Hmm ....what a wreck......what was the driver thinking...actually he was thinking....was the ESP on or of? What about the passengers? But its a merc, so no major loss. Good riddance and well done driver!!
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Wrecks !!!!
Friday, August 18, 2006
Beauty In Smoke?
The United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III Military Transport with the 14th Airlift Squadron located at Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina has flown away after releasing flares over the Atlantic Ocean. Smoke from the flare salvo reveals a crisp, dramatic, startling, and beautiful visual of the turbulent air – including two vortices each with an "eye" – created by the C-17 Globemaster III as it flies through the air.
Return of the Scirocco
A legend returns! Bosses at Volkswagen are ready to bring the Scirocco back
Plans to resurrect the Eighties badge will be confirmed at next month's Paris Motor Show, when the German brand unveils a low-slung sporty four-seater coupé called the Concept S. We have discovered this model is designed to preview the Scirocco road car, as VW has given it the codename IROC!After the Concept S makes its public debut, potential buyers will have to wait until 2008 before the roadgoing version arrives in VW main dealers here. When it does, the model will be the maker's first mid-sized coupé since the Corrado was axed in 1996.The Scirocco is likely to have a similar face to the new Eos, and incorporate the familiar VW corporate grille.A wide range of powerful engines is being lined up, including the new 1.4-litre turbo and supercharged TSI unit from the Golf GT. The GTI's 197bhp 2.0-litre will also be available, as will a 170bhp TDI oil-burner. A range-topping model could use the Golf R32's 3.2-litre V6 or a new 260bhp version of VW's 2.0-litre turbocharged FSI engine. There will be a choice of either six-speed manual or DSG clutchless manual transmissions. The car is to be built on an all-new platform which will also underpin the next-generation
Golf - although in the Scirocco this will be tuned to offer a more sporty drive.
Some Interesting F A C T S
1. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
2. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
3. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
4. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
5. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
6. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
7. A snail can sleep for three years.
8. Al Capo NE's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
9. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
10. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
11. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
12. Babies are born without kneecaps.
13. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
14. Butterflies taste with their feet.
15. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about Ten.
16. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".
17. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
18. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
19. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
20. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
21. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
22. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
23. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
24. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
25. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
26. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
27. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
28. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
29. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of die! Sel that it burns.
30. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
31. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the l! Azy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
32. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
33. The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
34. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
35. There are more chickens than people in the world.
36. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
37. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
38. There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
39. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
40. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
41. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
42. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
43. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself
Audi A2 Mark II
Audi could be preparing a new generation of small cars to replace the A2 and take on BMW's Mini.Although the A2 was expensive to produce, and not a great success for Audi, the company is thought to be impressed by the Mini and keen to have a second go at building a family of models to sit beneath the A2.These computer-generated images show how the A1 family of coupe and roadster could look. Potentially based on the next Polo supermini platform, the A1 would certainly be a sportier car than the upright, MPV-profiled A2.It would also have to scrap the costly aluminium construction of the A2 so starting prices could sit comfortably below the A2 and tempt motorists away from the Mini.With the A1 only expected to go on sale in 2010, possibly following on from a debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, there's nothing official from Audi on the car just yet.The company has already confirmed a line of new models that will take into new arenas, however, including the Mercedes CLK-rivalling A5 coupe arriving next year, and the Q5, a smaller brother for the Q7 off-roader that will take on the BMW X3.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
135ti
It can’t be named M1
This is going to be the ultimate sports-hatch by packing an extra 50+ bhp over the current BMW 130 or VW Golf R32.
Munich would love to call the car M1, but that would take away the glory from the legendary late 1970’s M1 supercar, so the range-topping 1-Series will have to do with a 135ti badge on the rear, hinting to the sophisticated 3.0-litre turbo engine delivering no less than 306 bhp!
It’s just been presented in the 3-Series coupe and should be able to turn the 1-Series into a real cannon ball on wheels.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Abruzzi's Premiership preview
The Premiership season kicks off this weekend and will chelskea walk away with their third straight crown or will the other teams pounce and take advantage? Their are tough times ahead for newly-promoted Reading, Sheffield United and Watford. My thoughts on the 2006-07 Barclays Premiership season..
I am not so sure the Premiership is going to be the one-horse race many people are predicting, but if I were a betting man and had to stick money on the champions tomorrow, I would go for Chelsea.
There's no doubt as we head for the big kick-off, that they are the strongest side. You do not win the title two years in a row then go out and sign Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko and become weaker, it's as simple as that.
