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Three-time entrepreneur Sandy Bell launches Munnerlyn, Inc., a fine fragrance company
Munnerlyn, Inc. releases six perfumes and 12 home fragrances in October.
Although the founder, Sandy Bell, worked with some of the best perfumers in the country to develop the line, Munnerlyn, Inc.'s philosophy is not solely centered on selling fragrances. The company hopes to change lives through a running conversation on the power of intentional thinking on its blog, "Perfume, Intention and Other Beautiful Things," a place for encouragement and empowerment for women who wish to lead intentional lives.
At the rollout event, the newly launched perfumes: Angels of Dallas, Bella Capri, Celestine Veil, Arigato, Coquine Contessa and Midnight Carousel along with the home fragrance line were sampled and evaluated by attendees, who gave rave reviews.
Angels of Dallas pays homage to the beautiful women of Munnerlyn's home city. Opening with bright berries, this avant-garde eau de parfum evolves with a rose, jasmine and freesia heart that softens the way to a powdery woody-amber dry down.
"We really wanted to create a fragrance that would celebrate the sexy, sophisticated and sweet-hearted women of Dallas, as well as those all over the world," Bell said. "Of course, it doesn't matter where you live — where you are is your platform to be the angel of your intentions."
Bella Capri is a wonderful citrus floral, reminiscent of the beautiful Island of Capri in Italy. This fragrance was inspired by the Italian phrase "dolce far niente," meaning the sweetness of doing nothing. Munnerlyn's intention for Bella Capri is for any moment to become a fresh new beginning.
Celestine Veil is soft, elegant and full of wonder. The fragrance has sheer citrus sparkles on the opening as gems of rose, jasmine, sandalwood and patchouli surface throughout the dry down. It was designed with the intention of bringing the wearer the joy of innocent expectancy, hope and wonder that comes when pondering a future of celestial possibilities.
With an immaculate dry down, Arigato offers a delicate balance of spice and floral bouquet. The top notes begin boldly with the spiciness of cardamom and anise, drying down with softness and warm femininity through the heart and base of ylang, rose, layers of warm musk, vanilla and amber.
"Arigato is the phonetic spelling for the word meaning 'thank you' in Japanese," Bell said. "With this fragrance we send an intention that the wearers will truly feel the blessings in their lives, as true gratefulness is close to heaven on earth."
Unapologetically sexy, Coquine Contessa is mischievous and playful with notes of tangerine, hints of fresh green notes, tea leaves, sheer jasmine, patchouli, vanilla and a touch of spice. Coquine Contessa's intention is that circumstances will align to nurture one's sexy inner diva.
Midnight Carousel is an urban mélange with a crisp green accord top accord, a floral heart with a touch of raspberry, and a base of sandalwood, patchouli, vanilla and sheer wood. Bell's intention with this fragrance is that the wearer will embrace their authentic self and live life on their own terms.
Munnerlyn also released a diverse collection of fine aromatic candles, with citrus fragrances like Bali Bungalow, fresh, relaxing fragrances like Peace Prize and delectable food fragrances like Tarte Aux Bleuets Pour Deux and Crème Obsession. All the candles are handcrafted and triple-scented.
Sandy Bell is a three time entrepreneur, responsible for creating a matchmaking company that she sold to It's Just Lunch. She then founded S. Bell, Inc., a public relations firm that has served clients for more than 15 years.
"Munnerlyn, Inc. was born out of my love for fragrances,"
The founder's launch introduction can be viewed at http://www.munnerlyninc.com/
About Munnerlyn, Inc.
Munnerlyn, Inc. is a fine fragrance company launched in October 2011 featuring a line of six eau de parfums and 12 fine aromatic candles. Munnerlyn, Inc.'s philosophy is not solely centered on selling fragrances — the company hopes to change lives for the better through a platform that centers on the power of thought. More on the subject can be viewed on the company's about page and the blog, "Perfume, Intention and Other Beautiful Things…" Fragrances can be purchased on Munnerlyn, Inc.'s website at http://www.munnerlyninc.com.
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Kickstarter UK Launches This Week With The Ship: Full Steam Ahead
Kickstarter UK officially launches this week, as soon as the site begins to cater for UK-based creators from Wednesday 31 October.
Creators have already been invited to create their pitch pages, and the first big game project has also been revealed – a sequel to PC indie The Ship.
The Ship: Full Steam Ahead is in the works at UK-based dev Blazing Griffin, which will reveal the funding page on Wednesday.
"the Kickstarter will be looking for a funding of £128,000 which is around the UK equivalent of the $200,000 we initial calculated," wrote the developer.
"For that amount we can complete a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) which would be a new PC and Mac multiplayer version of the game set in a beautiful and grandiose steampunk environment, with new maps, weapons and a new game engine."
As per most Kickstarter projects, more funding will mean more features, Blazing Griffin added.
"We would add more to that game, with further consideration of the majority of the community's thoughts; such as single player, new game modes and more."
Look out for more details from Wednesday, or check out the concept art below:

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Since the publication of the first edition of Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action in 1989, students of human rights on every continent have witnessed a large number of states becoming "emerging" or "reemerging" democracies, and proclaiming support for the promotion and protection of international human rights. The second edition, published in 1992—soon after the dismantling of the Berlin Wall―reflected a widely shared post-Cold War aspiration to displace the then sterile posturing of superpower rivalry with a lively and constructive global human rights culture. The third edition, published in 2006, was intended to facilitate human rights education in support of the international commitments voiced in the Millennium Declaration 2000 when United Nations member states pledged that they would spare no effort to promote democracy and strengthen the rule of law, as well as respect for internationally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms.
