en

zroessgs's blog

Viis huvitavaid fakte seoses Vincent Van Gogh maalid

Vincent Van Gogh sndis 30. mrtsil 1853, loodud mned heksasada maalid lisaks 1100 joonised, valdav enamus, hermes kelly bag faux mis oli toodetud oma elu viimase 10 aasta jooksul. Halvenemise emotsionaalne haigus, Van Gogh tulistas ennast suri kahe peva prast 29. juuli 1890. Tema maalid elu, nagu ka tema lugu. Allpool on leitud viis ksikasjad mrkida seoses see pnev themrk.

1. See oli kogu aja, kui ta oli kuulutas kaevetde ttajate eest ei ole palka, mille Van Gogh hakkas tootma ssi joonised. Aastal 1880, prast tema noorem vend Theo, nu ta asus tsiselt maal. Seal oli lhikese aja jooksul kogu selle aja, kui Van Gogh oli vetud lugu Anton Mauve haagis.

2. Van Gogh proovis pib kunsti koolis, Antwerp, Belgia. Ta oli phimtteliselt lpetada prast vaid kelly bag price faux paar lhikest kalendrikuu jooksul. See oli sel ajal, vttes tles, et ta leidis Jaapani kunst ja kirg, mis ta tegelikult algas seeria tsiselt, tundma ppida, eredad vrvid ja ruumikasutus.

3. Van Gogh oli teada vaid on ms vaid hte maali kogu oma elu. Vrvitud 1888, "Red Vineyard" lpuks oleks Moskva Venemaa Pukini muuseumi nitus.

4. Vincent Van Gogh ja tema vend Theo oli olnud parimad sbrad, hermes kelly bag fake kelle suhe on hsti dokumenteeritud arv thti, hermes kelly price Knockoff mis olid avastatud umbes 1914.

5. Et seekord legend of Van Gogh liigub. 30. Mrtsil 1987 hsti tuntud New Yorgi avalikul enampakkumisel maja, tema maal "Iirise" kirje, milles 53,9 miljoni dollari eest ostetud. 1990 Ta purustas kirjed teist korda, kuna tema "portree, doktor Gachet", sattus mgi teel Christie's jaoks tohutu $82,5 miljonit.

Vhe tuntud vi hinnatud oma elu ajal, Vincent Van Gogh kahekmnenda sajandi kunsti mju vib olla kaugeleulatuvad. Peamiselt seetttu, et ta ei ole oma lapsi, Van Gogh leidis oma td tema lapsed. Kahtlemata oleks uhke, kuidas nad on seni teinud oma nime.

Vincent Van Gogh prand jtkub tnase pevani ja paljud tema kuulsaim maalid on laialdaselt kogutud eraomanikule, samuti kuulus muuseum. Peaaegu iga raamatuid, kunsti ja ajaloo nimetatud Van Gogh nimi ja kindlasti kige kuulsam kik kunstnik eelmisel sajandil.

Kes on huvitatud eespool nimetatud artiklis on ka nendega seotud tooted allpool loetletud huvitatud:

Elu lugu, Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh oli Hollandi post Impressionist kunstnik, kes rohkem kui 2000 teoseid, sealhulgas umbes 900 maalid. Van Gogh kasutamine eredad vrvid ja tema teose emotsionaalne mju tulemusena oma ts on suur mju 20. sajandi kunsti. 30. Mrts 1853 kohta sndis Vincent van Gogh Luna Madalmaadesse, on kla, Groot Zundert, mis on Phja Brabanti provints. Tal oli kaks venda ja kolm de. Vincent oli lbimeldud, vaikses ja tsise laps.

Salvador Dali elu

Salvador Dali sndis 11. mai 1904 Figueras Kataloonias, Hispaania suunas. Dali alustatud joonisele kooli lheb ja oli oma esimese avaliku nituse, 1919, Figueras Theater olmejtmete. Dali tema ema suri Rinnavhi, veebruar 1921, kui ta oli kuusteist aastat vana. See oli suur lk, et ta kogenud oma elu.
Sep 16 '17 · 0 comments
'What was wrong was the bland version of Indian history'

'Even apart from the Bengal famine, there was a great deal more bloodshed and deceit than I was prepared for.'

'Almost every one of the acquisitions was won by extreme extortionate methods and what came out was that these relatively honest officers found themselves doing very dishonest things.'

IMAGE: Circa 1940: Soldiers manning a wireless van during Mahatma Gandhi's 73 hour fast, receive news about the riots from police headquarters at Lalbazar, Calcutta. This splendid history, evoking the kaleidoscopic world of heat, dust, blood, gore, disease, betrayal and wheeling dealing that was the British Raj, is a universe away from the tranquil, if formidable post modern opulence of this hotel.

We're catching lunch at K3, its multi cuisine restaurant, between Mount's arrival from the Chennai lit fest that afternoon and his departure to the Jaipur lit fest that evening.

We miss each other in the vast lobby so I find Mount waiting at K3, nursing, I am secretly delighted to note, a tall glass of beer, which means I can order a glass of wine.

