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Richmond man who viciously stabbed two women gets life in prison
RICHMOND, Va. — A man accused of violently stabbing two women in a Richmond apartment complex rental office in December has been sentenced to life in prison.
Benjamin P. Dancy, age 50, pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder, malicious wounding, and two charges of robbery. He was sentenced to two life sentences plus 60 years in prison.
Police say he killed 44-year-old Della Scott in a violent attack at the rental office at Chamberlayne Gardens apartment complex in December 2013. One other woman was also stabbed.
The two women worked at the rental office and were robbed. Witnesses saw a bloodied victim screaming and running from the office in the attack.
Richmond Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Learned Barry said the murder was one of the most brutal he had ever seen.
Dancy had charges dating back to 1982, including attempted robbery, burglary, drug possession and malicious wounding.

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Automation means Toys and Gadgets and Buttons…
But that's not how its products are marketed and that's not how they're usually sold. Yet
that's how most homebuyers view them. "Are we really getting that lazy?", "It's like something from
the Jetson's!", "I can't even program my VCR, I'd never be able to turn on the lights". These are
just a few of the initial reactions I hear when speaking on the possibilities of Home Automation. And since they are viewed
as toys, automation products are usually put at the bottom of the Options List by the new homebuyer.
What Is Automation
Defined, it is the automatic operation or control of a process, equipment, or a system. Home Automation
on the other hand is much more than that and should never be discussed or defined in such dry, unemotional terms.
Home Automation is a lifestyle enhancing process
that is based on the fundamental human elements of safety, control, communication & convenience. It's based upon,
and is as different as, the habits, patterns and lifestyles of each individual family and it's members.
For years we have automated the workplace. We automate any redundant tasks that might allow us the
time to be more productive. Now that it is affordable, easy to use, and readily available, it is only natural that we would
want that technology in our homes.
Automation & Integration
In most homes today you press one switch and one
light or one set of lights comes on. In homes that are automated, pressing that same switch could control lights throughout
the home and set them to different levels of brightness to create Lighting Scenes. Another automated system may announce through
a kitchen or patio speakers, "there is a car in the drive" as guests arrive.
Integration is a method of combining automated and non-automated systems to make them work together. Lets say that
you disarm your security system at 9:00 p.m.. With integration capable systems, such as the "AMP ON-Q™" system,
the security panel would not only disable the security contacts, but could send out the control signals to turn lights on
based on your traffic patterns as well as turn on the radio or TV to your favorite station. All automatic, all because you
did something you normally do, and all because your builder wired your home for the future.
Structured Wiring
The standards set for structured wiring are: 1 Computer, 1 Telephone and 2 Video Cables run to every
major living area within the home. Needless to say, you don't need to understand all of the technical properties of these
cables, but here are some of the terms of the trade:
Each cable goes from it's point of use (an outlet) back to a central location and is not cut and/or spliced.
Cat 3: A category for installing Phone and Data cable capable of supporting
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If we operate under the premise that the list of automation and integration possibilities is limitless,
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Security, Lighting, HVAC, Audio/ Video, Computer, Telephone and Control Systems.
Security: Until such time that your home is broken into, your security system really
doesn't do very much for it's monitoring fee. An automated system however can use those contacts on the front door
to turn on lights or call you when your children get home from school. It can trigger messages such as "Garbage Day"
or alert you using occupancy sensing i.e. if a motion detector doesn't sense movement in my mothers kitchen within 14
hours, call me, because something is wrong.
Automated lighting can turn all the lights on at once in case of emergency or turn lights off to conserve energy. It
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sunrise and sunset.
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mode") the setting isn't changed. On the day it wasn't supposed to snow, but did, and you're coming home
early, call home and turn the thermostat up before you leave.
Audio / Video: The key here is "distribution". The video from the VCR, Baby-Cam or front door camera
can be viewed on any TV. You can listen to your favorite radio station in the study while your children listen to their CD's
on the patio. With a distributed system you only need to own 1 Stereo, 1 VCR, 1 Satellite Receiver, 1 DVD Player, etc.
Computer: With a network in your home you are no longer tied to a specific
room with the printer as your only company. You can work via notebook from any room and all the computers in the house can
share resources such as a CD-ROM, drive space or printer.
Telephone: The telephone
takes on new roles in the Future Ready home. It becomes a Room-to-Room, Front Door and/or Gate intercom and controller. It
allows for 4 phone jacks per Cat 5 cable and supports high-speed Internet access, phone systems that take messages, route
calls, faxes and plays music on hold. Control Systems: The greatest advances in home automation have come in the form of Human
Interfaces. You can control your home systems with wall switches, touch screens, hand held remotes, RF & IR transmitters/repeaters,
via telephone, with the TV or computer and even with your own voice. The controllers of today are much easier to use and can
make all the difference when it comes to enhancing your lifestyle.
I'll admit
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MADONNA is launching her second lifestyle brand, following the success of her debut Material Girl label. The star's new line, entitled Truth Or Dare by Madonna, will be targeted at an older audience to her previous offering and will start with fragrance. Accessories are planned for 2012, including footwear, handbags and underwear.
The news comes after the singer signed a deal with brand management company, Iconix Brand Group.
"Over the past several years, I have been approached countless times to create my own brand," said Madonna. "The timing is right and I have found great partners in Iconix, who can help translate my vision to reality."
The label will illustrate Madonna's look as a powerful, female icon and will be targeted at women aged between 27 to 50.
"The interest and excitement globally for brands developed by Madonna are significant," Iconix's ceo Neil Cole told WWD. "After the highly successful launch of the junior brand Material Girl, we knew there would be a tremendous demand for a brand that Madonna herself is the face of and that truly captures her essence."
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Barra Olympic Park, heart of the Rio 2016 Games, 95 per cent complete
What a year… how preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games entered the home straight in 2015
Lillehammer 2016 aims to 'Go Beyond and Create Tomorrow'
The fairy tale scenery of Norway's Oppland region will provide the backdrop for fantastic feats on the snow and ice at the Winter Youth Olympic Games Lillehammer 2016.
