Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The Marine

The USA mismanagement of the marines had Killed allot of soldiers in Iraqi. Hundreds of U.S. Marines have been killed or injured by roadside bombs in Iraq because Marine Corps bureaucrats refused turned down urgent request in 2005. From the battlefield commanders for blast-resistant vehicles an internal military study concludes.

The study was written by a civilian Marine Corps official and obtained by The Associated Press and accuses the service of gross mismanagement that delayed deliveries of the mine-resistant and ambush protected trucks for the past two years. The cost was a driving factor in the decision to turn down the request for the so called MRAPs according to the study. On the stateside authorities saw the hulking vehicles which can cost as much as a 1 million dollar or more for each vehicles. AS a financial threat to programs aimed at developing lighter and more resistant to mine bomb and bullet resistant vehicles that were years from being built two years ago.

After Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared the MRAP the Pentagon's No. 1 acquisition priority in May 2007, the trucks began to be shipped to Iraq in large quantities. The vehicles weigh up to 40 tons and have been effective at protecting American forces from improvised explosive devices aslo knows as IED it is the insurgent weapon of choice. Only four U.S. troops have been killed by this bombs while riding in MRAPs. Three of those deaths occurred in older versions of the MRAPS.

Budget and procurement managers failed to recognize the damage being done by the IEDs in late 2004 and 2005 and were convinced the best solution was adding more armor to the less sturdy Humvees the Marines were using. Humvees even those with extra layers of steel proved incapable of blunting the increasingly powerful explosives planted by insurgents.
An urgent request in February 2005 for MRAPs got lost in the mail romm. It was signed by the Brig. Gen. Dennis Hejlik, who asked for 1,169 of the vehicles. The Marines could not continue to take serious and grave casualties caused by IEDs when a solution was commercially available to Hejlik who was the commander in western Iraq from June 2004 to February 2005 and he nver got the vehicles he wanted.

Gayl cites documents showing Hejlik's request was shuttled to a civilian logistics official at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Washington who had little experience with military vehicles. As a result there was more concern over how the MRAP would upset the Marine Corps' supply and maintenance chains than there was in getting the troops a truck that would keep them alive the study contends.

Monday, April 28, 2008

HOLY SCRIPTURE

The search starts with the reading of passages from the bible on The Bible On The Web. A quick read of the beginning chapter genesis 1:1 proves the typical overzealous Jesus freak tend to contradict themselves with there own beliefs. Most believers say when asked where the earth came from; oh god was sitting up in heaven and created the earth. I cannot count how many times I've heard that statement made. Genesis states; "And God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." 7 And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven". Which would mean that god was existent before heaven. If that's so then you would have to ask yourself where god came from. This would mean that there was an even higher power and if this was true where did that power come from.

My essential question seems to only lead to an endless amount of questions. They almost seem never ending. I only learn so far that the bible contradicts itself and what i already know is something can only contradict itself so many times before it becomes falsified.



"Genisis 1:1." The Bible On The Web 1. 4/28/08 .


Film Making Take ;;;>2<;;;

As I'm getting ready to shot my up and coming famous scenes i realizes something,,, i don't have any type of story boards or a script of any sorts, my proclaimed film of the ages will defiantly fall apart before I'm in to my third take. I know what i want my movie to be about Horror OK good step one is complete now i need a script, a basis or a bible on what the actors or actress , feel , act , say or do anything in my movie. A script will organize my hollywood picture into pure gold!, but how will i write or oranize a whole script im NO writer im a film maker, a producer, and a director. There is good news and bad , bad news is for this to be a stand up hollywood picture i need to put some work in to a script cause i have no money to hire a writer, good news is that i have the internet the gateway to all answers to all questions.

