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Drug agents with the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office ICE Unit and North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation made an arrest tied to a violation of pseudoephedrine transaction limits.,Charm bracelet

Crystal Jean Barnes, 27, of 3684 Townsend Lane, Lenoir,necklaces, was arrested earlier this week and charged with one count of exceeding pseudoephedrine limits.

Agents with the ICE unit and SBI routinely check pseudoephedrine logs provided by pharmacies for unusual and/or frequent purchases of ephedrine-based products. By law, pharmacies are required to obtain valid identification of any person buying ephedrine-based products.

According to state law, no person shall deliver to any one person,money clips, attempt to deliver to any one person, purchase or attempt to purchase at retail more than two packages containing a combined total or more than 3.6 grams of any pseudoephedrine products per calendar day or purchase at retail more than three packages containing a combined total of more than 9 grams of pseudoephedrine products within any 30-day period. The limits do not apply if dispensed under a valid prescription.

Barnes’ name appeared frequently in several pharmacy logs,Atlas charm bracelet, drawing the attention of drug agents.

During their investigation, agents discovered that Barnes had been to several pharmacies in Caldwell and Burke counties to purchase ephedrine-based products. They determined by the amount and frequency of the purchases, along with additional details gathered during the investigation, that Barnes was contributing a main ingredient for the manufacture of methamphetamine.

Court records indicate that Barnes was charged by Lenoir Police Department with possession with intent to sell/deliver methamphetamine on June 11 of this year.

"We will continue to arrest people who are contributing to the manufacture of methamphetamine or any other illegal drug," Caldwell Sheriff Alan Jones said. "If you are supplying ingredients for a meth lab, you are just as guilty as the person cooking it."

Barnes was placed in the Caldwell County Detention Center under a $5,000 secured bond and has a district court appearance in Caldwell County scheduled for Sept. 21.

The Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office always in search of information involving the use and distribution of illegal controlled substances. Information from citizens often proves valuable in solving drug cases, and any information provided will remain confidential. Anyone with information regarding illegal drug use and activity can contact the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office ICE Unit at 828-757-1178,Beads necklace, Lenoir Police Department Narcotics Division at 828-757-2145 or Caldwell County Crimestoppers at 828-758-8300.

On January 14th,necklaces, 2010, REMCO is introducing "PAL" — (Prepaid Audit of Landlord Utility Charges) — A new program for multi site retail chains that levels the playing field with the mall landlord.

Mall landlords find utility bill adjustments a fertile ground for making handsome profits at the expense of their tenants.

"As landlords perform under pressure to maintain profits during a struggling economy the likelihood of them overcharging their tenants on utility expenses is on the rise. We’ve seen increases, not only in the amount, but in the number of utility bill adjustments and back billings for prior years. Moreover, these adjustments are so confusing and baffling to most retailers that they end up paying the adjustment,pendants," said Mary Ann Milsop.

In reality,money clips, most retailers do not have access to an outside consulting firm which specializes in analyzing the landlord’s utility bill adjustments,tiffany, so they end up paying whatever the landlord says they owe; which very well may be higher than the actual charge.

REMCO’s new PAL program will level the playing field between the retail tenant and the landlord. If the retailer is not in agreement or satisfied with the landlord’s increase they will now be able to send the adjustments directly to our engineering department for review.

This is how the service works-

With our patented software, REMCO’s engineers will review any landlord year end adjustments or increases in the retailer’s utility charges that are over 10%. In the event, there is an overcharge our engineers will provide the retailer with a fully documented claim to be sent to the landlord based upon their stores lease language. REMCO will handle the retailer’s claim against the landlord until it is settled.

"REMCO Energy has been helping retailers reduce utility expenses since 1984. The landlords know who we are. They also know they can’t get away with over charging our retail clients," said Mary Ann Milsop.

REMCO Energy Solutions offers a suite of products and services designed to proficiently audit, manage, reduce, control, and pay utility expenses in a manner that turns lost profits into revenues.

Mary Ann Milsop is President, REMCO Energy Solutions, 5 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540; 866-523-0722, fax 609-333-1803, www.remcoinc.com.

