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Sexy and dangerous, eyes filled with dark mystery, and a type of fiery fight inside that wills him on, Skurin Noix is a violent criminal put on death row. And although a well-feared man, Ashley is having a hard time staying away from Skurin. And she'll risk anything just to be near him, even if she has to make a contract with Skurin to do it.
I did it. I messed up. I was the one who pushed the prince down the stairs, not Skurin. But he lied for me. And now he's going to be the one to pay for it. And where was the proof?
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I ran across the small clearing between the two rows of buildings, and hoped to God that I timed it right. But it was impossible for me to be wrong. I checked the time; 11:55. Five minutes. Then I followed the dirt path through the open cut field of the grounds, and didn't bother to look for any look-outs. You would have to be a fool to be heading out here.
The path led me to a rounded wall, attached to a much longer rectangular wall. These walls all made up a building formerly known as the Torture Unit. Skurin was inside of there right now. All I could think about was what was about to happen...
Midnight. It was midnight. Was I too late?
I ran to the entrance of the Torture Unit, and quickly realized that they'd already locked the doors. No one would be answering the door now, no matter how loud I banged on the door. I'm too late. But no, I couldn't just walk back home now. Instead, I went around to the side of the Torture Unit and found just one tiny window, covered by a coral coloured piece of translucent fabric. I could see them, but no one would be able to see me.
Skurin was slouched over with his hands on his knees, and his entire back bare. And completely dark red with the remnants of fresh whip marks dripping blood. I almost couldn't bare the sight; Skurin down panting in so much pain. And I hadn't even heard a scream. But then again, they did have the option of silencing any screams within the building, although the royals liked to make it apparent to everyone by letting the screams of the tortured run through the night. It seems odd that they would silence him, though.
Besides Skurin, there was a heavily muscled man wearing a black mask in there holding the bone-chilling flexible metal whip. It dripped with Skurin's blood. The man laughed.
"That's what you get for messing with the royal family," He spat in Skurin's direction, "Pretty boy." The Torturer walked off chuckling. The moment he did, Skurin and I both let loose deep breaths. He stood with perfect posture, and presented himself with the same great strength he always held. The great pride and honour of the Noix family, long assassinated long ago. Skurin was the single orphan child left of that prideful family.
A beautiful woman set foot into the room, with thick long black hair, tanned skin, and slim black clothing covering her body. A violet gypsy's bandana made of the same material as the fabric covering the window covered her lower face, but a fool would know who that was from the moment she stepped foot into the chamber; Princess Yarora.
She held a mysterious smile on her lips and held her hands behind her back, walking up to Skurin with a type of calmness most wouldn't dare. Sofly, she grazed Skurin's cheek with her hand, and I awaited Skurin's action. He did nothing but stood still.
"Hello, Skurin." Following his eyes to Yarora's hand still held behind her back, she made haste to slap metal binds around Skurin's wrists. He looked up calmly, and just stared into her eyes. It was impossible to read his emotions, but he looked like he was open and waiting or something. Yarora just looked up at him with the same mysterious, now mischievous eyes, and cruel smile. She liked Skurin.
Yarora broke away from his stare, "You know it's a shame," she walked around to the back of Skurin, studying him, then going to pull out a chair that was in hiding somewhere in the darkness, and pushing him down into it so that the shackles at the legs of the chairs would close around his ankles. Skurin did not resist in the least. Yarora was successful in bringing in another chair around in front of him, and then sat down in it. She stared a minute at the man, then took his chin in her hand and rested her thumb on his delicate lips. "A shame that we really have to harm those pretty lips of yours, but it's really your own fault." She brushed her thumb against his bottom lip, making me furious.
She took a needle from her pocket, threaded it with a long string of flexible metal, and broke off the end with a knife to tie it in a knot.
"Open wide," She said playfully, and I just caught the glimpse of Skurin hesitate, then drop his jaw down just slightly enough.
"Scream at the top of your lungs, Noix." She said darkly.
Yarora, needle in one hand, gently pinched Skurin's upper lip, raised the needle up, then stabbed it down with all her strength. I could have sworn I caught Skurin flinch, but that was impossible, too. Skurin had no fears.
Eerily, she pulled the thread through, and continued with the bottom lip. Stabbing it through and pulling the thread, stabbing and pulling it through...
I couldn't watch any longer. I crouched down below the window, and leaned against the wall. That should have been me.
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"I hate getting messy." She muttered, melting into the shadows and stalking back to her current resting place. The next night, she would rise and hunt the next rogue, as she had done for the past hundred years, despite the war that the humans raged on her kind.
"If only you poor creatures knew." She murmured sadly, eyes on the small village below her only window. She secured her shutters, sealing away the outside world before cleaning herself and her weapons so that she could rest. She no longer reflected on her battles, fleeting as they were. In the beginning, she would have been impressed at Pierre's brave tenacity. That was when she took pleasure from her duty. Now, she could think of nothing else to occupy her days.
