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Summary: After Itachi's Tsukuyomi attack Kakashi falls into a coma and Kaori, his nurse, falls in love while caring for him.
Author's Notes: Kaori is the only nurse ever seen at the shinobi hospital. She doesn't have a surname so I used the surname of Rukia from Bleach. Otoha is a nurse seen without her uniform at the bath house. None of the medics is actually an original character. I do own Kaori's relatives who do not appear in Naruto as far as I know.
The Curative Career of Kaori the Ninja Nurse
Part 1: Paperwork
Things were finally calming down at the shinobi hospital since the war with the Sound. Most of those injured during the battles had been happily discharged. There were still a few long term cases like that of unfortunate genin Rock Lee, whose bones were crushed in the chuunin exams even before the war, but sadly there were always a few chronic cases since the premiere shinobi medic and legendary sannin, Tsunade, left many years ago.
The nurse on duty, Kuchiki Kaori, now finally had a chance to catch up on paperwork – a lot of it, piled in three one foot stacks on the desk that she shared in rotation with the other nurses. It seemed her predecessor had scarcely made a dent. She sighed and picked up a folder, wishing very badly that she knew some jutsu that would automatically take care if it all.
Before she finished the first stack of reports, there was a ruckusby the main doors. A bizarre man in a hideous green jumpsuit came in carrying a body carelessly slumped over his shoulder. Kaori immediately pressed the emergency button to summon a medic.
"He's been out for over two hours now. We thought he just needed a rest, you know Kakashi's chakra stamina is nowhere as good as mine, but he's not waking up…"
"Gai you go after Sasuke, I'll fill them in," an attractive kunoichi in a red and white dress interrupted as Iashi, the medic on duty arrived.
"Right, Kurenai, I'll leave him to you."
Iashi wheeled in a bed where Gai deposited his human bundle.
"Kaori, hook him up to an IV and take his vitals," Iashi, ordered as he gave Kurenai a form to fill out. Kaori pushed the bed into a room in the ICU.
"Umm…isn't all this information in the system?" Kurenai frowned at the unnecessary paperwork. Her red eyes seemed to dim at the prospect.
"Fill in as much as you can and we can pull the rest off the system," Iashi compromised. 'Sigh, these shinobi just don't understand the necessity of proper admittance procedures.' He took out a pen and another form and started asking questions, "Okay, what happened?"
"Uchiha Itachi is what happened," Kurenai said angrily with a flip of her dark hair. "He came back for what was apparently not a friendly visit. Asuma and I tried to question him, but he and his companion were too strong," she admitted reluctantly. "Kakashi saved us, but then Itachi used some kind of special doujutsu associated with his sharingan. Kakashi told Asuma and me to keep our eyes closed so we didn't actually see what happened. Kakashi said that he had protection against Itachi because of his sharingan, but one second Kakashi and Itachi were talking, next second we could hear Kakashi in pain and collapsing. I don't think they physically moved toward each other. Luckily, Gai showed up at the last second and they decided it was too risky to continue. We brought Kakashi home first - you know how he hates hospitals..."
Iashi nodded, "Yes, he's missed his annual checkup for the past five years or more." He frowned in disapproval. 'These shinobi just don't understand the importance of annual checkups.'
"Anyway, after two hours, he still wasn't coming around. Then Uchiha Sasuke found out his brother was in town and took off after him. Gai just left in pursuit, Asuma is filing the report with the elders, and here I am doing paperwork." Kurenai sighed as she looked at the lines requesting Kakashi's ninja registration number (no idea), address (okay, she knew that one), medical history including parental background and allergies (no idea again), closest living relative (none that she knew of), contacts (she tentatively put her own name down). She returned the mostly blank form back to Iashi.
Iashi took all the forms, handed them over to Kaori, who just returned after setting up the patient, and ordered her to fill in the rest. "Thank you Kurenai-san. We'll take it from here. It looks like you could use some rest as well."
Kurenai nodded tiredly and left the shinobi medic to his work. Iashi followed Kaori into the ICU room where Kakashi lay with an IV saline drip hooked up to his left arm, and a blood pressure/pulse monitor attached to his right arm. Iashi took out a penlight and shone it into Kakashi's eyes. Then he hooked up another instrument to monitor Kakashi's brainwaves.
Kaori noted with curiosity that one of Kakashi's eyes was dark gray while the other was red with strangely shaped black dots. Of course she knew of the great Konoha copy-nin, Hatake Kakashi of the sharingan, and had even spoken to him on several occasions when his genin had been admitted to the hospital, but she had never seen that eye before. When Uchiha Sasuke was brought in after the second and third chuunin exams, his eyes stayed naturally dark. She also noticed that Kakashi's face was still masked. 'How odd, no one's bothered to remove it to help him breathe better.'
Now she observed admiringly, almost enviously, as Iashi concentrated his chakra to scan Kakashi's body, sending chakra pulses that echoed back information his trained nerve receptors could interpret. It never ceased to impress her, the power of a shinobi medic. To her eternal regret, she was not able to make the cut and was relegated to being just a nurse, little better than a civilian midwife. But she was satisfied with her role, after all, nurses filled a necessary void between the needy patients and the impatient, busy doctors.
Iashi finished his exam with a concerned frown. "There's no physical damage as far as I can tell. No trauma to the brain. No internal bleeding, no damage to the organs." He looked at Kaori, expecting her to write all this down. She immediately started scribbling in Kakashi's file. Iashi sighed and added, "I'm not sure what we can do. The brainwave pattern indicates he's in a coma. Well, at least he's breathing on his own. Not much is known about the sharingan's power anymore and the one person who can help us is unconscious. If only Tsunade-sama were here. If only one of us had her expertise and power…I'm afraid right now the best we can do is make him comfortable and monitor his vitals." Still, he proceeded to draw a few vials of blood to check for toxins.
"How long will he be out?"
"Hard to say, sometimes patients come out of a coma after a few days, but sometimes it could be months, years or never."
'Never? How tragic.' "Should I put him in one of the private long rehab rooms?" Kaori ventured to ask.
Iashi nodded. "He's important to the welfare of Konoha. One of the top jounin, you know. He should get the best care we can offer soI want you to personally monitor his case."
"Me? I'm just a nurse…" The idea of such a long term responsibility depressed her.
"Well, that's all he needs right now. There's not much us medics can do. Like I said, just make him comfortable."
"Would he even notice? I mean, the man's in a coma." 'Just my luck to be assigned to such a futile case.'
"They say even coma patients dream and react to their loved ones speaking to them. It might help in his recovery to have someone talk to him."
"I'm sure he'll get lots of visitors since he's so famous."
Iashi nodded doubtfully, "Well, he doesn't have any family that I know of and there's none listed here. Check in the system. Kurenai-sensei listed herself as the contact, but that's probably because she didn't know whom else to put down. I guess they might be involved, but there should be someone else closer to him. Find out and advise him or her about talking to a coma patient. I'm going to put the patient's body in stasis, that way we won't have to worry about bodily functions and waste removal. He won't need the IV after this."
