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Dynagas LNG Partners (DLNG) Q3 2018 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
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Dynagas LNG Partners (NYSE: DLNG)
Q3 2018 Earnings Conference Call
Nov. 16, 2018 10:00 a.m. ET
Prepared Remarks
Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Thank you for standing by, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Dynagas LNG Partners conference call on the third-quarter 2018 financial results. We have with us Mr. Michael Gregos, chief financial officer of the company. [Operator instructions] I must advise that this conference is being recorded today.
At this time, I would like to read the safe harbor statement. This conference call and slide presentation of the webcast contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which may affect Dynagas LNG Partners business prospects and results of operations. Such risks are more fully disclosed in Dynagas LNG Partners filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
And now I pass the floor to Mr. Gregos. Please go ahead, sir.
Michael Gregos — Chief Financial Officer
Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us in our third-quarter earnings conference call. We have issued a press release announcing our results for the same period. Certain non-GAAP measures will be discussed on this call. And we have provided a description of those measures as well as a discussion of why we believe this information to be useful in our press release.
Moving on to Slide 3 and the recent developments, in August, the Yenisei River upon completion of its mandatory five-year special survey and dry docking was delivered earlier than anticipated to its charter contract with Yamal in order to serve the Yamal LNG project, with the firm charter period being extended from 15 years to fifteen and a half years. In addition, the Arctic Aurora entered its extended time charter contract with Equinor, and following this contract all of the partnership vessels are contracted as we will describe later in the presentation. On October 23rd, we closed our Series B preferred units offering and received net proceeds of $53 million. And on October 11th, the partnership announced a quarterly cash distributions of $0.25 per common unit in respect to the third quarter of 2018, which was paid on October 26th.
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Moving on to Slide 4, the results of the quarter met our expectations as fleet utilization was 99% and operating expenses and the dry dock of the Yenisei River were below budget. For the quarter, we generated $7.5 million in distributable cash flow and $23.5 million in EBITDA. We are pleased with the performance of our manager as the vessel daily operating expenses came in at $11,600 per day per vessel for the quarter versus $11,200 for the corresponding period of 2017. And the cost of the dry dock of the Yenisei River ended up at $2.4 million, which is $1 million below the budget with only 16 off-hire days.
For the quarter, our average gross time charter hire on a cash basis amounted to about $60,000 per day per vessel whereas our cash breakeven, excluding our distributions to preferred and common unitholders and our dry docking costs amounted to about $40,000 per day. During the past two years, all of our vessels have completed their five-year mandatory class special surveys and dry docks while at the same time, they are gradually transitioning into their previously entered into long-term contracts. In October, the Lena River completed its dry dock and subsequently entered its interim prime charter with a U.S. energy producer pending for delivery to the Yamal contract next year.
Following the completion of the Lena River special survey and dry dock in October, the partnership has no scheduled dry docks until 2022. Moving onto Slide 5, for the quarter our distributable cash flow available to common unitholders after payments preferred unitholders amounted to $5.8 million, and we paid $8.9 million in cash distribution to our common unitholders, resulting in a distribution coverage ratio of 0.66 times. For the quarter, we had cash coverage ratio of one time with cash coverage representing adjusted EBITDA less interest, loan principal and preferred equity dividends, divided by actual distributions to common unitholders. As previously advised, our distribution coverage was expected to be — need to be below one time with the current distribution being partly funded by cash on hand.
Moving on to Slide 6, there is a high level of visibility and predictability in our future cash flow generating capacity, given that all of our LNG carriers are employed in long-term contracts with an average contract duration of approximately 10 years. Our simplified debt structure is composed of $474 million Term Loan B, which is amortizing annually by $4.8 million and which are the floating interest rates, and $250 million unsecured notes, which mature in October 30, 2019 and which we expect to refinance in advance of their maturity. Our capital structure also consists of $130 million in preferred equity consisting over 9%, $75 million Series A preferred, and our 8.75%, $55 million Series B preferred issued last month. At the end of the quarter, we had liquidity of $89.5 million and the net debt to last 12 months EBITDA of 6.6 times.
Our net debt to total capitalization amounts to 62% pro forma or $55 million preferred equity issuance, which is an improvement in the previous quarter. With respect to the refinancing of our $250 million unsecured notes, we are exploring a number of alternatives and are keeping all of our options open. As part of this exercise, we are currently performing a strategic review, which will also encompass our financial objectives with respect to improving our financial credit profile, our liquidity, and growth prospects. Moving on to Slide 7, our fleet currently counts six high specification and versatile LNG carriers with an average age of about 8.3 years in an industry where expected useful economic lifetime is 35 years.
Our long-term contracts with Gazprom, Equinor, and Yamal LNG, a joint venture between Total, CNPC, Novatek, and the Silk Road Fund serve well-established LNG export projects in icebound areas. Our clients have entered into long-term offtake agreements with LNG users, and our vessels are vital to their efforts to monetize their production of natural gas. Our $1.4 billion in remaining contracted revenue and over 10 years of average remaining contract life provides the partnership to the benefit to stable cash flows and high utilization rates. Our contract backlog amounts to $230 million per vessel, which is best in class on a per vessel basis versus our peers.
Our fleet is fully contracted through 2020 and 92% contracted in 2021 assuming that Equinor does not exercise its option to expand the Arctic Aurora contract. Beyond 2021, 80% of our fleet is contracted until 2026 in which one charter expires. Thereafter, we have two charter expires 2028 and two in 2034. Moving on to Slide 8, the drivers for our long-term charters were the unique characteristics of our high specification fleet, including their Ice Class capabilities and our managers' track record.
Our fleet is able to operate across the globe, including in icebound areas and under the harshest weather conditions. This means that we are able to and have been successful in pursuing business opportunities in two different markets, mainly the conventional shipping and the unique market for icebound trades. Moving on to Slide 9, the partnership together with our sponsor has a market share of 80% for vessels with Arc-4 or equivalent Ice Class notations. We have hugely ability to trading in icebound areas as an important advantage due to the current and ongoing construction of LNG production terminals within icebound areas, and in particular, the Northern Sea route where Yamal LNG has recently commenced production.
We also expect further projects to be developed in that region. The initial capital expenditure from an Ice Class vessel is somewhat more expensive than conventional carriers. However, the operating costs between our Ice Class type carriers and conventional carriers are very similar. We also expect further projects to be developed in that region.
We view the ability to perform niche operations as an important driver in securing attractive long-term charters going forward. We have inserted an industry slide in the presentation as an appendix. Since Tony Lauritzen, unfortunately, cannot be on this call, we have now reached the end of this presentation and I now open the floor to questions.
Thank you. [Operator instructions] Thank you. We will now take our first question. Please go ahead.
Your line is open.
Randy Giveans — Jefferies — Analyst
This is Randy Giveans at Jefferies. Am I connected here?
Yes, hi.
Great. All right. There's a little pause there. So I guess a few quick questions.
So regarding the Lena River, does the current contract go all the way through until the multiyear contract at the Yamal starts? And what kind of ranges that until then, like is there any all-time between the end of the current contract and the start of the Yamal?
That's right. The contract that goes up till the moment that the Yamal charter is expected to commence, in July of next year, given that we understand that the Yamal meet the Lena River as soon as possible. So we don't expect any significant downtime between the two contracts.
Perfect. OK. And then with that, what is the kind of rate of the current one?
Well, I can't disclose the rate. I mean that the rate is lower than what — than the rate that she was trading in under the Gazprom contract. All I can say is that this picture was done at the very early stages before the LNG spot market took over.
OK. That's fair. Now are you seeing any spot rate differential? Or how much is the spread for a steam versus kind of the DFDE vessel?
Well, because all of our vessels — all of our vessels are employed, we — and are trading under long-term contracts, we don't have any spot exposure, so any of the information that we have is not enough first-hand information. But we have seen steam turbines earning $100,000 a day in the spot market, and very modern ex-Viet maybe type vessels earning double that.
Right. OK.
That's what we have seen others doing. But because we're fully contracted, we don't have this stock exposure.
Sure. Just trying to get a read there for the market. I guess two more quick questions. Now with the capital that you have, is an additional dropdown, maybe the Clean Ocean or another vessel likely in the next three to six months?
I think our immediate focus is the refinancing of our notes. That's our immediate focus, so I can't really comment on when exactly we're going to do a dropdown.
