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The tracks are filled with obstacles and jumps, letting you get big air while you race to the finish line.
After a few tutorial races you'll get to the Village. Here you can build new bikes, upgrade your current ones, and get quests to explore the world.
When you enter the saloon, you'll be met by some of the game's many strange characters. Each have quests for you that include finding special items, pulling off stunts in races, and more.
In this slide you can see some of the many tracks available to race. But this is only a fraction of the entire map. In other words there is plenty to explore in this game.
Part of the fun in this game are the stunt challenges given to you by the NPCs in the saloon. Some require things such as completing five backflips before the end of a race.
As you progress you'll find blueprint pieces that will eventually let you build new bikes. But you can also upgrade each bike with parts you earn as you race.


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Q: Is there some location where certain bash or python scripts could be run from any directory? I want to add multiple custom made scripts to a location, say check_proxy.sh to run in terminal from any directory by bash check_proxy.sh. Just like there is such a way to open a directory by cd mydirectory defined in $CDPATH from any location.
I don't want to edit each time .bashrc to include any functions like:
func()
{
     python -i ~/Scripts/check_proxy.py
}

A: Add the location to the PATH enviroment variable.
eg
$ mkdir ~/tmp/Alocation
$ echo "echo I am here" > ~/tmp/Alocation/my_test_script.sh
$ PATH=$PATH:~/tmp/Alocation
$ bash my_test_script.sh
I am here
$ cd /
$ bash my_test_script.sh
I am here
$ cd /etc
$ bash my_test_script.sh
I am here
$

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Dr Susan Lim pioneered the first Da Vinci Robotic General surgical procedure for the private sector in Singapore in 2004.
"She has this to add : "Robotic surgery is still in it's infancy, and has yet to make a quantum leap, to enable surgeons to deliver the best in precision surgery at a cellular level. So far, the Da Vinci robot is the reigning FDA approved robotic system for general, cardiothoracic, urology and gynaecologic surgery. But the system is cumbersome, bulky, and can be scary to patients as it's metallic arms (telemanipulators) hover over the patient. Though the latest model Xi is beautifully sleek and surgeon-friendly, we need disruptive innovations that will ultimately enable surgery at a cellular levell".


Dr. T.J. Johnson has been in practice since July 1, 2009, after his graduation from Northwestern Health Sciences University. He joined Ivey Chiropractic and worked alongside Dr. Thomas Ivey for several years. Dr. Ivey's father and grandfather preceded him, and upon his retirement, Dr. T.J. took over the practice.
At Living Life Chiropractic, we want to help you truly live your life, free from pain and functioning at 100%. We serve families and individuals from many community areas, including Aberdeen and Brown County.
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Dr. T.J. especially enjoys treating children, who are treated much differently than an adult with the gentlest of touches. Our youngest patients experience many benefits from our care, including the alleviation or prevention of common childhood illnesses.
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Republican DeSantis resigns from congress to focus on gubernatorial race
By Javier Manjarres 10 months ago
In order to completely focus on the road ahead to become Florida's next Governor, Congressman Ron DeSantis resigned from Congress today.
In the resignation letter her submitted to Paul Ryan today, Congressman DeSantis explained, "As the Republican nominee for Governor of Florida, it is clear to me that I will likely miss the vast majority of our remaining session days for this Congress. Under these circumstances, it would be inappropriate for me to accept a salary."
In the letter, the Congressman asks that the resignation be retroactive to September 1st, so that he doesn't receive payment for the month of September.
Congressman DeSantis poseed the letter on twitter for people to read, and many have commented on his choice to resign from Congress.
Democrats have already criticized his decision, saying that it's simply a distraction from a report released this weekend saying that the Congressman had spoken at a racially charged conference several times.
Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Terrie Rizzo wrote in a statement that "Ron DeSantis' entire political career has been about helping one person: Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis can abandon his post, but he can't avoid questions about why he chose to associate himself with hateful, fringe organizations."
Congressman DeSantis faces Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum in the November general election.
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Javier Manjarres is a nationally renowned award-winning South Florida-based political journalist owns Diverse New Media, Corp. which publishes Floridianpress.com, Judicialpost.com, shark-tank.com, and Hispolitica.com He enjoys traveling, playing soccer, mixed martial arts, weight-lifting, swimming and biking. He ran as a Republican in the 2018 congressional primary race in Florida's CD 22. Javier is also a political consultant, and has also authored "BROWN PEOPLE," which is a book about Hispanic Politics. Learn more at www.brownpeople.org Email him at [email protected]
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Logan Couture has been on an absolute tear this postseason. He's looked fantastic and the numbers definitely back up what most people are seeing.
In 18 playoff games Couture has 8 goals and 16 assists for a total of 24 points. That's 1.33 points per game. Sprinkle in his 2 game winning goals and it's been a nice spring for the former Ottawa 67.
Speaking of clutch, another reason Couture is being considered the leading candidate for the Conn Smythe thus far is his play in clinching games.
In San Jose's 3 series clinching games, Couture has been huge.
3 points in all 3 series clinching wins. Doing that put Couture in some elite company joining only Gretzky (85,88,93) and Kurri (85) as the only players to do it in a single playoff run.
But now lets look a little deeper than conventional box scores.
Couture has a personal shooting percentage of 16.7% in all scenarios during this run.
Compare that to his 10.09% in the regular season then it appears he is playing a little out of his league in the playoffs.
But that drastic change is also attributed to the red hot Sharks powerplay, which is running at 27.0% success rate, the best of any team to make it out of the first round.
When you look at Couture at just 5v5, not including special teams, then his shooting percentages show that this isn't a fluke.
His shooting percentage is dropping 5v5, but his production isn't.
In the regular season Couture produced at 2.37 points per 60 minutes on the ice.
To put that into a little better perspective, the only player to produce at a better rate than that and make it out of the first round is Pittsburgh's Phil Kessel who is putting up 3.67 points/60.
Couture is being played much more than he was in the regular season as well.
During the playoffs that number has gone up to 19.0 minutes per game.
Pete DeBoer is putting a lot of trust in the 27 year old and Couture is making him look very smart for doing so.
We hear about home ice advantage in the playoffs as well, but that doesn't seem to hinder Coutures game in the slightest.
The Sharks will start the Cup Final on the road tonight in Pittsburgh, and if one thing stands out about this team when they're on the road it's the powerplay.
Couture has put up 7 power play points in 9 away games. He also has 3 points in the 3 game ones that the Sharks have played in. So watch for him to be a threat tonight, as well as a key the Sharks success with the man advantage.
He also seems to be fueled by the crowd at the Shark Tank, scoring 6 goals and 7 assists in the 9 home games they've played this postseason.
If the Pens want a shot to knock off the Sharks and prove the experts wrong (18 of ESPN's experts pick San Jose to win) then stopping Couture will be a must. He has 21 points during the Sharks 12 wins this postseason. The team is also 12-2 in games that he has scored at least 1 point, meaning he has a point in every single Sharks playoff victory.
While a lot of the media attention has been given the leadership of Joe Thornton and Joe Pavelski, there should be no question who this teams Conn Smythe favourite has been so far and who should be a key to the Sharks capturing their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.


