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Hemi Vs. Viper!Written by on December 1, 2000 Contributors: Tom Shaw, Keith Keplinger A Chassis Dyno Shootout Shows How The Viper V-10 Measures Up Against A '67 Hemi Belvedere II
As far as we're concerned, there is only one certainty in the fast-car hobby-talk is cheap. Everybody brags about 500 horsepower 440s and 10-second cars they swear are driven to work daily. We prefer to put our stock in the great equalizer-the DynoJet Chassis Dynamometer, where the bull stops and the rollers do the talking. The chassis dyno makes honest people out of everyone.
Net versus Gross
Back in the early '70s, horsepower ratings fell through the basement seemingly overnight. Ever wonder why? There were several factors involved, including reductions in compression ratios on all engines (some so small it's hardly worth mentioning, others considerable), and ratings taken at different rpm than previous years. However, the biggest reason for the dramatic changes was that starting in 1972 auto manufacturers adopted a "net" system of rating engine power, as opposed to the "gross" figures they had published in years past.
Simply put, the gross rating system was a measurement of an engine's power, at the flywheel, taken without any restrictions on the engine's ability to perform. Engines were set up on a dyno and the measurements were taken with no air cleaners in place, no alternator or other engine-driven accessories, and very often with tubular headers. Mufflers? No way! That changed in '72, partly in an effort to "under rate" a car's performance capability and mollify the insurance industry, and partly to give a fairer "real world" estimate of what kind of power buyers could expect from their car. Net horsepower ratings were taken with all the crank-driven accessories in place, a functioning air cleaner, and factory exhaust manifolds. As an example of what the new ratings did to advertised engine performance, the gross horsepower rating for a '71 383 4bbl engine, with 8.5:1 compression, was 300hp at 4800 rpm. Its net rating was 250.
So when the venerable 426 Street Hemi was rated at 425hp, it was impressive. When the Viper came out and was rated at 400 horses, we all "ooo-ed" and "ahhh-ed" over it because it was the most powerful engine to come out of Detroit in over 20 years. But it still didn't have the numbers of the Hemi. Or so we thought. In fact, it was more impressive, because that 400 horses was a net power rating, compared to the Hemi's 425 horse gross rating! When the Viper V-10's ratings got upped to 450 a couple of years later, the raw numbers showed an engine that had finally surpassed the published ratings of the legendary Elephant.
The Test
We've always wanted to compare the two generations of super motors head-to-head, on an even playing field. That would mean bolting engines to a dyno and winding them out, both with all driven accessories affixed, stock exhaust in place, and the air cleaners on. However, full-resto Hemi engines don't grow on trees, and we hadn't won the lottery yet so we couldn't buy a new Viper and yank its engine for our little comparo. Besides, the thing about an engine dyno that we don't like is that it never tells you how much power is getting to the ground, which is ultimately the only place it matters. Certainly a drag strip test would offer insight, but the wide disparity in rubber meeting the road is also a concern.
Our only option-a chassis dyno. The DynoJet would give us real world power comparisons between a stock Hemi-powered car and a Viper, and that's what we wanted. But there were still two problems: Even on a concours restored Hemi the owner will often slip in a bigger cam or change the compression ratio. At the very least the jetting in the carbs and the ignition timing are different. And even if we did find one that was stone stock so many of these original Hemi cars never see the road; we didn't think we'd ever find one with an owner who would let us strap it to a chassis dyno and air it out, so our idea seemed like it never would be more than a "wouldn't it be neat to..."
Then we went to Atlanta a year ago to visit Jeff Dodson at Six Packs To Go, and over the course of bench racing for two days we told him about our little idea, and lamented about how it would never come to light for the previously discussed reasons. That's when Jeff told us about his friend Steve Simmons and his '67 Hemi Belvedere II 4-speed car. "He drives the car a lot, and as far as I know, it's stock. He'd probably do it," said Jeff. This sounded great to us, but when Jeff said that Steve drives his car a lot, we figured the engine had been modified, at least a little bit. But we really wanted to see this thing happen, and called Steve to pitch our idea to him. Much to our surprise and delight, Steve said he'd love to. All that remained was the scheduling!
He's Da Man!
Our number came up in the press pool Viper rotation last August, and Chrysler sent us a shiny red '99 Viper R/T 10 for a few days, which was promptly floorboarded up to Atlanta Chassis Dyno in Duluth, Georgia-about 20 miles north of Atlanta. On the morning of the shootout, we were running about ten minutes late and felt bad when we pulled into ACD's parking lot and saw that Steve already had his car off the trailer, meaning he'd been there for a while. Then we noticed there wasn't a truck and trailer anywhere in sight. We also noticed Steve's "ONE OF 3" license plate. "Where's your trailer?" we asked him. "I don't have one. I drove it up here this morning. It's over an hour each way-I stretched it out a bit and took the back roads, though."
Ladies and gentlemen, all we can tell you is that Steve's car looks like a trailer queen, even up close. When we saw the license plate and learned it was one of only eight '67 Hemi Belvederes, and one-of-three equipped with a 4-speed, we naturally assumed that "driven a lot" meant to the burger stand on Friday nights and in the country on Sundays-if it wasn't raining. How wrong we were! Steve told us he drives the car very often, including to shows several hundred miles away, local cruises, club meetings, you name it.
Then we asked him what deviations from stock the engine had. "I changed the mechanical cam to hydraulic lifters, but it has the exact same specs. Otherwise, everything else is stock, even the jetting and metering rods in the carbs and the ignition timing. It's good enough to get me around town just like it came." The factory-delivered compression ratio is still intact, but is made usable with premium pump gas and octane booster. We're talking stock, right down to the proper Hemi mufflers and small-ish diameter exhaust pipes, complete with kinked bends and all. Hardly an optimal package by today's standards, but that's exactly what we wanted. The only other concessions to modern driving are the red line radial tires.
As for the Viper, anyone who's ever driven one knows that it's really a race car. Sure, they sell it to the public, it has a heater, A/C, and a radio, and Team ORECA sells an official race version, but when it comes down to it, the Viper is a race car. Features of note include cold air induction, tuned factory exhaust manifolds, mandrel-bent large diameter exhaust tubing, and low-restriction mufflers and catalytic converters. With an advertised 450 horsepower (net) from its all-aluminum 488ci engine, we felt kind of guilty-like we were leading the lamb into the lion's den.
The Results
Steve displayed no fear as the guys from Atlanta Chassis Dyno rolled his car onto the DynoJet and strapped it down. He didn't do anything more than smile when we had him sign the cover-our-butt release form. He was excited because he'd never done anything like this, and was genuinely curious to see the results his beast would register. For the test, all the belts were left in place, the exhaust was left bolted on, and the hood was closed to better simulate real world driving conditions. Oh yeah, did we mention this all took place during one of the hottest weeks Atlanta has seen in years?
