SmartStream Technologies has been awarded the SWIFTReady Gold accreditation for SmartStream Reconciliations, the industry leading reconciliations and exception management solution.
This is the fourth consecutive year that SmartStream Reconciliations has been awarded Gold accreditation for both payments and securities. SmartStream Reconciliations was one of the first reconciliations solutions to be awarded the Gold label in 1998 when the partner programme was first launched.
The SWIFTReady programme recognises vendor applications that help SWIFT customers to achieve automation through solutions that integrate efficiently within a SWIFT environment, are scalable and improve straight-through processing.
SmartStream Reconciliation’s fully integrated intra-day matching and multi-product investigations functionality played a key part in assuring the Gold accreditation. Another prerequisite was the ability to process the new ISO 15022 message types, in advance of the changeover to this new standard in November 2002. SmartStream Reconciliations supports both the new and old message formats, allowing organisations to gradually implement the new standards in time for the November deadline.
Victor Abbeloos, Head of Partner Solutions at SWIFT said: “We are very pleased to award SmartStream Reconciliations a Gold accreditation for both Payments and Securities . The fact that SmartStream Reconciliations has been awarded a SWIFTReady label for the fourth year running shows the organisation’s commitment to the continued evolution of its solutions to stay in line with SWIFT developments and new products and services.”
Martin Brown, CEO, SmartStream Technologies, commented: “We are delighted to once again be awarded SWIFTReady Gold accreditation for SmartStream Reconciliations. We believe, that in order to effectively manage their risk and meet the challenges of Straight Through Processing, financial organisations require solutions that enable them to reconcile on a real-time basis with fully integrated exception processing. SmartStream Technologies’ support of the ISO 15022 messages and integrated SmartStream Investigations module enable this.”
“We are committed to working with SWIFT to ensure that our solutions exceed their standards and that our customers benefits from functionally superior, fully integrated, real-time solutions that enable them to manage their risk and liquidity on an enterprise-wide scale,” he added.


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I have the dremel mounted in a dremel drill press and set to 90 degrees. Use the finer bits to progressively grind the gem.
A recycled pimiento cheese container to hold water for keeping the stone wet.
How to cut gemstones with a dremel tool. Turn on the dremel tool. Switch to 800 grit bit and continue the grinding process. A dremel is a type of rotary tool that has many applications around the home and in the workshop.
Use a dremel diamond disc to cut small rocks and stone.they fit easily into most dremel tools. Cutting the pavilion and polishing. Also, how do you cut a gemstone with a dremel?
You can rejoice because there is an easy way to cut gemstones by hand. Best dremel attachment bits for cutting gemstones. Click to see full answer.
Admittedly, you may find it hard to get the crown facets to meet perfectly, in which case you have the polishing stage to correct this.after the cutting is done, turn off the dremel tool and detach the diamond bit as it. Hopefully, now you know how to cut gemstones with a dremel and how to use a dremel to buff and polish stones. How do you cut gems with a dremel?
At first onto the dremel tool insert the diamond bits. In addition, the tool cuts through hard epoxy as well as hard and soft wood. Grind away the rough edges evenly by making the tool at a flat angle against the gem.
Turn on the dremel tool. To begin with this process, you will need a soft gem, a variety of grit sandpaper ( 180, 400, 600, and 1200), a cutting board, cloth pieces, water, and metal polish. The cost is $27 + the ez lock attachment.
Grind away the rough edges evenly by making the tool at a flat angle against the gem. Petoskey stones can be polished with a dremel tool. Pick a spot to start at the edge of your stone, then try to keep your cutting route straight.
In this stage, we attach the lowest grit onto the dremel tool. Using the grinding tip, grind the entire surface. Using the grinding tip, grind the entire surface.
So, if you have a thicker stone, keep that in mind. Now that we have everything you need for processing the gemstone, we suggest you go through a quick guide on how to cut gemstones with the dremel tool. According to dremel's official website, the diamond wheel is fully encrusted with diamond particles, and is designed for cutting, sawing, and carving hard stone surfaces such as marble, concrete, brick, porcelain and ceramics.
Switch to 800 grit bit and continue the grinding process. Cut through the stone using the dremel… Grind away the rough edges evenly by making the tool at a flat angle against the gem.
It will accept a wide number of bits and attachments for cutting, sanding, routing, buffing and polishing. Dremel is able to handle both hard gemstones and uncut gemstones and gems with a particular cleavage. In this video i will be showing you how to use a dremel tool to cut up coral colonies.
A salad box cut to fit over the points to act as a splash shield. How to cut gemstones by hand: Beside above, can you use a dremel to cut concrete?
Other similar items you can try are a cotton buff or a calico wheel. (check out the video below for cutting process) Thanks for listening to us.
As long as you choose gemstones with large enough surfaces to carve. Carve the stone slowly and carefully using your dremel. Cup with some dopped stones in different stages of progress on the lower right.
The diamond means you get a clean and precise cut on your gemstone and minimise the chance of cracking or rugged edges to your stone. I would recommend once these have run out to purchase mounted felt points as they are more robust. Then by tightening the nut secure it with a collet nut.
I will be using a dremel kit that i picked up from harbor freight a fe. Rather than beginning at either end, start in the center and strive to work outward the entire way around the stone, as this will help to prevent cracking. Turn on the dremel tool.
For those who are looking to introduce more gemstone work into their business but don’t want to invest in a faceting machine, a dremel hand tool may be the ideal choice. Using the grinding tip, grind the entire surface. Cutting gemstones using a dremel is less costly and reliable in terms of quality.do you want to use an electric dremel tool?dremel 8220, dremel fortiflex and dremel 4300 electric tool are some of the best dremel to name.first, you must place the gems in the barrel filling 2/3 or 3/4 of it.
Place it at the last hole of the dremel to insert the bit. This is a quick video tutorial on how to cut and polish a low hardness gemstone (in this case, fluorite) using materials that you can find around the home an. It also is easier to use on slightly rougher stones.
In my case i had to cut around all the sides of the stone because of the thickness, so you end up having to meet your cut on the other side. Drilling with your dremel rotary tool Apply a powdered polish onto a damp denim cloth.
If you don’t possess fancy tools like a dremel, you probably are wondering how to cut and polish gemstones by hand. Do you want to use an electric dremel tool? Remember to take it slowly, as being overzealous will almost always result in unwanted chips or cracks in the stone.
How to polish stones with a dremel tool. The felt pads that come with your dremel tools attach to a little screw mandrel. Switch to 800 grit bit and continue the grinding process.

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EAU CLAIRE -- The Dunn County sheriff’s office has received telephone calls from across the country complaining about a Feb. 17 Ridgeland festival where activities include a chicken toss and a greased pig chase.
A Facebook post from the sheriff’s office stated authorities have no problems with a Pioneer Day event later this month because no animals are injured in the children’s pig chase or the chicken toss, where poultry are dropped from a one-story building. The chickens are a breed that can fly and land on the ground, the sheriff’s office said.
The sheriff’s office will not block the two events at Pioneer Day because more than eight years ago an animal rights group from Madison attended Pioneer Day and did not see any violation of the law.
