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TIA is the not-for-profit trade association representing all businesses involved in creating and bringing toys and youth entertainment products to kids of all ages.
Chairman, TIA Board of Director
John Gessert
President/Chief Executive Officer
American Plastic Toys, Inc.
Mr. John Gessert currently serves as president and chief executive officer of American Plastics Toys, Inc. He joined the organization in 1984 in sales and operations and, after holding regional sales manager positions, became national sales manager in 1991. He served as executive vice president from 1998 to 2003 when he was named as president and CEO.
Gessert is a member of the Toy Industry Association (TIA)'s Board of Directors where he serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the Board and as a member of the Executive Committee.
Gessert and his wife, Susan, reside in Michigan, with their four children, Ellen, Jack, Emma and Julia. Mr. Gessert earned his Bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and his MBA from Wayne State University.
Vice-Chairman, TIA Board of Directors
David Hargreaves
Chief Operating Officer
Hasbro Inc.
Mr. David D. R. Hargreaves is chief operating officer of Hasbro, Inc., a $4.0 billion leader in children's and family leisure time entertainment products and services. Born in England in 1952, Mr. Hargreaves was educated at the Colchester Royal Grammar School, obtained his BA (Honors) in Business from the University of East London, and undertook post graduate business studies at the University of Warwick Business School.
His early career was in the automotive industry. He spent five years with Ford of Europe where he held a number of positions in finance and strategic planning, he also spent two years in finance with DeLorean Motor Cars Limited. He began his Hasbro career in 1982, joining Milton Bradley Europe in London as Finance Manager and relocated to Ireland as Financial Controller of their Irish manufacturing company in 1984. In 1986 he came to US as Director of Business Planning and Analysis. Between 1989 and 1999, at various times he served as Senior Vice President of Finance for each of Hasbro's major operating segments. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer in February 2001. During the period he has served as Chief Financial Officer, the Company has substantially improved profitability, strengthened its balance sheet, rebuilt its credibility with the investment community, and undertaken several strategic initiatives to expand the reach of company's brands into digital gaming, movies and television. He was given responsibility for Hasbro's manufacturing, sourcing, logistics and supply chain planning in 2007, and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in May 2008.
He has lived and worked in England, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland, and the US, and has traveled extensively throughout the world. He serves on the board of the Rhode Island Public Expenditures Council and is involved with a number of non-profit organizations. He has been a board member of the Kent County YMCA and Capital City Community Centers. He is an enthusiastic athlete and has completed a number of marathons and an Ironman triathlon.
Secretary-Treasurer, TIA Board of Directors
Bob Wann
Chief Executive Officer
Patch Products
Bob Wann is the CEO of Patch Products Inc, makers of Patch, Lauri and Smethport Branded toys, games and educational products. Bob proudly serves on the Executive Committee of Toy Industry Association's Board of Directors and holds the Chair position for both the PlayCon Conference Committee and the Toy Industry Foundation's Fundraising Committee.
Wann has over 30 years experience at both Fortune 500 and Entrepreneurial/Start-up companies in U.S and International markets. Through strategic brand and product development combined with creative marketing, he has overseen the development and growth of some of the most recognized brands in Toys and Consumer Packaged Goods, including M&M's, Johnson & Johnson, Fisher Price and Playskool. Wann developed his brand building and marketing skills at M & M Mars, Johnson & Johnson and American Greetings and later applied these skills as VP of Marketing at Fisher Price, Executive Vice President of Playskool and President/Worldwide General Manager of Milton Bradley/Parker Bros at Hasbro, overseeing the successful introduction or growth of industry recognized brands such as Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, Mr. Potato Head, Monopoly, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary, Fisher Price, Playskool, Nerf.
Wann is widely recognized as a creative thinker and marketer, developing award-winning programs such as "Family Game Night" and "Get Together Games."
He has been married to his wife Amy, for 19 years, and resides in Lake Geneva, WI with their 16-year-old daughter Melanie.
Member of the Executive Committee, TIA Board of Directors
Shirley Price
President and Chief Operating Officer
Shirley Price is President and Chief Operating Officer of Funrise Toy Corporation, an industry leader in the manufacturing and distribution of the most popular toys for children of all ages. She started her toy industry career with Funrise in 1987, the same year the company was founded, and has held several senior management positions within the organization. In addition to managing the operations for a company that goes through the entire creative process of designing and manufacturing toys, Shirley leads all strategic planning and business development initiatives, including partnerships with other major toy companies and licensors.
