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"So, okay, we've got three kids dead this month – they all look like accidents: girl falls off her balcony, boy trips going down the stairs – but they all have one major thing in common."
"Which is?"
"Well, all of them died of the same injury – blunt head trauma," Sam holds out some of the autopsy and crime scene photos he'd gathered since he started researching the potential case. Dean takes his eyes off the road long enough to glance at the pictures and notice the similarities. He winces, wrinkling his nose and looking back ahead.
"So, anything else?"
"Well the victims all seem to be in their late teens, or adults who might work near kids or could be associated with them I guess. And deaths like these have been happening for the past four months."
Tap, tap, tap, tap.
Tap, tap, tap, tap.
Sam looks into the rear-view mirror to see that Lucifer has adapted the role of the ever-annoying child, tapping his fingers on the glass of the window on the backseat as he stares dreamily out the window.
"I guess it's worth looking into at least," Dean says, flicking his eyes across to his brother when he speaks to make eye-contact. "Who's first on the hit-list then?"
"Most recent victim was a kid called Kevin Taylor, seventeen, fell getting out of the shower, cracked his head open on the tile floor," Sam recites his notes leafing through them so easily. Unlike Dean, his research is always pristine, organised and just second nature to him at that point.
"Not anymore."
"Huh?" Sam asks, looking up from the stack of pages on his lap to question Dean further but he doesn't need to when he sees the police car and small crowd gathered outside one of the houses on the quiet street.
"Think it's another one?" Dean asks, pulling up across the road.
"Worth checking out, I guess," Sam says, popping open the glove-box to pull out the FBI ID badges they liked to keep handy in the Impala. He tucks it into his breast pocket of the too-small suit jacket which will forever smell of the thrift store they bought it from – moth balls and old people. Well, that and the old take-away Dean had left in the trunk and forgotten about a few weeks ago. Not exactly a pleasant combination.
They cross the street briskly, with that cocky air of confidence a real agent would have – well from what they'd observed of the agents in cheesy cop shows and from the ones who had tried to track them down quite a few times. Flashing their badges they duck under the tape which has been holding back the locals and approach one of the officers who seems to be running the show.
"Hey, I'm Agent Brigati, this is my partner Agent Weis," Dean says smoothly, gesturing to Sam in sequence as they show their badges as proof of their fake identities. "We're in town investigating a series of 'accidental' deaths, we happened to be driving past – would you mind telling us what's going on here?"
The man stares at them with the usual detest they get when impersonating 'those FBI assholes' by officers. He's not exactly in his prime anymore, probably in his late forties with tufts of grey weaving through his dark hair. He chews on his lip for a second before begrudgingly leading them toward the house, "we got the call about an hour ago, the kid – Lewis Pounce – fell down the stairs, probably."
Sam's face creased, "so why is there such a commotion if it was just an accident?"
"Because," he said, pushing open the door to the boys' room, "he was found in his room, and we couldn't find traces of his blood anywhere else in the house, or outside."
The Winchesters share a look of confusion before they catch sight of the body, lying in an awkward position in the middle of the room – the same bloodied bruise as the others had had in the pictures they'd seen. Lucifer smiles up at him from over the body, a sort of sadistic smile that gives Sam the chills. He can't stand seeing the bodies of dead kids.
It was obvious something strange was going on in the town, it was what that was that was the real problem though.
"So what're you thinking? Some angry spirit on a revenge spree?" Dean asks Sam with a mouth stuffed full of a chunk of greasy burger.
Sam gives him a dry look before focusing on his salad, "I don't know, it's probably a Ghost of some sort, but how much could a bunch of kids have done that deserve this kind of punishment?"
"Been stranger things," Dean shrugs with his infinite wisdom, taking another bite and chewing loudly.
They sit in silence for a few moments, with the buzz of life in the fast-food chain filling in the gaps. The place is a dizzying combination of horribly bright reds, fake leather and plastic.
"The pattern with the head injuries… do you think that might have been how the spirit died?" Sam suggests.
Dean's bottom lip sticks out a little when he shrugs this time, "worth checking into," he says, "how about you go check into that and I'll interview some of the families and friends?"
Sam nods, "sure," but in his head he's thinking – typical Dean, anything to avoid doing actual research.
"So, Mrs Pounce, did your son have any enemies?" Dean asks a little bluntly, after they disperse of the small-talk and he had convinced her that it was absolutely necessary that she be interviewed on the matter yet again.
She looks taken aback, "n-no, he was always a good boy, well-liked in school…" she stops when it looks like the words are choking her, and pats away a tear forming in the corner of her eye. "Why would someone do this to my Lewis?"
Dean shifts uncomfortably on the couch opposite her, he never liked women crying. It was harder for him to see this than some screwed up monster having a flesh-feast. "It's okay Mrs Pounce, I just need you to think real hard, do you remember him being in any arguments, or getting into trouble the last few days?"
She looks up again, eyes shrink-wrapped in tears, clutching her handkerchief tight in one hand, "I d-don't think so; like I said, he was friendly with everyone, never got into any trouble," she tells him again. "And it's Ms Pounce," she adds, with a glint in her eye that Dean is all too familiar with.
He springs to his feet, folding his doodle-covered notepad into his pocket, "thank-you so much for your help, we'll be in touch if anything comes up," his words come fast and almost tumble together as he spreads a thick, face smile all over his face. "I'll see myself out."
"So you were friends of Lewis?" Dean confirms, holding his notepad at the ready for more scribbles of cartoons and boobs.
The three boys nod.
"Well, can you tell me if he had any enemies in school, picked any fights with someone recently?" He's hoping to get a more accurate response from Lewis Pounce's friends, who he's managed to corner after enquiring at the boy's school. They stand in the now vacated Principal's office, with high tensions, only the sound of a lazy fan in the corner, occasionally fluttering weighted paper on his desk, breaks up the silence.
Two of the boys immediately disagree where as one nods his head. The others scowl at him as if he's given up the country's secrets a minute into the torture. "Kyle," One of them hisses at their smaller friend.
"Kyle Richards?" Dean asks, checking a note he had made underneath a crude drawing of a cat.
The boy nods again.
The other boys continue to scowl at him, and he seems to shrivel into silence.
Dean rolls his eyes, "may I remind you that with-holding information is a criminal offence," he bluffs, knowing he's heard something like this on some TV show or another.
Kyle finally swallows and the boys look away, "he got into an argument with the Ruger brothers a few days ago."
Dean purses his lips, wondering how relevant it could actually be, "what happened?"
"I think Lewis walked into the younger one in the hall between classes, and his older brother was there and ended up picking a fight. They only really pushed eachother before it was broken up, but that's probably enough."
"Kyle!" the other boy hisses now, looking exasperated at his apparent rat of a friend.
He looks between Dean and his friends before finally saying, "well, there's this story that if you cross the Ruger's you get killed."
Dean raises an eyebrow, definitely relevant, "how long has this been goin' on for?"
Kyle shrugs, looking up to his friends to confer, they perform some strange teenage interpretive dance made up of grunts and shrugs before Kyle finally turns back and says, "yeah, about four months."
