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Privacy Policy and Consent
- 1. Objective and responsible body
- 2. Basic principles and details of data processing
- 3. Data security
- 4. Transferring your personal data to other countries
- 5. User rights
- 6. Retention of your data
- 7. Changes to the privacy policy
- 8. Collection of access data (log files)
- 9. Newsletters and consent
- 10. Cookies & reach measurement
- 11. Google Analytics
- 12. Analytical software Hotjar
- 13. Google-Re/Marketing-Services
- 14. Facebook Social Plugins
- 15. Facebook Remarketing
1. Objective and responsible body
This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which any personal data that we collect in respect of users via or in connection with our website (www.outdoorresearch.com) or that you provide to us will be processed by us. The Privacy Policy applies regardless of the domains, systems, platforms, and devices (such as desktop or mobile) used to access the website.
The provider of the website and the data controller of personal data collected via the website are Outdoor Research Inc., located at 2203 1st Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98134 - 1424, USA and SCOTT Corporation SA, located at Route du Crochet 17, CH - 1762 Givisiez, Switzerland ("we" or "us"). You can email us at [email protected].
The terms "user" and "you" covers all customers of and visitors to our website.
2. Basic principles and details of data processing
We process personal data of users in accordance with applicable data protection laws and regulations. This means that the personal data of users is processed only when there is a lawful basis for processing, as follows. Where you place an order for products via the website or make an enquiry with us, the processing is necessary for the performance of that contract or in order to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
We may also process the data for the purpose of our legitimate interests which may include:
- administering, improving and optimizing our website and internal operations (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes);
- ensuring effective customer service and technical support.
Where we have your consent, we may use personal data that has been collected by cookies and we may use your personal data to send marketing communications (such as our newsletter) to you (as applicable depending on the consents you have provided). You may withdraw your consent at any time, but this will not affect the lawfulness of any data processing carried out on the basis of your consent before it was withdrawn.
We pass on users' personal data to third parties if this is necessary for billing purposes (for example, to a payment service provider) or for other purposes necessary to meet our contractual obligations towards customers. This includes the transmission of customer data contained in orders to the local retailer selected by the customer to assist in fulfilment of an order and to our group companies, including SCOTT Sports SA, for the purpose of providing customer support and order fulfilment. We may also pass your personal data on to our other suppliers (including those set out in more detail below).
We are entitled to provide information on the personal data we process, and to provide access to that personal data, to law enforcement or emergency response agencies in accordance with applicable law, and to process data where necessary in order for us to comply with our legal obligations.
When contacting us (for example using a contact form or email), the user's data is stored for the purposes of processing the inquiry and in the event that questions arise.
Further details about the purposes for which we process your information, how we process your information and who your information is disclosed to are set out below.
3. Data security
We put in place organizational, contractual and technical security measures that correspond to the latest technology, in order to ensure compliance with applicable data protection laws, and to ensure that the data processed by us are protected against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons.
4. Transferring your personal data to other countries
In order for Outdoor Research Inc. resp. SCOTT Corporation SA to process your order resp. your demand, we will transfer your personal data to, and store your personal data in, other countries, including countries outside the European Economic Area ("EEA").
We will transfer your personal data to Switzerland, which is where SCOTT Corporation SA is based. If you have signed up for our newsletter, we may transfer your personal data to Maropost Inc in Canada, who administers this on our behalf. The European Commission has made a finding of adequacy in respect of Switzerland and Canada, which means that the European Commission is satisfied that these countries ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data.
If we transfer your personal data to any other third party located in any country outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and the European Commission has not made a finding of adequacy in respect of that country (for example, the US), we will take such steps and put such safeguards in place as are reasonably required in order to ensure your personal data and your rights in respect of your personal data are sufficiently protected. For example, we will enter data processing agreements with third parties who process personal data on our behalf and where required we will ensure that this agreement is on the terms set out in the European Union's model contract for exporting personal data to a data processor located outside the EEA (available here).
By submitting your personal data to us and/or using our website, you agree to this transfer, storing and processing.
5. User rights
Upon request, you are entitled to receive information free of charge about your personal data that we process.
You also have the right to require rectification of inaccurate data held about you, request the deletion of your personal data, assert your rights to the portability of your personal data, restrict or object to processing of your data, and file a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority in the event of the suspicion of unlawful data processing.
You may at any time withdraw any consent to processing that you have provided, but this will not affect the lawfulness of any data processing carried out on the basis of your consent before it was withdrawn.
6. Retention of your data
The data stored with us are deleted as soon as they have served their purpose and to the extent that there is no statutory retention requirement.
7. Changes to the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change the Privacy Policy in order to adapt it to changes to the law or to changes to the website or our data processing. However, this only applies to declarations concerning data processing. If user consent is required or if the Privacy Policy contains provisions setting out the contractual relationship with the user, then the changes will only be made with the consent of the user.
Users are therefore requested to keep themselves regularly informed about the content, in particular when they provide further personal information.
8. Collection of access data (log files)
We automatically collect information every time you access our website. We collect data on each request for access to the server on which our website is hosted (server log files). The access data includes the name of the retrieved web page, file, date and time of retrieval, transmitted data volume, notification of successful retrieval, browser type and version, the user's operating system, referrer URL (the site used prior to this visit), IP address and the requesting provider.
We will usually process the log data on an anonymous basis, without reference to other information identifying the relevant user or any other creation of a profile and only for statistical evaluations for the purposes of the operation, security and optimization of our website. However, we reserve the right to check the log data at a later date and to use this data with other information which may identify a user, if we have reasonable grounds to suspect unlawful use or activity.
9. Newsletters and consent
We send newsletters, emails and other electronic notifications with promotional information, which we will collectively refer to as "newsletters", only with the consent of the recipient. If you subscribe to our newsletters, you agree to receive the newsletters.
In addition, we may ask if you would like to receive emails from our local retailers (for example with information about the sporting goods market, their offers and companies).
We keep a record of registrations for our newsletters in order to demonstrate that the registration process is in accordance with legal requirements. This includes the storage of the login and confirmation time as well as the IP address.
Newsletters are sent by "Maropost," a marketing platform provided by Maropost Inc., 155 University Ave Suite 1900 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3B7, Canada.
The email addresses of our newsletter recipients, as well as their other data described in this section 9, are stored on the servers of Maropost in Canada. Maropost uses this information to send and evaluate the newsletters on our behalf. In addition, Maropost may use this information to optimize or improve its own services, such as for the technical optimization of the dispatch and the presentation of the newsletters or for financial purposes, in order to determine the recipients' countries of residence. However, Maropost does not use the data of our newsletter recipients in order to write to them, and it does not forward the data to third parties.
We trust in the reliability as well as the IT and data security of Maropost, and we have concluded a "data processing agreement" with Maropost. This is a contract that obligates Maropost to protect the data of our users, to process it on our behalf according to their data protection obligations and, in particular, not to forward it to third parties. You can view Maropost's Privacy Policy here: http://www.maropost.com/privacy-policy/
To register for newsletters, all you have to do is provide your email address. We also ask for your first and last name, which is optional. This information is merely for the personalization of the newsletter. We only use this information to adapt the content of newsletters to the interests of our readers.
Statistical survey and analysis - The newsletters contain a "web beacon", which is a pixel-sized file that is retrieved from the Maropost server when the newsletter is opened. As part of this retrieval, technical information is collected, such as that regarding the browser and your system as well as your IP address and the time of retrieval. This information is collected for the technical improvement of the service on the basis of the technical data or the target groups and their reading behavior on the basis of their retrieval locations (which can be determined using the IP address) or the access times.