First things first i found this web site on google www.named screenwriting.info.com and it told me some interesting pointers on script and screenwriting ...There are always obstacles, which provide that catchword that actors love so much -- CONFLICT. This is the heart of drama. Someone wants something and people and things keep getting in the way of them achieving the goal. At times, the obstacles can be common to both the hero and villain, and the ultimate goal a laudable one for both parties, as in Jingle All The Way. In that film, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad battle to achieve the same goal--the acquisition of the last popular action figure for sale that Christmas season. Both of them have promised their son, and they must not fail. Conflict and obstacles can be physical or emotional. But they have to be in your story or you don't really have a story. In most good stories, the protagonist will also have an inner obstacle, some mental or even spiritual problem, that will be resolved by the time s/he reaches the outward, physical goal of the story. Some people call this inner demon a "ghost," while others call in a "wound."



WOW thats really awsome info on screenwriting i wish i could publish the whole article but infact im going to put the web site in my "Favorites" section. Now i think i have a pretty good concept how to give my charcters CHARCTER!



SCREENWRITING INFO, "What Exactly is a script." What makes a good story 87610/2001 87-102. 10/2001

Friday, April 25, 2008

The Researching of Various Penal System Ethics

Capital punishment, death penalty, death sentence, and execution. Totally different words with the same exact meaning. When talking about murderers, this is always one of the most hotly debated topics. When you think about it, murderers are hypocrites. I say this because they feel it is ok to kill another person but they never have that thought run across their mind that involves them being killed by being electrocuted to death or having fatal liquid run through their veins. To deserve or not to deserve such punishment? A question for the ages...

While researching this topic among the many to choose from, I came across a very detailed description of it on Wikipedia. By simply typing in capital punishment, I received a lengthy description on how different countries all around the world carry out the death penalty. Last year the two leading countries in execution of criminals was China (470) and Iran (317). The two countries with the least amount of executions among countries with at least 30 deaths was the United States (42) and Iraq (33). These statistics show how different countries vary in terms of death sentences. While these countries are located in Asia, the Middle East and North America, most countries in Europe and Canada itself have taken steps to totally abolish capital punishment. If this becomes a true reality, then what will we do once prisons start filling up to the point where we cannot put anymore criminals? Yes criminals die of natural cause or maybe by other means of death in prisons, but nonetheless, if a man or woman kills in cold blood then they deserve the same to be done to them. This will be a positive step in ridding the world of such people.

This and many other topics involved with the prison system have different types of consequences. Anything criminals do are held against them. Anything from availability of parole to being tempted to kill another man in heated aggression has its impacts. Prisons and the people inside of them are no walk in the park.


Capital Punishment." Wikipedia 5-1-08 .

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

The Marine

The new training center is at the heart of a new effort not only to give troops a heightened sense of the sights, sounds, and smells of Iraq surroundings but also to teach them some hard and fast ethics and training lessons so there wont be any more deaths ih the area and in till American leave Iraq. As a Camp Pendleton-based marine faces court-martial this month in connection with the 2005 Haditha killing of 24 civilians, including women and children, the Marine Corps is increasingly aware of the need to prevent lapses like before and replaces stressed-out troops with new fresh troop coming to the area. That can result in a lower death rate of bystanders and marines and not turn the Iraqis families against American forces and other forces and help them against the terrorist organization in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In the trainers project house an image of a fighting insurgent and a women and children can get caught in the soldiers way who is about to enter the house or a room and add to the confusion, the insurgent might be standing in front of a wall that leads into a bedroom with kids in it. Even if the troops shoot straight hitting the insurgent but the bullet can go though the insurgent and still through the wall and injuring a child or a woman in the next room. If they know what they are doing, they will take them out by shoot there knee or wound them bad so the insurgent wont shoot back.

the troops who train here also wrestle with the decision to shoot a woman with a gun or a bomb in their hand or strep to them because a female suicide bomber can walks up to them and detonates an explosive vest and kills the marine and civilians.

My Ideal Goals

While I have been talking about all the plans for me to keep switching, I came to realize one thing. That I haven't been really specific about what I want to look like in some years. I know that everything takes time and energy but it would definitely go by faster if it's something you love to do. The one thing that I really want to say is that I do not want to look like one of those guys in the magazines. To me, that is just disgusting. They have veins and muscle where veins and muscle shouldn't be. I have a vivid idea of how i want to look in the near future.

