French Baroque Era Engraver, 1602-1676 Roughly 1600 etchings are attributed to him, with subjects including: daily life , religion, literature , history, fashion, technology, and science. Most of his output was illustrations for books, but many were also sold separately. His style grows from Dutch and Flemish art, but is given a strongly French flavour. Many of his images give fascinating and informative detail about middle and upper-class daily life in the period, although they must be treated with care as historical evidence. His combination of very carefully depicted grand interiors with relatively trivial domestic subjects was original and highly influential on French art, and also abroad ?? William Hogarth's engravings are, among other things, a parody of the style. Most of his images are perhaps best regarded as illustrations rather than art. Watercolour of a ball by Abraham Bosse, a similar subject to many of his most famous etchingsHe was apprenticed in Paris about 1620 to the Antwerp-born engraver Melchior Tavernier (1564?C1641), who was also an important publisher. His first etchings date to 1622, and are influenced by Jacques Bellange. Following a meeting in Paris about 1630, he became a follower of Jacques Callot, whose technical innovations in etching he popularised in a famous and much translated Manual of Etching(1645), the first to be published. He took Callot's highly detailed small images to a larger size, and a wider range of subject matter. Unlike Callot, his declared aim, in which he largely succeeded, was to make etchings look like engravings, to which end he sacrificed willingly the freedom of the etched line, whilst certainly exploiting to the full the speed of the technique. Like most etchers, he frequently used engraving on a plate in addition to etching, but produced no pure engravings.
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1612-1641 Andries Both (1612/1613, Utrecht – March 23, 1642, Venice) Dutch genre painter, one of the bamboccianti, and brother of Jan Dirksz Both. Both was the son of a glass painter, and studied under Abraham Bloemaert. According to Joachim von Sandrart, Andries and his brother Jan cooperated on the paintings, with Jan painting the landscapes and Andries the figures, though this view has been revised in the 20th century. Andries stayed in Rouen in 1633, and he traveled on to Rome, where is documented from 1635 to 1641. He first shared a studio with a fellow painter from Utrecht, Jan van Causteren. In 1638 his brother joined him, living on the Via Vittoria in the parish of San Lorenzo in Lucina and perhaps both joining the Accademia di San Luca and the group of painters led by Pieter van Laer. In 1641 the brothers traveled back to Holland, but Andries met his death in Venice on the way, drowning in a canal as he was returning from some festivities.
Dutch painter (b. ca. 1618, Utrecht, d. 1652, Utrecht Brother of Andries Both. He was one of the foremost painters among the second generation of DUTCH ITALIANATES. While working in Italy he specialized in genre scenes; however, on his return to the Netherlands he concentrated on wooded landscapes bathed in a golden light that illuminates the highly detailed foliage and trees. These realistic landscapes represent his most original contribution to Dutch painting and were much imitated by his contemporaries and by later artists.
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1445-1510 Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ("The Little Barrel"; March 1, 1445 ?C May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a "golden age", a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and The Birth of Venus and Primavera rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art. Details of Botticelli's life are sparse, but we know that he became an apprentice when he was about fourteen years old, which would indicate that he received a fuller education than did other Renaissance artists. Vasari reported that he was initially trained as a goldsmith by his brother Antonio. Probably by 1462 he was apprenticed to Fra Filippo Lippi; many of his early works have been attributed to the elder master, and attributions continue to be uncertain. Influenced also by the monumentality of Masaccio's painting, it was from Lippi that Botticelli learned a more intimate and detailed manner. As recently discovered, during this time, Botticelli could have traveled to Hungary, participating in the creation of a fresco in Esztergom, ordered in the workshop of Fra Filippo Lippi by Vitez J??nos, then archbishop of Hungary. By 1470 Botticelli had his own workshop. Even at this early date his work was characterized by a conception of the figure as if seen in low relief, drawn with clear contours, and minimizing strong contrasts of light and shadow which would indicate fully modeled forms.
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1446-1498 Francesco di Giovanni Botticini (1446 ?C July 22, 1498) was an Italian Early Renaissance painter. He studied under Cosimo Rosselli and Andrea del Verrocchio. He was born in Florence in 1446 and is mostly remembered for his painting entitled "Assumption of the Virgin"; he died in 1498 (some sources say 1497). He established his own workshop after a brief period as Neri di Bicci's assistant; the shop was renowned for its decorative works, a few of which can be seen in the cloistered church of Empoli. Some of Botticini's works are said to be overshadowed by his Florentine contemporaries, such as Filippino Lippi and Botticelli, who often influenced Botticini's works.
French, 1616-1671.French painter. Bourdon was active in Rome (1634 C37), in Sweden (1652 C54) as Queen Christina's court portrait painter, and in Paris; he also worked in his native Montpellier, where he painted The Fall of Simon Magus for the cathedral. The Finding of Moses is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1631-1672 He was the youngest son of immigrants from Wallonia. His parents, Jacques Boursse and Anna des Forest, married in 1618 in Amsterdam. We know nothing more about the education of Esaias Boursse, other than the fact that he travelled to Italy in about 1650 to study the great Renaissance examples. No reminders of those examples is to be found in his work. In the past art historians have tried to place him among Rembrandt's pupils. There is no objective evidence at all to prove this though. Maybe this opinion has been inspired by the fact that the painters were neighbours in the Sint Antoniebreestraat in Amsterdam (nowadays called Jodenbreestraat, still housing the Rembrandt House Museum). Boursse's financial position will not have been good, since in 1661 he sailed with the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, on the ship Amersfoort. It travelled to Ceylon (nowadays called Sri Lanka). Boursse drew the inhabitants, landscapes and city views, which have been preserved in an album which can be found in the print room of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. In 1663, the painter was back in Amsterdam. In 1672, Boursse sailed with Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie again. The Amersfoort set sail on October 24 and on November 16 Boursse died at sea. The life of Esaias Boursse is the story of a painter who could not earn a living by painting alone and therefore had to look for an alternative source of income. The fact that he was no exception is proven by the life stories of for example Jan Steen (who was also an innkeeper) and Johannes Vermeer (who was also an art dealer). A major difference though, is the fact that Steen and Vermeer had to feed and house a (large) family. Boursse seems to have remained unmarried and childless. Financially, Boursse's career was a success. He remains one of the highest paid artists in living memory.
Flemish painter (b. ca. 1415, Haarlem, d. 1475, Leuven).
Italian High Renaissance Architect and Painter, 1444-1514 In the first decade of the 16th century Donato Bramante was the chief architect in Rome, which had just replaced Florence as the artistic capital of Europe because the patronage of Pope Julius II (reigned 1503-1513) attracted all the leading Italian artists to that city. It is particularly the triumvirate of artists – Michelangelo the sculptor and painter, Raphael the painter, and Bramante the architect – who dominated this period, usually called the High Renaissance, and whose influence overwhelmed the following generations. Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio, called Bramante, was born in 1444 at Monte Asdruvaldo near Urbino. Nothing is known of the first 30 years of his life. During that period, however, the court of Federigo da Montefeltro at Urbino was a flourishing humanistic and cultural center, attended by artists such as Piero della Francesca, Melozzo da Forll, and Luciano Laurana, who probably influenced the young Bramante. The first notice of Bramante dates from 1477, when he decorated the facade of the Palazzo del Podestaat Bergamo with a frescoed frieze of philosophers.
Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1460-1530 Leonaert/Leonard Bramer alias Nestelghat (Dec 24, 1596, Delft – buried Feb 10, 1674, Delft) was a Dutch painter, best known for probably being one of the teachers of Johannes Vermeer, although there is no similarity between their work. Bramer's dark and exotic style is unlike Vermeer's style. Bramer was primarily a genre and history painter, but also made some unique frescos, not very often found north of the Alps. Leonaert Bramer is one of the most intriguing personalities in seventeenth-century Dutch art. He was a talented and diligent draughtsman, evidently Catholic and a life long bachelor.
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1627-1697 Painter, draughtsman and etcher, son of Salomon de Bray. He spent virtually the whole of his career in Haarlem, except for the period 1686-8, when he lived in Amsterdam. After training with his father, Jan began working as a portrait painter in Haarlem in 1650, an activity he continued for the next 40 years. Between 1667 and 1684 he served on the committee for the Haarlem Guild of St Luke, whose leading members he portrayed in a picture dated 1675 (Amsterdam, Rijksmus.) that includes a self-portrait (Jan is seen standing and drawing on the left). He married three times, in 1668, 1670 and 1672. His first two wives died a year after their marriage, his third two years afterwards, and in each case the death was followed by disputes over the inheritance. Jan's bankruptcy of 1689 may have been a result of one of the lawsuits.
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1597-1664 De Bray established himself in Haarlem before 1617, where he is supposed to have been taught by Hendrick Goltzius and Cornelis van Haarlem, and where he married in 1625. He painted history paintings, portraits and landscapes. As a Catholic he probably also made altar pieces for clandestine churches. He cooperated in the decoration of Huis ten Bosch in The Hague. His works draw on the spirit of the Dutch classicism beginning at that time, and are comparable with those of Pieter de Grebber. De Bray was also active as a designer of silverwork, as a poet, as an architect and as a town planner. As an architect, he was involved in the construction or expansion of Haarlem's City Hall, Zijlpoort, and St. Annakerk (Church of St. Anne), and Nijmegen's city orphanage. One of his poems was set to music by his friend the composer Cornelis Padbru??. Salomon de Bray was the father of ten children, of whom three (including Jan de Bray) became artists. He probably died of the plague, as some of his children and was buried in the Sint-Bavokerk in Haarlem.
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1598-1657 Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher. He was one of at least eight children of a wealthy Protestant family in Deventer, where his father was the town pharmacist. After his father's death in 1607, the family left Deventer, probably moving to Hoorn. No artist then living in Hoorn could plausibly have been Breenbergh's teacher, and given the fact that his earliest works reveal the stylistic influence of the Pre-Rembrandtists, it is more probable that he was apprenticed in Amsterdam. In 1619 he was called upon to give testimony in Amsterdam: on this occasion his profession was listed as 'painter'. His oeuvre can be divided stylistically and iconographically into two distinct groups. He belonged to the first generation of DUTCH ITALIANATES, northern artists who travelled to Italy in the 1620s and were inspired by the light and poetry of the southern landscape. The work of this period consists of numerous Italianate landscape drawings and paintings.
