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January 18, 2014 | by Three Girls And A Book Obsession | A Little Too Hot
by Lisa Desrochers
Published by HarperCollins on 01-21-20014
Genres: Romance
Pages: 384
Format: eBook
From USA Today bestselling author Lisa Desrochers comes the third book in her sizzling new adult series.If you play with fire …Tossed out of college and cut off by her parents, Samantha West is in pretty dire straits. So when her rocker best friend hooks her up with a job dancing at a gentlemen's club, who is she to turn it down? Plus, there are rules to dancing at Benny's: No touching, keep your clothes on at all times, and never get closer than three feet. Unfortunately for Sam, her first private client makes her want to break every single one of them.Harrison Yates is scorching hot, but he's got a past that involves being left at the altar not too long ago. Sam is determined to make him forget about his ex, but when she makes her move, it flings her life into a spiral of chaos she never saw coming. Because Harrison Yates isn't who he seems to be. And his secret will probably get her killed.
When I first started reading this book I got a little nervous because I was worried it was gonna be the typical exotic dancer meets millionaire and they fall in insta-love (blech) type of story. Holy hell, this book threw a wrench into that theory of mine pretty quickly and it became a book that packed quite the punch.
You may remember Sam as Lexie's best friend from A Little Too Far. Sam is down on her luck from the beginning of the book. She has just gotten fired from the pharmacy she was working at, is still hung up on Trent, is homeless and has just flunked out of college. Thankfully, her friend Jonathon allows her to crash on his couch as well as hook her up with a job. Unfortunately, the job is a dancer (who doesn't have to remove her clothes, but still…) at Benny's but the pay is fantastic and she needs to be able to save up for her own apartment. During her first dance, she locks eyes with a smoking hottie who reminds her of Trent. When she is told she has been requested for a VIP session…guess who it is? Ding ding, yep, the smoking southern hottie aptly named Harrison. That is where I stop with the plot…you wanna be surprised, right?
The sexual tension between Sam and Harrison was beyond scorching. Harrison was trying so hard to be the good guy and you could tell his restraint was killing Sam. Hell, it was killing me just reading it. I really enjoyed Sam's character. She might have not made some of the best choices but you know that she was caring, really cherished her friendships, and possibly was a tad too trusting. I'm glad that she finally made amends with her parents. I think she matured emotionally through the book, and I think that was all due to Harrison. He helped her get her life back on track and find what path she needs to be on. Sam also helped Harrison out as well. He was stuck in a job that he despised out of guilt and revenge. It took his situation with Sam to figure out what he really wants out of life. Harrison was a great hero…he was just yummy in every possible way.
I only have one complaint for this book, where was the epilogue? I am an epilogue-whore and was a bit bummed that we didn't get one. All in all, I really enjoyed this book, to be honest, it may be my favorite of Lisa's.
Leary says…
I read A Little Too Far over Christmas break and was completely hooked. I was a little hesitant to read A Little Too Hot because I was super annoyed with Sam in A Little Too Far. Once Alexis started reading this book she told me I needed to start it right away and that I would love it..so I did, and she was right! I LOVED the book and got over my complete annoyance of Sam.
The attraction that Sam and Harrison had was so unbelievably hot..seriously, I'm surprised my kindle screen wasn't sweating!! The story turned out to be something I did not expect but I wouldn't change a thing. Okay, maybe one thing..I agree with Alexis, where was the epilogue?!
If you haven't read the series then you definitely need to pick it up! I loved Sam's story and really want more!
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A State-of-the-Art Review To Develop Injection-Water-Chemistry Requirement Guidelines for IOR/EOR Projects
- Authors
- Subhash Ayirala (Saudi Aramco) | Ali Yousef (Saudi Aramco)
- https://doi.org/10.2118/169048-PA
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- Society of Petroleum Engineers
- Source
- SPE Production & Operations
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 01
- Publication Date
- February 2015
- Document Type
- Journal Paper
- Pages
- 26 - 42
- Language
- English
- 1930-1855
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- 2014.Society of Petroleum Engineers
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- salinity, water chemistry, IOR/EOR, ionic composition, SmartWater flooding
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Injection-water chemistry plays a significant role in the impact of several improved-oil-recovery (IOR) and enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) processes. Recently, advanced waterfloods through the tailoring of injection-water salinity and composition have received good attention in the oil industry for both sandstone and carbonate reservoirs. However, the importance of injection-water chemistry has not received its due attention as a whole in the IOR/EOR business because published studies in this area are distributed sparsely in bits and pieces without much relation to establish the strong connection. Also, injection-water-chemistry effects in certain EOR areas remain largely unexplored, even though they look somewhat promising. Moreover, the existing literature lacks a clear definition of injection-water-chemistry requirement guidelines for all IOR/EOR processes, including some of the newer processes that currently either are being practiced or are in research. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of more than 100 papers published during the past several decades in this subject area. The objectives of this review study are to provide an overview of smart-waterflooding technology; to describe important roles played by injection-water chemistry in the IOR/EOR business, with supporting examples; to extend the applicability of the smart-water concept to different IOR/EOR processes; and to develop the desired injection-water-chemistry requirement guidelines for IOR/EOR. The review analyses presented in this paper indicate that injection-water chemistry is important everywhere in the IOR/EOR business and is applicable not only to advanced waterfloods, but also to most of the recovery processes among the three major EOR types. These EOR processes include polymer flooding, alkaline-surfactant-polymer flooding, low-salinity surfactant flooding for sandstones, dilute-surfactant flooding for carbonates, carbonated waterflooding, miscible carbon dioxide (CO2) water-alternating-gas (WAG) flooding, and steamflooding. Injection waters of optimized salinity and ionic composition can also combine synergistically with several other EOR processes to result in higher incremental oil recoveries. Lower-salinity waters have a beneficial effect in polymer, surfactant, dilute-surfactant, and carbonated waterfloods, to yield better oil recoveries when compared with high-salinity water. The use of smart water for tertiary miscible CO2 WAG floods and carbonated waterflooding appears promising; however, it requires additional research to clearly distinguish and determine smart-water effects in these processes. The review analyses are finally extended to develop the desired injection-water-chemistry requirements for all individual IOR/EOR processes currently known. The findings of this study also put forward two major recommendations for consideration by the industry: (1) there is a need for close collaboration between water and oil industries to develop fit-for-purpose water-treatment solutions for addressing IOR/EOR injection-water-chemistry requirements, and (2) some thought should be given to develop "water chemistry" as a specialty discipline within the oil industry, for better integration of this emerging focus area with other key surface- and subsurface-related disciplines to effectively improve upon the IOR/EOR upstream value chain.
