(Bohol Philippines with cousins from NYC!).
OH AND LOSING WEIGHT...DUH....I'm still workin on gettin to 265!!!
JACOB!!! Jacob didn't care that the odds were against him!!! He didn't care about what was SUPPOSED to be...he was DETERMINED to get the blessing from God!!! I was thinking about how thats truley the way we need to be with the things of God!!! Sometimes we spend so much time, thinking, planning, programming, determining, trying to figure stuff out and what we REALLY need to do is just go out and GET IT!!! GO OUT AND DO IT!!!
Often times we worry sooo much about HOW to do something or WHO should do something, that the Bible says we should do, that we MISS out on actually accomplishing WHAT the Bible is telling us to do!!! Sometimes you just have to say, you know what, I don't care who is right and who is wrong, my eyes are on JESUS!!! It doesn't matter where I am or what is standing in my way, i'm gonna touch the Lord, I'm gonna go reach the lost, I'm going to do something for the Lord.
Maybe you feel like your not the right person or you wern't born into the right family, or you didn't grow up in church or your not as good as somone else, but all that doesn't matter, God's looking for your desire, for your THIRST towards the things of God, you just need reach out and get the annointing. WE need to have the heart of Jacob!!!
He was DESTINED to NOT get the blessings of God, due to his circumstances in life. But Jacob didn't care WHAT he was destined to, he made up his mind, I'm going to GET THE BLESSING!!! And when he saw an OPPORTUNITY, he reached out and grabbed it!!! Jacob's desire, CHANGED his own destiny!!!
You may have been born into an Apostolic heritage, or you may have been born in SIN!!! You may have raised in a preacher's home, or you have been raised in a broken home...NEITHER of these matter to God!!! What God is looking at is YOUR DESIRE!!!
Are you THIRSTY??? Because...THERE IS A CUP and a cup was NOT made to be looked at!!! It was NOT made to be talked about!!!! A cup is made for YOU TO DRINK FROM!!! If your thirsty stop thinking, talking, arguing, trying to be right, SHUT YOUR MOUTH, and while everyone is still discussing the issues, just go drink up the blessings of God!
It was sooooo GREAT!!! To hear SIs. Ikerd speak last night...Her and her husband were missionaries for 28 years in Africa...all different countries...South Africa, Kenya, Zimbaway...and MORE that I can't even think of !!! They labored in the fields of Africa till Bro. Ikerd's health would no longer allow him to be there any longer...AND that was pretty much when MY CHURCH became aquainted with them!!!
For I think around two years the Ikerds came and were a blessing to our church!!! We had A LOT of hard-headed people that were hard to get to pray get the Holy Ghost in the time they were with us!!! One of them Sheree Cleveland and our current youth pastor's wife, Janelle Karlson!!!
Bro. Ikerd had a quiet way of just kind of nonchalantley talking as he preached...but let me tell you something...when it was alter call time...THE HOLY GHOST FELL!!! After being with us for a while, the Ikerd's decided that they could not stay still...they HAD TO REACH MORE SOULS...and they headed out to Prescott Arizona and built a church from scratch up there!!! That church is now a THRIVING church...AND its built on people that had absolutely nothing to give or offer...people that were pulled out of THE PIT of this WORLD!!! AWESOME!!!
I remember it was at Bro. Ikerd's funeral that I decided I wanted to marry a man LIKE HIM!!! (Read it in A Man Like That) Oh man...that funeral was AWESOME!!! I mean just to hear this man of God...SOOOO READY TO BE WITH JESUS...yet longing to stay a little longer...BECAUSE OF HIS BURDEN FOR SOULS!!! Till his dying day he just wanted to KEEP REACHING!!!
"There isn't anything more important to God than souls. There isn't anything greater than souls. There isn't any greater cause to die for."
"The greatest miracle you will ever see is a changed life!"
"If your lazy, don't EVER get married!"
"Learn how to work under the authority in your life right now!"
"Remember to say thank you!"
"Helpmeet-We are a helper! She is there to complete him!"
One thing that I really remember Sis. Ikerd teaching on was PRAYER!!! I remember her telling us girls that she would think, HOW CAN I BE A MINISTERS WIFE??? God I can't sing!!! I can't play the piano! (I'm like OH YEAH...thats sooo ME!!!) SHe is like, but God said that there was one thing she COULD do and be good at and that was to PRAY!!! Is there ANYTHING more important for us as Godly Apostolic woman to learn than to PRAY???
"You gotta learn to have a good relationship with God FIRST-if you don't have time for God, you won't have time for your husband!"
I'm sooooo thankful for the Godly teachings that I have gotten over the years!!! We are soooo blessed to have these woman of God in our life!!!
"I came from a busted home, but life with him, and he redeemed them all!"
Sis. Ikerd came and talked to the ladies in our church tonight...it was AMAZING!!! The tears were just falling out of my eyes...I have SOOOO much I want to say about TONIGHT...BUUUUT for now I just want to leave you all with this picture!!!
Let us NOT look to the hero's of this world... to try and live our lives to be like them. We don't need to be idolizing corrupted people, living imoral lives and dying from overdoses. We need to be striving to be like THE ONES, that have a BURDEN for the people living a life of corruption. Let our heros be THE ONES that are willing to die for a soul!!!!
"There isn't anything more important to God than souls!"
I seriousley just laughed out loud when I read this!!! I was re-reading my personality analysis the other day... (YES...I am absolutely enamored with myself and NEVER grow tired of reading and learning MORE about ME!!! I find myself VERY interesting!!!;) Sooooo i'm reading my personality analysis...AGAIN and I just crack up laughing!!!!
Go HERE and find out yours and tell me what you got!!!
I just felt like PERHAPS some guys out there needed some HELP from the OH SO WISE owner of this blog...I DARE SOMEONE, ANYONE to ACTUALLY try this line on a girl!!!
Find the roast you LOOOOVE the most!!!
Hmmmmm...they are all soooooo GOOOOOD...its HARD to ACTUALLY choose ONE over the other...buuuuuuuuuuut...one of these days...I'll make a FINAL DECISION!!!
When I get married I MUST have a bounce house at my reception!!! I willll sooooooo go in and slide down too!!! Wedding dress and EVERYTHING!!! I was tellin my sis...and she was just like lookin at me...and I'm like BUUUUT...I WONDER what guy would EVERRRR be cool with a bounce house at the weddding??? My sis was like, Uh PROBABLEY NO ONE!!! I'm like WHATEVER!!! Wooten WOULD BE!!! My sis is like, yes, AND Wooten is NOT REAL!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!
Sooooooooo you know THAT MOMENT...that SPECIAL MOMENT...when the bride is walking down the aisle and everyone rises in honor and its like soooo SPECIAL...like everyone is just kind of holding their breath and snapping piccures?! Sooooooooo here I am snappin pictures along with EVERYONE else trying to capture THAT SPECIAL MOMENT!!!
And RIGHT as I say that...I try to snap ONE MORE PIC AND...my camera goes FLYING out of my hand!!! HITS THE BRIDE!!! And then goes ROLLING across the back of her dress and just LAYING on her train!!!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I WAS LIKE OMW!!! I definatley made the moment SPECIAL!!! Of course...it took EVERYTHING in me NOT to break out into HYSTERICAL laughter!!! LOLOL!!! I don't if I actually MADE it!!! OH and yeah...I BROKE the camera too!!! MY SISTER'S camera!!! Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!
HOW DOES stuff like that JUST HAPPEN to me!?!?!
Heeeey Everyone!!!! My neice's adoption party was a HUGE success!!! It was all sooo nice and so many people came to help us celebrate...unfortunatley...My camera DIED...LOL...I keep forgetting to either BRING my camera OR to charge it for all these HUGE events I have been attending...anyways...There will be A LOT more pics cuz my sis-in-law was photographing...BUUUT here is ONE sooo you can see how it looked...YES i'm in it and NOT MJ...LOL!!! What can I say...it died before I could take any of her!!!
It Adventure In Odyessey's 25th BIRTHDAY BASH!!!
I sooooooooooo WANNNNA GO!!! I told my sis...AWWW man....to bad we weren't going to Dallas in in June instead of March...and she was like OH WHY??? I'm like CUZ its Adventure in Odyssey's 25th birthday bash celebration!!!! I wish you all coulda seen the LOOK I just got!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!Anyone else really WANNA GO???
Oh and guess what...A NEW ALBUM!!!
OMW!!! Mr. Whitikar is MIXED BATHING!!! What is this world coming too???? AHAHAHA...Wooten's in there??? Thats IT...I'm jumping in!!! (J/K!) Bahahaha!!!
devotionals sooo WHY NOT suggest me as one of their writers!!!
Weeeeellll look at what its time for ONCE AGAIN!!! The APOSTOLIC BEAUTY!!! I can't lie, when I first met this absolutely breathtaking beauty, I had orginally wished she was a guy...you can read about that HERE!!! But I'm soooo glad that she isn't...cuz she is a WONDERFUL person and I consider it an honor to have her as one of my friends!!! This person was elected by five different people that don't even know each other, at different times, to be the NEXT APOSTOLIC BEAUTY!!!
IF you young men that feel called to the ministry and are looking for and evangelistic type girl, (Which IF you feel called you should be) with a passion to reach the lost...This Mexico-loving missionary daughter just might be the one for YOU!!! Bethany has made her parent's calling to another country, NOT just their calling, BUT her own calling as well!!! I have personally NEVER heard her complain about living in Mexico and neither have any of her other friends. She just takes it all in stride and trusts in the Lord. Even though she loves coming back to the states, she also hates leaving the people there!!! She loves the people there and has dedicated herself to reaching the lost souls of Puebla!!! You can feel her passion and her burden for the lost people there...its NOT just a job, or something to do...she has a BURDEN and she LOVES them!!!
Bethany's passion is young people!!! She is the director of the youth choir at her church and also teaches the youth class on Sundays and just recently started teaching on the book of Proverbs at her Grandfather's university. Because of her passion for the lost, you will very often find her working the alters and praying with people!!!
And for you guys that are dog lovers...don't worry...you WILL NEVER have to worry about having to get rid of your dog for BETHANY....cuz this chica is a ANIMAL LOVER!!!
Bethany LOVES cooking...ESPECIALLY Mexican food!!! Bethany is VERY clean and HATES dirt!!! She is a hard worker and does not just sit around being lazy!!! She is adventerous, hilarious, an explorer and energetic. She is always up for a challenge or dare. She has this cRaZy desire, that NO one knows WHY, but she would REALLLLLY like to slaughter a chicken...Idk...I personally think maybe she has read Janette Oke's, Love Comes Softly, and really wants to impress some guy with some good FRIED CHICKEN...Wooot! WOOOOT!!! ;) She also got her dream come true wish...a PIGS HEAD for her bday last year...HOW many girly-girls you know that would EVEN touch that???
Bethany is very connected and close to her family!
On of her friends said... "I have to say that what stands out to me is when girls are out there looking for a man & constantly needing a boy to talk to or think about or flirt with...she has completely left it in Gods hands & is not concerned about the "ONE" finding her:) she is going to get a fantastic guy because she is not a flirt or forward...just a Godly lady!!"
1. She LOVES Adventere's in Odyssey!!
4.. She loves pulling pranks!
5. She really enjoys grocery shopping.
6. One her nicknames is TATER TOT!!!
8. She loves to try NEW things!!!
9. She is VERY organized!!!
AND ask her to be his FOREVER HOT SAUCE!!! Woot! Woot!!!
BUT only that special guy that can HANDLE the HEAT!!!!
Thank you Bethany for all you do, for be our light for Jesus in Mexico, for being a friend and for simply being you! We all love and adore you!!!
I hope you LOOOOOOOOVE it!!!
A Couple of months ago, I think it was right before Christmas, we had this awesome, AMAZIN service. I think I wrote about it on here...But it was just wow!!! God really touched me...I was sooooo incredible!!!
MAKE SURE YOU DON'T LEAVE THEM IN THE CAR!!!
most girls won't be as cool [Insert Hysterical laughter here!] about this happening to them, as I was about it happening to ME!!!
I'm sooo happy! We were over at the apartment complex where my Esther lives the other night, and I saw something that put a joyous feeling in my heart. So I knocked on the door to Esther's place and there was no answer. So I yelled out to her, ESTHER!!!!! And no answer!!!!
She is NOT in her room, but lying on her bed is something she has obviousley been spending sometime with... A black object... a book... BUT not just any book... a book called...THE HOLY BIBLE!!! The Bible my friends...she has been reading THE BIBLE!!! She may not be coming back to church yet...BUUUUUUUUT....God is working!!! I was and still am soooooooooooo HAPPY!!! It was MORE than just the Bible though that I saw laying there...I saw HOPE lying there on her bed!!!
and in his word do I hope."
Great question! It's actually something Les and I talked about BEFORE we were married. We decided that when it came to convictions, not just standards of a particular church, whoever had the strongest conviction is what we would abide by. And that has worked for the past 20+ years. Let me say this to anyone who is single. When you are praying for your future spouse, pray for their pastor as well. I prayed very specifically, "Lord, he has to be from a good church." They say you don't just marry the guy, you marry his family. I add, you also marry his church family.
What I always pray (So...yes I am thinking and praying about it! ;D)...but what I always pray is that God will bring me someone with the same standards. OR Really, I just say "God, you know what my standards and MY personal convictions are. These are things that I feel that YOU have asked of me, so...work it out for me." I really don't think that he would want me to back on something he established in the first place. Again, it is not about who is better then who...it's just something personal between you and God. I would just really pray about it.
I agree with Kim, "Yes! Absolutely!".... I dont think there is any thing wrong with conversing about standards with someone you potentially wish to date. That is something worth talking about at the beginning of a relationship so that at least you know what you are going into... I would hope that you dont wait to the point of almost marriage to enter into this discussion. Personally I think the majority of girls look at this differently then guys do.... us girls tend to go towards guys that hold a higher standard then we do, because they are to be a spiritual leader. I would not what to support my husband; I would want him to support me.... same difference"
I think that for girls things ARE different than with guys, because of the God-given roles of a male and a female. I like how the McElhaney's have done things with them both continually choosing to go with the higher standard of conviction that one or the other has. Cuz I know that when something is preached to me even if I don't really have a conviction about it, if I pray and ask God to NOT just let me be obedient to my pastor, but to also to GIVE ME A PERSONAL CONVICTION!!! AND he always does!!!
However, it ultimately has to do with a man's heart towards the things of God. Like WHAT man, that has a heart right with God wouldn't want his wife to live by her God-given convictions...like if she has a conviction about Christmas trees and her husband is like, ABSOLUTELY NOT, I'm putting my foot down and WE WILL have a Christmas tree...okaaaaaay thats JUST WEIRD!!! AHAHAHA!!! But still a Christmas tree is only once a year...it wouldn't really effect your everyday life...buuut there are other things...that are in your everyday life...I just couldn't everrr compromise on sleeve length or any standards of holiness...or EVEN the Christmas tree...LOL! I JUST COULDN'T DO IT!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
weeelll I think the ULTIMATE thing that everyone was decide was...it JUST DEPENDS ON THE SITUATION and that we should ALWAYS be PRAYING about it!!! PRAY! PRAY! PRAY! PRAY!!! Because ultimately, I don't believe that it would be proper for a girl to tell a guy to raise his standards, BECAUSE of God's roles for men and woman...sooo while it is ok for a guy to tell a girl, probabley, more than likely, and I'm sure there are exceptions etc...but on a whole i don't think it would work because of SUBMISSION!!! Soooo you know what that REALLLLY means???
IT MEANS THAT...The MEN...have waaaaaaay more options for findin a spouse than us ladies!!! AHAHAHAHA!!! This is sooooo the truth!!! LOL! Buuuut don't feel down, God's gonna work it all out!!! :) The thing that I remember Sis. Ikerd telling us girls...Btw- if you don't know who she is, Sis. Ikerd was a missionary's wife to Africa for 28 years...AMAZING WOMAN OF GOD!!!
SOOOOO...We were all just sittin around floor chattin and Sis. Ikerd was in a chair above us and she starts talkin to us...she said...Girls, the MOST important decision you'll ever make is WHO YOU MARRY! It will effect your WHOLE life!!! It will effect your ministry and your calling in life. She said that she almost felt it was a bigger decision for a woman than it was for a man...BECAUSE of the God-given roles between a male and a female. She said because WOMAN have to submit so therefore she should be VERY careful who she marries...because as a Godly woman he will be the one that leads her throughout her life.
Also, she said that because the woman was made to be a man's helpmeet, her role in life as Godly wife is be her husband's helper. So whatever she feels in life, that her calling is, after she gets married, her calling in life is WHATEVER her husband's calling is! Therefore, if a single woman feels called to do missions work overseas or in another country and after she gets married, if her husband doesn't share that same calling with her, then that is NO LONGER her calling.
Not to say that a woman can't have a calling, just that her husband's calling comes first over hers...LOL Like if she feels called to be involved in the youth ministry and her husband is the Sunday School director, she can still help with the youth, BUUUUT her first calling is to be the Sunday School Director's wife and to help him with THAT!!!
Soooo anyways, I just think that when you think about it like that, it would be really, hard to be submissive and be a helpmeet to someone that had totally different beliefs and convictions...and stuff...UNLESS...you felt like it was YOUR CALLING in life..TO HELP HIM GET CONVICTIONS!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Can a girl tell a guy to raise his standards for marriage???


