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Fan fiction:The Key/Chapter 17: Evidence
The Key is a fan fiction piece by Tamrend, originally posted in the Diii.net Fan Fiction Forum. The fiction series has been going since February 2004, and still see the occasional update with more chapters or parts of chapters. You can find more information on The Key article.
Chapter 17: Evidence[edit source]
Part I[edit source]
Maeryn swept the room with her gaze as she entered, matching faces with names. The Inner Council was seated on a dais at the front of the chamber, seven of the oldest and supposedly wisest and most powerful of the Horadrim. Master Ardin, who sat in the most central and foremost seat, was the acknowledged leader of the council, the closest thing that the Horadrim had to a lord or king. He was rather unremarkable, to Maeryn's senses. A few thin tufts of white hair clung tenaciously to his skull around his ears, and his surface thoughts sometimes lacked coherence, a sign of the beginnings of senility. She knew the other six members only in passing. To the right of the door stood Master Makel, Adept Brin--who grinned and tipped his head mockingly at her--and a handful of other malcontents that had flocked to them in recent weeks. The chamber's left side was empty.
Maeryn glanced back at the open doorway, considering whether anyone would have the temerity to attempt to stop her if she simply walked out. A moment's deliberation and she made her decision. No, they might not stop her from leaving, but it might look to them like cowardice, or worse, an admission of guilt. As much as it galled her, her best option was to play along with whatever those fools had planned for her. Maeryn took her place on the left side of the room.
Ardin squinted in Maeryn's direction, but then looked down to address the parchment on his desk. "Thank you for responding to our summons, Madame Maeryn. I trust that you were told the reason for this hearing?"
"I would appreciate if you would state that reason yourself," Maeryn said briskly.
Ardin looked up in surprise. "Of course, of course." He selected another parchment from the pile in front of him and cleared his throat. "It has been brought to the Council's attention by certain mages within the Horadrim that there have been many odd, seemingly unexplained occurrences since you arrived at the Keep, and they have raised questions as to your possible culpability in these events. Since you have been here, Madame, a cook, whom you yourself admit to seeing only minutes before, died from poisoning. Two weeks later, you were the only witness to the death of Adept Lorimer and guards Tomalin and Parvel. You were the first to find the body of Master Ulric and, later that day, Master Orelan."
Ardin reached for another parchment, and Maeryn used the pause to break in. "Master Ardin, surely you aren't insinuating that I killed any of those men?"
Ardin eyed her, no longer squinting. "Madame Maeryn, this hearing is informal, and we would merely wish to hear and understand why these events have occurred, to know what your part in them is. You have not been formally accused of any crime." The word "yet" seemed to cling silently to the end of his sentence. He read, lips moving without sound, from the parchment for a moment and then nodded to himself. "To continue, it has furthermore been observed that you arrived here more than a month ago, and that in all that time, and despite interviews of every member of this order residing within these walls, you have failed to identify anyone as having been touched by demonic corruption. That, in itself, is surely unprecedented in all of the history of the Viz'jaq'taar, and a mystery to which I myself have great interest in understanding."
This time, Maeryn did not speak as Ardin shuffled his documents, a task that he seemed to relish. "Finally, there is one circumstance in which you do stand accused of wrongdoing: your alleged psychic attack on Master Makel. Makel states that you attacked him while he was angry and bewildered over the death of his friend, Master Ulric, and we have more than a dozen witnesses to this event. Now, is there anything that you would like to add to our record of these events?"
Maeryn clasped her hands behind her back and nodded. Her anger was cooling as it began to become finally, inexorably clear that her special status and privileges as a Viz'jaq'taar was being called into question. It had been the mage orders themselves, led by the Viz'jerei, who had worked to establish the Assassins, and for centuries, their authority in matters of corruption had been absolute. Perhaps without realizing it, the members of this council were setting a precedent for future relations that might lead to changes she could barely foresee, and she had to admit to herself that at least some of the fault for that could be laid at her feet for her stubborn pride.
"You are correct," Maeryn began, "that we've all experienced some highly unusual events since I arrived here. Never have I seen a corruption that could hide itself so effortlessly from my sight for so long. But the evidence is plain. At least one mage among the Horadrim is tainted by evil, and it is my sworn duty to seek out that one, or few, who carry it. I think that you must agree that the trap that claimed Lorimer and the guards was meant for me, as was the poisoned meat. I do not know why Ulric was targeted, but Orelan confided in me that he had discovered something unusual about his death, and I believe that he was killed to keep that secret."
"I have tried every technique and tactic that I know to find whomever is responsible for these killings, but they have failed me. I am pursuing other alternatives, but it will take time to gather all of the information I need. When I do, I will most certainly discover the source of corruption that has found its way here. Whether some disapprove of my methods, I have no choice but to press on in my investigation until the killer is found and the demonic taint is removed. As for Makel…" Maeryn glanced in his direction and was met with steely look, even as a trace of fear leaked through his front. "I regret what happened. I was physically and mentally drained and I lashed out at the comments he made against me and my order."
Maeryn sensed a loosening of the tension from the members of the council as they began to converse quietly among themselves, but from her right, anger boiled and seethed. Brin cleared his throat loudly, calling attention to himself. "Council members, may I be allowed to speak?"
"You may speak, Adept Brin," Ardin nodded.
"Council members, as much as I, like you, like all of us, would like to believe that all is well, that this woman truly is here to help us, I cannot help but point out once more that our present situation is highly unusual. She speaks of evidence of corruption, 'plain' evidence, and yet we have not yet heard what this evidence is. Five men are dead, yet she is unable to link them in any way to a killer, or to explain how she is unable to identify this one who is corrupted. Surely if it is so easy to understand, Madame Maeryn would be willing to share it with us."
Maeryn let her breath go as all eyes turned to her once more. She had been dreading that this moment might come. She met Ardin's gaze with her own, and in as meek a tone as she could manage answered, "I cannot reveal that to you."
"You can't?" Brin demanded. "Don't you mean that there is no reason, that this entire inquest is a sham? Who really killed those men, slayer?"
"That's enough, Adept Brin," Ardin warned. "This council will draw its own conclusions. Madame Maeryn, I must ask that you explain yourself."
"I can't tell you because I promised that I would not reveal what I know to anyone else." She considered carefully before adding. "And, I believe that divulging this knowledge to you now could have grave consequences." She cast a meaningful look at Brin and Makel.
Maeryn expected another outburst from Brin, but he wisely kept silent. Ardin squinted at her, and Maeryn sensed from him a kind of lifting of the fog that had begun to close around his mind with advancing age. There was excitement there, and a sense of recognition. She had to fight the urge to probe his surface thoughts. "Interesting," he murmured, then, more loudly, "an interesting answer, Madame Maeryn. You place us in a difficult position. While I appreciate that your order must retain a certain secrecy at times, I feel that this inquest has gone on long enough. I will give you two days to reconsider your answer, at which time we will decide if these charges against you demand a closer look. You are dismissed, Madame."
The doors creaked open behind her. Maeryn turned on her heel and strode from the room. No sooner had she cleared the doors than Pallas fell in step beside her. "You handled yourself well, Maeryn."
"Where were you?" she hissed, resenting her own feeling of dependence on him even as she was angry with him for leaving her to face the Inner Council alone. The trial had shaken her in a way that the fear and loathing of the mages here had failed to.
Pallas swallowed. "I am sorry, Maeryn. I didn't know about your hearing, and I wonder if that was not their intention. I only found out about it when I came looking for you. When I arrived, I was told to wait outside until they were finished."
