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Dakota Electric Association envisioned a way to work "smarter" by leveraging their existing geographic information system (GIS) and outage management systems (OMS) into a central system that could accommodate a number of previously isolated business practices. POWER understood this electric cooperative's technical challenges, work processes, budget constraints, and the need to do more with existing resources. POWER's system integration expertise and GIS and work management system experience enabled Dakota Electric to move forward with a vision and a plan to deliver the most value to its members by improving operational performance, member service and workforce efficiency.
Dakota Electric continues to rely on POWER for project management of on-going operational projects related to GIS, SCADA, Load Management, Outage Management and system integrations. POWER's strategic consultant plays an advisory role in strategic planning on all systems used for operations.
- Increased workforce efficiency and improved member service using a number of new hardware and software solutions.
- Centralized data approach reduced costly redundancy and created more cohesive functionality – from managing service requests and simplifying as-built processes to restoring outages more quickly.
- The level of integration allows all system users to interact with greater efficiency in the design and work order process.
- Dakota Electric achieved its goal for an integrated enterprise GIS, outage management and work/asset management solution.
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Beach Disturbance at California's Huntington Beach Sparks Riot (VIDEO, PHOTO)
Beach Disturbance at California's Huntington Beach Sparks Riot (VIDEO, PHOTO)
A beach disturbance has taken place at the end of a surfing and skateboarding competition in Southern California's Huntington Beach on Sunday night, according to reports.
Authorities have described that the incident was sparked when a fight broke out at the end of a multi-day surfing and skateboarding competition. However, things quickly escalated completely out of control as dozens of people sparked a full out riot, with people running through the streets, smashing up vehicles and street signs. Fights also broke out sporadically, and various acts of criminal damage occurred.
It eventually too police, armed in riot gear, hours to gain back control of the situation and bring the disturbance to a halt. They reportedly fired pepper spray pellets into the crowd to be disperse troublemakers, and at least eight people were arrested for failing to disperse despite being ordered to do so by police officers.
An unidentified eye-witness to the event has told KTLA: "It started with like a fight, and then it just broke out. They were tipping Porta Potties. Then the cops started to move in, and they were throwing tear gas at everyone.
"Everyone was like plugging their nose and coughing and dodging into stores. Everyone was just running down Main Street."
The disturbance resulted in vehicles throughout the area being smashed up, shop windows were also targeted, and street signs were damaged.
According to CNN, the Huntington Beach police have said the crowd was dispersed by 9 p.m. PT.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A majority of Californians support the governor's proposal to give more money to school districts with a high percentage of low-income and English learner students, a new survey shows.
"Many Californians believe that student achievement will improve if we allocate more state money to disadvantaged students," said Mark Baldassare, president and CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California, or PPIC, which released the survey results Wednesday. "Still, most residents also say that we need to use existing funds more wisely to improve schools."
The survey showed that nearly three-quarters of all adults — 71 percent — said they favor Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan to direct most new K-12 education funding to school districts that have more poor students or those who don't speak English fluently. An overwhelming majority — or 78 percent of adults and 79 percent of likely voters — also favor Brown's plan to give more local control to districts as to how they spend their money.
Jonathan Kaplan, senior policy analyst for the California Budget Project, said these findings are significant, as the state Legislature debates the governor's proposal.
"Clearly, the survey affirms what the research shows — which is that Californians support providing resources needed for all students to receive a quality education, but particularly low-income and English learners," he said. "And Californians understand that students with greater needs require greater resources."
Even more significant, Kaplan said, were the survey's findings that Californians would support giving more money to these needy students, even if it means less funding for other districts.
Sixty-six percent said they would support additional money for districts with more low-income students, even if others got less. And 54 percent said they favored giving additional money to districts with more English language learners, even if less went to other districts.
Arun Ramanathan, executive director of the youth advocacy organization Education Trust-West, hopes legislators pay attention to this.
"It clearly shows you that the notion of sending more money to districts of high levels of need … is politically palatable in California across the board — and that runs directly counter to what those attacking the Local Control Funding Formula are saying in the Legislature," he said. "I think this survey should have tremendous impact."
Brown's overall approval rating was 46 percent, with 31 percent disapproving of the job he is doing as governor and 22 percent unsure. This was higher than the state Legislature's approval rating of 32 percent, with 53 percent disapproval and 15 percent unsure.
Education priorities among those surveyed showed a high level of support for college preparation, with 76 percent of all 1,705 respondents identifying this as very important, compared with 19 percent who said it was somewhat important and 4 percent who did not think it was too important. Likewise, 74 percent of Californians said career technical education or vocational courses were very important, 21 percent said they were somewhat important and 5 percent placed little importance on it.
Districts would have more flexibility to spend money on these types of programs under the governor's proposal, said Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, D-Concord. In the past, she said the state doled out restricted money for "categorical" programs such as small class sizes, but didn't track whether it made a difference.
"We haven't really done a good job of measuring the effectiveness of that spending in terms of outcomes," she said. "I think it's really the role of the Legislature to put in more performance-based accountability systems for schools."
But if there is no improvement, she proposes that the state consider taking away flexibility and imposing restrictions on how money is spent, with the goal of improving student achievement.
The survey showed 83 percent of Californians consider the quality of education in the state to be at least somewhat of a problem, with 49 percent calling it a big problem. This was better than last year, when 58 percent labeled it a big problem.
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It's been a fascinating year for Asia. The region has continued to consolidate its role as the essential player driving global recovery. Developing Asia, including China, India, and the major ASEAN economies, maintained robust growth, in contrast to the advanced economies' collective anemic growth over the same period.
But 2012 promises to be more fraught as domestic politics take command amid new challenges to growth.
Here are twelve trends I see coming for Asia in 2012—risks, opportunities, and emerging patterns that will shape Asia during the next twelve months, and beyond.
1. New Political Risks
It's often said that, in Asia, economics is in command. But one lesson of Europe's current struggles is that politics (and especially German domestic politics) matters deeply to choices about the EU's economic and financial future. Asia isn't Europe, of course, but in Asia too politics will matter greatly in 2012. Electoral outcomes and succession arrangements are likely to roil markets, bring to power governments more (or, in some cases, less) committed to institutional, regulatory, and trade-related reforms, and possibly yield greater international tension. Three elections—in the United States, South Korea, and Taiwan—will feature candidates and parties with distinct policies and priorities. China will complete a scheduled, if unelected, leadership change. And North Korea's elite, whose members aim above all to preserve themselves in power, must now navigate an earlier-than-expected transition that could yet produce infighting and vast new challenges for Pyongyang's neighbors. Thailand bears watching too, as former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra looks to return from exile. And such political risks will likely intensify well into 2014, when India and Indonesia hold elections. A possible return to Golkar rule in Indonesia, in particular, could slow institutional and policy reforms there.
