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- "Once, the dragons sought to eliminate or enslave all mortal races. If given the chance, they would surely do so again..."
- ―Skyrim, loading screen.
Dragons (Dovah, plural Dov) are a reptilian race originally native to Akavir that were once widespread throughout Tamriel. Although animalistic in appearance, they are known for their intelligence and wisdom as much as their raw, uncontrolled power.
They possess their own spoken and written language, and are capable of comprehending other languages. For the most part, they consider non-dovah to be weak minded.[1] Their spoken language can be articulated to cast powerful magic known as Thu'um or Dragon Shouts. They were nearly rendered extinct, and were widely believed to be so until 4E 201 when they resurfaced in Skyrim with the return of Alduin.
The precise origin of the dragons is unknown. They are believed to be the children of Akatosh and as such are specially attuned to the flow of time itself [2]. They were indigenous to the continent of Akavir, but when the Tsaesci attempted to "consume" them, the dragons fled to Tamriel. The Ka Po' Tun of Akavir wished to become dragons (the word Ka meaning dragon), and it is said that their leader, Tosh Raka, has been successful in transforming into a dragon.
The College of Whispers has questioned several dremora, who claim dragons simply "were, and are": eternal, immortal, unchanging, and unyielding. [1] In this respect, the dragons are closer to the Daedra than to animals and the mortal races; they are ageless and immortal, with their souls enduring beyond physical death, and they do not mate or breed as animals do. As such, there are no known examples of dragon eggs or dragonlings. The Iliac Bay area has stories of such things, but so far all have proven false. The alleged eggs turned out to be the eggs of over-sized lizards, not true dragons. [1]
Alduin, the self-proclaimed "first-born of Akatosh," is believed to be the first dragon to have come into existence [1]. While both Akatosh and Alduin are represented as dragons, many scholars believe the two are separate entities,[3][4], which the Nordic pantheon seems to reflect.
Merethic Era and Dragon worship
When Ysgramor came to Tamriel in the Merethic Era, his people brought with them a faith that worshiped animal gods. Foremost among all animals was the dragon, or drah-gkon in the ancient Nordic tongue. Occasionally the term dov-rha is used, derived from dovah, the dragons' name for themselves. Using either name was forbidden to all except the Dragon Priests. Many of the temples built to honor the dragons survive today as ancient ruins, haunted by draugr and undead dragon priests.[5]
Dragons embraced their role as man's god-kings. In their eyes, they were clearly superior to the tiny, frail, and short-lived beings that worshiped them. To dragons, power equals truth, and their power over men was indisputable evidence of their superiority. In exchange for the obedience of their priests, the dragons granted small amounts of power to them, bestowing magical masks upon their most favored priests. In turn, the dragon priests ruled over men, wielding authority equal to the kings.[5]
In Atmora, where Ysgramor and his people came from, the dragon priests demanded tribute and created laws which kept the peace between dragon and man. In Tamriel, their rule was quite different. It's unclear if this was due to an ambitious dragon priest, or a particular dragon, or a series of weak kings. Whatever the cause, the dragon priests began to rule with an iron fist, making virtual slaves of the rest of the population.[5]
When the populace rebelled, the dragon priests retaliated. The dragon priests failed to collect the tribute and their control over the masses began to slip. The dragons' response was swift and brutal.[5] This began the Dragon War. At first, men died by the thousands.
Kyne intervened, and instructed Paarthurnax to assist mankind.[6] Paarthurnax, originally the first lieutenant of Alduin, had become disillusioned with Alduin when the latter proclaimed himself a god. As a result, Paarthurnax betrayed his former master and taught the power of the Voice to mankind.[2]
With the rebellion against the dragon priests, dragons were slaughtered in large numbers. The dragons that survived chose to live in remote places away from men. Alduin himself was banished by a group of Nord heroes on the peak of Skyrim's Throat of the World, where they used an Elder Scroll to send him into another time. While the Nord warriors hoped that Alduin would be lost in time forever, he would eventually return to terrorize Skyrim again in the Fourth Era.
The dragon cult itself, however, survived. They built the dragon mounds, entombing the remains of dragons that fell in the war, believing that one day the dragons would rise again and reward the faithful.[5]
Before the events of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the last known sighting of a dragon in Tamriel was in the time of Tiber Septim.[1] He made a pact with the few remaining dragons, swearing to protect them if they would serve him. Despite his promise, dragons were still hunted and slain. It's not clear if the last ones fled Tamriel or if they were exterminated.
Notable dragons
Alduin, the World Eater, is a dragon-god whose return was a result of an Elder Scroll. He was first removed from Tamriel through the last resort of the ancient Nord heroes who used an Elder Scroll to force Alduin to become lost in time and hopefully never return. Instead, he was sent forward to the Fourth Era, to the timeline of events in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and the Dragonborn's story; Alduin's triumph would ensure Nirn's destruction, according to prophecy.
Before the Dragon War in the Merethic Era, Durnehviir lived amongst his kin in the skies above Tamriel. While his brethren used more traditional forms of combat, Durnehviir pursued an interest in Necromancy that eventually led him to the Ideal Masters.
