Featured Artist - KevJumba

Today's featured artist is Youtube ranter KevJumba. Kevin is entering college this year and is one of the best vloggers on youtube yet. He's one of the mot subscribed youtubers of all time in fifth place, following youtubers like Fred, Smosh, and Nigahiga. He likes to intertwine his serious topics on his vlogs with a little humor, which is garunteed to make the viewers laugh while still sending out the message. His website is http://www.kevjumba.com.



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Medal Update - Day 14 (Cont'd)

The following is a list of the medals won overnight, the country the athletes represent, and the names of the athletes:

Men's Pole Vault
Gold - Steve Hooker - Australia
Silver - Evgeny Lukyanenko - Russia
Bronze - Denys Yurchenko - Ukraine

Women's Welterweight (57-67 kg)
Gold - Kyungseon Hwang - South Korea
Silver - Karine Sergerie - Canada
Bronze - Sandra Saric - Croatia
Bronze - Gwladys Patience Epangue - France

Men's Welterweight (68-80 kg)
Gold - Hadi Saei - I. R. Iran
Silver - Mauro Sarmiento - Italy
Bronze - Guo Zhu - China
Bronze - Steven Lopez - United States

Women's 5000 Meters
Gold - Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene - Ethiopia
Silver - Elvan Abeylegesse - Turkey
Bronze - Meseret Defar - Ethiopia

Women's 4 x 100 Meter Relay
Gold - Russia - Russia
Silver - Belgium - Belgium
Bronze - Nigeria - Nigeria

Men's Decathlon
Gold - Bryan Clay - United States
Silver - Andrei Krauchanka - Belarus
Bronze - Leonel Suarez- Cuba

Men's 4 x 100 Meter Relay
Gold - Jamaica - Jamaica
Silver - Trinidad & Tobago - Trinidad & Tobago
Bronze - Japan - Japan

Men's Modern Pentathlon
Gold - Andrey Moiseev - Russia
Silver - Edvinas Krungolcas - Lithuania
Bronze - Andrejus Zadneprovskis - Lithuania

Medal Update - Day 14 (Cont'd)

The following is a list of the medals won overnight, the country the athletes represent, and the names of the athletes:

Men's Kayak Singles 1000m
Gold - Tim Brabants - Great Britain
Silver - Eirik Veraas Larsen - Norway
Bronze - Ken Wallace - Australia

Men's Canoe Singles 1000m
Gold - Attila Sandor Vajda - Hungary
Silver - David Cal - Spain
Bronze - Thomas Hall - Canada

Women's Kayak Fours 500m
Gold - Germany - Germany
Silver - Hungary - Hungary
Bronze - Australia - Australia

Men's Kayak Doubles 1000m
Gold - Andreas Ihle, Martin Hollstein - Germany
Silver - Rene Holten Poulsen, Kim Wraae Knudsen - Denmark
Bronze - Antonio Massimiliano Scaduto, Andrea Facchin - Italy

Men's Canoe Doubles 1000m
Gold - Aliaksandr Bahdanovich, Andrei Bahdanovich - Belarus
Silver - Thomasz Wylenzek, Christian Gille - Germany
Bronze - Tamas Kiss, Gyorgy Kozmann - Hungary

Men's Kayak Fours 1000m
Gold - Belarus - Belarus
Silver - Slovakia - Slovakia
Bronze - Germany - Germany

Women's Long Jump
Gold - Maurren Higa Maggi - Brazil
Silver - Tatyana Lebedeva - Russia
Bronze - Blessing Okagbare - Nigeria

Medal Update - Day 14

The following is a list of the medals won on day 14 of the games, the country the athletes represent, and the names of the athletes:

Women's BMX
Gold - Anne-Caroline Chausson - France
Silver - Laetitia le Corguille - France
Bronze - Jill Kintner - United States

Men's BMX
Gold - Maris Strombergs - Latvia
Silver - Mike Day - United States
Bronze - Donny Robinson - United States

Men's Beach Volleyball
Gold - Todd Rogers, Philip Dalhausser - United States
Silver - Marcio Araujo, Fabio Magalhaes - Brazil
Bronze - Ricardo Santos, Emanuel Rego - Brazil

EARTH IS GONNA BLOW UP!

