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Care, General Care Projects in Peru by Pete Morrow
My name is Pete Morrow, but most people just called me "Pedro" by the end of my two months in Peru. I couldn't tell you why I chose Peru over all the other projects offered, but to be honest, I don't think it gets much better than South America. I am originally from Vermont; yes that's east coast USA for all my new found European friends. I did some volunteer work in high school, like most people probably do, but always had an interest in volunteering abroad. That being said, after high school, I found that college wasn't an immediate interest of mine, but definitely travelling was. By some random fluke of luck, Projects Abroad came to my school senior year and offered a safe opportunity (very popular to my parents) to go somewhere and do something cool (very popular to me). I won't lie, it did put a dent in my financial status…but you will soon realize it's worth it when you get picked up from the airport with a friendly smile. Trust me, after you've had a five or six hour layover in Lima airport, tried sleeping on every bench, and realized that no one is speaking English anymore, you may be freaking out a little bit. Knowing that somebody from Projects Abroad is waiting to pick you up in Cusco is a relief.
Peru is pretty sweet for a couple reasons… For one, the daily weather forecast is the same every day, sunny with blue skies and a high probability of sunburn. You're guaranteed to see a least five street festivals a week. Even if you can't dance remotely well, the discotecas in Cuzco will always welcome you in for a good time on weekends. And finally, the people of Peru are some of the funniest, kindest, and most inspirational people I have met. Basically Peru will blow your mind, and frankly this thing you're reading won't cover ten percent of what I ultimately got out of volunteering in Peru with Projects Abroad.
I was in Peru for a total of two months, living and working in a town named Calca.It became my home in every sense of the word. I had family, food, neighbours, friends, cousins, fiestas, and, in my case, even an adoptive dog named Poncho.Poncho was from Cusco originally, but found his new home in Calca when he followed my friend Carrie and I onto the bus and rode with us an hour and a half to his new home with la familia Estrada.I really wouldn't recommend adopting stray dogs, and to be honest, it really wasn't in our control, but it did make for a good topic of conversation. By the end of two months I had a complete routine. Go to work, then meet Carrie and Poncho to go to our regulars…the internet café, visit the juice bar lady, and later hit up the pastry shop.
I was working as a Care programme volunteer and a Sports programme volunteer for the full two months. Five days of the week I got to work with twenty-five of the cutest kindergarten kids I've ever seen as a part of the Care Programme. I'll admit, I had no idea what I was doing on the first day of class. I thought, how am I supposed to deal with a class full of five year olds, and do it all in Spanish? The answer? Be a kid again, let down all guards, and remember how to play. Trust me, one of the most important pieces in volunteering abroad is to really get involved with what you're doing. My first week I helped the kids cut things out, paint, peeled fruits for them at snack, and became a human jungle gym during recess. Later, I got more comfortable and involved by teaching a weekly animal in English, and making picture books for the class.
You gain more from the experience as you get more involved with the work, and ultimately it affects the class much more than if you just sit and aide the teacher in everyday things. I found that I wanted to bring new fresh ideas to the table, things that made the learning unique. Also, it became clear that a sense of humour is probably a good thing to keep in your back pocket, as a class full of five year olds will undoubtedly laugh at any mistake you make. By the way, if you can effectively make them laugh you will be pretty popular with them, because honestly they're five, that's all they want to do; laugh, and run around hitting each other.
After class got out, around noon, I found my self walking a little less than half the class home. Darwin, in particular, would insist that his house was on my route home. This, however, was false. One weekend I passed by a house with a familiar face in the door, indeed it was Darwin, on the complete other side of town from where I was living. Anyways, after the ordeal of walking ten to fifteen kids home, I had just enough time for lunch and a siesta before I went and helped run after-school sports practices. Basketball would meet three times a week, and football twice a week. Most, but not all, of the kids doing after-school sports were around my age. Working alongside the coach, I got to have a whistle and run drills. I've never been handed a whistle and a large group of kids, but it's pretty awesome. Being a coach for kids that are only a few years younger than you is a lot like having a pick up game after school. It is definitely a good way to make friends if nothing else.
As a Projects Abroad alumni, bottom line, I think volunteering abroad is cool beans. And if it's your first time doing this sort of thing, Projects Abroad is a solid group to do it through. Everyone is really nice, and if you have any problems they will be there to try and straighten things out for you. Even if you don't go to Peru, I'm sure that any of the other places they offer would provide an equally great experience abroad.
Pete Morrow
Questa testimonianza potrebbe fare riferimento al lavoro presso orfanotrofi. Scopri di più sull'attuale approccio di Projects Abroad rispetto al volontariato in orfanotrofi e la nostra decisione di concentrarci sulle case famiglia e i centri che privilegiano il senso della comunità.
Questo è il racconto dell'esperienza di un volontario che ha partecipato al progetto e rappresenta un'istantanea nel tempo. La tua esperienza può essere diversa, in quanto i nostri progetti si adattano costantemente alle esigenze delle comunità locali e agli obiettivi raggiunti. Anche fattori i climatici possono avere un grosso impatto. Scopri di più su questo progetto o contattaci per maggiori informazioni.


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IBM to battle Amazon in the public cloud
Big Blue takes aim at Amazon Web Services with the Smart Business Cloud - Enterprise, a true general purpose Infrastructure as a Service. And it's priced to compete.
IBM has opened the door on a public cloud Infrastructure as a Service offering for the enterprise.
The company has quietly added the Smart Business Cloud - Enterprise to its Smart Business Cloud product line. SBC - Enterprise is a pay-as-you-go, self service (for registered IBM customers) online platform that can run virtual machines (VMs) in a variety of formats, along with other services from IBM.
IBM stepped into the cloud early, but the market has been very dynamic the past two years.
