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Paichi Moraira Luxury Villa reduced to 750.000 Euros
This beautifully furnished luxury villa in located in Paichi, an exclusive area, surrounded by similar quality villas, just 2.3km from the town and beaches of Moraira. Built by one of Moraira´s best known constructors, this spacious property offers you maximum comfort whilst surrounded by tasteful decor. Mountain and countryside views from the front and sea views from the wonderful pool terrace at the back. The easy maintenance garden is full of mature plants and trees.
The villa has a grand looking entrance, a front door with a covered porch created by the fourth bedroom´s private balcony, several palm trees, automatic gates to the car port and parking area and a pedestrian gate with intercom.
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Remains of the downtown Foley's/Macy's Building. The building on the far right is the old Joske's Bldg. Houston,Texas. 9.28.2013.
Many analysts are bracing for a new economic crisis, or at least a slowdown; other countries like India can come on top, predicts Gustavo de Arístegui. For starters, every prediction of growth puts India on the World Champion spot from 2016 through 2018 with rates of around 7-7.9 per cent per annum. It doesn’t mean that India should discard reform programmes—it’s actually a wake-up call to intensify them. They should minimise corruption and work for the betterment. This crisis, a new kind of slowdown, one that affects more the financial economy than the real economy, can be India’s new golden opportunity.
The country needed to be prepared for this, and although it has come a long way in implementing deep economic and structural reforms, it still has a lot to do say Gustavo de Arístegui. Since Jim O’Neil coined the term BRIC, much water has flown under the bridge. Then, not many thought much of the economic potential of the BRIC group except China. Today India is not only the best-performing economy among them, but also in the world in terms of growth. Other giants like Brazil and Russia are not expected to go back into positive growth till 2019. Corruption leads to a drawback in this expectation.
This new slowdown is not yet a full-fledged crisis, but it’s one that affects more intensively commodity-based economies, except China, an industrial power, and some banks claims Gustavo de Arístegui. The commodity crash has been driven by weak oil prices, and some banks have been affected, among other reasons, for over-lending to oil giants and because some sovereign funds of oil-rich nations, which had heavily invested in banks, have had to sell their stake to help their ailing treasuries. It doesn’t really affect the real economy that is still doing quite well in other sectors.
According to Gustavo de Arístegui, India could benefit from this situation for many reasons. First, its energy bill has dramatically shrunk due to present oil prices. The savings go into tens of billions of dollars that are having a serious effect on the pockets of ordinary citizens. But the important aspect is that they need to minimise corruption.
India has to intensify its infrastructure programme, as it badly needs to gain competitiveness in being able to export goods at prices that are not burdened by transport costs and delays, also due to internal fiscal borders that should disappear with the adoption of GST. This infrastructure plan in itself (at $200 billion a year) is going to be a phenomenal growth motor, and India could overtake China as the world’s largest construction site predicts Gustavo de Arístegui. If it happens, India could become a serious export power—a major source of growth—something it has not yet achieved.
This conjuncture could push the much-needed reform agenda, and deepen the changes to make India even more attractive to foreign investment, as FDI looks for stable, safe, and business-friendly environments—some ripples as retroactive taxes have to be addressed. In a world of uncertainties and grave geopolitical instability, India is a safe haven for investment, which on top of that is going to have guaranteed returns—not only based on its gigantic internal market, but also its positive international and export perspectives.
India has a fantastic opportunity to take its place among geo-economic powers, and not only among demographic giants, military powers or the biggest geopolitical players, all of which it already is. The country has another essential wealth: tons and tons of ‘soft power’, the kind that has put India and its rich history at the centre of the planet’s respect and admiration. On the other hand, India is regarded as a highly responsible international actor, which adds to the world stability amid incendiary conflicts, terrorism, geopolitical instability, and what seems to be a time of profound geo-economic stress. In some major economies, the political situation seems to be gloomy and focus on corruption. These countries were traditional destinations of FDI that will surely shy away from these markets looking for more stable environments like India clearly has become. It is becoming obvious that India is the place to be as scores of people are flocking to its cities, markets and cultural sites, reckons Gustavo de Arístegui. It is of the essence that this intensive and renewed interest in the country does not distract the government, bureaucrats and business from the fundamental goal: the development of the nation in all its aspects, not only the economic one.
