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URAC Accreditation Standards Aligned With 'Framework for Assessing Financial Benefits of Wellness Programs' Peer-reviewed Article
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- URAC, the nation's leading health care accreditation and education organization, today announced that the value of its Comprehensive Wellness Accreditation standards is referenced in "Framework for Assessing the Financial Benefit of Wellness Program", an article by Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH, a wellness expert and an epidemiologist for Trajectory Healthcare, LLC. The article will appear in an edition of The Journal of Health & Productivity to be published this fall.
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In the peer-reviewed article, Dr. Wilson recognizes URAC as the first major accreditation organization to advocate transparency, a level of evidence assessment, and third-party validation. He says that these are the key components necessary to evaluate the financial benefit of wellness programs.
"While there has been a lot of general support for wellness programs, there was not a lot of information on how to compare the financial impact of one wellness program to another. The framework that was developed through extensive research and interviews with consumers and wellness program providers provides guiding principles for fair comparisons," said Dr. Wilson. "The benchmarks and measurement tools URAC has established are aligned with the framework and provide wellness vendors and consumers with the details they need to evaluate programs based on the same criteria."
Dr. Wilson presented his findings and discussed the policy and economic framework in evaluating the financial impact of wellness programs during a general session on October 8, 2009 at URAC's 10th Annual Quality Summit and Exhibition in Tucson, Ariz.
"Wellness programs are a critical component of any comprehensive health benefit plan," said Alan P. Spielman, president and CEO of URAC. "However, many organizations want a way to measure success before they adopt new programs. The framework that Dr. Wilson highlights combined with the clear, comprehensive URAC standards, enable purchasers to evaluate the effectiveness of these programs and determine which are best suited for the consumers they serve."
With the launch of its Comprehensive Wellness Accreditation program standards and measures in 2008, URAC addressed a need for national standards to measure the effectiveness of wellness programs that focus on health promotion, chronic disease prevention and health risk reduction. Consumers need independent tools based on rigorous and inclusive standards, such as integrated program evaluation and performance measurement components, by which they can evaluate wellness vendors and programs.
URAC's program-specific standards fall into five broad categories, creating an evaluation framework for wellness programs that focuses on individual health improvement and risk reduction. Those categories include the following:
The standards and measures, available for purchase in April 2009, were developed by URAC's Wellness Accreditation Advisory Committee, which is comprised of members representing employers, health plans, consumer representatives, public benefits organizations, health care professional associations, providers and wellness companies.
About URAC
URAC, an independent, nonprofit organization, is well-known as a leader in promoting health care quality through its accreditation, education and measurement programs. URAC offers a wide range of quality benchmarking programs and services that keep pace with the rapid changes in the health care system, and provide a symbol of excellence for organizations to validate their commitment to quality and accountability. Through its broad-based governance structure and an inclusive standards development process, URAC ensures that all stakeholders are represented in establishing meaningful quality measures for the entire health care industry. For more information, visit www.urac.org.
About Thomas Wilson
Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH, is the principal of and an epidemiologist for Trajectory(R) Healthcare, LLC. He specializes in the evaluation of the financial and clinical impact of interventions that are designed to effect defined populations including disease management, case management, payment-for-performance programs, wellness programs, and electronic medical record use. He received his doctorate in epidemiology from UCLA. He has served as corporate epidemiologist at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and held faculty research positions at Columbia University and UC Berkeley, a NIH post-doctoral fellowship position in cardiovascular disease, and a Fulbright award lectureship. Wilson is also the founder and board chair of the Population Heath Impact Institute (www.PHIinstitute.org), a non-profit organization set up as an educational and research organization advocating for scientific, independent, and transparent evaluations of organized population health management programs. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 513 289 3743.
-- Assessment - Health risk identification and risk awareness program components, such as the use of Health Risk Assessments; -- Interventions - Overall program design, health coaching, and use of consumer participation incentives, education and communications aspects of wellness programs; -- Evaluation - How the wellness organization calculates, measures, and reports participant progress and overall clinical and financial program success to the client; -- Integration - An organization's ability and willingness to coordinate with other organizations, operations, and programs already in place; and -- Measurement - Producing and reporting to purchasers and the public on a specified set of performance measures.
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(or, "The story of a pomodoro gone horribly wrong")
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|defmodule NewRelic.Plug.Absinthe do
|@moduledoc """
|A plug that instruments Phoenix controllers and records their response times in New Relic.
|Inside an instrumented controller's actions, `conn` can be used for further instrumentation with
|`NewRelic.Plug.Instrumentation` and `NewRelic.Plug.Repo`.
|defmodule MyApp.UsersController do
|use Phoenix.Controller
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|var ScheduleStore = Reflux.createStore({
|return this._schedule;
|this._schedule = schedule;
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|require_relative "../proofs_init.rb"
|class ReplayTest
|include Replay::EventSource
|class ReplayTest
|include Replay::EventSource
|events do
|SomeEvent(pid: Integer)
|class ReplayTest
|include Replay::EventSource
|#define an event inline to the class
|event SomethingHappened(name: String, pid: Integer)
|apply SomethingHappened do |event|
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...And proceeds to sell me 30 tickets to paintball.
