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I'm really excited to hear new music from Birdy! She's released two songs from her upcoming album, Fire Within.
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Poll: Working on a new Fairy Tail/Pokemon story, and I figure out a pairing for my OC Hiro, so I want to know who guys like to pair Hiro with? (This may cause certain arcs to happen or not and might change them up) Vote Now!
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I'm 20 and I love Anime. I'm the creator of the fan series called Sonic Storm Adventures, originally called Sonic Adventure Series.
My Xbox Live Gamertag: Dragonstorm959
My favorite Animes are:
1. Fairy Tail
2. RosarioVampire
3. Pokemon
4. Naruto
5. Okami-san and Her Seven Companions
6. Zoids
7. Bleach
8. Sgt. Frog
9. Detective Conan
10. Attack On Titan
11. Soul Eater
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Generation 1
1. Vaporeon 6. Charizard
2. Squirtle 7. Victreebel
3. Fearow 8. Pidgeot
4. Raichu 9. Parascet
5. Vilepume 10. Onix
Generation 2
1. Donphan
2. Raikou
3. Umbreon/Espeon
4. Ho-oh
5. Feraligatr
6. Typhlosion
7. Lugia
8. Quagisre/ Ampharos
9. Celebi
10. Togetic
Generation 3
1. Swampert
2. Absol
3. Rayquaza
4. Sceptile
5. Crawdaunt
6. Lati Twins
7. Torkoal
8. Walrein
9. Flygon
10. Aggron
Generation 4
1. Infernape 6. Girtina
2. Gliscor 7. Magmortar
3. Garchomp 8. Floatzel
4. Luxray 9. Skuntank
5. Lucario 10. Togekiss
Generation 5
1. Zoroark 6. Krookodile
2. Samurott 7.
3. Zekrom
4. Hydregion
5. Beartic
Top 10 Favorite Naruto Kunoichi (Favorite Females from Naruto)
1. Hinata
2. Anko
3. Shizune
4. Konan
5. Tsunade
6. Shion
7. Tenten
8. Temari
9. Isarbi
10. Ino
Top 10 Narutox??? that I like
1. NarutoxHinata
2. NarutoxShizuka
3. NarutoxShion
4. NarutoxIno
5. NarutoxKurotsuchi
6. NarutoxSamui
7. NarutoxKarin
8. NarutoxSara
9. NarutoxTemari
10. NarutoxAmaru
My OC List for my stories
Akene Mito Uzumaki-Namikaze (Link to an image: )
Name: Akene Mito Uzumaki-Namikaze
(Lost Heir) Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze (Brother), Kushina Uzumaki(Mom), Minato Namikaze (Dad), Ryu Uzukami (Uncle), Erza Uzumaki (Cousin), Koyuki Azumaya-Uzumaki(Half-Cousin), Kisuke Urahaha-Namikaze (Half-Uncle)
Date of Birth: Oct 10th
More will be added later...
The Lost Heir of The Land of Whirlpools
REWRITE COMING SOON UNDER NEW NAME "Lost Heritage"
Keyblade Shinobi
Summary: The story of Kingdom Hearts re-done with Naruto in the role of Sora, taking place after the failed Sasuke Retrival Arc.
New World, and new friends from other products outside of Disney
Hinata's Aura Guardian- A blue bipedal canine is sent to the world of Naruto for one purpose for the Akatsuki, the Pokemon runs away barely escaping the clutches of the evil organization and finds him lost in the Land of Waves near the Land of Fire; where he encounters a certain Hyuuga Heiress. Now see what unfolds for this creature. Aura Sphere! Riolu, HinataxNaruto ON HIATUS
Rise Of The Rikudo Kemono Sennin- Based off devilzxknight68's "Kitsune Sennin" story, instead of Kitsune but Pokemon or Rikudo Kemono. Yeah instead of The Uzumaki clan being the ones that discovered them; The Sage of Six Paths created the first summoning creatures and contract, and now several hunderds of year later, Naruto has to become first Sennin of these mysterious creature since the Rikudo Sennin's time.