OK. And I guess lastly, is there any — with the whole $250 million kind of still outstanding for refinancing that, but obviously all of your vessels, like you said fully contracted for many years. Is there any concerns, fears, questions about the current level of the distribution?
Well, listen, I mean, I can only give you a general answer here. I mean, we are reviewing how to maximize value going forward. As I said, the refinancing of our notes is a high priority, but we also are concerned that we're getting a little to no credit for the current distribution. And our current equity yield has kind of hindered our ability to grow, so we will be looking at how distribution can be used to improve the equity value over time.
OK. What about unit repurchases with that current yield of 14%?
Well, unit repurchases, when we have, as I said, when we have a bond to refinance. They're not exactly on the top of our list right now. As I said, our top priority is to refinance the bonds. And given our contract coverage, we are in a very fortunate position.
We are in a very strong position. Our ships have fixed-rate contract, our operating expenses are predictable, so we know more or less what we expect to generate in terms of the cash on steady state basis over the next couple of years.
All right. Well, that's it for me. Thanks again.
Thank you. We will now take our next question. Please go ahead. Your line is open.
Fotis Giannakoulis — Morgan Stanley — Analyst
Yes. Hello. This is Fotis Giannakoulis from Morgan Stanley. I would like to ask you about the impact that you might have noticed in the market from the increase in the Henry Hub price the last few weeks.
I understand that you do not have vessels actively employed in the spot market, but I assume your customers, they transport cargos worldwide, if you have seen any impact on the spot trade on the one hand and if you think that this can have any implications for the producers around the world and giving new momentum to projects in Russia, given your strong relationship there?
Yes — no, Fotis, hi. We don't really have that much spot exposure, so the information that we have on the impact of the — we haven't seen — we don't have any first-hand information on what the short-term impact have been on the shipping side only by the increase of Henry Hub. Having said that, obviously, an increase in Henry Hub is being very supportive for future LNG projects, and it's definitely — it underpins the positive fundamentals of this industry.
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And do you think that projects outside of the U.S., they might have tried to take advantage of this increase? Do you see more momentum on projects like the Arctic project, the expansion in Russia? And also, Qatar has announced that they are going to bring online a large expansion in next few years. Are there any discussions right now for potentially securing tonnage with a long-term contract is something that you would be able to participate?
Definitely. On the Arctic LNG 2, that's a project, which will happen. There are a few transitions for the exports of LNG coming out of Russia. And given how the Yamal project materialized in very, very difficult circumstances, we can feel very, very confident that these projects will materialize irrespective of where Henry Hub prices are.
I mean, these are projects which will happen. And obviously, given the relationship, we would very much hope to be a part of this process to provide shipping for this project. Now as far as Qatar is concerned, obviously, Qatar is the largest producer in the world. And there are ambitions in the Russians to increase LNG production dramatically, but we haven't seen anything from our side and any shipping requirements from the Qatari side.
And I have found that your sponsor is involved in the FSRU market with new billing FSRUs. In the last couple of years that has been a market with a very little activity, if any. Has this changed? Do you see projects reaching FID and contracts being awarded? How is the situation there? What is the supply demand market in the FSRU market?
Yes. So we have FSRUs for delivery in 2021. I mean, there are projects out there which we're looking at. There is activity.
Obviously these projects, they take the long time to materialize. And we have seen — there may be a compression in the economics of these projects, and also on the period side but it's also very specific on the project-by-project basis.
And one last question, given your group's involvement across different sectors and also your focus on the LNG, I guess one of your peers was questioning the available returns on long-term LNG sipping contracts. They think that they are not very attractive buying an LNG carrier and putting it into a multiyear contract. Is this your view? Do you see that there is some return compression or some increase in the cost of capital that makes long-term charters not particularly attractive? Is there any sort of a potentially given the strengthening of the spot market trying to have a more exposure in the spot market if it's possible?
It's true. I mean, on the conventional shipping side, I mean, the deals that we have seen, the economics are not something that we would do. But — so it is true that there are very slim margins in, let's say, in the conventional LNG business, and this is why we're very active in this niche Ice Class trade where the economics are obviously much better. The spot market is very interesting.
I mean, obviously, everyone knows that the spot market is extremely strong. Obviously, we're not actively involved in this market, but — and I cannot say that we will actively get involved in this market. But all I can say that it is — we believe that at least in 2019, the spot market will continue and maybe in 2020, we will see a reversion to more normalized rates.
Thank you very much, Michael.
Thank you. Bye.
[Operator instructions] Thank you. There are currently no questions in the queue, sir.
OK. Thank you for — so that wraps it up for the third quarter call. Thank you very much. And we'll see you next quarter.
[Operator signoff]
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The judge also ordered them to, "treat each other with respect and civility" while in their son's presence.
Duane Martin and Tisha Campbell are legally divorced.
A judge decided that the actors will not pay spousal or child support to each other and they will share custody of their youngest son, Ezekiel. (Their oldest, Xen, is eighteen and lives with Campbell.) Per TMZ, they will have the child on alternating weeks.
The source obtained court documents that say Campbell is able to keep a leased property and a leased 2020 BMW. Martin is taking a Kawasaki motorcycle, a BMW scooter, a 2014 Bentley and a leased property.
During a recent sit-down with Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight, the actress said when she left her husband she was struggling financially.
"I had maybe seven dollars to my name and I was scared — it was like I was starting all over," she told the host.
"The fact that I did raise children who didn't care about the big mansion that I had or that we had to start over or any of it," she added. "Starting over is not always the easiest thing but it's the necessary thing. It's a beautiful devastation."
The divorce comes after Tisha accused her ex-husband of physical and emotional abuse, as previously reported by theGrio.
The Martin star filed for a restraining order against her ex, per TMZ, claiming that as recently as last month he flew into a violent rage towards her stating he "grabbed me by my arm to try to get me in the bedroom," after claiming their son was sick.
Campbell says she previously kept quiet in order to protect her relationship and her children. But according to court documents, the abuse had been going on since the beginning of their marriage in 1996.
"I had been emotionally, mentally and physically abused," read the affidavit. "I kept things hidden from my family, his family, our friends and the public, save a few very close friends and people who may have witnessed, over the past two decades, filing it away in the back of my mind to protect my family, the community and the public's persona of my spouse."
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UK dementia rates have fallen sharply in men
"Dementia rate falls as men behave themselves," The Times reports. A UK study of dementia trends over the last 20 years suggests that the number of men developing the condition has dropped significantly, possibly as a result of lifestyle changes.
The study showed an unexpectedly large fall in the number of people in the UK aged over 65 with signs of dementia between two time periods – 1989-94 and 2008-11.
There was a dramatic decrease in rates of dementia among older men, which almost halved for those aged 80 and over. Although rates for women also fell, the changes were much smaller. It is unclear why a similar strong trend was not seen in women.
Both the authors and the media speculate that positive trends in men's health – such as reduced smoking levels, improved diets, and more men taking regular exercise – could be responsible for the falling rates. While these are certainly plausible suggestions, they are unproven.
However, there is a strong body of evidence that healthy living – such as not smoking, keeping to a healthy weight, and taking regular exercise– does reduce the chances of getting dementia, although it is still no guarantee.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from Newcastle University and Cambridge University, and was funded by the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research.
It was published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications on an open access basis, so it is free to read online.
The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and the Sun all go with the angle that "new men", as the Telegraph quaintly calls them, are healthier, so less likely to get dementia.
The Times, somewhat patronisingly, echoes this with the claim that these days, "men behave themselves".
The Guardian and BBC News are more cautious, saying that the "most likely explanation" is improvements in male health.
What kind of research was this?
This was a combination of two cohort studies. Both studies had two phases: a baseline, when people were interviewed and their mental health assessed, and another two years later, when the interviews were repeated.
The studies aimed to discover the proportion of people who got dementia during the two-year time period between interviews.
Researchers wanted to see if this number – called incidence – had changed. Cohort studies can find information like this, but they can't tell us much about the reasons behind the results.
What did the research involve?
