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Let the celebrations begin as the Manitoba Filipino Street Festival committee held their inaugural breakfast fundraiser at the new Canton Food Gallery.

Over 400 people made their way to the festival fundraiser as plans are well underway for the 2nd annual Manitoba Filipino Street Festival on Saturday, August 24, 2013 at Garden City Shopping Centre.

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Make sure to visit Edma The 28,000-sq-ft store was one Grassler, Marshalls store manager of seven stores to open across and her staff at the new store Canada on Thursday, April 4th. located at 600 Empress.

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Penalties – Something to Think About

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enalties are something that really makes errors, even accidental errors, a real concern when dealing with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

I have to admit, as a former income tax auditor with what was then called the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, I have some feeling for the issues that have led to stricter rules and more aggressive penalties and interest.

Having said that, it does appear the power has gone to CRA’s head.

The most egregious example is the penalty on missed T-slips.

If a taxpayer should happen to miss a T-slip in one year, there is no penalty other than paying interest on any increased debt.

If, however, that taxpayer misses a second T-slip in the next three years the penalty is 20% (10% federal and 10% provincial) on the gross income amount of the T-slip, even if no tax is owing! For example: 2011: Missed T5 with Interest of $100 -No Penalty

2012: Miss another T5 with interest of $3,000-Penalty $600.

This is an automatic penalty calculated once the matching process starts at CRA, usually in late August or September. There is no forgiveness if the T-slip has been lost. We did have one lady that came to us that missed a small T-slip the year her husband died after a long illness and two years later missed a small but significant T4 from an employer who went bankrupt.

The former employer sent the salary information to CRA but she said she never received the slip. The penalty was around $800.

One client of ours received a T5 for approximately $10 and it had made very little difference so she thought she would wait until next year. Luckily CRA did not notify her, but had recorded the information. We were able to amend her record before they had notified her. A second miss could have been extremely painful. In another instance a client had not

received a T4 but we estimated the amount because we could not get the information from her former employer. It is very important that even if the amount is not large that you report it and amend a return as soon as possible.

Not controversial, in my opinion, are penalties for fraud and evasion. I don’t know of any good accountant who will do work for a client that they know is committing fraud or evading tax. So, if your accountant is doing your returns knowing there is fraud, you are getting what you deserve.

The penalties are very severe: 1.

For tax evasion or making false or deceptive statements, keeping deceptive records, etc. the fine is not less than 50% and not more than 200% of the tax evaded plus the possibility of imprisonment for up to two years.

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If successfully indicted for tax evasion a fine of not less than 100% and not more than 200% in addition to any other penalty.

Other penalties exist for not filing, for example, but space is limited, so I have one last example.

There are probably thousands of people that have worked under the table, not paying income tax or Canada Pension. These individuals cannot buy RRSPs (no earned income reported), could not have any recorded income so they cannot invest and now, at an age in the 60s cannot work. The total income for the future is the Old Age Security and

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Then there are numerous cases where they have been caught and the actual tax bill looks quite small compared to the final debt.

There will always be tax evaders and there will always be tax evaders who are caught.

People who are caught seldom identify themselves.

Terry Robert B.A., C.M.A., C.G.A. R. T. Robert Certified General Accountant

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New World Disorder

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he collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1991 catapulted the United States as the only superpower on Earth. It ushered in a new age -- Pax Americana -- with the balance of power securely ensured by the United States encircling what is left of the once-mighty Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the Russian Federation.

But don't be fooled by the demise of the communist regime.

Russia, with 6.6 million square miles of land area covering more than one-eight of the world's inhabited land area. In 2012, Russia was the world's sixth largest economy with a GDP of $2.22 trillion, behind the U.S. (firstranked at $16.66 trillion), China ($10.09 trillion), Japan ($4.31 trillion), India ($4.06 trillion), and Germany ($2.94 trillion).

Endowed with rich natural resources, Russia has the world's largest reserves of natural gas, second-largest reserves of coal, and the eight-largest reserves of crude oil. In 2011, she became the world's largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia; and the second-largest producer of natural gas. And she possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

With the election of Vladimir Putin to the presidency in May 2012 for the second time around -- he served as President for two terms (from 2000 to 2008) but was constitutionally prohibited to

serve a third consecutive term -there are high expectations that Putin would take Russia on the high road to economic progress and propel the country on a trajectory that would regain her share of dominance -- if not total dominance-- of world geopolitics.