The same procedure was used when we put the Viper on the rollers, including closing the hood, which would give the Viper an advantage right out of the gate due to its fresh air induction versus the Hemi's closed element air cleaner sucking hot underhood air. Another advantage the Viper has over the Hemi are reflective heat shields on the exhaust manifolds that theoretically keep underhood temps a little lower. And tuned intake runners, dual throttle bodies, a roller cam-the list goes on.
After running both cars, the results were predictable: The Viper made more rear wheel horsepower and torque than the Belvedere. What was impressive was that the Belvedere made 315 rear-wheel horsepower at 4,900 rpm and held it, table flat, past 5,500 rpm. Torque was nothing short of stump pulling, with a peak reading of 354 lb/ft at 4,200 rpm, and never dropping below 300 lb/ft between 2,000 and 5,500 rpm. Power specs for the Viper were more peaky, with a max horsepower reading of 362 achieved at 5,600 rpm, but it fell off from there as quickly as it climbed. The V-10's torque curve was relatively flat, with a range of 370-380 lb/ft between 2,700-3,600 rpm, which then peaked to 410 lb/ft at 3,750 rpm, dropping off from there, with another small climb in the 4,400-4,700 rpm range. After that, it fell off pretty steadily. The raw numbers: The Viper's V-10 bested the Belvedere's 426 Hemi by 47 peak horsepower and 56 lb/ft of torque.
Spin Doctoring
When the results were in, the crew at Atlanta Chassis Dyno, ourselves, and Steve were all impressed with the stock Hemi's power. The ACD crew probably more so than any of us, because they had never been around Hemis that much. We were all surprised that in 30 years, the power gap wasn't more substantial. Of course, bench racing ensued, and we speculated that if all things were equal, meaning the Hemi was given a performance tune, the carbs and ignition were optimized, and the thing was allowed to breathe, the results would have been different. Just imagine what the Hemi could do with nothing more than an open element air cleaner, headers, mandrel bent pipes, and a decent aftermarket exhaust system! And we could probably pick up a little something on the top end if we swapped back to the solid lifter cam, too. Better yet, equal things up with a roller cam! But that's not for this story.
So we were impressed with the performance of the stock Hemi, and we felt very lucky that we were able to do the story. But it wasn't until three days later, back at the office talking to others about the results, when we made perhaps our biggest observation, and one that seems obvious now: The Viper, at 488 cubic inches, has the advantage of pure displacement over the Hemi to the tune of 62 cubic inches! Obvious, sure, but that got us wondering about the efficiency of the engines, on a per-cubic-inch basis. A quick evaluation with a $3.99 calculator revealed that the Hemi made .470 rear wheel horsepower per cubic inch of displacement. The Viper chugged out .473hp per cube. That's only a .003hp difference-equal to 0.43 percent. The two degree change in temperature could account for that! Differences in torque per cube were even closer, with the Hemi making .838 lb/ft per cubic inch and the Viper recording .840 lb/ft per cubic inch, for a difference of only .002 lb/ft-cubic inch-0.24 percent. Like the patriots at the battle of Bunker Hill, who didn't shoot until they saw the whites of their eyes and kept it up until they were out of ammunition and had to retreat, the Hemi may have lost the battle when you look at the bottom line, but it was unquestionably a moral victory when you tally the numbers and consider what 32 years of technology has really offered.
In This Corner...
We want to first thank Steve Simmons for allowing us the use of his 67 Hemi Belvedere II for this test. That the car is one-of-eight, three with a 4-speed, makes his car worth more than we'll be able to invest in a car anytime soon. The fact that Steve thinks nothing of driving and enjoying it makes him our hero. "I don't neglect or abuse it-I won't take it to K-Mart and park it next to everyone else," Steve says, "but I do drive it. It goes to shows, to our club meetings, just around town. These things were meant to be driven, and if you don't drive them, you're not doing them any good. It's a good car, and I enjoy it! If you can't drive and enjoy them, get out of the hobby." It takes big brass ones for an owner with a rare car like this to strap it onto a chassis dyno for a bunch of magazine yahoos, and we're in his debt.
Steve bought his car in the early '80s and restored it from the ground up. Sharp-eyed readers will notice a couple of deviations from other Belvederes, though-it has a GTX-style tape stripe instead of a chrome trim at the belt line, there's no vinyl roof, and it has GTX exhaust tips. "I talked with the original owner, and he said this is the way it came," says Steve. "It was a 'spring special' built late in the year in 1967. It was supposed to come through with a vinyl roof, but didn't. The original dealership that sold the car told the first owner thay would install the vinyl top for him, but he wanted to car right away and said not to bother."
Also of note is the fact that Steve found very few inspection marks on the car. "I figure by this late in the production year, the assembly line guys knew what they were doing, and each and every thing probably wasn't checked off. What inspection marks I found were replaced, but I didn't find that many."
The day of the test, Atlanta was experiencing record heat. After we were done, Steve drove his car back home, and here's why he's our hero: It was 101 degrees, not counting humidity, and we managed to hit rush hour traffic. Steve doesn't have A/C in his car, and the vinyl seats didn't help matters. While we felt bad for Steve during his 1 1/2 hours journey, were were more worried about the Hemi overheating, and asked if he'd like to stop anywhere and let the car cool down. "it's fine-don't worry about it!" Steve said. "The needl'es about half way up-right where it's supposed to be." Indeed!
And In This Corner...
There's no doubt it-The Viper is an awesome car, and all brand loyalty aside, it's the best performing American-made sports-car there is. Or ever was. It corners like a go cart, has point-and-shoot acceleration, and its six forward gears all combine for a ride like no other. Anyone who doubts that the production Viper is, in fact, a factory race car need only look to the full belly pan that keeps everything under the car our of the wind for less aerodynamic drag, and the fact that the bulges in the GTS coupe's roof are there for helmet clearance!
With a 6th gear overdrive of .50:1, cruising at 100 mph (prudently only on a closed course) registers only 1,900 rpm on the tach. Freeway off ramps can be taken confidently at twice the posted speed, and the P275/35ZR18 front and P335/30ZR18 rear Michelin Pilot ties on the 18x10/18x13 aluminum wheels never give a hint of braking loose under hard cornering.
You don't sit in a Viper; you wear it like a glove. The first five minutes in one is spent adjusting the seat, steering wheel, and pedal assembly to your liking. Yes, we said pedal assembly. On the bottom of the dash, below the steering wheel, is a knob that adjusts the pedals forward or back several inches, depending on the driver's stature. The transmission tunnel sits about rib-cage high in the cock-pit after you're seated with your legs out in front of you Indy'car style. It's really like sitting on the floor.