2. A Coming Asian Slowdown?
Asia has sustained robust growth amid austerity in Europe and sluggish growth in the United States. But despite decent December data, new challenges are emerging for Asia's most export-dependent economies. The Asian Development Bank predicts "much greater downside risks" in 2012 because the threat of recession in the U.S. and Europe remains, as does the prospect of destabilizing capital flows. Who's most vulnerable? The markets will watch China especially closely because the world economy can hardly afford to have its three principal growth engines facing a crisis simultaneously. Beijing's landmark 12th Five Year Plan deliberately aims to get slower but more balanced growth. But such structural adjustments will come only gradually, and, in the meantime, China's economy continues to rely on exports and investment in fixed assets. That's one reason the Chinese economy has slowed for four consecutive quarters. My friend Damien Ma has noted a big contradiction in the market's view of China: Market participants have long hoped for a more sustainable growth trajectory (and, inevitably, more "sustainable" growth will mean slower growth); but now, with the world economy facing a slowdown, market participants have mostly reversed themselves: they no longer want slower but "sustainable" Chinese growth but rather even faster growth to bolster the world economy. Meanwhile, others, such as South Korea, will also be vulnerable in 2012. They have relied, in part, on Chinese demand to power their economies, so even a modest slowdown in China would have contagion effects elsewhere in Asia.
3. Model vs. Model
Preferential trade agreements (PTA) have proliferated in Asia. And the U.S. (finally!) entered the trade fray in 2011 by more fully embracing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a once-modest effort among some members of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum to move beyond consensus decision-making. In my view, TPP has considerable potential. But critics, like Jagdish Bhagwati, charge that TPP "includes numerous agendas unrelated to trade, such as labor standards and restraints on the use of capital-account controls" that would, among other things, preclude China's membership. Beijing has in essence, criticized TPP as part of a U.S. strategy to "contain" China. Yet Beijing has promoted its own brand of PTAs across the region—with ASEAN, Pakistan, Singapore, and others. The Doha round is going nowhere fast, so debates will intensify in 2012 about what types of agreements make sense as global trade negotiations continue to stall.
4. Can the United States Get its Act Together?
So much was made in 2011 of Washington's supposed strategic "pivot" to Asia. But the reality is that the "pivot," such as it is, mostly reflects longstanding U.S. policies in Asia and is anchored in strategic and policy pillars that date back decades. A bigger issue for Washington's partners in Asia is that the United States, for all its inherent strengths, still doesn't have its economic act together. Thus the principal strategic issue for most in Asia is whether America restores its economy and addresses its fiscal deficit and growth outlook. Dealing vigorously with debt, entitlement and tax reform, questions of business competitiveness, and energy and education policies, among others, will loom ever larger as Asians contemplate America. The weaker America's fiscal and economic position becomes in 2012, the less relevant the United States will be to Asia's future.
5. More Gloom About India
India will grow robustly, but more slowly in 2012. And that's one of many sources of gloom about India's prospects. Tax, pension, and FDI reforms have stalled. Parliamentary business has been tied up in knots as the leading national and regional parties squabble. Mumbai's SENSEX stock index was the world's worst major performer in 2011, declining from 20,561.05 on January 3 to 15,175.08 on December 19. Will India's politicians become bolder in 2012? It's unlikely. Bellwether state elections, especially in Uttar Pradesh, are almost certain to make the major parties more cautious still. With a few exceptions, the markets (and many in India's own political class) will express more gloom, and ask even tougher questions, about India's trajectory in 2012. This piece from Tarun Das is a terrific example.
6. A Farewell to Reform?
But India won't be the only country to face intensified scrutiny of its reform trajectory in 2012. In Vietnam and Indonesia, too, FDI, regulatory, or financial reforms have largely stalled and show little sign of revival. And by far the biggest question mark about reform is China. Some in Beijing, for example, argue that China now has "reform fatigue," made worse by a sensitive political transition. But resistance to reform is also anchored in interest group politics and, thus, is more endemic and likely to be stubborn. Chinese leaders, as cautious technocrats, tend to split the difference between competing groups in China's increasingly pluralistic polity. And the result has been a strong bias toward incremental policy change rather than bold reforms. One bright spot in 2012 may be Malaysia, which has begun to shed elements of its 1970s era "New Economic Policy."
7. ASEAN's Burma Opportunity
Are political reforms in Burma for real? We will learn much more in 2012 as the regime weighs further prisoner releases, the future of the now legalized National League for Democracy, and Aung San Suu Kyi's own desire to run for office. But another question mark will be ASEAN's response to this change. Balancing the role of great powers to the north—China and Japan—has long provided an impetus to ASEAN community building. And concern about China, in particular, helped drive the transformation of ASEAN after the end of the Vietnam War. ASEAN's founding members wanted all ten countries joined as a cohesive force to help balance China. But their timing in expanding ASEAN's membership was poor: unlike Vietnam, Burma, which joined in 1997 (two years after Hanoi) has stubbornly resisted ASEAN ways. So with Burma now scheduled to assume the ASEAN chairmanship in 2014, regional heavyweights, like Indonesia, will face tough decisions about how hard to push the regime. And they must weigh how to assimilate Burma to ASEAN ways as the date of Naypyidaw's stewardship approaches.
8. China Inc. … Coming West
Beijing is sitting on over $3 trillion in foreign exchange reserves (much of it in U.S. dollars), with billions more in the hands of corporations eager to invest in U.S. and European markets. The U.S. and Europe will press Beijing harder on currency values, intellectual property, and market opening in 2012. But for its part, China is certain to press harder for more openness to direct investment from China Inc., including its state-owned companies. That will yield intense political debate, especially in the U.S. Some have argued that Chinese investments, especially from non-state companies, would be on a sounder political footing if they created jobs through greenfield investments rather than the portfolio investment and corporate mergers and acquisitions that Chinese companies have tended to prefer. The fact is, the level of job-creating Chinese investment remains very small. In 2010, Chinese FDI stock in the United States was $5.9 billion—just about one-tenth of the $50 billion of U.S. FDI stock in China. And while FDI from all countries has created 5.6 million U.S. jobs, including over 2 million in manufacturing, affiliates of Chinese firms in the U.S. employed barely more than 4,000 Americans in 2009.
9. The Big Hedge Gets Thornier
This central strategic reality of Asia will remain in 2012: Asian countries are deepening defense and political coordination with the United States (and each other) as a hedge against Beijing's growing strategic weight; but, even against that backdrop, slack global demand means that China will continue to power the growth of nearly every major economy in Asia. Put simply, economics and security are increasingly in collision. So one reason Washington's best friends are rooting so hard for U.S. recovery in 2012 is precisely because they fear this balancing act cannot prove sustainable forever. The United States continues to provide Asia's principal security-related public goods through its forward-deployed military presence and role as a strategic balancer. But Asian economies will increasingly provide one another with their principal economic-related public good—namely, the demand that can provide a pathway to sustained economic growth. This collision between economics and security may well intensify in 2012.
