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Chad Miller likes to think of running errands for strangers on TaskRabbit as a quasi-religious experience—or at least as close to spiritual as a gay former Southern Baptist from West Texas is likely to find in New York. Mr. Miller is a 38-year-old Columbia graduate who acts, writes and works full-time managing outreach for the university's Arts Initiative. He signed up for TaskRabbit as his "tertiary job" in September, shortly after the Boston-based startup launched in New York.
"This is going to be incredibly gay as I'm saying it," Mr. Miller laughed, "but it's very hakuna matata, Disney-fied—you put it out there and you get a little back. The karma piece is really nice."
Along with a bumper crop of like-minded companies, such as Zaarly, Fancy Hands and Agent Anything, that have entered the New York market in the past year or so, TaskRabbit offers an updated play on Craigslist for the iPhone-era: buyers post the dirty work they want to get done and nearby "Rabbits" bid on the jobs. Service requests range from the sophisticated—"Motivate me to write a book :)" read a recent TaskRabbit request from Midtown—to the menial. "$50 for a Massage," a Zaarly user on the West Side posted in November. "General massage," the ad elaborated, tersely, in the description. For the most part, however, Rabbits are asked to perform domestic drudgery: assembling Ikea furniture tops the list.
It's easy to see why democratizing the personal assistant might do well in New York, a city largely unburdened by hang-ups about, say, paying $20 to avoid wasting time in a Laundromat, even when one's budget barely permits it.
In the past three months, Mr. Miller has made a little over $2,000 on the kind of irksome chores overextended urbanites are eager to slough off on someone else, including driving strangers to JFK, waiting in line for hours to save someone's seat for a Conan taping and lugging furniture to a fourth-floor walk-up. The money's nice and all, but to hear Mr. Miller tell it, the appeal doesn't sound far off from "Love thy neighbor."
"I'm really playing my cards low, but I grew up Southern Baptist," said Mr. Miller. "I just realized—I'm not one for organized religion personally, but I do very much agree with the sense of community, sense of charity, and volunteerism. Short of working at a soup kitchen, which is something I did a lot when I was at Columbia, this for me is, like, the next best thing! It grounds me back a little bit more to, you know, we're in a community—everybody needs something done at some point."
Mr. Miller, ever the theater geek, interrupted his cheery philosophizing to affect a mock sotto voce, "I didn't mean to sound like, 'Now I'm St. Sebastian and the martyr for everybody.'"
While his motivation may swing toward the selfless, interview enough cash-strapped Rabbits (Midtown and Brooklyn are active hubs) and you'll start to wonder where all these shiny, happy helpers have been hiding—and why they're so psyched about pocketing under $100 to assemble your MALM bed frame. "Don't drink the Kool-aid! Is that what you're feeling talking to everybody?" Mr. Miller laughed again.
Actually, a more archetypal laborer in one of these new-fangled markets might be someone like Ivan Rivera, a 27-year-old CUNY senior who signed up with Agent Anything to supplement his job as head cashier at City Sports. Mr. Rivera, who is paying his own way through a marketing degree, has been enrolled off and on since 2003, finances permitting, and recently had to move back in with his parents in Washington Heights.
"They hate hearing how much money I'm making," Mr. Rivera said when Betabeat asked whether his friends had also signed up for "missions" with Agent Anything, another similar startup that employs only current college students and operates primarily around New York. (Startups tend to come steeped in their own lingo.) But over the past year, Mr. Rivera estimates that gigs like delivering packages for a specialty chef or handing out fliers for a club have only earned him a little over a thousand dollars. "It's like money you wouldn't even think about having," explained Mr. Rivera. "If I can make at least $30 in one week, at least I know I have a Metrocard."
The last time the tech world tried to build a convenience economy, the markets were in an upswing. But beloved dot-com-era delivery services such as Kozmo.com or its copycat Urban Fetch were filed as a punch line in the annals of bubble lore for squandering millions on armies of bike messengers to keep keyboard jockeys in the packages of gum, cigarettes and VHS tapes to which they had become accustomed. This time around, investors are once again willing to back these kind of startups, partly because this new strain has figured out a way to leverage economic downers, like nagging unemployment and underemployment, in their favor.
Just as eBay turned your castoffs into cash, these mobile and online marketplaces figure they can turn your unused time into money. For the opportunity, Zaarly takes a 9 percent cut of the transaction. TaskRabbit, which puts its errand-runners through a rigorous week-long vetting process, including a video interview as well as a social security and criminal background check, takes a 15 percent cut.
"Now I'm sure you recall September of '08 was probably one of the worst economic times," TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque recounted. "The stock market was crashing, people were being laid off left and right and so it turned out that it was very serendipitous that I had had that idea [for TaskRabbit] earlier that year."
This May, Ms. Busque, a former IBM software engineer, picked up a $5 million series A round led by Sand Hill venture capital firm Shasta Ventures. Zaarly, which was born into a frothier climate this February, got an even quicker response. Mere weeks after launching at a Startup Weekend conference in Los Angeles, Ashton Kutcher, Michael Arrington and other angel investors plunked down a $1 million seed round, followed by an eye-popping $14.1 series A in October led by the VC powerhouse Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with help from newbie investors like clothing impresario Marc Ecko.
"[Zaarly's] true value is in its ability to remove friction between what we want and what we have," Mr. Kutcher emailed us, between 140-character plugs for Two and a Half Men. "Bottom line it saves people the most valuable thing in the world … Time." (The ellipses are Mr. Kutcher's.)
"Everybody's busy," concurred Fancy Hands founder Ted Roden, a former technologist for The New York Times, whose New York-based startup uses a monthly subscription model to provide virtual personal assistants for tasks like restaurant reservations or "confrontational phone calls" with your cellphone company. "For us it's outsourcing the stuff you're doing everyday. It's the old George Costanza line—'Busy? Don't give me busy!'"
