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I liked it too. I should've saved it to my computer while I still had the chance.
it was a picture of a teen titan with the words 'stfu ripdo!!'
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Rated 5 out of 5 by AnneWestbrook Love this! This is a fabulous chocolate bunny. It's solid, tasty, and fresh. As another reviewer mentioned, the bag is completely sealed in addition to having a twist tie on it. I did buy mine in the store with a 25% off coupon. I might have to go and buy more... :) March 14, 2015
Rated 4 out of 5 by sunchemist Melt-in-your mouth Both the white and dark chocolate were melt-in-your mouth and had a great flavor. The price per ounce is a good value, and I wish the size was bigger than the 2.0 oz. I really liked that the plastic packages are completely sealed apart from having a twist-tie. Shipping Experience: I ordered the product online and had it shipped to Arizona. The weather was over 80 degrees, I let someone else pick up the box for me (not knowing there were chocolates inside), and when I came home the bunnies were melted. I wasn't able to give them out like I had intended, but it turned into a good snack. March 18, 2013
Rated 1 out of 5 by bunnylover Item was completely liquid on arrival The chocolate rabbit looked SO AMAZING on the website so I ordered one for me, and one for a friend. Both were just a bag of milky liquid on arrival. VERY disappionted! April 10, 2014
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ZF-2951: Inconsistent names
Several action helpers have a subpackage name of Zend_Controller_Action instead of Action_Helper:
- Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Abstract
- Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_FlashMessenger
- Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Redirector
- Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Url
- Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_ViewRenderer
Also Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker which should be marked with the subpackege name of Action, and Zend_Layout_Controller_Action_Helper_Layout which does not reflect the directory structure containing Layout as the second part of the name.
There are view helpers marked as Helpers instead of Helper too:
- Zend_View_Helper_Action
- Zend_View_Helper_Doctype
- Zend_View_Helper_Headlink
- Zend_View_Helper_HeadMeta
- Zend_View_Helper_HeadScript
- Zend_View_Helper_HeadStyle
- Zend_View_Helper_HeadTitle
- Zend_View_Helper_InlineScript
- Zend_View_Helper_PartialLoop
- Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder
- Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container
- Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container_Abstract
- Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Container_Abstract_Standalone
- Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_Registry
The complete API doc is actually being reworked. Also some of the things mentioned by you are already fixed.
Please categorize/fix as needed.
I am working on this today, Thomas, what has been done & fixed already?
I'm not sure which version the reporter uses but the "helpers" / "helper" should already been fixed. Actually I am reworking the complete API doc for ZF and I am writing the coding standard for it. This takes much time and is done since 2 weeks and should be finished in about 6 weeks.
As the subpackage tag is only a grouping and not a namespace, I don't see that naming like Zend_Contoller_Action is a failure.
This would mean that php uses "package.subpackage" syntax like java, which is not true. If the intention is to rework this for the complete framework it would be better to wait until I have finished the API doc standard and the dev-team gives it's ok to it.
Actually the complete API doc is not standardized and changing this only for Zend_Controller is useless if not done for all and not consistent to the standard. This is the reason why I've not worked on this, because it's beeing worked on, but on another side. ;-)
Scheduling for next minor release.
I have reviewed all packages listed, and each have the correct subpackage listed at this time.


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The following people were arrested on felony charges by law enforcement agencies in Davidson County, and, unless noted otherwise, were either placed in the Davidson County Detention Center or released from custody and are scheduled to appear in Lexington District Court on the date given:
• Christopher Ray Matthews, 23, of 109 S. Church Street., Apt. B, was charged with felony breaking and entering, felony larceny after breaking and entering and felony possession of stolen goods/ property, $20,000 secured bond, Feb. 18.
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Zollie Anthony Toth (Tug Boat)
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Height: 6-2 Weight: 219 lbs.
Born: January 26, 1924 in McKeesport, PA
High School: Pocohontas
College: LSU (school history)
Drafted by the New York Yanks in the 4th round (42nd overall) of the 1950 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 0 (15060th overall since 1950)
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A practical course in developing the skills of a successful church or synagogue musician. One year is devoted to improvisation and service playing; the other covers choral techniques and worship planning. Required of all organ students.
The Performer as Teacher
CND 301–302; 1 s.h./term
All great performers teach, whether coaching chamber music, presenting a master class, or instructing in a private lesson. Like the art of performing, the ability to effectively communicate one's ideas and concepts is a learned process. This course will require two hours per week of classroom time in which students will explore various teaching methods and practices through lecture, discussion, demonstration and practical opportunities necessary to gain a functional understanding of the above topics. In addition, students will be required to observe an hour of open lessons, coachings, or studio classes per week. Open, by approval, to post-baccalaureate diploma students, master of music students and select undergraduates.
Community Artists Program (CAP)
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A guided independent study in which five to seven students are matched with Curtis faculty, staff, and alumni mentors who help them to design and implement a unique performance project that combines artistry with invention, leadership with advocacy, and citizenship with community. Mentors guide students to resources, challenge their assumptions, introduce them to key people, serve as a sounding board, provide advice, and generally help students to make the most of this special opportunity.
Music and Technology
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From electronic applications in composition, to platforms for broadcast/simulcast, to recording and the life cycles of production
and promotion, to the Internet and the infinite variety of AV possibilities it invites, having a basic to intermediate understanding of the dynamics of how music and technology meld to serve the art form is essential for Curtis students as they enter careers in the 21st-century.The course will provide students with a guided tour along the ever evolving and shared frontiers of music and technology and to provide some practical training while also stimulating creativity in their primary studies.
The 21st-Century Musician
CRS 363; 1 s.h./term
An exploration of how the classical music industry works and how students can tailor their skills to create their own varied, rewarding, and sustainable professional paths. Topics include obtaining a job, orchestral life, freelancing, grant-writing, and managing money, time, and stress. Required of Bachelor of Music and Diploma students in one of their last two years.
