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As far as I've understood this is caused by the missing idProperty, but frankly I don't know how and where to set it from a feed.
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Downwardly mobile Millennials—especially the ones who are natives of increasingly expensive cities—are rewriting the rules of gentrification.
In a recent episode of HBO's Girls, Hannah, the character played by show creator Lena Dunham, has a late night phone chat with her sorta-boyfriend during a pilgrimage to her hometown of East Lansing, Michigan. The most notable thing about her trip isn't that she'd just had sex with another dude, but that said dude had a giant apartment. "Why doesn't everyone who's struggling in New York move back here and start the revolution?" she muses. "It's like we're slaves to this place that doesn't even really want us."
Hannah, like every New Yorker, is alternately obsessed with and crushed by real estate. Craigslist ads for luxury apartments with laughable rents really do amount to the city giving young, broke people the finger.
But to me, this throwaway line is less funny than heartbreaking. I grew up in New York. When I tell new friends I was a kid in Park Slope and a teen in Greenwich Village, people assume I'm rich. When I tell them I live in Harlem, the most famous black neighborhood in the country, they look at my white skin and label me the worst kind of gentrifier.
Only a decade ago, that last assumption would have been right. The rules of gentrification used to be simple: There were the yuppies, and there were the working-class heroes. While the artists, bankers, graphic designers, or doctors regarded the neighborhood as a blank slate, the working class and poor people got pushed farther to the margins. But for middle-class kids coming of age in the worst recession since the Great Depression, the dynamic is far more complicated. Downwardly mobile Millennials—especially the ones who are natives of increasingly expensive cities like New York or D.C. or San Francisco—are rewriting the rules of gentrification.
When these natives rent apartments in low-income neighborhoods because they're priced out of their childhood ones, are they the gentrifiers? Or are they victims of gentrification? Am I a gentrifier of Harlem if it's one of the few New York neighborhoods I can afford? It's not as if I can move back to my old stomping grounds, now populated by six- and seven-figure earners. Yet in my current location, I'm still pushing out even lower-income residents.
Young city natives who were raised middle class and are now struggling financially have upper-middle class tastes but working-class or poverty-level incomes. When I moved back home from Chicago in 2010, I had a contingent position as a public radio producer and my husband worked at Trader Joe's. We could afford a cup of nice coffee and the occasional cut of grass-fed meat, but we couldn't afford an apartment in Fort Greene or Carroll Gardens. So we moved to Harlem to a $1500 one-bedroom. A year and a half later, in seemingly direct response, enterprising storeowners are serving salted caramel lattes and selling dry-aged picanha around the corner from us, ignoring the huge chunk of Harlem residents living in subsidized housing and making new residents like us look like jerks.
Emily Douglas, writing in the L.A. Review of Books last week, asserted that for young professionals new to New York, choosing where to live is a political choice. She wrote of a peer who paid more than she could really afford to live in an already-gentrified neighborhood, so she wouldn't be contributing to the displacement of low-income, black, and Latino New Yorkers.
When you're a New York native, though, paying market rate in your own childhood neighborhood is a new level of insult. I'd be paying around $2,500 for a tiny one-bedroom on my childhood block in Park Slope if I were to decide to move back—closer to $3,000 if I rented a one-bedroom near NYU at market rate. Both are financial impossibilities. If I moved to an upper-class neighborhood, I would slow down gentrification in lower-income communities. But I'd also be actively participating in my own displacement. For my middle-class friends of color, this dynamic is all the more painful. Young urban natives with safety nets and resources but pathetic paychecks and zero savings may be enablers of cultural gentrification, but they're also casualties of American cities' growing income gap and shrinking middle class.
My childhood, after all, was pure middle-class New York. My family lived in a cheap Greenwich Village apartment subsidized by NYU, where my mother taught. The lion's share of my Manhattan friends had a similar deal. They lived in one of the Mitchell Lama co-ops for middle-income people, or their parents had bought a loft in bombed-out '70s SoHo, or they lived in a then-ubiquitous, now-elusive rent-controlled or rent-stabilized apartment. Many of my Brooklyn friend's parents just bought or rented at market rate in downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene, or Windsor Terrace, neighborhoods well within reach of middle-class families at the time. Like '80s Park Slope and '90s Greenwich Village, my friends came from a range of racial and economic backgrounds. That city doesn't exist anymore.
So why should the rest of the country care about the rarefied plight of young, middle-class New Yorkers? Because what has already happened in New York is starting to happening all over, especially as more and more educated Millennials settle in large cities. Young adults with a four-year degree are about 94 percent more likely to live in close-in urban neighborhoods than their less-educated counterparts (up from 61 percent in 2000). Yet many of those same young, educated people are living on the poverty line. Half of recent graduates are either jobless or underemployed. A good portion of the urban economy relies on precarious young people with sophisticated palates and dismal job prospects.
Hannah does have a point about East Lansing. The jobs crisis has caused young people to thumb their noses at the biggest cities and move to places like New Orleans, Austin, or the Rust Belt to save money, help with revitalization efforts, or become a big fish in a small pond—a far more aggressive (though perhaps more constructive) form of gentrification than my move up to Harlem.
Many people who move to cheaper cities have no sympathy for those of us who can't afford decent lives in places like D.C. or San Francisco or Boston. A commenter on a recent piece about a young, privileged woman applying for food stamps suggested the writer move out of the "hyper-saturated market" of New York. "I think society should subsidize people's lives, but not their dreams," he wrote. "Maybe you should just move to Omaha and sell real estate."
To natives, this advice misses the point. Some of us aren't in our home cities just because we want to be near the action. We also want to be near our friends and aging parents. This dilemma will only magnify as more of us stay in the city to raise our kids.
So unless we want to sacrifice our cities to the ultra-rich, we're going to have to start Hannah's "revolution" not just in East Lansing, but in all of our own home towns.


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There is little surprise then to see it in court in San Francisco fighting Google, claiming patent infringement due to the latter's development of the Android operating system. Google, certainly no stranger to pushing the legal limits in its quest to access as much data as possible, is hardly a friend to licensing and copyright. Its fights with the publishing industry over copyrights are legendary and have generally forced Google to backtrack. Its expansive view of its access to data is at the heart of current uproars over Street View and the newly announced GDrive.
So, it seems almost inevitable that the two behemoths would meet in court one day. Initially, Oracle's suit and Google counter-suit looked to be one of those slow-moving affairs that was fascinating to watch from a distance in much the same way as the trial pitting the U.S. Department of Justice against Microsoft a decade ago.
However, events in San Francisco quickly took a sinister turn when Oracle posited an ominous theory: that Google had violated Oracle's Java copyrights by reimplementing Java APIs in Android. The question of the copyrightability of APIs is the hinge on which the first part of the trial now rests, and it provides a disturbing vision of how software development might look should Oracle prove this claim.
In a nutshell, if the jury sides with Oracle that the copyrights in the headers of every file of the Java source base apply specifically to the syntax of the APIs, then Oracle can extract payment and penalties from Google for having implemented those APIs without Oracle's blessing (or, in more specific terms, without a license).
Essentially, every language implementation not issued forth by the copyright holder will be suspect until the copyright owners announce a permanent statement dispensing with any threats to enforce the copyrights. There is no reason to believe that copyright holders will naturally act with such restraint. As we know, Oracle certainly has not. And who's to say the owners of Bell Labs care enough about the negative programming consequences of enforcing language copyrights when they can see possible licensing fees of tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars are a possible result?
The problem does not stop with languages, of course. Would Linux be at risk for all the UNIX APIs it recreated? Or would any of the ports of various libraries be similarly in danger? Probably so.