Dunn County Sheriff Dennis Smith said he hasn’t seen anyone mishandle a chicken or pig during Pioneer Day in the past. He said that many of the chickens that are caught by children are taken home as pets. If a chicken isn’t caught, he said that it lands on the ground safely.
Smith said the county has received calls from all over the U.S. but has not received any local complaints.
“We’ve had so many phone calls from all over the place,” he said, adding some calls sound as if people are reading from a script.
As of Thursday, more than 76,000 people have signed a change.org petition against the pig and chicken events. The petition is organized by Alliance for Animals, which, according to its website, is a non-profit animal rights and environmental organization. In the petition it cites that Drunk’n Monkey Bar and Hotel in Ridgeland is sponsoring the chicken toss.
He said that deputies will monitor the event.
Ashley Glaser, owner of Drunk’n Monkey Bar and Hotel, said Pioneer Day is a community-sponsored event and the money raised goes toward village projects. Glaser said she is aware of the petition and has no issue with people protesting.
“We have no problem with people voicing their opinion,” she said.
Adam Shipley, owner of Sportsmen’s Bar & Grill in Ridgeland, said that he and the rest of the Pioneer Day committee agree with the sheriff office’s statement on Facebook.
He said the pig and chicken events have been ongoing for most of the 36 years Pioneer Day has existed.
“We’ve been through this before,” he said.

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This week's sketch is designed for those occasions when you only have one good picture of an event, and a couple of poor ones. It's hard to make a scrapbook page when you are limited by unfortunate photos!
Use your best picture in the place of honor right above the headline, then use the smaller photos, cropped to 2.75 inches, on the remaining mats. The five satellite pieces measure 3x3 and the large central photo mat measures 6x6. The circles can be any sort of punch or embellishment.
TIP: you can use your larger punches to punch photos out, too!

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The Board of Education, in compliance with federal law, has developed an asbestos management plan, concerning the presence or suspected presence of asbestos-type materials within district school buildings, and required inspections and preventive measures related thereto. In accordance with federal law, members of the public, including parents, teachers and other employees, shall be permitted access to the asbestos management plan of the Mansfield Board of Education. Upon request, the district shall permit members of the public, including parents, teachers and other employees, to inspect any asbestos management plan. The district shall grant access to such management plans within a reasonable period of time after a request from a member of the public is received.
|PESTICIDE APPLICATION ON SCHOOL PROPERTY|
It is the policy of the Mansfield Board of Education to implement an integrated pest management plan to reduce the amounts of pesticides applied in any building, or the grounds of any Mansfield public school, by using all available pest control techniques including judicious use of pesticides, when warranted, to maintain a pest population at or below an acceptable level, while decreasing the use of pesticides.
The decision to apply pesticide in any building, or the grounds of any Mansfield public school is dependent on results of periodic monitoring for pest populations to determine if a pest problem exists that exceeds acceptable threshold levels. No application of pesticide shall be made in any building, or the grounds of any Mansfield public school during regular school hours or during planned activities at any school except as provided by Connecticut statute or regulation.
Parents or guardians of children in any school and/or staff members in any school may register for prior notice of pesticide application at their school. Each school shall maintain a registry of persons requesting such notice, and shall provide notice to registered individuals in accordance with applicable Connecticut statutory and regulatory provisions. The Superintendent may direct that an emergency application of a pesticide be made during regular school hours or during planned activities at school without prior notice to parents or guardians of children and/or staff members in any school in the event of an immediate threat to human health, subject to applicable Connecticut statutory and regulatory provisions. Parents/guardians will be notified of an emergency application via our emergency notification system.
There shall be no application of any lawn care pesticide on the grounds of any school with students in grade eight (8) or lower, except on an emergency basis, subject to applicable Connecticut statutory and regulatory provisions.
|INDOOR AIR QUALITY|
For every school building constructed, extended, renovated or replaced on or after January 1, 2003, the District provides a uniform inspection and evaluation program of indoor air quality every five years. The District makes the results of this inspection and evaluation procedure available for public inspection.
|GREEN CLEANING PROGRAMS|
The Mansfield Board of Education shall provide the staff of each school and, upon request, the parents and guardians of each child enrolled in each school with a written statement of the school district's green cleaning program. Such notice shall include (1) the types and names of environmentally preferable cleaning products being applied in schools, (2) the location of the application of such cleaning products in the school buildings and facilities, (3) the schedule of when such cleaning products are applied in the school buildings and facilities, (4) the statement, "No parent, guardian, teacher or staff member may bring into the school facility any consumer product which is intended to clean, deodorize, sanitize or disinfect. "
Superintendent may be contacted at (860) 429-3350 for further information. The Mansfield Board of Education shall make this notice, as well as the report submitted to the Department of Education pursuant to subsection (a) of section 10-220 of the general statutes, available on its website and the website of each school under its jurisdiction.
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As a public water system under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and Connecticut law, the Mansfield Board of Education is required to routinely test its tap water for lead and copper in accordance with applicable federal and state regulations. The Mansfield Board of Education is required to notify consumers of any testing results within thirty (30) days of receipt of such results from the lab. If the applicable action levels for lead are exceeded during any testing event, the Mansfield Board of Education is required to display informational posters regarding lead in drinking water in all buildings in which elevated levels were detected and distribute information to each person served by the school’s water system. The Mansfield Board of Education also is required to conduct water quality parameter sampling and install corrosion control treatment and/or source water treatment, as appropriate.

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A balanced diet is important for the health of all varieties of the macaw family of parrots, including the Military macaw. Military macaws can have a lifespan of 35 to 55 years, when provided with the proper diet and lots of loving care. A diet including premium commercial feed, and plenty of choices that come from nature can help to assure that your macaw will live a long and happy life.
Seed And Pellet Diets
There are many premium seed-based mixes designed with large parrots like your Military macaw in mind. These mixes offer a variety of seeds and nuts, dried fruits, dried vegetables and often some pellets, or extruded food. This type of mix can give your macaw a suitable base for nutrition, which should be supplemented by offering various fresh foods on a daily basis. Look for popular parrot seed mixes like Kaytee, Hagen and Pretty Bird online, or at most bird specialty and pet stores. The Military macaw may eat 1/2 to 3/4 cup of parrot mix each day.
Formulated pellet or extruded diets for large parrots provide an excellent nutritional base for your Military macaw, without the need for supplementation. Your parrot may have trouble adjusting to this type of diet, however, if it is new to it. Close monitoring may be necessary to determine if the bird is eating the pellets. Some popular brands like Harrison's and Pretty Bird may be found online, and at many bird specialty and pet stores. In order to keep it from becoming bored with the diet, fresh foods should be offered, as well.
Fruits like apples (no seeds,) oranges, bananas and pitted cherries may be offered to your macaw. It may also enjoy mangos, papayas, peaches and pears. Pineapple, strawberries and blueberries are also macaw favorites.
Vegetables of many kinds should be offered to your Military macaw. It may love broccoli, corn, peas and green beans. Peppers of all kinds may be enjoyed, along with various squash, sweet potatoes and greens. You may find the bird prefers carrots, cabbage or Brussels sprouts.