Jordan Cooper, a 27-year-old venture partner with Lerer Ventures and founder of the open database Hyperpublic subscribes to Fancy Hands $25-a-month plan. "l ask them to find an esoteric product that was discontinued and send me a link to where I can buy it or I'll ask them to find research a date spot to take someone when I'm in San Francisco that has organic food and is close to my hotel." By email, he described the tasks as, "Things I could do if I wasn't on mobile and had an extra 15 minutes in my day…but that I'd rather someone else do."
With a three-year lead in the market, TaskRabbit, which used to go by the less cuddly moniker RunMyErrand, has arguably done the best job building a culture around its product. Profiles often feature a photo and chatty descriptions of potential tasks. Ms. Busque claims her site gets more than $4 million of economic activity requested monthly from its 2,000 Rabbits. (New York is home to about 500 to 750 of them.) Zaarly, on the other hand, opts for a more anonymous approach, with communication done via little gray message boxes invisible to the public.
After rapidly expanding into a number of cities over the course of a year, Zaarly, which says it processes 1,000 transactions a week, now seems to be finessing its offerings. Listings in New York and around the country still tend toward procuring and selling tangible items, often iPhones, iPads and Kindles. However, both Zaarly and TaskRabbit have bigger designs: selling themselves as engines of micro-job creation.
Over coffee recently in Soho House's refurbished sixth-floor drawing room, co-founder Eric Koester eagerly discussed how Zaarly's updated smartphone app could help small businesses. He offered up the example of a landscaper using the app to find a nearby gig that pays less than his normal rate, but still represents income he might not otherwise have access to. "It's the hottest lead you can get! I want what you have and I'm willing to pay for it," Mr. Koester enthused. Ms. Busque said her passion is empowering Rabbits to "Be their own bosses. Set their own schedules. Say how much money they want to earn," noting that top earners can pull in up to $5,000 a month. But since both startups have an average transaction size of about $50, that could easily mean fulfilling up to 100 tasks a month.
At times the rhetoric of empowerment can feel at odds with the fact that, in some cases, "entrepreneurship" amounts to floundering college graduates bidding on a chance to clean your apartment. "I've thought about that, too. Like is this a way the 1 percent are outsourcing their lives to the 99 percent?" said Craig Shapiro, founder and CEO of Collaborative Fund, a seed stage firm that likes to back peer-to-peer sharing technology, ideally of the "world-changing" variety, and invested in TaskRabbit's $5 million round.
The 1 percent, of course, don't need an app to find others to do their bidding. But in a way these startups are a sleeker version of picking up a day laborer outside Home Depot. As they graduate into non-essential services that means a taste of the pampered life that would otherwise be out of the user's pay grades. "Certain people have personal chefs, but in my imagination they're executives and super rich people," said Bartek Ringwelski, the founder of SkillSlate, another Zaarly-esque market, but with a focus on skills like plasma TV installation or fire breathing (two examples Mr. Ringwelski offered). "On SkillSlate, people don't want to publish prices on their profiles because they often have a fulltime job where they charge $150 an hour as a personal chef. They'll do that same exact work for $20 an hour because money is money and there's not a lot of demand for paying people exorbitant amounts for very skilled things right now. So you can get these incredible values that were previously not available."
The reality of the convenience economy seems more ingeniously opportunistic than flatly exploitative. "I would say it's much more evenly split," said Fancy Hands' Mr. Roden. "The assistants are all the 99 percent and the users are too."
In fact, in the case of TaskRabbit, Zaarly and the like, a buyer is just as likely to be a seller. Mr. Miller, for example, signed up for TaskRabbit after misinterpreting a message from his partner. "He felt that I really needed to use it to find a TaskRabbit to help me out with my own life," said Mr. Miller. "But when he sent me the email link, I thought he meant, oh it's a good way for me to fulfill this other thing that I wanted—you know, the sense of community and getting a little bit of extra income. When we had the conversation, I was like, 'I went on my first task tonight' and he goes, 'You're a Rabbit?!'"
In some cases, buyers and sellers even live in the same household. Corwin Ip, a 31-year-old IT manager at a prestigious advertising firm, started calling himself a Rabbit four months ago after coming into some unexpected expenses. "I proposed to my fiancée and she said, 'I want a destination wedding,'" he explained. "All I saw was dollar signs. Like, oh, man, I really gotta go find a second job or something!"
For his first task, Mr. Ip, a former Marine whose day job involves moving infrastructure to the cloud or mobile phone rollouts, ended up assembling Ikea furniture for a young couple on the Lower East Side ("Hipsters? Eh, I don't want to put a label on that," he demurred over the phone) before taking the subway back to Forest Hills, Queens. He's since earned a couple thousand toward his Hawaiian nuptials.
"She's a Tasker," said Mr. Ip when Betabeat asked if his fiancée was also a Rabbit. "I told her what I was doing and then she was like, 'Oh, I can get these things done!'" he said, adding, "I obviously don't bid on those."
The latest iteration of the convenience economy follows an industry trend toward financially incentivized peer-to-peer cooperation—a feel-good niche of the free market that folks like Mr. Shapiro like to call "collaborative consumption." For example, where 2003 brought us Couchsurfing, an online platform to connect travelers with an available couch, 2008 brought us Airbnb, a chance to get paid for lending out said couch. "People making money is always a good business model," said SkillShare co-founder Mike Karnjanaprakorn, whose New York-based startup helps professionals hold one-time classes within their area of expertise. Like Airbnb, SkillShare is also backed by Collaborative Fund.
On SkillSlate (yes, we know, it's hard to keep them straight) Mr. Ringwelski said he noticed popular services shifting from "needs" like a plumber to fix a leaky roof to "wants," like a personal chef. "I think where the industry is going is almost like a trade of skills." Mr. Ip, for example, quickly traded-up for carpentry tasks that exercised skills he couldn't otherwise utilize. "I don't think Ikea furniture assembly is building something," he said, bluntly.
