Monthly Archives: March 2015
Mar 10 2015
SoCal Etsy Guild Presents…. SoCal Etsy Guild Market Burbank – Featuring local artists crafters & designers! #SoCalEtsyGuildMarket

SoCal Etsy Guild Presents….

SoCal Etsy Guild Market

at the Burbank Town Center

#SoCalEtsyGuildMarket

Join us for an amazing weekend of handmade fun!

Free Kids Activities, Live Art,

Handmade Vendors, and Much More

All vendors will be located in the downstairs center courtyard near elevators, escalators and the Magnolia Blvd Street entrance.

 

Friday March 13,2015   Hours 10am to 9pm

Saturday March 14,2015   Hours 10am to 8pm
Sunday March 15,2015   Hours 11am to 7pm
One, Two, or Three Day Participation is available.

 

EVENT DETAILS

This is a three day event taking place at the Burbank Town Center. Southern California handmade artisan vendors, artist, food, DIY activities, live art, give aways and free kids activities!

Items being sold by vendors must fit in one of the following categories: Art, Handmade, Vintage, Original Design or Artisanal Food. One, Two, and Three Day Participation is available. Vendors must stay open for entire market hours. Partial day participation is not available.

 

SoCal Etsy Guild Presents….
SoCal Etsy Guild Market
Featuring local artists crafters & designers!

Friday March 13,2015 10am to 9pm
Saturday March 14,2015 10am to 8pm
Sunday March 15,2015 11am to 7pm

Burbank Town Center
201 E Magnolia Blvd,
Burbank, CA 91502

A few vendor spaces are still open.
For all vendor details and to purchase a space go to
www.socaletsyguildmarketburbank.eventbrite.com

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Mar 10 2015
Celebrating Salsa – The Food, the Music & the Dance! 2015 Oxnard Salsa Festival

Celebrating Salsa – The Food, the Music & the Dance!
2015 Oxnard Salsa Festival
Annual Festival 22nd
July 25-26, 2015
Plaza Park, Downtown Oxnard
11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Free Admission and Parking

Oxnard, CA – Get ready to spice things up during the 22nd Festival! One of Oxnard’s signature events, the Oxnard Salsa Festival celebrates salsa food, music and dance on July 25-26, 2015 at Plaza Park, Fifth and “B” Streets, in Annual Oxnard Salsa Presented by the Oxnard Downtowners, the annual event features spicy food and fiery, top entertainment, attracting an estimated 45,000 salsa lovers to the City of Oxnard for the two-day action packed celebration.

Everything salsa – the food, the music, the dance – is on the menu of this popular regional festival. Event highlights include Main Stage entertainment with Salsa and Latin Jazz bands; the Salsa Tasting Tent, featuring over 75 different salsas; an eclectic vendor marketplace; international foods; Kids Korner attractions; chef demonstrations; a salsa recipe contest and more. Event admission and parking are free.

For Festival information, call 805-247-0197 or visit www.oxnardsalsafestival.com.

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Mar 9 2015
Apple iOS 8.2 Released Download Notes

This release introduces support for Apple Watch, and also includes improvements to the Health app, increased stability and bug fixes.

Apple Watch support

  • New Apple Watch app to pair and sync with iPhone, and to customize watch settings
  • New Activity app for viewing fitness data and achievements from Apple Watch; appears when Apple Watch is paired
  • Available on iPhone 5 and later

Health app improvements

  • Adds the ability to select the unit of measurement for distance, body temperature, height, weight and blood glucose
  • Improves stability when dealing with large amounts of data
  • Includes the ability to add and visualize workout sessions from 3rd-party apps
  • Addresses an issue that may have prevented users from adding a photo in Medical ID
  • Fixes units for vitamins and minerals
  • Fixes an issue where Health data wouldn’t refresh after changing data source order
  • Fixes an issue where some graphs showed no data values
  • Adds a privacy setting that enables turning off tracking of steps, distance and flights climbed

Stability enhancements

  • Increases stability of Mail
  • Improves stability of Flyover in Maps
  • Improves stability of Music
  • Improves VoiceOver reliability
  • Improves connectivity with Made for iPhone Hearing Aids