10. More Trade Conflict
Protectionist pressures will rise in 2012. But, just as important, so too will the tolerance for trade conflict, particularly in Washington and Beijing. China has grown more comfortable with the World Trade Organization's dispute-resolution procedures. And, having learned to leverage the system to its own advantage, Beijing is vigorously fighting U.S. suits in many areas. It has investigated numerous anti-dumping cases brought by Chinese producers, lent its ear to a proliferation of Chinese business lobbies, and recently slapped countervailing duties on U.S. auto exports in response to a U.S. case on chicken parts. For their part, U.S. political and business elites are certain to complain ever more loudly about Chinese currency, intellectual property, procurement, and cyber-related practices. Most in Asia will watch warily, fearing greater protectionism. But some will jump on the bandwagon: India has already initiated 149 anti-dumping cases against China.
11. Learning from Asia
Robert Zoellick, the World Bank president, has argued that the economic models now being emulated in Africa and beyond will come increasingly from outside the advanced G7 economies. The rich world, Zoellick argues, cannot patronize developing nations with aid conditions and policy guidance when its own recent performance has been so dismal. In 2012, others will continue to look to Asia in this way. Zoellick noted two examples in a recent speech: India's model for information technology services, copied by Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and others; and Singapore's combination of "open economy, services cluster, anti-corruption, and relentless adaptation to changing conditions."
12. State Building or Economic Disintegration in Continental Asia?
Finally, 2012 should be another rough year for Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Pakistan. War, terrorism, narcotics, and weak political institutions steal headlines, of course. But the region's future will depend as much on whether governments improve their poor macro- and microeconomic fundamentals and expand opportunity—for example by improving trade and transit regimes. Central Asia suffers from a poisonous combination of landlocked geography and especially bad economic policies. Major initiatives, including from the international financial institutions, seek to change this. In its own way, so does infrastructure construction by China. But the sad reality is that enthusiasm for cooperation remains far greater outside the region than among the states themselves. Economic change will remain elusive unless these states better cooperate in 2012. Meanwhile, Pakistan's economy has considerable potential. But the country lacks a credible growth strategy. And Islamabad will remain burdened by a high debt-to-GDP ratio that crossed 60 percent in 2010, painful debt service obligations to its creditors, a large fiscal deficit, double-digit inflation, a depreciating rupee, and a trade deficit worsened by high global commodity prices. These economic realities will compound intensifying political risks in Pakistan.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The operator of the nation's first privately owned state prison is working to correct dozens of safety, health and security issues uncovered in a recent audit.
Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corporation of America has been firmly rebuked by Ohio officials for conditions identified at Lake Erie Correctional Facility, along the shores of Lake Erie.
The September management review was released to The Associated Press on Friday. It says auditors found mildew in showers and an unmarked urine specimen on a desk. It says inmates operated a meat slicer with no safety guards.
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction says the audit results are unacceptable.
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Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg hosted a fundraising dinner at his Palo Alto home Wednesday night for New Jersey's Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
This was the Facebook CEO's first time hosting a political fundraiser, who has no political affliation, and has been courted by Democratic President Barack Obama, too.
The goal is to introduce Christie - considered a moderate member of the GOP - to Zuckerberg's literal social network.
The fact that Zuckerberg would help both a Republican and a Democrat is not unusual, according to James Balassone, an executive in residence at Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
As a CEO, Balassone said that Zuckerberg is responsible for "nurturing and developing relationships in D.C." with people who may "one day end up regulating" the things he is vested in.
Both Zuckerberg and Christie, Balassone said, are "rock stars" in their worlds of politics and social networking.
The invite list was not been made public, but Silicon Valley heavy hitters were expected, according to CNBC.
About 40 protesters stood outside Zuckerberg's house before the 6 p.m. event. They said they objected to Christie's visit because of his efforts to strip funding from Planned Parenthood and other women's reproductive health care programs.
Zuckerberg met Christie in 2010 when Zuckerberg donated $100 million to Newark public schools. The two shared the stage on a highly rated Oprah episode where she praised the donation.
The price of the meal on Wednesday night was $3,800, which is the New Jersey political donation limit. The money will be used to help Christie in his gubernatorial run later this year.
Because of his wealth and his position in Silicon Valley, Zuckerberg has rubbed elbows with Obama on several occasions, including attending a high profile dinner with the president and Silicon Valley elite in 2011.
Facebook also hosted a town hall for Obama during his first term in office.
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A testament to failure of a security-centric approach to Kashmir
On the pleasant morning of September 14 last year, Fardeen Khanday, the oldest of a policeman's four sons, left his home in Hayuna village, Tral, for a walk and didn't return. Three days later, on September 17, his family received the news they feared: the 15-year-old had joined the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad.
"He woke up early as usual, offered Namaz, recited the Quran, and started studying. He had breakfast and went for a stroll," recalls his father Ghulam Muhamad Khanday. The family searched for him, but eventually gave up after a few weeks.
A little over three months later, on New Year's Eve, Fardeen turned up: at a CRPF camp at Lethpora village, Pulwama. He and two of his comrades – Manzoor Ahmad Baba and a Pakistani militant – had launched a pre-dawn Fidayeen attack on the camp, killing five CRPF personnel. In a few hours, the rebels lay dead as well. Fardeen had turned 16 two weeks earlier.
Fardeen was an unlikely militant, his father says. "He was an introvert, preferring solitude to hanging out with friends. He never even participated in protests. He was always engrossed in studies."
Indeed, the night before he left home, Fardeen was up till past midnight, studying with his twin brother Faizan, preparing for the Class 10 annual exam. "He was the brightest of his siblings," says his father. "He dreamed of becoming a doctor."
Yet, this is increasingly the profile of Kashmir's new militants – bright young boys seemingly uninterested in any politics. And it has the security establishment worried. "Earlier, the militants were mostly in the 18-25 age group. But of late we are seeing boys as young as 15 being recruited," said a senior police official who only agreed to speak anonymously.
The official claimed that while security agencies "always make the effort to arrest these young boys during gunfights", they often refuse the offer of surrender and get killed.
That is likely because most of them are ideologically driven. "What we have observed is that these teenage boys who become militants are quite mature for their age," says a political analyst who asked not to be named. As evidence, he pointed to a video recording of Fardeen that was released after the gunfight and went viral.
In it, Fardeen, speaking calmly in chaste Urdu, explains his decision to pick up the gun. "Our land is occupied by infidels," he says. "So jihad becomes our duty." It isn't poverty and unemployment, he says, that drives young men like him to join the militancy: "That is propaganda peddled by the state."
Warning of Fidayeen attacks like those in Humhama, Pulwama, Pathankot and Nagrota, he says, "By the time this video reaches you I will be a guest in heaven." This suggests the Lethpora attack had already been planned by when the nearly eight-minute video was recorded, although it is not known exactly when that was.
"My friends and I have listened to the call for jihad and plunged into the battlefield. This battle will continue till the last occupying soldier leaves Kashmir," Fardeen declares, and urges his peers to "join the fight against Indian aggression".
