By Prof. Edwin Jahiel
MOON OVER PARADOR (1988) *** 1/4. Produced and directed by Paul Mazursky.Written by Leon Capetanos and Mazursky, from a story by Charles G. Booth. Photography, Donald McAlpine. Editing, Stuart Pappe. Production design, Pato Guzman. Music, Maurice Jarre. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Jonathan Winters, Fernando Rey, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Greene, Polly Holliday, Charo, Marianne Sagebrecht, Carlotta Gerson (Paul Mazursky), Lorin Dreyfuss. A Universal release. 105 minutes. PG-13.
Perhaps the first movie I remember in which a double takes the place of a bad leader and does good things for his people was The Prisoner of Zenda. Since then there have been many such substitutions on the screen. That's what Moon Over Parador does too. It's not the most original of ideas, but then the film makes no bones about the fact that it keeps dippily dipping into the past, putting old wines into not-so-new bottles. Sometimes it even shouts this, sometimes it's a passing mention, sometimes it leaves the recognition entirely up to the public .
MOP is remarkably low-key, even quiet, given its context. Although it's a farce, it does not suffer from the frantic tempo or actors' hysterics and raucousness than can spoil many a comedy, not to mention farces.
The plot is blessedly straightforward and unpretentious. An American movie crew has just wrapped up shooting in Parador City, the capital of a Latin American banana dictatorship (Parador means "inn" in Spanish). One of the cast is Jack Noah (Richard Dreyfuss). His first allegiance is to the New York stage. He is very much the New York thespian.
Bizarre American retiree Jonathan Winters talks him into staying around for the Carnival. Jack looks a great deal like Simms, the country's military dictator. He also does a good imitation of him. Boozer-wencher Simms, has a heart attack in his limousine, where he dies in the arms of Roberto Strausmann (Raul Julia), head of the secret police and the regime's grey eminence. Strausmann, who is in cahoots with the " 14 families" that oppress the people, fears that too sudden an announcement of the Leader's demise could result in chaos and revolution. He makes Jack one of those offers one cannot refuse: to impersonate Simms.
Jack is nimble, Jack is quick, and before you can say Jack Robinson, the impostor has made himself up like Simms and is fooling everybody. Well, almost everyone.The members of Simms' household are not taken in, but they too have a stake in keeping up the masquerade.
Not only playing, but being Simms becomes the part of Jack's life. He thrives in it, even embellishes it. When Sonia Braga, as Madonna (sic), the late dictator's Numero Uno mistress, transfers her affections to the impersonator, no work and all play make Jack a bright boy. He stays on and on, makes gradual changes in the land, replaces the national anthem's melody (O Tannenbaum) with that of Besa Me Mucho ; leads "his" people in TV weight-loss exercises; takes other drastic measures to help the poor before staging cannily his return to New York. (Although the movie is set in Parador, New York is very much present, as a framing device and with its theatre as Jack's standard by which everything is evaluated. All this is cleverly done, with good insights).
To expect substance, deep intentions or ideas in this movie is to be looking for something quite different from what Mazursky and Capetanos had in mind.The filmmakers are interested only in gentle farce, not in three-dimensionality. Moon is far closer to the Marx Brothers' anarchic nonsense (and Woody Allen's Bananas) than to Frank Capra 's constructive comedies. The focal point is not the story, but the one-man show by Dreyfuss, and its comical trimmings.
Dreyfuss is as amazingly good as he has been in the last many years. On the face of it, Jack is the picture's most outlandish type, yet in some ways he is the most credible, since he doesn't let you forget that first and last he is an actor submerged in his craft, insecure, avid for pats on the back and reassuring applause. He joins the roster of other movie impersonators, especially people like Jack Benny and Mel Brooks who, in the two versions of To Be Or Not To Be ham it up because their models are already hams. Director Mazursky himself is in the movie, as Simms' mother, a la Charley's Aunt.
But there's a difference: as soon as Dreyfuss assumes the role of Simms, he becomes entirely confident, simultaneously laid-back, self-mocking and eager. It's much harder to do than it sounds, or for that matter, than it looks. Ask any non-envious professional.
