Industry can promote its economic contributions – but only if beekeepers, importers, packers and processors participate in study.
To participate in the U.S. Honey Industry Impact Questionnaire, please visit the US Honey Economic Impact Survey before June 15, 2018.
2017-2018 Colony Loss & Management Survey - NOW LIVE!
Our survey and a lovely coffee always go hand-in-hand!And no, this isn't an April Fool's Day joke!
Our survey and a lovely coffee always go hand-in-hand!
You're busy! We know that. You're out catching swarms, picking up packages, and checking your colonies!
Members of the Auburn University Bee Lab hard at work producing paper-versions of the survey.In 2010, BIP's National Management Survey was added to help us understand how management practices are potentially linked to colony survivorship. Thanks to your answers, we have been able to develop a dynamic management data tool. Feel free to play around with the interface. Want to know how colony losses compared between beekeepers that DID or DID NOT use a varroa treatment? Or what about the average age of comb in colonies? It's all there!
This year, our colleagues at Auburn University in Sweet Home Alabama have coordinated the survey. We're really happy to have them on board!
Please help us to develop more helpful tools for you by clicking the link below to take this years' National Colony Loss and Management Survey.
Older comb is usually darker than younger comb, and may contain higher levels of pesticide residues and parasites such as spores of Nosema.If you would like to prepare yourself for our questions, or want to take some notes while you're looking at your colonies, download this PDF to have a look at the 2017 – 2018 National Colony Loss and Management Survey Preview. Note that this preview should serve as an aid to the questions that are asked on the survey. Please, do not mail this preview version back to us. Please take the online survey!
Written By: The Bee Informed Team: The Bee Informed Partnership is a collaboration of efforts across the country from some of the leading research labs and universities in agriculture and science to better understand honey bee declines in the United States. Supported by the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, we're working with beekeepers to better understand how we can keep healthier bees. The key to our success is the true partnership we maintain across a wide range of disciplines including traditional honey bee science, economics, statistics, and medical research that makes all these tools available to this important research. And just as important as the tools are the people. We not only have the leading researchers in the honey bee industry, we also have advisory boards from the commercial beekeeping industries, almond and other commercial growers, as well as naturalists and conservationists from across the country.
One of the best things about working in research is that it never fails to surprise – for good or for bad. And occasionally, it is not until much later that the surprise comes. In this case, the "surprise" arrived in the form of another Varroa-vectored, RNA virus, Varroa Destructor Virus-1, or VDV1.
Our University of Maryland lab has been leading the APHIS National Honey Bee Pest and Pathogen survey since 2010. During those years, we have processed thousands of samples from across most states for nosema spore load, Varroa load, pesticides, and viruses with the primary goal to survey whether exotics, not known to be in the US, are here or not. Secondarily, but almost as importantly, we also use the survey results to establish a nationwide honey bee health baseline. It cannot be overstated how important that baseline is, nor how vital archiving all of those samples are. In the case of viral samples, they are archived in a large -80C freezer at the USDA-ARS Beltsville Lab just down the road from us.
Dr. Eugene Ryabov, working at USDA-ARS with Dr. Jay Evans, decided to take a look into our archive freezer with the intent of re-processing those archived samples for VDV1. And we are glad that he did. After doing a sweep of 2016 samples, he found VDV1 in >64% of all samples, making it just less prevalent and second only to Deformed Wing Virus (currently found in ~90% of all colonies). Reaching further back into that freezer, Dr. Ryabov found that only 2 colonies were positive from our 2010 survey samples – 1 in Indiana and 1 in Pennsylvania, and that temporal snapshot [below] shows the spread of this virus in just 6 years.
VDV1 is a species of RNA viruses under the genus iflavirus. Other iflaviruses include Sacbrood virus, Slow Bee Paralysis virus and its closest relative, Deformed Wing virus. Because we have methodically stored all historic samples, it will be possible, looking at the variants of this virus in the US and the world, to possibly help resolve how and when this virus arrived on our shores. It is important to note that this virus is also present in Hawaii (the Big Island) so it has already migrated beyond the lower 48 states.
In addition to field samples, the APHIS National Survey also asks beekeepers to report colony loss numbers for the 3 months prior to being sampled. Using those losses, it may be possible to correlate those losses now with VDV1 infections and/or the levels of the virus present. This finding, and the further research it demands, provides a unique window into the forensics of this infection.
Additional information about this virus, the details used to screen for it and the possible risks to US honey bee colonies will be published in "Ryabov, E.V., Childers, A.K., Chen, Y., Madella, S., Nessa, A., vanEngelsdorp, D., Evans, J.D. (2017) Recent spread of Varroa destructor virus-1, a honey bee pathogen, in the United States. (Submitted)".
The notice below was sent to all members of the Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) and American Association of Professional Apiculturists (AAPA) on October 2nd.
Presence of Varroa destructor virus in the U.S.
Using RNA sequencing methods, the honey bee virus Varroa destructor virus-1 (VDV1, also known as Deformed wing virus strain B) was discovered in US honey bee samples by Dr. Eugene Ryabov, while working in the USDA-ARS Bee Research Laboratory (BRL) under the supervision of Drs. Jay Evans and Judy Chen. With guidance from the Bee Informed Partnership (University of Maryland, Dr. Dennis vanEngelsdorp) and USDA-APHIS (Dr. Robyn Rose), the BRL screened an extensive set of research samples along with U.S. bee samples collected during the USDA-APHIS National Honey Bee Disease survey. This screening confirmed that VDV was widespread in the US in 2016 and far less common in 2010. Thanks to stored samples from the National Honey Bee Disease survey, it will now be possible to track the spread of this virus in the US and guide work for virus control in order to assure the good health of honey bees and maintain them as the primary pollinator of agricultural crops. There is no indication that VDV1 is significantly more virulent than DWV in US honey bees, and the advice to reduce levels of Varroa mites remains the same for both viruses. We are seeking to inform colleagues of this discovery primarily since VDV1 is not detectable using current genetic markers for DWV, and therefore laboratory methods will need to be tailored to detect this virus. Those involved with the National Honey Bee Disease Survey will notice that VDV1 is now a reported agent in this survey.
Beekeepers across the United States lost 33 percent of their honey bee colonies during the year spanning April 2016 to April 2017, according to the latest preliminary results of an annual nationwide survey. Rates of both winter loss and summer loss--and consequently, total annual losses--improved compared with last year.
"This is a complex problem," said Kelly Kulhanek, a graduate student in the UMD Department of Entomology who helped with the survey. "Lower losses are a great start, but it's important to remember that 33 percent is still much higher than beekeepers deem acceptable. There is still much work to do."
This is the 11th year of the winter loss survey, and the seventh year to include summer and annual losses. More than 4,900 beekeepers from all 50 states and the District of Columbia responded to this year's survey. All told, these beekeepers manage about 13 percent of the nation's estimated 2.78 million honey bee colonies.
"Bees are good indicators of the health of the landscape as a whole," said Nathalie Steinhauer, a graduate student in the UMD Department of Entomology who leads the data collection efforts for the annual survey. "Honey bees are strongly affected by the quality of their environment, including flower diversity, contaminants and pests. To keep healthy bees, you need a good environment and you need your neighbors to keep healthy bees. Honey bee health is a community matter."
The Figure provide a heat map of Annual Total losses by state and in the tables below, N represents the number of beekeepers from that state answering those survey questions.
One Week Left to Take the 2016-2017 Colony Loss and Management Survey!
ONLY 7 DAYS LEFT to take the 2016-2017 Colony Loss and Management Survey!
April 30th (this Sunday) is your last chance to participate in the 2016 – 2017 National Colony Loss and National Management Survey.
Taxes are finished so there is no excuse! Please pull up a chair, pour your favorite beverage and join us in sharing your data, your management strategy, your losses and accomplishments. There is NO TIME to wait. We need your help and YOU can make a difference.
The results that are received from this survey provide valuable information that help us obtain a clear picture of honey bee health throughout the country.
Have we said that we are grateful? We are! If you don't want to do it for us, please do it for this lovely queen shown here. She needs your help too.
This copy of the survey is meant to serve as an aid to the questions that will are being asked on the survey. It is not meant to be mailed in as a hard copy submission.
We would like to thank everyone who has participated in this survey in the past and hope that you will be able to take some time out of your busy days to fill out the survey this year. You are what makes the survey successful and by taking the time to complete it, you are doing your part in contributing to the national research efforts to increase honey bee survivorship!
2016-2017 Colony Loss and Management Survey is Live: Take the Survey Today!
2016-2017 Colony Loss and Management Survey is Live!
April 1st is just around the corner and for beekeepers, that means spring and the opening of the 2016 – 2017 National Colony Loss and National Management Survey. The results that are received from this survey provide valuable information that help us obtain a clear picture of honey bee health throughout the country.
The Loss survey began in 2006 and we added the National Management survey in 2010 and from both of those, we have been able to gain actionable information on which management practices work and which ones do not. By correlating management practices with colony losses between the two surveys we have been able to refine a model to develop the best management practices in beekeeping. Click Here to view our new data management explorer tool and read our our blog on how to use the app to view the loss/management correlations.
