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Poor guy. Jersey Shore star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro is currently being treated for kidney stones in a Florida hospital, according to People.
A rep for the 27-year-old reality TV star (whose mother is Puerto Rican) said he was admitted to a hospital in the Orlando area on late Saturday night.
"He's in a lot of pain and is expected to remain there for several days," the rep added.
The stocky TV personality/actor was in the Sunshine State to promote his new alcohol line Smush Cocktails at the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America Convention this weekend when he began feeling uncomfortable.
"It's a very painful condition, but he's being treated," his rep added. As any good girlfriend would, Sammi Giancola is on her way to be by Ortiz-Magro's side.
Just earlier this month, we spoke to the fiery couple recently at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards, where we asked Ronnie what he loves most about being Latino (he and Sammi raved about Latin food).
We wish Ronnie a speedy recovery!


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Shalimar Indian Restaurant
Sairee Village, Koh Tao, Thailand
Shalimar Indian Restaurant Koh Tao Reviews
83 reviews
Reasonable prices and tropical Indian Inspired gardens! Oct 02, 2011
My friends and I visited Koh Tao for 10 nights, and out of these 10 nights, I think we spent at least 6 at this Indian Restaurant.
It is located on the main road heading into Sairee Village on the right-hand side of the road. Surrounded by big concrete walls, it is hard to miss, and offers privacy and seclusion once inside. There are two massive trees located inside the grounds, so all areas of the restaurant are shady - great for those hot and sunny summer days. The garedn is Indian inspired, yet also very tropical.
Shalimar is not just an Indian restaurant, it is also a shisha and cocktail bar (which is the main reason we came here). Shisha prices are not as cheap as in Bangkok, but still reasonable compared to other places, and they have a wide selection of flavours available. They also have a separate menu just for their cocktails and drinks, more variety than other places on the island - they even had amaretto! They have happy hour also, where you can get 2 for the price of 1 cocktails each afternoon! My friends and I never actually ate here, so I cannot recommend any of the food.
They have separate areas for patrons - one area for people wanting meals and drinks, and another for people who just wish to have shisha and drinks - smart idea so people who dont want to be bothered with shisha smoke don't have to be. The shisha/cocktail area is very relaxed and informal, with big beanbags on the ground and lowered tables. There were also alot of fairy lights lit up around the place, but this may have just been for the Christmas holidays. The restaurant area has proper tables so people can eat comfortably. Both areas are outdoors yet undercover and protected by the rain.
The lady who owned the place was very friendly, and an Indian herself. We saw her having lots of friendly chats to other patrons, and other 'regulars'. Service was reasonably quick and staff were always smiling and happy.
As with every place, there were a few downsides - there seemed to be a lot of cockroaches running around, and we had to keep scaring them away.
If I ever return to Koh Tao, I will be frequenting here again! :)
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I've been gainfully employed for nearly four months, and I'm finally starting to understand a few truths about life inside a conglomerate. When you're the new guy at a big company, the flowchart of power feels a little like one of those multi-piece Russian matryoshka dolls: you'd like to think you're important, but if you were to peel away the layers, you'd find that you're actually one of the tiny dolls hidden deep inside.
In my time at the office, I've learned a few things about the corporate life that seem pretty universal. So here are three pieces of advice for anyone about to start their first job in a new town:
1. Ask for a comfortable chair: Sure, it seems like an odd thing to do. And yes, it's also a line out of "Jerry Maguire." But if you're starting life as a cubicle jockey, chances are you'll be sitting more than you ever have in your life. Your chair might be the most important piece of furniture in your life.
2. Find a good mechanic: At some point, your car is going to break down. For me, the headlights on my car just stopped working a few weeks ago. And you do not want to go to a dealer to get the problem fixed. So if you're moving to a new town, take a few minutes and find someone who won't rip you off when your car breaks down. I'd recommend using the 'Mechanic Files' over at NPR's "Car Talk" page. As an added benefit, this might just keep you sane when things go completely wrong.
3. When in doubt, ask: I'd worked at big companies before, but I'd never actually had to navigate a massive corporate bureaucracy before this job. So I'm learning that such places aren't very good at keeping track of personnel. There's a sign above the copier at work that speaks to this. "You may be essential," it reads, "but that doesn't mean you're important." It's up to you to ask and to make sure that you don't get lost in the bureaucracy.


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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Ghostly Marshmallows from the Decorated Cookie
How cute are these spooky marshmallows? I found these over at the Decorated Cookie and was instantly smitten. I can definitely see these guys on one of my halloween dessert displays.
All you need is:
A black gourmet writer
Skewers or lollipop sticks
Simply skewer the marshmallows and draw your spooky faces! Make sure the marshmallows sit out at room temperature for a few hours to stiffen the outside so it is easy to draw on the marshmallows. Thanks Decorated Cookie!
12 comments:
- brides and babes said...
So cute...and so easy!! Love it.
- October 29, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- tribecagirl said...
Spooky yet yummy! Great combo.
- October 29, 2009 at 1:15 PM
- Chic Cookies said...
Thanks so much for the feature! I adore your work, so it's quite the honor!
- October 29, 2009 at 3:24 PM
- amy said...
Great to have sticking out of steaming cup of hot cocoa after trick o' treating! Thank you!
- October 29, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- Clau! said...
Very simple and so cute ;)
- October 29, 2009 at 3:56 PM
- Teddy Started It said...
Too cute! And thanks for the reminder about the pens. I have a set of these but had forgotten about them. I've been fretting for the last 3 days about how I was going to get the faces on my cake pops.
- October 29, 2009 at 5:21 PM
- TERRi :) said...
Too cute & simple! LOve it!
- October 29, 2009 at 5:46 PM
- Sue Sparks said...
I love these too and made some myself! I love the Decorated Cookie, and I love your blog too!!!
- October 29, 2009 at 8:49 PM
- Freya said...
Woah a cute idea for halloween, I love it!
- October 30, 2009 at 1:29 AM
- Cheryl Gerbera said...
superrrr creative!!
- October 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM
- The Memory Journalists said...
These are soooo cool! I can't wait to make some. Thanks for sharing.
- October 30, 2009 at 5:20 PM
So cute :) Great Idea, I wonder if its ok to toast them over a tea lite? I have never worked with the gourmet pen -but I suppose its safe. Thanks a bunch!
- December 22, 2009 at 8:55 PM


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why do people want to change? become a vampire, werewolf, mermaid, faerie, demon, grow a tail, animal ears, wings so on? i have been on this site for almost a decade, and i have seen the same things over and over. i'm not saying your belief is wrong, or that you're fluffy, i'm just curious. i love werewolves, i've seen faeries, having cat ears would be cute, but have you thought it through? and if so, what made you decide being a [insert] was right for you?
myself, i believe in dragons, study dragon magic, and i've met dragons, while it's not the same, just wanted to point this out to prove i believe in mythical beings.
i don't want to start an argument [though i might] i would just like to hear your reason, i promise i won't call you a fluffy for stating your belief.