No, seriously. That really happened. I was getting my haircut at Roosters last night and a guy walks in selling discounted tickets to Stunt Ranch Paintball. So of course I said "I'll take 30", because I have at least that many people I want to shoot, right?
So now I have to figure out how to get 30 people into playing paintball with me. The tickets don't expire, and they include everything except the paint and CO2. I'm not an avid paintballer, but that sounds like a decent deal to me, since I got them for $2 apiece.
I'm thinking a geeky paintball extravaganza sometime in the near future. Maybe a geek father/son thing, maybe we all dress up like Rebels and Stormtroopers. I dunno, I'm open to suggestions.
Watching Jack Danger's GoGaRuCo presentation the following analogy came to mind.
/lib is the asshole of your Rails application. Its fine (and desirable) for stuff to pass through there. But if you don't poop it out into nicely formed little turds we call gems eventually, your application is going to become constipated. Then you get stomachaches.
Don't constipate your app. Eat lots of roughage.
One of the few problems I have with Janus, the vim settings bundle/plugin/whatever you want to call it, is that whenever I change to the vim window it refreshes the NERDTree. My project has a ton of files in it (like really, a ridiculous amount) so that refresh takes tens of seconds sometimes. Thanks to Tim Tyrrell's (@timtyrrell) tip on twitter after I bitched about it, I found the offending lines in Janus's NERDTree plugin:
augroup AuNERDTreeCmd
autocmd AuNERDTreeCmd VimEnter * call s:CdIfDirectory(expand("<amatch>"))
autocmd AuNERDTreeCmd FocusGained * call s:UpdateNERDTree()
By adding the following line to your
~/.vimrc.after or
~/.gvimrc.after you can punt on the autocommands from Janus (I don't care about either of them)
:autocmd! AuNERDTreeCmd

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Which Joe gave his name to 'sloppy joes'? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
Definition of pomander in English:
1A ball or perforated container of sweet-smelling substances such as herbs and spices, placed in a closet, drawer, or room to perfume the air or (formerly) carried as a supposed protection against infection.
- 'So do flasks, used for a variety of purposes, including to hold perfume, which could also be dispensed in the popular ball-shaped pomanders (pommes d' ambre) and musk-balls.'
- 'The other bridesmaids wore burnt orange dresses and carried pomanders of fresh black-eyed cream germinis.'
- 'My younger sister put it better after arriving back from school at Christmas, clutching a pomander that she's made herself.'
- 'Sugar surveys the great lake of lavender before her, and measures it against a pomander of petals such as she might be able to hold in her hand.'
- 'In the sixteenth century, chatelaines included a variety of attachments such as keys, knives, pouches, rosaries, pomanders, books of hours, and mirrors.'
- 'The younger bridesmaids wore pale lilac shimmer satin dresses with cream embroidered bodices, and carried pomanders of lilac and cream flowers.'
- 'A silver chain hugged the swell of her hips, holding the long chain of her pomander and her string of prayer beads.'
- 'There will be guided tours of the hall by guides in period costume and visitors will be able to make such things as pomanders, scent bags and butter.'
- ''The laws of consanguinity have always been more lax there,' Valerian explained, cupping her lavender filled pomander in her lap.'
- 'She had no desire for the pomander, and did not know why she had bought it.'
- 'The pomander - a small perforated container filled with spices and herbs and worn on the body - was meant to provide a continuous fragrant shield against disease.'
- 1.1 A piece of fruit, typically an orange or apple, studded with cloves and hung in a closet by a ribbon for a similar purpose.
- 'You have now finished making your pomander, and should now leave it on a windowsill in an erratically heated room for at least a fortnight.'
- 'To tie everything together, choose flowers in colors that coordinate with your other decorations - here, the apricot-colored rose echoes a dried orange pomander set in a pot with a tiny evergreen tree.'
- 'Ladies first had small sack handbags that contained pomanders (scented oranges).'
- 'Blue Peter recommends sticking them into oranges to form a pomander, an archaic device to keep linen clothes fresh and sweet-smelling.'
- 'Push cloves into oranges to make aromatic pomanders to place in bowls or hang from the tree.'
- 'They were small 'sacks' containing pomanders, flint and money and were known as 'pockets'.'
- 'Green Fairy on the insanity of pre-Christmas school rituals - Christingles, although I'm sure they were called pomanders.'
Late 15th century: from Old French pome d'embre, from medieval Latin pomum de ambra 'apple of ambergris'.
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Posted on 18 January 2001
- 12:00
Spurs 2-5 Fulham
The under-19s suffered a heavy defeat on Saturday at Spurs Lodge after a promising first half performance.
The side was missing key players Ben Bowditch and John Jackson, who are on England duty, but new recruit Steven Ferguson made his debut for the academy.
Youth coach Michael Stone explained: "We were 2-1 up at half-time and looking quite comfortable. Then there were two goals within three minutes of the second half and we were 3-2 down.
"The goalkeeper made and error and then there was a back-pass which got intercepted — so there were two really sloppy goals. They were gifted to them and our heads went down and we didn't really get back in it.
"We missed the internationals who are away with England, Bowditch and Jackson.
Spurs' goals were scored by Ferguson and Stephen Kelly (pictured). Stone gave this assessment of the new boy: "Impressed with him, he had a good match and worked hard. He is an intelligent player and scored a nice goal."