His wish was to raise armies of undead for his own ends, so he made a pact with the Ideal Masters to gain access to their realm's undead. The pact specified that Durnehviir was to serve as the keeper of the Soul Cairn, and guard a powerful necromancer named Valerica until her eventual death - terms to which Durnehviir, being an immortal dragon, agreed. The Ideal Masters deceived Durnehviir, as Valerica was a vampire, and thus also immortal. As a result, Durnehviir was doomed to guard the Soul Cairn for eternity.
A dragon that was worshipped by a particular sect of the Dragon Cult. According to Tolfdir, the cult was quite fond of ritual sacrifices to the extent that the High Priest would spend a great deal of time sharpening a dagger, named Kahvozein's Fang, so it was always ready for its next victim.
The Dragon Nafaalilargus was a loyal soldier of Tiber Septim. Nafaalilargus calls himself as the Proud Jewel of the Imperial Crown. In order to destroy Prince A'Tor and the Redguard resistance once and for all, Tiber Septim sent Admiral Amiel Richton to Stros M'kai, the last base of the Redguard Crown. Nafaalilargus was tasked to accompany the Imperial Navy.
Nafaalilargus was also tasked to guard the soulgem of Prince A'Tor. Cyrus infiltrated the Palace through the Catacomb in order to acquire the soulgem. Cyrus was confronted by Nafaalilargus. After a long difficult battle, Cyrus managed to kill Nafaalilargus.[7]
It is possible that Nafaalilargus was also the dragon known as Nahfahlaar, as they both have similar names and were known to help mortals.[8] Since Cyrus was not a Dragonborn, Nafaalilargus' soul was not absorbed and could have been revived by Alduin.
King Olaf One-Eye subdued the great dragon Numinex in a legendary duel of Thu'ums, and brought him back to the fledgling town of Whiterun as a captive. It was then that the magnificent keep of Dragonsreach was rebuilt and renamed to serve as a cage for Numinex, whose skull still adorns the Great Hall. Paarthurnax notes that Numinex went mad due to his captivity and forgot his own name.
Odahviing was an ally of and right-hand dragon to Alduin. The Dragonborn summons him to Dragonsreach in the main storyline of Skyrim to gain entry into Sovngarde.
PaarthurnaxPaarthurnax is the leader of the Greybeards and the brother of Alduin. He served as Alduin's lieutenant during the Dragon War in the Merethic Era, during which he was said to have committed terrible atrocities against mankind.
Skakmat was the dragon familiar of Nulfaga, a powerful female Breton wizard and necromancer. At the Battle of Cryngaine Field, Skakmat produced a mystic fog (under Nulfaga's orders) in an attempt to halt the battle in which Lysandus was to be slain.
Places of worship
When the Dragons ruled Nirn with an iron fist, and the Dragon Priests carried out the orders of the Dragons, there were temples and tombs that the people of Nirn built to worship the Dragon Priests and the Dragons. Most of these locations were also cities where people lived.
Notable places of worship
- Forelhost
- Labyrinthian/Bromjunaar Sanctuary
- Skuldafn
- Shearpoint
- Ragnvald
- Valthume
- High Gate Ruins
- Volskygge
- The Divine-being Akatosh is associated with dragons, and his avatar takes on the form of a dragon.[9]
- The Daedric Prince Peryite is known to take the form of a dragon.
- In The Elder Scrolls Online, the Ebonheart Pact's crest is depicted as a dragon.
- The symbol of the Septim Empire, as of the Third Era, is the Red Diamond, which is a red dragon shaped inside of a diamond and is based off Nafaalilargus.
- All known dragons are males.
- The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Dragon Language: Myth no More
- Where were you when the Dragon Broke?
- The Dragon Break Reexamined
- Atlas of Dragons
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 There Be Dragons
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - dialogue with Paarthurnax.
- ↑ The Alduin/Akatosh Dichotomy
- ↑ Alduin is Real
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 The Dragon War
- ↑ 7000 Steps Etchings
- ↑ Xan (last edited by The Librarian on 20 July 2012 at 09:28). Nafaalilargus.
- ↑ Atlas of Dragons
- ↑ Varieties of Faith in the Empire
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|Aldmer • Altmer • Ayleid • Bosmer • Chimer • Dunmer • Dwemer • Falmer
Lefthanded Elf • Maormer • Orsimer • Snow Elf
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Invariably at the outset of planning a component library, stakeholders will query "Ah, yes, so we are building a pattern library?" Actually, no. Although the two concepts are strongly related, their differences warrant consideration to ensure you are building the type of library that's right for you.
A pattern is a global solution to a common design problem, such that you could use the solution many times and never quite use it the same way twice.
For example, there's no reason for a designer to not employ the common tenants of tabs (such as at least two tabs are required), video playback (that can be played or paused), or authentication (that, at a minimum, requires some form of username and password). Patterns are essential in interaction design, serving as a basis for designers to apply common, consistent conventions whether or not those solutions are actually catalogued in a library specific to an organization.
On the other hand, components are a reusable, design system-specific chunk of a page. Such components - also known as modules, chunks, portlets, widgets, blocks, or other labels depending on the design context - are aggregated to compose an entire page or view. Each component has a specific application within a page grid and may have prescriptive specifications for behaviors, formats, editorial, visual style, and variable treatments.
Patterns and components can be quite complementary and coexist within design solutions, even if (almost always) they are not the same thing.
