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The Dodger's decision to reopen the Scott Avenue entrance has met with a lot of neighborhood opposition in Echo Park. But the team says it needs to open the gate to improve the flow of traffic into and out of the stadium. The Dodgers have also implemented other measures – increasing pedestrian and bike access, improving links to public transportation and selling pre-paid parking – as part of an effort to "help clear traffic off of city streets as quickly as possible," according to the team's transportation access plan. But there's plenty more that can be done. Here are some ideas that have been come up recently as the Dodgers and their neighbors prepare for the season opener on April 4:
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BABY BOY M., a/k/a M.C.M.,
a minor child born April 3, 2007.
W.E. and S.E.,
1. In adoption proceedings, K.S.A. 59-2127 requires a Kansas court to abstain from jurisdiction where another proceeding concerning custody or adoption is pending in a court of another state exercising jurisdiction substantially in conformity with the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA), K.S.A. 38-1336 et seq. A parallel, though not identical, provision is contained in the UCCJEA and is codified in Kansas at K.S.A. 38-1353.
2. Where a Kansas court is requested to abstain under either K.S.A. 59-2127 or K.S.A. 38-1353, the Kansas court must ultimately determine whether another proceeding is pending or commenced (depending on the applicable statute) in another court, but there is no need for such an inquiry where the other court has no potential jurisdiction substantially in conformity with the UCCJEA.
3. Applying the UCCJEA jurisdiction provision as codified in Wisconsin under the facts of this case, it is clear that (i) Wisconsin was not the home state of Baby Boy M. on April 4, 2007; (ii) Wisconsin was not the home state of the child within 6 months before April 4, 2007; (iii) a court of another state had jurisdiction under the UCCJEA in that either Kansas or New Mexico was the home state of the child on April 4, 2007; and (iv) Kansas had not yet declined to exercise jurisdiction on the ground of forum non conveniens. Because Wisconsin had no potential jurisdiction in conformity with the UCCJEA, the Kansas court was not required to abstain.
4. Even if a Kansas court is not obligated by statute to abstain from the assertion of jurisdiction over a matter subject to the UCCJEA, the Kansas court must examine whether it should decline jurisdiction under K.S.A. 38-1354 and determine if Kansas is an inconvenient forum relative to a court in another state.
5. In analyzing the relative convenience of forums, the district court must examine all relevant factors, including the eight factors enumerated in K.S.A. 38-1354(b).
6. Where a court has failed to observe the statutory procedure or consider the statutory factors for a decision to retain jurisdiction under K.S.A. 38-1354, this may constitute an abuse of discretion.
7. Because the standard for termination of parental rights in the district court is by clear and convincing evidence, we consider all of the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the adoptive parents, and determine whether we are convinced a rational factfinder could have found the determination to be highly probable.
8. Within an adoption proceeding, K.S.A. 2007 Supp. 59-2136(h)(1) enables the court to order parental rights be terminated upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence of any one of seven specific bases for termination. A termination of parental rights that is not supported by findings by clear and convincing evidence of one or more of these statutory bases for termination is subject to reversal on appeal.
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Appeal from Shawnee District Court; FRANK J. YEOMAN, JR., judge. Opinion filed October 10, 2008. Reversed and remanded with directions.
Shaye L. Downing, of Sloan, Eisenbarth, Glassman, McEntire, & Jarboe, L.L.C., of Topeka, for appellant natural father.
Allan A. Hazlett, of Law Office of Allan A. Hazlett, P.A., of Topeka, for appellees adoptive parents.
Before GREENE, P.J., GREEN and CAPLINGER, JJ.
GREENE, J.: K.L., the unwed natural father of Baby Boy M., challenges the termination of his parental rights and the adoption of his child, arguing that the district court in Kansas either lacked jurisdiction or should have declined jurisdiction and that the record lacks evidence to support a termination of his parental rights. Although we conclude the court had jurisdiction, we conclude the district court failed to make the requisite findings to determine if it should decline jurisdiction or to support a termination of parental rights, thus requiring that we reverse and remand for further proceedings before a different district judge.
Factual and Procedural Overview
K.L. and C.M., the natural mother of Baby Boy M., have known each other since childhood. They dated for 2 months in late 2005 and again in mid 2006, while residing in Wisconsin. The relationship resulted in the conception of this child, and there has been no dispute as to K.L.'s paternity. C.M. advised K.L. of her pregnancy in July 2006, but in September 2006, K.L. advised that he would not marry her but he would support her and the baby. This advice apparently provoked C.M. to move to Minnesota to live with a friend, but within a month or so, C.M. moved to Kansas and concealed this move and her new residence from K.L. for some time.
The record shows K.L. made numerous attempts to locate C.M. but was not successful until an e-mail message in March 2007, wherein he stated he wanted to meet his child and know that the baby was safe. C.M. returned an e-mail message to K.L. but persisted in her refusal to disclose her residence. On April 3, C.M. gave birth to Baby Boy M. in Topeka, Kansas, and relinquished her rights to the child the next day.
On April 4, 2007, K.L. filed in Wisconsin a motion for primary physical placement and sole legal custody of the child, supported by an affidavit averring in part that C.M.'s residence was unknown to him. On April 6, 2007, the adoptive parents filed in Shawnee County, Kansas, a petition for adoption and termination of K.L.'s parental rights, attaching a temporary custody placement agreement retaining legal custody with a licensed adoption agency in Kansas but giving physical custody to the adoptive parents in New Mexico. K.L. timely responded by filing in the Kansas proceeding his petition to dismiss adoption proceeding or, in the alternative, petition to vacate temporary custody order and request for immediate physical placement.
After conducting an evidentiary hearing, the district court in Kansas concluded that it had jurisdiction and entered its Decree of Adoption and Termination of Parental Rights. K.L. timely appeals from these orders.
Did the District Court have Jurisdiction Given K.L.'s Wisconsin Filings?