Dana Gardner, principal analyst with Interarbor Solutions
The Smart Business Cloud - Enterprise is a big step up from IBM's previous pure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering, the Smart Business Development and Test Cloud. Users can provision stock VMs running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Microsoft Windows Server, or they can choose from an arsenal of preconfigured software appliances that IBM, in part, manages and that users consume. These include Industry Application Platform, IBM DB2, Informix, Lotus Domino Enterprise Server, Rational Asset Manager, Tivoli Monitoring, WebSphere Application Server, Cognos Business Intelligence and many others.
In what may tell the back story of IBM's own cloud computing development path, all of the images and applications being offered from SBC - Enterprise presently run in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud environment. Not all of the announced IBM cloud applications run in the IBM compute environment.
Screenshots and a video demo show a familiar sight by now for cloud users: a point-and-click provisioning system in a Web interface. Apparently sensitive to its enterprise audience, IBM has taken some pains to offer higher-end features, including access and identity management control, security and application monitoring tools, and VPN and VLAN capabilities, as well as VM isolation. IBM technical support will also be available.
IBM has been a consistent supporter of open source software for the enterprise market and the inclusion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux are indications that IBM feels those products have the chops for big customers running Linux. Being based on Linux (Blue Insight) also makes it easy for IBM to port its technology into an Amazon-type network.
Analyzing IBM's entrance into public cloud
Some industry observers say they believe the cloud-based product disclosure is overdue, and a step in the right direction. The move is a natural one if IBM wants to extend the lofty position it currently holds in on-premises application integration.
"IBM needs to start talking about integration as a service (in the cloud)," said Dana Gardner, principal with Interarbor Solutions in Gilford, N.H. "They are a market leader in enterprise apps integration in the physical space, so the next step is to be a leader in the cloud space. They seem to be going in the right direction."
Gardner, along with other analysts and IT pros, have criticized IBM's overall cloud strategy as "scattershot" the past couple of years. After getting off to a promising start through a number of key acquisitions and technology introductions, the company's efforts appear to have lost momentum and focus.
"IBM stepped into the cloud early, but the market has been very dynamic the past two years," Gardner added. "When people think of the cloud now, they think about mobile, big data and analytics, along with cost reductions and simplifying. IBM hasn't stepped up to the latest zeitgeist around cloud to take all this on."
Other analysts said they believe IBM's delivery of its SBC - Enterprise is coming in the nick of time. It fully anticipates that fast-moving competitors, such as Salesforce.com, Google and Amazon, will debut much more capable products and services in areas where IBM still hasn't ventured.
"[IBM] is still looking at a pack of hungry competitors who have little trepidation about moving their cloud initiatives forward, moving way beyond the Infrastructure as a Service level offering things like run-time support and tools," said one analyst who requested anonymity. "Services are going to get a lot more sophisticated from the Googles of the world."
Competitive pricing disclosed
An official IBM Charge Schedule lays out price per instance in four tiers: Copper, Bronze, Silver and Gold. A Copper RHEL instance costs $0.19 per hour, and Gold is $0.46 per hour. Windows instances start at $0.10 per hour.
IBM needs to start talking about integration as a service (in the cloud).
Dana Gardner
IBM will also sell reserved capacity, just as Amazon Web Services (AWS) does, for those looking for a long-term discount. Reserved Capacity is significantly cheaper, although a six-month commitment will cost a minimum of $1850 per month.
A Reserved Capacity RHEL instance costs $0.0154 per hour and a Gold instance will run you $0.30 per hour. Windows pricing starts at $0.064 per hour. Licensing is either determined by the application you consume or bring-your-own-licensing (BYOL). The pricing appears to be in line with other public cloud services like AWS and Rackspace.
IBM makes its entrance to the public cloud market in a big way. The service is apparently live and available to order right now. SearchCloudComputing.com recently put IBM in its top ten list of cloud providers based just on the strength of its success with the Smart Business Test and Development Cloud, a $30 million business after little more than a year in operation.
With its long history of delivering IT services, software and support to the Global 2000, some believed it was only a question of time until IBM made a decisive move into the cloud computing marketplace. It's too early to say if it will dominate the public cloud space, but it has everything it needs to do so, including global data centers, connectivity, service delivery capabilities, and the all-important enterprise user base.
Ed Scannell is an Executive Editor and Carl Brooks is the Senior Technology Writer for SearchCloudComputing.com.

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Welcome to Knit and Crochet Design Week!
If you haven't read the details of knit and design week, read this post to get caught up to speed. Basically, we're dedicating a little time each day this week to design and sharing our progress.
There are no requirements: I just want to encourage you to have fun and be creative! And, if you've written a blog post about your progress, please post the link in the comments section below… so we can all have a look!
My Sketch
Okay, now onto my designing! (yes… I'm designing along with you!)
I've had a platypus on my 'ideas of animals to design' list for a while now… and this seems like the week to do it!
The first thing I do when I'm designing an animal is to do a bit of research about what the animal looks like. This usually includes looking around on Pinterest, clip art files and a Google Image search:
After I've had a look around, I do a sketch, including all of the features that are 'must haves'. For the platypus, that means a brown body, a tail, a beak and webbed feet.
For the platypus, I'm feeling torn. Should he be a big oval-ball shape? Here's my 'oval sketch':
Or should he have a more separate head? Here's the 'with a head' sketch:
What do you think? I'm leaning towards the platypus with the distinct head shape… Also, in real-life, a platypus has a black beak and feet, but I'm wondering if the tan won't look better in yarn.
Opinions welcome!
What are you designing?
I'm excited to see what you're up to! Leave a link to your design week post in the comment section below!
Tomorrow's theme is 'techniques': chatting about the techniques that will be helpful when designing and making your creation. You don't have to stick with the theme, but it's there to help if you're drawing a blank.
Read all the Design Week posts here.
See you again, tomorrow!