Changes we noticed between the red '99 R/T 10 roadster and the Blue '97 GTS coupe we had a couple of years ago include more generous padding in the seat cushions, and a radio that didn't increase its volume relevant to the ambient noise, such as the engine singing at 7,000 grand or the wind rushing by at 105, both of which were welcome additions. At 6-foot-1, once change I would like to see is to move the windhield-mounted rear view mirror down to the top of the dash board, vintage convertible style, so that it's a straighter shot out the back window, instead of the roof support blocking half the mirror's line of sight for us taller folks.
If we were buying, we'd opt for the GTS for several reasons. First, it seems smoother at higher speeds. Though we never went past 120 mph in the roadster, there wasn't any doubt we were hauling due to the prodigious wind noise, Like all convertibles, there's more wind noise due to the fabric top. However, on our well-abused media test vehicle, wind leaks at the seals were so bad even at normal highway speeds that after 1,400 miles, our ears were ringing as if we had just returned from a Nine Inch Nails concert. The '97 GTS had none of these problems. Some of it can be attributed to the fast back styling of the GTS-the wind rolls the back of the GTS, but there is a lot of turbulence over the deck lid, right behind the removable rear window, on the roadster. Finallly, there was the leaky problem all convertibles have. We were caught in a five minute downpour north of the Florida border. A stream of water ran down from the windshield header that left us scrambling to move maps and cameras out of the way. Had the shower not left as suddenly as it came, we'd have had to stop under an overpass. Then again, this stuff is really only a problem for people who are going to be driving the car on a daily basis which, let's face it, most Viper owners aren't going to be doing.
We have one last thought about the Viper that we even find hard to believe ourselves: The Viper is more car than 99.9 percent of the people driving them need. Its performance limits far exceed those of most drivers. That anyone actually needs to buy the go-fast add-ons available or send it for supertuning is laughable. It's like the difference between having $2 million in the bank or $10 million: At that point, your life doesn't change a bit-it's strictly a power trip. After spending the better part of four days and 1,400 miles in one, we'd recommend that every Viper owner attend a 3-day driving school and consider that your first bolt-on.
Other than that, all we can say is we want one-bad!
Shootout At A Glance
|'99 Viper R/T 10
|'67 Hemi Belvedere II
|Peak Rear Wheel Horsepower
|362 at 5600 rpm
|315 at 4,900 rpm
|Peak Rear Wheel Torque
|410 lb/ft at 3750 rpm
|354 lb/ft at 4,200 rpm
|Rear Wheel HP/Cubic Inch
|Rear Wheel Torque/Cubic Inch
|0.840 lb/ft
|0.838 lb/ft


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5 Reasons There Must Be Corpses Buried Under the Batcave
The third installment of the Bale Batman movies is coming out next year, called Dark Knight Rises. And, while you know we're looking forward to the movie -- we've done as much as anyone to promote the important issue of Batman awareness among the public -- the film promises to address what is for us a very awkward and sensitive subject.
The Batcave.
There was no Batcave in Dark Knight -- Bruce was operating out of temporary accommodations while Wayne Manor was being rebuilt -- but they mention at the end of Batman Begins their plan to renovate the cave underneath into the crime fighting headquarters we're familiar with from every other incarnation of the character. And that's a problem.
See, the entire appeal of Batman is that he's the ultimate geek superhero. He's an antisocial loner whose strength is nothing compared to supernatural peers like Superman. Yet, he gets by on his intelligence. And he does it alone, with no help from anyone other than two employees. No family, no friends. That's who he is.
And the Batcave ruins it. Why?
#5. The Batcave is a Huge Construction Project
In Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne created everything he needed to become Batman in the damp, empty cave under his house. He had some help from Lucius in getting materials and the Batmobile, and of course Alfred was there. But that's it. He had to do everything himself because the world can't know he's Batman. And each item he owns -- from his weapons to his suit -- is filtered through his company as being for some other purpose, the modifications made with his own hands.
But we're going to go out on a limb and say that Bruce and two elderly men with shovels are not going to be able to build this:
We're estimating at least three broken hips and one pulled Bat-groin to make this happen.
That's the most small-scale version of the Batcave ever portrayed, from the old TV show (they didn't have Joel Schumacher's budgets back then). Someone will surely pipe up in the comments to point out this is the new, gritty, realistic Batman, so they'll surely have a scaled-down, gritty, rebooted Batcave. But that also would make no sense. If the new Batcave turns out to just be a workshop and a couple of laptops hooked together, why even have a Batcave at all?
The whole point having a cave headquarters is that his crime fighting equipment is too big to fit in his enormous mansion, so he needs an entire sub-structure -- itself the size of his whole mansion -- to keep his Batman stuff. Hell, look at the size of his temporary digs:
The man needs room to work and test out gadgets and such. Otherwise, Bale Batman would just put his bat computer in a locked room inside the house. It is his house and he does live there alone. Don't forget that the man's house is going to be completely rebuilt from scratch. He could have whatever room he wanted in there and he could just play it off like he's some rich, eccentric collector of crime computer servers. He could do whatever he wants. He could have a zero gravity room if he wanted. He's the fucking Batman.
"I don't want any furniture. I want levels, like the pyramids. Why?
Because you're fired that's why. And build me a FBI crime lab on the second floor too."
No, there is no such thing as a small-scale, more realistic Batcave. Which means ...
#4. Hundreds of Construction Workers Will See the Batcave
Yes, hundreds. First of all, you can't keep the fact that you're building something huge in the basement secret from the workers building the new Wayne Manor itself. The construction is happening on top of it so you either have to get the basic structure of the Batcave done first, or do them at the same time.
"Anyone else think this guy's 'wine cellar' is unusually well-armed?"
So, for instance, this huge mansion in Palm Beach with three bomb shelters required 600 workers, working for three years -- and that's just for a fancy house. If you're talking about tricking out a massive mansion-sized subterranean cavern with top-of-the-line computer equipment, miles of cable and security measures covering every inch, you're looking at something more like the restoration of the section of the Pentagon that was damaged on 9/11 -- that took 1,000 construction workers and 3,000,000 man hours.
You see the problem right away. Remember this douche?
We saw in The Dark Knight how the whole operation almost came tumbling down because this guy noticed that the Batmobile was actually based off the design of a Wayne Enterprises military vehicle. He tried to extort money from Batman and then went on TV to expose Batman's identity. Multiply him by several hundred and you have the dilemma Wayne faces with the Batcave.