They still have two world-class players for pretty much every position and although the special one (Jose Mourinho) says they are nowhere near their peak following the World Cup, they are still rightly the strong favourites.
But don't think it will be a cakewalk. Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal may not have spent the same money Chelsea have, but they will also consider themselves in a stronger position than many people give them credit for.
Take Manchester United. Michael Carrick may be their only signing of real note over the summer and it is a huge blow for both the club and the boy to see him injured, but don't forget they have players coming back.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been missing for virtually three years and has been scoring in pre-season, Paul Scholes will also be back after missing all of last season and you can also throw Alan Smith into that equation. That's four players that they didn't have at the end of last season and Sir Alex Ferguson will look upon those coming back as new signings.
Arsenal might have lost some big names over the summer, but there was also every chance that they could have gone into the new season without Thierry Henry and Cesc Fabregas as well. They have added Tomas Rosicky to the squad and don't forget that the likes of Alexandr Hleb and the youngsters in Arsene Wenger's squad should be stronger for last year's experience.
Then we have Liverpool. They laid down a bit of a marker in the Community Shield and of the big four they have probably brought the most - and they needed to.
They needed pace and penetration up front, which Craig Bellamy will provide and to supplement Steven Gerrard having to play on the right-hand side of midfield, they have got Jermaine Pennant in. Add to that the likes of young Mark Gonzalez and they are definitely better equipped to challenge the champions
You have to expect the same big four to be up there again, but there are a few clubs who were 'bubbling under' last season, who will be looking to go that one bit further and break into the top four.
In all honesty, the only one I see anywhere near of doing that is Tottenham.
Dimitar Berbatov looks like he will get them goals and they beat a number of clubs to get Didier Zokora in and with those two alone, they are stronger immediately. Like Arsenal, they have a young side that will be better equipped than last season, and more importantly they now have a better understanding of just what's required in that very top bracket of the Premiership.
Of the other teams, I do think Everton can have a good season, providing they get a good start and providing they can defend well. They needed more goals and they did what they had to do in getting Andy Johnson in at £8.6 million. That could turn out to be good business and if he and James Beattie can hit it off from the start, they will be a force.
Glenn Roeder will also be looking at pushing Newcastle on and the signing of Damien Duff could prove a masterstroke. This will be Glenn's Newcastle side and because of their stature, you would have to expect them to in the hunt for a European place again.
I know with Alan Shearer retired and Michael Owen out injured, a lot of people expected them to sign a big-money striker, but don't think the manager hasn't tried - I know that for a fact that he has.
Blackburn lost their own star turn in Bellamy, but have brought Benni McCarthy in and a few others, who although they might not be the biggest signings of the summer, will give them more strength-in-depth
They are one of several clubs who laid down some foundations last season and can be more than pleased with what they achieved - but the second season, where they have to build on all that good work, is the crucial one. As long as the big four keep spending money and bringing in quality it makes it harder and harder to keep up with them, never mind overtake them.
You do wonder how those clubs are going to cope with it and master it, and it does look like a tall order, but don't forget they all have the Champions League to contend with and if the chasing pack can maintain the self-belief and in particular, get off to decent starts, they have a chance.
The one thing I just can't see over the coming months is the newly-promoted sides doing a West Ham or a Wigan. You never really know how they are going to fare, but the one thing about the Hammers in particular, is that they are tradtionally a top-flight club - and no-one was really that surprised to see them do so well.
Of the three clubs that have come up this time, Sheffield United and Watford have flirted with the Premiership, but none are really recognised as top-division outfits. For instance, if Birmingham come straight back up, you would expect them to be pushing towards mid-table.
For instance, West Ham had better resources - as they showed with the signing of Dean Ashton - and although Reading, Sheffield United and Watford have added quantity, whether they have brought in enough quality remains to be seen.
It's hard to see any of them not being in the bottom six or seven all season, but that should not worry them. It will be hard at times but if they have to enjoy it and even if they do end up surviving in fourth-bottom on the final day, they can then build on that in that all-important second season.
One side I don't expect to be right down there again is Portsmouth. Harry, as we all knew he would, has been busy wheeling and dealing and they just look like a squad that has far more quality and experience than they started last year - I can't see them having the same terrible start that almost cost them in the end.
In fact, as obvious as it sounds, a good start is vital across the board. I expect both Charlton and Middlesbrough to be safe in mid-table, but with Iain Dowie and Gareth Southgate both new to their jobs, they will want to hit the ground running.
It will also be important for Stuart Pearce to get off to a flyer - the last thing they needed was a trip to the champiopns first up! Manchester City lost their way completely towards the end of last season and have made some big signings in the summer. They will need to gel quickly.