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News › Primary Care
Patients have less pain, quicker recovery thanks to robotics
See how NCH helps patients with female problems
Originally published in Northwest Quarterly Magazine by Lindsey Gapen Lukas
The days of robotic surgery being "new" are over, especially in gynecology.
The FDA approved the first medical robot in 2001 for urology, and then in 2005 the da Vinci robot was approved for gynecology, says Dr. Michelle Luthringshausen, director of robotics at Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH). She's been doing robotic surgeries since early 2007.
"We're now on the third-generation robot, and there have been many improvements over time with the optics and capabilities based on surgeons' feedback," she says.
When Luthringshausen started at NCH in 2011, the hospital only had one da Vinci robotic system. Now, there are three, and the robotics program has gone from about 15 physicians and surgeons to more than 40. The surgeries cover a range of specialties, from urology and gynecology to general surgery. Luthringshausen makes sure the entire robotics program runs smoothly and safely.
She also does benign gynecologic procedures, so any procedure related to the female reproductive system that doesn't involve cancer. This could be the removal of painful ovarian cysts, the removal of painful tissue and scar tissue for women with endometriosis, hysterectomy procedures, and much more.
"Really almost any surgery that's in the pelvis can be approached robotically," Luthringshausen says. "And what's nice about robotics is that it's taken laparoscopic surgery and made it accessible to everyone of all body types. The robotic instruments free up the surgeon's hands – it gives us four hands, basically. So, we can do more-complex things for a wider range of patients."
From a patient perspective, preparation for robotic gynecologic surgery isn't different from other minimally invasive surgeries. Patients must refrain from eating or drinking after midnight prior to the day of surgery, and occasionally, the patient may need to consume a solution to clean out their bowels. On the day of surgery, it's just a matter of undergoing general anesthesia.
From there, the surgeon makes an incision at the base of the patient's belly button and introduces carbon dioxide, which makes a pocket of air inside the abdominal and pelvic cavities so that there's room to operate."
"There isn't a space there, so we have to create a space so that we can put our instruments inside to operate," Luthringshausen explains.
Once the carbon dioxide is inside the patient, the surgeon can put a camera into the belly button. The surgeon then makes other incisions that are less than a half an inch in size to help make room for other necessary instruments, such as the cannulas, or "metal straws" that attach to the arms of the robot. Once all the instruments are inside the patient and the robot is docked, the surgeon sits at a separate console, places her head into the upper console to view the surgical area, and uses hand controls similar to joysticks to control the robot.
The 3-D view is impeccable.
"It's as if I were standing inside the patient's abdomen," Luthringshausen explains. "I have full range of motion in my wrists, which you don't have in straight laparoscopy. So, that's why robotic surgery allows you to do more-complicated things, and you have better visualization.
"Basically, it's a platform that makes you superhuman as a surgeon."
Robotic gynecologic surgery typically takes around an hour and a half to complete, but more-complicated surgeries may take up to 5 hours. Most of the time, after the patient recovers from anesthesia, they get to go home within 3 to 4 hours.
"That's an advantage – the recovery is so quick," Luthringshausen says. "Most patients don't need narcotics or pain control after the first 72 hours because there's less damage and bruising to the abdominal wall. Patients get out of the recovery room faster and return to normal life faster than after typical surgery."
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CENTERVILLE, OHIO (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 04, 2018 - An innovative approach to duct sealing that can quickly seal an entire duct system to industry's tightest building code requirements will be featured on an upcoming episode of Holmes & Holmes. Scheduled to debut throughout the U.S. on the DIY network during the week of September 17th, episode 10 of Holmes & Holmes will show how this new technology is used to improve the indoor comfort, energy efficiency and indoor air quality of new and existing homes.
The advanced technology, called aeroseal, represents a breakthrough for builders, HVAC professionals and homeowners looking to significantly reduce energy costs and improve home comfort. The Holmes & Holmes episode shows viewers how aeroseal's unique approach to duct sealing can quickly and cost effectively seal leaks throughout the entire duct system – even those portions that are hidden behind walls, under insulation or are otherwise inaccessible using traditional duct sealing methods.
Exact show dates and times may differ from region to region depending upon local scheduling, cable and satellite programing and other factors. The program will also appear in Canada later this fall, on the HGTV Network.
Developed with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, aeroseal technology works from inside the ductwork to find and seal leaks. This inside/out approach to sealing provides quick and easy access to the entire duct system. The computer-controlled sealing system allows live monitoring of the sealing process and generates a final report with before and after results. A 2001 study conducted by the DOE found aeroseal technology to be 50% more effective at sealing duct leaks than manual sealing methods and can potentially reduce labor time and costs for duct sealing by 70%, or almost 4 crew-hours.
Holmes & Holmes is the latest program hosted by master home builder Mike Holmes, in which he, along with his son, tackles home building and renovation projects, correcting contractor errors and showing viewers best home improvement practices. In 2012, Mike Holmes was listed #3 in Forbes list of most trustworthy celebrities, following behind Morgan Freeman and Ron Howard.
To learn more about aeroseal technology, visit http://www.aeroseal or call (937) 428-9300. For more information on Holmes & Holmes on the DIY Network or to view previous episodes of the program, visit http://www.diynetwork.com/shows/holmes-and-holmes.
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Коммунисти́ческая па́ртия (компартия) — революционная политическая партия, которая ставит своей конечной целью построение коммунизма. Первой коммунистической политической организацией, послужившей предтечей для будущих коммунистических партий, был Союз коммунистов, созданный Карлом Марксом.