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Warlock (Ancient Egyptian Series #3)by Wilbur Smith, Dick Hill (Read by)
These audiobooks from Macmillan UK offer abridged readings of some of the world¹s most popular authors. Handsomely packaged, they feature readings by eminent actors of the stage and screen, including James Fox, Martin Shaw, Tim Pigott-Smith, and David Rintoul.
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"'This is a stirring tale, full of chariot battles...Smith has whipped up a heady brew...and undoubtedly deserves his immense popularity far more than most of his rivals.'" Evening Standard
"Smith brings to life every colorful detail in the world of Egypt so much so you can almost feel the heat and taste the dust as the narrative builds to cracking pace. ...[Warlock] is a ripping yarn and a classic adventure story." Irish News
"Seamlessly composed, this epic historical drama by veteran author Smith tracks a power struggle in ancient Egypt between false pharaohs and a true royal heir, evoking the cruel glories and terrible torments of the era. Those willing to brave the blood and gore will be carried away by the sweep and pace of Smith's tale." Publishers Weekly
"Smith is an excellent storyteller, and the fast-moving action and the exciting plot will hook even those who normally don't appreciate historical fiction. … Smith...returns to the genre with this epic action tale of intrigue, suspense, and adventure set in ancient Egypt. His many fans will be clamoring for copies of this one." Booklist
"This most recent novel by a master storyteller is resplendent with all the power and pageantry of Egypt, the center of civilization of the ancient world." Library Journal
"When it comes to historical fiction, Smith is without rival. He is a warlock of writers." Tulsa World
"Filled with enough action, adventure, battles, betrayals and actual cliffhangers to satisfy Indiana Jones, Wilbur Smith's new novel Warlock is a rousing and worthy sequel to River God." The Plain Dealer
"This summer's most entertaining read…another full-blown tale of war, intrigue, murder, lust, and true love set in ancient Egypt." Flint Journal
"Smith...returns to the genre with this epic action tale of intrigue, suspense, and adventure set in ancient Egypt. His many fans will be clamoring for copies of this one." Booklist
"Smith illuminates all the cruelty and magnificence of a time lost in history, and what is truly amazing is that he does it with apparent ease. He has produced a totally credible story in a period that is shrouded in mystery and brings it flawlessly to life. … Each time I read a new Wilbur Smith I say it is the best book I have ever read--until the next one." Times Record News (Wichita Falls, TX)
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Like an uncoiling serpent, a line of fighting chariots wound swiftly down the gut of the valley. From where he clung to the dashboard of the leading chariot the boy looked up at the cliffs that hemmed them in. The sheer rock was pierced by the openings to the tombs of the old people that honeycombed the cliff. The dark pits stared down at him like the implacable eyes of a legion of djinn. Prince Nefer Memnon shuddered and looked away, furtively making the sign to avert evil with his left hand.
'My lord!' Pharaoh hailed the Great Lion of Egypt, Lord Naja, his army commander and beloved companion. 'We must be away again before the sun touches the hilltops. I wish to make a night run through the dunes to El Gabar.'
The blue war crown on Tamose's head gleamed with mica dust, and his eyes were bloodshot with tiny lumps of tearwet mud in the comers as he glanced down at Nefer. 'This is where I will leave you to go on with Taita.'
Although he knew that it was futile to protest, Nefer opened his mouth to do so. The squadron was going in against the enemy. Pharaoh Tamose's battle plan was to circle south through the Great Dunes and weave a way between the bitter natron lakes to take the enemy in his rear and rip an opening in his centre through which the Egyptian legions, massed and waiting on the Nile bank before Abnub, could pour. Tamose would combine the two forces and before the enemy could rally, drive on past Tell elDaba and seize the enemy citadel of Avaris.
It was a bold and brilliant plan which, if it succeeded, would bring to a close, at one stroke, the war with the Hyksos that had already raged through two lifetimes. Nefer had been taught that battle and glory were the reasons for his existence on this earth. But, even at the advanced age of fourteen years, they had so far eluded him. He longed wish all his soul to ride to victory and immortality at his father's side.
Before his protest could pass his lips, Pharaoh forestalled him. 'What is the first duty of a warrior?' he demanded of the boy.
Nefer dropped his eyes. 'It is obedience, Majesty,' he replied softly, reluctantly.
'Never forget it.' Pharaoh nodded and turned away.
Nefer felt himself spurned and discarded. His eyes smarted and his upper lip quivered, but Taira's gaze stiffened him. He blinked to clear his vision of tears, and took a pull from the waterskin that hung on the side rail of the chariot before turning to the old Magus with a jaunty toss of his thick dustcaked curls. 'Show me the monument, Tata,' he commanded.
The illassorted pair made their way through the concourse of chariots, men and horses that choked the narrow street of the ruined city. Stripped naked in the heat twenty troopers had climbed down the deep shafts to the ancient wells, and formed a bucket chain to bring the sparse, bitter water to the surface. Once those wells had been bountiful enough to support a rich and populous city that sat full upon the trade route between the Nile and the Red Sea. Then, centuries ago, an earthquake had shattered the waterbearing stratum and blocked the subterranean flow. The city of Gallala had died of thirst. Now there was scarcely sufficient water to slake the thirst of two hundred horses and top up the waterskins before the wells were dry.
