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The past three months have been a whirlwind of travel for Mike and I…. from Oregon to Italy and then Hawaii, it is good to have my feet back on the ground…..
I started having pain in my hip right before we left for Europe in April. I didn't really think about it too much, because…you know…. I hike and work out, so pain is often associated with one of those two things.
But the pain progressed and become more of a constant nuisance as our European trip came and went.
I was only home for 5 days to unpack, do laundry and repack to catch the next plane to Oahu, where our youngest and only daughter was getting ready to graduate with her BA from the University of Hawaii.
The pain was now affecting my ability to get up from a sitting position and it was at that point that my mind started to wander (wonder).
"Cancer Progression"
It's a common thing for us, with a stage IV diagnosis….every ache and pain, anything out of the ordinary catches our attention and we wonder….. "is the cancer spreading?"
On the island, I was fatigued most of the time , just not myself and had two days of flu like symptoms; chills and a fever came and went. I then remembered that on my last lab report, my red blood cell count was a bit low…(anemic). And of course as all mind games go…..between the pain and fatigue and flu symptoms….. I was starting to have anxiety.
As soon as I got home to So. Cal, I called my oncologist's office and they were able to get me in within two days. I went and got my labs done……then waited for the weekend to pass to see the doctor on Monday and get my tumor marker results.
I had registered for the Climb for Heroes on Mount Baldy way back at the beginning of the year. And it was happening over the weekend that I had just returned home and was not feeling my best. I had a choice to make : Do I stay home and play scenarios in my head of cancer progression all weekend? OR do I go despite the pain and feeling weak and tired, push myself and climb anyways?
Yes, climb anyways.
…..for the heroes (veterans) who have been severely injured and are recreating their lives, often through the loss of limbs. This amazing organization helps them rehabilitate through climbing mountains. In just a small way, I could relate to the mountains helping me overcome my own small disability of having stage IV cancer.
I hadn't summited Mt. Baldy in over a year, so I knew that it was going to be challenge for me.
Over 1,000 hikers showed up for this climb. It was quite the experience to be amongst so many who LOVE our veterans and were to there to support them.
I met new people and ran into peeps I only knew from instagram handles and of course took some pics with friends I see regularly.
At the Devils back bone….the hikers began to traffic jam, and word had it that it was likely to be a 2-3 hour turn around from the summit. I decided at that time to head back down…. I knew waiting 2-3 hours at the summit would cool down my muscles too much and I was getting tired and my hip was starting to ache. #selfcare
Made it down the mountain in record time. At one point, I felt something crawling on my arm, and instead of swiping it off, I looked to see what it was……
A ladybug
I stopped and talked to it for a moment, thanking it for its "showing up." It's symbolism…living worries behind. It reminded me of being present for this day, and to take things one day at a time.
Today, I climbed for heroes. Tomorrow, I would face lab results.
Monday morning found me driving bright and early to my oncologists office .
After a quick conversation about my symptoms and which mountains I had climbed recently……she shook her head and laughed that I had done Baldy the day before, saying…"there is no stopping you is there?" To which I replied…"no, not really, only if you tell me the cancer is spreading. I might take a quick break to cry."
Thankfully, my tumor markers remain normal.
We debated between a bone scan and a PET CT for my next step….but because I was already due for a PET 3 months ago (at which time I refused), we are going with the PET CT. So I am in the process of scheduling that and getting it done.
In the meantime, I am packing up my larger backpack and getting ready to overnight up in San Gorgornio next week with Barkley. It will be his first overnight with me.
Cancer can scare me, but it will never stop me.
With love and adventure,
PS: To find out more about the Heroes Project, please check out their website here.
PSS: I want to thank those who financially contributed to my Climb For Heroes. Melanie Neilson, Paula Montalbo, Kimberly Garavito and David Lockeretz from Nobody Hikes in LA. Thank you friends for supporting me and the heroes who make our freedom a reality.


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It was big news earlier this year when 23-year-old Juan Manuel Montes-Bojorquez filed a lawsuit against U.S. Customs and Border Protection claiming he had been deported to Mexico even though he was a protected DACA recipient. Monday, Bojorque was arrested after coming across the border illegally again. From the Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. Border Patrol said Mr. Montes was found about a mile north of the U.S.-Mexico border in a scrub-covered stretch of desert. The arresting agent wrote that Mr. Montes told officials he was planning to go to Sacramento.
Mr. Montes sued the Trump administration in April, alleging that Border Patrol agents in Calexico arrested and deported him in February even though he had been protected from deportation under the Obama era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program…
Mr. Montes was thought to be the first DACA recipient deported by the Trump administration.
Montes-Bojorquez came to the U.S. at age nine and applied and was granted DACA status. He claimed that on February 18th of this year he was rounded up by a CBP officer on a bike and deported to Mexico later that same night after no one bothered to check his DACA status. He then admits he jumped a fence into the U.S. the following day and was arrested. He was deported Feb. 20th for what he claims was the second time.
CBP initially claimed Bojorquez was deported because his DACA status had lapsed in 2015. However, a records search revealed he had renewed it and was protected from deportation until 2018. But in a statement released in April, the agency claimed it had never encountered Bojorquez on February 18th, meaning he wasn't deported but had returned to Mexico on his own. Doing so, CBP pointed out, voided his DACA status:
The U.S. Border Patrol has no record of encountering Mr. Montes-Bojorquez in the days before his detention and subsequent arrest for immigration violations on February 19, 2017. There are no records or evidence to support Montes-Bojorquez's claim that he was detained or taken to the Calexico Port of Entry on February 18, 2017…
During Mr. Montes-Bojorquez's detention and arrest by the United States Border Patrol on February 19, he admitted to agents that he had illegally entered the United States and was arrested. He later admitted the same under oath. All of the arrest documents from February 19, 2017, bear Montes-Bojorquez's signature. During his arrest interview, he never mentioned that he had received DACA status. However, even if Montes-Bojorquez had informed agents of his DACA status, he had violated the conditions of his status by breaking continuous residency in the United States by leaving and then reentering the U.S. illegally.
So according to CBP, that first arrest that Bojorquez claims took place on Feb. 18th never happened. Bojorquez' lawsuit claimed it did and was a violation of his DACA status. The judge in his case decided to expedite the trial and DHS agreed in September to let him return to the U.S. so he could testify. Then in October, he dropped the lawsuit. From the San Diego Union-Tribune:
According to a motion for dismissal filed late Wednesday, the government resolved the records request by producing supplemental documents on Oct. 5, and Montes decided not to pursue his additional claims. A judge approved the motion on Thursday.
"Like all litigation, this case has been a taxing experience for Juan Manuel," one of his attorneys, Nora Preciado of the National Immigration Law Center, said in a statement. "He has now asked us to dismiss his case. As his attorneys, we respect his wishes and have filed the papers on his behalf."…
The Calexico Border Patrol chief said in a sworn affidavit there were other problems with Montes' claims. The chief said there have been no repatriations after 10 p.m. this year, and that there were no agents working bicycle patrol the night in question.
So not only was there no evidence the Feb. 18th encounter ever happened, there was also testimony that it couldn't have happened the way Bojorquez claimed it did. Now he has apparently come across the border again and could face up to 2 years in jail as well as another deportation.

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Red House Antique Centre in York, UK
We have recently opened a new retail outlet in central York close to the Minster. We now have a cabinet with a small selection of our stock on display in the Red House Antique Centre. We are always happy to meet clients there but an appointment is essential as we are not based on site.


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Student and Staff Recognition
Please join us in celebrating our Students and Teacher of the Month of October!
These members of the NHCSB community have exhibited outstanding qualities to highlight our school's guiding principles of Honesty, Empathy, Integrity, Grit, Humility, and Teamwork.
Meet Amyah Bishop, a 7th grade student, who is being recognized for being an active participant in all of her classes, consistently completing her homework and demonstrating respect for all others. She is a natural leader who exemplifies NHCSB Core Values.
Meet Paulkichna Merove, an 8th grade student, who is being recognized for being an excellent student who goes above and beyond to ensure her own academic success, also looks for ways to help her peers and make her classes more scholarly and community-based. She demonstrates humility and is a kind and supportive leader.
Meet Annie Azor, a student in the 9th grade who is being recognized for persisting through challenges and is willing to ask for help when needed. She is often the first student to lend a helping hand and always has a positive attitude.
Meet Xavier Carrion, 6th grade student, is being recognized for not only a very diligent worker and model student, but he also carries himself in a professional manner each day in the classroom. He is a very good representative of the NHCSB Core Values that we look to instill in our students.
Meet Ms. Lyndsey Bisbano, a Special Education Teacher, who is being recognized for exhibiting grit, empathy, honesty, teamwork, and service. She works extremely hard both in school and at home. She truly cares about ALL students and lives to serve ALL students and the other teachers in the building. She has also been organizing all of the testing pull outs which is hard work and time consuming, but she knows how important that task is to the students and teachers.