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I thought that March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb. But it has brought us cold temps and lots of rain I hope that April showers will not drown May flowers. So it is the end of March and I have not written that much on here. Nothing spectacular has gone off. I did happen to get my pinkie toe nail removed. It hurts to put it in Epsom salt so I have only done it once. I went fishing yesterday and did not get even a bite from a mosquito. The River was up past the docks a week ago and I did not go there, but found a new place to fish. There is a boat ramp. There was this old man in a kayak he said that it was the best and to get it now while the prices are down to a reasonable price.
So my grandmother called last week and she canceled the trip, do to Uncle David having a problem with his stomage. And that fall that grandma had last month is giving her a problem so she canceled. She thinks that this summer would be good. But I talked to my boss and he said that there is no way that anyone will get any time off.


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Woods on Sunday postponed for a third time a request by Florida police for a voluntary interview about the one-car accident, according to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.
A rising chorus of questions surrounded Woods' two days of near silence about the 2 a.m. Friday accident at the end of his driveway in the exclusive residential area of Isleworth near Orlando, Florida.
His Cadillac SUV Escalade hit a fire hydrant and a tree. Woods, 33, who was alone in the car, was taken by ambulance to a local hospital where he was treated and released for cuts and bruising.
Local officials told the Sentinel that his wife Elin had smashed in the back window of the SUV with a golf club in order to get him out of the car and onto the ground, where he apparently was unconscious for a short time.
The incident and ensuing silence have provoked questions about where he was going at that time of night and why his wife moved him against widely known directives from rescue professionals to leave accident victims in place until they get there.
His silence has revived scandal sheet gossip about an alleged affair.
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Woods, one of the world's top-earning athletes who revolutionised the sports-marketing industry, is normally circumspect about his private life and has so far avoided the gossip pages despite 13 years in the world limelight.
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Jun 16, 2020
In starting five weeks , all answers were directly provided and week 6 and 7 were very tough. So i suggest to equalize the toughness level in all weeks ,ie, no direct spoon feed nor abrupt toughness
Mar 31, 2020
I liked it. Good enjoyable content that was challenging. I was able to follow along by using the Linux subsystem on my Windows computer. I definitely learned a lot of new concepts!
von Jack C•
Mar 01, 2020
The potential of the course material is great. it certainly expose the student to a range of topics.
The potential of the course is reduced significantly however by the labs. They have poor specifications and leave the student to 'discover' how to complete labs. In the early labs it's just a cut and paste to make things work, but in the later labs its the lack of objective specifications that makes them difficult ....not the material covered.
The capstone lab in particular is a reasonable challenge in itself, but made incredibly more challenging (read, it requires multiple attempts just to find out what is required in the answer) because of the lack of specification.
Do I think it's a worthwhile course? Yes, because it makes you think through a learning path.
Do I think it's a good course? Not so much since the learning objectives are very much left to the student to discover almost by accident.
von Nicholas J•
Apr 19, 2020
The final assignment is way too hard because there's not enough time to do the three exercises and write the actual code for the graded part. In addition there's only 5 points so it's basically pass or fail. Also the dictionary sorting code they provide you will not work unless you're copying to a new dictionary (which they don't explain to you). Oh and you have to encase the sorted statement in a dict() function for that, which they don't tell you. I ended up not using the operator module at all and just doing the sort when outputting to csv. Oh and if you write the code for the exercise perfectly and are not getting any points it's because you have to do the creation and conversion of the user_emails.csv in exercise 2 so you can't skip that.
von Pushpendra S•
May 24, 2020
Not for beginners too complicated too costly
von Trupal P•
May 10, 2020
the labs are sometimes frustrating because it does not give you feedback on what you are doing wrong. it just says you did not pass. it may take hours before you figure that small thing.
von Md. Z M•
May 23, 2020
This course touches upon a lot of topics. It covers them in breadth rather than depth. I experienced a huge transition coming from the previous course, Crash Course on Python, in terms of difficulty. It covers so many topics that at times, I felt confused about understanding the interconnection between them.
Regular Expressions was explained best, wherein elaborate explanations were provided. The week on Automating Testing Using Python felt a bit rushed.
A major downside of this course is the Qwiklabs platform, which is also its major upside (we don't need to install any software locally to navigate through the course). However, there are discrepancies in the lab instructions and how the grader evaluates your submission on Qwiklabs. In week 7, I wasted 2 days on Qwiklabs with multiple interactions with the Qwiklabs Customer Support.
Overall, I would recommend this course.
von Abhilash D•
Jun 16, 2020
In starting five weeks , all answers were directly provided and week 6 and 7 were very tough. So i suggest to equalize the toughness level in all weeks ,ie, no direct spoon feed nor abrupt toughness
von Karel H•
May 25, 2020
Disappointed as this did not meet my expectations as a Google Company backed course. This would have been great as a free course by a first time teacher. But for a course backed by a great company this did not meet what I expected. It was sloppy really. First the instructor made a series of political statements unrelated to learning Python. Second the instructor would not stop making really childish puns. Both of these things were unnecessary and not what I expected from a professional course. Worse the labs were really terrible and I felt that they were not proof read by folks at Google. Another frustration is the videos are almost 100% showing the instructor talking. They only flash the code very briefly on the screen meaning you will be pausing and rewinding the videos consistently just to see the sample code long enough to read it. In the end the course met the syllabus but not up to the Google name and not worth the price I paid compared to other free learning out there.
von Victor B V•
Feb 27, 2020
Final project is too hard for things learned in the course and the platform uses different python version from what we learned.
von masoud z•
May 22, 2020
I struggled a little but enjoyed it a lot. Learned a lot of new things and also some of the courses are quite confusing and challenging to learn.But good knowledge to learn.
I'm really appreciated from Google for providing this course and really appreciated the course instructor "Roger" he is very cool guy, and after all i want to thank Course era organization which gives the chance for learners who want to gain success.
von sadra z•
Mar 28, 2020
This course covers most of general concepts of automation, testing, regular expressions, and much more. Personally I will use these skills everyday because I deal with log files and this course helped me to actually work with them efficiently. Thanks Google
von Bright I M•
Mar 21, 2020
This course I particularly enjoyed more. It was very relevant and hand on. I know with Google's authority now how to make the computer do my bidding. Thank you all for this course.
von Jayaram R•
Mar 19, 2020
Coursera is one of the best online learning platform. From this course I studied lot about Python programming and how to use it for OS level operations. Thank you, Coursera
von Mohammad H b M•
Feb 09, 2020
Roger and fellow teacher, thank you so much for putting this course. Appreciate the knowledge on REGEX and Testing
von Syed A J•
Jul 12, 2020
Overall course was pretty good. A lot of learning came out of it. But a lot of wandering around and hours spent on the different forums and documentation trying to solve the problems in the course. Some of the instructions were often unclear as to what was expected for that problem's solution. The labs specially.