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Discussion in 'Photography Beginners' Forum' started by Ron Evers, Dec 20, 2008.
The view from or balcony this morning @ -17°C.
ahhh beautiful, i miss snowboarding
I really like how you've captured the morning sun coming through the trees.
Nice shot.
how much did you guys get yesterday Ron??? we got around 20cm... getting ready to head out and take some pics of it now...
Get ready for Sunday, round 2 is coming !!
About the same as you Chris.
Separate names with a comma.


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While the Big 12 celebrates their record $198 million, the SEC is distributing $289.4 million among their schools, respectively.
This brings to light the issue of college athletes as amateurs and whether or not they deserve compensation. I believe a wise man once said money talks, and the overwhelming answer to that question is yes.
A conference made almost $300 million off of sports that fans attended and supported over the last year. Fans packed stadiums and bought jerseys to support their beloved student-athletes and their school. Once again, the question has surfaced. Should there be a red flag because of the profit the schools have made and the zero dollars that the student-athletes made?
I know the schools will probably put this money into all kinds of good use for their facilities. But what about the athletes and their gratuity? I know the classic "a college education is their reward", but come on already.
That is like coupons that say "free" and then in fine print it says you must first buy something. I don't know a good starting place for how the NCAA should look at this and I don't have any immediate suggestions because it truly is such a difficult debate.
I just wanted to bring to the table the fact that there was over $500 million made between two athletic conferences last season and there was none of that — in the form of money or compensation — was rewarded to the student-athletes.
Just put that in perspective.


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Robert O. Hansen
Osgoode Hall Law School
Ontario, 1999
Robert Hansen is a partner in our Business Law Group in Toronto.
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|Eco-restructuring: Implications for sustainable development (UNU, 1998, 417 pages)
|Part II: Restructuring sectors and the sectoral balance of the economy
|11. The restructuring of transport, logistics, trade, and industrial space use
Although it is not possible to specify in abstract which patterns of land use, trade, logistics, and transport would offer greatest scope for reducing environmental stresses, shifts toward sustainable societies and economies would most likely involve:
- less physical movement,
- less emphasis on physical transportation infrastructures,
- substitution of information and capital flows for physical goods movement,
- greater mixing of land uses,
- less specialization and concentration in production,
- smaller-scale installations and use of flexible technologies to emphasize economies of scope over economies of scale,
- decentralization of production,
- greater reliance on local resources,
- greater serving of local markets,
- new networking arrangements among contractors/subcontractors,
- more sensitivity in matching activities and locations so as not to overreach local environmental capacities.
The flexibility for spatial and sectoral shifting - even within the framework set by the inertia of sunk costs and market contestability is considerable. However, the signs are not positive that these opportunities will automatically be taken up. Finding geographical and logistics arrangements that are less resource intensive and defining the market conditions under which these would be consistent with profit maximization is therefore a central concern for eco-restructuring. In this regard, spatial indicators could be important diagnostics in eco-restructuring processes. A reconfiguration of the market framework is necessary to provide the incentive/disincentive structure for change. Although it may not be politically possible in the short term to internalize all currently externalized social and environmental costs into environmental resource prices, it is important to begin that process soon and to target some sectors for early action. A combination of gradually increasing motorway tolls and fuel taxes, together with specific regulatory actions targeted at trucks and aimed at securing speed, loading, and environmental performance standards, would constitute an important start.
International agreement on a harmonized resource taxation system is unlikely. This implies that a way must be found to reconcile the need for individual countries or blocs to act independently to tax resource use without jeopardizing the competitiveness of their own industry in either domestic markets (vis-à-vis imports) or in export markets (vis-à-vis competing exporters). Maintaining a level playing field for international competition depends upon taxing imports on entry on the basis of their resource intensity and exempting exports from resource taxes using rebates, again based upon resource intensity. Such a solution would allow independent, incremental action by the lead countries. None the less, this would still depend first upon reforming the GATT agreement (Weaver 1995).
Because of interlinkages between freight transport and all other economic activities, actions targeted at freight transport (and at truck transport specifically) would have important knock-on effects. Together with the energy sector, transport is privileged in this respect. Against the backdrop of industrialized countries' obligations under the Framework Convention on Climate Change and responsibility to take the lead in eco-restructuring, the fact that transport energy use is increasing faster within these countries than within the developing world is salutary. It is indicative that this is a lifestyle issue - a reflection of conspicuous over-consumption in the context of distorted incentives. This makes it all the more important for policy to focus on freight transport. It is a critical and potential swing sector in eco-restructuring.
I am grateful to Gilberto Gallopín, Walther Manshard, Ray Hudson, and Michael Taylor for editorial comments on an earlier draft. Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek alerted me to relevant work at the Wuppertal Institute and Eric Britton to relevant work of EcoPlan International. Landis Gabel provided helpful information on deregulation, market liberalization, and freight transport. Thanks are due also to two anonymous reviewers whose suggestions for improvement were most helpful.


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Carbon Top Commodity Stokes Suspicion EU Ideas Leaked
The most ambitious market-based effort to control carbon emissions is being undermined by a glut of permits, amid allegations that European Union ideas to tackle the surplus are being leaked prematurely.
The European Commission plans to propose measures this month to temporarily reduce the excess, after the recession sent prices to a more than four-year low of 5.99 euros ($7.31) a metric ton April 4 on the ICE Futures Europe exchange. Prices jumped 30 percent last month and opened today at 7.72 euros.
Details of the plans, contained in a draft report being drawn up by EU officials, may be ending up in the hands of everyone from national governments and non-government organizations to researchers and traders, saidBrett Stacey, the founder of CarbonDesk Group Plc (CO2P), a renewable-energy financier in London that suspended its emissions-options brokerage in January. That's sapping trust in the seven-year-old cap-and- trade market, the world's biggest, he said.
"This information shouldn't be leaked to certain places in the market because fortunes can be lost, and unless this is realized it could kill the very market they're trying to protect," Stacey said in an interview. "Investors will end up leaving the market, as they have no confidence of having the same information."
The EU program was started in 2005 to help stem greenhouse gases blamed for climate change. Carbon emitted from cars, power stations and factories will need to be reduced by an average of 6 percent a year to stabilize the Earth's climate by the end of the century, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in April. Putting a price on carbon emissions is the world's best hope, it said.
On Plan
Europe's program has helped. The amount of emissions dropped 2 percent in 2011 in the market. The EU may exceed its goal of a 20 percent cut in the 10 years to 2020, the European Energy Agency said in October.
The recession roiled the market, leaving fewer takers for the allowances. The first phase failed to bite when an oversupply of permits caused prices to collapse to 1 euro cent a ton in 2007. After allocations were cut 9.4 percent, they rebounded, surpassing 29 euros a ton in 2008.
Regulators will next year ban certain types of United Nations emission credits from emerging nations that have made up more than half of supply under the Clean Development Mechanism program developed under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
The EU market will probably still be oversupplied by the equivalent of a year's total allowances by 2020, Barclays Plc (BARC) forecast on June 22.