С конца XX века многие коммунистические партии перешли на более умеренные позиции, отказавшись от таких радикальных установок, как курс на вооружённое восстание как непременное условие прихода к власти партии, установление диктатуры пролетариата, и, признав «парламентскую демократию», частную собственность и рыночные отношения, то есть фактически перестав быть коммунистическими.

В одной стране одновременно может существовать сразу несколько коммунистических партий, течений и групп. Так, например, в Непале действуют более двух десятков коммунистических партий различного толка.

История

В XX веке в разное время коммунистические партии возглавляли:
 Союз Советских Социалистических Республик,
 Социалистическую Федеративную Республику Югославия,
 Народную Республику Болгарию,
 Социалистическую Республику Румыния,
 Венгерскую Народную Республику,
 Чехословацкую Социалистическую Республику,
 Польскую Народную Республику,
 Германскую Демократическую Республику,
 Народную Социалистическую Республику Албанию,
 Монгольскую Народную Республику,
 Тувинскую Народную Республику,
 Бухарскую Народную Советскую Республику,
 Хорезмскую Народную Советскую Республику,
 Венгерскую Советскую Республику,
 Демократическую Кампучию,
 Народную Республику Кампучия,
 Народную Республику Ангола,
 Демократическую Республику Афганистан.
 Корейскую Народно-Демократическую Республику

Коммунистические партии продолжают возглавлять в XXI веке:
 Китайскую Народную Республику,
 Социалистическую Республику Вьетнам,
 Лаосскую Народно-Демократическую Республику,
 Республику Куба.

Коммунистическая партия в XXI веке возглавила:
 Федеративную Демократическую Республику Непал,

6-я статья Конституции СССР 1977 года закрепляла руководящую роль Коммунистической партии:
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В период перестройки начатые по инициативе Михаила Горбачёва демократические реформы, включавшие отмену однопартийной системы, ослабили идеологический и партийный контроль в странах Варшавского блока и в самом Советском Союзе, что привело к смене власти в социалистическом блоке, закончившись парадом суверенитетов и распадом СССР.

Правящие коммунистические партии, прекратившие существование:

 Коммунистическая партия Чехословакии (1992 г.)
 Народно-демократическая партия Афганистана (1992 г.)
 Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза (1991 г.)
 Союз коммунистов Югославии (1991 г.)
 Албанская партия труда (1991 г.)
 Народно-революционная партия Кампучии (1991 г.)

 Болгарская коммунистическая партия (1990 г.)
 Социалистическая единая партия Германии (1990 г.)
 Польская объединённая рабочая партия (1990 г.)
 Народное движение за освобождение Анголы — Партия труда (1990 г.)
 Румынская коммунистическая партия (1989 г.)
 Венгерская социалистическая рабочая партия (1989 г.)
 Коммунистическая партия Кампучии (1981 г.)
 Венгерская партия трудящихся (1956 г.)
 Тувинская народно-революционная партия (1944 г.)
 Бухарская коммунистическая партия (1924 г.)
 Партия коммунистов Венгрии (1919 г.)

Современность
Коммунистические партии на 2021 год являются правящими в Китае, Кубе, Вьетнаме, Лаосе, КНДР и Непале — Коммунистическая партия Китая, Коммунистическая партия Кубы, Коммунистическая партия Вьетнама, Народно-революционная партия Лаоса, Трудовая партия Кореи и Непальская Коммунистическая партия.

Трудовая партия Кореи на сегодняшний день руководствуется не марксизмом-ленинизмом, а собственной идеологией чучхе и с 2021 года — кимченынизмом. Поэтому некоторые исследователи ставят под сомнение определение коммунистическая партия применительно к Трудовой партии Корея.

В Китае, Кубе, Вьетнаме, Лаосе и Северной Корее Коммунистические партии обладают всей полнотой власти, не имея сколько-нибудь серьёзной политической оппозиции. В КНР, Кубе, Лаосе и КНДР руководители государств Си Цзиньпин, Мигель Диас-Канель, Тхонглун Сисулит и Ким Чен Ын одновременно являются лидерами Коммунистических партий. Во Вьетнаме посты главы государства и лидера Коммунистической партии с апреля 2021 года разделены: Нгуен Фу Чонг — генеральный секретарь ЦК Коммунистической партии Вьетнама, Нгуен Суан Фук — президент Социалистической республики Вьетнам.

В Непале ситуация принципиально иная.
В 2006 году в этой стране закончилась гражданская война между королевской властью и маоистами-инсургентами, длившаяся 10 лет. Повстанцы сложили оружие и включились в политическую жизнь. В 2008 году бывшие партизаны из Коммунистической партии Непала (маоистской) — КМН(м) добились отстранения короля от власти и провозглашения республики. Лидер Коммунистической партии Непала и в прошлом командующий партизанской армией Пушпа Камал Дахал возглавил правительство. Однако всей полноты власти коммунистам из КПН(м) не удалось добиться. Президент Непала был избран представитель Непальского конгресса Рам Баран Ядав. С тех пор власть поделили между собой три ведущие партии — Коммунистическая партия Непала (объединённая марксистско-ленинская), Непальский конгресс и Коммунистическая партия Непала (маоистская), представители которых поочерёдно возглавляют правительства.

Осенью 2015 года в Непале Коммунистическая партия Непала (объединённая марксистско-ленинская) получила власть демократическим путём. Её представители заняли посты президента и премьер-министра: заместитель председателя КПН(омл) Бидхья Деви Бхандари была избрана президентом Непала, а председатель КПН(омл) Кхадга Прасад Шарма Оли — премьер-министром. Вторая по влиянию Компартия — Коммунистическая партия Непала (маоистская) вошла в правительственную коалицию и получила посты председателя парламента и вице-президента.

В августе 2016 года лидер КПН(м) Пушпа Камал Дахал второй раз возглавил правительство и занимал пост премьер-министра до мая 2017 года.
В ноябре 2017 года — феврале 2018 года на выборах в парламент — Палату представителей и Национальную ассамблею победу одержала КПН(омл).
15 февраля 2018 года председатель Коммунистической партии Непала (объединённой марксистско-ленинской) Кхадга Прасад Шарма Оли вновь возглавил правительство — левую коалицию в составе КПН(омл) и КПН(м) (до 14 июля 2021 года).

В марте 2018 года Бидхья Деви Бхандари второй раз была избрана президентом Непала.

