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Begin by peeling and dicing the lauki or bottle gourd into nice and chunky pieces about 1.5". Set them aside. Make sure that the mutton pieces are also almost 1.5".
Set the Instant Pot on SAUTE and keep it on HIGH.
Add oil and when the oil becomes moderately hot throw in the whole garam masalas along with the bay leaf. Allow them to sizzle for a few seconds or until aromatic.
Now, add the sliced onion and fry well until nice and golden brown in color. Also add the ginger garlic paste midway and keep on frying everything together. By the time the onion is all nice and golden brown the raw smell from the ginger garlic paste will also disappear completely.
Add the mutton pieces and mix well with the other ingredients.
Next, add the chopped tomatoes and the dry spices and fry everything together until you see streaks of oil and the mutton is nicely fried by. The color will change and become darker too. You will also get a lovely Bhuna aroma from the mutton.
Now, pour water and deglaze the pot very well so to remove all bits and crumbs stuck at the bottom of the inner pot of the Instant pot. DO NOT skip this step otherwise you may get a BURN message.
CANCEL the SAUTE mode. Close the lid of the Instant Pot and seal the valve. Press the PRESSURE COOK button and pressure cook the mutton for 17 mins on HIGH if you are using a goat meat from an adult goat or 12 mins if you are using meat from a baby goat.
When the instant pot begins to beep after 17 mins do a quick pressure release and open the lid of the Instant Pot.
Now, add the diced lauki or bottle gourd pieces and mix well with the cooked mutton gravy.
Close the lid of the pot and PRESSURE COOK on HIGH for another 6 mins.
When the Instant Pot begins to beep after 6 mins wait for Natural Pressure Release for just 5 mins than release the rest of the pressure manually and open the lid of the Instant Pot.
Garnish with chopped cilantro or coriander leaves and enjoy with some hot rice or Phulkas.

