puffinn

A nother movie

2008-07-01T21:20:48Z

I have another lead in a short film. I really like the script for this project.

An interesting take on this subject.

2008-06-24T16:45:13Z

Baby Bust!

The world is panicking over birthrates. Again.

Kerry Howley | July 2008 Print Edition

The question isn’t about whether the United States, Singapore, or France will be without people in 2100; it’s about what kind of people will populate those countries: what they will look like, what they will teach in their schools, what God they will bow before

Are lad mags and the Nintendo corporation responsible for a global decline in birthrates? Broadly, nations that are more developed (and therefore more likely to produce video games and men’s magazines) produce fewer children than less developed nations. But while Demographic Winter uses Europe as the ultimate cautionary tale, Europe’s current demographics largely contradict the idea that more socially conservative societies tend to produce more children.

Religion? It is the most religious European countries, such as Italy, that have the continent’s lowest fertility rates; secular Norway is just under replacement level. Working women? European countries with the highest work force participation rates, such as Sweden and Norway, tend to have higher fertility than those with a comparatively small percentage of women working, such as Greece.

Cohabitation? France, where shacking up is a social norm, has a higher fertility rate than any of its immediate neighbors. Family instability? In a forthcoming book, Demographic Challenges for the 21st Century, the demographer Tomas Sobotka argues that divorce rates in Europe might be positively correlated with birthrates. “Many countries which have advanced furthest in the decline of traditional family and the spread of less conventional and less stable living arrangements,” he writes, “record relatively high fertility when judged by contemporary European standards.” Low levels of economic development coupled with social conservatism may well produce high fertility levels; but in modern Europe, it seems that the combination of a modern economy and social conservatism may produce some of the lowest fertility levels on Earth.

In the first half of the 20th century, demographers generally held that urbanization, industrialization, and education were the chief determinants of fertility decline. Later, neoclassical economists hypothesized that the rate of decline would correlate with the rates of increase in the opportunity cost of women staying out of the work force and in the relative cost of raising children.

The latter theory is useful “as a way to structure thinking,” according to the American Enterprise Institute demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, but, as with nearly every theory of fertility, there is much that it fails to explain. The relative cost of having children is indeed very high in Hong Kong, Japan, and the United States, but these countries have markedly different birth rates. Nor does it explain why the birthrate is lower north of the Canadian border than south of it.

Strangest of all, total fertility rates are dropping most rapidly in predominantly rural countries with low female literacy rates and few work force opportunities. Dramatic drops in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, absent much economic development, have come as a surprise to economists and demographers alike. In 1970, according to the United Nation’s Children’s Fund, Bangladesh’s total fertility rate was 6.4. In 2006 it was 2.9. Zimbabwe’s rate dropped from 7.4 to 3.3 during the same period.

The theory that economic development leads to fertility decline breaks down at the very first demographic data point on record. The first country to enter a sustained fertility decline was not England, the cradle of the industrial revolution. “It was France!” exclaims Eberstadt. “France was rural and poor and was very largely illiterate and, not to put to fine a point on it, it was Catholic. That kind of confutes a lot of things we think are supposed to connect between modernization and fertility change.”

“Evidence reveals that, in most countries, most young people aspire to an enduring intimate relationship and to having children,” wrote Peter McDonald in an influential 2005 paper on fertility policy. “However, faced with the realities of the new social and economic world, many do not achieve these aspirations.” McDonald blames deregulation and “neoliberalism” for an environment hostile to procreation. “States,” he concludes tidily, “must be principal players in restoring the social balance.”

The contention that women aren’t having as many children as they’d like to is rooted in “desired fertility,” or the number of children women say they want as they enter their childbearing years. In Europe, as women increasingly choose to go childless, they continue to tell surveyors that they want two children. That disparity is sometimes deemed “unmet demand”; governments, goes the theory, must assist women in the quest to produce the children they say they want.

When the concept is framed this way, most of us have “unmet demand” for any number of goods—flat-screen televisions, yachts, MacBooks—that taxpayers fail to help us acquire. No one doubts that it is possible to structure incentives such that more women will use their bodies in the way politicians prefer, which is why many liberal arguments for pro-fertility policies are suspiciously self-affirming. Offered millions of dollars per birth, women would indeed go into labor more often. Pregnant women can then be cast as responding rationally to incentives or as “achieving their aspirations” to become a mother. The more relevant question, and the one rarely broached, is whether women who choose not to have children should be forced to subsidize those who do.

