Thursday, March 31, 2005 | 1:03 PM | Allegri
Rest in peace dear Terri Schavio, may God be with you.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 | 2:03 AM | Allegri
Man, even with 3 years of working with CSS and HTML these last few weeks have been making me feel quite incompetent with both. I am working on a new layout, that *hopefully* will be finished to be released on April 1st, but it seems that as soon as I get the formating right to make an item appear how I want it to, it screws up another piece of my page. . . it is driving me crazy, I really can't wait to get all of the glitches worked out, and get it posted cause it rocks!
Monday, March 28, 2005 | 4:38 AM | Allegri
With the recent controversy over the Terri Schiavo suit, I thought that I would spread a little bit of my two cents on this case.
According to Pia, has Terri has been placed on morphine, not because she’s feeling pain-if she is its vestige–but I truly doubt that she’s feeling any. She’s on morphine to make her parents and siblings feel better, and I’m for anything that will help them get through this. Where she is also being given ice chips and her lips and mouth are constantly being moistened. If she can feel this will make her comfortable.
Terri's Condition
Personally, I don’t know exactly where I stand on this issue, for to much of the "evidence" that has been presented has been clouded and muddled so that the truth has been blurred to mean what people want it to mean. And I personally do not like to take a stand for a specific side on an issue that I do not have the proper amount of evidence to support each side’s ideas; but here I am at an impasse. I do not believe fully that either way was the correct path to take, I believe that there is a third choice that could have been made in this case but no one wanted to see it. (*I know I am being severely vague here*)
If I was in her condition I would not want to live, yet I would not want to die this way either, whether or not she can feel pain from the dehydration and starvation. Thankfully I have not had to go through any of the pain that her family is going through right now, but I really just want her to be at peace.
For those who base your belief off of medical standards;
If the 97% of doctors are correct and she is really just a vegetable that has absolutely no chance of any cognitive repair. Then Terri is merely existing for her family’s comfort. And for there belief in modern day miracles based on empty dreams.
But if the 3% of doctors are correct that say that she is capable of cognitive regeneration and that she actually can feel, and is aware of the world around her. But is just incapable of expressing it in any outward motor function. I would want to die; being trapped within a prison of my own body, is no way to live.
For those who base your belief off of religious standards;
First, if you believe that good Christians go to heaven upon death to join God and the angels, then why are you fighting Terri so hard against Terri's journey there? If it's such a great place, why are you fighting tooth and nail to keep Terri in her corporeal form down here on earth where she has slim to no chance of actually developing brain function? All I know is if there's a real choice between heaven and being imprisoned in an ethereal form over which one barely has control, I would choose heaven. And I would sure as heck resent anyone who grabbed my arm and held me back from running there as fast as I could.
Second, if you argue that keeping Terri alive is The Will of God, have you stopped to consider who caused the heart attack that put Terri in this position to begin with? Perhaps God was trying to take her back into His fold, and now our mortal feeding tube is what's actually thwarting God's plan. Since none of can ever actually speak to God to determine His intentions, we're all just guessing here. So how can you be so freaking sure that you aren't the one thwarting God's intentions? Who's the one "playing God" now?
And, I know that I just contradicted myself multiple times in here, but I seriously think that this is a purely conditional case, depending on whether she is at all cognizant or not, is what is the table turner for me. I just wish that there was another way that this could be done. And I really, truly wish that she passes soon, to help this all end, and let her truly be at peace. The sooner that she dies the sooner that this masquerade of protesters for both sides will diminish, and her family will be a little more at peace.
*UPDATE- Thank you to Kines for figuring out the problem with my meta tags, and making everything pretty again!
According to Pia, has Terri has been placed on morphine, not because she’s feeling pain-if she is its vestige–but I truly doubt that she’s feeling any. She’s on morphine to make her parents and siblings feel better, and I’m for anything that will help them get through this. Where she is also being given ice chips and her lips and mouth are constantly being moistened. If she can feel this will make her comfortable.
Terri's Condition
Doctors that Michael Schiavo hired have said she is in a persistent vegetative state. That does not mean she is brain dead. People in a persistent vegetative state cannot think, speak or respond to commands and are not aware of their surroundings. They may have noncognitive functions and breathing and circulation may remain relatively intact. Terry Schiavo breathes on her own and blinks.In this case, Terri is already dead, she is only alive in the physical sense, whereas emotionally, and psychologically she died fifteen years ago. Honestly I don’t know what Terri Schiavo wanted, no one does. But fifteen years is too long to live in a state of suspended life–life with only a brain stem working is no life at all.
