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Finally this hour, a trip to Venezuela with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. For the first time, its conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, took the orchestra to his native country. In Caracas, they performed Gustav Mahler's "8th Symphony."
SIEGEL: The music is known as the "Symphony of a Thousand," and Dudamel led a chorus of more than that along with not one but two orchestras - joining the L.A. Philharmonic was the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, where Dudamel is also music director. Brian Lauritzen of member station KUSC traveled with the musicians.
BRIAN LAURITZEN, BYLINE: Bringing his two orchestras together was something Gustavo Dudamel had been looking forward to since he became music director in L.A. in 2009.
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL: It's a dream come true. And it's an honor for me as part of the Bolivars to be here and for me as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic to be there, you know, and to work together.
LAURITZEN: But traveling to Venezuela was something of a culture shock for his musicians. They were not allowed to walk on the street alone during the day because of the high crime rate in Caracas. But the culture of music-making in Venezuela is incredibly rich. The network of youth orchestras, known as El Sistema or The System, serves nearly 400,000 children each year.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Perfect. Yes. Exactly. Now, all of you need to blend with one sound.
LAURITZEN: Members of the L.A. Phil made several visits to El Sistema sites called nucleos to teach.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Foreign language spoken)
LAURITZEN: Gustavo Dudamel is the most famous product of El Sistema. Since he burst on the scene a few years ago, music educators across the United States have clamored to create programs modeled on the Venezuelan example. One of the first was Youth Orchestra Los Angeles or YOLA. Gretchen Nielsen is the L.A. Phil's director of educational initiatives.
GRETCHEN NIELSEN: This idea of creating a social context that's extremely important in building the citizen through music, obviously, is a core piece of what we're doing with YOLA and where we started. If you look at, for example, big differences between Venezuela and the U.S., one is time that we're able to spend with children. Here, they spend - what - six to eight hours a day? And for us, we get, at the most, three.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Foreign language spoken)
LAURITZEN: That time element is something that L.A. Phil principal bassoonist Whitney Crockett says is one of the biggest challenges to successfully replicating El Sistema here in the U.S.
WHITNEY CROCKETT: I don't know that it would be possible. And I get the sense that in a lot of neighborhoods and barrios, it's the avenue to make their lives better. They don't have a lot of choices. You know, maybe one in a million, it's athletics. But for the just average rank-and-file kid, I've heard that kids wearing El Sistema T-shirts and carrying their instruments, they're bullet proof. They are not messed with in the roughest neighborhoods. What an incredible incentive that would be to get involved.
LAURITZEN: Twenty-six-year-old cellist Marimar Perez has been part of El Sistema since she was just 8. Now, she's a member of the Simon Bolivar Symphony - the top orchestra in El Sistema. Perez performed with Dudamel and the L.A. Phil in Los Angeles and in Caracas. She says her parents are not musicians, but both of her sisters are. Still, she says it was a difficult decision to leave home in Camatagua and join the symphony more than 200 miles away in the Venezuelan capital.
MARIMAR PEREZ: In the Venezuelan society, it's not very easy to say to your family like I want to be a musician. So I was very blessed because my family, my mother and my father is very supportive with my decisions. So I said to my mother, OK, I want to go to Caracas, and I want to be in the Simon Bolivar Orchestra. And my mother said, OK, you have my support. You go to Caracas, and you live there and take care of you.
PEREZ: So more and more, the Venezuelan society is - realize that the musician can be a profession - a real profession and a beautiful profession.
LAURITZEN: And it's a profession that continues to give Perez the opportunity to perform all over the world. Later this year, the Simon Bolivar Symphony will play at the Summer Olympic Games in London and at Carnegie Hall in New York. For NPR News, I'm Brian Lauritzen.
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As I have said previously, the most interesting words (or explanations of their origins) don't really appear in the Collegiate. For example, I already knew the word accolade and was going to breeze over it until I looked it up in the OED. According to the OED it has spent most of its life superseding earlier forms of the word, such as acolee, but its root goes back to French and Italian (and why not Latin?), and literally means something around the neck. Thus the first definition of it is an "embrace or clasping about the neck," although at different points in its history it could be applied to an embrace, a kiss or a slap on the shoulders with the flat blade of the sword symbolizing the bestowal of knighthood. The term then morphed in the 19th century to mean a "supreme honor; a mark of approval or admiration, a bestowal of praise; a plaudit." This is the more usual form of the word we know, but knowing the history of how things were thrown around the neck as a sign of honor is a vivid way to make study of the language interesting.
While I was looking up the acolee in the OED on the way to learning about accolade, I couldn't resist checking out acolaust and acolastic, both of which occur only in the OED. Derived from the Greek, the word acolastic(ke) means "a prodigall person" or "one that liveth under no correction, riotous." An acolastic is "incorrigible, not better by chastisement." These are all 17th century usages. The definition given by the OED of acolaust is "One the revels in sensual pleasures (like the prodigal of the parable)," as indicated by the 17th century quotation: "The acolaust loathes the service of that churl, that allowed him no better diet than husks." So the prodigal son is an acolaust. I think I like that term better than prodigal. Maybe I will even try to bring back the word. Who knows? Just because the OED says that something is obsolete doesn't make it so. The OED is simply the first draft of a dictionary of the English language.