Italian Early Renaissance Sculptor and Architect, 1418-1503 Andrea Bregno was invited to move from Venice to Rome when the Venetian Paul II was elected Pope. During the pontificate of the Della Rovere Pope Sixtus IV he received many commissions and headed a large workshop, producing many wall tombs of cardinals and other figures of the papal curia with varying degrees of personal responsibility. He was famous among his contemporaries, and was compared to the Greek sculptor Polykleitos in the epitaph of his tomb in Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Raphael's father, Giovanni Santi, mentioned Bregno in the 1480s, in his biography of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino. Bregno often worked with Mino da Fiesole in Rome, and his refined Lombard manner was rendered more classical by the contact and by the example of Roman sculptures that were increasingly coming to light, of which Andrea Bregno was an early collector: a certain "Prospettivo Milanese", writing in 1499-1500 refers to a torso in the collection of a "Maestro Andrea" that seems to have been the Belvedere Torso. He moved in humanist circles and was an esteemed friend of the humanist in Sixtus' circle, Bartolomeo Platina, the librarian of the Vatican Library. Bregno played a significant role in the standardization of an authentically classicizing style of epigraphy, in the inscriptions that accompany his tombs. In the Sistine Chapel he collaborated with Mino da Fiesole and Giovanni Dalmata to produce the little cantoria or choristers' gallery set into the wall, with its own coffered ceiling and carved marble balusters, and the marble screen.
Dutch painter (active c. 1647-1669 in Leiden) Dutch painter. He probably trained in Leiden, possibly under Gerrit Dou. In 1648, with several other painters, he founded the Guild of St Luke in Leiden. He married for the first time in 1648 and again in 1656, a year after his first wife's death. In 1649 his sister Aeltge married the painter Johannes Oudenrogge (1622-53), and the couple soon moved to Haarlem while the Brekelenkam family remained in Leiden. About 1656 Brekelenkam apparently acquired a licence to sell beer and brandy, perhaps because his income as a painter was insufficient to support his large family (six children from his first marriage and three from his second). He continued to be active as an artist and paid his guild dues fairly regularly. The last dues were paid in 1667, and his last dated painting, the Portrait of a Man Aged 33, is from 1669.
Flemish Baroque Era Painter, ca.1554-1626 Painter, printmaker and draughtsman, brother of Matthijs Bril. According to van Mander, Paul studied in Antwerp with Damiaan Wortelmans (1545-after 1588/9) before travelling to Rome, via Lyon, c. 1574, to join his brother, whom, according to Baglione, he assisted on Vatican commissions after 1576. However, no document places Paul in Rome before 1582, and in any case Matthijs was probably not there until c. 1575. Paul's first known independent works are monumental frescoes dating from the late 1580s. They include a dramatic rendering of Jonah and the Whale (1588) in the Scala Santa in the Vatican (based on a drawing by Matthijs; Paris, Louvre) and a series of landscape lunettes (c. 1589) in the Lateran Palace.
(14 August 1840 C 1920) was an Irish artist born in London, England. His father, William Riviere, was for some years drawing-master at Cheltenham College, and afterwards an art teacher at Oxford University. He was educated at Cheltenham College and at Oxford, where he took his degree in 1867. For his art training he was indebted almost entirely to his father, and early in life made for himself a place of importance among the artists of his time. His first pictures appeared at the British Institution, and in 1857 he exhibited three works at the Royal Academy, but it was not until 1863 that he became a regular contributor to the Academy exhibitions. In that year he was represented by "The Eve of the Spanish Armada", and in 1864 by a "Romeo and Juliet". Subjects of this kind did not, however, attract him long, for in 1865 he began, with a picture of a "Sleeping Deer-hound", a series of paintings of animal-subjects which later occupied him almost exclusively.
Netherlandish Gothic Era Painter, ca.1355-1411 South Netherlandish painter. Broederlam's family, long-established in Ypres, provided three aldermen for the city and sided with the French Counts of Flanders against the Flemish populace. After a training that may have included contact with Jan Boudolf in Bruges before 1368 or Paris after 1370 and an extended visit to Italy, the artist became, by 1381, an official painter of the reigning count, Louis de M?le (reg. 1346-84), painting leather chairs, pennons and banners. On 13 May 1384, directly after Louis's death, he was appointed a valet de chambre to the count's heir, Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.
Italian Mannerist Painter, 1503-1572 Italian painter and poet. He dominated Florentine painting from the 1530s to the 1560s. He was court artist to Cosimo I de' Medici, and his sophisticated style and extraordinary technical ability were ideally suited to the needs and ideals of his ducal patron. He was a leading decorator, and his religious subjects and mythological scenes epitomize the grace of the high maniera style.
Bror Hjorth, född 22 april 1894 i Marma, död 21 maj 1968 i Uppsala, var en svensk konstnär. Bror Hjorth var son till skogsvaktaren Emil Johanzon och Charlotta Johansdotter. Han är en av Sveriges mest kända skulptörer och målare. Han var lärare i teckning vid Konsthögskolan 1949 — 1959, där han hade bland annat Kerstin Kjellberg-Jacobsson som elev. Han bosatte sig efter studietiden i Uppsala. Han uppförde där sitt ateljehus i Kåbo, Bror Hjorths Hus, som numera är museum. Bror Hjorth erhöll Sergelpriset 1955. Under några år i början av 1930-talet drev Bror Hjorth tillsammans med Nils Möllerberg en skulpturskola i Stockholm. Bror Hjorth ligger begravd på kyrkogården i Björklinge.
Flemish Baroque Era Painter, ca.1605-1638 Adriaen Brouwer (1605, Oudenaarde – January 1638, Antwerp) was a Flemish genre painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century. At a young age Brouwer, probably born as Adriaen de Brauwer, moved perhaps via Antwerp to Haarlem, where he became a student of Frans Hals alongside Adriaen van Ostade. He also was active in stage acting and poetry. He stayed in Haarlem and Amsterdam until 1631, when he moved back to Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands. There, he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1631 ?C 1632, as well as the rhetoricians's chamber De Violieren. Tradition has it that Brouwer himself spent much time in the alehouses of Flanders and Holland. His works are typically detailed and small, and often adopt themes of debauchery, drunkenness and foolishness in order to explore human emotions, expressions and responses to pain, fear and the senses. The Bitter Tonic (illustrated right) is an example of the type of work that depicts such responses, in this case the sense of taste. His work was well liked, to the point that forgeries were sold in his own time. Both Rubens and Rembrandt owned a number of his works. Nevertheless, Brouwer appeared in financial trouble throughout his life. He died at the early age of 32 in Antwerp, where he was first buried in a common grave, but, upon instigation of the members of the guild, was reburied on Feb 1, 1638 in the church of the Carmelites.
Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1525-1569 (born c. 1525, probably Breda, duchy of Brabant ?? died Sept. 5/9, 1569, Brussels) Greatest Netherlandish painter of the 16th century. Not much is known of his early life, but in 1551 he set off for Italy, where he produced his earliest signed painting, Landscape with Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias (c. 1553). Returning to Flanders in 1555, he achieved some fame with a series of satirical, moralizing prints in the style of Hiëronymus Bosch, commissioned by an Antwerp engraver. He is best known for his paintings of Netherlandish proverbs, seasonal landscapes, and realistic views of peasant life and folklore, but he also took a novel approach to religious subject matter, portraying biblical events in panoramic scenes, often viewed from above. He had many important patrons; most of his paintings were commissioned by collectors. In addition to many drawings and engravings, about 40 authenticated paintings from his enormous output have survived. His sons, Peter Brueghel the Younger and Jan, the Elder Brueghel (both of whom restored to the name the h their father had abandoned), and later imitators carried his style into the 18th century.
Flemish painter (b. 1617, Antwerpen, d. 1675, Antwerpen). Ambrosius Brueghel (Antwerp, 1617??9 February 1675) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in landscapes and flower paintings. His work is similar to that of his half-brother, Jan Brueghel the Younger, and his nephew, Abraham Brueghel. He was primarily active Antwerp, probably travelled to Italy around 1639, and was dean of Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke from 1653 to 1671.
Flemish painter (bc1568, Bruxelles, d. 1625, Antwerpen).
Flemish painter (b. 1564, Bruxelles, d. 1638, Antwerp). Pieter Brueghel the Younger was the oldest son of the famous sixteenth-century Netherlandish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder (known as "Peasant Brueghel") and Mayken Coecke van Aelst. His father died in 1569, when Pieter the younger was only five years old. Then, following the death of his mother in 1578, Pieter, along with his brother Jan Brueghel the Elder ("Velvet Brueghel") and sister Marie, went to live with their grandmother Mayken Verhulst (widow of Pieter Coecke van Aelst). She was an artist in her own right, and according to Carel van Mander, possibly the first teacher of the two sons. The family moved to Antwerp sometime after 1578 and Pieter possibly entered the studio of the landscape painter Gillis van Coninxloo (1544-1607). In the 1584/1585 registers of Guild of Saint Luke, "Peeter Brugel" is listed as an independent master. On November 5, 1588 he married Elisabeth Goddelet, and the couple had seven children. He painted landscapes, religious subjects and fantasy paintings. For this last category he often made use of fire and grotesque figures, leading to his nickname "Hell Brueghel". Apart from these paintings of his own invention, Pieter Brueghel the Younger also copied the works his father had created by using a technique called pouncing. His genre paintings of peasants lack Pieter the Elder's subtlety and humanism, and emphasize the picturesque.
Bruno Andreas Liljefors (1860-1939) was a Swedish artist, the most important and probably the most influential wildlife painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He also drew some sequential picture stories, making him one of the early Swedish comic creators. Liljefors is held in high esteem by painters of wildlife and is acknowledged as an influence, for example, by American wildlife artist Bob Kuhn. All his life Liljefors was a hunter, and he often painted predator-prey action, the hunts engaged between fox and hare, sea eagle and eider, and goshawk and black grouse serving as prime examples. However, he never exaggerated the ferocity of the predator or the pathos of the prey, and his pictures are devoid of sentimentality. The influence of the Impressionists can be seen in his attention to the effects of environment and light, and later that of Art Nouveau in his Mallards, Evening of 1901, in which the pattern of the low sunlight on the water looks like leopardskin, hence the Swedish nickname Panterfällen. Bruno was fascinated by the patterns to be found in nature, and he often made art out of the camouflage patterns of animals and birds. He particularly loved painting capercaillies against woodland, and his most successful painting of this subject is the largescale Capercaillie Lek, 1888, in which he captures the atmosphere of the forest at dawn. He was also influenced by Japanese art, for example in his Goldfinches of the late 1880s. During the last years of the nineteenth century, a brooding element entered his work, perhaps the result of turmoil in his private life, as he left his wife, Anna, and took up with her younger sister, Signe, and was often short of money. This darker quality in his paintings gradually began to attract interest and he had paintings exhibited at the Paris Salon. He amassed a collection of animals to act as his living models. Ernst Malmberg recalled: The animals seemed to have an instinctive trust and actual attraction to him…There in his animal enclosure, we saw his inevitable power over its many residents??foxes, badgers, hares, squirrels, weasels, an eagle, eagle owl, hawk, capercaillie and black game. The greatness of Liljefors lay in his ability to show animals in their environment. Sometimes he achieved this through hunting and observation of the living animal, and sometimes he used dead animals: for example his Hawk and Black Game, painted in the winter of 1883-4, was based on dead specimens, but he also used his memory of the flocks of black grouse in the meadows around a cottage he once lived in at Ehrentuna, near Uppsala. He wrote: The hawk model??a young one??I killed myself. Everything was painted out of doors as was usually done in those days. It was a great deal of work trying to position the dead hawk and the grouse among the bushes that I bent in such a way as to make it seem lively, although the whole thing was in actuality a still life.