Spurs U19s: Attwell, Makumbu, Herron (Lacy 65), Kelly, Quilter, Fortune, Snee (Di Giuliantonio 80), Partin, Barnard (Kamanan 76), Ferguson, Burke. Unused subs: Adams, Vedeux.
Watford 2-4 SpursThe under-17s stung the Hornets in the last 30 minutes.
With under-16 players Rakesh Dhal, Dean Newman and Ben Eaton making their competitve debuts at this level, we made a storming start when Dean Galbraith let fly from 30 yards.
But Watford hit back to level from a corner after 22 minutes and take the lead when we were caught pushing up defensively two minutes after the break.
That provided the shock we needed and we dominated from there. Jimmy Lee slotted in at the far post to level and Nicky Wetner tapped in from close range to put us ahead. The same played then sealed it with a fine fourth goal, holding off the last defender before shooting home.
Boss Jimmy Neighbour said: "We made hard work of it but we totally dominated the last half-hour. We deserved the win." The under-17s remain second in the league.
Spurs U17s: Burch, Lee, Dhal (Gardner 78), Henry, O'Donoghue, Galbraith, Hughes, Marney, Thomas, Newman (Wetner 73), Eaton (Noto 71).
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Lullaby Berceuse
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I'm the developer of "EasyTether Pro" app. This app tethers BlackBerry 10 smartphones to Android tablets.
However, BlackBerry World does not allow me to mention the word 'Android' in the app description. If I say "tablets" or "4.x tablets", it is misleading for some users.
Because of this strange policy I cannot mention compatibility in my app description. I get many angry users with angry one-star comments like this:
How about stating compatibility BEFORE enticing people to buy your nearly worthless app? This will only let you tether to android devices, no compatibility with windows, Linux, os x or ios
It's probably working. With Android Tablets only.
I cannot do anything about it. I cannot state compatibility because of stupid BlackBerry World policy.
I've created several tickets, but all these tickets asking BB editors to approve the description, have been denied because of the word "Android"
I've contacted Vendor support twice. The first time I got a reply, that it is their policy, and the competing platform cannot be mentioned. The second reply was that the problem should be fixed, however, the problem still remains.
It is very strange, because BlackBerry itself mentions on its websites the word "Android" quite often. Moreover, BlackBerry has recently announced a section for Android apps.
I home someone from BlackBerry World team is reading this forum and can help me actually solve the problem.
PS. While I was making this forum post, my latest ticket (id 1276700) to approve the word "Android", was again denied. Really?
Welcome to the forums.
This does seem off considering BlackBerry's Android app push of late.
Keep pushing them.
Hello mobilestream,
Please confirm from your end that this is now resolved. Looking at your Description on a device, the Web Store, and the back-end server is now has this compatability mention.
One thing to mention, it looks like the 'Default' Description was not updated to include this information. If a user loads up the Web Store and does not log into their BBID or make any Device Selections, they will see this Default Description. If/when you add that compatability information to the Default Description, let me know and I can push the Ticket through.
Well I think you have to follow policy to get your app in BlackBerry app world. If you have source code with you then you must modify your app and repackaged with BlackBerry android adt tool.. that is best thing you must think of.. well all android developers who have ported their app have changed some text content which hardly take 1-2 hours... happy porting
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Ryan, I confirm that the problem with BB10 description has now been solved, the latest ticket has been approved. Thanks.


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None of the children knew who Aslan was any more than you do; but the moment the Beaver had spoken these words everyone felt quite different. Perhaps it has sometimes happened to you in a dream that someone says something which you don't understand but in the dream it feels as if it had some enormous meaning--either a terrifying one which turns the whole dream into a nightmare or else a lovely meaning too lovely to put into words, which makes the dream so beautiful that you remember it all your life and are always wishing you could get into that dream again. It was like that now. At the name of Aslan each one of the children felt something jump in it's inside. Edmund felt a sensation of mysterious horror. Peter felt suddenly brave and adventurous. Susan felt as if some delicious smell or some delightful strain of music had just floated by her. And Lucy got the feeling you have when you wake up in the morning and realize that it is the beginning of the holidays or the beginning of Summer.
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Psalm 106English Standard Version (ESV)
Give Thanks to the Lord, for He Is Good
106 Praise the Lord!
4 Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people;
6 Both we and our fathers have sinned;
13 But they soon forgot his works;
16 When men in the camp were jealous of Moses
19 They made a calf in Horeb
24 Then they despised the pleasant land,
28 Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor,
32 They angered him at the waters of Meribah,
34 They did not destroy the peoples,
40 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
44 Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress,
47 Save us, O Lord our God,
48 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
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The paper itself was a message. Immaculately white, its edges were as straight as sunbeams, its corners so sharp that they seemed capable of drawing blood. It had arrived with first light at Amarid's Great Hall, Sonel had been informed, delivered by an Abboriji merchant who sailed with it across Arick's Sea, through the Abborij Strait, and around the northeast tip of Tobyn-Ser into Duclea's vast ocean. Yet, despite the distance it had travelled, it still came rolled in a precise, narrow cylinder and tied with a shining, golden ribbon of silk. Indeed, it looked so elegant, so unnaturally perfect, that Sonel had known, even before she read the infuriatingly terse response to her own letter of several months before, what the flawless, ornate lettering would say. She thought now of her own note and she felt embarrassed. She had used the finest parchment in the land; she had employed the most skilled scribe in Amarid, and had tied her letter with the fine, blue satin used for all of the Order's communications. But when compared with this missive from Lon-Ser, the image of that first letter seemed to wither and fade. In her memory the parchment now looked dingy and rough-edged, the lettering coarse and uneven, the blue satin crude and inadequate. The letter from Lon-Ser's leaders made a mockery of her effort.