В мае 2018 года две коммунистические партии Непала — Коммунистическая партия Непала (объединённая марксистско-ленинская) и Коммунистическая партия Непала (маоистская) — объединились. Образовалась крупнейшая правящая Непальская коммунистическая партия. Лидеры прежних партий Кхадга Прасад Шарма Оли и Пушпа Камал Дахал стали сопредседателями объединённой Коммунистической партии.

Непальская коммунистическая партия придерживается в идеологии «народной многопартийной демократии», и в стране есть реальная политическая оппозиция в лице нескольких партий, таких как Непальский конгресс. C июля 2021 года лидер Непальского конгресса Шер Бахадур Деуба возглавляет правительство, в которое вошли представители восстановленной после роспуска НКП Коммунистической партии Непала (Маоистский центр) и Коммунистической партии Непала (объединённой социалистической).

Схожая с Непалом ситуация сложилась на Кипре. В 2008 году Коммунистическая партия под названием Прогрессивная партия трудового народа Кипра (АКЭЛ) демократическим путём пришла к власти. Её лидер Димитрис Христофиас был избран президентом Кипра и занимал эту должность до 2013 года.

На постсоветском пространстве лишь в Молдавии коммунистам удалось прийти к власти. В 2001 году лидер Партии коммунистов Республики Молдова Владимир Воронин был избран президентом страны. В 2009 году в Кишинёве произошли массовые беспорядки, привёдшие к отставке Воронина.

В 1990-х гг. в Таджикистане Коммунистическая партия Таджикистана была правящей партией. На первых парламентских выборах в независимом Таджикистане 26 февраля 1995 года Коммунистическая партия одержала победу и 60 кандидатов от партии стали депутатами. Впоследствии место правящей партии в Таджикистане заняла Народно-демократическая партия Таджикистана, которую в апреле 1998 года возглавил президент Эмомали Рахмон. На выборах 2000 г. победу одержала Народно-демократическая партия Таджикистана. Роль Коммунистической партии значительно упала. На выборах 2020 года партия смогла провести в парламент лишь двух депутатов.

Коммунистические партии входят в правящие коалиции на Кипре и Уругвае.

  Куба - Коммунистическая партия Кубы (1959), единственная легальная партия в этой стране.
  КНДР - Трудовая партия Кореи возглавляет Единый демократический отечественный фронт (1948).
  КНР - Коммунистическая партия Китая, возглавляет Патриотический единый фронт китайского народа; Гонконг и Макао исключены из этой системы (1949)
  Вьетнам - Коммунистическая партия Вьетнама возглавляет Отечественный фронт Вьетнама (1976).
  Лаос - Народно-революционная партия Лаоса возглавляет  (1975)
  Сирия - Коммунистическая партия Сирии входит в Национальный прогрессивный фронт (1963).
  Непал - С августа 2008 г. по март 2013 г., с октября 2015 г. по май 2017 г. и с февраля 2018 г. по июль 2021 г. премьер-министрами Непала становились представители коммунистических партий (Коммунистической партии Непала (маоистской) и Коммунистической партии Непала (объединённой марксистско-ленинской)(2008). В октябре 2015 году представитель Коммунистической партии Непала (объединённой марксистско-ленинской) избрана президентом Непала (2015).
  Уругвай - Коммунистическая партия Уругвая входит в Широкий фронт — коалицию, объединяющую коммунистов, социалистов, троцкистов, христианских демократов, которая находится у власти в Уругвае с 2004 года. На выборах 2004 года Широкий фронт набрал 51,7 % голосов избирателей и провёл 52 депутата из 99. Президентом Уругвая с 1 марта 2010 года стал Хосе Мухика — в прошлом член партизанского движения «Тупамарос» (Движение национального освобождения) — марксистской радикальной организации, использовавшей в вооружённой борьбе с правительством методы городской герильи (2010). В марте 2015 года представитель Широкого фронта Табаре Васкес был избран президентом Уругвая (до 2020 года), сменив прежнего главу Хосе Мухику. Представитель Компартии входит в состав правительства.
  ЮАР — Южно-Африканская коммунистическая партия. Глава Южно-Африканской Коммунистической партии Блейд Нзиманде входил в состав правительства с 2009 по 2017 гг. и с 2018 г.
  Демократическая Социалистическая Республика Шри-Ланка — Коммунистическая партия Шри-Ланки. Председатель Коммунистической партии Шри-Ланки входит в правительство.
  Венесуэла — Единая социалистическая партия Венесуэлы. Страну возглавляет лидер партии.
  Белоруссия — Коммунистическая партия Беларуси. Первый секретарь ЦК Коммунистической партии Беларуси (до мая 2017 г — руководитель ЦК Коммунистической партии Беларуси) Игорь Васильевич Карпенко входит в состав правительства — министр образования Республики Беларусь. С мая 2017 года первый секретарь ЦК Коммунистической партии Беларуси Андрей Николаевич Сокол.

В странах бывшего СССР

 Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации (КПРФ);
 Коммунисты России;
 Российский объединённый трудовой фронт (РОТ Фронт) (Лишена регистрации в 2020 году);
 Российская коммунистическая рабочая партия (РКРП) (Лишена регистрации в 2007 году);

 Всесоюзная коммунистическая партия большевиков (ВКПБ);
 Революционная рабочая партия (Россия) (РРП)
 Левый фронт;
 Трудовая Россия.

  Коммунистическая партия Абхазии

 Коммунистическая партия Беларуси (КПБ)
 Справедливый мир

 Коммунистическая партия Казахстана (распущена в 2015)
 Народная партия Казахстана
  Партия коммунистов Республики Молдова
  Коммунистическая партия Таджикистана
  Коммунистическая партия Туркменистана (в подполье)
  Коммунистическая партия Узбекистана (запрещена в 1994)

 Коммунистическая партия Украины (запрещена в 2015)
 Коммунистическая партия Крыма (1993-1997)
 Коммунистическая партия рабочих и селян (2001-2015)
 Организация марксистов (2007-2011)
  Коммунистическая партия Эстонии (запрещена в 1991)

  Коммунистическая партия Армении
  Коммунистическая партия Республики Южная Осетия

 Приднестровская коммунистическая партия
 Коммунистическая партия Приднестровья (1991-2013)
 Коммунистическая партия трудящихся Приднестровья
  Партия коммунистов Киргизии (на осадном положении)
  Коммунистическая партия Латвии (запрещена в 1991)
  Коммунистическая партия Литвы (запрещена в 1992)

 Коммунистическая партия Азербайджана
 Коммунистическая единая партия Азербайджана
 Коммунистическая партия Азербайджана (марксистско-ленинская)
 Коммунистическая партия Азербайджана «Новое поколение»
  Единая коммунистическая партия Грузии (в подполье)
  Коммунистическая партия Донецкой Народной Республики
  Союз коммунистов Луганщины