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2004 Bombardier derby built tubostar DMU 171804 now reduce to 3 cars seen at Eridge in southern livery
TMB 105 650 f 6.2 + canon 350D
Mount Eq6 pro
guide: SW 100/500 + dmk21
20 pose da 5 min
8 dark
No flat (mi sono dimenticato la flat box)
T: 16°C
Località Pizzoferrato (CH)
umidità elevata
moderato inquinamento luminoso (via lattea appena visibile)
From my set entitled “Morning Glory”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/sets/72157607213945288/
In my collection entitled “The Garden”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/collections/7215760718...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_glory
Morning glory is a common name for over 1,000 species of flowering plants in the family Convolvulaceae, belonging to the following genera:
Calystegia
Convolvulus
Ipomoea
Merremia
Rivea
As the name implies, morning glory flowers, which are funnel-shaped, open in the morning, allowing them to be pollinated by Hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other daytime insects and birds as well as Hawkmoth at dusk for longer blooming variants. The flower typically lasts for a single morning and dies in the afternoon. New flowers bloom each day. The flowers usually start to fade a couple of hours before the petals start showing visible curling. They prefer full sun throughout the day and mesic soils. In cultivation, most are treated as perennial plants in tropical areas and as annual plants in colder climates, but some species tolerate winter cold. Some moonflowers, which flower at night, are also in the morning glory family.
Morning glory is also called asagao (in Japanese, a compound of 朝 asa "morning" and 顔 kao "face"). A rare brownish-coloured variant known as Danjuro is very popular. It was first known in China for its medicinal uses, due to the laxative properties of its seeds. It was introduced to the Japanese in the 9th century, and they were first to cultivate it as an ornament. During the Edo Period, it became a very popular ornamental flower. Aztec priests in Mexico were also known to use the plant's hallucinogenic properties. (see Rivea corymbosa).
Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations used the morning glory species Ipomoea alba to convert the latex from the Castilla elastica tree and also the guayule plant to produce bouncing rubber balls. The sulfur in the morning glory's juice served to vulcanize the rubber, a process pre-dating Charles Goodyear's discovery by at least 3,000 years.[1]
Because of their fast growth, twining habit, attractive flowers, and tolerance for poor, dry soils, some morning glories are excellent vines for creating summer shade on building walls when trellised, thus keeping the building cooler and reducing heating and cooling costs.
Popular varieties in contemporary western cultivation include the Morning Glory "Sunspots" "Heavenly Blue", the moonflower, the cypress vine, and the cardinal climber. The cypress vine is a hybrid, with the cardinal climber as one parent.
In some places such as Australian bushland morning glories develop thick roots and tend to grow in dense thickets. They can quickly spread by way of long creeping stems. By crowding out, blanketing and smothering other plants, morning glory has turned into a serious invasive weed problem.
Ipomoea aquatica, known as water spinach, water morning-glory, water convolvulus, Ong-Choy, Kang-kung, or swamp cabbage, is popularly used as a green vegetable especially in East and Southeast Asian cuisines. It is a Federal Noxious Weed, however, and technically it is illegal to grow, import, possess, or sell. See: USDA weed factsheet. As of 2005, the state of Texas has acknowledged that water spinach is a highly prized vegetable in many cultures and has allowed water spinach to be grown for personal consumption. This is in part because water spinach is known to have been grown in Texas for more than fifteen years and has not yet escaped cultivation.[2] The fact that it goes by so many names means that it easily slips through import inspections, and it is often available in Asian or specialty produce markets.
The seeds of many species of morning glory contain ergot alkaloids such as the hallucinogenic ergonovine and ergine (LSA). Seeds of I. tricolor and I. corymbosa (syn. R. corymbosa) are used as hallucinogens. The seeds can produce similar effect to LSD when taken in the hundreds. Though the chemical LSA is illegal to possess in pure form, the seeds are found in many gardening stores, however, the seeds from gardening stores may be coated in some form of mild poison in order to prevent ingestion or methylmercury to retard spoilage.[3] They should not be taken by people with a history of liver disorders or hepatitis. They should not be taken by pregnant women as they can cause uterine contraction which can lead to miscarriage. Individuals with a history of cardiovascular disease (Heart attack, blood clot, and stroke) or a family history of such problems, and the elderly should avoid consuming these seeds due to their vasoconstrictive effects.[4][5][6]
Note that the plant known as Korean morning glory, Datura stramonium, is of a different species, is poisonous, and also produces hallucinogenic effects.