Researchers replicated a study first carried out with 7,635 people aged over 65 between 1989 and 1994 from sites around the UK.
They then used the same questions to assess the mental health of a group of 7,762 people between 2008 and 2011 from three of the areas originally studied.
In both studies, people were assessed once, then again two years later, to see if they had developed dementia. This allowed researchers to calculate the incidence of dementia, or the number of new cases per 1,000 people. They looked to see whether the incidence had changed in the two decades since the early 90s.
The researchers checked their figures for factors that could have affected the results – for example, whether people who didn't respond to the original request to be interviewed were more likely to have dementia already – and also assessed the impact of where people lived.
The original study was done in several stages, meaning that more people dropped out between interviews, so the researchers tried to account for any effect of that.
They decided to use the same criteria for diagnosing someone with dementia that were used in the first study, even though the criteria for diagnosing dementia had changed since then. They said this was important to keep the results consistent.
Finally, they calculated incidence rates for people by age range and sex.
What were the basic results?
Incidence rates overall dropped from 20 cases of dementia for every 1,000 people in the early 1990s (95% confidence interval [CI] 16.9 to 23.8), to 17.7 cases per 1,000 (95% CI 15.2 to 20.9) in the more recent study.
However, looking at figures for men and women separately, the most dramatic drops in incidence were among older men. Rates almost halved for men aged 85 or over, from 71 in 1,000 (95% CI 36.5 to 140.2) to 38 in 1,000 (95% CI 22.5 to 64.2).
Rates for women declined a little in each age range, except among those aged 80 to 84, where they rose a little.
The researchers calculated how many people you would expect to get dementia each year in the UK, based on the 1991 rates but with an increased elderly population, and came up with a figure of 251,000 new cases a year. Based on the newer incidence figures, however, that dropped to 209,600 new cases of dementia a year.
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers said their findings suggest that fears of "huge increases of people with dementia" in the future may be wrong. However, they warn this might only apply to parts of the world where health has improved.
They say future investment should be directed at improving health across the whole of the life course, so that people have good circulation, plenty of opportunities to engage in society, and good education. They say this may be more cost effective than strategies to diagnose dementia early.
They questioned whether "earlier and earlier identification of at-risk states" is helpful, saying that their findings of reductions in dementia "will be offset within services by the concept of 'early' detection" and changes in diagnostic criteria.
"Individuals who were previously not diagnosed with dementia or cognitive impairment are now being tested and referred for specialist assessment of ever milder stages with unknown prognostic significance," they said.
The figures from this study are striking, particularly the drop in the incidence of dementia in older men. However, we don't know what is behind this dramatic drop.
While it would be great to think that it's because men in their 80s are smoking less, exercising more and generally living healthier lives, we don't know whether this is true or if it can completely account for the big drop in dementia rates.
It's possible that the figures for men aged 80 and over are less reliable than those for younger age groups, as there were fewer men of this age interviewed.
For example, only 205 men aged over 85 were interviewed at baseline in 1991, with 110 interviewed at follow-up. The numbers for the second cohort were 364 men interviewed in 2008, with 193 interviewed at follow-up.
These small numbers are reflected in the large confidence intervals for these results. The smaller the numbers in a specific group, the greater the chance that any perceived effect is, in fact, the result of chance.
The researchers' decision to use the 1991 study criteria for deciding whether someone had dementia has been criticised by one expert, Dr Sujoy Mukherjee, consultant psychiatrist at West London Mental Health Trust and a member of the Dementia Strategic Clinical Network.
Diagnostic criteria have changed, and people who were not diagnosed with dementia in 1991 might be seen as having dementia today. Dr Mukherjee says this could undermine the findings. But using modern criteria would have made it difficult to do a direct comparison between the two time periods.
Although it's right to be cautious about the study results and their interpretation, that doesn't change what we already know about how to reduce the risk of dementia. Keeping active, having a healthy social life, and being a healthy weight are all good ways to protect the brain in later life.
This article was originally published by NHS Choices
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Southeast project will honor veterans; completion set for May
By Marybeth Niederkorn ~ Southeast Missourian
This artist's rendering shows the planned Veterans' Plaza behind Academic Hall on Southeast Missouri State University's campus in Cape Girardeau.
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A project to honor veterans on Southeast Missouri State University's campus is nearing fruition, a university official said last week.
Trudy Lee, interim vice president for University Advancement and executive director of the University Foundation, said the project was first conceived about two years ago, and has gained momentum in recent months.
"We are hoping to have it dedicated May 1, 2020," Lee said, adding that the plan is to break ground in January, weather permitting.
The Veterans' Plaza will be behind Academic Hall, facing the parking lot, toward Memorial Hall, Lee said, and will be paved with engraved bricks memorializing a veteran, whether a Southeast graduate or not.
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The plaza will be similar to Freedom Corner at Broadway and West End Boulevard in Cape Girardeau, Lee said, in that it will have flagpoles for the United States flag, POW/MIA flag and Missouri state flag.
A flag to honor each branch will fly as well, Lee said. Bricks are available in multiple sizes at impact.semo.edu/campaigns/veteransplaza.
Lee said some donors have provided matching funds, allowing Southeast students to purchase bricks for half price to commemorate their own service.
"We have a lot of military families and veterans and active duty military studying here," Lee said. "We want them to have the opportunity to be represented as well."
To assure the bricks are ordered in time for the May dedication, Lee said, orders are being taken through Jan. 16, "but we'll continue to add bricks in the future."
The project will be ongoing, as is the alumni heritage plaza near the Alumni Center, Lee said.
"This has been a labor of love for a number of our veteran alums," Lee said, adding that alumni who studied in the 1960s and '70s were involved in the original Veteran Corps. "Several of those alumni came together in this process to be and create a visual representation of the university's commitment to a special group of people who have served our country so honorably. That's why this is such an important project," Lee said.
As of Tuesday morning, the project had raised $55,000 of the $100,000 goal.
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Outstanding !!! Salute !
-- Posted by Thomas Meyer on Wed, Dec 25, 2019, at 5:55 PM
Tom Meyer deserves much credit for championing this project on behalf of all the veterans....nice to see it coming to fruition!
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TPP's Benefits Less Than a Quarter of Government's Claim
Wednesday, 5 February 2014, 12:49 pm
Press Release: Sustainability Council of New Zealand
The TPP's economic benefits are less than a quarter of those the government has claimed - and the proposed trade deal would impose serious costs.
The government has repeatedly used estimates from a team of US economists to justify the Trans Pacific Partnership. This team put the economic gains for New Zealand at US$4.5 billion for 2025 (around NZ$5.5 billion) in their latest study for the Peterson Institute.
A detailed review of that study led by Dr Geoff Bertram concludes that a third of the stated benefits should not be counted at all as they are outside established economic theory. The Sustainability Council review also concludes that only a minor part of the remaining gains are justified. The total benefits likely to be available are less than a quarter of the US$4.1 billion of gains Trade Minister Tim Groser told Parliament would result for New Zealand from the TPP. *
In exchange for a small gain in relative terms, New Zealand is being asked to sign away large slabs of its sovereignty. The TPP bundles the small gains from trade with a wide range of non-trade matters that will set privileges for foreign investors. These would impose serious costs in the form of limitations on a government's ability to protect the public interest.
The most potent element is investor state dispute settlement (ISDS) rights that would allow foreign investors to file a suit against a government in an offshore tribunal if they believed that new regulations would diminish their expected future profits.
ISDS provisions and other TPP proposals that similarly inhibit or prohibit the government from regulating in the public interest are entirely separable from those required to secure gains from trade. But the US insists on bundling them with standard trade gains in order to lock in the US designed template for "a managed trade regime that puts corporate interests first", as Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz describes it.
More than any previous trade deal, it matters what gains are really available and whether these exceed costs. On the information publicly available, it is doubtful there is a net benefit for New Zealanders from the TPP.
Our conclusion that the gains have been far overstated is consistent with the Australian Productivity Commission's view that modelling such as that used in the Peterson study "produce[s] overly optimistic expectations of the likely economic effects".
* The Sustainability Council's review is titled: Economic Gains and Costs from the TPP. Groser's written answer estimated the total income gains for 2025 at US$4.1 billion as he was relying on a variation of the modelling work undertaken by the same team of economists.
Find more from Sustainability Council of New Zealand on InfoPages.


