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Let’s delve into the realm of building courage by exploring a familiar scenario: the sensations that arise when you return to the gym after an extended hiatus.
We are all aware of the arduous journey to regain fitness. As you step out the door adorned in your workout attire, a torrent of thoughts flood your mind, tempting you to retreat. Yet, you persist, recognizing the significance of this small victory.
Upon finally entering the gym, your body refuses to succumb to despair at the first stride, the initial revolution of the bike’s pedals, or the inaugural repetition with weights. However, within a matter of minutes, weariness engulfs you, leaving you gasping for air and your face flushed crimson.
Indeed, embarking on the quest for physical fitness poses a formidable challenge, for each exercise demands extraordinary effort in the early stages. And do you know what’s truly formidable? Realizing that not long ago, running a mile without pause or holding a plank for an extended duration was well within your capabilities.
Most of us can reminisce about a time when these endeavors were not as arduous. A period when our fitness regimen was a consistent fixture in our lives. Regardless of your initial level of fitness, regular exercise perpetually cultivates strength.
Did you know that courage, much like your muscles, can facilitate extraordinary achievements?
Courage is a skill that blossoms solely through deliberate practice. It is not an inherent trait possessed by a select few while eluding the rest.
In my understanding, courage signifies the capacity to take action despite grappling with self-doubt, fear, uncertainty, overthinking, or trepidation. Courage mirrors the proficiency to lift hefty weights. By persistently challenging your muscles and consistently engaging in acts of courage, you enhance your “courage fitness.”
Initially, undertaking audacious actions proves to be a daunting endeavor, akin to Jim’s first day at the gym. However, as we subject our courage to rigorous exercises, something remarkable transpires.
Each flexion of courage renders bold action progressively effortless. With every venture beyond our comfort zones—be it engaging in meaningful conversations, seizing the day with determination, or fulfilling our obligations—we partake in a “bold exercise.”
The cultivation of daily courage workouts culminates in fortified courage muscles and fosters a habitual disposition of audacity. Once your courage muscles reach their zenith, emotions no longer exert dominion over you. Your responses to self-doubt, fear, and hesitation become inconsequential.
Just as the cessation of physical exercise leads to muscular atrophy, I implore you to engage in daily courage-building for the sustenance of your soul. Physicians extol the virtues of daily physical activity for optimal health. I advocate daily courage workouts for the well-being of your inner being.
These pivotal moments, rife with trepidation, herald opportunities for transformative acts of boldness. As you habitually wield courage to navigate these instances, fear relinquishes its hold. During periods of contraction—those moments when doubt, anxiety, and fear rear their heads—you find yourself at a critical juncture. It is an occasion to cultivate everyday courage.
No longer do you need to brace yourself for stressful encounters; instead, you greet them with an instinctual fortitude, an embodiment of your inner nature.
How to Build Courage to Achieve Anything
Courage, a remarkable quality, empowers individuals to confront difficulty and fear head-on, despite their innate trepidation. It serves as a vital ingredient for triumph in all aspects of life. Embarking upon the path of developing courage is a deeply personal expedition, and herein lie some actionable steps to help you foster this invaluable trait and accomplish any aspiration you set your sights on:
1. Identify your fears
Firstly, embark on the introspective journey of identifying your fears. Delve deep into the recesses of your psyche, exploring the specific apprehensions that hinder your progress and trigger your anxieties. Exercise candor with yourself as you unearth the precise fears and doubts that impede you from taking the necessary steps.
2. Set clear goals
Next, carve out a clear path by setting tangible and achievable goals. The act of defining your objectives with precision equips you with a concrete target to strive for, ensuring you remain focused and unwavering in your pursuit.
3. Acknowledge your fear
In the quest for courage, acknowledging your fear is paramount. Suppressing or denying your apprehensions only amplifies their impact, exacerbating your unease. Instead, face your fear head-on, embracing it with unwavering honesty. Give it a name, permit yourself to truly feel its weight, and thereby diminish its control over you.
4. Confront your fear
Once you have acknowledged your fear, the time has come to confront it. Confrontation need not manifest as an immediate leap into the abyss of your apprehension. Instead, commence by taking incremental steps, steadfastly facing your fear head-on. For example, if public speaking instills trepidation within you, initiate the process by delivering modest presentations to intimate circles of friends or family.
5. Use positive self-talk
Harness the power of positive self-talk to bolster your courage. Your internal dialogue exerts a profound influence on your disposition. When fear creeps in, it is effortless to succumb to negative self-talk, undermining your self-worth with notions of inadequacy or imminent failure. Redirect your inner discourse toward constructive and uplifting affirmations. Utter empowering mantras such as “I possess the capability to surmount this challenge” or “I shall exert my utmost effort to succeed.”
6. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
Familiarize yourself with the notion of embracing discomfort. It is often within the realms of discomfort that courage flourishes. Consequently, if you aspire to amplify your bravery, you must cultivate an affinity for discomfort. Engage in activities that stretch your limits, venture into arenas that evoke trepidation within you, and grow accustomed to the sensation of fear.
7. Make being brave a habit
Forge courage into habitual practice. Repetition begets familiarity and ease. By incorporating courageous acts into your routine, you cultivate resilience and fortitude. Endeavor to regularly undertake ventures that elicit fear, gradually bolstering your courage and bolstering confidence in your ability to navigate adversity.
8. Break it down
Furthermore, deconstruct your overarching goal into manageable fragments. Dividing the monumental task at hand into smaller, more feasible steps eases the overwhelming burden and empowers you to approach it incrementally. In doing so, you accumulate courage with each stride, propelling yourself forward along the path.
9. Start small
Initiate your journey with modest strides. Commence by undertaking small, low-risk actions that propel you towards your ultimate goal. Embracing these initial victories will nurture your confidence and fortify your courage, paving the way for you to confront more substantial challenges.
Begin with setting small, achievable goals rather than attempting to conquer the world at once. By cultivating a foundation of accomplishments, you foster confidence, enabling you to tackle more substantial challenges.
10. Visualize success
Harness the power of visualization to invigorate your spirit. Immerse yourself in the imagery of successfully accomplishing your goal. This practice combats self-doubt, nurturing faith in your abilities and kindling the fires of confidence.
11. Embrace discomfort
Acknowledge that growth and courage arise from venturing beyond your comfort zone. Be mindful that discomfort signifies progress and, thus, enthusiastically embrace it. Forge ahead and face challenges unflinchingly, for it is through these encounters that you shall discover the depths of your courage.
12. Practice resilience
Cultivate resilience, understanding that setbacks and failures constitute an integral part of the journey. Learn from your mistakes, adapt your approach, and persevere undeterred in the face of challenges. Embracing resilience solidifies your resolve and enables you to press forward with unwavering determination.
13. Seek support
Seek the solace of supportive individuals who harbor an unwavering belief in your capabilities and goals. Surrounding yourself with positive influences grants you the necessary motivation and fresh perspectives to persevere in the face of adversity.
14. Celebrate achievements
Celebrate each achievement along your arduous path, regardless of its perceived magnitude. Acknowledging your progress, however incremental, bolsters your confidence and reinforces the fortitude that fuels your courage.
15. Keep pushing forward
Above all, maintain an unwavering commitment to progress. The journey toward building courage is perpetual. Continue to challenge yourself, establish novel objectives, and seize action with unwavering determination. With each step you undertake, you shall forge an indomitable spirit, empowering you to conquer any aspiration you conceive.
16. Find a role model
Additionally, seek inspiration from a role model whose courage and actions you admire. Observe how they navigate difficult circumstances and learn from their exemplary conduct.
17. Celebrate your successes
In the wake of confronting your fears, take a moment to revel in your triumph. Dedicate time to celebrating your victories, no matter how inconspicuous they may appear. This practice reinforces the euphoria associated with courageous acts, cultivating a positive outlook and inspiring further boldness.
To conclude, courage does not stem from the absence of fear but rather from the audacity to persevere despite its presence. Embrace the uncharted territories that lie beyond your comfort zone, fearlessly partaking in new endeavors. The more you dare, the more courageous you shall become.