Statistical surveys also include determining whether newsletters have been opened, when they are opened and which links are clicked. This information can be assigned to individual newsletter recipients for technical reasons. However, neither we nor Maropost are attempting to observe individual users. The evaluations help us recognize the reading habits of our users and adapt our content to them or to send different content according to their interests.
Online Access and data management - There are cases where we direct newsletter recipients to Maropost websites. For example, our newsletter contains a link with which the newsletter recipients can access newsletters online (for example, in the case of display problems with the email program). In addition, newsletter recipients may subsequently correct their data, such as the email address, on a Maropost website and if a user wishes to view Maropost's Privacy Policy this is only available on its website.
In this context, please note that Maropost's websites use cookies, and so if you visit a Maropost website your personal data may be processed by Maropost, its partners and service providers (such as Google Analytics). We have no influence on this data collection. Please refer to Maropost's Privacy Policy for further information. We would also like to point out the opportunities to raise objections against data collection for advertising purposes on the websites http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ (for the European area).
Unsubscribing from the newsletter - If you wish to receive the newsletter, your consent to all the processing set out in this section 9 will be required. However, you may unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time, meaning you may revoke your consent, and in such event your consent to receiving the newsletter, having your data sent via Maropost and the statistical analyses, will all simultaneously expire.
You will find a link to unsubscribe from the newsletter at the end of each newsletter. Alternatively, you may contact us at [email protected].
10. Cookies & reach measurement
Cookies are information transmitted by our web server or the web servers of third parties to users' devices that are stored there for later retrieval. We use these cookies in order to allow you to use certain parts of the website and to track your activities on the website, which helps us to familiarize ourselves with your preferences, to target marketing at you and to improve your use of the website.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies - These cookies enable services you have specifically asked for. These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without using these cookies, services you have asked for such as shopping baskets or e-billing cannot be provided.
- Analytical or Performance Cookies - These cookies collect anonymous information on the pages that you have visited. These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, how they move around our website and if they get error messages from webpages. These cookies do not collect data that personally identifies any user. These cookies help us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality Cookies - These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience. These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. They allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features such as greeting you by name. They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of our website that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked us for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Targeting or Advertising Cookies - These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and links you have followed. They are used to deliver adverts which are more relevant to you and your interests. These cookies are also placed by third parties (including advertising networks) with our permission. These cookies remember that you have visited our website and the pages you have visited, and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers and may be used to deliver adverts to you on third party websites or applications based on your online activity.
In most cases, the use of our website is possible without cookies. However, we would like to point out that if cookies are rejected, then the functionality of the website may be restricted and you may not have access to some features. If users do not want cookies to be stored on their computer, they are requested to disable the corresponding option in their browser settings. Stored cookies can be deleted in the browser settings. Cookies are not used for purposes other than those mentioned on this page.
You can manage many online ad cookies from companies via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/.
11. Google Analytics
To collect "clickstream" data (such as IP address, date and time of the visit, reference URL, the pages visited on our website, and information about the browser being used) we use Google Analytics and Google Optimize, a web analysis service from Google Inc. ("Google"). Google uses cookies, text files that are stored on users' devices and which allow an analysis of the use of the website. The information generated by the cookie and the use of the website by users are generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Google uses this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of the website by users in order to compile reports on the activities within the website and to provide additional services related to the use of the website as well as Internet usage. Pseudonymous usage profiles of the users can therefore be created from the processed data.
We only use Google Analytics / Optimize with IP anonymization enabled. This means that the IP addresses of the users are abbreviated by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the US and abbreviated there.
The IP address transmitted by the user's browser is not merged with other data from Google. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; users may also block the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the website for Google, as well as the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available using the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
For further information on Google's use of the data for advertising purposes, settings and opportunities to raise objections, please refer to Google's website: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/ ("How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps"), http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads ("Data usage for advertising purposes"), http://www.google.com/settings/ads ("Control the information Google uses to show you ads") and http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ ("Make the ads you see more useful to you").
12. Analytical software Hotjar
To analyse the consumer behavior (such as clicks, taps and scrolling behavior) we use inter alia Hotjar, an analytical software from Hotjar Ltd. ("Hotjar"), Level 2, St Julian's Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian's STJ 1000, Malta. Hotjar uses cookies, tracking codes and text files that are stored on users' devices and which allow an analysis of the use of the website. The information generated by the tracking code and the cookie about the consumer behavior on the website by users are generally transferred to a Hotjar server in Ireland and stored there.
Hotjar uses this information on our behalf to evaluate the consumer behavior on the website by users in order to compile reports on the activities within the website Pseudonymous usage profiles of the users can therefore be created from the processed data.
We only use Hotjar with IP anonymization enabled. This means that the IP addresses of the users are abbreviated by Hotjar within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the European Economic Area.
The IP address transmitted by the user's browser is not merged with other data from Hotjar. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; users may also block the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the website for Hotjar, as well as the processing of such data by Hotjar by following up the instructions according to following link https://www.hotjar.com/opt-out. For further information on Hotjar's use of the data please refer to Hotjar's website: http://www.hotjar.com.
13. Google Marketing and Remarketing services
We use the marketing and remarketing services ("Google Marketing Services") of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google").
Google Marketing Services allow us to display targeted advertisements for and on our website, in order to show users only those ads that potentially meet their interests. If users are shown ads for products for which they have shown interest on other websites, this is referred to as "remarketing". For these purposes, when our website and other websites are called up on which Google Marketing Services are active, a code is executed directly by Google, and (re)marketing tags (invisible graphics or code, also known as "web beacons") are incorporated into the website. With their help, an individual cookie, i.e. a small file, is stored on the device (instead of cookies, comparable technologies can be used). The cookies can be set by various domains, including google.com, doubleclick.net, invitemedia.com, admeld.com, googlesyndication.com and googleadservices.com. In this file it is recorded which web pages the user has visited, the contents in which he/she is interested and the offers he/she has clicked, as well as technical information on the browser and operating system, referring websites, visit time and further information on the use of the online offer. The IP address of the users is also recorded (for further information about the processing of IP addressees by Google, see section 11 above).
User data is pseudonymously processed within the framework of Google Marketing Services. This means that Google does not store and process the names or email addresses of the users, but processes the relevant cookie-related data within pseudonymous user profiles. This means, from Google's perspective, that the ads are not managed and displayed for a specifically identified person, but for the cookie owner, regardless of who this cookie owner is. This does not apply if a user has explicitly permitted Google to process the data without this pseudonymization. The information collected by "DoubleClick" about users is transmitted to Google and stored on Google's servers in the USA.
The Google Marketing Services we use include the online advertising program "Google AdWords". In the case of Google AdWords, each AdWords customer receives a different "conversion cookie". Thus cookies cannot be tracked through AdWords customers' websites. The information collected using the cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. AdWords customers see the total number of users who have clicked on their ad and have been redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that allows users to be personally identified.
We include third-party advertising via the Google marketing services "DoubleClick" and "AdSense". DoubleClick and AdSense use cookies that facilitate the display of online ads for Google and its partner websites based on visits from users to the website or other sites.
Another Google Marketing service we use is "Google Tag Manager," which allows further Google analysis and marketing services to be included in our website (such as "AdWords," "DoubleClick" or "Google Analytics").
For more information on Google's use of data for marketing purposes, see the overview page: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/, Google's Privacy Policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
If you want to opt out of Google Marketing Services, then you can use Google's set-up and opt-out options: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.
14. Facebook Social Plugins
Our website uses social plugins from the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook"). The plugins are recognizable by the Facebook logo (white "f" on a blue tile, the terms "like" or "thumbs up") or are marked with "Facebook Social Plugin". The list and the look of the Facebook Social Plugins can be viewed here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
If a user calls up a function of the website that contains such a plugin, then his/her device establishes a direct connection to Facebook's servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from Facebook to the user's device and integrated into the website. We thus have no influence on the extent of the data that are collected by Facebook with the help of this plug-in.
