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(Whos gonna open? I'm not good at opening.)
New members always welcome
The Brief story
(being put in ahead of time for after the time skip)
The story takes place in 2015, Years have passed and many new Shinigami, Vizards, Hollows, Arrancars, Quincies even Fullbringers have all replaced those before them. The Captains, Lieutenants and even the lower seats you all knew have either been promoted higher or retired to seek and fulfil their own personal goals, leaving the new Shinigami to take over where they left off. The Vizards live everywhere, the Soul Society, the human world, some even roam Hueco Mundo going to the extreme to survive. A Group of Arrancars have begun to recreate a new Espada, one lead by Arrancars and not Shinigami scum. All past Arrancars are history and their power weak compared to that of the new Espada. The Quincies have made a return, their power stronger but their numbers still weak, Quincies fight among themselves some saying it's time for a change but others hell bent on destroying everything and controlling all. Fullbringers come around rare, their power stronger now than it was before but their bodies still fragile and much like the Quincies, some fight for good and others fight for their own needs...
Every world has become a battleground, each race wanting a piece of what the other has and some races fighting amongst themselves. Will any side come out victorious? will one stand above the rest and set it all straight? Or will the worlds plummet into chaos and destruction and leave only the strongest alive to rule or rebuild? The path will be built by the new generation's...in the end...they will be the Soul Survivors...
A couple of links will be below to show you where the rules/OOC is and where to create your character is
(Please note people can join no matter how far into the story we are. You can join at a higher level but PM me about it first so we can work things out)
Rules/OOC: http://roleplayerguild.com/showthrea...11#post8033011
Character Creation: http://roleplayerguild.com/showthrea...15#post8033015
Can all OOC be done in the OOC thread just so we keep this all completely IC.
Any new people who are interested can join at any point. I don't ask that you read every post and every page all you need to do is PM me and I will tell you where exactly we are
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The punk is back. The Daft Punk.
I will try do something simple xD
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It was a new day and Kurisa had been in the Shino academy for awhile now but they hadn't actually taught him anything that he could use in battle. Kurisa sat up in his bed and rubbed his head then looked out the window and pulled the blinds shut...he hated the light he really was like a vampire except he didn't melt when sun hit him, Kurisa got out of bed and then grabbed his Shino Academy clothes and got dressed then he left his room and went for a walk down the corridor seeing how many people were up and awake
"Hmm...typical basically everyone is sleeping and will leave themselves with about a minute to get up and ready"
Kurisa continued to walk around until he found himself outside in a small grassy area within the academy, he walked up to a bench that was under a tree and in the shade so he wouldn't be directly in the sunlight, he then sat down and brushed his hair out of his eyes
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Flood was walking around doing his normal stuff when he started thinking. "Man we haven't been taught anything useful at all. When will we be taught how to fight or something? When will we actually learn to use our Zanpauktous? When will i stop thinking about this and actually ask someone?" He kept thinking until eventually he was in a little grassy area. He saw someone sitting on a bench and decided to sit with them. "We haven't been taught many things have we? Just useless stuff like meditation. It sucks huh?"
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Waking up, sitting up and fall back down in to bed. "Another school day..." Yawning Gordon began to stretch his upper body. Watching out the window with sleep still taking it's tool on his eyes, "No, i can't be late" Running in full speed around in his room, trying to find the academy cloth. Looking around his cloth is no were to be found, closet "NO" on the floor "NO" Gordon began to stress out. He ran to the closet again, only to make a big *facepalm* "Under the bed! Of course" Smelling the school outfit to make sure it wouldn't stick, and put it on while walking out the door.
Walking out side, on the way to the academy. Gordon sees a dark haired guy enjoying his stay in the shadows, talking with other guy. Gordon wants to join in, nothing better then socializing. He walks towards them. "Hello.."
Music here music there, music might be enjoyable everywhere. You see my post, you have seen my picture now it is time for some music, with a good mixture.
It was a brisk and rather sunny morning within the grounds of the famous Shino Academy and currently most of the students that lived and trained here were still fast alseep in their warm comfy futons within their dorm rooms. However for one student this was not the case unlike most she was currently within the main training hall doing light training in Hakuda. She prefered it this way, alone so she could focus on what needed doing. Plus Fate liked the calm of the mornings before others were up and about and the halls were crowded and jammed. After finishing up her light training for the morning Fate headed back to her dorm room soon changing into her Shino Academy robes, once done she left the room careful not to wake up her dorm roomate. Stretching Fate headed out into the grassy area of the academy hoping to get some fresh air before everyone woke up and classes began once again for all the students of Shino Academy.
Kurisa saw a person walk over to him, they looked pretty young but young as in your teenager type of young the boy sat next to him and then spoke as Kurisa listened then nodded then spoke
"I know it is a real pain...I just want to go kill hollows already but here I am learning things I probably won't even need, I'm not going to join a squad that specialises in healing anyway...although I did hear that we might learn something interesting today, I'm not sure if it's true or not but hopefully it is"
Kurisa saw more people coming out into the small grassy area and looking about
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"I'm hoping to join squad 3 personally. When does class start again? I heard a rumor that today we're gonna be sparring." Flood asked while realizing he didn't even introduce himself yet. "Oh I don't believe we've met yet. I'm Flood. Flood T Alon at your service. What's your name?"
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"Hey, people! How is life so far?" Walking towards the two guys talking about school study. Gordon walks in circles, trying to find his tail. "This stupid robe, i say that i need a hole in it, so my tail don't get all curled up" He stoops and bites a hole in his own robe with his small fangs.Originally Posted by kurisa
Music here music there, music might be enjoyable everywhere. You see my post, you have seen my picture now it is time for some music, with a good mixture.
"Squad 3? interesting choice...As for a Squad I want to join I am completely unsure, I want to know more about the captains first and it's a pleasure to meet you Flood, my name is Kurisa Alucard...and I think class starts in about 5 minutes so we haven't got long"
when he said his name he said it with a slight grin that revealed his teeth
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Kurisa looked at the man and raised an eyebrow at him biting his clothes
"Hey there and well to be honest it's to slow...we want to learn something interesting already"
He was quite interested about this person seeing as they were cat like yet a Shinigami...made him wonder if they had cat like reflexes
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Perfectly distinct, this pearl and gemstone pendant features a vibrant blue sapphire complemented by a lustrous cultured pearl set in 18k white gold with a matching cable chain necklace.
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Medium dark blue |
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Setting type: | Prong setting |
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One fun thing going on at the Convention is an ATC swap! Join Sherry (Sherry_Lynn) and Carla (CRS) for our own ATC Swap Chat in the chat room on Thursday at 6pm MT! We'll explain all the details. Everyone is welcome to join in the swap, even those attending the convention! Today is the last day to sign up for the swap, so if you haven't sent in your info, now's the time! Oh, and there may be a prize!
Here is the thread with all the info.
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Atc Swap Tonight! 6 Pm Mt Join Us!