Enter the Dragon On March 14, 2013, China's rubberstamp national legislature elected Xi Jinping to the ceremonial title of president, which capped his rise to the pinnacle of power as China's undisputed ruler. Last November, Xi was named Secretary General of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), which controls the CPC's military arm, the People's Liberation Army (PLA). As the country's de facto armed forces, the PLA has an active membership of 2.25 million, which makes it the world's largest standing army.

Never before since the time of Mao Zedong had a Chinese ruler consolidated his power within a short time-- four months!

Upon his ascension to the presidency, Xi's first venture outside China was to visit his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. At their summit in Kremlin last March 22, the two leaders agreed to form a "strategic partnership" to advance their countries' interests. They

affirmed their mutual support for each country's geostrategic and territorial interests, which include territorial disputes. With more than 20 territorial disputes that China is embroiled with various countries -- including Japan, Philippines, India, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam -- this could put Russia squarely on the paths of conflict, which could involve the United States who has mutual defense treaties with at least four of China's adversaries.

"Sweetheart deal" Signing 30 agreements in the areas of energy, trade, technology, and military exchange, the highlight of Xi's visit was a rare glimpse into Russia’s defense command headquarters -- or “war room” -- a first by any foreign leader. Chinese media videotaped the event showing Xi being briefed as he looked at computers and giant screens tracking military intelligence targets.

On the economic front, the new China-Russia strategic partnership would bind the two countries in jointly developing Russia's most strategic economic resources -- oil, gas, and coal -- to meet China's massive current and future energy requirements.

One of the summit's immediate results was an agreement for Russia to triple her oil supplies to China in exchange for a $2-billion loan. In addition, the two countries agreed on a preliminary deal to build a gas pipeline. Indeed, with Russia as one of the world's largest energy producers and China the world's number one energy consumer, one can say that Xi got a "sweetheart deal" he couldn't resist.

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A Royal Good Time in Brandon

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ust when I thought that the winter festivals were over, my friends introduced me to the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair in Brandon, Manitoba. For as long as I’ve lived in Manitoba, this was the first time I’ve heard of it and after some insightful hints and highlights by other friends, I decided to take the trip out to Brandon.

The Royal Manitoba Winter Fair has been around for 106 years and in 1970, during a visit

by Queen Elizabeth II granted the Manitoba Winter Fair with a “Royal” designation. There are only two other fairs in the world with that distinction. As well, the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair is the starting point for many of the equine competitions and competitors and exhibitors travel from far and wide to participate in this internationally renowned event.

The Keystone Centre is home for the week long fair and with so many activities, it’s pretty easy to see why this event is well attended by families. The Ag-Awareness area is where city folk like myself can learn about agriculture and even get my hands dirty in sheep shearing demonstrations or even milking cows. In the stables, getting up close and personal to the huge Clydesdales was a breath taking. I’ve seen Clydesdales on TV during Budweiser commercials

during the Super Bowl. I didn’t realize how large these horses are until I visited the stables and saw them rumbling through the Keystone Centre during the fourhorse hitch championships. These horses are huge and majestic.

The biggest draw in the nightly entertainment for me was the pig scramble where 20 kids/youth are let loose on 10 wriggly little pigs in the area. The goal is for the kids to catch a little pig and slide a band around the little pig’s neck. It’s largely amusing watching young teenage kids run after a screaming and waddling pig. I only wish they had a similar event for the big kid in all of us.

Judging from the enthusiasm from the crowd, the horse jumping competition was pretty riveting.

All I know about horse jumping is that if they jump the gates without knocking down poles, that’s good.

Jumping and knocking down poles, is bad. The rider and horse that jumped the course in the best time without knocking down gates, won.

While I did catch the President’s Choice Superdogs show, I missed out on the cattle auction. Maybe I’ll save that experience for next year’s Royal Manitoba Winter Fair. Lots of fun and excitement for your entire family.

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Magnus on the left, Michelle (Charles Carlos’ wife), Cameryn (their daughter) and Thane feeding the chicken. (Photo by Charles Carlos)

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lost political fortune of the Liberal Party and win the next federal election, three years from now?

But that political stake is too high!