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By December 1966, when I heard of him again, he was a theologian with a worldwide reputation, having been professor for a year at the Jesuit-run Heythrop College, Oxfordshire and editor of the Clergy Review. He was also announcing his departure from the Roman Catholic Church.
That departure was flooded with publicity. Three months later, Ivan Yates wrote in the Observer that the move had left 'a crisis of authority' and 'distress and bewilderment' in the Church. Davis wrote about his departure in his autobiography, A Question of Conscience (1967). He criticised what he saw as the Church's abuse of authority, intellectual integrity and conscience and its teaching on celibacy. It was 'racked by fear, insecurity and anxiety with a consequent intolerance and lack of love'.
Davis married a fellow Catholic and theology student, the American Florence Henderson, at the Anglican church in Haslingfield, near Cambridge. A skilled and admired teacher, he then became professor of religious studies at the University of Alberta from 1967 to 1970.
He was born in Swindon and ordained a priest in June 1946. He studied for two years at Rome's Gregorian University, after which he went to Ware, where he remained from 1952 until 1965. He joined Montreal's Concordia University in 1970, remaining there until 1991. Between 1987 and 1991, he was also principal of Lonergan University, Montreal.Visiting professorships took him to Israel and Cambridge. He was a life member of Claire Hall, Cambridge.
In Christ And The World Religions (1970), he tackled the problem of the relation between faith in Jesus Christ and the other religious options still drawing allegiance from men. He published his 1978 Hulsean Lectures as Theology And Political Society (1980). In that, he examined the development of political theology in Germany and liberation theology in Latin America.
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She was crouched on a fat branch of the tree, midway up, just far enough to peek through the canopy to catch sight of the stars. The video flickered out and she choked back a roll of nausea. She'd only eaten an hour before, keeping it to fruit and nuts she could scavenge for, and she didn't want to waste the meal. It had been sparse enough to begin with. She was tired, but her mind was too noisy to sleep. Every creak, whisper, and flutter had her attention. Flashes of the video repeated in her mind like a broken video stream. She wasn't certain what strange emotion tingled its way up her spine; she wanted it to be fear, to be terror, so she could feel human, but the words didn't seem to fit the sensation, and she tried not to find the one that did. She heard a twig snap a few meters to her right and she froze, straining her hearing for any follow up sounds. A rustle and crunch of leaves. That was all she needed to hear.
Her movements swift and quiet, she lifted her already assembled crossbow from what remained of a nearby branch, where she'd left it for safe keeping, and loaded an arrow. She leveled it and peered down the sight, her breath held tightly in her lungs, her heartbeat loud and rhythmic in her ears. Her hands were steady.
A woman stepped into her view; dirty and frightened, her eyes wide as she scanned the forest floor for any other gamers. She never thought to look up. Rory wanted to hesitate, she wanted the finger pressing against the trigger to waiver in its steadfast motion, but neither of these things happened. She pulled the trigger and the arrow tore through the air with a hiss; it punctured the girl's forehead and she went down as if someone had let all the air out of her legs.
What was strange was that no curl of sickness in her stomach ever came. No burst of insanity broke free in her brain. She felt nothing as she dropped from her branch to the floor of the forest, pre-emptively loaded crossbow in hand, and stared at the woman's corpse as the canon sounded. For a long moment, she simply stood there and observed her fellow Gamer's body, head slightly tilted, eyes empty of human emotion.
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The body would remain until there was no one to observe the Cleaners, and it would do her no good to have a body warning everyone of her location, so she left. Rory moved in silence through the forest without needing to be cautious – it came naturally to her, maneuvering in terrain such as the woods. She was but a ghost between the branches. She ignored the gradually increasing quiver of the fingertips of her left hand. She closed her fist and continued to move ahead.
She walked for at least a few kilometers before she decided to find another tree and take shelter. It seemed she needed to do nothing until Gamers came to her. If she could remain overhead, she would have the advantage. Especially if she could keep quiet, she thought to herself, consciously re-closing her fist. She climbed a tree with branches that started too high for less skilled climbers to make use of, and settled in midway up on a thick branch; she had to hold her shaking palm against her right shoulder, squeezing the pain out from the strain of using it to lift all of her body weight. Her left hand shook too much for her to properly grip the branches. For a while, she did nothing except watch the stars through the gaps in the leaves.
The longer she looked up, the more suspicious she became of certain lumps of darkness in the higher branches of nearby trees. Too large to be birds' nests, they tugged on her curiosity. If they were birds' nests, they were birds of prey, and she should probably find another place to nest herself. It would be wise to check, she decided, and began to search for a way to the next tree without climbing down. She didn't want to have to strain her shoulder just to get to a safe nesting place, again. Most of the trees were big enough that their branches reached out for each other, so finding some that were wide enough to support her wasn't nearly as difficult as she had expected it to be. In some places, she practically had a bridge.