Kaori nodded and mentally noted all that Iashi had said. Iashi performed a complicated seal sequence to channel and mold his chakra. A stream of green medical chakra flowed out of his hands and dispersed over the patient. There was no obvious effect but it seemed Kakashi's breathing became even slower and more even. After the medic was done, she removed the IV then wheeled the bed to the private part of the hospital for long term, often terminal, cases. She adjusted the bed so his head was slightly elevated and made sure all the monitor leads were secured and the instruments were working properly.
Kaori took some time to examine her patient, or rather study his physical attributes. He was still dressed in his dark blue shinobi shirt and pants. His sandals, gloves, and forehead protector had been removed, allowing his white-gray head to tousle down attractively over his forehead. In her many years she had seen numerous scars, missing limbs, missing eyes, ears, even noses…so sad and disturbing, but this scar was interesting. A scar vertically down the left eye. A ragged imprecise scar, not a surgical scar but a battle scar. 'He must have lost his original left eye,' she surmised. His mask still covered the lower half of his face so she reached over and pulled it down to make him more comfortable.
'He's absolutely gorgeous!' She couldn't help but stare for a minute, two minutes... five full minutes passed. Beautifully formed full lips meant for kissing. A lovely aquiline nose. Deep set, probably soulful, eyes. Expressive eyebrows, currently knit in a painful frown. A strong chiseled chin. Well defined cheekbones. Pale perfect skin. 'What a shame to hide it behind a mask.' She couldn't help but reach out to brush a lock of his wild gray hair away from his noble brow.
"Well, good-bye for now, sweet prince." Kaori smiled at the nickname she gave him, then went back to her regular station to process the paperwork on her newest patient.
'Hatake Kakashi…' Kaori typed into her computer and pulled up his file. 'Age 27, a year younger than me, thought he was older with all that gray hair…Blood type O, parents deceased, no other living relative listed, no contact listed, received eye transplant at age 13, last checkup was nearly seven years ago, very bad, these shinobi should be more proactive about healthcare… no recent admittances, he must have had no serious injuries, in fact no visits since his last checkup. Oh, I see, his medical jutsu rating is pretty high, he'd be considered a mid rank medic here, probably treats himself…was admitted for psychiatric evaluation after death of teammate Uchiha Obito…and after the death of Yondaime. Passed psychiatric tests but recommendations for counseling were ignored. Special requests…do not remove mask unless absolutely necessary...'
All in all, his record was spotty. The most disturbing part was the lack of family or any contact - that was unusual. There must be someone she could inform, so she decided to question Gai sensei and Kurenai sensei tomorrow. Surely his fellow comrades would know.
Kaori looked at the clock. Her regular shift was almost over. Then pickup some dinner, she did not feel like cooking today, and home to soak in a nice hot bath with lots of bubbles. The comforting thought was disrupted when the odd man in green reappeared with a young dark haired boy slumped over his shoulder.
"This is Uchiha Sasuke, he's been attacked by his brother Itachi with the same jutsu that knocked out Kakashi. He's been out for nearly an hour now…"
For the second time that day, Kaori immediately pressed the button to notify the medic standing by in the emergency room and directed Gai to come with her.
This time Houshou was on duty. The medics had better hours than the nurses she noted bitterly. She instinctively readied the IV drip and monitors while Houshou spoke to Gai about paperwork.
"Uh…isn't all this information in the system?" Gai frowned at the unnecessary paperwork.
"Fill in as much as you can and we'll pull the rest off the system," Houshou sighed. 'These shinobi just don't understand the importance of documentation.' He took out a pen and another form and said, "So tell me exactly what happened." Houshou didn't realize he should have never used the word "exactly" with Gai.
"I was coming back from training, you know I do 100 laps around the village everyday, when I sensed trouble with a capital 'T.' I looked over my shoulder and spied, with my better than 20/20 vision and beauteous eyes, two strangers confronting my fellow sensei, Asuma and Kurenai, and my eternal rival Kakashi, you know I've got 52 wins now to his 51." Gai flashed his 100 watt smile at the pretty nurse. "I knew something strange was going on since Asuma and Kurenai had their eyes closed and Kakashi was helplessly down on his knees in obvious pain. The big ugly shark guy with a funny looking sword, looked like he was about to attack. I reacted instinctively and with my superior speed, I'm the fastest jounin in Konoha you know." He winked at Kaori. "I blocked his attack with my whirlwind kick, arriving in the nick of time to rescue my eternal rival. Upon directly facing Konoha's Noble Green Beast, Uchiha Itachi and his shark friend shook in fear at my luminous presence and using their wise judgment, decided to depart and abandon their quest…"
"What happened to Uchiha Sasuke?" Houshou iterated.
"After we brought my unconscious rival back to his place, Asuma, Kurenai and I held an important meeting to discuss why Uchiha Itachi returned to Konoha and to address the last thing Kakashi said, something about the Fourth Hokage's legacy and Naruto. And now that there is no Hokage, we didn't know exactly…"
"What happened to Uchiha Sasuke?" Houshou reiterated, continuing to be patient.
"Well, then Aoba showed up asking about Itachi, apparently word got around fast after I informed the Anbu. Then Sasuke showed up right behind him and heard everything Aoba said, especially the part about how Itachi's after Naruto, so Sasuke took off in pursuit. I helped Kurenai bring Kakashi to the hospital, being the chivalrous considerate man that I am..." Gai struck a manly superhero pose with his hands on his hips and his chest thrusted out. "...since he still wouldn't wake up, low stamina you know. Then I went after Sasuke. Now since my speed is superior, I'm the fastest jounin in Konoha you know, I caught up relatively quickly, but I didn't know exactly where he was in Otafuka so I had to ask around and search…"
"What happened to Uchiha Sasuke?" Houshou sighed.
"I heard a ruckus at this inn and when I arrived, I astutely used my forehead protector to spy around the corner and I saw Sasuke unconscious and someone standing over him. I, uh, accidentally dealt a blow… you don't need to know that part. Anyway, Jiraiya-sama told me Sasuke had been attacked by his brother Itachi with a mental sharingan jutsu. I shrewdly deduced it was probably the same jutsu as what he used on Kakashi."
Houshou sighed again and wrote down "Unknown metal attack."
Gai sighed as he looked at the lines requesting Sasuke's ninja registration number (no idea), address (somewhere in the Uchiha clan complex), medical history including parental background and allergies (parents deceased was all he knew), closest living relative (Itachi but he didn't count did he?), contact (Kakashi, but he was out... who else? He tentatively put Haruno Sakura, his teammate, since Naruto was out of town.). Gai returned the mostly blank form back to Houshou who barely glanced at it before handing it over to Kaori.
"Excuse me, Gai sensei," Kaori walked over to the giant spearmint stick. "Does Kakashi-sensei have anyone we should inform of his condition? He doesn't have anyone listed as his contact in the system."
"Kakashi? Hmm…I guess you should inform Haruno Sakura. She's one of his genin, along with Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto. I can't think of anyone else."
"Haruno Sakura… she's the pink haired girl who's been visiting Lee and…"
"Yes! She's also Lee's important person!"
"You listed her as Uchiha Sasuke's contact as well."
"He has no family other than the brother who put him here."
