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|Ace Venturboo
|Survive in a room with your worst enemy.
|Mick cool and Groudous Maximus
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Last time on Super Fanon: Move It!...
McBoo lost a tooth...
Chump lost and went mad...
Silvercold competed in a challenge...
What will happen next?
Everyone is staring at 3.14, Who is sweating.
3.14: Errr... (starts dancing)
Mariofan45: BORING!!! Anyways the next challenge is to survive in a room with...YOUR! WORST! ENEMY!
Everyone: WHAT!?!?
Mariofan45: I just love torturing you, anyways the duos are:
Nightwolf and Ace
Nugg and Chump
Chump: FUCKITTY!
McBoo and Lucas
3.14 and PKB
Groudous Maximus and Mick cool
Moyan and Micool the Master
Clyde and RedYoshi
Dashed and Sonicfan56
O'Lantern and Genbe
And the rest of you have the day off. Nightwolf and Ace, yer up!
Nightwolf and Ace go into the room.
In the room...
Ace: Hey look under there!
Nightwolf: Under where?
Ace:...PFFTT! YOU SAID UNDERWEAR! *laughs*
Nightwolf: ...
2 minutes later...
Nightwolf: GAH! THIS IS TO TORTUREOUS!
Mariofan45: Sorry but you lost!
Nightwolf: *face turns red*
3.14: Holy Shit! The scouter says his power level is...OVER 9000!!!
Nightwolf chases Mariofan45 around.
Silvercold: Err..Next is Nugg and Chump.
They both enter the room.
15 seconds later...
They come out with bandages.
Silvercold: LOST!
Many more later...
Mick cool and Groudous Maximus come out unharmed.
Silvercold: They won!
Both: WOOT!
To the elimanation...
Everyone has hot dogs but Ace and Chump.
Chump: *sweats*
Ace: *is looking confident*
Nightwolf: *glares at Ace*
Mariofan45: And the final hot dog goes to...Chump!
Ace: WHAT!?!?
Mariofan45: Sorry dude.
Ace leaves.
In the boy's cabin.
All the boys: WOOT!
What is Mariofan45's next form of torture?
Will I ever write another episode?
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Barely two days after returning from the Future, a stranger appears on Tsuna's doorstep looking for Reborn. Wait, what? The Sun Acrobaleno is a father!
Warnings for Gokudera's mouth, Hibari's violence, gender-bender and a little bit of canon-divergence.
Pairings undecided.
It was nice to get back to a normal life after all the pain and chaos of fighting Byakuran in the future.
Tsuna sighed as he chewed on the end of his pencil, it has only been a few days but the trials he went through, the fights, the tears, the blood, sweat and bruises felt like a life-time ago as he stared down at the foreign language represented in his algebra homework. It felt... surreal to be sat here, in his room which was still a little disorderly after the Earth Quake their return caused – nothing too serious, a little ceiling plaster on top of the shelves and a few more books than usual on the floor – doing homework with a can of Melon crème Soda at his elbow and the sound of Lambo and Reborn in the garden outside. If it weren't for the fact that it still hurt when he moved his arms and back into certain positions he would have thought the whole adventure 10-years into the future had been nothing but a very scary dream brought on by the fumes of Bianchi's Poison Cooking. It was known to cause hallucinations through airborne exposure.
Not to mention the bruises and plasters that were still visible, it was causing some weird rumours to crop up at school that he was turning Delinquent, most of them were met with the ridicule they deserved but some people believed it and had started taking to skirting away from Tsuna and his friends in the hallways as though they were Hibari-senpai. Perhaps they were a little deserved, he didn't think any of the others had really given it thought but... Tsuna had killed him... he had killed someone, Byakuran, he had murdered him, incinerated him until not even his ashes remained. Completely consumed in the Flame of the Sky, wiped clean, sanitized and... Tsuna couldn't find it in himself to feel bad about it, he was upset about killing, but not guilty, it needed to be done and he just didn't think any of the others had really realised that he had taken someone's life right in front of them.
"Urgh! Its no use, I can't think," he whined, throwing his pencil down and scrubbing at his already mussed up hair, algebra was hard even on a good day but now, with all his thoughts scrambled and maudlin it was... a hundred times more difficult than usual. He huffed quietly to himself and reached for his drink, he just needed to take a few seconds and not be too loud, if Reborn noticed then Tsuna would be tortured into finishing his homework then and there, correct on the first go or get shot in the head. He didn't want to deal with that and – nuts, he'd run out of soda.
Melon crème Soda was hard to come by, he'd gotten lucky on the way back from school when he spotted the Vending Machine hiding down the side of the little Tea-House, usually you couldn't find it outside of the Nara area. He sighed and crumpled the can, idly tossing it in the general direction of his waste paper bin before heaving himself up to his feet, wincing slightly in pain as he did so. He needed a drink and a break, may as well go and get some tea and see what all the fuss outside was.
He was halfway down the stairs when someone knocked on the front door. Given that his mother was hanging the washing out, everyone else was running riot outside and Tsuna was closest he went to go and open the door, pushing it open he blinked a little in surprise at the obviously foreign teenager who stumbled back a step – obviously not expecting the door to open outwards.
"Hello? Can I help you?" the Tenth Vongola asked nervously, foreigners usually only ever showed up to cause him problems or go after Reborn for whatever reason.
The foreigner was roughly the same height as Tsuna with even an even wilder thatch of black hair, they wore thick baggy clothing that had to be five or six sizes too big and had most definitely seen better days, thick black rimmed glasses obscured a pair of startlingly green eyes as the foreigner blinked at him, looking down awkwardly before reading from a scrap of paper in his hand.
"H-hello. I am looking for a man called Reborn, Iemitsu-san told me he was here," he read rather falteringly.
Tsuna nodded, "Hold on, I'll just go and get him." He tried not to be annoyed over the fact that his father sent this teenager here and yet couldn't be bothered to come home himself and see his mother. His mother who waited to patiently, hopefully, that he would come home and spend some time with her, no matter how small.
"Thank you," the stranger said, smiling brightly as Tsuna retreated back inside and went to go and find his Tutor.
"Reborn? There's someone at the door for you, Dad sent him, apparently," the brunet explained as he came across the altogether rather common sight of Reborn lounging in the back garden, sipping an Expresso while Bianchi sunbathed in entirely too little clothing and both Lambo and I-pin ran riot around his mother's feet as she pegged one of his school shirts to the line. The tiny hitman frowned slightly, setting his cup down.
"I haven't heard anything from him," the fedora wearing infant admitted before snatching Leon off the brim and having he chameleon transform into a gun as he jumped from his seat and made his way inside to the door. Panicking, though not as much as he usually would, Tsuna followed after him hoping against hope that there wasn't going to be a murder on his porch.
"I am Reborn, what do you want?" the Sun Arcobaleno asked as he appeared in the doorway, the teenager blinking at the empty hall before looking down at the toddler at his feet and crouching down, an odd look that Tsuna couldn't understand crossing his face. He got the feeling that the foreigner was upset though, angry and a little tired and defeated?
"I'm sorry, my Japanese is bad. Do you speak English?" the foreigner asked, reading from his scrap of paper as he looked over at Tsuna, seeming to ignore Reborn's presence which... was a little odd given that the hitman was the one he asked to speak to.