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April 27, 2012
Matt Milner and senior midfielder Kimmy Cummings have been named ECU's Most Outstanding Male and Female Scholar-Athletes for 2011-12. The duo will be honored at the 23rd Annual Breakfast of Champions Saturday morning, April 28, at the Murphy Center.
The award, sponsored by Potash Corp Aurora and the ECU Department of Athletics, is considered to be the most prestigious award that is presented annually to a male and female student-athlete. The award recognizes academic achievement at ECU, qualities of leadership and service to the university and community.
Earlier this year, Milner became the first Academic All-America selection in the history of the Pirate football program, as he was elected to the Capital One Academic All-America Second Team as voted upon by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Milner, who maintains a perfect 4.0 grade-point average (GPA) as a physics major, was one of just three sophomores selected and the lone Conference USA representative.
The Cary, N.C., native is a two-time recipient of the program's Jerry T. Brooks Academic Achievement Award and earned the C-USA Academic Medal each of his first three years enrolled. A member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and active volunteer with both the Ronald McDonald House and the Boys and Girls Club, Milner has started 21 of 25 career games with 84 total tackles.
"The ECU academic and athletic experience has combined to create goals in my life that previously I did not feel I would be able to attain," Milner said. "My time at ECU comes at a point where I'm building the foundation of the man I will become."
Cummings, who began her career at ECU as a walk-on, carries a 3.92 GPA as a triple major in marketing, management and management information systems. She was recognized as a Capital One Academic All-District Three Second Team selection and was named to the C-USA Women's Soccer All-Academic Team for the second time. Cummings was also one of 33 Division I student-athletes named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Women's College Scholar All-America Team.
On campus she has served as project manager for the small business institute's volunteer and service learning center, while in the community she has volunteered with Riley's Army, Special Olympics, Relay For Life and Walk For Women. The Mechanicsville, Va., native ended her playing career with 15 goals, 11 assists and 41 points - all ranking among the top-15 in school history.
"When I started at ECU, I was the underdog; now finishing my career at ECU, I believe in the underdog who chases dreams and breaks down walls," Cummings said. "These four years have shown me I can push myself farther than expectations."
Cummings was also selected to receive the Pirate Service and Leadership Postgraduate Scholarship Award.
Inside wide receiver Carter Gagnon was named this year's Pat Draughon Postgraduate Scholarship Award winner, which is selected on the basis of outstanding character, dedication, loyalty, persistence and the spirit of competition on and off the field. Long snapper William Smith is the recipient of the Walter and Marie Williams "Spirit of the East" Post-Eligibilty Scholarship Award, which is presented annually to a student-athlete who demonstrates outstanding commitment to the spirit of ECU.
Sarah Christian, a pitcher on the softball team, has been named the recipient of the Kristi Overton Female Scholar-Athlete Award, which recognizes an outstanding female student-athlete from North Carolina that has excelled as a freshman. A Greenville native, Christian is just the fifth freshman in program history to record 15 victories during her rookie campaign. A intended business major, she earned a perfect 4.00 GPA during her first semester.
The 2011-12 Potash Corp Aurora All-Academic Team will also be recognized Saturday. In addition to Milner, the 17-member squad includes: Jessica Abshire (soccer), Dennis Aliotta (men's track & field), Brittany Copeland (women's cross country), Kelly Derby (volleyball), Ariana Jackson (women's basketball), David Jauss (baseball), Hannah Lee (women's swimming & diving), Cicely Lopez (softball), Doug Parker (men's swimming & diving), Daniel Porter (men's cross country), John Schmitt (men's tennis), Julia Strandberg (women's golf), Petar Torlak (men's basketball), David Watkins (men's golf), Abbey Way (women's track & field) and Yilian Zhang (women's tennis).


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The Rheinmetall-Borsig RI 502 solid-fuel JATO rockets were shipped in pairs and are shown here in their original German Air Ministry shipping crate. The RI 502 was specifically designed as a JATO for large troop-carrying gliders, notably the Gotha Go 242, and was manufactured in large quantities at the end of the war. Fueled with a single stick of dyglycol "smokeless" propellant, the RI 502 burned for about six seconds at a nominal thrust of 600 kg (1300 lb.), but an actual thrust that peaked as high as 900 kg (2000 lb.). Similar or identical motors were used as boosters for test missiles, and as aircraft JATOs in place of the standard liquid-fuel hydrogen-peroxide models.
These rockets were captured at the end of the war and shipped to Freeman and Wright Fields in the Midwest U.S. before being transferred to the Smithsonian by the U.S. Air Force in 1949.
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If you could have any caliber handgun, what would it be? If I had an unlimited budget for buying guns, I would select the .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol). This would absolutely be my first choice. It is big and slow (so is a big boulder), but it can do the job.
Because of the weakness of the .38 in use at the time, John Browning designed a new auto handgun. This was around 1905. It took a few years and some modifications, but the US Army adopted this gun as the U.S.Pistol, Automatic, Caliber .45, Model 1911 in that year. Around 1926 there were a few modifications made to the gun and it became the M1911A1 which remained in service until the mid 1980s. Even though the Army adopted the 9MM as their handgun caliber at that time, a lot of special units continued to use the .45. Why? Because it WORKS! It remains one of the longest-lived handguns of all time.
Nowadays it seems like everybody and his brother are building a copy of the old 1911--Colt, Ruger, Remington and other domestic and foreign gun makers. Youll never go wrong copying the best!
Ruger also makes a single action revolver that is chambered for the old cowboy .45 (.45 Long Colt) and the .45 ACP, one gun--two calibers. That would be a wonderful working gun.