"I see," Kaori sighed. So sad not to have family. She warmly thought of her younger siblings and parents - being regular civilians was better in many ways.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you that Jiraiya-sama and Naruto are looking for Tsunade-sama. She should be able to cure Kakashi and Sasuke and my beloved Lee," Gai smiled his shiny million ryou smile at the pretty nurse who seemed to be strangely unimpressed.
"When do you think she'll get here?" asked Houshou.
"Well, there is a problem with that. They're not sure where she is. Apparently she moves around a lot, hiding from creditors."
"Creditors?" both medical staff personnel asked in unison.
"Gambling addiction," Gai explained.
The two nodded knowingly. Tsunade was famous in more ways than one. Her superior medical jutsu were only matched by her poor financial handling.
"If I'm done here, I'm off to visit Lee."
"If there's any change in Kakashi-san's or Sasuke-san's condition I'll be sure to inform…" Kaori started to say but Gai had already left. It seemed his priority was very clear.
Houshou was finishing up his exam. "Like what Iashi wrote in his report on Kakashi, no physical damage, coma brainwave. Prep a private room in the wing for minors," he ordered abruptly.
Kaori thought about objecting. It was already past her regular hours, but she nodded and noted to put in her overtime card, again. "Shouldn't I put him in the same wing as his sensei?" she asked.
"Rules are rules. Kids, shinobi or not, go to the pediatrics ward," he said cooly.
"Right, the rules," she sighed as she prepped the bed. She mentally noted to herself that someone else would have to be Sasuke's primary caregiver. She already had too much to do. It was harder being a nurse than a doctor. Nurses saw the patients every day, several times a day. A doctor may check in on a patient a few times a week, maybe even face to face for a minute, but it was the nurses who really cared for them, encouraged them, talked to them. Kaori prided herself on being a good caring nurse, yet one who never let her personal feelings interfere with her job.
After setting up Sasuke, she returned to Kakashi's room. Kaori remembered the request about the mask. It was more than odd. It was an almost ridiculous request. Why? Why would someone not want his face revealed even when in a hospital? Still, she had to honor it. Her hands hovered above his face. But instead of pulling his mask up, she gently caressed his cheeks. They felt cool and clammy, but smooth and soft. One hand reached over to touch his forehead. She stroke it absently, trying to erase the crease between his eyebrows. He appeared to respond and the painful frown on his face smoothed away under her touch. She knew she was not ethically allowed to gaze upon his handsome visage again so she stared for another minute, caressed his face again and pulled up his mask.
"Good night sweet prince," she whispered in his ear before she quietly left the room.
On her way home, Kaori first stopped by the ramen stand for a takeout order of seafood ramen. The young ramen waitress took her order with a smile, handed her the bag with a smile, and took her payment and thanked her with a smile. For some reason, that annoyed her.
'That ramen girl is always smiling at her customers. Does she really love what she does? Cooking and serving ramen? Can that possibly be a fulfilling job?' Kaori wondered
'Just because you would be miserable doing something so mundane, doesn't mean someone else can't be satisfied,' she chided herself. 'You should be less judgmental. That's why your family thinks you can't find someone. No one can be as perfect as you.'
'I'm not perfect. I just try to be. Everyone should try to do their best,' Kaori argued with herself on her way to the Haruno household.
She knocked on the door and patiently waited for someone to answer. It was just past dinner time for most people. 'That girl Sakura is lucky, she has parents and a regular home,' she noted to herself, 'not a dormitory like Naruto, or a tomb like Sasuke.' She knew the type of domicile her patients lived in just based on their address. Where they lived told her a lot about their lives which was important in treating a patient psychologically. Not every medic or nurse understood this important facet of a patient. She had noticed that Kakashi lived in one of the academy sponsored apartment buildings, not a family home, and…
Her thoughts were interrupted bythe pretty pink haired girl in a red dress who answered the door. Kaori immediately recognized her. "Sakura-chan, I'm nurse Kaori from the shinobi hospital. I want you to know that Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke…"
"Sasuke! What happened to Sasuke? Is it he hurt? He ran off this afternoon looking for Naruto…if that idiot did something to my darling Sasuke, he'll have to answer to me!" the girl immediately ranted.
"Both Kakashi-sensei and Sasuke-san are at the hospital in a coma. They were attacked by Sasuke's brother Itachi. Jiraiya-sama and Naruto-san are looking for Tsunade-sama, the great shinobi healer…"
"Sasuke's in the hospital? I have to see him now!"
"Visiting hours will be over soon. But when you visit them tomorrow I suggest you talk to them or read to them. They say people in comas can still hear. It just might help them get better."
"I'll talk to Sasuke until there's no breath in my body if that will save him." Sakura started to cry as she thought about her love lying alone in the hospital.
"Well, I'm sure that won't be necessary. Visiting hours start at 8AM. Good night," Kaori replied, feeling a bit annoyed with this young girl who had not expressed one iota of concern for her sensei. Then again she was obviously in love with Uchiha Sasuke.
'When was the last time I felt like that about a man? How long has it been since the last time I thought I was in love. It's been years,' Kaori thought as she walked slowly home. A couple of years until the big "3-O" and her love life was nil.
Her parents bugged her every time she visited. "So, seeing anyone special?" was their not so subtle attempt of finding out when their oldest daughter would finally tie the knot like her younger siblings.
But Kaori was a career woman who loved her job, most of the time. She worked long hours and thus had little time for a social life. She was very pretty, even in her plain white nurse's uniform, and the doctors and patients noticed. They used to hit on her all the time. But now it was less and less, especially with the addition of that new nurse Otoha, seven years her junior, of the big, big, oversized bust, not balanced by a brain or any nursing talent.
Kaori had gone out with a few of the medics, but she did not approve of dating at the office. It made things awkward when things did not work out. But the real problem was the arrogance of the shinobi medics who instantly saw her as an inferior.
She had dated Houshou for a while, but that didn't work out. All the other nurses thought he was a perfect catch, handsome, caring, nice, and a medic. What else could a woman want? They criticized her for being too picky when she broke it off just a few months ago. There was just no chemistry, that intangible element required for love.
She was happy with her life, wasn't she? Or rather she was usually too busy to think about whether she was or not. What she was was complacent. She had fallen into a routine and used her busy schedule as an excuse not to start a relationship.
So what did she want out of life? She wanted a family. She wanted to have children. She wanted someone of her own to care for. She wanted to continue working as a nurse. She wanted the power to heal. And like everyone else, she wanted to love and be loved in return, and preferably by the same person.
Author's Notes: Okay, I'm not sure where I'm going with this but I think it will be a GaixKaorixKakashi story. Just something I'm working on in between struggling with Kakashi's Stolen Sharingan which I will be posting very soon.


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From casual doodling to professional level designing and fine art, the iPad Pro lends itself to many creative pursuits. But to truly take advantage of the responsive screen and endless creative potential, you need the right apps.
Drawing apps for the iPad Pro feature optimization for the Apple Pencil, endless coloring tools, excellent resolution, and fine-tuning features that are worth the investment. Of course, we'll cover budget-friendly and free apps for emerging artists, too.
