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Beginning in 2015, many large employers will be required, pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the ACA), to offer affordable, valuable health coverage to their full-time employees or risk paying a penalty.1 This "employer mandate" is among the most controversial of the ACA's provisions. To avoid additional expenses, some employers might consider reducing employees' hours to get around the "full-time" label and accompanying ACA requirements. Such activity could prompt legal challenges from affected employees.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is the primary federal law regulating employer-sponsored benefit plans. ERISA section 510 prohibits employers from interfering with the attainment of any benefits that a participating employee is entitled to, or may become entitled to, under a group plan.2
Reading ERISA section 510 in conjunction with the ACA makes clear that employers potentially expose themselves to liability by reducing employee hours to avoid the employer mandate.
Large employers are those that employ an average of at least 50 full-time employees or full-time equivalents.3 Full-time employees are those who work, on average (with respect to any month), at least 30 hours per week. 4 Full-time equivalents are calculated by dividing the total number of hours part-time employees work per month by 120.5
Section 510 prohibits an employer from discriminating against any employee for "exercising any right to which he [or she] is entitled" under an employer-sponsored plan or from "interfering with the attainment of any right to which such participant may become entitled under this plan."6 The purpose of this section is to prevent employers "from taking actions that might cut off or interfere with a participant's ability to collect present or future benefits."7 This can include a future right to payment for medical expenses under an employer's group health plan.8
For example, this section protects employees on employer health plans who routinely incur significant medical expenses as a result of chronic health conditions. Section 510 prohibits employers from terminating these employees for the purpose of avoiding the payment of future medical expenses, or increased premiums, under a group plan.9
Legal analysts are exploring whether section 510 prohibits employers from reducing employees to part-time status in an attempt to avoid the employer mandate. Some construe section 510, coupled with the ACA, to mean that employers cannot interfere with the future right to health care coverage for all full-time employees. If true, employers could face legal consequences if they reduce hours. At this point, however, there is no direct guidance from the courts on this issue.
Certainly, section 510 protects employment relationships from disruptions designed to frustrate the vesting of future benefit rights.10 Typically these claims involve termination, but courts have held that similar conduct, such as reclassifying employees to independent-contractor status, can violate section 510.11
To recover under section 510, a plaintiff must establish "(1) prohibited employer conduct (2) taken for the purpose of interfering (3) with the attainment of any right to which the employee may become entitled."12 Courts have required the employee to demonstrate that the employer made a conscious decision to interfere with the employee's attainment of benefits.13
The employee's level of proof differs throughout the federal judicial circuits. The majority of circuits, including the Seventh Circuit, require plaintiffs to show that the employer's "specific intent" was to interfere with the attainment of benefits.14 Specific intent imposes a very high standard. It requires that the "defendant knowingly did an act that the law forbids, purposely intending to violate the law."15 The Seventh Circuit explains it as an "illicit motivation" to "frustrate … [the] … enjoyment of benefit rights."16
Fundamental Business Decision. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that an employer is insulated from liability by showing that it acted in furtherance of a "fundamental business decision."17 An employer's desire to control costs, generally, might shield an employer from liability.18 A company is not liable for a reduction in benefits incidental to a legitimate business decision.19
Examples in the Seventh Circuit have included termination for documented performance deficiencies;20 a plant closing based on increasing foreign competition and decreasing product demand;21 termination applying the terms of a neutral, nondiscriminatory employment policy;22 and the sale of several unprofitable divisions of a business.23
Plan Amendment. An employer's amendment of a plan cannot be challenged under section 510 because plan amendments do not affect the participants' employment status.24 For instance, an employer repeatedly amending the terms of a plan to preclude coverage for an employee immediately before the employee is eligible for benefits is not prohibited by section 510 because it is not an action taken against the employment situation itself.25 Employers are generally free under ERISA to adopt, modify, or terminate plans, so long as the amendment is made in accordance with formal procedures set forth in the plan.26
Employment Relationship Intact. Some cases suggest that reducing hours might not be actionable conduct under section 510.27 Minor employment modifications, such as compensation reductions, might not be sufficient to warrant section 510 protection.28 The section itself refers only to "discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate."29 Although some words provide room for interpretation, reduction in hours is not specifically referred to. The Fifth Circuit found no violation when an employer retained an employee so as to avoid payment of severance benefits, finding that there "must be some unscrupulous conduct or intentional act (such as harassment or nefarious inducement to stay) on the part of the employer."30
Exhausting Administrative Remedies. Circuits are split on whether plaintiffs must exhaust administrative remedies before bringing section 510 claims. Employees should know that exhaustion of administrative remedies may be required before filing suit.31 In the Seventh Circuit, exhaustion of administrative remedies is required absent exceptional circumstances.32
com Nw Kasieta Nick J. Welle, U.W. 2010 magna cum laude, is an attorney at Kasieta Legal Group LLC, Madison. His practice includes commercial, employment, insurance, ERISA, trade secret, and negligence matters. He is a published author and has presented on litigation, employment, and ERISA topics. He also is a volunteer and board member for several nonprofit organizations.
William L. (Bill) Brown, U.W. 2011, is also with the firm. His practice includes civil litigation, business formation, personal injury, and education law. He is on the board of the State Bar's Civil Rights and Individual Liberties Section. He also volunteers with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County and is on the board of YMCA Camp MacLean in Burlington.
Statutes of Limitation. The statute of limitation in an ERISA action is governed by the most analogous state law.33 Several circuits have held section 510 is comparable to state laws concerning employment discrimination or wrongful termination.34 In Wisconsin, the time limit could be as short as 300 days given the exhaustion requirement.35
Venue. Federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction in most ERISA cases.36 Venue is appropriate where the plan is administered, the breach took place, or a defendant resides or may be found.37
Burden of Proof. In situations in which no direct evidence is offered, courts apply a three-step burden-shifting analysis similar to that used in Title VII employment discrimination actions.38 First, the employee must establish a prima facie case by showing "(1) prohibited employer conduct (2) taken for the purpose of interfering (3) with the attainment of any right to which the [plaintiff] may become entitled."39 In response, the employer may articulate a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for the action taken.40 After the employer presents its defense, the burden reverts to the employee to establish that the asserted reason is pretextual and the employer was actually motivated by the specific intent to avoid providing a benefit.41
Damages. Generally, only equitable relief is available under section 510.42 This includes reinstatement, restitution, or injunctive relief.43 Although the complete effect is uncertain at this time, a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, Cigna Corp. v. Amara, might have expanded equitable relief to include plan reformation and monetary damages.44 Historically, however, monetary damages, including back pay and compensatory damages, were not available.45 Courts may award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party.46
Section 510 claims are unlikely to result in a remedy for employees who are placed on part-time status. Attorneys representing employees should, nonetheless, assess the possibility of section 510 liability and advise clients accordingly.
