Rotorua toyshop site looking for a new player
2013 October 19. | Szerző: shannon
The building that housed Martin’s Toyworld in Rotorua for two decades is for sale.
The shop at 1206 Eruera St has operated as Martin’s Toyworld since the early 1990s.
The Hintz family established the toy shop brand in the city in 1973 at another central city location before moving to Eruera St.
The two-storey 414sq m building will be sold by Bayleys Rotorua at an auction on November 7.
The leasehold building has a rental of $11,000 a year running until 2021, and meets 76 per cent of new building standards – equivalent to a B Grade. The facade was rebuilt in 1993.
The Bayleys agent handling the sale, Mark Rendell, said the open plan layout of the store, with its wide street frontage, would suit the likes of a boutique fashion outlet, stationary supplier, pharmacy, charity shop or high-end interior decor consultancy.
“With 15 minute free parking immediately outside the location, and throughout all of Eruera St, the Rotorua City Council has clearly signalled its support for the continuation of retailing in this part of town,” he said.
Office administration and storage space upstairs and to the rear of the premises includes a small kitchenette and bathroom facilities.
“Part of the upper floor level could be integrated into the ground level space,” Rendell said.
“Following a change in family circumstances, the Hintz family has been slowly winding down the toy retailing business. It is now selling the retail premises as the final chapter of a commercial legacy that spanned more than three decades and brought joy to tens of thousands of children.”
Rendell said the Eruera St store was in the heart of the city’s specialist retail strip, where shopping trends had changed markedly over the past decade.
“As consumer habits and shopping choices have evolved, Rotorua, like all provincial cities around New Zealand, has seen the bigger retailers and home store chains move out to the city fringes where larger warehouse style floor plates are available at cheaper leasing rates.
“Meanwhile, the city centres have seen a consolidation of specialist and boutique shops – the type usually directly operated by the owner who has a specialist product knowledge of the goods or services they are selling.
“That was certainly the case with Martin’s Toyworld. Deryck Hintz was well known in the community and the shop’s longevity was getting to the stage where customers who had been bought toys from there as children were now returning to buy toys for their children.
“Martin’s Toyworld certainly created a legacy but, as is sadly the way with such stores, that legacy often ends when the owner is no longer involved with the business.”
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No longer in the game, Harper Woods’ Angela Ruggiero still leads
2013 October 17. | Szerző: shannon
As a hockey player, Angela Ruggiero was anything but diplomatic. Sharp elbows and intimidation were as much a part of her game as quick hands and dominating defense. The Ruggiero of today?
As a member of the International Olympic Committee, U.S. Olympic Committee board member, and president of the Women’s Sports Foundation, Ruggiero has learned how to curtsy before queens and bow to diplomacy. Don’t even get her started on cheek kissing.
“On the ice no one would have expected her to be quite so popular in the field of foreign relations,” said Caitlin Cahow, her friend and former teammate at Harvard and the U.S. national team. “I don’t think anyone ever mistook one of her checks for diplomacy, or her slapshot for peaceful negotiations.”
Tonight Ruggiero, a Harper Woods native, will wear a fancy dress and toast athletes ranging from 18-year-old swimmer Missy Franklin to 64-year-old swimmer Diana Nyad at the Women’s Sports Foundation’s annual awards gala in New York City.
Of all the hats and helmets she wears, Ruggiero’s involvement with the Women’s Sports Foundation is closest to her heart. In 1998, after capturing gold in her sport’s Olympic debut in Nagano, the U.S. women’s hockey team was honored. Ruggiero, the youngest on that team, was blown away by the athletes she met.
“I thought, ‘Wow this is so cool.’ I just liked hockey. I had something to prove because I got cut from boys teams,” Ruggiero said. In a room full of legends, she saw potential and opportunity. “After that I stay involved and weaseled my way into the organization, saying please let me know if I can help in any way.”
Ruggiero joined the foundation’s board in 2009 and became president this year.”She just wants to make a difference in the world,” said Billie Jean King, who started the foundation in 1974. “She’s very flexible, she’s nimble. She can do different things, have different roles in different situations.”
Even when she finds herself in very different situations, especially as an IOC member.
Such as her meeting with Queen Elizabeth II: “So we’re supposed to curtsy. I never curtsied before. So I just lowered my head like I’m used to in Korea.”
Or learning the art of European cheek kissing: “When you’re in Switzerland, it’s three kisses. In France, it’s two. When you see an American or Canadian overseas, what do you do? I just go for it, every time. This is how it is. This is our world.”
This too is Ruggiero’s role. At last month’s IOC session in Buenos Aires, the future of three sports was being decided and wrestling was trying to rejoin the Games. Usually IOC question-and-answer sessions are filled with self-important bloviating instead of substance.