Bug fixes

  • Fixes an issue in Maps that prevented navigating to some favorite locations
  • Addresses an issue where the last word in a quick reply message wasn’t autocorrected
  • Fixes an issue where duplicate iTunes purchased content could prevent iCloud restore from completing
  • Resolves an issue where some music or playlists didn’t sync from iTunes to the Music app
  • Fixes an issue where deleted audiobooks sometimes remained on device
  • Resolves an issue that could prevent call audio from routing to car speakers while using Siri Eyes Free
  • Fixes a Bluetooth calling issue where no audio is heard until the call is answered
  • Fixes a timezone issue where Calendar events appear in GMT
  • Addresses an issue that caused certain events in a custom recurring meeting to drop from an Exchange calendar
  • Fixes a certificate error that prevented configuring an Exchange account behind a third-party gateway
  • Fixes an issue that could cause an organizer’s Exchange meeting notes to be overwritten
  • Resolves an issue that prevented some Calendar events from automatically showing as ‘Busy’ after accepting an invite

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

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Mar 9 2015
6th Los Angeles Vegan Beer & Food Festival Rose Bowl Pasadena May 16, 2015 @veganbeerfest

LA Vegan Beer and Food Festival

QuarryGirl, Tony’s Darts Away, and Nic Adler present the 6th annual Los Angeles Vegan Beer & Food Festival. It takes place on May 16th at Rose Bowl Stadium and will feature the best of the regions craft beer, vegan eats, and live music.

Upon entry you will receive your very own LAVBFF glass and enjoy unlimited pours from 40 breweries featuring 100+ different beers. We will also be hosting 40 restaurants and food vendors. General admission door time will be at 1pm. VIP admission includes separate entrance, early entry at 12pm, and access to the VIP lounge with exclusive pours. This event is 21 & over. Please note that food is not included in the ticket price.

The 6th Los Angeles Vegan Beer & Food Festival Presented by – FB & Instagram @veganbeerfest

5/16 at the Rose Bowl! Vegan eats, bands & unlimited pours.

Tickets going fast: https://bit.ly/lavbfftix

Los Angeles Vegan Beer & Food Festival, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr, Pasadena, CA, 91103.

info@veganbeerfest.com

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Mar 9 2015
Apple Watch Event How to Watch 10am PST, 3/9/2015 #applewatch

Here’s how to watch the Apple Watch Event:

What date and time does it start? March 9, 2015, at 10 a.m. PT,

Where can I watch it? The live event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California will be streamed live at apple.com/live. The catch is it can only be viewed on Apple’s Safari or OS X browsers, or on Apple TV.

What should we expected to learn? More details on the Watch, including prices of the higher end models, and availability, anticipated to be sometime in early April.

Watch features and software demos will also be presented.

Apple Pay works with over 2500 banks.

CarPlay – every major brand has committed.

HomeKit

Health – 900 apps for tracking health and fitness

Jeff Williams introduces

medical Research Kit ResearchKit,

University of Rochester, Parkinson’s Disease tests,  Gait and Balance Test, record their sympotons by saying “ahhh’

Tremor vs Actvity, exercise

MGhH- Diabetes

Stanford/Oxford – Heart Heal

Asthma Mt Sinai – blue tooth inhalers, swabbing city surfaces, compare to pathogen maps, triggers for asthma in New York City.

Breast Cancer – UCLA, Diana faber Cancer Institute- Penn Medicine, living a better day.

HealthKit

PRIVACY: you decide what apps to participate Apple will not see your data.

ResearchKit – framework, changing scale of data collected. data collected every second.

700 Millions iPhones sold!!

China has the largest mobile phone user base.

ResearchKit will be OPEN Source, first five apps will be released today. ResearchKit Will be released next month, April.

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Mac – 10 years the Mac has beat the industry.

Mac grew 20%.

Reinvent the notebook.

Super thin

Looks like the MacBook Air.

Phil Schiller is on stage taking about the MacBook.

Most extreme and efficient every invented.

2 lbs. pounds

lightest Mac every made.

13.1 mm thin at thickest point, 24% thinner than MacBook air

all meta enclosure.

