Brown's ramblings

• Nov. 20, 2008 - scarf

Posted By Bobbi

I FINALLY got pics of a scarf I gave my cousin Katherine!!!!

I made her a scarf for her 11th birthday Oct 12th. And I JUST NOW got pics of them!!!!

This next one isn't as good, but you can the scarf better. I don't that good in it though. :(

Hope you like them!!!!! :)

Murphy is inside right now. It's cold outside. Well, it was 39F last time I looked. But still, if you think about it, that's cold. Just a little while ago, it was in the 90s!!!!! And Murphy was panting! Now she's shivering!!!! :)

Bobbi

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• Nov. 18, 2008 - Snow, sickness and Plaid.

Posted By Jacqueline

Hello dear...fellow eukaryote's!
It's a word, I swear.

Okay, I'm bored, and ill with Acute viral nasopharyngitis (A.K.A. common cold),
so post I shall.

So, yeah, it's snowing here!
Yaaaaaaaaay.....except not enough to cover the ground, so boooooooo...hisssssss...
Anyway, It was cool running around in a small flury of snow flakes in Emily Brontë garb.
Freaked out the neighbors, at least.

Yeah, I did something very stupid this Saturday.
I went to a meeting for this club I'm in, with Acute viral nasopharyngitis (Fun to say! Not to have!).
Anyway, I went to the meeting, barely said a thing in it because of my sore throat, and then, a mother of a friend of mine asked me if I wanted to go to Forever Plaid, a musical...kind of.
And I said yes, because it's an awesome musical-like thing.
Yeah... it was a blur of fever induced horror, but an awesome musical-like thing.

I haven't really been doing anything of interest for the past few days, except I watched the Goonies...don't even know why.
I just found it, and thought "Well, I'm bored, and haven't seen it..."
It was good.
And the main kid, named Mikey, was played by Samwise Gamgee!
It was so unexpected!
So, yeah.

Well, thanks for reading!
Comment if your sub-order is Anthropoidea!

~Outloud

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• Nov. 18, 2008 - More snow?

Posted By Bobbi

More white stuff is falling from the sky!!!! And it's sticking to the ground! What could it be? Snow? Maybe....

It's about 2 inches deep. Not that much. I think it's 21 degrees F. Well, that's what is was a few hours ago. Maybe 2. It's 6 now. Brown and I went outside to play in the snow. I made a little snow man. The snow doesn't pack though.

Christmas is in a little more than a month!!!!!! That's hard to believe. I don't know what we're going to do for Christmas. Usually, on Christmas Eve, we meet Mommy's family, and on Christmas Day, we go to Mamaw and Papaw's house. But Mommy's sister, Emily is going to out of town Christmas, so we might meet for New Years.

Thanksgiving is soon, too!! I made a template for Thanksgiving. If anyone wants it, just let me know!!!!

Bobbi

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• Nov. 14, 2008 - Censorship

Posted By Jacqueline

                                      Censorship

There are many different types of censorship, including Moral

Censorship where materials the censor deems questionable to a

persons morals (inappropriate, or obscene). This type of

censorship is frequent and is virtually undetected by the general

audience, usually. For example, stations of Television will beep

out swear words, or even completely skip over scenes with

salaciously deemed behavior in shows or movies the station is

broadcasting. This type of some people find to be

essential, without moral censorship, human’s would probably

spew obscenities and be more violent, as they argue. But this

type of censorship affects books as well. Take the Ulysses by

James Joyce for example. In 1921 the Ulysses was declared

obscene and as a result it was banned in the United States.



Cronian in cronian's Diary, www.kuro5hin.org

Monday March 28, 2005 at 02:31:38 AM EST

Friday November 7th, 2008, 3:38 PM Central

In this day and age, we should not expect books on how to

engage in what many the least ethical to be so hidden. How To

books litter the bookstores, where they touch upon many facets of

life, claiming to bring health, beauty, and fortune. What is keeping

such books on topics like bribery, blackmail, and extortion limited

to critiques and scant literary references?

       One other type of censorship is Political Censorship. A type

of censorship where the Government keeps information away

from it’s citizens. The logic of this is to prevent the free

expression needed to rebel. There is always the argument that

if the Campaign tactics are also often kept secret, for an example:

The Water Gate Scandal. Political censorship is basically the

government concealing information from the people they have

taken oath to serve and protect. Some medial examples of this:



Soy lent Green by Harry Harrison, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray

Bradbury, and 1984 by George Orwell. These all show a people

being harmed by not knowing the truth.