Personally, I don’t know exactly where I stand on this issue, for to much of the "evidence" that has been presented has been clouded and muddled so that the truth has been blurred to mean what people want it to mean. And I personally do not like to take a stand for a specific side on an issue that I do not have the proper amount of evidence to support each side’s ideas; but here I am at an impasse. I do not believe fully that either way was the correct path to take, I believe that there is a third choice that could have been made in this case but no one wanted to see it. (*I know I am being severely vague here*)
If I was in her condition I would not want to live, yet I would not want to die this way either, whether or not she can feel pain from the dehydration and starvation. Thankfully I have not had to go through any of the pain that her family is going through right now, but I really just want her to be at peace.
For those who base your belief off of medical standards;
If the 97% of doctors are correct and she is really just a vegetable that has absolutely no chance of any cognitive repair. Then Terri is merely existing for her family’s comfort. And for there belief in modern day miracles based on empty dreams.
But if the 3% of doctors are correct that say that she is capable of cognitive regeneration and that she actually can feel, and is aware of the world around her. But is just incapable of expressing it in any outward motor function. I would want to die; being trapped within a prison of my own body, is no way to live.
For those who base your belief off of religious standards;
First, if you believe that good Christians go to heaven upon death to join God and the angels, then why are you fighting Terri so hard against Terri's journey there? If it's such a great place, why are you fighting tooth and nail to keep Terri in her corporeal form down here on earth where she has slim to no chance of actually developing brain function? All I know is if there's a real choice between heaven and being imprisoned in an ethereal form over which one barely has control, I would choose heaven. And I would sure as heck resent anyone who grabbed my arm and held me back from running there as fast as I could.
Second, if you argue that keeping Terri alive is The Will of God, have you stopped to consider who caused the heart attack that put Terri in this position to begin with? Perhaps God was trying to take her back into His fold, and now our mortal feeding tube is what's actually thwarting God's plan. Since none of can ever actually speak to God to determine His intentions, we're all just guessing here. So how can you be so freaking sure that you aren't the one thwarting God's intentions? Who's the one "playing God" now?
And, I know that I just contradicted myself multiple times in here, but I seriously think that this is a purely conditional case, depending on whether she is at all cognizant or not, is what is the table turner for me. I just wish that there was another way that this could be done. And I really, truly wish that she passes soon, to help this all end, and let her truly be at peace. The sooner that she dies the sooner that this masquerade of protesters for both sides will diminish, and her family will be a little more at peace.
*UPDATE- Thank you to Kines for figuring out the problem with my meta tags, and making everything pretty again!
| 2:05 AM | Allegri
There's a time when you can share and you hold hands and be on the same path. But there's always a fork in the road... at some point. And sometimes you have to go on one part of the fork and they gotta go on the other part of the fork. Or just down the back part of the fork while you go forward. And they're like *sigh* Or they got a salad fork and you have one of the big dinner forks and you have longer to go but they're like done because that's it, they're stuck on a piece of food, that they *sigh*. A desert fork or like one of those, you know small little shrimp forks or crab forks and you're trying to get out a crab. They're like that and you're over here jumping to the huge serving fork or something like that, or a ladle, you know.
- Alan Tudyk as Gerhardt in 28 Days
- Alan Tudyk as Gerhardt in 28 Days
Sunday, March 27, 2005 | 5:04 PM | Allegri
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Radha Mitchell, Julie Christie, Freddie Highmore
Rated: PG
Runtime: 103 minutes
Finding Neverland is an in-depth visual walk through J.M. Barrie's experience in writing his hit play "Peter Pan". Set in London in 1904, the film follows J.M. Barrie's creative journey to bring Peter Pan to life, from his first inspiration for the story up until the play's premiere.
At one point in "Finding Neverland," J.M. Barrie (played by Johnny Depp) and his distant wife Mary (Radha Mitchell) retire to their separate bedrooms - but while she enters a dark room, the door to his room opens to reveal a fantasy landscape of blue sky and trees. This single flawless scene crystallizes everything this magical movie is about: how a creative artist channeled his personal pain through his imagination to bring forth one of literature's most timeless classics.
