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When Britax Child Safety, maker of car seats and strollers for infants, moved its operations to South Carolina in March, workers adjusted their commute by all of four minutes.
The company moved two miles south on Carowinds Boulevard to a new, 500,000-square-foot facility, allowing 200 employees to work under one roof in York County.
No concerns, no worries, everything is just fine, Britax president Jon Chamberlain said last week about the move. The only thing I have to remember is to say Britax is in Fort Mill rather than in Charlotte.
Britax is one of three Charlotte-based companies to move across the border in the last year.
Shutterfly, the company that helps turn photos into lasting memories with a variety of products, moved south in June. It renovated 300,000 square feet of vacant space off S.C. 160 near Baxter Village into a customer service, production and distribution facility.
Earlier this month, Physicians Choice Laboratory Services held a grand opening for its new 104,000-square-foot facility. Its the first business to open in Rock Hills new Riverwalk Business Park off Cel-River Drive.
Altogether, the companies invested more than $110 million into York County facilities, promised to employ up to 1,000 people, and put almost 1-million square feet of space filled with high-tech equipment on the tax rolls.
But while the companies have moved across the border, many of their employees continue to live in North Carolina. A drive through any of the three company parking lots reveals a preponderance of North Carolina license plates.
To encourage the companies to come here, South Carolina and York County offered incentives that included lower property taxes and tax credits for jobs created. But because the companies planned to retain most of their previous work forces, the incentives were offered even though relatively few additional York County workers were initially hired.
Britax moved with 200 workers and promised South Carolina to eventually employ 243. Chamberlain said they have already met that goal.
Shutterfly moved with about 500 workers, company officials said. An agreement approved by the York County Council called for 416 jobs.
Physicians Choices agreement with the state called for 364 jobs total over the next several years. Almost 200 employees followed the company to Rock Hill.
Do the impressive numbers result in an economic gain for South Carolina and York County, even if much of the work force continues to live in Charlotte?
Absolutely, say those who recruit and relocate companies to both sides of the state line.
The benefits to South Carolina include personal income taxes paid to the state regardless of where the workers live. Employees of all three companies will file S.C. returns and then get a credit on their North Carolina income tax filing. While the job tax credits offered to businesses lowers corporate income taxes, an employees S.C. personal income tax remains the same.
The companies also will pay property taxes, although each one negotiated lower rates - often called fee-in-lieu-of-tax agreements. The agreements cut the companies tax bills by 43 percent over the next 30 years.
Even with the fee-in-lieu agreements, the county benefits because the cost of providing county services to new commercial and industrial businesses is lower than the revenue generated, said Mark Farris, the countys economic development director. For every 31 cents spent on services to commercial and industrial businesses, the county gets $1 in revenue.
Residential development, in comparison, costs the county $1.45 in services for every dollar of revenue raised.
The biggest benefactors are York County schools. If a company moves to the county but its employees continue living in North Carolina, the local schools get tax revenue without having to spend money on new students, said school and economic development officials.
Plus, unlike most homeowners, businesses pay property taxes for school operations.
Its the best of both worlds, said Chuck Epps, Fort Mill schools superintendent. He said the fee agreements negotiated by the York County Council are fair because they dont hit rock bottom like other counties have. Some S.C. counties have offered fee agreements that eliminate property taxes.
Managed growth is good for everyone, he said.
The state also gets the benefit of commuters buying gas here South Carolinas gas tax is 21.2 cents less per gallon than North Carolinas and the tax on retail sales, where York Countys is slightly higher than Mecklenburg Countys by .75 of a percent.
The recent border crossings by Charlotte companies is reminiscent of six to seven years ago when several companies made the move, including to Lancaster County. Incentives were an issue at the time, with some fearing they were out of control.
At the time, members of the Charlotte Regional Partnership debated whether they needed to limit incentives to keep companies from jumping from one county to another.
The partnership promotes economic development for 16 partner counties, including York, Lancaster, Chester and Chesterfield in South Carolina.
Ronnie Bryant, president and CEO of the partnership, said at the time there might be flaws in our relationships.
Now, there is a balanced approach to incentives rather than a free for all, Bryant said last week.
Its a positive, Bryant said of the decisions by Britax, Shutterfly and Physicians Choice. They could have moved outside the region. I dont look at this as crossing a county line, but relocating within a region.
All three companies moved because they needed more space. All three also said they wanted to stay locally to retain their employees.
While these were the top two considerations in their site selection, incentives from South Carolina and York County also played a role in their decisions.
In situations like this, the receiving state has more incentives it can offer than the state trying to retain a business, said Ken Wittenauer, the lawyer for Britax who negotiated the companys move to South Carolina.
South Carolina incentives generally fall into several categories: grants for infrastructure such as constructing a building or adding utilities, tax credits for creating jobs, and tax credits for investments.
Wittenauer said South Carolinas job credits were more than what North Carolina could offer. That was a factor in the companys decision.
Companies can receive up to a $3,750 credit for each job created. The credit reduces the companys S.C. corporate income tax liability.
However, jobs that are simply moved from an adjacent state to a border county in S.C. get lower tax credits than other jobs new to South Carolina, said Bobby Hitt, secretary of the S.C. Department of Commerce.
Any newly created job gets the higher tax break regardless of the county.
The new jobs, Hitt said, get the bigger incentive, because they are taking a community to a higher level. Hitt did not specify the difference in the incentive rates.
Stephen Turner, Rock Hills economic development director, said the policy results in South Carolina fighting with one hand tied behind its back. North Carolina usually gives incentives for all jobs a company brings.