Anko, A Genin Again- Once stormy night, Anko's cursed mark begins acting up and doing something to her. The next day, Anko discovers that she's tweleve again and there's no way of returning to normal. Which means Anko Mitarashi now the latest member of the Konoha 11. Story takes place after thee "Sasuke Retrival Arc". Coupling Naru/Anko or Naru/Hina/Anko ON HIATUS
The Shinobi Trainer- After failing or completing The Sasuke Retrival Mission, Naruto is banished by order of the council for using The Ninetail Fox(Kurama)'s Charka during the mission. As Naruto leaves the village after a small good-bye from those who are nice and loyal to Naruto and a confession from Hinata. He is pulled into a rift of Space and Time, where Naruto encounters Arceus who sends Naruto to the world of Pokemon for 4 years, where he mets Ash Ketchum and his friends.
- Note: Naruto will go back to his world after the 4 years for those who are lost. Which would be arond the begining of Shippuden
- Naruto ends in the Orange Islands
Here some ideas that I have come up with, they maybe stories in the future. So here they are, more will be add later. PM me if you want to do one of them
Also the main couplings for all these are NarutoxHinata but these are subject to change
1. Sailor Kunoichi- A Sailor Moon (The First Season of the series) poof done with Naruto, This take place in the Naruto series so it's not techincally a spoof. We all know that the Sage of Six Paths had two son but what if he had a secret daughter who lived on the moon with the Sage's wife. Well in order to keep the Ten-tails safe in the Moon, Harmony, Sage's wife (Who was an alien that looked human, I don't know it's Sailor Moon. I'm assuming that the childern of the moon were aliens) and daughter live on the moon to keep it under control and that no one knows about it. Unfortunately evil forces attack the moon, in a last ditch effort, The Sage's wife sends ther duaghter along with her daughter's lover and her court to the future on Earth with no memories of their past lives, with her remaining power. Harmony with her remain strenght tels her advisors ( The Evee Evolutions and a Zoroark as a guard that works with the Daughter's lover, yes all of them; but the main advisors were Umbreon call Artimus and Espeon named Luna) to find her daughter and her court, if ever the moon is inand forces of evil attack again. If I missed anything, just go see the first episode of Sailor Moon, just search Sailor Moon Episode 1 on Youtube; to make it easier here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alGCJTq2LuM
2. Naruto's Parrot- (A sort of Pokemon/Naruto)After the Hidan/Kakazu Arc, while recovering Naruto is start to be followed by a parrot (Chatot) that chants his name for some reason will mimicing other words. Why is this parrot following Naruto is it because of the Akatsuki or perhap someone that was thought to be dead and needs help. Coupling: NarutoxHinataxShizuka
3. Rise of Kitsune Dragon Slayer- (A Naruto/Fairy Tail Story) After much abuse anf neglect from Konoha, Naruto and Hinata attempt to ran away from the village so they can have better, but things take a turn for worst were they are nearly kill but save by Arashiithe Dragon of the Storm and takes the injured childern to his homeland Fiore and trains them in the way of the Dragon Slayer Art, with some help of a certian Ninetail fox. Coupling is NarutoxHinataxErza


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An Author wants to publish her book, but her sex scenes are unrealistic.
Will she learn to see that experiencing sex will ultimately be better to what she originally thinks?
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The Fair Work Act defines an unfair dismissal as a dismissal that was "harsh, unjust or unreasonable". The Fair Work Commission is responsible for determining whether a dismissal was unfair and does so under the guidance of federal legislation. Some of the things that the Commission will take into account include whether:
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There is a strict 21 day time limit for making an unfair dismissal claim. If there are exceptional circumstances for the delay then the Commission may allow an extension. To be eligible to make an unfair dismissal claim you must:
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A comparison of Australian and Canadian informatics competencies for undergraduate nurses
Borycki, Elizabeth M. & Foster, Joanne (2014) A comparison of Australian and Canadian informatics competencies for undergraduate nurses. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 201, pp. 349-355.
