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A Flea spray is a mixture of liquid in a container which ejects small droplets into the air to treat a particular area which may contain fleas. They are very useful when trying to target hard to reach areas such as cracks, crevices and thick carpets. They also allow you to gently cover more sensitive spots with clouds of mist.
Flea Spray for the Home, Yard and Pets - These products can be used as a repellent or as a treatment. They can be purchased directly from the internet, your veterinarian or you could make your own one at home (although this would normally be as a repellent). Sprays come in all shapes and sizes. There are many to choose from on the internet and they range in price and suitability. You will be able to find a suitable product for use in your household, your yard, for your pets and also for you. The commercial products vary in the chemicals that are used and it is important to always understand the dangers and risks - always fully read the label and instructions before usage. Also check any reviews and forums that may be able to offer more up to date advice. Some products could discolor and damage untreated furniture, so it is important to use such treatments with care.
Flea Spray Control - Sprays are not usually advised as a single control method. It is often suggested by suppliers that they are used as part of a regular flea control programme, and that other treatments such as foggers and bombs are used as well. This will depend on the severity of your problem, however if you have parasites in the home you may wish to use multiple techniques together to better your chances of a thorough extermination.
Flea Spray Treatment can be used as a repellent on our clothes and skin (Deet), on our pets (homemade or bought), as well as on upholstery in the home and yard. There are several repellents that you could try - perhaps visit our flea repellent page for some ideas.
There are products that can be used both indoors and outside. Each product usually lists a plan which requires a regular treatment over a set amount of time. The household sprays not only kill fleas but some also target dust mites (which could also cause you and your pets allergies), and a long list of other pests (ants, bed bugs, beetles, flies, cockroaches, moths, mosquitoes, ticks and wasps). Look for a spray that is odorless and won't damage any of your furniture or household materials - but one that will target both adult fleas (such as Permethrin), the eggs, larvae and pupae (with an insect growth regulator) and is long lasting.
Flea Spray Pets - Fleas are usually found on and around a host. As the pests are more commonly brought into the home by our pets, then we should be targeting the areas where our pets sleep and roam, as well as the household in general as the parasites could have been transported around without you knowing. And remember to only use a cat specific product on a cat and a dog specific product on a dog. Visit some of our other pages for additional flea control methods and techniques.
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NEW YORK/TORONTO (Reuters) - Saputo Inc (SAP.TO) will buy Dean Foods Co's (DF.N) Morningstar division for $1.45 billion to widen its product range and increase its U.S. presence, the Canadian dairy products maker said on Monday.
The sale of Morningstar, which makes coffee creamers, Friendship cottage cheese and other dairy products, will be a big step in the breakup of Dean, which is spinning off another business into WhiteWave Foods Co WWAV.N.
After the sale of Morningstar and the separation of WhiteWave, which sells Silk soy milk and Horizon organic milk, Dallas-based Dean will sell mostly regular milk, which is a difficult business with declining sales volumes, volatile commodity costs and slim margins due to intense price competition from store brands.
Montreal-based Saputo, which has expanded its U.S. cheese business with several smaller acquisitions, is getting Morningstar at an attractive price, analysts said.
According to Canaccord Genuity analyst Derek Dley, the deal price is about eight times Morningstar's operating earnings, compared with Saputo's own trading multiple of 11.
Dley said more deals could be on the horizon. "I don't think this acquisition means they're going to stop growing in the U.S. by any means," he said of the company, which also sells bakery products, including some Hostess products in Canada.
Saputo and U.S.-based Michael Foods were the frontrunners in the auction of Morningstar, Reuters reported last week. Other bidders included Mexican dairy company Grupo Lala and private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC (APO.N).
Saputo said it would finance the purchase through a newly committed bank loan. It expects the deal to close by the end of the year and boost its earnings immediately.
Dean plans to use the proceeds of about $887 million net of taxes and expenses to pay down debt, which it said will give it more options to sharpen its focus on its conventional dairy business.
"We believe Dean is moving in the right direction, but we aren't convinced that it's out of the woods, as numerous headwinds could throw it off course," said Morningstar analyst Erin Lash, citing rising milk costs and tight consumer spending.
The new Saputo will have about 12,000 employees and 57 manufacturing plants in five countries.
Evercore Partners advised Dean Foods, while a source familiar with the matter said Rothschild had advised Saputo.
Dean Foods shares were up 2.4 percent at $17.55 in early afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange, while Saputo rose 3 percent to C$47.46 in Toronto.
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Season Previews: Atlanta Braves
With Spring Training already underway, it's time for one of our favorite things in all the world: . Four years ago, they began as a semi-serious analysis and ended up as half-assed haiku. We're just gonna go with what we know. Continuing with our preview of the National League East, here are the Atlanta Braves.
Welcome Fredi Gonzalez
To a new era
Chipper refuses
To give up his spot at third
Good luck Brooks Conrad
Hinske will back up
Freddie Freeman at first base
That's a lot of F's
Uggla at second
Newly paired with Gonzalez
Two former Marlins
McCann at the plate
A great fantasy player
Like Jason Heyward
He's out in right field
With Nate McLouth in center
And Prado in left
Derek Lowe's the ace
With Tim Hudson and Tommy
Just before Jair
Scott Proctor is back!
Venters and O'Flaherty
Linebrink and Sherrill
Will the Braves beat the
Phillies, Nats or Marlins to
Climb atop the East?
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- Lauren T. said...
Great analysis. :D
"Good luck Brooks Conrad", indeed -- we love Brooksy. He was one of the nicest Braves I've met. :) Venters is my fave Brave, though -- he's a doll and his stuff is absolutely filthy.
- Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Freddie Freeman at first base
That's a lot of F's
Say that ten times fast!
Freddie Freeman is a guy to watch this season, by the way. He's gonna be great!
- Wednesday, March 16, 2011
I wonder if Bobby Cox has a sweet rocking chair like that since he's all retired now..
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Critic Reviews for Poetic Justice
All Critics (16) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (11) | DVD (1)
John Singleton's follow-up to his stunning debut, Boys N the Hood, is a major disappointment--a sophomore jinx.
The two leads are raw but completely intriguing, and Poetic Justice offers a slice of the urban story that we generally don't get to see.
A quiet, personal story that should have been louder, bolder.
Audience Reviews for Poetic Justice
I had recorded this on dvr to watch. The times were out, so I missed the last 15 minutes. I wasn't overly disappointed about it. Is okay, but not my type of thing.
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an engaging movie with a messed up ending. one forgets how good shakur was as an actor until you realize that he was a huge chunk of the good films of this genre in the early 90's.
Super Reviewer
Not one of Singleton's best, but the story was ok. The actors/singers placed to play the lead characters were a bit annoying, but Regina King was the best whom always get's into her role, and stole the show from the two main characters. Mayo Angelou's poems are great, which is quoted by Janet Jackson in this ok movie. I liked it and it was amusing, but they just did not bring out the roles as they should have.
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|You got any spare change brother?
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Californians for Energy Independence has named Karen Hanretty as its Communications Director, replacing Sabrina Lockhart.
Hanretty joins Californians for Energy Independence with over 15 years of experience in media relations and public affairs. This wealth of experience includes managing communications for political, corporate, and non-profit clients. Previously Hanretty has served as the Managing Director for the largest independent public relations firm in Washington DC, a private political consultant, and the Vice President of Public Affairs for The American Beverage Association. At The American Beverage Association, Hanretty specialized in strategic communications, issue advocacy, and developing media strategies across all media platforms.
Aside from her work with the American Beverage Association and as a private consultant, Hanretty has also served as an integral member of the communications teams for numerous state and national campaigns. With this combination of experience in both the public and private sector, Hanretty will play a key role in furthering the advocacy goals of California's energy producers.
