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National Museum of Toys and Miniatures's (T/m) mission is to educate, inspire
and delight adults and children through the museum's collection and
preservation of toys and miniatures. T/m exhibits and preserves one of the
largest toy collections on public display in the United States and the largest
fine-scale miniature collection in the world.
At a time when museums housing collections of our type are closing nationwide, we are working to improve our interpretation and education to share the history of the common experience of playing with toys and the growing art form of fine-scale miniatures with a local and national audience. The museum is a portal to the past, a chronicle of the ways that our imaginations have served us over time. Children of all ages at all income levels have engaged in play across generations; the museum is a place for visitors to find common ground across generations, genders, and lifestyles. Our collection invites reminiscing, analysis and discussion; it is a vehicle for building connections.
The Toy and Miniature Museum opened in 1982. The museum started
with 7,000 square feet of exhibit space and two full-time staff in the
former Tureman Mansion, leased from the University of Missouri - Kansas City.
In 1985 the museum's founders Mary Harris Francis and Barbara Marshall formed
the Toy and Miniature Museum Foundation, donated their personal collections,
and undertook a major fundraising effort to build an addition onto the original
building. After the long-term loan of an extensive marble collection in 2004, a
second addition added 12,000 square feet. In 2014, the museum became The
National Museum of Toys and Miniatures and began a major renovation to improve
the museum climate and reallocate the building's existing square footage to
better serve the needs of the collection and visitors. Before renovation, the
museum had 33,000 square feet of exhibit space with an annual attendance
of approximately 25,000 visitors.
T/m's toy collection is broad in scope, and the sheer volume of materials makes it one of the largest museum toy collections in the United States. The collection is particularly strong in dollhouses, dolls, transportation toys, stuffed animals, housekeeping toys, and toy shops and kitchens from 1870 to 1930.
The museum's collection of fine-scale contemporary art miniatures is the largest collection of its kind in the world. It includes freestanding structures, room settings, and some of the finest examples of decorative arts and material culture, in terms of artistry, quality of workmanship, and uniqueness. Created by master craftsmen and artists, they often are one-of-a-kind or limited-production pieces, and encompass a number of subjects including history, science, and mathematics. The museum primarily collects items in three scales: 1" to 1ft; ½" to 1ft.; and ¼" to 1ft.
The museum's temporary exhibit areas have featured Barbie in 50 Years with America's Favorite Fashion Doll, and a local toy art in Trash or Treasure? The Strange Items and Curious Artifacts of Just Colcord. Two new temporary exhibit galleries will feature pedal cars and Japanese Friendship dolls when the museum reopens. The museum will be open to the public year-round from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Sunday, closed Tuesdays.
The majority of the museum's current income is from the endowment, museum store sales, admission fees, memberships, and donations. The museum is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization and receives no state or federal funding.
The museum's first public capital campaign raised $10.2 million to improve the museum's climate to meet collection preservation standards; augment the endowment to provide funding for education and acquisitions; and, improve exhibitions and interpretation. In January of 2015, the museum successfully completed the campaign with a total of $10.5 million raised.
The museum closed on January 6, 2014 and will reopen on Saturday, August 1, 2015. T/m is a world-class museum that builds a fresh and relevant future on the strong foundation of the founders' original intent, using storytelling and unique interactive experiences to bring out the curious nature and sense of imagination in every person, every time they visit.
With a dedicated staff of eight and a core group of volunteers, the museum achieved the following goals in 2014:
The staff will be busy in 2015 preparing the museum for reopening:
museum's most pressing needs for support include the following:
Education: Funding for the development and implementation of educational programming to increase awareness of fine-scale miniatures as an art form, increase accessibility to the museum's collections for a broader demographic, and foster community cooperation and identity.
Exhibitions: Underwriting for execution of the special exhibitions to allow the institution to better use the collection to foster an appreciation for and understanding of antique toys and fine-scale miniatures beyond the collection's inherent wonder and whimsy.
Volunteers: Additional volunteer staff to assist with research, greeting and orienting visitors, and assisting with program stations.
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The National
Museum of Toys and Miniatures seeks to educate, inspire, and delight museum
visitors and members about the historical and cultural significance of toys and
miniatures with a variety of innovative educational and programmatic strategies.
Through on-going programming, museum educators use the collection as a gateway to learning,
inspiring and cultivating contemplation, curiosity, imagination, analysis, and
The museum desires to increase
accessibility to the collection for a larger demographic by offering collections-focused
programs with a hands-on workshop component, such as the summer's annual hands-on
activity series, the miniature artist-in-residence series, and family free
days. During these educational programs and events, visitors gain an appreciation
for and understanding of the difference between antique, historical toys and
fine-scale, contemporary art miniatures.
Through programming, the museum strives
to assist visitors in understanding and appreciating the art of the imagination
inherent in the collection. The museum's education staff desires to share these
lessons with an increasingly diverse museum audience in order to break down
race, gender, and cultural barriers in the Kansas City community using the
common ground of play and toys.
Success will be measured by attendance
and membership rates; repeat visitation by existing members and guests in both
guided tours and on-going programming; an increase in community recognition in
the form of visitation, membership, donations, volunteers, partnerships, and
sponsorships; positive feedback from program participants and museum visitors;
and an increase in individual interaction with the organization in terms of
newsletter registrations, repeat visitation, and volunteers.
closing in January of 2014, for the second year in a row, the museum's annual
free Back to School Day welcomed almost 1,000 people to the museum for hands-on
activities that encouraged engagement with the collection and conversation
amoungst multi-generational groups. A majority of the visitors had never been to
the museum.
The museum has more than 72,000
artifacts in its collection. Museum staff strive to achieve the institution's
mission to educate, inspire, and delight visitors by using the collection to
foster an appreciation for and understanding of antique toys and fine-scale
miniatures beyond the collection's inherent wonder.
The museum presents special exhibitions highlighting aspects of our collection and other collectors' assemblages, with an emphasis on exhibitions with a multi-generational appeal. Each exhibition includes educational, interactive, and contextual elements, in addition to supplemental programming. Currently, the museum has a backlog of exhibition ideas; underwriting support is needed to create these temporary exhibitions, including two planned for the museums reopening: Messengers of Goodwill: The 1927 Friendship Doll Exchange and Pedal to the Metal: Pedal Cars and American Car Culture.
T/m seeks to be a portal to the past, a
chronicle of the ways that our imaginations have served us over time and our material
culture has shaped and reflected our lives. Children of all ages, at all income
levels have engaged in play across generations. The museum is a place for
visitors to find common ground, reminisce, analyze, and discuss. Short-term
success includes visitors' understanding of the difference between antique toys
and fine-scale miniatures, as well as an increase in corporations and community
organizations seeking to partner with the museum.
