The Indian roller ( Coracias benghalensis ), is a member of the roller family of birds.

Latin America s Currency Roller Coaster

It's known as the Eurasian Roller. In India it occurs in the northwest, so it's known as the Kashmir Roller.

Threading the Fiscal Needle

He was afraid of the needle.

Access to needle and syringe programmes

Sami didn't know what Layla's needle contained.

Sami pulled a needle out of his pocket.

I told him, bear with me on the needle.

The needle method has the advantage that the needle can be placed at the bottom of the flask to better flush out the atmosphere of the flask.

It is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

A magnetic needle is placed parallel with the copper strip.

It's got a needle, like a record needle, that goes back and forth over the surface, bumps up and down, and feels the height of the first surface.

Because your choice now is either I use my own needle now, or I could share a needle now and get a disease that's going to possibly kill me 10 years from now, or I could use my own needle now and go to jail tomorrow.

These traumatic events set the stage for Latin America s two decade long currency roller coaster.

CAMBRIDGE The prices of hydrocarbons, minerals, and agricultural commodities have been on a veritable roller coaster.

(iv) The number of turns required to initiate the roller arm fuze shall be matched to the intended target.

When a sample of tissue or fluid is removed with a needle in such a way that cells are removed without preserving the histological architecture of the tissue cells, the procedure is called a needle aspiration biopsy.

The true explanation was reserved for Faraday, namely, that electric currents are induced in the copper disc by the cutting of the magnetic lines of force of the needle, which currents in turn react on the needle.

Shen Kuo pointed out that a needle prepared this way sometimes pointed south, sometimes north.

This is a real accomplishment in a country that was on a political roller coaster for most of its history.

Construction of a magnetic compass Magnetic needle A magnetic rod is required when constructing a compass.

With just six days to go until this roller coaster of an election campaign is over, everyone's nerves are thoroughly frayed.

But you get too many stitches on the needle. So she quickly realized crochet was the better thing.

NAIROBI The last two years have been a roller coaster ride in respect to securing a new global treaty to combat climate change.

And he said, That's ridiculous. You can't make a needle by rubbing a lump of iron with a cloth.

Bleeding from mucous membranes or from sites of needle punctures has been reported in 40 50 percent of cases.

The typical Chinese navigational compass was in the form of a magnetic needle floating in a bowl of water.

Vibration of the diaphragm caused a needle to vibrate in the water, varying the electrical resistance in the circuit.

And she put in the world's first national needle exchange program, and other countries followed suit Australia, The Netherlands and few others.

Early cotton gins The earliest versions of the cotton gin consisted of a single roller made of iron or wood and a flat piece of stone or wood.

Since assuming office, President Barack Obama has made clear his desire to lift the federal ban on needle exchange in the United States.

Aref Farris decided to use the word needle on a kid, and it freaked him out. Farris I told him how it is.

Such devices were universally used as compass until the invention of the box like compass with a 'dry' pivoting needle sometime around 1300.

The gas can be introduced through the side arm of the flask, or via a wide bore needle (attached to a gas line).

However, according to Kreutz there is only a single Chinese reference to a dry mounted needle (built into a pivoted wooden tortoise) which is dated to between 1150 and 1250, and claims that there is no clear indication that Chinese mariners ever used anything but the floating needle in a bowl until the 16th century.

Barack Obama, at least when he began his campaign, had all the charisma of the holy roller, turning on the crowds with the rhetorical spark of a great evangelist.

When I saw Biraj, he was in his wheelchair, striving to climb to the top of the slope and then race down as if it was a roller coaster.

A down hole roller is set up between the camera tractor and the cable reel in the service truck, preventing cable damage from rubbing the top of the pipeline.

Without work it is difficult anywhere. In Turkey, searching for a proper job is like looking for a needle in a pile of straw.

According to the Transnational Institute this explains why, until recently, UNODC did not promote harm reduction policies like needle exchange and Heroin assisted treatment.

Periodically, this drill, like a biopsy needle, plunges thousands of feet deep into the ice to extract a marrow of gases and isotopes for analysis.

The force on the compass needle did not direct it to or away from the current carrying wire, but acted at right angles to it.

A lubber line , which can be a marking on the compass bowl or a small fixed needle, indicates the ship's heading on the compass card.

This individual zone balancing prevents excessive dipping of one end of the needle which can cause the compass card to stick and give false readings.