      My third example of censorship is called Corporate

Censorship. This type of censor is used by media, news casters,

talk show hosts, and corporations. The media use it to leave out

certain stories that would shed a negative light on the network or

it’s business partners. The media also use this censor based on

it’s views. Bias Media, if you will. This censor was especially

active in this recent election. Fox news and MSMBC are great

examples of this. Corporate Censorship is used in corporations

usually by the Trade secret law, a law saying companies don’t

have to disclose information on their product if they feel it un-

necessary –Meaning they could find that their product causing

45% of cancer in it’s buyers is unnecessary for them to know if

such facts were true.



All of these types of censorship are wrong. They go against

the First Amendment, and should not be with held in our modern

society

"We Need Censorship." 123HelpMe.com. 12 Nov 2008
    .

Study after study has shown the detriment exposure to violence,

pornography, foul language etc. can have on children. For

example, surveys conducted by the American Association of

Pediatrics and the Federal Department of Health showed a direct

correlation between violence in the media (i.e. cartoon shows)

and being abusive and secluded in adolescent years.

Not only do we need to censor television, movies, etc., we also

need to limit the easy accessibility of these games to the general

public, to protect our society.

      To this argument I state that parents themselves can protect

their children. They don’t need a station to tell them what their



children should and shouldn’t watch. Most of the time the

censorship isn’t accurate with it’s censoring. Sure, they beep of

the bad words and skip bad scenes in Clock Work Orange if it’s

on AMC, but it’s still a movie with a plot about violence and

gangs.

Dave, Meringer . "The Censorship Debate". Blog. April 13th 2007 .

I do give credit to those who do this job such as editors

and publishers but they have a guideline of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ and

sadly the world is not that black and white. In fact most of the

world and the people in it would be better represented as

somewhere in the grey. When someone is given the power of

censorship we all lose out a little. Sure there may be just one line,

idea or joke somewhere in an article or maybe even in the news

but we still lose out on that raw individuality that represents the

real world.

Exactly how far is too far when presenting ideas? What is morally

right and wrong in the media?

      In conclusion, Censorship is wrong. The American people

know these words and that people kill other people and the know

right from wrong, meaning they don’t need a TV network to tell

them otherwise.

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• Nov. 14, 2008 - A death of a language.

Posted By Jacqueline

                           A death of a language.

Language death is when a language is (Or endanger of) not spoken

by any one. There are different stages of language deaths, starting

with endangerment (Some skip this stage). This is where the

language is starting to dwindle, it’s speakers dying out, or forgetting

the language. The next stage is it becoming a dead language.

       A dead language is a language no longer spoken as a main

language, meaning people speak it, but not as their first language.

A few dead languages include Latin, ancient Greek, and Sanskrit,

languages studied because of their historical significance.

There are many types of language death, or linguicide, one of the

most common being gradual language death, where the community

of speakers of one language becomes bilingual in another language,

and slowly shifts to allegiance to the second language until they no

longer speak the original. Another example of linguicide include

radical language death, when all native speakers are wiped out by

genocide, disease, or any other ravaging natural catastrophe. But

once again, a dead language is a language still spoken, rarely, but

still spoken.

    "dead language." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia

Britannica Online. 27 Oct. 2008

In studying ancient (dead) languages one is, of course, limited to

studying the grammar of their written forms and styles, as their written

records alone survive.

      The last step is the dead language becoming an extinct language.

An extinct language is a language no one speaks, and most

likely, a language lost to our world, Though, In some cases, an

extinct language remains in use for scientific, legal, or ecclesiastical

religious functions. For example, the language of Akkala Sami

is an extinct language, and it recently became one, too, when the last

known, native speaker (Marja Sergina) died on December 29, 2003.

The language of Akkala Sami was a Finnic language (A language

spoken in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Northern Russia, and Northern

Europe), and was spoken mainly by the Sami village (Sami is another

word for Finnic) in the inland parts of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.

This language is one of the most poorly documented of all Sami

languages, making it an extinct language.