With all due respect, the clubs I've just mentioned might well struggle to get out of that bottom six or eight if they do get off to a slow start, and you can add Fulham to that.
I have nothing but admiration for the job Chris Coleman has done in keeping them in the Premiership but although he has managed to unearth some talent along the way, I think this might be the year Mr Fayed has to help him with a little bit of investment, depending on where they are when that transfer window opens again.
West Ham finished the season so well last year and might well have to go out and find a replacement for Dean Ashton quickly, because they are facing up to that second season when sides know what to expect from them, having maybe being caught cold last time out
It is also a massive season for Wigan, who were the real success stories and surprise packages last year. They have lost a lot of players, big players, in David Thompson, Stephane Henchoz, Jason Roberts and Jimmy Bullard and it might well be a tough season for Paul Jewell.
He has brought in players though and of those, he really needs Emile Heskey and Chris Kirkland to fire. A goalkeeper and goalscorer are so important and both of these have a thing or two to prove!
I get the feeling that like Jewelly, Big Sam Allardyce might find it tough going at Bolton this year. There have been the usual comings and goings from the Reebok, but for the first time in a few years, I wonder whether Sam has brought in enough quality and is actually starting the season with a stronger squad.
You don't need me to tell you that it is a huge season for plenty of Premiership clubs, but none more so than my old club Aston Villa.
I am delighted they have a new manager in Martin O'Neill, but I am not like plenty of other Villa fans who immediately assume that because Randy Lerner has taken over, he will immediately wave a magic wand and make everything better.
I was actually a big Doug Ellis fan and sometimes in football you don't realise just how good a guy is until he's left your club - that might well be the case at Villa Park.
But they do have an excellent manager with plenty of experience. Although he has not been in the English game for six years, but I'm sure he has been keeping tabs on it from Scotland and he will already know where he needs to strengthen.
Whether the cash is there from the start remains to be seen, but one thing Martin can count on, is patience - from the Villa fans at least.
All Rise.. BRABUS..They just had to !
The world's 'Fastest Roadster'
The obsession of speed and power will never stop, and now renowned Mercedes tuner Brabus claims it has just developed the "world's most powerful roadster".
The engineers and designers at Brabus boosted a Mercedes SL600 making it a true drop-top beast. The displacement of the SL600's twelve-cylinder three-valve engine is has been increased from 5.5 to 6.3 litres. Therefore rated power output jumps from standard 380 kW at 5 000 r/min to 537 kW at just 5 100 r/min. Simultaneously peak torque grows from 830 Nm to 1 320 Nm, available from 2 100 r/min.
Custom engine mapping ensures that peak torque in the car is limited electronically to 1 100 Nm. Performance of the powerful two-seater speaks volumes: With a sprint time of 4.0 seconds from rest to 100 km/h, 10.5 seconds to 200 km/h, 29.5 seconds to 300 km/h and an electronically limited top speed of 350 km/h the BRABUS SV S 12 Biturbo roadster is one of the fastest sports cars in the world.
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Wonder how many will figure this out ???
80% of Kindergartners solved this riddle, but only 5% of Stanford graduates figured it out!
Can you answer the following question? in one word?
1. The word has seven letters...
2. Preceded God...
3. Greater than God...
4. More Evil than the devil...
5. All poor people have it...
6. Wealthy people need it...
7. If you eat it, you will die.
Did you figure it out?
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
It so interesting………
Have you actually thought about this?
Woman has Man in it;
Mrs. has Mr. in it;
Female has Male in it;
She has He in it;
Madam has Adam in it;
No wonder men always want to be inside women!!!
Monday, August 14, 2006
Leaders or should i say Handlers.
All the below listed statements are all true facts ! Indians really rule !
Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard (hp) ?
A. Rajiv Gupta
Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Azim Premji, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries.
The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th position now.
Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia
Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli
Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika
Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the whites and the natives.There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population)
*38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
* 12% scientists in USA are Indians.
* 36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
* 34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
* 28% of IBM employees are Indians.
* 17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
* 13% of XEROX employees are! Indians.
Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.
1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.
5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.
7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now k! nown as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.
9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53.
10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
13.Chess was invented in India .
14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India .
15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilisation).
16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC Quotes about India .We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.ALBERT ELINSTEIN.
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition. Mark Twain If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India .
French scholar Romain Rolland. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih (former Chinese ambassador to USA )ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.BUT, if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an evershining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.
I hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare of INDIA ..
