This is the 1980's version and is my favorite. It is not the holiday season without watching this movie.
Scrooge is an old man running his business without a care for the world or anyone in it. He treats his nephew and employer like crap.
When he goes home on Christmas Eve (the movie does all of it in one night unlike the book which does it in three days (kinda)) he notices his doorknob turns into the face of his long dead partner, Jacob Marley. Jacob then tells him , later, that he will be visited by three ghosts and that he needs to change his ways or he will end up with the same fate.
The first ghost is a woman who is the ghost of Christmas past. She shows him when he was younger and at school when his sister comes to get him and his father. She then shows him when he was at a party and fell in love with a woman, and later how he turned this woman down.
The second ghost, the ghost of Christmas past, is a giant who shows Scrooge his nephew at his house party and the pathetic life his employer lives and the tiny son who is ill. He also shows him the sick and needy before showing him two children on his leg who will lead anyone astray.
The final ghost is the ghost of Christmas yet to come and this ghost shows him the family of the Crachits who lost Tiny Tim and that he will die alone with no one who cares.
After all of this it changes him and he becomes a better man, helping those in need and spending more time with his nephew and helping his employer and the family.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Movie: The Family
Okay this movie is hilarious. I wasn't so sure how I would feel about this movie, but I thought my dad would like it so we got it for Christmas for him and watched it as a family. So worth the $20 to buy the dvd.
A father, mother, daughter and son are in protective services because the father ratted out his brothers in the mafia and they are after to kill him.
It's pretty funny movie because the family is used to living a life in the mafia and doing what they want to get what they want, but they can't or they have to move again.
The dad isn't really allowed to leave the house and the house is on constant surveillance. He tells the neighbors he's a writer and writing a book about some history, when in fact he's writing his memoirs.
The mother likes to blow things up. She blows up a grocery store when they say Americans are stupid.
The son is great at gathering intelligence and using others to get them to do what he wants.
The sister is a little crazy, she beats some guy up with a tennis racket when they are trying to hook up with her before they even know her.
The dad beats up a plummer really badly when they find their water is orange and he doesn't give him the answer he wants, he then drags a politician behind his car when he doesn't give him the answer he wants and ultimately he blows up the faulty tank that is causing his water to be orange.
At the end the mafia finds out where they are hiding because of a newspaper clipping with a quote on it that the son remembered his dad saying that linked him together.
The whole family needs to come together to beat this one, including the son and daughter. The two bodyguards are killed, and the mother is almost raped and killed when the dad comes and they are tag teaming. The son and daughter team up and then ultimately they end up with everyone dead (the mafia guys, not the family)
The family has to move yet again at the very end, wonder where they will end up next.
A father, mother, daughter and son are in protective services because the father ratted out his brothers in the mafia and they are after to kill him.
It's pretty funny movie because the family is used to living a life in the mafia and doing what they want to get what they want, but they can't or they have to move again.
The dad isn't really allowed to leave the house and the house is on constant surveillance. He tells the neighbors he's a writer and writing a book about some history, when in fact he's writing his memoirs.
The mother likes to blow things up. She blows up a grocery store when they say Americans are stupid.
The son is great at gathering intelligence and using others to get them to do what he wants.
The sister is a little crazy, she beats some guy up with a tennis racket when they are trying to hook up with her before they even know her.
The dad beats up a plummer really badly when they find their water is orange and he doesn't give him the answer he wants, he then drags a politician behind his car when he doesn't give him the answer he wants and ultimately he blows up the faulty tank that is causing his water to be orange.
At the end the mafia finds out where they are hiding because of a newspaper clipping with a quote on it that the son remembered his dad saying that linked him together.
The whole family needs to come together to beat this one, including the son and daughter. The two bodyguards are killed, and the mother is almost raped and killed when the dad comes and they are tag teaming. The son and daughter team up and then ultimately they end up with everyone dead (the mafia guys, not the family)
The family has to move yet again at the very end, wonder where they will end up next.