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|Publication number||US3070057 A|
|Publication date||Dec 25, 1962|
|Filing date||Jul 13, 1959|
|Priority date||Jul 13, 1959|
|Publication number||US 3070057 A, US 3070057A, US-A-3070057, US3070057 A, US3070057A|
|Original Assignee||John Dezzani|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (10), Referenced by (20), Classifications (8)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
Dec. 25, 1962 J, DEZZAN] 3,070,057
FEEDER FOR FILAMENTOUS MATERIAL Filed July 13, 1959 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 (JO/0V DEZZfl/V/ INVENTOR.
1 7 I syfi /zg ited tats This invention pertains to a feeder for filamentous material which is particularly adapted for progressively feeding increments of solder.
It is an object of this invention to provide a device for retaining a quantity of filamentous material and permitting the advancement of such material in discrete amounts as desired.
Another object of this invention is to provide a feeder for filamentous material which is compact, light weight, and easily handled, as well as being economical to manufacture.
A further object of this invention is to provide a feeder which will firmly hold the solder or other filamentous .material which it advances.
An additional object of this invention is to provide a solder feeding device which will allow for reverse move- ,ment of the solder to return it to the housing of the device as desired.
A still further object of this invention is to provide a solder-feeding device which includes a housing adapted to receive a wound reel of solder and includes a reciprocative slider carrying a ratchet wheel which locks against rotation when the slider is moved in one direction for engaging and advancing the solder from the housing, while being rotatable in the opposite direction when the reciprocative member is reversed so that the ratchet wheel will not be operative during such travel of the slider or upon reverse movement of the solder with respect to the housing.
These and other objects will become apparent from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which:
FIG. 1 is a top plan view of the device of this invention,
FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of the invention,
FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken along line 3--3 of FIG. 1,
FIG. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary showing of the portion of the invention which includes the reciprocative member, with that member at the rearward end of the stroke and the toothed ratchet Wheel in its rotatable position,
FIG. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary view similar to FIG. 4 but with the reciprocative member at the forward end of its stroke, and the toothed ratchet wheel in the locked position for advancing the solder,
FIG. 6 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken along line 6-6 of FIG. 3,
FIG. 7 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken along line 7-7 of FIG. 3 showing the position of the guide roller with respect to the solder in the housing,
FIG. 8 is an enlarged fragmentary view of the nose portion of the invention with an adapter in place for providing angular positioning of solder fed from the housing, and
FIG. 9 is a sectional view taken along line 99 of FIG. 8.
As shown in the drawing, the device of this invention includes an elongated body 1 having a storage compartment 2 at one end thereof. This compartment is defined by an upper wall 3 secured to the remainder of housing by screw 4, together with a lower wall 5 pivoted by pin 6 to the housing. Lock member 7 is pivotally connected by pin 8 to wall 3 and includes a detent 9 for engaging atent f 3,870,057 Patented Dec. 25, 1962 ice a shoulder 19 at the end of wall 5. By this arrangement,
compartment 2 may be opened by loosening detent 9 from shoulder 10 and swinging members 5 and 7 apart. This permits the compartment to receive spool 11 around the hub of which is wound a quantity of solder 12. Alternatively, the solder may be wound into a coil, omitting the spool. For a relatively rigid material, such as silver solder, a shorter straight length of the material may be inserted into the storage compartment.
The solder from spool 11 passes through opening 14 into guide channel 15 of the housing. This channel extends to nose portion 16 of the housing where the solder may be fed through opening 17 to the exterior of the housing.
Disposed above channel 15 at the intermediate portion of the housing is a reciprocative member or slider 18. The upper section of slider 18 includes a central portion 19 provided with suitable serrations 20 for permitting manual operation of this member and from which extend elongated fore and aft portions 21 and 22. Depending portion 24 extends from reciprocative member 18 beneath section 19, connecting to the upper portion through section 25 of reduced diameter. A bifurcated member 26, which may be a defiectable leaf spring, receives portion 25 of the slider retaining the slider and allowing limited lateral movement of the slider toward and away from the guide channel 15. Retainer 26 is secured to the housing by screw 27 at the rearward end of this memher while forward end 28 engages flat surface 29 of the housing and is freely slidable thereon.
Cylindrical opening 31) in the housing above guide channel 15 receives one end of a plunger 31 which is included to bias the slider rearwardly. The opposite end of plunger 31 includes an enlargement 32 the lower edge of which rests on the housing on either side of channel 15, being recessed at 33 to avoid interference with the solder within the channel. A spring 34 surrounds plunger 31 and engages enlargement 32, thereby forcing the end of the plunger against end wall 35 of the lower portion 24 of reciprocative member 18. This urges member 18 toward its rearward position which is shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.
Lower portion 24 of the reciprocative member includes parallel spaced side walls 36 and 37 which are provided with opposed notches 38 and 33. These openings receive and retain the journals 4i and 41 of a toothed ratchet wheel 42 and a flanged guide roller 43. Notches 38 and 39 are constricted at their lower edges so that upon assembly the journals 40 and 41 may be forced into the notches, but will be retained therein once they have passed these edges. The notches diverge upwardly so that wheels 42 and 43 are free for limited movement therein.
Extending transversely of reciprocative member 18 adjacentand rearwardly of ratchet wheel 42 is a forwardly projecting knife-edged abutment 44. This member acts as a stop to prevent rotation of ratchet Wheel 42 when the device is operated, as will be made more clear hereinafter.
In advancing solder from the housing 1 of the device of this invention, the housing may be held in one hand with slider 18 operated by the thumb engaging serrations 20. Member 18 simply is pushed downwardly and slid forwardly to move an increment of solder beyond nose 16 ready for use. As slider 18 is moved downwardly with respect to the housing, journals 40 of ratchet wheel 42 are brought into engagement with top edges 45 of notches 38. The exertion of slight downward pressure in this manner forces the teeth of the ratchet wheel into the upper surface of the solder in channel 15. Forward movement of the slider causes the ratchet wheel to shift rearwardly with respect to the slider within notches 38. This brings ratchet wheel 42 toward the rearward edges of the notches into engagement with abutment 44 so that the latter element will enter the root portions of the teeth about the periphery of the Wheel. Abutment 44 thereby acts as a stop and precludes rotational movement of the ratchet wheel. Surfaces 45 of the notches 38 are inclined upwardly to the rear to facilitate this movement and action of the ratchet wheel. In this manner, the ratchet wheel firmly grips the solder, while at the same time it is precluded from rotation with respect thereto. 7 By constructing retainer 26 as a leaf spring, the slider may be secured to the housing without undue lateral movement with respect thereto, yet still accommodate solder of different diameters. In other words, the clearance between member 26 and the slider at connecting portion 25 may be relatively small, yet by deflecting member 26 the ratchet wheel may be brought into griping engagement with the solder even if the solder is of relatively narrow diameter.
As the slider 18 then is shifted to its forward position of FIG. 5, the ratchet wheel, by gripping the solder and being held against rotation, advances the solder, sliding it through channel 15 and out of the nose portion through opening 17. Moving the slider through its stroke, therefore, moves an increment of solder from the nose which is equal in length to the travel given to the reciprocative member. During this movement of the reciprocative member, roller 43 engages the housing on either side of channel 15 (see FIG. 7) supporting the rear portion of the slider and assuring that the solder will not disengage channel 15, but without affording opposition to the movement of the solder through the channel.
After the slider 18 has moved to the forward end of its stroke, it merelyis released whereupon spring 34, acting through plunger 31, forces the slider rearwardly to its original position. As this rearward movement takes place, ratchet wheel 42 shifts forwardly with respect to the slider, moving the ratchet wheel away from abutment 44 toward the forward edges of notches 38 so that it is free to rotate. This means that when the slider is retracted, the rotatable ratchet is released from the solder and will not tend to move the solder in a reverse direction. The end 24a of the lower portion of slider 18, by engaging the housing adjacent openiong 14, limits the rearward movement of the slider.
Therefore, all that is required in advancing a desired quantity of solder is to move the slider in one direction with the return action of the reciprocative member being automatic. The ratchet Wheel likewise is automatically locked for advancing the solder in one d rection and released for free rotation in the opposite direction.
The floating action of the ratchet wheel has a further advantage in that it allows the solder to be returned to the housing in the event that an excess is fed out through the nose of the housing. If the solder merely is pushed back into the housing, the reaction of the solder traveling in the reverse direction through channel 15 will tend to rotate ratchet wheel 42. away from the abutment so that there is no restriction to the movement of the solder. The device of this invention is much more versatile and practical because of this feature.
As the solder is fed from the nose of the housing, it is held firmly by a leaf spring 46 which urges the solder against the bottom of the channel and of opening 17.
This is important in enabling precise positioning of the solder for a soldering operation. At the same time, the
leaf spring does not interfere with the desirable large clearances found in the other portions of the device which assure that the solder does not meet with excessive friction during its movement. Actually, commercially available solder is non-uniform in its diameter so that unless clearance openings were employed, it would inevitably bind within the housing preventing its advancement.
As an added feature for facilitating the use of the device of this invention, :a movable clamping member 47 is provided beneath the nose portion of the housing. Suitable serrations 48 and 49 may be provided in member 47 and on the lower portion of the nose of the housing which cooperate to provide a pair of jaws. ber 47 is pivoted to the housing by pin 50 and may be opened by a trigger 51, while it is biased by leaf spring 52 to a closed position. This jaw arrangement provides a convenient means for gripping wire or other object preparatory to a soldering operation.
As a further use of the movable jaw 47 it may be used in securing an adapter 57 to the nose of the housingfor feeding the solder in an angular relationship with respect to the housing. Adapter 57 includes a support 58 recessed at 59 to receive the end of jaw 47, and provided with a depending pin 69 extending into aperture 61 of the jaw to index the adapter with respect to the housing. A tubular member 62 is held by support 58 adjacent opening 17 from which it receives the solder. Tube 62 guides the solder in a curved path which may be generally to a direction at ninety degrees with respect to the axis of the housing, as illustrated in FIG. 8. Tubular member 62 preferably is rotatable within body 58 of the adapter so that it may be swung around in any direction. The adapter is very simple to install or remove merely by operating trigger 51 and sliding it in or out of engages ment with the jaws.
It may be seen from the foregoing that the solder feeder of this invention is simple to operate, positive in its action, and adaptable to a variety of uses. The solder is held firmly for use, yet is retractable in the housing as desired. The latter feature is made possible only through the provision of thefioating ratchet wheel in the reciprocative member.
The foregoing detailed description is to be clearly understood as given by way of illustration and example only, the spirit and scope of this invention being limited solely by the appended claims.
1. A device for progressively advancing a filamentous member comprising a guide means for receiving a length of a filamentous member, a reciprocative member adjacent said guide means and movable through a stroke substantially parallel to said guide means, a toothed member, means rotatably mounting said toothed member on said reciprocative member adjacent said guide means for engagement with a filamentous member in said guide means, abutment means on said reciprocative member, said mounting means for said toothed member including means for permitting limited tran lational movement of said too hed member to a first position in engagement with s id abutment means whereby said abutment means precludes rotation of said toothed member, and a second position remote from said abutment means wherein said toothed member is rotatable, whereby when said toothed ember so engages said abutment means said toothed member nonrotatably engages a filamentous member in said guide means for advancing said filamentous member, and when said toothed member is in said second position remote from said abutment means said toothed memher by being rotatable is precluded from advancing a filamentous member in said guide means.