But, Turner said, if the intent of the policy is to discourage companies from exploiting the system for incentives, then it makes sense.
Farris, York Countys economic developer, said a cost-benefit analysis is done on each prospect presented to the County Council. The analysis includes information on variables such as the cost of land, the cost to build, wages paid during construction and operation of the facility, and revenues generated for the state, local schools and local governments. The analysis even estimates how many people will visit a new business and the number of nights they could stay in local hotels.
Farris said he is looking for a cost-benefit ratio of about $10 for every $1 invested to make sure a project will make an economic difference in York County. His cost-benefit analysis of Shutterflys proposal assuming 383 employees make an average of about $31,000 annually showed a cost-benefit ratio of $9.15 for every $1 invested over time.
By comparison, the Exel distribution center to be built next to Physicians Choice is expected to employ mostly local workers. Farris analysis, based on 139 workers making $23,000 annually, shows a cost-benefit ratio of $9.92 for every $1 invested over time.
The analysis is just one factor presented to the council to help it make a decision, Farris said.
Stephanie Yarbrough, an attorney with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, said South Carolinas economic development policies are better than other states she has encountered. Yarbrough, based in Charleston, often represents companies considering relocating in South Carolina.
South Carolina has created a system that rewards companies for investment and job creation rather than putting cash on the table up front, she said. The result is the state puts an emphasis on building relationships with prospective clients with the intent the relationship will last for years, she said.
The result is people take us seriously. We want them to be successful and we want them to know that this is a partnership, Yarbrough said.
The decision by Britax, Shutterfly and Physicians Choice will not change York Countys reputation as a bedroom community for Charlotte. Each work day, about 39,000 York residents commute to Charlotte and Mecklenburg for work. Conversely, 9,197 make the trip from Mecklenburg to York County for work.
Their decisions, and the commuting patterns, show the region continues to mature, said Bryant of the Charlotte Regional Partnership. At the end of the day, its good for the companies and its good for the employees, he said.
For Britax and others it means the ability to recruit a work force from the entire Charlotte region, tapping into a large talent base.
Britax, Wittenauer said, could have gone anywhere. There was nothing keeping the company in the region but its valuable work force, he said.
Instead of leaving, the company drew a five-mile circle around its old plant and started looking. It ended up in South Carolina, ironically where it was incorporated 16 years ago.
This was not a flight to South Carolina, Wittenauer. We did not abandon the Charlotte region. . . Our job growth benefits both sides of the border.
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Criminal lawyer and all-time number-one mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote close to 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. His most popular books starred the incomparable attorney-sleuth Perry Mason.
The Case of the Lucky Legs is the story of a confidence man who promoted fake beauty pageants in small California towns. Marjorie Clune was one of his winning victims, "The Girl with the Lucky Legs". She was promised a Hollywood movie contract, but the scam artist fled with the money. Marjorie fled too; left her hometown in shame to try and "prove" herself in Hollywood. Perry Mason is hired to track her down, but when the deceitful pageant promoter turns up murdered, Marjorie becomes the prime suspect in this "edge of your seat" murder mystery.
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I wasn't sure if I would like these radio-stories or not. I do. In fact I like them quite a bit and hope more come to audible. I've enjoyed reading a lot of the books in print and I think Jerry Robbins does great justice to Perry Mason. I always found that in the books Perry was more edgy than the TV version. In fact when you read the books you really see WHY the DA hates Perry so much.... These dramatizations are definitely show this side of Perry too.
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Erle Stanley Gardner would be proud of this production!! Perry is the best. The CRT players liven up this great story. The best entertainment ever. Thanks for a great production.
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Amazingly, there is NO courtroom drama in this Perry Mason, courtroom drama story. Also, the writer of this new. but not improved version of Gardner's original story, decided to change the identity of the murderer. As far as performances go, none were standout great. The actress playing Della Street had a very hard. hostile edge to her -- uncharacteristic for Della. MIA: Lt. Tragg and Gertie. Thankfully this was a cheap title so I didn't part with too much cash. If you're really interested in this title, watch the TV episode--much truer to the original.
Perry Mason's claim to fame were his courtroom antics. Any production of Perry Mason must include the courtroom part. Elementary.
Perry had a new. fast-talking edginess that was unique and clearly separated the actor from Mr. Burr's classic PM
Margie sounded about 10 years old... might use an actress with more ...er... maturity to her voice...Margie was an ingenue but not a child.
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BEEKMANTOWN — The annual organizational meeting of Beekmantown Central School Board will be held at 6:15 tonight in the Middle/High School library.
The board will elect a president and vice president, designate meeting dates and make annual appointments.
The regular meeting will continue with appointments and contract awards. A complete agenda is available on the district website: www.bcsdk12.org.
The public may attend.
More city hydrant flushing planned for today
PLATTSBURGH — The City of Plattsburgh Fire Department will continue flushing hydrants today.
The streets affected, sometime between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., will be Crescent Driver, Eastgate, Carlton, Drive, Broadway, Trafalgar, Pinewood, Flaglar, Belmont, Saratoga Court, Prospect, Addoms and Jeffrey Lane.
Water in the system will be stirred up and may be cloudy or rust colored coming out of the faucet during the flushing. Residents are urged to avoid washing clothes or bathing during that time.
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TUPPER LAKE — Tupper Lake and Ticonderoga have Independence Day activities planned for Wednesday.
The Tupper Lake Independence Day Celebration and Race Night will be held starting at 5 p.m. at the Municipal Park on Demars Boulevard.
Bed races, sack races, live music and performances by the 198 Army Band from Rochester are planned.