And keep in mind, it's not like he can gather a team of loyalists or Wayne employees to do all the work; this work will require contractors from a dozen different specialties. You've got the basic construction and framing, then the electricians, the plumbers, the concrete guys, the plaster guys, the roofers, the IT crew who'll be running all the network cable, the heating/air conditioning installers, etc.
Billionaires don't generally know how to snake their own poopy drains.
All of them have to be hired separately. If you try to do it on the down-low and hire a secret bunker-building team like the Yugoslavian contractors Saddam Hussein brought in to build his secret palace bunkers, that attracts even more attention. A whole lot of local Gotham contractors are going to complain very loudly when some shady operation in black vans gets the job instead.
And then you have the city officials who have to inspect new structures for building code violations. And so on.
"I don't care how rich this guy is. There's no permit for hollowing out a goddamn mountain."
#3. The People Building and Delivering the Bat-Gear Would Know, Too
Now, you may be saying that, sure, the people swarming over the Wayne Manor construction site may all notice that Bruce has demanded a huge, elaborate basement/cave. But that's all they'd know. They'd have no reason to realize that 1) he's going to use that space to fight crime, and 2) this indicates he is, in fact, Batman.
But the basic floors and walls and lighting of the cave are just the tip of the iceberg. What is he going to put in there once he gets the foundation built? Obviously not everything that comic-book Batman had in there.
Comic-book Batman had a two-story Lincoln penny, a life-sized T-Rex doll, a jet, a helicopter, a gym, a computer, a mechanic shop, an interrogation room and other trophies and wonders. But that's comic-book Batman. We're talking about Bale Batman here. So, say he has the minimum. So, like a Batcomputer and that's it? We already know what his computer set up is. We've seen it:
"Man he's going to ask me to reassemble these in that stupid cave. I better come up with a reason to quit."
But he also needs a place to fix his car -- he goes on police chases and crashes through walls every time he takes it out, so he's got to change the tires somewhere secret, right? So he's got to have one of those workshops like on Pimp My Ride down there. At least. Then, assuming he doesn't have just the bare minimum, he's probably also got the forensics lab and a workshop where he builds his gadgets -- you know, the stuff he had in his temporary setup in the last film.
All of that must be custom made, then delivered and installed. And it gets to be kind of hard to keep up any kind of a cover story when you notice Batman's love of branding.
"Hey Mr. Wayne, where do you want us to put this giant Batman symbol illuminated floor panel? Does it go by the crime supercomputer or by the floating island with retractable bridges where you keep your black tank?"
But even the guys who don't actually handle bat-shaped furniture deliveries aren't going to have to be Sherlock Holmes to put the pieces together. This guy is demanding a huge cave facility, wired up like NORAD, with all of the entrances hidden, and is (presumably) demanding non-disclosure of this fact by everyone who works on it. Either he's Batman, or he's a terrorist.
But, OK, maybe if he plans really carefully he can compartmentalize the project so that no one guy sees everything. Maybe he uses a separate crew on the Batcave, and make them use an off-site entrance, like the hidden entrance away from the house that every Batman uses for the Batmobile. Then, only once they're finished, does he cover up the entrances and hire the crew to build the manor itself on top of it. And all of the people involved in the Batman parts have to sign an agreement not to tell anyone.
Because construction workers are known for their absolute discretion.
OK. Unfortunately, even then ...

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Pizza Milano opens in St.C.
July 21, 2013
ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Pizza Milano is opening its doors in town, serving pizza and related dishes made with an experienced hand....
hopefully it's better than Vocelli in wheeling where I personally found most of the food over priced for what you got. the pizza is good when it's hot and fresh. I tried other things at Vocelli and was never happy for my hard earned $$$ spent.
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Everything was working fine this morning. In the afternoon, I tried to boot into Ubuntu Lucid Lynx once again and I see no display. I hear the sound prompts of the login screen, so I press enter and type in my password, and I hear the sound of the Ubuntu Desktop. Which means that everything is working fine except that it does not display anything on my screen.
What can be a solution to this?
UPDATE: It Fixed itself, somehow. I still dont have a clue what the problem was so I will provide the details:
When I see the GNU grub menu, I see the following options
Ubuntu, with Linux 126.96.36.199 - generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 18.104.22.168 - generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu, with Linux 22.214.171.124 - generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 184.108.40.206 - generic(recovery mode)
I normally use the first option to login, but I would just see a message (I remember it had something like
RAM not loaded, or detected) and then it will go into blank screen.
I tried logging with the second option (recovery mode) as it looked like what I needed, and it had the oldschool dos-style blue menu, where I checked the option 'load ubuntu normally' and I was taken to a CLI.
I tried pwd, and it was showing my home directory. I navigated to one of my directories and compiled and executed a C++ program and it seemed everything was working fine. So I manually restarted and checked the first booting option, and everything is fine.
What could be a possible diagnosis of the problem I faced so that I dont face it again?


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Too much fun, too much pain
February 7, 2011
This weekend was a bit of a crazy one, for me anyway. I went out Friday and Saturday night getting about five hours of sleep total. Alcohol units consumed – too many to want to count. Surprise, surprise my joints were very sore and painful Saturday and Sunday thanks to the incredibly unhealthy weekend. Oh yeah, also add in the fact that I ate a disgusting amount of McDonalds and WHITE CASTLE. Someone should probably just shoot me right now and end the misery. But! It's Monday, a new day, a new week. It's time to detox and get back on track. Was the sleep-deprivation and arthritis flare-up worth it? Yes, I think so. I feel like I haven't had much of a social life lately and it was really great to hang out with friends again, even if I overdid it a bit. The joints seem to be back to normal now, thankfully, after sleeping 12+ hours last night. Rheumatoid arthritis is such a frustrating mystery most of the time, however I do know with 100% certainty that lack of sleep (and boozing) makes me noticeably flare up and hurt all over.
Sunday afternoon I decided to take some photos in the St. Anthony Parkway area of Northeast Minneapolis. It was a very gray dreary winter day, but I think I got some good shots. Check out the photos on Tumblr – meinherz.tumblr.com
2 Responses to "Too much fun, too much pain"
February 23, 2011 at 11:24 pm
That shot in B&W is really nice! The color one of the cars with the city in the background is pretty nice, too. I am a bit partial to black and white for some reason.
BTW, here from LJ.


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I live at a lake with my company in sight just 2 km (~1.2 miles) away. To get to work I have to cross the city, which is not only expensive in terms of money, it also costs a lot of nerves. That's why I think I should go to work in a canoe. What do I need to learn to do that?
