Need help finding your car in the parking structure? There’s a new system at the Santa Monica Third Street Promenade that takes pictures of your car as it enters various parts of the parking structure and and pin point where your car is parked.
You simply enter your license plate and the system tells you where the car is located.
Homeboy Industries Salsa and Tortilla Chips in Ralphs
Homeboy Industry announced that as of January 19, 2011 their salsa and tortilla chips are available at Southern California Ralphs. That’s over 256 stores!
THE BIG DAY HAS ARRIVED! Come to any of the 256 Ralphs locations in Southern California and you can now pick up Homeboy Salsa & Chips. Inspired by Homegirl Cafe At Homeboy Industries Chef Pati Zarate, the incredible variety of Homeboy Salsas coupled with tasty chips are perfect for snacking, fa…mily gatherings and parties…. Proceeds benefit Homeboy, and we’re excited that these products in stores now! Who’s making a run to Ralphs???
If you’re following our page, you know you can pick up Homeboy Salsa and Chips at Ralphs locations in SoCal. If you’re able, how about helping those whose chips are down – grab a little extra to donate to a local food shelter & take a pic of yourself donating. We’ll post it here for everyone to see! You’ll be supportin…g Homeboy and helping others with a gift that is near & dear to Father Greg – helping fight hunger.
Mango, Molita and Pico de Gallo (hot)
Mango is really good!! A little sweeter, but the onions are fantastic.
Molita has great flavor, but is too runny/messy with chips.
The Pico, even though it says “hot” isn’t very spicy, and while fresh, lacks flavor.
Congrats to Homeboy Industries.
Homeboy Industries
130 W. Bruno Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Homeboy Industries | Facebook
This is great news as Homeboy comes back from massive layoffs last year.
The baked goods from Homeboy are very good and available at the Studio City Farmers Market on Sundays.
Farmer’s Markets
Homeboy is proud to be involved with several Farmer’s Markets in the Los Angeles area, where we can bring fresh food to you courtesy of the Homeboy Bakery. For orders and information: 213-617-0365 or bakery@homeboy-industries.org.
Where to find us
? Tuesdays
USC Farmers Market (on campus, University Ave) – 9 a.m.-3 p.m. (Begins Jan. 11)
Old LA Farmers Market at Highland Park, 5703 Marmion Way – 3-8 p.m.
Whizin’s Farmer’s Market (Agoura Hills): Roadside Drive – 3-8 p.m.
? Wednesdays
Pershing Square (532 N. Olive St) – 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (Reopens on Jan. 12)
? Thursdays
LA City Hall Farmers Market (Homegirl Cafe, sandwiches) – 200 N. Spring St. LA – 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Century City Farmers Market (1800 Avenue of the Stars) – 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
7th and Figueroa (Downtown) – 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
South Pasadena — Meridian Avenue and Mission Street – 4-7 p.m.
? Fridays
Wilshire Center — Wilshire and Vermont – 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
? Saturdays
Canoga Park Farmers Market (Owensmouth Ave and Sherman Way) – 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Watts Healthy Farmers Market (103rd and Central) – 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Westfield Taponga Mall (Victory and Topanga) – 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
? Sundays
Mar Vista Farmers Market (1224 Venice Blvd) – 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Brentwood Farmer’s Market (741 Gretna Green Ave.) – 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Studio City Farmer’s Market (12052 Ventura Place) – 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
Coming soon:
Look for us soon at the following markets:
Sundays: Westfield Sherman Oaks, starting February 13th
El Monte, starting February 13
Wednesdays: Northridge Farmers Market, starting March 2nd
… more details to follow soon!
UPDATE:
We are learning that starting tomorrow, January 25, a Homeboy food truck will be rolling through the streets of L.A., giving out free chips and salsa over a two-week span. They can be tracked down through their Twitter handle @HomeboyInd.
Very cool! Bring the truck to Burbank and Pasadena!
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Joseph Quinlan in conversation with James Flanigan (Guests of Drucker Business Forum)
Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 7:45 AM (PT)
Pasadena, CA
Crawford Family Forum
KPCC 89.3 — Southern California Public Radio
474 Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91105
Join us for another DRUCKER BUSINESS FORUM in PasadenaJoseph Quinlan
in conversation with James Flanigan
The Last Economic Superpower: The Retreat of Globalization, the End of American Dominance, and What We Can Do About It
JOSEPH QUINLAN is Managing Director and the Chief Market Strategist, Bank of America, Global Wealth and Investment Management. JAMES FLANIGAN is business columnist and author.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Breakfast: 7:45-8:30am
Forum: 8:30-9:30am (followed by book signing)
Crawford Family Forum at KPCC
474 South Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91105
Join us as guests of the Drucker Business Forum
JOSEPH QUINLAN is Managing Director and the Chief Market Strategist of Bank of America, Global Wealth and Investment Management, in New York. He also serves as Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. Quinlan lectures on global finance at New York University, where he has been on the faculty since 1992; he also teaches at Fordham University.
