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For three weeks each summer, the Alliance Theatre assembles a diverse group of 20 teenagers from metro Atlanta to explore and unpack a piece of history under the guidance of a professional playwright and director. The teens use improvisation, choreography, and their writing to create a completely new and one-of-a-kind performance piece. It's intensive and high-impact theater, and that's why it's been dubbed The Collision Project.
Playwright Pearl Cleage is Artist-in-Dialogue at the Alliance Theater, and she has been working on the project for three years now. She spoke with WABE's Lois Reitzes about how she goes about getting young people to "collide."
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I got involved in a project that picked up momentum and just drove by, we're almost at the end of a really busy start up of The Rail Garden. We started with a Community Meeting:
Then we realized we needed to generate some start up money and good will so we hosted a Community Dinner. Four women, three wagons and one smartphone later we hosted dinner for our neighbourhood. One hundred and twenty of our neighbours came and broke bread together. It was a beautiful thing.
It was important for us to try and give back to the community as quickly as we could after the support we got at the community dinner so Carly, one of our committee members, ran the first free community event. Art in the Garden. We invited the children of our 'hood to come and paint shapes to take back the chainlink fence. It was amazing to see them join in.
Of course we didn't finish work that day so we worked until we finished them. By we, I mean neighbours, friends, family, gardeners and their children showed up week after week to help us finish the beds, build a shed and composter. Our community is as invested as we are. It is inspiring. I have been working slowly on putting this piece together over weeks with minutes stolen during naptime, between meetings and gardening. Since the last work bee we've had kids from the local schools plant the community beds - tomatoes, herbs, strawberry beds and pollinator gardens. It fills me gratitude to have been part of this project on my maternity leave.
Fenner wanders through our house and neighbourhood singing "With My Own Two Hands" and it has been by the luxury of my maternity leave that I've been able to show her what that looks like in real life. I hadn't even heard this song until she started singing it.
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When everything around you is looking drab, these bright and cheerful flowers will keep your premises looking warm and inviting.These are ideal for brightening up your home throughout the winter months. And with the right vase, your artificial creation can have the same impact as a real bunch, without withering or shedding petals. Whether you want to make a statement with a striking display, or add a subtle posy to breathe life into your home.
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Poor training has left Philadelphia police officers with the mistaken belief that fearing for their lives alone is justification for using deadly force, the Justice Department said Monday in a review of the city's nearly 400 officer-involved shootings since 2007.
Ten people have been arrested at a raucous protest at a Philadelphia community meeting after the district attorney declined to press charges in a fatal police-involved shooting.
President responds to policing task force report.
More contradictory claims have surfaced in the investigation of Brandon Tate-Brown's death.
The panel's goal is to strengthen bond between police and communities.
President Barack Obama is calling for $75 million in federal spending to get 50,000 more police to wear body cameras.
Philadelphia police are investigating an incident with Philippe Holland, 20, a pizza delivery man who was shot three times by plainclothes police officers on Tuesday night.


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Seth Eastman (American artist, 1808-1875) Scalp Dance Of The Dakotas
Born in 1808 in Brunswick, Maine, Seth Eastman (1808-1875) found expression for his artistic skills in a military career. After graduating from the US Military Academy at West Point, where officers-in-training were taught basic drawing & drafting techniques, Eastman was posted to forts in Wisconsin & Minnesota before returning to West Point as assistant teacher of drawing. --- While at Fort Snelling, Eastman married Wakaninajinwin (Stands Sacred), the 15-year-old daughter of Cloud Man, Dakota chief. Eastman left in 1832, for another military assignment soon after the birth of their baby girl, Winona, & he declared his marriage ended when he left. Winona was also known as Mary Nancy Eastman & was the mother of Charles Alexander Eastman, author of Indian Boyhood. --- From 1833 to 1840, Eastman taught drawing at West Point. In 1835, he married his 2nd wife & was reassigned to Fort Snelling as a military commander & remained there with Mary & their 5 children for the next 7 years. During this time Eastman began recording the everyday way of life of the Dakota & the Ojibwa people. Transferred to posts in Florida, & Texas in the 1840s, Eastman made sketches of the native peoples there. This experience prepared him for the next 5 yeas in Washington, DC, where he was assigned to the commissioner of Indian Affairs & illustrated Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's important 6-volume Historical Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition, & Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States. In 1867, Eastman returned to the Capitol to paint a series of scenes of Native American life for the House Committee on Indian Affairs. From the office of the United States Senate curator, we learn that in 1870, the House Committee on Military Affairs commissioned artist Seth Eastman 17 to paint images of important fortifications in the United States. He completed the works between 1870 & 1875. Of his 17 paintings of forts, 8 are located in the Senate, while the others are displayed on the House side of the Capitol. Eastman was working on the painting West Point, when he died in 1875.


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Photo by PRPhotos.com The WWE posted a holiday edition of their "Bad Lip Reading" knock-off called "Bad Lip Sync". It's a bunch of current wrestlers with new audio dubbed in, so it looks like they're talking about Christmas.
Photo by PRPhotos.com If you need some inspiration, check out a montage of the best motivational speeches from over 30 different sports movies. Some are them are dramatic, like Al Pacino's speech in "Any Given Sunday" . . . and some are goofy, like Chubbs in "Happy Gilmore" ,...
Check out this old commercial for HOT Dr. Pepper... and check out Tony's Periscope today to see Pat and the DGS try it for themselves!
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Indianapolis -- Simon Property Group announced the appointment of Matthew Lentz as executive VP and chief investment officer.
In this newly created position, Lentz will be responsible for SPG's investment activity including the company's international investments. Lentz, who will be based in Simon's New York office, will serve as a key member of SPG's executive team and report directly to David Simon, SPG's chairman and CEO.
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SPRING HILL — A passer-by did a double take when she saw the little boy wandering around alone outside a home Thursday afternoon clad in a diaper and playing with live electrical wires.
The woman called the authorities, and deputies found the front door of the house in the 4300 block of Lamson Avenue unlocked and open. No adult was watching the 3-year-old as he played with wires at the air-conditioning unit.
Deputies found the mother, Melissa Ann Crossman, 19, sleeping under a pile of blankets in a bedroom in the home. A 1-year-old girl was asleep in a crib next to her, according to a Hernando County Sheriff's Office report.
After being awakened, Crossman told deputies, "Ah, he got out of the front door again," the report said.
Crossman told deputies she put down her son for a nap in another bedroom, put her daughter to sleep in the crib, and then took a pain reliever for a headache and fell asleep.
A caseworker summoned from the state Department of Children and Families searched the house with a deputy and found that the girl's crib had only a mattress covered with food stains and crumbs, with no sheets; "poisonous chemicals and cleaners" were easily accessible to the children; and liquids were spilled all over the bathroom floor, among other things.
The boy's bed was a mattress on the floor, and deputies found food-caked dishes throughout the kitchen and trash on the floor. None of the smoke alarms in the house was functioning, with only exposed bare wires visible.
Asked to show the authorities how he got out of the home, the boy easily unlocked the dead bolt and opened the door. The child's grandmother, Diane Lashley, who also lives at the house, told deputies that the child-safety latches had been broken for some time.