Long-term success of the museum's exhibitions will
be marked by
museum tracks attendance, revenue, donations, and requests for membership
information. Those are then compared to special exhibition and non-exhibition
periods to determine the success of exhibition topics and provide guidance for
future exhibitions. Interactive experiences in the temporary exhibitions allow
for visitor feedback; these qualitative responses provide insight into visitor
enjoyment of an exhibition.
museum's most recent temporary exhibition, In the spring and summer of 2013, the museum featured a local artist in Trash or Treasure? The Curious Items and Strange Artifacts of Just Colcord. Colcord crafts figures and "toys" out of found objects. Many of the objects on exhibit at the museum were also featured in Colcord's stop-motion films. The exhibition not only increased attendance, but also introduced the museum to a new demographic during its run, which included two free Adults-Only Nights.
With underwriter assistance, the museum hopes to continue fulfilling its mission by improving current interpretation, presenting new exhibitions, increasing visitor enjoyment, and building the museum's audience and community support.
The museum collection provides
unlimited educational possibilities for adults by encompassing a number of subjects
including history, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, science,
and mathematics. The fine-scale miniature collection is an
illustration of our material history, simultaneously demonstrating human
innovation, craftsmanship, and ingenuity while challenging viewers' concept of
what is possible and stimulating critical thinking skills.
Toys are the product of the evolutionary social construction of childhood, stimulating imagination and creativity, while also reflecting education through play by teaching children adult skills and societal expectations; emulating cultural norms and mores, including commentaries on race, ethnicity, religion, politics, and world events from the time in which the toys were created; and documenting the hopes, dreams, technological advancements, economic successes and failures of a society. Through these subjects and more, the museum will continue to foster an adult audience with targeted programming.
Program short-term success will be gauged by achieving status as a study resource for art, art history,
architecture, and material culture students at local educational institutions
and beyond; the development of an appreciation
of fine-scale miniatures as a contemporary art form; and the dissemination of a
passion for collecting and the importance of proper preservation and storage
for future enjoyment.
Long-term success includes achieving
status as a resource for the cultivation of creativity and imagination;
developing partnerships with other arts and culture organizations in the
community, garnering support and introducing new adult audiences to the
institution; and becoming a resource for miniature artists, toy collector and
enthusiast communities and their associated organizations, and local colleges
and universities.
Program success will be monitored by an
increase in individual interaction with the organization in terms of newsletter
registrations, repeat visitation, and volunteers; and positive feedback from
program participants and museum visitors.
2012 Miniature Artist-in-Residence program, featuring Lee-Ann Chellis Wessel,
successfully attracted adult visitors to the museum and enthralled those who
arrived without prior knowledge of the program. Over 1,100 adults enjoyed the
program and exhibition of the artist's work. Many adults interested in pursuing
art, and miniature art in particular, attended the program's events. One woman
sat with Wessel in her in-gallery studio for two hours watching her work and
picking the artist's brain for instructional and bibliographic resources.
Another young woman stopped by during a college visit to see the accompanying
exhibition and discuss art schools with Wessel.
In preparation for renovations, the museum decided to postpone the 2013 Miniature Artist-in-Residence program until the museum has reopened. At that time, we look forward to premiering new miniature room settings and welcoming artists Kevin Mulvany and Susie Rogers to Kansas City from the United Kingdom to talk about their work.
museum's collection is strong in depth and breadth. We are striving to create
on-going programming for our core audiences, including multi-generational
families, adults, school-aged children, and tourists. The programming will
create context and help our guests explore the many facets of our collections.
As a museum with a relatively small budget and staff, our biggest programmatic challenge
is having enough resources. With the Midwest's largest toy collection and the
world's largest miniature collection, we have the potential to provide
exceptional interpretation and educational programming. However, we currently
lack the funds needed to expand. Additional funding would allow us to increase
the frequency of changing exhibitions and program offerings for all ages.
Berry has an EMBA from the Bloch School of Management at University of Missouri - Kansas City and has worked in both for profit and non-profit organizations. She brings over 25 years of experience in operations, management, sales, and marketing, and teaches leadership as an adjunct professor at UMKC.
Dobbins received her M.A. in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program at the State University of New York. She has worked in various capacities of escalating responsibility and expertise in the museum industry for 16 years. Dobbins is a noted speaker and author in the field and has vast experience from participation on numerous boards and committees.
Taylor is pursuing a M.A. in Art History from the University of Missouri - Kansas City and received a B.A. in History from Friends University. Her 18 years of experience in history and museum capacities includes Director of Tourism and Visitor Relations at Hillwood Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C. and Historic Interpreter at Historic Mount Vernon.
Mundt received a M.A. in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program at the State University of New York and a B.A. in History and Business Administration, Marketing Concentration from Truman State University. She has completed a Fundraising Certificate from the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Missouri- Kansas City. Her 6 years of professional experience in all aspects of art, history, and science museums includes institutions in Kansas, Missouri, and New York, as well as presentations at local and national conferences.
museum continues to mature and we are now realizing the impact of our
evolution. With the expansion of the board, hiring of professional management
and staff, and the adoption of professional museum standards, the museum has
put itself on the path towards long-term sustainability. We are currently beginning
another chapter of growth as we work toward aligning our physical structure and
layout to match the ideas and possibilities the staff and board recognize we
can achieve. While it is exciting, it is stressful for the staff to maintain
balance with meeting today's needs and planning for the future. Yet is it is a
joyful process full of promise and we are pleased with how far we have come
over the past few years. But even more, we look very forward to where we are
an outside review of the museum in 2004-2005, the board elected to increase its
size. Previously composed of two members of each of the founding families and
two representatives of UMKC, the board expanded to include community
representatives in 2006. The secretary and museum's executive director also sit
on the board, but are non-voting members. In 2012, the board began to enact its
strategic plan, which included a further expansion of the board with a focus on
community members and diversity. Five new members bring the board total to
eleven voting members. The new members represent strategic needs of the
institution, from marketing to architecture and facilities, and expertise in
the museum collection, including an artist and well-known toy collector.
The board terms vary due to the founding family representation. The bylaws state that each founding family will have two representatives appointed by the families. Those designees serve at the will of the families, so no true term limits exist for those members. The rest of the board serves an initial three-year term with the ability to renew for a second term.
Indirect Public Support HelpIndirect public support represents revenue received through solicitation campaigns. This includes funding United Way and other federated fundraising organizations, but does not include donor designated contributions.
Earned Revenue HelpEarned revenue represents income generated in direct exchange for a product or service.Earned income includes income from government contracts.
main source of operations for the museum comes from the endowment, entrance
fees, and donors. The board has identified the need to grow
our annual budget to support programming, a more robust exhibit schedule, and
marketing of events. In the last year, the board and staff have been working to implement a
plan designed to increase the museum's income. The plan's strategies include growing
the endowment, community fundraising, underwriting for exhibits and
programming, and participation in grant programs. The board worked diligently to prepare the institution for the upcoming renovations that are the
result of strategic planning processes, which uncovered the need for changes to
the museum building as well as interpretation and exhibition.
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Music for my aches and ails.
There are a lot of posts sitting in my drafts folder. Most of them talk about pain. I don't like to publish them. I don't want or need sympathy. I don't want more unique visits if they just come to read the bad stuff.
But I am consumed with it today. My body has gone into autoimmune overdrive. This is what happens when hay fever takes a hold and your body is already attacking itself with rheumatoid arthritis, a bastard bad* autoimmune disease.