Karen Hanretty can be reached at [email protected].


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ESPlanner versus MaxiFi
Just now seeing that there is a new software produce called MaxiFi. Will MaxiFi eventually replace ESPlanner? Or is it designed to compliment ESPlanner?
I see that MaxiFi does some things that ESPlanner does not do (e.g, maximized Social Security strategy and maximized retirement account withdrawal strategy). But ESPlanner does some things that MaxiFi does not (e.g., vacation homes and real estate, 529 plans, and Monte Carlo analysis). Are there plans to add all ESPlanner features to MaxiFi?
Can data be imported from ESPlanner into MaxiFi?
Can multiple "what if" scenarios be created in MaxiFi (like you can do in ESPlanner) by copying profiles?
Are there work-arounds in MaxiFi to handle vacation homes and real estate?
Does MaxiFi allow for multiple changes in rates of return (by year and between retirement accounts and regular assets) so the user can test the impact of different return strategies?
Thanks. Just trying to better understand each product.
dan royer
Wed, 05/31/2017 - 16:06
Hi Rick,
Hi Rick,
Well, you know, who knows what the future holds! but, yes, the idea would be that MaxiFi Planner would essentially replace ESPlanner. Of course we'd have to first get all the features in place and I believe the additional feature plan is to roll out over the next 8 quarters. So it will be several years before there's serious talk about replacement. The platform that ESPlanner uses for the user interface, Visual Basic, is no longer supported by Microsoft, so we are not wanting to remain too dependent on that.
We expect some ESPlanner users do not use or need all the features and may migrate over to MaxiFi Planner simply because they like the user interface or the cloud/web platform. Others will hold tight for now.
The feature comparison chart can be viewed here:
A few "optimization" features are going into MaxiFi Planner. It will run some basic optimization routines and look at SS benefit collection strategy, start dates on retirement assets, annuitization and see if it can raise the discretionary spending. It typically finds things to try, but often, as you might imagine, also can create some liquidity constraint in the process.
It does not import data from ESPlanner . . . yet. I think the engineer, Ed, might have some ideas about that though.
Right now you cannot create multiple what if scenarios. You just have the one family and of course you can download a PDF of an existing case, but not create multiple cases at this point.
The only workarounds as you might imagine would involve using special expenditures and special receipts, which work the same as in ESPlanner.
MaxiFi does not yet allow you to introduce changes in the rates of return.
Thanks for your interest. I know you've been a long time ESPlanner user.
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dan royer
Thu, 06/01/2017 - 23:12
No, I don't believe that
No, I don't believe that MaxiFi will give you anything different from MMSS in terms of strategy. Well, I don't think it will. The question, really, is how does the strategy with the highest present value fit into the larger plan. It's hard for me to imagine a non-optimal strategy (measured in terms of present value) causing a higher living standard, but perhaps it is possible because of tax consequences. So I'm not positive. It is the same underlying algorithm, but it's throwing into a new context. I think what can happen though is that the optimized strategy (measured as greatest present value in a plan) can create a plan that liquidity constrained and then you are not longer dealing with apples and apples in the comparison really since one plan that has higher value may have less utility or practical value to you.
So, sure these program overlap, but they do slightly different things. MaxiFi and ESPlanner are of course very similar. That optimization feature could trigger some ideas for you though.
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Wed, 09/06/2017 - 13:10
Dan, maybe you can answer a
Dan, maybe you can answer a question I have about MaxiFi. I have submitted this question to MaxiFi customer support but have not received a reply.
ESPlanner allows the entry of a seemingly unlimited number of special expenditures. It also allows the cost of those expenditures to increase at a rate different from inflation. Does MaxiFi have the same capability? I used that capability a lot in ESPLanner.
I was a long-time user of ESPlanner - I think going back to 1998. Unfortunately I no longer have access to a PC and no Mac version was ever created. I am hoping that MaxiFi will meet my needs, but frankly the web site is quite lacking in detail. It would help if a trial were available, or a manual to peruse, or SOMETHING to get a better idea of its capabilities. $99 is a lot to spend when you don't really know what you are getting.
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dan royer
Wed, 09/06/2017 - 13:25
Hi Jim,
Hi Jim,
I don't see that question in your support ticket list over in MaxiFi. Doesn't matter now I guess.
But, yes, MaxiFi allows you to enter up to 100 special expenditures. That limit is arbitrary but set so that some crazy looping doesn't happen or something. If it needed to be a larger number, it could be. And, yes, the expenses can be entered with a percent increase allowing you to, for example, outpace inflation by 1% each year or something.
I can always give you a refund Jim within 30 days. I still run both, but honestly for most of my purposes MaxiFi does fine and the equivalent features will all be added quarterly over the next 18 months.
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Wed, 09/06/2017 - 13:43
Thank you for the quick reply
Thank you for the quick reply! I can't imagine why there was nothing in the support ticket list but it explains why I never got a reply to my original asking of the question way back when MaxiFi was released. Someone ought to check that out.
100 special expenditures is probably enough. I need them mostly for out-of-pocket medical expenditures, since I expect them to outpace inflation, and a few other things like a new roof, re-paving a driveway, etc. So I probably will be signing up. I have been waiting a long time for either a Mac or web version, and I guess it's finally here.
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Fri, 11/17/2017 - 11:55
Totally makes sense that
Totally makes sense that ESPlanner would evolve to something like MaxiFi. But I have to say, given all the years and hours of fine-tuning I've done with ESPlanner Plus (and MMSS), I'm a little heart-broken at the prospect of ESPlanner retiring, and a little daunted by the work of having to set up all my data again.
And, thirdly, I would think it would make sense for long-time supporters of ESPlanner to get some kind benefit for switching to MaxiFi, whether voluntarily or by virtue of ESPlanner becoming defunct.
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dan royer
Fri, 11/17/2017 - 12:12
Well, ESPlanner is not going
Well, ESPlanner is not going anywhere in the short term. I don't make these decisions, but I imagine we'll have it for several years or more. Certainly it will not go away until MaxiFI planner has all of the capabilities of ESPlannerPLUS and more. This week they added multiple profiles, and real estate module is very close to production. A few weeks ago we did send a notice via Constant Contact to all of the ESPlanner users with a coupon code for $20 off the MaxiFi program. That coupon is good for a year.
I had the same concerns you have about switching over to MaxiFi. My case is not super complicated, but it's not bare bones either. It took me 30 minutes to create. The new interface in MaxiFi is much easier to work with than ESPlanner.
I hope it's not a struggle for people.
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Sat, 01/20/2018 - 13:43
I will repeat the concern I
I will repeat the concern I've seen several others post on this forum, with the switch to having my data stored in the cloud versus on my personal computer, how can I be assured that my data is secure? What security reviews or audits have you had done?
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Mark H.
Thu, 03/08/2018 - 16:03
Hi Dan,
Hi Dan,
You may recall I am one of those concerned about cloud security and privacy. I'm glad to see you addressed this in the Maxifi FAQ. A question: user data is stored in protected data centers. Are the servers that run Maxifi in the same physical location? Thank you.
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Chopra, Spiritual Escapism & Fantasy—Charmed Myths & Feel-Good Prose Don't Lead to Enlightenment
Deepak Chopra's original success stemmed from his strong talent for creative writing and bringing together Eastern philosophy and healing methods with Western Medicine.
Chopra's work tends to be more appealing to those who like their spiritual concepts to read in a more obscure yet poetic fashion, including folk-tales and fables.
We respect his early work and like that he has been instrumental in introducing Eastern spirituality to many Westerners, but feel he's gone off on a totally different path. We miss the old Chopra.
