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In fact, any story that spans a person's life, written about by an outside author, is considered a biography. Think about the number of published author's who have dedicated books to family members, friends, even pets. In a way, Marley and Me John Grogan could be considered the biography of the author's dog. And I loved that book. In this way, my personal opinion is that biographies can be written about anyone.
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It was back in December last year when Samsung announced that they would be launching a new 105-inch Curved Ultra HD TV at CES 2014 and it seems they have officially launched the 105-inch Curved Ultra HD TV, along with their other range of curved Ultra HD TVs. The Samsung 105-inch Curved HD TV as expected comes with a 4K resolution and a 21:9 aspect ratio, featuring a massive 11 million pixels i.e. 5,120 x 2,160 pixels resolution.
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From the front of the choir: Beginners choir or established choir: time to re-evaluate?
When I started my first ever choir, WorldSong, it was an open-access beginner's choir and anyone who wanted to sing could join.
Over time, as people stuck with the choir, the singing and the singers got better. We weren't really a beginner's choir any more. But beginners still wanted to join!
I started a small women's ensemble on a self-selecting basis: if you could hold a part on your own, then you could join. We kept the numbers at around 12 and worked together for some years. Inevitably singers left, so there came a time when we needed to take on some new recruits. I decided to audition.
However, there were complaints from within the ranks! We originally came together on a self-selecting basis, how can we now have the audacity to audition people? It didn't seem fair, and besides, it meant that we were somehow 'better' than other people.
The fact is, the longer a group of singers stays together the better it becomes: singing, performing, learning, working together, and so on. The group leader will also get better at conducting, teaching, arranging and so on.
beginners groups are a bad business model!
There are lots of groups around these days called things like "Singing for the terrified" or "Singing for fun". These attract people who lack experience and confidence, but who want to give singing a try.
Over time, confidence and singing ability grow and there usually comes a point when singers look for more challenges. They are no longer terrified, so they leave the group.
That means that such groups will always have a high turnover. If you run such a group, one measure of your success is when people leave. Not a very good business model!
But sometimes the singers in these groups develop at the same pace and want to stay together. But they are no longer a beginner's group, so what happens if someone wants to join?
Maybe you can split and the original group becomes the 'intermediate' group and you start a new 'beginners' group.
The same thing happens in a big choir. When you first start out you might be a beginners and/ or non-performing choir, but over time you will get better. What happens when you need to take on new recruits?
You're not recruiting to a beginner's choir any longer and you have to be aware of that. The bar has been set higher so you'll have to be more selective, maybe even audition (even though the choir was originally open-access).
And this doesn't just apply to performing choirs. Even if you never perform, the repertoire you learn will have become more complex, singers will pick things up quicker, there will be greater sensitivity between singers, people will understand things like harmony at a deeper level. If beginners walk into this, then they will flounder or be disruptive.
can you keep moving the goal posts?
Now you're an intermediate, or even advanced choir, where do all the beginners go?
When you first started out, your choir was maybe the go-to place in your area for people to start out singing. But where will those people go now?
One option is to start another group which will act as a feeder choir for your more advanced choir. You can work with this beginners group until you feel they are up to speed enough to join the main group.
The trouble with this model though is that, in the meantime, your main choir have developed even more skills and the beginners will never catch them up!
Perhaps the solution is to trust that someone will always be starting up a new choir in the area as they try out their fledgling choir leading skills.
Have you noticed the improvements and skills development in your own choir? If it's been running a long time, do you realise that it's changed it's nature? Has that been acknowledged?
How do you recruit new members? Have your recruitment criteria changed over the years? How do you deal with 'beginner' singers who want to join?
Do leave a comment. I'd love to learn from you experiences.


The baldknobbers Jamboree Show in Branson Missouri has been entertaining crowds since 1959. Each year the show features new costumes, music, & comedy so come back and see this show year after year. The one thing that never changes in the Baldknobbers Jamboree show is the side splitting laughter!