Among the people who had come to offer condolences to Fardeen's family was Muhamad Ismail Parray, 70, a retired government servant from nearby Ladibal village. "I know losing one's son is not easy. But it is Allah's wish and we should submit to it," he tells the mourners.
He should know. His 19-year old son Ishaq Ahmad Parray, popular among his friends as Newton for his exceptional academic record, had just passed Class 12 with over 90 per cent marks and was preparing for the IIT engineering entrance exam when he left to join the Hizbul Mujahideen in March 2015. He was killed in a gunfight with the Indian forces exactly a year after.
In March last year, 15-year-old Faizan Ahmad from Tral town who aspired to be a doctor left to join the Hizbul Mujahideen, and was killed only a few months later, on May 27.
"He was the best among us," says his friend Murawat Hussain, adding that he loved cricket and dreamed of becoming a doctor. "He never so much as mentioned anything about the militancy."
The rebel visited his family once, his grandfather Abdul Gani Sheikh says, and they tried to persuade him to surrender. "No, I have chosen my path," replied the boy who had only just begun to sprout a beard. "Pray for my martyrdom."
Barely a few days after Faizan joined the Hizb, Aadil Chopan, a Class 11 student from Luraw village in Tral, followed him. Unlike Faizan, though, he would talk to his friends about "the oppression faced by our people and freedom". But he never showed an inclination towards taking up the gun, his friends and family say. "The day we came to know about his decision we were utterly surprised," says his father Abdul Rashid Chopan.
Two months later, Adil would be caught in a gunfight in Saimoh village of Tral, in which Hizb commander Sabzar Bhat and Faizan Bhat were killed. He survived. "As people came to know that Sabzar and his associate were trapped in a house they tried their best to rescue them. The forces had a tough time dealing with the protesters but finally managed to kill Sabzar by blowing up the house," says a villager who asked not to be named. "But they were soon forced to flee from the village by the protesters. Later, they would Adil in a cupboard of the damaged house and rescued him." He eventually fell on November 20, in an encounter in Seer village of Tral.
In early August, two young militants were killed in a brief gunbattle in Kulgam district's Gopalpora village. Aaqib Hamid Itoo, 16, was a local while Suhail Arif, also 16, was from Yaripora, a village not far away. Aaqib had joined the Hizb in September 2016, soon after the killing of the storied Hizb commander Burhan Wani, while Suhail joined in March 2017.
"Aqib never participated in protests, neither showed any inclination for militancy. So, everyone was surprised by his decision," says a villager in Gopalpora.
Suhail's neighbours say he was constantly harassed by government forces who accused him of being an "overground worker" for militants. "It finally forced him to become a militant."


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David Arquette on Oprah Talking About Courteney Cox
David Arquette Still Loves Courteney "to Death"
Like the majority of you, I don't really know why David Arquette is talking about the breakdown of his marriage on Oprah, but he is. Oprah just has that effect on people! In the video below, he says inscribed in their wedding rings was "A deal's a deal," and he felt like she broke that deal. Things get even more personal and intense in the second half when he admits he's completely embarrassed about the personal details he revealed on Howard Stern, and then basically — no literally — says "I love Courteney. I love her to death." Check it out now and then watch the second half here.


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Will the '08 Race Begin and End in Iowa?
-- Will the 2008 presidential race boil down to the state where it all began?
Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucus, held on Jan. 3, 2008, launched Sen. Barack Obama onto the Democratic presidential map when he emerged victorious with 38 percent of the vote over party rivals Sen. John Edwards and Sen. Hillary Clinton, who won 30 and 29 percent, respectively.
Both Sen. Chris Dodd and Sen. Joe Biden, who later became the Democratic vice presidential nominee, dropped out of the race following Iowa, each capturing less than 1 percent of the vote.
The Hawkeye State wasn't necessarily a predictor of all party destinies. On the Republican side, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee beat former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the top GOP spot in the state. Sen. John McCain, who went on to become the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, tied for third place in Iowa with former Sen. Fred Thompson.
Obama benefits from tremendous ground support in Iowa. His operatives worked hard to win over the supporters of Democratic candidates who left the race long after the caucus date had passed.
McCain faces is vulnerable in Iowa because of his immigration policies and opposition to issues that effect local interests.
Iowa backed Democrat Al Gore in 2000 and Republican incumbent President George Bush in 2004.


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There are still spots available in all of our Dolphin Camp courses for ages 10-12 or 13-14. For adults ages 18 and older, we have courses open in All About Dolphins as well as the Career Focused Series classes.
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DolphinCamp and DolphinLab Spots Still Open!
Whether you're thinking about a career with marine mammals, or you simply love dolphins and want to learn more about them while having fun, you're an excellent candidate for DolphinLab.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Game On!
Merina was ready to join in for some ring-toss fun!
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Adorable Meet
Emily, one of our research trainers, recently had a number of young children join her, Tanner and AJ for a Meet the Dolphin program. One three year old girl was too scared to do the flippershake. After the other children did the behavior, Emily talked more to the little girl and the conversation was precious.
"I've known these guys for awhile," Emily said. "They're really cool."
"You know 'dem?" the youngster asked?
Emily nodded. The girl's mother really wanted her to do the behavior and offered to sit with her on the edge of the dock while she met the dolphins.
"No, Mommy. You don't know dem," the little girl said, and then pointed at Emily. "She knows dem."
Braver now that she was with a real friend of Tanner and AJ's, the child sat with Emily and shook flippers with our handsome, gentle guys.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Splashing into the Blogosphere!
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Gadgets for Photography Geeks
From Samsung's waterproof camera to Polaroid's fun instant camera, Tech Launch Squad's Andrew Felix reviews the best gadgets for photography hobbyists. Photo: Polaroid.
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Fun Fun Fun Fest Austin: Run-DMC, Superchunk, and... Ryan Gosling
What's that? You didn't realize that Austin had another music festival between last month's Austin City Limits and March's South By Southwest? Then you, sir or ma'am, are not Terrance Malick. (More on that later.)
This past weekend, Fun Fun Fun Fest — a three-day event with four stages of college-radio royalty, hip-hop heroes, and your cool older brother's favorite hardcore bands — took over the sunny Texas capital for the seventh year in a row. And while this newish entry to the festival-industrial complex doesn't yet have the hashtag ubiquity and Tupac holograms of its more established peers, it is able to rope in a reunited Run-DMC, top-shelf comedy, and enough Ryan Gosling appearances to justify its own Tumblr. Also, there was a taco canon. (None on that later.)
And Music Mix was there too. Forthwith, a day-by-day graded run-down of Fun Fun Fun Fest's highlights.