I want to be big of course. But never so big that people won't be able to accept it. Can you understand that? I mean some people look at that and the first thing out of there mouths are I bet he is on steroids or a human growth thing or whatever these crazy doctors are coming up with. The other thing I take into consideration is my weight and body image. Everyone wants to look good with their shirt off right? I think once I drop a lot of the excess that I'm carrying and start to rebuild from scratch my weight would be at a good 205. I weigh 225 now as compared to the 250 I was before I started. I believe that once I'm finished with all the dropping of weight and building even more and getting bigger I will be about 240 or 250. Now that may seem heavy to a person who doesn't workout but I'm talking about 240 with about 10 percent bodyfat. I'm really close to my goals. Now all I have to do is worry about the plateau effect. Once that starts I'll worry more about getting cut instead of building. The plateau is when you decline in strong a bit. But that won't be for a long time later.

I strongly believe that this can all be possible with hard work and dedication. I'm a true believer in the whole blood and guts training. Going hard in every workout. If your good to your body your body will be good to you.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Film Making; Take One

Film Making one of my oldest and now revitalized hobbies is not hard or costly. Producing and filming a movie is very easy now of days, for producing there are so many engines out there that can help u and guide u threw the process of your master piece, there are software's that fit a persons style. An Producer is usually the big guy behind the scenes pulling the stings. He is the guy who have to raise the money , keep an eye on the budget, hire a director and the rest of the crew, but being 19 i don't have access to a 100,000 dollor budget or i dont have a company to hire a crew. So i went online looked up some products that i could turn my little lap top into a studio. I belive with creativity and and unique shots a under $100 budget could have the same effect on an audiance as a hollywood one would. I always have good ideas for complicated but i would still need help with some such as shots in a car, so i went to a web site Filmmaking.net and i got a dew pointers....Shooting inside a car is simple but tricky. It often needs a bit of lengthy preparations and patience. There are three simple ways of taking a shot inside a moving car:

1) Place the camera inside the car. You can keep it on the rear seats while your subjects are in the front seats and get a nice 'over-the-shoulder' shot. Or you can shoot from the front seat while your subjects are in the rear seat and get a mid-shot. You can try placing the camera inbetween the two front seats.

Another method is to seat beside your subject and take a close-up shot. If two subjects are involved than take their shots separately and ask them to assume that they are talking to the other charecter. You can mix this two shots while editing and create the required sequence.

ageniov, "How to shot inside a moving car." NSCE FILM assceaction 78410102001 86. 10202003 .

Thursday, April 17, 2008

My researching

My research began with looking around on the internet, basically just going around looking for new routines and stuff to boost up my workouts. But then I thought to myself that this really isn't doing much good for me. Sure I can go around and look at all these bodybuilders and get their routines. But honestly who wants to do a workout routine modeled after a most likely unnatural builder. That means a steroid user. I'm an all natural builder and want to learn from the same kind of people. I went into it with one person in mind.

I interviewed one of my friends at the gym I work out at and asking him how he did it and what worked for him. My quest is to be better at what I love to do. I love to learn and take in new knowledge about it. When I interviewed him he kept telling me that everything is always different. That you should always switch it up and not get hooked on the same routine. Just for a little information on my friend, his name is Tim. He has been working out for about twelve years and he has been a big influence on me doing what I do.

This is only the first of many times thatI'm sure this is going to come about, me interviewing someone. But I couldn't have picked a better guy to interview first than Tim. He is a great guy to learn from and talk to. Only him and a few other people I would trust with this sort of thing.

CURIOUS MUCH?

