Saturday, December 17, 2011

Marshal's shooting, 3-hour manhunt shake Ind. town

Police surround the scene where a couple was caught after a man shot a Waterloo Town Marshal's Office deputy in Waterloo, Ind., Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. Indiana State Police say officers have shot a man and woman suspected of shooting a northeastern Indiana officer in the face. State Police Sgt. Ron Galaviz says the man was killed about 6 a.m. Thursday and the woman was hospitalized in critical condition. Police were seeking the pair after a 47-year-old Waterloo police officer was shot about 3 a.m. while investigating a couple who knocked on a door saying their vehicle was stuck in a ditch. (AP Photo/The News Sun, Chad Kline)

Police surround the scene where a couple was caught after a man shot a Waterloo Town Marshal's Office deputy in Waterloo, Ind., Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. Indiana State Police say officers have shot a man and woman suspected of shooting a northeastern Indiana officer in the face. State Police Sgt. Ron Galaviz says the man was killed about 6 a.m. Thursday and the woman was hospitalized in critical condition. Police were seeking the pair after a 47-year-old Waterloo police officer was shot about 3 a.m. while investigating a couple who knocked on a door saying their vehicle was stuck in a ditch. (AP Photo/The News Sun, Chad Kline)

Indiana State Police Sgt. Ron Galaviz addresses the media following a standoff with a couple, one of whom shot a police officer in Waterloo, Ind., Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. Steve Brady, of Pleasant Lake, Ind., a 13-year veteran of the Waterloo Town Marshal's office, was shot in the face and was hospitalized in serious condition. A man found hiding under a porch or deck in Waterloo was shot and killed by an Indiana State Police strategic response team member. The woman who was with the man was shot also and taken to a hospital where she was listed in critical condition. (AP Photo/The News Sun, Chad Kline)

State Police investigate the scene where a couple was shot on South Center Street after the shooting of a police officer Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 in Waterloo, Ind. . Steve Brady, of Pleasant Lake, Ind., a 13-year veteran of the Waterloo Town Marshal's office, was shot in the face and was hospitalized in serious condition. A man found hiding under a porch or deck in Waterloo was shot and killed by an Indiana State Police strategic response team member. The woman who was with the man was shot also and taken to a hospital where she was listed in critical condition. (AP Photo/The Journal-Gazette, Cathie Rowand) NEWS-SENTINEL OUT

(AP) ? The knock on the door in the middle of a rainy night seemed innocent enough: a request for help from a man and woman who said their car had wound up in a nearby ditch.

Someone at the house called police to come help them, but when the deputy town marshal responded, he was shot in the face and left bleeding as the couple fled.

A three-hour manhunt in Waterloo, Ind., about 30 miles north of Fort Wayne, ended Thursday morning just four houses away from where the shooting occurred, with the male suspect dead and the woman critically injured after a shootout with police.

"I heard police say, 'Show us your hands. Come out with your hands up,'" said Melvin Miller, 69, who lives next door to where the man and woman were found hiding under a deck. "My brother-in-law said he heard someone say, 'He's got a gun.' That's when I heard all the firing going on."

Miller estimated a dozen officers were in the yard at the time. Footage captured by Fort Wayne television station WPTA indicated dozens of shots were fired.

Indiana State Police said they were still trying to piece together what sparked the shooting of Deputy Marshal Stephen Brady, 47, of Pleasant Lake.

"It's unknown what the dynamic was between the three of them that led to him being shot in the face," Sgt. Ron Galaviz said. "Until we have an opportunity to speak with the woman and Deputy Marshal Brady, we really don't know. Anything is possible."

Brady had surgery and was listed in serious condition at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne.

State police identified the man involved as Ralph Daniel Hardiek, 41, of Auburn, Ind. The woman, identified as Julie Marie King, 33, of Auburn was listed in critical condition Thursday evening at an undisclosed hospital in Fort Wayne, state police said.