Maeryn's anger softened at his tone of genuine regret. "It is not your fault, Pallas. I know that you wouldn't abandon me. It just seems so petty that Makel and Brin would try something like this, when so much is at stake." She glanced back to confirm what your senses told her, that they were, for the moment, alone. "I think Ardin might have already guessed our secret, Pallas. I couldn't take the risk of prying at his mind, but I sensed he was trying to confirm a suspicion."
Pallas shrugged. "Then it is well that you told him no more than was necessary. Even if he has read the same passages I have, I doubt he would believe them without your tale for confirmation. But enough of these worries. The reason I came to find you, Maeryn, is that I have some news to share. But here, I'll let him tell you himself."
He led her to a chamber where a gathering of Pallas' confidantes waited. Besides the two of them, and Lorimer and Garron, who were both dead, eleven other people in the Keep had known about the Key, and their plan for bringing it here. All but one of them sat at the table in the center of the room, including one mage that piqued her interest immediately. Master Geir had been gone for over three weeks and, judging from the stains on his cloak, must have arrived within the last few hours. He had gone to Dalmer's Ferry to meet up with Garron's apprentice, Seith, and bring him home. It was good to see that he had returned safely, but she wondered why Seith was not in attendance.
"Start from the beginning, Geir," Pallas suggested, once he had closed and bolted the door. He motioned for Maeryn to take one of the empty seats and then chose the spot next to her.
"Well," Geir began, pausing to clear his throat, "when I arrived in the city, I sought out the inn where Seith was supposed to be staying. The innkeeper told me that he had departed some weeks past, but he seemed reluctant to say more. I pressed him further, and he said that Seith's guard, Marius, settled the bill and left with a pair of girls who came into the common room during the midday meal. He remembers that one girl carried a bow and the other had a strange staff. He couldn't tell me much more except that it looked queer to his eyes, as though it were twisted around itself. I hunted for more clues, but all I found was this." He pointed to a parchment with Seith's description and a large reward for his capture.
The room was instantly abuzz with conversation. Maeryn leaned slowly back into her chair, mulling and deciphering what she had just heard. She had not seen the Key with her own eyes, but the innkeep's description matched with what her sisters had told her of it. As for how a pair of girls could come to possess it, she could only guess what it might mean. What was most important was that, somehow, the Key had slipped past the enemy that hunted it and had made its way to Dalmer's Ferry. With the realization came the lifting of a great weight, and Maeryn felt real hope for the first time since Pallas had brought them word of Garron's death.
Pallas clapped his hands for silence and the voices faded at once to a murmur of whispers. He gestured for Geir to continue.
"You might find this next difficult to believe," Geir said, leaning in towards the others. "Everywhere I went, people were talking about demons returning to Sanctuary. Mostly in the southwest, along the coast, but one man claimed that he actually saw zombies walking in the street about a month ago, the same night that a choking fog rolled in off the river. One or two stories I would dismiss as wild tales, but this had the ring of truth. I think that the forces of Hell are at work in Sanctuary."
If anything, the response was even louder this time. Pallas had to lean in close to Maeryn to be heard over the din of discussion and the occasional question fired at Geir. "What do you make of this, Viz-Jaq'taar?"
Maeryn thought long before answering. "The reports of demons along the coast are disturbing. It is commonly accepted that all remaining hellspawn were eradicated from Santuary shortly after the war with the Prime Evils. An outbreak now makes no sense unless someone is bringing them here. As for Seith and these two girls, I don't know what to make of it, except that it helps to explain why our mysterious enemy chooses to remain hidden. I don't think that he, or they, have managed to acquire it. There is still hope."
"You have spoken my thoughts almost exactly," Pallas said, giving her hand a squeeze. He stood, and the others quieted to hear what he had to say. "My friends, I hope that you all appreciate what this news means to us. Garron's apprentice now has possession of the Key, and he is presumably making his way here. We must find him before our enemy does. We must bring him to the Keep. I am going to need every one of you to help in the search."
Those assembled slowly murmured their assent as Pallas swept the room with his gaze. "Good. You can expect to leave in the morning. I will need some time to consult maps, to chart where Seith might have gone. If you will excuse me."
Pallas made for the door, and Maeryn slipped right out behind him. Doubts had begun to worm their way into her consciousness even before he had finished speaking. "Are you sure that you are doing the right thing?" she asked, once they were away from the others.
Pallas stopped so abruptly that Maeryn almost collided with him. His eyes narrowed as he looked at her. "Of course. We have to find Seith and the Key. I thought that was obvious."
"With ten men?" Maeryn scoffed. "Dalmers Ferry is hundreds of leagues to the west, with large cities and vast wilderness between us. You'll never find him."
Pallas shrugged. "We must try. We have no other choice."
Maeryn put her hand on his shoulder. "Yes, you do. Tell the council about what we know. Get the entire order searching for Seith. They already know that I am harboring a secret. Telling them now can only help us."
Pallas seemed at a moment to be at a loss for words. Maeryn sensed the tide of anger and opposition from him well before he began to speak. He shook her hand away as he stepped back. "No! No, that's simply not an option. You want to let this secret get out before we have control of this weapon? Take hold of your senses, woman!"
He stalked off, leaving Maeryn alone in the corridor. Some ugly possibilities had begun to occur to her, but they didn't fit with what she sensed from Pallas. She thought of going to the council herself, but quickly rejected that thought. No, she would not break her word to Pallas. Clenching her jaw in resolve, she turned and ran after him. He was already entering his chambers when she caught up to him.
"I will not discuss this any further," he warned, blocking the doorway. "I understand that the council has put you in a difficult position, but your personal problems are not what should concern us."
Maeryn chuckled in amazement. "My personal problems? This is not about me, Pallas. The situation has changed. We need help if we are going to find the staff before they do. We don't have time to—" She stopped at sensing another, unfamiliar presence, and dropped her voice. "Who is here?"
"My new apprentice," Pallas answered. He called over his shoulder, "Come here, Sirral."
"Sir?" the boy piped, appearing from the adjacent chamber. He was seven, perhaps eight years old. The Horadrim did not except boys younger than six, so he was, at most, a second year student. Maeryn had the impression that she had met him before, though she couldn't place where.
"Come in here, please. I would like you to meet someone." The boy crept forward, his gaze on the floor. "Now, Sirral," Pallas admonished, "I told you before that there is nothing to be frightened of." He turned back to Maeryn. "Sirral was Ulric's apprentice. I haven't had my own apprentice in over a decade, but I felt sorry for what happened to the boy's former Master." And perhaps responsible in some way for his death? Maeryn wondered.
"It's nice to make your acquaintance, Sirral," Maeryn said, in as cordial a voice as she could muster. She had little experience with children and they made her uncomfortable.
The boy looked up cautiously and nodded. "You as well, Viz-jeq…Viz-ja…"
"Viz-jaq'taar," she amended. "I appreciate your use of the formal name, Sirral."
He smiled for just an instant at the praise and then darted a glance to Pallas. "You may return to your studies, youngling," Pallas said, waving the boy off.
Once he was away, Pallas fixed her with a frown and spoke just above a whisper. "You will not bring this to the council, Maeryn."
She drew herself up to her full height, suffering a momentary bout of annoyance that she still had to tilt her head back to look at him. "No, I will not break my word, Pallas, but this is not finished. In two days' time, Ardin will ask me again what I know. By the laws of your order and upon my honor, I will have no choice but to answer him truthfully."
Pallas studied her face, his mind a whirl of conflicted emotions. Gradually, they settled into a kind of agitated reservation. "Do what you must," he said, coldly, and closed the door on her.