The idea of "hyper-sharing" with a network of our peers, as Mr. Karnjanaprakorn put it, rings a little lofty when we considered a comment from Fancy Hands founder Mr. Koden about the "scavenger hunt" of trying to find gigs that fit the schedule of one's day job. But it does explain why no one we spoke to seemed to feel awkward about giving up a New Yorker's cloak of anonymity to enter stranger's apartment and roll up their sleeves.
We introduced ourselves to MaKenzie Morrissey, a 27-year-old recent transplant from Oklahoma who was manning the coat check at a startup fund-raiser the other week and wearing a TaskRabbit T-shirt. "I'm a Rabbit," she said, by way of introduction. On the phone later, Ms. Morrissey, a petite former bar manager who plans on applying for medical school next year, estimated that she's probably made around $600 over the course of 30 to 35 tasks. She makes the most on cleaning tasks, but enjoys working events, where she says, "I've met a lot of writers and actors and things like that—or bloggers," who work as fellow Rabbits. She has also rubbed elbows higher-up the masthead with Bon Appetit editor-in-chief Adam Rapaport.
"I don't know if I'm allowed to say it? I think so, I didn't sign any clause," Ms. Morrissey hesitated over the phone. "It was for a small dinner party. He had auctioned himself to make dinner for people at his son's school. So I worked the dinner party while he had cooked for everybody. They were nice people."
"I've actually thought about it a lot—I use TaskRabbit a lot. Why do these people do this?" said Mr. Karnjanaprakorn. "Because they really don't make that much money. They really just like helping people. There's nothing else I can think of." He mentioned a friend who tasked a Rabbit to deliver him cupcakes and sing to him on his birthday. "She took a picture and sent it to the person who bought it [for me]. I was like, I don't think anyone would have done that if they genuinely don't care."
But it doesn't mean that everyone understands their remunerative hobby. "I wouldn't want to tell people at work," said Mr. Ip about his hours spent as a Rabbit. "It's just a little weird to say, 'Yeah, well, this what I do outside of work.' I told one person and the first thing he said was, 'Why? Why are you doing this?' So I try to keep the two lives separate."
He added, "Most people who work only one job say, 'I do one job and when I get home I'm tired and I don't want to do anything else.'"
Love these new companies! Don't forget WeGoLook.com- very similar to Zaarly, TaskRabbit and AgentAnything- over 7,000 nationwide agents are ready to be dispatched by the consumer, property owner, business professional and online daters. Check it out!
Very useful sites. If you are based in the UK check out http://www.mytaskangel.co.uk
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Travel to Notre Dame
Notre Dame is located on the northern limits of South Bend, Indiana (90 miles east of Chicago). Please note that Notre Dame is in the Eastern time zone, which is always one hour ahead of Chicago (Central) time.
If you are driving…
- Approach South Bend via the Indiana Toll Road (I-80/I-90) and exit at interchange 77
- Proceed south on Indiana 933 to the traffic light at Angela Boulevard
- Turn east on Angela Boulevard and proceed to the first traffic light, at Notre Dame Avenue
- Turn north on Notre Dame Avenue
- Turn right on Holy Cross Drive to park in the visitor's lot on the corner of Eddy and Holy Cross Drive
From points south…
- Follow US 31 to the south side of South Bend. When US 31 turns to join the bypass, do not follow it; proceed straight into town, following Business 31 (becomes Indiana 933) until you reach Angela Boulevard
- Turn east on Angela Boulevard and proceed to the first traffic light, at Notre Dame Avenue
- Turn north on Notre Dame Avenue
- Turn right on Holy Cross Drive to park in the visitor's lot on the corner of Eddy and Holy Cross Drive
Visitor parking is located on the southern edge of campus (click here for a map).
If you are flying…
The South Bend Regional Airport is about 15 minutes by car from the Notre Dame campus (flights should be booked to South Bend, Indiana). From the airport, go east on Lincolnway West (left out of the airport) to downtown South Bend. Turn left on Indiana 933 (Michigan Street) and proceed about two miles to Angela Boulevard. Turn right onto Angela, and then turn left at the second stoplight (Eddy Street). Follow signs to visitor parking.
Visitors also can fly to Chicago and drive or take a bus to Notre Dame. The university is about two hours by car from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and about 90 minutes from Midway International Airport. From O'Hare, take I-190 east out of the airport, merge onto I-90 east (the Kennedy Expressway) toward downtown Chicago and merge with I-94 south (the Dan Ryan Expressway). Take the Skyway exit off the Dan Ryan and remain on I-90 to the Indiana Toll Road, which merges with I-80. From the Illinois border, it is about 75 miles to Exit 77 (the South Bend/Notre Dame exit).
Coach USA operates a motor coach bus service between both O'Hare and Midway Airports in Chicago and the Notre Dame campus. The bus departs every two hours and makes several stops; travel time to campus is approximately three hours. A one-way fare is $35, round-trip fare is $61. Please visit coachusa.com for more information.
Travel by Train…
The South Shore Line trains run directly from the Chicago Loop (corner of Michigan and Randolph) to South Bend Regional Airport in South Bend (about a 2 hour trip). From the airport, the Notre Dame campus is approximately a 15 minute ride by car. Various transportation methods are available (ie. taxi, rental car).