MOP creates no characters and does not intend to. Most of its people remain in the background, save for Raul Julia who delivers an amusingly mock-sinister performance--but even he is there primarily to propel Dreyfuss along. Sonia Braga is no more than cake-frosting. Jonathan Winters does some excellent small shticks which deride the U.S. presence in Latin America, something that is also implied by the Anglo-Saxon name of Dictator Simms. But, again, forget about the political satire: what we have is caricature used for the needs of the story, carrying no weight of its own.
It is rich in comic inventions and fresh bits of business. It is also a compendium of in-jokes and in-references to current events and older movies. Like the French New Wave filmmakers who influenced him enormously, Mazursky throws in with abandon a cornucopia of allusions . The very title of the film parodies the 1941 Betty Grable vehicle Moon Over Miami, a semi-musical with switched identities. There's ironic-nostalgic use of the flashback structure of so many 1940s movies, as MOO opens with Jack back in New York recounting his Parador adventure. The name of Paraguay's then-dictator General Stroessner becomes Straussmann (Raul Julia), which additionally stresses the Germans or Nazis in Latin America. "Round up the usual suspects,"the famous line from Casablanca is used. There's a starry-eyed comparison of that movie's finale with Moon's. The sets imitate indirectly the Technicolor exotic-resort movies of Mazursky's youth. And much more.
This comedy is so determinedly a fantasy that I doubt it could offend Hispanic sensibilities. Oddly, the peak of its planned illogicality is not immediately apparent. You may get distracted by the broad shenanigans and forget that Dreyfuss-Simms speaks Spanish-accented English throughout, when, even by the elastic norms of farce, he should be speaking Spanish. You can't get more unrealistic than this.
There's a very funny morsel where Jack, about to board a helicopter, gestures to the reporters in the patented smiling, helpless "I can't hear over this din" way of Ronald Reagan.The public got this one when the movie came out, but how many new generations will catch on later? It will be as in many of the other gags, which, back in 1988, were there for older memories. How many people knew then or know now "Besame Mucho," the songs from "The Man of La Mancha," the fact that "Tannenbaum" is a Teutonic song ? Paul Mazursky, who was 58 when the film was released, may have overestimated the potential complicity of his public.Then again, he might have relying on the younger audience's satisfaction with the general outline of the movie, and on the older people's enhanced comprehension. It's a risky strategy which bespeaks more of Mazursky as a nostalgic film-buff than as a calculating businessman.
At 105 minutes, MOP could just be a tad too long for those who don't get immersed in the spirit of its details, which, in their eyes, can make the film falter and some jokes strain a bit in its latter parts. For myyself and other spectators the diffusion is an asset. (My own small objection is the gratuitous intrusion of Sammy Davis, Jr. whose singing is not exactly a joy). Yet even unpruned, this is still a splendidly entertaining movie-movie. It is a bright Moon.
It was shot entirely in Brazil. Production values are high. Maurice Jarre's score is agreeable, though some moments sounded to me like a paraphrase of the Delerue music in Jules And Jim. Parador looks lovely. Between its tourist beauties at poolside and the promiscuous locals it would be a great place for social diseases.
" Le mauvais gout mene au crime" (Stendhal)
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Kotlin in Action, 2nd Ed. v10
See also: questions.txt
Contents
Running Kotlin code from a single script file
The main()
function is automatically called.
The interactive REPL in Emacs does not run properly (newlines in definitions break the parsing).
The commands to run are:
kotlinc FILENAME.kt -include-runtime -d ANY_FILENAME.jar java -jar ANY_FILENAME.jar
A simple convenience script (with any name like runkt
) may be used:
#!/usr/bin/bash kotlinc $1 -include-runtime -d $1.jar if [ $? == 0 ] then echo "Running JAR..." java -jar $1.jar fi
1 Kotlin: what and why
val
is used to declare read-only properties
Kotlin embraces both object-oriented and functional programming styles.
2 Kotlin basics
2.1 Basic elements: functions and variables
Hello, world!
fun main() { println("Hello, world!") }
Function parameter types are mandatory.
fun myMax(a: Int, b: Int): Int { return if (a > b) a else b }
if
is an expression with a result value (similar to the ternary operator).