We briskly opt for the buffet but Mount frugally confines himself to the vegetables, saying he prefers to be vegetarian. I load up on salmon, slices of roast pork, sauted bell peppers, arugula leaves and asparagus regulation items in a five star buffet today that would have been scarce just 15 years ago.

The Tears Of The Rajas, a 600 odd page door stopper that will shortly be published in paperback, is an unusual history hermes kelly price replica on several counts. It is narrated through the story of Mount's ancestors, quintessential Lowland Scots who endured chronic ill health and physical danger to serve the Empire and, of course, make their fortunes.

It speaks volumes for his family's ubiquity in the empire that Mount covers a pretty broad canvas of British rule in India, dredging up memories of half forgotten incidents and highlighting hitherto unknown ones between 1805 and 1905.

More to the point, The Tears Of The Rajas is a refreshing departure from the mawkish The Jewel In The Crown brand of nostalgia that has informed popular Raj histories, a perspective that somehow segued into the view of some academics that the Empire was a force of modernity.

Mount, a journalist by profession who says he is 'easing' his way into history writing for the London Review Of Books and The Times Literary Supplement, takes no sides, so there are no heroes in his kelly bag price copy book. I am surprised, though, when he says it was well received in the UK because I recall the hostility that greeted William Dalrymple's 2002 book White Mughals, an account of liaisons between senior British officers and Indian women.

"When Willy first started publishing you did have that kind of resistance," he acknowledges. "But now most people in Britain are ready to take a cooler and more dispassionate look at those two centuries of British rule. I spoke to Scottish audiences, the children and grandchildren of old India hands Indian army, tea and indigo planters and when I describe some of the atrocities and counter atrocities, people didn't say that didn't happen."

I tell him that despite his even handed approach, the book made me freshly indignant. "You are meant to be indignant," he replies. "What was wrong was the bland version of Indian history that we taught in school, which made it all sound very smooth. Even apart from the Bengal famine, there was a great deal more bloodshed and deceit than I was prepared for. Almost every one of the acquisitions was won by extreme extortionate methods and what came out was that these relatively honest officers found themselves doing very dishonest things."

The takeover of part of Hyderabad comes readily to mind because he had explored the former British Residency, now under restoration, on this trip. "I crept into it at twilight. I knew it very fine architecturally but I wasn't prepared for the size of it it made the Charminar look like a rather large suburban villa."

That episode was 'particularly shameful on my ancestor John Low's part because he had been on record saying we treated the Nizam very badly and he was only in debt because we forced him to maintain this huge army and it would have been perfectly possible to arrange for his debts to be rolled over." But Dalhousie (the governor general) wasn't having any of that. kelly bag price replica And because Low was himself in debt he took the job and imposed this extremely oppressive treaty."

Mount's ancestors saw service in the Raj rather than other parts of the Empire, but there was an exception about whom he says he would like to write about some day.

This was a character called William Shakespear, who joined the Indian Civil Service but was seconded to West Asia where he became a district officer in Arabia.

Captain Shakespear was the first person to make contact with the Wahhabi influenced House of Saud at the end of the 19th century. "He was fascinating because he said to his bosses, 'These Wahhabis are wonderful, they are austere, honest, children of the desert and we should ally with them.' His was the pioneering role of giving them the seal of British government approval."

Now we know who to blame for the mess in West Asia, I joke, as we head for the main course. There's a wide choice but Mount skips all of it for a plateful of Indian dessert rabri, pedas and so on which he says he adores. I help myself to a desultory Chinese spread of dim sums and spicy sauted prawns.

Mount may have been born too late to serve the Raj, but his life was no less unusual, facts I glean from reviews of his well received memoir Cold Cream. It was upper class Establishment certainly his first cousin Mary is British Prime Minister David Cameron's mother but unconventional in that his father was a gentleman jockey.

The upshot of that was that he "absolutely hated horses, I regarded them as nasty, dangerous animals." but he enjoyed his "ramshackle country upbringing."

The education, though, was regulation upper class. School at Eton "now something to keep quiet about," he says with self deprecating humour then ChristChurch, Oxford, where he read French and German.

I say I am struck by the fact that many Britons opted to read German and mention John le Carre, the pen name of David Cornwell whose biography I had just read, when he tells me the novelist taught him at Eton.

How marvellous, how lucky, was he a good teacher? "He was absolutely wonderful, a teacher of genius," Mount says, but he was also a brilliant mimic. "So when these spoilt, naughty, boys at the back started trying to tease him in their languid voices, he would imitate them perfectly and make them feel very foolish."

Mount remembers everyone being very sad when they heard "Corns has gone off to be a spy though I don't kelly bag hermes replica know how we knew that."

Mount had also worked in Margaret Thatcher's policy unit, but that was actually his second stint with the Iron Lady. His first was when he was assigned her assistant as a newly elected Tory MP.

"I thought we got on very badly. She thought I was idle she wasn't wrong however, 20 years later when she became prime minister, she invited me to join the unit."

Did he like her personally? "Frankly, I don't think I knew her any more than you do. In fact, I don't think she wanted to be liked. She was very nice to her staff, but horribly rude to her Cabinet colleagues very unvarnished and direct."
Sep 16 '17 · 0 comments
Why car title loans are a bad idea

At times, the best of us get strapped for cash; we may have no credit or bad credit (just like they say in the commercials), which keeps us from getting small loans from a bank or some other more traditional means.