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Jimmy Choo purse | Alex Monroe necklace | Madewell dress | J. Crew shirt | Rodarte & Other Stories skirt | Elina Linardaki sandals
Happy April! I considered doing a wish list consisting solely of the latest Croc styles, but that would just be cruel :)
Anyways, it's April, which is a really crazy exciting month for me because it's my BIRTHDAY MONTH and also my last month of school EVER. Seriously, my last day of class is on April 28th. Commence freakout...now.
But because it's a super fun busy month for me, I'm gonna need some killer threads to get me through it in style. That means lots of color, embellishment, and cool details that are Anything But Basic. As I wrote earlier this week, off-the-shoulder tops and dresses are my jam lately, and this Madewell dress is sooo cute. I tried it on last week and died, I loved it so much. Hopefully I'll get it for my birthday (Mom, this was a hint for you).
I also have been eyeing this Alex Monroe fox necklace for a while now. I don't want to say that the fox is my spirit animal because that's like, cultural appropriation, but I very much identify with foxes—basically my Harry Potter patronus would be a fox (I know, I've taken several Buzzfeed quizzes on the matter)—and also they are just a very stylish animal. And a fox necklace sure as hell beats a boring Tiffany's heart necklace. Remember when those were a thing?
Elsewhere, one of my favorite designer brands, Rodarte, has teamed up with & Other Stories for a more wallet-friendly collection. Everything is beautiful and 70s-inspired (because what isn't these days?) and this groovy patchwork skirt is of particular intrigue, because it's both neutral and has shiny gold. What can I say, I'm a bit of a magpie.
Speaking of, these Elina Linardaki sandals (and countless other iterations) have been everywhere lately and I must say that I'm a fan. What a great way to spice up a simple white beach cover-up or breezy vacation outfit! Tbh, give me multicolored pompoms and I'm a happy girl.
And because this month is about having fun and looking cool while doing it, why have a boring white button-down when you can have a white button-down with beads??? I mean really, given the option, which one would you pick? The beaded one, duh. Same goes for the candy-colored Jimmy Choo clutch. Yes, it also comes in basic black, but like, why would I want that when I can have CANDY COLORS? It's a no-brainer.
Okay, hopefully you paid attention, Mom, and other readers who are not buying me birthday presents but just want to know what I'm shopping for this month...or you could buy me presents too! (lol jk, unless you're not).
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What are you wishing for this April? Tell me in the comments!
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Nina Kobi April 1, 2016 at 7:43 AM
These sandals are super cute. xx
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Jessi Malay April 1, 2016 at 3:18 PM
Love that bag!
Dakota Daniels April 1, 2016 at 3:20 PM
Love the sandals and clutch!
Yuka April 3, 2016 at 12:10 PM
I'm majorly lusting after those sandals!!


Should I Stay Or GoWe all age. At some point we are all going to die.
When you get the call that it looks like someone is on the other side of recovery you have some tough decisions to make. Should you stay or go? When do you choose your family over your job? Every time might be your knee jerk answer.
In these times is that really true? When I was faced with this decision after getting a call from my brother regarding my father I was in Europe for work. Not easy to just jump in the car and get over there. There was a bit of coordination and additional cost involved. I also wanted to manage the guilt I was feeling towards my job performance. What would leaving early do to my performance and effectiveness as a leader within the Finance group?
Here in the U.S. there is so much insecurity, some imagined but some real about losing your job, or moving lower down the pecking order. This can be especially true when your focus and balance swings more towards your family. You need to figure out where that balance is and how to manage through it.
Call it real or not but I was really conflicted with deciding if I should have left Paris and jumped on a plane or stayed. The guilt I was feeling for abandoning my work was real, the money involved in the trip, the cost of returning home early was real and significant. I was comparing that guilt to the thought that he would pull through and it would be a "false alarm".
In the end, I waited a few days and then cut my trip early to go back home. The fact my boss demanded that I get on the plane and go helped the decision. Hey, maybe I'm the odd ball but it was a tough decision for me as I always try to balance work and home. But I feel good about the decision now. I think you need to make sure that the guilty feeling is not overwhelming and will not haunt you (on both the side of family and career). Replacing that guilt with the feeling of being able to say good bye is comforting. I know it was the right decisions but that didn't make it any easier for me.
Maybe it was a little bit of insecurity on my part and overly concerned about my job. But when I thought about it logically there was no way that leaving to go home would impact my job. But it still weighed on my mind.
It was the right call, my father passed away five days later.


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Address by the Minister for Justice and Equality to the Association of Garda Superintendents
Kilashee House Hotel, Naas
Mr President, Commissioner, members of the Association of Garda Superintendents, distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your work, as district officers and in specialist and national units, is challenging and demanding. Much of that work goes unheard of and unreported. Nevertheless it is of critical importance in maintaining the safety and security of communities across the country. And that's why I'm so glad to have the opportunity to address you today.
Mr President, during the course of our meeting last week and in your address today you raise some issues which go to the heart of policing –recruitment, resources and reform.
Your insight into these issues, as frontline managers, is greatly valued.
This Government is committed to addressing each of these issues in a coherent, integrated way aimed at allowing you to continue to deliver the best possible police service.
I know from speaking with Superintendents nationwide that the lack of ongoing recruitment since 2009 has had a real impact on frontline policing service.
Restarting recruitment was a key priority for the Government - and for me.
Last September we started to deliver - with the first recruitment of new Gardaí since 2009.
We reopened the Garda College for new recruitments; and we have committed to not letting it close again.
Three hundred have already started their training, and 250 more will join them over the coming months.
I promised seamless ongoing recruitment and I am delivering on that promise.
This is further supported by the recent recruitment of specialist personnel for specialist positions. I want to see ongoing recruitment of civilian administrative, technical and analyst posts so as to both free-up 'sworn' Gardaí for frontline policing duties and to enhancing the service's investigative and analysis capacities.
Competitions for promotion to the ranks of Inspector and Sergeant will commence as early as possible. Of course the Commissioner has also authorised the appointment of 185 new Sergeants and 43 new Inspectors in the last twelve months.
On the issue of pay, my colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has indicated that, following receipt of the 1st Quarter Exchequer returns and engagement with Government colleagues, he intends to engage with Public Service Unions regarding the gradual unwinding, in parallel and consistent with our improving economy, of the emergency measures implemented under the FEMPI Acts.
The Council of Europe's concerns about participation by the Garda associations in industrial relations negotiations are also being addressed.
An Garda Síochána is first and foremost about people. But those people need to get from A to B. They need central hubs. They need IT.
We're moving on all three.
€27.5 million invested in new Garda vehicles, marking a massive increase on the €4.8 million provided for in Budgets 2009-2011. The latest 370 new Garda vehicles have begun coming on stream since the start of this year.
I know from speaking with Superintendents that the new vehicles are a welcome boost for Garda districts; as well as being critical to supporting the work of the Traffic Corps and national units.
In this year's budget we provided €42 million to start the building of the three new Divisional Headquarters in Galway, Wexford and Kevin Street and I look forward to turning the sod in the Kevin Street site next week.
And an additional €4 million for ICT - and that's just the beginning.
We can all agree that out-dated paper-based practices must be consigned to history and we must move with confidence; and resources, into the digital era.
The recent report of the Garda Inspectorate on Crime management has highlighted many of the issues that need to be addressed. Not least of these is the ICT infrastructure which needs to be in place to support you and your colleagues in your day to day work, be it in terms of command-and control or computer-aided-dispatch or human resource management
With my support, the Commissioner has already established a group to develop a coherent long-term ICT strategy.
This increased investment, across-the-board, will ensure a sustainable future for an Garda Síochána and equip it to meet the realities and challenges of 21st century policing and security.
In addition this investment will be vital to supporting and underpinning the new Transformation Programme and Anti-Crime Strategy currently being finalised by Garda Commissioner Noirín O'Sullivan.
This brings me to the theme of reform. Reform driven by criticism of the management and oversight of policing services in this State. And, indeed, of the culture of An Garda Síochána.
Garda culture doesn't start or stop with the Commissioner or the top management. It is matter for us all: the Government, the Department, the police service, the Public; and going forward the Policing Authority.
It is a matter for all us to work together:
· to address criticisms;
· to tackle the failings;
· to restore public confidence in policing; and
· to ensure morale and support the professional work of the men and women of An Garda Síochána.
That's how I see it. That's how I want it done. I believe that's how the Commissioner sees it and wants it done, too.
But it doesn't stop there. If we're re-imagining the service, we must re-imagine positively, rather than simply set regulations and regulators in place to forbid, to excise, to punish. That's not how to build a strong, respectful police service.
The new Policing Authority has a function in this regard. I would not wish it to be seen as focussing on failure only. I would hope it would also focus on what An Garda Síochána is doing right. Because it is through the repetition of good habits that you build a healthy culture, and it is through the recognition of excellence that excellence becomes general.
It's wonderful to read in media positive reports of exceptional Garda work - as happened recently, be it regarding high-profile investigations and successful prosecutions; or successful major disruption to drugs trades. All positives.
I'm just thinking aloud here -- I wonder if we have an adequate method of capturing those inside the system, so that we can acknowledge and build on exceptionally good work?
We've published the General Scheme of the Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2014 providing for the establishment of the new independent Policing Authority. The Authority will be an independent new vehicle for public accountability, while driving reforms of policing systems and practices. Ms Josephine Feehily is Chair-designate. I will publish the legislation in May.
We have enacted legislation strengthen the role and remit the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC).
Regulation is pivotal. It's also relatively new in this country - and takes time and resources. I'm conscious of the burden on your members caused by complaints to GSOC and I plan to work with the Commissioner and GSOC to find ways to ease that burden.
In particular, I am discussing with GSOC and the Garda Commissioner whether a way can be found, that is fair to complainants and Gardaí, for speedier resolution of less serious complaints. If a workable solution can be identified - and I am sure it can - it could significantly ease the investigative burden on Superintendents, and I would be happy to implement that solution through a change in the law or by agreement.
Now, let me look briefly at criticism of your members, particularly of named members of your association on the floor of the Dáil.
Parliamentary privilege exists for a very good reason. But with privilege comes a solemn responsibility. Whenever that responsibility is shirked, the public representative involved should be called on it.
Before I conclude I wish to refer to issue of burglaries; what I'm sure you will all agree is a most invasive crime
As of the end of 2014, Operation Fiacla has led to 11,688 arrests and 6,711 persons charged. As of February 2015. Operation Acer has led to 5,389 arrests, 2,746 charges and 1,087 convictions for burglary in the Dublin area. I commend all Gardaí for this very impressive policing response.
Going forward I know that the Commissioner is working on a new Anti-Crime Strategy which will include updated operational responses to the issue of burglaries.
However I have been acutely aware, including listening to on-the-ground feedback from your members, that a broader criminal justice response is also required, particularly in terms of bail and sentencing for repeat burglars.
Earlier today, the Cabinet agreed to my proposals for a new Criminal Justice (Burglary of a Dwelling) Bill.
Firstly, the Bill will provide that a previous conviction for domestic burglary coupled with two or more pending charges shall be evidence of a likelihood to commit further domestic burglaries; and the bill will therefore allow a court to refuse bail on that ground.
Secondly, the Bill will require that any sentence of imprisonment for a second domestic burglary must be consecutive to any sentence of imprisonment for any other domestic burglary committed in the six months prior to or after the second sentenced offence.
I hope these legislative measures will strengthen our collective response to burglary; help keep repeat offenders off the streets; and provide greater protection for homeowners.
Mr President, the increase in investment, the re-starting of recruitment and introduction of reforms on my watch are intended to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Garda Síochána and of each member of the organisation be they a full time sworn member, a member of the Garda Reserve or a member of the civilian staff.
A service like An Garda Síochána is entitled to two things: pride in its past and confidence in its future. I'm committed to both.
Thank you again Mr. President for your welcome. I wish you every success in your conference and I look forward to meeting you again in the near future to continue our discussions on areas of mutual concern.