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import pytest
import pybind11_tests
from pybind11_tests import ConstructorStats

def test_override(capture, msg):
    from pybind11_tests import (ExampleVirt, runExampleVirt, runExampleVirtVirtual,
                                runExampleVirtBool)

    class ExtendedExampleVirt(ExampleVirt):
        def __init__(self, state):
            super(ExtendedExampleVirt, self).__init__(state + 1)
            self.data = "Hello world"

        def run(self, value):
            print('ExtendedExampleVirt::run(%i), calling parent..' % value)
            return super(ExtendedExampleVirt, self).run(value + 1)

        def run_bool(self):
            print('ExtendedExampleVirt::run_bool()')
            return False

        def get_string1(self):
            return "override1"

        def pure_virtual(self):
            print('ExtendedExampleVirt::pure_virtual(): %s' % self.data)

    class ExtendedExampleVirt2(ExtendedExampleVirt):
        def __init__(self, state):
            super(ExtendedExampleVirt2, self).__init__(state + 1)

        def get_string2(self):
            return "override2"

    ex12 = ExampleVirt(10)
    with capture:
        assert runExampleVirt(ex12, 20) == 30
    assert capture == """
        Original implementation of ExampleVirt::run(state=10, value=20, str1=default1, str2=default2)
    """  # noqa: E501 line too long

    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError) as excinfo:
        runExampleVirtVirtual(ex12)
    assert msg(excinfo.value) == 'Tried to call pure virtual function "ExampleVirt::pure_virtual"'

    ex12p = ExtendedExampleVirt(10)
    with capture:
        assert runExampleVirt(ex12p, 20) == 32
    assert capture == """
        ExtendedExampleVirt::run(20), calling parent..
        Original implementation of ExampleVirt::run(state=11, value=21, str1=override1, str2=default2)
    """  # noqa: E501 line too long
    with capture:
        assert runExampleVirtBool(ex12p) is False
    assert capture == "ExtendedExampleVirt::run_bool()"
    with capture:
        runExampleVirtVirtual(ex12p)
    assert capture == "ExtendedExampleVirt::pure_virtual(): Hello world"

    ex12p2 = ExtendedExampleVirt2(15)
    with capture:
        assert runExampleVirt(ex12p2, 50) == 68
    assert capture == """
        ExtendedExampleVirt::run(50), calling parent..
        Original implementation of ExampleVirt::run(state=17, value=51, str1=override1, str2=override2)
    """  # noqa: E501 line too long

    cstats = ConstructorStats.get(ExampleVirt)
    assert cstats.alive() == 3
    del ex12, ex12p, ex12p2
    assert cstats.alive() == 0
    assert cstats.values() == ['10', '11', '17']
    assert cstats.copy_constructions == 0
    assert cstats.move_constructions >= 0

def test_inheriting_repeat():
    from pybind11_tests import A_Repeat, B_Repeat, C_Repeat, D_Repeat, A_Tpl, B_Tpl, C_Tpl, D_Tpl

    class AR(A_Repeat):
        def unlucky_number(self):
            return 99

    class AT(A_Tpl):
        def unlucky_number(self):
            return 999

    obj = AR()
    assert obj.say_something(3) == "hihihi"
    assert obj.unlucky_number() == 99
    assert obj.say_everything() == "hi 99"