Through the integration of the plugins, Facebook receives the information that a user has accessed our website. If the user is logged in to Facebook, then Facebook can assign the visit to his/her Facebook account. If users interact with the plugins, for example press the Like button or comment, then the corresponding information is sent from their device directly to Facebook and stored there. If a user does not have a Facebook account, it is still possible that Facebook will find and save his/her IP address.
The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook, as well as the rights and settings for user privacy protection, can be found in the Facebook privacy notice: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
If a user is a Facebook member and does not want Facebook to collect data about him/her through this website, and to link to his/her member data stored on Facebook, then he/she must log out of Facebook before using our website and delete his/her cookies. Further settings on and objections to the use of data for advertising purposes are possible within Facebook's profile settings: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads or via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. The settings are independent of the platform, i.e. they are used for all devices, such as desktop computers and mobile devices.
15. Facebook Remarketing
Within our website, "Facebook pixels" of the social network Facebook, operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or if you are an EU resident, Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook"), are used. The Facebook Pixel enables Facebook to determine the visitors to our website as a target group for the display of ads, referred to as "Facebook Ads". Accordingly, we use the Facebook Pixel only to display the Facebook ads we have activated to those Facebook users who have also shown an interest in our website. This means that the Facebook Pixel enables us to ensure that our Facebook ads match the users' potential interests and do not bother them. Moreover, the Facebook Pixel allow us to determine the effectiveness of the Facebook ads for statistical and marketing purposes, since we are able to see whether users were forwarded to our website after clicking a Facebook ad.
The Facebook Pixel is integrated directly by Facebook when our websites are called up, and stores a cookie, i.e. a small file, on your device. If you subsequently log in to Facebook or visit Facebook while logged in, then the visit to our website is marked in your profile. The data collected about you are anonymized, so they do not provide us with any indications about the identity of the users. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook, thereby enabling a connection to the respective user profile. The data processing by Facebook is implemented within the framework of Facebook's data usage guidelines. For more information about how the remarketing pixel works, as well as general information on the display of Facebook ads, see the Facebook data usage policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
You can opt out of the collection of your data by the Facebook Pixel and their use to display Facebook ads. To do this, you can visit the page set up by Facebook and follow the instructions for the settings of usage-based advertising: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads or opt out via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/. The settings are independent of the platform, i.e. they are used for all devices, such as desktop computers and mobile devices.
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Rapper Lil Wayne dropped out of school on the advice of his mother after he tried to take a gun to school for protection at the age of 14.
The "Lollipop" hit maker rose to fame when he was 11, when he released his first songs on hip-hop mogul Bryan "Baby" Williams' Cash Money Records label, but he continued to attend classes at a public school in a rough area of his native New Orleans where he had excelled as an honors student.
However, his mom soon realized his rising music career could put his safety in jeopardy and she decided to pull him out of the institution.
The star tells Katie Couric, "It was my mom's idea (to drop out of school). I had an album out, I was platinum already, thank god, and I was still trying to go to regular public school. She saw me getting ready for school one day and she saw me putting my gun in my backpack and she said, 'You gonna bring that to school with you?' and I remember, I asked, 'You don't want me to bring it?' and she thought about it and said, 'I do.' She said, 'You're right, bring it', because she bought it for me! She was like, 'You do need it.'
"Two minutes later she walked back into my room and she said, 'You don't go to school no more (sic). You're getting a GED (high school diploma).' I was like, 'Oh, OK'."

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September 24, 2001
Los Angeles — President George W. Bush recently announced the appointment of Rockwell A. Schnabel as the ambassador to the European Union representing the United States of America.
A member of the Board of Visitors for UCLA Anderson since 1998, Ambassador Schnabel currently serves on the development committee. He has been a generous contributor to UCLA Anderson and recently participated in the establishment of the Anderson CoInvestment Fund as a founding donor.
"Rockwell Schnabel has extensive experience working with European nations as an international financier, former official at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and past diplomat. He will be an excellent representative of the United States to the E.U. at this critical juncture in our relationship as we work together toward a new global trade round and look to expand our relationship with Europe," said President Bush.
Ambassador Schnabel's former government service includes a prior U.S. ambassadorship to Finland, a post he held from 1986 to 1989. Between 1989 and 1992, he held various positions in the Department of Commerce, first as Under Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism, then as Acting Secretary of Commerce, and finally as Deputy Secretary of Commerce. In addition, he was a member of the Los Angeles Olympic Committee, serving as the envoy to the Netherlands for the 1984 Olympic Games. From 1993 to 1996, he served as president of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension Board of Commissioners, which oversees the fund's $7 billion investment.
Schnabel is co-chairman and founder of Trident Capital LLP, a private equity investment firm in Los Angeles, and serves on the boards of CSG Systems, Inc., Cyprus Amax Minerals Company, Inc., International Game Technology, Inc., Pegasus Systems, Inc., and REZsolutions, Inc. Prior to his current positions and government service, he was in senior management, including chairman of the executive committee and president of the holding company, for Bateman, Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc., now Everen Securities.
The recipient of several honors, Schnabel was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland by the President of Finland in 1989, as well as the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Leadership in Management, the department's highest honor. For his work during the 1984 Olympic Games, he received the Medal of Honor from the Netherlands Olympic Committee and the Gold Medal given by the Dutch government. Ambassador Schnabel is originally from the Netherlands where he graduated from Trinity College.


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Indian Land High School senior runner James Gregory led the Lancaster County athletes in the Class AA state meet Saturday, May 11 at Lower Richland High School.
Gregory, who has signed to run cross country at Erskine College, placed third in the 800-meter run to win a bronze medal.
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Knights extend win streak to 17 gamesNHL.com @NHLdotcom
LONDON, Ont. - Bo Horvat, Tyler Ferry and Ryan Rupert each had a goal and an assist as the London Knights extended their winning streak to 17 games with a 5-2 victory over the visiting Niagara IceDogs on Friday in Ontario Hockey League play.
Alex Broadhurst, Ryan Rupert and Matt Rupert also scored for the Knights (25-5-2) and Jake Patterson turned away 34-of-36 shots for the win.
Brett Ritchie scored twice for the IceDogs (19-11-2), who have dropped back-to-back games, and Christopher Festarini made 30 saves in a losing cause.
London went 1 for 1 on the power play while Niagara failed to earn any chances with the man advantage.
The Knights have a chance to tie their club record of 18 straight victories, which was set on Dec. 8th, 2004, on Sunday when they host the Mississauga Steelheads.


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((Author's note: I am sad to say that this story is unlikely to be completed. I had written other chapters on the old sanctum which involved blowing up two cult hideouts, and expanding on the character's growing personalities. Those chapters were not backed up on fanfiction.net, and the originals were on a computer I lost along with everything I owned in 2014. I doubt that I could reconstruct the story to my own satisfaction, and so this project is being abandoned after chapter 3 (unless someone happens to have the following chapters hidden somewhere.))
Chander stood next to the General Store, near the front gates of Orgrimmar. Next to him, Bane growled softly, and snapped at the saddlebags hanging down either side of him. The young Orc Shaman smirked slightly and knelt down next to his companion, putting a hand on the grey wolf's head. "Come on buddy, ye'll get used ta it. Can't go out inta the wilds without supplies ya know?" Bane whined softly and moved his head upward, trying to encourage his partner to pet him. Sparing a glance to see if anyone was watching, he allowed himself a moment of tenderness to scratch Bane both behind the ears, and under the chin affectionately.
