathless cooing, a combination which mimics romantic delirium and post-coital bliss. There is also something very longing and yearning in the way Lana says "So..." as if she does not completely believe what she is saying though feels it is too late to change her mind. This tinge of vulnerability, however, is quickly demolished on the free-wheeling, bass-heavy "Off To The Races," which is without a doubt my favorite song on the album. Here she plays a ruthless, self-destructive gold-digger, who may do too many drugs but will at least stand by her equally-corrupt "old man" till "the end." Mixing Nabokov ("light of my life/fire of my loins") with the decadent ramblings of a Hollywood princess ("likes to watch me in the glass room bathroom, Chateau Marmont/slippin' on my red dress, puttin' on my makeup"), Lana crafts one of the most rhythmically incredible Pop songs ever created. Her dictation with each short description becomes hypnotic and driven with an almost maddening switch from drunken-drawl to seductive-squeal, eventually erupting into a booming orchestral cave of paranoia. Drifting out of the cave, we hear the opening guitar twangs of "Blue Jeans," which immediately hark back to an older time and is only confirmed through the girlish recitation of her Valley Girl love letter to her bad-ass boyfriend, who is "so fresh to death/and sick as cancer" (Oh, that infectious emphasis on the "c"!). With the combined mention of sweaters and hip hop, Lana creates a seamless connection between the past and the present, coming off like Ann-Margret if she had grown up listening to Biggie Smalls. This is doubled in the colossally-epic "Video Games," which is the most modern ballad I've heard and the most passionate expression of millennial ennui. Never has anyone displayed the need for a person's attention because of their gaming addiction in such a operatic, sympathetic manner, while also making lines like "I say you the bestest" sound like Whitman. On the cool "Diet Mountain Dew," Lana brings herself firmly into the 21st century with a driving hip-hop beat and a vampy flavor that recalls summertime in urban sprawls. "Do you think we'll be in love forever?" she asks with an almost disinterested glee. "Do you think we'll be in love?" Yet this wonderland of highway confessions and dime-store kisses is quickly replaced by the golden hues of "National Anthem," a merging of classicism and rap that tells the story of a social climber, first masquerading as a novice and then revealing herself as an experienced virtuoso. As she stretches the word "ovation" into an almost staccato dreamscape, Lana embodies a young siren, enveloping you with her smoothness and finishing you off with a reminder that "money is the anthem." "Dark Paradise" is the beginning of what I perceive to be a quartet of croon-flavored torch songs, illustrating a collection of memories through melodies once sung by the song's narrator's former lover. "Nothing compares to you," she pleads, hinting at an equally-tortured vocalist from a couple decades ago, though Lana seems darker and more ethereal, as if a ghost recounting glorious moments. Darkness, however, is nowhere to be found in the profanely sugary "Radio" which patches a standard rags-to-riches concept with an innovative, wispy production of bright, childish swells and loose thumps. "Not even they can stop me now," she drawls with a mix of confidence and posturing, before altogether losing her cool as she rejoices in how happy her life has become "sweet like cinnamon." The other two songs in the torch-quartet, "Carmen" and "Million Dollar Man" both mesh into each other, as if sung by the same lounge singer in the same smoky bar on the same night. While "Carmen" has the toughened hiccups of a pill-popping spotlighter with its fractured fairy tale lyrics of misplaced fame and even more misplaced addiction, "Million Dollar Man" evokes the heartbroken hang-ups of a confident dreamer, still holding onto love that has expired long ago, something all too familiar to many of us. When Lana says "You're so screwed up and brilliant," she is holding onto a fantasy of her emotions, though also thinking of how much time she's wasted on this person. That wasted time is only amplified on the apocalyptic, 90's-flavored "Summertime Sadness," which creates a sun-streaked haze of cotton-mouth kisses and reckless abandon against a romance that may never again be as darling as it was before. "Kiss me hard before you go/summertime sadness/I just wanted you to know/that baby yudda best" she echoingly mutters out as if privately chanting about the end of the world into a Coke bottle. Her girlish-yelp is prominent here as she tumultuously says goodbye, only to lead to an even bigger farewell on "This Is What Makes Us Girls," her ode to the banalities of small-town life and the finale of the album. As she recounts her misadventures with a group of girls she barely really liked but realizes "were the only friends" she "ever had," the entire cohesion of the record comes full-circle. The nostalgic, shivering feeling of her voice combined with the Baroque production, brilliantly closes the concept kicked off by "Born To Die": that utter maddening longing and yearning for an ideal that maybe never really was. With its complex fatalism and perfect quality, Born To Die is one of those delicious albums that are so well-crafted, you almost feel that you can eat them, proving that Lana Del Rey has managed to successfully weave her bumpy upper-middle-class upbringing into a perplexing piece of Pop that sparks and crackles with freshness. This is Pop as art, Pop as fun, Pop as philosophy. And I couldn't ask for anything more.
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Let me begin by stating that my music taste is quite broad. I enjoy Rage Against the Machine as well as Florence & The Machine so I am generally a fan of anything that is not the polka, The Black Eyed Peas, or God-forbid The Black Eyed Peas interpreting polka.