Part II[edit source]
Maeryn's shoulders slumped as she turned from Pallas' door. She tried to envision a positive ending to the mess they were in. Perhaps Pallas just needed some time to consider her words. Somehow, keeping Pallas' trust and his respect was nearly as important to her as her mission. She knew how it would look to the council if she were the one to tell them what they had all been up to. It would mar his credibility far worse than anything she had yet managed, and that hurt as well.
Lost in thought, she hadn't noticed where she was going, but found herself now in front of her own modest chambers. She took several slow, deep breaths to cleanse her mind of the doubts that weakened her resolve. When she was satisfied that she had achieved the proper focus, she closed her eyes and reached out with her mind, following the same ritual that she performed each time she came to her door. She could sense no immediate danger, no eddies in the natural order of reality that would signal the presence of magic. Even so, she remained alert as she fitted a key to the lock, turned, and pushed the door inward.
She let out the breath she had been holding when only the silent, empty room greeted her. She walked over and glanced at the tiny mirror above her washbasin. Finding nothing to interest her there, she began to pace the room, and her mind quickly returned to her quandary, and to the disappointment in Pallas' eyes. Cursing, she dropped to her knees and pulled the inlaid wooden box from beneath her cot. The short, broad blades of the suwayyah inside carried no ornamentation at all other than the faint glistening of oil along their lengths.
Maeryn wound the leather wrappings around her arm with practiced ease, tasting the bitter tang as she pulled the straps tight with her teeth. Satisfied with her work, she got up to leave but then growled in disgust at realizing that her key was still in her pocket, and out of reach of her bound hands. It would take several minutes for her to unbind her hands and retrieve the key.
Sighing at her own foolishness, Maeryn visualized the key lying in her pocket next to her skin. Carefully, she tugged it upwards so that it pulled loose from her clothing and hovered in front of her. The key moved with her to the door, slotted itself in the lock and turned, allowing her to pull the door inward with a stronger tug of psionic force. She made the key follow her out, pulled the door closed with her mind, and locked it with the floating key. The most difficult part of the operation was getting the key to push its way back into her pocket.
She knew where she needed to go and made her way there with single-minded determination, not pausing to look back as servants and mages alike shied away from the blades strapped to her arms. She found the practice yard occupied by a dozen or more trainees sparring under the watch of a bald-headed veteran. Even the sparring pair stopped to look her way as she crossed the edge of the sparring pit, but she paid each of them no more than a single glance.
Coming to a stop in a quiet spot at the edge of the grounds, Maeryn gradually slowed her breathing, bringing her troubled mind to focus solely on the task of drawing in and expelling air. When she felt sufficiently free of distraction, she began to practice her forms, stepping, pivoting, retreating in a smoothly flowing dance. She could feel her life force moving in step with her body, gathering into her center as she dropped into a forward split, then arcing out to the tips of her fingers and out into the steel of her enchanted blades as she thrust one blade forward and the other upward in a motion that would simultaneously impale and disembowel an enemy.
Maeryn sensed the others moving in around her, but ignored them, as they kept a respectful distance. The trainees had evidently been excused from their exercises and had come to watch her. She closed her eyes and let her other senses take over. If anything, her movements became faster, more fluid without the distraction of sight.
When one of the trainees, egged on by the whispered taunting of his fellows, sauntered quietly up behind her, she could hear his breath and felt the motion of his fingers in air as they curled around the hilt of his wooden practice sword. He waited a few moments, studying her movements, and then thrust the sword out to catch her leg as she brought it forward. Maeryn let the ruse play out for a heartbeat as her foot struck the sword and seemed to throw her off balance, but she rolled, came up in a crouch at the soldier's side and brought her own blade up under his chin. "If you wanted to spar," she said, grinning, "all you had to do was ask."
The rest of the trainees roared with laughter as the youth who had sought to trip her looked warily down at her blade and his face flushed crimson. Maeryn lowered her blade and stepped back, assuming a ready stance. "Well, would anyone else like to take a swipe at me?"
After a moment's deliberation, one of the men stepped out into the dirt, bringing his sword up to the ready, this one made of steel rather than wood. Maeryn let him circle slowly to the right for a few seconds before she lunged, knocking his sword out of his hand with her left blade while the point of her right came to rest against his chest. The speed of her attack had obviously staggered the man, who raised his hands in defeat and then cautiously bent to retrieve his sword. Maeryn had worked her way through nearly half of them, stopping just short at striking them and delivering what would have been killing blows, when the trainer returned to the yard. "Alright, you dogs, that's enough!" he shouted. "Get your asses back over here!"
Maeryn smiled as they moved off. Though they lacked the training and experience to pose a real challenge, the exertion had felt good. Most of her peers at the enclave had considered her too old to fight effectively hand-to-hand. Sending her here on this mission had been their way of making her feel useful when they considered her to be past her prime, a liability and a weakness. Considering how poorly she had fared in her hunt, maybe that's what she was after all.
Maeryn cursed and lunged forward with both weapons, releasing the energy stored in her blades in a blast of icy wind that coated the ground with a thick layer of frost. Amid the appreciative whistles and shouts of the men out on the practice ground, Maeryn lowered her suwayyah and walked from the yard. She could feel weariness seeping into her bones like old age itself. The sun had begun to sink below the wall of the keep, and right then she wanted nothing more than to sleep.
The sight of the boy huddled against her door was so unexpected to Maeryn that she did not react on first spying him. Coming to her senses, she stopped some distance away. "Sirral?"
The boy stirred and lifted his head to look her way. "Viz-jaq'taar?"
Maeryn winced at the strange cacophony of half-understood thoughts and emotions coming from him. Children's developing minds differed from an adult's in subtle but significant ways. "What are you doing here?"
"Please, Viz-jaq'taar, I'm scared. Can I come in?"
The request was even stranger than finding him here. Maeryn tugged at the bindings of one suwayyah with her teeth until it came loose and slowly unraveled. "What's happening? Did Pallas send you to get me?" Maeryn dropped the weapon carefully to the ground so that she could unlock the door.
"No, Viz-jaq'taar, I came on my own. I saw something, and I thought I had better come tell you at once."
Maeryn could make out enough through the nonsense coming from him to sense that he spoke the truth. "Come in and sit down, then," she sighed, pushing the door open. She bent to retrieve her weapon and followed him inside.
"It's my master," the boy said, once she had closed the door.
Sirral nodded. "After you left, I heard him in his chambers. He sounded very angry. When I asked him what was wrong, he asked me to leave. I did as he said, but then I came back after a bit to check on him. He was gone, but I saw something drawn on the floor and I went in for a closer look…." He paused. "Is something wrong, Viz-jaq'taar?"
Maeryn had turned her back to him. A chill slowly crept across her skin. "Be silent, Sirral," she whispered. "Something is here with us."
In moments, Maeryn could see her own breath misting in the failing light as the temperature in the room fell. "Where are you, demon?" she hissed, hoping to draw its attention so that it would attack her rather than the boy.
Sirral's strangled cry told her that she had failed. The apparition materialized and groaned in agony and bliss as it wrapped ghostly tendrils around him. The boy screamed as ice hardened over his skin where the creature touched him. Maeryn knew it as a wraith, a human soul that had been damned to spend an eternity of torment in hell. Such a creature longed only to inflict pain upon mortals, and was capable of drawing out both the life force and mana of living creatures.