Just as he was standing up, a young Orc perhaps no older than twelve, wearing bronzed armor and who's eyes glowed fel green where they should be white, walked out of the store carrying four heavy packs. With a grunt, the boy set the packs down next to a rust colored wolf, and began fastening them to harnesses on either side of the beast. "I no see why uz no leev at saym tym az mo..." He paused for several moments, his eyes closed in thought. "Az... muthur," He finally said. "I want be there tu see sisturz born."
Chander frowned deeply, though not as if he were having an issue understanding what the younger Warrior said. He knew exactly what Luuhk was feeling, and shared the same heartache at not being able to be there when Leppender gave birth. There was also the possibility that he wouldn't even make it back to see his own treasured mate Hanabii give birth to his first child, though he tried to avoid thinking about that, since it was still many moons away. He moved over to Luuhk, and gently shoved him in the shoulder, voicing a reassuring grunt as he did. "Don' worry kiddo, yer ma'll be okay. Sis' is a pretty tough gal when she's gotta defend you pups."
Luuhk looked up at Chander, and smiled weakly. "Yub, hur am... she.. is." He corrected himself. He let out a heavy sigh, and shook his head, his redish brown ponytail swinging back and forth as he did. "We du this fer hur. Fer owr famili. Unless uz find da cult that impry...im..." Chander waited, letting Luuhk figure out how to pronounce the word himself. "imprizuned... yoo both, me muthur and sisturz will be in danjur."
Chander nodded firmly. "Exactly. The Order of the Crimson Fel is only interested in one thing; becomin so powerful with the dark arts, that they become Gods themselves. When the rest of Azeroth saw Gul'dan fer what he really was, a power hungry, relentless, bloodthirsty bastard, they thought he was a God come ta show them the way ta immortality." His hand moved to touch his right cheek, his fingers brushing an odd shaped scar, a brand with a horned tear drop. He growled softly, remembering the day his greatest tormentor Mathious Broverly gave it to him. He had been denied the blow that killed him, and it secretly enraged him that his own nephew Luuhk had been present when Jureth finished him off, but Chander had been unable to get there in time.
It had been bad enough when he had been a child, and suffered under the cult's whip, but when he discovered that Mathious had taken both his nephew, and Jureth's son who he considered a nephew, both Orcs had fought through much to find him, and get the boys back. Chander had been wounded in Darkshore when they finally discovered that he was holding the two young Orcs in the cult's former coven under Stormwind, so he was forced to stay behind and lick his wounds while Jureth went ahead to free them. Ever since then he had been kicking himself for not being able to get back at the Humans that had robbed him of his family, his youth, and at one point even his life. He looked at Luuhk, his eyes gleaming with grim determination. "Too many lives have been affected by them bastards, an' if they still wanna find sis an' recapture her, it's up ta us ta protect the family, an' anyone else they might decide ta hurt."
Luuhk growled softly and looked at the ground with a furious expression, mingled with just a bit of sorrow. He had not escaped from his last encounter with the Crimson Fel unscathed. He remembered how Mathious had chained both him and Naxian to the dank, moldy stone wall in an alcove across from one another, giving them only enough slack on their shackles to stand, but not to reach one another. He moved a gauntleted hand to his inner elbow, and touched a burn scar right on the joint. He remembered the white hot pain he'd felt as a heated stone was set there, and dark tendrils of shadow energy reached up and grabbed his wrist, forcing him to bend his arm as he lie on a table completely enveloped by the dark matter, helpless to do anything but scream. He could still smell the scent of his own burning flesh, and hear Mathious tell Naxian to break his arm, or he would kill Luuhk. Very clearly, he remembered the look on Naxian's face as he held the hammer, hovering over his step brother uncertainly. Most vividly though, Luuhk could still hear himself say. "Du it bruthur."
Mathious, a member of the Crimson Fel, had then ordered Naxian to break both of Luuhk's legs, and his other arm in the same manner, which broke both the boys spirits for a time. Before Jureth arrived to save the boys, Luuhk's eye had even been removed for Mathious to study in greater detail. Jureth had managed to heal Luuhk expertly, and the only physical traces that he had been tortured were the scars on his joints, but he carried other scars that couldn't be seen. Both men had seen firsthand what that cult could do, and neither were willing to allow the Order of the Crimson Fel to harm any more people, especially members of their family. "Uz waystin tym unkul. Da sun am abowt tu come up, and uz have a long jurni ahead."
Chander grinned proudly at Luuhk for his show of determination despite his personal emotions, and gripped his shoulder roughly. "Then what we standin round here fer? Ya got everythin I asked ya ta pick up from the store?" Luuhk nodded. "Then finish gettin them bags secured, an' we'll head out. We got a long ride ahead of us."
Luuhk nodded firmly, and set to work securing the last two packs to his wolf. The animal growled, and snapped as the straps were tightened, and Luuhk growled back at him. "Come on Dusti, settul down. Yoo git uzed tu it." Dusty snapped at Luuhk's fingers, but the boy simply pushed his face toward the worg's, and snapped his fangs at him. Chander watched with amusement as the wolf backed down, though he continued to growl. Finally, Luuhk gave Dusty's side an affectionate pat, then stood up and climbed onto his back. "Ukee, me... I am redi unkul."
Chander grunted with a nod, and swung a leg over Bane's back in a quick, practiced motion. Tugging at the worg's reins, he turned toward the front gates and took a deep breath. "Lets go kiddo. Time ta finish what they started sixteen years ago." Digging his heels into Bane's sides, Chander leaned forward in the saddle, and the two Orcs flew past the gates of the great Horde capital, turning sharply toward the Southfury River. Once the river came in sight, Chander reached out with his mind to call upon the spirits that lived in the water, making a request for himself and Luuhk. He smiled as a soothingly cool sensation seemed to pass through his chest, leaving him feeling slightly happy, a sign that the spirits had heard him, and approved of his request. As the wolves paws touched the water, the surface rippled lightly, but they didn't sink below the water, instead they ran across it, turning back north toward Ashenvale.
The young shaman, and younger warrior traveled swiftly upriver until they were out of sight of the guards near the bridge that led to the side entrance of Orgrimmar, then they turned toward the shore, and urged their mounts to climb up a steep, rocky slope. As they reached the top, they looked down upon Demonsfall Canyon. Chander hopped off Bane's back, and began picking his way down the slope carefully, but he looked back after a moment to see Luuhk still sitting atop Dusty, his glowing eyes fixed on the canyon below. "What's wrong kiddo?"
Luuhk was breathing fast, his expression a mixture of fury and shock. "Me... I can feel dem unkul. I can feel where dem am, what dem want du." He pointed to the southern part of the canyon. "Ovur der, felhownd want steel sukubis enurji," he pointed to the north, "and ovur der, rok demun want krush ded tree fer fun. It... ovurwelming."
Chander stared at Luuhk in awe. He had often been surprised at Luuhk's ability to look at someone, and seem to know their moods or intentions, but he'd never imagined the boy's power was that strong, and it sent a chill down his spine. He climbed back up the slope and stood in front of Luuhk. "Yer tellin me ya can sense where them demons are, an' if they're hostile toward us?" Luuhk looked away from Chander with a bitter expression. Chander growled. "Look at me when I'm talkin ta ya boy, an' answer my question."
Luuhk lifted his head, and stared at Chander with his piercing fel gaze, lifting his chin with a note of defiant pride. He was secretly impressed when Chander didn't flinch away from his look like many others had done. "Yes, and no. I feel direkshun dem in, I feel urges dem tinkin of, but no know exact tings."
