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I've wanted to make a calendar for years because it's a quintessential form of tracking time but there are infinite possibilities when it comes to the design.Continue Reading →
I've wanted to make a calendar for years because it's a quintessential form of tracking time but there are infinite possibilities when it comes to the design.Continue Reading →
We're all born into one point-of-view or another, and we're not necessarily trained to proactively step into the shoes of others.Continue Reading →
It was a spring Saturday morning, and I woke up and said, "I need to buy a van today"Continue Reading →
Making furniture is an extremely time-sensitive process and just one mistake can set you back hours.Continue Reading →
At first I didn't tell anyone about my Instagram because I was embarrassed. It's still fairly embarrassing, but now I can't stop.Continue Reading →
The family bands dynamic is interesting. There was more struggle in the beginning, as we were younger and didn't quite understand why we were in a family band...Continue Reading →
In the Netherlands we have a saying thats something along the lines of "I love Summer, it's the best day of the year."Continue Reading →
The process to become a flight attendant is long and fraught with challenges. Training is incredibly difficult. It was like being on a reality show in terms of drama and cut-throat antics between the applicants.Continue Reading →
Wayne Brady forced me to tap dance on national television and it was just as mortifying as it sounds. Plus, I didn't win...Continue Reading →
Triathlon is a sporting activity where competitors must swim, bike and run a designated distance in that order...Continue Reading →
Carrot Creative is filled with colorful characters. Cultured Carrots is a series that shares the outside passions that inspire the very best work for our clients. This week, Junior Designer Danny...Continue Reading →
Carrot Creative is filled with colorful characters. Cultured Carrots is a series that shares the outside passions that inspire the very best work for our clients. This week, we travel to Colombia with...Continue Reading →
Carrot Creative is filled with colorful characters. Cultured Carrots is a series that shares the outside passions that inspire the very best work for our clients. This week, Senior Developer Ryan...Continue Reading →
Carrot Creative is filled with colorful characters. Cultured Carrots is a series that shares the outside passions that inspire the very best work for our clients. This week, People and Culture...Continue Reading →
Carrot Creative is filled with colorful characters. Cultured Carrots is a series that shares the outside passions that inspire the very best work for our clients. This week, Analytics Manager Ben...Continue Reading →
Carrot Creative is filled with colorful characters. Cultured Carrots is a series that shares the outside passions that inspire the very best work for our clients. This week, Engagement Manager Tom...Continue Reading →
Carrot Creative is filled with colorful characters. Cultured Carrots is a series that shares the outside passions that inspire the very best work for our clients. This week, Account Executive Taren...Continue Reading →
Carrot Creative is filled with colorful characters. Cultured Carrots is a series that shares the outside passions that inspire the very best work for our clients. This week, we sit down with Ben Gage...Continue Reading →
Asif Khan, the Head of Strategy at Carrot, placed a fishing line for "unicorn talent" into the world last year. Prancing and plodding along my career path as a frustrated unicron, I noticed this...Continue Reading →
Carrot Creative is filled with colorful characters. Cultured Carrots is a series that shares the outside passions that inspire the very best work for our clients. This week, we venture to the west...Continue Reading →
Welcome to the first edition of Cultured Carrots. In this new series, we'll connect with amazing people from across the company to discuss some of the things they're passionate about. The Carrot...Continue Reading →
I was that student - that person who told anyone who would listen to me that I was going to be in HR after graduation. After taking a couple of Human Resources classes I felt this was my destiny...Continue Reading →
So, what do you do? Me: I'm a copywriter. Oh cool, you write novels and poems and stuff, right? Me: Not exactly. You copyright books then? Me: No, I'm actually an advertising copywriter. Oh…like Peggy...Continue Reading →
Once upon a time I had a revelation underneath the desk of my previous employer. As I was wondering why my PC wouldn't turn on and of-course pondering life, I realized that I wasn't happy where I was...Continue Reading →
On March 18, 2016 I slept outside on the New York City Street in solidarity to raise money for the homeless youth of Covenant House… for a second time. Since 1972, Covenant House has been available...Continue Reading →
There isn't a day that goes by where I don't sit and appreciate the journey that I've been on - and continue to go through. It all started in Louisa County - a small town, located in the heart of...Continue Reading →
After 2 ½ years of freelancing, being strangled by Gene Simmons, building a house with Vanilla Ice, looking into Martin Scorsese's eyes and getting a death stare I decided that I was ready for a...Continue Reading →
"THIS IS HER!" Emily announced to every single person on my first, second, and third day at Carrot. Alas, a second member to the one-woman media team. I couldn't have been more excited about the...Continue Reading →
The first time I left New York after an internship four years ago, I was jazzed…to be leaving. As I stepped off the plane back into crisp Oregon air, I thought I'd never leave my home state for a city...Continue Reading →
It doesn't take a lot of time to learn at Carrot. It takes an open mind and ears to listen to those around you. In my 1 year and 11 months of transitioning from a mute intern to an ambitious analyst...Continue Reading →
"Ever thought about working in New York?" "Nope" I replied to Ben, on Facebook from my office in Canberra, Australia. I was never a strong designer. I was a math and programming jock, with no...Continue Reading →
Getting to know Carrot started with a text from a former co-worker letting me know about an opening: "I really, really like working here" he said. It continued with one of my first conversations with...Continue Reading →
People often don't take video games or gamers seriously. Despite it being one of the largest entertainment industries of our time, there are still many who think of video games as a time sink, an...Continue Reading →
Two Truths and a Lie I've always wanted to work for Carrot. I proposed to my wife on the front page of Buzzfeed. I'm related to Vladimir Putin. And now for the spoilers…. I have ALWAYS wanted to...Continue Reading →
Hustle. Team. Adventure. These three pillars have guided Carrot the last decade, and that third item is the driver behind some very big news: We're heading West. Carrot has harnessed magic (hard work...Continue Reading →
Judy Fraser is one of the strongest willed, firm yet loving women I know. She's successfully raised four children, mostly on her own while advancing her career. Judy is a role model, an amazing woman...Continue Reading →
As a man of color working in marketing, my ears always perk up when someone mentions diversity. Often when I hear the concept of diversity discussed in meetings, it is almost always discussed in...Continue Reading →
This week, Amazon announced that they were banning sales of Apple TV and Chromecast hardware from its online store due to competition with their own Amazon Fire hardware. While this move may seem...Continue Reading →
The bi-annual sartorial circus that is New York Fashion Week winds down this week, and - like I've done since age 13 or so - I've been immersing myself in the non-stop style coverage. I'm down to riff...Continue Reading →
We are incredibly excited and honored to announce that Carrot has been named by Crain's New York as one of the Best Places to Work for the second year in a row. 2015 has been a landmark year for...Continue Reading →
Chris and I founded Carrot with a simple idea: help brands navigate new technologies and platforms to connect with consumers. We did it by pushing the envelope and doing innovative firsts; all while...Continue Reading →
Drones, check. Virtual reality, yup. Wearables, done. 3D-printed glass... what! Yes, you read that right. 3D-printed glass is now a real thing, thanks to MIT's Mediated Matter. Add that to your...Continue Reading →
Most people believe that we make decisions quite rationally, simply using facts to arrive at an answer. While that may be true in some cases, we can agree that emotions are heavily involved in the...Continue Reading →
We are the interns. We eat peanut butter, pizza, stale bagels and all other forms of free food. People may not know us by name but swear they totally know our face. We make awkward conversation and...Continue Reading →
At Carrot, we're lucky enough to work with not only notable brands and organizations, but ones that make a considerable impact in the world we live in as well. Malala Fund is exactly one of those...Continue Reading →
Remember print media? It's not doing so well, at least not by traditional measures. Of time spent with all types of media, people only spend 5% with print. Digital, mobile and social are all...Continue Reading →
We are incredibly proud to announce that we have won a Webby this year - an award that stands for "Excellence in Internet" - for our work with The Nature Conservancy on the #SaveElephants...Continue Reading →
You might have gotten the chance to check out the latest Jurassic Park trailer, but did you hear about the 19 fully intact dino eggs found in China? Yup, the Kylie Jenner, aka cultural-appropriation...Continue Reading →
Kong is the latest tool for people looking to express themselves online in fun new ways. Available for Android and iOS, the app lets people capture and share selfies as animated GIFs. It's the...Continue Reading →