Her psychic hammer struck the ethereal demon as though it were solid and sent it careening away across the room. Released from its grasp, Sirral crumpled lifelessly to the floor. Maeryn raised her arms, remembering only then that she had removed the blade from her right hand. She could sense that her attack had barely phased the creature. Another blast pushed it back, but she was succeeding only in keeping it at bay. It seemed that she was dealing with an exceptionally strong wraith. She needed to be at her full strength to fight it.
Maeryn once more summoned up the force of her will, but did not direct it this time at the undead creature. Instead, she shaped it carefully, precisely, to lift her suwayyah from where she had dropped it and cause it to fly onto her outstretched hand. In an instant, the straps snaked around her arm and drew tight seemingly of their own volition.
With a cry, Maeryn leaped at the creature, but her blades passed through its glowing body. It let out a sound that was part laughter, part moan of unbearable hunger. Maeryn leapt back from the wraith's ravenous tendrils and struck again with no more effect than the first time. The third strike passed through the creature as before, and Maeryn hammered the creature once more to push it back, but even as she did, pain seared her shoulder where the creature touched her. Maeryn fell to one knee as her strength failed, the flow of energy in her body disrupted by the creature's touch. The wraith closed in on her at once, certain of its victory.
"Return to hell," Maeryn whispered, and unleashed the power she had built up in her blades into the creature just as it touched her. Flames leapt from the stone floor, enveloping the wraith and blasting her face with heat. It screamed its rage as it fell, crumbling into ash. In a moment, the flames vanished as suddenly as they had come, though a few of Maeryn's personal items continued to smolder.
"Viz-jaq'taar?" Sirral was struggling to get to his feet.
Maeryn stood on shaking knees and made her way over to him. He had begun to shiver violently, but the frost on his skin was already melting away. She examined his reddened flesh carefully, but it appeared he had suffered no permanent injury. "You'll be alright," she assured him, but he began to cry as soon as he heard it. Maeryn pursed her lips, feeling completely out of her element. She gave him a good minute or two for his sobbing to ebb before she spoke to him again. "Listen to me, Sirral. You said something to me earlier about a drawing on the floor in your master's chambers. Can you take me there?"
It took several minutes more before Sirral had calmed enough to walk and to speak. He led her back towards the door to Pallas' living quarters, stopping one door down to enter the small study area that adjoined them. With her hands still bound within her weapons, she let Sirral use the meager flame from an oil lamp to light a candle and place it in a silver holder.
Shadows danced and leapt as they passed through into the main living area of Pallas' chambers, but she could sense that there was no one there. What she could sense, though, made her tremble with dread. Pure evil still swirled within the room, but laying eyes on the source of it somehow made it that much more real. At the exact center of the room was an encircled pentagram, drawn in blood. One tip faced due south. It was one of Hell's most powerful symbols.
"What have you done, Pallas?" Maeryn muttered under her breath. She had felt only disgust and pity until now for those who fell to the dark, but this was her friend. The tightness in her chest felt as though it should choke her.
"It's real, isn't it?" Sirral asked. Even one so young understood at once the significance of what he had seen.
Maeryn didn't answer, but addressed him firmly. "Go to the dining hall, now. You need to get a good crowd of people around you, preferably mages. Stay there until I come to get you."
Maeryn watched Sirral flit down the hall and swallowed back a wretched lump at what she was about to do. When Pallas had rejected her suggestion to reveal the key to the other Horadrim, it had occurred to her that he might have selfish reasons for doing so, that he might want the glory of presenting the weapon to the council himself, or even that he might wish to test its powers. She had settled on thinking that he was merely being misguided by his own caution. Nothing could have prepared her for this.
She sensed him as she approached the room, right where she thought he would be, still playing his part to perfection. She could only guess at how many lies he had fed to them. Maeryn knocked and waited.
A muffled "who's there?" came from the other side of the door. She gave her name and heard the bolt slide back almost immediately and the door open.
"Master Ralem," she said, nodding to him as she entered. The other mages in his circle were all there, discussing where they should go to look for Seith. Pallas was poring over a map with another mage and looked up as she entered. To his credit, he did not appear at all surprised to see her alive. Even the emotions she sensed from him were not unduly disturbed.
"I was just attacked by a creature from Hell," she announced, to the general startlement of the people in the room.
"Are you alright?" Pallas asked, coming around to look at her.
"I'm fine," she assured him. "Sirral was caught in the attack as well, but he seems to be doing alright."
Pallas made another exclamation of concern, but it was not what she had expected. He was somehow masking his thoughts and emotions perfectly, and she was still unable to sense the corruption inside him. "More to the point, I have finally uncovered who is responsible for all of the attacks, both against me, and against the mages who were killed." She raised her blade and pointed it at Pallas. "And he has played us for fools since the very beginning."
Stunned silence met her accusation. Pallas looked at the blade on her arm, then into her eyes. Slowly, he shook his head. "You are not one to make jokes, Maeryn."
"This is no jest, Pallas. You sent the creature that attacked me this evening. You decided to kill me rather than reveal the Key's existence to the council."
"Only, your apprentice was worried about you after you sent him away, so he went back to your chambers to check on you."
"He would have found them empty. I have been here most of the afternoon."
"He found the inverted pentagram that you drew with your own blood."
Pallas shook his head slowly. "I don't understand why, but he must be lying."
"And I've seen it myself."
A tense silence followed her pronouncement. It was broken when Master Geir stood and made for the door. Maeryn knew where he was going without asking and nodded her agreement. "I'll show you," she said to the others. "Pallas, stay out front where I can see you."
Pallas made for the door slowly, as if in a daze. Maeryn kept her senses primed for any sudden moves he might make. The remaining Horadrim followed in a knot behind her as she ushered him down the corridor.
"Why are you doing this?" Pallas asked over his shoulder.
Maeryn swallowed back a lump of regret for the friend she thought she had known. "I'm only doing what I trained my entire life to do."
They met Ardin and four Horadrim of the Warlock sect at Pallas' door. Ardin kept his distance behind the others, whose shields crackled and glowed faintly in the gloom. "Open it," Maeryn commanded. Pallas unlocked and then pushed the door open, waiting for her signal before entering.
"It's right over here," Maeryn began, but stopped cold. Though she could still sense the demonic aura, the summoning circle had been erased from the floor. "What did you do to it?" she demanded of Pallas.
He shook his head sadly. "Maeryn, I'm not sure if you really believe what you have been saying, but it is time to stop this deception. I'll try to defend you as well as I can, but—"
"What did you do?!" she repeated, her voice raising almost to a scream.
"Here, what's this?" Ardin barked, jostling his way through the mages crowded around the door. His brow furrowed as he flitted his gaze around the room. "Geir said something about a demonic summoning circle. Isn't that what we all came here to see?"
Maeryn backed away from the group, beckoning Pallas after her with her arm. "It was right here," she said. "How did you get rid of it so quickly?"
"Master Ardin," Pallas said beseechingly. "I have no idea what she is talking about. She came to my chambers this afternoon and I left shortly after. If you wish, the men behind you will confirm that I have been in council with them for several hours."
Maeryn could sense that she was quickly losing any chance of convincing them of what she had seen. She had one last chance. "The boy, Sirral, will be able to confirm my story. I sent him to the dining hall."
Ardin nodded to one of his Warlock bodyguards, who disappeared down the corridor. "I will speak to the boy personally and advise you of what he tells me. Now," he said, almost gently, "don't you think you had better let Master Pallas get back to his work?"
Maeryn didn't take her eyes off of Pallas. "I can sense that you don't believe me, Master Ardin, but I can't let this man go free. He has already killed at least five people, possibly more. He'll go after Sirral next. My duty here is clear."