Fireworks begin at 9 p.m. on the waterfront.
In Ticonderoga, the Best Fourth in the North includes events from 4 to 10 p.m. Wednesday at Bicentennial Park, with food, vendors and carnival rides (bracelets 5 to 9 p.m., $20).
At 5 and 7 p.m., Buffalo Barfield & Unherd-of-Entertainment Live! and Americana entertain. At 6 and 8 p.m., White Hot Monkey Love performs.
The Ticonderoga celebration continues Thursday.
DWI crackdown planned over holiday week
MALONE — State, city and county police agencies will participate in a special enforcement effort to crackdown on impaired driving over the holiday week.


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A Visit from the Goon Squad (original 2010; edition 2011)
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This is a really unique, clever and quirky book that I really enjoyed reading. Mostly each chapter is about a different character, but as you progress through the book, some of the characters crop up again and you start to see how they are linked through relationships, friendships and so on. I would say the main character is Sasha. She has a chapter in her own right and is also significant in several other chapters including those of her uncle and her daughter. These chapters give us insights into Sasha's life at very different points in time, meaning the novel spans several decades. Really cleverly written and a great read.
A hit and miss collection of stories with a large cast of characters. The writing is solid throughout and Egan makes some inventive choices with structure, but the lack of a unifying motif was a bit frustrating.
To me, thus us a wonderful novel about getting old in America. Very enjoyable
This novel or short story cycle or whatever you call it deserves its place on the year-end best of lists. It is a sprawling set of interlocking stories that circle around an aging rock-and-roll producer, his assistant, and an increasingly far flung cast of characters on multiple continents, in multiple decades, and most notably in multiple styles ranging from first person to second person to third person to PowerPoint. Yes, PowerPoint has finally made it into a major novel, apparently in a portion of it set slightly in the future.
Aging (the "goon" of the title) plays a role in many of the stories, usually in a not-so-happy way, often in a few compressed paragraphs at the end of a chapter that often contain a coda that looks into the future.
5 stars, brilliant
It is neither a novel nor a collection of short stories, but something in between: a series of chapters featuring interlocking characters at different points in their lives, whose individual voices combine to a create a symphonic work that uses its interconnected form to explore ideas about human interconnectedness. This is a difficult book to summarise, but a delight to read, gradually distilling a medley out of its polyphonic, sometimes deliberately cacophonous voices.
Readers will be pleased to discover that the star-crossed marriage of lucid prose and expertly deployed postmodern switcheroos that helped shoot Egan to the top of the genre-bending new school is alive in well in this graceful yet wild novel. We begin in contemporaryish New York with kleptomaniac Sasha and her boss, rising music producer Bennie Salazar, before flashing back, with Bennie, to the glory days of Bay Area punk rock, and eventually forward, with Sasha, to a settled life. By then, Egan has accrued tertiary characters, like Scotty Hausmann, Bennie's one-time bandmate who all but dropped out of society, and Alex, who goes on a date with Sasha and later witnesses the future of the music industry. Egan's overarching concerns are about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, and lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn. Or as one character asks, How did I go from being a rock star to being a fat fuck no one cares about? Egan answers the question elegantly, though not straight on, as this powerful novel chronicles how and why we change, even as the song stays the same.
Jennifer Egan's new novel is a moving humanistic saga, an enormous nineteenth-century-style epic brilliantly disguised as ironic postmodern pastiche. It has thirteen chapters, each an accomplished short story in its own right; characters who meander in and out of these chapters, brushing up against one another's lives in unexpected ways; a time frame that runs from 1979 to the near, but still sci-fi, future; jolting shifts in time and points of view—first person, second person, third person, Powerpoint person; and a social background of careless and brutal sex, careless and brutal drugs, and carefully brutal punk rock. All of this might be expected to depict the broken, alienated angst of modern life as viewed through the postmodern lens of broken, alienated irony. Instead, Egan gives us a great, gasping, sighing, breathing whole.
Although shredded with loss, "A Visit From the Goon Squad" is often darkly, rippingly funny. Egan possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart.
If Jennifer Egan is our reward for living through the self-conscious gimmicks and ironic claptrap of postmodernism, then it was all worthwhile. Her new novel, "A Visit From the Goon Squad," is a medley of voices -- in first, second and third person -- scrambled through time and across the globe with a 70-page PowerPoint presentation reproduced toward the end.
I know that sounds like the headache-inducing, aren't-I-brilliant tedium that sends readers running to nonfiction, but Egan uses all these stylistic and formal shenanigans to produce a deeply humane story about growing up and growing old in a culture corroded by technology and marketing. And what's best, every movement of this symphony of boomer life plays out through the modern music scene, a white-knuckle trajectory of cool, from punk to junk to whatever might lie beyond. My only complaint is that "A Visit From the Goon Squad" doesn't come with a CD.
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A House bill that seeks to create a pilot program to sell craft beer made in New Hampshire in NH Liquor and Wine Outlet stores is not getting a lot of support from NH brewers or the NH Grocers Association.
House Bill 275, which was scheduled to be aired before the House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee on Tuesday, would create a two-year pilot program to allow beer made by NH-based microbreweries and nanobreweries to be sold in the NH state liquor stores in Hampton on I-95 and Hooksett on I-93.
"It's not for all beers. It's for our microbreweries and that's a very special New Hampshire product, and it is good way to get it known outside of the state," said State Sen. Martha Fuller Clark, D-Portsmouth, one of the bill's sponsors.