Remember, building courage demands perseverance and commitment. Exercise patience with yourself, unwaveringly believe in your potential to achieve your goals and remain resolute in your endeavors.
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Gamers have always wanted to go half-naked into the jungles and mingle happily with apes and monkeys. Publisher Ubi Soft knows their desires all too well -- sick as they may be, and it's with this in mind that it has developed Tarzan Untamed, a 3D action-platformer based on the Disney Tarzan feature film. The game follows an all-new storyline, features a variety of different play modes and proudly boasts a superbly produced cartoon style similar to the movie. But in the end it's a title that's nearly as simple as the ape-man himself, and it's primarily for this reason that it comes recommended as a rental to most.
The story of Tarzan Untamed picks up shortly after the film left off. The primate hero has somehow convinced his girlfriend Jane and her father Professor Porter to stay with him in the jungle so that he can remain the protector to the gorillas that raised him. But sooner or later a scientist named Oswald Gardner shows up on the island and, with his henchmen, begins to trap and capture Tarzan's ape family and friends. It's up to players to free the character's monkey buddies and restore order to the jungle.
Tarzan Untamed is a 3D action-platformer on rails -- or, in other words, while it's fully polygonal, it follows a set path, and sometimes branching paths, i.e. just like a 2 1/2 platformer. Tarzan makes his way through immense, detailed jungle and cave-like areas, does battle with the occasional enemy, swings across vines, surfs tree branches, slides through the insides of trees, bounces off of spring-plants, chucks spears and more.
The character is manipulated with the analog stick or Dpad, A jumps, B wrestles and picks up spears, Y throws them and X is used for yelling. It's a very simplistic setup that gamers will have no problems adapting to with little practice. However, moving Tarzan forward and around the land environments is sometimes frustrating as the character is very sticky; sometimes when he walks he slows down for no apparent reason as if caught on something or stuck in mud. It's not a flaw that can't be played past, but it's annoying and given that Ubi Soft has attempted to mimic the fast-action cartoon this certainly breaks from the feel of the movie, and for that matter the rest of the game. On the other hand, when Tarzan isn't walking, but surfing or swinging, the sense of speed and motion unravels flawlessly and feels quite on par with the animated movie.
There are branching paths the primate can investigate in these exploration stages. Most lead to secret film reels, which must be collected along the adventure to unlock new levels and eventually reveal a hidden movie for all to enjoy. Ubi Soft also has extended the length of the decidedly short title by locking some of the paths until Tarzan has beaten some of the side challenges that unlock new abilities. It's a nice touch, but it follows a very popularized find-and-collect videogame formula that may wear thin on seasoned players.
Luckily the title features other modes of play. There are levels in which Tarzan must surf down roaring rapids whilst dodging rocks and enemies. There are stages centered on skiing through vine-filled lakes while avoiding rocks and other hazards. There are bungie jump locations in which the hero must plunge himself through the air and down into a lake below. And truth be told, these stages -- all of them -- are more intuitive and cleverly designed than the standard exploration lot, which makes one wonder why Ubi Soft didn't simply focus primarily on them.
Certainly we've got our complaints with Tarzan Untamed's various gameplay mechanics and modes. But in the end we'd be liars if we said we didn't have fun with it in some simple fashion. With a quickly learned control setup and a repeating stream of the same levels and different textures, it's just, quite frankly, an experience that is more suited to younger players than it is to hardcore gamers. No multiplayer modes and an overall quickly bested main adventure also make it a perfect rental.
Ubi Soft has got some great artists. That's a fact that cannot be denied. Whether it's Rayman or Batman, the developer's games always have a certain flair to them that is unsurpassed. Tarzan Untamed is no different. The game closely re-creates the look of the feature film and does quite a strong job of it.

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Cardi B’s recent performances have been making headlines for all the wrong reasons, as the rapper found herself in two microphone-throwing incidents in less than 24 hours.
In the first incident, during a daytime performance at an event, a fan threw a drink at Cardi B while she was singing her hit song “Bodak Yellow.” Reacting swiftly, the rapper flung her microphone at the person in the audience responsible for the disturbance. Despite the interruption, Cardi B continued to sing, demonstrating her professionalism even in the face of such unexpected challenges.
The following night, at Drai’s Beach Club in Las Vegas, Cardi B encountered yet another microphone-related confrontation. This time, she became irritated with the DJ, who allegedly cut off her songs prematurely. In response, she abruptly tossed her microphone at the DJ before walking off stage, leaving the crowd surprised and bewildered.
Cardi B’s actions during both incidents have garnered significant attention on social media, with fans expressing mixed reactions to her reactions. Some found the incidents amusing, while others expressed concern over the use of microphones as projectiles in heated moments.
Prior to these incidents, Cardi B’s Las Vegas performance also drew attention for the extreme weather conditions. Fans waited for two hours in 112-degree heat before the rapper took the stage. Despite the scorching temperatures, Cardi B kept her energy up, even encouraging fans to throw water on her to help combat the heat.
The rapper’s back-to-back microphone mishaps have raised discussions about artist-audience interactions and the challenges performers face in managing unexpected disruptions during live shows. While Cardi B’s passionate performances are often celebrated, these incidents serve as a reminder of the intensity and unpredictability that can come with live entertainment.
As fans eagerly await updates from Cardi B herself, the incidents have undoubtedly added an intriguing element to her ongoing tour and further cemented her status as an artist who’s always ready to react in her own unique way.
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EU finance ministers yesterday struggled to reach a deal on forcing banks to set aside more capital to cushion future losses, with Spain saying the bloc had to dispel doubts about the strength of its lenders.
The EU’s 27 members are divided over how much capital banks should hold in future to protect themselves against the kind of losses which have brought down dozens of lenders in Europe and the US, often requiring bailouts funded by taxpayers.
Spain, whose banks have suffered huge losses inflicted by a property crash that is continuing unabated, said new rules were vital for handling future turmoil.
“At this time of financial crisis, we need to clear up all doubts about the quality of European banks,” economy minister Luis de Guindos said. “We need to guarantee a level of quality capital that is enough to face future crises.”
Many of the over 8,300 banks and financial institutions in Europe are struggling, and Standard & Poor’s this week cut the credit rating of 11 banks in Spain, which has sunk into its second recession in just over two years.
Madrid has told Spanish banks to raise almost €54bn in capital this year on top of a sharp rise in provisions against losses since the property bubble burst in 2008.
German finance minister Wolfgang Schäeuble warned reporters not to expect a quick deal about future capital rules at the Brussels talks, called in the hope of achieving a breakthrough after some countries demanded changes to a pan-European formula.
Denmark, holder of the bloc’s six-month rotating presidency, has stepped up efforts to find a deal and Schäeuble said he believed an agreement was possible in the coming months.
Their aim is to translate the higher capital standards set by the Basel committee of regulators into EU law, turning it into reality for banks by the start of next year.
The Danes want to achieve a consensus and strike an accord with the European Parliament by the end of June.
One compromise would be to allow a margin of flexibility so countries that want can require their banks to increase their capital buffers up to a certain limit, perhaps as much as 10% or 12% of risky assets for up to two years. This compares with Basel’s minimum of 7%.
Yet there is a split over whether the green light is needed from the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, before a country can require capital levels above the Basel minimum.
Handing more power to Brussels is anathema to Britain, which is fighting to maintain its autonomy in policing the City of London, Europe’s financial capital.
Europe’s capital regime, when decided, will be closely studied in the US and may influence how policymakers there interpret the Basel standards, while investors are eager to see the EU repair its vulnerable banking sector.
“Not having a European banking union... on common capital requirements... makes it very difficult for the euro project to work,” said Eric Stein, a portfolio manager at Eaton Vance in Boston that invests in European assets.
“If nothing happens, it will be a continued area for stress in Europe and send a very negative sign.”


Part I: Subtext is Real…But What is It?