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Individuals concerned about cost-cutting in the National Health Service should be wary of signing up to private medical insurance deals that appear to offer large no-claims discounts, advisers have warned.

No-claims discounts (NCDs) have been offered by private medical insurers for many years, enabling policyholders with the cleanest of claims records to get premium reductions of up to 75 per cent, and cut the cost of private treatment.

Discounts increase for each year that a policyholder does not make a claim, over timescales of up to 7 or 14 years – andpolicyholders are moved backwards on the discount scale if a claim is made.

However, specialist private medical insurance (PMI) advisers say there is a big variety in the types of NCDs offered by different insurers.

"Some insurers start new members on a high level of discount, while others enrol new members at a lower level," said Brian Walters, principal of health insurance brokerage Regency Health. "Equally, some discount structures are more punitive than others, with members typically losing between 10 per cent and 25 per cent of their discount for a single claim, depending on the insurer."

Walters added that the the variation of no-claims discounts is a particular problem on price comparison websites. Premiums that appear to be thecheapest in the market might be dependent on the maintenance of a high discount – meaning that the policyholder has to avoid making claims to keep the premium low.

"High starting discounts and sharp falls are likely to result in premium instability," Walters warned.

Insurers are also continually modifying their policies. Aviva has recently given policyholders the option to protect their no-claims discounts by paying a small additional premium. The add-on means that if a claim is made, the policyholder does not drop down the NCD scale on renewal.

These discounts are being offered as concerns grow that the government axe will fall hard on spending in the health sector,money clips, with warnings that common operations – such as cataract and hip replacements – are to be rationed.

The Con-Lib coalition government has said it is committed to real-term increases in NHS funding each year. But it is also seeking 20bn of "efficiency savings" from hospitals in England and Wales by 2014.

Financial advisers said that anyone thinking about private treatment will need to make sure that a policy is suitable, particularly if family members are to be covered.

"Bupa and Axa have NCDs for individuals,tiffany, while Aviva does not allow child-only policies and would roll the NCD into one policy for the family,Charm bracelet," points out Gemma Harris, operations director with Chase Templeton, a specialist PMI adviser. "This means that if a child needed treatment on the Aviva policy, the overall cost of the policy would increase. We would recommend a plan which was a per-person policy."

Older people should also be wary of signing up to a PMI policy that penalises them for making claims – as is the case with an NCD contract.

"I would never advise a client aged 55 to 70 to buy a policy with an NCD,Beads necklace," says Andrew Tripp, chief executive of Perfect Health, the brokers. "If you were in this age group, I would suggest saving costs by buying a budget policy that covers in-patient treatment only. The savings you make can cover the incidental costs of outpatient treatment, such as seeing a consultant."

Aviva said this week that it expected its new Healthier Solutions NCD model "to see people choose not to claim for the more minor, outpatient type of treatments in the future".

But it claimed that many customers valued the NCD, stating: "While we appreciate that this will not suit everyone, customer feedback and the popularity of our other products offering [NCDs] confirmed that many customers favour, and indeed expect, this approach."

Policyholders looking for an alternative to NCD-based plans have other low-cost options. The "shared responsibility" plans offered by SimplyHealth and Western Provident Association (WPA) can cut costs, as the policyholder agrees to pay a set percentage of any claim. This can reduce premiums significantly.

General Medical, Freedom and PHC also have traditional plans that are not linked to NCDs.

Researchers detail in ‘Development of an acid challenge-based in vitro dentin disc occlusion model,’ new data in cosmetics (see also <http://www.newsrx.com/library/topics/Cosmetics.html> Cosmetics). "The objective of this study was to evaluate the utility of a novel acid challenge-based dentin disc occlusion model, and to compare the occluding effect and acid resistance exhibited by currently marketed occlusion dentifrices in vitro. Ninety-six bovine dentin discs were polished and etched in citric acid (6% w/w) for two minutes to provide a smooth dentin surface with patent tubules," scientists in Weybridge, the United Kingdom report.