Other Favorite Foods
Your Military macaw should be offered whole grain breads, whole grain cereals and plain cooked pasta. Cooked dried beans add protein to any parrot's diet. It may also enjoy brown or wild rice as a regular part of its repertoire. The Military macaw, like other macaws, requires a lot of fat and oil in its diet. Nuts are one of the best ways to fulfill these needs: Brazils, walnuts, pecans, almonds and macadamias are excellent choices. You can sometimes offer small amounts of cooked meat to your macaw; chicken is a common choice.

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At the back of the newsroom of the Rag, Austin’s storied and raucous underground newspaper, a volunteer sat by a phone, waiting for calls from women searching for help. In hushed tones, the volunteer would tell the callers what they needed to know to get safe abortions, even though providing such information meant volunteers risked getting in trouble themselves.
It was the fall of 1969, before the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision gave women in the United States the right to an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy. The little corner office near the University of Texas campus was the Birth Control and Problem Pregnancy Information Center. Run by and for women students at UT, it was the outgrowth, in classic 1960s counterculture fashion, of consciousness-raising sessions. According to accounts and documents from Austin’s Briscoe Center for American History, the sessions led members to focus on reproductive rights, which led to the creation of the birth control information center—and much more. The students who ran it helped inspire the case that changed the history of abortion rights in this country.
One was Judy Smith, a biology student, activist, and editor at the Rag, which was at the center of what was happening on and around campus on women’s issues. The paper in those years was increasing its coverage of these topics, inspiring students across campus to speak about their experiences.
With the outpouring of support for the Rag’s articles, Smith decided to gather a group of UT women students at her house to discuss the barriers that they faced as a result of their sex. Among them was Victoria Foe, now a biology professor at the University of Washington.
In the consciousness-raising group, these women felt free to talk about the inequality and sexist treatment at UT and women’s lack of control over their reproductive lives. At the time, the student health center would not prescribe birth control for a woman unless she was married and got permission from her husband.
“It seemed like a complete no-brainer to get together information for women about what birth control was available, what was safest for women,” Foe said.
Alice Embree, another Rag editor and member of Students for a Democratic Society, said the group’s goals were much loftier than those of most activist groups: They didn’t just want to help individual women survive under unjust laws or even just to change the law. They wanted to change the underlying culture.
Embree didn’t volunteer at the call center, but she helped run the Austin Women’s Center, down the block from the Rag, to connect women to resources and activism in the city.
To make sure that the birth control information center would not send the women to a doctor who would hurt or kill them through a poorly performed abortion, Smith and Foe traveled to Piedras Negras, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, to find a doctor they felt they could trust. One doctor agreed to charge a fee of $200 for women referred to them by the Austin group. With Embree’s help, the birth control center placed ads in the Rag with the number to their information line, as seen in documents provided by the Briscoe Center.
They did this at great personal risk. Foe said she knew the police were tapping their phones because she often heard two clicks on the line instead of one. This was later confirmed in Austin Police Department documents that showed how police surveilled and prosecuted student activists at UT.
“We started to be a little bit worried because the law in Texas [was] then, as the new law in Texas is now, that people who helped a woman get an abortion are committing a felony,” Foe said. “We didn’t know whether that applied to us. We obviously weren’t doing abortions, but we were providing for women; we were helping them.”
They needed legal advice, and they didn’t have to look far. Sarah Weddington (née Ragle) was a trusted friend of Smith’s boyfriend. Weddington would become the lawyer for Norma McCorvey, or “Jane Roe,” in Roe v. Wade. Weddington died in December 2021 with the fate of the ruling hanging in the balance.
In her autobiography, A Question of Choice, Weddington wrote that she had attended some of the Austin consciousness-raising meetings and had researched the legality of the birth control information project, which is how she came to know Smith. The attorney’s boyfriend had reached out to Smith and Foe before that to help her obtain an abortion in Piedras Negras.
“I was filled with gratitude for that doctor and his assistants,” Weddington wrote. “Ron and I returned to Austin and plunged back into our usual routines. But the memories have always remained, sharp and clear.”
However, she only began looking into the legality of abortion later, after the Rag published an article that detailed the dangers of self-administered abortions. At the UT School of Law, with only five women in a student body of 120, women’s issues had not been discussed. Smith asked her one day: Could they be prosecuted and convicted as accomplices to the crime of abortion simply for referring women to those services? Although she was a year away from receiving her certification to practice, she began researching the case.
“I didn’t know the answers,” Weddington wrote. “Abortion had never been a topic in any of my law classes, and I had not been involved in any criminal cases since becoming licensed as a lawyer. … I wanted to help the project continue and succeed, so l began spending more time in the UT law library, meeting with project volunteers, and talking to law professors, law students, and other lawyers.”
Indeed, Embree said, “It wasn’t that a bunch of lawyers sat around and went, ‘Let’s do court cases X, Y, and Z.’” The Roe case came about because of grassroots organizing, she said.
Smith and Weddington kept talking about it until, one day, Smith said she was convinced that litigation was the only way to repeal abortion laws in much the same way that the Rag had won a court case that allowed the newspaper to keep publishing despite the university’s opposition. Not only did Smith believe it was the only way; she insisted that Weddington was the only lawyer who could handle the case. Not long after Weddington received her degree, she filed the suit.
“My mind whirred with all the reasons I was not the right person,” Weddington wrote in her autobiography. “We never thought we were filing what would become the Supreme Court case.”
While the case was being formulated, Foe continued her efforts to get the Texas Legislature to repeal its abortion law. As an assistant to two state senators, she organized legislative hearings to take testimony from women and about women who had tried to perform self-induced abortions with harmful and at times deadly results.
“We had … nurses who testified about the horrible, bungled abortions that come to the emergency room, of women desperate, so desperate that they put crochet needles and things up themselves to try to break the placenta waters and abort themselves,” Foe said. “I mean, it’s just horrible the things people would do. And they’re just absolutely desperate not to have a child. One of the women who testified … had taken a book and just beat herself until she aborted.”
She said that the hearings drew extensive press coverage, but senators did not move forward with legislation because they had decided to let the courts decide the law.
Embree said the need for abortions will never stop, and neither will the fight for abortion rights. Despite the current dire situation of abortion rights, she said that the Texas organizations working on the problem now are much more advanced in the sense of being more inclusive and cognizant of how abortion laws affect different groups. That shows the difference grassroots activism can make and has already made, she said.
“It’s not six grad students; it’s much more diverse leadership,” Embree said. “It’s much more intentional about serving low-income and diverse communities and being very conscious of what are all the barriers and many privileges that can affect access” to abortion services.
Shannon Morris is an organizer with Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, which is organizing protests across the nation. A native Texan, she said she had an abortion when she was a 20-year-old in college.
“I know that I would not have been able to finish school if I had not had my abortion,” Morris said. “I remember thanking the doctors profusely for allowing me to have a future. It is terrifying what is happening. They are taking away our rights, our futures.”
Morris said she is grateful for what the activists of the past gave her but feels like history is on a backward slide. The rights that many once took for granted are now increasingly under threat.
“We shouldn’t have to be doing this again,” she said. “I am starting to feel like this is just the beginning of rights that they want to take away from us: It’s abortion now, it’s contraception tomorrow, and gay marriage. We are just going to have to keep fighting for our basic human rights.”

