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The easiest way to get more exposure for your business is to get people to do it for you.
Reusable Bags have been around for a long time now... everyone knows them... everyone uses them & everyone has heaps of them.
But every now & again along comes a bag that people want.
This should be your goal.
At Bag People we can help you achieve it.
We use a wide range of fabric options & print capabilities that can help your bag stand out.
Sure, it might cost a little more than the plain-old-boring-Green-Bag, but can you put a price on someone "wanting" to use a bag that has your business name on it?
Contact Us to find out what options are available & how we can help.
You'll be surprised at how little it actually cost to get creative.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Get More Exposure. Create the Demand.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
What's up in 2012
Welcome to 2012.
After a relaxing holiday period with family & friends - we're ready to go again.
The New Year always brings new energy, new resolutions, new goals & new challenges. We've got some big plans for this year.
2012 is going to be a year of extreme's : extreme high's & extreme low's.
The way the 1st few weeks have shaped up, there'll be a lot of major events landmarking this year & there's no reason for You not to be involved.
No matter what you do; do it with great energy & excitement - take on the challenge & aspire to do better.
This is the way we live & work at Bag People.
Stay up to date on this Blog aswell as Twitter - www.twitter.com/bagpeople.
Until next Post.
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What do you think of my Minimal Gold, Mint & White Nail Art? These Minimal Gold Glitter Nails, feature both Clean Up Brush & Lint-Free Wipes Born Pretty Review items. You saw these nails in the previous post and now we're back to see the items that were used in more detail.
See the nail art post for these here. They are relevant to this post, so are appearing again to show the results of how well the brush cleans up the sidewalls and the proximal nail fold (the "cuticle line" as it's referred to). There was all sorts of polish dregs in there due to the gradient sponging, and it cleaned it all right out, easy peasy.
And now for the review items. I am combining them in this post as they were both used in the creation of this mani. All the item details are shown below in the Rundown.
The lint wipes come in a pack of 300 in this listing from Born Pretty store. This is how they look size wise and in real life. Close up so you can see the fibres. They are much better quality and more durable than those other ones that come from China in a no-brand plastic wrapped pile. I know that is not a great description, but they have no brand name and were the only thing around for a while, which both makes it difficult and easy to describe.
Born Pretty Lint-free Wipes in the flesh
These exceeded my expectations, as I tend to find some of the cheapo lint-free wipes still occasionally shed fibres. I don't normally use them but tried those in the past, so it's great to find some more affordable that work. I like to use them to wipe my brushes with and for taking off the inhibition (sticky) layers with gel nails or gel polish.
Box comes like this, with a tab and covered in shrink wrap for sanitation. Each wipe is 4 x 6cm (approx 2 x 3in)
The gel brush is perfect for my purpose – using it as a clean up brush! It works well for applying potted gels too, and doing gradients, but it's nice and thin and that makes it perfect for "cuticle" clean-up (in quotation marks because it isn't technically the cuticle but the proximal nail fold. A technicality that irks me, but if you don't refer to it as such, most people just scratch their heads at what you mean…).
Here is how it looks. I used it for post mani cleanup and also used it to tidy up the lines from painting the mint and white gradient over the gold glitter base which is a gel polish from Opallac called Gold Digger. It was released ~2 months ago and I reviewed it here. See the swatches.
The #1 brush in incredible! It's small enough to get into small spaces and is so precise! I'm able to clean really close to my skin during clean-up after a manicures. Even after using acetone the bristles are still in great shape.
Here it is on the silicone mini mat I also have for review [EDIT: this review and demo is now live here] in the protective packaging. It comes in a plastic tube that is quite handy for making sure the brush heads are safe on arrival and the handles don't snap.
You can see the shape of it and the relative thinness of the head. It is firm, but still soft enough to get into the fold where the skin meets the nail for clean up. And definitely sturdy enough to be useful, unlike some of the more expensive brushes I've tried and have found too soft. Promo shots below for comparison since I don't have the rest (via Born Pretty).
I can't vouch for it's longevity yet, but it's still looking relatively new after all these months. I'm stocking up!
I will try to get the video done, but after all the emergencies and crap thrown at me these past months, I have a massive backlog on stuff, so will do my best, but really, life stuff takes priority here.
And that concludes my Minimal Gold Glitter Nails tutorial, feat. Clean Up Brush & Lint-Free Wipes – Born Pretty Review. Any questions or comments, leave them below 🙂
- BORN PRETTY Lint-Free Nail Polish Remover Pads / Nail Wipes, 300 Pieces
- BORN PRETTY Round Handle Cuticle Nail Cleaning Brush, Option #1
Brand: Born Pretty
Item Number: See below
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Size: LINT-FREE WIPES – 300pack / Brush head: 6mm long
Usage Notes:
You'll see this in the video but all is explined above. Comment if you have any questions.
The Verdict:
BRUSH – Bristle Length: Approx. 6mm. It is pink with the number #1 on the handle. These brushes are really good at polish clean up for getting into the fine spaces. I really recommend trying one if you hate messy polish jobs and need a tool. Some others sell for $10USD so it is a great option for those on a tight budget.
The #1 brush is the perfect size. Not sure how thick the other ones are, so I will probably stick with this one, but it's pretty great so far and fits my nails really well.
WIPES – these are great. The box makes it really easy to store them away from dust and debris. Also to get out for usage as needed.
Purchase Links & Info:
Feel free to use my code BUFFQ10 for 10% off full priced items
LINT-FREE WIPES – Item Number: 41193 – Find it at BornPrettyStore.com
BRUSH – Item Number: 40430 – Find it at BornPrettyStore.com
(*you can click number for direct link or search the number at the website)
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Havent used Born Pretty Gel Brushes before but going to give them a try following this review. Thanks!

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Queen's University Scholar to give Inaugural Lecture at NUI Galway
Professor Mike Clarke, newly appointed Adjunct Professor to the School of Nursing and Midwifery at NUI Galway, will give his inaugural lecture entitled Systematic Reviews for Natural Disasters and other Humanitarian Emergencies: Evidence Aid. The event will take place on Thursday, 9 June, at 6pm in the Lecture Theatre, Áras Moyola Building in NUI Galway.
Professor Clarke is the Chair of Research Methodology at Queen's University in Belfast and Director of the All-Ireland Hub for Trials Methodology Research. He is also the former Director of the UK Cochrane Centre. He has worked actively on dozens of systematic reviews in a wide range of areas, as well as on large randomised trials in topics such as maternity care, breast cancer, poisoning and stroke. He is the Podcast and Journal Club Editor for The Cochrane Library.
Commenting on his upcoming lecture, Professor Clarke said, "I am honoured to be giving this lecture in NUI Galway, with its history of working with Non-Governmental Organisations and governmental agencies in humanitarian emergencies. In the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami on St Stephens Day 2004, a group of us within The Cochrane Collaboration saw an unmet and pressing need for systematic reviews to provide evidence for people and organisations planning for and responding to natural disasters. We established Evidence Aid, and the devastating natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies since then have confirmed the need to strengthen and expand this work. I look forward to sharing these plans in my lecture."
Professor Clarke has a strong commitment to improving access to systematic reviews for people living and working in low- and middle-income countries, in particular to make it easier for individuals and organisations who have to cope with natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies to use systematic reviews in their decision making.
Welcoming Professor Clarke s impending lecture, Professor Kathy Murphy, Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery at NUI Galway, commented: "I am delighted with Professor Clarke s appointment to the School as Adjunct Professor. He brings with him a wealth of experience at the forefront of health care research and evidence synthesis. Professor Clarke s work on Evidence Aid pools together evidence that can help those who are responding to crisis situations and is a strong example of how researchers can practically respond to natural disasters and other major healthcare emergencies."
To reserve a place, please contact Sheena Connolly at firstname.lastname@example.com before Friday, 3 June.


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No more set-top-box, CI+ module or TVkey: Panasonic will offer the option of receiving German DTH platform HD+ directly via the TV set from the end of March 2019.
The household only needs a satellite dish pointing at Astra (19.2° East). Technically, the solution is based on conditional access and digital rights management system (CAS/DRM) Nagra Connect, an HD+ spokesman told Broadband TV News, adding that it covers both HD and Ultra HD (UHD) channels.
At the same time, HD+ will introduce an 'instant restart' function for users of the new reception method allowing selected programmes to be reset to the beginning at the touch of a button, as well as direct access to catch-up TV services and an interactive, customisable programme guide covering conventional television and on-demand services.
The services are offered at no extra cost. To use the interactive functions, the TV set only needs to be connected to the internet.