It appears my hay fever allergies have sent out more emergency beacons than usual to the rest of my body and the joints in my knees have decided to join the party. This means I have itchy, watery eyes, itchy nose and skin, a sore throat and for added fun very painful knee joints. Hurrah.
I should be happy it's just my knees. When my neck gets sore, or my fingers, I usually want to spend the day crying in full on self pity mode. It is exhausting. The pain, not the crying.
I have some pretty good pain killers, they do a good job at taking the edge off the pain. It never really goes away. But I can't take those today because I'm off to Mumford and Sons with the Green Eyed Girl. Something we have been looking forward to for what seems like forever. So, the good pain killers, that come with the direction not to drive, are out. I know, poor me right. I can't take the extra good stuff because I have to go see a really amazing band with my really amazing daughter. Boo hoo.
I try not to let the diagnosis take over my life. I work hard at maintaining a low level of pain. Some days I can even forget it is there, just about. Today though is not one of those days. There have been quite a few of those days this year if I am being honest. It makes me tired, all this getting on with things when there is pain. But I know I will get there.
So now, I'm off for a nana nap. Or a disco nap if you are old enough to remember them, and then I will take my amazing girl to see a band, and just for a while, I will be washed away on a sea of sound and I will forget my aches and ails.
*OK, so bastard bad is not actually part of the diagnosis. Technically speaking.
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Justin Bieber's bodyguards allegedly attacked a photographer's car on Wednesday night.
Video has surfaced of the incident which occurred in Sydney, Australia, where Justin is currently on tour.
The video obtained by TMZ apparently shows a paparazzo following Justin's car when it pulls over and a bodyguard jumps out, demanding the photographer go away.
'You can hear the heated exchange as the photog refuses to go anywhere -- and then you can hear several loud banging noises. The photog says, 'He just kicked the door', writes the website.
The bodyguard then reportedly knifed the photographer's tires, but that is off-camera. Justin does not appear in the footage.
This is not the first time the pop star's team have got into hot water Down Under. TMZ previously reported a surfer claims he was attacked by one of Justin's security team for taking pictures of the singer surfing.
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While most people today doubt that health care reform moves in the direction of universal coverage and access for all, the managed care model has reached new populations, including Medicare and Medicaid.
With the managed care industry growth during the 1990s, attention in health services research turned to outcomes research and performance measurement.
Large employers, the purchasers of managed care plans for their employees, wanted to measure the value of their insurance package. They wanted to guarantee that the insurance plans were providing the services their employees needed at a cost that was affordable.
States began creating managed care plans for the uninsured which further increased the number of enrollees.
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Columbia College and the undergraduate division of The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science provide need-based financial aid to students, awarding grants, loans and on-campus work-study jobs to applicants on the basis of their family's financial circumstances. There is no limit on the number of students who receive need-based financial aid as each application is considered individually. In 2013-2014 the average financial aid package was $41,207.
Columbia admits transfer students who are US Citizens or Eligible Noncitizens on a need blind basis. Columbia is need-aware for international transfer applicants. Columbia guarantees to meet 100% of demonstrated financial need for all admitted transfer students. International students must be awarded financial aid at the time of admission in order to qualify in subsequent years.
Though Columbia is not need-blind in its admission of international students, if you are admitted as a first year student, then we will meet 100% of your demonstrated financial need. If you plan on applying for financial at any point during your four years of study then you must apply for financial aid at the time you apply for admission.
All applicants who are US Citizens or Eligible Noncitizens are read in a need-blind manner, no matter where they attend school or where they reside. The term "need-blind" means financial need has no bearing on the admissions decision.
All other applicants are evaluated in a need-aware manner, which means that the admissions committee takes into consideration how much financial aid a student requires when rendering an admissions decision. Columbia admits a large number of international students who receive a substantial amount of financial aid.
It is extremely rare for a family to ask to be released from the Early Decision commitment for financial reasons. However, on occasion possibly due to a lack of understanding of need-based aid (i.e., they were expecting merit-based aid, they did not submit complete information when using a financial aid estimator, etc) families have requested to be released from their Early Decision contract.
It is the family's determination that they cannot afford to pay for a Columbia education that allows them to be released from the binding early decision admission offer. The family must first speak with a financial aid officer, before the release is granted. Ultimately, it is the family's decision whether or not they feel capable of accepting the need-based Columbia financial aid award.
Those who do opt out of their Early Decision contract are released to pursue lower-cost school options, such as state schools and/or schools that award merit aid. The admission offer at Columbia is then cancelled. A candidate who declines Columbia's Early Decision offer will not be allowed to reconsider Columbia's financial aid estimate during the spring Regular Decision cycle and will not be able to reinstate the original offer of admission.
It is not our policy to automatically match other offers, and we do not negotiate financial aid awards. We will not match offers from institutions that offer merit-based awards. However, if you fax us a copy of another need-based offer, we will review your application to determine if a change is appropriate. We do this because different schools may have different information at the time the application was evaluated. Or perhaps your circumstances are complex and have been interpreted differently by another school. The new documentation you provide our office may give us a better understanding of your family's financial circumstances.
Columbia College and the undergraduate division of The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science provide need-based financial aid to students, awarding grants, loans and on-campus work-study jobs to applicants on the basis of their family's financial circumstances. There is no limit on the number of students who receive need-based financial aid as each application is considered individually. In 2013-2014 the average financial aid package was $41,207.
Approximately 50% of Columbia undergraduates receive some sort of financial assistance. In addition, about 78% of first-year students applying for financial aid for the 2013-2014 year received a need-based financial aid award.
There are no academic, athletic or talent-based institutional scholarships at Columbia as all of our institutional financial aid is need-based. Our students are often the recipients of merit-based scholarships from outside organizations (state grants/scholarships, local/national merit-based awards, etc.); however, no merit-based aid is offered directly from Columbia University.
YES, if your family's financial circumstances changed after you submitted your financial aid application.
YES, if you have complicated circumstances, and you would like us to take a second look at how we interpreted your family's financial situation.
YES, if another need-based school has provided you a different interpretation of your family's financial circumstances.
NO, if your sole reason for the appeal is that you are asking us to consider merit-based offers from other schools.
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Outdoor Vertical Gardens
Patrick Blanc's Visit
Patrick Blanc dropped by our store! Patrick might be the closest thing the gardening world has to an international superstar. His vertical gardens have inspired the masses and created an eager parade of imitators (such as me). Patrick was in town working on his first US project with Roma Design Group for the Drew School.
Patrick was leaning towards California natives for the garden. In the hands of a lesser plantsman, this might have been a disaster. I had heard that Patrick was a really knowledgeable horticulturalist, and I can confirm this firsthand. In fact, I am not sure if I have ever had anyone visit my store and be able to identify so much of what they saw. His horticultural knowledge was mind-boggling. Patrick was a delight, and now his amazing project for the Drew School is completed! Learn More Here.


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(CBS NEWS) -- While the polar vortex and record-breaking low temperatures arecausing all sorts of environmental phenomena, in this case, the cold may havegone to our heads.