80200 postfrisch (never hinged) ** ungebraucht (hinged) * 2-12, 15-27, 28A-42A 1928/37 mentioned values with usual centring, partly stronger hinge and/or paper remnants. ÷ 1928/37, angegebene Werte mit üblicher Zentrierung, teils stärkere Falz- und/oder Papierreste.
80205 Ansichtskarte (Picture postcard) 1905/1906, Australian States and New Zealand, lot with 17 picture postcards, each card franked on the picture-side, comprising nice topics, i.a. "Victoria stamp series", railway station and street views, ethnic with aborigines and maori and further interesting items, mostly F/VF used.
80206 postfrisch (never hinged) ** ungebraucht (hinged) * gestempelt (marked) Briefstück (on piece) 1860/1990 (ca.), huge doublets-collection of various countries, collected in 20 stockbooks, with focus on the many better issues till 1930, also several cancellations, colour shades, perforations etc., nice offer!
80208 postfrisch (never hinged) ** Brief (cover) DIE HANSE - Mythos des Mittelalters: 1830/1995 ca., 3-bändige Thematiksammlung mit einigen schönen Altbriefbelegen, Bizone Bl.1 postfrisch etc.
80209 postfrisch (never hinged) ** ungebraucht (hinged) * 1858/1979, mint and unused collection in four illustrated albums, annexed also a few stamp booklets, combinations and railway-stamps.
80210 ungebraucht (hinged) * gestempelt (marked) Briefstück (on piece) Brief (cover) 1849/1967, comprehensive collection in one old illustrated album, in most parts completely, varied condition at the beginning, with better issues like No.1(2), 2(2), 7/8, 17, 32,(2), 36/39, 44, partly collected according to colour, cancellation etc., even in the second part many better issues like Nr.144/51, 211/14, 220/21, 229, 248, 261, 264/66, 311, 327, souvenir sheet No.3 etc.
80211 gestempelt (marked) postfrisch (never hinged) ** FDC ungebraucht (hinged) * 1900/1980 (ca.), miscellaneous balance in albums/envelopes, main value postwar period with u/m material and f.d.c.
80212 postfrisch (never hinged) ** ungebraucht (hinged) * gestempelt (marked) Brief (cover) 1910/2000 (ca.), huge collection of doublets in 24 albums/ stockbooks, comprehensive amount definitive issues of King Edward/ George and Queen Elisabeth, mostly presorted, many expertized items included. Attractive offer!
80213 Brief (cover) Ganzsache (Complete) 1881/1958, group of 15 covers/cards, incl. registered and airmail, letter to USA and charged by postage due etc. Nice lot of postal history!
80215 Brief (cover) Ganzsache (Complete) 1938, Ostmark und Sudetenland, Sammlungsbestand mit ca.150 Belegen, dabei Ostmark mit Mischfrankaturen Dt.Reich/Österreich, Einschreiben, Luftpost etc. sowie Sudetenland mit vielen verschiedenen Befreiungsstempeln. Netter Fundus!
80219 1941(ca). Proof (Epreuve collective) "Chapelle de Meritxell" with 1 c black, 2 c violet, 3 c brown, 5 c deep green and 15 c red.
80220 1941(ca). Proof (Epreuve collective) "Gorge d 'St Julia" with 90 c red, 1 fr green 2 fr violet and 3 fr brown.
80222 ungebraucht ohne Gummi (unused without gum) (*) 1883 (ca). 10 c King Leopold II, two ESSAYS "Putitot", not adopted, similar to the 1883/1884 definitives, like French "Epreuve de luxe", one in black, on in vermillion.
80224 1934. Registered letter from Etterbeek to Domodossola, Italy, franked with 25 c red tete-beche pair and 75 c brownblock of 4 gutter pairs with advertisments inbetween. Themes of the Advertisments: Shoes, Drinks and Films. On the reverse additional advertismend strips (different colors, different arangements and new advertisment: Cevron Water and Ostende Dover Ferry).
80225 1857 PR 1976. Signed artists drawing similar to the later released stamp.
80228 Brief (cover) 1893, Small, nicely monogrammed (Stefan Mill) envelope to Baden near Vienna franked 2(Kr) orange, Perf L10½ (Michel 2 I cL) and 3(Kr) blue-green, Perf L11½ (Michel 3 I bM), both of Lithographed Arms, sharing "K. UND K. MILIT. POST 13, MOSTAR, 16/9/93", at back "BADEN I, BESTELLT/ 19.9.93" arrival.
80229 Brief (cover) 1898, Multi-view "Gruss aus Plevlje" picture postcard to an address in BUDAPEST, franked 5(kr) scarlet, Perf L12½, Type III (SG 146a), tied by "K. UND K. FELDPOST EXPOSITUR/ PLEVLJE/ 16/12/98", "BUDAPEST/ FOPOSTA, 98 DEC. 21" arrival alongside.
80230 Brief (cover) 1898, Registered cover (shortend at right) to Hungary franked 15(Kr) light brown, Perf L10½, of LITHOGRAPHED ARMS (creased before usage) tied by neat "K. UND K. MILIT. POST XXXII, SARAJEVO, 12/7/98", handstamped "R/NR", manuscript "732" in blue crayon, at back "BUDAPEST, FOPOSTA/ G/ 98 JUL 13" arrival.
80231 SG 119, 136 1900, Colourful Mostar ppc to Sibenik, Dalmatia, franked ½Kr black, Perf L10½ (SG 119) and 2Kr orange-yellow, Perf L12½ (SG 136), both of TYPO Arms, tied by fine "K. UND K. MILIT. POST, MOSTAR, 8/I/00", "SIBENIK, SEBENICO, 11/1/00" arrival adjacent. N.B. On 1st Jan 1900 the currency changed to HELLER values although old KREUZER was legitimately used during the transitional period at DOUBLE RATE, therefore 2½ Kr was equal to the required postage of 5 Heller. Very scarce.
80232 gestempelt (marked) 29/44 U 1906. Pictorial issue. Very fine used set of sixteen, IMPERF, including nine examples with sheet margin. Seldom offered in this condition.
80233 ungebraucht (hinged) * postfrisch (never hinged) ** 144 U VAR 1918 (20 July). Emperor's Welfare Fund. 10+10(h) grey, IMPERF. Mint never hinged block of twenty with right side sheet margin. Lovely multiple.
80235 Brief (cover) 1863, entire ecclesiastical letter written at "Sikori Brijeg 20.5.1863" (Herzegovina) to Rome, endorsed "Dall Officio Parochiale de Gorica" (from the parochial house of Gorica/Herzegovina) and negative "Virgin Mary" stamp alongside, on front and on reverse transit marks "IMOSCHI 30/5" (Imotski/Croatia), "SPALATO 1. GIU" (Split/Croatia), "ZARA 2. GIU" (Zadar/Croatia), French receiver "AUTRICHE 7 JUIN", "LYON A MARSEILLE 7 JUIN" and Rome arrival 10.6., postage due marking "66" in ms. (cancelled?), inside comprehensive annotations/summary made by the recipient.
80236 ungebraucht (hinged) * postfrisch (never hinged) ** 112 U 1917. Liberation of Macedonia ("Bulgarian Lion"). 5 s grey-green, imperf. Mint never hinged marginal block of six with colour control bar. Very scarce in multiples.
80238 ungebraucht (hinged) * postfrisch (never hinged) ** 1430 I 1964 (21 Feb). Winter Olympic Games, Innsbruck (Hockey). 10st red-orange, black and brownish-grey, Perf L10½. Mint horizontal block of six from bottom left corner of a sheet, with inscribed bottom sheet margin (data related to printing process) with TOP ROW OF OLYMPIC RINGS PRACTICALLY MISSING.


Photo taken at Lumil Vineyard in Elizabethtown, NC.
Gorgeous photos! We were fortunate enough for April to do our maternity photos and newborn photos! I can't wait for her to take more photos of our little one! She captured stunning photos of our little girl!
What can I say; They're very beautiful. Cansu loved the photo session with you. Thanks to your passion to bring that beautiful smile on those pictures. Your are an amazing photographer!!!! Photo taken at the Riverwalk in Rock Hill, SC.
"April was a joy to work with, incredibly open, flexible and professional. She got a feel for what I was looking for and looked up some great examples before she came over, that helped a lot so we could figure out which pictures we wanted to take first. She brought some backdrops and props which helped immensely, and was so patient while the baby ate and fell into a deep sleep. She posted a "sneak peak" the same day and posted all the pictures very quickly. I was incredibly happy with April as our photographer and I am excited to work with her again soon!"
"We've worked with April for the last three years and couldn't be more pleased with our experiences! She has a fabulous eye for natural shots, is always open to ideas and does an amazing job truly capturing our family's personalities."
"April is always prepared and has great ideas that suit our family so well. She is talented, professional and so sweet to our family!"
"April is wonderful. She really works hard to get the best shots. I couldn't believe how beautiful our Mom and Me session turned out despite my youngest crying almost the entire time, April was able to shoot at the perfect moment and you couldn't even tell! I was also impressed with our family session photos. They look relaxed and natural as April does a great job making sure everyone feels comfortable. She is a GREAT photographer to work with and takes pride in her work. I highly recommend!"
"April is the consummate professional. She has thought of everything! She made the entire process from start to finish super easy and fun, and she even sent us a "what to wear" suggestion guide. Our whole family felt so comfortable with her during our shoot, she felt like an old friend. Her attention to detail and her thoughtfulness put her in the upper echelon of portrait photographers. If I could give her a star rating out of five, she'd be a 10!"
"When my husband and I went to our first photo session we were very nervous of being photographed. April immediately made us feel at ease during our photo session by providing guidance and encouragement during the entire session. She has taken photos of my son from birth and always ensures his safety comes first. She is very flexible and works well with him to capture the perfect moments. April also captures the poses we desire and all the moments in between.
I love that we receive sneak peaks immediately and that she has our entire collection ready in lightening speed.
I can't count how often people ask me who my photographer is and the tons of compliments we receive on our photos. April truly has an amazing tallent and we are so grateful she's our photographer."
We made the decision to book our maternity photos as well as our daughter's first year photos with April. She has made us all feel relaxed during our sessions and we love working with her. She always has great ideas for photos and I have yet to see a gallery that I didn't love. We could not ask for a better photographer. The investment we made with Running Mom Photography has been more than worth it. I feel like we hit the photography jackpot! We look forward to many more years of working with April.
What can I say; They're very beautiful. Cansu loved the photo session with you. Thanks to your passion to bring that beautiful smile on those pictures.Your are an amazing photographer!!!!
We've worked with April for the last three years and couldn't be more pleased with our experiences! She has a fabulous eye for natural shots, is always open to ideas and does an amazing job truly capturing our family's personalities.
April is always prepared and has great ideas that suit our family so well. She is talented, professional and so sweet to our family!
I can't count how often people ask me who my photographer is and the tons of compliments we receive on our photos. April truly has an amazing tallent and we are so grateful she's our photographer. "