However, after wrestling’s leaders delivered their pitch to IOC members, Ruggiero raised her hand and asked about the absence of gender equity in Greco-Roman wrestling.
“That was a Title IX question, about the participation and quality of funding,” she said in an interview later. “The IOC is pushing to try to get 50(PERCENT) (female) participation and we were 44(PERCENT) in London. The only way we are going to be able to move the needle is if we require and ask every federation to have an equal number. Their response usually is women haven’t shown interest. Usually the reason people don’t do it is because the opportunity doesn’t exist.”
As a kid growing up in Los Angeles, Ruggiero elbowed her way onto her brother’s hockey team. In 2005, she would become the first woman (non-goalie) to play professional men’s hockey in North America, for the Tulsa Oilers alongside her brother, Bill. They entered the Hockey Hall of Fame as the first brother-sister duo to play pro hockey together.
The Sochi Games in February will be the first Olympics without Ruggiero, 33, on the blue line. Considered one of the best defenders in women’s hockey history, Ruggiero retired in 2011 after playing more games in a Team USA uniform than any other player (256), winning three world championships and four Olympic medals (gold, 2 silver and a bronze).
The only hockey she plays now is for her Harvard Business School team. (Yes, in her free time she’s getting an MBA.)
“We beat McGill in the final for the McArthur Cup,” she said, smiling. “It’s a fun league. The only other woman on the team played at Harvard as an undergrad. It was like growing up, playing with the boys.”
This past summer Ruggiero worked as an intern for a hedge-fund management group. What she’s learning with the IOC, USOC and Women’s Sports Foundation also carries over to the classroom. In 2007, her business savvy impressed Donald Trump when she was a contestant on “The Apprentice,” a year after she graduated from Harvard (with Cum Laude honors). After her run ended on the show, Trump offered her a job anyway. She turned him down to compete in her fourth Olympics.
Ruggiero travels about 80 days a year, much of it internationally. She frequently shows up in class with luggage, either because she’s going someplace or just returned.
Those who played with her aren’t surprised with what she’s juggled beyond Harvard. “I always marvel at what she’s able to accomplish. There’s always been an unflappable grace to her,” said Cahow, who’s in law school at Boston College. “From day one she’s been able to balance so many balls in the air at once. These are massive endeavors that normal people would only tackle at one time, but Angela manages to take them all in stride and do a fantastic job.”
Still Ruggiero’s off-ice diplomacy may face a test in the near future. Her old nemesis, Hayley Wickenheiser, the longtime captain of the Canadian team, is running for election to the IOC Athletes Commission. (Athletes will vote in Sochi.)
IOC member Dick Pound of Canada laughs at the possibility. “I don’t how well Angela and Hayley know each other,” Pound said. “They probably knew each other’s elbows. They can say to each other, ‘Let me show you my bruises.’”
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Selfie? I’d rather go old school in sequinned Marc Jacobs
2013 October 15. | Szerző: shannon
As the narrow-eyed stare of my byline photograph suggests, I have a pathological hatred of having my picture taken. I have the utmost respect for models: I can’t think of anything worse than being subjected to a constant barrage of shutter snaps.
In the 19th century, Native American tribes believed that photography could steal the soul. My fear is more concrete, namely that a bad fashion choice, bad hair day or just a badly timed grimace could be immortalised. The advent of Google image search, Facebook tagging and Instagram means that they’re immortalised and accessible. It’s a phobia I know many other share. Hence the proliferation of the “selfie” – the idea being that you can control your own depiction, and decide if it’s worthy of publishing.
So it was with trepidation that I agreed to have my picture taken by the artist Walter Hugo as part of his latest series of portraits. Hugo uses a giant camera obscura to capture his images the good old-fashioned way, fixing them on plate glass with silver nitrate. He’s installed himself in the basement of Paul Smith’s newly expanded shop on Albemarle Street in London for an exhibition opening tomorrow to run during Frieze Art Fair.
Of course, it brings up a whole host of Dickensian issues. Firstly, there’s no retouching on the plate glass. Secondly, there’s no re-shooting. Both anathema to contemporary fashion photography. Hugo recently shot a series of lookbook images for Smith with the same olde-worlde provisos.
The process is nothing I’ve experienced before: the exposure takes 17 seconds, the opposite of an iPhone snap. There’s a clamp to hold your head in position. And it took me a long time to decide on what to wear. It’s sequined Marc Jacobs. Which may be a foolish seasonal choice as, bar the glass plate’s propensity to smash, Hugo asserts that the image can last for 500 years, much longer than a paper counterpart.