The global economy, designed by Western powers with the United States as lead architect, is in the process of reconfiguration. The 2008 global financial crisis has terminated America’s reign as sole economic superpower and opened up important new spheres of influence to developing nations. Does this signal the retreat of globalization as we know it? Has an economic “cold war” already begun? Will the West ever exert the kind of control and influence it enjoyed just a few short years ago?
In The Last Economic Superpower, Joseph P. Quinlan, a Wall Street veteran and expert on global economic affairs, addresses these questions and many others. Quinlan examines: How America went from being a major creditor to the world’s largest debtor nation in only two decades; What the fading appeal of Europe and Japan means for the future of globalization; What China, India, and others have that the West doesn’t–and why this gives them unprecedented leverage.
JAMES FLANIGAN business columnist for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and other publications, has covered national and international business and economics for 46 years. He has focused on every aspect of business and finance and examined in major articles the economies of countries stretching from Europe to Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Flanigan interviewed Zachary Karabell for The Drucker Business Forum last season. See the video.
The Drucker Business Forum is produced by The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. The series is co-presented by KPCC.
Jack LaLanne died of respiratory failure at his home in Morro Bay, Calif.
1914-2011 worked out 2 hours a day.
Died on central coast.
Hollywood Walk of Fame Star.
Remembered from the 50’s, inspired millions to be healthy!
Pioneer in televised fitness programs. Great humor.
Bally’s Fitness Centers
Married for over 56 years.
Bob Barker credits Jack and Chuck Norris with his good healthy, nutrition and fitness.
Wife and three children are left behind.
Now there’s an app for catching and reporting distracted drivers.
This morning I saw a driver putting on make-up while driving down the freeway at speeds over 70mph, there she was with a make-up mirror and eye lash make-up.
Unreal!
So you can start using this app.
iPhone App for Distracted Drivers?
SafeCellapp for the iPhone launched earlier this week, and an Android version of the app is coming sometime in early October. SafeCellapp targets the distracted driver by alerting them to locations where there are legal restrictions on texting or making phone calls while driving. It will even keep a log of when the rules are followed or broken using the phone’s built-in GPS, so parents can reward their kids. Of course, the app has to be running for this work. It’s not a free download, so while it’s a pretty novel idea, nothing tops teaching your kids that they just shouldn’t use the phone at all when they’re behind the wheel. Many parents go as far as telling their kids they can’t even have the phone’s power on while they’re driving. Good idea. Here’s the app: https://itunes.apple.com/app/safecellapp/id386455081?mt=8# Here’s its website: https://www.safecellapp.com/
Studio City Farmers Market January 23, 2011
Today I went Studio City Farmers Market located in the heart of Studio City. Held every Sunday from 8am to 1pm.
Every Sunday morning!
The Studio City Farmers Market is held at Ventura Place every Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. You can pick up fresh fruit, vegetables, flowers. Bring the kids!! We have pony rides, face painting, a petting zoo. Please contact Farmers Market at 818-655-7744 or email studiocityfarmersmarket@yahoo.com for additional information.
Click here for Map Quest directions.
Settebello Pizzaeria Napoletana Pasadena
Authentic Wood Fired Pizza
Check out the website at: www.settebello.net
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Construction by: ACME – American Construction Management & Engineering Inc. Superior Construction services
80 S. Lake Avenue, Ste 580 Pasadena, CA 91106
(626) 227-1188
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Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana
Love the logo:
Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana was created in 2005 to bring an authentic Napoli style pizza to it’s customers.
With locations in Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. Pasadena is a perfect fit for a Pizza place, especially the Playhouse District. If you are looking for a great pizza place check out Luggage Room Pizza at the old Del Mar Station, next to the Grande Orange Cafe.
- Get $25 to start
- Earn up to $20/day
- Earn $10 per referral
We will currently add $10 to your PayBox balance for every person who follows your referral link and joins PayBox. Here’s your personal referral link:
https://www.paybox.me/r/victorcab
Why you should join today…
* You start with a $25 balance and it’s free.
* PayBox will add up to $20 per day to your account for participating as we prepare to launch our new service.
* You get $10 per person you refer to PayBox.
* You’ll be an EarlyBird user—before PayBox opens to the public.
* You’ll help shape the development of the best payment system ever designed for the Internet.
* You could have hundreds or thousands of dollars in your account by the time we launch, without ever making a deposit!
PayBox is developing an online currency and payment processing service to make buying and selling online easier, more secure and available to everyone.
We’re designing our service with the help of a dedicated group of EarlyBird users who are contributing ideas and feedback.
Stages of development planned to launch in 2011:
* Person-to-Person transactions.
* Small Business integration, including payment processing modules for all popular shopping cart software.