Taita led Nefer through the narrow lanes, past temples and palaces now inhabited only by the lizard and the scorpion, until they reached the deserted central square. In its centre stood the monument to Lord Tanus and his triumph over the armies of bandits who had almost choked the life out of the richest and most powerful nation on earth. The monument was a bizarre pyramid of human skulls, cemented together and protected by a shrine made of red rock slabs. A thousand and more skulls grinned down upon the boy as he read aloud the inscription on the stone portico: 'Our severed heads bear witness to the battle at this place in which we died beneath the sword of Tanus Lord Harrab. May all the generations that follow learn from that mighty lord's deeds the glory of the gods and the power of righteous men. Thus decreed in the fourteenth year of the reign of the God Pharaoh Mamose.'
Squatting in the monument's shadow Taita watched the Prince as he walked around the monument, pausing every few paces with hands on hips to study it from every angle. Although Taira's expression was remote his eyes were fond. His love for the lad had its origins in two other lives. The first of these was Lostris, Queen of Egypt. Taita was a eunuch, but he had been gelded after puberty and had once loved a woman. Because of his physical mutilation Taita's love was pure, and he had lavished it all on Queen Lostris, Nefer's grandmother. It was a love so encompassing that even now, twenty years after her death, it stood at the centre of his existence.
The other person from whom his love for Nefer sprang was Tanus, Lord Harrab, to whom this monument had been erected. He had been dearer than a brother to Taita. They were both gone now, Lostris and Tanus, but their blood mingled strongly in this child's veins. From their illicit union so long ago had sprung the child who had grown up to become the Pharaoh Tamose, who now led the squadron of chariot that had brought them here; the father of Prince Nefer.
'Tats, show me where it was that you captured the leader of the robber barons.' Nefer's voice cracked with excitement and the onset of puberty. 'Was it here?' He ran to the brokendown wall at the south side of the square. 'Tell me the story again.'
'No, it was here. This side,' Taita told him, stood up and strode on those long, storkthin legs to the eastern wall. He looked up to the crumbling summit. 'The ruffian's name was Shufti, and he was oneeyed and ugly as the god Seth. He was trying to escape from the battle by climbing over the wall up there.' Taita stooped and picked up half of a bakedmud brick from the rubble and suddenly hurled it upwards. It sailed over the top of the high wall. 'I cracked his skull and brought him down with a single throw.'
Even though Nefer knew, at first hand, the old man's strength, and that his powers of endurance were legend, he was astonished by that throw. He is old as the mountains, older than my grandmother, for he nursed her as he has done me, Nefer marvelled. Men say he has witnessed two hundred inundations of the Nile and that he built the pyramids with his own hands. Then aloud he asked, 'Did you hack off his head, Tata, and place it on that pile there?' He pointed at the grisly monument.
'You know the story well enough, for I have told it to you a hundred times.' Taira feigned modest reluctance to extol his own deeds.
'Tell me again!' Nefer ordered.
Taita sat down on a stone block while Nefer settled at his feet in happy anticipation and listened avidly, until the rams' horns of the squadron sounded the recall with a blast that shattered into diminishing echoes along the black cliffs. 'Pharaoh summons us,' Taita said, and stood up to lead the way back through the gate.
There was a great bustle and scurry outside the walls, as the squadron made ready to go on into the dune lands. The waterskins were bulging again and the troopers were checking and tightening the harness of their teams before mounting up.
Pharaoh Tamose looked over the heads of his staff as the pair came through the gateway, and summoned Taita to his side with an inclination of his head. Together they walked out of earshot of the squadron officers. Lord Naja made as if to join them. Taita whispered a word to Pharaoh, then Tamose turned and sent Naja back with a curt word. The injured lord, flushed with mortification, shot a look at Taita that was fierce and sharp as a war arrow.
'You have offended Naja. Someday I might not be at hand to protect you,' Pharaoh warned.
'We dare trust no man,' Taita demurred. `Not until we crush the head of the serpent of treachery that tightens its coils around the pillars of your palace. Until you return from this campaign in the north only the two of us must know where I am taking the Prince.'
'But Naja!' Pharaoh laughed dismissively. Naja was like a brother. They had run the Red Road together.
'Even Naja.' Taita said no more. His suspicions were at last hardening into certainty, but he had not yet gathered all the evidence he would need to convince Pharaoh.
Nefer and the old man stood together beside the shattered walls of Gallala and watched the column fly past. Pharaoh led it, the reins wrapped around his wrists, leaning back against the pull of the horses, his chest bare, linen skirts whipping around his muscular legs, the Blue War Crown on his head rendering him tall and godlike.
Taita was always reticent and secretive, but seldom to the degree that he had been over the matter of their ultimate destination on this journey. 'We are going to Gebel Nagara,' Taita told him.
Nefer had never heard the name before, but he repeated it softly. It had a romantic, evocative ring. Excitement and anticipation made the back of his neck prickle, and he looked ahead into the great desert. An infinity of jagged and bitter hills stretched away to a horizon blue with heat haze and distance. The colours of the raw rocks astounded the eye: they were the sullen blue of stormclouds, yellow as a weaver bird's plumage, or red as wounded flesh, and bright as crystal. The heat made them dance and quiver.
Taita looked down on this terrible place with a sense of nostalgia and homecoming. It was into this wilderness that he had retired after the death of his beloved Queen Lostris, at first creeping away like a wounded animal. Then, as the years passed and some of the pain with them, he had found himself drawn once more to the mysteries and the way of the great god Horus. He had gone into the wilderness as a physician and a surgeon, as a master of the known sciences. Alone in the fastness of the desert he had discovered the key to gates and doorways of the mind and the spirit beyond which few men ever journey. He had gone in a man but had emerged as a familiar of the great god Horus and an adept of strange and arcane mysteries that few men even imagined.