Posted 08 October 2009 - 10:45 AM
So excited about the swap! And did someone mention a prize?! I plan on making the chat tonight.
Posted 08 October 2009 - 09:21 PM
Great chat tonight Carla and Sherry Lynn! If anyone wants to know how to print both sides of the ATCs to match, just PM me...glad to help for once! Thanks again for a wonderful chat!
Posted 09 October 2009 - 05:47 AM
Really enjoyed the chat last night - thanks Carla and Sherry Lynn - it was fun! Only my second chat - but it was so much fun!
Posted 09 October 2009 - 09:03 AM
I wanted to be at that party too, family came first last night! Hopefully today at noon, for me!
Specially made for me by a Cheshire Cat???...I LOVE IT, THANK-YOU!
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Posted 09 October 2009 - 09:42 AM
YAY! I was glad to see you there Sara and I hope you can come to all the others today You too Glorie!
Posted 09 October 2009 - 09:46 AM
I can't believe how fast that hour went! Thank you all for coming!!! I'll be emailing the addresses later today. I have to take the girls to Build A Bear first.
Posted 09 October 2009 - 02:25 PM
I just sent out the emails. Please let me know if you don't get it and signed up. Or, if there is a problem with your address. Have fun everyone!
Posted 10 October 2009 - 03:16 AM
I missed the chat as I got busy in the garden today weeding and planting my tomatoes and forgot all about the time If I missed any details I needed to know for the ATC swap can somebody please PM me.
One other question do we post them here as well when we have done them.
One other question do we post them here as well when we have done them.
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James Washington Legg, 71, of Thurman, Ohio, died Saturday, February 2, 2013, at Abbyshire Place in Bidwell, Ohio.
He was born February 27, 1941, in Huntington, W.Va., a son of the late George Washington Legg and Lillian Dell (Waugh) Legg.
James was a retired welder from OKan Dock and Marine. He served his country in the Army, was a member of the North American Hunting Club and was an outdoorsman who loved to hunt.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a granddaughter.
James is survived by his wife, Sherrie Sue (Arrowood) Legg of Thurman; two sons, Randy and wife Charleen Codner of Sandusky, OH, and Ronnie and wife Kim Codner of Streetsboro, OH; a daughter, Tracy Legg of Warren, OH; two stepsons, Jason (Michelle) Pope of Erlanger, KY and Ben Pope of Thurman; ten grandchildren; one step-grandson; and eight great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, February 7, 2013, at Wilcoxen Funeral Home in Point Pleasant, W.Va. with Pastor George Vastine officiating. Burial will follow in the Arrowood Family Cemetery at Centerville, Ohio, where military graveside rites will be given by the West Virginia Honor Guard and American Legion Post No. 23 of Point Pleasant. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m., Wednesday at the funeral home.
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China is 10 years from fielding global, competitive automakers, report says
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BEIJING (Bloomberg) -- Chinese automakers are about a decade away from being globally competitive and will have to increase their spending on research and development to close the gap, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
Automakers such as General Motors Co., Volkswagen Group and Toyota Motor Corp. are outspending Chinese brands on research and development and lead in engineering, said Max Warburton, an auto analyst at Bernstein.
The Chinese have the will and money to make their auto industry world class, he said. "The Chinese are 80 percent of the way there, 20 percent doesn't sound very hard, but it's probably the most complex bits to get right," said Warburton, who is based in Singapore. "They'll be spending until they make it work and eventually they'll end up with Chinese carmakers on the world stage."
China's brands are losing share in their home market as foreign manufacturers increase local production and introduce lower-priced models. The country's automakers spend less than 2 percent of revenue on research and product development, or about half the global average, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
Of the more than one hundred Chinese automakers, SAIC Motor Corp. stands the best chance of becoming a world-class manufacturer as it has learned a "huge amount" from its joint venture partner General Motors and has more experienced engineers compared with the rest, Warburton said.
The Bernstein team was also "positively surprised" by the progress made by smaller, independent Chinese automakers such as Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., Warburton said.
A teardown of Geely's EC7 model showed that the Hangzhou, China-based company had a clear grip of engine technology and called it "almost competitive" with global automakers.
Bernstein has outperform ratings on Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd. and Dongfeng Motor Group Co. and market perform for Great Wall Motor Co. and Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.


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Went to Mountainloft presentation and was told Bluegreen not building anymore resorts since bought by BFC They are getting more into leasing other properties and fee for service resorts. Is this true?
Went to Mountainloft presentation and was told Bluegreen not building anymore resorts since bought by BFC They are getting more into leasing other properties and fee for service resorts. Is this true?
Well they might not be "building" anything right now.
I think most developers aren't building but more like "acquiring" defunct projects.
I think BG just added some units in Manhattan Club to their portfolio and recently they added Charleston, SC, so they are expanding, but maybe not building.
They do have alot of resorts in the collection already to choose from and many in unique places, so even if they never added on, between their collection and your exchange options, you can travel a lifetime and not see it all, although there are some of us here trying our darndest to do just that.
Charleston has been in the portfolio for years, you mean Savannah.
take sales talk with a grain of salt. even if there are no new BG-Built resorts, the portfolio continues to expand with fee for svc or whatever they are calling it.
Besides, not building NOW doesn't mean no building ever again.
Curious what tripe they presented this "purchase of Bluegreen" with? Did they happen to tell you what BFC stands for or just let you think some stranger showed up to buy the system and you'd better buy now to preserve your equity?
Yeah I guess I meant Savannah.
Sorry I only own BG thru CMV so I honestly don't have alot of BG knowledge.
Only what I read from all you BG gurus.
No matter, you're right!
It's a large portfolio and I'm not too concerned about how the new properties show up, only that I continue to have more and more choices on where to go with my points.
While it is nice when BG built/owns/manages a property, it's not like everyone else sucks at it. They aren't going around collecting vans down by the river and attempting to tell us they are 5*.
BG has done a great job of managing their businesses in the economic downturn without punishing its owners to stay afloat. It's hard for me to find a negative in that.
Mountain loft are the biggest bunch of liars in BG, never tour there..I used to work at BG and it was an embarrassment of lies they told guests


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Ashton breaks Scottish hearts
1 Oct 2011
Chris Ashton scored a late try to give England a 16-12 win against Scotland in Auckland.
With three minutes remaining, England put a kickable penalty into touch and won the lineout. Their forwards set up the driving maul, before the ball was sent wide to replacement flyhalf Toby Flood, whose perfectly-timed double-skip pass put Ashton over in the right-hand corner.
It was a heart-breaking moment for the Scots, who had needed to win this game by eight points or more and deny England a bonus point in order to leapfrog their arch-rivals on the Pool C log. They now need Georgia to upset Argentina on Sunday, which is unlikely.
There may have only been one try, but this was a gripping encounter.
Scotland suffered an early setback when flyhalf Ruaridh Jackson limped off with a hamstring injury, but it proved to be a blessing. The kicking game of his replacement, Dan Parks, was ideal for the wet and windy conditions and he controlled the game well.