The changing demographic map of voters has become the prize

by Rod E. Cantiveros of power of the Conservative and the NDP respectively. As a backgrounder, the Liberal Party was the darling of the new Canadians in the 60’s, and 70’s, and party in the 80’s. Still fresh in the minds of the new Canadians during those years, that the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau welcomed pring is in the air; and it is also of the current government. With into the country the thousand of evident at the Liberal party all the great records of the Harper new immigrants from the various planet where a new leader government, it will be a grand battle countries which resulted to demystify will inject a new and invigorating royal among the gladiators in the adrenalin to make the party alive political arena in 2016! and ready to figh hard to regain the Marc Garneau, the probable lost fortune from the electorate. candidate who would stop Justin Justin Trudeau, being the Trudeau, left the race at the middle front runner, seems like a new bud of the highway, and proclaimed his to bloom; a new promise to revive support to young Justine Trudeau, the Liberal party whose fortune had being groomed as the 2nd coming been lost after the two consecutive of the former Prime Minister Pierre party leaders failed to get a mandate, Elliot Trudeau. Yes, undeniably, and much worse, to become the 3rd Justin carries the DNA of his dad, the party in the House of Common; and former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot worst, to lose the political grandeur Trudeau. He has the rich legacy of of being the official opposition in his father, remember this iconic the House of Common! The party line: ‘Just watch me.’ Would the 2nd morale is low, as if they can hear Trudeaumania adddress some of the from the ground, the cascading pressings problems being faced the sounds of the burrowing Prairie Dog; current government? And to halt or even the smell of the decaying the surging popularity of the NDP? grass underneath the snow. But with And who among the leadership the presence of many candidates for candidates (Martin Cauchon, David the Liberal leadership, the windchill Bertschi, George Takach, Karen became tamer, the party morale is McCrimmon,Joyce Murray, Martha boosted that some day, probably, in Hall Findlay, and Deborah Coyne) the next election, it would be the can face the political opponents who return of the Liberal party as the have strong arsenal of members, governing political power. followers, volunteers and money?

And who will be that leader who And, are we ready for a woman has guts and with prime ministerial prime minister? stature to face the political foes from If one follows the increase the governing Conservative and momentum of the Liberal Party the newly minted Opposition party, leadership race, one might surmise the NDP, not to mention the Green that there is only one candidate who Party. And who is that leader who stands to be the newly minted Liberal can argue the glowing economic Party Leader, Justin Trudeau. But the boom and the “feeling good image” question is: Would he bring back the

The Republic of Adobo

Would the newly minted leader bring back the lost political fortune of the Liberal Party?

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the so-called “two sollitudes”; and to the institutionalizing “bilingualism” and multi-culturalism. The fabric of the Canadian society had changed overnight when various races, creeds, cultures and heritage had been ingrained in the consciousness of being a Canadian. Canada is a land of immigrants and thousand of immigrants arrive every year to propel the economic engine of the country, thus, to make Canada ready to the demand of the 22nd century.

But in the late 80’s, in the 90’s and the 20’s, the Liberal Party had lost its touch with the new immigrants, with the new Canadians. The Conservative and the NDP received the bigger slice of the voting power

of the New Canadians, or what we call in a current political jargon, the “ethnic votes”. And, probably in the long run, the Green Party whose popularity is surging, might take over the Liberal Party’s popularity if this party fails to elect a new leader who has the stronger political base, who can address the cross-cultural needs in our society; and you can “go on dancing into the night” with the young and the old voters.

In this coming April 14 Liberal Party leadership convention, let the winner, at the very next day, he or she must start gathering the new strong fabrics of various colours, and start weaving the political mosaic of this beautiful, lovely, and wonderful country, OUR CANADA!

3 Pinoy indie films for 5th CPH PIX

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hree Pinoy indie films will be screened at the 5th CPH PIX, an annual film festival to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 11-24, including “Diablo,”“Six Degrees of Separation from Lilia Cuntapay,” and “Thy Womb”.

The three films were commended in the fest’s website.

Ramon Mez de Guzman’s “Diablo” is described as an “excellent and extremely well-produced drama.” “Six Degrees of Separation from Lilia Cuntapay” by Antoinette Jadaone, on the other hand, is deemed “touchingly sensitive” as it is “intensely moving” and “extremely relevant.”

Brillante Mendoza “Thy Womb” was also applauded by

the website and describes as the multi-awarded director as “the Philippine film industry’s frontrunning maverick.”

Recently, Mendoza and “Thy Womb” star Nora Aunor won the best director and best actress recognition at 6th ASIA-PACIFIC Awards (APSA).

There are three other Filipino films will be featured at the 14th Jeonju International Film Festival, to be held in South Korea from April 25 to May 3. Dwein Baltazar’s “Mamay Umeng,” and Shireen Seno’s “Big Boy” – both CinemaOne Originals entries last year – as well as John Torres’ “Lukas Niño (Lukas The Strange).”

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Manitoba Filipino Street Festival breakfast fundraising is an instant success!

