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DFLer Al Franken on Monday defended his victory in the U.S. Senate election trial, telling the Minnesota Supreme Court there is no evidence that problems with absentee voting affected the outcome of the race.
Responding to Republican Norm Coleman's appeal to the high court, Franken denied that variations in the way counties handled absentee ballots deprived some voters of their constitutional right of equal protection. Franken said the variations were "reasonable" and "minor" and not unconstitutional.
"The different procedures were consistent with the different resources, personnel and technology available to each county and city," Franken's camp said.
Franken also said Coleman's lawyers never adequately raised a constitutional due process argument in seven weeks of testimony during the trial.
Coleman claimed a due process violation during closing arguments, saying the three-judge panel that heard the trial imposed different standards for counting ballots than were used during the election and recount.
Franken said Coleman should have raised the issue in a more serious manner earlier in the trial if he wanted it to be considered.
Coleman spokesman Tom Erickson did not have an immediate reaction to the Franken argument, contained in a document filed Monday with the state Supreme Court. Coleman is expected to file a rebuttal this week. Oral arguments are scheduled for June 1.
The three-judge panel ruled unanimously on April 13 in favor of Franken and said he was entitled to an election certificate to be seated in the Senate.
In the document filed Monday, Franken's lawyers asked the justices to uphold the panel's ruling and order Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Secretary of State Mark Ritchie to issue an election certificate promptly.
The high court earlier ruled that an election certificate could not be issued until after the state court case. But Pawlenty has left open the possibility that he might not issue a certificate if a federal appeal is ongoing.
An elections law expert who has followed the case said it's possible the Minnesota Supreme Court will take a middle road.
"It could well be that if the state Supreme Court sides with Franken, it will order the issuance of a certificate after a short time, enough time for Coleman to seek a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court," wrote Richard Hasen, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, in his Election Law blog.
Over the weekend, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, said Coleman would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if he loses at the state level. "This does not end until there's a final ruling that speaks to whether or not those votes that have not been counted should be counted," Steele told the National Journal. "And Norm Coleman will not, will not jump out of this race before that."
For his part, Coleman hasn't said whether he would pursue his effort into the federal courts. He also hasn't ruled out such a move.
Focus on absentee ballots
At the state level, Coleman is appealing a series of orders by the trial panel that ultimately gave Franken a 312-vote lead. Franken had led by 225 votes after the recount.
Coleman's appeal focuses mostly on absentee ballots, arguing that at least 4,900 that were excluded by the panel during the trial should be counted. Those ballots, he said, are similar to flawed ballots counted by local officials on Election Day.
But Franken countered that Coleman failed to prove that most of those ballots were cast by registered voters and said the panel wasn't authorized to open and count absentee ballots that don't comply with Minnesota law.
Franken defended the panel's decision requiring absentee voters to comply strictly with the requirements of Minnesota election law, saying absentee voting is a privilege and not a right like voting in person.
While Coleman said some counties allowed the kinds of ballots that others rejected -- sometimes in error -- Franken said the variations were well within the range accepted by courts. "If ... minor variations in election procedures or minor errors ... were held to be a Constitutional wrong, it would be virtually impossible for a state to conduct an election administered at the precinct and county level," the Franken document said.
He cited court decisions that said an election law infraction "is not fatal" in the absence of proof that it affected the outcome or was intentionally discriminatory or the result of "fraud or bad faith."
He noted that the panel found Coleman "failed to prove that any alleged irregularity actually affected the election's outcome."
Hasen said in an interview that the argument could be crucial to the Supreme Court. He said it could conclude that Coleman "hasn't demonstrated that there were problems of such magnitude ... that would require sending it back to the lower court for additional counting or for ordering a new election."
Other arguments
While absentee ballots are at the center of the dispute, Franken also rebutted a Coleman claim that the DFLer benefited when 132 ballots disappeared from a Minneapolis precinct and officials relied on Election Day machine totals for the recount.
The document disputes Coleman's claim that problems with the Senate election were comparable to those in the 2000 presidential election, in which the U.S. Supreme Court intervened on grounds of equal protection.
"The cases remain factually distinct on numerous, significant grounds," the document said.
Election and constitutional law experts Fred Morrison of the University of Minnesota, Guy-Uriel Charles of Duke University Law School and Hasen said Monday that it's unlikely Coleman will prevail before the state Supreme Court because he hasn't proven violation of constitutional rights or state elections law.
"I thought Coleman had an uphill battle, and it's only reinforced by my reading of the Franken brief," Hasen said.
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OK, so the best article that ever has been and probably ever will be written about me is in the Chicago Tribune today. (Thank you, Nara Schoenberg!!!) If you live in the area, you should totally go pick up a hard copy to see the hilarious photo on the cover of the "Live" section. (ETA: Or see below. But go buy it anyway for the sake of the people who work there.) Nara called me a couple of weeks ago and said, "You know, we have some photos of you on file from the RedEye article, but they don't really capture your attitude. Or your… sort of commanding, regal quality." To which I replied, "SNORF."
Here is a list of actual questions Nara asked me after that:
- Do you have anything in your house that's… throne-like?
- What kind of pink fruity drinks do you like?
- Would you consider wearing a tiara?
(Answers: No; fruity-tinis and champagne cocktails; I would consider it, but that doesn't mean I'll do it.)
So we set up a shoot at Vive la Femme, because that is where a fat girl in Chicago goes when she needs to be photographed wearing a cocktail dress she doesn't own, holding a glass of "champagne" (ginger ale), on a black couch with leopard print pillows and a faux-fur throw, in front of a bright pink wall. Stephanie even did a quick "alteration" with paper clips to make the dress fit better through the bust, then helpfully kept reminding me to keep my arm in front of the fucking paper clips for the photos. They are running one FULL-SERVICE OPERATION over there, I'll tell you what.
Anyway. I can't get the photo scanned until later, but in the meantime, Fillyjonk's whipped up a piece of art to give you the general idea. (This is a picture of my first trial run for hair and make-up for the upcoming wedding reception. I say first trial run, because I felt like such a clown done up like this, I scrambled to find another salon to try before I left Minneapolis, and I'll be going with the second. Keep in mind that in photos, the 90 lbs. of black eyeliner and purple eyeshadow actually look MORE SUBTLE.)
All hail the queen.
(And no, it was not remotely my idea to title myself "Queen of the Fat-o-sphere," for the record, but I do find it hilarious.)
UPDATE THE SECOND: Al said y'all managed to "pound [his] cable modem flat" within 10 minutes after I put up the links to the PDF. So scratch that. Here's the picture, by Antonio Perez — who was completely awesome.
Oh, and as always, for the love of Maude, don't read the comments at the Trib.

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While I agree with parts of Jeffrey Ian Ross' recent commentary on gun violence, I do not agree with his conclusions about how to address it and live with it ("Ending mass shootings: It's not just about more or better laws," Sept. 22).
I agree that enacting gun laws can curb the number of guns out there and the amount of gun violence. I also appreciate the poke he takes at the logic and culture of violence in America — that maybe we accept violence as "American" and part of our "freedom."
Mr. Ross also correctly points out the power of the gun lobby in America, an industry connected to the massive international arms trade as well. We are the most violent of all developed countries by far, not to mention also having the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world.
But his conclusion is that we need to teach people to reason, because the law isn't going to change. I am all for teaching reasoning, but I feel that in the end, this is the same argument as the gun lobby's and our leaders': "You can't change gun laws in America, so try to live with it. Learn to duck and cover."