"I'm gonna need these Ruger kids' names and address."
Dean's cell buzzes as he's leaving the school; he answers it immediately, "get anything?"
"Yeah, so get this, a kid in town died of a head-injury just like the other victims-"
"Four months ago?" Dean guesses with a flat voice as he fiddles in his pocket for his keys.
"Yeah, actually… his name was-"
"Let me guess, Ruger?"
He presses the key into the lock of the Impala, opening his baby and jumping in, slamming the door behind him as he listens to Sam fumble for words on the other end of the line.
"Nathan Sanderson-Ruger. Adopted by the Rugers after being fostered by them for a year – how did you know?"
"I talked to some of Lewis Pounce's friends, mentioned some town-legend growing around the Ruger boys – bug them, and you get ganked, basically," he explains to his brother, starting the engine and pulling out of the carpark with his phone wedged between his ear and his shoulder.
"You get an address?"
"Yeah, the secretary at the school dug it up for me, I'm headed there now – you still at the library? I can pick you up on the way."
"Yeah, great."
After pressing the doorbell and waiting outside the inconspicuous suburban house, Dean and Sam are greeted by a shrewd-looking teenage boy. He stares at them as if they could be here to steal his family. Dean exchanges a look with his brother before flashing his badge, "I'm Agent Brigati, this is my partner Agent Weis – we were hoping to speak with a Ryan and Daniel Ruger?"
A man steps in behind the boy at the door before he had a chance to snap some snide remark at the Winchesters, "what is this regarding?" he asks, putting a hand on his sons shoulder.
"We're investigating a series of deaths in the local area, and some of the people we've interviewed mentioned that your sons knew the victims at school – we just want to talk for a few minutes and see if we can get any more information," Sam speaks with his usual persuasive tone, a bed-side manner Dean can't often replicate to the same standard. It's just one of those emotional moose things.
The man looks unsure for a moment, but eventually he steps aside, tugging his son along with him. They nod and thank him as they move inside. He sends his son off to get his brother, and begrudgingly he leaves as they are ushered into the sitting-room. When the Hunters are seated, the man finally extends a hand to introduce himself, "Denny Ruger," he says; and they shake his hand in turn, telling him they're names again.
When his sons return they stand hesitantly in the door, with the older of the two protectively shielding his younger brother. Denny ushers them over and they sit at either side of him opposite the Winchesters, "these are my sons, Daniel and Ryan," he says, Ryan being the older one which they met at the door.
"Great," Dean says, throwing his hands up a little as he looks briefly to Sam, "well, uh – we were wondering how well you both knew the victims?"
Ryan shrugs roughly, still looking at the Winchester brothers in a somewhat hostile manner. Daniel speaks up though, receiving an equally sharp look from Ryan, "we've spoken to a few of them I guess – some were in our classes."
Dean smiles at Daniel, almost to rub in the fact that he was cooperating with him to Ryan. "Great, so the last time you spoke to them before they died – did anything significant happen?" Daniel looks a little timid now, after the harsh look from his brother, Dean sighs, "you should know that any information you withhold from us or refusal to cooperate can be used against you later if anything does come from this," he can see Sam struggling not to roll his eyes at his brother who is clearly doing a poor job of reciting lines from some cheesy cop show. The two boys nod a little sullenly in response and Sam flips to a page, reading out the names of the previous victims one by one.
"Let's start with the most recent, Lewis Pounce."
"He bumped into me in the hall…" Daniel says quietly, "and Ryan picked a fight with him – but nothing happened."
Denny looks surprised as his gaze shifts between his sons, but he doesn't interrupt.
"Holly Gibbs."
"I… asked her out on a date, and she turned me down." Ryan says stiffly; Dean suppresses a smile as he scribbles in his notepad.
"Ryan McDonald."
"He got caught cheating off of me in a test and I got a zero for it."
"George Seeley?"
"He's a jerk. We had an argument."
"I can see a bit of a trend here…" Dean says to Sam, and Denny looks a little outraged at this.
"Are you telling me my sons are suspects? How could you possibly think they would be capable of this?"
Dean raises an eyebrow at the man, but doesn't respond directly, "can I ask about your other son, Nathan Sanderson-Ruger?"
Denny stiffens and the brothers seem to pale a little, Daniel letting out an almost incoherent noise. If that didn't seem suspicious, they didn't know what did.
"How did he die?" Sam asks carefully, looking at them with soft puppy-dog eyes. The eyes that broke Dean's heart on occasion, he had been a sucker for that look when Sam was a kid.
Denny swallows hard, "they say he killed himself – jumped off the roof." He chokes up a little and looks away, Ryan looks up at his dad immediately but Daniel looks at the ground.
"You don't think so?" Sam asks, surprised.
Denny looks back at Sam, his gaze hard, "of course not – he was only a kid. He was happy, innocent. A little strange, but I don't think he was being bullied… he wouldn't do that to himself. B-…" he pauses, trying to get a hold of his emotions, "but there's no other explanation."
Ryan looks outraged at the Winchesters having brought his father to the verge of tears, his head snaps around to stare at them eyes like fire, "just get out. We're done here."
Sam and Dean look at eachother, in surprise, "we just have a few more questions," Sam tries to say, but Ryan leaps to his feet and hands clenched into fists, "no, just get out."
Slowly, Sam and Dean stand and eventually nod, "okay kid – we'll come back again if we need anything else."
Ryan's eyes get a little wilder but he doesn't say anything, just watches the brothers leave the house.
"So that was weird, right?" Dean asks when they're back in the car.
"Totally weird." And he can't help but notice Lucifer perched on the roof of the house, swinging his legs over the edge a little too cheerfully.
Dean lies back on his bed in the Motel room while Sam flicks through local newspapers articles on his laptop. Much to Sam's distaste, Lucifer is lying on his bed. He hates the quieter moments like this, moments when his subconscious could crawl up on him and his own personal demons could haunt him. Luckily he was keeping quiet for now, and this allowed Sam to concentrate on what he was doing.
"Got it."
Dean sits up a little, waiting while his brother scans the article detailing the 'suicide' of Nathan Sanderson-Ruger. After a few moments, Sam finally speaks up again, "okay, so get this – four months ago, Nathan was found in the back garden of the Ruger house having supposedly jumped from the roof. He wasn't killed from hitting the ground though; on the way down his head hit off of the families Trampoline, cracking his skull."
"Just like the other victims."
"You think he was just trying to jump onto the Trampoline and lost his footing or something? I mean, the guy did say he was only a little kid."
"Maybe," Sam considers, pursing his lips and looking back at the article again in case he missed something.
"What if he isn't the vengeful spirit – what if he's the first victim?" Dean suggests, and Lucifer makes a snorting noise on the bed next to his.
Sam shakes his head, "no, think about it – all of the kids the Ruger's talked to before that – their last interactions were arguments and that kind of thing. It has to be Nathan defending his brothers, right?"
"I guess so – but doesn't that mean…"
"Well, our last run-in with them didn't go so smoothly; you think…?"
"Oh great," Sam says, "he's going to come for us now."
"We better go salt and burn the little monster."
