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As of Monday 09 September 2013, Question Time will now include 15 minutes of topical questions at the end of each Minister's Question Time period. The Business Office receive names of Members who wish to ask a topical question and then run a ballot and random shuffle to produce a list of the 10 Member's that will have the opportunity to ask a topical question, and the order in which they will be asked in the chamber.
The list of members who will be asking a topical question on a particular day is available below. The questions themselves are not available before Plenary but can be found in the Official Report (which is normally published fully at some stage the following day) or can be viewed on the Question Time video page (which is normally updated the following day).

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Launched in 2016, the SL-1200G combined Technics' traditional analogue technology and advanced digital technology. Its outstanding performance literally rocked the hi-fi market and redefined the reference for direct-drive turntables.
Parts from the SL-1200G were newly developed to create the SL-1200GR, such as the coreless direct-drive motor and precise motor control technology, high-rigidity platter and high-sensitivity tonearm. This ensures audio enthusiasts using the SL-1200GR can enjoy music with the rich, robust sound of analogue records.
Coreless Direct-Drive Motor Achieving Stable Rotation
Unlike belt-drive and other systems, direct-drive systems rotate the motor at low speed and directly drive the platter. This concept provides numerous advantages, such as the almost complete absence of degradation in S/N ratio due to motor vibration and deceleration mechanisms, as well as high reliability over a long period of time because of not requiring parts replacement.
In 2016, Technics developed the twin-rotor, surface-facing, coreless direct-drive motor with rotor magnets placed on both sides, eliminating the rotation irregularity of the motor, referred to as "cogging," which was a unique issue for direct-drive systems. This motor was adopted for the SL-1200G, which once again drew a significant response in the hi-fi market. The SL-1200GR inherits the same design philosophy with the new development of a single-rotor, surface-facing, coreless direct-drive motor, resulting in the elimination of cogging.
The SL-1200GR's rotation control, which verifies and corrects the precision of the motor, uses the latest motor control technology cultivated in the development of Blu-ray devices, just as that used by the SL-1200G. In addition, the electrical circuitry has been tuned to ensure the newly developed motor of the SL-1200GR achieves maximum performance.
Turntable Platter —Pursuing Rigidity and Vibration Damping Characteristics
The platter achieves high-rigidity and vibration-damping characteristics by using a two-layer construction with deadening rubber applied to the entire rear surface of the aluminum die-cast. This eliminates the unnecessary resonance that is otherwise relayed to the record, thereby producing clear sound.
To increase the inertial mass and to reduce vibration, the shape of the aluminum die-cast portion was optimised by simulation. At 2.5kg (including the rubber mat), the SL-1200GR platter is 0.8kg heavier than that of the previous SL-1200MK5. Also, the back surface of the platter features strengthening ribs to improve rigidity. Increasing the surface area of contact with the deadening rubber achieves damping characteristics that are more than twice as good as those of the SL-1200MK5.
Tonearm Achieving High Initial-Motion Sensitivity
The tonearm tracks the rotation of the record and enables reading with high precision. The tonearm inherited by Technics is the traditionally used static-balance universal S-shaped tonearm, employing an aluminum pipe with excellent light weight and rigidity for the material of the tonearm pipe.
With its gimbal suspension construction, the tonearm bearing section of the SL-1200GR uses a cut-processed housing that employs high-precision bearings, as in the SL-1200G. The high initial-motion sensitivity of 5mg or less is achieved through manual assembly and adjustment by skilled Japanese artisans. This enables the grooves etched into the records to be accurately traced.
Gold-plated phono terminals and ground terminals for detachable cables are provided below the tonearm, so a wide variety of cables can be selected. Also, the use of metal shielding construction inside the case reduces the effects of external noise.
High-rigidity Body and High-damping Silicon Insulators for Beautiful Sound and Isolation from Various Vibrations
The SL-1200GR ensures high-rigidity by using a body with a two-layered construction solidly unifying the BMC and the aluminum die-cast chassis.
For the insulators supporting the body, as with the SL-1200G, the SL-1200GR uses special silicon rubber that ensures both high vibration damping characteristics and long-term reliability. Vibration in the horizontal direction is absorbed by reinforcement with cylindrical tubes using microcell polymers. While inheriting the technology of the SL-1200G, the insulators have been modified to specifically suit the characteristics of the SL-1200GR.
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Coreless Direct Drive Motor
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Construction for Vibration Tolerance
High-dampening Turntable Platter
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Inherited SL-1200 Series
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Type: Direct Drive Manual Turntable
Turntable Speeds: 33 1/3, 45, 78 r/min
Adjust Range: ±8%, ±16%
Starting Torque: 2.2 kg・cm (1.91 lb-in)
Build-up Characteristics: 0.7 s. from standstill to 33 1/3 r/min
Wow and Flutter: 0.025% W.R.M.S.
Rumble: 78dB (IEC 98A Weighted)
Turntable Platter: Aluminum die-cast
Diameter:332mm (13-5/64")
Weight:Approx. 2.5kg (5.5 lb) (Including rubber sheet)
Tonearm Section
Type: Universal, Static Balance
Effective Length: 230mm (9-1/16")
Overhang: 15mm (19/32")
Tracking Error Angle:
Within 2° 32' (at the outer groove of 30cm (12") record)
Within 0° 32' (at the inner groove of 30cm (12") record)
Offset Angle: 22° • Arm Height Adjustment Range: 0 - 6mm
Stylus Pressure Adjustment Range: 0 - 4g (Direct Reading)
Head Shell Weight: Approx. 7.6g
Applicable Cartridge Weight Range:
[without auxiliary weight] 5.6 - 12.0g (14.3 - 20.7g (including head shell))
[with auxiliary weight] 10.0 - 16.4g (18.7 - 25.1g (including head shell))
Cartridge Mounting Dimension: JIS 12.7mm, interval
Head Shell Terminal Lug: 1.2mmφ 4-pin terminal lug
Audio Output: PHONO (Pin Jack) x 1, EARTH TERMINAL x 1
Dimensions (W x H x D): 453 x 173 x 372 mm (17-27/32 × 6-13/16 × 14-21/32 inch)
Weight: Approx. 11.2kg (Approx. 24.7lbs)


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Afghans and U.S. citizens continue to leave Afghanistan's capital in droves after the Taliban takeover and amid looming security threats. The U.S. is playing a role not only in mass evacuations but also in mass vaccination efforts, too.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has opened a COVID-19 vaccination site near Dulles International Airport in Virginia, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday, according to The Associated Press.