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Health information technologies (HIT) have changed healthcare delivery. Yet, there are few opportunities for student nurses in their undergraduate studies to develop nursing informatics competencies. More importantly, many countries around the world have not fully specified nursing informatics competencies that will be expected of student nurses prior to their graduation from undergraduate nursing programs. In this paper the authors compare and contrast the undergraduate nursing informatics competencies that were developed by two countries: Australia and Canada. They also identify some of the challenges and future research directions in the area.
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After a century, bison return to Illinois
By Ted Gregory
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
FRANKLIN GROVE, Ill. - The hulking animals that stepped from trailers to corrals here late at night drew a hushed, attentive audience of about 25 people.
The reason for the reverence: Wild bison have been reintroduced on the prairies east of the Mississippi River for the first time since the 1830s, says the conservation group coordinating the effort. The 20 animals will eventually be released from the corral to gradually roam much of the 3,500-acre Nachusa Grasslands - the key part of an ambitious prairie restoration 95 miles west of Chicago.
"The word that keeps coming up is surreal," said Jeff Walk, director of science for the Illinois Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, which owns Nachusa and has been readying the land for the bison since the late 1980s. He accompanied the 20 bison on an eight-hour truck trip from Broken Kettle Grasslands preserve near Sioux City, Iowa, to Nachusa last Friday.
"After all the work that people have put into this," Walk said, "it's like, 'Oh my gosh, it's actually happening.' "
The bison relocation is an effort to reunite the species with the most imperiled ecosystem on the planet so both can thrive. Some bison enthusiasts even hope the new oversized, shaggy residents of Nachusa, the largest restored prairie in Illinois, will spark an environmentally responsible agricultural movement in the state.
"If industry can adopt those practices," Matt Ruhter, president of the Illinois Indiana Bison Association said of placing bison on prairies, "then you'll get a lot of new prairies popping up and all the benefits that come along with having prairies."
Temperatures hovered in the low 40s and clouds had darkened the starry skies when the two semitrailers carrying the bison rolled to a stop at 10:17 p.m. Friday. Wind gusts prompted observers, many of whom were taking video, to bundle themselves in layers, hoods and hats.
The bison kept everyone waiting. Despite being prodded by broomsticks, encouraged by large rattles shaken at them and hooted at by their handlers, many of the animals refused to scoot through the open rear doorway of one trailer, down the enclosed ramp and through the chute to the corral. By 11:30 p.m., the crew assigned to make that entry happen had departed, allowing an estimated 10 animals to exit when they were ready.
Then the crew, Nachusa staff and volunteers gathered in a home across the road from the prairie, sipped beer and celebrated. On the table were plates of bison-shaped cookies and brownies.
Despite the somewhat rocky arrival, Nachusa volunteer Cindy Crosby said the moment was historic.
"This is tallgrass prairie in Illinois and this is the missing piece of the puzzle," said Crosby, who drove with her husband, Jeff, from Glen Ellyn to view the bison arrival. "More than 700 species (at Nachusa) but we didn't have the big piece, and tonight it's all going to change. Nothing is going to be the same as it was yesterday."
The animals' placement at Nachusa is the latest turn in a compelling story that started in 1985. That's when The Nature Conservancy sought large tracts of grasslands untouched by plows. The organization, considered the largest environmental nonprofit in the U.S., settled on land near Dixon and acquired its first 400 acres in 1986.
The goal was to acquire more land, restore it and pull all of it into a vast prairie in a state that has lost nearly all of its native landscape. While the conservancy added land to Nachusa, volunteers and staff conducted more than 105 prairie restorations.
People worked hundreds of thousands of hours - an estimated 450,000 - at the preserve, including years of harvesting native plant seeds. Last year's harvest gathered a record 6,500 pounds of seeds, conservancy spokeswoman Gelasia Croom said.
The conservation organization's claim that grasslands and prairies are "the world's most imperiled ecosystem" is based on the group's calculation that only 5 percent of grasslands are protected globally and remain "greatly threatened" by invasive species, suppression of natural fire and urbanization.
The status of native prairie in Illinois is even grimmer: Nearly 60 percent of the state, about 22 million acres, once was prairie, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources reports. Over the centuries, farms consumed much of it, leaving only 2,500 acres of prairie in Illinois today, the DNR states.