During the trial, Sun's last two CEOs provided conflicting evidence. In a nutshell, Jonathan Schwartz testified for Google's view (and his email congratulating Google on Android is a crucial piece of testimony), while Scott McNealy testified unequivocally that APIs were copyrightable, copyrighted, and not open to duplication by unlicensed third parties. Both views are in character. McNealy fought the UNIX wars on behalf of Solaris precisely on the basis of the extra libraries and APIs that distinguished it from HP-UX, IRIX, and AIX. I have no doubt that if this case had arrived 15 years ago, McNealy would have testified precisely the same way. Specific libraries and their attendant APIs were crucial means for companies to establish and maintain a competitive advantage.
This role for APIs tends to support Oracle's view that they are the property of the owners and are not intended for free use by unlicensed parties wanting to implement them. And Google's internal deliberations that show an awareness that a license might be necessary would also support the idea that the APIs are property. On this basis and the careful copyrights in each document, I am unwillingly led to conclude that the jury might not deliver good news when it returns from its deliberations. Of course, I deeply hope I'm wrong.
However, a silver lining could present itself: The jury could affirm that the APIs are copyrighted but that the syntax of the function signatures are a fair use exception. This would safeguard the right to reimplement APIs forever without fear of suit for copyright violation. And it would not be an unreasonable finding.
Trials are troublesome events in the course of computing history. They have delivered odder verdicts than one that would side entirely with Oracle. You might recall that the Lotus v. Borland suit (1990) originally resulted in a ruling affirming the copyrightability of a menu hierarchy. Not until the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1996 was that bit of nonsense definitively overturned. Let us hope that there's no need for that much litigation to ensure forever that APIs can be freely copied.
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Samsung's got quite a reputation with its improbably slim cellphones, and now it turns its expertise on the L77, a midrange point-and-shoot that it's calling the "world's thinnest 7-megapixel camera." No wonder it's called L77, because along with that 7-megapixel CCD, it has an unusually long 7x optical zoom as well. But the big news is its thin profile—just 21mm wide—and even with its diminutive size, it's still able to accommodate a 2.5 inch viewscreen on the back.
Too bad there's no optical image stabilization on board, just Samsung's ASR (advanced shake reduction) which is just boosting up the ISO number for faster shutter speeds. Samsung didn't announce the price of L77 yet, but said it will be shipping in April.
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A master of narrative staged photography, Ventura brings his imagined stories to life by building three-dimensional sets in miniature. Ventura's Aperture monograph Winter Stories showcases the ink drawings and watercolors that he uses as a starting point for his stories, and images of the handmade album of Polaroids of works in progress that he creates as guides to his elaborate sets.


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Fatu, a female northern white rhinoceros who lives in a Kenyan conservation park, is one of just seven of her kind left in the world. But millions of her stem cells, stored in a freezer in California, might one day help boost her population's ranks.
The northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) and another animal facing extinction, the drill monkey (Mandrillus leucophaeus), have become the first endangered animals to have their cells transformed into stem cells like those found in early embryos. These cells can be stored and multiplied in culture, and are theoretically capable of making any tissue in the body — including sperm cells that could be used in assisted captive breeding programmes. The work is published online today in Nature Methods1.
About five years ago, Jeanne Loring, a stem-cell biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, was contacted by Oliver Ryder, a scientist at the nearby San Diego Zoo, who was keen to collect stem cells from endangered animals. Obtaining stem cells by sacrificing the fertilized embryo of an endangered species was out of the question, so Loring tried to think of other sources, but came up empty. "The prospect of getting bone marrow stem cells from a rhinoceros was kind of daunting," she says.
A couple of years later, in 2007, teams at the University of Kyoto in Japan and the University of Wisconsin in Madison, revealed that the cells called fibroblasts from human connective tissue could be coaxed into a state resembling that of an embryonic stem cell by activating a suite of reprogramming genes in the adult cells2,3. Ryder's team had been preserving fibroblasts from endangered animals since the 1970s as part of a project called the Frozen Zoo, so the cell-reprogramming technology seemed like a good way to create stem cells from endangered animals, Loring says.
As a proof-of-principle experiment, Ryder gave Loring cells from Fatu and from a captive male drill monkey named Loon (who has since died). Drills are now found in the wild only in tiny pockets of western Africa, their numbers dwindling because of habitat loss and a thriving bushmeat trade.
Loring and her colleague Inbar Friedrich Ben-Nun at first assumed that human versions of the reprogramming genes would not convert rhino or drill fibroblasts to stem cells, so the team tried reprogramming the drill cells with genes from another monkey species, the rhesus macaque, and Fatu's fibroblasts with horse genes. Both attempts failed.
Reprogramming success
To Loring's surprise, however, the corresponding human genes did transform both animals' cells into embryonic-like stem cells called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells). As proof of pluripotency, the researchers coaxed the drill and rhino iPS cells into making the three different kinds of simple tissues that produce all the other tissues in the body.
Loring does not plan to use the iPS cells of Fatu and of Loon to clone these individuals. Instead, the cells could be converted into germ cells for use in assisted breeding programmes to help diversify the gene pools of endangered species, she says. Healthy mice have been born this way4, and Loring believes that, in time, the techniques will be made to work with other animals. "If everything falls into place and everything works, there is a way to generate new animals," she says.
"I think this is a very exciting development," says Robert Lanza, chief scientific officer of Advanced Cell Technology, based in Santa Monica, California, and part of a team that carried out the first cloning of an endangered animal, a guar bull named Noah, in 20005. When human iPS cells were first described, Lanza touted their potential for endangered species conservation in a letter to the journal Science6, and he has even patented a technique to clone endangered animals from iPS cells, which he says he would license freely for conservation efforts.
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William Holt, a reproductive biologist at the Zoological Society of London, is involved in a collaboration called the Frozen Ark, based at the University of Nottingham, UK, which culls DNA and cells from endangered animals. He doubts that iPS cells will save many threatened species, particularly those already on the brink of extinction like the northern white rhinoceros.
"To be honest I think it's a bit of a stunt," he says. Scientists know little about the reproductive biology of these animals, which is needed to support assisted reproduction programmes, and, with so few individuals remaining, there is little opportunity to learn more, he says.
Loring concedes that there are technological gaps to fill in before iPS cells can help save species. "I don't know how you could super-ovulate a rhino," she says. But she dismisses the notion that iPS cells from endangered animals are a gimmick. Even if the technologies to use them in assisted breeding aren't mature, the cells offer a way to preserve the genetic diversity of individual animals long after they have died.
Fatu, at least, isn't waiting for such breakthroughs: in January this year, she began mating with a male named Suni.
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(CNN) -- Circles Robinson is a 55-year-old American who has lived in Havana with his family since 2001. He works revising English translations for official Cuban media online publications and in his spare time he writes his own blog and manages the Havana Times Web site.
Circles Robinson: "There are fantastic cultural opportunities in Havana."
CNN: What makes Havana special to you?
Circles: Havana is the only capital city I've seen that I would want to live in. One big reason is that there are relatively few cars, making the city pedestrian-friendly. Another is that it's quite safe for a capital and you feel like the night is your ally instead of your adversary.
Havana is full of contrasts that make life interesting: buildings being restored amid others collapsing. There's an amazing array of cultural activities but it can be hard to buy a nail or cat food or even a roll of toilet paper sometimes.
I love the parks, the Malecon seawall and the ever-expanding network of museums that give you the feeling there is always something new to see on a weekend stroll. And Havana is virtually free of commercial advertising. The TV and other media are ad-free as well, and I love that.
CNN: What are your favorite parts of the city?
Circles: The Malecon seawall is a great place to think, relax and observe, because of its majestic views, sea breeze and mix of characters from all walks of life. I also love the sprawling grounds, stone walls and magnificent view of the city at the San Carlos de la Cabana Fortress across Havana Bay.
