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I skip in to the big audition room, with only a tiny bit of nerves inside me. It was only a band after all, but it would be nice to get in. I start singing along to my iPod whilst my fingers were tapping the familiar melody on my legs. A sharp voice throws me out of my daze, "Next!". This is my que.
I unplug my iPod and bound up onto the stage. I look at my audience and observe them silently. A snobby rich girl, a laid-back boy, and another girl that looked kind but firm. They stare back at me, all of them looking quite smug, then I answer my name and go to sit at the piano.
My fingers skim the keys of the piano as I get a feel for it. Then I begin. My fingers magically start to run up and down the piano, my body swaying in time to the music. It was a fast beat of course; Bleed It Out by Linken Park is a rather fast song! Before I start singing I glace up at my judges and stifle a laugh - there is a look of horror and confusion upon all their faces.
I immediately forget this thought when I start to sing. My voice hits all the notes perfectly and before the chorus, I'm in my own world. I changed some parts in the song a while ago: now there's a longer instrumental so they can see my real abilities. During the instrumental, I gaze up at the three judges reading their faces easily. They're all gobsmacked! The girl in the middle - the one that's putting the band together, Coral - starts to smile, her head bobbing in time to the music.
I start to sing again and soon the song is over. I hit the ending chord and stand up to hear the comments. It was silent as they were all so surprised. I laugh then blush and look down at my bright pink converse and grey skinny's.
"Well..." A voice says. I look up and see that it's Coral's, "That was surprising. You're in. You can be the lead singer. Come and sit down." She told me, a small smile on her face. I skip down the stairs and sit down next to the boy.
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If by "quality" you mean the physical integrity of the products, the quality of Cryptozoic stuff is fine.
Oh yeah, that's exactly what I meant. I'm super concerned that these cards will make an adequate motor sound when I clip them to my bicycle frame so that they flip when struck by the spokes.
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If you mean collectability, contents, ability to get top name autos, etc... well then we will need more info on this particular set but Cryptozoic TV/Movie releases have all been pretty good - Walking Dead and Big Bang Theory in particular were very popular
Yeah that's part of it. Another part of it is how they do when selecting shots, card text, characters and actually understanding a show. I know that the Walking Dead card series is popular but I don't watch the show nor have I bought the cards. Therefore I don't know if the cards did the show justice or the show is just so goddamn popular that anything with a Walking Dead license will sell.
To give you an example, I just bought a box of Indiana Jones Heritage. It was great that I got an autograph of some extra but as I read through the cards, I noticed that the card titles were really cheesy. Maybe that's the spirit of the movies -- I don't know. But a coworker passed out Terminator 2 cards from the 90s and we all got a laugh out of how terrible the cards were. You would think that the movie was made for children the way these cards were written.
Conversely, Archer is a very adult show and it has a very specific type of humor. Is Cryptozoic capable of hitting this? Will we see a "Just the Tip" insert set? Will they actually watch the series and capture the spirit of it like the Archer book did? Well, that's what I was hoping people who collect Cryptozoic's other sets could tell me about. Did they dumb down The Walking Dead in their cards? Did they miss the mark with Big Bang Theory? I can't tell that by reading the flurry of posts about trading card titles and rare chase cards.
Apparently, this forum is only good for a "lol" and "Crytpozoic can make 90 degree angled cards." Duly noted.
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Exporters on the mainland are gearing up for the Canton Fair's second trade-matching forum this month in the hope of meeting domestic buyers.
The slump in overseas orders brought on by the global financial crisis has badly hurt sales, prompting the fair's organiser - the Ministry of Commerce - to look for ways to open up the domestic market.
The ministry's first answer to the global downturn, the trade-matching forum, was launched at the spring session of this year's fair. It invites major department stores and supermarket chains to meet exporters.
It marked a big departure for the 52-year-old fair, which was traditionally only for overseas buyers.
And the fair is set to break another tradition this month - it will be opened to the public. A product expo will be held at the end of each session, giving the public the opportunity to shop at the previously exclusive trade fair.
Held twice a year, the Canton Fair, whose official name is the China Import and Export Fair, is a barometer of the overseas appetite for mainland products.
Around 165,000 buyers from 209 countries attended the fair's spring session in Guangzhou this year. Trade deals worth US$26.23 billion were signed.
But those results were well down on the two previous spring sessions due to the impact of the global financial crisis. In 2007, a record 206,749 buyers visited the spring fair. Last year, deals worth a record US$38.23 billion were signed at the session.
Johnny Lau Yui-siu, a journalist turned China affairs commentator who first covered the fair in the 1970s, said it bore witness to the mainland's changing economic and political landscape.
Born in the spring of 1957, the fair had a humble beginning.
'The main reason for organising the Canton Fair in 1957 was to have some foreign currency,' fair spokesman Chen Chaoren said. 'Everyone needs to have some spare money in their pocket.'
Only 1,223 buyers from 19 countries attended the first fair. And only 13 companies, all state-owned conglomerates, took part.
'China was poor in those days, we even had problems coming up with sufficient goods to showcase at the fair,' Chen said. 'But no matter how difficult, it has been held non-stop over the years, not even stopping during the Cultural Revolution.'
Lau saw the early fairs as major diplomatic events, allowing China to showcase its friends in the international community.