If you were literally in a hole, underground, without human contact last week then you probably missed the STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS trailer. Otherwise, you probably lost your beans over this LEGO...Continue Reading →
Last week we saw what happens when you bring Jon Snow to a dinner party. I think they forgot to invite some of their furry friends though. We should've had a dinner party to celebrate New Beer's Eve...Continue Reading →
If you ask me, the best part of last week was hands down this gem in celebration of National Corn Dog day. Albeit a little late, but when glory is delivered timing does not matter. Lots of people are...Continue Reading →
Carrot truly is an out-of-this world place to work, and the employees here on the mothership have a variety of interests, which span from grilling the perfect burger, to organizing hand-modeling...Continue Reading →
It's been a few weeks since Meerkat, Silicon Valley's latest startup darling, hit the scene. And it's still red hot. So much so, that Greylock Partners, a well established venture capital...Continue Reading →
Last week proved that there really is nothing more important in life than being really really really good looking when Zoolander closed out Valentino's Paris Fashion Week show. We received a taste of...Continue Reading →
When I was little, I was a very picky eater: sugar, meat, cheese, bread/pasta & potatoes. My mother once took me to the Rabbi (they were tight) to get him to convince me to eat veggies. Jews don't...Continue Reading →
It's really really really Friday everyone! Things you probably missed this week: Pancake Day. But it's okay because The Game celebrated enough for all of us, seriously--the guy donated 5K to IHOP...Continue Reading →
"I'm getting out of advertising," I said in early 2014. After almost five years in the game, I was tapping out. I had been with small boutique agencies, large PR firms, and full-service shops that...Continue Reading →
In case you were out spelunking last night, stop everything you're doing immediately. Now, reach deep within your soul and determine the color of #TheDress. It's blue and black. It's gold and white...Continue Reading →
Are you still feeling the effects of that triple-whammy President's Day weekend? Us too. Amidst the hype, Kanye launched the Yeezy Boost and his clothing line with Adidas while all of his BFFs were...Continue Reading →
"We're so super stoked!" When I received this email, accompanied by a gif of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air doing the running man, was when I knew I found my place in the universe. But let's rewind a...Continue Reading →
"Um, well….I quit my job already. What should I do?" This is what was going through my mind October 9th, when I received news that would eventually change the course of my life (dramatic, but true...Continue Reading →
As I write this welcome blog sitting on Santa's lap, I am realizing that Christmas is over. This isn't Santa. It's a guy with a beard. I'm in Brooklyn. Everyone has a beard. Let me tell you the story...Continue Reading →
Exposition: Back in good ol' Chicago, my bestie4lyfe, Lauren, told me there was an opening at Carrot for an Art Director (the first art director position at Carrot, EVER.). I had already heard magical...Continue Reading →
Moving back to New York City was probably one of the best decisions I've made this year. Before Carrot, I was a Fellow for AOL's automotive brand Autoblog. My experience at AOL was a great...Continue Reading →
After a few months of freelance work during a period of unemployment, I came across Carrot by happenstance. I was involved in my usual daily routine of sending out resumes and applications when I came...Continue Reading →
It was only my second day at Carrot, and the entire office of 100+ people was already loudly chanting my name in unison. "ASIF! ASIF! ASIF!" Seriously, a guy could really get used to that. I'm pretty...Continue Reading →
Carrot was different. No urine test. No standard cover letter and resume submission. No, when I arrived at the Carrot site to apply, I was asked to explain what super-power I would have if I could...Continue Reading →
As soon as I hopped off my plane from Austin, I cabbed straight to the Carrot office to grab the keys of the apartment they were putting me in while I found a place to live. This was the afternoon...Continue Reading →
Flashback to 1996: a mini Perry, age 12, seriously short, seriously full of attitude (sorry mom). In response to "What do you want to be when you grow up," I wrote "Lawyer." Really...Continue Reading →
Where there's a will, there's a way. That's something my parents have told me since I was very young and it's something I take with me wherever I go. Thanks mom and dad. Finally being here...Continue Reading →
We're honored to announce that Carrot has been named by Crain's New York as one of 2014's Best Places to Work. We always tell brands that their why is greater than their what. We got...Continue Reading →
McDonald's is celebrating 40 years of menu-item memories. Everyone's celebrating the classics; which is why Miller Light is bringing back its old label, Surge is back, PanAm wants to take you...Continue Reading →
From: firstname.lastname@example.com To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: greetings 'greetings peter. never thanked you for your holiday card. we have a need for account directors, wanna come in and talk?' I...Continue Reading →
Today is a red-letter day for Apple fans; not only are we finally getting our hands on the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, but VICE News for iOS is now available in the App Store! The new app for VICE News...Continue Reading →
"You're going to need to be able to read his mind." Such was the most important requirement told to me during my interview that I needed for the job I was seeking. Since I am writing this welcome...Continue Reading →
In case you were exploring caves last week, you should know that Apple announced a new watch. So, of course, brands piggybacked. They're also introducing a bigger phone, which Samsung takes full...Continue Reading →
Happy Back to School Week. Check out these Mom confessions and the Gap Kids' photo campaign… [and these taser faces (unrelated)]. Tablets have the highest click through rates across devices. A...Continue Reading →
Social media is now the fastest way to share information on a local and global level. From a quick access source for the latest news, to a public forum for large scale discussions around human rights...Continue Reading →
A funny thing about HR is that it kind of gets a bad rap. Like recruiting– anyone who has had a bad experience will forever remain a hater. The truth is, as someone with a recruiting background, I was...Continue Reading →
The first time I stepped foot into Carrot headquarters was the last time I ever wore a suit jacket. It was May of my senior year. With graduation season on its way, I had finally begun to accept the...Continue Reading →
"You've only been out of college for a year and you've already had two jobs --can you explain?" That is a question that I have become all too familiar with during my most recent job...Continue Reading →
So this is a little weird... because I know I've definitely been here before. I first met most of Carrot a year ago, when I interned for the summer. I started as a Strategy and Analytics intern...Continue Reading →
I never planned on working in advertising. I was a photojournalist, honing my skills at my college's daily and passing through a couple of professional community newspapers. I loved meeting new...Continue Reading →
Social situations can often be awkward. When you're a college dropout, in the age of social networks where most everyone has completed (at least) four years college, first encounters are...Continue Reading →
Since my freshman year in high school, I've been interested in computers. I learned basic networking from Cisco gear, jumped into hacking for a bit (went to Las Vegas for Defcon 21), had a scare...Continue Reading →
If you were to read my preschool "All about Lauren" book, you'd learn that my hopes and dreams consisted of working at a grocery store as a bagger --and I'm happy (sad?) to say those...Continue Reading →
As a strategist, it's imperative to be a part of and understand culture... it's likely my favorite part about being a strategist. I'm obsessed with understanding who people are, how they...Continue Reading →
Alexa joins us as a design intern from the Rochester Institute of Technology. I've always dreamed that my track as a design student would lead me to life in a big city. The question has been...Continue Reading →
Yunzhe joins us as a strategy intern from the University of Virginia. "What's your major?" "Psychology." After my answer, the interviewer's voice would always trail off...Continue Reading →
At Carrot, we're pretty lucky to work with brands we know well and love... to the point that we're almost spoiled. Passion is a strong catalyst for producing innovative and smart work, and it...Continue Reading →
Apple is creating a marketing army --perhaps it has something to do with Adobe's move into hardware or Amazon's new Fire phone, with e-commerce functionality: Firefly. (Also: Kinect features...Continue Reading →
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) Keynote on June 2nd unveiled a number of software changes to OS X and iOS, creating a more integrated experience across Apple devices. The overhauled...Continue Reading →
It's National Donut Day, celebrate with caution. (Semi-related breakfast news: There's a new kind of 'coffee high.') Check out these Disney movie memes, out of context. And while we...Continue Reading →
I was at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and had just finished inspecting a pair of Nike Air Max trainers from 1992... Actually, lets go back a bit... I grew up about 30 minutes south of...Continue Reading →
A lot of what drives what I do involves skating to where I think the puck is going to be. I left Connecticut as a college student to head out West, towards California. Living in San Francisco provided...Continue Reading →