She explained the idea would be to see how much of those home-grown beers would be purchased by out of state customers who tend to buy their liquor and wine at the state liquor stores.
"They are doing a lot already and this is just sort of a way to enhance their position," said Fuller Clark about the state's growing microbrewery and nano brewery industry.
John Thompson, a representative of Smuttynose Brewing Co. in Portsmouth, said there are "pluses and minuses" to the bill.
"We don't have a position yet," he said on Tuesday morning. "We haven't had a chance to have the internal conversation yet."
The Union Leader reported on Tuesday that New Hampshire Grocers Association President John Dumais is also not too keen about the bill. Dumais also told the newspaper that if the state liquor stores start selling NH craft beers and they do well, they may also end up selling national beers and this would hurt beer sales at supermarkets and grocery stores.
Fuller Clark disagrees. She said the NH-made craft beer is already sold in local supermarkets and small stores. "I don't think this would hurt them because it would be just a way to promote this product to customers who don't come to their stores anyway," she said.
According to legislation's methodology, it is uncertain how much the sale of NH-made craft beers at state liquor stores would decrease general fund revenue in fiscal years 2014 and 2015 if the sale of wine and liquor decreased.
The NH Liquor Commission also indicated in the bill's methodology the markup on beer ranges between 10 to 20 percent, wine ranges between 40 and 55 percent, and spirits ranges between 47 and 50 percent. The commission has argued that if shelf space in the state liquor stores is lost to NH-made craft beers, the state may not earn as much money.
Fuller Clark remained optimistic the bill would garner good support because it is a vehicle that could help what has become a growing industry in the state that has also benefited the tourism industry.
"We have a very strong market of microbrewers in the state and we should support them to help them be successful," she said.


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On Saturday, November 13 the Wisconsin Badgers beat the Indiana Hoosiers 83-20. This comes just a few weeks after Bucky went for a 2-point conversion when already thrashing the MInnesota Golden Gophers in the battle for Paul Bunyan's Ax.
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The first installment in Jennifer Estep's new Elemental Assassin series, Spider's Bite introduces us to Ashland, a southern city in the Appalachians where you're as likely to run across a good barbeque joint as you are a vampire hooker on the corner. It's a gritty film noir-ish world with lots of back alleys, hit squads, and corrupt cops behind most every badge. The main character is Gin Blanco, or Gin to her friends, but in some circles she's known only as Spider the assassin. However, in the secretive world of Ashland, she and her cohorts seem to be just as trustworthy and honorable as the next guy but are they? Everyone in this town has an angle, a history and it seems most have blood on their hands.
Actress Lauren Fortgang does a fascinating balancing act voicing Gin. There's ample southern lilt and sly naughty charm to bring the material to life, and there is considerable music and imagery to be mined here in the writing. Yet her voice has enough bite and gravel to ground our no-nonsense morally ambiguous anti-heroine. The challenge for any good book in the urban fantasy genre is the paradox of making wildly fantastical worlds believable. Estep manages to take Ashland this world of troubled souls, dwarfs, giants, and vampires, as well as human elementals who can tap into the very forces of nature and make it all seem part of the everyday grind. With Spider's Bite you feel as if you could really walk these streets, but you'd also immediately feel the dirt on your skin and the hairs rising on the back of your neck as you hear noises in the shadows. Fortgang completes the task, making Gin a very believable character, somehow part embittered hard-ass, part loyal friend, and vulnerable lost soul on occasion.
The book takes a cue from its main character. It is patient, carefully spinning a web of atmospheric settings and carefully observed characters then like a spider it jumps into action from the dark. Ashland is a tricky place and you can never judge anyone by appearances, especially Gin, and it seems there's a long line of those who have died underestimating her. One should be wary, though, of any sexy southern charmer who can not only summon razor-sharp ice daggers from thin air, but also control the very bricks in walls, rocks, and stones, and the very ground beneath her. Cleo Creech
They call me the Spider. I'm the most feared assassin in the South -- when I'm not busy at the Pork Pit cooking up the best barbecue in Ashland. As a Stone elemental, I can hear everything from the whispers of the gravel beneath my feet to the vibrations of the soaring Appalachian Mountains above me. My Ice magic also comes in handy for making the occasional knife. But I don't use my powers on the job unless I absolutely have to. Call it professional pride.
Now that a ruthless Air elemental has double-crossed me and killed my handler, I'm out for revenge. And I'll exterminate anyone who gets in my way -- good or bad. I may look hot, but I'm still one of the bad guys. Which is why I'm in trouble, since irresistibly rugged Detective Donovan Caine has agreed to help me. The last thing this coldhearted killer needs when I'm battling a magic more powerful than my own is a sexy distraction... especially when Donovan wants me dead just as much as the enemy.
©2010 Jennifer Estep (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
"Fortgang's captivating drawl sketches Finn's flirty, genteel arrogance and Caine's horrified disapproval of her. Fortgang portrays Gin's well-hidden emotions as well as her habitual analysis of combat probabilities. The capable narration ensures that Gin comes across as an intriguing mix of battle-weary assassin, sorceress, and affectionate homebody. Fortgang also delivers the book's wry humor with subtle elegance." (AudioFile)
"Only because..."
... I paid for it. Is it wrong to listen to a whole story only for that reason?
It's the only thing that has gotten me through this book anyway. I hope for the sake of anyone who chooses to go on with the rest of the series that the author doesn't continue to remind you every couple of chapters that Gin looks at things with her grey eyes... Nobody ever describes the colour or their own eyes when they are looking at something. Let alone every single time. It's irritating. Self-absorbed.