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I see, however, that I have gotten pretty far afield. I am supposed to be reviewing pages 21-30. I will never get through this dictionary. Ok. I will be good. These pages took me from the "af's" to the "al's." I can imagine that those organizing the National Bee might want to use affenpinscher, that wiry black-haired dog. After all, the Oregon Bee used weimaraner this year. Should the beloved affenpinscher be spared? Words like affectioned and afferent, even if I don't use them at all, are pretty easy to sound out, but let's pause for a second on affricate. It is interesting that the Collegiate has the term, as does the OED, but the Century does not. That is because the field of modern linguistics was only in its birth at the turn of the century, and the word affricate had not "hardened" into meaning by that time.
The earliest use of affricate (here affricative) as a noun was in 1880 where Sayce said, "Where a spirant or fricative is immediately preceded by an explosive, a double sound or affricative is the result." Ok. An affricate, then, is a "close combination of an explosive consonant or 'stop' with an immediately following fricative or spirant." It really helps a lot that one of the examples Sayce gives of this term is from the Armenian; at least the other is the German "pf." The English example provided in the Collegiate is the "ch" in "choose" being a combination of the "explosive" "t" and the spirant "sh." Hence, the affricate "ch."
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I don't have many words listed under "ag," but the agapanthus, a South African plant, will probably be used because it is obscure, and agar will only take me a second to learn, even if it is a "gelatinous colloidal extractive of a red alga...." I don't have to do agate, because I am from Oregon and every third beach, it seems, has agate in it. Nor do I need to focus on agave, because I am getting to know my Arizona plants. But I need to learn agita, a word coined only in 1982, to describe a feeling of agitation or anxiety (pronounce a-jeh-tah). The word isn't in the OED, but that probably can be explained by the fact that the OED folk try to avoid excitement at all costs.
An aglet is an ornamental stud, which I felt like one holiday season when a woman I was dating took me to the company Christmas party, but I think the definition really means a kind of pin you wear on clothing. Agley (ah-GLAY) must be distinquished. It is another one of those obscure Scottish words (thank Bobbie Burns for this) meaning "awry." "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang oft agley." Sure, I talk like that. My friends do, too. Finally, an agouti is a rabbit or rodent found in the West Indies or parts of South America, and is derived from an Indian term.
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Aiblins, meaning perhaps, is another Scottish word, while aiguille and aiguillette are, respectively, a slender, sharply-pointed peak (of rock) and another word for aglet, though I don't want to revisit that word. Aioli is garlic mayonnaise, originally a specialty of Provence, where everything tastes like you had just died and gone to heaven. Another Scottish word is airt, meaning "direction." Hey, what is up with all these "Scottishisms?" No one uses them anymore, and who knows if they ever really used them in Edinburgh? I know I slipped up on one of them in the Oregon Bee. Know what it was? Yoicks, meaning "a cry of encouragement to foxhounds." Talk about obscure. I think that for every Scottish term in the Collegiate they ought to have a Zulu word or an Ashante word. After all, we live in the age of diversity. Let's not just define diversity as English AND Scottish.
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That attitude is pervasive in public schools. The thinking is that it is better to risk this extremely rare occurrence than to take on the expense and the risk of having armed personnel in the building.
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Bucs GM: Jackson is a player we want around
Posted Nov 2, 2011 by Roy Cummings
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TAMPA – Tanard Jackson may not be the most reliable player on the Bucs squad, but he is clearly one of the most valuable. The Bucs said as much last week when they gave Jackson a one-year contract extension that will keep him with the team through the 2012 season, and general manager Mark Dominik reiterated the point on Wednesday.
"I would say that he's a guy that we would like to have around here,'' Dominik said of Jackson. "In the making of a deal, there are a lot of different things that go into it, but we felt like it was a deal that made sense to our organization and that's the most important thing.''
The fact that Jackson has two interceptions in his first two games back following a 56-week league-mandated suspension factored into the decision to extend Jackson's contract as well, Dominik said. It confirmed the Bucs belief that Jackson is without question one of their best players.
"If there's a deal that we think makes sense in both the short and the long term, we'll make it.'' Dominik said. "And Tanard was going to come out of contract (in 2012), and so it made sense to his agent, to Tanard and to us to get a deal done and put another year on his contract.''
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Story of Undertaking by Senator Clark to Build Railroad to These Mining Camps
Source: The Salt Lake Herald - Salt Lake City, UTDate Published: 1906-10-29
When Senator W A Clark announced that he would build a railroad from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, he promised that in due time branches would be built to develop mineral districts on both sides of the road. The Las Vegas & Tonopah is the first of these branches. It is not, strictly speaking, a branch of the Salt Lake route, for every share of stock is owned personally by Senator Clark, J Ross Clark and R C Kerens of St. Louis, and the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake corporation has no direct ownership or control.
Always with a keen eye for the possibilities of regions which might be made tributary to his road, Senator Clark investigated the Bullfrog district soon after the great discoveries of gold began to be made there. The first reports were favorable, but it was good business policy to wait and see how the mines developed before going to the great expense to build a railroad 125 miles across a desert. The mines began to justify expectations, however, and in October, 1905, fourteen months after "Ed" Cross and "Shorty" Harris first struck a pick into ore that panned on the Original Bullfrog, the Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad company was organized under the laws of Utah.