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Now Baden and his allies had created a similar link in western Tobyn-Ser, smaller to be sure, but, if formed correctly, no less effective than Amarid's. And they had done so without any proper authority. The Order had rejected the reestablishment of the psychic link as an option several times over the past few years, though the issue continued to be a point of bitter contention within the Order. For a time, before the mages learned that outlanders had been responsible for the attacks on Tobyn-Ser, Baden himself had spoken against the link. Later, he switched sides in the debate, but those against the link still prevailed. And now Baden and his friends had gone against the will of the Order. He had no right to do this. Sonel should have been indignant. But her immediate sense of relief and gratitude at learning of what he had done would not allow it.
"You have every right to be angry with us," Baden told her, concern etched in his thin face, his bright blue eyes locked on hers. "With me really; it was my idea. But if Erland and his followers learn of this, it won't matter to them that you weren't involved. You're the one they'll blame."
She allowed herself a smile in response to his earnestness, his dismay at exposing her to this risk when his impulse had always been, had remained even to this day, to protect her. Then she felt her expression harden. "If they learn of your link," she assured him in a tone that would brook no contradiction, "I'll tell them that I knew of it from its inception, and that you had my blessing. Because if I had known, you would have." She paused, gratified to see him smiling at her with equal measures of surprise and pride. "So you'd best fill me in on the details," she added a moment later. "I'll want to be as convincing as possible."
That Trahn and Radomil were involved came as no shock to her. The dark mage from the Great Desert was Baden's closest friend in the world, and Radomil, the portly, goateed Hawk-Mage who served Leora's Forest was, in his own quiet way, as courageous and steadfast in his devotion to the land as any mage she knew. Nor was the Owl-Sage surprised to learn that Jaryd and Alayna had joined them. Jaryd, Baden's nephew, had been the Owl-Master's apprentice. But more than that, both he and Alayna, who had once been Mage-Attend to Sartol, had played a pivotal role thwarting the traitorous mage's plot and defeating the outlanders. Now Sonel fully understood the young mages' decision to serve the Lower Horn rather than returning to Alayna's home near the Abborij Strait or Jaryd's home in Leora's wood.
Sonel was suprised to hear that Orris, Ursel, and Mered had also joined Baden's little conspiracy. Mered tended to avoid political entanglements of any sort, and Ursel, though she had battled the outlanders at Phelan Spur and was closely allied with Orris and the other younger mages, had never seemed to Sonel the type to take such a bold step. And then there was Orris himself. True, the burly mage travelled with Baden, Trahn, Jaryd, and Alayna to Theron's Grove, and stood with Baden and Trahn against Sartol when the renegade accused the three of them of treason and murder. But Orris and Baden had never gotten along, and they often found themselves on opposing sides of the Order's most acrimonious debates. Even after all that had happened during the struggle against Sartol and the outlanders, Sonel found it difficult to think of them as allies.
"It's an uneasy alliance," Baden admitted when she asked him about the burly Hawk-Mage, "but Orris has grown quite close to Jaryd and Alayna, and he and Trahn have always had a good rapport."
"So that's why he agreed to work with you," Sonel ventured.
Baden shook his head in response. "He's doing it because he believes it's the right thing to do. I've never me anyone who takes his oath to serve this land more seriously than Orris."
Sonel considered this in silence for several moments, glancing at the two owls that sat perched together on the window sill across the room. She still had not gotten used to seeing Baden with his new familiar, though he had been bound to the creature for over three years. His owl resembled the bird to which Jessamyn, Sonel's predecessor as Owl-Sage, had been bound. She was an imposing bird, a good deal larger than Sonel's familiar, with feathers as white as snow, and bright, yellow eyes in a round face. After some time Sonel looked back at Baden, her mind turning once more to the Lon-Ser threat. "You've seen nothing, then? No sign of the outlanders?"
"No sign."
Yet. He didn't actually say it, but he didn't have to. It was manifest in his tone, in the shadows lurking in his eyes. They would be coming.
The Owl-Master seemed to read her thoughts. "We're keeping watch, but that's all. Certainly we've done nothing to prevent the next attack."
Sonel let out a long breath. "I know. I've been considering calling the Order back to Amarid."
The question caught her off guard. "To discuss our options; to come up with a plan for dealing with Lon-Ser."
"What makes you think that we'll have any more success than we did at Midsummer?"
"What are you saying?" she demanded irritably. "That we should continue to do nothing? That we should just wait for them to come after us again?"
"I'm just wondering," the Owl-Master countered in a quiet, even tone, "why you need to convene another Gathering. You're the Owl-Sage; you lead the Order. I don't think you need to get prior approval for every thing you do in that capacity." He smiled, the dazzling, disarming smile she had come to know so well over the years. "It's just a thought."