Consider the home pages for two different experiences, fancast.com and comcast.net, both properties owned by Comcast Interactive Media and mapped together via navigation back and forth between sites. The two home pages could be broken down into components (represented by orange boxes), many of which are reused on other pages of each experience. Each home page also employs many patterns (identified by the red callouts).
Figure A: Component chunks (orange) and patterns (red) on the home pages of comcast.net (left) and fancast.com (right)
Are the components and patterns the same? Not at all. The two design solutions share no components whatsoever, existing within entirely different visual systems of grids, typography, layout, color, and navigation models. However, the two page designs share (at least) 5 patterns, including search, authentication, carousel, headlines, and tabs.
Figure B: Tabs used on cnn.com for mutually exclusive categories (e.g., Asia), content types (e.g., Video), and facets of a collection (e.g., Most Popular)
In every case, the design adheres to the fundamentals of a tab pattern, such as distinguishing the active tab from other tabs. However, the usage, page region, style, and design details differ considerably across each component.
Similarly, inconsistencies across many component designs can be reconciled into a pattern to establish a common baseline across teams and efforts.
For example, consider countless video players proliferating needlessly throughout the sections and contexts of a website: embedded in a product spotlight, a different player in a different spotlight, unique players in lightboxes & popups, new players for content from the training group, etc. Built by different teams at different times, the designs all play video amid UI controls with inconsistent behavior and appearance.
Teams can resolve differences via a pattern for basic facets like play/pause, scrubber, timing (current and overall duration), and volume. With a pattern in place, consistency increases but teams can still flexibly include (or omit) additional controls and features — video size, full screen view, rating, commenting, embedded code — for a specific component in the context of their solution.
Both patterns and components are reusable design solutions for specific problems. This reuse — and the consistency and cost-savings that result — is the key selling point of both patterns and components.
In addition, patterns and components can be:
Despite their similarities, components and patterns differ in important ways. At a high level, patterns are meant to serve as baselines open to interpretation and application by a designer; on the other hand components are quite specific to an established design and thus more prescriptive and fixed.
Additional distinctions include:
|Could be a page chunk (log in module), flow (shopping from product to cart to checkout to receipt), behavior (e.g., autocomplete), or something else
|Always a chunk of page or screen design
|Globally applicable across a range of contexts, even if elements are similar
|Specific to one design system, including layout, color, type, and behaviors
|Up to the designer to appropriately apply principles and locate within a screen design
|Targeted to specific location(s) within a page layout, based on approved usage
|Abstracted from any specific skin, and flexible to adapt to many visual treatments
|Finished within one visual system, although variations may be defined
|Perhaps some basic editorial guidance
|Specific data, formats, guideline, style/tone, and even defined feed
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|While starter code may be available, it needs to be tailored to fit the system
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Since the two library types are different, then which one is right for you?
Patterns are ideal for teams that design many experiences, such as a team like Yahoo's that designs a plethora of products each with a unique visual system but needing to adhere to a larger, common brand. Components have proven ideal for other teams, such as Sun Microsystem's sun.com library that synthesizes a massive collection of pages, sections, teams, and content into a common, single design system and experience.
But, this may not be an either / or question, since depending on your circumstances, you may benefit from one or both types of libraries. In fact, one team built libraries for both patterns (e.g., Tabs) as well as components (e.g., tabbed product details, tabbed content module, tabbed search results, etc). Other teams have hedged their bets by embedding aspects of one approach into the guidelines and spirit of the other, most commonly via pattern-like guidelines incorporated into the more specific component definitions.
Consider a pattern library especially if your team has:
Consider a component library especially if your team has:
If you're thinking a pattern or component library can help your team be more efficient and create better designs, then you'll want to check out Nathan's full-day workshop: Standards, Reuse, Consistency, & Libraries at this year's User Interface 15 Conference in Boston on November 8-10, 2010. Nathan received rave reviews on a similar workshop he presented at the Web App Summit in 2009.
Nathan is giving a ful-day workshop at this year's User Interface Conference in Boston, MA. Learn about her session and the other 7 speakers at UICONF.com
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Today's ruling, together with last week's decision on Transocean's financial obligations stemming from its conduct at the Macondo well, is a strong signal that contractors involved in critical well operations will be held accountable for their actions under the law. All official investigations have concluded that Halliburton played a causal role in the accident, and following this ruling, Halliburton is, at a minimum, responsible for any punitive damages as well as civil penalties to the extent that they may apply under the Clean Water Act. Moreover, the court determined that if Halliburton is found to have committed fraud, then the indemnity could be void.
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TSR: Time for Some Rethinking
In 1995, the FTC built the Telemarketing Sales Rule from the ground up. Since then, we've done some remodeling – for example, including the provision to outlaw most robocalls. We also added a wing in the form of a little something called the National Do Not Call Registry. Now that the TSR has been around for almost 20 years, we have a question for you: Does it need some renovation?