A title loan offers you cash from the lender, in return you sign over the title of your paid for car to secure the loan. Typically, these loans are due back in full 30 days later. There's no credit check and only minimal income verification.

It sounds pretty straightforward, but borrowing from these places can lead cheap mens gold bracelets to a repossession of your car and a whole lot of financial trouble.

Interest rates that make credit card companies blush

Car title loans have been lumped into the "predatory lending" category by many consumers. Non profit organizations such as Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and the Center for Responsible Lending have issued detailed reports outlining some of the title loan issues that the public should be leery about.

One of the biggest issues with these loans is interest rates. Many people dislike credit card interest rates, which average between the mid to high teens for most Americans. Car title loan interest rates make complaining about credit rates seem ludicrous.

Car title lenders are in a different category than credit card companies or banks and work around usury laws. Thus, title loan lenders are able to charge hermes bag replica triple digit annual percentage rates (APRs). Yes, triple digits. It's not an exaggeration to see 250% APR and higher on these car tile loans and only a handful of states have passed strict laws that prohibit exorbitant percentage rates.

Even if your credit card company is charging you a high interest of 25% APR, it's nothing compared to car title loans. AOL Autos: Most popular used cars

By federal law, title loan lenders have to disclose the interest rates in terms of the annual percentage. If you have to get a title loan, make sure they don't just give you a quote of the monthly percentage rate, they have to give it to you as an APR. If they are unclear about the rates, which many can be, just know that a monthly rate of 25% is equivalent to a 300% APR.

Fees and interest only payments

In addition to high interest, these car title loans usually include a number of fees that add up quickly. These include processing fees, document fees, late fees, origination fees and lien fees. AOL Autos: Safest cars

Sometimes there is also a roadside assistance program that borrowers can purchase for another small fee. Some lenders have even gone so far as to make the roadside assistance mandatory. The cost of all these fees can be anywhere from $80 to $115, even for a $500 loan.

Most of these fees are legal, except one that lenders sometimes charge, the repossession fee. Lenders are not allowed to charge you to repossess your vehicle, but some still do. AOL Autos: Top minivans

As if high interest rates and a mountain of fees weren't enough, lenders also give borrowers the option of interest only payments for a set period of time. In these cases, the loans are usually set up for a longer period of time (compared to the typical 30 days) and the borrower can pay the interest only on the loan.

These types of payments are called "balloon payments" where the borrower pays the interest of the loan each month and at the end of the term they still owe the full amount of the loan.

The CFA reported that one woman paid $400 a month for seven months on an interest only payment term for a $3,000 loan. After paying $2,800 in interest, she still owed the original $3,000 in the eighth month. AOL Autos: Most popular crossover vehicles

Rolling over and repossession

If you think most of the people who take out these loans pay them back in full after one month, think again. Because of the high interest and the fact that these lenders cater to low income borrowers, many people aren't able to pay back their loans in the 30 day period. This is called "rolling over" the loan.

The terms of these loans are crafted to keep borrowers in a cycle of debt and bring customers either to the verge of repossession or to actual repossession. Not being able pay off the initial loan and then renewing it the next month costs borrowers even more money in interest, on top hermes replica bracelet of the original amount they've already borrowed. AOL Autos: Used luxury cars

Let's talk about repossession for minute. The CFA reported that, of the people they interviewed in their 2004 study, 75% had to give the title loan lenders a copy of their car keys. Some companies started the cars to see if they worked and took pictures of the vehicle even before a customer filled out the loan application.

A company based in Arizona said they have GPS systems installed on the cars so they can track the cars and shut them off remotely if they don't receive payment on time. That may be an extreme case, but these lenders take a customer's promissory signature very seriously. If you can't pay, they will come looking for you and your car.

The concerns for having your car repossessed are obvious. How do you get to work, drop off the kids at school, pick up groceries or go out on the weekends without a car? As if those scenarios weren't bad enough, owning a car can be some people's biggest financial asset. If the car is taken away, so goes the money it was worth.

Some states have laws that force the lenders to pay you the difference of the loan once a lender has repossessed and sold your car, but hermes h bracelet replica some don't. It is possible to default on the loan and not get any money back for your car, even if you only borrowed a few hundred dollars.

This occurs because car title loans are also over secured. Typically, the maximum amount most lenders will give you is 25 to 50 percent of what your car is actually worth. However, if you can't pay back the loan they may be able to sell your car and keep 100% of the profit. Some lenders won't take possession of a vehicle but instead take the customer to court for the money. Although this may be partly true, signing over one of your most valuable assets for several hundred dollars is not the only option.
Sep 16 '17 · 0 comments
Why American politics is stuck in the 1980s

The 2012 campaign promises to be a debate about bold and contrasting ideas. Unfortunately, they are mostly the bold and contrasting ideas of the 1980s.

Whoever the eventual Republican nominee proves to be will recycle the claims of Ronald Reagan in 1984 that the formula for prosperity is more tax cuts for the rich and corporations. Meanwhile, Barack Obama combines the emphasis on deficit reduction of Walter Mondale in 1984 with the claim to cool technocratic expertise of Michael Dukakis in 1988.