'China was a closed country at that time,' he said. 'There wasn't a single Western buyer. Most of the participants were from the Middle East, Africa and Latin America; there were also Hong Kong and Macau buyers.'
The fact that the mainland economy was largely sealed off from the rest of the world meant the Canton Fair was a vital part of China's foreign trade.
In the 1970s, trade deals signed at the fair accounted for more than half of the country's exports.
And as the country embarked on economic reforms in the late '70s, it became the most important window for foreign trade.
The Canton Fair is still the country's biggest trade fair, more than half a century down the road, but overseas buyers and mainland exporters no longer rely on it to do business.
It now accounts for less than 10 per cent of the mainland's exports.
Kellogg Ng, vice-president of the Hong Kong Footwear Association, said: 'Going to the fair nowadays is more a habit.'
He said the Canton Fair was more useful in the past when exporters did not have other channels to meet overseas buyers.
'Now, there are industry-specific trade fairs and exporters can also attend trade fairs in Europe and the US to meet the buyers directly,' Mr Ng said.
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The number of buyers, from 19 countries, who attended the first Canton Fair in 1957: 1,223
The number of buyers, from 209 countries, who attended this year's spring fair: 165,000
Trade deals signed in April this year amounted to, in US dollars,: $26.23b
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I currently use a Nike Cheryenne Vapor but I need something a bit bigger. I struggle to fit all of my work clothes into the bag for the run home, espeically when it starts to get colder for example trousers, shirt, jumper, jacket etc. It would also be great to be able to fit in lunch, possibe laptop. etc
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thanks for the reply. I guess I wouldn't actually need to transport a laptop very often. I guess I should look for 20 or 25L then.
When I run home, I use an Inov-8 25l, but leave the office shoes in the office. When I need to carry a small rain jacket in it then the clothes just fit. Without the rain jacket, there's plenty of space for empty lunch boxes, or things like that.
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The shelter last hit capacity in 2006. That incident spurred the development of another shelter that was completed in 2010, upping their capacity to its current level of 32.
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Criminal gangs will use next year's Games to force women and girls into the sex trade and push men into forced labour, Ms Cooper said.
She called on the Government to learn the lessons of the Athens Games in 2004, saying the number of human trafficking victims doubled due to poor prevention efforts.
In a speech to the Stopping Traffick conference, she said: "There are fears that the London 2012 Olympics could increase the trafficking of vulnerable people into the UK.
"Studies worldwide show that international sporting events, where people move across borders, are used by criminals under the cover of tourism to exploit women and children. The Government must wake up to the risk that traffickers will seek to profit from the 2012 Games and take action to make sure this event does not make the situation worse."
Ms Cooper claimed that the Lib-Con coalition was not doing enough to deal with the "horrific crime" of human trafficking, condemning the failure to back co-ordinated EU action on sex trafficking.
Conference organisers said almost 4,000 women are brought into the UK each year to work within the sex trade, but Britain was one of only two EU member states that have not opted into the directive.
"Despite saying tackling trafficking is a priority, ministers are weakening essential safeguards leaving victims at greater risk and the criminals harder to prosecute," Ms Cooper said.
"That's why the Government must do more to make the UK a hostile territory for traffickers. They should also use next year's Olympic Games to make clear that buying sex from imprisoned women is not a sport."
Immigration minister Damian Green insisted the Government was "committed" to tackling trafficking and had put in place many of the commitments in the EU directive. He added: "We are looking closely at the latest draft of the directive and considering its merits. If we conclude that opting in brings benefits to the UK, we will apply to do so."
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Troll, per Wikipedia: "In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people,[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a forum, chat room, or blog), either accidentally[3][4] or with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[5] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[6]" "Like any pejorative term, it can be used as an ad hominem attack, suggesting a negative motivation" I believe the topic had something to do with people commenting how people were treating each other on this listserv. So I was on topic. I was calling on people in the group to act in a coordinated manner to ensure that the dripping sarcasm, bullying and abuse stopped on this listserv. Trolls work to sew discord, not to protect other people. I was not looking to provoke an emotional response, I was looking to urge the listserv members and the moderators to reassess what was happening on this listserv and to behave appropriately. I think I succeeded in this area. I actually think the moderators should be replaced. That is not a threat, that is merely my opinion. If this much nastiness is being tolerated by the moderators and people are not getting banned for this behavior, the moderators are failing and should be replaced. As to mailing lists. I sit on a mailing list of over 1100 users at a major university, most of them work at the university. I am well aware of proper etiquette regarding listservs. Additionally I utilized listservs and BBS' before most people had an internet connection, and I op'd on IRC on dal.net on a channel with hundreds of thousands of users. I work in policy and law. Every. Day. I believe in obeying the same rules that I ask others to obey. And again, we have the concept of "ad hominem." Attacking me voids your argument. This is not about me. This is about the behavior of those who post on this listserv. And yes, I believe in spreading "wonderful." I gave up my entire weekend to help a Chinese scholar at my university who didn't speak English get her power back on -- her brother did not pay the bill from China and she has a seven year old. I put aside my work the entire weekend, despite being under deadline, and also part of yesterday to do so. I am not a hero, I am just a neighbor. What did you do with your weekend Mr. Holtzman? After all if you are going to attack me publicly, we might as well get to know each other. (And what I just stated was on topic as no one has seen fit to publicly dress down Mr. Holtzman for this topic turn, so I will follow it.) Brenda Hart Neihouse PS: an interesting quote I ran across tonight: Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster. 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TOP 10 TUESDAY (#10): Three McGill teams ranked
OTTAWA (CIS) – Three McGill sports teams are listed in Week 10 of the CIS national rankings. The women's hockey squad remains at No.1, while the volleyball Martlets have improved one berth to No.9 and the Redmen basketball has slipped three places to No.10.