Chopra's current approach appears to be targeting an audience with a thirst for "spiritual romance" and escapism, a lack of understanding of or a refusal to acknowledge the dynamics of karma and personal fate, and a distaste for reason and critical thinking in favor of feel-good prose.
This is a group that is easily led in circles and guided into hungrily devouring unsupported assertions and who will gladly embrace fantasy and self-delusion, expecting (yet will be forever denied) significant life-changes from magical epiphanies through poetry and charmed myths.
Regarding the promotional material for one of his recent books, we are disappointed with the way it reads and feel the statements made contribute to the bad image the New Age and metaphysical field has earned (yes, earned). The following are select quotes from the promotional email and our comments.
"In just one hour, you can learn what it takes to be successful in all areas of your life."
This statement is misleading. He may outline what helps to be successful in all areas of life, but it would be impossible to give a formula for everyone to follow in order to be successful. Based on our experience and research, "what it takes," in addition to initiating the right action at the right time, and having the right supportive circumstances, is fate, and everyone's personal fate is different.
"You can have material wealth, as well as good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, and fulfilling relationships."
This declaration is also misleading. It implies that everyone is entitled to these things and they can have them if they read this book. No amount of mediation, praying, manipulating, affirmations, seminars, readings, or focus on strengthening and magnetizing beliefs will lead to those things if it's not someone's fate to have them.
"This 'One Hour of Wisdom' edition of Chopra's most popular title offers powerful pearls of wisdom and a life-altering perspective on the attainment of success."
We give Chopra credit for how he helps to inspire others through this book. This is what he's good at. However, whether or not the perspective offered is "life-altering" is debatable.
"It shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition."
Also misleading. For some it may be, for others it may not be.
"Discover the natural laws that govern all of creation, align with these laws, and success comes easily and naturally. But first, these principles must become your second nature, and repetition is the key to learning them!"
This statement implies that if you follow his recommendations, success will be yours, easily.
If this were true, anyone could have anything they wanted, despite their personal fate and karma.
Through our extensive research, we've found this belief to be false, no matter if they are beginners or gurus who already practice such concepts. The "second nature" emphasis is cleverly outlined to allow the author some breathing room when his readers don't get what they want "easily and naturally."
"The ancient sages described the most effortless way to bond with the universe and fulfill our desires. Their guiding motto turns out to be exquisitely simple: Act in accord with the laws of nature." -Deepak Chopra
Chopra is saying that if you act in accordance with the "laws of nature," you can have all you desire. He peppers his books with spiritual principles to support lofty promises, but what he fails to mention, or perhaps doesn't fully comprehend, is that there are additional laws, some of which completely mitigate some of his views.
Also, he erroneously groups select "sages" together with the mystics and Gnostics (such as most respectable ancient astrologers who regularly predicted personal fate) who constantly refuted, through stellar predictive work, the notion of anyone being able to "fulfill any desire."
We asked a friend of ours, a Chopra fan, for his interpretation of a particular (cool-sounding, yet erroneous) passage in the book: "The law of intention and desire: Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment." He replied, "I don't know what it means, man, it just feels good!"
Truth be told, everyone has occasional (for some, very regular) desires that aren't rooted in reality (thus, are unachievable), such as wanting to end strife and war on Earth forever, or achieve major career goals and become a multi-billionaire without effort and the supportive good karma. Perhaps the multitudes new to Eastern philosophy and metaphysical thought don't really care about truth at this point, until they realize the emptiness of these supposed fixes.
Thinking back to the early 1980s when we first began exploring non-traditional spiritual concepts, we had to weed through a lot of books to begin to be able to detect truth. At first, the superficial, sometimes "channeled," "spiritual" writings, the far-out, empty rhetoric and gross generalizations lacking substance did have some appeal, but it's like a destructive, sensually gratifying habit; it offers an escape from reality, but ultimately leads you down the path of illusion and distances you from "enlightenment." If you love inspirational poetry, fine, but it's in your best interest to avoid confusing it with spiritual truth.
It's disconcerting, to say the least, to have a very commercially successful author imply that you can have the success he has enjoyed ($20 million + earnings in 2006, according to Forbes magazine) if you would just take the hazy, feel-good approach he promotes, when that author refuses to acknowledge that everyone may not be fated for what he promises. The laws of personal karma and fate dictate that you can't have what you want unless it's predestined as part of your destiny and you've earned it through current life and especially past life actions. Unfortunately, many may buy this book hoping to reach certain goals. If they don't reach those goals, they may end up feeling worse than before.
We applaud Deepak Chopra for his intelligence and for the success he's had in reaching people all over the world with inspiration and encouragement. We just would like to see more plain truth and fewer false promises, even though it may result in fewer book sales.
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Thank you for this article. I think Chopra has sold out personally. You can make so much more money flattering people, catering to their laziness, and stroking their feelings than you can by really helping them grapple with life's ugly realities. Vis a vis.... lose 35 lbs of belly fat in 2 weeks all you have to do is buy my ebook, vs. you are going to spend a year losing that fat if you really do it, and it is going to require tremendous effort and self-restraint on your part.
BTW have you looked into ezinearticles.com? It is probably a better platform for articles that you specifically write for republication.


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Licenced travel agency based in the village of Wadi Rum desert and run by local bedouins.
From the red rose city of Petra to the "nomadic mode" of the Bedouin life.
Nine days, discover the red rose city of Petra, follow the King's Road and visit the stunning Kerak crusader castle, float in the Dead Sea or bathe with colourful fishes in the Red Sea and make your escape from modern life for 4 days, riding camels in the Wadi Rum desert, camping with Bedouins at different spots every night, in the nomadic "mode".
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Then we will drive you to your 3* hotel in Amman/Madaba in a 3* hotel.
Day 2 - Madaba - Dead sea and King's road - Kerac
From Madaba we will travel to the Dead Sea where you will bathe and enjoy the famous floating experience in the lowest point of the earth, then we will drive you to Mount Nebo where you will have a magnificent view of the Jordan valley and the Holy Land. You will take lunch in Kerak where you will also visit the crusader castle. We continue along the King's Road to reach Petra at the end of the afternoon. Dinner and overnight in your 3* hotel by the entrance to the site.
Day 3 - Petra
You will have a full day to discover the red rose city of Petra, built by the Nabateans, including a private four hour guided tour with an English-speaking guide. You will also have free time to explore Petra, for example you can walk further along through the sit to climb to the monastery. There are cafes within the site for your choice of lunch. After the tour of Petra you will sleep another night in your hotel in Petra before transferring to Wadi Rum to begin your camel trek.
Day 4 - Wadi Rum
You will leave Petra after breakfast and after one and a half hour driving, you will arrive in Wadi Rum village where we will meet you at Jordan Tracks office for tea and introductions with your Bedouin guide. After you have said hello to your camel, you will begin riding from the village and we cross the red sand dunes, stopping to look at the ancient Nabatean inscriptions in Umfashieh. After a relaxing lunch in the sand dunes, you will cross Um Ischreen valley, arriving at Barragh canyon. You will spend the night in the bivouac camp at the entrance of the canyon.
Day 5 - Wadi Rum
After breakfast, cross Barragh canyon with a stop at the ancient Nabatean well, where you can listen to its extraordinary echo feature! Lunch will be with a panoramic vue of Schgaig mountains. In the afternoon you will travel through a smaller mountain range, passing the special mushroom shaped rock. You will spend the night in bivouac at the foot of Jebel Burdah.
Day 6 - Wadi Rum
Today we head south to Um Umgur valley and the white sandy valleys that characterise the southern desert. Lunch is in the shade of Um Umgur mountain., and you will have a full afternoon to explore this wild area and stop at a Bedouin dam still in use by our families. In the evening we will stop in the valley of Umsabatah, famous for its beautiful sunset views, for our last night in this special place.