Chander gripped the boy's shoulders, speaking excitedly. "Ya have any idea what this could mean fer findin them bastards?" He smiled brightly, and shook the warrior lightly. "Luuhk, with yer gift we got us an advantage. Heck we might even know where they are before they know we're even comin!"
Luuhk growled and touched the corner of his left eye. It dimmed slightly before it began flickering rapidly. "Ur it kud be disadvantij. I fel taintid frum burth, so dem might sense me neer befur uz git close."
Chander was stunned at his nephew's insight, and a part of him wondered if he might be right, but he shook his head and removed one hand, shifting to his side and draping his arm around both shoulders. He urged him to climb off his wolf, then began walking forward slowly, urging Luuhk to walk down the steep slope with him. "Well we'll use this opportunity ta find out jus' what others might sense when yer around. If a demon can't sense ya, maybe the magic users of the Crimson Fel won't notice ya either."
A flicker of fear passed over Luuhk's face, but he swallowed hard and nodded. Not wanting to put his uncle's life in danger because of his presence, but too proud to turn back and leave him to journey alone, he gripped Dusty's reins tightly in one hand, and slowly made his way down the rocky slope with Chander at his side. As they entered the canyon Luuhk's heart was pounding so hard, he wondered if Chander could hear it. He could feel the presence of the demons more strongly here, and kept his mind alert just in case any of them could sense him.
After a few minutes of walking toward the opposite cliff, Luuhk felt a shift in the emotions of the demons, felt them becoming aware of his presence. He forced himself to plant one foot in front of another, not wanting to draw the entire canyon into a fight. He was sure he could beat any one of them, but he didn't want to risk himself or his uncle getting hurt so early into their journey. His mind suddenly focused in on the felhound he had been sensing earlier, its mind shifting toward Luuhk. He felt the beast's intense hunger for magic, and gripped the axe at his side. Suddenly a loud shriek pierced the air, and both of them stopped to look toward the south. After a moment Luuhk grinned, and grunted at his uncle. "Da felhownd finuli attacked da sukubis. It sayf tu keep going." Chander nodded and the two moved on.
As they neared the other side of the canyon, Luuhk's mind suddenly became alert again, and his attention returned to the infernal to the north. A loud crash, followed by several more rent the air, and again the quarry paused. Luuhk could feel a savage pleasure running through the demon, and figured it was attacking the tree it had been eying. He was about to relay this to Chander when he felt a shift in the demon's emotions. It was still angry, and it wanted to crush something else, something alive. He felt it hone in on him, almost as an assault to the mind, and gave Chander a shove. "It comin dis way! Git da wulfs up der, I distrakt it!"
Chander looked ready to protest, but Luuhk had already drawn his axe and shield, and began running toward the north where he knew the demon was running right at him. With a moment of hesitation, Chander tugged on the wolves reins, having to almost pull Dusty up after him. "Come on ya eager beast you, we gotta get ta higher ground. He can handle himself!" He looked back the way Luuhk ran, and spoke quietly. "Please be able ta handle yerself kiddo."
As Chander moved up the cliff side, Luuhk ran at full speed toward the infernal. He could sense the demons he passed watching him, and knew they were contemplating whether or not to jump in, and attack the young Orc. Luuhk finally spotted the living boulder covered in fel fire, and with a ferocious roar that echoed through the canyon, he ran up the side of a rock, and leaped into the air, kicking the creature where it's head should be. The demon stumbled back several paces, and as Luuhk landed he charged at the infernal as fast as he could, bringing down his axe with precision in two quick swipes, striking the joints of both of its arms. The creature rumbled furiously as the flames between the shoulders and torso flickered, and it brought down its left arm quickly, trying to crush the Orc in front of it. The boy put up his shield, and lifted it slightly to absorb some of the blow, though his arm tingled and threatened to buckle from the impact.
He screamed in rage, and threw his weight upward, pushing the demon's arm up sharply, then he shifted to the left, and brought down his axe on the infernal's shoulder. The flame holding it to the demon's body blazed for a moment before flickering out of existence, and the arm fell to the ground. In retaliation, the infernal swiped at Luuhk with its remaining arm, and sent him flying toward the lefthand wall. The warrior hit the wall with a loud thud, and slid down it slightly, his vision blurred, and his mind hazy from the impact. The ground rumbled beneath him, and he gave his head a shake to clear it, then watched open mouthed as the collection of boulders charged right toward him. Luuhk gathered his muscles, and at the very last second he threw himself to the left, quickly catching his balance, and pivoting on the spot. As he turned, he threw his axe arm forward, and struck the demon hard on the midsection stone, which became dislodged and soared through the air toward the left, just as the demon hit the wall.
Its other parts exploded off it in a deluge, one of the pieces hitting Luuhk square in the chest, and knocking him back. Again he was flying through the air, this time bouncing off the ground once before skidding to a halt, lying barely conscious on the dusty earth. Slowly, he became aware of the other demons in the canyon, of how their focus had slid toward him questioningly, like a predator wondering if it should pounce on wounded prey, or if it might still be a threat. With a growl of pain he forced himself to his feet, and as he rose his growl became a roar of triumph. He could feel the demons cringing away at the sound, no longer wanting to fight something that sounded so fierce. With a satisfied grunt, Luuhk turned his axe blade down, and leaned against the hilt as he walked, making his way back to where Chander had been.
While Luuhk had been fighting the demon, Chander had made his way up the steep slope with both of the wolves in tow. He had stood at the top, watching the fight further down the canyon with a knot of anxiety in his stomach. When he saw Luuhk tossed against the wall of the canyon, Chander had tied the wolves leads onto a nearby bush, and rushed down the way he had come as fast as he could without falling. By the time he made it halfway down the slope however, he saw Luuhk below him, just starting to climb up it. His heart leaped with relief as he saw him, but sunk as he noticed the way he moved, and smelled the blood on him. "Luuhk!" he yelled as he picked up his pace, until he was almost sliding down the hill.
Luuhk looked up as he heard his uncle coming toward him, and tried to lean less on the axe. When Chander finally got to him, he tried to grip the boy under the arms, but Luuhk pushed him away with a grunt, nearly falling over as he did. He straightened himself up, his expression strained but determined. "I walk on me own! I no littul kubbi dat need pampurin!"
Even as he spoke, his legs shook in protest, and once again Chander moved to grab him, this time catching him just before his legs gave out, and forcing his shoulders under the boy's arm to support him. "Who the hell said I'd ever pamper ya pup? I ain't got the time ta drag ya up the hill if ya fall backwards, an' beat the crap outta ya fer not lettin me help ya."
Luuhk snorted a weak laugh, and forced his legs to keep moving, even though Chander was supporting most of his weight. "Yoo tuu layt unkul... sum deemun alredi beet me. Yoo haff tu wayt fer da next tym me du sumthin stupid."
Chander let out a hearty guffaw, and tugged Luuhk up to a ledge near the middle. "Ya forgot, I'm a shaman, an' I can jus' heal ya up till ya can handle getting yer ass kicked by me!" Luuhk lifted his head to smirk at Chander, who gripped him tighter in a slight hug. "Don' think I'll hafta do that though. Ya were damn impressive out there against that infernal. Foolish, but damn impressive. Yer old man woulda been proud ta see that I bet, cause I know I was."
Luuhk shut his eyes as a well of emotions rose up in him, concerning both his secret desire to make his true father proud wherever he might have gone, and that he had made his uncle proud. "Tank yoo unkul." he said in a slightly shaky voice, which he instantly felt ashamed of. "Hill am steep. Uz sit down fer kupul minutez? Kach breath?" Luuhk asked in what he hoped was a casual tone.
