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Pinar Karsiyaka raised a defensive wall in front of Paris Levallois on Tuesday night to clinch an 85-69 triumph in Game 3 of their quarter-final play-off series and claim a place in the EuroChallenge Final Four.
What turned out to be a night of wild celebrations for the 5,000-strong crowd in Karsiyaka Arena and the basketball-mad city of Izmir though had begun with several nail-biting minutes, as the hosts started nervous and Paris scored the first seven points in the encounter.
A three-pointer by Melvin Sanders 5:20 from the first buzzer released Karsiyaka from the pressure and sparked a 12-0 run who gave them both the lead and a five-point cushion, within less than 120 seconds.
The Turkish side never looked back, turning it up a notch on defence and leading 21-8 at the end of the first quarter.
In the 10-minute stretch that followed that first basket by Sanders, spanning the first and second quarters, they had outscored their guests 35 to 5 and had taken the biggest lead of the night, 35-12, with 4:30 left to the end of the first half.
Karsiyaka led 44-26 at half-time but Paris came back from the locker rooms determined to make a last ditch attempt to catch the Final Four train.
Center Sean May, who was returning from injury and had missed Game 2 in the series, spearheaded a Paris comeback attempt that would see them reduce the gap to 60-50 with 1:15 left in the third quarter.
An incredible three-pointer by Robert Dixon right at the third buzzer though restored a 14-point advantage for the hosts.
It also dealt a huge psychological blow on the guests, who would not score another basket until three minutes had elapsed in the final quarter.
From then on, Karsiyaka were simply careful to run the clock down on every possession until the final buzzer, as Paris gradually resigned to their fate.
Power forward William Thomas and point guard Robert Dixon were both phenomenal for the winners, scoring 22 points each, with Thomas also picking up 10 boards to record a double-double.
Sanders also collected a double-double, of 11 points and 10 rebounds, while Abdul Aminu who chipped in with 10 points was the fourth Karsiyaka player to score in double digits.
May meanwhile was the only Paris player to score in double figures and led all scorers with 23 points in defeat.
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"Today I must say that Pinar Karsiyaka was the better team than us. They played very good basketball and beat us. Congratulations to our opponent and I wish them the best at the Final Four."
Paris forward Jawad Williams"Against a tough team in such an atmosphere, playing basketball was amazing. As the captain, maybe l should have taken more responsibility, l was not able to make my shoots."
Pinar Karsiyaka head coach Ufuk Sarica"With great basketball we won today, with our incredible fans. Now there is a Cup waitting us at the Final Four."
Karsiyaka guard Jon Diebler"I m happy to be back from injury. We had a great victory tonight which takes its place in Karsiyaka' s history. We will give oure best at the Final Four."
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GRAHAM — Jason Michael Banks has been in the Alamance County jail more than two years on charges of statutory rape.
Banks, 45, is eager to defend himself against those and other charges, his attorney, David Remington told a judge Oct. 16. The alleged victim and her mother are also ready to testify against Banks, said Alamance County Assistant District Attorney Sean Boone. The trial should last less than a week.
Yet Banks' case isn't scheduled for trial and the earliest his case could be tried is January or February.
Banks is one of 30 inmates who've spent more than a year in the Alamance County jail waiting for their cases to be heard. Of those, 12 men have spent more than 600 days — approaching two years — in jail awaiting trial, according to an Oct. 18 jail log from the Alamance County Sheriff's Department.
Eight of those 12 are charged with first-degree murder and being held without bond. In the four remaining cases, defendants are under high bonds on charges ranging from first-degree rape to armed robbery. In one case, the defendant was mistakenly held in the Alamance County jail after being sentenced in federal court in March. (See related story).
The right to a speedy trial is guaranteed in the U.S. and state constitutions. It's meant to protect defendants from being imprisoned for an indefinite amount of time before trial, to allow them to prepare their defense and to ensure a fair trial. Over time, courts have determined the definition of "speedy" by considering other factors, such as time needed to examine evidence and attorneys' scheduling conflicts.
There are a number of reasons that cases might be held up before going to trial. Several defense attorneys cited delays by the North Carolina State Crime Laboratory, attorney caseloads and special pre-trial evaluations for mental health. State budget cuts affecting the number of emergency and fill-in judges have also delayed cases.
"I don't know of any real over-arching reason," defense attorney Todd Smith said. "They're not all like this. Most cases are dealt with in pleas. But those that go to trial, they're not moving as fast. There's just a backlog."
Alamance County District Attorney Pat Nadolski said his office works to move cases and decrease the backlog, but that there is "a finite number of prosecutors and a finite number of court hours."
THOSE SEEM TO be the hurdles in Banks' case.
During the Oct. 16 motion to reduce Banks' bond, Boone said he has two other sex offense cases scheduled for trial ahead of Banks' case. Those can't be heard until after verdicts are reached in a capital murder case he's been trying for several months and could last through the better part of November.
"I'm not invoking the right to a speedy trial yet, your honor," Remington told Superior Court Judge Susan Bray. "But there is case law that says it's prejudicial (to hold defendants for extended periods of time)."
Remington argued the judge should lower Banks' $60,000 bond because he needs Banks out to help locate witnesses and work on the case. Banks was accused of the crimes allegedly involving a 15-year-old girl after a May 2011 party. Remington says the charges stem from a domestic dispute.
He was charged in June 2011 and taken into custody at his Burlington home by U.S. Marshals in Sept. 2011.
Boone responded that Banks rejected a plea offer. He asked the judge to deny the motion, suggesting the issue could be revisited in the future.
Considering Banks' criminal record and the charges, Bray upheld his bond. Banks will remain in jail for the foreseeable future.
Remington said that holding a defendant at length reduces their influence and contact with their social circles, preventing them from locating witnesses and working on their defense.
"They sit in there and get forgotten," Remington said.
And after so much time, witnesses — even those for the state — can disappear. In one of Remington's cases earlier this year, in which Remington motioned for a speedy trial, the Alamance County District Attorney's Office dismissed the charges because they couldn't locate the victim.
One of Smith's cases has been delayed significantly by forensic testing.
Mark Toby, a.k.a Mark Gasper, of Bronx, N.Y., is accused of a May 28, 2011, shooting of two men at a Burlington convenience store. He's been in jail since June 6, 2011. After more than two years, he has yet to be indicted.
DNA testing by the state crime lab has held up the case. The office recently got those results and Toby "will be indicted now that we have the facts," Nadolski said.
