(CavemanCircus.com)
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Top 10 moments at The House That Gretzky Built - ESPN.com
1. May 19, 1984: The Oilers won their first Stanley Cup title and ended the New York Islanders’ dynasty in the process. Gretzky scored a memorable breakaway goal as the Oilers wrapped up the series in five games.
3. Oct. 15, 1989: Gretzky, in his second season with the Los Angeles Kings, tied and then broke Gordie Howe’s all-time NHL record of 1,850 points. Gretzky’s goal with 53 seconds left in the third period tied the score and was the record-breaking point. After a lengthy on-ice ceremony, Gretzky punctuated the night by scoring the winner in overtime.
Complete list (ESPN.com)
3. Oct. 15, 1989: Gretzky, in his second season with the Los Angeles Kings, tied and then broke Gordie Howe’s all-time NHL record of 1,850 points. Gretzky’s goal with 53 seconds left in the third period tied the score and was the record-breaking point. After a lengthy on-ice ceremony, Gretzky punctuated the night by scoring the winner in overtime.
Complete list (ESPN.com)
I Could Never Be A Race Car Driver
7 Reasons Why It Sucks To Be An F1 Driver
While the glitz and glamour of the F1 lifestyle sure looks appealing, here are seven reasons why it must actually suck to be paid to go fast
1. Intense training
While the glitz and glamour of the F1 lifestyle sure looks appealing, here are seven reasons why it must actually suck to be paid to go fast
1. Intense training
- All drivers who enter Formula One have to cope with the high physical demands of the sport in terms of stamina and endurance. Drivers need to be strong enough to last for full race distances where they’ll experience anything up to 5g. Additionally, drivers can sweat off anything up to 3kg of their body weight during the course of a race. As an average, drivers tend to spend more than 10 hours a week on cardiovascular exercise and have below 10 per cent body fat.
- A healthy diet is fine, but only having high protein and complex carb meals (carrots, parsnips, potatoes or fruits) must be boring as hell. Drivers very rarely eat pasta or bread, while alcohol and sugary drinks are out (except on the podium). By the end of mid-season, then, F1 drivers must be craving a takeaway or a bacon roll!
- It must be annoying answering obvious questions, especially when things don’t go according to plan on the track. A failed team strategy is also a difficult thing to explain. When this happens, all an F1 driver wants to do is to stick his head in the sand and pretend that it never happened.
- Travelling around the world every weekend must take it out of an F1 driver what with jet lag, the crappy aeroplane air and simply not knowing what time zone/day of the week it is. When they want to sleep, it’s likely they’ll be needed out on track for testing, and that’s probably the last thing on their minds.
- Teammates don’t always get on, so imagine working with the guy you think is a colossal douchebag. What’s more, F1 drivers are always competing each other in the team, and when favouritism means that you’re not allowed to pass the guy you think is slower than you to preserve points, then guess what? You’re going to absolutely hate the bloke!
- F1 is a dangerous game, and despite seriously impressive safety measures, good guys die and drivers continue to have spectacular crashes - just take a look at what Alonso went through recently. It must suck, then, to know that at any moment a blown tyre or a lapse in judgement could well mean the difference between life and death.
- Starting out, it must be nice to have loyal fans who love what you do as much as you do. But there comes a time when all an F1 driver wants to do is to be left alone (here’s looking at you, Kimi). Unfortunately, the life of an F1 driver is anything but private. Fans will always beg for your attention, and the press will always be waiting for you to screw up or say something stupid.
This Has Got To Be Too Good To Be True
Now's Your Chance To Buy A Brand New BMW E39 M5
This immaculate BMW E39 M5 has just come up for sale with fewer miles on its odometer than you'd walk in just two months! This is possibly the cleanest E39 in the world right now!
As the headline of this piece suggests, the M5 in question is factory fresh, and anyone with a Fitbit will have worked out the rough mileage - 10,000 steps per day (that’s recommended) is equal to around 300 miles of walking in just two months. That’s right, this M5 has only 309 genuine miles on the clock, which will mean that the tyres have barely turned and that the interior probably hasn’t been coughed, sneezed or eaten in . . . . .