There's a difference between a strong character, and a boastful, arrogant character. I found myself rolling my eyes over and over again when Gin was going on about her own endless awesomeness. Sorry, I found myself rolling my BLUE eyes over and over again... (You can see how that's irritating, yes?) Not to mention how often she repeats herself about where she keeps her five knives, how the spider runes ended up on her hands, and the exact same aspects of different characters' appearances . There's no need to remind your readers of trivial details over and over again.
Bad writing is even worse when it's read out loud.
"Very Disappointed"
No. The book seems like a 12th grade creative writing assignment gone wrong. The repetition of information again and again is distracting. I haven't had to mention to anyone the color of my eyes more than once ever. I can actually go months without considering this. The main character has trouble going more than 2 or 3 minutes without mentioning what is going on with her GRAY EYES. I listen to audiobooks all the time, ( I am a long distance truck driver) and this was quite possibly the worst purchase I've made. I may be spoiled, I just finished the fourth book in the iron druid series, 13 books of the dresden files and the Mercy Thomas series. I was unable to listen to more than the first hour of this book.
Disciple of the written word and Audible fanatic. I am an Urban and Epic Fantasy Fan. I also enjoy some Paranormal Romance.
"I am bitten"
I have been looking at this title for a few years. Finally I purchased it in a sale. I am hooked on the series now. The author has a good sense of humor. No time is wasted on tangent information. And the story moved right along. I will definitely be buying the rest the series. Thank you Audible for making titles like this available at a lower price. I would never have tried this series if it hadn't been on sale.
"Love the Jennifer Estep/Lauren Fortgang combo"
I really loved this series!! The storyline really kept my interest and loved "Gin Blanco's" wit. The characters were very well rounded and vulnerable at the same time. Can't wait for the next of any series by Jennifer Estep.
Now the narrator......I LOVED Lauren Fortgang. I wasn't sure at first with the southern accent, so many tend to drop them half way through and then pick them up again, but Lauren Fortgagng kept it going and was terrific. She now has a place in my favorite narrators book along with Xe Sands, Tavia Gilbert, Hilary Huber, Amanda Ronconi, Justine Eyre and Gabra Zackman just to name a few. If Lauren can do a honest to goodness Cajun accent, I would love to hear her read the Adrian Phoenix's Maker Series.
Great writing and narrating you two!!!!
I love books with strong women charachters and this one was one of the best i have listened to this year. The story is really engrossing but the narrator really makes it great! Cant wait to down load the second book. I wish all narrators were this good!
This book was fast paced and fun. I found it in the Romantic Fantasy category, but I would caution that it is more urban fantasy adventure. The actual relationship that might be considered romantic, I would consider a sexual attraction, and at any rate, it wasn't at all the main focus of the book. There is surprisingly little sex in the book, however. Instead, there's the morally ambiguous Gin, an assassin you come to love, whose out to clean up a mess that has hit close to home. She has friends who aid her, villains of the worst sort, and lots and lots of action.
I have only listened to about a quarter of the book but had to write a review -- LOVE LOVE LOVE the narrator. The book pulls you in from the start - and I can not wait to finish it and get the next 2 books in the series!
I am a book junkie...I read and enjoy a variety of stories, so please don't "define me" by one book or review! :)
"Hooked Right out of the Gate!"
I really enjoyed this book. It took me no time at all to be hooked, and by extension I have no doubt I'm going to be addicted to this series all the way through. The writing is good, I really came to like the main character, even if she is an assassin. (Who would have thought?) Though she absolutely does not kill anyone innocent...Gin is resourceful, tough, and wise enough to question herself and ponder NOT forgetting her heart. She has taken her place among my absolute favorite paranormal female heroines. Her background is well-introduced and solid enough...I also enjoyed the supporting characters who are well-fleshed out. I couldn't help but be a little drawn in by Finn, he cracks me up and is such a charmer! And Detective Caine is a bit of a mystery...an attractive character. Lauren Fortgang's narration is absorbing, compelling, and (IMO) spot on for the story. Her Appalacian-Southern accent really brings out the atmosphere and the feeling (vibe) of this book.
Good book and awesome narrator--a combination that kept me too entertained to put the ipod down. It's absolutely worth the circles under my eyes.
"Gin Blanco and the gang"
I came across this book by chance and I was mesmized within 5 minutes of the audiobook. I absolutely love Lauren Fortgang's narrating. Gin is a cold assassin in which I liked from the start. The story is rich, believeable, tense, and the supporting characters are just as fascinating as the main character. This, the first book lays the groundwork to an engrossing series and will have you on the seat of your pants.
Plus the intense Donovan Cain adds to the spice of the story
I was originally sceptical and was doubtful about the narrator, but i have to say it grew on me, the action and storyline moved on at a great pace - i have now listened to the next 3 books - The stories have a good link maintained through the books and you find yourself cheering for the Heroine -
A thumbs up and my advice order it up
So I've just finished listening to this book; Spider's Bite: Elemental Assassin, Book 1, by Jennifer Estep.
And I've got to say... WHAT LISTEN/READ! Each assassination is more graphical than the last, the character development is really well illustrated and the narration is spot on!! Hats off to Lauren Fortgang, who really brought these mesmerizing characters to life, and very well done to Jennifer Estep for creating such an awesome city/world / novel!
This is a world of vampires and mages (elementals) and rogue assassins. The spine-chilling conclusion to this fantastic novel has definately left me eager to spend my next credit chip on the sequel.