Smith said Toby's case is an anomaly, because he's from out-of-town and there's no one here to help him make bond.
"They're not all like this," Smith said, though he said that forensic testing often holds cases up — especially blood analysis and testing of seized drugs.
Xavier Slade has been in jail on numerous charges since May 20, 2011.
Defense attorney Monica McKinnie was assigned to Xavier Slade's cases — including two rapes that occurred in 2010 and 2011 — in March. DNA testing allegedly linked Slade to the October 2010 assault after he was charged in a March 2011 assault.
Slade's original attorney, Rebecca Greene, withdrew from the case citing a conflict of interest. McKinnie was then assigned the case. Since then, she's been catching up on the state's discovery and evidence, she said Thursday. That sort of delay isn't typical, she said.
MURDER CASES USUALLY take longest to bring to trial. Large amounts of evidence must be tested by the state's crime lab. Law enforcement officers' schedules can also interfere with trial scheduling, and often more than several officers and detectives are needed to testify in a murder trial.
The number of attorneys involved also complicates them. It's difficult just to get all the parties in a courtroom to set a trial date, Nadolski said.
There are multiple defendants and multiple lawyers involved in the murder cases for which defendants have been held in jail more than 600 days.
"It's a finite group of attorneys (assigned by the state's Indigent Defense Services) that handle first-degree murder cases," Nadolski said.
On Aug. 19, Jose Carlos Torres filed a handwritten motion requesting a speedy trial, citing the Sixth Amendment and the North Carolina Constitution.
Torres, 25, and two other men — Reginald Keith Watson, 25, and Antonio McMillan, 21 — were charged in the Dec. 7, 2011, shooting death of James Kyle Roland in Mebane.
In an Aug. 29 hearing, Superior Court Judge Richard Stone denied that request. In his order, the judge found that Torres' attorney, Robert Sharpe, is already obligated to defend two first-degree murder cases scheduled through January.
Two men charged with the 2007 murder of 68-year-old Sara Dixon face the death penalty and have been in custody more than four years awaiting trial. Robert Dennis Dixon, 49, is in the midst of his trial, accused of hiring two men to kill his stepmother. Matthew Devon Fields, 25, is still awaiting trial in the case. A third defendant — Thomas Clay, 40 — pleaded guilty in 2012 in exchange for life in prison. All three were arrested in July 2009 and have been incarcerated since.
The final murder case involves defendants Brett Allen Cole, 24, Keith Antonio Graves, 25, and Andrew Napoleon Brown, 25, who are accused of fatally shooting 21-year-old Brittanny Jernigan on Feb. 4 during a robbery inside her Stout Street apartment in Burlington.
"We prioritize our cases, but unfortunately in murder cases, especially capital cases, it's difficult to schedule," Nadolski said. "When those are delayed, it's probably from a scheduling standpoint."


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Section Title
122.010 Power to Grant Variances
122.020 Criteria for Granting a Variance
122.030 Limiting Variances
122.040 Filing of Application
122.045 Required Signatures
122.050 Director Review
122.052 Application Review
122.054 Information From Affected Areas
122.056 Notification of Decision
122.058 Appeal
122.060 Public Hearings and Notice of an Appeal
122.065 Decision of the Planning Commission or Hearings Officer
122.070 Call Up to the Board
122.080 Effective Date of Variance
122.090 Variance Right Must Be Exercised to be Effective
122.100 Cessation of Variance
122.110 Transfer of Variance
122.120 Appeal to the Board
122.130 Resubmission of Variance Application
122.010 POWER TO GRANT VARIANCES. Subject to the restrictions and provisions contained in this ordinance, the Director, Planning Commission, Hearings officer or Board shall have the power to vary or modify the strict application of any of the standards of this ordinance in any case where such strict application would result in practical difficulties or unnecessary hardships with reference to requirements governing: lot area, lot width, percentage of lot coverage and number of dwelling units or structures permitted on a lot, height of structures, location, yards, signs, parking and loading space, vision clearance and other standards. Variances to allow uses or new uses not otherwise allowed are prohibited. Variances to criteria and definitions are also prohibited.
122.020 CRITERIA FOR GRANTING A VARIANCE. The Director, Planning Commission, Hearings Officer, or Board may permit and authorize a variance when it appears from the application and the facts presented that:
(a) There are unnecessary, unreasonable hardships or practical difficulties which can be relieved only by modifying the literal requirements of the ordinance; and
(b) There are unusual circumstances or conditions applying to the land, buildings, or use referred to in the application, which circumstances or conditions do not apply generally to land, buildings, or uses in the same zone; however, nonconforming land uses or structures in the vicinity or violations of land use regulations or standards on the subject property shall not in themselves constitute such circumstances or conditions; and
(c) The degree of variance from the standard is the minimum necessary to permit development of the property for the proposed use; and
(d) The variance will not have a significant adverse affect on property or improvements in the neighborhood of the subject property; and
(e) The variance will not have a significant adverse affect upon the health or safety of persons working or residing in the vicinity; and
(f) The variance will maintain the intent and purpose of the provision being varied.
122.030 LIMITING VARIANCES. The Director, Planning Commission or Hearings Officer may impose such limitations, conditions and safeguards as it may deem appropriate so that the spirit of this ordinance will be observed, public safety and welfare secured, and substantial justice be done. The Director, Planning Commission or Hearings Officer may limit the time or duration of a variance. If the variance is granted the applicant will exercise the rights granted in accordance with the terms and subject to all the conditions and limitations of the approval. A violation of any such condition or limitation shall constitute a violation of this ordinance.
122.040 FILING OF APPLICATION. An application for a variance may be filed by one or more of the following:
(a) The owner of the property that is the subject of the application;
(b) The purchaser of the property that is subject to the application when a duly executed written contract or earnest-money agreement, or copy thereof, is submitted with the application;
(c) A lessee in possession of the property subject to the application who submits written consent of the owner to make such application;
(d) The appropriate local government or state agency when the application is for public works project; or
(e) A governmental body that has initiated condemnation procedures on the property that is subject to the application, but has not yet gained title.
(f) A co-tenant if the property that is the subject of the application is owned by tenants in common.
The application shall be filed with the Director in writing on an application form provided by the Planning Division. The application shall set forth the variance or modification sought, the description or location of the building or premises, the name or names of the owners of the property. The application shall contain such other information as deemed necessary by the Director, Planning Commission or Hearings Officer.
