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Tatoosh Sails In Miami Beach 

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The boat show is in town (Miami) this weekend, but Eliot and I got a special bonus when Paul Allen’s $160 million yacht sailed by our condo’s window this morning. 

The 3o3-foot vessel is called Tatoosh. It was originally built for Craig McCaw, founder of McCaw Cellular (now part of AT&T Mobility) and Clearwire Corporation.

Allen is the co-founder of Microsoft and one of the richest people in the world. Tatoosh was purchased by Allen in 2001 for approximately $100 million. 

Allen now has his own private asset management company named Vulcan Inc. Allen also owns three sports teams: the Seattle Seahawks (NFL), the Portland Trail Blazers (NBA), and the Seattle Sounders FC franchise (MLS).

By the way, Allen also owns a 414-foot yacht, the “Octopus.” Price tag $200 million.

He’s worth $19 billion. 
Tatoosh’s features include:

Five decks

A master suite, a saloon and other rooms on the top deck

A saloon with a French limestone fireplace, a dining area, staterooms and a ladies’ powder room on the main deck

A shaded 6 feet (1.8 m) deep swimming pool with adjustable floor in depth, located aft on the main deck beneath a full overhang;[11]

A movie theatre

Facilities to transport two helicopters on the top of two decks

A 46 feet power boat and sailboats

Give Conan O’Brien A Little Love  

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I need you to help me thank Conan O’Brien. The late night talk show host agreed to be the latest featured personality for the Waterpik® Water Flosser Celebrity Online Auction taking place February 23, 2017. The online auction will raise money for Hope Lives, a breast cancer support group in Colorado.

Please show him a little love and bid on his  signed Waterpik Water Flosser plus other goodies.  He agreed to help me and now I have to make sure he gets the proper attention.  

Auction begins February 23, 9pm EST. and ends 10 days later.

For more information visit click here. 

Conan O’Brien is best known for his years as a late night talk show host and current host of Conan on TBS. With the retirement of David Letterman on May 20, 2015, O’Brien became the longest-working of all current late-night talk show hosts in the United States, at 22 years.  

 Conan is also known for his years as a writer for Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons and for his stand-up comedy. He has also hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards for a number of years.

The auction will be heavily promoted on social media as well as a public relations campaign.

Waterpik®, a leader in innovative personal oral health care products for 55 years, has launched an online auction to support Hope Lives, a breast cancer support center in Colorado., Waterpik® has provided a line-up of celebrities with a Waterpik® Designer Series Water Flosser to decorate in their own unique style for the online auction to raise money for this important cause. 

Hope Lives provides not only emotional support, but a full complementary care program to help breast cancer survivors manage their daily routines. Waterpik® supports Hope Lives throughout the year through sales of their Pink Designer Series Water Flosser.

For this auction, Waterpik® has partnered with Auction Cause, the leader in cause marketing campaigns, branding, and fundraising which utilizes the eBay platform to run and manage auctions. Waterpik® is proud to sponsor this auction in support of this important cause. 

To bid on these one-of-a-kind collector’s items and for more information about the Waterpik® auctions visit ….

https://www.waterpik.com/oral-health/lp/conan

The Hope Lives, Lydia Dody Breast Cancer Support Center was founded in 2001 by Lydia Dody, a Fort Collins, CO businesswoman who had battled breast cancer. After her recovery, Lydia wanted to ensure that the women in Larimer County and Windsor, CO diagnosed each year received complete post-diagnosis support and care. http://www.hopelives.org.  
 

 

TV List

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Here is a list of the TV Shows and TV Movies  DigiDame readers suggested. Do you have any others? I’m filling in where to locate little by little. Feel free to fill in the blanks. 

A Place To Call Home–Amazon 

American Crimes–ABC

Black Mirror–Netflix

Bloodline–Netflix

Bluebloods–CBS

Broadchurch–ITV

Dancing On The Edge–BBC

DCI Banks–ITV

Dexter–Showtime

Foyle’s War–ITV

Frontier–Netflix

Goliath–Amazon

Good Behavior–TNT

Grace And Frankie–Netflix

Grand Hotel–Antena 3

Grandchester–ITV

Happy Valley–Netflix

Homeland–

House of Cards

Last Tango in Halifax

Lie To Me

Luther 

Mad Men

Madam Secretary

Marcella

Marco Polo 

Miss Fischer’s Murders

Narcos

Nobel

Orange is the new Black–Netflix 

Penny Dreadful–Netflix

Pie in the Sky

Rake

River

Sense 8

Sherlock

Sons of Anarchy 

Stranger Things 

Suites

Taboo

The Crown–Netflix

The Honorable Woman

The Fall

The Killing

The Last Detective

The Night Of

The OA–Netflix 

The You Pipe

This Is Us 

Time In Between 

Top Of The Lake

Velvet

Veep

Versailles

Vicious

Victoria

Vikings 

Westworld 

Witnesses 

  

A Not So Secret 18-Mile Wire Covers NYC 

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My Friend, Bobby Williams from Philadelphia, sent me a text over the weekend asking me if I knew that there was an 18-mile translucent wire that covers the outer rim of Manhattan. 

I immediately knew what he was talking about. He was blown away that I knew about the wire, but he didn’t. He’s African American and I’m Jewish. That’s didn’t matter. He said he had enough Jewish friends over the years that he should have heard something about it. He is also a voracious reader. How did he miss it?