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lose to more than 470 people enjoyed the breakfast fundraising held recently at the newly opened Canton Food Gallery at Logan and McPhillps. With the usual

yummy breakfast menu of fried bangus, fried rice, scrambled egg and coffee (with so much refills), the officers, sponsors, volunteers and friends of the Manitoba Filipino Street Festival

Inc. savoured the Pinoy "almusal" from 7 until 11 a.m.

Co sponsored by Sunnyday Environmental, the fundraising is the first attempt of the Manitoba Filipino Street Festival Inc. to

raise funds for the 2nd year festival which will be held on August 24, 2013 at Garden City Shopping Centre. And at the same time, to encourage more organizations and volunteers to join the festival

which had become a "talk of the town" of their 1st festival held last year, 2012.

Door prizes were given away to the lucky winners.

Who will win the major prize of $1,000 in the Manitoba Filipino Street Festival poster contest?

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t least 34 entries were submitted to the 1st Manitoba Filipino Street Festival poster contest and the winners will be announced on April 6, at 2 p.m. at the Garden City Shopping Centre. Prizes include: 1st. Prize: $1,000 donated by Canadian Tire and MP Kevin Lamoureux; 2nd Prize: $300; 3rd, $200, donated

by Canadian Tire; and other consolation prizes for participants.

There will be also prizes to those who will be attending the event.

The 2nd Manitoba Filipino Street Festival will be held on August 24, Saturday, 2013 at the Garden City Shopping Centre parking lots. The winning entries will be published at Artista and Filipino Journal, media sponsors.

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The Spice Is Right For Yea Dim Sum

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ocated in the heart of Chinatown, Yea Dim Sum is completely renovated and is a new Asian inspired restaurant founded by Edward Lam and Jonathan Tung. Chef Edward Lam has over 10 years of experience in the restaurant and food services industry, as well as serving as the executive head chef for a private Alberta resort.

Jonathan Tung also has over 10 years of experience in the restaurant business as his travels have taken him to Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton. The Tung’s former family business, well over 20 years was the former Dim Sum Garden, which was sold back in 2007. They’ve since taken the business back and renamed it as Yea Dim Sum Asian Cuisine.

Yea Dim Sum restaurant serves the traditional taste of dim sum with a new, modern twist. During the busy lunch service, carts of hot steamy dim sum roll through the two-tiered restaurant. The lower level seats approximately 70 people while the top level section at the back of the restaurant can accommodate 130 people. Dim sum happy hour is Monday-Friday, 2pm-10pm and Saturday/Sunday all day excluding holidays.

Many of the items you’ll find on the Yea Dim Sum’s a la carte menu are inspired culinary dishes that have originated from regional Chinese communities in Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, China and Indonesia. While keeping true to traditional Chinese dishes, Chef

Edward Lam brings elements of different regional cooking techniques, preparations and spices in Yea Dim Sum dishes.

You can expect a majority of their dishes to be spicy. In fact, one page in their menu is dedicated to the sauces used in their dishes. XO sauce is a spicy seafood sauce invented in Hong Kong. Belachan/belachan is a Malay style sambal, which is composed of freshly pounded chilis with sugar and lime juice. Sambals are popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, southern Philippines and Sri Lanka.

Several dishes that use the sambal sauce include beef with sugar snap peas (B4), or their minced pork with deep fried peas in a XO sambal sauce. According to Chef Edward

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Business Profile Lam, many of the dishes can be toned down on the spiciness scale to accommodate the varying palate desires of customers.

Here’s a sneak peek at some of their dishes: The Eggroll is a Japanese inspired dish that incorporates the Japanese art of making rolls. A crispy crepe is stuffed with shredded pork tenderloin, cilantro, cucumber and carrots.

Coming from French & Italian cooking, their crispy chicken coated

with garlic butter is lightly marinated, deep fried and tossed in garlic butter.

Asam fish is a Malaysian preparation that has a spicy, sweet and sour sauce poured over a deboned filet of either kanakura, halibut or pickerel and served with eggplant and okra.

You can find out more about Yea Dim Sum on their website at YeaDimSum.com or visit their Facebook Page. Business hours are Monday - Sunday 11am - 10pm.

Selection of dim sum items

Jonathan Tung (left) and Edward Lam (right) share their Asian inspired dishes (from left to right) Yea Dim Sum crispy chicken, Asam Kanakura and pork tenderloin eggroll

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wenty-year-old beauty from General Santos City Henna Kaizzelle Nicole “KC” Cajandig was chosen to

pageant to her previous sexy photos for a men’s magazine.

KC Cajandig is now replace Theresa Fenger, who candidate number 35 as seen in voluntarily backed out from the the updated list of contestants on Philippines most popular beauty the Bb. Pilipinas website.