The best compliment that I can give the album is that you can listen to it all the way through without skipping tracks (even the deluxe edition). Her vocals are certainly not Earth-shattering but they serve the sound-scape well and in no way detract from the listener's enjoyment. I suppose the Lolita-esq lyrical accompaniment adds to the mood, but as a grown man I sometimes feel like I am jamming along with the deposition from a statutory rape trial. Also, you do not want to be caught by a coworker singing along with: "I'm in his favorite sun dress Watching me get undressed Take that body downtown" However, any lyrical shortcomings could arguably be offset by the album's Pabst Blue Ribbon shout-out. She does bravely addresses a diverse array of topics like: Seasonal Affective Disorder - (Summertime Sadness) Gender Identity - (This Is What Makes Us Girls) Carnal Patriotism - (National Anthem) Emotional Bankruptcy - (Million Dollar Man) Caloric Moderation - (Diet Mountain Dew) And just so there is no buyer's regret, the song "Radio" is not a heartfelt homage to the Cuba Gooding Jr. film of the same name. |
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I was lucky enough to spend nearly an hour swimming alongside this juvenille green turtle (Chelonia mydas) on the fringing reef at Lady Elliott Island in the Southern part of the Great Barrier Reef. Lady Elliott is a beautiful island that is home to a wide variety of marine life and seabirds. Best of all the resort is reasonably priced fairly basic accommodation unlike most of the rest of the island resorts in the GBR.
If you get the chance then Lady Elliott is well worth the trip. During my week long visit I would have seen more than >10 green turtles, hatchlings on the beach, sharks, rays, gourpers and a myriad of other reef fish. The coral reef on the other side of the island is spactacular with huge plate (Acropora sp.) corals everywhere.
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That's a very cool shot!! :-)
Thanks James :)
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This is an amazing shot and angle!!!!
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amazing shot! & love the movement in it!
Lady Elliott sounds good, have wondered about going there for some nearby diving!
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Game 2: Tuesday, July 19 | ||
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7:05 PM ET, July 19, 2011
PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
James McDonald, three relievers combine on six-hit shutout for Pirates
PITTSBURGH -- Joe Beimel let the pitch go and thought "uh-oh."
The second the slider that didn't really slide left his hand with the bases loaded Tuesday, the Pittsburgh Pirates reliever waited for Cincinnati's Jay Bruce to find a way to come through.Only Bruce didn't. The slugger flailed miserably while striking out in the seventh inning as Pittsburgh's stellar bullpen preserved a 1-0 victory that kept the Pirates alone in first in the NL Central."If I would have made the pitch I wanted he would have fouled it off or blooped it over somebody's head or something," Beimel said. "It just worked out where it was so bad he couldn't do anything with it."Bruce wasn't alone Tuesday night. The Reds were held scoreless for the second straight night as Pittsburgh posted consecutive shutouts for the first time since April 2009.James McDonald, Beimel, Chris Resop and Joel Hanrahan combined on a six-hitter for the Pirates, who made sure their stunning rise to the top of the standings wasn't a one-day cameo.McDonald (6-4) won for the first time in five starts, allowing four hits, striking out seven and walking three in 6 1/3 efficient innings before letting the relievers go to work."The bullpen has been the unsung hero for this team this year," McDonald said. "They've come in in a lot of big situations and got the job done. Those guys picked me up tonight."Mike Leake (8-5) yielded one run in six innings but couldn't stop the Reds (47-50) from dropping three games below .500 for the first time this season. They trail Pittsburgh by five games."It's frustrating because you know these are important games for us and we're playing good baseball, pitching well, keeping ourselves in games defensively," Cincinnati catcher Ryan Hanigan said. "We just need to keep working for those hits."Pittsburgh's offense wasn't much better, managing just four hits, but the Pirates found a way to scratch out a run in the first while improving to 7-1 this season against the defending division champions."I don't know if we're pressing or not, we're just not getting it done, you know?" Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker said. "We're missing pitches, and that's what happens."The Pirates recorded two of their four hits in the first inning. Josh Harrison singled with one out, Neil Walker doubled to left and Harrison scored on Andrew McCutchen's groundout.That one run was enough for McDonald, who earned his first win since beating Houston on June 16. The 26-year-old right-hander has steadily improved since a rough April and for a night found a way to avoid the control problems that have prevented him from working deep into games.McDonald got through the first six innings in a tidy 71 pitches, then handed it over to the bullpen when Cincinnati put together its best threat of the night."I was pitching to contact more this game, going along smoothly," McDonald said.At least until things got bumpy in the seventh.Miguel Cairo led off with a walk and moved to second on a sacrifice by Chris Heisey. Fred Lewis followed with a grounder to shortstop and beat the throw with a headfirst slide, putting runners on the corners. Hanigan then walked on four pitches to chase McDonald.Beimel, who was lit up for three hits while recording two outs on Sunday, struck out Bruce with that unconventional slider before giving way to Resop.The journeyman reliever has become a revelation this season and a specialist at what manager Clint Hurdle calls "high leverage" situations.Resop has inherited 45 baserunners this season, tops in the majors. He wasted little time getting Drew Stubbs to hit a slow dribbler to