Taita had only returned to the world of men when his queen Lostris had visited him in a dream as he slept in his hermit's cave at Gebel Nagara. Once more she had been a fifteenyearold maiden, fresh and nubile, a desert rose in its first bloom with the dew upon its petals. Even as he slept his heart had swollen with love and threatened to burst his chest asunder.
'Darling Taita,' Lostris had whispered, as she touched his cheek and stirred him awake, 'you were one of the only two men I have ever loved. Tanus is with me now, but before you can come to me also there is one more charge that I lay upon you. You never once failed me. I know that you will not fail me now, will you, Taita?'
'I am yours to command, mistress.' His voice echoed strangely in his ears.
'In Thebes, my city of a hundred gates, this night is born a child. He is the son of my own son. They will name this child Nefer, which means pure and perfect in body and spirit. My longing is that he carry my blood and the blood of Tanus to the throne of Upper Egypt. But great and diverse perils already gather around the babe. He cannot succeed without your help. Only you can protect and guide him. These years you have spent alone in the wilderness, the skills and knowledge you have acquired here were to that purpose alone. Go to Nefer. Go now swiftly and stay with him until your task is completed. Then come to me, darling Taita. I will be waiting for you and your poor mutilated manhood shall be restored to you. You will be whole and entire when next you stand by my side, your hand in my hand. Do not fail me, Taita.'
'Never!' Taita had cried in the dream. 'In your life I never failed you. I will not fail you now in death.'
'I know you will not.' Lostris smiled a sweet, haunting smile, and her image faded into the desert night. He woke, with his face wet with tears, and gathered up his few possessions. He paused at the cave entrance only to check his direction by the stars. Instinctively, he looked for the bright particular star of the goddess. On the seventieth day after the Queen's death, on the night that the long ritual of her embalmment had been completed, that star had appeared suddenly in the heavens, a great red star that glowed where none had been before. Taita picked it out and made obeisance to it. Then he strode away into the western desert, back towards the Nile and the city of Thebes, beautiful Thebes of a hundred gates.
That had been over fourteen years ago, and now he hungered for the silent places, for only here could his powers grow back to their full strength, so that he could carry through the charge that Lostris had laid upon him. Only here could he pass some of that strength on to the Prince. For he knew that the dark powers of which she had warned him were gathering around them.
'Come!' he said to the boy. 'Let us go down and take your godbird.'
0n the third night after leaving Gallala, when the constellation of the Wild Asses made its zenith in the northern night sky, Pharaoh halted the squadron to water the horses and to eat a hasty meal of sundried meat, dates and cold dhurra millet cakes. Then he ordered the mountup. There was no sounding of the ram's horn trumpet now for they were into the territory where often the patrolling Hyksosian chariots ranged.
The column started forward again at the trot. As they went on the landscape changed dramatically. They were out of the bad lands at last, back into the foothills above the river valley. Below them they could make out the strip of dense vegetation, distant and dark in the moonlight, that marked the course of great Mother Nile. They had completed the wide circuit around Abnub and were in the rear of the main Hyksosian army on the river. Although they were a tiny force to go in against such an enemy as Apepi, they were the best charioteers in the armies of Tamose, which made them the finest in the world. Moreover, they held the element of surprise.
'I will go with you,'
'I beg you. There may be treachery, Mem.' He used the King's childhood name. 'You are Egypt. You are too precious to risk.'
Pharaoh turned to look into the beloved face, lean and handsome. Naja's teeth gleamed white in the starlight as he smiled, and Pharaoh touched his shoulder lightly but with trust and affection. 'Go swiftly, and return as swiftly,' he acceded.
Naja touched his own heart, and ran back to his chariot. He saluted again as he wheeled past where the king stood, and Tamose smiled as he returned the salute then watched him go down the side of the wadi. When he reached the flat hard sand of the dry riverbed, Naja whipped up the horses, and they sped down towards the village of El Wadun. The chariot left blackshaded wheeltracks behind it on the silvery sands, before it disappeared beyond the first bend of the wadi. When it had gone Pharaoh walked back down the waiting column, speaking quietly to the troopers, calling many by name, laughing softly with them, encouraging and cheering them. Small wonder they loved him, and followed him so gladly wherever he led them.
Lord Naja drove warily, hugging the south bank of the dry riverbed. Every now and then he glanced upwards at the crest of the hills, until at last he recognized the tower of windblasted rock that leaned slightly askew against the skyline, and.grunted with satisfaction. A little further on he reached the point where a faint footpath left the wadi bottom and wound up the steep slope to the foot of the ancient watchtower.
With a curt word to his lance bearer he jumped down from the footplate, and adjusted the cavalry bow over his shoulder. Then he unslung the clay firepot from the rail of the chariot, and started up the pathway. It was so well disguised that if he had not memorized every turn and twist he would have lost his way a dozen times before he reached the top.
At last he stepped out on to the upper rampart of the tower. It had been built many centuries ago and was in ruinous condition. He did not approach the edge for there was a precipitous drop into the valley below. instead he found the bundle of dry faggots hidden in the niche of the wall where he had left it and dragged it into the open. Quickly he built up a tiny pyramid of the kindling, then blew on the charcoal nuggets in the firepot, and when they glowed he crumbled a handful of dried grass on to them. They burst into flame and he lit the small signal beacon. He made no attempt to hide himself but stood out where a watcher below would see him illuminated on the height of the tower. The flames died away as the kindling was consumed. Naja sat down to wait in the darkness.
A short while later he heard a pebble rattle on the stony path below the walls and he whistled sharply. His signal was returned, and he stood up. He loosened the bronze blade of his sickle sword in its scabbard and nocked an arrow in the bow, standing ready for an instant draw. Moments later a harsh voice called to him in the Hyksosian language. He replied fluently and naturally in the same tongue, and the footsteps of at least two men sounded on, the stone ramp.