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After the TPP: What's Next for Canada in Asia?
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by Hugh Stephens
CGAI Fellow
The Trump administration's arrival has scrambled the cards in the trade policy world. Not only will the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) be reopened with uncertain results, but President Donald Trump has scuttled the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by announcing the United States' withdrawal from the agreement. Canada, originally cool toward the TPP, pushed hard to be included in it. The TPP became the centrepiece of Canada's Asia trade strategy, notwithstanding some public ambivalence on the part of the Trudeau government. With the TPP in its present form now in limbo, Canada still has options in Asia. First, it can keep an open mind with regard to the possible reconstitution of the TPP in another form, such as "TPP Minus One" (i.e., minus the U.S.). It should also push to reopen the bilateral negotiations with Japan that were suspended when that country joined the TPP negotiations. Canada is already exploring the possibility of an economic partnership agreement with China, perhaps on a sectoral basis, and simultaneously, it should actively pursue negotiation of a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) community. This could in time provide Canada access to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) currently being negotiated among 16 countries in the Asia-Pacific region and would position Canada well in the eventuality that a Free Trade Area of Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) emerges. In the meantime, uncertainty regarding NAFTA's future needs to be addressed. This uncertainty makes it more difficult for Canada to attract Asian investment but it also provides further impetus for Canada to diversify its trading relationships and to explore stronger relationships with Asian economies.
After the TPP: What's Next for Canada in Asia?
What happens when you put most of your eggs into one basket, and then someone steals the basket? This is what happened to Canada when the Trump administration trashed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the lead vehicle to reassert our interests in the Asia-Pacific. But while the TPP's apparent collapse represents a setback for Canada, all is not lost. There are still several good options for moving forward. To understand better what these are and how they could affect Canadian interests, let's recall how we arrived at the current impasse.
Back in the period 2008-2011 when the TPP was a grouping of just nine countries (the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, Chile and Peru), Canada was very much on the outside looking in1 when it came to the evolving structure of Asia-Pacific trade. This was partially by circumstance, since the minority Harper government was preoccupied with other issues, and partially by design since the prevailing wisdom at the time was that the makeup of the TPP offered little to Canada by way of new market access — and Canada did not seem to be interested in the TPP's strategic dimension. After all, we already had an agreement with the U.S. through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and bilateral agreements with both Chile2 and Peru.3 Participation would have exposed us to pressures to make changes to our supply management and intellectual property regimes, among other areas. The use of the TPP to gain an additional foothold in the Asia-Pacific region did not get much traction in Ottawa. The Harper government preferred bilateral arrangements.
All that changed when Mexico expressed an interest in joining the TPP. Suddenly, Canada's preferential access under NAFTA to the U.S. market risked dilution, and joining the TPP negotiations became imperative if only as a defensive measure. Just as quickly then-International Trade minister Ed Fast was on a plane to TPP capitals to promote Canadian participation. The previous arguments against joining late, such as the requirement that as a condition of entry latecomers accept all elements of the agreement already negotiated and agreed to by the original partners, went by the boards. The U.S. was not helpful, dragging its feet and not endorsing Canada's participation until the 2011 APEC Summit in Honolulu4 when then-prime minister Stephen Harper met with former U.S. president Barack Obama. But then we were in. And shortly after Canada and Mexico formally joined the negotiations, Japan became the 12th partner. Now there was a concrete economic objective for Canada — obtaining access to the Japanese market on equal terms with a prime competitor, the U.S., as well as Australia.
The negotiations were difficult and almost collapsed at several points, but finally, on Oct. 5, 2015, after more than five years of negotiation, a conclusion was announced.5 Two weeks later Canada went to the polls and the Conservatives, who had agreed to the negotiated outcome, were out of office. The Trudeau Liberals while professing themselves to be free-traders were nevertheless on the horns of a dilemma. It was politically difficult to simply endorse the TPP negotiated under Harper, especially given vocal anti-TPP protests from a variety of quarters. These included dairy farmers who had to give up just a little of their protected monopoly, "freedom of the Internet" advocates who objected to stronger intellectual property protection for copyrighted content, and general anti-globalization activists who were and are against any trade agreement.
What did the Trudeau government do? Rather than endorsing or condemning the agreement, it ragged the puck, setting up a series of consultative meetings across the country to review what had been negotiated. This, despite the fact there was no real chance of unilaterally changing the outcome as long as the others, and particularly the U.S., ratified the deal. The federal government even proceeded with signing the agreement in February 2016,6 all the while continuing to invite Canadians to provide comments on its terms.
In reality, the Liberals were waiting to see what would happen in Washington, given that both presidential candidates had gone out of their way to attack the TPP, with Trump calling it "a potential disaster for our country" and "the death blow for American manufacturing." If the U.S. had ratified — an outcome that looked increasingly unlikely as the 2016 presidential campaign went on — Canada would have had no alternative but to be on board the next day. The agreement enjoyed strong support from business leaders7 and it would have been unthinkable to have walked away from a deal where we had successfully protected our access to NAFTA and opened the Japanese market to Canadian products. But although there was a faint hope that Hilary Clinton might have found a way to ratify the TPP (possibly under another name) if elected, once the unexpected results of the U.S. election were in, the writing was on the wall. We know what happened: Trump signed an executive order just three days after his inauguration, withdrawing the U.S. from the agreement. For Canada, which had worked so hard to get into the TPP — and which had placed many of its eggs in the TPP basket — this was a setback to our Asia-Pacific ambitions. The question is, where does Canada go now?
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland in effect proclaimed the TPP to be dead, citing the agreement's provisions that required ratification by six of the 12 partners comprising 85 per cent or more of the collective GDP of the negotiating countries for it to enter into force. Assuming it is dead, an obvious move for Canada would be to revive the Canada-Japan talks. There had been seven rounds of such talks8 but these had made little progress and were suspended when Japan joined the TPP negotiations in 2012. However, since Trump's announcement of the U.S.'s TPP withdrawal, Japan has been reluctant to come to the table with Canada, clinging to the notion that the TPP is not completely dead.9 One reason may be that Canada does not offer Japan the kind of market access that the TPP would have locked in, especially since NAFTA's future is in question, weakening Canada's appeal as a North American gateway. For Japan, keeping and expanding its access to the U.S. market is the prize. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe even travelled to the U.S. to meet Trump to argue Japan's case. Abe still needs the TPP as the spur to enact his domestic economic reform agenda and Japan has refused to let the agreement die even as it explores informally the possibility of opening bilateral talks with the U.S.
Pursuing bilateral negotiations, with the U.S. as the hub and other countries as the spokes, is apparently the strategy Trump favours. If or when the U.S. and Japan commence formal bilateral negotiations, Canada may well be cast aside, left standing at the altar as happened after Korea concluded deals with the U.S. and the European Union (EU). Canada and Korea began free trade negotiations in 2005 before either the EU or the U.S. opened talks with that country. However, once negotiations for the KORUS (Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement) began, the negotiations with Canada went slowly due in part to a trade dispute involving Canadian beef.10 South Korea had banned imports owing to the discovery of mad-cow disease in the Canadian herd, and there was also Canadian foot-dragging because of opposition from this country's automotive sector.
The U.S. signed its agreement with Korea on June 30, 2007 and was able (eventually, through some tweaks to the final text) to get those same North American automakers onside. As a result, KORUS finally entered into force on March 15, 2012. At that point, after both the EU and U.S. agreements were in effect, Canada realized it was only punishing itself by not talking to Korea. By that time, however, the trail had gone cold and it was not easy to get Korea's attention and put things back on track. Canada employed various means of diplomatic pressure to get the Koreans back to the negotiating table with the result that the Canada-Korea FTA11 was finally completed in late 2014, coming into effect on Jan. 1, 2015. While this helped level the playing field for Canadian exporters, the implementation timetable put liberalization of market access for Canadian products at least two years behind liberalization for competing U.S. products, such as pork and beef.
As a former Canadian ambassador to Japan has argued,12 one way for Canada to maintain its dialogue with Japan is to use the vehicle of the TPP, or what is left of it without the U.S., to lock in what was achieved. Some of the original TPP signatories have floated the idea of keeping the TPP alive. A meeting of ministers and officials was held in mid-March in Viña del Mar, Chile,13 in what was officially billed as the High-Level Dialogue on Integration Initiatives in the Asia-Pacific Region. In addition to the original 12 TPP participants (the U.S. was represented by its ambassador to Chile), the Chileans also invited China, South Korea and Colombia. China's prime interest is to observe what is happening, given its own stakes in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), another regional agreement discussed below. The purpose of the meeting in Chile was exploratory and open-ended — to see if there is a will to maintain the gains achieved through the TPP negotiations, a position strongly espoused by Australian Trade Minister Steven Ciobo.14
As expected, the only agreement was to keep talking and keep channels open. In a joint statement by the TPP partners,15 the participants declared that they "exchanged views on their respective domestic processes regarding TPP and canvassed views on a way forward that would advance economic integration in the Asia-Pacific." The next opportunity to meet will be at the APEC trade ministers meeting in Hanoi in May. Notably, the way forward could also include the Pacific Alliance,16 the trade and economic integration agreement formed in 2011 among Chile, Peru, Mexico and Colombia. Canada, along with many other countries, is an observer and one idea being floated is that if the TPP is too toxic a concept (or name) for some, then perhaps the Pacific Alliance could form the nucleus of a trans-pacific trade framework. Certainly, in its announcement of the participation of International Trade Minister François-Philippe Champagne at the meeting in Chile, Global Affairs Canada studiously managed to avoid a single reference to the TPP, focusing instead on Canada's "progressive" trade agenda.17
Renegotiating the TPP will not be easy since many of the concessions the partners made were premised on gaining greater access to the U.S. market. All those tariff concessions they made will now have to be reviewed to ensure that a politically acceptable balance can still be achieved without the carrot of the U.S. market. While that will be difficult, it is not impossible. Other parts of the TPP, such as the "horizontal chapters" dealing with issues such as new rules for trade in e-commerce, small and medium-sized enterprises, trade facilitation, capacity building, competition policy, development, labour, the environment and so on could likely be adopted with less difficulty. While hanging on to a revised version of the TPP would, at first blush, seem to have little to offer to Canada, the TPP Minus One formula, as it is sometimes called, might offer the best way to pursue market opening with Japan. The fact that Canada attended the meeting in Chile is a good first step in terms of keeping options open and exploring alternatives to maintaining a foothold in trans-Pacific trade.18
Japan is just one of Canada's major trading partners in Asia. We have an agreement with Korea, as noted above, leaving China as a major challenge. Beyond China, there are the 580 million people of the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc. ASEAN is the key player in another regional agreement currently under negotiation, the RCEP,19 which if completed will be a trade agreement between the ASEAN countries and the countries with which ASEAN already has separate agreements, namely China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. RCEP would harmonize these six separate agreements, as well as the agreement linking the 10 ASEAN countries (the ASEAN Free Trade Area or AFTA), into a cohesive whole.
Canada doesn't have a seat at this table although it has had a long relationship with ASEAN, having been a dialogue partner since 1977.20 At one time, Canada maintained a Canada-ASEAN Centre in Singapore, funded largely by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The centre undertook a number of projects in the region including important work in the 1990s on the issue of conflicting jurisdictions in the South China Sea. In recent years, Canada has let its interest in ASEAN wane. This is changing, with the establishment in 2016 of an embassy dedicated exclusively to relations with the bloc, and the announcement in the summer of 2016, following ministerial-level meetings, that officials on both sides had been charged to prepare the terms of reference for a feasibility study on negotiating a Canada-ASEAN FTA.21 If Canada were able to successfully negotiate an agreement with ASEAN, and if RCEP is concluded this year, as is hoped, then the Canada-ASEAN agreement could possibly be a stepping-stone to Canadian inclusion in RCEP. RCEP has an open accession clause allowing accession by any state with an agreement with ASEAN.22
RCEP is by no means a done deal. The goal of the 16 participants is to conclude it this year but there are challenges. The main obstacle is the lack of agreement among and between the non-ASEAN negotiating partners, for example between Japan and China, or between China and India, where there are no pre-existing agreements to build on. Frankly, India's presence as a negotiating partner presents a whole range of challenges given the protectionist stance that country has adopted on many trade issues. The result is likely to be a fairly low-ambition agreement with lots of exceptions and carve-outs, long transition periods, and nothing like the degree of market access achieved through the TPP.23
While it is easy to criticize this level of ambition and likely achievement, nevertheless we should not minimize the contribution that RCEP, if achieved, will bring. While it could potentially go further, it will still represent movement toward greater trade opening. Businesses that are fortunate enough to find their products covered by the agreement will benefit, as will consumers. Rules of origin will be harmonized. To achieve the compromises necessary to forge an agreement that includes economies as disparate as Japan, Korea and Australia on the one end of the scale, and Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia on the other, with China and India in the mix, will be no small achievement.