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Staphylococcus saprophyticus ist ein grampositives, kugelförmiges Bakterium aus der Gattung Staphylococcus, deren Vertreter auch als Staphylokokken bezeichnet werden. Es gehört zur großen Untergruppe der Staphylokokken, bei denen die Koagulase-Reaktion negativ ausfällt (koagulasenegative Staphylokokken).

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Erscheinungsbild
In der Gram-Färbung stellt sich Staphylococcus saprophyticus typischerweise in Form von blauen, in Haufen gelagerten Kugeln (Kokken) mit einem Durchmesser von 0,7–1,4 µm dar. Diese sind nicht aktiv beweglich (nicht begeißelt), bilden keine Sporen und verursachen auf Schafblut-Agar keine Hämolyse. Die Kolonien sind dort rund, weiß bis ockergelb gefärbt und werden einige Millimeter groß.

Wachstum und Stoffwechsel
Die Art wächst mit und ohne Sauerstoff (fakultativ anaerob). Die Katalase-Reaktion fällt positiv aus, die Oxidase-Reaktion negativ. Die Bakterien vermehren sich bei 30 bis 37 °C am schnellsten und sind halotolerant, wachsen also auch in Anwesenheit hoher Salzkonzentrationen (z. B. 10 % Natriumchlorid). Sie sind u. a. mit dem Enzym Urease ausgestattet. Der Energiestoffwechsel kann sowohl oxidativ als auch fermentativ (mittels Gärung) betrieben werden. Unter den beim Menschen vorkommenden Staphylokokken-Arten ist Staphylococcus saprophyticus als eine der wenigen natürlicherweise resistent gegenüber dem Antibiotikum Novobiocin, was man sich auch bei der Identifizierung zu Nutze macht.

Genetik
Das Genom von Staphylococcus saprophyticus hat eine Länge von 2,5 Millionen Basenpaaren mit einem geringen Gehalt an Guanin und Cytosin (31–33 %). Die komplette Sequenz der Unterart saprophyticus wurde im Jahre 2005 publiziert.

Pathogenität
Durch die Biostoffverordnung in Verbindung mit den Technischen Regeln für biologische Arbeitsstoffe (TRBA 466) wird Staphylococcus saprophyticus subsp. bovis in die Risikogruppe 1, Staphylococcus saprophyticus subsp. saprophyticus in die Risikogruppe 2 eingeordnet. Es bestehen aber wichtige Unterschiede zu anderen Staphylokokken-Arten, die ebenfalls zur Risikogruppe 2 gehören. So fehlen der Art alle Virulenzfaktoren von Staphylococcus aureus, dafür verfügt Staphylococcus saprophyticus subsp. saprophyticus über ein einzigartiges, in der Zellwand verankertes Adhäsin, das die Anheftung an Zelloberflächen in den Harnorganen des Menschen ermöglicht. Außerdem findet man vermehrt Transportsysteme und eine starke Expression des Enzyms Urease, die jeweils das Überleben im Urin-Milieu erleichtern. Daraus lässt sich insgesamt erklären, dass Staphylococcus saprophyticus subsp. saprophyticus beim Menschen häufig Harnwegsinfektionen, jedoch nur selten andere Infektionen verursacht.

Nachweise
Die Unterart Staphylococcus saprophyticus subsp. saprophyticus wird in der Regel aus Urinproben von Patientinnen mit einem Harnwegsinfekt angezüchtet. Die Unterart bovis wurde bei 7 % der gesunden Rinder aus den Nüstern nachgewiesen. Als Nährmedien für die Kultur eignen sich Universalnährböden wie z. B. Schafblut-Agar, aber auch Selektivnährböden für grampositive Bakterien wie z. B. CNA-Agar. Besondere Anforderungen an die Kulturbedingungen bestehen nicht. Die vorläufige Identifizierung als Staphylococcus saprophyticus kann anhand folgender Kriterien erfolgen: grampositive Kokken, Katalase positiv, Hämolyse und Koagulase negativ, Pigmentbildung (weiß oder gelb) und Resistenz gegenüber Novobiocin. Die endgültige Identifizierung ist mit biochemischen (manuelle oder automatisierte bunte Reihe), massenspektrometrischen (MALDI-TOF) oder molekulargenetischen (16S-rRNA-Sequenzierung) Methoden möglich. Charakteristische biochemische Eigenschaften, die die Abgrenzung von anderen Staphylokokkenarten ermöglichen, sind dabei Novobiocinresistenz, Vorhandensein von β-Galactosidase (kann bei der Unterart bovis auch fehlen) und Urease sowie das Fehlen der alkalischen Phosphatase und der Säurebildung aus D-Mannose.

Vorkommen
Die beiden bekannten Unterarten Staphylococcus saprophyticus subsp. saprophyticus und subsp. bovis unterscheiden sich hinsichtlich ihres Vorkommens stark voneinander. Die seit Jahrzehnten bekannte Unterart saprophyticus ist in der Lage, den Mastdarm, die Vagina und die Harnröhre bei gesunden Frauen und verschiedenen Tierarten zu kolonisieren. Eine solche Besiedlung tritt bei etwa 4 bis 8 % der Individuen auf.  Die 1996 erstmals beschriebene Unterart bovis wurde hingegen bei 7 % der gesunden Kühe aus den Nüstern nachgewiesen.

Neben dem Nachweis bei lebenden Tieren wurde Staphylococcus saprophyticus auch aus verschiedenen Lebensmitteln isoliert, in hoher Rate (34 %) z. B. aus rohem Rind- und Schweinefleisch. Man nimmt an, dass die Besiedelung von Menschen durch Tierkontakte und/oder Lebensmittel erfolgt.

Systematik

Äußere Systematik
Historisch gehörte die Gattung Staphylococcus zur Familie der Micrococcaceae. Molekulargenetische Verwandtschaftsuntersuchungen zeigten dann aber, dass die Gattungen Staphylococcus und Micrococcus gar nicht eng miteinander verwandt sind. Dies führte dazu, dass die Gattung Staphylococcus 2010 in die neu geschaffene Familie der Staphylococcaceae eingeordnet wurde.