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Eat well and feel good with plant-based feast
• tricolour quinoa
• red lentil dal
• steamed purple sprouting broccoli
• sweet and sour carrot salad
For the tricolour quinoa you will need:
1 cup quinoa mix (white, red, black)
1. Wash the quinoa well. Drain.
2. Put quinoa in a pan. Add 2 cups of water. Bring to boil.
3. Reduce to simmer, cover and cook for 10 to 12 mins.
4. Take the quinoa off the heat and let it stand for 5 mins.
For the red lentil dal you will need:
1 cup red lentils
1 tsp coconut oil
1 bay leaf
1/2 tsp whole cumin seeds
1/3 tsp whole coriander seeds
1. Wash the red lentils well, until the water stays clear in the bowl. Drain.
2. Melt the coconut oil. Add bay leaf and seeds, and fry on medium heat for a minute or two.
3. Add the red lentils, mix well with the seeds. Add 3 cups of filtered water and bring to boil.
4. Reduce to simmer, put a lid on and gently cook for 15 to 20 mins.
For the purple sprouting broccoli steam the broccoli for 8 to 10 mins.
For the sweet and sour carrot salad you will need:
2 medium carrots
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp agave nectar
2 tbsp dried sour cherries (or raisins)
2 tbsp sesame seeds
2 tbsp sunflower seeds
2 tbsp whole hazelnuts
pinch of ground cumin
1. Wash and peel the carrots, then cut into julienne strips.
2. Add the apple cider vinegar and the agave nectar. Let it stand for 5 mins.
3. Meanwhile soak the sour cherries (or raisins) for 5 mins.
4. Lightly toast the sesame seeds in dry pan over medium-low heat, then pour into a cup.
5. Lightly toast the sunflower seeds too. Add to the sesame seeds.
6. Toast-roast the hazelnuts. Let it cool a bit, then rub gently to loosen the brown skin. Mix hazelnuts with toasted seeds.
7. Drain the excess liquid from the carrot. Add drained sour cherries (or raisins if you prefer sweet over sour), and the nut and seeds mix too. Sprinkle with a pinch of ground cumin.
To serve: Fluff up the quinoa with a fork, put it on the plate. Add carrot salad, steamed broccoli and red lentil dal. Sprinkle with hulled hemp seeds. Enjoy!
Allergy: nut. No gluten. No dairy. No egg.
You may want to try these:
The eat well plate No.2 - Kichadi, green beans, asparagus, avocado;
The eat well plate No.1 - Rice, sweet potato, broad beans, broccoli;


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The Regnancy of the Carnelian Throne was a multispecies interstellar empire that existed in the galaxy.
The history of the Regnancy began with an unidentified species whose king fought numerous battles and revolutions until the fighting came to his own kingdom. After battling the rebels, he wept tears at seeing the carnage that had erupted as his throne was covered with blood, making it carnelian in color. Since that time, he devoted his life to the ideals of justice and peace.
Unfortunately, future successors became corrupted by their own power and sought to forcefully subject others making them slaves to the Regnancy. But in time, it would be the slaves that gained true power as it was they who ran the government which ultimately brought about a new change in the state. However, they required an ideal to strive for and after remembering the stories of the Carnelian Throne, they placed the story as well as its ideals as the forefront of their objectives.
The Regnancy's territory eventually bordered that of the United Federation of Planets. Due to a difference in ideology, Starfleet considered the Regnancy an expansionist imperialist power that sought the acquisition of slave races with those who refused entry into the state as enemies. This was a misconception as the Regnancy believed that those who refused to accept the ideals of the Carnelian Throne as being evil and promoting injustice. This brought about a conflict at Kirisha III with the Federation's Caitian settlers there, which erupted in a skirmish when the Manraloth sought the Regnancy's help in tapping into the data archive in a black hole. However, the conflict was eventually resolved, with the Federation colony on Kirisha III being declared a protectorate of the Throne to allow them to operate autonomously. (TNG novel: The Buried Age)
In the 2380s, the Regnancy was attacked by temporal enemies in an effort to setback its research in temporal defense and time travel. The Federation's Department of Temporal Investigations allowed this change to the timeline, believing the impact minimal.
Along with many Alpha/Beta Quadrant powers, they helped to create and deliver the Temporal Defense Grid entirely in secret by the 25th century. (DTI novel: Watching the Clock)
Species within the Regnancy Edit
All members of the Regnancy were commonly referred to as Carnelians.
- The Regnancy's bureaucracy was dominated by a species called the Gororm, who featured a low-slung chin and were able to produce characteristic tones with their nasal cavities. (TNG novel: The Buried Age)
- The Brunyg featured bullet-shaped heads with a carapace-like structure on their foreheads. The rest of their skin appears blue-grey. A Brunyg named Kunrud was the Carnelian admiral at Kirisha. (TNG novel: The Buried Age)
- At least one Regnancy ship employed a squid-like creature in central position on their bridge as a kind of ship-master. It is unclear how sentient the creature was. (TNG novel: The Buried Age)
Ship design Edit
Regnancy vessels featured two warp nacelles, one in dorsal and one in ventral position. (TNG novel: The Buried Age)


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I gave myself two days to feel sorry for myself. I feel alot better. Thanks so much for the support I got.
I was really feeling guilty about this pregnancy because well, lots of things go through my head you would be surprised. lol Or maybe you wouldn't. I feel guilty about being happy because of other people. Not because of myself but, because I am afraid other people are going to think that I am trying to replace Johnathan. I am not doing that. No baby could ever replace him. I am so afraid of what the in law people are going to say when they find out that I have been making myself sick on top of morning sickness and that doesn't feel good. I had a talk with my husband and we are not going to tell them right now. We are going to wait. My mother-in-law isn't the nicest person and well, I would rather keep the negative comments at a minimum and be able to enjoy myself. Although when I need her she is there she just has a very sharp tongue and speaks her mind whether anyone wants to hear it or not. And she keeps talking. and talking and talking.
Anyway off to happier things. The girls are so excited about the baby. The did the ring thing on my belly last night and they have come to the conclusion that I am having twins. Because it went back and forth and in a circle. Seriously, it went back and forth and then completely stopped and went in a circle. They did it 4 times and it did the exact same thing every time. Now, we know it is an old wives tale but, hey it was really exciting to watch it. Then little Stacey she told me that our bets are cancelled out. Because she thinks she can predict these things. She bet me I was having a girl and I bet her a boy. She was right the last time and I think it made her head big. She is too full of herself. So, if the ring thing is right, then we get to exchange dollars. lol.
****disclaimer, we are not a gambling family nor do I condone gambling. This was just a friendly little goofy thing between mom and daughter******
And if that ring thing is right, oh wow. That is all that I can say about that one. November 13th is my ultrasound, so we will find out then.
Mikayla is really excited about trick or treating. She keeps telling me when the girls get home from school, then we are leaving. I have tried and tried to tell her that it isn't until tomorrow but, she is totally not listening to me. I keep telling her one more bedtime then we can go but, nope she tells me no. Thats not right mommy. I love to see her excited about things.
Well, I have gotten alot done today but, have a lot more to do. Mount Washmore is waiting for me. That stinkin beep on that machine is going to drive me crazy today. 😆 I still have to do 15 minutes in my bedroom and 2 more loads of laundry. Then, I am done for the day. Woo hoo.
Everyone have a great day!!!!
Hug someone today and tell them how much you appreciate them.
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The history of the milky way candy bar
The Mars chocolate company is known for successes such as M&Ms and Twix, but one of its first chocolate bars was the Milky Way. Ever since its release, the Milky Way bar has thrived in the candy world and created countless knock-offs---as well as a few spin-offs of its own.
The history of the Milky Way bar proves how a simple formula can continue to work decades after it was first introduced.
The Milky Way bar was invented in 1923 and counts as its inspiration the milk shakes that were popular at the time. The original Milky Way featured the same ingredients it still does today---a chocolate-nougat base topped with caramel, all surrounded by milk chocolate. The Milky Way has two varieties, the vanilla Milky Way and the chocolate Milky Way.
Forever Yours
In 1936, the vanilla Milky Way was branded as the "Forever Yours" chocolate bar. In 1979 it was discontinued as the Milky Way continued to thrive. But customer demand led to the Forever Yours returning in 1989 with the Milky Way name back in the title. Today, the vanilla Milky Way is known as Milky Way Midnight.
But the caramel, nougat and milk-chocolate mix known so well in the U.S. is unknown in Russia, Germany and Ireland, where the caramel is omitted. In addition, the countries feature a light- and dark-chocolate variety.
The success of the Milky Way chocolate bar has led to several spin-offs. The Milky Way ice cream bar replaces the nougat with a vanilla-ice-cream centre, while Milky Way Crisp Rolls are exclusively available in the United Kingdom and feature wafer rolls with Milky Way ingredients. Australia is home to fruit-flavoured Milky Way bars, including strawberry and banana.
Throughout its 80-plus-year history, the Milky Way bar has employed a long variety of ad slogans. They include "Comfort in every bar," "The sweet you can eat between meals---without ruining your appetite" and "At work, rest and play, you get three great tastes in a Milky Way." Print ads also feature a broken Milky Way with a string of caramel connecting the pieces.