Martlets volleyballers feast on maritime offerings
MONTREAL – They say that there's nothing like home cooking and the next best thing for the McGill women's volleyball team is a heaping serving of maritime food from the Atlantic University Sport conference.
Martlets rally, stun Sherbrooke, to tan in Florida
MONTREAL – Jennifer Thomson of Rosemere, Que., scored 19 points and Kelsey Irwin of Vancouver, B.C., added 15 as McGill rallied from a 23-16 third-set deficit to win 27-25 and sweep Sherbrooke 3-0 in women's volleyball at Love Competition Hall, Friday.
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CLEARWATER, FLA -- The No.-10-ranked Martlets spent the Christmas break in Clearwater, Florida for a three-game tournament against CIS teams.
McGill's Thomson earns fourth All-Canadian honour
McGill senior Jennifer Thomson of Rosemere, Que., has earned all-Canadian honours for the fourth straight season. Among the other honorees announced at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport women's volleyball major awards gala in Fredericton, Wednesday, was Martlet freshman Emily Kyte of Ottawa, who earned a berth on the CIS all-rookie team.
Thomson heads Martlet volleyball all-star trio
Three members of the McGill Martlets – Jennifer Thomson of Rosemere, Que., Kelsey Irwin of Vancouver, B.C., and Amélie Trottier-Picard of Longueuil, Que., – are among the women's volleyball all-stars announced Thursday by the Quebec Student Sports Federation.
Laval sweeps Martlets in Quebec volleyball semifinal
Melanie Savoie and Marie-Christine Mondor combined for 44 points as visiting Laval defeated McGill 3-1 at Love Competition Hall on Friday, to sweep the best-of-three Quebec semifinal series 2-0. In a match the took exactly two hours to play, the Rouge et Or won by set scores of 27-25, 23-25-25-16-25-20.
Laval outlasts Martlets in marathon playoff opener
McGill veterans Kelsey Irwin and Jennifer Thomson scored 20 and 14 points, respectively, but it was all in vain as Laval outlasted the Martlets 3-2 in an epic opener to the Quebec university women's volleyball best-of-three semifinal playoff series before 270 fans at Centre PEPS, Thursday.
Martlets sink Sherbrooke, to meet Laval in playoff
Junior Kelsey Irwin of Vancouver, B.C., and senior Jennifer Thomson of Rosemere, Que., combined to score 31 points as the McGill women's volleyball team closed out the regular season with a 3-1 victory over Sherbrooke at Love Competition Hall, Sunday.
El Zanaty, Thomson named McGill athletes of week
Moustafa El Zanaty of Montreal and Jennifer Thomson of Rosemere, Que., are the McGill University athletes of the week for the period ending Jan. 25.
Thomson's tally helps McGill women lick Laval
Senior Jennifer Thomson of Rosemere, Que., racked up a game-high 17 kills and 16 digs as visiting McGill rallied to upset Laval 3-1 in women's university volleyball at the Centre PEPS in Quebec City, Friday.
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MONTREAL – Jennifer Thomson, a senior with the McGill Martlets has been invited to attend the Canadian national beach volleyball team selection camp in Toronto. Dec. 5-7.


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DaVita took first place honors in the category for 950-plus employees. Other finalists in this category were RK Mechanical, TeleTech and TerumoBCT. Awards were announced July 23 at a luncheon in Denver.
Westminster was the only public-sector employer selected as a finalist in the 2014 awards.
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While accepting the third place honor, Westminster City Manager Brent McFall emphasized the city's longtime commitment to wellness for employees. The city has been a leader in wellness since 1985 when it first began its program. He also noted that more than 80 percent of city employees participate in the city wellness program.
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Over half of all clients think that the magic circle designation is redundant, with 94 per cent of them arguing that the profession should reclassify its peer groups, according to new research.
In a report to be released on Monday, based on research commissioned by Eversheds, a number of general counsel emphasised that working at a magic circle firm appears to give partners free rein to charge higher fees.
Linklaters corporate partner Charles Jacobs argued that the magic circle firms will still continue to dominate strategic matters.
"The crisis has shown us that the magic circle peer group still gets the lion's share of the key deals," he said. "Clients move down market in boom markets not in times of crisis for key transactions and advice. Would HM Treasury have gone to a non-magic circle firm for the Government bailout?"
The research also finds that the recession has led to 90 per cent of general counsel reporting direct pressure from their finance directors to reduce their respective legal spends.
Eversheds chief executive Bryan Hughes (pictured) claimed that this demonstrates a need for firms to "add real value".
"Law firms need to demonstrate where they can add real value to a client's in house team – 87 per cent of clients now say that value-added services such as secondees or free access to knowledge management resources are a crucial factor in their decision to instruct external law firms," he commented.
As well as looking for better value for money, around 40 per cent of clients have implemented outsourcing of some kind, while around 20 per cent have had offers by firms to outsource on their behalf.