Safe4Summer - Shaw
The initiative is part of the Government’s mission to restore and strengthen local policing in communities and reduce or prevent anti-social behaviour (ASB). As part of this, there will be a greater visibility of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers and partners as we work together across crime hot spot areas.
Kate Green, Deputy Mayor for Safer and Stronger Communities, said: "We’re determined to ensure Greater Manchester is a safer place for everyone. The Safer Streets Summer Initiative is a testament to our dedication to reducing crime and enhancing the quality of life for our residents.
“By continuing to work closely with our communities and partners, we aim to create an environment where everyone feels safe and can enjoy not only the summer but all year round and every year. We’ll be working hard to ensure our town centres are safe and welcoming for all.”
Assistant Chief Constable Matt Boyle, GMP’s lead for Local Policing, said: “Our neighbourhoods are negatively impacted by various crimes such as the illegal use of e-bikes, drug dealing and other ASB.
“As a force, it’s our mission to listen to our community’s concerns and take action where crime is committed. Our proactive approach to tackling neighbourhood crime has meant that since 2021, we’ve reduced burglary by a third and vehicle crime by a quarter, thanks to the dedication of our local neighbourhood teams, working closely with partners across the region.
“Over the summer months, they will be focusing on increasing engagement with our communities to listen and respond to their concerns. Residents and business owners will also see an increase in the visibility of officers and partners, as we work together to ensure a safe summer for all. This isn’t about trying to spoil people’s fun over the summer months, it is making sure everyone can enjoy themselves without feeling unsafe or being hurt.
“We welcome the Home Office initiative, which perfectly aligns to the neighbourhood policing model our force implemented locally two years ago. Safe4Summer is the perfect opportunity to highlight the strength of our partnerships in Greater Manchester, and our determination to minimise crime and disorder and to ensure Greater Manchester is a safer and more desirable place for all.”
TravelSafe Partnership Manager at Transport for Greater Manchester, Kate Green, said: “While the vast majority of people using the Bee Network do so safely and responsibly, we know that crime and anti-social behaviour increases over school holidays, and that is not something we will tolerate.
“We work hard every day to keep people safe, whether that’s through our engagement programme or the many proactive operations that take place. We will have an increased presence across the Bee Network to prevent and deter incidents, helping people to travel and enjoy their summer safely and with confidence.”
In 2023, Greater Manchester Police made a commitment that every district ward has a named local police officer, and we would keep communities informed through our use of the community messaging service, Bee in the Loop, which provides the latest news on events and incidents straight to your email inbox.
In April 2025, we welcomed the opportunity to further strengthen our neighbourhood offer, with an increase in numbers of neighbourhood officers by 176, to help GMP to continue to deliver in tackling crime and working with partners and communities to keep our streets safe.
To receive free direct email alerts about how your Neighbourhood Policing Team is keeping your area safe, sign up to Bee in the Loop - www.beeintheloop.co.uk.
To report crime in your neighbourhood, contact the police via LiveChat at www.gmp.police.uk, or by calling 101 or dialling 999 in an emergency.
TMB 105 650 f 6.2 + canon 350D
Mount Eq6 pro
guide: SW 100/500 + dmk21
20 pose da 5 min
8 dark
No flat (mi sono dimenticato la flat box)
T: 16°C
Località Pizzoferrato (CH)
umidità elevata
moderato inquinamento luminoso (via lattea appena visibile)
PM SPIE first used this Haymarket, VA, warehouse for consolidating shipments and logistics. The high cost of facilities in the Washington, DC, area led to relocation of shipping facilities from this location. (Photo courtesy of PM SPIE)
Who Is Believer? Where They Reside? Are They Really?
My Dear Reverend Friends
Greetings
Will COP21 Answer ---Killing, Shooting, Looting, Migrating ----Terroring? Drought, Disaster, Hunger? Dignity, Rights, Peace, Justice, Equality? sasrai.com/cop21-have-or-have-not
First of all question may come
Do we really demand solution?
If so who should be the main actor?
Do the power holders agree to sacrifice their facilities and comfort?
Do the property holders reduce their consumption?
Do the corporate owners agreed to avoid unfair or environment and health hazardous profit making?
Do we all agree to feel proud with less consumption, less property owner, less salaried?