"Good But Not Fabulous"
Interesting - a world where humans, elementals, giants and dwarves all live in reasonable harmony
Predicable - I am an Urban Fantasy reader and so found the end very predicable, especially the final ten minutes where she set-up the next book
Unusual - different lead character as she is an assassin.
I liked Gin but I loved the way Donovan stood by his principles.
No - could have but I was not so enthralled that I needed to listen all the time.
I will keep by eyes open for her next book but I wont be devastated if I don't read it immediately.
"No meek heroine here!"
Definitely recommended.
I loved this book, the story, the heroine and the narrator. This is no meek heroine waiting for either her enemies or her friends to take any steps. She is happy to initiate anything she wants which is such a refreshing change. No doubts or internal double guessing on her part. The side characters are all really well developed as well and I loved them as much as I loved the heroine.
"An intresting world with gripping characters"
An interesting world with vivid and in depth characters that you become attached too very quickly as you get pulled into there lives full of assassins, elemental mages and intrigue. The city of Ashland makes sin city seem like a vacation spot, all in all well worth a listen for anyone who likes the modern fantasy genre.
"Not really elemental, but not a bad story."
I quite enjoyed this one, but there were just a few things which irked.
First, Gin is the "elemental assassin" of the series title, but does very little elemental anything. I was kind of sold on the opening, where Gin kills a target with skill and ingenuity; that seems to head off down hill pretty quickly.
The potential attraction to a handsome, straight-laced detective made me cringe. So stereotypical it hurt. Seriously, pick a less obvious bad romance target.
I did get kind of grabbed by the potential back plot reveal at the end, though if it was meant to be a surprise, no sorry.
Not bad. I may try another.
"Standard fantasy novel"
Standard revenge plot, no great twists or surprises, all set in a world where supernatural is a normal part of life. The protagonist is always right, better than everyone, smug and cheap. I had to force myself several times to finish listening to this trash.
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Jesus Arias,RHP
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Yeiker Lovera, RHP
Nate Maldonado, C
Yomar Pacheco, RHP
Manny Ramirez, OF
Brohiglyn Rivero, RHP
Julio Sanchez, RHP
Roberto Vahlis, C
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Exactly. why skip a step on the development process? It wasn't like Patterson destroyed AA and AAA.
eh...hindsight and all I suppose...but I know there were those that questioned his readiness to leave AAA so quickly.
Patterson doesn't have Daytona on his resume, either. It's tough down there in the FSL--ask Almora and Schwarber. Trying to read Hendry's mind, here's what I get: Patterson is heading to the majors anyway, so why make him slow down at speed bumps?
Well, maybe Schwarber stopped scuffling last night, we'll see, but that was the point of sending him to Daytona when he was barely out of Indiana U. Hoyer on Baez earlier this year:
He's in a big slump. He'll have to figure his way out of it. He'll be stronger for having gone through this.
Yeah....after his 5- start debacle in 2011, and perusing his minor league stats, he should STFU, and stay in the bullpen. 2008, in 25 starts between Daytona and Tennessee, 6-10 with a 5.44 ERA...WHIP of 1.453 10.4 hits/9...6.1 K/9... Yeah no....
I missed this a couple of days ago: James Russell wants to start and has lobbied for it?
It was just one game, but I saw Baez in Round Rock vs Iowa and he looked outstanding at second base.
And yet Olt, with that power, got platooned. Still, I'm glad he's in Iowa and working on hitting without homers.
You've always had your eye on that guy. Captain Happy isn't gonna like those walks. Love him or hate him, Captain Happy has pretty much a zero tolerance policy towards wildness in his relievers.
The only thing comparable I can think of off the top of my head would be Barry Zito's last two years. Over 2012 and 2013 he had a 4.82 ERA and 1.52 WHIP, and his WAR was 0.2 and -2.6 those years. But even there, 2012 was a moderate success with a 15-8 record and that positive WAR. According to Baseball Reference Jackson was -1.2 last year and is already at -1.3 this year. But then again according to FanGraphs, Jackson was valued at 2.0 last year and 0.7 this year, and there are plenty of pitchers behind him.
Shark's line from last night:
6.2 IP, 6H, 4R, 4ER, 2 BB, 7 K. No decision. A's were losing 4-1 (to Scott Feldman) but scored 6 runs in the 9th for a 7-4 win.
per Tribune:
John Baker with the WIN.
Better not impact their draft slot next year.
Cubs 2013 7th round draft pick RHRP Scott Frazier made his first game appearance in over five weeks tonight for the AZL Cubs at Riverview Park, and it was not good:
0.1 IP, 0 H, 5 R (1 ER), 5 BB, 1 K, 32 pitches (10 strikes)
Frazier walked the first three men he faced on 13 pitches (the one strike among the 13 was a foul pop up behind home plate that was dropped by catcher Alberto Mineo for an E-2, which is why four of the five runs were unearned).
speaking of suck...with tonight's 0-4 sureouts just got his 300ab on the season and he's an 0-2 away from having a sub-.200 average on the season (to compliment his 16 walks).
Coming into tonight's game, in his 1.5 years as a Cub, EJax had an ERA of 5.29 and a WHIP of 1.50.
Tonight, he was given the ball for his 53rd start in a Cub uniform.
What other pitcher, on what other team, would be allowed to start 53 games with such a godawful performance? It is beyond comprehension.
If he is in the rotation next year, we need to seriously start a campaign to boycott his starts.
that's the * on his career in a nutshell.
aside from the control lapses (of which there are many) he's an awesome pitcher...his control will make/break him. he's not very hittable, gets some silly swings/misses, and he keeps the ball in the park.