It was announced at that time that the road would start at Las Vegas, on the main line of the Salt Lake route would strike north-westward, tapping the Bullfrog district, and then would go on to Goldfield and Tonopah, giving these two rich camps the benefit of a competitive railroad. Construction began last January. The road has been completed to Beatty, a distance of 125 miles. Before the end of November, it will reach Rhyolite, five miles farther. The line has been located to Goldfield, 71 miles beyond Rhyolite. The contract for the material for this last part of the line has been let, and the first ties will be delivered this month. Deal Bros. & Mendenhall of Provo, has the contract for the grading, and they will push the work on as fast as it is possible.
Thus are Senator Clark's original promises being carried out.
In all this, the citizens of the affected district have co-operated heartily. For example, a committee of Beatty citizens secured the right of way through Beatty and two and a half miles beyond. There a Rhyolite committee took it up and secured the right of way through Rhyolite. All this has been done without expense to the railroad company. Where land was to be purchased or houses town down, the committee attended to this, leaving the way clear for the railroad, and showing tangibly the citizen's appreciation of what was being done for them.
The capital stock of the Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad company is $4,000,000. The president is J Ross Clark of Los Angeles, and the vice-president Charles O Whittemore of Salt Lake. These, with Senator W A Clark, R C Kerens of St. Louis, W A Clark, Jr., and W H Comstock and R J Waters of Los Angeles, constitute the directorate.
J Ross Clark made a personal visit to the district last March, and senator Clark in July. These trips have served to increase their faith in the district and its future.
The story of the Salt Lake excursion to the Bullfrog district would be incomplete without reference to the part played by Kenneth C Kerr, traveling passenger agent of the Salt Lake Route. When it became evident that the commercial club would not get up a crowd to make the trip and advertise Salt Lake, Mr. Kerr leaped into the breach. The crowd that went was gathered together mainly through his efforts.
No band had been provided, as expected, no badges, and no literature to advertise Salt Lake. Mr. Kerr hurriedly had printed cards of two styles bearing the trademark of the Salt Lake Route and advertising Utah's metropolis. One of these read:
"The Mining Center; the Smelter Center; the Jobbing Center; the Banking Center; Salt Lake City."
The other read:
"Summer or Winter; Spring or Autumn; Always THE Resort, Salt Lake City; the Miners' Favorite Playground."
The Salt Lakers wore these in their hats in lieu of badges, and they were widely distributed. In addition to this, he took along 1,000 copies of the Real Estate association's booklet, "Salt Lake City, From Our Point of View." The booklets were distributed on the train, in Beatty and in Rhyolite, so it turned out that Salt Lake was better advertised than was Los Angeles. This made it easier for the Salt Lake business men to secure orders.
Mr. Kerr looked after the details of caring for the Salt Lake party in such a manner that the excursionists gave him an informal vote of thanks. Although so many remained over that there were few to return Wednesday morning, the Salt Lake Route ran three sleepers, a chair car and a diner as a special train clear through to Salt Lake City, so as to cut out any delay in Las Vegas waiting for the regular train. The officials of the road received much praise for the way they handled the excursion all the way through.
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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 303 – The Stories of Kindness Surface from Christchurch
As expected, people are taking care of each other in the wake of the Christchurch Quake. Today the website Stuff reported that stories of deeply kind acts are beginning to emerge. Amongst the comments of the stuff story alone – one lady said she was walking home in her high heels and an old lady invited her in, gave her some socks, shoes and barley sugars and sent her on her way. Another family spoke of four men turning up, lending a hand to tidy up, then moving on to the next house.
So far, over one thousand people from around New Zealand have offered free use of their homes and baches. People are offering help with pet care, child care and trips to and from airports. Even free flights are being offered.
This is so beautiful. It has me in tears. People's kindness, from across the nation, will continue. Because this one's a biggie for us Kiwis.
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Only tea I'll drink with sugar. Also I used to have an old tin box when Celestial seasonings sold them in them. Someone stole it from me though :-(.
Does anyone else like to drink this only as iced tea? When I first bought some I made it hot and I couldn't stand the taste. My next batch was made as sun tea and it was really good. Like it was a whole new taste.
This is a really excellent tea. It's also a favorite for people who don't normally like tea, like my dad.
I don't normally drink fruit teas. But when I do: I prefer Wild Berry Zinger.
I think I might have developed a small tolerance to bergamot because most times normal earl greys don't quiet satisfy my tea hunger anymore. I think someday I might just be drinking bergamot straight from the bottle. Stash really does an excellent job with this tea. It's quality I would have expected from Twinings (normally I don't care for Stash tea).
I don't know how I would have graduated high school without this tea. It was my morning fuel (besides breakfast). It was my cure-all for any sickness I might have had and my favorite tea in health.
If I had to marry a tea it would be this tea.
I love how potent this tea is. Just a little bit of it can go a long away.
I always prefer a good lemon myrtle to a cup of chamomile. This also one of the few teas that sugar tastes good with.
At first I expected this tea to be very bitter, but in fact the taste is more smoky and acidic. I do enjoy the smoky taste to it. It really adds to the nice blend of black teas. Make sure you drink it straight, anything else would ruin the smoky flavor.
I bought some of this tea at a local British specialty store. I think I might have put too much (about 3 tablespoons) tea into the coffee filter when I made this (I was in a rush).