Further Behind
Other regions are further behind the EU on climate protection. Cap-and-trade legislation stalled in the U.S. Senate after narrowly passing the House of Representatives in 2009. North American discharges fell 1.3 percent last year amid slowing economic growth. In China, the world's biggest emitter, greenhouse gases from fuel use rose more than 9 percent in 2011, according to BP Plc (BP/) statistics published on June 13.
Criticism of disclosure practices isn't new in the EU market. In the second half of April 2006, 15 months after its start, permit prices dropped 57 percent after a series of nations revealed surpluses individually. That prompted complaints that countries didn't disclose emissions output to the whole market. Calyon, part of Credit Agricole SA (ACA), called it a "farce" at the time.
"At the beginning of the market, many years ago, information was released piece meal and there were leaks," Andrei Marcu, head of the Centre for European Policy Studies' Carbon Market Forum, said today by e-mail. "This is now not about information being leaked, but about the fact that this is the EU process, which is a complex political and regulatory model that most market actors find frustrating. I think that the market information is well handled."
13,000 Factories
Carbon allowances dropped 1 cent today to 7.65 euros a ton on ICE in London, the lowest close since June 21.
The permits plunged to their lowest since 2007 this year two days after the commission on April 2 released preliminary annual data from about 13,000 factories and power stations in the program by offering access to a spreadsheet on its website. As in previous years, it was incomplete and didn't provide any written summary. Emissions-output information from the U.K. was released the week before the EU-wide figures. Final numbers for the program were published May 15, more than a month later.
On June 15, as regulators sketched out three scenarios in the draft report to temporarily curb the oversupply, the price of call options to buy that month's carbon futures for 7 euros more than doubled to 42 cents a ton, according to ICE Futures Europe exchange data.
Less Attractive
The June futures advanced 5.7 percent that day to close at 7.23 euros. Last month's 30 percent jump for the December benchmark was the best performance among 80 commodities tracked by Bloomberg.
Unless data that drives prices is evenly distributed at the same time, the market will become less attractive, said Stacey, a former deputy chairman of the South African Futures Exchange who has been trading equities, commodities and currencies for more than 30 years. He wasn't trading in the carbon-options market last month, he said June 20 in an interview in London.
Information circulating in June contained scenarios in which the commission would temporarily withhold emissions permits, said Simone Ruiz, the European policy director at the International Emissions Trading Association in Brussels. Whether the information was market-sensitive is uncertain, she said.
"It could've made prices go either way," Ruiz said. "It was well-known in the market this was being discussed."
'Either Way'
Traders who pay the closest attention to regulatory developments may "know a little bit more than others," she said. "We would very much welcome a discussion around the definition of insider information in the context of the supervision of carbon markets."
One of the scenarios, the temporary removal of 1.2 billion tons of allowances, equal to 55 percent of 2012 supply, would more than double prices to about 20 euros in 2015, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said June 18. A temporary cut of 400 million tons may boost prices to about 12 euros, it forecast.
The report and the proposal will be published before August, EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said last month. The commission is said to have applied confidentiality measures to ensure the proposal won't leak, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Draft 'Restricted'
The draft measure has been qualified as restricted, is in paper copies that can be traced and available to a limited number of commission officials, said the people, who declined to be identified because the information isn't public. The draft doesn't include numbers, which are being discussed in internal commission talks, and will be inserted in the text before publication, they said.
"The market would be better served if there were coordinated releases of information rather than leaks to selected people," Louis Redshaw, head of carbon trading at Barclays in London, said by phone June 22. Isaac Valero-Ladron, a spokesman for the commission, didn't return calls and emails seeking comment today.
Regulators are seeking to better define and police insider trading in commodities and energy markets. The European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators has delayed until the second half of this year the publication of guidance on how utilities including RWE AG (RWE) and GDF Suez (GSZ) SA should report data on power and natural-gas outages.
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Trading in "calls" linked to the June emissions future increased to 2.1 million tons in the week ended June 15, from 500,000 tons the week before, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Calls are options that give the buyer the right to purchase at a certain price.
The options, which expired June 20, surged to 61 cents a ton on June 19 from 18 cents June 8, according to ICE data. Options contracts are cleared on ICE after being brokered over the counter at prices that may not be disclosed.
Claire Miller, a London-based spokeswoman for ICE, declined to comment on whether the exchange was investigating the trades. Chris Hamilton, a spokesman for the U.K.'s Financial Services Authority, said the FSA never confirms or denies whether an investigation is taking place.
"It's an EU problem, not a carbon-market problem," said Mark Owen-Lloyd, head of emissions trading at CF Partners (U.K.) LLP in London, which manages allowances on behalf of clients. There are so many people privy to potentially market-moving information, he said in a June 22 interview.
"In a disciplined organization there are channels, whereas the EU is a collection of individual politicians and officials and many people talk," he said. "At the end of the day it's still rumor, until it's done."
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GENEVA (CNN/WCMH) — The World Health Organization has issued new recommendations to improve the quality of care pregnant women receive in order to lower the risk of complications and stillbirths.
The WHO recommends that pregnant women receive health care services at least eight times throughout the course of their pregnancies. Five of those visits should take place in the last three months of pregnancy. The agency previously recommended just four visits.
"More and better quality contacts between all women and their health providers throughout pregnancy will facilitate the uptake of preventative measures, timely detection of risks, reduces complications and addresses health inequalities," said Dr. Anthony Costello, the director of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health at the WHO.
The WHO estimates that almost 300,000 women worldwide die during pregnancy or childbirth and that as many as 6 million infants die within the first month of their lives. Experts say that these deaths could be prevented with routine care throughout the pregnancy with trained health care workers.


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Having problems with your HP Photosmart 945 Digital Camera ?
Hp 945 frosen with red light on
\015 Taking pictures the camera frosen lens out en red light on and the LCD is lihten up. I tride every thing and it stil dont work.\015
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I posted on July 16 with this flashing problem and played around and got mine working again.
\015\012Originally I would charge through the docking port. What I did was pull the charged rechargable batteries out of the camera and took the charging cable from the docking station and pluged it directly into the port on the side of the camera. The camera started working again. Then while the charging cable was pluged into the camera, I reinstalled the rechargable batteries. After installing the batteries I unpluged the charging cable and the camera still works. I have shot and downloaded from the camera pictures with no more problems. Use the docking for downloading pictures and the side port on the camera for recharging the batteries.
\015\012I do not know if this has anything to do with the original problem but I did not have any problems with this camera until I placed it on the docking station with non-rechargible batteries.
\015\012Hope this helps.
\015\012Originally I would charge through the docking port. What I did was pull the charged rechargable batteries out of the camera and took the charging cable from the docking station and pluged it directly into the port on the side of the camera. The camera started working again. Then while the charging cable was pluged into the camera, I reinstalled the rechargable batteries. After installing the batteries I unpluged the charging cable and the camera still works. I have shot and downloaded from the camera pictures with no more problems. Use the docking for downloading pictures and the side port on the camera for recharging the batteries.
\015\012I do not know if this has anything to do with the original problem but I did not have any problems with this camera until I placed it on the docking station with non-rechargible batteries.