Statutory Abstention Requires Determination of
Potential Jurisdiction of the Other State Under the UCCJEA.
K.L. challenges jurisdiction in Kansas, citing K.S.A. 59-2127(a), which states:
"A court of this state may not exercise jurisdiction over a proceeding for adoption of a minor if at the time the petition for adoption is filed a proceeding concerning the custody or adoption of the minor is pending in a court of another state exercising jurisdiction substantially in conformity with the uniform child custody jurisdiction and enforcement act, or this act unless the proceeding is stayed by the court of the other state." (Emphasis added.)
The adoptive parents argue on appeal that the district court properly asserted jurisdiction because the natural mother had voluntarily relinquished her parental rights prior to the filing of the Kansas proceeding. The district court initially concluded that jurisdiction was improper in Wisconsin because no service had been obtained on the natural mother in those proceedings, but the court ultimately decided that Wisconsin was not a convenient forum because the child "has no contact with [Wisconsin]," citing In re Adoption of Baby Girl B, 19 Kan. App. 2d 283, 867 P.2d 1074, rev. denied 255 Kan. 1001 (1994).
Whether jurisdiction exists is a question of law over which this court's scope of review is unlimited. To the extent a jurisdiction question requires statutory interpretation or application, this also frames a question of law for which appellate courts have unlimited review. Bruch v. Kansas Dept of Revenue, 282 Kan. 764, 774, 148 P.3d 538 (2006).
Parallel to K.S.A. 59-2127 for jurisdiction abstention in adoption proceedings is a provision within the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA), K.S.A. 38-1336 et seq., for jurisdiction abstention in child custody proceedings, codified in Kansas at K.S.A. 38-1353(a), which provides:
"[A] court of this state may not exercise its jurisdiction under K.S.A. 38-1348 through 38-1357 and amendments thereto if, at the time of the commencement of the proceeding, a proceeding concerning the custody of the child has been commenced in a court of another state having jurisdiction substantially in conformity with this act, unless the proceeding has been terminated or is stayed by the court of the other state because a court of this state is a more convenient forum under K.S.A. 38-1354 and amendments thereto." (Emphasis added.)
Although these statutory provisions are different in their respective focus on "pending" versus "commenced" proceedings in another state, both have applicability here because the Kansas court had before it matters of custody, parental rights, and adoption. Moreover, we need not analyze this difference in the statutes because the provisions are identical in requiring abstention only if the other state proceeding is "pending" or "commenced" in a court "having" or "exercising" "jurisdiction substantially in conformity with [the UCCJEA]." (Emphasis added.) See K.S.A. 38-1353(a); K.S.A. 59-2127(a). The paramount question before us is whether Wisconsin had jurisdiction "substantially in conformity with" the UCCJEA. See In re Marriage of Ruth, 32 Kan. App. 2d 416, 422-23, 83 P.3d 1248, rev. denied 278 Kan. 845 (2004); In re Marriage of Nadeau, No. 99,183, unpublished opinion filed July 3, 2008, slip op. at 4; see also In re Marriage of Sareen, 153 Cal. App. 4th 371, 377, 62 Cal. Rptr. 3d 687 (2007) (pertinent question is not whether the other forum had jurisdiction under its own laws but whether such jurisdiction is substantially in conformity with the UCCJEA).
Did Wisconsin Have Jurisdiction?
Turning to the UCCJEA's jurisdiction provisions, we must determine whether the Wisconsin court had jurisdiction over the issues raised by K.L.'s initial filing. Because the pleading sought both initial placement and custody of the child, the applicable UCCJEA jurisdiction provision is that for "initial child custody." In Kansas, the uniform provision on jurisdiction is codified at K.S.A. 38-1348, and in Wisconsin, this provision is codified at Wis. Stat. § 822.21 (2007), and provides in material part:
"'(1) Except as provided in s. 822.24, a court of this state has jurisdiction to make an initial determination only if any of the following applies:
(a) This state is the home state of the child on the date of the commencement of the proceeding, or was the home state of the child within 6 months before the commencement of the proceeding and the child is absent from this state but a parent or person acting as a parent continues to live in this state.
(b) A court of another state does not have jurisdiction under par. (a), or a court of the home state of the child has declined to exercise jurisdiction on the ground that this state is the more appropriate forum under s. 822.27 or 822.28." (Emphasis added.)
The term "home state" is defined as
"[T]he state in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as a parent for at least 6 consecutive months immediately before the commencement of a child custody proceeding. In the case of a child less than 6 months of age, the term means the state in which the child lived from birth with any of the persons mentioned in this subsection. A period of temporary absence of any of the persons mentioned in this subsection is part of the period." Wis. Stat. § 822.02 (2007).
See K.S.A. 38-1337 (8).
Applying these UCCJEA provisions as codified in Wisconsin, it is clear that (i) Wisconsin was not the home state of Baby Boy M. on April 4, 2007; (ii) Wisconsin was not the home state of the child within 6 months before April 4, 2007; (iii) a court of another state had jurisdiction under the UCCJEA in that either Kansas or New Mexico was the home state of the child on April 4, 2007 and (iv) Kansas did not decline to exercise jurisdiction on the ground of forum non conveniens. As noted by another appellate court, home-state jurisdiction "trumps all other possible bases of jurisdiction in an initial child custody action" under the UCCJEA. In re Brown, 203 S.W.3d 888, 891 (Tex. App. 2006).
We conclude that whether or not an initial child custody had been commenced in Wisconsin, that state was unable to exercise jurisdiction substantially in conformity with the UCCJEA. Accordingly, the district court was not obliged to abstain from jurisdiction under either K.S.A. 59-2127 or K.S.A. 38-1353. Although the district court did not assert jurisdiction based on this precise rationale, there was no need for mandatory abstention in Kansas to determine the issues of custody, parental rights, and adoption. See In re Marriage of Bradley, 282 Kan. 1, 8, 137 P.3d 1030 (2006).