Photographs of NiagaraFalls have circulating the internet with captions claiming that the historicsite is completely frozen over. In reality, Niagara Falls is not frozen over, as you can see from the live webcam.
The falls arepartially covered in ice, which happens every year. In fact, some of thephotographs gaining popularity online, like this one, are not even from2014 (it was taken from the Canada side of the Falls back in 2007).
According to Reuters, during the recent polar vortex, "parts of the 176foot American falls were covered in ice and the area below theconservation area was frozen over. The cold weather caused the Niagarariver to form an 'ice bridge," and "large amounts of ice up river fromthe falls lead authorities to issue a flash flood warning for twoislands in the area."
Here are some scenic photos of NiagaraFalls from this year, which clearly show that the falls is covered inice and snow, but still flowing as usual.
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Battleship New Jersey to get upgrades
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — The Battleship New Jersey is in line for some upgrades aimed at keeping it afloat financially as a museum.
The group that runs the ship on the Camden waterfront is planning $1.6 million in work and hopes to get a bond guarantee from the Camden County government to ease the financing.
Executive Director Philip Rowan tells the Courier-Post a key improvement would be replacing the electric heating system with natural gas. That's expected to save the operation nearly $500,000 per year, providing cash to help it pay off the $1 million in debt it has.
Other changes include replacing mooring lines, repairing gangways and upgrading elevators.
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Another edition of Child Architect. What do you guys think of the series so far? Again, this drawing isn't dated, but I think it's from around when I would have been 9 or 10. Drawing 54 Square Feet: 3,328 Stories: 2 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 4 Main Floor Our main floor features a teensy tiny "2… Read more »
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Child Architect – Drawing 55
Time for another edition of Child Architect! This drawing again isn't dated, but I'm guess it's from around grade 5 so age 10 or so. You can tell I was trying to do the same writing style they do on real blueprints, haha. I also love how all the rooms on the main floor are… Read more »
Child Architect – Drawing 53
So today's my second Child Architect post! Awesome! I'm having fun doing these. What do you think of them? I'm not too sure what's up with today's house. Apparently I had a thing for circle rooms. I'm thinking this one is probably from when I was 12. Drawing 53 Square Feet: 4,030 Stories: 2 Bedrooms:… Read more »
Child Architect – Drawing 56
Finally! Today is the first time I'm doing my Child Architect feature and I'm really excited for it! If you didn't know, when I was a kid all I wanted to be was an architect. I had binders and binders full of floorplans that I drew. After drawing the house, I'd often go through the… Read more »
On the Weekend – Folklorama
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News + A Blog Update
First of all, today is my 24th birthday! In honour of today, I'm taking the day off blogging. I'm excited to go out for supper with my fiancé Mike and spend the evening relaxing at my apartment and watching a movie together. We haven't just hung out at home together in WEEKS and all I… Read more »


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Friday night we found ourselves stuck in transition from fall to winter and in the midst of hunting season. Running or mountain biking in the woods is currently a gamble and there isn't enough snow to even make a snowball, let alone ski. How to kill time, keep warm and enjoy each others company? Ask my husband and his friend Marc that question and the answer is....FIRE. When Geo told me we were going to have a bonfire I giggled. We had absolutely no wood, unless he planned on burning the chicken coop and then roasting the chickens. Not to worry though, apparently the boys had gone wood hunting earlier in the day at a local construction site. I didn't know if I should be mad or be happy that they were resourceful? After I had them promise the wood was all scraps, they got all dressed in their Carhartt overalls and boots and headed out to start the party.
The Bonfire
Robert Frost
And scare ourselves. Let wild fire loose we will…"
"Oh, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire to all the brush we piled With pitchy hands to wait for rain or snow. Oh, let's not wait for rain to make it safe. The pile is ours: we dragged it bough on bough Down dark converging paths between the pines. Let's not care what we do with it to-night. Divide it? No! But burn it as one pile The way we piled it. And let's be the talk Of people brought to windows by a light Thrown from somewhere against their wall-paper. Rouse them all, both the free and not so free With saying what they'd like to do to us For what they'd better wait till we have done. Let's all but bring to life this old volcano, If that is what the mountain ever was—
Whole wheat homemade pizza, local pie, beer and now warmth we all seemed content, but as the fire grew in size my worry grew along with it. No fire permit and not exactly winter yet, which opens us up to fines. Most people would say 'who cares', and the Williston fire chief that lives two houses down from us would say 'I do'.
All said and done, a calm, starry night with warmth from good friends and fire. Hopefully we are one day closer to moving out of our transition from fall into winter. Stay tuned for my next story on how we entertain ourselves during "transition time" playing our own version of home run derby on the golf course.
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Carl's Jr is now in China! Its first restaurant opened yesterday in Shanghai's Raffles City building next to People's Square. Check out the servers. Don't know if they'll dress like gogos everyday or only did that for the grand opening. Prices for meals are around 25–39 RMB if I remember correctly (slightly more than Burger King). Not bad at all.
Second Shoot with Chesley
Second shoot with Chesley after two years. Same location. Much smaller camera.
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Biomembranes, Part U, Cellular and Subcellular Transport: Eukarytic (Nonepithelial) Cells, 174
Volume 174: Biomembranes Part U
- Sidney Fleischer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
- Becca Fleischer, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennesse, U.S.A.
- John Abelson, California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology, Pasadena, U.S.A.
- Melvin Simon, California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology, Pasadena, U.S.A.
Biochemists, cell biologists, microbiologists, pharmacologists, biomedical scientists, biophysicists, analytical chemists, and physiologists.
Book information
- Published: December 1989
- Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
"The Methods in Enzymology series represents the gold-standard."
Praise for the Series, --NEUROSCIENCE
"Incomparably useful."
"It is a true 'methods' series, including almost every detail from basic theory to sources of equipment and reagents, with timely documentation provided on each page."
"The series has been following the growing, changing and creation of new areas of science. It should be on the shelves of all libraries in the world as a whole collection."
"The appearance of another volume in that excellent series, Methods in Enzymology, is always a cause for appreciation for those who wish to successfully carry out a particular technique or prepare an enzyme or metabolic intermediate without the tiresome prospect of searching through unfamiliar literature and perhaps selecting an unproven method which is not easily reproduced."
"If we had some way to find the work most often consulted in the laboratory, it could well be the multi-volume series Methods in Enzymology...a great work."
"A series that has established itself as a definitive reference for biochemists."
Table of ContentsTransport in Subcellular Organelles of Animals: Plasma Membranes and Derived Transporters:
D.G. Nicholls, Measurement of Transported Calcium in Synaptosomes.
P.E. Kish and T. Ueda, Glutamate Accumulation into Synaptic Vesicles.
D. Levy and P. von Dippe, Identification of Bile Acid Transport Protein in Hepatocyte Sinusoidal Plasma Membranes.
J.D. McGivan, Transport of Alanine across Hepatocyte Plasma Membrane.
S.A. Baldwin and G.E. Lienhard, Purification and Reconstitution of Glucose Transporter from Human Erythrocytes.