The truth is that many Jews know nothing about the wire, called an eruv. I learned about it years ago when I had a second home in the Hamptons. Religious Jews in my neighborhood were required to buy homes where wires hung from utility poles. The wires provided ritual enclosures. It turned public space into private areas. 

An eruv does circle  Manhattan. It’s pretty incredible when you think about it. Look at the map. The eruv can also be found in many cities around the United States including St. Louis, Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, and Dallas. 

There is really a wonderful story about the construction and maintenance of eruvs in the video. I watched it and it’s fascinating. A publication called Mental Floss has a wonderful explanation as well. Click here. 

We all learn something new everyday. Thank you Bobby. 

Williams McCall Gallery 5th Anniversary 

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It was like a family event. Everyone loved celebrating the 5th Anniversary of the Williams McCall Gallery in South Beach. Gail Williams and Dawn McCall own the gallery, but everyone close to them felt connected too. We have all learned so much about gallery life and the art world. It has been so much fun. Thank you Ladies. Happy Anniversary. You deserve the best.






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Camera For An African Safari

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The next time you want to get up close and personal with African wildlife, you may want to consider the BeetleCam, a remote controlled buggy with a DSLR camera mounted on top.

Friends of mine told me about it because they said this little contraption will give me them better shots than what they have been able to achieve before.

Created by Will Burrard-Lucas and his brother, Matt, its first shots were released in 2010 in a series called “The Adventures of BeetleCam.” It filmed African wildlife in the Ruaha and Katavi National Parks in Tanzania — creating amazing pictures and videos of elephants, African buffalo and lions. 

Retail price $1.600. That seems pretty reasonable considering it could save your life while you are having fun photographing animals in the wild.

Good luck! 

A New Way To Feel Music 

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I know that people love to feel their music, but how far are they willing to go to experience the sensation?  That’s the question many tech reporters are asking Daniel Büttner, CEO, of a Berlin based company called Lofelt.

Lofelt is the maker of Basslet, a wrist-worn subwoofer that vibrates the user’s forearm in time with the music. A subwoofer is a type of loudspeaker that reproduces a low-pitched audio frequency known as bass.

I personally don’t like subwoofers because the pounding sound hurts my head and it feels like it is vibrating off my chest, similar to  palpitations. Many times over the years,  I have asked Eliot to disconnect the home subwoofer from the stereo system. I just hated the feeling.

Apparently, music lovers love the pounding feeling because it immerses them into the music. Now Büttner wants music lovers to experience the impact of a subwoofer on their forearms. 

I know this may seem weird to the average person, but Büttner came up with the idea when he was playing his stand-up bass. He explains it is a big resonant hollow hunk of wood that does indeed let the player feel the music.

The tech writers who reviewed the Basslet reported that they could feel the music, but only liked it for a short period of time. It just may appeal to audio lovers who appreciate feeling the music within their bodies. All they have to do is shell out $199 for the experience.

Read more about it in Tech Crunch. 

Madonna Vs. Lady Gaga

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I am working on an assignment for a client. We need your opinion. Please answer the following questions – Yes or No.

We are asking folks over 40 their opinion because we want a more mature view on these two major talents.

Please email your answer to loiswhitman@gmail.com.

 Your name will not be mentioned. All individual information is confidential.

 1) Do you think Lady Gaga is a Madonna imitator?

2) Do you think Lady Gaga is more talented than Madonna?

3) Do you think Lady Gaga will be as popular as Madonna at 50 plus?

 Comments?
Thank you.

A tech industry friend, Brad Stone, just wrote a new book, “The Upstarts,” about how certain new companies like Uber and Airbnb are changing the world. He’s the guy who also wrote “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.”  Brad is a senior executive editor at Bloomberg News, based in San Francisco. 

Anyone who is interested in starting a new venture should read this book. I read his Amazon book, which really gave me tremendous insight into how this company evolved.

I plan to start the “Upstarts” this week. I will let you know my thoughts just as soon as I am done.

With Gayle King of CBS This Morning

 

USA Today Flexes Digital Muscle 

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Seconds after Lady Gaga finished her halftime Super Bowl show, USA Today issued spectacular photos of it in an alert to readers. I was amazed that any news organization could get work out like that so fast. Yes, it is the digital age, but this was unusually fast.

I posted some of the photos that I received below. I was thrilled to get them because I was still exhilarated from Lady Gaga’s Tiffany’s TV commercial that appeared before her performance. I included the video here because I was hoping  you all would share Lady Gaga’s message with young women everywhere. She encourages girls growing up to seek individuality and to step outside their comfort zones in order to have happy lives.

Even at my age, I like to think that there is plenty of time for more daring steps. I can always hope.

Never Heard Before Stories About Andy Warhol

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Eliot and I were among many art lovers tonight who had the good fortune of hearing exciting stories about the good old days of Andy Warhol from former master printers for the pop-art icon. They also demonstrated Warhol’s innovative silkscreen process.

This all took place at the Williams McCall Gallery @ Frameworks in Coconut Grove, Florida. I have much of it on video so I am sharing it with you.


It was a tremendous treat to meet artists Debbie Carfagno, Michael Enns, and other associates, who told us what it was like working with Warhol, building the business, and producing the art work. We also learned why it’s impossible today to authenticate Warhol’s work.

The artists worked for Warhol in the late 1970’s until his death in 1987. Anyone who is interested in getting “Warholed” can contact me or the gallery directly.