Not even Pharaoh knew that Naja's mother had been Hyksosian. In the decades of their occupation the invaders had adopted many of the Egyptian ways. With a dearth of their own women to choose from, many of the Hyksos had taken Egyptian wives, and over the generations the bloodlines had become blurred.
A tall man stepped out on to the rampart. He wore a skullhugging basinet of bronze, and multicoloured ribbons were tied in his full beard. The Hyksos dearly loved bright colours.
He opened his arms. `The blessing of Seueth on you, cousin,' he growled, as Naja stepped into his embrace.
`And may he smile on you also, Cousin Trok, but we have little time,' Naja warned him, and indicated the first light fingers of the dawn stroking the eastern heavens with a lover's touch.
`You are right, coz.' The Hyksosian general. broke. the embrace and turned to take a linenwrapped bundle from his lieutenant, who stood close behind him. He handed it to Naja, who unwrapped it as he kicked life back into the beacon fire. In the light of the flames he inspected the arrow quiver it contained. It was carved from a light tough wood and covered with finely tooled and stitched leather. The workmanship was superb. This was the accoutrement of a highranking officer. Naja twisted free the stopper and drew one of the arrows from the container. He examined it briefly, spinning the shaft between his fingers to check its balance and symmetry.
The Hyksosian arrows were unmistakable. The fletching feathers were dyed with the bright colours of the archer's regiment and the shaft was branded with his personal signet. Even if the initial strike was not fatal, the flint arrowhead was barbed and bound to the shaft in such a way that if a surgeon attempted to draw the arrow from a victim's flesh, the head would detach from the shaft and remain deep in the wound channel, there to putrefy and cause a lingering, painful death. Flint was much harder than bronze, and would not bend nor flatten if it struck bone.
Naja slipped the arrow back into the quiver and replaced the stopper. He had not taken the chance of bringing such distinctive missiles with him in his chariot. If discovered in his kit by his groom or lancebearer, its presence would be remembered, and difficult to explain away.
'There is much that we still should discuss.' Naja squatted down and gestured for Trok to do the same. They talked quietly until at last Naja rose. 'Enough! Now we both know what must be done. The time for action has at last arrived.'
'Let the gods smile upon our enterprise.' Trok and Naja embraced again, and then, without another word, Naja left him, ran lightly down the rampart of the tower and took the narrow path down the hill.
Before he reached the bottom he found a place to cache the quiver. It was a niche where the rock had been split open by the roots of a thom tree. Over the quiver he placed a rock the size and roughly the shape of a.horse's head. The twisted upper branches of the tree formed a distinctive cross against the night sky. He would recognize the place again without difficulty.
Then he went on down the path to where his chariot stood in the wadi bottom.
Pharaoh Tamose saw the chariot returning, and knew by the impetuous manner in which Naja drove that something untoward was afoot. Quietly he ordered the squadron to mount up and stand with drawn weapons, ready to meet any eventuality.
Naja's chariot rattled up the pathway from the wadi bottom. The moment it drew level with where Pharaoh waited he sprang down.
'What's amiss?' Tamose demanded.
'A blessing from the gods,' Naja told him, unable to stop his voice shaking with excitement. 'They have delivered Apepi defenceless into our power.
'How is that possible?'
'My spies have led me to where the enemy king is encamped but a short distance from where we now stand. His tents are set up just beyond the first line of hills, yonder.' He pointed back with his drawn sword.
'Can you be certain it is Apepi?' Tamose could barely control his own excitement.
'I saw him clearly in the light of his campfire. Every detail of his features. His great beaked nose and beard shot with silver shining in the firelight. There is no mistaking such stature. He towers above all those around him, and wears the vulture crown on his head.'
'What is his strength?' Pharaoh demanded.
'With his usual arrogance he has a bodyguard of less than fifty. I have counted them, and half of them are asleep, their lances stacked. He suspects nothing and his watchfires bum bright. A swift charge out of the darkness and we will have him in our grasp.'
'Take me to where Apepi lies,' Pharaoh commanded, and leaped to the footplate.
Naja led them, and the soft silvery sands of the wadi muffled the sounds of the wheels, so that in a ghostly silence the squadron swept around the last bend and Naja raised his clenched fist high to order the halt. Pharaoh drew up alongside him and leaned across.
'Where lies Apepi's camp?'
'Beyond the ridge. I left my spies overlooking it.' Naja pointed up the pathway towards the watchtower on the crest. 'On the far side is a hidden oasis. A sweetwater well and date palms. His tents are set among the trees.'
'We will take a small patrol with us to scout the camp. Only then can we plan our attack.'
Naja had anticipated the order, and with a few terse orders selected a scouting party of five troopers. Each one was bound to him by blood oath. They were his men, hand and heart.
'Muffle your scabbards,' Naja ordered. 'Make not a sound.' Then, with his recurved bow in his left hand, he stepped on to the pathway. Pharaoh came close behind him. They went upwards swiftly, until Naja saw the crossed branches of the thorn tree silhouetted against the dawn sky. He stopped abruptly, and held up his right hand for silence. He listened.
'What is it?' Pharaoh whispered close behind him.
The blue sword dropped from his fist, and a low cry burst from his open mouth, the sound muffled by a gout of his own bright lung blood. He began to slide down to his knees, his legs buckling under him, his fingernails leaving shallow scratches on the red rock.
Naja sprang forward with a wild cry, 'Ambush! Beware!' and he slipped one arm around Pharaoh's chest below the protruding arrow.