It tastes like your generic bland black tea. It's very bitter if you care for that in a tea (a little too bitter for me). Also, it's more of ground tea than loose leaf. It looks like someone just emptied out the ground black tea from the Typhoo bagged tea and packaged it as loose leaf tea.
I harvested some E. sinica from Arches National park (I know I'm bad) one year ago. You don't normally need to let the tea dry that long (in fact the fresh tips taste just fine) but I wanted to see if there was a difference. In fact it still had it's same potency.
I ground up the tips in a coffee grinder and put in about a golf-balls size worth of it into a ceramic straining cup. After steeping I enjoyed my tea while reading stuff online.
In about 5 minutes I felt an intense rush (this isn't going to sound like an erowid post, promise) of mind-numbing energy. Not the kind of energy where you want to do things but rather when you want to just relax and try and focus. In about 30 minutes my little high was over and I started being able to focus on the current article on my screen.
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"I am thrilled with the opportunity to compete for the FAZZT Race Team at the Indianapolis 500," said Junqueira. "The team will give me the resources and support to compete in a car that has the capabilities of winning at the Indianapolis 500. To win at Indianapolis has always been a dream of mine. I've had some very competitive opportunities at Indianapolis and each time, either through a mechanical failure or accident, that dream has been just beyond my grasp so I am hoping that in 2010 I can bring my dream to reality."
Junqueira, a native of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has competed in five previous Indianapolis 500 events capturing the pole in his second effort at the Indy 500 in 2002. Junqueira has led 52 laps at the famed 2.5-mile oval and has finished fifth on two occasions, 2001 and 2004.
Last year, Junqueira qualified for Conquest Racing entry on Bump Day in the 30th position, but was then replaced by Tagliani, who had failed to make the field due to a technical fault. Tagliani cited the incident as an extra incentive for signing Junqueira for his new team.
"Because we have enough sponsorship to run a second car at Indianapolis, we felt it important to give that chance to Bruno," explained Tagliani. " Last year, with Bruno as the second driver in the team I was at, he let his spot in the field go after I had a mishap in qualifying. And it turned out, I had a pretty good race at the Indy 500, so it is nice way to say thank you to Bruno for what he did for me last year."
FAZZT owner Jim Freudenberg elaborated on the signing of Junqueira, saying, "When we formed the team we had a few goals in mind. One of those goals was that if we had the opportunity to field a second entry at Indianapolis that we wanted to put Bruno in that car. Bruno is an extremely talented driver and is the perfect complement to our current program. Based on the situation from 2009, it is nice to be able to return the favor to Bruno after he graciously stepped aside for Alex last year. We are also excited that Bruno will be piloting the No. 33 car at Indianapolis, as that is the car number he drove to the pole position in 2002 [with Target Chip Ganassi Racing] and we are hoping that number will serve him well again in 2010."
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Cloud computing is all the rage. Unfortunately, everyone seems to have a different definition as to what constitutes cloud computing. Some analysts and service providers define it narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically, virtual servers available over the Internet. Others go very broad, arguing anything you consume outside the firewall is "in the cloud," including conventional outsourcing. There seem to be as many definitions of cloud computing as there are cloud service providers. One of the better definitions comes from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and is titled A NIST Definition of Cloud Computing.
Regardless of the definition you use or whether you define it narrowly or more broadly, cloud computing, in one form or another, should be considered as a viable alternative to the physical corporate datacenter. If all of the hype is to be believed, cloud computing can solve all of your IT performance, scalability and reliability issues and more, as well as cost less. Agility, reliability and fault-tolerance, shared multi-tenancy, service-oriented architecture, utility-based models, SLA-driven service management and APIs for software developers are common promises of cloud computing. It's no wonder cloud is listed as one of the top technologies for 2012 by leading information technology advisory companies.
However, in order to make the transition to cloud computing as smooth as possible and receive the benefits, a great deal of preparation work must first be done. Whether you're looking at implementing a private cloud (i.e., IaaS) or moving a portion or all of your IT services to a cloud service provider (CSP), you must first get your house in order. The process of moving to the cloud is similar to selling a home and moving. Before you put your home on the market and show it to potential buyers, you first have to prepare and stage your home. This may entail cleaning out over stuffed closets and the garage, making needed repairs, updating the décor, a fresh coat of paint, rearranging furniture, etc. In order to prepare for the big move to the cloud you must stage your data's 'home' (i.e., your datacenter) by going through the process of datacenter rationalization.
Datacenter Rationalization
Datacenter rationalization addresses the optimization, standardization and consolidation of your datacenter(s) as well as the servers, applications and data contained within. Server, application and data rationalization are all subcomponents of datacenter rationalization and should address the optimization, standardization, consolidation, migration and provisioning of each server, application and data store with the objective of reducing operational inefficiencies and service management complexity.
The old datacenter model of one application per physical server no longer applies in the cloud. Server rationalization is your opportunity to identify and eradicate the rogue, outdated and non-compliant servers and operating systems that can result from unfettered server sprawl. You can standardize and consolidate the number of physical servers through the use of virtualization.
Through application rationalization, you should also identify all of the outdated, unsupportable, non-compliant and hard-coded applications and the hold-out users of these applications. Hopefully, you can consolidate and sunset many of these applications and move users to more centralized and standard applications. Once all of the applications have been rationalized, then you can identify and prioritize to make a business case for the applications that are the best candidates for migration to the cloud.