Keyboard, full size  – all new

scissor mechanism – old technology

butterfly mechanism – new – single assembly stainless steel dome, 4x more stable, thinner, even in dark, new lighting per each key, more precise in illumination,

12” display. retina, 2304, 1440, 3.3 megapixel

.88 panel, thinest , larger aperture, 1 pixel, minaturize pixels.  305 less energy, best display ever on a Mac.

Trackpad – old Diving Board, new, Force Touch trackpad, glass surface, force sensors, taptic Engine, click anywhere, same feel, adjustable click feel, can do so much more, click to force click, new gesture,

First fanless Mac.

New logic board 67% smaller, most dense, 1/3 the size

Intel Core M, 1.3GHZ with Turbo 2.9 Ghz, 3 watt

Batteries, asymmetric batteries, difference sizes. Terraces, countour battery cells, fits the contour of case, 35% more capacity,

all day battery life!

Connecting, no wires, 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0

AirDrop, AirPlay,

Port for Power – most versatile one connector, USB, Displayport power, VGA, HDMI

USB-C – new standard.

Cable – 1/3 the size, reversible, versatile, adapters to connect to the different interfaces,

Colors- Silver- Space Gray – Gold

Most environmental

World’s most energy efficient notebook.

8GB, 256GB

Cost: $1299 or $1599

Ships April 10.

Updates MacBook Air, and MacBook 13, faster processor, and displays.

Newest addition:

Apple Watch

Most personal device every created, an expression of who you are.

Stainless steel, anodized aluminum,

most advanced time piece ever created. most revoltionary

15ms second accuracy

different faces for clock, different colors, digital faces, rich details, or simple and elegant

express time in ways never been done, or just fun.

customizable.

glances -new feature, swipe up, to see what you look at most often, check your heart rate.

communicate immediately and intimately.

you can receive calls on the watch, finally here.

emails can be read

new ways to communicate, you can connect apple watch to apple watch, digital  touch, sketch on your watch and it will be animated on your friends watch, tap your watch to get their attention, send your heart rate,

digital Touch features,

comprehensive health and fitness, enhance people’s lives, tracks daily movements, move, exercise, stand time, three ring graphic shows all the activity on one screen.

weekly summary of how you did the previous week, new move target, like a coach on your wrist. new workout app, running cycling, any machine in your gym. how many calories, time, distance

watch was given to athlete, every mother counts founder, actress, Christy Turlington Burns, model. 100 Most Influential People of 2014

3 marathons, first person in world half marathon with Apple Watch in Africa. Apple.com follow Christy’s blog.

Kevin does a demo of all the very cool applications with the Apple Watch, notifications, with images, brand of company, act on notifications. W Hotel

Shazam for phone, find out what song is playing, foo fighters – congregation.

18 hours, all day battery life. how to charge,  hold next to magnetic charger,

iPhone ios 8.2 released today.

 

April 10 – preview, custom table to see all the watches displayed, orders start April 10.

Available April 24, 2015, not all countries. Australia, United States, China, etc

New ad is be released.

 

 

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Mar 9 2015
Beyond Meat – The Future of Protein From Plants – Beast Burger @beyondmeat #fuelyourinnerbeast

The Future of Protein™. Made from plants! Find us in Whole Foods, Target, Publix and over 6000 more stores nationwide. headquarters in El Segundo, CA.

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$1 off Beyond Meat products, BEYOND BEEF – CRUMBLE, BEAST BURGER, BEYOND CHICKEN

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Mar 9 2015
California Artichoke Water Antioxidant Rich @artywater

World’s First Premium Artichoke Water. Made with Love from California Artichokes!

Co-founders Yen, Howard, and Kevin

ARTY™ Water is the world’s first premium, plant-based beverage made from fresh California artichokes. Loaded with antioxidants, ARTY™ Water is delicious and nutritious

You can order on Amazon, cost is approx $2.50 per 8oz, but there is also a 24 pack which brings the cost down to less than $2.

ARTY makes the water drink by pressing the entire artichoke—heart, stem, leaves, and flower—then flavors with lemon, apple, mint, and sweet agave.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture  found artichokes have among the highest antioxidant levels among vegetables. The nutrients may lessen joint pain, ease muscle soreness, and help liver cells regenerate.