2. A device as recited in claim 1 in which said reciprocative member includes a duality of Walls in spaced parallelism receiving said toothed member with the axis of said toothed member extending between said walls, said abutment means including a knife-edged element interposed between said walls adjacent said toothed member, said knife-edged element being receivable in the root portions of the teeth of said toothed member when said toothed member is in said one position, and remote from :said root portions when said toothed member is in said second position.
3. A device as recited in claim 2 in which said mounting means for said toothed member includes journals P oj c g from said toothed member, said walls having Mernopposed openings therethrough receiving said journals with freedom for limited movement with respect thereto, said openings for said journals including edge portions spaced to fioatingly receive said journals and limiting the forward, the rearward and the upward movement or" said journals, said abutment being adjacent said rearward edge portion, said reciprocative member being movable toward said guide means for reacting through said edge portions and said journals to urge said rotatable member against filamentous material in said guide means for causing said rotatable member to grip such filamentous material, and to cause said rotatable member to engage said abutment upon subsequent forward movement of said reciprocative member.
4. A device as recited in claim 3 including in addition resilient means biasing said reciprocative member away from said guide means.
5. A device for progressively advancing a filamentous member comprising a guide channel adapted to receive a length of a filamentous member, a reciprocative member adjacent and movable through a stroke substantially parallel to said channel, a Wheel provided with teeth about the periphery thereof, mounting means floatingly and rotatably connecting said Wheel to said reciprocative member with freedom for limited translational movement and engageabie with said filamentous member, a fixed abutment on said reciprocative member, said mounting means including means for permitting said wheel to assume one translational position in which said fixed abutment engages the periphery of said wheel at the root portions of said teeth for thereby precluding rotation of said wheel, said mounting means including means for permitting said wheel to assume a second position remote from said abutment wherein said wheel is rotatable, said wheel being movable to said one position by said filamentous member when said reciprocative member is moved in one direction and movable to a position remote from said one position by said filamentous member when said reciprocative member is moved in the opposite direction.
6. A solder feeding device comprising a housing adapted to receive a quanitity of filamentous solder, said housing having a guide channel therein for receiving a length of such solder and having an outlet through which said solder may be fed from said housing, a reciprocative member carried by said housing adjacent said channel, said reciprocative member being movable through a stroke substantially parallel to the axis of said channel, said reciprocative member being free for limited lateral movement toward and away from said channel, a guide roller rotatably carried by said reciprocative member on one side of said channel and adapted for engagement with solder received in Said channel, a toothed wheel having a pair of journals projecting from the axis thereof, said reciprocative member including a slot means receiving said journals for thereby attaching said toothed wheel to said reciprocative member on said one side of said channel, said slot means allowing limited floating movement of said toothed wheel forwardly and rearwardly with respect to said reciprocative member, a fixed stop member on said reciprocative member engageable with root portions of said toothed wheel when said wheel is in the rearward position with respect to said reciprocative member, said stop member being remote from said wheel when said wheel is in the forward position with respect to said reciprocative member, and resilient means in said housing engaging said reciprocative member and urging the same to the end of its stroke remote from said outlet from said housing.
7. A device as recited in claim 6 including in addition a leaf spring normally holding said reciprocative member laterally away from said channel.
8. A device as recited in claim 6 including in addition resilient means adjacent said outlet for biasing said filamentous material laterally toward the surface of said guide channel for thereby precluding substantial lateral movement of said filamentous material at said outlet.
9. A device as recited in claim 6 in which said resilient means engaging said reciprocative member comprises a plunger in spaced parallelism with said guide channel, said housing having an opening slidably receiving one end of said plunger, said plunger having an enlargement at the other end thereof the end wall of which engages said reciprocative member, the bottom wall of which is in engagement with said housing on either side of said guide channel, and recessed adjacent said channel to provide a clearance opening for solder in said channel, and a spring interposed between said enlargement and said housing adjacent said opening for said plunger.
10. A device as recited in claim 6 including in addition a rigid guide member adjacent said outlet of said housing positioned to receive filamentous material from said housing, said guide member being pivotally adjustable to direct said filamentous material in different directions with respect to the axis of said channel.
11. A device as recited in claim 10 including in addition a clamping member pivotally connected to the exterior of said housing, and resilient means biasing said clamping member toward said housing exterior, said guide member including a support portion receivable between said clamping member and said housing exterior, and a curvilinear tubular member carried by said support member and positionable adjacent said outlet of said housing when said support member is so received for receiving said filamentous material from said housing.
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A man who had made “racial” and “antisemitic” threats at a Michigan Jewish preschool was arrested and charged with ethnic intimidation, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen MacDonald announced Sunday.
Hassan Yehia Chokr was charged with two counts of ethnic intimidation as a result of threats he made against parents and children at Temple Beth El on Friday. Chokr made the antisemitic and racial threats while parents were bringing children to the synagogue around 8:57 a.m. Friday, according to the statement.
Antisemitism and racism have no place in our country.
This morning, our office issued charges of Ethnic Intimidation following a recent incident at Temple Beth El.
We stand with the Jewish Community in condemning this incident and speaking out against antisemitism everywhere. pic.twitter.com/peMy35IOB2
— Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald (@OCPOMcDonald) December 4, 2022
Chokr was initially stopped via a traffic stop by Oakland County Police and released with a warning not to return, according to ClickOnDetroit. After further investigation, MacDonald stated on Twitter condemning the incident and stated that the Prosecutor’s office and the Oakland PD “stand with the Jewish community.”
The statement also noted that Chokr had been detained by the Dearborn Police Department and would remain in custody until he was arraigned on the charges. (RELATED: Twitter Suspends Kanye West’s Account)
StopAntisemitism’s Twitter posted a picture of the man in a white van on their account and encouraged anyone with knowledge of the situation to file a harassment report with the police.
HORRIFYING – while Jewish parents were dropping their kids off at Temple Beth El daycare in Bloomfield Hills, MI earlier this morning, a man in the white van outrageously screams “F*ck the Jews” and “F*ck Israel” while driving by. pic.twitter.com/lgXVzjoBi9
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) December 2, 2022
Chokr’s Instagram had a post where he made violent threats against a different synagogue following a nationwide increase in antisemitic rhetoric and attacks, as reported by Yahoo News.
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For example, if you struggle with flabby upper arms, you might have enthusiastically taken up an exercise regimen that’s heavy on triceps-toning exercises such as kickbacks, dips, and lying dumbbell extensions. Despite months of effort, your upper arm fat remains. What gives?
Muscle definition is a balance between the growth of the muscle fibers and the layer of fat between your muscles and your skin. If you’ve been working diligently, your triceps probably are already nicely toned, but the fat is obscuring them. Removing that fat with liposuction can reveal the definition you have worked so hard for.
2. Nobody Can Control Where Their Body Gains Weight
Some factors that cause you to add pounds in specific zones are due to circumstances beyond your control, like age and hormones. You might be genetically inclined to store fatty deposits in areas of your body such as the belly, butt, and thighs, making it difficult to shed the weight without help. (Thanks, Mom!)
Even the hardest-working gym rat can still have problem areas such as love handles or muffin top. And once you accumulate these pockets of fat, it can be nearly impossible for you to lose them on your own. Liposuction will remove fat cells from areas where you cannot lose weight naturally, adding contour to spots where you need it most.
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Even fit and healthy people can struggle with their self-esteem now and then. When you see other people working out or changing clothes at your gym, it’s natural to compare yourself to them. Your internal dialogue might sound something like this: “Ugh, why can’t my abs look as flat and defined as hers?”
Liposuction can help complement your fitness goals by removing your most stubborn, exercise-resistant pockets of body fat and helping contour an already slender physique. When you love the way you look, the morale boost can spill over into every other area of your life, giving you that unmistakable swagger that helps you feel as good on the inside as you look on the outside.
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer of VAGM Group and companies.
Mr. Runcorn oversees the Virtual Auction Global Group operations, developing a scalable platform to ensure members' satisfaction and to embrace the ever-evolving technology. As Chairman and CEO, he calls upon his wealth of experience trading at some of the biggest financial institutions in the sector.
Mr.Nicholas J Runcorn specialised in the field of exchange-traded OTC Rate Derivatives, Swaps, FRAs and Government, plus Corporate Bonds and Exotics, in financial institutions including Cantor Fitzgerald, ICAP, Tullet Prebon and GFI, where he has actively traded financial products within the Central Eastern European regions including African and Latin America.
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The authorised representative of a dealer group and SMSF administration firm has taken down their website after AISC raised concerns about the images and references it continued.
Mr Stephen Burgin, an authorised representative of Interprac Financial Planning, closed his website following concerns that the image and references on the website implied endorsements or approvals which were not actually held.
Interprac Financial Planning is a licensing provider and also offers SMSF administration services.
The concerns ASIC had in relation to the website included references to Mr Burgin as “a senior ASIC licensed adviser” and “an ASIC licensed fractional property consultant”.
“Neither of these approvals is available or possible as ASIC does not license individual advisers,” ASIC said.
“ASIC was also concerned that statements on the website may have created incorrect impressions about the benefits of investing in the financial products promoted by the website.”
ASIC also stated that certain statements on the website may have falsely given an impression to potential investors that their investment would entitle them to the benefits of direct land ownership by, for example, equating investment amounts to land size.
ASIC acknowledged the prompt action taken by Mr Burgin and Interprac Financial Planning in responding to its concerns.
ASIC deputy chairman Peter Kell said financial products must not be promoted in a way that could mislead consumers about the benefits of the product or the product's endorsement.
“We will be particularly concerned where advertisements falsely claim endorsement or approval by ASIC,” said Mr Kell.
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The new Cook Island marine park will be zoned for multiple uses. Photograph: Alamy
Two of the world's smallest countries are to place nearly 2.5 million square kilometres of south Pacific Ocean in newly created marine protected areas.
The Cook Islands, nation of 20,000 people on 15 islands, formally announced on Tuesday the creation of the world's largest marine park covering nearly 1.1m sq km, an area bigger than France and Germany.
"This is our contribution not only to our own wellbeing but also to humanity's wellbeing," said the prime minister, Henry Puna.
"The Pacific Ocean is source of life for us. We are not small Pacific island states. We are large ocean island states," Puna said at the opening of the Pacific Islands forum, where leaders of 16 Pacific countries including New Zealand and Australia are meeting in Rarotonga.
The new Cook Island marine park will be zoned for multiple uses including tourism, fishing, and potentially deep-sea mineral extraction but only if these activities can be carried out sustainably, he said. Theprecautionary principle will determine what activities can take place, he said.
New Caledonia, the Cook Island's Pacific island neighbour and former French territory, also announced it will create a new marine protected area roughly half the size of India, covering 1.4m sq km.
"New Caledonia wishes to play its part in the sustainable management of our oceans," Francois Bockel, the head of regional development told the Guardian.
Pacific island nations have committed to a new approach to sustainable ocean management called the Pacific Oceanscape for the 40m sq km inside their collective exclusive economic zones. The region contains the largest pristine marine ecosystems and is home to 60% of the world's tuna stocks, scientists say.
"Nearly every indicator shows that the world's oceans are in decline," said Michael Donoghue of Conservational International. "What is being announced here [in Rarotonga] is far more than has been achieved anywhere else in the world. It will be of enormous benefit to all of mankind."


