Does manual shut down still park hard drive head?

My macbook wasnt responding so i had to shut down by holding the power button and it occured to me that this might damage the HD if the head does not park.
Does anyone know if a macbook is smart enough to park its HD head even when manually shutting down?

All modern hard drives automatically park their heads when the system is shut down. So no worries.

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Many people have heard about third-party cookies, and some browsers even block those by default. Some people may even be using Private Browsing modes. However, only few seem to realise that Adobe's Flash player also leaves a cross-browser trail on your local hard drive, and allows for sending cookie-like information back to the server, including third-party sites. And because it is a plugin, Flash does not take any of the browser's privacy settings into account.
http://superuser.com/questions/1627/how-to-automatically-remove-flash-history-privacy-trai l-or-stop-flash-from-stori
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filed a bug report with adobe.
the attachment will explain it.
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