Database sprawl, fragmentation of data sources, proliferation of repositories, redundant data stores, etc., can prevent your organization from exploiting data effectively. In addition, physical storage can become over — or under — allocated to specific physical servers, resulting in wasted storage or performance issues. Data and storage rationalization should look for data stores that can be archived, consolidated or reduced in size prior to migration to the cloud. Network storage platforms should also be assessed, standardized and consolidated as well.
Underlying Infrastructure
A good home is built on a firm foundation. This is also true of an organization's technology infrastructure. If your datacenter(s), servers and end users are interconnected with an outdated or problematic network infrastructure, then any rationalization or cloud computing projects will most likely fail.
Reoccurring issues with your Active Directory, network services (e.g., DNS, DHCP, etc.), mail routing, poor quality of service, unpredictable network latency or unauthorized devices on network, etc. – All of these can hamper cloud computing projects, especially during periods of co-existence when application users are split between the legacy system and the cloud based system. In order to connect your existing infrastructure to a cloud service provider you will need to ensure you're underlying technology infrastructure is functioning optimally. Identity management and user account provisioning processes and systems should be reviewed and updated to address the introduction of cloud computing, as well. For example, if you have multiple Active Directory forests or a multi-domain forest AD topology, consider collapsing them into a Single-Domain Single Forest model, which will simplify identity management and security management with your cloud service provider(s).
Final Thought
An important consideration with any rationalization project is to decide what it is worth spending the time to rationalize, consolidate or migrate. For a datacenter rationalization project, this is a case of mapping the business value of specific datacenter(s), servers, applications and data repositories against the amount of effort actually required to continue to maintain them. Just as you prepare a house for resale, you look for the repairs and updates that offer the greatest return. You simply leave others as-is and address only if the buyer (or, in our case, the cloud service provider) requires it.
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Do you honestly keep every bit of your private life separate from your work life? If you are married, do you hide that from everyone at work? Why should gay people -- some of whom legally married in other states -- have to do that?
How would you feel if you knew that simply mentioning your spouse might put you at risk of losing your job?
How do you justify tryng to push an agend based on nothing but choosing to act a certain way? Do you think poligamists should be punished? They just want to live their private life. How about pedophiles? They just want to live their lifestyle. Do you draw a line at any behavior based purely on someone wanting to live that way?
Those in charge of pushing your agenda do not feel anything should be wrong sexually:
Read it all. This is what you are in favor of down to abolishing all age of consent laws. Why do I think this is a radical agenda? Because it is.
I gather you think homosexuality is normal behavior. What do you base this on?
My point still stands. If you don't broadcast your behavior, how will anyone know?
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For behold, it is not meet that I should command in all things; for he that is compelled in all things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant; wherefore he receiveth no reward.
(7)My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
(8) And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes.
(9) Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands.
Ether 12:6
And now, I, Moroni, would speak somewhat concerning these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.


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Taking Back America!
As a TEA Party Member, Believer, Identifier, etc… I see a scandalous conflagration of philosophy this election cycle. On the Left you have Democrats, Liberals, Socialists, Communists and Progressives screaming for more taxes and money allocated to entitlements. While the Right and the Republicans holding court with progressives, independents and conservatives are riding the tide of popularity with fiscal responsibility as a major theme. Unless you are:
a) completely void of common sense,
b) lacking in the knowledge of how our free market economy is supposed to work,
c) a dilettante in the pitfalls of socialism and communism
d) feel obligated to the left because you are being provided for at the tax payer's expense, you will be voting for Republicans this year.
So little wonder that the RATs (Republicans Allow Transgressions) are jumping ship... How many Republicans running this election cycle were Democrats last cycle? Think they saw the light after the 2010 elections? You betcha they did. And they use the line that Reagan used, "The Democrat party left me". So my question is this: Why do we allow Democrats to jump from the ship they have been riding happily on for so many years to the new and viable one that the Republicans are sailing this cycle. Because Reagan did???
Least we forget how President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid came to power. Through complete miss management and abuse of power that the Republicans showed when they controlled the House, Senate and the Presidency. I love J.C.Watt's statement concerning ethics: something to the effect that Character is doing the right thing when no one is looking! Well President Obama and the Democrats have our attention now after spending 5 Trillion dollars we still don't have. Of course the Republicans didn't fair much better in their record during the Bush administration. Arrogance and condescension has a way of enacting a Karma like results. The spending has to stop and the expectations of our Federal, State and county governments need to be controlled. Hence the numerous and sometimes obnoxious TEA parties...
TEA parties are only as good as the people that get involved. If you don't like what the TEA party in your area is doing, start your own TEA party and become a political force to be reckoned with. The more people involved and engaged in the process the better off we are. If you don't like the TEA party and feel more taxes should be paid by everyone, then start an AntiTEA party group (as if there is not enough of them). Be a voice for what you believe and read bout our Constitution, its a great document that everyone should read and understand. The understanding is the hard part... It requires thought!!!
Someone said the Republican Party is a big tent. If you haven't studied progressive political thought you really don't know what your missing. What is progressive and what do progressives think? "Progressive" is such a nice word. When it is said you think progress, moving forward, the connotation is positive. There are progressives in both major parties!!! However, think about what progressives stand for: ever expanding government... Another agency to help us with our day to day living. The problem is; to what cost are we willing to continue this progressive advance.. Furthermore, how many freedoms have we lost as a result?