Without the aid of the many thousands of beekeepers who participate in this survey we would never be able to obtain the results that we have received in the past and hope to continue to receive in the future.
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My name is Shayne Madella and I am the project coordinator for the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) National Honey Bee Disease Survey. We are planning to take samples in the Southern California region in late November/early December and we are looking for new beekeeper participants in the region who are willing to volunteer to have samples taken. The APHIS NHBS is a national survey of honey bee pests and diseases that has been funded annually since 2009 by the USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and conducted in collaboration with the University of Maryland, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and State Apiary Specialists. This national survey is being conducted in an attempt to document which bee diseases, parasites, or pests of honey bees are present and/or likely absent in the U.S. Specifically, this survey will attempt to verify the absence of the parasitic mite Tropilaelaps and other exotic threats to honey bee populations (e.g., Apis cerana and slow bee paralysis virus). To maximize the information gained from this survey effort, collected samples will be analyzed for other honey bee diseases and parasites known to be present in the U.S.
Additionally, funding is provided for this survey year for states to collect ~3 grams of pollen from brood frames that will be tested for >170 known pesticides. This pollen will be collected from the same composite 8 colonies undergoing the standard survey sampling and sent to the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) in Gastonia, NC for analysis. Each state is asked to send in composite samples of pollen from 10 of the 24 apiaries this year.
This cross-country survey continues to be the most comprehensive honey bee pest and health survey to date, and provides essential disease and pest load base line information. This information will help place current and future epidemiological studies in context and thus may indirectly help investigations of emerging conditions. The University of Maryland (UMD) is coordinating this survey in collaboration with the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Bee Research Lab (BRL) and APHIS.
The only requirement for the beekeeper is that they must have at least ten colonies in their apiary. Eight colonies will be sampled with an extra two in reserve if some colonies are not suitable for sampling. The beekeeper does not need to be on the property during sample besides letting the researchers into the apiary but we do enjoy the company.
2015-2016 Colony Loss & Management Survey is Live! Take The Survey Today!
Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey! Through this brief questionnaire we are hoping to gain a better understanding of current beekeeper demographics. We aim to provide current statistics to the beekeeping industry, beekeepers, and also better focus our education, outreach, and networking efforts in the beekeeping community. Your information is completely anonymous. Data will be analyzed by the Bee Girl organization's Executive Director, Sarah Red-Laird, and Scientific Adviser, Scott Debnam, and published on www.beegirl.org. This survey will close on April 1st, 2016.
While there are very succinct colony loss and honey production surveys each year, there hasn't been a comprehensive "beekeeper" survey for years. With the popularity of beekeeping on the rise, no one can argue with the fact that the beekeeper demographic has changed in the last decade. As educators, researchers, and individuals making up an industry, we should know who we are. Moving forward, having a grasp on census data of the industry will help us to know where, who, and how to reach out for better policy making, research, issue advocacy, continuing education, etc.
Federal agencies need to patch some scientific holes in their ongoing efforts to protect struggling bee populations, according to the nonpartisan watchdog agency of Congress. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) lacks a plan for monitoring populations of certain non–honey bee species, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit argues. And the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needs to collect data on pesticide mixtures to more accurately assess the risks bees face from the chemicals, GAO says.
For about a decade, beekeepers have reported losing an unusually high number of their colonies each winter. Although scientists are still trying to pin down what's behind the trend, researchers and agencies say it could stem from a combination of factors, from habitat loss to pathogens to pesticide exposure. The problem carries major implications not just for ecosystems but also for humans—bees and other pollinators help produce one-third of people's food, government figures suggest.
The White House task force identified a series of policies that agencies should undertake to protect bees and other pollinators from pesticides and pathogens, preserve bee habitats, and promote bee-friendly plants. The strategy sets a number of targets, including cutting overwintering bee colony losses to 15% (from roughly 30% in recent years) by 2025. And itidentified several areas of research that agencies should pursue, ranging from bee population and health monitoring, to environmental stressors, to bee conservation methods.
Moreover, the task force told agencies to make sure that wild and native bees weren't left in the lurch. The task force had called on USDA to monitor populations of native and wild bees, not just managed honey bees. But the GAO audit found that USDA still lacks a plan to monitor non–honey bee populations.
In response, USDA Chief Scientist Catherine Woteki told GAO that it would be "physically and fiscally impossible" to track the roughly 4000 North American species of wild and native bees But she said it would be "informative" to monitor a smaller number of "sentinel species," each of which could serve as a proxy for multiple bee species. She also said that citizen science could play a role in USDA's bee monitoring efforts.
GAO also suggested that EPA look into obtaining toxicity data from pesticide makers on how pesticides affect non–honey bee species.
Although EPA has in recent years updated its pesticide risk assessment methods to factor in a new suite of bee safety tests, the agency says it still doesn't have the necessary standardized scientific procedures to quantitatively assess pesticides' risks to non–honey bees or the effects of mixtures. Some new methods for measuring pesticides' short-term toxicity to bumblebees and mason bees may soon be ready, EPA toxics chief James Jones told GAO.
Some mixtures may be useful to identify, he suggested. But many could be challenging to assess, he suggested, at least for now, as their formulations might vary from area to area. Another challenge is that the ingredients might affect bees through different mechanisms that no single test can fully account for.
The EPA said in a statement that it was still reviewing the GAO findings. USDA's media office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey! Through this brief questionnaire we are hoping to gain a better understanding of current beekeeper demographics. We aim to provide current statistics to the beekeeping industry, beekeepers, and also better focus our education, outreach, and networking efforts in the beekeeping community. Your information is completely anonymous. Data will be analyzed by the Bee Girl organization's Executive Director, Sarah Red-Laird, and Scientific Adviser, Scott Debnam, and published on www.beegirl.org. This survey will close on March 18th, 2016.
Annually, the California State Beekeepers conduct a survey of pollination rental fees for the various crops in California. Click here to see the results of the 2015 survey. Of special note are the boxes to the bottom right of the table that lists the projected almond pollination fees, and average of $168.86 predicted this season.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2015The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is reaching out to beekeepers and farmers across the nation in December 2015 and January 2016 to gather information on the number and health of honey bee colonies, honey production and stocks, and the cost to farmers of pollination services.
The surveys will be used to develop baseline data and additional goal metrics for winter, summer, and total annual colony loss in support of the National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators. Among its goals, the Strategy aims to reduce honey bee colony losses during winter to no more than 15% within 10 years.
Pollinators are critical to the nation's economy, food security, and environmental health. Honey bee pollination alone adds more than $15 billion in value to agricultural crops each year, and helps ensure that our diets include ample fruits, nuts, and vegetables. This tremendously valuable service is provided to society by honey bees, native bees and other insect pollinators, birds, and bats. But pollinators are struggling. Last year, beekeepers reported losing about 40% of honey bee colonies, threatening the viability of their livelihoods and the essential pollination services their bees provide to agriculture.
Beekeepers should expect to receive two surveys from NASS. They will receive the existing Bee and Honey Inquiry, which surveys beekeepers about honey production, price, and stocks, but not colony health. NASS will continue to conduct that survey, the results of which are slated for release in March 2016, and which are archived at www.nass.usda.gov. Beekeepers will also receive a new survey from NASS, which the agency will use to publish state-level estimates on key topics, including number of colonies, colonies lost, colonies added, and colonies affected by certain stressors. The first results of these surveys will be published in May 2016.
In addition to surveys being sent to beekeepers, NASS will survey farmers about crops pollinated, number of colonies needed for pollination, and the cost for those colonies. NASS plans to publish results of those surveys in December 2016.
These surveys and corresponding data are part of the National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators, prepared by the Pollinator Health Task Force, which USDA co-chairs. The Strategy is a comprehensive plan to work across the Federal government and with partners to address the research, education and management challenges we must overcome to sustain healthy pollinator populations. One of the three overarching goals of the National Strategy is to reduce honey bee colony loss and to develop additional baseline data using the NASS data.
As is the case with all NASS surveys, information provided by respondents is confidential by law. NASS safeguards the privacy of all respondents, ensuring that no individual operation or producer can be identified, as required by federal law.
The NASS surveys are one part of a larger effort USDA is undertaking to promote the health of pollinators, including honeybees. Last week, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) authored a blog titled "High Five for Pollinators: Busy Bees, Bats and Butterflies," outlining five projects that agency has undertaken in 2015 to improve pollinator forage and habitat.