         Miami-Illinois language was an extinct language that was

spoken by the tribes of the Inoca or Illinois Confederacy, including the

Kaskaskia, Peoria, Tamaroa, Cahokia, and Mitchigamea in the United

States, primarily in Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, western Ohio and

adjacent areas along the Mississippi River. The Miami Illinois

language is actually highly documented, one of the most prominent

was a dictionary written by a Jesuit missionary named Jaques

Gravier.   He lived among the Kaskaskia tribe in the early 1700s.

In 1994, David Costa published “The Miami-Illinois Language” as

his Ph.D. dissertation, and as a book in 2003. In this book, he

reconstructs the Miami-Illinois language and all its grammatical

features. This book was a huge help to the effort of revitalization of

the Miami Tribe, This project, the Myaamia Project, has been

involved in the translation of missionary documents and publication of

Miami culture and language materials. This language is considered

by some extinct, because there are no fluent native speakers of

the language. Yet, there has been a strong language reclamation

program since the mid 1990s of the Miami dialect, so one day this

language has a chance of coming back,. There are still tribe

members today, who simply call the language “sleeping”.

     Each of these languages has their own story, a tale of there

demise and maybe a flicker of hope of coming back to be spoken and

heard again.

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• Nov. 14, 2008 - The Penguin Project

Posted By Jacqueline

                       The Penguin Project

The Penguin Project is a special program that

allows a variety of children and teenagers (called Artists)

with disabilities to put on a Broadway musical with the help

of peer mentors (children without disabilities around their

age.) This program is really a different way of doing

things, and it has helped quite a few kids (Artists and

mentors) along in ways no one could imagine.      It's

really amazing, and at the end of each show, it is almost

guaranteed that you will cry, regardless of the show, or

part of it. The amazing part, as most will tell you, is how

people come out of shells, out of social barricades, and

make friends that last a life time.

        The Penguin Project was founded by Dr. Andrew

Morgan and his wife, Kathy Morgan. Dr. Andrew (Or Dr.

Andy, as every one in Penguin calls him) has a love of

theater (Being in many plays and musicals himself,

including To Kill a Mocking Bird, and Fiddler On the

Roof) and is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and the Chief

of the Section of Child Development at the University

College of Medicine at Peoria.

      This year we're doing Beauty and the Beast.

All the plays we do seems to have a "Being different is

okay" theme, which I think somehow engages the

audience more, and leaves us (The artists and mentors)

and the audience with a happy feeling.

         The mentors and artists are paired within six to

sevens weeks time, continually switching and trying to

find the right partner (A person whom you can get along

with, and mostly just help the most).

While doing this we learn the songs, the dances, and a

few of the lines before we are partner.

         We do all of this at a center near the theater,

with four big rooms, A main room we use for singing and

pairing up, two extras for line-practice, and a giant room

we use for dancing, which for some reason has a disco

ball in it. All the rooms are white, and..... uncomfortably

hygienic, but that feeling, and the intense feeling of

nerves quickly dissolves as you greet old friends and

new friends alike. The rehearsals are always fun.

They begin with greetings and partner finding. We then

listen to announcements with our temporary artist, and

what we will be doing that night, like dancing, or lines

from the script, singing, or a combination of the three.

Usually we start with singing warm-ups (Singing "Happy

Birthday" to mentors and artists who have birthdays

coming up), then go on to the songs we've learned, to

new songs. Next is usually line practice.

Our artist gets a bit of the script, and you help them

execute and sometimes read (as some of the Artists

can't -or have trouble- reading).You take turns reading,

and when an artist is having trouble, we cheer for them to

go on, until they get it (In which case, extra applause is

needed).

     We proceed to a giant room down the hall from the

main room, the giant, dancing room.

There is a raised stage in front of the room, where the

directors stand and make corrections, and the

choreographers show you the dances. You help your

artist dance, and (in my case and a few others) help an

artist come up with alternate dance moves when they are

in wheel chairs, or have a disability that affects their legs

or arms. We end with snacks and socialization.

          These rehearsal's last through December, then,

we start rehearsing at Eastlight Theater, the place we will

have our show. The theater itself can hold more than a

thousand people, and is said to be haunted.

         We get started on the harder bits, the blocking, the

pauses and the delivery.

We get fitted for our costumes, and start rehearsing with

them, and we also start practicing harder.

         Along with the costumes comes the stage crew,

who are volunteers who change the sets, or help with

props and costumes. Rehearsals start piling up to three

or four a week, or more if you have a major role.