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The score was out of hand and had been for some time, but you wouldn't have known it by watching Cy Lopez or his Ka'u girls basketball team.
Sophomore Lea Aipia-Dolan and her teammates continued to try to attack the basket as if the game was tied, while Lopez did everything he could to keep his team in the game. With the undersized Trojans trailing Waiakea by more than 40 points, the coach called three second-half timeouts to rally the troops, and he delivered the same message each time.
"It's basically just keeping our heads up and fighting no matter what the score is," junior Denisha Navarro said. "We're working hard, we're improving and I feel like as long as all of us keep our teamwork together, we'll be fine.
"He tells us to never give up. If we put our hearts on the court, we'll get better results."
Such was the case earlier in the preseason at the Trojans' tournament in Pahala. Lopez called a timeout with Ka'u trailing by one against Kealakehe in the waning seconds to draw up a "secret inbounds play." Bridget Pasion missed a shot from the perimeter, but Kerri Domondon corralled the rebound and hit a buzzer-beater to give the Trojans the victory.
"That was a good moment for our players," Lopez said. "I give the girls credit. No matter what the score, from start to finish, they play 110 percent."
The second-year coach would like to make winning a custom at Ka'u, but he knows that player development is crucial. Save for a long drive to the north or south, age-group club basketball options are sparse, and as a result Lopez said many of his players haven't touched the ball before they get to high school. In addition, many of his players' first focus is volleyball.
Lopez played three sports at Ka'u before graduating in 1991, and he coached baseball and volleyball at his alma mater in the past. But it's girls basketball that he'd like to see thrive, and he and his coaches are aiming to start a Parks and Recreation league in the district.
"We live out in the sticks and we're a small school, but we can't get intimidated," Lopez said. "The girls are interested to come out and learn.
"The main thing we stress is trying to get these girls to love the sport. Not only to play to have something to do, but to get it in them as a passion."
The Trojans finished 1-10 in Big Island Interscholastic Federation Division II last year, but Lopez would like to see his team put itself in position to win half its games this season.
Ka'u, which has only one senior, can't match up with most teams size-wise, but it will try to make up for it with quickness and will feature a three-guard lineup with juniors Navarro and Domondon capable of running the point. Pasion, a junior, is the best pure shooter on the team, and Aipia-Dolan, a sophomore, can play either guard or forward. At roughly 5 feet 8 inches tall, junior Maka Flores-Carvalho is the tallest player on the roster and can provide muscle inside.
"Denisha is a real team leader, and Kerri has unreal quickness with the ball," said Lopez, who praised Aipia-Dolan for her "animal instincts" to always keep fighting on the court.
He said the Trojans may have to play some 2-3 zone defense to overcome lack of height, and he'd also like to see crisper passing develop so that Ka'u can play uptempo on offense.
The Trojans open their BIIF season tonight at Kamehameha, and Navarro noted that there is one sure way to overcome issues with size and inexperience.
"Everybody fights until the end," she said.
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Explaining Death To The Youngins
Original Author: Krulltar
"I was lying on a beach in Maui," THX explained as he led the Ficlet-puff girls down the corridors. "and I feel this pain in my chest. All the Booze and women had taken their toll. Living like a rockstar is fun until the piper wants his due."
THX kicked open a door at the end of one corridor, and then quickly slammed it shut.
"Cave Troll. Let's move on"
"You're Death. Can't you just touch him or something?" More Ways asked.
"It doesn't work that way, darling. I'm Death of Humans. Anyway," THX continued as he headed down another corridor "this guy appears in front of me and says he's Death, and tells me my time is up. Well, as he's prepping me for my ride across the River Styx, I start chatting with him." THX long-stepped. "Troll poo."
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Dark Slayer (Dark Series #20)by Christine Feehan
Ivory Malinov's only brethren are the wolves. Abandoned by her family, and cast out by everyone she held dear, Ivory has lived centuries without love. She/b>/i>
After a century of longing, the instinct for survival unites a betrayed woman and a cursed man in this seductive Carpathian novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.
Ivory Malinov's only brethren are the wolves. Abandoned by her family, and cast out by everyone she held dear, Ivory has lived centuries without love. She has sustained her sanity by preparing for one purpose—to destroy her greatest enemy. Then she picks up the scent of a man. Her salvation. Her lifemate. The curse of all Carpathian women.
Branded a criminal, Razvan is a dragonseeker borne of a great Carpathian lineage, only to be raised as its most despised captive enemy. Escaping from imprisonment, Razvan now seeks the dawn to end his terrible existence. Instead he has found his deliverance in Ivory, the Dark Slayer. In spirit, in flesh and blood, in love, and in war, Ivory and Razvan are made for each other. For as long as they dare to live.
Editorial Reviews
"The queen of paranormal romance! The one who started it all! The erotic, gripping series that has defined an entire genre. I love everything she does."—J. R. Ward, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"After Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Joss Whedon (who created the venerated Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Christine Feehan is the person most credited with popularizing the neck gripper."—Time
"Feehan has a knack for bringing vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life in her Dark Carpathian novels."—Publishers Weekly
"Red-hot romance and great storytelling...a treat you can't refuse...Thrill-a-minute fantasy with complex characters and a story that captivates from beginning to end."—Fresh Fiction
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- 9781101136102
- Publisher:
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication date:
- 09/01/2009
- Series:
- Dark Series , #20
- Sold by:
- Penguin Group
- Format:
- NOOK Book
- Pages:
- 496
- Sales rank:
- 18,044
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- Age Range:
- 18 Years
Meet the Author
Christine Feehan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Carpathian series, the GhostWalker series, the Leopard series, the Shadow Riders series, and the Sea Haven novels, including the Drake Sisters series and the Sisters of the Heart series.