Prior to joining the pageant, KC earned a runner-up rank in Ford Models’ Supermodel of the World-Philippines 2008.

The Binibining Pilipinas Charities, Inc. has not yet released an official statement as of this publication. However, the organization enforces a rule that

any candidate who has posed for sexy magazines will be automatically disqualified.

In 2010, Theresa, who used the screen name Lana Roi, did a pictorial for FHM together with her former group mates from Eurasia. Canadian-Filipina hopeful Theresa Fenger became popular as she was declared winner of the Century Tuna Superbods 2009.

Three crowns will be conferred on the winning candidates on April 14, who will

Dance of the Steel Bars: A film inspired by real stories of Filipino inmates Irish actor Patrick Bergin and Filipino heartthrob Dingdong Dantes are the stars behind the riveting film directed by Cesar Apolinario and Marnie Manicad “Dance of the Steel Bars". A story inspired by actual events in a Filipino prison, the struggles that inmates experience and their quest to feel human again.

The action drama was shot in the Cebu provincial prison, the same place where the inmates dressed in orange uniforms danced to global fame.

Their choreographed act still attracts thousands of tourists

who troop to the prison to watch the performance.

The Dubai-based producer, Portfolio Films International, said the story follows Bergin's character, Frank Parish, a retired U.S. firefighter and philanthropist wrongly jailed for murder in the Philippines.

Frank becomes friends with Mando played by Dingdong Dante, a convicted murderer who denies his passion for dancing just to prove his masculinity and Allona played by Joey Paras, a transsexual who tries

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represent the country in the Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Tourism Queen International pageants.

to contribute to prison reforms by teaching his fellow inmates dance exercises. They are caught up in a struggle between the positive changes being implemented by the new jail warden and a corrupt prison system.

Marnie Manicad, who codirected the movie with television reporter Cesar Apolinario share that the story is fictional but inspired by real stories of the inmates. They made the film to tell the story of redemption, and of the human spirit's ability to change for the better.

Manicad, her husband and television reporter Jiggy Manicad, and Apolinario co-wrote the story.

The screenplay is by Cris Lim. Dance of the Steel Bars is set for local release on June 12.

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world." But what he presumably meant to say was that the new China-Russia military-economic alliance would be so formidable that it would establish a new world order never seen before. In Xi's mind, only a China-Russia military-economic alliance could stop the United States' "pivot to Asia" strategy. And one of Xi's concerns was the United States' building of an intercontinental ballistic missile defense system, which could tilt the balance of power towards the U.S. Kim goes ballistic But when Kim Jong-Un, North Korea's young-- and untested -- leader, went ballistic, it rattled everybody! His scrapping of the 1953 Korean War Armistice and testing of a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead have prompted the U.S. to reassess her missile shield system against North Korea.

Last March 15, Department of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that the U.S. will spend $1 billion to add 14 interceptors to the current 30 interceptors that are already based in Alaska. In addition, he said that the U.S. is planning to deploy an additional radar system in Japan, a move that would provide an "improved early warning and tracking of any missile launch from North Korea at the U.S. or Japan."

Encirclement It is interesting to note that in January 2010, it was reported in the news that the U.S. had completed the transfer of a $6.4-billion weapons deal with Taiwan that included 200 advanced Patriot anti-ballistic missiles. It was also reported earlier that month that the U.S. had provided Taiwan with eight frigates equipped with the Aegis Combat System, which has the capacity to launch shipbased interceptor missiles.

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missile system in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia. In addition, Taiwan has already a network of 22 missile sites around the country... ready to go!

And that made China nervous... very nervous. The government-owned China Daily reported in its February 22, 2010, that China and Russia are encircled by chain of U.S. antimissile systems with a footprint that extends from Japan to South Korea to Taiwan. As one Chinese military strategist explained: Washington has deployed a ring of anti-missile systems around China's periphery forming a crescent-shaped encirclement that begins in Japan, stretches through nations in the South China Sea to India, and ends in Afghanistan.

In addition to the Aegis Combat System and batteries of Patriot anti-ballistic missiles, the U.S. had moved a squadron of 12 B-52 nuclear-armed bombers and two squadrons of the advanced F-22 Raptor stealth jet fighters to Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. And at least three nuclear attack submarines are also deployed in Guam, which is beyond the range of China's landbased Dong Feng 21D anti-ship ballistic missile.