Supporting the dying king he bellowed again, 'On me, the guards!' and two stout troopers appeared almost instantly from around the rock wall, responding to his rallying cry. They saw at a glance how Pharaoh was struck and the bright bunch of feathers on the base of the arrow.
'Hyksos!' one yelled, as they snatched Pharaoh from Naja's grasp and dragged him back behind the shelter of the rock.
'Carry Pharaoh back to his chariot while I hold off the enemy,' Naja ordered, and whirled around, pulling another arrow from his quiver and loosing it up the path towards the deserted summit, bellowing a challenge, then answering himself with a muffled counterchallenge in the Hyksosian language.
He snatched up the blue sword from where Tamose had dropped it, bounded back down the path and caught up with the small party of charioteers who were carrying the king away, down to where the chariots were waiting in the wadi.
'It was a trap,' Naja told them urgently. 'The hilltop is alive with the enemy. We must get Pharaoh away to safety.' But he could see by the way the king's head rolled weakly on his shoulders that he was past any help, and Naja's chest swelled with triumph. The Blue War Crown toppled from Pharaoh's brow and bumped down the path. Naja gathered it up as he ran past, fighting down the temptation to place it on his own head.
'Patience. The time is not yet ripe for that,' he chided himself silently, 'but already Egypt is mine, and all her crowns and pomp and power. I am become this very Egypt. I am become part of the godhead.'
He held the heavy crown protectively under his arm, and aloud he cried, 'Hurry, the enemy is on the path hard behind us. Hurry! The king must not fall into their hands.'
The troops below had heard the wild cries in the dawn, and the regimental surgeon was waiting for them beside the wheel of Pharaoh's chariot. He had been trained by Taita, and though lacking the old man's special magic he was a skilled doctor and might be capable of staunching even such a terrible wound as had pierced Pharaoh's chest. But Lord Naja would not risk having his victim returned to him from the underworld. He ordered the surgeon away brusquely. 'The enemy is hard upon us. There is no time for your quackery now. We must get him back to the safety of our own lines before we are overrun.'
Tenderly he lifted the king from the arms of the men who carried him and laid him on the footplate of his own chariot. He snapped off the shaft of the arrow that protruded from the king's chest and held it aloft so that all his men could see it clearly. 'This bloody instrument has struck down our Pharaoh. Our god and our king. May Seth damn the Hyksosian pigswine who fired it, and may he burn in eternal flame for a thousand years.' His men growled in warlike agreement. Carefully Naja wrapped the arrow in a linen cloth, and placed it in the bin on the side wall of the chariot. He would to deliver it to the council in Thebes to substantiate his report on Pharaoh's death.
'A good man here to hold Pharaoh,' Naja ordered, 'Treat him gently.'
While the king's own lancebearer came forward, Naja unbuckled the sword belt from around Pharaoh's waist, sheathed the blue sword and carefully stowed it in his own weapons bin.
The lancebearer jumped on to the footplate and cradled Tamose's head. Fresh bright blood bubbled from the comers of his mouth as the chariot wheeled in a circle then sped back up the dry wadi with the rest of the squadron driving hard to keep up with it. Even though he was supported by the strong arms of his lancebearer Pharaoh's limp body was jolted cruelly.
Facing forward so that none could see his expression, Naja laughed softly. The sound was covered by the grinding wheels and the crash of the chassis over the small boulders he made no attempt to avoid. They left the wadi and raced on towards the dunes and the natron lakes.
It was midmorning and the blinding white sun was halfway up the sky before Naja allowed the column to halt and the surgeon to come forward again to examine the king. It did not need his special skills to tell that Pharaoh's spirit had long before left his body and started on its journey to the underworld.
'Pharaoh is dead,' the surgeon said quietly, as he stood up with the royal blood coating his hands to the wrists. A terrible cry of mourning started at the head of the column and ran down its entire length Naja let them play out their grief then sent for his troop captains.
'The state is without a head,' he told them. 'Egypt is in dire peril. Ten of the fastest chariots must take Pharaoh's body back to Thebes with all haste. I shall lead them for it may be that the council will wish me to take up the duties of regent to Prince Nefer.'
He had planted the first seeds and saw by their awed expressions that they had taken root almost immediately. He went on, with a grim, businesslike air that suited the tragic circumstances which had overtaken them, `The surgeon must wrap the royal corpse before I take it home to the funeral temple. But in the meantime we must find Prince Nefer. He must be informed of his father's death and of his own succession. This is the single most urgent matter of state, and of my regency.' He had assumed that title smoothly, and no man questioned him or even looked askance. He unrolled a papyrus scroll, a map of the territory from Thebes down to Memphis, and spread it on the dashboard of his chariot. He pored over it. `You must split up into your troops and scour the countryside for the prince. I believe that Pharaoh sent him into the desert with the eunuch to undertake the rituals of manhood, so we will concentrate our search here, from Gallala where we last saw him towards the south and east.' With the eye for ground of a commander of armies Naja picked out the search area, and ordered a net of chariots to be spread out across the land to bring in the prince.
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Wilbur Smith is the internationally bestselling author of 27 novels that have sold over 80 million copies worldwide. River God, a New York Times hardcover bestseller in 1994, is available from Brilliance Audio.
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Wilbur Smith is an amazing story teller. I enjoyed River God very much and was anixous to get Warlock. All the same elements were here but there was one thing that vexed me. I did not like the introduction of magic and charms. River God did not have anything related to that and it was realistic. To be, the whole story became unrealistic and i sat there wondering what happened. The book itself is amazingly written and enjoyable but it wasn't the same as River God
Well I didn't know this was a sequel. Very well written and obviously it is not necessary to read the first book to enjoy Warlock. Very entertaining and engaging.