He points out correctly that anyone can run over people with a car and that it's important to understand that we could die at any time. But this isn't the same issue as gun violence. It's the same thing told to people living in high-crime neighborhoods — nothing will change, nothing will help, so adopt a philosophical attitude and focus on yourself. We'll do a "20/20" episode on your courage.
But there doesn't seem to be a "big change in attitude" coming — and even if it did, it would have to face powerful opposing interests. Saying there's a big change in attitude seems a bit like giving a well-meaning, hopeful pep talk at a school before encouraging kids to join an "anti-violence, personal responsibility" campaign.
We are a very violent nation, and in order to change there will have to be change from the ground up. Noam Chomsky, along with others, believes that the vast majority of Americans are much more to the left of the government, and he sites poll numbers to show it. This is why the news has to have sympathetic stories on gun violence — because so many people are upset about it.
If this is true, and I believe it is, it means that the democratic will of the people isn't being served but rather subverted. There are powers that want to keep things violent, keep incarceration rates up and keep people in poverty that disproportionately affects minorities, and they spread disinformation, influence and money keep society that way.
Opinions about guns that make the news are very confusing and contradictory. Historically, when the Black Panthers showed up at a government building exercising their right to bear arms, or when Malcolm X encouraged African-Americans to join gun clubs, there was a major change in legislation, veering in favor of gun control.
I can read one newspaper article about a state allowing people to "open carry" as a constitutional right, and in the same paper there will be shock and outrage when a kid is found with a shotgun in his trunk at school.
If "gangs" have guns, that's bad, but if non-gang people are openly carrying guns it's OK. It seems it's not always the case that "people kill people, not guns," but what we do know that access to guns increases the chance of mass slaughter.
A better resolution would be for us to teach Americans that they can and should be heard. We need intellectuals and leaders to help us understand what is actually happening in our country, and to compare it with other countries so come up with more creative solutions.
But I suspect that this will not happen — that just as our leaders can't figure out the "unsolvable, unfortunate" problems of the poor in this country they won't ever figure out the connection between gun violence and the massive ownership of guns.
Instead, the main message will be don't organize, don't protest and focus on yourself and your family —which leaves us all powerless.
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AnotherHowie necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 53 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
I'm looking for a crisp, clean logo for my open source network monitoring application. I have a few ideas, but open to anything that fits!
My open source project has gotten to the stage where it needs a nice logo, which will also form part of a site redesign. Rather than do the usual open-source method of a user-competition, I thought I'd let the pros try, and re-distribute some of my advertising revenue :-)
I'm looking for a roughly-square logo, or something that can have a square variation (for icons, badges, etc) and text/tagline header (this kind of shape with a seperatable logo, but actually I don't particularly like that logo).
The project is Network Weathermap. The tagline is currently "See everything". What it does is create live network diagrams showing traffic on your network, using data from your existing monitoring system. It's not exclusively for networks (I use it to draw temperature maps, for example), but that's the current focus.
Previous attempts by me to get this done have involved some sort of visual pun with the standard router icon (circle with a cross/arrows) and weather symbols. I toyed briefly with something that was half football strategy blackboard (x's, o's and arrows) and again with the router icons. I couldn't get anything useful out of those, but that's not to say it couldn't be done.
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- anything *too* weathery - I don't want to give the impression that it really is something to do with rain and snow!
- doesn't need to fit with the existing site - that's just a template that will be going soon, driven partly by the new logo.
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From the archives 2005: Top 10 Habs - No. 6 Larry Robinson: Big Bird
Robinson was complete package on the ice and special for a lot of reasons
Editor's note: This story was originally published in January 2005.
When the NHL lockout finally ends, Red Fisher will begin his 50th season on the Canadiens beat. In this feature series, which concludes today, Red picks his Top 10 Habs from the last half-century.
MONTREAL - Among the 24 Stanley Cups the Canadiens have won, none stands out as much as the one in 1970-71. It came after the season they missed the playoffs, which was a big disappointment. They had won in 1969, but on the second-to-last day of the season they were in third place, yet lost out in a goal average on the last day. But the team rebounded the next year, beating what was one of the great teams in the NHL.
"Nobody gave them much of a chance against Boston in the first round," GM Sam Pollock told me recently. "They had finished first, we had finished third. They had 121 points, we had 97. They had Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito at their best. They had won the Cup the year before and it seemed that nobody would be able to beat them."
"It was great for a lot of reasons," Pollock added. "It was Jean Beliveau's final year. John Ferguson retired. Ken Dryden came to the team very late that season. Pete Mahovlich established himself as an up-and-coming great player. We traded for Frank Mahovlich in January. There was a coaching change (Al MacNeil replaced Claude Ruel) during the season. Henri Richard got two big goals in that last game in Chicago."
Pollock didn't know it at the time, but the best was yet to come, starting with the Canadiens' No. 1 overall acquisition of Guy Lafleur in the 1971 draft, the first of three first-round choices. (Chuck Arnason had been selected No. 7 and Murray Wilson No. 11.) However, nobody had the slightest idea that Pollock's fourth choice, No. 20 overall, would develop into the second-best defenceman in Canadiens history.
Larry Robinson had the size (6-foot-4, 225 pounds) but how was anyone to suspect the first of only two players drafted from Kitchener's junior team (Ted Scharf, taken No. 50 overall by Philadelphia, never made it to the NHL) would go on to score 208 goals and 750 assists in 1,384 games? Who would have thought he would play a leadership role on six Stanley Cup teams in his 17 seasons with the Canadiens, win the Norris Trophy twice and the Conn Smythe in 1978, following the third of the team's four consecutive championship seasons?
He was the complete package in every facet of the game. He was a physical presence, as unflinching as a tree while punishing people with his bodychecks.
In his book, Robinson on Defence, Robinson recalled his hit on Philadelphia's Gary Dornhoefer, a thunderous bodycheck fans with long memories recall even to this day. It happened in the third period of Game 2 of the 1973 playoffs:
"Dorny and I had hammered each other at will. It seems as if we had an unspoken agreement: whenever we met on the ice, it would be a collision. There was no animosity, just two pros acknowledging that the other had a job to do.
"We were leading 2-1 midway through the third when Dorny led a rush up Philadelphia's right side. I was playing left defence and I angled towards him, trying to get a hip into him. He was just inside our blue line when I got my hip into him. Bang into the boards he went, and down he went. When he got up, he was looking at the boards curiously ... we had broken the boards, as it turned out. There was this big dent near the top. Players on both teams skated by the area, sneaking looks and shaking their heads.
"After the game," Robinson wrote, "Gary took great pains to tell the reporters that 'Robinson hits like a pussycat.' "
Like most players in the Canadiens organization, you don't make the roster by divine right. For Robinson, there was an apprenticeship to serve in the minors with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs for one full season and the first half of a second. And, like so many others who finally were called up to play alongside the established stars, there was a waiting period before his anointment as a regular. For example, even though he played regularly starting with his first game on Jan. 8, 1973 against the visiting Minnnesota North Stars, Robinson wasn't used in the first round of the playoffs against Buffalo and played only one shift in the first game against Philadelphia in a losing cause when Rick MacLeish scored in overtime.
Robinson didn't start logging substantial ice time until the third period of the second game (when Jacques Laperriere was injured). That's when the real Big Bird was born with his thunderous bodycheck on Dornhoefer, and wouldn't you know it: he tied the series with an overtime goal. He was to earn his first Stanley Cup ring when the Canadiens handled Chicago in six games. His first Norris Trophy and third ring came four seasons later after an exceptional regular season that included 19 goals and 66 assists, as well as an astonishing league-leading plus-120.