That's where bison, emerging from their own dreadful history, are expected to play a crucial role in saving and expanding the prairie.
Typically referred to as buffalo - a mix-up traced to the first North American explorers who noted the animals' resemblance to their genetic buffalo cousins in Asia and Africa - upward of 60 million bison roamed North America when those early explorers arrived, experts say. But sport hunting and mass slaughter dropped that number to fewer than 1,000 by 1906, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Aggressive conservation efforts, started in large part by Theodore Roosevelt and zoologist William Temple Hornaday in the early 1900s, have brought the bison population up to 450,000, WCS reports. But fewer than 20,000 roam freely, and the vast majority of bison are domestic livestock.
The beasts that clomped into the specially made corral at Nachusa on Friday night are viewed as prairie saviors, not livestock.
"We want these animals to be as wild as possible," Nachusa Grasslands Project Director Bill Kleiman said. But five of the bison are fitted with GPS tracking devices and fencing has been erected along the edges of the prairie and the few public roads in Nachusa.
An iconic American animal and the largest mammal in North America, bison stand as tall as 6 feet at the shoulder, weigh up to a ton and can run 35 mph. They also are voracious grazers that prefer grassland, which opens prairies to native flowers and plants, Kleiman and others said. That scenario attracts wider varieties of insects, birds and other animals, helping the biodiversity of prairies.
"Bison were such a significant part of the prairie that whole ecosystems depended on them," said Brook McDonald, president and CEO of the Conservation Foundation, a nonprofit focused on preserving and restoring natural areas in northeast Illinois. "Without them, those species go too.
"We can go around and do the small prairie restorations," McDonald added, "but a true native prairie ecosystem has to have bison in it."
By playing a crucial role in restoring prairies, the bison start a domino effect of environmental and agricultural benefits, conservationists say. Beyond their aesthetic beauty, prairies sequester carbon and replenish the soil - a significant aid to cropland that has been depleted. And in providing additional habitat for native pollinators, restored prairies help productivity for agricultural plants such as pumpkins and apples.
The massive hoofed animals also can withstand harsh Midwest winters. They give birth and, except for needing the occasional batch of nutrients, can find food, Kleiman noted. In other words, bison perform crucial ecological work with a minimum of care.
The entire Nachusa bison budget totals around $6 million, Kleiman said, including the cost of acquiring the animals and additional land, running the program for several years and funding an endowment.
Short-term plans for the Nachusa bison call for gradually expanding the area the animals can roam and adding about 30 of them to the prairie through next year, Kleiman said. By then, the bison will be able to graze on 1,500 acres.
The long-term vision includes about 100 of the animals grazing throughout an ever-expanding Nachusa, the conservancy's Walk said. The grasslands also would serve as a source of bison for other prairie/bison restoration efforts throughout the U.S., he added.
Illinois has bison. A total of 688 were recorded here in the last USDA Census of Agriculture in 2012, a number that is about half the population total in 2007. And, that number covers mostly those animals used in meat production.
The important distinction of the Nachusa bison, conservationists say, is that they have not been interbred with other species, remain genetically diverse and are wild.
Those differences are less significant to Ruhter, of the Illinois Indiana Bison Association, which seeks to develop a "sustainable and responsible" bison production and preservation industry. But he called the reintroduction of wild bison in Illinois "a great thing."
More bison on prairies probably would lead to more bison ranching to meet intense demand for the high-protein red meat that generally has fewer calories, and less fat and cholesterol than beef, Ruhter said. Demand for bison meat outpaces supply by about 3-to-1, he added.
His organization and the Chicago Zoological Society will host a Brookfield Zoo symposium in November to spread the word on bison benefits. About the same time, Nachusa will open bison viewing to the public.
"I look forward to going out there and checking it out," said Ruhter, whose family runs a bison ranch south of Champaign. "I hope it goes really well for them."
Back at Nachusa, human and bison anxiety subsided by sunrise Saturday. Kleiman, who lives in a home at Nachusa and made the round trip to Iowa to fetch the animals, checked on the herd that morning. All were in the corral.
On Sunday afternoon, Kleiman stopped by again and said the bison were eating, hay protruding from their mouths and tails swishing.