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Hi everyone, I’m Tricia. Welcome to Lisa and Tricia’s Singapore Foodie Tv. Deepavali is just over! Oh my god! Where did we spend our long weekend? Holiday in Bali, shopping in JB? (Malaysia) No!! I was in Singapore Kovan.
Today, we came to the Hatter Street Café at Kovan. The nearest MRT is the KOVAN MRT (NORTHEAST). This café is ideal for small group meetup and also enjoying cakes, coffee and the most attractive is Unicorn waffle!! The cakes are so cute! Oh so delicious! Hello, I am the Unicorn Waffle, made up of Lavender ice cream and toasted marshmellow. Lavender ice cream and toasted marshmellow. This waffle is so thick and crispy. and it goes well with the ice cream.
The lavender ice cream is like eating the lavender gel. Let’s go to our next food surprise! Do you like Kway chap? kway chap (粿汁; guǒ zhī), a Teochew dish of flat, broad rice sheets in a soup made with dark soy sauce, served with pig offal, braised duck meat, various kinds of beancurd, preserved salted vegetables, and braised hard-boiled eggs. Here we are at Yaowarat Thai Kway Chap at Kovan. This is the menu. We ordered the Signature Thai Kway Chap, the Deep Fried Pork Belly. Thai Fish Sausage, Thai Stirred Fried Cabbage, Braise egg, Braised Tau Pok, rice and Thai Green milk Tea . You know what you can ask for free soup too. This crispy pork belly costs $8. It is indeed crispy. This plate of fish sausage is my my favourites. It tastes like the chinese sausage. Pick up the black one, because its taste is more intense
This is the signature Kway chap at $5. For of $5 you can taste the pork belly and
also the Chinese sausage it also has the pig intestine. However this is quite pepperish, The thai Kway chap is curly unlike the traditional Kway chap which is flattened.
This cabbage tastes like stirred fried Hor Fun. It has the wok hey taste.
It will taste better if they can add on some shrimps. This is our lunch today. Sarwadeeka. We are going to start eating! Do you like the unicorn waffles and the Thai Kway Chap. Share this video with you friend and Jio your friend to Kovan tomorrow. Don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and press the little bell so you can join us for the next episode of Lisa and Tricia
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The corrosion inhibition of mild steel in 5.0M sulphuric acid solutions by crude extracts of Spondias cytherea leaves (S.C) were studied using gravimetric and gasometric techniques. The results showed that S.C. can serve as a corrosion inhibitor in acid medium. Inhibition efficiencies (%I) of the S.C extract were found to reach 67.72 % and 72.00% for gravimetric and gasometric analyses respectively. The corrosion inhibition efficiency increased with increase in the concentration of the extracts and decreased with the increase in time and temperature. The corrosion inhibition efficiency exhibited by the S.C leaves extract is attributed to the stronger adsorption of the phytochemicals present in the plant extracts unto the mild steel. The mechanism of adsorption proposed for the S.C extract is physical adsorption. The corrosion inhibition of the leaves’ extracts followed Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm.
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BT Convention Centre, Liverpool: 19 -21 January 2018. Report Summary of Conference for Scottish Region by Ego Olori.
This year conference event was well attended by UNISON visitors, serving members, guest speakers and delegates around UK. It was a great event, delivered to a high standard and designed to meet the needs of unison members both present and absentials from around various regions in the UK. 629 black members registered for conference 2018.
A good number of Scottish black delegates attended Scottish regional meeting where our chairperson and the deputy welcomed Scottish delegates especially the first time delegates. It was pointed out that the motions submitted by Scottish regions this year were unfortunately amongst other motions that did not make it past the selection process this year however that this is not personal and that Scottish region likewise other regions will be able to submit motions for next conference to be debated.
The Chairperson, Rakiya Suleiman encouraged the delegates to get involved as well as to prepare and speak in favour or against any of the motions as identified in this year conference pack. The process of conference was explained to new delegates and names of those who wished to speak were noted by the deputy chairperson Abubakar. Successful motions were moved and debated.
Conference events included service group and fringe meetings as well as workshops. Attendances to this variety of meetings were by choice. UNISON secretary Dave Prentis and Eleanor Smith Labour MP were among guest speakers that address the conference this year. Their speeches were motivational and empowering, and at the end, conference was urged to remain together because when we are together our voices will be heard. The Conference ended in good note with farewell wishes from the NBMC Chairperson Mr Aish Doby.
The Scottish region wishes to use this platform to congratulate our education officer Pricilla Maramba for being a recipient for the STUC Scottish Learner of the year Award 2017! Bravo Pricilla we are proud of you.
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ADAM LANDERS HOME PAGE
||Adam Landers, "Pearls Before Swine: Assorted Advice for the 1990's."
Adam Landers was a writer whose wisdom of human nature, and eloquence in expressing it, has seldom been rivaled. Like his famous twentieth century namesake, he offered readers helpful advice in many different matters. In his time, Adam Landers was furthermore renowned for his thoughtful excursions into ancient astronomy, physics, logic and metaphysics, rhetoric and belles lettres, linguistics, and jurisprudence -- as well as occasional detours into economic theory, policy, and practice, among other subjects.* He was, in short, a true renaissance man.
With his rare wit and keen understanding, he had the potential to be one of the most influential opinion-makers of our time. (As we shall see, however, he would have had to adjust his writing for the age of "political correctness"). Today Adam Landers, whose major concern was the human condition, is commonly remembered only for the portion of his contributions to economic theory emphasizing the importance of free trade and markets. Largely unrecognized are his works in so many other subjects -- and those of his writings in economics that might not fit the popular image of him as an advocate of "laissez-faire."
This collection of quotations aims to acquaint the reader with the whole Adam Landers, the student of the human condition in many walks of life. In these days when bits of public advice, including those by Adam's famous namesake, are a dime a dozen, we would like to convince the reader that Adam Landers had great advice to offer -- advice, in our opinion, that has aged well.
In his days, Adam Landers's reflections were memorized by students in long classroom sessions and afterwards transcribed on paper word for word from their memories. The modern reader, who scarcely has time to read the USA Today, has neither the time nor the attention span to discover him in that manner. To preserve his precious insights in the era of supermarket tabloids, daytime talk-shows, and other sound-bites, the editors have put them in the form of easily digestible tidbits to be read on the run. With this booklet, we hope that at last his vital thoughts will be accessible in a wider variety and to a larger audience.
Brunswick, Maine, 1993
Stephen J. Meardon and Andreas Ortmann
TABLE OF CONTENTS
HUMAN NATURE, ETC.
* OF SELF COMMAND, OR THE LACK OF IT
* OF SELF-ESTEEM AND VANITY
* OF LOVE AND SEX
* OF HAPPINESS
* OF MONEY, FAME, AND POWER
* OF GRAMMAR AND STYLE
* OF LITERATURE
* OF TELEVISION
* OF CONVERSATION
ECONOMICS: THEORY, POLICY & PRACTICE
* OF THEORY: DEFINITIONS, ASSUMPTIONS, AND PROPOSITIONS
* OF ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
* OF MONEY, WEALTH, ETC.
* OF THE THEORY OF THE FIRM, ETC.
* OF BUREAUCRACY
* OF POLITICIANS, CIVIL SERVANTS, AND THE LIKE
* OF FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY
* OF OTHER POLICY MATTERS
* OF EDUCATION AND EDUCATORS
* OF OCCUPATION AND LABOR
* OF BODY, SOUL, AND COLLEGE ATHLETICS
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Beezley wins Westlund Award — The Deschutes Cultural Coalition of the Oregon Cultural Trust awarded its seventh annual Ben Westlund Memorial Award to Pam Beezley, executive director of the Sunriver Music Festival. The honor was bestowed upon Beezley on Dec. 19 at the Arts and Culture Alliance’s Holiday Party, the coalition announced on Monday. According to the press release, the award was established to honor the memory of Ben Westlund, the former state treasurer and legislator who championed the creation of the Oregon Cultural Trust. Individual recipients of the $1,000 cash prize are invited to give the funds to a cultural nonprofit of their choice, according to the release, and Beezley announced she was donating her award to Sunriver Music Festival. Past recipients of the award include historian Bob Boyd, Brad Porterfield of the Latino Community Association and Brad Tisdel of the Americana Project.
— David Jasper, The Bulletin