Chander grunted, and heaved Luuhk toward an opening in the side of the cliff toward their left. "Sure thing kiddo, I wanna take a look at yer wounds anyways." Luuhk's cheeks turned a deeper shade of green at his uncle's words, but he allowed himself to be led into the cave, and leaned against the wall just inside the entrance. Chander took Luuhk's head in both hands, tilting it forward and lifting up his hair to look at two dark lumps almost half the size of baseballs, one of which was still oozing black blood down the back of his neck. "Ya hurt anywhere else kiddo? Feelin any pain in yer legs, or chest?"
Luuhk blinked his eyes repeatedly, and fought back a sensation of nausea as he struggled to remain conscious. "No much... jus' tini sore on chest wur I hit." He swallowed heavily, and took several deep breaths of air. "Hed hurt most. Feel dizi and week... littul sik tuu."
Chander nodded, and adjusted his grip on Luuhk's head, bracing his chin with his thumbs, and pressing his fingers to the boy's temples. "I'd say ya got a concussion. Hold still while I do what I can." The shaman closed his eyes, and began to call out to the elements for healing. A soft green glow formed at his fingertips, and penetrated into Luuhk's head. Slowly the bruises on the back of his head began to shrink, until they were nearly the size of golf balls. Luuhk took several deep breaths, his mind clearing, and the nausea disappearing completely. Chander removed his hands, and sat back on his ankles. "Ye'll probably feel dizzy an' weak fer a bit, but that's nothin a bit of rest, an' a good meal won't fix. I'll go make sure the cave's safe, then I'll go get the wolves."
Luuhk nodded, and leaned back against the wall completely, closing his eyes with relief, wanting nothing more than to pass out. Before his mind could drift away however, he felt something tickling at the back of it that made him jerk right up, wide awake and alert. He looked toward the inside of the cave, and felt a chill run down his spine. Standing up slowly, he made his way toward where Chander had gone. As he rounded the corner he saw an orange light up ahead that danced across the walls. He made his way toward it, spotting Chander as the source of the fire, standing perfectly still in horror. As he turned to see what Chander was looking at, his mouth fell open.
Rows upon rows of cages filled the vast chamber in front of them, and right in the center of the room was a black, round table made of stone. The Orcs looked at each other and nodded, before moving forward. Luuhk bent down to examine one of the cages, but Chander headed straight for the table, looking transfixed by it. "So mani smellz in theez cajiz. No can tell wut wuz in dem wen, but I smell Orc, Tauren, Troll, Elf, and evun Quillboar, Centaur, and Murlock."
Chander approached the table, and began shifting through the papers on it. "Almost every kind of sentient creature ya might find within the next several miles of here." His hand brushed the surface of the table, and he was surprised to feel something almost gritty brush against his hand. He lifted it to find specks of dried blood clinging to his fingertips. He hastily shoved the papers off the table, and stared down at it in horror. "By the ancestors, this is a holdin place!"
"A wut?" Luuhk said as he stood up and turned around. His eyes fell onto the table, and began to glow brightly. There was a demonic circle of power carved into the outter surface of the table, and in the center was the symbol of the Order of the Crimson Fel. Both of them could feel the residual dark energy from countless rituals that had been performed on the table.
Chander backed away from the table, and looked at the cages around him. "I was in a place like this before, when me an' sis were first taken. The setup was different though, it was a larger cavern, an' ya had ta go down a ramp ta get ta the cages." He moved toward the nearest cage, and touched it with a scowl. "There was an old Troll, an Elf, an' three Tauren kids there. We were all sittin there, us kids cryin, the Elf an' the Troll both lookin grim. After a day or so, each of um began disappearin, then before I had a chance ta know what happened, I was in a different place, an' sis was in a cage next ta mine. We'd been transported directly ta the coven under Stormwind."
Luuhk watched his uncle sadly as he ran his hands along the cage. After a few moments he turned away, and began reaching for the papers on the floor. "Dis must be place like it. I want know wer dem went tho. Uz no can stai heer long." He looked at one of the papers he was holding, and his eyes widened with recognition. "It in Eredun!"
Chander stood up quickly, and moved behind Luuhk to look over his shoulder. "The purest form of the demonic language? Originally used by them space goats before they left their home world, an' the rest turned inta demons? How can ya be sure?"
Luuhk pointed at the paper he was holding. "I know it. High Warlok ov da Duskfury Clan tawt me wen I wuz littul. Her lyk tu think me bekum warlok lyk me parints, so her teech me sum thingz. I was fast lurnur, and knew it importint tu lern it fer sumthin."
Chander glanced at Luuhk's shining eyes as he said that, wondering again about his very odd nephew with the strange eyes, and uncanny revelations. He decided that right then wasn't the time to think about it, so he nodded at the papers. "Try ta see if any of them give us an idea of where they mighta gone."
Luuhk nodded, and collected the rest of the papers off the floor. His eyes flashed as they darted across the pages, making Chander's stomach churn with uncertainty once more. "Rekwest fer light beef mayd bai ryte fuut, send konfurmashun tu ryte fuut wen akwired... Rekwest fer frosty moonpies bai neck, send konfurmashun tu hed..." He turned to look at Chander curiously. "What dat awl mean?"
Chander scowled, and began pacing back and forth. "Light beef, an' frosty moonpies... some folks like ta joke bout Tauren resemblin cows, so maybe that one was about getting a Tauren, maybe a child cause of light?" He shook his head vigorously. "Nah, they woulda said veal instead of beef. Light... the Light! A Tauren that works with the Light, a Sunwalker!"
"Dat mayk sense!" Luuhk looked back through the pages he'd already read. "So frosty moonpies, erm... Elf like moon, say her Gothess Elune. Moonpie mean Nyte Elf! Dat mean frosty mean..." Luuhk hesitated as his mind drew a blank.
Chander began pacing a bit faster with excitement. "A mage! It makes sense if they wanna find out more bout how a Sunwalker works, that they'd wanna find a Night Elf mage too so they could study it." Despite the strain the Orcs felt with the Night Elves because of their continuous lumber disputes, Chander was revolted at the thought of what the two listed were possibly enduring at that very moment. "Right foot, neck, head... those three don' make much sense yet, but the terms sound familiar. Keep readin kiddo."
Luuhk nodded, and flipped through a few more pages. "Let see... ordur tu all fingurs and towz, stolen green trophy frum ryte fuut, said tu be carrying littul trophy in it bowl need tu be fownd! Lazt see in dusti trophy case wid mani uthur trophies. Dis trophy am valubul, so hed offurs big reward fer ani hoo find it." He looked up from the paper and locked eyes with Chander. "I no like wur dis am goin."
Chander gripped Luuhk's shoulder tightly, his face going pale, a deep scowl on his face. "Jus' keep readin it Luuhk, we gotta know more bout this if they mean what I think they do."
Luuhk nodded and looked back at the paper. "Awl fingurs and towz am tu wait fer suppliez tu run owt, den curl up intu handz and feet. No go owt tu refresh suppliez, ignur yoo fuud list until all suppliez run owt. Handz am ordur'd tu put shooz un feet." Luuhk finished reading off the paper, and flipped back a few more pages. "Fuud list myte meen rekwest. Ignur rekwests fer new prizunurz, and wayt fer dem tu disappeer, then gu tu... hand ur fuut..."
"Hand and foot, fingers and toes. It could be they represent different places these guys hide out. Places like this ta hide prisoners before transport, places where they perform rituals, places where they experiment on um. Put shoes on feet though, that one's got me stumped..."
They both fell silent, their minds turning to the first part of the letter, and to its meaning. Neither of them wanted to speculate out loud, afraid the other would agree, making it more real. Finally Luuhk looked at the symbol on the center of the table and sighed. "Da stowlin green trophy... dat muthur izunt it?"