"They looked relaxed and comfortable, and I'm relaxed and comfortable now," said Kleiman, "and that is a good thing."
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"Run as far away as you can away from Brookdale Senior Living. Regional managers unorganized and have no clue what goes on. It's a big business and all about the money. No loyalty."
"I would not recommend anyone work for or bring their loved ones to this facility. Unorganized. Office staff is not all that nice as they appear to be. When you go to apply they make it seem like the place is heaven. Was with this company for only a few days and wanted to quit on day 1. They schedule you to work the days when no one else wants to work. They have the RA'S answering phones which is fine, but "those in the office need to get outside calls until certain hours", huh?? They have the RA'S doing the dishes. "Hire a dishwasher or have the kitchen crew cleanup?" Wow! No housekeeping. The rooms STINK. One shift doesn't clean up, they leave it for the next shift. They talk about each other constantly. One person has assigned room numbers, so that one person disappears for hours. There is no teamwork AND omg! THE PAY SUCKS!!! All in one building. Assisted Living, Memory Care, Nursing Homes, Care Homes in Independent Living, Respite Care. DON'T DO IT!!!!!!"
"A terrible place to work... management does not care about the staff, all they care about is filling their pockets. Big turnover, because staff is sick of it. The aides have to dress people, bathe, wipe butts, transfer, housekeeping, serve food all for 10$ an hour. There's usually one aide for 40 residents. And 50% of them are not assisted living material. We have residents who are 2 person assist and who can't do anything on their own. Staff are no call, no show and nothing is done about it. Our Christmas bonus was $14.10 Walmart card, well the management got thousands of dollars. We have been kicked, punched, scratched, bit, spit on. I recommend people not to work there."
"I worked for Brookdale for just 3 years. In this short time period I watched "the building" fall apart physically and emotionally. If any company can ruin a good thing, it's Brookdale! I am not disgruntled, PO'd or anything close to it. I had secured other employment before giving my notice as I knew Brookdale would be the wimpy, tactless employer they have proven to be. Keep your loved ones away! Don't put them in any facility that is Brookdale. They will destroy your loved one by taking their money and providing nothing that can't be managed better somewhere else. Choose a smaller family owned Assisted Living."
"I have worked at the Courtyard for over 5 years. I stay for the residents, that's the only reason I am still there. The pay is horrible. No incentives at all. Even the residents talk about how horrible the company is. We are so short staffed our med techs on day shift take turns working doubles every day. We have no RCD, no full time day nurse and the care staff is so short that sometimes there's only 1 caregiver for 3 floors. We never have all the supplies we need. We have to watch our overtime they tell us, but we have to work extra or who's gonna do all the work."
"I had been employed since 1999 and was fired in 2014. I had never had anything negative in my personnel file. I had so many thank you cards sent to me and to corporate, along with many emails. Because two caregivers who knew their positions were on the line as not providing care they should have been, they made up lies about me to get heat off them. I honestly thought after it was reviewed that it would have been dropped, but no - I was asked to leave. It was so very hurtful, as I put in more hours and always put the residents first. Once Emeritus was purchased by Brookdale things immediately started going downhill, as we still have so many boxes to relocate. When you have given your all for 16 years and supported everything the company put it out there no reprimand in my file I got terminated. I realize I did handle things wrong, but again, had no chance to even discuss that. I would just appreciate this getting checked out. Brookdale will always be a family. Just sad that management takes word from front line staff and never let me even explain what occurred. Brookdale had a great ED support in that area and now all but one had left which should I know my residents were happy, calling me to ask how we are going to do that. Family members still call me asking who to contact about issues as nothing being done at community level. Breaks my heart as I had happy, healthy residents. Resident and family members say that Brookdale purchased Emeritus but seems went other way as Brookdale adopting Emeritus policy instead of other way. Last got all new regional bosses who knew none of us but fired management anyway. At this time no ED are even still at the properties in San Antonio area."