I dont currently own a .45 (I have in the past, but, being the dummy that I am, I either sold or traded it). A couple of years ago I went out looking for a .45 or possibly a .40 S&W, but a Ruger 9MM kind of dropped into my lap. I was able to make a trade and thus the 9MM became my main handgun. If I didnt have so much ammo in that caliber I might try to trade it on a good .45 auto. But, short of winning the lottery, I dont think Ill be able to buy a 45. I think that the 9MM will work (especially with Hornadys Critical Defense rounds) but, I do believe that the .45 is better.


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Drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the 10th round (268th overall) of the 1989 NFL Draft.
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- 1 can (14-3/4 ounces) cream-style corn
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
- 1/2 cup finely chopped celery
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1-1/2 cups crushed corn bread stuffing
- 4 boneless pork loin chops (6 ounces each)
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon spicy brown mustard
- In a large bowl, combine the corn, onion, celery and paprika. Stir in stuffing. Transfer to a greased 11x7-in. baking dish.
- Arrange pork chops over stuffing. Combine brown sugar and mustard; spread over chops. Bake, uncovered, at 400° for 35-40 minutes or until meat juices run clear. Yield: 4 servings.
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"Very tasty, quick and easy. I baked the stuffing alone for 10 minutes, added my brined chops, and baked them for about 25 minutes (145 deg)."
"This is such a great recipe for one of those nights when you're in a hurry and don't really know what to cook. I had pork chops but needed someone else's input on what to do with them. I followed the recipe by heart and both the pork chops and stuffing came out great."
"We have made this recipe since my mom first found it in the magazine years ago. It was always my sister's choice for her birthday dinner. Mom used the Stove Top cornbread stuffing mix, added to the corn, and put in a pie plate. I'm sure she has doubled the stuffing and corn to put in a 9x13 pan. She made the mustard and brown sugar sauce to taste. We've never had a problem with anything being too moist or too dry. It's always delicious!"
"Yummy.....my whole family enjoyed this recipe.....the stuffing was the best."
"Will not make it again. Didn't care for the sweetnest of the corn or the taste on the porkchops with the brown sugar and mustard. Recipe seems disconnected."


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Minor Requirements (15 cr)
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Hey a guys is there any way of catching mew legit in any of the games from fire red and leaf green and after them games if so how
Hey a guys is there any way of catching mew legit in any of the games from fire red and leaf green and after them games if so how
The only legal way is to receive them from an official pokemon event, and since those games almost a decade old and 3 generations ago, its highly unlikely they will have one.
Honestly, if you want one, just hack it, if you are really nuts you could try to go find someone with a legal mew that they clones legally in emerald with the cloning glitch... but since gen 3 isn't connectable to the internet you would have to meet them personally to trade...
just hack
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
You could get a legit mew in yellow without gameshark, though the method to do so is so out of the ordinary I often wonder how people even figured it out...
The reason why you have to find a slowbro is because of the slowbro's special stat. It turns out that when you enter a battle in gen 1 the way the game determines what pokemon you will fight is left in the same value used for the special stat. For a usual battle this is preordained by what special stat or enemy pokemon values a trainer has. On game freaks part this is just lazy and kinda stupid programming, like how they store your name as a wild pokemon for the old man fight. So by flying out of the battle, you keep the special stat of the opposing pokemon and the game has left in its program that you need to battle the guy on that route. So when you return to that route, the game uses the special stat of the pokemon you last fought and flew from to decide what you fight. Mew has a enemy pokemon indicated that is the same as slowbro's special, so it works.
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What mayhem occurs when you're trying to find the hand that you lost twenty-seven years ago? What do you do when hustlers try to sell you the wrong hand in a seedy motel? Throw in a hotel manager with a death wish and there you have Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane. Racial and sexual epithets are bandied about in a hilarious rollercoaster of love, hate, desperation, and hope.
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ASU T&F To Wrap Up Season at NCAA Outdoor Champs
National championships will be on the line in Eugene, Ore., this weekend as the Sun Devil track and field team wraps up the 2012-13 ASU competition calendar.
Sun Devils Finalize NCAA Championship Roster in Austin
The ASU track and field team added five qualifications on the final day of the NCAA West Prelims
Sun Devils T&F Punches Three to Nationals from NCAA West Prelims
Following a six-hour rain delay in Austin, Clarke, Jelmini and Milus all advanced in Austin.
Two Advance to Eugene Following Day One at NCAA West T&F Prelims
Chelsea Cassulo and Christabel Nettey will each advance to the NCAA Championships following solid performances in Austin.
National Championship Bids on the Line for Sun Devil T&F
The Sun Devil men and No. 9 women will take part in the NCAA West Preliminaries in Austin, Texas, this weekend.
Arizona State: Had a stand out freshman year as a member of the 4x400 and 4x100 relays that represented Arizona Sate at the NCAA Division I Championships... 2012 Outdoor: Competed as a member of the 4x400m and 4x100m relays at the NCAA Diviision I Championships that placed 19th and 16th overall respectively... a member of the third place Pac-12 Championship 4x400m relay team... placed 5th in the 200m with a time of 24.51 and fourth in the 400m clocking a 55.06 at the 33rd Sun Angel Classic while aso being a part of the first place 4x400m realy team... 2012 Indoor: Placed top eight in the 400m and DMR at the MPSF Indoor Championships. while also competing as a memeber of the fourth place 4x400m relay team... tagged ten top eight finishes out of eleven possible throughout the season...