The iconic competition venues that took centre stage at the Olympic Winter Games Lillehammer 1994, such as Birkebeineren Ski Stadium, Lysgårdsbakken Ski Jumping Arena, Hafjell ski resort, the Viking ship-shaped Hamar Olympic Hall and Gjøvik Olympic Cavern Hall will all be put into service again, providing the stage for the usual array of winter sports as well as new, less familiar disciplines. Featured among the latter are the monobob (a single-seater bobsleigh event), the Nordic mixed team event (a combination of cross-country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined) and the team ski-snowboard cross, a mixed-team event for both skiers and snowboarders.
On the ice hockey rink, the individual skills challenge will make a welcome return, enabling players to showcase their shooting accuracy, puck control and skating agility.
The winter and summer editions of the Youth Olympic Games serve as a veritable testing ground for new events, some of which have in the past been promoted to the Olympic Games.
These champions of the future will not solely be on the hunt for medals at the Games, as they will also have the chance to take part in numerous workshops dealing with topics central to their athletic and future careers, receive training in the very latest multimedia technology, and let their hair down at the "Sjoggfest" – a series of festivals, concerts and cultural events.
Birth of the YOG
Future elite athletes have always performed in national and international competitions from a young age, but until very recently they did not have the opportunity to compete together in a major global multi-sport event, in a warm and friendly environment where learning and skills-based activities are also prioritised.
At the instigation of Jacques Rogge, IOC President from 2001 to 2013, the Youth Olympic Games, reserved for competitors between 14 and 18, were created during the international body's 119th session in Guatemala City in July 2007. "This is a historic moment for the Olympic Movement. We owe that to the youth of the world," said Rogge at the time.
The first two editions of the Summer Youth Olympic Games were held in Singapore in 2010 and Nanjing (CHN) in 2014. The inaugural Winter YOG took place in Innsbruck (AUT) in February 2012. The goals of the YOG, which provide a taste of the Olympic Games experience, include educating young athletes on the Olympic values of friendship, excellence and respect, and encouraging them to take pleasure in their sports, look up to role models and respect fair play. This is all part of a programme called "Learn & Share".
Attendees will be provided with crucial information relating to their elite sporting career and beyond, with the help of inspiring Young Ambassadors, whose role is to pass on their invaluable experience and advice. Key facts about nutrition, the dangers of doping and professional development are also placed at athletes' disposal.
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YOG participants become Youth Olympians for life and ambassadors for Olympic values once they return to their respective homelands. The slogan for Lillehammer 2016, "Go Beyond, Create Tomorrow", is an invitation for them to ready themselves for greater challenges.
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In February 2016, a whole host of eager competitors will be hoping to emerge successful from their own events in Lillehammer, before dreaming of success at PyeongChang 2018.
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Get to know the Athlete Role Models: Wolfgang Linger
How/why did you start your sport?
When I was young I did many different sports. I just liked to do sports, it didn´t matter which sport. One day I tried to do luge, but just totally by chance and I had a lot of fun. So at this age that was probably the reason that I really started doing luge. It´s great to have to physical skills and the speed, and on the other side with the sleds it´s a high-tech sport. That's the main points for me.
What achievements are you most proud of in your sporting career?
For sure the two Olympic gold medals were very special. But I am very proud of winning the overall World Cup in 2012, because there was big pressure on us.
What achievements are you most proud of outside your sporting career?
When I was 19, in sport my big goal was qualify for the Olympics in Salt Lake City. In the same year I graduated at school. That was a tough year because sport was very intensive and took lots of time, and then school also took much time and needed hard discipline. But it worked, I was successful in both of them.
Favourite moment at the Olympics? A special memory of one of your participations?
In 2006, when we were on the podium and they were playing our national anthem. We were not in Turin as favourites, so everything was really just like a dream. And the race itself went so fast, even after the race you are still so focused. So the day after the race we really had time to enjoy our special moment when we got the medals in Turin.
What made you want to participate in the Youth Olympic Games?
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What do you like most about the Youth Olympic Games concept?
Young people need big events and special events to be well prepared when they come to their senior national team. For them to win at the Youth Olympic Games is for sure an amazing victory. But I don´t just see the result, I also see what the kids are learning at the Youth Olympics for their future. When they come for the first time to the "real" Olympics, in their mind they will be better prepared.
What are you looking forward to the most in Lillehammer 2016?
I think the Opening Ceremony is going to be a great event already. And there the kids will realise that these events the following days are not normal, they are something special. And then I can "go with" the athletes to their race and be there for questions and give them some small advice to be able to give the best in their Olympic race.
What's next for you in your career?
I have started my second career. After I stopped sliding in 2014, I started working with the Austrian luge federation and with Austrian TV. And I started studying economics and sport.
What are your hobbies?
Still every kind of sport. Biking, skiing, hiking, reading a book. And for sure playing with my kids, which I do most of my free time 😉
Anything else you want to add?
It makes me proud to be part of this project. Kids are always the future. And to work with them is great because they can still make big steps forward with their skills. And when I think back to when I was a kid, it was always a great moment when I met a successful sportsman. So I hope I can bring some of them some special moments and help them a little bit in their development.
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You'll need:
45cm length chunky chain
lobster clasp
7mm jump rings
Lots of charms and trinkets
Step 1. Roughly mark your pattern, you want to use your largest charms in the centre and work outwards in size
Step 2. Taking a jump ring start in the centre and add your first charm.
To open and close your jump ring, take a pair of pliers in each hand and very gently pull/push the jump ring in opposite directions, thread your charm and close your jump ring in the same way. I found it easier to add charms 5 at a time either side of the central charm
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Step 4. Now add your smallest charms, these should finish the necklace so keep your prettiest for the end.
Step 5. To finish add your lobster clasp to the end of the chain and you are done.
If this has whet your appetite for renovating your old jewels take a look these tassel earrings and easy earring bracelet - Happy Making!
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WASHINGTON, March 5, 2006 - The Defense Department has asked the U.S. Army to launch a criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Cpl. Pat Tillman, who was killed in the spring of 2004 during a combat operation in Afghanistan.