first to help the Pirates escape. He then walked off the field to a standing ovation from a sizable PNC Park crowd of 26,058 that is quickly warming to Pittsburgh's surprising rise to contention."It was electric," Hurdle said.Resop followed with a perfect eighth inning before Hanrahan, appearing in his third straight game, allowed a pair of singles before getting Bruce to ground out to second to notch his 28th save."It's been awesome to watch and be a part of," Resop said.While the Pirates have surged, the Reds have sagged. Cincinnati hasn't won consecutive games in over a month while slowly sliding to the rear of the four-team Central race.When the Reds hit, they don't pitch that well, and on a night when Leake was as sharp as he's been all season, Cincinnati's bats went silent.The Reds have left 18 men on base in the first two games of the three-game series."We had some runners on base early in the game and we just couldn't get that hit," Baker said. "This is frustrating when you're not scoring runs."Game notes
Walker extended his hitting streak to 13 games. ... Cincinnati rookie SS Zack Cozart went hitless in four at-bats, ending a seven-game hitting streak to start his career ... Cincinnati 3B Scott Rolen sat for a second straight game to deal with soreness in his right shoulder. ... Pittsburgh SS Chase D'Arnaud was given the night off after tweaking his neck while sliding into third base on Monday night. Hurdle expects d'Arnaud to return as early as Wednesday.
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Attendance | 26,058 (67.9% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
Game Time | 2:44 |
Weather | 86 degrees, partly cloudy |
Wind | 3 mph |
Umpires | Home Plate - Brian Gorman, First Base - Dan Bellino, Second Base - Chris Conroy, Third Base - Tony Randazzo |
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Why NCR Corp. (NCR) Stock Is Falling Today
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- NCR Corp. (NCR - Get Report) was falling 6.6% to $30.42 Wednesday after lowering its revenue guidance for 2014, and despite beating analysts' estimates for earnings in the first quarter.
For the first quarter NCR reported earnings of 50 cents a share, beating the Capital IQ Consensus Estimate of 49 cents a share by 1 cent. Revenue grew 7.8% from the year-ago quarter to $1.52 billion, while analysts expected revenue of $1.51 billion.
Looking forward to 2014 NCR now expects revenue of $6.75 billion to $6.85 billion, and earnings of $3.00 to $3.10 a share. The new guidance calls for revenue growth of 10% to 12% in the year, down from the previous guidance of 12% to 14%. Analysts expect revenue of $6.85 billion and earnings of $3.05 a share for the year.
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SELL NOW: If you own any of the 900 stocks that TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified as a 'Sell'...you could potentially lose EVERYTHING in the next 6-12 months. Learn more. TheStreet Ratings team rates NCR CORP as a Buy with a ratings score of B+. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation: "We rate NCR CORP (NCR) a BUY. This is driven by a number of strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, revenue growth, attractive valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income." Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:- Compared to its closing price of one year ago, NCR's share price has jumped by 28.43%, exceeding the performance of the broader market during that same time frame. Regarding the stock's future course, although almost any stock can fall in a broad market decline, NCR should continue to move higher despite the fact that it has already enjoyed a very nice gain in the past year.
- Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 4.1%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 1.7%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 271.83% to $264.00 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, NCR CORP has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of 7.56%.
- 35.39% is the gross profit margin for NCR CORP which we consider to be strong. Regardless of NCR's high profit margin, it has managed to decrease from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, NCR's net profit margin of 11.85% is significantly lower than the industry average.
- You can view the full analysis from the report here: NCR Ratings Report
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First Taliban, now turncoats: Another Afghan soldier opens fire
The killing of two British soldiers at a NATO base in Helmand by an Afghan soldier comes just two weeks after US Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly killed 16 Afghan civilians.
Abdul Khaleq/AP
Kabul, Afghanistan
Two British soldiers were gunned down by an Afghan soldier in southern Afghanistan today, in the latest incident involving NATO soldiers killed by their Afghan counterparts.
This most recent attack is one of many similar killings that have strained already tense relations between the international and Afghan forces here, ratcheting up concerns that such incidents may increase after Qurans were burned on a US base last month and an American soldier, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, allegedly killed 16 Afghans.
Today's shooting brings the death toll of "green on blue" killings, incidents in which Afghan security forces kill coalition troops, up to 15 this year.
"The Afghans are becoming more ideologically opposed to the foreigners being here day-by-day," says Massoud Khan Nourzai, a member of parliament from Helmand, where today's shooting took place. "It doesn't affect the general security situation in Afghanistan, but it of course encourages more Afghans to take actions like the one today."
According to a local police official, an Afghan Army vehicle was stopped at the entrance to a NATO base in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province. The guards reportedly told the Afghan soldiers they were not allowed to enter. After waiting outside the base, one of the Afghan soldiers rushed into the base and opened fire, killing two British soldiers before he was shot dead.