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Youth - Youth - Mental Health / Counselling / Substance Use / Addictions
|Program Name
|Foundry Campbell River
|Campbell River
|Gold River Youth and Family Counselling
|Campbell River
|The John Howard Society of North Island
|Campbell River
|Youth & Family Substance Use Services
|Campbell River
|Youth Outreach Program
|Campbell River
The attached poster outlines how to choose the Right Care at the Right Place.
If you are not able to get an appointment with your clinic and feel you need to visit a Walk-In Clinic, Medimap (www.
The Campbell River & District Division of Family Practice cannot ensure the accuracy of the information provided by the Agencies listed on FETCH and that we advise you to contact them directly.


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MARC & SONS Diver watch Series CLASSIC MSD-044-WGS
Waterproofness of your watch
30 bar ≈ 30 ATM (≈ 300 m)
The watch is tested for a water tightness of up to 30 bar. This corresponds to the pressure of an assumed water column of 300 meters. The watch is suitable for daily use and can be worn, for example, by washing hands, rain, showering or car washing. Furthermore, the watch can be used in addition to diving with equipment.
Information about the used luminous material
The illuminant used is called Superluminova BGW9. Superluminova BGW9 has a white color in daylight. In the dark, the elements are colored to a light blue hue. The luminosity is about 95 percent in direct comparison with Superluminova C3. Superluminova BGW9´s luminosity is superior to that of Superluminova C1 and Superluminova C3.
Information about the movement Miyota 9015
The caliber 9015, which was presented for the first time in 2009, is a revolutionary development of the 8215 caliber. Equipped with a ball bearing rotor, a second stop and a date with a quick-change circuit, this new plant works very precisely with 28,800 half oscillations per hour. The range deviation is indicated as -10 to +30 seconds per day. According to experience, however, the work runs much more precisely, in some cases with a deviation in the single-digit second range. Furthermore, the movement has a shock absorber, a Swiss anchoring inhibitor and a manual hoist. The reserve is 42 hours. The movement is a technical masterpiece due to its low overall height of only 3.9 mm.
Informationen about a Ceramic bezel
A ceramic base is a component consisting of a so-called technical ceramic, which has recently gained in importance in the watch industry. These beads are pressed under high pressure and fired at above 1400 ° C. This makes the strings extremely resistant, resistant and scratch-resistant. Its silky sheen is obtained by polishing the diamonds after production. An additional feature is the processing of Superluminova BGW9 on the ceramic element.
Informationen about sapphire crystal
Visually, there is hardly any difference between a sapphire crystal and a mineral glass. The specific material properties are considered, large differences can be observed. In contrast to the mineral glass, which resembles the quartz in its chemical structure, the sapphire glass is made synthetically and consists of high-purity aluminum oxide. A sapphire glass has a hardness of nine, which corresponds exactly to that of the natural precious stone sapphire, from which the name for the glass was derived. Mineral glasses have only degrees of hardness of six to seven. Due to the material properties, sapphire glass is extremely resistant, scratch-resistant and is also particularly resistant to breakage. Despite heavy usage a sapphire glass still looks like after the first day.
The MARC & SONS diver series CLASSIC is a versatile interpretation of a legendary and well known diving watch classic. Here, MARC & SONS is focusing on design and processing. The watch has a beautifully shaped case with an antireflective sapphire crystal and is waterresistant up to 30 ATM. The one-sided turnable bezel has a ceramic inlay, which is equipped with Superluminova BGW9 luminous material. This also applies to hands and indexes, which light up in a bright blue in the dark and thus underline the sporty character of this watch.
The watch is powered by an automatic movement from MIYOTA. The movement MIYOTA 9015 impresses with its reliability and is fine-tuned before the assembly by our watchmakers. The MARC & SONS MSD-044-WGS has a well-readable white dial.
In addition to the classic stainless steel band, the watch can also be combined with a rubber band, a leather band or a sporty Natoband, thus forming the perfect combination of sportiness and classic elegance.
300m Automatic Diver Watch - Quality Made in Germany
- Stainless Steel 316 L
- Sapphire crystal, antireflective
- Bezel: ceramic green with Swiss Superluminova BGW9
- Screwed stainless steel back with engraved logo
- Pressure tested up to 30 ATM
- Automatic
- 24 Jewels
- Hacking: yes
- 28.800 A/h
- Power Reserve: 42 hours
- Hour, minute, central second, date
- Screw down crown
Dial & Hands
- Dial: white
- Luminous indexes
- Luminous hands
- Lume: Swiss Superluminova BGW9
- Central second hand
- Date
Bracelet & Clasp
- Bracelet: stainless steel 22 mm
- Clasp: Folding clasp with stainless steel safety clasp
- Band length: 21 cm
- Case: 42 x 50 mm
- Diameter: 42 mm
- Height: 15,4 mm
- Width of bracelet 22 mm
- Total weight: 224 g
Scope of delivery
- Watch
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Who needs choirs when you can…
I feel that this is just awesome. Seriously! It is only in this age have we been able to do anything like this. There is a certain beauty to one person doing by himself what used to require a whole choir.
by Murali · January 25, 2013
I feel that this is just awesome. Seriously! It is only in this age have we been able to do anything like this. There is a certain beauty to one person doing by himself what used to require a whole choir.
Murali did his undergraduate degree in molecular biology with a minor in biophysics from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He then changed direction and did his Masters in Philosophy also at NUS. Now, he is currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Warwick.
October 2, 2013
Yeah it's awesome, and you can do it with instruments too to enormously impressive effect. I remain in mind blown awe at the people who can actually do this.Report
For example this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRv8gnBMiWMReport
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The UPS hijacking ended in a hail of bullets in rush-hour traffic. Police now face questions about their response
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In the end, four people were shot dead at the intersection in Miramar, authorities said, including two robbery suspects, a bystander, and hostage UPS driver Frank Ordonez -- a man who relatives say had been substituting for a colleague who had called out from work that day.