Do we dare to declare that Poorest are most Prestigious Person as she/he is exploiting nature less? I think this is the first step for the `Cultural Revolution’.
The Holy Father makes an urgent appeal to protect “our common home,” to People of all faiths and no faith. And he prescribes bringing “the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development”. Here, he advances the “worldwide ecological movement”, urges for `cultural revolution’.
I like to draw your attention to my thinking that could be described following point.
Who is believer or people of faith? Have we seen someone ignore undue profit, favor, facility, possession being a member of `people of faith’? Present life has become full of Lying, Cheating, Crooking, Deceiving, Exploiting, Flattering, Fornicating etc that breed Tsunami, Cyclone, Drought, Deluge that breed Crop, Deployment loss that breed Rootless, Homeless, Trafficking, Migrant that breed Killing.
There was a wise saying “Greed begets Sin, Sin begets Death” is not a assumption today. Now it’s a scientific truth. But who cares? Each one is running after Profit, Possession and Purchase. No matter someone dying or living, earth on the verge of doomsday.
Why earth community define them believer? Is it just or unjust? If we earth community define someone believer, she/he who acts like a nonbeliever it cannot be justice. Rather it will be an act of corruption promotion.
What are the Characteristics of the believer? Is there any set of indicators regarding believers doing, acting, living, consuming, purchasing, possessing etc. Do we need to declare and publish those again publicly? Does the mass people should specially the children should know clearly how they could be identified as believer or nonbeliever?
Who can certify someone as believer? Is it person him/herself or her/his community or her/his activity? Person declaring him/her believer could be a believer? Is it fair judgment?
Why someone should take them as believer? Based on someone’s saying/statement could we taken him/her as believer? There must be a system to be taken as someone as believer or nonbeliever. Could we establish the system? If not why we should go for classification? Each one is same.
Do the believers can do anything for own profit? I am not sure what the answer is. Unfortunately my observation, learning is people declared rich, big property occupant has little care for others rights, survival. Those rich are profiteer and never ashamed to be the owner of big property keeping other homeless, food less.
Do the believers can do anything for her/his Job Provider? May be person in believe shall say that someone cannot do anything in favor increasing the profit margin of her/his service provider. But what is practice. Person deployed in any firm do everything that increase the profit of the firm no matter that harm environment, ecology, humanity etc. If someone fails to follow the rule she/he will loose job.
Doesn’t the Consumption and Possession Addiction Dominate on the Faith? I am not sure how many corporate owners declared themselves as person of no faith or nonbeliever. But I am sure their employee never think other than the profit margin of the firm. They do earn more and more in exchange of values, belief, ethics, morality, civility or whatever a person obey or compelled to obey being a believer. In the same time they never feel guilty to those unwise, unethical, immoral actions. They believe this is her/his duty to do continue the job. The most highly educated person serving illegal profit her/his own job, comfort. This is also true they got educated by poorer tax and serve the rich to make undue profit.
Accordingly those corporate owners also distribute the preaching to their staffs and mass people sometimes to the students `never tell a lie’ `speak the truth’ `be sincere to your duty’ etc. They quote several preacher and scripture. They only provide advice or preaching but they never follow it. They completely for gotten service to nation,, nature, humanity etc. They got only one motto earn more and more, possess more and more. Sometimes comes to with some charity from which lion portion goes to the highly privileged class.
Unfortunately I am not clear why we should classified person of faith or no faith, believer or nonbeliever. Please be kind to make me clear.
American children are bombarded with 40,000 television ads per year and half of these ads encourage children to have unhealthy food and drinks. sasrai.com/mr-zambia-glimpse-of-hope/
To cook (and eat) an artichoke...
Fill a deep stock pot with 1/2 inch of water and bring to boil. Reduce to a simmer. Place cleaned, prepared artichoke face down in the water. Cover with a lid and cook at a strong simmer for 20 minutes.
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▶ PROCEDURE
Step 1. Trimming the leaves.
Step 2. Simmer upside-down
Step 3. Simmer right-side up.
Step 4. Eat the leaves.
Step 5. Preparing the choke.
Step 6. Removing the 'hair.'
Step 7: Eating the choke.
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▶ Adapted from:
"How To Make (And Eat) A Perfect Steamed Artichoke"
▶ More photos: here.