Local Accommodations
On or near campus:
The Morris Inn (574) 631-2000
Fairfield Inn & Suites South Bend at Notre Dame (574) 234-5510
The Inn at Saint Mary's (574) 232-4000
Hilton Garden Inn (574) 232-7700
Ivy Court Inn & Suites (574) 277-6500
Accommodations in the immediate area:
Comfort Inn and Suites (574) 247-4000
Country Inn & Suites (574) 271-1700
Courtyard by Marriott (574) 273-9900
Fairfield Inn (574) 273-2202
Hampton Inn (574) 273-2309
Hampton Inn & Suites (574) 277-9373
Holiday Inn (877) 863-4780
Holiday Inn Express (877) 863-4780
Hyatt Place Mishawaka (574) 258-7777
Jameson Inn (574) 277-3211
Marriott Hotel (574) 234-2000
Oliver Inn (574) 232-4545
Quality Inn & Conference Center (574) 272-6600
Quality Inn & Suites (Airport) (574) 288-3800
Red Roof Inn (574) 271-4800
Residence Inn (574) 271-9283
Spring Hill Suites (574) 271-0832
Varsity Clubs (574) 277-0500
Waterford Estates (574) 272-5220

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November 20, 2007
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The Knitting Galaxy has displayed her lovely tea towels as she put it - in their natural habitat.
There's lots of Hilary Lang's beautiful embroidery patterns (for sale in her online store being featured in the pool. They're all so cute! I love the variety of new and vintage patterns as well as all the free form embroidery we have there.
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Kaley Cuoco of "The Big Bang Theory" apparently loves infomercials, and didn't get why Ellen made fun of the Shake Weight. But the reason became clear to her as she demonstrated it on Ellen's show. Her face got red as she said it was "good practice." "This is so dumb," she said. "I can't believe I ordered this." Then Ellen dared her, "Try to make it not look dirty." Cute. "This brings back such memories," said Kaley before getting embarrassed all over again. [FYI, I bought the Shake Weight and was disappointed to discover it was not battery-powered. -- Editor] [PopWrap] Keep reading »
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Boys Basketball: Bolingbrook finds the line vs. Lincoln-Way East
By Randy Whalen For Sun-Times Media February 14, 2014 9:56PM
Updated: March 17, 2014 11:38AM
Bolingbrook 60, Lincoln-Way East 45
Bolingbrook (17-4, 10-1) overcame a slow start and pulled away from host Lincoln-Way East (6-16, 1-10) to remain in first place in the SouthWest Suburban Blue.
Clinging to a 32-29 lead, Prentiss Nixon went to the line and two free throws to close out the third quarter. That started a 12-2 spurt, which put the Raiders ahead 44-31 with 4:48 left in the game. Starting with Nixon's two free throws at the end of the third, Bolingbrook went 20-of-25 from the line the rest of the way after previously shooting 4-of-20.
Nixon finished with 20 points and was 10-of-11 from the foul line in the game.
The Griffins led 13-5 with 3:03 left in the first quarter, but turned the ball over 12 times the rest of the half and 22 times in the game. Bolingbrook closed the half with a 15-1 burst, despite going 4-of-16 from the line in that span, to lead 20-14. Joshua Dillingham and Shakur Triplett each added 11 points for the Raiders. Austin Winkler led Lincoln-Way East with 12 points and Josh Jones added nine.
"We work on (free throws) every day in practice, and we turned it on at the end of the game. But we have to be able to hit them all the time. When our shots weren't falling early, we were able to pick it up on defense." — Nixon.
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For years, few law-enforcement officials paid attention to the AB; as long as their principal victims were other inmates, there was little public outrage over their activities. But the 1983 killing of the two Marion guards, as well as incidents of street violence from paroled members who were dealing drugs and expected to pay "taxes" to the gang, drew increasing scrutiny. In the mid-'80s, the FBI tried to build a racketeering case against the AB, citing the extensive narcotics network in California prisons and the group's apparent efforts to extort Mafia elements inside the walls. "Source information indicates that the AB has a stranglehold on some of the top LCN [La Cosa Nostra] members who are inside the prison system," one report stated, "so now it allows the AB access to the funding of organized crime."
But in 1989, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles declined to prosecute the case, reportedly because of credibility problems with the snitches that the FBI had developed. A scandal had just erupted at the Los Angeles county jail over a "snitch tank" full of informants who'd fabricated testimony in homicide cases in order to get their sentences reduced, and the FBI fretted that some so-called AB defectors might actually be double agents seeking to infiltrate the witness-protection program. "There are many witnesses in the WITSEC program who have testified against members of the AB and now have contracts on their lives," one memo advised.
Over the next decade, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) became the lead agency investigating the AB. A new crop of informants emerged, especially after a war erupted in federal pens between the gang and the DC Blacks in the late 1990s ("Marked for Death," May 25, 2000). In 1998 the probe landed what may have been its biggest fish. An ADX inmate named Kevin Roach, who claimed to be a high-ranking AB "councilman" who'd served directly under federal commissioners Mills and Bingham, expressed an interest in cooperating with authorities.
Roach was placed in H Unit, an isolated area tucked near ADX's central control room. For several months, he was the only occupant of the unit; guards took to calling it the Roach Motel. In 1999 he was joined by five other defectors, including a California state prisoner, Brian Healy, who'd come from Pelican Bay and had been talking to federal authorities for the past two years.
Only a few top administrators and staffers were allowed access to H Unit. Still, it didn't take long for other guards to notice the bags of food from the outside world -- ribs, pizza, burgers from Carl's Jr. -- vanishing into the Roach Motel. Rumors spread that Warden Pugh had assembled a bunch of lowlifes to look at pictures of officers and tell tales about the "dirty" ones.
But investigating staff was only a small part of H Unit's mission. The group was given other inmates' mail and asked to decode the secret messages that AB members were known to conceal in what seemed like innocuous small talk. (One method of sending orders involved a disappearing "ink" made of urine that reappeared when heated.) They made training videos that purported to show how gang members passed notes and drugs, compromised staff and made weapons out of ordinary commissary items. They were debriefed at length on their knowledge of various AB murder plots, even if much of what they knew was hand-me-down prison lore. And they were handed hush-hush files on everything from other AB rollovers to Latin American drug cartels, in the hopes that they could fill in some gaps in pending investigations.
