This Past Week was Huge in My World

This past week was impressive. See the story of the world before my eyes, I am grateful for my twitter. I want to summarize all the great events that are happening in the world. 


First of all the progress that is in Libya is astonishing. The past week the rebels took over Tripoli. Earlier this week I felt like I was reading the current events happen as it is. They invaded by sea. Its was overwhelming the step by step updates that I got, but Qadhafi is in hiding. The rebels overran his headquarter. Khamia Qadhafi, his son, was killed last Sunday. on.cnn.com/oKxL27 and, his other son, Saif is surrendering. Muammar Qadhafi, the father, had his family deep into his tyrant government. In the past couple days his family fled to Algeria. The Rebel's progress is great. Today they are setting an Ultimatum for the 42 year long dictator's loyalty. The weak rebels have great leadership; although, in the past weeks the original leader was killed by a rebel. In my tweets, I saw the names of the great success of the Rebels, but they could not have been successful without NATO and aid. Even though their help was controversial.


There is protests all over the world from Bolivia to Chile, from South Africa to Syria.
The Syrian Government has been under great pressure as well. Iran was warning them to listen to the protesters. I have been impressed by how the leadership of Iran has been depicted by the news organization. They have been seeking after their national security violently irrespective of Ramadan's ending for the month. nyti.ms/qUvxk8 Ramadan is the Islamic tradition to fast for the day's of a month.


Russia has also been under pressure too, but in a different sense.  Since Russia failed to deliver supplies to the International Space Station, it has been under pressure to preserve the manning thereof. NASA are considering evacuating the ISS in November.


Ai Weiwei this past week did this past week did his first article since his release from detention, calling the state of China 'a constant nightmare.' They sentenced a Tibetan Buddhist eleven years in jail. gu.com/p/3xgt4/tf The twitter of Tibet sent me a tweet saying 

@alexnhicken China has No legitimacy & Rights to charge Tibetan Monks in occupied Tibet. Thats why they need millions of troops to control.

Speaking of fasting, the anti corruption protest lead by Anna Hazare was successful. The government adhered to his demands. He fasted for twelve days ending this past Sunday.

In India as well as much of Thailand is flooded as well.

There has been a super typhoon ripping through the Philippines and Taiwan as Hurricane Irene left a 1100 mile long stretch of destruction. Now a Typhoon heads for China. Transitioning to summarize very very briefly the war in Afghanistan, I want to talk of the honor of our military personal. At the Arlington Cemetery they never stopped, standing to guard the Unknown Soldier since April 6, 1948 even during hurricane Irene.

This past month has been bad in Afghanistan for the war, suffering the most causalities since the war began. Sixty six of the great US serviceman have died. A royal marine died in the past few days in a roadside bomb as well. 

Israel has been aggressive to preserve its state. Today I received texts saying that they sent two warships to"Egypt on warning of another attack." apne.ws/ohDRQs As "Palestinian attacker wounds seven in Tel Aviv," Israel huff.to/qdQJ6W "Israeli military arms settlers in preparation for Palestinian protests." gu.com/p/3xgn5/tf

Iraq is still greatly violent 35 were "killed in series of attacks across Iraq, officials say" on.cnn.com/rpPjMg "There was a suicide bombing Baghdad killing 29 at a Sunni mosque." gu.com/p/3xg8m/tf

These are the signs of the times. I barely scratched the surface of what is happening in my world, yet there is many without a voice in the world. Some of the signs for example is the earthquake at Virginia. In the past few days, two volcanoes erupted one in Popocatepetl, Mexico wapo.st/rkm7Wb and the other at Italy's Mount Etna huff.to/o8JdW0

I have not spoken much of my personal world, but the depth thereof will take too long to write; although, this past week was a little slow. School has started!

Final weeks before school starts (part 1)

This past week has been great for me. Since I may have a global audience, I will be careful of the things that I say.
One reason that it has been great other-than the fun things that I have been able to do. I know that it is kind of lame, but I have expanded more into twitter. I have learned some things from running the twitter for my work at Fun Fine Art. Since I applied the things that I learned I doubled my followers for my  personal twitter. I am competing against myself with both twitters today. My companies twitter has passed my personal twitter, but I was ahead. I feel part of two communities with both of the twitters. I am in the community of artists, and I am in the community with the news reports. I have received great response. A twitter representing the spouses' of military personal expressed great excitement to get to know me and see the world events that I cover. Another guy asked me to give a report of the Turkish victims casualties and targets.
I wrote a short story, which was inspired by a conversation that I had with a grandmother named Joanna on the way back home from my second temple trip last week. She has a grandson that is named Trevor or Erik or something, but he was seemingly on track to a great journalist. As he lived in San Francisco, he was a victim of circumstance. Returning to his apartment, he found that his roommate was stabbed several times, and before long he was stabbed in the head by the attacker. I published the story on a website that began following me on twitter. The website is interesting, for it is named ymidoingthis.com. I put the link on the website. The story helps you see what the grandmother was telling me about. She was trying to record a voice record of the proceedings of his life; however, now he remembers very little of his life. Neither of the victims of the attacker in San Francisco died. The story reveals more about my habits and personality as a person too.