"Tsuna doesn't speak English. Iemitsu sent you to me, why?" Reborn demanded, his tiny hand tightening warily on Leon's trigger as the foreigner looked down at him in surprise, an expression of realisation crossing his face.
"I'm looking for Renato Serafino, are you his son?" Tsuna liked to think he was getting better at reading Reborn's moods, his Tutor tended to maintain a very calm and placid expression that rarely ever showed anything beyond amused tolerance at the world around him and very occasionally a sense of 'You're wasting my time'. If he hadn't known Reborn so well, he would have thought him completely unmoved, but Tsuna could tell, whatever the foreigner had said it has shocked him, badly. Completely out of left field as Yamamoto would say.
"How do you know that name?" Reborn asked, Leon shifting back into his chameleon form under the foreigner's strangely watchful eye. Was it Tsuna's imagination, or did the boy just relax at the totally unnatural sight of a gun transforming into a chameleon?
"My mother mentioned him in her Will, are you going to answer me or not?" he asked, actually sitting down amidst the shoes and the dirt of the porch without a care, even Reborn seemed a little surprised by the foreigner's lack of decorum before shrugging it off. Tsuna however winced, why hadn't they invited him in? It was rude to leave someone standing out on the porch, never mind forcing him to sit in it!
"I'm just trying to get all the information first. Why are you looking for him?" the Arcobaleno continued.
There was a moment of silence as the teenager studied the little hitman, Tsuna could honestly swear, hand on heart, that he had started sweating like a pig with all the tension in the room right now. He hadn't understood a single word, well, maybe a few, but not enough to have even the slightest idea of what was going on, whoever this foreigner was, he was looking for someone and Reborn wasn't giving him the answers he wanted, for whatever reason.
"You're not a normal child, are you?" the teenager asked warily, eyes narrowing under his rather ugly glasses.
Was that a smirk of approval on Reborn's face, "Indeed not. Why are you looking for Renato Serafino?" he repeated, the foreigner sighing, his shoulder slumping visibly as he laughed a little depreciatively.
"Let me guess, you're Renato Serafino. Of course, nothing can ever be simple," the foreigner muttered watching Reborn carefully for a reaction, the hitman merely stared at him, impassive. "Two weeks ago I received a letter written by my mother before her death explaining that her husband wasn't in fact my biological father," the teenager began to explain before Reborn suddenly groaned and dropped his head into a tiny hand.
"Sapevo che sarebbe successo un giorno, ma perchè proprio adesso?" he complained, confusing everyone in the room, "Tsuna, go and make some tea, would you? English milk tea if at all possible, and another Expresso for myself," the hitman requested, looking over his shoulder at the brunet with what Tsuna could almost identify as an expression of... well he couldn't identify it, it was too complicated, as if the Arcobaleno couldn't even decide how he himself felt about this situation, whatever it may be.
"Uh, sure, you want me to bring it to the living room?" he asked, assuming that Reborn was going to invite the strange foreigner inside to talk, whatever it was it must have been important.
"No, upstairs in your room. I don't think... What is your name anyway?" he asked in English, turning back to the rather bewildered, and slightly hurt, looking teenager still sitting on the porch.
"Ha- Ariah," he stuttered, clearly correcting himself from saying something he shouldn't have, making Reborn frown in suspicion.
"Ariah is a girl's name," he pointed out, watching as the teenager's face promptly turned red.
"That's because I am a girl," he – no, she, muttered in embarrassment making Reborn double take and frown.
"My apologies I did not – "
She cut him off, "Its fine. I'm not – I mean I know I'm not very... girly, its fine," she assured him, waving a hand to disregard the accidental insult and Reborn's apology away.
The Arcobaleno nodded, "Come in, please, Tsuna is just getting some drinks," he told her, hopping backwards from the doorway so she could follow in after him. A shy smile lit her face up as she got to her feet, evidentially she had been expecting some kind of rejection, Reborn watched as she dusted herself off idly and came in, closing the door behind her and pulling her shoes off upon seeing everyone else's inside. She wasn't much to look at in all honesty he decided, leading her up the stairs towards Tsuna's room where the Cow and I-pin couldn't interfere, and Bianchi wouldn't attempt to poison her in some misguided attempt to remove the competition.
Reborn hopped up onto Tsuna's table, making note of the fact he had been dawdling on his Algebra homework as his... daughter followed in after him, sitting down awkwardly on the floor and fidgeting with the frayed hems of her baggy jeans. Absurdly baggy and most likely second hand jeans if Reborn was correct, her socks had holes in them, her shoes looked as though they were falling apart, her shirt was clearly made for someone several sizes larger and a head and a half taller, her sweater was handknitted and someone had obviously put a lot of love into the bulky emerald tent that was still a few sizes too big. Her hair was a tangled mess of black strands, slightly curly ones at that, her skin was pale as if she didn't get enough sunlight and her eyes were hidden behind what was possibly the most atrocious pair of glasses he had ever seen a human being wear.
She wasn't much. But apparently she was his.
Perhaps her family was poor? Or was she abused? Well, either way, once he obtained a paternity test to prove whether she was his or not, that would change, good clothes, better glasses, they would have to sort out that mop she was trying to pass off as hair... He wondered how Bianchi would react to essentially becoming a 'Step-mom', because he knew that was how she would read this situation once he decided to inform her of it.
"I would like to get some proof of our blood relation before I decide on anything concrete. Would you mind taking a blood test?" the Arcobaleno asked as gently as possible, he got the impression that despite her name, Ariah was rather timid and he didn't want to frighten her off if she really was his daughter.
She shook her head, "No, I would welcome it actually." A stubborn look tightened her face and Reborn was rather fascinated to see himself, twenty years ago, young and annoyed looking back at him in her face, "I want there to be no doubt, at all," she told him, looking at him with those strangely familiar green eyes.
He nodded, "I'll get a friend of mine to do the test." While he didn't think Shamal would be suicidal enough to try and grope the girl if he informed the man that there was a chance she was his daughter, there was also the small issue of Shimal's common sense tending to take a hike when he laid eyes on a pair of boobs, such was his problem with Bianchi.
The girl nodded, looking up as Tsuna came in with the drinks.
"Tsuna, give me your phone. I need to call Doctor Shamal," the Arcobaleno demanded as the teenager slid the tray of drinks across the table, flinching slightly when he realised Reborn had gotten a look at his Algebra homework. Then his words registered.
"Eh? But he only treats women," he pointed out in confusion, handing his phone over none the less.
"And he will be treating a woman. I need a paternity test, the young lady's mother here claims that she is my daughter, we would both like some solid evidence," the baby explained as he dialled up Shamal while Tsuna had a mild freak out in the doorway, his daughter watching with wide eyes and a somewhat alarmed expression on her face, clearly not understanding why Tsuna was reacting so badly.
"Reborn! Mi chiami raremente in questo periodo, qual'è il problema? (You rarely call me these days, what's the problem?)" the Doctor asked from the other end of the line, for once, sounding sober.
"Ho bisogno di un test di paternità. Una ragazza giovane donna si è presentata proclamando che sono suo padre. (I need a paternity test. A young lady has shown up claiming I am her father.)" He could hear Shamal choking on his tongue on the other end of the line, whatever he had been expecting, it most certainly hadn't been that. Reborn probably shouldn't be so amused at the thought of the dirty old womanizer dying from shock, or suffocating on his tongue, it would probably serve him right, a kind of dramatic irony given how that tongue had threatened to suffocate many a beautiful woman.