122.045 REQUIRED SIGNATURES. Applications shall include the following signatures:
(a) Signatures of all owners of the subject property; or
(b) The signatures of the purchasers of the property under a duly executed, recorded, written contract of sale or earnest-money agreement; or
(c) The signatures of lessee in possession of the property with the written consent of all the owners; or
(d) The signatures of the agents of those identified in Section 122.040 (a), (b), or (c) when authorized in writing by those with the interests described in Section 122.040 (b) or (c), and all the owners of the property; or
(e) The signature of an authorized agent of a public agency or utility holding an easement or other right that entitles the applicant to conduct the proposed use on the subject property without the approval of the property owners.
(f) The signature of co-tenants owning at least a one-half undivided interest in the property, when the property is owned by tenants in common, provided that the signing co-tenant provides current addresses for all co-tenants who have not signed the application so the Planning Division can give them notice of the decision.
(g) Prima facie proof of ownership. When any person signs as the owner of property or as an officer of a public or private corporation owning the property, or as an attorney in fact or agent of any such owner, or when any person states that he is buying the property under contract, the Director, Planning Commission, Hearings Officer and the Board may accept such statements to be true, unless the contrary be proved, and except where otherwise in this ordinance more definite and complete proof is required. Nothing herein prevents the Director, Planning Commission, Hearings Officer or Board from demanding proof that the signer is such owner, officer, attorney in fact, or agent.
122.050 DIRECTOR REVIEW. The provisions of this Chapter and other provisions of this ordinance notwithstanding, the Director shall have the power to decide applications for all variances and impose conditions consistent with this ordinance. The Director shall also have the power to forward an application to the Hearings Officer or Planning Commission for the initial decision. In such case, the review body shall conduct a public hearing on the application pursuant to Section 122.060.
The Director may, any time prior to the decision being final, reconsider the decision and issue a new or modified decision.
122.052 APPLICATION REVIEW. The Director shall decide whether the variance is approved or denied based on the Marion County Comprehensive Plan and applicable criteria in the Marion County Rural Zoning Ordinance. This administrative decision shall be final unless an appeal is taken as provided below.
122.054 INFORMATION FROM AFFECTED AGENCIES. Upon receipt of an application under 122.050, a summary of the application shall be distributed to the Public Works Department, Assessor's Office, Building Inspector, other affected agencies and the recognized Area Advisory Committee, with a request for comments or suggestions regarding those features that come within the scope of their activities.
122.056 NOTIFICATION OF DECISION. Notice of the decision and information on the appeal process shall be sent to the applicant, the owner(s) of the subject property, the co-tenants of the subject property if the property is owned by tenants in common, affected agencies and members of the recognized Area Advisory Committee requesting notification, others requesting notification, and all landowners within the required notification area.
122.058 APPEAL. After the Director's final action on the application, interested persons may appeal the decision no later than 12 days after the decision is mailed.
122.060 PUBLIC HEARING AND NOTICE OF AN APPEAL. If the Director's decision is appealed, the Hearings Officer or Planning Commission shall conduct a public hearing in accordance with Chapter 111 of the Marion County Rural Zoning Ordinance. Notice of an appeal of the Director's decision shall be mailed to the applicant, those requesting notice of a hearing and all landowners within the required notification area at least 20 days prior to the hearing date. The notice shall be consistent with the requirements in ORS 197.763(3). Failure to receive such notice by mail shall not affect the validity of the proceedings. The public hearing before the Hearings Officer or Planning Commission shall be de novo.
122.065 DECISION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OR HEARINGS OFFICER. The Planning Commission or Hearings Officer shall render its decision on an application for a variance after the conclusion of a hearing and the Director or Hearings Officer shall mail a notice of the decision to the applicant and shall file a copy of the notice with the Board. The Director or Hearings Officer shall also mail notice of any decisions to any person or agency who, in writing, requested such notification before the decision was rendered.
122.070 CALL UP TO THE BOARD. The Board may call up any action of the Director, Planning Commission or Hearings Officer in granting or denying a variance. Such action of the Board shall be taken at the meeting where notice of the decision is presented. When the Board takes such action the Director's, Planning Commission's or Hearings Officer's records pertaining to the variance in question shall be submitted to the Board by the Director or Hearings Officer and such call up shall stay all proceedings in the same manner as the filing of a notice of appeal.
122.080 EFFECTIVE DATE OF VARIANCE. Variances granted by the Director, Planning Commission or Hearings Officer under the provisions of this ordinance shall not be effective until 12 days after the mailing of the notice of decision provided, however, in case call up of the proceedings has been requested by the Board or an appeal has been taken as herein provided, the variance shall not be effective until the Planning Commission, Hearings Officer or Board has acted on the call up or appeal.
122.090 VARIANCE RIGHT MUST BE EXERCISED TO BE EFFECTIVE. Variances granted under this ordinance shall be effective only when the exercise of the right granted thereunder shall be commenced within 12 months from the effective date of that variance, unless a longer period be specified or thereafter allowed by the Director, Planning Commission, Hearings Officer, or Board. In case the right has not been exercised, or extension obtained, the variance shall be void. A written request for an extension of time filed with the Director prior to the expiration of the variance shall extend the running of the variance period until the Director, Planning Commission, Hearings Officer or Board has acted on the request.
122.100 CESSATION OF VARIANCE. Discontinuance of the exercise of any right heretofore or hereafter authorized by any variance for a continuous period of 6 months shall be deemed an abandonment of such variance, and the property affected thereby shall be subject to all the provisions and regulations of this ordinance applicable to the district or zone in which such property is located at the time of such abandonment.
122.110 TRANSFER OF VARIANCE. Any valid variance granted pursuant to this ordinance is transferrable unless otherwise provided at the time of the granting of such variance.
(a) An appeal may be taken to the Board by any person, firm, or corporation, or by an officer, department, board of commission of any public corporation or political subdivision of the State of Oregon aggrieved or affected by the decision of the Planning Commission or Hearings Officer on an application for a variance. An appeal must be filed with the County Clerk within 12 days from the date of mailing of notice of the decision of the Planning Commission or Hearings Officer.
The appeal shall be filed in duplicate and one copy thereof shall be forwarded immediately by the Clerk to the Board. The appeal shall state wherein the Planning Commission or Hearings Officer failed to conform to the provision of the Ordinance.
