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Are skipper Hafeez and Pak team management at loggerheads at World T20?
Speculation rife that Pakistan skipper Mohammed Hafeez and the team management are not seeing eye to eye on a number of issues, especially on selection matters
Karachi: Trouble seems to be brewing in the Pakistan cricket team in the ongoing World Twenty20 Championships in Bangladesh with speculation rife of differences between skipper Mohammad Hafeez and the team management. There are reports that Hafeez is not seeing eye to eye with the team management, which includes head coach Moin Khan, cricket consultant Zaheer Abbas and manager Zakir Khan, on a number of issues, especially on selection matters.
"It is not a good sign for Pakistan cricket that such rumours are even circulating before the start of our campaign in a world event. I just hope they are not true but definitely I would like to see the Pakistan cricket Board step-in and talk to all the main stakeholders in the team so that the team can focus on winning the tournament," former head coach and chief selector Mohsin Khan said.
Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez looks on as his teammates stretch at a training session during the ICC World Twenty20 cricket tournament at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka on Thursday. Pic/AFP
Rumours started circulating after Hafeez made some caustic comments about the head coach and cricket consultant referring to their lack of experience in modern cricket and how the sport had changed in the last couple of years.
Similar rumours had also circulated when the team returned from the Asia Cup.
"Yes, there are indications that Moin, Zaheer and the fielding coach Shoaib Muhammad in particular feel that Pakistan needs a new captain for future assignments and the names of Shahid Afridi and Younis Khan are being taken frequently now," one source close to the team said.
There are question marks over whether Hafeez will be able to sustain the pressure of playing India in tomorrow's high-pressure tournament-opener.
Hafeez was captain when Pakistan lost to India in the last World T20 Cup in Sri Lanka in 2012.
"Definitely if you compare Hafeez with Mahendra Singh Dhoni than you can see a visible difference but the thing in his favour is that he is a senior player and an ideal all-rounder for T20 format," former cricketer Basit Ali said.
Interestingly, neither Afridi nor Younis have made any attempts to reject talk about them being candidates for the captaincy and both have said if such a situation arises, they will give it a serious thought.
Pakistan won the 2009 World Twenty20 under Younis while Afridi led them to the semifinals of the event in 2010.

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Catching up on some good flops over the past few days
April 29th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments
Here are 4 flops from the Lakers-Hornets game from April 26th that we felt was worth going back and featuring. It stars Lamar Odom, Derek Fisher, Pau Gasol, and New Orleans' Marco Bellinelli.
Categories: Flops refs fall for Derek Fisher, Lamar Odom, Marco Bellinelli, Pau Gasol


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Much like any other year at this time, the brothers of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at UTM have begun preparations for their annual Pike's Peak Week, their designated week of philanthropic events. As one can imagine, the amount of work required to plan these events for a typical year is great, but this year is far from typical as the Pikes plan for the 25th anniversary of their highest grossing event, the Craig Long Memorial Pike Fights.
"We take a lot of pride in this event. We know that it is a mainstay in both the campus and Martin communities," said this year's coordinator Blake Parham, a UTM sophomore. "Planning this out has been really a great learning experience for me. Knowing the caliber of event we always put out is a lot of pressure, but it drives me to wanting to see this 25th anniversary be the best yet."
The fights are an annual boxing exhibition comprised of matches pitting men from the seven member fraternities of the UTM Interfraternity Council against one another. The matches consist of three one-minute rounds of boxing that are decided by a panel of judges based on number of connecting blows or (perhaps more excitingly) via knockout. While the excitement and intensity of the matches are certainly some of their most fun and drawing qualities, the benefactor of their profits, the Weakley County Reading Railroad, is what continues to make them a highly-respected part of Martin social life.
"It means a lot for our organization to be tied so closely to the Weakley County Reading Railroad program," said President Jacob Harris of Pike. "To date we have raised over $100,000, averaging around $5,000 per year, but this year being our 25th anniversary, we've raised our goal to $10,000. We want to see the Reading Railroad succeed because it serves a great role in our community and has really helped the children of Weakley County. The importance of our work is shown by the prominent figures of Weakley County who attend the event each year."
In addition to all the philanthropic benefits of the event, it also promotes a healthy sense of fraternal unity among chapters on campus, uniting them toward a common goal in helping their local community on a truly important matter.
"Most of our charity efforts actually involve an organization located in Dyersburg because we have historic ties to it," said President Jacob Sells of Sigma Phi Epsilon, winning chapter of last year's Pike Fights. "The chance to come together to mutually align ourselves for a local cause such as this is something that I think means a lot to all of the chapters here at UTM to have the chance to be a part of."
The Weakley County Reading Railroad is a nonprofit organization that serves in partnership to both the Dolly Parton Imagination Library and the Governor's Books from Birth program. Currently there are 1,217 children enrolled in the program that is supported strictly through the generosity of individuals, businesses and civic groups such as the brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha who prove their willingness to fight for its success every year.
The 25th annual Craig Long Memorial Pike Fights will take place in the Tom and Kathleen Elam Center on Friday, April 4 with the first bout beginning at 7 p.m.


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The wild, competitive world of the West Catholic Athletic League boys basketball season took another turn on Saturday night.
Sixth-ranked St. Ignatius (12-3, 4-1), which was handled by No. 12 Riordan on Thursday, defeated No. 3 and visiting Mitty 48-40 behind 19 points by Trevor Dunbar and 10 by Julian Marcu.
Tied heading into the fourth quarter, St. Ignatius went on a 21-13 run to win going away against the Monarchs (12-3, 4-1), who got 15 points from J.P. Rindfeisch.
No. 12 Riordan 49, St. Francis 36
Eric Galindo scored a career high 18 points, Chiefy Ugbaja added 14 points and 11 rebounds and Jiday Ugbaja contributed 11 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and three steals as the Crusaders (9-6, 2-3) won their second straight. … Brian Garrett and Giuseppe Benedetti combined for 14 points for St. Francis (11-4, 1-4).
No. 7 Sacred Heart Cathedral 84, Valley Christian 45
The Irish improved to 11-3 and 3-2 win a resounding home win over Valley Christian (6-9, 1-4).
No. 8 Serra 56, Bellarmine 44
Danny Mahoney had 15 points, Sean Watkins 11 and Cory Dravalho 10 as the host Padres (11-4, 4-1) outscored Bellarmine 23-11 in the fourth quarter.
No. 10 Mitty 54, No. 5 St. Ignatius 50
UCLA-bound Kelli Hayes had 24 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists for the host Monarchs (10-6, 3-1), who defeated the Wildcats (14-2, 3-1) in a tough WCAL contest. … Seven other Monarchs scored, but no one tallied more than six. … Mitty made 19 of 38 shots, including 6-for-9 on 3-pointers. … St. Ignatius took a 15-7 lead in the first quarter before Mitty went on 34-22 run over the next two quarters.
No. 8 Sacred Heart Cathedral 51, No. 17 Valley Christian 36
The visiting Irish improved to 9-5 and 3-1 in a decisive win over Valley Christian (11-5, 2-3).