"Davvero? Una ragazza? (Really? A young lady?)" the perverted Doctor demanded, finally having calmed himself down and now sounding entirely too interested.
"Si. Molto probabilmete è vero.C'è della somiglianza. (Yes. It is more than likely true. There is a resemblance between us,)" the Arcobaleno confirmed, his voice carrying what was an unmistakable note of warning in its tone, one that made Shamal shiver in his seat despite having several miles between them. He made a mental note to keep his hands to himself, the idea of Reborn having a daughter was frightening enough, if the man... baby... hitman, ended up being one of those over-protective Daddies that Shamal was only oh-so-familiar with, then things could get VERY messy. And painful. For him.
"Bene, sarò lì fra un'ora circa. (Alright, I will be there in an hour or so.)" the Doctor declared, deciding that he would be as professional as possible for once in his career. He really didn't want to get on Reborn's bad side, especially if he was going to be as serious about it as he had been about Tsuna's Skullitis – that had been a rather painful period in Shamal's life, the little Hitman had been rather abusive when his cute little student was out of sight.
"Ci vediamo. (See you then.)" Reborn agreed before hanging up and observing the girl claiming to be his daughter. She seemed to have attempted to start communicating with Tsuna, though really it was just making him a cup of English milk tea, they seemed to be getting along, rather well actually, there seemed to be an air of understanding between them that Reborn hadn't noticed before. "Ariah?" he asked only to be completely ignored, that confirmed that it wasn't her real name at any rate. "Miss," he announced, a little louder to catch their attention, though it may have also been the phone he lobbed at Tsuna's head, "My friend will be here shortly, about an hour or so. Would you like to stay for dinner, I'm sure Maman wouldn't mind another mouth to feed?" he offered.
She looked at him in surprise as if the idea of staying hadn't even entered her mind, "I wouldn't want to impose," she hedged hesitantly, clearly she wanted to stay, to spend more time with him, but didn't want to be a burden or interfere, how strangely thoughtful, and yet annoying that she had no spine.
"Its no imposition, really, please stay and join us for dinner." But Reborn wasn't going to say that, he had been brought up better and one should always treat women, no matter what they may look or act like, with respect and manners. "Tsuna, she will be staying for dinner, please go and inform Maman," the hitman told his cute little student who nodded and quickly scrambled off, rubbing at the small lump on his forehead from where the corner of his phone had made contact. Maybe he should go easier on the boy – no, more fun watching him whimper and squirm.
"What is your real name?" Reborn suddenly asked, making her jerk sharply and give him one of those 'Deer in the Headlights' expressions that he had only really seen Chrome-chan do properly before now. "Ariah is not your real name."
She shook her head, "It is. I just..." she trailed off uncomfortably, "My mother had two Birth Certificates drawn up, both of them legal, but one had my Step-father's name on it and the name he chose for me, the other had yours and the name my mother picked. She thought that since you were Italian, my name should be as well." That explained how a British girl ended up with the Italian name of Ariah, meaning 'Lion'.
"What is your other name? Clearly you are more familiar with it," he pointed out, making her flush again.
"Its not really very appropriate for a girl," she admitted, Reborn arched an eyebrow and waited, eventually she caved, "Harry. My name is, was, Harry."
How incredibly unfeminine.
Dinner was pleasant, a little chaotic, but pleasant.
Maman had been more than happy to set an extra place for the mysterious Ariah/Harry, she then had to set extra places for Gokudera and Takeshi who showed up in order to spend time with Tsuna. Lambo continued with his own particular brand of chaos until Ariah/Harry scooped him up, out of Gokudera's grasping fingers and proceeded to distract the child so thoroughly that he was utterly enthralled with the foreigner and, Grazie a Dio, quiet for the rest of the evening.
Gokudera had scowled at the girl, leering down at her like a territorial cat as he prowled around, hackles raised and Delinquent Sneer painted across his face, hovering at Tsuna's side, marking his territory, and Reborn could just tell from the look in his daughter's eye that she was wondering if he would calm down and stop hissing and spitting at her if she rubbed the back of his neck. The hitman would have paid money to see what the Storm Guardian's reaction would have been if she had, she didn't, but never the less, Gokudera's reaction upon finding out the person he had been insulting and snarling at over the dinner table was a girl and possibly Reborn's daughter had more than made up for the Arcobaleno's lack of entertainment that afternoon. Even Bianchi was still giggling over her brother's freak out while his daughter, Ariah/Harry, had taken everything in stride, proving Reborn's rather callous belief of her being timid wrong.
Takeshi hadn't treated her any differently than he would have anyone on the street, though he did switch to Polite Speech when he found out she was a girl, regardless of the fact she didn't know any Japanese so it would go completely over her head regardless. He tried to engage her over baseball but she quite clearly had no idea what he was talking about so the conversation dried up as the Rain Guardian laughed self consciously and admitted that he shouldn't have formed such a bad habit of falling asleep in his English class.
The Cow was utterly enchanted with the girl who kept him busy and out of the way. I-pin seemed to be of a likewise opinion though she was less annoying about it.
Bianchi seemed to be the only problem in the beginning, Reborn had considered getting her to back off in the beginning, given that this was possibly his daughter, he was rather concerned about how she would react to find him getting fed by a woman who was closer to her age than his. Ariah/Harry hadn't reacted beyond a casual question of whether or not they were together, which Bianchi answered affirmatively and the girl just nodded, paying no further attention to it as she tried the strange foods in front of her. The rosette haired assassin had been possessive upon deciding that Ariah/Harry was female, that only got worse when Reborn announced that she was possibly his daughter, but by the end of the evening, the woman seemed to have decided to take Ariah/Harry under her wing as the poor thing had never had a positive female influence in her life. Obviously.
Reborn was a sadist, he knew it and he revelled in it, which was why he was so confused when the look of sheer horror on the green eyed girl's face when Bianchi declared that they were going to take a bath before Shamal got there didn't stir anything more than a sudden desire to make sure it never appeared on her face again.
"N-no thank you, really, I don't... I'm not comfortable with..." she spluttered as Bianchi attempted to pull her towards the downstairs bathroom, the scruffy young woman easily darted out of the Hitwoman's grasp and skittered around to the otherside of the table, "Its fine really. I don't like walking around with wet hair! I'll shower before bed tonight!"
"You really shouldn't go to bed with wet hair, you might catch a cold," Bianchi scolded sternly.
Ariah/Harry gave her a flat look, "It hasn't happened before, so I doubt it will now. Really, no thank you."
"Come now, we're both girls, its no problem at all. Besides I want to learn more about you," the rosette haired woman chirped as she made another grab for the smaller girl who rather gracefully danced out of reach again, Reborn was finding himself rather amused and intrigued by his daughter's evasive capabilities, not many could continue to dodge Bianchi when she was dead set on something.
"Bianchi, non affezionarti .Potrebbe anche non essere mia. (Don't get too attached. She might not be mine,)" the tiny hitman warned in Italian, drawing the legitimate heir to the Hayato Family up short.