\015\012Hope this helps.
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Currently, the track is cashing on the drama of Nihal (Kapil Nirmal) and his connection with Ranveers family.
According to a source, Nihal is actually responsible for the death of Sampoorn (Sudhanshu Pandey).
A dramatic sequence will be shown wherein Nihal, who has decided to leave the village, will be asked by Chaiji (Shagufta Ali) to stay put as she feels he is the one who can take Sampoorns place in her and the familys life.
This is when Nihal will come out with the truth that he is the one who was responsible for the death of Sampoorn when they met in the city. He will also admit that it was for this guilt that he came and helped them solve their problems.
When we spoke to Kapil, he refused to divulge any details, but said, Let the viewers enjoy the track as it unfolds. All I can say is that the audience will enjoy the plot for sure. There are lots of interesting stuffs lined up.
Coming to know the truth, a shaken and hurt Chaiji will ask Nihal to immediately leave Pritampura, but as a source informs, there will be certain circumstances that will lead Nihal staying back and taking responsibility of the family.
How will Chaiji keep such a big secret to herself and will she forgive Nihal and let him be a part of the family?
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This one was the one created by Creator/AaronSorkin, was an hour-long, had a much more dramatic slant, and ended up lasting only a single season.After the creator of failing sketch-comedy show "Studio Sixty on the Sunset Strip" is fired for launching into an angry improvised rant on the state of television during a live broadcast, former writers Danny Tripp (now a producer barred from his next Hollywood film for testing positive for cocaine) and Matt Albie (presumed AuthorAvatar for Sorkin) are called in by plucky new network executive Jordan [=McDeere=] and her amoral boss Jack Rudolph to save the ShowWithinAShow, which stars Harriet Hayes (a fundamentalist Christian and Matt Albie's ex-girlfriend), Tom Jeter (all-American midwesterner with a brother serving in Afghanistan), and Simon Stiles (the TokenMinority and not particularly pleased with it). Each week the cast deals with personal and professional issues in front of and behind the camera as they try to make sure the show gets off the ground.And politics. Lots and lots of politics. For some reason. Nowadays largely known as Aaron Sorkin's FollowUpFailure to ''Series/TheWestWing'' and for being DuelingShows with the aforementioned ''30 Rock''. Funnily enough, this was the show that had NBC's hype machine behind it, while ''30'' was seen as ItWillNeverCatchOn. An understandably miffed Tina Fey included various {{Take That}}s against the show that largely ceased when ''30 Rock'' [[GrowingTheBeard grew the beard]] and ''Studio 60'' was cancelled. [[HilariousInHindsight A decade later]], we can say that Fey was right.----!!This show provides examples of:* AlliterativeName: Harriet Hayes (née ''Hannah'' Harriet Hayes), Simon Stiles, and even the name of the show itself.* AsHimself: The celebrity guests are this [[ShowWithinAShow to the power of two]]; Rob Reiner as Rob Reiner, as Rob Reiner! * AuthorAvatar: Both Matt and Danny are this, for various reasons. Danny has a lot of cynicism and substance-addiction issues. Matt has a whole host of writing-related issues as well as attraction to women who are often incompatible with him. Both represent Sorkin pretty well. * AuthorCatchPhrase (the very last episode was "What Kind of Day Has It Been" -- and there are likely others.)** In "The Wrap Party," Tom says that his parents seem not to understand that he could "buy [their] house four times and turn it into [his] ping-pong room." In "4 AM Miracle," Matt talks about other people claiming they wrote a script of his and dismissing it because "if they'd written it, they'd have written it." Both lines are echoed in ''Film/TheSocialNetwork.''* AuthorTract: Inevitable with a Sorkin show, although not nearly to the levels of ''The Newsroom'' or the heights of ''Series/TheWestWing''. Mostly it's about the processes of Hollywood and the stupidity of ExecutiveMeddling which, depending on your view, may or may not have helped.* BabiesEverAfter* BilingualBackfire* CannotTellAJoke: Harriet. You'd think this would hurt her career, but it seems she's mainly a comic actress/impressionist -- that is, she's capable of ''being funny'', just not of telling a conventional 'joke' joke.* CelebrityParadox: In the episode ''The Cold Open,'' Jack and Jordan quote the series premiere episode of Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow in which Lou Grant (played by Creator/EdwardAsner) tells Mary Richards, "You've got spunk.... I hate spunk." Which only becomes an issue because Jack's boss, Wilson White, the head of the conglomerate that owns the fictional NBS network, is a recurring character played by Ed Asner. Also, the ShowWithinAShow has actors and comedians as celebrity guests, but not all of them are more famous than the show's own actors. Best way to tell is if you haven't seen them in a previous episode, they're [[AsHimself As Themselves]].** Particularly weird was Allison Janney as herself, as she was (and is) most famous for her role on ''Series/TheWestWing'', a show written and directed by Sorkin which co-starred Bradley Whitford that had Timothy Busfield as a frequent supporting cast member and Janney's love interest. ** Even weirder: Janney indicated to another character that this person had her confused with Christine Lahti. Earlier in the season, Christine Lahti had guest-starred, playing a reporter.* CellPhonesAreUseless: An instance of double-cell-phone-failure is used to HandWave the obvious solution to the locked-out-on-the-roof plot.* CommediaDellArte: Rarely seen but often mentioned, a regular sketch on the ShowWithinAShow, starring Jeanie (although it's not clear which of the roles she plays).* CompletelyUnnecessaryTranslator: The Macau investor.* CrossesTheLineTwice: Invoked, subverted (off-camera), and deconstructed in "The Option Period", when Matt complains about an (unseen) sketch that a clueless special-effects guy ruins by curtailing the scripted excessive blood, thereby un-crossing the second line, so to speak. [[invoked]]--> '''Danny''': He didn't think it was realistic.--> '''Matt''': The prop guy?--> '''Danny''': Yeah.--> '''Matt''': It's called "Quentin Tarantino's Hallmark Movie, ''Turkey Won't Die.''" It's about a mortally wounded bird that will not die, ''even as it's being served.'' Did he find the premise realistic?... If [[{{Gorn}} geysers of blood are gushing out]], then I get the Tarantino joke, and [[BloodyHilarious it's funny]]. If it's just a ''realistic'' amount of blood, then it's... ''[[{{Squick}} extremely]]'' [[KickTheDog disturbing...]]* ADayintheLimelight: "The Disaster Episode," for Cal (and possibly Allison Janney too). * DeadpanSnarker: Many. This is a Sorkin Drama after all.* DoggedNiceGuy* EggSitting - the practice baby. [[EpicFail It explodes.]]** To be more specific, Cal and Tom ''decapitate'' it in a guillotine (to be fair, they didn't think it would work) and when asked to repair it, the prop guys have a little fun and makes its head pop up on a spring and its eyes bug out.* EpisodeTitleCard* FiveManBand** TheLeader: Matt Albie** TheLancer: Danny Tripp** TheBigGuy: Simon Stiles** TheSmartGuy: Cal** TheChick: Harriet Hayes* FoxNewsLiberal Pretty much everyone that is not a progressive or a jerkass.* HandOrObjectUnderwear - Harriet* HideousHangoverCure* HollywoodAtheist - Heartbreakingly averted by Danny Tripp refusing to kneel to a god that would kill children, after getting the "foxhole" speech from Harriet and with his pregnant fiancee at risk of dying.