It was Parks who kicked a long-range penalty into the wind to give Scotland a 6-0 lead, following an earlier strike from Chris Paterson.
Jonny Wilkinson came into this match with a 50% goal-kicking success rate in the tournament and missed his first three penalty attempts. He finally found the target with his fourth, but a Parks drop goal gave Scotland a 9-3 lead at the break.
The Scots dominated the set pieces in the first half, winning four scrums against the feed (with Euan Murray embarrassing Matt Stevens) and stealing three opposition lineout throws. They also didn't miss a single tackle in 40 minutes, while England slipped six.
When the second half kicked off, the wind had dropped and the rain had stopped. England played with a lot more urgency and their pack regained some confidence when they won a tighthead with a solid hit.
The Scots, though, briefly regained the ascendancy and almost scored when left wing Simon Danielli kicked into the England 22. Fullback Ben Foden knocked the ball back and Scotland replacement Nick de Luca failed to collect it with the tryline in sight.
Scotland then won yet another scrum penalty, which Paterson kicked to make it 12-3, but they crucially failed to deal with the restart and Wilkinson slotted a drop goal with his right foot (having missed one with his left from in front earlier in the half).
The England flyhalf added a penalty at the start of the final quarter to reduce the deficit to three, but his following attempt fell short.
It didn't matter, though, as Ashton's try snatched the win and set up an England-France quarter-final.
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1 Oct 2011, 14:54 pm@Tartan(Tartan)-296: Its also a big problem when a guy like Parks is the source of 80% + of our points in. The last 20 or so games, take him out and we have no chance!to have guys like the Lamonts and Max Evans and be utterly impotent in attack is just awful as well
1 Oct 2011, 15:04 pm@goyougoodthing2(goyougoodthing2)-299:
I don't know about pathetic, more desperate. What do you suggest?SA get 48% of the SANZAR income and get to play all games when they like.
NZ gets around 30%, on the condition they schedule their games when it is comfortable for the offshore audience.
Aus get the dregs because they don't have to prop up a domestic comp.
1 Oct 2011, 15:08 pmThe real wingers are making the difference in close games. Ashton and Habana.
1 Oct 2011, 15:10 pm@Brads(Brads)-302: If prices were less then more people would go, surely. Weather also plays a factor. It's 25 and sunny in Durban in winter.
And the costs of a pint in NZ, would cause war here.
I am leaving now for Sharks vs Western Province. Will be a smaller crowd, maybe 25000 at a push (more like 15 I think) but the restaurants will be full, the bbqs after in the carpark will rock (people come down after the game for the party sometimes rather than the match!)
It's a whole different world. Here we watch Super Rugby from 8:30am on a Saturday all the way through going to a game in the afternoon and another later at night. It all works out because of time zones.
1 Oct 2011, 15:10 pmVincent Clerc has 10 WC rugby tries. He was a star platyer in the u21 rugby WC held in SA.
In my books he is the only winger i can select with Habana for the tightest games.
The two have been the best wingers over the last 7 years.
1 Oct 2011, 15:13 pm@Brads(Brads)-302:
As far as I'm aware, everyone now gets an equal share from SANZAR. We're still wondering, in SA, how SARU caved in to O'Neil on that one, because it came mainly from SAs share.. -
1 Oct 2011, 15:16 pm@Brads(Brads)-302: no, SA's share of tv rights moneys INCLUDING it's domestic competitions amounts to 48% get it right.
1 Oct 2011, 15:18 pm@goyougoodthing2(goyougoodthing2)-304:
"the bbqs after in the carpark will rock (people come down after the game for the party sometimes rather than the match!)"I hear you, but it is a bit hard to rouse up an after partry atmosphere when EVERY top game finishes after 10.00pm.
For the blame, I suspect it has something to do with the gouging you Saffa's have done on the SANZA income front.
1 Oct 2011, 15:19 pm@Transformation(Transformation)-307: And I have seen it, observed it with my own eyes, South Africans watch more rugby, devour it, live it more thane even the kiwis.
I didn't realise how rugby mad we are until I went there.
1 Oct 2011, 15:20 pm@Brads(Brads)-308: Yes, times are stupid I agree, our latest finish would be 8:30 or thereabouts.
Profits are equal now I believe.
1 Oct 2011, 15:21 pm@Transformation(Transformation)-307:
Isn't that what I said?SA gets 48%
1 Oct 2011, 15:26 pm@Brads(Brads)-311:
SAs domestic TV income is not part of the SANZAR/Newscorp income. That's divided 3 ways equally. -
1 Oct 2011, 15:34 pm@David(David)-312:
I wasn't aware of that.What are the numbers ? In terms of the overall income, is it 5% 10%, 20%
Must say I am surprised that there is an actual income stream from local TV.
How is that possible?
1 Oct 2011, 15:37 pm@Brads(Brads)-313:
sorry, I meant how is it possible that a local TV broadcaster could operate in direct competition to the main sponsor.. -
1 Oct 2011, 15:40 pm@David(David)-312:
The SANZAR/NewsCorp is divided equally 3 ways. Our domestic competitions TV rights were sold to Supersport, our pay TV station, which also bought the S15/3N broadcast rights from Newscorp.. -
1 Oct 2011, 15:44 pm@David(David)-315:
Newscorp only holds the broadcast rights for the 3N and S15, which they paid to SANZAR. Local competitions don't fall into the SANZAR basket. They're owned by the individual country. -
1 Oct 2011, 15:49 pmscotland played like men possessed in 1st half, but then could almost not believe and tried to hold in 2nd, no way to play, the Boks do it too.
1 Oct 2011, 15:58 pm@cab(cab)-317: you think that those are instructions from the coaches or the players just get into a "just hold them off" mode on their own?
apparently the boks missed only 2 tackles in the 1st half but finished the game with a stat of 27 missed tackles…bizzare if u ask me
1 Oct 2011, 16:03 pm@David(David)-316:
Sorry, you are confusing me.I said 48% of the SANZAR income goes to SA.
Is this right or wrong.
1 Oct 2011, 16:06 pmWe chatted about this the other day.
Super 15 and 3 nations I s equal.
Domestic comps AND inbound tours packaged seperately.
Currie Cup alone is valued at 58 million US.
Compared to NZs domestic comps which was about 20 million US.
Added to that is the money from inbound tours and EOYT etc.
1 Oct 2011, 16:17 pm@Brads(Brads)-319:
Wrong. It's only 33%. -
1 Oct 2011, 16:20 pm@cab(cab)-317:
England were the men possessed for the 10 minutes of the second half.Then they started their fibbly fumble routine and the Scots got back in the game. the 2nd half was a display of wannabe champions. Both teams were poor, the Scots were more than poor for a long while..
Jonny had a bad day at the office. Tough titties. His errors kept the Jocks in it and they should of held out, but for a brain explosion.
Sorry, I don't know who it was, but one of the backs collected the ball and instead of clearing it downfield he did the up and under miracle .