Did the District Court Abuse Its Discretion
In Refusing to Decline Jurisdiction?
Even if the district court in Kansas was not obligated by statute to abstain from the assertion of jurisdiction, K.L. argues the court should have declined jurisdiction under K.S.A. 38-1354(a) because Kansas was an inconvenient forum and Wisconsin was the more appropriate forum. Indeed we note that the UCCJEA contemplates such a determination, and when jurisdiction is declined as inconvenient this may be determinative of jurisdiction in the other state. See K.S.A. 38-1348(a)(2); Wis Stat. § 822.21(b); In re E.T., 36 Kan. App. 2d 56, 68, 137 P.3d 1035 (2006). We review a decision to exercise or decline jurisdiction under inconvenient forum principles for an abuse of discretion. In re Adoption of Baby Girl B, 19 Kan. App. 2d at 288.
K.L. argues that the district court abused its discretion in finding Kansas was the most convenient forum. K.L. argues Wisconsin was convenient because of the following facts: (1) All witnesses able to testify as to K.L.'s ability to care for the child were in Wisconsin; (2) K.L.'s attempts to locate C.M. during the pregnancy were initiated from Wisconsin; (3) K.L.'s attempts to support C.M. during the pregnancy were made in Wisconsin; and (4) the records regarding the amount of support required by C.M. during the pregnancy were located in Wisconsin. K.L. also argues that all the relevant information regarding Baby Boy M.'s care was in New Mexico. Finally, K.L. argues that Kansas had no significant connection to Baby Boy M. or to evidence of his care, protection, training, or support because he was moved to New Mexico to live with his adoptive parents within a day of his birth.
The district court held that Kansas was not an inconvenient forum, relying on In re Adoption of Baby Girl B, 19 Kan. App. 2d at 290-91. The district judge held:
"In [In re Adoption of Baby Girl B], the alleged convenient forum was Pennsylvania. And not all the facts are exactly the same, but the principles–the facts are sufficiently similar that I think the principles apply. And my–based on the rulings in that case, my conclusion is that jurisdiction is proper in this case, and that Wisconsin has no contact with–the other way. The child has no contact with Wisconsin to make it a convenient forum under any circumstances, which residence of a child, an infant, is the residence of mother unless the child has had–been in custody of his father. If we are to say, as I think was concluded in that case, that the mother had really not established a sufficient residence, that residence could be determined that nonetheless, that case Kansas was an appropriate–was a reason, appropriate jurisdiction if you conclude that there isn't any established state of residence.
"So the motion that is made to dismiss these proceedings on jurisdictional grounds, on grounds of noncompliance with the uniform child custody jurisdiction act, is going to be–that motion is denied for those reasons."
A district court may decline jurisdiction over an adoption proceeding if Kansas is an inconvenient forum and another state's court is more appropriate. K.S.A. 38-1354. In analyzing the relative convenience of forums, the district court must examine all relevant factors, including the following eight factors enumerated in K.S.A. 38-1354(b):
"(1) Whether domestic violence has occurred and is likely to continue in the future and which state could best protect the parties and the child;
"(2) the length of time the child has resided outside this state;
"(3) the distance between the court in this state and the court in the state that would assume jurisdiction;
"(4) the relative financial circumstances of the parties;
"(5) any agreement fo the parties as to which state should assume jurisdiction;
"(6)the nature and location of the evidence required to resolve the pending litigation, including testimony of the child;
"(7) the ability of the court of each state to decide the issue expeditiously and the procedures necessary to present the evidence;
"(8) the familiarity of the court of each state with the facts and issues in the pending litigation."
Here, the district court seems to have focused exclusively on the residence of the child rather than considering all relevant factors listed in the statute. Although it appears unlikely that a complete consideration of such factors might have supported a declination of jurisdiction, we are unable to endorse the district court's approach to this issue.
Concluding that the district court failed to observe the statutory procedure for its decision to retain jurisdiction under K.S.A. 38-1354, we hold that the court abused its discretion. See State v. Edgar, 281 Kan. 30, 38, 127 P.3d 986 (2006) (abuse of discretion may be found if the trial court's decision fails to properly consider statutory standards). Accordingly, we reverse and vacate the court's determination of convenient forum and remand for compliance with the statutory procedure.
On remand, the district court is directed to conduct the proper analysis under K.S.A. 38-1354 to determine whether Kansas is the most appropriate forum for the issues raised by the parties. The analysis should include at a minimum the consideration of all statutory factors from the perspective of a detached observer. The perspective of one particular party should not dominate the analysis. In re B.B.M., No. 91,959, unpublished opinion filed December 17, 2004, slip op. at 10.
Was There Sufficient Evidence
to Support the Requisite Findings
for Termination of K.L.'s Parental Rights?
K.L. next challenges the factual basis for the termination of his parental rights, arguing the evidence was insufficient. Assuming that the district court on remand does not decline jurisdiction, we must address the merits of this challenge despite our remand for an inconvenient forum analysis, as it may otherwise be subject to endorsement or res judicata on remand. Because the standard for termination of parental rights in the district court is by clear and convincing evidence, we consider all of the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the adoptive parents, and determine whether we are convinced a rational factfinder could have found the determination to be highly probable. See In re B.D.-Y., 286 Kan. 686, Syl. ¶ 4, 187 P.3d 594 (2008).
Within an adoption proceeding, K.S.A. 2007 Supp. 59-2136(h)(1) enables the court to order parental rights be terminated "upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence" of any of the following:
"(A) The father abandoned or neglected the child after having knowledge of the child's birth;
"(B) the father is unfit as a parent or incapable of giving consent;
"(C) the father has made no reasonable efforts to support or communicate with the child after having knowledge of the child's birth;
"(D) the father, after having knowledge of the pregnancy, failed without reasonable cause to provide support for the mother during the six months prior to the child's birth;
"(E) the father abandoned the mother after having knowledge of the pregnancy;
"(F) the birth of the child was the result of rape of the mother; or
"(G) the father was failed or refused to assume the duties of a parent for two consecutive years next preceding the filing of the petition."