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A full day in Nicaragua, hitting some of the top destinations, including the potter's town of Catarina, the Masaya Volcano, the Masaya Handicraft Market, Granada, and Lake Nicaragua.
You begin at 5 am, headed for Peñas Blancas, where you will cross the border into Nicaragua. As soon as you cross, you will enjoy a delicious Nicaraguan breakfast at a restaurant on the shore of Lake Nicaragua. From there, you will continue to the small, picturesque town of Catarina, which is famous for its flowers, pottery, and incredible views of the Apoyo Lagoon. After some time at Apoyo, you will head to the Masaya Volcano and climb right to the top! From there, you will get a look a the crater. Once you get down, you will visit the Masaya Handicraft Market, which has some of the country's best artisanal art. After you have sufficiently shopped and browsed, you will go to the oldest city in Latin America – Granada. This colonial city is known for its colors, old buildings, and romantic ambiance. Here, you will get lunch in Zaguan, a restaurant famous for having the best beef in the area. The last destination on the tour is a boat ride, from which you'll have a chance to see some of the 365 little islands, as well as a huge range of flora and fauna, including monkeys!
15 hours
After you book your experience, you will receive a confirmation email from us confirming that your payment went through. You will then be connected directly to the tour operator, in case you have any further questions. We are also happy to answer any questions about the tour, or travel in general in your country of destination.


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When I paint I am Kabbindi -there is just me, the bark and the paint.
Kabbindi is a Gunmok woman from Western Arnhem Land. As a custodian of the culture and traditions of her people, she preserves, through her art, the stories she learned as a child.
Her inspiration is her grandfather, Wamud Namok, who was a leader amongst his people and whose artworks are featured in the National Gallery of Australia and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Kabbindi describes her painting as being in the Mimih style of her forebears. This typically involves the depiction of spirit beings and the animals and plants of her grandfather's country, painted on plain ochre ground. Animals are either painted in solid white form or else in the x-ray style, with their internal physiology on display. Spirits beings on the other hand are decorated with the single parallel hatching or rarrk (fine line work) characteristic of the art of her grandfather's clan.
Kabbindi grew up in Oenpelli and Jabiru in the NT. As a teenager, she spent three years at Toorak College in Mt Eliza where she completed her VCE. On her return to the NT, Kabbindi assisted at the local school in Oenpelli. Following the passing of her grandfather, Kabbindi returned to her grandfather's birthplace to continue painting in her grandfathers tradition, producing works for her February 2012 exhibition at the 'Qdos' Gallery in Lorne, Victoria. This was Kabbindi's first official exhibition and it attracted many interstate and local visitors to its opening and many of Kabbindi's paintings were sold immediately they went on view. Kabbindi and other Stone Country Creation members are now painting for another exhibition planned in Melbourne in 2014.


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Christmas is just around the corner and although we each have our individual wish lists, there's one thing that we'd all like to have – winning hundreds to thousands of dollars in cash! This holiday season, Citi Bank gives their credit card customers the chance to win something close to that. Instead of winning cold hard cash, their consumers can win "money" through a Citi Prepaid Card, which is well, just about equivalent to cash.
If you already have a credit card with Citi Bank, all you have to do is register and use your card for a chance to win $10 to $10,000 in Citi Prepaid Cards. Use your registered Citi card on any eligible purchase starting from November 1 to December 31st of this year. Each eligible online purchase will be worth 5 entries, while all other purchases will be worth one entry.
Some Fine Print
Eligible cards include any Citi branded credit card, AT&T Universal Card and/or Citi American Express card. This promotion will exclude the Citi Business Card and Citi Business Advantage Card in which the card is issued to a business establishment. Card holders must also be aged 18 and above.
It is also possible to enter the promotion even without a purchase by simply writing down your full name, complete billing address, day and evening phone numbers (including area code), email address, date of birth, plus the last four (4) digits of your Eligible Citi Credit Card on a 3″ x 5″ piece of paper and mail it, with proper postage to the postal address which can be found on Citi's promotional page.
If you already have a card with Citi Bank then it would be advisable to register your card as soon as possible so you can already start earning entries with every purchase that you make. The more you buy gifts for your loved ones, the more you can expect money to come to you. After all, Citi Bank does promise thousands of winners every week. You might just get lucky.