Sitting now in her chamber, with the tea and breads before her, she allowed herself a smile of her own at the memory of that last comment. Just a thought. Nothing Baden ever said could be dismissed so easily, and this particular thought stayed with her for the next several days, tugging at the corner of her mind like an insistent child, demanding attention. It was not until a week later, however, when a second visitor came to her chambers bearing news, that Baden's suggestion and her own frustration with the Order's inaction crystallized into a decision to draft her letter.
It was one of those grey, cold autumn days that presages winter's approach, and Sonel had been wrapped tightly in her forest green cloak, with her chair set before the hearth and her long legs folded beneath her, when Basya knocked on the chamber door and announced the caller. Twice the Owl-Sage had to ask her servant to repeat the name of her guest, and even after hearing it for a third time, Sonel was not sure she believed it. But a moment later, Linnea, the highest authority among the Keepers of Arick's Temple in all the land, Eldest of the Gods, as she was properly addressed, swept into the Owl-Sage's chambers, her silver-grey robe swirling impressively around her bulky frame.
As a young girl, Sonel had trained briefly as an acolyte in the Temple near her home, and, as she often did in the presence of the Keepers, she found herself having to resist an immediate impulse to fall to her knees in obeisance. Instead she rose from her chair, smiling broadly, her arms open in welcome. As the Eldest stopped before her, she bowed just slightly, enough to show proper respect for the Temple and Linnea's position within it, but not so much that Sonel compromised the standing of the Order and her own status as its leader. Such was the delicate balance that leaders of the Order had been striking in their interaction with the Children of the Gods for nearly a millennium. Ever since Amarid's emergence as a powerful figure in Tobyn-Ser, relations between the two institutions had not been easy. From the beginning, the Temples had distrusted the wild magic of Amarid's Children and had seen the mages and masters as threats to their authority. Where the Order could offer Tobyn-Ser's people healing from disease and injury, and protection from the land's enemies, the Temples could offer only lore and faith. The Sons and Daughters of the Gods had found themselves unable to compete with the wielders of the Mage-Craft, and their influence had waned. And though the Order had done nothing over to confirm their suspicions or undermine their power, neither had the mages gone out of their way to cultivate an alliance with the Keepers, an oversight the God's children had taken as an affront.
Over the last several years, the Order had paid the price of that provocation. With the attacks on Tobyn-Ser by outlanders posing as mages, and the Order's slow response to that threat, the people of Tobyn-Ser had grown increasingly disenchanted with the Mage-Craft and had begun to turn back to the Temples for leadership. Bloodied and humiliated, the mages had hoped that their victory over the attackers at Phelan Spur would help them win back the people's esteem. But it had not. Indeed, any good will that might have been garnered from this success was more than offset by Baden's legitimate but unpopular insistence that Baram, the surviving outlander, be imprisoned and interrogated, rather than executed as the people had demanded. Not surprisingly, the Temples had revelled in the mages' fall from favor and had hastened their own resurgence by leading both the criticism of the Order's response to the attacks and the calls for Baram's death. The relationship between the Children of Amarid and the Children of the Gods had never been so strained; Sonel had not believed that it could possibly get any worse.
And yet it had. Soon after Sonel's ascension to the position of Sage, Raina, Tobyn-Ser's Eldest for more than a decade, died, and the Keepers chose Linnea to take her place. Where Raina had been as accommodating and cordial as one could hope, Linnea had a reputation for confrontation and hostility toward the Order. Because she was relatively young, the "Eldest" in title only, Baden and Trahn speculated that she had been selected for just this reason. And in the months and years that followed, Linnea proved them right, taking advantage of every opportunity to remind the people of the land of the Order's failures.
Even as she greeted the Eldest on that grey afternoon, with all the graciousness she could muster, Sonel could not help but wonder why Linnea had come. "Eldest," the Sage had said, still smiling, "be welcome in the Great Hall. You honor me with this unexpected visit." The Owl-Sage turned toward the doorway where her attendant still stood, staring at the two women with unconcealed curiosity. "Basya," she called in a commanding tone, forcing the young woman to mind her duties, "please bring us some fresh tea and something to eat."
Basya flushed slightly and nodded. "Right away, Owl-Sage."
Linnea watched the attendant withdraw, a sardonic grin on her broad, pale face. "Impertinent, isn't she?" the Eldest remarked when Basya was gone, a breezy arrogance in her voice.
"I wouldn't call her impertinent," Sonel replied, fighting to keep the anger from her voice. She motioned for Linnea to sit in the chair nearest her own. "She's just young, and easily impressed."
Still lowering herself into the chair, the Eldest stiffened and opened her mouth to fling back a retort of her own. But then, surprisingly, she appeared to think better of it. And as she settled herself into the seat, awkwardly smoothing her robe with a meaty hand and nervously shifting her gaze around the chamber, Sonel wondered again why she had come. "You are well, I presume?" Linnea asked perfunctorily, her pale, blue eyes finally coming to rest on Sonel's face.
"Yes, Eldest, thank you. And you?"