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The vampire hunter Ivory, and her seven Carpathian wolf pack and her normal wolf pack head home after killing two vampires only to find a dying man. To her horror she knows this Carpathian is her lifemate. He tells her to leave him die as the evil Xavier uses his body to cause death. He is Xavier's grandson and sold his soul to save his daughter and sister. Ivory knocks him out and takes him to her hidden shelter while Xavier searches for Razvan. She will heal him and if he still chooses death, so be it. Ivory sees a child tied in snares, which is a trap. With her wolves she kills a ghoul, but her brother master vampire Sergey escapes before the Carpathian healer Gregori and Prince Mikhail arrive. They offer to heal her, but she refuses as she wants nothing to do with Carpathians. Though not fully healed Razvan knows his lifemate is in trouble. She has given him hope that she can kill Xavier as she told him that is why she lives. Razvan arrives placing a knife to Mikhail's neck. Mikhail calmly tells Gregori to heal Ivory. He does and is stunned that she was once sliced into many pieces and should be dead. Ivory and Gregori heal Razvan. She explains her only friends are the wolves as her brothers chose the power of the vampire and sacrificed her. Ivory and Razvan plan to kill Xavier or die trying. The relationship between the lead couple is fresh and gender bending as she leads the excursions against Xavier. The Carpathian support cast is strong especially the wolf pack, the prince and the healer while the malevolent villain is brilliant using modern science as well as magic to attack his foes and the heroine's brothers, though we meet only one of them, are pure evil. This is a super entry, which long time fans will enjoy including the addition of background information appendices though newcomers will feel awed by the Feehan mythos. Harriet Klausner
I have all of Christine Feehan's Dark Series and they just keep getting better and better. I espically liked Dark Slayer, all though I really found the explantion of Ivory's excaping death a little, ok maybe a lot, hard to swallow but it didn't stop me from thourghly enjoying the story. I also recommend Christine Feehan's other two series, the DRAKE SISTERS and GHOSTWALKERS. Also Lynaay Sands' Argeneau and Roge Hunter Series.
I'm a big fan of all of the Dark books, but I have to say this one is amazing. I loved the characters, Ivory and Razvan. Neither are your typical heroes yet both prove truly unforgetable. This book is one of the most profound and powerful novels I have ever read. I'll be reading it again and again. It's not often I come across such a wonderful read. Heartfelt thank yous to Christine Feehan for writing this keeper!
To say this book is outstanding is an under statement. It has everything danger, betrayal, action, suspicion, compassion, love and retribution. In my humble opinion you could not ask more from a book. The two main characters Ivory and Razvan are meant for each other. I have include a blurb from the book.
Feehan has had me hooked from book one, but this book reaffirmed my love for the carpathian novels. The entire time I was reading i was on the edge of my seat. This book really added so much more depth to the carpathian world, and amazing twist in the fight with Xavier. Keep them coming please!!!!
Loved it!!!!!
Christine does it again with another hit! I love how prior characters are brought back into the story line. As an owner of each of the Dark Series books, I love to be able to catch up with them. This Author always impresses me with each story and the characters she creates. She has a great writing style. I captivated by every book she writes from the first page to the last. Christine Feehan weaves her spellbinding magic into a plot that has it all, action, romance, sensuality and intrigue sporting a story line that is unique and different from the rest. A fast paced adventure that never gets boring
i had never read a vampire book until one day i picked up one of christine's dark series. read it in one day cause i couldn't put it down. i am now the proud owner of all of her books. this book is very interesting because we get to met a female fighter. i wasn't sure if that would work in this series, but feehan pulled it off with style. add this book to your library, you won't be disappointed
Christine Feehan always finds the emotion and connection between her love interests and this one did not fail. I was so glad to read Razvan's story and have him find love and it was great to see how Ms. Feehan tied in Ivory and original Carpathians. Loved the intteraction with the wolf pack. It was amazing. An instant classic among all the stellar Carpathian novels,.
I fell in love with the dark series from the first book and I haven't been disappointed yet!
Finally! Finally! I've been a faithful reader for years. Many of my friends quit reading the Dark Series because they said all the books sounded the same. Personally, I can relive the same "other half of my life-mate" love story forever. But finally this book ties up so many loose ends and the bad guy actually dies! I'm so glad that other characters will have their own books later because I love me some Carpathians! and I don't want the series to ever end! But I'm also relieved to finally have some resolution and finality to a Feehan book for a change.
Christine does it again with another hit! I love how prior characters are brought back into the story line. As an owner of each of the Dark Series books, I love to be able to catch up with them.
I just finished reading this book and I'm totally in love with Razvan. I had been patiently awaiting the arrival of "Dark Slayer" and I have to say that I was in no way disappointed, it was amazing. I've read read all of the "Dark Series" so far, the "Drake Series" and now I've started on the "Ghostwalker Series", I just love Feehan's writing.