We start going through the whole show, and finally tech

Sunday comes along.

           Tech Sunday is a run-through of the show with all

the technical workings,

microphones, the music on speakers, and the lights.

This lasts all day, and usually is hard, but fun. Tech

Sunday is the Sunday before the show, or earlier, so it

starts getting pretty tense with excited anticipation. We

start feeling like we are actually ready for the show. And

soon, we get to prove it.

     The curtains rise for the first show, and I usually, and

silently, freak out. Then the music starts, and you do

what you have practiced for months on end, and you love

it. You smile at the audience, not just because it's a

happy song with happy people, but because of the

awesome, unexplainable feeling you have.

Morgan, Kathy 9/24/08 Interview

Please just know that the Penguin Project is truly an act of

love for both Dr. Andy and myself. Every child involved is

special to us and watching the change in the children

involved gives us more joy than can ever be put into words

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• Nov. 14, 2008 - Possible age rise of Driver’s license

Posted By Jacqueline

Possible age rise of Driver’s license

If your neighbor robs a bank, should you go to jail? No. If your classmate gets in an accident, should your driver's license be taken away? Of course not. Neither situation is fair. Rising the driving age will punish all young drivers for the mistakes of a few of their peers.

--Alex Koroknay-Paticz National Youth Rights Association

Every argument has two (Or more) sides.
Every law has pros and cons.
The argument over laws is usually over which pro or con out-weighs the other.
To Alex Koroknay-Paticz argument I ask him to sort through the millions of teen’s in America who are ready and responsible enough to drive and give them driver’s license.
What I’m wondering is who exactly gave these young adults the authority to drive.
Perhaps- To decide upon a happy medium- we could in force stricter and harder courses of driving.
Harder testes might…. filter the unwanted drivers, so to speak .
Besides,
Psychologically, 16 and 17 year olds aren’t ready to drive.
They are easily distracted, and don’t have the essential awareness older drivers possessed.
Further more, DUI are on the rise with young adults, (acting like mini rum-runner’s not only breaking the law prohibiting Alcohol to 16 to 17 year olds,
But usually taking their lives and their friends lives with them.)
Meaning a rise of legal age for license driving would indeed decrease the standing death rate of young adults.

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• Nov. 14, 2008 - My first Essay I handed in.

Posted By Jacqueline

‘The Firework Incident

Every Fourth of July we go to Indiana to purchase giant fireworks to set off with our friends at night.
At 7:00 the fireworks were set up and my Dad set off a few.
A few streets over an enormous firework was set off.
We all started getting competitive, and set off a larger firework called a Man ‘’O’ War.
The people set off three huge fireworks all at once.
Finally, my Dad got out the largest firework, the giant box called The Pyrotechnic Mother Load.
The explosion was huge!
We thought we had won “The Fireworks War”,
But no, they set off five different fireworks at once, all colossal explosions lighting up the sky.
Then we heard the sirens.
We ran over to see what was going on.
Nothing was on fire, and no one was hurt,
But a police car was driving slowly over to the house,
And right on cue, a huge firework snaked its way across the sky and exploded.
So, we sat down and watched the policemen get out of their car and start knocking on the door of the house where the fireworks had just gone off.
A man opened the door and asked what was wrong.
We snickered and prepared for a classic police-type arrest or warning or anything besides what we got.
“Nothing, sir, we just wanted to make sure you weren’t bothering the neighbors.”
We were flabbergasted!!
They were just short of asking if the man wanted doughnuts and if they could set off a few themselves.
And even crazier, they stayed and watched the rest!
We were kind of fed up, so we went back to our house to see what my parents were up to.
My Mom and Dad were chatting with the neighbors and my little sister was showing their adorable toddler son how to hold a sparkler, so my friend, John and my older sister and I went to see if there were any fire works left that we could play with.
There were a few smaller fireworks,
A few little tank-shaped ones that rolled away spitting tiny balls of purple flames,
A firework call a Screamer, which made ear-splitting screeching noises, and a tube full of small, brown ones that were shaped like little bombs.
We wondering what they could be, and decided that the only way to find out would be to light it up and see.
“Come on! How big could it be?” We decided.
“Take 1……..bad idea.” My friend said as he lit it, and ran towards my sister and I.
The flame went to the end of the wick, and seemingly fizzled out.
“What happened?” I asked.
“It must have gone out. I’ll go check on it….”
He only went three steps when a giant eruption came from the little brown firework.
It was like the real fireworks, the huge ones that you see in Time Square on New Year s Eve; only it didn’t go up it stayed on the ground.
It was the most awesome thing ever.
It took us about two minutes to collect ourselves.
Then we started laughing manically.
It really seemed to be the funniest thing ever, at that point.
My sister and my dad ran over to make sure we were okay,
Which we were, of course (The only thing not okay was the bit of pavement we put the firework on, which now had a giant white ring blasted onto it).
The next day my older sister and I walked outside to see that white ring,
Only to find it still there, and two small brown pieces of slightly charred cardboard next to it.
We kept these, and put them were all can see,
Because, really, their like a trophy of our stupidity and our disdain for reading warning labels.
Which, to us, is (and always will be) awesome.