"I started at Brookdale with high hopes of having a long and progressive career with this organization. I had over 15 years of management and customer service experience, and I was excited about being a part of the Brookdale family. Unfortunately, it did not take long to realize that the Exec Director's insecurities and instability made for a very negative work environment. In my 15 years of working in the corporate world, I had never encountered a manager who was such a poor leader. The employees did not respect her, and it was common knowledge that she was very vindictive. If an employee called off because they were sick, she would purposely cut their hours the following pay period, as retaliation. The morale was so low in the community that it was very difficult to keep good employees and department heads. During the first half of 2015, five department heads quit. That was a pretty good indication that something was wrong. It amazed me that neither the corporate office nor the regional operations director investigated why there was such a high turnover. In addition, positions were cut in order to increase profits (and the ED's bonus). This resulted in not having enough staff to take proper care of the residents. Because of this, there were daily/weekly occurrences of residents falling and residents having to wait for over a half hour when they pulled their call alarm."
"I have been working for this company over 3 years now and I love the residents but the company does not follow seniority as they say they do. I have an illness so they were good working with me on that, but I wonder if they just keep me around because they really care or legal reason. People are getting hired in doing the same thing I do at Brookdale Kettering making between $11 and $13 an hour and I haven't even made it to $9 as long ass I have been here. I was told in my review at the beginning of the year I was up to $9.19 but when I got my check with my raise it went from $8.28 to $8.49 hourly. I feel it's not even worth the drive anymore. When I can work I work just as hard or harder than everyone else. But what can you do when they smile in your face and act like they want you around but show no appreciation from your employer. The residents are always appreciative so that makes me happy, but the people I work for make me feel like I'm just the help and don't care I do not make enough to survive as long as they are."
"I've only worked for this company a few months, while they were great when I broke my foot, giving me the time off that I needed, they aren't very good to work for. They're cutting hours, and hiring people that aren't skilled, at a much lower wage. For overnight associates, they have to take an hour break, and have had their days cut to 4 days a week, so all the full time employees that work overnights aren't getting their full time hours."
"Pay is very poor for work load and responsibilities. Also a risky environment for your health."
"Brookdale senior living is by far the best company I've ever worked for!!!"
"Unfortunately, the residents suffer due to poor staffing, poor scheduling, poor management, poor training. Makes for an oppressive environment on a daily basis. Census is more important than resident satisfaction."
"I have only recently started working for Brookdale place, but it has been a very good experience for me. They are willing to work with their employees on any family or medical situations. I honestly couldn't ask for a better employer to work for to get back on my feet after the military."
"I worked for Brookdale Senior Living for two and a half years. They are committed to providing quality care to the seniors they serve. In regard to treatment of employees, there are areas in which the company can improve. Brookdale would be an ideal employer if they developed existing talent and promoted well deserving associates. Current mid-level management has changed the corporate culture which makes the company less desirable."
"I would never recommend anyone to work here or to put family here."
What do you like about working at Brookdale Senior Living?
"I liked the residents and some of the people I worked with."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"If you are looking to be overworked and underpaid, go for it. If you care about the elderly and love working with them don't work here. They only care about money, not you or the residents!! Sad but true."
What don't you like about working at Brookdale Senior Living?
"I didn't like the rude co-workers, over-working people, and crappy pay. Management is not all that good either. The company only cares about money."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"You all need to look at these reviews and take some notes. This has been going on for too long."
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Gravely injured people swarmed the city's barely functioning hospitals in the days following the massive Haiti earthquake, overwhelming the medical staff, which faces a shortage of basic medical supplies.
The earthquake rattled the foundation of the Adventist Hospital in the city's Diquini neighborhood, forcing patients and staff into the courtyard and lawn where they remained throughout the weekend.
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"We lost 52 patients yesterday," Medical Director Dr. Lesly Archer said Saturday. "I'm facing a very bad situation. We don't have sufficient equipment and people are in danger."
A skeleton crew of doctors, accustomed to a 70-bed hospital with modern operating suites, rushed among 400 patients who made their beds on concrete walkways, gravel roads and bare patches of lawn outside the hospital.
Receptionists and nurses triaged patients and filled out forms at a table beneath a tarp. A technician read X-rays on a folding table under a tree.