Time was spent developing solutions for the problems presented in the course outside the labs but when that code was executed on the linux labs, it gave problems while. For e.g. some of the modules had to be installed manually while some had to be replaced in the code since the syntax would not run on the old python version available on the qwiklabs machines.
von Ouy T J•
Feb 12, 2020
Had a lot of things to learn in the module. wish labs and tests used out brains a bit more. it was mostly reading and cut and paste. Only learnt that you could cut and paste in Putty at the end when I got frustrated typing in things manually. (googled putty copy and paste).
there also alot of short cut code and tricks used that we havent learnt before. these werent explained very well and I still dont understand some of it, others took a me a bit of research.
von nathan i•
Jan 30, 2020
The course is pretty good overall. The week 6 lab has a misleading "expected output" jpg for oldFiles.txt in it. This causes the first half "checkpoint" to fail. The issue is that the jpg shows that oldFiles.txt should only have filenames in it when in fact the "grader" expects each file to also have a fully qualified path with it. The lab write-up also doesn't say oldFiles.txt should have the filenames with the fully qualified path in it. I would give this course five stars if the errant week6 lab documentation gets fixed and if the students are explicitly told that each step in the labs needs to be explicitly execute in the VM environment being provided. I made the mistake of reading some of the lab exercises for content and not actually executing them in shell --- and I think the grader checks for that even if you get the correct final outputs for your script.
von Denis R•
Jan 19, 2020
There are errors in links and descriptions of the tasks (formatting is wrong, names of files are different though according to the content it is the same file, etc). Inconsistency in tasks - first tasks are completely done for the student, one only need to copy-paste and final one is all of the sudden 'do-it-yourself' task. Though for me it was not a problem, but beginners will struggle a lot with this errors.
von QING C•
May 16, 2020
The first few weeks of the course was well paced but in the second last week, the introduction to bash was very rushed and I feel like the tutorials of bash could have been elaborated on more.
von Ankan D•
Jul 09, 2020
May be the worst instructor in the google
von Nancy A•
Apr 12, 2020
This is the second course in the Python Automation sequence, and I highly recommend it as a stand-alone introduction to using regex, python and bash scripting for log analysis and other automation jobs. The course feels like it was built with a clear list of skills it wanted students to come away with. Thank you! This structure was evident in how each module, lecture, and exercise was integrated into a learning whole, IMO. I never felt like I had been shipped out to tackle gotcha problems I was at a loss to know how to even start, as is my still-strong memory of introductory Course #1. Here in Course #2 each module's purpose made sense, and the assignments reinforced the student learning objectives. Often the assignments were very thoughtfully constructed so that you had to show mastery of not only the main concepts but the next-level deep of learning too.
I spent 2-3 weeks at the end on the final 7th week problem of parsing a log file. It was a real-world example I absolutely wanted to be able to implement later on my own. This final problem was an opportunity for me to pause in the course and self-assess what areas I really didn't know well enough, even as a beginner. So, I spent time reviewing basic things like data structures, regex, and object oriented programming fundamentals. Even then, I benefited from the student Forum discussions around this final problem, and really appreciate some of the clearly talented folks who share tips for making it over speed-bumps. I'm glad I took this pause to go deeper on basics, and may integrate this into my learning schedule for future courses. There is just so much to learn, and it pays to tolerate the confusion of forging ahead as well as being sure to circle back and reinforce fundamentals when you are ready to look again at a basic topic.
The instructor was great: knowledgable, encouraging that you could do the work assigned, and again, comfortable steering the ship with purpose. A real education leader.
von Belinda M P•
Apr 06, 2020
There is a lot of useful information in this module and not only did I apply what I learned in Python from this module and the previous one, but I also learned some basics of Linux commands. Although I've been in the I.T. industry for years now, I haven't done programming in recent years. So I got sweaty palms when I was doing the final project. I did not sleep the night until I got it done. 🤣It went well that I followed Roger's advice to do it first outside of the lab because I get to explore my plan of action and think it through. 🏆 Lastly, I don't mind the in-between jokes at all. 😁
von Edward W•
May 23, 2020
Great Course - I especially enjoyed the final assignment. At times I needed to google search some concepts as a reminder, and the test environment was a slightly different version of python to my own machine, but after a few minutes of google searching managed to fix this. I guess this is good practice for the real word when not everything is spoon fed and goes to plan straight away. I disagree that the expected output of the final assignment was unclear. It was well spelt out in the instructions, even showing you a screenshot of the desired output.
von Luis A S M•
Jul 01, 2020
It was a great experience. All the material was new to me, i enjoy specially the linux commands: feel like had have superpowers! And i hae much to learn about unitest, bash scripting and read/write files, etc. But this was a perfect start to do that. Thanks Coursera Team!
An advice; there's an issue with Practice Quiz "Reading and Write csv files" on the week 2. A lot of student had has de same problem with the first question: it get an error, and the team support never could solve, so it will great if they can pay attention to this things.
von Alexandru S•
Jun 05, 2020
Things that you get to learn while taking this course: CSV files manipulation, REGEXs (regular expressions), script testing, Linux commands and BASH programming. All of these are very interesting and, hopefully, very helpful in every Python developer toolkit (I have reservations with the Linux and BASH, but those are good for your "General IT Knowledge").
PS: If you did not take the course, be very careful with the QwikLabs. You must access them at most 5 times! (nobody mentioned this when I took it)
von Leslie Q•
Apr 13, 2020
This course was very educational and helped me really understand some python fundamentals as well as interactions with the OS! The final lab was a challenging lab. This lab really helped me understand the different ways lists, tuples and dictionaries can be manipulated. Glad to rise up to the challenge although nano really is a pain especially when scripts written in atom runs well but then copy paste into nano comes with issues.


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Of course, most don't actually see it that way. Neither do I, most of time, although I'm practicing. As if our daily actions and mutual interactions mean a single thing in the larger scope of the non-adjectival universe! From my point of view, they wouldn't, if seen from without this daily domesticated world we live in. Although they actually do within that infinite world of waiting.
I need to explain, although it's inexplicable. Our lives are figments of our individual and collective imaginations. They are in essence dreams. Our intuitive dreams at night are what we do while waiting to awake. Our oblivious dreams during the day are what we do while waiting to die. They take our minds off the inevitable and fill them with fabricated pre-occupations. Unless we re-awake to our infinity.
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Effects of forest fragmentation on reproductive effort and productivity of Indigo buntings (Passerina cyanea)
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Seasonality and elevational migration in an Andean bird community
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Wendy Williams Suffers Complications From Graves' Disease: Taking 'Extended Break' From Show
Oh no! Wendy Williams will be spending time in the hospital after complications from her Graves' Disease, and she is taking an 'extended break' from her show in the meantime. See her message here.
Just three days after The Wendy Williams Show was set to return following a winter break, Wendy Williams took to Instagram to reveal that she is having to extend her hiatus due to complications from her Graves' Disease. "Wendy will be under the strict supervision of her physicians, and as part of her care, there will be significant time spent in the hospital," the message read. "Despite her strong desire to return, she is taking a necessary extended break from her show to focus on her personal and physical well-being."