The resulting play from that brain **** moved England from facing NZ in the first playoff, back to the easy road on the other side of the draw.
I was really up beat about playing England. Now we go back to Argentina. Tough guys, but they have something missing for me…. maybe hatred… nah that is too strong, but something close.
1 Oct 2011, 16:27 pm@Brads(Brads)-322: Talk about easy road to the semi! Tonga, Japan, France B, Canada, Argentina (shadow of the 07 team). Mmmmmm.
1 Oct 2011, 16:31 pm@David(David)-321:
Sorry David we must still be talking cross purposesThe old agreement for all TV income was 38% for SA
SARU squeezed its partners in the 3N and Super 15 up to 48% in the latest deal.
This is television rights only!.
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1 Oct 2011, 16:33 pm@TheAgent(TheAgent)-323:
Agreed, too easy.I was relishing the thought of our boys playing England next week.
Scots let me down!
1 Oct 2011, 16:35 pm@Brads(Brads)-325: England only slightly better than Arg, but they tend to lift their game in play-offs. Think England will beat France, but then again the French still has to play that ONE BIG game.
1 Oct 2011, 16:40 pmEngland over France by 5
NZ over Arg by 20
Ireland over Wales by 3
SA over Aus by 4 -
1 Oct 2011, 16:41 pmEngland 21 – 16
Ireland 19 – 16
1 Oct 2011, 16:41 pm@Brads(Brads)-324:
No, it was Australia that squeezed SARU for an extra 15%, I think it was. We were pretty pissed at that. In fact O'Neil managed to whinge a number of concessions out of the new SANZAR/NewsCorp deal. -
1 Oct 2011, 16:44 pm@TheAgent(TheAgent)-326:
I was looking at from a differenct persective.Aside from Ireland. England are the only credible team on the other side of the draw.
Had they lost today and come second in their pool, they would be on our side of the ledger come playoffs.
That being the case the knockout would have involved the 4 previous winners who just happen to also be the 4 most likely winners this tournament.
Didn't happen!
1 Oct 2011, 16:46 pm@Brads(Brads)-330: Very unbalanced the knock-out round.
1 Oct 2011, 16:49 pm@Brads(Brads)-330: Aussies faarked everything up
1 Oct 2011, 17:03 pm@Brads(Brads)-324:
Here's the complete breakdown and explanation from an Aussie paper. -
1 Oct 2011, 17:03 pm@David(David)-333:
Under the last SANZAR agreement, the ARU received 29% ($US93M) of total revenue with NZ and SA getting 33% ($US107M) and 38 % ($123M) respectively. As part of the protracted negotiations surrounding the awarding of the new Super 15 franchise, all SANZAR Nations agreed to split revenue from the new deal equally as each country would have 5 teams.The trade off for this concession to the ARU was that the new broadcast deal only included Super 15 games and Tri-nations tests with each Nation being able to negotiate its own deals for rights to their respective in-bound international test and domestic competitions. When these revenues are added to the bottom line, things look decidedly paltry for the ARU.
It has been estimated that with Currie Cup and in-bound tests, SA Rugby has been able to negotiate an extra $US58M, an increase in revenue of 46% on the old agreement. The NZRU, whose NPC is estimated to be worth $US20M, will increase revenue by 13%, even before in-bound test revenue is factored into this figure.
With no third-tier competition to hock, the ARU stands to only increase revenues by 7% or $US7M before in-bound test revenues are considered, not a great prospect given the poor TV ratings of this year's tests.
What is clear from these estimates is the ARU has very little scope to earn significant revenue outside of what it receives from its share of the SANZAR deal. Although the ARU increased its earnings from sponsorships and gate receipts by almost $A9M from 2007 to 2008, this increase included the sugar hit provided by the first overseas Bledisloe.
1 Oct 2011, 17:41 pm@David(David)-334: if brad still doesn't understand after this post, then he never will
1 Oct 2011, 17:57 pmEngland will be a different prospect in the play-offs sadly. They have that arrogance that creates belief in their abilities, no matter how limited.
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1 Oct 2011, 21:16 pm@JockBok(JockBok)-338: Hamish I am so sorry. That s a tough loss, you had the game for 78 minutes. Oi vey. Hard. But your boys did very well.
Big Hit. Congratulations. A wins a win, and we know all about that.
Apologies to all of you, but Wales are the best of all the Northern Hemisphere teams.
NZ Vs Wales Final. 2 Kiwi coaches.
1 Oct 2011, 23:13 pm@TheAgent(TheAgent)-328: I hope you are right.
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Nicole how cool to have mo/mo twins. You will be watched closely. You'll be considerred high risk and will need to get level 2 u/s's a few times and most likely see a perinatologist. Can't wait for next week. When the babies will be easier to see if there is 2. FX
Suzanne GL testing!
Christine Love the bump!
Hello to everyone else!
AFM This cycle is over! I O'd yesterday and my dh haven't BD'd at all this whole cycle. I have been sick and going to bed most days by 6 or 7. I may try to get my dh make a deposit tonight, but I know it's not going to work! But i am due for af the 12th and 4 years ago that day I started a new cycle and got pregnant with my last son.
Congrats! to Amber and Teri!
Nicole: Wow! Could be twins....
AFM: I tested this morning and got BFN! I am ok with that....at this moment my TTC journey is over. I will still be checking in and making sure all you ladies are doing good and that we add more BFP's to the board. I want to thank you all for the love and support that I have gotten over the last year and half, especially Nicole and Tara. You ladies have been there since day one!
HUGS and LOVE to all!
Good morning ladies :)
Wicked busy day at work catching up from Mon! I'm going to try and catch up with you all now ;)
Thanks Gina ♥ Nice new belly pic :)
Tara: Yup, still sinking in ;) Our house only has 2 bedrooms, but so much potential to add on along with our finished basement :) Oh boy, your temp is still going up and today marks 6DP HCG! Dreaming again huh, Ahhhhh, FX'd!!! Oh no, no cramps!!!
Suzanne: Wow, if you got nosebleeds like that with Lily it may well be happening again! Still no sign of AF? Yes, I hope she stays far far away! FX'd ;)
Christine: You're right, it was just a natural occurence for one of the embryos to split. Hmmm, you could be carrying two there with that little bump already ;) So glad the Zofran is helping your nausea. When is your 1st u/s? I might've missed when you told us that. All the while, you're such a very busy mommy!
Amber: How cool you're starting the cravings already ;)
Isra: One of the doctors I used to work with made me ginger tea steaped with rock sugar, it made it sweet and actually kind of yummy :) I know you've been saying two all along ;) HB is heartbeat. I guess the other embryo didn't implant and just absorbed into the wall. They're so tiny that you don't even know. I think the nausea is lingering because you're taking both the Metformin and folic acid. The M is probably messing with your temp too so FF will be confused with detecting O. Just keep covering your bases especially with the watery CM still being there ;)
Brie! Missed you! Thank you love ♥ I'm going nutso here! Yay for a new computer :) Layla is growing really well :) Oh, I hope it isn't colic, just seems as though she's used to being held and comforted and craves it ;) A baby smiling is the best thing in the whole world!! I had 6 weeks of PP bleeding and then kind of a breakthrough type after, I really think it was from the endometriosis. How is it since putting in the Mirena? I hope you can get to EYM again soon!
