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House Republicans poised to investigate Big Tech's social media censorship, any ties to Biden admin
November 30, 2022 3 Mins Read United States
House Republicans are refining their investigation of major tech companies, as the lawmakers preparing to take charge aim to unearth hidden censorship operations of Big Tech platforms and social media websites.
Top targets for investigation include: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, TikTok and YouTube, according to a source familiar with the House Judiciary Committee's strategy.
"The first step for us is getting all of the documents, getting to the bottom of this, exposing what happened," the source said.
While the judiciary committee digs into the companies' censorship records, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is poised to press the Biden administration for its records of government officials' private work encouraging online speech restrictions.
Commerce committee Republicans telegraphed their investigatory aims earlier this year in proposing more than a dozen resolutions of inquiry, which is a tool used by the House to obtain records and information from the executive branch.
Two of the requests focused on digital censorship issues and were rejected by the Democrat-controlled committee in September.
SEE ALSO: Experian settles for over $16 million with multiple states for 2015 data breach
Rep. Dan Bishop, North Carolina Republican, requested any records involving President Biden's team communicating and coordinating with social media platforms about digital censorship.
Rep. Buddy Carter, Georgia Republican, requested any records between Mr. Biden's team and the Federal Communications Commission involving Big Tech regulation and attempts to regulate broadcasters over misinformation concerns.
TikTok also is in the crosshairs of energy and commerce committee Republicans, particularly over alleged problems involving privacy and data security.
Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington and James Comer of Kentucky, the Republican leaders of the energy and commerce and oversight and reform committees, respectively, wrote a letter last week to TikTok's CEO requesting a range of information, including on the platform's negotiations with the Biden administration to resolve national security concerns.
Mr. Comer has made the Biden family a top subject of his oversight agenda. He wrote a letter to new Twitter owner Elon Musk in October making several requests for information, including any records between Twitter and the FBI or any other federal law enforcement or intelligence agency regarding the social media platform's restriction of news about Hunter Biden's laptop before the 2020 election.
Mr. Musk has teased releasing information about Twitter's censorship decisions predating his tenure, but he has hinted that he intends to do it on the platform, rather than handing it over to federal lawmakers.
"The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself," Mr. Musk tweeted Monday. "The public deserves to know what really happened."
Mr. Musk looks likely to avoid a grilling from House Republicans, but not from Democrats who have heaped scrutiny on the SpaceX and Tesla CEO since his takeover of Twitter and push to relax online speech restrictions.
Mr. Biden and White House officials have suggested Mr. Musk's takeover of Twitter is worthy of federal examination, but House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday that Mr. Musk should be off-limits.
"I think they should stop picking on Elon Musk," Mr. McCarthy told reporters outside the White House. "Elon Musk has succeeded in many places; I'd bet on him more than government going after you."
While the prominent figures atop the tech companies and federal agencies will draw congressional Republicans' wrath, GOP investigators figure also appear to be interested in the workers responsible for making censorship decisions affecting conservative voices and policymakers.