(b) When an appeal is filed it shall stay all proceedings by all parties in connection with the matter upon which the appeal is taken until the determination of such appeal by the Board.
(c) The Board shall review the action of the Planning Commission or Hearings Officer and may refer the matter back to the Planning Commission or Hearings Officer for further consideration, in which case the Planning Commission or Hearings Officer shall conduct such further investigation if it is deemed advisable and report its findings to the Board. The Board may summarily, after considering the application and appeal and finding that the facts therein stated do not warrant any further hearings, affirm the action of the Planning Commission or Hearings Officer and deny the appeal. If the Board is of the opinion that the facts in the case warrant further action, the Board shall give notice of the time and place of such hearing in the same manner as set forth in Section 111.030. After the hearing, the Board may reverse or affirm or may impose such conditions as the facts warrant and may grant a variance, and its decision or determination shall be final. Any hearing may be continued from time to time.
(d) If the Board exercises its authority, pursuant to Section 110.765, to make the initial determination on a land use application, the decision of the Board is final and appealable only to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals.
122.130 RESUBMISSION OF VARIANCE APPLICATION. No application which has been denied wholly or in part by the Director, Planning Commission, Hearings Officer or by the Board shall be resubmitted for a period of 1 year from such denial, unless consent for resubmission be given by the Director, 2/3 of the members of the Planning Commission, the Hearings Officer or the Board.


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The hardest decision is not whether to go to Indiana Dunes State Park, but what to bring. Swimming suits could be on your list, as the clean and pretty swimming beach has a lifeguard and a pavilion with a snack bar, small store and updates on the water safety. Binoculars and a bird field guide are a good idea. The Dunes area includes habitat from beach to marsh, drawing a big range of birds. Check in at the Nature Center (which also has observation room with floor-to-ceiling windows) to find the day's hot birding spots. Definitely bring your favorite footwear for exploring, because the park's 16-plus miles of trails lead through a remarkable collection of some of the Midwest's most diverse plant communities and wildlife habitat. Some of the dunes are "living," which means they slowly push inland. In some places, the dunes buried forests, then exposed the "tree graveyards" as they continue to creep along. However you plan to spend your time, the Dorothy Buell Memorial Visitor Center should be your first stop. In addition to activities for kids (pioneer-style dress-up, interactive Dunes nature/ecology game), the Center stocks an extensive array of park literature. The maps of every trail in the Dunes and pamphlets about park projects are great, but our favorite was a brochure about what to do if you had an hour, a day or a week to spend at the Dunes. This is also the place to check for daily programs and special events such as star-watching and sand-sculpting contests.


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RYAN VREDE, in London, writes Pat Lambie has yet to convince of his aptitude as a Test flyhalf but has an opportunity to push his case with a strong showing at Twickenham.
Lambie's lot is an unenviable one. From the outset of the tour he was acutely aware that he would have, at most, three run outs to advance his cause as a Springbok pivot, the position he showed promise in with the Sharks this season. With Lambie's potency resting heavily on the performance of his pack and coach Heyneke Meyer inadvertently contradicting his professed faith in Lambie by admitting that Morne Steyn is an insurance policy, his plight was complicated.
Meyer was also initially cold on the idea of Lambie in the No 10 shirt – believing him to be better suited to fullback – but has softened his stance in light of his Super Rugby and Currie Cup form. The decision to install him ahead of Steyn was a difficult one for Meyer, despite the latter's obvious struggles throughout the season, with that call made on the Sunday before the Ireland Test. Even then it was not one taken with absolute conviction.
Adding to Lambie's challenge was the need to adapt his natural game to meet Meyer's high expectations of his flyhalves from a tactical kicking perspective. This has been Lambie's weakest point over the last fortnight, although it would be remiss not to note that he has effectively had just two halves of 'play', owing to the Springboks' awful start in Dublin and their regression in the second half at Murrayfield on Saturday. Furthermore he has been partnered by Ruan Pienaar, who is on his own mission to nail down a place, and a back division that lacks cohesion and synergy.
He will be desperate for things to come together over 80 minutes against England.
There have been moments to inspire confidence that he could advance his cause if given a strong platform by his forwards. He will also hope to benefit from what seems to be a measure of power that Twickenham has offered Springbok flyhalves in recent years – with Butch James, Andre Pretorius and Ruan Piennar all delivering excellent performances in their sides' wins in 2006 and 2008 respectively. In James's case it settled then coach Jake White's mind that he was the right man to steer the ship at the 2007 World Cup. Pretorius made that squad on the strength of what he could offer from a goal and tactical kicking perspective, and Pienaar was retained at flyhalf for the British & Irish Lions series after his impressive offering in 2008.
He has the inside lane to be at the head of the queue to push Johan Goosen, Meyer's first-choice flyhalf, for his place. My understanding, based on information from sources close to Lambie, is that it is also the position he sees himself settling in, despite him saying in Dublin that he is happy to switch between fullback and flyhalf at this stage.
It was always highly unrealistic to expect him to thrive in such a short period of time and against the backdrop of the aforementioned complexities. But sometimes in professional sport, this is how it is. International careers have been launched, stalled or ended by athletes who have capitalised on unexpected opportunities of this ilk.
At just 22, Lambie's Test career certainly won't be ended by a failure to flourish at Twickenham. It could, however, be stalled. His is one of the most interesting sub-plots that will play out. The occasion and incentive calls for an emphatic statement from Lambie.


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Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln." And don't be surprised if Sally Field cops a best-supporting-actress Oscar for her role as Mary Todd Lincoln.
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Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables." Critics jeered at this movie, but Oscar voters will like the way Hathaway belted out the film's big showstopper song.
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Best Picture: "Argo": It's got the momentum, despite the lack of a best-director nomination for star Ben Affleck (right), shown here with Johnm Goodman (left) and Alan Arkin.
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Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook."
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Best Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro for "Silver Linings Playbook." Jacki Weaver is a best-supporting-actress nominee.
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Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables." Critics jeered this picture, but Oscar voters probably fell for the way Hathaway belted out the big showstopping number.
Most of this media noise can be easy to ignore, which I hope you have. But it all has an impact on the winners of the Academy Awards, because voters are notorious for swaying with the prevailing breezes, especially because they don't actually have to see the movies themselves to be able to vote.