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Q: Jquery function only running after 2 clicks I have a jquery function that opens the menu for mobile browsers.  It opens, but only does it after it is clicked twice.  I am using jquery mobile, so I have changed my;
$(document).ready(function(){
to read
$(document).on('pageinit', function(){
The function in question is;
    function showMobileDrop(){
    $('.mobileDrop').show("slide", {direction:"up"}, 1000);
    }
    $(function(){
    $('.cMenu').click(showMobileDrop);
    });

This interacts with this menu on my page.  The mobile menu is hidden unless the page is under 700px wide;

    Menu

Close

HOME

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WEDDINGS

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AMERICANA

INSTRUCTION

So as I said it works, but only if the anchor link class="cMenu" is clicked twice. Not sure if I should be using pagechange, or something different.  I am basically trying to write the effects I added in so they will work just as they would in a normal document ready environmment but allow them to function in the jquery mobile multipage model.

A: Since the element being clicked is an , you should prevent default behavior (following the link to #), which might be interfering with you function.
Something like this:
function showMobileDrop(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    $('.mobileDrop').show("slide", {direction:"up"}, 1000);
}
$(function() {
    $('.cMenu').click(showMobileDrop);
});


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Announcing Fall 2020 Chapbook Prize Winner: Claudia Delfina Cardona
The Host Publications team is honored to announce Claudia Delfina Cardona and her manuscript What Remains as the winner of the Host Publications Chapbook Prize for Fall 2020.
We have long admired Claudia as a member of the Texas poetry community, and as an artist brilliant in the realms of writing, graphic design, and editing. Her manuscript, What Remains, is a collection of poems propelled by impulse, desire and an ancestral sense of longing. These poems are experiential; they exist within the dark and splendid catacombs of the body, in the dusty moonlit Texas nights, and invite us into their own glittery mythos of what it means to be a young woman falling in and out of love in San Antonio.
Claudia Delfina Cardona is a poet born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. She received her B.A. from St. Mary's University and her MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University. She co-founded Chifladazine in 2013, a zine that highlights creative work by Latinas and Latinxs, alongside Laura Valdez. In 2019, she co-founded Infrarrealista Review, a literary journal for all types of Texan writers, with Linda Rivas Vázquez. Cardona loves music and films as much as she loves poetry. She is an aspiring DJ and cultural critic. Read her poems at claudiadelfinacardona.com.
In addition to publication, Claudia will receive $1,000, 25 copies of the published chapbook, national distribution with energetic publicity and promotion by our dedicated staff, and a (hopefully, if we can safely do this) rad release party at Malvern Books here in Austin, TX.
Save The Date: Claudia Delfina Cardona's chapbook launch will October 2020.
Annar Veröld
Claudia Delfina Cardona /
Host Publications Chapbook Prize /