Meanwhile, most of the new ideas put forth by pundits and policy wonks are actually the stale ideas of a generation ago. No doubt there are fresh waves of college students who, for example, find the idea of improving our educational system by means of charter schools and national testing unfamiliar and provocative. But those of us over 30 remember that the bold new ideas about school reform were also the bold new ideas of 2001 and 1991 and 1981.

If you went to sleep in the Carter years and woke up in the Obama years, you find many of the same people making the same argument about solar and wind power, which somehow are always only 30 years away from providing a major chunk of the nation energy. In the words of Yogi Berra, it d vu all over again.

The right is no different. A conservative Rip van Winkle who found he had overslept since 1980 and hurried to a meeting of the Federalist Society or read National Review would discover to his relief that he hadn missed any new developments in right wing thought in the past generation. is at war in three Muslim countries that might be a surprise. But the right support for more military spending, more free trade and more cuts to social programs hasn changed since the Age of Disco.

On the basis of prolonged, up close observation of politicians, I concluded long ago that few of them are any more likely than other human beings to reconsider their basic values or opinions after the age of 25 or 30. The cement of the mind starts to harden in the late 20s, freezing whatever was written on it in adolescence and early adulthood.

This would not be a problem, if young adults immediately came to power. But in all but the most unsettled, revolutionary societies, for very good reasons political leaders must undergo a long period of probation before reaching the pinnacles of their careers. This means, however, that on becoming president or prime minister the leader is likely to act on an understanding of the times and the world that is out of date, even though it might have been valid a quarter of century earlier.

The 25 year lag has existed throughout American history. When Abraham Lincoln and his fellow Republicans dominated the government during the Civil War and Reconstruction in the 1860s, they rammed through Congress a version of Henry Clay System of tariff based protectionism, federal aid to internal improvements and national banking, which Clay had promoted decades before.

By the 1900s, the Clay Lincoln program was obsolete. would have been served by a turn replica hermes bracelet enamel toward more liberalized trade. But the Old Guard Republicans defended the old policy for three decades after it had become obsolete, until they were dislodged from power in the Roosevelt revolution of 1932. In the 1920s the Old Guard was still stuck in the mind set of the McKinley era of the 1890s.

And so it goes. When Lyndon Johnson, an idealistic young liberal of the 1930s, became president in the 1960s, he naturally tried to finish the New Deal of his mentor Franklin Roosevelt. American foreign policymakers of his generation tended to act on the basis of the they believed that they had learned from the 1930s: the Lesson of Munich (appeasement doesn pay) and the Lesson of Smoot Hawley (free trade is always good, tariffs it was claimed cause depressions and world wars).

Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980. Exactly 25 years earlier, in 1955, William F. Buckley Jr. had founded National Review, the magazine that became the center of conservatism. The movement right rallied behind Barry Goldwater in 1964, when Reagan launched his political career, first as governor of California and then as president of the United States, by giving what was called Speech, a rehash of the themes of the 1950s conservative movement.

When Buckley Goldwater conservatism triumphed with Reagan, it was already a generation out of date. The conservative policies of the 1980s reflected the ideas and values of the right wing in the 1950s.

Which brings us to the present. Obama and most of his staff and advisors are products of the 1980s and 1990s, in the same way that Reagan and the Reaganites were shaped by the 1950s and the early 1960s. Obama is the latest some may hope the last of the Democrats, foreshadowed by Jimmy Carter and symbolized by Bill Clinton.

The neoliberalism of the New Democrats was and remains a strategic response to the declining popularity of the New Deal in the eras of Nixon and Reagan. In the 1970s and the 1980s, Republicans successfully portrayed Democrats as soft on defense; therefore New Democrats must replica hermes enamel bracelet be hawks. The Reagan conservatives made gains among swing voters between the 1960s and the 1980s by denouncing big spending liberalism; therefore, New Democrats must be fiscal conservatives who publicly obsess about deficit reduction. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were center right figures who won the presidency in spite of the distrust of the Democratic left; therefore, being denounced by the Democratic left is something that a New Democrat should welcome.

What about today Republican politicians, activists and thinkers? Many of them in their youth were hero worshipping acolytes of Reagan, in the same way that replica hermes bags price an earlier generation of Democratic liberals idolized Franklin Roosevelt. But the Reaganism of today right is not the Buckley Goldwater conservatism that in many ways peaked with Reagan election in 1980. Today so called Reaganism has more to do with the peculiar shape that conservatism took between 1980 and 2008, when the Republican right adopted its program of perpetual deficits funded by tax cuts, with painful spending cuts postponed to the future.

This kind of free lunch tax cut politics was possible only during the debt fueled (the term is George Soros between the stagflation of the 1970s and the Great Recession that began in 2008. But like the Republican Old Guard of the 2000s, who kept pushing infant industry tariffs long after they were useful, today Republican conservatives mindlessly keep pushing tax cuts as the panacea for all problems, in a world that has radically changed.