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Where do I begin? Oliver Sperling, Mike Jonker, Ada Herman and myself took a 4 day tour of the Bowron lakes. An amazing adventure with amazing views, lots of laughs and swimming in the buff. I will just toss out a few highlights.
Oliver said, "where is the washroom?"
Lowtar replied, "Do you mean the shitter or the pisser?, The pisser is outside anywhere and the shitter is in the hall way behind you."
He had a bit of trouble with adam's name thought it was Ada, that Lowtar is a colourful character, if you go up there make sure you ask him his opinion on canoe carts. Love that guy. We set off about 1pm on saturaday and found a sweet camp spot on Isaac Lake (my favorite lake) after about 6 km of portaging and 15 km of paddling. We decided to hold up in a cabin shelter which might have been out greatest mistake of the trip (next to Jonker playing a 4 of clubs in a wizzard game). We tried to fend of the Noseeums the best we could with some bounce sheets ( a little experiment) and Oliver may or may not have been attacked by a rat. (Ada does not buy into Oliver's claim of rat running over his foot).
We got up late and paddled about 25 km down Isaac watching osprey, loons, and the common mergancer. We arrived at our next and the nicest camp spot of the trip. No bugs, a sweet water fall that Mike found while bush whacking which is also the home of the American Dipper (a small blackish grey bird that inhabits fast moving creeks), a phenomenal sunset and hours of frolicking in the cold water under the hot sun free of any encumbrances.
We stirred late in the morning after a restful night and made our way to the danergous "chute"; a violent break neck funnel of water considered to be navigated by expert canoeists only. We nimbly handled the swift river (except the time when ada did not see the large rock in the water but my expert skills rescued the situation without incident.. not so lucky with the tree later on in the day). We all had high hopes of wild life on this leg of the journey after Jonker's wild tales of moose from 9 years ago but we had no luck. We settled in that night after a hard fought battle with the wind on Lanezi Lake in a black fly and mosquito swarm on Sandy lake (more rock then sand). Ada experienced a high and low moment of the trip at this camp site, the low being that his usual 20 minute bowel movements had to be cut short due to the enormous volume of mosquito's laying wait in the outhouse. I think that all mankind should cut a deal with the mosquito's so they leave us in peace during those more vunerable moments (see George from Seinfeld and the episode where he hits the squirrel.. also kramer and the merv griffin set.. Jerry has the girlfriend with the old toy collection, "you bring the box of wine and i will bring the turkey" - great episode).
Back to the trip, Ada's high would be his victory at wizard, a card game which was our entertainment for most evenings. Ada had trouble almost every game and usually had last place reserved but tonight was his night to shine although some could point to some incredibiling poor playing by Jonks as to the true cause of victory for Ada.
We hit the water quickly on day 4 becuase of the load of bugs at camp and made our way to Babcock creek where we dropped our gear and backtracked to Cariboo Falls. Ada's vision for objects had not been sharp all trip but he keenly spotted a creature swimming across the Cariboo river. We set off to investigate and discovered this squrrel swimming to the other bank. We (when i say we, i mean Ada and Myself.. we shared a canoe the entire trip) hastily grabbed our cameras to capture this grand event. Our canoe turned sideways as it drifted and the squirrel T-boned our canoe with a hollow sounding thud (that sound is something i will never forget). Ada and i had a good hearty chuckle and regard this as the greatest wildlife sighting of the trip, you just cannot beat a squirrel swimming into your canoe. We reached the falls after a short hike and enjoyed watching millions of liters of water crash down the 24 meter high falls.
We stopped for lunch at the end of the last portage of the trip and headed out on to the last of the lakes (spectacle and swan). There were a couple of beautiful beaches along the way, we stopped at one to fashion a quick sail which took advantage of the strong wind that was blowing that day, which died upon completion of building.
We paddled to a possible campsites at the end of swan lake and were dissappointed with what we found, so we proceeded down the Bowron river and shared a campsite with a very cool Swiss couple. We set up our tents with some frustration having not seen any large wildlife the entire trip but our luck quickly changed. During dinner a mother and calf walked right beside our campsite and spent 30 minutes grazing in the marsh as we watched and took numerous photos. Two more moose visited the camp that night as well as a few otters, a beaver and some toads. Just a great wildlife night.
But the night was still young, we headed into our tents for our last night on the lakes satisfied with great wildlife. Ada and Mike have been sharing a tent for the trip and developed a code word to get Ada to stop talking in his sleep. I had trouble sleeping and had been up for a few hours when i heard a litany of prophanity coming from Ada's tent. Ada continues to mumble something about saving Mike until Jonks asks Ada what the password is.. Ada pauses and answers the questions and asks why? Mike states,"Because you are saying stupid things." I laugh myself to sleep thinking the show is over but Ada is not really awake and proceeds to grab Jonk's arm then with a mighty kick to the back, knocks Jonks off his sleeping pad. Ada then falls back asleep leaving Mike in a heap in the corner of the tent.
We awoke early in hopes to catch more moose as we paddled the last stretch of Bowron River and Bowron Lake. We rounded a bend and found 2 more bull moose and 6 bald eagles. We finished our journey mid morning and headed for home with some sore muscles, loads of bites, and incredible memories.
Trip total - 116. 4 km, 7 moose, 9 bald eagles, 3 osprey, 1 beaver, 2 river otters, 1 swimming squrrel, many toads, loons, mergansers, greebs, american dippers, and 1 yellow headed black bird.
any many red winged black birds, and for the record, i only got last once in wizard, which was the first game, than I got 3rd, 2nd, and of course, the final game where I came out as headwizard, much to Olivers dismay.
Why is Adam's head turned with a look of interest to the left in that "free swimming" picture? Oh nevermind I remember now..
Awesome pics - would not expect anything less from you Gary, great photographer. Good stuff. Glad you had a great trip. You got to enjoy peace and quiet before the arrival of your little one.
Quickly gathered this was Gary's post! Amazing photos. Just be glad those mosquitoes don't carry malaria- not fun, especially twice in a month. But, I guess West Nile isn't much better. . . Reminds me of what I miss about BC.