The first hardware partner is Panasonic. In all new OLED and UHD devices released in 2019 from the GXW804 series onwards, HD+ will be integrated directly into the TV set. The first models will become available in retail stores at the end of March 2019, according to HD+. All buyers can test HD+ six months free of charge.
"With our new offer, we play in our own league regarding comfort and simplicity. And we provide more without charging more," said Timo Schneckenburger, managing director for marketing and sales at HD+. "HD+ customers will be able to enjoy a new TV experience at no additional cost. With the move, we are lowering the entry barriers for HD, UHD and the use of non-linear services over the TV set at the same time."
HD+ can be installed during the initial installation of the new Panasonic TV set. It can also be installed at a later stage via the device's home bar or app store.


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|Having a shoplifter arrested is apparently an act of racism
|You're not from around here, are you?
|Sitting on the back porch, smoking cigarettes and waiting for the apocalypse
|Atlas Shrugged
|Eminem & Elton John 2001 Grammy Performance
|Opening a coke can with one hand
|Kick the Tires and Light the Fires
|The Doors
|Can't get you out of my head
|The Soft Parade
|Where do you hide when the dark is alive?
|Dani lost in little things
|Talk About Suffering
|male anorexia
|Danny Sugerman
|F. Scott Fitzgerald
|island fever
|Letters from children
|lapsed Catholics are still Catholic
|Not to Touch the Earth


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Welcome to the Pathways Rotary Club!
Our club was chartered on April 24, 2015. We are proud of our diverse membership. Our membership ranges from brand new members that are new to Rotary to longtime Rotarians including five Past District Governors.
Ten of our members are Rotary Alumni, six former Group Study Exchange participants, and five former Rotary Youth Exchange Students. Ten of our members have served as president of other Rotary Clubs.
Whether we have been Rotarians for more than forty years, or just a few months, we are all bonded together by service above self and an online club is the right fit for us at this period of our lives.
We have members residing in nine different states in the United States and six other countries. In addition to the base of our members that reside in Rotary District 6600 (Northwest Ohio, USA), we also have members living in other Rotary Districts of Ohio, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and New York. Our international members reside in Australia, Guatemala, Germany, Finland, Japan, and Taiwan. And we are growing!
If you think an E-Club is right for you, if you have service to others in your heart, we would love for you to consider joining us as a member of the Rotary eClub of District 6600 Ohio Pathways! Read more: Why Rotary?
Rotary e-clubs are a lot like other Rotary clubs: they meet weekly, carry out service projects, support The Rotary Foundation, and socialize with each other. So what's different about e-clubs? You join your meeting online when it's convenient for you, day or night, any day of the week.
Each e-club is based in a specific district but its members can be from anywhere in the world. Some e-clubs focus their membership in a particular region or community.
An e-club could be right for you if you:
- Have a busy schedule and need a flexible meeting time
- Live in different places throughout the year
- Travel frequently
- Have limited mobility


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Car buying is exciting but what we blur out the most is the cost of the car insurance that we must have. For that reason I created this post on best picks for a vehicle insurance for a student. Recently, I wrote in my recent post about my upgrade from Toyota Prius to Lexus CT but I did not mention anything about the car insurance costs that had went up. Being under 25, car insurance is sky high. My insurance cost had fallen little by little every year which is great but it is still costing me over $100 a month to insure my vehicle and I'm sure many of you are in the same boat.
One of my recent posts was my experience with cars I've had and cars I highly recommend for students check it out here.
I wanted to share car insurance companies that I found much cheaper than the top insurance agencies that we hear or see getting advertised almost on daily basis and I'm talking about Geico, State Farm, or farmers to name a few. There are few I would highly recommend to check out if you haven't for your individual vehicle insurance.
Here's the list best in California (My opinion):
1. Progressive
I have been with them throughout high school but with liability only but I've had a first car and it was not realistic to buy a full coverage and thankfully I only got in one minor car accident that was not my fault. My rates every 6 months went down and was very affordable. I would recommend getting a quote from them and checking out because you might be surprised how much cheaper it might be.
2. Mercury
Mercury insurance is not very well known, this is a great another option. Note though, it is only available in 10 states California, Nevada, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona. I would highly recommend them, quiet a few of my friends students I know that have this insurance and their rates are really great for a full coverage.
You must have somebody in the military or a veteran to qualify for this insurance. The best best over the first two I listed.
For Motoryclce: Esurance
If you haven't checked out my "About me" page, I also have a motorcycle and the best rates after a long research I found were at esurance. IF you have a motorcycle, check them out and I am sure you will be surprised with the rates.
Tips on getting the best Rates
- Don't think that one company will be the cheapest – the whole reason I listed those popular ones in my first paragraph of this post is because we pretty much all heard of them. This companies spend a lot of money on the advertisements. No single insurance company is the same cheapest for everyone. Could be cheap for one person in one state but will be expensive for another in another state.
- Check out your local insurance companies. The top four which are Geico, State Farm, Allstate, and Progressive control almost half of the nation's auto insurance policies. Your regional insurance agency will most likely have better customer service and lower rates as well.
- Discounts – Check for discounts. Insurance companies have discounts like insuring with multiple cars, if the car has certain safety features, being a student and maintaining certain GPA. Having a clear driving record, or even if you pay the whole premium at once. So, make sure you check online and call for discounts available because some are not listed on the insurer website.
- Always check the cost to insure before buying any vehicle. Can't stress this enough, but pay attention to all the factors like repairs, fuel efficiency because insurance agencies already have all of this information on vehicles, so they know what to charge you and also aware of average life of that vehicle from their own statistics.
- Don't get collision or comprehensive coverage for an older car. Collision coverage covers your vehicle's damages including accident with another vehicle or an object such as an fence. Comprehensive covers things like weather damages, animal accidents, floods, vandalism or fire. So, having older vehicle might not be worth having those repairs done because it will most likely cost more to repair than the vehicles value.
- Play with deductible numbers. If you buy Collision and Comprehensive coverages, opt in for higher deductibles and this will save you a lot. Basically, by raising deductible you will pay that amount from your pocket if its your fault. So, lets say damage is $2000 and your deductible is $500. You pay the $500 and the insurance pays the other $1500.
- Look into usage-based or pay-per-mile insurance. Those are not very popular options but if you are driving less than 10,000 miles a year, consider getting mileage-based insurance programs.
Bottom Line
Check out the insurance before you purchase the car you really want. This is very critical step with car insurances, calculate your vehicle and make sure that it is actually worth it to have a full coverage and most importantly play with deductible numbers the difference could be 2-3 times more for a $0 deductible vs $1000.
Richard Barnett is a student majoring in finance, entrepreneur, marketer, content writer, budget traveler, and financial blog "Student Money Adviser" owner. You can read more about me here.


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The second of 19 Valemax vessels, the Vale (pronounced "valley") China has been launched. Vale's newly appointed CEO Murilo Ferreira traveled over the weekend to China to attend the launch ceremony at the shipyard of China Rongsheng Heavy Industries in Nantong on July 10th.
The first 400K DWT Vale Brasil was launched at Daewoo South Korea in May. She loaded out at Ponta da Madeira Brazil, and had been routed to China, when she was inexplicably re-routed to Taranto Italy, where she will arrive this week.
Is it not curious to you, that the first Valemax, Vale Brasil, on her maiden revenue voyage, was diverted to Italy whilst half way to China. Mumbo-jumbo about paperwork clearances. It is not like the Vale Brasil was unexpected at Dalian, where dredging has been going on for months.
Now there is high expectation is that the Vale China will indeed be loaded out at Ponta da Madeira, and routed to China.
Could it be petty politics that the Vale Brasil was built in South Korea, and the Vale China was built in China?
Let me know what you think. Delayed paper work or petty politics?
In addition to the 400,000 dwt's ordered by Vale, construction has begun on the first of four VLOC Oman Shipping Company has ordered. On July 8th in Nantong, the steel cutting ceremony for two 400,000 DWT VLOC's named H1125\H1126 built for Oman Shipping company was held in RSHI's cutting center. (See page 18.)
The vessels, named Jazer, Yanqul, Al Kamil, and Wafi, will be chartered to Vale.
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Vale Brasil


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The Drowning Empire is a weekly serial based on the events which occured during the Writer Nerd Game Night monthly Legend of the Five Rings game. It is a tale of samurai adventure set in the magical world of Rokugan.
If you would like to read all of these in one convenient place, along with a bunch of additional game related stuff, behind the scenes info, and detailed session recaps, I've been posting everything to one thread on the L5R forum,http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=295&t=101206
This week's episode was written by Patrick Tracy, and takes place after the White Tiger Expedition. Since he is being blackmailed, Subotai does something desperate.