Shirley is very involved in charitable causes. For 10 years, she organized Funrise's "Toy Run For Kids," an annual toy drive that brought the largest single donation of toys to Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. She was the founding co-chair of the Toy Industry Foundation's Toy Bank Committee when it was created in 2004 and continues to sit as a member of the group.
An active member of the Toy Industry Association (TIA), Shirley was elected to the Board of Directors in February of 2010. She also holds the position of co-chair on both the PlayCon and Toy of the Year (TOTY) Award Committees. She is also a member of Women In Toys and received the Wonder Woman In Toys Award for Manufacturing in 2011.
Shirley is a graduate of Catherine College she lives in Southern California with her husband and two children.
Member of the Executive Committee, TIA Board of Directors
David Allmark
Managing Director, Europe
Mr. David Allmark is the managing director of Europe for Mattel. Prior to this role, Allmark served as executive vice president global enterprise, where he had the responsibility of leading the Global Insights team, The Digital Group, Innovation platforms and the Inventor Relations community, a New Business Venture team and the HIT Entertainment group, which Mattel acquired in 2011 and includes some family favorite pre‐school leading brands like Thomas & Friends®, Barney®, Bob the Builder® and Mike the Knight®.
Previously, Allmark was the executive vice president of Fisher‐Price, the leading maker of infant and preschool toys in the world. As the head of Mattel, Inc.'s largest brand, Allmark was the architect of the Fisher‐Price global business strategy and propelled the company's long legacy of producing high‐quality toys that have enhanced learning and early‐childhood development for more than 81 years.
In 2005, prior to this role, Allmark was general manager of Fisher‐Price Friends, which produces lovable and innovative toys from such iconic character lines as Dora the Explorer™ and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. In this position, Allmark oversaw the design, engineering and marketing functions of the important licensed brands arm of Fisher‐Price.
Although spending many years in the U.S., Allmark relocated to London in September 2013. His former roles included SVP&GM Mattel UK/Canada & Eastern Europe, and vice president, international, for Fisher‐Price, where he was responsible for the development and execution of Mattel Preschool's global marketing strategies.
After being educated in England, Allmark attended Harvard Business School's Advanced Management
Program and commenced his career with The Kellogg Company. He soon transitioned into the toy
industry as an employee of Kenner‐Parker‐Tonka, which was later purchased by Hasbro in the UK, where
he held various senior level sales and marketing positions on brands such as Batman, Trivial Pursuit and
Playskool. In 1995, Allmark was appointed director of UK sales and marketing at Bluebird Toys P.L.C.,
famous for its Polly Pocket Brand, which was subsequently acquired by Mattel.
David lives with his wife, Beth, and three children (Justin, 19, Violet, 15 and Harriet, 13) in England where he enjoys challenging himself with DIY home projects, which allow him to find creative solutions to everyday tasks.


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Welcome to Mudd Puppies Season 4
Walk Like and Egyptian
This is an art project that you can follow along at home. Lessons will be performed in real time. Everything you need is in your home's kitchen, or you can purchase clay at a local hobby store. Why don't you join us in this virtual classroom without walls?
rescott School's art teacher, Scott Lammer, in the opening lesson of Mudd Puppies, the after-school ceramics program that has its own cable TV show in its fourth season, was describing this season's assignment. Mudd Puppies allows the viewer to observe a ceramic art project from start to finish on Channel 19, mediacom Cable. Past episodes have featured making whimsical tea sets, strange and wonderful masks, and this season is no exception when it comes to fascinating.
"The Egyptians had some interesting burial practices," Mr. Lammer explaines in the first episode of the new season. He assumed correctly that his students knew something about pyramids and mummies if all they had experienced so far was one of those insanely popular Brendon Fraser movies. "The Eqyptians removed the organs from the dead and put them in what are called canopic jars." All you have to do is talk about gross stuff, and you have the students' undivided attention.
"These jars contained the organs which were removed from the body, and then the body was wrapped in bandages to preserve it on its journey to the afterlife," explained Mr. Lammer. "There typically were four jars, each carrying a different organ. The jars were made of stone, quartz or alabaster, or they were made of ceramic clay, often decorated with glaze or adorned in gold depending on the wealth and station of the person being entombed. Each of the four jars stood for a different spirit. There was a jackal (Duamutef), a baboon (Hapy), a falcon (Qebehsenuef) and the fourth jar had a human headed spirit (Imsety). These spirits were to protect the organs on their journey to the afterlife."