She pursed her lips and looked over at him, "Naturalmente amore mio. Ma sono interessata, è troppo magra ed ha una preoccupante cicatrice sulla mano. (Of course, my love. But I am concerned, she is too thin and there is a worrying scar on her hand.)" she explained with a pleading look on her face. The mention of a scar had Reborn's eyes snapping over to the young woman, his gaze landing on the odd discolouration of her right hand and what looked like jagged words carved into her skin. Almost as if sensing his line of sight, the hand was discreetly moved out of sight.
He nodded to the rosette haired woman who smiled brightly before finally managing to snag the young girl's arm, "I'm sure you could fit into some of my old clothes, and we'll see what we can do with that hair of yours," the Italian woman cooed, drawing the terrified looking girl against her body, frog marching her out into the hallway, I-pin chasing their heels. Just as someone rang the doorbell. Reborn chuckled at the look of undisguised relief on his daughter's face as Shamal stepped in, this really brought new meaning to the term 'saved by the bell'.
"Reborn, good evening, now, where is this cute little lady claiming to be the unfortunate offspring of yourself?" the Doctor asked boisterously as he kicked his shoes off, he clearly hadn't even looked at the scruffy nestling under Bianchi's arm.
"Right there with Bianchi, her name is Ariah," Reborn explained, nodding to the young woman in question. Shamal's face turned from ecstatic to horrified upon seeing her, Reborn could sympathise somewhat, they were both well known for their admiration of beautiful women and the sorry state that Ariah/Harry had brought herself to them in was something that was quite revolting to their rather delicate sensibilities of feminine beauty.
Shamal nodded, slipping into the role of a pure professional, true his greatest capabilities was in Assassination – Trident Shamal was still a name to be feared, even today – but being in the Mafia required a broad skill set, medicine was one that just clicked with his talents and worked best for him. "Good evening Miss, my name is Doctor Shamal, Reborn here asked me to do a paternity test for you. Think you could take your sweater off and roll your shirt sleeve up as high as it can get?" he requested as he set his bag on the kitchen table, Nana having already cleared it before Bianchi attempted to shanghai the young girl into taking a bath with her.
Ariah/Harry slipped free of the rosette haired woman and tipped forward, looking rather like a wary cat as she did so, reluctance rather visible on her face as she pulled off the metaphorical shield that her emerald green sweater represented to her, revealing a body that was entirely too skinny, almost anorexicly so. It also became apparent that she didn't have a bra and had instead opted to use old fashioned bandages instead given how baggy her neckline was that you could see the bindings, but it was the scars that drew everyone's attention.
In addition to the bandages, a very faded scar was visible just peeking out from under them, it looked as if it ran from shoulder to hip given the angle of the pale silvery pink tissue. Her forearm showed what was unmistakably a slash from a knife, vertically from elbow to wrist, one that was not self inflicted if the way the scar leaned away from her indicated. When she rolled up her sleeve, it only revealed another scar, this one large and dark, the veins around it standing out starkly as if it had been poisoned or infected. It looked like a chemical burn that hadn't healed properly if Reborn could compare it to anything he was familiar with.
To his credit, Shamal didn't do much more than blink and move the tourniquet a little to accommodate for the scar tissue and take a little more care in hunting for a vein before drawing blood. Ariah twitched slightly, staring with a kind of morbid fascination as he slid the needle under her skin and sucked out the required amount before placing a cotton-wool bud over the point of entry and removing the needle.
"Hold this down," the Doctor requested, "Keep pressure until the bleeding stops," he advised, watching as she followed his instructions before he went about bottling and labelling her blood sample and then repeating the procedure on Reborn. "I should have the results tomorrow morning, I'll come and give them to you both at breakfast," he promised with a small smile at the obviously hard done by young girl, she had led a hard life and been treated badly by others. Her arms held the classic signs of malnutrition and starvation over a long period of time, her bones were fragile, almost bird-like under his hands as he handled her wrist and forearm. He almost wanted her to be Reborn's daughter, just because he knew that the miniature Hitman would make sure she was taken care of from that exact moment onward. He may have been a womanizer but he was hardly an immoral pig, little girls should be pampered and taken care of, ladies should be treated like the queens they were and admired for their beauty.
"Thank you," the girl told him earnestly and he couldn't help but glow a little, most of the time when he treated girls they ended up screaming and trying to file lawsuits against him, genuine gratitude was few and far between, he found that he rather appreciated it.
"I'll be seeing you tomorrow," he promised before bowing out.
"What happens if she really is Reborn-san's daughter? Will she and her mother come and live here?" Gokudera asked curiously.
Reborn shook his head, "Ariah's mother is dead, that's how she found out about me. Her Will apparently informed her of her true parentage. But yes, I imagine she would come and live here." He would make sure of it, he did not like the current state she was in, it made his insides twist uncomfortably to think that his child could have possibly been abused, attacked, hurt, possibly for being his and neither of them even knowing it. If she was his child, there would be hell to pay for anyone who dared lay a hand on her, he may not have been able to help Tsuna with the majority of his fights due to the nature of them – most of them being attacks against the Vongola Familia, he was forbidden to get involved with them as he was not a member of the Vongola familia, merely a good friend of the Ninth whom had been charged with training Tsuna to become the man he needed to become. He would not have that leash when it came to protecting his child.
"Its getting late," Ariah suddenly announced, looking at the clock, edging a little bit away from Bianchi in a way that fooled pretty much everyone apart from Reborn who was gradually growing more concerned with what else his daughter may be hiding under those clothes that made her so opposed to shared bathing. "I should probably head back, I'm not sure what time Reception closes up," she admitted, ah, she was staying in a hotel, that was strangely comforting, he had visions of her camped out or sleeping on a parkbench.
"Gokudera, Takeshi, could you please walk Ariah to her hotel?" the Hitman requested, looking seriously at the two teenagers, Gokudera nodding immediately, his spine straightening under the perceived orders, his cheeks still flushed with guilt and embarrassment, Takeshi chuckled and nodded, flashing him a thumbs up.
"Sure, can't let pretty girls wonder around after dark alone, s'not safe," he assured the Sun Arcobaleno, prompting a smile from the little Hitman.
"Ariah, Gokudera and Takeshi will walk you back to your hotel," he told her, feeling a slight touch of amusement at the flash of confusion and then annoyance that crossed her face, yes he was giving her an escort, if she really was his daughter then she had best get used to it, he wasn't going to allow anything to happen to her not after spending so many years neglecting her until she ended up like... well, this.
"Alright," she managed to get out, her voice tight with suppressed irritation. They were going to have their hands full with her, she was an independent little thing, he could tell now that his previous estimations of her were wrong, "Thank you Gokudera-san, Takeshi-san," she said to the boys, bowing slightly to be polite. "Thank you everyone, goodnight," she added to the rest of the room before making her way out to put her shoes on.
The Storm and Rain Guardians gave their goodbyes and hurried after her.
Sapevo che questo sarebbe accaduto un giorno, ma perché ora, di tutti i tempi? - meaning: I knew that this would happen one day, but why now, of all times?
Grazie a Dio - meaning: Thank God.