The site, which offers the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, has reportedly already started vaccinating Afghans. It has State Department interpreters available to answer questions.
The federal government also reportedly has opened a mobile vaccination unit at Dulles to administer shots to American citizens and green card holders arriving from Afghanistan.
Dulles has been the only point of entry for evacuees so far, with thousands arriving there daily. Civilian flights with refugees are set to begin arriving in Philadelphia as soon as Friday, and a senior Biden administration official told the AP a second mass vaccination site is expected at Philadelphia International Airport in the coming days. The official was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
What happens when evacuees reach the U.S.
Thousands of Afghans and Afghan U.S. citizens have arrived this month through Dulles via places such as Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Germany, Spain and Bulgaria. Grant Neely, a spokesperson for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, put that number at 8,600 on Wednesday.
Arriving evacuees are tested for the coronavirus and isolated if they test positive. U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who test negative are allowed to go home.
Just 11 of the 900 Afghan evacuees who were tested on Tuesday appeared to be infected with the virus, Neely said, according to the AP.
Afghans are taken to the Dulles Expo Center, then to military bases in Virginia, Texas, Wisconsin and New Jersey for processing.
There, they undergo health screenings and get help applying for work authorization and other services, Reuters reported. The processing can take anywhere from one day to one week, at which point Afghans get connected with U.S. resettlement organizations.
Virginia officials confirmed Friday that vaccination clinics are set up but said they are not being widely used.
"These people are just coming out of a war zone," Northam said. "They're landing in a new country. And so I think a lot of it is going to be educational. I don't think this is something you just automatically want to say, 'You need to get a shot.' So we're trying to at least handle some of these individuals with respect and, you know, kid gloves, rather than saying, 'Do this, do that.' "
Just 0.58% of Afghanistan's population is fully vaccinated, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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End-of-Life Care: National Discussion and Debate Series
Rising budget deficits have become a principal concern of the American people in recent months, and are already a cause célèbre for politicians in both parties ahead of this year's midterm elections. Yet the current round of health care negotiations has largely sidestepped one of the most costly elements in health spending: end-of-life patient care.
Resolved: The United States must ration costly end-of-life care
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Arthur Caplan is the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Director of the Center for Bioethics and the Sydney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. The Associate Director of the Hastings Center from 1984 to 1987, Caplan also taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia. Caplan has written or edited 29 books, including Smart Mice Not So Smart People (2006) and the Penn Guide to Bioethics (2009), and over 500 journal papers.
Ira Byock is Director of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Professor at Dartmouth Medical School. He is a past president (1997) of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He served previously as Director for Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care (1996-2006), a national grant program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Byock is the author of numerous books and articles on the ethics and practice of hospice, palliative and end-of-life care, including Dying Well (1997) and The Four Things That Matter Most (2004).
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Ken Connor is Chairman of The Center for a Just Society, and a board certified civil trial attorney affiliated with the law firm of Marks Balette & Giessel, P.C., which represents victims of nursing home abuse and neglect. He served as President of the Family Research Council from 2000 to 2003. Connor was the lead attorney representing Gov. Jeb Bush in defense of "Terri's Law," the legislation named for Terri Schiavo. Connor is the author of Sinful Silence: When Christians Neglect Their Civic Duty (2004).
Marie Hilliard is Director of Bioethics and Public Policy at the National Catholic Bioethics Center. She served two terms as an elected president of both the Connecticut League for Nursing and the Statewide Steering Committee of the Coalition to Improve End-of-Life Care. She is the former Chair of the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Hilliard holds graduate degrees in Maternal-Child Health Nursing, Religious Studies, Canon Law and Professional Higher Education Administration.
Susan Dentzer is Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs, the nation's leading peer-reviewed journal focused on the intersection of health, health care and health policy. Before joining Health Affairs in 2009, Dentzer was on-air Health Correspondent for PBS NewsHour. She also served as Chief Economics Correspondent and Economics Columnist for U.S. News & World Report, and as a senior writer at Newsweek. Dentzer chairs the Board of Directors of the Global Health Council, the largest membership organization of groups involved in global health.


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Why does crime occur?
Crime occurs when there is a crime triangle consisting of: desire, ability and opportunity. A person may "want" to commit a crime, and have the "ability" to commit a crime. Our goal is to deny them the "opportunity", when opportunity is taken away, then no crime can be committed. There are steps that can be taken by public safety as well as the college community to prevent crime.
Crime prevention is defined as "the anticipation, the recognition, and the appraisal of a crime risk and implementation of steps to decrease or eliminate it. Crime prevention is the responsibility of the entire Suffolk County Community College college community. Each member of the college community is an extra set of ears and eyes. Any incident observed by any member of the college community should be reported immediately to a patrol unit or by call Public Safety. To aid the reporting of emergencies or incidents on campus, the college has "Safe Haven" emergency telephones inside and outside the buildings and blue light phones along walkways to parking fields. All patrol vehicles have the number to their campuses public safety office, see home page for phone numbers and locations.
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The political civil war that has gripped Wisconsin since Republican Gov. Scott Walker's 2010 election will intensify next week when Democrats pick a candidate to post up against the governor in a historic recall election in June.
Tuesday's Democratic gubernatorial primary has developed into a two-person race between Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who lost to Walker in the GOP landslide of 2010, and former County Executive Kathleen Falk, the favorite of the state's public employee unions.
New survey results released Wednesday in the Marquette University Law School Poll indicate that Barrett has widened his lead over Falk, 38 percent to 21 percent. A similar poll a month ago showed Barrett with a 7 percentage point lead over Falk. Secretary of State Doug La Follette and state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout are also running.