This year's prognostication is difficult, in part because of this. Even though the year has what should be an obvious front-runner -- "Lincoln" pushes all the right Oscar buttons -- we've been told it's a wide-open race, which is why the studios are spending huge amounts of money to impress the academy members.
Best picture is a puzzler, especially. Conventional wisdom holds that "Lincoln" no longer leads because it's a little too wordy and serious. More importantly, the much-loved "Argo" did not get a nomination for director Ben Affleck, and there is now a sympathy vote developing for "Argo" because of that.
Could be: Affleck and "Argo" have been hauling in those sub-Oscar awards. How can you not have sympathy for someone rich and handsome and famous and married to Jennifer Garner? Poor guy.
But wait, "Zero Dark Thirty" was hailed as a great film, at least until it was rumored that the movie approves of torture. Of course, that didn't stop the Oscar win for "Chicago." (Kidding! That movie was merely an enhanced interrogation.)
Plus, "Zero" director Kathryn Bigelow didn't get nominated in her category, either. Meanwhile, watch out for "Silver Linings Playbook," a movie that's been putting on a full-court press in recent weeks, positioning itself as a film about mental illness in order to get some of the Oscar weight it needs.
That's because Oscars don't go to comedies, which "Silver Linings Playbook" most certainly is. Wonderful movie, and in fact it does some very nice things around the subject of mental illness, but this is shameless campaigning for Oscar gold.
Nevertheless: Once a year, we must predict the winners. Why? Because we can't help it, because it's fun and because some of us have been compulsively doing this since the age of 9 or so.
So let's welcome Seth McFarlane to the hosting duties, and settle in for the 85th annual Academy Awards.
Don't bet the farm, but here are the picks from here. As always, these aren't my preferences, but my guesses about what and who will actually win:
Best Picture
"Argo." Everybody seems to think the momentum is behind this enjoyable account of a hostage escape from Iran, although it's very unusual for a movie to win this award without its director being nominated (last time it happened was 1989 for "Driving Miss Daisy").
"Lincoln" has a strong shot at the prize, and so does "Silver Linings Playbook." "Zero Dark Thirty" is out for the stated reasons, "Django Unchained" (which also depicts torture, you know) is a little too wild for Oscar prestige, and "Les Miserables" has a few too many negative reviews in its column to strike gold.
"Life of Pi" is an Oscar kind of movie, but didn't ignite audiences, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" fulfills the indie slot but no more than that, and the French "Amour" has to be given at least an outside shot at winning.
Best Actress
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook." A terrific turn, and commentators seem to be leaning toward her, although 86-year-old Emmanuelle Riva ("Amour") has won a few awards of late.
I thought Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty") was the one to beat a month ago, but not so much now. Also in: Quevenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild") and Naomi Watts ("The Impossible").
Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln." I still don't understand why they left out the vampire hunting, but Day-Lewis' turn as the 16th president is eerie and indelible. This one's probably a lock, but some serious consideration should go to Joaquin Phoenix's frightening work in "The Master."
Also in there: Bradley Cooper ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Hugh Jackman ("Les Miserables"), Denzel Washington ("Flight").
Best Supporting Actress
Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables." That seems to be the consensus, thanks to her takedown of the show's big song. It wouldn't be a complete surprise if Sally Field snuck in and grabbed her third Oscar for her excellent work in "Lincoln," however. The others: Amy Adams ("The Master"), Helen Hunt ("The Sessons"), Jacki Weaver ("Silver Linings Playbook").
Best Supporting Actor
Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook." Everybody in this category has already won an Oscar, and De Niro did his best work in years.
Pretty stiff competition here: Tommy Lee Jones tore it up in "Lincoln," Christoph Waltz has scored a few awards for his work in "Django Unchained," and Philip Seymour Hoffman actually gave a leading-role performance in "The Master." Only Alan Arkin ("Argo") is really out of it.
Best Director
Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln." The category's up for grabs, but Spielberg would be a logical choice if "Argo" gets the top prize.
A close vote could tip the balance toward David O. Russell for "Silver Linings Playbook," if that movie has the mojo, or even toward the respected Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke ("Amour").
Can't see it going to previous winner Ang Lee ("Life of Pi") or newcomer Benh Zeitlin ("Beasts of the Southern Wild").
Best Original Screenplay
"Zero Dark Thirty," Mark Boal. A consolation prize for a strong film.
"Django Unchained," by Quentin Tarantino, is floridly written, and this is the kind of category in which a foreign film (namely "Amour," by Michael Haneke) has a legit chance to win.
Probably out: "Flight" (John Gatins) and "Moonrise Kingdom" (Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola).
Best Adapted Screenplay
"Lincoln," Tony Kushner. It would be a deserving award, but if it's an "Argo" night then maybe Chris Terrio wins.
Next logical choice would be David O. Russell for "Silver Linings Playbook"; less likely are "Life of Pi" (David Magee) or "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin).
Best Animated Feature
"Wreck-It Ralph." I actually have no sense of the front-runner here, so I'm going with the warmest, most likable nominee. The other titles are "Brave," "Frankenweenie," "ParaNorman" and "The Pirates! Band of Misfits."
Best Foreign-Language Film
"Amour," Austria. With its other nominations, this study of an elderly couple dealing with the realities of age would seem to be a prohibitive favorite to win. Also up: "Kon-Tiki" (Norway), "No" (Chile), "A Royal Affair" (Denmark), and "War Witch" (Canada).
Best Documentary
"Searching for Sugar Man." It's almost impossible not to love this movie, but Oscar voters tend to lean toward important subjects, so perhaps the others will actually have an edge: "How to Survive a Plague," "The Invisible War," "5 Broken Cameras" and "The Gatekeepers."
Best Song
"Skyfall," from "Skyfall." Right? Or will it be the new song written for "Les Miserables," "Suddenly" (there's a long tradition of adding new songs to established musicals just so they'll get an Oscar nomination in this category)?
And "Everybody Needs a Best Friend," from "Ted," has lyrics by Oscar host Seth McFarlane, so maybe that's an edge. But it probably won't be "Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi," or "Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice."
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Wednesday - 1/2/2013, 12:20pm EST
A bill to delay sequestration and extend tax cuts heads to President Obama's desk today, after a down-to-the-wire vote in the House last night.
Brian Friel, a federal business intelligence analyst with Bloomberg Government, told The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp today that the new legislation both delayed sequestration and reduced its potential effect.