* HowWeGotHere: 'Nevada Day' - How Tom Got to a police station in Pahrump, Nevada, dressed as Jesus Christ and charged with drug possession, assault and speeding. * InfoDump: Literally ''ten minutes'' of "The Long Lead Story" is Harriet describing her BackStory in detail.* InformedAbility: From what we hear, Matt writes a transcendent experience filled with cutting satire that has everyone talking the Monday after. 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With the exception of Harriet, none of the show's primary characters appear. * ManipulativeBastard: Matt manipulates Dylan (with a little help from Jeanie) in ''Nevada Day'', but it's Danny who really owns this trope, at least where Matt is concerned:-->'''Matt''': and... 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Writing 90 minutes of new comedy every week is a Herculean endeavor for even the most gifted writing staff; now imagine 90 minutes of brilliant comedy emerging anew weekly from the mind ''of but a single man!''"* NWordPrivileges: Darius and Simon use this against each other, although it's meant to be antagonizing to make a point rather than friendly. * OverlyLongGag: Danny parodies the "Banker" {{Padding}} segments of ''Series/DealOrNoDeal'' in a sketch with Howie Mandell.* ParentalFavoritism: Tom's parents, rather unsubtly. * ProductPlacement: InUniverse, the network wants ''Studio 60'' to incorporate PP in the show but Matt is against it. Then he realizes he can put it into the backdrop, which will resemble the Sunset Strip -- full of ads.* RatingsStunt: in the first episode back after the forced hiatus, [[LampshadeHanging several ratings stunts often used by dramas in ratings trouble are listed]]. The show goes on to do ALL of them over the next five episodes, but manages to make them work anyway.* RecitationHandclasp: The cast assumed this posture while singing their version of the MajorGeneralSong.* RightBehindMe: Tom does an excellent one of these when he bombs into his dressing room and refers to [[AsianAirhead Kim]] as "that lunatic girl"...without realizing her very important parents are standing right there.* RunningGag: Sorkin loves to incorporate throw-away running gags, often with each instance rephrasing the joke from a different angle. For example, one episode supposedly had off-camera guest-host (and real-life {{Malaproper}}) Music/JessicaSimpson filling in extra airtime at the end of the fictional show's live broadcast:---> '''Cal''': Nice girl, nice performer... don't want her to extemporize on our air. She had time to thank her pets, and then she asked us all to pray for peace in the Mid''west''. --> [+The regulars continue wisecracking about this as the (real) show continues.+] ---> '''Matt''': Indiana, Illinois, Missouri... are rebel forces gathering?---> '''Danny''': No.---> '''Matt''': Then why are we praying for peace in the Midwest?---> '''Danny''': Girl's nice to look at.--> [+...and finally...+]---> '''Jordan''': Good show! ... I saw the end, and I think we should all take a moment to consider the suffering in Des Moines.* SeriousBusiness: They work on an ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' ripoff, yet Matt and Danny act as if they are writing an important social drama about society's ills. Sorkin's usual dramatic style, which worked so well on ''Series/TheWestWing'', might seem a bit jarring in this context... [[RealityIsUnrealistic which isn't to say]] that TV writers ''don't'' act like their job is more important than the President's, since former SNL castmembers have suggested that if anything S60 was too light and fluffy to represent the real thing. * SetBehindTheScenes: Set backstage of a comedy TV show.* ShoutOut:** In "Breaking News," Jack states that they have a "[[Series/{{Lost}} 4.8/15]]" ratings/share.** The opening episode, with its CreatorBreakdown rant, is a ShoutOut to Howard Beale's similar breakdown in the movie ''Film/{{Network}}''.* ShowWithinAShow* {{Showrunner}}* SorkinRelationshipMoment* SpitTake: there's a scene where all the comics compete backstage to deliver the best one. * StalkerWithACrush: Danny is one of these to Jordan for a while, but [[spoiler:as soon as he backs off they get together anyway.]]* StopBeingStereotypical: Simon is disappointed and almost depressed that a heavily praised black stand up comedian he has gone to see performs nothing but cliched racial humor and WhiteDudeBlackDude jokes (ironic given that those types of jokes are a big part of D.L. Hughley's stand-up comedy in real life). However, the comedian who goes on ''next'', though not very funny in that particular performance, has legitimately witty things to say and is recruited onto the the ''Studio 60'' writing staff to help nurture his talent and bring a new perspective to the show.* TakeOurWordForIt: We never see the sketches that are supposed to be bad -- "Peripheral Vision Man"; "Turkey won't Die" -- just informed that they were BAD. If they'd also left the "best" sketches off-screen, the idea that the ShowWithinAShow is generally hilarious would have gone down a lot easier.* TakeThat: All. The. Time.** The entire concept of the pilot is a massive Take That towards ABC (which cancelled ''Series/SportsNight'') and NBC (which ran ''Series/TheWestWing'', from which Sorkin ... "quit"). Matt Albie, the Sorkin self-insert, is an incredibly talented writer. People can't get over how talented he is. He's so talented and classy that they've just got to repeat it over and over again. Sadly, his intelligence and outspokenness are far superior to that of the network, which fires him, after which point his show steadily declines until they are forced to come grovelling back to him. Later, Jordan fights to pick up a pilot for a show written about the UN with striking similarities to ''The West Wing'', gushing over the excellent scripting.** Aaron Sorkin based the character of Harriet Hayes (the ex-girlfriend of his self-insert character Matt) on his ex-girlfriend Kristin Chenoweth (with permission), and aims several Take Thats at Chenoweth through the character's interactions, specifically regarding Chenoweth's decision to appear on ''Series/The700Club'' and an FHM bathing-suit photo-shoot of Chenoweth's, employing the other characters to lambaste Harriet for her decision to do a lingerie shoot. ** Also at former ''West Wing'' writer Rick Cleveland, with whom Sorkin had a public feud over "In Excelsis Deo", an episode which the two co-wrote. Cleveland is written into ''Studio 60'' as Ricky Tahoe. Ricky is time and again characterized as a hack, a nasty little man who publicly ostracized Matt over a controversial statement Matt had made. 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He's the token black, she's the token Christian.* UnderminedByReality: [[invoked]] One of the main contentions of Jordan's character is that high-budget, high-quality programming is truly what America wants, and the network will be successful if they avoid cheesy trashy reality programming. It turns out it isn't.* TheUnfavourite: Tom, compared to his soldier younger brother.* WalkAndTalk: Duh. It's a Sorkin show, after all.-->'''Danny:''' Can we have this conversation moving?* WhiteDudeBlackDude: Simon [[StopBeingStereotypical is dismayed]] to find a hotly tipped black stand-up's material is nothing but this.* [[WhosOnFirst Who's On First?]] Mentioned in 'The Wrap Party', where Tom is amazed that his parents somehow haven't heard of the routine. He starts trying to explain it (solo) before wisely deciding that "trying to describe it to you now is just going to turn into a whole new sketch".* WillTheyOrWontThey* {{Writer On Board}}: Want to know in excruciating detail what Creator/AaronSorkin thinks about any topic? Boy, is this the show for you!* WritersSuck: ** Unless they're named "Matt Albie".** No one else might think so, but Matt's usually convinced that he's tanking.----


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What's Mike Fernandez's Encore?