Archeologists have uncovered spectacularly decorated canopic jars in Egypt, some in magnificently carved chests. Three thousand years later, contemporary artists, fascinated and inspired by the infusion of decorative art and ritualistic burial, have created some interesting modern versions of canopic jars. It's a favorite topic of ceramic artists. And this is the assignment for the students in the Mudd Puppies program.
"You must create your own set of four jars that capture your inner spirit," explained Mr. Lammer. "If you could be an animal, what would it be?" asked Mr. Lammer of his students. "That takes care of your first jar. But you must make four others to go with it. And your art must reflect our overall learning theme for Prescott, the natural world."
This is where the assignment gets tricky. For example, if your animal spirit is a dolphin, the the next two jars could depict natural things from the dolphin's environment (the sea). A sea shell, or another sea animal (octopus, perhaps?) or a choral formation.
Let's say your creature is a playful and intelligent otter. Then the next jar could depict a crayfish (lives in a river and the otter depends on it for food), and perhaps a water lilly or cat tails can be the subject of the third jar depicting the otter's natural world.
And the fourth and final jar must be a self portrait.
The assignment will tax the students' capacity for creative thinking. And after the assignment is completed, painted and gazed, what will the kids use the jars for?
Hopefully paper clips, stubby remnants of pencils and loose change. These kids will be on a journey, alright... a learning journey.


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Cuts for retirees; tens of millions for consultants
By T. Kelly and Z. Jeffries
The Michigan Citizen
"No matter who you go and get, ain't nobody cold as this."
– Kanye West
DETROIT — Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr stopped paying the city's bills in early June, letting city debt grow. At the same time, he is paying his former law partners and consultants millions from an alleged cash-strapped city.
To date, Orr — with the aid of six City Council members Charles Pugh, Gary Brown, Saunteel Jenkins, Kenneth Cockrel Jr., Andre Spivey and James Tate — has committed the city to spending $22 million for "restructuring" (see sidebar "Costs of restructuring"). For the first two weeks of work, Jones Day billed the city $498,949.21 for attorneys making up to $1,000 an hour. For work in the month of April, Orr paid Jones Day $870,779.91.
Under bankruptcy, the fees are likely to rise.
"According to the unconscionable contract the City of Detroit has entered into with Jones Day, the cap has now been removed with the bankruptcy filing and Jones Day can, and surely will, bill up to $1,000 per hour/per attorney for their work involving the bankruptcy," said mayoral candidate Krystal Crittendon in a news release on the announcement of the bankruptcy filing.
Meanwhile, Orr's proposal is to treat retirees as unsecured creditors and pay them 10 cents on the dollar while reducing their health care coverage, leaving them with Medicare and the healthcare network created by the Affordable Care Act.
The banks appear to get a better deal. Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG have reportedly agreed to accept 75 cents on the dollar for approximately $340 million in swaps liabilities. Moratorium Now has called for a freeze on payments to the banks that negotiated these pension swaps in 2005 just before the economy tanked. "Illegal, fraudulent and predatory," are descriptions of the swaps used by the group.City residents and workers see the restructuring as nothing less than a coup.
"There is a decision out there that whoever's been running it don't need to be running it any longer. And the citizens in the city of Detroit ought not be able to choose who's their leaders," said Al Garrett, president of AFSCME Council 25, at a press conference July 22. Garrett said the city's crisis is not a financial crisis as much as it is a moral one.
Union officials say the state has contributed to the financial crisis in the city while, at the same time, ignoring proposals from workers on how to save.
"In 2002, the state of Michigan shared revenues with the city of Detroit of about $333 million a year; that number is now $173 million a year. That $333 million 10 years ago, in adjusting for inflation, would now be $450 million," said AFSCME official Steven Kreisberg at the press conference.
Ed McNeil, union negotiator, told the press that "there were 33 unions that came to the table in order to reach an agreement with the city of Detroit in December 2011. That agreement would have saved the city $180.2 million."
Mayor Dave Bing never presented that proposal to City Council. His refusal led to the consent agreement, the Financial Stability Agreement, approved by five of the six aforementioned council members. The consent agreement was supposed to save the city from emergency management and bankruptcy. It added additional levels of bureaucracy and costs which Orr has retained and which will add to the overall restructuring costs.
Unions say Orr never attempted to bargain in good faith.
"When Mr. Orr came in as emergency manager, I personally sent Mr. Orr a letter and followed it up with an e-mail and had a letter personally delivered to Mr. Orr. We couldn't get into his office and the letter was taped to the door," said McNeil.
