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http://www.surfshot.com/Take+Action/BlanketAHuman-142226.html

Blanket-A-Human
On the sidewalks of downtown San Diego, the same phenomenon occurs in our miniature metropolitan area as does in other major cites like Chicago, New York, or San Francisco. Distinct and clean working people with ID badges brush shoulders with tattered and tired wonderers of the homeless community. The city’s trashcans are an open source of edible scraps and aluminum cans. The sidewalks of our downtown area are alive with a thriving population of socialites sadly mixed in with a homeless community wasting away from neglect.

It’s not to say the people who find themselves on the far less fortunate end of the human spectrum are blameless. Homeless individuals find themselves dug deep in a hole, the reason for why they are there isn’t the catalyst for help – the human compassion is. The Blanket A Human organization chooses not get tangled up with the why but instead directs their efforts towards the how.

The questions Nima Nejat, Founder of Blanket-A-Human, woke up with one morning were filled with how’s. How can I actually make a change? How do I get others involved? What began as a question blossomed into a full-fledged humanitarian effort to bridge the gap between those who want to help and those in need. Ironically, those two groups involved are passing each other on the street. Nima and a few close friends used their contacts and altruistic ambition to start the evolution of change, beginning with their groups of friends.

"People want to do something but they don’t have the vehicle to do so." The Blanket A Human organization employs a unique approach in attracting the help of their friends. Through the use of MySpace and word of mouth, Nima and his friends have garnered surprising momentum towards their goal of getting 1,000 blankets and 1,000 pillows by mid-December by combining the charitable cause with nightlife. The idea of taking the self-indulging act of partying and combining it with a charitable endeavor works to create a stoked vibe not always common with the bar crowd. For their events, you can "ditch the cover if you bring a cover." Instead of the money going to the pockets of promoters, blankets go to the homeless; the simplicity of it all gets people involved. Blanket-A-Human, through its close relationship with the entertainment scene, has created a working dynamic between having fun and doing a charitable deed.
"Homeless people are forgotten people," Nima said of the 15,000 constituents of San Diego County’s homeless "Blankets are the quick, simple and practical solution… but that’s just the start." As the word continues to spread and more friends of friends show up to their weekly meetings, their efforts are beginning to gain strength. Other organizations and large companies have been contacting Nima, all wanting to help and participate. "Initially it was just a one time thing," Nima said, "but the momentum was just too much. After San Diego we plan to blanket California."

Never Satisfied, the people behind the Refuge surf film, donated their services to the organization and produced an eight-minute video that paints a portrait of the often-ignored problem. With the power of such tools like the informational film combined with the fundraising opportunities of the downtown nightlife and the ambition of an eager generation of fresh minds, the Blanket-A-Human organization has arrived.
Go to www.blanketahuman.org or myspace.com/BlanketAHuman to get involved.

So I decided to pursue my dancing and music career while I've been out here in Vegas...

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My mom transferred all our old home videos online.... here's a video I made about Bowling when I was 12 or 13. Notice how I have hair in parts of it and dont in others.... The Rocky scene is the best.


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My mom sent me a bunch of our old videos she transferred from VHS and put them online... this is a video I produced when I was 12 or 13 about Fast Food. The actual video is a little longer but some of the funny parts got cut out during the transfer.. hahaha Its so weird seeing these videos after not seeing them for sooo long.

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The Young Lion
By Orison S. Marden

A young lion, as the fable runs, was one day playing alone in the forest while his mother slept.

As the different objects attracted his attention, he thought he would explore a bit and see what the great world beyond his home was like. Before he realized it, he had wandered so far that he could not find his way back.

He was lost.

Very much frightened, he ran frantically in every direction calling piteously for his mother, but no mother responded.

Weary with his wanderings, he did not know what to do, when a sheep, whose offspring had been taken from her, hearing his pitiful cries, made friends with the lost lion, and adopted him.

The sheep became very fond of her foundling, which in a short while grew so much larger than herself that at times she was almost afraid of it.

The foster mother and her adopted lived very happily together, until one day a magnificent lion appeared, sharply outlined against the sky, on the top of an opposite hill. He shook his tawny inane and uttered a terrific roar, which echoed through the hills.

The sheep mother stood trembling, paralyzed with fear. But the moment this strange sound reached his ears, the young lionlistened as though spellbound, and a strange feeling which he had never before experienced surged through his being until be was all a-quiver.

The lion's roar had touched a chord in his nature that had never before been touched. It aroused a new force within him which he had never felt before.

New desires, a strange new consciousness of power possessed him. A new nature stirred in him, and instinctively, without a thought of what he was doing, he answered the lion's call with a corresponding roar.

Trembling with mingled fear, surprise and bewilderment at the new powers aroused within him, the awakened animal gave his foster mother a pathetic glance, and then, with a tremendous leap, started toward the lion on the hill.

The lost lion had found himself.

Up to this he had gamboled around his sheep mother just as though he were a lamb developing into a sheep, never dreaming he could do anything that his companions could not do, or that he had any more strength than the ordinary sheep.

He never imagined that there was within him a power which would strike terror to the beasts of the jungle. He simply thought he was a sheep, and would run at the sight of a dog and tremb1e at the howl of a wolf.

Now he was amazed to see the dogs, the wolves, and other animals which formerly had so terrified him flee from him.

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There is in every normal human being a Sleeping lion. It is just a question of arousing it, just a question of something happening that will awaken us, stir the depths of our being, and arouse the sleeping power within us.

Just as the young lion, after it had once discovered that it was a lion would never again be satisfied to live the life of a sheep, when we discover that we are more than mere clay, when we at last become Conscious that we are more than human, that we are gods in the making, we shall never again be satisfied to live the life of common clods of earth.

We shall feel a new sense of power welling up within us, a power which we never before dreamed we possessed, and never he quite the same again, never again he content with low-flying ideals, with a cheap success.

Ever after we will aspire. We will look up, struggle up and on to higher and ever higher planes.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Orison Swett Marden, (1850-1924) founder of Success Magazine, is also considered to be the founder of the modern success movement in America. He certainly bridged the gap between the old, narrow notions of success and the new, more comprehensive models made popular by best-selling authors such as Napoleon Hill, Clement Stone, Dale Carnegie, Og Mandino, Earl Nightingale, Norman Vincent Peale, and today's authors Stephen R.Covey, Anthony Robbins, and Brian Tracy.