Wendy concluded her message by thanking her fans for their well-wishes, and asked for privacy as she deals with her health issues. Back in December, Wendy fractured her shoulder, and fans noticed that she was a little "off" during her shows before the holiday break. She eventually explained that it was pain medication that made her performance "less than stellar," but she vowed to get some rest and come back in 2019 better than ever. Wendy was initially supposed to return to the show in early January, but the date was pushed back to Jan. 21 as she continued to recover.
Now, the length of her break is indefinite as she gets the medical treatment and much-needed rest she needs. The Wendy Williams Show will air re-runs for the week of Jan. 21, and then feature a series of guest hosts throughout the weeks after that, until Wendy is ready to return.
Back in 2017, Wendy fainted onstage during her Halloween show, but was back on set the very next day. Three months later, she revealed her Graves' Disease diagnosis, and took a three-week hiatus from work. It was her first time ever taking off at a time that was not already pre-scheduled.


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Friday, February 15, 2013
Victory Laps: "Tenth Of December" by George Saunders
I end up writing pieces about a good 99% of the books I read, yet I had to decide if it was worth the time to explore Tenth of December, the latest story collection by George Saunders. I adored the stories and ended up finishing the book in record time, so it's not a question of me not liking it. My reservation was due to the book being celebrated and reviewed to the point that I was convinced I couldn't add anything new to the already diverse conversations. However, I realized this feeling was silly. It's rare that a short story collection, especially one published so early in the new year, immediately takes hold as a candidate for one of the top books (Joel Lovell's New York Times profile all but guaranteed Saunders a place on the bestseller list, and for very good reason). Saunders has been revered in the literary world for quite some time, with several collections in print. The opening story, "Victory Lap," begins with a teenage debutante receiving callers. In a way, this newest publication is Saunders' debut to a much wider audience. And while this review might not add any new revelations or details, it will be a small admiration and addition to his much-deserved whirlwind.
Keeping with the trends of my favorite story collections, Saunders explores a variety of ideas and genres, with equal parts humor and somber reflection. Even in the most extreme, fantastical scenarios, the emphasis is on emotion and human reactions to a wide range of possibilities and happenings. The aforementioned "Victory Lap" starts with the interactions between a girl and men, yet takes a sharp detour into the life of her neighbor, a sheltered, over-parented boy who is faced with an escalating series of tough choices and reactions. The climax is hilarious and tense at the same time. The boy swears constantly in his own head and is in the middle of placing geodes in his family's yard (one of his many odd chores) when he has to come to the girl's rescue.
"He imagined the guy bending Alison in two like a pale garment bag while pulling her hair and thrusting bluntly, as he, Kyle, sat cowed and obedient, tiny railroad viaduct grasped in his pathetic babyish--
Jesus! He skipped over and hurled the geode through the windshield of the van, which imploded, producing an inward rain of glass shards that made the sound of thousands of tiny bamboo wind chimes.
He scrambled up the hood of the van, retrieved the geode.
Really? Really? You were going to ruin her life, ruin my life, you cunt-probe dick-munch ass-gashing Animal? Who's bossing who now? Gash-ass, jizz-lips, turd-munch--
He'd never felt so strong/angry/wild. Who's the man? Who's your daddy? What else must he do? To ensure that Animal did no further harm? You still moving, freak? Got a plan, stroke-dick? Want a skull gash on top of your existing skull gash, big man? You think I won't? You think I--
Easy, Scout, you're out of control.
Slow your motor down, Beloved Only.
Quiet. I'm the boss of me (Saunders 22-23)."
Saunders writes some stories set in suburban/rural settings, but the featured angst is not typical. The characters try to build their lives and make connections to their surroundings, often with unforeseen results and realizations. In "Sticks," a father builds figures for specific events and holidays. In the process, there's an overwhelming sense of futility and breakdowns. Saunders provides a terrific blend of physical and sensory details. The reader has to balance a sense of the visual and a sense of the intangible.
"We left home, married, had children of our own, found the seeds of meanness blooming also within us. Dad began dressing the pole on its side and spray-painted a rift in the earth. Mom died and he dressed the pole as Death and hung from the crossbar photos of Mom as a baby. We'd stop by and find odd talismans from his youth arranged around the base: army medals, theater tickets, old sweatshirts, tubes of Mom's makeup. One autumn he painted the pole bright yellow. He covered it with cotton swabs that winter for warmth and provided offspring by hammering in six crossed sticks around the yard. He ran lengths of string between the pole and the sticks, and taped to the string letters of apology, admissions of error, pleas for understanding, all written in a frantic hand on index cards. He painted a sign saying LOVE and hung it from the pole and another that said FORGIVE? and then he died in the hall with the radio on and we sold the house to a young couple who yanked out the pole and left it by the road on garbage day (Saunders 30)."
Until reading Tenth of December, I had no idea that Saunders wrote science fiction stories. There are two examples: "Escape From Spiderhead" and "The Semplica Girl Diaries." The former is a more standard science fiction narrative, but the complexity and philosophy are the true emphases, not the fantastical surroundings. In a futuristic prison, prisoners are the subjects of experiments and are given doses of medications that fully control moods and perceptions. Jeff, a prisoner, has controlled sex with two female inmates as a way to test medications that give the appearance of true love. He's then ordered to control the doses of a medication (DarkenfloxxTM) that gives the patient the most awful, lonely, harmful fears. Saunders explores a variety of questions and concerns and highlights the uneasy realization that experiments like these have actually happened, albeit in more "realistic" scenarios.
"The DarkenfloxxTM started flowing. Soon Heather was softly crying. Then was up and pacing. Then jaggedly crying. A little hysterical, even.
'I don't like this,' she said in a quaking voice.
Then she threw up in the trash can.
'Speak, Jeff,' Abnesti said to me. 'Speak a lot, speak in detail. Let's make something useful of this, shall we?'
Everything in my drip felt Grade A. Suddenly I was waxing poetic. I was waxing poetic re what Heather was doing, and waxing poetic re my feelings about what Heather was doing. Basically, what I was feeling was: Every human is born of man and woman. Every human, at birth, is, or at least has the potential to be, beloved of his/her mother/father. Thus every human is worthy of love. As I watched Heather suffer, a great tenderness suffused my body, a tenderness hard to distinguish from a sort of vast existential nausea; to wit, why are such beautiful beloved vessels made slaves to so much pain? Heather presented as a bundle of pain receptors. Heather's mind was fluid, and could be ruined (by pain, by sadness). Why? Why was she made this way? Why so fragile?
Poor child, I was thinking, poor girl. Who loved you? Who loves you (Saunders 69-70)?"