Pallas started to speak, but Maeryn held a blade up to his chest, silencing him. She knew what she had to do, knew from their alarm that the mages around her might well kill her where she stood, and only understand after they found and spoke with Sirral. She drew her arm back to strike, diverting her attention just long enough to paralyze the vocal cords of one of Ardin's Warlocks as he began to utter a spell against her. The noises of distress coming from him served to distract the others, and it would give her just long enough to do what had to be done.
Don't do this, Pallas thought, forcefully enough for her to pick up without exerting any effort to listen. She could sense from him the terror of confronting his own imminent death, and something else. Love.
She hesitated at the brink of throwing her weight forward and plunging her suwayyah into his chest. It was just long enough for Ardin, who had realized her intention, to mutter a quiet incantation. Maeryn fought the fog that closed in around her mind, pushing her consciousness down against her will, but the old mage's magic proved stronger than she could have guessed. There was a sharp pain as her backside struck the stone, then the back of her head. Her last memory was seeing Pallas knelt over her body. She cursed him silently for his final ruse as she slipped into the dark.
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Is the prospect of planning a wedding overwhelming you? Is it tempting to just throw in the bouquet and run off together? There's no getting around the fact that planning a wedding can be hectic, but doing it properly can make it far less so. Continue reading to find some ideas which should ease your anxiety and help you to have the wedding of your dreams.
When you're getting plans together for your wedding, consider the types of alcoholic beverages you're going to be serving. Also be aware of the cost. If there is one thing people like more than alcohol, it is free alcohol, and an open bar can quickly become a huge expense, especially the longer it remains open. The folks running your venue may have affordable bar services, so be sure and ask them about it.
Purchasing a wedding gown online may save you several hundred dollars initially. Even though a gown can be fairly cheap, having it altered to fit your perfectly can sometimes be more costly. Keep in mind any additional costs, and include it in your budget.
Choosing your spouse is obviously the biggest decision you will make. There is not need to hurry this important choice. Think about this person and what things will drive you crazy, along with what you can't live without.
One thing to remember to consider for a wedding is transportation. Try to get taxis and limos for people that can't get a ride so they can get back to where they're staying when the night ends. Also, this will get people who drank alcohol during your wedding home safe and sound.
Brides should focus on getting down a skincare regimen that makes their skin flawless for the wedding. You can use sea salts and other all-natural soothing scrubs and skin care products for a brighter complexion.
Don't use a ton of flowers on the tables that guests will be sitting at during your wedding reception. Flowers can be distracting for your guests and get in their way. An additional possibility to consider is that a number of your reception guests may suffer from allergies. Opt for using non-scented candles instead of flower arrangements for a romantic and luxurious look.
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Transportation is something you should consider for the wedding. Try to have limos and taxis available for those who do not have a ride to take them back to their hotel at the end of the night. This is also helpful for anyone who was drinking at the reception.
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TORONTO – One of the largest employers in North Bay says it could be forced out of business by the Ontario government's green energy policies.
Fabrene Incorporated, which has 250 workers manufacturing polyethylene fabrics for industrial use, says rising electricity bills are becoming too much to handle.
Fabrene vice-president John Spencer says the Global Adjustment fee charged to offset the premiums Ontario pays for wind and solar power increased seven-fold in recent years to $1 million a year.
Spencer says his company can't pay that kind of power bill and stay in business.
He calls green energy a noble cause, but says the government's execution of the plan is "causing some pain."
Spencer says to make matters worse, Ontario pays neighbouring jurisdictions to take its excess electricity, which means he's subsidizing lower power rates for his American-based competition.
The Ontario government promises to complete a review of the subsidies it pays for wind and solar power by the end of the month, and does plan to reduce the green energy premiums.
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Our photographer friend Sally Pinera sent us some photos today that just knocked our socks right off. Lauren and Matt had their engagement session with Sally in their home of Venice Beach just as the sun was going down. Oh man- the light was stunning.
Lauren and Matt met for the first time right down the street from their engagement shoot location at the hip beachside bar James Beach. Their October wedding at Quail Ranch in Simi Valley is going to be a beautiful, upscale-yet-laid-back dance party. We can't wait to see Lauren in her dress- it's one of the most hip wedding dresses we've seen!
With a killer team lined up (Sally Pinera behind the lens, Heirloom Design House on flowers), we're pretty sure this one is going to be a fantastic night filled with love and lots of pretty!


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For their part, the Conservatives say a fundraising campaign in which they criticized the CBC drove a significant number of donations into their coffers.
"It was overwhelmingly our single biggest fundraising initiative," said a Tory official.
Late last year, party campaign director Doug Finley sent out a letter asking for money after reports that a CBC reporter supplied questions to a Liberal MP during a committee hearing.
"It demonstrates a huge level of suspicion amongst grassroots Canadians about the Liberal Party and the CBC," the official said.
One of the main reasons the Conservatives are successful, their fundraising is predicated on creating an enemy, and with that a sense of victimization. Forces working against the Conservatives, the party needs money to fight the "foe". It's all bunk of course, the CBC is completely mainstream, if there is a perception that Conservatives get a raw deal on that network, it probably stems from the fact that their narrow perspective isn't representative of Canada as a whole. As I've argued before, pretty nonsensical to claim an anti-Conservative bias on the CBC, when their signature political "At Issue" panel consists of a former Conservative employee, a former National Post senior writer and a francophone woman who hates the Liberals and Dion- if that doesn't say left-wing conspiracy, I don't know what does.
However, the objective truth is really irrelevant, when it comes to the Conservative fundraising, all that matters is projecting a sense of "wronged", an urgent plea to counter the perceived threat. The CBC serves as an easy target, and I don't doubt it was effective, given the venom directed at our public broadcaster from online Conservatives. There is a siege mentality within the Conservative ranks that lends itself to fundraising drives. Us vs them seems to be the central thesis, that weaves itself into every discussion. Money is a way to counter the perceived disadvantage.
The Liberals can't motivate, using manufactured paranoia to solicite money. The Liberals must use issues, and the trick now- how to demand money to fight, when the perception is it doesn't matter, we will acquiesce in the end? Any online Liberal has surely received the emails asking for money, to fight this or that, but what is lacking is the conviction that the fight will translate to action in the end. You are left with the abstract, one day we stand up and right all these wrongs, that is a hard sell, there is no immediacy in that tactic. Fundraising won't improve until there is something to stand on, maybe that comes from more policy development, but maybe that comes when the stakes are raised and people are faced with another Harper government. Whatever, the Liberals don't have the same luxury as the Conservatives, they don't have a persecution complex that feeds the coffers, they don't have a "out to get me" mentality, a cause, and that simple fact explains a lot, as to why the Conservatives are able to generate oodles of money.


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New Protected Bike Lanes in Philadelphia Get Funded
Not long after the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia proposed 30 miles of new protected bike lanes under the new Kenney Administration (alongside a promise made by Kenney in a campaign document), the city received word that funding has been approved to begin that process.
As part of the $7.6 million in Transportation Alternatives Program project money recently awarded to the region by the DVRPC, Philadelphia will receive $300,000 for "on-road improvements," according to the DVRPC's press release, "including flexible delineator posts, signage, and pavement markings, for cyclists at designated locations throughout the City of Philadelphia." An additional $200,000 has also been requested from PennDOT for improvements.
The Bicycle Coalition believes this is the beginning of a series of high-quality on-street, protected bike lanes, which will make the streets safer for all road users in Philadelphia.
There were 15 projects applied for by the City in the original TAP program, as shown in the map below.