"We were looking at $109 billion in potential sequestration prior to the passage of this bill," he said. "Now we're looking at $85 billion as the ceiling, because Congress took $24 billion of the original $109 billion and shifted it. So, $12 billion of that cut has now been taken care of through a change in the tax code. The other $12 billion is being dealt with by changes in the budget caps for 2013 and 2014, so kind of pushing out the potential effect of the cuts so that they can be dealt with later. It's basically a 22 percent reduction in the potential threat of sequestration, which will potentially take place in March unless Congress and the White House can agree on further reducing the potential impact of it."
Currently, the government is operating under a 2012 countinuing resolution, which runs out in March.
"The way they structured those cuts is they reduced what they called the discretionary spending caps for non-security and security spending both for 2013 and 2014," Friel said. "So, $8 billion of that $12 billion has been shifted out into 2014 in the form of lower overall caps for that year." That leaves only $4 billion in potential cuts for 2013, split 50-50 between defense and non-defense spending.
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Friel said those cuts would occur in an after-session sequestration, which the new law says will occur on March 27, the day the CR expires.
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"Essentially, that $4 billion would have to come through a second sort of follow-on sequestration order from the administration," he said. "One thing to keep in mind is that $2 billion on the non-defense side, the reduction in the cap, still leaves the overall cap higher than what the current spending level is for non-defense. Essentially, that's something of a phantom cut. It can be made without actually affecting any programs."
If Congress had done nothing and sequestration kicked in, the budget would have gone up in 2013 and 2014. The new cuts, however, flat-line the overall budget by eliminating an expected increase over the next two years.
It will be up to the new Congress, which will be sworn in on Thursday, to figure out how to deal with the remaining 85 percent of sequestration.
"Congress will have to deal with this by March 1 or [the Office of Management and Budget] will have to issue the sequestration order that everyone was expecting to happen today," Friel said. "That basically gives us two months."
What the government was facing before for defense was an overall 9.4 percent cut in fiscal 2013 and for non-defense was an 8.2 percent cut. "We did sort of an initial calculation," Friel said. With $24 billion taken off of sequestration, now we're looking at, if sequestration starts to take place in March, 7.3 percent cut for fiscal 2013 on the defense side and probably in the 6.5 percent range for non-defense."
Debt ceiling faces March deadline too
Complicating matter is the debt ceiling issue will have to be resolved early in March as well. "All this sequestration fight might be wrapped into the debt ceiling increase," Friel said.
Even though the government reached the debt ceiling limit on Christmas Eve, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress he could avoid breaching of the debt ceiling by moving money around through accounting procedures.
"It's things like that that really bothers federal employees every year," Friel said. "They take money allocated in the G Fund, which is sort of the super-safe fund for the Thrift Savings Plan for federal employees, and kind of jostle that around. They always restore that money once an agreement is reached to raise the debt limit, but it certainly causes angst for federal employees while that's happening."
With a final resolution about the sequester delayed until March, many contractors may be left wondering how to weather the uncertainty of the next two months.
Friel likened the current situation to what happened in 2011 when Congress failed to pass a full-year appropriation until mid-April.
"Contractors can think back to two years ago and how they dealt with the uncertainty then and apply the lessons they learned then to now," he said.
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Continual overcrowding problems at the current Lenoir County Jail led to large sums of money paid to other counties to house prisoners. That may stop before the year's end, as the new Lenoir County Jail is slated to open sometime in December after months of delays.
"The jail was supposed to have been completed sometime around July, but there have been various issues that have come up with different contractors, which have delayed other contractors to do their work," Lenoir County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Chris Hill said. "So, you have a ripple effect that happens in construction, apparently."
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"If we've got 62 inmates, it's costing Lenoir County $3,100 a day to house inmates outside the county, like in Pamlico, Sampson, Brunswick County, New Hanover County, Greene County," Hill said. "We've got inmates in all these jails. We don't have one jail to send them to, because no one jail has all the capacity that we need to send inmates.
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If your son is 22 and this happened when he was a child, well, most shelters have come a long way in just the past 5-10 years. How we, as a society, view and respect the lives of our pets has changed too.
The dog that you took back to the shelter, do you know what the illness was? Hopefully this shelter has progressed in attending to sick animals before they are adopted out. I had adopted a kitten that was spayed at a shelter which used a vendor vet service for the spaying. It was done so poorly that she split open. The vet at the shelter re-did it and did a great job! If she had anything differently that was wrong I would have taken her to a private vet. It would not surprise me if the dog was treatable and that the shelter did not want to treat the dog as it may have been expensive or they didn't know what they were doing.
Normally adopted pets have adoption fees which can be similar to purchasing a pet. I agree that a person should be able to afford a pet and it concerns me when people or shelters 'give away' or only charge a nominal fee for adopting a pet. People should be able to afford a pet right off the bat. And people do value money, most people. I would not want to see pets sold but adopted (with fee) from a pet store.
So in the US we kill about 4 Million cats and dogs each year but 17 Million are sold, imported, etc. to people here. That is outrageous! People who do not have respect for dogs, cats and do not take care of them should not be allowed to care take for one. So a person who has committed a cruel act to a pet should no longer have pet privileges ever. Or a person who turns in their 16 year old dog because they do not want vet bills should not be able to adopt another dog and so forth.
They differentiate between puppy mills and decent breeders, which is why animal welfare advocates want to get rid of the puppy mills. Certainly, we should limit the ability to breed pets period, and any breeding should be regulated more. We should not be killing up to 4M pets per year when people are adopting over that amount. They need to limit the breeding and encourage adoption. There should be no unwanted pets in the US.
I cannot believe the amount of cruelty to pets in this country. A recent study suggested about 50 percent of pets are treated cruelly in the US. People do not have to have a pet. Of that 50 percent of households who torture or mutilate or starve or ignore their pet, they should not have one, ever. Pets should be treated as valuable and likely and sadly the only way that they will be is if there is a shortage of them, instead of an abundance.
I am a Rescue volunteer and I would NOT LET YOU ADOPT ANY RESCUE DOG after your story.
I agree with Janice. I think the excuse is a pretty lame one. The only dogs I have ever had were shelter animals and some came with "issues" but they were definitely worth working through those issues. I also disagree that banning pet store sales will not stop puppy mills. The fewer outlets these puppy mills have to sell their puppies at, the less money they make. It may get some of them to stop if their profits are much less. However, it is going to take awhile to get rid of all the puppy mills out there and shutting down pet store sales is just one way toward accomplishing that.