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This poor female hog came in over the weekend after being found struggling to walk during the daytime.
She had a horrible smell, so we knew something was badly wrong. Upon examination it was very apparent that one of her back legs was very badly broken, and possibly her pelvis. There was also a massive infection and lots of necrotic tissue.
This lass was taken straight to the vets for euthanasia due to unsurvivable injuries and infection.

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The village is set around a village green, and includes the Church of England parish church of St John the Evangelist (built in 1893), The Cricketers public house, village hall and parish school (now private). It also includes Redroofs, the house where Ivor Novello lived and where he composed many of his most famous works.
- Ditchfield, P.H.; Page, W.H., eds. (1923). A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 3. Victoria County History. pp. 171–177.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Berkshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 168.
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Vilnius County is the most known and the most visited by tourists region in Lithuania. Includes the capital of the country of Vilnius and surrounding rural areas. Trakai with an impressive castle on the island stands out from the local towns.
The capital of Lithuania, Vilnius is a city with a history dating back to the 14th century. During the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth it was an administrative center of comparable rank to Krakow and Warsaw. His Old Town has been inscribed on the UNESCO list.
The most important monuments of Vilnius include the Gediminas Tower, the Gothic churches of St. Nicholas and Saint. Anna, the magnificent baroque church of St. Piotr and Paweł in Antokol or a classical cathedral with distinguished crypts. The spiritual heart of Vilnius and the whole of Lithuania is the Gate of Dawn, where the miraculous image of the Mother of God is located. Due to its connections with Poland, Vilnius is very often visited by Poles who are looking for traces of Mickiewicz, Słowacki or Marshal Piłsudski here.
Trakai is the second tourist center of the region next to Vilnius. On the island on Lake Galwe, there is the Gothic castle of Prince Witold. A wooden bridge leads to the castle, and you can also go boating on the lake. In Trakai itself there is also a gothic parish church, Tyszkiewicz palace and Karaite kienesa. The city is also known for cultivating Karaim traditions and their cuisine.


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The show is truly interactive and we involve the guests from the very first song.
They get people dancing from the word go and visually they are spectacular. They went out of their way to make sure Ciaran and I relaxed and enjoy the night.
The one topic everyone talked about after our party was Carl and how fantastic he was. He's extremely easy to work with - just sit him down and step back!
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What a band! We had no idea how good these guys were until they started to play. Worth every penny, in fact they should be charging more for the work and energy they put in!
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Movers & Shakers: JLL hires new retail VP, Elliman recruits from Compass, and more…
Rockwood Capital also promoted two people
JLL has tapped Tim Kuruzar as vice president of retail investment in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Kuruzar previously worked at competing brokerage CBRE for six years. In his new role, Kuruzar will work along executive vice president Geoff Tranchina and focus on growing the firm’s retail investment sales and dispositions. The hire is part of a larger expansion strategy, following the recruitment of Tom Lagos, Patrick Toomey, Jordan Uttal and Heather Boren earlier in January.
In the residential world, Douglas Elliman has poached Carrie Berkman Lewis from Compass. Lewis was working at Pacific Union International before Compass acquired the firm earlier this year. She has amassed a celebrity clientele during her 17 years in the business, most recently working with Bravo reality television star Jeff Lewis. Some of her other big deals include selling a $17 million home, designed by Paul McClean, above the Sunset Strip.
Darcy Mackay was named global director of human resources at CBRE. Starting Jan. 1, Mackay will oversee talent development, diversity, compensation and benefits for the company’s entire workforce of more than 80,000 employees. Previously, she worked as president of CBRE’s global workplace solutions for the west division. During her 19 years at the firm, Mackay has held numerous roles within the company.
Real estate investment firm Rockwood Capital promoted Andrew Blanchard and Niraj Shah to partners. Blanchard has worked as portfolio manager, handling Rockwood’s fund business, while Shah spearheaded the development of the company’s structured product platform. Rockwood is currently building W3 at the Water’s Edge office campus in Playa Vista. The firm, which has offices in L.A., New York and San Francisco, acquired the campus for $190 million in February.


