Month: August 2008

  • Opportunity Cost

    Not going to New York city with my friends and going to my friend Custer's beach party. Instead I'm in my room reading for school. Oh ho ho ho . Oh well at least I can keep myself happy 

  • Fudge

    I'm a little behind but still determined to stay in the online classes and achieve a passing grade.

  • School back for Fall

    I'm taking 3 x online classes. Despite what people may say online classes take just as much work as normal college classes.

  • How intresting

    So China won the most gold metals while the US won the most metals. You know despite all the slander that might have come to China I can say that I'm proud of my homeland for making the most their opportunities and getting the most gold during these Olympics. I have to say the year of the rat sure has  made many different countries wealthy. The article will be pasted below if you want to read it. Basically there were several records broken for various things. I have my own personal discovery as well, but I'm not telling you. I'll give you a clue. MC monkey . And no matter how much you bug me about this I won't ever tell you. So don't even try!

    Host China wins gold medal race; US first overall

    BEIJING (AP)—China proved an acquisitive first-time Olympic host, topping
    the gold-medal chart with one of the most dominating and diverse performances
    ever. The United States, Britain and an array of small nations also had reasons
    to celebrate.

    China’s haul of 51 gold medals was the largest since the Soviet Union won 55
    in Seoul in 1988. Fielding athletes groomed since childhood in sports academies,
    it won medals in 25 different sports, including its first ever in sailing, beach
    volleyball and field hockey.

    Not since 1936, when Nazi Germany prevailed at the Berlin Olympics, had a
    country other than the U.S. or the Soviet Union/Russia led the gold medal list.

    The United States trailed well behind the Chinese in golds with 36, the
    first time since 1992 it didn’t lead the category. But the Americans did break
    their own mark for total medals in a non-boycotted Olympics; they won 110 in
    all, two more than their previous high set in 1992 and 10 ahead of China’s
    overall tally this year.

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    Britain, getting an early jump on its host role for the 2012 Summer Games,
    had its best Olympics in a century with 19 gold medals—good for fourth place
    behind the Russians. Its cyclists and sailors were the class of the field, and
    19-year-old Rebecca Adlington stunned the swimming world with two golds in
    distance events.

    It was also a satisfying Olympics for many of the world’s weaker sporting
    nations. A record 87 nations won medals, seven more than the previous high in
    Sydney in 2000, and a dozen nations won either their first-ever gold medal or
    first medal of any color.

    If there was a prominent loser at the games, it was Russia, whose team was
    deprived of 10 athletes due to doping accusations. The Russians finished a
    distant third in both gold medals, with 23, and overall medals with 72—down
    from 27 and 92 four years ago in Athens. Germany and Japan also fared noticeably
    worse than in Athens.

    The United States was disappointed by its boxing team (one bronze medal) and
    a lack of golds by its sprinters, but was delighted by breakthroughs in lesser
    sports such as fencing, as well as by the historic eight golds for
    record-smashing swimmer Michael Phelps.

    “Both on the field of play and off, this will go down as one of the greatest
    performances ever for a United States Olympic Team,” spokesman Darryl Seibel
    said Sunday.

    Overshadowing the entire U.S. effort, however, was a recognition of China’s
    arrival as the dominant Summer Olympics power.

    “China has been systematically targeting every single available medal, and
    we’re going to have to do that in the future,” said U.S. Olympic Committee
    chairman Peter Ueberroth.

    “The resources that they put toward their Olympic team and the population
    base and the dedication is fantastic,” he said. “It’s much more difficult for
    the rest of the world to compete, but that’s the way it should be.”

    China, of course, has the largest population pool—1.3 billion people—
    from which to recruit athletes. Several far smaller nations distinguished
    themselves in medals per capita.

    Jamaica’s sprinters and hurdlers—led by triple-gold sensation Usain Bolt
    won 11 medals, one for every 245,000 of its 2.7 million people. With a
    population of 21.4 million, Australia won 46 medals, one for each 465,000
    people. Cuba won 24 medals, one for each 470,000 of its 11.3 million citizens.

    Populous countries with no medals included Pakistan, the Philippines and
    Bangladesh.

    Kenya, despite election-related unrest which killed hundreds and disrupted
    its preparations, had a great games with five golds and 14 medals overall.
    Ethiopian runners Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba each won rare double golds
    in the 5,000 and 10,000.

    Overall, Africa won 40 medals—the most ever. Those included the first-ever
    Olympic medals for Togo in canoeing, Mauritius in boxing, and Sudan in the 800
    meters. Also winning first-ever medals were Tajikstan, Bahrain (a gold by Rachid
    Ramzi in the men’s 1,500), and war-torn Afghanistan.

    Two other athletes, in addition to Ramzi, won their countries’ first gold
    medals—Panamanian long jumper Irving Saladino and Mongolian judoka Naidangiin
    Tuvshinbayar.

    Tuvshinbayar’s medal triggered raucous celebrations in Mongolia’s capital,
    Ulan Bator, and a presidential decree declared him a “hero of Labor.”

    There were other breakthroughs—Tunisia and South Korea won golds in
    swimming for the first time; long jumper Maurren Higa Maggi became the first
    Brazilian women to win a gold in track.

  • Recovered

    I think I'm 100 percent now. Maybe I'll go swimming on Monday.

  • Recovery

    I should be 100 percent by Sunday.

  • The Heart Break Kid

    It's a funny movie.

  • Owie

    I was running and I fell. I think a rock did it. Anyways I scraped my hands, and right knee bone. I cleaned them up and put band-aids on them. Hopefully my body will heal itself before PT tomorrow morning or I'm gonna be sucking.

  • ACAP

    Army
    Career
    Alumni
    Program

    I'm impressed with the information overload you get from these things. Hopefully I'll learn some stuff about small businesses at one of the seminars. If anything I should be able to get really cheap business, home loans. But I say always have a backup plan. My back up to the whole business is to go work at a government job or something else. My back up plan to life that is if I don't have sex with a woman would be to donate my troopers to a sperm bank. People might look down at me from saying that but as long as I can pass my genes onto someone then I quite frankly don't care. I've accepted the fact that I could be a virgin for the rest of my life. And I'm not concern about it. Because as long as I'm happy I can do anything in this world.

  • If I could only do something

    I wouldn't allow my homeland of China to embarrass itself at the Olympics. But alas there's no point in worrying or lamenting over something that I can't do. I take my lesson from CAO CAO. A warlord during the Romance of the three kingdoms Era. He once laughed at the Eunuchs for crying over the Emperor, because he was being controlled by a mean person. Cao Cao made the comment that words without action will never get things done. That's something to live by. Why cry about your life when you can change it?