Bridgette, please educate yourseslf on puppy mills. They are legal and they are "legislated". You saying that you are ok with that means you are ok with dogs living their entire lives in cages, never knowing what is like to live in a home and be loved, never to be able to run and play, never to do a lot of things. These dogs have no lives except to sit day after day in a cage waiting to breed. They don't receive appropriate medical care or any at all. I can go on and on. If you ban selling puppies in pet stores, the mills will start going out of business. Don't you get it? Please, before putting ignorant comments out there, educate yourself. There are also tons of puppies in rescues and shelters. Every one of my dogs is a rescue and I wouldnt have it any other way. By the way there is no way to be completely sure of your mixed breed dog unless DNA is done. And even that isnt completely accurate. And by the way, many of the dogs we took into our shelter that were given up..were by people who bought them at pet stores. They werent screened properly and nobody cares who buys these dogs. And many of them are given up or suffer fates you don't want to know about. And these...are facts from someone who has experienced it many times.
Another reason to adopt a mutt from a shelter and make sure they are spayed or neutered! Never leave your animals unsupervised!!
Puppy mill pets are suffering because people like Bridgette think they are better pets. Any "puppy" wheter shelter dog or not, will become a good pet with love and training. Yes older dogs have issues due to the stupidity of man, but most pet shops dont sell grown dogs. Most shelters will let you try out a pet for a week b4 commiting or not.
You also need to be honest with the shelter in your explanation of what YOU want in a pet, where you live, how often you can play with your pet and a 100 other details needed to see if that pet is right for you.
Every pet I have owned has been adopted, and they ALL turned out great, and yes they do all have different personalities, and behavior..dogs are not cut from the same cloth.
A person who paid more for a pet store pet is more likely to take better care of it? Why would we even dignify a statement THAT STUPID with a serious response?


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Doyle ended up writing four novels and 56 short stories featuring Holmes and his companion, Dr. Watson. All but four are told in the first person by Watson, two by Holmes, and two are written in the third person. Together, this series of beautifully written Victorian literature has sold more copies than any other books in the English language, with the exceptions of the Bible and Shakespeare.
Volume 1 in this series consists of two novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four, followed by a collection of short stories entitled The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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"mouth watering"
The only problem I have with this series is that I am awaiting the next episode with impatience! I bought this after much comparing, I wanted a voice I could enjoy, one who could do a variety of voices, and a series that didn't end up costing a lot, as I intend to own every story. This is value for money, and worth the wait. The only improvement possible is a multiple cast, but I chose cost over that.
Well done! and thanks for getting back to me - there will be three volumes when finished, and the second is ready and due to be offered for download any time now.
I love learning, teaching, and exploring!
"Wish there was a list of titles"
I really enjoyed listening to this collection of Sherlock Holes stories. I just wish there was an easy to find list of the stories for reference The narration was fantastic. The short stories were a nice length; I often listened to them on the way to work. Each story contained an individual plot/case yet there were many times references to previous cases, providing a connection between stories. It was interesting to see the Holmes and Watson characters develop throughout the collection.
I started listening to this collection because of the Sherlock TV show produced by BBC. The show was great and surprisingly fits with the classic stories quite well.
Reading is one of life's greatest pleasures...and, now that I've found audiobooks, I can read even while performing mundane tasks!
"a list of what you'll find in Volume 1"
A Study in Scarlet (novel; 1887)
The Sign of the Four (novel; 1890)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (short stories, published in The Strand between July, 1891 and December, 1892):
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
A Case of Identity
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Five Orange Pips
The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
From what I can tell from a quick internet search, Volume 1 of this audiobook covers the Holmes cannon faithfully from the first. I'm eager to start Volume 2 to see if the coverage will be as comprehensive.
I liked Charlton Griffin's Sherlock and Dr. Watson, but I didn't like his portrayal of any of the female characters (they sounded so wimpy and foolish, even when they were written otherwise).
I read several of the short stories, out of order, years ago. Listening to this audiobook to "read" the cannon from start to finish is great because I can follow the character development of Homles and Watson, and their relationship.
"Reason you've heard of Sherlock Holmes"
There's a reason you've heard of Sherlock Holmes before ever cracking a page or hearing the narration.
These stories are great, things explained and you're never left in the dark as to what is happening.
That was my biggest fear with mystery novels, that I never knew what was going on till the very end explanation.
This Audio book narrator is TOP notch, I don't think I've heard any better, and only a few on the same level.
This is absolutely worth getting without a doubt! A voice for every character and they all come to life.
"Loved this Narration!"
If you are an audiobook addict as I am, you will probably agree that a mediocre narrator can make a fantastic book awful and a mediocre book un-"readable." I did not find Charlton Griffin's performance at all mediocre! I love all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and enjoyed every hour of this narration.
"... there are times when silence is a poem." - John Fowles, the Magus ^(;,;)^
"Stories that are Universal, Timeless, & Elementary"
I gave this four stars, but that is a little unfair. I probably need to break it down a little better. ACD's first couple novellas (Study in Scarlet; Sign of Four) were interesting but just didn't hold together well. I could easily deduce what Doyle was trying to do with Study in Scarlet, but he just didn't pull it off (3 stars). Sign of Four was a tad better fit for Doyle (3.5 stars), but still not quite up to my expectations.
ACD's true form is the short story. His longer pieces just don't hold up quite as well as Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (5 stars). ACD is a master of the short story. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes has very few duds. It is clear that not only was Doyle breaking new ground, but he absolutely pwned the form (and would for the next century). It is rare to find a literary work that sold so well initially (the Strand sold Holmes like crazy) and still appears relevant and popular today (from t.v. shows like Sherlock to Bones). That is the brilliance of Doyle's detective stories: they are universal, they are timeless, and they are -- elementary.
Griffin does a fantastic job at bringing Holmes to life.
"Too many mistakes"
These are great stories that have stood the test of time and work well in the audiobook format.
I have great admiration for the actors who read these audiobooks and can produce a range of accents and never get them mixed up. So I am willing to forgive a few lapses in this regard. However, the frequency of missed accents and mispronunciations did detract from my enjoyment of the book. There were occasions where it was clear that the reader did not comprehend the words he was reading. For example, "bowing" with a violin bow not bending from the waist; "a propos" and "in situ" mispronounced; "house' and "horse" getting mixed up - and many more.