Due to the complex's size and the zonal layout of the combined buildings, building management resolved to do a partial replacement of their HVAC equipment, using the very high efficiency dedicated outside air system (also referred to as VHE DOAS) approach. They started with the replacement of one RTU with plans to upgrade their second RTU servicing additional areas of the building if the new, high-performance HVAC system proved successful.
After experiencing heating and fan energy savings, along with a significant reduction in monthly peak demand, the building management team immediately began to plan further HVAC upgrades, including replacing the remaining RTU, across the complex. And while building management enjoyed the savings on monthly energy bills, the building's tenants appreciated their daily experience of improved indoor air quality.


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This long-awaited follow up to the Harvey Award-nominated debut features two engrossing stories from two of the most exciting new voices in comics, Greg Stump and David Lasky. "Babette's Feast" continues the saga of Chloe and Natasha, two thrift store employees whose combatative friendship gradually reveals their secret hopes and desires. The second feature, "Four Twenty Five," tells the funny and poignant tale of a recently laid-off urban wanderer whose life becomes increasingly consumed by his obsession with pinball.
Issue one hit stores at the end of 1998 and was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best New Series.
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Chicago's G-Herbo is currently focused on making sure his rap career soars to the top of the Billboard charts. But there's more to the young man than society wants you to believe. He recently told VIBE some of his lofty plans for the future.
The 20-year-old rapper recently partnered up with New York City's Cinematic Music Group to help bring more opportunities into his life. Though, Herbo still remains as the boss of his own production company, 150 Dream Team.
However, his longtime term goals are simply bigger than hip-hop. After he stacks up a few platinum plaques and conquers a few world tours, the Windy City rapper dreams of one day owning his old neighborhood in Chicago.
"As far as my longtime goals, I want to see myself owning my old neighborhood," G-Herbo tells VIBE. "I want to own my neighborhood and create opportunities for my family, my homies and the shorties in my neighborhood. I want to show them there's more than what's going on in the city. [I want] leave my mark"
Herbo is currently on the road with Pusha T on his Darkest Before Dawn tour.
Watch more of Herbo's interview below.


Sumit Morjaria, a specialist solicitor in medical negligence law, has successfully claimed compensation on behalf of the family of an elderly lady, who died from a brain injury following a fall at a care home.
Noelle had been a full-time resident at a care home in the West Midlands since December 2011. In 2006 she was diagnosed with dementia. She also had a history of tinnitus and symptoms of dizziness. As a result, she was often unsteady on her feet with a well-known history of falls.
Over the following months the care home recorded unexplained bruising and a fall. Neither Noelle's son nor daughter were informed of these incidents.
In March 2012 the family visited Noelle to celebrate her 80th birthday. They noticed a large bruise on Noelle's left cheek. Due to her dementia, Noelle was unable to say how this had happened.
Over the course of Noelle's stay at the care home her mobility declined. She required help to stand from a sitting position and was unsteady on her feet.
Despite this, the risk assessments completed by the care home staff indicated that Noelle did not have a high risk of falls. Their scoring however was found to be incorrect as they failed to take into account Noelle's history of falls and intermittent confusion relating to her level of dementia.
In October 2012 Noelle's daughter received a call from a member of staff at the care home, who informed her that Noelle had been rushed to hospital, following a serious fall.
Upon admission to Hospital Noelle was unresponsive and unable to communicate. She had suffered a significant brain injury. X-ray's also confirmed that she had fractured her left hip from the fall.
Noelle remained in hospital and underwent a hip replacement operation. Unfortunately, her post-operative condition deteriorated and sadly, Noelle died in hospital.
Noelle's family were shocked and saddened to learn of their mother's fall at the care home and approached Sumit Morjaria of Access Legal for assistance. Sumit helped the family through the legal process and a substantial out of court settlement was reached to reflect the pain and suffering caused to Noelle.


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Fuel degrades over time. Imagine this worst case scenario: just when you need to switch to your emergency power supply, the fuel has gone off and the generator won't start. Maybe the fuel lines are blocked or water has contaminated the system. At such a critical time, the last thing you need is another problem to resolve.
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ADERCO breaks down contaminants in fuel and prevents harmful agglomorates from forming.
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Replacements parts, shipping of parts, down-time: these are all costly to an organisation. Furthermore, equipment failures can lead to contract penalties, off-hire charges, and costly emergency recovery plans.
ADERCO reduces engine wear and improves reliability, giving you a more linear operation with predictable and sometimes extended maintenance schedules.
Diesel fuel may contain up to 7% bio content, which may be less stable than refined diesel and may also attract water and bio contaminants. The bio fraction of the fuel may also start to degrade more rapidly than the refined fraction, resulting in stratification in the fuel tank and potential problems with injectors. These problems are most likely when the fuel is stored over a period of several weeks. ADERCO surfactant treatments, such as ADERCO 5000, are designed to homogenize fuel, preventing the different fractions from separating. It also drives out water contaminants and inhibits the formation of bio contaminants.
Modern ultra low sulphur (ULS) fuels have undergone an aggressive process to remove essentially all of the sulphur, leaving only 0.001% (or 10 parts per million – PPM). It seems that in some cases, this can leave the fuel with a poor lubricity rating. ADERCO L1050 Lubricity Improver was designed to mitigate this risk and has been show to restore lubricity in even very 'dry' fuels. It is extremely concentrated, requiring only one litre per 20 tonnes of fuel. This means that the cost to treat one litre of fuel is very low, certainly compared to the potential cost of any damage caused by poor lubricity.
Industry needs to show it is making every effort to improve its approach to the environment. ADERCO has been proven to reduce particulate matter (a recognised carcinogen). It can also reduce gaseous emissions and noise – click here for more details. In addition to these direct benefits, ADERCO also has indirect benefits: by providing a more linear operation (see above) the supply chain can be rationalised, giving a lower carbon footprint.
Fuel stores are another key area where ADERCO can help the environment at the same time as improving efficiency. At some point all fuel tanks need cleaning and, eventually, they will need to be decomissioned. The sludge that builds up is obviously harmful to the environment and requires specialist cleaning teams and disposal. All of which is costly and could incur downtime.
ADERCO will clean fuel tanks in situ, during operation – another problem solved.