The slain robbers and hijackers were Lamar Alexander, 41, and Ronnie Jerome Hill, 41, both of Miami-Dade County, the FBI said. Authorities haven't released the name of the bystander who was killed.
Numerous questions about the chase and its finale remain, including who shot Ordonez and the bystander.
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The House Judiciary Committee will be kicking off their portion of the impeachment inquiry, with coverage and live stream you can watch here:
The House Judiciary Committee is taking the reins of the impeachment inquiry, holding its first hearing with testimony on the constitutional grounds for impeachment.
The committee, which will be responsible for drafting potential articles of impeachment, is hearing from four constitutional law experts: Noah Feldman, Pamela Karlan, Michael Gerhardt and Jonathan Turley, who is also a CBS News legal analyst.
What say you? The commentareum is raring to go on this topic, join in.Comment →
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Senator Kamala Harris' once promising campaign for the Democratic nomination for president has ended.
To my supporters, it is with deep regret—but also with deep gratitude—that I am suspending my campaign today.— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 3, 2019
But I want to be clear with you: I will keep fighting every day for what this campaign has been about. Justice for the People. All the people.https://t.co/92Hk7DHHbR
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Harris told aides of her intentions in an all-staff call. A person familiar with the call said she sounded distraught. While Harris had qualified for the December debate in her home state, she was running dangerously low on cash — lacking the resources to air TV ads in Iowa — and her staff was gripped by long-running internal turmoil.
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Still, the news came as a shock to some of her biggest supporters. Just as Harris was announcing the news internally, a super PAC had cleared more than $1 million in TV ads in Iowa to boost her struggling campaign. The ad, which argued she was the best-equipped candidate to take on Trump, was canceled.
"Eleven months ago at the launch of our campaign in Oakland I told you all: 'I am not perfect.' But I will always speak with decency and moral clarity and treat all people with dignity and respect. I will lead with integrity. I will speak the truth. And that's what I have tried to do every day of this campaign. So here's the truth today," Harris wrote in a note to supporters. "I've taken stock and looked at this from every angle, and over the last few days have come to one of the hardest decisions of my life. My campaign for president simply doesn't have the financial resources we need to continue ."
Harris, who spent Thanksgiving in Iowa with family, took a deep look at the campaign's resources over the holiday and decided she did not have a path to the nomination. A Harris campaign aide said the expected impeachment trial in January further complicated the situation.
She made the decision Monday after discussions with her family and senior aides. Harris will travel to the early states this week to thank staff and supporters for their dedication to the campaign.
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No, not Katie Hill, who made a good run at the biggest scandal in the Cali delegation but fell short to Duncan Hunter. The still Representative of CA-50 will reportedly change his "not guilty" plea Tuesday in court.
The change of plea, if entered and accepted by the judge, also would close the complicated appeal that Hunter filed earlier this year. In an unusual move, the East County congressman appealed his prosecution in July to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal even before his trial opened.
Hunter, who will turn 43 on Saturday, and his wife were charged in August 2018 with 60 criminal counts related to their use of Hunter's campaign contributions and each faced decades in prison if convicted on all charges.
Both pleaded not guilty to the charges when they were arraigned.
Margaret Hunter, 44, changed her plea in June to guilty to a single count of conspiracy and agreed to testify against her husband. She faces up to five years in prison when she is sentenced in April, but is likely to serve substantially less time.
The couple has three children.
According to the indictment, the Hunters relied for years on campaign contributions to pay routine family expenses such as dental bills, home repairs and fast-food meals. They also used the donations to pay for exotic vacations, private-school tuition, video games and plane tickets for Margaret's mother to travel to and from Poland.
The Hunters used more than $500 in campaign funds to fly the family's pet rabbit, Eggburt, across the country with them, Margaret Hunter admitted in her plea agreement.
The initial indictment also alluded to several unnamed "individuals" who appeared to have more than professional relationships with Duncan Hunter.
Earlier this year, as the congressman continued to deny his guilt and prosecutors disclosed more of their evidence in public court filings, it became clear that Hunter had extramarital affairs with at least five different women over many years -- and paid for them with campaign funds.
Though never identified publicly, three of the women were noted to be lobbyists and two others were reported to be congressional staffers.
Hunter is still in Congress but has been stripped of all committee assignments and is not being endorsed or supported by the Republican Party, drawing strong candidates looking to take his seat.Comment →
[caption id="attachment_322780" align="aligncenter" width="750"] AG William Barr meets with DOJ officials. Photo by The United States Department of Justice [Public domain][/caption]
Attorney General William Barr said he initially had his own suspicions about financier Jeffrey Epstein's death while behind bars at one of the most secure jails in America but came to conclude that his suicide was the result of "a perfect storm of screw-ups."
In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said his concerns were prompted by the numerous irregularities at the New York jail where Epstein was being held. But he said after the FBI and the Justice Department's inspector general continued to investigate, he realized there were a "series" of mistakes made that gave Epstein the chance to take his own life.
"I can understand people who immediately, whose minds went to sort of the worst-case scenario because it was a perfect storm of screw-ups," Barr told the AP as he flew to Montana for an event.
Barr's comments come days after two correctional officers who were responsible for guarding the wealthy financier when he died were charged with falsifying prison records. Officers Tova Noel and Michael Thomas are accused of sleeping and browsing the internet — shopping for furniture and motorcycles — instead of watching Epstein, who was supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes.
Epstein took his own life in August while awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused girls as young as 14 and young women in New York and Florida in the early 2000s.
His suicide cast a spotlight on the federal Bureau of Prisons, which has been plagued by chronic staffing shortages and outbreaks of violence. The indictment unsealed this week against the officers shows a damning glimpse of safety lapses inside a high-security unit
This will, of course, have precisely zero effect in settling down those pesky "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself!" feelings many folks have.Comment →
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I've heard of feeling like a million bucks, but a billion just sounds greedy.