“You’re reading too much into it!”
“Do you really think [the author/artist] meant it to be taken that way?”
“Aren’t you just interpreting it to suit your agenda?”
Any teacher of art or literature has heard these complaints and questions scores of times. Perhaps the only one who hears them as often as the professor of literature is the film critic. I am both, so I’ve heard these remarks, or variations of them, regularly over the last two decades.
Sometimes the questions are sincere. Most of the time when students make such remarks they come with a residual respect for their teachers. Since film journalists aren’t always credentialed, these comments more often are directed at them as a form of dismissal–not just of their interpretations but of the act of interpretation itself. Nobody likes being told what to do, including how to interpret something. Nobody likes feeling (or actually being) hoodwinked. You liked what!?! You know what that is really about don’t you?
Yes, claims about subtexts can be passive-aggressive tweaks at the audience (by the critic or the artist[s]), but they shouldn’t always be dismissed as such.
Maybe that is why I have had a soft spot–long before I worked or traveled in circles where such soft spots were acceptable–for The Celluloid Closet, Rob Epstein’s and Jeffrey Friedman’s documentary translation of Vito Russo’s massively influential study of gay representations in cinema. I recently watched Closet again for the first time in many years and I was struck by how thoroughly embedded in our interpretation practice is the acceptance of subtext. Russo’s work is one of those touchstone books that affects the way we look at and talk about films whether we’ve actually read it or not (I have). Success breeds imitation…and push back. But it is hard to push back against something (in this case an interpretation) without acknowledging it exists. And it is nearly impossible to read or watch The Celluloid Closet and deny that subtext has long been a part of our cinematic history.
I would argue that much as with certain terms used in psychoanalytic criticism, “subtext” has entered into the vernacular, broadening its definition and complicating its use. Dictionary.com lists its primary denotation as “an underlying theme in a piece of writing.” Only as a secondary definition does it describe “a message which is not stated directly but can be inferred.” These definitions are somewhat at odds with one another, which is less unusual in the history of word usage than you might think. If “subtext” is simply synonymous with “theme” than too much is hanging on the term “underlying.”
Nor is it entirely satisfactory to suggest that the line between spoken and unspoken, implicit and explicit is always clear in art. Art is dependent upon metaphor, symbolism, analogy. It differs from other forms of discourse precisely in that it seeks to communicate its messages through narrative (or in the case of poetry through figurative language) rather than plain speech. Authors will often use various devices, more or less successfully, to signal ambivalence or even contradiction of explicitly stated themes. When Huck Finn declares, “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” how do we know that Mark Twain is critiquing his society’s morals and not presenting the tragic loss of his protagonist’s way? When Jane Austen’s narrator states that Emma Woodhouse had “very little to distress or vex her” and subsequently tells us of her mother’s early death, nowhere is the theme that jealousy makes us quick to dismiss another’s misfortunes explicitly stated, but it could hardly be more clear.
Artists are skilled at teasing out themes gradually and subtly. Why? Because while few of us enjoy being misled or fooled, fewer still like having opinions or ideas (i.e. themes) shoved down our throat. Witness Alexander Pope’s advice to poets: “Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.” St. Augustine said that which is sought with more effort is received with more pleasure. We esteem art that rewards careful attention. We like art that tells the truth, but we prefer art that tells it slant so that we might discover it for ourselves.
Where subtlety crosses over into subtext is at the point where the author may not wish everyone to pick up on the theme. In Closet, Gore Vidal confirms the intentional homoerotic subtext included in his uncredited contributions to the Ben Hur screenplay. He is equally emphatic that everyone informed of that angle agreed not to tell Charlton Heston, ostensibly because the star would not have agreed to such a portrayal. Part of what makes Vidal’s claims deliciously ironic is because the first move of the reader who wants to deny subtext is usually to cite authorial intent, but when the author declares his intent, such readers often turn around and reject that criteria, claiming it does not matter what the author meant only what is “in” the text.
The Ben Hur example is enlightening for another reason. To modern viewers, it seems impossible to imagine that Heston would be unaware that his co-star is treating Judah Ben Hur as an ex-lover. It appears so overt. But to be “subtext” a theme requires something more than being hidden. It needs to exploit the ignorance of one audience or the special knowledge of another. By relying on codes (language, dress, symbols) familiar to one audience but not to all, the subtext strives to remain hidden (historically to avoid reprisals) from one audience while being perfectly clear to the initiated. Of course once the code is made manifest, the preliminary goal is impossible. The disconnect between Heston’s awareness and the modern viewer’s may not be one of acceptance (or not) of homosexuality but awareness of the codes that announce it.
Similarly, as homosexuality becomes more culturally accepted and the broader audience becomes aware of some of the most common signs used to signal it, the possibility of subtext becomes less. Narrowly speaking, Craig Ferguson and Dean DeBlois announcing that Gobber, a Viking in How to Train Your Dragon 2 is gay doesn’t make that character’s utterance that there is “another” reason (besides never finding the right woman) that he never got married a subtext. Ditto J.K. Rowling telling audiences that Dumbledore is gay. What sort of cultural work is done by these proclamations will be discussed in part two of this post, but the very fact that the definitive answer is given by the author suggests that these are hints about initially repressed truths, meant to be attended to not merely by those who will be sympathetic to such readings but by everyone.


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Now that the corn stalks, etc., are out of the garden, we have a much better view of our pumpkin patch. Some of the pumpkins are quite rotund. Some are rather orange and some are rather green. Some look rather like they will not be ready for Halloween. Or ever.
I would venture to say that none of them look remotely like the pumpkins piled up at the local national chainstore or various other locales in the vicinity. I know the pumpkins stacked up and for sale are all individual, and different sizes, and have their own pecularities. Here's the thing, no matter their size or individual personality quirks, they do have something my pumpkins do not: they are all orange and they are all ready for harvest. At the same time.
So, how do the pumpkin merchants do it? I'm not really worried about it-- I figure we'll be able to get plenty of pumpkin in the freezer and have jack-o-lanterns out for Halloween. I'm just wondering if it's a matter of seed variety, the climate, the location of the pumpkin patch relative to other plants, or if there are specialized pumpkin farms where they keep the pumpkins in specially shaped cages from the time the seeds sprout.....
Just kidding on that last one. :) Hope everyone is having a great pumpkin harvest.

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G8 and G20 - it will be all about debt
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by L. IAN MacDONALD
The Gazette, Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Maternal health in the developing world might be Canada's signature initiative for the G8 summit it's hosting next month, but the real issues before the G8 and G20 meetings are the sovereign debt crises that threatens the global economic recovery, and the question of whether the world's leading economies will adopt some kind of bank tax.
In an interview on March 9 for the April issue of Policy Options, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty made an eerily predictive comment on the debt crisis that was then below the radar.
"There isn't really room to move in some of the economies like the U.K. and the U.S.," he said, "or Japan or Italy, and then there are the worrisome countries such as Greece, but some others in the EU that have substantial sovereign debt problems, and this is a lesson to sovereign nations not to get themselves in a position where they are going to have to take drastic steps to stay afloat."
Two months later, Greece's deficit and debt predicaments have created a ripple effect in some other European nations, roiled global markets, shaken the euro, and resulted in a nearly $1-trillion rescue package that may or may not be enough to stabilize the situation.
And Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, having endured the humiliation of going around Europe with a tin cup, is now threatening to sue his country's financial advisers, Goldman Sachs. For that, he might need to take a number.
Greece's deficit and net debt, respectively 10 per cent and 101 per cent of GDP, are a scary enough story on their own. Euro countries are supposed to limit their deficits to three per cent of national output, but Portugal, Spain and Ireland are also two and three times over their allowed deficits, which accounts for the ripple effect on the euro and the recent turmoil in global stock markets.
But even France and Germany, which essentially put up the euro bailout, are running current deficits of nine per cent and five per cent respectively.