The Latinoamericano baseball stadium is also special for a fan like me. Out on the east side of the city the beaches are fantastic. We try to go once every few months and more often in the summer.
Vedado is my favorite district. It has many large parks, beautiful tree-lined streets and a mix of extremely interesting 20th-century architecture. Of course, Old Havana is gorgeous, with all the excellent restoration work and many museums. I usually find myself going there when I have visitors to show around.
CNN: What do you dislike about life in Havana?
Circles: The overcrowded housing situation and deteriorated buildings in some parts of the city make for some difficult living situations and many things only work halfway.
There's a thick bureaucratic maze to accomplish many simple tasks. Most people need to do something under-the-table to get by and there are some seemingly ridiculous prohibitions.
What makes Havana special to you? Let us know.
CNN: What's a typical weekend in the city?
Circles: There are fantastic cultural opportunities in Havana and they are very accessible to all, normally costing from 10 to 50 U.S. cents for a ticket. My wife and I often go to the theater, to movies, dance performances and concerts.
I like jazz a lot and this Friday there's an outdoor jam session around the time when people get off work. On Saturday there's an early evening informal free concert on the porch of an art gallery.
There's also a film festival offering young filmmakers' works and there are numerous venues for stand up comedians, which are a big favorite of the general population.
CNN: Cuban music is known throughout the world. Where are the best places in Havana to hear real Cuban music?
Circles: I much prefer what they call the "penas" -- more intimate sessions where friends and followers show up. Many groups have regular "penas" once or twice a month, where you might hear folk, rumba or jazz. These performances are held at a variety of places, outdoor and indoor, and most are free.
For more formal concerts I particularly like the theater at the Cuban Fine Arts Museum and the smaller hall at the Amadeo Roldan Theater. The Teatro America also offers a good variety of musical presentations.
Some of the best venues for salsa are the outdoor ones. There are outdoor auditoriums in most neighborhoods, like the Tropical's Salon Rosada in Buena Vista, La Bereda in La Lisa, and El Patio de la Salsa in La Virgen del Camino, where you can see the top salsa bands for under a dollar. You can also see top salsa bands for free at the weekend at venues set up in squares or plazas.
CNN: What do you think the future has in store for Havana?
Circles: The potential is awesome. If the hostile policy of the U.S. towards Cuba could turn into a good-neighbor policy, or at least more normal ties, the economy of the city would no doubt improve. If the travel ban was lifted people from the U.S. could appreciate all that Havana has to offer.
Likewise, if the rest of the blockade was lifted it would present a great challenge to the city's government to get beyond a virtual state of siege and be able to confront its serious infrastructural needs, housing deficit and, in some areas, highly deficient public works and utilities. An onslaught of visitors would also put services to the test and most likely require improvements.
CNN: If Havana was a person what would he or she be like?
Circles: He or she would be casually sensuous, timeless, sassy and either 'tranquillo' or combative depending on how the day's going.


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THE GOLDEN STATE... is home to a fine brewhouse or two. Or make that two dozen, or even two hundred, given the fact that San Francisco and San Diego regularly rank in the top ten, and even top five, when the country's top craft beer cities are ranked. A lover of lofty libations would need to spend a couple of months zigzagging from Gold Country to Mendocino to Orange County and back up the coast to take in all of the IPAs and lagers that regularly win the big trophies, but there is a rather nifty, and easy-to-manage, solution: the California Beer Festival. Yep, it's the summertime soiree that brings the best of the Golden State's big brewhouse vats to the public in four different locations, two northerly, two to the south. The dates are out for the 2014 foam fete, and tickets for stop one went on sale on Tuesday, March 3. The place? Marin.
AND THE DATE IS... June 28. Santa Cruz, San Dimas, and Ventura follow -- Santa Cruz is the second weekend in August, San Dimas rolls on Saturday, Sept. 6, and Ventura lands over the first weekend of fall -- and the state's hoppy headliners'll make a strong showing. Some names on the taps? Firestone (look for the Union Jack IPA in Marin), Bear Republic Brewing Co., Altamont Beer Works, and Manzanita Brewing Co. Over 70s brews'll flow from the taps, each with their own crafty characteristics.
PLUS... food choices, barbecue, and bands complement the suds scene, so most people make a day of it, before catching a cab home or to their hotel. Consider it a daylong roadtrip to some of the state's buzziest brewhouses, all for one ticket. Now, we're in now way dissuading you and your buds from making such a roadtrip one day, but maybe the California Beer Festival can be the place where you pick the beermakers you must know better.


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The lead story here, undeniably, is that Oliver Stone is up to his old tricks.
"Savages" is old school Stone. It's a story with a cast of crazy and colorful characters, caught up in violent situations, soaked in drugs and sex, performed by a great cast who all seem to be relishing their deliciously cheesy roles, and wrapped up in Stone's unmistakable, inimitable directorial stylings.
I don't know if I can call it good, but it sure as Hell is fun.
Ben and Chon (sic) are high-tech, major league marijuana dealers living on the California coast. Ben (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is the brains behind the operation. Dual majoring in botany and business, he has skill to grow plants that are genetically modified and specially grown to achieve supreme potency. Chon (Taylor Kitsch) is the muscle. After serving tours of duty in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he has the killer instinct, the knowledge, and the special forces contacts to protect the business. They serve as diametric contrast to each other: Ben is the happy, hippie, buddhist who wants to resolve things peacefully whenever possible. Chon is the violent, might makes right type.
Both share the love of "O". Ophelia (Blake Lively) is their stoner love interest, shared between the two weed lords in a modern-day ménage à trois. Ophelia also narrates occasionally, as evidenced in the trailer below
When offered a "deal" (think hostile takeover) by a Mexican cartel, Chon advocates they counter with an immediate, violent response, but Ben sees an opportunity to get out of the business altogether. When the two offer to freely hand over their contacts, territories and techniques, but without their personal services, the cartel takes offence. In order to force the duo into service, they kidnap O.
Of course, instead of becoming compliant, Ben and Chon retaliate. They turn "Savage".
The cartel which captured O is headed by Elena Sánchez, played by Salma Hayek as a vindictive, cold-blooded, ruthless woman. In her command is Benicio del Toro, who authors a creepy, lecherous, semi-unintelligble henchman. And on the periphery is John Travolta as a crooked DEA agent waist deep in the morass of all of this mess. Hayek tries to freeze people in their tracks with her frigidity, Del Toro uses his natural abilities to give folks the heebie jeebies, and Travolta is a natural as a rat/weasel. None of them are asked to stretch, but you could look at the flip side of that and say that they're all well cast. Each of the three seem to be enjoying playing the parts they've been given, and that, in turn lends an enjoyable air to the proceedings.
Not that that's sorely needed or anything, as the movie certainly doesn't take itself too seriously. There were times, especially early, when the narration almost gave me the giggles. Bon mots such as "I have orgasms, he has wargasms", and "Drugs are supposed to be bad, but in a bad, bad world, they're actually good" left me wishing I brought a notebook in order to scribble them down as I watched. "Savages" is loaded with them. The situation is crazy, too. The main characters are millionaire weed dealers who are generally good guys, because they try to never hurt anyone, but have to go on a rampage when their shared girlfriend is stolen. They have to try to get at an evil matriarch protected by a psychotic scumbag whose assassin cover is a gardening crew. "Savages" is never a "So bad it's good" movie, but it's not too far down the road, either. The story is relatively straight, but the characters and situations are crazy and colorful, to say the least.