High School: A 2011 graduate of of Robert McQueen High School (Reno, Nev.)... was the 400-meter regional and state champion and the 200 meter runner up during her senior campaign while also anchoring the 4x400-meter relay to a state title... holds the Robert McQueen records at 200 and 400 meters as well as relay records in the 4x200, 4x400 and 4x800-meter relays... named the 2010 and 2011 Female Athlete of the Year for the Northern Region in Nevada... broke a 29-year-old record for the Nevada Northern Region in the 400 meters... qualified at 400 meters at the 2010 Junior Olympics in Sacremento, Calif.... named Most Outstanding Female Athlete at the Sterling Bank Invitational in 2010 and West Valley/Chico Invitational in 2011...earned four varsity letters in track and soccer and two in basketball... was the team captain of track and soccer during her senior year...
Personal: Plans to major in kinesiology... Full name is Brianna Pauline Tate... Born January 1, 1993 to Billy Tate and Angela Adami in Reno, Nev.... was cast in the movie 'Shadowlands' with Gary Busey at the age of 10 years old... chosen by her student body as the "Most Likely to Become A Professional Athlete"... enjoys soccer, basketball, volleyball, wakeboarding, watching old movies with her father and music.
Personal Bests 400: 53.80 200: 24.38
In NCAA Championship Meets
2012 OTF 4x100m Relay 44.84 16th
2012 OTF 4x400m Relay 3:38.18 19th
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It's Never Too Late to Quit Smoking
When you've been diagnosed with cancer--particularly lung cancer--it may be hard to think or talk about quitting smoking. Why? Because you smoke even though everybody knows that smoking is bad for your health. And everyone knows that it can cause cancer. Plus, we also know that quitting is hard.
Over the years, perhaps you have tried to quit. Or maybe you wanted to, or planned on it, but never did. Now that you're faced with cancer, you may be overwhelmed with guilt, or focused on your treatment. You may not even be thinking about quitting smoking. Or you may be thinking, "I've got cancer; it makes no sense now."
"It makes a lot of sense to try to stop," says Greg Videtic, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic's Radiation Oncology Department. "Quitting smoking seems to have an impact, not just in terms of feeling better, but in terms of how long people with cancer live," he says.
Videtic looked at a group of limited-stage small-cell lung cancer patients over 10 years.
He compared the survival rates of the people who continued to smoke during treatment to the people who quit. Using medical records, the researchers found 186 people who had standard chemotherapy with radiation treatment. These people provided information about their smoking habits. All of them were smokers, and 58 percent had stopped smoking before they started treatment. Researchers found that the people who stopped smoking lived longer, on average, than those who continued to smoke.
A lot of doctors may not encourage people to quit smoking after being diagnosed with cancer, especially lung cancer. One of the reasons is that they don't want to make people feel bad. "People still need to be encouraged," says Videtic. "I don't go on blaming them; I just say, "Look, you are where you are, but there is even more we can do to help you."
While Videtic's research looked only at people with lung cancer, he feels comfortable encouraging all people with cancer to quit smoking. "About a year ago, I was talking to a younger woman who had breast cancer, and she was smoking," says Videtic. "I said to her, "There's evidence from other areas in the body that quitting has an impact. If you're going to put yourself through this fairly aggressive treatment with the hope that it will do better for you, then maybe you should consider not smoking." A week later she came back and said it was exactly what she needed to hear in order to stop smoking.
Videtic's study is one among other recent research studies that give evidence to smokers with cancer that it's never too late to quit. His research suggests that smoking may interfere with how well the treatment works. "One of the bad things about smoking is that it has a multiple impact," says Videtic. So exactly how it affects cancer and treatment is a hard thing to determine.
Research is also looking into how continuing to smoke may affect the spread of cancer. Plus, studies have shown that if you stop smoking after you've completed your treatment, you have a lower risk of getting another cancer afterward.
"While that's slightly different in that it is after the treatment," says Videtic, "it tells us that if you cure the first cancer, by continuing to smoke, you do have a higher risk for a second cancer."
This information is not supposed to make people feel guilty, Videtic explains. He usually tells people, "Here's a piece of information you might want to know if you're thinking about getting treatment because this will help you, too. Most people are usually glad to know that they can still do something to help themselves."
To find support in your area, visit the American Cancer Society's website, www.cancer.org. You can also call the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Cancer Information Service toll-free number, 1-800-4-CANCER, (800-422-6237) or visit their website, www.cancer.gov.


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Men's Hockey Falls to Harvard 5-3 on Alumni Day
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PRINCETON, N.J. (11/16/13) - A goal-laden third period went in Harvard's favor as the Crimson took a 5-3 game from Princeton in men's hockey in the team's homecoming game on Saturday, Nov. 16 at Hobey Baker Rink.
Harvard (3-4-1, 2-4-1 ECAC) held a 1-0 lead headed into the third period. Princeton, (2-7, 1-5 ECAC) sporting throwback Hobey Baker-era jerseys, tied it up early before the Crimson rattled off three straight goals to take a 4-1 lead. The Tigers chipped away, scoring twice to get within one but an empty-net goal with four seconds left sealed the win for Harvard.
"We started to battle back but too little too late," head coach Bob Prier said. "We tried to make it dramatic and it didn't work out. We have to keep the game a little more boring than we have been. I'll take full responsibility for that and find a way to have these guys use the boards and tight areas and talk to each other more out on the ice. We just somehow have to find a way to do it."
Harvard scored the game's first goal at 13:37 of the first period as Sean Malone and Tyler Moy teamed up for give-and-go. Moy centered for Jimmy Vesey who had a shot rebound out to the left to Malone who put it between the blocker and the left pipe.
The second period was scoreless and after 40 minutes Princeton held a 21-17 edge in shots and trailed by just one.
The Crimson had a 5x3 edge at the start of the third but a blocked Harvard shot just as Princeton's Tucker Brockett was released from the box set up a short-handed breakaway situation. Junior Aaron Ave fed Brockett the puck and skated up ice, getting the puck back to bury it top shelf on netminder Steve Michalek at 3:08.
A turnover in front of the Princeton net crushed the Tigers' momentum as Moy scored on the intercepted and started a three-goal run for the Crimson.
