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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Yes sure many of you have seen this before but is quite the introspection into the human brain, especially those of the Englsh speaking variety. Anyone wnat to fkcu auornd whit tihs terhoy?

No, and when she was told they were going to name a bar after her, Jane Mansfield was thrilled to death, but you got the right idea.

Sorry but LOL that or a variation of that is plan "B" maybe C. Listen to the 911 call. No plan of going out like that. And by the way I am interested to know how the BMW responds. After this story I think everyone who heard about it should know what their car does when pushed like that.

Yes, this is true but whatever 'credible' info out there about this indicated the brakes were cooked. Now, that can mean the car was shifted to N and he tried that or he couldn't do that at all or X factor. This partially supported by his background and or training. It is not always so bleeding obvious. :AH-HA_wink: But, yes your suggestion should be first course of action in a situation as tragic as this one turned out.

Neutral might stop you from accelerating but won't necessarily slow you down if going downhill for instance. Throwing it into a lower gear would certainly help if the car's programming allows you to. I would take that chance even at 120 and hope or the best.

Being he was a CHP officer I heard he often practiced the "duck and roll" method of egress to the dismay of his family and never tried to exit the car while it was stopped. This is actually quite common for those in law enforcement as they feel this helps keep them sharp. The point of 3 seconds as an emergency kill switch is so it doesn't have an 'oops' on the highway. Some "kill" switch. A misnomer and at the same time, not.

Some people like to make "vroom vroom" noises while the car is in park, too.

I wonder how many people with push button start know how to cut the engine like that and if the systems differ. Until now that is a question I admit would not have asked. That does indeed shed some light on this. http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/200...ll-fatal-crash/ Graphic. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/m...edia/car911.mp3

As I do believe a need to be efficient and responsible--whatever that means exists I think it's too bad that it is those hunches along with pictures of cuddly looking Polar bears are what drive the cause. And of course let us not forget if that polar bear got the chance he would kill you and everyone you care about. How about if Winston-Salem was allowed to advertise the 98 year old who smokes 3 packs a day for 58 years and says something quizzically like "these things are bad for you?

The sheriff believes it was a hoax, going to have to wait and see about charges being filed. My guess is the fine the parents for naming their kid Falcon. Truth is as this story circulated people were expecting a brilliant rescue conducted with precision and genius or find a dead child killed in a hearbreaking tragedy. We got neither. They got sincere emotion and prayer and a unified breath from helpless onlookers. And... it was just a joke.

There is this: This global warming bunk is really amazing. In light of years of nothing but assertions from Gore/Hansen and so much solid evidence in support of your position, I often feel that I am somehow living in a pre-scientific era dominated by the equivalent of flat-earth crusaders. Their ignorance is as profound as their arrogance. - Rich Shanley This is not 'evidence" by any means and hold the same level of healthy skepticism with this as I do other sources but in a search for expanding glaciers came upon this site. http://www.iceagenow.com/List_of_Expanding_Glaciers.htm Have not had the time to peel through the start page and imagine some of it borders on looney but given the argument we are presented I'm not sure where one would draw that line.

That does seem to be the most common container for $h!. The funniest at least.