In return for their help, they got perks no ADX inmate could have dreamed possible. Carl's Jr. A television and VCR. A laptop computer -- and occasional, supervised access to the Internet. The ability to move freely throughout the unit. At least one soft-core porn video, smuggled in by one of their chummier handlers. What would ultimately amount to thousands of dollars in cash payments, placed in their commissary accounts. And promises of transfers to less secure prisons or spots in the witness-protection program.
A few months into the operation, a former AB shot-caller named Danny Weeks had a falling-out with Roach and was moved out of H Unit. Weeks began snitching on the snitches. He contacted Westword and declared that the debriefing was a fraud. Roach and another top informant, Eugene Bentley, had exaggerated their role in the AB, he wrote, and the group had compared stories and coached each other on what to tell the grand jury preparing the racketeering indictment. They had made up stories, taking their cues from the files provided to them.
"We would theorize what certain things meant and always embellish everything to make us look good," Weeks wrote. "Kevin would later confide in me that he was playing the biggest game he had ever played, and if he made a wrong move he was through. He told me that he had [a BOP intelligence officer] by the nuts and had told him so."
The game may have included passing on to others the top-secret information that their handlers gave them. Weeks smuggled sensitive data on a DEA investigation out of ADX and into a public court file to show how easily it could be done.


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May 23 2013, Ward Clayton
A look at some of the top player picks for the first Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic, scheduled to begin Thursday at the Ocean Club Golf Course in Nassau, The Bahamas:
Top 3:
- Na Yeon Choi: Choi took last week off and toured Sebonak, the site of this summer's U.S. Women's Open on Long Island where she will defend her title. Choi hasn't won yet this season but has four top-10 finishes and has completed every tournament under par.
- Paula Creamer: Creamer has finished no worse than a T17 since March and is riding a streak of 51 consecutive made cuts, second only to Karrie Webb's 53 among active streaks. She is in search of her first LPGA victory since the 2010 U.S. Women's Open.
- Lizette Salas: Salas is looking for her first LPGA title and is having by far her best year on the LPGA, with four top-10s including a playoff loss to Suzann Pettersen at the LPGA Lotte Championship. Salas took last week off and went home for some instruction and to tweak her clubs in preparation for the start of the summer season.
- Yani Tseng: It may be hard to fathom placing the player who was No. 1 in the world at the beginning of the year in the darkhorse category. But Tseng hasn't won since March 2012. She began 2013 with a second and a T3 and two weeks ago at the Kingsmill Championship she fired four rounds of par or better. That start was the first tournament back for caddie Jason Hamilton, who parted ways with Tseng in mid-2012 and was on the bag for 16 of Tseng's worldwide victories.


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Creat Studio's new top-down adventure game Labyrinth Legends will be the latest game added to the US Instant Game Collection tomorrow, April 9.
Costing $9.99 to regular PSN users, the game will available at no additional cost to US PlayStation Plus subscribers as of tomorrow's PS Store update.
In addition, the Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds Complete Collection for PS3 will go on sale, with PS Plus subs getting a 64 per cent discount (Regular Price: $24.99; PSN Sale Price: $14.99; PS Plus Price: $8.99).
Various discounts will also be offered on Zombie Driver HD and its content, and discounts on Telltale Games' critically acclaimed The Walking Dead will run for one more week before returning to normal price after April 16.
Head to the PS Blog for more details.


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At one point the judge said all of Pom's disclaimers fell short of the guidelines. Goldstein responded that he thought it was a straightforawrd point. The judge told him "yes, but I think you've got it wrong."
Judge Garland read part of a Pom advertisement aloud and said, "I don't understand if you look at those two paragraphs how you can say that it's not misleading."
The FTC lawyer said Pom not only published misleading advertisements with insufficient and vague disclaimers, but the company also failed to provide consumers with information about studies that showed its product's effect on erectile dysfunction to be ineffective.
"An ommission is a violation of the FTC Act as much as an outright mistake," the FTC attorney said.
The case began with a February 2010 warning from the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA told Pom Wonderful that claims on labels and websites related to the pomegranate juice, POMx supplements and POMx Liquid meant the products were drugs as defined by federal law. The FDA ordered the company to change the information.
click image to zoomIn September 2010 the FTC filed a complaint against the Resnicks and other corporate officers at Pom Wonderful, saying the company's labeling, marketing and advertising related to health claims were deceptive and unsubstantiated.
The FTC ordered Pom Wonderful to stop making the disease prevention and treatment claims unless it could produce scientific evidence.
"When a company touts scientific research in its advertising, the research must squarely support the claims made. Contrary to POM Wonderful's advertising, the available scientific information does not prove that POM Juice or POMx effectively treats or prevents these illnesses," David Vladeck, director of FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said when the FTC filed the complaint.