"We got the momentum all in our favor there and we were coming and then all of a sudden we just have these turnovers," Prier said after the game. "I thought we played a responsible game for 90% of the game, but we've got to learn to play a responsible game all the time."
Kyle Criscuolo and Vesey both scored within three minutes of Moy's goal as Harvard took a 4-1 lead with 10 minutes left in the game.
Junior Aaron Kesselman scored the Tigers' second goal with a great play between he, sophomore Mike Ambrosia and senior captain Jack Berger. Ambrosia grabbed the puck at the blue line and dished off to Berger on the right side once in the neutral zone. Berger sent it back to Ambrosia as he reached the slot and to slipped it to the left side for Kesselman who shot over the glove of Michaelek.
With 2:46 remaining, Princeton pulled goalie Sean Bonar for the extra skater and when Harvard's Malone was called for a charge the Tigers' had a 6x4 advantage. Michalek had a big stop on Ambrosia with 1:30 to play before junior Tom Kroshus got one by him. Sophomore Jonathan Liau won a draw back and Kroshus backpeddled to the right side and nailed the goal with 37 seconds left.
The Tigers wouldn't be able to get any closer as Harvard's Malone scored an unassisted empty-net goal with four ticks on the clock.
Bonar finished the game with 24 saves while Michalek stopped 32 shots.
Princeton plays a home-and-home series with travel partner Quinnipiac next weekend, Nov. 22 & 23. The teams meet first on Friday at 7 p.m., at Hobey Baker Rink.


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2013-14: Went 10-20 as the Huskies' primary starter at 184 pounds... Posted a 2-2 record at the Warren Williamson/Daktronics Open (11/3), opening the tournament with wins over South Dakota State's Ben Schwery and Southwest Minnesota State's Andrew Rodas... Pinned Kent State's Cory Campbell in the first period at the MAC Championships (3/8-9)... Pinned Ryan Garringer of Ohio (1/10) for his other pin of the season... Went 2-0 at the Wendy's Duals (1/19) with a 4-2 decision against Ashland's Bryson Hall and a 4-3 decision over Purdue's Tanner Lynde.
2012-13: Went 8-7 in a redshirt season in 2012-13... Opened the season with a sixth place finish at the EMU Open (11/3), posting a 3-2 record at the meet... Took sixth place at the Michigan State Open (11/11) by posting wins in his first two matches... Finished seventh at the Kaufman-Brand Open (12/1) at 184 pounds... Totaled two pins in his three tournaments, sticking Lake Erie's Tyler Tesny at 5:13 at EMU and Illinois' Joe Lamanna at 1:07 at Kaufman-Brand.
2011-12: Recorded a 10-16 record with one pin while starting every meet at 174 pounds... Took fourth place at the MAC Championships with a 1-2 record... Lone pin came against Cumberland's Scott Stewart at 3:58 on Dec. 21... Was never pinned in 26 matches and was only defeated by major decision four times.
2010-11: Finished the season with a 5-12 record as a true freshman while wrestling at 174 and one match at 184... placed fourth at the MAC Championships, defeating Eastern Michigan's Chris Eggert and losing to Kent State's Brandon Johnson in the third place match... finished 1-8 in dual meets and 0-5 in the MAC... recorded two victories by pin fall including the defeat of Knox's Alex Faulkner in just 1:26.
High School: Posted an 88-29 record as a four-year varsity letterwinner... helped lead team to earn the 2010 Ohio state title with a 15-0 season senior year as team captain... also finished second at the state championships at 189 pounds senior year... finished first at sectionals, regionals and in the Suburban League as a junior and senior.
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OOOHH MY GOODNESS! That performance on the MTV Movie Awards! Brought tears to my eyes! Yes, after listening closely to the lyrics on "Til I get there"....then watching Lupe perform two of his hits on this show..... I felt that LUPE...... YOU MADE IT BABY! Way to go! I feel like your second mom from afar LOL (because I watched you from the very beginning from "Kick Push" and you've worked hard and kept going)! And I have supported you. You are an awesome writer and passionate!!! I can see it and feel it. THE BEST LIVE PERFORMANCE EVER, EVER, EVER (that I've heard) the sound quality was AWESOME on the MTV Movie Award show! Every instrument was heard clearly and it was good sounding music! I can't stop rewinding the performance on my DVR! Thanks for not having any "half naked women dancing around", (I understand that some things like that are expected), but for this performance (the attention would've been on them and not you) YOU needed this moment to shine, just YOU and that MUSIC. YOU can hold it down by YOURSELF performing!!! The BAND WAS CLEAN, CRISP, AND SHARP! WE HEARD EVERY NOTE! They were THE BOMB! FOR REAL...SWAGGED OUT! LOL. I come from a family of musicians, my 20 year old son is a musician. He couldn't sleep after watching that performance.....I grew up listening to the "MUSIC"...the instruments and how they collaborate with one another takes you another place. Nothing like a LIVE band! NOTHING! YOU DID A FANTASTIC JOB! Congratulations honey! I pray for you! Be good! Stay sweet!
LUPE!!!! I am so proud of you!!! I am a 42 year old wife and mother of 3 young adults! I am originally from Chicago! I have loved you since "Kick Push". I was blasting that song in my Ford Windstar Minivan! LOL! I thought you were a genius then and I know you are a genius NOW! I love this song! I love good sounding music. I don't agree with some of the language, but I can appreciate the message very much so! I downloaded edited versions of your music from walmart.com, and this is how me and my family can enjoy your music! This song " The show goes on" and "Til I get there" are my favorites so far on this album! I've purchased the downloads (both) just recently. Keep up the good work! We love you!