I thought about an inflatable one because I can easily carry it the few meters from shore to my workplace and I need to be able to ride a bus with it. One of my choices is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wNZc72zKBs
Does this look like a smart idea to cross the lake of Zürich with it every day? Mostly it's a pretty easy lake without large waves or strong drift.
PS: I'm fine with a "may get wet" I just don't want to get soaked on a daily basis, Especially in winter.


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Tourism Saskatoon marks Tourism Week with a flurry of activity
City hosts travel media conference; Saskatoon Summer Experience team invades Regina
Tourism Saskatoon is celebrating Tourism Week in Canada with a friendly invasion of Regina.
The Saskatoon Summer Experience team will be in the provincial capital from June 10 to 13 and June 24 to 27, handing out festival passes, concert tickets, golf passes, and many other prizes. Passersby will be given exclusive access to an online contest with two grand prizes valued at $1,000. The location of the Saskatoon Summer Experience team in Regina will be revealed through Tourism Saskatoon's Facebook page and Twitter account (@visitsaskatoon).
"We are excited to be in Regina, promoting our wonderful city," said Daryl Demoskoff, Director of Markets and Advertising for Tourism Saskatoon. "Not only is this an opportunity for us to spread awareness of Saskatoon festivals, events and attractions, but it also gives us a chance to say thank you for thinking of us as a destination of choice."
While the Summer Experience team invades Regina, travel media from across the country will be taking over Saskatoon for the 2013 Travel Media Association of Canada (TMAC) Conference and AGM, June 12 to 15. The annual conference is an opportunity for TMAC members to exchange story ideas, explore new destinations and keep up-to-date on skills, trends and techniques. Industry members are able to showcase their destinations at the media marketplace, a scheduled business-to-business networking session. As the host destination, Saskatoon has a unique opportunity to stand out.
"Saskatoon is a vibrant, energetic city and we are thrilled to be the host destination, sharing our city with Canada's top travel media," said Todd Brandt, President and CEO of Tourism Saskatoon. "We look forward to welcoming both the media and our industry counterparts to our city and province, especially during Tourism Week in Canada."
Tourism Week in Canada is a grassroots initiative that brings attention to the economic opportunity available to Canada through travel and tourism activity. Tourism Saskatoon believes that a strong tourism sector relies on the dedication and support of community members, and recognizes these local leaders each year at the Saskatoon Shines! Tourism Leadership Celebration.
This year's event takes place June 18 at the Hilton Garden Inn. Tickets are $65 each or $350 for a table of six and can be purchased by contacting Heather Bury at (306) 931-7583 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Please respond by June 12.
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Tourism Saskatoon is a membership-based, non-profit visitor and convention bureau marketing Saskatoon and region as a destination of choice for leisure and business travel. Services include convention and events attraction, media relations, and membership services advocacy. Tourism Saskatoon is one of only six internationally accredited destination marketing organizations in Canada. Nicknamed "the hub city" for its numerous domestic and international transportation connections, Saskatoon is known for its expansive parklands and admired for its arts and culture scene, festivals, and major sporting events. For more information, visit www.tourismsaskatoon.com.


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It might be just a simple definition problem but I learned in class that a central force does not necessarily need to be conservative and the German Wikipedia says so too. However, the English Wikipedia states different on their articles for example:
A central force is a conservative field, that is, it can always be expressed as the negative gradient of a potential
They use the argument that each central force can be expressed as a gradient of a (radial symmetric) potential. And since forces that are gradient fields are per definition conservative forces, central forces must be conservative. As far as I understand, a central force can have a (radial symmetric) potential but this is not necessarily always the case.


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TRX Exercises
6 TRX Exercises That Will Get You RippedTRX is way harder than you think. Change an angle the slightest bit, and you're completely changing your workout. Because the entire system is premised on using your own body weight against yourself, you can increase or decrease the level of resistance by leaning deeper or shallower into an exercise. Also, the instability of the bands make more muscles work harder to maintain correct positioning than do regular free weights.
Andrew Vontz, a certified TRX trainer and competitive cyclist who works for the official TRX outfit, was first introduced to TRX several years ago when the man himself -- former SEAL squadron commander Randy Hetrick, who popularized the workout -- whooped Vontz on a Santa Monica beach to demonstrate that the TRX suspension training system is "a serious tool for a serious workout." Here's a sampling of the best TRX exercises to get you started.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has moved to ensure it doesn't lose more than $500 million in potential Egypt aid as it weighs suspending assistance after this summer's coup.
U.S. officials and congressional aides say the State Department notified Congress Friday it intends to use the money.
But left unclear by the procedural step is how.
One option involves punishing Egypt's military by allocating the funds to help American companies "wind up" assistance programs, instead of supporting the government.
Officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
The administration had until Sept. 30 to claim the money.
Egypt's coup has divided members of both parties Congress. Some say aid should be cut off. Others contend the money is critical for U.S. and Israeli security.
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On This Opening Day, It's All About the West
A pair of nationally televised afternoon games will highlight the return of Major League Baseball on Monday. And the order is indicative of one of the major shifts occurring within the sport.
ESPN begins its opening-day slate with the New York Yankees hosting the Boston Red Sox at 1:05 p.m. Eastern. Then, at 4:10, the network will show the Los Angeles Dodgers hosting the San Francisco Giants.
The first game represents where the game's epicenter has been. The next represents where it is going: out of the East and into the West.
Yankees-Red Sox may still be called The Rivalry, but with the expectations so low for both teams, we can probably drop the capitalization now. It was telling that ESPN selected the Houston Astros-Texas Rangers game for its Sunday night opener instead.
The truth is, for just about everyone outside the Northeast, the rivalry between the Giants and Dodgers is more compelling this year than any other in baseball. The Giants have won the World Series two of the last three years. The Dodgers' new ownership has assembled a star-studded roster, creating championship expectations in Los Angeles.
Baseball's best team may reside in Washington, where the Nationals open Monday against the Miami Marlins. But the sport's highest concentration of talent is in California, which could conceivably have four playoff teams this year.
The Oakland Athletics, defending champions of the American League West, open against the Seattle Mariners. The Los Angeles Angels, with one of the game's most fearsome lineups, visit the Cincinnati Reds.
The only Golden State team that doesn't figure to be in playoff contention is the San Diego Padres, who open against the New York Mets.
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Dress for Success Louisville is excited to launch a fun, new initiative for the Louisville and Southern Indiana area. Dine for Success Louisville provides an opportunity for the community to eat at local restaurants while helping to support the programs of Dress for Success Louisville.
A different restaurant will host Dine for Success on the second Tuesday of the month. The business will in turn donate 10 percent of its total day's sales to Dress for Success Louisville. Patrons of the designated restaurants will receive information about the programs of Dress for Success Louisville on Dine for Success night.
