Suggestion of intent in ’86 shooting – The Boston Globe.
Investigators have discovered evidence they say suggests Amy Bishop may have purposely shot her brother with a 12-gauge shotgun in 1986, prompting Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating yesterday to initiate a judicial inquest into the death, which had been ruled accidental.
Bishop took her father’s shotgun on Dec. 6, 1986, and loaded it in her bedroom before fatally shooting her 18-year-old brother in the kitchen of the family’s Braintree home. She then ran to an auto dealership, where she held two workers at gunpoint and demanded a car.
Supercar is inspired by the squadron of the Air Force in Italy.
Speed of the model exceeds the 320 km / h.
The Italian Pagani announced, on Friday (26), the first images of Special Zonda Tricolore. The supercar won singular view, inspired by the aerobatic squadron of the Italy Air Force. Thus, the body of carbon fiber is painted in blue and has details in the colors of the Italian flag. The car will be exhibited at the Salon International in Geneva in March. The new version is based on the Zonda Cinque and brings the Mercedes-Benz AMG 7.3 V12 678 bhp and 79.5 lb.-ft. of torque. The car accelerates from 0 to 100 km / h in just over 3s. The maximum speed exceeds 320 km / h.
The Pagani not reveal details about the models, but the international press specialized in the sector believe that the supercar will cost more than 1.3 million euros ($ 3.2 million without import tax and tax code).
I got all my tax returns back, and I’ve suddenly got all kinds of money. The urge to spend it on stupid stuff (PS3) is very strong. But I know I need to wait and get a car. It weird having so much saved, it doesn’t even feel real. Its all just numbers.
I think I’m going to go out today, but I’m not sure where, or even if I should go. I don’t want to spend any cash, but that’s the only thing I can think of right now. All my chores are done; I really don’t have much going on.
I’m going to have to figure out something for dinner, since my mom isn’t cooking tonight. Not sure what I’m going to do there…..
Looking to take out a lease on a car in Tokyo Japan?
There are some important questions to ask about the contract before you sign. I’d be happy to discuss those with you. One area is the residual value of the contract and what happens at the end of the contract. The so called residual may not be the residual you think it is! E.g. The residual is set at 800,000 yen. At the end of the contract you have looked after the car well and there has been no damage, the km’s driven are within the limit allowed…you decide to hand the car back and not buy it out. Generally speaking you can just walk away from it at no cost correct? Well not so fast! Depending on the contract if the market value (according to the dealer) is 500,000 yen you will be asked to pay the 300,000 yen difference. Now this can be tricky as the lease company can on purpose up the residual to get the monthly down and hence lead you into a lease that you thought was a good deal…to good to be true!….the lease company has zero risk because they can adjust the amount payable at the end of the contract. You should ask for a guaranteed residual value.
I guarantee the residual on my leases! There are other points to be wary of. For more information on leasing a car new or used car in Tokyo Japan see www.micklay.com or email cars@micklay.com Call 03-3468-0804 or 090-3805-7141. Mick Lay.
If you have found a perfect car for yourself in an overseas country and want to ship it to the United States, I bet it may not be an easy job. With the bundle of rules and regulations related to the safety measures and emission norms needed for vehicles, auto shipping to US is a complicated task. However with some necessary steps taken carefully, you can make this job easier and can cruise down Route 66 easily.
All requirements needed to drive in United States must be met by the Vehicle. You must carefully check the safety features including the ride height, smog emissions etc. before you start the shipping process for the vehicle.
To make the job easier you may hire a customs broker who can handle all your paperwork and push all your necessary forms through. It will ensure arrangement of all necessary documentation before your vehicle arrives at the port, although it may cost you a bit extra. To avoid timely and costly delays at the port, it is advisable to seek professional help in preparing the necessary documents for the Customs and meeting other formalities, which you would have had to do yourself otherwise.
An experienced shipping company having experience in shipping from the country of export to the United States and one which is fully insured should be hired. In case of any unforeseen accidents, it is necessary to make a check before hand whether the shipping company is fully insured or not. A certificate of Insurance naming you as the certificate holder must be obtained from the shipping company.