Movie: 2Guns
Densel Washington and Mark Wahlberg are like the Sandra and McCarthy team. They are a great pair for comedy and action.
Washington and Wahlberg are both actually undercover, but neither of them know that about the other. Washington is for the FBI and Wahlberg is for the Navy.
These two are after drug cartels too, but in this case it's the money they have. Wahlberg and Washington break into a bank where they are keeping the money. One slight problem, it's a lot more money then what they were expecting to steal.
Wahlberg then takes the money from Washington and finds out he's undercover. He then gives the money to his boss who then robs him and takes the money. Later he pairs up with Washington again because now the government is after both of them.
When they go to the Navy base to find the money but it's not there anymore. It actually is with Washington's girlfriend who back stabbed him. This is where they find out that their whole undercover mission was to help these two get the money.
Meanwhile they are in trouble with the drug cartel for taking the money and need to get it back to them. When they get the money, Wahlberg goes to them hoping to kill them and stop them all, he can't do it alone and you really aren't sure if Washington is gonna show up or not. He does.
They end up taking out the government that wanted the money for them and the drug cartel as well.
This isn't the end, they decide to do it again and to make sure they stop this process.
It's an extremely funny movie with a lot of action.
Washington and Wahlberg are both actually undercover, but neither of them know that about the other. Washington is for the FBI and Wahlberg is for the Navy.
These two are after drug cartels too, but in this case it's the money they have. Wahlberg and Washington break into a bank where they are keeping the money. One slight problem, it's a lot more money then what they were expecting to steal.
Wahlberg then takes the money from Washington and finds out he's undercover. He then gives the money to his boss who then robs him and takes the money. Later he pairs up with Washington again because now the government is after both of them.
When they go to the Navy base to find the money but it's not there anymore. It actually is with Washington's girlfriend who back stabbed him. This is where they find out that their whole undercover mission was to help these two get the money.
Meanwhile they are in trouble with the drug cartel for taking the money and need to get it back to them. When they get the money, Wahlberg goes to them hoping to kill them and stop them all, he can't do it alone and you really aren't sure if Washington is gonna show up or not. He does.
They end up taking out the government that wanted the money for them and the drug cartel as well.
This isn't the end, they decide to do it again and to make sure they stop this process.
It's an extremely funny movie with a lot of action.
Book: Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals
Okay this book is actually really good. You just have to get over the feeling of repetition.
He tells a lot of different stories, but they are all about the same basic thing it feels like at a lot of times.
This next portion is a paper I had to write about the book. It includes a rough overview of the book, but it's well worth reading with the improvements that this simple checklist caused not only Hopkins, but the country, and even the world.
The book that I chose to read was Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals by Peter Pronovost and Eric Vohr. Medical errors happen every day and fairly often in hospitals. As healthcare providers, we are meant to help our patients and not harm them; however, we are human and humans do make mistakes. So how are we meant to reduce the errors in hospitals that are caused by human nature? Peter Pronovost took up this exact question of patient safety and what healthcare providers can do to make hospitals safer; he made a checklist that was most successful when all members of the team came together and worked together.
Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is known worldwide for its top class doctors and care; however, even Hopkins makes medical errors. After the Josie case became known, Peter Pronovost went to Sorrel and asked that she work with him to improve health to reduce medical errors that result in so many lost lives every year. Sorrel came to talk at JHH and tell her story which helped lead the changes that Peter Pronovost and his team worked to implement in not on Hopkins, but hospitals around the nation (p. 13-17). One of the implementations was the use of a checklist for procedures done in different units; this checklist is different depending on the procedure but limits the amount of steps to five (Pronovost, 2010, p. 25-27). These checklists were the start of change in hospitals, but many problems came about when implementing them and one of those problems was teamwork.