Employees who suspect their employers are preparing to reduce their hours or modify plans to avoid ACA compliance should carefully document key events. Attorneys for employees must be prepared to refute alleged legitimate business decisions. Counsel should advise clients to try to obtain the employer's purported reasons for relevant decisions in writing. Employees should begin to gather, consistent with workplace rules, evidence contradicting the employer's assertions.
For example, employees should attempt to obtain historical and current information concerning staffing costs, benefit costs, company profits, the number of part-time and full-time employees, the company's position on market trends, and the like. This information might assist in negating employer claims that staff reductions were financial imperatives. In case the employer alleges demotion pursuant to workplace policy, employees should also gather all applicable employment contracts and manuals.
Attorneys representing employees face serious challenges with these claims. The law is presently unclear and there is no certainty of recovery. It is likely that appellate courts will clarify rights in the first generation of section 510 ACA-related claims. Governmental agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Labor, might issue technical guidance to clarify this murky area of the law. Attorneys should be aware that not much is known presently about the likelihood of success, and the law could change drastically moving forward.
Implementation of the employer mandate likely will be stressful for employers and employees. Prudent employees can use this occasion to learn more about their respective plans and the protections available. Employees have a right to view plan documents and should exercise this right.
The prospect of section 510 providing substantial protections to employees is bleak, but employees should be wary of pundits predicting national reduction of hours. It is far too early to accurately predict the effects of the employer mandate.
Attorneys representing employers should advise them that they have wide discretion to modify their plans. Employers typically cannot be held liable under section 510 for reduced or eliminated benefits resulting from proper amendment of plans. Section 510 is triggered only by adverse changes in employment circumstances. Attorneys should counsel employers to consider plan amendments in anticipation of the ACA mandate.
If an employer modifies a plan document, the drafter should consider avoiding inclusion of ACA language in the revised plan. For instance, if an employer modifies a plan to offer coverage only to those employees working 30 hours or more per week, and subsequently reduces employees' hours to avoid coverage, the employer might increase exposure to section 510 liability. Instead, plan drafters could limit coverage to specifically designated positions. These positions would be those that the employer expects to be full time. This makes an employee's job title, not the employee's hours of service, the qualifying requirement.
Nothing in the ACA prohibits employers from making staffing decisions based on legitimate business interests. If an employer intends to make such a change, counsel should advise the employer to document reasons for doing so. The burden on the employee is quite high; thus, an employer might be able to avoid litigation by simply documenting the business justification for the decision.
Attorneys should counsel employers that communications may be discoverable. Employee-plaintiffs in ERISA actions can obtain internal and external email correspondence concerning employer motives for staff reductions. Employers should treat every email and letter as an eventual exhibit. Employers should avoid public statements on staff reductions until a firm position is established.
Employers might avoid liability by maintaining all current employee hours while hiring part-time employees in the future. With this approach, new employees have no expectation of coverage, eliminating section 510 liability.
If an employer believes that a switch to part-time employees is necessary, despite these liability concerns, it is prudent to act promptly. The employer mandate will not be implemented until 2015. The timing of the decision can be used as evidence. Employers who act soon on restructuring plans will have several months of "average-hour" data as validation for part-time classifications.
Section 510 claims stemming from the ACA have not yet come before the courts. The employer mandate has been delayed until 2015, with further delays for those employers with fewer than 100 full-time employees. After that date,47 there likely will be litigation involving employer reductions of employee hours allegedly to avoid compliance with the ACA.
There are few answers at this point. The courts could approach this complicated issue several ways. Given current law, however, it is likely that employees will have a difficult time successfully asserting section 510 claims based on reductions of hours. The burden of proof is high: employers need only point to a fundamental business reason for their decisions. In our post-recession economy, finding such a reason will not be difficult for many businesses.
At this early stage, employers and employees alike should be aware of the employer mandate and possible ERISA implications.
7 Tolle v. Carroll Touch Inc., 977 F.2d 1129, 1134 (7th Cir. 1992).
8 See generally Kross v. Western Elec. Co., 701 F.2d 1238 (7th Cir. 1982).
9 Tolle, 977 F.2d at 1139.
10 Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendon, 498 U.S. 133, 143 (1990).
11 Seaman v. Arvida Realty Sales, 985 F.2d 543, 547 (11th Cir. 1993); Gitlitz v. Compagnie Nationale Air Fr., 129 F.3d 554, 559 (11th Cir. 1997).
12 Gavalik v. Continental Can Co., 812 F.2d 834, 852 (3d Cir. 1987).
13 Turner v. Schering-Plough Corp., 901 F.2d 335, 347 (3d Cir. 1990).
14 See, e.g., Teumer v. General Motors Corp., 34 F.3d 542, 550 (7th Cir. 1994).
15 Asprino v. Independent Blue Cross/Pennsylvania Blue Shield, No. 96-7788, 1997 WL 634522, at * 5 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 16, 1997).
16 Teumer, 34 F.3d at 550.
17 See Inter-Modal Rail Emps. Ass'n v. Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., 520 U.S. 510 (1997).
18 Id.
19 See Clark v. Coats & Clark Inc., 990 F.2d 1217, 1223 (11th Cir. 1993).
20 Dishinger v. Sun Process Converting, 870 F. Supp. 814, 818 (N.D. Ill. 1994).
21 Deeming v. American Standard Inc., 905 F.2d 1124, 1127 (7th Cir. 1990).
22 Honegger v. Wickes Furniture Co., 1995 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15620, at * 14 (N.D. Ill. 1995).
23 Feinberg v. Rand McNally & Co. Supplemental Pension Plan, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67348, at * 12 (N.D. Ill. 2009) (citing Blaw Knox Retirement Income Plan v. White Consol. Indus., 998 F.2d 1185 (3d Cir. 1993)).