Before the car’s arrival, ensure that the undercarriage of the car is properly cleaned and there are no foreign particles attached to it. The United States department of agriculture, in order to ensure that the vehicle is free from all malicious pests which are not native to U.S., has a pre-requirement that the vehicle be free from all foreign soil.
For the required licensing and registration in your state, you should contact your local state department of Motor Vehicles. A label of certification identifying the vehicle’s manufacturer, manufacturing date etc. is required. This will also acknowledge the vehicle’s conformity to standards of federal safety at the time of manufacture.
While shipping the car you should make sure that there are no personal belongings in it. Shipping companies do not take liability for missing items and any personal items lying in the car will be susceptible to theft during transportation. With the above steps followed carefully, auto shipping to USA can be made quite less cumbersome and easier.
As I’ve mentioned before on my blog I’m going back to Turkey tomorrow… I have one little problem, my car. I live pretty much in the center of Jönköping, which means parking is really expensive, one month of parking close to my apartment cost me €150 which I believe is way to much. So I’ve got my car parked on a free parkingplace about 4km away.
The problem is that after I came back from Turkey we’ve had a snowstorm here… So I was expecting the worst. When I arrived I was surprised, I thought the car was not even gonna be visible, but it was. Even though it took me almost one whole hour of digging and digging before I finally could release my car from it’s prison of snow. I guess I’ll have muscle pain in my arms tomorrow from all the digging.
I consider myself to be a one with great amount of patience. I just passed another test today! Wow, what an achievement!
My car battery has been giving some trouble for about a month now — every time the car has to be jumpstarted. I, being such a gentleman, don’t want to embarrass others by asking them if I could get a boost from their car. So, I always call the emergency roadside assistance for a jumpstart. It usually takes about a two to three minutes, but I generally have to wait for about 45 minutes for the emergency assistance to arrive.
I decided to replace the battery. So, I called the assistance again to get my car started. I waited for about an hour but nobody came by to help me. Then the despatch called me to inform that the responder was stuck on the road because there was an accident on the road and it’d be another 30 minutes before he could arrive. So, I took out a book from my backpack, lay down on the backseat and started reading. It was very cold outside and I could not but open the window every five minutes lest I got suffocated inside.
Another 45 minutes passed — no one came by! Then I called back the despatch to know what was going on. She tried to explain everything mumbling jumbling and fumbling, but the calmness in my voice got her settled — I told her I understood that it must be very difficult for the responder to arrive in time because the traffic was so bad.
Another hour passed, then Big Joe, the responder came with his huge truck. (He actually signed his name as “Big Joe”). I received in the parking lot. He immediately started explaining why he was late: 1. it being a weekend they were short in number, 2. one of the response truck broke down which had been sent to rescue somebody else, 3. his own car-seat broke — so he had to get it fixed first then he was stuck in the traffic. He was probably expecting a huge outburst from me. I told him it was OK and I was lucky that I had been home. Freaked-out Big Joe came down to ground level of his anxiety and started working on my car. It did not take more that two minutes to get the car started. I signed the necessary paperwork. Big Joe thanked me for my patience and then took off.
After a few minutes I started thinking what I would have done had I not been so occupied with the car: I could 1. get some research done, 2. finish up one of the computations, 3. cleanup my apartment, 4. cook some nice food, and more importantly 5. do the laundry. Then it started happening: a huge raze begun pouring all over my brain slithering down my spine. I thought like pulling my hair out. Why, for heaven’s sake, did I not ask them to send someone else? I got so angry that I could burn the whole car with my eyes.
I few hours later I found myself waking up from a nap — blissfully oblivious of the day’s episode.
I hadn’t planned on going home Valentine’s Day weekend, mostly because there was nothing there Valentines Day related for me and I was helping with the Valentine’s Day dance at the internship. But, after learning I had Presidents Day off and three people suggested it, I decided to head home after I was done with the dance.