Day 7 - Wadi Rum - Aqaba
For our last day our caravan rides through Saabata valley, crossing in the direction of the spring area where you will visit Qatar and Lawrence springs, where Bedouin families still to this day come to their goats and camels. Indeed it is the presence of this water that permitted the ancient Nabateans to live in the valley, and thanks to this the area became an essential element for the passage of caravans on the trade route to Aqaba.
In the afternoon you will transfer from Wadi Rum to Aqaba, the southernmost point of Jordan on the shores of the Red Sea. Dinner in Aqaba will be taken in the well-known Ali Baba restaurant, famous for its special local dish sayadiyah, prepared with fresh fish from the Red Sea, and rice. Overnight you will stay in central Aqaba in a 3 star hotel with its own swimming pool.
Day 8 - Aqaba- Amman/ Madaba
You are free to spend the morning at leisure - take your time to go shopping or spend the morning at the beach. In the afternoon we will transfer you from your Aqaba hotel to Amman.
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April 10-11, 2002, Bethesda, Maryland
The Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) met at 8:30 a.m. on April 10 in the Versailles I Meeting Room, of the Holiday Inn Select, Bethesda, MD. Dr. Carl J. Getto, COGME Chair presided. The plenary meeting concluded that day at 3:01 p.m. It reconvened the next morning, April 11 a.m. at 8:00 a.m. in the same room and adjourned at 10:53 a.m. that day.
Members Present:
Carl J. Getto, M.D., Chair
F. Marian Bishop, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., Vice-chair
William Ching, Member
Allen Irwin Hyman, M.D., FCCM, Member
Robert l. Johnson, M.D., Member
Ann Kempeski, Member
Laurinda l. Calongne, LCSW, BACS, Member
Jerry Alan Royer, M.D., M.B.A., Member
Donald C. Thomas III, M.D., Member
Stephanie H. Pincus, M.D., M.B.A., Designee of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Tzvi M. Hefter, Designee of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Susan Schooley, M.D., Member
Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A, Member
Douglas L. Wood, D.O., Ph.D., Member
Lucy Montalvo-Hicks, M.D., M.P.H., Member
Members absent:
Humphrey Taylor, Member
Arthur J. Lawrence, Ph.D., Designee of the Assistant Secretary for Health
Also present:
Sam Shekar, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Surgeon General & Associate Administrator for Health Professions
Stanford M. Bastacky, D.M.D., M.H.S.A., Acting Executive Secretary
Jerilyn K. Glass, M.D., Ph.D., Acting Deputy Executive Secretary
Richard Diamond, M.D., M.P.A.
Jerald Katzoff
Helen Lotsikas
Herbert Traxler, Ph.D.
Eva Stone
Welcome and Announcements:
Dr. Getto opened the meeting. After an introduction of and a brief update of their current activities by Council Members, Dr. Getto introduced Dr. Sam Shekar. Dr. Shekar acknowledged the panel participants and congratulated Dr. Marian Bishop as the new COGME vice-chair and Dr. Regina Benjamin on her nomination as president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. She is the first African-American women to be nominated as the president of a state medical society. Dr. Shekar explained how the BHPr had positioned itself to carry out its mission in the health system in providing resources to train an adequate and competent health work force. He concluded by relating the COGME's analyses of physician workforce to the appropriateness of skills in which physicians need to be trained, especially in the area of public health emergencies.
Dr. Getto recognized Dr. Joe Ivy-Boufford, former COGME Member and Vice-Chair, for her long and dedicated leadership to COGME.
Views of the Adequacy of the Physician Workforce:
Richard Cooper, M.D., Director, Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, described the methodology used in his analysis and the important instrumental variables, particularly the long-term population and income growth variables, that influence the demand for medical services. He proposed four conclusions based upon his analysis: 1) the U.S. appears to be in the early stages of a deepening shortage of physicians; 2) we need to expand residency training opportunities to meet the increasing need for non-primary care specialties; 3) we need to foster the development of nurse practitioners and other non-physician clinician in primary care; 4) we need to increase medical education capacity within the U.S. to meet future workforce needs adequately.
Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., Contributing Editor, Health Affairs, noted the stability of the parameters of U.S. allopathic medical school graduates, the increasing number of osteopathic graduates, and the 4-5,000 international medical school graduates entering graduate medical education. Citing the 2 to 1 ratio of applicants for allopathic medical school admission, Dr. Mullan argued that we need to expand the number of students trained in U.S. undergraduate medical schools to fill the need for graduate medical education positions. Dr. Mullan opposed increasing the number of graduate medical education positions funded with public monies; however, investment in the expansion of undergraduate medical education might be used to achieve certain defined public goals, i.e., achieving diversity, and an increased National Health Service Corps.
Kevin Grumbach, M.D., Director, Center for California Health Workforce Studies, University of California, San Francisco, stated his disagreement with the thesis advance by Dr. Cooper that the supply of physicians is the result of economic determinism. Rather, Dr. Grumbach argues, the supply of physicians is the result of active public intervention. We should use public planning to achieve an overall workforce composition that is best suited to an efficient, equitable, and health promoting health care system.
Jonathan Weiner, Dr. P.H., Professor and Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Health Services Research and Development Center, emphasized the importance of looking at the assumptions behind any rationale for providing medical professionals. We need to do more research; but we will have to make decisions in the use of resources with respect to cost and effectiveness. We should also be more directive in using subsidies to make it feasible for a young clinician to practice in underserved areas rather than increasing the output of medical schools or using IMGs.
Michael E. Whitcomb, M.D., Senior Vice President for Medical Education, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), stated that the AAMC has no position on either the adequacy or specialty composition of the physician workforce. Head counting is not sufficient; the variations in medical practice must be understood to arrive at an informed judgement of physician adequacy. He challenged COGME to do serious analytical research regarding the issues that have been presented, provide the information to the public, and then let the public decide on the allocation of public funds.
Minutes of the December 5 -6, 2001 COGME meeting were approved at the beginning of the afternoon session.
Physician Preparedness to Meet Emerging Public Health Needs:
Judith Cooksey, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Illinois Regional Health Workforce Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, discussed the response function of various Federal, State, and Local agencies to emergencies resulting from terror attacks, natural disasters, epidemics, etc. She spoke of the difficulty of coordinating responses among the different agencies, but noted the importance of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in taking the lead in coordinating responses through its Office of Emergency Preparedness. She covered many aspects of the various Federal, State, and Local efforts to prepare for disasters, particularly mentioning the Federal funded Metropolitan Medical Response System to improve coordination in the major metropolitan areas.
Jonathan L. Temte, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin discussed the interrelation of clinical medicine and public health. He considered that the system worked quite well as it responded to the Anthrax attack - cases were diagnosed and properly treated. Although interest in bioterrorism has increased, other emerging public health threats have emerged, such as TB, and the probability of pandemic influenza, with which we are not well prepared to manage. Our medical students need to be trained to prevent common health problems rather than reacting after they develop. Citing the need to train more effectively clinicians to respond to emerging public health events, Dr. Temte made several suggestions about how to accomplish such training.
Jeffery Dunlap, M.S.P.H., Acting Director, Division of State, Community and Public Health, Bureau of Health Professions, HRSA, described the mission of the Division to bridge public health and primary care and to integrate the academia, practice and community. Mr. Dunlap discussed the use of interdisciplinary efforts to accomplish the Division's mission.