J.M. Barrie (played by Johnny Depp) is a playwright who is dealing with the fading of his stardom and the flop of his most recent play, as he is attempting to write a new screenplay, he is inspired by a sick, single mother; Silvia Davies (Kate Winslet) and her four boys; Peter, George, Jack and Michael. As he watches them at play, a kind of spiritual hunger begins to glow in his eyes. They represent an innocence and purity that strikes him so powerfully he's unable to think of anything else. Barrie soon befriends Sylvia and the boys, especially the 12-year-old Peter (Freddie Highmore), still grieving for his father by being too serious for play and imagination.
Barrie is instantly drawn to the impressionable children, and performs an impromptu play for the abiding family. An instant bond is formed, and Barrie and the Davies family quickly become inseparable. The Davie's children instantly become his muse in writing his new script, which he names after Peter, the second youngest and most emotionally grieved from the loss of their father. Their friendship causes problems with his wife and the snooty society types, but Barrie's whimsical playdates with the boys lay the groundwork for the successful stage production about a boy who refuses to grow up. It becomes increasingly clear through the interaction between the five, that Sylvia is Barrie's true soul mate and muse, so it's especially wrenching when her uncontrollable coughs signal fresh tragedy for him and the Davies boys.
Perhaps what hit me most is how when Barrie was with the boys, he was able to take them out of the world, and the pain that they lived in, and experience a world that was beyond their wildest imaginations. It saddened me that as he played with these children, their mother sat, silently falling for the man that possibly was the one thing that kept her alive for as long as she had. Possibly the most tear wrenching climactic part of the film was within the last ten minutes, right after the premiere of the play, when a more intimate version is staged for the dying Sylvia and her boys, within the security of their own living room.
At its heart, this movie is about believing and finding happiness and that just because someone has left you, they are not really lost forever, but they are always with you. That we all have a piece of Neverland inside of us, and all we have to do is to believe that it is there, and we can go anytime.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Radha Mitchell, Julie Christie, Freddie Highmore
Rated: PG
Runtime: 103 minutes
Finding Neverland is an in-depth visual walk through J.M. Barrie's experience in writing his hit play "Peter Pan". Set in London in 1904, the film follows J.M. Barrie's creative journey to bring Peter Pan to life, from his first inspiration for the story up until the play's premiere.
At one point in "Finding Neverland," J.M. Barrie (played by Johnny Depp) and his distant wife Mary (Radha Mitchell) retire to their separate bedrooms - but while she enters a dark room, the door to his room opens to reveal a fantasy landscape of blue sky and trees. This single flawless scene crystallizes everything this magical movie is about: how a creative artist channeled his personal pain through his imagination to bring forth one of literature's most timeless classics.
J.M. Barrie (played by Johnny Depp) is a playwright who is dealing with the fading of his stardom and the flop of his most recent play, as he is attempting to write a new screenplay, he is inspired by a sick, single mother; Silvia Davies (Kate Winslet) and her four boys; Peter, George, Jack and Michael. As he watches them at play, a kind of spiritual hunger begins to glow in his eyes. They represent an innocence and purity that strikes him so powerfully he's unable to think of anything else. Barrie soon befriends Sylvia and the boys, especially the 12-year-old Peter (Freddie Highmore), still grieving for his father by being too serious for play and imagination.
Barrie is instantly drawn to the impressionable children, and performs an impromptu play for the abiding family. An instant bond is formed, and Barrie and the Davies family quickly become inseparable. The Davie's children instantly become his muse in writing his new script, which he names after Peter, the second youngest and most emotionally grieved from the loss of their father. Their friendship causes problems with his wife and the snooty society types, but Barrie's whimsical playdates with the boys lay the groundwork for the successful stage production about a boy who refuses to grow up. It becomes increasingly clear through the interaction between the five, that Sylvia is Barrie's true soul mate and muse, so it's especially wrenching when her uncontrollable coughs signal fresh tragedy for him and the Davies boys.
Perhaps what hit me most is how when Barrie was with the boys, he was able to take them out of the world, and the pain that they lived in, and experience a world that was beyond their wildest imaginations. It saddened me that as he played with these children, their mother sat, silently falling for the man that possibly was the one thing that kept her alive for as long as she had. Possibly the most tear wrenching climactic part of the film was within the last ten minutes, right after the premiere of the play, when a more intimate version is staged for the dying Sylvia and her boys, within the security of their own living room.