G.L. Sottocasa, G.C. Lunazzi, and C. Tiribelli, Isolation of Bilitranslocase, the Anion Transporter from Liver Plasma Membrane for Bilirubin and Other Organic Anions.
Intracellular Organelles:
W.J. Arion, Measurement of Intactness of Rat Liver Endoplasmic Reticulum.
N.-E.L. Saris and A. Allshire, Calcium Ion Transport in Mitochondria.
D.G. Nicholls and E. Rial, Measurement of Proton Leakage across Mitochondrial Inner Membranes and Its Relation to Protonmotive Force.
J.G. McCormack and R.M. Denton, Influence of Calcium Ions on Mammalian Intramitochondrial Dehydrogenases.
S. Soboll and H. Sies, Effects of Hormones on Mitochondrial Processes.
S. Ohkuma, Use of Fluorescein Isothiocyanate Dextran to Measure Proton Pumping in Lyosomes and Related Organelles.
M.L. Smith, A.A. Greene, J.A. Schneider, R.L. Pisoni, and H.N. Christensen, Cystine Exodus from Lyosomes: Cystinosis.
U. Hopfer and K. Gasser, Isolation of Physiologically Responsive Secretory Granules from Exocrine Tissues.
B. Fleischer, Transport of Nucleotides in Golgi Complex.
Transport in Plants:
Higher Plants:
E. Steudle, Water Flows in Plants and Its Coupling to Other Processes: An Overview.
O. Lee-Stadelmann and E.J. Stadelmann, Plasmolysis and Deplasmolysis.
E.J. Stadelmann and O. Lee-Stadelmann, Passive Permeability.
A. Läuchli and P.J. Boursier, Compartmentation in Root Cells and Tissues: X-Ray Microanalysis of Specific Ions.
A.H. deBoer, Xylem Transport.
G. Orlich and E. Komor, Phloem Transport.
K. Raschke and R. Hedrich, Patch Clamp Measurements on Isolated Guard Cell Protoplasts and Vacuoles.
D.J.F. Bowling, Intracellular and Intercellular pH Measurement with Microelectrodes.
U. Zimmermann, Water Relations of Plant Cells: Pressure Probe Technique.
Lower Plants:
J.A. Raven, Transport Systems in Algae and Bryophytes: An Overview.
W. Tanner and N. Sauer, Uptake of Sugars and Amino Acids by Chlorella.
M.J. Beilby, Electrophysiology of Giant Algal Cells.
W.J. Lucas and D. Sanders, Ion Transport in Chara Cells.
R.M. Spanswick, Light-Induced Hyperpolarization in Nitella.
D. Gradmann, ATP-Driven Chloride Pump in Giant Alga Acetabularia.
T. Boller, M. Dürr, and A. Wiemken, Transport in Isolated Yeast Vacuoles: Characterization of Arginine Permease.
M. Stitt, R.McC. Lilley, R. Gerhardt, and H.W. Heldt, Metabolite Levels in Specific Cells and Subcellular Compartments of Plant Leaves.
E. Komor and M. Thom, Isolation of Plant Vacuoles and Measurement of Transport.
Transport in Single-Cell Eukaryotes: Fungal Cells:
A. Kotyk, Kinetic Studies of Transport in Yeast.
A. Kotyk, Proton Extrusion in Yeast.
G.W.F.H. Borst-Pauwels, Ion Transport in Yeast Including Lipophilic Ions.
V.P. Cirillo, Sugar Transport in Normal and Mutant Yeast Cells.
M. Höfer, Accumulation of Electroneutral and Charged Carbohydrates by Proton Cotransport in Rhodotorula.
C.L. Slayman and G.N. Zuckier, Proton-Potassium Symport in Walled Eukaryotes: Neurospora.
G.A. Scarborough, Isolation of Everted Plasma Membrane Vesicles from Neurospora cr


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Athletes continue to underreport concussion (1) even when they know the signs and symptoms and that they risk serious injury if they continue to play with a concussion or return too soon from injury, say researchers in three recent studies. (2,3,4)
The findings suggest that efforts to change the culture of contact and collision sports and the attitudes of athletes towards reporting concussion through education, don't appear to be working, at least so far.
First up, a recent anonymous online survey of collegiate athletes revealed , despite increased concussion education, roughly the same degree of underreporting of concussion as in 2004.(2)
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania reported that, among all varsity athletes who responded within two weeks to an e-mail from Penn's head athletic trainer (former MomsTEAM expert, Eric Laudano):
- 27% of athletes who self-identified as playing contact sports said they had hidden a concussion to stay in a game compared with 14% of athletes in noncontact sports;
- 54% of contact athletes said they would be extremely unlikely or unlikely to report a concussion in a game situation; and
- 30% of noncontact athletes said they were likely or extremely likely to report a concussion versus 20% for contact athletes.
"These findings were present despite strong educational efforts and knowledge of concussion symptoms among respondents and suggest that even educated athletes may not have changed their attitudes toward reporting concussion," the study noted.
Following these findings among college athletes comes a May 2013 study from researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital (3) of 120 high school football players, 30 of whom had suffered a concussion. The good news was that three quarters of those surveyed (82 out of 120) reported receiving prior concussion education, and that most could correctly recognize the principal symptoms of concussion:
- headache (93.3%);
- dizziness (89.2%);
- difficulty remembering (78.3%);
- sensitivity to light/sound (78.3%);
- difficulty concentrating (75.8%); and
- feeling in a fog (52.5%)).
Also encouraging was that 9 out of 10 recognized the risk of serious injury if they returned to play too quickly.
But here's the bad news:
- an astounding 91 percent felt that it was okay for an athlete to play with a concussion
- 75 percent said they would play through any injury to win a game
- 53 percent said they would "always or sometimes continue to play with a headache sustained from an injury,"
- Only 54 percent would "always or sometimes report symptoms of a concussion to their coach," and
- Only 4 in 10 would tell their coach immediately if they had concussion symptoms.
Most recently, a study by researchers at Wake Forest, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona (4), found that, while athletes are generally knowledgeable about the signs and symptoms of concussion, there is a "gross underreporting" of concussion events, with a large proportion of those surveyed indicating that they continued to participate in both games and practices while experiencing symptoms.
"Most strikingly," writes Johna Register-Mihalik, Ph.D, LAT, ATC, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "athletes only indicated reporting 13% of events they considered bell ringers, which were likely concussive injuries." The concern, she writes, is that "athletes not reporting these bell-ringer events may have continued to participate or returned to participation too early, predisposing them to further injury." The underreporting rate of approximately 40% for perceived concussions was not substantially better than the 50% underreporting rate found in previous studies over the last decade.(1,5,6)
Consistent with the other studies, the reasons athletes gave for not reporting possible concussions were that they:
- did not think the injury was serious enough to report (70.2%);
- did not want to be removed from the game (36.5%);
- did not want to let down teammates (27.0%)
- did not want to let down coaches (23.0%);
- did not know the event was a concussion (14.9%); or
- did not want to be removed from practice (13.5%).