Continued from: https://monsterhunternation.com/2014/08/08/the-drowning-empire-episode-59-battle-of-waterfall-temple/
And Let the Liars be Damned
By Patrick M. Tracy
The poisoner had skill. Moto Subotai had smelled nothing, tasted nothing. The chopsticks fell from his grasp, his hand going numb, his lips swelling. The breath would not come when he attempted to inhale.
Blundering up from the table, he clutched his throat, wordless. Namori and the rest of the dinner party rose, their eyes filled with concern as he danced like a puppet with tangled strings, losing control of his bodily functions as the poison deadend his nerves.
"Husband!" Namori called out, going to him, holding him up as the light from the torches grew vague in his sight.
"I…lo…," he rasped, but his voice was muted. Darkness swooped upward to grasp him and pull him into oblivion. He was dying. The myth of Moto Subotai was ending. All was as it had to be.
HIs heart slowed toward silence. Namori's face was the last thing he saw.
<Months before>
The nondescript stranger appeared in the stable, standing between Moto Subotai and the door.
"Greetings, my friend," the man said. There was a slight but definite air of menace about him, although this was not portrayed in on his face or in his eyes.
"We have not met," Subotai said. It was late, and he was exhausted from the events of the day.
"Ah, but I know much about you, Subotai. How is your mother?"
Subotai tried not to flinch, but he face slipped, betraying the cutting remark. This was the man behind the letters, the blackmailer. He had known that this day would come, that he would be called to account for the fiction of his birth. Though it was not his sin, he had perpetuated it, living the lie he had been born into. How someone had found that he had been birthed not by Moto Aiyumi, but by her handmaiden, sent to Kohatusu-sama's bedchamber in her stead, was immaterial at this point. The knowledge existed in the world. Its debilitating venom wafted in the air and tainted the water. There was no escape.
"My mother…is well," Subotai forced himself to answer. "What of it?" The rage burst within him. Rage at the woman he had known as his mother, rage that his true mother had been there with him as a child, and he had never known to cherish her, rage that all his hopes and dreams could be toppled by the crack in the foundation of his lineage.
"I only ask because I come to you as a good friend, a confidante, a helper in difficult times."
Subotai forced himself to breathe deep and release his wrath as a green cloud before a dragon's maw. "If we are to be friends, what should I call you?"
"You may call me Atsushige."
"I assume that you are here at the behest of others?"
Atsushige nodded. "How perceptive. I represent Master Coin and Master Cloud. We feel that there is a great future before you, and we wish to make sure you fulfill all your potential."
"My potential?" Subotai let his mouth twist in disgust. Atsushige ignored his frown.
"You are Kohatsu-sama's only son. You stand to inherit his position in the Unicorn Clan. You yourself have become a notable samurai, a man known to have honor and skill at fighting. It is only natural that interested parties would wish to aid you along the way."
"And what would you have of me in return?"
"Straight to the point, then," Atsushige agreed. "As we are now friends, it's well known that friends will, upon occasion, do favors for each other. We may sometimes ask you to do small things for us. Easy things. Nothing that would have to be widely known."
"And this kernel of knowledge you think you have about me, you will use this as insurance that we stay..friends?"
"You have it exactly right. But don't think of us as holding these things over your head. We are holding the facts secret and safe, as true friends would. I think that I will enjoy working with you, Subotai. You are more perceptive than some reports would indicate."
Atsushige looked over Subotai's shoulder, and Subotai followed the direction of his gesture, turning his head. One of the stable doors creaked open, and Yoritomo Oki, drunk and staggering, came in, collapsing in the hay near Tento. The horse pushed at Oki's shoulder and flipped him onto his back, making a low sound and stamping one foot.
When Subotai turned back. Atsushige was gone, as if he had never been there. The only thing remaining was a chrysanthemum, nestled in the hay where he had been.
His mother's secret had caught up to him. Not just any random blackmailer knew of it. No, that would have been far too easy. He remembered those names. Master Coin. Master Cloud. Those were masters of the Kolat, the secret organization that had nearly brought the Empire to its knees.
Subotai felt dizzy and sick. The rage was gone, and a wave of hopelessness and recrimination rode behind it. How could he fight the Kolat? It was like fighting shadows. No, he couldn't. The best he could do would be to string them along, letting them manipulate him as little as possible. When the time came, and they asked him to do something that his honor wouldn't allow, he would have to be sure that his tanto was sharp and his will strong enough to end things in a way befitting a samurai. Perhaps not all of his blood was of the caste, but he hoped that he could still be his father's son and preserve the family honor.
Subotai stroked Tento's neck, then bent to move Oki to a safer location. He left the archer on his side, so that if he became ill, he wouldn't choke on his own sick. He walked under the starlight until almost dawn, trying to think of a solution he could live with. Nothing came to mind. He was damned. Damned for something he had no hand in doing. Damned for the very fact of his birth.
Subotai stood in the throng of samurai and courtesans in Second City's ambassadorial square, staring at the fountain. He tried to make himself feel anything but boredom when it came to the courtly aspects of their mission, but found it difficult. He became lost in the rippling water of the fountain. He thought of a poem he wanted to write. He envisioned the flight of an arrow toward a distant target, the graceful, deadly arc. More and more, it was difficult to attend to the details of the day. His mind slipped away like the glimmer of fish in a muddy pond.
When he looked up, he saw a Lion samurai standing near him.
"Greetings, my friend."
It was Atsushige, standing before him in Lion garb. Subotai knew that this had been a calculated decision on the blackmailer's part. The Unicorn and Lion still feuded, and he could not strike a Lion down in the street. That did not keep his sword hand from resting on his katana's hilt at the blackmailer's presence.
"So, today you are a Lion."
"I had thought you fond of Lions, close as brothers with your traveling companions, Uso and Toranaka. I
thought this would put you at ease, calm those violent Moto passions of yours."
Subotai sighed, waiting for the important details of their byplay to be revealed.
"Ever on to business with you, is it not?"
"You may as well say what you came to say, Atsushige."
The blackmailer feigned hurt feelings for a moment. "I keep telling you, Subotai. We really can be good friends to one another, if you'll only relax a bit."
"I'm finding that difficult."
Atsushige smiled. "I can understand. This is just the beginning of our relationship. You'll grow accustomed to me after a while, I'm sure. For now, I need you to do a small task for me. Just a convenience, really."
The blackmailer held out a letter. "If you could give this to Moto Byung-Chuul's son, Moto Yoon-Dao, that would be most appreciated. I know that you have the ability to get in and speak to him. He's currently a guest of the Lion Embassy. You're welcome to read the letter. There is nothing untoward in it, just a letter from his beloved. I'm sure you'd want the letters Shinjo Namori wrote, wouldn't you?"
Subotai knew that he had to at least feign acceptance of his situation. He took the letter.
"Any time in the next few days would be fine. Just to prove that you are as good a friend to us as we are to you."
A clamor arose in the crowd with no obvious reason. Subotai's eyes flicked away for the tiniest fraction of a second. Even in that moment, Atsushige found a way to disappear without a trace.
Subotai tucked the letter into his kimono. He would have to confess. As innocuous as the letter appeared, he knew that there was malicious intent behind it. He could not simply pass it along. Though Yoon-Dao appeared to be a hostage, he was there awaiting orders that would rain death down upon the Lion. If hostilities broke out, Yoon-Dao would serve as a first, deadly strike. Subotai wouldn't dare slip him any communication that might cause two clans to explode into open warfare. There was nothing for it but to share his plight and the dishonor it entailed.
He could feel everything begin to unravel, the tapestry of his life shedding fabric with every passing moment.
Toranaka squinted, his face flushed. "Blackmailed? By the Kolat? How can this be? What have you to be blackmailed about."
Subotai felt the weight of a heavy stone upon his chest. "I cannot share the nature of the secret. It is not my deed that is at issue, and it involves others in my family whose names I would keep unsullied."
"The way is clear. We find this Coin, this Cloud, and we destroy them."
"It is unlikely to be that simple," Uso-san said. "These are masters of assassins you speak of. No one knows the real identity of such high level Kolat members. Who knows what sort of power they have, what connections."
"I don't care about that. When challenged, we strike," Toranaka said. Subotai could see that Tora would not be consoled or calmed for a while. His blood was up.
"I will pass the letter, but I will tell Yoon-Dao that it is likely a fraud. That is the best I can do. We will see what transpires after that."
Subotai could see that something that had been in Toranaka's eyes was gone, some regard that the One Armed Lion held for him had been dissipated. In all his comrade's eyes, he was lessened, and rightly so. This was his dishonor, his undoing. It had taken all of his will not to simply thrust a knife into his belly and remove the shame. Perhaps there would be a day for that, but not today. He had more to do. He would not leave the fight against the Dark Oracle of Water so easily as that.