Sam's eyes shoot up to meet his older brother's gaze, "but Dean, he's only been dead a few months – his body will still be…" he trails off, not knowing how to finish the sentence.
"I know, but we don't exactly have a choice here, unless you want your head smashed in?"
Sam swallows hard, "I guess we don't."
"Alright, it'll be dark soon, we'll go to the graveyard then."
"This is wrong, Dean," Sam says just before his shovel connects with the casket at last. Not only would the body still be pretty much fresh, it would be a little kid, only eleven years old.
In a disturbing sort of way, the scene is lightened by Luci, who Sam suddenly notices is swimming through the pond just a little away from them, "seriously?" he mutters under his breath.
"He's killing people, Sam, he's killing kids for nothing. He's a monster, and he's already dead. This is our job." Dean's words are solid like stone, and Sam knows he has no way of arguing around this. So he shuts his mouth and clears the rest of the dirt off of the top of the coffin.
Dean jumps in next to him with a crowbar and starts to prise it open. Sam uses this as an excuse to scramble out of the hole and find the salt and lighter fluid. He really doesn't want to see this, and he really doesn't want to do this.
The sound of Lucifer splashing in the water is really beginning to get irritating too.
There's a crack as he finally gets it open, and a muffled coughing when Dean receives the full brunt of the smell of death that rises from the coffin. "Come on Sammy, hurry up," he finally manages to call out and he hurries to grab everything they need from the bag they brought from the trunk of the Impala which waited in the carpark. Dean is pulling himself out of the grave when Sam returns, and he purposefully avoids looking down before throwing the salt to his brother. That was probably how he managed to see the flicker behind him before a small, black-haired boy appearing suddenly behind Dean.
"D-Dean…" Sam says, taking a step back.
Dean spins around to see the boy, and swings the iron crowbar through the air, causing him to flicker away again. "He's after me then? Great." He hurries to shower the body in salt before throwing the can to one side and gesturing for Sam to toss him the lighter fluid, but just before he throws it, Dean is slammed to one side and pinned against a tree.
"Finish it, Sam!"
Nathan is approaching Dean slowly, taking little notice of Sam now, who is trying his best to look into the grave just long enough to coat his body in the liquid. He fiddles with a lighter, pushing away the sounds of Dean's struggle so he can concentrate. He drops it into the trench and watches as it's suddenly filled with light. Looking across to Dean, he sees Nathan suddenly snap around to stare at Sam before disappearing. Dean falls to the ground, landing in a crouched position and remains like that for a few moments before Sam helps him to his feet.
"Shouldn't he have-"
"But he didn't-"
"It didn't work."
Dean shakes his head, and Sam can't take his eyes away from the desecrated grave of the little boy. It was him – that much was certain – he just wasn't being kept here by his body.
"We need to go back to the Ruger's and find out what really happened."
Dean swallows hard when he looks at Sam and just nods before they clear away their things swiftly and return to the Impala, leaving the graveyard alight with the burning body.
Dean's fist hammers on the door of the Ruger family house. Sam makes a face at him, but he responds sharply, "we don't know how much time the graveyard stunt bought us. We don't know anything, we just need to find out what's keeping him around and destroy it."
"And banging on his family's door at 12am is the way to do that?"
True enough the lights were only flickering on now at the racket. Denny answers the door, still cocooned in sleep, rubbing his eyes by pushing his hands under his glasses. A deep frown creases his brow as he recognises the brothers and pulls his dressing-robe tighter around himself, "what are you doing here?"
"We need to speak to your sons, it's important." Dean's voice is urgent and thunderous as he demands the man.
"Do you know what time it is?" Denny looks a little outraged, especially at being ordered around so bluntly.
"It's important," Dean repeats himself.
"What's so important that it can't wait until the morning? They're both in bed – and there's no way you can be on the clock at this time. Get off my porch."
"Are you kidding me?" Dean snaps, rolling his eyes.
"Dean." Sam says to his brother as a warning, not wanting things to get out of hand. Dean sighs and backs off, Sam turns his attention to Denny, "please – just five minutes."
"No" Denny sneers, "get the hell off my property."
Sam bites his lip, but holds up his hands defensively and they move away from the house, back towards the car, "we'll be back in the morning."
Denny slams the door shut, but there's the ghost of a face which catches Sam's eye in the upstairs window, when they back away. Sam makes a small gesture to Daniel before they get into the car, waiting. Salt-gun and iron at hand, they wait for the now youngest Ruger boy to slink across the street and climb into the back-seat of the car.
"I want to help you," is all he says, a look of guilt on his face. Sam and Dean exchange a glance, and Sam can't help but feel wrong again tonight about pretending to be cops and having a kid in the back seat of their car.
"What can you tell us about Nathan?"
"He didn't kill himself – it was my fault, and Ryan's."
"What happened? You can trust us."
He looks up, finally his eyes heavy with regret and other things he should be too young to carry the burden of. "We used to play tricks on him all the time, make him do silly things and scare him. And he was just happy that we were playing with him I guess. He never questioned anything we told him to do… he just… loved us. He… trusted us."
Sam and Dean stare at him as he speaks. Something about his voice lulls them into a trancelike state as he tells his story.
"We told him he could fly. We told him if he jumped off the roof he would fly. We gave him an umbrella, and told him to walk on the roof to where his bedroom window was – because it was above the trampoline. We thought if he opened the umbrella and he landed on it… he would be fine. It wasn't meant to hurt him. But he slipped and fell before he got to it… and we couldn't… so we hid the umbrella so no one would guess it was us… and…" He stops, choking with rough sobs, which break up his words and make what he says after this unintelligible.
"Hey, hey – it's okay. It was an accident, alright?" Sam says, trying to calm the boy down a little. And with that same bedside manner voice he managed to.
Daniel takes a few deep breaths before continuing, "we started noticing everyone dying. People that we had been annoyed by, I guess. And then it sort of made sense… All the rumours and stories… I'm so sorry."
Dean and Sam nod in unison and then exchange and strange glance before Sam speaks to Daniel again, "did you keep anything of his? Something that meant a lot to him?"
Daniel pauses to think about this for a moment, "we kept his locket," he says, "he used to wear it constantly, it belonged to his mom – his birth mom."
"Great, where is it?"
"In my room, I can go get it. Will you still be here?"
"Yeah, just be as quick as you can."
Daniel nods, wiping at his eyes and slips back out of the car, slinking into the darkness and disappearing back into his house. There's a chill suddenly, and Dean breathes out to see a cloud of white appear before him. He exchanges a worried look with Sam and they turn around to see Nathan sitting in the back seat.
With the boy so close now, in the fraction of a second before Dean lunges out with the crowbar, Sam notices the peculiar look on Nathan's face. It isn't an expression of wrath or hatred, it's one more blank of emotion. His eyes seem so piercing on an otherwise insignificant face, but he just seems innocent; like all of this is a game, he doesn't feel anything – only love for his brothers and the need to protect them and help them. He was too young to truly understand life and death, what condoned it, and what made it worse as Daniel had put it was that he was so naïve and child-like despite being eleven. He saw all of this as innocently as he saw the 'games' his adoptive brothers would play with him.