The survey shows Barrett and Walker in a dead heat in a hypothetical head-to-head general election matchup. Walker leads Falk 49 to 43 percent among likely voters in a similar matchup, the Marquette survey found.
"There is a familiarity with Barrett, with his run for governor in 2010," says Mike Gousha, a distinguished fellow in law and public policy at Marquette and host of the political program UpFront on Milwaukee's WISN-TV.
"He's tried to position himself as the candidate who can beat Scott Walker, and has been careful in how he's positioned himself in the more controversial issues," including union bargaining rights, Gousha says.
It's a strategy that appears to be working for Barrett, whose rise has made him the lone Democratic target of a barrage of negative ads from the Republican Governors Association as well as from Walker's campaign, which this week reported raking in more than $13 million since mid-January.
And it's a strategy that appears in sync with concerns of state Democrats.
All About Jobs
Among the poll's more surprising findings is that the issue that led to the recall efforts against Walker and a handful of Republican legislators — their rollback of public union collective bargaining rights — ranks low in the order of issues important to Democratic primary voters.
Falk — former executive of Dane County, which includes the state capital of Madison — has said that if elected, she would veto any budget that did not include the restoration of collective bargaining. Barrett has been more circumspect, talking more generally about a special session to reconsider the issue.
Nearly half of Democrats polled in the Marquette survey said that creating new jobs tops their priority list. A quarter cited defeating Walker as their most important issue, and 14 percent said they are most interested in reducing political divisions in the state.
Just 12 percent picked "restoring collective bargaining rights for public employees" as their top issue.
Those sentiments appear to be what's driving Democrats' move to Barrett, who is not a union favorite, as well as Walker's singular focus on the Milwaukee mayor.
Restrained Campaign
One of the state Democratic Party's gravest concerns going into Tuesday's contested primary was the potential for self-destruction.
And state Democrats held their collective breath recently when Wisconsin's largest public employee union falsely accused Barrett of providing Republicans a blueprint to undermine union rights.
Would AFSCME's promotion of an online video attacking Barrett, which used stitched-together audio, shatter the party's effort not to destroy itself in its fervor to recall Walker?
The answer, it turned out, was a fairly emphatic "no."
Under pressure, AFSCME, among Falk's most ardent backers, said it used "poor judgment" in the clip job. And the race moved on.
The incident is notable in that it was about as close to ugly as the Democratic primary contest has gotten.
"Democrats writ large have worked very hard to keep the race from becoming openly nasty," says Jeff Mayers of the state's go-to political website, WisPolitics.com. "There have been sharp elbows and jabs, but not an all-out shooting war on TV."
While Barrett leads comfortably in the polls, Mayers and others offer a caution that primaries can be tricky beasts. "Primaries are difficult to poll," Mayers says. "There can be large shifts, and things can break late."
Boucha says that the personable Barrett has done a good job lining up political endorsements, including popular Sen. Herb Kohl and former Rep. Dave Obey. But Falk, he says, enjoys the enthusiasm and passion of the public employee unions, as well as environmental and women's groups.
"The question is: What is a political endorsement worth?" Mayers says. "The same as the Wisconsin teachers union that has resources and can get people out to vote?"
Both Falk and Barrett ran unsuccessfully for their party's gubernatorial nomination in 2002.
Historic Recall, Historic Money
Whoever emerges Tuesday as the Democratic nominee will enter a recall race that will rewrite advertising and spending history.
"Other states may draw more advertising dollars because they're bigger," says Ken Goldstein, president of the Campaign Media Analysis Group at Kantar Media. "But in the history of political advertising there's never, ever been anything like this."
"The state of Wisconsin this year will get more political ad impressions on television than any state has ever gotten. Ever. Period," says Goldstein, on leave from the University of Wisconsin's political science department.
And in a state that is so bitterly divided, those ads and that money will be aimed at a tiny percentage of Wisconsin voters who haven't yet made up their minds.
"It is phenomenally polarized, and there are relatively few swing voters," Goldstein says. "There will be a massive amount of advertising targeting a few voters."
"This is completely uncharted territory," he says.
The Marquette poll found that Wisconsin voters are highly engaged in the political process, but the ongoing conflict has taken a toll. Among those surveyed, 29 percent said they'd stopped talking about politics with someone owing to "disagreements over the recall or the governor."
As for Democrats looking toward Tuesday's primary? Liberal blogger Lisa Muxworthy said this: "It's really all about Scott Walker in the end. We want to make sure we get the right person, but we all know it's about getting Scott Walker out."
There will be bruised egos and hard feelings after Tuesday's primary, Mayers predicts, but Democrats will have to rally if they want to recall Walker in the June 5 election.
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.


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These days, colorful CBD gummies are the trendiest cannabidiol.
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When it comes to managing daily stressors, people appreciate the positive effects of CBD oil gummies and other edibles. Consumers can now pick and choose between tasty gummies, sugar-free gummies, protein bars, and dried fruit. Just make sure all of your CBD merchandise is third-party tested and comes from a dependable supplier in the U.S.
Once you have your bases covered, you can sit back and relax. It's easy to enjoy delicious CBD sweets and eats such as Blueberry Raspberry Rings and other CBD edibles.
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Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Finally Gets an American Home
Boeing Corporation delivered its newest baby to United Airlines last week, representing the first 787 Dreamliner owned by an American airline, and the first in North America. The milestone also represented the 25th Dreamliner delivered since Boeing gave the first set of keys to the Japanese carrier ANA exactly one year ago.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Hitches a Ride to its Retirement Home
The successful working life of the space shuttle Endeavour officially ended in May of 2011 when it completed its final space mission, but today that finality sunk in as it took to the skies for the last time on a final joyride across the skies of California. It took off this morning flying piggyback atop a specially fitted Boeing 747 from Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert for a showoff tour before landing at Los Angeles International Airport four hours later. Thousands of Californians Read more [...]
