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Mi name is Federico Curra Gagliano and I´m a Veterinarian from Buenos Aires. I do Housecall Veterinary services (English-speaking) in this city and my website is: http://www.housecallvet.com.ar . Obviously I also do the same service in Spanish: http://www.movilvet.com.ar From: Peter J. Macay, October 3.2008 I can highly recommend my vet in Recoleta, Gabriela. She is amazing, patient, loving, caring, everything a good vet should be. She also speaks English. We have been using her for years. She works out of two offices and her husband is also a vet with different specialties. Gabriela Guic Libertad 1181 (between Arenales and Santa Fe) / 4813-6122 I've recommended her to a few folks on this list and they loved her too. I know they have a dog bathing area in the Parana office, I'm not sure if they have one in Libertad, I use the Parana office usually since it's nearer my home. She usually has someone working the front desk, Christian, who speaks very little English, but you can just ask to speak with Gabriela. Tell her "Pete and Ron" recommended her to you. From: Daniela Melton, March 17, 2009 I recommend Gabriela Guic- she is a good vet and used to be Bug and Fleur's doc till I moved to Belgrano. She has a clinic on Parana 1281 and another on Libertad 1181 - there are dog grooming facilities at the clinics. Tel: 4811-6488 From: Deby Novitz, May 5, 2007 Someone asked about a vet in the Belgrano/Palermo area. I highly recommend Clinica Veterinaria Thames on Thames 2394. The telephone is 4777-4834. The vets are Ricardo and Alejandra. They have a vet student Luis who is wonderful as well. I never spoke English with them. I know Alejandra does not speak English, Luis speaks passable English and I am not sure about Ricardo. I had a terrible time with my dog Roxie. She was very ill. I went to maybe 6 vets and none of them were helping. They would try to treat her symptons and when it didn't work they would try to tell me she was fine, it was "just allergies." My dog walker Juan found Ricardo. The end of the story is very happy. He realized right away she was sick. He lined up all the necessary tests and a specialist. She is on the road to recovery. Ricardo is an animal cardiologist and surgeon as well. From: victoria_anda, August 10, 2006 Re: Please, does anyone know of an english speaking vetenarian in the Acasusso-San Isidro area? I don´t know if this has been answered but I found these details: http://www.buenosaires-petboutique.com Phone: 15 5922 0712 Haven´t used them personally but are close to your area. From: Adriane Schulz, Aug 6, 2006 Re: Please, does anyone know of an english speaking vetenarian in the Acasusso-San Isidro area? From: Daniela Melton, Aug 6, 2006 Call Tessie Bisbal in Martinez- 4798-6745 (click here to return to topic heading) I claim no expertise on knowing what is the best antivirus software. I do like Avast which I have been using this past year after giving up on Norton myself. It is free, just requiring registration: http://www.avast.com/ I really love ccleaner for getting rid of temporary files, spyware and cleaning your registry. It is also an easy way to clean up your startup menu as well which speeds your computer up a lot. http://www.ccleaner.com/ Last but not least the brainiacs at microsoft actually have a pretty good online system for working on your computer, but you must be patient as it takes a long time. I does a full virus scan, looks at your registry, and defrags the computer, and cleans out temporary files.... http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm And here is windows program for scanning for spyware, it has a quick scan and a full scan option: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/support/howto/scan.mspx Here is their malware scan program: http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx Here are some reviews on antivirus software: http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,2705,4829,00.asp http://www.pcworld.com/article/124475-1/article.html http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ From: jennifer rose, December 16, 2007
(click here to return to topic heading) Re: I would like to find a church, synagogue or foundation that needs some sort of work done, preferably teaching English (I have taught English professionally before, and now teach Spanish in the U.S.), but it would not have to necessarily involve teaching. From: Rick Jones, July 3, 2007 The South American Explorers clubhouse, Estados Unidos 577, has a large volunteer database and volunteer coordinator that may be able to help you find what you're looking for. http://www.saexplorers.org - click on "clubhouses", then click on "Buenos Aires Clubhouse". From: Sugar & Spice, July 3, 2007 I have something that you might like and that it involves English. Reading is Fundamental (RIF from the USA) has a presence here and they are called Leer es Fundamental. They are always in need of volunteers. Here is the link for you to their site: http://www.leer.org.ar/ What they need is help in translation work from Spanish to English. Sometimes they even need native English speakers to review their already translated documents to get rid of any clutsy or strange sounding sentences and such. Best of all you won´t need to shave your head or anything. :-) You would just be helping in their ultimate goal of developing a love for reading in kids. Their phone number is 4777-1111 From: Daphne Hays , November 05, 2007 SACS Needs Volunteers (Send a Child to School) We plan is to send 1000 children to school this year and need YOUR help. We have several work days planned for November, a few in December, January and February. The location for the packing is in the Recoleta area. By providing basic school materials essential for a successful education we hope to prepare the children to walk proudly into their classrooms, ready for a year of challenge and education. Supplies we provide include a backpack, notebooks, paper, pencils, erasers, and even shoes and a lab coat. Please RSVP to: From: Helge Holler, November 06, 2007 if you're looking for volunteer opportunities just hop on over to http://www.idealistas.org/ or if you're not so good reading spanish http://www.idealist.org/ This site has been created with exactly the aim of providing organizations with a place to publish their needs and people to offer assistance as volunteers. Really a great project! From the BANewComers list: March 03, 2005 There is a non-profit from the States operating here called Leer es Fundamental (Reading is Fundamental). It is one of America's oldest and largest non-profits. I know the director that operates the Argentine branch of this organization. They are located in Palermo right by the US Embassy. They communicate with the United States all the time so they do need people to help with reports, presentations and letters in English.