Deputies also noted that bruises and scrapes were found on the boy's body but authorities were unable to determine whether they were a result of abuse.
Crossman was arrested on a charge of child neglect and taken to the Hernando County Jail, where she remained Friday in lieu of $1,000 bail.
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I love the wobble and the graininess to it... Makes it very eerie. The crow sound effects also do their job quite nicely. I think perhaps you could have added some distortion to make it even scarier... White noise, perhaps? Or doubled the track for an echo? Or doubled the track and compressed one of them into garbled muck.
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This makes me want to kill....
This music is making me want to kill something. Its sick and twisted. But it's very well put together. I might have to listen to this when I write my story later... 10/10
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Supremely scary! The bird sounds make it even better. As a horror fan I know scary pretty well, and this is freaky! Just perfect for scary atmosphere.
Thanks for your input. I love horror music too especially from movies and games.
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This reminds me very much of We Don't Go To Ravenhom. My fave chapter in HL2 by far. Very creepy, the crows definately give you the impression of an abondoned cornfield or a farm at night, and the atmosphere that sort of comes with it.


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Fit: Runs small
I ordered my street size women's 9 based on other reviews. Shoes are way too tight, can barely squeeze my toes in. Will try to exchange for size 10.
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Nice jazz shoe for beginners, does run a little large. I would order one or one and one half size larger than street shoe not 2x as recommended.
Age: 22-29
I bought these jazz shoes for my son. I ordered a size 2 sizes above his street shoe size and they fit just fine. He has only had them for 2 weeks so I can't really speak to durability.
I just received my shoes in the mail and OMG i love them first time i ordered them they were too small had to order two sizes bigger and they are amazing .
Age: 30-39
These were the perfect starter shoe for my 2nd grader boy in beginning Irish dance. His teacher didn't want the young boys to have much of a heel at all. And the price on this site can't be beat! I sized up 2 from his street shoes like the description suggested, and they fit perfectly.
Couldn't be happier with this purchase! And I'm so grateful not to have to buy $100 shoes for a beginner!
my son (9 years old) is in a musical for a local acting school for which a pair of jazz shoes are required for rehearsal and performances. my son has very long skinny feet and wears a size 4 in kids street shoes. when I followed the chart his kids 4 converted to an adult 6 (which fit him perfectly). Initially I followed the additional instructions and added 2 more sizes (because he is a male) but realized when we got the size 8 pair in the mail they were way too big and that I should have just completed the child to adult conversion and stopped. So, I ordered the 6 (and again, they fit perfectly!). I have returned the size 8 pair for a refund. I have not rated the durability yet as he has not worn them yet for me to tell how long they will last but considering the brand and other reviews I am confident they will be a good investment.
Ordered 2 of these pairs for my boys who needed them for a play they were in. I wasn't sure if they were boys or girls or unisex shoes. I ordered a wide in their size and hoped for the best. They were true to size and very comfortable for them.
I am pleased with the whole transaction.
The order was easy to place and received the items quickly.
They were soft and comfortable from the start.
Very satisfied.
These leather jazz shoes run true to size in both length and width. I thought they might run snug or slightly small, but they didn't. I ordered these jazz shoes for my teenaged daughter. Had to re-order (street shoe size) since we bought 1/2 size larger on the first attempt. Very pleased with quality and flexibility. Will order new size, and return the other pair for refund. (Exchanges can take up to 3 weeks, they say.)
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I got these for a musical audition. They fit pretty true to size. My current sneakers are 8W and that's what I ordered in the jazz shoes, and there's the same thumb-width of space in front of my toes that my sneakers have. The jazz shoes WERE a bit snug when I put them on, but they're dancing shoes and they're supposed to fit your feet a bit closer than sneakers, etc. By the time the dance workshop was done, the leather had stretched out to a much more comfortable level. They looked smart and professional and helped me feel that way.
The only real drawback was that I could feel where the patch of sole (sole patch? :-P) under the balls of my feet ended and after standing for a while it did hurt. That may lessen the more I wear the shoes, and my feet tend to hurt anyways.
This items runs much smaller. I ordered 2sz bigger than street size and the shoes were still tight. Now I will have to return them for a bigger size. over all I like the feel of the fabric and I'm sure once I get the right fit they will be awesome.
Street size (to fit extra heel-length of orthotics): 13W (E-Series size 14W). Full-length padded orthotics fit nicely. (Padding needed for minimal-interior shoe with exposed cloth inner surfaces.) Toe box fitted with folds beneath toes & ball of foot so area of sole outside of turning-pad will wear but I haven't used them enough to give wear-potential, and only use them up to one night/week (Social English Country and Contra dancing). I'm grateful for a shoe that's large enough and also tan rather than black. It's trim-looking and very flexible.
This is a great shoe for beginners and experienced dancers, with a clean look. They last a good amount of time. You definetly get your money's worth out of it. My personal favorite of all the shoes I've worn. Vey good shoes.
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These shoes are sized for women, you will see the suggested fitting says women order street size and men must order 2 sizes larger.- DDS Customer Service (03/20/2014)
My son wears a 10-1/2 in street shoes and I ordered him a 12-1/2 in these jazz shoes and they fit him fine. - Juliem951 (06/05/2015)
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My child wears a 6 child/boys shoe. Should I get him a 8 adult shoe?
Yes, A child size 6 would convert to an adult size 8.- DDS Customer Service (09/30/2013)
Yes. My son wears a 3 boys shoe. The size 5 dance shoe was perfect! - Mnirishdancemom (09/05/2014)
The outer sole on this shoe is rubber.- DDS Customer Service (02/05/2013)
Split-sole, with "rubber" (firm, fingernail-dentable plastic?) thin ball of foot and 3/8" thick heel.
It moves well, is very trim & flexible (and obviously flat). - Sasquatch (05/27/2013)
I'm a size nine in adults so what size should I get in the jazz shoe?
Maybe a ten. - Sasquatch (05/27/2013)
I would advise to order a half size to a whole size bigger than your street shoe size. I personally wear a half size larger.
If you have any questions, please contact Customer Support for further assistance.- DDS Customer Service (06/01/2015)
Yes, if your child wears a child size 2.0, please increase the street shoe size by 2 and follow the sizing suggestion for the shoe being ordered. The 4.0 would be the suggested size for this style, although sizing is only a suggestion not a guarentee.- DDS Customer Service (09/24/2012)
Yes. I purchased an adult 5 for my son who wears a size 3 in street shoes and they fit perfectly. - Mnirishdancemom (09/05/2014)
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It may go by several euphemistic names, but seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a very real condition that can affect your mood, your concentration, and your health. However, there are a few things you can do to lift your spirits.
As the name implies, seasonal affective disorder usually begins in the fall and continues throughout winter. While we can't pin down the specific cause of SAD (genetics, age, and your body's own chemical makeup can play a role), the medical community believes that reduced exposure to sunlight is the main culprit. The shorter the days, the more melatonin (sleep hormone) is produced. Paradoxically, levels of serotonin (happy hormone) go down.