No. 6 Salesian 70, South Medford 68
At the Martin Luther King Classic at St. Mary's-Stockton High School, the remarkable Mariya Moore, the reigning Metro Player of the Year, outdid herself with a quadruple double: 21 points, 12 assists, 10 rebounds and 10 steals. … The Louisville-bound standout made all eight of her free throws lifting the Pride to 13-5. … Zoe Correal had nine points and 12 rebounds, Kim McNair eight points and six steals and DeJa Stallworth 10 points. … A 24-10 spurt in the second quarter carried the Pride to victory.
No. 4 Bishop O'Dowd 71, Vista Murrieta 31
Also at the MLK Classic, Asha Thomas had 18 points and freshman Maya Pace 10 points, 10 rebounds and four steals. … Salihah Bay added 11 points for the winners, who improved to 13-3. … On Friday, O'Dowd pulled out a tough 56-47 win at No. 11 Berkeley. … That game was tied at 44-44 with 4:25 remaining. … On Wednesday, the Dragons beat No. 15 and host Piedmont 53-46. … Needless to say it was a big week on the road for O'Dowd.
Etiwanda 65, No. 1 St. Mary's-Berkeley 49
Also at the MLK Classic, St. Mary's (13-3) was beaten badly on the boards (44-28) and with flu-ridden and Cal-bound Mikayla Cowling ineffective, the Panthers fell short. … Gabby Green had 10 points, 10 rebounds and eight steals for St. Mary's.
St. Francis dual threat Alex Andrighetto was named MVP leading the West Bay to a 31-14 win over the East Bay in the Literacy Classic All-Star football game at San Jose City College. … According to Darren Sabreda of the San Jose Mercury News, Saratoga quarterback Jonathan Walters threw for two touchdowns and Andrighetto ran for a touchdowns and intercepted a pass, one of four picks b the West Bay. … St. Francis quarterback Will Fischer-Colbrie threw a TD pass to Valley Christian Brandon Alexander, and Walters fired a 19-yard scoring toss to Keesean Johnson. … Deer Valley quarterback Nsimba Webster threw for a TD pass and St. Mary's running back Lorenzo Logwood rushed for another for the East Bay. … Palo Alto's Earl Hansen, who announced his retirement as head coach following more than 25 seasons, went out a winner for the West Bay squad.
— Harold Abend and Patrick Segurson contributed to this report


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I love photography… but I've always been motivated by storytelling.
My experience with photography really blossomed with digital equipment coming of age and a love of music.
Growing up in the 70s and 80s as a child and into the 90s as a young adult, I did own and use traditional (now "vintage") film cameras. But I always felt a disconnect with shooting, because you could not immediately see the result, and make adjustments based on results accomplished with each successive photograph. It felt like a broken process.
Today, you can see what you are doing in real time and adjust, to get the results that you want and thus, you can realize what you can imagine.
Having said that, the visual arts have always interested me. I grew up on comic books, which was a marriage of words and illustrations. As I got older, they matured as an art form on somewhat of an equivalent timeline, and some artists and works gained mainstream respect and acceptance (and many of those writers and artists went on to perform similar roles in film and television).
I dabbled a bit in drawing and painting, but I don't know that I had the skill to translate my ideas and visions on the visual side of things.
For my undergraduate degree, I studied literature and writing, and my Bachelor of Arts is in English. At that point in my life, I became more interested in film and television, and moved from Northern California to Los Angeles to go to film school. I went on to receive my Master of Fine Arts in screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television.
Fast forward many years, and this is when I found a true passion for still photography, in a digital age.
If you are familiar with my work in live music and concert photography, via my Rock Subculture website, you could probably go back some years and scan forward and see my progression as an artist with the camera. It is hard for me to look at some of those older portfolios… photography is an art form of livelong learning for me, and I learn new things every time I touch a camera or open Lightroom on my computer.
But I have learned a lot from concert photography, and honestly I learn new things with each show I shoot (50 – 100 shows per year).
I've also had an opportunity to travel the world, photographing events in England, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Switzerland, and other interesting locales.
I have found real excitement in gratification in capturing special moments (and that's really what photography comes down to… capturing moments). I discovered that I could "see" things with the camera that could not be seen in real time, with the naked eye, from a casual observer. Fleeting moments to close up shots to seeing "in the dark", a modern camera and quality lenses can be a sort of super power (going back to those comic books…).
My favorite shots are the ones showing a connection… between artists on stage or, even better, between an artist and a fan.
Which brings me around to wedding and event photography. What is more special than someone's marriage ceremony, wedding, and reception? Definitely one of the most memorable days in anyone's life. But with special moments comes a lot of emotion and precious little time, and an inability to experience it all.
For me, the prospect of photographing someone's most special of days is a real privilege and honor, but obviously a huge responsibility which I take with the deepest felt seriousness and dedicated professionalism.
I think I am offer a unique proposition because I do have an artistic eye when it comes to photography, I have a lot of business experience (managing a number of companies at the highest levels), and, funny enough, I am a true romantic at heart.
I've spent my entire life looking (and holding out for) my own special "soul mate" (I believe that there is such a thing), and I found her (Shelley) early in 2014. So I come at photography from a perspective of someone who "gets it", and is keenly tuned into feeling and emotions, and those "connections". Shelley (now my photography partner) and I got married ourselves on a beach in Maui in September 2015!
Photo Credit: Maui Beach Weddings & Events
I also have self awareness, and my quiet style is to try to be as invisible and respectful as possible at important events (not a distraction).
Shelley has in a short time become my peer and equal in photography. I am amazed at her gifts and abilities in having the ability to create compelling and often amazing compositions. Having "an eye" is the one thing that cannot really be taught… you either have it or you don't. So I am so thrilled that Shelley had this mandatory ability before she ever picked up a camera.
In a short time, she has learned most of what I know, and now teaches me things about photography and editing that I never knew. So with our love and relationship and shared passion for photography, we make each other better all the time, and we love to work together, and can capture so much more as a team.
We use a ridiculous amount of the highest quality and most current photography equipment (thanks to the demanding nature of shooting concerts, which is one of the most demanding and challenging when it comes to cameras and lenses); so not only do you get us and our experience, but equipment that few others could match.
Our objective is to be approachable and reasonable, with good advice and ideas and a fun nature. We always follow "The Golden Rule", so we imagine what we would wish for with a photographer for our own event or needs, and that is what we want to deliver, and to exceed expectations.
So if you have any photography needs, from a wedding to family photos to another event to individual portraits to anything else, including special projects, please contact us and we can discuss.
We are no pressure – we can tell you what we can do and what it will cost, and give you all the time you need to think it over and get back to us if it sounds agreeable.
We want to work with you! We love challenges! We love to travel – we will go anywhere!
Jason & Shelley DeBord
You can read a little more about me in my 2015 cover featured interview with the Monterey County Weekly and latest photo exhibit at The Press Club by visiting my sister site at Rock Subculture: LINK
You can also learn more about me via my websites related to other endeavors…


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Find lim f(t) when t tends to infinity and sketch the graph of f.
Thanks, im baffled by the K which is a positive constant.
I found an asymptote on y = 1, and 2 point of intersection.