Rika Maeshird, M.D., M.P.H. (Substituting for Maureen Lichtveld, M.D., M.P.H.) Office of Workforce Policy and Planning, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stated that bioterrorism was the "hot topic" in public health education and in medical education. The topic has increased the importance of public health and medicine being coordinated. She spoke of key training strategies that are a common requisites for both the public health and medical communities and of the AAMC/CDC cooperative agreement to develop regional public health medicine education centers.
There was no response to a request for public comments.
At 3:01, the Council divided into its three workgroups: Diversity, GME Financing, and Workforce.
The plenary session was reconvened at 8:00 a.m. Dr. Getto announced the IOM sponsored two day symposium in June on health professions education. Workgroup reports followed.
Dr. Schooley presented the Workforce workgroup report. Dr. Schooley stated that the procurement has been advertized to analyze the 110/50:50 recommendation from two perspectives, a supply-demand and a supply-needs analysis to address the policy recommendations inherent in bringing the need and demand numbers closer together. Dr. Schooley also noted that certain issues would not be addressed in this procurement activity, notably the issues of geographic maldistribution and an adequacy assessment within medical specialties.
Dr. Royer presented the GME Financing Workgroup report. Dr. Royer discussed the proposed analytical project titled "Analysis of Non-Federal Financing of Graduate Medical Education in the U.S. and Selected Other Nations." He reported that the Workgroup made a substantive change to exclude consideration of other countries and focus on all sources of funding in the U.S. other than Medicare. The Workgroup reviewed a list of 26 priority items developed at the preceding December 2001 meeting. A plan was proposed to meet with the American Association of HealthPlans and the Association of Community Health Plans to discuss the all payer system.
Dr. Thomas presented the Diversity Workgroup report. Dr. Thomas reported that unpublished data provided to the Workgroup suggest that attempts to raise the number of applicants to medical schools are unsuccessful. Underrepresented minorities are not being properly prepared. There is a need to understand how to increase the number of applicants that can successfully matriculate into medical schools. One immediate activity that could be pursed is to reassess the recommendations in COGME's 12th Report and to make a report card on progress made toward meeting those recommendations. A study is needed of best practices, practices that are successful in producing a larger number of matriculates versus applicants.
Physician Workforce Modeling, Potential Applications, and Upcoming Research:
Marilyn Biviano, Ph.D., Acting Director, National Center for Health Workforce Analysis, Bureau of Health Professions, HRSA, described and explained the Bureau's demand model for physicians, formally known as the Integrated Requirements Model, how it operated, and how it could be applied to answer research questions dealing with physician supply and demand projections.
Discussion of 2002 Summary Report:
COGME Members discussed the structure and mission of the Council and suggested a few specific wording and grammatical changes in text which were approved. The Council approved that the Report go forward to publication.
Discussion of Future Activities:
Council members discussed a diverse range of possible topics and speakers for the next meeting's agenda. The topics of competencies in graduate medical education and the financial situation of teaching hospitals emerged as particularly critical issues. Chairman Getto stated that decisions to formalize the agenda for the September meeting would be made within the next couple of weeks.
Public Comments
Perry Pugno, American Academy of Family Physicians, offered to provide two manuscripts he had prepared as resources to COGME. One manuscript dealt with the impact of the "hassle factor" on physician productivity and the other concerning the institutional benefits accruing from GME programs. Sunny Yoder, Association of American Medical Colleges, made two comments: one about determining the ultimate practice location of IMGs that settle permanently in the US and the second concerned the development of an early warning system for emerging issues and problems, both in the healthcare workforce and particularly in the physician workforce.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:53 a.m.


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An automatic and continuous measurement system was developed for the monitor-ing of anion and cation concentrations in rain water. This system is primarily composed of three sub aystems - an automatic sample changer, an sutomatic sample injector, and an ion chromatograph. The automatic samplechanger and sample in-jector are controlled by a timer and they are able to automatically and continu-ously transfer rain samples into ion chromatograph at regular intervals.The rain sample is injected into anion separation column which is able to separate major anion (Cl, No_3, and SO_4^<2->) and organic acids (HCOO and CH_3COO). Then, the separated anion is detarmined by electrical conductivity detector and a portion of organic acids is automatically reinjected into ion chromatography exclusion (ICE) column and determined. Therefore, anion and organic acids in the rain sample can be continuously determined within 20 minutes by this system. Cation(Na^+, K^+, and NH_4^+) in the rain sample also can be simultaneously deter-mined by using another flow kine for ionchromatography analysis. 2mM Nas_2CO_3/4mMNaHCO_3 for anion analysis and 0.05mM H_2SO_4 for organic acids analysis are used as an eluent, and 5mM HNO_3 is used for cation analysis to get a sufficient separ ation among ions.By uging this system, rain waters have been sampled and analyzed at Keio Uni-versity in Hiyoshi, Yokohama, Japan for one year, 1995. The rain water was con-tinuously sampled at regular intervals bytnis system and major anion and cation in the rain water were immediately analyzed by ion chromatography. This system is very effective for investigating the removal processes of aerosols and gases by rain in urban and remoe regions.
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H.E.A.L.T.H. stands for Healthy Eating and Activity: Lessons to Take to Heart.
At the Hamilton Program for Schizophrenia, a pilot project was initiated in 2004 aimed to evaluate a group-based curriculum incorporating the principles of the Stages of Change Model in effort to establish a standard weight management program for people with SMI. The curriculum involved psycho-educational interventions with emphasis on the importance of nutrition, physical activity, and behavioural strategies to reinforce modifiable lifestyle changes.
Nineteen participants with a SMI participated in two sessions per week for 6 months, as well as a 30-minute individual session. Pre-measures were administered to assess the physical psychological, behavioural and nutritional health domains and were repeated at 3 and 6 months. Participants were weighed weekly.
The main finding was that there was significant weight loss, an average loss of almost 14 pounds. There was a significant improvement in terms of reduced BMI from pre-group obesity levels to much lower scores and reduced waist circumference. There was significantly reduced mean total cholesterol and reduced LDL levels. In terms of self-reported improvements, based on SF-36 Health Survey results, participants indicated benefits in their sense of physical health functioning. Single case information demonstrates an improvement of blood glucose levels from borderline diabetic to normal values.
This curriculum continued to be delivered in our community mental health clinic until 2007. Since 2007, curriculum development has focused on the maintenance phase to enhance supports, reinforce new skills and knowledge and provide structured physical activity. In addition clients are always invited to have individual sessions to focus on their individual healthy lifestyle goals.
We continue to rework and enhance our maintenance health group today. In addition to these programs our social/rehabilitation programs have various activities promoting physical activity such as volleyball, walking group and Extreme Connex (focusing on more physical activities for clients who have the mobility to do so including Laser Tag, Go-carting etc.).


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When I prepare meals, I am all about thinking of the various food groups that I want to include (carbs, protein, vegetables, fat), but it needs to be somewhat interesting to me in order for me to feel satisfied.
I can't simply split my plate in half, and fill one side with veggies, a quarter with meat and a quarter with carbs. That is so boring! Anytime I try to create that perfect, clean and healthy plate, I just end up feeling dissatisfied.
So, when I know I want a basic healthy meal, I still try to mix it up with a bit of character. For instance, with this salmon, I added a delicious peach and mango salsa to spice it up. For the rice, I mixed it in with a variety of colorful veggies and added the absolutely necessary feta to the mix. I also cooked the rice in about a tablespoon of butter to give it that mmm satisfying fat dimension. You don't want to be too healthy, after all.
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The beautiful Royal burgh and seaside town of St Andrews is a sleepy historic town with spectacular golf courses and a famous university. It may be small but it still has to cater for a large student population! Take a look at the Deliveroo breakfast section for St Andrews and see what delights we can deliver so you start your day the right way.