Is it no wonder, then, that an estimated 25 percent of the general population report symptoms of SAD? Ask yourself if you've experienced any of the following:
- Tiredness
- Craving for foods high in carbohydrates
- Oversleeping
- Weight gain
- Difficulty concentrating
The good news is that you don't have to accept SAD as an annual fact of life. Even slight modifications in three key areas will brighten your mood between now and the first signs of spring.
Stay active. When it comes to physical activity, something is better than nothing. It only takes a short amount of regular, moderate exercise to release endorphins that minimize pain and create a feeling of wellbeing. Try walking, cleaning house, or any other moderate activity for 20 minutes a day.
Eat like you do in the summer. We all think of winter as the time for heavy, comfort foods like potatoes, pasta, and rich stews. But these high-carb foods really do weigh you down. Make sure you eat plenty of green and leafy vegetables, drink at least 48 ounces of water each day, and don't skip meals.
Let the sunshine in. Try to get outside by running errands on your lunch hour. If it's not icy, park farther away from the office or supermarket door to increase time in the sun. If getting out is difficult, you can purchase a light therapy, or phototherapy, box online. Just make sure it is designed for treating SAD and emits 10,000 lux of light. It's important also to note that while a mere 10 – 15 minutes a day is all that's needed, you should begin using phototherapy before the time change in November to reap real benefits.
Most importantly, don't let SAD take over your life. We all get the winter blues from time to time, but hopelessness, despair, drinking to excess, or thoughts of hurting yourself are signs of something more serious. Don't be afraid to ask for help — see your doctor right away. We're here to heal you, body and mind.
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Jacey from Jaceycraft joins us in our August Handmade Holidays series with a pretty table runner that works for the holiday season and beyond. This "scrapâ€friendly" runner would be a great gift all year long!
See more from Jacey in her introduction, and download your Scrappy Festive Table Runner Tutorial PDF today!
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"American Horror Story" is a television series that is known to throw strange twists at its audience. The creators are really trying to out-do themselves in this season's "Coven" storyline with a cheesy cameo from a rock star one character worships. It was an egregious call for a ratings boost for the show, but if you judge the appearance of Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks on Wednesday's episode, who sings a piano rendition of "Rhiannon" for the witches, on it's own merit, it's a nice callback.
You can watch her "play" the piano and sing the song in the video below. Beware: There is a spoiler or two in it, so if you're not caught up on the story you may want to hold back.
For those of you who don't care about the storyline, the frame of reference here is that Misty Day, played by Lily Rabe, is a witch that was inspired to hone her craft because of Nicks' "Rhiannon," which she played on repeat, spinning around her little shack like a little girl pretending to be a princess. The internet has even taken to referring to the character as Stevie Nicks — that's how much they hyped this cameo from day one.
Apparently, if you're a witch that can bring people back to life, you get to have your idol brought into your coven to play a private show for you and your unimpressed witch friends. [Spoiler alert] Emma Roberts' character reflects the mark of narcissistic nihilism often attributed to her Twitter-obsessed generation by saying she wished Eminem had been brought in to play the piano instead of a rock icon of the '70s, a musical goddess. No respect from youngsters these days.
"Rhiannon" was originally released on Fleetwood Mac's self-titled album in 1975 and was voted 488 in the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone.
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Be the talk of the town when you roll down the street in this handsome 2017 Volkswagen Passat. This car is nicely equipped with features such as Passat SE Lighting Package (Front Fog Lights w/Static Cornering Lights, LED Headlights w/LED Daytime Running Lights (DRL), and LED Tail Lights), 2017 Volkswagen Passat, 6 Speakers, Automatic temperature control, Blind Spot Sensor, Bluetooth, Brake assist, Electronic Stability Control, Emergency communication system, Exterior Parking Camera Rear, Fully automatic headlights, Heated front seats, Illuminated entry, Passat 1.8T SE, Power moonroof, Radio data system, Radio: Composition Media AM/FM/HD w/CD Player, Reflex Silver Metallic, Remote keyless entry, Speed control, Speed-sensing steering, Steering wheel mounted audio controls, Titan Black w/V-Tex Leatherette Seating Surfaces, Traction control, and Wheels: 17 Knoxville Alloy. This spirited machine can turn the everyday driver into a gearhead as they experience a whole new kind of acceleration and exceptionally potent power. Click here to visit our website or call usSutliff Volkswagen is proud to be Central PA's largest new and preowned Volkswagen dealer! Our volume gives you the best selection and the best price! Price does not include tax, title and license fees. Price reflects: $1,000 - Sell Down Customer Cash. Exp. 10/02/2017
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Language Immersion For Elementary KidsSome schools are beginning language immersion programs as early as 1st grade. Researchers claim these initiatives begin when children are most receptive to picking up a language and speaking it fluently with little or no hint of a foreign accent.
Two Delaware High Schools Receive Bomb Threats, Students DismissedDelaware State Police are currently investigating bomb threats at two area high schools.


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YSRCP MLA Amarnath Reddy from Palamaner to join TDP - ABN
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One more YSRCP MLA likely to give jolt to Jaganmohan Reddy. MLA Amarnath Reddy, who is representing Palamaner Assembly constituency in Chittoor district may join TDP soon in the presence of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. Reddy is holding talks with his followers in his constituency about joining TDP. An announcement from Amarnath Reddy over joining TDP is expected soon. Jagan has been unsuccessful in preventing his party MLAs from joining TDP.


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E-discovery: Managing the duty to preserve voicemail
Litigants increasingly seek discovery of voicemail. In a matter in which there is a duty to preserve electronically stored information, there may also be a duty to preserve voicemail messages.
Hugh Grant, Charlotte Church's priest sue News Corp.
"A movie star and a priest walk into a courtroom …" It might sound like the beginning of a joke, but News Corp. likely isn't laughing.


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No Stone Left Alone Memorial Foundation is a non-profit organization working directly with our Canadian Armed Forces, educators across the country, and numerous volunteers to EDUCATE, ACT and HONOUR our military fallen that lay in the Fields of Honour across Canada.
Our purpose is to recognize the sacrifices of our military and place a poppy, the symbol of Remembrance on every headstone. Through our ceremonial efforts, our main goals are to educate and engage the next generation as well as to help raise awareness and funds for our Canadian veterans, serving soldiers and their families.
2016 marks the 6th annual commemoration ceremonies for No Stone Left Alone Memorial Foundation. Thank you to everyone who has helped us along the way.


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Nosocomial infections and antimicrobial resistance are two special health issues listed in Annex 1 of Commission Decision 2000/96/EC of 22 December 1999 on the communicable diseases to be progressively covered by the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Nosocomial infections correspond to infections acquired in hospitals. The term "Healthcare-associated infections" is now preferred because it includes not only infections acquired in hospitals, but also in other settings where healthcare is provided, e.g. long-term care facilities, nursing homes, home care, etc.
Microorganisms – also called microbes – include bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.
Antimicrobials are medicinal products that kill or stop the growth of living microorganisms and include among others:
Antimicrobial resistance, i.e. being resistant to one or several antimicrobials used for therapy or prophylaxis, is not a disease but a characteristic that may apply, as a matter of principle, to each of the microorganisms responsible for the communicable diseases listed in Commission Decision 2000/96/EC and for nosocomial and other healthcare-associated infections.
Antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms, including multidrug-resistant types, are often responsible for healthcare-associated infections, but they are also responsible for infections in patients outside hospitals and can be found as part of the normal bacterial flora of healthy individuals, in pet animals and in the environment. They are also responsible for infections and isolated from food-producing animals and sometimes isolated from foods.
Conversely, many healthcare-associated infections are caused by microorganisms that are not resistant to antimicrobials. The two concepts are thus really quite separate, but for historical and professional reasons they are often dealt with together.
Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of a microorganism (e.g., a bacterium, a virus, or a parasite, such as the malaria parasite) to resist the action of an antimicrobial agent.
For bacteria, antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria to resist to the action of an antibiotic.
Multidrug resistance corresponds to resistance of a microorganism to multiple antimicrobials.
Examples of common multidrug-resistant bacteria are:
The two major drivers for antimicrobial resistance are:
The two major areas for management, control and prevention of antimicrobial resistance therefore are:
Part of the burden of antimicrobial resistance in the EU is due to antimicrobials used in food-producing animals.
However, the major cause of antimicrobial resistance in microorganisms from humans remains the use of antimicrobials in human medicine, in the community and in hospitals and other healthcare settings.
At individual/patient level:
At population level:
Based on Directive 2001/83/EC and national legislations in Member States, antimicrobials to be used systemically (i.e. not locally) should only be dispensed at pharmacies upon presentation of a prescription, usually from a medical doctor. Despite this, dispensation of antimicrobials without a prescription still occurs at pharmacies in several Member States.
Since October 2008, it is possible for patients in the UK who are asymptomatic but who have a diagnosed genital infection with Chlamydia to obtain from pharmacists (without a prescription) a single dose of the antibiotic azithromycin, representing a complete treatment course. This is the only exception where systemic antibiotics can be dispensed without a prescription.
In a few countries, decreasing trends are being observed for antibiotic use in outpatients and for antibiotic resistance in bacteria commonly responsible for infections in outpatients.
In a few countries, decreasing trends in resistance are also being observed for one microorganism responsible for healthcare-associated infections, namely MRSA.
The EARSS Annual Report 2007 indicated that seven Member States now report significantly decreasing percentages of MRSA among Staphylococcus aureus from bloodstream infections.
This is likely due to increased efforts on infection control, hand hygiene and antibiotic policy in hospitals in these countries as demonstrated by national data from, e.g. Slovenia, France and UK.
Despite these encouraging experiences, antimicrobial resistance still is high or increasing in a majority of Member States, in particular for common bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Additionally, cases of infections due to bacteria totally or almost totally resistant to antibiotics are currently emerging in the EU. Examples of such bacteria are carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Enterobacteriaceae (often Klebsiella pneumoniae), andmultidrug-resistant Acinetobacter. There is no rational choice of antibiotic therapy for treating such patients and treatment often relies on old and toxic antibiotics such as colistin.
This new trend is worrying since there are very few compounds in the research and development pipeline that would potentially have an activity against these bacteria and could be marketed within the next 5-10 years.
Modern medicine relies on availability of effective antibiotics in the case an infectious complication occurs or for prophylaxis of infection. Without effective antibiotics, intensive care, organ transplants, cancer chemotherapy, care of preterm babies, or even common surgical procedures, such as hip or knee replacement, would not be possible.
Because antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms fail to respond to therapy, infections due to these microorganisms result in greater risk of death, prolonged illness and stay in hospitals and greater risk of death. The total burden of antimicrobial resistance across all the communicable diseases listed in Commission Decision 2000/96/EC (including nosocomial infections) is currently unknown. Preliminary estimates of the number of deaths directly attributable to hospital-acquired infections due to the most common major multidrug-resistant bacteria are 1/3 to 1/2 of that for hospital-acquired infections overall (see below) (ECDC, preliminary data).
Antimicrobial resistance is a worldwide problem.
Travellers that require hospital care while visiting a country with high prevalence of antimicrobial resistance, within or outside of the EU, and who are subsequently repatriated to their home country, may return being colonised or even infected by multidrug-resistant bacteria. Even without having been in contact with healthcare, people who travel in a country with high prevalence of antimicrobial resistance may return being colonised by multidrug-resistant bacteria.


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Hello all, so I was thinking all and all, the experince wasn't too bad. The drive to Miami was even fun, because of the company. So the waiting for Miss Minaj wasn't excepted, but I made friends, and ended up getting a picture with Nicki and being up front of the concert with a new friend. :')
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The best way to avoid the 'Distracted Driving or On Phone' complaint is to avoid making and receiving calls while a rider is in the vehicle. Should your phone ring and you MUST answer, please inform the caller that you are on a trip you will call them back once your trip is over.
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H7N9, Shanghai: One new birdflu case
2013 04 18, 2007 18:31 Source: Xinmin network
Exclusive reports Xinmin City Health and Family Planning Commission Bulletin, April 18 at 17:00, the city's new case of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases. Up to now, a total of 32 cases of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases, of which 11 died, 16 cases being treated in isolation, five patients have been discharged.
New cases as follows:
Patient named Ma, female, 80 years old. Patients April 9 fever with cough, headache, shortness of breath and other symptoms, go to the the Shuguang Hospital East hospital; April 16 was diagnosed with severe pneumonia admitted to hospital. April 17, City Center for Disease Control test results for the H7N9 avian influenza virus nucleic acid positive. City Health and Family Planning Organization of the municipal clinical expert group consultation in this case, the diagnosis of the cases of human infection confirmed cases of the H7N9 avian influenza. Patients are in stable condition, under active treatment. After investigation, the cases of close contact with a total of seven people have been implemented under medical observation, as of now were not unusual.
Today one of Discharged Patients are as follows:
Patients Yang, male, 66 years old, from Shanghai. Patients April 6 has been tested and confirmed human infection of H7N9 avian influenza confirmed cases, the date of transfer to the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center for treatment. After active treatment, today (April 18) discharged. (Xinmin Li Xin)


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Acute Effect of Fructose on Lipid Metabolism and Gender Differences
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It has been widely documented that fructose overfeeding increases plasma triglycerides and hepatic de novo lipogenesis, and impairs insulin sensitivity in healthy male volunteers. The effect of gender on the metabolic responses to fructose remains an important open question, however.
The objective of this study is to compare the effect of an acute oral fructose load on carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in healthy young males and females.
|Lipid Metabolism
|Dietary Supplement: fructose Dietary Supplement: Fructose
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Basic Science
|Official Title:
|Acute Effect of Fructose on Lipid Metabolism and Gender Differences
- Hepatic de novo lipogenesis [ Time Frame: acute effect of dietary fructose (within 6 hours) ]
- Whole body lipid oxidation, glucose turnover, glycerol turnover, plasma substrates, hormone and energy expenditure (free fatty acid, glucose, lactate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, glycerol, VLDL- Triglycerides and insulin) expression of key adipose genes [ Time Frame: acute effect of fructose (within 6 hours) ]
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|January 2008
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|December 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: fructose
acute fructose administration
Dietary Supplement: fructose
acute administration of 4 times 0.3g fructose/kg lean body massDietary Supplement: Fructose
acute administration of 4 times 0.3 g/kg fat-free mass oral fructose
Detailed Description:
The study is aimed at comparing the effects of oral fructose on several specific metabolic pathways in males and females.Participants will receive an isoenergetic diet containing 55% carbohydrate, 15% protein and 35% lipids for three days prior to testing. After this period of controlled diet, they will be studied for 2 hours in the post-absorptive state (Time 0-120 min) and over a 6 hours period (Time 120-480 min) during which they will receive 4 loads of 0,30 g/kg fat free mass U-13C labelled fructose, at times 120, 180, 240, 300. Throughout the study, deuterated glucose and glycerol will be infused to monitor whole body glucose production and glycerol turnover.