Some useful things are happening in the world: Virgin America made boarding passes that actually fit in your pocket. Facebook made a "menu" feature for restaurant brand Pages. And Coke is...Continue Reading →
Carrot Creative is the first place that ever intimidated me. It's also the only place that I've ever been rejected by. When I first stumbled upon Carrot, two and a half years ago, my first...Continue Reading →
Design is everywhere. It's not just in the usual places anymore---desks, web browsers, bookshelves. It influences how we shop in a store, spend our nights out on the town, or plan our financial...Continue Reading →
It's Friday. Chillax and click a little... (Unless I just scared you to death with that photo, but more on that later.) Facebook has a new feature that uses a mobile phone's microphone to...Continue Reading →
There is a lot of pressure to be creative. Pinterest DIY boards, Etsy, the creative class, creative industries, creative ninjas - we're more obsessed with creativity than ever. However, IDEO...Continue Reading →
Let's start by getting the Google Glass news out of the way: Now, everyone can buy it. And, when you do, you can choose your Starwood hotel via your own eyeball tour. Or, skip the hotel entirely...Continue Reading →
This is two weeks worth of Clicks - despite the fact that we've been living with lag... get ready to learn something. For those of you -- like me -- that started G.O.T this season (I know, I know...Continue Reading →
Miki joins Carrot as a digital production designer; she was previously a graphic designer at Thomson Reuters. Who knew my career would change from a Radio Personality/TV Reporter in Japan to a...Continue Reading →
Sean is Carrot's first remote developer, and the youngest person at Carrot; ever. He's currently in Wisconsin and will begin relocating to NYC this summer. I discovered Carrot by accident...Continue Reading →
Weed has been rebranded for the masses. Hungry? Build your own (delivery) pizza. Just don't eat too many gummy vitamins (you know you've been tempted...). Or, if you want to completely lose...Continue Reading →
The first job I ever really wanted was to be that person in the airport who takes your ticket to board the plane. You see, I've always had issues with my ears, and so flying was painful; and...Continue Reading →
In the future, this is what an American will look like (and here's how they die). While we're on the subject of being attractive... Holy Cute: sleeping otter and bathing bunny. And...Continue Reading →
I just started here at Carrot, but my experience with the company began long ago... ...over five years ago, to be exact, when I was studying graphic design at Indiana University. On one of those...Continue Reading →
Daneka joins our QA department from OpenSky where she was a QA Analyst. I like to say that software testing is a lot like playing a game of 'Where's Waldo.' The difference however, is...Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago, a Carrot dev team consisting of Kyle, Tom, Josh, and myself participated in a hackathon called Static Showdown. We were particularly drawn to this hackathon since we are particularly...Continue Reading →
This week, I discovered hoverc.at. Speaking of cats, Buzzfeed and Facebook are hosting their own White House Correspondents Dinner. Remember Facebook emails (that nobody used)? Well, they also have...Continue Reading →
We're the BEST SOCIAL MEDIA AGENCY, again. The Shorty Awards has recognized Carrot, for the second time in a row, as a leader in the digital space. Read our Shorty Award entry for 2014, or check out...Continue Reading →
We endured April Fool's this week. I'm just going to pretend everything was real and continue typing... For those of you that iron everything, iron your undies. Then ride the second avenue...Continue Reading →
When we were blissfully ignorant children, our parents wisely told us, "You can be anything you want to be." And they meant it. Although inspirational, that statement is extremely...Continue Reading →
March Madness has started, which means #brackets. Introducing Bodega Cats and Doge Madness. Also, Doge grammar. Obama is also using brackets, and GIFs, to promote healthcare. Playstation is debuting...Continue Reading →
I'd never known what it was to be part of a work family, until I joined Carrot. Carrot is a company with merit, status and awesome personality. I didn't really know this when Alexis, Director...Continue Reading →
This week, the Obama administration finally figured out how to get "young people" to sign up for healthcare, which they will need when their "whaling" goes terribly wrong. Both of...Continue Reading →
"It's important not to quit prematurely. The people who get what they're after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough... You can't count on success; you can only...Continue Reading →
Watch this ad; by Monday you'll all own a dog. (And then you can participate in animal v. furniture.) SXSWi has begun. Follow along with the conversation (all original thoughts...) or just use my...Continue Reading →
Meet NYC's most desired OKCupid prospects. The only thing more popular will be Taco Bell's new Waffle Taco. Holy House of Carbs, amiriiiight? The newly acquired WhatsApp announced that it...Continue Reading →
Graeme joins us as a designer. Prior to Carrot, he was the illustrator at turntable.fm. It's funny to think that I used to draw my favorite logos and cartoon characters in the back of my...Continue Reading →
It's no secret that Twitter is known as the "real-time marketing" platform. As an individual, I find myself checking my Twitter feed whenever I want to see the latest conversations...Continue Reading →
You probably don't know anything in this week's Clicks because House of Cards debuted last Friday. Here's how Netflix handled that. If you live under a rock and celebrated Valentine's...Continue Reading →
As digital services invade our living spaces, their lack of device-awareness and consumer intent understanding is preventing delivery of truly immersive multi-screen experiences. It was only a matter...Continue Reading →
Olympics. We're all supposed to be obsessed with talking about it, but we aren't. Instead we've Shoshana'd the games, set them to 90's music and remixed them as movie scenes. The...Continue Reading →
The social media team behind Netflix's House of Cards Season 2 preview campaign gets it. They treat each platform differently to satiate the needs of each platform's audience using: shareable...Continue Reading →
The Super Bowl happened last weekend (#SPORTS!). Someone got 1.5 million from esurance, helping us all forget how uneventful (yet loaded with hashtags) the Super Bowl commercials were this year...Continue Reading →
Harris joins us as our newest analyst. Hailing from North Carolina, he was previously an insights analyst at McKinney. How did I end up at Carrot? I followed this mantra: 'Never settle, and be...Continue Reading →
You know those classes in school where you'd just memorize the material for the sake of the test and then forget it the next day? Well recently, I've found myself having a renewed interest...Continue Reading →
As a society and culture, we are currently in the 'era of chaos.' This is effecting people, businesses, relationships, economies … each and every day. For brands and marketers, the goal is the...Continue Reading →
Henry joins us as a development intern. Prior to Carrot, he was the Country Director/ China and Recruitment Manager in Asia at Rustic Pathways. I started learning to code because the internet is the...Continue Reading →
Andrew joins us as a ux designer. Prior to Carrot, he was designer/developer for Atlantic Records. I'm perpetually on the outside looking in; so imagine my horror when asked repeatedly to share my...Continue Reading →
Here's what life would be like if Google was just a dude; if emojis existed IRL; if marketing was largely exFEARiential; and if you could pay for things in talent (oh wait, this one IS real). Google...Continue Reading →
Sarah joins us as an account supervisor from Canvas where she was the director of strategy. "Oh, where did YOU come from?" Now, imagine that in a really nice, no, really I'm genuinely...Continue Reading →
The internet experienced more than an influx of New Year's resolutions this week… In case you were too busy scheduling zumba classes and planning your vegan diet, here's what you missed: In...Continue Reading →
Carrot is now part of the VICE Media network. We're joining the global media company that creates the BEST award-winning, original content. VICE currently distributes content through a global...Continue Reading →
Welcome to Carrot is Downloading – a blog series devoted to highlighting applications and services that the extended Carrot family is building, using or being delighted by. This week, we'd like to...Continue Reading →
Persistent Little F*ck... those are the words that Mike chose to describe me when, after over two years of being on the outside looking in, I was being invited to become a part of the Carrot family. I...Continue Reading →
Why user generated content is (mostly) bad and how we can make it better How much longer do consumers have to put up with brands begging them to submit a photo, video, drawing, poem for a chance to...Continue Reading →
Life lessons from advertising No is the easy way out. No is the end. It means I don't have to think about it anymore. I don't have to put any more energy to it, and I can forget about it. I...Continue Reading →
Every second on the internet, way too much happens. And we took a break from Clicks for a bit (sorry), so there's a lot to catch up on. Try and keep up... Shark Week happened; brands showed up and...Continue Reading →
As I'm sure everyone even slightly involved in the tech world is aware, Apple dropped some serious new releases yesterday at WWDC'13, including a new Mac Pro, a new Macbook Air, a new version...Continue Reading →
When I started my internship as a UX Intern this summer, I immediately knew that it'd be one to remember. As the end approached, I began to think of a way to save all the memories. I could make a...Continue Reading →