My first read from this Author left me impressed at how easily I got involved with the story and the characters because of her writing style. Not only was I captivated from the first two pages of the book but I was also introduced to a new concept on what the characters were. Christine Feehan wove her spellbinding magic into a plot that has it all, action, romance, sensuality and intrigue sporting a story line that is unique and different from the rest. A fast paced adventure that never got boring with too much useless vocabulary or disinteresting because the plot became over involved. If this is an example of Christine Feehan's writing ability then I am a willing captive and can't wait to read the rest of her Dark Series books.
I thought this latest entry in the Dark Series was great! I had been disappointed in Dark Possession and not entirely satisfied with Dark Curse. But this book more than makes up for both of those. The characters of Ivory and Razvan are so outside the norm even for Carpathians that they instantly fascinating. Especially when you learn their history and all they have endured. Ivory's backstory requires quite a leap of faith but it is well worth the effort. Together these two people forge a strong bond born first from a common purpose and then from a deep abiding respect and love. It was nice to see characters from previous books show up as well as plot points from other books resolved. Dark Slayer was well worth the price in hardcover and I am now happily looking forward to Ms. Feehan's next book in the series.
Dark Slayer is about two people who had been betrayed and lost from their people. Ivory Malinov, sister to the Malinov brothers, had been beloved once when she was young. However, she had been sent away by her prince to Xavier's school, and then betrayed by her people as she was killed by vampires. However, still she remains alive by her strong will and determination for vengeance. Razvan is twin brother to Natalya and has suffered much in the hands of his grandfather, Xavier. When he finally escapes after hundreds of years being prisoner, he stumbles upon his lifemate, Ivory, and from then on the two embark on a journey of finding trust within each other, and love, when they had both been brutally tortured and betrayed in their past. Oh I loved this book! When I read the first chapter on Feehan's website I knew it was going to be good and I waited patiently for it to come out. When it did, I reserved it at Borders and got it with excitement. Even the first few chapters got me hooked. I like how Feehan captured the two worlds that they had both come from and how their past shapes them now. They have a hard time trusting and loving because of what they had to endure in their past, which only makes the book more suspenseful. I love how Feehan brings Natalya's feeling about the way she's seen her brother into the book, it was touching and uplifting. And I love how Skyler and Lara was able to finally meet their father. I do, however, wonder where Feehan's going to go next because of the last chapter in the book. I wonder what's going to happen now. Is there still an enemy? Or are the Carpathians just facing the remaining spells from the enemy? I don't know, but I am eager to find out!
I like this book. I have read all of the series. I waited patiently for this book. It didn't disappoint me. It had some of the older character from the ealier series in there, which I love! It has strong emotions. That was a good! I like how Christine Feehan reunited Natalya and Lara with Razvan. I wished she talked a bit more about Ivory strong emotion towards the De La Cruz. However, still good. Razvan is different from all the other Carpathian males and I like that the best. Overall, this book is really good. I can't wait to see what she has next! I hope she write about Skyler and her lifemate next cause I've been waiting on that one forever!!
This is one of my favorites!
Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan 5 out of 5 Stars This is the 20th book in her Dark Series about the Carpathian people, and they just keep getting better and better. This book revolves around two people that we've heard about in previous books, Razvan and Ivory. The Carpathians thought Ivory was dead long ago, but she survived and stayed hidden for hundreds of years. While Razvan was thought to be in league with the evil mage, Xavier, and it was revealed in the last book that he had been controlled by Xavier. We walk through their journey of healing as well as Ivory discovering how to heal the women and help them with their pregnancy. Razvan's situation was heartbreaking for him, and beautiful to watch, as he discovered that the things that happened when he was being controlled weren't his fault, and see him coming to terms with those things. This book is non-stop movement from beginning to end, just like all of these books, and I can't wait to go on to the next one. I love that we get to see people from previous books and find out what is happening with them after their books are over. Savannah and Gregori have their twin daughters in this book and it ends with their naming ceremony. This really was my favorite book so far... I loved it!! Amanda, My Secret Book Spot
I really enjoyed reading this book about a bold female warrior Carpathian. It captivated my full attention through out the book and once again Ms. Feehan has another hit


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Spook walks off the bridge shooting the damn sirens. Crystal keeps wrestling with the wheel.
" Are you just going to stand there stupidly or do something helpful?" Crystal says at me angrily.
" I going down there." I mutter. I tie a rope arounf my belt and dive off the boat my head sinking underwater. I look for the massive underwater part buts missing completely. Okay now we are really screwed. I surface in the water getting dragged by the boat.
" Oi Crystal!" I yell at the top of my lungs as Siren clings to me screaming in my ear. I felt like I was going to explode from pain.
" Yeah!"
" A Creature ripped the Rudder off and splintered the turning shaft!"
I punch the siren off my shoulder and grab the boat. then it slams into something and the rope snaps.
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Don't Give In
Thought I'd try and throw something together to give you an idea of my writing style. I'm rather fond of poetry, as you'll come to learn.
You look at me
The sceptiscm radiating from your weary gaze
Yet I gain no warmth from your attention
You're drowning in the depths of your insomniac haze.
You had it all
Without trying you were a self-righteous king
Now we're under siege from the outside
You gain no solace from the plans that I bring.
