"how-to-jump-a-battery" Articles & Blogs:
Don't get caught out in the cold with a dead car battery!
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When the temperatures dip below 0-degrees F, my auto repair shop receives early morning phone calls crying for 'help' because of cars not starting. Here are some illuminating statistics by the Battery Council International that explain why so many car bat...[Read on] |
Happy to Introduce: Smart Jumper Cables!
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Today's cars are very complex. If the battery of your car dies - you want to be very careful that you do the right thing! Here are four different ways you can charge the battery to get your car rolling down the road again.
1. Slowly charge the bat...[Read on] |
Tips for dealing with a dead auto battery
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It's not a good feeling to sit behind the wheel of your car to discover it won't start. My 2003 Honda Odyssey usually gives us advance warning to a dead battery because the power sliding doors don't move without power, so when my sons announced to me on ...[Read on] |
Mel Gibson Takes Plea Deal, No Jail For Domestic Abuse
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What is it with being in Hollywood that seems to make everyone coo-coo?
Sources say Mel Gibson has struck a plea deal with prosecutors in which he'll plead no contest to simple battery for assaulting Oksana Grigorieva and be sentenced to counseling w...[Read on] |
Don't break down over Labor Day Weekend: Tips to try before calling AAA
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Here are some some tips for those planning to travel over the long holiday weekend - keep these in mind to help avoid hefty tow charges over Labor Day. Dead BatteryYour car battery can become dead in several ways. The charging mechanism, called an alte...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Adrienne Billiau: Young woman changing the auto industry
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Purse? Check. Lipstick? Check. Job at GM? Yup.
Say hello to Adrienne Billiau, a young woman changing the auto industry forever. Fresh out of college, she is working in the Battery Systems Lab as a VOLTec Test Engineer at General Motors. That’s right: G...[Read on] |
Vile Poster of the Day: Centurion
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Got this in my email this morning and it was enough to make me gag. Could her boobs be any bigger?
Yuck. Vile. You have to jump to look at it because I don’t want it on my home page.
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Earth Day is Here! How To Have a Positive Effect on the Environment
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It's Earth Day, so Ask Patty has rounded up some important suggestions that touch
on Earth Day friendliness. At AskPatty.com, we recognize our responsibility to the world around us and strive to reduce our environmental impact. Here are some tips you ca...[Read on] |
Palins and Friends in the News: Levi’s Illogical Book Cover, Bristol’s Facial Surgery
| Significant Palin-related personal-appearance news this morning. Which would you like to hear first, Levi or Bristol? Levi? Personally, that would not have been our choice, but O.K. Lo, the cover for Levi Johnston’s forthcoming memoir, Deer in the Headl...[Read on] |
A Non-Nerd's Guide to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference
| Apple’s iPhone 3G S. You don’t have to be a developer to appreciate Apple’s seasonal unveiling of new products. Here are five takeaways any Mac user can understand:
There was no Kindle-crushing Apple “tablet” or oversized iPh...[Read on] |
TV Alert- Trouble the Water Premieres on HBO
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Trouble the Water, the Oscar-nominated documentary directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath premieres tonight on HBO at 8:30pm. It is a must see.
Here’s an excerpt from my write-up from last summer when the film ...[Read on] |
Rebecca Hamilton Reads from Fighting For Darfur
| After the Rwandan genocide in 1994, millions of people around the world responded to the mass atrocity, vowing “never again,” only to learn about a horrific wave of killings in Darfur—a region in western Sudan—nine years later. In ...[Read on] |
Mika Brzezinski Reads From Knowing Your Value
| In her new book, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth (Weinstein Books), journalist Mika Brzezinski—Joe Scarborough’s co-host on MSNBC’s Morning Joe—traces her unconventional career path, addressing...[Read on] |
Summer vacation to-do list
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When the last beach towel was loaded, the family pulled out
of the driveway and headed on vacation. That’s when an unsettling
moaning noise caught their attention.
Chances are the moaning noise was a result of low transmission fluid.
But without a...[Read on] |
E-Bikes: Green with a boost
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Bike-to-Work Day just passed, and it’s possible you never actually got on your bike. No doubt you wanted to. You probably thought about it but maybe you were worried about traffic or you live in a city with hills. Or maybe you just wanted to be able to...[Read on] |
Do the Balloon People Have a Right to Publicity?
| The boy in the balloon or, as it were, the boy not in the balloon, is a publicity stunt which has many people outraged, questioning the sanity of the boy’s father, the intelligence of the media, and the values of a media-driven culture. But other than t...[Read on] |
What's on Chloë Sevigny's Vanity Table?
| Left: Kiehl's Limited Edition Rare Earth Deep Pore Cleansing Masque with labels designed by Dexter's Michael C. Hall and Big Love's Chloë Sevigny. Right: The actress at the April 7 launch event for the collection in Santa Monica, California. By Joe S...[Read on] |
Ski Jumpers Jump Through Hoops
| Ski jumper Jessica Jerome. Photographs by Mia Tran. The free-flowing rum drinks helped you handle the many incongruities earlier this week on the third floor of Norwood, a private club in downtown New York City, but disparities were still pretty acute. In...[Read on] |
Limbaugh: "I love the women's movement, especially when walking behind it."
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Ah, Rush Limbaugh. Always so charming.
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Transcript after the jump.
Thanks to Think Progress, who also point out that Limbaugh held a "Female Summit" to find out how he could "own women."
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Saturday Reading: What if "The Expendables" Were Women
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From FlavorWire
The Expendables opens today, and if you didn’t know already, it’s an action movie that features a leather bag brimming with bundled cash, a helpless woman with an accent, and lots of bad-ass dudes dressed in black running around kill...[Read on] |
Bristol Palin: Don't get pregnant unless you're privileged
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Bristol Palin has shot a new PSA for the abstinence pushing and just generally creepy Candie's Foundation. And it is so not OK:
Transcript after the jump.
Even entertainment website E! Online recognizes that this add is messed up, saying the message is...[Read on] |
Crush of the Week: Lady Sovereign
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I went to see Lady Sovereign in concert on Wednesday, and all I can say is that this woman is off the hook! The rapper (and a self-proclaimed feminist, I might add) from the UK is gritty, enthralling and powerful and I loved every minute of her performa...[Read on] |
Infographic: How the Automotive Industry is Embracing Social Media
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At AskPatty, we keep a keen eye on social media as it relates to the auto industry, and it looks like we're not the only ones. Social media is an interesting venue - success here is not gained by spending money on ads - the big gains here come from out-t...[Read on] |
Book Review: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
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Author: Maureen Johnson
Pages: 368
Date Started: 8/1/10
Date Finished: 8/4/10
Simple Summary: Dead Aunt Meg sends shy Ginny gallivanting across Europe through thirteen little blue envelopes. Awkward flirting and adventures may occur.
Rating: ★★★★...[Read on] |
Car Maintenance: Can you really do it yourself anymore?
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For most of you, when you open your hood, all you see is a big plastic
cover that keeps you from seeing anything pertinent related to your
engine. Remember the days when you could see the spark plug wires,
there was enough space to see around under the h...[Read on] |
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