Nicole - Love your new ticker! My profile pic was from 12 weeks...I popped out early this time. :)
Tammy - Sorry about your BFN! Hope to see you around soon. Hope you have a great holiday.
Tara - Testing day is so close!!
Simone - Hope you are feeling better! You never know...We bd four days before O and I didn't think we would get pregnant.
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Simone: mo/mo twins, I haven't heard that one before ;) What does that stand for? Dr. A did mention having to see a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist so that must be a perinatologist. Yup, I'll be 7W on Mon so we'll see how they look then :) You're still sick?!? I'm sorry it's taking so long to get better :( That really stinks you haven't been able to BD :P ((BIG HUGS))
Alix: Oh yes, shock for sure ;) Enjoy your morning too darlin' :)
Thanks Tammy ♥ Oh hunnie, I'm sorry you got a BFN :( Aww you're so welcome ♥ YOU have been showing YOUR love and support for all of us, that's what we're here for :) Please please please don't be a stranger ♥
Nausea started kicking in by last night and still so sleepy. But, I'm looking at both as good signs that things are as they should be in there ;) What worries me are my ovaries still so huge making me swollen and uncomfortable. They will not go down until I'm done with Progesterone which won't be until Christmas Eve. My appt is the same time on Mon so Dr. A can be there again. I'll be working from home just as I did this Mon.
Ok, back to work, breaks over ;)
Love and ((HUGS)) to you all ♥
Gina: I didn't feel comfortable putting it up till now, but I'm glad I did (using just one icon, for now) :) Thank you ♥ I saw you said that to Christine, maybe because it's #3? ;)
Nicole mo/mo twins are monochorionic/ monoamniotic twins They share the same placenta and sac. mo/di twins monochorionic/ diamniotic share a placenta, but have seperate sacs. My twins were di/di twins. Dichorionic/ diamniotic have seperate placentas and sacs. When some women are told they have this type of twin doctors tell them they are having fraternal twins, but that is not always the case. My OB told me that if they were the same sex we may need to do zygosity testing unless they looked completely different or had different blood types. In the beginning, Eli was redder and thinner, but as they grew it got harder to tell who was who. lol And yes I am still sick! I went to the doctor again and I was put on different meds for my cough and congestion. I just can't seem to get well!
Tammy Sorry about the bfn! When is af due?
Simone: Thank you for explaining the types of twins, very helpful :) I was going to ask you what one Eli and Peyton were. Did you finish the antiobiotic? Maybe you need a stronger one? What meds did they give you for the cough/congestion?
Tammy: I was thinking about what Simone asked you, when is AF due? I know your cycles can be on the long side, maybe it's too soon to test?
Tammy: Hopefully its just too early to test for you...or maybe you will get a BFP now that you quit "trying" ;) that'd be great, wouldnt it?
Tara: I hope so too!! ;) and NO CRAMPS ALLOWED, unless they are the early pregnancy cramps :) then those are allowed. NO AF cramps allowed FX'd you are the next BFP of the month!
Isra:Hopefully they get you all fixed up and better so they can get you on the right track to TTC with positive results!
Simone: I thought DH and I had missed our window of oppertunity too.. then I never got AF.. and Little Layla was in the making! :)I was supposed to O on January 15th..we BD'd twice the 13th (a friday too haha) and then again on sunday (but he had pulled out) and then we didnt BD again til wednesday. I thought I O'd later like that tuesday..but I usually O right on time, which would have been sunday..making Layla concieved from 2 day old swimmers. lol. anything's possible.
Nicole: I missed you guys too! :) The Mirena so far has been great, I had a couple mins cramping when it was inserted, but nothing too painful (Labor was worse! and the betadine solution being flushed in me hurt worse than the actual insertion!). I took 800mg of ibprofuen before I went to the doctor too. Its practically stopped my PP bleeding, and i only have occasional cramps from it (Dr. M said normal for up to 4 days after insertion..and they are super mild). I like not having to worry if I miss a pill if im busy or what not (which having a baby and midterms..I can tell i'd miss!).
when is your next u/s? I cant wait to see a picture of the TWO of them ;) so happy that its finally happend for you and your DH!! You guys totally deserve it! I am hoping for H&H 9 months :) I just realized you are 6 weeks pregnant..and Layla is six weeks old! lol Awesome :)
afm- I was informed Mirena is not effective for 7 days (and since we couldnt determine whether or not I had my first PP period or not) I went out and got some condoms for DH since I didnt want to risk anything right now and since I am only spotting very lightly. I figured after 6 weeks of waiting, DH would jump on the oppertunity of the all clear. However, he got upset and offended that I got condoms and said we could just wait another 7 days and that I should just "take care of myself" (to put it politely). Wow, excuse me for taking precautions!
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We found out what the new Williams looked like, Fernando Alonso managed his first track time of 2013, Adrian Sutil got back in a Force India and Jean-Eric Vergne drove on "cauliflowers".
The first running at Barcelona should start to give an indication of who will be strong in Melbourne, but with everyone wanting to play down expectations, it was still a pretty confused picture. Here's what we learnt:
The degradation of the new Pirelli tyres is very high in cold conditions. Frighteningly high. Torro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne described them as one-lap tyres, "like cauliflowers". Lewis Hamilton put in a fast lap in his Mercedes W04 and then a handful of laps later was four seconds a lap slower. Sergio Perez said if the tyres continued like this there would be seven to ten pitstops per race: "The degradation is very difficult. It's a big surprise. Normally in winter testing we see a lot of degradation, but never this much." A touch of realism was added by Lotus's Eric Boullier: "We saw last year when it was cold that the tyres were completely out of the range, graining and degrading a lot. We need to wait now to have hotter temperatures to see how the tyres are working and if there is a big difference. We had this same rubber on the Friday in Brazil and it wasn't so bad."
Sergio's McLaren team-mate Jenson Button is heartened by the consistency of the 2013 Pirelli tyre: "This year is more difficult in terms of graining than last year, but in terms of understanding the tyre it's much easier. You can get (the tyre) in its working range, and you know by lap three or four it's going to start graining. So compared to last season, it's more of a level playing field."
The characteristically secretive Red Bull team are being extra secretive about their rear end this year. The closer we get to Melbourne, the closer the cars are going to resemble their final form and the closer the photographers will want to get. In testing they're allowed to erect screens, but that doesn't stop people poking cameras over the top of them!
Barcelona is traditionally the venue where teams will start running race simulations and Romain Grosjean put in a 66-lap run which included a 24-lap stint where his pace was steady around the 1.29s mark. The lack of tyre degradation was impressive, although the headline times were in the 1:22s bracket. Expect many more race simulations in Barca 2 next week.