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Speech to The Waikato Business Summit
Thank you for inviting me here to speak today. I'd like to acknowledge the Mayor of Hamilton Andrew King, MP Jamie Strange, Deputy Mayors and City and Regional Councillors.
It is a privilege to be here in the Waikato, and Hamilton in particular. This region is experiencing high levels of growth which are the envy of other parts of New Zealand. Projections show Hamilton is well on its way to being a city with more than 200,000 residents by 2034 and 225,000 by 2041, effectively adding the current population of Palmerston North to the city in that time.
This growth is partly due to Hamilton's strategic location in the Golden Triangle, along with Auckland and Tauranga. This area is extremely important to both this region's and our country's economic growth.
This Government wants to help this city grow with a new policy platform to tackle housing and transport bottlenecks, while driving regional development and sustainable growth opportunities.
But before I go into our priorities for the next three years, I want to provide an update on a project which the Hamilton City Council applied for funding for under the previous Government's Housing Infrastructure Fund, in the Peacockes area. The previous Government did have some good ideas, but it shouldn't take a housing crisis for a Government to act.
The funding sought would open up residential land for 3,750 new houses in the Peacockes area within the next 10 years, rising to a total of 8,400 homes in this area in 30 years' time. As you know, the land is already zoned and designations are in place.
And I'm pleased to be able to tell you today that Ministers have accepted the business case for Peacockes. Final documentation is being worked on by officials and Hamilton City Council staff, and the Council still needs to consult the community through its long-term plan process. But we expect that construction can start in earnest when long-term plan approval is gained in June.
Within this plan, a new southern link road, connecting to the existing State Highway 1 on the western side of Hamilton, will swing past the southern edge of Peacockes, also linking a new Airport Employment zone with the eastern side of the city.
From my perspective the theme of today's conference, 'From Change Comes Opportunity" could not be more appropriate. I am humbled by the privilege and opportunity that is presented from being in Government and being the Minister of Finance. It is most certainly a change – and one that I am relishing.
Earlier this week at Waitangi, we also saw the opportunity that comes from change. Jacinda Ardern became the first female New Zealand Prime Minister allowed to speak from the veranda of the Upper Marae. It was an historic moment which I was privileged to witness first-hand.
There was a different feeling at Waitangi this year. A spirit of respect and inclusion replaced some of the rancour and divisiveness of previous years. From both the Government and Maori there was an expressed desire to work together identifying the opportunities and challenges that we need to face up to as a country.
The Prime Minister called on Maori to hold the new Government to account over how our policies dealt with social depravation, mental health, the environment and generational equity. It is not for me to repeat her speech word for word to a different audience. But I do want to paraphrase a few lines she gave towards the end of her address, regarding the need to work together on addressing the issues we do face as a nation.
She said that, as a Government, we know our nation's failings and we have an idea of what we want to do to fix them. But we won't always, alone, know exactly how to change things. For that, we will come to you. Now, the Prime Minister was referring to Maori, but I wish to convey that message to this audience, and the business community across New Zealand as well.
We will ask you to help us; we will form partnerships together because we cannot – and should not – be doing it alone. And as we get out to speak to more of you, there will be none too small who we don't ask for advice and to work alongside us as we look to grow this economy in a sustainable and fair way.
Broadly expressed, the economic strategy of our government is to improve the wellbeing and living standards of New Zealanders through sustainable, productive and inclusive growth. We will be responsible with our management of the economy running sustainable surpluses and reducing debt as a proportion of the economy.
Now you might think those sound like catch phrases. But they are our guiding principles and behind each of them is a set of plans and policies that we will be developing and rolling out, with your, and the rest of New Zealand's, input and help.
Our Budget Responsibility Rules will ensure that we keep Government spending at about 30% of GDP – in line with the two previous governments. And we have set a target to reduce net debt to 20% of GDP within five years of taking office. This will ensure the Government remains well-placed to help the economy respond to large economic shocks or natural disasters.
Treasury's Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update released in December shows we can achieve these goals.
With our policy programme, we are setting out to "do this", but we aren't setting out to do this alone. As a Government, we have a set of policies which we believe are needed at this point in New Zealand's economic story to give every New Zealander a fair chance to contribute to, and benefit from, our prosperity.
There is no denying that we came in to Government against an interesting economic backdrop. I know you will hear from other speakers today on the overall economic environment, but suffice to say the high level indicators in the economy are positive and all the more so in comparison to other places in the world.
But that's not to say everything is perfect or that we cannot do better. In particular, New Zealand needs to address deficits in both our social and physical infrastructure.
During the election campaign, by far the biggest issue raised with me about the economy was that too many people had missed out on a share in the prosperity that we as a nation were creating. I received this message from boardrooms to smoko rooms around the country. No one is comfortable with high levels of homelessness or child poverty in a beautiful and prosperous country such as ours. We don't want to see home ownership and financial security as the privilege of the few.
Too many people are missing out, and New Zealanders want to see that change. We have heard that message, and as a government we are committed to addressing it.
That is why the centrepiece of our mini-Budget before Christmas was a Families Package that unashamedly targets those on low and middle incomes. While tax cuts might sound attractive, right now the priority is to provide better-focused support particularly to those who are raising children. We have introduced a Best Start payment for children in their first three years and boosted Working for Families. Our package will see 385,000 families better off by an average of $75 per week. It also includes a Winter Energy Payment to support low income and superannuitants to keep themselves warm over the winter months.
This is the beginning of addressing those concerns about inequality that we heard loud and clear. The Prime Minister has recently announced the targets that we will be held accountable for in reducing child poverty. When we achieve these we will have among the lowest rates of child poverty in the developed world, and far better than we have seen in New Zealand in the last thirty years. We want New Zealand to be the best place in the world to be a child and these measures are a critical part of that.
But our first 100 Days has not just been about addressing inequality. They have also been about beginning the work on the other two critical elements of our economic strategy - to build a more sustainable and productive economy.
There is no one here who will be under any illusion about the need for all of us to be working towards an economy that incorporates the protection and promotion of our environment. But for too long we have seen that as a depressing and insurmountable challenge. In line with the theme of the day this government sees that as a great opportunity.
We are already a country that prides itself on our clean and green brand, albeit sometimes in the face of evidence to the contrary. Our primary industries rely on a stable climate and our booming tourism sector showcases the beauty of our natural environment.
Beyond this however the transition to a low carbon economy offers other opportunities. There is the chance for New Zealand to be at the leading edge of a just transition to more sustainability. To this end two significant funds are being developed by the new government. I will return to speak about the Provincial Growth Fund shortly. But I want to mention the Green Investment Fund, established as part of our confidence and supply agreement with the Green Party to support projects and innovations that will drive sustainable development. It will help leverage private sector investment in the technologies and businesses that will address climate change and seize the opportunity of a world hungry for clean energy high technology solutions.
This fund will also help contribute to the government's goal of a net zero carbon economy by 2050. As part of the 100 Day Plan we have begun to establish an Independent Climate Commission that will guide the government in this journey through establishing targets and carbon budgets. This will be a partnership across the community, particularly with business.
A more sustainable economy is not just about the environment. It is also about planning ahead to ensure that future generations can share in prosperity. That is why one of the first acts of this government was to re-start contributions to the NZ Super Fund. The previous government had not put in a single cent since 2009 to the fund that will help make universal superannuation sustainable for future generations. We will make those contributions year on year, increasing them as a priority.
We are also going to change the way we measure success in our country. For too long we have relied upon measuring our success simply in terms of GDP. While a growing economy is essential to our success it is not at any cost. I like to think of this in terms of a family. We would not consider a family to have high wellbeing if both the parents were working and earning high incomes, but one of their children had mental health problems and another was failing at school or if waste from their property was ruining the stream that runs past their house. It is the same with the measurement of our success as a country.
We need to look at broader measures. In this space, as in many others, that we can look to the Waikato for some guidance. The Waikato Progress Indicators developed by the Regional Council assess societal and environmental measures alongside economic ones to create a dashboard of the health of the Waikato economy. We are looking to do the same for New Zealand. And to use this to drive both how we measure success and what we prioritise in our budgets.
Building on the work the Treasury is already doing to create a Living Standards Framework we are targeting Budget 2019 to be New Zealand's first Wellbeing Budget that looks at our plans not just from a fiscal standpoint but our overall success as a country.
The third pillar of our economic strategy is to build a more productive economy. Low productivity has been a major issue in New Zealand for decades. In the last five years, we have had little, or no labour productivity growth and per person GDP growth of less than one percent. This is constraining business growth and wage growth. It means we work harder and harder for little or indeed less return.
This is where our partnership with business is critical. We want to support businesses to grow sustainably, employ more people and pay higher wages. Solving the productivity challenge requires action on a number of fronts.
As a Government we have to get the overall settings right to support improvements in productivity. This is why we have set aside $42 billion over the next five years for capital spending. We do have an infrastructure deficit in our transport systems, housing stock, urban infrastructure and in schools and hospitals. We are determined to turn that around.
Again, we will not be seeking to do this alone. While we will invest as a Government in areas such as transport, housing and urban development, we are seeking partnerships with business and the use of innovative financing mechanisms such as infrastructure bonds to make the progress we need.
We are also reviving and reforming our tax system and monetary policy settings to ensure they are supporting a more productive economy. For too long our tax system has lacked balance and has encouraged speculation, particularly in housing. We want this to change, and we have charged a Tax Working Group made up of business and community representatives and tax experts to make proposals in this regard. At the same time we are moving to make the tax system simpler for small businesses and to make multinationals pay their fair share.
We are also reforming monetary policy so that it has a greater focus on the productive economy. In particular we are expanding the objectives of the Reserve Bank to add to price stability a focus on maximising employment. We know there are limits to the influence of monetary policy, but it needs to have the overall wellbeing of New Zealanders at the heart of its mandates.
The other significant contribution to productivity I want to talk about today is improving the skills of the New Zealand workforce. This was also one of the core lessons of our Future of Work project. It is the impetus behind our fees-free post-secondary training and education policy.
This is not just about more people going to university. In fact, these students will be the minority of those who take this up. The majority will be in trades and workplace-based training. It is also not just for school leavers, but those already working but who have not trained or studied before.
We are committed to learning for life. This includes a radical reform of careers advice and guidance. In the Waikato region you still have a NEET rate of 12%. This means thousands of young people not getting the skills they need to be a productive part of our economy. We will professionalise careers advice and build strong partnerships with businesses and training providers to open up opportunities for young people.
We will be an active partner to get young people skills-ready through hands-on programmes, including ensuring they have vital tools such as drivers' licenses.
As we do this, we will continue to ensure that immigration will be a core part of meeting our skill needs. Let me assure you that where a business has a clear skill need that cannot be fulfilled by a New Zealander, we will support business bringing people here. What we want to do is change the criteria to ensure immigration policy is focussed on meeting these needs. This means cracking down on low quality courses that are exploiting international students and providing a backdoor to permanent residency. It also means reducing the number of short term work visas where there are people already available to take up these opportunities.
We also remain committed to finding new markets and opportunities for our exporters. These moves will be founded on a progressive approach to trade. This has already been seen in our determination to renegotiate the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership free trade deal, which Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker will sign in Chile in March.
The Government did initially have reservations about the TPP. But we were determined to give our best shot at renegotiating certain areas of the deal we were concerned with. We weren't content on not being able to legislate to tilt the housing market to favour first-home buyers who actually live here. Nor were we content with allowing foreign companies to be able to sue the Government for policy changes which might improve the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders.
As David Parker says, we came away from our renegotiations with four-and-a-half out of the five requests we had. It wasn't perfect, but the CPTPP ended up a damn-sight better than it looked.
This is what pragmatic and progressive Governments do. We will keep this focus on pragmatism and progressivity as we work towards other high-quality free trade agreements with partners around the world, such as the EU and UK, because New Zealand is a country built on global connections and exports.
In an increasingly competitive and interconnected world, we will continue to use all these factors of our economic base to our advantage.
But that doesn't mean we will continue moving forward just as we have been. We must be open about the challenges we still face. We have set out as a Government to address these challenges. And, we want to work with you to do this.
Work is already underway within Ministries on ways the new Government can be an active partner investing and working alongside business to develop the economy. I'll outline a few examples.
A nation like ours, built on innovation, should not be content sitting with an R&D spend as a proportion of GDP at nearly half the OECD average – 1.3% versus the average of 2.4%. When the OECD issued its most recent assessment of the New Zealand economy last year, this is what it had to say on R&D:
"Expenditure on R&D is low as a share of GDP, most notably in the business sector. Collaboration between firms, education and research institutions is low."
And its advice: "Increase fiscal support for business research and development. Maintain or increase long-term support for successful collaboration between research institutions and industry."
We want to encourage this and in the Coalition Agreement with New Zealand First we have set a target of hitting R&D spend of 2% of GDP in ten years. That's more than a 50% increase in R&D investment relative to GDP.
Minister for Research, Science and Innovation, Megan Woods, has already begun work on overhauling New Zealand's Research and Development (R&D) regime, with Cabinet set to discuss officials' initial findings later this month. We are committed in the first instance to restoring R&D tax credits to give firms some certainty about their investments.
This Government has also committed to unlocking the growth potential of our regions, side by side with local business. For too long, parts of the country been ignored to the detriment of their people and resources.
The Minister for Regional Economic Development, Shane Jones, will be making an announcement on the details of the Government's $1 billion Provincial Growth Fund, also developed with New Zealand First as part of the Coalition Agreement, so I don't want to steal his thunder. But this is another area of Government policy where we are inviting private businesses, as well as Iwi and community organisations, to be involved with us and to work with the Government on projects which will create positive economic and social legacies for our regions.
The PGF will focus on investments that drive jobs and sustainable economic growth. We want projects that will make major long-term differences to the prospects of our regions. We will not be dictating these from Wellington, but rather developing them in partnership with you.
Included within this programme will be investments that support our sustainability goals including the planting of 1 billion trees over 10 years and a focus on regional rail and road transport, neglected for far too long.
Before I finish today, and in the spirit of the Prime Minister's call at Waitangi for robust and open debate, I want to address an issue that is on the minds of many in business – that of employment relations.
It will come as no surprise to any of you that a party called 'Labour' will always look to ensure that there are fair and reasonable rules around workplace relations. This is not just born of this being in our DNA, it is also part of creating a more productive economy.
We can look at workplaces like Air New Zealand and Fonterra, which have adopted high-performance engagement policies that give a significant voice to their employees, and have seen productivity growth and more harmonious workplace relations as a result. We are working with MBIE and others to facilitate these approaches across a range of industries.
We want to adopt this kind of cooperative approach on other issues, including the minimum wage, trial periods and changes to bargaining rules.
All three of the governing parties campaigned on raising the minimum wage in New Zealand. We watched over the last few years the poorest households face growing housing, food and transport costs. It's important we address this as a country. The first move will be on April 1 this year – from $15.75 to $16.50 an hour.
We want to provide certainty to employers and employees over where we are heading. That is why we have set out our target for the minimum wage to be $20 an hour for the year beginning 1 April 2021.
We will work with employers on the timing of the increases as we head to that target throughout the next three years. This Government has its priorities in terms of wages, but your input will be listened to. Ministers will work with you in supporting small businesses through these changes.
Another example of how we're trying to work cooperatively came about with the 90-Day trials process. As part of an agreement between Labour and New Zealand First, a compromise was reached. This is MMP.
On 90-Day trials the best research we have on this issue – by the economics consultancy firm, Motu – indicates that the previous Government's approach made little difference, if any, to employment levels.
So, it is worth remembering that the amendments that the new Government announced a couple of weeks ago take us back to where we began with this policy – to support those in smaller businesses to be able to take people on. We will continue to monitor how this policy works.
We have set out a clear and ambitious programme to close the social and infrastructure deficits we face as a nation. And we want to work with you on that programme. My door will always be open to you to discuss how we go about doing this together.
The theme of your summit today acknowledges that change brings opportunity. I also recognise that change can bring uncertainty as well. I hope that what I've said to you today gives you a clear outline of the direction of travel of this Government, and that we see a clear place for business in that journey.
We have the chance right now as a nation to give every New Zealander a fair share in prosperity and to make this country a better place for all. I look forward to working with all of you on that journey.