At its heart, this movie is about believing and finding happiness and that just because someone has left you, they are not really lost forever, but they are always with you. That we all have a piece of Neverland inside of us, and all we have to do is to believe that it is there, and we can go anytime.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 | 10:22 AM | Allegri
It is currently the last week of the quarter and I am freaking out... I'm taking a blogging vacation till Saturday March 25th.
*SEE??? A result of my tiredness? Saturday is actually the 26th.
*SEE??? A result of my tiredness? Saturday is actually the 26th.
Monday, March 21, 2005 | 6:42 PM | Allegri
Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
- Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean
- Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean
Wednesday, March 16, 2005 | 4:29 PM | Allegri
The sentencing trail for Scott Peterson, who was convicted in November 2004 of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson, and their future son, Conner Peterson, is now over. The jury ajurned early this afternoon, and the Judge read the unanimous decision that Scott was to be sentenced to death for the first degree murders of his wife and unborn son. He Judge also ordered Scott Peterson to pay $10,000 restitution for funeral expenses (for Laci and Conner) and an additional $5,000, though the reason for that amount was unexplained.
Poll: What sentencing do you think that Scott Peterson should have received?
1. Death Penalty
2. Life in prison, with no possibility of parole
Poll: What sentencing do you think that Scott Peterson should have received?
1. Death Penalty
2. Life in prison, with no possibility of parole
Monday, March 14, 2005 | 10:47 PM | Allegri
Hilary Faye: Mary, turn away from Satan. Jesus, he loves you.
Mary: You don't know the first thing about love.
Hilary Faye: [throws a Bible at Mary] I am FILLED with Christ's love! You are just jealous of my success in the Lord.
Mary: [Mary holds up the Bible] This is not a weapon! You idiot.
- Mandy Moore as Hilary Faye, and Jena Malone as Mary in SAVED!
Cassandra: There's only one reason Christian girls comes down to the Planned Parenthood.
Roland: She's planting a pipe bomb?
Cassandra: Okay, two reasons.
- Eva Amurri as Cassandra, and Macaulay Culkin as Roland in SAVED!
"You want me to look on your army and tremble. Well I see them. I see 50, 000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed."
- Eric Bana as Prince Hector in TROY.
Mary: You don't know the first thing about love.
Hilary Faye: [throws a Bible at Mary] I am FILLED with Christ's love! You are just jealous of my success in the Lord.
Mary: [Mary holds up the Bible] This is not a weapon! You idiot.
- Mandy Moore as Hilary Faye, and Jena Malone as Mary in SAVED!
Cassandra: There's only one reason Christian girls comes down to the Planned Parenthood.
Roland: She's planting a pipe bomb?
Cassandra: Okay, two reasons.
- Eva Amurri as Cassandra, and Macaulay Culkin as Roland in SAVED!
"You want me to look on your army and tremble. Well I see them. I see 50, 000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed."
- Eric Bana as Prince Hector in TROY.
Saturday, March 12, 2005 | 4:31 PM | Allegri
This story was in today's USA today's headlines, Man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart kicked out of hearing. Here's the story. . .
Ok, so this (I will refrain from using the name "freak") guy, who calls himself the prophet "Emmanuel", abducted Elizabeth from her home in the early hours of June 5th 2002, Sexually assaulted her, he beat her multiple times to the point that she suffered from Stockholm syndrome, after he threatened that he would kill all of her family if she spoke out when they where in public. He traveled throughout the surrounding states and even spent many of the 9 months here in the Salt Lake Valley, the 3 were found on a Salt Lake City street corner on March 12 2003.
Question: "How in the world are we supposed to define the competency of a man who thinks that he is the "Emmanuel"?"
Personally, I think that he is trying to hard to get the incompetent vote, I mean how often do mentally disturbed people just burst out singing actual hymns and not just mindless, drunkard like ramble? And not during real trials does he do this, only during his competency trials. Yeah, he's crazy, but I believe, that he was completely aware and should be held 100% responible for his actions.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)- The man charged with kidnapping teenager Elizabeth Smart was kicked out of his mental competency trial Friday after he began singing a religious hymn, the fourth time he has been removed from hearings for singing.
As Brian David Mitchell was led away, he shouted, "He mocks and scorns the son of God. ... You know I speak the truth. You know I speak the truth."