2013 Schedule:
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The New York Times today pounds out a love letter to New Yorker editor David Remnick—a fairly regular occurrence. To summarize: David Remnick is a journalist with no flaws. Really? Well. As close as you'll find at Conde Nast.
Despite having a humongous staff that includes many of the most self-impressed journalists in the world, Remnick managed to avoid last year's across-the-board budget cuts at Conde Nast. A simple case of Si Newhouse having a man-crush? Not totally! Consider, according to Stephanie Clifford:
- Last year, The New Yorker's ad pages fell by 24%, but the magazine still managed to make a profit.
- He's raised circulation by nearly a quarter in the past decade, while also doubling the cover price.
- He's also raised the renewal rate during that same period.
- He rides the subway, unlike that fancy queen Tina Brown.
Remnick is perfect for his time and place in the industry. He's no-nonsense, budget-conscious, and a wise cultivator of talent; he's also a Princeton man and a willing cultivator of The New Yorker's insular traditions. The New Yorker will never have a gonzo, burn-the-house-down, Matt Taibbi type as an editor—which we'd love to see, but for juvenile reasons. Remnick is the best that anyone could hope for (which is to say, he's excellent). We're even willing to indulge his determination to write another fucking Obama book. Just one word of warning, David: watch out for that snark. It will destroy you.


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I think they both mean "to go" -- is that right?
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http://www.yellowbridge.com/ provides great explanations on usage, etymology, and other aspects that will help you break down each character so you can understand the differences.
To go somewhere
我去海边 (Wǒ qù hǎibiān) I'm going to the beach (with no description of how you're getting there... are you walking (走路)? are you driving (开车)? are you running (跑步)?)
走: http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/wordsearch.php?searchMode=C&word=%E8%B5%B0&search=Go&dialect=M
To walk, to run, to move (vehicles), to leave
我走到海边去了 (Wǒ zǒu dào hǎibiān qùle) I walked to the beach (where 走 specifies you walked there, paired with 到 to represent the destination)
去 means that you want to go to somewhere which is your aim. 走 It's just a kind of way to go to somewhere,you can walk(走),run,take a plane to it.


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Romney Repaling Marriage Equality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRN9Y5Nvdqk
Romney Bullied HS Student on Because he was gay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nvalk89Uxs
This is just stupid. Why? Because I'm homosexual, and a lot of other people are too. And trust me, no matter who you are, he'll find a reason to mess up your future. He really ticks me off.


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The application I working on is developed on top of SharePoint 2007 environment, the issue I faced is in CA's Search Administration, all the items like Content Source, Scope and etc cannot click, when I clicked on the link, it hit the error below.
I've login with admin with sufficient rights to access the page, and I verify the files was in layout folder, wonder why it will hit page not found issue. No suspect log was captured in Event Viewer as well. There is also no major changes recently as well.
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A 707bhp Hellcat V8 has been crammed into this truck
Yep, a Canadian dealer has shoehorned Dodge's crazy engine in a Ram pick-up
Our latest road tests of this car...
What exactly is 'new' about the new Range Rover Evoque?
Visually? Optional all-LED headlights, and a snazzy new LED...
Useful upgrade as an auto, though manual mode makes your head spin. Evoque still terrific
This is the Range Rover Evoque… in 2WD. Savvy move? Yes. An undermining of the brand? Erm
We only drove the prototype but it was enough to answer a few questions, chief among which was - is it any good to drive? Yes.
It may be a baby crossover for the fashion conscious but it's all Range Rover at heart
The smash-hit baby Rangie. The Evoque is a Range Rover for fashionistas, and if you think that's nonsense, here's a shock for you: Victoria Beckham assisted the designers. Well, she probably didn't worry much about locking differentials, but she helped choose some nice colours for the interior. There's a coupe-ish three-door or a more practical five-door, should you have children to deposit at a private school. And because it's a Range Rover, it'll still drive up craggy things. Good.
The ride and handling people have pulled off something a bit special here. The Evoque might be a Rangie, but there's nothing wallowy about the way it corners. It attacks windy roads like an excited hot hatch, but still rides with the class of its big brother. This is a very well-rounded machine, and although purists might think it's some fancy bit of chintz, it's still a grafter when the road turns brown. Or white. Or yellow. We've driven the Evoque to the Scottish Highlands, across an Icelandic glacier and over mammoth dunes in Dubai. And it didn't slip up once. Then we took it to Las Vegas, where it cruised quietly around the neon jungle and drew a bigger crowd than Siegfried and Roy.
A pair of diesels will take care of most sales – a 150bhp and 190bhp version of the same 2.2-litre unit – but there's a turbocharged petrol for those who fancy going from zero to sixty in 7.1 seconds. The bulk of the range is four-wheel drive but there's now a fuel-sipping front-drive eD4 variant too.
You won't fit a wolfhound in the boot, but that's not really the point. Importantly, it actually feels Range Rovery inside, from the classy materials and quality build to the muted layout. You sit high with a great view out the front, but rearward visibility is hampered by high sides and shallow glass. Rear space is bigger than it looks – sub-six-footers should be fine back there, even in the three-door – and the back seats come as a sculpted pair or a three-person bench. 'Dynamic' trim adds buckety front seats in black or red leather.
The Evoque starts at £29,205 for a five-door 'Pure' model and rises by well over £16,500 for the top end 'Dynamic Lux'. There's a spread of options, including gadgets such as surround-view parking cameras and a dual-view screen, so passengers can watch telly while you worry about driving. Almost all the diesel variants manage over 50mpg, while the petrol flounders in the low 30s – and probably closer to 20 if you drive like a Stig. There's a big waiting list for new orders, so it should hang on to its value for the first year or two.
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I've been searching for hours in the game to find a Stronghold and haven't seen one. Apparently lots of mobs and treasures can be found there, but the question is where can we find those?
Can we find them near a ravine or abandoned tunnels?
I've been searching for hours in the game to find a Stronghold and haven't seen one. Apparently lots of mobs and treasures can be found there, but the question is where can we find those?
Can we find them near a ravine or abandoned tunnels?
From a Reddit thread about stronghold distribution, it was reported that Jens (the development lead on Minecraft) said at PAX that strongholds spawn within a 500 block radius, centered around your initial spawn point.
As of 1.8, the number of strongholds spawned per world was increased from one to three, which makes them rare, but not egregiously so like they were in 1.8-pre1. Combined with the 500 block radius spawn parameter, if you do any amount of exploring, you should hit one by sheer dumb luck.
If you're impatient, there are alternatives depending on the version of Minecraft you're using:
Beta 1.9
As of 1.9-pre4, you can use Eyes of Ender to locate the direction of a stronghold by throwing them up in the air. Once thrown, they'll change direction to point to the stronghold.