Bob Mould The legendary Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman has an excellent new solo album out this year, but lately he's been indulging longtime fans with a special treat: a full performance of Copper Blue, the much-beloved (and newly remastered) Sugar album from 1992. And as one might expect, Mould killed the ish out of it. "I like that record," he announced after finishing up "Man on the Moon," Copper Blue's last track. "It'd probably the last time I'll ever play that whole record live." Grade: A
Val Kilmer and Rooney Mara With the Black Lips Yes, that's right, the star of Batman Forever and the girl with the dragon tattoo in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo shared a stage with Atlanta's messiest indie-rock outfit. To catch you up to speed: Tree of Life director Terrance Malick is currently in the very long, very strange process of filming a movie about Austin's renowned music scene. As a result, the likes of Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Christian Bale, Kilmer, and Mara — all stars of the still-untitled project — have become fixtures at the city's many festivals, which Malick has been using to shoot on-site footage for the movie. And while we're pretty sure Gosling winked at us during a surreal wait in the line for the port-o-potties, that was nothing compared to the rambling rant delivered by Kilmer, in character as a washed-up rocker named Dwayne, during the Black Lips set. Don't worry, the whole The Doors thing was addressed too. Watch the spectacle for yourself in the video below:
Superchunk There probably isn't a week that goes by in which Music Mix doesn't listen to Superchunk. So we're just going to go ahead and say Superchunk's performance was the best of the weekend, because we're making up the rules here and there's nothing you can do about it. Probably the only thing better than Superchunk's Friday show was Superchunk's Thursday show — a more intimate affair at a festival-adjacent venue called the Mohawk. At either show, though, you got to see Superchunk play "Throwing Things." To sum things up: Superchunk! Grade: A++
X "Austin and New Orleans beat the s— out of the rest of the country," shouted Exene Cervenka, the pioneering punk band's 56-year-old frontwoman. As for the group's hometown? "L.A.'s a pretty good city too," she added. Even better is Los Angeles, the seminal 1980 album that the band played in its entirety. Grade: X
Bun B The UGK veteran is one of the pillars of Houston's highly influential rap scene, so he didn't have any trouble firing up his Texas-heavy audience. Full of easy rhymes and irresistible beats, Bun B threw one of Fun Fun Fun's funnest parties. Five years on, and "International Players Anthem" still never fails to delight. Grade: Bun B+
Run-DMC In case you haven't noticed, the festival's first day was heavy on nostalgia. So fittingly enough, the day culminated with a special performance by Run-DMC, no doubt the weekend's most anticipated event. "This is the first show we accepted in thirteen years," Rev Run mused at the set's start. (They announced their Fun Fun Fun Fest gig before they were tapped to reunite last September for Jay-Z's Made in America festival.) Old fans and new listeners alike bounced along to durable hits like "It's Tricky," "Rock Box," and "My Adidas." Of course, there was one very important pair of Adidas missing from the stage, but, endearingly enough, Jam Master Jay's absence was made up for by his sons Jason "Jam Master J'Son" Mizell Jr. and T.J. "Dasmatic" Mizell, who stood in for their late father. (Bonus: DMC had a pretty sweet Nirvana t-shirt on.) Grade: A
David Cross As long as his presence here doesn't mean something's gone wrong with the Arrested Development revival, we're pretty sure Cross was our favorite comedian of the weekend. (Hannibal Burress, you were a very close second.) Hopefully he'll be hitting the road soon, because his amazing riff on the social-networking site Badoo and its questionable ad campaign deserves to be heard everywhere. Grade: B+
Real Estate Relaxed dudes producing relaxed vibes on a relaxed afternoon in a relaxed town. Went well with breakfast tacos and a Bloody Mary. Grade: B
A$AP Rocky Remember when we talked about how influential Bun B and his city's rap scene is? A$AP was proof positive of that. The world is still waiting for his actual major-label debut, but in the meantime, he's down to play on every festival bill in sight. But even though this might be the 27th time Music Mix has seen him perform this year, it might be the first where the appearance wasn't cut short due to brawl-related reasons. His set, in fact, was pretty damn solid. He delivered festival-worthy renditions of "Wassup" and "Peso," the whole Mob came out for "Coke and White Bitches," and fellow risers Danny Brown and Schoolboy Q joined the mix for some memorable collaborations. Grade: $+
Public Image Ltd. John Lydon's post-Pistols outfit released their first album in twenty years this year. It's pretty solid, but it's also pretty unexciting, and the same can be said about the show. Unlike also-active post-punk peers like Mission of Burma or Wire, PiL don't really seem keen on lighting any fuses with making music someone might lose spittle to. Sure, Lydon's voice was in nice shape, and the band sounded great, but we're not sure if it was quite worth all those butter adverts. Grade: B
King Tuff Technically, we saw these guys play during "FFF Nites," the bar-time side events that the festival hosts at actual downtown venues. Good thing, too. The Kyle Thomas-led band was as hugely catchy in an intimate live setting as they are on record (see: the self-titled album they released this year), and they even threw in a deep cut or two from Thomas' other awesome project, Happy Birthday. Grade: A-
Eugene Mirman Again, comedy acts need to be seen and not read about, so trust us that Mirman nailed it. His set included everything from riffs on the Tea Party, jokes about Facebook ads, and some "killer housing-market humor." His words. Grade: B+
Titus Andronicus The rollicking New Jersey band's intense brows were matched by the sweaty, throaty, beardy, everything-y intensity they put forth on the stage. It was a little bit like their "No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future" video, but times 10. Grade: A-
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead The workhorse art-punks have been leaning a little too hard on their proggier side in recent years, but their latest album Lost Songs brings back the ribcage-rattling strikes that made 2002's Source Tags & Codes so excellent. That was compounded by the Austin-based band's hometown-heroes status, making their set one of the day's pleasurably rowdiest. Grade: B+
Honorable Mentions: We hear Edward Sharpe, Japandroids, and De La Soul put on great Sunday sets as well, but Music Mix had to miss them due to airplane-related reasons. Alas! Maybe we'll catch them all at whatever the next Austin festival is. It shouldn't be a long wait.
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Iowa Reminds Waterfowl Hunters to Stop Aquatic Invasive Species
Iowa Department of Natural Resources 10.09.13
Waterfowl hunters using boats to reach their hunting location are reminded that they have new laws to follow that are designed to protect Iowa lakes, rivers, and wetlands from the spread of aquatic invasive species.
"Hunters are legally required to drain all water and remove plants and aquatic invasive species from boats and equipment before leaving a water access," said Kim Bogenschutz, Iowa DNR Aquatic Invasive Species Program Coordinator. "Drain plugs need to remain removed or opened during transport."
Duck hunting season opens in the north zone on Oct. 12, in the south zone on Oct. 19 and in the Missouri River zone on Oct. 26.
Boats can be carrying aquatic vegetation inside the boat and/or hanging on the trailer. Aquatic invasive species such as Eurasian watermilfoil, purple loosestrife, and brittle naiad could be among the vegetation on a boat, decoys, or blind. Zebra mussels could also be attached to aquatic vegetation or equipment or in equipment holding water.