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Britain's Most Expensive House For Sale
For the discriminating buyer who has an extra half a billion dollars lying around, a once in a lifetime opportunity has just arisen in London. The luxury home located at number 2 Rutland Gardens has gone on the market for $486 million and change, offered by the estate of Sultan bin Abdulaziz, crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Formerly owned by Lebanon Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, it was given as a gift to the Saudi prince upon Hariri's assassination in 2005.
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Private Flights at 62 Miles Above the Earth?
We've all heard about the futuristic concept of private rocket travel and have wondered if such a thing could be safe and available in our lifetimes. Well, get ready because the future is now. As NASA has closed down its space shuttle program, media attention is now focusing on the private companies that have plans in place to carry passengers into space. Most of the companies will be carrying scientific cargo as their payload, but each of our examples below also will welcome paying passengers Read more [...]
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Amelia Earhart's Plane Finally Found?
Researchers think it's likely they've finally found her. Since she went missing 75 years ago, the mystery of Amelia Earhart has remained unsolved. On July 2, 1937, during the first attempted around-the-world flight by a woman pilot, Earhart's Lockheed Electra vanished just before she was scheduled to land on tiny Howell Island in the South Pacific. After a final radio transmission stating her nearby location, she and her navigator Fred Noonan were never heard from again. Speculation Read more [...]
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Amazing New Penthouse Suite at Hotel George V in Paris
Perhaps unlike any other city, thoughts of Paris tend to flip on our inner dream switch, allowing our minds to instantly transport us there, whether we've never been or we just want to return. It makes no difference. The City of Lights offers over 2000 years of history, architecture and art packaged like a beautiful gift wrapped with a big bow waiting to opened. And for those who can afford to make those dreams come true, the quintessential place to stay in Paris is the elegant Four Seasons Read more [...]
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Trine Enchanted Edition is a new version of the original Trine, remade using the Trine 2 engine. It includes 15 challenging and carefully designed levels, each with a distinctly unique atmosphere and visual style, and also brings the long desired online gameplay with up to three players.
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I recently noticed that my pvp kills aren't registering on the pvp stats, but instead is registering on the AI stats even though I've been killing troops/units of real active players.
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This month, Black Press Media has teamed up with Make-A-Wish and BraveFace to help grant wishes, one mask purchase at a time. Here's one wish that was granted through the Make-A-Wish B.C. and Yukon chapter…
"I wish to have a horse riding gear shopping spree" – January 2017
Sometimes the most deserving people are the last to accept help or an exciting opportunity for fear of taking it away from others. Hillary, 17, was one of them.
Hillary knew all about about The Make-A-Wish Foundation. She knew, as a child living with Cystic Fibrosis that she qualified for a wish. Yet she declined the opportunity on several occasions.
That all changed two years ago. Hillary's mother passed away, bringing about a shift in the teen's perspective about her life. The next time she was asked if she would like to be referred to Make-A-Wish, her answer turned into a yes.
Hillary makes the trek from her home in the Okanagan to Vancouver four times a year for hospital visits. In between, she seeks out her own therapies to manage her Cystic Fibrosis, and horse back riding is her favourite.
A self-described "horse nut." Hillary can be found riding up to five days a week. Hillary's father, Tim, sees it as essential to maintaining her health.
"She probably spends five days a week with her horse in Kelowna," said Tim. "Horses have been really good for Hillary. They are very therapeutic, both physically and mentally."
Hillary didn't take long to settle on her wish: A horse riding gear shopping spree. The Lower Mainland community of Langley answered the Make-A-Wish Foundation's call for assistance, putting together not just a shopping spree (which included a beautiful custom saddle, pictured on the back of her horse, Zoe), but also a Vancouver hotel stay, limousine ride and a private riding lesson with renowned dressage rider and coach Wendy Christoff at High Point Equestrian.
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I've got around 8-10 fire ant mounds in my backyard, and a puppy that has recently discovered a love for digging in them. We haven't let her out in the backyard unsupervised for the past week since the weather started warming up and the ants are now active.
I tried using Spectracide Fire Ant Killer Mound Destroyer a few days ago. It kind of worked. I followed the directions to the letter, and waited for the ensuing ant apocalypse. As of today when I checked on the ant mounds most of the ants were dead, but there were a few dozen survivors milling around when I poked a stick in half the mounds. The Spectracide claims to kill the entire colony and the queen in 24 hours. :/ Does anyone have a better product to recommend, or another method of killing them? I'd prefer something that's relatively pet-safe, since the ultimate goal is to let our dog roam free in the fenced backyard.
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In North Carolina, all the public educational institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees are part of the University of North Carolina. The multi-campus state university encompasses 16 such institutions, as well as the NC School of Science and Mathematics, the nation's first public residential high school for gifted students.
The University of North Carolina, chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1789, was the first public university in the United States to open its doors, and the only one to graduate students in the 18th century. The first class was admitted in Chapel Hill in 1795. For the next 136 years, the only campus of the University of North Carolina was at Chapel Hill.
In 1877, the General Assembly began sponsoring additional institutions of higher education, diverse in origin and purpose. Five were historically black institutions and another was founded to educate American Indians. Several were created to prepare teachers for the public schools. Others had a technological emphasis. One is a training school for performing artists.
The 1931 session of the General Assembly redefined the University of North Carolina to include three state-supported institutions: the campus at Chapel Hill (now the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), North Carolina State College (now North Carolina State University at Raleigh), and Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). The new multi-campus University operated with one board of trustees and one president. By 1969, three additional campuses had joined the University through legislative action: the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
In 1971, the General Assembly passed bringing into the University of North Carolina the state's ten remaining public senior institutions, each of which had until then been legally separate: Appalachian State University, East Carolina University, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, North Carolina Central University, the North Carolina School of the Arts (now the University of North Carolina School of the Arts), Pembroke State University (now the University of North Carolina at Pembroke), Western Carolina University, and Winston-Salem State University. In 1985, the NC School of Science and Mathematics was declared an affiliated school of the University, and in July 2007, the school became a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina. All the schools and universities welcome students of both sexes and all races.