Moreover, the statute expressly permits consideration of the best interests of the child:
"(2) In making a finding whether parental right shall be terminated under this subsection, the court may:
"(A) Consider and weigh the best interest of the child; and
(B) disregard incidental visitations, contacts, communications or contributions." K.S.A. 2007 Supp. 59-2136(h)(2).
Examining the proceedings before the district court, we note that the journal entry contained no factual findings to support the termination of parental rights, but only a conclusion that "the parental rights of [C.M. and K.L.] be terminated based upon the Court's ruling after a full and complete hearing May 15, 2007." The transcript of the court's ruling consists of 15 pages summarizing the evidence. There is no mention of the clear and convincing evidence standard, and there is nothing characterized as a "finding."
In summarizing the evidence, the district court characterized abandonment as "a close question" and was unable to "find that abandonment was involved here." With regard to support, the district judge summarized the evidence by stating that "I'm not going to list every one of [a packet of receipts], but after going through each of them I find that they are not really helpful in proving anything that's material to the outcome of this case, not to say they're not relevant" and "how they can be characterized as being support, I've not been able to determine." With regard to contact, the court indicated that the records "confirm that [father] did [make a lot of phone calls]" and the evidence "clearly shows communication back and forth." The judge then criticized the father's proposal for taking custody of the child and stated–as if in disbelief, "And yet, I'm to conclude from that that this could be a safe environment for this infant to be taken care of and raised?" Finally, the judge concluded as follows:
"All of the things that I have mentioned are not considered just separately, but as a whole to make up the whole picture. And I have concluded that from this evidence, that the request of the [adoptive parents] that I terminate the father's rights should be granted.
"The evidence shows that he has materially failed to exercise his role as parent in the ways discussed–shown in the evidence, and, in fact, in more details of what I have set out here in today's announcement conclusion of these proceedings.
"Mother has made a careful decision with a well planned course for her child so that her child–for their child, so this child would be reared in a good home and consistent with her religious faith–consistent with their religious faith as it's related to me. And so, looking at the best interest aspect of this, it appears to me that that result is in the best interest of the child."
Based upon our review of the transcript and journal entry of judgment, we must conclude that the district court failed to make any of the requisite findings to support a termination of K.L.'s parental rights, except an apparent finding as to the best interests of the child. K.S.A. 2007 Supp. 59-2136 clearly requires a finding by clear and convincing evidence of at least one of the seven statutory bases before parental rights be terminated; no such finding was made here, and even if we were to construe the judge's comments as implying some finding, the absence of language stating that a finding was made by clear and convincing evidence would render the court's decision unsupportable under the statute.
We recognize, however, that the statute as amended in 2006 permits the court to "consider and weigh the best interest of the child." K.S.A. 2007 Supp. 59-2136(h)(2). Because the district court found that the best interests of the child would be served by the termination of parental rights in order to enable the adoption, we must determine whether a finding in this regard is sufficient to support the termination of parental rights. A panel of our court has squarely addressed this question and concluded that the legislature did not intend that the best interests of the child could stand alone as a ground to terminate a natural parent's parental rights.
"The Kansas Adoption and Relinquishment Act, K.S.A. 59-2111 et seq., is to be strictly construed in favor of maintaining the rights of natural parents. In re Adoption of K.J.B., 265 Kan. 90, 95, 959 P.2d 853 (1998). The Kansas Legislature intended to expressly permit courts, in weighing decisions whether to terminate parental rights, to consider the best interests of the child as a factor but not as a stand-alone basis for terminating parental rights." In re Adoption of D.D.H., 39 Kan. App. 2d 831, __, 184 P.3d 967 (2008).
We believe the rationale and holding of that panel is sound, and we adopt it here in concluding the district court's finding regarding the child's best interests is insufficient to support the termination of K.L.'s parental rights. We note that the rationale is consistent with a recent decision of our Supreme Court addressing a parallel provision applicable in stepparent adoptions, In re Adoption of G.L.V., 286 Kan. ___, 190 P.3d 245 (2008). Our Supreme Court observed that the best interests language added to the statute in 2006 "does not, however, permit a court to override the [mandatory consent] requirement in [the statute]." 286 Kan. at __ (slip op. at 44). Indeed, the best interests consideration merely "provides the court with additional discretionary powers to consider the best interests of the child in denying the adoption–even where a natural parent has not assumed the duties of a parent as articulated by this court-for unique reasons." 286 Kan. at __ (slip op. at 44). According to the court, the legislature has made a determination that the best interests of a child in a stepparent adoption is served by fostering the natural parent-child relationship where the parent has assumed his or her parental obligations. 286 Kan. at __ (slip op. at 43). We do not perceive any reason to distinguish this best interests policy where the child is subject to an adoption outside family bounds.
Because the district court failed to make the requisite statutory findings to support a termination of parental rights by clear and convincing evidence, and because the court's finding as to the child's best interests is insufficient to support the decision, we have no alternative other than to reverse and remand for further proceedings.
Directions for Remand
The proceedings on remand are hereby ordered to be expedited and should include, at a minimum, a reconsideration of the convenient forum issue under K.S.A. 38-1354 and a new evidentiary hearing before a different district judge on the merits of the issues framed by all parties. We express no opinion on the merits to be addressed on remand, other than to reiterate the long-standing policy of our state:
"[T]he policy of th[is] state proceeds on the theory that [children's] welfare can best be attained by leaving them in the custody of their parents and seeing to it that the parents' right thereto is not infringed upon or denied." In re Guardianship of Williams, 254 Kan. 814, 822, 869 P.2d 661 (1994).
Reversed and remanded with directions.