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I stood in line for 3 hours and 40 minutes to vote this evening! Thank goodness it was a beautiful evening in Central FL and my DH brought me a bottle of water! |
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I got near the building without standing in line in my car for MILES! I rode my bike over. Only about 20 minutes wait outside. When I got back out, there was a second bike locked to the post. :) But lots of people walked in. Parking was awful. I was so glad, I rode there. Moni (I voted on Friday) |
They JUST have to make it easier for people to vote. No wonder half the country doesn't. |
Happy you all voted. A vote NOT CAST is always a vote for the other guy !! |
We have to drive so much farther to vote early, I waited for Tuesday. Funny, DH, automatically got a mail ballot for the primary because he is a senior. Didn't get one for the general election. |
I voted FRiday morning in my town hall. Didn't have to wait at all. Glad I did because there were a ton of ballot questions to consider in addition to candidates. This is a solid blue state however and the income is predictable. |
i'm hoping that for a change we're not the only people voting...the last vote we were there at 4pm and voters 157 and 158! shameful! |
I voted in my little town. Went right in to verify, straight to booth with not a minute of waiting anywhere. My advantage to voting early is that I could go to the courthouse in the middle of town to vote early as opposed to having to go to a rural fire station for voting tomorrow. There was no wait when I voted there in August but I couldn't get my wheelchair in the doorway so had to go beside a firetruck into a side door. I didn't want to inconvenience anyone and the courthouse was more convenient for me. |
- Posted by bigfoot_liz (My Page) on Mon, Nov 5, 12 at 9:47
Unfortunately I think there are going to be problems w lack of early voting spilling into Tue voting here in FL. I early voted the previous Sun 10/28 and waited 1 hr only but the line was twice as long when I walked out at 6pm... FL had its' early voting shortened in half from 2008 and there are a fraction of early voting sites this time too :-0 I live in Seminole Co, burb of Orlando and we have already had double the # of early voters this year over 2008. I have a friend in South Beach who has been posting FB pics of constant lines there, hours long, some evenings people were turned away. In Winter Park they had to have a lawsuit heard Sat night to extend voting into Sunday because 2 fake bombs, shut the polls down Sat. An official, who let it be known he could have opposed the extension, actually said to reporters he didn't see why people couldn't just vote on Tue and miss a day of work LOL...talk about suppression & oppression! there are several million people living in a small 3 county area around Orlando... ~ liz |
We only live about a mile from our high school where we will vote. If the line is long I'll go home and back again. Wouldn't think of not voting. |
I don't understand early voting. Is it allowed in some states but not in others? I would think the advantage is not having to wait on line, but the stories here would indicate that's not so. The population where I live is so small that I've never had to wait. Say hi to all the people you know outside the building, walk in, vote, have a pretzel, walk out. Say bye to all the people you know outside. :-) |
- Posted by bigfoot_liz (My Page) on Mon, Nov 5, 12 at 16:01
alisande, the waiting in line is concerning here because only 25% of the population who voted in 2008 has already voted early. Plus 50% more voted in my county alone. That means 75% of the rest will probably hit the polls Tue. Granted there are many more polling places open. A HUGE factor in the lines is the fact that in Seminole Co my ballot was 4 pages long, Orange Co (orlando) is 6 pages, some county in FL has a 10 pg ballot :-0 VERY time consuming! while I educated myself ahead and filled out a sample ballot when I was walking out of the polling place I over heard conversations about some just starting to read the amendments :-0 ~ liz |
Virginia doesn't have "early voting" -- that is, for anyone who wants to show up early on certain days. Virginia has only "absentee ballot voting," which is mail-in or walk-up, and supposedly there are only certain circumstances under which you can get an absentee ballot (tho I've heard the name-checkers at the desks are very lenient about those). Especially during presidential elections, I think early voting would be beneficial both to the name-checkers and the voters -- shorter lines, less stress on the name-checkers and the electronic voting machines. (Last regular election, the name-checker couldn't even spot my name in the registry -- I had to point it out, and I was reading the list upside down!) Our neighboring state of Maryland as well as D.C. have early voting, and those lines were quite long. But still, I say spread it out, whichever way is possible. (Straying a bit from the topic: Did you know there are several foreign countries that have compulsory voting? Failure to vote could mean fines, trouble getting a public-sector job, trouble getting a new driver's license or passport ... ) |
bigfoot_liz, we moved from Houston to Oviedo a year ago. The problems with early voting here are 1) There are so many amendments and so much reading to try to figure them out, that if people hadn't figured then out ahead of time, it would bog things down, 2) Not enough polling places for early voting, 3) PAPER BALLOTS!!!!! It's 2012 and we have paper ballots that you have to hunt down a marker and then fill in the ovals. It's quicker to push a button. And if I made a mistake I could go back and change it. Heaven forbid I make a mistake on a paper ballot -- would they re-issue me one? How long would that take? Maybe that's why the line moved so slowly? |
- Posted by jennmonkey (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 0:45
I love Washington's mail/drop box only voting. I got my ballot a couple of weeks ago and could spend as long as I wanted reading all the pamphlets (which takes awhile!). No pressure to hurry because you've been waiting in line or people are waiting for you. I mailed it in last week. You can check and make sure it's been received too. |
I wish voting was uniform thru out the country. I like Washington's way the best. |
I don't understand why some people(like DH) would wait in a long line to early vote. I don't remember ever having to wait long on election day. I like the excitement! Liz is right-the ballots here are very long. I stayed up till 1 am researching some local candidates. |
- Posted by bigfoot_liz (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 12:47
the amendments were 1 reason I voted early, I printed out several different articles on explaining them so I fully understood what I voted for. Some amendments sounded like you would vote no if you were opposed but you voted yes to oppose. Another reason is I can't miss work, Tue is one of my busiest days (there is no one else to do my job), if I had to wait in line i would be taking close to 60 cell ph calls per hour there LOL! We also had a 7am meeting today where we found out that if we wanted to vote in the afternoon we could leave & do so, if we had not already voted, everyone has! :-) We are VERY proactive in dem. politics here so those of us in the office made sure we had everyone registered and got everyone printed out early ballots & explanations of amendments. sometimes i just LOVE this place i work @! I have heard lines in Orange co are long today, a few clients waited more than 1 hr in Seminole too. drewsmaga the early voting period was cut back 7 days and polling places cut in half for early voting this year. A form of suppression to me! I can safely say that will not be happening next time LOL there have been SOOO may problems w Floriduh voting again...lawsuits are already being worked on :-) Paper is as good as we are gonna get I think. we had a huge problem w hanging chads in 2000 and machines in 2004 so I'm not sure machines would ever catch on universally. I've been hearing about some machine abnormalities down south but not sure how much truth there is to them yet... ~ liz |