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Steam has an average of 14 million concurrent users every day
By Shaun Prescott published 4 August 17
That's just one of the stats from a recent Valve presentation.
It's a truth universally acknowledged that Steam is huge, but sometimes it takes cold hard figures to really know how big something is. And thanks to a recent Valve presentation at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle earlier this week (via Geekwire), we have some interesting numbers.
The most interesting one, to me at least, is that Steam has almost doubled its daily concurrents since 2015. Nowadays the company gets an average of 14 million peak concurrent users per day, while back in 2015 it was a (comparatively) small 8.4 million.
Meanwhile, Steam gets around 67 million monthly active players, and a rather astonishing 33 million daily active players. Let's just say, when you open Steam to play your favourite clicker, you are very much not alone. Another interesting stat regarding the platform's growth, is that the company has sold to 27 million different new purchasers (ie, first-time purchasers) since January 2016 – nearly 1.5m a month.
In another graph, the company provides a breakdown of its sales by region so far this year. North America accounts for 34 percent; Western Europe 29 percent; Asia 17 percent; while Russian territories, Oceania and Latin America are 5, 4, and 3 percent respectively.
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Should Walmart acquire Shopify?
July 24, 2018 by Sujay Seetharaman
Note: A modified version of our report was first published on Techcrunch.
The Amazon squeeze
In May this year, Amazon published its small business impact report in which it disclosed that there are 20,000 SMBs that make a million dollars or more in sales.
Amazon boasts about 5 Million third-party sellers on its marketplace today, with an estimated 100,000 sellers hopping onboard every month.
At 100,000 sellers a month over the next 5 years, there could be an estimated 11 Million sellers on Amazon's marketplace by 2023.
eCommerce intelligence firm Marketplace Pulse estimates Amazon's Gross Merchandise Volume or GMV for 2018 at $280B, set to triple over a 5-year period, concluding that the marketplace contribution to Amazon's GMV would surpass 70% by 2023.
Combined with Prime and FBA, this high-level picturization sounds like Amazon can afford to not worry about its marketplace. But an uneasy trend seems to simmer within its 5 Million cohort.
Currently, there are an estimated 100,000 sellers with at least $100,000 in sales, 20,000 with at least $1 Million but 57% of all GMV comes from just 6,000 sellers. – who make up less than 1% of all marketplace sellers.
Effectively, a majority of the sellers are those selling similar products, have no distinct brand identity and hence no lever to scale. What are their options as Amazon's marketplace becomes increasingly competitive and top-heavy?
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Quite the opposite, actually. We compared Feedvisor's survey of Amazon marketplace merchants from 2017 and 2018 and found five interesting trends:
A little more than half of those who were surveyed in 2017 were looking to keep advertising costs low. The most preferred option to promote products was through Amazon sponsored products which helps merchants score more traffic to their product pages. This trend continues in 2018.
Topping their list of fears were high fees and competition from Amazon itself. A year on, the latter continues to be their biggest concern.
60% of all merchants surveyed in 2017 said that they planned to diversify to other channels. Walmart emerged as the most preferred channel, followed very closely by Shopify and eBay.
About 10% of those surveyed in 2017 were making a million dollars or more in annual sales. A year on, this figure is up by 90% to 19%. One can tell where these first-time millionaires are heading when we see that Walmart today supports 9% more Amazon merchants than it did in 2017.
28% of respondents in 2017 expressed interest to sell on Walmart.com. This has jumped to 36% today. It is no surprise that Walmart seems like an attractive option, given its knack for handpicking merchants that have a good reputation on major marketplaces like Amazon and eBay.
In its pursuit for parity with Amazon, Walmart has clearly overtaken eBay in merchant preference. The latter supports 12% fewer Amazon merchants today than it did in 2017 and is closely trailed by Shopify and Jet.com.
Can Walmart afford to be conservative?
Walmart's marketplace has 18,000 sellers, 36% of whom make at least $2 Million in sales – all of whom sell on Amazon!
With its eCommerce business struggling to see gains since 2016 when it acquired Jet.com, Walmart has recently been making the waves with its string of partnerships and acquisitions. In May, it announced that it was partnering with Postmates and Doordash for expanding its last mile delivery of online grocery.
In what seemed to be a rebuttal to Amazon's private label push, Walmart acquired Bonobos, Shoebuy, Modcloth and Moosejaw. It also announced in May that it was adding 4 fashion brands to its kitty.
While it continues to be hard-fisted about who sells on its marketplace, a trend seems to be emerging wherein Walmart is not just competing with Amazon but is also striving to bring reputed retail brands under its banner and attempting to re-shape consumer perception of it being low-price and inexpensive.
Walmart may be second in line to Amazon but it has its cons. Its process to qualify a third-party seller is more stringent. Sellers need to request an invitation to join and must fulfill certain quality requirements pertaining to product mix, price point and fulfillment.
Unable to differentiate among millions of sellers on Amazon and faced with rigorous screening from Walmart, the best bet for Amazon's third-party sellers to diversify seems to be to set up their own store.
They can either create their own website or set up a store on an eCommerce platform like Magento or Shopify.
Shopify – The network is bigger than the software
Shopify, the eCommerce platform for small and medium-sized businesses isn't too far behind eBay and Walmart in merchant preference.
A seller can set up her own store on Shopify's basic version for as little as $29 a month. It also has a premium version for a $2000 monthly fee called Shopify Plus aimed at Enterprise-level sellers and wholesalers. An estimated 3600 merchants have already bought into Shopify Plus and among them are popular logos such as Tesla, Kylie Cosmetics and Budweiser.
Shopify has an estimated 600,000 merchants on its eCommerce platform and has seen its merchant base grow annually in excess of 100% since 2014.
What particularly makes Shopify attractive – and gives it an upper hand over marketplaces like Walmart – is its third-party network of developers, photographers, digital marketers and designers that merchants can leverage for their business. Shopify today is a more turnkey platform than Walmart! Of all digital commerce revenues in 2017 – totaling $2.3 trillion, Shopify sellers' GMV was 1% worth $26 billion, which shows just how important Shopify is next to Walmart.
Analysts are betting big for the next 10 years despite its recent volatility in stock price.
Around the same time when Amazon published its small business impact report, Shopify announced that it would open a brick-and-mortar store in the US by the end of summer this year to provide in-person advice and consulting services to its customers.
Such a showroom would also provide Shopify the opportunity to cross-sell its hardware products to merchants who are looking to go brick-and-mortar.
For these reasons, Shopify will continue to attract more merchants and will become more important in the days to come and as it does, it will get noticed by the big players – Amazon & Walmart.
Shopify and Amazon share history
Shopify partnered with Amazon in 2015 as its preferred migration partner for webstore merchants. Many Shopify merchants already sell on Amazon; they have the option to use Amazon's FBA and Payment gateway.
More than 50% of Shopify's 3600 odd 'Plus' merchants sell on Amazon as opposed to less than 1% who sell on Walmart.
Clearly, the preference for Walmart.com is abysmal among Shopify merchants.
At a market cap of $19.5B, Shopify can be acquired by Amazon without much hassle. While this may not be on Amazon's cards considering the call it took 4 years ago to shut its webstore business and the ease with which it gets inbound interest from the long tail eCommerce companies (which forms 90% of the independent eCommerce companies base), Walmart should start figuring in Shopify into its strategic plans.
When your competition is Amazon, nothing is enough
In its SEC filings for the fiscal year ended January 2018, Walmart said that it is looking to increase investments in grocery, eCommerce and technology. Much of Walmart's moves in these spaces continue to come across as reactive responses to Amazon.
Recently, in its overseas battle against Amazon, Walmart acquired a 77% stake in India's 'Flipkart' for $16B.
In what could be seen as a long overdue answer to AWS, it revealed its own cloud network.