The residents really liked the dance of course, we started decorating for it Friday afternoon. There’s a room in the gym called the special activity committee (SAC) room. You step into this room and it’s boxes and piles of decorations for every single holiday or festivity you can think of, lol. A good project would be to organize the room gets some totes and labels working in there, lol. Perhaps though a project that would be better for someone on salary/ paycheck. The residents enjoyed their dance with their punch and sugar-free moistened pink cupcakes and cake slices (Ewwwwwwww!).
I then headed home and had a pretty tame valentines day weekend just hanging out with friends and a little bit of crazy family time. I really needed to get my hair done, it’s been since November, but the shop isn’t open on Mondays. Monday morning I also washed the salt off my car from the past 3 weeks and applied a coat of wax, it looked sooooo nice. Of course on the five-hour trip back to my apartment I got behind two trucks spreading sand and salt, and drove through a snow ran mixture. Then next morning my car looked 100x worse than before I had washed it the day before. So checklist of things to do next time I makes a trip home: get hair done, replace bald tires on the back of car, wax car again, oil change.
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NEWS Lawmakers angry Toyota president won’t attend hearing; one sends personal invite By Jerry Hirsch February 18, 2010 | 10:06 a.m. PST
Congressman Edolphus Towns writes to Akio Toyoda asking him to come to Washington ‘to help clarify this situation.’ The company’s North American chief will be at the proceedings.
Hoping to coax Toyota Motor Corp.’s top executive to a hearing, a congressional leader issued a personal appeal Thursday to Akio Toyoda, the automaker’s president.
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) said he had sent a personal invitation to Toyoda, grandson of the company’s founder, hoping to persuade the executive to testify about Toyota’s recalls at an upcoming hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
At a news conference Wednesday in Tokyo, Toyoda said he did not plan to address those issues on Capitol Hill personally — at least not yet. He said he would not travel to Washington for the hearings, to be held Wednesday.
Toyoda expressed full confidence in Toyota’s North American chief, Yoshimi Inaba, who he indicated would attend the hearing. The House Energy and Commerce Committee also plans to hold a hearing on Toyota’s auto problems next week.
“As you know, there is widespread public concern regarding reports of sudden unintended acceleration in Toyota motor vehicles,” Towns wrote Toyoda. “Toyota has recalled millions of its vehicles and even halted production. In addition, there are reports that this problem may have been the direct cause of serious injury and even death.
“There appears to be growing public confusion regarding which vehicles may be affected and how people should respond. In short, the public is unsure as to what exactly the problem is, whether it is safe to drive their cars or what they should do about it,” the congressman said. “To help clarify this situation, I am inviting you to testify.”
Toyoda’s reluctance to come to Washington has sparked the ire of several congressional leaders.
“Akio Toyoda doesn’t get it that he’s got plenty of good engineers to fix the problem. He needs to set the tone and fix the public’s confidence,” said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), the top Republican on the House committee panel.
Toyota has issued about 10 million recall notices worldwide, mostly for floor mats that can entrap the gas pedal and for a gas pedal that can stick. It has blamed both problems for causing unintended acceleration.
The Japanese automaker is considering recalling the popular Corolla because of potential steering problems. And the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration is about to launch a probe into steering problems with about 500,000 late-model Corollas, a move that could lead to another large recall. The agency also has launched an inquiry into the speed of the company’s response to problems and the adequacy of its recalls.
Toyota sold almost 1.3-million Corollas worldwide last year, including nearly 300,000 in the United States. The Corolla trailed only Toyota’s Camry as the second-bestselling car in the U.S. last year, according to Autodata Corp.
When your hottest car looking dirty. There are some car cleaning tips to adopt these tips to keep your car clean.
RINSE AND WET THE CAR
Don’t use the sponge. A high pressure hose is best for car cleaning and also helpful a hosepipe jet. Best use of hose in reducing dirt is very helpful for car cleaning.
INSIDE OF THE CAR
Pickup the crisp packets, sweet wrappers and the car park stickers. Remove the removable mats and vacuums. Wipe out the dashboard of your car with the help of a cloth and plastics. Don’t use the polish in your dashboard because this can cause glare on sunny days. Must removed the carpets, and clean it.