Toranaka grinned. It was a true smile this time, not the frozen mask he wore when he dashed the heads from men's shoulders. Subotai, numb with the news they had been given, gaped at the rare expression on his best friend's face. Though they were not as close as they had been, though there was doubt where there had once been surety, they were yet close, so much blood between them, so many deadly fights all over the empire. Subotai wondered if the bonds of their friendship were strong enough to weather telling Tora the whole truth, revealing himself to be a fraud, a half blood. He'd been on the point of telling him a hundred times, but had always turned aside and left the truth unsaid. Toranaka was unbending, unyielding, just as his father was. It made him a great samurai, a faithful friend, but his judgements were harsh and final, the codes by which he lived unbending. In this, his great lie, he could not count upon Tora to understand.
The diplomat read from the scroll, the public proclamation of the accord between the Lion and Unicorn. All the important announcements had already been stated, and it was down to the bureaucratic details like land easements and levies on acreage near Rich Frog.
"You're a free man, Subo. No longer a hostage under my care. You're free to marry at last, and I find myself betrothed. Our clans have made peace, and there will be prosperity for us both in the future."
"It is a great day," Subotai answered. He did not feign happiness well. Freed from his hostage status, he would be expected to take over for his ailing father, expected to marry and assume his rightful place. It was everything he ever wanted, and the one thing he could never allow himself. The Kolat could only do so much against him as a lone samurai. As the leader of Journey's End Keep, they could force him to play their game in a hundred ways. The more important he became, the more deadly the secret they held above his neck like a sharpened sword.
While the rest rejoiced, he slipped away, writing the letters that he felt might at least forestall the inevitable time when he would have nowhere left to move, no delaying tactic left to play.
The White Tiger expedition was nearly ready to depart. The grand celebration and spectacle was over, the political intrigue and backbiting concluded, the hard weeks of organizing the journey and purchasing the necessities at an end. Subotai walked among the ranks, nodding to the men. He had managed to put off his duties to his family for one last mission. It was a mission that, in his secret heart, he hoped he would not return from.
If the fighting claimed him this time, he would be saved from what came after, from having to either capitulate to the Kolat and work as a double agent or find a terrible alternative. Yes, it would be far easier if he died. Perhaps he could manage to be lost in the struggle and assume the mantle of ronin. Perhaps…it did no good to consider now. He only hoped to be spared the decision, the fates interceding and making the choice for him. The longer he lived under the shadow of the blackmailer's grasp, the more his honor unraveled. Previously unthinkable solutions came to him like ghosts out of the night. He hardly knew himself, and only through the most rigorous discipline could he manage to maintain his public facade. He was surprised that his friends had not commented on this, the fact that his every action and word was that of a charlatan, a pretender to what Moto Subotai had once been. He was merely an actor playing the part of a man who had been tainted, and was consumed by the disease of his sin.
An Ox Clan samurai came to him as he toured the long line of warriors. It was only when he came within a few steps that Subotai recognized his tormentor, Atsushige.
The blackmailer smiled. "Me."
"You are coming along on the journey then?"
"Of course, Subtai. We're friends, and my other friends wish to make sure you get through safe. We'd hate to see anything untoward happen to you out in the demon-haunted jungle."
"Your friendship means a great deal to me, Atsushige. I'm touched by your concern." The longer Subotai looked at his life as simply a part he was playing, the better control he had over his e
motions. It was as if this were all a play, and he merely an actor reading the correct lines, hitting the proper places on the stage, the easier it was. This, at least, was what he told himself.
"It is good that we've established a rapport. Which reminds me, I believe you sent this letter during some kind of mental doldrum. We were able to intercept it, so that you'd be saved from the embarrassment of a retraction."
Atsushige handed him back his letter to his father, the one in which he'd forsaken any control over Journey's End keep and advised his father to pass it along to another. It had been his last attempt to throw the Kolat's noose from his neck. It had failed.
What had been Subotai began to fall away, to ablate like a statue made of sand when a strong wind howls against it. Killed by inches, all that he had ever aspired to be was dissipating, the last battle to keep all those dreams alive lost. There was only death now. The only question was the nature of that death. The man who wore Subotai's clothes no longer cared how. He only hoped that it would be soon.
"I think you're growing up, but just like any child, a few corrections need to be applied. Think of this letter as a correction, Subotai. I believe that you'll do well as our friend in Journey's End Keep. We'll do a lot of good together, you and I, and we'll make Masters Coin and Cloud very happy."
"I'm sure that's true, Atsushige. I'm pleased that you could join us on this journey." His face was blank, his heart desolate.
Atsushige gave a slight nod. "Just to let you know, if something unfortunate should happen to me along the way, there are many others in the company who will continue to look out for your best interests. Although it would be a shame if one of our companions were to succeed in killing me, my associates are very thorough. We don't leave anything to chance."
With that, the blackmailer walked away, rejoining the anonymity of the crowd.
Subotai came awake gasping, clawing at the bedding. He shuddered like a man taken with fever and was drenched in sweat. He had been plagued with nightmares and could rarely sleep the night through. It was good that he did not share a tent with Toranaka anymore, or there would be further questions to answer. The decline in his morale and certainty was getting difficult to hide. The role of Moto Subotai had grown taxing, as he was so much less than that man now. Every day it became more likely that one of his friends would see through his feeble illusions and understand that his spirit had collapsed upon itself, leaving him broken into pieces.
It would not be long now. Only a few more days, from what Jagdish and the other Ivindi guides said. Their great battle would take place in the hidden valley where the waterfall flowed. The fates, if they were kind, would allow him to die as a samurai would wish to, to lay down his life for something greater and more important than himself. He would spare himself no danger, leave no risk un-taken. If they would kill him, he would not hide from death.
The next night, Suzume Shintaro was asked to a meeting of the Minor Clan Alliance. Subotai went along, having nothing else to do. He found that keeping busy allowed the time to pass, keeping him from meditating upon his failures and shame.
It was not long before the meeting veered to the topic of betrayal. Not simply betrayal, but treason against the whole Empire. Subotai was not surprised. His evaluation of the world was not what it had been a few years ago. He was jaded, cynical. He believed that all stories ended in tragedy.
Shintaro did not. Brave, he challenged a man that could best him on ten consecutive days to a duel. As they walked away from the scene, Shintaro suddenly aware of his mistake, the big Sparrow looked gray, ill.
A small female figure materialized, wearing the garb of a peasant camp follower. Up close, though, the beautiful face of Bayushi Maemi looked out from beneath the hooded tunic. She reached up, sweeping her finger against Shintaro's tongue. She sniffed the saliva and sighed.
"Well, you've gotten yourself poisoned, haven't you?" she asked. "Here, take this. Drink a swallow now, then another at dusk, and the third in the morning. You'll need to stay near the latrine, but you'll feel better by midmorning tomorrow."
Maemi looked to Subotai. "I was never here. My brother is not to know. Tell him, and I'll stab you in your sleep."
Shintaro sat down in the mud after drinking a swallow of the antidote. "I'm not sure whether I want to strangle her or kiss her."
"She might enjoy both, but I don't believe that you are the object of her affections, Shintaro."
"That's just as well. Yuki would chop me into stew meat in my sleep."
Subotai looked around at the camp, at all the men that had been sent here to do a good deed, to work in the defense of the Empire. He wondered how many were here for other reasons, working at cross purposes or for their own reasons. He shrugged. There was no way to tell. It was impossible to know another person. Not fully. Some doors were open, others closed for ever.
Whatever happened, many of these people would not live to see the return journey. They would be missed. There would be holes in the world where they had once been. For better or worse, he hoped one of those lacunas in the weave of the Empire would be his.
Earlier in the day, they'd killed a demon. That had been the beginning, the first hurdle in a mind-numbing race. Subotai had thrown himself at the line, daring both men and Destroyer constructs to kill him. Long beyond the point of exhaustion, he had rotated to the front lines again and again. No one had found a way to kill him, but they would. The line was driven back and back, the endless waves of Destroyers lumbering out of the jungle dissipating their ranks. Things built, not born, the felt no fatigue, no doubt or fear. Such was not the case with the White Tigers. The men that fought beside him were heroes, all worthy of honor just for coming this far. Were they above all human frailty? No.
"Fall back! Fall back!" Toranaka yelled above the sound of the melee. Subotai held the line, defending until everyone else had given ground. The Destroyer before him swung a huge, spiked club downward. He angled his body, somehow still able to continue after he thought he would collapse. It would have been so easy for him to step into the swing and allow himself to fall, but he couldn't give up, not when his blade might make the difference between life and death to even a single samurai.