Yikes -- Rosscup comes into the 9th with Iowa up 1-0, then walks 4 guys to give up the lead. Not good.
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The Long Beach Swim Focus Catalina Relay is from Long Beach, California that set the world record across the Catalina Channel on 7 October 2011 from the California mainland to Catalina Island in 6 hours 53 minutes. The relay swim was performed to raise money for the charity - Habitat for Humanity - and included Hank Wise, Lyle Nalli, Ted Bramble, Matty Mitchell, Parks Wesson, and Lexie Kelly together with Pace swimmer Samantha Sears, Paddlers Benjamin Landis and Matt Landis, and escort boat Captain Greg Wise aboard the El Goofy.
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Selecting the right flowmeter
Each flowmeter technology has its pros and cons; learn how to select the best flowmeter based on your specific flow criteria.
Congratulations! Your company has decided to purchase a flowmeter to measure flow through your pipes. Now the bewildering task of selecting the proper flowmeter begins.
Although it would be nice to have a single flowmeter technology which can be used to measure all your flowmeter applications, whether they are steam, liquid or gas, no such flowmeter exists. Each flowmeter technology has its particular strengths. The goal is to select the best flowmeter based on your specific flow criteria.
The following are questions to consider prior to selecting your new flowmeter:
What fluid is being measured?
Steam has different fluid properties than water, and meters are made to handle specific fluid properties. For example: A magnetic flowmeter meter is good at measuring conductive liquids such as water, but cannot measure good steam adequately.
What is the fluid temperature?
Flowmeters use different materials in their design, each design has temperature limits.
What is the fluid pressure?
Flowmeters are designed to measure up to a specific pressure, therefore knowing the fluid's pressure helps narrow the options.
What is the required accuracy?
If the meter is being used for billing, higher accuracy is recommended.
What is the meter line size?
Meters come in different line sizes. Knowing the line size determines which meter can be used.
What is the flow range?
Knowing the range between the minimum and maximum flow rate is critical to meter selection. If the flow range is unknown and the process is not consistent sometimes the widest flow range, referred to as turndown, is the best solution.
Can the process be shutdown
If the process is critical, for instance at a hospital, and the flow cannot be shutdown then a meter which can be installed while there is flow in the pipe is the best solution.
How much straight run is available?
Flow meters need a consistent flow profile to measure accurately. This is achieved by adequate straight pipe runs before and after the meter and is referred to as straight runs. Meter technologies have different straight run requirements to meet their accuracy. If the straight run is limited, a flow technology which requires shorter straight runs will be recommended.
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GOP Should Lead, Not Follow, On Defense Cuts
By writing a bill that cuts defense responsibly and passing it through both houses, the GOP can take the lead on restoring balance and a sense of purpose to the federal budgeting process.
Congress and the Obama White House are quaking in their boots over the upcoming $1.2 trillion sequester, which would have already kicked in were it not for the last minute deal to bring most federal tax rates back down to where they had been of the last decade. That deal, which preserved the Bush/Obama marginal tax rates for those making less than $400,000 per year, also pushed up the effective date of the sequester to give Congress time to work out a deal.
By standards in the nation's capital it's about as hot a potato as one can find. The idea that $600 billion over 10 years will be cut from domestic discretionary programs and $600 billion over 10 years will be cut from defense without anyone able to program it is truly frightening to most elected officials. After all, most of them came to Washington thinking that spending other people's money was an essential part of their jobs.
[See a collection of political cartoons on the budget and deficit.]
A leftover form the last deal to raise the federal debt limit, the sequester hangs over the nation's elected elites like a sword of Damocles, just waiting to drop. Even the liberals don't like it and are trying to find ways around it.
Writing recently in Politico, the Progressive Policy Institute's Will Marshall said it would "hit the wrong targets, taking unconscionably large bites out of domestic and defense spending this year. The former already has been cut to the bone, and while Pentagon spending can be trimmed, it's not what's driving our long-term debt problem."
The question is what to do about it, which gives the Republicans the opportunity to regain the upper hand in the spending debate. Right now there's talk of modifying the sequester to allow the secretary of defense to determine what the defense cuts will be rather than letting them hit the Pentagon in an across the board manner.
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It's a nice idea but it still leaves to much room for political maneuvering and juggling of the books. If they are smart, the Republicans will come up with a package of defense cuts that, in dollar terms, achieves the same $600 billion over 10 years in cuts as what the sequester will do, pass it through the House, and then demand that the Senate take it up. Imagine the outrage from Republicans and Democrats alike as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tries to keep a bill cutting defense spending in a reasonable, rational manner from coming to the floor.
It's a fight worth having. Republicans should want to do it because they recognize its good policy that also has considerable political benefits going in to the 2014 elections. Democrats will do it because they have never met a defense cut they didn't like and their constituency groups on the left will demand it.
[See a collection of political cartoons on Congress.]
The framework already exists for just such a legislative vehicle. South Carolina Republican Rep. Mick Mulvaney proposed something very close to this in the last Congress while Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn has a package of possible defense cuts he is cheerfully sharing with anyone who wants to look at them. There are plenty of other good ideas out there that, when taken together, can easily equal the total savings the sequester is supposed to produce.
House Speaker John Boehner is a big fan of "regular order," of the House working its will through the official legislative process. The sequester is a hybrid hammer, neither fish nor fowl that was developed as a last resort in a time of political crisis. There is a better way to manage the cuts at the Pentagon—and that's through a specific plan that cuts out funding for wasteful programs, unneeded weapons systems, obsolete military bases, and experimental efforts like "The Big Green Fleet" which, while an interesting idea is far too expensive an undertaken at this point in time. By writing a bill that cuts defense responsibly and passing it through both houses of Congress, the GOP can take the lead on restoring balance and a sense of purpose to the federal budgeting process. The time for such an effort is now.