Robinson was special for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was that while he punished people with his body, he cared deeply for the players alongside him and always regarded the opposition with respect. "Team" was what he was all about. So was winning, which is why in recent years there has been an increasing outcry for Robinson's jersey to join those of seven other Canadiens whose numbers have been retired.
It was a question I put to current Canadiens owner George Gillett during a team practice in Calgary.
"I've talked to some of the players whose numbers have been retired," Gillett said. "They've told me the standards have gone down."
"You mean somebody like Robinson, who was voted to the all-time Canadiens team of the last half-century, doesn't deserve to have his number retired?" he was asked.
Gillett merely shrugged.
The next day in Vancouver, Gillett did some backchecking. "I heard you loud and clear in Calgary yesterday," he said. "Loud and clear ..."
That was two years ago, so maybe the message wasn't sufficiently "loud and clear." The fact is, though, that Robinson's number almost surely would have been retired this season - if there had been one.
"When Larry arrived, he gave our team a whole new dimension," says his longtime defence partner Serge Savard, later his GM. "He was big, he was strong, he could skate, he could score goals and he could fight. When he arrived, I became more of a defensive defenceman. Offensively, with Larry around, I was able to pick my spots.
"You could say Larry was a dream player: he had the size, the shot, the skating, the ability - and he was easy to manage," Savard added. "He was good for the team in every way. He made it easy to play with him."
The popular notion is that the reason his number hasn't been retired is that he was an unhappy camper when he left the Canadiens for the Los Angeles Kings, where he played for three seasons. Not so, Savard insists.
"I offered him a better deal than the Kings did," Savard said. "I offered him a two-year deal and I told him if he didn't want to play the second year, that was all right."
That is what Savard was saying about his longtime partner only recently. This is what Ken Dryden had to say about Robinson two decades ago in The Game, the best hockey book ever written:
"He was the rare player whose effect on a game was far greater than any statistical or concrete contribution he might make. When he came onto the ice, the attitude of the play seemed to change. Standing in back of him, I could feel it, I could see it change, growing more restrained, more respectful, as if it was waiting for him to see what he would do.
"Nowhere was this more clear, or more important, than against the Flyers or the Bruins. They held him in such awe, treating him with an embarrassing, almost fawning, respect, that they seemed even to abandon their style of play when he was around, and with it any hope of winning.
"Each time we played them, I knew that an outraged Fred Shero or Don Cherry would send out players to hunt him, to hammer him into the boards with elbows and sticks, to fight with him if he would let them until, bruised and sweating, his mystique could only come crashing down.
"But they never did," Dryden wrote.
Robinson's Claim to Fame
Stanley Cup six-time winner
James Norris Trophy 1977, 1980
Conn Smythe Trophy 1978
Inducted into Hall of Fame 1995
Red Fisher's Top 10 Canadiens
Red's Top 10 Canadiens combined to win 71 Stanley Cups. Here's a look at the players profiled in this feature series:
No. 10: Serge Savard won eight Stanley Cups and was a member of the Big Three on defence with Guy Lapointe and Larry Robinson.
No. 9: Dickie Moore, a six-time Stanley Cup champion, won back-to-back scoring titles during the 1950s.
No. 8: Bob Gainey won five Stanley Cups and was one of the best defensive forwards in NHL history.
No. 7: Bernard (Boom Boom) Geoffrion, a member of six Stanley Cup teams, was the second NHL player to score 50 goals in a season.
No. 6: Defenceman Larry Robinson could do it all - skate, score and fight - en route to six Stanley Cups.
No. 5: Henri Richard won 11 Stanley Cups, an NHL record.
No. 4: Doug Harvey was the best defenceman of his time and played a key role on six Stanley Cup teams.
No. 3: Guy Lafleur, who won three NHL scoring titles, could electrify an audience like no other player with his speed and shot and was on five Stanley Cup teams.
No. 2: The legendary Maurice (Rocket) Richard was more than just a hockey player to Canadiens fans while winning eight Stanley Cups.
No. 1: Jean Beliveau spent 18 seasons with the Canadiens, winning 10 Stanley Cups while displaying unmatched class on and off the ice.
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Dale Jr., sister share Earnhardt stories on podcast
It's been a revelatory year for Kelley Earnhardt Miller.
The oldest daughter of the late Dale Earnhardt shared a soul-baring conversation about the seven-time NASCAR champion with her grandmother, who advised, "I hope you never lose a child. It's like losing part of yourself."
She nearly was brought to tears by her half-brother, Kerry, who recounted being a jumble of nerves on the day he turned 16 and drove to their father's house to meet Kelley for the first time.
She dished with Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s girlfriend about the nocturnal habits and living arrangements of NASCAR's 11-time most popular driver.
All of these discussions, which move from topics intensely personal to borderline embarrassing, are available for public consumption and dissection via the click of a website on Fast Lane Family. The newest addition to Earnhardt Jr.'s burgeoning Dirty Mo Radio podcast lineup is hosted by his older sister.
"The hard part of the candor is just knowing that not everyone is going to agree with you or respect your position, and that's something as an Earnhardt we've dealt with all our lives," Earnhardt Miller told USA TODAY Sports. "And the older you get, the more comfortable you get with that. We can just be real, and there's no need to sugar coat or fancy it up.
"Through his personality and the person he was, my dad really laid the groundwork for connecting with people, and we paid attention (and) are carrying that on through. He really set the stage for being real."
Earnhardt's legacy was a theme during the 24th episode of Fast Lane Family, which went live Wednesday on DaleJr.com and iTunes and marked the debut of Earnhardt Jr. on his older sister's show. "I'd love to know what he thinks about my racing," Earnhardt Jr. said on the heels of Sunday's win at Pocono Raceway.
His father certainly would be impressed by the Internet savvy of his children, who co-own the JR Motorsports team where the podcast originates.
Dirty Mo Radio expanded to five days a week this year and has enjoyed a 926% increase in downloads (which exceed 100,000 per month). The Dale Jr. Download, the flagship podcast that features weekly updates from Earnhardt Jr. and amusing fan reactions that range from poignant to unhinged, is up more than 218% over the total downloads from the entire first season last year.
"I feel like I'm tooting my own horn a little bit, but I think JR Motorsports does a lot of things better and a little different and smarter than what I see a lot of other companies do," Earnhardt Jr. told USA TODAY Sports. "We've got a lot of smart people who are creative and like to have fun. I think we're doing a lot of neat stuff."
This year's breakout star has been his older sister, 41, who also manages his business affairs in addition to being the general manager of JRM.
With a lineup of guests varying from Earnhardt family members to NASCAR wives such as DeLana Harvick, Krissie Newman and Erin Evernham, Fast Lane Family already had doubled the downloads for Dale Jr. Download's inaugural year through half of its slated episodes.
Earnhardt Jr. credits much of the success to his sister, who has revealed an affable and engaging side as an interviewer deftly handling serious subject matter (particularly in an episode with former driver Shawna Robinson discussing her battle with cancer).
"She has been able to come out of her shell," said Earnhardt, 39. "It doesn't seem like that's her forte or where she feels most comfortable, but she's become a different person through doing the podcast. She's already pretty badass being the businesswoman she is, but I think it's given her confidence and empowered her."
It also has been a financial boon for JRM, which has picked up several sponsors for Dirty Mo Radio (adding Charlie's Soap last month as the title sponsor for Fast Lane Family).
"My ultimate goal for it is to propel JRM in some manner," Earnhardt Miller said. "This kind of content is being very well received and it's engaging for people.