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Kristen Interview with El Pais
Wearing a Blondie t-shirt, black shorts and an orange leather jacket by Balenciaga, the actress agreed to answering our questions, apologizing for not taking off her sunglasses that hid "a terrible flu".
How does one put themselves in the shoes of a fictitious character but based on a real person ? The responsibility must be double, as you have to do justice to the book and to the spirit of the actual Beat Generation.
Responsibility is the word that better describes it. That's how I felt when I was shooting this movie. I read the book when I was 14 and I can say it was the first time I enjoyed a book. Thanks to it, I realized I liked reading, and it also made me discover other authors that have really left a mark in my life. The book was the start of my adolescence, that moment full of emotions, passion and strong beliefs.
There's lot of sex and drugs in the movie. Up to what point were you against facing those scenes ?
It didn't make me uncomfortable at all. I felt secured and protected. I felt like I owed it to the character. I'm very different from her, but I knew I had to lose all the inhibitions to do a good job. And I'm a very introspective person, whereas Marylou is much more open. I didn't mind the nudity and drugs. Actually, to be honest with you, I was almost looking forward to it...God, this is going to be great for your headline [smiles].
Would you say that what the characters experienced was more transgressive than what people do today ?
I don't know. Maybe doing drugs and having promiscous sex is considered more sordid today than in the 50's. I'd say that, for those characters, it was a way to fully express their life.
Do you share that urge to live to the fullest ?
I think it's a fundamental feeling. That's why the book managed to connect many readers over the decades. It is usually liked by people who realize that their values, priorities and limits are different that those of the majority. That's something I join in.
How do you live to the fullest with everybody's eyes on you ?
It seems impossible from the outside. But apart from when you're promoting, I feel completely free to do what I feel like doing. If you're true to yourself, there's nothing to be ashamed of. Whatever if people see you. They keep asking me what I feel, being I'm a role model of conduct for many girls and that stuff. I answer that if you want to be a role model you have to be true to who you actually are. If you think of how you would like people to perceive you, you're lying....and you're never going to be a model of anything.
Aren't you afraid of fans turning their back at you at this new stage ?
It's not my problem. I do what I want and what I like. I'll say it again, the most important thing is being honest with yourself. If you try to be someone you're not, you'll end up being a combination of things that don't match together and being nothing...
But the risk of alienating your teen fans is something that must cross your mind when you agree to take part in a move like On The Road.
I'm not aware of that. I got involved in this movie before the Twilight success broke out. I know you won't believe me, because it's what the entire world says, but there's no hidden tactic behind my decisions, even though everything seems planned. With Snow White and the Huntsman it must have looked like I was voluntarily distancing myself from Twilight, and that I'm winking at the indie audience with this movie. But it's not like that, I know it's difficult to believe but I'm being honest with you.
Who drives your decisions then ?
[hesitates] Sometimes it's about choosing characters that are strong women. I think we need more women like that now.
Do you feel relieved now that you said goodbye to Bella ?
That's what everybody assumes, even though actually I really enjoyed Twilight. It's true that I could have lost my mind, but luckily it didn't happen.
What are you talking about ?
The cinema is an odd experience, where you share great intimacy with thousands of people even if you don't know them. And with Twilight, it wasn't thousands, but millions of people. If such an experience doesn't affect you at all, you have a problem.
We might get the wrong impression, but you seem intimidated by premieres and red carpets. Is it shyness or annoyance ?
It's not that I don't like it, it's just that is still shocking. What can I do? I feel uncomfortable in places where hundreds of people are looking at me. I often have to repeat myself "focus, don't let your head wonder to other places". I find it very easy to withdraw into myself and forget about the rest.
You've been making movies since you were 9 and your parents are in the business. Do you think it helped you to take Hollywood less seriously ?
You bet, growing up in a family that works in the movie industry makes you feel a bit more proletarian. I feel like I'm a small part of a team, that's how I relate to my job. I know it'll sound very pretentious, but the entertainment industry doesn't attact me. I don't want to be part of that..I just want to make movies that are important.
In your relationship with Robert Pattinson, would you say there's rivalry in your work, or rather emulation ?
There's no rivarly or competition. I'm very proud of him. Basically, we're both learning.
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Set up mailboxes so people in your organization can reserve resources, such as conference rooms and audio-visual equipment. Doing this lets people know the availability of these resources when scheduling a meeting.
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To set up accounts for each conference room and piece of equipment in your organization, do the following:
- Log in to the Exchange Admin Center with your Office 365 email address and password.
- In the left pane, click Recipients, and then click resources.
- Click the plus sign and then click one of the following:
- Room mailbox
- Equipment mailbox
- Click Room mailbox.
- In the new room mailbox dialog box, enter the information about the room, and click Save.
- Next, click Equipment mailbox.
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How to Check and Triage an Injured Chicken
Raising chickens is not without its difficult moments, such as finding a wounded chick or discovering a sick bird. Sick or injured chickens need immediate attention — and special handling. If a chicken has been wounded or you suspect it was in a situation where wounds may have been inflicted, you need to check it over carefully.
Gently catch the chicken. Do not chase the chicken!
If the chicken is still up and walking and you want to examine or treat it, try to catch it without too much more stress. Sometimes chickens run to their shelters when scared, so try to shoo the injured bird into a safe area where you can close it in. Rather than chase it, which can hasten bleeding of wounds, let the chicken settle down first. Then catch it as calmly as possible.
Gently examine the entire chicken with gloved hands.
Feathers can hide some wounds that don't bleed very much, including deep puncture wounds. Part the feathers, remove loose clumps of feathers and sponge off bloody areas so you know the depth and extent of the wounds. Use gloves when handling injured birds in case a disease is also present.