The UNC Board of Governors is the policy-making body legally charged with "the general determination, control, supervision, management, and governance of all affairs of the constituent institutions." It elects the president, who administers the University. The 32 voting members of the Board of Governors are elected by the General Assembly for four-year terms. Former board chairmen and board members who are former governors of North Carolina may continue to serve for limited periods as non-voting members emeriti. The president of the UNC Association of Student Governments or that student's designee is also a non-voting member.
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Canadians think a retirement of their dreams is out of reach
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TORONTO, Jan. 18 /CNW/ - Nearly all Canadians (90 per cent) feel they will have enough income to cover their necessities in retirement but only one-in-four Canadians (25 per cent) feel they will have enough money to fulfill their retirement dreams, according to the 20th Annual RBC RRSP Poll.
The poll found that most retired Canadians (75 per cent) didn't know how much they spent in their first year of retirement, virtually unchanged from 2008 (76 per cent). Those who know how much they spent had lower costs in their first year of retirement, having spent close to $35,000, down from $51,000 in 2008. However, half of these respondents (52 per cent) said they spent more than expected, up from 46 per cent in 2008.
"How much money you'll need in retirement depends on how you'll be spending your time, with many Canadians underestimating the amount they will need," said Lee Anne Davies, head, Retirement Strategies, RBC Royal Bank. "Financial planning is more than just number crunching and your retirement is not a single phase of your life, but a series of stages. A personalized financial plan can look at options to make your nest egg last and help ensure your retirement needs and dreams are met."
When thinking about retirement, the study found that Canadians who have not retired were most worried about having enough savings (48 per cent), while only 29 per cent of retirees had this concern. Both pre-retirees and retirees are concerned about maintaining their standard of living (40 per cent). Retirees are also more likely to be worried about healthcare (33 per cent) than pre-retirees (28 per cent).
"All of these concerns are valid. Whether retired or not, your life will be somewhat unpredictable at times and you need to be ready when life throws you a curve ball. This is where having a plan can provide peace of mind - you'll know you've considered the unexpected and you've taken the steps to save for your retirement," said Davies.
These are some of the findings the RBC 20th Annual RBC Poll conducted by Ipsos Reid between October 21 and November 2, 2009. For this survey, a national sample of 1,457 adults from Ipsos' Canadian online panel was interviewed online. Weighting was then employed to balance demographics and ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. A survey with an unweighted probability sample of this size and a 100 per cent response rate would have an estimated margin of error of +/-2.56 percentage points 19 times out of 20 of what the results would have been had the entire population of adults in Canada been polled. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to coverage error, and measurement error.
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Mechanical Problems Continue to Slow the Mars Lander
June 11, 2008
No one said it would be easy to conduct scientific experiments robotically on Mars. And in fact the Phoenix Mars Lander continues to run into nagging problems. What's very interesting is how engineers working with scientists on Earth are developing workarounds to solve the problems. It's engineering at its best, and it reminds me a little of the steps taken on the ill-fated Apollo 13, although the Mars mission is not life-or-death.
In the latest problem, soil dumped on a screen is clumping, and not passing through to analysis equipment, even after vibration. Engineers decided to employ a motorized rasp on the scoop that was actually designed to dig out granite-like ice below the polar surface. Tests show that the scoop, when tilted, does drop fine particles of soil while it is being vibrated by the rasp. Previously, the scoop was just dumped outside down, dumping the soil.
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SYRACUSE, N .Y. (AP) — Normally a team that lives and dies beyond the arc, Syracuse showed it can play an inside game, too.
The Orange, in need of a quality win, beat a ranked team for the first time in a year, dominating No. 16 Virginia Tech 78-60 on Saturday.
Quincy Guerrier had 20 points, Marek Dolezaj added 18 and Alan Griffin had 15 points, 10 rebounds and a career-high seven blocks for his fourth double-double of the season to lead Syracuse (9-4, 3-3 Atlantic Coast Conference).
The win snapped a three-game winning streak for the Hokies (11-3, 5-2), who entered the game winners of seven of their last eight. Nahiem Alleyne led Virginia Tech with a season-tying-high 20 points. Tyrece Radford had 10. The Hokies leading scorer, Keve Aluma, had just two.
Sixty-four of Syracuse's points came in the lane or at the free throw line. The Orange took a season-low 13 3-point shots, making only four, but outscored the Hokies 46-24 inside the paint and hit 18 of 22 foul shots.
"We wanted to drive in on their center and make him play defense on Marek," Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. "When we got a mismatch, we got Quincy down in low. That's what we wanted to do there."
The strategy worked to perfection, as did Syracuse's execution on defense. The Orange held the Hokies to 20-of-61 shooting for the game and just 8 of 29 from 3, including 2 of 12 from beyond the arc in the second half.
"The defense was the difference," said Boeheim, whose team gave up 64 second-half points in an ugly loss at Pitt a week ago but has rallied with excellent defensive performances in its last two games. He singled out Griffin for his "phenomenal play" on the defensive end.
Syracuse has a daunting task, hitting the road for a Monday night contest at No. 13 Virginia, but the significance of a resume-building win wasn't lost on the Orange, who lost at Rutgers in early December when the Scarlet Knights were ranked No. 21.
"This was huge for us," Dolezaj said. "We needed to beat somebody good."
The Orange held a 40-34 lead at the half but took control in the final 20 minutes. Virginia Tech closed to 47-44 on a lay-in by David N'Guessan with 13:45 to go, then Syracuse outscored the Hokies 31-9 to build its biggest lead of the game at 78-53.
"Their zone was good today," said Virginia Tech coach Mike Young. "It bothered us, (but) we got the ball where we wanted. You've got to put the thing in the basket, there's no great secrets I don't care what kind of defense you're playing against, and we didn't do enough of that today."
"To be honest, I felt like we had great looks," Alleyne said. "We just weren't making shots today. That happens."
Syracuse freshman Kadary Richmond played just 15 minutes but chipped in with 13 points on 5-of-6 shooting.