The following parameters will be monitored in basal conditions and after the ingestion of the load of fructose:
- Glycerol turnover(glycerol 2H5)
- de novo lipogenesis (incorporation of 13C into palmitate of VLDLs)
- whole body energy expenditure and net substrate oxydation (indirect calorimetry)
- net fructose oxidation (breath 13CO2)
- glucose turnover: (6,6 2H2 Glucose)
- plasma glucose, free fatty acids, ketone bodies, lactate, insulin, triacylglycerol, total cholesterol, VLDL, LDL, and HDL subfractions
An adipose tissue (periumbilical subcutaneous) biopsy will be obtaine by needle aspiration under local anesthesia in fasting conditions (time 0 min) and after fructose (time 480 min) to assess the effects of fructose on adipose gene expression profile. Key genes involved in the regulation of carbohydrate (GLUT 4, hexokinase, PDH-kinase), lipid (FAT-CD36, FABP, acetylCoA carboxylase, malonyl-CoA decarboxylase, PPARg) and energy metabolism (PGC-1a, UCP2)will be monitored
Results obtained in males and females will be compared with two-way analysis of variance
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 35 Years (Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Males and females
- Age 18-35
- Healthy
- Body mass indexes (BMI) between 19 and 25 kg/m2
- Informed consent obtained
Exclusion Criteria:
- Smokers
- Alcohol intake > 30g/day
- Drug abuse
- Diabetes mellitus
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00620360
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|Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, 1005
|Principal Investigator:
|Luc Tappy, MD
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|Responsible Party:
|Luc Tappy, MD, Professor of physiology, University of Lausanne
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|NCT00620360 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|February 8, 2008
|Last Updated:
|February 23, 2012
Keywords provided by Luc Tappy, MD, University of Lausanne:
dietary fructose
plasma lipids
healthy humans
gender differences
hepatic de novo lipogenesis
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In Dramatic Fashion, Michigan State Wins First Bowl Game in 10 years
The 11-3 Spartans, who trailed 16-0 at halftime, pulled into a tie after Le'Veon Bell scored a 1-yard touchdown with 19 seconds left in regulation.
It was the first time since 2001 that Michigan State won a post-season bowl game, and the first victory in five attempts while Mark Dantonio has been the Spartans' head coach. What did he have to say after the exciting win?


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E komo mai!
Welcome to Alohacash – a place where we hope to educate you, intrigue you, and invite you to become a part of our vision – a vision of business, commerce and community working together to support the local Hawaiian economy in healthy and diverse ways.
Concepts like globalization and infrastructure are an everyday part of the world's economy, but Hawaii is a little different – out here in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean (we're the most remote island chain in the world) – being reliant on imports and outside economic factors create unnecessary expense in many of our markets.
The concept of Local Currency is not that different from a barter or trade system which pre-dates much of the fiat currencies in use today. Wikipedia has a good basic outline of the concept at:
That's why we created Alohacash – as a way to stimulate trade and commerce on a local level while giving back to the community. As a community, Alohacash believes "Mai iloko mai" – that which is within matters, for all of Hawaii.
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Family literacy is at work when two generations or more — parents, children, and/or extended family members — are actively engaged in learning together. Whether you focus on literacy and education (health, reading, STEM, civic engagement, financial literacy) at home, or encourage your family to be more engaged in education and community efforts around the neighborhood, this month is a month for engaging with each other and for building skills for success!
National Family Literacy Month
National Family Literacy Month is here!
What can you do to celebrate?
These National Family Literacy Month resources are a great way to begin, and include ways to establish healthy habits, gain financial literacy skills, interact together during playtime or meal times, and discover the world around you. It's not as important what you are doing, as long as you are working and learning with others!
Reading is a terrific way to encourage hands-on fun and learning when it is centered around paired fiction and nonfiction books! The Reading Rockets reading adventure packs contain the instructions, activities, and bookmarks for you to download and print, for free. Then, you can pick the books and get started.
Practical resources are available to help parents as they take on their critical role as their children's first and most important teachers. These brochures from The International Literacy Association will lead you through the process. Some of the topics covered include reading with young children, watching television together, surfing the Web, the importance of nutrition, and more.
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Rain-damaged roads cost billions
Heavy rain causes subsidence on highways across Gansu, landing government with huge bill for repairs
Sections of nearly all national expressways in Gansu province have suffered dangerous subsidence following two months of heavy rain, forcing the government to spend billions of yuan on urgent repairs.
Tens of thousands of maintenance workers have had to be mobilised to complete all repairs by the end of next month, the provincial transport department said.
The affected expressways include the G6 from Beijing to Lhasa ; G22 from Qingdao to Lanzhou ; G30 from Jiangsu to Xinjiang ; and the G75 from Gansu to Hainan . All are part of the core of the mainland's expressway network and are strategically important for freight transport. Two provincial expressways, S1 and S2, also suffered similar damage.
The subsidence has produced many large surface cracks and holes on the roads. Some sections have even collapsed, and several highways have been closed because they are no longer safe for passengers. Those still open have seen severe traffic jams. The damage had caused losses of more than 2.4 billion yuan (HK$2.94 billion) by the end of last month.
Gansu's transport department said that heavy rain was the main reason for the damage. Rainfall in June was 20 per cent higher than usual and in July reached a seven-year high of 70mm. Officials said that the subsidence was not caused by faulty construction.
Experts said soil conditions in Gansu were not suitable for expressway construction. Professor Yan Zhixin , director of the geo-engineering research institute at Lanzhou University, said yesterday that many parts of the province were covered by a thick layer of collapsible loess, which is formed by layers of windblown silt, and tended to soften and sink after rain even without the weight of buildings.
Engineers had devised methods to reduce the problem in highway construction, such as compacting the soil around the road base and building drainage pipelines to channel water away from the roads, "but no existing methods can completely overcome the problem," Yan said.
The problem is not confined to Gansu, and presents similar challenges to road builders in Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces, which straddle the 640,000-square-kilometre Loess Plateau.
Construction scandals also made the shaky expressways even more vulnerable in Gansu. Mainland media reported last year that the 8 billion yuan Tianshui to Dingxi section of G30 was plagued by cracks and holes only half a year after completion. In one part, drivers had to go over 30 kilometres of road that "seemed to be bombarded by artillery shells," according to a report by China Central Television.
An investigation by the provincial government in the wake of public outrage found that the construction company in charge of laying asphalt had used cheap, inferior materials, changed blueprints, rushed deadlines and lowered overall construction standards. But the company, after receiving a warning and repaving the highway at its own cost, kept its licence, according to China Youth Daily. No one went to prison for the scandal and details of the investigation were never made public.