There is an alternative explanation for the behavior of young women who declare a desire for two children yet go on to have one or none: Women may be telling pollsters what they think the pollsters want to hear, or simply reciting lines memorized from cultural scripts. “The answers may reflect mere stereotypes,” wrote the demographers Gustavo De Santis and Massimo Livi Bacci in a 2001 study, “and not constitute any reliable guide of people’s true preferences or intentions for the future.” The two-child norm, they add, “generally prevails in our times.” Men and women may continue to idealize the nuclear family—one boy, one girl—well beyond its heyday.

At the moment, small cash handouts do not appear to be doing much to increase birthrates across Europe and Asia. More-sophisticated attempts to reduce the burdens of working mothers, such as subsidized day care or regulations regarding the status of part-time workers, may raise birthrates very slightly, but there is no consensus on whether they are effective. Birthrates rise and fall, and it’s difficult to establish causality even when fertility rates shoot up after a policy goes into effect.

Michael Teitelbaum, a historian of demography, says he knows of only two places where pro-natalist policies have achieved real long-term results. One was communist East Germany, where wages were kept so low that the government could afford to pay baby bonuses that amounted to one-third of what a woman would have made working that year. The other was communist Romania, where dictator Nicolae Ceausescu outlawed contraception and abortion in October 1966 without warning. The resulting spike in birth rates was the largest in recorded history. That worked for about a decade, says Teitelbaum, “until people reconstructed their illegal ways of controlling their fertility.”

Birthrate Pangs
Depopulation panic isn’t new. It’s merely making a comeback after a long, anomalous period of overpopulation panic. Waves of birthrate anxiety swept through France at the beginning of the 19th century and the United States between the world wars. Today’s developed-world worries are in one sense very understandable: No one alive today can remember a time when the global population was not on the rise. Growth has become the norm, and that norm may change in the foreseeable future. “When [growth] goes negative even a tiny amount,” says Teitelbaum, “some people immediately say, well, this is a quantum, dramatic shift in what it means to be a human society.”

Quantum or otherwise, a demographic shift does require adjustment, notably of pension programs that are built on faulty assumptions of endless expansion. Fertility declines alter the basic age structure of a society, much as the baby boom did a half-century ago. Neither gradual declines nor gradual increases in population need be destructive, but the former will require concrete changes in redistribution schemes and a reshuffling of resources.

For those who, with good reason, worry about the solvency of transfer programs in an age of population decline, replacement immigration looks like a partial solution, and therefore xenophobia is part of the problem. But for many if not most of the people preoccupied by fertility rates, immigration is no solution at all. The question isn’t about whether the United States, Singapore, or France will be without people in 2100; it’s about what kind of people will populate those countries: what they will look like, what they will teach in their schools, what God they will bow before. Mark Steyn’s America Alone warns that within a few generations Europe will be a Muslim continent. When Pat Buchanan discusses depopulation in The Death of the West, he does not proceed to suggest we replace children of European descent with Mexican laborers. Pro-natalist policies in Quebec, Singapore, and until recently Israel implicitly target a preferred ethnic group, attempting to fill the future with the demographics desired by the current political class.

Michael Teitelbaum and Jay Winter have another explanation for the current fertility panic. “Such worries seem to crop up at predictable moments,” they wrote in a response to Phillip Longman in the September 2004 Foreign Affairs, arguing that “when a dominant political or economic power begins to feel unsure of its mastery and uncertain about the future, many thinkers turn to demography for an explanation of its plight.”

In times of collective insecurity, empty wombs are cast as either a cause or a symptom of a state supposedly in decline. In their 1985 book The Fear of Population Decline, Teitelbaum and Winter say pro-natalism became a French obsession after Germany invaded France in the late 19th century. Emile Zola’s 1899 novel Fecondite is a 19th-century version of Demographic Winter, no less subtle in its message or gentle in its warning. Zola tells the story of a factory worker named Mathieu Froment and his wife, Marianne, who reproduce at a rate that alarms their individualistic, selfish, and more prosperous neighbors. A bourgeois accountant at the factory equates fertility with poverty. Naturally, his wife dies during a botched abortion. Mathieu’s employer mocks the highly fertile, avoids reproduction, and espouses neo-Malthusianism; his single son becomes a murderer and his wife goes mad and dies. The Angelins, a pair of individualists, decide to put off parenthood; Mme. Angelin dies childless, penniless, and thoroughly disgraced. Through it all, the noble Froments continue to multiply. “At one point,” Teitelbaum and Winter note, “Marianne delivers at the rate of one child every two pages.”