Ibis Paint X
Ibis Paint X is an appealing, multi-faceted drawing app that offers a variety of tools. This versatile app offers 1,000 fonts, 312 brushes, 58 filters, 46 screen tones, 27 blending modes, stroke stabilization, radial line and symmetry rulers, and the ability to record drawings. The free, ad-supported version facilitates smooth drawing at up to 120 fps with brush types like dip pens, felt tip pens, digital pens, airbrushes, fan brushes, flat brushes, pencils, oil brushes, charcoal brushes, crayons, and stamps. Brush parameters feature starting/ending thickness, starting/ending opacity, and initial/final brush angle. Sliders enable brush thickness adjustments and opacity previews. You can add unlimited layers and set parameters for each layer individually, such as opacity, alpha blending, and adding, subtracting, and multiplying. New filters for the latest version include Lens Blur, Hexagonal Pixelate, Square Pixelate, Triangular Pixelate, Ripple, Twirl, Fisheye Lens, and Polar Coordinates.
Morpholio Trace
Trace is an architectural design app that lets you develop ideas as you work through various phases of the design process. Made for architects, designers, interior designers, illustrators, and other creatives, Trace lets you conceptualize your designs by drawing on top of PDFs, maps, photos, drawing sets, and background templates in high resolution with tools, brushes, and pens. An AR perspective finder sets grids in real space. You can draw and measure or draw over any site to scale, auto draw to vanishing points, mark up and share drawings, move paper as you would with paper tracing, and access photos from your camera or the cloud. A scale pen gives you smart line weights for precision drawing. The basic app is free but various pro-level subscriptions range from $5 per month to $20 per month.
MediBang Paint
MediBang Paint is an easy-to-use painting program that may remind you of Photoshop, in that it allows you to work with layers. It has a very good brush editor and offers the ability to add styles to your layers. This program has so many tools that it feels more at home on the larger iPad Pros, but it is also compatible with the fourth-generation iPad and above, or iPad Mini 2 and above. If you like to draw comic books, this app gives you a lot of comic book fonts to get the professional look you want. You can save your projects locally or to the cloud. Recent versions implement the Eyedropper tool in the long tap, added a reference window, and implemented Unsharp Mask.
ArtRage ($5)
The main idea of ArtRage is to make the painting experience as realistic as possible on the iPad. You can mix different paints as though you were blending them on a real canvas with a palette knife, airbrushing, or daubing oils. This app works with layers, so if you're already familiar with Photoshop, you'll feel right at home with the blend modes. ArtRage also allows you to record your strokes for later viewing on your desktop. It not only supports the Apple Pencil, but also Wacom, Adonit, and Pogo styli.
Autodesk Sketchbook
Even if you're not a professional artist, you've probably heard about Autodesk Sketchbook. It's one of the most popular apps for artists and the rest of us. The layout is everything when it comes to design programs, and Sketchbook's toolbars are organized in an easily accessible way — and you can even pin them to the screen. Great features include import and export from and to Photoshop, and the ability to zoom in as much as 2,500% to let you work on those fine details. It supports the Apple Pencil, along with some of the better styli available for other tablets. Recent versions feature 1-, 2-, and 3-point perspective guides, a snapping toggle, vanishing point lock, horizon line visibility, and curve ruler. Grid tools can be customized, infinite, or constrained.
Graphic ($9)
Graphic is like having Adobe Illustrator on your iPad. This app, which used to be called iDraw, is also available for your Mac, letting you switch back and forth between your desktop and your iPad for designing and drawing. It features different brushes and full support for the Apple Pencil, but it also lets you create vector-based technical drawings. If you're into graphic design, you will be amazed at how Graphic can push the capabilities of the iPad.
Adobe Illustrator Draw
Similar to Graphic, Adobe Illustrator Draw allows you to create vector-based designs. This app is simple, with a non-intimidating user interface. It's geared toward someone who wants to dive in and start working on ideas right away without a steep learning curve. The app lets you take your work on the go, and you can easily transition your latest project to Illustrator on your desktop or laptop when you're back in the office.
Inspire Pro ($10)
This is one of the most intuitive apps for drawing and sketching. Taking advantage of the iPad's multicore CPU and OpenGL, it can draw and render images quickly, which is one of the things you want when you're drawing on a tablet to help it mimic real drawing. The app saves your favorite colors for quick access and fully supports the Apple Pencil. The app also supports Siri shortcuts in iOS 12 from Settings > Siri & Search or the Shortcuts app. That opens Inspire Pro to a new canvas so you can get started painting immediately. The updated version offers full support for the new iPadOS, including all multitasking features such as Slide Over and Split View as well as enhanced performance to leverage Apple Pencil's new lower latency for a smooth, precise artistic experience.
Making stickers, icons, and other graphics with Assembly is easy. You can create crisp and professional-looking work in no time at all with a vast selection of shapes, symbols, and stickers for you to manipulate and layer. You can save your work as a high-resolution JPG or PNG, as well as in vector formats like SVG and PDF. The latest version has reworked the app's approach to color with general enhanced accuracy and efficiency throughout. The app now features real-time color updates, full-screen color sampling with the eyedropper tool, hex color code support, easy toggling between Fill, Stroke and Shadow settings, and custom color palettes with up to 16 colors. The working color palette now keeps track of all the colors in your project and you can more precisely adjust opacity, access colors directly from the Shapes Tab, and get one-button access to remove color attributes. The app is free, but a Pro subscription that costs $3 per week, $5 per month or $30 per year is available for added themed shape packs, a text engine and fonts, and the ability to combine and intersect fonts, or import vector images.
Sketch Club ($3)
Sketch Club has something somewhat unusual going for it — a community of artists with whom you can share your art. You can comment on everyone's work and find some inspiration. The app lets you create up to 64 layers in total, and you can create your art on canvases that are up to 4K in resolution. With a wide selection of brushes and vector tools, this is a full-fledged drawing app. It has full support for the Apple Pencil and the ability to record in a video in 1080p.
Brushes Redux
Brushes took the stage when the Apple iPad debuted back in 2010 and showed the world that an iPad could be a tool for artists. The app won an Apple Design Award, David Hockney used it to create paintings, and Jorge Colombo used it for New Yorker covers. Since then, the app has grown to support the iPad Pro. Written exclusively for the iPad, the app supports OpenGL and takes advantage of the tablet's 64-bit processing. Not only is it swift, but it has the familiar iOS interface design that iPad users appreciate. It has layers support, but unlike other more robust professional apps, you can only create up to 10 layers.
Astropad ($30)
Astropad pairs your iPad Pro with a Mac and turns your tablet into a dedicated drawing slate. It's meant for professional creatives who use applications such as Photoshop and Illustrator. The app is even optimized for the iPad Pro to showcase improved image quality, reduced latency, a custom pressure curve specifically designed for the Apple Pencil, and support for tilt with the stylus. There's also advanced stroke tuning for removing stray points and providing strokes with the Pencil, which means you only see what you intend to draw. It's the ultimate drawing app for professional illustrators, comic book artists, and anyone who's ever wanted a Wacom tablet. Recent versions have re-engineered the data flow from your Mac to iPad to push data more efficiently. Now, pixelation is significantly reduced when connected over Wi-Fi or USB. It costs $30.
Animation Desk
Animation Desk is great for animating, storyboarding, and sketching, and is compatible with the Apple Pencil. It's a relatively basic app, but one that will cost you nothing if you don't opt for the in-app purchases. Recent versions have added rotoscoping and the ability to import video and files from iOS Files. If you're looking to try your hand at animation, Animation Desk is the app to try.