Personal experience is same
All these findings are not at all surprising to me, based on my experience during the filming of MomsTEAM's documentary, "The Smartest Team." Nearly every football player, not to mention the athletic trainer, coaches, and parents, I interviewed for the film freely admitted that they would not self-report concussion symptoms.
Here is just a sampling of what I was told:
- "I've got a pretty good rapport with the athletes here at Newcastle. They know I'm not trying to keep them out, or keep them from playing. ... There are kids who take hits all the time, they don't come and tell me, until someone else comes and tells me, and I don't know anything about it." (Damon Glass, Newcastle certified athletic trainer)
- "Their biggest fear is missing out." (Dale Berglan, Newcastle Athletic Director)
- "I have a friend on the line. He's the center. We were at practice one day, and he seemed really out of it. So, I told coach, and he got really mad. But I know it was going to help him in the long run." (Matt Meyer, Newcastle player).
- "They don't want to come out. They want all the playing time they can get. They don't want to come out for a couple of plays." (Colin Black, Newcastle player).
- "Unless it's really, really bad, and knocks me out. I probably won't play through that. But if I can get up and walk away from it, I'll probably keep playing. You see some dots, but then go away. So just keep playing through it. It's my senior year." (Cody Womack, Newcastle player)
- "It's my senior year. You can't afford to miss any games. You have to make the most of it, while you still can. 'Cuz as of now we only have two games promised left. And if we don't win one of the nest two, then we don't go to playoffs." (Justin Ledford, Newcastle player)
- "The football game. Making the playoffs, or the championship. That's one night. Are you going to take that, or you are going to take a lifetime of success?" (Robin Gibson, football mother)
- "They don't like to sit out because they are afraid they are going to lose their position. Unfortunately, that happens. We have a great team with a lot of great players, and if you are out any length of time, you have the potential of not being to start your position." (Chastity Corbin, football mother).
Are impact sensors a partial solution?
The three recent studies are also consistent with a 2010 ESPN poll of players, coaches, parents and athletic trainers in 23 states (7) which found that players - the ones whose brains are being rattled and who are putting themselves at risk of adverse long-term health consequences from concussions - are still the group least concerned about concussions.
When asked whether, if a star player got a concussion, they would rather lose the state title game as he sat out than win it because he chose to play with a concussion, more than half (54.1%) of the 300 players in the ESPN survey said they would play the star compared to 9% of athletic trainers, 6.1% of parents, and 2.1% of coaches.
All of this is leading an increasing number of experts to argue that the best way to address the problem of underreporting may not be to count on trying to change the culture through education - although those efforts may yield results over the long haul - but to not to rely so heavily on the athletes themselves, game officials or sideline observers to identify concussed athletes, and to use technology in the form of impact sensors to improve identification of athletes with possible concussion and remove them from play for concussion assessment on the sports sideline. (8,9,10)
Not every concussion expert, however, agrees that impact sensors, at least at this point, are the answer. Johna Register-Mihalik, Ph.D, LAT, ATC, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil, and lead author of the most recent study finding "gross underreporting" of possible concussions by high school athletes (4), tells MomsTEAM that she does not recommend their use in concussion detection because "the science, although a growing field of information, is just not quite there in how these may best be used from a clinical standpoint and across all sport settings."
She notes that, "As it stands, there is no absolute threshold for concussive injury and while these sensors may identify individuals who receive a certain type of hit or impact, we do not yet know if those impacts not identified by a set threshold may lead to concussion." Register-Mihalik expressed concern that the sensors "may provide a false sense of security, in that 'if the sensor didn't go off, I must not have a concussion.'" (although she found it "encouraging" that players in "The Smartest Team" were receptive to having sensors in helmets because they would make it harder for them to hide their concussion symptoms,)
"There is certainly potential for this type of technology to have great implications in the identification of concussion as the science advances," says Register-Mihalik, but, she argues, "we need more scientific and unbiased evidence of their ability to detect concussion before they are widely used and recommended in all settings. Until that time, there are some good examples of identification techniques of having trained observers, a parent advocate and continuing to promote concussion education that we know will increase identification rates.
1. McCrea M, Hammeke T, Olsen G, Leo P, Guskiewicz K. Unreported concussion in high school football players - Implications for prevention. Clin J of Sport Med 2004;14:13-17.
2. Dziemianowicz M, Kirschen MP, Pukenas BA, Laudano E, Balcer LJ, Galetta SL. Sport-Related Concussion Testing. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2012 (published online July 13, 2012)(DOI:10.1007/s11910-012-0299-y)(citing unpublished data).
3. Anderson B, Pomerantz W, Mann J, Gittelman M. "I Can't Miss the Big Game": High School (HS) Football Players' Knowledge and Attitudes about Concussions. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Washington, D.C. May 6, 2013.
4. Register-Mihalik JK, Guskiewicz KM, Valovich McLeod TC, Linnan LA, Meuller FO, Marshall SW. Knowledge, Attitude, and Concussion-Reporting Behaviors Among High School Athletes: A Preliminary Study. J Ath Tr. 2013;48(3):000-000. DOI:10.4085/1062-6050-48.3.20 (published online ahead of print).
5. Echlin PS, Tator CH, Cusimano MD, et al. A prospective study of physician-observed concussions during junior ice hockey: implications for incidence rates. Neurosurgery Focus. 2010;29(5):E4.
6. Delaney JS, Lacroix VJ, Leclerc S, Johnston KM. Concuission among university football and soccer players. Clin J Sport Med 2002;12(6):331-338.
7. "Concussion Confidential" ESPN The Magazine (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5925876)(accessed December 21, 2010).
8. Greenwald R, Chu J, Beckwith J, Crisco J. A Proposed Method to Reduce Underreporting of Brain Injury in Sports. Clin J Sport Med 2012; 22(2):83-85.
9. Kutcher J, McCrory, Davis G, et al. What evidence exists for new strategies or technologies in the diagnosis of sports concussion and assessment of recovery? Br J Sports Med 2013;47:299-303.
10. Broglio SP, Eckner JT, Surma T, Kutcher JS. Post-Concussion Cognitive Declines and Symptomatology Are Not Related To Concussion Biomechanics in High School Football Players. J Neurotrauma 2011;28:1-8.


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Brush Fire Forces Temporary Closure Of 405 Freeway In Mission Hills
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MISSION HILLS (CBSLA.com) — The northbound and southbound sides of the 405 Freeway in Mission Hills were closed for a period of time on Wednesday after a fire broke out near the roadway's junction with the 118 Freeway.
The blaze was reported about 3:05 p.m., according to Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The California Highway Patrol shut down the southbound side of the roadway at the 5 Freeway and the northbound at Roscoe Boulevard, Sky9's Stu Mundel reported.
Firefighters extinguished the three-acre blaze around 5 p.m.
The northbound and southbound lanes were reopened around that same time.
No structures were damaged.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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Kinetic Models of Catalytic Reactions
- G.S. Yablonskii, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Kysyl
- V.I. Bykov
- V.I. Elokhin, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, USSR
- A.N. Gorban, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk
This book has been written by a group of mathematicians and chemists whose common interest is in the complex dynamics of catalytic reactions. Based on developments in mathematical chemistry, a general theory is described that allows the investigation of the relationships between the kinetic characteristics of complex reactions and their detailed reaction mechanism. Furthermore, a comprehensive analysis is made of some typical mechanism of catalytic reactions, in particular for the oxidation of carbon monoxide on platinum metals.