The icing on this cinematic delectable is the directorial stylings of Mr Oliver Stone. As director and co-writer of the screenplay, Stone's fingerprints are all over this – in a good way, if you're a fan. While not as showy as say, "Natural Born Killers", you're still in store for some sudden dutch angles, black and white, scene transitions straight out of Salvador Dali, and in one prominent instance, even a rewind. Oh yeah, baby. It should be pointed out as a warning sign and selling point both. Depending on where you shake out on the heavy-handed artistry of everybody's favorite conspiracy theorist, you're either in for a treat or some torture.
Personally, I'm a big fan. And as such, I enjoyed "Savages" very, very much. But there's good reason why it's currently at 53% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's not for everyone, and it would be extraordinarily easy to put on a critics hat and point out the ludicrous elements. I mean, they're there in abundance. But if you're a fan of Oliver Stone, and you like this lineup of performers, or if you just want to see a flashy, fun drug warfare romp… "Savages" is the movie for you.


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- Description
DetailsRaspberry Pi robot building kit: AlphaBot + Camera, Comes with US plug power adapter
Note: Raspberry Pi is NOT included.
This kit comes with AlphaBot robotic platform (line tracking, obstacle avoidance, speed measuring, IR control), and a camera (with servo and 2 DOF pan head).
With modules in the kit, you can fast get started with robotic development like line tracking, obstacle avoidance, IR remote control, and video monitoring via network, etc. What's more, thanks to the rich Raspberry Pi open source resources, and the modular design of AlphaBot, you'll learn how to extend and refit, and finally build your own Raspberry Pi robot.
AlphaBot Features
- Raspberry Pi/Arduino interfaces, works with either one separately, or both
- Arduino extend header, supports Arduino shields
- Modular design, plug-and-play modules like line tracking, obstacle avoidance, speed measuring, etc. eliminating the trouble of connecting mess wires.
- LM298P motor driver with diode protection circuit, more safety
- LM2596 voltage regular, provides stable 5V power to the Raspberry Pi/Arduino
- TLC1543 AD acquisition chip, allows the Pi to use analog sensors
What's on the AlphaBot Mainboard
- Raspberry Pi interface: for connecting Raspberry Pi
- Arduino interface: for connecting Arduino
- Motor interface
- Ultrasonic module interface
- Servo module interface
- Obstacle avoidance module interface
- Speed measuring interface
- Battery holder: supports 18650 batteries
- Reserved power input (not soldered): for connecting other external power supply
- Arduino expansion header: for connecting Arduino shields
- UART interface: for connecting Bluetooth module, to control the robot remotely via Bluetooth
- SPI interface: for connecting NRF24L01 wireless module
- Line tracking module interface
- TLC1543: 10-bit AD acquisition chip, allows the Pi to use analog sensors
- LM298P: dual H bridge motor driver chip, up to 2A current
- Anti-reverse diode
- Power switch
- LM2596: 5V regulator
- Power indicator
- UART switch: turn on to enable serial communication between Raspberry Pi and Arduino
- IR receiver: control the robot remotely via infrared
- Raspberry Pi/Arduino selection: select the Raspberry Pi or Arduino to control the robot peripherals
Infrared line tracking robot
Infrared obstacle avoidance robot
Ultrasonic obstacle avoidance robot
Infrared/Bluetooth remote control robot
Video monitoring robot
Note: photos are FOR REFERENCE ONLY, the other boards/modules/accessories are NOT included in the price.
Development Resources
Wiki : www.waveshare.com/wiki/AlphaBot
Selection Guide
Package Contents Products Item Description AlphaBot AlphaBot-Ar-Basic AlphaBot-Ar-Bluetooth AlphaBot-Pi Acc Pack AlphaBot-Pi AlphaBot-Pi3 B+ Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Raspberry Pi 3 Model B √ Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ √ UNO PLUS enhanced control board, Arduino compliant √ √ AlphaBot chassis kit mainboard, wheels, drivers, etc. √ √ √ √ √ √ Tracker Sensor line tracking module √ √ √ √ √ √ Photo Interrupter Sensor speed measuring module (2pcs) √ √ √ √ √ √ Infrared Proximity Sensor obstacle avoidance module (2pcs) √ √ √ √ √ √ IR remote controller remotely control the robot √ √ √ √ √ √ SG90 servo √ √ √ √ √ Ultrasonic sensor ultrasonic obstacle avoidance, distance measuring √ √ Accessory Shield accessories add-on board, Arduino compliant √ Dual-mode Bluetooth dual-mode Bluetooth module √ RPi Camera (B) Raspberry Pi camera, adjustable focus √ √ √ Micro SD Card 16GB 16GB Miro SD Card, class 10 √ √ √ 5V 3A Power Adapter Provides 5V 3A power supply, micro USB plug √ √ √
AlphaBot requires a control board, Arduino OR Raspberry Pi, if you don't have one in hand, please consider the other kits which includes a control board.
AlphaBot-Pi Acc Pack requires the control board Raspberry Pi, if you don't have one in hand, please consider the all-in-one kit: AlphaBot-Pi, AlphaBot-Pi3 B+
- Package Content
Weight: 0.526 kg
Quick Overview
AlphaBot Standard
Note: this product requires two 18650 batteries to work, which are NOT included and should be purchased separately.
- AlphaBot mainboard x1
- Tracker Sensor x1
- Photo Interrupter Sensor x2
- Infrared Proximity Sensor x2
- Motor with gearbox 2PCS x1
- AlphaBot wheel 2PCS x1
- AlphaBot acrylic chassis x1
- Motor mounting plate 4PCS x1
- omni-direction wheel x1
- 20-slots encoder disk 2PCS x1
- IR remote controller x1
- XH2.54 4cm 4Pin 2PCS x1
- XH2.54 4cm 3Pin 2PCS x1
- XH2.54 4cm 7Pin x1
- AlphaBot screws x1
Additional Parts in the Kit
For the power adapter, different types of plugs are available, please select the one compatible with your outlet: US, EU
- RPi Camera (B) x1
- SG90 servo x2
- 2 DOF pan and tilt kit x1
- 15PIN FFC 25cm x1
- Micro SD Card 16GB x1
- Power adapter US standard 5V/3A micro x1
- USB Micro-B to USB-C Adapter x1
- Micro SD Card Reader x 1 (Extra Free)


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Jennifer McDougall necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 150 diseños de 50 diseñadores freelance.
Dyna WebWorks
Dyna Web Works is a web marketing and website development company. We represent a blend of innovation and experience. We are often the 'all-things internet' department for our customers. We are friendly, down-to-earth consultants who are often the only source of web marketing training and advice for our customers. We've been in the information systems business for 35 years and Dyna Web Works is our new website development department. We have credibility, reliability and know-how. We are the feet-on-the-ground, get-the-job-done people. We don't wear suits very often, and some of us don't even own a tie.
Small businesses in small towns and rural areas. Smart, experienced people who are not particularly sophisticated. They are usually men about 45 years old who wear jeans, work hard and can't stand pretentiousness. Most of them have started their own business and spend their money cautiously. They care about honesty, reliability and value for their money. They don't like tinsel and glitter (but they don't mind impressing their friends with their new toys).
A logo that communicates a dynamic, but steady, practical company.
Colors gold and grey. (Gold to be something like #f49200). Logo design to include the name Dyna WebWorks, but logo also to stand well on its own when used without the name. (We want it to show well without the name when we have to use it at a size so small the name would not be readable.)
Logo (and company name) must be recognizable and readable at a glance. We want distinctiveness without clutter.
Logo must work well at large and small sizes (say 60px high). (Some loss of detail can be tolerated at small sizes, but the general impression must hold.) It must maintain its appearance well when in gray scale.
Logo will be favored if it looks equally good on white and black backgrounds, but white is most important.
DWW could be incorporated into the logo as long as it is simple. Convoluted contortions of the letters DWW will not be much appreciated. If the logo just subtly suggests DWW that would probably work, but if you don't want to use DWW at all, that is fine by us.