As i layed there underneath the bright blue pastel summer sky that day, i tryed to give my drifting, wondering mind time to process my surroundings. It was a care free, laid back type of day. Where you feel as though nothting could be better than to lounge around sipping a cold drink as the radient sun shoots a wink in your direction. Im sure most would agree that we've had such a day. I lye there the cool breeze blowing bye, a cloud passing every now and then. I close my eyes and disappear. I begin to think what if it was that simple. Just to close your eyes and be erased from the world like a line off of an etchasketch. I pondered the question as an even greater question dawned on me. How did we get here? Is there some higher power? Some sort of almighty god looking down on us? or is science right?. Then i opened my eyes and inquired to no one inparticular...is there a god?
Ever since i could remember, ive always questioned the existance of a higher power. It just didnt seem as though it was possible. Throughout my youth i constantly speculated on wether or not there was someone keeping track of my every movement and motion from above. I knew there was the possibility but there was no solid evidence. You may think to yourself the bible is enough. For me it wasnt and its still not. The bible is manmade. Therefore i see it more as a collection of fairy tales put on a pedistool on display and made the center of life. God is to religious people what santa clause is to children. Children have such faith that they will be rewarded for there good behavior from "the almighty santa clause". They believe he controls there fate. There parents say; kids be good and santa will bring you presents. Priests say; my children live a good life and god will reward you. Churches and televangelists collect funds everyday based peoples religious beliefs. They take advantage of people and there faith. If there is a god why would he enlist the help of such people/commoners. I mean science is a theory to though in some sense. Some could argue that but there is hard fact in this area that Cannot be argued with. If you look at the bible its all quotes from man. Things that people have heard or claim to have seen. In all honesty it sounds alot like holy gossip. Say the bible never existed. If someone walked up to you with a book right now and told you it was a holy book and the creator of your world talked to them and told them what to write, that you would believe them? The theory that we used to be monkeys is almost as ridiculous and unbelievable. Although are features are very similar. Not to mention our brains and skulls are quite close in size and shape. Both sides just seem to have all the answers. i cant help but wonder if theres a god.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

MLA Post-----Matt & Rich

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Friday, April 11, 2008

Is the U.S. Penal System Serving Justice On Criminals?

December 5th 1990. The day I was born into a society of criminal acts. Not having any idea of what or why people did such things like killing another person or robbing someone, I was put right in the thick of it just like everyone else. All humans start off normal, as an innocent infant that knows very little about everything. As you grow up you gain more and more knowledge of good and bad people and good and bad surroundings, you become accustomed to how things play out and things start to make more sense. You'll watch a movie at the age of 5 and not understand one thing that's going on. But then you watch that movie again a few years later and you figure out the things that you didn't get the first time. This happens to everyone. Theres even a good chance that movie was based on a man or woman performing some kind of criminal activity that led to them being thrown into jail. Well at that time of me being 5 and watching movies that i knew nothing of, Timothy McVeigh masterminded one of the most notorious acts of crime in U.S. history. The Oklahoma City bombing. This was an act of a coward and had nothing but stone cold ill intentions. It claimed 168 lives (many of them children) and left about 800 injured. McVeigh was one of the worst type of criminals that there is and there are and have been many like him in the past and present. Men and women alike have to be handled appropriately...As i grew and saw major convictions of men like O.J. Simpson, Scott Petersen, and Michael Jackson, I started to take notice at all the wrong things that people do. Although 2 of the men just named were found not guilty (everyone has their own opinion on that), they were still thought to have murdered and sexually abused. This behavior is disgusting and criminals who act them out should always pay for their suspected crimes. Growing up my parents always watched court shows (and still do). I never got into it like they did but I always would take notice. Up until last year I became interested in the hit HBO show Oz. As I bought the seasons I became more and more committed with learning about men and women in prison and the crimes that put them there. Even though Oz wasn't always realistic it still showed lots of realism. This started me off with the whole "prison thing," and I have been interested ever since. Reality shows such as Lockup on MSNBC show true inmates serving all types of sentences for various crimes (not all violent). Since learning of the show I've kept watching it and just by the men being interviewed you can tell the hate they have and the pain they feel. Some men are sick in the head and believe they have to kill someone just because. And others do it as a sport. Others just do minor things that lead to worse things. Either way, they have to be contained. The real question is, should anyone care what they feel once locked up?