These species could be unintentionally transported if waterfowl hunters do not take the proper precautions to prevent their spread.
Aquatic plants can be used for construction and during transport of a shooting blind as long as there are no aquatic invasive species present in the blind and the aquatic plants used are emergent species (such as cattails) cut above the waterline and contain no seed heads, roots, or rhizomes.
Hunters should follow a simple set of procedures each time when leaving the water to avoid carrying unwanted hitchhikers.
- CLEAN any plants, mud, or debris from boat, decoys, waders, and other equipment before leaving a water body.
- DRAIN water from all equipment (boat, motor, bilge, hunting gear, decoys) before leaving a water body.
- DRY anything that comes into contact with water (boats, trailers, decoys, boots, dogs). Before transporting to another water body either: Spray your boat and equipment with hot, high-pressure water; or Dry your boat and equipment for at least five days.


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(To help readers with the two strands to the story, Filona's strand is italicised.)
Maree brought the last verse of the song to an end with a gitar flourish. It was nearly time for nooning, and she could hear parents, fosterers and older siblings gathering outside the Little Hall to collect the young members of the class and to take them away to eat.
After dismissing the class, she started to tidy the Learning Hall. Even after nearly three months assisting Harper Indyne at Benden Weyr, she still found it odd and, to some extent, un-nerving to be trusted with an entire class. After all, they were less than ten years younger than her. She moved around collecting colouring sticks from tables (and floor) and picking up discarded scraps of parchment, left over from the figuring and writing practice with which they had started the morningâs lessons, for scraping clean for re-use.
There seemed to be a lot of space left in the box containing the colours. She checked all around the room again. There werenât any left on the tables, or on the floor, or even under the storage shelves along the wall. Except for one stick chewed to death, there werenât any in the sack of rubbish: she emptied it out to make sure. Refilling the sack, she thought hard. Around a ten or a dozen colour sticks were missing and she couldnât remember seeing any of the pupils leaving the room clutching a handful.
Filona brought the last verse of the song to an end with a harp flourish. It was nearly time for nooning, and she could hear parents, fosterers and older siblings gathering outside the Little Hall to collect the young members of the class and to take them away to eat.
After dismissing the class, she started to tidy the Learning Hall. Even after a couple of months assisting Harper Câlef at High Reaches Weyr, she still found it odd and, to some extent, un-nerving to be trusted with an entire class. After all, they were less than ten years younger than her. She moved around collecting colouring sticks from tables (and floor) and picking up discarded scraps of parchment, left over from the figuring and writing practice with which they had started the morningâs lessons, for scraping clean for re-use.
Suddenly she halted her activities: the dragons were keening the passing of one of their number. She ran out to the main crater thinking hard; none of the dragons were known to be near death, nor were any of the riders.
She was spotted by Weyrwoman Lyza, and grabbed into an enveloping hug. âBe brave, Filona.â
âWhy? Who?â
âRaithâs gone between with Câlef.â
âWhat?â She burst into tears. âWhy?â
âWe donât know why yet. They were flying a sweep down to the south. Perhaps Câlef had a sudden heart attack.â
âHe was fine at breakfast.â
âI know.â
âWhoâll take over? I canât.â
âNo poppet: we have to send for the Master Harper. Heâll have to appoint somebody new to be Harper. Come on, Iâm taking you to the infirmary. Youâve had a nasty shock and I think we should keep an eye on you.â Mâtak joined them and picked Filona up to carry her.
âWhat about our practice? We were meant to spend the afternoon on the ballads for Turnâs End.â
âWeâll sort that out for you later. Come on. Thinking on it: I think youâll be better off in my weyr.â
After eating a hasty nooning in the kitchen cavern, Maree returned to the Little Hall and settled down to some serious practice. Harper Indyne was due to join her in a glass or so. With Turnâs End a matter of a few days away, and a whole series of performances to ready, she knew she really had to buckle down to the disciplines of finger and breathing exercises before her Master joined her and they worked on the set ballads.
Nearly a glass later, the door opened to reveal, not the expected Indyne, but one of her pupils.
âWhat are you doing here, Adan?â
âMa sent me to find a orange colour stick.â He said, heading across the Hall to where the box of colours was stored. âIâs teaching her to write anâ sheâs teaching me to draw.â
Before Maree could make any reply, the door opened again and Master Indyne entered to commence their joint practice.
âHallo, young Adan. What are you doing here?â
âHeâs BORROWING a colour stick for his mother: arenât you Adan?â Maree gave him a hard look. Adan scuffed a shoe on the floor. âRun along Adan.â
He ran out of the door clutching the colour, and the two musicians settled down to work.
Filona didnât feel like eating a nooning, not even a mug of soup, and spent the afternoon asleep on Lyzaâs bed fellised out. They wakened her up in the evening and insisted on her eating a light meal after which she went back to sleep.
That evening, with her wrists aching from four hours of intense practice, Maree collected her meal and looked round the cavern looking for Adan. She had spoken briefly to his mother, Candilla, a couple of times when it had been her turn to collect the group of children Maree mentally named as the âCavern Crewâ, the offspring of the Drudges. She spotted the pair at a side table and headed across towards them.
âMay I join you two?â
Adan nodded.
His mother gestured to the seat opposite her. âYouâre from Ru-atha arenât you?â
âYes. Do you know it?â
âMy mother came from Ru-atha.â
âHow did she land up over this side of Pern??
âShe was sent here. She was called Merle anâ she came from Ru-atha Hold where her Da was a guard, anâ her got married to a holder in north west of the Holding. She was very pretty anâ the Weyr-Leader spotted her anâ had her. He used to boast that he could have any woman he wanted. Well he got her pregnant with me, anâ that finished things. Her husband threw her out anâ told her to go to the Weyr, to her lover. The Weyr-Leader didnât want her round the weyr: he was partnered with the senior gold rider after all, anâ heâd had Merle once; that was all he wanted her for, as yet another woman heâd managed to have.â Merle stopped to have drink.
âWas that Târump?â asked Maree.
âYes; the tunnel snake! He got threaded the first fall of this Pass anâ weâre told he died in agonies! Good! When Ma arrived at the Weyr, it was some turns before this Pass started, the Weyr Woman, Quilla, didnât want Ma around the weyr and arranged for her to come over here, as far away as she could get her.â
âIâm very sorry for her. What awful way to treat her.â Maree turned to Adan. âDid you know; Iâve got a brother called Adan; heâs five.â
âIs he clever like me?â
âProbably; but heâs only just learning his letters and numbers.â
âWhich bit of Ru-atha do you come from?â asked Candilla.
âRundles: itâs a hold down in the south-east of the Holding.â
âIâve never been to Ru-atha.â
âPerhaps we should get you two to visit sometime.â
Next morning Lyza woke Filona and, when she burst back into tears, wrapped her into another hug.