It didn’t get me over that photographic phobia, but interestingly I don’t hate the results. Even though it’s about as far away from an arms-length “selfie” as you can possibly get.
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How to wear the hottest haircut
2013 October 11. | Szerző: shannon
TOI’s comprehensive guide to this season’s hottest haircuts and how to wear them
So, the party season is just hotting up with allnight Navratri dancing, chased by Diwali taash parties, and New Years to wrap it all up in a neat glittering bow. You’ve got yourself a fresh wardrobe. You can’t get yourself a new face. But, you can radically change the way it looks by getting a mint new haircut.
Depending on whether you are in the mood for a few snips of a full-on carving session, here’s an 8-style chart to help you pick the crop of your choice.
The don draper
It’s the side part synonymous with the ’60s, made popular by the ad executive who wants to stay in power. Ask your barber to give you the simple scissor trim, to take it tight at the sides and leave it log at the top. Here’s the styling that’s key. Start by washing your hair with an oil-free shampoo. Rub a 50p size blob of gel into it and use the edge of your comb to pull your hair back and make the side parting. Be precise. Comb the top section over to the side, and the side section down, and back. The front needs a lift. When you comb it, raise it slightly into a soft quiff. Akshay Kumar gets it right
The pompadour undercut
Here, the sides and the top are treated as distinct identities. What this does is gives you more length on top, say five inches, and shorter sides. The hair is swept upwards from the face to create height on top. It can be worn textured or straight. For styling you need a volumizer, a blow dryer and your fingers. Blast the dryer on high and use your fingers to work your hair upwards. Pull it forward and bend it back so you get the quiff shape (dry your roots too). Keep working your fingers through the roots to create movement from within. A generous dollop of gel will stiffen the pomade. Think Shammi Kapoor, and Elvis. Davi Beckham gets it right.
Gordon gekko slick back
Inspired by the character played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 hit Wall Street (who never left home without his suspenders, bold striped shirts and slicked-back hair), the Gordon Gekko works on straight hair and slightly long hair (short, and it veers towards spikes) and spells power-dressing. A good quality hair gel is your weapon. Use it on dry hair and then run a pump of hair serum over the top. Rake it through with your fingers backwards, and you are good to go. Saif Ali Khan gets it right
The James Franco
This one’s for those who have a bit of a wave. Ask the hairstylist to keep it trimmed on the sides and back but longish with jagged layers on top, so that it can be fashioned into a coif with a bit of gel to hold it down. It allows the natural wave to fall in place. Looks best on those with a lean face and prominent jawline. No one but Franco can get this one right
The long buzz
This is the grown out version of the buzz. No styling, no combing. Just shampoo and go. Make sure the back is styled well. You don’t want to end up looking like the politico who went to a ‘saloon’. Brad Pitt got it right in Oceans Eleven.
The better Caesar
This one is a laidback shape. Get the sides to be short (you can even opt for clippers) and leave the locks above lengthier. Think Julius Caesar but better styled. George Clooney gets it right.
Fashion tips for the festive season
2013 October 21. | Szerző: shannon
With the festivities in the air, it’s time to look and feel glamorous and dress to impress.
Today’s modern woman seeks versatility and innovativeness in design and style. She prefers utilitarian fashion pieces that ride high on the trend quotient and are versatile enough to be dressed up or down- allowing the wearer to express her individuality regardless of the occasion. The color palette is a mix of cheerful vibrant hues like rani pinks, peacock blues and lime green which are perfect for the festive season.
Whether it’s those fun festive evenings, or a walk down the red carpet or even your best friend’s wedding, we tell you how to dress your best!
– Wear outfits in breathable fabrics like georgettes and chiffons that flirt with lace and gotapatti resulting in a sophisticated femininity.
– For an elegant yet edgy festive statement, team up a gorgeous hot pink or lime green raw silk bandi with a flowy gown or a lehenga for a cocktail or mehendi function.
– The bandi can also be paired with a bandhini skirt for a night about town or a Diwali cards party! Comfort and style join hands with a bandi paired with dhoti pants.
– Sashay down the red carpet in a pink brocade gown with a hint of sheen or a cream jacquard print gown complimented with stunning jadau earrings.
– Be a head turner at a wedding with a gorgeous peacock blue net brocade anarkali- a gold clutch and statement earrings complete the look
– Go classic with a gold and cream anarkali with traditional Rajasthani gotapatti work complimented with gold jhumkis making for a very pretty picture for a pre wedding puja ritual or a festive puja- it’s feminine, graceful and naturally alluring!
Hot tip- Festive wear this season is all about timelessness and understated elegance so keep one item in the overall look opulent- and let that be a magnificent statement piece of jewellery.
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