I will put what I wrote on this entry because I see that I can someday purchase my own blog as a book someday, and I would like the short story to be part of it. I also write a entry just before blog entry explaining how to run correctly. I will publish each document separately, so this entry will not be too long.

Final weeks before school starts (part 2)

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I am inspired to write this short story by a real life story told to me a few days ago, for  a grandson of a friend, who was a journalist, was stabbed in the head, and now remembers nothing.

Final weeks before school starts (part 3)

The Correct Way to Run

People do not often think of running correctly because it should be like walking, but most people have learned an odd philosophy about running. Running should be painlessly natural as walking, and it is. In middle school I remember writing an essay about how running is bad, and swimming is better. although, I am a big advocate of running for exercise now after running all throughout high school. I have learned how to explain the correct way to run simply, but the understanding only came from my experience on my running teams and a dear friend, researching it. He found a book explaining the pose method of running. I do not have any crazy name for the method because it is natural. The United States at least is getting this messed up.
There is a phase in the history of running that we are departing from. Over the past several years, 'more natural' running shoes has been coming out of the running shoe market. There is a philosophy with a few parts to it, which is not logistical. One of which is that our bodies are too weak to run without external support such as the following: ankle braces, stable shoes, and knee braces. The world often underestimates the human body. The human body can strong enough to handle running on any surface without these supports. Running shoes have little to do with running bad; however, it shows another part of the philosophy of running that is we are to land on the heel of our foot.
The simple explanation to how to show how to run correctly is comparing it to doing jump rope. I would encourage you to get up and 'jump rope-less.' I use to do that when I could not run outside. Jump as if you would do jump rope without the rope. You see and feel how you land on your feet. It is definitely not on your heel. It is springing. There is a spring all throughout our beautiful legs that absorbs the forces from the calf, to the quads and the hamstring, the largest combinations of muscles. It is natural and there is a natural momentum; however, if you purposely land on your heel.
Everything natural about the 'jump rope-less' is gone. You hit the ground and the momentum hit straight into the feet and is absorbed unnaturally. The forces cause pain. This is how shin splints are formed. Do 'jump rope-less' on your heels for a hour for a couple weeks or so and your shins will feel like it is being ripped of the bone because it is. This is the same thing with running. When you run and land on your heels, your momentum is not natural.
Another thing that one needs to learn is that, when the earth is to go backward, so the main thrust of your legs should be pushing us forward and the earth backward. Many people have an odd idea that we need to lengthen our stride by putting our feet further ahead of us. The way we are to push ourselves forward and the earth backward is by using our butt muscles. This make more sense as a mean to lengthen our stride. The hip flexor, the muscle that pulls up our leg for the top, is not that big compared to the butt. The thrust should be backward from the butt and not forward from the hip flexor.
One may wonder how this makes sense how can my feet push me forward from my butt, if my foot is landing in front of me. Well you need to realize that is not natural. The feet will soon naturally land beneath you or behind you. Do you see how that momentum will be better? Running is a controlled fall. Can you imagine how your momentum will be pushed if your feet pushes your forward from behind you? The momentum is much more efficient. The habit of having your feet land behind you is really difficult to obtain, but having your feet land closely below your torso. It allows looks funny to me when someone is running, and the butt is not pulling the leg back very far. The further back the leg and the more force behind you the longer the stride.
This is the way to run naturally and more easily. You don't need fancy supportive shoes with a big thing on your heel. I recommend running for twenty minutes a day until you strengthened your leg muscles sufficiently. Be warn. If you run this way, the correct way, your muscles will be extremely sore for the first week or so. It may be painful walking down stairs. You may feel like your grandparents walking down the stairs. That is why I recommend only twenty minutes a day at first week until you feel comfortable running longer. Consistency is important. I had a roommate that would workout a different part of his body each day of the week, and he was sore like the very beginning each week. Consistency will get the body to get over being sore, and build stronger muscles. You may be extremely sore because the average person at least in the United States has extremely weak legs. After my first season of cross country my legs like doubled the size. My calves, my thighs, and my butt were bigger. Don't be afraid of being sore. Think of it as a feeling of growing, becoming stronger, progressing. I promise you that it will only last for a week or so; then, you can run pain free. No shin splints.
Don't get frustrated if you get injuries. Just relax if you get a injury. Take a week or two off of running. Do something different. Often times the reason that we get injured is because of the shoes that we have. You may need new shoes.
I will review the simple steps that will lead you to run more naturally. Run by pushing yourself forward from your leg with the thrust going backward from your butt, landing of the part of the foot that you feel when you do the 'jump rope-less'. You can practice this by standing on one foot and see how it is to pull your leg back with your butt, seeing the form of running come naturally.