"Since then, Mr. Orr has not reached out one time to talk with me or AFSCME Council 25 … It's time for people to know that there are inconsistencies and they're being disingenuous with the people of the city of Detroit, as well as the taxpayers in the state of Michigan."
Kreisberg, director of collective bargaining and health care policy for AFSCME, is also having trouble getting information out of the emergency manager's restructuring team. In a July 3 letter to Brian West Easley of Jones Day, Kriesberg expresses concern "about the unavailability of non-pension related information." He asks for the basis and assumptions for the data and projections Jones Day and Orr are making.
Restructuring costs add to city budget
By T. Kelly
The Michigan Citizen
DETROIT — In the name of "restructuring the city," Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr is committing the city to a minimum of $22.003 million in additional spending. Following is a partial listing of financial advisers, law firms and consultants — most not located or paying taxes in the city — being paid as part of the "restructuring team:"
Emergency Manager
budgeted expenses
(The state pays the EM $275,000 salary)
Chief Finance Officer
Chief Operating Officer
$220,000 (plus staff)
Conway McKenzie
$4.2 million
Plus Financial Advisory fee
$162,000 bi-weekly
Ernst & Young
$ 9.3 million
Financial Advisory Board
Nine members at $25,000 each plus their hotel, meals, travel expenses
Gary Brown
Jones Day
$ 3.35 million Plus expenses
Miller Canfield
Plus $150,000 a month
Miller Buckfire
$ 1.8 million
Plus $150,000 a month
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Transmission Maintenance Construction LLC
In addition, there is the interim budget director, deputy budget director, Budget Department employees and Finance Department employees.


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The home is almost exclusively made from timber, with stained cedar shiplap cladding and hoop pine plywood wall and ceiling linings. The exterior is made from regionally-sourced saligna and kwila for the flooring. The most prominent feature of the home though are the moveable shutters, which open and close to let in more or less daylight. Shutters in the public areas open up like an accordion to expand into the outdoors. Then shutters in the bedrooms are raised to let in light and control the temperature. A translucent screen on the north side along the spine fills the space with a filtered light. When no one is around, the shutters are all closed down, which protects the home from weather and vandalism. The Tutukaka House was awarded the NZIA Award for Residential Architecture 2012.
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"Coffee with the Council" is an opportunity to meet during an informal session with the City Council Members, Mayor and City Administrator. The meetings will be held quarterly throughout the year, "Coffee with the Council" was held Saturday, November 22nd at the Kitchen and the next session will be in February, 2015.
The Mayor and City Council members are the elected leaders of the City Government. They are elected to four-year terms with four members elected in November of even-numbered years, the next city election will be in 2014. Meetings are held 7:00 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of each month, at 540 West Hills Circle.
The City Council makes all policy decisions in matters such as legislation, zoning, budgets and improvment projects. The Council hires the City Attorney and City Administrator, and confirms appointments to the City's Boards, Commissions, and Department Head positions.
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|Thomas A. Kuntz
|945 22nd St SE 507-456-5080
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|Les Abraham
|334 16th St. SW 507-451-6455
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Wow, it's been a good while huh? Sorry about not really updatin like talkin about it. It's not even that I've been busy. It's because I've been too lazy. I've had every day off since Sunday and I've been chillin like crazy. And nothing really has been goin on in my life. Like anything ever does. Let's see. I went to Homecoming and the game last weekend. They were pretty cool. If it weren't for Jay, I wouldn't have gone to the dance because I was scheduled to work. But because he put me on the spot, one of the managers actually gave it to me off. So I'm in his debt. Tuesday I got the new Simple Plan cd which is simply awesome. They haven't changed their sound but their songs are a lot more mature and somewhat harder (closer to their live sound). I love it to death. And what's even better is I got The O.C. Season 1 Boxset on Tuesday too. ^_^ I didn't get a chance to really check it out until today. Watched the first episode with commentary and the last episode. I so can't fuckin wait until next Thursday. I'm seriously disconnecting the phones and everything in the house so no one can distract me. And Tru Calling comes on right afterwards so people better get everything in they want to talk about before 8. Moving on, I can't wait until Friday... (today. lol after school at least). Because then I don't have to go back until Wednesday. Wee. ^_^ I got my SAT scores from the 9th. I got a 1060 on my FIRST try. Isn't that good? Espically since I didn't get that much sleep the nite before or go over any SAT strategies in months. 