Determine the next step. If injuries are extensive and dirty, as from a predator attack, it's probably kinder to euthanize the chicken rather than to try to cure it.
If you decide that you're going to try and treat the bird, begin treatment quickly or proceed to a veterinarian. Do everything you can to minimize shock when transporting a bird to a vet or when treating at home.
After treatment, put the bird in a safe, darkened, isolated place.
A comfortable place will soothe a recovering bird and keep it from going into shock at home. Also, injured chickens are subject to abuse by their flock mates, so isolation prevents injury.
Unless the weather is hot, provide an overhead source of heat, such as a heat lamp.
Hang the heat source about 18 inches above the bird. Put your hand under it at the level of the bird's back and leave it there a few minutes. Your hand should feel warm, but not uncomfortable or burning. Check frequently to make sure the chicken isn't too warm, especially if the chicken cannot move easily on its own. If it's more than 90 degrees Fahrenheit and humid and the chicken is panting, you don't need additional heat. Try to move the chicken somewhere a little cooler.
Offer water at once, but do not feed for a few hours.
You can dip the beak of a chicken into shallow water but you shouldn't do any more than that to get the bird to drink. Never force food down the bird.
If you are caring for sick birds, care for them after you have cared for the rest of the flock and wash your hands between locations. If your birds have been diagnosed with a highly contagious disease, you may want to change your clothes and shoes after caring for them.
Don't use the same tools or containers to carry food and water between locations without disinfecting them. Don't let children or anyone else handle a sick bird without gloves. If many birds appear ill, you may want to remove those that don't seem ill to another location instead of moving the sick birds. Handle them with gloves also.


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The fixation on unimodal approaches to management of "sleep apnea" defies biological reality. Perhaps the incredible success of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for obstructive sleep apnea is at least partially to blame, but the increasing evidence for sleep apnea phenotypes have not resulted in a meaningful translation to patient care. Taking obstructive sleep apnea, studies compare CPAP with an oral appliance, or with weight loss, or placebo, depending on the precise scientific question and the desire to show "equivalence" or at least clinical effectiveness (e.g., hypoglossal nerve stimulation, Provent) for aid to marketing and FDA approval.1
However, sleep apnea in a wider sense is the end result of interactive pathophysiological processes. These include sleep fragmentation propensity, upper airway obstruction, and respiratory chemoreflex under- or over-responsiveness.2,3 Then why is it that there is so little data on combination therapies? Was there ever a clinical trial of myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure comparing unimodal therapies? Typically a pathophysiology-driven "basic cocktail" is tested against a new add-on. The need for improved management strategies for sleep apnea syndromes is evident—not more than 50% compliance/adherence for an apparently gold standard treatment that almost always shows sleep laboratory effectiveness, in patients seeking help for debilitating symptoms, should raise the possibility that maybe our gold is a metal of lesser worth. The clinical challenge is even greater in those with central or complex apnea and hypoventilation syndromes, where advanced modes of ventilation are being evaluated as stand-alone therapies, such as adaptive ventilation in congestive heart failure-associated periodic breathing.4 If there is one condition where sleep fragmentation, obstructive elements, and respiratory decontrol interact, it is in heart failure patients.
The paper by Chaudhuri et al.5 in this issue of the journal is an important one. Though not randomized, it seems to reasonably support the beneficial effect of supplemental oxygen in improving sleep-respiration in those with significant central sleep apnea, using a threshold of a central apnea index ≥ 5/hour of sleep. The delay in response is intriguing and likely reflects an interaction of sleep state effects (REM, stable NREM rebound) and direct biological effects of oxygen, including plausible changes in redox state. Looking closely at the data shows that stage N1 remains high, and some important information about the characteristics of the "optimal response" are missing (duration, sleep stage, and state). The definition of the optimal response also leaves something to be desired: is getting the CAI under 5/hour really a valid biological target? Other limitations of the paper include not scoring respiratory effort related arousals and hypopneas that do not have a 50% signal reduction. During titration, getting rid of major discrete events is relatively easier than normalizing sleep-breathing, and use of the alternate criteria when supplemental oxygen is added (thus directly modifying one of the scoring tags) can overestimate efficacy. Though periodic breathing was recognized, using the 10-minute criterion (which has no specific biological basis) will exclude shorter bursts of periodic breathing that are common in those with mixed apnea and have been well described at high altitude, the quintessential chemoreflex-induced sleep apnea model. Nevertheless, the study is a very important contribution to the literature and was just begging to be done.