I'm using an online translation machine, apologies for any poor or offensive Italian (Mum stole my phrasebook) 8(
And the end of chapter one. Did you guys enjoy it? Its a bit different from how I usually do things, a little less description and a little more character interaction and a whole lot of plot and no scene setting. That's in the next chapter. I want you guys to start scratching your heads going 'What?' before I do a grand revelio.
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The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority on Friday announced the findings of its due diligence review of the Wilf family. The conclusion? The Wilfs can afford their $477 million commitment to a new stadium.
The new multipurpose stadium that will bring in tens of millions of dollars in revenue and likely hundreds of millions of indirect dollars to the coffers of the State of Minnesota. Yet, when a judge's ruling on a 30-year-old court case in New Jersey went against the Wilfs, suddenly the state and the stadium authority put the brakes on the project. The Wilfs had their feet put to the fire and, at times, it seemed as though it was done with a certain sense of glee by lawmakers who opposed the stadium project all along.
Yet, when the state has run into problems, it never seems like there is fair reciprocity for their failings or shortcomings. Remember the original site the Wilfs wanted to build the stadium? The suburb of Arden Hills. From 1998 when Red McCombs bought the Vikings from the Gang of Ten, he came with his 10-gallon hat in hand to try to work out a compromise solution with the City of Minneapolis and the State of Minnesota to get stadium deal done. He was basically reminded that he was in a lease that couldn't be broken and playing football in a dumpsite built on the cheap that paled in comparison to the palaces that house other franchises playing football, baseball, basketball and hockey.
It was only the threat of the Twins leaving (never forget their willingness to contract their franchise) that got Target Field built and, even then, it was the City of Minneapolis and Hennepin County that had to step up to get that stadium built. The only reason Minnesota has an NHL team was that St. Paul built the Xcel Energy Center as an enticement. It is one of the finest venues of its kind in hockey or basketball. It has become a concert haven and has revitalized the surrounding businesses in the area. The same has been true for the land around Target Field – businesses got a significant boost with the arrival of 30,000 or more fans 81 times a year.
In both instances, cities and counties got involved because the state wouldn't, yet it would seem as though legislators take credit for the successes of those stadiums. Yet, when it came time for them to back up their strong words with action by helping fund a Vikings stadium, their funding sources have failed miserably. Before ground was even broken on the new stadium and the Wilfs had their finances rifled over by strangers, the state's plan for funding its share of the stadium has already been viewed as an abject failure. The electronic pull-tab mechanism that was supposed to be the Godsend for the state has turned into a nightmare.
During an interview on Minnesota Public Radio, Gov. Mark Dayton talked about the e-pull tab legislation in terms of a plane crash, saying that, when the National Transportation Safety Board investigates a crash, there are typically multiple factors and mistakes that go into the tragic events. When the governor uses a tragedy like a plane crash as his analogy, it doesn't inspire confidence … nor should it.
State politicians have a habit of ignoring things when they're not convenient to admit that they failed. Stadium opponents came after Ramsey County when its county board stepped up and decided that the NFL was such a money-maker that keeping the Vikings in Minnesota and transplanting the stadium to Ramsey County would make fiscal sense – even though it would come with a steep initial start-up cost. That plan got shot beyond all recognition, with state political opponents screaming as loudly as they could that the soil on which the stadium would be built, an abandoned munitions plant, was very likely to be contaminated. That helped get the stadium moved, but has the state done anything to clean up a site that could be leaking contaminants into the local ground water system? Nope.
The e-pull tab idea was an equally horrific disaster. Even from the start, it seemed like a long shot of an idea. Almost every bar and a majority of gas stations have pull tab stations in them. They used to be manned by employees until someone came up with the bright idea of putting the tabs into a vending machine and taking out the middle man (or woman). It took away more jobs than it created, but it streamlined the process. Another factor that wasn't considered – or at least not considered enough – was who benefited from the sale of pull tabs. Termed "charitable gambling," there had to be a charity or non-profit that was the beneficiary of the pro-rated proceeds of having pull tabs. In most instances, it was area youth sports or community centers that were the recipients. As far as bar owners were concerned, there wasn't anything broken that needed to be fixed.
The costs associated with hooking the e-pull tab and bingo systems to an on-line network were not only costly, but problematic. Like it or not, if you go into the electrical power sources in most bars and restaurants, they were built in a pre-technology era where the construction didn't include the need for Hi-Def televisions, Wi-Fi capability or the numerous electrical outlets and computer boxes or routers needed to make such technology work. Find where the primary power sources are in most bars or restaurants and you will almost assuredly find a labyrinth of wiring that was never intended or envisioned when the building was constructed. The addition of a significant network of new technology wasn't seen as a benefit, especially when the business owners themselves were expected to shoulder much of the cost to get their establishment on-line with the state system.
Aside from the in-fighting between rival e-pull tab companies, who claimed their competition was unreliable and sketchy, the grass roots approach to the massive intended installation of e-pull tabs throughout the state simply died on the vine. Why not just buy paper pull tabs from the same vendor they've dealt with for years and know that the money generated would help a local charity? The state failed to realize the stubbornness of its own constituency. The e-pull tab idea was severely flawed and, it can be effectively argued, was a dead issue before the ink dried on the legislation approving the funding source.
By now, it was anticipated that 15,000 gaming devices would be in about 2,500 locations. To date, there are about 1,300 devices in 300 locations – figures that fall embarrassingly short of projections. But, this is the State of Minnesota, whose failures are swept under the rug and forgotten about until the dust pile gets too deep that it is noticed.
Unwilling to accept its mistakes, the state decided to stick it to smokers with a $2-a-pack tax on cigarettes. It was called a "one time levy" by lawmakers, but most people who own property know that a levy is a tax, whether it's called a tax or not. The problem they're running into with that idea is that the revenue generated by the sale of an addictive substance has led some to quit, some to cut back and others to meet their tobacco needs from sources outside of the realm of Minnesota's taxing authority. Cigarette sales in North Dakota have spiked. So have tobacco sales at Native American-owned casinos. Other jurisdictions are making money off of the cigarette tax. Minnesota? Not so much.
On a day when the Wilfs got a clean bill of health for their ability to pay for their portion of the stadium, it might be time for state political leaders to look in the mirror and see who is the biggest problem in the construction of a new stadium. If the state was held to the same level of due diligence that the Wilfs were, most would likely be voted out of office.