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Energy Foundation China Holds 2nd Forum on Technologies & Policies for Transportation
Energy Foundation China, together with China Automotive Technology and Research Center hosted the "Second Forum on Technologies & Policies for Transportation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction" in Beijing on November 14th 2013. The theme of the conference was "Outlook on Integrated Control Measures of Vehicle Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction." More than one hundred participants took part in the conference. They included government officials from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), Ministry of Transportation, National Standards Committee, experts and researchers from research institutes, local and international NGOs such as the World Bank, Asia Development Bank, and International Council of Clean Transportation, and delegates from the automobile and fuel industries.
Eric Heitz, president of the Energy Foundation, Wang Fuchang, counsel of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Lu Shize, division director of Ministry of Environmental Protection delivered the opening speeches. Mr. Heitz introduced the Energy Foundation's history of support for progressive transportation policy and new challenges, and expressed his eagerness to continue strengthening cooperation with local partners. Mr. Wang Fuchang discussed trends in the Chinese automobile industry, the development of standards and policies to improve vehicle fuel efficiency, and stated that MIIT will further improve fuel efficiency and labeling looking toward 2020 and beyond. With the State Council's recently released Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan as a backdrop, Mr. Lu Shize elaborated on the current government's goals in the environmental management of transportation.
Experts shared their research findings and policy recommendations on the transportation energy structure, integrated control of vehicle energy saving and emission reduction, economic analysis of the integrated control, China's current management practices over emissions of in-use vehicles and fuels, reform of the automobile tax system, and green freight challenges. The Rocky Mountain Institute, China Automotive Technology and Research Center, International Council on Clean Transportation, Vehicle Emission Control Center of MEP, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Development Research Center of the State Council, and the World Bank all gave presentations. Qian Minghua, Division Director of MIIT, Wang Tao, Deputy Division Director of MEP, Liu Yonglu, Division Director of MOF, and Li Gang, Division Director of NDRC, served as moderators. To bring the event to a close, former counsel of the National Energy Administration Mr. Bai Rongchun gave his comments on the presentations and discussions.


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Palacio de Marquesa, Taos
Palacio de Marquesa in Taos
Media and Press Resource CenterPalacio de Marquesa is a Taos inn offering visitors a beautiful retreat in the mountains of northern New Mexico. The hotel features eight individual guestrooms each with its own distinctive character and luxury amenities like jetted tubs, spa showers, radiant heated floors, skylights and high viga beamed ceilings. Guests enjoy complimentary WiFi and a full hot breakfast each morning. The natural and cultural beauty of Taos began drawing artists in the early 1900. A number of very notable women artists settled in Taos. The fabric of the stories of the Taos community was woven by notable women including Millicent Rogers, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Agnes Martin, Georgia O'Keeffe and others who were attracted to the area. The design concept of Palacio de Marquesa pays tribute to the remarkable stories of the women of Taos. The spirit, drive, innovation and contributions of several extraordinary women are represented in our Taos inn's timeless design and refined sophistication.
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text: In Toronto-based cartoonist Jillian Tamaki's collection of short stories in graphic novel form, a beloved movie carries a possible curse, a mysterious alternate Facebook appears showing other paths lives might take, bedbugs strain a marriage, a six-hour music file of unknown origin inspires a cult, and a woman finds herself shrinking into invisibility. "Boundless'' (Drawn and Quarterly) feels at one time wholly of this moment and otherworldly, presenting a reality that's tilted slightly of its axis. Her evocative drawings are intimate, energetic, in moments loose and casual, in others tight and finely rendered. If Kelly Link or Aimee Bender were graphic novelists, these are the sorts of stories they might produce.


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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Crude oil futures rose on Monday as firm global demand offset a strong dollar, although a holiday in the United States and much of Europe kept trading muted.
Front-month Brent crude LCOc1 gained 53 cents to $65.90 a barrel by 1750 GMT (01:50 p.m. EDT), after touching an intraday low of $64.72. U.S. crude CLc1 was up 8 cents at $59.80 a barrel.
The market drew support from figures showing strong demand across Asia and the United States.
"Global oil demand continues to surprise to the upside, with April data showing no signs of slowdown despite a pick-up in prices," Energy Aspects said in a note.
Japan's customs-cleared crude oil imports rose 9.1 percent year-on-year to 3.62 million barrels per day (bpd) in April, the Finance Ministry said.
In China, crude imports hit a record 7.4 million bpd last month, with healthy car sales countering a slowing economy.
In the United States, the peak summer driving season started with Memorial Day on Monday, and the American Automobile Association said road travel was expected to reach a 10-year high over the long weekend.
The dollar held near two-month highs against the euro EUR= and yen JPY=, as well as a one-month peak against a basket of currencies .DXY.
A strong dollar makes greenback-denominated crude oil less attractive for holders of other currencies.
"The overall fundamentals still point to a well-supplied market, a fact that should continue to put a ceiling on prices," Barclays said.
Iran plans to raise its oil output by 170,000 bpd by March 2016, the official IRNA news agency cited an Iranian oil official as saying.
Iran, a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), aims to boost crude exports by up to 1 million bpd if Tehran and six major powers finalize a nuclear agreement by a June 30 deadline.
Unrest in the Middle East intensified on Monday as Islamic State poured fighters into the western Iraqi city of Ramadi.
In oil exporter Libya, warplanes from the official government attacked an oil tanker docked outside the city of Sirte on Sunday, wounding three people and setting the ship on fire, officials said.
It was the third confirmed strike by the internationally recognized government on oil tankers, part of a conflict between competing administrations and parliaments allied to armed factions fighting for control of the country.