Magadh University (MU) have issued a notification regarding Under Graduate B.A, B.Com, B.Sc Part 1, 2, 3 Examination Schedule 2016. Candidates have filled the exam form for B.A, B.Com, B.Sc (General/ Hons) Examination 2016. The organisation is ready to conduct the examination. It will provide the MU B.A, B.Com, B.Sc Part 1, 2, 3 Exam Schedule 2016 on its official website www.magadhuniversity.ac.in. Applicants will have to visit the official website to check the official Magadh University (MU) B.A, B.Com, B.Sc Part 1, 2, 3 Date Sheet 2016. We will also provide direct link to Magadh University (MU) B.A, B.Com, B.Sc Part 1, 2, 3 Time Table 2016, so read the article carefully.
The university conduct the exam for all the courses every year, candidates studying in those courses give the exam for their respective course. They study hard and write the exam with full enthusiasm. As all the aspirants have filled their exam forms so they are waiting for Magadh University (MU) B.A, B.Com, B.Sc Part 1, 2, 3 Exam Schedule 2016. These exams are very important as only those candidates are promoted to next class who qualify these exams. We suggest applicants to keep preparing for their exams as the result of these exams will matter a lot in getting a good job. The organisation will provide the Magadh University (MU) B.A, B.Com, B.Sc Part 1, 2, 3 Date Sheet 2016 on its website.
There are tremendous number of colleges which are affiliated to Magadh University. The university have numerous courses for which a huge number of candidates take admission into various colleges affiliated to the MU. Magadh University is situated Patna, in Bihar state, India. Magadh University was established in 1962 by Satyendra Narayan Sinha, an educationist and the then Education Minister of Bihar. Several professional/vocational courses like M.B.A., M.C.A., B.C.A., B.B.M. Environmental Science, Tourism & Travel Management, Counseling & Rehabilitation, Journalism & Mass Communication, etc. are being run in constituent/affiliated colleges. It has 24 postgraduate departments, 44 constituent colleges, and 85 affiliated colleges imparting higher education in Humanities, Social Science, Science, Commerce, Medical, Engineering and Management.
Magadh University (MU) UG B.A, B.Sc, B.Com Part-I, II & III Date Sheet will be released by the university. We will provide the link to check the official MU Date Sheet/ Exam Schedule for BA, BSC & BCOM Courses Exam 2016 as soon as it would be available on the official website. Candidates are requested to visit this website regularly to get latest updates regarding government recruitment, exams, date sheet, results, jobs, admit card and much more.
Logging into the website of Magadh University, link is given below.
Go on the exams page.
Find the required time table of your course.
Click on the link which reads your course time table.
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Refunds for Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) tokens, tickets, Metropasses or fares Current fare media cannot be exchanged or refunded with the exception of a person who becomes a senior. In that case, the adult fare media can be exchanged for seniors fare.... 4/04/2018 · 1. Join The TTC Protocol Airdrop: https://goo.gl/4qzGKY 2. Complete social media tasks with Telegram (2 TTC), Facebook (2 TTC) and Twitter (2 TTC).
12/07/2017 · When will the TTC stop selling and accepting tickets, tokens and TTC passes? Tickets, tokens and TTC passes will be available for purchase and use throughout 2017. Tokens will no longer be available for sale by the end of 2017.
The TTC is targeting the end of 2016 to have Presto readers on all of its 1,800-plus buses, though some will get the readers this fall. A similar timeline is in place for the Wheel-Trans service.
For a long time, MDP customers got free parking at TTC lots before 3 pm on weekdays (parking is free for everyone after 3 pm and on weekends). Sadly, this perk was discontinued as of April 1st, 2009. Sadly, this perk was discontinued as of April 1st, 2009.
If I was a TTC driver, and my "free" fare showed up as a taxable benefit on my T4 I would prefer to pay my own fare, and get extra pay. If wearing my jacket got me on for free, and it didn't show up as a taxable benefit, I would prefer to stick with my uniform entitling me to a free fare.


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The Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology (JCGM), is an organization in Sèvres that prepared the "Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement" (GUM) and the "International vocabulary of metrology – basic and general concepts and associated terms" (VIM). The JCGM assumed responsibility for these two documents from the ISO Technical Advisory Group 4 (TAG4).
JCGM has two Working Groups. Working Group 1, "Expression of uncertainty in measurement", has the task to promote the use of the GUM and to prepare Supplements and other documents for its broad application. Working Group 2, "Working Group on International vocabulary of basic and general terms in metrology (VIM)", has the task to revise and promote the use of the VIM. For further information on the activity of the JCGM, see www.bipm.org.
The Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM) is a document published by the JCGM that establishes general rules for evaluating and expressing uncertainty in measurement.
The GUM provides a way to express the perceived quality of the result of a measurement. Rather than express the result by providing an estimate of the measurand along with information about systematic and random error values (in the form of an "error analysis"), the GUM approach is to express the result of a measurement as an estimate of the measurand along with an associated measurement uncertainty.
One of the basic premises of the GUM approach is that it is possible to characterize the quality of a measurement by accounting for both systematic and random errors on a comparable footing, and a method is provided for doing that. This method refines the information previously provided in an "error analysis", and puts it on a probabilistic basis through the concept of measurement uncertainty.
Another basic premise of the GUM approach is that it is not possible to state how well the true value of the measurand is known, but only how well it is believed to be known. Measurement uncertainty can therefore be described as a measure of how well one believes one knows the true value of the measurand. This uncertainty reflects the incomplete knowledge of the measurand.
The notion of "belief" is an important one, since it moves metrology into a realm where results of measurement need to be considered and quantified in terms of probabilities that express degrees of belief.
For a review on other applicable measurement uncertainty guidance documents see.
The International vocabulary of metrology (VIM)  is an attempt to find a common language and terminology in metrology, i.e. the science of measurements, across different fields of science, legislature and commerce. The 3rd edition was developed using the principles of terminology work (ISO 704:2000 Terminology Work—Principles and Methods; ISO 1087-1:2000 Terminology Work—Vocabulary—Part 1:Theory and Application; ISO 10241:1992 International Terminology Standards—Preparation and Layout).
Acceptance of VIM standards is rather good in legislature, commerce and trade where it is often legally required. Acceptance is also good in textbooks and many fields of sciences. There are, however, some fields of science that stick to their traditional jargon, most notably theoretical physics and mass spectrometry.
JCGM 100:2008. Evaluation of measurement data — Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement (GUM).
JCGM 101:2008. Evaluation of measurement data – Supplement 1 to the "Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement" – Propagation of distributions using a Monte Carlo method.
JCGM 102:2011. Evaluation of measurement data – Supplement 2 to the "Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement" – Extension to any number of output quantities.
JCGM 104:2009. Evaluation of measurement data – An introduction to the "Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement" and related documents.
JCGM 106:2012. Evaluation of measurement data – The role of measurement uncertainty in conformity assessment.
^ JCGM 100:2008. Evaluation of measurement data - Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement, Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology.
^ Kent J. Gregory, Giovani Bibbo, and John E. Pattison (2005), A Standard Approach to Measurement Uncertainties for Scientists and Engineers in Medicine, Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine 28(2):131-139.
^ Homrich da Jornada, Daniel et al. Guidance Documents on Measurement Uncertainty: An Overview and Critical Analysis. NCSLI measure: The Journal of Measurement Science. March 2010, v. 5.
^ International vocabulary of metrology — basic and general concepts and associated terms (PDF) (3 ed.). Joint Committee on Guides for Metrology (JCGM). 2008.
^ Dybkaer, René (2010). "ISO terminological analysis of the VIM3 concepts 'quantity' and 'kind-of-quantity'". Metrologia. 47 (3): 127–134. Bibcode:2010Metro..47..127D. doi:10.1088/0026-1394/47/3/003.
^ "News from JCGM-WG1, 20th anniversary of GUM" (PDF). BIPM. 29 September 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2013.