With all that fresh sea air, there are ravenous people to feed in St Andrews, not to mention hungry golf fanatics. For an early morning snack to a hearty takeaway brunch, Deliveroo has breakfast covered. There is plenty of home baking to be had, from scones to freshly baked bread. Fluffy American pancake stacks are a popular student choice, smothered in sugary syrup. Alternatively, go healthy with granola or porridge to set you up for that brisk sea breeze.
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Christmas is here, along with all presents and toys for it. Before Santa Claus can spread out his Christmas presents, he needs to defend them from the evil creatures that are trying to steal them all! Help Santa to defend all his presents by shooting out at the enemies and summoning his loyal friends as defense backup. Do what you can and try not to ruin the spirit of Christmas!
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FITCHBURG -- The Board of Health issued violations to four city stores accused of selling cigarettes to minors during a tobacco check last month
Campus Pizza & Variety on 219 Highland Ave. and Family Dollar on 130 Water St. both received their second violation in two years and were fined $200 with a three-day license suspension starting Friday, according to city tobacco agent Joan Hamlett. A L Prime Energy at 1313 Water St. was fined $100 for its first violation within a 2-year period.
Wyman's Liquors at 519 Electric Ave. received a warning since the violation was the first in the store's history, Hamlett said.
General Manager of Wyman's Liquor Chris Pompei said the store has a training program, which teaches employees to swipe ID cards and ask for identification for every purchase even if the employee recognizes the customer. During the tobacco check, he said an employee went against policy and did not check the customer's ID.
"We take it obviously very, very seriously," he said.
Stores have until Jan. 12 to ask for a hearing to appeal the violation, but Hamlett said she has not yet received any requests.
Pompei said he did not plan to request a hearing. Managers or owners at the other three stores could not be reached for comment.
While 93 percent of the 55 stores that hold a tobacco license in the city were in compliance during the December checks -- a rate similar to the city's past three checks -- tobacco agent Joan Hamlett said she was surprised to find more than one or two violations given the recent public attention on to the city's flavored tobacco regulations.
"We had all this attention," she said. "We should be getting 100 percent compliance."
The Fitchburg Board of Health's proposal to limit the sale of flavored tobacco products starting March 1 to "retailer tobacco stores" only -- a category that currently includes only two businesses in the city -- stirred discussion leading up to the city's adoption of the regulation last month.
Hamlett said the undercover teens who participated in the December check asked only for non-flavored cigarettes. The checks resulted in a lower number of violations than what she would expect for a flavored tobacco request, which can number in the double digits, she said.
Stores facing a three-day suspension could face up to $10,000 in lost revenue, because customers often buy multiple items when picking up cigarettes, according to Hamlett.
She said the board's goal is not to "bring business down," but encourage compliance.
In addition to fines and suspensions, Hamlet said she visits each license holder annually and offers individual training classes for employees.
"Our goal is only to get compliance," she said. "Our goal is not to catch people in noncompliance."
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Manager: James Hodgins, CHS Asset Management
Fund: Curvature Market Neutral Fund (Arrow Capital Management)
Description: Equity market-neutral fund focused primarily on Canadian and U.S. small and mid-caps
Performance: 1-year: 9.61%; 3-year: 8.24% (F Class, as of July 31, 2014)
Fees: Management 1.5% (F Class); 2.5% (A Class); performance 20%
The No. 1 issue on James Hodgins' mind is the eventual rise in short-term interest rates. The chief investment officer at Toronto-based CHS Asset Management noted that the market isn't pricing in rates at 2% until early 2016, but he's ready to make some big bets before that point approaches.
"I firmly believe we have a significant property bubble here in Canada," Hodgins said, noting residential property prices on a price-to-rent ratio are more than 50% overvalued if rates end up in the more normal 3%-to-4% range. "If and when short-term interest rates rise, you'll see property prices come down sharply."
The portfolio manager of the Curvature Market Neutral Fund for Arrow Capital Management, which is run in sync with the Curvature Fund LP for institutional clients, hasn't taken any big short positions in Canadian financials yet. But with both funds closed to new investors, he's considering launching a fund that will focus on shorting the sector.
"Valuations are incredibly stretched," Hodgins said. "The banks aren't just exposed because of their mortgage businesses, but also due to stretched consumer leverage. As we saw in the U.S., once we hit the tipping point and house prices started to fall, it impacted banks in many ways."
Another theme Hodgins is capitalizing on is the trend for companies to buy non-core drugs from larger pharmaceutical players and move them to favourable tax jurisdictions.
One prominent example is Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., whose tax structure in Barbados was set up by Mark Thompson, who now runs Concordia Healthcare Corp. Another is Merus Labs International Inc., which is based in Luxembourg and only pays a tax rate of roughly 5%.
"Even if the U.S. laws change to prevent small companies based in one of these countries from taking over larger ones, they will still have the ability to buy individual non-core drugs and do the same thing," Hodgins said.
Merus Labs International Inc. (MSL/TSX)
The position: Top holding
Why do you like it? Even if U.S. takeover laws change, Hodgins believes this acquirer of specialty pharmaceutical products will have plenty of targets.
"It may actually increase the deal flow as bigger companies may be incentivized to sell off individual drugs," he said.
Hodgins highlighted chief executive Elie Farah's vast experience and contacts in the pharma sector, as well as the company's ability to likely do $170-million in highly accretive near-term acquisitions.
Biggest risk: Execution on individual drugs.
Guestlogix Inc. (GXI/TSX)
The position: Recently added to existing position
Why do you like it? This on-board payment processor for airlines has about 80% of the North American market and is expanding its platform overseas.
"They've got a lot of organic growth, but what's really driving it now is the use of iPads and integrated payment systems on the seatbacks," Hodgins said.
He expects the company's revenue will more than double, or 15¢ to 20¢ in EPS, in two years as its instalments rise by 60% to 70%.
"I also think it is a takeover target for a larger payment company," he said.
Biggest risk: Competing Wi-Fi technologies.
Equity Financial Holdings Inc. (EQI/TSX)
The position: Recent addition
Why do you like it? Hodgins has a negative outlook on the housing market, but said this mortgage company in the midst of a turnaround is very cheap, pointing out it trades just above book value, whereas Home Capital Group Inc. is at nearly 3x and Equitable Group Inc. is at 2.2x.
"An activist investor replacement management with an experienced CEO and they are building out the underwriting team," Hodgins said, forecasting an ROE and multiple similar to those peers within 12 to 18 months.
Biggest risk: Rising interest rates.
Redknee Solutions Inc. (RKN/TSX)
The position: Short
Why don't you like it? Hodgins likes this payment software and solutions company, noting its acquisition of Nokia Siemens' business support systems division made the company much bigger. However, he pointed out Redknee has had trouble retaining some of the big network carriers such as Vodafone Group PLC, resulting in sharp revenue declines in recent quarters.
"When you see a small Canadian company take over the contract, [big carriers] are more likely to go to a bigger competitor like Alcatel-Lucent," Hodgins said. "We think that is probably going to continue for at least another couple of quarters."
Potential positive: More contract wins.


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Kimberley Marquis: High Tea at the Windsor Arms Hotel
There is something very special about enjoying a cup (or two) of afternoon tea with some close friends. Not long ago the Windsor Arms Hotel invited me to indulge in their afternoon high tea service at the beautiful hotel. I was absolutely delighted as I not only love tea, but also am a huge fan of wearing fascinators at any time of the day!