Bei der groben Einteilung der Staphylokokken wird in der medizinischen Mikrobiologie häufig zwischen koagulasepositiven und koagulasenegativen Arten unterschieden, wobei S. saprophyticus zu den koagulasenegativen Staphylokokken gehört. Diese lassen sich wiederum hinsichtlich ihrer Empfindlichkeit gegenüber Novobiocin einteilen, wobei die Arten der Staphylococcus-epidermidis-Gruppe zumeist empfindlich sind, S. saprophyticus (neben Staphylococcus cohnii und einigen vorwiegend im Tierreich vorkommenden Arten) hingegen stets resistent ("Staphylococcus-saprophyticus-Gruppe").

Innere Systematik
Die zwischen 1940 und 1996 beschriebenen Bakterien der Art Staphylococcus saprophyticus werden heute zur Unterart Staphylococcus saprophyticus subsp. saprophyticus gezählt, die die bei weitem häufigere und wichtigere der beiden Unterarten ist. Die Bedeutung der 1996 neu bei Rindern beschriebenen Unterart bovis ist noch nicht klar.

Etymologie
Der Gattungsname Staphylococcus leitet sich von den altgriechischen Worten  'Weintraube' und  'Kern', 'Korn' ab, wobei sich 'Weintraube' auf die typische Lagerung in Trauben bzw. Haufen und 'Kern' bzw. 'Korn' auf die Kugelform bezieht. Das Art-Epitheton saprophyticus kommt ebenfalls aus dem Altgriechischen und setzt sich aus  'faul', 'verfault' und  phytón 'Pflanze' zusammen. Als Saprophyten wurden früher Bakterien bezeichnet, die in einer Symbiose mit ihrem Wirt leben und sich von Stoffen ernähren, die dieser nicht selbst verwerten kann (heute als Saprobionten bezeichnet). Der Name der Unterart bovis kommt vom lateinischen bos 'Rind', was sich auf den Erstnachweis aus Rindernüstern bezieht.

Bedeutung
Eine wesentlich Bedeutung kommt Staphylococcus saprophyticus als relativ häufiger Erreger von Harnwegsinfektionen bei Frauen zu. Darüber hinaus ist die Bakterienart Bestandteil der Normalflora von Mensch und Tier.

Ökologie
Die Beziehung zwischen Staphylococcus saprophyticus und seinen Wirten wie Mensch, Rind und Schwein ist in den meisten Fällen friedlich im Sinne einer Symbiose. Hier findet man die Bakterienart am häufigsten als Teil der Normalflora des Mastdarmes, beim Menschen auch in der Vagina, in der Harnröhre, auf der Haut und der Bindehaut.

Medizin

Infektionsquellen
Die vorhandene wissenschaftliche Evidenz über Harnwegsinfektionen durch Staphylococcus saprophyticus subsp. saprophyticus lässt folgendes Modell des Infektionsweges zu: Zunächst kommt es durch direkten Tierkontakt oder Verzehr nicht ausreichend gegarten Fleisches zu einer Kolonisation des Darmes durch die Bakterienart. Bereits diese tritt besonders bei jungen Frauen auf, mit einer saisonalen Häufung im Sommer und Herbst. Von dieser Besiedlung ausgehend kann es bei einem Teil der Frauen zu einer Harnwegsinfektion kommen, besonders häufig nach vorausgegangenem Geschlechtsverkehr. Die unmittelbare Infektionsquelle ist dabei nach gegenwärtigen Erkenntnissen der eigene Darm bzw. die eigenen Harn- und Geschlechtsorgane, nicht ein infizierter Partner. Die Besiedelung der Harn- und Geschlechtsorgane durch Staphylococcus saprophyticus kann dabei durch Störungen der physiologischen Vaginalflora begünstigt werden.

Infektionskrankheiten
Besonders häufig verursacht Staphylococcus saprophyticus subsp. saprophyticus eine Harnwegsinfektion bei jungen Frauen. Hier ist die Bakterienart nach Escherichia coli der zweithäufigste Erreger, wobei der Anteil in der Literatur mit 8–42 % angegeben wird. In den meisten Fällen handelt es sich um unkomplizierte Blasenentzündungen, aufsteigende Infektionen wie Nierenbeckenentzündung und Urosepsis ("Blutvergiftung") mit Komplikationen wie Harnsteinleiden oder Endokarditis (Herzinnenhautentzündung) sind aber ebenfalls beschrieben. Schließlich kommt Staphylococcus saprophyticus auch als Erreger von Harnwegsinfektionen bei Männern vor. Bei Männern ist die Bakterienart auch als Erreger einer unspezifischen Entzündung der Harnröhre (Urethritis) beschrieben.

Therapie
Bei Harnwegsinfektionen durch Staphylococcus saprophyticus wird in aller Regel mit einem Antibiotikum behandelt. Die Auswahl eines geeigneten Medikaments ist dabei in den meisten Fällen unproblematisch, da die Bakterienart typischerweise empfindlich auf eine Vielzahl von Antibiotika ist. Geeignete Wirkstoffe sind unter anderem Trimethoprim (alleine oder in Kombination mit Sulfamethoxazol als Cotrimoxazol) oder auch Ciprofloxacin.

Literatur

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Staphylococcaceae (Familie)
Staphylococcaceae
Bakterium mit sequenziertem Genom

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From Python-I2P.

Emulates Python SimpleHTTPServer module using I2P sockets.

 Overview

The Python module is described at http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-SimpleHTTPServer.html

To get a server going, use:

>>> from i2p import SimpleHTTPServer
>>> SimpleHTTPServer.test().

Consult the documentation for function test() to change basic server settings, such as the session name.

A fully customizable example:

>>> from i2p import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer
>>> session = "mytestxxx.i2p"      # SAM session name
>>> class MyServer(BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer): pass
>>> class MyRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler): pass
>>> httpd = MyServer(session, MyRequestHandler)
>>> httpd.socket.dest
(Base64 Destination of server)
>>> httpd.serve_forever()

 Classes

class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

Same interface as Python class SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.

 Functions

test(HandlerClass=SimpleHTTPRequestHandler, ServerClass= i2p.BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer, session='mytestxxx.i2p')