I can't find any stationary point there as therefore no stationary point


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On Wednesday night, at the end of Day 3 of his new job, Mack Rhoades ventured out to explore Cougar Nation.
A standing-room-only crowd showed up at Skeeter's not only to fete Rhoades, but to learn more about him.
To ask questions.
To form impressions.
UH announced the hiring of Rhoades as the replacement to Dave Maggard on June 11. Rhoades, who spent the previous three and a half years as the AD at the University of Akron, arrived in Houston on Saturday and officially started on the job Monday.
What — besides an airplane — brought Rhoades to Houston?
"December," Rhoades said. "Coming from Akron … somebody told me I could go Christmas shopping in my shorts."
That got a laugh from his red-and-white constituency. For a change at a Cougars gathering, head football coach Kevin Sumlin was the warm-up act. That was fine with Sumlin, because his summer vacation officially ends when Cougars players report for fall camp at 3 p.m. Thursday.
"I don't have to go last and answer all the questions," Sumlin said with a big smile.
Rhoades easily moved back and forth between light-hearted and serious during a 25-minute session with the fans. He wasn't cracking wise when he told the crowd at the start: "I wouldn't be here if I didn't believe we can recapture the glory days."
More than once, Rhoades emphasized the we part of the equation.
"I really think we can do some special things," Rhoades said. "But it's we. It's not going to be just me at all. This program is much bigger than Mack Rhoades. It's much bigger than Coach Sumlin. It's your program."
Rhoades apologized for not wearing a suit jacket for the occasion, explaining that he made the mistake of putting his suit jacket in the backseat of a car populated by children. Some stray gum may have marred his garment. Rhoades reiterated his belief that ticket sales are the lifeblood of a program. He pledged to go above and beyond the traditional advertising and marketing campaigns, to work on a grass-roots level.
"I'm a big believer," Rhoades said, "that you don't G-E-T unless you A-S-K.
"If you can't donate $100,000 or $100 or whatever, you need to buy a season ticket. You need to get your friends in the stadium."
Maybe only partly in jest, Rhoades said he has an attention deficit disorder that renders him incapable of sitting at his desk for more than an hour or and hour and a half at time. He vowed to be out and about to A-S-K, A-S-K, A-S-K for help and support.
"If you tell me no, that's not going to be good enough," Rhoades said. "You're going to have to tell me no three, four, five times before I finally get it into my head that it really is no."
Rhoades re-affirmed his intention to proceed with caution with the Robertson Stadium renovation plan. He expects to have a clearer vision of exactly how he wants to proceed within the next two months.
Would playing games at Reliant Stadium become an option?
Rhoades said he'd "entertain" the possibility, depending on the opponent and how much revenue UH could make in the process. He made it clear that he considers keeping games on campus the long-term solution for UH.
"The bottom line: I've got a great belief that in terms of football, it's an all-day event," Rhoades. "It's a six-to-eight hour event, and I want people coming to our campus."
That brought a hearty round of applause. What about good old Hofheinz Pavilion? In its day, it was good, and now it's just old.
"Certainly I've seen better," Rhoades said. "But I've seen worse."
Rhoades said that if people want to hold the basketball coaches, Tom Penders and Joe Curl, to high standards, then the facility "needs to be addressed."
"Facilities are not everything," Rhoades said. "But in today's age of college athletics, it makes a huge difference. It absolutely makes a huge difference."
One UH fan wanted to know Rhoades' stance on bringing back a live mascot.
"Wow," Rhoades said, rendered speechless for a moment. He said he doesn't know all the ramifications of having a live Cougar, which presumably would not be Kim Cattrall.
"I'll tell you: If it was a dog, I'd say yes," Rhoades said. "I told you I'll be candid. It may not be at the top of the list."
Players will report to Cougars coach Kevin Sumlin for the 2009 football season at 3 p.m. Thursday. Among those expected to arrive are eight returning offensive starters, including Conference USA Offensive Player of the year Case Keenum from an 8-5 team that won a bowl game for the first time since 1980. The newcomers into the program include receiver A.J. Dugat, a Parade All-America who will wear jersey No. 1.
"The really great thing," Sumlin said, "is to be able to coach with a little more confidence."
People outside the program have been ratcheting up the expectations. A poll of media covering C-USA deemed the Cougars favorites. Rivals.com and the New York Times rank UH 30th entering the season. WhatIfSports.com ranks UH No. 16.
"There's a lot of talk out there about where we should be," Sumlin said. "We don't pay attention to that."
Media Day is Friday, followed by the Cougars' first workout. The team will practice in pads for the first time on Wednesday. The first scrimmage is Aug. 15 at 11:30 a.m., followed by Fan Appreciation Day. Other than the Aug. 15 and Aug. 22 scrimmages, workouts are closed to the public.
UH is offering season-ticket packages for the 2009 soccer and volleyball seasons.
Both sports offer season tickets for $50, along with a flex-plan purchase. The flex plan allows for the purchase of eight eight tickets for either soccer or volleyball in whatever configuration the fan chooses. The ticket office also offers a dual-sport season ticket purchase of eight soccer tickets and nine volleyball tickets for $70.
Coach Bill Walton leads the volleyball team into the season-opening Flo Hyman Invitational on Aug. 28 at the Athletics/Alumni Center.
Susan Bush leads the soccer team into an Aug. 21 opener at Houston Baptist. The home opener against Texas-San Antonio is Aug 23 at 1 p.m.
For more information, call the UH ticket office at 713-GO-COOGS.
Conference USA was second in the nation last season in scoring and yardage gained, trailing only the Big 12. This leads to the perception that defense doesn't really count for anything in C-USA.
Uh, wrong.
Wrong, wrong.
The top six teams in defense in C-USA games last season: East Carolina, UCF, Memphis, Southern Miss, Tulsa and UH. Their combined record in C-USA play: 30-18. The bottom six in defense in C-USA games: Marshall, UAB, Tulane, SMU, UTEP, Rice. Their combined record in C-USA play: 18-30.
The only sub-.500 team in the top six in defense: UCF, at 3-5. The only winning team in the bottom six in defense: Rice, at 7-1.
West champion Tulsa had the No. 1 defense in its division. UH was second in the division in defense and went 6-2 in conference play. East champion East Carolina had the No. 1 defense in the league and defeated Tulsa in the C-USA title game.
To follow me on Twitter, go to twitter.com/campbellcoogs
Do it, UH fans. It's one way of showing tangible proof of the interest in the Cougars.


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MM: Futures question: when will we be dealing with prioritization/conformance?
JW: I thought there was already a proposal in the current draft?
MM: I just want to be sure this isn't going to come back again, because it affects the authoring tools. We'll need to do an ATAG 1.1 for this.
JW: There may be changes in the level allocations of particular success criteria. But there seems to be a reasonable agreement with the general scheme itself, so it seems like to be what we will use. But we can't rely on it, and particularly on the priorities of success criteria, until the document goes to last call.
MM: Will WCAG and ATAG be meeting together?
JW: I suggested it should happen sometime soon after this public draft comes out. This gives ATAG people a chance to review this draft and prepare a list of issues, then we should hold a teleconference to address the issues of dependencies.
MM: I think we should take advantage of being together in Linz, and meet at the beginning of the face-to-face.