Title of Post: 5Pillars: Filling a news gap successfully as a team
Organization Name: 5Pillars
Industry: Online newspaper
Introduction: In 2013, an ambitious news site was launched with the clear goal of expressing the opinions and news from the point of view of the three-million strong Muslim population in the United Kingdom. In these two years, 5Pillars has gone from strength to strength, increasing its viewership drastically, and dominating the social media environment in this niche area.
A side job that is now so much more
The way 5Pillars’ editor, Roshan Muhammed Salih, tells it, the news site was meant to be a side venture, but has now grown to an extent where it has taken on a life of its own, soon turning well and truly into a successful business.
Roshan’s approach has been unique within Islamic news media, through his insistence on transparency and openly admitting any shortcomings or weaknesses. Him and his team have quite literally been providing updates since the first month, then leading into year one and year two.
How 5Pillars uses social media for business performance
As a news organization, like others, which relies heavily on worthy contributors, 5Pillars has been able to take advantage of its these employees’ experience and input to do well on social media, too. Roshan said in a brief chat interview on Facebook,
“Most of our traffic comes from Facebook and Twitter and general social media shares so the contributors are all very important in helping to get the story out. They all have a big presence on social media so we utilize that to the hilt. Basically, social media is our platform… we obviously engage with our contributors on a regular basis and fully take on board their feedback. We communicate with them face-to-face, via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Skype.”
While ensuring transparency and an approachable policy, 5Pillars has not only been able to rely on its contributors’ expertise to move it forward in manners its own founders hadn’t thought possible, but it has also been able to capture the attention of readers. While its social media likes, engagement, and reader numbers are set to increase several-fold every year, 5Pillars’ model of employee involvement looks to be one that will ensure the positive growth of the news site.
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Classpath order when generating project files with Eclipse plugin
I have a multi-project build with two subprojects "a" and "b". "b" depends on "a". Both subprojects declare Guava as first level dependency. "a" uses version 15.0 whereas "b" uses 16.0.1.
Running gradle b:dependencies demonstrates that the latest version is picked. However, when generating the Eclipse project files with the Gradle Eclipse plugin (by executing gradle eclipse) version 15.0 is found first on the classpath as we have a project dependency on "a". It looks like depending on another project reference also adds all external dependencies but without any conflict resolution. They are resolved first on the classpath.


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Former chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, got a lucky on Wednesday as he was granted leave to come into the National Assembly complex and defend himself before the Committee on Ethics and Privileges.
The Suspended member of the House of Representatives got the reprieve as a result of a motion by chairman of the committee on Ethics and Privileges, Rep. Ossai Nicholas Ossai, who disclosed that his committee was in receipt of two petitions against Jibrin.
“The committee on Ethics and Privileges has commenced investigations into the petitions and seeks the indulgence of the House to invite Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin on grounds of fair hearing, to be allowed into the precincts of the House for the purpose of the defending the allegations contained in the petition,” Ossai said. According to him, the committee received petitions against Jibrin bordering on his absenteeism and poor representation of his constituency of Kiru/Bebeji in Kano state and operation of foreign accounts which was in violation of the 1999 constitution.
The motion was however countered by Hon. Aliyu Madaki who noted that the motion and it’s consideration was unnecessary as Jibrin was under suspension from the House. “Jibrin is not my friend but let us do the right thing. He has been suspended for one year, why are we considering this then. Let the court case take its course,” Madaki said.
Speaker Yakubu Dogara ruled him out of order saying the matter in court had nothing to do with the petitions against the suspended lawmaker. “We don’t know of any case in court as regards operating of foreign accounts or absenteeism, but this is in line with fairing hearing and I think that is why the motion is here”, Dogara stated.
It will be recalled that Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin was suspended for 180 legislative days on September 24 over alleged breach of privileges of members of the House following budget padding allegations he made against the Speaker as well as some principal officers amongst others.


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Andrological hot topics: Surgical therapies in andrology
What is circumcision?
It is a surgical procedure with the elimination of the skin covering the glans
What is vasectomy?
It is a surgical operation in which both the deferents are closed and sectioned
I have heard of penile prosthetic implants in the penis: what is it?
It is the surgical solution of the erectile dysfunction problems


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for the national impoverishment stage and unearned returns cannot go beyond 135percent associated with the national impoverishment levels. To acquire more information, see the advice for people Operating and impaired pamphlet. Period: no age limitations, but individuals era 65 or higher should handicapped background: the functional disabled person must work at smallest 40 several hours each month. Those who earn significantly more than 150percent belonging to the federal poverty levels must pay a regular monthly superior to invest in Medicaid protection.
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non-qualified or undocumented immigrants Income limits: An immigrant must qualify for a sealed class on all things except that citizenship and immigration proceed this link now condition. The revenues (and website) reduce for the protected party enforce. Age: The age maximum the appropriate sealed cluster applies. Credentials: Immigrants who have had an emergency healthcare provider and that determined eligible for a covered collection, become dealt with exclusively for its date of service associated with emergency.

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Project Advisor: Dr. Bella Kim
Project Lead: Joseph Cairo
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Cardinal Flight’s project will serve as a multi-mission UAV with the flexibility of multiple flight regimes. The aircraft will be capable of multiple missions through a detachable payload module. The aircraft will also have the capability of low speed flight with hover and high speed conventional flight. These capabilities will be achieved through the use of a rotating wing. Combined, this will make for a flexible and versatile aerial platform that can be tailored to specific organization or group needs at Iowa State.
Cardinal Flight plans to take an iterative approach to executing the group’s extended mission. The team will have the ultimate goal to create and implement a new aircraft every academic year. The work will be divided into two separate phases, a Design Phase where the team will complete all computer modeling and acquire the required components of the aircraft, and a Manufacturing and Flight Phase. These two phases should remain cyclic for Cardinal Flight in the coming years.
In addition to a yearly aircraft design, Cardinal Flight plans to be the responsible operator of each aircraft. The team shall be producing a complete analysis and operating procedure for each system on board and those required on the ground to properly operate the vehicle.
This semester, the group will primarily focus on manufacturing a previously designed aircraft. This multi-mission and unconventional aircraft will greatly expand the group’s experience with UAVs. In addition to completing this project, the group will also finalize Arrow, the solar assisted aircraft, for solar flight. Once work on the new aircraft and Arrow have been completed, the team will fly at an approved site. The new aircraft will be capable of two flight regimes and various missions. The first mission to be developed will be as an aerial imaging platform.
Cardinal Flight pushes the capabilities of small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (sUAV) utilizing off the shelf components to create a low cost aerial vehicle with an unconventional configuration allowing for operation in multiple flight regimes.