He leaped over a dry mote that they'd managed to dig early in the day. Far behind them, in the darkened temple where the gateway to the Tigerhell threatened to open, their most powerful shugenjas were busily importuning the kami, offering their lives in trade for the sealing of the gate. It was not done. Moto Byung-Chuul and Tamori Nasuo knelt, deep in the trance of their lifecasting, the only hope to keep the unbeatable legion of Rakasha from flooding into the world. The White Tiger front was being pushed back, and it didn't look like there'd be enough time for them to complete the ritual.
Just then, he saw Ikoma Uso, sprinting forward through the gap in the lines where the front rank Destroyers had surged. He carried a heavy chest, his eyes wide and staring, his jaws clenched. Uso reached the barrier dam, dropping the chest and unraveling a fuse. Subotai's heart contracted as he understood what Uso was about to do. Destroyers closed in on all sides, about to smash the bard into a pulp. He knelt there, trying to get the fuse to light. When it finally did, he was flanked on all sides.
He jumped between the slow constructs and bolted, but the explosion came far too soon, blowing him upward and out toward the lake, his form covered with fire. The dam collapsed, and a mighty rush of water swept the field clear of their enemies. Destr
oyers and men were washed away in the flood, the whole field of battle emptied.
Subotai sat down in the dirt, unable to summon the emotion he knew should be there. Uso was gone, so many good men dead. He looked around. So many samurai wandered the ancient temple grounds, empty eyed and blank faced. They had won. It seemed that they had won, but there was no celebration, no joyous revelry. The whole company lacked the energy to do so much as shake a fist in the air.
"Come on, Subotai," Oki said, helping him up. They trudged back to the shrine, following the few remaining shugenja. Byung Chuul and Tamori Nasou were dead, sprawled on the floor as if in sleep. The kami had taken their offer and sealed the rift. The legion of Rakasha would not destroy their world.
"I am surprised I lived," Subotai said.
Oki grinned, fishing a bottle of Angry Bear sake from his undertunic. "I'm surprised any of us did. If anyone was going to live, though, I'd have picked the bard. He was…he had." Oki turned away, bringing a sleeve across his eyes.
"We need to be going," Isao chimed in.There were tears in his eyes, his mentor lay dead, but he was not broken. "This place is cursed."
At the periphery of the new lake where the battlefield had been, shadows seemed to coalesce, demons hiding within the darkness of the jungle. Subotai was sure that he was not the only one who saw this.
Sadly, they gathered the many injured, the gaijin and eta dragging litters for the dead, and trudged up the long incline to the top of the valley. Once there, the remainder of the captured gaijin pepper was rigged to blow up the point of egress,making sure that the valley was sealed forever. Few even jumped as the explosion shook them.
At the side of the trail, Subotai saw Bayushi Sakai trying to console his sister. In her way, she had loved Uso. She buried her face in Sakai's shoulder, pounding her small fist into his arm. Subotai looked away, not wishing to dishonor her by watching the outburst. Tears should have stained his own cheeks, but none came. His soul was a broken thing within his flesh.
It would be a long, long walk home.
They had not been back in Second City a full day when Subotai went to see Maemi. She had been silent and still almost the whole way back, but had thrown off her mourning pallor before she met the crowds of the city. He knew she still ached. She must, if she had loved Uso. She was also her father's daughter, and Kuronobo-sama had raised them to be iron hard.
"I am surprised to see you, Subotai-san." Maemi said, inclining her head as she gestured gracefully toward the tea that was already brewing for them.
They sat, and Maemi officiated a tea ceremony as beautifully as Subotai had ever seen it done. He forced himself to be silent, to gird himself for what he was about to say. He had gone over it a hundred times, a thousand, but it still felt like madness. When madness offers your only road, then it is madness that must act as your traveling companion, he told himself.
Subotai took a deep breath. "I come asking for a favor."
Maemi raised one eyebrow. "Oh?"
"A favor the likes of which few have ever asked."
She sat forward, curious. "You have been known to be bold at times. Tell me more."
"I need you to arrange for my death."
"Excuse me? I don't believe that I heard you correctly."
"I face an untenable situation ahead. One that stands to dishonor me, my family, my whole clan. The only way out for Moto Subotai is death."
"That is what seppuku is for, Subotai. You've seen it done." Maemi lifted her cup and took a tiny sip, then replaced it carefully.
"There are many things that remain undone. I am not ready to take my leave of this world, but I would have it seem so."
"So you wish me to fake your death, then? Why do you imagine that I would have such skills?"
"Maemi-san, I think you are even more dangerous than you are beautiful. That said, I ask this of not you alone, but your father, of all Bayushi."
She touched her lips thoughtfully. "How do you imagine this will work?"
Subotai nodded. "I go on about my life as normal, awaiting confirmation that the plan is in order. When it is…"
"If. Let's not get ahead of ourselves."
"If the plan is agreed upon, you must find a time and place to adequately convince all that I have been killed. I know that my ability to plan such things will pale before those of a trained assassin. Once my death has been established, all ties severed with the Unicorn, I submit to becoming a Bayushi samurai. Up to the point of revealing the deep secrets of my clan, I will help the Bayushi in any way they deem most appropriate. In doing this, I am aware that I renounce all honor, all birthright, every friend and loved one. You allow me to escape my fate, and I am in turn created as your tool, your dutiful servant."
Maemi rocked backward slightly. "You are either far more devious than I had ever imagined, or you have taken all leave of your sanity."
"Both contentions may be true. What do you say?"
Maemi stood, walking to the wall where a writing desk stood. "Such things are not for me to say. This will need to be proposed to my father. It will not happen suddenly."
Subotai rose as well, feeling drained and heartsick after saying aloud what he had been considering for weeks.
Maemi turned around, her face suddenly softer than he had seen it. "You understand that there will be no coming back from this, no possibility to ever reconcile with the Unicorn? They will kill you on sight if you're ever discovered. To them, you would be guilty of treason."
Subotai nodded. I know what I will lose. Trust me, I do not do this lightly, or with the hope that it can be undone."
"And your betrothed? What of her?"
He let his chin touch his chest. "There is nothing on this earth that I would wish more than to bring her with me. For days, I deluded myself into thinking that I could. No, that would be an even greater crime than any I have yet considered. She is an honorable woman from a good family. She deserves to remain so. If I had not been so weak, so frail, I would have stayed away, spared her of one who doesn't deserve her." Subotai shrugged. "But I am not strong. A strong, good man would have taken a tanto to his stomach at the first hint of dishonor."
Maemi approached. "I can see you are truly committed to this plan. I will see what my father has to say. Go on as if you would never die, but flourish in this life for a hundred years, and happily. When it happens, if it happens, it will be a surprise, a sudden tragedy that none imagined could occur. Now go, and don't come to visit me or any of the Scorpion again. This cannot be questioned, cannot look false.
With that, Subotai took his leave. Walking down the crowded streets of Second City, he found that it was the first time he didn't feel like a stone weighed down upon his chest. The first time in many months.
Subotai awoke from the deathly paralysis of the poison in a tiny hut, far out in the hinterlands of the Ivindi jungle. He was naked, and he had been shorn of hair from head to toe. It was strange and smooth. His chest and arms did not look like his own. He was alone in the hut. As he levered himself onto unsteady legs, an old man came in.
"How long," he began, but the man leaped forward, pummling him with iron-hard fists, beating him to the ground, defeating his feeble guard and continuing to punch and kick him until he could feel the bones of his face fracture, the skin burst into bloody welts. Amid the rain of blows, he lost consciousness again.
He came awake again, aware that his face was wrapped in bandages, swollen. The stink of herbal compresses was clear, even though his nose was horribly askew, twice its normal size. The old man stood over him.
"I have beaten you thus be
cause your face is known. I have to destroy that face. When the bandages come off, I will beat you again, just as severely. Do you understand?'
Subotai nodded. He couldn't speak.
"In the meantime, we will set about trying to make you left handed. I am called Daichi. I will be your caretaker for these first few months, your friend, your torturer, your healer. They say that you wish to be a different person, and turning men into clay, to bake them anew…that is my skill. Let us begin."
The image of Namori, her two wooden sparring axes in her hands, a devilish grin on her face and a single trail of perspiration running down her cheek, stole across his mind. She was lost to him, the memory of another man. He force the image away, but that act of will hurt far worse than the swollen wreckage of his face.
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Earlier on this year the GillyMac Thursday evening patchwork and quilting group started on a project of Liberated Quilting, inspired by book of that title by Gwen Marsden. Our quilts started along the same lines as Gwen's, but soon, as with all our Thursday evening projects, everyone made their own adaptations and the quilts all ended up in different places.