And Britain, which wisely stayed outside the euro and retained monetary sovereignty in the pound sterling, has the biggest deficit crisis among the G7 countries. The new coalition government of David Cameron and Nick Clegg is inheriting a staggering $400-billion deficit or a frightening 13 per cent of GDP. Britain might have invented the nanny state, but it can no longer afford its culture of entitlement. While Britain's debt is now at a manageable 60 per cent of GDP, by next year it will be at 70 per cent, as borrowed money becomes owed money. Red lights are flashing, and the first coalition budget will be painful.
The United States is hardly in better shape. Its current federal deficit of 11 per cent comes out to $1.6 trillion - equivalent to the entire GDP of Canada. And by next year, the U.S. federal debt, now at 66 per cent of output, will reach 72 per cent of GDP, up from 42 per cent only three years ago.
In terms of deficit and debt, Canada has come out of the recession in better shape than any G7 country. The current deficit, projected at $53 billion, is only about four per cent of GDP, and the federal debt is only 33 per cent of output. Don't be surprised if the current deficit comes in smaller than forecast. The last two quarters have seen robust economic growth, and the whisper number for the deficit is closer to $48 billion. Japan, surprisingly, has the worst debt burden at 113 per cent of GDP, to go along with a deficit of eight per cent, while Italy's debt also exceeds 100 per cent of output.
When they get around the table of the G8 and G20 in Muskoka and Toronto next month, a conversation on deficits and debt is unavoidable. At the precipice of the financial crisis in November 2008, the G20 countries agreed to pump unprecedented liquidity into their economies to avoid the recession tipping into a depression. But now, on the cusp of a recovery, the bills for that economic stimulus are coming due.
The second conversation at the G20 will be about the financial-activities tax, hilariously known as the FAT tax, proposed by former British prime minister Gordon Brown as a levy on the banking and financial services sector. Brown is gone, but the ideas still has significant support among European G8 members, and surprisingly even in the Obama administration the United States.
As the host finance minister for both the G8 and G20, Flaherty has something to say about this, and he is dead set against it. Why, he asks, should Canadian banks be penalized for their success in weathering the financial storm. It is not for nothing that Canada's banking system is rated the best in the world by the World Economic Forum. And on CNBC yesterday, the ineffable Jim Cramer called Canada "perhaps the world's most stable financial system," and made a buy recommendation on Bank of Montreal.
It is also no coincidence that Flaherty was in India yesterday, drumming up support for a Canadian alternative to the FAT tax, one that would allow banks to convert debt into reserves when funds run low.
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What does it take to remain standing for two decades as a neighborhood restaurant? Well, presumably you have the top three keys — location, location, location — covered if you're actually in the neighborhood. But what if your neighborhood is Little Italy? What if, moreover, you're on High Street and you're within easy walking distance of the best the area has to offer?
Amicci's answers to those questions suggest that the pair of brothers who own the place did their homework.
11:54 We enter and are led to our table in one of three street-level dining rooms. Upstairs dining can accommodate larger groups. Downstairs, there's no question they could have moved in more tables if they'd knocked down a few walls, but they'd have lost the intimate feel of the smaller rooms. Instead, Amicci's has a homey vibe, which fits with its invitation to relaxed, informal dining. Even our server said she enjoys working here because it's more laid-back than some of its nearby upscale brethren.
11:56 We ordered iced tea and Amicci's signature starter: the pane rotundo. At $14, it's pricier than any of the lunch entrees, to say nothing of salads and the other appetizers. In fact, the next most expensive lunch menu item comes in at just under 10 bucks. We took a little more time to browse the menu as our server slipped off to place the pane order and fetch our drinks.
Throughout the meal, we were impressed by how quickly things moved. Servers here seemed always to be zipping efficiently through the dining rooms and back and forth from the kitchen. Our server was friendly and approachable without trying to be our best buddy. She did a good job of answering our questions and a fair job of describing dishes.
12:04 The pane rotundo arrives. At about 9 inches around and 2 inches high, it might remind you of a cheesecake. They brush garlic butter on a round of fresh bread, toast it and generously ladle in a garlic cream sauce. Six scampi-style shrimp are arranged on top. It's filling, but not as heavy as it looks. The bread's crust is crispy and its center spongy. The shrimp were beautifully done and lightened the tone of the sauce. It was a bit of a chore to cut up, but worth the effort. If I ever decide to have another birthday, the pane rotundo's what I want the candles sticking out of.
We ate just a bit more than half the appetizer; it would make a satisfying lunch for two.
12:17 We ask about signature entrees and our server tells us we will find them on the dinner menu. Amicci's, she said, will serve dishes from either menu all day. She points out a few favorites, and they do look tempting, but we stay with the lunch menu.
Amicci's offers a couple of salads for $4. For another $3 you can add chicken, shrimp or calamari. A spinach salad sells for $4.50. Their nine entrees ($8-$9.90) include a vegetable and a meat lasagna, chicken parmagiana, a penne and a vegetable gnocchi. Another option is to pick from six pastas and add one of nine sauces. We do that. My friend orders a potato gnocchi, and I picked linguini. Both of us choose the bolognese, with the fra-diavolo being my runner up.
I know enough about Italian cuisine to know I'm no expert when it comes to distinguishing classic types from variations within the genre. I've had bolognese sauce, and my picture of it is different from what I see on our plates. But my dining companion assures me I hadn't lost my way: The cream in Amicci's bolognese makes it look more like a vodka sauce. In any case, along with ground meat, flecks of parsley and diced tomatoes, I am glad I chose this sauce. The tangy gnocchi make my friend's dish distinctly different from mine — a touch more nuanced. Amicci's pastas are made fresh not far from the restaurant.
12:30 Full and finished, we have leftovers. We continue to pick at the pane. It happens to be very nice dipped in bolognese sauce.
12:40 We leave Amicci's feeling like we had a Little Italy-worthy meal in a genuine Baltimore neighborhood. We were never rushed and could have easily been in and out in 35 minutes. Service, setting, food, price: Amicci's has neighborhood dining figured out.
Where: 231 S. High Street, Little Italy
Contact: 410-528-1096; amiccis.com
Lunch hours: 11:00 a.m.-3 p.m.
Lunch entrées: $8-$9.90
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We all know what Beyoncé is up to (tending to baby Blue and being a superstar), but her former Houston bandmate LeToya Luckett is letting fans get a peek into her life through a Web series, Life, Love and Music.
Luckett takes fans along for the ride as she records her third album and tries to manage her demanding career (which includes making a movie).
After leaving Destiny’s Child in a much-publicized falling-out about 10 years ago, Luckett released the albums LeToya and Lady Love. She also runs Lady L, an upscale boutique in the Galleria area.
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Video: Luigi development model finally restored in Super Mario 64 after 24 years
Posted on July 26, 2020 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Videos
24 years after the launch of Super Mario 64 on the N64, Luigi’s model has finally been restored in the game.
Luigi was originally planned for the 3D platformer through splitscreen multiplayer. However, Nintendo abandoned the idea after the team was unable to implement the idea.
Although Luigi was cut, files still existed through development archives. And with the latest Nintendo leaks, fans have been able to piece the character back together and restore his model.
CuckyDev shared a video of Luigi in Super Mario 64 today. His model is apparently simpler, lacks all cap variants (including no cap), and his lighting is a bit harsher.
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Emotional Abuse | #AbuseIsAbuseIsAbuse
- Published on Mar 19, 2018
- ***TRIGGER WARNING*** Please be aware that some of the content in this video (visual/audio) can be triggering to some viewers. Watch at your own discretion.
The purpose of this video is to raise awareness for emotional abuse: a form of abuse that is seldom talked about because of the lack of physical signs, though it is still abuse. It is a form of brain-washing that slowly erodes the victim's sense of self-worth, security, and trust in themselves and others (liveboldandbloom.com/02/relationships/signs-of-emotional-abuse).
As you saw in the video, every time the victim received an emotionally abusive text message from her abuser, physical signs of abuse became visible. But because no one else could see them, no one believed her. Because of this, the victim felt invalidated, isolated, and hopeless.