Everyone was very keen to talk down their chances and their testing form. Eric Boullier wasn't getting carried away by Grosjean's times pointing out that none of the cars were in Melbourne spec. Jenson Button was keen to point out that although the McLaren MP4-28 had been quick in Jerez from time to time, they don't know if 'x' will cause 'y'. "It's been very tricky to understand where the car is," a candid Jenson told reporters. "At times the car feels good, at other times it doesn't. A lot of that is basically understanding the car that we have and understanding the way it's working and making sure it's working the way we expect it. Some of the time that hasn't been the case."
Lewis Hamilton more than anyone was keen to dispel the idea that Mercedes were going to be any good in 2013. "Vettel and maybe Fernando (interesting that it's the surname for his rival and first name for his mate) were saying I'm maybe going to be competing for the world championship, but I really don't see that happening at the moment. Of course that's our goal but you've got to remember the car was over a second off, sometimes two seconds off, last year and we've not caught a second up... And other teams will have put a second on over the winter. So we've not gained three seconds, that's a fact." So expect him to be in contention right from the start...
Drivers don't particularly like testing in hail which pelted down on the Circuit de Catalunya midway through the final day. Mark Webber was phlegmatic as ever: "Actually, conditions were pretty consistent, pretty stable, although probably not very representative of what you would have on a grand prix weekend..." and then he remembered something; "maybe Nurburgring on a Saturday morning."
Esteban Guittierez made the most of the wet and slippery conditions to learn how to chuck his Sauber about in the wet. With most teams reducing their lappage on the final day he was free to explore many parts of the circuit.
Adrian Sutil returned to an F1 cockpit for the first time since November 2011 and considering the absence did a very respectable job on tyres he's had no experience of. Sutil's approach was calm and laid back - very much 'Que sera sera'. "The team know me very well. If there's business going on behind it, I can't really influence it. But I'm standing here as a driver ready to race." Although Force India weren't saying it was a shoot-out - Sutil vs Jules Bianchi. It was definitely a shoot-out. A lot of it hinges on which engine they'll take next year, stick with Mercedes (favouring Sutil) or change to Ferrari (Bianchi).
We were introduced to the new Williams FW35 which, like the Caterham, had a contentious vane channeling exhaust gasses. Photo-copying king and technical director Mike Coughlan was adamant that whereas the Caterham version might not be seen as legal, the Williams one was. He also poured scorn on the other teams for taking too many variables to Jerez (where Williams had opted to take the old car). "I'm sure that a lot of teams went to Jerez with a new car, new driver and new tyres and got lost. We didn't."
Given what Jenson Button has said about the lack of complexity of the new Pirelli tyres, then the Williams team's move might be seen as a mistake. Setting up a baseline with the old car isn't going to be as important as seeing how the new car works with rapidly-graining but predictable tyres. Sergio Perez's comments add weight to this - he said that however you drove didn't seem to affect the tyre degradation, so the way the car was set up was key to the degradation. Williams missed four days of this (five if you include Barcelona's rainy Friday).
Fernando Alonso returned to action and his winter fitness programme was tested out by 110 laps of running on the first day. By the third day on Thursday he was emulating Felipe Massa (Jerez) and setting the fastest time. So what does he think of the new F138: "The feeling with the car was OK, all as expected, a continuation of the Brazil car let's say." He didn't seem overwhelmed, just relieved. "This is a good thing, not like last year when we drove for the first time and were a little bit surprised on the bad side."


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The City of Eastland has lifted restrictions on water usage that were set last week due to a faulty valve in the main water supply line.
The repairs were made ahead of schedule, but although normal water use may resume immediately, the city still cautions residents to be good stewards and to be wise about how much and when they water
Outside watering should be avoided in the heat of the day and then only to the extent needed. Over watering lawns and other plants is one of the biggest wastes of water.
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Original StoryThe City of Eastland has issued an emergency water use restriction proclamation that will remain in effect until a faulty valve can be replaced at the Eastland County Water Supply District.
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Repairs are anticipated to be complete by the middle of next week when restrictions will be lifted.
The problem is caused by the failure of a large, specialized valve in the Eastland County Water Supply District's water distribution system. This was the same faulty valve that caused water delivery problems earlier this week that was initially thought to be caused by a major water leak. The valve is on emergency order and will be delivered and installed as quickly as possible, according to Dale Bennington, the District's manager.
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Because the temporary set-up is manually operated, an unfortunate result may be an occasional overflow at the Park Hill water tower. That will be kept to an absolute minimum but will signal that the tank is full if it happens.
"If everyone will cooperate, we should have plenty of water for essential usage over this short period of time," said Ron Holliday, Eastland City Manager. "Since all Eastland users are supposed to be on the odd / even watering rotation, their outside plants should be able to tolerate a short watering disruption without damage."
"People can cheat, of course, but if they do they are risking causing a problem for everyone. If there is a callous disregard for the restrictions, there can be a stiff fine imposed along with water being disconnected to the offending home until the misuse is rectified and a ticket is issued," Holliday added. "This is a temporary situation and for the good of all, we are pleading for everyone to cooperate," he said.


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The reason gay men exist might be because their moms tend to have more babies!
A new research by an Italian university has found some answers to the paradoxical existence of gay men. If you think about it, the existence of gay men doesn't make much obvious sense. If homosexuality is genetic, then men who inherit that gene would most likely not have any offspring, meaning they would eventually disappear. However, that is not the case.
The University of Padova in Italy has found a correlation between gayness in males and higher rates of reproductive success in their female's relatives. In other words, the moms and aunts of gay men tend to have more kids compared to others. When viewed in this light, male homosexuality has a sort of a genetic tradeoff. By passing on that gene, the chances of one of your kids not reproducing is high, but you'll also have *more* kids, which means that the chances of your genes living on is higher.
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That said, the causes of homosexuality are still very undiscovered, and the dominant theory is that it's a number of factors that causes it, and not one particular gene. However, this research suggests that even if gay men have little options as far as reproduction goes, they benefit the females in their family just as much!


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"Retweet this I AM ALIVE and kicking. Crazy rumors about me dying in a car crash have gone viral all around the world. Ninjas never die," he wrote.
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Duke scientists go Gaga over naming new ferns
By Josh Shaffer
RALEIGH, N.C. (The News & Observer) — She boasts a closetful of Emmy, Grammy and MTV music awards, but outlandish pop diva Lady Gaga just collected a more coveted compliment from Duke University: 19 species of ferns named in her honor.
To a team of Duke scientists, a new genus of the plants growing between South America and Texas bears an uncanny likeness to the green, glittery, heart-shaped costume the New York-born songstress wore to the Grammy awards in 2010.
"It just spoke to me," said Kathleen Pryer, the Duke biology professor who led the fern study. "We tend to be seen as nerdy, lab-coated people, but we see so many beautiful things, and she's very inspiring in her fashion. If she saw half of what we saw under a microscope."