Very few individuals, particularly hard pressed decision makers who lack the time to study and reflect, are capable of acknowledging that the policies that they have long favored may have made sense once only to become anachronistic or may have been wrong all along. To be sure, the younger generation can always be converted. Unfortunately, they are likely to undergo hardening of the mental arteries at the same rate as their elders, so that by the time the Generation of 2008 comes to power in 2033, they may be prepared to solve the problems we face today in a situation with completely different and new problems.

men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist, wrote the economist John Maynard Keynes, who recognized the problem of the intellectual time lag. is said to have replied to a critic: the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? Of all of Keynes heresies, the idea that people should reconsider their opinions when the world hermes handbags replicas has changed may be the most radical.
Sep 16 '17 · 0 comments
wife plead guilty to tax evasion in US

An Indian doctor and his wife have pleaded guilty to charges of federal tax evasion and to illegally distributing weight loss medicines to patients, agreeing to pay nearly USD 5.2 million in restitution.

Rakesh Anand, 57, a licensed physician in Indiana and Illinois and Meena Anand, 53, entered their guilty pleas on Tuesday before US District Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen in federal court in Hammond.

The couple would remain free on bond while awaiting sentencing, which was scheduled for March 20, but the judge ordered electronic monitoring for Anand.

According to the plea agreement, Anand, who owned weight loss clinics in northwest Indiana and south suburban Chicago, could serve over four years in prison while his wife could face a grace kelly purse replica jail term of three years.

The tax evasion charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a USD 250,000 fine. Anand also faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a USD 500,000 fine for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.

The Anands have agreed to pay restitution of over USD 740,000 to the Internal Revenue Service for taxes they owed on nearly USD 2 million of unreported income between 2005 and 2008.

In addition, they agreed to forfeit more than USD 4.45 million in additional funds that were frozen or seized during the investigation, bringing to nearly USD 5.2 million the total amount of funds being applied kelly hermes bag imitation to forfeiture and restitution.

Anand admitted that between January 2002 and February 2010, he and another physician Dinesh Saraiya, purchased and dispensed more than four million pills containing controlled substances and grossed more than USD 5 million from their operation of the weight loss clinics.

Anand had hired Saraiya, who agreed with him to illegally dispense the controlled substances as weight loss medications to patients without performing physical examinations or any medical tests, and without reviewing patients' records, obtaining a complete medical history, or providing any subsequent monitoring.

In return, Anand paid Saraiya based on how many patients he saw and how many pills he dispensed vintage kelly bag replica to patients on a daily basis.

In prescribing the medications, Anand and Saraiya failed to determine whether patients had first made efforts to lose weight through diet and exercise, a prerequisite to prescribing controlled substances for weight loss.

During the course of the investigation, several undercover law enforcement agents purchased controlled substances at the clinics without any of the appropriate medical protocols. Republication or redistribution of PTI content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited grace kelly purse faux without the prior written consent.
Sep 16 '17 · 0 comments
Which cars cost least to repair

The report, released Monday, shows which companies' cars have both the fewest and hermes kelly bag cost fake the least expensive repairs. mechanics. Rounding out the top 5 were Honda, Ford and General Motors followed by Mitsubishi, Nissan, Kia, Volkswagen and Chrysler.

The report covers a wide range of model years, from 2001 to 2011, but focuses on repairs made only in the most recent year ending Oct. 1. While ranking individual car models, the CarMD Vehicle Health Index also grades manufacturers on a combination of all their brands. For example, the Toyota ranking includes Lexus and Scion cars, while General Motors includes Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac and GMC.

Based on data from mechanics, the CarMD report differs from car owner surveys, such as the Consumer Reports reliability survey. The CarMD index hermes kelly bags fake ranks individual car models as well as manufacturers, combining both frequency of repairs and repair cost for an overall rating.

The top ranked model, the 2009 Toyota Corolla, had not only infrequent trips to the shop but an average repair cost of just $45.84. (Repairs picked up by this system cover everything with a check engine light sensor, including engine, transmission and pollution control devices. Only items like belts and tires are not included.)

Hyundai has made great strides in low repair frequency. The company originally launched its 10 year, 100,000 mile warranty to reassure potential buyers. But Hyundai's rating was boosted by strong performances from recent models of the Elantra and the 2011 Sonata, which ranked sixth among all models. Ford got an especially strong performance from its Edge crossover SUV, which grace kelly purse cheap had three different model years ranked among the top 100 vehicles. But Ford's Windstar minivan, discontinued in 2003 but still going to repair shops, hurt its ranking. Among General Motors brands, Buick was a standout. If Buick had been ranked individually instead of wrapped into GM, it would have topped the list. Its Lucerne model had three different years in the top 100 cars.