Test the HTTP simple request handler class.
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United Rentals to Acquire NES Rentals
Stamford, CT - Jan 25, 2017
United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) and NES Rentals Holdings II, Inc. ("NES") today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which United Rentals will acquire NES for approximately $965 million in cash. The board of directors of United Rentals and Diamond Castle Holdings LLC, the majority owner of NES, unanimously approved the agreement. The transaction is expected to close early in the second quarter of 2017, subject to Hart-Scott-Rodino clearance and customary conditions.
NES is one of the ten largest general equipment rental companies in the United States, specializing in providing aerial equipment to approximately 18,000 customers across the industrial and non-residential construction sectors. Based in Chicago, Ill., NES has 73 branches and approximately 1,100 employees, with a concentration in the eastern half of the United States. In 2016, NES generated an estimated $155 million of EBITDA at a 42.1% margin on $369 million of total revenue. As of December 31, 2016, NES had approximately $900 million of fleet at original equipment cost.
United Rentals plans to update its 2017 financial outlook to reflect the combined operations upon completion of the transaction.
Strong Strategic Rationale
• The addition of NES's branch footprint will increase the company's density in strategically important markets, including the East Coast, Gulf States and the Midwest.
• The combined operations are expected to strengthen the company's relationships with local and strategic accounts in the construction and industrial sectors. This will enhance cross-selling opportunities and drive revenue synergies.
• The combined operations are also expected to create meaningful opportunities for cost synergies in areas such as corporate overhead, operational efficiencies and purchasing.
• United Rentals and NES share many cultural attributes, including a strong focus on safety, a customer-first business philosophy, and best practices for talent development and retention.
• NES employees will bring a wealth of experience to United Rentals, and will have greater opportunities for career development within the larger combined organization.
• United Rentals will acquire NES for a purchase price of $965 million in cash. Net of synergies, this represents a multiple of 4.9 times EBITDA for the year ended December 31, 2016, and an adjusted purchase multiple of 4.3 times, including the value of acquired tax assets.
• The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive to United Rentals' adjusted earnings per share and free cash flow generation for the full year 2017, and United Rentals expects to maintain a leverage ratio of less than 3.0. Return on invested capital is expected to exceed the cost of capital within 18 months of closing.
• The transaction is not conditioned on financing. United Rentals expects to use a combination of cash, existing capacity under its ABL facility, and newly issued term debt to fund the transaction and related expenses.
Michael Kneeland, president and chief executive officer of United Rentals, said, "The NES agreement satisfies the rigorous strategic, financial and cultural standards we set for acquisitions. This exciting transaction will augment our revenue, earnings, EBITDA, free cash flow and overall scale, and expand our base of local and strategic accounts at a key point in the demand cycle."
Kneeland continued, "In NES, we're acquiring a well-run operation that's primed to benefit from our technology, infrastructure and cross-selling capabilities. Most importantly, we're gaining a great team that shares our intense focus on safety and customer service. We'll be working side by side throughout the integration to capitalize on best-in-class expertise from both sides. We look forward to welcoming the NES team to United Rentals."
Key Acquisition and Transaction Statistics (financial information in millions)
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Centerview Partners and Morgan Stanley acted as financial advisors to United Rentals, and Sullivan & Cromwell acted as legal advisor. Catalyst Strategic Advisors and Deutsche Bank acted as financial advisors to NES, and Jenner & Block acted as legal advisor.
Presentation and Conference Call / Webcast
A presentation about the transaction is available on the Investor Relations section of United Rentals' website under the "Investor Presentations" tab. The company will discuss the planned acquisition on its analyst and investor conference call tomorrow, Thursday, January 26, 2017, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The conference call number is 844-515-1184 (international: 478-219-0888). The conference call will also be available live by audio webcast at unitedrentals.com, where it will be archived until the next earnings call. The replay number for the call is 404-537-3406, passcode is 47825270.
Non-GAAP Measures
EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure as defined under the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission. United Rentals believes that this non-GAAP financial measure provides useful information about the proposed transaction; however, it should not be considered as an alternative to GAAP net income. A reconciliation between net income and EBITDA, as well as other financial data, is provided in the investor presentation available on the company's website.
About United Rentals
United Rentals, Inc. is the largest equipment rental company in the world. The company has an integrated network of 887 rental locations in 49 states and every Canadian province. The company's approximately 12,500 employees serve construction and industrial customers, utilities, municipalities, homeowners and others. The company offers approximately 3,200 classes of equipment for rent with a total original cost of $8.99 billion. United Rentals is a member of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, the Barron's 400 Index and the Russell 3000 Index® and is headquartered in Stamford, Conn. Additional information about United Rentals is available at unitedrentals.com.
About NES Rentals
NES Rentals is a leading U.S. aerial equipment rental company based in Chicago, Ill. The company has an integrated network of 73 rental locations in 31 states, offering approximately $900 million of fleet at original equipment cost. The company's approximately 1,100 employees serve construction and industrial customers, utilities, municipalities, homeowners and others. Additional information about NES is available at nesrentals.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, known as the PSLRA. Forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that may cause results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements. These statements are based on current plans, estimates and projections, and, therefore, you should not place undue reliance on them. No forward-looking statement, including the updated financial outlook set forth above and any such statement concerning the completion and anticipated benefits of the proposed transaction, can be guaranteed, and actual results may differ materially from those projected. United Rentals undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts, but rather are based on current expectations, estimates, assumptions and projections about the business and future financial results of the equipment rental industries, and other legal, regulatory and economic developments. We use words such as "anticipates," "believes," "plans," "expects," "projects," "future," "intends," "may," "will," "should," "could," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "continue," "guidance" and similar expressions to identify these forward-looking statements that are intended to be covered by the safe harbor provisions of the PSLRA. Actual results could differ materially from the results contemplated by these forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to, those described in the SEC reports filed by United Rentals, as well as the possibility that (1) United Rentals may be unable to obtain regulatory approvals required for the proposed transaction or may be required to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the acquisition as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; (2) the length of time necessary to consummate the proposed transaction may be longer than anticipated; (3) problems may arise in successfully integrating the businesses of United Rentals and NES, including, without limitation, problems associated with the potential loss of any key employees of NES; (4) the proposed transaction may involve unexpected costs, including, without limitation, the exposure to any unrecorded liabilities or unidentified issues that we fail to discover during the due diligence investigation of NES or that are not subject to indemnification or reimbursement by NES, as well as potential unfavorable accounting treatment and unexpected increases in taxes; (5) our business may suffer as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed transaction, any adverse effects on our ability to maintain relationships with customers, employees and suppliers, or the inherent risk associated with entering a geographic area or business; and (6) the industry may be subject to future risks that are described in the "Risk Factors" section of the Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other documents filed from time to time with the SEC by United Rentals. United Rentals gives no assurance that it will achieve its expectations and does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the forward-looking statements.
The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties that affect the businesses of United Rentals described in the "Risk Factors" section of its Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other documents filed from time to time with the SEC. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to United Rentals on the date hereof; and United Rentals assumes no obligations to update or revise any such forward-looking statements.
United Rentals, Inc.
Ted Grace

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9 Benchmarks that Inform How a Student Chooses a School
By Dian Schaffhauser
When faced with choosing between two institutions, how does a student make the decision about which college or university to attend? It's a combination of factors, according to a new report from Eduventures, the research arm of NRCCUA. Understanding those factors, according to the report, can help schools better prepare for changes in levels of student interest and influence the outcomes.
Researcher Kim Reid, an Eduventures principal analyst and author of the report, used data on nearly 76,000 students drawn from the company's "2018 Survey of Admitted Students." Each student had to make an enrollment choice between at least two schools and provided information and ratings about their ultimate enrollment choice and the next one in line. That analysis allowed Reid to produce an institution-level dataset with 151,676 sets of ratings for 1,383 four-year public and private nonprofit schools. (For-profits were left out of the analysis.)
From there, the research resulted in the development of "benchmarks" that institutions can use to "inform recruitment, yield and brand strategy." Those benchmarks covered nine areas:
Student mindsets, and specifically the share of students who belonged to each of six mindset categories identified by Eduventures. This benchmark can tell institutions which type of student chooses the school (for example, career pragmatist versus grad-school bound), whether they fit the student profile the school wants to attract, and whether there are other mindsets that would also be good fits;
Decision segments, or what among the various criteria for choosing a school — cost, reputation, career outcomes, etc. — was most important;
First choice, which indicated the level of commitment the student had coming into the school and whether the decision designated the choice as a "destination brand," a "safety school" or a signal that the student could decide to transfer out or fail to persist;
Destination, which showed where non-enrolling students were attending school, categorized by Carnegie classification and in-state versus out-of-state status;
Distance, measuring the number of miles between a student's home zip code and location of the school where they enrolled;
Brand constructs, how students rated their schools in multiple areas, including affordability, diversity, community feel and level of quality;
Quality perception gap, which showed how enrolling students compared to students who chose not to enroll in their perceptions of quality for such reasons as overall reputation, strength of program and job opportunities for graduates;
Communications, measuring the use of various components of enrollment outreach, including websites, publications, social media, campus visits and admitted student events; and
Net cost comparisons, showing the portion of students choosing to attend an institution with a lower, equal or higher net cost than the inquiring institution.
"Taken together, these nine benchmarks can help an institution examine its own survey of admitted student results," the report noted.
As Reid noted in her conclusion, "In the end, knowing whether or not your institution's admitted students behave like all admitted students in your category or whether you have idiosyncratic behaviors will help you craft and prioritize the enrollment strategies you need to be successful."
The report, "The Survey of Admitted Students," is available to Eduventures member institutions.
Dian Schaffhauser is a former senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning.