** Note that many entries in this contest to date have been eliminated because they fail to communicate a sense of movement, energy, dynamism.
Logo to be delivered in color and in gray scale. Author to name the font used for the company name.
Design in vectors with delivery in .png format with layers intact.
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10 top moments at the Colorado GOP Senate primary debate hosted by The Denver Post
The Denver Post hosted a 90-minute debate Tuesday night at its headquarters between the five candidates competing to run against Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet in November: Robert Blaha, Ryan Frazier, Darryl Glenn, Jack Graham and Jon Keyser. Below are clips from 10 top moments and exchanges from the Colorado GOP Senate primary debate.
1. In the first round of questions, Jon Keyser responded to a question asking whether he agreed with any votes by Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet by addressing recent reports about fraudulent signatures on his ballot petitions.
2. Darryl Glenn asked Keyser about the petition fraud issue by linking it with the honor code at the Air Force Academy, from which both graduated.
3. Asked about the often-proposed but never passed Employment Non-Discrimination Act, to provide protections for LGBT people, GOP Senate candidate Robert Blaha dismissed recent controversies about transgender rights.


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Our team are fully qualified and will take the time to understand and meet your needs. We take great pride in our work and treat any workspace like it's our own. We are available on shift 6 days a week and are on the phone and emails 7 days a week and will always guarantee you will be 100% satisfied with our service."


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Rjekce necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 105 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
We are a new business, and have not had any previous creative or branding. We do not need this first iteration to be perfect - "good" will suffice.
TheWritingFaculty.com is a new site that provides online writing tutoring for kids. We hire great writers and writing instructors to work one-to-one with students in a live online classroom. Our goal is to give kids instruction that will help them become better communicators and develop a love of writing.
We will be targeting the high end of the tutoring market, and want our branding to reflect a high-end luxury look and feel.
Our primary clientele will be wealthy parents. We expect that 80%-90% of the time it will be the student's mother who makes the purchasing decision. Some simple demographic/psychographic profiles would include:
- High and Ultra-High Income households
- Mothers, generally between the ages of 35 and 55
- College educated, with many having graduate degrees
To generalize on behaviors, the person making the purchasing decision is a wealthy mom who likely listens to NPR, may read the New Yorker or New York Times regularly, drives a luxury vehicle, and intends to send her children to an elite college or university. She may be involved with charities and other community organizations, and when it comes to her children she is willing to make any investment or sacrifice.
Many logos in the education and tutoring fields emphasize things like fun, energy, or achievement. For example, a common look involves a child-like figure reaching for a star. Others have cartoon like depictions of owls or other animals, and are clearly designed to appeal to children. In contrast, our logo should convey a sense of seriousness and sophistication. Families will be making big investments to have their children work with some of the best writing instructors in the world, and we want our branding to reflect that level of refinement.
Our colors should appeal to the female demographic described above. The majority of our marketing will be via online channels, thus the online version of our logo can utilize as many colors as necessary. However, we will require a two color version of the logo for use in printed communications.
The logo should incorporate the entire phrase "TheWritingFaculty.com". It's also important that the logo distinguish between the components of the name: "The", "Writing", and "Faculty.com". (ie: by capitalizing the first letter of each, using different colors for each segment, or some other creative treatment)
Size: We require the ability to make modifications in the future.
It is not necessary to include symbols or graphics. A creative and stylish presentation of just the name itself may suffice. If you do choose to use symbols or graphics, please avoid overused education/writing items (like pencils, owls, stars, upward arrows, etc.).
Other Notes:
The logo should be usable on a web site, stationary and business cards. If any third party graphic elements or fonts were used, we would like to be notified prior to the completion of the contest with instructions on how to get the proper licensing. Preference will be given to entries where that are 100% original without the use of external creative assets.
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Circus Collection Illustrated Writing Paper Set (A5) with envelopes
Circus Collection Illustrated Writing Paper Set (A5) with envelopes
Putting pen to paper has never been so much fun... illustrated by talented designer Debbie Bellaby, this Set is designed for Animal lovers, children and adults alike. Her gorgeous illustrations, inspired by the movie 'the Greatest Showman' are bright and colourful, showing the fun of the circus. A real treat for stationery addicts and the perfect introduction to the Hand-Written.
4 sheets of 5 designs - Prancing Pony, Juggling Cat, Ballon Elephant, Ring Master and Balloon Dog.
What's in my order?...
These adorable Stationery Sets contain 20 Sheets of A5 Writing Paper and matching envelopes, presented in a stunning gift Box.
Flat printed A5 170gsm Oyster White or Cream premium writing paper, letterheads do not display our HoneyTree watermark.
A5 writing paper = 14.8 x 21cm or 5.9 x 8.3 inches
If you are a writer of long letters, you can also purchase additional blank sheets to be part of your order.
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Favorite Holiday Shoes. PERIOD.
I am seriously, SERIOUSLY in love with the Kate Spade gold cap toe heels I got to wear for my event recently and I had to share because I think they are the best things ever for the holiday season. They look killer with jeans and dresses (and leather pants… and pencil skirts…) BAD ASS. My favorite shoe sin my closet right now by a mile. And comfy too!
Oh, and the adorable jeweled neckline top I wore is on mega sale now too.
P.S. The jeans are Citizens of Humanity Racer in Slash wash– slightly wider at the ankle to give a more flattering fit. I love the distressed wash too.
(Cole & Sons wallpaper in the dressing room is pretty damn rad as well.)
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Dave Petillo
Petillo Guitars
Ocean, NJ
|Above: Asbury Park, NJ, Boardwalk scene headstock overlay of American beech dyed sky blue with American plain maple wave shadows dyed dark navy blue. Inside the mother-of-pearl wave foam is engraved silver particle dust to mimic the silver salty sparkle of the ocean.
Petillo says working with his father was extremely advantageous: "My father once restored a hurdy-gurdy for the Smithsonian, which had old marquetry in it and he learned so much from the experience of working with such an old instrument. He saw how the old masters did their gluing and veneer cutting. Later, when I learned marquetry, it helped me understand and develop my techniques. My father initially learned pearl inlay from the D'Angelico's, and marquetry, boulle work, and metal carvings from Philipp Rimmler, who inlaid the Orient Express, the famous train. I am very fortunate to have learned the techniques of all these masters."
I asked Petillo to explain what marquetry is and how it works. "Marquetry," he told me, "is an art form using inlaid wood veneers to form a picture, pattern, or design. It is done in two different ways: with X-acto knife blades of varying shapes, and with a jigsaw. It differs from conventional inlays in that marquetry is done in an overlay form—you make the whole piece or scene as a single overlay and then glue it into the instrument, such as an entire headstock veneer featuring many intricate cut shapes and designs. For example, I'll make a background out of one piece of quilted maple and cut out and add flowers or something else to it, and glue the final piece onto the instrument all at once."
Both inlay and marquetry are complex and time consuming, says Petillo, but "with marquetry you're dealing strictly with wood veneers, which are soft, so the chance of the knife blade wandering off track is there if you're not careful."
Part of what makes a Petillo guitar unique is the bindings, backstrips and purflings that are all handmade. The process involves layering materials together in a long block—thick or thin wood, fiber or cellulose plastic—and gluing them. After the glue cures, thicknesses can be cut off the block with a very fine saw blade.
There are some clear advantages to working with wood instead of pearl when it comes to shading and fine detail: "It's easier with wood marquetry because wood is so soft. You can actually cut a flower petal and dip the ends in hot sand to create the shadowing, or, when it's all assembled, you can take gasoline on a Q-tip and touch it to certain areas, then using a piece of metal as a guide, take a propane torch and burn it. The flame follows the edge of the metal and then burns that shape of the metal. In burning the shadows into the marquetry itself you achieve a three dimensional effect. I use a very small propane torch. So after all the hard marquetry work is done, you risk ruining it by burning a hole in it! That's what makes it so much fun, the gamble."