"The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes"
Very delightful to listen to, the stories are well read.
"A fine set of stories that are well narrated..."
I read a few Sherlock Holmes stories many years ago but had no idea that so many were written by Conan Doyle. The stories are of a length that is easy to digest and the excellent narration by Charlton Griffin (tops in my book, up there with Frank Muller and Simon Vance) brings the stories to life with his various character impersonations. I probably like Griffin's narration with a woman's voice the best of any narrator. The women often sound somewhat fickle, but for the late 1800s this wouldn't be too out of step with the times.
The length of each story is such that it can be "read" at a good pace leading to excitement to hear the next story. The voice characterization for Holmes is spot on. Having seen the older movies that featured Basil Rathbone as Holmes, I found myself picturing him as the Holmes character thanks to Griffin's narration.
You will find humor in these stories as well, especially when Holmes must tolerate the incompetence of others around him. At such a cheap price with good audio quality, a top-shelf narration by Griffin, and intriguing stories, this is a must-buy.
"Great material, but..."
I don't want to overstate my problem with this, because not everybody will be so fussy - but I cannot *stand* the choice of an American narrator.
It's not that the guy reading it is 'bad at his job'. Not at all. If I were to find him the narrator of an American novel, I expect he might be excellent. But because he's not British, a). his accents are slightly off, and b). he mispronounces certain words in a way that really, really jars.
For instance; "lab-ra-tory". I'm sorry, but a physician in Victorian England would have pronounced it, "lab-ora-tory". "Enth-oo-siasm" should be sounded, "enth-yoo-siasm". And when the narrator attempts to 'gentrify' certain words, he changes the vowels inappropriately - yes, "bath" becomes "barth", but "fancy" does not become "farncy". That's all within the first three minutes.
If you're as finickity as I am, it's intolerable. I couldn't get past the first quarter of an hour. All that said, the stories are great so, if you're not fussed by such things, feel free to ignore me. I'm stunned, though, that nobody has reported this already...
"The Wrong Reader"
The actor is seriously miscast. He not only cannot sustain an English accent but pronounces words in ways that do not exist in any spoken version of English that I know of. The most prominent and annoying of these is that he pronounces the 'l' in Holmes (and in 'folk'). Deeply disappointing, as I bought all the volumes of the short stories.
"Great but with definate cringe moments."
Oh thank you, thank you to the other reviewers. I thought it was just me! There has to be a problem when the sounding of those missplaced 'l's in Holmes actually make me flinch. I love these stories and the narrator made a good effort but why? Don't tell me there wasn't a single actual english actor to read these oh so english books! Hovering undecided over the buy button for volume two.
"Good stories but I did not like the narrator"
I found the narrator's different accents irritating. When listening to stories I go off into my own little bubble of imagination, picturing the characters, but this narrator's accents would pop that bubble.
"Excellent stories, dreadful narrator"
Wonderful to get back to the originals after the various films, tv series and books and compare the character of Conan Doyle's Holmes and Watson with the numerous alternatives offered today. I bought all three but am deeply frustrated at the choice of narrator. I gave up on the attempt to list the numerous everyday words which jarred, but above all he pronounces the central character 'Hawlms' instead of 'Homes' which grates on the ears over and over and over.
It's too late for me, and I will listen to them all (gritting my teeth) but please, Audible, consider redoing them?
I found the accent of the narrator irritating, but I never thought he was American. I thought he was doing Historically Informed Performance with authentic late Victorian vowels: Dorg for dog, orficer for officer and meek for make. That was irritating, although probably no more corny than the stories themselves. But doing women and children in falsetto is really off putting. The cockney accents are overdone.
But no worse than Dick Van Dyke's valiant and famous attempts at cockney in Mary Poppins.
The two novels (Study in Scarlet and Sign of Four) are not a patch on the short stories once Doyle had got into his stride.
"Fabulous stories hidden behind an AWFUL accent!"
It is soooo easy to make this a success- the stories are well established and successful, but the choice of narrator is atrocious. Think American trying to do an Anglo/Indian accent with a heavy cockney leaning plus a smattering of 1930's BBC announcer. It would be better if he had stuck to his US accent instead of making too cringing to listen. Has made me want to look in to refunds/returns to Audible for the first time in three years' membership.
"A good book a good narration"
The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes is a very good book and this narration is as well as the it was expexted, very close to the book so is very easy to follow the book while listening, making this audiobook a very good option for those who are learning English and need to practice but also for those who enjoy hearing well-tell stories.
The only but is that sometimes the speed of the narration is a little bit fast.
"Beautiful literature, spoilt only by the narrator"
I adore these stories, so wonderfully written. I would recommend these books to anyone. The English language at it's literary best. However, this book misses a 5 star rating based purely on the narrator. Conan-Doyle's Holmes demands a native English speaker. Whilst this is one of the better English accents I've heard from an American, there is some laughable pronunciation 'orff' (off) and 'lorng' (long) 'parssenger' etc etc.
But, all in all the writing is strong enough to withstand this onslaught. It greatly depends on how particular you are about these things... If you want these stories in all their glory, then the only narrator is Derek Jacobi.
"Easy listening"
Lots of other reviews mention the annoying habit of the narrator mispronouncing some of the quintessentially English words. I thought I would find this equally annoying. However, I was able to get past this and lose myself in the plots and dialogue between Holmes and Watson. The recording is some 20 hours long and once I was into the collection, the mispronunciations faded into inconsequence. Great value for money for your "credit" too. However, with so many marvellous British voices to choose from, the question is why did they choose an American? That being said, for Holmes fans who can listen to the book whilst picturing Basil Rathbone in his distinctive coat and deerstalker, you won't be disappointed.
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2008, Operations Research
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We seek optimal inventory levels and prices of multiple products in a given assortment in a newsvendor model (single period, stochastic demand) under price-based substitution, but not stockout-based substitution. We address a demand model involving multiplicative uncertainty, motivated by market share models often used in marketing. The pricing problem that arises is known not to be well behaved in the sense that, in its deterministic version, the objective function is not jointly quasi-concave in prices. However, we find that the objective function is still reasonably well behaved in the sense that there is a unique solution to the first-order conditions, and this solution is optimal for our problem.
Aydin, G. and E. L.Porteus (2008), "Joint Inventory and Pricing Decisions for an Assortment," Operations Research, Vol. 56, No. 5, September/October, pp. 1247-1255.