Fear of invasion is a theme running straight through the historical narrative of fertility alarmism. It’s no coincidence that the first great wave of American immigration coincided with a period of heightened maternalist rhetoric. President Theodore Roosevelt was particularly concerned about the “race suicide” of white Protestants. “The severest of all condemnations should be that visited upon willful sterility,” he said in 1910, shortly after his second term had ended. “The first essential in any civilization is that the man and woman shall be father and mother of healthy children, so that the race shall increase and not decrease.”

Periods of anxiety over “race suicide” are rarely good times for women. Protestants who were worried about the rising tide of foreign Catholics passed anti-abortion laws in the 1880s that endured until 1973, when Roe v. Wade limited their scope. Embracing historical continuity with the nativists who came before him, Mark Steyn takes time in America Alone to blame women for aborting the generation that might have stood between us and the coming Islamification of the West. It’s not surprising at all that the single greatest social anxiety of our time has been reduced to crude demographic projections that pin the blame on empty wombs.

Slippery Science
In 1960 Princeton demographers sought to buttress current population theory in one of the most ambitious demographic projects ever. The European Fertility Project, led by Ansley Coale, collected massive amounts of data from city registers and church basements and mapped fertility rates in 600 European provinces.

The problem: No extant theory would hold the disparate results together. “They ran into a lot of brick walls,” says Eberstadt. “This pattern of diffusion of fertility decline didn’t make a lot of sense to labor force specialists or to industrialization specialists. Then some specialist said, ‘Oh! I see what you have there; you have a map of the language families of modern Europe.’” People who spoke the same language, the researchers found, tended to enter fertility decline at around the same time. Women were having fewer children because their friends were having fewer children. It’s a completely fascinating and utterly question-begging conclusion. What domino sets off the cascade of childlessness?

“The problem,” the historian Charles Tilly writes in the introduction to Historical Studies of Changing Fertility, “is that we have too many explanations which are individually plausible in general terms, which contradict each other to some degree, and which fail to fit some significant part of the facts.”

The result is a plethora of explanatory narratives, some with more predictive power than others but none totally satisfying. What’s more, the “ideal fertility rate” itself is a matter of ideological preference. “It’s not obvious to me what the ‘right’ level for birthrates is for any country,” says Eberstadt. “It is obvious to me what the right direction for mortality is. The right direction is down. But fertility is a much more complicated story.” There isn’t even a consensus about the relationship between population growth and economic growth. Theoretically, individual incomes can continue to rise as the population falls.

The answer is likely to be a complex combination of theories we already have—sociological, anthropological, and economic. In the midst of so many plausible causes, it’s tempting to search for a narrative that conforms to previously held convictions or confirms long-held anxieties. The search for a valueless science of demography continues to be conducted in vain, and the very language we use to discuss falling birthrates is loaded with unscientific judgment. Nations are not just depopulating; they are “dying,” “decaying,” even “autogenocidal.” Fertility rates don’t just decline; they “collapse.” Our future is “barren,” a “demographic winter” marked by “sterility” and “senescence.”

Bogus fears about fertility decline don’t preclude justified ones, and current rates of fertility pose real, though not obviously catastrophic, challenges. In a shrinking society that refuses to welcome more immigrants or reform population-dependent social programs, something will have to give. Cash handouts for kids are a far cry from the more coercive pro-natalist policies of Ceausescu and Mussolini, and pro-fertility policies will cease to provoke charges of totalitarianism when they are wrapped into larger social welfare policies. Many changes sold as supportive of working women, such as extending the public school day to conform with work hours, are often defended on their own merits as well.