The FTC reviews the rules it enforces on a periodic basis to see if any provisions – like harvest gold appliances or rumpus rooms with knotty pine paneling – could use refurbishing. You'll want to read the Federal Register Notice for the list of specific questions, but here are a few of the things we'd like you to weigh in on:
- General questions about the future of the TSR. Is there a continuing need for the Rule? Why or why not? What's the impact on consumers, industry members, and small businesses? <Linda Richman voice>Discuss among yuhselves</Linda Richman voice>
- Pre-acquired account information. "Pre-acquired account information" is information that lets a seller or telemarketer cause a charge to be placed on a consumer's account without getting the account number directly from that person. Has the TSR's requirement of "express informed consent" been effective in preventing the illegal use of pre-acquired information to bill people without their affirmative OK? Should the FTC consider a ban on any use of pre-acquired account information in external upsells?
- Negative options. Generally speaking, the TSR applies only to outbound calls placed to consumers. But what about when an ad on TV, radio, etc., offers a product or service sold through a negative option program? Should consumers who call telemarketers and sellers in response to those ads get the same disclosures now required for outbound telemarketing calls? Why or why not?
Other specific questions relate to recordkeeping, self-regulatory efforts, new technology, and exemptions to the TSR, but no TSR-related issue is out of bounds. File your comment online by October 14, 2014.
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I seem to be getting more calls now than ever before. Both on my home line and on my business number. The business exception is a goldmine for telemarketers, usually having absolutely no connection to my business. I agree with the comment that we should be able to push a code into the phone that would notify an enforcement agency of the call. Robocalls do not identify themselves generally (unless possibly if you listen to the entire spiel, which I do not do.)
I would like to know why the terms 'telemarketer' and 'collectors' are lumped together and do the same terms and laws apply? A collector does very different things in a different way for a different reason than any telemarketer. As far as the 'bad credit' marks, plenty of times for some reason or other, the debts do not go outside of a business, either due to not enough to be sent out, or just do not want to. I have had that happen. I was thankful to be offered to settle, and since I work in positions of accounts payable, do you, or are just trying to 'sell' a product or add to it? I agree, that some restrictions do need to be exercised, as well as the 'without current knowledge' is questionable. I think someone should have a choice at all times. However, people do forget things, and do not read policies. If the sales end of accounts and other people involved would BE SURE to put the transaction in writing at time of purchase, and provide copies of agreement at that time, there might be more people satisfied, as it is easy to be misled or misunderstood when speaking with someone, as the article said, it sometimes easy to change a name or business location with a different owner/business name. If people do not want to be contacted, they should have that right, however, if it is a debt, should they not be notified and how?
Yes, there should be a ban on the use of customer account information. Wither they are trying to sale or collect a debt (telemarketers/collection agencies) cause great hardship to businesses and individuals. I am self employed, so I must answer my phone. They interrupt potential sales and purchases which reduce income and growth. So its great news to hear you will try to implement new was to stop these calls. Banning "pre-acquired account information" is a great way to help consumers with focus on banning the sale of "charged off" debt. If a consumer has gone through hard financial times (layoff, death, unemployment, bad luck etc.) and now they have gotten back on their feet they should not have to deal with a third party telemarketer about a debt that has been charged off. Because once that account information has been sold it becomes a new debt on the consumers credit report. Even though the consumer never had a sign agreement with to the third party. The original debt holder gets a tax write off plus payment for the sale of the bad debt. The consumer now has two dings on their credit report. It doesn't seem fair to the consumer. I'm new to your agency news letters and think your agency does a great job in helping the consumer.
I think the rules should remain and be expanded. I get calls very often from a company I USED to do business with.. and don't anymore because of many issues with them. Want to be able to BLOCK them .. but they will not remove me from their list.
It would be great to have a way to touch tone a code to our phone line provider to report a number as a RoboCaller as well.
I'm generally not for more rules.. but I pay for my phone.. they don't.
Do not call list.
This is a joke.
This does not work.
Start by fixing this one thing first.
Do this first, and then talk about the rest?
Get this right first.
I am on the do not call list, but get calls daily. They are getting more clever. One of the most recent told the story, then allowed you to sign up by staying on the line. Usually, I will tell the caller that I am on the DNC list and not to call, but they drag it out and make it difficult to tell them. You need to expand somehow to stop all calls. I would also add that just because I have donated before should not give them license to avoid the DNC list. Block them too. Please also figure out a way to block spammers. I have done all I could in my computer, but they just keep coming. Thank you.
Yes,Hello I'm writing to comment that what if someone is using all the Google shop free phone service listings of phone numbers to solicit telemarketing calls without authorization and they have that many numbers to switch and change their names to continue their abuse of communication licensing towards consumers.
I think the rules are well draft and work nicely. As a small business owner with a commercial phone number it would be helpful to be able to screen out telemarketers who buy lists with our phone number on it. We don't need energy, paper products, travel advice or anything of the sort. When I complain, they say we'll be removed but it still takes time we don't have. A small business protection program would be great. Thanks for all you do at the agency.
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Should Carnival have to pay royalties to passengers who get called up on stage during voyages?
That's what one Carnival cruiser is demanding, according to the line's senior cruise director, John Heald.
In a recent post at his widely followed blog, Heald says a passenger he identifies as "Mr. Cloonpitt" is insisting on royalties after being called up on a ship stage during a welcome aboard show that later got played on cabin TVs.
Heald says the man was one of six passengers who volunteered to come up on stage with him during the welcome event, and at the time he "got into the whole spirit of the show, and all was well ... however, the next morning he demanded to speak to me telling me that I must remove the show, which had been recorded and was playing on the cabin televisions."
