Crash test: 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu
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Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2009. Show all posts
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
2009 Chevy vs. 1959 Chevy
An old 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air goes up against this 2009 Chevrolet Malibu in a crash test. Which car do you think won this battle? The results might surprise you!
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Makes you wonder how anyone survived, huh?
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Makes you wonder how anyone survived, huh?
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Dunk You Very Much
And this guy's in high school!
Best dunk ever put down on a solo break in high school? Here is 6'2 Elijah Johnson pulling out all the stops at the Derby Classic in 2009.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Ten Best- and Worst-Performing Stocks of 2009
Given the recession-marred year and the battering the U.S. stock market took in 2008, it should come as little surprise that many of the current year's best-performing stocks are comeback stories.
Also to be expected, perhaps, is the heavy presence of financial companies among 2009's worst performers, given the sector's ongoing troubles that resulted in the failures of more than 130 U.S. bank and thrift failures during the year.
The Best:
Ford Motor Co. up 309%
The auto maker in December reported it sold many more U.S. vehicles in November versus a year ago on strong demand for its fuel-efficient vehicles.Expedia Inc. up 210%
The online travel site is viewed as well-positioned to continue to swipe market share from traditional competitors....and 8 others here
The Worst:
Citigroup Inc. down 52%
The banking giant's surprisingly low pricing of a mid-December offer illustrated just how wary investors were about Citi's ability to return to fiscal health.Eastman Kodak Co. off 40%
The company in early December said it would sell its business that develops screen technology to end a long-standing dispute as it shifts from its fading traditional camera and film business into digital technology....and 8 others here
Friday, December 18, 2009
The Decade in News Photographs
This September 10, 2008 NASA handout image received on September 12, 2008 shows a picture of Hurricane Ike downlinked by the crew of the International Space Station, flying 220 statute miles above Earth. The center of the hurricane was near 23.8 degrees north latitude and 85.3 degrees west longitude, moving 300 degrees at 7 nautical miles per hour. The sustained winds were 80 nautical miles per hour with gusts to 100 nautical miles per hour and forecast to intensify.
Call it what you will, "the noughties", "the two-thousands" or something else, the first decade of the 21st century (2000-2009) is now over. Looking back on the past ten years through news photographs, it becomes clear that it was a dramatic, often brutal decade. Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and wars were by far the most dominant theme. Ten years ago, Bill Clinton was ending his final term in office, very few had ever heard of Osama bin Laden, the Taliban ruled Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein still ruled Iraq - all that and much more has changed in the intervening time. It's really an impossible task to sum up ten years in a handful of photographs, but below is my best attempt at a look back at the last decade - feel free to let me know what I missed in the comments below.
Drummers perform during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics at the National Stadium on August 8, 2008 in Beijing.
This unsourced picture allegedly shows ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein being dragged out of his hiding following his capture by US troops 13 December 2003 in an underground hole at a farm in the village of ad-Dawr, near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq.See the rest.. (50 images)
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Hard Rock: The Best Songs of 2009
OK here we go.. I've been preparing this post for a while now. Everyone who knows me knows I am a lover of unique, complex, hard-rocking music.. in that order. This year I will say right off the bat was somewhat of an "average" year. There were no studio releases for two of my favorites, Staind & Godsmack, and the new stuff on the radio just wasn't there. There were however a couple bands who were new to me in the last year and a half or so, and I'll be looking forward to hearing much more from them. And a band that most of us thought were dead has experienced a serious resurrection.
When trying to get this list together, of course I did a little research, just to be sure there wasn't a song or two out there that I had heard but forgotten to include. In doing so I came across all types of different music lists. Most people don't understand how to classify music, if to do so at all. A few mainstream places I visited had the same songs on both their list of top rock songs, and top alternative songs. Others don't understand that you can't classify one of a band's songs as metal, but yet another as rock.. unless of course you have to, but I wouldn't. If that's the case, then they, like most great bands, DON'T NEED classification. This is the same argument I have always provided in defense of one of my all-time favorite bands, Rush. They are their own classification of music, or their own sub-genre of rock music.
Of course, I'll never include a country song or a rap song in with my list. Since we're talking sub-genres of ROCK, you just don't do that - the three worlds are too far apart. But at the same time, if you don't think that some of this is "rock", then that's ok. Most of this would be just fine on any hard-rock or progressive rock list.
Here's my top-15 for 2009:
15. Sound of Madness – Shinedown
14. I Will Not Bow – Breaking Benjamin
13. Whiskey Hangover – Godsmack
12. The Night – Disturbed
11. Scream With Me – Mudvayne
10. Wither – Dream Theater
9. Jars – Chevelle
8. Check My Brain – Alice in Chains
7. Two Weeks – All That Remains
6. Overcome – Creed
5. Crawl – Breaking Benjamin
4. A Looking in View – Alice in Chains
3. Hard to See – Five Finger Death Punch
2. The Best of Times – Dream Theater
1. The Count of Tuscany – Dream Theater
Honorable mention:
The Shattered Fortress – Dream Theater
Acid Bubble – Alice in Chains
Walk Away – Five Finger Death Punch
Careless Whisper - Seether
Believe In Nothing – All That Remains
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The 2009 Geminid Meteor Shower
Click to enlarge"It's the Geminid meteor shower," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "and it will peak on Dec. 13th and 14th under ideal viewing conditions." A new Moon will keep skies dark for a display that Cooke and others say could top 140 meteors per hour. According to the International Meteor Organization, maximum activity should occur around 12:10 a.m. EST (0510 UT) on Dec. 14th. The peak is broad, however, and the night sky will be rich with Geminids for many hours and perhaps even days around the maximum.
Left: A flurry of Geminids in Dec. 2008 recorded by an all-sky camera at the Marshall Space Flight Center. In the movie, note the circular halo that forms around the Moon as it arcs across the sky; that is caused by ice crystals in high clouds.Cooke offers this advice: "Watch the sky during the hours around local midnight. For North Americans, this means Sunday night to Monday morning."
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