But as pro-baby policies are inevitably sold as pro-mother, and by extension pro-woman, it’s worth recalling the sentiment behind the Australian birth premiums and Singaporean matchmaking schemes. At the heart of any fertility incentive lies an attempt to encourage a particular group of women to orient their bodies in a traditional way. Every pro-fertility policy is an effort to slow cultural transformation, to stabilize a society’s ethnic composition, to ossify a current conception of a national culture by freezing the genetic makeup of a nation. From Poland to Singapore, swollen wombs are a bulwark against change.

There is a reason we speak of “Mother Russia” and “Mother India.” Feminist sociologists such as Nira Yuval-Davis refer to women as the “boundary markers” of a state or society. While men may leave, fight, and be compromised, women represent purity and continuity. Yuval-Davis points out in her book Gender and Nation that the Hitler Youth Movement had different mottos for girls and boys. The boys’ motto was: “Live faithfully; fight bravely; die laughing.” For girls: “Be faithful; be pure; be German.” Girls simply had to be. They were the collective.

Check it out

2008-01-18T18:46:18Z

I have posted Stills fromt he movie I was in on myspace. Check them out if you like.

http://www.myspace.com/JEREMYR_NARANJO

A Good week

2007-12-23T08:05:42Z

If my luck goes like this next week my business plan will get funded.

First I made a single $80 tip on Thursday night. Good for Durant Oklahoma and only 9 people. I cleared over $100 in a single shift not bad for Durant. Not great for many other places but Durant good.

Tonight a cut girl said she likes me.

Then I went to the casino to see a Comedian that my employer recomended and I was going to leave after that when my boss sat down to play some slots and said I should stay to. I had already lost a few dollars waiting for the comedy show to start but the show was free so I figured no big deal. I wasn't playing I was just keeping my boss company cause he's a cool guy best boss I've ever had and you'll see more evidence of this in a minute.

He gives me a twenty and says play this one for me since you don't play you will have good luck. Whatever I played and played and got up to about 70 or so then back down to 20 even I chashed out intending to give him back his even money. But then I went back the the machines I had been playing and having good luck on and next thing I know I'm up $520. I cash out and my Boss (Gzim Versnichi) says give me the twenty back and half. I thought that is more than fair. Then as I'm giving it to him he says nahh just 100 you keep the rest.

OK! I won't argue. Then ten minutes later he gives me back the 100 so I wone 500 dollars gambling with some one elses money.

I'm hoping this is a sighn of things to come with the business plan I have submitted with Rural Enterprises Incorperated.
They give me money and I make alot and pay them back really fast.

Girls and money sweet!

A respons to some one with no name

2007-12-12T20:50:54Z

This was what I got as a respons to the post I made about my letter to the Kairose awards.

I am pretty sure the contest rules say that adult themes will be accepted handled with extreme care.

Meanwhile, I suspect the actual shooting script for "The Passion of teh Christ" did not inherently resonate with a R-rating (the document itself wasn't screaming out "I AM AN R!" the way the shooting scripts for "Scarface" and "Pulp Fiction did). However, after they shot it and edited it, they did indeed have an R on their hands.
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Extreme care to not make them more than PG
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The rules did not say this when I read them. They may have changed them. What it said was that a script must be G-PG not even PG13. Secodly you would have to show me the Pre-shooting script for The Passion to prove to me that any one reading it could possable invision a PG scenario of that beating and death. Thirdly I did not mention the passion in my post. I mentioned the crucifiction but not the movie "The Passion of the Christ".

My point was that my Bible is not G-PG. It is full of murder, rape, dismimberment, death, and distruction. My point is that any one seeking to portray these things in a moving and compelling way i.e. real. Cannot possibly do so in a G-PG way. Cant, not and do it justice. I mean can you emagine a PG "Schindler's List?" It would have ben trash and no one would have gotten an Academy. How about a PG "Saving Private Ryan" or "We Were Soldiers"? "Brave Heart"? all movies dealing with true events a PG would have been an afront to every holocost Servivor, Every verteran of Normandy, Every Vietnam Vet. These are th movies that move me as a writter this is the kind of impact I want to have. I can't at PG.

Now if you want to make a family movie about ponies and rainbows and little children sure. But my point is that my Gospel, my life, nothing is PG why should my writting be thus limited.

I was asking if another catigory could be created. To their credit I got two responsis from this e-mail. They said that this has repeatedly come up and that another catigory was in consideration.