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World ASEAN
ASEAN, India back maintaining peace in East Sea
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) appreciated India's contributions to peace and stability in Southeast Asia at a summit in Bangkok, Thailand, on November 3.
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At the 16th ASEAN-India Summit (Photo: VNA)
Bangkok (VNA) – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) appreciated India's contributions to peace and stability in Southeast Asia at a summit in Bangkok, Thailand, on November 3.
The 16th ASEAN-India Summit, which saw the attendance of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, touched upon issues such as terrorism and the need to maintain peace, security and stability in the East Sea.
Vijay Thakur Singh, Secretary (East) in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, told the press that both sides highlighted the convergences of their respective approaches to the Indo-Pacific.
ASEAN leaders spoke of India as a long-term friend and a dynamic partner, and complimented India's contributions to regional peace and stability, she said.
ASEAN leaders noted many commonalities they have with the Indo-Pacific region, in particular SAGAR, which is Security and Growth for All, according to the official.
Both sides noted the importance of promoting rule-based order in the region, including the observance of international law, particularly the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
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Anita Gomez
In re D.C.
NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION
No. 122,718
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS
In the Interest of D.C.,
A Minor Child.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Appeal from Cloud District Court; KIM W. CUDNEY, judge. Opinion filed October 30, 2020.
Katie J. Schroeder, of Schroeder Law Office LLC, of Beloit, for appellant natural mother.
Robert A. Walsh, county attorney, for appellee.
Before ATCHESON, P.J., SCHROEDER and WARNER, JJ.
PER CURIAM: N.C. appeals the order of the Cloud County District Court
terminating her right to parent her daughter D.C. On appeal, N.C. argues she was
impermissibly denied legal representation during a portion of the case leading up to the
termination hearing and the State's evidence at the termination hearing did not support
termination. Because N.C. was represented by a lawyer at the termination hearing and the
evidence was sufficient, we affirm the district court's order.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
In late April 2019, N.C. left D.C., who was then 12 years old, home alone for a
week ostensibly to go to a job training program in Indiana. D.C. was required to use an
insulin pump. And the evidence suggests she lacked the skills to fully care for herself.
N.C. arranged for a neighbor to check on D.C. Nonetheless, D.C. failed to recharge the
pump and suffered a significant diabetic incident requiring her hospitalization. N.C. did
not return from her training while D.C. was in the hospital.
D.C. was taken into emergency State custody on May 2, and the county attorney
for Cloud County initiated this child in need of care proceeding. The record indicates that
W.C., D.C.'s father, lived elsewhere, and we gather he had limited, intermittent contact
with the child. The district court also terminated his parental rights, but he is not a party
to this appeal.
N.C. hired a lawyer at the outset of this case. Both she and her lawyer appeared at
the adjudication hearing in mid-June, when the district court found D.C. to be a child in
need of care. In the meantime, N.C. had tested positive for methamphetamine in a test
administered by the social service agency designated to prepare and administer a family
reintegration plan. N.C. refused to take a drug test the day of the adjudication hearing.
About six weeks after entering an appearance, N.C.'s lawyer filed a motion to
withdraw that the district court granted. After that, N.C. did not attend a series of
proceedings in this case, including a review hearing, a permanency hearing, and a
dispositional hearing. The record indicates N.C. received proper notice by mail of those
hearings. In November 2019, the district court scheduled a termination hearing and
appointed a lawyer to represent N.C. at the hearing. The appointed lawyer requested and
received a continuance of the hearing to February 2020. The lawyer did not ask for any
additional time to prepare for the hearing.
The hearing evidence showed N.C. ignored 39 requests from the social service
agency for drug testing—all of them that followed the positive test for methamphetamine.
N.C. did not provide a urine sample for a drug test the district court ordered at the
termination hearing. So N.C. had 1 positive test, 39 no-shows with the agency, and what
amounts to 2 refusals at court hearings. Under those circumstances, a court may fairly
treat the refusals and no-shows as evidence N.C. reasonably believed she would have
tested positive. See In re J.A.H.,
285 Kan. 375
, 388,
172 P.3d 1
(2007) (parent's positive
test for methamphetamine coupled with refusal of further testing supported child in need
of care finding); In re I.G., No. 122,009,
2020 WL 2296918
at *4-5 (Kan. App. 2020)
(unpublished opinion) (evasion or circumvention of drug testing supported finding of
parental unfitness); In re J.F., No. 119,578,
2019 WL 985389
, at *3 (Kan. App. 2019)
(positive drug test and test refusals supported finding of unfitness).
N.C. represented the testing appointments conflicted with her work schedule, but
she never verified her employment by presenting paystubs or other evidence to the social
service agency or at the termination hearing. The social service agency would not
schedule visits between N.C. and D.C. without negative drug tests. As a result of N.C.'s
refusal to test, she had no communication or visits with D.C. between May 2019 and
February 2020. The social service agency was never able to inspect and verify suitability
of N.C.'s residence. And nothing in the record established that N.C. fully understood the
attention and monitoring D.C. required because of her health issues.
In its journal entry following the termination hearing, the district court found N.C.
unfit based on multiple factors in K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2269(b) and (c): (1) N.C.'s use
of drugs rendered her unable to care for D.C.; (2) the failure of reasonable efforts by the
social service agency to rehabilitate the family; (3) N.C.'s failure to adjust her
circumstances, conduct, or conditions to meet the needs of D.C.; (4) N.C.'s failure to
carry out a reasonable plan for reintegration; and (5) D.C.'s failure to maintain regular
visitation and contact with D.C. Those factors tend to overlap and principally tie into
N.C.'s drug use and the consequences of that use and her ongoing failure to cooperate in
drug testing. The hearing evidence also showed that N.C. did very little else to meet the
objectives of the family reintegration plan. The district court found N.C.'s unfitness was
unlikely to change in foreseeable future and D.C.'s best interests would be served by
termination of both N.C.'s and W.C.'s parental rights. N.C. has appealed the termination
Lack of Legal Representation
For her principal point on appeal, N.C. argues the district court's failure to appoint
a lawyer to represent her after her retained lawyer was permitted to withdraw violated
both her constitutional and statutory rights. We find no basis to reverse the termination
order, since N.C. was represented by a lawyer leading up to and during that hearing.
We turn first to a parent's statutory right to legal representation in child in need of
care proceedings. As provided in K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2205(b)(1), a parent has the right
to appear with a lawyer and for court appointment of a lawyer if he or she is unable to
afford legal representation. The latter, however, is a qualified right, since a parent must
ask the district court to appoint a lawyer. K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2205(b)(1) ("If . . . a
parent desires but is financially unable to employ an attorney, the court shall appoint an
attorney for the parent.") (Emphasis added.) Parents are informed of that option at the
outset of child in need of care cases, and that appears to have been done here. The district
court, however, is not obligated to appoint a lawyer to represent a parent who has been
given notice of a hearing and fails to attend. K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2205(b)(1). But a
district court must appoint a lawyer for a parent for a termination hearing, even if the
parent is in default and has not appeared. K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2267(d).
The record here indicates the district court complied with the statutory
requirements, especially given N.C.'s failure to appear at the various proceedings leading
up to the termination hearing. Nothing shows N.C. formally or informally requested an
appointed lawyer.
The United States Supreme Court has recognized that persons facing the
termination of their parental rights in a judicial action have a conditional right to
appointed legal representation if they cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Lassiter v.
Department of Social Servs. of Durham Cty.,
, 31-32,
101 S. Ct. 2153
, 68 L.
Ed. 2d 640 (1981). The Lassiter Court adopted the case-by-case standard it had fashioned
for requiring appointed representation in probation revocation hearings in Gagnon v.
Scarpelli,
, 790-91,
93 S. Ct. 1756
36 L. Ed. 2d 656
(1973). See In re L.B.,
42 Kan. App. 2d 837
217 P.3d 1004
(2009) (noting Lassiter and constitutional
right to counsel); In re D.R., No. 119,119,
at *6 (Kan. App. 2018)
(unpublished opinion) (noting case-by-case standard in Lassiter). We recently described
the right to legal representation recognized in Gagnon this way:
"In Gagnon, the Court concluded that the circumstances of a given case would dictate
whether a probationer had a due process right to appear at a revocation hearing with a
lawyer. The Court suggested probationers would presumptively be entitled to legal
representation if they offered either 'colorable claim[s]' the factual grounds for the
revocation were wrong or compelling mitigating circumstances weighing against
revocation notwithstanding proved violations, especially if those circumstances could be
considered 'complex or otherwise difficult to develop.' And the Court invited the
adjudicating authority to take into account the ability of a given probationer to effectively
speak on his or her own behalf, particularly in a 'doubtful' case." State v. Gonzalez,
In short, N.C. may have had a constitutional right to an appointed lawyer in this case. But
the district court never engaged in the case specific analysis required in Lassiter to make
that determination.
We, therefore, make a pair of assumptions in addressing N.C.'s appellate
argument. First, we assume N.C.'s failure to request an appointed lawyer did not amount
to a forfeiture of her constitutional right. Second, we assume the circumstances of this
case were such that N.C. would have been substantially disadvantaged in representing
herself leading up to and at the termination hearing. See
Gonzalez, 57 Kan. App. 2d at 625
n.1. We, therefore, assume without deciding that N.C. was constitutionally entitled to
an appointed lawyer at the point the district court allowed her retained lawyer to
withdraw.
N.C. argues this issue as if her lack of legal representation at the sequential
proceedings leading up to the termination hearing categorically creates an error requiring
reversal of the termination order. But that is mistaken. Even constitutional errors are
subject to review for harmlessness. Here, N.C. would have to show some sort of actual
prejudice that deprived her of a fundamentally fair termination hearing despite being
represented by a lawyer then. N.C. has made no such showing. Accordingly, we find no
factual or legal basis to set aside the termination order because N.C. was without legal
representation between June and November 2019.
Sufficiency of the Evidence
N.C. makes a condensed argument on appeal that the evidence presented at the
termination hearing did not support the district court's finding of unfitness or that
termination would be in D.C.'s best interests. She does not specifically dispute the district
court's finding that her unfitness would be unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.
We begin our assessment of this issue with an outline of the core legal principles
governing termination proceedings under the Revised Kansas Code for Care of Children,
K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2201 et seq.
A person has a constitutionally recognized right to a parental relationship with his
or her child. See Santosky v. Kramer,
(1982); In re B.D.-Y.,
(2008) (citing Santosky).
The right is a constitutionally protected liberty interest. See Troxel v. Granville,
147 L. Ed. 2d 49
(2000) (substantive liberty interest); Pierce v.
Society of the Sisters,
45 S. Ct. 571
69 L. Ed. 1070
(recognizing "the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education
of children under their control"). Accordingly, the State may extinguish the legal bond
between a parent and child only upon clear and convincing proof of parental unfitness.
K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2269(a);
Santosky, 455 U.S. at 769-70
; In re R.S.,
50 Kan. App. 2d 1105
, Syl. ¶ 1,
After a child has been adjudicated in need of care, a district court may terminate
parental rights "when the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the parent is
unfit by reason of conduct or condition which renders the parent unable to care properly
for the child and the conduct or condition is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future."
K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2269(a). In considering a parent's unfitness, the district court may
apply the factors outlined in K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2269(b) and, when the child has been
removed from the home, the additional factors in K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2269(c). In this
case, the district court drew from both of those sources to find N.C. unfit. A single factor
may be sufficient to establish unfitness. See K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2269(f).
In the interests of completeness, we mention that when gauging the likelihood of
change in the foreseeable future under K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2269(a) the courts should
use "child time" as the measure. As the Code recognizes, children experience the passage
of time in a way that makes a month or a year seem considerably longer than it would for
an adult, and that difference in perception typically tilts toward a prompt, permanent
disposition. K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2201(b)(4); In re M.B.,
39 Kan. App. 2d 31
, 45,
(2008); In re G.A.Y., No. 109,605,
(unpublished opinion) ("'child time'" differs from "'adult time'" in care proceedings "in
the sense that a year . . . reflects a much longer portion of a minor's life than an adult's").
When the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a decision to terminate parental
rights is challenged, an appellate court will uphold the decision if, after reviewing the
record evidence in a light most favorable to the State as the prevailing party, the district
court's findings on unfitness and foreseeability of change are supported by clear and
convincing evidence. Stated another way, the appellate court must be persuaded that a
rational fact-finder could have found it highly probable that the circumstances warrant the
termination of parental rights. In re
B.D.-Y., 286 Kan. at 705
. In evaluating the record, the
appellate court does not weigh conflicting evidence, pass on the credibility of witnesses,
or determine factual questions. In re Adoption of B.B.M.,
(2010); In re M.H.,
, 1170,
The district court's best interests determination is governed by a less stringent
standard. As directed by K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2269(g)(1), the district court should give
"primary consideration to the physical, mental[,] and emotional health of the child" in
making a best interests finding. A district court decides best interests based on a
preponderance of the evidence. See In re
R.S., 50 Kan. App. 2d at 1115-16
. The decision
essentially rests in the district court's sound judicial
discretion. 50 Kan. App. 2d at 1116
An appellate court reviews those sorts of conclusions for abuse of discretion. A district
court exceeds that broad latitude if it rules in a way no reasonable judicial officer would
under the circumstances, if it ignores controlling facts or relies on unproven factual
representations, or if it acts outside the legal framework appropriate to the issue. See
Northern Natural Gas Co. v. ONEOK Field Services Co.,
(2013); State v. Ward,
N.C. offers a broad challenge to the evidence, arguing she had complied with
some of the objectives for family reintegration. But she fails to delineate specific
shortcomings in the State's evidence or faults in the district court's findings on the
grounds of unfitness.
Under the appellate standard of review, we find sufficient evidence to support the
district court's conclusion. The evidence can and should be taken to show that N.C. had
an ongoing substance abuse problem, with methamphetamine being a drug of choice.
N.C.'s chronic avoidance of drug testing following her positive test should be viewed as
substantial circumstantial evidence of a continuing problem and an inability to even
acknowledge the problem. In turn, N.C. had no visits or other significant communication
with D.C. for about eight months because she would not comply with the drug testing
protocols. That demonstrates an inability and unwillingness on N.C.'s part to adjust her
circumstances to meet the needs of D.C., one of the statutory grounds for unfitness.
K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2269(b)(8). The lack of contact and communication with D.C. is
itself another ground for unfitness. K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2269(c)(2). N.C.'s dismal
performance in those respects illustrates the failure of an otherwise reasonable family
reintegration plan. K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 38-2269(b)(7).
Although N.C. hasn't disputed that the circumstances were unlikely to change in
the foreseeable future, her ongoing refusal to acknowledge, confront, and deal with an
apparent drug problem supports the district court's finding. She would have had to make
significant strides with her substance abuse issues to avoid an unfitness finding. Here,
after nine months, she had not even acknowledged a problem, casting an exceptionally
dim light on the prospects for some measured success anytime in the foreseeable future.
Finally, the district court's best interests determination does not display an abuse
of judicial discretion. N.C. does not suggest the district court misunderstood the evidence
or misapplied the law. She submits "little evidence" supported the conclusion,
presumably meaning no other district court would have ruled in the same way. We
disagree.
N.C. initially left D.C. in an unsafe situation in light of the child's serious diabetes
and need for carefully monitored treatment. That poor judgment and neglect placed D.C.
in a precarious situation, necessitating her hospitalization and prompting the State's
intervention. After N.C. tested positive for methamphetamine, she effectively abandoned
D.C. when she refused to make any real effort to comply with the testing protocols—a
necessary step to visiting and otherwise communicating with the child. Given the
duration of that abandonment, we believe other district courts would have weighed the
competing considerations of termination in the same way and come to the same best
interests determination.
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Imagine a pop-up book mating with a crisp high-def image. Throw in occasional jerky motion resembling undercranked Mack Sennett moments when actors move too much, overly defined planes along the Z axis suggesting a View-Master brightened by the heat of a thousand suns, noses and ears sometimes revealed to be pellucidly prosthetic, and overhead shots of landscapes looking more like a cut scene crunched through an overclocked Nvidia card five years from now. To my eyes, this was what 48 frames per second looked like on a fifty-foot screen. I had heard reports that one was "supposed to get used to this" after a period lasting somewhere between five and twenty minutes. Unlike other 3D films, I did not get a headache. On the flip side, I couldn't believe in the aesthetic.
But then The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is "fantasy" — not the thoughtful form from the adept hands of Michael Moorcock or Mervyn Peake or Kelly Link, but the inoffensive offerings from J.R.R. Tolkien. I don't necessarily have a problem with a fantasy which opts to swim in the shallow end of the pool. The covenant is that, if the fantasy short-changes on human scope and capitulates to escapism, then the fantasy must inspire new awe and fresh wonder.
We come into The Hobbit familiar with the Shire's round doors and verdant pleasures from years before. We have seen Middle Earth's eco-porn greens and Rivendell's gables and gazebos. So why exactly should we return to the theater and hand over our hard-earned shekels if it's more of the same? Are we here for nostalgic purposes? Do filmmaker and audience alike prefer stagnation? I didn't mind being there and back again, but the too clean 48fps technology had the strange effect of cheapening my middling affinity for Middle Earth. Like George Lucas before him, Peter Jackson has returned to the beginning, motivated by technological tinkering and the considerable dollars he will collect from feverish and unquestioning fanboys rather than any real need to spin a good yarn. At least there is nothing here as terrible as Jar Jar Binks.
For long stretches, this first film in Peter Jackson's new Tolkien trilogy failed to seduce. This is largely because its source material only has enough material for two films. By my calculation, it takes Jackson 168 minutes to dramatize about 82 pages of material, which seems needlessly profligate. The Hobbit is many things, but it is neither Ulysses nor Gravity's Rainbow. There is no doubt in my mind that we will see an extended version and supplements on DVD ensuring that nobody leaves the house for the next ten years.
The film opens with a lengthy flashback distressingly close to the confusing monologue which opened David Lynch's ill-received Dune adaptation. But why? "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" is a straightforward first sentence requiring no additional mythology. But Jackson and his writers (which include Guillermo del Toro, who was originally supposed to helm this movie) feel compelled to throw in any stray flashbacks that they can to pad out this movie. I don't wish to diminish the need for dwarf kingdoms, but there's nothing in the film's first hour even as remotely alluring as the Nazgûl, which provided The Fellowship of the Ring with an immediate threat to jump-start the narrative and set our heroes on an adventurous path.
Without something as big as Mordor threatening to engulf Middle Earth driving the story, Jackson's métier as a Wagnerian filmmaker is undone by a cinematic experience that feels more like a game on rails, especially during a climactic goblin chase scene with a constantly moving godlike camera, but a paucity of closeups or medium shots. It also doesn't help that Martin Freeman, cast as the younger Bilbo Baggins, really should have been hired ten years earlier. Having grown from the young and neurotic comic archetype into a more subdued and interesting middle-aged actor (best exemplified by his portrayal of Watson in Steven Moffatt's Sherlock), Freeman is curiously unpersuasive in this film when he complains about wanting to be back home among his books and fellow hobbits. Ian McKellen is okay as Gandalf, but one longs for the gravelly gravitas he displayed so eminently in the last trilogy. However, I very much enjoyed Ken Stott's fresh and feisty portrayal of Balin. But I do have a weak spot for any character with a massive bushy beard.
This lack of focus causes the first half to feel like a tenuous string of loosely connected sequences: dwarves show up at Bilbo Baggins's hobbit hole, on Dori, on Nori, on Gloin, on Oin, on Blitzen, orcs, wargs, is Bilbo up for the journey, knowing look from Gandalf, walking, walking, orcs, hidden swords, is Bilbo up for the journey, complaints from Thorin, elves, orcs, knowing look from Gandalf, mention of arcane Middle Earth reference to appease fanboys, orcs, orcs, is Bilbo up for the journey.
You get the idea. But when the mountain trolls show up halfway into the movie, An Unexpected Journey starts to become fun for those, like me, who were fatigued by the bloodless and cutesy bullshit calculated to make this Fun for the Whole Family™. These trolls are lumbering, mumbling, ass-scratching giants who hock loogies into pots loaded with the carcasses of dwarves and elves. In other words, they're a nice throwback to the visceral films Jackson made early in his career before going Hollywood, serving as a reminder that Jackson is at his best when he lets his inner six-year-old come out. Casting Sylvester McCoy as Radagast the Brown is also a brilliant move, for McCoy taps both his Roadshow days and the dark command he brought to his brown-coated Doctor Who incarnation to enliven the eccentric wizard who plows through terrain with a rabbit sleigh. It is also hard to go wrong with good ol' Gollum, arguably the most enthralling CGI villain of the past fifteen years, during the highly compelling game of riddles sequence. Why hasn't anybody created a Ball-Arnaz inspired sitcom called I Love Precious?
But An Unexpected Journey is felled by its zestless commitment to the well-trodden path. Make no mistake: this is not Pan's Labyrinth, Labyrinth, Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, Princess Mononoke or The Princess Bride. Did we really need subtitles when the orcs don't say anything especially interesting? Do we really need narrative digressions when the meat on the bones is so sparse? There are a few inspired ideas, such as the aforementioned trolls and a goblin stenographer traversing along a pulley cable on a chair. But if you spend years of your life working on a fantasy trilogy, shouldn't it contain more imagination? Shouldn't you wait as long as it takes to read the secret moon runes embedded in the map?