The way people consume content has fundamentally changed. Due to its always on, streaming feed, social media has forced brands to become publishers. The problem is, the influx in content has taken its...Continue Reading →
Welcome to Carrot is Downloading –- a blog series devoted to highlighting applications and services that the extended Carrot family is building, using or being delighted by. This week, we'd like...Continue Reading →
Welcome to Carrot is Downloading – a blog series devoted to highlighting applications and services that the extended Carrot family is building, using or being delighted by. This week, we'd like to...Continue Reading →
This week, Jay-Z finally let us iPhone users hear his much anticipated "Magna Carta Holy Grail." I'm no music critic, but I think this 6 hour performance and his Twitter convos are more...Continue Reading →
Just because you're about to sing along drunkenly to country tunes while sippin' on some good ol' Budweisers under a firework-lit sky celebrating 'Murrica doesn't mean you can...Continue Reading →
Congrats. You did it; you made it through the week. Reward yourself with a drink while you read this, because smarter people drink more. Let's take a walk down memory lane: Remember MASH? Here...Continue Reading →
It's no secret that the redesign of carrot.is is built on top of roots, a framework that I've been working on both at carrot and on my own time for nearly a year at this point. In this post, I...Continue Reading →
Page load speed is pretty high on our priorities list over here at carrot, and so is responsive design, as you could see by our last post. But the two don't always live in perfect harmony. While...Continue Reading →
When I was asked to write a welcome post for the Carrot blog, I thought that I would detail my journey from a dead-end University where I dreamt of a future at Pixar, to an unbelievable life change...Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend dd:IMPACT, Digital Dumbo's half-day bi-annual conference showcasing digital innovation that fundamentally disrupts, evolves and advances business...Continue Reading →
If you're reading this on your smartphone, be warned... you're being made less-productive. Here's something awesome to start us off: water graffiti. When you're coming up with...Continue Reading →
Sundays are typically for rest. While I was busy hiding from the rain, chowing down on BBQ, and nursing a beer, I learned that Yahoo had reached an agreement to purchase Tumblr. My first thought was...Continue Reading →
(Feel free to read this week's issue of Clicks from the food truck nearest you - since they are now wi-fi hotspots.) This is a sad, sad week... I regret to inform you that the world's largest...Continue Reading →
Welcome to Carrot Clicks, where we word-vomit everything we've clicked on the interwebs this week, especially for you. Enjoy, and thanks for getting early onset carpal tunnel on our behalf. This...Continue Reading →
Remember that guy from the Verge that left the internet for a year hoping to become a better human? Well, he's back and he missed the internet (and all its bullshit). Moral of the story: you...Continue Reading →
Imagine a series of gridded laser lights projected ahead of you, flying past your head with a series of beeps and zaps. A voice pounds in your ear, coarse and determined: "The year is 201...Continue Reading →
Earlier this week, BuzzFeed posted an article with the dramatic headline "Teens Abandoning Social Networks, Study Says." The digital marketing equivalent to shouting "FIRE!" in a...Continue Reading →
In case you haven't seen our 3.5 million posts, we won TWO Shorty Awards this week: Best Social Media Agency and Best Use of Animated GIF. We're not bragging, we're just really honored...Continue Reading →
Happy Jurassic Park 3D Day! (We're celebrating with pinball and popcorn.) This week, the first pitch was thrown by NY's most important teams: the Carrot Pirates and the Yankees (#nobias...Continue Reading →
Happy Game of Thrones weekend!!! (Which family are you a part of?) We're pretty stoked after a great week: We joined Vine and showed off our cuteness, one our own won Google Glass after entering...Continue Reading →
How do I know I've fallen victim to the social media plague? It may or may not have something to do with checking Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook before going to sleep. And before getting out of bed...Continue Reading →
It's 4:00am on a blistering, cold morning in Ada,Ohio - January 21st, 2013. The Carrot content team is up and at 'em alongside of 130 Wilson Football Factory workers. Today is Super Bowl game...Continue Reading →
Lenny joins us as a community manager from the New York Daily News and The Boston Globe where he served as an online sports editor. Once upon a time there was a college newspaper adviser who was fired...Continue Reading →
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|Untitled, Early Mexico Series, 1953-1961 (photo ID: Early_Mexico_008)
Photograph (c) Milton Rogovin, 1952-2002
Courtesy Center for Creative Photography,
University of Arizona Foundation
|Untitled, Store Front Church, 1958-1961 (photo ID: sfc_005)
Photograph (c) Milton Rogovin, 1952-2002
Courtesy Center for Creative Photography,
University of Arizona Foundation
|Untitled, Lower West Side Revisited, 1984-1986 (photo ID: LWS_rev_262)
Photograph (c) Milton Rogovin, 1952-2002
Courtesy Center for Creative Photography,
University of Arizona Foundation
|Untitled, Appalachia, 1962-1987 (photo ID: Appalachia_064)
Photograph (c) Milton Rogovin, 1952-2002
Courtesy Center for Creative Photography,
University of Arizona Foundation
Milton Rogovin Obituary by Benjamin Genocchio, New York Times, January 18, 2011:
Milton Rogovin, an optometrist and persecuted leftist who took up photography as a way to champion the underprivileged and went on to become one of America's most dedicated social documentarians, died on Tuesday at his home in Buffalo. He was 101.
He died of natural causes, his son, Mark Rogovin, said.
Mr. Rogovin chronicled the lives of the urban poor and working classes in Buffalo, Appalachia and elsewhere for more than 50 years. His direct photographic style in stark black and white evokes the socially minded work that Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks produced for the Farm Security Administration during the Depression. Today his entire archive resides in the Library of Congress.
Mr. Rogovin (pronounced ruh-GO-vin) came to wide notice in 1962 after documenting storefront church services on Buffalo's poor and predominantly African-American East Side. The images were published in Aperture magazine with an introduction by W. E. B. Du Bois, who described them as "astonishingly human and appealing."
He went on to photograph Buffalo's impoverished Lower West Side and American Indians on reservations in the Buffalo area. He traveled to West Virginia and Kentucky to photograph miners, returning to Appalachia each summer with his wife, Anne Rogovin, into the early 1970s. In the '60s he went to Chile at the invitation of the poet Pablo Neruda to photograph the landscape and the people. The two collaborated on a book, "Windows That Open Inward: Images of Chile."
In a 1976 review of a Rogovin show of photographs from Buffalo at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan, the critic Hilton Kramer wrote of Mr. Rogovin in The New York Times: "He sees something else in the life of this neighborhood — ordinary pleasures and pastimes, relaxation, warmth of feeling and the fundamentals of social connection. He takes his pictures from the inside, so to speak, concentrating on family life, neighborhood business, celebrations, romance, recreation and the particulars of individuals' existence."
Milton Rogovin was born on Dec. 30, 1909, in Brooklyn, the third of three sons of Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania. His parents, Jacob Rogovin and the former Dora Shainhouse, operated a dry goods business, first in Manhattan on Park Avenue near 112th Street and later in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. After attending Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, the young Mr. Rogovin graduated from Columbia University in 1931 with a degree in optometry; four months later, after the family had lost the store and its home to bankruptcy during the Depression, his father died of a heart attack.
Working as an optometrist in Manhattan, Mr. Rogovin became increasingly distressed at the plight of the poor and unemployed — "the forgotten ones," he called them — and increasingly involved in leftist political causes.
"I was a product of the Great Depression, and what I saw and experienced myself made me politically active," he said in a 1994 interview with The New York Times.
He began attending classes sponsored by the Communist Party-run New York Workers School, began to read the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker and was introduced to the social-documentary photographs of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine.
Mr. Rogovin moved to Buffalo in 1938 and opened his own optometric office on Chippewa Street the next year, providing service to union workers. In 1942 he married Anne Snetsky before volunteering for the Army and serving for three years in England, where he worked as an optometrist. Also in 1942, he bought a camera.
Returning to Buffalo after the war (his brother Sam, also an optometrist, managed the practice in his absence), Mr. Rogovin joined the local chapter of the Optical Workers Union and served as librarian for the Buffalo branch of the Communist Party.
In 1957, with cold war anti-Communism rife in the United States, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee but refused to testify. Soon afterward, The Buffalo Evening News labeled him "Buffalo's Number One Red," and he and his family were ostracized. With his business all but ruined by the publicity, he began to fill time by taking pictures, focusing on Buffalo's poor and dispossessed in the neighborhood around his practice while living on his wife's salary as a teacher and being mentored by the photographer Minor White.