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[Monitor] Korean EV batteries capture 40% global market share
Published : Apr 1, 2020 - 17:01
Updated : Apr 19, 2020 - 12:59
According to market tracker SNE Research on Tuesday, the global market share of Korea’s three major EV battery manufacturers -- LG Chem, Samsung SDI and SK Innovation -- doubled to 42 percent in February up 20.9 percent on-year, surpassing the 40 percent mark for the first time.
In the same period, the global market share of Chinese EV batteries shrank from 32.8 percent to 11.1 percent, while that of Japanese firms surged to 45.8 percent from 33.2 percent.
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Ultradent announced leadership changes in sales and marketing as a former executive made a decision to retire.
Ultradent Products, Inc, a developer and manufacturer of high-tech dental materials, is announcing leadership changes in sales and marketing.
Steve Clark is now the general manager of North America and Sean Kennedy is the senior vice president of marketing.
Clark has been with Ultradent for 20 years, most recently serving as director of US sales. He has successfully led and developed a very large sales team with significant achievements over the last several years, according to Ultradent.
“Steve’s knowledge and passion will no doubt continue to serve the company well in this new role,” said Dirk Jeffs, Ultradent president and chief executive officer. “In addition to US sales responsibilities, Steve will also lead consumer retail sales and client relations teams.”
Ultradent stated that Kennedy has grown tremendously over his more than 15-year career in marketing at the company. During his time as senior director of US marketing, he was instrumental in the many positive changes that have taken place within Ultradent’s marketing team.
“We are confident the marketing function at Ultradent will continue to develop under Sean’s leadership,” said Jeffs.
The changes came as former VP of sales and marketing, Karen Phillips, announced her retirement.
(Pictured) Steve Clark, general manager of North America. Photo via Ultradent


International Conference on Computational Sciences-Modelling, Computing and Soft Computing (CSMCS-2022)
Start Date: March 28, 2022
End Date: March 30, 2022
Department of Mathematics, Manipal Institute of Technology, (MIT) Manipal will be organizing the “2nd International Conference on Computational Sciences- Modelling, Computing and Soft Computing (CSMCS-2022)” from March 28th to 30th 2022. The conference will be held in Virtual Mode.
Last date for online registration: 20th March 2022
Conference Date: 28th – 30th March 2022
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text: In my book A Girls Guide to Decorating (which is on its second reprint and has been translated into four different languages - hugest thank you to everyone who has brought) I've written about fattening up standard brought shelves with mdf to make them super gallery esq. Another solution and its way more rustic but also quite lovely is to source reclaimed wood and simply use that as your shelves. The two images below show just how fabulous they can look. I'm a big fan of reclaimation yards and get as much fun pottering around them as I do going to Top Shop! I've made benches and little tables all out of old pieces of fabulous wood. How cool are these shelves?


ST PAUL, Minn. — The St. Paul City Council has passed Mayor Carter's Inheritance Fund proposal, several months after Carter shared plans for the fund during his annual budget address in August.
The fund would help former residents of St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood by offering thousands of dollars in fully forgivable loans, either for down payments or repairs.
Mayor Carter shared the update on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and said more information and details on the application process will come from the city's Department of Planning and Economic Development.
"Instead of a sentimental tweet today, I’m humbled to honor Dr. King’s legacy by announcing that the City Council has passed our #InheritanceFund proposal!" Carter tweeted.
In his August address, Carter proposed moving money from the city's Housing Trust Fund, which currently works to address the affordability crisis in St. Paul, to create the Inheritance Fund.
The fund would offer loans up to $100,000 for down payments on homes and repairs.
St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood once housed a thriving African American community. Then in the 1950s and 60s, the historic Black neighborhood was razed and split apart to build Interstate 94. According to Reconnect Rondo, an organization working to reconnect Rondo with a land bridge, 700 family homes were demolished and 300 businesses were closed or torn down.
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State Sen. Bob Gordon (D-38), the hard-nosed campaigner who hung on this year to survive a challenge by attorney Fernando Alonso, won't run for Congress in 2014 against incumbent movement conservative U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett (R-5).
“I gave it a great deal of thought and decided that I’m in a position to do some significant things in areas like mental health, infrastructure, transportation and healthcare and I want to work on these issues,” said the senator. “I believe I have greater opportunities to produce real substance in Trenton right now than I believe I would as a freshman member of the minority party of an institution that is not getting much done, that is, frankly, maybe toxic.”
The mild-mannered senator labeled - some might say preposterously given his wonkish ways - as "obstructionist" by Gov. Chris Christie, Gordon didn't rule out a future Congressional run.
Close to U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who grew up in Bergen County where the district is concentrated and appears on the ballot next year,he was tempted to run this time but instead wants to focus on his work in the state Senate.
That leaves 31-year-old attorney Roy Cho of Hackensack as the lone Democratic Party pursuer of Garrett.
Gordon said he wasn’t ready to issue an endorsement but plans to back the Democratic nominee when one exists.
“One thing that really made me look at this was the opportunity to retire Scott Garrett, whose views are at odds with a majority of people in Bergen County,” Gordon said. “We’re not going to end the dysfunction until we understand that Congress is a place where conflicting views must be accommodated. We will not get far if we believe that people serving there will not budge from their hard-edged philosophies, but this is not the time for me to do it.”
In the event that state Sen. Diane Allen (R-7) doesn't run for re-election in 2017, the party has a short list of possible candidates it could field to try to head off either Assemblyman Herb Conaway (D-7) or Assemblyman Troy Singleton (D-7).Read More >
With looming deadline on bail reform, Christie calls Legislature into special session TRENTON - Gov. Chris Christie is calling the legislature into special session Thursday to address recent bail reform legislation before a looming deadline next week, according to a letter from the governor’s office today. (Brush/PolitickerNJ)...
By Linda Stender At his most recent town hall, Gov. Chris Christie accused his predecessors of "monkeying with the math" when it comes to their handling of our state's economy. But as the old saying goes, when the governor points a finger, he... Read More >
"Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, a Hudson County Democrat, is balking. He claimed Tuesday that members of his caucus are divided over the measure and that his house is in no real rush – besides, even if enacted this year, the reforms would not take effect until 2017, he said. And with the growing belief that Christie could skip town to run for president, some Democrats are not eager to give him another talking point for his résumé. Christie’s plans to stump for Republican candidates in New Hampshire later Thursday only fuel that suspicion." - columnist Charles Stile- The Bergen Record
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CRESCO, Iowa (KXAN) — Abbott’s speech before the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin earlier Friday could “amp up” the anti-federal dialogue across the country. It will likely leave Republican White House hopefuls plenty to dissect as the first primary votes are just weeks away.
“I want legislation authorizing Texas to join other states in calling for a convention of states to fix the cracks in our broken constitution,” said Gov. Greg Abbott at a policy summit from the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
His proposals include allowing a two-thirds majority of states override a Supreme Court decision. You can find more on the proposals here.
The push for a Constitutional Convention has also reached the presidential campaign trail. Just this week, Republican candidate Marco Rubio called for a convention of states to draft a balanced budget amendment. He also wants an amendment to impose term limits on judges and on members of Congress.