And PlanPhilly has a nice breakdown of what many of them mean for Philly cyclists.
No. 8. N. 33rd Street Protected Bicycle Lanes: This conventional bike lane will be upgraded to protected.
No. 9. Spruce/Pine Street Protected Bike Lanes: Adds delineator posts to existing buffered bike lane running between 22nd and Front Streets.
No. 10. Walnut Street Protected Bike Lane: Adds delineator posts to existing, left-side bike lane from 23rd Street to 63rd Street. The city piloted protected bike lanes on the Walnut Street Bridge.
No. 11. 30th Street Protected Contraflow Bicycle Lane: The existing bike lane between Walnut and Market Streets will get delineator posts. Between Chestnut and Market, the bike lane is a contraflow lane— 30th Street automobile traffic flows south, but bicycle traffic goes north. As the Bicycle Coalition has noted, drivers frequently mistake contraflow bike lanes as a parking lane. The posts will help prevent that confusion.
No. 13. South/Lombard Streets Protected Bicycle Lanes: Lombard Street has a bike lane from 22nd Street until it curves at the base of the South Street Bridge. South Street has a bike lane from the bridge until 22nd. Both of these will be upgraded with delineator posts.
No. 14. Lindbergh Boulevard Protected Bicycle Lanes: New protected bike lanes will be painted along this connector street linking the John Heniz National Wildlife Refuge to Bartram's Garden.
No. 15. Passyunk/Oregon Avenue Protected Bike Lanes: The West Passyunk Avenue's bike lane currently disappears when the road spans the Schuylkill. Protected bike lanes will be added to the bridge. In a related but separate project, PennDOT will resurface the bridge's grates, which can be particularly slippery and dangerous for bikes and motorcycles. Oregon Avenue's existing bike lane between Passyunk Avenue and 22nd Street will also be upgraded to protected.
There are additional projects not included in the PlanPhilly descriptions above. As most projects are concerned, what they are described as now and what actually gets built could look different. Neighborhood groups have not yet been briefed on these projects. And the additional $200,000 has not yet been secured.
Nevertheless, the prospect of these projects, and the funding, is the result of many groups in the Philadelphia region working together to make safety a priority. Physically-separated lanes are a large part of a Vision Zero policy and have been proven to make streets safer for all road users.
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Evan • •
Protected bike lanes on single lane roads will ultimately make the street more dangerous.
As a resident of spruce street, I sometimes need to double park to take large loads into or out of my house. I am not alone in this practice.
With the current configuration, there is room to bypass parked cars. But with the posts, this practice will become impossible. Drivers will either have to wait behind people loading goods (philly drivers could learn some patience), or, more likely, drivers will unsafely park on corners and block intersections and cross walks.
My other concern is where these posts will be installed along spruce and pine streets. Religious houses allow their patrons to park in the bike lane. Will these individuals still park in the bike lane? Will they park in the drive lane? Has this issue been acknowledged?
More work needs to be done educating the public and encouraging traffic conecentration. As a biker, I use 10th and 15th streets to bike south. As a driver, I use 12th and 17th streets to drive south.
Robert • •
It would be nice if people only double-parked in bike lanes in cases of real necessity. But that is not at all the way it is now. I walk along Pine, Spruce, Lombard, and South frequently. What I see all the time, and distressingly, is the bike lanes being used as parking places by delivery trucks (UPS and Fed Ex are terrible), construction vehicles (plumbers, electricians, etc.), and by residents who often sit in their cars for extended periods of time, or even leave their cars as if in parking spaces. Only a very few are engaged in carrying heavy packages into adjacent dwellings; mainly, it's a matter of convenience and a free parking spot. Also, many drivers use the bike lanes as ways to get ahead in traffic, even though this often results in their bird-dogging bike riders. Religious houses also abuse the bike lanes, considering them free parking. Throughout the world (North and South America, Europe, Australia, Asia, even Africa), cities that really value safety divide bikes and cars, whether by posts or by curbs or even by fences. It works there, and it will work here. Those of us without cars carry things across and along streets, even heavy objects, and those with cars can do that, too. Yes, front-door convenience will be reduced for some, but the safety of all will increase.
It never ceases to amaze me how entitled car owners feel when it comes to the streets of Philadelphia.
I need to unload and I must do that at my front door. Have they lost the use of their legs? Do their feet suddenly seem foreign to them? Are they unable to afford a folding basket? Should we take up a collection?
Perhaps a burb with a driveway would be more suitable to your needs–something you do not have to share with anyone, and that prevents you from ever having to walk a couple of blocks.
Does religion suddenly strike your legs, making them inoperable? If you must drive a car to your church in the city, perhaps a church closer to your house might be in order?
Cyclists [and pedestrians]have patiently put up with being considered 2nd/3rd class citizens long enough. It's time.
Nancy Drye • •
My concern with protected bike lanes comes from my experience of those on the Walnut Street Bridge. It looks like they will be harder to maintain/sweep than the current bike lanes, resulting in a bad surface or narrower lane for us cyclists. Debris will accumulate all year as will snow and ice in inclement weather.
There is a whole 3rd lane that is just parked cars. What about lobbying for a few (1-2) loading zone spaces per block so that drivers with a real need to do loading actually have a legal space to go that isn't a bike lane. We need to find a solution that isn't terrible for anyone (… no one will be perfectly happy either).
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Well then, let's start my Seven Days with Sunday shall we?
Sunday, 13th
It was one of those what you would call a rough morning. I have had this stubborn and persistent cough for about two weeks now (one of those that sneak up on you and then suddenly, you can't complete a sentence without punctuating it with a cough) and had gone to the hospital the night before. I always hate visits to doctors when my only symptom is a cough. It feels like i might as well have stayed at home and tried google.
Anyhoo, the doctor gave me some antibiotics (bye bye red wine), cough syrup (no codeine?) and paracetamol. But my body of course decided to show its' displeasure. So Sunday, rough morning.
I had a meeting with CON.tra.diction's manager in the afternoon and i was really hoping it would be short, not because i do not absolutely love him, but because Franklin and Bash is my must-watch show on Sundays and i can never count on catching it on Monday….
It was a short meeting. One of those where you are delivering news from a third party and to your relief, EVERYONE is on the same page!
The rest of Sunday went slowly; sadly my darling club Manchester United won our final game of the season but still did not win the EPL which i took a lot harder than i thought i would.
Forget Chris, Everybody hates Monday.
Everybody but me.
I feel so productive on Mondays, it's like there's a factory in my head. Well, most Mondays. This was a Monday of headaches, swollen throat, coughs (yeah, that syrup was not my cough's mate) and a fever.
I'll spare you the gory details.
At work, i got to interview Mr Temitope Sanyaolu of STANBIC IBTC.
I also got to see my cover of this edition's WIN 360. That shoot was just the funniest and the cover looks nice, thankfully! Saeon is also featured in the magazine so check it out and find out what i said. Cos i forget!
Tuesday's are usually anti-climactic for me. After the craziness of Monday, Tuesdays always feel like 'The Day After Monday', just like i have christened Thursdays 'Before Friday'.
This Tuesday was twitter-fun though. (Yes, there are different kinds of fun. There is 'Yay! Got me some icecream' fun, 'Staying at home all day' fun, 'Please don't make me list all the kinds' fun, and so on).
I stumbled upon a tweet by someone trying to console someone else who was in the Friend Zone but only just realised it. Friend Zone? That's a zone i know a thing or two about so of course, my heart immediately went out to said person. But then, i discovered there are about a million other zones.