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Enea Appoints New President and CEO
Per Åkerberg, today COO of Enea, is appointed President and CEO of Enea, starting March 27 2009
Enea® has since May 2008 had board member Åsa Landén Ericsson as acting President and CEO. The board, after having screened external as well as internal candidates, appoints Per Åkerberg, currently Enea's Chief Operating Officer, as new President and CEO .
"Per Åkerberg has in his role as COO acted as Enea's global sales director. He has strongly contributed to Enea's expansion on the global telecom market the last few years", said Åsa Landén Ericsson in her role as a representative of the Enea board. "Per has a thorough knowledge of the company as well as our market, and the board is convinced that he will continue to successfully grow Enea."
Per Åkerberg, born 1966, started at Enea in 2004 as President of the subsidiary Enea Embedded Technology and since 2006 as COO. During these years Enea has grown with 40 percent (2004-2008). The strategic decision to expand the company's software portfolio has been successful and today it has grown to become the market's broadest offer of real-time operating systems, middleware, network protocols, databases and tools. Per has also strongly contributed to establishing Enea operations in new markets, such as Asia and North America. Prior to Enea, Per worked for Telelogic as Senior Vice President for Sales in Central Europe and North America and for Telia Megacom. Per has a M.Sc. in Business Administration and Economics from Sundsvall University.
"I am honored and proud to receive this vote of confidence by the Enea board", said Per Åkerberg. "After almost five years with Enea I know the company well and I am eager to pursue its development."
Per Åkerberg starts his position as President and CEO of Enea on March 27.
Åsa Landén Ericsson, President and CEO Phone: +46 8 507 140 00 or email: [email protected]
Per Åkerberg, COOPhone: +46 8 507 140 00 or email: [email protected]
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Stephen Engelberg was the founding managing editor of ProPublica from 2008–2012, and became editor-in-chief on January 1, 2013. He worked previously as managing editor of The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, where he supervised investigative projects and news coverage. Before that, Engelberg worked for 18 years at The New York Times as an editor and reporter, founding the paper's investigative unit and serving as a reporter in Washington, D.C., and Warsaw. Engelberg shared in two George Polk Awards for reporting: the first, in 1989, for articles on nuclear proliferation; the second, in 1994, for articles on U.S. immigration. A group of articles he co-authored in 1995 on an airplane crash was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Projects he supervised at the Times on Mexican corruption (published in 1997) and the rise of Al Qaeda (published beginning in January 2001) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. During his years at The Oregonian, the paper won the Pulitzer for breaking news and was finalist for its investigative work on methamphetamines and charities intended to help the disabled. He is the co-author of "Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War" (2001).
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Barra lodge is set in one of the most picturesque areas in Mozambique, with spectacular views of pristine beaches and the warm clear waters of the Indian Ocean and is situated just a few kilometers from Inhambane.
At the bar and restaurant you can indulge your taste buds while relaxing to the sight and sound of the waves gently breaking on the shore.
Fresh seafood dominates the menu, with prawns, calamari and fresh line fish remaining the ever-popular favorites.
The tropical beach bar is a very popular meeting place, and creates an atmosphere of relaxation, where the best fisherman's yarns are heard.
Here you are invited to gather and watch beautiful sunsets, participate in beach volleyball, pub games or simply sip and enjoy exotic cocktails.
The warm Indian Ocean offers safe bathing all year round. The wide open, squeaky-clean beaches offer endless hours of strolling pleasure.
Adjacent to the lodge is the salt-water mangrove with crystal clear waters which one can explore by boat or on foot.
A huge diversity of game fish abounds in these waters including Sailfish and Marlin.
Barra lodge also boasts a fully equipped dive Centre with all the necessary facilities.
There are a number of reefs. and pinnacles, some . close and some further away, with dive depths varying from 8 meters to 30 meters offering a variety of diving experiences.
Here you can also enjoy a romantic stroll along the beach, or an exhilarating gallop through the coconut plantations on one of the rider-friendly horses.
The accommodation at Barra lodge is comfortable I and offers various options to suit everybody's needs.
This consists of 19 casitas and 1 family casita as well as 20 self catering cottages and 2 bunkhouses. There is also a luxurious live-aboard yacht.
Barra lodge's 11 campsites can accommodate 6 people each.
The campsite is situated behind the dive Centre, amongst coconut trees, a short walk from the beach. Electric points and water taps are provided.


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Q: C# Petición httpGet usando FromHeader (no consigo pasarle argumentos) muy buenas, querría obtener una serie de determinados objetos usando Skip() y Take(), pero cuando en mi controlador los uso no consigo pasarle el parametro int de skip en el headers
Mi método:
[Route("getSome")]
    [HttpGet]
    public IEnumerable<Pelicula> GetSome([FromHeader] int saltadas)
    {
        List<Pelicula> peliculas = _context.Pelicula
            .Include(i => i.Creador)
            .Include(i => i.TipoPelicula)
            .Include(i => i.ClasificacionEdad)
            .Where(w => w.EstaBorrado == false)
            .ToList();

        return peliculas.Skip(saltadas).Take(2);
    }

Usando Postman y pasándole el parámetro "saltadas" desde el header no me lo coge, alguna idea de por qué puede ser esto? Lo he probado desde el cliente y tampoco. Gracias a todos de antemano.

A: Al final no conseguí pasarlo por el header, pero encontré una alternativa que me hizo el apaño, lo paso por aquí para el que le venga bien:
 [HttpGet("getSome/{saltadas}", Name = "getSome")]
    public IEnumerable<Pelicula> GetSome( int saltadas )
    {
        if (saltadas == null) {
            saltadas = 0;
        }

        List<Pelicula> peliculas = _context.Pelicula
            .Include(i => i.Creador)
            .Include(i => i.TipoPelicula)
            .Include(i => i.ClasificacionEdad)
            .Where(w => w.EstaBorrado == false)
            .ToList();

        return peliculas.Skip(saltadas).Take(100);
    }

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Over the past two years, man-made climate change has been increasingly evident in extreme weather and other impacts. These include the record-breaking summer melting of Arctic sea ice in 2012, heatwaves in the US and Australia and Typhoon Haiyan, the most powerful typhoon ever recorded to hit land.
In its most recent report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that 'warming of the climate system is unequivocal' with many of the observed changes being unprecedented over decades to millennia.
Climate change has already resulted in Arctic sea ice decreasing in extent, glaciers shrinking almost worldwide, sea levels rising by 19cms (since 1901) and oceans becoming increasingly acidic.
Climate change is already costing the world $1.2 trillion per year and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people each year through extreme weather, drought and conflict.
The IPCC is 95% confident that the cause of the climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and land use changes by humans. It states that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have increased to levels unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years.
Current national and international measures to cut emissions in such a way as to keep below 2 degrees of global warming and avoid crossing 'tipping points' are wholly inadequate.
Some eminent climate scientists are now warning that the limit of 2 degrees of global warming may itself be a "dangerous target" as catastrophic events will be triggered by a 1 degree rise in temperature. Governments need to investigate these warnings.
Nations should implement radical short-term emissions cuts consistent with the latest science while working to reach an international deal to avoid dangerous climate change. To avoid global warming of more than 2 degrees we must not emit more than our remaining carbon budget of 565 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide – leaving eighty per cent of proven fossil fuel reserves in the ground.
Notes and references available on the Kirklees Campaign against Climate Change's website.