"Yes, fine." And then, as an afterthought, "Thank you." The large woman continued to fidget with her shimmering robe for several moments until, at last, she seemed to gather her resolve with a deep, slow breath. "Owl-Sage," she began, surprising Sonel with the use of her formal title, "I have come today seeking your--"
A knock on the door stopped her, and Basya entered the chamber carrying a crystal tray of fruits, cheeses, and dry breads, and a pot of steaming shan tea. With quick, economical movements the young woman placed the tray on the low table between the Sage and the Eldest and poured out two cups of tea, seemingly unaware that Linear was following her every move with manifest impatience.
"Thank you, Bays," Some said when the girl was done. "That will be all."
Bays nodded and left, quietly closing the chamber door behind her.
The Eldest appeared to consider offering another comment on Basya's manners. But instead she took another breath in an attempt to regain her composure, and began once more, her tone somewhat less subdued than it had been a minute before, and her eyes fixed on her hands. "As I was saying, I've come seeking your…advice," she said, with obvious discomfort, "on a matter of some sensitivity." Linnea was full of surprises this day.
"Of course, Eldest," Sonel replied. "Whatever guidance I can offer is yours, and with it, a pledge of my discretion."
The Keeper looked up at that and inclined her head slightly in acknowledgement. "You remember Cailin?"
"Of course," Sonel answered, her tone suddenly flat. An image of the young girl flashed into the Sage's mind. Her straight, dark hair; the beautiful open face; the pale, blue eyes, much like those of the woman who now sat with Sonel in her quarters. And the sadness that had resided in those eyes. For Cailin was the lone survivor of the massacre at Kaera.
During one night of blood and flame and terror, this child had seen her village utterly destroyed, and her parents, her friends, every person she knew in the world slaughtered by two men posing as mages. She had been quite literally, the only shred of Kaera that they had left intact. And she had lived only because the outlanders had chosen her to be their messenger, so that she might be an agent of their campaign to destroy the Order.
In the aftermath of all this, the girl had been brought back to Amarid where the Order assumed responsibility for her upbringing. But Cailin continued to blame the Children of Amarid for her parents' deaths, even after it had been explained to her several times that the men who destroyed her town had only been pretending to be mages. When several of the Keepers came from Arick's Temple demanding that Cailin be placed in their care, Sonel refused. But she could not refuse Cailin's own request that she be allowed to leave the Great Hall. In the end, Sonel found herself forced to give the girl over to the Keepers, who wasted no time in making Cailin a symbol of both their own redemption and the Order's inability to protect Tobyn-Ser.
"Of course I remember her," Sonel said again. "How old is she now? Ten?"
Linnea nodded absently. "I think so. Yes, ten."
"Is she all right?"
"Naturally she's all right!" the Eldest snapped, her eyes flashing, and her round face growing red. "The Keepers vowed that we would care for her! Do you doubt our word? Or do you think perhaps that we lack the compassion necessary to raise a child?"
"Neither, Eldest," Sonel responded soothingly. "I meant no offense. You have come here seeking my advice and asking if I remember Cailin. In what way was my inquiry inappropriate?"
Linnea closed her eyes and said nothing. After some time she managed a slight grin and shook her head. "There was nothing wrong with your question, Owl-Sage. This is…difficult for me." She opened her eyes. "Please accept my apology."
"Of course," Sonel assured her, returning the smile. "Now, please, tell me about Cailin."
"She is a fine child: still beautiful, as you no doubt recall her being, and clever. She excels in her studies. She loves to read, but she's good with numbers as well. And she's as strong and nimble as any of the boys in the Temple." Linnea wore a wistful smile as she spoke, and it occurred to Sonel in that moment that the Eldest genuinely cared for the girl. In the next instant, however, Linnea's smile fled from her lips, and her gaze turned inward. "There is, as one might expect, a sadness to her. But it's strange-it can materialize almost instantly, under any circumstances. One minute she will be laughing, or speaking with passion of the latest story she's read, and the next she'll grow silent and a darkness will come into her eyes." The Keeper shook her head slowly and took a sip of tea. "More recently, these bouts of melancholy have been accompanied by a rebelliousness that we hadn't seen before."
"And this is why you've come," Sonel guessed, brushing a wisp of light hair from her smooth brow.
Linnea smiled wanly and shook her head again. "I've dealt with a child's temper tantrums before, Owl-Sage," she said evenly. "If it were just that, I wouldn't be here."
"So there's more."
"Yes." The Eldest hesitated, but only for a second. "There's no delicate way to approach this, so I'll just say it: for more than a year now Cailin has shown signs of possessing the Sight. We considered coming to you then, but thought better of it. Last month, though, she bound to a falcon. She's a mage."
Sonel couldn't have been more shocked if Linnea had said that she herself had bound to a hawk. But the Sage's astonishment gave way almost instantly to rage and indignation. For more than a year? Last month? "The Order should have been informed immediately!" she stormed, hurling it at the Eldest like an accusation.
"I'm informing you now!" Linnea returned hotly.
Sonel propelled her lanky frame out of the chair and began pacing in front of the hearth. "I want her returned to the Great Hall at once!"
Linnea glared at the Owl-Sage defiantly. "I won't allow it!"
"You must!"
"I won't! And neither will Cailin!"
"You don't know that," Sonel replied, less sure of herself.