Additional reporting by Himanshu Ojha in London and Henning Gloystein in Singapore; Editing by David Goodman, Dale Hudson and Marguerita Choy


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Anyone interested in the development of ebXML should consider joining the ebXML-DEV mail list, see attached announcement. If interested send an e-mail to mailto:email@example.com with the word "subscribe" (without quotes) in the body of your message. You should receive a "request to confirm" message shortly. Regards, Dick Brooks (ebXML liaison) Group 8760 110 12th Street North Birmingham, AL 35203 email@example.com 205-250-8053 Fax: 205-250-8057 http://www.8760.com/ InsideAgent - Empowering e-commerce solutions > -----Original Message----- > From: Carol Geyer [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 8:42 AM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: UN/CEFACT and OASIS Introduce ebXML-DEV Mail List > > > UN/CEFACT and OASIS Introduce ebXML-DEV Mail List > > Geneva, Switzerland and Boston, MA, USA; 22 May 2001 -- UN/CEFACT and > OASIS today announced the formation of ebXML-DEV, a mail list for the > ebXML development community. Hosted by OASIS, ebXML-DEV provides an open > forum for serious ebXML developers and those interested in implementing > ebXML to share information and experiences. Todays announcement follows > the recent ratification of the ebXML specifications, which facilitate > open trade between organizations regardless of size by enabling XML to > be used in a consistent manner to exchange electronic business data. > > Now that weve reached our milestone of developing ebXML, we want to > support those involved in implementing the specifications, said > Klaus-Dieter Naujok of IONA, member of the UN/CEFACT Steering Committee. > The ebXML-DEV mail list fosters the productive discussion of ebXML > topics and provides a valuable resource for those seeking practical > information. > > ebXML-DEV is a self-moderated forum for the open exchange of ideas, > explained Karl Best, OASIS director of technical operations. OASIS will > host the list as a service to the community, but the content of the > discussions will be driven by the participants themselves. > > Individuals may subscribe to ebXML-DEV online at http://www.ebxml.org. > > About ebXML > ebXML, sponsored by UN/CEFACT and OASIS, is a modular suite of > specifications that enables enterprises of any size and in any > geographical location to conduct business over the Internet. Using > ebXML, companies now have a standard method to exchange business > messages, conduct trading relationships, communicate data in common > terms and define and register business processes. > > About UN/CEFACT > UN/CEFACT (www.uncefact.org) is the United Nations body whose mandate > covers worldwide policy and technical development in the area of trade > facilitation and electronic business. Headquartered in Geneva, it has > developed and promoted many tools for the facilitation of global > business processes including UN/EDIFACT, the international EDI standard. > Its current work programme includes such topics as Simpl-edi and Object > Oriented EDI and it strongly supports the development and implementation > of open, interoperable global standards and specifications for > electronic business. > > About OASIS > OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) is the international, not-for-profit > consortium that advances electronic business by promoting open, > collaborative development of interoperability specifications. 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Internet speeds depend on the bandwidth capabilities of your network, your Internet service, as well as what's happening with your computer. Software downloads and OS X updates can hamstring your Mac's ability to serve video streams or to download a specific file you really need now.
Disabling Automatic Software Downloads
Click the Apple menu and select System Preferences. Select App Store.
Click the check boxes beside Download Newly Available Updates in the Background and Automatically Download Apps Purchased on Other Macs to disable these options. When Apple has new updates available for your Mac, it will send you an on-screen notification and prompt you to download them, which you can do at your convenience.
Video of the Day
Close all of your open programs and then restart the Mac. This ensures that any programs or background processes are disconnected from the Internet. Once the Mac restarts, open only the program you need to access your desired online content.
Checking Your Network
Click the Wi-Fi indicator on the desktop and make sure you are connected to your preferred network. The more bars displayed in the Wi-Fi icon, the stronger its signal. If your preferred network's speed is low, move your Mac or move the Wi-Fi router closer to each other. For best results, there should be a direct line of sight between them.
Go to an Internet speed test website like vary. With Netflix, for example, you should have a download bandwidth of 5 Megabits per second, or 5 Mbps, to stream high-definition video.
Log in to your router's admin panel using its admin username and password. You can do this on most routers by typing its IP address directly in the address bar of any Web browser connected to the network.
Go into the Network Settings to see what devices are currently connected to the Network. For example, you may have another computer, a tablet or a smart TV that is streaming video that you forgot about. If you see devices connected to your network that you don't recognize, .


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May 26, 2010
Graph DB Ecosystem Grows - Objectivity Introduces InfiniteGraph. By Mitchell Pronsc, DZone Architect Zone
"The technology supports a wide range of usage and deployment options. InfiniteGraph could be used as a primary database management system, or as an extension to existing relational infrastructures, map reduce, and batch processing layers. It can be deployed in the datacenter, the cloud, or as an embedded data component within sensors and devices. The system is also designed to require virtually zero administration."


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The race to replace beer and wine with fresher, younger, more attractive fruity-laced alcoholic beverages continues with Anheuser-Busch "test beer L" also known as "Lime-A-Rita". Beer Street Journal and MyBeerBuzz websites report taste tests and samples circulating courtesy of local distributors and sales reps.
This green-labeled Margarita-beer is only the latest alcopop to follow in the successful footsteps of FourLoko, Chick Beer, Joose, Smirnoff Ice, hard lemonade, etc. ad nauseum. It seems these days everything is gone fruity, since the start way back in the 90's when White Zinfandel and wine coolers took over the picnic basket.
Anheuser Busch is also preparing new flavors of Shock Top beer, and a new cider, "hard tea" and lemonade-flavored version of Michelob Ultra.
Lime-A-Rita as shown is 6% ABV, while some alcopops have pushed limits with alcohol content far in excess of typical beer levels. Alco-Pops are a big trend right now.
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Tips on creating the perfect landing page:
BCS has worked with a number of customers on improving their website's landing page. We changed Property Insurance Centre's homepage a few months back and they noticed an immediate improvement in the number of customers who click through to the relevant page on the type of insurance they were looking for and submitting the quote forms that exist on every type of insurance landing page. They also noticed a massive improvement in their bounce rate, down to 18% from 80% a year earlier. Visitors are able to see the information they are looking for and therefore are engaging with sections of the site than before the redesigned homepage. We can work with any existing website and do not always completely redesign a site, we will work with our clients and work out what messages you are wanting to communicate and redesign any landing page that we feel is necessary.
Headlines, copy and how you convince/reassure visitors to trust your business:
Clear and concise headlines on your landing page (normally your homepage) is important and vital when it comes to mobile visitors. Also try to reassure them that you are the best at what you offer through independent reviews, emphasise the awards that you have won and finally any accreditations that you have e.g. ISO 9001, only bosch approved garage in the area, etc.