JW: This was ruled out because the chairs of the group couldn't be present, so the face-to-face meeting will just be a working session on techniques, and we'll address the ATAG dependencies in a teleconference.
JW: Upcoming issues: ATAG dependencies; multiple versions of contents
and server side techniques, particularly as they affect conformance schemes;
a range of issues related to particular checkpoints in the document
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I really enjoy watching/reading empty review posts as you can get peoples true opinions on the products once they've used them all up.
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Batiste Dry Shampoo in Floral & Flirty Blush
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RPAC Brochure–The case for Open Records
The Records Preservation and Access Committee have developed a tri-fold brochure entitled "The Case for Open Public Records."
Special thanks are in order to President Jan Alpert of the National Genealogical Society for her role in coordinating the project and NGS for sponsoring the design of the brochure. We also thank Heather Henderson of Ancestral Origins for the graphic design of the brochure (and for her patience in managing the numerous edits of its content.) Copies of the printed brochure are available at 12 cents each plus shipping by contacting firstname.lastname@example.com.
We also want to thank the members of the RPAC committee who contributed information and provided editing support.
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Kids for Art! Art for Kids! | Charley Harper
by Deborah Harju, posted on November 12th, 2013 in Art School
There are few illustrators whose style stands out so unmistakably and so unique as Charley Harper. Most of us can browse through our children's bookshelves and pick out his works in an instant, books on colors, ABCs, shapes. The thing that stands out most of all is the simplicity of his work. Here's a quote of his that really explains this well, "when I look at wildlife or nature subject, I don't see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns…in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle." How beautiful for our children to think about something their little imaginations often do all on their own.
This "minimal realism" is what lends itself to his colorful, bold art, not fussy with lots of details of texture and shading, just whimsical illustrations. Minimal means smaller amount, so he wasn't trying to create a picture that's as accurate or "real" as possible. Take for instance this red bird,
What shapes do you see? Can your child point out the teardrop, the triangles that create the beak, the triangle tail? How about the rectangles on the branch? We are huge fans of this book—the illustrations and photos are wonderful. If you have access to this book or are at the library, let your child browse through and take note of Charley Harper's style.
Today, we are going to be creating our very own Charley Harper inspired piece. You will need newspaper, construction paper, white paper, glue stick, scissors, and a pencil or black marker.
Using the newspaper, cut or tear out pieces that will be the branch in the picture. Glue them down with your glue stick.
Next start cutting different shapes out of the construction paper. Teardrops, triangles, semi-circles. Pretty soon shapes will turn into animals when you layer them on top of each other.
Using a pencil or marker, fill in the legs. Charley Harper was known for very simple legs, just a straight line and a dot. Easy as can be. If you'd like to add any additional birds or leaves, go ahead and glue those down as well.
Before you know it, your own shapes will have a life of their own, one of birds and nature, your own "one small rectangle" in a "world of chaos".


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Several items of interest to report from the world of Talk media during this holiday week: Rumors continue to suggest that just retired CNN host Larry King could be working on a radio deal under the umbrella of Ryan Seacrest's production company … CBS Radio/Washington names Shari Gonzalez as VP/Director of Sales for the company's five-station DC cluster … KFWB/Los Angeles will present "An Evening With Dave Ramsey On Leadership And Marketing," March 24th at the Alex Theater in suburban Glendale, CA … Former KSTP-AM/Minneapolis PD Steve Konrad received a standing ovation at Hubbard Broadcasting's annual Christmas party earlier this week. Steve (pictured at the party with his wife Melodee) is spending the holiday season continuing his long and difficult road to recovery from severe injuries suffered nine months ago in a motorcycle accident. Wish him and his family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year HERE.
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A/N: I always intended to finish this story, ever since I laid out the plot years ago. Life and a growing habit of not-writing got in the way. But I graduated and scored a Real Job, and I find myself with free time and the deep unsatisfied sadness of a neglected passion. I thought I'd continue this story as a way of getting back into writing.
The servant hurried up the stairs. The Prince was in a temper again, and he had been only too glad to remove himself from his highness's presence. Farah's illness weighed heavily on the Prince, and the exhaustion from caring for his bride showed in his recent quickness to anger. He was extraordinarily devoted to her, adamant that he alone could nurse his beloved back to health. He insisted on personally overseeing every morsel of food produced in the kitchens to be brought up to her room: only the freshest, most perfect fruits, the softest breads, the tenderest cuts of meat for his princess, he declared every day.
The servant fumbled with the heavy key, trying to balance in one hand the silver tray brimming with food. He felt a few grapes roll around on it and gulped - the Prince would have his head if he spilled. At last, the key turned in the lock and he timidly pushed the door open.
As usual, there was no sign of the princess. He did as he had been instructed and set the tray down just inside the doorway. As he went to close the door, he heard a hoarse voice.
"Help," it rasped. "Please. Help me."
The room was dark. He was sure it was empty except for the princess, but his mind refused to connect that voice with his spirited young ruler. It was feeble, hollow, desperate. He gripped the door handle more tightly and squinted.
A hand closed firmly around his wrist. "Thank you. That will be all," murmured the Dark Prince from behind him. From somewhere in the room, a low wail began.
The Dark Prince pushed him roughly through the doorway. The servant's foot bumped the tray of food, and he watched a mango fall off and roll a few feet away before the Dark Prince closed the door behind them both. The Prince's eyes bored into him, but his expression was inscrutable.
"Is she... is she much better, Your Highness?" the servant asked.
The Dark Prince's face fell into a sigh. "Worse, I fear." He glanced at the closed door and sorrow swept his fine features. "She passes through fits of delirium, speaking nonsense and fearing things unseen."
The servant bowed his head, feeling sorry he had asked. "I am sure that with Your Grace's faithful care, her recovery will be swift and complete." He feared he sounded obsequious, but the Dark Prince inclined his head graciously and appeared pleased. The servant bowed lower and left.
She deserves better than this. She's a princess, and a warrior.
The Dark Prince laughed, easily. "You really think appealing to my sense of empathy will work? Just how long have I been living inside you?"
Give her a chance to fight. You love a good fight.
This was undeniable; he had terrorized more than one cowering servant just for the feeling of his fists on human flesh. Grandiose plans were all well and good, but his black heart was in battles, in the shriek of steel on steel and the cries of enemies so easily slaughtered. But he could not risk upsetting his plans, even though he knew the voice inside him spoke only out of desperation.
"How much does it pain you, watching her waste away?" He smiled silkily. The voice said nothing in reply, but he could feel it seething, anguished, beneath his skin. He flicked a grape lazily at the girl huddled in the corner, losing interest even before it glanced off the chain that bound her ankle to a stone pillar. "Let me feel your tragic love beat hopelessly inside this pale, silly body." He laughed again. He was in an excellent mood today.
At least make her comfortable. Someone might notice the cuts or bruises and get suspicious.
"Ah, a much more sensible attempt," the Dark Prince applauded. "But you know perfectly well that no one dares enter this room. Everyone knows that the princess's illness is likely to be highly contagious, since I've hinted it far and wide. All the more noble of me for doting on her so, of course!"
When she dies, they'll see her body.
