Good luck. I'd like to be in good enough shape to run a marathon one day too.
I disagree with you about athletes not being allocated for certain sports. On the contrary, I think athletes are assigned to certain events and positions all the time, the same as speech and debate participants are channeled into particular roles (whether LD debates, extemporaneous, or policy debates). The goal of a coach is to maximize the teams wins and secondarily to provide an enjoyable recreational activity for his charges.
Black students get pigeonholed early: sprinters, wide receivers, outfielders, power forwards, etc. This is as much a cultural thing as it is a tacit acceptance that black athletes are on the whole better athletes than white athletes on the whole. At the Olympic level, black athletes dominate the American track and field team. This cannot simply be a coincidence or the result of some affirmative action program. They are there because they are the best in the country and have eliminated many others who were almost good enough to make it to the games.
Yes, running is a way of life for Africans. After all, they have many track stars to look to as role models. But the point is that if you gave the African athletes a larger set of sports to choose from and world class coaches and facilities they would surpass most 'Western' countries in almost all events.
No, you're setting fire to a strawman. You would not expect that the black student would come out having not learned anything and speaking ebonics. If you put a black and a white student in the same classroom you would expect on average that the white student would succeed academically at a greater rate than the black student.
What this does not mean is that all whites are geniuses and that all blacks are imbeciles as you seem to want to point out in your post.
Yes, you are absolutely right, I meant on average. Thank you for making the correction.
that's just complete and utter bullshit. It's not like the US decides ahead of time which events we want to win, and thus designate athletes accordingly.
I have to respectfully disagree with this. Though it may not happen at the Olympic level, it sure as hell happens at the collegiate and high school levels. Coaches steer athletes toward events that the athlete would excel at, and away from things that wouldn't help the team in competition. This means that black athletes get steered toward sprinting, and white athletes get steered towards long distance events. From this pool come the world class athletes that we see in the Olympics, and by the time they are chosen to represent the country the statistics bear out the choices the coaches made early on.
I also agree with you on the topic of Johnson and Green being wasted talent in longer distance events. However, just to say that they would waste their talents by running longer distances doesn't mean that they couldn't become excellent distance runners at all. My point was that on the other hand, you couldn't take a marathon runner and turn them into a Michael Johnson.
It's possible that the natural muscularity of the black athlete is a detriment to swimming, whereas the slightly fattier caucasian athlete has greater buoyancy allowing him to expend energy in a forward motion instead of spending it to stay afloat.
As for skiing, I'd have to guess that it's mainly a result of a lack of interest in the sport by black athletes. Having spent many winters on the slopes, I have to say anecdotally that black skiers are few and far between. If my experience is any guide, it means that the number of world class black skiers will also be very low.
It's simply that the African athletes are naturally endowed with highly developed athletic ability. If you were to take two athletes, one white and one black, and trained them in the same manner, you will find that the black athlete will excel in endurance, strength, and power quite a bit beyond the white athlete's performance. This is made obvious by the repeated drubbing of white long distance athletes in the Olympics and other world athletic competitions.
So why doesn't America use black athletes in long distance events? Simply because of the dominance of America in the shorter sprinting events. The limited pool of black athletes can only be divided so much. Short distance sprinting and long distance running are not interchangeable, they are completely different styles. While a short distance sprinter may be able to become a world-class distance runner, the reverse is never true. So in order to garner more medals, America designates black runners as short distance competitors and leaves the less talented (relatively speaking) white runners to long distance events.
One interesting case is the women's marathon in the last Olympics by a Japanese. Short, with short legs and thus a short stride, she held on and placed first in the event.
Thanks for the comment. I thought about this as a possible case in which silence can be divided, but as silence is simply the absence of sound it stands to reason that silent actions do not actually disturb the silence and divide it.
It's got to go someplace and the Yucca Mountains are as desolate as you can get. A good storage facility will be a huge boon to the energy industry and our computers will continue running unabated.