Earlier on in the campaign, Sen. Ted Cruz from Texas said it was an “option” to protect against “overreach” from the Federal Government. He’s campaigning in Cresco, Iowa Friday as part of his “Cruzin to Caucus” tour. This idea could be good ammo to rile up the conservative base.
Adding amendments to the constitution is not a strange idea here in Iowa. John Jenkins says we need one to get rid of fees or licenses for everyone but criminals to carry guns.
“Being in the Constitution puts it above everything else. That be state law or federal law,” said Jenkins.
Across the aisle, Mark Jenkins wants an anti-abortion measure written in the constitution.
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Senator Cruz has some ideas as well. “I’ve been fighting hard for a balanced budget amendment and as president I will fight hard for a balanced budget amendment, including also a term limit amendment. I think it’s absolutely critical.” Cruz told KXAN.
He also touts an amendment giving states the ability to decide the issue of marriage.
“There are many more amendments we need in part because the Federal Government and the courts have gotten so far away from the original text of our constitution,” said Cruz.
The idea is still a long way away from reality. But like many movements; it starts with leaders trying to convince the people that it’s a good idea.


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Gum arabic modified Fe3O4 nanoparticles cross linked with collagen for isolation of bacteria
Journal of Nanobiotechnology volume 8, Article number: 30 (2010)
Multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles are important class of materials in the field of nanobiotechnology, as it is an emerging area of research for material science and molecular biology researchers. One of the various methods to obtain multifunctional nanomaterials, molecular functionalization by attaching organic functional groups to nanomagnetic materials is an important technique. Recently, functionalized magnetic nanoparticles have been demonstrated to be useful in isolation/detection of dangerous pathogens (bacteria/viruses) for human life. Iron (Fe) based material especially FePt is used in the isolation of ultralow concentrations (< 102 cfu/ml) of bacteria in less time and it has been demonstrated that van-FePt may be used as an alternative fast detection technique with respect to conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. However, still further improved demonstrations are necessary with interest to biocompatibility and green chemistry. Herein, we report the synthesis of Fe3O4 nanoparticles by template medication and its application for the detection/isolation of S. aureus bacteria.
The reduction of anhydrous Iron chloride (FeCl3) in presence of sodium borohydride and water soluble polyelectrolyte (polydiallyldimethyl ammonium chloride, PDADMAC) produces black precipitates. The X-ray diffraction (XRD), XPS and TEM analysis of the precipitates dried at 373 K demonstrated the formation of nanocrystalline Fe3O4. Moreover, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed isolated staphylococcous aureus (S. aureus) bacteria at ultralow concentrations using collagen coated gum arabic modified iron oxide nanoparticles (CCGAMION).
We are able to synthesize nanocrystalline Fe3O4 and CCGAMION was able to isolate S. aureus bacteria at 8-10 cfu (colony forming units)/ml within ~3 minutes.
Exploring rapid and economically efficient technique for isolation/detection of bacteria/viruses at ultralow concentration, alternative to well known conventional technique [1, 2] is the need of our modern society. In particular, the use of the nanosized magnetic materials such as Fe3O4, MFe2O4 (M = Co, Mn)  and FePt [4, 5], are reported in literature for bacterial isolation/detection, imaging, drug delivery etc [6–16]. Quite recently a protocol  has been reported for isolation/capture of bacteria is based on van-FePt nanoparticles. However, the synthesis procedures for these nanomaterials are relatively complex and expensive in comparison to pure iron oxide nanoparticles [17–19]. Due to their unique magnetic properties, low cost synthesis  and low toxicity [12, 16, 20] Fe3O4 could be widely used in numerous applications such as cellular labeling , magnetic separation , tissue repair , hyperthermia [21, 22], magnetic resonance imaging , magnetically guided drug delivery  and molecular diagnostics  etc. The technique based on super paramagnetic Fe3O4 nano particles, which respond to an external magnetic field, is an efficient way of separating samples linked to the magnetic particles from the liquid suspension. The particle-linked molecules can quickly agglomerate in the medium in response to a change in external magnetic field. Furthermore, the synthesis reports for iron oxide are based on co-precipitation , hydrothermal  as well as via high temperature methods [17, 25]. However, the wider use of iron oxide based magnetic nanoparticles in biomedical research is still impeded due to the use of toxic chemicals , low yield, problems in achieving small, uniform and highly dispersed nano particles. So the desired method of synthesis needs a simpler, economical as well as a low temperature process for their enhanced applications in isolation/detection of dangerous bacteria for humanity. Henceforth, we present a high yield, room temperature, one pot and water based new synthetic protocol that yields iron oxide nanoparticles. Moreover, we have demonstrated instant detection/isolation of pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) at ultralow concentrations using CCGAMION synthesized through this new protocol, achieving a detection limit of 8 cfu/ml in 3 minutes. S. aureus is a gram-positive, perfectly spherical bacterium about 1 μm in diameter. This bacteria causes skin lesions such as boils, styes, furuncles, pneumonia, mastitis, phlebitis, meningitis and urinary tract infections etc. S. aureus shows affinity for a wide range of mammalian plasma and extracellular matrix proteins. Among the proteins, collagen was estimated to bind with receptor present on S. aureus. Collagen is the main protein of connective tissues and most of the pathogenic bacteria are attached with collagen for colonization and seems to be better choice with respect to antibiotic vancomycin . Further, Iron oxide particles are bio-compatible and suitable for functionalization with gum arabic (GA), a natural polymer which is known for its usage in controlled drug delivery systems and is also a surface active molecule capable of improving magnetic nano particle stability in aqueous solutions by providing steric stabilization . In nutshell, this report is the first kind of demonstration via Fe3O4 with GA as well as collagen.
Characterization of Fe3O4 nano particles
The X-ray diffraction data (Figure 1) corresponds to the formation of magnetite (Fe3O4) nanocrystals . All the peaks of Figure 1 can be indexed to Fe3O4 structure (JCPDS-88-0315). One can easily observe the broadening of peaks of Fe3O4 due to crystallite size reduction. The crystallite size calculated using Debye Scherer formula  is found to be ~11 nm. The inset (upper one) of Figure 1 shows obvious black appearance of as-synthesized powder. The other inset (lower one) of Figure 1 shows that the nanoparticles dispersed in water can be drawn by applying an external magnetic field. Also, due to XRD pattern similarities of Fe3O4 and Fe2O3, the survey XPS spectrum together with spectra of Fe (2p3/2,1/2) (inset of Figure 2) and O(1s) (inset of Figure 2) is collected and shown in Figure 2. The measured peaks are Fe (1s2, 2s2, 2p6, 3s2, 3p6, 3d6, and 4s2), oxygen (1s), nitrogen (1s), carbon (1s) and chlorine (2 s, 2p). The peak at ~715 eV corresponds to Fe2P3/2 of Fe3+ and a small peak at ~723 eV corresponds to Fe2P1/2 confirming formation of magnetite [30, 31]. In addition, the peaks corresponding to sodium, nitrogen, chlorine and carbon originate from PDADMAC indicating the existence of PDADMAC on the surface of iron oxide. Moreover, morphology as well as size of thus-obtained magnetic nanoparticles was investigated through transmission electron microscopy and represented in Figure 3. As it's obvious from Figure 3 the particle size is ~20 nm with non spherical morphology, which is again supported by our observation of crystallite size through XRD peak broadening (Figure 1).