It has also kickstarted efforts to take on Amazon Go. With FBA and Prime seeming invincible, Walmart will never be able to catch up to the giant. But, it can prove to be a serious rival if it decides to acquire Shopify.
Why Shopify?
1. The non-Amazon destination
Today, eBay has more Amazon merchants on its platform than Walmart does. However, Walmart is picking up pace and is evidently becoming more attractive.
Between 2017 and 2018, the percentage of Amazon sellers on eBay reduced from 65% to 52%. At the sametime, Walmart and Jet.com combined saw an increase from 17% to 25%.
Given 2018's stats, if Shopify were to become Walmart-owned, about 42% of Amazon's sellers today, would be selling via either Walmart, Jet or Shopify. This would bring the difference between eBay and Walmart (Jet & Shopify included) down to 10%, in turn narrowing the competition gap between Walmart and Amazon.
Interestingly, there were rumors in 2017 that eBay was planning to acquire Shopify. The stocks reacted positively but there were no signs that eBay was interested in such an acquisition.
2. The perfect complement
The fundamental difference between Walmart and Shopify is that the former is a marketplace while the latter is an eCommerce platform.
It is hard for a seller with no distinct brand identity to differentiate herself on a marketplace unlike on a platform. As revenue channels, they are both necessary for a merchant's omnichannel strategy.
While Amazon will rule the roost in the marketplace arena for a long time to come, merchants should start betting on Shopify. This acquisition will be an opportunity for Walmart to write its story in a market that Amazon tried and quit.
Shopify does not get you shoppers and Walmart does not get you the support services. As a combined entity, their value proposition becomes very compelling.
3. The apparent weakness is an actual strength
Shopify is not without lows. As with all eCommerce platforms, the majority of their eCommerce merchants are long-tail with little to no revenue. But critics including Andrew Left of Citron Research fail to understand that long-tail is sort of a deal pipeline to identify sellers who are likely to grow and contribute significantly to the revenue.
A study of Shopify's marketplace will validate their claim that the merchants are there for the value of a 'one stop platform and extended services' and not just for Facebook data of their shoppers.
As Brian Stoffel put it in his article, "The moat is strong and growing, even as recent protests have tested the company".
Shopify's long-tail merchant base isn't a weakness. It's the pipeline that Walmart should value. It could be Walmart's answer to Amazon's merchant acquisition spree.
4. The neighborhood store is actually a Shopify Store
Shopify is an ecommerce platform provider but that's no reason to dismiss it as a non-competitor to Walmart. Both target merchants and both are focused on making them sell online albeit differently.
Walmart handpicks merchants. Shopify doesn't.
Walmart is a legacy brand and has a perception problem in the market. Shopify is a born millennial, like Jet.
Walmart is competing with Amazon on multiple fronts. Amazon closed its webstore business and switched to an integration with Shopify!
Walmart has no equivalent to FBA. Shopify's merchants can opt to have their merchandise fulfilled by Amazon.
Brett Andress of KeyBanc Capital Markets drives home the importance of Shopify – "Emerging brands on Shopify are getting larger, and more established brands are gravitating to Shopify to be more nimble".
While Walmart continues to shop for private label brands in a bid to throw a new spin on its brand identity, it needs to look a few yards away. There are 600,000 of them. Either Walmart could hope for them to come list on its marketplace someday or make itself the very technology that powers their business.
Shopify is known for its ability to attract eCommerce merchants. Its tools – like the name generator, domain name generator, to name a few – are subtle retention hacks to get intending sellers hooked onto its platform. Should a seller decide to sell her business, Shopify has an exchange on which she can list her store for sale. On the partner front, developers, marketers, designers have helped create many success stories, while writing their own. Overall, it seems like the stickiness is here to stay.
With e-Commerce still 12% of global retail trade and with an expected growth rate of 47% over the next 3 years, Shopify is well positioned to capture a lot of the eCommerce upside. The neighborhood grocer is now more likely to open on Shopify or sell on Amazon than at the neighborhood. This is also why it makes sense for Walmart to acquire one of the two default portals of entry into eCommerce.
To compete with Amazon, it needs to make moves that shift the ground beneath the foot and Shopify acquisition could be one of those bets still open.
Retail News and Trends: 25th March 2019
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(By Spike Santee) Imagine you are on a large stage with one thousand people in the audience and you have a chance to tell them all about your business and give them a reason why they should come and shop with you.
What would you say? Oh, and another thing. Your time is limited. In this example, you have 60 seconds.
We have a great selection and low prices. We're locally owned and operated. We've been in business for 35 years. We service what we sell. Our phone number is… Find us on Facebook.
While those may be the first things that come to your mind, modern research tells us those are the last things that come to the customer's mind.
To help you create a better message, here are the Four Key Elements of an Emotionally Engaging Commercial.
First, even though you are on a large stage in front of the audience ready to speak, the people in the audience may not be paying any attention to you. They might be looking at their phone, talking to the person next to them, or reading the program. If the first few words out of your mouth don't grab their attention, they probably won't hear the rest of your story.
Second, the first few words of your commercial must engage the person about something on their mind, something that they need or want, something that they need to resolve. This something can be called a felt need.
Emotion is what makes us act. Every decision is driven by the need to protect or achieve our self-interests. For your commercial to be effective, you must get to the felt need early in your commercial.
With modern technology and the latest developments in brain science, we have learned that the word "you" is an attention-getting word. Now, we don't recommend starting your commercial with "Hey you! I want to talk to you!" But the beginning of your commercial, the very first line in your commercial must accomplish that very thing: grab their attention. You have about three seconds to grab the attention of the customer on an emotional level or you've lost them altogether.
Liberty Mutual Insurance makes effective use of the word "you" and getting to the felt need quickly in their advertising. Here are a couple of examples.
The beginning of the commercial uses actors and the rest of the commercial uses an announcer and some onscreen graphics explaining the third component in an emotionally engaging commercial, the action step, switching to Liberty Mutual.
Oh yes, the fourth key element, the bathroom you've always dreamed about. What's in it for the customer is the ribbon that ties all the elements up into a great, emotionally engaging commercial.
As advertising sales professionals, we can learn how to write emotionally engaging commercials that sell. All you need to do is to make the effort to learn. You will build stronger relationships with your clients, close more long-term business, and you will make more money.
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Besides quickly becoming exceptionally tiring, that linguistic strategy requires a listener to immediately consider the immediately following statements. When they realize the content does not apply to them, they tune out, and the opportunity for the advertiser to continue being influential is lost. Tricky stuff, this.
I am in full support of 3 of Spike's premises.
It's the "You" about which I have to wave my freak flag.
Indeed, the "you" approach is an attention-getter.
But the next thing that happens is in the listener's (unconscious) realization that the speaker's "you" is not them!
The singular, "one-to-one" connection has not been made. Only assumed – by the speaker.
Plus, the average commercial usually goes on to make mind-reading claims along the lines of, "This is something you have wanted for a long time." And that's the one that provides almost a guarantee that the vast majority of listeners will be (again, unconsciously) sorting through the message and, in due course, rejecting it.
I reiterate "unconsciously" because that is where and how language is processed.
Instead of second person references, third person references cover all the bases – with no one being rejected and everyone being provided options.
It's an easy and powerful fix.