Noble County Prosecutor Steven Clouse said Hardiek had been scheduled to appear in court Dec. 8 on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine and possessing drug paraphernalia. Clouse said Hardiek faced 12 years under a plea agreement but failed to appear in court, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Hardiek has a criminal record in Utah dating to at least 1989, Department of Corrections spokesman Steve Gehrke said. Hardiek served 11 years for possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person and was paroled in 2001, but he returned to prison on a charge of mayhem from 2001 until 2004.

Gehrke said Hardiek was in and out of prison from 2004 until 2008, including a charge of walking away from a halfway house, until his release on Dec. 2, 2008.

Records show Hardiek also served time in Idaho on drug and weapons charges.

The Indiana incident Thursday began around 3 a.m., when police said Hardiek and his companion knocked on the door of a home north of Waterloo, saying their car had gone into a ditch. Galaviz said police were still trying to determine whether the pair had actually had an auto accident. No car had been found as of mid-afternoon.

Brady was shot when he encountered the couple a few blocks from the home. The manhunt for the shooters led police to a nearby house around 6 a.m., when a resident reported two people were lying under his deck, Galaviz said.

The officers ordered the suspects out and fired a stun gun at them when they refused, he said. Hardiek then rolled over and pointed a gun at officers, who fired and hit both suspects, police said.

Hardiek died at the scene from his wounds. DeKalb County Coroner Jeff Warner said an autopsy revealed Hardiek died from more than 10 gunshot wounds, including some that struck vital organs including his heart and lungs.

Galaviz said it wasn't clear whether the man fired on the officers or which one of the suspects had shot Brady.

Renata Ford, the town's clerk and treasurer, said the shootings had stunned the community of about 2,000 residents. The town has six police officers, including Brady and his wife, Sgt. Janet Brady.

"Everybody knows the police and we're all very devastated," she said. "People are outraged, devastated ? with such a small town to have something like that happen to our police."

Associated Press

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Gov't to adopt strict new limits on chimp research

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 1961 file photo, Ham, the first higher primate launched into outer space, is comforted by an unidentified man on the deck of a rescue ship after the splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. Chimpanzees should hardly ever be used for medical research, a prestigious scientific group told the government Thursday _ advice that means days in the laboratory may be numbered for humans' closest relatives. The Institute of Medicine stopped short of recommending the outright ban that animal rights activists had pushed. Instead, it urged strict limits that would make invasive experiments with chimps essentially a last resort, saying today's more advanced research tools mean the primates' use only rarely will be necessary enough to outweigh the moral costs. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 1961 file photo, Ham, the first higher primate launched into outer space, is comforted by an unidentified man on the deck of a rescue ship after the splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. Chimpanzees should hardly ever be used for medical research, a prestigious scientific group told the government Thursday _ advice that means days in the laboratory may be numbered for humans' closest relatives. The Institute of Medicine stopped short of recommending the outright ban that animal rights activists had pushed. Instead, it urged strict limits that would make invasive experiments with chimps essentially a last resort, saying today's more advanced research tools mean the primates' use only rarely will be necessary enough to outweigh the moral costs. (AP Photo, File)

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(AP) ? The government on Thursday said it would adopt strict new limits on using chimpanzees in medical research, after a prestigious scientific group recommended that experiments with humans' closest relative be done only as a last resort.

The National Institutes of Health agreed that science has advanced enough that chimps seldom would be needed to help develop new medicines.

NIH Director Francis Collins temporarily barred new federal funding for research involving chimps, and said a working group will review about 37 ongoing projects involving the animals to see if they should be phased out.

Chimps' similarity to people "demands special consideration and respect," Collins said.

These apes' genetic closeness to humans has long caused a quandary. It's what has made them so valuable to scientists for nearly a century. They were vital in creating a vaccine for hepatitis B, for example, and even were shot into space to make sure the trip wouldn't kill the astronauts next in line.

But that close relationship also has had animal rights groups arguing that using chimps for biomedical research is unethical, even cruel.

Chimp research already was dwindling fast as scientists turned to less costly and ethically charged alternatives.