Juxtapose the connotation of Progressive with Conservative. Conservative is such a harsh word with visions of penny pinching and misers. But conservatism is where freedom is admired and valued. Conservatives feel you can spend your money better than the government can so we want lower taxes. Conservatives believe that the free market is a better judge of the economy than any government planner. Witness the recent GSA debacle. Its not their money so why would they or should they care... So true conservatives believe in giving the government as little money as possible...
If the Republican Party continues to accept the Fleeing RATs to gain political power, isn't doing so, at the cost of its soul? The ideas of liberals, progressives, socialists and communists are not congruent with the base of the Republican Party (Conservatism). If this practice is allowed to continue, a viable third party might need to be established. With every defection of Democrat to the right moves the Republicans that much further to the left. If last cycle's Democrats are re-elected as Republicans this cycle, where will Republican leadership stand on pivotal issues in the future? When you corrupt your soul, don't expect pity from the devil when it gets too hot. You, as a voter, have the responsibility to understand and uncover conflicts of interest and the political history of the candidates. What has each candidate done to reduce the tax burden associated with their tenure as a public servant? Unless of course, your happy with ever expanding government budgets and the taxes that go with them...
First and foremost are conflicts of interest. Most politicians are politicking for money and their first rule: is to get elected. Which is followed closely by rule number two: getting re-elected. Florida Circuit Judge, Jessica Recksiedler; have you heard of her? Probably wont now. She removed herself from the Zimmerman trial (very hot potato) due to an alleged conflict of interest. What was her conflict? Her husband works with Orlando attorney Mark NeJame, who was first approached by the Zimmerman family to represent their son, George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Why is that a conflict? Most legal scholars feel that Zimmerman can not be found guilty. He may not even go to trial, but the Bottom line is there will be a book deal and the proceeds will be large. Might Jessica Recksiedler do something detrimental to Zimmerman's case in retaliation for her husband's firm not getting to represent Mr Zimmerman? Or it is felt she could be biased in his favor which could lead to more problems down the road (riots). But not now; not after her Recusal.
Mark H. McCormack talked about golfing with Arnold Palmer in a Pro Am tournament in his book "What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School. He stated there were several occasions where Mr. Palmer placed his ball noticeably further away from the hole then he needed to. Players are allowed to pick up their ball on the green (sorry, I'm not a golfer and don't know the rules). Mark inquired why: Arnold Palmer stated that if one person thought he had taken advantage of the rule it would taint his game. That's going way out of his way to confirm his integrity to his audience. This level of integrity really seems to be missing in our political environment today and maybe it has really never existed, but it needs to...
In America, you are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. At least that's how its supposed to work... How difficult is it to prove someone is guilty if the Judge who makes that determination in a district court, is in bed with the Prosecutor? Both, figuratively as well as literally!!! Stephanie Casady, (I have met her and I like her) candidate for District Judge in Saline County, is married to Ken Casady, Saline County Prosecuting Attorney (elected). This is such a blatant conflict of interest it is mind boggling how a political party (Republican) could or would condone such. I could see the Democrats doing this, but not the Republicans. Could this be an indication as to how far left the Saline County Republican Party has "Progressed"???
It's not funny, fair or ethical asking Saline County citizens to vote for this conflict of interest and it is a shame!!! In simply asking the voters to OK this conflict, shows a lack of integrity and judgment unbecoming: 1) a prosecuting attorney, but more importantly 2) a Judge... Any and every Attorney that might represent their client (for that matter, every defendant) in a Stephanie Casady court when the Saline County Prosecutor's office represents the state, will first have to ask her to recues herself, just as George Zimmerman's attorney requested Judge Recksiedler to do... Having to do this, would place a greater strain on our other county courts (the very reason this court was established).
Next question, did no one in the Republican Party think about this? Has anyone asked the relevant questions concerning this conflict with the candidate and her husband in an open forum? Are there not other qualified Republicans to run for this position? Oh, I guess there is: Brent Standridge. Any conflicts here you might know about?
We all need to do a better job in selecting the people that are going to represent us in our city, county, state and federal governments be they Democrat or Republican. We have been electing the same people over and over and we wonder why it costs so much to run our government entities. The people we place in leadership should respect the citizens enough to take care of their money and build our trust, by always doing the right thing... Sometimes its hard to do the right thing when we feel comfortable in our past and future... Just ask Bobby Petrino!!! But we as the citizenry must hold our elected representatives and football coaches to a higher standard. When we see an ethical laps, we must bring it out into the sunlight and let the chips fall where they may.