This actually impressed him. That the whimpering prince could stand to think that plainly of his lover's death spoke of a pragmatism that the Dark Prince could not help but admire. But it only raised his spirits higher.
"Maybe I'll set my lover's body aflame in my stupendous grief," he said, and he began prancing around the room as rage that was not his rose to the surface. He embraced it, cackling. Rarely had he appeared more like a demon than as he danced then in the low flickering firelight, red on his scarred skin, white teeth flashing. "Who cares! It will be too late by then. India will be mine."
India will always belong to its beloved princess. The people will never accept a monster like you-
"They will when the rest of the royal family is dead," he sang. "That's the beauty of the monarchy. Total power and no argument."
The voice was silent again. He could feel that it was straining to sense his plans, to catch an idea of his next step. He clicked his tongue. "As if there's anything you could do about it. How has it been going so far, reasoning with me from the sidelines? The wheedling voice begging most piteously for mercy on behalf of his precious love?" He made a face as though even the word was distasteful. "Sad wretch of a man. Save a shred of dignity and give up. Just go quietly into a corner of me and we'll both forget you ever existed."
The voice said nothing.
"He doesn't know," said Farah. "He can't. I think the very idea of hope is abhorrent to him."
The Prince nodded. "He does well with maniacal glee, but doesn't seem to have much grasp of other positive emotions."
Farah wrapped two hazy arms around his. All was warmth and light here, for now. But she saw shadows out of the corner of eyes and she dared not loosen her grasp, illusory though she knew it was.
Sure enough, the Prince winced. "I think he-I'm-we're waking up." Farah clung more tightly, but the Prince's arm was shifting in and out of focus and seemed to be becoming softer and softer, until her hands fell through it and found only each other. But she nodded as she tried to find his face in the mist. "Until next time," she said.


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The partially decomposed body of a female was found on Tuesday, Aug. 27, just south of the weigh station around 8:15 a.m.
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State's (in)competency test: State competency test 'too simple', rue school authorities
The state education department's ambitious brainchild— the competency tests— have run into many problems with schools saying that the questions are too simple; education board says questions are simple because they are meant to be basic
The state competency tests seem to have hit another roadblock. Several schools are of the opinion that the tests, designed to gauge the students' understanding of their previous academic year, are too simple.
In some cases, test papers for three different classes have ended up having the same questions. To add to this list, several schools are yet to receive the papers with the deadline for conducting the tests, September 30, getting closer every day.
Questions from the dictation test for students of Std VI, VII and VIII have been found to be similar. The questions, that are meant to test students on their spelling skills, include words like 'often', 'beautiful', 'tomorrow', 'surprise', 'happiness', etc. where each correct spelling awards them half a mark. (mid-day has a copy of the test paper for Std VII)
Lack of co-ordination?
Even after postponing these tests for weeks together, most city schools have not received their test papers yet. Some of the schools that were on a five-day Ganpati break said that they had not received the papers till their last working day.
On the other hand, the schools that have received the English test papers were surprised to see that some of the questions for students in Std VI, VII and VIII are similar. Such instances raise questions about the education department's lack of coordination.
Keeping the same questions for all three classes also defeats the purpose of trying to evaluate a student's understanding of the previous year's subjects (the papers have been designed by the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT)).
The State Education Department's lack of coordination is evident further because they have put together these questions for students of differing classes. The questions would end up looking too easy to students from upper primary classes.
"We were told that there will be different question papers for students from different grades, but the questions seem similar for Std VI, VII and VIII. What's the use of taking time out to conduct these tests when the government also seems disinterested in putting together the question papers?" asked the principal of a state board school in the suburbs.
A first-of-its-kind initiative to be introduced in the state, the purpose behind the competency tests was to find out the skills acquired by students in the previous academic year, especially to counter the skepticism around the failing standard of education due to the no-fail policy of the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
The government has made it very clear that these competency tests are compulsory for all students and schools of all boards across the state. To their surprise, even after much insistence, the government has not sent a single test paper to non-state board schools.
Official speak
Nand Kumar, Principal secretary of the state's School Education department told mid-day that the test is compulsory for students of Std II-VIII of all schools (irrespective of their boards), "Those schools that have not received test papers will get them soon.
Some of the questions in the paper will be the same because we are only trying to test the basic language and mathematical skills of students." He added that once the schools and students get used to giving these tests every year, they will stop complaining.
'Eeach' word counts
While reading through the teacher's copy of the test paper, we noticed that it came with a bunch of typos and grammatical errors.
This struck us as something most ironical, since the paper is meant to test the student's spelling skills as well as their grammar. One such glaring typo was a guideline on allotting marks that said, 'eeach' correct spelling carries ½ mark.


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Re: You are picking between PS3, 360 or Wii
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Defo get the xbox here are my reasons
1) there is thousands of more people with a mic to talk to around the world compared to the PS3 and the nintendo wii doesnt even have a headset if thats even got online play.
2)the wii was overrated and many people have haad to return thier console straight away ( i know that i had to after bout a week of having it)
3) the wii has really bad graphics for a console of late 2007-08
4) the ps3 is good but you wwill find that you have more entertining games on the xbox especially call o duty 4 modern warfare
SO BASICALLY: i suggets that you buy the xbox there are more people online with them more peole have headsets resulting in more fun and more challengees from around the world.
1) the wii has online. headsets are great and all, but i can only listen to prepubescent children screaming about noobs for so long. there's not a lot of enthralling conversation taking place on xbox live.
2) the wii
overrated? then why does it continue to sell so well? many people have had to return their console?
from what i've read, the only people returning their console are xbox360 owners.
3) the graphics arent that bad. ive got wii games that have much better art direction than some of my 360 games. mario galaxy is gorgeous.
4) call of duty modern warfare is available on ps3, pc, and ds. the next call of duty will be available on 360, wii, ps3, ps2, and pc.
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One of the most important tasks on any BIM project is properly assembling the project team. The shift in emphasis from the design team (as set out in the 1963 RIBA Plan of Work) to the project team is in itself a core message to be derived from the RIBA Plan of Work 2013. In assembling the project team the new Plan of Work advocates the consideration of who does what, when and how. These simple concepts and their relevance to BIM can be summarised as follows:
Project teams are becoming more and more complex. BIM allows us to start designing in a quicker and more detailed manner. This requires a greater degree of clarity earlier on in the process to ensure that each member of the project team understands their role, to ensure that fees have been allocated appropriately, and more importantly to ensure that there are no gaps in the services that need to be provided. The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 sets out the notion of a Project Roles Table and the connected (but different) need for a Contractual Tree in order to allow discussion around the development of the collaborative project team and to capture this information at a high level before detailed schedules of services and other contractual documents are prepared.
The Plan of Work 2013 encourages the preparation of documents that ensure that each party is aware of what they have to do. Three tools are proposed:
Schedules of Services
These will place greater emphasis on, and be aligned with, the tasks set out in the RIBA Plan of Work 2013. They will not set out tasks in relation to a professional's day-to-day tasks; it will be the responsibility of each designer to use their skills to achieve the briefed requirements and the stated level of detail in the information exchanges. The Schedules will also address duties required as part of the Handover Strategy (derived from the BSRIA Soft Landing initiative) pre- and post-handover, as well as new duties that may be required in relation to asset management and other new subjects. The schedules will also consider project outcomes, the need to state them in the project brief and then any requirements to assess them post-occupancy.