Repeating some click to action points is fine:
Make any click to action sections of your site strong so that people can view them clearly, e.g. start a project, request a quotation, etc. Also make sure that any forms are easy to click or fill in on mobile devices as if they do not function properly on a smart phone people will go to one of your competitors which works properly. Click to action areas can also be repeated on any page just in case visitors did not see the first one, always give people at least 2 areas that mention contact details or whatever action you are looking for visitors to do.
Double check any copy you have on your website:
Sounds straight forward? Still a lot of people have websites with spelling/grammatical mistakes that make you look unprofessional. Ask one or two other people to check over your website before it goes live.
Avoid stock photography unless you have no other choice:
Stock photography can easily be detected by a savvy internet visitor. They can make your business look like you are not as big as you let on to be. Therefore, when possible take photos of your actual business or carry out any service that you offer.
Avoid taking people away from your site:
Some websites have links that take people to their suppliers or any other site they feel is relevant to their business. Please avoid this as much as possible as it is taking people away from your website and the possibility of converting them into an actual customer.
If you are looking for a landing page for your website get in touch with us on 07739 010266 today and see what we can do for you. A Landing page costs only £200.


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Weekly Newsletter: February 15
I collect articles from around the web for this weekly newsletter. It includes all the interesting things that I've seen over the week in management, leadership and strategy (plus any blog posts).
You can subscribe here.
This week in Leadership
This Google exec's success shows how it pays off to invest in talent
"Google is celebrated for its rigorously data-focused management and hiring culture. But the secret of one of its most successful executives, Sundar Pichai, lies in good old-fashioned team building."
All Work Has Meaning (Almost)
"A great way to discover your work's true meaning is to go deep with consumers with extreme behavior…. But companies routinely underestimate the meaning, purpose and significance because they don't look hard enough at the diversity and depth of their consumers."
How an Olympic Gold Medalist Learned to Perform Under Pressure
"It's so easy and much more fun to work on your strengths. You get immediate positive feedback… But the thing you're practicing, well, you were already good at it. So I think what you really need to work on is what you're not good at. And I think that's as true in business as it is in sport."
The Vulnerability Decision: Why CEO's Need a Coach
"In other words, [despite the benefits] most CEO's frankly are concerned that their boards and key stakeholders will see it as a sign of weakness that they are in fact working with a coach."
Complex Times Call for Connective Leaders
"The higher the technology in our world, the higher the human touch needed. The most sought-after leaders today are, by nature, connective. They become the glue that holds diverse people together."
I Almost Died. And So Can You.
"Too busy for that morning jog? Too rushed for a homemade meal? I thought so, too–until I suffered a heart attack at age 43. Here's what I've learned."
This week in Management
I Filled a Job You Didn't Know You Had
"The Job Proposal Memo is a summary of what a candidate will accomplish in the first 30-60-90 days in a given role at a company. It is similar to a cover letter, but focused more on what you can and will accomplish in this role."
Why it's more demanding to work for a company without a traditional hierarchy
"Working without a manager might sound like a dream but the reality is that it's often much more demanding. As companies like Zappos and Medium adopt self-governing structures, flat management is piquing the interest of myriad organizations—though it's not entirely new."
The art of management
"Small steps … I believe that good management is based on steady and structured small steps over a period of time, rather than happening in giant leaps. It takes time to build a set of values that your people will live by (beyond just having them posted in your vision statement), and with them the culture and acceptable behaviours that are necessary to support these."
16 Ways to Help Less
"Help done poorly creates dependency… Over-helpful leaders frustrate teams. Help done well strengthens. Help done poorly weakens."
Stop "Fixing" Women and Start Fixing Managers
"The shift in all this is that after a few decades of asking women to adapt to organizations, companies are starting to adapt their organizations to women. They are asking managers to learn new skills to manage a new more gender-balanced workforce and customer base."
Top talent walking out the door? Here's how to get them to stay
"Want to prevent future flight of your top talent? Don't wait until it's too late: conduct a "stay interview"… Stay interviews serve two purposes: to let employees know how valued they are and to proactively identify problems that may lead to a team member's departure."
The Big Benefits You Can Get From Remaking Performance Reviews
"In 2012, [Adobe] moved from yearly performance rankings to frequent 'check-ins' where managers provide employees targeted coaching and advice… The aim is to give people information when they need it rather than months after teachable moments have passed."
The complete guide to your insane working hours
"Why are we working ridiculously long weeks? Because of the way we measure work, our cultural history, and how constantly connected we are. Here's how we can finally break free."
Should office culture change to accommodate introverts?
"In a world designed for extroverts, quiet types are misunderstood as unambitious. Should the introverts change, or should their environment?"
Seeking Their Fortune: The Career Path for Top Executives in Big Companies
"Leaders "shot to the top fastest at Google," where it took only 14 years to rise from an entry level position to the executive suite, while it took 32 years at Hewlett-Packard and ConocoPhillips."
This week in Strategy
The Crazy Story Of How An Impulse Trip To Sydney Sparked EBay's $US50 Billion Turnaround
"In a few minutes, Abraham and five of his coworkers from eBay would board a 14-hour flight to Sydney, Australia. Their plan was to spend the next two weeks re-inventing the eBay homepage… He had to move fast, he felt, because he feared that if he did not, eBay's big-company processes and politics would suffocate his idea before it ever became a prototype."
Inside AT&T's Special Ops Team
"When the telecom behemoth opened two start-up style labs in Plano, it wasn't just trying to change the way it does business with outsiders. It was trying to change its culture as well."
7 predictions for the future of work
"We might not have holographic conference calls or teleporting commutes (yet), but corporate anthropology can give us a realistic glimpse of our futures in the workplace."
Company Culture Is Part of Your Business Model
"I think leaders should think of their culture as the first and most important business model that they create. It is the platform from which the more traditionally thought of business models emerge."
Develop Strategic Thinkers Throughout Your Organization
"Provide information to your leaders on the market, the industry, customers, competitors and new technologies that influence your business. One of the key prerequisites of strategic leadership is having relevant and broad business information that helps leaders elevate their thinking beyond the day-to-day."
Management.Disrupted is a blog about management beyond the production line. Thoughts on better management, leadership and strategy for knowledge work from Steve Pell.