There are many people out there- no matter their gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation- that experience this kind of abusive treatment in their relationships. Many of these people don't know how to get out of these relationships, and some don't even know that they're in one. Because of this, it's vital to shed some light and raise awareness for such a heavy topic.
If you or someone you know is in an emotionally abusive relationship, there are resources that are available to you. The National Domestic Abuse Hotline is a 24/7 confidential service for victims and survivors of all types of domestic abuse. Please do not hesitate to contact 1−800−799−7233 if you are in need of help.
Physically or sexually abusing someone is abuse.
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Georgia Toffolo Biography
Georgia Toffolo , Georgia Valerie “Toff” Toffolo (born 23 October 1994) is an English television and media personality. She is best known for appearing on E4 reality television series Made in Chelsea from 2014 and winning the seventeenth series of ITV’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! in 2017. She also released her first book Always Smiling on 6 September 2018.
On 22 December 2019, Georgia Toffolo ‘detained’ at Male Airport for missing a page in her passport.
Georgia Toffolo tearfully pleads for help and is detained at Malé airport 48 hours before… https://t.co/Wtkkxm5wYA
— News Read Most in 24 Hours (@read_most) December 22, 2019
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Toffolo was born in Torquay to Gary Bennett and Nicola Toffolo. Raised in London and Devon, she attended Stoodley Knowle Independent School for Girls, Torquay Grammar School for Girls, The Maynard School, and Blundell’s School. She then started an LLB degree at the University of Westminster, with an ambition to work in commercial law, but then dropped out (although several newspapers have reported that she managed to “complete” a law degree). She then worked in a charity shop, an old people’s home, a family-run firm of solicitors in Devon, and then law firm Family Law in Partnership in London.
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Toffolo supports fox hunting and has been a member of the Conservative Party since she was in secondary school. Because of her Conservative politics, she has been dubbed “Boris [Johnson] in a bikini”. When asked by The Sunday Times which politicians she admires, she replied “The standard: Zac Goldsmith, Jacob Rees-Mogg. I fancy them all. Jacob’s a s*x god.”
Georgia Toffolo -Career
From its seventh series in 2014, Toffolo has appeared on reality television show Made in Chelsea. In September 2017 she appeared in the third series of Celebs Go Dating.
In November 2017, Toffolo was announced to be a contestant on the seventeenth series of ITV’s I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! On 10 December, she won the series, beating Jamie Lomas and Iain Lee in the final. On 20 December, she announced she was joining This Morning.
In October 2019, she appeared in Celebrity Hunted – Stand Up to Cancer, partnering Stanley Johnson (Boris Johnson’s father).
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1000 Books Club! - You can register at any time all year long
1,000 BOOKS BEFORE KINDERGARTEN
JOIN THE 1000 BOOK CLUB! The single most important thing you can do to prepare your children to read is to read to them every day. Research proves that children need to hear 1000 books before they begin to learn to read independently. Reading to children will increase their vocabulary and their listening and narrative skills. Reading with children will also help to instill in them self-awareness, confidence and an understanding of their place in the world. The program is sponsored by the Chesley Memorial Library with help from Northwood School teachers.
HOW CAN I READ 1000 BOOKS? It’s easy! One book a day for three years=1000; three books a day for one year=1000; ten books a week for two years=1000.
WHAT COUNTS? Everything! Every book you read counts every time you read it! Books your child hears in Storytime count. Books that others read to your child count. It all counts!
WHERE CAN I SIGN UP? Sign up at the Chesley Memorial Library. We will give you sheets to help you keep count of the books you read. You will receive a book bag when you sign up and will continue to earn incentives as you read your way to 1000 books.
WHEN: Today! Register anytime when your child is between birth and five years old.
IMPORTANT: Please update your progress at the circulation desk every time you read 100 books! We keep track in a log at the library and update our milestone wall display in the youth area. 1000 book readers will be recognized with their name on the library’s sign and will be invited to attend a special ceremony at the Northwood School next August with recognition from the library staff and trustees, Northwood school teachers and personnel, and Northwood School Board.
Our “1000 Book Readers”
Liam Cooper was our first “1000 Book Reader” but not the last! Miles and Mabel Winslow, Evelyn Seavey, and Norah Seavey, Abigail Costanzo are all “1000 Book Readers” and we hope to add more names soon. Congratulations to all of them! We recognize the readers on the sign outside the library when they reach their goal and post their names on the “1000 Books” wall display in the library’s youth room. We are looking forward to more names joining them soon!
Congratulations to the following participants entering kindergarten: Peter Faris, Norah Naleid, and Marlena Thorn. We are very proud of our young readers!
Please come in and let us know when your young reader hits a new 100, 200, 300 or more milestone.
Great news two more readers hit the 1000 level: Jake and Ruth Lakeman.
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Pane e Tulipani – What a Delightful Film!
Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips) is such a sweet film. It’s a romantic comedy starring Licia Maglietta as Rosalba Maresanto Barletta. She was married young to a plumbing supplier. Now, in her 40s with two teenage sons, Rosalba is unhappy. She is on a family vacation and gets left behind at a rest stop. She had to go to the ladies’ room. Her husband calls to yell at her and tell her to wait for them. She doesn’t.
Rosalba takes off. Initially, she plans to go home and spend some time alone. As she gets out on the open road, she decides that maybe it’s time she took a vacation from her life. She ends up in Venice. She’s from Pescara and has never been to Venice before. The first night there she eats dinner at a lovely restaurant with a nice waiter, Fernando (Bruno Ganz).
The following day she misses her train and decides to spend yet another night in Venice. Who can blame her? The way her husband yells at her – I can’t imagine her being thrilled to go back. Mr. Barletta is a chauvinist pig, a man who has a mistress, his own sister-in-law, Ketty. He doesn’t cook, clean or take care of anything household or child-related.
Rosalba ends up living with the waiter, Fernando. He gave her a place to stay for one night; but, it turned into so much more. Rosalba decides to stay in Venice for a time. She and Fernando have a platonic, courtly love happening. You can see it growing into something real. It’s very sweet. Rosalba finds a job with a local florist, Fermo. She begins to play the accordion and hangs out with Grazia Reginella (Marina Massironi), a holistic massage therapist and beautician.
As time goes on, Mr. Barletta wants her back largely because his mother and his mistress won’t do his housework for him. He hires a portly plumber (Giuseppe Battiston) with a love of detective novels to play private eye in Venice and hunt down Rosalba. He finds her; but, discovers love along the way with Grazia.
Meanwhile, Rosalba learns more about Fernando’s life. He has a grandson – who she thought was his son. Eliseo (Ludovico Paladin) is charming as Fernando’s adorable grandson. He is helping to take care of the young boy because his son, Alan, is off in Oslo making a mess of his life.
Just when it seems that Fernando and Rosalba will profess their love for each other, Ketty shows up at Fermo’s shop, where Rosalba’s working. Ketty tells Rosalba she’s selfish and a terrible mother and that Nic, her youngest son, is on drugs. Rosalba rushes home to take care of her child. She selflessly gives up her happiness to help him.
At home, Rosalba is miserable. She plays the role of homemaker and dutiful wife and mother. She’s unfulfilled as a woman. Fernando misses her. He can’t sleep. He just stares at the last batch of tulips that Rosalba left there. (He used to leave her breakfasts full of lovely bread; hence the title – Bread & Tulips.) Constantino, the plumber/detective Mr. Barletta originally sent to find Rosalba, urges Fernando to go after his love. He and Grazia go with him in Fermo’s truck (he missed Rosalba too!) to collect the lady.
They find her at a Supermarket in Pescara with her son Nic. Fernando tells Rosalba she loves him. Nic must’ve approved because in the final scene, she is playing her accordion; Fernando is singing; and, Nic is dancing with Eliseo’s mother. Everyone is happy – Grazia’s pregnant. It’s a happy ending and a happy life.
What a delightful movie! You have to see Pane e Tulipani. It’ll make you believe in love no matter what the odds.