24 Haberern v. Kaupp Vascular Surgeons Ltd. Defined Benefit Pension Plan, 24 F.3d 1491, 1503 (3d Cir. 1994).
25 McGrath v. Auto-Body North Shore Inc., 7 F.3d 665, 668-69 (7th Cir. 1993).
26 Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen, 514 U.S. 73, 78 (1995).
27 Feret v. CoreStates Fin. Corp., No. 97-6759, 1998 WL 426560, at * 3 (E.D. Pa. July 27, 1998); Stout v. Bethlehem Steel Corp., 957 F. Supp. 673, 694 (E.D. Pa. 1997).
28 See generally Haberern, 24 F.3d 1491.
30 Bodine v. Emplrs. Cas. Co., 352 F.3d 245, 250 (5th Cir. 2003).
31 Coomer v. Bethesda Hosp. Inc., 370 F.3d 499, 505 (6th Cir. 2004); Chailland v. Brown & Root Inc., 45 F.3d 947, 950–51 (5th Cir. 1995).
32 Zhou v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 295 F.3d 677, 679 (7th Cir. 2002).
33 See, e.g., Tolle, 977 F.2d at 1137.
34 Id. at 1138.
35 Wis. Stat. § 111.39(1).
36 29 U.S.C. § 1132(e)(1).
37 29 U.S.C. § 1132(e)(2).
38 Clark, 990 F.2d at 1224.
39 Gavalik, 812 F.2d at 852.
40 Id. at 853.
41 Id.
42 Mertens v. Hewitt Assocs., 508 U.S. 248, 255 (1993); Great-West Life & Annuity Ins. Co. v. Knudson, 534 U.S. 204, 209-10 (2002).
43 Mertens, 508 U.S. at 255; Knudson, 534U.S. at 209-10; Lorillard v. Pons, 434 U.S. 575, 583 n.11 (1978).
44 Cigna Corp. v. Amara, 131 S. Ct. 1866, 1879-81 (2011).
45 See, e.g., Mertens, 508 U.S. at 255-56; Eichorn v. AT&T, 484 F.3d 644, 656 (3d. Cir. 2007).
46 29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)(1).
47 This article was last updated on April 1, 2014. There likely will be further delays or modifications to the law in the future.


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A Salt & Battery, New York's Top Fish and Chip Shop
Many years ago there, was a fish 'n chips shop on 14th and 2nd Avenue called English Harbour. It did nothing to reform America's dire view of British cuisine or differentiate authentic British style fish 'n chips from the insipid, generic fish and fries sold at national chains and diners. Frying fish, despite its seemingly elemental process is a delicate art. Any fool can batter a piece of fish and fry it to a golden crust—English Harbour was a case in point—but to preserve the delicacy of the fishes texture and elicit its flavor requires skill and craft.
Fortunately, A Salt & Battery opened shortly after English Harbour closed, and for the ex-pat or anyone that has enjoyed the real deal in the UK, New York was finally blessed with a true fish 'n chip shop. A Salt & Battery became the standard bearer for the authentic chip shop experience in Manhattan and helped give the cuisine some much needed legitimacy. For a spell they even had an outpost in the East Village on Second Avenue, which sadly has since shuttered.
A decade on and, as recent visit confirmed, they are still churning out a top quality product. There have been some changes—admirably, cod has been replaced by pollock because of concerns about sustainability—and of course there has been some price creep. But A Salt & Battery offers as close to the authentic chippy experience as one could hope to find outside of the UK.
My favorite fish in UK chip shops is plaice; the closest thing on the menu here is sole ($11 with chips), which is close enough to take me most of the way home. The fish has a delicate texture and mild flavor. It isn't as meaty as cod or pollock, but it has a pleasing litheness. It is expertly battered and fried here—the shatteringly crisp crust has a pure flavor that allow the fish to express itself.
The innards are soft and flaky.
The chips ($5) are suitably chunky and golden. Please resist the urge to douse them in ketchup—lashings of vinegar and a flurry of salt are the appropriate and most synergistic condiment. I wish that A Salt & Battery was more militant about ketchup, as putting it out on the counter just encourages usage!
They do a near-perfect rendition of shrimp and chips ($15). The generous portion of shrimp is cooked until just past translucence, insuring tenderness with out veering into rubberiness.
A banger ($6) that is deep fried is a dietitian's worst nightmare but a hangover's best friend. Admittedly it's a tough sell to the uninitiated, but once you break through the crisp crust into the juicy, herb-laced pork sausage, you'll be convinced.
The mushy peas ($4) are made in-house and are blessedly free of the neon food dye that often plagues the dish back home. The beans ($4) are from Heinz—'nuff said!
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The SEC this week announced several enforcement actions, which included charges brought against a ratings company and its owner and president and against a mortgage company, as well as a settlement reached in an insider trading case.
On Tuesday the SEC announced it had charged Egan-Jones Ratings Co. (EJR), and its owner and president, Sean Egan, for what it said were material misrepresentations and omissions in the company's July 2008 application to register as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO) for issuers of asset-backed securities (ABS) and government securities.
Both the company and the man are also charged with material misrepresentations in other submissions furnished to the SEC and violations of record-keeping and conflict-of-interest provisions governing NRSROs.
The SEC's Division of Enforcement alleges that Haverford, Pa.-based EJR in its application stated falsely that it had 150 outstanding ABS issuer ratings and 50 outstanding government issuer ratings, as well as claiming that it had been issuing credit ratings in the ABS and government categories as a credit rating agency on a continuous basis since 1995. None of these statements, says the SEC, were true.
It also alleges that Egan not only provided the false information but failed to avoid conflicts of interest and to comply with recordkeeping requirements. In so doing, the SEC says, Egan violated a laundry list of provisions of the Exchange Act.
H&R Block Subsidiary to Pay $28.2 Million
In the case of the mortgage company, the SEC charged H&R Block subsidiary Option One Mortgage Corp. with misleading investors in several offerings of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) by failing to disclose that its financial condition was significantly deteriorating.