A representative image of the captured bacteria with the help of CCGAMION at various cfu/ml is shown in Figure 4. This figure clearly shows that CCGAMION can capture only S. aureus from 8-40 cfu/ml (Figure 4c and Figure 4f) and it is not able to capture other bacteria such as S. albus and E. coli (Figure 4i and Figure 4l) which may be due to less affinity of S. albus/E. coli towards collagen binding sub segment CNA . It is obvious that with the increase of concentration of bacterial solution, we can easily isolate bacteria from the solution. Herein, mixing of gum arabic modified Fe3O4 with collagen to bacterial solution (Figure 5a) results in sufficient number of magnetic nanoparticles binding onto S. aureus due to its affinity towards collagen. A small magnet placed near to these simply attracted (Figure 5a) bacteria-nanoparticle composites for the analysis and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) easily detected the bacteria from aggregates due to its micron size and shape (Figure 4c and Figure 4f).
The reduction of iron salt (FeCl3) in the presence of structure directing agent PDADMAC, may have nucleated iron (Fe) nanoparticles in the channel created by electrostatic adsorption of BH-4 on the surface of PDADMAC, followed by subsequent oxidation of iron (Fe) to Fe3O4 on heating at 100°C. However, the role of surfactants in the formation of directed morphologies is a matter of thorough investigations of nucleation, growth and also of interaction energies of surfactants with that of the embryos . Furthermore, the CCGAMION was separated along with the bacteria using the interactions of magnetic nanoparticle-aggregate with an external magnetic field (Figure 5a) and ligand-receptor with that of the bacteria (Figure 5b).
Herein, it is very important to discuss about the interaction of GA with Fe3O4 and also with collagen. GA attracts Fe3O4 via electrostatic attraction between carboxylic group of GA and surface hydroxyl group of Fe3O4 which is due to the glycoprotein present in gum arabic . Furthermore, it is also well known that the adsorption of GA on to the surface of Fe3O4 follows the Langmuir isotherm indicating that absorption is likely independent of molecular weight of gum Arabic (GA) . As we know that GA is a mixture of branched polysaccharides and glycoprotein containing numerous functional groups which may be responsible for the cross-linking with collagen via covalent bonding . Even naked magnetic nano particles can be absorbed by some bacteria like E. coli and Salmonella randomly at much higher concentrations (105 cfu/ml) . On the other hand, our motive is to make Fe3O4 nano particles to adhere on the surface of S. aureus and this can be done only by coating GA modified nanoparticles with collagen. Furthermore, the collagen is a well known mammalian fibrous proteins found in the connective tissues of mammals for providing structural support for tissues, bones, tendons and skin. S. aureus has been shown to bind with specific affinity towards collagen due to microbial surface component recognizing adhesive matrix molecules (MSCRAMM) as they are found on the cell surface of the S aureus. The collagen binding MSCRAMM on S. aureus is called collagen adhesion (CNA) [27, 36] and plays an important role in pathogenesis. CNA has structural characteristic of cell wall anchored proteins on gram-positive bacteria and it consists of an N-terminal signal peptide, a non-repetitive region, one to four repeated units, followed by a cell-wall anchor region, a transmembrane segment and a short positively charged cytoplasm tail. The non-repetitive region of CNA is found to be fully responsible for the collagen-binding activity of CNA. Here, it is worth mentioning the presence (Figure 2) of some of PDADMAC with bare Fe3O4 particles. However, PDADMAC works as surface modifier for achieving a shaped morphology of Fe3O4. It does not affect the use of Fe3O4 in the isolation process of bacteria as we are applying a much thicker and better coating through GA.
Furthermore, high sensitivity, selectivity and affinity of bio-functional Fe3O4 particles for the detection/isolation of bacteria, also depends on the size of magnetic nanoparticles. The size of Fe3O4 nanoparticles should be such that it can allow the presence of sufficient number of ligands to achieve a multiple interaction, simultaneously it should also be able to yield high surface to volume ratio, stability as well as high binding rates. Due to the significant size differences between Fe3O4 (~20 nm, Figure 3) nanoparticles and bacteria (micron size, Figure 4), a scanning electron microscope (SEM) easily distinguishes S. aureus from the aggregates. Moreover, the smaller size as well as high surface/volume ratio of Fe3O4 nanoparticles increases its biding efficiency with bacteria. Besides, the above stated size requirements; Fe3O4 nano particles have biocompatibility and biodegradability for in vivo applications. However, for our in vitro application good chemical stability of Fe3O4 is adequate.
In summary, we have succeeded in synthesizing Fe3O4 nanoparticles through a wet chemical route using PDADMAC as capping agent. Reactive Fe nanoparticles initially formed due to redox reaction using PDADMAC as a soft template which subsequently turns into Fe3O4 nanoparticles on heating at 100°C through oxidation process. Using collagen coated gum arabic modified Fe3O4 nano particles, we are able to capture, collagen binding bacteria S. aureus at various concentration ranging from 8 cfu/ml to 40 cfu/ml. However, we need a deeper study of surface chemistry for attaching bioactive molecules onto a magnetic nanoparticles as well as more precise control of numbers and orientations of molecules. Moreover, the CCGAMION may provide a new technology platform for isolation/detection of S. aureus and we can expect a major role of nanosized Fe3O4 materials in diagnostics and clinical applications in near future.
The fish collagen (Biofill) was purchased from Eucare pharmaceuticals (origin fish), Chennai (India). The anhydrous ferric chloride was purchased from Central Drug House (India), New Delhi. Gum arabic (GA), nutrient broth and agar-agar were purchased from Himedia, Mumbai (India). PDADMAC from Sigma Aldrich chemicals. Staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus albus, Escherichia coli was isolated from patients sample at Bose Clinical Laboratory, Madurai (India).
Synthesis of Fe3O4
The anhydrous ferric chloride salt (10 mM) was dissolved in 50 ml of ethanol and allowed to react with a solution containing a mixture of 10 ml PDADMAC, 50 ml of water and NaBH4 (100 mM) in ethanol for about one hr with constant magnetic stirring. The final reaction mixture is allowed to stand for one hour for the precipitation. The mixture was centrifuged and precipitate was removed. Further stoving was done at 100°C for 12 hours for late ripening of the powders and used for various characterizations. The X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) was carried out on an X'Pert PRO PANalytical instrument with Cu Kα radiation at a scanning rate of 2° per min. The morphological pictures of nanoparticles were taken with the help of Technai G2 type of transmission electron microscope (TEM). Moreover, the samples are analyzed with the help of XPS-multilab-2000 (thermoscientific, U.K.).
Surface modification of Fe3O4 with GA
~1 g of Fe3O4 was dispersed in GA solution (5 mg/ml) and sonicated for 15 mins. Then 100 Gauss bar magnet is used to bring down the particles at a corner of the stopper bottle and the particles were dried overnight.
Preparation of collagen solution
~0.5 g of fish collagen particles were dissolved in 0.5 M acetic acid and sonicated for 10 min. Finally, the mixture is filtered through 5 micron filter paper to get a clear collagen solution.