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Crankshaft wrote:Idoit40fans wrote:No, the question that needs to be answered is can Iginla still skate well enough to keep up with Crosby? Unless he is somehow faster on the RW than the LW, the answer is no.
He's not Iginla of 5-7 years ago but I but I disagree that he was so terrible that he wouldn't have been able to keep on on Crosby's line. I would be you will see 25+ goals out of Iginla this year in Boston, with him returning to the correct position.
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"Help Me, I've relapsed!"
A plea for help or a cry for attention?
When I run clinics, everyone has my phone number and pager numbers to reach me 24 hours a day. I always tell people that in case of an emergency, call me anytime day or night. I actually tell them it doesn't even have to be an emergency.
If in the middle of the night they wake-up and feel good and just want to say hello and everything is fine, that is fine with me too (my family hates this part of my nature, but has learned to live with it). Luckily, not many of them take me up on this offer but the option exists.
I just want them to get the sense that there is help available to them when needed. I have no problem with anyone calling for help at any time, when help can be given.
But calling me in the middle of the night to tell me about a relapse is totally unnecessary. Paging me in the middle of the day and maybe interrupting my dinner or a television show, or even an interesting commercial to announce a relapse is also unnecessary.
Once a puff is taken there is no emergency anymore, no real sense of urgency. Nothing is on the line now. The quit is blown already.
There is no real significance to the second, third or even tenth cigarette, they were all the result of the first puff, as are all the other hundreds of thousands and maybe more than a million that are destined to follow. Is it that I don't want to know about the relapse? Not at all.
I tell them they are more than welcome to send me a post card, third class if possible. It will get to me eventually and I can update my records, but there is no need for me to actually have to be woken up and lose a second of sleep for such an announcement.
The support offered at online message board quit smoking forums works on the same principle. It may take a few minutes before someone gets to the board, but usually not long. While waiting, the person has plenty of reading material available. They can read the daily posts, explore specific forum topic areas like "relapse prevention," spend some time in the forum's article library or even visit WhyQuit. There is plenty of material to reinforce anyone's resolve, anyone who wants their resolve reinforced that is.
Bottom line. Post before you RELAPSE. Read and read until someone gets back to you. The odds are if you refocus your thoughts, a reply to your message will not even be necessary, just a nice reminder that someone cares. But you will have already passed the crisis state. It doesn't take long.
There may still be an ongoing trauma in your life at the moment, but those problems were going to be happening whether you were an active smoker, an ex-smoker, even if you had never smoked in your life.
But if you think about the real situation you will realize that your relapsing to a deadly addiction will not in any way, shape or form help resolve the ongoing problem. It will just give you another life threatening problem that you will need to contend with.
If your relapse eventually results in your premature death, everyone you know and leave behind will have to live with the same kind of grief and frustrations too. Do you want all of your children, parents, siblings, friends, co-workers, and just plain acquaintances to feel the need or acceptance to relapse to a deadly drug addiction in your memory?
If not, don't you need to teach them that lesson now while you are still alive? It is the same lesson that you can teach yourself every day. The lesson -- that you can quit smoking and you can stay off smoking under any circumstances as long as you always remember to NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!


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Meet The 2012 Schultz & Dooley Beer Steins- Porter Penguin And Maltcracker Nutcracker
Every winter around the holidays the F.X. Matt Brewing Company unveils their new beer steins. This season Schultz and Dooley are welcoming two friends to the family. Meet the 2012 Schultz & Dooley beer steins- Porter Penguin And Maltcracker Nutcracker.
Porter Penguin
Porter penguin is ready for the chilly weather and an ice cold Utica Club. Everyone at The Brewery Shop has him on their own personal gift list. Porter Penguin will cost you $49.95.
Maltcracker Nutcracker
Maltcracker Nutcracker may not crack any nuts, but he'll open your beer! Maltcracker comes with a matching church key bottle opener, free of charge. Maltcracker Nutcracker will cost you $79.00.
Schultz and Dooley Collectors' Festival
This Saturday, November 17, 2012, head down to the F.X. Matt Brewing Company Tour Center for the Schultz and Dooley Collectors' Festival. The event runs between 10AM and 3PM.
Events for the day are as follows:
• Official stein unveiling and release: 10AM
• Stein signing by Nick and Fred Matt: 11AM-2PM.
• Silent Auction: 11AM-2PM
• Live music by Rocky Graziano in the 1888 Tavern: 12PM-3PM
• Enjoy Brewery Tours, Saranac Beer and Soft Drinks, Utica Club and food stations throughout the day.


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A simple and minimalist Under Construction template. Includes a fully working AJAX email subscription form which saves the addresses to a MySQL database and/or emails them to you, which is very easy to set up, and also supports MailChimp. The template also includes a jQuery countdown, which is also very simple to set up and it can even run callback functions once the countdown is complete.
There are 10 unique social buttons included with this template, and they are easy to add / remove from the template. Google Web Fonts are used, so it is easy to get the fonts you want.
The template also has a short CSS3 animated intro (everything except the countdown fades in) which can be seen in the live demo. If you don't like the simple animation, it is very easy to remove as is explained in the documentation.
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Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by erkan, Jul 14, 2012.
Can I run ISPConfig on a server with Apache 2.4, PHP 5.4 and Debian 6?
There are no known problems with latest php or apache versions.
I tried it and ran into a lot of issues, one big one is virutalhosts do not work the same as they did in 2.2 and first thing that happens to me is i get 403 after i install ispconfig after a clean install of apache2.4....
a good place to look at all the changes from 2.2 to 2.4 is start here
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Update: Coming off their first win in five games with a victory Wednesday over Dallas, the Galaxy got an unexpected boost by the return of Landon Donovan, who was cut from the U.S. national team. "I'm excited to be back here," Donovan said. "I certainly didn't want to be back here by these circumstances or this soon. But I love these guys, these guys are my teammates, this is my home and I will not let this affect me going forward." … The Galaxy (3-3-3) have allowed only eight goals in nine games. … This is only the fourth home game for the Galaxy this season. … The Galaxy got a solid season debut from midfielder Kenney Walker, though he could be bumped from the lineup with Donovan's return. … Philadelphia (2-6-5) has allowed 20 goals in 13 games and is coming off a 5-3 defeat to New England.