Thursday's decision was triggered by an uproar last year over the fate of 186 semi-retired research chimps that the NIH, to save money, planned to move from a New Mexico facility to an active research lab in Texas.

Where and how to house those animals ? and others scattered around the country who probably no longer will be needed ? are among the issues that Collins said a government working group will decide as it determines how to implement the new research restrictions.

The Institute of Medicine's recommendation on Thursday stopped short of the outright ban that animal rights activists had pushed. Instead, it urged strict limits on biomedical research ? testing new drugs or giving animals a disease ? that would allow using chimps only if studies could not be done on other animals or people themselves, and if foregoing the chimp work would hinder progress against life-threatening or debilitating conditions.

The panel advised the government to limit use of chimps in behavioral and genetic research as well, saying such studies must provide insights that otherwise are unattainable ? and use techniques that minimize any pain or distress.

"We understand and feel compelled by the moral cost of using chimpanzees in research," said bioethicist Jeffrey Kahn of Johns Hopkins University, who chaired the Institute of Medicine panel. "We have established criteria that will set the bar quite high for justification of the use of chimpanzees."

The U.S. is one of only two countries known to still conduct medical research with chimpanzees; the other is Gabon, in Africa. The European Union essentially banned such research last year.

Here, too, the practice was becoming uncommon. The Institute of Medicine's investigation found over the past 10 years, the NIH has paid for just 110 projects of any type that involved chimps. There are not quite 1,000 chimps available for medical research in the country.

While it's impossible to say how many have been used in privately funded pharmaceutical research, the industry is shifting to higher-tech and less costly research methods. One drug company, GlaxoSmithKline, adopted an official policy ending its use of great apes, including chimpanzees, in research.

Associated Press

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China to keep policy stable, fend off global risks (AP)

SHANGHAI ? Foreign investment in China fell nearly 10 percent in November in the latest evidence of the rising toll that weakness in the West is taking on the world's No. 2 economy.

The $8.8 billion in foreign direct investment in November ? down 9.8 percent from a year earlier ? was a sudden deterioration compared with an increase of 8.8 percent in October, the Commerce Ministry said. Foreign direct investment covers spending on physical assets such as factories and doesn't include financial assets such as stocks.

Exports, industrial production and property dealings are slowing, and China's leaders wrapped up their annual economic planning conference on Wednesday with statements suggesting they will be more pro-active in moving to fend off the chill from the European debt crisis.

With the European Union ? China's largest export market ? in the doldrums, Commerce Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang described trade prospects as "grim."

"The impact of the global economic climate means the foreign trade environment is very severe," Shen said. He said China would step up efforts to encourage imports and boost exports by focusing on faster growing regions such as Russia and other emerging economies.

Export growth has fallen steadily since hitting a peak of nearly 36 percent in March, and economists are forecasting foreign trade will be a drag on growth next year.

Foreign direct investment in January-November rose 13.2 percent to $103.8 billion ? a slowing from the 15.9 percent increase seen in January-October, when total foreign direct investment was $95 billion.

An 18 percent increase in investment from other Asian economies to $89.6 billion, helped to offset a 23 percent decline in U.S. spending this year, as of the end of November, to $2.74 billion. Investment from the EU held steady, edging up 0.3 percent from a year earlier to $5.98 billion.

At their yearly economic work conference, Chinese leaders pledged fine-tuning to ensure stable and more balanced growth while fighting inflation, but offered no major shifts in policy.

The gathering endorsed the ruling communist party's agenda for keeping a "prudent" monetary policy to counter inflation and a "pro-active" fiscal policy to support growth.

It also pledged to keep curbs on the property sector in place to guard against a rebound in prices, and called for keeping the value of China's currency, the yuan, "basically stable," according to a statement issued by the official Xinhua News Agency.

China plans to prop up falling exports by setting up special trade "bases" and aiding exporters in inland areas, which have lagged behind the richer coastal regions, state media cited Commerce Ministry officials as saying.

Tax cuts and increased government spending in key areas such as high-tech and energy are also likely, though analysts say they do not expect stimulus comparable to the 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) package deployed in response to the 2008 global crisis.