His wife, a special education teacher, was a collaborator throughout his career and helped him organize his photographs until her death, in 2003.
Mr. Rogovin's photographs were typically naturalistic portraits of people he met on the street. "The first six months were very difficult," he recalled in a 2003 interview, "because they thought I was from the police department or the F.B.I."
But he gradually built trust, giving away prints of portraits in exchange for sittings. He never told his subjects what to do, allowing them to pose in settings and clothing of their own choosing.
"These aren't cool sociological renderings but intensely personal evocations of a world whose faces are often missing in a culture that celebrates the beautiful and the powerful," Julie Salamon wrote in The Times in 2003 on the occasion of a Rogovin exhibition at the New-York Historical Society.
Mr. Rogovin began his Storefront Church series in 1961 at the invitation of a friend, William Tallmadge, a professor of music at State University College at Buffalo who was making recordings at a black church on the city's East Side. The success of the series encouraged Mr. Rogovin to devote more and more time to photography and persuaded him that photography could be an instrument of social change.
In 1972 he earned a Master of Arts in American studies from the University at Buffalo, where he taught documentary photography from 1972 to 1974. The next year he held his first major exhibition, at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.
In the next years his photographs were published in several books and widely exhibited; a show of his work is currently on view at the Gage Gallery in Chicago. Many are in the collections of museums, including the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The Library of Congress acquired his archive in 1999.
In addition to his son, of Forest Park, Ill., Mr. Rogovin is survived by two daughters, Ellen Rogovin Hart of Melrose Park, Pa., and Paula Rogovin of Teaneck, N.J.; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
In his later years, as his health declined, Mr. Rogovin used a wheelchair and no longer took photographs. In 2009 he was nominated for a National Medal of Arts but was not selected.
His activism, however, was undimmed — he attended political rallies and antiwar protests into his final years — and his social conscience remained acute.
"All my life I've focused on the poor," he said in 2003. "The rich ones have their own photographers."
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: January 20, 2011
Because of an editing error, an obituary on Wednesday about the photographer Milton Rogovin misidentified the academic affiliation of William Tallmadge, who invited Mr. Rogovin to begin his Storefront Church series of photographs. Mr. Tallmadge taught at the State University College at Buffalo (now Buffalo State College, State University of New York), not at the State University of New York at Buffalo.


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Not all laptops are designed equal
May 16, 2013 16 Comments
Over time it is common for fans in laptops to become clogged with dust, fluff and even hair. The symptoms are usually a hotter laptop and a noisier fan that runs more frequently. The solution is to open up the laptop's body in order to get at the fan and remove the crud with tweezers and by blowing. However, dismantling many laptops to access the fan makes the Mission Impossible break-in look simple, and this seems to be getting worse as laptop prices continue to decrease. If you are not confident you can unblock the fan yourself, you'll have to find a local computer repair shop and you may find it's not cheap. For some models the dismantling procedure can be so complicated that people post videos on YouTube. Often it is necessary to remove numerous screws, ribbon cables, jumper leads, plastic strips and the keyboard. In some cases you have to disassemble the laptop almost entirely. Fortunately, in the case of RAM modules there is often a hatch in the laptop's base to facilitate access, but even adding or replacing RAM modules can sometimes be a major task (I used to own an Acer laptop that required the laptop base and keyboard to be removed in order to access the RAM modules).
Not long ago I had the misfortune to have to dismantle an Acer Aspire 5536-643G25Mn and a Toshiba Satellite C660-1J2 to remove accumulated fluff from the fans. I had to study YouTube videos carefully and could not believe how difficult it was to get access to the fan in the Acer Aspire. Dismantling the Toshiba Satellite to access the fan was not quite as bad as the Acer Aspire but was still a major task and, despite being as careful as possible, I still managed to break a fragile plastic lug on one of the base panels.
Last week my main laptop, a Compal NBLB2, seemed to be running a little hotter than usual, so I decided it was time to check if its fan also needed cleaning. What a pleasure that was in comparison to the other manufacturers' laptops. The NBLB2 has a large plate in the base that, by removing only three screws (see the first photograph below), allows easy access to the fan and RAM modules. In less than five minutes I was able to remove a wad of fluff from the fan, replace the plate and power up the laptop again. Hats off to Compal for thinking about maintenance when designing this laptop. I only wish other laptop manufacturers did the same.
So, next time you need to buy a new laptop, do some research on how easy it will be to access the fan in case it needs to be cleaned. Look at the laptop's base and check on the Web for a service manual, a YouTube video of it being disassembled, and comments in laptop/notebook forums. At least then you'll know whether you stand a chance of avoiding paying a repair shop just to remove crud that inevitably builds up over time in the fan.


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The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series of Hope College will feature fiction and non-fiction writer David Shields on Thursday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Shields's latest book, "Reality Hunger: A Manifesto," was published by Knopf in February. His previous book, "The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead," (Knopf, 2008), was a "New York Times" bestseller. He is the author of eight other books, including "Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season," a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; "Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity," winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and "Dead Languages: A Novel," winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. His work has been translated into a dozen languages.
His essays and stories have appeared in the "New York Times Magazine," "Harper's," "Yale Review," "Village Voice," "Salon," "Slate," "McSweeney's" and "Utne Reader." He's written reviews for the "New York Times Book Review," "Los Angeles Times Book Review," "Boston Globe" and "Philadelphia Inquirer."
Shields has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington. Since 1996 he has also been a member of the faculty in Warren Wilson College's low-residency MFA Program for Writers, in Asheville, N.C.
Additional information about the Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series may be obtained online by going to www.hope.edu/vws.
A performance by a Hope jazz group will precede the reading beginning at 6:30 p.m. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.


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Tokyo fashion: Kimoken and Koenji fashion in vibrant Tokyo
Sarah Deschamps and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
Kimoken (http://kimoken.exblog.jp/) highlights the fashion district of Koenji in Tokyo and this can be seen by the images he takes and the passion of his love of fashion. The different vibes of Koenji are gradually making waves in the media in Tokyo because the international press is mainly focused on Aoyama, Ginza, Harajuku, Omotesando, Shibuya, and Shinjuku. However, in Koenji you have a different side of fashion and many upcoming designers are focused on this district in Tokyo because of many factors. Also, the vintage angle is exceptional in Koenji and this factor enables individual styles to flourish.
The individual Kimoken (Kenta Kimoto) was born in 1979 and this year was very revolutionary in the international arena. This applies to the Iranian Revolution and other global events. However, the "revolution" within Kimoken would turn out to be fashion and the independent spirit of Koenji suits his philosophy.
Kimoken (http://blog.livedoor.jp/kimoken/) stated that his favorite phrase is "Wara e ba wara e. Ware ga nasu koto ha ware nomi zo shiru" (If you want to laugh at me, then do it. What I do is known only by myself). This is a very powerful phrase and the daring fashion styles of fashion in Koenji, Harajuku, Shibuya, and so forth, which can often be viewed, suits this phrase. After all, only the individual knows the "real self" and why should people be constrained by others? Therefore, this phrase is both enlightening and based on inner confidence.
If you want to connect this phrase with fashion in Tokyo then the fashion scene of Koenji flows naturally. Kimoken, therefore, takes photos of the daring fashion scene of Koenji which can be viewed at the above websites which have already been highlighted.
A partial list of vintage fashion companies in Koenji applies to Spank!, Yuri, Safari, Zool, Yakusoku, Bernet, Kuro Benz, Peep Cheep, Kiki, Jinjer, dai-dai, Chiruru, Sokkyou, Hikari, Mad Tea Party, Mouse, and Pheb, Vivid, Hoy-Hoy Station, Now Or Never, UK Extra, Re'all, and many others like Cord. This list is not the complete list of vintage fashion companies in Koenji therefore it is important to browse around in this fashion district. Also, the Kita-Kore building is growing in reputation and you have a special buzz in this place.
The beauty of the websites of Kimoken is that you can not only see his passion of fashion but you can feel the sheer vibrancy of the area he focuses on. Kimoken highlights the freshness of fashion in Koenji and he does this with an individualistic style. Also, unlike some fashion websites which have a high commercial aspect the beauty of Kimoken and his thinking is that fashion is the central theme.