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HFC23 (trifluromethane) is a potent greenhouse gas. Its effect on the atmosphere is 12,000 times more damaging than that of carbon dioxide. As a large-scale chemical and refrigerant products producer, Jiangsu Meilan Chemical CO. Ltd. (JMC) generates HFC23 as an inevitable by-product. The gas can be decomposed via a thermal oxidation process, but no compulsory regulations on emissions of HFC23 exist in China nor are there any commercial incentives for JMC to set up the decomposition facilities. This project will install an incineration system to collect and decompose the HFC23 generated by production activities at JMC. Starting May 1st, 2006, JMC began collection and storage of its HFC23 emissions. VICHEM, a French company specializing in technology for environmental protection, will supply the decomposition facilities, which are 99.99% effective. This project offers tremendous greenhouse gas mitigation and will contribute to sustainable development not only from an environmental perspective, but also economically, through benefits from the sale of certified emissions reductions, and technologically, through the transfer of technology to China.
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This syringe, used at the Franklin County Public Hospital School of nursing, probably dates from around 1900. The main evidence for this comes from the nickel-plated top, which shows some signs of corrosion. In the late 1800s, an effort was made to create medical instruments that could withstand the rigors of the steam sterilization process, and until truly stainless steel was developed, nickel-plated steel was a useful way to allow metal to be used. Syringes have needles attached to them and are used either to administer liquids, like drugs, through the skin, or to draw out fluids from the body.
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Keep Those Classic Ford and Mustang Tech Questions Coming!
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Q. My project is with a CJ-5 that I'm installing an '88 5.0L HO engine. It has a big bell housing with a 50-ounce, 164-teeth flywheel. It has a T-98 with a 11⁄8-inch input shaft. I can't find a clutch set that goes in that input shaft since most ford are 11⁄16-inch. Is there a Ford that has an 11-inch, 10-spline clutch disc with 11⁄8-inch input?
Bronx, New York
A. The Ford V-8 conversion for the older CJ-5s is getting more popular, since they never put an AMC V-8 in front of the T-98 transmission that I am aware of. For those unfamiliar, the T-98 and T-98A four-speed transmission was introduced in 1948 (the latter version having helically cut gears) and was used in big Ford trucks from '48-'64, International Harvester trucks, Kaiser Jeep military trucks in the late '60s, REO/White, and other industrial trucks, and could be ordered for civilian versions of the CJ up through '72. The T-18 and T-19 BW transmissions share most of the technology with different innards and was used up through the '90s. It was a good, robust, great working transmission, easy to rebuild and takes a pounding, and is still has a good source of parts both original and aftermarket. GM and Ford V-8's have been the normal upgrade for CJ owners for some time.
My first question for you would be to double-check your input shaft. It should be the smaller 15-/16-inch input shaft, not the 11⁄8-inch shaft. That version was used in the M715/M725 trucks only. Yours should have been mated to a Dana Spicer 18 transfer case and should be the smaller bore input shaft.
Either way, my recommendation would not be to go find a 11⁄8-inch clutch setup. The T-18 is an upgraded version of the original T-98, and they did make a 11⁄16-inch input shaft for use behind Ford applications. Advanced Adapters in California sells a conversion kit to install a Ford 11⁄16-inch shaft into your older T-98. It also comes with an adapter plate to mount your bellhousing to the T-98/-18 case. Then, all you need is to go get a Ford clutch setup and you're done. The part number is 712514-T98 and the phone number is (800) 350-2223 or you can check them out online at www.advanceadapters.com. Good luck with the CJ.
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Q. I own a '74 Ford LTD four-door fullsize car that I'm fixing up and need my rear framerails replaced. I would like to know if I can use '74-'76 Ford Torino rear framerails on my car?
A. I don't think the Tornio frames will work. I believe the shape of them is slightly smaller than the fullsized car. However, you have a full decade of cars to look at to find some rails to graft into your car.
The platform for your '74 LTD ran from 1969 to 1978, and was used not only on the LTD but the Ford Galaxie, Custom, Country Squire, and Mercury Marquis, Monterey, and Colony Park. There should still be some solid donor cars out there; they sold more than 7 million units. Any of those models should yield some pieces to graft in.
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Q. I have a '68 Torino 390 GT automatic, Holley 650 carb, Mallory ignition, and Hooker Super Comp headers. I just had the carb rebuilt, and the distributor is new. I pull the vacuum off of the distributor and time the car no problems, but when I hook the vacuum back up to the distributor, it's revving to 1,300 rpm and advancing like crazy. I tried putting a stock distributor in it, and it does the same thing. I don't know what cam is in the car (I bought it this way); could the cam be causing this motor to jump like crazy? Help!
Robert Snyder,
Dayton, Ohio
A. You'll kick yourself when I tell you this. Sounds like you're running the distributor on full manifold vacuum rather than ported carburetor vacuum. Your Holley should have a port for both, and different motors and setups will use one or the other. To make matters worse, in 1968, Ford used a vacuum tree located on the thermostat housing that when used properly, actually changed the type of vacuum used from carburetor to full manifold vacuum at the high end of the temperature of the coolant. It allowed the motor to be advanced and reduce emissions at high temperature.
My guess is that you probably don't have the vacuum tree anymore (they usually get pitched the first time someone changes the thermostat) and someone has plugged all the vacuum ports together, which means they've connected the distributor, carb, and manifold vacuums all together. You'll want to isolate the distributor and carb-ported vacuum away from the rest of the manifold vacuum. If you do still have the manifold tree, make sure it is hooked up properly: the very top port connects to the carburetor, the middle port connects to the distributor and the bottom port hooks to intake manifold vacuum. If you get those backwards that will cause you the same problems. If that's all hooked up correctly then maybe your vacuum control valve needs replaced. Finally, make sure you're hooked into the carburetor ported vacuum point on your Holley. One of those solutions should help you get your motor up and timed. Good luck with the Torino.