With the U.S.S. George Washington nuclear-powered super carrier battle group forwarddeployed in Yokosuka, Japan, the U.S. provides an awesome array of state-of-the-art defensive armaments that would keep North Korea, China or Russia from toying with the notion of attacking the U.S. or any of her allies in the Asia-Pacific.

Conspicuously missing from the United States' military defense network is the Philippines, who was once identified as a "major non-NATO ally" of the U.S. Other than the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and the untested Mutual Defense Treaty between the two countries, the Philippines has no role in the "Air-Sea Battle" plan of the U.S. in Asia-Pacific.

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Pax Pacifica Be that as it may, what we're seeing here is a geostrategic shift from a "one world power" -Pax Americana -- to a "strategic partnership" of countries with common interests that is centered in the vast Pacific. With more than 130 countries forming the rim of the Pacific, the age of Pax Pacifica is about to begin. And who would be the dominant force who would chart the destiny of Pax Pacifica -China or the United States?

At the end of the day, one might say that Pax Pacifica could usher in a world of new order... or disorder?

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n the early morning of 20 April 2012 at a mild temperature of 26 degrees C the Coral Princess anchored at Fuerte Aamador just after a 9-hour journey through the massive system of locks of the Panama Canal.

Because Fuerte Amador, a man-made peninsula extending out into the Pacific Ocean, is an anchorage port we have to transfer to the shore via ship's tender.

With our comfortable airconditioned transportation our guided tour enroute to Panama Viejo begins as we drive along the one-mile Amador Causeway that connects four small islands of Flamenco, Perico, Culebra,

and Naos. Along the causeway are shops and restaurants centered around a marina that provides a panoramic vista of the city's impressive skyline.

A diverse multicultural metropolis of almost 1.3 million and the most cosmopolitan in Central America, Panama City is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. According to International Living magazine, Panama City ranks as one of the top places for retirement in the world. In 2003 the city was chosen as the "American Capital of Culture".

Founded on 15 August 1519

by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Davila the city was burned

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and destroyed by a band of pirates under buccaneer Henry Morgan.

The site of the devastated city, the oldest Spanish settlement on the Pacific coast of America, is now known as "Panama Viejo" (Old Panama) referred to interchangeably as Casco Viejo, Casco Antiguo or San Felipe. Still in ruins, the historic quarter has been declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage site since 2003.

Quite evident in the many structures of the old city is the architectural richness from Spanish colonial buildings to French and Antillean townhouses that reflect the cultural diversity of the country. Attesting to the country's past are the ruins of the churches, colonial palaces, bridges, and military edifices.

On foot we explore the narrow streets amidst canopy of flowers hanging from balcony windows. In Panama City most of the residential streets either have no names or three different ones although residents, commonly referred to as "capitalinos", have post office boxes called "apartados". We notice that many of the key buidlings we see have small plaques with descriptive information on them.

Strolling by the area's walkway of the French Plaza provides us with a view of the Amador Causeway, The Bridge

of the Americas (a road bridge completed in 1962 which spans the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal) and the skycrapers of the modern Panama City.

At the Cathedral Square (also known as Plaza de la Independencia) we admire the Metropolitan Cathedral's gleaming spires inlaid with mother-of-pearls. Built from ca.

1614 to 1626, the cathedral has two side chapels that give the church a cross-like shape. One of the greatest treasures of Panama is the famous golden altar (Altar de Oro) of the Church of San Jose.

The massive baroque altar is made of carved mahogany and covered in gold flake, We continue walking through the quaint streets and see the beautiful "El Palacio de las Garzas" (the President's House) with its Moorish patio and fountain.

Last in our must-see list is a visit to the "Teatro Nacional" built in neo-classical style of opulent baroque architecture

complete with giant chandelier, gilded scarlet red balconies and magnificent ceiling frescoes.

Opened in 1908, it has been restored and revitalised and now is the venue for music, ballet, opera, and art/cultural performances.

At the end of the day we toast the city with a "raspador" (a cone of ice shavings with a dash of fruit flavour and milk).

Interesting Trivia - Panama is the largest international banking centre next to Switzerland.

Wearing shorts or flip/flops is not permitted in some banks. The Panama hat is not made in Panama at all. They're imported from Ecuador!

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Way of the Cross procession with St. John’s Cantius Parishoners

The Good Friday's Annual Way of the Cross procession sponsored by Archdiocese of Winnipeg drew more than 800 faithfuls who walked along Burrows Avenue .After the yearly ritual, the Holy Cross is venerated by the parishioners of the parish Photo by Rod Cantiveros | Filipino Journal

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Horoscope You’re entering a vibrant time in your life, which means it’s a great time to begin exploring a new hobby, interest or career opportunity. Make sure that you are getting enough sleep and nourishment. This will help you to get through all of the difficulties you have been experiencing lately. Remember to keep positive despite what is happening around you.