As part of hermes kelly pochette imitation its Vehicle Health Index package, CarMD also cites which repair problems occur most frequently for individual car brands. If you want to check your car, go to this CarMD page and put in the make and year.
Sep 16 '17 · 0 comments
When Knockoff hermes online shop can I access my pension money

What is a pension?Do I have to do anything to manage my pension?What if I leave my company before I retire?How does vesting work?When can I access my pension money?Can I take out a loan from my pension plan?Should I take a lump sum payout or monthly payments?What are the advantages of taking a lump sum?Should I invest my lump Knockoff hermes bag for sale sum payout in an Knockoff hermes shoulder bag annuity?What's the difference between a single life annuity and a joint and survivor annuity?Will I pay tax on my pension payouts?How should my pension affect my retirement planning?Will having a public sector pension affect my Social Security?Cash balance plans

Not until you reach retirement age. Typically that's 65, fake black enamel bracelet though many pension plans allow you to start collecting early retirement benefits as early as age 55. If you decide to start receiving benefits before you reach full retirement age, the size of your monthly payout will be less than it would have been if you'd waited. Ask the folks who run your plan to create a simple table showing you how your payments will vary depending on when you start.
Sep 16 '17 · 0 comments
Was MH17 shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet

New evidence suggests that the downing of the Malaysian Airlines plane MH17 was caused by a shot from a Ukranian fighter jet rather than a ground to air missile (file photo)

The fresh allegations come as three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and six injured in an upsurge of fighting between pro Russian rebels and government forces in the country's separatist east, today.

Although the official report states that the plane was hit by a Russian made Buk missile fired from an area of the Ukraine that was under the control of Russian backed rebels, the programme notes that people saw the aircraft being shot down by a fighter jet.

Speaking in the documentary, Natasha Beronina, said: 'It was summer, harvest time. We heard a bang.

'At first we thought we saw black smoke and two planes, little ones like silver Knockoff hermes handbags price toys. One flew straight on and the other one turned round when the bang happened and flew back from where it had come.'

Another witness even said that they saw a jet launch a missile before hearing a big boom.

The Sunday Expressnoted that German Knockoff hermes bag for sale investigative journalist, Billy Six, interviewed 100 witnesses for the programme, seven of which said they saw a fighter jet.

They believed that two jets were present and that one fired an air to air missile, while the other fired a canon from the back into MH17's cockpit.

However, this was something that was profusely denied by pilot, Captain Vladislav Voloshin, who was accused of beingresponsible.

In the interview, Voloshin said that there were no flights on that day and there were also no air to air missiles, as they Knockoff hermes bags prices were carrying air to surface missiles for ground targets.

Another extraordinary theory mentioned in the programme is that the aircraft was detonated in a CIA backed 'terrorist operation', where two bombs were planted on the airliner.

This allegation was put forward by private investigator, Sergey Sokolov, who claimed that the CIA were helped by the Ukrainian secret service and Dutch security service, to place the bombs on the plane in Holland.

He said: 'This terrorist act was a pretext for firstly intensifying sanctions on Russia, secondly to show the world that Russia is a barbarian country and thirdly to strengthen the presence of Nato in Europe, particularly Ukraine.'

Speaking after the death of three Ukrainian soldiers today, Military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said: 'As a result of hostilities, three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and another six wounded over the past 24 hours'.'

According to Motuzyanyk, the situation along the frontline 'had escalated again', accusing separatists of ramping up attacks against the Kiev military and using heavy weapons.

He said: 'The invaders are actively using mortars and armoured vehicles along the entire frontline.'

The damning allegations will be revealed in a BBC documentary and put forward a number of theories as to why the aircraft exploded (file photo)

Speaking to MailOnline, the BBC clarified that the documentary came to no firm conclusion about the theories and there was only a slim chance that a fighter jet had been involved.

A Knockoff hermes orange bag spokesperson, said:'This impartial documentary takes a balanced viewpoint in reporting the competing theories surrounding the fate of MH17, including the evidence for and against those involving Russia, Ukraine and the CIA.

'It also examines in detail the findings of the official Dutch inquiry into the incident, which provide compelling evidence that the plane was brought down by a powerful ground to air missile.'

The new casualties came after three Ukrainian soldiers were killed by pro Russian rebels in a mortar attack earlier this week, in the deadliest attack in nearly two months, the Kiev military said.

A series of truce agreements have helped reduce the violence, although sporadic clashes continue and prevent the sides from reaching a firm political reconciliation deal.

Around 9,200 people have died and more than 21,000 been injured since the revolt against Ukraine's pro Western leadership erupted in eastern Ukraine in April 2014.

Kiev and the West accuse Russia of supporting the insurgents and sending regular troops across the border, claims that Moscow denies.

Earlier this week, Ukraine's defence minister Stepan Poltorak warned it may take years to end a war that plunged Moscow's relations with the West to a post Cold War low.

The documentary, Conspiracy Files: Who Shot Down MH17? Will be aired on BBC Two on May 3 at 9pm

Most watched News videos EXCLUSIVE: Ariana Grande plane arrives back in the US Homeless man describes how he helped after Manchester attack Eye witness describes spotting the Manchester attacker Moment bomb explodes at Ariana Grande concert Forensic officers raid of Manchester suicide bomber Man is arrested by police outside Buckingham Palace Blood seen dripping from victim leg after Manchester Threat level now CRITICAL: PM raises terror level Armed police prepare to raid of Manchester suicide bomber Huge tailbacks on M6 as police after crash between lorry and car Sickening video warns of more attacks after Manchester Mum of Manchester attack victim Georgina Callander releases balloons