"It's not your everyday conversations."
Little off-limits
Naturally, the most downloaded episode so far has featured Amy Reimann, Earnhardt Jr.'s girlfriend for five years.
"Amy and I were equally nervous," Earnhardt Miller said. "You have to get personal. I didn't want it to feel like I was acting. I wanted it to be a dialogue, like sitting down for lunch together but without crossing the line of getting too in-depth. I don't want to ask her about marriage and babies and stuff like that."
Reimann has grown comfortable on Twitter this year but had granted few interviews about her relationship with Earnhardt Jr., who encouraged her to appear on the show in part because his sister "has almost been like my mother raising me through high school.
"Amy was real reluctant because she's real nervous about how people perceive her," Earnhardt Jr. said. "Kelley and I have a really, really, really tight relationship, and her and Amy are learning how to be around each other. I said, 'You need to go do this show because I think you and Kelley will get a better understanding for each other.' I thought it would be awesome, and I think Amy really enjoyed it."
PHOTOS: NASCAR'S Earnhardt siblings
Few topics are off limits for Earnhardt Miller, who jokes often during the show that the Earnhardt brood is as dysfunctional as any American family.
Much of her episode with Kerry Earnhardt, 44, was devoted to how their relationship grew from being nonexistent because Kerry was raised by Earnhardt's first wife. Until the podcast, they hadn't talked about meeting for the first time (on the day Kerry got his driver's license), because Earnhardt Miller said it was a taboo subject at home.
"That was just my dad and (stepmother) Teresa's way of dealing with it," she said. "We knew Kerry existed, but we had never met him. A lot of these are new things that you feel safe talking about being older. There's nobody telling you, 'That's not OK.'
"There's joy in learning and being able to have those open conversations, and nobody's getting hurt. I think Kerry's story in particular is very endearing and interesting. I wanted people to know he wasn't part of our family for a long time. My dad let him be adopted by someone else. If people didn't know that, they'd be like, 'Dale Earnhardt never would have done that.' We're all human. That was a 21-year-old Dale Earnhardt, before he was the one that they know."
Kerry Earnhardt said he and his sister have grown close as adults, regularly having dinner together with their spouses and children.
"With Kelley, you never know what's going to get thrown at you," Kerry Earnhardt told USA TODAY Sports. "She's always full of surprises. She's a wonderful person in general. I think people can feel comfortable talking to her, but she's also full of fun, and we have a lot of good times."
He believes the appeal of her podcast stems from the stories that are relatable to families less famous than his.
"I'm not mad or holding a grudge for anything that happened in life," Earnhardt said. "It's made me a better person to understand what everyone goes through, not just people in racing. It's people in cotton mills, fire departments, police departments, lawyers and judges. You have challenges in life, and you just have to face them. From the Royal Family to the guys digging ditches, everybody's the same. I'm blessed with what I went through helped me be the person I am today."
But there's also a focus on what differentiates the Earnhardt family, too. In the "Happy Birthday Dad" episode that was taped on what would have been Dale Earnhardt's 63rd birthday, Martha Earnhardt recalled stories of watching her husband Ralph, son Dale, daughter Cathy and son-in-law David race in the same night in different series on the same track ("I didn't have any nerve pills to take," she said) as well as raising Dale Earnhardt, who quit school in eighth grade to race.
Earnhardt Miller said the show seemed therapeutic for her grandmother, who lost a son to cancer last year after her oldest son died in a last-lap crash in the 2001 Daytona 500.
"She hurts," Earnhardt Miller said. "I mean I miss my dad terribly, but when I listen to her, she hurts. The sadness is just so real in her. It doesn't go away."
The podcast's tone is a delicate balance to strike for Earnhardt Miller, who grew comfortable with radio interviews while making weekly appearances on SiriusXM's NASCAR channel and spends about a day preparing for each show.
"You can actually lose sight of it almost being too personal," she said. "Sometimes you have to remind yourself, 'OK, this is going out nationally, and thousands of people are going to listen, and it's not just me and a friend sitting across from each other at lunch gabbing.' "
Future of Dirty Mo Radio
Until being convinced to start Dirty Mo Radio by JRM director of communications Mike Davis, Earnhardt Jr. hadn't listened to a podcast before.
"I didn't quite understand what the appeal was, who the audience was and where the demographic was," he said. "I didn't have the vision like Mike did. I knew if we did something, our fans would try it."
Besides adding Fast Lane Family and JRM 360 (an irreverent show hosted by Davis and other team employees), there have been other major technical upgrades in its second year. Amanda Trautman, a veteran of the Motor Racing Network that carries most NASCAR events on radio, was hired as JRM's media manger to handle production.
Inside the JR Nation retail store at the team's headquarters in Mooresville, N.C., a small studio has been constructed (and designed by Reimann using leftover furniture from her boyfriend's house with photos of his nearby property) so the podcasts can be taped in view of fans.
STATS:Earnhardt Jr.'s career by the numbers
"I want to do a lot more to give Dirty Mo Radio more of an identity and footprint in the business," Earnhardt Jr. said. "It's been real successful. Sustaining that and trying to grow it is really what's important."
Davis said the goal of Dirty Mo Radio was to create an online radio station that might be programmed by Earnhardt, a technophile with an eclectic taste in music. Davis has explored the idea of starting a non-racing show hosted by college students with a goal of trying to expose a younger audience indirectly to NASCAR.
"I feel we're all responsible to help the well-being of the sport," Davis said. "If we're capable of forming ideas to bring in new race fans and being intriguing to existing race fans, why not try it? It's a clean slate."
With Fast Lane Family branching out as a lifestyle program (a recent episode focused on Kara Olsen, wife of Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen, and having a child born with a heart defect), Earnhardt Miller believes there is "a lot of merit" to that concept.
"This is something that could go past racing," she said. "We've used the racing and the Earnhardt family personality to bring it out. But if cultivated in the right way, I think it can go above and beyond that."
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Pari Yegak! St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church was established in 1942 in Detroit, Michigan. Its current location on Ford Road, Dearborn, MI was dedicated on October 14, 1962 and since then it has satisfied the spiritual and national needs of the Armenians in Southeastern Michigan, and is one of the Churches of the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America under the jurisdiction of the Holy See of Cilicia. St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church is located on a campus which also includes the Armenian Community Center, a parochial school and the Armenian Senior Citizens Towers.
Today, Armenians can boast of a community that is highly educated, professional and prospering. Armenians are continuing to preserve their rich culture and identity and are loyal citizens. Awareness and remembrance of a proud and fantastic history have bound the Armenian people as their language, culture and tradition still thrives.
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SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - Prosecutors and defense lawyers in Florida searched for a third day on Wednesday for potential jurors unaffected by blanket media coverage of last year's killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.
Six jurors in Seminole County criminal court will decide the fate of George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who claims self-defense in the February 26, 2012 shooting death of Martin. So far, jury selection for the trial has been moving at a snail's pace.
Zimmerman, 29, is charged with second-degree murder and faces up to life imprisonment if convicted in a case that ignited protests and national debate about race, guns and equal justice before the law.
Zimmerman, a light-skinned Hispanic, walked free without being charged for 44 days after he admitted killing the 17-year-old Martin with a single shot from his 9mm handgun in the town of Sanford in central Florida near Orlando.
Police initially declined to arrest Zimmerman on grounds he acted within the guidelines of Florida's loosely written self-defense laws during a confrontation, with no eyewitnesses, in a gated community.
A subsequent firestorm of controversy forced the Sanford police chief to step down and the chief prosecutor to remove himself from the case.