Pigment is the ultimate adult coloring app for grown-ups and kids alike. It actually feels like you're using a coloring book and colored pencils. It supports the Apple Pencil — which makes it extra fun to color inside the lines — and offers more than 200 professional illustrations, along with eight different kinds of pencils, markers, and brushes. Your color choices are unlimited, and when you finish your masterpieces, you can instantly share them with family and friends or print them out to stick on the fridge. Paid add-ons are available for those seeking more options and designs. The new version debuts the Blur brush, new Vapor and Jewel Haze color palettes, and a dynamic new fill tool animation. You can now move the brush controls to the left- or right-hand side of the screen or hide it completely. The company also has a Jim Henson Company partnership and color books and pages from the Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and Farscape. You can now disable finger drawing when using Apple Pencil and turn on or off two-finger undo.
Concepts is built with a specific purpose in mind — design. Home design, industrial design — you name it and Concepts can help you envision it. The app includes many of the tools you would expect from a design app, including support for numerous layers and the ability to export in both SVG or CAD formats. Recent updates enhance the behavior of the Shape Guides for more precise sketches and designs. You can now rotate the shape guides precisely via the angle metric in the status bar. When you have a shape guide active, tap and hold on the angle value at the right end of the status bar, then enter your desired angle or choose from the presets offered. No need to toggle snap on and off anymore to get your lines and rectangles aligned! You can now disable rotation and scaling when adjusting the guides with the drag handles. This allows you to control the shapes much more precisely. The shape guides are included in your subscription or are available for purchase in the store with Essentials. The app now shows a notification when a selection is duplicated. This allows a more precise workflow. If you use a keyboard with your device, there's a new set of keyboard shortcuts. Hold down your command key while on canvas to see the current list of what's possible, both with and without an active selection. The app is free but offers in-app purchases.
This app is great for modelers and designers who make 3D objects or plans. With uMake, designers can draw in two dimensions on an axis to render 3D images on the iPad Pro. You can make sketches revolve or extrude for a recursive effect. Once you've sketched out the design in 2D, you can alter the 3D rendering to meet your exact specifications. When finished, uMake offers the ability to export your creations in PNG, IGES, and OBJ file formats. New versions let you use the fillet/chamfer tool on 3D objects with planer (flat) surfaces. Support for 3D surfaces will be available in the future. An updated What's New screen makes it easier to keep track of changes in the app and discover new features. The app is free, but to get the full feature set, you'll need to pay $16 per month or $96 per year.
Pixelmator ($5)
Pixelmator is a solid photo editor that can also handle painting. sketching, and graphic design. From cropping to retouching, sketching to blending, Pixelmator does it all. The app includes a host of tools and pays close attention to how you use your Apple Pencil. In fact, dozens of the brushes included in the app feature full support for Apple's stylus. Recent versions sport an optimized interface and support for the double-tap Apple Pencil gesture.
Procreate ($10)
Procreate is one of the most professional and well-rounded drawing apps on this list, and it will set you back $10. It comes equipped with a full set of drawing tools that expertly imitate real creative tools, like soft pastels, oil pastels, charcoal, graphite pencils of varying hardness, acrylic, oil, watercolors, and more. Whatever the medium, Procreate's digital tools give you the full effect and appearance of the real thing. You can even smudge, blur, and manipulate your strokes just as you would on paper or canvas. Its 64-bit painting engine, Silica, is fast and responsive, and on the iPad Pro with Pencil, drawing or painting on Procreate feels natural. You can add a number of layers and decide how high-res you want your canvas to be. With the Pro, it can go up to 16K resolution with 64-bit color, and you can export your artwork as PSD, PNG, JPG, or Procreate files. The app also helps you build a portfolio and share your work if you so desire.
Paper has long been one of the best iPad drawing apps. In addition to the standard creative tool suite, the app offers diagramming and note-taking tools. You get a watercolor brush, calligraphy pen, pencil, marker, ballpoint pen, eraser, paint roller, scissors, and a ruler. You can even import or take pictures, and mark them up with text or drawings. All your creations are easily shared to Paste, an app for creative teams. Using Apple's Pencil and iPad Pro with the app is seamless. A subscription-based Pro version offers extra features and tools. This release makes it easier to customize your journals with a cover image. For those who take organization seriously, you can also now choose the color of the band on each journal. A new feature for picking a page template for an entire journal — grid, lined, or storyboard presets will be automatically applied to each new page.
Adobe Photoshop Sketch
Adobe's entire iOS app suite works extremely well on the iPad Pro, but we'll highlight Sketch in particular as our favorite drawing app. You can create expressive drawings and paintings on it without opening a sketchbook. Artwork can be sent as layered PSD files to Adobe Photoshop CC or resized up to 4 times in Illustrator CC to print high-resolution copies. The app includes 14 tools, a digital ruler, and graph guides. You can also import your own images or stock photos to work with. New versions let you control the Apple Pencil double-tap gesture, switch between brush and eraser, activate the color picker, and zoom in and out. You can also send your work directly to the printer from within the app.
Zen Brush 2 ($3)
With Apple Pencil support, Zen Brush 2 lets you create beautifully drawn art that features the look and feel of the East Asian ink brush. The app lets you choose from a large collection of backgrounds to showcase your art or calligraphy. The app also allows you to share your work right to your Facebook or Twitter feed. If you don't have an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, no worries. This app is also compatible with the Wacom Intuos and Adonit Jot stylus.
Tayasui Sketches
Tayasui Sketches looks simple and clean, and it offers a number of professional brushes and a clutter-free space to draw. You get a pencil, Rotring, watercolor brush, felt pen, and eraser for free. You can import photos, too, if you want, and it's easy to share your sketches on social networks or via email. It's great for illustration and quick sketches, but if you make the in-app purchase, it can become a professional drawing app with surface pressure, layers, types of paper, more brushes, and the ability to change brush sizes. The app lets you try the pro features for an hour so you can decide if it's worth the $6 price tag. Regardless of whether you pay for the pro, you can organize your sketches and creations into different notebooks in the app. Thanks to the backup feature, you never have to worry about losing your work.
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April 7, 2015 § 1 Comment
I wish that life's answers
Would fall to you like rain
And you could catch them in your hand
And never doubt again.