"The Semplica Girl Diaries" is science fiction in a very odd, unassuming manner. It's a diary kept by a struggling family man who only wants to provide the best for his family. He wins the lottery and has his yard remodeled for his daughter's birthday, complete with "Semplica Girls:" foreign girls strung together by brain wires to create decorative lawn ornaments. What Saunders carefully does is make this idea "normal" in the context of the story. It's a small piece of a larger puzzle, and while the notion is grotesque and absurd, the diary narrative doesn't put any extra emphasis on this, until necessary (the Semplica Girls become important figures in the sense of finances and family struggles). When Saunders returns to more "normal" plot structures, there's never a sense that he's showing off or attempting to inhabit too many genres. Every story in Tenth of December is linked by the connections made by people and the existential problems presented by these connections. Even when he does "show off," it's done for comedic effect. "My Chivalric Fiasco" is genuinely laugh-out-loud funny, telling the story of an affair engaged in by two workers at a Medieval Castle/Theme Park. When the reader digs away the hilarious veneer, what's visible is a story about honesty and secrets.
"Glimpsing Martha's Visage--which, though Merry, bore withal a Trace of some Dismal Memory (and I knew well what it was)--I grew, in spite of my recent good Fortune, somewhat Melancholy.
Noting this Change in my Disposition, Martha didst speak to be softly, in an Aside.
Martha: It's cool, Ted. I'm over it. Seriously, I mean it. Drop it.
O, that a Woman of such Enviable Virtue, who had Suffered so, would deign to speak to me in a Manner so Frank & Direct, consenting by her Words to keep her Disgrace in such bleak Confinement!
Martha: Ted. You okay?
To which I made Reply: Verily, I have not been Well, but Distracted & Remiss; but presently am Restored unto Myself, and hereby do make Copious Apology for my earlier Neglect with respect to Thee, dear Lady (Saunders 210)."
I haven't covered all of the stories, but as I'm wont to say, it would be tedious and pointless to give brief synopses and quotations of every piece. Without being sappy or pandering, the acclaim received by Tenth Of December is exciting for Saunders' recognition, but also for the short story itself. Outside of literary circles and journals, it's rare to see a short story collection hit the bestseller list and even sell out in certain bookstores (for a solid week, my store would sell the book just as fast as it came in, and while it's been available for over a month, it's still enjoying steady attention). Really, it reaffirms something I've said before: someone as talented as Saunders should and must get attention from casual readers, and I think this has been true. His blend of genres and emotions are touching and beautiful, and it's impossible to not be moved by the worlds he creates. Even in the most absurd situations, there are moments reflected that every reader will recognize. However, there are challenges in these pieces: some of the stories are so careful in their execution that it takes a few pages (and even the occasional re-read paragraph) to realize what's going on. Saunders is never obvious about what he's doing or what he's trying to say. And that gives people who champion smart reading a good dose of hope. In addition to being embraced by wider circles, Tenth Of December requires rolled-up sleeves and careful attention. Needless to say, the work is worthwhile, and the stories reach for a staggering number of feelings.
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Saunders, George. Tenth Of December. Copyright 2013 by George Saunders.
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Courtesy of a kind friend over in South Korea (that's the Korea that isn't the one where the mad tyrant died a few days ago, if you were wondering) I have received some of the delightful new Mongoose Star Trek models (specifically, the Federation and Klingon squadron sets - he also bought me the rules - huzzah!). They tend to come in several parts (Fig.01), for which reason my favourite is the tiny wee one part Klingon ship! They tend to have a bit of flash, but not so much as to worry me. The metal round things you can see (Fig.01) are the deflector dishes. Needless to say, I had to get out Enterprise first, and assemble her. She's a fair sized model, as you can see (Fig.02). After I'd trimmed the flash back I assembled her with some superglue gel, as I find I get longer for my fingers to escape being fused to things. I'm not painting my hand green and pretending to be Apollo!
The model goes together easily (Fig.03), as did all but one of the other Federation ships, the three-nacelled Dreadnought, which had some crazy three-pronged system for gluing the hull and third nacelle to opposite sides of the saucer section. After I gave up trying to make that work and just cut off the third prong, mind you, all was well. There was a little damage to the rear of the light cruiser (top right of Fig.04), which I plan to model as battle damage. At the foot of that pic (Fig.04) you can see the frigate model, which is adorable, and reminiscent of the Reliant (the ship Kahn nabs in film #2). You can see her assembled to the right in the next picture (Fig.05). On the left is the battlecruiser, which is visually a slightly larger Enterprise style model. You can see her in the top left of Fig.06, and may note that her warp nacelles are horizontal rather than angled. The Dreadnought is in the bottom left, and you can already see that none of these ships looks exactly the same.
Figs.08 and 08 show the squadron together, and make clear that there is no way you are going to get these ships confused. They all share a similar aesthetic, although if you're raising your hand to say, "Uh, Pete, there's one without a saucer, dude." then I agree. It's an earlier style of design, I deduce from the rulebook. The only real work I had to do was on the Klingon dreadnought. I will have a full pictoral rundown of the undercoated/painted Klingon ships next time, but for now it's just the flagship. There were minor problems with every model, but I am not so mad as to expect perfection of resin! Everything fit together, and the problems are all small and easy to repair or ignore. It's a sign of how slight the other problems were that this is the only model I had to do any real repair work on.
The dreadnought's warp nacelles (as with all Klingon models) attach separately to the edges of the wings, and there was a slight but obvious gap. I probably would not have worried too much about this (it's probably going to be obvious on my other Klingon ships in the coming photos), but for the fact that the hull-neck connection was all kinds of gone to heck. Well, I couldn't just trim and glue, as I'd done in every previous instance. The connection point on the hull had got a bit crushed or had come out of the mould a bit funny. I only have a basic knowledge of this sort of thing, and it is - let me reassure you - all you need. I used my pin-vice to drill a hole in the opposing parts of hull and neck, then superglued a piece of staple to mate the parts together. Then I got a bit of Greenstuff modelling putty, mixed it up and used it to cover over the holes. Since I had the GS out, I covered up the gaps on the wings, and fixed the air-bubbled bit of detail aft of the bridge. I smoothed stuff down with a modelling tool until everything was nice and flush and that was it. Bob's your uncle!
In all, a lovely set of kits, and some gorgeous models. Klingons next, and then I shall try to get in a game with my brother. The rulebook is very nice, too. The first half is regular nice paper, and includes the rules and background material, and the latter half is glossy paper, and includes ship details and so on. But I am getting ahead of myself. Enjoy the pictures!


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Today, while I was cleaning my bathroom, I thought I needed to add some more water. So without thinking, I just unscrewed the cap on the boiler to add some more water. BAD IDEA!!!!
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It really shook me up to think how quickly I could do something dumb and be really hurt. I've been walking around all day praying, "Thank you Lord that I didn't get burned."