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• Nov. 14, 2008 - Cat-boy, '80s homecoming dresses, and why I like seashells.

Posted By Jacqueline

Bonjour! Good day! How is your family? (Bonjour, good day, how is your wife....)

Okay, sorry about that. That song is in my head, at late.
Probably because I have to sing it a LOT for Beauty and The Beast (Update: It's a musical I'm in).

Alright, Lot's o' news.

Okay, Today I did nothing really. School work, etc. etc.
But Yesterday and soon to come I am copiously busy, so I will talk about that.

Yesterday I had English Class, I handed in my paper I had written on Censorship.....Ooooohhhh....Scary.....
Okay, I got a A- on a test, which is not cool. I'd be okay with a B, or an A, but an A- just sounds negative.
Which, hey guess what, it is.

Anyway, I now have to write a paper on solutions of world problems.
I am thinking about picking Global Warming, but Equality is a good one, too.....

Okay, anyway, I left class early because it was Wednesday, A.K.A The Day I Have Practice For The Other Play I'm In.
I had fun with that, except I had a dream the night before that one of the male leads turned into a cat, and we all decided that since we couldn't do the play without him, we may as well go to the Bahamas and
swim with dolphins.
So, yeah, for about five minutes, I couldn't help but think of that.

This is the type of cat I dreamed he looked like:

Wow, my subconscious is weird.
But practice was still really fun.
I knew most of my lines and blocking and entrances so I was good in that section.

After dinner I had Beauty and The Beast practice, which was awesome as always.
A girl I know invited my sister's and I to be on her team for Destination ImagiNation,
so I'm excited about that.
End of Day.

Alright!
So....very.....excited about the next youth group event!!!!!!
Okay, the next youth group event for my youth group is an '80s themed Murder Mystery called Homecoming Horrors!
We get characters and we play them out while trying to solve the mystery.
I hope I'm the murderer. That would be fun.
(In a fake sense. Murdering people in real life isn't fun.)

Anyway, we get to dress up in prom dresses and get picked up in a limo!
Our church will be decorated like homecoming, too, and there will be dancing, so fun-ski!

This is the dress I'm going to wear:

Awesome, right?
I'll post pictures of the event and etc. later.

Thank you, dear readers!
Comment if your phylum is chordata!

~Outloud

P.S.
The title lied.
There was no explanation what so ever of why I like seashells in this post.
Seashell!

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• Nov. 11, 2008 - paper

Posted By Bobbi

Brown was in the newspaper!!!!!!!! In color on the front page!!! A person from the newspaper that interviewed him for his Eagle Project!!!

It said what he was doing for his eagle project, and stuff like that. And the best part is, is my name was in the paper!!!!!!! They asked me some questions like, do you think his project is a good idea, are you proud of him, stuff like that. And the best part is, he spelled my name right!!! (Bobbi) A lot of people spell it Bobbie. One person even spelled it Boby!! I'm mad at that person!! :( But still, Brown was in the paper!!!

Murphy is in the house right now. Oh yeah! I guess haven't posted this yet. A few days ago, we gave Murphy a bath!!! We brought her inside the house, and we put her in the shower! I put on my bathing suit, and washed her. Brown stood outside the shower, and poured shampoo on her, tried to push her back in when he open the door!!! (I don't know why he opened the door!) We let her lay in front of the door, and put a heater there so she wouldn't be cold. We had to keep her inside so she wouldn't be cold.

I think Brown wants on the computer now, so I guess I should let him on. (even though he doesn't deserve it!!!)

Bobbi

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