"The discs were divided into three treatment groups. Each treatment group was brushed (Oral-B Vitality Precision Clean/EB 17 FlexiSoft head) twice a day, for up to four days, with either a strontium acetate dentifrice (Sensodyne Rapid Relief),money clips, an arginine-based dentifrice (Colgate Sensitive Pro-Relief), or water. Prior to and between treatments, the dentin samples were stored in human saliva. On days 3 and 4, following dentifrice treatment and incubation in saliva (60 minutes), the samples were subjected to a grapefruit juice challenge. Eight samples from each treatment group were removed from the study on each day and analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The SEM images were graded according to a categorical occlusion scale, and the data were analyzed by ANOVA. The strontium acetate dentifrice occluded dentin tubules significantly better than the negative control (water) on days 1 through 4 (day 4 p<or=0.0001). The marketed occlusion-based dentifrices demonstrated various degrees of dentin tubule occlusion over the four days. The strontium acetate dentifrice demonstrated significantly better occlusion than a currently marketed arginine-based occlusion dentifrice on day 1 (p=0.0337), day 2 (p=0.0021 ), and day 4 (p <or=0.0001). An in vitro model has been developed that can differentiate the dentin tubular occlusive effects of currently marketed occlusion dentifrices," wrote C.R. Parkinson and colleagues, GlaxoSmithKline.

The researchers concluded: "Surface analysis reveals that the occluding deposits vary according to product, and that some are more susceptible to acid mediated dissolution."

Parkinson and colleagues published their study in the Journal of Clinical Dentistry (Development of an acid challenge-based in vitro dentin disc occlusion model. Journal of Clinical Dentistry, 2010;21(2):31-6).

For additional information,watches, contact C.R. Parkinson, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, Weybridge, Surrey,Charm bracelet, UK.

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Elizabeth Robertson understands why manufacturing,tiffany, welding or plumbing don’t exactly sound like expected career choices for women.

"Usually they’re pushed to teaching or nursing," the 28-year-old said. "It’s typical to think of men going out and working their tools."

A mechanical engineering student, though, Robertson embodied the evolving gender makeup of technology jobs when she attended South Texas College’s Ladies Night on Wednesday.

There, she and other students learned about STC’s technical majors, which are vastly dominated by men.

"This is not a male-exclusive club," said Mario Reyna, dean of business and technology. "They have an imbalance,Charm bracelet, so we’re trying to draw women from the community. We still need many more."

In spring 2010, only 93 women out of 1,074 students began chipping away at the male-dominated department.

Though the Ladies Night enticed female students with makeup giveaways and a fashion show, Richard Salinas,money clips, chair of the welding program, said the information provided makes the difference.

"It’s not just a guy thing,key rings," Salinas said. "We want to educate that they shouldn’t be separated. In fact, women actually make better welders."

He said while men can only distinguish three shades of red, women can detect up to 12, meaning they can more easily estimate the temperature of the metal to better judge how to proceed in their work.

With advantages like that, and a starting wage of nearly $50,000 a year, Salinas said he expected more women welding students once word got out.

Yet he and Roberto Gonzalez, co-chair of the college’s automotive program, acknowledged the Rio Grande Valley possessed a unique disparity in technical job openings for women.

"The problem is the Valley isn’t ready for females," Gonzalez said. "You still have the Hispanic population encouraging male stereotypes, but women can be more focused and do more than men if given the chance.

"It’ll slowly change."

Anna Borrego is already turning the tide.

With hopes to finish her engineering studies soon, she said she plans to use her gender in making graphic engineering presentations to businesses starved for innovation.

"More girls should be here," the 22-year-old said. "If more women like me came in, the new ideas would change everything.

"Men are learning to respect us more," she added. "Women think differently than men, so who wouldn’t want that?"

Neal Morton covers education and general assignments for The Monitor. He can be reached at (956) 314-0896.

The Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) will soon show-case its recently tiffany launched Anant diamond jewellery with the ‘Made-in-India’ tag in West Asia. The move follows encouraging response for Anant in the domestic market.

Mr Sanjay Kothari, convenor of promotion, marketing and business development at GJEPC, said, “We wanted to introduce Anant in Dubai by April, but it has been delayed due to the recent financial crisis in Dubai. It would now be launched in July.” The Council has already spent Rs 9 crore on various promotional activities including advertisements and refurbishing retailers’ outlets to highlight the brand.