Douglas Raymond Rousse, 67, passed away on March 10, 2018 at his home in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He was the husband of Nancy Kyle Rousse. They shared 46 years of marriage together.
Born in Detroit, Michigan on May 11, 1950, he was the son of Darcy Raymond Rousse and Yvonne Charlotte Labadie Rousse. He graduated from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. He served in the United States Air Force from 1969-1971. He worked in transportation logistics and finance throughout his career.
Doug retired early and relocated from Southern California to South Lake Tahoe in 2002 to enjoy the Lake Tahoe lifestyle. Doug later started a custom picture framing business alongside his two sons in Carson City, Nevada. At one point he had three custom picture framing stores in South Lake Tahoe, California and Minden, Nevada.
After the birth of several grandchildren and with his love of everything sweet, he bought the Lake Tahoe Chocolate Shop which had a store front location in Stateline and in the MontBleu Casino. His entrepreneurial spirit and love for business made him a dedicated member of the Tahoe Douglas Rotary Club. Doug enjoyed living in the Tahoe area, cooking and being with family and friends, visiting the local wineries in El Dorado County and all things Chicago and Michigan. He will be remembered as the life of the party and his kind and engaging persona. He brought love and laughter to everyone who knew him.
He is survived by his wife, Nancy Rousse; his children, Samuel Rousse (Mandi Salzman), Joseph Rousse (Melissa) and Katheryn Rousse Jaeger (Robert); six grandchildren Benjamin, Isaac, Meadow, Autumn, Cameron and Raymond; and sisters Linda Perry, Phyllis Critchfield and Shelly Kozicki of Grosse Ile, Michigan. He is predeceased by his brother, Bruce Rousse.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, March 24, 2018 at Lake Tahoe Golf Course, 2500 Emerald Bay Road, South Lake Tahoe, California from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. All family, friends, neighbors, community members, Rotarians and colleagues are welcome to attend.
If you wish, in lieu of flowers, please bring your favorite dessert or bottle of wine to share.
Memorial donations can be made to the Parkinson's Foundation in Doug's name.