Each unit was also different when these checklists were implanted. On the SICU, where Peter Pronovost first started his work and research, the team knew each other and were willing to make changes, as challenging as that was. Nurses, doctors, techs, patients, family members, everyone needed to come together and perform checks and balances (Pronovost, 2010, p. 27-32). After tackling central line infections in the SICU, Pronovost went to other areas, one ended up being the operating rooms itself. This proved to be a much larger problem than he anticipated; the teamwork that was in other units was not as strong in the operating room. Surgeons often were more arrogant and did not want to take the advice from the other people in the room, Pronovost stated a time when he (as an anesthesiologist) tried to tell a Surgeon he was doing wrong and potentially killing a patient and how grounded the surgeon was to no change his ways (p.73-78). One of the reasons Pronovost said his model did not work in operating rooms was because it was not a consistent team, surgical teams are always changing based on need and doctors often did not know the names of the nurses with whom they were working.
I think that it is crucial that portions of healthcare, be it nurses, techs, pharmacists, doctor, learn as a part of their education, the importance of teamwork. Pronovost says himself that doctors are trained to think as the smartest and the best. As a nursing student, I do not always feel relied upon or looked upon highly by some other aspects in healthcare, but I feel the patient’s ability to trust me. That means, to me, that it is my job to help advocate for my patient; what good will advocating do if doctors refuse to listen to my opinion? If we learned in school what the other professions learn and how they work, it may help us relate more to them, and I do see this happening through Interprofessional nights, but once a year is just simply not enough. There needs to be more time incorporated for professions to learn to work together as a team.
The work that Peter Pronovost and Eric Vohr performed and wrote about in Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals, will help lead hospitals to make less medical errors. Although the staff may still make human errors, the other members of their team will catch them and help them change their action before it leads to an error. By creating checklists and advocating for teamwork and voices for all members of the team, Pronovost has helped hospitals learn where they can decrease the time and money wasted on mistakes hospitals make each day. The best way to get a team to work properly is for them to learn how to while in school, before their opinions and decisions affect patients.
He tells a lot of different stories, but they are all about the same basic thing it feels like at a lot of times.
This next portion is a paper I had to write about the book. It includes a rough overview of the book, but it's well worth reading with the improvements that this simple checklist caused not only Hopkins, but the country, and even the world.
The book that I chose to read was Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals by Peter Pronovost and Eric Vohr. Medical errors happen every day and fairly often in hospitals. As healthcare providers, we are meant to help our patients and not harm them; however, we are human and humans do make mistakes. So how are we meant to reduce the errors in hospitals that are caused by human nature? Peter Pronovost took up this exact question of patient safety and what healthcare providers can do to make hospitals safer; he made a checklist that was most successful when all members of the team came together and worked together.
Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is known worldwide for its top class doctors and care; however, even Hopkins makes medical errors. After the Josie case became known, Peter Pronovost went to Sorrel and asked that she work with him to improve health to reduce medical errors that result in so many lost lives every year. Sorrel came to talk at JHH and tell her story which helped lead the changes that Peter Pronovost and his team worked to implement in not on Hopkins, but hospitals around the nation (p. 13-17). One of the implementations was the use of a checklist for procedures done in different units; this checklist is different depending on the procedure but limits the amount of steps to five (Pronovost, 2010, p. 25-27). These checklists were the start of change in hospitals, but many problems came about when implementing them and one of those problems was teamwork.
Each unit was also different when these checklists were implanted. On the SICU, where Peter Pronovost first started his work and research, the team knew each other and were willing to make changes, as challenging as that was. Nurses, doctors, techs, patients, family members, everyone needed to come together and perform checks and balances (Pronovost, 2010, p. 27-32). After tackling central line infections in the SICU, Pronovost went to other areas, one ended up being the operating rooms itself. This proved to be a much larger problem than he anticipated; the teamwork that was in other units was not as strong in the operating room. Surgeons often were more arrogant and did not want to take the advice from the other people in the room, Pronovost stated a time when he (as an anesthesiologist) tried to tell a Surgeon he was doing wrong and potentially killing a patient and how grounded the surgeon was to no change his ways (p.73-78). One of the reasons Pronovost said his model did not work in operating rooms was because it was not a consistent team, surgical teams are always changing based on need and doctors often did not know the names of the nurses with whom they were working.