500 on Math and 560 on Verbal. It's funny cause I thought the math was easier. haha. Moving on, I finally got my Check card in the mail Tuesday. It's horrible. I've bought a few good things online already. haha. I got a DC hat and a "Man of the Hour" shirt for the concert next week. And this little subscription and that's it. I'm waiting for my next paycheck (my b-day) and my b-day money before I buy anything else. Can't wait. ^_^ Oh and I just had to mention about it. The whole Ashlee Simpson thing... People are seriously getting ridiculous. It's not that serious. So what she lip-synch that one time? I can bet any amount of money ANY pop group/person has lip synch in their career. Even Rooney lip-synch on The OC. Granted it was a pre-recorded episode of an actual series, it's the principle. Get the fuck over it and leave that poor girl alone. I hate it how fans are so quick to turn on their idol because of something as stupid as lip-synch. Maybe if she made a racial slur or did pics in "Sluts Magazine of the Year" but she did nothing wrong.Anywho, I think that's really about it. I gotta finish my government homework because I don't want to get into bed too late tonight. I had a bad experience with that earlier this week when I had to catch a cab to school. Never again. Anyways, oh and I talked to Billy yesterday! And we had "the talk" that I'm seeming to have once a month with someone new. I feel bad because him and I haven't had "the talk" and I've known him for 6 years. The longest ladies and gentlemen. Me best friend ever. He's just hard as a bitch to get ahold of. Seriously, I'm lucky if I can get in contact with him twice in 3 weeks. He ALWAYS has his phone off!! ARG! Oh! see that lunar eclipse last nite? That was so cool. Just the thought that people in a dozen other states were looking at the exact thing as me. It was weird to understand how truly big the sky is. One thing I love about the country is that at nite, the view is beautiful. You can see the stars and the moon. I can't wait til it snows here. It's gonna look so cool. ^_^ Weee. Let's see... the next things on my "I'm gonna buy list" - The O.C. Mix 1 & 2 (I'll get 3 sometime later more closer to Christmas since it IS a christmas album), and err... maybe Mario Tennis or something. I loved the one for N64. Heh heh. Anywho people, I think I'm finally out this time foreal. I wanna get to bed so I can cuddle and smell my nice clean tiger blanket (Washed it fabric softner yesterday. Smells kewl). Welp, I think I talked about everything (cept that I'm passin Physics with a 70.4!!! That's a C and it's awesome. Espically since I neglected to do a lab and a notebook. Now my next class and last class to pull up my grade in is Psychology. BUM BUM BUM. Maybe I can get Jay to help me.) Well, I'm goin foreal. Later.


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Opening up Archives, The National Archives' project to tackle skills shortages in the wider archives sector, has been allocated additional funding of over £250,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
Speaking about the additional funding, Nick Kingsley, Head of Archives Sector Development, The National Archives, said: 'This is fantastic news for the archives sector. HLF's continued support and financial backing for this essential project helps us open up a career in archives to a wider, more diverse group of individuals.'
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2011 was a year of turmoil. Internationally, economic meltdown deepened and continued, massive earthquakes struck New Zealand and a tsunami hit Japan. But 2011 will be also remembered for a different type of earthquake – the Arab Spring – an event that shook the Middle East, causing regimes across the region to totter and fall. Unlike other revolutions, this one used relatively new tools and technologies – networked or social media.
Much has already been written about the Arab Spring but what is already clear from the current body of work being produced is that it was the use of social media that acted as the catalyst for change in an already unpredictable environment. The use and availability of social media easily created connections between prominent thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens, rapidly expanding the network of people willing to take action.
Although the true impact of the Arab Spring is still playing out in Egypt and beyond, the events of 2011 created a new paradigm shift that governments must now consider: That society is no longer dominated by government or the market, but by the power of communities and groups. The way in which social media works means that information is porous. National borders, government structures or even languages are no longer relevant in this new environment.
The changes wrought by the use of social media in our daily lives have, for the most part, not been mirrored within government. Social media in these spaces remains more of a tentative relationship than an ideal marriage. An oft heard argument by officials is that benefits of using social media remain unclear. Yet there are obvious upsides to its use.
Using social media in government:
- Creates the means to improve governance. Social media provides easy publication and rapid spread of information. By doing so, it creates transparency that can strengthen citizen goodwill towards government. For citizens, by embedding government information in social media provides hitherto unimagined access to government and the means to connect in real time. For government, it offers the ability to rapidly poll public opinion and perhaps more importantly, forecast broader, societal trends.