Kimoken was born in the prefecture of Ishikawa and he graduated at Osaka Bunka Fukushoku Gakuin in 2000. This fashion institution focuses on individuals to express their unique fashion styles and thinking. Also, the fashion scene in Osaka in places like Umeda and Namba, and other districts, is very vibrant. Therefore, Koenji fashion in Tokyo and the Osaka Bunka Fukushoku Gakuin have many similar characteristics because individualism, expression, freedom of thought, and so forth, are essential aspects of both Koenji and this fashion institution which is highly acclaimed.
After Kimoken finished his studies he became a DJ in the Kansai area but in 2005 he decided on a fresh break and moved to Tokyo. While being based in Tokyo he works and connects with people in various fields. This applies to movie directors, actors, comedians, street-performers and script writers. At present Kimoken primarily works as a scriptwriter where creativity is needed. However, other important areas apply to performing and continuously taking photos of the fashion scene in Tokyo and this notably applies to Koenji.
To understand the importance of fashion to Kimoken and why he is so passionate about this area, then you have to turn the clock back. This applies to the 1990s when he was a junior high school student because it was this period of his life when fashion became an important aspect to Kimoken.
At first he tried many different styles but he couldn't find anything which expressed himself. However, this experience and searching around for the right fashion style for Kimoken was a valuable time for him because it broadened his understanding of fashion and highlighted how important it was to his life. Therefore, Kimoken now looks back at this time with fondness because it set him up on the future path that he would take.
In the 1990s he liked the 60's Mod fashion which hit Japan in the 1970s and he connects this with why he adores the fashion of Koenji in Tokyo. After all, Koenji in Tokyo is famous for vintage fashion. Given this, Kimoken places Koenji to be number one for fashion in Tokyo based on the fashion scene which he is passionate about.
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The style of Kimoken when feeling at his best applies to a shirt made from gauze, bell-button pants, and an opera hat to compliment everything.
If you want to view the vibes of Koenji then the Kimoken websites below are a must because they highlight the freshness of this fashion district. Not only this, the individual taking the images is passionate about fashion and you can feel his unique style and thinking within the images he takes.
http://kimoken.exblog.jp / Kimoken (fashion images and news)
http://blog.livedoor.jp/kimoken/ Kimoken (fashion images and news)
I have produced online-comics.(Fashion & LoveStory comics)
Kimoken highlights this website
Lactose Intoler-Art
Boutiques in Koenji
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http://hoyhoy.shop-pro.jp/ Hoy-Hoy Station
http://ameblo.jp/greenlight-shoes/ Jinjer
http://kiki-kiki.ocnk.net/ Kiki
http://yaplog.jp/clobenz/ Kuro Benz
http://ameblo.jp/madteaparty-kouenji/ Mad Tea Party
http://ameblo.jp/mikamithemouse Mouse
http://usedclothingnowornever.blogspot.com/ Now Or Never
http://www.peepcheep.com/ Peep Cheep
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http://www.sokkyou.net/ Sokkyou
http://spankworld.jp/ Spank!
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When Carole Frank first joined the White Rock-Surrey Come Share Society's support group for Parkinson's caregivers to learn about what to do for a friend, she never imagined she'd still be with them a decade later.
But in the intervening years, her 73-year-old husband Bill developed Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's symptoms, so she stayed, and the society's long-term support for her role as a caregiver has been crucial, says the 67-year-old.
"It's been a great place for us. The support is unbelievable. They were able to provide information about medication, about experiences they'd had and doctors they were involved with," said the South Surrey resident.
Most importantly, Frank said, what has helped her cope "was the sharing. It was a place we could come and share our feelings about what we were dealing with, or our troubles or problems. It helped me, and I learned a lot."
The Parkinson's support group is just one of the services the society provides, said executive director Sue McIntosh.
Last year, the society also hosted 68 education sessions for seniors and caregivers on a variety of topics, supported more than 370 caregivers, offered one-on-one counselling and community outreach.
They also offer adult day programs offering music, cooking, pet visits, games, speakers and fitness activities, a program which Frank's husband attends.
"They're then able to come in and say, 'You know what we did today?', and contribute to conversation with their caregiver. It makes such a difference," McIntosh said.
Another key focus is ensuring Surrey's large South Asian population gets support and to that end, caregiver co-ordinator Jas Cheema hosts radio programs on RED FM on caregiving issues, writes articles in the South Asian Journal and Surrey-North Delta Leader to get the word out and holds education seminars for caregivers in English and Punjabi.
"We don't even have a word for caregiver [in Punjabi] in our community. It's just a given that you are going to look after your family members," Cheema explained. "But people are struggling. Families are smaller. Most people are like the mainstream community — they are living on their own and just trying to look after each other. And they don't know that there is support out there or resources they can access, especially when English isn't their main language. But there is a thirst out there. The people want information."
Frank is grateful she found support at the society and agrees that more education for caregivers in all communities is key.
"You can't depend on everyone else to do things for you. These programs are great because you can get information to help yourself."


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Oct. 2, 2011
Darcie Pickren's conviction has been set aside, but the bad feelings have not
Darcie Pickren, in court with her attorney James Hunt and Antrim County Prosecuting Attorney Charles Koop, on the left.
Darcie Pickren recently got something she's wanted for 20 years -- a felony conviction for attempting to hire someone to beat up her ex-husband was expunged.
As far as the police and the courts and the prosecutors are concerned, from now on, the case never happened. Go to the courthouse and ask to see the case file. They won't give it to you. They won't even acknowledge the file ever existed. The case, by order of a judge, has been erased from history.
But Pickren is not content to leave the matter alone. She wants to talk about it at least one more time. She believes the fact she won the fight to make her conviction vanish is a vindication.
When the charges were filed in 1991, she was embroiled in a bitter divorce with her thenhusband, Mark Fleet. Things got ugly. There were accusations back and forth.
Amid the turmoil a child accused Mark Fleet of sexual abuse.
But it was Pickren who stood trial after an undercover police officer posing as a hit man said Pickren offered to pay him to kill Mark Fleet.
She was convicted of a lessor charge and her children were removed and placed with the estranged husband.
Now, 20 years later, Mark Fleet is in prison, serving a long sentence for criminal sexual conduct.
And Darcie Pickren is free. And her record is clean.
The expungement hearing happened in the circuit court for Antrim County in Bellaire, the same room where, two decades earlier, Pickren stood trial under her married name, Darcie Fleet, and the same place where her ex-husband later stood trial himself.
During a short, uneventful hearing this August, Pickren's conviction was expunged.
Afterward, Pickren hugged a dozen or so friends and family members and exchanged high fives. She stood outside the courthouse and held up the piece of paper that said her record was clear.
It would seem the case is over. That felony hung over Pickren's head in so many different ways -- it got her fired from jobs, it prevented her from getting jobs, it got her fired from volunteer positions. It meant 20 years of menial labor, struggling to pay bills and having her family worry about her.
She had attempted to have the conviction set aside a decade ago and was turned down, so while this is a victory for Pickren, she feels like it's come too late.
Her family didn't need to worry, though, she said.
"I'm just grateful God picked me for this to happen, because I made it." she said. "I'm strong enough."
And all along, Pickren has maintained she was wrongly convicted.
She might have wanted to hurt her exhusband back then, Pickren acknowledges even today, but she had good reason -- her ex, Mark Fleet, was a child molester and she wanted to protect her kids.
"You're damn right I wanted revenge - - because he was sexually assaulting my children," Pickren said.
This is a story about how things that happen at one time can reverberate through decades. "This is very convoluted," Pickren says. "It goes back 25 years."
Despite the victory, Pickren remains angry at Charles Koop, the Antrim County prosecutor today and 20 years ago.
Most of all, Pickren is angry because she believes Koop turned his back all those years ago, ignored allegations that Mark Fleet was molesting her children, and saw to it the children were placed with her husband.
Although at the hearing Koop did not oppose the expungement, he filed a brief in opposition to it a few days before. He leveled some of the same accusations that he did in her felony trial two decades earlier.
Koop said at the hearing that while no one disputes Pickren has turned around her life in the past 20 years and is now an upstanding, law-abiding citizen, he didn't want to allow her to revise history.
For Pickren, it reopened a wound. "If someone would have taken a knife and just twisted it. That's what he did," she said.
Koop maintained in the papers that Pickren did try to hire someone to kill her husband and that she also wanted to have his girlfriend at the time killed, even though the girlfriend never did anything to Pickren's children.