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Due to creative differences and discomfort with mainstream success and drug abuse, Rodriguez–Lopez and Bixler–Zavala quit At the Drive–In in 2001. The remaining members of the band formed Sparta. During 2001 Eva Gardner joined the members of De Facto on bass, and they recorded two songs with drummer Blake Fleming and producer Alex Newport, which became the first demo by The Mars Volta. The lineup for their first public show at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, California was Rodriguez–Lopez, Bixler–Zavala, Owens, Gardner, Ward, and drummer Jon Theodore. This lineup recorded three more tracks with Alex Newport, which became the EP Tremulant, released in early 2001 by Gold Standard Laboratories.
After the demise of At the Drive–In, Rodriguez–Lopez and Bixler–Zavala found themselves once again starting from the ground up, touring and performing in smaller venues. In their early years The Mars Volta were characterized by chaotic live shows and very heavy drug use.


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For extra money, write and publish an eBook. The self-publishing industry is booming right now. You can make a little or a lot of money if you're an author that can come up with something people will want to read. You can pick from a variety of publishing platforms online. Some offer a commission rate as high as 70%.
Believe it or not, you make some money online while you sleep. Income that you earn without needing to work at it obsessively or all that much is called passive income. One way to produce passive income is to build a forum and moderate it daily. The ads on your forum will make you money while you sleep.
Almost any talent in life has a niche and a demand for it on the Internet. Joined a book club? Then you may like to try your hand at a literary website for fans of books to discuss and share ideas, Do you like to crochet? Try selling booties for babies online!


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Temperature changes in an initially frozen wood chip pile.
Author(s): George R. Sampson; Jenifer H. McBeath
Source: Res. Note PNW-RN-454. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 10 p
Publication Series: Research Note (RN)
Station: Pacific Northwest Research Station
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2737/PNW-RN-454
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White spruce trees and tops were chipped and placed in a pile near Fairbanks, Alaska, in February 1983. The pile was 6 meters in diameter and 6 meters high in a cylindrical shape. Thermocouples were placed at 25 locations within the pile so that temperatures could be tracked over time. Gypsum blocks were placed at 10 locations to determine changes in moisture content. The first evidence that the pile was generating heat appeared at the end of May 1983. This heat accelerated the warming and thawing of the pile. By early August, all thermocouple points were above freezing. The highest temperature recorded was 61 °C near the core of the pile. The chip pile did not freeze at all points the second winter, and all points in the pile were above freezing by early July 1984. The highest temperature recorded inside the pile during the second summer was 41 °C.
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Sampson, George R.; McBeath, Jenifer H. 1987. Temperature changes in an initially frozen wood chip pile. Res. Note PNW-RN-454. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 10 p
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Dispersal of white spruce seed on Willow Island in interior Alaska.
Air drying of softwood lumber, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Nonlinear responses of white spruce growth to climate variability in interior Alaska