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Today we drove to Fort Davis with a stop in Marathon to view markers for Fort Pena Colorado.
|Site of Fort Pena Colorado
The fort was a post of the Army for 15 years in the late 1800's and the site is located south of Marathon in a city park .
The establishment was to deter the Apache's and to protect the white settlements. It was also used to provide escort through the region, perform scout duties and pursue bandits. The fort was abandoned in 1893.
This was our 3rd visit to Fort Davis located in the town by same name on Hwy 118. Our previous visits were in 1986 and 2009. More restoration has taken place since our last visit and a very informative museum has been added. This is definitely worth a visit if in the area.
|Resotoration Photos
|Map of Fort Davis
Fort Davis was key in the defense system of West Texas from 1854-1891 in the protection of emigrants, freighters, mail coaches and travelers on the San Antonio-El Paso Road. It is considered one of the best remaining examples of a frontier post. Several of the original foundations are still present. Many of the buildings have been restored including the hospital, barracks and officers quarters.
|Restored Barracks
|Remains of Chapel
|Two Story Officers' Quarters
|Officers' Quarters
|Commanding Officer's Quarters
|Lt Quarters
The fort was named after Jefferson Davis. The fort was occupied by Confederate troops during 1861 and 1862 when the Union forces again took possession. in 1867 the fort was again occupied by the Ninth Cavalry who erected officers' quarters,enlisted barracks, guardhouse and hospital. By 1880 the fort became a major installation with over 100 structures and 400 soldiers. With the end of the Indian Wars in west Texas the fort was abandoned in 1891.
On our departure we stopped at the Caboose for Ice Cream.
Tomorrow, the 31st, we depart for San Antonio and Ft Sam RV Park on base until the 7th.