Example usage from CaptainSparklez:
Beta 1.8
There is no in-game way to find a stronghold, but you can use a cartography program like MCMap Live (Mac) or Cartograph G (Windows) (see also this question for other alternatives) to look for tell-tale signs of a stronghold: iron bars and bookshelves.
Here's a render of a world I just generated, highlighting bookshelves (click to enlarge):
The bookshelves are just barely visible at this resolution, but they're marked by the green circles.
Bam, stronghold. The render is from
If you go here and click "upload with new input" and enter in your world seed (found by pressing F3 ingame.) it will output the coordinates for the strongholds and ruins in your world. This is the optimal way of finding them as they don't always spawn above ground.
There is an in game mechanic for solving this problem. Use Eye of Ender
If you want to get into the end, be sure and bring a bunch of them though!
It's pseudo-random, though you can probably find strongholds with something like MC Map Live, though it's only for Mac OS X. Here's the Windows equivalent, though I'm not sure if it'll work for 1.8. Cartograph.
Just explore your world and manually search for strongholds on the map.
I take the seed (F3) from the world in which I want to find the stronghold, and start a creative map using the same seed. When you do this, you have an infinite number of eyes of ender to throw (throw by right clicking).
Once you find the stronghold by throwing the eyes of ender, and then following them (you will have to dig to get to it), write down the coordinates of the stronghold (F3), and then go back to your original map.
Head to the coordinates of the stronghold you found, and, if you used the same seed in your creative world as you did your original world, the stronghold will be there. This method makes it so you don't have to kill lots of endermen to get the eyes ender. Hope this helps!
Lots of great answers here, but no techniques on practically finding the strong hold with eyes of ender.
The Bottom-Line is, eyes of ender are rare so you need to use a technique called '
You can always use triangulation if you're inclined to work out to solve similar problems in real life too.
A lot of times strongholds are connected to ravines. Seriously every stronghold I've found was connected to a ravine, whether above or under ground. So look for a ravine, and the chances are good you will find a stronghold. If all else fails, use Eyes of Ender, they'll bring you to the Ender Portal room in the stronghold.
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STEUBENVILLE - A flash mob dance Thursday on the steps of the Jefferson County Courthouse to protest the alleged rape of a teenage girl allegedly by city high school student-athletes and to raise awareness about violence against women worldwide was attended by a small, but upbeat, crowd.
The unusual sight of about 30 participants marking One Billion Rising's V-Day event dancing on the courthouse steps attracted local media and others interested in the novelty of the event, while the demonstration coincided with other V-Day events worldwide, according to the organization.
However, Steubenville Thursday was the destination for several involved in the organization founded by Eve Enlser, activist and playwright of "The Vagina Monologues," because of the notoriety of the alleged rape, according to Deb Lemire, event co-organizer and Cuyahoga Falls resident.
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About 25 to 35 participants took part in a flash mob protest at the Jefferson County Courthouse Thursday as part of One Billion Rising's V-Day. The women's anti-violence organization's program included music, speakers and a flash mob dance to protest the alleged rape of a teenage girl allegedly by Steubenville High School student-athletes and to raise awareness of violence perpetrated against women worldwide. -- Mark J. Miller
"My organization, Queen Bee Productions, did the first staging of 'The Vagina Monologues' in Ohio," said Lemire. "We've been involved with V-Day for the past 15 years."
Lemire said this was the 15th anniversary of the founding of V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women. She added the flash mob was a way to attract the public's attention in a way that was easy and popular.
"Flash mobs are something that's happening all over the globe," she said. "Steubenville is struggling with the rape case, and we're hoping to bring positive energy and compassion. It's difficult when something like this happens in your community, family or tribe."
Steubenville has been in the media spotlight for the past several weeks because of the alleged rape, which allegedly occurred Aug. 11-12. Trent Mays, 16, of Bloomingdale, and Malik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville are slated to stand trial on March 13 for the alleged sexual assault of a 16-year-old Weirton girl.
The case is being prosecuted by the office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and heard by visiting Judge Tom Lipps.
Wednesday's demonstration was a low-key affair, unlike three protest events at the courthouse organized by the Internet hactivist group Anonymous, the second of which drew national media attention and thousands of protesters.
Protesters Thursday listened to a pre-recorded monologue on violence against women, after which participants began the flash mob. A few males attended, some in Guy Fawkes masks, with one passing out roses to some of the women in the gathering. Except for Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla, who asked participants to make way for passers-by to enter the courthouse, the police presence was nonexistent for Thursday's event.
Lemire said she's had personal experience dealing with sexual abuse and its aftermath.
"It's heartbreaking to reconcile a person you knew that perpetuates (abuse) and what you thought you knew about that person," she said, adding often with sexual assault comes shame and denial. "We're here to bring positive energy to the community that's suffering and to do what has to be done. It's tough.
"This young woman needs support, and the people responsible for (the alleged rape) need to be held accountable," continued Lemire. "Everyone makes decisions that aren't always awesome, but that doesn't mean you can be assaulted. We hope Steubenville will rise and take care of its tribe. It doesn't mean you try to make it go away."
Quinn Tillson and Tanja Resch said they traveled from Yellow Springs, Ohio, to participate in the event. They said Steubenville struck them as a typical small town in Ohio.
"There wasn't a V-Day event in Yellow Springs," said Resch. "We came here specifically to protest rape culture."
"(Steubenville) doesn't stand out," said Tillson, adding the city is no different than any smaller community anywhere. "That's why it's so important. It's the same everywhere. But for (rape) there's a price to be paid. Right is right everywhere."
The V-Day movement has raised more than $90 million in funds for creation of more than 14,000 women's anti-violence educational programs, safe houses and other activist events, according to organizers.
One Billion Rising recalls a statistic that one in three women worldwide will be beaten or raped during her lifetime.


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#3. Help Track the Spread of Disease
Most people assume that World of Warcraft has only two practical applications: It teaches you to gain weight and also haggle for virtual money with impoverished Chinese sweatshop workers. But did you know the game is pretty good at simulating public-health crises? That's heady stuff for a game about gnome knights and she-cow sorcerers.
In September 2005, "Corrupted Blood," a virtual plague, spread through the fictional world of Azeroth, killing everything in its path. WoW's programmers designed the outbreak to infect only higher-level players, but a nasty glitch let Corrupted Blood jump from the elite players to even the lowliest Dwarven shoguns and Orcish taxidermists.