The hearing then resumed with defense expert Stephen Golding testifying that Mitchell has become increasingly more mentally disturbed and unfit for trial.
Golding said Mitchell has vowed to do everything possible to disrupt the trial and has said he will not allow Elizabeth who he contends is his wife to be questioned on the witness stand.
Prosecutors argue that Mitchell is competent to face trial.
Mitchell, 51, a self-proclaimed messenger of God, is accused of kidnapping then 14-year-old Elizabeth in 2002, sexually assaulting her and keeping her as his second wife.
He and his wife, Wanda Barzee, 59, are charged with kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, aggravated burglary and attempted aggravated kidnapping. He is also charged in the attempted abduction of Elizabeth's cousin seven weeks after her kidnapping.
Mitchell's lawyers have said he has grown delusional in jail since September, when he was declared competent after seven months of evaluations. He was ordered to undergo a new round of mental evaluations in December after he broke into a hymn during a hearing.
Barzee, who has filed for divorce, has been ruled incompetent to stand trial and is being treated at a state facility.
Ok, so this (I will refrain from using the name "freak") guy, who calls himself the prophet "Emmanuel", abducted Elizabeth from her home in the early hours of June 5th 2002, Sexually assaulted her, he beat her multiple times to the point that she suffered from Stockholm syndrome, after he threatened that he would kill all of her family if she spoke out when they where in public. He traveled throughout the surrounding states and even spent many of the 9 months here in the Salt Lake Valley, the 3 were found on a Salt Lake City street corner on March 12 2003.
Question: "How in the world are we supposed to define the competency of a man who thinks that he is the "Emmanuel"?"
Personally, I think that he is trying to hard to get the incompetent vote, I mean how often do mentally disturbed people just burst out singing actual hymns and not just mindless, drunkard like ramble? And not during real trials does he do this, only during his competency trials. Yeah, he's crazy, but I believe, that he was completely aware and should be held 100% responible for his actions.
Wednesday, March 09, 2005 | 10:47 AM | Allegri
Since the snow has finally melted away and I now can be outside for more than 10 minutes without feeling like I have been turned into an icicle; I have reverted from my winter training, mostly dealing with flexibility, and cardio (aren't stairs great?), to getting back to my outdoor (spring) training. Endurance is what I am mostly aiming for this season, I really don't even care about the speed any more, as long as I can go without having that splitting pain in my side. I went for my first run this spring yesterday, I only went a mile and a half before I couldn't breathe anymore, but atleast I got that far, I still have the same cold that I have had lingering around for the last few weeks, and it is still quite chilly outside (60*).
It was so nice out, not very many clouds in the sky and many of my neighbors were out taking walks with their children. I felt kinda out of place out there, with my long pants, thick long sleeve shirt and my mp3 player around my wrist; while many of the people I saw where wearing short sleeves, and shorts! I couldn't believe that they where actually keeping warm while they were out there in this temperature at this time of year (but of course this is being said by the girl that was out in the snow in a swim suit during a Minnesota winter).
Although the real joy came this morning when I woke up to extreme pain all throughout my calves. . . YAY, shin splints . . Joking. Seriously, I can't stand them, especially when every where you need to go you walk to, going up the stairs is the worst. But I kind of, did myself in with not running during the winter. . . Oh well, I'll be running through the pain anyways. RICE is now just ICE, I can't stand to stay at home and skip out on training. Now there is a lesson here people, don't over exert yourself if you haven't practiced done your job of staying up to training guidelines, you'll just get hurt.
It was so nice out, not very many clouds in the sky and many of my neighbors were out taking walks with their children. I felt kinda out of place out there, with my long pants, thick long sleeve shirt and my mp3 player around my wrist; while many of the people I saw where wearing short sleeves, and shorts! I couldn't believe that they where actually keeping warm while they were out there in this temperature at this time of year (but of course this is being said by the girl that was out in the snow in a swim suit during a Minnesota winter).
Although the real joy came this morning when I woke up to extreme pain all throughout my calves. . . YAY, shin splints . . Joking. Seriously, I can't stand them, especially when every where you need to go you walk to, going up the stairs is the worst. But I kind of, did myself in with not running during the winter. . . Oh well, I'll be running through the pain anyways. RICE is now just ICE, I can't stand to stay at home and skip out on training. Now there is a lesson here people, don't over exert yourself if you haven't practiced done your job of staying up to training guidelines, you'll just get hurt.