Stopping a few branches beneath one of the suspicious formations, she had to climb a little higher until she could see it, but the branches were close enough together that she could push herself up with her boots.
It was not a nest, at all, she realized, as her finger tips touched rough fabric. It was a supply pack, and from her higher perch, she could see at least two others atop nearby trees. She smiled to herself and shrugged the first pack onto her shoulders before moving to gather the others.
By the time she finished, she'd gathered two supply packs and a complete med kit with two health shards nestled in the small, white box. In the first supply pack, she found a full water canteen, an insulated blanket, a pair of gloves, a water purifying kit, and some rolls wrapped in cloth. At the bottom were a baggie of jerky and a box of matches. In the second pack, she found a sharpening stone, another canteen of water, a pair of goggles, a poncho, a hunting knife with a sheath, and a small set of three throwing knives.
Not too shabby for the first day, she mused to herself, and hung her treasures on the broken branches above hers. She drank down more than half of the first canteen at once. Pleased with her luck and finally tired enough to sleep, she settled down onto the wide branch and used the strap from her arrow bundle to tie herself to the tree by the waist.
She dreamed she went swimming in an ocean of blood.
It began with her standing on a beach, stained burgundy with the sanguine fluid of a thousand bodies. The crimson waves rushed the shore and frothed over her ankles. Every time the waves receded, they grew stronger; until they pulled her feet from beneath her and carried her out to sea. She fought to swim to shore, fought with all the strength in her body, but she had an anchor tied around her waist and it was dragging her beneath the surface.
With each stroke, her fingers slid against dismembered body parts. She could smell copper all around her. The bloodwater clung to her skin and soaked through her suit. It tangled her hair and stained her very soul. All she could see in any direction were cerise waves, interrupted only by digits and protruding bones bobbing up here and there.
She woke up with a scream still hot in her throat. Her breath came in uneven, rattling gasps. She had to move, she thought, as her quaking fingers found the knot around her stomach and she freed herself. Her hands seemed to follow commands she wasn't giving – perhaps it was instinct, or survival. She re-fashioned her satchel quickly, even with one hand trembling madly, and took an extra second to load the crossbow. She paid careful attention to the sounds around her; if anyone had heard, they were not close enough to reach her just yet, she realized, and dropped down her supply packs and med kit before she followed them.
Each pack was almost fifteen pounds, the med kit was almost six or seven, and she slung one pack over each shoulder, with her satchel in the middle, the strap crossing over her chest at an angle. In her left hand, she carried the med kit, and in her right she held the loaded crossbow at the ready. She didn't know if her hand would continue to shake when she aimed, and she prepared herself to only use one hand. Her aim would be off-kilter, but she could compensate for that.
She considered walking, but she had no way to tell how close anyone else might have been, or who might have heard her scream, and so she decided to jog. The packs slammed against her back with every step, the bruises developing slowly, but she ignored it and continued on. She ran until her knees wobbled; she was starving, and tired, and her ever-shuddering hand was beginning to worry her. It had to be the stress, she told herself, and forcibly stuffed the concern into the darkest corner of her mind.
She'd come to a halt in a small clearing, the woods like a dense wall surrounding her. She found another tree and stared up through the branches, her heart racing in her chest from her run, and her confidence in her ability to climb slowly dwindling. Her right shoulder was still sore from the strain she'd put on it the night before.
She only had two health shards, and she wondered if she was actually going to have to waste one of them on a sore shoulder. With her right hand, she rubbed her fingers against the sides of her nose, frustration seeping into her thoughts and contaminating them. It didn't matter, she concluded – she didn't need shelter that instant anyway; she needed food, and fresh water. The water canteens in her supply packs would only last so long, and if she wanted to keep her strength up, she knew better than to drink sparingly. She dropped her supplies to the ground beside the tree and searched for a dense section of bushes she could use as a hideaway.
When she found a safe place, she dumped everything out of both packs and re-packed them herself. She would bring one with her, and leave the other in her hiding spot. She stuffed the hunting knife and sheath, the throwing knives, and the empty canteen of water into the pack she planned to bring along. After a small bout of paranoia, she added the matches, the blanket, and the sharpening stone. She lifted it and estimated the weight at roughly fifteen pounds. Not too much, but she knew better than to put much more in it. The heavier it was, the slower she would be. She stuffed in the health shards and the med kit. Everything else went into the spare pack and was stuffed into the darkest, thickest patch she could find.
She slung the twenty-something pound pack over her shoulder and settled the satchel of arrows on the other side. With her left hand still shaking violently, she tightened her grip on the crossbow and made her way into the woods again.