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La frontière entre le Guyana et le Suriname est la frontière séparant le Guyana et le Suriname.

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La frontière terrestre suit le fleuve Corentyne. Deux points sont sources de contestation entre les deux pays :
 la possession du cours même de la Corentyne (le Suriname revendique une frontière sur la rive gauche du fleuve, le Guyana le talweg) ;
 une région au sud, entre les rivières New (frontière revendiquée par le Suriname) et Kutari (frontière revendiquée par le Guyana), deux affluents de la Corentyne.

Du fait de la querelle frontalière concernant la Corentyne, il existait également un contentieux au sujet de la frontière maritime entre les deux pays. Ce différend a été tranché le 17 septembre 2007 par la Cour permanente d'arbitrage (CPA), qui a considéré que la méthode de l'équidistance devait être utilisée pour délimiter le plateau continental et la zone économique exclusive.

Histoire

Durant les guerres napoléoniennes, le Royaume-Uni occupe les colonies néerlandaises en Guyane (Démérara, Berbice, Essequibo et Suriname). À l'époque, la frontière entre les colonies de Berbice et de Suriname n'est pas encore clairement définie, bien qu'un accord conclu entre leurs gouverneurs respectifs en 1799 attribue toute la région jusqu'à la rive gauche de la Corentyne à la colonie de Berbice. Par le traité anglo-néerlandais de 1814, les Pays-Bas renoncent formellement aux colonies de Demerara, Berbice et Essequibo au profit du Royaume-Uni, mais conservent le Suriname. En 1831, les trois colonies sont réunies au sein d'une nouvelle entité, la Guyane britannique.

En 1841, l'explorateur britannique Robert Hermann Schomburgk remonte la Corentyne afin d'établir la frontière entre la colonie britannique et la néerlandaise. Il la fixe sur la Kutari, qu'il juge être le bras principal du fleuve. Toutefois, en 1871, le géologue britannique Barrington Brown découvre un affluent de la Corentyne, la New, plus large que la Kutari selon lui. La New étant située à l'ouest de la Kutari, le triangle d'environ  que délimitent les deux cours d'eau devient une région disputée entre les deux pays. En 1899, l'arbitrage de Paris, chargé de trancher la querelle anglo-vénézuélienne concernant la Guayana Esequiba, conclut également en faveur de la Guyane britannique concernant le problème de sa frontière orientale.

En 1936, une commission mixte ébauche un compromis : les Pays-Bas se verraient attribuer la Corentyne, mais abandonneraient leurs revendications sur le triangle de la New. Un point est également défini sur la rive ouest de la Corentyne comme départ de la frontière maritime entre les colonies, qui formerait un angle de  avec la méridienne. L'éclatement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale empêche la conclusion de cet accord. De nouvelles tentatives d'arrangements prennent place à la fin des années 1950 et au début des années 1960, sans déboucher sur rien de concret, tandis que des incidents éclatent dans la zone du triangle de la New. Toutes les tentatives de résoudre ce différend ont échoué jusqu'à présent.