In fact, the book presents
three kinetics: (a) detailed, oriented to the elucidation of a detailed reaction mechanism according to its kinetic laws; (b) applied, with the aim of obtaining kinetic relationships for the further design of chemical reactors; and (c) mathematical kinetics whose purpose is the analysis of mathematical models for heterogeneous catalytic reactions taking place under steady- or unsteady-state conditions.
Book information
- Published: April 1991
- Imprint: ELSEVIER
...can be recommended highly. A major strength is that it will bring chemistry to chemical reaction engineers, and it will bring mathematical analysis to catalytic chemists. It could be effectively used as a text in a graduate course on chemical reaction engineering in a chemical engineering curriculum.
Journal of the American Chemical Society


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Did Vulcan space have a name?
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Yet during the Xindi arc and the alternate future of Twilight the Vulcans seemed more than happy to let the Xindi genocide the humans. I wouldn't call that a "paternalistic influence."
There is absolutely no contradiction between seeking to establish a neo-imperialist hegemony over other cultures by turning them into client states, and being willing to stand by and allow third parties to destroy those client states if you think doing so is more beneficial to you than saving your client state would be.
The Confederacy of Vulcan during the ENT and pre-ENT era is very much in the neo-imperialist mode. They won't annex your world, but they'll wield so much influence over your government that you'd swear the planet was being run out of the Vulcan Embassy.
Democratic socialism is the hope of human freedom.
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Video/Live blog: Marco to embark on creation of redevelopment area
Town Center CRA discussion begins at IberiaBank In the Round
Marco Island is embarking on the creation of a Community Redevelopment Authority for a 250-acre being called Town Center. The precise boundaries remain under review, but generally the area surrounding the shopping center by the same name is being considered for some sprucing up using property tax dollars within the Community Redevelopment Area.
The In the Round discussion is the first held by IberiaBank on Marco and will be led by the three panelists: Collier County Commissioner Donna Fiala, Marco City Councilman Bill Trotter and Marco City Manager Steve Thompson.
Thompson is to present a CRA 101 on what it is and how it works.
Trotter is going to present a vision for the improvements for the area and Fiala is to share her experience with other CRA's in the county, including Fifth Avenue and Bayshore Area.
Generally in order to create a CRA, the area needs to be blighted or in need of historic preservation. Marco Island, through help from consultants, has found other criteria to indicate Marco's specific needs. Some of that criteria is to be presented tonight.
Live blog 7 p.m.
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City Council will likely choose to be the Community Redevelopment Authority, as was the case in Naples, Thomspon said.
The area goes north to Rose Marine, to the East to St. Mark's Church, to the south to Smokehouse Bay Bridge and west to the water, he said.
It's primarily a commercial area.
"You're talking about public risk, you're talking about redevelopment...," Thompson said.
The properties within the area are to appreciate greater due to city improvements on public rights of way and the improvements are to be paid for through the projected increases in tax income coming from the properties' increased value.
He has said that property owners, particularly business owners, could be enticed to clean up and update their properties by having a commitment from the city to improve the streets and landscaping nearby if the businesses make the commitment.
"But for the city's involvement, will redevelopment happen anyway?" he asked rhetorically.
"If the answer is yes, than there is no role here for the city or county," he continued.
The area is the main business district on Marco Island.
"Public risk is a large part of this," Thompson said.
"The city is just as impacted as the county," he added.
Tax Increment Financing is the financial tool to raise money for the redevelopment. Public projects will be identified to promote private development. One such example, Thompson said, would be improved stormwater drainage.
He gave the example of a building presently valued at $1 million before the CRA is established. Out of that, the county, city and school district get tax dollars. Those taxing districts will continue to get the same amount based on that value after the CRA is created. If after improvements, the building is worth $2 million, the increment between the taxes before the CRA and after the CRA stays within that redeveloped area, Thompson said.
The economic blight, he added is that these businesses won't improve without the assistance. Nine of 11 state criteria were met within this area, Thompson said.
Naples generates about $2.8 million a year on tax revenues in their CRA. They use about $1 million of it to pay for debt service. They have a much more aggressive CRA than you'll see in this area, he said.
"We have a number of big steps to happen before we get to the implementation stage."
Trotter on the vision for Marco's Town Center
Trotter said he got involved in this due to the importance of the area in terms of the Island's long term development; redeveloping areas that need it and opportunities for grants, as well as, getting to keep incremental appreciation within the community.
"I see it as a win-win situation if it's done properly."
"Next, I think it's the right timing. The deterioration of property values is at a point where it is as low as it will go or at least we think it is... The Town Center depreciation is worse than other areas on the Island and in the county."
Trotter wanted to address misconceptions. There does not necessarily need to be a zoning change in this area, he said. There was mixed use and there will be perhaps more if development is encouraged, but that's not the intent.
"It's important to not only have good planning but good controls on this... The governing board should be the council itself," he said.
Part of this is also getting citizens' input. The city held charrettes inviting all property owners to discuss improvements they would like to see at meetings held in Spring 2009.
Fiala on the county's experience with other CRAs
"When you get your tax bill about 49 percent goes to the school system.... Then the county portion of your tax bill is about 27 percent," Fiala said.
The tax increment funding will go up because you'll freeze the property values at the lowest place in the market and values will go up.
Thompson said only the taxes for the city and county will be frozen.
So far, there are the Bayshore, Gateway Triangle, City of Naples and Immokalee CRAs.
"The Bayshore and Gateway Triangle neighborhoods were blighted and crime-ridden. I hate to say it because they are in my community, but they were."
The Bayshore area taxed themselves at 3 mils and made their own improvements. It didn't do much, so they created a CRA for Bayshore and the Gateway Triangle which is between the City of Naples, Davis Boulevard and Airport-Pulling Road.
"The people didn't want it because they didn't want to be known as a blighted area. Can you believe it?"
"In the first few years, it floundered and did nothing... Then we found Dave Johnson... We have 10 flop houses down there... flop houses with 15 people living in them."
Several properties were purchased by the CRA, fixed up and sold.
"You've got boarded up things... You've got crud," she said of the Triangle area.
The CRA owns seven of 14 areas there now. They could take them by imminent domain, but they haven't done it that way and don't want to, Fiala added.
She said flooding in the area is bad and stormwater management is part of the improvements there.
"Hopefully it will attract some businesses to come into that area."
There are 20 years left in the 30-year CRA for the triangle area, she said.
The CRA advisory board there is made up of people who live there are own businesses there, Fiala said.
The CRA offers 1/3 if the property owner puts up 2/3 to fix a roof or make other improvements.
Previously, Thompson said improvements to personal property was not a part of Marco's plan.
The funding is different as well, Fiala said.
"We need to give this area an identity before someone else does," Fiala said of Bayshore's CRA and her desire to bring arts there instead of bars.