Check this out
'May i use your assignment' zone
'Take me to Ozone' zone
'I need to step back and clear my head' zone
'It is not you, it is me' zone
'Let's work it on it' zone
'Where are we headed' zone.
Got some zones of your own? Please tweet them at me @toptosyn
May 16th! The annual DAY OF THE MUMMY!
Happy Birthday to my mother! She's funnier than i am, and if you think Funke (my sister) and myself are energetic, you need to meet my mother!
We spent the whole day together and it was even more fun when Funke joined us. We looked at pictures of my nieces, she told me i was getting too thin, we had some peppersoup… you know normal day.
Of course i wasn't 100percent 'there' seeing as i had gone back to the doctors and he did that thing they do were they sit, look at you, and then get up and go and consult others. The only good thing about that visit was the fact that my doctor is cute.
And after his reaction, of course i had to go google my symptoms.
DON't google your symptoms folks.
All i had was a cough and the throat issue. A few google minutes later, it turned to a series of words i could not pronounce.
Well… If you can't pronounce it, it can't hurt you.
Can it?
Thursdays for me are special days. Why? They remind me that Friday is just a few hours away. I have christened Thursdays 'That Day Before Friday' just to show how much i love Fridays. This means of course that i do something very interesting and exciting every Friday right?
Unless you think sleeping is exciting. It's just that i look forward to sleeping on Fridays because there is nothing, NOTHING like the non-judgemental feel of a Friday sleep! Sleep on any other day comes with an alarm clock the next morning, but on a Friday? Nothing can disturb that sleep.
So if your ever see me with a stupid grin on my face on Fridays, please know, i am only looking forward to tucking in.
Well of course, i have to get through the day first and this Friday had a simple but fun day at work. The Friday show has a lot of singing (you should tune in sometime) and that's always fun. I had some bank runs and every time i do my bank runs on a Friday, i swear Never Again! Especially a certain orange bank. The queues are unbelievable.
Fridays are also red-cola days. What is 'red cola'? A Tosyn mix- red wine and my favourite cola drink!
Try it before you knock it, thank you!
On Saturday i got to hang out with Aderonke (she works at Smooth FM).
I have decided that Aderonke and i look alike; she's really cool. We have a lot of similar plans like the Singles Mixer.
Let me explain
Aderonke is forever talking about relationships and has a blog, The Love Chest where she puts results of her survey. She asks everything! As such, people always ask her to hook them up!
Now i started out matchmaking! No seriously.
I would throw these small events and have single people hang out and i am pleased to say i actually have five married couples to s.h.a.r.e's credit!
But i stopped. And now, i am thinking of starting again. So maybe Aderonke and i will come up with something together.
Yay? Nay? Let me know what you think @toptosyn!
In the meantime, Aderonke and i spoke about what songs we are currently listening to and here's the link: http://youtu.be/YTaVDtZC7Po
There you have it! A week in the predictably unpredictable life of Tosyn.


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Talking to The Lord in the open before others shows everyone one has no shame and publicly acknowledges the Lord Jesus Christ. He is God and God alone, loving us unconditionally through the most trying times of our lives. To progress daily is a blessing. To strive in positive life changes is to pass inspiration abroad. To analyze ...
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Contributing Editor started a topic Humble Quote and #WordsofInspiration
Humble Quote and #WordsofInspirationThe Lord Jesus Christ is the only and ultimate source of transformation revitalization of your soul, heart, mind, and body. Former state department head Colin Powell said it best: "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell. An excellent quote he made. When striving fo...
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Contributing Editor started a topic The Goodness of Starting an #OnlineSideHustle
The Goodness of Starting an #OnlineSideHustleHelping your church and pastor through financial contributions and service from the heart is the real transformation and will keep you residually blessed by theLord Jesus Christ
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andGodalone. Truth: Today's era is not the era for relying on your employer and job for a healthy pension. Pensions are pretty much out the door. Wondering why companies today are quick to offer you a 401 (k) plan? Corporations know people are spending happy. Once your 401 (k) is spent to the bone, you'll be right back out in the workforce slaving away. Even if it means you're 80+ years old and looking for a job again. That's the iron-clad truth. However, if you have an alternative plan for financial supplementation to add to your retirement income or existing day job income, you may fair out well if you start an online side hustle from your laptop or comfort of your home and steadily work at it. 'Work Slowly and Steadily Toward Your Online Business Goals' Maybe you're one of those people who work a job where your employer treats you bad. While the disparate treatment from your boss could be a silent deterrent toward you quitting your job, you could use that treatment from your employer as indirect motivation to start an online business and work on it in your spare time. What skill set or special craft do you harness that people will find value from? Is it blogging and writing a certain style about a favorite topic that'll attract and retain readers? Do you have a love for writing on things such as shoe and sneaker reviews, computer review...
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5 Inspiring Ways to Overcome Life's #AwesomeChallenges
Things happen in everyone's life for a reason whether spontaneous or planned. Everything that's meant to be adverse for challenging in one's life journey to eternal perfection is not always bad. A bad thing can transform to good if you see the bigger picture in the midst of troubling times and rely on the Lord Jesus to guide your footsteps. You'll fall for anything if you refuse to stand for something good or stand up for yourself. Events in your life not only bring out unique qualities about yourself, but hidden things in a person's heart about you. Either way you look at it, be thankful you're going through life's awesome challenges as it molds you to be better spiritually and earthly in all you do. Always, always, always give God the praise in good and bad times. It's those sensitive experiences that shape you into the soldier the Lord thy God wants you to be for His perfect purpose and will for your life.
1.Read scripture - The Bible is all truth. And it's also a natural medication and remedy to every challenge you face in your life. Reading scripture will definitely soothe your soul, provide answers to unanswered questions in your heart-soul, help you rest easy at night, and keep you inspired for total soul salvation - transformation.
2. Let people go when necessary - You may or may not be one who grew up with certain childhood friends you feel you have an unbreakable bond with. Drop them when necessary like a "1st date girlfriend!" One thing you'll notice is when you make...
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Homeless Man Demonstrates #TrueTransformation of the HeartThe Lord Jesus Christ who is God and God alone
helps anyone who strives to achieve spiritual transformation excellence in getting right with Him.
This is an inspiring transformation story of a homeless man who returned an engagement ring to a young lady after randomly discovering it in his cup. He could've easily made off with the engagement ring and did as he pleased. Reports mention he gladly returned the ring when the young lady briefly searched for him two days later.
Honest Unfortunate People Still Around Many wonder if there's good folk left in a world filled with crime and greed. Some honest people in the world today are f...
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#Zumba: Alberto Perlman Starts Venture Out of Inspiration
Ever wondered who invented Zumba? Was the business started out of inspiration or desperation? Alberto Perlman started the venture out of inspiration while having dinner at his mom's house. In fact, when he invented the idea a decade ago, it was a small potato idea. With no business plan or model in mind at the time, he moved forward. He was NOT successful with it starting out. However, he never gave up. And today, because of his business persistence, he is super successful with his Zumba business.
Related: Who has it easy running a business?
- Pearlman on New York Mag - NYMag.com
- Pearlman on Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com
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Contributing Editor started a topic Making #HealthyChanges is Possible at Any Age
Making #HealthyChanges is Possible at Any AgeHopefully you did your exercise and post workout cardio first thing this morning on an empty stomach in starting your day or weekend right. Are you planning your meals today and doing the transformation work? Are you getting in your daily doses of protein blends and staying on tra...
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Secular culture does an accurate job of depicting what it is like to fall in love, that delightful and painful state - indeed it does this to the point of tedium and way beyond.