But a second later, he flickers away as the iron connects with his ghostly form. Sam wrestles through junk on the floor of the Impala to find something they could make a fire in, "this?" he asks quickly holding out a mug Dean had picked up somewhere for winning a pie-eating contest. He makes a face but nods. Dean leaps out of the car and opens the trunk to get the salt and lighter fluid out, but again is sent hurdling across the street, connecting with a high-fence. The crowbar drops with a heavy clank as Nathan comes towards him again, drifting eerily across the street as if he's hovering. Sam darts around the car to finish where Dean had left off; Daniel appears by his side just in time. He holds out the cup and Daniel hesitantly drops the necklace in while Sam covers it in salt and the fluid.
Nathan nods his head and Dean begins to ascend floating higher and higher until the little boy will be happy enough to drop him on his head. Dean lets out a choked noise to hurry his brother up and Sam lights a scrap of paper, dropping it into the mug which he sets on the ground before it becomes too hot to hold. Daniel stares at his dead brother, a ghastly look on his face, and actually jumps back when the black-haired boy turns to face Daniel and Sam. But before he can start to move towards them, he begins to burn away into the air.
Daniel reaches out towards him, teary eyed, but his brother's gone.
When he's almost fully burned away his mental grip on Dean is released and the man starts falling downwards suddenly, Sam cries out and sprints forward, leaping just in time for Dean to crash into him. The two men lie tangled on the side of the street, rendered silent from the sudden pain of the collision. It takes a few minutes before either actually attempt to move. Sam curls around under Dean, checking he's alright. His green eyes flicker open and he smiles, "did we get him?"
Sam chuckles lightly, "yeah, we got him."
"I noticed something," Sam says from the passenger seat of the Impala as the Winchesters ride out of town.
"About what?"
Sam looks across at his brother carefully trying to decide how to approach what he wants to say, "about the Ruger boys, and Nathan," he pauses to chew his lip a little, watching Dean's expression. "They're a bit like us… and Cas."
Dean seems to tense a little at the mention of the Angel. He doesn't say anything but stares straight ahead. Sam slowly moves to stare out at the road ahead too.
"Daniel and Ryan being so close, Nathan becoming their brother. Loving them so much he does everything for them – including literally killing for them. And… falling for them," he actually looks taken aback at the coincidence, only realising it as he speaks, "Dean… we called him our brother, but we didn't always treat him like one."
"I know."
"We used him, he gave us everything, and we just abandoned him every time he asked for something in return."
"I know, Sam."
"Dean, we have to find him. He has to be out there somewhere, he can't be-"
"God-damn it, Sam, just drop it."
Sam looks across at Dean. His knuckles are white from his grip on the wheel, and there's an expression on his face Sam has never seen before. And it scares him how pained his brother looks, so he stops and looks out the front window again.
The silence is broken up by Dean's phone ringing, and he flips it open pressing it to his ear, "Bobby? Hey, what's up?" his voice is still a little cracked, "uh-huh. What really? Sure, Bobby – we're on it." He snaps the phone shut again and throws it onto the dashboard.
"We're we headed?"
"Detroit. Some guy got run over."
Sam's eyebrows push together in a frown, "we're investigating a traffic accident?"
"He got run over in his apartment."


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A less adventurous lifestyle is leaving kids struggling in the classroom, specialists say.
Two occupational therapists and a teacher in New Plymouth say children who are not active at an early age are at risk of suffering developmental delays and lagging behind their classmates.
Occupational therapist Tara Morrison said 5-8 year-old children who did not explore, climb trees or use their motor skills were at risk of developing learning difficulties.
Ms Morrison and fellow occupational therapist Nicola Harvey-Karen started their business Activate Therapy Services a year ago when they noticed a lack of services for children who were not reaching national standards in primary school.
"We saw a need for kids who struggled at school, who were not particularly diagnosed as such, but needed managing," she said.
There was Government funding available for children with severe learning disabilities, but not for those who were falling slightly behind.
"They just fall through the cracks."
Developmental delay could lead to anxiety, low self esteem and behavioural problems in children, she said.
The pair have just run their first Activate Therapy Boost Camp, a four-day holiday programme that involved activities focusing on motor and visual perceptual skills.
Ms Morrison said an activity as simple as exploring their environment had an effect on a child's ability to perform basic skills.
"It's about how senses integrate. Going up, over, through an environment and knowing where you are in space.
"If you don't know this, how on earth can you do things like handwriting?"
Frankley School relief teacher Kaye Dunlop said kids were generally not as active as they used to be which could lead to developmental delays.
"I think they are sitting more and more in front of computers and certainly not exercising as children did in the past."
She said activities that used both right and left sides of the brain, such as swinging on monkey bars, could help children develop crucial skills.
"Hand-eye co-ordination, throwing of balls, swinging, spinning. climbing up rocks, anything, just getting out there and moving their bodies," she said.
Mrs Dunlop implemented the Perceptual Motor Programme at Frankley School 10 years ago when she realised there were tangible ways to help with developmental delays.
The programme extends across the school curriculum and includes exercises like balancing on beams, throwing a ball at a target, memory cards and eye coordination.
She said children who sat in walkers or car seats too often, did not crawl. These children could end up "a little bit behind" at school, Mrs Dunlop said.
Statistics provided by Sport Taranaki show 13,736 children participated over 11 different sports in 2012, with the most popular being netball with 3460 and rugby with 2952.
The least involvement of the 11 sports listed was lawn bowls with only eight participants.
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RYC is Run Your Crew
As previously mentioned in a recent post (read here), adidas has announced one of its' most exciting events yet! RYC is Run Your Crew. It's a running race based on crew culture, encouraging runners who take part to create their own crews, run their own crews, finish in their crews and to end off the night with a massive party with their crews.
I'm apart of a bomb ass ladies crew called The Stripes – and yes, to clear it all up, we're going to dominate! You up for a challenge? Because we're challenging you to come and run with us, to TRY and beat us and to party with us too. The Stripes consists of myself
Keagan Kingsley
Lulama Wolf
Lindi Ngubeni
Twiggy Molly
Tumi Voster
Kenny Morifi-Winslow
How's that for a little piece of power?
Keen to enter a crew to run & party with us on the 3rd of December 2016? Of course you are! Register your crew here at www.runyourcrew.com and do it now as there are limited crew spots available. I'm so excited for this event it's actually stupid and part from that, it's a great excuse to get working on those #summerbodies.


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My wife's uncle died last week. Her only uncle, which made him special, though he was important to us in other ways too.
Everyone who dies is remembered for his sweetness of temper, but that truly described him. We found him hard to locate, so self-effacing was he, so accommodating and yet so locked away, as though by showing concern for others he didn't have to show himself. He was already getting on a bit when I met him, so I missed the deeds and misdeeds of his early and middle years that might have explained him. Right up until his death he had a glamorous companion, a French woman, herself cloaked in a degree of mystery. They went on cruises together in their eighties and must have cut quite a dash, she black haired and painted as though for the last cocktail party on the planet, her eyes as jet as Cleopatra's, her ankles as slender as a young girl's, he in a blazer and a yachtsman's trousers, with a touch of David Niven about him, only with a more nautical moustache.