The story of Warlock was absolutely beautiful! I have always been facinated by Egyptian Mythology and History, and this book combined the best of both worlds. The 'violent' sections in the book were graphic, but they were so well done! It certainly did not affect the book in any way...it made it better! The sex scenes were very indepth...but once again...it showed the true power of Nefer and Mintaka's love. I give the book 5 stars...and I plan on reading the rest of the series!
Being a fan of Egyptian history I was drawn simply by the cover of the book. Once I began to read it, I found that I was somewhat bored. But like a good movie, the book gets better and better. Some scenes I must confess, were quite disturbing. Smith went into very specific details and I was left with an imprint of the images in my mind, which wasnt very pleasant. But if a writer can do convey such an image through his writing you can bet that he has done a very excellent job. The money you pay for this book is soooooo worth it. Though it should have some warning on the cover warding off a younger more innocent audience due to its graphic nature. But to the adult audience is just as good as seeing the summers' hottest movie. Wilbur Smith, I give you props.
A well written and excellent story line with a fascinating phantasy aspect of the religion practiced during this time. However, I found it to contain too much graphic violence (against man and beast) for my liking.
I believe I have read every novel written by Wilbur Smith. I enjoyed him so much that I have visited old book stores to find books out of print. I am a fan, but 'Warlock' in my opinion is not one of his better novels. In all previous novels that I have read, he sticks with believeable dialogue. His main character escapes to many times with unbelieveable magic.
A fantastical historical novel that puts you in the great Egyptian time


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On your mark.
Get set.
The time it takes you to read this sentence is about how long it took for Riverdale senior sprinter Donte Jackson to burst out of the starting blocks and reach the finish line Saturday in the boys Class 4A 100 meters at the LHSAA state championship Saturday.
10.30 seconds.
And by the time you finish reading this entire column, St. Paul's freshman Eric Coston would have completed his two-mile race.
That's assuming you can read this in under 9 minutes and 20 seconds — the time it took Colson to complete the 3,200-meter run.
Those were just some of the highlights of the LHSAA track and field championships that were held Thursday through Saturday last week.
Here are a few more of the more impressive feats that were accomplished over the three days by New Orleans area athletes.
Let's start with Gabby Jennings.
Jennings, a distance runner at tiny First Baptist Christian School in Slidell, won titles in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 meters.
Jennings set class records in the 800 meters (2:16.92) and the 1,600 meters (5:00.60), surpassing the marks she set as a sophomore. Her time in the 1,600 meters was better than any 1,600-meter champion in any classification.
Impressed yet?
Keep reading.
If she had run in the Class C 1,600 boys race, she would've finished third.
Including her collection of cross country state championships and relay titles, she now has won 37 state titles.
That's particularly impressive considering the size of her school.
Jennings, one of 16 juniors in her class, could give each of her classmates a gold medal and still have seven left over for herself.
She can add to her total next season, proving that the size of the school doesn't matter.
Neither does the size of the track team.
Just ask the folks at Sophie B. Wright and Edna Karr.
The Sophie B. Wright boys team, a relative newcomer to track, finished second in Class 2A.
The Warriors did it despite having just six guys (Marvin Nelson, Charles Dickerson, Antoine Oates, Derek Robinson, Lonnie Warren and Kevin Johnson). And it was the school's first year having a boys track program, according to first-year coach Kenneth White, who also coached at the now-defunct Fortier High and at Cohen.
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The Edna Karr girls team won the Class 4A crown, giving the school its first girls track championship since 2003.
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The biggest star of the weekend was perhaps Devyn Keith of John Curtis.
Keith, like Jennings, won the 800, the 1,600 and the 3,200 meters and anchored the 4x400 team that finished in third place. Keith helped Curtis win its sixth straight outdoor title.
He helped account for 36 (almost half) of the Patriots' 82 points.
On the day, Keith ran 6,000 meters, the equivalent of three miles and ¾ of another.
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|2004-03-26, 18:45
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You guys never saw Drunken Master?
You guys kill me saying you'll stop reading. You know you won't. No one will care if you do anyway.
Lee's character was comic relief from the beginning (the eye brows, Gai, etc) so why are you surprised?
|2004-03-26, 18:47
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|2004-03-26, 18:55
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I didn't realize people are bitching about the druken boxing...
I'm not, I personally think it's great, but I don't give a shit about this fight. Lee ruined this arc by comming here in the first place. What the hell? it makes it seem like gates have no setback to them.
And I still want to know who Kiba sniffed out. The problem is that it's leaving too many cliffhangers.
|2004-03-26, 19:00
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why don't the whiners stop whining. Just take a break or stop reading naruto at all. Although lee's recovery is farfetched, he's obviously back by popular demand. I bet gaara is one of the people kiba smelled because he's still as popular as lee even after his long absence.
|2004-03-26, 19:10
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I'm satisfied with the explaination on how lee got there. It's obviously him, and he's not 100%. Still I don't really like the direction their going with Lee. Why is he all of a sudden a drunken kung-fu master? It really makes no sense. Lee was popular because he was serious in battle, and his fighting style was cool. That's all been stripped from his character now. While drunken kung-fu doesn't really mean the user is drunk irl, in works of fiction, it usually does. How can lee become a respectable ninja if he starts drinking as a kid?
|2004-03-26, 19:13
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Every time I've seen it used in a movie, it's a comedic bit. Every time I've seen it used in a video game, it's a comedic bit. (Most of the time, like in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, it's PAINFULLY not funny.) Drunken Boxing is a serious form if used in a serious manner, by a real practitioner. The erratic movements when combined with an exceptionally flexible user (the stumbling backwards, and immediate directional shifts can't be performed by someone who's the least bit rigid.) makes for an unorthodox and powerful style, because basically what it amounts to a fighting style that is a series of feints.