Aware of the polarizing issues surrounding the trial, Circuit Court Judge Debra Nelson has lined up 500 potential jurors for a preliminary round of questioning.
Of about 100 prospective jurors who were summoned to court on Monday and filled out a questionnaire, 40 were dismissed without being questioned by lawyers, a court spokeswoman said.
She said 30 other potential jurors were sent home on Tuesday. The spokeswoman, Michelle Kennedy, said lawyers would continue questioning prospective jurors individually about pre-trial publicity until they select a group of about 30 people, who will then be questioned about more commonplace jury selection topics.
The judge and lawyers are working to select a panel of six jurors and four alternates in a process that legal experts say could take about two weeks.
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A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
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We are in need of a new logo and would to see what you all come up with. Our company name is inkFrog and we have used a cartoonish frog in our logo since we started. We are looking to create a different (more professional) type logo that is not as cartoonish and is more 'web 2.0 ish'. A frog can be incorporated (or frog like 'things') as long as it's not cartoony but more abstract.
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Will Google & Facebook Trade Cash for QoS?
Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief
BARCELONA -- Mobile World Congress 2012 -- Facebook and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) have been approaching mobile operators to kick-start discussions about sharing revenues in return for a determined level of service quality when smartphone users access their apps and services.
Speaking during a closed-door discussion about customer experience management here in Barcelona, StarHub CEO Neil Montefiore said one of his senior executives had been approached by the online giants about exploring such a relationship.
Montefiore, who added that no discussions had yet taken place and that he'd be interested to see if Facebook and Google would indeed be prepared to share their income, said many operators were waiting for LTE to be introduced before embarking on any such engagements involving guaranteed levels of service. But he said that StarHub can achieve this right now because it has traffic-shaping technologies it can use to enable QoS capabilities.
Facebook announced earlier this week (see this blog by developer relations chief Douglas Purdy) that it's working with operators to make it easier for mobile users to buy apps, using the operators' billing platforms to process the transaction. Bring QoS levels into the equation, and the news that Google is also looking to pin down mobile service levels takes the potential relationships a step further.
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Miles had his first day of headstart preschool. He LOVES school. I mean, he REALLY loves school. He wakes up clapping and begging to go to school. He thinks that riding the bus is the best thing that has ever happened to him. It has caused an insane amount of regression at home, but I'm hoping that once he gets adjusted that he will go back to "normal". I wanted him to go desperately. He needs to be in situations where he can practice being around other children without seeing them as competition and he needs to be given opportunities to see that mommy always comes back even if I'm gone for a couple of hours. Plus- in all seriousness, this kid is just as high maintenance as he is cute and I NEED the three hours a day that he's at school to keep my sanity. He has a great IEP and awesome therapists and teachers so I have high hopes that this whole things will turn out great...eventually.
Noah also started preschool. He has his same super sweet teacher that he had last year and his three best friends are in his class as well. I should say, his three best girl friends. He spent twenty minutes gelling and fixing his hair for the first day. And yes, he has a puppy dog binder. I'm just letting him be himself and he's totally into that puppy dog binder (and hair gel).
A certain little girl lost another tooth and got her gold belt in tae kwon do!
And to top off the week, our tiny town had our fall festival. We rode our bikes to the festival and reveled in how awesome small town living is. Then we went to the fall parade. The front of our neighborhood is right at the beginning of the parade route. What this means is that all the little children who have bags of candy to throw out are over eager and my children come home with more candy than on Halloween. This also means that they are wound up and cranky and I'm thinking of making them go to bed before dinner because I just can't take the sugar crash craziness any longer! Maybe someone will put me to bed early as well! A girl can dream can't she?
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I watched the movie "Eat, Pray,Love" when it came on TV this week. I read the book eons ago and loved it. Watching the movie (and reading the book) stirs up all kinds of craziness inside my brain. It's like eating bad Chinese food- you can't sleep so you stay up at night talking to yourself in fortune cookie speak.
If you've never read the book or seen the movie it is about a woman who is a very successful woman but who just decides that the life she is living is not the one she wants to live anymore and so she just leaves everything behind, including her husband, and goes out in search of a new life. It is extreme and impractical, but it always gets me thinking- especially when I get bogged down in mommy world. Before we adopted Miles and we only had two kids, I lived in mommy world about 98.4% of the time. My life revolved around feeding schedules and nap times and I couldn't come visit you at 2 in the afternoon because someone might be tired and my life was suddenly not anything I could recognize and *poof* I was lost.
I totally didn't find that balance between being responsive to the needs of my children and being mindful that I was still a person in there who had needs and dreams and desires of her own that had nothing to do with nap time or teaching ABC's or finding preschools. I was a 20 something buried up in her kids who looked at herself in the mirror and couldn't remember what it is that I like to eat, or listen to on the radio or do when she had free time because I didn't let myself have free time.
In a lot of ways, this blog was my Eat, Pray, Love lifeline. It wasn't that radical, move to Italy and live in a hut in Bali kind of life makeover- but it was just what I needed. It was just the accountability I needed to find some balance. Granted, my scales still tip a little too much in the mommy direction most of the time, but I've discovered how to find more of myself outside of my role as a mom. And I've learned how to put more of myself into how I parent.
I think it finally happened when we brought Miles home and I realized that parenting him was going to be totally different that how we had ever parented before. Parenting a child with his issues typically fights every parenting instinct we have. I had to realize that only I could feel this thing out and that the parenting books and advice from well meaning people were not going to cut it. I had to make my own path. In making that path, I think I finally gave myself permission to also make a path for ME that sometimes didn't include the title "mommy" in front of my name. I suddenly had things that I wanted to do and conferences that I wanted to go to and things that I wanted to learn. I had to tell myself that I could feel one of two ways about it. a) I could feel guilty about having something in my life that didn't revolve around my children or b) I could embrace the possibilities and figure out that having a happy and whole mommy was the best gift I could ever give my kids- even if that meant that sometimes I wouldn't be home with them. I'm trying hard to pick B.
I still struggle with the mommy guilt and I'm a stay at home mom! I can't imagine how working mothers do it (I swear, working moms are freaking heroes in my book!) I had to stop listening to the criticism. And believe me- I've heard it. "Going to this conference is going to mess your kids routine up!" "Going away with your girlfriends? I never had time for that when I was a mom." "If you used the time you spent blogging (or insert whatever it is that you do here) to work with your kids, imagine how much better they'd be at xyz." I finally had to say, "ENOUGH!" I can be a mom and still be ME. I can still have passions and adventures and my kids are still okay and maybe even better off because their mom is finally not depressed and overwhelmed by the isolation that sometimes comes with never leaving mommy world.
Don't get me wrong- I love my mommy world. But to be honest- mommy land is a small world that can close in on you if you let it. And I let it get small on me every single time. I'm a much happier, well rounded person when I take a step out and look at the bigger picture. Some people call it selfish- I call it finding balance. Playing the martyr as a mother gets you no where. You won't win points. Those tiny people you do it for won't give you an award. But finding balance- ahhhhh. Reward central. Balancing responsibility, passion, parenting, finances, marriage, dreams... it's a delicate act- one that I find myself changing the recipe for all the time.
Sometimes the pieces are all balanced and sometimes one or two of those pieces gets so big that there isn't room for the others. When they get out of place, I notice that that is the time where I find myself feeling bitter, frazzled, unappreciative of my life and my husband, and overwhelmed all the time. Right now my pieces are a little out of whack. I'm trying to find my "relax and breathe" piece of the puzzle. It's probably under the couch cushion next to a lifetime supply of crumbs. I'm trying. But such is life. It's big and crazy and fun and scary and wonderful all wrapped up at the same time.