Lupe you and B.o.B are the best rappers out there. The so called rappers out there now are garbage. The rap about things that have no importance and amount to nothing. You truly are a breath of fresh air. I must admit i was a little sceptical about listening to your music since i heard you were muslim. But ive stopped believing all the trash i hear about muslims. All the garbage talk about muslims is crap! I bieleve that christians and muslims can live together peacefully. You are a true inspiration to me, CHI-TOWN, Gaza Strip :), and the African-American community!! Please stay true and continue on your path to being one of the best rappers to ever walk this beautiful Planet that the one true god created!
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Pollyn "Mysterons" (Portishead Cover) from Pollyn on Vimeo.
Last month we posted about LA-based Pollyn's "How Small We Are" single, and today we have for you the video for the spectacular b-side, "Mysterons," a Portishead cover. The video is directed by the band's own Adam Jay Weissman – pretty fancy, eh?
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Inequality For All: Q & A with Robert Reich
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The Best Movies I Saw In 2009.
Is it that time of the year yet? I thought I'd post my picks early, with two disclaimers:
1. My list isn't limited to movies made or released in 2009, but to the ones I only saw this year. (The not-always reliable IMDB seems to date movies according to production and not release (in the US at least), so it looks like Zombieland was my favorite movie of 2009, which isn't exactly true. It's a damn fun one though.)
2. I actually didn't see very many movies this year — got sucked into "The Wire", some big novels (Mieville, Vollmann and King were to blame) and lots of Xbox 360 time. Revanche, The Road, Invictus, Up in the Air, The White Ribbon, Precious, Moon, Pontypool, Sin Nombre, Anvil!, A Serious Man, Two Lovers, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Messenger — they'll have to wait. Besides, I kind of have an aversion to watching something next week and pronouncing it "best of 2009″ a few days later.
The links below are to my reviews; one day I'll write about the others.
In alphabetical order, by title, the best movies I saw in 2009:
- Nagisa Oshima, Boy (1969)
- Nagisa Oshima, Death by Hanging (1968)
- Kazuo Hara, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987)
- Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker (2008)
- Fernando Eimbcke, Lake Tahoe (2008)
- Hirokazu Kore-eda, Still Walking (2008)
- Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours (2008)
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tokyo Sonata (2008)
And some runners-up:
- Denisa Reyes and Mark Gary, Hubad (2008)
- Lee Isaac Chung, Munyurangabo (2007)
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The most overhyped "intelligent" summer film that gets dumb really fast, but I still have very high hopes for the sequel: Neill Blomkamp's District 9
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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:31 pm
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I LOVE Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark series. I am astonished that she has managed to keep the quality level so high book after book. Every time a new book is due out I reread the whole series just in anticipation. So when I read she was starting a young adult series I was bummed because that could only mean delays in the next IAD entry. Now I discover her next adult title is a sort of spin-off of IAD and not part of the main story arc. This actually pisses me off. Can't we finish the first series before she starts others? It's now been almost a year since LOTHAIRE was released and I have no idea when we'll have the next IAD story. There are still so many characters hanging. Poor Fury is at the bottom of the ocean somewhere, drowning over and over, for cripes' sake!
I know authors must get tired of a long series, but shouldn't they complete one series before starting another one, let alone two?
Justin managed to look superior and bored and disbelieving all at once. No mean feat for a man who'd just fallen from a tree.
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That said, I am going to buy the IAD-spinoff book in the meantime. Debating the YA series. I'm sure it will be good, but I heard it ends on a kind of cliff-hanger in that the next book features the same couple ... and I hate that. I like knowing my couples get their HEA in one book and the next book in the series features a different couple.
Anyone read Poison Princess?
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:15 am
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I just wish authors I like would stop writing YA books, especially series ones, because I don't particularly want to read them, and definitely not if they have cliff hangers. (And I don't like post-apocalyptic stories, either. *sigh*)
I'm fine with the spinoff series, though, and actually quite looking forward to it. It may not be moving the main storyline forward, but it's still in the same world.
(By the way... The next IAD book is
, about Uilleam, and is to be released in May of next year. I really have to wonder at the title, though, since there are already three MacRieve books and most likely another for Munro. The previous titles may be pretty indistinguishable, but MacRieve just seems silly.)
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:06 am
Post subject: Re: Confession of an ingrate Kresley Cole fan
I am not wild about her YA, I (cynically) think that she's headed off in that direction because it's a hot market. Next, a 50 Shades of Gray paranormal? But perhaps I'm just bitter because I'm so invested in her IAD series.
I'm not unhappy about her spin-off into the Dacians because I view it as another IAD installment. Great news about Uilleam's book, though! I love the MacRieves!
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:18 pm
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I'm in complete agreement. Cole is an auto-buy for me, so I will buy the book that is the spin-off of "IAD" but it really annoys me that it's not an IAD book. I really do wish authors would just commit to an end game. She's a great author and IAD is huge... if she went to her publisher and said that she was wrapping it up in 3 books, they wouldn't stop her. Why not just select 3 final characters and get it done? Then go on and write 10 more series that have nothing to do with IAD. No biggie. It makes me so happy that JK Rowling committed to the 7 books and then moved on. It would have sucked if she decided to take a break at Book Five just for kicks.
I did not read "Poison Princess" and probably won't. I really liked "Hunger Games" and enjoyed a YA book that came out recently ("Cinder") and am a huge "Harry Potter" fan... but I don't like most of the YA books out there. What I've read of this one makes it seem like it's got some of my pet peeves in it (weak heroine; dark storyline with little to no comic relief; first person so not a lot of fleshing out of other characters).
Like Jane A, my first (cynical) thoughts also were, "Oh, she's doing this so she can get huge and get a movie deal." Later on, though, I thought about it and I can't say I blame her for wanting to write stuff that may get her talent more recognition. The fact is that the IAD books will never be taken as seriously as a YA book will and there is no shot of "mainstream" success. Not at the level of "Twilight" or anything. It's a shame, really. IAD has a rich mythos and is extremely creative. I could easily see it being a great HBO series (along the lines of "True Blood") but because it's regular 'ole romance novels, no one will ever consider it worthy.