According to the description by seller Enthusiast Auto Group, the M5 is fully optioned with Park Distance Control, M-Audio with Enhanced Bass, Power Rear Sunshade with Door Blinds, DVD, Sat-Nav and everything else you’d expect from a car with a £70,000 / $100,000 sticker price when new.
(CarThrottle.com)
This immaculate BMW E39 M5 has just come up for sale with fewer miles on its odometer than you'd walk in just two months! This is possibly the cleanest E39 in the world right now!
As the headline of this piece suggests, the M5 in question is factory fresh, and anyone with a Fitbit will have worked out the rough mileage - 10,000 steps per day (that’s recommended) is equal to around 300 miles of walking in just two months. That’s right, this M5 has only 309 genuine miles on the clock, which will mean that the tyres have barely turned and that the interior probably hasn’t been coughed, sneezed or eaten in . . . . .
According to the description by seller Enthusiast Auto Group, the M5 is fully optioned with Park Distance Control, M-Audio with Enhanced Bass, Power Rear Sunshade with Door Blinds, DVD, Sat-Nav and everything else you’d expect from a car with a £70,000 / $100,000 sticker price when new.
(CarThrottle.com)
Talk About Getting Four, Four, & Four
With fourth title in hand, Breanna Stewart delivers for UConn
INDIANAPOLIS -- Life after UConn -- a very, very busy life -- is about to begin for the amazing Breanna Stewart. Catch your breath, Stewie, because a lot is going to happen.
Which is not to say a great deal hasn't happened already. Stewart finished off a historic collegiate career Tuesday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, and there's no way to overstate what an accomplishment it is. For the program, of course, which won its 11th championship -- and fourth in a row -- with an 82-51 victory over Syracuse.
But for Stewart personally, too. She was part of 151 victories and only five losses at UConn. She was Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four an unprecedented four times. She won the Wade Trophy twice. Stewart, fellow senior Moriah Jefferson and redshirt junior Morgan Tuck, became the first college basketball players, men or women, to win four titles.
(ESPN.com)
INDIANAPOLIS -- Life after UConn -- a very, very busy life -- is about to begin for the amazing Breanna Stewart. Catch your breath, Stewie, because a lot is going to happen.
Which is not to say a great deal hasn't happened already. Stewart finished off a historic collegiate career Tuesday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, and there's no way to overstate what an accomplishment it is. For the program, of course, which won its 11th championship -- and fourth in a row -- with an 82-51 victory over Syracuse.
But for Stewart personally, too. She was part of 151 victories and only five losses at UConn. She was Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four an unprecedented four times. She won the Wade Trophy twice. Stewart, fellow senior Moriah Jefferson and redshirt junior Morgan Tuck, became the first college basketball players, men or women, to win four titles.
(ESPN.com)
Crucial Rules If You Want To Be My Friend
27 Unwritten Rules Every Man Should Live By
3. If your friend cheats on his woman, you take that shit to your grave.
4. Don’t throw a friend under the bus to impress someone. Ever.
12. Shotgun is a responsibility, not a privilege. If you are sitting up front, you’re not a passenger, you’re the copilot, responsible for the radio, navigation and responding to calls and texts on my phone.
14. If your friend with a truck assists you with moving, you shall reciprocate with a full tank of gas
18. Pick up the fucking bar tab when it’s your turn. No excuses. If you’re broke, stay at home.
Complete list (CavemanCircus.com)
3. If your friend cheats on his woman, you take that shit to your grave.
4. Don’t throw a friend under the bus to impress someone. Ever.
12. Shotgun is a responsibility, not a privilege. If you are sitting up front, you’re not a passenger, you’re the copilot, responsible for the radio, navigation and responding to calls and texts on my phone.
14. If your friend with a truck assists you with moving, you shall reciprocate with a full tank of gas
18. Pick up the fucking bar tab when it’s your turn. No excuses. If you’re broke, stay at home.
Complete list (CavemanCircus.com)
Read The Article To See Why
Men are giving up on manual gearboxes quicker than women
The website, which acts as a broker for people trading leases, looked at data from 2012 to 2015, and the results were clear. The company found 3,102 leased manual vehicles in 2012 and 2,417 in 2015 – a drop of 22 percent. Men, though, are especially less likely to choose a model with a clutch. In 2012, 85.4 percent of manual drivers were males and 14.6 percent were females. By 2015, the figure for men dropped to 81.2 percent. Because the total number shrank over the years and males left them more quickly, the proportion of women who wanted to select their own gear actually increased to 18.8 percent for 2015.