But secular culture uses falling in love as a weapon against being married - as if it was a case of falling in love versus being married.
By contrast, secular culture does a very poor job of depicting what it is like to be married.
Secular culture fails and fails to depict the reality of marriage.
Indeed it does the opposite of failing, it successfully depicts marriage as the fading of the in-love state, as an impediment to falling in love; as at best cozy companionship and fun with kinds but at worst prolonged boredom and torment - in a word secualr culture depicts marriage purely as a material state.
So, secularism depicts falling in love as a spiritual state, THE spiritual state (one and only, the only self-justifying thing) but being married as an ANTI-spiritual state.
How strange (if it were not deliberately evil) that secular culture actually is (non-specifically, but assertively and un-boundedly) spiritual, when it comes to falling in love - yet so aggressively anti-spiritual about being married!
Christians ought to do better - and real Christians generally do DO better in practice - but the spirituality of marriage remains private (as it should, as a rule).
But the proper privacy of specific real spiritual marriage is compatible with the necessity for public depictions of the spirituality of marriage - marriage as an 'artistic' thing (artistic in the sense of real - really real!- but not autobiographical).
Why are they not more cultural depictions of the spirituality of marriage - of being married?
(I use the term spirituality to refer to the highest things, the most desired things, the things that produce the deepest and most lasting happiness).
The answer is obvious - because secular culture wants to destroy marriage.
But why are there not more, a lot more, Christian depictions of the spirituality of marriage? We need them.
Why don't more Christian churches set themselves up to help their young people marry, and marry well? Surely it ought to be a major priority? Surely it ought to be discussed from the pulpit and at the highest level?
To hear pro-marriage discourse from a church leader is sometimes like attending a social policy lecture, or a political speech - where in all this is the spirituality of marriage?
Where is the depiction of ideal marriage as a high and also profound path to God, offering glimpses of Heaven on earth, the family as a microcosm of the church and the human condition - a discussion of the potentially eternal consequences of marriage and family such that its delights do not fade but are forever, yet its sufferings are healed?
Everybody knows - because public discourse is full of it - that falling in love really is delightful, life-enhancing, self-validating and the rest of it - despite that it is also a state of torment, jealousy, disgust, despair and the rest of it.
Hardly anybody knows - because it is not in public discourse - that being married and having a family really is all of this, but more so.


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By Diana Rohini LaVigne / Special to India-West
(San Mateo, Calif.) May 22, 2011—Sunnyvale resident Nirav Patel's invention was featured in one of the world's most prestigious grassroots invention showcases, Maker Faire, this past weekend in San Mateo, Calif.
"I created a way to interface a Microsoft Kinect (system) to a RepRap Mendel 3D printer to quickly capture 3D models of people and print them out as well as to have gestural control (over) the 3D printer," said Patel to India-West. "Creating 3D models is a project that has been done before, but was mostly un-documented and was not released to the public. I felt the need to create a version of it that was publicly available."
Patel, who was born in Connecticut with family roots in Gujarat, said he enjoys working on innovative projects and is in the process of developing some virtual reality related projects; but nothing that is public yet. Armed with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, he enjoys spending time reading science fiction and watching old movies for inspiration. Patel, a software development engineer at a Bay Area based Fortune 500 Company, attributes his education for developing his interest in working on complex projects.
Maker Faire, having launched in 2006 in San Mateo, attracts top-notch celebrities such as this year's television royalty, Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe and Myth Busters' Adam Savage. Savage spoke about talk about inspiration and innovation while Rowe, whose own website mikeroweWORKS.com promotes hard work, dropped in for an impromptu chat with makers and fabricators from around the country. Maker Faire is also very kid-friendly by design with numerous kids' stations and DIY zones around the faire grounds. Getting kids excited about science and technology and meeting fellow inventors seemed to be the over-reaching initiative of this two-day showcase.
For contact information of Nirav Patel and some of his older inventions, please see his website at http://eclecti.cc. For Maker Faire information, visit www.makerfaire.com.
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Sparta goes its own way
In the beginning Sparta is a polis similar to other Greek poleis. Then something happens to change everything. Over population and the food shortage hit Sparta hard. Harder than just about any other polis. Spartans are dying in large numbers from starvation. Sparta's poor soil cannot support the population of Sparta.
Spartan leaders meet and discuss the future. They can choose to start colonies. Other poleis are doing so. The Spartan leaders decide no to colonies.
Their neighboring polis, Messenia, has some of the finest wheat-growing land in Greece. The Spartans decide the answer to their problem is to seize their neighbor's rich, productive land. And while they are at it, they will turn all of their neighbors into slaves who can continue tilling the land.
A battle plan a drawn up. The war is started. The battle plan is executed. It goes smashingly. The Messenian army is crushed. The Messenian leaders are executed. The Messeniam aristocracy is killed off. The Messenian farmers are turned into slaves the Spartans call helots. The Messenian skilled workers become the perioeci. The perioeci manufacture everything for the Spartans including their weapons. Success?
Not completely. The Spartans realize they have a second problem. There are 20 helots for every male Spartan. It is only a matter of time before the enslaved helots will revolt. When they do revolt, things could go badly for the Spartans. The Spartan government is determined to meet this threat. Again the Spartans consider their options.
It is decided there is only one solution. Sparta must always have the power to crush the helots. To achieve this, the Spartan government decides to turn its entire male population into a permanent army. And that permanent army must be the best trained army in Greece. This means rearranging the way the Spartan government and Spartan society operate.
In the years immediately following their great victory over Messenia, the Spartans do exactly that.. Sparta was once very much like every other Pollis. After its war against Messenia, Sparta is almost the opposite of every other Greek Pollis. It's new society is designed to keep its foot on the neck of its rebellious helots.


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Proton therapy is an advanced form of radiation therapy especially for cancer patients with significant advantages over conventional radiation therapy in terms of efficacy and unwanted side effects. In proton therapy a beam of protons is irradiated to diseased tissue with the help of a particle accelerator. These protons cause damage to targeted cells by interfering with their genetic functions. Protons, due to their large mass do not scatter side and are more precisely localized to targeted tissue allowing significantly less damage to adjacent cells. According to The National Association for Proton Therapy, there are 10 to 12 centers providing proton therapy treatment across United States including UC Davis Crocker Lab, Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and 8 new centers are in development. Proton Treatment Center at Loma Linda University Medical Center was the first facility to treat its patient with proton therapy in 1990. Since then the world has witnessed a massive growth taking place in the development of other centers across the globe. Today, other centers are operating in countries such as Sweden, Japan, Canada, China, Germany and France. In coming years few more centers are about to be established in countries such as Poland, Austria, Hungary, Russia and Australia.
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Till now more than 80,000 patients suffering from a variety of cancer diseases such as prostate cancer and brain tumor have been treated with proton therapy and the demand is expected to grow further as more medical professionals and patients learn about the benefits of this therapy. Geographically, North America and Europe are the largest market as majority of the centers enabling proton therapy treatment are located in these regions. In Asia Pacific, the market is predicted to grow with the opening of new centers in Australia and under the influence of increasing awareness about the benefits of this advanced treatment. The high cost of therapy is one of the major challenges to growth of this market. This has cascaded down to reimbursement as insurers currently refuse to compensate for such highly expensive procedures.
There are very few companies engaged in the development and manufacturing of cyclotrons, synchrotrons and other equipments required by proton therapy centers. Ion Beam Applications, S.A., a German company dominates the market with a market share accounting for more than 55%. Other players include Hitachi, Fermilab Scientists and Varian Medical Systems.
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