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Archer said he has run short of IV fluids, painkillers, antibiotics, numbing agents, sutures, gloves, gauze, masks, iodine and antiseptics. The generator is operating, but more diesel fuel is needed.
The hospital has water, but not enough. On Sunday, a water speciaist from Global Medic of Canada will begin setting up a water purification system to increase the supply of safe water.
"People are dying of infection and dehydration," Archer said. "The patients are having to sleep outside. They don't eat enough. And there's nothing from the government, no help at all."
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Archer, whose specialty is obstetrics and gynecology, set up an operating room in a tent of blue tarps in the hospital's cement driveway. A few feet away, Jean Marvins Benjamin, an eight-day-old triplet born two months early, lay in a incubator tethered to oxygen, struggling to breathe in 90-degree heat.
In the makeshift operating tent, Archer and Dr. Scott Nelson, 39, an American orthopoedic surgeon who runs a speciality hospital in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, amputated the lower leg of a 38-year-old man who had been crushed by a falling building.
"In Canada or the U.S., this leg would be saved. In the U.S. they would put pin and plates and fixate the fracture," said Dr. Mike Howatt, 51, a general surgeon from Canada who is volunteering with Global Medic. "But here, they don't have the resources."
Nelson said the hospital could have five operating rooms running with the proper equipment and skilled surgeons.
"There are tens of thousands of people with orthopoedic injuries who need treatment urgently. We have open fractures of every type. Many of them will lose their lives, limbs, live a life of disability," Nelson says. "We need orthopedic trauma surgeons who can come with their own instruments."
A few yards away, Pierre Junion Le Riche, 25, lay in the concrete breezeway of the hospial with an IV hooked to his arm. He was on the second floor of a five-story building that collapsed and spent two days trapped beneath the rubble.
The weight of the cement crushed his lower body. Gangrene crept slowly up his left leg, and his toes were already black. Doctors said they would have to amputate to his knee, if not higher.
"It's too late," Howatt explained to the man's brother. "His foot is dead."
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Peter the Pie Guy has your dessert
Peter Clavin never expected to find himself in Missoula—living in a converted Northside church with six roommates, scrambling through the communal kitchen on a Thursday night, prepping to make four apple pies and two pumpkin pies (one of each being gluten-free) and explaining how an East Coast professional became better known as Peter the Pie Guy.
A few years ago, Peter the Pie Guy was a paralegal living in Washington, D.C, contemplating his next step in life. He imagined grad school and teaching. He imagined writing. He even imagined—and ended up going on—a year-long jaunt to Lithuania, where he taught English. But becoming a successful baker of beautifully crafted pies in Montana? No way. Clavin hardly cooked at all when he moved west.
"When it comes to baking, I'm really a one-trick pony...But now I spend almost every Thursday and Friday night doing exactly this," he says while rolling dough on a wooden kitchen table and then stirring a bowl of freshly sliced apples from the Bitterroot's Home Acres Orchard. "I lose hours in here. Some nights, it'll be 2 or 3 in the morning before I know it."
Peter the Pie Guy emerged unexpectedly and mostly out of necessity. Shortly after he moved to Missoula for graduate school in 2008, Clavin's beloved pit bull, which he adopted in Lithuania, underwent two surgeries to remove a chew toy that was lodged in her small intestine. Clavin couldn't afford the veterinary bills so he organized a pass-the-hat benefit with some roommates at the converted church. Artists donated 40 paintings for an auction and others made scores of items for a bake sale. Clavin decided to contribute five Betty Lou-Berry pies, named after his dog. The event raised $1,100. The pies were a hit.
"Partly because of the reaction from my friends that night, I decided it was worth a shot to sell them at the market," he says. "That first week, I took three of the sorriest-looking pies you've ever seen—and still sold out."
Since becoming a staple at the Clark Fork River Market in 2009, Peter the Pie Guy has steadily built a devoted following. He's gone from initially selling about five pies every Saturday—at $3 or $4 per slice, $20 or $25 per pie—to 16 a day this past season. He also takes regular orders through his website (www.peterthepieguy.com) throughout the year and often barters with other local merchants in pies; his "car guy" is fixing a busted window on his Nissan in exchange for a chicken pot pie.