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ISLAMABAD: Actor Jalal Al, who played the role of Ottoman Commander Abdul Rehman in the Turkish drama serial ‘Ertugrul Ghazi’, has paid homage to the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Jalal Al is on a visit to Pakistan these days and he was so impressed with Pakistan’s hospitality and love of Pakistanis that he is expressing his love through various stories on the social networking site.
Jalal Al visited various places during his visit to Islamabad. He visited a Pakistani monument in Shakarpurian and shared a photo of himself with a picture of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, on Instagram Story, paying tribute to Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah Declared his friend and hero.
Jalal Al added that he was very impressed with the founder of Pakistan. At the same time, he prayed for a high place in the paradise of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. In addition, the Turkish actor shared photos with the poet Allama Iqbal and the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan on the story


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|From May 27 to June 2, four concerts devoted to the music of Arvo Pärt will be held in the US. Concerts, taking place in New York City and Washington, DC will feature performers closely associated with Pärt’s music – Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (EPCC) and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra (TCO) conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste, also the orchestra members Harry Traksmann (violin), Laur Eensalu (viola), Leho Karin (cello) and Marrit Gerretz-Traksmann (piano) with mezzo soprano Iris Oja. The concerts will take place in the presence of composer Arvo Pärt.|
On May 27, EPCC and TCO with Tõnu Kaljuste will perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The program consists of Fratres for violin, string orchestra and percussion, Adam’s Lament for mixed choir and string orchestra, Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten for string orchestra and bell and Te Deum for mixed choir, prepared piano, string orchestra and tape. On May 31, EPCC and TCO will perform in New York’s Carnegie Hall, where Salve Regina for mixed choir, celesta and string orchestra will be added to the program mentioned above.
On June 2, EPCC will give an a cappella concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur in New York City, featuring Kanon Pokajanen. This concert will be live streamed by Q2 Music at q2music.org.
|Additionally, TCO members Harry Traksmann (violin), Laur Eensalu (viola), Leho Karin (cello) and Marrit Gerretz-Traksmann (piano) with mezzo soprano Iris Oja will give a chamber music concert on May 29 at the Phillips Collection in Washington. The program consists of Für Alina, Spiegel im Spiegel, Für Anna Maria, Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka, Mozart-Adagio, Vater unser, Es sang vor langen jahren, Scala cromatica, Fratres and the world premiere of a new arrangement of My Heart's in the Highlands for alto, violin, viola, cello and piano.||
The concert is a part of the museum’s Leading European Composers series.
The initiator of this concert series is St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) in New York, which will give an honorary doctorate title on sacred music to Arvo Pärt at a ceremony on May 31st.
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|The events also include a series of presentations and discussions in Washington and New York. On May 28, a panel discussion will be held at the George Washington University led by Chair of the GWU Department of Music , Dr. Douglas Boyce, and theologian Dr. Peter Bouteneff (St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary). On June 11, a lecture titled Spirit in Sound and Space: A Conversation Inspired by Arvo Pärt with neuroscientist Robert Zatorre, architect Steven Holl, and Peter Bouteneff, will be organized at Met Museum as a part of Spark conversation series.|
The conversation will explore the spiritual content of Pärt’s music as well as how different spaces can impact how his music is perceived.


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The first commercial shipment of gluten-free barley has left Mount Gambier on its way to Germany.
Bred in Australia by the CSIRO, Kebari barley has 10,000 times less gluten than normal barley.
Currently, only two companies are licensed to grow the crop in Australia.
Georgie Fitzgerald, production manager of South Pacific Seeds, said this was the first time the crop had been grown in the state.
"We had about 100 hectares of production across the south-east this year," she said.
"The yields ranged between two and a half to three and a half tonnes per hectare."
Ms Fitzgerald said Kebari performed a little differently to other barley, which may be attributable to removing gluten from the grain.
"This year the test weights are a little bit lower and the grain is not as plump as normal barley for malting," she said.
Conditions in south-east suit grain
Ms Fitzgerald said mid to lower south-east conditions best suited Kebari, which was classed as a mid-season variety.
"However, the CSIRO is breeding varieties which are more suited to Australian conditions every year, so in the future we may be able to grow the crop more widely," she said.
The load will be made by the German brewer Radeberger into gluten-free Pioneer beer, which was launched in April.
But Ms Fitzgerald said current labelling laws prevented a gluten-free beer being sold in Australia at this time.
"We have to just keep in mind that this is ultra-low gluten, it's not zero gluten," she said.
"At present Australia New Zealand Food Standards require it [gluten levels] to be zero, but who knows what the future holds?"
South Pacific Seeds plans to grow a similar amount of Kebari barley next year, which will also be headed for the German brewer.


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ASUS is back in the game! The company did spice up the competition with the launch of the new ASUS Zenfone 5 series. Along with the new phones come with very competitive pricing. With so many phones under 20k, can the ASUS Zenfone 5 compete with other phones from OPPO, Vivo, Huawei and Samsung? Let’s find out!
ASUS Zenfone 5 Specs:
- 6.2-inch 19:9 FHD+ IPS display, 2246 x 1080 resolution
- 2.5D Gorilla Glass
- Octa-core with A.I. Qualcomm Snapdragon 636, 14nm CPU
- Adreno 509 GPU
- 64GB internal storage expandable via microSD (SIM 2 slot) up to 400GB
- 4GB RAM
- 12MP Sony IMX363 f/1.8, 1.4um, with OIS/EIS, PDAF, and Night HDR main camera
8MP 120-degrees wide-angle secondary camera
- 8MP f/2.0 front camera
- Abdroid 8.0 Oreo with ZenUI 5.0
- Wifi b/g/n, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS
- Fingerprint Scanner, Face Recognition
- Hybrid dual-SIM or SIM and microSD card slot
- 3,300mAh battery
- Price: P19,995
- Status: Available at ASUS stores and retailers
HARDWARE AND DESIGN
Premium! That’s the best way to describe the ASUS Zenfone 5. Wrapped in a metal and glass material, the Zenfone 5 looks so sophisticated and elegant. Despite the metal and glass, the phone is surprisingly light and easily pocketable.
The elegance comes fingerprint and smudge. Its a scratch resistant glass but it is still prone to dings and scratches if unprotected. That can be avoided thanks to the free jelly case included in the package.
This is by far, the best display we’ve seen on a Zenfone. The 6.2-inch display is just stunning. Sunlight legibility is superb and usable under direct sunlight. We just find the auto brightness is a bit dim so we decided to turn it off and adjust the brightness manually.
The notch? Oh yes the notch. Though it is a cool design when using the phone for everything but it bothers us when some apps icons are still not supported by the implementation of the notch like when using the IG stories. Other than that, the display is just terrific.
SOFTWARE AND PERFORMANCE
ZenUI, the custom UI on top of Android 8.0 Oreo. ASUS has trimmed down much of its customization and reduced its bloatware and redundant apps. Chrome is the default browser, Android Messages is the default SMS app and Google Calendars is the default calendar app. There are still ASUS apps present here and we find them helpful. We honestly love the simple and clean look.
As for the daily grind, the Zenfone 5 is quite a performer. It takes extreme multitasking very well and playing games is smooth. It seems the Snapdragon 636 takes the beating very well.
ASUS has also stepped up the camera department. We rarely see a dual camera set up in which the secondary camera is a wide angle shooter. This type of set up is also present with last year’s LG G6 and LG V30. It is a 12 megapixel main sensor and 8 megapixel 120 wide angle secondary lens.
It packs Optical Image Stabilization, Electronic Image Stabilization, Night HDR, Phase Detection Autofocus. Whew! Not to mention it does have bokeh effects too. Come and check out our sample photos.
Normal vs Wide-angle (outdoor)
Normal vs Wide-angle (indoor)
Selfies and Groupfies
As for the connectivity, 4G/LTE is stable though we noticed that we get slightly slower speeds as compared with other smartphone with the same network. Calls are clear and signal reception remains stable. Fingerprint scanner is on point and unlocks the phone pretty quick.
