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Expo may refer to:

• Expo (exhibition), short for "exposition", and also known as World's Fair
• A trade fair, an exhibition where companies in an industry showcase and demonstrate their latest products

• Computer expo, a trade fair focused on computers and electronics

• Singapore Expo, convention and exhibition venue
• Expo MRT Station, part of the Singapore MRT Changi Airport Extension
• Expo (magazine), an anti-fascist magazine
• Expo (album), a 2005 album by Robert Schneider/Marbles
• Expo (Stockhausen) (1970), a composition for three players by Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Expo Channel, a home shopping channel in Australia
• Montreal Expos, a baseball team located in Montreal from 1969 to 2004
• Windows Live Expo, a social classifieds web site
• Expo Dry Erase Products, Sanford Corp's brand of dry erase markers
• Expo Design Center, a chain of high end home furnishing and decor stores owned by The Home Depot
• LG eXpo, a mobile phone

See also[link]

• Exposition (disambiguation)
• Exhibition (disambiguation)

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Chet Faliszek (born 1965) is an American videogame writer and one of the main writers for the Valve Corporation, along with Erik Wolpaw and Marc Laidlaw. He has worked together with his co-writers in order to create the storylines for the Half-Life and Portal series, along with having personally written the story for Left 4 Dead.^[1][2] Faliszek was also the creator of the Old Man Murray website with Wolpaw, which was shut down in 2002.^[3]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Chet Faliszek at the Internet Movie Database

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Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk
Born	(1975-11-14) November 14, 1975 (age 36) Babruysk, U.S.S.R.
Known for	Wine education, wine criticism, social marketing
Notable work(s)	Wine Library TV
Website
garyvaynerchuk.com

Gary Vaynerchuk (born November 14, 1975, in Babruysk, U.S.S.R. [presently Belarus]) is a video blogger, co-owner and director of operations of a wine retail store, and an author and public speaker on the subjects of social media, brand building and e-commerce. Vaynerchuk immigrated to the U.S. in 1978, and after graduating from Mount Ida College in Newton, MA, transformed his father's Springfield, NJ liquor store into a large scale retail wine store named Wine Library,^[1] and in 2006 started the video blog Wine Library TV, a daily internet webcast on the subject of wine, which launched his career of internet celebrity.

Reaction[link]

He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal,^[2] GQ, and Time,^[3] appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Ellen.^[4] Vaynerchuk has been described as "the first wine guru of the YouTube era",^[5][6] "the wine world's new superstar",^[7] and by Rob Newsom, a Washington State wine maker, "outside of Robert Parker, probably the most influential wine critic in the United States".^[8] In the July 2009 Decanter publication of "The Power List" ranking of the wine industry's individuals of influence, Vaynerchuk placed at number 40, citing that he "represents the power of blogging".^[9][10]

In August 2010 it was announced that Vaynerchuk will host a weekly, two hour call-in radio show titled Wine & Web with Gary Vaynerchuk on the digital radio station Sirius XM.^[11]

[edit] Wine Library TV

New Media Expo 2008

Left: with Justine Ezarik & Leo Laporte  Right: with Ezarik, et al.

Wine Library TV (WLTV or The Thunder Show) (2006–2011) was a video podcast hosted by Vaynerchuk, featuring wine reviews and advice on wine appreciation. Episodes consisted of wine tastings along with other wine related topics. The show debuted on February 21, 2006, and is produced on a daily basis, on weekdays, and is taped in the Wine Library store in Springfield, NJ. Episodes taped Monday through Thursday usually took place on a desk in Vaynerchuk's office, normally tasting three or four wines, and the Friday episode took place on Vaynerchuk's office couch, tasting usually only one wine and answering questions submitted via his Facebook application Ask Gary.^[12] The show may be watched by 90,000 viewers.^[13] Vaynerchuk appeared on the cover of the December 2008 issue of Mutineer Magazine, launching the "Mutineer Interview" series.

After 1,000 episodes of Wine Library TV, the show was retired in March 2011 ^[14], replaced by a very similar video podcast called The Daily Grape, with a slightly shorter format of only two wine reviews, and fewer guests.