Visit the website at www.managementdisrupted.com or follow me on Twitter @stevepell.


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Posts tagged 'economic crisis'
Country in crisis – strategy for disaster
The market keeps failing. Stocks keep dropping. Confidence is down. The bailouts, spending, stimulus, etc. that are supposed to be helping are having the exact opposite effect and things are getting worse.
But the question comes . . . Is this all being done on purpose? Is the economy being manipulated to in effect create a society even more dependent upon social programs and big government? I do not usually buy into conspiracy theory, but when there is logical reasoning behind them I think they should be at least looked into.
There is a strategy known as the Cloward-Piven Strategy that forces political change through orchestrated crisis. It was proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Cloward and Piven saw the welfare system as their first target done by capitalizing on the racial unrest of the 1960s. They hired George Wiley, who created the National Welfare Reform Organization (NWRO) to implement the strategy. Moreover, this kind of mass influence is cumulative because benefits are continuous. Once eligibility for basic food and rent grants is established, the drain on local resources persists indefinitely.
The huge expansion of welfare in New York City that came of the NWRO's Cloward-Piven tactics sent the city into bankruptcy in 1975. Rudy Giuliani also credited Cloward-Piven with changing the cultural attitude toward welfare from that of a temporary expedient to a lifetime entitlement, an attitude which in-and-of-itself has caused perhaps the greatest damage of all. Cloward and Piven by name as being responsible for "an effort at economic sabotage."
- 1. Register as many Democrat voters as possible, legal or otherwise and help them vote, multiple times if possible.
- 2. Overwhelm the system with fraudulent registrations using multiple entries of the same name, names of deceased, random names from the phone book, even contrived names.
- 3. Make the system difficult to police by lobbying for minimal identification standards.
There is also cause to wonder if this strategy also contributed to the current mortgage crisis as well. The mortgage crisis has some blame falling back as far as the Carter administration. It began with theCommunity Reinvestment Act(CRA), signed into law in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. The CRA was Carter's answer to a grassroots activist movement started in Chicago, and forced banks to make loans to low income, high risk customers.
Stan Leibowitz wrote in the New York Post: In the 1980s, groups such as the activists at ACORN began pushing charges of "redlining"-claims that banks discriminated against minorities in mortgage lending. In 1989, sympathetic members of Congress got the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act amended to force banks to collect racial data on mortgage applicants; this allowed various studies to be ginned up that seemed to validate the original accusation
Obama represented ACORN in the Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank, 1994 suit against redlining. Most significant of all, ACORN was the driving force behind a 1995 regulatory revision pushed through by the Clinton Administration that greatly expanded the CRA and laid the groundwork for the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac borne financial crisis we now confront.
New York Post article – A 1995 strengthening of the Community Reinvestment Act required banks to find ways to provide mortgages to their poorer communities. It also let community activists intervene at yearly bank reviews, shaking the banks down for large pots of money.
Ironically, an enthusiastic Fannie Mae Foundation report singled out one paragon of nondiscriminatory lending, which worked with community activists and followed "the most flexible underwriting criteria permitted." That lender's $1 billion commitment to low-income loans in 1992 had grown to $80 billion by 1999 and $600 billion by early 2003.
At least he knows.
Kudos for knowing that you are not yet the president Senator Obama!
Obama sidestepped a question on whether he would attend a summit of world leaders the Bush administration has called for Nov. 15 to discuss the global economic crisis, saying he has ideas but doesn't want to say much about them yet. "We have one president at a time," he said. – AP article


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Racket & Ball Sports
Racket Sports
Whether it is tennis, squash, ping pong or even badminton, at Hedge's Sports Store our range and experience will surprise you. We consistently have a large range of rackets to choose from for players of any age or skill. We have junior rackets starting from $29 right up to those for the regular competitive player and everything for those in between.
Below is a short list of just some of the brands we stock.
- Head
- Wildon
- Yonex
- Stellar Sports
Ball Sports
We specialize in the retailing of sporting goods and apparel especially for ball sports. Our extensive range of balls for almost every sport imaginable will amaze you.
- Football
- Rugby Union
- Rugby League
- Touch
- Australian Football Rules
- Netball
- Basketball
- Volleyball
- Badminton
- Tennis
- Squash
- Cricket
- Softball
- Baseball
- T ball
- Bocce ball
- Boulle ball
- Pool and Billiards
And so many more.
We can also supply training gear and accessories as well as essentials for any team or club.
- Goal post pads
- Nets – tennis, volleyball, netball, basketball, football etc.
- Hoops – basketball, netball
- Replacement grips – tennis, squash, cricket
- Training markers and domes
- Ball pumps, needles and ball bags
- Airhorns
- Starting pistol caps
- Whistles
- Hit shields & ruck pads
- Tackle dummies
- Head and shoulder gear
- Kicking tees
If what you are looking for isn't listed here, contact us it is likely that we can get it for you.


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We really like it when our veteran Gospel musicians inspire hope and confidence to us.
Following the recent developments in Zimbabwe, all the citizens look forward to is having a restoration of huge magnitude. To those who believe in the Christian God, this video by Shingisai Suluma, titled Pano Patasvika, is the right one for you.
The visuals encapsulate all that happened in Zimbabwe when the military took over, especially the marches on 18 November. Pano Patasvika is a message that we are closer to freedom, and we are not going back.
The video also traces the hardships that Zimbabweans faced from as far as 2008. But Pano Patasvika, the whole concept is just beautiful.
The video is an exhortation by Shingisai Suluma for people not to lose their focus, and to remain patient in spite of the tough journey. For Suluma, she is grateful for where we are, hence, Pano Patasvika.
But she also admonishes us that we are not there yet. And God has to lead us.
Your views may be divergent, watch the video below:


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Well, welcome back to my blog today for the 3rd and last day of sneak peeks for REVERSE CONFETTI. I have LOVED seeing all the amazing projects with the new sets, and I've even been inspired to make something else for tomorrow's blog hop in addition to what I already had planned!
I wanted to give another little shout out to the SO STRIPEY set. Don't underestimate the power of this little guy. I'm using it A LOT, and I'm not that much of a stripe girl. Now I just need new inkpads to make something I've had swirling around in my head! Take a look at all the NEW stampy, die-cutty goodness....