Liberated quilting has few rules. You don't need to quilt a 1\4" seam, you don't have the iron your seams one way or the other, you don't need to measure your pieces (in fact I would say you shouldn't measure, but that would sound like a rule) and you don't need to restricted yourself to any design and there are no patterns. The one thing that I did suggest to the group was that after 4 or 5 pieces they should iron their growing artwork. With pieces, and small ones, at that being joined every which way it would be easy to get rucks and ripples caught up in the piece. Regular ironing allow you to check for this and adjust any mistakes, it smooths out your piece so you are unlikely to make such a mistake with the subsequent pieces and it is a natural pause and review point for you to consider where to go next with your piecing.
The use of colour was vital for me in constructing my own piece. I chose fabrics with small to medium modern prints in vibrant colours. I grouped colours together and started off by creating wonky log cabin blocks in blue, or greens or yellows or reds or oranges. Whilst making the log cabins I alternated between strong colours and weaker colours in the colourway I was using. A great tip to check on how you are doing on this front it to take pictures of your cabin and turn them into black and white, In this way you will get a much better picture of the difference in strength of adjoining pieces. Having made a number of log cabins, I stacked them and cut them, rotating the pieces to make new blocks with a variety of colours, adding yet another dimension to my work.
Another three techniques we investigated were "Free Range Geese", "Liberated Stripping" and "One-of-A-Kind Stars" … I made up these names! The geese were made by stitching and flipping pieces diagonally across a (goose) rectangle.
The stars were a development of this. The points of the stars were made in the same way, except the diagonal pieces are over-lapped, and background square are added to the corners and for the centre of the star. The Wonky Stars would make great centres for a Medallion styled Liberated Quilt. Finally, Liberated Stripping is really simple and very effective. Strips of fabric are sewn together ( foundation piece style) one onto the other onto the other and then shapes are cut from the resulting pieces and sewn together.
After constructing the centre of the quilt we needed to make the borders. I made a number of sample borders for the class to work on and follow. For my own quilt I was inspired by Karen Lewis's Blueberry Park fabric to use her black and white (ish) fabrics to create a striking frame for my quilt. I'm still working on this. If I am truthful, I have slowed not only because of my own workload at the moment, but also because I had no idea how I was going to quilt this piece.
Often I find if I get 'stuck' with a piece, the solution comes eventually. In this case, my thoughts are forming around a very simple quilting format. Using irregular shapes and straight lines to build up a liberated quilting framework to complement the piecing! … I'll keep you posted on how this goes.
For now I'll end with the work of the Thursday evening group. Everyone of this group is a star and their work shines just as much as they do !


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A Lovina dolphin safari in an outrigger, the typical local fishing boat on Bali is a wonderful experience. The boats leave the beach of Kalibukbuk at six o'clock in the morning. A quiet sea and (in most cases) a lot of dolphins swimming and leaping around the boats is your reward for getting up so early.
It is not a problem to get a ticket for one of the boats, because everywhere in Lovina people will ask you if you like to join a dolphin safari in the morning. You also can just go to the beach very early to catch a boat that will bring you to the dolphins. All skippers will offer the same price for the ticket by the way.
The dolphins are familiar with the boats and the tourists and it even looks like if they enjoy their own 'theater play' of jumping and leaping to enjoy the audience. The dolphins belong to a small subspecies of the so called spinner dolphin, sometimes also referred to as the long-snouted dolphin. This type of dolphin is found in off-shore tropical waters around the world. The dolphin has a length of two meter and a weight of around 80 kg and is famous for its acrobatic displays in which it spins along its longitudinal axis as it leaps through the air. They are smaller and darker than the well known bottlenose dolphin like Flipper. Except seeing the dolphins, you also get the chance to enjoy a beautiful sunrise. Did you know that the name dolphin comes from the greek word delphis that means: Fish with a womb?
Our house manager can arrange a boat for you (300.000 Rp per boat (max. 4 persons), including coffee or tea and some food). A new opportunity is a more luxury boat with a roof (to avoid the hot sun) and more or less 'silent' engines. The shape of the boat and/or sound of the engines seem to attract dolphins, who like to swim very close to the front of the boat. Another advantage: this boat leaves at 7 o'clock! But the price is higher: 300.000 Rp per person (min. 5 persons).
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Hence Submission of original documents shall be mandatory. Similarly at the time of the interview. Likewise, a candidate may disqualify and exclude from the interview. Furthermore, If he/she was convicted by the court of law. Hence dismissed/relieved/removed on unsatisfactory performance. Furthermore knowingly furnishes any false information. Similarly suppresses any information which may lead to his disqualification. Hence Attempts to obtain support for his candidature by improper means. However, tempers with the entries in his age and academic certificates. Similarly, Misbehave in the interview. Moreover, Errors / Omissions are subject to rectification. Hence Eligibility of Candidates shall as from the closing date of the application. Similarly, the decision of appointment made by the competent authority would final and non-questionable. Hence if the closing date fixed for the receipt of the application form falls on an official holiday. Similarly, the next working day shall consider as the closing date.
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Most noteworthy only shortlisted candidates will receive calls for tests/interviews. Hence Shortlisting will base on the Screening Test conducted. However, no TA / DA will be admissible to the candidates called for test/interview. Similarly incomplete applications will reject. Likewise, the Name of the post applied for should write boldly on the Top Right. However, Contact Nos. must provide for quick correspondence. Hence Application Forms, complete in all respects. All relevant documents/experience certificates and two passport-sized color photographs. Hence Information provided in the Application Forms will verify in case of an offer of appointment. Similarly in case of any false or forged information. Likewise, the Authority reserves the right to cancel candidature at any stage. Hence even after employment, if so revealed later. Furthermore to initiate legal action against the applicant. Hence the Authority reserve the right to increase/decrease the number of posts at any stage.
Similarly, In the case of foreign degrees, equivalent certificates from HEC must provide. However, an attractive salary package will offer to successful candidates. Hence Preference will give to those who possess the experience. Furthermore, all these Posts are against the merit quota. Furthermore, all vacancies will fill on a merit basis / observing regional quota. Hence please note that fulfilling the selection criteria does not guarantee to shortlist. However, If a large number of applicants meet selection criteria. Hence only the most experienced would shortlist. Most noteworthy the organization reserves the right to increase/decrease the number of posts. Similarly, only one 2nd Division (with not less than 50% marks) in the entire academic career. Likewise, from Matric onwards will be acceptable for eligibility. However, no 3rd Division is allowed in the entire academic career. However, for O-Level / A-Level, an equivalence certificate from the Inter Board Committee of Chairmen.
Important Instructions PPSC Jobs December 2020
Hence we are an equal opportunity employer seeking diversity in terms of gender, culture, and expertise. Furthermore, Candidates must possess an educational degree recognized from HEC recognized institute. Similarly, all shortlisting and selection shall base on merit only. A most noteworthy use of any means to influence the recruitment process will lead to disqualification of the candidate. However, the final selection will be subject to clearing Test/Panel Interview. Similarly, degree verification and medical certificate. Also, shortlisted candidates will adjust in regional offices based on their domicile. Furthermore, one-year trainee assignments do not constitute an employee-employer relationship. Similarly, there is no obligation on the company to offer regular employment to trainees on completion of the training period. Likewise, this term is only for trainees. Hence use a separate application form and bank deposit slip for applying for more than one post. Most noteworthy incomplete applications shall not be considered.
Hence the positions will fill strictly on a merit basis in a transparent manner. Similarly in accordance with the recruitment policy of the Government. Most noteworthy these positions are purely on a contract basis. Copies of testimonials/documents, however, be provided by the candidates who qualify for the screening test. Hence as and when required by the appointing authority for scrutiny purposes. Similarly test Date, Time & Venue will mention on Roll No. Slip. Likewise, No separate Call Letter will be issued to candidates for screening test through postal courier means. Please keep your documents and passport size scanned picture with you. Hence Read the instructions thoroughly before filling the online application form. However, unclaimed qualification will not accept. However, Applicants already in Government service. Furthermore should apply through proper channel. Hence In case of selection, the applicants will have to resign. Similarly from Government service before the appointment.


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Privacy Statements may not be worth the electrons that they're displayed with. But here goes, anyway.
I am firmly committed to protecting your privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for tardigrade.org. But there are also some things that you need to do to protect yourself: Protecting Your Privacy
This server, like every other web server, collects the following information for every 'hit', including main pages, images, etc.