Vaynerchuk gives his impressions and finally rates wines using the 100 point scale. As an outspoken critic of numerical scores, he has acknowledged his hypocrisy in using them.^[5][15]

While typically a one man show, on occasion guests have been featured in the program. To date celebrity guests include Jancis Robinson,^[13] Heidi Barrett, George M. Taber, Kevin Rose, Maynard James Keenan, Michael Steinberger, Ingrid Hoffmann, Timothy Ferriss, Jim Cramer of CNBC's Mad Money, Kermit Lynch, Wayne Gretzky, and Dick Vermeil.^[16]

Vaynerchuk has also announced a partnership with Eatdrinkordie.com, where he has released videos about wine, sometimes working with celebrities like Anna Faris.

In March 2009, Wine Library TV was nominated in the Streamy Awards.

August 23rd, 2011 he announced on Daily Grape that he is retiring from wine video blogging. ^[17]

[edit] Crush It

In March 2009, Vaynerchuk signed a 10-book deal with HarperStudio for over $1,000,000 and released the first book, Crush It! Why Now is the Time to Cash in on your Passion, in October 2009. The deal is groundbreaking in the publishing world as one of the first attempts to successfully use a low-advance/high royalty business model.^[18] In the first weeks of its release Crush It climbed to #1 on the Amazon Best Seller list for Web Marketing books. It also opened at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list and #7 on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller List.^[19]

The book encourages people to determine what truly makes them happy and pursue monetizing around it on the internet. It argues that because of recent social and technological trends the cost of producing content has been driven low enough that passion, knowledge, and effort, which the book calls "sweat equity", are now all one needs to build a brand and business.

Crush It was also among the first books released on the Vook platform.^[20]

Vaynerchuk appeared in an episode of the CollegeHumor web series Jake and Amir in 2009, and parodied the slightly nonsensical aspect of Crush It.

Awards and honors[link]

• 2003: Market Watch magazine Business Award: "Market Watch Leader" (youngest recipient ever)
• 2006: People's Choice Vloggie in the categories of "Cooking" and "Instructional/Educational"^[21]
• 2007: American Wine Blog Awards, Best Wine Podcast or Videoblog^[22]
• 2007: The Morning News's "Favorite Web Phenomenon, Soon-to-Be Culinary Celebrity, Web Bucket-Spitter"^[23]
• 2008: Bravo A-List Awards, 2008 Nominee for A-List Celebrity
• 2011: The Wall Street Journal Twitter's Small Business Big Shots ^[24]

Bibliography[link]

• Gary Vaynerchuk's 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World (2008)
• Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion (2009)
• The Thank You Economy (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gary Vaynerchuk official site
• "Daily Grape". http://dailygrape.com/. 
• Wine Library TV
• Vaynermedia.com
• Gary Vaynerchuk talks Food & Wine at Epcot in Walt Disney World with Lou Mongello from WDWRadio
• Gary Vaynerchuk at the Internet Movie Database
• Crush It song official music video

Dean Hall (born November 16, 1957 in Palo Alto, California), is a former driver in the CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1990, 1991, and 1995 seasons with 21 career starts, including the 1990 Indianapolis 500. His best CART finish was in 11th position at the 1990 Cleveland Budweiser Grand Prix and the 1990 Ohio Red Roof Inns 200.

Before moving to CART, Hall was the 1988 West Coast Formula Atlantic Racing champion and the 1989 Formula Pacific champion. He also won the 1989 New Zealand Grand Prix while competing in New Zealand Formula Atlantic.

Racing record[link]

American open–wheel racing results[link]

(key)

Indy Lights[link]

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
1987	TEAMKAR International	PHX	MIL	MWL	CLE	TOR	POC 7	MDO	NAZ	LAG	MIA			22nd	6
1989	P.I.G. Racing	PHX 16	LBH 6	MIL 10	DET	POR	MWL	TOR	POC	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LAG	21st	11

CART[link]

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
1990	Dale Coyne Racing	PHX 15	LBH 18	INDY Ret	MIL 16	DET Ret	POR 14	CLE 11	MEA Ret	TOR 19	MIS Ret	DEN Ret	VAN 15	MDO 11	ROA Ret	NAZ	LS 21		25th	4
1991	Leader Card Racing	SRF Ret	LBH	PHX															30th	1
	Kent Baker Racing				INDY DNQ	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	MEA	TOR	MIS	DEN	VAN	MDO	ROA	NAZ	LS
1995	Dick Simon Racing	MIA 12	SRF 12	PHX 17	LBH 17	NAZ 16	INDY DNQ	MIL	DET	POR	ROA	TOR	CLE	MIS	MDO	NHM	VAN	LS	31st	2

Indianapolis 500[link]

External links[link]

• Driver Database Profile

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