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As the global economy sputters into yet another recession in the ongoing drama generated by the 2008 financial crisis, it is easy to be pessimistic. Many countries that are critical to overall trends in the world economy seem to be locked into a self-defeating downward spiral of fiscal austerity measures that add further negative impulses to economies that are already affected by the impact of the initial crisis and the winding down of excessive private debt. So GDP stagnates or declines, making the indicators that financial markets are obsessed with (such public deficit or debt to GDP ratios) look that much worse, further adding to the pressures even on finance.
Everyone hopes for salvation from higher exports, which is a false hope in a period when almost all economies are trying the same thing. A big part of the problem is the continued dominance of an economic policy model that has clearly failed, and currently has no answers to deal with the escalating problems. Clearly this situation cannot carry on for very long, and on current trends an unhappy outcome cannot be very distant. But in fact, this is not actually inevitable – even in this extreme situation it is possible to imagine some ways out of the current predicament, if only policy makers have the imagination and will to embark on a quite different trajectory.
Fortunately, there are some bright spots of alternative macroeconomic trajectories, particularly in Latin America. One example of an alternative strategy that has paid significant dividends in terms of generating more genuinely inclusive growth is Argentina. Curiously, this country regularly gets a hard time in the global financial media despite its evident success in terms of relatively stable GDP and employment growth. Could this be because its strategy had defied so many of the current orthodoxies that are so clearly failing in most other places? Or because more knowledge about the actual nature of the policies that have been applied in Argentina might encourage more governments to think differently from the current mainstream?
Consider just some of these facts. Since 2003 (when Argentina had just been through one of the most severe financial crises ever experienced by any developing country) real GDP has grown at an annual rate of around 9 per cent. This has been sustained not just by increasing exports fed by the global commodity boom (which is the point generally harped upon by most external commentators) but by sustained expansion of the domestic market, strengthening of production and increase in investment, which reached historically high rates of 23 per cent in the period 2003-09. This was not all or only about public investment – there were nearly 130,000 new private enterprises registered between 2003 and 2009. This investment in turn powered a substantial increase in labour productivity, which had languished through the earlier two decades.
The increase in the domestic market was in turn led by labour market dynamics and the expansion of social protection systems – precisely in the manner advocated by proponents of wage-led growth. Total employment increased substantially, much of it in better quality jobs. There was a significant increase in formal employment, which increased by 70 per cent between 2002 and 2009. The ratio of registered workers to total working age population (which had stagnated for the previous 25 years) increased by 30 per cent in just these seven years, such that by 2009. The aggregate unemployment rate fell from 21.5 per cent in 2002 to 7.9 per cent in 2010.
And even during the latest crisis, the economy has shown substantial resilience in growth and employment terms. The unemployment rate has not changed and real wages have not suffered (although partly as a result of this, it is true that new problems are emerging in the form of inflation and its consequences). This is due to a combination of macroeconomic and active labour market policies, as noted in what follows.
A publication from the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of the Government of Argentina ("Work and Employment in the Bicentenary: Changes in employment and social protection dynamics for an extended inclusion, 2003-10", Buenos Aires 2010) highlights some of the factors behind this impressive achievement.
Basically in 2003 the government sought to change the economic policy model quite drastically, to move away from dynamics of exclusion and marginalisation in labour markets, which had become the norm in the economy since the mid 1970s. The promotion of quality, productive and fairly remunerated employment, together with the expansion and redefinition of social protection, focused on protecting a greater part of the population, were the main tools through which the model sought to improve the living conditions of the people. These turned out to have significant macroeconomic implications as well, providing a vibrant source of domestic effective demand that could encourage the proliferation of new productive employment.
Therefore the economic advantage provided by a boom in primary commodity exports was not concentrated in the hands of a few privileged elite groups as had hitherto been the case, but spread much more widely amongst the population. And the expansion of public employment and social protection provided opportunities for employment diversification within the economy, as well as assisting the productivity improvements that have been witnessed in the recent past.
Some of the early changes were legislative or administrative in nature. In 2004 Law 25,877 for Labour Regulation, was passed. The National Council for Employment, Productivity and Minimum Salary was reactivated to decide upon and enforce minimum wage and salary rules. The National Plan for Work Regularization (PNRT) was set in motion, with the goal of expanding the Ministry's capability to inspect and control the compliance with labour laws and social security contributions of employers.
Importantly, collective bargaining – which had languished under the earlier regimes – was brought back to centre stage, with a dramatic (more than five-fold) increase in the number of agreements and negotiations approved each year. In addition, negotiation activity at the branch level was re-introduced, so as to reach a greater number of workers and "collectivise" the benefits, as opposed to the "individualisation" of employment relationships that had predominated in the 1990s. As a result, collectively agreed salaries accounted for 81% of the wage bills of enterprises in 2009, compared to less than 50% in -2001. As a result of these changes, the wage share of national income increased from 34.3 per cent in 2002 to 43.6 per cent in 2008.
Another major element was the doubling of social protection grants. There was an increase in the value of pensions and extension in coverage, including the introduction of social pensions for defined categories. Today it is estimated that the pension system covers 84 per cent of the elderly population.
At the same time, social protection for children and adolescents was extended, going from 37 per cent coverage (in terms of monetary transfers) in 1997 to 86 per cent in 2009. Some of this was the result of the expansion of registered employment, which allowed an extension of the coverage of family allowances. Those who were excluded from this have benefited from the creation of a non-contributive sub-system: the Universal Per-Child Allowance for Social Protection, which currently reaches about 3.5 million children.
As a result of this emphasis on inclusion and social protection, social spending expenditures of the government amounted to nearly a quarter of GDP in 2008. This and other measure outlined obviously had a direct effect on income distribution. Argentina was known as one of the more unequal countries in the world, and income inequality had been steadily increasing since the mid-1970s. In the past decade this was finally reversed, as the Gini coefficient for income distribution improved by 16 per cent between 2002 and 2009.
In the current crisis, these measures have been sought to be maintained and even expanded. There has been a focus on countercyclical macroeconomic policies, including public works, housing plans, incentives for stimulation of productive sectors, exports pre-financing loans, loans for small enterprises. In all policies implemented, an employment preservation clause was included as a requirement to access and maintain the benefits and subsidies. In addition, the reach of the Productive Recovery Program (REPRO, through which the state subsidises part of the workers' salaries in enterprises in a critical situation) was extended. Fiscal incentives were provided for formal hiring and regularisation of non registered employment. There was also a strengthening of the active training and employment policies targeted to people that needed to further develop their skills in order to enhance their occupational insertion opportunities. Active income policies were maintained, so that as of the last quarter of 2008 the raises in retirement and pension transfers were guaranteed by law. Collective labour bargaining was sustained. There was a reduction in income taxes for salaried workers, and the amounts of the family allowances were increased. Also, there were monetary transfer programmes for vulnerable or impoverished groups.
Obviously these policies make severe fiscal demands, and the current inflationary pressures in Argentina do suggest that further increases will have to be moderated. However, this very different approach to social and economic distribution and the positive macroeconomic effects that it has generated thus far show that there are other viable economic trajectories that can deliver both growth and economic justice. This in turn provides valuable lessons for the rest of the world.


Mariya Plekan's lawyer, Andrew Stern, said she was trapped in the rubble of the Salvation Army building on Market Street for 13 hours.
By Claire Sasko·	 5/26/2017, 10:47 a.m.
A woman who lost the lower half of her body in the 2013 Center City building collapse that left seven dead and a dozen injured has been awarded $95.6 million.
Mariya Plekan, a 52-year-old Ukranian immigrant, was trapped in rubble for 13 hours on June 5, 2013, the day a half-demolished building fell and crushed the Salvation Army store where she was shopping.
This past February, a $227 million settlement was reached in the collapse, following a lengthy trail which found all defendants in the case liable – including the Salvation Army; the late Richard Basciano, who owned the collapsed building; Plato A. Marinakos Jr., the demolition monitor; Griffin Campbell, whom Marinakos had hired; and excavator operator Sean Benschop.
Plekan will receive the most significant portion of the money, which is the largest personal injury settlement in state court history, according to a lawyer for the plaintiffs.
Andrew Stern, Plekan's lawyer, told the Inquirer that Plekan had to undergo about 30 operations, including a "guillotine amputation," lost her ability to speak and suffered kidney failure. Her future medical expenses will reportedly cost $50 million, and she will require 24-hour medical supervision for the remainder of her life.
"We take comfort that Ms. Plekan finally can obtain the appropriate skilled medical care she needs for the rest of her life, and that she has received just compensation for the gruesome injuries she sustained from this devastating tragedy," Stern said yesterday, according to the Associated Press.


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British Air Chief Marshal visited Turkish Aerospace
Royal Air Force (RAF) Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike WIGSTON, has recently visited Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TUSAŞ) facilities.
The statement given by Turkish Aerospace relating to the visit of Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike WIGSTON is as follows: "We were pleased to have Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Mike WIGSTON and his delegation, who visited our company and examined our domestic and national projects."
Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike WIGSTON said "BAE Systems integrated with Turkish Aerospace is building Turkey's next generation combat aircraft. A national project the nation can be proud of, symbolic of the strength of the UK and Turkey bilateral relationship." about the visit.
National Combat Aircraft and UK
Within the scope of National Combat Aircraft (MMU) project that aims to design and produce modern aircraft within domestic capabilities, and replace the F-16 Fighting Falcons that are in Turkish Air Force Command inventory and are planned to be unmounted gradually in 2030s, the main contract between Turkish Presidency of Defense Industries and Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. has been signed on 05.08.2016.
Following the main agreement signed, the Heads of Agreement between Turkish Aerospace and British BAE Systems was signed on January 28, 2017, the Memorandum of the Agreement on May 10, 2017, and the Cooperation Agreement between Turkish Aerospace and BAE Systems on August 25, 2017.
During IDEF 2019, Turkish Aerospace CEO Prof. Dr. Temel KOTİL spoke to SavunmaSanayiST.com – Turkish website – and announced that 100 or so engineers from BAE Systems work in Turkey for the project as of May 2019.
Developed within the scope of the National Combat Aircraft (NCA) Project, the TF-X (Turkish Fighter – X) fighter plane is planned to exit the hangar in 2023, to have its first flight in 2026, to be delivered to the Turkish Air Force in 2029, and to reach full capacity flight capability in the 2030s.


Three college students get lost in the seedy streets where they encounter a crazed gang of homeless derelicts. After witnessing the death of his best friends, the only survivor is left naked and alone. If he wants to survive the night he must escape the clutches of the gang.


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2007 Murder Convict Is The First Woman To Face US Federal Execution In 70 Years
By Shreyashi Chakraborty @ShreyashiChak19
Lisa Montgomery, convicted in 2007, is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 4
She is expected to be put to death by lethal injection
The last woman to be federally executed was Bonnie Heady in 1953
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has scheduled the execution of a 2007 murder convict who will be the first woman to be put to death by the federal government in almost seven decades.
Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death in 2007 at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri for kidnapping resulting in death. Her death sentence came after a jury found her guilty of strangulating an eight months pregnant Missouri woman to death before cutting open her womb and abducting the baby in 2004. She is expected to receive a lethal injection on Dec. 4 at the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Ind., the DOJ said in a statement.
The DOJ has also scheduled on Dec. 10 the execution of Brandon Bernard who was found guilty of murdering two youth ministers in 1999, according to the statement. Bernard will also receive a lethal injection.
The last woman to face capital punishment was Bonnie Heady on Dec. 18, 1953, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Heady, who was convicted of kidnapping and killing the 6-year-old son of automobile tycoon Robert Greenlease in Missouri, was executed in a gas chamber.
Montgomery will be the eighth federal prisoner to be executed this year after the Supreme Court ordered the resumption of the federal death penalty in July 2019, ending a federal moratorium on executions that had been in effect since 2003. The first federal prisoner to be put to death after the hiatus was Daniel Lewis Lee, a member of a white supremacist group who was convicted of killing a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl.
Lethal injection as a punishment was made legal in the U.S. in 1977 as an alternative to hanging. Until 2009, most states have used a three-drug combination in lethal injections, but eight states have later resorted to a new single-drug lethal injection method in the wake of a nationwide drug shortage which occurred after death penalty opponents run a global campaign, cutting off the supplies of drugs.
Feds Carry Out 2nd Execution This Week