That is my point. You should not worry. Some people want to attribute the "warming period" to the worsening wildfires, discounting rainfall and urban sprawl or at least pushing them to the side. Fact is there just isn't enough factual merit to support any of these claims. During the 70's some were concerned of the ice age cometh again and it will. It's part of the cycle. We are in between ice ages. It was a warming peiod that brought earth out of it. Some 18,000 years ago. Back to the wildfires for a moment they alone the accidental and intentional variety more harm than someone starting their Ford Bronco and letting it run for 5 minutes. or 5 years. Smart? no. Wasteful, sure but dooming the planet--I am not sold on that just yet. I will not get into volcanic ash because when St helens blows its top again no one is going to write her a ticket. http://latimes.perfectmarket.com/1990-05-1...rst-fire-season Then theres other factors such as astronomical, sun flares, orbitals that play out of many thousands of years not the last 30 or 40 or even since the "industrial Revolution". Atmospheric and so on. Carbon dioxide is less than 4/100ths of 1% of all gases present in the atmosphere. I nor anyone can say if we are tipping that over but what can be said with certainty is global cooling gives way to warming and climate is always changing. From about 1400 to 1860 earth was in the so called Little ice age. Partially believed as a factor in the Potato Famine. Since then the earth has reverted to the times previous. Again this is all not to say we should not try to be more conscious and resourceful but argument for climate change(duh!) is specious at best. Fraudulent and dishonest on the other end of the scale. And from what I understand to be true is Los Angeles was always prone to smog and pollution because of its location even getting the name valley of smoke from Native Americans. Good thing you don't need to cook and keep warm by camp fire. I think people take themselves a wee bit too seriously sometimes.

Yea that's great mate. I'm gonna wash my hair now. Keep up the good work.

A f@#king vacuum cleaner that hasn't stopped since I couldn't tell you when. This crazy bitch is driving me nuts.

Which way to the political forum?

Honestly people in California shouldn't worry so much about climate change as they should about a catastrophic earthquake that no one could predict. There are cold spells and heatwaves and the in between. You want to take the last few years and extrapolate a greater theorem be my guest but next year when it doesn't fit the equation "you" can't change your original premise. There's a great deal to be said for prudence, conservation and efficiency and we should leave it at that. Anyone wonder how much juice those recycling plants resources the extra garbage haulers suck up? The Greenies should look in their own backyards before knocking on our front doors.

Yeah couldn't find a six year old hiding in an attic doesn't leave much hope for finding a bin bladin. Shameless. Glad the kid was safe but what a non story.

Is that your opinion or sumamry? Some research indicates we will have a period of cooling before it gets hot as hell again and the rub is a period of warming may be normal, or become more frequent and cooling less frequent or perhaps simply this is a blip on the radar and predicting the cycles is a fool's game. If The oceans acting the way this research suggests then maybe greenhouse gases are clouding the atmosphere just enough that the ocean's aren't absorbing enough sun and its not global warmong we need to worry about rather cooling.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm What happened to global warming? By Paul Hudson Climate correspondent, BBC News Average temperatures have not increased for over a decade This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise. So what on Earth is going on? Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming. They argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. But what is the evidence for this? During the last few decades of the 20th Century, our planet did warm quickly. Sceptics argue that the warming we observed was down to the energy from the Sun increasing. After all 98% of the Earth's warmth comes from the Sun. But research conducted two years ago, and published by the Royal Society, seemed to rule out solar influences. The scientists' main approach was simple: to look at solar output and cosmic ray intensity over the last 30-40 years, and compare those trends with the graph for global average surface temperature. And the results were clear. "Warming in the last 20 to 40 years can't have been caused by solar activity," said Dr Piers Forster from Leeds University, a leading contributor to this year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But one solar scientist Piers Corbyn from Weatheraction, a company specialising in long range weather forecasting, disagrees. He claims that solar charged particles impact us far more than is currently accepted, so much so he says that they are almost entirely responsible for what happens to global temperatures. He is so excited by what he has discovered that he plans to tell the international scientific community at a conference in London at the end of the month. If proved correct, this could revolutionise the whole subject. Ocean cycles What is really interesting at the moment is what is happening to our oceans. They are the Earth's great heat stores. In the last few years [the Pacific Ocean] has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down According to research conducted by Professor Don Easterbrook from Western Washington University last November, the oceans and global temperatures are correlated. The oceans, he says, have a cycle in which they warm and cool cyclically. The most important one is the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO). For much of the 1980s and 1990s, it was in a positive cycle, that means warmer than average. And observations have revealed that global temperatures were warm too. But in the last few years it has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down. These cycles in the past have lasted for nearly 30 years. So could global temperatures follow? The global cooling from 1945 to 1977 coincided with one of these cold Pacific cycles. Professor Easterbrook says: "The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling." So what does it all mean? Climate change sceptics argue that this is evidence that they have been right all along. They say there are so many other natural causes for warming and cooling, that even if man is warming the planet, it is a small part compared with nature. But those scientists who are equally passionate about man's influence on global warming argue that their science is solid. The UK Met Office's Hadley Centre, responsible for future climate predictions, says it incorporates solar variation and ocean cycles into its climate models, and that they are nothing new. In fact, the centre says they are just two of the whole host of known factors that influence global temperatures - all of which are accounted for by its models. In addition, say Met Office scientists, temperatures have never increased in a straight line, and there will always be periods of slower warming, or even temporary cooling. What is crucial, they say, is the long-term trend in global temperatures. And that, according to the Met office data, is clearly up. To confuse the issue even further, last month Mojib Latif, a member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) says that we may indeed be in a period of cooling worldwide temperatures that could last another 10-20 years. Professor Latif is based at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University in Germany and is one of the world's top climate modellers. But he makes it clear that he has not become a sceptic; he believes that this cooling will be temporary, before the overwhelming force of man-made global warming reasserts itself. So what can we expect in the next few years? Both sides have very different forecasts. The Met Office says that warming is set to resume quickly and strongly. It predicts that from 2010 to 2015 at least half the years will be hotter than the current hottest year on record (1998). Sceptics disagree. They insist it is unlikely that temperatures will reach the dizzy heights of 1998 until 2030 at the earliest. It is possible, they say, that because of ocean and solar cycles a period of global cooling is more likely. One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up.