P.S. Leave your name so I can know who I'm talking to. and don't come at me with your "suspisions".
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I like it for whatever it is worth.

2007-11-29T21:07:45Z

11. AQUARIUS -

(the Water Bearer - 20 January - 18 February)
* Trustworthy.
* Attractive.
* GREAT kisser.
* One of a kind.
* Loves being in long-term relationships.
* Extremely energetic.
* Unpredictable.
* Will exceed your expectations.
* Not a Fighter, but will knock your lights out if it comes down to it.

My first part in a film is wrapped.

2007-11-07T21:44:10Z

This weekend was a great learning experience for me. I cannot even express how much I learned. I met alot of really great people and made some great contacts. I met three directors, writters, and working actors. Two with quality representation. If I get some more work behind me and keep studying I'm sure I can ask either one of them to walk me into their agency.

Every one on the shoot got along wonderfully.

The job of actor is definetly the spot to be. Every one else works so hard. The production team is amaizing at all of the details that they track, constantly moving the sets ajusting lighting and the camera. At one point I asked the camera man and his assistant, "so do you guys just hate actors?" One said, "no" the other, "not always." The not always came from the more experienced of the two. I kept trying to help but the 2nd AD told me. "You are talent you don't do anything."

I had heard how much waiting you can do on a movie set as an actor but I had forgotten in all of the excitment of going to my first shoot. I should have brought a book. It is truelly as they say, "hurry up and wait". But I got along well with the crew and cast. Unfortunately they didn't have the film for a blooper real. There was alot of very funny stuff going on.

I think the director was pleased with my work. He had very few directions. The scene I was most nurvouse about was my charactor's death. I just admitted to the Director, "I've never died in a performance before". It wasn't just a death scene but an extreme close up. The camera was inches from my face fake blood oozing out of my mouth and the sound people a foot away with a boom pointed at me. He seemed pleased so I guess I'll see when they finish editing it.

They aren't sure when post production will be done since the editing facilities go to paying work before that of educational work.

The movie was shot on 35mm by a Panivision camera. One of the same cameras used on the set of Dance's with Wolves. I guess the Director knew some one who had 4,000 extra feat of 35mm film left over and they gave it to him. So he collected more a hundred here a hundred there. So if nothing else the movie will suck in letter box clarity.

Michale Cain Teaches acting for film

2007-10-28T21:28:42Z

That is the title of the video my acting teacher gave me to watch when I got this part. I think it made things worse in so much as I'm now far more nurvouse than I was.

Michal Cain quotes:

"When you are the lead in a film it is your job to take the whole prject on your shoulders, so much of its success or failure rests on you." "You should know every line every part not just your own to help the other actors."

"Every one on the project is there to make you look good. The electrician will climb in the rafters and hand a light just so that it gets that gleam in your eye. Everything that is done is so that you the actors can make the story come alive. They all know it is hard the camera doesn't lie it catches everything."

I watched this video and admittedly much of it I needed to know but comments like that haunted me as I tried to sleep and I realized I don'tknow what I'm doing. I havn't a clue.

God help me.

Big News for me

2007-10-25T17:17:06Z

I went to Arlingtong last Friday and auditioned for a student film.

I found out this morning that I GOT THE LEAD. My first audition ever and I got the lead on tape. This is a huge step for me and Idon't have to put student film on my resume just (independent) and I have tape on myself out of the gate many actors struggle to get tape on themselves and a leading credit on their resume...

AHHHH!!! I wish I had some one to hug right now WHEWW!! I am so wired right now.

Bonsai

2007-10-21T23:08:10Z

I finally have two bonsai trees. Been wanting one for three of four years now. So Sweet. I'de post a picture but still in the film age.

Hears to me not killing them.

puffinn @ 2007-10-03T14:04:00

2007-10-03T20:04:44Z

You’re St. Jerome!

You’re a passionate Christian, fiercely devoted to Jesus Christ and his Church. You are willing to labor long hours in the Lord’s vineyard, and you have little patience with those who are less willing or able to work as you do. Your passions often carry you into temptation zones of wrath, lust, and pride.

Find out which Church Father you are at The Way of the Fathers!