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I’m in the process of having my website re-designed, and I decided it was a good time to do some updated photos of me.
Of course, it helps that I have a rockstar of a son who is a photographer and filmmaker. It’s more cost effective that way, too!
Throughout the photo shoot, I couldn’t help but think how everything is a work in progress. The last time I had my site updated, I loved the design the company came up with. And now that design feels dated. Time for something new!
And as my son was setting up lights, I thought about how much he’s grown in his skills and his passion for film. He will graduate from college in May, but it seems just like yesterday when he was graduating from high school. Work in progress. We are all works in progress.
Everything is a work in progress..
When I reflect on my nearly 18-year marriage, I look back and see so much. So much growth. So many ups and downs; joys and heartaches—not unlike all marriages. We have had some incredibly challenging times. And we have had unbelievable moments of love and oneness.
My husband and I are still a work I progress.
What about you and your spouse? What about your marriage? Is it all still a work in progress? That can be a good thing—if you embrace it as such.
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Invasive fungal infections (IFI) such as candidiasis and mold infections cause significant morbidity and mortality among immunocompromised patients in recent years. Micafungin, a new echinocandin, inhibits fungal cell wall beta-glucan synthesis, with potent activity against most species of Candida and Aspergillus.
The aim of this observational study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of Micafungin in prophylaxis of invasive fungal infections (IFI) in high risk adult patients with various haematological diseases receiving haplo-identical allogeneic stem cell transplantation (Allo-SCT).
26 patients were identified. Only 2 patients had a history of possible aspergillosis before transplant treated by voriconazole. The patients received a median of 4 lines (2-7) of chemotherapies before Allo-SCT. Thirteen patients (50%) received at least one prior auto-SCT; and 8 patients (31%) received a previous Allo-SCT. 24 patients (92%) received a reduced intensity conditioning regimen (RIC), with Fludarabine, Cyclophosphamide and Total body irradiation (TBI) 2 Gy based (80%), or Fludarabine, Busulfan, and Cyclophosphamide based (8%) or other (4%). while two patients (8%) received a myeloablative conditioning regimen with thiotepa.
The treatment was initiated at the beginning of the transplant conditioning regimen until the hospital discharge. Patients received a median of 29 infusions (range, 15–85) of Micafungin (50 mg/day i.v. as a 1h infusion).
Results: None of our patients discontinued the treatment for drug-related adverse events. Micafungin was not associated with any hepatotoxicity. Only one patient (4%) discontinued the treatment because an early disease progression.
At last follow-up, there are 21 patients (81%) who are alive, with a median follow-up of 10 months (3-22). three patients (12%) dead because disease progression and two patients because graft failure.
In all patients no candidas and/or Aspergillus species was documented after 3 and 6 months from transplant. None of our patients presented a positive galactomannan antigenemia >0.5.Four patients presented an acute GvHD grade II and 2 patients presented a chronic GvHD.
Conclusion: Micafungin has a good safety and tolerability profile, with an efficacy in preventing IFI in this high risk population. Our data provide support for an efficacy study in a prophylaxis setting, but prospective and comparative clinical trials using Micafungin are urgently needed to define the role of this drug in prophylaxis after haplo-identical Allo-SCT.
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text: Lighting that emits too much light or shines when and where it’s not needed is wasteful. Wasting energy has huge economic and environmental consequences. The Pakistani government might include financial incentives for LED lights and solar panels in its annual federal budget 2016 - 2017, as the government aims to slash energy consumption while turning to alternative energy sources, according to a report by local media Business Recorder. Globally, the LED lighting market is projected to grow 45% per year throughout 2020, and LED lights produced is expected to reach $63.1 billion from the existing $13.6 billion, the report added. The development in the lighting industry improved living comfort beyond the scope of basic illumination in Pakistan and worldwide. Put into perspective how lighting and its several applications influence our daily lives, the show makes business prospects. Encounter with the decision makers from the target market region with the hosted buyer program.

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Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma tied the knot with long-time beau and Indian Captain Virat Kohli in a private wedding in Italy on December 11. After a short and sweet honeymoon in Europe, the couple came back to India and hosted a couple of lavish wedding receptions, one in Delhi and the other one in Mumbai.
After getting done with the wedding affairs they took a flight to South Africa where Team India is scheduled to play 3 Test matches, 6 ODI and 3 T20Is.
Virat and Anushka keep us updated about their whereabouts through their Instagram pictures and it surely is a delight seeing the lovebirds having the time of their lives. We all know Virat for the hard working man he is, but something very interesting was noticed while he was practising in the net while gearing up for the test series.
A picture has surfaced from a fan account of Virat on Instagram where he was spotted wearing a wedding ring on his neck with a chain attached to it. The picture saw Kohli posing with a fan and the image was captioned as, “HUSBAND GOALS? Virat wears his wedding ring on his neck with a chain whenever out for a practice session. The husband Virat Kohli is inevitably Goals.. #virushka #viratkohli #anushkasharma #HNY2018.”
This picture is doing rounds of social media and has garnered a lot of attention from Virushka fans.
Anushka is currently in Cape Town with her hubby Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan and his wife Aesha and their daughter.

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Courses I teach:
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Art & Culture, Modern Art, Cartooning and the Graphic Novel
Over 30 seniors exhibited their senior portfolios during the LHS Art Show and Senior Exhibition at the end of last school year.


Music is an art that will help a person to express love and feelings; it is a thing that will give peace and satisfaction. Moreover, without saying a single word person can express number of things and everyone can understand it. There are number of musical instruments available all over the world and people are going to use it. These days’ people are going to learn it from professionals because they want to be an expert in it. The piano is one of the musical instruments which is good to learn and there are lots of scope in it, various professional are available who are going to teach the basic lesson and advance one which will make a person more strong and get command on it.
Westminster is one of the places near Buckingham palace, this is the place where a person can move to enjoy life and to get success. This is the place which is loved by everyone and people can learn lots of things. There are a number of professionals’ available in this location and people love to teach music. The piano teacher Westminster is highly in demand and people love to learn lots of different piano lessons from them. They have the technical knowledge from which they can teach good piano to every person. The main thing is the lesson which will tell every person how to learn and understand the piano and they are very professional in such things. Not only they have good knowledge but also they are the people who are available for their students all the time. Also, they are available online so that they can give service to people which are located in some other countries. If you are a person who is also interested to learn piano and unable to attend piano classroom classes, then you can check the online classes.
When you look out for piano teachers then you will find that there are many professionals who are providing the teaching and learning to the people who want to learn piano playing. The professionals who belong to the music industry like to teach music in school, classrooms, or in groups settings even they are also offering online assistance to the students who are not able to attend the classes. There is no age boundation of learning the piano. If you are also a person who wants to learn piano then it would be better to identify the right resource that can help you to learn piano lessons. If you are in Huntington Beach and you want to learn the piano then it will be better to take assistance from the piano teacher Huntington Beach who are having great years of experience in playing the piano. The classes that are referred to as private or in the group are known as the piano lessons and there are multiple piano lessons available that will help the students to learn the piano.


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Tacoma home prices declined by 8.7 percent in March compared with March a year ago, a study by a business statistics provider.
CoreLogic, said that 8.7 percent decline was identical to the decline in February compared with February 2011. Those figures include so-called distressed sales, foreclosures and short sales, necessitated by tough economic conditions.
With those distressed sales excluded, year-over-year prices fell by 2.7 percent in March and 6.4 in February, CoreLogic said.
Nationwide, sales prices for homes declined by 0.6 percent in March this year compared with March of 2011.
Compared with February this year, home prices jumped by 0.6 percent in March nationwide. That’s the first month-to-month increase since July 2011.
“This spring the housing market is responding to an improving balance between real estate supply and demand which is causing stabilization in house prices,” said Mark Fleming, chief economist for CoreLogic. “Although this has been the case in each of the last two years, the difference this year is that stabilization is occurring without the support of tax credits and in spite of a declining share of REO (lender-owned) sales.”
“While housing prices remain flat nationally, in many markets tighter inventories are beginning to lift home prices,” said Anand Nallathambi, president and chief executive officer of CoreLogic. “This is true in Phoenix, New York and Washington, for example, which all reflect higher home price values than a year ago. A continuation of this trend will be good for our industry across U.S. markets.”