"The Defendant's goal in the solicitations was not about protection of her children, but about getting Mr. Fleet to agree to a property settlement and to stop the harassment she perceived was coming from Mr. Fleet, his family, and (Mark Fleet's girlfriend)," Koop wrote.
Koop also argued Pickren was willing to tell the man she thought was a hit man to harm her own children to get her way in the divorce.
"She told the undercover officer to "˜stick a gun in his face and tell him you will kill his kids' for the sole purpose of getting him to sign the divorce papers," Koop wrote.
Pickren denies that ever happened. Koop can no longer comment about the criminal case against Pickren that was expunged, he said, but he was able to discuss the investigation and prosecution of Mark Fleet.
Pickren claims that Koop only made those arguments in his brief because he took her exhusband's side so long ago and now that Mark Fleet has been proven to be a child molester, he wants to cover his tracks. She said she believes even today that Koop knew her husband was a child molester.
"He has had this passionate disdain for me," Pickren said. "All the while Koop knew what was going on. I don't care what he says."
Koop stands by his record and says Mark Fleet was investigated and he didn't have the evidence to try him for child sexual abuse until several years later.
The decades-old dispute began with a nasty divorce. And the divorce, like all of them, began with a wedding.
Darcie Pickren says she met Mark Fleet in Bellaire one day when she was playing softball.
He appeared behind the fence near home plate and he watched her. She immediately didn't like the looks of him. There was something wrong with him. But there was also something else about him. And she couldn't help notice he was good looking.
After the game, she was eating popcorn and a hand appeared from behind her, reached into the box, and took some. It was Mark Fleet.
Months later, in 1984, they would be married.
Darcie and Mark Fleet had two children together. Mark also adopted two children Darcie had from an earlier marriage. At first it was a happy relationship. Pickren says she and Fleet looked like a happy, prominent couple around Bellaire. He was blond and good looking. She was tall and athletic and attractive.
"It was a storybook wedding and romance," she says.
Together the couple started a trash hauling business and the future looked bright.
After a couple of years, however, the couple began to grow apart. Darcie suspected infidelity. She says Fleet grew distant and found excuses to get away. She heard a rumor that Fleet had been spending time with someone much younger. A girl in high school.
The marriage dissolved when Pickren confronted him about his new teenage friend.
"He told me he liked her, I said, "˜Really?
What's that supposed to mean?'"
The break-up quickly spiraled out of control.
There were confrontations between Pickren and her ex and the new girlfriend that led to criminal charges against Pickren.
In March of 1990, Pickren said she visited the home where the 29-year-old Fleet lived with his teenaged girlfriend. She said she told the girl to stay away from her husband and the girl attacked her, shoved her to the ground and hit her, tearing her leather jacket and pulling a gold chain from her neck.
The next day Pickren was charged with assault and battery against the girl.
A day later, when she went to the couple's business and saw Mark Fleet there, she said he physically restrained her when she attempted to remove property and he later slipped on ice.
Fleet filed an assault complaint against her, alleging that she attempted to run him over with a truck.
While charges were filed against her, Pickren says the sheriff's department would take reports about complaints she had against Fleet for trespassing and violating a restraining order, but he managed to avoid charges.
Pickren maintains that Fleet was too wellconnected in Bellaire for the police to take her word over his. His mother had been editor of the local paper, he was friends with the police chief, and he taught Sunday school, she said.
Koop said Mark Fleet was not treated with favoritism. "Truthfully, I don't know who Mark Fleet's powerful friends were in the community," he said.
None of the cases against Pickren from that time ended in conviction.
That July, Pickren said she was at a park with her children and Fleet showed up and drove away in her van, using an extra set of keys. She said she tried to stop him and he punched her as he drove away.
She says she suffered a broken nose in the incident, filed a police report, and that, again,
charges against Fleet were never brought.
One of Darcie Fleet's supporters at a hearing in August where a judge expunged her record. Photos by Patrick Sullivan.
She said he already had a Corvette she had purchased, and now she had no vehicle and no way to get her kids around town.
Pickren said Fleet and his girlfriend followed her and prank-phone-called her, apparently trying to rattle her.
"They did this systematic harassment of me because they wanted me to look crazy," Pickren said.
Mark Fleet did not respond to a letter requesting comment sent to him in prison on Sept. 1.
If the relationship was acrimonious then, it would soon reach new levels.
In the fall of 1990, Pickren's son, one from an earlier marriage who Mark Fleet had adopted, made allegations that Fleet had molested him.
The boy was around 11 at the time. "I was next to his bed and he was crying," Pickren said. "He told me that Mark had been playing with his privates and doing bad things. I could hardly breathe."
Pickren told her son's therapist who reported the allegations to authorities, but no charges were filed.
Fleet was interviewed in December and he passed a polygraph. Pickren said that led authorities to believe her ex over her son, who later took a polygraph which the police investigator said he failed.
The prosecutor at the time the allegations arose, Bryan Graham, did not bring charges and decided to step down at the end of the year. Koop was appointed to take over.
During this period, the divorce was still unfolding and Pickren said she was under a lot of stress.
"I was distraught, confused. I couldn't believe what was happening," she said.
Pickren wrote in one of her legal briefs in support of her petition that she believes the allegations of sexual abuse led to the murderfor-hire case against her.
"Mark Fleet knew he better do something drastic when confronted by (me) about the abuse allegations," she wrote. "He told (me), "˜The best way to get the focus off of a criminal is to make someone else look like the criminal, and you are going down.'"
Koop said Pickren's behavior at the time undermined any chance of a case being made against Mark Fleet.
For example, before the solicitation charges were filed, she was caught by police following Fleet and his girlfriend at Metro Airport in Detroit, Koop said. She was wearing a disguise and came to the attention of police at the airport because they thought she looked like a prostitute, Koop said.
Pickren said she was at the airport to make sure Fleet didn't leave the state with the children, something he could not legally do.
Koop said there were problems with the case against Fleet. He said he is not allowed to disclose polygraph results -- Fleet took three of them -- but when he reviewed them, it was clear he had no case.
"At one point I told her and her family, because of their behavior, you know, no one is ever going to believe those kids," Koop said. "Any good defense attorney would just say this is a divorce issue."
In a civil lawsuit that spilled out of the case, Court of Appeals judges echoed Koop's point -- Darcie Pickren's outrageous behavior diminished the accusations she and her son made.
"The initial complaints were made in the context of a bitterly fought divorce between Darcie and Mark Fleet, who had taken up with a third party," the judges wrote in an opinion. "For good or bad reasons, Darcie Fleet had no credibility with most, if not all, of the public officials involved. Allegations were investigated by other agencies and no charges were ever brought or substantiated against Mark Fleet until 1996."
Pickren believes she should have been taken seriously.
"That is absurd. That is absurd. I will never forget the day I walked into Koop's office. He wasn't even prosecutor. It was Dec. 14. ... That will stick in my mind for the rest of my life," Pickren said. "I walked in and I said, "˜Hello, I'm Darci Fleet.' I shook his hand and I said, "˜I want you to know that Mark Fleet is a pedophile.' He looked at me and said, "˜You know, you might be right, he might have molested his adopted step children, but he won't molest his biological children.'" Koop remembers the meeting differently.
He said he recalls warning Pickren that her behavior could enable Fleet to get away with sexual abuse because she was undermining her own credibility.
"The first person who came to me for an appointment was Darcie Fleet, I think it was the middle of December, 1990," Koop said. "Miss Fleet outlined the problems they were having with their divorce, ... there was childish stuff going on between the two of them. ... I told them I'd arrest either one of them (Pickren or Mark Fleet) if they didn't knock it off."
Around that time, Pickren was put in touch with a mystery man who offered her some help.
Pickren said she learned if she could prove Fleet and his girlfriend were living together, the Friend of the Court would prohibit the girl from being present during weekend visitations with the children.
"My only concern was my children," Pickren later wrote in an account she prepared about what happened.
What happened next is she met the man who would introduce her to a hit man.
"A guy from town who was always in trouble, because of "˜the system,' approached me saying he had heard about how I was being treated "˜by the system' and wanted to help," she wrote.
Pickren said she asked the man to help get her photographic proof that Mark Fleet and the teenager were living together.
The man returned two weeks later and said he tried to get the pictures but he was spotted by Fleet, who ran after him and broke his camera.