Use the everyday reality around you as energy for the ideal world of your imagination and you’ll find yourself a general inspiration to all. So put some plans in place for a day off. You need to devote all your energy to you! Taking a break will give people the chance to really understand what kind of an impact you make.

This is a day that you can take one of two ways. You can see it as a learning experience and be thankful that it happened now rather than later in your life. Focus in on your dreams, turn them in to attainable goals and follow through with the action necessary to live the life you want.

A new wave of optimism lifts your spirits, and successful developments in both personal and career matters make this an enjoyable time. There could be an awful lot of distractions around you today. All you need to do is keep a positive attitude and stay flexible. That way, you can get through the negative stuff quickly and have more time for the entertaining stuff.

You will be able to balance the day for personal relationship.

Make sure to discuss with one of your family what your plans are as you will get the support you are looking for once you reveal your future goals and aspirations. Participating in spiritual matters will be comforting.

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Today is a very good time to initiate a project you may have wanted to start for a while. The universe is sending you a lot of positive energy, which all but ensures a positive outcome. For each action step you take, time needs to be spent on reflection in order to maximize your effort and ensure effectiveness.

Go out exploring, today, and you are bound to find a few pleasant surprises. You will be able to promote your interests in personal matters. Happiness comes when you are getting acquainted with new things. You can look forward to a good development in career.

You will be able to enjoy success in your career. Today is a good time to be realistic about an upcoming event that you have planned which is causing you unnecessary stress. Adjust your perspective regarding the importance wellness has and commit to promoting your fitness in all areas. All you can do is do your best and hope for a good result.

Touch base with a blue friend today -- they appreciate your kind words more than you could imagine. Your friendship means so much to them, and right now it’s one of the few bright spots in their life. When your friends and family need your assistance you want to be there to offer it. That’s the sort of focus in your life at a time like this.

The spotlight will shine on you today. It will be an easy day for your career goals. You’re smart enough to know that life is not fair, so if things don’t go your way today, put things in perspective. You have to retain your balance between being practical and being idealistic, and roll up your sleeves and get ready to work -- either toward accepting what is going on, or at changing it to be more to your liking.

This is going to be an expansive day, full of friends and big opportunities to have a lot of fun. Do whatever you can to save time. Let yourself to do it all! If you get a little creative, you will be able to get your work done and get your groove on without skipping a beat! In order to move forward as productively as you’d like, you’ll need to lay the proper groundwork.

It’s a get up and go day, you’re anxious to discuss your thoughts and plans with others at this time and you may have a very rewarding brainstorming session, debate, or a very active meeting with others in which things really get accomplished.

There will be opportunities to make good gains in career.

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Winnipeg The Winnipeg Jets will now room in the division race over the first period goals. never recovered and fell to the try to protect their division lead Hurricanes.

Canes 3-1. The Hurricanes win in April as they embark on a three A Southeast Storm Coming The Winnipeg Jets found put them four points back of the game road trip followed by six themselves on the Pittsburgh Jets with three games in hand. games at home.

Penguins hit list. The Penguins, After the game, Claude Noel riding a 13 game winning streak, brought up the impact of the loss easily took care of the Jets winning in the tight Southeast race.

“The division race will play 4-0. Pascal Dupuis scored twice for the Pens and Thomas Vokoun itself out. We had an opportunity stopped all 20 shots that he faced. to extend the gap,” Noel told The Carolina Hurricanes the media. “No one is more Alexander Ovechkin’s two goal Perched high above in the press box rolled into the MTS Centre and disappointed than us.” performance. at MTS Centre, Derick Ramos joins the stormed the Jets early with two Back on Track Winnipeg Jets Report team The Jets would get back in the win column as they took on two Southeast division foes.

The Jets used a three point night from forward Bryan Little to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2.

Ondrej Pavelec was brilliant stopping 23 saves and coach Claude Noel was quick to praise his netminder. “[Pavelec] has been arguably our best player pretty much for a long stretch of time. I’m just thankful that he’s in the net, let’s put it that way,” Noel said.

“I thought he did his part and more and that’s what he has been doing.”

In a key division battle, the Jets downgraded the Hurricanes with a 4-1 win. Evander Kane provided the firepower registering a goal and three assists. The win Photos by Miguel Moldez, Ron Cantiveros | FIlipino Journal gave the Jets some breathing Dustin Byfuglien on the rush against the Capitals

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high flying start followed by a turbulent finish. The Winnipeg Jets strong start to March found them in first place of the Southeast Division.