Help for the homeless heroes: Millionaire West Ham owner. The schoolgirls massacred by ISIS coward: Five teenagers. Was bomber's family in global terror network? Killer. 'Our little princess has been so lucky': Father's joy as. Britain on lockdown: Army deploys 1,000 heavily armed. Mother of child actress pictured hugging a female police. Grisly photos of scorched remnants of suicide bomber's. Horror on the M6: Lorry driver is arrested after four. Heartwrenching scenes as the mother of 15 year old. Tourists watch in horror as armed police arrest man. Aaron Hernandez's hell behind bars: NFL star killed. More than 24 hours on, desperate families still search. Comedian Jason Manford deletes Twitter after being. BREAKING NEWS: My son is innocent, insists father of. White women's burrito shop is forced to close after. 'I won't forget what you said!' Trump tells Pope after. Melania and Ivanka wear black veils to meet the Pope at. Bomber from a red brick semi who 'knew an ISIS. MOST READ NEWS Previous
Sep 16 '17 · 0 comments
Why House Democrats Might Kill Obama

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's international trade agenda is dead in the water if he doesn't do a better job engaging with Democrats in Congress, and his administration appears to be getting that message, Democrats said Friday.

Congressional Democrats have often been frustrated by his lack of attention to their concerns, but they've been especially disturbed lately that in his grand pivot to Asia and push for a 12 nation trade pact copy black enamel jewelry dubbed the Trans Pacific Partnership, they and the rest of Congress largely have been cut out of negotiations.

"We want transparency. We want to see what's going on there," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D Calif.) told reporters. "We have a problem with that."

As a result, many Democrats fear the actual terms of the deal do not reflect traditional Democratic Party policy priorities.

"This is a big problem now," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D Md.), the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee. "There is inadequate engagement on the substance of what will be in an agreement or out of an agreement."

Democrats in the House and Senate have complained for years about the secrecy standards the Obama administration has applied to the TPP, forcing members to jump over hurdles to see negotiation texts, and blocking staffer involvement. In 2012, Sen. Ron Wyden (D Ore.) complained that corporate lobbyists were given easy access while his office was being stymied, and even introduced protest legislation requiring more congressional input.

The issue came to a head Thursday in two ways. In one case, Obama's new nominee for China ambassador, Sen. Max Baucus (D Mont.), angered his party by introducing fast track trade legislation backed by the White House. The bill would ease the passage of the TPP and is cosponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R Utah) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R Mich.). But most Democrats oppose the bill, and ultimately, Baucus and the administration introduced the legislation without a House Democratic co sponsor a public embarrassment that prompted House Speaker John Boehner (R Ohio) to declare Obama needs to get his act together on trade policy. Trade Representative Michael Froman met with Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee, and got an earful, lawmakers told HuffPost.

"We had a very frank discussion," said Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the committee.

"They've said that they welcome congressional input," said Van Hollen, who also attended the meeting. "But in terms of actually establishing the mechanisms, they haven't put forward a proposal. But we should be putting those proposals on the table. Any administration is going to try and maintain maximum flexibility. It's up to the Congress to insist that we have an important role in the process."

Democrats are especially determined to win a role in negotiations because the bill introduced by Baucus, the departing chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, would grant the administration the ability to present Congress with trade deals that could not be amended, leaving lawmakers to take it or leave it, including on the TPP, which is opposed by many progressive groups and some tea party activists.

With opposition from the right, the administration needs to shore up support from Democrats to move the trade agenda ahead. And the Baucus bill didn't help. Even Democrats like Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer, who are more open to free trade deals with the right protections, think Baucus' effort does little to improve the last fast track bill Congress passed in 2002.

"I think it's a mistake. I think it's going to make it very hard to pass, and frankly, I don't think it should," said Blumenauer. "I'm a little disappointed that something's dropped [introduced] that was never discussed with Democrats in the House. As I understand it, it wasn't actually discussed with Democrats in the Senate."

"It's interesting Baucus introduced his bill without any I think a couple senators endorsed it but without any other Democratic senator on it," Levin said.

"And most of them hadn't seen his bill when he introduced it, including the new chairman," he said, referring to Wyden, who is replacing Baucus at the head of the Finance Committee.

There's a lot at stake for Democrats and the president in working out their rough spots. If they don't, Obama's trade agenda stalls. That's because many in their own party, especially grassroots activists and unions, blame flaws in previous grand trade deals Knockoff hermes hand bags like the North American Free Trade Agreement for siphoning off middle class jobs.

"We have had a trade deficit that has exceeded $350 billion every single year for the past 13 years. We have this enormous staggering problem with our economy called the continuing trade deficit, and this is a measure that would make that worse," Rep. Alan Grayson (D Fla.) said. "The classic example of this is NAFTA. NAFTA has managed to hurt American workers and Mexican workers at the same time."

And most Democrats don't think the pending TPP deal addresses numerous labor, environmental and other issues adequately. Like NAFTA, the TPP would empower foreign corporations to directly challenge the laws and regulations of a country before an international tribunal. Under other trade frameworks, like the World Trade Organization treaties, only nations themselves are permitted to bring trade cases before an international arbiter, meaning companies must first win support from a government before attacking a law. Exxon Mobil, Dow Chemical, Eli Lilly and other corporations have used NAFTA to attempt to overturn Canadian regulations regarding offshore oil drilling, fracking, pesticides, drug patents and other issues.