If the RCEP is completed, and if TPP in some form proceeds, the long-term goal of reaching a FTAAP will have taken another step forward. Both RCEP and TPP are seen as tracks toward the larger objective of a regional agreement. FTAAP24 may always remain an aspirational goal, but as a vehicle that would include both China and the U.S., as well as all the other major (and many minor) economies of the Asia-Pacific region, it is seen by many as the end game, or at least a target to work towards in order to keep trade discussions moving in the right direction. Canada needs a seat at the FTAAP table beyond our presence in APEC, given that any FTAAP will emerge from a binding trade agreement, not from the loose and consensus-based APEC framework.
In the meantime, there is China to deal with. Canada and China have been dancing around each other for a while now, but the Trudeau government's accession to power seems to represent an opportunity that Canada should not squander.25 While all the talk about a new golden era of Canada-China relations contained a lot of hyperbole, (because relations between the two countries were really not that bad prior to the Liberals taking office), nonetheless, the accession of Trudeau fils has allowed both countries to build on the legend of Trudeau père as the person who made the key breakthrough in the establishment of Canada-China relations in 1970. Justin Trudeau's election was a convenient way to turn the page from the Harper era's sometimes confrontational policy. While relations with China could not be described as smooth under Harper, there were achievements, notably the conclusion and implementation of the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPPA),26 completion of an initial trade complementarities study,27 approval of a major Chinese investment (with some reservations) in the oil industry, the designation of Canada as a renminbi (RMB) exchange hub and the adding of Canada as an approved destination country for Chinese tourists.
The two countries have agreed to begin exploratory discussions toward a bilateral trade agreement, but this will move slowly.28 Dealing with a still largely restricted economy such as China's is complex and difficult, and Canadian public opinion is very much divided on the benefits of greater opening of trade with China. Fewer than half of Canadians support free trade negotiations with that country, according to a poll conducted in 2016 by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.29 Despite its own spotty record on market liberalization, in the early days of the Trump administration China has seized the initiative to establish itself as one of the leading public champions of open markets.30 Whether its actions will match the rhetoric remains to be seen but there are encouraging signs such as the announcement of new liberalization measures under the rubric of the Twenty Measures.31 The forthcoming 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party this fall will be important in affirming what direction Chinese economic policy will take. If China is truly committed to a policy of market opening, reaching a trade agreement with Canada would help move things in the right direction.
It will be a challenge for Canada to pry open some of the more restricted areas of the Chinese economy, given the size of our market compared to that of China, but if we are selective and strategic, we should be able to make progress in areas of real potential for Canadian business. An initial agreement does not have to be all-encompassing and could cover select sectors. Financial and health-care services offer good prospects for growth for Canada, for example. We can also ensure that our agricultural exports are not impeded by specious non-tariff barriers and that our resource products get equal access with those of our competitors. In a negotiation with China, Canada enjoys some strategic leverage, being a country endowed with resources China needs and located on the U.S.'s doorstep. Unlike Korea, or perhaps Japan, countries that were initially cool to the idea of spending much in the way of time and resources to reach an agreement with Canada, the Chinese are eager to get going.
Canada should seize this opportunity, as the Trudeau government appears to be doing. At the same time, we need to put some eggs into other baskets, particularly plurilateral baskets. That is why the negotiations with ASEAN will be an important channel to pursue, and why it is a good idea to keep our options open on the TPP Minus One, TPP Plus or whatever form emerges. It will require a significant commitment of resources as Canada will have its hands full dealing with Trump's "tweak" of NAFTA, or a more substantive revision as was recently suggested by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.32
NAFTA is one of the wild cards that could affect all of the various options for better trade architecture in the Pacific. Canada's attractiveness to investment by Asian countries is based in large part on the access that NAFTA gives to the U.S. market. If the Canada-U.S. border thickens, and rules of origin become more restrictive, prudence will tend to drive future Asian investment to U.S. locations. At the same time, NAFTA revision could also work to spur greater Canadian interest in Asia. If the taken-for-granted U.S. market becomes more restrictive for Canadian exporters, there will be an even greater need for trade diversification. We are already seeing this as the threats to Canadian softwood lumber exports to the U.S. have given fresh impetus to finding new markets overseas.33
What the result of the NAFTA negotiations will be is anyone's guess at this point. Hopefully, it will preserve most of Canada's access to the U.S. market. We have managed to get the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) across the line, a major achievement in this era of anti-globalization sentiment, and let's hope we can preserve the essential elements of NAFTA. At the same time, we need to keep our eye on what is happening with Asia where there are many significant changes — the apparent unravelling of U.S. commitment to construct the economic architecture of the region, China's assertion of leadership on the trade front, ASEAN's growing role, a need to cement our negotiated access to the Japanese market and the fluid situation with regard to the kind of structure that may emerge from the TPP's wreckage.
Trump may have whisked away the original TPP basket, but there are still plenty of options available for Canada to pursue its interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Asia is going to be the main engine of growth well into the future, and Canada needs to embed itself as part of the region for both economic and strategic reasons. Negotiating additional bilateral arrangements, such as with China and Japan, will be important building blocks, but participation in a regional trading bloc such as with ASEAN should also be pursued as a priority. While NAFTA's uncertain future and the Trump administration's policy directions are casting a shadow over the global trading system, Canada can still act to maximize its options to exploit the opportunities presented by the Asia-Pacific region.
1 Laura Dawson, "Can Canada Join the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Why Just Wanting it is not Enough," C. D. Howe Institute, Commentary No. 340, February 2012. http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Commentary_3403.pdf
2 https://www.nafta-alena.gc.ca/Home/Legal-Texts/Canada-Chile-Free-Trade-Agreement
3 http://international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/peru-perou/fta-ale/background-contexte.aspx?lang=eng
4 http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-wants-to-join-u-s-and-asia-pacific-region-free-trade-deal-harper
5 https://www.csis.org/analysis/trans-pacific-partnership-negotiations-conclude
6 http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/tpp-ptp/index.aspx?lang=eng
7 "The Trans-Pacific Partnership: What's in it for Canada?", Business Council of Canada, 2016. http://thebusinesscouncil.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Whats-in-it-for-Canada-2016.pdf
8 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/canada-japan-trade-talks-stall-with-no-meetings-in-sight/article24582982/
9 http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/tpp-not-dead-yet-canada-should-ratify-trade-deal-and-send-a-strong-message-to-trump-says-japans-envoy
10 https://www.policyschool.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/canada-korea-free-trade-beaulieu.pdf
11 http://international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/korea-coree/fta-ale/background-contexte.aspx?lang=eng
12 http://ipolitics.ca/2017/02/08/theres-still-time-to-save-the-tpp/
13 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4313712/Chile-Pacific-Trade-meeting-seeks-new-path-failed-TPP.html
14 http://thediplomat.com/2017/02/while-trump-and-abe-eye-bilateral-pact-australia-keeps-tpp-alive/
15 https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/joint-statement-tpp-partners
16 http://www.international.gc.ca/americas-ameriques/pacific_alliance_pacifique/index.aspx?lang=eng
17 https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2017/03/marking_20_yearsoffreetradewithchileministerchampagnemakesthecas.html
18 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/tpp-meeting-a-critical-moment-for-canadas-asian-trade-ambitions/article34285867
19 http://dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/rcep/Pages/regional-comprehensive-economic-partnership.aspx
20 http://www.international.gc.ca/asean/relations.aspx?lang=eng
21 https://www.asiapacific.ca/news/canada-asean-launch-joint-fta-feasibility-study
22 https://dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/rcep/Documents/guiding-principles-rcep.pdf
23 Ganeshan Wignaraja, Asian Development Bank Institute, The Regional Economic Partnership: An Initial Assessment, East-West Center, Honolulu, http://www.eastwestcenter.org/sites/default/files/filemanager/pubs/pdfs/NewDirections/NewDirections-04rcepnegotiation.pdf
24 http://www.apec.org/Meeting-Papers/Leaders-Declarations/2016/2016_aelm/2016_Annex_A.aspx
25 http://thediplomat.com/2016/01/justin-trudeau-and-canada-china-relations/
26 http://international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/china-chine/fipa-apie/index.aspx?lang=eng
27 http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/china-chine/study-comp-etude.aspx?lang=eng
28 http://international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/china-chine/fta-ale/background-contexte.aspx?lang=eng
29 https://www.asiapacific.ca/surveys/national-opinion-polls/2016-national-opinion-poll-canadian-views-asia
30 https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbulloch/2017/01/18/xi-jinpings-davos-speech-defends-globalisation-but-does-china-really-mean-it/#298112bf3124
31 http://www.ccbc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20-Measures.pdf
32 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/us-politics/trump-protectionist-rhetoric-nafta/article33654332/
33 http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/softwood-lumber-dispute-with-u-s-sees-b-c-turn-to-china-india-1.3182850
Hugh Stephens has more than 35 years of government and business experience in the Asia-Pacific region. He is currently Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and Vice Chair of the Canadian Committee on Pacific Economic Cooperation (CANCPEC) and an Executive Fellow at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. He is also an Associate Faculty member in the School of Business at Royal Roads University, Victoria, B.C. and a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Before returning to Canada in December 2009, he served as Senior Vice President, Public Policy (Asia Pacific) for Time Warner, based at the company's regional headquarters in Hong Kong, and continued to serve as a Senior Advisor to the company until 2013. Prior to joining Time Warner in 2001, Mr. Stephens spent 28 years with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), including postings to five Canadian missions in Asia. His final assignment was as Assistant Deputy Minister for Policy and Communications at DFAIT.
The Canadian Global Affairs Institute focuses on the entire range of Canada's international relations in all its forms including (in partnership with the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy), trade investment and international capacity building. Successor to the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI, which was established in 2001), the Institute works to inform Canadians about the importance of having a respected and influential voice in those parts of the globe where Canada has significant interests due to trade and investment, origins of Canada's population, geographic security (and especially security of North America in conjunction with the United States), social development, or the peace and freedom of allied nations. The Institute aims to demonstrate to Canadians the importance of comprehensive foreign, defence and trade policies which both express our values and represent our interests.
The Institute was created to bridge the gap between what Canadians need to know about Canadian international activities and what they do know. Historically Canadians have tended to look abroad out of a search for markets because Canada depends heavily on foreign trade. In the modern post-Cold War world, however, global security and stability have become the bedrocks of global commerce and the free movement of people, goods and ideas across international boundaries. Canada has striven to open the world since the 1930s and was a driving factor behind the adoption of the main structures which underpin globalization such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization and emerging free trade networks connecting dozens of international economies. The Canadian Global Affairs Institute recognizes Canada's contribution to a globalized world and aims to inform Canadians about Canada's role in that process and the connection between globalization and security.
In all its activities the Institute is a charitable, non-partisan, non-advocacy organization that provides a platform for a variety of viewpoints. It is supported financially by the contributions of individuals, foundations, and corporations. Conclusions or opinions expressed in Institute publications and programs are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Institute staff, fellows, directors, advisors or any individuals or organizations that provide financial support to the Institute.
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When it comes to simple Northern Indian fare, I just love tucking into some Tandoori Chicken with some plain (or garlic) naan and dhal. As I did not have a Tandoori oven, I grilled these Tandoori Chicken using some nice portions of boneless chicken breast recently. The outcome was fantastic. Do revisit the naan and dhal recipes which were posted previously to complete this meal. So, for my Butter Chicken dish which I planned to cook, I had to quickly set aside some of the chicken tandoori before it all disappeared. :-) No surprises here, my next post tomorrow will be the Indian Butter Chicken recipe. Do come back to check it out!
Prepare the chicken: Cut the chicken into cubes or make few deep incisions into the flesh on the chicken breast. Marinade the chicken with lime juice, chili powder, and sea salt. Set aside for 1 hour.
In a small bowl, combine all the ingredients for the second marinade. Rub the marinade into the chicken and set aside for at least 3 hours.
Prepare the grill for direct cooking over medium heat. Fix the chicken on to a skewer. Grill the chicken with a lid closed and baste with the vegetable oil, turning once or twice until the meat is fully cooked, about 10 to 13 minutes. Serve warm with the onion and some lime wedges.
That looks wonderful! I love Indian food and have been wanting to cook more of it. thx for sharing!
Whoa! I'm half Indian and this looks awesome! You should come over and teach me. Lol.
Just recently discovered your blog. Your food recipes and pics look awesome. I can't wait to try this recipe.
BTW, did you use the red food coloring on your chicken?
I am not familiar with it....where do you purchase this?