Declaring main()
to accept command line parameters:
fun main(args: Array<String>) { println("Received ${args.size} arguments.") when (args.size) { 0 -> println("No arguments received.") else -> { println("The first one is ${args[0]}") } } }
Most control structures in Kotlin are expressions, except loops (for, while, do/while). For example:
val x = if (myBoolean) 3 else 5 val direction = when (inputString) { "u" -> UP "d" -> DOWN } val number = try { inputString.toInt() } catch (nfe: NumberFormatException) { -1 }
However, assignments are always statements.
2.1.3 Making function definitions more concise by using expression bodies
fun max(a: Int, b: Int): Int = if (a > b) a else b
With curly braces, the function has a block body. If it returns an expression directly, it has an expression body.
If the return type can be inferred from an expression body function, it may be omitted. However, block body functions that return a value must have the return type specified.
In general, it's a better idea to specify the return type of all functions.
2.1.5 Marking a variable as read-only or reassignable
val
(value) declares a read-only reference.
var
(variable) declares a reassignable reference.
Whenever possible, declare vals.
If the compiler can determine that only one assignment will be made to a val, it's acceptable to have many possible assignments in the code:
fun canPerform(): Boolean { return true } fun main() { val result: String if (canPerform()) { result = "Success" } else { result = "Can't perform operation" } }
2.1.6 Easier string formatting: string templates
String literals can display variable values by prefixing the name with a $
. Complex expressions need to go inside braces: ${...}
println("Hello, ${if (name.isBlank()) "stranger" else name}!")
Single quotes are used for a single character.
2.2 Encapsulating behavior and data: classes and properties
In Kotlin, the default visibility is public
.
A property in a class is declared with val and var.
class Person( val name: String, var age: Int, var isStudent: Boolean )
A val property is read-only. It generates a field and a (trivial) getter for use in Java.
A var property is writable. It generates a field, a getter, and a setter for use in Java.
In Kotlin, assignments can be done directly without the use of getters and setters: person.age = 42
Kotlin doesn't have a new
keyword.
2.2.2 Computing properties instead of storing their values
class Rectangle(val height: Int, val width: Int) { val isSquare: Boolean get() { return width == height } // OR: // val isSquare get() = height == width }
Properties with a custom getter behave the same as a method (same performance and implementation). They only differ in readability.
2.2.3 Kotlin source code layout: directories and packages
Every Kotlin file can have a package
statement at the beginning.
Kotlin doesn't make a distinction between importing classes or functions.
package geometry.example import geometry.shapes.Rectangle import geometry.shapes.createUnitSquare fun main() { ... }
The star import (also called wildcard import) makes everything in the package visible—not only classes, but also top-level functions and properties.
Though Kotlin doesn't enforce the directory structure to match the package declarations, it's a good idea to follow the Java convention.
2.3.1 Declaring enum classes and enum constants
enum class Color { RED, YELLOW, BLUE, WHITE, BLACK }
Enum constants use the same constructor and property declaration syntax as regular classes. In the following example, the semicolon separating the enum constant list from the method definitions is mandatory (it is the only case in Kotlin syntax where a semicolon is required).
enum class Color( val r: Int, val g: Int, val b: Int ) { RED(255, 0, 0), GREEN(0, 255, 0); val computed = (r * 256) + 128 * b fun printColor() = println("$this is $computed") }
2.3.2 Using "when" to deal with enum classes
Like if, when is an expression that returns a value.
fun getMnemonic(color: Color) = when (color) { Color.RED -> "Roy" Color.GREEN -> "Gary" }
Multiple values may be combined in the same branch. They must be separated with commas.
when (color) { Color.RED, Color.ORANGE, Color.YELLOW -> "warm" Color.GREEN -> "neutral" Color.BLUE, Color.VIOLET -> "cold" }
A when expression can capture its subject in a variable:
when (val color = measureColor()) { RED, ORANGE -> "warm (red = ${color.r})" GREEN -> "neutral (green = ${color.g})" }
The paths of a when expression must be exhaustive (all possible paths must return a value).