Information Exchanges
Many projects still work on the notion that full size models need to be printed to a 'scale'. This 'analogue' way of thinking is slowly being replaced by the 'digital' notion that a BIM model should be produced to a certain level of definition. This level will be dependent on design responsibility issues and on the purpose of the information. For example, client signoff, specialist contractor design development, planning, etc. More information on this subject will be published in 2013. The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 has been developed to accommodate these discussions without impacting on the Plan of Work itself.
Design Responsibility Matrix
JCT contracts have addressed the need to contractually agree the extent of design work undertaken by specialist contractors (Performance Specified Work) for a number of years. The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 suggests the preparation of a Design Responsibility Matrix so that it is clear at the outset to all parties in the project team which aspects of the design will be designed by specialist contractors and which aspects will be constructed on site from information prepared by the design team.
Collaborative contracts have promoted the importance of programmes in professional services or building contracts for some time. The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 takes this notion further and encourages the preparation of a Project Programme that is agreed by all members of the project team. The Project Programme would dovetail with any Design Programmes co-ordinated by the lead designer and with the contractor's Construction Programme. It is only by having detailed programme discussions that project risks can be understood and shared appropriately.
Very few standardized processes emerged from the growth of CAD. Whilst the likes of CPIC have tried to bring some clarity to this subject, and we are close to the publication of PAS1192, it is fair to say that most practices utilise their own CAD Manual which they believe to be the best and most appropriate way of working! These CAD Manuals are developing into BIM Manuals.
However, BIM requires close working protocols for all members of the project team to ensure that information can be properly shared and used by each party. For those working with different consultants, it can be frustrating to have to work to different protocols on different projects. The Plan of Work 2013 advocates the preparation of a Project Execution Plan that sets out the structure and information for each party and individual in the team as well as communication and technology (including software and hardware) strategies and information on any specific BIM aspects such as file-naming protocols. The title ensures that all subjects, not just BIM, are considered holistically and not individually. Of course, the RIBA cannot be prescriptive in terms of outlining requirements but nudges can be made to try and encourage all parties to use common protocols and processes with a view to achieving a "plug and play" environment where each designer can move seamlessly from one project to the next.
BIM as a term is being used as a wrapper for many subjects. The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 sows the seeds to encourage many subjects to be considered. It acts as a stepping stone as the construction industry harnesses BIM in order to be more efficient and effective. Further information on the subjects above and the many other ideas tackled by the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 will be available when the new Plan is launched in May.


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My biggest fear is giving this to someone else, so I avoid getting to a point in a relationship where that could happen. And after reading this, I fear more people will be scared to have sex with me or anyone else with herpes.
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I also mention herpes rarely gets in the way of relationships, according to interviews I've conducted with people who have herpes. They tell me herpes forces them to have meaningful conversations instead of meaningless sex.
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I met a really great guy recently, and we have been texting for a couple of weeks but haven't met in person. We are supposed to hang out this weekend. The thing is, I have uneasy feelings about him. He's really sweet and we've video chatted, so I feel safe about him, but something just seems off.
Last week, he randomly stopped texting me in the middle of a conversation and blocked me on Facebook. It was out of nowhere. He finally texted me the next night at 2 a.m. to tell me he didn't think we were compatible. This was a day after he was telling me he could see me as his girlfriend. He started talking about differences in sexual wants and things we never even discussed because they were so personal.
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This is a compilation of interviews, newspaper pieces and blog posts where I have been featured.
The Blind Food Critic on radio and podcasts:
• In December of 2011, I participated in a great podcast called SeroTalk (a play on words from the company SeroTech who makes handy products for the blind such as various types of screen readers and accessible technology).
Pleasse have a listen:
• During my trip to the Basque Country I had dinner at a cider house, surprisingly the video I recorded there was featured on a local radio program.
This was aired on the program Faktoria on Radio Euskadi, January 29th 2013.
Click here to listen.
Newspaper Articles:
• This piece about me appeared in one of the most important basque newspapers called el Diario Vasco in the "gastronomic" section!
The article talks about my visit to certain restaurants and pintxo places, as the blind food critic during my visit to san Sebastian in the Basque Country on January 2013.
Daniel Aronoff: cuando no se puede comer por los ojos "Daniel Aronoff: When you can't eat with your eyes".
• This piece about me appeared in a basque newspaper called Berria, in the "hara!" section.
the article talks about my visit as the Blind Food Critic to a traditional Basque cider house.
Itsu estatubatuar bat Euskal Herriko ohiturak ezagutzen "A blind American learning the habits of the Basque Country".
Food Related Blogs:
• A website called Foodie Buddha wrote a great article about me and the Blind Taste Test in january 2012. It should be noted that I wasn't even aware of this article until it was publishe!
Bad Ass Blind Foodies: Food Criticism Like You've Never Seen.
• for some reason CNN picked up on the previous story and published this:
Box lunch a case against pepper and blind gourmands.
• a website in South America wrote about me, and it was quite nice! (in Spanish)
La Comida de los Ciegos.
Interviews on the net:
• learning Ally, an U.s organisation that makes Recorded Books for the Blind and Dyslexic, wrote an article featuring me.
Blind Food Critic and blogger with a heart to serve.
Have you taken The Real Blind Taste Test?
• Maureen Duffy interviewed me for Visionaware, a website with lots of resources about blindness, treatments and accesibility.
Read the article: Daniel Aronoff, New York's premier blind food critic!
• The New York Restaurant the little owl has made a post talking about my youtube food review of their stablishment.
This is what they posted about it.
• Fedora Outlier, a internet bassed organisation, that focusses on teaching Apple bassed accessible technology, has featured me on their Follow Friday section.
Follow friday with the blind food critic Daniel aronoff.
Guest blogger
I have written several posts for diferent blogs and websites, I list them on the following section:
• Following is my response to With New Technologies, Do Blind People Lose More Than They Gain? in which New York Times author Rachel Aviv explores the meaning of literacy and role of braille in our ever-increasing electronic and auditory world. This is a reproduction that apeared on January 2013 on Visionaware website, from the same article of this website.
The Importance of Braille Literacy: An Open Letter to the New York Times from Daniel Aronoff.
• A friend from twitter that has a website asked me to write a guest post for her section called whill to winn. Here is the link to that article.
Whill to win! – Daniel Aronoff.


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Eve, Jezebel, Bathsheba, Esther, and Delilah. This five part series tells the timeless stories of love, adultery, politics, murder, mayhem, and motherhood. It looks at the Old Testament stories of women who dared to take the initiative and assume responsibility for their destiny.
Notorious Women of the Bible investigates the historical, geographical, cultural and theological context of the stories surrounding these infamous females who belonged to a patriarchal society, and whose options were few and stark. They challenged, seduced, tricked, took risks and some even staked their lives and continue to inspire poets, theologians and artists.