    obj = AT()
    assert obj.say_something(3) == "hihihi"
    assert obj.unlucky_number() == 999
    assert obj.say_everything() == "hi 999"

    for obj in [B_Repeat(), B_Tpl()]:
        assert obj.say_something(3) == "B says hi 3 times"
        assert obj.unlucky_number() == 13
        assert obj.lucky_number() == 7.0
        assert obj.say_everything() == "B says hi 1 times 13"

    for obj in [C_Repeat(), C_Tpl()]:
        assert obj.say_something(3) == "B says hi 3 times"
        assert obj.unlucky_number() == 4444
        assert obj.lucky_number() == 888.0
        assert obj.say_everything() == "B says hi 1 times 4444"

    class CR(C_Repeat):
        def lucky_number(self):
            return C_Repeat.lucky_number(self) + 1.25

    obj = CR()
    assert obj.say_something(3) == "B says hi 3 times"
    assert obj.unlucky_number() == 4444
    assert obj.lucky_number() == 889.25
    assert obj.say_everything() == "B says hi 1 times 4444"

    class CT(C_Tpl):
        pass

    obj = CT()
    assert obj.say_something(3) == "B says hi 3 times"
    assert obj.unlucky_number() == 4444
    assert obj.lucky_number() == 888.0
    assert obj.say_everything() == "B says hi 1 times 4444"

    class CCR(CR):
        def lucky_number(self):
            return CR.lucky_number(self) * 10

    obj = CCR()
    assert obj.say_something(3) == "B says hi 3 times"
    assert obj.unlucky_number() == 4444
    assert obj.lucky_number() == 8892.5
    assert obj.say_everything() == "B says hi 1 times 4444"

    class CCT(CT):
        def lucky_number(self):
            return CT.lucky_number(self) * 1000

    obj = CCT()
    assert obj.say_something(3) == "B says hi 3 times"
    assert obj.unlucky_number() == 4444
    assert obj.lucky_number() == 888000.0
    assert obj.say_everything() == "B says hi 1 times 4444"

    class DR(D_Repeat):
        def unlucky_number(self):
            return 123

        def lucky_number(self):
            return 42.0

    for obj in [D_Repeat(), D_Tpl()]:
        assert obj.say_something(3) == "B says hi 3 times"
        assert obj.unlucky_number() == 4444
        assert obj.lucky_number() == 888.0
        assert obj.say_everything() == "B says hi 1 times 4444"

    obj = DR()
    assert obj.say_something(3) == "B says hi 3 times"
    assert obj.unlucky_number() == 123
    assert obj.lucky_number() == 42.0
    assert obj.say_everything() == "B says hi 1 times 123"

    class DT(D_Tpl):
        def say_something(self, times):
            return "DT says:" + (' quack' * times)

        def unlucky_number(self):
            return 1234

        def lucky_number(self):
            return -4.25

    obj = DT()
    assert obj.say_something(3) == "DT says: quack quack quack"
    assert obj.unlucky_number() == 1234
    assert obj.lucky_number() == -4.25
    assert obj.say_everything() == "DT says: quack 1234"

    class DT2(DT):
        def say_something(self, times):
            return "DT2: " + ('QUACK' * times)

        def unlucky_number(self):
            return -3

    class BT(B_Tpl):
        def say_something(self, times):
            return "BT" * times

        def unlucky_number(self):
            return -7

        def lucky_number(self):
            return -1.375

    obj = BT()
    assert obj.say_something(3) == "BTBTBT"
    assert obj.unlucky_number() == -7
    assert obj.lucky_number() == -1.375
    assert obj.say_everything() == "BT -7"

@pytest.mark.skipif(not hasattr(pybind11_tests, 'NCVirt'),
                    reason="NCVirt test broken on ICPC")
def test_move_support():
    from pybind11_tests import NCVirt, NonCopyable, Movable

    class NCVirtExt(NCVirt):
        def get_noncopyable(self, a, b):
            # Constructs and returns a new instance:
            nc = NonCopyable(a * a, b * b)
            return nc

        def get_movable(self, a, b):
            # Return a referenced copy
            self.movable = Movable(a, b)
            return self.movable

    class NCVirtExt2(NCVirt):
        def get_noncopyable(self, a, b):
            # Keep a reference: this is going to throw an exception
            self.nc = NonCopyable(a, b)
            return self.nc

        def get_movable(self, a, b):
            # Return a new instance without storing it
            return Movable(a, b)

    ncv1 = NCVirtExt()
    assert ncv1.print_nc(2, 3) == "36"
    assert ncv1.print_movable(4, 5) == "9"
    ncv2 = NCVirtExt2()
    assert ncv2.print_movable(7, 7) == "14"
    # Don't check the exception message here because it differs under debug/non-debug mode
    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
        ncv2.print_nc(9, 9)

    nc_stats = ConstructorStats.get(NonCopyable)
    mv_stats = ConstructorStats.get(Movable)
    assert nc_stats.alive() == 1
    assert mv_stats.alive() == 1
    del ncv1, ncv2
    assert nc_stats.alive() == 0
    assert mv_stats.alive() == 0
    assert nc_stats.values() == ['4', '9', '9', '9']
    assert mv_stats.values() == ['4', '5', '7', '7']
    assert nc_stats.copy_constructions == 0
    assert mv_stats.copy_constructions == 1
    assert nc_stats.move_constructions >= 0
    assert mv_stats.move_constructions >= 0

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Frans Uyttenhove (Gent, 7 februari 1874 - 22 december 1923) was een Belgisch componist, organist, violist en leraar.

Levensloop
Uyttenhove studeerde notenleer, viool, harmonie, contrapunt en compositie aan het Conservatorium van Gent. Orgel en piano leerde hij door zelfstudie.

Hij verwierf een uitstekende reputatie als pianist en organist, in het bijzonder als improvisator.  In 1894 werd hij organist van de Sint-Jacobskerk in Gent. Hij werd ook organist bij de jezuïeten en speelde op het orgel in het stadhuis.

Met zijn elf kinderen moest Uyttenhove hard werken om zijn gezin te onderhouden. Daarom nam hij veel gelegenheidsopdrachten aan en trad hij regelmatig op als begeleider in de opera en als pianist in bioscopen. Hij gaf ook muziekles bij de Broeders van de Christelijke Scholen en leidde het koor van de Rederijkerskamer Marien-Theeren. Dit alles belette niet dat hij een productief componist was.