Petillo headstock crown with flower cluster overlay. The leaves are Lebanon cedar dyed green and American poplar dyed light pink. The rest are natural color veneers.
Flower Bouquet on the back of a Petillo acoustic cutaway classical guitar. Pennsylvanian cherry and African ribbon-grain mahogany.
Butterfly headstock overlay of German maple dyed sky blue and American pine dyed yellow.
Steven Van Zandt's hand-lathed Nigerian ebony volume knob. Handcarved flower girl in pewter with inlaid South American purple heart wood veneer windows.


text: Pop duo Prima J feature the singing and dancing talents of cousins Jessica and Janelle Martinez. Raised in Rosemead, CA, the pair were encouraged to perform for their families from a young age, a passion they carried into their teens. Introduced to former Wild Orchid member Stefanie Ridel by singer Nikki Flores, Ridel mentored the duo and helped develop their dance-pop sound and live act. After Prima J were signed to Geffen Records, their debut single, "Rockstar," was featured on the Bratz motion picture soundtrack in 2007. The duo's full-length eponymous debut followed in 2008. ~ Matt Collar


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The Chemical Coaters Association International is a technical and professional organization that provides information and training on surface coating technologies.
CCAI's foundation is it's series of active local chapters across the U.S. that conduct technical meetings on all aspects of organic finishing. Chapters serve as an excellent forum to discuss regional concerns while offering outstanding networking opportunities for finishers and suppliers.
CCAI works to raise the standards of finishing operations through educational meetings and seminars, training manuals, certification programs, and outreach programs with colleges and universities.
If you are involved in industrial finishing operations, we invite you to take a look at all that CCAI can offer you. Surf our site, attend a local chapter event soon and join us for CCAI's FINISHING Pavilion & Conference at FABTECH each Fall!
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Wine Library began as a small New Jersey liquor store owned by Sasha Vaynerchuk, a recent immigrant from Babruysk (now Belarus). Gary grew up in the businesss, sweeping floors at first, then selling on the floor before he was old enough to drink.
Eventually, Gary took over his father's business and started to inject his own personality into the brand. WineLibrary.com was an eCommerce trail blazer and Gary used tools like email lists and video to expand the reach beyond New Jersey.
Last week, I sat down with Gary Vaynerchuk over Skype to talk about his entrepreneurial roots. Due to some technical difficulties with the call, there's no video to post. Fret not, every detail of the conversation has been meticulously recorded below for posterity.
Mike Freeman - Hi Gary, you're coming to us today from the Vaynermedia office in New York?
Gary Vaynerchuk - Yes, which we're about to move out of. Couple more days until the big move to our third office in three years. Good growth going on here and things are good.
Mike Freeman - Excellent. I wanted to chat today about your entrepreneurial history and how you built an online retail empire with Wine Library. I'd like to start all the way at the beginning, your family moved to the U.S. when you were around 3 years old. How long after that did your father start up his own liquor store?
Gary Vaynerchuk - He started working for one probably about 6 months after arriving and then eventually became the manager. He bought his own small store about 5 years later. He did an amazing job to come to this country with no money and no language and get to that place in 5 or 6 years, it's incredible.
Mike Freeman - I read that one of your first business ventures began with a $1,000 loan from your dad. Want to tell us a little about that?
Gary Vaynerchuk - Ya, sure. When I was 13 or so, my dad lent me $1,000 to buy baseball cards and I blew it. The best part of the story is, I went to Costco, Price Club at the time, and bought a bunch of boxes of a non-good year, non-good sets, because I was just too excited. It was burning a hole in my pocket. I pretty much burnt that thousand. So, I had to really hustle, but I payed him back very, very quickly and that started my career.
Mike Freeman - It's always interesting to hear about entrepreneur's first businesses when they were kids.
Gary Vaynerchuk - Ya, going back even further, when I was 5, I was doing lemonade stands, washing cars, shovelling snow.
Mike Freeman - As a family business, I guess you started working pretty early in the store?
Gary Vaynerchuk - When I was 13 or 14 my father dragged me into the store and I've been pretty much working there until now, when we started Vaynermedia and I'm a little less involved. It was every weekend, every school holiday, every day of the summer. I was really all-in, I worked every day of my freshman, softmore, junior and senior year. And I mean everyday, literally from the first day of the summer to the last, except for Sundays sporadically. It was definitely something were I worked a lot.
Mike Freeman - How did the passion for wine start for you? Especially since you were so young?
Gary Vaynerchuk - It was kinda by default. I didn't care about liquor and beer. Wine was the only interesting thing, it had more to it, and so that's how it happened.
Mike Freeman - Being under-age and not really able to drink, how did you start getting your fingers wet?
Gary Vaynerchuk - I just read a crapload. I don't know if you've ever heard of this thing called books? Back in the day, we had them and I read them, and I read them heavily. I read the magazines, I was a very big reader of Wine Spectator and Robert Parkers' Wine Advocate. And I just listened, I listened to customers. I used my ears quite a bit in those early days.
Mike Freeman - When did you start playing a bigger, more managerial role in the business?
Gary Vaynerchuk - Probably at about 16 or 17 I started to become a bigger sales force in the business. Then by 18 or 19 I started chirping in my dad's ear. By the time I was 22, I basically ran and made the decisions day-to-day. I took over operations in '98 and we moved into the new building in 2003.
Mike Freeman - Were you already pretty online savvy at that time?
Gary Vaynerchuk - A little bit. I mean I wasn't online savvy until 1994-95. In 1995-96-97, I started selling things on eBay and AOL chatboards. Selling baseball cards, collectable toys and Star Wars figures. I started understanding retail online. But, I was no where close to the savvyness that I am today, or the first 1.0 bubble entrepreneurs. They understood much, much more. I was just a better business man, but I wasn't as technically savvy. Now I have both, I'm like a super hero… just kidding :)
Actually, I'm having a new epiphany Mike, I'll be honest with you. Over the last five years I've been so heavy into becoming technically strong, I think I forgot, maybe 1% forgot, it all comes down to business chops. There are way too many start-ups and companies right now that suck. They've raised $5 million, they have NFC technology with virtual goods in the cloud, they've got the buzzwords down, they work their Facebook and Twitter, but, they can't sell shit. They don't understand how to run a real business. I'm starting to focus more on that.
Mike Freeman - Ya, I think we've all learnt that the rules of business still do apply, whether its online or offline, it's not some brave new world were everything gets thrown out the door.
Gary Vaynerchuk - No, the artists have not taken over the business. It's the truth. You've got to have a combination of them both to be really good.
Mike Freeman - What was it like building an ecommerce site back in 1996? Couldn't have been easy, one of the trailblazers I guess.
Gary Vaynerchuk - I got ripped off by some guy, some guy named Alex to make an HTML website for like $15,000 that probably took him 2 days. It sucked. I mean 1996-97-98, we didn't do anything. Then I met Eric and John, and they ended up becoming our full-time developers. They're the ones that took us into the modern age. I sucked out a lot of information from them, they sucked out a lot of information from me, and we became a really strong force. Wine Library became a real player in 2000.
Mike Freeman - A lot brick and mortar businesses still aren't really selling online. They have a website with their address and an email on it. How did moving online effect the retail store? Was it a positive, negative or neutral sort of thing?
Gary Vaynerchuk - It was hugely positive. But it was mainly the email service that was driving it. I understood data collection and that was a big thing. It was a huge force in our growth. It is the reason that I am relevant. There was no way I was building something from $3 million to $60 million in a heartbeat without the Internet or the website. It was the catalyst, it was the springboard.