Criminals both male and female, have different characteristics that turn them into convicts. On a rare occasion, individuals get tossed into jail because they were mistakenly blamed. This is never fair but having no one take responsibility for a crime is even worse. From holding centers to maximum security prisons, all try to serve the same cause. That is to lock up animals that simply cannot cope with everyday life. People in general have a right to feel safe at all times. No one wants to live in a world of constant fear. The funny thing is lots of those innocent people cry against the death penalty but every year thousands of criminals get let out of prison to potentially poison society all over again. Who is to say that these men and women are "normal enough" to return to the real world? One thing is for sure, no matter who says what, some are cured and way more are not. A good amount of them are more intelligent than the average Joe but regardless, if it smells like a rat and looks like a rat, then chances are its a rat. Should the system allow thugs and drug dealers and other multiple offenders of crime the possibility of parole at all? This is what accumulates my interest because I wonder why they did what they did. That to me makes them even more of a threat to an innocent by standard because if they had a life going for themselves why throw it away for a senseless act of aggression or whatever the crime may be. This is why "crime-minds" should be punished, and hopefully the desolate walls of prisons does the trick.

What does it take for some 1 to become a movie Directer/Producer

Ive always have been interested in movie making from the time i was young, I would often steal my mothers huge camcorder that would rest on your shoulder and record me and my friends mimicking movies (to the best of are ability). Then watch it on my VCR player. When i was a preteen i was interested withe the movie Blair Which project, so me and my fiends stole the cam coder to film us walking am-Lesly on abandoned rail road tracks searching for ghost while one by one we were mysteriously attacked by "Things". Then Once again in my teenage years we used my friends (at the time) state of the art video camera to record us doing Jackass stunts such as scaring people (pedestrians) with a monkey suite in the dark, running at passing cars, and ALLOT more other stuff such as going blind with only the camera inside a news paper box with wheels and having my friends push, shove, steer me in to stuff at top speeds which would eventually mean crashing or tumbling in the cart. It was always fun. Which is why Ive always had a interest with film making and i want to know how to be good at it!

My Passion For Lifting And Why

Ever since I was A little boy, like eight years old, I always wanted to be strong. I would watch these shows that come on ESPN, World's Strongest Man was always my favorite.These really strong and big guys moving the so called unmovable objects. I said to my parents that that would be me someday. I'm eightteen years old and I've been working out everyday for the past year and a half. I love it, It's definitely one of my passions.

I knew long ago that it would be a long and hard dedication. When they say "No Pay No Gain" they were not lying.I started lifting with my father when I was twelve, but when he stopped so did I. I got back into it at sixteen and joined Terrie's Workout Center at age seventeen. Waking up early to workout in the morning, afternoon and night is no joke. I said to myself going into it I have to hit this head on because if I don't give it everything then what's the point? It all pays off in the end. If Your Training Hard Somebody May Be Training Twice As Hard, you have to give it your all everytime. This brings me to my essential question I want to answer.

What can I do to became a better bodybuilder? What can I do to step up my workout everytime I hit those weights? I need to know everything there is to know. The more you know the better off you are to becoming a better strength athlete.

The Marines

I become interested when

I become interested in the marines when i was a little kid. My grandpa told me stories when he was Vietnam. Some of the stories he told me when he was out in the enemy territory with his platoon and how they searched for weapons and food in villages for the enemy. He also told me what they do on the base and how boot camp and Basic training was hard to get though and also when they get deployed to a base somewhere in the world and they family cant go with them to the base.

What I Know Already
I also talked to a Marines recruiter and learned more about training like if you live in the middle wast and on the east coast you go to North Carolina for training and if you live in the wast coast you go train California. After your 3 months in boot camp you get 2 paid weeks off then you go to basic training for 1 months. they is 12 people in squad and 32 squad in a platoon.


Essential Question
I want to found out why we are still in Iraq and Afghanistan. When we caught Saddam Hussein the president of Iraq and killed him in July of 2004 and why are we still there. Are we there to control Iraq or to secure the oil Field they have and make money from the oil. We are still in Afghanistan because we are still looking for Osama Bin Laden.