Balance, dear ones. Here's to hoping you find yours and that mine is under the couch.
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Soul on Ice
Delta Trade Paperbacks, 1992 - 242 pages
The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.
By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in American history. Cleaver writes in Soul on Ice, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man.
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Shangri-La Hotel, Guangzhou has invited Vinzenzo Spinosi, the "King of Pasta", to present his unique pasta gourmet cuisine at WOK TOO Café and il Forno Italian restaurant from 3 to 15 September 2013. Vincenzo will take guests on a journey to explore the world of "Spinosini", his innovative pasta product.
Between 3 and 15 September 2013 at WOK TOO Café, guests will be able to enjoy the Spinosi Buffet during lunch and dinner. The Spinosi Buffet includes Spinosini Omega-3, Red Pepper Sauce and Shrimps, Deep-Fried Bentagliati Filled with Ricotta and Salami, Seafood Salad with Bentagliati and Lemon Dressing, and Squid Ink Spinosini with Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese.
Vinzenzo will spend a night at il Forno on 7 September 2013 partnering Antonio Tardi, the executive sous chef of Shangri La Hotel, Guangzhou, to introduce the signature Spinosini dinner featuring six courses. Guests may also enjoy the Italian Banfi wines selected by the resident sommeliers to enhance the Sicilian experience.
During the promotion, the buffet remains at the usual price. The lunch buffet can be enjoyed from Monday to Friday for Rmb238 per person and on weekends for Rmb318. The dinner buffet can be enjoyed from Sunday to Thursday for Rmb368 and on Friday and Saturday for Rmb418. The six-course set dinner at il Forno is priced at Rmb580 per person without wine, or at Rmb800 including selected Banfi wine. To make a reservation, please telephone (86 20) 8917 6498 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
The "King of Pasta" inherits his passion for pasta from his father, who ran a trading company first and shared his home-made pasta with his clients. Finding his pasta popular, the father established the "Spinosi" brand in 1960. In 1973, Vinzenzo took over the family business and promoted the brand by showcasing his pasta products and expertise in public. His efforts paid off, and in 1996, Luciano Pavarotti, the Italian tenor, requested that Spinosi pasta be available wherever he gave a performance. In addition, British Airways signed a contract with Vincenzo to supply business class passengers with Squid Ink Tagliolini.
In 2000, in order to commemorate his son's participation in the Spinosi business, Vincenzo named his newly developed pasta product "Spinosini", which means "junior Spinosi". Spinosini is made of 35 per cent eggs and 65 per cent flour. The flour is made from select hard wheat, and the eggs come from hens that have been fed with omega-3 and vitamin E, making Spinosini nutrient-rich.
The Trafila di Bronzo is the traditional Italian equipment used for making Spinosini pasta. It makes the surface of the pasta rough, which improves the absorption of the sauces, followed by cold drying for 24-36 hours. The complex production process enables the pasta to retain a fresh taste.
Vincenzo was awarded the Five-Star Diamond Award by The American Academy of Hospitality Sciences, the authoritative organisation of the hospitality and travel industry, to honour his contribution to the hospitality sector. In addition, the President of Italy granted Mr. Spinosi the title of "Grand Official of Italy".


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This immersive, forty-hour training program contains a set of three comprehensive courses that provides the knowledge and skill to become a successful Scrum developer and a valuable member of a Scrum development team.
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Outdoor play areas provide kids with fun, fresh air, and exercise. But they can also be safety hazards. Here's what to know when it comes to play equipment, both in the backyard and at the playground.
Children love to test their limits as they grow and learn new skills. Unfortunately, the playground is no place for risk taking. When a kid decides it's more exciting to stand up on a swing or go headfirst down a slide, it can lead to serious injury. That's why your No. 1 rule for playground safety should be:
When kids are busy on the play equipment, it may seem like a good time to check in with friends. But in the few seconds it takes to look down and read a text, kids can get into all kinds of trouble. Keep your eyes on the kids at all times.
If you're with young kids, stay close enough to reach them if they need help. That's especially true if they're doing something challenging like climbing. Young children (and sometimes older ones) can't always gauge distances properly and aren't capable of knowing when something is too risky for their capabilities.
When you're with kids of different ages, stay with the younger child but be sure to keep a watchful eye on the older ones.
Before you let kids play, do a quick scan of playgrounds and play areas. For older kids who can understand the idea of dangers, you can make this a game you do together before the playground fun begins.
If you notice any of the following problems, take the kids somewhere else:
Kids are never too young to learn a few smart playground strategies. Teach them the rules listed below, but be aware that it's natural for kids to forget rules in the excitement of play. That's why you still need to keep a constant eye on the action.
Only play on age-appropriate structures. Young kids shouldn't go on equipment that's too advanced for them. And older kids should stay off items that are designed for toddlers and preschoolers: Smaller structures and spaces are risky for bigger kids, and older kids often play in a way that's too rough for little ones.
Keep your distance. Teach kids not to get too close to people on swings, and tell older kids to watch out for younger kids when they're swinging. Tell kids to scan the ground to be sure other kids aren't in the way before they jump off equipment.
Heads up. Set rules for no swinging or hanging upside down, and no sliding headfirst. Parents may let their kids do this, but you don't want to risk a head or neck injury on your watch.
No pushing or crowding. Set a strict "no pushing or pulling" rule. Another good policy: one seat, one butt. Don't let multiple kids sit on a swing or other seat that's meant for one person only. Tell kids you'll all go home (or indoors) if you see them acting up
People only. Leave bikes, backpacks, and bags away from the equipment and the area where you're playing so that no one trips over them.
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Below are frequently asked questions from users of TrackABus. If your question hasn't been asked yet, contact us with your question.
- What does the location of buses (e.g. 2 stops away) and time-based information (e.g. 5 minutes away) mean
How can I use this system while I'm out at the bus stop?
TrackABus will be available via SMS text message on any cell phone, or on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and any other Internet-enabled smartphone via TrackABus for Mobile. Full iPhone and Android applications are under development.
Instructions: To use it via smartphone, visit http://www.trackabus.co.nz/whangarei in your phone's browser. To use it via cell phone you need to know your stop number which, until signage is updated, requires you to find this information on the web site first. If you know the stop number just send a text message prefixed with 'WRE' to 400 (e.g. 'WRE 130000' to 400).
Why does the TrackABus system sometimes lag behind where I see the buses on the street?
The TrackABus system gets information from each bus approximately every 5-10 seconds, so please don't wait until the last second to go to your stop.
What does the location of buses (e.g. 2 stops away) and time-based information (e.g. 5 minutes away) mean?
Due to varying traffic conditions and passenger numbers, predicting the exact time a bus will arrive at a stop is difficult. The most reliable indicator is what we do know for sure - where the bus is now. The time estimate is based on the expected time to travel this distance under normal conditions.
Why did a bus that I saw on the street not show up in the TrackABus system?
The most likely cause of this problem is that the GPS or wireless communications hardware on the bus needs to be repaired (at this time a bus is not kept out of service if is working other than the tracking hardware). We aim to repair the hardware as quickly as possible, but these repairs may take a day or two.
Of course, the hardware may be working fine and you may have experienced some other bug in the TrackABus system. In any case, it helps us to hear from you about this type of problem, so please let us know about your experience using the TrackABus system.