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The Future Is Here!
By Forex Ninja
March 26, 2013 11:27 PM UTC in News
The future is here! Nope, I'm not talking about Robopip's landing on planet Earth. This is about the world's very first open trading platform – Tradable!
Tradable was hailed as "The Most Innovative Financial Company" in the forex industry during the recently concluded Forex Magnates Summit. What makes it unique is its amazing app store.
It features an app store similar to the Apple iTunes Store and Google Play, except it's designed specifically for forex trading. It houses a handful of applications that are designed by third-party developers. You can find an app for almost anything you need – charting software, EAs, indicators, news, and even games! Talk about a fully customized trading experience!
The apps usually allow trials from 5 to 90 days, so you can test them about before you decide to purchase them. Most apps will set you back between $1 and $5, while others charge a subscription fee of up to $20 a month. The beauty of the app store is that clients are protected from purchasing programs from shady sources that may not deliver service at par with expectations.
It goes without saying that there has been a lot of interest in the app-based platform ever since it was launched. Traders, app developers, and brokers alike found its unique offerings very promising. In fact, leading financial products companies like Knowsis and Corrsight have already begun developing apps for the platform.
It has already been picked up by two brokers. Last month, FSA-regulated Tradenext became the first broker to go live with the Tradable platform. And earlier this month, London-based SVSFX followed suit.
With the Tradable platform gaining praise from all around (even from established institutions such as Financial Times and CNBC) I wouldn't be surprised if other brokers tie up with Tradable as well. It could become a very popular choice among those who wish to expand their client base and differentiate themselves from other brokers.
It's nice to see new innovations like this in the retail forex industry. Revolutionary products like this increase competition in the industry, as we see that more and more brokers are trying to set themselves apart by offering alternatives to your run-of-the-mill platforms. More importantly, it shows us that industry players aren't content with the status quo and are continuously trying to push the envelope to give traders a better experience.
What do you think of the Tradable trading platform?
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PM Harris calls for a productive and professional civil service
"There is no victimization here; not one scintilla of evidence of that," Dr. Harris said, debunking the allegations of the opposition St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party.
However, the prime minister was keen to point out that his Government will ensure that the civil service remains efficient and productive by embarking on civil service reform that will see negatives "transitioned out" of government service.
"In time, (with) reform of the public service, almost all of the negatives within it, would as it were, be transitioned out and a better group and a better cadre of people will come," Dr. Harris said.
The prime minister also declared that senior civil servants would be held responsible for the performance of their subordinates.
"The executive officer, the permanent secretaries, the assistant secretaries and the senior people in the government will be held accountable for the conduct of those below them because they are to take the requisite action in keeping with the statutory rules and regulations when people are non-performing, misbehaving or otherwise not contributing to the good purpose of their particular department and that is the approach that we will take," the prime minister said. "When there is need for action, we will take that action and we will make no apology."
Meanwhile, the prime minister noted that the transition process for the government has gone quite well and that most of the civil servants have been performing.
"For example, to assume control of the boards that are under the state enterprises, we were able to make the necessary adjustment in positions within the context of the civil service and all of these necessary changes were effected with decency and decorum. And so we achieved this without destabilizing the civil service or the country," Dr. Harris said.
While lauding the efforts of his government to achieve this seamless transition without victimization, the prime minister pointed out that this was not without hurdles as there were "misdirected permanent secretaries who had refused to accept the change of government."
Those persons he said were repositioned so that the government's work could continue.
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Can Doctors Income-Split?
The ability to split income with family members has long been a Holy Grail for medical professionals.
The ability to split income with family members has long been a Holy Grail for medical professionals. The tax burden on families where one spouse is a doctor can be significant, yet the other spouse can be tax free or in a lower taxed threshold which is underutilised. This is a characteristic of our tax system shaped by individual marginal tax rates.
Here are the base principles of understanding income splitting and how to use it to your advantage.
Marginal Tax Rates
Australian individual income tax is based on the premise that the higher a person's income, the higher the tax they pay in accordance with a series of income tiers. Once an individual crosses the threshold into a higher tier, the increased tax rate only applies on the amount, or margin, over the tier threshold and therefore the applicable rate is called the marginal tax rate. Hence a medical professional with higher income not only pays more tax, but also pays a higher % of their income in tax.
Marginal tax rates are individual. In the case of two spouses, each calculates their own taxable income and marginal tax rates are applied to that income independently from the other spouse. In an example case, you as a doctor earning $400,000 p.a. would pay $150,667* in tax (an average rate of 37.7%), while your spouse working part-time and earning $25,000 is subject to only $1,292* in tax (an average rate of only 5.2%). In this scenario you pay significantly more tax as a percentage of your income.
Income Splitting
Generally, Income Splitting is a tax planning method to more evenly distribute taxable income, and therefore reduce the overall tax burden. If the taxable income from the example above could be split evenly between the spouses, you would each earn $212,500 and pay $66,292* in income tax, an average rate of 24%. Even though the same amount of income is earned, this even-split creates a tax saving of $19,375 per annum for the family, enough to put towards another car or an investment in shares. The savings can be even greater where the income gap between couples is larger, or where the income can be split in more than two ways.
Income Splitting for Doctors
Income Splitting Through Discretionary Trusts
Australian tax laws allow for multiple methods of income splitting such as through the use of companies, partnerships, assignments, leases between spouses and the most common method – by using a discretionary trust (sometimes called a 'family trust'). Depending on a medical practitioner's circumstances, a discretionary trust can be used as a trading structure to operate a medical practice or as the shareholder in a company which operates a medical practice. Income earned by the trust, either directly from trading or from company dividends, is distributed amongst beneficiaries as determined by the trust, making income splitting among those beneficiaries very simple. Beneficiaries can include both spouses, but also adult children or further extended family. Non-adult children can be included as beneficiaries, but additional limits apply to curtail the benefit of income splitting with younger children. Beneficiaries can even include non-family members, if you feel particularly generous!
Operating from a business structure involving a company or a trust also has other benefits, most widely known as being the enhanced asset protection. While these benefits certainly have value, exploring them is subject for a topic of its own.
While appropriate structuring opens up opportunities for income splitting, particularly in the case of doctors, these opportunities do come with a catch. As a medical professional, the income that you earn is most commonly the result of your personal work or exertion, rather than the collective exertion of a team in a business. For the payment of tax, income from personal exertion is treated under the Personal Services Income (PSI) attribution regime. This means that special rules for PSI can override the income splitting benefits of a trust or another structure and force the individual to receive all taxable income.
However, many medical practices provide far more than just the doctor directly performing medical tasks – these can be administrative staff, marketing, medical support staff and the cost for diagnostic equipment or medical supplies. These can all contribute to an enterprise being run. Therefore, the patient bills may not be solely paying for the doctor's services, but a portion is towards the supporting business structure and equipment. With careful consideration of these components it is possible to determine an appropriate allocation of PSI against general business income. While the PSI will be applied directly to the doctor, the general business income remains available to reap the benefits of income splitting. Aside from business income the concept of income splitting can also be applied to other forms of income including investment and capital gains, which warrants a holistic approach to your tax planning with a competent accounting professional.
*Example tax calculation excludes levies and offsets
Article provided by Moore Australia (QLD/NNSW), an accounting firm offering a comprehensive range of services to medical professionals.
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Asthma (from the Greek άσθμα, ásthma, "panting") is the common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath. It is thought to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.
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Nasal congestion can mean severe asthma
Nasal congestion can be a sign of severe asthma, which means that healthcare professionals should be extra vigilant when it comes to nasal complaints. Furthermore, more severe asthma appears to be more common than previously thought, reveals a study from the Sahlgrenska Academy's Krefting Research Centre.
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Study shows how flu infections may prevent asthma
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Alternative therapies may leave asthmatics gasping
Approximately 13 percent of parents turn to alternative therapies to treat their children's asthma, according to a new study from the Université de Montréal.
Asthma with multiple symptoms is more highly prevalent than previously suggested
People with multi-symptom asthma more often have night-time awakenings due to asthma-symptoms, a sign of severe asthma.
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The metallic particles in the smoke emitted by fireworks pose a health risk, particularly to people who suffer from asthma.
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Evidence suggesting that the risk of childhood asthma associated with prenatal paracetamol exposure may depend on antioxidant genes in the mother has been found by a team of UK scientists.
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Q: What does num>>1 mean in c++? I know this is a very simple question, but I'm having trouble finding the answer on google as it ignores the "<<" characters. If you have any advice for how I should search for things like this in the future that would also be much appreciated. I seem to recall its some kind of bitshift or something? But I don't really know what that means or how it works whether its just -1 or something else as if it is I don't know why the person wouldn't just use -1. Thanks

A: It ('>>') means 'right shift' in a context where the left-hand operand is an integral type.  For unsigned types, uvalue >> 1 is equivalent to dividing by two and truncating the value; it drops the least significant bit, moves every other bit down one place, and inserts a 0 in the most significant bit.  For signed types and positive values, the behaviour is the same; if the value is negative, the behaviour is at best implementation-defined.
If the left-hand operand is an input stream, then it is an input operation (but you can't input to a literal such as 1, but you could to a variable such as l).
Similarly, '<<' means 'left shift' in a context where the left-hand operand is an integral type, and it means an output operation when the left-hand operand is an output stream.
Of course, if the left-hand operand is a class, then the operation means whatever the class defines the operation to mean.  The I/O streams are a specific special case of 'what the class defines the operation to mean'.
Note that if the LH operand is an integer of N bits (when promoted if its type is shorter than int), then it is only valid to shift by a RH value that is between 0 and N-1; any larger or smaller shift yields undefined behaviour.  Note, in particular, that shifting by N is undefined behaviour.
The comment about classes and I/O streams do not apply to C, but where the operands are both integers, the behaviour in C is the same as in C++.

A: It's a binary right-shift of num by one place. There is a very good tutorial here.

A: Example which would help :
int m=16; //(10000) n=m>>1; //n=(01000) resulting in n=8 in decimal.