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Five years, as of today… that's how long I've been posting items of personal interest to this online scrapbook. I've been engaging in this exercise mostly just for myself and friends, but I've been pleasantly surprised by how many posts have been of interest to total strangers. Google Analytics informs me that there have been, on a monthly average, around 266 page views by 154 unique visitors; hardly more than a blip in the universe of internet statistics, but enough to make me think that there is something here of value to someone other than myself. If you're a returning visitor (around 20% of the total), odds are I know you from elsewhere, and I hope you'll keep in touch by other means as well. If I don't know you and you've stumbled upon something amusing or interesting here, I'm glad.
I know that the odds are against it, but I sometimes imagine that 10,000 years from now, an internet archeologist might dig up one of my fossilized posts, and it will help to confirm or disconfirm some obscure hypothesis about life at the start of the 21st century. We now leave digital traces of ourselves, much like cave dwellers left a few palm prints on the walls. Let's hope that the walls of our digital caves turn out to be as solid as their stone ones.


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The biggest mystery about ''Outside Ozona'' isn't the identity of the serial killer who cuts out the hearts of his female victims. (The murderer, who is obvious from the moment he appears, is shown doing his dirty work roughly halfway through the film.) The wonder is why reputable actors agreed to appear in a movie whose plodding screenplay, by J. S. Cardone, who also directed, has the feel of an earnest, immature play-wrighting exercise.
The characters in this implausible, awkwardly acted melodrama are Texans and Oklahomans whose tidy little speeches are devoid of vernacular tang or credibility. The story methodically cuts from an Oklahoma radio station where a rebellious all-night disk jockey (Taj Mahal) plays the blues instead of country music, to the chagrin of the station manager (Meat Loaf) and assorted itinerants on the road.
Tuning in to the all-night broadcast while driving through the desolate Southwest are three sets of couples and a weather-beaten trucker. While listening to these cardboard characters bicker, it's all too easy to picture them as entries in a screenwriter's notebook, with each one's background details and personality traits duly ticked off as the movie slogs along.
The couples include a grumpy unemployed clown (Kevin Pollak) and his white-trash girlfriend (Penelope Ann Miller); two feuding sisters, one a yuppie nightmare, the other an easygoing salt-of-the-earth type, and a young Navajo woman and her dying grandmother.
Robert Forster is a rugged trucker with a heart of gold who rescues a stray dog at a filling station, and Swoosie Kurtz plays a hard-bitten truck-stop waitress who pines for him. David Paymer is a soft-spoken Chicago psychiatrist who is unaccountably on the road in the middle of the night.
Long before the story culminates in a fiery highway collision, these lifeless creations have worn out their welcome by talking our ears off without saying anything of significance.Continue reading the main story
''Outside Ozona'' is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has violence, nudity, profanity and considerable gore.
Written and directed by J. S. Cardone; director of photography, Irek Hartowicz; edited by Amanda Kirpaul; music by Taj Mahal and Johnny Lee Schell; production designer, Martina Buckley; produced by Carol Kottenbrook and Scott Einbinder; released by Tri-Star Pictures. Running time: 98 minutes. This film is rated R.
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Everyone stop! I've got water in my shoe.
When I was eight, I wrote a story about an oversized chimpanzee that attacked our nation's capital. The ape was relatively successful in its conquest, leveling much of the city, before it was felled by a rather supplied resistance…and an unfortunate fall from the Washington Monument.
Was I aware at the time I essentially copied "King Kong?" No, I was eight. And had not seen the movie by that point, but that's neither here nor there. I was very creative in my youth.
When I first heard about "Pacific Rim," I immediately thought back to that story. Not so much the similarities, but because the story seemed like something only a child could create. Continue reading


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I am writing to ask you if we could have a Los Alamos Middle School section in the sports section.
This is because this year we had an outstanding football season, a good cross country season and a pretty good track season. If we had a middle school section in the sports section more people would know about our success.
This addition might also boost customers for the Los Alamos Monitor.
With this addition, we would also increase the awareness of the Los Alamos community on what is going on around the middle school. With that I hope you at least consider putting a middle school section in the sports section.
Christopher Bond
Los Alamos
In the May 26 edition of the Los Alamos Monitor, a front page story told us about how Los Alamos County Department of Public Utilities wants to raise our water rates by 6 percent.
I guess they need more money. But they are willing to spend $40 million to rebuild Trinity Drive.
Recently I have seen several stories in the Los Alamos Monitor about how the schools and other local organizations do not have enough money for their budgets.
It seems to me that the $40 million could be used in better ways.
Melvin Prueitt
Los Alamos
We were pleased to note the thorough and thought provoking story you published in the Los Alamos Monitor May 5, but we are troubled to be so informed of a major difficulty facing Los Alamos Family Council.
We are proud of the community services offered by LAFC for nearly 50 years, consisting primarily of counseling and youth programs. We cannot imagine the detriment to our community if LAFC closed its doors.
Youth Activity Centers in Los Alamos as well as in White Rock for grades 3 -8 would be absent, as would be the counseling offered for low income families, remediation for alcohol and substance abuse, family relationships, mental health, crisis line and other areas of concern.
We would like to thank the Pajarito Environmental Education Center for providing a platform and a set of amazing volunteers for the Art Swap last weekend.
PEEC helped the community recycle tables and trunks full of art supplies, and gave new inspiration to everyone who came through the doors.
Special thanks to all who set up tables as well.
What a difference you've made!
Karen Wray's Fine Art Gallery
Village Arts
I read, with surprise, the May 10 Los Alamos Monitor story "Detonation permit meeting has fireworks" in which Los Alamos National Laboratory representatives expressed their concern about "noise" from test explosions on White Rock residents.
I think the most important point has been missed. A distant siren and subsequent explosion may get my attention, but the "shock wave" from these explosions is what I really worry about. I believe test explosions conducted by the laboratory should have adequate insight and controls to limit shock waves so that they will not create stress cracks in drywall, footings and stem walls, rattle windows, cause pictures on the walls to fall or tilt, or cause other damage to our homes.
I just read David Jones' letter about the attack on him and his dogs and I am very sorry this happened to him.
To the owner of those dogs, and any others who allow such behavior, please take note.
Los Alamos County has very generously permitted dog owners to enjoy walking their dogs without the encumbrance of a leash, in designated areas, under voice and sight control.
"Voice and sight control means the keeper has the ability to control the dog by voice command and the dog must respond immediately to that command.
Further, the dog must remain within sight of the keeper. Even in designated voice and sight control areas in Los Alamos, the dog must be on a leash unless it meets the requirements of voice and sight control."
To the Los Alamos County Council and the Transportation Board:
I drove through this roundabout on Central Avenue at 8th Street in Albuquerque during rush hour at 5:15 p.m., on a weekday last month, while pulling a large trailer with my large pickup:
I came in from the west and headed east on Central Avenue. My observations include:
•Central narrows from four lanes to two lanes. That was no problem (good signage) even though heavy traffic had to merge and I was driving a 35-40 foot rig.
•Traffic was "queued" back about 10 vehicles, but kept moving at about 10 mph.
What kind of community do Los Alamos and White Rock want to be? I have not found many other places I'd live as I contemplate, with an eye on retirement, whether to stay in Los Alamos or move on.
Community sustainability and a people friendly environment are major factors to weigh.
Some say roundabouts increase local businesses. While that is true, one of the downsides of Los Alamos County is the lack of businesses along the roundabout route.
Is this county business unfriendly? In comparison to alternative communities, I'd have to conclude that Los Alamos needs to rethink its lack of support of entrepreneurship and the road blocks to business we've created.
A few days ago, I took my two dogs (a little Papillion and a yellow Lab) on their daily walk near the golf course. My dogs are always on a leash anytime they're out of our fenced yard.
As we neared the golf course, we heard coyotes, so I was on guard to deal with them if necessary.
What I next saw was a lady and her three dogs (two German Shepherd mixes and a Lab) headed our way. Her dogs were running free, with no sign of a leash.