Monday, March 07, 2005 | 8:43 AM | Allegri
In my recent blog surfing adventures I have come to see that many people are posting about their "ten things that I've done that you probably haven't". I sat many a times pondering why people would do this, but yet again I did fall into the boredom path and created a "my 100 things" list. So here, once again I have let my boredom and sheer curiosity to see if anyone has done any of my things get the best of me.
Ten things I've done that you probably haven't
1. Been inside the Pyramids.
2. Got my foot jammed in the space between the floor and the elevator(yes that little 2 inch space), and nearly broke my ankle.
3. Dissected a cadaver even though I am not a Med student. And actually didn't want to hurl.
4. Appeared in 2 Disney Movie's.
5. Rode a camel through the desert in Egypt.
6. Read the entire Da Vinci Code in the span of 12 hours.
7. Ran (ran, not drove) in to a galvanized steel wall and dented it, while not breaking any bones, but leaving a nasty bruise on my leg for 2 months.
8. Lived in Saudi Arabia, and accidently took my mom's shall, and nearly got her arrested for it, thankfully she runs fast.
9. Had a snowball fight in -10 degree weather, with -20 windchill, for half an hour all while wearing just a swimsuit. And didn't get frostbite.
10. Watched the Beauty and the Beast VHS so many times, that I wore the celluloid down so much that it broke.
Ten things I've done that you probably haven't
1. Been inside the Pyramids.
2. Got my foot jammed in the space between the floor and the elevator(yes that little 2 inch space), and nearly broke my ankle.
3. Dissected a cadaver even though I am not a Med student. And actually didn't want to hurl.
4. Appeared in 2 Disney Movie's.
5. Rode a camel through the desert in Egypt.
6. Read the entire Da Vinci Code in the span of 12 hours.
7. Ran (ran, not drove) in to a galvanized steel wall and dented it, while not breaking any bones, but leaving a nasty bruise on my leg for 2 months.
8. Lived in Saudi Arabia, and accidently took my mom's shall, and nearly got her arrested for it, thankfully she runs fast.
9. Had a snowball fight in -10 degree weather, with -20 windchill, for half an hour all while wearing just a swimsuit. And didn't get frostbite.
10. Watched the Beauty and the Beast VHS so many times, that I wore the celluloid down so much that it broke.
Friday, March 04, 2005 | 10:06 PM | Allegri
Recently my school did a modern day rendition of William Shakespeare's King Lear. Instead of having Lear be the king of Britain, he was the CEO of a high ranking international company - Lear International. They changed the first scene from being set in Lear's throne room, into being a press conference, in which he divided his "kingdom" (shares and subsidiaries) between his three daughters, as he comes to the time of his retirement from the company. The two eldest daughter's, Goneril & Regan, hauty as they are, know that if they over exaggerate there true feelings for their father that he will give them larger amounts of the company. The youngest, Cordelia, the only one who truly loves her father is left in the dust, knowing that she cannot lie to her father, she tells him that she loves him according to her duty, and that she cannot speak like her sisters have, supposedly loving their father all; even though they are married. Lear is very put out by this and banishes Cordelia and gives the remaining portions of the company to her sisters. This is where Lear makes his fatal mistake, scene 1 (wow, isn't that fast?), he banishes the one person who actually treated him like a child should treat her father. Lear has set in motion a train of events that not only leads to his own madness and death, but some rather nasty consequences for all the other principal characters.
The stage was a throne room, that the throne could be changed into may other props (individual seats, stocks, a bed, etc.), with a large powerpoint screen behind it. I really liked how they set it up, although I wish they had a larger budget that they could have made some of the actual settings for some of the scenes, although it was kind of cool, of how it was left up mostly to imagination. I also loved how they turned all of the servants into secret service agents, and how the fool became a (quite-interestingly dressed; shiny purple shirt, tight black pants, and silver knee high combat boots) rapper. *John, with you in that outfit you reminded my of Vanilla Ice, it was quite a frightening flash back.
I would have to say that my favorite character, and one of the hero's is the "multiple personality" Edgar. The way that his scene's were choreographed, especially his fight scene with Edmund were amazing. *One thing Jimmy, when you did the alley scene as "Poor Tom", all I could think of was Gullum!