Preparation of bacterial solution
Bacterial cells were suspended in peptone water and serial dilutions were made until the desired concentration of ~8 to ~40 cfu/ml was established.
In trial, 30 mg of GA modified Fe3O4 was dissolved to 5 ml vial containing a mixture of 200 μl PBS, 200 μl water and 160 μl fish collagen with a constant stirring up to 5 minutes. Then immediately after adding 500 μl (10 cfu/ml) of bacterial solution, magnetization was done using a bar magnet of 100 gauss up to 3 minutes, taken as the capture time of bacteria. After 10 min the aqueous solution was carefully removed using a micro pipette, 0.5 ml from each sample is poured on nutrient agar plates and incubated overnight at 37°C.
The aggregates were analyzed with the help of Hitachi model S-3000 H scanning electron microscope. All the materials except bacterial solutions were sterilized with UV-rays before use. Further, similar experiments were repeated with S. albus (~30-40 cfu/ml) and E. coli (~30-40 cfu/ml) strains. The concentration of bacteria left over in the vial in terms of cfu/ml for all the samples analyzed and tabulated in Table 1.
Collagen coated gum Arabic modified Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
- S. AUREUS:
- S. ALBUS:
E. COLI Escherichia coli
Colony forming unit
polyelectrolyte (polydiallyldimethyl ammonium chloride)
X-ray photo electron spectroscopy
Transmission electron microscopy
Scanning electron microscopy
Phosphate Buffered Saline
Polymerase chain reaction
Vancomycin- Iron Platinum
Microbial surface component recognizing adhesive matrix molecules.
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The corresponding author Dr. Jai Prakash Tiwari (JPT) would like to thank our previous Director (Professor A. K. Shukla, presently at Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore India) for his encouragement and love during his stay at Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu-630006, India. This paper is dedicated to mine uncle (Shiv Sahai Tiwari) as we lost him in January-2010.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
JPT and AMC co-ordinated experiments and provided important advice for the experiments. AMC, HKRRB and RC performed the majority of the experiments. AMC and JPT performed the majority of characterization. All authors read, participated in writing and approved the final manuscript.
Ashwin Murugappan Chockalingam, Heman Kumar Ramiya Ramesh Babu, Raghuraman Chittor contributed equally to this work.
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Chockalingam, A.M., Babu, H.K.R.R., Chittor, R. et al. Gum arabic modified Fe3O4 nanoparticles cross linked with collagen for isolation of bacteria. J Nanobiotechnol 8, 30 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-3155-8-30

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Shields steps down from Shaler Planning Commission
Longtime Shaler Township Planning Commission member Carol Shields has stepped down after decades of service to the township.
The township Board of Commissioners acknowledged her resignation earlier this month and approved Edward “Chips” Pearson to fill the vacant position through Jan. 1, 2017.
In a letter to the planning commission, Shields, who served for more than three decades on the voluntary board, wrote that it had been “a privilege and a pleasure” to serve.
Shields joined the planning commission in 1982 and served as the secretary for 15 years. She came to the board with a degree in accounting from La Roche College, a real estate license and an interest in promoting her hometown community.
“When I started in the ‘80s, we were just coming out of a recession and there wasn't too much going on,” Shields said. “But as I look back, they got busier and busier as the economy got better.”
Shields sat through meetings to consider subdivision proposals and housing plans over her decades on the board and constantly reviewed and revised ordinances, or township laws, as the technology and makeup of the municipality changed.
Recently, the planning commission worked on a yearlong project with representatives from Environmental Planning & Design (EPD), a Downtown-based firm, to review the township's code book of ordinances and revise and update the laws.
The planning commission approved the revisions for consideration by the board of commissioners, which is reviewing the proposed revisions.
“I'd been on (the planning commission) for 30 years, and I felt after the completion of the ordinances I felt I came full circle,” Shields said of her decision not to seek reappointment to the committee.
Thomas Montgomery, member emeritus of the planning commission, served with Shields for her entire tenure.
“She did a nice job for us ... and I want to wish her the best,” Montgomery said.
Pearson took his seat on the planning commission in place of Shields at the committee's first meeting of the year on Jan. 22.
Pearson has lived in Shaler for most of his life and is dedicated to volunteering in the community.
He served as a volunteer firefighter for Elfinwild Volunteer Fire Company and coached hockey and baseball while his three children played on various teams.
So, when Pearson heard about the opening on the planning commission he “decided to throw (his) hat into the ring.”
“The fact that I've been a member of this community for so long, I wanted to make sure it stayed on the right course,” he said.
Pearson lives in Shaler Township with his wife, Jennifer, food-service director at the Shaler Area School District. Together, they have three children, ages 15, 22 and 24.
Bethany Hofstetter is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-772-6364 or email@example.com.


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Kapalua is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaiʻi, United States. A resort development by the Maui Land & Pineapple Company extends inland from Kapalua Bay and Honolua Bay. The population was 353 at the 2010 census.
Nāpili-Honokōwai is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The population was 7,261 at the 2010 census.
Napili is an unincorporated area located north of Lāhainā, West Maui, Hawaii, United States. Napili Beach is a small beach surrounded by condominiums, and the local neighborhoods of Hui Road and Napilihau are home to hundreds of the people who work in West Maui's tourist industry. \t\t \t\t\tNapili Pano. jpg \t\t\t Honokeana Cove Panorama (Just south of Napili Beach) \t\t\t \t\t \t\t \t\t\tNapili Bay. jpg \t\t\t Napili Bay
Honolua Bay, Mokuleʻia Bay and Lipoa Point are part of an area known as the ahupua'a of Honolua, located just north of Kapalua, West Maui in Maui County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The area is a mix of agricultural and conservation land tended by the Maui Land & Pineapple Company in Lahaina, Hawaiʻi, including coastline management. Honolua Bay and Mokuleʻia Bay comprise the 45-acre Honolua-Mokuleʻia Marine Life Conservation District.
Kapalua Resort is a golf and beach resort in Kapalua, Hawaii on the northwest shore of the island of Maui near Lahaina, Hawaii.
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I actually saw this movie over a week ago, but I haven’t felt much like blogging lately. I meant to talk about this though. It was the first musical I ever really sat through, so this is a momentous occasion! I did see some of Phantom of the Opera and it was great but I didn’t finish it. Therefore, it doesn’t count as the first. Well, I did see Moulin Rouge, but I don’t really count that as a musical for some reason.
Seeing Nine was part of my quest to catch up on the Daniel Day-Lewis movies I haven’t seen yet. I was supposed to see it opening weekend in the theater like I usually do with his movies since The Last of the Mohicans (let’s all pause and think fondly upon Hawkeye) but I was very, very sick during the holidays of 2009. My mother and uncles went without me. I still haven’t forgiven them. After that, I just never got around to seeing it until now. Nine was Daniel’s last movie before making Lincoln. So he went from Guido Contini to Abraham Lincoln in three years.