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Our landscape photographs represent a special category of our work, in a couple of ways. First, we only sell physical prints. Second, we sell them only through fine art outlets. Currently we offer a range of recent images through Fine Art America.
We also offer a special limited edition of several of our most iconic prints, numbered and signed, through The Art Spirit Gallery, one of the top regional galleries in the country. Our collections are at:
Most rewarding is that our landscape photos are a family effort, many of them taken during father-and-son road trips dedicated to finding new ways to look at scenic locations. The photos on this page are available on Robert's Fine Art America page.
Our Fine Art America pages (currently still under development) are:


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Buoyant passenger car sales lift NZ market
Jump in January New Zealand vehicle sales, despite lingering shortages of Thai utes
7 Feb 2012
By JACQUI MADELIN in NEW ZEALAND
NEW Zealand new-vehicle sales grew 15.4 per cent in January, to 8681 vehicles, thanks to a healthy rise in passenger car registrations that soared to their highest January levels since 2008.
The 7499 passenger car sales helped to offset a 10 per cent drop in light commercial vehicles volumes – down to 1182 units – due to ute stock shortages caused by last year’s Thailand floods.
Used import vehicle numbers also fell, to 6620, down 9.1 per cent on the same month in 2011.
Motor Industry Association chief executive officer Perry Kerr said the new-vehicle industry had had a strong start to the year “which hopefully is an indication of things to come”.
Toyota led the market with 1977 passenger car and light commercial sales, up 11 per cent, for a 22.8 per cent share.
Toyota NZ chief executive Alistair Davis said the brand was still playing catch-up after the disasters of 2011.
The company sold just 90 HiLux utes, well short of the 300-plus normal for the month.
From top: Toyota HiLux, Ford Focus, Suzuki Swift, Hyundai i30.
“We have a lot of orders stacked up we’re not yet able to deliver, but we hope to be on top by the end of March,” he said.
“Yaris, Highlander and LandCruiser are all living hand-to-mouth – off the ship and straight to customers.”Parts sourced from Thailand are the issue with all these models, particularly as the market was growing slightly faster than expected.
“I think business capital formation is growing in transport equipment, it’s a general trend across the market,” he said.
A mere transporter-load separated the next three marques on the sales ladder, with Holden up 2.3 per cent for second on 847 registrations, Ford up 6.9 per cent for third on 842 and Hyundai up a massive 54.1 per cent with 840 sales.
Ford NZ marketing manager Chris Masterson said January deliveries were as expected despite limited supply of Focus and Ranger.
Ford has expanded the Focus line-up and expects to do well after its New Zealand Car of the Year win, while Ranger supply is gradually recovering from its Thailand hiatus with full capacity from April or May, leading into the profitable ute season around the national Fieldays in June.
As for Hyundai, its flying start to the year came after its biggest shipment for a year. Chief operating officer Tom Ruddenklau said: “When we’ve got stock we can do the numbers, and we fulfilled some dealer orders that were on hold for a couple of months.”Suzuki sales rose 34 per cent to 576 sales for fifth, largely due to a zero per cent finance promotion for January that especially benefited Swift, said sales manager Gary Collins.
Mazda figures were up 13.5 per cent to 556 vehicles, while Nissan climbed 23.4 per cent, to 475.
Mitsubishi numbers rose 4.4 per cent to 354, Volkswagen 15.8 per pent to 337 and Kia rounded out the top 10, with 248 sales, up 51.2 per cent.
New Zealand’s best-selling car was Toyota’s Corolla (826), followed by Suzuki Swift (382) and Hyundai i30 (312).
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Emily Blunt: Fred Segal Stop
Emily Blunt holds onto her phone while leaving Fred Segal on Friday (April 8) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 28-year-old actress gave a friend a hug goodbye before driving off.
Emily is reportedly heading to Ann Arbor, Mich., next month to start shooting the upcoming film, Five-Year Engagement, with Jason Segel.
Her animated flick, Gnomeo & Juliet, will also be released on Blu-ray and DVD May 24!
FYI: Emily is wearing a pair of J Brand “Houlihan” distressed skinny cargos in Battled Vintage Espresso.
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The Whimsical Story Behind Disney’s Sketchbook Ornaments
If you’re a Disney fan, then chances are that Disney’s incredible line of sketchbook ornaments are the focal point of your Christmas Tree. For the last 15 years, Disney artist Steve Thompson has been designing this magical creations for shopDisney. Each ornament magically recreates a moment from your favorite Disney films including Cinderella, Peter Pan and more.
Thompson had this to say about helping to bring these stunning creations to life, “I’m a huge ornament collector and a Disney fan, but I wasn’t really feeling too connected to the ornaments we were carrying back in 2005.” He continues, “So, one day I said, ‘What if we did really beautiful, sculpted moments from these films?’ To me, an ornament is something amazing that you hang on your tree. In that first year, we did a little bit of those. They sold really well, and the next year we did a little bit more. And all of a sudden, they seemed to just take off. Fans were really connecting to these true-to-story moments.”
Since Thompson first began working on the project, Sketchbook ornaments have come to encompass so many much loved moments from the films with characters including, Aladdin, Dumbo, Buzz Lightyear, Jack Skellington, Mulan, Pinocchio, Rapunzel, Snow White, Tinker Bell, and Winnie the Pooh. “The need to come up with something to make the characters feel fresh and new every year is a huge challenge, especially for some of these films that have been around for so many years,” Thompson says. “It’s up to me to figure out how we can make it not look like what we’ve seen. It’s daunting when I get started. I’m like, ‘Good, God! I have no ideas at all!’ But eventually, I’ll think of all these ideas. So, it’s a huge challenge, but it’s so rewarding when you see them finished.”
So how do the designs come about? According to Thompson it starts with a sketch more than a year before they ornaments go on sale. Thompson says of the process, I start off with the obvious moments: ‘What are the big moments in the film everyone connects to?’ But I also like to find those secondary moments.”
One example is the Ariel ornament which you can find an image of above. The ornament was actually inspired by the moment when Ariel jumps on the bed in Eric’s castle for the first time. Its an image not captured before and Thompson says there’s something excited about those unexpected moments. Once the design has been finalized, its all about the sculpting. Thompson said, “The sculpting process takes a really long time. I always like to have enough time to make sure they look perfect,” he says.
In some instances, Thompson will collaborate with in-house digital sculptors to bright the creations to life. It’s great to be able to work with them, and they’ll usually work on the films that we have digital files for, like Frozen and Moana. We use the same files the animators do, so we can understand things like posing and expression. But the bulk of the ornaments are hand-sculpted,” he says. “Even though I’m not a sculptor, I know what things should look like in three dimensions. It’s a lot of back and forth.
Thompson said that he particularly enjoys making ornaments of unexpected characters which over the years has included Diana the Huntress, Mr. Toad, Peas-in-a-Pod, Roger Rabbit, and Timothy Q. Mouse.
That being said, Thompson advises that not ornaments are easy to pitch. Once example he gives is . “The Alice in Wonderland Doorknob—that was one I pitched for five years,” he reveals. “When they finally made it and it did really well, they brought it back three years in a row! It’s not an obvious character, but Alice in Wonderland also wouldn’t be that film without that character. As brief as he appears in the film, he is important. Sometimes you have a ‘random’ character that just makes a really great ornament. A good idea is always a good idea; it just might not be the right moment.”
This year’s Sketchbook Ornament collection features a wide range of characters including Anna, Aurora, Belle, Jasmine, Merida, Pocahontas, and Tiana. “We’re trying something a little different,” Thompson says. “Instead of just a figure with a cloth dress, all the Disney Princess ornaments have become figural story moments.” You can find many of this year’s designs already on shop Disney here.
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Our supported housing enables people to live well in their home and community.
We work with local authorities who commission us to run supported housing services on their behalf. All our supported housing services are externally reviewed and monitored to ensure we provide the very best housing and support for our residents. Our approach to supporting residents is based around them and their strengths, preferences and needs as we know this helps to ensure they live well in their home and community. We know the life-changing difference supported housing makes; it also helps to ease the pressure on health and social care services. That's why we are committed to building more in our current development programme - allowing more people to access the housing and support they need, where they need it.
people were supported to live well last year in supported housing
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