Now, I look at social media and it's the same thing, but it takes longer for it to develop. It's running a marathon instead of sprint. Email and Google AdWords is a sprint, social media is a marathon. Together, you're an unstoppable force.
Mike Freeman - A big part of Wine Library's success is obviously your personality, and energy. The decision to do video reviews is what propelled Wine Library beyond just wine enthusiasts. What brought you to realize that was going to be a great decision?
Gary Vaynerchuk - Same reason I started using Twitter very early. Same reason in 2008 when I wrote Crush It!, I told everyone to bet on Tumblr. I am a good entrepreneur, and a good entrepreneur tastes the vibrations of where the world's going. I feel like that's what I did. Why did I do it? Cause I thought online video was going to be a big deal. Honestly I had no clue that I would be good at it. I just knew that I wanted to try it because it was going to be a big deal. Nothing really too crazy. I saw Youtube a few months earlier, payed attention, saw Lazy Sunday go very viral. I watched zefrank build an audience and said "I can do this". I have enough wine knowledge, I didn't realize I'd be so entertaining, I didn't realize I was a showman, or an extravert on-screen, but I ended up being that too, which didn't hurt. But the thesis was video was going to be big and I wanted to be a part of it.
Mike Freeman - Unfortunately for us, you've hung up your hat in the wine review business. Is that just to move on to bigger and better things?
Gary Vaynerchuk - Ya, I think I'm leaving the same way I came in. I woke up one day, I watched zefrank and Youtube and was like "I gotta do this". I woke up one day this summer and said; "If I want to buy the NY Jets one day, if I want to be the entrepreneur that I am, I need to move on". I've done this everyday of my life for five and a half years. I don't mail these in, they're 20-30 minute videos. I've put out a lot of content and I've owned it. I got a really nice compliment from Anil Dash, one of the real pioneers of the internet, he was introducing me to some friends and he said "nobody's really done it on video the way Gary did. As hard, for as long, at that quality level". There's Youtube stars that have made it even bigger, you look at someone like Perez Hilton, that's become a huge brand out of blogging. So there's people who have done it, but I'll definitely be one of the posterchildren, especially because I was very tech oriented, very early, on Twitter. Up until the Ashtons of the world came in, I was a top 30 followed person on Twitter. This has been a big part of my growth, I just felt like it was time to move on.
Mike Freeman - I guess you probably have put out the most content of any single individual in a lot of ways.
Gary Vaynerchuk - Ya, I think for non-Youtube celebrity, cause as you know, Youtube was not where I did it, I used Viddler. As a non-Youtube video person, I gotta be way up there because Youtube is such an ecosystem, most people bet on that.
Mike Freeman - You always push engagement over just blasting out ads or other things like that. With Wine Library everything you have done has been about engagement, from the 1996 email lists up to the more recent videos.
Gary Vaynerchuk - Everyone is in the content business and I'm in the context business. That is the battle that I'm fighting. That's what I care about, it's what I think about, it's how I roll. Everybody wants to throw the football, I want to catch it.
Mike Freeman - Your new venture, well not so new, Vaynermedia, what do you guys do and why are you 10 times more awesome than everyone else?
Gary Vaynerchuk - Ya know, I think we're 10 times more awesome than everyone else because of the quality of the work. The thesis isn't crazy - we are a social media consultant/community management company. We focus on a couple of core things: 1) consultancy, meaning making our clients smart, knowing what's going on with Instagram, Tumblr, how to use it and why should we use Quora and Google+ , what do we do blah, blah, blah. Understanding the client's needs and how we can use those emerging platforms to help the customer. 2) we really focus on community management, we're really in the context game. We really work and fight to win the context battle for our clients. We'll apply the principals of The Thank You Economy to a client's business, whether it's Campbell's or PepsiCo or the NY Jets. We've done it really successfully. The retention of our clients has been remarkable and that's what I most proud of.
Mike Freeman - And the result is having to move to new offices every couple of years.
Gary Vaynerchuk - That has been the growth. We're up to 35 employees. I'm excited, confident and now that I have even more time to spend I feel like I can help out A.J., my brother and partner, even more.
Mike Freeman - It's always kinda been a family business for you.
Gary Vaynerchuk - Family first, Mike Freeman.
Mike Freeman - Thanks a lot for talking to us today.
Gary Vaynerchuk - Thanks so much.


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Titanic and Belfast: The Ship of Dreams comes alive
Editor's Note: Janet Kalstrom, a docent at The Molly Brown House Museum, is a passenger on the Titanic Memorial Cruise, retracing the voyage of the doomed ship. Here is a running account of her journey, which culuminates April 15 at the site in the North Atlantic where the Titanic sank in the early morning hours.
We arrived in Belfast to find an atmosphere of recognition and a sense of pride to have much of Titanic's construction infrastructure still here today. Our room on the ship faced directly across from the dry dock used by Titanic and many other ships as well as the huge gantries, Samson and Goliath, built and used for the construction. This equipment was not just an artifact or a picture but major parts of the infrastructure used to build these massive ships 100 years ago.


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UW-Madison open only for essential functions Thursday
MADISON (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison will be open only for essential operations Thursday as a winter storm bears down on southern Wisconsin.
The university says scheduled, in-person final exam meetings will not be held.
Students who have finals scheduled for Thursday are asked to wait for information from their teachers. Instructors have been told to offer alternative final exams or make grade evaluations based on work to date.
Finals are expected to be held as scheduled on Friday and Saturday.
UW-Madison employees who are designated as essential should report to work. Other employees will need to use vacation, personal holiday or compensatory time, or leave without pay. With a supervisor's approval, employees may also work from home or in an alternate location.
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With a huge selection of engines it would be wise to book a test drive to find out the perfect spec for you. The 1.4-litre turbo offers great performance amongst the petrols while the 118bhp and 138bhp 2.0-litre diesels are popular with diesel fans. Handling-wise a poised chassis, responsive steering and tonnes of grip make for a fun drive. There is also the 1.6-litre petrol turbo engine which delivers a smooth and quiet drive if not a economical as the diesel models. The VXR SuperSport has now replaced the standard VXR and clocks an impressive top speed of 170mph making it the fastest car on sale in the UK for under £30k. With an impressive ability to reach 0-62mph in 5.6 seconds and a HiPerStrut suspension system, the Insignia deserves its place as a favourite amongst the Vauxhall fleet.
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Last night I had the opportunity to head to the Bata Shoe Museum and check out the Out of the Box exhibit which showcases the progressions of Sneakers over the past 100 years.
Normally I would give a bunch of details about my experience, but this is something you have to go see for yourself. If you love sneakers, you have to go see this exhibit!
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- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
- 1/2 cup ice water, divided
- 6 cups peeled and sliced ripe peaches (about 3 pounds)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
- Grated rind of ½ lemon
- 1 tablespoon Lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons Amaretto
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 egg white, lightly beaten
- Cinnamon-sugar or turbinado sugar, optional
- To prepare pastry, combine flour and salt in bowl of a food processor fitted with a chilled steel blade. Pulse to combine; add butter. Pulse until texture resembles coarse meal. (Or cut butter into flour with a pastry blender or your fingers.) Add water, processing until just combined. Press mixture gently into 4-inch circle on plastic wrap; cover. Chill 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- To prepare fruit, combine peaches, sugar and flour; toss well. Add lemon rind, lemon juice, Amaretto, nutmeg, salt and butter; toss well.
- Lightly flour a work surface. Roll out half the pastry dough to a thickness of 1/8 inch. Line a 2-quart casserole (2 1/2-inches deep) with pastry, trimming to fit. Spoon fruit into casserole.