Something I sent to the as you see Kairos awards

2007-09-06T20:50:33Z

Dear Kairos awards,

This is simply an unsolicited opinion from an aspiring Christian Screenwriter. I ask your indulgence. What follows is not an indictment but only a request for consideration. In reviewing the criteria for a submission I noticed that it requires a G to PG rating. I find this puzzling because frankly I don't believe that my Bible itself has any such rating system. By this system I can think of few Bible stories that would qualify if done authentically.
I understand the need for family friendly products I do. But could there not be another category? I would ask that this question be given some serious thought. Even if there was not the large cash prize. I believe that this is a large market. For instance the Crucifixion of our Savior was not a PG event. Nor was the life of David or the Apostle Paul. I just don't understand this limitation and just ask your consideration in developing a more adult category. If for no other reason then that most of your audience is saved people with church raised kids for G and PG movies. While there entertainment is important; to make an impact with people without children saved or otherwise it would be wise to have films that deal with the issues of life in a deeper manner than is possible in a PG film.
I guess my point is that life is not PG. God did not see fit to leave out the R rated events essential to His story why should we?

Thank you.

Jeremy R. Naranjo

Thinking on this

2007-08-24T01:47:08Z

Verse I ran accross today.

"Why, you don't even know what will happen tomarrow. What is youre life? You are a mist that
appears for a little while and then vanishes." James 4:14 NIV

A friend of mine wrote this thought some of you might enjoy it.

2007-08-14T19:54:08Z

Noto
Burden 7/8/07

I drew your polished blade
From your ancient scabbard
A blood lust
A warrior's heart & lungs
Muscles & sinew
An instrument of war
Ancient god of peace
A work of art; form and function
Each crafted character
Blessings from the artists to the warrior's hands
The sun & air have missed your beauty
Noto
I tie your sageo to your saya, like a poet,
All that I am worthy of…
What ancient trespass have you committed?
What sin is yours that the gods have relegated your to this?
So that you might never again
Threaten their heads.

Nick, nacks, old ladies, American swap meet.
So far from the land you fought for.

Surely it was not defeat.
I can feel in your movements
That your spirit would not bare it.

Noto means blood throw, or the act of returning the sword to it's saya. The Saya is the scabbard. Sageo is the the cord that is attached to the saya, and is tied in differnt places on the saya depending on what the sword is being used for at the moment. It is only allowed to hang free when the sword/saya is in use of some sort, and even then it isn't truly free, it is allowed to hang to prefome some function or ritual.

Good song

2007-08-10T19:14:23Z

Cathedrals have tried in vain
To show the image of Your face.
But we are, by Your design,
The signature of divine.

The fortunes of kings and queens
Are wasted chasing what we've seen.
Cause we are, by Your reprieve,
The beauty framed by Your suffering.

We'll always sing Your name.
Forever and today.
:

Take me, and pull me through.
Cause I can't move without You.
I won't leave You alone, You say.
It will be okay.

Moving

2007-05-29T19:45:52Z

My mother is moving to Arizona to get married on June 23d. I helped pack her up yesterday. Fiance is a nice guy. Weird though. I told her I was sappose to be the one to move off and leave her not the other way around. Ahh well. Even less to keep me around now.

Another one of those quiz things

2007-05-10T20:12:53Z

puffinn @ 2007-05-07T08:15:00

2007-05-07T14:16:19Z

Spiderman III is Awsome. I know it is unrealistic but I wish theyd make more. They still might but they did a great job of wrapping it up.

Important projects

2007-04-11T20:57:43Z

"The important tasks rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action... The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and imporatant, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspectivem, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital task we pushed aside. We realize we've bedcome slaves to the tyranny of the urgent."- Charles Hummel

I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden. I will push you onward or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command. Half the things you do you might just as well turn over to me, and I will be able to do them quickly, correctly. I am easily managed-you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want something done, and after a few lessons I will do it automaticlly. I am the servant of all great people; and alas, of all failures as well. Those who are failures, I have made failures, I am not a machine, though I work with all of the precision of one plus the intelligence of a human being. You may run me for a profit or turn me for ruin-it makes no difference to me. Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet. Be easy with me and I will destroy you. I am habit.

My Navy .com Profile- Just one of the Billion things I'm looking at Tell me if their system got me.