Two of the Gaga fern species are new to science, classified for the first time. And sticking with the theme, the Duke team gave them glam-inspired titles: Gaga germanotta, for the singer's last name, and Gaga monstraparva, which translates roughly to "little monsters," a nickname for her fans.
"In my field, it's all about diversity, and she's all about diversity in our species," Pryer said. "We're all in this together."
The Duke study appears in the current issue of Systematic Botany, aimed at grouping ferns in their proper categories thanks to advances in genetic analysis. Other than the two new species, the other 17 in the new Gaga genus are reclassified from another group.
In an infant stage of their growth, called the gametophyte stage, the Gaga ferns have a bisexual gender. This seemed an appropriate tie to the singer because of the swarm of media interest in her sexuality and her outspoken campaign for gay rights.
Born Stefani Germanotta, Lady Gaga's sales top 20 million worldwide, influencing fashion and music with her dance hits.
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Wales captain Sam Warburton has praised Cardiff Blues team-mate Alex Cuthbert for deciding to stay in Wales.
Cuthbert burst onto the international scene last season for Wales and has been chased by several big-spending French sides, including Toulon and Racing M�tro.
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"Cuthbert has been immense for the Blues this season and is a key player for us. He gives us go-forward, is a hell of an athlete, a good pro and trains hard.
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Thank you for killing my novel
The New York Times panned my book, then had to correct the review to fix all their errors. So why am I not angry?
By Patrick SomervilleTopics: Editor's Picks, Fiction, Janet Maslin, Media Criticism, New York Times, Patrick Somerville, Writers and Writing, Entertainment News
Last Sunday night I spent a good five minutes lying facedown on my couch, my head pressed into the crack between our old tan cushions, my arms pinned awkwardly under my chest, emitting a sequence of guttural moaning noises as my wife silently read Janet Maslin's newly posted New York Times review of my novel, "This Bright River," and then – after some gasps and one very disconcerting, empathy-laden, "Oh no" – attempted to describe the review's contents aloud. I'd only been able to read the headline.
"It's not positive," she began firmly, and I pressed my head deeper into the couch, trying to get to its springs and asphyxiate. My wife, the sole adult member of our family, paraphrased the review: "Lack of purposefulness" was the first representative phrase she picked, and she next moved on to "jerry-built," "desperate measure" and finally circled back around to "soggy."
"No," I said. "It does not say soggy."
"It says soggy," she repeated. "It does say soggy."
As I am an atheist, I made noises directed at no one and nothing. I then, without removing my face from the couch-hole, picked up a throw pillow and gently placed it on the floor, blind.
My wife said nothing. It was 90 degrees in our living room, and the fan oscillated gloomily. Our cat, pleased, sensing a complicated kind of emotional dissolution in the works, jumped onto my back and sat down.
"It seems like she's misread some things, though," my wife said, and I was not able to hear her words quite yet.
I was busy being mad at myself. I'd set myself up for this, I knew that even as I unstuffed myself from the couch and went past my wife and the computer and directly toward the alcohol, but such is the unique combination of feelings I associate with the publication of a book, of any book, regardless of what it is, regardless of how long it took to write it, and (I would imagine) regardless of who the author is. I have some writer friends who claim to read none of their reviews, and some who claim to be indifferent, and although I can prove nothing, I believe that they are all, every one of them, lying through their teeth. It's too easy. The Internet is too easy. "This Bright River" is my fourth book, but it's been the same for each one, and they all have their distinct crucibles, and I'm sure it'll be the same if I ever make it to 20: I read the reviews of my books and I am greatly affected by the reviews of my books. I can't help it. They matter, both artistically and commercially. They scare me and I love them. How other people react is a part of storytelling. What reviewers say affects the book's life. And because of this, the week before the reviews come, I am catatonic, greatly troubled by the storms of anticipation.
I say this just to set the context.
I got a drink, returned to the living room, and read the review for myself. Admittedly, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I skipped over a few parts, looking for the gist, and in the end decided to post the review on Facebook and just be done with it – better to not pretend it hadn't happened. A daily from the New York Times is a big deal for any author, and I was grateful to have it, whatever it said. I posted the review. I then went back and read the review again. I sipped my drink. I thought about it. I read these words:
We meet Ben, a onetime rich kid and stoner, who sustains some kind of head injury in the novel's prologue. That knock on the head accounts for some of the vague, so-what nature of Ben's perceptions about himself and others.
Hmm, I thought.
I read that line again.
I realized that Janet Maslin, who is not only one of the most accomplished critics in the world, but who is also the person who lifted my first novel, "The Cradle," out of obscurity with a rave review three years before, had made a simple reading error within the first five pages of my novel.
She'd mixed up two characters.
It was really important to not mix up those characters.
And she never realized it.
And by the end of the book, there was no ambiguity.
The comment about Ben's perceptions aside, there was no way the plot could have made any kind of sense to her, given that error.
I continued drinking.
I cued up several episodes of "Storage Wars," my go-to emotional coping mechanism.
The next morning, around the world, I'd fancy 100,000 people read that review.
Which was frustrating.
- – - – - – - – - – - – - -
About six months ago, the copy editor who worked with me on "This Bright River" queried me about the email addresses of my characters. I mean actually that: She asked me if I was sure the addresses I'd used were their addresses. (Paradox! Not real people!) There were several email exchanges within the book, and for all of them I had invented email addresses and just dropped them in as I went, planning to figure out something for them when the time came.
After I got the query I thought it might be fun to make a real email address for Ben, though, and to let readers email him, especially if they had questions about the puzzles in the book. Ben is a kind of wayfaring pothead version of Will Shortz, and likes to make up riddles and puzzles here and there. He sees life in terms of games. Most of the riddles and puzzles are answered within the book, and none are crucial for the story. Still, thinking it would be amusing – a meta-game for readers – I went to Gmail and made Ben's address and posted it on my website. I invited people to write him if they had questions about anything in the book.
In the six months the address was up on my site, one person wrote to Ben. It was my friend Hannah.
But when I logged in to Ben's account on that Monday after the Maslin review, badly hung over, I found a new email awaiting me.
It was not from Hannah. It was from an editor at the New York Times.
The subject line was "Did you get hit on the head?"
Here it is: (Our exchange is published with his permission)
Dear Mr. Hanson,
Given the vagaries of fictional life, I understand that you might not be able to answer this question, which has come up after one of our readers read the review of "This Bright River" that we published. But – in the prologue, are you the person who is hit on the head?
-Ed Marks, Culture Desk
It was a very, very odd feeling to read this after a sequence of odd (read: horrendous) feelings from the night before. I was glad that the Times wanted to talk about it, and I was impressed by the playfulness and the levity of the email, but I also thought: This may be the most sadistic moment of belated fact-checking in the history of mankind. The New York Times, the paper of record, had written a fictitious character to verify a fact.
On purpose.
Naturally, I wrote back in the voice of my book's protagonist.
(Be warned: Spoilers abound.)