by Mike Vogel
Posted 5/1/2008
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As a teen, Mike Fernandez was a student of the rich, studying their personalities and gestures. The philharmonic, he says, "was a place where I went to learn what I wanted to be." [Photo: Eileen Escarda]
For years, Brian Moroney, a teacher at an elite Jesuit high school in Manhattan, took a few of his students to the New York Philharmonic to broaden their minds. Decades ago, one such student, Miguel B. "Mike" Fernandez, a Cuban refugee, particularly impressed Moroney with his maturity, his humility and how at peace he was with himself. "Nothing to prove," says Moroney, who was also struck by the freshman's devotion to the arts.
Fernandez Affiliates
Dental insurance provider Atlantic Dental, Coral Gables, 650,000 members, founded in 1997 by Fernandez. Slated to be sold later this year on undisclosed terms to dental benefits administrator Doral Dental.
Hospitalists of America, Coral Gables, a provider of 250 specialists in hospital care to 65 hospitals. Owned by Fernandez's private equity firm.
Medical Specialties Distributors, Stoughton, Mass., a medical supplies distributor, largely to the infusion therapy market. Purchased in 2005. $180 million in annual revenue.
Navarro Discount Pharmacies, Miami, 31 stores, 3,000 employees, $350 million in annual sales. Nation's largest Hispanic-owned pharmacy chain. Purchased a controlling interest in 2007. Added Sedano's Pharmacy & Discount stores, which have been converted into Navarro stores.
FDC Vitamins, Miami, vitamin manufacturer and distributor. Owned by Fernandez's private equity firm.
He learns well. His ventures in managed care and other healthcare enterprises over the past 15 years have returned an average 133% a year. He owns a mansion on Biscayne Bay, a 161-foot yacht, a home in Utah and a quail-hunting plantation in Tallahassee. He heads one of the largest Hispanic-run private equity funds in the United States. Later this year, after decades operating in the private company sphere, he will for the first time take a company, Critical Homecare Solutions, into the publicly traded market.
And, thanks to those philharmonic visits, his manner is to the manor born, 44 years removed from his childhood as a shopkeeper's son, living above a warehouse in a dirt-road town in southeast Cuba.
In 1964, when Fernandez was 12, his parents fled Cuba with him and his sister. Once in Manhattan, he earned admission to the prestigious, all-boys Xavier High School where Moroney taught. He was only a C student there. In college, he quit pre-architecture on the first day because the dean said the profession was about love of art, not doing well financially. Fernandez was drafted, joined the 82nd Airborne and never finished college.
In 1976, at 23, he was in Miami, selling life insurance. On the side, he was finding his path to fortune, selling healthcare insurance to Air Florida for its fewer than 50 employees. As he landed other airline clients and as Air Florida grew to employ thousands, Fernandez's commissions soared. He also met Cesar Alvarez, Air Florida's executive vice president, who later would lead one of Florida's largest law firms, Greenberg Traurig. Fernandez is "a great listener," Alvarez says. "He really likes to find out about things and how anything works."
Fernandez sold his airline healthcare insurance business — cashing out would become one of his hallmarks — but stumbled in his next venture, a database of group health insurance information that he expected agents would buy so they could comparison-shop for rates. Instead, insurers wanted it. "It took a couple years to figure that out," he says. "I told you I wasn't very smart."
As a prelude to a public offering, he had borrowed against his home. When the offering fell apart, he says, his accountant and attorney recommended he file for bankruptcy. Instead, to pay his creditors, he sold his home and his car and moved his family in with his parents. Alvarez, by that time at Greenberg Traurig, remembers Fernandez coming to ask about his recourse in the underwriting fiasco. "He was really hurting," says Alvarez. He counseled Fernandez that instead of spending up to eight years in a "negative way" litigating, he would do better by doing something positive with those years.
Fernandez with his wife, Constance. Fernandez's relaxed demeanor belies his drive to succeed. "My doctor will tell you that I internalize it," he says. [Photo: Eileen Escarda]
So Fernandez focused on building the company, selling it in 1990 to Ramsay HMO, for which he became an executive. In 1993, he founded a Tampa-based HMO, Physicians Healthcare Plans. He sold that company in 2002; the same year, he founded another HMO, CarePlus, which he sold in 2005. Together, the two sales grossed $607 million.
He and his co-investors in CarePlus gave $28 million of their take to employees to reward them for their contribution to CarePlus' success. Fernandez also has been a major donor to his high school alma mater and to the University of Miami and local non-profits. "The opportunity this country gives to people who are not born here is unique," Fernandez says. "I could not have gone from Cuba to France and been accepted the way I was accepted here. I could not have gone from Cuba to Venezuela. Only America is such a unique, wonderful, vibrant, beautiful country (where) things happen magically."
His thinking was reinforced by the fear and economic stagnation he saw in 1998 on a return to Cuba to visit his dying grandfather. In his old home, he found a family still using the same furniture his parents had left 34 years earlier. A childhood friend still rode the same bicycle Fernandez left in 1964. Another friend became a hero to the regime fighting for Cuba in Angola, but then had been jailed for five years for taking milk from his barracks for his daughter.
As soon as Fernandez cashed out of CarePlus in 2005, he formed a $240-million private equity firm, MBF Partners, with two executives he had known for years, Marcio Cabrera and Jorge Rico. They sift through 300 companies a year to find a handful that suit their parameters: Operating healthcare service companies — no startups — with $5 million to $25 million in annual earnings, companies to which the partners can contribute expertise as well as capital.
Fernandez, a strategist and deal maker, also is strong operationally, "which is unusual," says Coral Gables developer Armando Codina. Says fellow entrepreneur Carlos Saladrigas, "He can see an opportunity when other people will pass by."
To go after more opportunity, Fernandez and his partners raised $172.5 million in 2007 to start a blank-check company called MBF Healthcare Acquisition Corp. The blank-check vehicle is a tactic used by Fernandez's longtime investor and friend, Phil Frost, founder of generic drug maker Ivax, as a fast, low-cost way to raise money and take a private company public. Joining Fernandez's board were Saladrigas, Roger Medel, founder of Sunrise-based neonatal physician provider Pediatrix, and Antonio Argiz, managing partner of Miami-based CPA firm Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra.