It took a week or two for Marnie to settle in, she cried a lot at first and we weren't sure if it was the Hip Dysplasia (HD) which was causing her pain, her front leg (clearly another problem but as yet undiagnosed) or her teeth (some are broken, some are missing) that was causing most of the pain. Her HD causes her so much pain that she got in the habit of chewing on stones to deal with it, hence the dental issues.
Marnie's HD was first diagnosed when she was 8 mo but she had been on pain medications since she was 4 mo so there had been problems from a very young age. It is not clear to us why her HD was not diagnosed earlier, clearly something was terribly wrong as she has been on medications her entire life, Marnie is now 17 mo. Our next step on her road to recovery is an appointment on 7/23/14 for x-rays and a full assessment of her medical issues at the Vet School in Raleigh NC so we will know after that visit how we can best help her.
Marnie is an absolute angel. She is playful with everyone (man and beast), funny (she goes to the fridge and barks until I give her a yoghurt – who's trained who?) and is definitely still a puppy at heart as she still chews on anything she can get her jaws round so we watch her carefully to make sure we have no unforeseen additional surprises at the vet's office!
Marnie deserves all the support we can give her. She is the biggest "Lovebug" I have ever met. She has the most wonderful Leo temperament, there isn't a mean bone in her body and it amazes us all how she has lived with chronic pain all her young life but still remains happy, trusting, playful and full of life. She certainly puts a smile on the face of anyone she meets and brightens their day. What more could anyone ask!