Table 1 lists some of the options available to target the different pathophysiological processes in sleep disordered breathing syndromes. The therapies available to overcome obstruction are relatively straightforward, and some combinations are logical (weight loss + CPAP). However, the oral appliance vs. CPAP story has taken a gladiatorial color—what about combined therapy, especially those who have high pressure requirements? Most centers probably offer this on a case-by-case basis, as we do, but there may be additional potential benefits of minimizing mouth breathing and preventing an oronasal mask from pushing the jaw backwards during sleep. Positive pressure + a sedative are a logical approach to the anxious patient and those with severely fragmented sleep, and a subset of patients could benefit over the long term. The sedative could also improve blood pressure dipping,6 which is frequently abnormal in sleep apnea patients. In hypoventilation syndromes and in those with pulmonary pathology affecting gas exchange such as chronic obstructive lung disease, supplemental oxygen could be a useful adjunct to bilevel ventilation by allowing targeting both CO2 and O2 end-points; adding O2 is commonly done in clinical practice, but is there an advantage to keep the saturations closer to 98% vs. 90%? The latter target results in vulnerability to significant desaturations with changes in body position, sleep stage, mask or mouth leak, and minor respiratory events. Part of the effectiveness of Provent may relate to minimizing hypocapnia.7
Targeting therapy to pathology in sleep apnea management
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The approach to management of various hyperresponsive chemoreflex syndromes (central and complex sleep apnea, periodic breathing) is challenging and unlikely to be solved by unimodal therapy. First, the disease needs to be properly quantified. Scoring event-by-event introduces a strong bias in the direction of obstruction, as flow-limitation is common in periodic breathing sequences. The update of respiratory scoring criteria have made a real effort to aid us in characterizing central hypopneas,8 yet leave it optional—why should anything considered important be optional? If it is assumed, as stated in the article, that "separation of hypopneas into central or obstructive is not clinically indicated in the majority of patients," then we are never going to accurately phenotype sleep apnea. It is likely that there was far more "central" disease both before and after treatment in these patients than that quantified by a central apnea count. Using a 10-minute threshold to tag periodic breathing minimizes the recognition of this pattern; the new criteria more readily enable identifying periodic breathing.8 The REM vs. NREM severity difference is blurred when global apnea-hypopnea or respiratory-disturbance indices are computed; NREM dominance is characteristic of strong respiratory chemoreflex effects. The bimodality of NREM sleep, where periods of stable breathing can occur during N2, can result in the premature declaration of CPAP success in NREM-dominant sleep apnea syndromes. Second, we should have greater expectations from the definition of success. In fact, the end point of success should be the same for obstruction or central sleep apnea syndromes—elimination of all respiratory events including respiratory effort related arousals, normalizing sleep quality, and optimal clinical outcomes (e.g., daytime sleepiness and fatigue, blood pressure dipping). In the Chaudhuri study, stage N1 remained markedly elevated—in all probability, there was significant residual sleep apnea subthreshold to the scoring criteria used. Equally possible is that these patients have an increase in sleep fragmentation propensity independent of sleep apnea, as has been noted in complex apnea9 and congestive heart failure.10 A "sleep stabilizer" (aka sedative) would be a logical addition here.
Hypocapnia driven respiratory instability is the most important factor in central apnea syndromes—rebreathing approaches9 and acetazolamide are logical adjuncts, even to adaptive ventilation. The sad part is that much of the above may well remain devoid of high levels of evidence—there is little incentive to study these systematically, never mind the enormous cost and little return to the use of freely available generic drugs. Sedatives have been traditionally abhorrent entities in sleep apnea management. Perhaps it is time to revisit this dogma, given: (1) the availability of sedatives with acceptable impact on respiration11 (moreover, positive pressure will protect if used at the same time); (2) the recognition of the role of arousals in amplifying sleep apnea severity; (3) induction of blood pressure dipping; and (4) beneficial effects in central apnea at sea level12 and at high-altitude,13 thus a logical option as adjunctive therapy in the hyperresponsive chemoreflex syndromes. It would make clinical sense to avoid sedatives in REM-dominant obstructive sleep apnea and reserve this approach to NREM-dominant central/complex apnea.
Targeting ataxic respiration such as may occur with the use of opiates, brainstem disorders, or Parkinson disease follows no simple rule, and various combinations of positive (including adaptive) pressure, O2 and CO2 modulation, and perhaps acetazolamide, may be required.
How can the field evaluate multimodality treatment options? It may require prospective clinical trials by consortia whose members are the average sleep center, who more than anyone else, have an incentive to accurately phenotype sleep apnea and use all appropriate available options.
Dr. Thomas is a patent holder of an approach to use adjunctive CO2 added to positive airway pressure for treatment of central and complex sleep apnea; co-patent holder/license (To MyCardio, LLC) for technology using the ECG to detect and quantify sleep apnea phenotypes. Off-label use: Multimodality approaches to sleep apnea treatment involve off-label use of FDA approved products (masks) and drugs (e.g., acetazolamide, sedatives).
Thomas RJ. Multimodality therapy for sleep apnea syndromes. J Clin Sleep Med 2012;8(5):565-567.
Work for this study was performed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston.
Berry RB, Kryger MH, Massie CA, authors. A novel nasal expiratory positive airway pressure (EPAP) device for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea: a randomized controlled trial. Sleep. 2011;34:479–85. [PubMed Central][PubMed]
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CHICAGO - Nate Robinson scored 34 points, and the Chicago Bulls wiped out a 14-point deficit late in regulation and beat the Brooklyn Nets 142-134 in triple overtime Saturday to take a 3-1 lead in the first-round playoff series.
The Bulls were trailing 109-95 with less than 4 minutes to go in the fourth quarter when Robinson put the Bulls on his back and carried them to the wild victory.
He scored all but five of his points after the third quarter, including the first 12 in a 14-0 run that wiped out the deficit. Then, with 2 seconds left in the first overtime, he banked in a go-ahead jumper over Deron Williams.
Joe Johnson answered with one of his own to send it into a second overtime, tied at 121. The Bulls had a chance to win in the closing seconds of the next extra session, but Joakim Noah was blocked, and the game went to a third overtime.
The Bulls finally pulled away after Williams (32 points) drove for a layup to pull Brooklyn to 133-130 — the only points for him after regulation — with 3 minutes left.
Luol Deng answered with a basket to make it a five-point game, and Nazr Mohammed came up with two baskets in the final 32 seconds to help preserve the win.
He scored on a jump hook, then grabbed the rebound and scored with 19 seconds left after Carlos Boozer made a free throw and missed the second, making it 140-134.
The Bulls will try to wrap up the best-of-seven series at Brooklyn on Monday night.
HOUSTON (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 41 points in his first game without injured All-Star Russell Westbrook, and Oklahoma City fought off Houston's late rally to take a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven playoff series.
Durant scored 27 points in the first half, and the Thunder led by 26 points before a big third-quarter rally by the Rockets put them within striking distance.
Houston regained the lead with about 4 minutes left, and was up with less than a minute remaining. But Durant hit a 3-pointer seconds later to put Oklahoma City on top 100-99.