March 24, 2015 § Leave a comment
perhaps it was the night before last, when I saw it behind my eyelids swimming amongst my confusing dreams.
or perhaps it was dancing on my ceiling when my phones persistent hum woke me this morning.
or maybe I saw it painted on the road, etched into a metal sign, emblazoned by a plane into the afternoon sky, when I was driving from here to somewhere.
but i saw it so very clearly, like a new and wonderful color, like a siren interrupting your sleep, like jumping into the air and landing in a pool of icy water.
and it was so unbearably bright,
I couldn't stop staring.
the unknown
March 17, 2015 § Leave a comment
it never reveals its face
yet it wraps its fingers
around your mind
pleading for you to think
only of its grip
it prods at your heart
making it flutter at its touch
of uncertainty
it never lets go
as your legs walk
in its darkened direction
and it knows
it's own poetic structure
as it whispers
words of doubt to the confident
and the cautious
latches onto the hands of the sure
and the hurried,
the harried, the calm
and pulls them all into its arms
and when they arrive they never know,
because the air breathes the same
and the sky looks just as clear
December 16, 2014 § Leave a comment
most days I'm a feather clinging to the wing of a multicolored bird
quivering from the wind, but always returning to the place where I belong
blending and fading with the soft abyss of surrounding comfort, I wait.
some days I'm the multicolored bird piercing the sky
flying with the wind, at such a height that makes my colors melt
into one single, perfect hue, blending into the welcome air, I soar.
but today I am the sky, an expanse filled with possibility, with fear
propelling the wind, but quivering and melting, fading and flying
I don't leave or return because I'm already here, so I breathe.
to rise
December 9, 2014 § 5 Comments
those rows of roses
all sowed just so, sewed
with thread, they were tread
in a path just so
and we ambled through as anglers
searching madly, blindly
through the murk, the dark
in a sea, we couldn't see
we sang songs in our blindness
forcing fallacy filled fantasies
and what we read in the dark turned red
like those roses
but thankfully with care
we came up for air
above it all,
we rose
December 4, 2014 § 1 Comment
when it's dark
too early, and I'm driving home from work
my headlights guiding my car's path
I always wish for spring
but suddenly I worry
that when spring arrives
and it rains
too much, and I'm driving home from work
my wipers guiding my car's path
I will always wish for fall
December 4, 2014 § 1 Comment
"you are powerful beyond measure"
my yoga teacher whispered into our expanse of sweaty bodies, all twisted and teetering and balancing on a single leg that had gone numb minutes ago
"you have a special light that shines"
she proclaimed as we bent and twisted and tried to breathe like darth vader while emptying our minds and simultaneously channeling inner peace and oneness with the earth
"you are enough"
we inhaled, we exhaled
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2013 Zombie Awareness Month
Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber
Read by Sean Kenin
Length: 6 Hrs 41 Min
Genre: Science Fiction Horror
Quick Thoughts: Star Wars fans looking for a darker take on the universe will enjoy this science fiction horror tale and Zombie fans should also find themselves more than pleased. While I found the production a bit overdone with music and FXs, the narration was quite good. Death Troopers is a fun blending of Lucas and Romero that is effective enough to please the hardcore fans of both.
Grade: B-
As you all know, we are currently immersed within the wonder that is Zombie Awareness Month. Yet, today is also a special day, which is why I am posting a review on the weekend, which I rarely ever do. Today is May 4th, or May the fourth, or… and here it comes "May the fourth be with you!" That's right my fellow geeks, it's Star Wars Day! So, let me take you back in time to my childhood. It was a simpler time, before many of you were even born. It was a time that many people only know through cheesy programs on VH1… The 80's. Things were different back then. It was an archaic world were only the richer members of our neighborhoods had luxuries like basic cable and VCRs. Most television came through to our little box through something called "rabbit ears" and programming came in two ways UHF and VHF. We couldn't pause live programs or digitally record things to watch later. When we wanted to see a movie we had to go to the theatre or wait to a public channel actually broadcasted it. When a movie like Star Wars came on, it was an event. I watched Star Wars for the first time when it was broadcast on Network TV. This is one of the first significant memories of my childhood. The movie started with a special about the fans of the movie, with many people discussing having seen it multiple of time. Crazy number of times. This fascinated me because I had yet to see it. I stayed up late (until 10PM!) watching it while the rest of the family all drifted off. I was mesmerized. Later, I would see The Empire Strikes Back in an actual movie theatre, my only previous trips to movie theatres were seeing Bambi and Superman at a Drive-In with my father. Star Wars was one of the things that truly transformed me into a science fiction fan, and some of the first adult novels I ever read were the Star Wars novelizations. So, Happy Star Wars Day! May you not be eaten by cute little fuzzy teddy bear things.
The Prison ship Purge houses over 500 of The Empires greatest enemies, which includes ruthless killers, viscous aliens and of course, in the case of brothers Trig and Kale Logo, simple petty smugglers swept up by The Empire's paranoia. When a routine salvage mission leaves the ship exposed to a lethal pathogen the brothers, the ship doctor and an iconic duo must battle the revived corpses of guards and prisoners in order to escape the death plagued ship. First let me say… Zombie Wookies. Now, I think the cover art of the blood smeared Storm Trooper was pretty darn cool, but let's face it, if they would have put a zombified Wookie on the cover the world may have geekgasmed. Death Troopers was a pretty fun story. Honestly, the idea of zombies on an Imperial prison ship would be hard to totally screw up and Schreiber keeps it on track. The overall feel of the novel was similar to Aliens, or even some of the more horrific moments in Leviathan Wakes. It was good old fashion scifi horror done effectively with pretty cool Star Wars style names like Trip Logo and Jareth Sartoris thrown in to flavor the soup. Yet, this wasn't the perfect novel. There was an obvious back story that is glaringly missing, making you feel like you are reading a series out of order. In fact, a prequel does exist, Red Harvest, although it was written a year after Death Troopers. I think this contributed a lot to the rushed feeling of character development. It felt as if we should have already known the characters, so why bother filling them out more. The action of the novel is non-stop relentless. Maybe too non-stop relentless. I personally got a bit fatigued with the relatively short production, and often found myself drifting off during the elaborate action scenes. Yet, for the most part, I had a lot of fun. I found the Zombie elements of the novel meshed well with the Star Wars themes. I have always thought there is an untapped darkness to the overall Star Wars story and Death Troopers does a good job exploiting that. There were some really cool moments, plus the chance to get reacquainted with a few characters from the Star Wars canon, though I can say I was disappointed there was no Boba Fett sighting, nor a single member of the Antilles family. Star Wars fans looking for a darker take on the universe will enjoy this science fiction horror tale and Zombie fans should also find themselves more than pleased. Death Troopers is a fun blending of Lucas and Romero that is effective enough to please the hardcore fans of both.
Sean Kenin did an excellent job reading Death Troopers. He had great command of the characters, pulling out some wonderfully diverse performances of a cast full of creeps, criminals and creatures. Yet, I found the production as a whole over done. Death Troopers is full of music, special effects and very strange chapter headings including some annoying guy yelling the chapter title in echo. I thought the Star Wars music in the beginning did a good job creating the mood, but the idiotic "this is a tense moment" "this is an action scene" music just distracted instead of creating a mood. Overall, there just too much was going on. One of the reasons I like audiobooks is that it's just me and the narrator. I tend to avoid audio movies and the like because I have trouble making out dialogue amidst a sea of distracting noise. This is why I need to have captions on TV, too often ambient sounds drown out the words being said for my ears. I think if you are a big fan of Graphic Audio style productions, you'll probably love the crap out of this. In fact, if it wasn't for the fact only one name was listed in the credits, I would have sworn this was a multicast performance, so big old kudos to the narrator. It was just the other stuff that didn't work for me, and contributed to my inability to focus on the production at times.


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Samsung Electronics has developed a 100-million-pixel image sensor ahead of Sony, the leader in the global image sensor market.