The else
keyword defines a "default" value if no branches match.
2.3.4 Using "when" with arbitrary objects
fun mix(c1: Color, c2: Color) = when (setOf(c1, c2)) { setOf(RED, YELLOW) -> ORANGE setOf(YELLOW, BLUE) -> GREEN else -> throw Exception("Unknown mixture") }
2.3.5 Using "when" without an argument
In some cases, you don't want to construct a temporary argument (like the Set above) every time a when is used. The when expression can be used without an argument. Each branch condition has to be a Boolean expression.
when { (c1 == RED && c2 == YELLOW) || (c1 == YELLOW && c2 == RED) -> ORANGE else -> throw Exception("Cannot mix colors") }
2.3.6 Smart casts: combining type checks and casts
Marker interfaces
Arithmetic expressions such as the sum of numbers may be encoded as a tree-like structure, where each node is either a Sum or a Num (number).
The example below shows an interface called Expr
and two classes, Sum
and Num
that implement Expr.
interface Expr class Num(val value: Int) : Expr class Sum(val left: Expr, val right: Expr) : Expr // Example: Sum(Sum(Num(1), Num(2)), Num(4))
When computing a Sum, after checking the type of the Expr, you don't need to cast it afterward. That is called smart casting.
fun eval(e: Expr): Int = when (e) { is Num -> e.value is Sum -> eval(e.left) + eval(e.right) else -> throw IllegalArgumentException("Expression must be a Sum or Num") }
2.3.8 Blocks as branches of if and when
When a block is used in a branch, the last expression of the block is the result.  Functions require the use of return
statements). It may be useful to add println statements in a block:
when (e) { is Num -> { println("in Num branch, num: ${e.value}") } }
2.4.1 Repeating code while a condition is true
while (condition) { /* ... */ if (shouldExit) break }
do { if (shouldSkip) continue /* ... */ } while (condition)
When nesting loops, a label can be used, to be referenced by break
or continue
.
outer@ while (outerCondition) { while (innerCondition) { if (shouldExitInner) break if (shouldExit) break@outer if (shouldSkip) continue@outer } }
2.4.2 Iterating over numbers: ranges and progressions
The classical int i = 0; i < 10; i++
loop construct does not exist.
Instead, ranges are used. They are closed (inclusive), so the second value is part of the range (unlike Python, where the second value is omitted). If all the values in a range are iterated over, it is called a progression.
val oneToTen = 1..10
FizzBuzz
fun fizzBuzz(i: Int) = when { i % 15 == 0 -> "FizzBuzz" i % 5 == 0 -> "Buzz" i % 3 == 0 -> "Fizz" else -> "$i" } fun main() { for (i in 1..100) { println(fizzBuzz(i)) } }
The construct for (i in 10 downTo 0 step 2) { ... }
also includes the end point (0). To exclue the end point, use ..<
, such as for (x in 0..<size)
.
There doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to exclude the end point when usring downTo
.
2.4.3 Iterating over lists and maps
fun main() { val collection = listOf("red", "green", "blue") for (color in collection) { print("$color ") } }
fun main() { val binaryReps = mutableMapOf<Char, String>() for (char in 'A'..'Z') { val binary = char.code.toString(radix = 2) binaryReps[char] = binary } for ((letter, binary) in binaryReps) { println("$letter = $binary") } }
To keep track of the index of the current item, use withIndex
:
for ((index, element) in list.withIndex()) { println("$index: $element") }
2.4.4 Using "in" to check collection and range membership
in
and !in
check if a value is or isn't in a collection or range.
fun isLetter(c: Char) = c in 'a'..'z' || c in 'A'..'Z' fun isNotDigit(c: Char) = c !in '0'..'9'
Ranges can be constructed from any class that implements the kotlin.Comparable
interface, such as strings:
println("Kotlin" in "Java".."Scala")
in
also checks collection membership:
"Kotlin" in setOf("Java", "Scala")
2.5 Throwing and catching exceptions
To indicate errors or invalid values, use throw
if (percentage !in 0..100) { throw IllegalArgumentException("Percentages must be between 0 and 100: $percentage") }
The throw construct is an expression, and can be used as a part of other expressions. In the following example, the variable isn't initialized if the exception is thrown:
val percentage = if (number in 0..100) number else throw IllegalArgumentException( "Percentages must be between 0 and 100: $percentage" )
Kotlin doesn't distinguish between checked and unchecked exceptions.