Actor Sonam Kapoor has also been roped in as a brand ambassador, said Mr Kothari.

Retailers stand to gain as the Council will take care of promotional expenses.

RS 11-CR CORPUS GJEPC formed a corpus of Rs 11 crore, with retailers chipping in with Rs four money clips lakh each, and manufacturers Rs 10 lakh each while the Council itself set aside Rs 2 crore for the promotional activities.

The Council in September had taken upon itself to promote diamond jewellery after De Beers cut its promotional activities in the country, said Mr Kothari.

GJEPC created a new brand Anant Diamond Jewellery by bringing together top 100 retail jewellers including GRT, Khazana Jewellers, Joy Alukkas, Reliance, Tanishq, Orra, TBZ, Rio Tinto, Anmol Jewellers and Carbon.

With the gold prices rising, many people are now considering the single line Anant Diamond jewellery to offer as gift, said a Mumbai- based jeweller.

DIAMOND SHORTAGE Rough diamond prices have risen sharply in the past few months after most miners pendants such as De Beers, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Alrosa cut their production following the economic downturn and financial constraints. De Beers recently revealed that it has reduced its first quarter production by almost 90 per cent in 2009.

The De Beers Diamond Trading Company (DTC) has raised the prices of rough diamonds by about five and 10 per cent since March this year, said a Mumbai-based jeweller. Most of the DTC’s Indian sightholders were the worst-affected as prices of smaller roughs being supplied to the Indian market were raised between 3 and 7 per cent. Surat, the hub for diamond processing, imports about Rs 30,000 crore worth of roughs per annum, with De Beers supplying about 60 per cent.

Don’t break the bank … or any hearts, by celebrating this tiffany jewellery Valentine’s Day, or any other special day, at participating Hilton Garden Inn hotels (see also <http://www.newsrx.com/library/topics/Hilton-Garden-Inn.html> Hilton Garden Inn).

A 2008 U.S. Travel Association survey reveals that four out of 10 Americans feel “more romantic” on vacation, taking the time to reconnect with their loved ones. With couples scrambling for gift ideas this year, a romantic getaway is a great option. In fact, a recent survey by the research firm Synovate revealed that approximately one in every three women (thirty six percent) chose a romantic overnight getaway as the top gift of choice for Valentine’s Day, followed by dinner and jewelry.

“We want to help couples celebrate romance with our value enticing Romance Package,” money clips said Jim Cone, vice president of marketing, Hilton Garden Inn. “In these stressful times, treating each other to a weekend getaway gives our guests time to relax and reconnect … uninterrupted.”

The Hilton Garden Inn Romance Package provides guests with deluxe accommodations for two, an early check-in and late check-out* option (based on availability), sparkling wine* or sparkling cider upon check-in, and complimentary made-to-order breakfast for two at the hotel’s restaurant. And with the Garden Sleep System(R), Hilton Garden Inn hotels also feature one of the most comfortable beds ever designed. For those who want to postpone their romantic getaway and celebrate later in the year to honor an anniversary or other special occasion, the package can be booked year-round at HGI.com.

With Valentine’s Day falling on Saturday this year, the holiday is the perfect time for a short weekend escape, whether at a local Hilton Garden Inn or one of the more than 450 participating Hilton Garden Inn hotels across the country. The package offers couples the flexibility to retreat and enjoy the hotel’s whirlpool and other pendants amenities or to get out and explore the local nightlife and attractions. About Hilton Garden Inn Hilton Garden Inn is the award-winning, mid-priced brand that continually strives to ensure today’s busy travelers have everything they need to be most productive on the road — from complimentary wired and Wi-Fi Internet access in all guestrooms and PrinterOn remote printing to the hotel’s complimentary 24-hour business center to the Garden Sleep System(R).

So whether on the road for personal or business reasons, Hilton Garden Inn offers the amenities and services for travelers to sleep deep, stay fit, eat well, work smart and treat themselves while away from home.

Melissa SanMarco and Jennifer Tookoian have been friends since high school, but they have something else in common that led them to start a business they hope will help others.

SanMarco and Tookoian’s mothers are cancer survivors, and Tookoian’s father died from cancer. So to raise money for cancer research, the two friends formed Miss Mantra, a company that combines SanMarco’s jewelry-making talent and Tookoian’s marketing expertise.