Samsung Electronics announced on Aug. 12 that it has released the industry's first 108-milion-pixel mobile image sensor "ISOCELL Bright HMX." Samsung became the first company to tear down the barrier of 100 million pixels in the image sensor industry. The company plans to start volume production of the new product in August.
The mobile image sensor is based on ultra-small 0.8 μm pixels and has 1.6 times more pixels than a 64-million-pixel product released in May. The megapixel mobile image sensor allows mobile devices to capture the details of images that could not be expressed by current mobile devices, Samsung explained.
In addition, 1/1.33-inch sensors were used to increase light receiving areas and uses Tetra Cell technology that combines four pixels into one larger pixel. The product is designed to take bright and clear high-definition photos even in a dark environment.
In particular, Samsung Electronics partnered with Xiaomi to launch the product. "We have worked closely with Samsung Electronics since the beginning of the development of the new image sensor. We wanted to become the first company to apply an 108-million-pixel image sensor, which many thought could only be applied to premium digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras, to a small and slim smartphone," Xiaomi co-founder Lin Bin said.
The new image sensor represents another great stride Samsung Electronics has achieved since it declared a vision in April to become the No. 1 company in the global non-memory semiconductor business. It has launched the automotive semiconductor Exynos Auto 8890 for the Audi A4 and new power semiconductors. The Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology recently released its On-Device AI lightweight algorithm which reduced power consumption while increasing artificial intelligence (AI) operation speed eight-fold.


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Wed, 19 August 2015
PLF seeks Supreme Court review of an important "relevant parcel" property rights case. The case asks whether government can forbid development on a private parcel, without compensation, simply because the owners also own the adjacent, partially developed, lot.
Direct download: 8-19-15_murr.mp3
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Wed, 12 August 2015
PLF President Rob Rivett hosts this podcast discussion with PLF Principal Attorney Timothy Sandefur on the next steps in the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act. PLF sought en banc review by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, but that request was denied, setting up a petition to the Supreme Court. PLF's challenge is based on the fact that Obamacare's individual mandate "tax" started in the Senate, not in the House of Representatives, as required by the Constitution's "Origination Clause" (Article 1, Section 7).
Direct download: 8-12-15-Podcast.mp3
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Wed, 5 August 2015
Pacific Legal Foundation has filed a lawsuit to challenge the City of Oakland's ordinance that requires developers of commercial and residential projects to fund public art works. In this podcast, PLF Senior Staff Attorney Tony Francois discusses the ordinance and PLF's federal lawsuit that was filed July 23 on behalf of the Building Industry Association of the Bay Area. PLF's challenge argues that Oakland is violating constitutional protections for property rights and free speech — and unjustly raising costs for home buyers and businesses — by forcing builders of homes and commercial projects to fund art works that have no reasonable connection to any public needs created by their building projects.
Direct download: 8-5-15_Oakland.mp3
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Jewels In the Crown at Queen Elizabeth Park
March 6, 2019
Pack a picnic and come along to Jewels in the Crown and get ready to explore Queen Elizabeth Park like you've never seen before. We will be offering a free loop bus from Paekakariki train station from 10am-2pm on Sunday March 10 to get you and your whānau there easily.
You can also check out the annual aero modellers rally, Pedal Ready and the World War Two Marine Camp while you are out for your adventure.
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Trams will be running at a discounted rate at $6 per adult, $3 per child.
Sunday 10 March 2019 10:00am 3:00pm
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Woooaaaa, Anyone want to form a support group for fellow Dell users who risk life and limb by using one of their laptops? Story here. I cycle with my laptop in my backpack which could produce an interesting phenomena, eeek.
Thanks to Lev for the link and I'll let you know wether my laptop made it through my assessed presentation today 🙂
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wow. my dads dell PC made a loud bang and smoked the room out the first time I plugged it in. Cheap aint always good … maybe you should get an explosion proof backpack? 🙂
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Merchandise World takes place from 31st January 2018 at Silverstone and has the support of the top suppliers in the UK, who will be presenting their new ranges for 2018. The exhibitor list is impressive, and you can see the exhibitors you can meet by clicking here, – and this list is still growing every day!
Merchandise World firmly believes in supporting distributors, please register to come and see the suppliers that support you (and meet some new ones). They would love to know that you are coming to see them!
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Hello. My name is Jason Metcalfe.
I'm the creative director behind 2 x mobile creation companies and we're looking for a super passionate, highly skilled game salid creator that we can work with to help bring our game ideas to life.
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Decibel by Epic Fireworks is brand new for 2017.
Decibel is a 19 shot, single ignition barrage with some real power. As the name suggests this 1.3G cake will create some seriously loud bangs complimented by various golden palm breaks and blue dahlia effects. Decibel really does show off what a smaller firework can do.
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VRF HVAC Systems for Dallas-Fort Worth Commercial Buildings
What is a VRF System? VRF stands for Variable Refrigerant Flow and is an HVAC system that offers a solution that is efficient, compact, and provides superior comfort that is often difficult to achieve in commercial buildings. VRF systems are heat pump systems, which means it can heat and cool your building with the same equipment – no furnace necessary. Some kinds of VRF systems, called Heat Recovery VRF systems, can heat and cool your spaces at the time and save energy while doing it.
Similar to residential ductless systems, VRF uses refrigerant as the heat transfer medium to deliver heating and cooling to each zone. Refrigerant is contained in small, insulated piping that connects the indoor and outdoor components of the VRF system. Using refrigerant to heat and cool your Dallas-Fort Worth commercial building is more efficient and requires less space than using conditioned air delivered through ductwork.


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Royal Rajasthan
Rajasthan is the land of royalty and luxury. While erstwhile India had rules in all its regions, much like other parts of the world, nowhere else did royalty leave as indelible a mark as in Rajasthan. The Royal Rajasthan beckons you to sample the fare prepared by the chefs of the royals, experience a unique vacation in the midst of desert sands in a luxury camp, purchase the finest jewels and objects-de-art, travel in a luxury train, The Palace on Wheels and maybe even get married in a royal setting in Rajasthan! Travel back in time to the way the Royals lived and be pampered. The Royal Rajasthan vacation will stay in your memories forever.


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SSA 265 Summary
The auditor is required to obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit when identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement. Auditor can consider internal control when developing audit procedures, but there is no need to express opinion on internal control effectiveness.
The auditor needs to communicate appropriately with those charged with governance (CWG) on any deficiencies (must explain potential effects) in internal control identified during the audit. This must be done in writing. However, it is okay if there is earlier communication orally. The level of detail in the communication depends on auditor's professional judgment.
Auditor should clarify with appropriate level of management (one that has authority to evaluate deficiencies and take necessary remedial action) if one or more deficiencies in internal control are identified. If the finding calls into question management's integrity/competence, it may not be appropriate to discuss it directly with management.
This SSA also indicates examples and indications of significant deficiencies in internal control.
If the significant deficiency is not rectified in prior years, the auditor can communicate the same deficiency in the current year.
The communication of other deficiencies (not significant) may be communicated to management orally only. Communication of this to those CWG is also optional and dependent on the auditor's professional judgment.