In its action, the SEC said that Option One promised investors in more than $4 billion worth of RMBS offerings it sponsored in early 2007 that it would repurchase or replace mortgages that breached representations and warranties. However, it failed to tell investors that its financial condition was deteriorating and that it was relying on its parent company, H&R Block, to provide funds for it to meet its obligations. H&R Block was under no obligation to do so.
According to the filing, Option One was one of the country's biggest subprime mortgage lenders with originations of $40 billion in its 2006 fiscal year. However, the meltdown in the mortgage market resulted in a decline in revenues and significant losses, and hundreds of millions of dollars in margin calls from its creditors.
Option One, now known as Sand Canyon Corporation, agreed to pay $28.2 million to settle the SEC's charges, without admitting or denying the SEC's allegations. It consented to the entry of an order permanently enjoining it from violating Sections 17(a)(2) and 17(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 and requiring it to pay disgorgement of $14,25 milion, prejudgment interest of $4 million, and a penalty of $10 million. The proposed settlement is subject to court approval.
$32 Million Settlement Reached in Insider Trading Case
In the third matter, the SEC reached a settlement in a $32 million insider trading case it filed last year against a corporate attorney and a Wall Street trader. The SEC alleged that the insider trading occurred prior to at least 11 merger and acquisition announcements involving clients of the law firm where the attorney, Matthew H. Kluger, worked.
Kluger and the trader, Garrett D. Bauer, worked through a mutual friend identified as Kenneth T. Robinson; Robinson acted as a middleman to facilitate the illegal tips and trades. To avoid being caught, Kluger and Bauer used public telephones and prepaid disposable mobile phones for their operations. Robinson, now also charged, cooperated in the SEC's investigation.
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Sarah Jessica Parker has joined the growing list of actors cut from Lovelace, Entertainment Weekly reports.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Teaching abroad with a child in tow. Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Teaching abroad with a child in tow. Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message KlathamJoined: 16 Mar 2003Posts: 1Location: British Columbia, Canada Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 2:42 am Post subject: Teaching abroad with a child in tow. I'd appreciate any words of advice, stories, suggestions for teaching ESL abroad with a pre-school child in tow. My husband and I are considering this and we could either both teach p/t or one full-time or both - not sure. We're just looking for an opportunity to live abroad, expose ourselves and our child to a different culture and just make ends meet while we are doing so. We both have university degrees. Thanks! K from Canada. Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15343 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 2:49 pm Post subject: child or children So where can two adults and one child live off the salary of one EFL teacher ? Not in many places. The Middle East is one but many people throw up their hands in horror at the prospe ct of teaching here. This is one of the few places I know where you can still find employers in EFL who pay a living wage. Some will even pay all or some of the costs of eductaing your children. Back to top RogerJoined: 19 Jan 2003Posts: 9138 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 3:28 pm Post subject: A preschool kid is probably easier to handle in an alien environment than a primary school-age child. However, in most countries you can just barely make both ends meet, which means you should have some savings for emergencies and health problems. The older your child is the less likely he or she will adapt easily. CHildren bond with their peers, and separating them from their own age-group is painful for them. Lastly, a TESL job is not generally stable. You will experience many adversities that you have to face differently. Your family might suffer too when pressure on you rises. Housing could be a major irritant. In socialist countries, your employer normally accommodates you, and the housing is not always reasonably adequate. A Chinese flat might have a Chinese-style squat toilet and a shower nozzle mounted on the ceiling in the same room. The benefit for your child may be that he or she can pick up the basis of a foreign language. The whole experience could also cement your family structure. But you should consider it only if you have a safe haven to return to! Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15343 Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 10:10 am Post subject: A child "in tow" The way you put it makes it sound like your child is a burden. Is that the way you experience parenthood ? Back to top ElaineJoined: 21 Mar 2003Posts: 1 Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 12:03 pm Post subject: Hi I am teaching in China with my 18 month old daughter. I found getting her organised and settled was the easiest part of being in China. I a pay a nanny to look after my daughter and they adore each other. If you want to write to me at my email address I will give you more info. [email protected] : Back to top Bindair DundatJoined: 04 Feb 2003Posts: 1123 Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:25 pm Post subject: Something to think about: Go to a country (Korea comes to mind) where one of you can make money doing private teaching at home while the other holds down a full-time job. 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Housing project mired in fresh litigation
Housing project mired in fresh litigation
Updated at 5:45 p.m. Monday, August 6 in bold
A proposed housing development that would line a stretch of waterfront near the Park Street Bridge is once again tied up in litigation, with the city insisting the blighted property be cleaned up and its owners saying those cleanup demands are inhibiting their efforts to sell.
City officials are suing Catherine and Francis Collins in an effort to force them clean up the 9.48-acre property they own at 2235 Clement Street and to demolish the dilapidated buildings that remain there. But the Collinses have countersued, claiming the city is overreaching in its cleanup demands and that the demands have stalled efforts to sell and redevelop the property where the planned Boatworks housing development is to be built. And they may seek to reopen a nearly two-year-old settlement agreement in a prior court case over development there.
"Mr. and Mrs. Collins want nothing more than to be able to move forward with the development of their property, replacing the vacant buildings the City is so concerned about with new homes," the Collins' attorney, Kathy Sher, wrote the city on August 17, 2011. "That cannot happen if the City continues to waylay them with unreasonable demands for action during the time they need to pursue their plans and see them to fruition."
But city officials said the trash and weed-strewn property – which has since seen a host of court-ordered cleanup efforts – had become a haven for vagrants and that the dilapidated buildings there are unsafe and should be torn down. And they said they've done everything they agreed to do and that it's up to the couple to see the sale of the property through.
"The end of the story is, he was reaching out and saying he wanted to re-enter into settlement agreement negotiations. And our response was, no. If you want to change project, submit a new plan," Planning Services Manager Andrew Thomas said.
Last year city leaders okayed a development plan for the site that included 153 homes, a 29-unit apartment building and a park, which was contingent on a list of more than 90 conditions. The City Council's July 2011 approval of the project came on the heels of a 2010 settlement of one of the three lawsuits the Collinses filed to try to win permission for an earlier development plan.
Legal filings from a 2007 case say the couple had sought to develop the property since 1991, but that they had been consistently stymied by the city's refusal to zone the property for residential development and to accept a 242-unit development with dozens of affordable units they said were permitted under the state's density bonus law, which allows developers a pass on some development restrictions if they promise to build more affordable housing on a site than required.