Progressives like Grayson have long been critical of free trade deals fake black enamel jewelry because of their empowerment of corporations. But even members of the House Democratic leadership who have traditionally supported such pacts are upset over the current deal and worried about its impact on their 2014 message.

"No one should believe that negotiations on TPP are over, because almost again all the key issues remain," said Levin.

"Congress must have a robust role in the oversight of any trade deal," said Rep. "I will continue working with my colleagues to ensure any trade deal reflects 21st copy cuff bracelets for women century realities, protects the American worker and is only agreed to after adequate and necessary consultation with Congress."

Still, boosting trade does fit into the Democrats' agenda if it helps boost exports and create new jobs in America.

"We need to deal with trade. I don't think there's a member of Congress who isn't pro trade, but it's got to be pro American worker, pro American consumer, pro American business," said Rep. Xavier Becerra (D Calif.). "Otherwise, why are we opening up our markets to people if we're going to get raped?"

Becerra and others acknowledge there is a great deal of pressure, in general, to take steps that promise economic growth with the economy still limping along and producing too few jobs. Crafting a trade deal that pleases their base, however, won't come easily, and almost certainly not before the election, especially if the Obama administration offers Democrats little more than token input.

"This place doesn't work on amorphous pressure. It works on touch and feel pressure. Unless we can come together on something that collectively, bipartisanly, we think can work, I think it's going to be tough," said Becerra. "It won't be fast. It might be on a track, but it won't be fast."
Sep 16 '17 · 0 comments
Who has been the Premier League's best defender so far this season

His total of 80 have come at an unrivalled rate of 3.8 per game.

Stoke's Erik Pieters (right) ranks highly in a number of defensive categories

In terms of tackle success, however, Bournemouth's Adam Smith ranks as the most efficient among defenders to have made at least 30. The 24 year old has won 39 of the 42 he has attempted, giving him an impressive success rate of 92.86 per cent.

Tackle success (min 30 tackles) Player Team Tackle success Adam Smith Bournemouth 92.86% Leandro Bacuna Aston Villa 90.00% Allan Nyom Watford 87.72% Kyle Walker Tottenham 86.96% Joel Ward Crystal Palace 84.85% Danny Rose Tottenham 83.87% Charlie Daniels Bournemouth 83.33% Jordan Amavi Aston Villa 83.33% Sebastian Coates Sunderland 82.22% Matteo copy enamel gold jewelry Darmian Man Utd 80.77%

Bournemouth defender Adam Smith (left) has been one of the Premier League's top tacklers

He is followed in second place by Watford's Allan Nyom (87.72 per cent of 57 tackles) and Tottenham's Kyle Walker (86.96 per cent of 46 tackles). Norwich's Sebastian Bassong has made the most (181) followed by Swansea's Ashley Williams (163) and Spurs' Alderweireld (159).

Toby Alderweireld has impressed since joining Spurs in the summerMost blocks Player Team Ashley Williams Swansea 28 Scott Dann Crystal Palace 26 Fabricio Coloccini Newcastle 26 Wes Morgan Leicester 23 John Stones Everton 20 Chancel Mbemba Newcastle 18 Steve Cook Bournemouth 18 Damien copy black enamel jewelry Delaney Crystal Palace 18

A brave block can be as valuable as scoring a goal, and no defender has made more of them than Swansea's Williams (28) this season. Crystal Palace's Scott Dann has also got his body in the way on plenty of occasions (26), along Knockoff orange hermes bag with Fabricio Coloccini of Newcastle (26) and Leicester's Morgan (23).

Swansea's Ashley Williams (right) has made the most blocks of any Premier League defenderMost duels Player Team Erik Pieters Stoke 244 Simon Francis Bournemouth 233 Billy Jones Sunderland 221 Bacary Sagna Man City 190 Chancel Mbemba Newcastle 187 Nacho Monreal Arsenal 187 Daryl Janmaat Newcastle 186 Adam Smith Bournemouth 182 Nicolas Otamendi Man City 181

Which defenders do strikers hate coming up against in a duel? Stoke's Pieters would be right up there. He never shies away from a challenge and has competed a whopping 244 duels this season.

Premier League's top striker? Who's the Premier League's top frontman? We examine the numbers.

Duel success (min 75 duels) Player Team Duel success Winston Reid West Ham 75.00% Micah Richards Aston Villa 72.86% Per Mertesacker Arsenal 71.91% Virgil van Dijk fake enamel gold jewelry Southampton 71.02% John O'Shea Sunderland 70.24% Craig Cathcart Watford 69.89% John Terry Chelsea 69.74% Sylvain Distin Bournemouth 69.41% Philipp Wollscheid Stoke 69.29% Angelo Ogbonna West Ham 68.87%

But while Pieters has won well over half of his duels, his success rate falls below a number of other defenders. Of those to have been involved in at least 75 duels, West Ham's Reid sits at the top of the pile with a 75 per cent success rate from his total of 104. Aston Villa's Micah Richards is next on 72.86 per cent, followed by Arsenal's Per Mertesacker on 71.91 per cent.
Sep 16 '17 · 0 comments
Pages: «« « ... 74 75 76 77 78 ... » »»