By targeting specific sectors, authorities aim to prevent the sort of runaway investment, driven by bank lending, that drove inflation to 6.5 percent in July and has left housing prices prone to inflate into financially risky bubbles.

With labor unrest flaring and financial conditions deteriorating across many sectors, from small companies to government-backed building projects, Beijing's mantra is "stability."

That word was repeated five times in just one sentence of the official dispatch that vowed continuity in policies for the sake of keeping social stability.

An expected transition next year to a new generation of communist leaders has accentuated Beijing's obsession with keeping control.

China's economy grew 9.1 percent in July-September but is expected to slow to below 9 percent growth in the coming year, as weaker demand at home compounds the impact from fragile conditions in Europe and the United States.

Given the weakness in demand for Chinese exports overseas, the leaders reiterated their intention to boost domestic demand to build an economy less dependent on foreign trade and investment.

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Last-play FG gives Packers 38-35 win over Giants

Green Bay Packers' Mason Crosby celebrates with teammates after kicking the game-winning field goal during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the New York Giants on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, in East Rutherford, N.J. The Packers won 38-35. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Green Bay Packers' Mason Crosby celebrates with teammates after kicking the game-winning field goal during the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the New York Giants on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, in East Rutherford, N.J. The Packers won 38-35. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Green Bay Packers' Aaron Rodgers smiles after a play during the third quarter of an NFL football game against the New York Giants on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Green Bay Packers' Mason Crosby (2) kicks a field goal at the end of the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the New York Giants on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, in East Rutherford, N.J. The Packers won 38-35. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

(AP) ? Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers showed they could get the job done with the game and perfection on the line.

Rodgers completed passes of 24, 27 and 18 yards in a lightning-quick five-play drive to set up a 31-yard field goal by Mason Crosby on the final play, and the Packers remained undefeated and clinched a playoff berth with a 38-35 victory over the New York Giants on Sunday.

Not only did the defending Super Bowl champions qualify for the postseason for the third straight year, the Packers (12-0) clinched the NFC North later in the evening when Detroit lost in New Orleans.

"I'm not going to talk about 16-0 or anything, I think it's one at a time," Rodgers said. "We got the playoff spot, division, hopefully getting the first-round bye and then fortunate enough to be undefeated and I want to talk about something else."

The Packers still have a shot at a perfect season because Rodgers was remarkable after the Giants (6-6) tied the game with 58 seconds to play on Eli Manning's third touchdown pass and a stunning 2-point conversion run by D.J. Ware ? a play on which Manning called an audible.

It wasn't enough, though ? not with Rodgers making all the late plays on a day he also threw four touchdowns.

"Those are the fun ones when they end up like that," said Rodgers, who finished 28 of 46 for 369 yards in leading the Packers to their 18th straight win. "We've had a number of games we won by a couple scores. You get the ball on the 20, under a minute, and we get it down there for a chip-shot field goal, it's very rewarding. It probably (ranks) right at the top."

Rodgers started the Giants on their way to a fourth straight loss by hitting tight end Jermichael Finley with a 24-yard pass just over the hands of rookie linebacker Jacquian Williams.

"I thought it was mine. I thought it was mine," Williams said. "Like I said, it's a good throw and catch. He made some good throws."

The second throw covered 24 yards to Jordy Nelson down the left sideline and moved the ball to the New York 29. An 18-yard pass to Greg Jennings two plays later moved the ball to the 12. The third toss was a 1-yard loss.

Green Bay called time out with 3 seconds to go before Crosby delivered his winning kick.

"It was a huge drive," said Jennings, who also caught a 20-yard touchdown. "We haven't had one like that at the end in a while. It was very quiet in the huddle, actually. You could see everybody was focused. It's great to see what we could do at the end like that."

Coach Mike McCarthy smiled when asked about Rodgers.

"I'm running out of things to say about him," McCarthy said. "He's a great quarterback. Playing against the pass rush they had tonight, he hung in there and made the plays."