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Odyssey Writing Workshop 2013
I'm very pleased to announce that I'll be a guest instructor at next year's Odyssey Writing Workshop, held in Manchester, New Hampshire. I really enjoyed my first time as a lecturer in 2009, and was excited when they invited me to return for next year. The 2013 workshop runs from June 10th through July 19th. Early applications are due January 31st, 2013, and regular applications are due April 8th, 2013. Lecturers include Nancy Holder (writer-in-residence), Holly Black, Patricia Bray, Adam-Troy Castro, Jack Ketchum and Sheila Williams. Fun fact– during my first stint as...Read More
Everything you always wanted to know about sidekicks, Part 2
This summer I was a guest instructor at Odyssey (odysseyworkshop), where I focused on the role of sidekicks as part of an overall discussion of characterization. The first half of the lecture was posted as a podcast last month, and they've just made the second half available on their website here. Podcast #32: In this podcast, the second of two parts, Patricia Bray explains how the sidekick's characteristics can balance those of the protagonist, or contrast with those of the protagonist. She discusses the requirements for a good sidekick, and describes how the sidekick's...Read More
Everything you always wanted to know about sidekicks, Part 1
This past summer at the Odyssey Workshop I discussed the role of sidekicks in fiction, as part of an overall discussion of character-driven writing. The talk went over so well that they turned it into a two part podcast. The first part is now up on their website here. Once I got past the kneejerk reaction to hearing my own voice (OMG! Hyperactive squirrel!) I was pleased with how it turned out.Read More


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Kepsa: Firms have lost Sh700bn in 4 monthsTuesday, October 24, 2017 18:55
Private businesses lost about Sh700 billion in the past four months as Kenya weathered a heavy political storm that preceded and followed the inconclusive presidential election, a lobby group said on Tuesday.
The Kenya Private Sector Alliance (Kepsa) said most of the losses came from frequent disruption of transport and industrial operations during the campaigns ahead of the August 8 General Election and protests that followed the Supreme Court's nullification of the presidential election.
Investors at the Nairobi Securities Exchange topped the list of losers – having lost Sh227 billion paper wealth in the past six weeks. Market capitalisation dropped from Sh2.54 trillion on August 25 to Tuesday's Sh2.31 trillion offering yet another measure of the ongoing erosion.
Kepsa Trustee Patrick Obath said in a statement that wholesale and retail businesses have been hard hit by political protests that have become frequent in recent weeks -- fearing looting and destruction of their property.
"The harsh political climate has serious implications as medium, small and micro-enterprises employ about 85 per cent of Kenya's labour force. The education sector has also had its calendar disrupted and national examinations could suffer if the current political situation is not managed properly," he said.
Kepsa's statement was in line with the Kenya Association of Manufacturers' (KAM) 3rd Quarter Barometer, which said most factories were operating at half capacity with 47 per cent of those managers indicating possible layoffs if the situation persists.
More than 53 per cent of the industrial firms have also deferred expansion plans with 75 per cent expecting a further dip in profits, the KAM report said.
The Federation of Kenya Employers, another private sector lobby, said its members were shedding off jobs as a survival tactic in the wake of constrained circulation of money and sharp reduction in customer orders.
On Tuesday, Kepsa said transport of people and goods had been adversely affected and that matatu operators in the affected counties were losing Sh75 million daily -- hurting their ability to service loans.
Kepsa called on politicians to consider holding a national conversation on political inclusion, insisting the situation could worsen after tomorrow's repeat presidential poll if not well-managed.
Jubilee Party's presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta is seeking re-election in the poll that Nasa flagbearer Raila Odinga has boycotted, citing failure by the electoral board to undertake reforms that would guarantee a free and fair election.
Kepsa said go-down owners, clearing and forwarding firms as well as long distance truck companies were counting losses as usual clients from Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan and DR Congo had relocated their businesses to Tanzania.
Investors, it said, had also deferred plans to borrow money from local banks hurting banks' profits, which are currently suffering a major downturn from the effects interest rate capping with the Kenya Bankers Association announcing retrenchment of 1,933 employees in the past year.
While the government had projected a 5.9 per cent economic growth, Kepsa said the gains made could be reversed to below five per cent if the political stalemate is not resolved.


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Nominations are now closed!
Nominations for the Silmarillion Awards are officially open! You can find the other awards at the blogs listed below… and make sure you go visit them and nominate your favorite characters!
Here on my blog I am hosting the Most Nefarious Villain Silmaril
Now, we are in no way condoning the idea of putting a precious silmaril in the hands of a villain… don't worry! But they still get their own category, because without villains, our heroes would lead rather boring lives, don't you agree? Those nominated for this award should definitely be those with the blackest hearts, those who are greedy for power, and wish harm upon all our precious heroes and heroines. Try to think of the villain you most want to see defeated… and then go on down into the comments and nominate that villain! Or second a villain who has already been nominated.
The top five nominated villains will make it into the final voting round, so make sure you look and see who else has been nominated.
This year the nominations are only running for ONE WEEK! Nominations close at 11:59pm on Friday, July 7.
The Rules:
1. You may only vote for any given character once (you cannot, for example, nominate Darth Vader and then second him, as well)
2. These have to be FANTASY characters (so you cannot, for example, nominate Darth Vader at all)
3. If you are an author, you may not nominate or second any of your OWN characters (but feel free to let your readers know about the awards and encourage them to nominate/vote for your characters)
4. During the nomination phase, you may nominate and second as many characters as you like!
5. Please include the title of the book your character is from. Even I, avid fantasy fan that I am, have not read ALL the fantasy books out there!
6. Tolkien characters are the Ultimate Standard for these awards, and present them to the winners every year. As such, they are ineligible to win the Silmarillion Awards, please do not nominate them. Sauron may be okay with giving a Silmaril to himself, but we think that would seem a bit rigged.
7. Characters who have won in previous years get LIFETIME Silmarils, and thus cannot be eligible to win again. Last year's winner was Narnia's WHITE WITCH. She is quite happy with her Silmaril and does not enjoy leaving her ice palace… so she would appreciate it if you refrained from nominating her. She knows she's the evilest of all.
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Joining us this year are quite a few authors in the Fellowship of Fantasy, who have donated some prizes for us to giveaway throughout this event. Make sure you visit all the blogs, because each blog has a different giveaway running, and you won't want to miss out! Seriously, I wish I could enter some of these giveaways, myself….
I am giving away a paperback copy of Coiled by H.L. Burke and a paperback copy of King's Warrior.
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Remember to spread the word! Our "official" hashtag this year is #SilmAwards2017 and feel free to grab the infographic below and share it!
And a reminder of the other blogs and awards for this event – which you should make sure you visit this week and get your nominations in for those Silmarils and enter the giveaways they have going on – not all the blogs are posting at the same time, but they will all be posting today. Nominations will be open all week!
Wisest Councillor Silmaril – Tracey @ Adventure Awaits
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Silver Tongue Silmaril – Madeline @ Short and Snappy
Most Epic Hero Silmaril – Abbey @Regarding Reading and Writing
Strangest Character Silmaril – Savannah @Scattered Scribblings
Most Epic Heroine Silmaril – Deborah @Road of a Writer
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Most Magnificent Dragon Silmaril – DJ @DJ Edwardson
Most Loyal Friend Silmaril – Zac @Zachary Totah