"Yes, I do," the large woman told her, seeming to sense the Owl-Sage's uncertainty. "You still haven't heard everything, Sonel."
The Sage halted in front of the Eldest and crossed her arms in front of her chest as if to shield her heart from a blow. "Tell me," she demanded.
Linnea swallowed. "Whatever you might think of us, know this: we are not stupid, and we do not underestimate the power that you wield. While we will not give Cailin over to your custody, neither would we allow her to use the Mage-Craft as she would a toy. We have instructed her in the ways of the Order and explained Amarid's Laws to her." Another pause, and then: "She has refused to submit herself to them."
"What?" Sonel hissed. "You can't be serious!"
"I'm afraid I am. She still blames the Order for the death of her parents--"
"Yes!" Sonel spat, "I'm sure you saw to that a long time ago!"
Linnea shot to her feet, her round cheeks flushed with anger once more, and she leveled a rigid finger at the Owl-Sage. "You can't place this on me, Sonel! The Order brought this poor girl's hatred upon itself!"
"We didn't kill her parents or destroy her town! You know we didn't, and yet you perpetuate these lies!"
"We never accused the Order of attacking Kaera," the Eldest countered, her voice suddenly low, her choler under control for the moment. "We would never have said such a thing." Sonel started to protest, but Linnea stopped her with an abrupt gesture. "Let me finish! We never accused you of murdering Cailin's parents, but we have held you responsible for the promises you failed to keep. You mages have pledged yourselves to guarding this land, and you've enjoyed a thousand years of reverence due in large part to the success of your forebears in honoring that pledge. But the Order as we know it now, the Order that Cailin has come to know in her few years upon this earth, has proven itself incapable of protecting the people of Tobyn-Ser. Cailin doesn't think you killed her parents--oh, she did for a time, but she's understood for several years now that it was the outlanders posing as mages--but she blames you for allowing this to happen. And, quite frankly, so do I." Linnea started to say more, but then she stopped herself. She was breathing hard. The fierce anger in her pale eyes was gone, leaving something else, something unexpected. Not self-righteousness, or exultation at the Owl-Sage's discomfort, but pain.
Sonel had no answer, either for the Eldest's words or for the look in the heavy woman's eyes. She and Baden had been saying much the same thing about the Order for nearly four years; she could hardly fault Linnea for speaking the truth. There was a dryness in her mouth, like dust or ashes, and she took a long drink of tea. She felt spent, and, when finally she spoke, it was in a voice scraped raw by the emotions of the afternoon. "So you want to know what you can do about Cailin?" she asked. "How you can control her power?"
"Actually," the Sage began, again brushing the strands of hair from her forehead, "there's very little that you can do. We police our own; the collective power of all the mages in the Order keeps the individual in line--that, and the oath we take upon earning our cloaks. There's nothing really magical about Amarid's Laws; there's no power in the words themselves beyond the honor and scruples that each mage brings to them. From what you've told me of her, I would expect Cailin to be bound to the spirit of the Laws by her strength of character, even without taking the oath."
"I would hope so," Linnea agreed thoughtfully.
"The danger lies in her age, and the rebelliousness of which you spoke. So young a child, regardless of her normal disposition, might be subject to fits of anger. That's where you'll have to be careful--you'll have to teach her to control her temper. And I don't even want to think of what you'll face as she enters her adolescence." The Sage shook her head slowly and stroked the chin of her owl, which sat perched above the hearth. The bird opened its eyes and began to preen itself. "I've never heard of anyone binding so young," Sonel murmured, as much to herself as to the Eldest. "You say it was to a falcon?"
"A small one, yes. A kestrel, I believe."
Again, the Sage shook her head. "Remarkable."
"Is there anything more that you can tell me, Owl-Sage?" Linnea asked, rising from her chair with a rustle of cloth.
"Not much, I'm afraid. Frankly, I would feel much better with Cailin in the Great Hall, under our supervision, but I will accept what you say: that she would not agree to such an arrangement. Short of that, I would just tell you to raise her as you have been. To the extent that it's possible, you should treat her just as you would the other children. She shouldn't feel overly special, nor should she be given reason to believe that she's feared." Sonel took a slow breath and offered Linnea a thin smile. "I don't envy you this task, Eldest. But if there's anything more you need from me, don't hesitate to ask."
The Keeper gazed at her for a moment. Then she nodded once. "Thank you, Sonel. I'll keep you apprised of Cailin's progress." She began to leave, but, as she reached the door, she paused. At last she turned and faced Sonel again. "I don't know if you'll believe this, Sonel, particularly coming from me. But we in the Temple didn't wish for the Order to fail. Certainly, we've taken advantage of your loss of prestige, and I make no apology for that. But we know that, ultimately, Tobyn-Ser will be served best by a strong Temple and a strong Order working side by side. I personally look forward to a day when that will be possible."
Caught off guard by the Eldest's admission, Sonel stared at her for several seconds. Linnea seemed sincere in what she had said, but still the Owl-Sage found it difficult to accept that such sentiments could come from this woman. In the end, she merely nodded in acknowledgement and said, with as much feeling as she could muster, "I look forward to such a day as well, Eldest."