I'm a pretty smart gal~ book smart, not street smart. My fourth grade teacher used to lovingly refer to me as her absent minded professor.
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During my June beach vacation, I begged Drew's 89 year old Grandmother, Ruthmary, to give me a flower arranging lesson. Roo-Roo as us "kids" call her is the type of Southern woman you read about in best selling beach novels. She is an amazing cook, gardener and charitable figure in her community yet she drinks bourbon with grace and cracks the wittiest jokes of anyone I know. Her flower arrangements are legendary in her hometown of Wilson, North Carolina and now we can all learn from her years of experience.
Start with a big selection of flowers. Pictured above are Roo-Roo's hydrangeas and gardenias from her home garden which she transported 2 hours to the beach. She lines her table with newspaper to make a mess on and then throw out after clean up. Smart.
She said to make sure your vase is at waist height or above so you can step back to examine the shape as it builds. Line the first layer of your vase with greenery from your garden or florist.
Add the largest stalks of flowers to the center and back of your arrangements to start the shape.
These four tall hydrangeas are the foundation of her arrangement but any large blooms will work for this step.
Fill in the front and center of the arrangement with shorter blooms and varied hues to create interest and depth.
Continue to fill in more blooms and greenery until your vase is full and your arrangement has a pretty shape.
Now add in some smaller flowers in contrasting colors and shapes. She added gardenias (which Roo-Roo would have wrapped with floral wire to keep from dropping if she had some) and some pale pink flowers and shooting star hydrangeas for contrast.
Ruthmary's general advice on floral arrangements is "make it so that a bee can fly through it." Natural and open, her flowers look artfully placed but not fussily stuffing into tight bundles.
The finished piece!
She placed it on an entryway table to the back porch so all who passed snagged a scent of gardenias in their day. A lesson I will never forget, thanks so much Roo-Roo.
Lydia and I had loads of fun styling this table for The Daily Meal. We wanted to recreate the feeling of an elegant outdoor restaurant at home, so we played with my nicest indoor pieces. Using 1 set of pottery, 1 set of chargers, 1 set of flatware and 1 table we created 2 beautiful looks: breakfast in the garden with friends and an elegant candlelit dinner for two.
Here's a close up of the breakfast table:
For breakfast we fell in love with hydrangeas in cloud colors. We set them in my favorite juice pitcher and built the rest of the look around that. The sugar and creamer as well as the napkins pick up on the beautiful sky blue petals. And what says morning more clearly than a rooster? This one is part of an antique rooster and hen pair that my aunt gave me as a wedding gift. It's a happy table that invites you to linger over flaky croissants and chunky mugs of hot coffee.
Tell us, how would you make your outdoor table special?
Tomorrow- the dinner table!
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Your first year as a registered nurse is challenging. This podcast is hosted by Kati Kleber, BSN RN CCRN, and Elizabeth Mills, BSN RN CCRN and features experienced nurses from FreshRN.com, who discuss the basics of that first year. From nursing orientation, code blues, tricks of the trade, and personal experiences, to time management, delegation, patient deaths, and more. Please note, while patient experiences are discussed, their identifying details have been changed to protect their privacy and uphold HIPAA.
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Welcome to Season 4 of the FreshRN Podcast. When the patient is now donating their organs, there are a lot of things that are now the responsibility of the nurse. In this episode, we discuss what it practically looks like to prepare a patient for organ procurement and some of the variations of the process, as well as our own experiences.
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More Resources on Organ Procurement:
- You can download Show notes for this episode here.
- View the show notes for this episode here.
- Nursing attitudes towards organ donation, procurement, and transplantation from NCBI
- Nursing Considerations with Brain Death Show Notes from FreshRN
Organ Procurement and Preservation (Vademecum)The Gift of Life: The Reality Behind Donor Organ RetrievalDeath and Donation: Rethinking Brain Death as a Means for Procuring Transplantable Organs#procurement – Stainless Steel Hashtag 12oz Camping MugNon-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation: Medical and Ethical Issues in Procurement


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If you want to manage a previously configured NG Firewall and not loose its configuration, import the PAR file. After importing the PAR file the NG Control Center automatically signs the box certificates. Deploy the PAR file to the NG Firewall to finish adding the NG Firewall to the NG Control Center. Since virtual server and service names must be unique per cluster, it is recommended to replace the default S1 virtual server with a new virtual server using an unique name. After moving and, if necessary renaming the services to the new virtual server, delete the old S1 virtual server.
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Before you Begin
Verify that the name of the virtual server and all included service on the NG Firewall are not already used in the cluster.
Step 1. Export the PAR file on the NG Firewall
Create a PAR file on the NG Firewall. This file contains all your configuration settings.
- Log in to the NG Firewall
- Open the Box page. (Config > Full Config).
- Right click on the Box node and select Create PAR file.
- Choose the destination folder and click Save.
- Click OK.
Step 2. Import the PAR file on the NG Control Center
- Expand the Boxes node (Config > Multi-Range > your range > your cluster).
- Right click on Boxes and select Import Box from PAR file.
- Select the PAR file created in step 1 and click Open.
- Enter a Box Name for the NG Firewall. The name can not be changed after importing the PAR file.
- Click Activate.
Step 3. (optional) Configure Remote Management Tunnel
If your NG Firewall can not directly access the NG Control Center, configure a remote management tunnel. For more information, see How to Configure a Remote Management Tunnel for Barracuda NG Firewalls.
Step 4. Enable the NG Firewall
Imported NG Firewalls are disabled per default. Disables NG Firewall are represented by a grey status icon.
- Open the Box Properties page for the NG Firewall (Config > Multi-Range > your range > your cluster > your NG Firewall).
- In the left menu click on Operational.
- Set Disable Box to no.
- Click Send Changes and Activate.
The status of the NG Firewall on the Status Map (Control > Status Map) now changes from grey (offline) to red with dashes (unreachable).
Step 5. Deploy the PAR file to the NG Firewall
Deploy the PAR file to the NG Firewall.
Step 5.1 Create the PAR file on the NG Control Center
- Log in to the NG Control Center.
- Expand the node for the NG Firewall you imported in Step 2.
- Right click on the box name and select Create PAR file for box.
- Choose the destination folder and click Save.
Step 5.2. Import the PAR on the NG Firewall
- Log in to you NG Firewall.
- Open the Box page. (Config > Full Config).
- Right click on the Box node and select Restore from PAR file.
- Click OK.
- Select the PAR file created in step 5.1. and click Open.
- Click Activate.
- Open the Box page (Control > Box).
- In the left menu expand Operating Systems and click Firmware Restart.
- Click YES. The firmware of the NG Firewall restarts.
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Of Animals and Men
International documentary film competition at the 59th Krakow Film Festival.
An Israeli lawyer defending Palestinian terrorists, a Serbian writer acting as a spokesperson to the Aborigines, Polish refugees who find shelter in Africa and to top it off stories about humans and animals who share one fate. Each year, the Krakow Film Festival international documentary film competition showcases the most electrifying stories and the most fascinating protagonists from all over the world.
