Operation Gratitude

Operation Gratitude is a 501(c)(3), non-profit, volunteer-based organization that annually sends 100,000 care packages filled with snacks, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation addressed to individually named U.S. Service Members deployed in hostile regions, to their children left behind and to Wounded Warriors recuperating in Transition Units. Our mission is to lift morale, bring [...]

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Sociological Images

Sociological Images: Seeing is Believing was developed in 2007 by sociology professors Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp. The pair of sociologists met in graduate school at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and their initial motivation for the blog was to create a place for professors to swap images. As more and more began to read the [...]

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Bruce Price Cottage

Bruce Price Cottage is one of four “cottages” constructed by Bruce Price on Pepperidge Road in Tuxedo Park. Price was the founding architect of the Tuxedo Park estate, where he designed and built a number of the large mansions. Bruce Price Cottage and other constructions in Tuxedo Park were highly influential on the style of [...]

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Raditaz

Raditaz is an internet radio streaming music service for the web, iOS, and Android.[2] Raditaz is a free product, and users can create stations, listen to over 200 custom-curated stations, and utilize the tagging system to personalize their stations. Users can find stations not just based on artists, songs, and genres, but also based on [...]

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Delicious (website)

Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs. The site was sold to [...]

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SnapTag

SnapTag, invented by SpyderLynk, is a 2D mobile barcode alternative similar to a QR code, but that uses an icon or company logo and code ring rather than a square pattern of black dots. Similar to a QR code, SnapTags can be used to take consumers to a brand’s website, but can also facilitate mobile [...]

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FirstMark Capital

FirstMark Capital is a private equity firm focusing on venture capital transactions. FirstMark invests in early stage technology companies, frequently as the first institutional investor, and is based in New York City.Among the firm’s areas of focus are: Data and analytics Emerging Internet and advertising Cloud infrastructure software Vertical applications and solutions The founders of [...]

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Pro-ana

Pro-ana refers to the promotion of the eating disorder anorexia nervosa. It is often referred to simply as “ana” and is sometimes personified by anorexics as a girl named Ana. The lesser-used term pro-mia refers likewise to bulimia nervosa and is sometimes used interchangeably with pro-ana. Pro-ana organizations differ widely in their stances. Most claim [...]

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Scott Belsky

Scott Belsky (born April 18, 1980) is an American entrepreneur and best-selling author, best known for co-creating the online portfolio platform for creative professionals to showcase and discover work, Behance, Inc. In 2010, Belsky was included in Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” list and Belsky is also an active angel investor and [...]

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Justine Musk

Justine Musk (born Jennifer J. Wilson in 1972 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada) is the author of BloodAngel, published in 2005 by the ROC imprint of Penguin Books. BloodAngel is considered a contemporary fantasy novel. Her second book, Uninvited, was released in 2007. Uninvited is an unrelated work intended for young adult readers. A sequel to [...]

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