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Ohio child abduction suspect spotted in Vandalia and Huber Heights
by: Callie Cassick, Caroline Morse
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — The Vandalia Police Chief has confirmed that a woman caught on surveillance footage is the suspect in the ongoing Amber Alert investigation involving a missing child.
The photos can be seen below.
Vandalia Police Chief confirmed the woman in the photos is 24-year-old Nalah Jackson, the suspect from Columbus who stole a vehicle with twin boys inside.
An employee at the Park-N-Go said if he had known who she was and the alert was sent out sooner, he would've been able to alert authorities.
"Something about her that didn't seem right and kind of weird," said Mark. "Maybe we could have done something, and I know between James and I, we definitely would've done something if we had known. She was more than happy to sit here and chat with us, I know we could've held her for 10-15 minutes and someone snuck away to make a phone call."
LISTEN: 911 call released after kidnapped infant found at Dayton airport
The Vandalia Police Chief said the black car parked in the background also matches the vehicle's description in the Amber Alert. Employee Mark say he spoke with Jackson who asked for directions to the airport to pick up a friend from Germany. Also, claims Jackson pulled in and drove off with her lights off and seemed very disoriented.
It wasn't until later in the morning when the alert was issued and law enforcement discovered one of the boys at the airport that the Park-N-Go employees reviewed their security tapes.
Ohio Amber Alert: One baby found at Dayton airport, one still missing
They said they handed it over to the FBI and law enforcement who told them they did, indeed speak with the suspect. The employee said he has children of his own, and if the alert had been sent sooner, he would've acted right away.
"I'm feeling disappointed and sad, and I just wish we would've known, it would be a different story this morning," said Mark.
Jackson was also spotted at 11 p.m. Monday night at the United Dairy Farmers gas station in Huber Heights on Taylorsville Road where she reportedly asked an employee for money while driving the stolen 2010 Honda Accord.
UDF Shift Leader Emily Ryan says she spoke with Jackson before the Amber Alert was issued.
"If we saw it earlier, we could've done something, but we had no idea," said Ryan. "I would've hit our silent alarm to alert police and keep tabs on the woman. I didn't know until the next morning when I saw her picture plastered everywhere and I knew instantly that's the lady that came in last night. We're all kind of beating ourselves up about it."
One of the twins remains missing and Jackson remains at large.
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LBP Inspection - A process in which paints on all surfaces throughout your building are tested using an X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRF). A survey identifies the presence or absence of LBP.
Lead Risk Assessment - A process in which a certified Lead Based Paint Professional identifies hazards associated with lead in paint, soil, and water at the site of concern. This process includes conducting a visual evaluation of all the surfaces in the structure, determining the condition and exposure potential from these materials, and collecting wipe samples to determine if lead dust is considered a hazard. A survey or Risk Assessment is required for "Target Housing" constructed before 1978.
Toxicity Characteristic Leachate Procedure (TCLP) sampling - Prior to disposal, a representative sample of the 'waste stream' is collected, sent to an outside laboratory, and tested to determine how much lead will leach from the debris. This TCLP result is reported in mg of Lead per Liter of fluid extracted from the waste after testing which mimics the disposal site (landfill) condition.
Lead Air Monitoring- to Comply with OSHA Lead Standard 29 CFR 1926.62, MTI conducts personnel and area monitoring to determine worker exposure to Lead dust and fumes during various work activities.


Ludacris is an American hip-hop artist and actor. Over the course of his career he released eight successful albums and popular singles such as "How Low".
"Vitamin D" is a single, featuring rapper Ty Dolla $ign, off Ludacris's upcoming ninth studio album.


One lower Hudson Valley dog is being hailed a hero after some quick thinking.
According to ABC7 NY a family is Tuckahoe is crediting their pit bull named Sadie for saving their lives. Around 3:35pm on Thursday, February 7th, police showed up to a call about a dog loose and barking.
When the police showed up, Sadie took off as the police followed her for several streets. Sadie ended up bring the officers to back to her residence. The officers noticed the fence was broken and the houses glass door was opened.
As officers approached the house they "discovered a gas odor coming from an open basement window."
Eastchester Fire Department and Con Edison responded to the scene and confirmed the gas leak. Police Lieutenant Lawrence Rotta tells ABC7 "The dog saved the house from a potential gas explosion and gas leak."
Sadies owner Serena Costello says that Sadie went through great lengths to get out, chewing and digging out a wooden block keeping the sliding door shut.
Costello says Sadie saved her life and the life of her 4 year old daughter saying "She is our hero. It's just so out of character for her to do. She saved our lives. Yeah. Emotional."


Through the undertaking of many different projects across the globe, Bluepoint Technologies has years experience of installing, terminating and testing fibre cabling solutions. Whether you need a fibre optic backbone for a data cabling system, fibre to the desk, links between buildings across your campus, or between floors within a building, we have the expertise to undertake any project.
Bluepoint Technologies qualified team of engineers can install multimode OM1, OM2 and OM3, OM4 and single mode OS1 and OS2 fibre optic cables, terminate them to a wide range of fibre optic connectors and we can test the complete installation to ensure the performance of the fibre links.
Termination of fibre optic cables is completed by our in-house fibre optic engineers, who are specialists in working with a wide range of connector types. These include, SC, LC, MT-RJ, as well as being fully trained to splice fibre optic cables and pigtails using the latest fibre optic splicers. We are an approved 3M Volition installation company.
The installed fibre optic links can be tested by our fibre optic engineers using a light source and power meter or OTDR tester. Full test results are supplied to the client following completion of the project.
Bluepoint Technologies are also an approved contractor for the installation of the 'Air Blown' fibre optic system, Blolite, manufactured by Leviton. This innovative system allows the installation of tubes or ducts into a building forming an infrastructure, through which fibre optic cores can then be added, up to 12 per tube at any point in the future. This means that the fibre installation is effectively future-proofed, as any upgrades to the fibre cabling can be made easily and quickly, with minimum disruption. This proven system has been installed in a wide range of applications, and has earned its reputation as the best system of this type on the market.
Bluepoint Technologies is an approved installer for the latest innovative product to be launched by Leviton, the MicroBlo 'Air Blown Cable' system. The system, similar in concept to Blolite, comprises indoor, outdoor and direct burial versions of MicroDucts. These are bundles of seven small tubes into which MicroCables from 2 to 96 cores are introduced. Available in OM1, OM2, OM3, OM4 and OS1 and OS2 fibre types, they can be installed following the installation of the ducts, or at a future date, making the system expandable and future proof.
To ensure complete protection of the fibre installation we only use cabinets from reputable manufacturers like Prism, Cannon, Schroff and Rittal, and fibre panels from our manufacturing partners, Leviton, HellermannTyton and Connectix.


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Driver: Parallel Lines - On this day
In a very short period, the Driver series of games were ahead of the Grand Theft Out as one of the earliest 3D games in which you drove around "real cities". However, Driver quickly took a downward trajectory, and the worst came with the third part when the action spread beyond the vehicle. The then publishing house Atari then sold the Reflections Interactive studio, which found a new home with the French Ubisoft, and it was decided to return the series to its roots.
The fourth Driver was called Driver: Parallel Lines and was launched on this day 16 years ago on PlayStation 2 and Xbox consoles. He put the focus on driving and brought several useful novelties. For example, a vehicle could destroy several buildings in the vicinity, and the police could be fooled by changing vehicles. There was action outside the vehicle as well, but the mechanics of jumping and swimming from the previous game were thrown out.
Driver: Parallel Lines brought a few more novelties to its series, such as raising money, modifying vehicles, etc. The biggest difference, however, was that the game was located in only one city - New York. However, we saw this city through two different periods - 1978 and 2006. Changing the period in which the game takes place meant changing the look of the city, but also weapons, vehicles, citizens, music, and even the game interface.
This sequel picked up better ratings than the disappointing Driver, but it didn't leave a big mark on its genre next to the dominant GTA titles. A few months after the release of the console version, Driver came to the PC platform, and in 2007 a prequel to the PSP console called Driver 76 followed.
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Antibiotic Resistance Facts
Known Information
By some estimates, up to half of all hospitalized patients in the US receive antibiotics and up to half of antimicrobial use may be inappropriate.1 There is a causal relationship between inappropriate antimicrobial use and resistance; changes in antimicrobial use lead to parallel changes in the prevalence of resistance.2 The CDC has recommended a more judicious use of available antibiotic agents and one way to accomplish this is to identify patients who have been erroneously labeled as penicillin allergic. Penicillin allergy testing can be a safe and effective strategy to reduce the use of broad spectrum antibiotics and can help modify antibiotic selection.3
INFORMATION ABOUT ANTIBIOTIC STEWARDSHIP
Know the facts about antibiotic resistance4,5,6,7:
deaths are caused by drug-resistant bacteria each year in the US
illnesses are caused by drug-resistant bacteria each year in the US
Avoidable costs from antimicrobial misuse in the US range from $27 billion to $42 billion annually.
of Americans believe that antibiotic resistance is a significant problem for public health.
1Owens, RC Jr., Fraser GL, Stogsdill P et al. Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs as a Means to Optimize Antimicrobial Use. Insights from the Society of Infectious Disease Pharmacists. Pharmacotherapy. 2004;24:896-908.
2Dellit, TH, Owens, RC, McGowan JE, Jr et al. Infectious Disease Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidmiology of America Guidelines for Developing Institutional Programs to Enhance Antimicrobial Stewardship. Clin Infect Dis. 2007;44-150-77.
3Arroliga, Mercedes, Pien, Lily. Penicillin Allergy: Consider Trying Penicillin Again. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. Volume 70. Number 4. April 2003
4CDC. Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States. Atlanta, GA: 2013. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/threat-report-2013/.
5Healy, Melissa. LA Times. A Slow Catastrophe Unfolds as the Golden Era of Antibiotics Comes to an End. July 11, 2016.
6Carter, Rebecca et al. A Survey and Analysis of the American Public's Perceptions and Knowledge About Antibiotic Resistance Open Forum Infectious Diseases Advance Access. June 1, 2016.
7IMS Health. Avoidable Costs in U.S. Healthcare. Danbury, CT: IMS Health; 2013.