Eve – The Original Rebel
The story of Eve opens up with a vision of loneliness, companionship, desire and love. It tells how woman, made in the Creators image, gives up a life of ease in an idyllic setting, along with the promise of immortality, and instead chooses to pursue wisdom and intimacy with her man. Stereotypes of Eve haunt our societal view of women today.
Delilah – One Feisty Femme
Samson may have been the classic biblical Israeli strong man, but he was no match for a pretty young Philistine named Delilah. We all think we know this traditional tale, but do we? Was Delilah a pawn, a Judas or a survivor? Hers is a rich, complex story of romance, betrayal and revenge that will bring down the house as we explore this legend from an entirely new perspective.
Bathsheba – Wife, Mother, Queen
The setting: a late afternoon in Jerusalem some 3,000 years ago. A beautiful young woman bathes on the roof under the last rays of dusk, espied by the lustful eyes of a hidden admirer. The admirer, King David, is not where he's supposed to be, on the battlefield with his troops. And the woman, Bathsheba, is married. Her husband is a general in David's army. Though normally a righteous man, with a harem already full of wives and concubines, the king succumbs to his overwhelming desire. Every hero must have his fatal flaw, and Bathsheba is his.
Jezebel – The Ultimate Bad Girl
No biblical woman is more reviled than Jezebel. Her name lives to this day as a synonym for feminine evil. Jezebel's story is a rich mix of historical events, allegorical interpretation and metaphorical license. At the climax of her long struggle to bring pagan worship to the kingdom of Israel, Queen Jezebel pays a terrible price. To modern feminist authors, Jezebel is one of the most intriguing women in the Scriptures. Though denounced as a murderer, prostitute and enemy of God, some still find reason to admire this ancient queen.
Esther – A Clever Heroine
The book of Esther tells the story of a beautiful orphan who hides her Jewish identity, becomes Queen of Persia and saves her people from destruction. A controversial figure, Esther has been criticized for being a 'bad Jew'; flouting a tradition, marrying a gentile and being vengeful and bloodthirsty. Still, with great courage, wisdom and imagination, she stops a pogrom.
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Etrian Odyssey V has topped Japanese sales charts in it's debut week, with 92,518 units sold in just 3 days.
The numbers from Media Create show a very strong opening for the game in the Japanese market. It was received quite well by the Japanese magazine Famitsu. They awarded the game a 35/40 and praised it's changes to the character creation system.
The previous entry in the main series of EO games, Etrian Odyssey IV, sold over 100,000 units in it's debut week. It saw the strongest sales in the series to date.
While EOV's did open with slightly lower numbers, I think it's still an impressive showing. The game released halfway through the tracked week and still beat out it's closest competitor Dragon Ball Fusions by roughly 15,000 copies.
In addition, the Nintendo 3DS is 4 years older at this point and I'm certain many owners have hung up their 3DS for good by now. I wonder if the series will move to the Nintendo NX or smartphones in the future?
You can find our previous coverage of Etrian Odyssey V here.
It still hasn't been announced for a Western localization, so if you're anxious to play it, you can order it from Play Asia.


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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) – Blessed with natural resources but never enough jobs, southern Illinois counties have begun sampling the fruits of a land rush linked to a debated drilling practice that speculators believe can tap elusive oil and natural gas thousands of feet underground.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees have flowed into county coffers from a stream of "land men," often out-of-staters who converged in recent years to scour title records for prime parcels for exploration. County clerks funneled much of that windfall into digitizing bulky, age-yellowed record books that took a toll from all the frenzied searches.
A coffee shop owner credits the visitors with saving her business in Wayne County's tiny Fairfield. The county's finance board leader says he's seen more locals sporting new vehicles and spending more on items at auctions, thanks to land deals tied to the drilling push.
Locals believe the best is yet to come. But, as lawmakers in Springfield argue about potentially groundbreaking regulations that would facilitate the so-called practice of "fracking," it's difficult to determine how much of the region stands to benefit. Industry officials say at least 17 counties – perhaps a sixth of the state – could see some activity, and that landowners already have leased perhaps half a million acres.
"Once they hit a well, everybody and their dog will be in here drilling," said Steve Ehrhart, head of the finance committee in Wayne County, which has been one of the epicenters of the land speculation.
For many in the region, where oil rigs dot the landscape and coal mines long have been king, there's broad hope of bigger financial gains from a drilling process they hope sweeps in soon, using highpressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals to crack rock formations and release trapped oil and natural gas.1 2 3 next >>
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Summary #2 After losing his transcribed copy of the play, Widge becomes a player for the Lord Chamberlain's Men. As time goes on, Widge starts to enjoy the play and he starts to make new friends, like Sander and Julian. He starts to love his new "family" and doesn't want to betray them.
After reaching a contract with Falconer, Nick, a former theatre member, sneaks into the Globe and steals the playbook. In an attempt to retrieve the book, Widge and Mr. Armin pursue Nick and Falconer. Mr. Armin ends up in a duel with Falconer while Widge steaks the book. Mr. Armin ends up killing Falconer. On his death bed, Falconer reveals himself to be Mr. Simon Bass.
After weeks and weeks, Julian or, now known as her real name, Julia, meets the theatre on the street. She tells them she will be going to France to be a player, since they allow women to be on stage there. Widge sheds tears for Julia.
Widge admits his past the company. He informs them that he had actually come to the theatre to transcribe or steal the play for the Lord Admiral's Men, the theatre's opposition. He accepts any punishment they declare, even if that means leaving his family.
After discussion, the theatre decides to keep Widge, as he is not only a promising player but also a trustworthy person, since he had not actually stolen or transcribed anything even when he had the chance.
Overall, throughout the book, Widge slowly learns the real meaning of words like honesty, trust, loyalty, friendship, family and home. Summary #1 Widge is adopted by Dr. Timothy Bright at age seven and moves to Berwick. He learns how to read and write multiple languages. These languages include English, Latin and Charactery, a language made by Dr. Bright himself that enables the writer to "transcribe the spoken word as rapidly as it issues from the tongue."
At age fourteen, a mysterious hooded person, later known as Falconer, claims Widge for ten pounds of currency. The two travel over to Leicester and Widge meets his real master, Simon Bass. Mr. Bass gives Widge a simple mission, to use his art of charactery to travel to London with Falconer and attend a performance and transcribe The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The Setting The Shakespeare Stealer is based in London, England. This happens around 1587, around the time of Shakespeare. Breakdown of the Plot Points #1 Main Conflict and Resolution The main conlict is that Widge is sent to London, England to attend and transcribe Shakespeare's play in charactery. This gets more complicated as the table-book with the transcribed play is stolen and Widge joins the Chamberlain's Men in order to find it. This plan fails as he slowly starts to make close friends. As time progresses, Widge becomes a close member of the theatre and he chooses not to steal or transcribe the play anymore. But Falconer, aka Mr. Simon Bass, tries to make sure this doesn't happen…
The resolution, or final outcome, is that Falconer ends up persuading Nick, a former theatre player, to steal the playbook. Nick gets persuaded and steals the book and runs. Widge and Mr. Armin follow him. They manage to cut off Falconer at Aldersgate on his way to Leicester. While Falconer and Mr. Armin duel, Widge grabs the book. At last, Mr. Armin delivers a fatal blow to Falconer, and he dies. A Book Report... The Shakespeare Stealer Widge is born on the year of the Lord 1587, the twenty-ninth reign of Queen Elizabeth's reign. His mother died shortly after his birth and he knows nothing of his father. Widge is a shaky character. He never trusts himself and others. This is due to the fact that Widge has spent the first seven years of his life in an orphanage. His first impressions are not the best. Character Sketch If I were to choose an alternate ending, I would continue the story by letting Falconer escape. Letting this happen would mean that Falconer would've stolen the playbook by killing Mr. Armin or Widge, or both. This would mean that the play has been stolen and the main character has been killed. It would not be a happy ending. This would have rippling effects because the author would have to create a new main character if he wanted to create a new book in the series. Alternate Ending Chapter 1
- Widge is born on the year of our Lord 1587, the twenty-ninth reign of Queen Elizabeth's reign. He stays in an orphanage.