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Yes. Simply bookmark the page on which you have found information for your stop. From either the desktop or mobile sites, just click the stop you are interested in and bookmark as you would any other site. The bookmark saved for this page will bring you back to this stop.
How does TrackABus work?
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I resubscribed to SST tonight and for the confirmation email.
Speaking of SST my Trembaly Ghosts arrived today so that was a pleasant surprise. Box was beat to hell though - cant tell if something was trying to get in, or out ...
Tried signing up through a different email address and received an immediate confirmation. I assume that Comcast was somehow blocking the confirmation email without even sending it to me as possible spam.
SST just tweeted they are down to the last 4 copies of Ghost. Run if you want one
Just got my copy of Tremblay's "Ghosts" in the mail as well. This was my first purchase with SST; so, I wasn't sure what to expect. Opened the box and was blown away. The books itself looks fantastic. The paper quality is great and I think the bonus materials that were included rock. Add into all of this that Paul also included a handwritten thank-you note for the purchase as well as throwing in a couple of discount cards for future purchases. Needless to say, I will be ordering from SST again. In fact, my happiness with the book and Paul's service led me to preorder Lebbon's "The Silence" this morning. Thanks again to Paul & SST!
Got my copy today as well, and I'm again impressed by SST's production qualities and attention to detail and, as mentioned by sholloman81, customer service. This is, I think, my third SST volume and it certainly won't be my last. In fact -- again, also like sholloman -- I'm giving that Lebbon volume a second look: I enjoyed the book in its tpb form and like Lebbon and generally collect his stuff, so those enclosed discount cards are looking pretty attractive...
I was a bit underwhelmed with DISAPPEARANCE AT DEVIL'S ROCK, and while I enjoyed THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD a bit more it wasn't the stunner that many found it to be...I thought it was unnecessarily oblique (though I appreciate that it had to be to a certain degree, given the plot), almost frustratingly so. If HEAD was a 9 (and a damn solid 9 at that! Great book!), then DISAPPEARANCE was a 6 and CABIN a 7. I have signed trades 1sts of all three books, so only felt I needed to upgrade HEAD. I'm holding off buying GROWING THINGS to force a purchase of the S/L (which I would have wanted to do anyhow so as to match my S/L HC of his other collection).
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New release from SST of Growing Things:
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- 50% of electricity produced by dams; 20% imported
- Tourism appeal and long coastline
- Oil and gas potential
- Kuna pegged to the euro (60% of bank deposits in euros), with a view to participating in ERM II
- High-quality infrastructure
- High private and public debt
- Inefficient administration and justice system; inadequate regulation
- Weak industrial development; lack of competitiveness
- High long-term and youth unemployment
- Emigration taking away skilled workforce
Activity supported by domestic demand
The economy is expected to record a fourth consecutive strong year in 2019, driven by domestic demand. Because of the labour shortage, household consumption (58% of GDP) will continue to benefit from wage growth, the impact of tourism (25% of GDP, one in ten jobs), expatriate remittances, and the VAT reduction from 25% to 13% on food products on January 1. In addition, inflation is expected to remain low, with energy prices evening out and the pending arrival of a discounter in the food retail sector. When combined with the stability of the kuna, this should allow the central bank to maintain an accommodative policy. Investors, meanwhile, will be heartened by the resolution of the Agrokor case and credit growth, particularly for SMEs. Work on the Peljesac bridge – which will span Bosnia's maritime access to provide a road connection between the north and south of the Croatian coastline – resumed in the summer of 2018. Implementation of European funds is also set to increase, benefiting construction. Exports will get a boost from market share gains in the EU, particularly in the oil, food, medical, lingerie, and control instruments segments. Tourism revenue should remain on a positive trend, although competition from Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia may cast a shadow. However, as imports will be boosted by domestic demand at the same time, trade's contribution to growth should remain slightly negative.
Fiscal consolidation to continue
The public accounts are expected to be in balance in 2019, and might even show a surplus if interest on debt is excluded. The improvement is based largely on the beneficial effect of growth in revenues, notably from consumption via VAT and employment via social security contributions. Reduced debt service linked to low interest rates and better use of European funds are also playing a part. However, the contribution of economic conditions to performance puts the good result in perspective – a fact that is corroborated by the persistence of the structural deficit, which ignores this aspect. Government wage and procurement bills remain high (18% of GDP between them). Similarly, social transfers (which are not sufficiently targeted), pensions, defence and healthcare spending will continue to weigh heavily on the budget. However, the primary surplus, growth, and low interest rates will be sufficient to provide some relief on the debt, 70% of which is denominated in euros and much of which is held by domestic banks, which are predominantly (90%) subsidiaries of Austrian and Italian groups. The authorities will have to consider the future of the struggling Uljanik shipyards, whose state guarantees are equivalent to more than 1% of GDP and whose 4,500 jobs might justify intervention. State-owned companies, with assets representing 80% of GDP and employing 5% of the labour force, are often low-profit or unprofitable operations, with revenues equivalent to 15% of GDP.
Tourism's essential role
The current account has been in surplus since 2013. This covers a large deficit (18% of GDP in 2018) in the trade of goods offset by tourism income (19%). In addition, the sum of remittances from expatriates and European funds (about 4% of GDP) exceeds net outgoing dividend and interest payments. Nevertheless, the decline in the current account surplus that began in 2018 is expected to continue in 2019. Strong export and tourism performances are being outweighed by vigorous imports due to the difficulties faced by local industry in meeting demand and the high import content of exports. FDI (3% of GDP in 2018) meets the development needs of tourism and energy resources and compensates for the reduction in external debt. Mostly denominated in euros, external debt (75% of GDP at the end of 2018) represents a risk for non-financial companies (51% of the outstanding amount, including one third for intra-group loans under FDI), the state (39%) and banks (10%). However, the risk is mitigated by the central bank's tight control of the kuna/euro exchange rate. The bank's interventions to counter kuna appreciation have increased foreign exchange reserves to more than a year of imports.
Fragile government and opposition to reforms
Less than a year after the previous elections, early elections in September 2016 handed power back to the coalition formed by the centre-right Democratic Union (HDZ) and the reformist MOST (The Bridge) Party. This coalition soon broke up over the reform agenda. Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, who leads the HDZ, has managed to form a new one with liberals from the People's Party (HNS). With 78 seats (including 61 for the HDZ) out of 151, it is weakened by disagreement between the Prime Minister and the nationalist wing of the HDZ. The reform programme is opposed, not only by the main opposition, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), but also within the HDZ. At the international level, relations with Serbia are tense. It is also worth noting the Croatia's refusal to accept the Permanent Court of Arbitration's ruling that Slovenia should have access to the sea through the Bay of Piran.
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New to all of this. Spencer & Mischa's raw journey.
I have 2 4 year old cats, 1 (Mischa) is pretty slickly most of the time with numerous trips to the vet and never a very good diagnosis. The other (Spencer) is overall a pretty healthy cat, he's a bit underweight and is quite a bit larger than Mischa. Recently he's been having some stomach upset and diarrhea, the vet is coming out some time next week; she's a new vet to my pets so i hope she's better than the others.
I've come to the conclusion that with 2 now sickly cats there has to be something i'm doing that is causing it. I've checked all around the house and there's nothing harmful they can eat, i keep plants in an enclosed greenhouse in my spare room, don't leave food lying around and they can't get into any of my aquariums/supplies for the fish. The only thing i can think would be causing upset tummies is the food they are eating.