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Wonder What Happens at Digitrax Entertainment SoKnox Studios?
Written by Becky Chaffee
Published: December 11, 2014 at 2:47 PM [UTC]
Interview with Cathy Vangieri, Project Manager
I love to see a successful creative career - this one combines music and education to make children's learning CDs. When my kids were very young, I got a free CD out of the second hand bookstore giveaway bin. I think it was called "5 a Day, Dole Adventures". The games all emphasized nutrition, getting 5 helpings of fruit and vegetables a day, and had many unique math games (counting calories and weighing different foods on scales). My 3 year old spent hours with this game and for many years was determined to have his 5-a-Day. And to this day, as a college boy, he still doesn't eat candy! I attribute it all to that CD at the right age. So I strongly believe the right learning CD's can do worlds of good.
The SoKnox (Knoxville, TN) Studios of Digitrax Entertainment are professional recording studios that create and record music and animation for Television, Games, Apps, Commercials, Radio and Film. As the Project Manager, Cathy Vangieri oversees SoKnox Studios session bookings, events, tours, and publicity. DigiTrax Entertainment is America's premier karaoke company, bringing interactive music, apps and products to the web, mobile and social media. DTE is the only company based in the USA delivering licensed digital karaoke for streaming and download.
1. Violettes: Tell us a little about some of the projects that the SoKnox Digitrax Entertainment Studios are working on.
Ms. Vangieri: In addition to recording music for DigiTrax, SoKnox is currently recording original music for a local groups, vocalists and a singer/songwriter from Nashville. The animation studios are in full swing animating a new children's series for learning about letters - which was just released, Sing and Spell.
2. Violettes: Can you tell us a little about your music background or bio?
Ms. Vangieri: I've always had a passion for music, visual media and teaching. My career activity spans all three! While studying radio and television production in college, I was busy behind a camera on various video productions and managed a musical act. I was on the ground floor in the public relations department when MTV Networks was just beginning, was introduced to the art of audio mastering while at Polygram Records, and became a devoted educator - as a mother, elementary school teacher and tutor. Now, I'm producing and directing Sing and Spell – a fun musical animation series for learning about letters. It's the perfect blend of all of my experiences.
3. Violettes: I was lucky enough to attend your SoKnox opening event and hear Mark Radice, DTE Creative Director, perform some of his Sesame Street Songs. He actually signed on with RCA records at the age of seven, and has earned the nickname, "The Song Doctor". Does he write any of his own music any more, or mainly for your clients.
Ms. Vangieri: Mark writes continuously. He's been writing for 50 years and has a catalog of over 5,000 songs! We're planning a new release in 2015 which will include a collection of his songs. He oversees all the recordings done in the SoKnox studio. Additionally, he wrote most of the original songs for the Sing and Spell - Learning Letters series. And they are brilliant!
4. Violettes: When I visited, I had fun playing with your teach yourself guitar toy (Play a Tab), where I played a guitar with visuals telling me where to move my fingers along with music accompaniment. That was a lot of fun. What is your most popular "toy" for families? Most popular App?
Ms. Vangieri: For musicians, the Play a Tab app is a great way to practice and even perform. DigiTrax has created a fun way to practice and play music with color-coded tabs, and a lyric prompt for singing. So you can play and sing along. There's an APP for that and we're making sure it's working perfectly before it's released.
5. Violettes: Do you have any fun stories about recording sessions at SoKnox Studios?
Ms. Vangieri: There are many! We recorded live performances of Cereus Bright and Caleb Hawley during the weekend of the Rhythm and Blooms Festival. The Knoxville Music Warehouse sent a video crew; the performances and recordings were top notch! WBIR-TV contest winner for 'Knoxville Unplugged' recorded here – we enjoyed working with her and her lovely family. The Sing and Spell productions have been very fun. We recorded character actor performances for the animations – there was a lot of creativity flowing! For the Sing and Spell Christmas Sing-Along we had sessions which included Santa, Elves, reindeer and the Three Kings (who are rappers)! And then we have Mark Radice. Every time he plays is a treat. He played his original 'Catching Some Z's' a Sing and Spell – Learning Letter's original. It amazing; I got teary-eyed! Whenever he sits at the keyboard in our main room – the studio stops to experience his magic.
Magic Indeed - Listen to a sampling of the Digitrax Entertainment Studios animation project, and hear the Mark Radice fun for yourselves.
Digitrax Entertainment Studios animation Project, "Sing and Spell"
SoKnox Digitrax Entertainment Studios are donating a professional recording of the Songwriter winner of the ViolettesbyBecky.com "2nd Annual Youth Composition and Songwriter Competition".
Becky Chaffee is Owner of Violettesbybecky.com
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Blanching is a wonderful technique for producing perfectly cooked, crispy vegetables that retain their color. The method is also useful for aiding in the removal of skins from particular items by softening them in a controlled manner. It's also used for altering or coaxing unwanted strong flavors out of foods, like in the example of tannins.
The process of blanching is a simple one; you just boil your food in seasoned water to perfection, then pull from the boiling water and put your food in an ice bath to halt the internal cooking process. The cooking time is determined by what you're cooking, its thickness, and the desired doneness. If you're unsure of the timing, a tip is to constantly check for doneness by pulling a piece out and throwing it in the ice bath for a bit and giving it a taste. Another potentially useful tip is to bundle your items together with butcher twine; this makes fishing the items out of the boiling water easier, because you have to keep in mind that your food is still cooking while you're fishing for it. Once the food is in the ice bath don't forget about it. You only want it in there to stop the cooking process, if left for too long your food can become waterlogged.
During the boiling portion of the blanching process, surface microorganisims are killed. The high heat produced halts the natural enzymatic processes occurring within food that lead to spoilage, prolonging freshness. The rapid cooling immediately stops the cooking process aiding with the retention of nutrients, all while promoting a more vibrant color.
Blanching is a great technique if you're serving something for a cold preparation, or fantastic as a partial cooking step for something that's going to be finished off later in another cooking process. However you decide to use the technique, it's a kitchen essential for producing wonderful food.


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ErisX's Productive Year Concludes with the Launch of Futures Market
CHICAGO & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ErisX today announced the launch of their futures market, starting with a physically-delivered Bitcoin futures contract. Digital asset futures products are traded alongside the Exchange's digital asset spot market on a unified platform providing price transparency and collateral efficiencies. Investors will also be able to access the ErisX futures contracts starting next year via futures commission merchants (FCMs).
"We met aggressive goals this year as we closed funding, strengthened the team, secured state-level money transmitter licenses, and also developed modern infrastructure including a brand new matching engine and futures clearing system from scratch," said Thomas Chippas, CEO of ErisX. "After the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) granted us a Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) license this summer, we have been focused on our offering and are thrilled to be ending the year with the launch of our futures market."
As a CFTC-regulated exchange, ErisX's regulatory framework, transparent marketplace as well as clear and consistently applied rules for market participation make a superior venue for execution and clearing needs. With support from a wide array of investors and partners, ErisX has made digital assets available through traditional financial services infrastructure.
"ErisX has taken many steps to build out their intermediary-friendly model for digital assets including the consideration of how many FCMs manage back-office processes through FIS," said Bob Fitzsimmons, Executive Vice President, Wedbush Securities. "We look forward to playing a role in ErisX's marketplace and enhancing the digital asset trading and investing experience."
"The launch of ErisX's fully regulated futures market is a significant development for the digital asset industry," said Chris Larkin, Senior Vice President, E*Trade. "The more accessible contract size and transparent order book provides first time market participants exposure to digital assets through a familiar mechanism."
About ErisX
With in-depth experience delivering and operating a fully regulated marketplace, ErisX provides access to the digital asset space with a broad offering of both spot and futures contracts on one platform. ErisX is integrating digital asset products and technology into reliable, compliant and robust capital markets workflows. With a regulated, liquid and accessible offering, ErisX will enhance the digital asset space for institutional and individual traders alike.
ErisX Futures are offered through Eris Exchange, LLC, a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) registered Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Eris Clearing, LLC, a registered Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO). The CFTC does not have regulatory oversight authority over virtual currency products including spot market trading of virtual currencies. ErisX Spot Market is not licensed, approved or registered with the CFTC and transactions on the ErisX Spot Market are not subject to CFTC rules, regulations or regulatory oversight. ErisX Spot Market may be subject to certain state licensing requirements. ErisX, Eris Exchange, and the ErisX and Eris Exchange logos are trademarks of the Eris Exchange group of companies.
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press@erisx.com
ErisX Concludes Productive Year with Launch of Futures Market


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Again, special thanks go to Alessandro Pezzè for the Chrome add-on GithubOriginalStreak.
The third release of the binb package just arrived on CRAN, and it comes with a new (and very crispy) theme: Monash. With that we are also thrilled to welcome Rob Hyndman as a co-author.
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fashion_cavalier: Things that need to happen!
1. I need to get some of my own photographs of fashionable people in my city up.
2. I need to have an adventure through the historical area of Port Elizabeth and document it's redevelopment - some buildings have been beautifully restored! And ofcourse photographs will follow.
3. My friend Sarah-Jane and I are going to tie-dye and I need to document our efforts and post pictures! Black and dark green tie-dye - can't wait!
All this before the start of university in February!