- Opens up access to government and government officials and create new possibilities for community driven initiatives. It makes sense for government to enable and facilitate a partnership culture for this to occur. (Does this perhaps, mean a new era of Public Private Partnerships?)
- Saves time and money. Providing information through social media channels offers real efficiencies in creating faster, easier and cheaper access to information, particularly to younger voters who tend use, read and operate in social media spaces.
- Creates new ways of working. Online collaboration across government departments and with citizens could force change on the way government operates and develops policy.
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The Whifffenpoofs Sing for Cynthia Nixon on Friday at first Yale Artists for Equality Concert
To some, the Whiffenpoofs might represent some fantasy of Yale—quaffing ale in harmony at Mory's, pining for the days when the college was all male and students wore tuxedos instead of denim.
Oh, they dress well and sing like angels. But The Whiffenpoofs are hipper than you think. When they sang on an episode of The West Wing, the punch line was that the White House staffers wanted to sleep with these adorable boys.
They were brave enough to compete on the TV a cappella competition The Sing-Off.
Their trademark song, "The Whiffenpoof Song," became a mainstream hit thanks to Rudy Vallee in the 1920s, but also been made over by Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley and Chicago jazz drummer Walter Perkins.
Oh, and check out some of the haircuts in the photo accompanying this article.
On Friday, Feb. 8, the Whiffenpoofs figure heavily in the presentation of Yale's first-ever Artists for Equality Award. This honor, to be conferred annually, goes first to actress Cynthia Nixon, who appears to epitomize what Artists for Equality is praising: "Artists distinguished in their field who have demonstrated a strong commitment to the LGBT community."
Nixon has been a forthright, out and open advocate of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender awareness and civil rights. She's also had the sort of diverse acting career which demands that she be given awards. Sex and the City, sure, but she also played Eleanor Roosevelt in the TV movie Warm Springs and has a slew of impressive Broadway credits, from Rabbit Hole to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to Wit. The roles she takes are invariably described as "empowering."
Friday's awards ceremony, which begins at 8:30 p.m., is largely a concert, a concert by "Yale's choral community," with The Whiffenpoofs figuring heavily. It's at the vast Woolsey Hall, (500 College Street, New Haven). Tickets run from $10 to $50, and can be found now at www.yalegala.org/reunion.
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Forecasters had been calling for the possibility of freezing drizzle overnight for the Ozarks. According to National Weather Service Meteorologist Doug Cramer, there has been and continues to be precipitation that could cause some glazing. However, it has not amounted to much…
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The Committee of 100 Denounces Bob Beckel's Derisive Remarks on Chinese StudentsThe Committee of 100, a group of Chinese American leaders, condemns Bob Beckel's July 10 comments on Chinese students made while co-hosting the Fox News Channel program, The Five.
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A plan to require seismic retrofits on as many as 3,000 "soft-story" buildings in San Francisco can't be executed all at once, experts say, because there aren't enough engineers and contractors who know how to do the work.
So city officials are developing a system of triage: Deal with the most dangerous buildings with the most people in them first. Property owners, activists and public officials are now starting to weigh in on how the order gets set.
Under a plan circulating through City Hall, and expected to be before the Board of Supervisors as soon as February, retrofits would occur in four overlapping groups, with the most hazardous buildings finishing upgrades by 2017. Subsequent deadlines will be staggered out to 2020.
"We can't do them all at once — we have to phase them," said Laurence Kornfield, a longtime staffer in the Earthquake Safety Implementation Program in the City Administrator's Office.
A new committee, the Earthquake Safety Working Group, is tackling how to make seismic upgrades stick. It's made up of volunteers from the legal, real estate and engineering communities, and it met at City Hall for the first time on Dec. 3 to address soft-story retrofits and other earthquake issues.
The meeting foreshadowed the likely controversy about which property owners should get more time to seismically stabilize their buildings.
Laura Samant, an independent consultant on earthquake risk mitigation, said that even though restaurants and cafes have the highest safety risk, because the first-floor businesses are occupied all day, they should be taken off the Phase 1 schedule.
"Livelihoods will be threatened by this program" when the businesses have to shut during the retrofits, she said.
But Chris Poland, chairman of the Degenkolb structural engineering firm, said retrofit jobs are designed not to interrupt commercial operations.
John Paxton, an independent real estate consultant, said small building owners would be "more concerned about how are they going to get the money together" than owners of larger buildings. So the city should give them more time to save for the retrofits.