The same stretch of highway was one of those that sank this year.
Zhao Jian , an economics professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, said the central government encouraged the construction of costly super-highways across the nation, regardless of whether they were suitable for local conditions or could generate sufficient economic benefits to pay for the cost of construction and maintenance.
"China has built more super highways than the United States, with a total length exceeding 81,000 kilometres last year," he said. "Their maintenance will become a heavy burden for our children."
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St. Clair County, Michigan
Marriage Index Extracted from the LDS website
Batch Numbers: M518781, M518782, M518783
For further information go to the International Genealogical Index/North America and input your ancestor's name.
By following the letter links below, you will find the records I started to index using the Latter Day Saints website. There are literally thousands of names listed in their database. What I have listed is only a bare minimum. I urge you to go to their site and use their search engine to find your relatives. To focus your search on just St. Clair County, use the batch numbers listed above.
The following indices are for marriages microfilmed and transcribed by the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints. The original records are maintained by the St. Clair County Clerk's Office and can be viewed during regular business hours.
Other records that have been microfilmed by the LDS and can be viewed at your local Family History Center are:
Birth Records 1867-1916; Birth Index 1868-1972; Delayed Birth Registration 1934, 1936-56 - [St. Clair County Clerk]
Death Records 1868-1904; Death Index 1890-1974 - [St. Clair County Clerk]
Marriage Records 1838-1917; Marriage Index 1884-1974 - [St. Clair County Clerk] - Batch Numbers: M518781 (Source #0976870), M518782 (Source #0976871), M518783 (Source #0976871)
St. Clair County Marriages: People from Lambton County and Elsewhere in Ontario who were Married in St. Clair County, Michigan, 1839-1898
Vital Records, St. Clair Co, Michigan, 1800-1910 - [DAR, Ottowawa Chapter, Port Huron, Michigan]


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Have you worked with any behaviorally trained therapists or consultants?
He sees a therapist once a month and they prescribed medication for him, but as far a any kind of therapy he is receving speech therapy at school aand has an aide that goes to classes with him.
What would you say are his top 3 problem behaviors? And have any specific strategies worked with him?
impulse control,gets bored easily,and when is denied something he has a melt down. He is good in science and math. He does not relate well in social situtions for example telling the teacher the reason he did not want to go to his class was because it was boring.
You mentioned that his parents are separated with shared living for him between them, and some staying at grandparents homes. Who is most in charge of discipline and are all adults involved, able to work and communicate effectively together if a plan was in place to manage the behaviors in question?
He lives in the same house with his other grandparents which where his adopted father lives and he just started going half time to his mom. As far as everybody in the same page I do not think it is happening. I live in Florida and they are in Ohio. I think that his Mom is more strict and the grandparents and Dad are more lenient and also very protective like they do not approve of his driving which he does when he is here in the summer.
always with one of us.
Ok. Thank you very much for the detailed information. I've got some ideas that I think will be quite helpful. I'm going to take a couple of hours to type out my response for you and I'll research and include some links to additional resources that I think will be helpful as well. You can check back at that time and decide if you will "accept" and thus pay for the answer or not. Does that make sense?
yes and that will be no problem.
Thank you.
I'd like to start my answer by complementing you on the tremendous love and dedication that you are showing your grandson Sam. It's really wonderful to hear about such caring from a grandparent, even from such a distance. I'm also very sorry to hear about that incredible loss of money; - the program must not have been the best fit for Sam.
In the detailed information you provided during our chat session and in the body of your presenting question, you mentioned attempts at providing structure and discipline that were leading to explosive meltdowns. You also described problems relating socially at school. What I'd like to suggest is a comprehensive behavioral intervention that systematically explores what causing and what maintaining Sam's problem behaviors. An intervention that will not only effectively explain specific behaviors but that will provide you, other family members and school staff with an integrated behavior change strategy to help Sam manage those behaviors that are getting in the way of his optimal academic performance levels.
One of the most practical and cost effective ways of helping ***** *****ge and improve his behavior is to work with a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. You may have heard about Applied Behavior Analysis in work with young children with autism. What most people don't know is that the same scientific approach behind ABA interventions for autism can be applied to help a much higher functioning person like Sam. A certified behavior analyst or ABA specialist, can provide, you and Sam's parents and other grandparents, tools for collecting very precise information and then to use that information in the design of very effective positive behavior change strategies, that can be applied in his home and school settings. The analyst can also do the needed behavioral observation him or herself depending on your budget.
Having a behavioral intervention of the quality that a board certified ABA specialist can enable you to effectively rule out or identify areas of treatment that are not going to work with an environmental intervention, and which may require other types of intervention, for example medical. An effective behavioral intervention can also sometimes lead to reductions in the requirement for certain medications related to behavior, mood and attention. An ABA intervention is also equally suited to effectively teach and reinforce social skills targets and academic learning strategies that may reduce Sam's reports of boredom or difficulties relating to others and problems-solving together.
If you do decide to work with an ABA specialist I do recommend that you:
Interview a number of behavior analysts (they usually do not charge for a first telephone or e-mail consult) and ask them about their experience working with teens that fit Sam's description. Most behavior analysts will ask very detailed questions. If they don't have directly relevant experience, you can ask for referrals to behavior analysts who do have relevant experience working with kids like Sam.
Ask for free internet links and other free information sources to really help you learn about ABA and how it can best help Sam. I'd then share as much info as you can with the other adults in his life. The more they know and understand about ABA the more likely they are to feel stronger commitment to working with such an approach.
You may also ask if there are any advanced ABA graduate students who are in the process of becoming board certified, who may be willing to work with you and your family for free or at a reduced rate, in order to accumulate experience hours for their practicum towards certification.
It is also highly recommended if you do work with an ABA specialist that everyone living and working with Sam get on the " same page", as much as possible, in order to maximize the the benefit to Sam of the intervention that is developed.
Here are some links that provide more information about applied behavior analysis:
Here's a page for locating a behavior analyst by area:
You may also wish to explore "Direct Instruction" as a remedial strategy to help Sam develop academically here are some links for you to learn more. It's one of the best kept scientific secrets in the world of education for higher functioning spectrum, attention disordered, and neuro-typical kids, that there is (why is it kept secret? – I don't know.) :
If you choose to work with a behavior analyst, you can suggest an interest in exploring a direct instruction strategy at home, if there is a parent or adult willing to work with Sam.
Please let me know what you think of my answer. If it's satisfactory and helpful, please don't forget to press the "Accept" button. Thank you.
How can I email this to my daughter in Ohio?
I will research the sites that you have provided and I just talked with my daughter and she is beside herself since Sam had a really bad day at school today.
Let me forward you're e-mail question to the site moderator. One simple solution may be to copy and pasted from your answer window here, directly into an e-mail. The moderator should get back to you shortly.....
Were you able to forward this answer to your daughter?