However, the number of actual pracitioners is SO rare that the only time it's used any more is as a joke. Like Lee right now. Him getting plastered is obviously supposed to be a funny bit. Only in the middle of all this, it isn't.
If this were by itself, like I said, I'd be laughing my ass off. As it is, I'm just disappointed in Kishimoto's comedic instincts yet again.
|2004-03-26, 19:18
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bah, he's already had enough setback as it is, lets not forget that he went through the end of the chuunin and semi-Itachi arc, Tsunade Arc, and the chapters preceding this arc, as well as this one, hell I'd bet an internet doughnut he'll be quite screwed up by the end of the arc.
At least the bone fragments are gone from his spine... um... I think.
|2004-03-26, 19:31
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This is sorta Kishimoto's style to keep a lot of things juggled in the air, storywise and then explain or tie up *some* loose ends and keep a few fresh ones so he can then develop those in a new story arc. I think it would probably be best, for those who are waiting for the loose ends to be tied up, to wait a few chapters, or maybe even volumes before reading again. I believe a lot of the frustration you are feeling would not be felt.
As for the drunken boxing, I agree it is unorthodox especially for a kid. I also don't see it as comedic as you do, the actual style might be funny. Like a drunk is funny, until you realize why he drinks. I wonder what the drawbacks will be? Maybe Lee will have to re-examine his life? I don't know, sure raises a lot of questions though....which might or might not be in the story arcs to come.
It would be really boring if every chapter opened and closed with no loose ends. Loose ends keep us guessing and reading to see what will happen.
|2004-03-26, 19:36
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Ok i just checked out the raw and this is what it looks like.
The surgery was successful, but Lee being the naturual idiot that he is ... left the hospital right away with some alcohol ... obviously both Gai and Tsunade freak out. The reason why i think the surgery was a success is because Gai had tears of joy at first and Tsunade was smiling.
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|2004-03-26, 19:47
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Seriously, I loved this chapter (can't wait for the translation though)! It would be perfect! If Sasuke has already copied Lee's taijutsu and worked his speed up to the same level (which basically means Lee will never be on par with him), then Lee should become a drunken-master and be a unique, kick-ass ninja! Go Lee!!
|2004-03-26, 19:51
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wooooow i just ODed on naruto!
Form 6 am i have beed watching naruto form eps 1-76 and wooow that is the best way to watch it man sure it will take a while but hey it worht it! i think the guys that keep crying about this need to sit down and read 100 chapters to see that most of them are happening in the same day even what seems like 30 min could cover only 5 min of real life! just sit down with some salt crackers and 4 2 leiters of sprite and injoy!
|2004-03-26, 19:53
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And no new loose ends that need to answered outside this arc have really sprung up as a result of this arc. Assuming everyone gets back...or one or two possible deaths, all that's occured is that Sasuke has gotten to Oro. If Naruto drags him back...that means NOTHING has happened, except Oro has a new body, and possibly his arms back. Nothing new has arisen 1-2 bit of progress have been made. A crapload of issues have passed.
All I really want to see is that Shikamaru is ok. Then I can go ahead and read this maybe in monthly increments. I've been stressing that he might bite it ever since Choji's fight, and this is just geting ridiculous now. If Kishimoto would just go ahead and resolve that in a good way...I'd be more willing to tolerate flights of fancy. (Anything that doesn't involve him being dead, or hinting that he's possibly dead. I don't care if it ends up a draw with both of them knocked out...or him knocking her up. Either way is cool.) However, we've just gone from Shika being cornered, then in control of his fight, then losing control, and then ignored now. WTF. Seriously, I read a lot of books that bounce from character to character. None of them leave a character on the edge of possible death. That's bad writing.
|2004-03-26, 19:58
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|2004-03-26, 20:02
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I'm sure there will be comedic parts, but Kishimoto enjoys putting a bit of comedy in fights. I guess this is a question of taste now, some people don't like it...some people enjoy.
Hopefully, everyone will be happier once their favorite characters ends up alive and well, and can look at this chapter and volume with a more favorable eye.
|2004-03-26, 20:07
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Hahahah...Naked Kiba...
|2004-03-26, 20:21
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hey guys, I just downloaded the raw and I'm not done with it yet (I'm not very fast at reading japanese and the quality of the scans makes it hard to read some of the yomigana), but lee did have his operation and it was a success.
the 5th says so when gai comes in. he looks freaked out because he just returned from a mission and wanted to know what happened with lee's operation.
now back to reading, I'll post more if anything else is mentioned about it that I can understand
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she also says he'll be able to start training again "tomorrow" (not sure if this is a flashback-type thing or if this is happening as lee is showing up to the fight).
*edit* oops, I posted this before reading the entire thread ^^; didn't see that someone had already explained this oh well, back to reading! ^_^
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This is the complaint some people are starting to bring up in the anime. The filler that they added has Guy acting like a goofball in the middle of all out war, and I agree. There's a time to joke, and a time to whup some ass. It's clearly whup ass time in both situations.
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i hope he dont win with drunken kunfu..seriously drunken style is nothing like his character. His fast explosive fighting style is simmilar to that of bruce lee, thast what i liked about the guy. He gonna start messin about like jackie chan its gonna be stupid. Even if its in serious manner..drunken style? w00t? suppose o be soem super hidden strong move we never seen b4 gonna kick kini's ass. I hope he uses it, gets whooped, recovers, opens gates and beat kini.
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