People who'd known him all his life were no less mystified. Did he have a secret life? In international politics? Espionage? Love? Once, as a man of 80, he flattened a thug a quarter of his age who attacked him in the street. The police warned him against further acts of pensioner ruffianism. We live in insane times. We can no longer flatten thugs with impunity. It's a union thing: only thugs themselves are allowed to do the flattening. But he laughed it off, leaving us to wonder how this elegant, well-mannered elderly gentleman had the strength and know-how to do what he had done. Had he been trained in the martial arts? Could he kill with his little finger if he chose? Was he from Krypton?
He was on the management boards of hospitals, appointing senior staff, dispensing money and advice, counting eminent surgeons among his friends, though none could help him when he needed them most. But there was always a suggestion of some other mission.
Myself, I loved him for the calm he exuded, for his air of being a disinterested amateur in the job of life, for his refusal to sit in judgement on anybody, and because his being my wife's uncle rubbed off on me. I like other people's relatives, which isn't to say I don't like my own, but about other people's you experience none of the vexed loyalties of consanguinity. In his company I too felt an amateur in the job of life. Had I been closer to him in age I'd have enjoyed going cruising with him, sipping cocktails while his French woman beat her eyelashes at the captain.
His final illness was shockingly sudden but mercifully brief. He'd been in hospital about three weeks when my wife rang to say he'd asked for me. He was deteriorating but insistent and she felt I should get over right away. Why me in particular? Perhaps to tell me to love and look after his niece. But he knew I already did. Perhaps he wanted everybody close to him around his bed, the more especially as his partner was ill in another hospital herself, a separation which, the longer it continued, was taking on a tragic complexion.
He began making scribbling signals in the air the minute I arrived. His voice was gone, his throat ruined by the cancer. He was wired up to a barrage of screens that monitored every breath he struggled to take. The day before, he'd worn everybody out by persisting in raising an arm and lowering it again, pointing to the nurse and growling out a word that seemed to begin with an H. "Helpful?" we'd tried. "Hopeful? Hospital? Happy? No, not happy – hateful, heartfelt, hopeless?"
He'd grown exasperated with our stupidity. "H – h – hi – hi..."
"Him," we tried, "hill, hymn, hirsute, hibiscus, hispid?"
He raised his arm again, pointed to the nurse, and then made a moustache with his other hand.
"Hilary? Hildegarde? Hitler? Hitler!"
He smiled, nodded, and fell back on his pillows.
His nurse was as bossy as Hitler, was his point. A joke. All that effort for a joke. My father had been the same when he was dying. Making one more joke was all he cared about. Hearing laughter one last time. Men and their jokes! Some men will go to hell for a joke.
We knew, anyway, that whatever he wanted me to write about was going to be hard to decipher. We must have spent three hours on it. Eventually we made out the word "police" and the word "destruction". That he could get out "destruction" after the trouble he'd had (or we'd had) with "Hitler" only went to show how fiercely he felt about whatever he believed had been destroyed. His health? Himself? We didn't doubt it. But then why "police"? There are no cancer police. There is no one who will apprehend and punish cancer for you, and if there were such a person he'd probably tell you to leave it alone, that cancer, too, has human rights. So did he feel he'd been the object of criminal neglect? If so – and neglect is always possible in an age of hurried doctors and crowded hospitals, and he a man who knew about hospitals – it didn't tally with the praise he'd been expressing earlier for the care he had received. What then was I to say to the police? Who or what had been destroyed? And why did he need a writer to tell them?
Seeing me bemused, he sought another word. "Am-mo. A-am-amo." He settled on that. "Am-mo."
Amo, amas, amat? Was he trying to tell us who he loved? We thought we knew who he loved. No, he shook his head violently, rattling the tubes in which he was enmeshed. "Amo, ammmo..."
Ammo. Ah – ammunition! Those gathered around him exchanged looks. Was the truth finally about to come out? Was I to tell the police about the ammunition, before it destroyed half of London? But whose ammunition, and where was it?
He gave up on us and fell asleep. Three hours later, he died. Leaving me with a job to do, but not knowing what. I expect to go on wondering for ever. Amo. Ammo. Or was he teasing to the end? "Am only joking," was that he was saying? "Amonly pulling your leg."
We know nothing. Neither of our going hence nor our coming hither. My wife's uncle was the only person I've ever met who seemed contented with that thought. The loveliest of men, mystery or no mystery.
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Re: Library Issues
- From: Chris_1964 <Chris_1964@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:10:01 -0800
Same issues as the others. I have been using WMP 11 for a couple of years.
It has the normal hick ups like everything window but works great usually.
I have over 40 gigs of music and the library was well sorted and used
everyday. One day I turned it on and it had dumped my library. Play lists
still play and streaming media and cd, dvd's.
I have tried dumping the player and reloading multiple times. When I restore
to WMP 9 the library will load. When I reload 11 it Continued rechecking of
which folders to monitor always return "there are no files in your library".
"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
Could you clarify what everything you tried?
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"nats" <nats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Hi there, I've just read your submission and yes I am in the same position
and cannot get anything into my library and yes I have tried everything
I was just wondering did you ever get your's sorted and if you did could
please tell me how, as I now feel like throwing my PC out the window,
"Scottitude" wrote:
Nothinig personal Zach and everyone else, but none of these BS suggestion
have any effect and never have no matter how many times or variations I
Sure, the files are "found" but NONE ARE EVER ADDED to the library.
It may work for some but the Net is plastered with posts on all kinds of
sites from all kinds of people saying the same thing.
I've posted in these forums and teh XP MCE forums several times and every
response is a lame reitteration of previous BS that DOESN'T WORK.
My XP-MCE system is current with all the appropriate SPs
Can SOMEBODY provide an efective resolution? Anybody? Bueller?
"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
What folders are listed as Monitored Folders in WMP? If none are
you need to reset the library--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
"Tale" <Tale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
My WMP has been doing that since day 1, I've never been able to add
it. :-\ I'll try the things suggested here. Did any of it work for
"Squiggly Trash" wrote:
I'm using Windows Media Player version 11.0.5721.5230.
My problem is that for some reason, my library lost all of my songs.
song files are still on my computer, and can still be played through
they can't be added to the library. I've tried going to File->Add To
Library... and choosing the correct folders where the files are
clicking OK and nothing happens. My library just says "There are no
this library yet - the Player is searching for digital media files
in the
background." and has a link to the Add to Library feature.
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Start with the End in Mind: Prognostication & Backward Planning for Pediatric Therapists
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I Can and I Will! Self-determination Strategies for Children and Youth with Disabilities
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- Format: Half day (Pairs well with I Can! I Will!)
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The President Petro Poroshenko took part in a session
of the SBU Board, which was dedicated to summing up the 2015 results.
The Head of State noted fundamental changes, which took
place in the SBU throughout the year. "Actually, we built new Security Service
of Ukraine and now Ukrainian nation and
I as a President and Supreme Commander, can see inspired servicemen, which are
confident of their honorable and important state mission", – President announced.