I think that it is crucial that portions of healthcare, be it nurses, techs, pharmacists, doctor, learn as a part of their education, the importance of teamwork. Pronovost says himself that doctors are trained to think as the smartest and the best. As a nursing student, I do not always feel relied upon or looked upon highly by some other aspects in healthcare, but I feel the patient’s ability to trust me. That means, to me, that it is my job to help advocate for my patient; what good will advocating do if doctors refuse to listen to my opinion? If we learned in school what the other professions learn and how they work, it may help us relate more to them, and I do see this happening through Interprofessional nights, but once a year is just simply not enough. There needs to be more time incorporated for professions to learn to work together as a team.
The work that Peter Pronovost and Eric Vohr performed and wrote about in Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals, will help lead hospitals to make less medical errors. Although the staff may still make human errors, the other members of their team will catch them and help them change their action before it leads to an error. By creating checklists and advocating for teamwork and voices for all members of the team, Pronovost has helped hospitals learn where they can decrease the time and money wasted on mistakes hospitals make each day. The best way to get a team to work properly is for them to learn how to while in school, before their opinions and decisions affect patients.
Movie: The Heat
OH MY GOD! This was a great movie. Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy make a great freaking pair. It's a funny freaking movie.
Sandra Bullock is an overachieving FBI agent. She solves problems that others have a hard time solving and doesn't exactly play nice with others. Her whole office hates her.
She gets an email one night about a promotion from a position being opened and guess who wants it. Well of course, so she goes to her boss to talk about it and he says if she can work well with some people in Boston on a new assignment he might be able to help her out with the new promotion.
Melissa McCarthy is a detective trying to look into some drug dealers (which is the case that Sandra Bullock is working). She's a very interesting detective with her strategies and it's a very funny introduction.
When Sandra Bullock steals one of her prisoners to interrogate him and use him in her investigation, McCarthy becomes interested in the situation and kinda tags a long.
Bullock tries to get her boss to get McCarthy off the case, but it's unsuccessful, so Bullock has to survive it if she wants that promotion.
This is where the movie becomes interesting and very fun. The first person they visit is a woman who is a drug supplier, this is where you get a feel for the different styles they have in interrogations.
After a little while of getting to know more about each other, Bullock learns that McCarthy put her brother in jail for drugs and that he is now connected to the current situation.
After being told she is no longer on the job, Bullock is crushed and McCarthy takes her to get drunk and she does. It's very funny at the bar. Afterwards, they learn that McCarthy's family is in trouble and her brother gives them information and ends up getting hurt when they find out he's a rat. This pisses McCarthy off because she tried to tell Bullock that they couldn't do it.
Bullock then deciedes to not let McCarthy do this on her own, they go back to the drug dealer's house and this time, Bullock does things the way McCarthy wants to do it.
When they figure out where the drug cartel is, they go to take it down. They get caught and they find out that the leader is actually one of men that was supposed to help them, and also how all the inside information is being spread to the cartel.
When they get out they need to get to the hospital before he kills McCarthy's brother.
Once they save her brother, Bullock and McCarthy end up becoming a good team solving crimes together as "The Heat"
Sandra Bullock is an overachieving FBI agent. She solves problems that others have a hard time solving and doesn't exactly play nice with others. Her whole office hates her.
She gets an email one night about a promotion from a position being opened and guess who wants it. Well of course, so she goes to her boss to talk about it and he says if she can work well with some people in Boston on a new assignment he might be able to help her out with the new promotion.
Melissa McCarthy is a detective trying to look into some drug dealers (which is the case that Sandra Bullock is working). She's a very interesting detective with her strategies and it's a very funny introduction.
When Sandra Bullock steals one of her prisoners to interrogate him and use him in her investigation, McCarthy becomes interested in the situation and kinda tags a long.
Bullock tries to get her boss to get McCarthy off the case, but it's unsuccessful, so Bullock has to survive it if she wants that promotion.
This is where the movie becomes interesting and very fun. The first person they visit is a woman who is a drug supplier, this is where you get a feel for the different styles they have in interrogations.