Chander moved a hand to his neck, where a tarnished silver necklace hung from it. "Yeah Luuhk, they're lookin fer Leppender, an' I think they got a general idea of where she is. If what we've learned so far is right, the word describin the person's craft is the first word, an' considerin stolen green don' make any sense, I'd say green would mean a warlock, an' trophy..." he paused and took a breath here. "they'd call Orcs trophies, it's what Mathious used ta call me anyways."
Chander hung his head with a growl, and Luuhk gripped his arm, silently encouraging him to continue. "She escaped from them, but if yer refferin ta a person, both escaped and stolen means they're gone, so a stolen green trophy would mean an escaped warlock Orc. Dusty trophy case, place where ya'd find Orcs that's dusty, Orgrimmar."
"Myte evun reffur tu awl ov da Barrunz, and Durotar, but dem du have a guud idea ov wer her am." Luuhk continued to grip Chander's arm as he looked at the page again. "Said tu be carrying littul trophy in it bowl... unkul, dem know hur pregnint tuu!"
Chander's hand shook with fury as it gripped Luuhk's shoulder. "I suspected they mighta known when I first found out they were lookin fer her. Sis knows it, an' plans ta get outta that area as soon as she's recovered enough ta handle herself in case of trouble. We now know fer sure they're lookin fer her, an' we know the ones from this place have all gone ahead ta either the hands or the feet. Now we jus' gotta find out where those are."
Luuhk grunted and began setting the papers down on the table, moving them around so they looked nearly as scattered and messy as before. "I want go find feet and hands, but furst I want get owt ov heer. No like dis place muj."
Chander nodded firmly. "Yeah, we should get outta here, an' go north. I remember bein taken through Darkshore when they first took me, so maybe if we can find the place I was brought, we'll find somethin about where hands and feet are." Luuhk grimaced at the thought of going to a place similar to the one they were in, especially the place his own mother and uncle had been held in as children before arriving in Stormwind, but he finished arranging the papers, and nodded at Chander.
The two exited the cave, Luuhk still having to catch himself on his axe now and then as his knees threatened to give out, but they managed to get to the top of the ridge with no further incident. Chander watched Luuhk a worried expression as he struggled to climb into his saddle. "Ya sure ya don' wanna make camp up here kiddo?"
Luuhk shook his head firmly. "No. Want get awai frum heer. Furst deemunz, then da kayv. I need awai frum dis place." Chander couldn't understand exactly why Luuhk was so desperate to leave when he was obviously still weak, but he knew the urgency in his voice and accepted it with a grunt, hopping onto Bane's back, and keeping pace with Luuhk, they rode over top of the mesas separating Ashenvale from the Barrens.
They made it down the side of the mountain, and went across the path to climb atop the opposite mesa. As they rode across the top, another chain of mountains came into view as they neared the Stonetalon Mountains. Luuhk saw them nearing on the horizon, and let out a soft moan, before sliding off Dusty, landing with a soft thud and rolling a couple of times. Chander looked behind him, and quickly tugged at Bane's lead, turning the worg back toward the boy and jumping off him with a practiced step, landing at a crouch right next to Luuhk. He rolled him onto his back, and sat him up slightly, giving him a little shake. "Luuhk! Come on kiddo, snap outta it!"
Luuhk groaned and opened his eyes, blinking them repeatedly. "Spinnin, need tu sleep." Chander put a hand on Luuhk's head, and tried to reach into him enough to know if he was in any danger. Relieved as he sensed that it was just exhaustion after being healed, Chander scooped Luuhk up, and carried him toward an area on the Barrens side mountain with an overhang.
He carefully set the boy down underneath the large rock ledge protruding above him, then turned with a grateful smile to the two wolves that had followed on their own. He reached down and petted each one appreciatively on the sides of their faces. "Good boys. Now hold still while I get those packs off ya, an' get us settled in fer the night." Bane licked Chander's hand with a grateful whine, and Dusty yipped happily at his words. After he had removed the packs, he quickly assembled a tent under the overhang where Luuhk was lying, and moved the packs inside.
Both Bane and Dusty made their way into the tent as Chander moved outside with some cooking utensils, a skin of water, a small bag filled with ground roots, and a hunk of beef jerky. While Chander made a thick meat and potato stew in the fading light, the wolves curled up on either side of Luuhk, Bane lying in the crook of the boy's right arm, with his head on his shoulder, and Dusty on the left, his head resting over Luuhk's heart. When Chander finally reentered the tent, he was carrying a small pot of stew in one hand, and the rest of the jerky in the other, a small dagger sticking out near the top of the meat.
The canines looked up, and each thumped their tails at the sight of the food. "Hold on, the both of ya. Lemme set down the food, an' get ya's some water, then I'll cut us all some jerky." He put the food down near Luuhk's head, and moved to the packs. Pulling out two rough metal bowls, he filled them with water, then placed them on either side of the entrance, and sat down behind Luuhk. The wolves lumbered over to the water bowls drinking thirstily, while Chander tugged Luuhk up until he was holding him in a sitting position, resting in the crook of his arm.
The shaman picked up the pot, and held it to the young warrior's lips, a small smile coming to his lips as the boy gulped down the stew slowly, managing to chew the pieces even in his sleep. After a few mouthfuls, Luuhk turned his head toward Chander, his eyes still closed. "Owl wulf? Wur am Naxian? Am him sayf?"
Chander's throat suddenly felt constricted, and his eyes began to burn. There was only one person he knew of that had been referred to as 'old wolf', and that had been Jureth, who had been the Shaman's dearest friend, his mentor, and eventually his brother in law. He had been devastated at the double loss of both Naxian and Jureth when they never returned after the Shattering, but he mastered his emotions and replied softly. "They're restin now Luuhk, they're restin deep. Now eat up, nobody'll ever hurt um again."
He pressed the pot against Luuhk's lips again, but he didn't open his mouth, this time deciding to curl up against Chander, and very softly he uttered the word "Popo." Chander set down the pot with a shaking hand, and hugged the boy a bit tighter, half formed thoughts of the blessing he'd given Luuhk the day he was born, stating that he would always be the first son of his heart, and how his mate was back home, carrying his first true child. When he had been dead, Chander had wanted to be alive for one reason more than any other, and that was so he could get the chance to be a father. Luuhks subconscious muttering of the word as it was spoken in his first language was enough to break through the carefully laid defenses he'd built around himself.
He set Luuhk back down on the sleeping pallet he'd set up when getting the tent together, and moved to the jerky he'd set aside. He cut off several pieces, tossing some to each of the worgs who gobbled them up eagerly, and slowly chewing on a couple of pieces while he sat lost in thought. Everything he had ever experienced in his youth told him that a person with strange powers was evil, but no matter how uneasy Luuhk made him sometimes, he loved the boy as much as his own unborn child. He didn't have much experience expressing his more sensitive emotions to others, and often considered it too unmanly to attempt, but he knew that even though he didn't know who he said it to, Luuhk felt at that moment as comfortable as he would have in a father's arms.
Setting down the food, Chander stood up and closed his eyes. He reached out with his mind for the elusive spirit of the wilds, and called upon the spirit of the wolf to bless him. As he fell over onto all fours, his nose jutting out in front of his face, his green skin and clothes being replaced by fur, and a thick tail spurting out of his backside, the other two wolves came over, and touched noses with him. Ever since the first time he had shifted forms, Chander found a sense of peace in the way the wolves thought, and felt. On top of being able to enjoy the comfort of having other wolves around, which pleased the canine mentality, Chander had discovered one other benefit of being a wolf: He felt it wasn't as unmanly to display affection if he was an animal instead of a man.