My wife and I went on a school tour for our son. The campus looked pretty nice to me, but afterward my wife dismissed it as a school for "high achievers." But don't we all want to be high achievers? Am I missing something?
I don't think your wife is anti-achievement. On the contrary, I suspect she knows the difference between a real achievement, and an achievement in name only. Unfortunately (for a huge number of reasons I won't get into here) our society is littered with phony achievement traps.
There's a reason so many of us don't remember much of what we "learned" in school, and then we go on to spend our professional lives doing things that are almost entirely forgettable.
A lot of schools, public and private, are built around pushing kids toward fake achievements. "Jump for the biscuit, Billy!" Know what I mean? It's completely extrinsic, man. Outside of yourself. Chase the carrot. Oh, and don't get hit by the stick. Carrots and sticks, man.
The sad thing is, by the end of the process, these so-called high achievers are completely divorced from themselves and from their own intrinsic motivations. And if they're divorced from themselves, what are they usually married to? Jobs that are completely driven by external rewards, especially money.
Midlife crisis hits these people pretty hard. They often feel like they wasted entire decades chasing other people's carrots instead of their own.
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Binance Coin – Who is behind the crypto currency?
The crypto currency is used on the trading platform of the same name. Binance is one of the younger trading platforms; the exchange market was only launched in July 2017. Changpeng Zhao, Yi He and Da Hongfei are mainly responsible for the development. Changpeng Zhao is the founder of BijeTech, a computer software company, and OKChain. Since Hongfei was involved in the creation of the crypto currency NEO.
Many of the crypto currencies available on the platform come from Asia. The trading platform is particularly located here, in China, Japan and Southeast Asia. It is noticeable that Bin-ance trades a particularly large number of old coins, i.e. alternatives to Bitcoin. More than 80 different crypto currencies are available on Binance says onlinebetrug. The exchange exchange is particularly suitable if you want to convert Bitcoins and Ether Altcoins into, these two sizes of the cryptoscene can be exchanged for almost any other coin. You cannot buy BinanceCoin here, the coin can only be exchanged for other coins. In general, only crypto currencies are exchanged for other crypto currencies, the purchase with cash is not possible. Read more about it on onlinebetrug.
Although Binance is still relatively young, the exchange market is now one of the four largest brokers for crypto currencies in the world. There can be various reasons for this: On the one hand, crypto currencies are popular in Asia, especially in China. Trade in digital currencies has been established there for some time. And China is one of the largest economies in the world, with a lot of capital in it. At the same time, the Chinese government seems to be heavily involved in trading in crypto currencies. There are already signs of this among the developers of the NEO Coin, who cooperate with those of Binance. So it doesn't seem unlikely that the coin development was also nodded off by the state institutions here.
Although the exchange is mainly located in Asia, it is also available in several European languages and is becoming increasingly popular according to the review by onlinebetrug. At the beginning of the year, the rush to the file-sharing sites was so high that many could no longer allow new registrations. Binance also closed its doors for a short time until the infrastructure was overhauled. The online trading platform is expected to have 2.9 million users and a trading volume of 4.3 billion US dollars. The Ethereum code website is now allowing new registrations again.
Binance offers various incentives for its users: Airdrops (free coins) are distributed regularly to users. Users with a high turnover are rewarded with tokens. The "Community Coin of the Month" is a vote in which the community decides each month which new Altcoin will be added to the exchange exchange as a trading pair. Bina/nce thus gives potentially relevant new crypto currencies a chance and keeps its offer fresh. In addition, unlike most currently active crypto exchanges, Bina/nce Initial Coin Offerings can be performed.
The PIVX coin attaches particular importance to security and privacy. Some call it the only correct crypto currency in recent years. That's why the developers also renounced an ICO and burned the pre-scored tokens that were needed to start the blockchain. This is not about coins as speculation objects. What the prognosis could look like nevertheless, one experiences here.
PIVX Coin – What is this Bitcoin code?
The PIVX crypto currency is a coin used for anonymous transactions. In this respect, the PIVX coin is one of many Bitcoin code. What is special about PIVX is the combination of several technologies. The transactions are encrypted by the CoinMixer. This was already used for the crypto currency Dash.
The CoinMixer breaks down the coin to eight standard values (1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000). These anonymized units are called zPIV. A complicated process ensures that these shredded units arrive at the right address. For outsiders, however, the transaction is not traceable. This process is based on the Zerocoin protocol, which was originally intended to be used by Bitcoin.
The coin offers further advantages in the area of the consensus algorithm. This is used by blockchains to create new blocks and add them to the chain. Transactions are then verified and executed. PI/VX uses the principle of staking, in which the coins on the PIVX wallet are frozen, i.e. "staked". The frozen coins cannot be used for transactions for a certain period of time. As a reward the staker receives some coins, but this happens randomly with each new block, which should happen about every 60 seconds.
PIVX Coin – Who is the Bitcoin trader behind the crypto currency?
The more coins the Bitcoin trader staked on the wallet, the higher the probability of earning a few coins. PI/VX uses the Bitcoin trader Quark algorithm to validate the transactions, which consumes only a few resources. Many other coins, and especially Bitcoin, consume much more power in order to carry out transactions at all.
Master Nodes offer another way to buy the coin in order to earn money. Master Nodes are computers on which there is a PI/VX wallet with 10,000 coins of the crypto currency. The master nodes are used to verify and encrypt transactions and also store the blockchain. The owners of the master nodes can participate in democratic decisions regarding the future of the blockchain. Using master nodes, revenues from staking are not accidental.
Every year, the network distributes 2.6 million coins. What sounds like hyperinflation at first is actually a well thought-out concept of development. Coins are also burned annually when the offer has reached a certain mass of coins. At the same time, a large proportion of the coins on the network are also stored on the PI/VX wallets. In total, it is expected to hold 90 % of the total stock. This means that the crypto currency is conceptually closer to traditional currencies.
Behind the PIVX Coin development is the community. The participation in the development is completely voluntary, everyone can contribute. Participants can decide to remain anonymous in the sense of the crypto currency or to confess publicly. Even though this approach might not seem very professional, a team of software developers, marketers and general supporters has come together. The team is constantly looking for new members, including social media and bloggers, to make coin development better known.
The looping crypto currency will have to assert itself against some competitors. Not necessarily on the part of other crypto exchanges. Basically, Loop/ring is not trying to destroy other exchange exchanges and determine the market as the sole trading place for crypto currencies. Rather, the crypto currency should provide more liquidity on the market. Competition threatens in the form of other crypto exchanges. 0x, for example, provides decentralized nodes that function as their own exchange exchanges.
Bancor, Blocknet and Kyber Network also offer a kind of order placement service that automatically determines the best exchange pairs. They also want to ensure liquidity between ERC20 tokens. Usually only one of these decentralized marketplaces prevails. Whether it will be the looping coin remains to be seen.
After all, the development is not yet complete. However, the blockchain can count itself lucky that an experienced team of programmers and consultants is working on the development. Also the connections to already existing file-sharing exchanges certainly help the crypto currency to a small advantage.
Buying Loopring Coin is still very cheap. The crypto currency is still young and is strongly undervalued. An early investment could be worthwhile in the long run.
Buying Loopring Coin was possible for the first time at the end of October 2017, when the coin went to market with a value of 13 to 14 cents. In this area, the LRC coin price remained stable until the middle of November. From then on, the price gained steadily in value and moved steadily towards the 20 cents per coin. The price reached these values in the first half of December, where it fell briefly below 20 cents or even reached 25 cents. In the second half, the price moved between 25 and 30 cents per coin and on some days even exceeded the 30 cents.
A real rally to the crypto currency took place in January 2018. In the first days the value of the crypto currency increases to 50, then 90 cents, finally to over 1 euro per coin. Then another jump to the 2 Euro took place. Afterwards the Coin lost again in value and sank to under 1 euro. In February the coin seems to hold at around 50 cents.
What does this tell us regarding a looping coin forecast? It's probably still too early for that. Many other crypto currencies experienced a similar price increase as the one in January 2018. The LRC Coin will probably follow the general market developments for a while. This means that the coin could gain or lose value in the near future. In 2018, it will probably be trading better than the year before in terms of the average looping coin price. Ultimately one has to wait and see what the further development will bring and whether this crypto currency will be able to assert itself against the competition.
There is no official wallet yet. Since it is an ERC20 token, all wallets can be used that can store Ethereum-based coins. MyEtherWallet is a good choice for this. You can get them on the official MyEtherWallet website. Just go to "Create New Wallet" and download the keystore file. With this one gets the private key and finally the private address of the Wallet.
Where can I buy the Loopring Coin?
You can buy the Loopring Coin on Gate.io, Coin Exchange, Binance, Yobit and HitBTC. Usually you have to exchange them for Bitcoins or Ether, the purchase with US-Dollar is possible on Gate.io and Yobit.
The Loop ring token exchange has a lot of potential. A decentralized platform that makes the convenient exchange of all types of ERC20 tokens possible. You just have to see if Loopring can hold its own against the competition.