I use this information to help diagnose problems with the server, look for abuse, and to administer the web site. I periodically analyze visits and search terms to see which information is the most useful to people. My logs are not linked to any outside data and you remain anonymous.
[Of course, if I wanted to, I could rent or sell my logs to companies who merge them with web logs from all over. Or I could have a company provide a 'free service' to me by analysing my logs for me in return for their handling (and keeping) the raw data. If you have a full-time web connection with a static IP number, this would let such data collection companies easily link your web visits here and elsewhere with your real name, address, phone number, purchase history, public records, credit history, perhaps medical records, and more. If I chose to spend the money, I could rent access to such databases and have a good chance of figuring out who many of you are, and much more about you than you want any stranger to know.]
If you want to add or modify records for any of the tardigrade.org interactive databases, you must provide a valid email address. This email address cannot be from any known free email services or from a domain known to tolerate spammers. The address is used for the database to mail you your password. This system is in place to limit abuse of the databases. I will not under any circumstances sell, rent, or give your email address to anyone else for any purpose. It's possible that I'll send you mail if there's ever a problem with a database that you actively use, but I won't send you mail for any other reason.
[Of course, your email address is also a valuable company asset. I may not be able to (legally) sell it separately to the highest bidder, but if I ever sold the website, the new owners would probably have few if any restrictions on what they could do with it. You have only my word for it that I think this kind of thing is sleazy and unethical, and that I'd never do it. Well, aside from the problem of who'd want to buy a tardigrade anyway?]
I make every reasonable effort to protect the security of the logs and the user database, but because I don't own the server hardware, I can't make a 100% guarantee that they can't be stolen.
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This site has an associated mailing list, pnw-natives. Messages sent to the list are archived online and are available to public search engines. Please remember that any information, including your email address, that is disclosed on any public mailing list becomes publicly accessible to everyone for the forseeable future, and you can't recall it. I will not remove messages or parts of messages from the archive because it's futile to try to put djinns back in bottles. Think before you send! Exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal information. For the mailing list, you are allowed to use a free email account to protect your real address if you desire, as long as it doesn't place advertisements in the messages you send.
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I do not use cookies. Contrary to what many companies tell you about cookies, allowing unrestricted cookies onto your computer can be a risk to your privacy. It's true that cookies can be useful, and can be safe. But that's not the only way they can be used. It's easy to create cookies that are open to anyone who wants to read them, and these can be used to track you across the web. If you must accept cookies to use some sites, and you can't just avoid those sites, use a utility that will thoroughly delete all cookies periodically, such as every time you quit your browser.
I do not use web bugs. A web bug is an image, often a single transparent pixel, that triggers a remote data collection site to run a script that logs your presence. It logs all of the usual information available to a web server: date, time, your IP number, the page you're looking at, your browser, version, and OS, and sometimes cookie data. When these are sent to a single remote server from many different web sites, it makes it easy to track you across the web and build a complex profile of you. If any of the sites you visit require information for registration, such as your name, age, phone number, or address, this can potentially be linked to the rest of your browsing history, and to public records such as marital status, whether you own or rent your home, and the size of your mortgage, along with records of anything you've bought with a credit card, estimates of probable income, and other information that you'd probably prefer to remain private.
You can avoid many web bugs by turning off the automatic display of images. Then load only particular images that may be of interest to you. Software utilities are available that will filter images that meet certain profiles, such as single pixel images, images that originate at advertising and data-collection sites such as doubleclick, etc.
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Java is not the same thing as Javascript. It has some similarities in that it's a language that runs programs on your computer and interacts with a web server, but it's considerable more powerful than Javascript, and has a much different underlying structure. In general, it's more secure than Javascript, but there are bugs that can be exploited by vandals and the unethical. It's also a resource hog, and since it isn't widely used, you can safely leave it turned off unless necessary for a particular site.
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Port Trust Recruitment 2018
Total No of Posts - 30 Posts
Last Date 05 November
Employment Type: Maharashtra Govt Jobs
Job Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Name of the Post:
- Nursing Sister Trainee
- Pharmacist Trainee
- Applicants who have completed SSC or its equivalent / Registration as a qualified Nurse and midwife with the Maharashtra Nurse or equivalent from a recognized Institute for Mumbai Port Trust Recruitment 2018.
Age Limit:
- Minimum Age: 20 Years
- Maximum Age: 30 Years
Pay Scale: Rs 10,000/-
Selection Procedure:
- Written
- Interview
How to Apply:
- Eligible & Interested candidates can download the Notification & Application Form on the Official website page at www.mumbaiport.gov.in Mumbai Port Trust Recruitment 2018.
Instructions to Apply:
- Applicants send their hard copies of the signed application Filled along with photocopies of ID proof, Proof of Date of Birth, Educational Certificates (Mark-Sheets/Degree Certificate), Caste and attested copies of relevant documents should be sent to the following address (Address mentioned in official notification) by post. Envelope must be superscribed with "Application For The Post of ……………."
- "Chief Medical Officer,Mumbai Port Trust Hospital,Nadkarni Park, Wadala (E),Mumbai-400 037."
Important Dates:
- Starting Date for Submission of Application: 10.10.2018
- Last date for Submission of Application: 05.11.2018
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From Splatspace
Aug 6th, 2019
- Approve draft minutes of the last meeting
- Consent Agenda
- Old Business
- New Business
- Officer Reports
- Member Reports
- Coming Events
- Adjournment
- Approve minutes from May 7, 2019
Did not have a quorum, so did not approve minutes on Jun 2.
- Approve minutes from Jun 4, 2019
- Approve minutes from Jul 2, 2019
Consent Agenda
Approve signing three-year lease for current space (including the basement) for $2400/month.
Old Business
- Lease renewal at 800 Mangum (Peter)
- 3 options
- 1) 1 yr lease for current space + basement - $2574/mo
- 2) 1 yr lease for current space (no basement) - $2100/2300/2500/mo
- 3) 3 yr lease for current space + basement - $2400/mo
- will send email to membership for input
- Equipment updates
- We have a large bed 3D printer and a dual extruder printer. (Andrew)
- GlowForge laser cutter he earned through referrals. (Ryan P)
- Safety Concerns
- During discussion of the Code of Conduct, we decided to move safety concerns to a separate Safety document.
- Mark will create a Slack channel for discussion of safety document.
- We need guidelines listing the tools minors are permitted to use, even with adult supervision. (Mark)
- eg 3D printers vs table saw
- Trauma kit research (jc - will report next month)
- During discussion of the Code of Conduct, we decided to move safety concerns to a separate Safety document.
- New Member orientation
- Updates ?
- Large format printer (updates?/volunteers?)
- Training & Accountability
- Equipment training guides (need volunteers)
- Mini 3D printer (Jeff)
- Roland vinyl cutter (Jeff)
- Other ?
- Equipment training guides (need volunteers)
Someday Business...
(Items carried forward so we don't forget about them.)
- RFC Air filtration (Ryan B)
- Website plans...
New Business
Officer Reports
Note: numbers have not yet been updated
|Monthly Expected Expenses = $2117
Departing Members: Tom T, Josh, John/Camille, Matt, Charlie, Felipe
New Members: Aurora, (Sovello, Kevin)
- Comments: membership usually drops during summer months
- Jun 2018 - 42 members
- biggest issue - members who just fade away...
- Member Relations
- Other
Special Election
The roles of the SplatSpace board are defined in the Bylaws
- Establish Quorum of one quarter of total membership (~13)
- Last minute nominations of any voting member.
- Campaign Season is open ... Campaign season is closed.
- Announce candidates for each vacant office and count votes
- Vote for Board Members
- President - Peter Reintjes
- Secretary - Lewis Scaife
Member Reports
- Upcoming


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8 BlackBerry 10 Features You'll Actually Care About
RIM announced BlackBerry 10 today, taking the wraps off the new BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry Phones.
On stage RIM showed off a collection of new BlackBerry 10 features, which RIM believes will bring users back from iPhone, Android and Windows Phone.
BlackBerry 10 is a modern update to the BlackBerry system, bringing a gesture based operating system and a brand new touch screen phone.
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins told members of the press that BlackBerry 10 is designed for Hyper-Connected users who want to get things done in their personal and professional life, talking about a users' "personal internet of things."
Before launching into the announcement, Heins announced that RIM is now renamed BlackBerry, a company focused on BlackBerry.
BlackBerry announced the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10. Both phones are confirmed for Verizon in mid-March and for other U.S. carriers around the same time.
BlackBerry 10 Features You'll Actually Care About
The following BlackBerry 10 features are the best of what BlackBerry has to offer new users. Several of these new BlackBerry 10 features are sure to gain jealous looks from iPhone, Android and Windows Phone owners.