"Several of the competition documentaries is sure to complicate the viewer's image of the world. Their subject are the walls that we put up in our own heads, the life that we live in the shadows of gone wars and the resurrected ghosts of our past - sometimes scary, sometimes grotesquely funny. In our competition we've found a place both for the films of masters as well as works of the debutantes, the observation of reality and creative documentaries, as well as a completely new genre of documentary" comments Anita Piotrowska, the Festival's selector.
The competition selection includes two Polish productions. The first will open this year's Festival. "The wind. A Documentary Thriller" directed by Michał Bielawski observes how the destructive wind blows trough Podhale and disrupts the life of its inhabitants, influences the wellbeing animals and leaves lasting wounds in nature. The second Polish title "Of Animals and Men" directed by Łukasz Czajka, is a dramatic story, full of fascinating archive materials, following the Żabińscy, a married couple who hid over 300 escapees from the Jewish ghetto in the Warsaw Zoo. They gave them shelter until the break of the Warsaw Uprising, when the house of wild animals stopped being an asylum to the debased, Jewish human wrecks.
The Israeli films have a strong representation at this year's Festival. "Advocate" (dir. Rachel Lech Jones, Philippe Bellaiche) is a film portrait of an exceptional lawyer, who devoted her whole professional life to the fight for human rights. Lea Tsemel, an Israeli woman, have been endangering her own life as well as the lives of her family for the past 50 years with her tireless court defense of Palestinians accused of being terrorists. Unes, the protagonist of the "Around The Bed of A Dying Collaborator" (dir. David Ofek, Tal Michael) is considered to be a traitor by his kinsmen, just like Lea. Years ago he brought shame to his Arab family when he agreed to co-operate with the Israeli secret service. In the face of death he struggles with fear, shame and guilt.
In turn, the protagonist of the "Mussolini's Sister" (dir. Juna Sulieman) has lived for so many years, that her biography could be shared among several Arab women. Although she lives enclosed in four walls, she is still trying to control the world. The old lady from Nazareth has not yet said her final word and she presents her own, only right views trough the lens of her granddaughter.
The mayor of the Calabrian city Riace in the document "But Now Is Perfect " (dir. Carin Goeijers) found a way to deal with the depopulation of his town: he allowed for the refugees to settle there. When the authorities stopped financing his model project it led to the destruction of the newly created community. One of the tragic victims of this change was a young Nigerian woman. In "The Border Fence", directed by the outstanding Austrian documentary filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter, we get to see the picturesque and idyllic Tyrol, which became the scenery of changes taking place in today's Europe in connection with the closing of the border between Austria and Italy, to stop the influx of refugees. From the relations of the inhabitants of this region as well as the tourists, emerges an image that is quite different from the media reports.
Jonathan Kolodziej Durand, director of the documentary "Memory Is Our Homeland" tells a story about refugees from a different perspective, set in another era, with the help of unpublished archives and personal film diaries. He sets out with a camera on a journey, filled with mystery and insinuation, following in the footsteps of his Polish grandmother, one of the millions deported to Siberia during the Second World War and one of the tens of thousands who traveled through half of the world in order to find shelter in Eastern Africa. Nowadays, on the outskirts of New York, among the tons of used plastic, other emigrants live their lives. They are a couple of outcasts, heroes of the "The Fourth Kingdom" (dir. Àlex Lora Cercós, Adan Aliaga), who did not fulfill their "American dream". Working on waste segregation, they wonder about the nature of the Universe, they reminisce about their weaknesses and failures, they nurse homeless kittens and ... they still dream, accompanied by the theater scenes of a troupe the Children Theater.
The dirty, rubbish filled streets of Calcutta are the living space of other eccentrics. "Pariah Dog" (dir. Jesse Alk) shows several caretakers of Indian street dogs. A sad but at the same time uplifting world emerges from these kaleidoscopic images. Serbian writer Sreten Božić is a bit of a different weirdo"Wongar" (dir. Andrijan Stojko), who looks after six tamed dingo dogs and looks for close contact with nature and those who have left, away from the hustle and bustle of civilization.
"Kabul, City in the Wind" (dir. Aboozar Amini) is one of the most troubled cities in the world, that tries to live normally despite it all. In parallel threads, we meet Abas' driver, whose bus is often broken, and two boys who have to deal with their father's absence. This contemporary portrait of Afghans corresponds in a very exciting way with the world of American veterans of the war in Afghanistan, whose stories are filled with pain and trauma that we will encounter in the movie "Stress" directed by Florian Baron.
A 30-year-old man from a small village in the north of Iran is the hero of the movie "A House for You" (dir. Mahdi Bakhshi Moqadam). In spite of life tragedies, fatal illness and bankruptcy, he makes new, life-changing decisions. The protagonists of the Argentine documentary " Cerro Quemado " (dir. Juan Pablo Ruiz) embark on a journey in search of their grandmother and mother - the last settler of an abandoned region and rediscover their Inca roots on the forgotten lands of their ancestors.
"Heat singers" directed by Nadia Parfan follows a thermal energy enterprise from Ivano-Frankivsk, which cares about the cultural needs of its employees. Once a week they can break away from their daily routine, dilapidated infrastructure and strenuous clients to take part in the company's choir rehearsals. The folk and patriotic songs that they sing become a bridge between the past communist era and the new political and economic reality. They help to ease the shock of transformation and allow them hyst ti be with each other – just like in the good old days.
Krakow Film Festival is the only festival in Poland included in very prestigious group of festivals qualifying for an Academy Award Oscar in the category of full-length documentaries. It is also a part of renowned group of festivals recommending full-length documentary films for the European Film Awards. The festival is accredited by the FIAPF and the EFFE Label.