The President outlined, that decisive actions against the
aggression forced the enemy to carry out new forms of hybrid war against to
Ukraine – subversive acts and terrorist attacks, using the agents of influence,
a sharp intensification in the information environment. These actions are aimed
at splitting Ukraine and destabilization of domestic political situation.
President Poroshenko mentioned extremely high
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During operational activities more than 20 hostile sabotage and reconnaissance
groups were rendered harmless, more that 200 acts of
terror in different regions of Ukraine were prevented, the activity of more than
70 extremist groups was disrupted, investigations of espionage and high treason
cases were conducted (114 suspects are brought to criminal responsibility. The
court already sentenced 27 individuals).
About 1500 weapons and more than 2 tons of explosives were seized from
"The enemy must know that nobody can brake up and scare our Ukrainian nation! We, Ukrainians,
chose our way, we know its price and we will go further, defending Ukrainian
liberty and sovereignty!", – President said.
At the SBU Board session Ukrainian President named
combating against corruption SBU's main task for the next year and called for
providing comprehensive implementation of counter-corruption policy, especially
at judicial authority, law enforcement and other state areas.
"I'm waiting for increase of cooperation
effectiveness, when every Ukrainian could see changes at combating against
corruption in Ukraine", - Petro Poroshenko announced.
The Head of State named another important task for the
SBU, which is the realization of systematic approach to implementation of
counter-intelligence regime in the country. In conditions of an open democratic
society, President announced a need to provide effective resistance to Russian
aggression and its puppets, so called "LNR" and "DNR", and aggression, which is
spreading from Crimea.
The President gave a task to the SBU to work out a
Concept of counter-intelligence regime implementation in Ukraine.
In turn, the SBU Head Vasyl Hrytsak underlined that sharp internal and external threats
and processes influenced operative situation in 2015. "Efforts of the SBU were primarily
aimed at implementation of the Minsk agreement", - Vasyl
Hrytsak said.
He added, that first of all the Security Service
opposed to subversive operations in
tactical rear of the ATO forces, on other territories of Russia's strategic
interest, attempts of internal terrorism, illegal weapon circulation,
"We also take active measures to prevent spreading in
Ukraine of the activity of the international terrorist organization "Islamic
State", – Hrytsak underlined.
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text: PГ¤r Lindh & BjГ¶rn Johansson - Bilbo [1996] • Genre : Heavy Metal, Psychedelic • Year : 0 • Label : • On demand! (album available 128-320kbs)* #/by GROVER Release code: ODI151982 Added on 27-10-2014, 19:32 You want this album? link doesn't work? report us from your account! Release Info: PГ¤r Lindh & BjГ¶rn Johansson - Bilbo [1996] Beautiful Progressive Folk album, this is highly recommended!Line up here isBjГ¶rn Johansson (classical guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, bass, bassoon, zither, Jews harp, mandolins, samples, sitar guitar, bouzoki, tin whistle, low whistle)Par Lindh (drums, timpani, congas, gong, electric percussion, Hammond organ, Mellotron 400 and Mark V, grand piano, harpsichord, church organ, Clavinet D6, Solina string ensemble, Fender basspiano, synthesizers)Anna Schmidtz (flute, oboe)Magdalena Hagberg (vocals)Link 2


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Music blog + Björk
Björk's performance was a standout – but the day showcased a score of artists worthy of collaborating with her
Readers recommend has now been going for a whole decade! Celebrate with us by nominating songs that refer to any joyful coming together in lyrics or title, says Peter Kimpton
Jason Derulo is just the latest musician to find that flying commercial brings out the worst in him. Here are five other examples of when pop stars meet planes … with disastrous consequences
Björk says she will no longer perform her album, Vulnicura, because it's too intense, while Sinéad O'Connor refuses to sing Nothing Compares to U as she can no longer connect with it. Should singers move on when things get too personal?
Violin, viola, cello, double bass and harp are classical family members, but your suggestions may take a bow to other genres and pluck out many a musical gem, says Peter Kimpton
From Björk's heartbreaking return to the Charlatans' latest, stream new releases out this week, and let us know what you'll be listening to
The electronic-music producer, who died last week, was an innovator of electronic sound, from his huge influence on the early club scene to Radiohead remixes and groundbreaking collaborations with Björk
Open thread: Björk's latest concert film, Biophilia Live, will be screened in cinemas across the world. What are the best live concert films you've ever seen?
Oddballs to the outlandish, it's time to define, refine and name songs that express and celebrate eccentricity in all its forms, says Peter Kimpton
Earlier this week we listed 10 essential tracks from Iceland's most famous daughter. Here are 10 more, as recommended by Guardian readers
Rising from the wreckage of punk group KUKL and evolving into the queen of experimental pop, we chart Bjork's route from mystical musings to environmental activism
Battles over bagpipes, to autoharps and axes? Whale song and washboards to saws and seagulls? It's all been electrifying, says Peter Kimpton
Two decades after its release, the Icelandic artist's first album has never sounded more relevant, says Michael Cragg
Michael Cragg: This cosmically named dance duo indulge their love for the 90s with this cheap and cheerful new video
The singer has let the likes of Death Grips and Omar Souleyman loose on her Biophilia album – be among the first to hear the results on this new collection of remixes
Wondering what Crystalline sounds like with a gargantuan drum'n'bassy beat shoved underneath it? Wonder no longer
Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll Hail, Hail, Rock'n'RollLaura BartonLike EE Cummings before her, Björk's rebellion and experimentation lies atop a rapturous response to the natural world
We asked you to send in your questions for Björk, whose new album, Biophilia, is out now. She answered live online – here's what she said
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Björk brought this year's Bestival to a close, but after a day spent exercising with Mr Motivator, exploring the Ambient Forest and going rollerskating, Mark Beaumont was already pretty dazzled …
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Year Purchased: 2013
Why the Owner Chose Seabright, Santa Cruz, CA, USA:
We have another vacation rental in Santa Cruz and have enjoyed the experience so much that we have decided to add another one to our portfolio. We chose this property for its location and because it was so charming. The house is a custom built home with a lot of character and charm.
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This house sits on a street that leads directly to Seabright beach which has been voted the best beach in Santa Cruz. Not only that but is is also just steps away from the footbridge over the San Lorenzo River that leads you to Boardwalk. Also 2 blocks away is Betty's Burgers, Seabright Brewery and many other restaurants. Aside from its fabulous location, our house offers 2 decks to allow for outside dining or intimate conversations. The kitchen offers a very large stove and oven for group cooking and the mattresses are ultra comfortable! We also offer 2 beach cruiser bikes for touring the neighborhood, boogie boards, an ice chest, beach umbrella, and 2 beach chairs for your enjoyment.
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The 2017 meeting banquet is set to be held at Meson Sabika in nearby Naperville. With the ambiance of its 1847 Georgian-style mansion, Meson Sabika serves authentic European cuisine that is sure to offer a culinary banquet event not to be forgotten! With cocktails and appetizers served outside (weather permitting), dinner entertainment of authentic flamenco dancing and guitar, and an incredible tapas-style feast served in the Pavillion accompanied by red and white sangria, you won't want to miss this gourmet event! Banquet tickets are $45 (available for purchase in the meeting registration form). Bus transportation available (included in the ticket price).