A turnover by James Harden gave the Thunder the ball back and Derek Fisher made two free throws to push the lead to 3. Harden made a layup, but Reggie Jackson hit two more free throws after that.
Houston had a last chance, but Carlos Delfino's 3-pointer fell short.
Harden scored 30 points to lead the Rockets in the first playoff game in Houston since 2009.
Game 4 is Monday night in Houston
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Marc Gasol had 24 points and 13 rebounds, and Memphis beat Los Angeles to even the first-round playoff series at 2-all.
Zach Randolph finished with 24 points and nine rebounds as the Grizzlies won their second straight to ensure another stop in Memphis for Game 6. Mike Conley had 15 points and 13 assists, and Tayshaun Prince scored 15 in his best game of the series.
Chris Paul and Blake Griffin had 19 points apiece for the Clippers, and Griffin also grabbed 10 rebounds. Los Angeles' reserves outscored its counterparts again, 43-16. But DeAndre Jordan was the only other starter to score for Los Angeles, and he had two points. Chauncey Billups and Caron Butler went a combined 0 for 10 from the floor in being shut out.
Game 5 is Tuesday night in Los Angeles.
ATLANTA (AP) — Al Horford had 26 points and 16 rebounds as Atlanta turned things around dramatically in its playoff series against Indiana, blowing out the Pacers in Game 3.
Playing with much more urgency than they did in two double-digit losses at Indianapolis, the Hawks raced to a 54-30 halftime lead and narrowed the best-of-seven series to 2-1. Game 4 is Monday night in Atlanta, where the Hawks have won 12 straight over the Pacers dating to 2006.
The Hawks changed up their lineup — inserting 7-footer Johan Petro at centre and bringing 3-point specialist Kyle Korver off the bench — after getting manhandled on the road. With more favourable matchups and a lot more energy, Atlanta suddenly made a series of it.
Indiana, which looked so dominant on its home court, was a totally different team after heading south. David West led the Pacers with 18 points. Paul George, who averaged 25 points in the first two games, was held to 16 on 4-of-11 shooting. The Pacers connected on a dismal 27 per cent (22 of 81) from the field.


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The Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2014 finalists are announced. Running for fourteen consecutive years, the (ADAA) global contest continues to receive thousands of quality submissions every year. The competition honors the most talented and promising student designers, photographers, illustrators, animators and filmmakers from the world's top institutions of higher education. This year, the contest received 4,419 entries from seventy countries.
Nine official judges met at the Adobe offices in New York, to select the 2014 ADAA honorees from over 1,100 semifinalist entries. "There was an incredible variety of animation entries with an amazingly high level of production. Some entries shared moving narrative, and many were exquisitely designed with sharp and witty execution. We had a wonderfully difficult time in selecting the finalists and winners," commented J.J. Sedelmaier, ADAA judge.
The judges debated and voted on the most creative student designs to honor. The judges chose 25 finalist entries representing student creatives from over a dozen countries. Download the Finalist list. "We are proud and excited to recognize these selected finalist works. Those chosen were both strong in concept and brilliant in execution, each created by student designers whom we look forward to seeing grow and become a creatively impactful force in the global ADAA community," added John Vondracek, The String Theory and ADAA judge.
The judges selected students to receive Special Designations for designs that demonstrated achievements in Typography or Social Impact. The judges also recognized 23 students with Honorable Mention designations. Honorable Mention recipients represent countries Australia, Croatia, China, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Russia, United Kingdom and the United States.
This year, the ADAA competition will feature ten categories of design, across three media segments. Each individual category winner or group leader, will receive prizes which include a 1-year membership to Adobe Creative Cloud, $2,000US, a trophy, and a 1-year mentorship with a design professional. Three media segment Grand Prize Winners will be announced at the Adobe Design Achievement Awards Grand Prize Screening and Reception, to be held in conjunction with Adobe MAX on October 5, 2014. The Grand Prize Winners will each receive an additional $3,000US.
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The NFL's Buffalo Bills announced that they have renewed their sponsorship agreement with Buffalo RV for an extended three-year term.
The relationship began last year when the company signed for the first time as an official team sponsor on a one-year trial basis, according to buffalobills.com.
As part of the new agreement, Buffalo RV's dealership will offer discounts and specials to all Bills fans that stop in on their way to a home game at Ralph Wilson Stadium. Fans attending a Bills game in an RV can stop at Buffalo RV for special discounts on propane, free refreshments and use of their RV dumping station.
"Ralph Wilson Stadium is the perfect venue for Buffalo RV to showcase their vehicles and services," said Bruce Popko, Buffalo Bills senior vice president of business development. "Bills fans are passionate about their recreational vehicles. Every week through Buffalo RV, fans will have the opportunity to see the newest and best RV's on the market."
Don Strollo, president of RV Direct Group Inc, parent company of Buffalo RV, said, "The association with the Buffalo Bills has been an outstanding partnership and has proven to bring both organizations mutual benefits over the past year. The 2008 agreement marked the first time our company partnered with a professional sports team of this caliber and it's been nothing short of spectacular. The team is well managed from all aspects and the loyalty they have with their fans is something we want to part of for an even longer period of time. We're also very excited about the 2009 team line."
Buffalo RV was founded by western New Yorkers Anthony and Kathleen Strollo, in the early '80s. Now retired, the Strollos' sons, Don, Mark and Matt, handle the company operations. The company has grown to four other locations in the United States including Albany, N.Y., Des Moines, Iowa, and Orlando, Fla.
Recently, the dealership expanded in western New York by opening a new, 10-acre facility in West Seneca, just 4 ½ miles from Ralph Wilson Stadium.
For Buffalo RV local store information contact Mark Strollo by phone at (716) 652-4500, via e-mail at [email protected] or visit www.RVOne.com.