By Jerry Xiao

I was recently reading a article on Livescience.com (click title of post) and there was a section saying the top 10 natural disasters the United States could face. Sure the Pacific coast sunami and New York City Hurricane are interesting, but what really tickled my fancies was the number 1 disaster. It read:

Total Destruction of Earth
Okay, so nobody is spending too much time worrying about what to do if the planet is annihilated, but at least one person has seriously pondered whether and when it could happen. From being sucked into a black hole to being blown up by an antimatter reaction, there are scientifically plausible risks of an event that would render this whole list moot.

Now I was so interested by this revelation that I dove deeper into the article (by clicking "learn more" next to it). The list continued by telling readers how this may happen. Please enjoy the following ideas.

Total Existence Failure

Gobbled Up By Stranglets

Sucked Into A Microscopic Black Hole

Blown Up By Matter/Antimatter Reaction

Destroyed By Vacuum Energy Detonation

Sucked Into A GIANT Black Hole

Meticulously And Systematically Deconstructed

Pulverized By Impact With Blunt Instrument (Sounds like a murder scene)

Eaten By von Neumann Machines

Hurled Into The Sun

Okay most of those would need equipment that would not be found anywhere, like the "hurled into the sun" item. LiveScience says that you would need "Earthmoving equipment." Now where would we find that? Or maybe the murder scene one. They say you need "a big heavy rock, something with a bit of a swing to it... perhaps Mars." Thus proving that science CAN be fun! On the message boards below, the following comment seems perfect for the scene, courtesy of eliar. He writes "This really puts the Deathstar from Starwars in perspective --- ie Not possible lol" Right on Eliar. Right on.

News Of The Day

By: Jerry Xiao

Every other day I'm going to be writing about the most weird, akward, exciting, interesting, funny, stupid, or embarrassing news on the web on that day. Most of my titles will be coming from Yahoo! and the occasional Google. I will include a summary and a link to the original article if available. Here goes.


BREAKING NEWS!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080822/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_houses;_ylt=AtfYkebQA68bJueP.dWS4TWs0NUE
Senator and Presidential Nominee John McCain has no idea how many houses he owns! When asked how many houses he owns, McCain told interviewers that "I think — I'll have my staff get to you. It's condominiums where — I'll have them get to you." Obama is using this to portray McCain as a Rich and out-of-touch person. McCain later said he had 4 houses, however property records reviewed by AP show that McCain and his wife own at least 8 houses - one ranch and two condominiums in Arizona, three condos in California, and another in Arlington, Virginia.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/gymnastics/news;_ylt=AsmwJ_74kwq_fH4e.tyIZt6VTZd4?slug=ap-gym-underagechinese&prov=ap&type=lgns
The Internation Olympic Committee is finally investigating the age of Chinese Gymnasts He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan, and Yang Yalin. Together, the three girls have won six medals, including two golds. Age falsification has been a big problem, since the FIG has set up these minimums in regards to the young girl's health. Several articles released by state run Xinhua News Agency state that all three girls may be as young as 14. The last time a chinese gymnast was investigated was Yang Yun, who won two bronze medals in Sydney for the 2000 games. She later came clean and said that she was 14 when she competed in the 2000 games. The minimum age of 16 was set by the FIG in 1997.

Medal Update - Day 13 (Cont'd)

The following is a list of the medals won overnight, the country the athletes represent, and the names of the athletes:

Women's 200 Meters
Gold - Veronica Campbell-Brown - Jamaica
Silver - Allyson Felix - United States
Bronze - Kerron Stewart - Jamaica

Women's Featherweight (49-57 kg)
Gold - Sujeong Lim - South Korea
Silver - Azize Tanrikulu - Turkey
Bronze - Martina Zubcic - Croatia
Bronze - Diana Lopez - United States

Women's 10-Meter Platform
Gold - Ruolin Chen - China
Silver - Emilie Heymans - Canada
Bronze - Xin Wang - China

Men's Featherweight (58-68 kg)
Gold - Taejin Son - South Korea
Silver - Mark Lopez - United States
Bronze - Servet Tazegul - Turkey
Bronze - Yu-Chi Sung - Taipei

Men's Triple Jump
Gold - Nelson Evora - Portugal
Silver - Phillips Idowu - Great Britain
Bronze - Leevan Sands - Bahamas

Men's 400-Meters
Gold - LaShawn Merritt - United States
Silver - Jeremy Wariner - United States
Bronze - David Neville - United States

Men's 110-Meter Hurdles
Gold - Dayron Robles - Cuba
Silver - David Payne - United States
Bronze - David Oliver- United States

Individual Jumping (Equestrian)
Gold - Eric Lamaze - Canada
Silver - Rolf-Goran Bengtsson - Sweden
Bronze - Beezie Madden - United States