2007-03-15T19:31:09Z

Your Who I Am Results

When you talk, people listen. When you lead, people follow.

You’re into mellow. You like it when you have time to sort things out and figure out the best way to get it done.

You think ahead. You invest in yourself. What you do today will pay off tomorrow.

You have a brain and you use it. You read books without pictures in them. You want to go to school, get ahead and do it right.

There’s one person you can always count on — you. You do it best on your own. Nothing’s wrong with teams, they’re just not your thing.

You’re on point, anticipating anything that could happen. You’re a planner — you’ll never be caught off guard.

You’re into living life and doing your thing. Going places, meeting people, trying out things you’ve never done before…

You don’t like to compete — you love to compete. Competition brings out the best in you.

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As an Persuader, it’s likely you’ll enjoy careers that allow you to:
Organize activities
Lead groups or teams
Sell things/ideas or promote activities
Give talks or speeches, and meet lots of new people
Run a business
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Advisors enjoy working with others, and personal relationships are important to them. They are often good conversationalists and have an ability to express ideas in easy-to-understand ways. Advisors value solving social problems and see themselves as helpful, friendly, and trustworthy. Does this sound like you? Activities and Interests
If you”re an Advisor, you may currently enjoy activities or hobbies such as:
Volunteering with school, campus, church, or community groups
Peer counseling
Meeting new friends and going to parties
Caring for or spending time with children
Attending sporting events or playing team sports
Work Environments
Advisors seek environments where they can feel they can make a difference or offer assistance.

As an Advisor, it”s likely you”ll enjoy careers that allow you to:
Teach or train others
Lead discussions or negotiations
Help others cooperate with one another
Do volunteer work

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Direction.

2007-03-15T19:16:46Z

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" She asked.

His respons was a question: "Where do you want to go?"

"I don't know," Alice answered.

"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

puffinn @ 2007-03-12T12:37:00

2007-03-12T18:13:05Z

Well, That call was bogus in a way. I guess the web site I found was for something else... dissapointing.

Well, a couple of years ago now; 1 and 1/2 actually, I made a meeting with the VP of the wholesale company I worked for and pitched the idea of a new restaurant in the area that filled a niche... He said if I put together a plan he could maybe introduce me to some people with the means and interest...

I had decided to abandone this because I just couldn't figue a way to keep myself in action being without capital of my own or managment experience...

However, I just can't get past this idea. I had planned to perhaps just go about trying to amass as much capital as I could to be a financial part of the deal..

But the absolute perfect piece of land came up for sale... to location is perfect. People have tried acouple of blocks up twice and failed but they were completely ignoring the demographics of the area with a high priced steak house and expensive Italian that both flopped within months...

After doing the reading that I've done I realized that many people of means have no time to grow their wealthe or to develop new ideas actively themselves. I also realized from reading that experience is what I'm after here if I goes no where then I gained experience. Plus the quickest way I can think of to gain money and access to money is to make rich people richer.

I was amaized at how well that meeting had gone. I was very nurvouse I mean I was just some college kid from Freezer Cooler walking into his office to pitch this idea... Thinking back I'm not sure what possed me but he neither laughed or condecended to me. He said, "A wealthy person I know recently mentioned to me the same absence in this town." If you can come up with alot more information and a plan I probably know some poeople who would be interested."

I was shocked in a way...."Fortune indeed favors the bold". This reminds me of a story Kiasoki tells about his first big (to him) realestate deal. He and his wife were over extended on the properties they had bout in the mid 90s when the realestate market was down and the stock market was being over speculated. They found this property that was vastly undervalued in an area of the city that was being heavely invested in... They decided to go for it but had to go to 6 different banks to secure the financing. After each loan officer rejected them he would ask... What was it exactly in this presentation that you were not satisfied.. five times he ajusted his aproach bassed on the feed back and finally got his finnacing.

When I graduated highschool they gave me a certificate (kind of silly) but it said. "Most fearless".

One day when I was in the freezer there was a very large guy 6'4" 320 working there cool guy... But for some reason he started rough housing with me one day. Pushed me into some boxes. I bounced up and pushed him back. "OOOH OOh!" he said and grabs on to me again and this time I latch on to him and prceeded to be shaken and pushed and thrown around but I knew I was in better shape then he (not great but better) So Held on and pushed back and for a second he was nearly swinging me around like an adult would a child my feet off the ground. But he began to falter and weeken as he breathed harder and harder I was breathing hard as well but I sensed the weakness and began pushing back harder faster I pushed him in to the boxes he started cussing me. He was was nearly on his knees gasping for air holding up one hand sayhing "enough"...