We had an amazing time this past Friday learning, networking and skill building with Hofstra students, alumni and staff. The afternoon began with a keynote from the Town of Brookhaven Councilwoman Valerie Cartright. She was just the inspiration that the women needed to start the conference off in the right direction. After the keynote students were able to chose between workshops on communication, leadership, networking and finance. All of these workshops had a focus of gender.
A keynote from Hillary Needle, Hofstra alum, who spoke about the importance of networking as it pertains to her own business, Hillary Needle Events. It was a great event that spoke to students about the importance of networking and gave them an opportunity to network with Hofstra administrators and alumnae.
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Home>Music> Pusha T Shades Drake's "Scorpion" Double Disc: "Such A Poverty Way Of Cheating"
Pusha T has been to war this year, pulling out all the stops against his arch nemesis Drake. Both released albums in 2018 with Pusha dropping the stellar Daytona and Drizzy coming through with his Scorpion double album. Before Kanye West decided to switch the narrative (as he regularly does) and make shorter musical projects, artists were cheating the streaming system with excessively long albums. Chris Brown's Heartbreak on a Full Moon is probably the best example, featuring over 40 songs on the tracklist. King Push was the first to release as part of G.O.O.D. Music's takeover and he clearly feels some type of way about artists dropping lengthy tracklists.
During his interview for the Red Bull Music Academy, Push spoke about all things Clipse, Daytona, and more, possibly throwing some subs at Drake in the process. The concept of stream trolling was brought up and while Culture II, Tha Carter V and others are all applicable, it's most likely that the Virginia artist had a specific man in mind when he made the following comment. He told the host, "The idea of everybody putting like 25 tracks on an album to get the streams up, it's such a poverty way of like cheating to me."
He's previously spoken about album length, preaching for more concise bodies of work. He reiterated that here, saying, "I was like, you know what, we need to be totally against everything, and we need to have a whole other mantra in regard to what we're doing."
Take his comments as you will. Considering the back-and-forth episodes we experienced earlier in the year, this has to be a subtle jab at his rival. Also, Scorpion has exactly 25 songs on it, so there's that.
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PIKESVILLE, Md. – Baltimore County Police say an officer responding to a disturbance call in a Baltimore suburb shot a man with a knife. The man's condition wasn't immediately clear.
The department said in a statement early Saturday morning that officers went to an apartment in Pikesville after a reported disturbance. They knocked on the door and a man with a knife in his hand answered.
The statement says that after exchanging words, the man moved toward the officers in a threatening manner and one of the officers fired his gun, striking the man in his upper body.
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Bracknell twinning group welcome Leverkusen friends to the town
Bracknell Twinning Group welcome Leverkusen friends with a guided tour in London
A GROUP of delegates from Germany have come to Bracknell to celebrate 46 years of twinning with the town.
From June 28 to July 2, delegates from the Leverkusen Twinning Association, which was founded in 1973, visited Bracknell town, along with representatives from the Bracknell Forest Society.
The trip coincided with a tour of Bracknell, with guests visiting South Hill Park and the Jeallot's Hill Land share.
Renate Buchwald, chairman of the Leverkusen Twinning Association, said: "We make yearly visits, and people from Leverkusen come to visit Bracknell and next year, people from Bracknell will come to Leverkusen.
"I think Bracknell Town is wonderful. It is about friendships and I think this is very important."
During their visit, the delegates stayed with Bracknell families, learning about their culture, lifestyle and sharing thoughts about politics and issues in the world.
Councillor Mary Temperton, member of the Bracknell Twinning Association added: "It shows how much we have in common, the culture, their lifestyle and our lifestyle and we stay with those families and you see what it is like living in those families.
"It is political, discussions but you end up being real friends."
The group visited Blenheim Palace and Oxford and on Sunday, they visited Hampton Court, finishing off their visit with a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament and a walk to St. Pauls Cathedral.
The last twinning group visit, members discussed the ties between the European Union and whether Brexit will have an impact between the two countries.
Cllr Temperton added: "We work together and say what we would like to do.
"This is different to Brexit, and we are linked with Germany, with friends and we stay together.
"Bracknell Town Council is twinned, whatever happens to Bracknell, nothing will happen."


My grandchild was just diagnosed with diabetes. She had been on steroid medicines, Decadron and Flovent. Her blood sugars went up to 500 mg/dl [27.8 mmol/L] for a glucose tolerance test. Ever since we took her off the Flovent and Decadron, her blood sugars have been normal. What is an islet test and how accurate is it? It seems like the longer she has been off the medications, the longer she is in the normal range. Could this be something that would ever maintain with proper eating and exercise?
Steroids are extremely useful and powerful medications to stop inflammation, but sometimes they also interfere or block how insulin works. Some children and adults treated with steroid have so much insulin resistance that their own pancreas cannot counterbalance sufficiently, so diabetes develops. Sometimes this is just a coincidence with an illness precipitating development of diabetes. Off steroids, if the blood glucose levels are normal, then this may be a temporary situation. If there is underlying autoimmune disease of the pancreas, antibodies will be positive. The islet cell antibody, GAD65 antibody and insulin antibody tests look for such evidence of inflammation and may predict what is likely to happen with beta cell function. Go back and discuss this in more detail with your diabetes team since they can give you more specific information about your child.