Hello, Mary! I am doing the exercises right now and.. it's crazy! I can hear such a difference even from the Friday recording. Wow!
I always think of you. Thank you for enlightening my mind and voice with your brilliant teaching.
I've met Mary three times in my life. Each time I've met her with a voice I couldn't understand and needed immediate help to avoid surgery. The first time was at 15 at BTP and my voice was young and vibrant. Being the Jedi of voices that she is, she began to drop dimes of knowledge to me about proper voice technique that I would take with me on into my 1st Broadway show. The most poignant time I met Mary was at the conclusion of my 1st off broadway show that was heading to broadway. It would be my first lead in Broadway show and there I was with a raspy and scratchy misused voice that was fading fast. Again, using the immense amount of tools and enlightened findings of the voice, I began to not only find my voice again but I began to book feature roles and leads.
You'd think one couldn't meet the same person several times in life and hear new information on the same subject every time. But that's the thing with Mary! She's beyond simply supplying someone with incredible vocal technique. She is like a mother caring for her newborn. She is a scholar delivering an inspirational keynote speech in only an hours time. She is an empathic artist and energy healer who focuses on others needs so much that in the process she heals herself then you doubly and sends you off into the world more courageous than one could ever imagine themselves being- because she reminded you you are not alone and the earth in which you stand on is there to support you. Much like your chest voice is there to give you the stability you need to find your base then freely allowing your voice to travel up and over and out. Mary is the base every artist should have to find their most natural and speech level sound of expression.
Looking forward to getting my voice whipped into shape and honing my teaching methods next month with my long time teacher Mary Walkley at her Miami studio. Can't wait!
No single musical experience I've had has so revolutionized and improved my musical life and ability as when I started taking lessons with Mary in 2002. Even after all this time, every time I see her I experience major improvement.
The time is NOW to SING! Mary is the best kept secret in Miami! As a tenor, I have had trouble improving strength in my passagio...but after one lesson (and practicing the vocal technique) I saw huge progress in the direction I was hoping for. Not only did I hear the improvement, but other fellow singers also heard my new found strength. People have been extremely curious as to what I am doing differently because it's literally a NEW voice. I am so glad that I finally made the decision to come sing with Mary. Helping me prep my score before I went into rehearsals, Mary made me look like an all-star when I arrive "prepared."
This is a new chapter in my singing career! With upcoming auditions scheduled, I feel confident that with my training, only good times are ahead. I am so grateful to study with a teacher that can instantly figure out what you need to improve and literally prescribe you the vocal exercises to strengthen your weaknesses. The icing on the cake is that her musicality is spot on. Every nuance she proposes in our lessons are brilliant. Because Mary shares her "top of the industry" work habits, she has brought me to a more professional level in a very short amount of time. With lots of self-practice ahead, Mary continues to fine tune my voice creating a recipe for vocal success. Thank you again Mary for teaching me and bringing a newfound love for singing !
Mary is an instrumental piece to any serious vocalist. I have been studying with her for over a year and I am a completely different singer. I have had many other vocal coaches and have had success in what my previous voice was, an untrained operatic style voice that was solely chest and head voice. I never had a mix. However, now I have a mix and I am working on 'whistle notes'.
As a teacher, Mary gets the most out of her students because they see her giving her most to them. I believe students instinctively recognize Mary's integrity, true grit, and real understanding of their needs and concerns Her sheer determination and her willingness to ask her students to give their all turns out remarkable performances and total commitment. If we could bottle what Mary seems to get so effortlessly out of her students, we would have every educator in the world lining up outside our door begging for the ingredients.
I was hired to sing at a few night events in my town and as I was studying the many songs I have to prepare I went through your cds and recordings I have... It's amazing how your work still helps me very much and sometimes it's like you're correcting me in real life!
Sending your way lots of love from Italy!!
Mary is an amazing, beautiful, fabulous singer and voice coach!


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Tri-Port Wild Coach gets Award from Team
The Tri-Port Wild's coach Andrew Laming was presented with an award from the entire team
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Apr. 20, 2016 3:00 p.m.
At the year-end hockey awards banquet for the Tri-Port Female Program, the Bantam/Midget Tri-Port Wild's
Coach Andrew Laming was presented with a very personalized piece of art, created by local artist Jeremy
Browne, from the entire Wild team to commemorate how much his efforts were appreciated by them and their
families this past season. In an interview over the phone, Laming said that he's been dedicated to coaching
hockey "for the last 10 years straight now. Once my kids started playing I've pretty much been coaching ever
since." After doing a little bit of figure skating as a young child, Laming grew up playing minor hockey in Port
Hardy. He represented the North Island in the Rep league and then went on to play four years of Junior hockey
for the Victoria Cougars. In his fifth and final season, 1994-1995, he played for the Prince George Cougars and
racked up 22 points in 48 games. After his hockey career ended, he transitioned into coaching the sport and
has since coached many local Tri-Port teams, ranging from first year Peanuts, to Novice, to Atom and PeeWee
Rep as well. This was Laming's first time coaching a girl's hockey program specifically, and "every season you
get some good stuff and some bad stuff. This season though, there was nothing bad about it at all. Everything
was great and it was an all around amazing experience," said Laming, adding that when it comes to coaching a
girl's hockey program compared to the boys, "there's not much difference at all. The girls have the same drive
and want to win just as badly as the boys do." Once there were enough girls registered to form a team for the
2015/2016 season, Laming was approached by the players and their parents to coach and he had zero
hesitations when it came time to step up and take on the task at hand. "I had expectations for them right from
the start," said Laming. "I wanted them to work hard, show up, and represent the team well. Every single one of
them bought into the system, which is to play hard and have fun, and they really did. Everyone on the team
believed they could achieve great results, and it showed by the end of the season. You gotta find a way to get
through to every kid, otherwise what are you coaching for?"At the start of the season, the Wild just wanted to
win enough games to qualify for the four-team playoffs in Parksville, but once they'd played a few games they
saw they'd had "quite a bit of success" and it was then the Wild knew they were "capable of competing and
winning against every team in the league," said Laming, also adding that from the start of the season to the end
of the season, "the improvement was 100 per cent for some of the girls who were newer to the sport, but
overall every player improved a ton and most importantly had fun." The Wild ended their first season with a 2nd
place finish in the female midget league standings, posting an excellent 8-3-1 record with 48 goals for and only
27 goals against. The year-end statistics clearly showed "all the hard work they'd put in and I couldn't be more
proud of what they've achieved," said Laming. As far as the Wild's semi-final's playoff game March 5 in
Parksville, it was "a very close game," he said. "We had some sick players, and they really battled through all
the adversity and tried their hardest to win in spite of the odds against them."Laming stated that he was also
incredibly proud to see that throughout the entire season, no matter what happened, "the team got along great
and included each other in everything. I've never seen any team do that as well as they did," adding that while
he doesn't have one particular favourite moment from the season, "getting to see the girls improve and come
together and support one another" is what really stood out to him the most as a lasting memento of the Tri-Port
Wild's first official year as a team. Player awards given out at the banquet were as follows:
Most Valuable Player – Avary Miller.
Most Sportsmanlike Player – Bre-Anna Henderson.
Most Improved Player – Crystal Tapp.
Esso Medallions Most Dedicated Player – Madison Van Will.
Esso Medallions Most Sportsmanlike Player – Tyanna Laming.
Esso Medallions Most Improved Player – Kaitlyn Wilson.
Special 'Digger' Award – Taylor Ranger.
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Collaborative effort removes salmon farms from BC coast
The first farms to be removed were those in closest to the Ahta and Viner Rivers.
North Island Concert Society: Marc Atkinson Trio coming to the Civic Centre
The concert takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 18 at the Port Hardy Civic Centre.
MP Blaney welcomes feedback on medical assistance in dying legislation
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Stop by the Comox Community Centre on Jan. 26 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.!
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Wonderful villa with view over caldera, very private, romantic and comfortable, pretty special as it is located "inside" the the mountain. Superb and discrete service. Niko - the Manager - is the right person on the right place, the most helpful manager I have ever met during my travels. Overall great experience!
Right from the start of booking with Luxury Retreats to the reception of Niko the hotel manager was the best service experience. Villa was clean, had an amazing view and staff was attentive - better than other 5 star or resorts that I have ever stayed in. WOW, WOW and more WOW with how much Niko knew about the history and places to recommend. I think it is going to be very hard for any of my future vacations spot to top.