I could write more, but this is probably enough. Good Night. :)

After I write about my experience with integrity, I feel like being a movie critic.

The integrity of a person is his respect for life. It is seen shining from the presence of the person. When people face the real world, they have their integrity called into question during each moment. Integrity is extremely trick because it is on an individual and personal level to live the most correct way; however, there is one true way. It stands out from the world, and it is very private. A characteristic of integrity is that one is responsible for everything that he does, and one is responsible to do his best to fix his errors, enduring the consequences. It stands up for truth and what is right. There is more to it, but I can't think of more to write.

I don't watch much movies, but when I do I try to watch the best films. In the past few months I have only watch a few movies listed as followed: Arriety the Borrower, Captain America: The First Avenger, and Cirque De Soleil: Quidam.

I may be particularly tough on movies.

The Arriety movies was good, but I don't think that it was original enough for Studio Ghibli. The film is based on a book that is mostly unknown. I don't know. The Borrower's series was named one of the top ten most important children's novels of the last seventy years in 2007. I feel that it may be too old to make an animated film on, but the age may appeal to a wider audience. The animation standard was according to the normal Ghibli standard. The story though was weak, and the story is innocent. It lacks in just about everything as a story; action, romance, climax, purpose. There was a little suspense, but the story was too simple.
Out of 100 I give it a 77

I am surprised that Captain America beat Harry Potter. It shouldn't have; even though, I have not seen the final movie of the series of Harry Potter. I don't know, but don't ask me about what I think of the first half of the last book of the series' movie. The Captain America movie is a little random at the beginning and at the end; although, I did understand that is alluding to the assembly of the Avengers. The story is good, but it at times has a feel that one is watching someone playing a video game fast forwarded until the final boss.
Out of 100 I give it a 84

Now the show that I said that I was share how I enjoyed it. Quidam of the Cirque Du Soleil was exceptional. It puts America's Got Talent to shame. I would give America's Got Talent out of 100 a score in the sixties. The acts are fun, inspiring, and leading edge creative; always pushing the limit. I love how they make it seem the performer's act was ending, but they would continue and show even a greater depth to their skill. It also pushed the limit of morality. The performers look like the lust of the world but not at the same time. I definitely did not lust after the insanely ripped girls. The artistry is great. I recognized that Josh Groban sung one of the songs of the show on one of his CD's, and I recalled learning a song for the show as a concert band at Soquel High School. The story was simple yet profound.
Out of 100 I give it a 92

This weekend's entry is committing itself to a week day next week, for weekends are not for writing a blog

Yeah I am too busy to write on the weekends. Yesterday I did update the story summary of DNA turn on though, if you want to read that.

If you are curious about what I plan to write about. The topic will be about integrity.

The Core was incomplete

This past week in my life was good. I will write of the Core event that I attempted.
It was refreshing to stand on a starting line, since I ran track and cross country in high school. My record times were four minutes and forty seconds for the mile, and I almost ran a ten minute two mile. At the beginning of the core race, I was surprised how easy it was to find myself in second place. I know that many of my followers may be my friends from Facebook, and they read a view of the race already; however, I will express myself more fully. I was second place behind a good friend of mine Tommy Zaferes.
Last Sunday he won the Sandman Triathlon. He has always been an awesome athlete. He has train with our Olympians. I was not trained as him nor had the goals like him in completing the Core race. In second place I saw him swim in the ocean as if it was his personal swim pool. I swam with him when I was on a team, and he dove into the ocean like he use to into a normal pool. I could not do that though, for I only swam a couple times in training for the event.
I lived the race without a goal. I did not have a goal, so I did not finish the race. Living life's events without goals, we may not complete any great achievements. I finished the race in the middle of the second swim because I did not feel like swimming anymore. I trained swimming according to how I felt, so that is how I finished the race.
The lifeguard, escorting off the course, introduced me to the great care of our emergency servicemen. They were all realistic, and I was told that there is no shame in not finishing the race; however, I finished the race in the emergency room not because I needed it. I followed what they suggested. One of the couple times I swam in training was in the ocean, and I finished swimming with the same result as what the emergency servicemen saw. I shivered without control for a long time and that is all. I did not need their service, but it was protocol. The care was great. It was not freighting.

I had another thing that I wanted to write about. I wanted to write about the bad economy, but I am not of authority to. I just have a little knowledge of what is going on. My mother says that I think that I know everything. I attempted to write a simple thing about the economy, but I realized that I can't. I wanted to write of concerning the principle of self reliance, living within our means. I can't speak on these matters.

Here is my random NASA update. They have sent Juno to Jupiter on a five year trip to arrive there. The Earth seemed to have two moons at one time, and there is water on Mars.