I voted this morning - on election day like I always do. No line at 7:30am. Maybe because all kinds of people chose to wait in line for hours before election day - their loss, my gain. |
- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 13:45
My friend and I had gone the first day of early voting and the line was crazy long so we left, waited till Thursday went at about 2pm very short line, in and out in less than 20 minutes. My husband went Friday morning and had a much longer line but he said it was moving very fast. Here the polls are saying we are having great numbers of voters which is good. But even in the early voting some states were reporting problems, I read an article in one state there were some machines that no matter what you entered as your selection in the last step it defaulted to Democrat. Several people luckily were paying attention to the final step and caught it so were able to correct it. The officials said it happens every year that it was because the machines need to be calibrated. Well if they know that then why the heck did they not calibrate the darn things before letting people start to vote on them. If interested here are some of the articles |
We too don't have "early voting", rather absentee voting option. There's a number of criteria to be able to use absentee and I use it often. I believe in voting and I think this year is an important year to vote anyway. I went in to vote absentee on Saturday and there had to be 40-50 people in line and it was about 1/2 hour before closing. I filled out my application and this one lady insisted I go ahead of her. I politely declined and said I'll wait my turn but she was adamant. Said it would just take longer since they take handicapped first. Really nice of her. I knew how I was voting so it didn't take me long to vote per se, but it still took about 1/2 hour. I haven't taken a drive by any polls to see what they look like today. This state generally has a pretty good turnout. Don't know what the estimates are but I'd guess 70%-75% wouldn't be out of the question. I remember when I was working campaigns and "our side" got a frantic call from a voter who said she voted for our candidate and when she checked the ballot it showed the opponent. It was the days of punchcards. Long before "dangling chads" became common vernacular. Not much to do about it but we had as many people as we could get a hold of double check their ballots to see if there was any similar incidents. Campaigns were a lot of work, but a lot of fun. And a real sense of pride and accomplishment even if your side lost. You really did learn a lot about people and about the system. That's why I encourage people to get involved instead of whining "it doesn't make a difference..." |
- Posted by phyllis__mn (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 21:32
We vote at City Hall, and it was quite busy today when I got there. So busy, in fact, that I was sent to the kitchen area to fill out my ballot, and pretty soon another woman was there, too, standing by the sink doing her voting. Some people were sitting at a long table with good spacing between them. It was just so unusual, as I think we have always just waited until a booth was available. |
- Posted by joann23456 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 6, 12 at 23:57
Massachusetts doesn't have early voting, other than absentee ballots. I am very fortunate. I walk one block to my polling place and have never waited more than 10 minutes, and get to visit with neighbors. I'm in a small city in the northeast. |
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[Presenter] The High Peace Council says that the international community
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deputy head of High Peace Council Abdol Hakim Mojahed says that the
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Desert Research Institute renews partnership agreement with prestigious Chinese research base in Xian
For Immediate Release: September 24, 2012
(RENO) - The Desert Research Institute, an internationally renowned multidisciplinary environment research organization, and the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Earth Environment, or IEECAS, a prestigious international research base located in Xian, announced during Governor Brian Sandoval's trade mission to Asia late last week, the signing of a renewed Memorandum of Understanding to share ideas, resources and exchange of students and scientists.
Governor Sandoval was joined by Dr. Stephan G. Wells, DRI President; Dr. Judith Chow, a renowned air quality expert in DRI's Division of Atmospheric Sciences; and Dr. Junji Cao, IEECAS President in announcing the renewed partnership that focuses on research in the field of atmospheric sciences and builds upon a collaborative relationship between DRI and IEECAS that dates back to 1997.
Since that time, DRI and Chinese scientists have undertaken collaborative work examining long-term evidence of pollution and climate change in Tibetan glaciers and most recently, the examination of methods of preservation necessary to maintain remnants of China's Terra-Cotta Warriors (often referred to as one of the greatest archeological discoveries of modern times). The collaboration efforts have also generated a steady stream of Chinese graduate research students to DRI's Reno and Las Vegas research facilities to study state-of-the-art air quality monitoring and analytical techniques.
"This MOU will further our collaboration and most importantly continue the exchange of scientists and students," said Dr. Chow, "which is extremely beneficial not only to DRI and the Institute of Earth Environment, but also supports the economies of Nevada and China."
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Biz Stone's mysterious new startup, Jelly, has just closed a Series A.
An announcement on the company's Tumblr didn't disclose the total amount raise, but revealed that Spark Capital raised the round, with SV Angel piling on, as well.
Also participating are several individual investors who, we can only assume, were rounded up in the parking lot of last year's TED conference: Jack Dorsey, Bono, Al Gore, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Where Good Ideas Come From author Steven Johnson, Evan Williams and Jason Goldman, House (?!) director Greg Yaitanes, and Afghan entrepreneur Roya Mahboob. Read More


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For decades, summer vacationers with names like Kennedy, Clinton, and, more recently, Obama, have flocked to Marthas Vineyard to enjoy maritime life on the mid-Atlantic island. Sailing, fishing, surfing, or just watching the waves roll in on Menemsha Beach are typical draws of the 100-square-mile summer colony, located six miles off the southern coast of Cape Cod.
But when New York Citybased restaurateur Keith McNally sets up house for the summer on his four-acre farm in Chilmark, he works the land instead of plying the sea. In addition to his wife, Alina, and five children, McNally shares the property with several Berkshire, Tamworth, and Gloucester Old Spot pigs, as well as goats, sheep, lambs, and free-range chickens and ducks. Although they have all the fixings for some pretty great dinner parties (and the famous neighbors to round out the guest list), McNally and his wife like to lead a low-key life on their mini farm. I have the need to produce my own food when Im always around people consuming food, says McNally, who has even taken to making his own goat cheese. I cook a lot too, sometimes for dinner parties but mostly for the family.