A: Both << and >> are shift operators.  See the following for more information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/336xbhcz.aspx

A: << N shifts the bits in a numeric value to the left by N.  >> N to the right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation#Unsigned_bit_shift_operator

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About Polislice or a Slice of Polislice, if you will
The Polislice
There's no end to the stupid.
by The Polislice
Damaged Goods Endorses Oompa Lumpa
Despite all of the rancor and "honesty" that Damaged Goods Christie spewed at the Donald when Christie was "running" for the Republican nomination, he has found the conscience bypass he received has proven surpassingly more successful than his apparently failed gastric one, in order to endorse Trump. Which endorsement laughably pissed off NJ county GOP heads.
To answer the question of what overly ambitious angle Chris and Mary Pat Christie have been machinating towards over copious servings of veal parmigiana since leaving the trail, we present this small vignette from "The Real Housewives of New Jersey":
Chris: Mary Pat, I could be Attorney General. I know how.
Mary Pat: Of course you could. Mangia, mangia my Prince Charming.
Chris: Shut up, prostitution whore! (flips table)
To answer the question, should Damaged Goods travel out of state to support Trump?
OH YES, PLEASE GOD, DO THAT THING.
What Chris Christie Said About Trump BEFORE the Endorsement
"I tell everybody who goes to a Donald Trump event, if you get to ask a question, just ask him 'how?'" Christie said. "I don't care which of the things he talks about just ask him, 'How? How?'"
I suppose Trump told Christie how and satisfied his curiosity.
There is no level of dishonesty and disingenuousness that Republicans will not stoop to. Christie has no options left in NJ, will never be elected to anything ever again. So I guess he's figured his only hope for advancement lies in some Washington appointment from an imaginary Trump administration. After all, Damaged Goods was an unknown and undistinguished lawyer and ex-Freeholder and failed General Assembly candidate scraping the bottom of the anonymity barrel until his unlikely appointment to the U.S. Attorney's Office by George W. "C+" Bush, after raising shitloads of money for said electoral loser handed the presidency by Scalia and Company. This against all odds story is why I previously referred to Chris Christie as "the Luckiest Man in America" before he earned the moniker "Damaged Goods".
It will be delicious when, like Mitt before him, Trump denies Christie a place on his ticket because Damaged Goods is all about himself, and you can't have two angry, mean, nasty, rude, NY area people on the ticket – who are all about themselves.
But you know, you can be an angry, mean, nasty, rude, NY area person and get a cabinet spot. I'll bet Damaged Goods is angling for Attorney General so he can be a right wing hero for prosecuting Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for being Democrats, which would be a crime under a Trump admin. with a GOP Senate and Congress.
May they never get over their delusions and science develop a vaccine to resist said delusions. Oh yeah, they did: stupid killing education!!
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23 Best Cities to Live In the World (None in America)
The 23 Cities with the best quality of life in the world
Every year Mercer, one of the world's largest HR consultancy firms, releases its Quality of Living Index, which looks at which cities provide the best quality of life.
Not one of the 23 is in the United States, the richest country in the world. Although 4 of the best places are right across the border in Canada.
That is a rebuke to the great lie of American exceptionalism, of American greatness, kindness, generosity, of American superiority, such that we do not have to learn from other countries. We can't have universal health care, can't give up our guns, can't provide free tuition, can't guarantee safe child care. We can't create a safe, civilized, human friendly place to live because our "values" are incompatible with such a place where people can live happily, peacefully, with amenities that make life more harmonious and secure. That's for Austria, Denmark, New Zealand, Canada, etc. not us. Because we're better than that.
For the record the top 5 are:
It's notable to me that 5 of the cities are in Germany, including Berlin. Germany is an industrial giant like we are, but has committed to the environment, a strong social safety net, renewable power, government support of the arts, affordable housing, unions and protection of their middle class. Britain and the U.S., which pioneered such ideals, have been shedding them in favor of austerity. To what end?
Seas Rise at Fastest Rate in 28 Centuries
CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY – JANUARY 23: Ice forms as the winter storm mixed with high tide causes flooding on Beach Avenue on January 23, 2016 in Cape May New Jersey. A major snowstorm is upon the East Coast this weekend with some areas expected to receive over a foot of snow. (Photo by Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images)
But you don't want a knee-jerk reaction because these things are cyclical. What if in the next 28 centuries the sea recedes. Then where are we if all those beach properties are devalued? Won't somebody think of the property barons?
Seas are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries
The increasingly routine tidal flooding is making life miserable in places like Miami Beach; Charleston, S.C.; and Norfolk, Va., even on sunny days.
I've written about Miami's days being numbered and the costly flooding damage happening to coastal towns up and down the East Coast that has nothing to do with storms. Especially the rising salt water winding through the Swiss cheese that is Floridian land. I imagine it's just a matter of time before the water tables are contaminated by salt water, then you have real problems.
But when you do have storms, you have serious flooding that didn't used to happen.
In a report issued to accompany that scientific paper, a climate research and communications organization in Princeton, N.J., Climate Central, used the new findings to calculate that roughly three-quarters of the tidal flood days now occurring in towns along the East Coast would not be happening in the absence of the rise in the sea level caused by human emissions.
How did they figure this out? It's a geological detective story. Done by Rutgers scientists, examining core samples from the salt marshes in South Jersey and other places.
The scientists drilled for sediment cores along the Atlantic coast of North America, including at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, north of Atlantic City. They analyzed other sediment data from such diverse sources as corals in the South Pacific and mangroves in Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean.
Loss of Scalia is No Loss
The man is in the ground now and I can admit that my first thought when I'd heard he was dead was "Ding, Dong the Witch is Dead." Mean, huh? Not as mean as Scalia.
Just to be clear, Scalia was the judicial equivalent of Reagan in putting into place judicial policies that turned back the clock to pre-New Deal America and in many cases the 19th century. We didn't just stop progressing, we regressed as a country under the ideas of these people. And it wasn't just the numerous 5-4 decisions regressing abortion rights, voting rights, undermining elections, gun control, etc. It was the cases heard that shouldn't have been heard at all except for four ideological votes to bring a case to the Supreme Court that experts never imagined would be heard at that level. Bush v. Gore? Citizen's United? The Obamacare cases on the law and the contraception mandate? If not for Scalia's vote, those cases aren't even heard, no less ruled on.
More and more Scalia resembled, in his dissents and public speeches, a consumer of right wing talk radio rather than a distinguished Justice of the Supreme Court.
Jeffrey Toobin lays out the case against Scalia in the New Yorker.
Antonin Scalia, who died this month, after nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, devoted his professional life to making the United States a less fair, less tolerant, and less admirable democracy. Fortunately, he mostly failed. Belligerent with his colleagues, dismissive of his critics, nostalgic for a world where outsiders knew their place and stayed there, Scalia represents a perfect model for everything that President Obama should avoid in a successor. The great Justices of the Supreme Court have always looked forward; their words both anticipated and helped shape the nation that the United States was becoming. Chief Justice John Marshall read the new Constitution to allow for a vibrant and progressive federal government. Louis Brandeis understood the need for that government to regulate an industrializing economy. Earl Warren saw that segregation was poison in the modern world. Scalia, in contrast, looked backward.
No Espresso For Me, Thanks!
Renato Bialetti is dead and was cremated and interred in an urn modeled after his famous coffee maker. I have one of those. I may never use it again.
In this photo made available Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, father Pietro Segato, the parish priest of Casale Corte Cerro, stands in front of a Moka pot containing the ashes of Renato Bialetti, during his burial service in the cemetery of Omegna, Northern Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. Renato Bialetti had expressed his wish to be cremated and then buried in the Moka his father Alfonso invented in 1933. Although he was not the inventor, Renato was responsible for the extensive marketing campaign that made the Moka an icon of Italian design, exposed in museums such as the Museum Of Modern Art and many others all over the world. (AP Photo/Elisa Sola)
Race Relations Will be Better When Obama Leaves
It will. Not his fault that he's black, but he did have the nerve to think he could be president. Not in this America. Even after being elected, twice, he just can't be president.
I think I've written this before. But my theory is that when the unblackening happens and the black family leaves the WH, certain situations will become somewhat less tense as some Amurikans will suddenly lose interest in the laser pointer and go play with the ball of yarn instead.
The evidence that crystallized this for me was a Pew graph that showed attitudes on gun control vs. gun rights.
Question: What do you think is more important – to protect the right of Americans to own guns, OR to control gun ownership? Great interactive graph http://www.people-press.org/2015/08/13/gun-rights-vs-gun-control/#total
The lighter line is gun control, the darker is gun rights. Notice how more people consistently believe that gun control is more important to them than gun rights, by significant margins, until 2008. What special event happened in 2009? And since then it's been about equal 50/50.
Broken down by race? Blacks and Hispanics are 75% to 25% for gun control over gun rights, and have remained so. The entire difference from pre-2009 to today is White people who switched positions.
The test will be when the unblackening happens in January 2017. If it suddenly goes back to the historical norm, then we know why that was. Not calling anybody racist. They're just simple folk, people of the land, the common clay of the new west, you know, morons.
Obama's Decision on Sup. Ct. Long Game or Short Game
The way the obstructionists have set it up there's really no way for Obama to lose on replacing Scalia. The entire premise of their gambit is that maybe, just maybe if they can run out the clock on the Obama presidency, then President Trump/Cruz/Rubio will get to nominate the successor, no doubt in his conservative image. But bless their hearts they are simple, stupid creatures playing checkers on a chess board.
Fact 1: for the first time in a long time, there's virtually no way that Scalia's successor could be more conservative then Mr. "The Constitution is Dead, Dead, Dead". The next Supreme Court Justice named will be a moderate at worst. Possibly a liberal. Even if hell froze over and President The Donald named the next person, they would be an improvement over Scalia. But that's not gonna happen.
Obama will name somebody soon who is eminently qualified and probably a non-ideological choice who would be a return to a less politicized court. The GOP will block and it will look bad for them, making the naming of a Supreme Court Justice a very concrete point next November.
The real downside of being rather delusional about, well, almost everything, the Republicans are not only overplaying their hand in regards to the presidential election, they are pretending that their handle on the Senate isn't in mortal danger.
Fact 2: The GOP has 5 senators from blue states (Ayotte, Kirk, Toomey, Johnson, Portman) that were elected in the GOP wave of 2010 and have poor chances of surviving a presidential year challenge. The likelihood of decent to good Democratic turnout is probably enough to give the Senate to the Dems, and with that the Judiciary Committee.
So if they want to play this out and deny a moderate a seat on the bench, it might just allow the next president to put an actual lefty on.
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Greenhouse to help researchers with gene editing
Ben Zigterman The Register-Mail bzigterman
CHAMPAIGN — Researchers hope to speed up gene editing in crops at a new greenhouse being built at the University of Illinois Research Park.
They could eventually grow corn in the 9,000-square-foot facility, which will have 14-foot walls.
"What we want to install in there is the state-of-the-art equipment to be able to quantify the way in which the plants grow and determine yield parameters, and then relate that to genomic information and differences in the plants," said Donald Ort, the deputy director of the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency, or RIPE, project.
The project's mission: to feed a growing world population by improving photosynthesis in crops through gene editing.
Ort said they started with tobacco and are "moving into food and feed crops, focusing on soybean, cowpea and cassava," a starchy root vegetable.
Sequencing DNA in the plant genes has become a rapid and relatively cheap process, Ort said, but "what's become the real bottleneck is correlating differences in genomic information and what it causes at the plant level."
This "required a greenhouse with specific dimensions and environmental controls," Ort said.
The $3.2 million greenhouse will be paid for with RIPE funds.
Formed in 2012 with a $25 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the RIPE project was renewed in 2017 for another five years with more funding from Gates, the United Kingdom Department for International Development and the U.S. Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.
The greenhouse's foundation could be poured next month, Ort said, with the goal of it opening some time next year.
"The reason to do it on the Research Park was because there was the likelihood of being able to do it more quickly," Ort said. "In order to be useful for us in the time frame of our ongoing project, we needed to have something up and going within a year."
Fox/Atkins Development will provide architectural and civil engineering services for the project, which the Research Park LLC board approved at a recent meeting.
It will be on Fourth Street between St. Mary's Road and Hazelwood Drive.
"The idea of that is to have adjacency to existing agriculture property," Research Park Director Laura Frerichs said.
She said having the greenhouse on Research Park land fits well with the park's focus on agriculture technology.
"For a long time, we thought about having a greenhouse in the park as being conducive to growing an ag-tech community," she said. "And this is an opportunity to partner with the Institute for Genomic Biology and the College of ACES to have a new greenhouse facility."
The RIPE project may be renewed for another five years, Ort said, but once it is done, the greenhouse will be turned over to the College of ACES.
Once that happens, Frerichs said the ag companies with offices at the Research Park could get involved with the greenhouse.
"Building an ag-tech cluster here at the Research Park is a priority," she said.
Frerichs also noted that it allows the UI Research Park to remain competitive with other universities' setups.
"Examples of that include Nebraska and Purdue's research parks, and in both cases, those are sophisticated facilities that have automation inside," she said.