BACK TO THE OUTSIDE
Use a very soft sponge and wipe out very gently entire car. Remove all the grit on the car.
Start at the top of the car and spread gently all over the car wiped out with sponge and also use hose for removing dirt and grit.
PRE WASH
Use a bucket of clean water. And not use the foam of shampoo for a cause of bubbles. Use a tar and bug remover spray to soften the stubborn stains.
MAIN WASH
Use a high quality shampoo. Now use a slightly harder sponge or cotton cleaning pad. Use the sponge in highly tough stains. Must clean all the dust and stain throughout the car.
WHEELS AND TIRES
Clean off all the dust firstly from brush. And then use a harder sponge or scrub pad. And use the water in washing of wheels and tires.
RINSE OFF
Take clean fresh water. Fill it a bucket and rinse off your car is a best method.
CHAMOIS
Dry your car with the help of chamois leather.
GLASS
Use a glass cleaning product for glass cleaning. Go over the windows inside and outside in circular motion. Don’t use a house glass cleaner.
POLISH
The car polish is so important in shining process. If a car looking good shining so it is so attractive method.
QUICK METHOD
Jet wash is a good method. Just down the car and rub it over. Add a polish in some of water and rub it into only paint work. Don’t use it into windows. Rinse off the jet wash. And then with a fine sponge rib it the all over clean water.
AUTO GLYM
It is a very useful car cleaning product. It is so important for money. It is available from good car parts shops.
Here’s a follow up article to my “Lynn’s Luscious Chocolate Cake, step-by-step idiot-proof cake” article of 16th February.
Once you have you cake successfully baked, then what?
For me, one year ago, my about-to-turn-Four-year old wanted a “Cars” cake.
Ackkk ! What did I know about cake decorating? a few well meaning attempts make not a professional cake maker.
First I go to Google and see that might be out there for inspiration, I find a cake, decide I like it, but fail to see how I can construct it as good as they did.
Ok, improvise.
First, I mix a little icing sugar (powder sugar) and orange flower water and water to make a not too thick glaze, with this, I sandwich the two halves of my cake together.
Then I cut a slice of each edge of the cake, the cuts run parallel to each other, one each side of the cake. This forms the main body of the car. The “spare” bits that I cut off get cut a little shorter and joined up to make the roof of the car. (I’m keeping it very simple)
I made a super-thin glaze that I use to “crumb coat” the cake and let this set. This seals in the crumbs so that the next layer of icing can be applied cleanly without all the crumbs falling off the cake constantly and muddying the icing.
Then I coat a biscuit (cookie) with icing and place it at the read to make the back spoiler, ice the cake in red, adding some white for the windows and some M&M’s for the “eyes”. I use some shop bought biscuits for the wheels and decorate the “trailer” with sweets.
I was working in a freezing cold January kitchen with the heating on so that my fingers could actually function, so keeping my icing from either going solid or melting into a soppy pool was hard work.
Luckily Little Mr. was ecstatic with the result despite the flaws…
.. and finally one that the kids decorated themselves ( there’s a line down the middle because their definition of “half” was a bit too greedy at first)
So, Now you have a great cake recipe, and a few ideas for decoration… get the kids involved and have fun, believe me, even if it’s less than perfect your kids will still love it (and you) to bits !
I woke this morning to the sun streaming in through the windows. Yes. Streaming. A glorious day had dawned and (by the time I woke up, it being half term) had arced around the trees on the other side of the lake and begun casting shadows on the wall of my bedroom. Anyone could have been forgiven for thinking that spring had sprung. The snowdrops have come out and there are spears of daffodils pulling themselves up from the grass.
Fortified by the site I set to and attacked the car with the pressure washer and after a morning’s cleaning, complete with a fair amount of vigorous sponge-work with the Autoglym, Rosie (my little Audi hatchback) is once more a resplendent red. Even the carpets came up well, which is frankly a miracle after the weather.