- Roll out remaining pastry to a thickness of 1/8 inch. Place over fruit. Moisten edges of the top and sides with a little water, press them together and crimp decoratively. Cut several slits in top crust. Brush crust with egg white and sprinkle generously with cinnamon-sugar, if using.
- Place dish on a rimmed baking sheet and bake 45 to 50 minutes, until top is golden brown and fruit is bubbly.
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Cubs-Rangers game at Wrigley postponed by rain
No makeup date announced; Thursday's matinee may also be washed out
CHICAGO -- Wednesday night's Cubs game against the Rangers at Wrigley Field was postponed at about 5 p.m. CT because of the "forecast of rain throughout the remainder of the evening."
A makeup date has yet to be established. The Cubs and Rangers are scheduled to play the third game of the series on Thursday at 1:20 p.m. CT at Wrigley. It is Texas' only trip to Wrigley this season.
The forecast for Thursday calls for a 100 percent chance of rain, with strong storms and wind and a high of 67 degrees.
Chicago's rotation will stay in line, with Wednesday starter Carlos Villanueva scheduled to go Thursday against Texas righty Alexi Ogando. Villanueva will be followed by Jeff Samardzija, Edwin Jackson and Scott Feldman this weekend against the Brewers in Milwaukee.
Because it's the Rangers' only visit to Wrigley, the decision was in the hands of Major League Baseball. The two days that are being discussed as makeup dates are May 6 and May 9. Both teams are off those days and the Rangers play a two-game series with the Brewers on May 7-8 in Milwaukee.
Fans are encouraged to retain their tickets from Wednesday's postponed game to use for the makeup date.
It is the Cubs' second rainout of the year, after a meeting with the Brewers on April 10 was rained out and rescheduled for July 30 at 1:20 p.m. CT.


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Boyhood pals Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman released their first cookbook Tuesday, pictured above.
Collards & Carbonara, the debut cookbook from Memphis chefs Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman, hit retail stores this week, and Memphis Stew is celebrating with a drawing to win a copy of the book and a stainless-steel fry pan from Williams-Sonoma.
The book is a gorgeous collection of more than 100 recipes developed by the chefs at their two popular restaurants in East Memphis, Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen and Hog & Hominy. The book was published by Weldon Owen, the company responsible for many of Williams-Sonoma's popular publications.
To participate in the drawing, leave a comment on this post describing your favorite dish from one of the chefs' restaurants and email me your contact information (firstname.lastname@example.com.) I'll draw a winner next week.
If you can't wait to get a look at the book, then head Saturday to the Williams-Sonoma store in Germantown where the award-winning chefs will sign
books and demonstrate how to prepare Brussels Sprout with Speck, Tomatoes and Bacon Jam. The dish is a delicious example of the chefs' signature style that combines classic Southern ingredients with traditional Italian cooking.
Participants can purchase the cookbook ahead of time by calling the store. But don't wait too long. "The books are flying out of here," said store manager Debbie Lammel. Pre-purchased copies will be available for pickup Saturday and will be signed by Ticer and Hudman before the event begins.
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Blizzard puts a chill into Monday's staffing levels
Area businesses that didn't go into hibernation after Friday's crippling blizzard were struggling on Monday to find employees who were able dig out of their snowbound neighborhoods and make it to work.
Bledar Nasse, manager of Bob's Discount Furniture on Lafayette Boulevard in Bridgeport, drove in from East Haven Monday morning to open the store, which he was running on a skeleton crew. But determined employees are finding a way to come in, despite the road issues, he said.
"I had a cleaning lady walk to work," he said. "People still have to pay the bills."
Across the state, businesses were dealing with the problem of finding workers who could make the commute on roads still choked with snow and ice.
Bridgeport was hit with 30 inches from the storm. Danbury got 21.5 inches, Stamford 19 inches. Across the state, snow totals ranged from 12 inches to 40 inches, according to the National Weather Service.
By Monday, the highways were fairly clear, but many workers were stranded in neighborhoods because streets were still treacherous or because they had to stay home with their children. Most schools were closed and many daycare centers also shut down.
It left businesses with skeleton crews, like at Bob's, or forced some to close.
"It's difficult," Nasse said. His store was also open Sunday, with just a manager and one sales associate.
On Monday, he had three sales people in and he was basically the only person taking care of the administrative duties. For some businesses, a lack of workers can lead to paying overtime to cover shifts, but at Bob's and others, where the staff works on commission, that's less of a problem.
Stores that were open after the storm did a brisk business. Bob's had $4,400 in sales on Sunday. At the Dunkin Donuts next door and at locations in other towns, people were trudging in for coffee and a quick bite.
And some businesses saw a spike in business as a result of the storm, like Danbury-based Ness Automotive, which sells and services plows.
"Busy," was how co-owner Greg Saltz described business on Monday. During the storm, Ness was open for 24 hours, with Saltz doing repair work on municipal, commercial and personal-use plows through the night. In all, 40 plows were fixed and Saltz put in 39 hours straight.
"Sleep deprivation," has been the biggest challenge, he said, as all five employees showed up for their shifts Monday. But the company made sure they had a way in and home.
"We tried to make sure if we needed to pick them up, one of us would pick them up," he said.
But not all businesses were able to open and that hit them hard in the pocketbook.
Lolly Turner, owner of the Whistle Stop Muffin Co. in Ridgefield, was closed for 1 ½ days and was unable to serve her customers.
"It's been kind of terrible. We're playing catch-up because we have Valentine's Day coming up," she said. "I've got great employees. Today, there are three of us."
Typically, she and four employees operate the business, but two were snowbound.
Besides retail operations, the Whistle Stop's wholesale business also has been impacted because delivery service has been difficult.
"If we can, we can, if we can't we can't," Turner said. "People understand because they're in the same boat."
Joe McGee, vice president of policy development at The Business Council of Fairfield County, said these storms tend to hurt retailers, manufacturers and small businesses more than the larger corporations.
"Retail takes a big hit because they're closed," he said.
Some that do open, might not have enough customers to counter the cost of the staff, especially those that work overtime.
"A lot of the larger companies, you can work from home," he said. "If it's a one day outage, large companies can handle it."
Businesses with coffee and food that were open seemed to do well, McGee said.
"We went out to a diner in Westport (after the storm) and it was jammed out the door," he said. But a lot of other restaurants weren't open on the Post Road, mostly because the help couldn't get there.
Fairfeld dentist Jon Davis has been through this before. His practice was open during the blizzard of 1978.
"Eventually, you make it back up," he said of the canceled appointments.
On Monday, all but one of his staff was able to make it in and they had appointments throughout the morning, though he closed after half a day.
"We had quite a few kids scheduled for this afternoon, but we rescheduled them," he said, out of concern for safety.
Despite closing the office early, he said he paid his staff for a full day.
"They're good employees," he said.
Attorney Stuart Katz, head of Bridgeport-based firm Cohen and Wolf's employment and labor group, said employers should understand there are potential difficulties that could arise on how they handle opening during or after a storm, including overtime pay. So it's wise to have policies in place spelling out how you're going to handle these situations.
Generally, hourly wage workers only get paid when they come in, but Katz said if a business closes, the employees could in some cases file for unemployment insurance benefits. Salaried workers get paid their wages if they work any day of the week, he noted.
Some employers allow workers to use paid-time off on snow days and some don't.
While Katz said he doesn't see many legal cases associated with weather events, he gets calls after storms like this to consult on establishing policies and recommends that businesses take this time to review theirs.
The costs of running a business -- such items as rent, salaries, taxes, and inventory -- are there whether you are able to open or not, Katz said. The key is to be open if there are customers out, and Nasse at Bob's Discount furniture said storms will bring people out.
"People like chaos," Nasse said. "They're always looking for deals."
Staff Writer Richard Lee contributed to this report.
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