They sell bracelets with a handmade silver coin hanging from a pink or brown silk and nylon cord. The front of the coin has the familiar breast cancer ribbon design. The back has the words “Believe in miracles.”

“Jennifer and I wanted to raise money for breast cancer research because this is the generation, money clips we feel, when a cure is going to be found,” says SanMarco, who lives in Los Angeles and visits her Fresno family monthly.

“There’s so much more awareness” of all forms of cancer, Tookoian says. Her mother survived colon cancer, and SanMarco’s mother is a breast-cancer survivor.

“Cancer is just in our families,” she says.

They came up with the bracelet idea over the summer, and it followed a fast track, Tookoian says. It was about eight weeks from idea to design to production and, finally, to the creation of the Miss Mantra Web site (www.missmantra.com).

A message on the Web site says: “These pieces are dedicated to the 202,000 women who will get breast cancer in the U.S. this year and the millions of other women who are beating breast cancer with strength, dignity, courage and faith. The stuff miracles are made of.”

After the mad dash to create the bracelets, things slowed down, Tookoian says. “Then it was hurry up and wait. This has really been a learning year for us, or a learning couple of months.”

The bracelets, which sell for $35 each, are available on the Web site and at She She, a local boutique. “Buyers have been mostly people who are touched by breast cancer,” Tookoian says.

But sales were slow until October, when the California Cancer Center bought 500 tiffany jewellery bracelets.

Alec Beach, manager of the California Cancer Center’s radiation therapy department, said the bracelets have been sold at the recent Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, the Clovis Women’s Festival, a golf tournament and other events. All of the proceeds will go to education, through outreach, and for research, Beach says.

Pamela Hutton, a marketing consultant for Community Medical Centers, has one of the bracelets.

“I wear mine every day. It’s a conversation piece,” Hutton says. “I have meaningful conversations with people” when they ask about the bracelet, she says.

Hutton especially likes the “Believe in miracles” motto on the back of the coin. “Your attitude helps you fight the fight in any kind of cancer,” she says.

While the original idea was to raise funds for breast cancer, SanMarco and Tookoian say they’re happy to see the money go for research and education about all forms of cancer. And they’re working on more ideas for the holidays to raise even more money.

“Our ultimate goal is to set up grants for women to pay for medical bills who can’t afford to,” SanMarco says.

The reporter can be reached at plloyd@fresnobee.com or or at (559) 441-6756.

The autumn leaves, red and yellow and brown, are tumbling from the trees, resigned to their fate. Weekends are full of football and the scritching of rakes. Lazy squirrels are still munching on moldering jack o’ lanterns left over from Halloween. In other words, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas tiffany jewelry.

Disney released a new version of the Dickens Scrooge story last week, timing it so that “A Christmas Carol” will be lucky to be in distribution past Thanksgiving Day.

Starbucks has already retired its white cups for the duration, replacing them with cranberry-colored, snowflake-flecked seasonal substitutes. Wal-Mart is just one of the retailers already Kringling away like crazy, running television ads with Andy Williams crooning “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” Who knew that the weeks between Halloween and Thanksgiving were the hap-happiest season of all?

The day after Thanksgiving used to be the official launch of the commercial Christmas season. Now Sears is running “Black Friday” specials all through November.

Given half a chance, retailers would probably try to get their plastic garlands hung just after Labor Day. (Ho-ho-ho, it’s back to school!) But we’ve been spared that particular encroachment, thanks to a holiday that has proved capable of standing athwart the relentless forces of Christmas-creep — Halloween. Once a quaint bit of Americana built around the simple pleasures of costumes, candy-grabbing and petty vandalism, Halloween has become a marketable and profitable holiday, putting many official holidays to shame. If only Presidents Day had some sort of free-candy angle.

In contrast to Halloween’s stalwart ability to keep Christmas from jumping the queue, Thanksgiving has lost its cultural muscle. The early advent of the Santa season may have less to do with the red-and-green imperative than with the weakness of Turkey Day. What happened to this quintessential American holiday cufflinks?