Heald says the man said he was an actor and thus was due royalties if the show was not taken down from the TV, something that Heald eventually ordered done.
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"He spent the rest of the cruise telling me I owed him money and that he would be contacting his agent which ... I guess he did," says Heald, who says lawyers are now involved in the dispute.
"Now I have cleared all of the above with the Carnival lawyers, and they have no problem with me telling you about this because amongst other things Mr Cloonpitt volunteered to do the show, and there is a waiver thingy within the ticket policies," Heald writes on his blog. "However, I now have to write a formal report about this, and that's got me mad."
Heald, who was in the news recently as the cruise director on the Carnival ship that lost power off the coast of Mexico, goes on to gripe a bit about what he calls ridiculous lawsuits.
"I can only imagine how many ridiculous lawsuits are slapped against companies each and every day," Heald adds, "which is why we have had to give so much power to the beards and their high visibility jackets and their watch-your-step ... swim-at-your-own-risk, coffee-is-hot signs (that) are plastered all over the ships."
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The Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is well known for providing emotional and developmental support to patients and families, and this stellar reputation is in large part because of the Tracy's Kids Art Therapy Program. Since 1991, Tracy's Kids has enlivened the atmosphere of Lombardi pediatrics, and helping Georgetown's youngest hematology/oncology patients and their families cope with treatment.
Even the most compassionate care can be traumatic for patients and families. Pediatric patients may not understand the curative intent of painful and invasive procedures. Using nonverbal techniques - such as art - processing trauma can help patients integrate troubling material, rebuild self-esteem, and help young people cooperate with treatment.
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Another gun related tragedy.
A shooting at a Connecticut elementary school Friday left 27 people dead, including 18 children, an official said.
The children were all between the ages of 5 and 10. Is this a good enough time to have a rational debate on gun control and, if not, then when the hell would a good time be? How much longer will the NRA and gun nuts be allowed to have a stranglehold on this issue?
Meanwhile in Michigan…
The most sweeping rewrite of Michigan's concealed handgun law in more than a decade includes details that go well beyond opening so-called "gun free zones" to hidden weapons.
The state House on Thursday passed the bill 68-41 and sent it to Gov. Rick Snyder, one of many laws sped through a lame-duck session that did not conclude until early Friday morning.
Aside from allowing concealed pistols in schools and other places, a number of measures are aimed at streamlining a permit process critics say remains far from uniform statewide.
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October 18, 2014 - Valley Safety Services expansion dedication to Frank Ott 1-4PM. There will be a ribbon cutting at 3PM by the grandchildren of Frank Ott. Station II is located at 487 Monocan Drive in Stoney Creek. Parking is available at Tuckahoe Clubhouse and in the grassy area before Valley Safety Services.
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Last Night: Henry Rollins' KCRW Benefit at the Echoplex
Henry Rollins was at the Echoplex last night, putting on a benefit for KCRW that could only be described as two hours of intense music geekery.
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A little over 300 people gathered to hear Rollins dig deep into his personal collection of rare recordings and play all kinds of songs he isn't allowed to play on the radio–mostly because the tapes were given to him personally by the artists or their families under the promise that they could never be leaked or bootlegged. Rollins then told the often crazy backstory of how each track came into his possession.


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That's not a movie script, Google X is Google's plan for the future - full of robots, driverless cars and space elevators. Having trouble visualing this secret lab? Maybe some Taiwanese animation will help.
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Thoughts and observations from National Post basketball reporter Eric Koreen after the Toronto Raptors' 87-79 win over the Brooklyn Nets in Game 4 of their first-round series.
• So, who wants to try to figure out these Raptors? Anybody? At this stage, it is best to let the Raptors' play speak for itself, because they are defying any reasonable predictions. After blowing a 17-point lead on Sunday night, the Raptors looked absolutely done. Once DeMar DeRozan's tough jumpers — the heart of the team's hot start — stopped falling, the offence fell apart for about 16 minutes of game action. Kyle Lowry could not get to the rim, and the Nets were trapping the ball-handler on the pick-and-roll, blowing things up. DeRozan looked particularly affected by the Nets defence, forced into several awkward positions. The Raptors just kept getting stops, though — at least enough of them. Once Patrick Patterson drilled a difficult 16-footer with 75 seconds left in the third quarter to tie the game 64-64, the Raptors were through the worst of it. Upon seeing Dwane Casey, I told the coach I had given up on trying to figure out his team. "You should have quit a long time ago," he replied. At this point, why would anybody bother?
• It is probably time to move past the notion that the referees are obviously favouring the Nets. There were some questionable moments, particularly in the third quarter, but that is just life in the NBA. The Nets were called for three offensive fouls in the final three minutes, including the Loch Ness Monster of calls: the Kevin Garnett illegal screen late in a close playoff game. Prior to Sunday, it was only rumoured to exist. In the third quarter, Amir Johnson got called for a blocking foul on Paul Pierce underneath the basket. In the fourth quarter, on a virtually identical play, Pierce was called for a charge. That is the nature of the league. DeRozan is shooting 12 free throws per game in this series. Any benefit of the doubt the Nets are getting is negligible. In a series this close, of course, one or two calls could swing things.