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 5:29 pm
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I too am a die-hard KC fan but to help our favorite authors sustain quality in their work, I think it is important that they investigate new genres and expand on what they write. If not they stand the chance of losing the high quality we fans expect.
I personally am not upset over the diversion because she is normally slow to get her books out anyway so it's not like she's the parnormal version of Barbara Cartland who I am told would churn books out like once a month.
As for her YA. PLEASE read it. It was excellent and with the Ascension coming up I can only see the Daican spin off as a plus. Why you ask? (well you may not be askin' but I'm a tellin') The IAD was running the risk of being a bite cannibalistic in that all of the characters have basically be introduced (with the exception of some key one's Nucking Futs Nix, etc) but we were now seeing so much overlap in the newer stories that fans could run the risk of who/what fatigue...
Anyway just my 2 cents but read Poison Princess. Really good stuff.
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 8:16 pm
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I think it's ok to feel a little bummed out that one of your favorite authors is doing something different (Kristen Ashley just got picked up by Hatchet so I'm bummed that I have to pay more for her books and I'm worried they won't be as good). At the same time I think it's important to realize that this is how they (hopefully) make their living so sometimes they are going to have to make business based decisions. Ilona Andrews once had a great post about why they started a second series before finishing Kate Daniels and the gist of it was that they can't put all their eggs in that one basket and they have to prepare for the end of one series by starting another. And the point utoeid made that a new series is how they keep the creative juices flowing is totally valid.
All that being said I have to disagree with utoeid's feelings about Poison Princess. I didn't really enjoy it. The first third of the book was pretty boring and slow moving, the heroine wasn't particularly likeable (until the end but I don't want to spoil anything). Additionally the hero was a total ass who treated her like crap and treated the autistic boy terrible as well. Lastly it was a cliff hanger...booo I hate cliff hangers.
All that being said I liked what she was doing with tarot cards the idea behind the book is great (if that even makes sense). I won't read the next one but maybe when all the books come out I'll reevaluate but I'm not exactly on pins and needles.
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While I agree with the business side of things (I can't fault Cole for wanting to branch out to more lucrative waters), I can't buy into the whole "creative juices" side of things. If an author has series burn-out, I blame the author and their tendency to not plan ahead and bite off more than they can chew.
Cole started writing extra stories for the IAD series and focused on characters that extended out the life and duration of this series. And that was her own decision. Nothing is stopping her from finishing the final three (Lanthe, Nix, and Kristoff/Furie). She chose to write Lothaire's book and also to branch into this Dacian series. Now, I read somewhere that the next IAD book is going to be called MacReive. It's not one of the final three that Cole has set up the series for... it's - again - a filler book. Cole is choosing to prolong the ending of the series; if she really needs to move on and get her creative juices flowing outside of IAD then she should wrap up IAD and move on. She shouldn't just keep pushing off the ending.
Showalter did the same thing with the Lords of the Underworld series. She brought in all these other characters and focused so much page time on them that she keeps promising all these books and stories that will make the series into a never-ending saga. Why not just pick the top 7 characters and write about them & then move on? She knew Paris was incredibly popular and pushed his book back so much that when it finally came out, it was not able to live up to expectations. Now we have 3-4 more to go before we get to Torin's book (the last one in the series) and it'll take years since Showalter also has 4-5 other series in the works. (She never finished the Alien Huntress series at all; there are 3-4 dangling threads that'll never get resolved.)
I think the person who handled it the best is Lisa Kleypas. She makes each series a manageable number (about 3-4 books) and she wraps up the storyline in a way that satisfies the reader. Even if characters pop up in each other's series, it's clear that they are not all part of one big series. When she got tired of historical and third person POV, she wrote one trilogy in contemporary romance in first person. When she decided she wanted to tone down on sex scenes and write another contemporary series in third person, she committed to four books and now she's doing that. There is a huge demand from fans for her to go back to her steamy historical, but she's focusing on finishing the series she's on before she goes back to that. I have a huge amount of respect for how she plans out her books because I feel like it's more respectful to the fans. When you sign up for a Kleypas series, I feel like you're getting what she promised out of it. You know she's not going to introduce three extra characters and just drag out the series.
I'm a huge Cole fan and I do think she's managed to keep the quality of her writing high even this far into the IAD series. However, if it takes her another 5 years to finish this series and it's because her creative juices aren't flowing, I think it's on Cole... she's setting it up that way. Fans will not fault her if she just decides to wrap up the series in the next year with Nix's story and then start a whole other series immediately after. In fact, we'd welcome it.
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I totally dig what folks are saying but I also think we have been spoiled with Cole's IAD series. We have all known since early in the series that all immortal roads lead to the Ascension. A Spring Cleaning of the immortal world if you will and that has allowed us to feel the entire storyline from book to book wrap us all in a literary hug because we know we are traveling on a road getting to a penultimate.
I found that Jack's character in the Arcana Chronicles did not treat Evie any worse than say Lachlain did to Emmaline in AHLNO. In that book Emma was a 75 year old immortal and this thousand+ immortal subjected her to some very intimate, intrusive and some would say abusive scenarios during their time in the book. The beauty of Cole's world though is that her female portrayals can take it and dish it out in spades and that is what I look forward to the most in the Arcana Chronicles. We see glimpses of it in the last chapter when Evie let's her inner self out to play. Once you read that part then as a reader I know that anything Jack dished out up to that point (which was not that bad IMO was nothing but Evie's training bra for bigger and better things and she will be able to hand ass out to whoever messes with her.