Ken Rhone
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This entry presents an overview of recent rhetorical studies by scholars from universities in Central and South America, where there is a renewed interest in this field. Generally, rhetorical studies in Central and South America are concerned with the main theoretical notions of literary criticism in antiquity; the application of such notions to the analysis of Greek and Roman classical texts (→ Rhetoric, Greek ; Rhetoric, Roman ); the influence of classical rhetoric on Latin American thought and literature from the discovery of the New World; and → Discourse Analysis , especially according to modern linguistic theories. Central American scholars have recently pursued ancient literary theory and documented its influence on historical and contemporary → Discourse . For instance, Campuzano (1980) has explored pre-Platonic poetics, and Sparisci Loviselli (2003) has addressed the relation of classical rhetoric to Costa Rican oratory. Critical analysis of contemporary rhetorical discourse is also represented; typical of this scholarship is Alvarez's assessment of the oratory of Jose Marti. Within South America , perhaps the most extensive body of rhetorical studies relates to principles of ancient rhetoric and literary theory (→ Rhetoric and Poetics ). Among these studies, Chichi (2002) has identified and investigated the functions of rhetorical and dialectical resources ... log in or subscribe to read full text
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Not so fast. Who's saying (Jason) Kidd plans on calling it a career any time soon? After completing the first practice Friday of his 18th NBA season — and final one under contract with the Dallas Mavericks — Kidd said he wants to play 20 seasons.
"I would like to get to 20," said Kidd, who turns 39 in March. "I think that would be a great feat through everybody forgetting my name and always just calling me old. You can call me '20′ at that point. I think it'll be something. As a kid, you just think about playing. When you look back at it if you can go past eight years than your like, 'Man I had a great career.' Now it's going on 18, so why stop now?"


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The last two years of my life have been a veritable ride on a carousel with a broken governor. It was a giddy moment when my book, L.A. Heat was published in 2006 by Alyson Books. It was a nightmare when I woke up in the hospital after collapsing in my home in Bermuda. By the time I woke up, I'd already been in the hospital for at least two months. They called my family to come down to Bermuda since they weren't sure I would make it. From that point it was an uphill battle but one I was determined to win. I had to learn to walk all over again and my memory was very bad, there are still people who I have no memory of having known in the past. Due to the length of time I was in the hospital I also lost all my belonging, including my computer with all my stories on it. But I came out of it with a greater appreciation for life and my family, who in their own way, went through hell to get me back into Canada.
Anyway, I'm glad to be back and finding such great groups as Red Room where I can connect with people with similar interests as my own.
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Lao Che's Gang vs. the Joker Gang
It's a battle of the inner-city's filthiest scum who will let lead fly over a simple insult! Lao Che's Chinese mafia, the vile mobsters who control Shanghai's underground with an iron fist and run nearly all of its illegal rackets, and the Joker Gang, well-armed, expendable but ruthless minions of the Joker who would kill one another at the drop of a dime! Neither group is very competent at achieving victory without leadership, and when both the Joker and Lao Che are taken out of the picture, how will these groups of men who live for money fare against each other? Handguns and submachine guns will determine the outcome of this battle to see who is the deadliest warrior!
Lao Che's Gang
The Lao Che gang is a Chinese mafia run by Lao Che. Operating in Shanghai, they own several nightclubs (like the Club Obi-Wan) and more likely than not run other illegal rackets through the city. In 1935, Indiana Jones comes to exchange a rare diamond for the stolen ashes of an ancient Chinese Emperor. The gangster poison Jones, though, and demand the diamond in exchange for his antidote, hoping to make away with both treasures. Indiana Jones grabs a flaming shish-kebab and throws it into the chest of one of Lao Che's sons, killing him, and a gunfight erupts. Indiana Jones secures the antidote and rushes to the streets of the city where his driver, Short Round (who is no more than a boy), awaits, and they speed off, with the Lao Che gang hot in pursuit. Although Jones escapes their clutches, the plane he boards to escape is piloted by Lao Che's men and they bail out over the mountains, leaving Jones and his friends in a falling plane to a certain death - but Jones being Jones, he takes an inflatable raft and escapes safely.
Range | Weapon |
Close Range |
Webley Mk III .38 Pocket Revolver |
Mid Range | S&W Model 10 Snub-Nosed Revolver |
Long Range | M1928 Thompson |
Vehicle | 1931 Reo Flying Cloud |
Impractical Weapon | Poison, Flaming Shish Kabobs |
The Joker Gang
The Joker Gang are the gang led by the Joker in The Dark Knight. They are the standard type of Joker gangs, similar to those featured in other Batman media, most notably due to the fact that the Joker treats them like expendable buffoons. They follow Joker's commands blindly, going to the point of killing each other just because the Joker told them to. As a team, however, their handiwork at all aspects is unrivaled, and with Joker's leadership they successfully broke into the bank.
- Dopey is the alarm disabler, who allowed the rest of the buglars to break into the bank. He is the first one to be killed, shot in the back by Happy. His mask features a drooping nose with blue paint on the tip, and red paint around the eyes and mouth. A tuft of brown hair sprouts at the top of the mask.
- Happy is the vault opener, who killed Dopey and went inside to rendezvous with Grumpy. After revealing that he was ordered by the Joker to shoot Dopey, Grumpy remarks "Funny... I was told something similar." before killing Happy with several gunshots. His mask features a puckering face with blue paint around the mouth and eyes, and red paint on the nose and eyebrows, with a decent head of red hair sitting on the top of the mask.
- Grumpy is one of the three bank robbers who broke into the bank. He met up with Happy, the the vault opener, and killed him per Joker's orders. After a brief standoff with the Joker in disguise, a bus plowed through the side of the bank and killed Grumpy. His mask features a grotesquely smiling face with a tuft of multicolored hair on the top and blue makeup around the eyes.