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Lafayette High and Middle School Choirs have recently received 14 Superior awards at district and statewide festivals. (April 26, 2011, Page 14)
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Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
An irreplaceable physician is gone
Craig Hildahl an inspirational human being
The last time they met, Jim La Vallee sensed Craig Hildahl -- his doctor of more than 30 years and friend for even longer -- wasn't well.
"Don't go and die on me, my friend," Jim implored that day last year before they hugged goodbye. "I wouldn't know what to do without your advice and care."
Craig's response was typically reassuring, optimistic and all about his patient, as Jim recalled it.
"He said, 'Don't worry, you'll be OK.' "
Then late last week, while Jim was at his cardiologist, he learned Craig was in the palliative care ward at St. Boniface Hospital. By the time he reached the hospital, Craig was gone.
"He'd just passed that morning."
La Vallee was far from the only patient who cared almost as deeply about the 62-year-old family physician as he cared about them. Under his online obituary from last Saturday's Free Press, there is page after page of tributes to who Craig Hildahl was as a doctor and a person, which were one and the same. Among them is one from Angela Nikonchuk, who signed herself "Patient since birth."
"He had a kind and gentle soul," Angela wrote. "Made going to the doctor FUN! From delivering me until seeing me with my own lil ones, it was a rare treat to be able to share these times with the same doctor who always took the time for his patients... "
Or this one, addressed directly to him from Christy Martin.
"Dr. Hildahl, thank you for the past 25 years! You addressed my concerns, calmed my fears, shared stories and treated me with the utmost respect. One of my favourite memories is when I talked you into going on a diet with me. We lost a lot of weight and over time gained a bit back... I hope that you received my cards while you were in the hospital..."
But it's La Vallee's memories of Craig that struck me as even more telling of the man. The two of them initially met at the old Vaughn Street detention centre, which served as the youth centre of its time. Craig was an 18-year-old university student working there for the summer. Jim was a 17-year-old inmate.
Jim was a kid struggling with his First Nations identity. Craig was a kid from the suburbs and of Icelandic ancestry, whose father was a noted entomologist. What connected them was Craig's calm, older-brother presence, the way he would listen and empathize, and it made Jim feel safe. At the time, more than 40 years ago, Craig's older brother, Keith, was also working at the centre alongside future premier Gary Doer. As it turned out, Keith Hildahl would become a psychiatrist and head of adolescent psychiatry for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. Wayne Hildahl would also graduate as a physician and later open the Pan Am Clinic.
Before he died in 2011 at age 61, Ken Hildahl, the fourth of the remarkably gifted Hildahl boys, would become president and CEO of the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission.
I have my own memories of them all over the years, most recently and vividly the last time I saw Craig. It was in June. He and his wife, Wendy, were at a wedding reception for their son, Stefan, and daughter-in-law, Aisling O'Brien. By then, Craig was in treatment for bladder cancer but still hoping to move into a new home he had designed for his and Wendy's golden years. One couldn't help but taste the bitter with the sweet during the toast to the newlyweds.
The Hildahls' younger son, Erik, the resident emergency physician, was also at the reception, as was the couple's daughter, Kristin, the dietitian and, of course, Stefan, who chose to become a chiropractor after watching the exhausting 15-hour days his dad put in.
My wife, Athina, went to see Stefan about her back. Being treated by Stefan was like being in the presence of his father's soul.
"He was sweet," Athina said. "Very thorough and patient. Understanding, supportive. Amazing."
His father's longtime patient and friend, Jim La Vallee, can only pray now he can find a physician with those qualities. At 61, Jim feels lost and alone in a province where general practitioners are in such demand.
"I, for one," said Jim, "wonder where I will find someone like him." The answer is he won't.
There are others, but no one quite like the irreplaceable Dr. Craig Hildahl.
Just ask his patients. And his family.
A service in his memory will be held today at 2 p.m. at Grant Memorial Church, 877 Wilkes Ave.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition February 8, 2014 B4
Updated on Saturday, February 8, 2014 at 10:15 AM CST: Fixed spellings, liquor control commission
6:19 PM: Corrects misspelling of Hildahl's name.
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Posted On Thursday, December 13, 2012 By Accidental Bear. Under Art, Queer News Tags: Big Dipper, MC Crumbsnatcher, Rica-Shay, Tim Carr
Thank you everyone who was able to make our 2 Year Anniversary Party on December 8th at San Francisco's TRUCK. The most common word that keeps getting thrown back to us is EPIC, so we'll take it. The energy and support ...
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Posted On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 By Accidental Bear. Under Music, Queer News Tags: "Give Me The Light", San Francisco, Tim Carr
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Tim Carr's New Album "The Shadows" Released Upon the World- "Dark Dance – Art Pop"
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Check with some of your local beekeepers. Many hives are just squares of wood. Rather than a bee hive I would suggest that your scouts build mason bee homes. These are tubes of cardboard that mason bees lay their eggs in along with food for the larva. Regular bee hives need continous care. They are not something that you build then leave. |
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Bees need lots of flowering plants from which to collect pollen. A full sun would seem more appropriate than a woodland garden (to me, a woodland garden implies partial shade). Just something to consider. |
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Dec 18th 2010 7:04PM I think it did ruin it. I don't care for nostalgia and remembering how great the Vanilla days were, but having to escape mobs, riding through zones for 60s when you were a 40, was all very fun. Blizzard rarely does a good job of showing you how deadly something can be and rarely manages to create something which intimidates you, but the thrill of not sticking on the road or going through places like Corin's Crossing in EPL were very successful at doing something which is lacking in Warcraft.
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Oct 22nd 2010 3:13AM It's a shame, the most fun I had on my Paladin was doing my class-specific quests. Having to defend that woman in Westfall from the waves of the Defias, doing the Charger quest, getting Verigan's fist, were all things which made me my Paladin and feel as though he had earned his way through the levels.
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Cataclysm rewards low-level faction loyalty with cloaks, bags {WoW}
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