Ok, well I'm sure y'all can't wait to go see what else the Confetti Crew has to show off today. Jen's got a link list of all the girls sharing today over on the
Stamps: Lots to Say (Reverse Confetti)
Paper: Vintage Cream, Black, Ripe Avocado (PTI), Follow Your Heart, Bluebell (MME)
Hymnbook Paper
Ink: Versamark (Tsukineko)
Accessories: Framed Up CutUps (The Cat's Pajamas), Build a Poppy Dies (Verve), White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Paper Piercer/Mat Pack, Black Adhesive Rhinestones, Georgia Peach Color Shine (Heidi Swapp), Divine Twine (TCP), Hot Glue, Jody Boosters
Finished Size: A2
Masculine Birthday Set
Stamps: Lots to Say, So Stripey, Celebrate Cake, Inner Rock Star (Reverse Confetti)
Paper: Sno Cone (MFT), White (PTI), Taken With Teal (SU!)
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Amy Boyack
Voice Like an Angel
Amy has a gift. She sings like an angel. Her favorite songs are love songs. She feels like every day can be a great day. She has known a lot of sorrow in her life, which adds to her musical depth. But she chooses to focus on the good and lift people up through her music.
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Amy plays mainly show tunes, jazz, and music from the 20's through the 50's.
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Dickinson (2-4, 2-3 CC) 27, McDaniel (3-3, 2-3 CC) 20
What: Centennial Conference (CC) football game
When: Saturday, Oct. 6
Where: Westminster, Md.
Dickinson scored the first 10 points before McDaniel closed to within one score three different times but the Red Devils held on for a 27-20 win.
• Breon Herbert (Silver Spring, Md./Blake) blocked a punt and picked it up for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter.
• Matt Cathey (Brick, N.J./Brick Memorial) scored two touchdowns among his 10 rushes, accounting for 50 yards on the ground.
• Jarius Ransom (Williamstown, N.J./Williamstown) led the defense with 13 tackles
• Anthony Crawley (Baltimore, Md./Baltimore City College) added a career-best 12 stops.
• Jeremy Walsh ran for 97 yards on 18 carries.
• Christopher Longo added eight catches for 64 yards.
• Taking over at the McDaniel 48 on its first possession, Dickinson drove 32 yards in five plays before having to settle for a Trystin Golowski 27-yard field goal for a 3-0 lead with 9:24 to play in the first quarter.
• A nine-play drive ended with a 20-yard Christopher Longo catch for a touchdown with five seconds to play in the first quarter.
• Matt Cathey capped off a 19-yard drive after a blocked punt gave the offense possession deep in Dickinson territory. Cathey found the end zone from two yards out to trim the deficit to 10-7 with 5:38 left in the first half.
• Jake Walbert caught an 18-yard pass to cap an 11-play, 79-yard drive and push the lead to 17-7 with 42 ticks remaining in the first half.
• A Cathey three-yard run trimmed the margin to 17-14 with 8:54 to play in the third quarter.
• Phillip Butler powered his way through a 17-yard run to cap a 36-yard drive and push the lead to 10.
• Breon Herbert notched the third Green Terror punt of the day and then scooped it up at the one-yard line and fell into the end zone to make it 24-20 with 10:49 remaining.
• After 13 plays and 66 yards, Golowski stretched the lead to seven with a 29-yard field goal with 4:35 to play.
• McDaniel drove to the 12-yard line keyed by a 45-yard Aaron Grant (Brooklyn, N.Y./Emmaus Hall) catch. However, the Green Terror could not convert a fourth-and-2 play.
• The blocked punt touchdown was the Green Terror's first non-offensive TD on the year.
McDaniel is off next week before traveling to No. 24 Muhlenberg on Oct. 20. Game time is 2 p.m.


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When the subject of government surveillance of private citizens comes up, supporters of the practice often reflexively respond "I've got nothing to hide."
Edward Shanken, like others in the forefront of surveillance protests, is having none of that. "It's not about having anything to hide. It's about things being nobody's business," Shanken said. He added "If you have nothing to hide, give me your laptop and passwords."
Shanken, an art professor at University of California at Santa Cruz, co-curated a new exhibit at Real Art Ways in Hartford, "Nothing to Hide?" The thought-provoking, creepy exhibit uses artworks to examine the ease of gathering detailed personal information about people without their knowledge and how that information can be distorted, abused and misappropriated. The exhibit is made up of video screens, drones, hidden cameras, a phony cellphone tower, photos of spy headquarters, jpegs swiped off the internet and computer printouts that focus on different aspects of everyday peering into the lives of private citizens.
"The impact of surveillance techniques on privacy is significant and the laws can't keep up with it," Shanken said. "These artists are revealing our vulnerabilities to surveillance techniques imposed upon us."
Shanken said these vulnerabilities can be self-imposed. "Privacy is something that people have become acculturated into not caring about and giving up," he said. "That's the ethos of social media: I'm going to put stuff out there.
"A lot of inferences can be made," he added. "Highly granular information can be cross-referenced. The potential for exploitation is really scary."
The other curator of "Nothing to Hide?" is Jessica Hodin.
The title of the exhibit was inspired by Daniel J. Solove, author of "Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security." In the book, Solove states "the problem with the nothing-to-hide argument is the underlying assumption that privacy is about hiding bad things" and asserts that an accumulation of information collected about a citizen paints an unfair and inaccurate picture that could be intentionally or unintentionally distorted to hurt that person, even if he or she has "nothing to hide."
People active on social media are the focus of an installation by Michelle Teran. Teran's intentions are benign, the creation of an art piece. Still, several people in Berlin, Germany, don't know they are the focus of an art exhibit in Hartford because they surrendered their privacy to YouTube.
Teran went online and watched videos that have been geotagged, then she biked around the city to locations tagged in the videos, to follow the paths taken by the video-makers on those days. Using data-mining systems, she rounded out each person's daily life to present a profile of who these people are and how they "perform" their daily lives.
"That is what social media is, a performing of the personal in public, making videos of themselves," Teran said. "Even if it's something as banal as a birthday party, it's a staging of the personal."