Rodgers, who was sacked three times and pressured many other times, also threw touchdown passes of 7 and 13 yards to Donald Driver and 12 to Finley in addition to the one to Jennings.

The loss was another heartbreaker for New York, which played exceptionally well after being blown out by New Orleans on Monday night. The Giants tied it by marching 69 yards in nine plays with a 2-yard touchdown pass from Manning to Hakeem Nicks and the 2-point run finishing the march.

The Giants' defense, however, could not stop Rodgers.

"When you get a chance to knock out the champ, you gotta knock him out," Giants defensive captain Justin Tuck said. "You can't let them hang around and fight off the ropes. You've got to knock him out. There's a reason they've won 18 straight."

The three-point victory was the Packers' smallest winning margin this season.

"We're 12-0 and we're focused on that," said linebacker Clay Matthews, who scored on a 38-yard second-quarter interception. "It's been something we've been talking about since we were 7-0 or 8-0. So we'll keep going from that."

For the Giants, everything wasn't terrible. Dallas also lost, leaving New York a game behind the Cowboys in the NFC East with four games to go. The teams will play twice over that span.

"It gives us relief to know we're still right in the mix," said Manning, who was 23 of 40 for 347 yards. "If we handle our business and win out, we'll be in the playoffs. It's a playoff atmosphere now."

Manning's touchdowns covered 67 yards to Travis Beckum and 4 and 2 yards to Nicks. Brandon Jacobs scored on a 1-yard run after a rare interception of Rodgers and Lawrence Tynes kicked two field goals with a 50-yarder in the fourth quarter pulling New York to 28-27.

Rodgers hooked up with Driver on a 7-yard TD with 3:34 to go to push the lead to 35-27.

However, Manning hit tight end Jake Ballard on two 15-yard passes and connected with Victor Cruz for 22 yards to set up the tying score that New York thought would send the game to OT.

Rodgers had other ideas, though, and the Packers continued their run at trying to match Miami's perfect season in 1972.

It's not surprising New York gave them a game. The Giants ended Denver's perfect season at 11 games in 1998 and they knocked off the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl in February 2008 when Tom Brady and company were a game from perfection.

Notes: Giants C David Baas was a late scratch because of headaches. Kevin Boothe moved from center to guard and second-year pro Mitch Petrus made his first start. ... Packers CB Charles Woodson suffered a concussion. ... Giants S Kenny Phillips sprained his left knee. ... Cruz had seven catches for a game-high 119 yards. ... Rodgers had a 106.2 passer rating, extending his NFL record to 12 straight games of 100 or better. He also has thrown at least two touchdowns in every game this season. ... The Giants inducted Carl Banks, Mark Bavaro, Alex Webster, Dave Jennings and the late Brad Van Pelt into their ring of honor at halftime.

Associated Press

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

UK stores see "appy" Christmas in the gloom (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? Mobile phone applications that allow online shopping on the move could give battered British retailers something to cheer about in what is otherwise set to be one of the toughest Christmas trading periods for years.

As the festive shopping season gets into full swing, demand for these mobile apps is growing fast, even though overall consumer purchasing is under severe pressure from high inflation, muted wage growth, fears over job security and government austerity measures.

"Mobile technology is changing the game this Christmas. The power is now well and truly in the hands of the consumer who will be dictating when, where and how they want to shop," said Natalie Berg of research group Planet Retail.

As the British sector becomes increasingly "multichannel," retailers such as Argos, Debenhams and ASOS are tapping into the growing popularity of mobile shopping in general and, in particular, mobile phone apps.

Research by IMRG, the British trade body for online retailers, found 24 percent of consumers have used their smartphone to access websites while out shopping.

It reckons Christmas 2011 will be the year when mobile shopping goes mainstream.

Its research found sales through mobile phones leapt from 0.4 percent of total sales at the beginning of 2010 to 3.3 percent in the second quarter of 2011, not least because retailers are increasingly embracing apps.

Apps offer convenience, allowing shoppers to shop virtually anywhere, and at anytime, from the palm of their hands.