Composities
 Mis, driestemmig, bekroond door het Gentse Huis Moermans, 1891
 Ave Maris Stella, voor a-capellamannenkoor
 Het lijden van Kristus, drama, 1896
 Aan de Leie, symfonisch gedicht voor viool en orkest
Marche triomphale, voor de 75ste verjaardag van de Belgische onafhankelijkheid
 Gerda, muzikaal sprookje in één bedrijf
 Walda, lyrisch drama
 Marieken van Nijmegen, zangspel in drie bedrijven
 Contemplation, voor viool en orkest
 L'Enéïde, symfonische ouverture
 Stabat Mater, cantate geschreven als plichtwerk voor een koorwedstrijd van de Melomanen
 Oostacker-cantate
 Heel wat liederen, waaronder Moederke alleen, bekend lied op tekst van R. Declercq

Literatuur
 J. DOULIEZ, Pieter Franz Uyttenhove, in: Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, Deel 7, Brussel, 1977
 Flavie ROQUET, Lexicon van Vlaamse componisten geboren na 1800'', Roeselare, 2007
 Componistendossier van Franz Uyttenhove op SVM

Belgisch componist
Belgisch organist
Belgisch muziekpedagoog
Belgisch pianist

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So as a 41 year old male standing 5 feet 9 inches and weighing 220 pounds (I weighed about 180 in college, always been fairly stocky genetically but even I am not immune to desiring all the Hollywood actors incredible physiques my age or older), I calculated my BMR or Basal Metabolic Rate on line.
Once you know this, you can calculate how much of a calorie deficit you need to lose weight daily. For example, my BMR is guesstimates that if I lie in bed all day and do nothing, I burn 2441 calories to maintain my weight. Frankly that sounds high because I have been eating rather healthy (no sweets, pizza, french fries, etc) but have lost no weight in months (since I started paying attention at age 40).
Knowing that one pound of fat is 3500 calories, if I cut my calorie intake by 500 calories daily (or burn 500 more calories daily exercising), I should lose one pound a week if my diet remains unchanged. Alternatively, I reduce my calorie intake by 500 calories daily and should get the same result.
Note that after age 30, our metabolic rate slows by about 5-10 percent per decade (it feels like a lot slower personally so I'm with you if you are middle age and been eating and exercising on some level and not losing weight as you did in your 20s or 30s).
I plan on going to the gym for mostly weight lifting which I enjoy at least 15 minutes daily, cutting my daily calories by 500, and am currently trialing two medicines with data showing they promote weight loss, bupropion/naltrexone (Belviq) and will soon be adding on toprimate (Topamax).
If anybody is reading this and wants to know how I am doing–or has any advice–I am all ears.
If I write a part 3 to this segment of my blog, I will research anti-aging medicine supplements to promote muscle mass and fat loss.


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Q: Are the regular sequences of length $n$ one-to-one with the non-decreasing "complete" sequences of positive integers of length $n$? Are the regular sequences of length $n$ one-to-one with the non-decreasing "complete" sequences of positive integers of length $n$?
I confirmed by hand that the number of sequences $(S_i)_{i=1}^n$ with $S_1=1$ and $S_i\leq S_{i+1}\leq1+S_1+S_2+\cdots+S_i$ for all $i\in[1,n)$ equals $A003513(n)$ for $n=1\ldots5$. Is this true in general? I am far from understanding the definition of a regular sequence, presuming the type referred to in Sloane's A003513 is this one.

A: It appears from this abstract that regular sequences in this context are "nondecreasing sequences of positive integers that start with two $1$'s and have the property that each subsequent term is a partial sum of preceding terms."
Clearly each regular sequence corresponds to a "complete" sequence as defined above preceded by a $1$, thus the number of length $n+1$ "complete" sequences is $A003513(n)$.

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Lee Su-jin (born 1977) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His first feature was the award-winning Han Gong-ju (2014).

Career
Lee Su-jin was born in Gimcheon in 1977. He began his filmmaking career directing short films, notably Papa (2004) which received a Korean Film Archive Award at the 30th Seoul Independent Film Festival, and Enemy's Apple (2007) which won Best Film in the A City of Sadness section of the 7th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival.

Lee made his feature film directorial debut with Han Gong-ju, which he also wrote and produced. It premiered at the 18th Busan International Film Festival in 2013, where it received the CGV Movie Collage Award and the Citizen Reviewer's Award. Based on the infamous Miryang gang rape case in 2004, the film follows a traumatized, withdrawn teenage girl who is forced to change schools and move to a remote city after a horrific incident, who then attempts to rebuild her life and connect with others through music. Despite the subject, Lee said he "decided to focus more on the life of the victim after the crime rather than the crime itself" and that he "wanted to make a film about how a girl struggles to not let go of her hope" in order "to give courage to all the Han Gong-jus in the world who find themselves in the same situation." He said he cast breakout star Chun Woo-hee in the title role because he was struck by her sensitivity and intelligence, and "that she has a face that makes her look familiar." Han Gong-ju went on to more acclaim in the international film festival circuit, winning top prizes such as the Golden Star (Étoile d'or) at the 13th Marrakech International Film Festival, the Tiger Award at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Grand Prize (Regard d'or) at the 28th Fribourg International Film Festival, as well as the Jury Prize, Critics' Prize and Audience Award at the 16th Deauville Asian Film Festival. In 2014, Han Gong-ju was released on 226 screens in South Korea and drew 225,580 admissions, making it one of the most commercially successful Korean low-budget independent films. It received multiple domestic awards, including Best Film at the 6th KOFRA Film Awards and Grand Prize at the 2nd Wildflower Film Awards. Lee also won Best Independent Film Director at the 14th Director's Cut Awards, Best Screenplay at the 34th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards and Best New Director at the 35th Blue Dragon Film Awards.

Filmography
I Go I (short film, 2002) - director, screenwriter
Lipstick (short film, 2003) - director, screenwriter
Papa (short film, 2004) - director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor
Son's (short film, 2006) - director, screenwriter
Sundays in August (2006) - assistant director, extra
Enemy's Apple (short film, 2007) - director, screenwriter
Happiness (2007) - directing department
Han Gong-ju (2014) - director, screenwriter, producer
Idol (2019) - director, screenwriter

Awards
2015 16th Jeonju International Film Festival: Moet&Chandon Rising Star Award (Han Gong-ju)
2014 14th Director's Cut Awards: Best Independent Film Director (Han Gong-ju)
2014 34th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards: Best Screenplay (Han Gong-ju)
2014 35th Blue Dragon Film Awards: Best New Director (Han Gong-ju)

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1977 births
Living people
People from Gimcheon
South Korean film directors
South Korean screenwriters