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Dying Light 2 AnnouncedWatch the World Premiere Gameplay. The fate of a decaying City is in your hands. Every choice matters.
Dying Light: The FollowingLeave the urban area behind and explore a dangerous countryside jam-packed with mysterious characters, deadly new weapons, and unexpected quests. Take the wheel of a dune buggy, get your tires smeared with zombie blood.
Challenge a sadistic psychopath born from the plague!Accept the invitation, beat Bozak in his own game, and become the champion of the Harran stadium. Survive brutal challenges and learn more about the man who organized the quarantine zone challenges.
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Schnoz gift away!!! Disclaimer: I didn't draw this. I just stuck a reindeer Schnoz onto a free coloring page.
May you, your family, and your friends all have the merriest of holidays.
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Oh man, be careful there Gobs ... that hot sauce has over 2 million scoville units. Even a bit on a toothpick will burn your tongue, so extra careful.
I was about to say "that's nothing" but then I looked up the hottest hot sauce I have and it's 800,000. Oh well. Time to die.
JMP - check out First We Feast on YT
I'm almost there in terms of owning all those sauces (this season) to replicate the experience.
Oh well. Time to die.
You did say the hotter the better!
I most certainly did. And I fully intend to put my hot sauce where my mouth is.
Here's a video of me trying out the hot sauce that JMP got me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9mF48j0B8
2. How long did it take before your mouth returned to normal? Did it fuck up your tongue/tastebuds like cinnamon candies tend to do if you eat too many at once
4. I have the weirdest boner right now.
Here's a video of me trying out the hot sauce that JMP got me!
Gob, you're crazy. I couldn't believe it when you kept dabbing so much of that stuff on. I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. Got to hand it to you, you certainly didn't take the easy way out on trying that sauce! Those croquettes looked delicious, by the way. Well, here's wishing you luck on the exit stage. This, too shall pass!
It took probably a good half-hour for my mouth to return back to normal. As for my stomach, that's another story. For hours I had the craziest stomach pains. Not your usual stomach ache; it felt like a jagged, heavy rock was sitting in there. I can't wait to try more!


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Kylie Minogue Covers January Issue of ELLE U.K., Twice!
Kylie Minogue makes 44 look good on her double covers for the January 2013 issue of ELLE U.K.. On one cover, Minogue is white hot with platinum blond locks and a white mini dress with an architectural bodice. On the other, it's a black and white, close up of her beautiful face, with her hair slicked back. She looks positively stunning!
We've gotta say that she looks like a screen siren from the Old Hollywood glam era in the head shot image. Those perfectly arched eyebrows and that flawless skin! We should all look so beautiful when we are the Aussie diva's age.
The spread photos are equally as captivating. The bright white blonde hair works for Minogue, which isn't always the case for women of a certain age, but Minogue owns it. There is also a real softness in the imaging from the shoot. The camera gets up close and personal with her multiple times, highlighting her enviable bone structure.
The singer is dressed in plenty of winter white, but she gives off so much heat that she takes the chill off!
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The patient, a man in his 40s, came to my office on a recent hot summer afternoon. All I'd been told before he arrived was what my secretary had typed next to his name when she scheduled the urgent appointment: "doesn't feel well." Yet somehow I felt certain, even seeing only his name and this telegraphic notation, that he'd have Lyme disease.
When I walked into the exam room I found the man lying on the table, shivering. He said he'd pulled a tick out of his skin two weeks earlier and since then his joints had been sore, his head had ached, and he'd had chills. None of this surprised me. In fact, as my patient spoke, I had the eerie feeling I knew what he would say before he said it. The only surprise was when I asked if he had a rash; he said no. But then I asked him again, and he said maybe there was a red area where his leg had chafed from lying around so much while he was ill. I peeled back the sheet to reveal what I knew I'd find: the classic, oval-shaped bullseye rash of Lyme.
The feeling of knowing something you don't have an apparent reason to know is called intuition — and doctors and nurses experience it all the time. Given how common intuition is in medicine, it's still quite hard to define.
Several studies have questioned the validity of intuitive healing, an ability claimed by some alternative practitioners. However, I do think that certain intangible factors — patients' emotions and the emotions they elicit in the clinicians caring for them, for example — can assist in diagnosis. I recall being told as a medical student that if a patient made me feel sad they were likely depressed, and if they made me angry they might have borderline personality disorder. I also learned that the most important skill I would develop as an intern was the ability to sense if someone was seriously ill — and that my most important tool for doing so was recognizing my own rush of adrenaline in encountering such a person.
Medical intuition is more than an emotional response, though. In his best-selling book, "Blink," Malcolm Gladwell argues that what we call intuition or gut feeling is often actually a logical, if abbreviated, reasoning process. Gladwell's "rapid cognition" is best exemplified by Sherlock Holmes, the literary creation of physician Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes could, famously, extrapolate much of a person's life story from a creased sleeve or the sole of a shoe. Real and fictional diagnosticians from Sir William Osler to Dr. Gregory House have used what Holmes called "backwards reasoning" — and astonished their colleagues with what seemed uncanny clinical intuition.
In the case of my patient, my own intuition may have been somewhat Holmesian. I later realized that the appearance of the patient's name and "doesn't feel well" had initiated in me a chain of thoughts of which I was barely conscious at the time: He's always been healthy . . . rarely comes in except for routine visits . . . no mention of a single specific symptom . . . probably a systemic illness . . . most likely an infection . . . it's not flu season . . . but it is Lyme season!