Turn-on Tips: How to Make Her Beg for More
Nice and slow, these are the magic words.
Never, ever underestimate them. One of the biggest complaints women have about men is that they move too fast, leaving little to the imagination. Just because you're ready doesn't mean she is. If you give her the chance to come to you, she will. And she'll be thanking you for it.
Don't kiss her on the first date.
That's right, you heard me. I don't care how you're feeling, how well you think the date went. Women expect that men will try to kiss them on the first date. She'll think about you longer and harder if you simply walk away that first night. This will inspire a certain amount of desire that can be used to your advantage next time.
Look her in the eye as often as possible while you're together.
If you're at a restaurant, stare at her even when she's not making eye contact with you. There are few things more seductive than looking up at the person you're interested in to find him or her already staring at you. Women like the suggestion of sex. It'll drive her crazy.
The importance of foreplay cannot be overstated.
Once you get her on the couch, treat foreplay like an all-night affair. Work around her clothes instead of taking them off. Consider every single part of her body in the process, and linger over the parts that so often get neglected. Kiss the nape of her neck, of course, but also kiss her fingers. Lick the back of her wrist, you get the idea. Let her close her eyes while you pretend her body is a piece of candy, something to saver, not swallow whole. If that doesn't motivate her nothing will.
It Starts....
Andrei Shevchenko grabbed his first goal for The Blues to cancel out John Arne Riise's early opener for Liverpool, but it was Crouch who had the last word to give Rafa Benitez's men the first trophy of the new season.
The traditional season curtain-raiser was a lively affair as both sides looked to gain a psychological blow as the growing rivalry between both clubs shapes up for another year.
Michael Ballack, making his competitive debut for Chelsea, was booked after just six minutes for a foul on Momo Sissoko.
Three minutes later Liverpool broke the deadlock with a superb individual goal from Riise, although Chelsea goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini will not be happy with the role he played in the strike.
Riise picked up the ball well inside his own half and ran unchallenged to the edge of the Chelsea box before firing in a shot which Cudicini made a mess of letting it fly past his hands.
The bad blood between the two sides threatened to spill over on 16 minutes when Frank Lampard was booked for kicking out at Bolo Zenden after a scuffle in midfield.
Chelsea suffered a blow on 24 minutes when Ballack appeared to pull up with a hip problem and although the German midfielder tried to shake off the injury he was forced off and replaced by Salomon Kalou.
Jermaine Pennant called Cudicini into the action on 35 minutes with a free kick from the edge of the area which the Italian collected low down to his right.
Seconds later the play switched to the other end and Shevchenko picked the ball up on the edge of the area and fired in a shot which Reina did well to palm out before collecting at the second attempt.
The lively Gonzalez fashioned an opportunity for himself on 39 minutes when he worked his way past Geremi on the left and flashed in a shot which Cudicini saved.
Liverpool wasted a great chance to double their lead on 42 minutes when Gonzalez fired in an inviting low cross from the left, but Crouch and Garcia got in each other's way and Crouch's scooped effort was tipped over the crossbar by Cudicini.
Chelsea made Liverpool pay for the miss a minute later when Lampard split their defence with a superb pass to send Shevchenko clear on goal and the former Milan man kept his cool to slot the ball past Reina.
Right on the stroke of half time Didier Drogba was sent clear on goal, but Reina was quickly off his line to clear the danger with his head.
Shevchenko had the first chance of the second half on 47 minutes when he received Lampard's pass wide on the left, cut inside and fired a shot straight at Reina.
Liverpool missed a great opening to restore their lead two minutes later when Garcia slipped in Zenden inside the box, but the Dutchman screwed his shot horribly wide of the target.
Drogba almost caught out Reina on 54 minutes with an attempted cross which the Spanish goalkeeper had to dive full stretch to tip over the crossbar.
From the resulting corner Lampard picked out Shevchenko who saw his header tipped round the post by Reina. Liverpool introduced Steven Gerrard and Xabi Alonso on the hour mark as they looked to gain control of the game again and Alonso was quickly into the referee's notebook for a foul on Michael Essien.
Craig Bellamy was called into the fray on 66 minutes as the Welsh international made his first ever club appearance at The Millennium Stadium.
It was Bellamy who was the creator of Liverpool's second goal ten minutes from time when he broke down the left and picked out a perfect cross for Crouch to head home past Cudicini.
Liverpool substitute Fabio Aurelio came close to grabbing a third on 86 minutes when Terry failed to cut out Gerrard's cross allowing the ball to fall to Aurelio who saw his shot tipped wide by Cudicini.
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