I’ve swept the paths and basically made the homestead look a little more presentable. I’ve even got up the ladders and adjusted the guttering joint that has been dripping since we moved in back in September. Unfortunately I got absolutely drenched doing it – I had a face- and front-full of water, sludge and moss when I unclipped the guttering join, and my back got soaked because it was raining by the time I’d freed off the extending mechanism on the ladders. Why is nothing ever easy? Still, it’s a job that I’d been meaning to do for months and I felt a tremendous sense of satisfaction just from knowing that the rain won’t drip down onto the foundations in that part of the house.
Most people really wants save money on insurance, in the past, the car insurance Northern Ireland, people have often times tried to do so. So, it is possible that you can find cheaper insurance quotes on a Northern Ireland specialist website. Logging on this website, you can access to companies that offer lower quotes to people so that you can save your money without suffering.
If you want to find cheap car insurance Northern Ireland, you are likely to find that rates tend to be higher than in some other countries. This doesn’t imply that the Irish are bad drivers. Instead, it’s just an imputation of national events in the past that made auto thefts and damage commonplace. Because of this, car insurance tends to be high. You can have different choices when purchasing for cheap car insurance in Ireland. Many Irish insurance companies provide sites that make it easy to shop for quotes. You can actually also choose to contact the insurance companies directly by phone. But, the online method is generally faster and easier.
You also will want to compare insurance Northern Ireland rates that include fire and theft insurance as well. Fully broad insurance is generally the most expensive. An especially easy steps involved in finding cheap car insurance Northern Ireland quote is using a broker site that lets you compare more Irish insurance company rates at the same time. Instead of filling out multiple forms, you only enter the information only once. This could really speed up the method of finding the best quote.
When you finally find an insurance Northern Ireland company that you feel gives you the best, you can have give them a call and have the rest of the details. Even though sites of some Irish insurance companies offer the ability to complete the application and purchase process, many people prefer to complete the process personally or over the phone.
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Another initiative which hasas helped people in Northern Ireland insure their home happens to be the Northern Ireland Tenants Action Project (NITAP), which aimed to make sure it is more affordable and simple for housing executive and housing association tenants to insure their personal possessions. Tenants claim that the minimum cover demanded by insurers cause high premiums. The scheme set up in Northern Ireland, means that those on low and fixed incomes can insure their personal possessions for as little as 80p a week, whether or not the total value of their possessions falls below the typical requirements for these policies.
Deciding on a car insurance Northern Ireland should be a serious undertaking. The first reasons why is that you would like to choose an insurance company or agent that represents you and your needs. In other words, you want an insurance company to analyze your best interests. All the tips can help you to cut the prices in car insurance Northern Ireland. Never forget to read the small print to make surely that you have adequate protection you need with your insurance policy. This site will help you in this matter http://www.bestquoteni.com.
Honda today released an enhanced new car, the limited edition Civic Type R featuring exclusive MUGEN equipment will go on sale through Honda dealers in the UK in April.
Inspired by MUGEN Euro’s high-performance Type R, the MUGEN is fitted with unique body parts, wheels and badges to give it stand-out looks. As its name suggests, only 200 of the special Type R models will be made.
On top of the standard features of the Swindon-built Type R (which of course, include Honda’s 201PS, screaming i-VTEC engine) the MUGEN will boast the following:
Exclusive MUGEN front and rear bumpers with skirts
19-inch alloy wheels in ‘Lightning’ design
MUGEN rear badge
MUGEN Limited Edition number plaque out of 200
Limited Slip Differential
Championship White exterior paint
Gloss black door mirrors
A range of tuning parts, to further enhance the chassis dynamics of the Type R, will also be available as dealer fit options.
Original MUGEN tuning parts available
From April, a network of Honda dealers will also offer an exclusive range of original MUGEN tuning parts for Type R owners to use to modify their own cars – both used and new. These parts will be available to buy from a number of selected dealers across the UK, and will offer a range of tuning and cosmetic parts, including sports suspension upgrades, lightweight wheels and interior trim.