It costs $10,000 to $20,000 per dwelling unit to retrofit a soft story, Kornfield said. That means a typical San Francisco soft-story building with four floors above a bay windowed-ground floor would cost about $60,000 to $80,000 to retrofit. Department of Building Inspection records show that the voluntary program's cheapest project was $8,000 and the most expensive was $5 million.
The plan would require owners of wood-frame structures built before 1978, and possessing at least three floors and five apartments, to prove with an engineer's inspection that they are not soft-story hazards. For those buildings needing a retrofit, the city would require the retrofit to meet engineering standards that are still under discussion.
The preliminary four-phase proposal is intended to address the most dangerous situations first:
The riskiest buildings, such as those serving many occupants at one time, or used for educational purposes. These include day care centers, buildings in earthquake liquefaction zones and "assembly occupancy" buildings (large restaurants, cafes and non-retail businesses).
Buildings with 15 or more apartments. These represent a potentially major loss of housing stock. They are at high risk of collapse, because of the bulk and weight riding on top of first-floor openings, such as store windows and garages.
All other freestanding and corner soft-story buildings.
Mid-block buildings. Even if their "soft" first stories fail, these buildings are more likely to survive a major quake because their neighbors can hold them in place during the shaking.
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Earthquake Retrofit Delays Leave Thousands at Risk
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Summer always comes late to Southern California, but that seemed to be particularly true this year, as the cloudy gray days of June gloom stretched well into August for many areas. There was a good side, to be sure, but what we gained by not having to turn on the air conditioner was offset by the sorry state of our tomatoes.
In my garden, except for some precocious Sweet 100s, nothing became ripe until about a week ago. Then wham! all of a sudden, everything ripened at once. As a result, I am now swimming in tomatoes.
I've got more ripe Brandywines, Pink Cherokees and Black Krims than I can count. And every day seems a challenge to find yet one more way to use them up. Because this summer heat spell can't last. I figure we've got probably until the middle of October to enjoy these tomatoes before the sun starts to fade and the fruit starts to shrivel.
So, in honor of this hurry-up harvest, here is a month's worth of ideas for using tomatoes, plus a couple of full recipes to get you started.
1. Pa' amb tomaquet:
Split a baguette in half and cut it into 4- to 5-inch lengths. Toast the bread and while it is still hot, rub the cut side with a cut clove of garlic. Rub half of a seeded tomato against the bread, cut side to cut side, as if you were polishing the bread with the tomato. The bread will absorb a lot of tomato juice and soften slightly but stay crisp around the crust. Drizzle lightly with olive oil and season to taste with salt.
2. Pasta with fresh tomatoes:
Cut cherry tomatoes in half and season with salt, pepper, olive oil, a little red wine vinegar and minced garlic and a pinch of dried red chile flakes. Cook bucatini, penne or another chewy dried pasta until tender. While the pasta is still steaming hot, dump it over the tomatoes. Stir quickly so the hot pasta will lightly cook the tomatoes. Stir in a bit more olive oil or, if you prefer, some fresh goat cheese, which will melt into the pasta.
3. Pasta with quickly cooked tomatoes (true marinara):
Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat and sauté a whole peeled garlic clove until lightly browned. Add peeled, seeded, diced tomatoes and cook until they begin to melt into a sauce. Cook spaghetti or another long dried pasta and when it is almost tender, add it to the tomatoes along with a ladle of the cooking water. Increase the heat to high and cook until the sauce thickens and coats the pasta. Remove the garlic clove, sprinkle with shredded basil, and serve.
4. Pasta with tomato sauce:
Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat with minced garlic and diced carrots, celery and onion (half as much carrots and celery as onion). When the vegetables start to soften and turn color, add peeled, seeded, diced tomatoes (preferably plum tomatoes) and cook until they've thoroughly melted into a sauce. Pass the mixture through a food mill (or purée in a food processor) and return to the skillet. Serve with fettuccine or another fresh pasta topped with grated Parmigiano-Reggiano.
5. Tomato butter:
Heat a stick of butter in a skillet with minced shallots and torn fresh tarragon. Cut cherry tomatoes in quarters and put them in a mixing bowl with salt to taste. If the tomatoes lack acidity, stir in a bit of red wine vinegar. When the shallots have softened, pour the butter into the tomatoes, stirring briskly to break up the tomatoes. Serve this over grilled or sautéed fish or gnocchi.