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Oracle Buys Sun Microsystems
After weeks' long rumor mill, the word is finally out: database specialist Oracle is buying Sun Microsystems for around $7.4 billion. This just two weeks after IBM abandoned its bid to do the same thing.
Oracle and Sun announced that Oracle will acquire Sun's stock by the end of the summer, paying $9.40 per share. Oracle expects in the first year of the purchase to add $1.5 billion in adjusted profits with at least 15 cents more per share. They're also expecting $2 billion more in profits the second year.
Particularly interesting for Oracle, at least according to a first statement of the parties, are the Sun freebies Java and Solaris. In their joint statement, they declared that the "Sun Solaris operating system is the leading platform for the Oracle database" and that they can now "optimize the Oracle database for some of the unique, high-end features of Solaris." Oracle CEO Larry Ellison can now claim that "Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system." What will happen with open source MySQL, which Sun bought over a year ago, is anyone's guess.
The announcement is the first tangible result of the weeks-long takeovergame. The Wall Street Journal had reported that IBM was in talks with Sun, but had broken them off due to the high price set by Sun. No official statement ensued. Oracle was then brought up again in connection with a Red Hat takeover, again with no definite statement of facts to prove it.
Sun's failure was set in the 1990sSun had no hope of survival by the late 1990s when McNeely Locked-in on selling "boxes" and stopped listening to the marketplace. Sun created huge value with Solaris and Java, but had no idea how to capture that value so it just kept doing what it always did. Eventually, the market didn't see the value in the boxes any more, and the value of Solaris and Java had been frittered away. A lesson for any company that it must adapt to market needs or it will be squashed. Read more at http://WWW.ThePhoenixPrinciple.com
hmm...7.4 million or billion?
Gosh who know where that is going to take Oracle!That means Oracle owning OpenOffice, Solaris, MySql, Sun Servers (exaData), all the Storage Management Software, and of course the crown jewel java amongst other Sun technology!
Will that make Oracle the biggest "Software" provider in the world!
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New chef leading the kitchen at Ambassador Hotel
The Envoy restaurant in the Ambassador Hotel has a new executive chef: Shawn Kolo, formerly of Andrew's in the Delafield Hotel.
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CHAPEL HILL — P..J. Hairston will play this season, but not in every game. Thats what Bubba Cunningham, the North Carolina athletics director, told a group of university faculty members during a question-and-answer session on Thursday.
Cunningham on Thursday spoke at a faculty retreat for the UNC journalism school. Andy Bechtel, an associate professor in the journalism school, posted on his Twitter account Cunninghams answer when asked about Hairston, the Tar Heels junior guard and leading scorer who has been suspended indefinitely.
Bubba Cunningham takes a PJ question, Bechtel wrote on his Twitter account. Will he play? Answer: Yes, but not all the games.
That was the entirety of Cunninghams answer, Bechtel later said during a phone interview. Cunninghams comments are the closest UNC has come to saying anything about Hairstons playing status for next season.
Even so, UNC athletic department spokesman Steve Kirschner said on Thursday that there has been no change in Hairstons status, and that Cunninghams comments represent his opinion and not the universitys official position.
Its what he thinks might happen, but were not there yet, Kirschner said.
Hairston was suspended after the North Carolina Highway Patrol charged him with speeding and reckless driving late last month. That followed his arrest in Durham in early June, when he was charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession and driving without a license. Those charges were later dropped.
At the time of his arrest, Hairston was driving a rented GMC Yukon that was paid for by Haydn Fats Thomas, a Durham resident and convicted felon. Hairston also received a speeding ticket in May while driving another rental vehicle, a 2012 Camaro, that has been linked to Thomas.
After he played in a pro-am at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, UNC coach Roy Williams on Wednesday declined to comment on Hairston.
Not talking about P.J., Williams said. Ive read about it all summer, Im tired of reading about it, tired of talking about it. If you want to talk about anything else, Ill talk about anything.
Cunningham, the UNC athletics director, also played in the pro-am with Williams and declined comment about Hairston. Cunninghams brief comment on Thursday was the first time that a UNC official has definitively said that Hairston will play this season.
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* These courses are required for Delaware C&T (Skilled and Technical Sciences) certification. A teacher who has already earned undergraduate credits for any of the required certification courses should select alternative courses from option B or C to complete the master's degree.
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, Aug. 7, 2003 – The Springfield College men's gymnastics team ranked sixth among Division I, II, and III institutions in the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches (NACGC) Academic All-America program.
SC, which recorded a 3.12 team grade-point average (g.p.a.) for the 2002-03 academic year, placed sixth nationally for the third year in a row. In 2000-01, the Pride finished tied for sixth with the University of Oklahoma with a 3.11 g.p.a. The following year SC recorded a 3.18 g.p.a.
The NACGC Academic All-America program honors institutions that offer men's gymnastics at the Division I, II, and III levels. Individual Academic All-American honors were given to 48 student-athletes.
Six SC gymnasts earned individual honors by achieving a 3.5 g.p.a-or-higher and registering a minimum NCAA gymnastics score of 8.0 during the 2002-03 academic year. Leading the Pride was junior
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, whose 3.82 g.p.a. earned him a Verizon Academic District One College Division Men's At-Large Second Team selection earlier this year. The other five student-athletes recognized were sophomore
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Todd Brasington (Monticello, N.Y.)
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