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Bill Carey says:
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Our 91-year-old theater gets mighty warm when we have a full house. We have completed the necessary installation of our Photovoltaic system. This will begin saving the Palace money while we continue to fund raise for the even larger project of Air Conditioning. Engineering Partners are working on the plans for the system that will make our building cool and comfortable for you, our patrons. Though their plans are not complete, they have informed us that the air conditioner that had been offered as a donation is obsolete and does not meet current County energy standards. This just increased the cost substantially. Our current estimate is over $300,000 for a system to cool the theater. Please keep those donations coming in!
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The Church has been criticised in recent years for under-reacting and has faced allegations it is more concerned with protecting itself than full disclosure and tackling the problem head-on. The bishops are now adamant that every possible effort will be made to assist the authorities and to deal properly with any fresh cases. Since almost 3,000 priests worked in Dublin over the last 66 years, the Church's figures suggest that roughly one in 30 of these has been the subject of allegations.
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Recca Hanabishi for sure! But I also like Eriol Hiiragizawa, Dark Moussy, Daisuke Niwa, Killua, Kuichi, Akitsuki Yamato, Pete Pumps, Dilan Yuuki, Tamahome, Tasuki, Ryuzaki Hideki, Satoshi Hiwatari, Yondaime, Gaara, Yuri Shibuya, Yue(the judge), Haru Glory, Haru Sohma, Shinichi Kudo, Shunichi Domoto, Kenji Himura, Yahiko Myouji, Ojirou Mihara, and more.... I really love them!!!!!!
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"A ninja must always endure."-Recca
"There are no coincidences in this world."-Clow Reed/Eriol
"Try at least twice,
Fail at least once."
Wanna join my family?...Just pm me.
Yanagi, Risa Harada, Tomoyo Daidouji, Resha Valentine, Hinata Hyuuga, Tenma, Misaki Suzuhara, sakuraba, and more... They are so cute and nice to be with...
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Stuff...Posing...As...Meat" -Orphan
i wanna risk dating hiruma yoichi(eyeshield21)...although i might risk my life for it...because hiruma carries firearms with him everywhere...
second, i wanna date hitsugaya toushirou(bleach)...
nara shikamaru(naruto),naruto(naruto),kisuke urahara(bleach),azuma(yakitate japan),kawachi(yakitate japan),yoshimori(kekkaishi),kazuma(tantei gakuen Q)
some are not my favourite characters...just wanna try going along with them...
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I actually have a list prepared for this question : D!
Zelos Wilder (Tales of Symphonia) MY NUMBER ONE!
Kratos Aurion (Tales of Symphonia)
Regal Bryant (Tales of Symphonia)
Yuan (Tales of Symphonia)
Reid Hershel (Tales of Eternia)
Guy Cecil (Tales of the Abyss)
Jade Curtiss (Tales of the Abyss)
Luke fon Fabre (Tales of the Abyss)
Chester Barklight (Tales of Phantasia)
Klarth F. Lester (Tales of Phantasia)
Holland Novak (Eureka Seven)
Axel (Kingdom Hearts)
Zexion (Kingdom Hearts)
Xemnas (Kingdom Hearts)
Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy)
Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy)
Reno (Final Fantasy)
Sven (Black Cat)
Train Heartnet (Black Cat)
Ginji Amano (Get Backers)
Ban Midou (Get Backers)
Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Sha Gojyo (Saiyuki)
Cho Hakkai (Saiyuki)
Kurz Weber (Full Metal Panic!)
Sousuke Sagara (Full Metal Panic!)
L (Death Note)
Light (Death Note)
Tamaki Suou (Host Club)
Kyouya Ootori (Host Club)
Itsuki Koizumi (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
Taira Yoshiyuki (BECK)
Konrad Weller (Kyo Kara Maoh!)
Jing (King of Bandits: Jing)
Uryuu Ishida (BLEACH)
Renji Abarai (BLEACH)
Shuuhei Hisagi (BLEACH)
Shigure Sohma (Fruits Basket)
Hatori Sohma (Fruits Basket)
Hatsuharu Sohma (Fruits Basket)
Kyo Sohma (Fruits Basket)
Allen Walker (D.Gray-man)
Tyki (D.Gray-man)
Haruka (Tactics)
Loki (Magical Detective Loki Ragnarok)
Tsume (Wolf's Rain)
Hiroshi Nakano (Gravitation)
Ichiro (Nerima Daikon Brothers!)
Dark Mousy (D.N.Angel)
Gourry (Slayers)
Yuuya Asou (SuperGALS!)
Hideaki Asaba (Kare Kano)
Alex Rowe (Last Exile)
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Hermit (HSD Kenichi).
I like some other guys, but their a BIT to old, like Himura Kenshin =( or Vampire Hunter D (he's a vampire, so calculate if you want O.o).
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inuyasha, hitsugaya toshiro, kiba inuzuka, koga the wolfdemon, naruto, edward elric, wrath, envy, al elric, grimmjow jeagerjaques for the boys
hinata hyuuga, revy two-hands, soifon, tatsuki, yoruichi for the girls
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Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Either idea is staggering.
Darien from Sailor Moon. He was my childhood love when I first watched anime. Hehe ahh.. the memories.
1. Hiei - YuYu Hakusho. I like it when a guy is as short or shorter than me. Makes me feel better about myself.
2. Chuu - YuYu Hakusho. I don't care for the drinking, but the mohawk rocks.
3. Shigure - Fruits Basket. Puppy dog!
4. Eagle - Magic Knight Rayearth. I don't give two figs if he's gay.
5. D - Vampire Hunter D. Silent.
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Gaara,Shikamaru- naruto
Kairi Okayasu-Peach Girl
Kazune,Michiru-Kamichama Karin
Natsume Hyuga,Ruka Nogi -Gakuen Alice
Kippei-Aishiteruze Baby
Yuki Sohma ( Fruits Basket )
Shikamaru Nara ( Naruto )
Takuto ( Full Moon O Sagashite )
Kazune ( Kamichama Karin )
Daisuke Niwa ( DN Angel )
That is all I can think of right off the top of my head. ^^" If I remember more I will edit the post I suppose.
Riza Hawkeye -ahhhhhh amazing-FMA
TenTen- Naruto
The Harada sisters-DNAngel
Miss Freedert-DNAngel
Saya and Diva-Blood+
hmm I could go on...
Let's see....hmmm...I wanna date Frieza, Vegeta,Cell,Majinboo, (dragonball) & Orochimaru (naruto) together.
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Well at least Orochimaru isnt so bad. Hes got that tongue after all.