- When was seven, becomes apprentice to Dr. Timothy Bright and moved to Berwick. Learns how to read and write English, Latin and Charactery, which is made by Dr. Bright.
- He learned this so he could keep scientific notes, transcribe weekly sermons and go to neighboring parishes to copy other rectors' sermons.
Chapter 2
- When was fourteen, mysterious person with hood on head claimed him for ten pounds of currency.
Chapter 3
- Falconer duels some bandits.
Chapter 4
- They arrive at a house and stable in Leicester. Widge is introduced to his real master, Simon Bass Breakdown of the Plot Points #2 Chapter 5
- Simon tells Widge his assignment: to go to London, attend a performance called The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and copy it in charactery and deliver it to his master.
Chapter 6
- Falconer (the mysterious man) and Widge set off for London.
Chapter 7
- Falconer gives Widge a penny and sends him into the theatre alone
- Widge gets confused as the players attack their lines and many players come on stage.
- He gets caught up with the play and it seems less important to him to copy down the lines than to find out what these people are going to say or do next. His petty mission no longer matters.
- After the play is finished, Widge gets worried as he has not copied down all of the lines. Breakdown of the Plot Points #3 Chapter 8
- He approaches Falconer and tells him got almost all the lines (50 left) but crowd was noisy. Falconer tells him to go back on Friday and finish getting all the lines.
Chapter 9
- When they get to the theatre, falconer tells him to go the players entrance and note down every word. Widge notes down every word he had not copied down the previous day.
- He manages to escape throughout the rear door, after making the cannoneer miss his shot. Widge doesn't see Falconer and runs around playhouse.
- Someone jostles him from behind. He turns around and sees a thin fellow with a red nose and a scraggly beard.
- To assure himself that the wallet is still there, pats pocket, which feels flat and empty. He gets worried. Open wallet and finds the table book missing.... Breakdown of the Plot Points #4 Chapter 10
- Widge retraces his steps and checks carefully. He ends up going inside the theatre again.
- He falls as back door is flung open by Thomas Pope, who eventually adopts him. He is taken into the theatre.
- Out of desperation, he tells them he wanted to see the play, had no penny, has no master, and wants to be a player.
- Widge joins the Lord Chamberlain's Company to retrieve table-book, transcribe the play, or steal the theaters copy
Chapter 11
- Meets Alexander Cooke (Sander) and Mistress Willingson (housekeeper)
Chapter 12
- Widge realizes the man in crowd with the smile had stolen the script.
Chapter 13
- He visits Saint Paul's, a cathedral. Widge believes he is now at the center of the center of the universe. Breakdown of the Plot Points #5 Chapter 14
- Widge gets given the playbook in his hands, he thinks about walking out with it.
Chapter 15
- Gets book taken away.
Chapter 16
- He learns Simon Bass was in the Chamberlain's Men, but was kicked out. He later became the leader of The Lord Admiral's Men. Mr. Bass is apparently a jew and his actual name is Simon Bashevi.
- Widge is stalked from home and is kidnapped.
Chapter 17
- He meets Falconer when he wakes up. Falconer tells him to have the playbook by night. Breakdown of the Plot Points #6 Chapter 18
- He tries to look in the trunks for the book, hears footsteps and hides. After silence, hears the door close and realizes he has been locked in.
- He is unlocked in the morning and tells the players that his master came to get him and he somehow escaped.
- Mr. Hemings asks Widge to meet him in the property room. Widge gets concerned that Mr. Hemings might know about his attempt at theft.
Chapter 19
- Mr. Hemings tells him that he is safe and secure, and that if Widge's master comes back, the theatre will pay the obligation fee.
- Julian and Sander, Widge's friends, discover his talent of charactery.
Chapter 20
- The theatre troupe is commanded to the present the play The Tragedy of Hamlet in Whitehall (the royal court).
- They learn Julian is a girl, actually named Julia.
Chapter 21
- Sander and Widge go to find Nick, as an hour is left before performance. Nick and his university friend start fighting when his friend laughs at Nick because he has been dueling with a girl. The student almost kills Nick.
Chapter 22
- Widge learns he has to play Ophelia's role, which used to be played by Julia.
Chapter 23
- Widge does a good job on his role
- He bows to the Queen
Breakdown of the Plot Points #7 Chapter 24
- Sander and Widge go to find Nick again. When they find him, he is talking to Falconer.
- Widge tells Sander about Falconer and Simon Bass. They go back and say they didn't find Nick
- Nick enters the theatre the following afternoon in a suspicious way. No one sees him. Widge sees Nick holding the play book in his hand through a crack in the door. He is bent over the property trunk.
Chapter 25
- Nick sees Widge and he runs away. Mr. Armin and Widge go after him.
Chapter 26
- They go to Aldersgate to cut off Falconer on his way to Leicester.
- Mr. Armin and Falconer duel. Widge grabs the playbook.
Chapter 27
- Falconer is struck by a deadly blow and starts to terribly bleed. He reveals himself to be Mr. bass and then dies.
- After Widge tells The Chamberlain's Men the truth about himself, they let Widge stay
- A week before christmas, Julia reappears and she tells them she will be going to France to be a player, since they allow women on stage there. Widge cries for Julia.
- In London, Widge has learned fencing terms, Londoner language and the meaning of honesty, trust, loyalty friendship, family and home.
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According to ESPN.com/Heat Index's Brian Windhost, Ray Allen has left the warm confines of South Beach without indicating where he will play next season:
Free agent Ray Allen left his meeting with the Miami Heat on Thursday night without giving them an answer on their contract offer and is torn on whether to leave the Boston Celtics, sources told ESPN.com on Friday.
Allen had an afternoon meeting with Heat president Pat Riley and coach Erik Spoelstra and then went to dinner with them and other members of the team's front office. The Heat offered Allen their mid-level exception, which starts at $3.09 million per season– or half of the Celtics' offer of $6 million per year over two years.
The most the Heat could offer is three years and $9.5 million.
The sources did not go into specifics, saying Allen is torn because remaining a Celtic is still very much an option.
If you're a Celtics fan that wanted Allen to stick around, you have to feel very encouraged by this news. As I see it, the longer Allen waits to make a decision the likelier he stays put. Boston offers Allen more money, memories, and familiarity. If Miami hasn't sold him yet, I doubt they will.
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