I sent off blood tests for Lyme and other tick-borne infections as well as a complete blood count and metabolic screens. Meanwhile, as is recommended for people who live in areas where Lyme is prevalent and who have a typical rash and symptoms, I started him on a course of antibiotics without waiting for the test results.
The next day, I called the patient expecting him to tell me that he felt very much improved. He did not. He still had a headache and his joints still hurt. Maybe he was a tiny bit better, he said, but not much. I checked his lab results and found that everything was normal except the Lyme test, which had been read as "equivocal." Lyme tests are frequently unreliable, often negative in early cases, or falsely positive. While we waited for the results of a more sensitive Western blot test, I told my patient to stay on the antibiotics.
A few days later the Western blot came back negative. Though this result didn't completely rule out the possibility of Lyme disease, I began to feel less confident in my diagnosis. Could it be that my strong intuition had led me astray? That I'd perceived his rash as typical of Lyme because that's what I expected? I wondered if I'd failed to heed Sherlock Holmes's famous warning: "It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence."
When I called the patient again, he reported good news: within two days of starting the antibiotic, he'd felt 100 percent better. I told him to continue the full course of the medication.
Conditions such as Lyme disease, for which we do not yet have a definitive test, highlight how complicated the diagnostic process can be, involving the patient's account of his or her illness, the physician's knowledge of the body's functions and malfunctions, environmental factors, the physical examination, lab and X-ray tests, and, yes, intuition. Computers, which can process enormous amounts of data but which lack intuition, have not, as yet, proved to be infallible diagnosticians.
Philosopher and physician Hillel Braude, who has written extensively on this subject, points out that clinical intuition may be best thought of as a means of bridging the gap between what a doctor knows generally about a condition, and what he observes and feels when interacting with an individual patient.
I'll see my patient again soon and consider retesting him for Lyme. If the test is positive, my intuition will be validated. If it's negative, I'll still believe he had Lyme based on his history, his physical exam, and his response to treatment. But if he hadn't gotten better, then my initial intuition — powerful as it was — wouldn't have been worth a thing.Dr. Suzanne Koven is a primary care internist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Read her blog at www.boston.com/inpractice. She can be reached email@example.com.


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Meridian, Miss. As an investigation continues into the motive for Sunday's brutal shooting of an elderly man, Meridian police are launching a new crime fighting initiative. Joined by the interim chief and the department's spokesman, Mayor Percy Bland Monday announced the launch of a new Gang Task Force Unit.
According to the mayor, the individuals who were involved in Sunday's parking lot shooting may have some affiliation with gangs.
"We do have a crisis in our community as it relates to young juvenile gang type activity, and we're going to deal with that problem," said Bland.
"We have resources within the department that we're redirecting for this unit," says MPD Interim Chief Buck Roberts. "We have gang experts within the department, and we have officers again within the department that have dealt with gangs and gang issues before. So, we're redirecting our resources from within this department at this time."
Because he says addressing the issue of gangs is now a top priority, Bland is calling the new unit a proactive approach to addressing the problem.
"We're going to be a little stricter on some of the enforcement of some of our ordinances as it relates to curfews at night and during the day, and also we're going to hold parents accountable for their children," says Bland. "The gang activity in our city is a serious problem, and our thoughts and prayers again go out to Mr. Putnam and his family."
Currently, the curfew for people 17 and under in Meridian during the school year is 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. It extends to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. After a third offense parents can face a charge and a fine.


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TIFF 2012: ARGOF*CKYOURSELF! (Argo review)
I must admit, as much as I dislike the end of summer I always look forward to TIFF, and this year is no exception. I had the pleasure of attending the world premier screening of Ben Affleck's film "Argo" at Roy Thompson Hall on Friday, now I'm no hardcore movie buff but here is my quick review of Friday's screening of this action packed thriller.More+


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As regular readers will know, I am obsessed with Skinfood, a Korean brand that has lots of unusual make up and skincare combinations.
Next up is the Salmon Dark Circle Concealer and Brightening Powder! According to some, the ideal shade of concealer is not yellow or beige for dark circles – its salmon.
I generally don't like Salmon – do you? I like Sashimi (raw salmon) as long as its the freshest, nicest salmon you can buy (its almost nutty) and baked salmon. But thats it. Wow, I said salmon a lot in that last sentence.
I paid bout £7 each for these (on eBay). Skinfood is actually pretty inexpensive in Korea, so yes, there is a mark up when the products are sold on eBay, but its ok in sterling, still quite affordable.
See the result after the jump!
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An instant brightening concealer/powder, it is rich in omega-3 fatty acid, vitamins A & E with Nano-coating, to lighten dark eye circles.
I am sure there are no crushed salmon bits in this, by the way, incase you are allergic.
The cream concealer comes in 2 shades, 01 and 02. I went for 02 as I find Asian cosmetic products to be on the light side.
This is the dark circle powder. It reminds me of my Laura Mercier brightening powder (no idea where it is, if I find it I will put it in the blog sale, which is on Sunday 11th Oct *plug plug*)
The powder is a light yellow. I can't see many sparkly, light reflecting particles:
The powder goes on top of the concealer to set it…
On its own – as you can see, quite a matte powder:
Ladies and gents, please be aware this is the eye of a very tired and very very stressed woman:
The concealer is very creamy – its almost a bit sticky (reminds me RMK) but it has fluidity. Its a really interesting texture – no doubt its got good coverage, but its not madly heavy, its quite rich but it doesn't settle into lines…but there is a stickiness. Bear this in mind…
After – its a very hydrating concealer. Its reflected light yet its not too heavy:
With the powder on top. The shine has gone, and its brighter. Bear in mind none of the rest of my face has make upon so it looks a bit strange (my eye lid could do with some concealing!):
Overall, its a fab product! If you have dry skin around the eyes, if you are willing to spend a little bit longer blending it in and putting the special powder on top you will have a great time with this product.
I am a NC35 and 02 is great. Much darker skin may struggle.
You can buy this from eBay for about £7 each!