I absolutely LOVED the play, and congratulate all of you that put your month's of day after day read through's and constant nagging for not having your lines right on cue. You guys went through many sleepless nights because of this masterpiece, and you did it! You made it through, congrats, NOW GO TO BED!
- pictures to come
The stage was a throne room, that the throne could be changed into may other props (individual seats, stocks, a bed, etc.), with a large powerpoint screen behind it. I really liked how they set it up, although I wish they had a larger budget that they could have made some of the actual settings for some of the scenes, although it was kind of cool, of how it was left up mostly to imagination. I also loved how they turned all of the servants into secret service agents, and how the fool became a (quite-interestingly dressed; shiny purple shirt, tight black pants, and silver knee high combat boots) rapper. *John, with you in that outfit you reminded my of Vanilla Ice, it was quite a frightening flash back.
I would have to say that my favorite character, and one of the hero's is the "multiple personality" Edgar. The way that his scene's were choreographed, especially his fight scene with Edmund were amazing. *One thing Jimmy, when you did the alley scene as "Poor Tom", all I could think of was Gullum!
I absolutely LOVED the play, and congratulate all of you that put your month's of day after day read through's and constant nagging for not having your lines right on cue. You guys went through many sleepless nights because of this masterpiece, and you did it! You made it through, congrats, NOW GO TO BED!
- pictures to come
Thursday, March 03, 2005 | 10:24 AM | Allegri
In the recent weeks there has been much conversation and debate over whether or not the ten commandments should be allowed to be displayed in the United States Courthouses. Many people stand on the First Constitutional Amendment:
Many say that allowing the 10 commandments to remain in the courthouses defies this Amendment, and forces people to use these as guidelines will prosecuting a case. The case was brought before the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday and is pending the actual trail as the Grand Jury deliberates the Oral arguments of whether the case should proceed in the Supreme Court.
Prosecutor:
Contends that these displays amount to governmental endorsement of the Ten Commandments religious message, and that such an endorsement violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Defendant:
Defend that these displays argue that they reflect the governments constitutionally legitimate acknowledgment of the Ten Commandments significant role in the development of American law and government.
Now the case offers to approach a controversial question: Under what circumstances may the government sponsor the display of religious messages or objects? Whatever the Jury decides in this case will strongly influence future decisions on the constitutionality of government-sponsored holiday exhibits, the presence of religious expressions in official seals and mottoes, and the use of religious language in otherwise civic ceremonies such as reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
Personally I believe that the ten commandments should stay in the courthouses, not only because of my religious views and the fact that I hold the ten commandments as a part of my daily life, but because this nation was founded on these. It started because we could have the right to express or religion and not have to hide in a basement just to not get killed for what we believe. Christians are not the only ones who have this freedom of religion in America, we do not tell certain religions that they can not show their beliefs out in public places. U Government was founded on the morals shown in the ten commandments and these were brought through today, still using this moral code of ethics. But this is only my own view, completely one-sided, comment on your views of whether they should stay or go.
Van Orden v. Perry and McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Many say that allowing the 10 commandments to remain in the courthouses defies this Amendment, and forces people to use these as guidelines will prosecuting a case. The case was brought before the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday and is pending the actual trail as the Grand Jury deliberates the Oral arguments of whether the case should proceed in the Supreme Court.
Prosecutor:
Contends that these displays amount to governmental endorsement of the Ten Commandments religious message, and that such an endorsement violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Defendant:
Defend that these displays argue that they reflect the governments constitutionally legitimate acknowledgment of the Ten Commandments significant role in the development of American law and government.
Now the case offers to approach a controversial question: Under what circumstances may the government sponsor the display of religious messages or objects? Whatever the Jury decides in this case will strongly influence future decisions on the constitutionality of government-sponsored holiday exhibits, the presence of religious expressions in official seals and mottoes, and the use of religious language in otherwise civic ceremonies such as reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
Personally I believe that the ten commandments should stay in the courthouses, not only because of my religious views and the fact that I hold the ten commandments as a part of my daily life, but because this nation was founded on these. It started because we could have the right to express or religion and not have to hide in a basement just to not get killed for what we believe. Christians are not the only ones who have this freedom of religion in America, we do not tell certain religions that they can not show their beliefs out in public places. U Government was founded on the morals shown in the ten commandments and these were brought through today, still using this moral code of ethics. But this is only my own view, completely one-sided, comment on your views of whether they should stay or go.
Van Orden v. Perry and McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky