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|The Electoral Returns of Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Missions in Venezuela
|Rodríguez Gallego, Andrea
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|On December 6, 1998, Hugo Chávez, a political outsider who had led an unsuccessful coup d'état six years earlier, was elected president of Venezuela with the highest percentage of the popular vote in four decades. He ran under an electoral platform to dismantle the two-party system that had dominated the country since 1958 and to launch a revolution, which became known as the Bolivarian Revolution, on behalf of the sectors of the population that had been excluded and marginalized. During the first years of his presidency, Chávez implemented radical policies, which polarized the Venezuelan society into two camps: Chávez supporters (Chavistas) and opposition members. The opposition organized several efforts to remove Chávez from power, including nationwide general strikes, a failed coup d'état in 2002, and a referendum to recall Chávez from office in 2004. By 2002, Chávez's approval ratings had plummeted to 30 percent from about 90 percent when he was elected in 1998. In 2003, in the midst of this political context, Chávez launched the Bolivarian Missions—a set of social programs created to improve the living conditions of excluded groups in Venezuela by fighting illiteracy, providing access to education, supplying food at discount prices, and providing medical services to the poor, among other efforts. This study evaluates the degree to which the Bolivarian Missions helped Chávez ramp up support. It measures the electoral returns of three of the Bolivarian Missions— Misión Ribas, Misión Sucre, and Misión Mercal. Misión Ribas and Misión Sucre provide high school and college level education to adults in Venezuela, respectively. Misión Mercal provides subsidized food and basic goods through a nation-wide chain of grocery stores. This study tests if the missions that distribute excludable private goods, Misión Ribas and Misión Sucre, have different electoral returns than the mission that distributes non-excludable local public goods, Misión Mercal, depending on the type of voters targeted. This study finds that the electoral returns of Misión Mercal were highest in opposition municipalities, followed by core municipalities (where the impact is positive but very slight), and the lowest in weakly supporting municipalities. Regarding the private goods programs, Misión Ribas and Misión Sucre, this study finds that they have considerably different electoral returns. Specifically, it finds that the electoral returns of Misión Ribas are highest in opposition and loyal municipalities, and lowest in swing and weakly supporting municipalities, whereas the returns of Misión Sucre are highest in swing and weakly supporting municipalities, and lowest in opposition and loyal municipalities. Moreover, this study finds that Misión Sucre yields considerably negative electoral returns in opposition and loyal municipalities. Thus, this study finds that private goods can also have differential effects depending on the type of voters targeted and, importantly, that the effects might be negative. This challenges existing literature that has tended to presume a common impact for all types of private goods.
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Gascon at the House Judiciary Committee's 287(g) hearing last week
In the face of a barrage of criticism from nativist and right-wing groups angered by his recent testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Mesa Police Chief George Gascon has today released a statement justifying his actions, saying that he was invited by Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, and that he considers it "an honor and a civic duty" to inform Congress about "policing and the care taken to protect civil rights." (You can read today's press release in its entirety, here.)
Gascon also included a copy of his opening comments to the committee. These comments do not mention Sheriff Joe Arpaio by name. Rather, they illustrate the problems Gascon perceives with the application of the federal 287(g) program. Indeed, Gascon only critiqued how Arpaio uses his 287(g) authority after the top Mesa cop was asked by the committee to talk about Sheriff Arpaio's actions.(Gascon's opening words to the House Judiciary Committee can be perused, here.)
During the hearing last week, Gascon came under intense questioning by minority Republicans on the committee, who asked who paid for Gascon's plane ticket to D.C. At the time, Gascon believed various non-profit immigration reform groups had paid for it, but he subsequently learned that the ticket was paid for by the Phoenix civil rights group Respect/Respeto.
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I met a problem when working on the prism layer thickness. As shown in the picture, at the left part, there is an area with no prism layer because of the narrowing geometry. And the meshes themselves are not complete. The skewness angle in that area are pretty large.
A.So what should I do? Decreasing the base size in that narrowed area?
B.Is the prism layer thickness needed to be smaller than the geometry dimmension or there is no need to do that?
C. If I decrease the base size there, so the base size + the prism layer thickness should be equal or smaller than the geometry dimmension?
Any help would be appreciated!
You should try increase the # of points in gap in the surface proximity node.
But your prism layer seems too thick, or the geometry is very small. In that case it can maybe be simplified by removing the gaps.
1) change layer reduction percentage to 99.
2) change minimum thickness percent to .5
3) change gap fill to 45
These three values are at the extreme end of the spectrum. If this fixes your problem, you can likely play with their values (lower layer reduction percentage, raise minimum thickness percent, lower gap fill) and get it to still work
I appreciate your help.
With those settings, the mesher should chop the prism layer thickness down to fill the gap with mostly prism cells.
I have numerous areas like this in my geometry. They do not always come out with the highest quality, but a prism mesh usually does get generated there.
Thanks! How about the core mesh size in those narrowed areas? For my case as shown in the priture, in that narrowed area, there are three parameters should be set properly, the prism layer thickness (Denoting a) for walls at each side and the core meshes in the middle (denoting b as the width or thickness of the mesh), correct? Denoting the distance of the gap is c.
A. So what's a proper relationship among a, b and c? 2a+b=c?
B. When I paly those three values you mentioned above, everytime I need to do the surface mesh repair and volume mesh for the whole big geometry when I change one value. So do you know have some better ideas dealing with this? Like only mesh those problematic areas and leave other area with a coarse mesh or something esle?
oh, man, the total surface size increased from 5 million to more than 50 million after I adjusted those values although I also decreased base size of that area.
It seems that the 0.5 pecent is too small?
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Since the trailer of Zarine Khan starrer Hate Story 3 has released, audiences are too excited to watch her on silver screen in her sensuous avatar. The film is all set to hit the theatres tomorrow, (December 4, 2015) and today we have brought to you 10 damn hot pictures of Zarine Khan from Instagram and also some of the shocking revelations made by her.
Currently, she is enjoying her transformation from being flab to fab and says on the same,"Honestly, I am enjoying this now. There were people who called me fat and what all after my first film. I am a pathan and am a big built girl. No matter how much weight I lose, I cannot cut my bones off. I am not a petite girl as it is not in my genes. But I am just glad about the fact that those same people who called me fat are calling me sexy, beautiful and hot today." Zarine told Bombay Times.
Is Kareena Kapoor Taking Revenge On Hrithik Roshan For Ditching Her In Shuddhi?
For Zarine, enacting such bold scenes were not easy. When being asked whether she was initially comfortable doing an erotic flick like Hate Story 3, she replied like this:
"I wasn't comfortable earlier, but now I am. In Veer, I was covered from head to toe. I had got a lot of criticism for my weight after my first movie, so my body had to look good and I had a lot of inhibitions doing this role. But I am so happy that I trusted my director and now friend Vishal Pandya and did it. It wasn't as difficult as it seemed in my head."
Uncomfortable In Telling Salman About Hate Story 3
When Zarine said 'yes' to Hate Story 3, she was initially afraid to face Salman, as she knew that Salman is not okay with girls doing these kind of films. But later, when she came to know that Salman is impressed with the trailer, she felt relieved!
Does She Hate Her Father?
When Zarine was being asked whether she hates her father as he walked out of her life during her teen years, she said, "I don't hate him but for me, he does not exist. Hating him would give him more importance than I would like to."
About Her Last Relationship
"My last relationship was one and a half years back, so I have been single for almost two years. He was not from the industry and was a businessman, who was eight years older than me." reveals Zarine.
Zarine's Mom On Doing Hate Story 3
"It's okay because no one is coming to our house to feed us and we are responsible for our lives. Me being your mother, I am okay, so go ahead and do it."
An Emotional Girl
Zarine Khan, also revealed that she is a very emotional person and opens up before only those people whom she cares about and shares very close relation with them.
Without Make-up Waali Selfie'
The Veer actress is looking damn hawt in her 'Without Make-up Waali Selfie'. Her sudden transformation from flab to fit is surely one thing to look out for.
All Set For Promotion
Zarine Khan looking damn glamorous in a red dress. She posted this picture while getting ready for Hate Story 3 promotion.
Similar To Katrina Kaif
When Zarine debuted in Bollywood, many people compared her to Katrina Kaif as she looks quite similar to her. Interestingly, unlike Katrina, Zarine speaks Hindi, Marathi and English equally fluently.
'Character Dheela'
Zarine Khan has done a cameo in Salman Khan's Ready, which released in the year of 2011 and her item song 'Character Dheela' got much praises from all over the nation.


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Pianto is Pianta and Noki's sister and she is a team player in the Mackenzie Billboarders. Rosalina also shares the team.
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Pianto appears in Mario Fireballs. She is one of Pianta/Painta's colour change with the other Noki/Nakis.
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Her back speed is wrong now. Mario Baseball Batters
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Ben's 6th Birthday
Happy birthday Ben!
Your birthday was on February 1st and I am just getting around to writing about it. You had a great birthday. You received gifts that you loved: books and a Wii system (used, old generation...but at this point you don't notice the difference!) and a few Wii games. You spent time with friends doing the things you love: swimming at the pool and then going to their house to watch movies.
You are a joy to have as a son. You are mellow, happy, hard-working. You are honest. You are a good friend to your brother. And you are a good big brother to your little sister, instinctively looking out for her and knowing just how to play with her to make her laugh.
Some excerpts from Ben's birthday interview:
What do you want to do for a job when you grow up?
Be a daddy. Work at Oracle.
Where do you want to live when you grow up?
In New York City.
Do you think you'll get married when you grow up?
How old will you be when you get married?
Where do babies come from?
That's a horrible question. I'm not going to answer it.
What do you love most about your siblings?
Tommy: He's always kind of nice to me.
Lucy: She's very very cute.
What makes you very happy?
Having a little sister.
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Yao shuts down Dwight Howard. Alarmists in San Antonio want to shut down Tim Duncan. Can anyone shut down the Bulls at home?
Brody Rollins of Rockets Buzz: "Yao's like that shutdown corner, the one the announcers croon over on TV, but you just don't see it until it's already the third quarter and the quarterback hasn't even looked in his direction.
Normally, every game with Yao goes something like that, which is why I was ecstatic to see real competition come into Houston ([Greg] Oden on Tuesday was slightly more than underwhelming) ... Dwight Howard passed up the jumpshot ... took two steps toward Yao and spun baseline without drawing any contact, went up with his right hand and was completely smothered by Yao. The Great Wall was pumped, Howard was dejected, and the Magic guards stopped looking to get the ball in the post. And there it was, what every Magic fan fears, another night of Rashard [Lewis] drifting around the 3-point line and [Hedo] Turkoglu doing the same."
Graydon Gordian at 48 Minutes of Hell: "If we aren't winning a title this season, shut [Tim Duncan] down, reload during the offseason and make a push for a fifth banner in 2010. Superficially, this is what many would characterize as the realist's perspective. Rather than mince words, I'll be frank: I don't find that to be realistic ... I genuinely feel that perspective is based off of a characterization of basketball which fundamentally misunderstands the nature of on-court achievement, therefore rendering it meaningless.
...[F]or the first time in several years, day-to-day events seem out of control. Sitting Duncan for 25 games, the amount he would likely play from here on out if we were quickly dispatched by the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals (that's about what I consider our ceiling at this point), will not be decisive in dictating the future of this franchise. What it does is provide a false sense of control. Instead of battling through a difficult moment, we would be distracting ourselves from our own fear of demise by doing something extreme."
Bret LaGree of Hoopinion: "[Josh] Smith has made 7 of 12 three-point attempts over the last four games. That's 58.3%. Prior to the game in Philadelphia Smith had made 24.6% of his three-point attempts (69) on the season and 26% of his three-point attempts (453) for his career. It's obvious which is the smallest sample-size and I'm not advocating Josh Smith continue to attempt three three-pointers per game for the foreseeable future. I simply offer the reminder that improvements don't follow a fixed schedule. They can manifest themselves in April as easily as they can in September. Last night Hawks' fans got the best of both worlds: Smith's unexpected bounty from beyond the arc and a strong, successful drive to the basket on an important possession."
Celtics Hub: Eddie House's exploits from beyond the arc are the stuff of history.
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The Real Deal Cuban Black Beans
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What can I say, my mom makes THE best black beans... For years I have tried to perfect her beans, this may be as close to perfection as it gets...she approved!!!I love my mom, Olivia
- 1-14oz pkg
- dry black beans
- 5 c
- water
- 1 large
- green pepper
- 1 small
- onion
- 3 clove
- garlic
- 1
- bay leaf
- 1/2 tsp
- cumin powder
- 1 small
- oregano leaf or 1/2 teaspoon of dried
- 1 tsp
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- 1 tsp
- vinegar
- 1 slice
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Goal: Ensure the felony charges against the men accused of beating a puppy to death are upheld.
In mid-February, three men were caught torturing and killing a puppy in Greenville, North Carolina by their neighbor. The three men, Demetrius Crumble, Evan Harrington and Kendrick Fitchett were arrested and charged with felony cruelty to an animal and failure to dispose of the dog. The torture these men inflicted on this innocent puppy is undeniably worthy of felony punishments.
The three men were seen beating the four-month-old Pit bull puppy with a PVC pipe, choking her with phone cords and then throwing her lifeless body into a ditch. Harrington and Crumble both have previous criminal records, and Crumble is facing previous drug charges. It is a well-researched fact that animal abusers are more likely to commit violent crimes against people, and these men are obviously dangerous. These three men are disgusting, cruel human beings and the felony charges against them should be upheld.
Because of the vicious nature of the crime, the felony charges are suitable for the men. They knew what they were doing, and obviously executed their actions in a planned fashion. This innocent puppy was full of fear and uncertainty during her final moments because of these criminals. Sign the petition below to ask Pitt County to ensure that the felony charges are upheld for these animal abusers.
Dear Pitt County District Attorney's Office,
Kendrick Fitchett, Demetrius Crumble and Evan Harrington are evil human beings. They are guilty of severely torturing a puppy enough to lead to her death, and then throwing her body into a ditch. If they are to do this to an innocent animal, what is to stop them from doing it to a human?
This four-month-old puppy was as pure and innocent as a baby. There is no excuse that can justify these three men's actions. They beat her with a PVC pipe and choked her with several phone cords. This was a carefully orchestrated act, and the felony charges that are currently against them need to be upheld.
Crumble and Harrington already have a criminal record, and by keeping these felony charges against them we can hopefully keep them off the streets. This was a vicious act that these men performed and they need to face severe consequences. Please ensure that the felony charges against all three men are upheld so that we don't have another innocent puppy maliciously killed.
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Residential lease agreement was begin on July 2010 and expired on June 2011, but the tenant lived there until June 2013, without a new lease agreement. After expiration date on July 2011, my tenant lived in my home month to mouth basis. Do you think my lease agreement is still valid to sue them in court ? Can I still use the expired lease agreement and sue the tenant for unpaid rent and damages? Are the provisions of the lease agreement still enforceable? My tenant owes me about $20,000 for unpaid rent and damages. I can be reached at 510-619-8442. Thank you.
Likely the lease agreement provides that the tenancy becomes month-to-month if no new writing is signed. It will pay you to read the agreement very carefully and determine which provisions continue to apply after the expiration of the first year and which do not.
If you want the money from the tenant, and he or she is not paying, then you will probably have to file suit on some theory, whether the written agreement is still valid or not. Depending on the circumstances, you may want to evict him or her as well.