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Lucie to star in 9 to 5: The Musical in Massachusetts
By Brock,
August 14, 2012 in The Desilu Productions
Playbill.com reports that Lucie will be starring in a production of 9 to 5: The Musical at the North Shore Music Company in Beverly MA in September and October!
Lucie Arnaz Will Star in North Shore 9 to 5 The Musical
By Andrew Gans
Lucie Arnaz, who starred in the late Marvin Hamlisch's They're Playing Our Song, will play the role of Violet Newstead in the North Shore Music Theatre's upcoming production of 9 to 5 The Musical.
Directed and choreographed by Richard Stafford, performances are scheduled to play the Massachusetts venue Sept. 25-Oct. 7.
Arnaz will be joined by George Dvorsky as Franklin Hart, Jr. and Kathy St. George as Roz. Additional casting will be announced.
9 to 5 The Musical is based on the film of the same name and features Dolly Parton's original hit title song along with her Tony Award and Grammy-nominated score.
Featuring a book by Patricia Resnick (co-writer of the original screenplay), 9 to 5 The Musical, according to press notes, "tells the story of three unlikely friends who conspire to take control of their company and learn there's nothing they can't do — even in a man's world."
For ticket information visit www.nsmt.org.
SOURCE: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/169048-Lucie-Arnaz-Will-Star-in-North-Shore-9-to-5-The-Musical
Desiluforever
LocationConnecticut
Oh thats only 2- 2.5 hours from my house! Maybe I'll see it, thats wonderful!
Luvsbway
LocationPA
Was this the role Allison Janey did on Bway?
Exciting! Maybe I'll make a trip to MA to see it.
Mot Morenzi
How cute! Not a huge fan of the show, but it's a good role for Lucie.
Mister Hepburn
Yup! And, for those curious, it's Lily Tomlin's role in the film.
HarryCarter
I'm very excited about this! I'll be there!
Annaleigh
LocationWisconsin
Lucie has injured a disc in her back and has been forced to withdraw from the production. I hope Lucie feels better soon! I was looking forward to seeing her in the show.
Wonder how she did that. Too much kinky sex. HAHA. Hope she gets better soon.
C L A U D E
LocationMontreal, Canada
You probably already have your tickets.
PasadenaTrenton
LocationLos Angeles, CA
OMG! Do tell how this conclusion was drawn!
Poor Lucie! I hope she feels better soon! By the way, HC and Brock, I FINALLY got my $100 (worth it) picture with Lucie from the cocktail party. Hope you guys have gotten yours as well!
Excellent! Mine came last week. And yes, totally worth it! lol
I think whenever Lucie is in or getting ready to tackle a new musical someone needs to put her in a protective force field. First her Dirty Rotten Soundrels knee injury and now this!
Because that's how everyone "slips a disc."
I got mine too! I'm glad you got yours.
Lucyilove
LocationLUCYville
I hated to hear 9 to 5 was something of a flop on Broadway, I think it would have been a hit with bigger stars. Like Allison Janney well enough but I don't think she could support a musical on her own. The movie had three big stars, the musical should have had the same.