I moved off the trail and picked my Papillion up. As they neared, one of the Shepherds spotted us and started running toward us. I yelled at the lady to control her dogs, to no avail.
I would like to thank Dan's Cafe for the 2,000 scoops of ice cream they gave away on Tuesday evening. You are very generous. My family looks forward to the free scoop night every year. It is a good opportunity to see friends and of course, have a lot a of ice cream. I myself contributed two scoops to that number of 2,000.
The pinwheels were really nice and added to the fun. I liked to stick mine in my scoop of ice cream.
Thank you so much. We look forward to seeing you throughout the year and again at free scoop night next year.
Faith Koh
Los Alamos
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China Must Meet Threats at Sea in Power Push, Editorial Says
China needs to get better at responding to threats and provocations at sea as it becomes a stronger coastal power, a maritime surveillance official wrote in an commentary published today.
China is acting quickly on calls made during the Communist Party's congress in November to exert more maritime power, said the op-ed, published on the website of the state-owned Global Times newspaper. Yesterday, naval vessels reached a shoal at the southern edge of the country's claimed territory and pledged to defend Chinese sovereignty.
Today's essay follows broader Chinese moves to assert its claims more forcefully in the South and East China Seas, where it's engaged in disputes with countries including Vietnam, Malaysia and Japan. China has sent air and sea patrols and conducted military exercises across those areas in recent months as it presses its claims.
"The 18th Party Congress report clearly pointed out the strategic intention and task of 'building a strong maritime country,' making a strong call for the Chinese people's control of the ocean," the commentary said. The author was identified as China Marine Surveillance agency official Gao Zhengqi.
Four ships from the navy's Nanhai Fleet arrived yesterday at Zengmu Reef, the southernmost reach of China's national territory, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Troops on the ships took an oath saying they're "determined to safeguard the country's sovereignty with their services on the South China Sea," Xinhua reported.
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Zengmu Reef, also known as James Shoal, is located about 110 kilometers (68 miles) from the coast of Malaysia, which also claims it. The shoal is about 1,800 kilometers from the Chinese mainland.
"China has made important contributions to maintaining peace and security in the South China Sea," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a briefing today. "The patrolling is China's exercising its sovereignty and inherent rights."
Yesterday's visit followed a week of drills that included simulated air and submarine attacks as well as "confrontation maneuvers," Xinhua reported the day before.
Chinese marine surveillance ships have conducted patrols in waters surrounding islands in the East China Sea also claimed by Japan. On March 26, China defended its actions after one of its ships fired on a Vietnamese fishing vessel in the South China Sea. Vietnam protested the action, while Hong said earlier this week Vietnam should better educate its fisherman to "stop such illegal activities."
Copyright 2013 Bloomberg.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014
One for the record books
When I left work, I discovered that the snow was the worst kind—slippery and wet. I almost fell over three times in a 10-minute walk. I got back to my parking spot to find the car embedded in 6–8 inches of freshly fallen fluff.
I don't think that quite does it justice. I took this picture from too far away for you to really see the depth of the snow.
Here we go. This is what the curb looked like at the corner:
At least the sun was still out?
So I got out the snow scraper, cleared off the car, and attempted to drive out of that parking spot.
Nothing doing. I maneuvered every which way, but the car was good and stuck.
Fortunately Frank keeps a shovel in the back seat for occasions such as these. So I got the shovel, and I cleared a path for each of the wheels. It took me a good 15–20 minutes. But at the end of it, with some muttered prayers and much slamming on the gas, I was able to get out of the spot and drive home. I felt like Superwoman.
Lots of women have done impressive things while pregnant. Queen Isabel of Spain led her troops into battle while expecting a baby. I may not have ridden at the front of my troops, but I did shovel my way out of a parking spot at 7 months pregnant, and I'm pretty proud of that.
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Go you! And since March is just around the corner, maybe this will be your last snow adventure this pregnancy.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Colleen! Here's hoping—I'll be a happy lady when this snow clears up!Delete
bahahahaha, I'm giggling just thinking of you stomping around in the snow, getting madder and madder. But hey! YOU DID IT! :DReplyDelete
Hey, ANYTHING done at 7 months pregs is an accomplishment!! Good job, Tess! :) PS- Tom and I are SO excited for you! Please let me know if you need anything or wanted to ask any questions about midwife birthing :) :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Nicole! So great to hear from you guys. I would love any ideas, advice, or tips you may have—send 'em my way! :)Delete
- AnonymousFebruary 19, 2014 at 4:42 PM
Carry a bag of kitty litter with you - it will give you good traction.ReplyDeleteReplies
That's a great idea. Thanks Anonymous!Delete
Your next t-shirt should read: "Don't mess with this pregnant lady."ReplyDeleteReplies
haha! I love it! How great would that be? :)Delete


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Deadpool Clip and TV Spot. Deadpool (2016) movie clip entitled 'Poppin' the Question,' TV commercials 10-12, and the IMAX TV commercial have been released. The movie clip showcases the brand of humor that the film entails and how far the relationship between Wade Wilson / Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) and Vanessa Carlysle / Copycat (Morena Baccarin) had progressed. The TV spots are a mixture of old and new scenes in the film, including a shot of the X-Men's headquaters.
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BATH — Larry Dyer, principal of the Fisher-Mitchell School and a school administrator in the city for nearly 15 years, will retire effective June 30, 2010.
Dyer's announcement, made following the end of the 2008-09 school year last month, was discussed by the Regional School Unit 1 Board of Directors on Monday evening.
"To Larry's credit, he wanted us to have a year's notice so we could plan the shuffling of the administrators and plan accordingly for his retirement," RSU 1 Superintendent William Shuttleworth said.
When Rita Perron switched principal duties from the grade 3-5 Fisher-Mitchell to the K-2 Dike-Newell school last year, Dyer moved from Bath Middle School to take her place at Fisher-Mitchell.
Since Dyer had experience with students coming to his school after fifth grade, "I thought it would be a great opportunity for him to provide input into that school, knowing what we expect kids to be able to do by the time they get to middle school," Shuttleworth said. "I felt he would just be a great kind of transition administrator to place in that position."
Shuttleworth described Dyer as a big man with an equally large heart and spirit, which he brought to Fisher-Mitchell. "The kids and staff, quite frankly, loved him," the superintendent said.
The RSU 1 board on Monday approved Shuttleworth's nomination of Ross Berkowitz to the position of assistant principal at Bath Middle School and Morse High School, two separate half-time positions.
"He's going to work primarily with that eighth-grade team at Bath Middle School, and then he'll work with those same kids once they get to the high school," Shuttleworth said. "So he'll be the primary link between the eighth and ninth grades."
When Dyer moved from Bath Middle School, then-Assistant Principal Bud Solebello moved up to the principal role there, leaving the assistant position vacant for a year.
"It was a tough year without administrative help," Shuttleworth said. "You have 400 kids, that's kind of a tough age with middle school kids not to have that assistant principal's role for effective discipline and crowd control."
Morse High currently has two assistant principals: Jay Lemont and Mike Nelson. The RSU 1 board on Monday accepted the resignation of Nelson, who had also served as dean of students and, at the end of the school year year, as athletic director. Shuttleworth said Nelson's contract concluded this month.
Shuttleworth called Berkowitz "a kid-oriented person; he's just terrific," adding that he has been involved with the Bath Youth Meetinghouse and Skatepark through his wife Claire, the facility's executive director, "so he knows the kids in Bath very well."
Berkowitz, who just completed his master's degree in educational leadership, has taught social studies at Brunswick Junior High School and worked with Brunswick track teams.
The RSU 1 board meets again at the West Bath School at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17.
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