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Young Designers Benefit from New York 'Exodus'
With some of New York's most beloved designers now showing in Paris, young talents like Eckhaus Latta and Vaquera seemed to gain.
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BROOKLYN, United States — On Saturday afternoon in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn, a long line of unbothered and unconventional young people snaked around a giant industrial block, patiently waiting to be let into Eckhaus Latta's latest runway show. The impressive turnout and impossibly cool casting — including Kim Gordon's daughter Coco Gordon Moore in her runway debut with her mother watching on — are nothing new for the delicately wonky label launched by Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta in 2011. But the casting of the artist Maia Ruth Lee, who is eight months pregnant, was a reminder of how easily runway show conventions can be subverted.
Fast forward nine hours and the same industrial block of Bushwick was lined with metal fencing for Alexander Wang's guerrilla-style street runway, around which the thronging audience struggled to catch a glimpse of the second running of the show that night (the first took over a block in Soho) before a giant after party, dubbed #WANGFEST, kicked off in a warehouse across the street. The clothes were forgettable; the party was a branded music festival that managed to garner a Page Six mention.
The juxtaposition of two wildly different shows from two labels that have built their brands on being "cool" contains a critical lesson for New York Fashion Week. Overwrought productions can't make up for lackluster product. But with many of the city's most beloved young designers, including Proenza Schouler and Joseph Altuzarra, having shifted their shows to Paris, there is more oxygen for those who remain, like Maryam Nassir Zadeh, who staged a show on the East River Track with a live performance from Solange.
Of course, the newest names — like Beckett Fogg and Piotrek Panszczyk of Area, who took to a roof of a Lower East Side high school for their show — stand to benefit the most. "In a way, with the bigger names having decamped to Paris, the spotlight can shine brighter on that younger generation," said Susanna Lau, the writer of Style Bubble, noting labels like Vaquera, LRS and Area. "The schedule for sure does feel more empty, but I think there are also brands that are filling up the energy vacuum," she added. Although Eric Wilson, fashion news director at InStyle, said Matthew Adams Dolan was the only new label he made an effort to see this season. "What I've had to do is just be more and more ruthless about what I'm able to go to," he said.
Eckhaus Latta Spring 2018 | Source: Courtesy Eckhaus Latta Spring 2018 | Source: Courtesy
Eckhaus Latta Spring 2018 | Source: Courtesy
But back to Eckhaus Latta. "The shows are still testing grounds," said Latta, adding that it "used to break their hearts" when they didn't show every single piece from a collection on the runway. Now that they've added pre-seasons, it's easier to tolerate not putting everything on the runway. Spring 2018 is their biggest collection yet, and to keep up with the sales growth they've seen in the last year, the designers have hired staff to work on sales, production and book-keeping for the first time. "A year ago, if someone had said, 'What your retail strategy?' — we would have laughed about it," said Latta. "But now we try things and there are very little consequences. We are not producing 3,000 of something and hoping it sells."
The brand has seen attendance at its shows increase by "leaps and bounds" from about 250 last season to about 600 this season, said Amanda Carter, founder of boutique public relations firm Mode, which represents the label along with many of the calendar's most-discussed emerging designers, including R13, Maryam Nassir Zadeh and Maki Oh. "It could be due to fewer larger designers showing, but it's like building a house — if you have talent, people will show up, no matter what, as long as you make the timing right." (Eckhaus Latta's Bushwick venue also had a higher audience capacity.)
"I've always believed in slow and steady wins the race," said R13's Chris Leba, a former Ralph Lauren designer who launched the denim turned ready-to-wear line eight years ago and is far from new to the business. But he is relatively new to fashion week, having only revealed his identity to the press after R13's runway debut in 2016. His distinctly mischievous take on Americana has turned R13 into an under-the-radar must-see, and his Spring 2018 show on Thursday delivered a mashup of nostalgic American patterns that cleverly played with "fly over state" sartorial tropes, like trucker hats.
R13 Spring 2018 | Source: Courtesy R13 Spring 2018 | Source: Courtesy
R13 Spring 2018 | Source: Courtesy
"It's been a very methodical, slow process and being patient and not compromising ourselves for wanting to be a huge success or making a lot of money," said Leba. "The more distinctive something is, the less of an audience something has." He is adamant that buyers pick up the right depth and breadth of R13 pieces. He sees his runway shows as an incentive to push himself and his team to their best performance. "Every day there is someone new, someone cool coming into the market. We have to stay on top of our game to compete…If you're strong, there's a market for you too."
If the audience at Mansur Gavriel's first runway show — which included the brand's new president Shira Sue Carmi and chief executive of LVMH Fashion Group Pierre-Yves Roussel — is any indication, there was robust interest in Rachel Mansur and Floriana Gavriel's first ready-to-wear runway show. The collection consisted of mostly outerwear and sweaters in solid soft pinks and blues and bright reds and yellows, along with the standard neutral tones. Except nothing about the brand's pieces are standard: Gavriel said the biggest challenge was finding the exact right camel wool, pure wool and cashmere materials. "We love the feeling of being in a cozy coat that wraps you and looks beautiful," she said. Easier said than done, but the show was a warm embrace of its own.
The collection went on sale on Mansur Gavriel's site right after the show on Sunday to be followed by select retail partners including Net-a-Porter and Bergdorf Goodman later this week and a collection launch event on Monday night at the brand's Soho boutique. "Retail is very important to us as a brand because we are so concept driven," said Mansur. "We like the idea of the brand having a concept that is driven by shape and material and color, and we feel that easily extends to other products." The brand that once struggled to manage rapid sales growth driven by interest in its signature bucket bag has officially begun a new chapter in its story.
Speaking of managing growth, the Toronto-based Chloé and Parris Gordon's Beaufille, who jumped onto the scene in 2016 when their make-or-break-it Autumn presentation in New York — "our last $10,000," said Chloé — saw their business increase by 300 percent in that first season on the fashion week calendar. "We want to get to the next level, we want to be doing runway shows, we want to be a permanent thing — but it's just managing the right calculated steps," said Paris. At their Spring 2018 presentation on Friday, the colors were brighter, the sleeves were bigger and the waists were cinch-ier. "[Our label] does balance something a bit more directional and fashion forward, but really wearable," she added. "We need the wholesale to be sustainable and profit to be able to [take more risks.]"
Vaquera Spring 2018 | Source: Courtesy Vaquera Spring 2018 | Source: Courtesy
Vaquera Spring 2018 | Source: Courtesy
Risks are the name of the game at Vaquera, the label designed by a collective of four designers known for its absurdist designs that tackle big themes like commercialism. Their show on Tuesday afternoon was literally underground at the Church Street Boxing Gym in the financial district. The collection grappled with fame, including the designers' take the infamous American Express gold card-covered dress that costume designer Lizzy Gardiner wore to the Academy Awards in 1995. Each guest had a Vaquera credit card waiting on their seat too.
Vaquera designer Patric DiCaprio said the foursome had been deconstructing fame when they decided to reinterpret the dress. David Moses added that they are having an identity crisis about where they stand in the industry. "It has a lot to do with money," he said. As current members of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund design competition, the young label is thinking about its commercial potential more than ever before; but the most wearable pieces in the show lacked the same joyful irony as, say, the giant fluffy white bathrobe that closed the proceedings: a take on the couture bride for the self-care generation.
Their show notes encapsulated the identity anxiety the designers must be feeling as they try to turn their reputation for witty commentary through fashion into a label that commercially sustainable. "I'm unsure as to what business looks like," read the show notes, which were rendered in poetic form. "I'm supposed to be authentic, but it's not clear what that means!!!!!!!!"
Perhaps they don't know what authenticity means, but they seem to have figured out what it looks like. The challenge will be holding on to it as they grow.
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Q: Django SQL backend strange output with timestamp/epoch I don't understand what's going on and what to write to google to find solution:
Seems like Django PostgreSQL database engine doing something strange?
first - simple query:
>>> data = DatabaseHistory.objects.filter(DatabaseId=8)