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The Adele Tribute to George Michael Everyone's Talking About
The biggest moment of the 2017 Grammy Awards was never meant to happen. Adele, who won every award she was nominated for, had already opened the show performing one of her own songs. So while it was a very big night for her, she had previously let it be known how seriously she was taking the tribute she was performing in honor of someone else. The George Michael tribute seemed to get off to a fine start, but Adele didn't see it that way and stopped everything to make sure she got it right. With lots of apologies and saying how she "can't mess this up for him."
Watch @Adele restart her George Michael tribute at the #GRAMMYs https://t.co/VhNIJkhipq pic.twitter.com/epzXpyo2tv— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 13, 2017
Watch full performance at slate.com
Lots of rave reviews showed up online to praise her chioce!
#Adele taught us a all a great lesson just now. If it's not right? START OVER AND NAIL IT! And she did. Love you, girl.— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) February 13, 2017
Adele apologizes for messing up her tribute to George Michael and begins again. #GRAMMYs We have proof there's no backing vocal track.— Greg Kot (@gregkot) February 13, 2017
Your realness made that moment even more special. That took so much guts, George would have been so proud. @Adele --— SKRILLEX (@Skrillex) February 13, 2017
Someone explain to me how Adele starts a song In the wrong key and I love her more for it.— MAT KEARNEY (@matkearney) February 13, 2017
When you're so boss that you stop a performance at the #GRAMMYS to start over and do it right in order to honor the artist. Love you @Adele— Joy Williams (@joywilliams) February 13, 2017


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Sith Juggernaut Equipment Guide
The term Juggernaut most often refers to a massive, inevitable force that crushes everything in its path. In Star Wars: The Old Republic, it's pretty much the very same thing: a massive, inevitable Force-user that crushes everything in his path. The Sith Juggernaut stands firmly on the front lines of battle, hurling himself bodily into danger and withstanding brutal punishment that would destroy less-hardy combatants. His fighting style also follows the same basic definition - slow but inevitable, a single lightsaber swung with hard, powerful strokes and paired with an offhand shield generator. The Sith Juggernaut is not a DPS monster like the double-lightsaber-wielding Marauder, but he can hit some respectable numbers, and what he lacks in punch he makes up in momentum.
It takes more than just pluck and determination to hold the front lines. The Juggernaut is also highly dependent on first-rate gear - heavy armor and shields that augment his ability to absorb punishment from his enemies. Armor is especially important, and particularly for Juggernauts who use the Immortal skill tree for tanking, because of the relatively-low DPS output of the class. This is a class that is meant to get hit, hard and often, and still be the last man standing.
There are essentially two paths a Juggernaut can take - tanking or melee DPS. Melee tanks, using the Immortal skill tree, need to stack Endurance to build up a massive pool of hit points. DPSers will want to prioritize Strength to give their melee attacks extra punch. It's important to have lots of both stats, regardless of the Juggernaut's spec, but tanks will want more Endurance and DPSers will want more Strength.
When the character first starts getting orange Custom gear, tank-spec Juggernauts will want to use modifications (armoring, mods and hilts) of the Guardian type, which are high in Endurance, plus some Strength. DPS-spec Juggernauts will want to use Might modifications, which are higher in Strength, plus some Endurance. These items are relatively inexpensive, available from Modification Commendation Vendors on every planet (except Korriban). Armoring and hilts typically cost 7 planetary commendations each, and mods and enhancements cost 2. Constantly upgrading orange custom armor with the top modifications available will keep it viable as long as you like the look of it.
Juggernauts tend to swing their lightsasbers like bats. Here's one hitting an infield fly-ball.
Staying in top form, gear-wise, does not necessarily mean maxing out a crew skill (Synthweavers make heavy armor for Juggernauts) or lurking on the Galactic Trade Market for bargains. Good-quality gear can be purchased on every planet from two vendors: the Specialty Goods vendors, who sell their items for credits, or the Equipment Commendation vendors, who trade for planetary commendations earned by completing missions and as rare loot drops. Korriban, the Sith starting planet, has only a Specialty Goods vendor, who has only 1 item appropriate for low-level Juggernauts and charges 8 Korriban Commendations for it.
Level Range: 1 - 10
This is the starting planet for Sith Warriors and Inquisitors, a dry, hostile place pocked with ancient tombs. There is only the Specialty Goods vendor on this planet, standing by the elevators near the market area just outside the academy entrance, and he charges 8 Korriban Commendations for the one item that's useful for Warriors. It's only Medium armor, so it will likely be replaced fairly quickly once the Juggernaut advanced class is chosen.
Dromund Kaas
Level Range: 10 - 16
The Sith Empire's capital world has a much better selection of specialized gear. The vendors here sell heavy armor accessories - boots, greaves and handgear - of the Avenger and Vindicator variety. They are cosmetically similar, but the Avenger items are geared more towards DPSers (more Strength) and the Vindicator items are more for tanks (more Endurance).
Level Range: 16 - 20
There is no specialization on this war-torn core colony world, but the Indignation pieces available from the vendors are good quality and will likely be a step up from anything you found on Dromund Kaas. The headgear comes from the Specialty Goods vendor and is fairly pricey. The other items come from the Equipment Commendation vendor.
Nar Shaddaa
Level Range: 20 - 24
Again, there is not much specialization on the Smuggler's Moon in Hutt-controlled space, but the Sovereign Mind items are suitable for either tank or DPS spec and are worth picking up. The Specialty Goods vendor sells shield and power generators - tanks will want the shield, DPSers will prefer the power generator.
Level Range: 24 - 28
The great, sweltering desert planet offers one of the better-looking chest pieces for Juggernauts, reminiscent of Darth Vader's armor in the movies but with more grey. Some might find it ironic that the hottest planet in the galaxy sells armor that's practically guaranteed to cause heat-stroke. Be warned that the cape on this and other cape-included pieces will behave strangely at times, but it looks badass.
Level Range: 28 - 32
While you're busy fomenting insurrection and promoting civil wa, be sure to stop by the markets near the spaceport to shop for accessories. The Specialty Goods vendor sells implants for tank and DPS spec, and the Equipment Commendation vendor sells boots, belts and trousers with a subtle purple hue.
Level Range: 32 - 36
The toxic wasteland of Taris brings back the specialization in terms of gear. There are 2 varieties of heavy armor here: Force Battler, which works best for tank spec, and Force Champion, which is better for DPS. Hit up the vendors for decent belts, pants and gloves.
Level Range: 36 - 37
Quesh is the planet where Darth Baras's plans are laid bare, but other than that there's not much reason to stay here for very long. It's another toxic swamp, but much smaller than Taris. The vendors sell ear pieces - the exact same ones available on Hoth - and armguards. Quesh is the start of the Paragon-Vindicator paradigm - Paragon stuff is generally suited for tanks, Vindicator stuff for damage-dealers.
Level Range: 37 - 41
The galaxy's icebox has some very decent gear, following the same Paragon-Vindicator paradigm as Quesh but with a better selection of items. The earpieces here are the exact same as the ones on Quesh, and they are all the Specialty Goods vendor sells.
Level Range: 41 - 44
Hoth may be the galaxy's icebox, but Belsavis is the galaxy's cooler for a couple of different reasons. It's slightly warmer than Hoth, with its isolated pockets of temperate regions surrounding volcanic vents, and it's also a prison planet. The Paragon-Vindicator specialization continues unabated here, and the Specialty Goods vendor offers an assortment of offhand devices (shields, generators, foci).
Level Range: 44 - 47
Back in Hutt space, Voss is the home of the bug-eyed, peaceful Voss species and their rivals, the lizard-like warrior Gormaks. As your hunt for Baras embroils you in the conflict between the two species, you earn commendations which can be spent on great late-game accessories and off-hand items.
Level Range: 47 - 50
The vendors at Coronet spaceport offer a number of upper-body items that will take you well into endgame. The Paragon-Vindicator theme holds true here, and there are some excellent armguards, gloves and chest armor here, as well as off-hand items.
Level Range: 50
Ilum is, for lack of a better term, the endgame planet. This is where you go after you complete your class story and become a Darth, and where you start doing daily missions to accrue a large amount of Daily Commendations (instead of planetary commendations, of which Ilum has none). Instead of an Equipment Commendation and Specialty Goods vendor, there are two Mission Support vendors here. The one guy sells artifact-quality implants and the other guy sells armguards.
Crushing one's enemies is a Sith's birthright, and no one does it quite as crushingly as the Juggernaut. And while some might say that "the best defense is a good offense," the Juggernaut knows to back that up with top-quality armor and sturdy shields. After all, if a person is going to go around being offensive - force-choking fools who give him sass, for example - he'd better be able to defend himself.