After a little while of getting to know more about each other, Bullock learns that McCarthy put her brother in jail for drugs and that he is now connected to the current situation.
After being told she is no longer on the job, Bullock is crushed and McCarthy takes her to get drunk and she does. It's very funny at the bar. Afterwards, they learn that McCarthy's family is in trouble and her brother gives them information and ends up getting hurt when they find out he's a rat. This pisses McCarthy off because she tried to tell Bullock that they couldn't do it.
Bullock then deciedes to not let McCarthy do this on her own, they go back to the drug dealer's house and this time, Bullock does things the way McCarthy wants to do it.
When they figure out where the drug cartel is, they go to take it down. They get caught and they find out that the leader is actually one of men that was supposed to help them, and also how all the inside information is being spread to the cartel.
When they get out they need to get to the hospital before he kills McCarthy's brother.
Once they save her brother, Bullock and McCarthy end up becoming a good team solving crimes together as "The Heat"
Show: The Fosters
I didn't really think I would like this show when I looked at the previews, but when I heard it had some good reviews, I wanted to see for myself.
I watched the first half of the first season and watch the show every Monday night it comes on, or not long after if I miss an episode.
It's about a family which is not your normal family. Firstly the parents are both moms, a lesbian couple. I think it's great that ABC family is putting this out there. Especially now that it's wildly accepted in the United States, or at least mostly accepted.
Secondly, the parents have one older son who is the one wife's own son from a husband she had when she was trying to forget that she had feelings for women. This clearly didn't work. The son, though, plays piano and lives with his moms, but also goes to see his dad every now and then. Music is something he is very passionate about. His girlfriend is a little iffy, she's a little too jealous.
Next up, the twins. These two were adopted by the moms. They are hispanic twins whos mom abandoned them for drugs. What... a ... mom... Their mom isn't a part of their lives, but she wants them only for their money they can help her get to fund her drug need. Really.... awesome mom right there.
The final set is a brother and sister who are living with the Fosters as foster kids. The sister is coming out of juvy and she has a lot of history that tends to lead to people not believeing her. Her little brother is gay, and it's not all that evident, he kinda just slips characteristics of it out there. He's a real character though in a good way.
It's a great show so far so I'm hoping they can keep it this way. The oldest son is starting to get feelings for the new girl in the house even though they aren't supposed to.
I watched the first half of the first season and watch the show every Monday night it comes on, or not long after if I miss an episode.
It's about a family which is not your normal family. Firstly the parents are both moms, a lesbian couple. I think it's great that ABC family is putting this out there. Especially now that it's wildly accepted in the United States, or at least mostly accepted.
Secondly, the parents have one older son who is the one wife's own son from a husband she had when she was trying to forget that she had feelings for women. This clearly didn't work. The son, though, plays piano and lives with his moms, but also goes to see his dad every now and then. Music is something he is very passionate about. His girlfriend is a little iffy, she's a little too jealous.
Next up, the twins. These two were adopted by the moms. They are hispanic twins whos mom abandoned them for drugs. What... a ... mom... Their mom isn't a part of their lives, but she wants them only for their money they can help her get to fund her drug need. Really.... awesome mom right there.
The final set is a brother and sister who are living with the Fosters as foster kids. The sister is coming out of juvy and she has a lot of history that tends to lead to people not believeing her. Her little brother is gay, and it's not all that evident, he kinda just slips characteristics of it out there. He's a real character though in a good way.
It's a great show so far so I'm hoping they can keep it this way. The oldest son is starting to get feelings for the new girl in the house even though they aren't supposed to.
Show: Big Cat Diary
I absolutely loved this show/documentary. It was great as it was around.
It follows the big cats in Africa, Lions, Cheetahs, and Leopards.
It shows a lot of great things, but they also show a lot of the bad moments and the harsh environments they survive.
It follows the big cats in Africa, Lions, Cheetahs, and Leopards.
It shows a lot of great things, but they also show a lot of the bad moments and the harsh environments they survive.
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