Keve Aluma leads the Hokies in scoring at 14.8 points per game but had just two points. He was 1-for-10 from the field after going 1 for 6 and scoring just five points in a four-point win at Wake Forest the previous game last Sunday.
Nahiem Alleyne had 17 points, including five 3-pointers, at the break, but had just three points in the second half.
"I really couldn't get a rhythm," Alleyne said. "It was a tough one."
Virginia Tech: The Hokies were as cold as the Syracuse weather, but the game is probably just a bump in the road considering the way the team has been playing.
"It's always a concern winning away from home," Young said. "It's something you've got to do if you expect to compete and be at the top of your league, any league. Time will tell. I think we're OK there."
Syracuse: The Orange really needed this game and seem to be gaining momentum after two solid wins. If Guerrier, Doezaj and Griffin maintain their consistency, Syracuse has a chance to close strong.
Virginia Tech: Plays three of the next four games on the road, heads to South Bend on Wednesday for a matchup against Notre Dame.
Syracuse: Travels to No. 13 Virginia on Monday for the Orange's second straight contest against a ranked opponent.
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Pets can be real characters.
They all have their little oddities about them that most of the time we write off as just funny or absurd. But there is a common oddity which many animals do that is actually a sign of a larger problem.
It's called "head pressing" and it is where an animal goes up to a wall and presses their head against it because they are trying to alleviate a pain they can't see to reach.
While this may look cute or odd, it's really a serious problem.
Cancer, diseases, and certain poisons may cause an animal to engage in head pressing.
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The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth, well outside the Milky Way's spiral disk. New research shows that half of those stars might have been ripped from another galaxy: the Sagittarius dwarf.
Moreover, they are members of a lengthy stream of stars extending one million light-years across space, or 10 times the width of our galaxy.
"The star streams that have been mapped so far are like creeks compared to the giant river of stars we predict will be observed eventually," says lead author Marion Dierickx of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
SEE ALSO: Astronomers Just Spotted a Massive Galaxy Orbiting the Milky Way
The Sagittarius dwarf is one of dozens of mini-galaxies that surround the Milky Way. Over the age of the universe it made several loops around our galaxy. On each passage, the Milky Way's gravitational tides tugged on the smaller galaxy, pulling it apart like taffy.
Dierickx and her PhD advisor, Harvard theorist Avi Loeb, used computer models to simulate the movements of the Sagittarius dwarf over the past 8 billion years. They varied its initial velocity and angle of approach to the Milky Way to determine what best matched current observations.
"The starting speed and approach angle have a big effect on the orbit, just like the speed and angle of a missile launch affects its trajectory," explains Loeb.
At the beginning of the simulation, the Sagittarius dwarf weighed about 10 billion times the mass of our Sun, or about one percent of the Milky Way's mass. Dierickx's calculations showed that over time, the hapless dwarf lost about a third of its stars and a full nine-tenths of its dark matter. This resulted in three distinct streams of stars that reach as far as one million light-years from the Milky Way's center. They stretch all the way out to the edge of the Milky Way halo and display one of the largest structures observable on the sky.
Moreover, five of the 11 most distant stars in our galaxy have positions and velocities that match what you would expect of stars stripped from the Sagittarius dwarf. The other six do not appear to be from Sagittarius, but might have been removed from a different dwarf galaxy.
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Mapping projects like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have charted one of the three streams predicted by these simulations, but not to the full extent that the models suggest. Future instruments like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which will detect much fainter stars across the sky, should be able to identify the other streams.
"More interlopers from Sagittarius are out there just waiting to be found," says Dierickx.
The report can be found at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.00089.pdf
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Mississippi 4-H members keep fun traditions alive
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Mississippi 4-H competitions continue to help "make the best better" more than a century after the first corn clubs for boys and tomato clubs for girls were formed in the state.
Hundreds of 4-H members converged on Mississippi State University for three days of competitions, workshops, tours and entertainment from May 31 to June 2.
"Similar annual events have taken place since the first co-ed gathering in 1924. Before that, Mississippi held separate meetings for boys and girls," said Paula Threadgill, associate director of the MSU Extension Service. "Old publications revealed that the early state meetings lasted as long as 10 days, which is truly amazing to us now."
The 2017 State 4-H Congress included contests on a wide variety of subjects. About 30 percent of Mississippi's 4-H members focus on healthy lifestyle education. Other major project areas involve animal science, personal development and leadership, and wildlife, forestry, shooting sports and sport fishing.
"Early 4-H clubs focused on livestock and crops for the boys and clothing and cooking for the girls," Threadgill said. "Projects are no longer gender-specific, and modern topics like science, technology, engineering and math attract a lot of interest."
While other states had earlier clubs similar to modern-day 4-H, Mississippi was the first state to receive federal money for youth clubs. This fact is the basis of the state's claim as the birthplace of 4-H.
Threadgill said W.H. "Corn Club" Smith was instrumental in forming Mississippi's first corn clubs.
"Corn Club Smith received a franking privilege and an annual salary of $1 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1907," she explained. "This was the first time the USDA had been involved in a youth program and established a three-way partnership of county, state and federal governments working together."
Threadgill said educating young people has always served a dual purpose by also reaching parents and extended family members of participating 4-H'ers.
"One of our historic publications, dated June 1918, reported that early boys' corn clubs in 1909 averaged two to four times more corn per acre than the farmers of the day, who averaged 14.5 bushels per acre," she said. "In 1917, farmers averaged 19.5 bushels per acre on their own, farmers working with county agents averaged 50 bushels per acre, and the corn club boys averaged just over 52 bushels per acre."
Threadgill said today's emphases on citizenship, leadership and community service are the strengths of the youth development program.
Extension professor Larry Alexander said the participants registered for this year's 4-H State Congress were as diverse as the projects offered, and that was what drew today's youth to the event.
"In the early days of 4-H, participation was largely from rural areas -- especially from farms -- around the state," Alexander said. "While most members today are from small towns, only about 6 percent actually live on farms. For the past several years, Mississippi's 4-H membership closely mirrors the demographics of the state."