The property had been idle since 2004, when they said the city forced them to cancel industrial leases there, the Collinses' filings say. The city in 2006 agreed to zone a little more than half the property for residential development, leaving the rest zoned for a park city leaders hoped to build there one day. But the funding for such a park never materialized.
A month after the City Council unanimously approved the new, 182-unit Boatworks project, the city's building officer ordered the Collinses to demolish the four abandoned buildings on their property, saying they were dangerous and a draw for vagrants and criminals. The property had been the site of three fires since 2007, court records show, including one that destroyed a fifth building in 2011 that was later demolished, and that June pieces of one of the buildings had blown onto a sidewalk and parking lot on Oak Street, case filings show.
The couple lost a September 2011 appeal to a city hearing officer and the city sued in an effort to get a court order requiring a cleanup along with $750,000 in legal fees and $500,000 for monitoring. In December, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Delbert Gee granted the city a preliminary injunction requiring the Collinses to clean up the property.
The Collinses countersued, saying the city should have given them an opportunity to fix up the buildings instead of forcing the couple to tear them down. And they said the liens the city imposed on their property as it's being cleaned up have diminished its value.
"The recording of the Notice and Order on the property title, as well as the citations issued for failure to abate the conditions cited, the fines imposed, and the liens resulting from fines, have made it extremely difficult for petitioners to sell the property for redevelopment, and have greatly reduced the value of the property in the eyes of potential buyers," Sher wrote in a December 20 court filing.
Francis Collins didn't return a call seeking comment on the lawsuits or his progress in obtaining a buyer for the site or moving forward on development plans. But the couple may face other obstacles to proceeding with their plans.
Thomas said one of the conditions of moving forward with the project was gaining the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission's approval on a plan to remove a dock owned by the Army Corps of Engineers and replacing it with a smaller pier and stairs for kayak access. But Collins was unable to secure that approval for his project, he said.
Commission staffers drafted a December 22, 2010 report to the commission seeking their thoughts on the proposal, but the commission's website contained no record of the project moving forward. The commission's executive director, Steve Goldbeck, said the commission issued a letter to the Collinses last September seeking more information on their application and that staff is waiting for the information to proceed.
"We'd like to act on it, but we haven't got it back," Goldbeck said Monday evening.
The Collinses have been held in contempt of court orders twice for failing to follow through on required cleanup, though court records from March show that the property had been cleared of weeds, debris, graffiti and loose roofing and siding materials.
"Fortunately, once plaintiff brought certain concerns to the defendants' attention, defendants have generally undertaken the needed repair work," Judge Gee wrote in an April 5 ruling finding the Collinses in contempt of his earlier orders, though he said the couple had applied for a building permit and was in the process of erecting additional fencing around their property.
A hearing on whether to consolidate the court cases is set for September 25, while a trial in the case the city filed is set for September 28. The next hearing in Collins's case is set for October 18, contingent on whether the cases are combined.


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Kings Hire Sean O'Donnell As Manager, Fan Development And Alumni Relationsby Mike Kalinowski / Los Angeles Kings
LOS ANGELES – Kings Alumnus Sean O'Donnell has joined the team in an official capacity as Manager, Fan Development and Alumni Relations, Kings President, Business Operations Luc Robitaille announced today.
In his new role with the Kings, O'Donnell will help both Fan Development and Community Relations by participating in on-ice events such as camps and clinics, and appearing at community events such as Kings Camp, the LA Kings Golf Tournament, Tip A King, the Kings Rink Tour, Kings Fantasy Camp, and more. He will also take an active role in the Alumni Association by helping to organize it and by making appearances on its behalf at area events. O'Donnell will work out of the Kings' business offices in El Segundo.
The 41-year-old O'Donnell played 17 seasons in the NHL, and eight of those seasons were spent in Los Angeles as a member of the Kings (1994-00 and 2008-10). O'Donnell, a native of Ottawa, Ontario, and a longtime South Bay resident, ranks fourth all-time in penalty minutes (940 PIM) and fifth all-time in games played (541 GP) among Kings blue liners, and his 98 career points (15-83=98) in a Kings sweater ranks 21st among team defensemen all-time. O'Donnell, who made his Kings/NHL Debut as a 23-year-old during the 1994-95 season, also appeared in three postseasons with the Kings (1998, 2000 and 2010). He shared the Kings Community Service Award with Rob Blake at the conclusion of the 1998-99 season, and he was named the team's Most Inspirational Player (Ace Bailey Memorial Award) at the conclusion of the 2008-09 campaign.
In addition to his tenure with the Kings, O'Donnell also skated with Minnesota, New Jersey, Boston, Phoenix, Anaheim, Philadelphia and Chicago before retiring at the conclusion of the 2011-12 NHL season with 1,224 career regular season games played (ranks 27th all-time among NHL defensemen), 229 career regular season points (31-198=229), 1,809 career regular season penalty minutes (ranks 23rd all-time among NHL defensemen) and a career regular season plus/minus rating of plus-87.
O'Donnell, a 2007 Stanley Cup Champion with Anaheim and a 2001 Stanley Cup Finalist with New Jersey, also excelled in the postseason. His postseason totals included 106 games played, 19 points (6-13=19), 129 penalty minutes and a plus/minus rating of plus-17.


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Teen Recovering After Shark Bites Hand, Leg at Texas Beach
A 15-year-old boy bitten by a shark was airlifted after being attacked today.
June 17, 2013 -- A 15-year-old boy was recovering after he was was attacked by a shark earlier today at Surfside Beach in Texas.
The teen suffered non-threatening lacerations on his hand and leg, first responders told ABC News, and was in stable condition when he was airlifted to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston.
The vicitm's name and his current condition have not been released.
Officials said it was the first shark bite in 25 years on Surfside Beach, a popular swimming spot situated on the Gulf of Mexico.
As the temperatures heat up and more swimmers hit the water, shark sightings have rattled nerves.
A pair of great white shark sightings off the coast of Cape Cod in recent days had swimmers heading for the safety of the beach.
The ominous dorsal fin lurking off Nauset Beach in Orleans, Mass., was enough for officials to temporarily close the popular swim spot on Sunday, just days after another great white shark sighting in the Cape Cod area.