try
is an expression (like if and when). However, unlike if, the statement body must be enclosed in curly braces. The value of the try expression is the value of the last expression in the block.
import java.io.BufferedReader import java.io.StringReader fun readNumber(reader: BufferedReader): Int? { val number = try { Integer.parseInt(reader.readLine()) } catch (e: NumberFormatException) { null } return number } fun main() { val reader = BufferedReader(StringReader("not a number")) val x = readNumber(reader) println(x) }
try-catch may also contain return
s to exit the function, rather than a value.


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, that returns a reference to a temporary structure that describes the matrix row. The second is indexing that temporary structure by y
, which returns the reference to the needed element. Addressing through overloading the round brackets is much more effective, as no temporary structures are required.
The ALGLIB package was not tested in 64-bit environment.
However, the package itself and the AP/C++ library it uses don't contain any code that explicitly points out the environment it should work in. Thus, in theory compiling and usage of ALGLIB package in a 64-bit environment should not cause any trouble when not using additional libraries (like ABLAS, which is at the moment intended to work only in 32-bit environments).
The reason for that is some peculiarities of the for cycle in Delphi. If the cycle has not been executed yet, in many programming languages the control variable of the cycle contains the initial value. In Delphi, if the cycle has not been executed, the control variable of the cycle doesn't change. Once I have seen a source code, in which this difference played a major role. That's why decided to replace the for cycle in Delphi with while cycle, whose behavior is the same as in any other language.
DynamicArrayCopy
function?
In Delphi dynamic arrays are reference types, i.e. if the array parameter is passed by value, no copying of the array occurs. To emulate the transfer of the array parameter by value we use the DynamicArrayCopy
function. It requires a dynamic array as an argument and returns a copy of this array. Assignment of the type A:=DynamicArrayCopy(A)
replaces the reference to the original array with a reference to its copy.
The algorithms are translated into VBA, but in general are compatible with VB6.
Not unless they are manually ported.
In many programming languages there is control operator continue, but it is absent in VB. In AlgoPascal, this operator appears from time to time. The goto operator is used to replace it and go to the next iteration of the cycle.
AP library is a generic name for a set of libraries in several programming languages performing low-level tasks depending on specific programming languages. The AP library carries out tasks such as working with dynamic one- and multidimensional arrays in languages which do not support this data type, contains implementation of basic linear algebra algorithms, etc. The library is distributed as source codes under BSD license. The library is attached to each algorithm package available for downloading from the web-site. The latest library version is available for downloading from http://alglib.sources.ru/translator/aplib.zip
ABLAS is an optimized implementation of basic linear algebra subroutines written in assembler. To use ABLAS it is necessary to copy the DLL file to one of the system folders or in the program folder and turn on ABLAS support (as described in ABLAS manual). When launching a program that is using the ALGLIB package, the ABLAS library is automatically detected and loaded. If ABLAS is absent, the program uses the standard implementation of linear algebra operations, written in a high-level language. At http://www,alglib.net/projects/ablas/ (or http://alglib.sources.ru/projects/ablas/ in Russian) there is library description, the list of the supported platforms and programming languages as well as source code and precompiled binary files.
Yes, they do. For instance, netlib.org library contains megabytes of code written in Fortran, in which numeration begins with 1. Today numeration is commonly begun with 0, but many unique algorithms are very widespread in the old edition. At the moment most algorithms are aligned with the modern, 0-based numeration. However a small number of very useful algorithms still uses the old one. In future all of them will be aligned to the modern system, but for now they need to be used as is.
In this case the elements containing zero in one of the indexes, will not be used. For instance, if a subroutine expects to get a 2x2-size array, where numeration begins with 1 (which means that the element indexes look like [1..2,1..2]
), it is necessary to transfer an array with a numeration looking like [0..2,0..2]
). This is not the nicest looking solution, but it works.