Fernandez's blank-check plans to pay $420 million to buy a fast-growing private firm, Critical Homecare Solutions, based in Conshohocken, Pa. The company, with $210 million in annualized revenue, acquires home infusion therapy providers and aims to be the leading infusion therapy company in the nation. The market for infusion therapy outside the hospital setting is $11 billion to $13 billion a year and is highly fragmented, with 1,000 to 1,200 providers, says Russ Bodoff, executive director of the National Home Infusion Association. But it's consolidating. Walgreens recently spent $850 million to acquire Illinois-based infusion therapy provider OptionCare.
Critical Homecare, says Fernandez, serves 19,000 patients from 65 branches and has before-tax earnings of $43 million. The fourth-largest home infusion provider in the country, the company has better margins than its three larger rivals and is moving toward higher-margin therapies. The four largest providers have only 25% of the total market share, he says, meaning there's plenty of room to grow.
In an interview, Fernandez is solicitous, self-effacing and relaxed — the antithesis of the driven entrepreneur. "My doctor will tell you that I internalize it," he smiles. And, he adds, "My personal life has suffered." A father of five, he shows off a picture of his young son, whom he brought to a business meeting. He loved it when the youngster asked, "What is selling short?" The ringtone on his cell phone is a quack — programmed by one of his children. But the beaming father also is thrice divorced.
Last year, Fernandez's high school invited him to give the school commencement address at St. Patrick's Cathedral. He says he usually refuses speech-making but made an exception. "I think it's good for (students) to see that a guy of mediocre intelligence can get ahead. I'm not that smart, and I made my mistakes, and I almost went broke once, and I had to move in with my parents and I still pushed ahead." While there, he also came clean to Moroney, who's now retired, about his ulterior motive for attending the philharmonic. Did any of Moroney's intended enrichment stick? Fernandez smiles. "After listening to these things for four years, I do like classical music today."
Healthcare System Rx
"If I had a solution as to what ails the healthcare system in the U.S., I would be the next president — oops! I can't be, as I was not born here."
So says (actually, e-mails) Mike Fernandez. But press him for a cure, and he has a few ideas. First, as a private-market guy, he's not in favor of universal government insurance. "The system obviously is not working right," he says, but he also notes the long waits in Canada for an MRI, even for tumor cases (a median of 10 weeks, according to the Fraser Institute, an independent research organization). "Our system is still a very good one."
He favors national reinsurance to cover insurers for customers' catastrophic conditions. He argues that insurance is so expensive because 20% of cases generate 80% of costs. This pushes up premiums, leading the young and healthy to skip coverage, which in turn leads to the risk pool being distorted by too many ill and old. If government reinsured for the expensive minority of cases, everyday health insurance would drop in cost, leading more healthy people to purchase it and therefore spreading the risk. As a bonus, insurers could concentrate on preventive care, further lowering costs.
One other thought. Even now, "very few go untreated." Those without insurance may suffer through long waits at a public hospital, but they receive care. Unfortunately, the cost is passed on to taxpayers and insurance-covered patients. "There is a financing mechanism in place to take care of the uninsured, but it's all screwed up."


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My fifteen-year-old daughter is starting college today.
It's not that we try to be overachievers. I've noticed that we are not alone in pushing our kids to do more, faster.
This morning's paper talks about how middle school kids can earn high school credit if they extend class time by 10 minutes. That's it? That's the difference between a high school class and a middle school class?
One friend's son is hoping to get into a program where he takes classes at DeVry for the last two years of high school. He won't go to high school. He'll only go to DeVry and then he'll graduate from high school with an associate's degree.
What's the rush?
Why do our kids need high school credit in middle school and college credit in high school?
A similar program stretches high school to five years, but again, once they graduate they will have an associate's degree. What are they going to do with that extra year? Will they simply finish four-year colleges at 21? Does that mean they are rushing out to the job market?
Maybe that gives them an extra year to backpack around Europe and Asia or join the Peace Corps or City Year. Maybe they will take that extra year that we rushed them through and give something back to the community.
But I wonder if they'll even know how to relax once we finish pushing them to their full potential.
Grace is terrified to step into that college classroom this morning. She is taking biology and French.
We have homeschooled since Grace was in first grade. Now she thinks she might want to go to high school next year as a sophomore. Looking at what she has studied, I figured she needed a language and a science credit, thus the biology and the French class.
And, I'm not worried about how well she'll do in class. She's smart. She can keep up academically.
It's just getting her to take that first step across the threshold and preventing myself from shoving too hard.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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The two brightest stars in La Liga are experiencing different kinds of luck as one of them is dominating the league, while the other is struggling to find the back of the net.
Lionel Messi's Barcelona have won each and every one of their games, while Los Blancos have already dropped seven points at home, causing them to aim for a comeback during the later half of the season.
Regarding Messi, "La Pulga" has accomplished something that didn't happen in La Liga since 1950, after scoring his 11th goal this season in just seven games.
With 11 goals so far Messi has scored more than 13 teams in #LaLigaSantander! pic.twitter.com/284UK5fiRV— LaLiga (@LaLigaEN) October 2, 2017
On the other side of the table, Cristiano Ronaldo's ban from earlier this season has taken a toll on the striker's form, at least in league games. The Portuguese ace has signed his worst start of a season, as he's failed to score for 270 minutes. His longest La Liga drought came in the 2010-11 season, where he struggled to score for 255 minutes.
22 - Cristiano Ronaldo has attempted more shots without scoring than any other player in La Liga this season (four on target). Shocking. pic.twitter.com/9LxFxFQf2V— OptaJose (@OptaJose) October 1, 2017
Los Blaugranas have dominated the opposition in La Liga with what could be record-breaking numbers if they can keep it up.
.@FCBarcelona have won all 7 @LaLigaEN games this season by an aggregate score of 23-2— Sky Sports Statto (@SkySportsStatto) October 1, 2017
Sevilla is the team closest to the top, but Barcelona's flawless run makes it complicated for any team to get near. Valencia and Atlético complete the top four, while Real Madrid's slow start forces them to bounce back if they want to retain the title.
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Greek cosmology is wide and depicts the universe and the world as having a limit both on it's sky and ground, the sky limit is known as Heaven of Heavens and it's opposite end, which lies beneath all the world, is the Underworld. The Heaven and any other realm above it, are sustained by the Pillars of Heaven while the Underworld and the rest of the world is hold together by the Pillars of Earth.
Locations in Greek cosmology
Earth and above:
- Earth: Known as Midgard is Norse mythology, Earth is the central realm, place or location in Greek mythology, been the middle point between the Heavens, inhabited by the Olympian gods, and the Underworld.
- Firmament with the Stars: Location in which the stars, the sun, the planets and the constellations are located.
- Ocean of Heaven: Created and ruled by the Titans Oceanus and Thetys, it is a great river encircling the earth, which was believed to be a flat circle. This ocean was inhabited by nymphs known as the Oceanids, which were Oceanus' and Thetys' daughters, and the gods of all the streams on earth were their sons.
- Heaven of Heavens: The highest location in Greek cosmology.
- Pillars of Heaven: Supported by the titan Atlas, these pillars hold the heavens.
Under the Earth:
- Underworld: Also known as Hades, is the realm where the souls of the dead go and is ruled by Hades.
- Pillars of Earth: Also supported by Atlas, this pillars hold the Earth.