Firstly, where I park by my home is a bit of a nightmare for parking. Sometimes I have to park on a road quarter of a mile away, across a dual carriageway, if all of the spaces here are taken.
However, in the past couple of months I have become increasingly annoyed by some of the parked vehicles I have witnessed.
There are two areas, where 5 cars can be parked nose to tail along the side of a narrow road. That is 5, as long as they are all parked with consideration. There seems to be somebody about, with a fairly small car, who seems unable to assess how much room needs to be left for other cars. On a number of occasions there has been enough room for two cars to be parked, if it was not for this one little car parked smack bang in the middle of that space, often at a jaunty angle!
However yesterday I found something that beat even that. A moped parked 2 foot off and parallel to the pavement, again smack bang in the centre of a huge space! Not parked perpendicular, taking up onlt a couple of feet, or even tight against the kerb. Might as well have been abandoned.
I am aware that the situation you find might look strange as other cars parked around may have left and been replaced with cars situated differently, but I really do wonder if some people have no consideration for others.
In 2007 I designed this car for the Peugeot-Concours-Design Competition. I decided now that it needed a bit of a going over as the results of 2007, although they looked quite good at the time now appear very dated. This then is the remastered and re-rendered version. I have more images to follow but they will appear here on my flickr page.
We had PULSE@Parkes session from Cardiff in December. Rob was in the UK following the dotAstromony conference. He decided to take advantage of the both of us being in Europe and ran our first international session. It was run at and in collaboration with Cardiff University and involved students from the local schools. My trip to Cardiff was the first long drive in my new car which I had bought just a few weeks earlier. It’s a Volvo, what a surprise! I’m very pleased with it. It eats up the mile, sorry kilometres, on the autobahns, is quick enough that I can overtake safely on the crazy German roads and is surprisingly frugal. I drove through Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France before taking the tunnel to the UK. Once on the other side I had to concentrate hard to drive on the left. I was finding it hard going before I stopped off at Doug’s for a quick pit-stop. It was just a flying visit but it was great to catch up for a bit. By the time I left I felt infinitely better and the rest of the drive was easy.
The PULSE@Parkes session went well and I think the students enjoyed it. We has a bit of local press too (albeit rather inaccurate). It was nice to meet up with Rob again and catch up with the latest gossip from down-under. It was also a good excuse to visit the family. Despite passing right by Nick and Ceri the timing meant I couldn’t pop in, a shame but we knew we’d be meeting up at Christmas.
Ramli was happy that his many articles on subjects that relate to QUALITY received responses from viewers around the world and it goes to show that (still) many people value Quality more than others.Actually Quality is linked to areas like Cost,Delivery,Safety,Morale,Envioronment and also Innovation&Creativity or in acronym form Q-C-D-S-M-E + I&C
Quality is the cornerstone of good business!
Juran’s Trilogy consists of Quality Planning,Quality Control and Quality Improvement (Breakthrough)!
Quality is made in the Boardrooms!
Make Quality People Before Make Quality Products!
Rule No.1 is Customer is King and Rule No.2 please refer to Rule No.1!
The 21st Century needs Quality Leaders who understand the above statements and not only understand them but execute them with great passion and compassion following the PDCA Cycle and ensuring the process gets better all the time plus all the Quality Assurance made on time and in full!
Good Quality Brings Good Business and with Profits!
Some updates on what Top Mgmt are doing to Bring Back Quality in their Businesses and also providing Total Customer Satisfaction and Guarantee of Excellent Service Round the Clock!
Published: Sunday February 14, 2010 MYT 6:59:00 AM
Report: Toyota chief visits dealership, apologizes
TOKYO (AP): Toyota’s president visited a dealership in Tokyo on Saturday and apologized over troubles that have prompted the world’s biggest automaker to recall some 8.5 million vehicles, a news report said.
Akio Toyoda, a grandson of the company founder, told at least one customer having a Prius repaired that the company had “caused concern,” Kyodo News agency reported.
Toyoda also asked an official at the dealership in Musashino if the recall process was going smoothly and offered encouragement, Kyodo reported. The news agency said the appearance was an attempt to show Toyoda is taking the lead on the recall issue.