Shanken said Berlin is an epicenter for artworks commenting on erosion of privacy. He speculated that the city's former placement straddling the Soviet bloc may be a reason for its citizens' interest in government overreach. "It's so rich in that culture, which is so close in memory," he said.
Hasan Elahi's life is scrutinized, too. At first it was against his will. "He kept being detained on flights by Homeland Security," Shanken said. Elahi asked interrogators what he could do so he wouldn't be detained anymore. His solution was to voluntarily monitor his own whereabouts 24/7 and post his photos online. His piece — titled "10,000 Little Brothers," a twist on the "Big Brother" character in George Orwell's "1984" — is seven multicolored pillars made up of tiny photographs of where Elahi has been: restaurants, shops, streets, even toilet stalls. "There's this ludicrous amount of frivolous information," Shanken said. "There's so much information it doesn't even matter. It's totally useless."
Lynn Hershman Leeson's eerie "Tillie the Telerobotic Doll" is a doll with a camera installed in her head, the lenses being Tillie's eyes. Visitors will be surveilled and their presence streamed on a screen. Another spy-bot, Björn Schülke's "Spider Drone," hovers over the front gallery, swiveling around when it senses movement, aiming its lens in the faces of visitors. Eric Corriel's "Targeted" has a similar theme. Visitors who stop in front of Corriel's screen will find themselves on the screen, with a red bullet target on their chest, while they listen to police-scanner recordings.
Julian Oliver's "Stealth Cell Tower" appears to be a common office printer. It is actually a phony cellphone tower, similar to those used by law enforcement and governmental agencies. The little tower intercepts visitors' communications networks by replacing a real tower with a false one and sending SMS messages to visitors' cell numbers. Those who respond to those messages will see them printed out on the printer.
Paolo Cirio's "CityGhosts" uses Google Street View to find photos of people, faces fuzzed out as Google Street View tends to do. Cirio prints out the images and hangs them in the gallery. "Ghostly human bodies appear as casualties of the information war in the city," Cirio writes in his statement. Cirio will conduct a teen workshop in April to bring this artwork into public in Hartford. Street View photos of people in Hartford locations will be printed out and hung in the locations where they were photographed.
In the back gallery, a few more ghosts appear. Eva and Franco Mattes' video installation "The Others" is a slide show of 10,000 photos of strangers, appropriated from personal computers as a result of a software glitch. Who are these people? The Matteses and the gallery visitors don't know. The Matteses intend their work to veer into legal and ethical gray areas as a means of examining them.
NOTHING TO HIDE? ART, SURVEILLANCE AND PRIVACY will be at Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St. in Hartford, until June 19. realartways.org.


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Poonam Malhotra is a paranormal investigator and a spiritual psychologist, born and brought up in Mumbai.
She scored a double Major in English and Psychology from Sophia College, Mumbai. Presently, she is residing in Delhi and assisting people from Mumbai, Delhi, Australia, Dubai, Bahrain, US, Canada, Bangalore, and even Germany.
Her specialties
A near-death experience (NDE) in 2005 prompted Poonam to follow the path of holistic healing. As a result, she developed (ESP) extrasensory perception. She connected with her spirit guides, and her spiritual powers gradually unfolded. Having also had Kundalini experiences, she did a certified course in Kundalini Yoga to understand it better.
With the multiple learning she has received in life, Poonam feels that she has evolved mentally and spiritually. Since childhood, Poonam has been interested in occult sciences and studied books on numerology, palmistry, vastu, meditation, face reading, etc.
Her achievements
She has attended many workshops and sessions to gain more knowledge about the mystic world. Today, she feels capable of helping people understand the real aim of life.
Thus, she has started an institute by the name of 'Divine-Blessing'.
Poonam inaugurated this institute with the sole purpose of leading the striving ones on the wise track by solving their problems with the help of her knowledge of occult sciences. She believes that every human has the power to transform anything, but they are not aware of it. T
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The goal of her life is to make people aware of their hidden endowments.
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New 2019 ToyotaHighlander XLE V6 SUV
- Stock: 191744
- Fuel Economy
- 20.0/26.0 mpg City/Hwy
- Exterior Color
- Midnight Black
- Interior Color
- Black Leather
- Body
- Transmission
- Automatic
- Drivetrain
- All-wheel Drive
- Engine
- 3.5L V-6 cyl
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Included Packages & Accessories
- Roof Rack Cross Bars
- 50 State Emissions
- All Weather Floor Liner/Cargo Liner
Standard Features
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Explore every possibility with the 2019 Toyota Highlander. This SUV features an inspired front fascia with a dynamic front grille and expressive headlights, which now feature daytime running lights, amplifying its signature look. And don't forget about the brilliant LED taillights for added visibility in the rear. The Highlander also shows off its athletic side with a selection of available alloy wheels. The roomy interior gives you enough space to seat up to 8 people and provides more comfort along the way with reclining third-row seats. Available second-row captain's chairs help the Highlander comfortable seat 7 and offer the same great versatility. The 60/40 split third-row seat also has the ability to fold flat to accommodate your cargo needs. Your passengers can have the whole sky to entertain them, thanks to the available panoramic moonroof. If they need a little more, there's the available rear-seat Blu-ray entertainment system. This 9-inch display screen comes with RCA jacks, remote and 2 pairs of wireless headphones. Highlander comes standard with the 2..7liter 4-cylinder automatic engine, but you can opt for the available 3.5liter V6 direct-injection engine on SE and Limited trims. Combined with an 8-speed automatic transmission you get more control on the road. The available stop and start engine system shuts the engine off when the car is at rest (at a stoplight) to help you save more fuel. And when the road gets adventurous, this SUV embraces it with available dynamic torque-control all-wheel drive. Let's not forget hauling power the Highlander can be equipped to tow up to 5,000 lbs. The Highlander offers a range of convenient features for staying connected on the road, including 5 USB ports, driver easy speak to communicate with rear passengers and Entune app access. You'll also find a comprehensive suite of safety features such as blind spot monitor with rear cross-traffic alert and bird's eye view camera.
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Front seat headrests force head too far forward
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