âI think youâd be better off at home for a bit. Would you like me to arrange that?â
âYes; I want my mother and Maree.â
âIâll find a rider to take you. Iâd take you myself, but Iâve got to be here for Master Harper Kandar when he arrives.â
Later that morning, dressed in her leathers, carrying a small bag of bits and bobs on her back, and clutching her harp in its case, Filona met Kâvill and his green dragon, Pameth, in the weyr bowl.
Kâvill took her instrument case from her and strapped it behind clear of where Filona would be seated. âWould you mind if we flew you home straight? Iâve got to do the sweep flight down that way today and it seems stupid to waste time to take you between and then have to fly it straight as well.â
âNo thatâs fine by me. Iâd like to see some bits of Ru-atha I donât know, and going between I wouldnât see anything.â
Next morning, Maree was breakfasting in the Kitchen Cavern. Sniffing hard at the smell of baking bread, she collected a large bowl of cereal, adde sweetening, and found a seat. She was well down the bowl when Head Woman Fensra banged a on a large pot for silence.
âIâd just like to remind people that weâve got a trader train due in around nooning time. And more importantly, weâve got thread-fall due the morning of Turnâs End. The weatherâs rather warm for this time of year. So, Weyr-Leaderâs orders, this time weâre not celebrating with alcohol. We do NOT want to lose any of you due to thick heads.â
Master Indyne, clutching a very large mug of klah, approached Maree. âThat will put a crimp in a lot of peoplesâ celebrating. But, at least theyâre more likely to remember what I read out by way of announcements.â
After a morningâs teaching, Maree was back in the Kitchen Cavern when a pair walked in still in their riding leathers and pulling off their helmets. Garmish, seated the other side of the cavern, leapt to his feet, rushed over and wrapped one of the pair in a great hug, yelling âSareel!â
Into the following silence she said, âHi you. Iâve got a couple of days to visit you lot before going home for Turnâs End. By the way; thereâs a trader train just entering the other end of the tunnel.â
At her last sentence, a lot of people went back to eating, hurrying through their food in order to get outside in the Bowl to welcome the traders. The rest, Maree and Indyne included, took their time; the traders would be here until tomorrow.
Indyne and Maree finally put they empty plates on the stack for washing. Candilla, up to her elbows in suds, gave them a cheery grin. They wandered out into the Bowl which was a hive of activity. The trader wagons were drawn up in two lines, burden beasts were being unhitched and led away, and Trader Lilcampe was supervising the setting up of an avenue of stalls. Maree spotted Dzakalyn chatting to an older pair of traders. Dzalalyn looked round and beckoned her over.
âThese are my parents,â she said as soon as Maree was close. âMum, Dad, this is Maree.â
Dzalalynâs father grabbed her hand and shook it hard. âIâm . . . WEâRE very pleased to meet you. Us Au Connells donât often come out on the trading routes; we run the main storage establishments. But, we had to come and find you; you gave us back our family history.â
Maree blushed: not just her face but right down inside her winter clothing as well. âIâm glad we found it for you. It wasnât just me you know, my twin Filona, and Sareel from the Fort Family were involved too.â
âYes, but it was you twins who found the book and realised what it was, AND made us a copy. Weâve a thank you gift for the two of you . . .â He went to a nearby wagon, and returned with a bundle in his arms. âThese are for you and your sister.â He offered the bundle to Maree.
Maree fumbled with the bundle, till Dzakalyn grabbed it and helped her, holding out one of a pair of heavy-weight harper-blue cloaks of close-woven wool, each lined with wherry-down, and with a gold dragon in flight embroidered on the back. Maree swung it round her shoulders and snuggled into it. âItâs beautiful; and so warm. You really shouldnât have; but Iâm glad you did. Iâll have to wait to give Filona hers, Iâm going to be busy here playing for Turnâs End, and sheâll be doing the same. I donât think weâll be meeting up till around the Spring Evener.â
Master Indyne, standing behind her, coughed. âHrumph! We could arrange for you to fly across to High Reaches a bit sooner than that. There are routine messenger flights between the Weyrs fairly frequently. Iâm sure we could send you as a passenger. Perhaps we could get you there for Turnâs End?â
âBut . . . weâve been practicing all the music to play here.â
âYes. But, useful though you are, and undoubtedly you add an extra to the various ballads and dances, Iâve done it with just the few musical riders in the past, and can do it thus again.â
Kâvill, with Filona firmly strapped on to Pameth behind him, was flying gently eastwards down a wooded river valley leading to the Ice Lake above Ru-atha Hold. He was checking the odd spot of damage done by thread last time they had Fall over these hills, and watching for message pennants. The holdings up here tended to either work the timber stands, or to be pastoral with hardy animals grazing for as much of the year as possible, moving up and down the heights as weather permitted. Not much was moving on the hills this close to Turnâs End so the sight of a lone hunter gesturing to them with his bow from the edge where the forests changed to pasture was a welcome break from boredom.
Kâvill had Pameth swoop much lower and come to a hover just above the ground.
Pameth and Kâvill screamed and, to Filonaâs horror, an arrow pinned Kâvillâs left arm to his chest. Pameth went between with Filona struggling to keep Kâvill upright and trying desperately to picture the Weyr Bowl.
âThe Weyr! The Weyr! Take us to the Weyr! I donât want to disappear! The Weyr!â
Their arrival back at High Reaches Weyr, just as Master Harper Kandar was dismounting from the Fort dragon that had transported him, caused a fluster. As the welcoming delegation diverted to lift Kâvill down, and to help a very relieved Filona to get down and unstrap her harp, Lyza was sending a weyrling to fetch the healer. Pameth was crooning at her rider and getting in the way. Kandar, attended by Weyr Leader Mâtak, grabbed Filona and moved her away from the bustle.
âWhat on earth happed?â
âWe were just flying along, and there was this hunter waving to us, and then he shot Kâvill.â
âWhere was this?â
âWe were in a river valley to the west of the Ice Lake. I could show you on a map.â
âCome on then: to the Records Room.â
The three headed up the steps to Lyzaâs weyr; leaving everybody else to carry Kâvill to the infirmary, extract the arrow and treat his wounds.
After a while Lyza joined them there and found them imbibing the mulled wine and klah put ready for Kandarâs arrival.
âWell,â she said in reply to a look from Mâtak, âheâll live. He wonât be flying for many a seven-day but heâll live. If the arrow had not gone through his arm first, heâd be dead.â
âFilonaâs given me the approximate location. Iâll take my wing down there and find the mad idiot.â
âNO YOU SHARDING WELL WONâT! Iâm not risking any more riders. By the First Shell, I bet it was him who shot Câlef, or Wraith. Whoever he is, heâs got a thing about riders and we cannot afford to lose any more.â
âKandar coughed. âThereâs that Mastersmith whoâs good at solving mysteries, and finding people. Why donât we get him in? He could quietly infiltrate and probably find the man.â
âUncle Byrt?â
âOh, you know him of course.â
âUncle?â asked Lyza.