An Indian guy who worked there saw the end of it and walking by he asked my large foe "He just won't quit will he?" to witch me opponent said, "F$&%^ no.. gasp gasp..."

Just let me find the right motivating projects and point me in the right direction something will get done...

Right now I'm just franticly searching for something to sink my teeth into so I can shake it till it stoppes moving.

P.S.

The only things I can think of that I'm afraid of are deep dark water' Flesh eating bacteria, and unfortuantely women I'm attracted to ( not so much a paralyzing fear but it might as well be)

puffinn @ 2007-03-09T15:33:00

2007-03-09T21:38:56Z

I got called about a job I applied for online in Rockville MD where I would be living if I get the position as RA for the Washington Center.

The position is as a Loan Originator for Global Equity Lending.... They called me back I have to call them in a minute. But the position was advertised as part time??.. And the potential income is Umm... GOOOD. I'm a little wary because of just how good... But I've looked up the company and it exists and the man who runs it has over 30 years of experience in mortgage banking and 2 masters degrees... maybe its legit.

I want to learn abou realestate investing from the inside out... (I've been reading Robert Kiasaki Books- The Rich Dad Poor Dad series) And If I could do this part time learning it and have time to write and live with virtually no expenses in DC where I could be with all the cool people I know there and go to the National Community Church... and make it to Aikido a couple times a week... :-) Well... I'de be so happy I wouldn't know what to do with myself.

Wish me luck.

puffinn @ 2007-02-11T00:22:00

2007-02-11T06:26:10Z

My little bother Marcos just wone the Arizona wrestling championship in 130's as a sophmore :-). Richard wone fifth in 125's.

Such and such.

2007-02-08T22:45:59Z

I'm applying to RA in D.C. I want to go back for a while write and live in the city.

I'm also applying for a few different county jobs in Arizona.

1 is a position as a juvinile probation officer.
2 is a position of a WIA case manager- this one is helping people on welfare to find jobs and sources for skill development. Basicly a social worker.
3 is a Sheriff's deputy.

I'm applying for these positions incase I do not get the position allowying me to go to D.C. and because I went to Arizona for a cousin's funeral and I had a great visit. It is amaizing what 5 years will do for you maturity and abilty to deal. My little brothers are almost done with school and my little sister is rapidly getting older. I had a much better visit with my Dad. I don't know I just feel as though there is more opertunty for building relationships than every before. I have an uncle using Meth- probably nothing I can do for him but I'de like to try.

My mother owns a house there that my aunt lives in. My aunt who has stuk by my looser uncle even while he's spending a long time in prison for his third strike.

Any way.. I don't know but if I don't go to D.C. there is nothing for me here except my mother and grandmother.

While in Arizona we staid with my aunt and my cousin had her two little girls there all week.
Luna and Estrea. Luna is five months and Estrea 2 years they are the BEST. Luna is such a great baby she only fusses for the predictable reasons hungry wet-messy wants to be held or tired. She'll hapily spend an hour sitting where she can see you playing in her jumper. She spends an inordinant amount of time smiling laughing and and being the most prescious thing you've ever seen. Estrea is mostly quiet as a mouse once she got warmed up to me she loved to play.

The only problem with these girls is that they are not moring people. My cousin believes it is because she named them Estrea-Star and Luna-Moon. The do not like to go to sleep either. So Estrea won't eat untill nearly noon and just wants to sit and rub her eyes awake and yawn for about an hour but come 10 P.M. She's running around the house laughing and playing. Luna the same way except she'll hapily eat five minutes after wakeing.

I told my cousing I'de have to name my kids daybreak and morning glory or something. I also threatened to steal her children and bring them back to Oklahoma.

Some time in the next few years I'de like to have children... of course that will mean first finding some one who thinks combining her DNA with mine might produce something good--at least interesting enough to conduct the experiment any way.... Yeah no small order. :-). Maybe I'll just order a bride frome the Philipines...:-)... OY.