We must say that the 3,300 mAh battery is average. It can still last a whole day of average to heavy use. We think ASUS could make the battery bigger given the 6.2-inch display sips more juice. We are also happy with the AI Charging technology equipped on this device because it simply boosts the charging time and completes the battery juice for less than 2 hours on average.
We can describe the Zenfone 5 as a bang-for-the-buck smartphone. ASUS has made the lowest price that they can give on a smartphone which is loaded with high specifications and premium look. With a lot of other devices available in the market, the Zenfone 5 will never make you regret once you chose it.
Having said that, we therefore giving the Zenfone 5 our #FTASealOFReccommendation award for having a premium look and good specs on its price.


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Hi everyone. I am back again. This time I am ranking the songs from The Jungle Book. Mainly because I've praised it as an animated classic and have honored it as one of my favorite Disney films. Its got fun, heart, a wonderful story, and of course-jungle jumpin' music. So let's begin.
#7: The Bare Necessities (Reprise)
I put this one at the bottom, like most reprises, because of its shortness, but it is still really catchy. Baloo has finally accepted Mowgli going to the Man Village (at least for now), and he and Bagheera sing that Bare song as they go off into the jungle. There's nothing else to say.
#6: That's What Friends Are For
I know this was supposed to be a song to cheer up Mowgli, I put it low on the list because I find the melody forgettable. Not bad, just not very memorable. But it does have some good cheering up to it. Mowgli feels unwanted and rejected, and no longer wants friends. The vultures teach the man-cub that everyone has to have friends, even those who are independent, to have support and good self-esteem. And that's a good enough way to describe it. Not the most entertaining, but a good song with a lesson.
#5: Colonel Hathi's March (Reprise)
Even though it is yet ANOTHER short reprise, I found the first part of it pretty cool when I listen to on my soundtrack. The first part is George Bruns' ominous score of Shere Khan attempting to stalk his prey ( which happens to be Bambi's Mom). But she is saved by Hathi's continuing parade. The lyrics are similar to the original, but its still the same drill marching elephants. But what about the original version of this song?
#4: Colonel Hathi's March
Colonel Hathi's idea of good things to do is march throughout the jungle, sing, and do military stuff. The song is pretty silly that way. The Jungle Patrol doesn't seem to be patrolling much, just marching and singing one could say. Mowgli doesn't seem to mind doing it, but then again he doesn't know what the elephants feel since they have to constantly march march march and get their feet sore. Its also funny to see that Hathi claims an elephant never forgets...yet, he forgets his kid and to say halt. Heh Heh Heh.
#3: Bare Necessities
I guess you could call The Bare Necessities the Jungle Book predecessor to "Hakuna Matata." Mowgli wants to stay in the jungle with Baloo, so the big guy teaches his man-cub about his way of having a good time. Forgetting troubles, laying back, discovering for oneself, and not worrying about anything-much to Bagheera's disgust. Since The Jungle Book came out in the '60s, it only makes sense to hear some jazz music in the background, which actually fits this song perfectly. Jazz music feels relaxed and that's Baloo's characteristic style. Its just the Bare Necessities.
#2: Trust In Me
Oh man! This song is really creepy!....and really cool too. Kaa is one of those villains who tries to lure his victim in his clutches...which isn't easy with a stubborn man-cub who already knows his tricks. But sly Kaa uses his hypnotic charm as soon as he gets the chance to hypnotize Mowgli and sings his chilling villain song. He sings WHY Mowgli should trust him, saying that he'll sleep safe and sound, but I think he means permanently. The mood is very low, which works greatly for a snake as creepy as Kaa. Unfortunately, he creeped my mother and sister out a lot and like I've said before-thought Kaa actually ate Winnie the Pooh. But hey, neither Kaa nor this song bothered me.
And the number one song is...
# I Wanna Be Like You
Ok, I know King Louie is kind of a crazy idiot who kidnaps a man-cub. Bug its honestly hard to consider this a villain's song since almost every character (except of course Bagheera) is having fun. Everyone's singing loudly, everyone's dancing, it just feels a lot like a blast! This song just feels like its representing the Sherman Brothers' jazzy songwriting. It's wild, its energizing, it portrays the characters enjoying themselves for the moment, it just feels fun. Its big dancing songs like this that make musicals so big to watch. It just makes me feel like grooving at times.
And that's all I gotta say about these jungle jumping songs. I hope you liked it-and forget about your worries Nd your strifes.


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TORONTO – Maple Leafs coach Ron Wilson played the percentages and still couldn’t get Toronto a shootout win.
When Toronto and the Ducks were tied after overtime, Wilson pulled starting goalie Vesa Toskala for backup Curtis Joseph. But despite Joseph’s lower scoring percentage – 28-54 – in shootouts, Corey Perry and Teemu Selanne beat Joseph to give the Ducks a 3-2 win Tuesday night.
“I was playing the percentages,” Wilson said. “I’m not going to hesitate to do that until we get Tosk a little more practice – a different way of thinking on stopping the other team in shootouts. I had nothing to lose.”
Just another shootout, is all – it was the third shootout loss in four games for Toronto. Wilson has devoted plenty of practice time to improving his team’s performance in shootouts and told both Joseph and Toskala that he would switch them if another game reached that point.
They might have been the only ones not surprised by the move.
“I’ve never seen it happen before,” Perry said. “I saw (Joseph) warming up and I turned to the bench and said, `They’re putting him in?”‘
He and Selanne each beat Joseph with quick shots while Toronto’s Nikolai Kulemin and Tomas Kaberle both missed the net with their shootout opportunities.
Francois Beauchemin and George Parros scored in regulation for the Ducks (2-5) and Nik Antropov scored both goals for the Maple Leafs.
With the Leafs down 2-1, Antropov scored with 52.8 seconds left in the third period to force overtime.
The Ducks failed to register a shot in the third period and had seven shots after the first period.
Beauchemin opened the scoring at 4:36 of the first period by sending a slap shot past a screened Toskala. It was his third goal of the season.
Parros made it 2-0. He got behind Leafs defenseman Luke Schenn and took a breakaway pass before beating Toskala glove-side at 9:50 of the first period.
Antropov cut it to 2-1 at 8:15 of the second period with a backhand past goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere.
“We have to start somewhere,” Giguere said. “We’ll take any two points we can get but we need a better 60-minute effort.”
Added coach Randy Carlyle: “The way we’ve been going, we’ll take everything we possibly can.”
Ducks 3, Maple Leafs 2 (SO)
Friday: Ducks at Ottawa
Time: 4 p.m. TV: KDOC

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Category — Exhibits
Modified from an article written by Jackie Bray, Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, and Tamsin Orr-Walker, Chairperson, Kea Conservation Trust
The Zoo supports the conservation of kea, the world’s only alpine parrot species, in New Zealand through the efforts of the Kea Conservation Trust (KCT). Fewer than 5,000 kea remain and face threats such as conflict with people, loss of habitat, lead poisoning, predation by introduced invasive species such as stoats, brush-tailed possums, cats and rats, and unintentional by-kill by poisons used to control these invasive species.
One strategy of the KCT to conserve kea in their natural environment involves the protection of nesting sites. During the past breeding season (July 2014 to January 2015), video trail cameras were used to monitor nest sites and document breeding activity and conflict events.
A total of 33 female keas were monitored over five research sites, resulting in five successful nests producing 12 chicks, which is more than were documented in previous years.
Once active nest sites were identified, cameras were placed at the entrance to monitor breeding activity, predator visitation and chick development. A series of predator control traps were also deployed around the nesting areas to help protect the birds until the chicks fledged. The cameras documented several nests being visited by predators. KCT used this information to extend trapping systems, resulting in decreased predator visitation.