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text: I am new to mustangs. I have had some hot rods in the past but that was years ago. They were fast but not really comfortable. I have a company car as a daily driver but the mustang I am wanting to buy will be be my primary personal vehicle. I can use the company car for whatever and my wife has her own car so I will not really be relying on the mustang for transportation but I want something nice with AC etc that the wife will want to ride in and we could take on weekend trips or whatever. I am not an avid racer or anything but I want it to be fast. My last hot rod ran high 11's. I don't necessarily need to be that fast (but it would be nice) but I don't want a slug either. I have always liked the looks of the SN-95's but doing some searching and reading they are not that fast stock unless you are talking about a terminator or something. It doesn't look like it is very cheap to make them fast either. I know nothing about these mod motors though so I may be wrong. I know the 94&5 had the pushrod motors so that is an option but I don't know which is better. The newer cars with the coyote seem pretty dang appealing with 400 hp out of the box and creature comforts also. With my background in mind what would you buy if you were starting from scratch? I don't mind doing work myself but I don't want to sink a ton of money into something that I will never get back. Lets say what would you buy with a 5k budget, 10k, 20k? Thanks


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Feb 20, 2013
A recent report by Statistics Canada estimates that the architectural and landscape architectural service industries in Canada earned combined operating revenues of $3.5 billion in 2011, which represents a marginal increase of 0.3 per cent from 2010.
According to the report, operating expenses increased by 0.1 per cent to just under $3.0 billion, over the same period. As a result, these industries generated a 13.6 per cent profit margin, which is up from 13.4 per cent in 2010.
Architectural services, which is the larger of the two industries, accounted for $3.1 billion, or 90.5 per cent of total revenues. Landscape architectural services accounted for the remaining 9.5 per cent.
In terms of revenue growth, architectural services increased by 0.5 per cent from 2010 to 2011, while landscape architectural services fell by 0.8 per cent.
The majority of the sales for the combined industries were derived from non-residential building projects (62.0 per cent).
Residential building projects generated 18.3 per cent of the sales. The remaining sales came from landscape architecture, urban planning and other related services.
For non-residential building projects, health care projects, such as hospitals and nursing homes generated the most sales (12.4 per cent).
Educational building projects such as schools, colleges and universities ranked second and generated 11.9 per cent of sales, which is down from 14.0 per cent in 2010. Although office buildings continued to rank third, their share of sales grew to 11.2 per cent in 2011 from 9.8 in 2010. Residential building projects had almost twice as much business from multi-family residential projects (12.0 per cent) than from single family residential projects (6.3 per cent).
The industry earned more than half of its sales from the business sector (51.5 per cent), compared with 36.9 per cent from governments and public institutions.
The remaining 11.6 per cent came mostly from households and partly from foreign clients.
As in previous years, most of the businesses providing architectural services were located in Ontario, which accounted for 39.6 cent of the operating revenues in Canada.
Quebec generated 20.6 per cent, followed by British Columbia (15.8 per cent) and Alberta (14.4 per cent).
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Cinque Terre and my love affair with Italy
I'm lying in the sun, with the sound of the Mediterranean sea crashing against the rocks. Periodically I open my eyes to look at the breath taking scenery and once again, my heart swells with its utter beauty. The sea changes from deep blue, to vivid turquoise and then mixes up in a swirl of colours – an artist's paradise. I feel my body temperature rise to a wonderfully uncomfortable level that I haven't felt for a very long time. I get up and wade into the chilly sea and stand there, letting the white foam wash over my legs, occasionally splashing my entire body and I grin and giggle like a child. I see some rocks off in the distance and decide to climb barefooted. I jump from one rock to the next, feeling a thrill and a carefree feeling I haven't felt in ages. I keep climbing, soaking up the beauty of the sea-worn rocks under my feet, my hands. My whole body feels alive and exhilarated and yet relaxed. I smell that old familiar smell of the sea, of my youth, of barnacles and crabs and sea weed and salt. I remember the hours and days and weeks my best friend and I would spend at the beach when we were kids. Lost in the pure pleasure of nature and the ocean. This feeling comes back to me, as potent now as it was back then. In this moment, I feel perfectly and utterly happy and at peace. This was the day that Cinque Terre officially stole my heart.
My friend Joanne and I (a fellow Canadian and current Hamburger) took a week off this May to enjoy the pleasures and beauty of Italy. You see, Italy has always been a part of me – literally. I have Italian heritage on my father's side (see my last name which means "fire" in Italian), and I have always felt connected to this culture. My great grandparents emmigrated to Canada separately, one from the north and one from the south and it was in British Columbia, Canada that they found each other. Sometimes I wonder if I got some of my adventurous spirit from my great grandma (or Nonna) who, as a mere 18 year old in the early 1900s, decided to venture all alone from Nothern Italy to North America. That lady had guts.
So, although I never learned Italian growing up, I always wanted to speak it. I always wanted to go back, maybe even live there one day. I did take Italian in a very fun series of evening courses through UBC Continuing Studies a few years back and had a blast. I was even preparing to take that leap and move to Italy, but life is unexpected. First, a Brazilian came into my life, and I started learning Portuguese, and planned a move there, then, after that didn't work out, Germany somehow snuck its way into my plans. I know that Hamburg is the place I was meant to be this year, I have no doubts. I even felt a bit guilty for loving my week in Italy so much, knowing that Hamburg might get a little jealous. Living in Germany has been an incredible experience for me, but…Italy was always my secret (or perhaps not-so-secret) lover.
We flew in and out of Milan (and spent our first and last nights there) with Ryan Air, made a lovely stop in Codroipo (about an hour and a half from Venice) for a few days to visit some of my Italian relatives, spent a day in Venice (blog post on that later), and then ventured by regional train across Italy to Corniglia, the small cliff-side village in Cinque Terre, one of the most stunning places I have been on Italy's Northwest coast and the Italian Riviera. We booked a lovely apartment, La Casetta, for a really reasonable €70 a night for both of us, and were very happy with both our accommodation and our hostess, Elisabetta. The highlight was most definitely the upper patio overlooking the ocean and bathed daily in glorious sunshine. We spent a lot of time up there.
Although Cinque Terre is full of tourists (you couldn't possibly keep a place like that secret for long), it still has the charm of small town Italian life. This is not a place you go to party, but a place you go to soak up beauty, go for hikes, spend time at the beach or just sit on a patio and eat, of course. On our first evening we were on the hunt for some Italian beer (why not, we'd had a lot of wine already at that point), and happened to stop in a little café along the "main" drag in Corniglia. We were greeted by the friendly and welcoming owner, Stefan, who welcomed us in, brought out his checkers board and encouraged us to stick around. It became a nightly tradition to stop in, and one night, while I stumbled by way through conversation in Italian and English, Stefan told us about how prosecco bellinis should really be made and that he was quite pro at making them. Sadly, he said, all that was missing was fresh peaches in his little café. Joanne and I sprung to our feet, announcing happily that we had fresh peaches and would be back in a minute. When we got back Stefan proceeded to prepare for us the freshest and most delicious bellini I've ever had – this is how they should really taste! We came back each night with peaches in tow, and he happily made more for us. So…if you ever go to Corniglia, bring a bag of fresh peaches to Café Lavarra (no website, don't worry, you'll find it) and ask Stefan for a bellini (tell him you got the idea from the crazy Canadian girls!) You won't be disappointed.