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Polaris puts out 120W of Hypex power into 8 Ohms and can pass PCM resolutions up to 32/384 and DSD to DSD256. Remote control can be accomplished using Auralic's Lightning DS app or ROon, as Polaris is Roon Ready. Stream from Internet sources including Tidal and Qobuz, play from USB storage, network attached storage, AirPlay and Bluetooth, connect legacy (he he) digital sources to its S/PDIF inputs, play vinyl through its MM phono input, and there even another line level input for whatever. And you can connect to Polaris through its 802.11b/g/n/ac Tri-Band WiFi, even if you want to play Quad DSD and add internal storage if you want to truly go one-box.
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Hornchurch couple who got engaged in a pub celebrate diamond wedding anniversary
PUBLISHED: 18:00 09 March 2014
When Bill Churchill was running to his own wedding in 1954 after the car he was in broke down, celebrating his diamond wedding anniversary must have seemed a long way off.
But glasses were raised on Thursday as he and wife Pat marked 60 years of marriage with a party surrounded by friends and family.
Bill 92, and Pat, 91, married on February 27 1954, after first meeting in 1948 as members of a social club started by Bill and a friend upon their return from navy service in the Second World War.
The celebration last week was held at Ashgrove Nursing Home in Billet Lane, Hornchurch, where Pat now lives, and Bill said the party was a "marvellous affair."
"It was very good indeed," he said. "We had lots of family there, including our son Peter and my great great grandchildren.
"It was lovely to see friends I don't see much of these days."
The Hornchurch couple first met when Pat became a member of the Ford Social Club, and founder Bill, who refers to Pat as "honeybell", took a while to ask her out.
"We didn't start our relationship until about 1952," said Bill. "That's when it got serious, and after some time I asked her to marry me in a pub."
Their wedding day was not without incident, as Bill was forced to run to the church when his brother's car broke down.
The couple often enjoyed trips to seaside resorts, and Bill spoke of how they made a great team, with him "not knowing how to look at a map."
"We used to go to Southport and Hull in the north, to Brighton and along to Devon and Cornwall. "Pat used to do all the navigating. If it was left to me we would never have got anywhere!" he quipped.
Pat now suffers from dementia (NEED TO CONFIRM CONDITION) but Bill was delighted to see her chatting with guests at the party.
"As I was doing the rounds people were surrounding her and she was laughing along. It was lovely."
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A few more VCD's from my seemingly never ending collection. Do yourself a favor and seek out the 1985 Shaw Bros. action/fantasy JOURNEY OF THE DOOMED. It is one of Cha Chuen-yee's first films and it is odd and excellent. It lists a who's who of HK stars, some in their career infancy. Stephen Tung-wai, Kara Hui Ying-hung, Max Mok Siu-chung, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Margaret Lee Din-long, and Alex Man Chi-lung are a delight to see in this fantasy piece. The film also has some ninnies in it. Give it a go! FUTURE HERO is another oddity. Featuring Mark Cheng Ho-nam, Ng Suet-man, and Mak Tak-law, this is one of only a handful or so of science fiction related films to come out of Hong Kong. It is a sleek looking film co-scripted by the very good heyday director, Poon Man-kit. EVIL INSTINCT is a fun and somewhat memorable (well, too me anyway) CAT III mystery/thriller starring Carrie Ng Ka-lai, Bowie Lam Bo-yi, Stuart Ong, and the lovely "Mystical Breasts" Diana Pang-dan. I think this was the first Pang-dan film I saw? I remember reading about her "mystical breasts" and how she could give Amy Yip Ji-mei a run for her $ in the upper torso area. Indeed she does, and like Yip, she maddens the horndog viewer, forgoing full on toplessness with shots of side boobage and hands over the nips. It is all silly and unnatural looking to the film but it still some skin! She does it in EVIL INSTINCT. It's quite funny actually.
After is first film, the high spirited action/comedy PINK BOMB, director Derek Chiu Sung-kei made this wonderful small film from 1994 that kinda flew under the radar. Director Derek Chiu Sung-kei is a fine filmmaker and can work low budget, as he does here, or big. Comedian Dayo Wong Chi-wah, Irene Wan Pik-ha, Wayne Lai Yiu-cheung, and the excellent Liu Kai-chi star. This is relatively unknown, outside of die hards, but it's a fun piece of independent-like HK cinema. There have been a few incarnations of ROMANCE OF THE WEST CHAMBER. This is but one of them. The classic Chinese erotic novel shown here is a low budget affair with a boat load of flesh and some silly sepia toned sequences where little Jimmy Wong Shu-keu gets to make weird faces as he sexes youg Tang dynasty tang. It is what it is. KITCHEN is a 1997 offering from art house filmer Yim Ho. I have seen a few Yim Ho movies over the years and they are not my cup of tea. Going on a recommendation by a friend I gave KITCHEN a go. It, like many a Ho film, was not to my liking. Though, I must say, that the performance of Law kar-yin, who plays a transsexual, is still in my memory months later. I was hoping to enjoy KITCHEN as I had heard it was a tad off the beaten path from Ho's other works. It was, but I was unimpressed. Also, an honorable mention to the few brief scenes with the just damn awesome Karen Mok Man-wai. Laugh out loud funny. So with Law and Mok, I guess not a total waste of time?