You built the walls
Misreading my desperate attempts to get inside
Silent screams through soundproof glass
In the cradle of escapism you continue to hide.
You watched it fall
Life's aspirations crashing deafeningly to the ground
I'm still fighting against your indifference
By the hands of helplessness I am bound.


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The postcard had a lovely view— more than lovely— haunting as like a half-remembered song in a minor key. Bare black branches heaped with snow dipped down toward their reflected images in still waters. Off to the side, barely in the picture at all, the arch of a bridge also bent to its reflection.
Emily knew it was from Dean— could only be from Dean. She had used him terribly, and yet— How could she have done anything else, after the strange call of another world had pulled her across space— across time— to rescue Teddy? Surely that siren call could only summon her to the man she loved, and there could only be one such love— even if he was forever lost to her.
She turned it over, half-frightened to read the message. He had lied to her, and led her to destroy the work of her heart— but she had promised him his heart's desire. Like the book that could never again be written, he would never find another.
Star of the Morning,
I write to you from Japan, where gardens are an art as elegant and concise as their poetry. This was written by a dying poet:
Taken ill on a journey
My dream goes wandering
Over withered fields
You would shine in these stark gardens, Star, that I had meant to show you in the spring.
Emily shivered. The picture was exquisite— and yet— She hesitated, then thrust it between the leaves of the book she carried, in the section she had already read so it wouldn't suddenly appear to haunt her with its images of the places she'd never see, and the paths she'd walked away from to explore the fields beyond.
She was suddenly desperate to leave the innocent sitting room, whose dark walls seemed to oppress her spirit. Tucking the book under her arm, she sprang for the front door, and almost collided with Ilse— golden Ilse— whose exclamation of surprise rang out in the still room.
Ilse caught Emily's hands and swung her around. The book fell to the floor, and the odd flared skirt of Ilse's scarlet dress flew out, transforming her into a blown rose with a heart of gold. She seemed an impossibly vibrant creature to exist in quiet New Moon, with her bright hair and sparkling eyes and absurd hat wreathed with orchids. Her laugh alone threatened to shatter Aunt Elizabeth's heirloom mirror.
"What are you doing in New Moon?" asked Emily, when she regained her breath. "I thought you were on tour."
"Home again, home again," chanted Ilse. "A town hall burned down, so I came back early. What's this?"
Before Emily could stop her, Ilse stooped and plucked up the postcard that had fallen from the book. She contemplated the winter garden, then flipped it over and read the message.
"Don't read other people's mail!" exclaimed Emily, much too late.
One never knew with Ilse whether a reproof would spark a laugh or a furious tirade and broken breakables. Emily got neither, but rather a long steady look from amber eyes.
"Honey, you had plenty of time to stop me," said Ilse. "I wondered why you were looking so sad. I think he's making himself gloomy on purpose, reading dead people's poetry about dying in dead grass. Don't let him pull you into the underworld with him."
"The Underworld— That's it exactly," said Emily wonderingly. "No wonder that card made me feel so strange."
"Well, you shouldn't. He went there all by himself." Ilse's yellow eyes flashed at Emily. "Don't you go thinking it would be pretty and poetic to follow him."
The image came to Emily of Orpheus walking into Hades for his beloved Eurydice. But in Emily's mind, Orpheus stood tall and straight with a reed pen in his hand, and Eurydice was green-eyed and limping.
"You are thinking it!" said Ilse.
Emily felt herself flush. Her childhood friend knew her too well.
Ilse suddenly snatched up the fallen book and shook it. Two pages came loose and fluttered out, along with a drawing of Teddy's— a dear little sketch of quarrelsome ravens in Lofty John's bush.
Emily rescued the drawing with some annoyance. "Stop attacking my papers. Whatever are you looking for?"
"Dean's still got his claws in you. I just want to know where."
For an instant, Emily had the mad urge to take off her shoes and stockings, and show Ilse the scars from her fall down the stairs after Dean had claimed her novel was worthless. But Ilse would laugh and call her melodramatic, and Aunt Elizabeth would be shocked if she walked in and saw Emily barefoot, and those wounds no longer bound her.
Instead, Emily took a different book from a shelf. Opening it, she took out another postcard. This one showed a fantastical white marble palace that seemed to float in the middle of the lake. She handed it to Ilse. Emily knew the words by heart.
Lady of the Starry Night,
I show you a fitting home for a being born of mist and moonlight, but since I cannot give you the Floating Palace of Udaipur, I offer you what is mine to give. Take it, please, and if you care to, remember me.
"What's that scribble at the bottom?" asked Ilse.
Emily replaced the postcard. "It's a map."
"Of what?"
"I'll show you."
Emily led Ilse down the path, through the fir woods, and finally up the hill. Ilse chattered away gaily for a while, even making Emily laugh with her account of daydreaming during a speech and concluding the "Ode to a Nightengale" with the albatross of "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner." But Ilse fell silent, for once, when she saw the fog-gray boards of the Disappointed House.
"Dean left me the deed," Emily said, lifting the loose board from the porch to show Ilse where it lay. Ilse left the sad little bundle of dusty papers, but plucked up the key that lay atop them.
Emily couldn't help laughing. "You're like a magpie today."
"Grab this, snatch that—oh, shiny pretty!" Ilse dangled the key between her fingers. The brass flashed in the sun's fading rays, and Ilse's mobile features shifted as quickly as that spark was born and died. "I know you didn't love Dean, honey. But I have to ask—what made you decide not to go through with it?"