His extensive menu—from sweet fruits to savory mushrooms, cheeses and meats—also offers customers a choice of traditional, gluten-free or vegan pies. His signature selling points are a "perfect pie crust" made from a secret recipe, reduced sugar in the pie filling and, now, a classic latticed presentation. "If you're going to be the Pie Guy," he says, "you may as well do everything you can with the pies."
Clavin, 33, has no formal training in a kitchen. He credits his mother and brother as "great bakers" who shared with him some early secrets, including the "perfect pie crust" recipe. He's collected other recipes here and there that he liked, all of which he keeps in a beat-up blue folder from his days studying literature in the University of Montana's graduate program. The rest, he says, came naturally.
"I realized the other day that I've made over 600 pies in the same little oven," he says. "It's amazing that it's grown the way it has, that it's become who I am."
Therein lies the tricky part of Peter the Pie Guy's success: It was never his aspiration to become known for his pies. Clavin earned his masters from UM in 2009 and is currently applying to doctorate programs. He still wants to teach. When he's not working 9 to 5 at Creative Arts Publishing or baking, he publishes a local literary journal, the name of which is the French symbol "ç" (although you may call it "cedilla").
On a certain level, the pies are nothing but a way to supplement his income. "It's tough because I find myself trying not to embrace this persona all the time, and yet more and more people only know me as 'the Pie Guy,'" he says. "It's great, but I'm hoping that's not it for me."
Watching him at work, one would never notice any struggle with identity. In the old church's kitchen, as he continues to prepare those four apple pies and two pumpkin pies, Clavin appears entirely within his element. Roommates come and go, guests pepper him with questions, Betty Lou occasionally scurries over for attention and, at one point, half the kitchen loses power. Yet Clavin never loses his rhythm, meticulously crisscrossing strips of dough over a pile of apples speckled in cinnamon and sugar. At least for tonight, Peter the Pie Guy is thriving.
Aunt Sandy's pumpkin pie, by way of Peter the Pie Guy
1 cup evaporated milk
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Combine eggs, sugar, salt and spices and beat well. Blend in pumpkin. Add milk, then beat well again. Bake pie at 450 degrees for 10 minutes, then at 350 degrees for 35-45 minutes.
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Winner of Hagerty's Search For America's Sweetest LeMon Contest Wins Contest To The Ultimate in Classic Car Weekends
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (August 3, 2011)
– Hagerty, the world's leading insurer of classic cars, recently held a contest to find America's best off-the-wall car. Owners of unusual vehicles submitted photos of their car and a brief description of why it deserved to win Hagerty's 'Search For America's Sweetest LeMon' contest. The top ten candidates were posted for public vote on Hagerty.com with the winner receiving an all-expense-paid trip to the 2011 Concours d'LeMons. The 1975 AMC Pacer, owned by Harris Goodkind of Johns Creek, GA ended up the victor after receiving nearly 17,000 unique votes.
Mr. Goodkind and his Pacer will lead the Friday night tour and be featured prominently during Saturday's Concours held at the Seaside City Hall in Seaside, CA on August 20.
"The classic car community is about fun and each person's passion so we feel these cars and their owners deserve to be celebrated," says McKeel Hagerty, CEO of Hagerty Insurance. "The Concours d'LeMons is a chance for us to celebrate the often overlooked cars that have their own cult-like following."
Now in its third year, the LeMons event was created as a counterpoint to the popular, but more prestigious, automotive events that make up "Monterey Classic Car Week" in Northern California every August. The show highlights unusual and quirky cars and takes a whimsical approach to the selection of show vehicles and judging process.
Hagerty is the world's leading insurance agency for classic vehicles and host to the largest network of classic car owners. Hagerty offers insurance for classic cars, motorcycles and motorcycle safety equipment, tractors, automotive tools and spare parts, and even "automobilia" (any historic or collectible item linked with motor vehicles). Hagerty also offers overseas shipping/touring insurance coverage, commercial coverage and club liability coverage. For more information, call (800) 922-4050 or visit www.hagerty.com.
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