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A seed-based framework for textual information extraction allows for weakly supervised acquisition of open-domain class attributes over conceptual hierarchies, from a combination of Web documents and query logs. Automatically-extracted labeled classes, consisting of a label (e.g., painkillers) and an associated set of instances (e.g., vicodin, oxycontin), are linked under existing conceptual hierarchies (e.g., brain disorders and skin diseases are linked under the concepts BrainDisorder and SkinDisease respectively). Attributes extracted for the labeled classes are propagated upwards in the hierarchy, to determine the attributes of hierarchy concepts (e.g., Disease) from the attributes of their subconcepts (e.g., BrainDisorder and SkinDisease).
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Directory: Techniques → Offensive Techniques → Energy Wave
Hidden Potential (秘めたる力 Himetaru Chikara, lit. "Hidden Power") is an Energy Wave used by Gohan.
First, Gohan charges up and creates a whitish-blue energy sphere around his entire body. He then flies forward with his arms in front of him and fires a huge whitish-blue energy wave from his fists at the opponent, inflicting a massive amount of damage.
Gohan uses this attack at the start of his training with Piccolo in preparation for the Saiyan invasion of Earth. Curious of the amazing power Gohan displayed against Raditz, Piccolo decides to test it by throwing the young Saiyan toward a large boulder. Gohan becomes frightened at first, but he manages to regain his focus and destroys the entire boulder with the "Hidden Potential" energy wave, much to Piccolo's shock and amazement.
Film Appearances
In Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, Gohan uses his hidden power when Garlic Jr. tries to pull his father into the Dead Zone. Gohan goes into a rage, drawing out his hidden power which is enough to blast Garlic Jr. backwards into the Dead Zone.
Video Game Appearances
Hidden Potential was named in Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit, where it appears as one of Kid Gohan's ultimate attacks, with its color changed to yellow. The technique also appears as one of Kid Gohan's Super Attacks Dragon Ball: Raging Blast, where it is named Hidden Power and colored blue and white.
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Michelle Bertuzzi loves to bake cookies and give them to friends. And she loves to include the recipe just in case they like them and want to try the recipe themselves. What a great idea!
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Here's a close up of the front of the treat bag. Love the delicate border at the bottom of the topper.
On the back, I love how Michelle tucked the recipe inside the ribbon and added some stickers as decorations top and bottom.
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If you've completed a masterpiece in the field of art, design, architecture or film, then submit it to the A' Design Awards before February 28, 2016.
2015 was a big year for this international event highlighting the crème de la crème in 100 categories. See some of the past award-winning projects as well as our 10 favorites in this article. We're one of the media partners, but there are more partners like Colossal, Designboom, Dezeen… that will be selecting their most-liked projects in the competition and sharing them with millions of readers.
If you win, you get to attend the award ceremony in the glitz and glamor of Lake Como in Italy. You will receive a shiny trophy to showoff to colleagues and friends; your work will be printed in an annual book and eligible to be showcased in various exhibitions in Europe.
Above: Sanzpont's semi-flexible pedestrian bridge is a showstopper at night!
Daisuke Iguchi's aerodynamic concept supercar (with EV technology) comes in silver or orange.
Inspired by rebel bike riders of the 50s and 60s, these stylish sneaker boots were designed by Bryon & Leach.
A manly print campaign for Barb Perfume.
Katsumi Tamura's paper calendars are always fun and minimalistic.
Get lost looking at the labyrinth table by Benjamin Nordsmark.
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Thanks so much to everyone who contributed – not only for the money but for the vote of confidence and the support of the idea. And for the many lovely comments too. It was really gratifying to feel there was so much love out there for my work. I achieved the target, so – drum roll – a 224 page cartoon collection by Judy Horacek, to be called Random Life, will be published early next year. Hooray!
Pre-purchases are still very very welcome (to go towards a publicist I will need to hire to help the book on its way in the world when it is published). You can do that through the Horacek shop, https://horacek.com.au/horacek-shop/all/random-life/ Everyone is welcome!
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The Wii U hasn't had the best of times dating back to its launch in 2012. Nintendo (and many others) felt it would clean up rather nicely riding on the coattails of the Wii. Sadly, that didn't happen and for many it actually left a bitter taste in their mouth.
The thing is though, the Wii U is an amazing console and it could do a lot of things properly. The biggest issue that it had was that Nintendo never pointed out that the Gamepad wasn't merely an add-on for the original Wii. Case in point, a colleague of mine bought a Wii U for her daughter, but still thinks it's a black Wii with a fancy new controller. That stumbling block has cost Nintendo dearly since there was such a small adoption rate of the console.
In respone to this, many third parties pulled their support from the console. EA were the first to fire the shots in that slaughter and they only released a handful of games on the console. This is actually a real shame since the Wii U version of Need for Speed Most Wanted actually bests the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions in terms of game play and also visuals. The same is true from Splinter Cell Blacklist from UbiSoft.
The offerings from Nintendo
It could be argued that Nintendo didn't help the situation with the Wii U. This will be the first 3D home console that Nintendo have released that doesn't have a 'true' Super Mario game that is like SM64, Sunshine or the Galaxy games. Instead, gamers were given a choice of New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario 3D World. Both of these are excellent games, but they don't capture the same magic that the solo 3D Mario games offer.
Sadly, F-Zero hasn't made an appearance on the console which is a shame since this was actually a launch title for the might SNES. That could have been a key selling point for the Wii U as many have been waiting years for a new F-Zero. The same can be said for the Metroid series, with the last proper instalment being on the Wii.
Having said that, Nintendo did bring us Pikmin 3 which is an amazing addition to the franchise as well as two superb Zelda re-masters; Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.
Nintendo have also in 2014 brought us the finest Mario Kart to date, with Mario Kart 8 boasting some of the features you'd find in an F-Zero game. This even included DLC and people are still playing this 2 years down the line.
Then we have possibly the one Super Mario game that gamers have been waiting for 30 years; Super Mario Maker. As the name suggest, it allows you to make and play your own Mario levels, as well as playing those designed by others. Some are extremely easy, some run on autopilot which highlights the creativity of the designers and some levels are even harder than the hardest levels in the Lost Levels.
It would be silly to not mention amiibo. These little figurines have been a major boost to the balance sheets of Nintendo and have caused a frenzy online regarding the rarity of some of them. Basically the unlock extra features in your games, but due to their low price and their high quality they've flown off of the shelves.
If there was going to be one game other than Super Mario Maker and Mario Kart 8 that was going to stand out, it would be Super Smash Bros. The 4th iteration in the franchise is the best to date with a wealth of characters and a feeling that is much more like Melee rather than Brawl. With better online support and amiibo functionality, Super Smash Bros on Wii U is the best game on the console.
A link to the past
As with the 3DS, Nintendo have included the eShop on the Wii U. This offers a wealth of titles (with frequent sales) from various platforms including the Wii and DS. Whilst it would have been nice if there were more Nintendo 64 titles on it (Majoras Mask is still absent), there is the prospect of there being more titles added to it before the Wii U is shelved. Sadly, Gamecube games were never released on Wii U, although this could be rectified on Nintendo NX.
The system
The system itself is actually pretty powerful. The key selling point was the Gamepad and it works brilliantly well. The battery life averages around 3-5 hours and whilst this isn't the best, a battery pack with a longer life is available. The power cable is pretty long too so you could just plug it into the wall. The off TV gameplay mechanic was and still is a wonderful idea and could be classed as a simpler way of game streaming. Depending on what your property is like, you could have the Wii U in one room and play a game in the next. The Wii U never had Blu Ray playback on it, although no Nintendo console (apart from the Panasonic Q) has had multimedia disc playback.
The Wii U is an amazing console and in years to come I firmly believe that it will be remembered as fondly as the Dreamcast is. It didn't have the best of starts and that crippled the machine. However, every time I turn mine on I'm left with a huge smile on my face and at the end of the day, that's what it's all about.
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In my family, I'm famous for "making stuff". I think there's a mixture of tolerance and pride with much of my creations. The tolerance definitely comes into play with the boxes of supplies that load shelves and closets, fighting books and yarn for valuable real estate in our home. In fact, there's the story of one Christmas, early in our marriage, when my stepdaughter came to visit. I had planned an orgy of crafts and Christmas cookie baking, all excited to have a little girl to share this with. She was maybe all of three years old, and was more interested in Care Bears then making a popcorn string for the tree. I kept trying. Maybe we could make angels with cotton and construction paper, or gingerbread cookies, or, or, or... Finally, my world weary stepdaughter looked at her dad, who had just come home from work, then looked at her lunatic stepmom, sitting on the floor, happily cutting and pasting sparkly bits onto glittery objects. In a voice that to my memory sounds like a three-year old version of Marlene Dietrich, she uttered, "Is she always like this?". Now, nearly 30 years later, javaczuk still shakes his head, and patiently says, "Yes."
A few weeks back, I stumbled upon the carefully cleaned, tasteless seeds. And I remembered something I'd seen in a display of handcrafted goods. Something that had made me say, "Hey! I can do that!"
And so I did. I started them up in the cabin when I was up there earlier this week, and put the finishing touches on today. I looked at them and smiled, then thought, "Phew! I never have to do that again!"


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"Reality" is Like A Flashlight!
Author: Hannya (35 Articles)
Hannya is a Contributing Author at Gratitude Planet, a fun and connected being, and an avid dog lover.
This morning I woke up with an insight into the Law of Attraction. Picture yourself in a very large, and very dark, room. You can't see a thing. You reach out, but you can't touch anything either. (I have been reading Dan Brown's latest book, "The Lost Symbol" and maybe this is why dark spaces are on my mind) Anyway, in this dark room is a light switch, and with all your might you start looking for it. You find it and switch it on, only to discover that the bright light momentarily blinds you, and you are overwhelmed and can't see anything. You cover your eyes and switch the light back off. You reach into your pocket and discover that you have a small but powerful flashlight. You turn it on and find that you can point it exactly where you want to see, and your eyes can see just fine. But when you look in one direction, you can only see in THAT direction. You have to pan and point and keep moving to see what is in the room. As soon as you move off an object to see another object, you can't see the first one anymore. I am sure you can follow this so far. We have all been in the dark before.
Your perception is just like this story. As humans on planet Earth we are not supposed to see the whole room. If we didn't have a way to focus our attention we would be overwhelmed and not be able to see anything. We have an ability to focus our thoughts in a single direction, like shining a flashlight in a dark room. What ever we shine the light on (or give our attention to) becomes illuminated as part of our "reality." Whatever we look at becomes our point of attraction, and Law of Attraction tirelessly sends more of the same to our experience.
People who don't get this will shine their light on all kinds of things that they don't want more of. They feel it is their duty to "see what's in the room." But if you use your focus to look for things you don't want, or that don't feel good when you look at them, you are increasing the energy of these things and making them stronger in YOUR reality. Everything is real…that you give your attention to. And there is nothing that can get your attention that you don't shine your light on. There is nothing lurking in the darkness that is trying to "get you."
So relax and use your power of focus wisely today. Keep scanning the room until you see things you want to see, and then stay on them for a while. It's not your job to clean the room, or to keep others from looking at what they want to. Isn't it great to really know this? Aren't you grateful and appreciative that this is how the Universe works? I am!! Have fun and enjoy your day. Be.Love, Hannya-GP
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Great post, Hannya!
What I like, is that my "flashlight" has an inexhaustible power source and an inextinguishable energy source of light!GD Star Rating
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