He padded softly over to Luuhk's head, then lying down he began pushing up against him until the young man moved up to use him as a pillow. Whining affectionately as he looked at Luuhk, he licked his cheek gently, and thought "Goodnight son," before resting his head next to the boy's, and falling asleep.


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ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - At the FEM University Preparation School in Uskudar, a conservative district on the Asian side of Istanbul, young men are quietly receiving specialised coaching in how to pass the exams that give access to the most important jobs in Turkey.
To a casual eye, nothing seems remarkable. As in nearly all Turkish schools, a portrait of modern Turkey's secular founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk hangs in every classroom. Ataturk's address to youth hangs on the wall at the school's entrance.
There are no visible references either to the religious movement which runs the school, known as Hizmet, or "Service" - or to the movement's founder, cleric Fethullah Gulen, based in the United States for 14 years. But the teachers are almost all Gulen followers, as are many of the pupils and their parents.
The government wants to shut schools like this one down, officially arguing that test preparation academies provide an unfair advantage and place a financial burden on families who feel they must pay tuition or their children will under-perform.
But for Gulen supporters, the proposal is just the latest attempt by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to curb a movement that has emerged as a challenge to his domination of the country.
Gulen's followers are believed to control as many as a quarter of the exam preparation academies in Turkey, giving a seemingly innocuous religious movement an outsized role in shaping the views of the country's future elite.
"My family directed me here. They wouldn't want me to go to another prep school, nor would I. They like this movement and want me to be involved too," said Taha Ramazan Sisman, 18, who says he plans to study medicine when he enters university this year - and then serve the movement upon graduation.
Just what Hizmet actually is depends on whom you ask. Supporters say members are free to join and leave, and take no orders from above. They define themselves mainly as conservative Muslims who believe in the importance of education and charity.
To Erdogan, an Islamist who once drew on Hizmet for support, the organisation has grown into the biggest threat to his own 11-year domination of the country, a "state within a state" that must be dismantled.
Since a corruption probe late last year pitted police and judges - many of them Gulen followers - against senior politicians and business associates of the prime minister accused of graft, Erdogan and Gulen have become arch enemies.
The prime minister has denounced the corruption investigations as a foreign plot. The authorities have purged hundreds of police, many of them Gulen followers.
Gulen has lashed out against the government, praying "God bring fire to their houses".
Erdogan, who does not mention Gulen by name but makes his target clear, has vowed to root out the nation's foes in their "lairs" and accused them of laying "wicked and dark traps in our country".
The corruption probe and dispute with Gulen supporters have finally dented the seemingly indestructible Erdogan, who had emerged largely unscathed from mass anti-government street demonstrations last year.
"The government was seriously damaged," Ozer Sancar, head of MetroPoll research said. "This is a far bigger challenge than the summer protests as it involves corruption. How Erdogan will handle the crisis will determine the electorate's behaviour."
If Gulen now poses the greatest threat to Erdogan, it is at least in part a challenge of the prime minister's own making.
Erdogan's Islamist AK Party long encouraged Gulen's followers to seek positions in the bureaucracy to displace the "deep state" - the army-backed secularist establishment that had ruled Turkey since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
"When Erdogan came to power in 2002, he didn't have the personnel to occupy key positions," an official close to Erdogan's office said. "His stream of the Islamist tradition had not really invested in democratic institutions in the past, but Hizmet had spent decades training professionals in its schools. So he called on them."
Hizmet helped cement the rise of Erdogan's AK Party. Its influence in the judiciary - which jailed senior officers on coup plot charges - was widely seen as crucial to taming an army which toppled three governments in the latter 20th century and forced an Islamist-led cabinet from power in 1997.
However the marriage of convenience appears to have soured in the past year or so, with the discord blowing thunderously into the open with the corruption investigation last year.
Erdogan's backers say Hizmet's appetite for influence had become relentless, to the point that members were demanding control of whole state departments.
"The movement already has thousands of people in the state, but they always ask for more," said a government official, asking not to be identified while discussing Hizmet's influence behind the scenes.
"You hire one person from the movement in a certain department. Then two more, then five more. And the next day they complain: 'Why isn't the whole department made up of Hizmet people?'"
Senior officials have said a criminal investigation will soon be launched into the formation of "an illegal organisation within the state", a charge Hizmet followers say they will defend themselves against.
"If there is concrete and conclusive evidence ... this evidence should be referred to the judicial authorities for investigation," the Journalists and Writers Foundation, a group which has Gulen as its honorary leader and which has spoken on behalf of his movement in the past, said on Tuesday.
"It is a hate crime to repeat this slander again and again without producing any evidence or taking legal action."
Born in Erzurum, eastern Turkey, 72 years ago, Gulen built up his reputation as a Muslim preacher with intense sermons that often moved him to tears. From his base in Izmir, he toured Turkey stressing the need to embrace scientific progress, shun radicalism and build bridges to the West and other faiths.
The first Gulen school opened in 1982. In the following decades, the movement became a spectacular success, setting up hundreds of schools that turned out generations of capable graduates, who gravitated to influential jobs in the judiciary, police, media, state bureaucracy and private business.
Its millions of followers refer to Gulen as "Hocafendi", or "respected teacher". They have branched out from Turkey to other countries, particularly the Turkic language-speaking former Soviet republics of Central Asia, and African countries, where they fund schools and open businesses.
Like the Mormons of the United States or the Ismaili Muslims of South Asia and elsewhere, members are expected to contribute a share of their income to the movement's charitable work, a source of funding that has helped build the schools and colleges that produce the graduates that expand its reach.
His followers say Gulen aims to educate a "golden generation" of conservative, well-travelled and patriotic young Muslims who will promote Turkish values around the world.
His emphasis on education, free market economics and integration into Europe drew middle class followers, who in turn earned influence through their own successful careers and built more schools with their donations.
"The main principle of the movement is not to have any expectations and to always give more than you take. The supporters usually donate a certain amount of their revenues to social responsibility projects," said Rizanur Meral, head of TUSKON, Hizmet's association of businessmen, which boasts 54,000 individual members who own 140,000 companies.
"There is a really important principle that we learnt from Hocafendi: if we receive a worldly benefit from our charitable work, then we will not get our reward in the afterlife. So supporters are never after material rewards," he explained.
In 1999, Gulen decamped to a compound in the Pocono mountains of rural Pennsylvania, shortly before the start of a case against him in Turkey on charges of plotting to destroy the secular state and establish Islamic law. He was acquitted but has remained in the United States.
Opponents describe Hizmet almost as a conspiracy.
Former police chief Hanefi Avci, a conservative Muslim whose children graduated from Hizmet schools but who landed in jail after writing a book lifting the lid on the group's workings within the force, describes a systematic network.
"In the intelligence and smuggling and organised crime units of police command, a majority of the technical and managerial teams are (Hizmet) members or are carrying out instructions coming from the group," wrote Avci.
"This organisation is not confined to the police command. The group has a structure pretty much in every institution like the MIT (intelligence service), the army, judiciary, even members of parliament," said Avci, who was detained weeks after the book was published in 2010 and remains in jail, convicted of links to a leftist terrorist organisation.
Communication among members, one official close to the government said, is discreet and conducted largely by word of mouth: "You start to hear the same demands or view arising from different quarters, often couched in the same language. You understand where it's coming from."
Another senior Turkish official described the method as building influence "without leaving fingerprints".
Such an intangible structure means curbing Hizmet's power could prove even more challenging for Erdogan's administration than taming the military, say some Turkey watchers.
"They're more careful than the military about revealing who is among them. They worked hard to put people in government," said James Jeffrey, a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey, now a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank. "They're not going away."
Additional reporting by Nick Tattersall and Ayla Jean Yackley; Writing and editing by Ralph Boulton and Peter Graff


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