Right now Mischa is on premium wet food mixed in the morning with pumpkin to keep her pooping properly. She has bouts of sickness and i take away food for a day and she gets better, i suspect she is allergic to something, most likely fish because feeding her anything which is primarily fish makes her vomit almost as soon as she's finished eating. My old vet wouldn't entertain the idea and said if i wanted to do home experiments to check for allergic reactions i could.
Spencer gets a lower quality wet food (fancy feast mostly) and some dry kibble because he needs to gain some weight.
I've been doing some reading and am interested in moving them over to a raw diet. I've found some good directions which do involve grinding, i'm going to try and find a local meat place that might do some meat grinding for me in the beginning. I bought chicken thighs to see how the meat would go over with my cats. I partially cooked it and added it to their food. Spencer couldn't get enough bless him, he left most of the cat food in his dish. Mischa has been a bit harder to convince, she didn't eat the first lot but did eat all of the second lot, i suspect because it was cooked more. She ate most of it this morning since i cut the chunks smaller.
I think today i'll go get some organ parts (it's really gross for my poor vegan self to be going about cutting up organs, but i love my cats and want what's best for them).
When switching dogs over, I've found grinding the meat and partially or even fully cooking at the beginning really helps. Also, go really slow, some pets have a hard time adjusting, others do the switch easily. Try a smaller butcher store (especially one that deals with wild game) rather than a meat cutter in a grocery store for grinding meat.
Roxy - Feb 2005 - 65 lb American Staffordshire Terrier (adopted Jul 2011)
Peewee - Jan 2006 - 8 lb Chihuahua (adopted May 2009)
Myka - Nov 1998 to Jan 2010 - 85 lb American Pit Bull Terrier cross
Lacy - Sept 1992 to July 2003 - 18 lb Reg Shetland Sheepdog
Yeah, i partially cooked the chicken yesterday. I'll go as slow as i need to, it seems to have helped Mischa already, for the past few days whenever she's eaten her meals she's thrown some or all of it up (she does this from time to time) yesterday and today she hasn't.
I'll look for a smaller butchers, i looked online but maybe i'd be better asking around.
Look in the Yellow Pages.
Also, not sure whereabouts you are, I've found the Hutterite colonies to be good places to buy turkey. They sell me Utility Grade birds for a reasonable price. I'm very sure to not tell them that I am using the turkeys for my dogs. I'm always paranoid that if I tell people it is for my dogs that they will sell me "not for human consumption" birds. My butcher knows though, it is hard to explain why I would want them ground bone-in otherwise. I trust him though, I buy all my meats there.
Roxy - Feb 2005 - 65 lb American Staffordshire Terrier (adopted Jul 2011)
Peewee - Jan 2006 - 8 lb Chihuahua (adopted May 2009)
Myka - Nov 1998 to Jan 2010 - 85 lb American Pit Bull Terrier cross
Lacy - Sept 1992 to July 2003 - 18 lb Reg Shetland Sheepdog
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You know I am a huge eBay fan and am always giving them my custom.
Even after many, many purchases, sellers can still sometimes screw me over and I thought it was important to point out that Feedback is an important tool that you can use to leave HONEST remarks to help other eBayers decide whether to shop with a seller or not.
I, for one, find overly aggressive sellers a real turn off – I have seen feedback where a seller has called a buyer a "silly cow" for not liking the the product they got and this totally puts me off from buying from them.
An eBay shop seller should be behaving like any professional retailer.
Anyway, that's not what I'm here to talk about today! I wanted to say, eBayers – do NOT rush to leave feedback.
I know it's tempting, when you have nothing else to do, to go through and leave positive feedback for items you've received. I used to do this, then I realised (because there's a delay sometimes between the day I get post and the day I can actually test the item out) that a few days in to using an item, it would break.
Also, there are other cases where things take a bit longer to break (a few weeks) especially electronics, or cases where faults are not so obvious right away.
Yes you can open a dispute with a seller and get a refund. But once you have left feedback, it is not retractable. You can get your money back, but the feedback (even if the customer care and the product you discover is utter pants) stays the same.
So, you can't leave positive feedback then change it if it all goes wrong – what you left is permanent except for some rare cases (where you leave negative and the seller asks that you change it – but anyway, this is rare and you definitely shouldn't be bullied into changing feedback. You may want to change it when there has been a genuine misunderstanding though…you get the idea).
In my case, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Phone Case (only a £3 job) from an eBay shop called themobileplus (they also retail under the shop name, sinbury.group). This case broke after a few days (the plastic snapped!). I got in touch with a photograph and they sent out another one – great. I left positive feedback, thankful for the quick replacement.
The second case snapped just 2 days after use and I complained and asked for a refund. themobileplus were incredibly slow to respond and wholly unhelpful. What they should've done was asked for another photo and refunded me asap.
Instead they asked that I returned both phones to get a £2.99 refund – it's not a hassle for me to get to the post office to return your two faulty products, honestly.
I said I would on the basis that they paid for the shipping but they kept insinuating they would only pay for standard shipping and not recorded. As far as I am concerned they sent me two faulty items so shipping charges laid squarely on their shoulders.
Note: DO NOT SEND AN ITEM BACK TO A SELLER WITHOUT A TRACKING NUMBER.
eBay's dispute system will ask you for a tracking number during a dispute (where you have to return the item for a refund). They won't even let you communicate with the seller without a tracking number so don't believe someone that says it's ok to send a return by normal post. For 60p or so, you are just covering yourself.
Anyway FINALLY, 6 days after returning the item they decided to refund me (still with no shipping costs included – cheeky gits!). Shipping was £2.46, the item was only £2.99 – this is not about the money this is on the principle that you can't sell faulty goods to consumers and not take responsibility.
So I am fighting this one out – and kicking myself for leaving feedback so quickly. It's obviously not about the £2.99 AT ALL. It's about shoddy customer service and piss poor cheap products that are clearly not fit for purpose – and these kind of sellers, like themobileplus give naysayers a reason to hate eBay.
Oh. And they didn't ONCE say sorry.
"If the goods are faulty or do not comply with the contract, you [the seller] will have to pay for their return whatever the circumstances"
Know your rights, beyatches!
So remember – in terms of feedback, always use your item, check it for a few weeks before leaving feedback. There's no huge rush. It's good to leave feedback because it tells a seller that something has arrived but don't feel pressured to just say A+++++++++++++++++++ just because an item arrived.
You must listen to the eBay song:
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As many of you know, the career I loved before MS ripped my abilities to keep up with it was as a chef. This past spring a nurse and dear friend from one of the MS centers here in Seattle asked me to help put together a cooking program for people with MS.
With a few calls to more dear friends and old contacts from the business, we were able to assemble an amazing team at a wonderful professional test/demonstration kitchen and the hospital's video department even got involved.
I am proud to announce the release of our first "The Caring Kitchen" program! While DVDs of the program are available through the MS Center at Virginia Mason, I thought it might just be easier for everyone to access if I put it up on the video page of my website, which is trevislgleason.com.
The program includes great information from a Nutritionist who lives with MS; a Dietitian and Grocery Specialist talk about stocking a "healthy pantry"; then, myself and another chef friend offer some easy recipes that take MS into consideration.
This was really a labor of love for all involved (and a good thing as it took WAY more work than I had let on to my friends…). The program is a little over an hour, but I think you'll find the information contained to be well worth a rainy afternoon this fall.
Have a look, leave a comment and stay tuned for more from The Caring Kitchen.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
Don't forget that you can also follow me via our Life With MS Facebook page, on Twitter, and our new group on MS Connection.org. Check out our bi-monthly blog for the UK and look for our Very Special new monthly blog for the National MS Society.