BlackBerry 10 Keyboard
BlackBerry smartphones are known for their keyboards, which many users find tough to leave when switching to an iPhone or Android. With BlackBerry 10, RIM is putting a renewed focus on touch, and betting that their new software keyboard can beat the competition.
The BlackBerry 10 keyboard supports on the fly next word suggestion, which means it can predict the next word before users start typing it. Android users enjoy this feature on SwiftKey, which makes it easier to type accurately and fast. RIM adds keyboard 'frets' to add spacing to the keys, which it claims will make typing on-screen easier and accurate.
Users can also look forward to continuous learning, a feature that learns what users are typing and can not only learn words, but start to predict other items based on past use.
BlackBerry Flow
With BlackBerry 10 users can multitask between multiple apps using BlackBerry Flow, a new feature that makes it possible to swipe to a screen showing cards for programs that are running.
BlackBerry Peek
BlackBerry Peek allows users to swipe in form the left to see notifications without leaving an app. On screen Blackberry demoed the feature by checking a notification using BlackBerry Peek without leaving the video which was playing.
BlackBerry Hub
The BlackBerry Hub is where users can access all of their email, calendar and social networking accounts in one place. BlackBerry 10 builds this into the system, allowing users to see all of their important information in one place. The feature will pull down photos from social networks, recognizing connections between social networks and the user's address book.
BlackBerry Balance
With BlackBerry Balance, users can switch between work and personal apps and uses with a quick gesture. This allows users to stay in control of their personal life while keeping work secure. BlackBerry hopes this new feature, shown in the video above, will allow users to carry one phone.
BlackBerry Messenger
BlackBerry 10 includes a new version of BBM, which makes it possible to jump from messages to a video call and straight into screen sharing. With screen sharing, users can see the screen of another BlackBerry 10 device, simplifying sharing an experience, document or asking for help using the phone.
BlackBerry 10 Camera Features
With the BlackBerry 10 camera app users can tap to take a shot, move focus around with their finger and use Time Shift to quickly pick a photo where someone is not blinking or looking away, as shown in the video above.
BlackBerry 10 Gestures
For more on how BlackBerry 10 gestures work, check out the video below, where we look at BlackBerry 10 gestures in action.
Check out the latest BlackBerry 10 news.
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BRIT Awards organisers have detailed plans for 2019, with Jack Whitehall confirmed to return.
Announced via the official BRITs socials moments ago, Whitehall's appearance as host follows last month's reveal that acclaimed British-Ghanaian architect Sir David Adjaye OBE will design the 2019 statue, in partnership with Czech glassmaking and design firm LASVIT.
The BRIT Awards 2019 will take place on Wednesday 20th February at London's O2 Arena. Watch the announcement below:
👀 Guess who's back… #BRITs @jackwhitehall pic.twitter.com/lRC6t9yGBP
— BRIT Awards (@BRITs) November 25, 2018


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We enjoyed Wax Mannequin's show at the Phog so much in February, we decided to make a run up to Narnia, uh, Sarnia at the end of May to see him again at Paddy Flaherty's. Unfortunately, a cool, rainy night kept us indoors, but then again, if we'd been outside on the patio, we wouldn't have gotten to see Wax bring down the house.
We jest about the whole Narnia/Sarnia thing, but a Wax Mannequin performance is a little like being in a fantasy land, between the handfuls of crystals, dark fairytale and fairytruth music and body bags full of balloons. Except this time, as Wax was hanging the bag, the shelf over the stage area he tried to affix it to split and gave way, and a treasure trove of bar bric-a-brac crashed down.
The rest of the show was anything but anticlimatic, as Wax delivered a jaunty set that included hits from his latest album, Saxon, plus, to the delight of the audience, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and "The Log Driver's Waltz." Even Paddy's sound man seemed to enjoy himself, despite the bag of ice on his head from the wreck of the shelf.
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Centre[3]'s Dis[re]placement is a city-wide roadside art exhibition that addresses displacement, gentrification, environmental impact, poverty and homelessness. The project employs 7 site specific art installations with a group of unique and diverse artists, involving road signs and banners, on both public and private property in Hamilton's downtown core.
Centre[3] has partnered with the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre to offer 3 guided walking tours of the exhibition led by Rob Kristofferson that will discuss both workers history and the artworks presented. A map listing the locations of the installations will be available in print during the tour and at Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts (173 James Street North).
The exhibition runs for November and December 2018 and will be accompanied by a text by Suzanne Carte.
Exhibition is generously supported by:


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Last night, in a gala celebration at Tribeca Rooftop, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) honored the Ford Foundation, along with three NYFA grantees—writer Terry McMillan, dancer and choreographer Dwight Rhoden and Deborah Kass, the visual artist best known for her queer and feminist-inflected appropriations of works by Andy Warhol. For anyone interested in Ms. Kass's artistic development, a highlight of the evening was her acceptance speech, particularly the second half of that speech, her thank yous, which she prefaced by saying, "Since this is as close as I'm ever going to get to an Oscar, I would love to take the opportunity to say thanks. So you have to bear with me. I don't want the music coming on."
Ms. Kass continued:
"First and foremost, to [film producer and close Warhol colleague] Vincent Fremont, for being there at a critical time. To [Warhol Museum director] Eric Shiner…a lifechanger, no words can thank you enough, Eric. To Paul Kasmin and everyone at Paul Kasmin Gallery. To Mrs. Johnson, my kindergarten teacher, who wrote my first great review, on my report card: 'Debbie is very good at art and gym.' To Charles Schulz, my first favorite, great artist, who answered my many fan letters, and kept all the drawings that I sent to him as an ambitious nine-year-old. Thank you, Mr. Schulz, for advising me, and I quote, 'Keep at it, you never know where it will lead.' To MoMA and the Met, for being the best possible art education for a strangely obsessed, driven, and weirdly determined teenage girl from Long Island. To the artists who positively thrilled me as a kid with their subversive and completely disruptive genius: Lucille Ball, Tex Avery, Carol Burnett, Doctor Seuss, Harvey Kurtzman, and all the artists at Mad magazine. Later, for all the exact same reasons: Cezanne, Guston, Pollock, Andy, Louise Bourgeois, Alice Neel, Frank Stella, Eva Hesse, Adrian Piper, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman and my hero Elizabeth Murray. To the art historians I revere, who inspired me, and then honored me by writing so insightfully about my work: Rob Storr, Linda Nochlin, Irving Sandler, Griselda Pollock, and the late, great Robert Rosenblum. To all my muses, especially Jonathan Schwartz, Cornel West, Ryan Murphy, Naomi Klein, Stephen Sondheim and Auntie Mame. To my role models: Barbra Joan Streisand, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and my Grandma Jeanne Koufax, who said to me at least once a week on our daily phone call, 'Debbie, I'm a fighter, and you take after me.' To [Ms. Kass's partner, the artist] Patricia Cronin, who fights the good fight every day in her studio right next to mine. Without her, art and life would be unbearably lonely. To friends and family who have kept me sane for decades. To every collector who has ever paid money for women's work, especially now. To NYFA and to all those already mentioned and to everyone who has said a kind or encouraging thing to me in the last 40 years. I would not be here without you, so thank you very much."


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Introducing: Tall Tale Tuesdays! Every Tuesday I will be talking about wedding myths or superstitions…. and why it's ridiculous. Starting today! (I know it's Wednesday, bear with me. The event industry can be busy and it is still wedding season.)
So without further ado, I present the first ever (belated) Tall Tale Tuesday! Since this is the first post I will be doing a double whammy myth and superstition: "The Wedding Dress Has to be White."
The idea of being forced into a white dress for your wedding is so steeped in tradition, that it has a rhyme:
Married in Red, you will wish yourself dead,
Married in Yellow, ashamed of your fellow,
Married in Green, ashamed to be seen,
Married in Pink, your spirit will sink,
Married in Grey, you will go far away,
Married in Black, you will wish yourself back
O.K. brides, time for some real talk. This is your day. If you want that classic white dress because that has been your vision and dream for forever then go for it! But if white is not for you, then there is no reason why you should not be able to express yourself ! And frankly a red wedding dress is not only traditional, but is said to bring good luck in countries like China, India, Pakistan and Vietnam.
I have seen beautiful wedding dresses in all different colors. Purple, black, blue, pink – express yourself! This is your wedding day and you get to be you. Or if you would like to add some color but want to keep the white dress add a colored sash, cardigan, or hair piece!
Or maybe the dress is the part that doesn't do it for you. Who says you can't wear an elegant pants suit or skirt?
Heard any other wedding Tall Tales? Any specific topics you would like me to write about? Questions you would like answered?
Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com