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President Barack Obama is urging lawmakers to find common ground on a budget deal to avert a government shutdown and says he's willing to agree to steeper cuts to get there.
The president issued a call for compromise Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address but without offering any specifics on how to bridge the $50 billion gulf that divides the White House and Democratic budget proposal from the much steeper cuts offered by Republicans.
The competing plans are headed for test votes in the Senate in the coming week that neither is expected to survive but that will set the stage for further negotiations. The government is running on a stopgap spending bill that expires March 18, so the parties have until then to come up with a plan to pay for the remainder of the fiscal year through Sept. 30.
"We need to come together, Democrats and Republicans, around a long-term budget that sacrifices wasteful spending without sacrificing the job-creating investments in our future. My administration has already put forward specific cuts that meet congressional Republicans halfway. And I'm prepared to do more," said Obama, although the claim that Democrats are meeting Republicans halfway only stands up under the Democratic explanation of the intricate numbers game being played on Capitol Hill.
"But we'll only finish the job together — by sitting at the same table, working out our differences and finding common ground," the president said.
Facing a federal deficit of $1.6 trillion, Republican leaders are under pressure from tea partiers to stick to a deep menu of $61 billion in spending cuts for the remainder of this year that's been passed by the GOP-controlled House. But Obama has threatened to veto that plan, and a Democratic counteroffer of $6.5 billion in cuts — on top of $4 billion already signed into law — restores money the House GOP cuts from education, health and other programs.
Republicans used their weekly address to reject Obama's approach on the budget.
"You may have heard President Obama say that we need to make sure 'we're living within our means,'" freshman Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., said in the address. "He's right about that. Unfortunately, his budget doesn't match his words.
"It continues out-of-control spending, it adds to our $14 trillion debt and it adds to the uncertainty that makes it harder to create jobs. Maintaining the status quo — and refusing to offer a credible plan to cut spending — is just unacceptable and inexcusable," the lawmaker said.
"The American people want us to keep the government running while cutting its cost," Black said
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Hate dieting? Then this may be the best blog post you have ever read!
If you're one of those people who has always had trouble maintaining a healthy weight – you are most likely also one of those people who has tried every diet known to man. And yet, none of those has worked. Maybe none of these diets have worked because they are manmade diets instead of a nature-made diet. Maybe, just maybe, we are trying too hard when the answer to a healthy weight is to LISTEN to our body.
What is Intuitive Eating?
Simply put, intuitive eating is the practice of eating mindfully and without guilt or restrictions. There is no counting of calories or restricting certain foods. It is simply a commonsense approach to eating and living well. What?! No calorie counting and eating whatever you want? How can that possibly help a person lose and/or maintain a healthy weight? Well, because you're not listening to your mind but your body. Your mind can lie to you but your body always tells you the truth.
Here are some of the basic principles of intuitive eating:
It is NOT a Diet. Diets simply don't work because they are not sustainable. So the very first principle of intuitive eating is to completely throw away the idea of dieting.
Eat When You're Hungry
Diets don't work because they typically leave the person feeling deprived and hungry. This, in turn, usually triggers overeating. Intuitive eating relies on listening to your body's hunger cues. There will be a bit of trial and error at the beginning, as this is a new way of eating for most people. But once you begin to recognize your body's hunger signals, it becomes easier and easier to trust your instincts and rebuild your relationship with food.
Respect Your Fullness
The first step to eating intuitively is to eat only when you are hungry. This means NOT eating when you are sad, stressed, happy etc. The second step is to respect your stomach when it tells you it's full. Eating slowly and chewing your food well will help you to stop eating when those fullness signals begin.
Be Mindful
Many of us eat as if it's a chore. We get hungry, we warm up food, and then we scarf it down as if we are in a race. Remember, we want to completely rebuild our relationship with food. We want to respect the food we put into our body. Taste it, feel the texture in your mouth. Feel grateful for the farmers and people who helped get that food onto your plate. These are only some of the principles of intuitive eating, but they give you an idea of why this way of eating works so well. I encourage you to do a bit more research into this lifestyle and then try it for yourself. This may very well be the thing that helps you shed those unwanted pounds and keep them off FOR GOOD!


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Nowadays starting the repair of a bathroom may get into number of difficulties because inexpert buyer may be unable to make head or tail of sanitary equipment variety…
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Nowadays starting the repair of a bathroom may get into number of difficulties because inexpert buyer may be unable to make head or tail of sanitary equipment variety. There are a lot of different combination faucets, starting with standard functional models and up to design models which hardly can be named as sanitary equipment as they are objects of art. A lot of buyers consider combination faucet to be not only the hot and cold water mixing device but also one of the main elements of bathroom design. Industrial manufacturers continuously satisfy us with novelties which meet diversified tastes and needs of population and embody the boldest ideas of designers. So how can one choose the most suitable combination faucet?
First, you've got to remember the purpose of that purchase. Combination faucet is not just a bathroom decoration, so it shall function properly, i.e. to mix hot and cold water.
Number of combination faucets installed in the bathroom is important, too. It would be better to choose independent combination faucets for bathtub, shower, wash sink and bidet because combination of several functions by one combination faucet is not beneficial for the quality of their performance. If you have rather small bathroom and you don't have a shower cabin, then you may choose one combination faucet for bathtub and shower and one faucet for a wash sink.
Types of combination faucets according to places of installation
Combination faucets used for bathtub are usually with low tap, rotating or fixed. Combination faucets with hand spray and height-adjustable shower holders as well as wall-mounted combination faucets are usually used with bathtubs. Some models are equipped with electronic control system. There is one more difference of bathtub combination faucets: they are designed for three/four apertures. It looks like several handles – for filling of bathtub, for hand spray and so forth.
Bathtub and wash sink combination faucets are very much akin to bathroom combination faucets, but the buyers, when choosing the combination faucet, usually take notice of sanitary equipment compatibility in the bathroom but not of its technical features. There are models with special drainage set which is used to open or close the plug hole by a small lever placed on a combination faucet.