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Gotta go with Ben Wallace or Dwight Howard (aside from Paul George of course). both beasts of men. Artest was up there, but he's gone soft ever since he became metta world peace.
Dexter Pittman, he could probably crush your head with his hands (http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2011/12/12/22/09/1Ybv2.St.56.jpg).
Ben Wallace is the one player I'd want to fight most. He'd absolutely kill me, but I just would want him to know that I hate him more than any other player in the league.....well, maybe Chauncey Billups too. Pretty much anyone associated with the Pistons from 2002-2007 is who I'd want to fight.
Kenyon Martin just looks like a guy you wouldn't want to **** with.
Well they're all exceptionally large people so fighting any of them would be a feat. I'd probably stay away from the most volatile and crazy minded people so my vote is a tie between Deshawn Stevenson and Ron Artest!
Reggie Evans. He'll fight dirty.
Metta World Peace. Dude is completely nuts.
Not trying to toot my own horn, but I'm not afraid to fight most NBA players. Most probably don't know how to actually fight.
Btw, that is a tattoo with a sword-bearing knight on his shoulder.
A lot of NBA player look and act tough, a bunch of gangsta wannabee's like Kenyon Martin, J R Smith, Birdman, Garnett a lot of dudes that act tough but if it came done to it Artest is the scariest dude! You see how other NBA players dont mess with him cause he is crazy and you just dont know what he will do ALSO he grew up real rough fighting and his stories about people getting stabbed while playing and having to taker on grown men as a teenanger is krazy ARTEST hands down!
I don't know... Is there a poster on here named "NotTheBeerThrower99" or something like that? Maybe he could tell us how hard Ron-Ron punches.
Dork Dobinski. After all, he's so damn ugly, he's got nothing to lose if his face gets smashed he'll just look better..... Scary.
Delonte west will shoot you and then bang your mom.
Lets not forget, Artest didn't even want to fight him.
Not trying to toot my own horn, but I'm not afraid to fight most NBA players. Most probably don't know how to actually fight.If knowing how to fight you mean grabbing a blunt object and swinging it across the back of their head,smashing it in until they're unconscious thus giving you time to run, then I'm with you.
Lets not forget, Artest was scared of him.
lebron he cries too much!
Youll never see it comming.
Wallace had his hands around Artest neck and he didn't do anything. Ron was mad that Big Ben punked him so he had to attack a middle aged man half his size to prove how tough he is.
I hate when that **** happens to me.
My first two choices however are still Delonte West and John Skelton.
Also, pretty sure just about anyone in the NBA could kick my ***. They're in better shape than I am, have more muscle mass, and I've never been in a fight.
Dude got stabbed 11 times (face, neck, and back) and lived. The dude is either really dam lucky or a beast.
Kahwi Leonard or Demarcus Cousins!
This is the right answer. I'd take James Johnson vs. anyone in the league.
Johnson's father Willie is a sixth-degree black belt kickboxer and his mother, Vi is also a black belt. He's one of nine children, eight of whom are black belts. His 10-year old sister Kiandra is only a blue belt. Willie runs J & P's martial arts in Cheyenne.
James Johnson is already 20-0 as a kickboxer and has MMA fight under his belt. That came as an 18-year-old against 31-year-old Damond Clark.
Pass him a ski mask, a glock and a f'in Christmas Wreath.
Jason Terry. One headbutt of him must hurt with that biga** forehead.
There is a right answer and his name is James Johnson.
For those of you that don't know... He can roundhouse kick a ball out of the net.
But I guess some fear guns so Gilbert and Lebron's dad Delonte could also be added.
Yeah I was thinkin that, I was just watching Jurrasic Park, those raptors are destoying people.
Why would I want to fight any of them?
Real men know how not to fight.
Dude has a heart condition, he'd probably collapse before the first round of trash talk.
Reggie Evens....throw him in a ufc ring right now!
Isn't Zach Randolph affiliated with murderers?
Seriously though, I'll stay the **** away from Metta World Peace. The last thing that a man wants on their record is them getting absolutely obliterated by World Peace.
kenyon martin would shoot anyone dead, that man is someoen you wouldnt want to **** with.
Ben Wallace actually didn't do anything to make himself look tough in the brawl. He overreacted to a normal foul.
It would probably be james johnson considering his training. I cant say id be scared to fight alot of nba players, just because they are tall and big doesnt mean they know how to throw a proper punch or know how to fight.
"The Rhino." Dude would break me in half with his shoulders.
He wasn't reacting to the foul, I can't remember the exact story off the top of my head, but Ron said something along the lines of I'm gonna get you next time down the court and when he fouled him it set Ben off.
Oh, well it's old news anyways. I think everyone agrees that Ben overreacted way too much though.
Current player: marcus camby- but not really sure... He's just got such long arms and I'm so short that all I might be able to do is kick him in the knees. Then I'd be thrown through a wall probably.
I feel like they both would've killed somebody in the detroit brawl had they not been restrained by the staff.
Id like to fight D-Wade. He seems like he'd fall real easy after getting hit and then injuring himself half way thru the fight. Easy win.
He'll shoot you no matter what martial arts belt ***** you have.
ALot of you guys fear people with black belts. But really, if someone is armed theres not much you can really do or risk while they have a gun. If your smart you wont fight someone with a gun. IT doesnt make you a *****, it means your using your head. I'm a blackbelt, but if someone pulled a gun on me, I wouldnt be stupid enough to fight back and risk my life.
yeah, i would have to say D12 as well. who would want to take a punch from Howard LOL.
Physically,Ben Wallace seems the toughest to take.
But both physically and mentally,my vote goes to Ron Artest aka MWP.
so what your saying is you think ron artest or ben wallace would be a tougher task than say D12.
Anyone on the Heat. They are all the greatest and strongest athletes in the history of this world.
Ben Wallace... He's a beast of a rasta and looks like he can **** most guys up.
Ron didn't have the balls to step up to him after getting shoved in the face.
I just want to fight Hawkeye.
if we are going pound for pound i wouldn't want to fight steve black, dude is like a double black belt or something crazy like that.
when has JR Smith acted tough? or Birdman? I can see why you would think that about K and Garnett but... I'm not sure where you got Birdman and JR from... is it the tattoos?
Kurt Thomes.. Hes got them crazy eyes.
Even Metta was quoted as saying that he himself don't want to mess with Dacos.
I just want to mention a fight I wouldn't mind taking... Nate Robinson... It's nothing personal I just think I could kick his ***.
Kyle Korver. Because even if I won, people would think I was a puss.
Lol yeah ok, he was the starting CB at UW and probably pound for pound one of the strongest guys in the NBA.