"He said he had a friend that could help me," Pickren wrote.
That led Pickren to the hit man, to whom she told her story -- that her ex had beaten her, stolen her van and Corvette, and had molested her son.
"This man said, "˜If I were you, I'd kill him.' I was baffled," Pickren wrote. "I said, "˜What, are you crazy?' Then he consoled me and said I was a pretty lady and he would help with whatever I needed."
Mark Fleet, a prisoner at the Cooper Street Facility in Jackson, is serving a 20 to 40 year sentence with the Michigan Department of Corrections after he admitted he molested his children.
She says while the mystery man repeatedly talked about killing Mark Fleet, she insisted that all she needed were photos to prove he was living with the teenage girl.
At the time Pickren worked two jobs, nursed a baby in between, and barely slept, she said. She worked at the post office in Central Lake and at the postal distribution center in Traverse City.
"And to tell you the truth, I thought he was just a guy who was hanging out," she said.
Then he asked for some money for expenses and he called repeatedly and harassed her for expense money.
A close friend advised her to give him some money to make him go away, she said. She gave him $200.
On June 21, 1991, while Pickren was at work at her TC post office job, she received a call from the mystery man, who she would soon learn worked as an undercover state police officer. She met him outside, where she was surrounded by police and arrested. She faced two counts of solicitation of murder among other charges.
Mark Fleet would wind up with custody of the couple's children after Koop filed an abuse and neglect petition against Pickren.
Although her court file is no longer public, it's possible to piece together an account of her trial from media accounts from the time.
Testimony at trial, which took place a year after her arrest, mirrors much of what Pickren says.
The solicitation case began when Pickren asked a man who had been in trouble with the local criminal justice system to help her. She wanted the man to take photos of Mark Fleet and his girlfriend.
The man agreed, but instead of doing what he was asked, he went to the police, where he and an undercover state police officer concocted a story: they would say the man had tried to take the photos but had been attacked by Mark Fleet. The man would then introduce Pickren to somebody who could help her, the undercover officer, who would pose as a parolee willing to do anything for her.
When Pickren and the undercover officer met, there was talk of threatening Mark Fleet and his girlfriend and talk of killing them, but at a critical juncture, according to the reports of the testimony of the state police officer, Pickren backed down and said she didn't want to go that far.
He alleged she came back to him later wanting to beat up Fleet and agreed to pay $200 toward that plan. That's apparently what the judge and the jury believed, because the judge threw out the solicitation to commit murder charges and the jury convicted her on one count of solicitation to commit great bodily harm.
Pickren disputes the testimony of the state police officer, saying he put words into her mouth: "He knows it, too. Everything he said in court, that he said I said, was what he said to me."
Pickren said she was prohibited at trial from testifying about molestation allegations against Fleet.
The judge sentenced Pickren to time served, which had been around six months.
But for Pickren, there was little solace in the outcome because she now had a felony conviction and she didn't have custody of her children.
And as the years passed, there were more allegations of sexual misconduct against Mark Fleet.
After the son came forward, a daughter, while at church camp in 1993, revealed that she had been sexually abused. There was talk about Fleet and underaged babysitters.
TC attorney Robert Steadman, who represented Pickren in the 1990s, accused Koop at the time of looking the other way as evidence mounted.
"When Darcie Fleet, in her desperation for action, was convicted of hiring someone to assault Mark Fleet, you took the position that she was entirely wrong in her continued assertions that Mark Fleet had been abusing his children," Steadman wrote. "...You maintained your trust in Mark Fleet for six, long years in the face of mounting evidence of his criminal actions while his minor children and others suffered unspeakable assaults and permanent psychological injuries."
Koop defended his treatment of the case and says he only brought charges against Fleet when it was possible to bring them.
Koop said he doesn't have any regrets about the way he handled the case, even in light of the fact that it turned out Fleet was molesting the children.
"I'm talking 20 years later and I have a lot more experience. Would I have handled it differently? I don't think so," Koop said.
He said the case did leave him skeptical about polygraph exams.
"I'd never trust one. I'd never take one," he said.
In 1996 Fleet was finally prosecuted for child sexual abuse. It was when a younger child came forward and a new girlfriend witnessed abuse that the police and Koop's office were able to make a case.
"I was up in the U.P. when I got the call from the state police," Koop said.
They set up a call between Fleet and one of his children and recorded incriminating statements. After that, Fleet admitted to molesting all four children, Koop said.
"Frankly, the only way you could ever get a conviction, based on all that went on, was for (Fleet to make) a confession," Koop said.
Fleet pleaded guilty to first- and seconddegree criminal sexual conduct and was sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison in 1997.
His earliest parole date is Nov. 19, 2012.
Without parole he could be in prison until 2029.
Pickren plans to oppose his release. "I'll be there," she said. "He is not getting out."


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Women in China Rarely Get Breast Cancer and Here Is Why
The thought of breast cancer is scary and troubles women worldwide. What may cause you to raise your eyebrows is that women in Asian countries such as China have lower incidences of the illness. Dietary preferences may explain this phenomenon. What is breast cancer? Simply put, mammary cancer happens when cells in the breast turn rogue. They grow fast, forming tumors which a doctor can usually detect via a mammogram or an X-Ray of the chest area. Though these tumors are more common in women,


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Carson City Sheriff's Log: Trio arrested on suspicion of felony burglary, grand larceny
Carson City
The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court:
5:30 a.m.: David Lawrence Ward, 50, of Galt, Calif., was arrested in the 1600 block of East Fifth Street on suspicion of DUI-first offense, open container and no valid driver's license. According to Ward's arrest report, a deputy responded to a report of a man sleeping behind the wheel of his running vehicle in a parking lot. The deputy reportedly saw two opened beers in the vehicle and shook Ward to awaken him. Ward reportedly showed signs of impairment on field sobriety tests, then submitted a breath test indicating his blood-alcohol level was 0.169. Total bail was set at $1,200.
10 a.m.: Three men were arrested at the Carson City Jail on suspicion of felony burglary and felony grand larceny. According to the men's arrest reports, video surveillance showed them stealing three computers from Walmart. The men later were found, and one of the computers reportedly was found in one of the men's home. The men are Joseph Larson, 24, of Dayton; Michael Harrell, 20; and John Kramer, 20. Bail was set at $30,000 for each.
5:51 p.m.: Macklyn Jasso, 21, of Carson City was arrested at South Carson and Colorado streets on suspicion of DUI-first offense and obstructing. According to Jasso's arrest report, a deputy was advised that a car was failing to maintain a single lane, then followed Jasso's vehicle. The man reporting the possible DUI, an off-duty Department of Defense security guard, reported the vehicle's license plate, and the deputy learned the address where the vehicle was registered and went there. The deputy saw a man leave the car and head inside the residence, then reportedly saw fresh scraping and rub marks on the right front fender and door. After multiple deputies knocked on the door for several minutes, a woman answered and reportedly insisted that she'd been the one driving the vehicle, as well as that she was the only one home. A deputy asked for permission to search the house for the man he'd seen, and another deputy reportedly found him climbing a fence near the home. Jasso reportedly was verbally combative both at the home and at the Carson City Jail. His total bail was set at $1,300. The woman was arrested on suspicion of obstructing; her bail was set at $300.
4:53 p.m.: A 66-year-old transient was arrested in the 1800 block of North Carson Street on a criminal-contempt warrant. According to the man's arrest report, a deputy was dispatched to an auto-parts store on a report of an intoxicated man harassing customers in the parking lot. The deputy reportedly smelled alcohol on the man's breath, then learned of the warrant. Bail was set at $500.
8:57 p.m.: A 35-year-old Carson City man was arrested at Industrial Park Drive and Idaho Street on suspicion of petit larceny and trespassing. According to the man's arrest report, pharmacy employees reported that he'd stolen beer, and when a deputy stopped him nearby, he was carrying a 40-ounce beer. He reportedly said he'd taken the beer because he didn't have enough money to buy it, and the store manager said he'd been told five times to stay out of the store because of previous thefts. Bail was set at $750.
The Nevada Appeal only names people arrested on suspicion of felonies, violent crimes and DUIs. Carson City Secret Witness will pay up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people committing crimes. Anyone with information is asked to call 775-322-4900. The School Secret Witness number is 775-283-1799. Callers remain anonymous.


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