Wash sink combination faucets may be as well designed for one or several apertures though combination faucets designed for one aperture are much more popular because of their easy installation. In order to make your wash sink maintenance easier and more pleasant there are combination faucets equipped with special absorbing tap.
Bidet combination faucets are to the large extent similar to wash sink combination faucets, because in most cases they are installed on a skirting board and designed for one or three apertures. The difference is that the bidet set contains aerator with a ball joint enabling to change the jet direction and over-simplifying the use of combination faucet.


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'Dune' Is Not Coming Out in 2020
The spice will not flow. Not anytime soon, anyway.
The recent string of blockbuster delays continues, with word that Dune will not open as scheduled this December. Instead, you will have to wait almost an entire additional year to see it, as Warner Bros. has now slated the film for an October 2021 release. Giant sandworms got nothing on the coronavirus.
The film, directed by Denis Villeneuve and based on the landmark sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert, was planned as Warner Bros. big holiday film for 2020. It features an all-star cast including Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. But a move out of December was not entirely surprising, even before No Time to Die was pushed back to next spring and Cineworld announced it was closing all of its Regal Cinemas in the United States. Warner Bros. had already pushed back Wonder Woman 1984 to Christmas of 2020, and it seemed almost impossible that one studio would attempt to open two enormous films in this challenging economic environment. (They probably won't even open one.)
Besides Wonder Woman, the only other big movies still theoretically on the release calendar for 2020 are Soul on November 20, The Croods: A New Age one week later, and Death on the Nile and Free Guy in December. That's all that's left between us a second half of 2020 totally devoid of big films. What a disaster. Dune is now scheduled for release on October 1, 2021. The news was first reported by Collider.
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Making of..Leopards: The Last Stand
There is a significant amount of wildlife living outside our protected areas in our revenue lands. The lesser carnivores like mongoose are often ignored by people, however, when a large carnivore like a leopard stays in the scrub forest of the hills surrounding a village or an urban area they often come in contact with humans. Most of the times people fear these carnivores and due to this fear they undertake retaliatory killings and trappings.
331 Leopards died in 2012.
4052 Leopards poached and killed from 1994 till 2012. Four Thousand and Fifty Two. It seems we Indians are at war with our leopards, as well as with other wildlife. We need to bring focus on the plight of this charismatic species.
Leopards due to its small size and frugal diet can survive in scarce vegetation and close to human habitations having lesser amount of prey.
In India Today, Save the Tiger has been the buzz word garnering mind share as well as funds allocation, it is another matter that the tiger is fast hurtling into oblivion. In such a tiger-centric scenario, the charismatic leopard, is ignored and is fighting a grave battle for survival.
My film 'Leopards: The Last Stand', which is in production is an effort to document and highlight the plight of the leopard. I am pleased to release a short 'Making of..' film to give a sneak peek into my film 'Leopards: The Last Stand'.
The leopard footage is is from Canon Cinema EOS C300 camera and has been marked as C300 footage. The other behind the scenes footage has been shot with a Canon EOS 1D Mark IV DSLR.
Major parts of the film has already been canned. "Leopards: The Last Stand" is being filmed in various places in North, East and the Western parts of India. I also need to cover the North East soon.
The final film is being shot with a Canon Cinema EOS C300 camera at Full HD (1080p) at insane ISOs (ISO 20000) in low light and no light situations to document nocturnal behaviour. Please try to watch the film in HD (720p) and see the details. The Full HD version, which is not shared online due to the large size has amazing amount of details and should be seen in the big screen. Keep watching this space for more. And before I end, please raise your voice to save the leopard.
- Endangered Wild Buffalo of Kaziranga - 4 July,2024
- Leopards: The Last Stand Trailer 2 - 1 July,2024
- GoPro Hero 12 Black - 6 September,2023


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This chapter provides a tutorial introduction to MySQL by showing how to use the mysql client program to create and use a simple database. mysql (sometimes referred to as the "terminal monitor" or just "monitor") is an interactive program that enables you to connect to a MySQL server, run queries, and view the results. mysql may also be used in batch mode: you place your queries in a file beforehand, then tell mysql to execute the contents of the file. Both ways of using mysql are covered here.
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This chapter assumes that mysql is installed on your machine and that a MySQL server is available to which you can connect. If this is not true, contact your MySQL administrator. (If you are the administrator, you need to consult the relevant portions of this manual, such as MySQL Server Administration.)
This chapter describes the entire process of setting up and using a database. If you are interested only in accessing an existing database, you may want to skip the sections that describe how to create the database and the tables it contains.
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AT&T and SunEdison, a provider of solar energy services, are expanding AT&T's solar initiative with a new rooftop solar power installation in San Diego.
The rooftop photovoltaic system is projected to generate an estimated 420,000 kilowatt hours of energy in its first year of operation. Over 20 years, it is estimated that the power installation will generate more than 7.7 million kilowatt hours of energy. That's enough energy to power more than 720 U.S. homes for one year.
The environmental attributes associated with the solar power installation will avoid more than 8 million pounds of carbon dioxide during the initial 20 years of operation, the equivalent of taking more than 800 cars off the road, according to SunEdison.
"Our residents and businesses have embraced clean energy, which not only benefits our environment, but also our region's economy," noted San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders as the solar equipment recently was inaugurated.
In addition to the installation in San Diego, AT&T has contracted with SunEdison, a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials (NYSE: WFR), to deploy five other solar power installations in California by the second quarter of 2011. The additional California solar deployments will be located in Dunnigan, Commerce, Mojave, Santa Ana and West Sacramento.
Reciprocal deal
In return for SunEdison's agreement to construct, monitor and maintain an additional five solar power installations in California, AT&T will buy the energy produced from the solar systems to offset its grid demand.
"We are continually seeking opportunities to add renewable energy resources to power our business operations, and this agreement provides more sustainable solutions for our energy needs in California," said John Schinter, director of energy at AT&T, in a statement.
"SunEdison makes solar a reality for commercial clients throughout the world," said Brian Jacolick, general manager of the Americas region for SunEdison.


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