Toyota’s top executive has been criticized for the company’s perceived slow response to the recalls that have sullied the company’s image for quality and safety. He kept a low profile during the initial recalls late last year but has been more visible recently, giving two news conferences and publishing an opinion column in The Washington Post.
Officials at Toyota could not be reached late Saturday for comment on the Kyodo report.
Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling about 8 million cars for a gas pedal that can stick in the depressed position and floor mats that can get stuck under the accelerator.
On Tuesday, the company announced a recall of 437,000 Prius and other hybrids over brake problems.
Toyoda has apologized repeatedly and vowed to win back customer trust. The company is setting up a special committee focused on improving quality and plans to disclose vehicle problems even when it is not legally required to do so.
The U.S. Congress is scheduled to hold hearings on Toyota’s recalls on Feb. 24-25 and March 2. Toyoda is expected to visit the United States early next month, though the company says nothing has been decided on whether he will attend any hearings.
I may have mentioned it on here before, but I’m not sure. Last weekend my parent’s surprised my husband and I with giving us a car! They got a new car, so they gave us their old Honda CR-V. It was so kind of them to do this because they’ve known how much we’ve needed a car for a while and have been seeking to help us with that in any way they could. They knew that they wanted to a get a new van, so they planned on giving their other car to us. I have such a great parents!
So having another car this week has been great! I miss getting to drive my husband to work, but it is nice to get to sleep a little bit more in the mornings lol. I love that it has 4 doors, all-wheel drive, power locks and windows, and has so much more room. It’s amazing! I’ve never had any of that stuff in a car before lol. Honda cars are so reliable and last forever too, so I’m pretty pumped about that
The all-wheel drive has really come in handy this week. We had two big snow storms hit our area, and the CR-V makes it so easy to plow throw all the snow roads. The cars I’ve always had make it really scary to drive on snowy roads because they are so light. I always used to have sand bags in the trunk just to weigh them down. I love my new car. I don’t think I’ll ever part from it, unless I’m forced to lol. We’ll probably get another CR-V whenever this dies because this car is the best!
every day I drive for two hours, commuting to work and back. some days it ends up being between three and five hours, if the traffic is bad. this week leaving home at 07.25 on Wednesday should have given me an office arrival time of 08.30, but I got a traffic alert and it was more like 09.30. at the time I hit the traffic (between two junctions) I was on hands-free to my Mum. sitting at home in the Glen she waS excited to detail the traffic jam in front of her house.
Now, let’s set the scene here…this is a remote Scottish glen, with a road that is three meters wide. the house is about half a mile away from the road, up on a hill, so the views are perfect.
On this particular morning there was chaos on the road due to a traffic jam. I was stuck in a nine mile tailback – there were five cars in the glen, stuck because there was a tractor on the roll, pulling a wide low-loader that no-one could pass.
For my mother the hold up was a piece of news, a rare occurance. for me, it was, I should say is, a way of life.
Sometimes I forget just how vast the differences between my glen and here are. sometimes they make me laugh, like today with the five car jam.
Other times, I worry that we focus too much on the negative things that matter too much in our day to day lives.
Jika Anda belum-begitu-bintang kredit dealer mungkin menarik kredit yang buruk pembiayaan kredit mobil baru penipuan pada Anda Karena mereka ingin membuat penjualan mereka akan menawarkan tingkat bunga yang kompetitif. Anda menandatangani surat-surat perdagangan mobil lama Anda dan mengemudikan mobil baru rumah. Namun klausul dalam kontrak Anda menandatangani menyatakan bahwa tingkat bunga berdasarkan amp quot persetujuan pinjaman. amp quot Beberapa hari atau lebih lama berlalu dan Anda mendapatkan panggilan dari dealer bahwa bank tidak menyetujui pinjaman Anda pada tingkat bunga rendah. Karena Anda sudah terbiasa dengan mobil dan itu akan memalukan untuk mengembalikannya Anda menelan pembayaran yang lebih tinggi. Dealer pembeli .
