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Jota Castro, Mortgage, (2009).

Some retailers have experimented with using signals from customers’ smartphones to track them as they walk through a store. But a new facial recognition system is helping luxury shops give the VIP treatment as soon as big spenders walk in the door.

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An interesting point about American culture. Why do we stigmatize the poor so much?

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From When we are all rich

Matias Costa

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Prediction: Royal Baby Fans Will Spend $238 Million on Souvenirs

The circus surrounding the coming child of the U.K’s Prince William and Kate Middleton isn’t just a global womb-watch. It’s also estimated to bring $380 million into the U.K.’s economy. And even though the country’s economic growth has ticked up a bit of late, Britain could still use the help.

Where’s this stimulus to come from, exactly? First, there are the parties. Joshua Bamfield, director of the Center for Retail Research, told Reuters that he estimates 4.8 million people will spend 62 million pounds on booze and 25 million pounds on food at parties to celebrate the royal infant. Bamfield also expects tourism to kick up in the months surrounding the birth, as it did by 13 percent in April. And some of that money will, as Bamfield told CNN, be spent on Keeping Up With the Windsors, as he expects more people to spend more on their own personal babies, as “they will want their baby in the local area to be up-market as well."

But most of all? The commemorative kitsch. So, so much kitsch.

Read more. [Image: Andrew Winning/Reuters]

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Trying to explain a panic attack to someone for whom anxiety is not an issue is like speaking in a foreign language. You really think your world is caving in. You’re going to have a heart attack. And no matter how many times it happens, it still feels like the world is falling out from your butt every. Single. Time. So what are you supposed to do when it drifts into your work life and career? I’m lucky in that when I started my own company I had to pitch myself and my services constantly. Doing the things that scare you more often makes them less scary.

CEO of FinePoint Digital PR Meredith Fineman suffers from panic attacks, but won’t let them destroy her life or work. (via fastcompany)

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If you don’t have a gardening service yet here in the Bay Area, this guy works at our complex during the week and has his own family business on the weekends. Love him! Honest and conscientious, the Santiagos got our overgrown peach tree uprooted in less than an hour. No joke. Please pass him on to your friends since he is such a gem and charged only a fraction of what others estimated.

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If you don’t have a gardening service yet here in the Bay Area, this guy works at our complex during the week and has his own family business on the weekends. Love him! Honest and conscientious, the Santiagos got our overgrown peach tree uprooted in less than an hour. No joke. Please pass him on to your friends since he is such a gem and charged only a fraction of what others estimated.

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The cost of higher education is dramatically outpacing the cost of living… Click here to tell Congress to keep student loan interest rates low: http://bit.ly/11Zapua

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In 1989, Jason Everman was a member of Nirvana, he later became an elite member of the U.S. Army Special Forces

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The best investment of our dollars in this country is investing in very young children and their families….It’s a beautiful investment.

Mariana Chilton (via azspot)

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Citizen Building Block #25: Take a First Aid Class - Adele Peters wrote in Health, First Aid and Disaster Preparedness

If you’re like me, you haven’t thought about the steps for CPR since health class in high school. Sign up for a first aid certification class through the Red Cross or another organization in your neighborhood so you can be prepared to help in case of an emergency.

Continue to redcross.org

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Rising income inequality is getting more difficult to ignore. Inequality.is, an interactive website, walks you through the problem (and helps give you ideas about the solution).

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Who is Don Mattrick, the guy who’s leaving Microsoft to join Zynga as CEO? Here, a few things you might want to know about him:

He is currently president of the company’s Interactive Entertainment unit

He was formerly at EA, where he was the force behind The Sims

He discovered a motion-control technology that had been kicking around the company but going nowhere. When Kinect launched in the fall of 2010, it became the fastest-selling consumer-electronics gadget of all time

He was the force behind the new Xbox One

He wears rainbow-stripe Paul Smith socks and once hired Cirque du Soleil to kick off a Microsoft event

His house is 25,000 square feet and is the largest in British Columbia

He has a 10-car garage

He’s worth $27 million

Here’s what else we know about Don Mattrick