Teenagers have been spotted standing in the way of cars near this bus stop on St Crispins Drive.
Teenagers have been reported standing in the way of cars on a Northampton road and slapping rear-screen windows as vehicles pass.
A gang of up to 10 young people aged between 13 and 15 have been spotted in St Crispin's in recent days "playing chicken" with oncoming cars.
Residents and motorists have reported being faced by the teenagers standing in the road and jumping out of the way "at the last second" as they pass.
One motorist, who was driving on St Crispin Drive this week, told the Chronicle & Echo: "There were about 10 of them. One was standing in the road and looked like he was trying to flag down cars.
"He jumped out the way as I went past.
"It's stupid. I guess he was trying to impress his mates. But if a car comes speeding around that corner and they're standing in the road it won't end well."
Another resident wrote on Facebook page Spotted Duston: "One of them put their hand through my car window. Another hit the back of my car."
More teenagers were reportedly seen throwing objects at passing cars this week.


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On the 47th anniversary of her uncle's historic "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, politician and activist Alveda King has joined conservative commentator Glenn Beck at the same spot to bring people together in paying tribute to America's soldiers and "restoring honor" to America.
King, the niece of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. and daughter of his brother activist A. D. King, is currently the director of African-American outreach at the pro-life group Priests for Life and has recently stepped into the spotlight after several appearances on Beck's radio program.
"I am attending this rally to help reclaim America," she told "Good Morning America's" Ron Claiborne today from Capitol Hill. "I'm joining Glenn to talk about faith, hope, charity, honor. Those are things that America needs to reclaim. Our children need to remember to love each other how to honor each other, their parents, God and their neighbors. I agree with Glenn on all of those principles. So that's why I'm here. For me it's principles over politics."
King, who served as a Democrat in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1979 to 1981, was a keynote speaker at today's non-partisan rally, which also featured speeches from Beck and Sarah Palin.
Throughout her career King has courted controversy as an advocate for the pro-life movement. After having two abortions herself, King began speaking publicly, often at college campuses, about abortion issues. In 1996 she publicly condemned her aunt Coretta Scott King's support of abortion rights.
Earlier this month King grabbed headlines when she equated gay marriage with genocide.
"It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman," King said at an Atlanta rally. "We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage."
King brushed off criticism that Beck was dishonoring her uncle's legacy by hosting a rally on the anniversary of his most famous speech, stating that the rally is about faith, honor and love, principles that her family has supported.
"My daddy, Rev. A.D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior -- we are a family of faith, hope and love. And that's why I'm here today," King said. "Glenn says there is one human race, I agree with him. We are not here to divide. I'm about unity. That's why I'm here, and I want to honor my uncle today."
While speaking in front of tens of thousands today in DC, King said that she hopes that white privilege will become human privilege and that America will soon repent of the sin of racism and return itself to honor.