You can try making boiling one artichoke in a gallon of water for two hours. Strain, then drink hot or chilled, add flavors, lemon, mint, etc to taste.

There’s a new flavor, now the artichoke water is made with fresh ginger root.

 Website: https://www.artywater.com/

2182 DuPont Drive #223 Irvine, CA  92612 info@artywater.com Toll-Free: (800) 296-5647 Fax: (858) 568-9022

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Mar 6 2015
John Marshall High School Music Instruments Theft

John Marshall High School. In recent days, equipment and instruments were stolen from the band room. Per information posted about the incident, ” The suspects took the sound system that we received through a grant from PEF. About 99% of flutes were taken, a few trumpet, trombone, and saxophones were also stolen. These instruments’ cases are marked and the instruments themselves, engraved with a FL1, TP2, etc…Several guitar and bass amps were taken, some of them belonging to students.”

Here is a link to local coverage of the incident:
https://www.pasadenanow.com/main/thieves-steal-marshall-fundamentals-band-instruments-and-band-members-dreams/#.VPo0C_nF_Lk

A Go Fund Me account has been set up to assist with replacing the stolen items. The students were scheduled to perform tonight at the PUSD ALL District Music Festival as well as tomorrow at Disneyland. If you can contribute to this effort, please contribute what you can at https://www.gofundme.com/o171l0.

For more information, please email  Marshall Music Booster President Jane Bradford atmarshallmusicboosters@gmail.com or call Marshall Fundamental School music teacher Joel Lopez at (626) 396-5810.

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Mar 6 2015
PokeMix by Flour + Tea Pasadena South Lake Open @626food #poke

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Second location, PokeMix by Flour+Tea, is having its grand opening on March 1st! Follow us on Facebook for more info.

PokeMix by Flour + Tea is a bakery and tea house. Asian inspired Euro/American breads, as well as mixed teas and coffees. Cakes and desserts! South Lake Avenue is home to their second location (their first being on Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena) and features a “build your own” poke station.

PokeMix by Flour + Tea
99 S. Lake Ave, Ste 102, Pasadena 91101
Phone number (626) 345-5585

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Mar 5 2015
Pasadena Embezzlement Update March 5, 2015
This from Margaret McAustin, Councilmember for District 2 in Pasadena.
Thank you to those who read and/or commented on my email of January 18th related to the Embezzlement of $6.4 million from you, the residents of Pasadena. This email will report on recent actions taken on the matter.

 

  • The Mayor created a Community Task Force on Financial Administration and Internal Controls. The members are Robert E. Carlson, Robert C. Davidson, Jr., James F. Dowling, C. Douglas Kranwinkle, Donald C. Nanney, Charlotte Reith, Raul F. Salinas. The first meeting of the Task Force is expected to be held on March 9, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. ALL TASK FORCE MEETINGS ARE PUBLIC MEETINGS AND WILL BE NOTICED ON THE CITY’S WEB PAGE, https://cityofpasadena.net/.

 

  • The Ad Hoc Committee of the City Council, which is made up of 4 City Councilmembers: Madison McAustin, Gordo & Kennedy, has met twice to receive the status of various actions underway and consider additional litigation. The Ad Hoc Committee reports to the City Council.

 

 

  • The contract with the City’s Auditors has not been renewed. They will wind up their work on this fiscal year’s activities. A Request For Proposals for new Auditors will be going out in early March. The Mayor’s Task Force as well as the Ad Hoc Committee may have input into the work plan for the new auditors.

 

  • Another Request For Proposals, for a Citywide Fraud Risk Assessment, to be undertaken on each City Department, will be going out shortly. A Fraud Risk Assessment or Risk Audit will specifically test the effectiveness of existing internal controls. It is expected the Assessment of each Department could take six to eight weeks.

 

  • A “Desk Audit” of the Undergrounding Program itself is underway. The Desk Audit will assess whether established procedures are/were being properly followed.

 

We are awaiting the results of the continuing personnel investigations and will have more to share when that information is received. As always, you are welcome to contact me with any questions or comments you may have on this, or any other subject. I will continue to keep you informed as events transpire.

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