There's really so much to see within the five villages and all of it is beautiful. Each town has its own character and charm and each is worth visiting. We took a boat trip for only €8 from Monterosso al Mare to Riomagiorre and I highly recommend this. It was so lovely to be on the water and to see the villages from the water. We took the train to Monterosso al Mare and found it hard to leave that lovely beach town. It really is the most beach resort-like town of the five and the beaches truly are beautiful. If you want to be a five minute walk from the shore, then I'd recommend staying here. You'll have beach, gelato and cafés all at your finger tips – can't get much better than that.
Riomagiorre was definitely the most bustling town we visited and it seemed like there was more going on here in the evenings than in our quiet little hamlet of Corniglia. Be careful if you're visiting the towns in the evenings though because the last trains run just before midnight and after that….the only way to get home, is to hike! Also, if you opt to stay in Corniglia and miss the last shuttle bus from the train station at 8pm you have to walk the 365 stairs up to the village. We had this happen to us and well, it's really not so bad if you take your time. Hey, it might even burn off all the gelato you're eating, right?
I feel so lucky that I not only have the chance to live in Europe right now, but that I have the chance to go to places like Cinque Terre so easily. All things considered, it really wasn't an expensive trip, especially when you can cook meals in your own little apartment, and I have been telling all my friends and family that they simply MUST add Cinque Terre to their bucket lists. Whenever I do have the chance to travel and be a tourist again (as opposed to an expat living in a country) I always feel mixed though. I feel like I want the authentic experience of each place I visit and know I am just seeing the surface. Joanne and I discussed how everyone in the town made a living (tourism is obviously huge), what the youth did for fun, what it was like to live here, and grow up here. I felt like I had a moment to steal some of Cinque Terre's beauty, I got to enjoy it as an oasis and an escape, but I left with so many questions about small town Italian life. All I know is, I have to go back. One day. For now – grazie mille bella Cinque Terre! Ciao for now!
Want to see more of the many photos I took of the amazingly beautiful scenery in Cinque Terre? Check out my Flickr stream and enjoy!


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Bigger, Dirtier and Uncut
It was something of an underground phenomenon on cable television that quickly became interwoven into the country's culture, its movie spin-off is already among the biggest comedies of all time, and the DVD version refuses to budge from Blockbuster's list of the top 10 best sellers.
No, the film is not Borat, the country is not the United States (let alone Kazakhstan), and that particular Blockbuster list tracked sales in what the McKenzie brothers (ask your parents) call the "Great White North," or what Naomi Klein (ask a Nation reader) calls "Canada."
The cinematic masterpiece in question is Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, which follows the bumbling/thieving/intoxicated exploits of three lads who grew up together in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park near Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia.
Americans—and by that I mean realAmericans, not North Americans or some inclusive shit like that—are unlikely to have heard of Trailer Park Boys, save for the occasional stoner who stumbled upon late-night reruns on BBC America. Those who stuck with the no-budget show long enough to get hooked like it's gutter meth know TPB is the funniest thing to come out of Canada since Ken Finkleman's The Newsroom and one of the best TV comedies ever produced on the North American continent—and this time I am being inclusive.
It's small wonder the Trailer Park Boys TV series—which begins its seventh season on Canada's Showcase cable network in April—and movie are genuine sensations in their home country, spinning off books, Genie Awards (Canada's Oscars) nominations and concert tours, including in-demand appearances at college campuses by supporting actors John Dunsworth and Patrick Roach, who play alcoholic trailer-park supervisor Jim Lahey and his shirtless, pot-bellied lover Randy, respectively. The movie also may have inspired the hacked-off removal and theft of parking meters recently in Ottawa.
Like The Newsroom, The Office and anything on the tube these days that is not American Idol or its assorted evil spawn, TV's Trailer Park Boys is a mockumentary. We never see the actual documentarians, and their subjects only acknowledge a handheld camera's presence when they face it for one of those explanatory close-ups that became clich after the first Real World. (Perhaps the Trailer Park Boys pilot episode set up the production crew's role; I don't remember, having been stoned at the time.)
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie picks up as if it were an especially long version (97 minutes) of the usual half-hour program. There is no extraordinary framing of shots, no explanatory introductions of the characters or crew, no let's-demolish-the-proven-format-to-demonstrate-how-clever-we-can-be.
Everyone onscreen reminds you of someone you've interacted with before, especially if you've spent any time in Fontana. Julian, Ricky and Bubbles—yes, Bubbles—return to Sunnyvale after an 18-month prison stint for trying to steal an ATM machine. Julian (John Paul Tremblay), who'd be the brains of the outfit if only he had any, recognized behind bars he needed profound change in his life. No, Julian is not going to finally dump the contents of that three-quarters-full tumbler of rum and Coke he constantly carries (while in the prison yard, driving, facing a judge, etc.). No, thanks to a fellow inmate's influence, Julian is swearing off "The Big Dirty"—or big score—in favor of stealing change, which police won't trace. But when extraction from parking meters proves too problematic, Julian points his crew to a Big Dirty involving a ton of coins.
Ricky (Robb Wells, who also cowrote the script with director and TV-series creator Mike Clattenburg), meanwhile, is trying to reconnect with his estranged girlfriend, Lucy (Lucy Decoutere), whose new strip-club-owner boyfriend just stuffed $6,000 worth of fake breasts into her chest cavity. Ricky also reaches out to his school-age daughter Trinity (Lydia Lawson-Baird), who steals and re-sells backyard barbecues for spending money when her dad isn't bumming cigarettes off her.
Coke-bottle-bespectacled Bubbles (Mike Smith), besides his usual role as his trio's stammering voice of simpleton conscience, must contend with an unjustified eviction from his open-roofed shed/home and the literal herding of cats. Other beloved characters from the TV version are also in the movie, including clueless Ricky worshipers Cory (Cory Bowles) and Trevor (Michael Jackson), white rapper J-Roc (Jonathan Torrens), Ricky's sometimes-wheelchair-bound dad Ray (Barrie Dunn, who helped bring the show to TV and produced the movie with Ivan Reitman), and, of course, Mr. Lahey and Randy.
Thankfully, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie is not filled with sappy pathos, slapped-on happily ever afters or winking cameos by Hollywood celebrities, although Tragically Hip front man Gordon Downie and Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson (whose "The Spirit of Radio" guitar intro opens the movie before it fades into the TPB tinkling-piano TV theme song) do appear briefly as cops.
Despite the dope, the swearing, the stupidity, the law-breaking and the Porkys-esque nudity, this flick's got heart. And the DVD version also has deleted scenes, director commentary, a making-of featurette, "lost interviews" with the Boys in character, and a music video by the Big Dirty Band, which includes Can-rockers from Rush, Tea Party, Three Days Grace, Thornley and Die Mannequin.
Clattenburg has resisted Hollywood's attempts to bring his show south after adaptations intended to make it more palatable to Yanks. Good for him. One need only recall the Americanization of Jennifer Saunders' Absolutely Fabulous to know how tragic that would be. We can relate to the unfiltered Trailer Park Boys show and movie—which got picked up for U.S. distribution after a successful screening at South By Southwest—just fine. And you don't even have to be stoned, although it couldn't hurt.
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