They've either got paying jobs or they are fat slobs living in their parents' basements. The Army can't get the first and I'm not sure they want the second.
Aspartame != Saccharine. The worst you get with Aspartame is headaches and possibly brain tumors.
Additionally, saccharine has only been shown to cause cancer in *lab mice*. Are you a lab mouse? If not, then there are no studies that show that you will get cancer.
Microsoft believes they have patent rights relating to the ARB_vertex_program extension. They did not contribute to the extension, but are trying to be upfront about it.
Rubin and Birnbaum simply have different styles. Rubin's is much more masculine (if translation can be described that way) and Birnbaum's is more lyrical. I get the distinct feeling sometimes reading Birnbaum that he isn't 100% faithful to the original text, a feeling I don't get with either Rubin or Gabriel's translations, but the book is certainly none the worse for it.
Well, the wall has a section about ten feet across where a moving truck backed into it doing a U-Turn. Cinder blocks lay strewn across the grass and into the abutting parking lot on the other side of the wall. Reinforcing rebar is exposed and gnarled.
Nothing too serious. Just a lot of noise. Someone's going to have to build that wall up again.
Oh jesus. Norwegian Wood and Sputnik Sweetheart are his two worst books that have been translated. They are mirror images of each other, the latter being simply a more up to date treatment.
Wind-up Bird Chronicle and South of the Border, West of the Sun are much better quality, IMHO.
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Good luck. I'd like to be in good enough shape to run a marathon one day too.
I disagree with you about athletes not being allocated for certain sports. On the contrary, I think athletes are assigned to certain events and positions all the time, the same as speech and debate participants are channeled into particular roles (whether LD debates, extemporaneous, or policy debates). The goal of a coach is to maximize the teams wins and secondarily to provide an enjoyable recreational activity for his charges.
Black students get pigeonholed early: sprinters, wide receivers, outfielders, power forwards, etc. This is as much a cultural thing as it is a tacit acceptance that black athletes are on the whole better athletes than white athletes on the whole. At the Olympic level, black athletes dominate the American track and field team. This cannot simply be a coincidence or the result of some affirmative action program. They are there because they are the best in the country and have eliminated many others who were almost good enough to make it to the games.
Yes, running is a way of life for Africans. After all, they have many track stars to look to as role models. But the point is that if you gave the African athletes a larger set of sports to choose from and world class coaches and facilities they would surpass most 'Western' countries in almost all events.
That's not a good omen...
No, you're setting fire to a strawman. You would not expect that the black student would come out having not learned anything and speaking ebonics. If you put a black and a white student in the same classroom you would expect on average that the white student would succeed academically at a greater rate than the black student.
What this does not mean is that all whites are geniuses and that all blacks are imbeciles as you seem to want to point out in your post.
Yes, you are absolutely right, I meant on average. Thank you for making the correction.
that's just complete and utter bullshit. It's not like the US decides ahead of time which events we want to win, and thus designate athletes accordingly.
I have to respectfully disagree with this. Though it may not happen at the Olympic level, it sure as hell happens at the collegiate and high school levels. Coaches steer athletes toward events that the athlete would excel at, and away from things that wouldn't help the team in competition. This means that black athletes get steered toward sprinting, and white athletes get steered towards long distance events. From this pool come the world class athletes that we see in the Olympics, and by the time they are chosen to represent the country the statistics bear out the choices the coaches made early on.
I also agree with you on the topic of Johnson and Green being wasted talent in longer distance events. However, just to say that they would waste their talents by running longer distances doesn't mean that they couldn't become excellent distance runners at all. My point was that on the other hand, you couldn't take a marathon runner and turn them into a Michael Johnson.
It's possible that the natural muscularity of the black athlete is a detriment to swimming, whereas the slightly fattier caucasian athlete has greater buoyancy allowing him to expend energy in a forward motion instead of spending it to stay afloat.