• Lowry played the final 8:27 with five fouls. Johnson played the final 4:58 with five fouls. Johnson drew a huge charge on Pierce during that span. Lowry made a barrage of plays, including the defining play of the game, a hybrid hook shot/floater over Kevin Garnett, to give the Raptors a six-point lead. Casey said that a year ago, Lowry might not have been able to rein in his game in order to stay in the floor. In Game 3, he was over-aggressive on defence in the same situation, resulting in his sixth foul. Both being available was huge.
• Before the series, Raptors fans lamented that four of the first five games came after two off days. Who would have thought that the Raptors, with so many injuries, would be the team benefiting from the rest? It is both true and a cliché to say that every NBA regular is a little hurt at this time of the year. However, Lowry, Johnson and Patterson all limped through the game, while backup swingmen John Salmons and Landry Fields both need time to mend their backs.
• The Raptors need to find a way to get some easier baskets, and Jonas Valanciunas seems like the best vehicle to that particular destination. With 6:56 left, Valanciunas hit a hook shot over Garnett. A few minutes later, he combined with Greivis Vasquez for a running layup off of the pick-and-roll. If Valanciunas gets proper positioning, there is nobody on the Nets that can keep him from getting a decent look. That positioning is huge, though: He had 11 turnovers through the first two games, and much of that was the result of having to take too many dribbles. Still, finding a way to involve him more often — and earlier in the shot clock — will ease the burden on DeRozan, Lowry and Vasquez.
• Joe Johnson took 17 field-goal attempts in 40 minutes on Friday. He took 10 fewer in two more minutes of action on Sunday. Jason Kidd said Johnson made the proper decisions — the Raptors "weren't going to let him play," was how he phrased it. That was the correct strategy, since he was dismantling the Raptors earlier in the series. Credit DeRozan and Salmons for improved initial defence, and the coaching staff for the game plan. Still, the Nets had some good looks, and they missed 16 of their 20 three-point attempts. They have shot poorly for most of the series. You would think that those shots will eventually fall. With only two or three games remaining, that is now far from guaranteed.
• Chuck Hayes? Fine on his own in small doses. Steve Novak? Fine on his own in small doses. The two together, no matter the duration? Poison. Even against the athleticism-starved Nets, those two players cannot make up the Raptors' frontcourt. They just do not provide enough rim protection or rebounding presence. Still, the Raptors survived some strange lineups. They played their butts off defensively.
• With 2:16 remaining in the second quarter, Garnett got deep post position on Patterson. Patterson did not bite on any of Garnett's fakes, and Amir Johnson provided a little extra defensive support. Still, Garnett should have hit the eight-foot hook shot that he botched. With that, my childhood officially died.
• On Friday, Terrence Ross did not play in the game's final 19 minutes. On Sunday, Terrence Ross did not play in the game's final 20 minutes. He continues to have zero impact on this series. I am predicting a big Game 5 for him on Wednesday. Why? See the first point.


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|Foundation's goal: Get youth to read more
|The Open Book Foundation provides free books to local elementary schools
|Published Wednesday, May 8, 2013
|Ryan Howell, vice president of operations for The Open Book Foundation, reads to students at Nations Ford Elementary School last week.
With the motto "One book, One Child," Carvent Webb II is on a mission to encourage young people to develop a passion for reading.
The Rocky Mount native said that although he was not an avid reader as a child, the books he did read proved to be invaluable.
"I was never really a bookworm in school," he said. "But being exposed to the different people through reading different books just kind of expanded my knowledge and understanding about life."
Webb, who has been stationed in Kuwait for the past two years as a civilian worker with the U.S. Department of Defense, said his passion for reading intensified last year when he wrote and published his first book "A Guide to the Simple Life."
The book, which is about getting the most out of life without doing the most to get it, was inspired by his time overseas. He said being away from all of the distractions and "daily stresses" of modern life in America, helped him to gain a fuller appreciation of the simple things in life.
Webb said writing and doing research for the book sparked a newfound passion for reading that he wanted to share with youth in the community. So he began using half of the profits from his book sales to purchase books and donate them to classrooms in Title I schools.
Prior to going overseas, Webb taught at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, and said he witnessed firsthand the need for books.
|Founder Carvent Webb II
"My experience with Title I schools has been that because they are federally funded, they tend to be really limited in terms of the things they are able to buy," he said. "Having more books available in the classroom for teachers just kind of makes the process of helping and encouraging kids to read easier. It takes some of the pressure off the teachers of trying to be able to provide books."
In January, Webb and longtime friend Ryan Howell launched The Open Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization that buys and donates books at no cost to Title I elementary schools and community organizations serving low-income communities.
"The feedback that we are getting from teachers is that they need books," said Webb. "They need help in any capacity that they can get help. We figure what better way than to take on a part of that effort and provide free books. We can't always go directly into the classroom and teach the kids, but if we can make it easier for a kid to take a book home and read with their parents or have a extra book in the classroom for them to read in their down time, we will. We feel like any type of encouragement or motivation we can provide for these kids is going to be beneficial."
The agency purchases new books at a discounted rate, averaging about $2.50 per book, through a partnership with First Book Marketplace.
Webb said he and Howell, who is the organization's vice president of operations, have used their personal resources to cover the bulk of the foundation's operational costs. He estimates that they have spent a combined total of $10,000 on purchasing books, shipping costs and marketing the program.