http://bancodealimentos.org.ar/site/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=39
From BANewComers: Bob Hannan August 22, 2005 I have been working as a volunteer at HelpArgentina for 6 months - it is a great organization focused on fund raising for the Argentine non-profit sector. It is a registered 501(c)(3) in the US so donations are tax deductible to US citizens and is headquartered here in BA. From: Cherie Magnus January 31, 2006 Donating used Clothing (click here to return to topic heading) I used vonage when I first came to Argentina and it worked well for me. I have not found it to be any diffrent with the many internet providers in this country the main diffrence between them being there customer service. From: ceamescarpenter@aol.com, August 19, 2006 IF anyone's curious, Vonage has been excellent, for me.. couldn't be happier with them & use the phone extensively. Have a toll-free number for calls from the US, too. All works well and I can manage call forwarding etc.. should I want to receive the calls regularly intended for me here, up there in the US, when I am there sometimes. All in all, has been just great.. if anyone's curious. From: twin_tri, August 19, 2006 the original poster to this thread asked if vonage would work with adsl. my response, from my experience only, is: no! with cable, such as fibertel, i've had good experiences with vonage. has anyone had good experiences with adsl and vonage? From: rshpuntoff, August 19, 2006 I use Vonage here with no problems on Arnet. Though to use the Vonage router / modem you need to either buy a more expensive business internet connection or for the cheaper plan you have to reconfigure your router so that it is fed from another modem, basically so that the company doesn't know you are using it to connect to more than just a single computer. If you do get cable TV though and use a cable connection you will have better, more consistent phone reception. From: Deby Novitz, August 20, 2006 I have Vonage and have used it for 2 years here. At first with Fibertel and now with Arnet. From a technical standpoint Cable does not send packets consistently in the manner of DSL. If you need absolute consistent quality then you should install DSL. Cable at times due to the redundancy of the packets tends to give more echo and slower duplexing. (the act of sending voice back and forth at the same time) If you are using your line just to keep in touch with friends back in the states, don't need to use it all the time, Fibertel is fine. With DSL my line is much clearer and I never experience echoing. At times the duplex is slower but this is a fault of VOIP technology and not the line. From: Andy Watkins, August 20, 2006 There are a number of service's that give you the ability to have a US number ring in Argentina or any were else in the world as long as you have Internet. There a 2 real types at the moment the first is services like vonage and packet8 etc which supply you with a box that you connect your phone to and works in a network with your computer. The second type is a "soft" phone. This is a piece of software on your computer and you use with a normal computer head set. Companies offering this service are people like Skype, Yahoo, etc.Costs of these services are very reasonable all you have to do is find the option that suits you best. I run a small call centre here supplying support to an american Company and although we dont use vonage anymore when we started we had upto 3 vonage phones running on a ADSL line with out a problem and this includes computers running VNC connections to clients computers at the same time. There are facters that can effect this so not everyones expierence will be the same. I for instants am in Rosario and I find that a lot of problems people get in BA I do not get here. From BANewcomers: rshpuntoff August 8, 2005 It´s a broadband phone service, that is (and anyone feel free to correct me if I am wrong as I am not a techie type), a phone service that runs over a broadband connection. From BANewcomers: Diego Basch August 8, 2005 If you have the same Vonage router that I have (Linksys RT31P2), then all you need is a cheap 50w transformer, which you can buy here for $5 - $8 US. The difference in frequency doesn't affect the power supply, all it does is convert 120 vac into 12 vdc. From BANewcomers: rshpuntoff August 8, 2005 i use vonage though my broadband provider here is uolsinectis ... if you don´t mind spending the extra i would get a 512 connection (click here to return to topic heading)
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