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Process for Becoming a Licensed Commodity Broker

This profession requires every commodity broker to be licensed and registered with the National Futures Association (NFA). The designation you will be seeking is an Associated Person.

You will be required to take and pass the Series 3 examination. Do not confuse this with the Series 7, which is used for Stock Brokers. The exam will have two parts. The first consists of questions that will test you on general futures market knowledge, hedging, futures contracts, orders, options and most everything involved in trading. The outline from for the test can be found at the NFA.

The second part of the test will cover rules and regulations. Do not take this part of the test lightly. It deals with the "treating the customer properly" issues. Your brokerage firm should have study manuals for you and there are several online study courses available.

Next, you will need to fill out an 8-R form with the NFA. This basically gives them your life history. It includes your employment history for the last 10 years and your residential history for the last 5 years. It also covers your criminal history and well as any disciplinary actions if you have been licensed in other financial professions.

The reason for the in-depth profile is that you will go through a background check with the FBI before you are given a temporary license. You will also need to get fingerprinted, usually at your local police office, and the card will be sent to the NFA along with your 8-R.

Where to Work as a Commodity Broker

Now, before you start this whole process, you need to have a place to work. Most stock brokerage firms do not trade commodities, so you should look for a firm that specializes in commodities. These are typically called  Introducing Brokers or just IBs.

You can also work directly for an FCM, however, most of them are located in Chicago or New York. As far as the number of firms, there are about 1,500 Introducing Brokers and about 150 FCMs.

Being a commodity broker is a combination of being a salesperson with an analytical ability to research commodity markets as well as trade commodities. Many commodity brokerage firms have research departments that do a lot of the analysis for you and make trade recommendations.

Chicago is definitely the place to be for trading commodities. It is home to the CME Group - a merger between the CBOT and CME. It may be the best place to learn and get a start. Most other major cities will have a handful of commodity brokerage firms. You probably will have to look at a firm that specializes in commodities as the large wirehouses like Merrill and Morgan Stanley most likely will not hire you exclusively for trading commodities.

This can be a very rewarding profession and many who last more than a couple years are hooked and stay in the industry for a lifetime.

Good luck and study hard for the test!

Updated by Andrew Hecht on May 4, 2016

The commodities market is a highly cyclical business. During bull markets there tend to be lots of interest from the ever expanding investor community. During these times, there are many jobs available for new brokers breaking into the business. However, during bear markets, the business tends to contract as volumes and interest dry up.

From 2003-2011/2012, there was an active bull market in commodities and prices moved progressively higher, attracting a great deal of investor interest as commodities moved from alternative investment vehicles into the mainstream. However, from 2012-early 2016, bear market conditions caused interest in the sector to decline, and opportunities for brokers decreased alongside prices. There have been signs that the commodities markets have started to pick up again in the spring of 2016. As prices have bounced off lows, the commodity brokerage has started to look better as it is a function of volume and price action.

Another area to consider, if you want to enter the fast moving and exciting world of commodities, is in the traditional equity markets. The advent of ETF and ETN products has made commodity exposure available to investors, traders, and speculators in their traditional stock accounts. This type of brokerage requires the traditional SEC license, the Series 7 as opposed to the Series 3 requirement.


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