"Even though we receive some donations, we take on about 90 percent of the operating costs," said Webb. "We are taking on those costs because we both believe in (promoting literacy). We both have benefited from having the opportunity to read, and we know that being able to inspire kids to read in any aspect is the overall goal."
Their goal for the foundation's first year of operation is to donate a total of 5,000 books. To date, Webb estimates that over 800 books have been donated to various classrooms across North Carolina.
Most recently, The Open Book Foundation delivered about three dozen books from the Lunch Lady series by Jarrett Krosoczka to a third-grade class at Nations Ford Elementary School as students from Johnson & Wales University provided a catered lunch to the cafeteria staff in celebration of national Lunch Lady Superhero Day on May 3.
While The Open Book Foundation currently focuses solely on donating books to Title I elementary schools, Webb said he hopes to expand the program to serve middle and high school students as well. Eventually, he wants to grow the program globally and promote literacy in third world countries.
"Reading is basically the core of everything," Webb said. "If you cannot read, it really limits you in all of the other things you may want to do in life."
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Duct Tape Fixes Everything
Amanda Williams:
December 19, 2012 at 4:35 am
This isn't a ducktape dress, its a way to make a dress form if your into making your own clothes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKZ0PGx3xWQ <--- explains it.
Judith Desta-Shanko:
April 13, 2013 at 7:28 pm
I guess now we all know it's a step in making a custom mannequin this post is pretty pointless...
Lorraine Yvonne Hoogenboom-Ruiz:
December 19, 2012 at 5:59 am
duct tape dress dummy! Made one about a year ago...Great for those who sew!
Dawn Currie-Adams:
January 2, 2013 at 2:37 am
Yes people, it's a dress form so that she can fit clothes that she sews or even make her own pattern. It is NOT a dress. Sorry, but this is a woman with skills and ingenuity.
Niesha W. Wesley:
May 2, 2013 at 4:55 am
Selena Coates:
April 13, 2013 at 7:55 pm
She looks like a water heater!
Amy Lobenthal:
January 4, 2013 at 7:31 pm
I get the dress form, she got skills, it is to sew, blah blah blah. But her coochie is practically hanging out, give me a break. Cover that up.
Bina N Eric Redmon:
April 13, 2013 at 7:06 pm
Im sure this picture wasnt ment to be on nowaygirl let alone for you to see. Is it seriously THAT big of a deal? Her "coochie" is not hanging out. Get over it
Sherri C. Moore:
April 14, 2013 at 1:32 am
some ppl read into what they want to read into a pic. lets you know where their mind is. I hadn't noticed a coochie either. IJS
Ebeny Graves:
December 26, 2012 at 6:47 am
Stephanie Lucas Denton:
December 21, 2012 at 7:39 pm
She needs at 3-4 more rolls to finish that.
Harold Heru Williams:
December 19, 2012 at 4:18 am
Sometimes words just aren't enough.... *SMDH*


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16th November, 1927
My dear Prime Minister,
Since the last mail I have received two letters from you both dated the 26th September. [1] One of them deals with general questions and I was extremely interested to read your expression of agreement with the idea of sending really firstclass scientific people to assist the Commonwealth Council for Scientific &
Industrial Research in dealing with scientific developmental problems. It was particularly interesting to get this comment from you two or three days before the receipt of a final cable from Sir George Pearce [2] to Julius [3] authorising the invitation of Sir Arnold Theiler [4] and Dr. Orr. [5] Sir Arnold Theiler is to be in Australia for six months but Orr will only have two months at his disposal.
I would particularly urge that you should set aside some hours, and perhaps an evening, to having a really good talk with Orr. I know of nobody in the scientific world who has so clear a grasp of the economic objectives as Orr. I am sure you will like him personally. He had a magnificent war record and today combines the command of a Territorial Battalion with his work as Director of a Research Institute-I suggest a most unusual combination and one rather pleasing to contemplate.
Your letter also deals with the subject of minimising the loss of national wealth consequent upon droughts. I was extremely interested to hear of your announcement at the Melbourne Show of the appointment of a special Committee of Pastoralists to advise the Commonwealth Government on this question [6] and, in view of the further activities that you have in mind for them, I venture to suggest one man who I feel sure would be extremely useful, namely W. S. Kelly, of South Australia. Gepp [7], I am sure, will confirm my view that Kelly is an extremely able and practical man with large scale ideas. [8]
It so happens that my Scientific Assistant Fitzpatrick [9] and myself have just completed a memorandum on the subject of Fodder Conservation in Australia. Our object was twofold: firstly to clear our own minds on the matter and, secondly, to forward a thought out memorandum both to the Commonwealth Council for Scientific & Industrial Research and the Development & Migration Commission, inviting their comments on our memorandum in order that we might obtain a true perspective of the way in which Australia is regarding the general question. It seems possible that this memorandum, although having only a limited intention, may prove useful to your Committee and I am, therefore, enclosing a copy which you may feel inclined to glance through yourself before handing it over.
I shall do everything I can to induce the Empire Marketing Board to follow up the question of the conservation of young grass and shall, of course, keep both the C.C.S.I.R. and the D. & M.
Commission fully advised on the subject. If you desire any special information for your Committee from British sources, please let me know and I will see that, if available, it is obtained.