Marco resident and Eagle columnist Chris Curle asked if any people in the area are present. She held up papers showing photos of people's properties being identified as blighted.
She attempted to identify which person owned a building on the flyers identifying blight in the area. The buildings were auto shops and other commercial properties.
"Is there anything wrong about the building? If the driveway needs to be fixed, can't it be fixed with out a huge overlay of the city and county?" Curle asked.
"It's a judgment call and I don't have an answer... There may be public projects... street alignment issues that can be addressed," Thompson said.
"Whether you like the property or not, that's not my call. My taste is within my mouth as the saying goes," he added.
If the area continues to decline both the city and county will continue to lose money and the city and county doens't get the benefits of improvements until the CRA is dissolved, Thompson said.
"It's an artificial program," Marco resident Harvey Goldberg said.
"By virtue of this those property taxes over that first year level can't be used for other purposes or city projects outside the artificial district," Goldberg added.
Thompson said it's his first CRA in Florida, but he's managed cities with several TIFs in the past.
"I know this project is well on its way and I don't think anything anyone says here is going to make any difference," Goldberg said.
He said despite all the improvements on Marco in the past several years, including sewers, Collier Boulevard, parks and other large city projects, property values still went down because of the national economy.
Goldberg received applause from about half of the audience when he encouraged the city make needed public improvements without the CRA.
"No portion of this is going to raise your taxes... If you're convinced property values are going to go up without city involvement, than there is no role here," Thompson said.
Marco resident Russ Columbo questioned the process.
"So, the city stakes out an area and decides it's obsolete... Am I correct, we're kind of in simple terms... well, it's a crap shoot," Columbo said.
"A crap shoot is not the phrase I'd use... There is always some risk.. You hold me and everyone accountable that it should be an educated guess," Thompson said of the estimated projections.
"How is the spending cap of Marco affected?" Columbo asked.
"It's an independent authority... It would not affect the spending cap at all" Thompson said.
"You like acronyms, I would be careful, C-R-A-P up there," Columbo said pointing to a poster that read "CRA."
"I think there is much more to this project in the long run than what's being discussed... Will this be brought to the voters of Marco to be voted on?" asked Island resident Bill Flasche.
City Council would make the decision, Trotter said.
"It's using money the city wouldn't otherwise have," he added.
"Obviously there aren't a lot of commercial property owners here. The people here are concerned what will happen with personal money," said Beverly Boltz, who owns a travel agency on Island.
Boltz said Town Center rents were high and that's why people left and then more economic problems came.
She asked if the city was going to buy the property.
Thompson said no part of the private property is going to be taken care of with public money.
"Then what are you going to redevelop?" she asked of Thompson.
He replied that a master plan needs to be developed, but streets, landscaping, parking and stormwater are among the improvements.
"One of the prime needs is the (auto) accidents you've shown along Collier Boulevard... Is it going to help or is it going to exacerbate them?" asked Jim Johnston, a Marco resident. Johnston said he thought the redevelopment plan would increase density and therefor traffic accidents.
Thompson said he didn't know if density would increase greatly, but infrastructure improvements are part of any planning for it.
"Whether this will create density... I would have to say not that I know of... I keep hearing mixed-use as if it's a bad thing... But today, mixed use can work well. That's not my decision. That's a community decision we have in front of us," Thompson said.
"Why do you believe the solution to our problems is government?" asked resident and columnist Don Farmer.
"Why can't we just leave it to the private sector?" he asked.
"Should the city not be leading the private sector but following it?" Farmer continued.
"I didn't hear a question there," Thomson said.
"I say 'why, why, why?" Farmer replied.
"Do you wait until the property values and properties deteriorate to the point they bring others down?" Thompson asked.
"...And I don't have an answer," Thompson said.
"Are we taking this thorough bred Marco Island and making it look like a pig?" asked Marco resident and city watchdog Bill McMullan
Dameron approached McMullan urging he ask a question rather than make a speech.
Somebody has to make up the difference when those tax dollars from the economic recovery stays in that area, McMullan said.
Thompson agreed that the money will not come back to the city or county.
"That's why we don't want to over-TIFF this community," he added.
"Eventually we'll get our money by higher property values and we'll as taxpayers not have to pay as much," Thompson said.
There isn't too much risk because the money won't be spent until returns are being seen, Thompson said.
"This is a very emotional issue... We don't want to lose the industrial area we have... Who else is going to fix your car?" Marco resident Steve Stefanides asked.
"This will become an issue of circumventing the cap not making improvements," Stefanides said.
"Why wouldn't you look at a special taxing district with the consensus of those owners who know they'll see better times ahead?" he asked.
"We have improvements to make but we've got to take the fear out of this thing," Stefanides said.
Trotter said through earlier public meetings with property owners, they were supportive of improvements being made.
"We access funds that otherwise couldn't be accessed by the city... We have a finding of need," Trotter said.
"It's not about blight, it's about economic opportunity," Trotter said.
"People oppose this because their auto shop area has been identified as a source of blight, that is not the point," he continued.
Stefanides said the last five or six years of Comprehensive Plans showed no major defects and it was sent to Tallahassee.
Now Kimley-Horn shows we have all these problems.
Trotter said it's different because the plan given to the state requires the city to meet the standards, so they avoid stating the need to the state to avoid being required to make certain changes.
"If the people affected in this area and the residents don't like this, how do they stop it?" asked resident Linda Columbo.
"If you don't like it, contact the members of City Council," Thompson replied.
Someone yelled "how many people want it?"
Thompson replied "I don't think everyone in the city is here."
Either way, the audience didn't respond to the question.
Paula Campissano-Robinson said she wasn't for or against the project.
"I think you all brought a lot to the table tonight... I think we just need to see what is going to happen with the economy... I know many of the people who are here aren't in this district and I think we need to continue talking about it," she said.


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- 1 3/4 lb quinces (2 large)
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Amphibico Offering To Include RED
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Last week, Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee accused the Obama administration of covering up a variety of alleged offenses committed by the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN).
The controversial anti-poverty group is under tremendous scrutiny after a scandal involving a hidden camera video showing ACORN employees reportedly offering advice on how to cheat on taxes and loan applications to a couple posing as a prostitute and a pimp.
The liberal organization is also being investigated in five states for voter registration fraud that supposedly helped several Democratic candidates get elected.
"The current administration is fast becoming, in reality, the war room of ACORN's political machine," said Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA), quoted by The Washington Times.
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Republican frustration boiled over as the Justice Department cleared way for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to continue to appropriate funds to ACORN after Congress introduced a provision that barred federal funds to be allocated to the organization.
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GM's OnStar Services Heading to Mexico, Available in 2013
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Toyota isn't Korean.
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Save the Children!Rescue Cynthia, Ashley and James in the Hammond Farmstead.
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DescriptionThe military will not allow me outside the cellar, but my children are still in my farm! Please, you must go find them.
The Forsaken have no regard for innocent life -- my kids are in great danger!
Their names are Cynthia, Ashley and James. If you find them, bring them back here. I'll be forever in your debt.
My children are safe! You've done a wonderful thing, <name>. I don't know how to thank you!
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