"It was reported to me that our senior lifeguard had spotted a dorsal fin about 150 yards east of the public bathing beach. He estimated it to be 12 to 13 feet in length," Dawson Farber, harbormaster in Orleans, told ABCNews.com.
Lifeguards ordered swimmers out of the water at 10:15 a.m. and cordoned off a quarter mile swath of the beach, Farber said. The waters were reopened to the public an hour later, he said, after there were no additional sightings in the area.
"We had a number of sightings last year, some confirmed, some unconfirmed," Farber said. "We are operating under the assumption these animals are here to stay."


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The Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning and WXXI in Rochester, NY provides an overview of lead hazards and lead poisoning, and highlights the importance of getting children tested for exposure to lead in this 10-minute video. A Lead Based Paint Guide
The New England Lead Coordinating Committee, a consortium of state agencies working to eliminate lead poisoning, posted its Lead Safe Work Practices video for the Do-It-Yourself audience on YouTube:
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MEDWAY, MA -- In the wake of the Cybex International $66 million product liability suit announced last month, some manufacturers and club operators are taking a second look at the equipment in their facilities and the idea of bolting it down.
In the Barnhard v. Cybex verdict last month, Cybex was found 75 percent liable for the $66 million award. The case stemmed from a 2004 incident in which a Cybex leg extension machine fell over on a physical therapy assistant, Nancy Barnhard, at the Amherst Orthopedic Physical Therapy P.C. in Amherst, MA, where she worked at the time. Barnhard was rendered a quadriplegic because of the accident. She filed suit against Cybex, claiming that the equipment was not properly designed or installed.
John Aglialoro, chairman and CEO of Medway, MA-based Cybex, denies that Cybex has any liability in the case, saying that this type of machine has been used extensively without any other incidents. He contends that the plaintiff used the equipment improperly, pulling it over on herself in the process. Cybex plans an appeal of the verdict.
The question some club owners are now asking is whether older equipment should still be in use at facilities and whether equipment should be bolted down.
Kevin English, one of two lawyers from Phillips Lytle who served as attorneys for Barnhard, contends that this 27-year-old piece of Cybex equipment was not properly designed.
"The center of gravity was way to the weight stack side of the machine," English says, although he adds that Cybex equipment design has improved in subsequent years. English also says that the instructions that Cybex gave for installing the equipment were inadequate because they did not specify that the equipment must be bolted down.
For this type of leg extension machine, he says the weight stack side of the machine should be unavailable to a person to lean on. Instead, it should be against another machine or a wall.
The leg extension machine that was involved in the accident is still being used at the Amherst facility, although it has now been moved so that the weight stack is against a wall, according to Robert Barrett, a partner in the firm of Baxter Smith & Shapiro P.C., which represented the Amherst facility. It was not bolted down at the time of the accident, he says, and still is not bolted.
In the past up until the present, most manufacturers simply recommend, not require, that strength equipment be bolted, says Steve Tharrett, a former ClubCorp executive and former CEO of the Russian Fitness Group. He is now president of Club Industry Consulting, Highland Village, TX, and he was editor for several editions of the American College of Sports Medicine's "ACSM's Health/Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines."
By recommending the equipment is bolted, manufacturers typically are covering themselves and passing off the liability to the club operator, he says.
Tharrett was an expert witness in another case involving fitness equipment that tipped over. In that case, the equipment also was not bolted down, but the club owner was found not liable because no standards exist to bolt down equipment.
Tharrett says that a club owner should never put just one bolt in a piece of equipment. Putting in one bolt shows that the operator thinks the equipment might tip over, he says, but by not putting any bolts in, operators demonstrate their belief that the equipment is safe without bolts.
"Either do all or none," Tharrett says.
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Tharrett recommends that club operators install their equipment according to manufacturers' guidelines, and that they show proof that they did so. Better yet, have the manufacturer install the equipment. However, before an operator signs off on the manufacturer's form that the equipment has been installed properly, that operator must always check to ensure that it actually was installed properly.
Concerning the age of equipment, no standards exist for when to retire it, Tharrett says. As long as a club operator follows the equipment's recommended preventive maintenance program, the equipment is still considered usable, he says. Operators must have a system in place to track the routine maintenance, so if any issues occur, they can show proof of proper maintenance.
"Dumbbells and weight benches can be forever old," says James H. Moss, an attorney specializing in recreation law and the editor of Outdoor Recreation & Fitness Law Review. "If the equipment has been kept in good shape and maintained, most weight equipment can last a long time."


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.100 n.12 Pretoria Dec. 2010
Ralph George Hendrickse (5 november 1926 -6 may 2010)(MD, DSc (honoris causa), FRCPE, FRCPCH (founder fellow), FMC (Nigeria: foundation fellow))
Ralph Hendrickse was born in Cape Town on 5 November 1926. He was the son of William and Johanah (née Dennis) Hendrickse. He was raised in a coloured community of richly educated teachers who regarded teaching and learning as pathways to upliftment. He matriculated first class from Livingstone High, a coloured school, at the age of 15 years. Ralph was accepted by the University of Cape Town to study medicine but his parents did not have the money for university fees. Their family doctor, Dr Drummond, offered to pay the fees for the first two years. An Oppenheimer Scholarship enabled Ralph to continue his studies, and he graduated MB ChB in 1948. He was one of the top two students in his class and was later informed that he had been the top student but was not given such recognition because he was coloured.
As a student he met a trainee midwife, Begum Abdurahman. She was the daughter of Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, a third-generation Malay South African whose grandparents had been brought as slaves from the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, to work as craftsmen in the Dutch colonial settlement at the Cape. Abdurahman graduated in Glasgow and had a thriving private practice in Cape Town. He entered politics and founded the African Peoples Organisation with the aim of resisting racial discrimination. Begum's mother was a white South African, Margaret Stansfield, whose family ostracised her when she married the Cape Malay doctor. Ralph was white enough to be classified as white, an easy task if you moved elsewhere and merged into privilege and power in white society. This shift occurred commonly in individuals and communities before the Nationalist Government came to power and rigidly enforced racially discriminatory laws such as the Population Registration Bill, the Immorality Act and the Mixed Marriages Act.