* Mid-sized Business integration.
* Major Online Store integration.
* Debit Card linked to your PayBox account.
* Currency exchange with all major world currencies.
Signup here and start earning money. I’ve earned over $67 in less than 24 hours. How the funds are going to be transferred out and what you can buy are things to come in the near future.
You can earn with PayBox by browsing their blog and clicking around the site. I’ve had two people signup with my link in less than 24 hours. So that would be $25 + 20 = $45 and I have $67 which means $27 in extra earnings from various actions on the site.
With this site we now that they are searching for users. The more they get the better. There’s no personal info you have to reveal at this point.
More info on PayBox.me.
Our Current Situation
PayBox is a rapidly growing online currency and payment processing service. We’re on a quest to become the best payment processing service anywhere. We aim to achieve this with the help of our dedicated EarlyBird users.
Our service is still in development. So, for now, all of our transactions are in a “Closed Box” system. This means that all payments sent, and all payments received, stay within the PayBox system at this time. Currently, our users can send person-to-person payments (within PayBox).
Our Goal
Our primary goal is to “Open the Box”.
Question: What does that mean? What would it include?
Answer: Opening the box means providing everything you would find in a full-featured payment processor:
* Debit cards linked to PayBox accounts.
* Easily buy and sell using your PayBox account.
* Easily send and receive money using your PayBox account.
* Purchase from nearly any online merchant.
* Withdraw to nearly any bank account world-wide.
* Possibly withdraw to other online payment processors.
* In-exchange from any major world currency.
* Out-exchange to any major world currency.
What will it take to “open the box”? Read on to find out.
What We’ve Achieved
We started on September 1, 2010 with a brand-new website and an idea. As of this writing, less than two months later, we have reached our Stage 1 goal with over 100,000 EarlyBird users. The following image is a graph of our Feedburner subscribers — EarlyBird users who follow our blog.
Our Next Target
It’s now time to take our service to the next level. Our Stage 2 growth target is somewhere between 2 to 5 million users. Once there, we aim to “open the box”.
Question: Why wait? Why grow to several million first? Why not “open the box” now?
Answer: Although we have over 100,000 EarlyBird users, our user-base is still incredibly small when compared to other payment services. Once we achieve the next stage of growth (2 – 5 million), it will open the door to be accepted into large payment networks and integrated as a payment option by major merchants. In short, it will help us to “open the box”.
We Need Your Help
PayBox is different. There has never been a payment service like PayBox. From the very beginning, we have relied on our users sharing PayBox with friends to fuel our growth.
Instead of spending millions of dollars on advertising, we are rewarding our EarlyBird users for helping us test our payment service as we build it, and only asking that you to share PayBox to help us grow.
To this point, we have had remarkable success with our grass-roots growth efforts. Now, we are relying on our members to keep spreading the word, helping us to take PayBox to the next level and “open the box”.
How Long Will It Take?
The truth is, we’re not sure when it will happen. Because we leave the sharing and growth of PayBox to our EarlyBird users, how long it takes to reach our next growth target and “open the box” is completely up to you, our users.
It’s really not that difficult to reach our Stage 2 growth target from this point. For example: If every EarlyBird user had one friend join per week, our size would double in the first week — and if we doubled every week, we would reach our Stage 2 growth target within 5 weeks.
Although we don’t expect our user-base to double in size every week, we believe we can realistically reach our Stage 2 growth target by early- to mid-2011.
Additional Fuel for Growth
Very shortly, we will be releasing a new program that we believe will help to fuel the growth of PayBox by adding a new level of rewards for some of our more ambitious EarlyBird users. In addition, they will have the opportunity to become experts in some very valuable skills along the way. We’ll have more details about this new program soon.
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Paybox.me (www.sitelogr.com) This is a sitelog about the domain Paybox.me. We estimate that Paybox.me makes $8 USD per day and is worth about $6,036 USD. We know the site is hosted in Seattle (United States), has a Google Pagerank of 0, is active on the IP 184.72.239.91 and receives about 2,756 unique visitors per day. This domain is currently hosted at AMAZON.COM and the organization behind it is AMAZON.COM. Our database ranks this url at spot #279,341 and the current Alexa ranking is #275,585.
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They can afford to place $20 a day in the accounts of 270,000 active users.
What is Certified Frustration-Free Packaging?
Today is the first time I have seen this used, on a mouse that is available from Amazon.
* Plug-and-forget Nano-receiver: Plug this tiny, unobtrusive receiver into your notebook’s USB port just once and forget about it
* Cordless freedom: Expect a robust wireless connection with advanced 2.4 GHz cordless technology.
* Hyper-fast scrolling: Fly through long documents at hyperspeed with the nearly frictionless scroll wheel, or shift instantly to precise scrolling.
* Laser precision: Experience smoother cursor control on virtually any surface.
* Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
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