Emily lowered her head. She hated to talk about the strangeness that had three times now touched her life—once to find a body, once to find a child, and once to save a man. But she had brought her friend here to explain. Unable to look Ilse in the eyes, she stared at the boards as she haltingly spelled out the impossible tale of how she had looked into Great-Aunt Nancy's gazing ball, and saved Teddy from boarding the doomed Flavian.
"Do you love Teddy, then?" asked Ilse quietly.
"I must, mustn't I?" asked Emily. "I pulled him back from death. How could I travel in dreams halfway across the world, except to save him— save the one man meant for me? But he doesn't love me. I know he doesn't."
Ilse's amber eyes narrowed thoughtfully. "What if you had called to Dean? Would he be the man for you, if you had?"
"But I didn't. I called Teddy."
"Teddy was in danger. And you're worried about Dean." Ilse sprang to her feet, tugging Emily up with her. She thrust the key into the lock. The door pulled open, silently even after months of disuse.
Ilse dragged Emily inside, to the gazing ball.
"It happens by itself— I can't make it happen— Ilse—"
The ball spun slowly in the air currents from the open door. Emily saw herself reflected, a tiny Emily-in-the-glass hand-in-hand with a tiny Ilse-in-the-glass.
And a tiny Dean-in-the-glass.
Only for a moment— so brief that afterward Emily was never certain whether or not she had imagined it— but for a moment she saw Dean sitting on the edge of a crumbling fountain in some city of ruins. She reached out her hand, but he never looked up. Instead, he turned a page of his book. The flower pressed between its pages was one she had never seen before.
Only a moment— and Dean was gone. Emily-in-the-glass turned to Ilse-in-the-glass, and turned her back on reflections.
"Did you see him?" asked Ilse.
Slowly, Emily nodded. "He looked sad. But he wasn't—"
"Clutching a noose in one hand and a bottle marked "POISON" in the other?" suggested Ilse unkindly.
"No," Emily admitted. "He wasn't. It's strange— I thought I loved Dean, for a while. Then I was called across the world to save Teddy, and I thought that meant I loved him. But if I could see Dean too— How can I love two men at once? What should I do?"
"Honey, you having visions of Dean or Teddy or every old biddy in Shrewsbury doesn't mean they're your true love. I can act and speak and wear colors that would make anyone else look like a clown with jaundice. You can write and—" Ilse shivered briefly. "You can do other things. You found a little boy once when you'd never met him before. Do you think that means you should marry him?"
Emily reflected that while people often remarked upon her friend's beauty and charm, they never gave her credit for an ability to squelch Emily's drama that would have done credit to Aunt Elizabeth. And though there were times when that was infuriating, there were times when she loved her friend for it.
Emily sighed. "I guess I'll be an old maid."
"An old maid with a brilliant career and a gorgeous little house," said Ilse. "An old maid with charming, beautiful, successful old maid friends like me."
"Oh, Ilse. Of course you'll marry."
"No. I won't." Ilse gave her old, adorable, stubborn tilt of the head. One of the orchids slowly slid down the brim of her ridiculous hat, and finally fell off the edge. It landed soft and light in Emily's waiting palm.
"I believe this belongs to you." Emily presented it to Ilse.
Ilse took Emily's hand in her own. Her grip was strong and warm. The orchid trembled, caught between Emily's pale fingers and Ilse's tawny ones.
"Yes," said Ilse. "It does."
The clan had already reconciled themselves to the idea that Emily would not marry, and so the only surprise when she and Ilse moved into the Disappointed House was that Ilse too had given up on marriage.
"Like Nancy Priest and her Caroline," said Uncle Wallace disapprovingly.
"Like the Moon and the Sun," said Teddy, who often painted them together.
"Like the Ladies of Llangollen," wrote Dean in a letter that smelled of sandalwood. "I should have realized that only a star can catch a star."


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By Frank Pingue
TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar rose against the U.S. dollar on Monday as oil prices firmed, but remained in a tight range ahead of key domestic data due later in the week.
Domestic bond prices were a touch higher as nagging fears about a U.S. economic slowdown and Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O: Quote) decision to drop its bid for Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote) lured investors into more secure assets like government debt.
At 8:00 a.m. EST, the Canadian unit was at C$1.0164 to the U.S. dollar, or 98.39 U.S. cents, up from C$1.0193 to the U.S. dollar, or 98.11 U.S. cents, at Friday's close.
Driving the commodity-linked currency's early gain was a $1 rise in oil prices to more than $117 a barrel and high gold prices. Oil and gold are major Canadian exports and the currency is often influenced by their price movements.
With no data due in Canada, investors will focus on Bank of Canada Deputy Governor John Murray's presentation to the Statistics Canada Socio-economic Conference.
The presentation isn't expected to offer any clues on the bank's interest rate outlook or any new economic projections.
"I don't think the comments from Deputy Governor Murray would have a major impact on the currency market because he is more talking about the link of the Canadian dollar and the benign inflation environment in Canada," said Matthew Strauss, senior currency strategist at RBC Capital Markets.
"Data due at the end of the week are obviously important for Canada and until then we'll very much take our cue from U.S. dollar moves, equity markets and commodity markets." Continued...


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