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CDC director 'not shy about his Catholic faith,' says Baltimore pastor
By Tim Swift
Crux—When Msgr. Richard Woy sees Dr. William Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on television these days flanked by medical experts issuing the latest guidance on the novel coronavirus he doesn't just see one of the top health officials in the U.S., he sees one of the faithful.
Woy, rector of Baltimore's Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, said when he met Redfield and his wife, Joyce, "they had been active parishioners here for decades."
As Redfield helps lead the federal response to the growing threat of coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, his pastor and friends say his years of work studying viruses along with his deep Catholic faith will help guide the country through the crisis.
"Dr. Redfield is not shy about his Catholic faith. And I think it does not compromise in any way his work as a scientist," Woy told the Catholic Review, the media outlet of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. "I do not believe he sees any contradiction between the two whatsoever."
Although Redfield was unavailable for an interview, he said in a statement that the faith community will play an important role as the pandemic continues.
"I have witnessed firsthand the impact of the faith community's work in global disease outbreaks," Redfield said in his statement. "The same compassion, counsel and care will be just as important as we confront this new virus and as many Americans and others around the world experience disruption in their daily lives."
He added, "The faith community has always stepped in to enhance response efforts where our … Read More>>


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Daniel Sherrier
Earths in Space vol. 1: Where Are the Little Green Men?
Earths in Space vol. 2: We Must Evolve
RIP vol. 1: Choices After Death
The Flying Woman
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Life can evolve. Amena saw the evidence on an ancient Earth. It wasn't pleasant evidence, and it wasn't evolution into sentient life, but she saw evidence.
So okay, she accepts that no little green men exist on alien worlds, but maybe one of these other Earths holds evolved humanity.
Evolution faces a powerful obstacle, however — humanity itself.
Volume 2: We Must Evolve begins with the discovery of a mysterious ark full of refugees caught in orbit over Pluto…
Wait, an ark full of refugees…?
Well, that's one Earth that's not evolving. But another could be doing better. It's possible, Amena keeps telling herself…
Continuing the action-packed Earths in Space series, We Must Evolve features a novel-length journey told in four novellas — "The Pluto Factor," "Worlds to Save," "The New World," and "On Hold."
Copyright 2015 Daniel R. Sherrier
Sela shut off her gadget. The paneling sprang to life, dragged her through the hull, and it dropped her into a dimly lit corridor. Tall glass cases lined both walls, stopping just before a bulky door a short walk away, though they took a couple of breaks to permit alcoves on both sides. Condensation obscured their contents.
She rubbed her forearm against the nearest case, wiping away the moisture until she could see a woman sleeping within. The individual stood perfectly still behind the glass, not even breathing. A faint coat of blue covered her exposed skin, though it appeared purplish through Sela's helmet. There was glass within the glass, specifically around the head—a fishbowl helmet above which stringy cables bunched together. They extended down, spreading to various points of her skin and through her clothing, as well as into the fishbowl helmet.
The case re-frosted, but Sela was already directing her attention upward. She followed the cables into a compact generator that sat upon the case, forming its cap. Straining, her ears detected a soft hum, and she realized even that little bit of noise was cumulative. The dozens of generators produced a handful of decibels. Each unit was plugged into the wall, which, Sela presumed, allowed them to draw power from the exterior solar paneling.
How long had this technology kept these people alive? The computers positioned at the bottom of each case displayed the answer. Sela stood straighter and nodded in respect.
A cough came from nowhere, startling Sela, yanking her away from burgeoning ideas on cryogenics.
No, not nowhere—the alcove. She approached tentatively.
"It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," a man said. He cleared his throat before continuing. "It's so clean and pure."
Sela peered around the corner and found the lone man gazing out a hexagonal window as the bright whiteness of Pluto reflected back on him. What appeared to be an oxygen tank was strapped to his back, plugged into his rotund helmet. Sela glanced at the air quality scanner on her wrist, and it reported safe, breathable air. Even though this ark replicated Earth's sea-level atmosphere even more accurately than her own vessel, she decided not to deactivate her helmet yet.
The man turned to her. The glass was unable to dull the curiosity in his eyes. Despite his rumpled attire, emaciated physique, and general air of weariness, he seemed compelling. Sela knew this was a smart man.
"What do you think?" he asked.
"That's something of a loaded question with me. I never know where to begin. I have so many questions, the most pertinent of which has to do with my colleagues."
"They're still them. If they didn't arrive here, they must be with one of the other greeters. I'm supposed to greet you. Hello."
"Hi. My name's Sela."
The man looked up at nothing in particular, rediscovering a concept. "Right. I guess you need something to call me. Fabrice."
"Nice to meet you, Fabrice. This ship is a marvel. The solar capture technology must be incredible—I mean, factoring in the considerable time you must have spent in-between solar systems subsisting off of ambient solar radiation. Granted, the momentum must have carried much of the workload, and life support is hardly a necessary expenditure for a trip spent in suspended animation. Still…" She pointed at the nearest cryogenic tank and its computer. "Am I reading that right? You left your Earth forty thousand years ago?"
Fabrice turned to Pluto. "Forty thousand years, and here we are, just as we were."
"Your technology could revolutionize the energy industry. The key to perpetual power is right here in your infrastructure." The idea sparked a new one. "It might be possible to recycle the sun." It made sense to her, and it led to further ideas.
She contemplated how this technology might facilitate a lunar colony, though she kept interrupting herself with notions of stellar recycling. Doubts arose, but a robust internal debate thwarted most of them. That didn't stop new doubts from emerging. Those doubts needed to wait, however, as she considered how this ancient technology might integrate with the octahedron's systems. She vigorously tapped her helmet and kept tilting her head at various angles in hopes of acquiring a better perspective of each new hypothetical scenario.
Fabrice watched her brainstorm, and Sela became self-conscious. Her mind was behaving inappropriately. Too many other questions required more immediate answers.
"Thank you, Sela," he said, his mouth lifting into a slight smile for the first time. "It is my technology. The solar capture, the cryogenics, your route of ingress—my ideas."
He truly did seem compelling, Sela thought, and his voice had a seductive charm. The temperature rose within her climate-controlled spacesuit.
"I'd love to exchange ideas sometime," she said. "I've developed a means of trans-spatial travel—'popping'—I refer to it as 'popping' across the galaxy. Just a silly little term. I surrendered to a moment of whimsy. Of course, with the power required to achieve the speeds necessary to cut out of normal space entirely and reappear at a predetermined point, the vessel has to remain relatively small, at least as far as I've managed to figure out. Nothing of this scale. But if we incorporated your solar capture units, perhaps if they stockpiled the requisite energy…"
Too many unanswered questions, she reminded herself. Stop adding new ones.
Fabrice said, "I like your helmet. And your belt. Are those devices of your own invention?"
"Oh. Yes." Sela looked down at her gadgets and felt oddly embarrassed as a few knocked against each other. "Most are just cheap parlor tricks, really."
Unanswered questions!
"Why are you here? We don't mind, necessarily," she said, as her brain continued jumping tracks. "And then there's the matter of the lifesigns my colleague detected on Pluto, and my sensor's picking up clean air here, and yet you're breathing your own oxygen supply. And the impetus for embarking on a forty-thousand-year journey—I assume Pluto wasn't your target?"
"It was not. It was an unanticipated variable."
"I thought so. So you were coming to us. You've been coming to us since long before we had a civilization." She wanted to take a step forward, but something held her back. "What happened to your world?"
Fabrice extended an arm toward the cryogenic tanks, the ones to the right. "You can probably see for yourself by now."
Sela hurried back into the corridor and inspected the tanks. Most looked the same, except the one with a puddle forming at its base. She sprinted over there and wiped away the condensation, but it didn't clear up. Moisture accumulated inside as well. The computer screen flashed red.
"Fabrice! This person is thawing. How do we fix it?"
"On my world, we have—we had a theory of cosmic entropy. Systems strive for homogeneity."
"Whoever is in that tank is going to die if we don't do something."
"The entire universe is constantly struggling to reach a uniform temperature. It craves sameness."
Sela dropped onto her knees in front of the computer. Maybe she could learn the system fast enough to save the poor soul.
Fabrice continued, his tone losing any charm it once had, if it ever had any. "A universe craving homogeneity has an obstacle, a nemesis—life. We're the piece that doesn't belong. The universe wants us to perish."
The figure behind the fogged glass stirred.
"He's still alive, Fabrice. How do we get him out of—"
The case shattered, and shards bounced off Sela's helmet as she fell onto her back, damaging some of her equipment. A bright purplish orb forced her to shield her eyes, though it was almost certainly bluish to naked perception. The glare effectively blinded her while her pupils went about the tedious chore of adjusting. Her curiosity, however, proved stronger than her discomfort. She squinted through her fingers, into the glare, and her eyes snapped wide open.
The man exited the tank for the first time in forty thousand years, his fists leading the way. His legs didn't do much of anything, didn't need to.
That bright purplish orb was the man's head. And the man was floating.
Floating toward her.
He descended, his legs bending in whatever direction would get them out of the way. His fists uncurled, and he pawed at Sela's helmet until he found purchase.
She reached for her lighter. Her arm quavered as she fired at his midsection. She could have sworn the laser struck him, but he displayed no reaction and his hands remained on her helmet. He didn't attack her, just held on with such strength that she couldn't slip free.
Coherence melted away from her thoughts, so she tried to latch onto any idea she could. That man, the non-glowing man, whatever his name was, he was talking about, about, about entropy. Focus on entropy. Entropy. What about entropy? Entropy was…was…