The cameras also provided valuable information on kea survivorship and repellent effectiveness during the New Zealand Department of Conservation’s (NZ DOC) scheduled 1080 poison drops in the Kahurangi National Park. In 2014, New Zealand experienced an intensive mast (seeding) event which resulted in a significant increase in numbers of mice, rats and stoats. A previous major mast in 2002-2003 appears to have been the cause of an 80% decline in kea numbers at Nelson Lakes. Current population numbers could not sustain another such event, making the widespread use of 1080 poison necessary. The kea’s inquisitive nature makes them more likely than other native avian species to investigate the poison baits, so the use of chemical kea repellents in the 1080 baits is being studied to reduce unintentional by-kill. Unfortunately Ceejay, one of the most productive females in the area, was found dead after ingesting 1080 poison.
The cameras also proved useful in March 2015, when keas were blamed for damaging bicycles and other property in a residential area. Cameras set up in the area were able to capture noisy nighttime activity (which was attributed to kea) generated by at least two possums and three cats on multiple occasions. One possum was actually caught on camera damaging property. The cameras helped defuse conflict between community members and the kea by allowing the KCT to accurately document conflict events.
Video trail cameras have provided the KCT with an incredible amount of valuable data which has been used to protect kea nesting sites and mitigate several human-kea conflict situations. The cameras also significantly reduced the amount of hours necessary for personnel to spend in the field collecting data, allowing the saved resources to be used in other conservation projects.
June 26, 2015 No Comments
Do you know Moe? You should! She is the star of the Discovery Forest exhibit in our Education Center. As a two-toed sloth, Moe spends her days hanging out in her favorite tree. While she does rest a lot (she is a sloth, after all), Moe can be quite active at times and she is very curious.
Moe has become a favorite with the thousands of kids and families that participate in Education programs and camps. You can’t come and go to Summer Camp without passing by to say hello and good-bye to Moe. At the end of the day, Moe climbs down a special ladder made just for her into the arms of one of her keepers, who carries her to a behind-the-scenes suite for the night.
These days, Moe is doing more with her celebrity status beyond inspiring our guests. She and her keepers are helping to save sloths in the wild. Between April and October, guests can schedule a private, up close 30-minute encounter with Moe and her keepers. A portion of the proceeds from the ‘Moe’mentous Sloth Encounter support The Sloth Institute Costa Rica (TSI) and its mission to ensure a peaceful coexistence between sloths and people.
The Sloth Institute (TSI) was established in August of 2014 by Sam Trull and Seda Sejud to enhance the well being of captive and wild sloths through research and education. In collaboration with Kids Saving the Rainforest (KSTR), TSI helps to rescue, rehabilitate and release the sloths of Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. In the area near Manuel Antonio National Park, one of Costa Rica’s smallest yet most popular tourist destinations, roads and development have fragmented the natural forest habitat, increasing the threats to the very wildlife people come to see. The most common injuries to sloths are electrocutions from touching electrical wires and orphans separated from their mothers. Sloths are also vulnerable to vehicle strikes and dog attacks when they descend from the trees. In addition, TSI helps KSTR hand-rear baby sloths that are orphaned because the mother abandoned them or the mother was injured or killed. Sloths can be very difficult to raise due to their sensitivity to infection and incomplete information on what wild sloths need to survive.
When possible, the goal is to rehabilitate and release the sloths that are healthy and capable enough to survive and thrive again in the wild. In order to monitor each individual’s success post release, TSI plans to fit each sloth with a tracking device that will allow them to be monitored post-release and contribute to knowledge about sloth ecology and how to successfully raise and release orphaned and injured sloths.
TSI is beginning its first release project of 2 two-toed and 2 three-toed sloths. The release process involves selecting and obtaining permits for an appropriate forested area for the release that is safe from development, electric wires and cars. Once a site is secured, the sloths will be transferred from the KSTR rescue center to a soft-release enclosure in the forest to let them get used to their new environment. During this time, TSI will provide leaves from the forest to get the sloths more used to the diet found at the release site while still supplementing them with captive food. After about a month, TSI will open the door, allowing the sloths access to the surrounding forest. They will be able to choose when to explore the outside world. This “soft release” gives the sloths as much time as they need to get used to their new environment and learn how to find food before going off completely on their own, which is the most appropriate method for hand-raised orphans that require a lot of maternal investment.
With funding from the Cincinnati Zoo, TSI was able to purchase four of the VHF tracking collars for this project. Fitted with the collars, the sloths can be tracked around the clock to collect behavioral data, locational data and health status information. Simultaneously, TSI will also track wild sloths for comparison and to provide parameters for evaluating the success of the release.
Furthermore, TSI will also start a long-term field station for studying wild sloths in Manuel Antonio. They hope to learn more about sloth ecology in this region of Costa Rica, including information on diets, home range, carrying capacity, health status and social structure.
Keep up with the latest happenings at TSI through its Sloth Diaries blog, and consider supporting sloths in the wild by booking your own Sloth Encounter at the Zoo. And next time you’re at the Zoo, be sure to stop into the Education Center to say hello to Moe.
June 15, 2015 1 Comment
Hello! My name is Ke’Yasha Lumaine and I am a senior at the Zoo Academy. That’s right, the ZOO ACADEMY! I have been fortunate enough to actually go to school at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden my junior and senior years of high school. It has been an amazing life experience. There is a particular memory at the Zoo Academy that I will always think of fondly – my first encounter with the kea.
During my senior year, I had the chance to do a lab rotation in the Aviculture (bird) department. It was the coolest experience that I have had with any department at the Zoo. Lab is where we spend two hours every day taking care of animals or maintaining Zoo grounds. I’ve had lab in Night Hunters, Maintenance, Commissary, Conservatory, Manatee Springs, Reptile House, Education and Education Interpretive Collection, yet no lab compared to the Aviculture department. At the time of my lab rotation, I had the chance to go into the Flight Cage which has kea, lorikeets, pigeons, and geese that are free to fly around the whole exhibit. To me, the most exciting birds in the exhibit were the kea. When Kim (an Aviculture keeper) and I walked into the enclosure, they all came wobbling towards us. They can look very intimidating with their long, sharp beak, strong claws and are pretty big in size for a parrot. I was a little uneasy about this at first but I felt sort of safe since Kim was there. They just swarmed around and played with us, climbing on my boots and following me around. They were like puppies, just with large beaks and wings! After my lab rotation, I learned that kea are the world’s only alpine parrot, that they live in the mountainous regions of South Island, New Zealand and that they were almost hunted to their extinction. Between the years of 1870 and 1970, it is estimated that 150,000 kea were killed by hunters who were paid bounties by the local government. Keas were hunted because their actions indirectly killed sheep. They would bite the backs of sheep and eat the fat stored near the kidneys. The sheep would often die later of an infection. The kea did this because, in the harsh winter months, the food that they would normally eat it is hard to find. One hundred years after the hunting began, a wildlife census found that there were only 5,000 birds left in the wild. After this, keas were granted partial protection until 1986 when they were given full protection under the Wildlife Act of 1953. Now, there are estimated to be 1,000-5,000 keas in the wild, making them a nationally endangered species. The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden has teamed up with the Kea Conservation Trust (KCT) with the hope that they can successfully increase kea populations. They use population research using vhf video tracking, nest monitoring devices and kea repellents to reduce human-wildlife conflict. The Zoo also sponsors KCT staff attendance at Human Wildlife Conflict Collaboration which enables the KCT personnel to enhance their skills of first response human-wildlife emergencies. In addition, the Cincinnati Zoo has the largest collection of keas in North America and is committed to their conservation. At the time of my lab rotation, the keepers had successfully bred a pair and their chicks were a few months old. After learning about kea and interacting with them, I wanted to find out what I could do to help them. I learned that there are numerous ways that we can help spread awareness and conserve their natural habitat. It can be something as simple as telling someone about kea, donating money to the Kea Conservation Trust, or placing change in the interactive enrichment puzzle at their exhibit. Every small contribution adds up to make a huge impact. Next time you come to the Zoo make sure that you make a stop by the flight cage and visit the kea. They really love interacting with new people!
June 11, 2015 4 Comments

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