Ralph and Begum Hendrickse moved to Durban to McCord Zulu Hospital, a Methodist Mission Hospital, where Ralph developed his abiding interest in paediatrics. Begum, a certified midwife, took charge of the obstetrics ward. As it was not possible at that time to obtain specialist qualifications in South Africa, Ralph and Begum with their three young children travelled to the UK. He took the examination in paediatrics for Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. There was no question of returning to South Africa to pursue a specialist career, as State and provincial hospitals and non-European hospitals would not have employed non-white doctors. At the time many nurses in black hospitals were white. A committed Africanist, Ralph, like many non-white South African medical graduates with specialist qualifications, moved to appointments in newly established university hospitals in colonial West and East African countries. At University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, Ralph gained extensive experience with regard to sickle cell disease, which formed the basis of the MD degree awarded to him on a return visit to Cape Town in 1957. He was appointed as a Senior Lecturer, later Professor and Head of the Department of Paediatrics in Ibadan and subsequently Director of the Institute of Child Health at the University of Ibadan. He continued his research on malaria in pregnancy, protein-calorie malnutrition and kwashiorkor, and did a pioneering study on the role of aflatoxin and its damaging effects on stored grain.
In 1969 Ralph was invited to the School of Tropical Medicine in Liverpool to take up Chairmanship of a newly established Department of Tropical Paediatrics, where he developed a course towards a diploma in tropical paediatric medicine. At Liverpool he was appointed Dean of the School of Tropical Medicine, an appointment he held jointly with a Professorship in Tropical Paediatrics until his retirement in 1991. He received several honours, including Senior Heinz Fellow of the British Paediatric Society in 1961; Visiting Professor with the Rockefeller Foundation, providing the opportunity of visiting and lecturing in a number of paediatric centres including Makerere University in Uganda; and the Frederick Murgatroyd Memorial Prize of the Royal College of Physicians in 1970. After the political transformation in South Africa his Alma Mater awarded him the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa.
Ralph was a keen photographer - his 1964 film on sickle cell disease won a prize from the Royal Society of Medicine. He played the piano by ear, entertaining friends and family. His wife, Begum, predeceased him. He died at his home in Cheshire on 6 May 2010 surrounded by his five children, William, Margaret, Terry-Anne, Nerina and Sandra.
A contemporary senior academic at the University of Cape Town Medical School described him as a 'giant of African medicine'.
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A HELLCAT IS A JUNGLE GYM in the SOLOMON ISLANDS.
Speaking of JUNGLE WAR, am I the only one to find The Pacific miniseries on HBO limp compared to Band of Brothers? I am having a hard time connecting with the characters. Although we can all agree that DARLING AUSSO-GREEK LADIES make any liberty port worth inflating a few condoms over.
HOWEVER! It has come to my attention that one of the characters, acted by young JOSEPH MAZZELLO of Jurassic Park fame (his sister KNOWS UNIX), is author E.B. SLEDGE, whose memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa is said to be one of the finest accountings of the Pacific war.
VACUUM SPEEDS WOUND HEALING using a mechanism science has yet to fully understand. An MIT grad student, DANIELLE ZUROVCIK, has developed to implement this NEGATIVE-PRESSURE THERAPY using a simple $3 pump as opposed to FANCY MACHINES which can cost up to $100 per day to rent. Haiti earthquake survivors' suppurating wounds say WE LOVE THIS PUMP!
MEDIA AS WE KNOW IT IS NOW DEAD thanks to this video for Rx's "Bumble". I would just embed it but it BREAKS OUR SYSTEM BECAUSE AS I SAID EARLIER IT IS THE DEATH OF MEDIA.
BELAY THAT I figured out where I was missing the quote.
PAOLO PELLEGRIN is a photojournalist who works for MAGNUM, shoots in BLACK & WHITE, and is the latest highlighted in Canon's AMBASSADORS interview series.
YO! MICROSOFT RAPS (ft. MS-DOS 5) This is some CLASSIC SHIT but it is worth relinking every few years so young pups will remember what we went through as nerdcore found its legs. SHRIEK IT DOWN!
MOUSE WIZARD is a utility for your APPLE MAGIC MOUSE which grants the ability to put your MACINTOSH COMPUTER to rest by placing your entire hand over the mouse and GENTLY SUFFOCATING IT TO SLEEP.
IN EVERY LAWN & GARDEN CENTER there is a houseplant that represents the future of human potential: the LASER CYCLAMEN.
AT&T WRITES DOWN $1 BILLION due to costs related to the new health care law. The company said to expect RAISED COSTS and MOUNDS OF RETIRED LINEMEN CORPSES smoldering outside company hospices.
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Sean Penn: Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is like Detroit
As the three-year mark approaches of the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed, injured and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, actor- activist Sean Penn describes life in the country's capital city.
In the January issue of Esquire magazine, Penn compares Port-au-Prince to Detroit, saying, "It's not more dangerous, it's not less dangerous."
Penn founded a relief organization in response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. He still spends about half his time there.
The two-time Oscar winner says a child with a fever in the U.S. gets medicine, a cold bath, or a trip to the emergency room. In Haiti, he says, parents wait "to see if he's going to die or not."
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February 18, 2011
High school sweethearts become successful writers in the twenty years after their breakup - he of horror thrillers, she of celebrity profiles. When her editor learns of their steamy past, she sends our Keri back home to seek an exclusive interview, which Joe (still smoldering - it was a very hot past, and he has a vast smolder capacity) grants on the condition that she spend two weeks with his, well, vivid family on their annual camping trip. The heroine is a barely fleshed out cipher, all designer clothes and delicate city ways, whose family barely merits a mention, but this doesn't dampen my annoyance with the fact that she ends up [spoiler alert, unless you are familiar with the structures of a certain type of romance, in which case you saw this coming] giving up her whole life and career to be with him. His "equivalent" sacrifice is ... trusting her again after she broke his heart two decades earlier. The novel's last line - in which she celebrates giving up her old identity to become known solely as his wife, a fate which horrified her earlier in the book, is particularly galling. Hrmph.
[Sidebar: why is it that many romance novels can only cope with one eccentric family at a time (the hero's or the heroine's), when most relationships are about the fundamental difficulty of grappling with two?]