This unit contains functions to process system procedures like Write, Writeln, Assign, Dispose, Delete, etc.
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One of the capturable wild pets. Found one at the Drak'Sotra Fields in Zul'Drak.
When up close, and presumably when captured, these tiny elementals have a constant 'babbling brook' sound. I can see it potentially getting on some people's nerves, while others (like me) find it incredibly soothing. This could be a favorite!
When clicked, they have a soft rushing, watery growling sound, completely unlike the usual aggro sound of water elementals.
These guys are level 22 battle pets, and they have two other critters with them.
The rare ones will have around 1375 hp.
Also found a rare with balanced stats with 1311 health.
Ondina d'Acqua are also very good for grinding out rare versions of Rospo Gigante and Lepre Artica and Serpente because they're very close together and the respawn is super quick.
Start a battle and Forfeit the battle if a rare version of one of them didn't join the fight.
Although the Frost Shock ability says it "Chills the target", it does not actually apply the Chilled debuff, so it will not increase the damage of Ice Lance.
These can be found in the Drak'Sotra Fields waterpools just northeast of Rageclaw lake in Zul'Drak.
These guys are a necessity against most high level pandaren masters, notably Pandaren Spirit Tamers.
To beat those masters, you need strong aquatic attacks, but the master's pets have attacks that can nuke your aquatic pets. One option are Snails, like Rhapana Whelk, which have a strong aquatic attack and themselves are critters.
Wavelings are also good, because they are elementals but have two strong aquatic attacks. Additionally, they will down-level when captured at worst to 20, so leveling them won't take much effort.
I have a rotation I thought I would share, it works great on pet trainers with Elemental and Mechanical pets. I use it for every battle with the Pandaren Spirit Tamers.
Geyser is the first attack I use. When it goes off, his pet will be stunned and he will just switch it out.
So after you use Geyser, use Water Jet one time.
Next, use Frost Nova. It will prevent him from switching pets during battle for two rounds, long enough for Geyser to go off (leaving him stunned). Nuke him with Water Jet until everything is off cool down, and do it all over again.
If you do not get that Frost Nova off, he will just switch his pet out once Geyser goes off (unless Geyser misses).
This works great and it will annihilate Elemental and Mechanical pets!
To sum it up: Geyser, Water Jet, Frost Nova, Water Jet until everything is off cool down.
I want... no... I NEED this for my Frost Mage. Can this be caged and sold in the AH? Asking to see if I can find it there since I don't do pet battles.
This pet completely trivializes the fight against Contadina Nishi.
She always starts with Sirena (to the best of my knowledge). Nuke her back row down with tidal waves, then finish off Sirena with Water Jets. As long as your other pets can survive her periodic Sunlight casts (which occur about once every 7 rounds or so), you win. I've brought in pets as low as level 7 to this fight.
I've checked the area of the Water Waveling for a rare for 2 days, I checked every single one of the damn things and there was no rare. All greys or greens. Does a damn rare spawn?
I saw these on my way to check the Unborn Val'kyr spawn and thought, "An Elemental pet with Aquatic attacks? That's perfect! I've needed one of those many times."
Since I began grinding these I've leveled 10 pets to 25 and captured rares of every secondary pet that comes with these without once running into a rare Waveling.
If you're intent on a rare Waveling of your own, beware, the comments on scarcity are terrifyingly accurate.
Edit: 2 more maxed pets later, finally met a rare, only to lose the fight by a single turn after multiple improbable misses and a few crits. I'm convinced developer malice is at play here.
Yes! There is a rare! I battled all the Water Wavelings in four ponds before I finally found one, outside of the pond! (near a band of trolls) As others pointed out, you will find rare Arctic Hare, Snake and Huge Toad as well (I upgraded my Arctic Hare and Huge Toad from common and lower level rare). Best part, I dinged while I was at it. My Water Waveling was 1315, started out at lvl 23, went down to lvl 21 after capture. Have faith!
Can't understand why many think getting rares isn't possible. Pretty much all pets that can be tamed have a rare version. It took me 5 pet battles to get my rare water waveling. Ofcourse you could use the upgrade stone if you can't wait to grind a bit. Unpatient people "sigh".
For anyone else stuck grinding these for the (mythical, coveted) rare, try a Granchio Scorzalunare (2/1/1). Getto d'Acqua mows down the trashy failure wavelings. Guscio Difensivo & Nebbie Curative give you absolutely bonkers longevity and recovery– you will never be threatened & don't need to bother with team heals/revives unless you want to.
My P/P rare fresh off of Shadowmoon Valley's beaches soloed the wavelings & co from the get-go without swaps or team healing, so if you'd like to level your crab this way you'll have no problems getting it to 25. Or, if you just need to bonk the trash waveling and retreat, you'll have plenty of healing to keep going on and on and on and on.
Questo PNG si può incontrare qui: Zul'drak (62).
I Troll di Zul'drak hanno creato queste piccole creature per sbaglio, mentre cercavano di evocare gli Elementali dell'Acqua per contrastare il Flagello.


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Mumbai: Dairies to stop sale of milk in plastic pouches from Dec 15, pay farmers only Rs 20 per litrehttps://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-dairies-to-stop-sale-of-milk-in-plastic-pouches-from-dec-15-pay-farmers-only-rs-20-per-litre/
Mumbai: Dairies to stop sale of milk in plastic pouches from Dec 15, pay farmers only Rs 20 per litre
In June this year, the state government had banned the sale or use of plastic bags in Maharashtra.
Written by Partha Sarathi Biswas | Pune | Published: December 8, 2018 4:58:11 am
Maharashtra's dairy sector decided to suspend the sale of milk in plastic pouches from December 15. (Source: File Photo)
Maharashtra's dairy sector is again on the verge of a major crisis as dairies have not only decided to pay Rs 20 per litre as procurement price, they have also decided to suspend the sale of milk in plastic pouches from December 15, when plastic manufacturers across the state are expected to go on an indefinite strike.
Maharashtra's dairy sector decided to suspend the sale of milk in plastic pouches from December 15.
On an average, dairies in Maharashtra sell 85 lakh litres of milk in plastic pouches daily.
In June this year, the state government had banned the sale or use of plastic bags in Maharashtra. Dairies are supposed to put in place a buyback mechanism for the pouches, which would allow consumers to sell the used pouches at 50 paise each. The collected pouches were to be transported to the manufacturers for recycling.
But the scheme has stumbled due to the lack of an efficient buyback mechanism. Plastic manufacturers, meanwhile, have announced that they will stop production of milk pouches from December 15 to protest the scheme.
In a meeting held late on Thursday, representatives of dairies decided to stop the sale of milk in pouches from December 15. "Dairies will run out of pouches by then and we will have no other option but to suspend the sale," said Prakash Kutwal, secretary of the Milk Producers and Processors Association, an umbrella body of both cooperative and private dairies in the state.
The association has also decided to revert to the Rs 20 per litre rate procurement price for dairy farmers, as against the Rs 25 per litre mandated by the state government.
Earlier this year, the government had announced a Rs 5 per litre subsidy, to help farmers get better prices for their produce.
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