Lets see, for me:
Tenchi Muyo- Ryoko, Washu
Slayers- Lina Inverse
Tenjhou Tenge- Maya (yeah I know ^^)
Bleach- Orihime, Tatsuki, Matsumoto
Naruto- Hinata, Ino, Anko (if I got that one right)
FLCL- Haruko (Ill need a football helmet for her) XD
.... and the list goes on
From D.N Angel: Riku and Risa
From Noir: Chloe and Kirika
Misaki and Tamayo from Angelic Layer
>_> *Cough* And an Older Version of Chiyo Mihama from Azumanga Daioh *DUCKS THE ONCOMING LOLI INSULTS*
If Anyone has a question about the Anime Industry, be it "What to buy?" Or my opinion on a certain topic. Feel Free to IM Me.
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it would be inuyasha. he is my favorite
♥ love can make you cry, love can make you mad, love can make you hate the person you love, but you gata fight threw it and move on with you life♥that is what i learned today
Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist), "Twilight" Suzuka (Outlaw Star), Sango (Inuyasha), and Hinata (Naruto: Shippuden).
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10 Mistakes Guitar Players Make, When Culture to Play The Guitar
What are the ten mistakes people make when culture to play the guitar?
No 1. The first mistake that a lot of guitarists make, is they by no means learn the language of music. Learn the clarification, you must learn the clarification, the names of the clarification, and where they are all over the guitar, music is a language, and if you can't communicate it to other people, you will have distress in the long run.
No 2. After you learn the names of the clarification, you must learn the scales, how clarification work together to make melodies, there are many scales, perhaps start with the blues scale (minor pentatonic), and work your way up, look at my other articles on scales.
No 3. Learn the chords, but not just the chords that come easily, like power chords, you want to learn all the minor and major chord shapes as a minimum, and how to play them all over the guitar, (check out my article about how chords are constructed).
No 4. Don't let open strings ring out. You want to learn how to gently rest your fingers, and thumb on the strings you don't want to play, so they don't make noise.
No 5. If you are tiresome to play a melody, or solo, you generally want to make every note last right up until the next one. So practice very slowly, at holding each note for the full length of time, and get nearer, no disjointed, unless this is what you are aiming for.
No 6. Learn to play with other people, the radio, or a metronome, so you get used to playing by the side of to another person's beat, and can stay in time with it.
No 7. Improvise. Learn the scales, especially minor, major, minor pentatonic, major pentatonic, and even tritonic, or the clarification in a chord, all the musical scheme, like harmony construction, (check out my article on constructing harmonies), and improvise.
No 8. Learn other peoples songs by all means, but try to write as many of your own as you can, because this is a skill which requires perhaps the most practice, as it will determine whether you ever succeed huge time in the music industry for your songs. If you are starting out in a band, by no means take the attitude that it doesn't matter if you can't play fantastic, it's all about the feeling. This is right to some extent, but the thought is to make it look simple, when it really requires a lot of skill.
No 9. Learn from as many different sources as you can. Take lessons, find a excellent guitar teacher, or mentor, to learn from. Find things to learn that push you to play for longer periods of time, you have to delight in it to practice harder, and the better you get at it, the more you will want to play.
No 10. Exercise your fingers every day, for at smallest amount half an hour. Once you have learned all the scales, chords, and methods of improvising you reckon you need to know, (you haven't, you can always get better), you must keep your fingers strong. Don't get RSI though (repetitive strain injury). I teach free video guitar lessons online, and I also teach from my home in Hobart, Tasmania. If you live close to Lutana, give me a call on 0400968190.
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It was somewhat ironic that, after some drivers kicked up a fuss in Belgium about the tyres that they should come back to again dominated the headlines in Italy. Lewis Hamilton's win was anything but assured immediately after the race when it was revealed his car had started with an illegally low pressure in the right rear tyre. The team was summoned to the stewards and the matter investigated for some time post race before Hamilton was eventually confirmed as the victor. Hamilton's left rear had been found to be 0.3PSI under the minimum 19.5PSI when it was measured on the grid, just prior to the race start. As part of the technical regulations, the penalty Mercedes faced was exclusion from the race, which is what many in the paddock expected would happen. But an hour after the race Hamilton was confirmed as the official winner of the Italian Grand Prix when stewards accepted the argument presented to it by Mercedes. "Having heard from the Technical Delegate, the Team Representatives and the Pirelli Team Tyre engineer, the Stewards have determined that the pressure in the tyres concerned were at the minimum start pressure recommended by Pirelli when they were fitted to the car," read a statement from the FIA. It added that the tyres had been out of their blankets for some time and those blankets hadn't been turned up to the maximum permitted temperature as outlined by Pirelli. As such it was perceivable that the pressure could have dropped as the tyre cooled, and not because the team had tried to pull a fast one. "As Mercedes-Benz, our number one priority is to operate our car within the prescribed safety limits and this is not something we would ever take a chance on," assured Mercedes' head of motorsport Toto Wolff. "We worked very closely with Pirelli since Spa to help define these limits for the race weekend in Monza, and we saw today that there were no problems in a very high-speed, hard- fought race." Hamilton's final margin of victory was 25 seconds, having increased in the final laps after his team instructred him to push hard to open the gap - "dont' ask questions, just execute," he was ordered. "We will explain later." With Nico Rosberg failing to finish - whose tyres were 1.1PSI down on the minimum starting pressures on the grid - he now moves 53 points clear in the drivers championship. 32 GPWEEK.com // 32 GPWEEK.com // F1 >>> ITALY PARTNERS: Mercedes calm under pressure
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Access to 100+ admin services
Unlimited online training
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Recently, at my new company, we started using Salesforce IQ within our Gmail emails. We have been using Salesforce IQ for a handful of aspects, including tracking emails, understanding when someone opens our email, tying the emails back to Salesforce, providing times we are free to chat and sending emails out at a future time. I've been using Salesforce (the CRM) for over 5 years now, but Salesforce IQ tied to my email has made life much easier. Now, I don't need to to tie emails back to the account/lead/contact through the BCC "emailtosalesforce/...." which is nice. Along with that, I can specify how I want the tracking to work, and whether I want to tie it to the contact, the opportunity, or (if for some reason) we have multiple options on the email itself.
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Friday 27 February 2009
As a full-featured, yet simple and direct CRM tool, I think web workers, and especially whose who do a lot of sales-related work, will really appreciate Relenta. It keeps everything together and tightly integrated for those of you who love organization. Personally, I like how it enables me to keep everything nicely contained within my browser, so that if I need a break, all I have to do is quit Firefox and the air is cleared.More about Relenta
Tuesday 21 October 2014
RelateIQ is designed for professionals in any industry within small, medium and large businesses alike. The app is suitable for sales teams, community managers, customer success reps and account managers who need a better way to manage and track the communications and contact details of their professional relationships. The app can be used by an entire team or just one person.More about SalesforceIQ
Thursday 01 December 2011
We are not dealing with a bad product, just one that is extremely light on traditional CRM functionality. What it does very well, is enrich the functionality available to what is just usually the back and forth of an activity streamMore about Relenta
Monday 12 October 2015
We signed up for RelateIQ 2 months ago and did not find it useful so we called the support guys to cancel our subscription. It was then that they informed us that we have no choice but to keep our subscription for a year because of some fine print that they never mentioned before.More about SalesforceIQ
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