As for skiing, I'd have to guess that it's mainly a result of a lack of interest in the sport by black athletes. Having spent many winters on the slopes, I have to say anecdotally that black skiers are few and far between. If my experience is any guide, it means that the number of world class black skiers will also be very low.
I'm afraid I don't know every line to every movie. I apologize profusely.
But it isn't because of the shoes.
It's simply that the African athletes are naturally endowed with highly developed athletic ability. If you were to take two athletes, one white and one black, and trained them in the same manner, you will find that the black athlete will excel in endurance, strength, and power quite a bit beyond the white athlete's performance. This is made obvious by the repeated drubbing of white long distance athletes in the Olympics and other world athletic competitions.
So why doesn't America use black athletes in long distance events? Simply because of the dominance of America in the shorter sprinting events. The limited pool of black athletes can only be divided so much. Short distance sprinting and long distance running are not interchangeable, they are completely different styles. While a short distance sprinter may be able to become a world-class distance runner, the reverse is never true. So in order to garner more medals, America designates black runners as short distance competitors and leaves the less talented (relatively speaking) white runners to long distance events.
One interesting case is the women's marathon in the last Olympics by a Japanese. Short, with short legs and thus a short stride, she held on and placed first in the event.
Weird.
You two have eschewed telephones for Slashdot. This is a completely new paradigm in communication.
Katz needs to write an article explaining this phenomenon immediately.
Don't need a quiz to figure that one out.
As soon as the white guy driving a econobox import with rap blasting out of the speakers came up, it was obvious. That and that I resemble Bolton too.
If you liked that one, I recommend the Geto Boys "Resurrection". Very cool.
My ass makes music too, but the bean industry would claim that it was derivative.
There is a lot of white noise generated during scratching, noise that is not available on a digital CD.
How did you create the scratch effect?
Thanks for the comment. I thought about this as a possible case in which silence can be divided, but as silence is simply the absence of sound it stands to reason that silent actions do not actually disturb the silence and divide it.
It's got to go someplace and the Yucca Mountains are as desolate as you can get. A good storage facility will be a huge boon to the energy industry and our computers will continue running unabated.
Good news for all involved.
They've either got paying jobs or they are fat slobs living in their parents' basements. The Army can't get the first and I'm not sure they want the second.
I think they were on to me right from the start. I've never been given mod points. :-(
Aspartame != Saccharine. The worst you get with Aspartame is headaches and possibly brain tumors.
Additionally, saccharine has only been shown to cause cancer in *lab mice*. Are you a lab mouse? If not, then there are no studies that show that you will get cancer.
Microsoft believes they have patent rights relating to the ARB_vertex_program extension. They did not contribute to the extension, but are trying to be upfront about it.
Diet 7-up and Diet Coke are all you need.
That and Love.
And maybe some some cups. That 7-up really fizzes up something mean.
You bet. I just saw some karma slip away...
My karma is going. I can feel it.
Stop him before he translates again!
Rubin and Birnbaum simply have different styles. Rubin's is much more masculine (if translation can be described that way) and Birnbaum's is more lyrical. I get the distinct feeling sometimes reading Birnbaum that he isn't 100% faithful to the original text, a feeling I don't get with either Rubin or Gabriel's translations, but the book is certainly none the worse for it.
Well, the wall has a section about ten feet across where a moving truck backed into it doing a U-Turn. Cinder blocks lay strewn across the grass and into the abutting parking lot on the other side of the wall. Reinforcing rebar is exposed and gnarled.
Nothing too serious. Just a lot of noise. Someone's going to have to build that wall up again.
Oh jesus. Norwegian Wood and Sputnik Sweetheart are his two worst books that have been translated. They are mirror images of each other, the latter being simply a more up to date treatment.
Wind-up Bird Chronicle and South of the Border, West of the Sun are much better quality, IMHO.
Hold on. Someone just knocked over the concrete wall enclosing the parking lot across the street. I'll be back.
A space-based telescope wouldn't have to compensate for atmosperic disturbances...
What is the space station for, if not for this kind of thing? Vanity?