Wish I had a good place to start with this one but creativity and originality are usually a good one. I wish this had either. What the hell why not just add a vampire in for the test drive.

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http://video.newsmax.com/?bcpid=2097246000...tid=43128580001 Bob Lutz: GM Is Roaring Back By: Dan Weil General Motors has taken the steps that will foster its recovery, says Bob Lutz, vice chairman of marketing and communications for the company. Lutz is a longtime car executive, having held leading positions at all three big U.S. automakers in a career dating back to the early 1960s. With the departure of former GM CEO Rick Wagoner, many have looked to Lutz to help new CEO Fritz Henderson rebuild and reorient the flagging U.S. auto giant. “In September (GM) sales were pretty much back to the previous numbers,” he told Dan Mangru of Moneynews.com. “For fast-moving models that are in very high demand, we have no inventory.” That includes the GMC Terrain, the Buick LaCrosse and the Cadillac SRX. Those cars are selling well, he says. “The sad thing is we don’t have enough of those to take advantage of the demand. . . We’re going to have to build inventory up again.” GM has no problem with product quality Lutz says. “We have the product now undeniably, whether you look at the Chevy Malibu, which was car of the year; the Silverado, which was truck of the year; the Silverado Hybrid, which was declared dream car of the year; or the Cadillac CTS, which was Motor Trend car of the year.” Everyone agrees that GM has the best products in its history now and “arguably the best overall product line of anybody in the business,” Lutz says. “My problem is that thanks to a lot of negative representations by the general media and now entrenched belief, there are large parts of the American public that don’t have any notion of what today’s product line is. That’s what we have to overcome.” For the last five years, particularly the last 18 months, GM has been under-advertised and under-marketed, Lutz says. “There are Americans who, when you say ‘Are you familiar with Buick?’ there are people on the West coast who say “Do they still make those?’” The new GM is bulking up marketing, he says. “We’re going to spend the money that it takes to get the word out.” © 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved. http://moneynews.newsmax.com/streettalk/lu.../12/271183.html \

Not a cat person but I can't stand to see an animal suffer.

Grade B is good but varies. Best I had was sent to me from New Hampshire from a place called Quitchyerbitchin Farm. May have been Vermont. Great on bacon or ham or bacon wrapped ham. When it's good is my preffered.