It is mostly aimed at creating a convenient and efficient multilingual scientific software library.
The ALGLIB package:
Now on what ALGLIB is not and is not going to be. ALGLIB doesn't:
The first version of ALGLIB was made by Vladimir Bystritsky. He spent a number of years on the maintenance of the website by himself. Eventually, he lost his interest in the website, so I (Sergey Bochkanov) took over the work on its maintenance, by common agreement.
Originally, ALGLIB was a Russian-language website. Later on, a part of the website was translated into English. At present, there are two versions of the site - Russian and English.
AlgoPascal is a programming language, designed particularly for this project. The programs, written in this language, are processed by a server-side automatic translator and translated into other programming languages by the computer. More detailed information is provided in section "About the site".
As we noted before, the main goal of ALGLIB is to create a multilingual library of algorithms in the area of numerical analysis. The problems, related to those enumerated in the question, do not fall into this category. Exceptions are made for a number of problems, though the project can be characterized by a clear-cut specialization.


Man Digs Up Parents’ Corpses From Their Grave So He Can Sell Their Bones to Buy a Motorbike
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People do all kinds of things just to get a little cash, and while most of them come up with smart and peculiar ways just to get some money, what this man did really takes the cake.
The man from Mozambique, Africa was arrested after he allegedly dug up his parents’ and uncle’s corpses from their graves so that he could sell their bones to get a motorcycle.
According to Daily Mail, the man is reported to have dug their graves and retrieved their bones in one night after a businessman promised to give him a motorcycle and more than $300 (RM1,246) in cash. The businessman is said to be involved in the exploration of mineral resources.
“The boss told me to look for bones from people who died without getting sick. In exchange, you will get a motorbike.
“I went to a family cemetery, dug up the bones from my father’s, my mother’s and my uncle’s graves.”
The man then travelled to meet the businessman but the businessman did not come. A police spokesman said the incident was the fifth such case in the area this year, with most believed to be linked to witchcraft.
Is digging your own parents’ graves for their bones really worth the money?
Also read: 78yo M’sian Woman Died Alone in Johor Bahru, Skeleton Found Hugging a Pillow Next to Bathroom


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This month I have a video for you which shows the recent work completed by Gerard Beckerleg
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The team worked closely together under the guidance and planning of Gerard as Scrum Master
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I was impressed that the communication was open and constant during the process, keeping the
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I am very proud of Gerard and the boys and their implementation of Scrum. It is great to hear
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Tell me the good and bad of how Scrum is working for you.
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Session 1: Looking at Sitefinity 5.1 from a developers view
CMS’s are notoriously nice for content editors (who are just happy with adding pages and editing them
in a HTML or WYSIWYG control), but
nasty for developers trying to add functionality.
Drew Robson will give his take on how Sitefinity 5.1 works from a developer’s point of view, and how
the new MVC support alleviates the
above problem.
Session 2: Tips and Tricks with LINQ Expressions
Although LINQ Expressions have been around for years, as a developer are you using their most
powerful features? Drew will demonstrate how
you can transform your application data pipeline with LINQ Expressions and LINQ to Entities,
resulting in cleaner code and greater reusability.
You would be amazed at the amount of code you save when you see the refactoring take place.
The new VS 2012 will be used, but can be targeted to .NET 3.5, 4.0 or 4.5.
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Drew Robson is a Senior Software Architect at the Brisbane SSW Office, who specialises in C#.NET,
Team Foundation Server and Scrum. His passion
is to ensure software is developed with the health of the code, team and process in mind, combined
with best technical practices, such as Unit-testing,
Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment. Drew has a background in a diverse range of
industries like website development, games development and
online banking solutions.
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diverse range of industries including website development, games development and online banking
solutions.
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Junior developer seeking career transition opportunities from critical care nursing to web development. Earned my education at web development code-school Epicodus. Experience working in team environment. Trained to thrive in deadline-driven, multi-tasking environments.
Education
Epicodus - Web Development
Bachelor in Science of Nursing
Job Experience
Registered Nurse:
3 years in Intensive Care Unit
1 year in Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
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