List of films qualified for the documentary competition:
- "Adwokatka" / "Advocate", dir. Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaiche, 110', Israel, Canada, Switzerland, 2019
- "Chór ciepłowników" / "Heat Singers", dir. Nadia Parfan, 64', Ukraine, 2019
- "Czwarte królestwo" / "The Fourth Kingdom", dir. Àlex Lora Cercós, Adan Aliaga, 83', Spain, USA, Mexico, 2019
- "Dom dla ciebie" / "A House for You", dir. Mahdi Bakhshi Moqadam, 70', Iran, 2019
- "Granica" / "The Border Fence", dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 112', Austria, 2018
- "Kabul, miasto na wietrze" / "Kabul, City in the Wind", dir. Aboozar Amini, 85', Holland, Afganistan, Germany, Japan, 2018
- "Miasto psów" / "Pariah Dog", dir. Jesse Alk, 77', USA, 2019
- "Naszą ojczyzną jest pamięć" / "Memory Is Our Homeland", dir. Jonathan Kolodziej Durand, 90', Canada, 2018
- "O zwierzętach i ludziach" / "Of Animals and Men", dir. Łukasz Czajka, 55', Poland, 2019
- "Przy łóżku kolaboranta" / "Around the Bed of a Dying Collaborator", dir. David Ofek, Tal Michael, 51', Israel, 2018
- "Siostra Mussoliniego" / "Mussolini's Sister", dir. Juna Sulieman, 71', Israel, 2018
- "Spalone wzgórze" / "Cerro Quemado", dir. Juan Pablo Ruiz, 63', Argentina, 2019
- "Stres" / "Stress", dir. Florian Baron, 83', Germany, USA, 2018
- "Teraz jest świetnie" / "But Now Is Perfect", dir. Carin Goeijers, 55', Holand, 2018
- "Wiatr. Thriller dokumentalny" / "The Wind. A Documentary Thriller", dir. Michał Bielawski, 75', Poland, Slovakia, 2019
- "Wongar" / "Wongar", dir. Andrijana Stojković, 60', Serbia, 2018
The 59th Krakow Film Festival will take place on May 26 - June 2, 2019


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Intel Corp on Thursday gave a bullish forecast and blew past Wall Street expectations for the fourth quarter on the strength of data center sales, the business it sees as key to its transformation from a PC supplier.
Intel stock rose 3.8% to $47.06, boosted by a 10% dividend hike and the forecast, which signaled that Intel is succeeding in containing fallout from recently disclosed security flaws that could allow hackers to steal data from computers, Reuters reported.
Those flaws, dubbed Spectre and Meltdown, created global concern among technology users, and Intel acknowledged on Thursday, for the first time, that the fallout could hurt future results. But Intel executives consistently indicated that they did not expect that to happen.
Software fixes for the problems would be succeeded by solutions designed into Intel chips themselves later this year, Chief Executive Brian Krzanich said on a conference call.
In an interview ahead of Intel's earnings call with investors, Chief Financial Officer Bob Swan said the company sees no "meaningful impact" on corporate earnings from the vulnerabilities.
"They had all these bullets flying at them with these chip flaws, but when I look at these numbers, it's a blowout across all metrics," said Daniel Morgan, a fund manager with Synovus Trust, which holds Intel shares. "That makes it a bulletproof quarter."
Revenue from the company's higher-margin data center business rose about 20% to $5.58 billion, beating the average analyst estimate of $5.13 billion, according to Thomson Reuters. Investors had targeted 10% growth, said Kevin Cassidy, an analyst at Stifel.
"Data center group is one of the key metrics we are watching. It's certainly a positive to see that turn up," said Peter Karazeris, an analyst Intel investor Thrivent Financial.
Revenue from Intel's PC group hit $9 billion for the quarter, a 2% decline from the year before, but ticked up 3% for the year to $34 billion.


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A man who claims to be a Voodoo priest and is well-known for filing discrimination suits has found a new target – a Bible school in the South Pacific.
Zaji Zajradhara applied for a job in the business office of Eucon International University, a Christian Bible school located in the island of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which is a US territory.
Eucon is a ministry of a Baptist church led by Dr. Christian Wei. The church also operates a K-12 Christian school at the same location.
After he did not get the job, Zajradhara initiated a labor complaint and the school felt coerced into agreeing to hire him. Zajradhara did not show up for his first day of work, and when he did appear later in the week, he refused to agree with the school's faith statement that all other employees sign.
Zajradhara then informed school administrators that he is a priest of Houngan, a Haitian form of Voodoo. When it became clear that his beliefs and practices were diametrically opposed to the school's, the administrators sent him a termination letter detailing the incompatibility of witchcraft with the Christian faith.
Zajradhara, through an attorney, initially demanded the equivalent of several years' wages from Eucon after he had spent less than a week on the job. The school declined his demand.
Then the man obtained a right-to-sue notice from the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and filed suit in the US District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.
In Saipan, Zajradhara is so well known for filing discrimination suits, some of which have been quickly thrown out of court and others he has been able to settle for thousands of dollars, that the CNMI legislature recently introduced a resolution calling him a "persona non grata." The resolution states that he has filed dozens of discrimination claims against local businesses.
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), a non-profit religious rights law firm, is representing the school.
"This case illustrates how well-intended and important workplace discrimination laws can be horribly misused and abused," said Brad Dacus, president of PJI. "We intend to vigorously defend this Bible school as long as it takes to achieve justice."
Matt McReynolds, PJI's lead attorney, said this is a First Amendment case in its truest form.
"No Christian school should ever be forced to hire or pay off a Voodoo priest," McReynolds noted." At a bare minimum, the First Amendment means a religious institution must be allowed to choose those who will affirm and advance their mission and beliefs."
PJI is being assisted locally in Saipan by attorney Joseph E. Horey of the firm O'Connor Berman Horey & Banes, LLC.
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Marci Deane sits down with Jane Thornthwaite, MLA for North Vancouver-Seymour. Jane talks about the many infrastructure projects coming to the North Shore. She touches on the recent foreign home buyers tax, and the causes that are important to her (like LGBTQ legislation and forging cooperation between the different government bodies).
Where does the money for infrastructure projects come from?
- Major infrastructure projects get funding from 3 different sources; municipal, provincial, and federal.
- It can take some time for all these entities to work together to solidify funding.
State of development in North Vancouver
- For North Vancouver to keep growing, density has to increase. Before this can happen infrastructure has to be developed first.
Current interchange projects
- Mountain Highway Interchange– Will be a 4 lane overpass designed to alleviate the traffic coming from the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge. The interchange will link to Brooksbank Avenue, plus add new off-ramps onto the Cut.
- Fern Street Interchange and Dollarton Interchange- both of these are part of the above Hwy 1 project.
- $150 million has been allocated for these projects by all 3 levels of government, but various District projects must be completed first.
- Possible expansion of the Lynn Creek bridge.
- These projects are slated for completion in 2020.
The SeaBus
- Heads of governments in North Vancouver agree that more SeaBuses are needed.
- More SeaBuses will require more buses, requiring an expansion of the Phibbs Exchange.
Foreign home buyers tax
- Housing affordability is one of the largest concerns in the Lower Mainland.
- The tax is a reaction by the government to pressure from the public who are concerned that their children will never afford to live in the community.
- There will be more to come on the supply side of real estate (e.g. breaks for first-time home buyers).
Recent accomplishments
- Argyle Secondary replacement: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016EDUC0046-000975
- BC Human Rights Code changes for Transgender recognition: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016JAG0025-001352
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In our series "The story behind" the story behind the Pickmotion images is been told: In which situation was the photo taken? This time @quietblessings explains "enjoy your day".
"I took the photo last summer in Germany, near Frankfurt. It was a hot day. We were on a road homeward when we saw them and my husband stopped to collect some of the sunflowers for me."
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