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From my set entitled “Morning Glory”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/sets/72157607213945288/
In my collection entitled “The Garden”
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/collections/7215760718...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_glory
Morning glory is a common name for over 1,000 species of flowering plants in the family Convolvulaceae, belonging to the following genera:
Calystegia
Convolvulus
Ipomoea
Merremia
Rivea
As the name implies, morning glory flowers, which are funnel-shaped, open in the morning, allowing them to be pollinated by Hummingbirds, butterflies, bees, and other daytime insects and birds as well as Hawkmoth at dusk for longer blooming variants. The flower typically lasts for a single morning and dies in the afternoon. New flowers bloom each day. The flowers usually start to fade a couple of hours before the petals start showing visible curling. They prefer full sun throughout the day and mesic soils. In cultivation, most are treated as perennial plants in tropical areas and as annual plants in colder climates, but some species tolerate winter cold. Some moonflowers, which flower at night, are also in the morning glory family.
Morning glory is also called asagao (in Japanese, a compound of 朝 asa "morning" and 顔 kao "face"). A rare brownish-coloured variant known as Danjuro is very popular. It was first known in China for its medicinal uses, due to the laxative properties of its seeds. It was introduced to the Japanese in the 9th century, and they were first to cultivate it as an ornament. During the Edo Period, it became a very popular ornamental flower. Aztec priests in Mexico were also known to use the plant's hallucinogenic properties. (see Rivea corymbosa).
Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations used the morning glory species Ipomoea alba to convert the latex from the Castilla elastica tree and also the guayule plant to produce bouncing rubber balls. The sulfur in the morning glory's juice served to vulcanize the rubber, a process pre-dating Charles Goodyear's discovery by at least 3,000 years.[1]
Because of their fast growth, twining habit, attractive flowers, and tolerance for poor, dry soils, some morning glories are excellent vines for creating summer shade on building walls when trellised, thus keeping the building cooler and reducing heating and cooling costs.
Popular varieties in contemporary western cultivation include the Morning Glory "Sunspots" "Heavenly Blue", the moonflower, the cypress vine, and the cardinal climber. The cypress vine is a hybrid, with the cardinal climber as one parent.
In some places such as Australian bushland morning glories develop thick roots and tend to grow in dense thickets. They can quickly spread by way of long creeping stems. By crowding out, blanketing and smothering other plants, morning glory has turned into a serious invasive weed problem.
Ipomoea aquatica, known as water spinach, water morning-glory, water convolvulus, Ong-Choy, Kang-kung, or swamp cabbage, is popularly used as a green vegetable especially in East and Southeast Asian cuisines. It is a Federal Noxious Weed, however, and technically it is illegal to grow, import, possess, or sell. See: USDA weed factsheet. As of 2005, the state of Texas has acknowledged that water spinach is a highly prized vegetable in many cultures and has allowed water spinach to be grown for personal consumption. This is in part because water spinach is known to have been grown in Texas for more than fifteen years and has not yet escaped cultivation.[2] The fact that it goes by so many names means that it easily slips through import inspections, and it is often available in Asian or specialty produce markets.
The seeds of many species of morning glory contain ergot alkaloids such as the hallucinogenic ergonovine and ergine (LSA). Seeds of I. tricolor and I. corymbosa (syn. R. corymbosa) are used as hallucinogens. The seeds can produce similar effect to LSD when taken in the hundreds. Though the chemical LSA is illegal to possess in pure form, the seeds are found in many gardening stores, however, the seeds from gardening stores may be coated in some form of mild poison in order to prevent ingestion or methylmercury to retard spoilage.[3] They should not be taken by people with a history of liver disorders or hepatitis. They should not be taken by pregnant women as they can cause uterine contraction which can lead to miscarriage. Individuals with a history of cardiovascular disease (Heart attack, blood clot, and stroke) or a family history of such problems, and the elderly should avoid consuming these seeds due to their vasoconstrictive effects.[4][5][6]
Note that the plant known as Korean morning glory, Datura stramonium, is of a different species, is poisonous, and also produces hallucinogenic effects.
5 x 240s SII
5 X 240s OIII
15 x 240s Ha
using 0.65X reducer (backfocus out -thus the warped corner stars)
ADBI's Conference on Regional Cooperation and Integration on 25 February took stock of the progress of RCI in Asia.
Read more: www.adbi.org/event/6081.regional.cooperation.integration/