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Bouquets and brickbats for this most liveable city
October 14, 2013 — 3.00am
Melbourne's status as the world's most liveable city could be its undoing, an international community design guru has warned.
Gil Penalosa, the keynote speaker at the Parks and Leisure Australia National Conference in Melbourne on October 13-16, said the city's reputation as one of the best has brought with it a resistance to change.
He said there was a risk Melbourne could fail to embrace the innovation needed to keep it among the world's top cities. ''That has become the biggest barrier for Melbourne: they're reluctant to change because things are good.''
Although Victoria's Planning Minister Matthew Guy does not agree with all of Mr Penalosa's theories, he said the design expert's assessment of the risk of the city's ''good'' status was a fair one.
Mr Guy said that especially in the inner suburbs, he faced the challenge of juggling mounting populations with protecting what people like most about Melbourne. He said his solution was encouraging growth in defined locations around activity areas and protecting other streets and precincts from major development.
''Parts of [Melbourne] are going to change, not everywhere. It's about getting that balance of where it does change and where it doesn't.''
Mr Penalosa is the director of Canadian not-for-profit body 8-80 Cities and will be in Melbourne on Monday to talk about his urban planning philosophy.
He believes that if you create a city that is good for an eight-year-old and good for an 80-year-old, you will create a successful city for everyone.
Although Mr Penalosa has plenty of praise for Melbourne, which he said is deservedly one of the world's top five, he is likely to deliver some barbs, too.
He slammed, for example, the government's $6 billion to $8 billion spend on the east-west link as a ''20th-century idea'' unlikely to be repeated in other leading cities.
He also said Melbourne would not have won the latest The Economist Intelligence Unit liveability survey if the researchers had considered life outside the inner city.
Instead, he said Melbourne's outer suburbs, where some residents endure two-hour daily car commutes, were as poor as many ''bad cities''.
He said in great cities, walking and cycling should be a right and it should be possible not to own a car, no matter where you live.
''If you want to have five cars, that's fine, but if you don't want to have cars, that should also be an option.''
When asked what city he thought deserved the title of most liveable, Mr Penalosa chose the Danish capital of Copenhagen, where they have started building bicycle highways from the suburbs.
He said Melbourne still needed to make significant reforms to improve and expand its bicycle network.
''I think cycling in Melbourne is very dangerous and very scary, and I think the city has not done enough,'' he said.
Solutions advocated by Mr Penalosa include lowered speed limits for cars throughout the city and protected bike lanes along every main road separating cyclists from cars.