There's a lot that's well done about the gripping, warm writing of this novel, and my complaints are largely about the blandness (or rather blankness) of the heroine and the way the resolution rubs away what little we know about her that's distinctive. I wanted to see more of their high school years (which were described with all the urgent heat of nostalgia), to understand better why she left him while so madly in love, and to get a sense of why he (a fascinating, compellingly drawn man) would even be interested in her.
This is a pitfall I often stumble into with romances. I wouldn't ever say it is characteristic of the whole varied genre, just of a certain type of characterization problem: the hero, as the object of our erotic focus, is detailed, vivid, charming. The heroine, with whom we are supposed to identify, perhaps, is vaguer, more abstract. Scott McCloud talks about this in Understanding Comics, if I remember correctly, when he deals with why comics artists render characters as either realistic ("Other") or iconic (abstract, and thus ripe for identification - "I"). The problem is this: a character who is sufficiently iconic, vague, or abstract that ANY reader could step into her skin is also a non-character. Someone with features so universal as to be an everywoman. And then what is there for the hero to latch onto and love, apart from the yawn-inducing idea of arbitrary fatedness.
Here my alienation from poor Keri is compounded by the fact that a stunningly beautiful and dazzlingly fashionable heroine needs some humanizing specifics to counteract my knee-jerk, Episcopalian-girls-school-trained dislike for those whom the gods and Neimans have blessed with a polished surface. A beautiful heroine is routinely less interesting to me than one who is simply ... human. Normal. Lovely in moments, and plain in others. If a heroine simply has to be beautiful, I'd like her to be deep as well. Filled with shadows and fears, flaws and self-knowledge. (See the heroine of Kristen Cashore's Fire.)
One last note: it's been some years since I've been camping. But, as I remember it, there's nothing sexy about a campground's public bathhouse. This is not the realm of romance, but of black widows and fungal growth. I'm just sayin': all I could think, every time a couple slipped off to the bathhouse, was, "Did they take shower shoes?". Eww.
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It seems to be an unwritten rule that if I leave my camera at home, photo opportunities will be more prevalent.
And so it was today when we got to use the Christmas present I gave, that I was REALLY wishing I had brought it along. As I mentioned last post, said present was a ticket to see Avenue Q at Tokyo International Forum in Ginza.
The first I heard about this show was while listening to InterFM on my way to work last week. They played one of the songs, and from what they said it seemed like an adult version of Sesame Street. I thought that I'd like it, but I have to say it was a fantastic stage production. Although a totally different concept, I liked it even better than "Chicago".
The parallels with Sesame Street are hard to miss. If you always thought Bert and Ernie were gay, and the Cookie Monster surfed places NSFW on the internet, then I think you'd like it too. The icing on the cake is a "cameo" with Gary Coleman. Yes, that one. And in this case he is played by a woman.
The sets, puppets, story and singing were practically faultless. The puppet actors are visible but not really acknowledged as part of the show. At first this was strange, but you soon accept it. We were on the second floor, at a little bit of a distance from the stage, so if anything I'd have liked to have been closer.
I laughed a lot, got a little misty eyed, and really loved this show. Unfortunately today is last day so I'm afraid it's too late if you're in Tokyo. If you get the chance to see it, I HIGHLY recommend you go. Just do it.
When it was finished we decided to walk around the forum complex. Also on today was the Hot Toys 2010 figurine exhibition in the main building. It was free so we thought we'd take a look.
We were led down narrow corridors by cute girls dressed in white. Made it look like something really special. When we got to the main room, we were presented with a whole lot of glass-cased figurines with extremely high price tags, and bass heavy "doof doof" dance music pulsating through the room.
We almost accidentally bought this one by going to the store area checkouts. "Only" 18,000 yen, yikes! I was thinking this would be the perfect place for guys that have absolutely no interest in women.
This is one of those situations I wish I'd brought my real camera. You can see the flash reflecting off the glass, and the exposure being too dark. The figures outside the glass came out a little better.
How about a Tokyo Tower-sized "Godzilla" Rocky Balboa?
I liked this Aliens recreation..
..but while a lot of the figures looked cool and all, I prefered the girls in white. Damn you, blurry iPhone camera! :(
Right next door to the Hot Toys exhibition there was a Omani Cultural Days exhibition. Quite interesting. It got me thinking that this part of the world would be interesting for a holiday.
The last two times I was in Ginza I missed out on anpan from Kimuraya, so this time we wasted no more time, and got there to a plentiful supply of anpan goodness. There were a few bread samples to abate Sampleman 's hunger too.
Yamano music is right next door, so I took the opportunity to check out the small selection of sweet guitars. Often on the ground floor they play jazz outside the main entrance which sounds really cool. Today's selection was the "Sonny Criss - This is Criss" album. In my old age, I'm developing a mature admiration of jazz and classical. Uh oh.
Next stop.. Sony Building!
At the moment they are showing (off) their 3D film of Hokkaido's Asahiyama Zoo.
Of course I made sure to have the way cooler, kids polar bear 3D specs. Hot, huh?
It's always fun to check out the cool gear in the Sony building.
Sony's mp3 players aren't as easily intuitive as iPods, but I liked the sound quality helped along by their groovy MDR-XB500 cans.
The bass was nice, and the rest of the sound was very clear. There was a little bit of leakage, but maybe not too much to be a problem on the trains. The price is quite reasonable too. If I didn't have the ones I have these would be a strong contender for my next pair. I was listening to Miliyah Kato's "Rose". I'm not really into J-pop stars doing American R'n'b, but there are some really, nice tunes on this CD!
There was some snow put outside the Sony Building to promote the 3D show. "Please Don't Throw The Snow Balls" is like asking for it, right?
After the disappointment of the temporary Kiddyland in Omotosando, I remembered there's a four storey toy store called Hakuhinkan Toy Park here in Ginza.
Coming here made me happy. Lots of cute and fun toys to bring out my kid ego. I wanted to take this cat home. It says "Meow" in Japanese ("Nya!"), but in English, "I wuv you!". かわいい!
Just before coming home we went to the Chinese gyoza restaurant in Yurakucho. I've mentioned it many times before, so look it up if you're in this area. Many delicious food.
Wow. Long post, long day. A good start to my New Year's break! Phew.
Sunday, 26 December 2010
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