Without another word, the Keeper departed. Listening to the sound of Linnea's footsteps retreating across the Gathering Chamber, Sonel came to a decision. Notwithstanding the accommodating words with which Sonel and the Eldest had concluded their encounter, the frayed relations between the Order and the Temples would not be easy to repair, nor would the reputation of Amarid's Children be rehabilitated overnight. But the Order had done nothing for too long. And now, in Arick's Temple just a few miles outside this city, a ten-year-old girl was mastering the Mage-Craft with no mage to guide her. The time had come.
Moving to the folding wooden desk by her bed, Sonel took up parchment and writing lead, and began composing an unauthorized letter to Lon-Ser's Council of Sovereigns. Since her conversation with Baden, the Owl-Sage had given a good deal of thought to what she would say in such a correspondence, and the words came to her easily.
To the Council of Sovereigns:
I write to you as a representative of the people of To-byn-Ser and as the leader of this land's Order of Mages and Masters.
Nearly four years ago a band of Lon-Ser's citizens entered our land and, in the guise of mages, began a campaign of vandalism and violence against our people. Although we eventually succeeded in defeating these invaders, killing all but one of them, their actions resulted in considerable loss of property and life.
We seek no compensation for the crimes committed against us, but we do wish to avoid future hostilities. To this end, I propose a meeting, at a place and time of mutual satisfaction, to discuss the events I have described and any outstanding conflicts that may exist between our peoples.
We did not seek this conflict, nor do we wish to prolong it. But know this: our desire for peace is matched by our determination to remain free.
In friendship I am yours,
Owl-Sage of Tobyn-Ser
By the end of the following day, the letter had been scribed and sent. Sonel told no one, not even Baden, who, having said what he needed to say that night in her bed, never broached the subject again. Nor did she speak with anyone of her conversation with Linnea. Cailin's binding, she decided on that autumn evening, was a matter to be broached at a Gathering of the whole Order.
And so, silently bearing the burden of her secrets, she waited. Through the cold snows and wind of winter, and the grey, damp chill of the rainy season, she struggled to control both her fears and her hopes, all the while watching for acolytes of the Temple, who occasionally brought her news of Cailin, and anxiously anticipating a response from LonSer. As the last of the rains blew off to the east, however, and the warmth of the growing spring gave way to summer, Sonel's anticipation gave way to a dark foreboding. In the winter she had looked forward to the arrival of each new merchant ship, thinking that perhaps this one would bare the Council's reply, but she now came to dread the dockages and the grim vigils she found herself keeping for several hours after each ship began to unload.
Thus it seemed an irony that on this, the day before midsummer, the reply should arrive at dawn, coming from a vessel that had docked late in the night, as she slept. It was small consolation, given what the letter contained. Or, more exactly, what it didn't contain. Smoothing the radiant white paper with a careful hand, Sonel read the message one last time. Such a letter was worse than no reply at all, she realized despairingly, because now she had no idea what to do.
For the third time that morning, Basya tapped lightly on the door, and, for a moment, the Sage gave no answer. Then, reluctantly, she rose. There would be visitors soon, she knew: mages and masters arriving in Amarid and making their way to the Great Hall to offer greetings and to try to divine her mind on their dearest issues. It was a ritual of sorts; as much a part of the Gathering as the Opening Procession, as much a part of her duties as calling the mages to order. She still recalled with fondness her own audiences with Jessamyn, when she had been just another mage and Jessamyn led the Order, and she found herself wondering if the diminutive, white-haired woman's cordial hospitality had served as but a cover for burdens as great as her own. "Of course it did," Sonel said out loud as she raised an arm for her dark owl. "Why should I think that I'm any different?" The bird flew to her, hopped up to her shoulder, and regarded her in silence.
Another knock, a bit louder this time. "Yes, Basya," Sonel called, with forced brightness. "You may enter."
The young woman opened the door tentatively and seemed surprised to see that Sonel had risen from her chair. "I'm sorry to disturb you. Owl-Sage, but you have visitors"
Sonel smiled reassuringly. The girl was, after all, merely doing her job. "You're not disturbing me, Basya. Please show them in."
"Right away, Owl-Sage."
Sonel saw the girl turn and motion, heard voices drawing near, and, as she did, she remembered the piece of immaculate paper that she still held in her hand. Quickly, unobtrusively, she concealed the Council of Sovereign's letter within the folds of her cloak. There would be plenty of time for such matters over the course of the Gathering. This was a day for welcomes, and friendships renewed. As her first guests reached her door, however, a thought occurred to her: if sending a letter did not get the attention of Lon-Ser's leaders, perhaps sending a group of envoys would.
Copyright © 1998 by David B. Coe
David B. Coe, winner of the William L. Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy or Fantasy Series for the LonTobyn Chronicle, is the author of Rules of Ascension, the first Winds of the Forelands novel. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee with his wife and daughters.
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Lot 558: Four Asian Figures Of Deities
Annual Holiday Fine Estates Auction
by Schwenke Auctioneers
December 4, 2016
Woodbury, CT, USALive Auction
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Description: Four Asian figures of deities comprising two cast gilt metal kneeling figures, a goddess and a lacquer and wood miniature traveling shrine. Largest: 8 3/4" high, 2 1/2" wide. Smallest: 4 1/4" high, 2 1/2" wide.
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