Lydia Maria Child’s ode to going over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house is a good place to start in decoding Thanksgiving’s decline. First, there is the anachronistic attention given to grandmother. Thanksgiving is one of the few occasions left, in our fanatically kinder-centric culture, to honor the elderly. Picture the famous Norman Rockwell illustration “Freedom From Want” — at the Thanksgiving table grandpa and grandma have pride of place. No wonder the day gets short shrift.

And then there is all that over-the-river-and-through-the-woods business, which in our day means a choice between stripping for the nice TSA agent or creeping along I-95. Thanksgiving is the official holiday of planes, trains and automobiles. What the modern travel experience lacks in charm it makes up for with sheer ordeal. And what’s the payoff for all this effort? A chance to make small talk with in-laws.

The Food Network may be the only institution in America unapologetically boosting the holiday. For weeks, the cable channel’s programming is packed with turkey tutorials, stuffing suggestions and investigations into the mysteries of cranberry sauce. But Food Network’s programming is less an indication of popular enthusiasm for Thanksgiving than a measure of the fear the holiday engenders. Hostesses know that they will be judged on the juiciness of their turkey, the cooking of which is an exotic undertaking chanced but once a year. And the result must be achieved while juggling a half-dozen side dishes, all the while making the above-mentioned small talk.

None of which would be so daunting if the day meant more to us. Could it be we’ve lost our capacity for gratitude? A successful harvest occasioned thanks back when it was all that stood between us and a long, cold, hungry winter. But now we’re divorced from the seasonal rhythms of the farm, where the harvest is celebrated as the payoff of all the year’s labors. Even in the midst of this Great Repression we enjoy perpetual plenty. What resonance does a cornucopia have to people who have come to expect ripe blackberries in February? If anything,money clips we should be more grateful, but that’s not our nature. Anything we struggle for, we hold dear; anything that comes easy, we take for granted.

Not only don’t we celebrate the astonishing abundance that is our good fortune, we whine and moan about how it makes us fat. Lydia Maria Child’s poem ends, appropriately enough, with dessert: “Is the pudding done? / Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!” A version for our time would read, “Is the pudding sugar-free?” And if that weren’t enough to squeeze the pleasure from the day, no modern Thanksgiving is complete without a college student home from school, lecturing the family on the cruelty of meat. (To which the only appropriate response is: “Does that mean you don’t want the drumstick?”) That same sophomore is also likely to bemoan the grim fate of the Native Americans who made the strategic mistake of helping the Pilgrims avoid starvation. In some circles, Thanksgiving is second only to Columbus Day as an occasion for grieving.

There will be plenty of time next month for all the secular manifestations of Christmas: shopping, trimming the tree, shopping, mugs of frothing Tom & Jerry, shopping, and watching Ralphie get his Red Ryder BB-gun and Clarence get his wings. Oh, and yes, shopping. But before we break out the ornaments and dust off the Vince Guaraldi soundtrack, let’s make the most of autumn and its particular pleasures. Jump in a pile of leaves. Savor the waning daylight. And go ahead. Week after next, eat that second slice of pumpkin pie –pendants just be thankful for it.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection christmas gift issued the following press release:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials at Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport complex seized 860 boxes of drug paraphernalia arriving from China in a sea container. The domestic value of the shipment is estimated to be more than $2.6 million.

It is illegal to import, export or sale any type of drug paraphernalia in the United States. On November 17, CBP officers seized 316,068 pieces of drug paraphernalia, which were being imported to the United States.

“CBP is devoted to prevent the entry of drugs and drug paraphernalia from entering the money clips United States,” said Jeannette Lewis, CBP acting director of Field Operations. “These are 316,068 pieces of drug paraphernalia which will not make it to the streets,” Lewis added.

CBP has a multi-layer approach to target containers inbound to the United States.

This particular shipment was selected for inspection before the shipment arrived from overseas. The commodity was described as glass figures and Christmas ornaments but the highly decorated glass pipes did not fool CBP officials. Drug pipes and bongs tend to be very decorative with bright colors and designs to attract young people.

The term paraphernalia refers to any equipment, product or material of any kind, which is pendants primarily intended or designed for use in introducing into the human body a controlled substance. The items will be destroyed.For more information please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.