As for the judges ruling of me: denying the achievements of science in terms of evolution of species.
This website information has since changed from full neurologically developed to fully anatomically and behaviourally developed humans.
A theory that humans are "nothing". That life is nothing. No consequences of actions and that everything will end in nothing. Void, meaningless, empty, hollow and insignificant. But at least humans are "fully neurologically developed"!
The big bang explosion theory, of everything being by chance, is baseless. If you cause an explosion on a plot you will not get a furnished, well stocked, pristinely organised house. Not even if you place the cement next to the bomb – compared to carbon for the earth.
Gene mutations simulated by heat, chemicals and radiation have usually been found to be harmful mutation.
The double helix structure of DNA discovered in 1953 gave hope to evolutionists that it would show the evolution of molecules. What it has shown is that each gene is a section of a long DNA molecule and is stable for thousands of years.
Because complexity of the DNA helix and the micro-biochemical machines within each cell which are programmed with different functions to replicate an exact copy of the DNA molecule, many Biochemists recognise that this is too complicated to just have happened by spontaneous evolution.
The protein's amino acid sequences is impossible to arrange in any sort of evolutionary series.
Biochemistry attempts made to use molecular clocks to calculate how long ago species branched off their common ancestor have been found to be questionable as their molecular clocks run at different rates.
Mathematics: Some of the laws of genetics and chemistry can be shown as equations. Using these formulae mathematicians calculate that 100 billion years is not enough time for a single cell to develop on earth.
Geology: In radiometric dating assumptions has to be made. The rate of decay has to remain constant through time which is generally excepted to be the case, but cannot be proven.
The sample being tested had to have remained in a closed system. The earth is not a closed system. For example, two rock samples were taken from Hawaiian Volcano lava in 1800 &1801 known to be 200 years old, but were dated 140 million to 2.96 billion years.
Perfection in creation baffles, intrigues and astounds even the most learned of scientist. Every aspect of God's creation, so well thought out, planned and interwoven to the finest detail that advanced technology is based on these features, characteristics and substances of God's creation. Every snow laden picturesque mountain; flamencos' taking off over a lake in Africa; a school of dolphins jumping in the ocean; the peaceful silence of a desert; the immenseness of the ocean. These are scenes of a Mastermind Creator no one can recreate, but can only emulate or use as inspiration for inventions.
No rain means drought. Plants, animals and people died. Concentrated dinosaur fossils suggests mass deaths occurred due to a drought.
Genesis 2:5 …and there was not a man to till the ground.
Nobody that had been created was given the order to till the ground.
Genesis 2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth that watered the whole face of the ground.
God created another man and breathed His own breath into this man, who, as a result, now had a living soul.
Genesis 2:15 …and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
During this creation, God made man first, then beasts and then a woman.
Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam…Genesis 2:20 … but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Genesis 2: 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman… Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Eve confessed eating of the forbidden tree. Being enticed, lured and deceived, by the "talking snake". Adam also ate, confessing this. They lost their perfection and purity.
Genesis 4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Genesis 4:15 …And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
Cain could still see the LORD. He was complaining that he will not see him anymore. Some people, who survived the first draught, still lived and Cain feared them.
Cain's wife was from the land Nod.
Genesis 4:26 …then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
In Genesis 5, God gives the generations of Adam to Noah and Noah's sons.
Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughter of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Noah, perfect in his generations, was a direct decedent from Adam.
Genesis 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. Genesis 7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle and creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth; and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
The tribes of Israel were God's children by their bloodline. Constant referrals are made to bloodlines in the Bible. These are given to prove "perfect" blood lineage.
Through Jesus Christ, of "perfect" blood lineage, change was made for salvation from blood lineage to salvation for those believing in Jesus Christ. Hence from then on, blood lineage became unimportant.
John 1:12-13 But to many as received him,to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.


Here are a bunch of easy leftover ham recipes to use after the holidays. How to use your diced ham after Easter, Thanksgiving or Christmas. Thrown into hearty soups, a breakfast casserole, or other meals your entire family will enjoy.
Are you sick of sandwiches and ready to try other leftover ham recipes now?
We've got lots of suggestions like our slow cooker ham and beans that cooks all day. Or try ham and cheese roll ups that can be thrown together in no time for dinner! Your Christmas ham has endless possibilities for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
If you love leftover ham soups we have a bunch of those too. They're probably my favorite.
These savory breakfast muffins are perfect bites.
Baked macaroni & cheese with ham from Who Needs a Cape!
Major Hoff Takes A Wife makes cheesy ham & potato pie with her leftover ham!
Just Us Four has a killer ham and swiss cheese rollup lasagna recipe.
She also made a great looking ham and vegetable quinoa dish to try.
Our asparagus casserole recipe is yummy with leftover ham.
Here is one for cheesy ham rollups that is easy! Just use Pillsbury crescent sheet, ham, swiss cheese, and put a bit of dill into mayo. to swipe on. Then bake as directed on the crescent roll wrapper! You can also use crescent rolls and a muffin pan to make Leftover ham turnovers!
Here's tortellini alfredo with ham and peas to try from Cupcake Diaries.
Here's some cheesy scalloped potatoes with ham from Love Bakes Good Cakes…yum!!
A Dish of Daily Life has a yummy creamy pasta with ham and peas dish to try!
Another one from her is a ham bone soup with beans and kale soup that would be a great leftover ham recipe.
Try these broccoli, ham and cheese bake from Serena Bakes Simply from Scratch!
Here are some more great leftover ham recipes from other bloggers we love!
Here is a Scalloped potatoes and ham dish from Amy Cooking Adventures.
Cheesy brocolli rice with ham from Buns in my Oven looks amazing.
A ham and cheese quiche is always up my alley.
Loaded Baked Potato Soup we make often.
Ham and potato casserole from Oh, Sweet Basil we are going to try this year.
This Ham cobb salad from Tastes better from Damn Delicious sounds great.
Pineapple and ham kabobs from Goodness gracious would be great for the BBQ.
Ham pinwheels by Mom on Timeout would be a great appetizer or meal.
This Ham dip from Buns in my Oven looks amazing.
Take a look at our slow cooker soup recipes for more ideas.
If you have other leftover ham recipes let us know so we can add them to our list!
Hope you gathered some great ideas on how to use leftover ham this year…do you have another recipe you love?
Gotta say I actually enjoy all the dishes after Easter more than eating ham on Easter 🙂 Thank you for sharing out mac and cheese with ham, it is a family favorite!
Thanks so much for including my ham bone soup and ham and pea pasta! I'm excited to find some other great recipes to try too! Sharing!
There is always a lot of leftovers to try new recipes.
You're very welcome….just finished with a new roundup image too!