âWell; not a real one, we just call him that.â
Mâtak drained his mug and put it down. âThen, instead of taking my wing on a manhunt down south, Iâll fly across to Telgar instead and meet with Vill.â
âAnd I,â added Lyza, âam going to take you home, Filona, on Oveth, by a totally different route.â
Byrt, with just one runner, was set down on the margin of the Ice Lake high in the mountains to the west of Ru-atha Hold. He was dressed for the weather and strapped his pack to his runner and climbed aboard. He had had a good study of Lord Rahonâs maps and had an idea of where he needed to go and who he had to meet. Unless the offender was a holdless vagrant, there only two holdings up this valley to check out.
In the cold mountain air, the warm air he and his runner were exhaling left clouds on the air like a pair of flaming dragons. He guided his runner into the start of a narrow game trail which headed roughly for the holding on the southern side of the valley, holding it to a gentle amble that gave him a chance to approach quietly, and to avoid pitching off if it stepped into a hole hidden by the snow.
There were no signs of a hunter. Not somebody hunting for the pot anyway; all the wild wherries had flown south to warmer climes and the domesticated goats were penned in byres. The few feral ones had probably migrated south to where they could forage more easily.
After a couple of glasses he started to smell whiffs of wood-smoke. Dismounting and tethering the runner to a tree, Byrt carefully approached the hold: a smallish fieldstone dwelling set in a small clearing surrounded by trees. Circling round the site he came across a trace with numerous tracks all of which appeared to be heading away from the dwelling down towards the river. The chimney was only releasing a trickle of smoke and the place appeared deserted. Choosing his line of approach carefully, Byrt peered in the windows and tried the door. A crude padlock held it closed. Everybody was out. From the tracks, they had headed to the other holding.
He was watering his runner at the basic bridge over the river when he heard the sounds of approaching people: just quiet murmurs. Into view came an extended family; parents, a handful of children, and an oldster so wrapped up its sex was not discernible.
After the cautious greetings of strangers meeting unexpectedly, Byrt asked them where they had been. âItâs a bit early to celebrate Turnâs End?â
âWeâs been to a burying.â
âOh: who?â
âOld man Yalb. Heâs been having funny turns; the way some oldsters go.â
âTell me about him?â
That evening Mâtakâs Wroth, having picked up Byrt from a sunset rendezvous back at the Ice Lake, back-winged in to land at Rundles. Lyzaâs Oveth crooned a greeting from her spot on the cliff top next to where the water from the dams spilt over into the yard. A strange bronze was perched the other side of the running water.
âWroth says thatâs Nimorth from Benden,â Mâtak told Byrt. âHis riderâs Kâlo, one of the sons of the Igen Lord Holder.â
The hold door swung open, light spilled across the yard, and Randeel appeared to welcome the latest visitors. âStick that runner in the barn and come in and join the gather.â
âWhoâs here?â
âJudging by the crowding in the kitchen, everyone on Pern. Lyza brought Filona, Kâlo brought Maree, Lord Rahon rode up escorting Sair home for Turnâs End, and Rindeeno is due to arrive any time now.â
In the kitchen they found Lord Rahon seated at the table, a large mug of klah in front of him, Perani on his lap playing finger games. Filona was seated between her sister and her mother to whom she was closely snuggled. They were surrounded by Lyza and Suan, both radiating concern, Sair was over by the fire with her parents, Dhernyron and Koni, telling them all about her time at the Hold. Adan came and grabbed Byrtâs hand and dragged him over to an empty chair.
âSo, Byrt,â said Rahon after a bit, âdid you find anything out? Can I send my guards to arrest somebody?â
âWell; if Iâm right, itâs too late to arrest him. Heâs dead. But, I spoke to his family and the neighbours.â
âHow did he die?â
âHe was an old man whose first wife was raped by a bronze-rider back before the start of this Pass.â Maree sat up. âHe threw her out when he found she was pregnant: sent her off to the weyr. Thereâs no record of her there and none of the family knows what happened to her. Anyway; recently he went off his head, blaming all riders of every age, colour and rank. He took to going off out claiming he was going hunting. He was: for dragon riders. Yesterday evening he was stamping round his hold saying heâs got one. This morning he went off out again early. Then midmorning, he came home, threw his bow and arrows down and charges back out heading down river. After a bit they went looking for him and tracked him down to a pool about halfway to the Ice Lake, where he had drowned himself after slashing his wrists. They hauled him out and didnât waste any time before burying him. I suppose they suspect what he was doing and wanted nothing to do with it or him. Bury the evidence.â
Maree stretched and said, âI know what happened to her: his first wife.â
âYou do?â Jeeno asked.
âShe was raped by Târump and was called Merle. Sheâs now dead. She was shipped across to Benden where she had a daughter, Candilla, who now works in the kitchens.â
âIâve got a half-sister over there?â Asked Lyza.
âI suppose so. Candilla has a seven-year old son called Adan, who is in the class Iâm teaching.â
While folks were absorbing this; Lord Rahon turned to Byrt. âDo you have a name for this holder?â
âYes, Yalb.â
âYalb?â Yelled Randeeno. âHeâs my uncle, my fatherâs brother. It was his grandson, Ganzo, who caused Mareeâs burns trying to kill Rindeeno.â
âDid I ever tell you he died?â Asked Byrt.
âGanzo? No.â
âHe was one of the so-called guards at that illegal blackrock mine we attacked up between Crom and Telgar a turn or so ago. He was shot down trying to run away and hide. I think he died with about eight arrows in him.â
âI remember taking his trial for the sabotage to the flamethrower, and Mareeâs burning.â Said Rahon. âThere was also talk of him trying to kill his older brother, but he never got tried for that, the family wouldnât actually accuse him. What a family. I realise that you are related, in some remote degree, but what a contrast between an upland holder, and family, just about scraping a living from the forest and moor, and your set up down here; one of my best holdings. Itâs hard to believe the relationship. And, how strange that the twins based on opposite sides of Pern have the two halves of the story.â
"Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten.
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis
"I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx)
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|Feb 5 2017, 12:26 AM
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Re: The Cases of Curious Convergence
I am having an extremely difficult time reading this because it appears to have replaced every single quotation mark/apostrophe with this: â€
So this is what I see as I am reading:
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I've tried sending it to you in an e-mail ( if your e-dress as listed on MoM is still current); or see if it comes up scrambled on NKT.
"Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten.
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis
"I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx)
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|Feb 12 2017, 03:18 PM
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Re: The Cases of Curious Convergence
I got the email and was better able to tell what was happening.
Do you not see those characters mixed in with the text? Is it just me? If you do see them, I would go through and remove them.
Check out my Pern fiction!
Mirrim's Vigil
News from the Weyr
Missing Link
Dragonsong: An Alternate Tune
Ghost in the Tunnels
Changes at Riverbend Hold
Pern Songs
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My own postings show clear and correct to me on my machine. I think some machines do not like foreign keyboards as some of the ASCII codes differ.
"Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten.
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis
"I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx)
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