For those of you who haven’t seen it, Nine is a musical about an Italian film director (Guido) who is basically on a downward spiral into an emotional and mental breakdown. He used to be revolutionary, highly praised, and is something of a legend, but he is facing writers block and dealing with juggling a wife and as many mistresses as he can handle. As it turns out, he’s not the young man he used to be, and he is starting to witness the breakdown of his wife as well as the breakdown of his primary mistress. He’s completely incapable of taking responsibility for anything, including the fact that he is making a movie that isn’t even written yet. As the story progresses, he is slowly losing everything, including his mind, and finally it all comes to ahead, making him finally understand the responsibility in himself for everything that has gone wrong. By the time he realizes exactly how much everything is his fault, it’s too late. He’s lost everything and has to rebuild his entire life from the ground up.
The film, to me, is really just about the deconstruction and reconstruction of a man. Misery is largely of our own creation and when we get down far enough, we can’t see that it’s our own fault anymore, so we blame everyone and everything around us. Those are the times when we have to be completely deconstructed and rebuilt as if beginning life all over again, shedding all of the material acquisitions, greed, and immoral behavior to be better people. Some people, like Guido, are so resistant to self-accountability that they have to be deconstructed to the point of being nothing more than a shell of a human before they can begin to rebuild.
As I remember, Nine got mixed reviews. A lot of people didn’t like it and I suppose I’m in no position of authority to say whether it’s good or bad because I’m not educated in musicals, but I personally liked it. I saw a lot of press about it beforehand and all of the actors were clearly nervous about not being professional singers and dancers (except Fergie) so that changed the way I watched it. Daniel said no matter how things went, he would always remember the amazing experience of making such a movie. He prefers string women and so he enjoyed working with all of those strong women in it. So maybe it doesn’t really matter if it was received by critics as disappointing because the actors clearly worked hard in a genre not their own and they enjoyed the experience.
As I said, I didn’t find the movie disappointing at all. I enjoyed it. Daniel has a tendency of playing roles that involve infidelity and having women he shouldn’t have, so that part of it wasn’t new to me. What was new was seeing him in clearly choreographed situations. That was a little foreign to him and you can see that on screen. The way he was trained as an actor was to approach every take as a new experience, so being restricted by choreography made his movements a little awkward at times.
His singing was better than I expected though and he clearly worked hard to find his singing voice. The director said he was very insecure about having to sing and was trying to find ways to quit at different times. Once he walked into Fergie rehearsing Be Italian and his response was, “Can I go home now?” Obviously he didn’t quit but I daresay this night have been his most terrifying role yet. I would be terrified to sing and dance in a musical. He did find a way to sort of speak his lyrics instead of fully singing them but I also think he was too hard on himself because his voice is not terrible at all. People just seem to balk at him doing a musical because we always see him doing heavy drama like Hawkeye or Bill the Butcher. It is hard to imagine Hawkeye singing his way through 1757 or Bill singing his way through 1863. So I think even if Nine was the best musical ever made, Daniel would never have been received well in that type of role because it’s so far removed from the way we’ve come to know him.
Speaking of the women in the movie, I know there was a big deal about Nicole Kidman being in it but I found her to be entirely forgettable. I couldn’t even give you the tune of the song she performed. There was absolutely no chemistry between Nicole and Daniel, in my opinion, so it was a blessing that her part was so small. Of all the women, I would say the strongest voices were Fergie, Kate Hudson, and Penelope Cruz. My favorite number of the whole movie was A Call to the Vatican. I have no idea why other than it’s fun and it got stuck in my head for a long time.

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Happy-go-lucky Narwhal and no-nonsense Jelly find their inner superheroes in three new under-the-sea adventures. In the first story, Narwhal reveals his superhero alter-ego and enlists Jelly to help him figure out what his superpower is. Next, Narwhal uses his superpower to help a friend find his way back home. In the third story, Jelly is feeling blue and Narwhal comes to the rescue. Ben Clanton showcases the joys of friendship and the power of believing in yourself and others through this irresistible duo.
Rating: 2.5 Stars
Narwhals are awesome creatures and I’ve been seeing more picture books with them featured lately. In this collection of short comics, the second in the Narwhal and Jelly series, Narwhal discovers his superpowers and uses them for good in various ways.
I loved the idea of a narwhal being a superhero. The first comic, when Narwhal discovers he is a superhero but not what his superpower is, was my favorite. The art is appropriately charming and goes well with the stories.
The next story was less than thrilling and a bit boring. The third, when he needed to cheer up a friend and in doing so discovered what his actual superpower was, was the most heartfelt of the book. Being someone that brings out the best in others is nothing to sneeze at!
The reason I’m giving this book only a 2.5 star rating is because, while the art was good and the first story was really fun, the rest of the book was rather lackluster. There was substance missing from the stories, in that there was the barest sketch of a story and not much fleshing out of it. Perhaps, in this sense, a comic book was the wrong medium and each story would have been better as it’s own picture book?
This book will probably be most attractive to a younger audience to whom the lack of a fleshed out story won’t matter, as it is visually appealing through out the work.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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Toyota driver Timo Glock has been ruled out of the final Formula One race of the season because of injury and will be replaced by Kamui Kobayashi.
Toyota said Tuesday that Kobayashi will race in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday. The Japanese driver made his F1 debut in Brazil on Oct. 18, finishing ninth after qualifying 11th.
Glock cracked a vertebra and cut his leg in an accident during qualifying for the Japanese GP earlier this month. The German's injuries left Toyota with only one driver in that race.
Jenson Button of Britain has already clinched the drivers' championship with his Brawn GP team taking the constructors' title.


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Idina Menzel: My son is my bodyguard
Idina Menzel’s five-year-old son is still getting used to the fame which has come with Frozen.
Idina Menzel’s son got “very annoyed” with Frozen fans who approached her on Halloween.
The star voices the character of Elsa in the hit Disney movie, which won the best animated feature and best original song [with Let It Go] Oscars earlier this year.
The flick has introduced Idina to a new generation, as before she was best known for her work on Broadway. That’s been hard for her five-year-old son Walker to understand.
“Oh yes, he’s seen it several times. But at Halloween, when we were trick or treating, he was very annoyed when lots of little girls who love Elsa came up and wanted a picture. He was like the best bodyguard ever, and would just shout at them to go away,” she laughed to British magazine Hello! “He just wanted his time with his mom and they were not going to impede on his time.”
Frozen is about a princess who can turn things to ice and her sister Anna, and Idina is a big fan of the story. She believes it speaks to people on a deep level, which is why it was such a massive hit.
“Frozen is so much about embracing that power that may be scary but once we harness it, we can really do something extraordinary with it,” she explained. “It’s one thing to have success, but to have success with things that really resonate with people is incredible. I’ve thankfully had that many times; the first was Rent, as that spoke to a generation, another was Wicked and now Frozen.”
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I know it's a busy time but sometimes we just need a little time for ourselves. On December 10th I've book a Blackness Community Hall (Next to Blackness Primary School) for a crop. You don't have to be a scrapbooker to come along, you can do cardmaking, knitting, or sewing, just for a catchup with crafty friends before it goes manic.lol The hall is booked from 10am to 4pm and will cost £10. I'll bring along the tea and coffee, just bring your lunch and your craft for the day. Let me know if you're coming along.
Also looking into the New Year, I'm planning on making the crop a regular thing and will be offering a class as an extra if there is interest.
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