Your second letter dealt with Tariff matters and was intensely interesting to me. [10] In the interest of Australian development, I do most sincerely hope that some means will be found within the course of the next year or so whereby we may put secondary production on a much sounder basis. I shall, of course, continue to forward any information that I think may be useful to you on this subject.
For the last three days the World Motor Transport Conference has been sitting in London and I have attended several of its sessions. A good number of quite useful contributions were made but these International Conferences leave me very cold. It is difficult to get down to really useful discussions. The paper prepared by the D. & M. Commission, which I introduced on the first day of the Conference, was a distinctly interesting document. Good papers were also submitted by South Africa and India.
Each day there was a luncheon, at the first of which the Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks spoke, the second Sir Granville Ryrie [11] and the third Col. Wilfrid Ashley, the Minister for Transport. I was only able to attend the one addressed by the High Commissioner and was rather depressed as a result.
While on the subject of Mechanical Transport, I regret to have to report that the proposal to establish an Empire Mechanical Transport Committee in touch with the Empire Marketing Board is, at the present moment, hanging fire. Difficulties have arisen with the Crown Agents for the Colonies [12] and the Colonial Office which will take some smoothing out. Nevertheless I hope to see some definite progress made in the near future.
In an enclosure to my letter of the 26th of October [13], I sent you a copy of a memorandum which I had prepared on the Australian Tariff and British Trade. You may perhaps be interested to know how I used this. A copy was sent to the Empire Marketing Board, which has distributed the paper among its special lecturers. I then had the document duplicated and sent out about 100 copies to such Ministers as I knew and to my acquaintances in the House of Commons and also to several business men. I have received not less than 70 replies, a number of them being quite interesting, including several requests that I should allow the memorandum to be published. These I refused but Sir Edward Hilton Young [14] was very anxious to have something on the same lines and therefore I am preparing, at his request, a special article for the 'Financial News' on the general subject of the effect of Dominion Tariffs on British Trade.
In the House of Commons on Monday last Sir Sydney Henn [15], who has just resigned from the Imperial Economic Committee, raised the question as to the propriety of the British Government contributing towards the Geophysical Prospecting from the Empire Marketing Board Vote. The Prime Minister [16] answered the question in a very satisfactory way and I enclose a copy of the Question and Answer from 'Hansard'. [17] The final supplementary question asked by Mr. E. Brown, the Liberal Member for Leith, is rather a typical Liberal contribution to Empire questions. [18]
Henn, who is a friend of mine, has a bee in his bonnet on the subject of the Empire Marketing Board. I think really his concern [is] lest the E.M.B. should entirely overshadow, in the public estimation, the Imperial Economic Committee. This is a real danger but one which, in my opinion, cannot be solved by limiting the activities of the Empire Marketing Board but by making the Imperial Economic Committee really effective.
I have received by this morning's post from the Secretary of the Publicity Committee of the Empire Marketing Board [19] a letter, of which the enclosed is a copy. [20] I should particularly like to direct your attention to the vicious effect of the Australian tariff on presents and would point out once again that Canada has remedied this difficulty by admitting, under certain safeguards, free of duty presents of a value less than 1.
This morning's 'Times' contains a considerable amount of really interesting political matter . [21] Two important discussions occurred in Parliament yesterday.
In the House of Lords Robert Cecil [22] made his 'apologia' for his resignation. It was dealt with firmly and successfully by his cousin Lord Balfour [23] and rather heavily set upon in addition by Lord Haldane. [24]
The Government I think emerged very successfully from this particular challenge, especially as Bridgeman [25] in the House of Commons had announced the Government's intention to restrict the laying down of cruisers during the financial year to one vessel.
Whether this is sound naval policy or not, I am in no way capable of judging but the necessary action in the House of Commons was a very effective political comment on Cecil's attitude in the House of Lords.
In the House of Commons MacDonald moved a Vote of Censure on the Government on their handling of the Coal situation. [26] The Government put up Cunliffe-Lister [27] to reply but the Labour Party refused to give him a hearing, with the result that the House was adjourned by the Speaker and there was no discussion.
Once again it seems probable that Labour, by a short sighted policy, has lost an excellent opportunity for it appears to me that had the discussion on the Vote of Censure taken place, it would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the Government to have made out a good case for their laissez-faire attitude to coal.
The existing situation in the coalfields has fully justified the warnings of the Samuel Royal Commission [28] and distress in the coalfields is really serious. It is, of course, possible that Labour's intention is to concentrate on discrediting Baldwin in the eyes of the country but it seems obvious that their policy would be more effectively carried out by a debate in which it is pretty certain that the Government would have been heavily criticised not only by Labour but also by Liberals and a number of back-bench Tories than by a hostile demonstration confined to shouting by the Labour Back-Benchers.
It is extremely difficult to gauge the present position of the Government in the country. There are two By-elections pending both in what would normally be regarded as safe Tory seats, namely Southend and Canterbury. One's feeling is that the Government is really seriously discredited chiefly by its sins of omission. On the other hand the ineffectiveness of the Labour Party and the fact that the Liberals have the undoubted handicap of the leadership of Mr. Lloyd George [29], makes it extremely difficult to give a sound judgment on the political situation.
Yours sincerely, F. L. MCDOUGALL


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