6. Tomato and white bean salad:
Halve cherry tomatoes and put them in a mixing bowl with minced garlic and capers. Season with olive oil, red wine vinegar and salt. Set aside for a half-hour to macerate. In another mixing bowl, combine a can of rinsed, drained white beans and some slivered red onion. Add the tomatoes and stir to combine. Top with slivered basil. To make this a light main course, stir in a drained can of good-quality tuna.
7. True gazpacho:
Soak bread in water to soften. Purée the bread and a clove of garlic in a blender until smooth. Add seeded, chopped tomatoes, a little peeled, chopped cucumber and a little seeded bell pepper and purée. Season with salt, white wine vinegar, a little cumin and either a little black pepper or smoked paprika. With the blender running, add olive oil in a stream until the mixture turns from bright red to orange. Pour the mixture into a bowl and whisk in just enough ice water to make a lightly creamy texture. Chill until ready to serve.
8. Crostini with goat cheese and tomatoes:
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Check out my site, Potions, Snitches and Unlikely Relations! It's a giant rec list of Harry Potter fics, the majority Snape and Harry Gen. Currently, there are 800+ fics listed.
Fandoms that I like to read fanfiction of include: Star Trek, Star Wars, Kung Fu : The Legend Continues, Dragonball Z, Stargate SG1, Batman, Angel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. I like Gen and Mentor fics mostly.
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With a strange potion, new location and the odd Muggle Studies Professor along for the ride, Harry's in for an interesting summer, but why is Snape here? Dumbledore had better pray he gets all three back in one piece! Humor, Angst, No MarySues, No Romance, No Slash.
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: Kind Snape, Stern Snape
Tags: Child fic, Deaged!Harry, Deaging, Injured!Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
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Hogwarts has been under siege for some time. The supplies are dwindling, food is running low and most of the potions have been spent... Harry is injured and Snape is the only one able to help at the moment. There are no potions left, and no correct ingredients to make any so they'll have to bind it Muggle Style.
Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Comforting Snape, Stern Snape
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My attempt at writing a scary story for Halloween. XD Not polished and not complete. Nothing scary in this part.
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Halloween one-shot. This is a story set place in the Muggleville universe, if our characters had stayed as long as Halloween. Kind of a stand alone piece set in an alternate future.
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For Potions and Snitches this holiday season. One shot, completed. Harry is stuck at Hogwarts during the winter holidays, and notices that something has been disappearing. He decides to investigate.
Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: Canon Snape, Secretive Snape
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Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
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HistoryUnknown to human society, there exists a tribe of Sasquatches living in peace in the forests of British Columbia. When General Clarke was forming a new government sanctioned Alpha Flight, they found what they thought to be an out-of-control Walter LangkowskiSasquatch II. They captured him, and brought him back to Department H. Having no luck getting Walter's mind to resurface, they used Murmur to control him. The Sasquatch managed to escape Deparment H, and made his way to North Thomson, British Columbia. When Puck was sent to track Sasquatch, he reported the location to Department H. It was then that he discovered he had in truth found a tribe of real Sasquatchs. Sasquatch II appeared to be the alpha male of the group, minding his family and doing his best (as his kind has done for centuries) to remain folklore. He instinctively knew that if his tribe would become a reality it would surely compromise their existence. Department H operatives arrived and recaptured "their" Sasquatch. The rest of the clan are to this day roaming the forests of British Columbia, but Department H now knows they exist.
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- Create an instant update to your evening wardrobe with 'Brandie' from Vince Camuto. The elegant suede sandals feature a peep toe strap with an eye-catching jewelled front panel. With a back zip fastening and a sleek 10cm heel these statement heels will be the perfect glamorous finish whatever the occasion.
- Details
- Material:
- suede
- Upper:
- leather
- Lining:
- leather
- Heel Height:
- 110mm
- Product code:
- 4684300209
- Delivery & Returns
Delivery & Returns Information
Kurt Geiger offer a variety of delivery methods to suit your preference. These will vary according to your delivery address and be displayed during checkout.
- Standard Delivery £4.95
- Monday to Friday within 3-5 working days.
- Next Working Day £7.95
- Monday to Friday. Order by 5pm the previous working day.
- Saturday £8.95
- Order by midday the previous working day.
- Click & Collect FREE
- Purchase online and send for collection to your preferred Kurt Geiger store.
- International From £6.95
- Delivery to over 60 countries within 2-7 working days.
- Returns: Free UK Returns
Please note - Delivery options are restricted during sale periods.
Please check our International Delivery and Returns page for more details.


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