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While the game's administrators struggled to quarantine the infected, some bright bulbs noted this virtual pandemic modeled the spread of real-world disease, particularly with regards to human response. Epidemiologists usually rely on past data and statistics to predict an outbreak's trajectory, but with the Corrupted Blood incident they had a digital terrarium filled with real people escaping cities, risking their lives to heal the sick and generally freaking the fuck out.
The Corrupted Blood mishap proved to be a blessing in disguise. Public health researchers gained a trendy new research tool, and Warcraft finally contributed something worthwhile to the canon of human thought (besides Leeroy Jenkins that is).
#2. Stave Off Senility
The human body does not age like a fine wine. Your skin prunes, your libido droops and you forget your own damn name. Not to worry, though, human ingenuity has come up solutions to all these problems. You have Botox for your face, Viagra for your junk and... Starcraft for your cranium?
That's right, world domination is great for grandpa's mental health, even if he's only conquering from behind a computer screen. Researchers at the University of Illinois instructed one group of elderly volunteers to play Rise of Nations for 23.5 hours and another group to sit around being old. After just a day's worth of real-time strategy games, the first group saw marked improvements in multitasking, concentration and short-term memory, all the while having fun and ignoring the looming specter of death.
The cognitive gains from gaming aren't exclusive to the Greatest Generation. In fact, whippersnappers like you can boost your attention span by living vicariously through the oldies. Researchers from the University of Rochester and University of Queensland studied the brains of gamers who played Medal of Honor and Tetris. The MoH players, who had to multitask in a 3D world, scored higher on cognitive tests than the Tetris players, who were busy zeroing in on single descending block at a time. Once again, the killing games worked better. We knew it!
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Did you bomb your MCATs? If it was because you spent the prior evening dominating the Ms. Pac-Man leaderboard at your corner tavern, don't give up your med school dreams just yet. A 2003 Iowa State study says your drunken, cirrhotic ass is doctor material, dammit.
ISU researchers tasked doctors and medical school residents with three different games testing motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Those surgeons who got in at least three hours of gaming a week conducted laparoscopic surgery 27 percent faster with around 37 percent less mistakes.
Just to clarify, laparoscopic surgeons use fiber optic cameras and joysticks to navigate the body's cramped, blood-filled tunnels. So yeah, laparoscopic surgery is exactly like Doom 3.
The benefits of this gaming regimen are pretty significant. According to study participant Dr. James Rosser, the difficulty of laparoscopic surgery is on par with "tying your shoelaces with three-foot-long chopsticks."
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#3. The U.S. Department of the Treasury
We usually think of the Treasury as the nerdy, straight-laced sibling in the family of jocks that is the United States of America. While the FBI is beating up kids for their lunch money and the CIA is boning a cheerleader in the back of a sports car, the Treasury is at home studying for the extra credit section of his math homework.
The Treasury Department is like the Richie Cunningham to the CIA's Fonzie.
That is true, in the sense that the U.S. Treasury is also a powder keg of vengeance and pent-up geek angst. Consider that up until very recently, the Treasury was the parent department of the Secret Service. These are the guys who wear dark sunglasses, take bullets for the President, disappear miscreants in the night and maintain alien conspiracies.
See that dude with the machine gun and kickass mustache? U.S. Treasury.
But that's not the only kickass bastard child spawned into the world from the Treasury's immense balls. By the time Prohibition came around, the Department of the Treasury exercised more jurisdiction over raids of mobsters than the Department of Justice or even the FBI. It was the Department's own Bureau of Prohibition that fielded Treasury agent Eliot Ness and his Untouchables: an elite squad of the 11 toughest, ballsiest law enforcers in the country, deliberately selected so that their collective strengths made them as unstoppable as Voltron.
They conducted raids with door-smashing snow plows, had plants and spies within the heart of the Capone empire, were public enemy #1 for the country's mobsters and--unlike their cinematic equivalents--scored a flawless victory, living their whole Timespiltters 2-esque career busting distilleries and nailing mobsters while sustaining zero casualties.
#2. The Guards at Buckingham Palace
You know those guys with the huge, furry hats at Buckingham Palace? Every single American movie in which the protagonists go to England includes at least one scene mocking the fact that these guys don't move or do anything, even if you kick them in the balls.
In actual fact, it's well worth your while not to test out that particular cliche because it's not necessarily true. There's no real rule stating that the Queen's Guard aren't allowed to move, they're just so used to American asshole tourists by now that your mockery and mimicry rolls right off their backs... most of the time.
A Buckhingham guard remaining calm after a public mockery.
Rest assured, beneath that giant bearskin hat lies the highly disciplined mind of a trained professional killer, and he is just waiting, desperately hoping, for your tourist ass to step an inch out of line so that he can rip your spleen out and beat you to death with it.
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Yes, they may dress like shoe-buffers and Victorian-era vibrators, but the Queen's Guard are armed with machine guns, the same amount of training as any spec-ops in the British military and have seen action in engagements like the Battle of Waterloo. That's right, these dapper Dans helped ice Napoleon.
In sum, they're just as hardass as any other Brit with an automatic rifle. More so because they're the life guards of the Queen of England herself and, less importantly, Prince Charles. It might almost seem like those funny outfits are designed purely to distract the enemy with hilarity. Put them in regular military uniforms and you'd be less tempted to dance around them, blowing raspberries and mocking their cold emotionless stare.
#1. High School Cheerleaders
The American cheerleading phenomenon seems little more than a bizarre teenage mating ritual, not to mention a vicious re-establishment of archaic gender roles. While the boys beat each other senseless on the field, the girls dance around in miniskirts.
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Actually, in many ways, cheerleading is the most Spartan high school sport the law allows. Its members put their lives in each others' hands, its hazard is without equal and the promise it has to offer? GLORY.
Cheerleading is hands down the most dangerous sport in high school. The intense gymnastics, lack of padding and fiercely competitive nature associated with today's routines puts cheerleaders at greater risk of catastrophic injury than pretty much anyone else, from football players to flaming sword swallowers.
Tossing a human being haphazardly into the air to spin and flip is not safe.
"Catastrophic" is exactly what it sounds like. Cheerleaders suffer broken limbs, spinal injuries, paralysis and even death. It's not just more dangerous than any of those pussy male-dominated sports, it's actually the leading cause of catastrophic injury for young women. It kind of makes you feel inadequate as a fan of your sports team; You're just cheering them. These girls are willing to die for them.
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Starlight, Starbright is a simple and fun pattern highlighting framed fussy cut pictures. It's a great lap quilt or wall hanging that's fast to make. Finished quilt size: 47" x 47" Designed by Leigh Headington and Diane Coleman. Customize your pictures as you desire, including eliminating the frames. The only rule is that you end up with a 10 1/2" unfinished block. It's up to you.
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