On the subject of teenaged angst. I did not feel the portrayal of teenage life was too angst filled. It was not like reliving high school (which for me rocked) or watching Mean Girls. I thought it was very balanced but I mostly like that there are so many viewpoints from fans on this series.
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Does it bother you more that the ascension is a unfinished storyline or do you feel like you've been hanging on to see a specific character get their story Nix, Furie.. .?
Regarding Poision Princess I agree that Lothaire was a redeemed in his book but Jackson was a jerk pretty much beginning to end with very little to redeem his character but his ability to keep Evie alive. For example this little gem was pretty much then end of Jackson for me:
I rose as well, darting for my soaked jeans, snatching them up my legs with difficulty. Did you save me just so Id sleep with you?
The idea mightve crossed my mind! Hell, Evie, youre probably the last girl on earth for me. Would it kill you to put out?
He says this about two seconds after almost having sex with her and about two seconds before coming on to the next female he sees. (Turns out Evie is not the last girl on earth for him and he's pretty prompt in letting her know that)
I think that Cole IS planning to redeem him but I also think she need to throw us bone as it regards his character in this book. Without some redeeming moments or qualities in him I'm just not interested. I wouldn't be interested in Evie at all (she's whinny and useless 99% of the book) but she is slightly redeemed or maybe I should say made interesting by the last 1% of the book. (Slight Spoiler below)
The last 1% of the book Jackson spent making out with another chick after professing his love to Evie (maybe) and then (definitely) betraying her after going on and on about how she could trust him with her secret.
utoeid what did you find redeemable about Jackson? (maybe a spoiler)
Also (kinda off topic) but what do you think the chances that Jackson is a Tarot and is using the booze to drown out the voices?
All that being said Cole is a heck of a storyteller and like I said I enjoyed the premise of the story. Just the characters that sucked. I might be convinced to read the series after it's all out but I'll easily skip the next book especially at that price and I found the characters annoying enough that it's going to take hearing some great reviews of future books.
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I have to take back what I said about being annoyed that Cole was getting off track by starting a new series before finishing IAD. I just read
Shadow's Claim
and loved it. It's all I have done for the last two days because I couldn't stop reading it. The IAD world is very much a part of it and all in a good way. Nix even makes an appearance. It is in no way a stand alone book introducing another world. In fact, if you haven't read the other IAD books you will be lost, but if you have read them and enjoyed them I highly recommend this one.
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I read
Shadow's Claim
this past week, too, and I also thought it was fantastic. It does seem to be a continuation of the IAD series (although it's packaged as part of a trilogy that's set IN the IAD universe).
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Isn't it amazing how expectations color how we rate a book! I gave it a B-/C+ in another thread because it
so similar to her other books, and not the departure I thought the Dacian storyline would be. I really didn't get excited about the plot till towards the end and the big misunderstanding.
I guess if I had gone into it realizing this book was really integral to the IAD series and not going in an entirely new direction, I would not have had dashed expectations. The IAD series is one of my favorites, like many people, but I'm ready for the big finale. Is she now going to write about all the cousins, as well as all the remaining main IAD characters before the wrap up? Wow!
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I think you're absolutely right - expectations definitely color the enjoyment of a book.
One of the reasons I really enjoyed it was because I just read Ione's latest and I found that book to be terrible. So I think I had low expectations going in (I had mixed feelings towards
, as well) and that made me pleasantly surprised.
Secondly, I was a huge fan of Sabine in "The Kiss of the Demon King" and a huge fan of Sebastian in his novel (he's my favorite vampire out of all the vampires in the IAD world). This book had characters that were similar to those characters and so I think I was pre-disposed to like it. In some ways, the book was also similar to "A Hunger Like No Other" (Emmaline/Lachlain's story) and I do see the similarities between Emmaline and Bettina. Bettina, like Emmaline, is a half-breed who is rare and is somehow weaker than both of the races she belongs to... both are a little on the weak side and have a lot of fear to overcome.
However, I thought Bettina was better written than Emmaline was and I thought the romance between Trehan and Bettina was a lot more... well... romantic. I could understand how the two fell in love. Bettina was a three-dimensional person, with her own talents and interests. There is a scene in the book where Bettina is working on something and she completely forgets that Trehan is in the room -- I loved that. I sensed that these two respected and genuinely liked each other because they were into similar things and they had mutual hobbies and interests that overlapped.
There is smokin' hot sex, of course, but I thought the sex added to the romance - it didn't replace it. I also thought that Trehan was not a controlling, abusive jerk (unlike Lothaire and few of the Lykae men). He was kind of serious and on the geeky side... I really loved that.
All in all, this one is probably going to end up being one of my favorite IADs.
And - yeah - I'm also completely bemused that she's decided to add 3 books on the Dacians (who are a side-story to the whole IAD business) and then she's got Lanthe, Nix, and Furie to go. We're talking at least 5 more books before we can finally get to the END of the IAD series and figure out what's going on with this Ascension business. There is a part of me that's scared that she doesn't know how to complete the series (and finish the Ascension storyline) and that's why she keeps putting off the ending. I hope she knows what she's doing and I also want her to finish it already. I'm enjoying the books, but I really would like to see the end at some point.
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Mek, we had the opposite reaction to Shadow. I
the first 80% of the book, but found the last 20% flawed with the big misunderstanding. I think Cole mainly used it as a device to bring in Lothaire to do a little marriage counseling. I thought Tre's actions didn't fit into his character after being so intellectual, patient and thoughtful as to how to win the games and Bettina. He sort of becomes a cranky drama queen at the end of the competition instead of doing his usual research. I would have graded the book a solid A if it wasn't for that last conflict, but I dropped it to an A- by the wrap up.
PS- Salem annoyed me a tad a first, but by the end he won me over and I assume he will be a character in the upcoming books. Perhaps that balance puts the book back to A territory for me.
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