However, the tail end of March proved to be a different story as they closed off the month with a 2-4 record and will now try to fend off the Carolina Hurricanes and Washington Capitals for the division title.

Capital Gains Coming of a win against the Boston Bruins, the Jets looked to continue their winning ways as they hosted the Washington Capitals in back to back home games. However, Capitals goalie Braden Holtby had other plans.

Holtby had previously shutout the Jets 3-0 on March 2 and picked up where he left off stopping the 20 shots he faced en route to a 4-0 win. Riding a hot goalie, the Capitals grounded the Jets the following night 6-1 led by

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sticks were relegated to resting in the front passenger cabin. While not entirely practical, the Accord Coupe is a one-person hockey vehicle. The leather interior is comfortable and touch controls are within easy reach. The large knob and touch screen displays make changing navigation and audio controls easy and painless, even with large bulky winter gloves.

One of the neat features in the Honda Accord, which caught me by surprise was Honda's new blind-spot camera. The camera is

activated automatically when you engage your right turn signal or it can be toggled by pressing the end of the left steering column lever.

The camera displays the blind spot on the centre dashboard screen.

For a good stretch as I drove along Bishop Gradin Blvd, I kept my right turn signal on just to watch vehicles come in and out of view in my blindspot camera. I only wish they had a blind spot camera for the driver's side and I'm sure that will come in due time.

Unfortunately, Acura doesn't make a 2-door sports coupe anymore and the Accord Coupe would be the closes thing to replacing my old Acura 3.2 CL. As far as other mid-size coupes, I could look at the competition which include the Mercedes C250, BMW 128i, Infiniti G37 and the Cadillac CTS. The Honda Accord Coupe, as tested, was priced at $35,390 and far less expensive than some of the luxury models I listed. It's just too bad that I only have the Honda Accord Coupe for a week.

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Yes, while I was also going giddy over the manual transmission, I was busy grumbling about how the Accord came in Orchard White Pearl. It was a fun week driving the Accord and no so fun trying to keep the car clean as the spring roads in Winnipeg can turn a newly washed car dirty again in a matter of minutes.

I have always had a strong affinity towards two-door sports coupes. My first coupe was a Toyota Solara and upgraded to an Acura 3.2 CL shortly thereafter.

Sitting in the Accord Coupe EX-L brought back the joys of driving a manual stick shift. Even with all the advancements in vehicles that offer electronic manual shifting, nothing beats the feel of hitting the clutch and up/down shifting. The shifting in the Accord Coupe was quick and responsive. I was definitely in heaven. Under the hood, the Accord Coupe comes with a 3.5L 24-valve SOHC i-VTEC engine and cranks out 278hp at 6200rpm and 252lb.-ft. of torque.

Just like my Acura CL, there's not much space in the rear which serves more as storage space for big bulky winter parkas and gym bags. My hockey back barely fit in the rear trunk and my hockey

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Growing, Supporting and Sharing Business Success

By Olia Skala, Independent Associate with USANA Health Sciences

We had the privilege of hearing from Tia Polvorosa, owner of Provici Cosmetics; speak at the March MFBC keynote. The focus was on building your business while supporting the community. She gave us guidance on how to focus within each of the key areas to most benefit our growing businesses. The key topics and questions to reflect upon set the foundation for growing your business while supporting one another, and sharing your business success.

The first thought provoking topic was our plan for identifying

ourselves as individuals in our areas of business. She asked us to reflect upon our intention for our business.

What type of reputation we are establishing? How do we want to be known within the community? Do we know our niche and what sets our product or service apart? How do our customers or fellow businesses speak about us?

The message was clear in that, when we share and support one another we all succeed. She asked how we connecting with one another. This had us all thinking about our individual contributions.

Are we spending our time with like-minded individuals? What organizations, sports teams or clubs are we contributing to or are a part of? What positive compliments or support have we shared with one another? How are we giving back?

Lastly, Tia had us interacting with the other like-minded business leaders in the room with a fun and valuable exercise leaving us with an action plan: To grow, what action will we take to spread the word about our business? Who can we

share our business with that we do not yet know? She challenged us to regularly support a business by letting someone else know about a positive experience we personally had and why.

Tia was engaging and dynamic leaving the room buzzing with energy. Her presentation was of great value to the members of the MFBC and business owners in attendance.

If you were unable to attend set your calendars for the next MFBC event on April 18th.

Tia on stage and sharing her vision of supporting and sharing business success.

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