- Primeval Ocean: Cosmic ocean which surrounds the Earth and it's pillars.
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First Camaro ZL1 Ever Built Auctioned For $400,000
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The cars nearly bankrupted him, but if Fred Gibb is known for anything among Chevrolet performance enthusiasts, it's for convincing Chevrolet to fit the storied all-aluminum ZL1 427-cu.in. V-8 into a handful of Camaros, thus creating one of the fiercest and fastest cars on the dragstrip. Recently, the first of those cars hammered at Mecum's Spring Classic auction in Indianapolis for $400,000, a figure some are already calling the deal of a lifetime.
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On a day when the state attorney general asked the Colorado Supreme Court to order the Boulder clerk to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses, Denver's clerk refused to record a license to a couple after a judge married them.
"It's absolutely discriminatory," said Tennisia Littleton, 37, who was married to Jessica Chavez-Broberg, 36, on Monday by Denver County Judge Mary Celeste.
The couple had gone to the clerk's office July 11, received paperwork and were told they could marry and that the license would be recorded, she said.
Colorado's Supreme Court ordered the Denver clerk to stop issuing the licenses on July 18, but its instructions didn't include Boulder or Pueblo counties, which were also issuing licenses, in its ruling.
"John Suthers doesn't simply stand behind our state's discriminatory law, but continues to confuse and stand in the way of equality," Denver Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson, said in a release Monday.
Mayor Michael Hancock and Johnson also released a video calling for marriage equality.
VIDEO: Mayor and clerk call for marriage equality.
"Enabling legal discrimination is not a legacy we want our state to be remembered by. Hopefully, this video will give perspective — and remind us of the lessons learned," Johnson said.
The request for the court to force Boulder Clerk Hillary Hall to cease issuing licenses is the latest salvo in Suthers' battle to defend the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage.
"The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals stated that marriage is a fundamental right and today the 4th Circuit issued an opinion coming to the same conclusion. I think the least harmful and most sensible solution is tocontinue to issue marriage licenses in order to avoid more potential civil rights violations," Hall said in a statement.
Last week, the Colorado Court of Appeals denied Suthers' similar request to stop Hall.
Boulder Clerk and Recorder spokeswoman Jane Culkin said Monday that Hall "does not have a comment at this time."
Pueblo County agreed to stop issuing the licenses after the AG's office threatened further legal action.
The Denver City Attorney's Office advised Clerk Debra Johnson that in light of the state Supreme Court's emergency injunction, her office shouldn't record or issue licenses to same-sex couples, Porter said.
"To be sure, the attorney general had expected that other clerks, acting on behalf of the state, would understand that an order directing the Denver clerk to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses would counsel against other clerks engaging in identical conduct."
Hall's office has issued 199 same-sex marriage licenses since June 25, after the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Utah's ban unconstitutional.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order that prevents gay marriages from going forward in Utah for now.
If the state Supreme Court denies Suthers' request it would "affirm that state officials can ignore laws they personally find disagreeable," the filing said.
"The state has had no choice but to pursue an additional court order providing for the uniform application of Colorado's marriage laws pending final determination of the constitutional claims for same-sex marriage," according to Suthers' request to the state Supreme Court.
The issue continued to evolve elsewhere in the country Monday, as a federal appeals court panel ruled 2 to 1 that Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage and refusal to recognize such marriages in other states is unconstitutional.
The three-member panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond said that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed under the Constitution.
"We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable," said Circuit Judge Henry F. Floyd. "However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and equal protection of the laws. Civil marriage is one of the cornerstones of our way of life."
DOCUMENT: Read the attorney general's motion.
Tom McGhee: 303-954-1671, email@example.com or twitter.com/dpmcghee
The Associated Press contributed to this report


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Don Anair
Don Anair is the Research and Deputy Director for the Clean Vehicles Program, working on state and national transportation, air quality, and global warming policy. As part of his work on heavy-duty vehicle issues, Mr. Anair analyzes the impact of diesel pollution on public health and air quality. He is the author of three reports, "Sick of Soot," "Digging Up Trouble," and "Delivering the Green," which focus on the impacts and solutions to reduce diesel emissions. He is also an advocate for groundbreaking diesel clean-up and greenhouse gas efforts in the state and around the country, including regulations, incentive programs, and legislation.
Based in UCS's Oakland office, Mr. Anair also evaluates hybrid and advanced vehicle technologies and is co-author of State of Charge—a report which evaluates the global warming emissions and fuel cost savings of electric vehicles throughout the United States— and the Hybrid Scorecard. Mr. Anair represents UCS on California's Plug-in Electric Vehicle Collaborative and frequently blogs on advanced vehicle technology and freight transportation issues.
Mr. Anair holds a bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University. As a member of Cornell's Formula Society of Automotive Engineers vehicle team, he helped design and manufacture an award winning alternative fuel race car.


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Topic: Northern Lights Auto (Sensi)
Posted: 11 February 2014 at 18:16
Currently I've started growing a Northern Lights Automatic seed from Sensi.
I will be using a few nutrients such as BioGrow and bat guano.
It's my 1st time doing this so I thought to share with you.
1) I've prepared a medium - size pot with 6 teaspoons of bat guano.
2) The soil is taken from a neighbour's garden.
3) I will be growing in a balcony with some other plants around.
I've put the seed into the soil 4 days ago and it has started germination (cotyledons are open and the 1st pair of true leaves is starting to shape).
Since I've planted it I also used a plastic dome on top of the pot which I probably assume helped early germinating.
The temperature the first 2 days was around 14°C daytime and around 6°C at night while the next two days where around 15 - 17° and 9 - 10° overnight.
I will upload photos in the next few days.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 12 February 2014 at 13:13
Ok these are some photos I've uploaded.
Today is 5 days from seed and this is how it looks like.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 17 February 2014 at 13:33
Hi Rattlesnake, good to see you have started your grow.
Next time... it's better to use a commercial potting mix rather than yard soil. Yard soils don't work terribly well in pots as they are usually to dense and become compacted with regular watering. Cannabis likes a good amount of air in the medium, otherwise the roots don't get enough oxygen.
I wouldn't suggest you move the seedling now, it's just something to consider for your next plant.
Something you could do now is top up the pot with soil to one cm below the cotyledons, roots will grow from the stem once it has been covered in soil and your plant will be more stable in the pot.
All the best for the season
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|Quote Reply Posted: 14 March 2014 at 11:53
Hi rattlesnakeGR.
If you use soil from a garden it should be cooked in water to kill
Insects.its done in a bucket. In nature.. in a garden.. there are predators in your pots not.
Thats why its easier to usepotsoil too.
Germination was done very well. Darkness is very important for roots and germing seeds.
Why is your name rattlesnakeGR.. are you a fan of martiniGR?
NEW HASH PICTURES In the photogallery!them. New law march 2015: if you have a grow question then send me a private message.
I will give no grow info in public anymore.
Sensi Seedling
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|Quote Reply Posted: 06 April 2014 at 01:56
Not it's just that GR defines country xD
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