"Within an app, consumers have greater control over setting their own preferences, so more personalization," said IMRG's Andy Mulcahy.

"Apps can be used offline and can utilize multiple mobile device capabilities, such as GPS, voice, camera, calendar and address book."

RAPID GROWTH

High street catalogue retailer Argos, owned by Home Retail, had a torrid first half to end-August with total sales slumping nearly 8 percent.

But the launch of a web platform for mobile devices and an app for Android phones, along with its existing Apple iPhone app, led to rapid growth of mobile shopping and at the end of the period the proportion of Argos' total sales from mobile shopping was about 4 percent, up from 1 percent a year ago.

"As we go into this Christmas I think that's going to continue to grow," said Home Retail Chief Executive Terry Duddy.

"I think it's potentially quite exciting. It suits our model (and) it clearly suits our customers who are shopping on the move. With the penetration of smartphones I think we're going to head towards a sort of double digit number some time or other."

ASOS, the fast-growing youth fashion Internet retailer, first launched ASOS mobile a year ago and in the summer added a range of apps for Apple mobile devices.

Currently some 10 percent of its traffic is through mobiles.

"I would be amazed if it (mobile shopping) wasn't between 20 and 30 percent of our sales within the next three to five years," said Chief Executive Nick Robertson, who plans to develop local language versions of ASOS's mobile sites and apps in the future to complement its local language websites.

Debenhams, Britain's second-largest department store group, sells its products through iPhone, iPad, Android and Nokia apps.

"It's very early days but we're evidently embracing new technology and new ways for people to shop because we see that as one of the growth strands going forward," said Chief Executive Michael Sharp.

(Reporting by James Davey, editing by Mark Potter)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111205/wr_nm/us_retail_britain

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[OOC] Inferior Hearts

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Horseygirl
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This sounds so cool! I think i might be interested! I'm writing up a female Spark now (and hopefully i'll have time to finish it!)

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BelleOceane
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Thank you! Can can reserve now and send in your writing example later if you want. ;D

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Horseygirl
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Can I reserve female spark two or am I too late.

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bananaramma
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yay! :D
By the way, what (specifically) do you mean by a writing example?

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BelleOceane
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I want to reserve a vampire... do we send you the writing sample here or through PM?

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jadedragon66
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May I reserve a Spark? Idc if male or female, but they sound like more fun to play.

We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine, and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine forever.
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Auricambrflaym
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And what do you want as a writing sample? backstory, something off the top of our heads, something from another rp that we do? kinda confused there.....

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By a writing example, it can be a post that you've made before. I just want to get a feel of how long your posts are. ;)

Jadedragon: Either one, but I prefer pm.

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Horseygirl
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neh, horsey.. can I just send you a post from the previous rps that I was in? :x
(and what happened to the one Animegirl made? I wasnt on for 2 days because I was busy and when I came back on, it seemed like nobody posted for like 4 days... I'm guessing it's dead :/ ? )

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jadedragon66
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Sure. (And yeah, it died. I pmed people asking them to post, too, but they didn't. T.T)

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Horseygirl
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Ok thanks! Oh....My posts vary in length depending on what's going on....... you want me to send one of my average length?

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Auricambrflaym
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ahhh well that sucks. xP

hmm.. I need to start thinking of my character's personality ... suggestion~?

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jadedragon66
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Well the vampires have grown up in a rich town, so he could be a little conceided.

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Horseygirl
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not sure if i can play a conceded character too well..
question~~ can vampires eat/drink other than blood? like 'human' food?

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jadedragon66
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Horseygirl did I get spark girl 2 reserved or did you miss that???

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bananaramma
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Oh, i'm sorry. She's taken already. =(

Jadedragon: yeah. Normally they only have blood once a day, and after that eat like regular humans. It's just not as. . . yummy as blood.

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I just sent my sample! hope it's alright and doesn't have too many spelling mistakes (Like i said, i'm overtired and probably shouldn't be trusted around computers)!

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oh okay~ thank you for clearing that up :3

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