Dear Ed,
Thanks kindly for your note. If you were to read the first chapter of the book, you'd see that my cousin Wayne (before his untimely demise) and I were both great fans of the old "Who Am I" riddles, and the lack of any attributions in the prologue, as well as the absence of a date, was my humble attempt at creating a little mystery for the reader and planting a nagging question at the outset of the story: Who are these people? While I certainly intended the reader to wonder whether I was the one who'd been hit in the head in the opening scene, it was meant to be an open question.
But I'll be clear, as you asked directly, although I'll also warn you that the following would constitute a major spoiler. (At this point, however, the book having received a mortal wound of its own in your fine paper, I don't think that it really matters): The two characters in the prologue – and I did my best to make this apparent in the last third of the book — are my cousin Wayne Hanson and a man named Michael Haverstead. Years before, Michael Haverstead attacked my sister at a party, and my cousin Wayne, after planning it for some time, took his revenge on Michael Haverstead that night. The scene we see in the prologue is the two of them at a bar — later that night, Wayne kills Michael and buries him on my uncle's property in Upper Michigan. I was back in my hometown, St. Helens, and only 17 at the time of this incident. It took me 16 more years to figure out what happened, and why my cousin did what he did. It's not me in the prologue — Ms. Maslin had it wrong.
Thanks so much for your interest in my story!
Ben HansonP.S. Not for nothing, but does Will Shortz ever take vacations? If he does, I would be happy to fill in for him.
Ed responded like so:
Dear Ben,
Thank you very much for clearing this up – and I'm so glad it wasn't you that was hit on the head!
I'm sorry that Ms. Maslin misread the prologue. Unfortunately, we will have to run a correction. Typically in a case like this we would say it was A who was hit on the head, not B. But given your intention to have it be an open question, I'll let our corrections czar know that I want to write the correction without identifying who the victim actually is.
Seems like you have had a bit of a rough life, and the last thing I'd want to do is to make it even rougher by giving it away.
Again, thanks very much for your help. And I'm sure Will Shortz does take a vacation once in a while. I'll ask him if he needs a guest editor!
-Ed Marks
And Ben responded like so:
Thanks, Ed. That will help to take the sting away (a bit).
What's crazy is that I haven't had a rough life at all — I grew up very privileged and still managed to mess it up. Go figure.
Patrick has asked that you please also relay to Ms. Maslin that he very much appreciates her ongoing interest in his career.
Next Ed said:
Well, thank you for being so gracious.
And let me run something by you. I was just talking with our senior corrections editor, who is open to the idea of not giving away anything. Would a correction along these lines work for you:
The Books of the Times review on Monday, about "This Bright River" by Patrick Somerville, included a description of the prologue, in which an unidentified character is hit on the head. While the review said that the character who is hit is Ben Hanson, one of the book's protagonists, Mr. Somerville says that it was meant to be an open question and that his intention was to leave the reader wondering whether it is in fact Ben.
-Ed Marks
And Ben said:
Thank you for including me in the conversation. I'm not afraid of the spoiler. That is accurate, but my (nonexpert) take is that it sounds very subjective — by the end of the book, it's obvious that it's not Ben Hanson. I don't know how else to say it. No one else who's read the book or talked to me about the book, and no other reviews, have made anything resembling this mistake. Maybe you could add a line at the end like "It is not," or, "Later, the reader learns definitely that it is not Ben Hanson." At the very least I would prefer that the correction definitively states, somewhere, that Ms. Maslin was wrong about a fact.
(If I really had my druthers, the paper would retract the whole thing, as I can't imagine the rest of her interpretation standing after this initial mistake, but now I'm getting crazy, and I recognize that this is a book review, not a piece on Chechnya. I very, very much appreciate the correction. It helps a lot.)
But that is just my opinion, and I am not real.
And so on and so forth, for the rest of the day.
I don't want to speak for Ed, but at this point, it is my belief that he and Ben have become friends. At the very least, they're right on the cusp.
As of now they have exchanged a total of 38 emails.
One time Ben got mad and spoke in the voice of Patrick, but just once. He was sorry.
Ed was very kind.
So far Ben and Ed have discussed, outside of the review and the correction, the psychology of reading, Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Pynchon and Twitter.
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – -
In the end nothing matters but the work. You can't control how it's taken, and the act of telling a story always involves a gap. Sometimes confusion is the risk of ambiguity–I say that to students all the time. It's true at the fireside and it's true in the parlor, and it's true in made-up towns and New York. Two humans face one another, words come out of one, words go into the other mind through the ears and eyes of the listener. It's a story. It's simple. The gap is the thing. Make sure you build the bridge.
I will admit: A part of me (and a part of Ben) would like to believe that none of Janet Maslin's points about "This Bright River" are valid because of this early flub of hers, but that's not quite true, I don't think: Deep down I know that it's not so, and I think that may explain my facedown stuck-pig noises on Sunday, which were melodramatic even for me — something in me knew that if she got it and reviewed it, she was going to hate it. Too much had changed. I'd left behind elegant and gone looking for something else. My gut had done the math: She would have to if she had loved "The Cradle." And despite its rather dire impact on the book itself, I don't think the mix-up matters all that much. It remains mind-blowing to me that it happened, but I doubt the core of her conclusions would have been all that different without the mistake. The goddamned thing rambles, I know! It's big and unruly and everywhere! But that's why I love it! It had to be that way! But some people won't love it! And hopefully some will!
That said, it sure as hell is not Ben in the opening scene! And it's pretty obvious that it's not!
I'm not glad that this happened, but it's interesting that it did.
But perhaps even more interesting than all of this: How many ghost relationships do you have? I am drawn to them and like to ask people about theirs. Chat rooms? What are they, and what do they mean? Is it the Internet or something else? Subway eyes. People you've only met through email, or Facebook or Twitter? Authors you've read whom you may very well love, and I mean actually love, even though they're dead? People who've commented on something you've done having never seen your face? People from afar who've changed your life? A customer service rep who somehow made your day, a random H.R. person who ruined your year? Even that lady on the On Star commercials — have you ever thought about her?
Our lives are filled up with these people; they often play a role in our pivot points. For the last few years I've felt some kind of warm benevolence whenever I've come across Janet Maslin's name, grateful to her for her enthusiasm and generosity, for her choice to read my book and tell her readers about it. I've never met her and I doubt I ever will, but I'll just say it like this and move on: She was a ghost friend of mine.
I like that, incidentally. Is "Ghost Friend" a good name for a book?
I will have to have Ben ask Ed.
Patrick Somerville is the author of the novels "This Bright River" and "The Cradle," and the story collections "Trouble" and "The Universe in Miniature in Miniature." He lives with his wife and son in Chicago, and he teaches creative writing in the MFA programs at Warren Wilson and Northwestern University. More Patrick Somerville.
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Major Jn - Marathalli jn -> Kundanhalli Gate ... The route via Varthur does not have any major traffic issue.
Major Climb - Did not care to look at it.
Future Plan: Do the TFN (http://www.tourofnilgiris.com) and make people aware that Biking is sustainable way of cimmuting.
~ Ravi
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