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Obscure Bands Of The 50's & 60's
Clay Nicholls & The Blue Flames
"Clay Nicholls" was a Scottish singer of italian origin, whose proper name was Vincente Tartaglia. He moved to London, found the 2I's Coffee Bar where he instantly landed a spot singing in late 1958. He therefore formed his first set of Blue Flames there: hiring Tony Harvey on guitar, who had previously been in the original crew of Vince Taylor's Playboys; Mike O'Neill on piano from Leigh, Lancashire, and Al Allison on drums.
Not long before Christmas 1958, they played Shepherds Bush Gaumont where mogul Larry Parnes saw them but was unimpressed. Even though they passed an audition for a season at Butlins holiday camp in Filey,Yorkshire, in the early part of 1959.
Unfortunately, they disbanded because they were a band thrown together because of a requirement for series of bookings, but was never expected to remain together once that requirement was fulfilled.
Tony Harvey returned to the 2I's Coffee Bar, backing other newcomers such as Keith Kelly or Screaming Lord Sutch with his Egmond guitar.
Mike O'Neill went on to join the 'Cabin Boys', the backing group of Tommy Steele's brother, Colin Hicks. Al Allison was later with The Wild Angels.
In June 1959, Clay Nicholls' manager Alan Humphries decided to assemble another group for the summer season at Butlins Filey. He first recruited guitarist Rick Hardy who had previously been part of the Worriedmen and had just finished a residency at the Top Ten Club newly opened by the Anglo-American rocker Vince Taylor in Berwick Street Soho.
The other members were bass player Peter Wharton and drummer Johnny Watson. They were joined by a very skilled lead guitarist by the name of Joe Brown from The Spacemen Skiffle Group.
When the new set of Blue Flames arrived at Butlins they were met by the entertainments manager who said "You're not the band we auditioned" and had to audition for him again. The latter finally found them better than the other band...
Although before the end of the season, Joe Brown was booked by Larry Parnes and joined his Beat Boys to back Marty Wilde, Billy Fury,Terry Dene, Dickie Pride, Johnny Gentle, Duffy Power and Sally Kelly at The Southend Odeon for the opening night of 'The Big Beat Show'. There TV producer Jack Good remarked him, even found him 'quite sensational' and eventually booked him for his new series, 'Boy Meets Girls', to be unveiled next month.
Meanwhile the Blue Flames replaced him with returning Tony Harvey.
In September 1959, they eventually were paid off. Then Rick Hardy and Peter Wharton both returned to Soho, London, where they worked until being asked by pianist Iain Hines to be part of The Jets, the first English rock band to play in Hamburg. Johnny Watson was poached by Reg Calvert to be the drummer in the new core of Vince Taylor's Playboys.
Tony Harvey later was to play with great success with Vince Taylor again.
Quite a coincidence, 3 months later, another british outfit was also called "The Blue Flames" touring Scotland as Billy Fury's backing group. This band featured a young talented pianist by the name of Clive Powell aka "Georgie Fame", Kenny Packwood (Lead Guitar), Brian Gregg (Bass) and Clem Cattini (Drums). They were actually the second version of The Larry Parnes Beat Boys.
Clem Cattini often related an event that resulted in a change of name for their band: one cold afternoon when they were sat in the group van and had nothing to do, decided to pass the time by lighting one another's farts... As it was a cold day, their wind, when ignited, was blue in colour. As a consequence, from that time onward, they started to call themselves, "The Blue Flames". A name that Georgie Fame obviously liked alot.
Later, in June 1961, Clay Nicholls assembled a new version of "The Blue Flames" including Georgie Fame, Red Reece, Colin Green and Tex Makins. Larry Parnes decided Billy Fury should have his own band to back him in a stable basis.
Billy came to a place where The Blue Flames were rehearsing with Clay and decided he liked the Blueflames because of the initials BF. And so Billy Fury and The Blueflames were born.
Or perhaps the memories of the smell abound in the coach in winter 1959 obviously came back to the nose of Billy...
Eventually Billy Fury's manager sacked The Blue Flames - because they were too Jazzy - and then replaced them with The Tornados in December 1961.
As a result, they became a band of its own in February 1962, with Georgie Fame taking vocals and leadership.
As Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames took up a long residency at The Flamingo Club, London, thanks to Mike O'Neill now leading his own band Nero & the Gladiators.
Lineups Of Clay Nicholls & The Blue Flames :
Clay Nicholls & The Blue Flames #1 (Late 1958)
· Vincente Tartaglia (Lead Vocals) "Clay Nicholls"
· Tony Harvey (Lead Guitar)
· Mike O'Neill (Keyboards)
· ?? ?? (Bass)
· Al Allison (Drums)
Clay Nicholls & The Blue Flames #2 (Filey, June 1959)
· Joe Brown (Lead Guitar)
· Rick Hardy (Rhythm Guitar)
· Peter Wharton (Bass)
· Johnny Watson (Drums)
Clay Nicholls & The Blue Flames #3 (Filey, August 1959)
Clay Nicholls & The Blue Flames #4 (June 1961)
· Colin Green (Lead Guitar)
· Tony Makins (Bass) "Tex Makins"
· Clive Powell (Keyboards/Vocals) "Georgie Fame"
· Red Reece (Drums)
Lineups Of The Other Blue Flames :
Billy Fury & The Blue Flames #1 (Scotland, December 1959)
· Ronald Wycherley (Lead Vocals) "Billy Fury"
· Kenny Packwood (Lead Guitar)
· Brian Gregg (Bass)
· Clive Powell (Keyboards) "Georgie Fame"
· Clem Cattini (Drums)
Billy Fury & The Blue Flames #2 (June 1961)
Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames #1 (February 1962)
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Peter Wynne was also on the show in southend dont forget The Golden voice of the 60s.
Corr blimey, it all comes back to me now ( as the skunk said when the wind changed )
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Do any recordings of Billy Fury and the Blue Flames exist?
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By Joe Wilde in Movies / TV / Theatre on 24 December 2013
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The general word amongst critics is that the two screen titans just couldn't muster a half-decent film together
Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone are no strangers to putting on their boxing gloves for the sake of the movies and in their latest film, Grudge Match, the two screen icons are putting their respective ages aside to step into the ring once again. The film comes with a lot of promise, starring Alan Arkin, Kevin Hart and Kim Basinger alongside the two screen titans, yet sadly the overall response to the film from critics has been very underwhelming.
Stallone, Arkin, Hart and De Niro miss the mark with their latest film
The film stars Stallone and De Niro as two retired boxers, both well past their best, who ended their career with a long-standing and unresolved feud some years earlier. After meeting each other for the first time in years in a chance encounter, their feud returns and boils into a confrontation that ends in a melee of sorts, one that almost instantly goes viral and reignites interest in the former fighters. Soon they are receiving offers to return to the ring and settle their feud once and for all, but they can only make it into the ring if they can actually regain their fitness in time for the big fight.
On paper, and with such a cast, the film sounds as though it could work, but sadly the overall word is that it really doesn't work at all. The film is "sporadically amusing" and features "crowd-pleasing supporting turns from Alan Arkin and Kevin Hart," yet has very little else to offer to Variety critic Andrew Barker. Barker found the film "so overcooked that it defeats its own purpose," whilst USA Today critic Scott Bowles went straight in for the jugular, calling Grudge Match a "desultory boxing flick whose punches miss wildly."
Don't call it a comeback, because the film is a flop
"It will come as a surprise to none that Grudge Match is so wantonly clichéd that to watch it is to explore the outer perimeters of one's own tolerance for a specific type of feel-good sports film," Steve MacFarlane of Slant Magazine wrote in his scathing review of the film. Elizabeth Weitzman from the New York Daily News meanwhile found the whole thing "depressing" and complained that the two central character lacked any sort of personality or appeal as actual sports stars. She wrote, "In the end, this is no Ali-Frazier grudge match. It's more like Larry Holmes coming out of retirement to make $3 million as Mike Tyson's punching bag. Depressing."
If these 'appraisals' haven't put you off, you can go see Grudge Match yourself when it is released wide on 24 January. Maybe don't expect to see it among the Oscar contenders the month after.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef survived large sea temperature changes at the end of the last glacial period, suggesting that it may be able to survive climate change better than previously thought, a new study has concluded.
The Great Barrier Reef has evolved over several hundred thousand years, and in that time endured changes in sea surface temperatures.
The latest study shed new light on sea temperature changes from 20,000 years ago, at the end of the last glacial peak, or maximum, when the world warmed and northern ice sheets melted in a process known as "deglaciation".
Tuesday's study found that sea surface temperatures across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) differed far more than presently, from north to south, for several thousand years after the last glacial maximum.
The researchers attributed that temperature difference to a weakening of the East Australia Current, which carries warm water south along the Australian coastline.
A weaker current allowed cool sub-tropical water to travel further north, meaning that temperatures differed by 2-3C across the reef.
The reef then withstood warming from about 13,000 years ago, especially at its southern end, painting a picture of temperature swings over the course of several millennia.
"Our findings indicate that the GBR experienced substantial and regionally differing temperature change during the last deglaciation, much larger temperature changes than previously recognized," found the researchers, publishing in the journal Nature Communications.
The world is presently still in an ice age, characterised by large ice sheets over Greenland and the Antarctic, but in a relatively warmer, interglacial phase.
The scientists based their estimates of historical sea temperatures on analysis of coral structures formed some 12,000 to 25,000 before the present day.
They estimated that sea surface temperatures now around the Great Barrier Reef are up to 3C warmer than they were at the last glacial maximum 20,000 years ago.
Because of the relatively rapid, estimated temperature changes, over a period of a few thousand years, they concluded that the present reef may be able to adapt to manmade climate change similarly, if given time.
"That adaption occurred over a few thousand years or less. This apparent resilience suggests that, considering temperature alone, southward expansion of robust reef crest community could be an important response to future climate warming.


Today, Congressman Cedric Richmond (LA-02) led 56 Members of Congress in a letter to the House Speaker and Majority Leader calling on them "to assure the American people that the federal government remains a committed partner in helping to restore communities in the wake of natural disasters" and "make it clear that budgetary offsets will not be required prior to emergency funding."
This letter comes in the wake of Hurricane Irene and the Federal Emergency Management Agency's announcement that it would shift to "immediate needs funding." As a result, it will not begin any new rebuilding projects in disaster zones to focus on its response to Hurricane Irene and preserve what little disaster funding it has on hand.
Full text of the letter and a list of signatories are below.
We write to urge you to reinstate Congress' longstanding approach to emergency funding for national disasters and abandon this new policy of requiring budgetary offsets before funding is approved. If this was the policy after Hurricane Katrina, survivors would have been waiting for months or even years for assistance. The federal government has been instrumental in helping Gulf Coast citizens with the hard work of rebuilding their communities. Make no mistake: The recovery of the Gulf Coast would have been impossible without federal investment. We must remember this lesson as we seek to address today's disasters--the spring tornadoes, floods, and most recently, Hurricane Irene.
As communities on the east coast contend with the considerable damage caused by Hurricane Irene, it is imperative that Congress responds swiftly to this disaster. We should make it clear to affected families that their government will be there to help--just as it has always helped American families after disasters. This session, you stated that Congress must cut the budgets of valuable federal programs to fund emergency relief. Reaching agreement on funding cuts is a contentious exercise, as evidenced earlier this year when our government was driven to the brink of shutdown and default. We have already seen the result of subjecting disaster funding to the politics of partisan budget cutting.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) budget is pushed to its limits. As a result, last weekend, FEMA announced a shift to "immediate needs funding" to focus on its response to Hurricane Irene and preserve what little disaster funding it has on hand. This announcement means new rebuilding projects will be delayed nationwide. When Congress is asked to provide supplemental funds to pay for Irene and other ongoing disaster response efforts, we must respond expeditiously. It would be irresponsible and heartless for this body to delay recovery projects while Members fight over cuts. Congress must put the needs of American disaster victims above its budget squabbles.
We call on you to assure the American people that the federal government remains a committed partner in helping to restore communities in the wake of natural disasters. We strongly urge you to make it clear that budgetary offsets will not be required prior to emergency funding.