Scam ini umumnya menarik orang dengan kredit macet karena lebih masuk akal kepada dealer pulsa termurah pembeli dengan kredit macet. Jika Anda bertanya mengapa mereka akan menjual mobil sebesar April jika mereka tahu Anda memiliki kredit macet ingat mereka berlari kredit sudah cek pada Anda jawabannya sederhana Dealer Pulsa Termurah untuk menjual mobil.
Hindari setiap dan semua masalah pembiayaan mobil dealer dengan menjadi bank Anda atau lembaga keuangan lainnya untuk menyetujui pinjaman SEBELUM pergi ke dealer. Hal ini menempatkan ANDA di kursi pengemudi. Karena Anda tidak ingin untuk Dealer Pulsa Elektrik diletakkan dalam posisi mendapatkan kredit yang buruk kredit mobil baru melalui dealer. Bahkan jika Anda memiliki buruk kredit melalui bank Anda sendiri dulu. Bunga Anda mungkin lebih tinggi pula tapi setidaknya Anda akan dapat dengan mudah refinance pinjaman ini untuk tingkat bunga yang lebih rendah dalam waktu sekitar satu tahun. Tapi refinancing kredit yang buruk kredit mobil melalui dealer minta masalah. Karena sering kali mereka akan diam-diam menawarkan Anda sebuah amp quot front loaded amp quot pinjaman.
A amp quot loaded depan amp quot pinjaman adalah salah satu yang memiliki beberapa pertama terdiri dari sebagian besar pembayaran bunga. Jadi bahkan jika Anda pembiayaan kembali pinjaman untuk suku bunga yang lebih rendah kemudian Anda telah diberi dealer sebagian besar bunga
Hal lain mobil dealer dapat mencoba menarik pada Anda – terutama jika Anda memiliki Dealer Pulsa Elektronik kredit buruk – adalah untuk mengambil Pabrik-to-Konsumen Rebate dan menerapkannya pada harga mobil. Hal ini membuat mereka tampak seperti yang mereka lakukan padamu dengan mengajak Anda harga yang lebih rendah pada mobil. Dealer Pulsa Ketika dalam kenyataannya mereka meniduri Anda Karena Factory-to-Konsumen Rebate adalah untuk ANDA sehingga Anda dapat menerapkannya ke arah muka Anda. Hal ini membuat kesepakatan yang lebih baik untuk Dealer Pulsa Murah Anda. Jangan biarkan dealer mengambil ini dari dealer pulsa termurah Anda. Jangan biarkan dealer menggunakan ini sebagai alat negosiasi di mobil. Pabrik-to-Konsumen Rebate tak ada hubungannya dengan dealer. Ini adalah untuk Anda – untuk mengambil uang tunai – atau untuk menerapkannya ke muka Anda.
Juga perlu diingat bahwa ketika Anda membeli mobil baru kesepakatan harus dilakukan pada harga mobil bukan pada pembayaran bulanan. Selalu ingatlah ini ketika bernegosiasi dengan dealer mobil Anda amp quot manajer keuangan amp quot .
So I hadn’t finished all the pictures I took from the last photo shoot, so I decided I would actually finish what I started. so here is the rest of the photos from the last time. I think I might go back to downtown woodstock with some other peoples cars, I think there car be some awesome effects had there. The first one is currently my background
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Been trying to work with cars and the different methods of shading them, whether to use GI or not, and building the different reflective textures (the body, the lights, the interior…)
Since it’s been a while since I posted anything, I thought I should post this Maserati I’ve been texturing today, since I have no work and am on holiday!
I know… It needs a lot more work… But hey, I’ve been working on another project for a month now (nothing that has to do with cars though) … Hope it’ll all turn out looking great in the end.
Suggestion of intent in ’86 shooting – The Boston Globe.
Congressman Edolphus Towns writes to Akio Toyoda asking him to come to Washington ‘to help clarify this situation.’ The company’s North American chief will be at the proceedings.
© 2010 The Los Angeles Times