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Vice Admiral Steele was born 27 July 1924 in San Francisco, the son of the late Captain James M. Steele, U.S. Navy, a graduate of the Naval Academy Class of 1916, and one of the chief strategists on the staff of Fleet Admiral Nimitz during World War II.
He was appointed to the Naval Academy as a Midshipman and graduated with the Class of 1945 in 1944. After training at the Submarine School he was ordered to the Submarine Force, SEVENTH Fleet at Freemantle, Western Australia, joining the USS BECUNA(SS319) and making two war patrols from Subic Bay, Philippines and Freemantle in the South China and Java Seas. He served five years in the BECUNA in the Pacific and Atlantic Fleets before going to the staff of Submarine Squadron Eight as Electronics Officer. A tour of duty as Tactical Instructor followed at the Submarine School. He then served two years as Executive Officer of the then new fast attack diesel submarine USS HARDER(SS568) before (now a Lieutenant) commanding USS Hardhead (SS365) for two years.
In the Mediterranean during the British-French invasion of Egypt of 1956, Steele found himself,
by virtue of seniority, Commander Task Force 69 operating five submarines. He observed and reported the amphibious invading forces on their way into Egypt.
After brief service in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations he began twenty months training in the Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program under the direct supervision of then Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. In December 1958 he reported at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as Prospective Commanding Officer of the nuclear powered attack submarine USS SEADRAGON(SSN584) . After sea trials the following summer, SEADRAGON was commissioned on 5 December 1959 and ordered to join the Pacific Fleet after shakedown cruise. In August 1960 Commander Steele took SEADRAGON from the Atlantic to the Pacifc via the Arctic Her mission was to transit Baffin Bay and, if possible, the Canadian Archipelago via the classic Parry Channel, proceed to the North Pole conducting various scientific and military tests enroute, and thence to Pearl Harbor. That was the last of the Navy's Arctic submarine voyages of exploration and a team of scientists was embarked. In Baffin Bay SEADRAGON became the first submarine to go under icebergs doing so twenty-two times; the largest berg had a mass of over three million tons being 1470 feet wide and 879 feet long; SEADRAGON had to go her deepest to get underneath. Navigating in previously unsounded water among islands which were found to be five or more miles out of charted position, SEADRAGON located a channel for submarine passage under the ice and made a successful transit of the Parry Channel into the Arctic Ocean.
Conducting experiments and following a track never before used, she proceeded to surface at the geographical North Pole(the third submarine to do so) where the crew played softball on the ice--to demonstrate the new mastery of the area by the nuclear powered submarine. After further investigation of the Arctic Ocean basin, Seadragon proceeded via the Bering Strait to Pearl Harbor and her new fleet assignment. Along with sister ships, she pioneered the development of tactics for nuclear submarines to fight nuclear submarines. Service followed on the staff of the Deputy Commander, Submarine Force Atlantic at New London as Tactical Training Officer being required personally to examine and certify engineering personnel of all new construction nuclear powered submarines.
He was then ordered to command the new nuclear powered, ballistic missile submarine, USS DANIEL BOONE(SSBN629) under construction at the U.S. Naval Shipyard, Mare Island, at Vallejo, California.
In December 1964, as Commanding Officer, he began the first ballistic missile submarine patrol in the Pacific from Guam. After making four successful patrols, Captain Steele was detached, and then served two years in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in charge of the Europe and NATO Branch, Politico-Military Policy Division. During this tour, wanting to stop the rash of dangerous and foolish games at sea by U. S. and Soviet naval and air forces such as playing "chicken", incident to keeping an eye on each other, he proposed the agreement later signed between the U. S. Navy and the Soviet Navy designed to prevent accidents at sea and in the air, between forces of the two great powers.
Upon being selected for promotion to Rear Admiral in 1968 (the youngest naval officer to be so selected up to that date), he spent two years as Commander U. S. Naval Forces Korea;
Commander, Naval Component, United Nations Command; and Chief of the U. S. Naval Advisory Group, Korea. During this period he obtained Naval aircraft for the ROK Air Force and successfully trained the South Korean Navy and Air Force to work together at sea to stop high speed, agent carrying boats infiltrating from North Korea. Admiral Steele then commanded Anti-Submarine Warfare Group FOUR, with his flag in the USS INTREPID(CVS11 ), consisting normally of her anti-submarine air wing and four to six destroyer types, and a submarine, for eighteen months including a deployment to the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. This cruise was the last one of a U.S. aircraft carrier into the Baltic Sea and later up the Elbe River to Hamburg. Although the deployment was rated highly successful, RADM Steele recommended against further operation of anti-submarine carrier groups, believing them ineffective against nuclear powered submarines; his view prevailed.
Following a tour in Casteau, Belgium, as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Plans and Policy on the staff of the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, he was assigned in July 1973 as Commander,
U. S. SEVENTH Fleet with the rank of Vice Admiral, flying his flag in the USS OKLAHOMA CITY(CG5), homeported in Yokosuka, Japan. During his two years commanding the fleet he was required to institute the continuous presence of the major U. S. force in the Persian Gulf area necessary after the mid-east 1973 war. He began the fleet's operational and training "face about" toward Soviet Pacific forces required after long concentration on fighting the war in Viet Nam.
Under his command, the fleet conducted the evacuation of Cambodia and Viet Nam. The evacuation from Saigon in April 1975 was the biggest conducted by air in history.
While on active duty VADM Steele was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with four Gold Stars in lieu of the second through fifth Legions of Merit, and the Navy Unit Commendation(USS SEADRAGON) with Star (USS DANIEL BOONE) .
He was also awarded the Peruvian Meritorious Navy Cross, Grade of Commander; the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class; the Republic of China's Cloud and Banner, Second Class; and the Republic of Korea's Order of National Security Merit, Kuk Seon Medal.
He is the author of SEADRAGON, Northwest Under the Ice and Vengeance in the Depths(1963), and co-author of Nuclear Submarine Skippers and What They Do(1962) . He wrote numerous magazine and newspaper articles and was the first writer to propose (in the pages of the U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings) a task force consisting of a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and escorting nuclear powered ships.
Retiring in September 1975, VADM Steele joined Interocean Management Corporation (managing ocean-going vessels of various kinds) in Philadelphia, rising to Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. He became majority shareholder of the company in 1982, selling his interest and retiring in 1989.
He served for eight years as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and in 1986 was elected to serve for a year as Chairman of the Board of the American Institute of Merchant Shipping. He is a former Member of the Board of Managers, and the Management Committee, of the American Bureau of Shipping.
VICE ADMIRAL GEORGE PEABODY STEELE, USN(Ret)
CO SEADRAGON SSN 584 DEC 59- MAY 61


Body Bags (1993) | Who Killed Orrin Grey?
Last night, I finally watched Body Bags, the second-to-last movie I need to watch in order to have seen everything John Carpenter ever directed. All that's left now is Dark Star, which I'm saving to watch with my good pal Reyna Sparby, because it is her favorite movie. So who knows when that'll happen?
How was Body Bags? Well, it was a TV movie made for Showtime in 1993, if that tells you anything. Apparently it was originally intended as a Tales from the Crypt-style horror anthology TV series, which was later dropped and the three completed segments worked into an anthology film, with a wraparound segment featuring Carpenter himself as a wise-cracking coroner. The first two segments are directed by Carpenter, with the last being helmed by Tobe Hooper.
Body Bags has been called "John Carpenter at his funniest," and while that may not be true, it is pretty amusing, and Carpenter's own horror host schtick is the best part of the film, making me kind of wish that there had been a Body Bags TV show, just so I could watch the host segments. The segments are star-studded, for values of "star," including guest appearances by other horror directors of renown such as Wes Craven and Sam Raimi (playing a corpse). Of the three segments, "The Gas Station" was probably my favorite, though it also may have brought the least to the table that was new. It felt, in some ways, like a natural extension of Carpenter's work on Somebody's Watching Me!, with its serial killer juxtaposed against the lechery and weirdness that the segment's female protagonist has to put up with from just about every guy she encounters.
When all is said and done, Body Bags is more fun than actually good, and is situated firmly somewhere in the middle ground of Carpenter's roller coaster career. But if there'd been a show, I'd have watched every week, just for Carpenter hamming it up talking to corpses and drinking formaldehyde, so that's something.