(AutoBlog.com)
The website, which acts as a broker for people trading leases, looked at data from 2012 to 2015, and the results were clear. The company found 3,102 leased manual vehicles in 2012 and 2,417 in 2015 – a drop of 22 percent. Men, though, are especially less likely to choose a model with a clutch. In 2012, 85.4 percent of manual drivers were males and 14.6 percent were females. By 2015, the figure for men dropped to 81.2 percent. Because the total number shrank over the years and males left them more quickly, the proportion of women who wanted to select their own gear actually increased to 18.8 percent for 2015.
(AutoBlog.com)
It's Just Good Business
Why pharmaceutical prices in the USA is a thousand times more than the same drug sold in a developong country?
About 200 years ago, commercial developers were facing a problem. It cost money to invent something new, but once you invented it it was really cheap for a craftsman to take it apart and build it themselves. Governments feared that new technology development would cease altogether. Their solution was to grant a short-term monopoly on any new invention, allowing inventors to reap all of the benefits of their investments to make it profitable to improve them.
Once you have a monopoly, you gain access to a bunch of tools to make money. Instead of charging about what it costs to make something, you charge whatever price will get you the most profit by figuring out how many people will buy at each price, multiplying that number by the profit per unit at that price, then picking the most profitable price.
The American market is most profitable at the price they set in America. In Bangladesh, though, the most profitable price is lower. So they set different prices in different areas, arguing that otherwise their most profitable move would be to charge American prices everywhere, denying developing nations access at all. As that would be a thing that would actually happen, governments agreed, granting discount drugs to developing nations while improving the profit of drug companies over all.
So, basically, the companies charge the ‘real’ price in developed nations that they need to to make their research budgets work, then charge a production-cost price in developing nations that wouldn’t be able to access the drug otherwise. Everyone wins – you get new drugs being developed all the time (which you pay for), and Bangladesh gets the drugs that they can barely afford to produce.
(CavemanCircus.com)
About 200 years ago, commercial developers were facing a problem. It cost money to invent something new, but once you invented it it was really cheap for a craftsman to take it apart and build it themselves. Governments feared that new technology development would cease altogether. Their solution was to grant a short-term monopoly on any new invention, allowing inventors to reap all of the benefits of their investments to make it profitable to improve them.
Once you have a monopoly, you gain access to a bunch of tools to make money. Instead of charging about what it costs to make something, you charge whatever price will get you the most profit by figuring out how many people will buy at each price, multiplying that number by the profit per unit at that price, then picking the most profitable price.
The American market is most profitable at the price they set in America. In Bangladesh, though, the most profitable price is lower. So they set different prices in different areas, arguing that otherwise their most profitable move would be to charge American prices everywhere, denying developing nations access at all. As that would be a thing that would actually happen, governments agreed, granting discount drugs to developing nations while improving the profit of drug companies over all.
So, basically, the companies charge the ‘real’ price in developed nations that they need to to make their research budgets work, then charge a production-cost price in developing nations that wouldn’t be able to access the drug otherwise. Everyone wins – you get new drugs being developed all the time (which you pay for), and Bangladesh gets the drugs that they can barely afford to produce.
(CavemanCircus.com)
Nike World's Expansion Plans
Nike Reveals Design for World Headquarters Expansion
Nike today reveals the design innovation for its world headquarters expansion in Beaverton, Oregon. With a completion date set for 2018, the ever-growing company forecasts the future of sport and athlete advancement with its technically advanced homebase.
Facilitated by workspaces that support rapid iteration and creation through collaboration, the Nike headquarters aims to foster a creative environment which spans approximately 3.2 million square feet of new space when all is said and done.
(NiceKicks.com)
Nike today reveals the design innovation for its world headquarters expansion in Beaverton, Oregon. With a completion date set for 2018, the ever-growing company forecasts the future of sport and athlete advancement with its technically advanced homebase.
Facilitated by workspaces that support rapid iteration and creation through collaboration, the Nike headquarters aims to foster a creative environment which spans approximately 3.2 million square feet of new space when all is said and done.
(NiceKicks.com)
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