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After repeatedly denying it until election night, Mayor Fred Eisenberger declared that the election that resulted in his 22,000 vote victory over challenger Vito Sgro was a referendum on Light Rail Transit after all. He told CHCH that he would be conferring with the new council with a view to calling a council "affirmation" vote on LRT early on. A detailed examination of the vote, however, suggests there is still significant division in the community and that a majority of the voters in at least eight city wards actually voted against LRT.
For the purposes of this examination the Bay Observer counted the votes of the council candidates in each ward according to their position for or against LRT, based on their responses to media surveys and their own campaign literature. Then the mayoralty votes in each ward were added to the totals. Excluded were a small number of candidates who did not respond or who provided unclear answers.
With Ward 12 and 13 up in the air, there was an even split–approximately 100,000 votes for and against LRT– in the remaining wards. The polarization was evident in the spread between pro and anti-LRT votes. In the five lower city wards the pro LRT vote outnumbered the anti LRT side by over 37,000 votes; but the reverse was the case in the eight mountain and suburban wards where the anti-LRT side posted a 38,000 vote majority. The only ward where the count was close was the newly-drawn Ward 8 where John Paul Danko, an LRT supporter won the seat but where anti-LRT votes posted a narrow 600 vote majority.
Interesting analysis. I do not believe there is a reasonable person left in town who doesn't realize that this "vision" has divided the community. I remember Fred dismissing the notion of an actual referendum on LRT as a needless expense-estimated at the time to cost as much as $1M to implement.
And I am hearing that Ford and Skelly believe they are now beholden to assume responsibility for the associated expense, and that a YES or NO proposition is now being considered for resolution on the matter.
We should have started there.
Crosstown LRT is not exclusive of Hamilton's transit system. It's part of it. Hamilton can invest in transit to complement the provincial investment. Pretending otherwise while claiming to advocate for local transit investment merely betrays critics' lack of familiarity with the file.
The main thing "dividing the community" is tendentious "analysis" such as the above, and manufactured horse-races designed to generate clicks and nothing more. The results of this election, as is true of the provincial election, speak to a city that is far more progressive than the old guard is prepared to accept. And so they grump and grouse.
The main "challenger" in this election was barely worthy of the descriptor… merely a useful idiot, a stooge propped up by vindictive Tories looking to have Hamilton nullify its transit agreement with nothing in its stead but the hot air of an unelected official, humblebrag heresay from an MPP who locks her doors against constituents, and vacuous words from a Transpo minister since turfed to MNR (no thanks to his sister, a highway construction lobbyist).
Crosstown LRT is not exclusive of Hamilton's transit system. It's part of it. Hamilton can invest in transit to complement the provincial investment. Pretending otherwise while claiming to advocate for local transit investment merely betrays critics' lack of familiarity with the file.The main thing "dividing the community" is tendentious "analysis" such as the above, and manufactured horse-races designed to generate clicks and nothing more. The results of this election, as is true of the provincial election, speak to a city that is far more progressive than the old guard is prepared to accept. And so they grump and grouse.The main "challenger" in this election was barely worthy of the descriptor… merely a useful idiot, a stooge propped up by vindictive Tories looking to have Hamilton nullify its transit agreement with nothing in its stead but the hot air of an unelected official, humblebrag heresay from an MPP who locks her doors against constituents, and vacuous words from a Transpo minister since turfed to MNR (no thanks to his sister, a highway construction lobbyist).
Despite claims about a divided city, it is obvious that while there is work to be done in terms of increasing issue awareness on a number of fronts, there is a case to be made that the electorate was hungry for a more substantive debate on a range of issues that was unfortunately eclipsed by certain pundits' insistence on presenting a single-issue election. The arrival of new blood in a number of races is cause for optimism, if guarded optimism. It's also notable that a progressive (and unapologetically pro-LRT) candidate managed to mount a very substantial campaign against a veteran suburban councillor in a ward race that would have been too close to call had the outgoing rural councillor not bestowed his blessing on the incumbent. Finally, the gender balance on council now finally approximates a representative sample of the City. It wasn't that long ago that council managed no better than two female councillors. That imbalance has now been redressed.
BTW, you could forgive someone reviewing the above data experiment for thinking that you're building toward a call for ranked balloting. After all, in any given election, the majority of citizens don't vote for the person who ends up representing them.
and obviously it goes without saying that a progressive (but virtually unknown and unapologetically anti-LRT) candidate managed to mount a very substantial campaign against a veteran politician and incumbent Mayor, securing 4 out of every 10 votes cast while running on a single platform.
Yes, we are progressively polarized.
There was obviously a degree of opposition to the LRT project that council has been pursuing single-mindedly for the last decade. How much of that was based on a critical analysis of the pros and cons and how much was rooted in fearmongering and wishful hypotheticals (like a billion-dollar shopping spree) is another matter.
It's certainly true that the new ward boundaries (a byproduct of suburban and rural councillors' refusal to acknowledge proportional representation and agree on any of the dozen ward redistribution maps before them, instead wasting a quarter-million in consultants' fees and opening the door to OMB decision) impacted the mayoral race (as well as the Ward 13 race). As such, there was a variation on the 2010 deamalgamation ruse at play.
"Vito Sgro understands Flamborough's concerns and shares our priorities," Partridge said in a press release. "That's why I am very pleased to support his campaign for mayor." She added she believes Waterdown and Flamborough issues have been ignored for too long and she and Sgro will make sure Flamborough has a strong voice.
Sgro found a quarter of his supporters in Wards 12 & 13 (which absorbed the former Ward 14), and Ward 15 (which was part of Flamborough 1974-2000). It's uncontroversial to suggest that a large measure of those votes arose from the angst around ward distribution alone.
"In Hamilton political circles, Vito Sgro is a well known Liberal campaign organizer who prefers working behind the scenes instead of in the spotlight.… after playing insider roles in scads of federal and provincial Liberal election campaigns, what Sgro does have is backroom smarts.
In Wards 4, 5, 9 & 10 (aka Hamilton East-Stoney Creek), Sgro's home turf, the riding association he has campaigned on for more than a generation, the challenger found another quarter of his support (and an endorsement from anti-LRT grump and perpetual ghost mayor Bob Bratina, HESC MP).
So at least half of Sgro's support could easily be traced to factors other than his platform. And because Dreschel anointed him "the challenger", all other candidates were factored out as hopeless, giving him visibility and credibility that other mayoral hopefuls lacked. So even though he avoided debates and critical engagement with the media, he became the go-to for dissenting and disenchanted voters. This is not to take away from the show leather politicking that he undertook, but earned media was a huge part of the equation, and all of that came about because he was identified early on as a well-connected Liberal insider who knew all about running a great ground game.
And while we're on ideology, let's not forget about the role that Ontario PCs played in boosting Sgro's vote count. All of Hamilton's provincial PC riding association presidents endorsed Sgro, as anti-LRT politico MPP Skelly effectively did by sticking her oar in repeatedly (in part, no doubt, to repay the kindness shown to her by Mayor Eisenberger during the provincial election).
Single-issue, maybe, but let's not over-simplify the electoral dynamics.
4 out of 10 voted against LRT, in a vote Fred claimed had very little to do with LRT, then quickly proclaimed was an overwhelming endorsement for LRT.
One issue. The City is divided….and if this actually occurs, you'll be able to see the scar running right down the middle of town.
Don't worry. We'll spend the next 10 years trying to burn that $1B. This is Hamilton, after all.
despite your pessimism and the complete absence of leadership from the Mayors office, I believe that $1B will ultimately be used to transform the City, injecting much needed revenue into the HSR with BRT and system wide enhancements, upgrades for D.A.R.T.'s and it's vulnerable users, and a safe cycling network that will keep cyclists off of our busier roadways and actually improve safety.
All while your busy burning.
That was sarcasm. I was playing off your chronic negativity.
All of what you have suggested is doable and within the CIty's ability deliver on its own — it just has to dedicate existing federal and provincial gas tax revenues to transit and cycling infrastructure. It is not and has never been an either-or proposition. The provincial commitment to crosstown LRT can be undertaken at the same time as the municipal government invests in sustainable transportation initiatives (with or without matching grants from federal and/or provincial governments).
I'm gratified to see that you basically agree with me. Considering how urgent you feel the problems are, however, I'm not sure why you would advocate delaying overdue investment until some indeterminate point in the future when a government dedicated to austerity decides to start delivering $1B "gifts" with no strings attached simply because it fulfils a Liberal promise. (That said, your position is off-the-charts optimistic, so my "chronic negativity" diagnosis no longer holds.) In provincial and federal gas tax revenues, the City has the means at its disposal to easily double or triple capital investments in these areas starting in the 2019-2020 budget cycle, with no further burden upon the taxpayers of Hamilton. Why wait?
My preference would be to invest existing federal and provincial gas tax revenues to transit and cycling infrastructure as you've described, so that positive changes could begin in the coming 2019-2020 budget cycle rather than being put on ice until the province has eliminated debt and deficit and is cutting $1B blank cheques to any municipality that needs them.
we now agree what I propose is positive, we just disagree on who should pay. I'd prefer to cash the cheque and put it to good use, you would prefer to increase the Municipal burden.
At least we have established this. Progress.
If you (or anyone else getting this far) re-read my comments, you'll see that I have proposed allocating existing revenues from senior governments toward the transit and sustainable transportation priorities you have identified, ASAP.
You have proposed postponing said investments until a $1B blank cheque arrives. Even the most generous estimate of when that might be would put it somewhere in the neighbourhood of 2025.
Delaying infrastructure investment only increases the municipal burden.
I propose using that $1B for things we want and need.


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CET Young Photographer 2016
The Creative Education Trust launched its photographic competition for a third year in May 2016. Students of the eight CET secondary schools were invited to submit a photograph or series of photographs addressing this year's brief: Photograph an object or collection of objects in a way that creates new meaning. Give your photograph a title.
Each participating school is paired with a professional photographer to introduce the project and give insight from their careers. Halfway through the competition process they also offer one-to-one tutorials to each of the students, giving expert advice not often offered available to students of this age.
Steve Macleod, photographer and Creative Director of Metro Imaging, launched the project at the Rugeley Academies in Staffordshire and worked with participating students at the schools. Marysa Dowling, Othello De'Souza-Hartley, Leon Chew and Helen Cammock were our guest photographers at the other schools: Caister and Lynn Grove Academies in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk; Thistley Hough Academy in Stoke-on-Trent; Abbeyfield School, Northampton; Ash Green School, Bedworth; and Weavers Academy, Wellingborough.
An impressive 131 entries were submitted to the competition, from Year 7s at the start of their secondary school journey to A-level students nearing the end. The judging panel of Steve Macleod, Metro Imaging; CET Chief Executive, Marc Jordan; and Jon Dickson of Hitch Marketing considered the shortlist of 24 finalists, in the end choosing two competition runners up and one overall winner.
The runners-up both came from Weavers Academy in Wellingborough: Pacey Langley for 'There is no I in team'; and 'Sheltered' by Lauren Sweetman. Coached by photographer Leon Chew, both showed an aptitude for the constructed still life.
The CET Young Photographer title for 2016 is awarded to Megan Bullock of the Rugeley Academies for 'Life'. The judges were impressed that Megan had seen and captured a passing moment and, in doing so, given an emotional quality to the leaf she had photographed. Congratulations to Megan for her accomplished image. Click on the images below to see the full photographs.
Life, Megan Bullock; Sheltered, Lauren Sweetman; There is no I in team, Pacey Langley
Supported by Creative Education Charitable Trust, the competition is indebted to Michael Dickson CBE, Non-Executive Director of CET and former Chair of the Happold Trust and of Buro Happold Ltd for his keen and sustained interest in the competition and for generously providing prizes for the winning students and schools. The CET Young Photographer competition owes further thanks to Metro Imaging Ltd. for their generosity in producing the prints for the exhibition and to Buro Happold for hosting the final.