If you sue, you can plead breach of written contract and breach of oral contract and other causes of action, perhaps waste or conversion or negligence--all depending on the facts--and recover what is due you under one theory or another. If the written agreement has an attorney fees clause, then you may be awarded attorney fees on top of other costs of suit when you win the judgment.
It would probably be worth it to get an hour's worth of time from an attorney to review the agreement and evidence of non-payment, damage to property, etc., and decide how to proceed from there.Ask a similar question
Thank you, Mr. Paul. My tenant have vacated the house. I just need to collect the money for the move-out damages $20,000. Will you consider to take the case with contingency fee basis? I can be reached at 510-619-8442. Thank you.
Once a lease expires, it typically converts to a month to month tenancy. The general provisions of the lease will still apply, except that now either the tenant or the landlord can end the tenancy on 30 or 60 day notice.
If your tenants have not paid rent, then you can serve them with a three day notice and then an unlawful detainer lawsuit. The terms of the lease will be relevant and applicable in any dispute regarding the rent or tenancy.
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R.A. The Rugged Man - Legends Never Die
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Veteran emcee R.A. The Rugged Man last released an album on November 16, 2004. Since then a black president has been elected (and re-elected) to office, Apple created the iPhone and D4L became a one-hit wonder with Laffy Taffy. Now, almost a decade later, the New York native has released his long-awaited sophomore album, Legends Never Die.
Included on the Nature Sounds release are previously-featured, Booth-approved cuts "Learn Truth," "The People's Champ," "Holla-Loo-Yuh" and "Underground Hits." Joining R.A. on the album are special guests Block McCloud, Brother Ali, Hopsin, Krizz Kaliko, Masta Ace, Sadat X, Tech N9ne and Vinnie Paz, while production is handled by Apathy, Buckwild, Marco Polo, Shuko and more.
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Granny says that Elly May is about to turn twenty. So when they went out there, Elly would have been about thirteen. When the show started, Elly didn't look that young. She looked like she was in her late teens, not her early teens.
Granny describes Elverna Bradshaw's daughter as the "homeliest girl in the hills." But in one of the first episodes, Jethro said she was the "prettiest girl in the hills."
Jed: We've been out here in Beverly Hills fer goin' on to eight years now, and the wildest thing we seen yet is that movie star lives down the street.
Granny: Which one?
Jed: One with the long blonde hair, wears them wild clothes and jewelry, walks with a wiggle. You know the fella.
Jethro: College is fun. There's lots of fellas, and lots of girls. And quick as I can learn to tell em apart, it's gonna be a lot more fun.
Jethro: I'm ain't going back to the hills. I'm a college man.
Jane: Well, don't they have schools?
Jethro: Yeah, but back there they make ya come inside and study.
Jethro: I'm fightin' for intellectual freedom. I'm throwin' off the shackles of economic power structure and putting down you corporate interteasing conglomerates. I have done solved my identity problem. I know where I'm going and who I am. I'm free to make up my own mind and do my own thing.
Jed: And what is that?
Jethro: They ain't told me yet.
Granny: Here it is, in black and white.
Jed: Yep.
Granny: Elverna's daughter is gettin' married.
Jed: Yep.
Granny: I don't believe it.
Jed: I'm afraid it's true Granny.
(Granny grabs Jed's arm about as he is going to raise the spoon to his mouth)
Granny: Do you realize what this means?
Jed: I'm afraid it means I ain't gonna eat this cereal.
Granny: A mountain lion has ate Jethro!
Jed: Now Granny, if you was to tell me that Jethro had ate a mountain lion.
Jed: What happened to yer pretty dress?
Elly: Well, I traded it for these groovy threads that I got at the campus slop shop.
Jed: Slop shop?
Jane: I think she means Swap Shop.
Granny: Look again. She was right.
Jane: Do you mind if I have a bowl of cereal?
Jed: Help yourself. And uh lots of luck.
Granny: I'll get you a bowl Miss Jane. I'm glad to see somebody else getting' some cereal. Jed has been stuffin' hisself all mornin'.
(Jed's trying to eat cereal and Granny grabs his arm)
Granny: How can ya sit there eating cereal at a time like this?
Jed: It ain't easy.
(Granny comes in the kitchen to find Jed trying to finally eat a bowl of cereal)
Granny: Jed, not another bowl of cereal.
Jed: That's right. Not another bowl of cereal.
(Mr. Drysdale picks Granny up because he thought they left for the hills already)
Jane: He was afraid you'd gone back to the hills to find the family beauty a husband.
Granny: I ain't lookin' fer no husband!
(Granny comes looking for Jed and finds him at the table with a bowl of cereal)
Granny: Are you still eatin' cereal?
Jed: It looks like it.
(Jed is able to pour himself a bowl of cereal, not having success with the previous bowls he was trying to eat)
Jed: Well, look at that, just enough cereal left for one more bowl.
Jethro: Thank ya Uncle Jed. When you're hungry, ain't nothin' like a bowl of cereal.
Jed: Ain't nothin' like it as far as I'm concerned.
Granny: I told ya I seen a man eating beast.
Jed: Yep. Now, if you'll fetch me another bowl, you'll see a man eating cereal.
(Granny is mad about Elly's mountain lion Herman, saying that Herman ate Jethro)
Granny: Well, he did and yer Pa's fixing to shoot him.
Elly: Please don't Pa!
Granny: Do what ya hafta do Jed. Kin folks comes ahead of varmints!
Elly: You ain't gonna do it er ya Pa?
Jed: Looks like the only thing I ain't gonna do fer sure is eat this cereal.
Drysdale: Oh Mr. Clampett, do you want that beautiful sweet daughter of yours to marry some barefoot, ragged, slovenly, unwashed clod?
Jed: No sir. That's the reason I wanna go home. I wanna get her away from them college boys.
Student 1: Wanna swing?
Student 2: Cool.
Student 1: Groovy. Let's split.
Student 2: At last! A meaningful relationship.
(Mr. Drysdale grabs a knife so he can stop the Clampetts)
Jane: Chief! What are you going to do?!
Drysdale: I'm going to stab all four of them!
Jane: No! (grabs his arm)
Drysdale: Let go of me! They're not driving back to the hills!
Jane: Chief, come to your senses! You can't use that on the Clampetts!
Drysdale: I don't intend to. I'm going to puncture the tires on their truck! They'll have to get them out of a catalog. It'll take three weeks to get new ones!
Drysdale: Granny, you don't want to go back to the hills with eighty five million dollars?!
Granny: It's better than nothin'.
Drysdale: So you're going on a little trip? Palm Springs? Lake Arrowhead?
Granny: No, we's goin' to God's country.
Drysdale: Fort Knox?
Drysdale: I just invested eighty five million dollars by long distance telephone. And I can't afford to argue with those hillbillies.
Miss Jane: Why not?
Drysdale: Because it's their eighty five million.
(Granny is trying to tell Jed how the family will be shamed if Bigmouth Bradshaw marries before Elly)
Granny: Then think about Jethro. Why he's a boy with a lot of pride. He's lible to leave home.
Jed: Not as long as we got vittles here.
This is the first of several appearances of future Director Rob Reiner,and the first of several out of town episodes for the cast.
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