- Chuckles the second of the bank robbers (the third being the Joker in disguise) and was the only clown who didn't kill a fellow bank robber and wasn't killed by one in return. After breaking into the bank and ordering people to get down, he was shot and killed by the bank manager. His mask features a face with bared teeth, blue paint around the eyes in a plus or cross pattern, and small blue eyebrows.
- Joker's Bus Driver is the only gang member who has no known callsign. When Grumpy pointed his gun at the Joker, the bus drove through the side of the bank and killed him. The Bus Driver helped Joker to load the money into the bus, but when he asked the Joker where the other gang members are, was shot dead. His mask features tufts of blue hair on the side of a bald head with red paint over the eyes and over the wicked-looking smile on the face.
Range | Weapon |
Close Range | S&W Model 15 Revolver |
Mid Range | Glock 17 Handgun (semi-auto) |
Long Range | MAC-10 |
Vehicle | School Bus |
Impractical Weapon | Pistol Whipping and Brute Force |
A big yellow school bus pulls up outside of Club Obi-Wan. Dopey and Happy sneak around the side of the nightclub while Chuckles and Grumpy burst in through the front door. The club is bright and lively and most of the partygoers don't notice the intrustion of the clowns... until Chuckles raises his MAC-10 and fires off an entire clip into the air. "Everybody get DOWN!" he shouted. The club erupted into a scene of pandemonium, Grumpy firing his Glock handgun randomly into the air.
Behind the counter, several members of Lao Che's mafia duck in surprise. Their weapons are stashed in the counter, and they pop up with revolvers and a Thompson, spraying back at the Joker gang. The goons are caught by surprise but the Chinese gangsters hip-firing are doing themselves no favor in accuracy. Two more Lao Che gangsters are hiding in the crowd, and one of them picks up a flaming shish kabob and hurls it point-blank at Grumpy. The flaming stick flies through the air at the criminal but it doesn't cause him physical damage. Grumpy turns his Glock over at the mafioso and plugs several shots into his forehead. Towards the back of the bar, Happy and Dopey burst in with revolvers but, unfortunately for them, the Lao Che mafiosos turn with the Thompson and spray them down at point blank range.
Chuckles swears and sprays the MAC-10 into the crowd as he and Grumpy try to make their escape. Outside, the bus driver holds a S&W Model 15 revolver and nervously looks over his shoulder as Grumpy and Chuckles clamber in, ducking behind the seats. "Drive! Drive"! spits Grumpy.
As the bus driver starts to drive away, a 1931 Reo Flying Cloud spins around the corner and Lao Che's mafiosos lean out of the window, popping off shots from their revolvers and spraying with the Thompson. The rounds clink and clang against the side of the bus. Grumpy puts a new magazine into his Glock, whacks the side of the handgun against the back of the bus window, breaking it, and leans out, shooting back. One of the bullets hits one of the Lao Che gangsters in the neck, and he drops his revolver and grabs his throat as it bleeds out. The body is pushed out the window and sprawls out into the busy Shanghai traffic. The smaller Flying Cloud car manages to catch up to the larger bus. Grumpy grins under his mask as he points his Glock at the driver of the car, but his magazine is empty. He ducks back behind the seats as more bullets thump against the side of the bus. The bus driver spins the wheel and rams the Flying Cloud, just as one of the Chinese gangsters fires his revolver into the bus driver's head. The bus slams into the smaller car and both vehicles spin out of control, crashing on the side of the road. The Flying Cloud flips over and plows into the side of a brick building. As the dust clears, the car driver's forehead is smashed open and he's limp over the steering wheel.
Grumpy and Chuckles stagger out of the bus' emergency exit on the roof, their revolvers in hand. The two remaining Lao Che gangsters clamber out of the car wreck with their revolvers. Chuckles fires off two shots, injuring one of the gangsters, before the two Joker goons take off down the marketplace. Lao Che's men give chase, the injured one falling behind. The Joker's men run bast market stalls and through sweatshops before they come to a dead end down an alley. A fire escape sits six feet above them. "Give me a boost," says Grumpy. Chuckles pushes him up to the fire escape and reaches up for help when two shots ring out. Chuckles jerks and blood flies through the air before he crumples to the ground. Grumpy ducks into the shadows, painfully aware of how visible he is up on the fire escape. The Lao Che gangsters turn around, satisfied, and start to walk away. Grumpy looks down at Chuckles, who struggles to his feet. They nod and shoot at the Chinese gangsters, dropping both of Lao Che's men with multiple shots to the back and neck.
Grumpy hops down from the fire escape and lands a little painfully, but walks over to the injured Chuckles. "Man, some hit, huh?"
"The boss isn't gonna be pleased," says Chuckles, leaning against the side of the wall.
People are still screaming and police sirens sound in the distance. "No, he won't be pleased at all." Grumpy agrees.
"It's just as well - a lot easier to divide by three, eh?" Chuckles laughs. He holds up the money bag he's been carrying this whole time. "The boss told me that."
"Chuckles - know what the boss told me?" Grumpy whacks Chuckles on the back of the head with his revolver, breaking open his skull and sending him to the floor. "He told me it's a lot easier to divide by two." Grumpy picks up the bag, takes off his mask, and leaves the three dead bodies in the alleyway, smiling to himself.
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While the Joker's gang were a fickle and cowardly bunch, their superior weapons and strong advantage with the school bus kept them in a solid lead that the disciplined Lao Che's gang couldn't beat with inferior technology.


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