>>> data[0].timestamp

>>> 1409221590.77832

2nd - I put 1st query result to new query bot result is null (!?)
>>> data = DatabaseHistory.objects.filter(timestamp=1409221590.77832)

>>> data[0].timestamp

>>> IndexError: list index out of range

3rd - change __exact to __contains:
>>> data = DatabaseHistory.objects.filter(timestamp__contains=1409221590)

>>> data[0].timestamp

>>> 1409221590.64894

>>> data[1].timestamp

>>> 1409221590.77832

4th - check "digit sensitivity" of __contains operator - seems works for 2digit after dot
>>> data = DatabaseHistory.objects.filter(timestamp__contains=1409221590.77)

>>> data[0].timestamp

>>> 1409221590.77832

for 3digit after dot  - not working:
>>> data = DatabaseHistory.objects.filter(timestamp__contains=1409221590.778)

>>> data[0].timestamp

>>> IndexError: list index out of range

Any ideas what's going on?

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KDU Computing Department Host Young Students For Big Data Challenge 2017
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Mr.Phua Yeong Tsann (right), the Academic Department Head of Computing Department, School of Computing and Creative Media (SCCM) at KDU University College, conducting a workshop for the contestants prior to the actual competition.
Participants in each group finding solutions during the Big Data Challenge 2017 at Utropolis Glenmarie campus, KDU University College.
The contestants in each team presenting a solution to the judges by using the data set given.
A group photo of the top-3 winners with the panel of judges.
With the arrival of the Digital Era, we might not be fully aware that things like our daily activities, hobbies, interests, the topic we share or discuss with friends and peers online as well as the product we use and the places we go – would actually produce data!
In this regard, Data Science is a way to show how much computing engages with our daily lives and society. A data-rich world has the potential to generate interesting and surprising results, as Data Science provides the techniques, tools and platform to handle and process Big Data.
In order to create some awareness on Big Data and Predictive Analytics among the younger generation, the School of Computing and Creative Media (SCCM) of KDU University College had organised Big Data Challenge 2017 on 11 November 2017, at its flagship campus at Utropolis Glenmarie.
On this day, there were about 30 secondary school students from within the Klang Valley area that gathered at KDU for this competition with the hope to grab the Top-3 cash prizes which ranged from RM300 to RM800. The participating schools were Sri KDI Secondary School, R.E.A.L Schools, SMK Damansara Jaya, SMK Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Shah Alam and Dwi Emas International School.
Speaking on the initiative of organising this competition event, Ms Sujata Navaratnam, the Programme Leader of Computing Department in SCCM opined, "This event has given the organisers an opportunity to emphasize the existence and importance of Big Data and Predictive Analytics in organisations and operations."
From the observation, Big Data Challenge 2017 consisted of a hands-on workshop to work on data science where the participants had a comprehensive overview of Big Data ecosystem and how they themselves can actually play an integral role in this ecosystem in the future.
"The participants were enlightened on the impact of big data and got some exposure on how to handle big data. Not only that, they have gained a hands-on experience in handling big data too," said Mr.Phua Yeong Tsann, the Academic Department Head of Computing Department, SCCM.
While the contestants in each team presented a solution to the judges by using the data set given, the event saw that participants not only learned the way on how to use data as tools to predict and make decisions, but also got inspiration and enlightenment on the application of Mathematics in data science into the real world.
The panel of judges for this competition was made up of industry experts - Mr. Lim Meng Kooi, Managing Director of Quandatics(M) Sdn Bhd; Ms.Maria Khor, Head of Talent Development at Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDeC); and Mr.Phua Yeong Tsann.
In a nutshell, this event posed as an eye opener for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) students to understand the importance of actual applications of mathematical techniques. Participants were introduced to these data analytics and Mathematics techniques through some engaging hands-on activities and there were many interesting and fun moments that showed that participants were attentively following the sessions.
As for the results, Dwi Emas International School emerged as the First Prize winner and walked away with RM800 cash prize; Second Prize went to 'Torpedoes United' group of SMK Damansara Jaya and bagged RM500; Third Prize was won by 'Freedom' group of SMK Damansara Jaya with rewards of RM300.


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This 2½ hour trip includes a seal safari and a 1 hour visit to the island of Vinga.
Season 2019, 0 March until 3 November.
the islands and real events from the history. You get to know what happened on World War II last day at Fotö May 8, 1945 and the fate of the submarine U-3503 and its crew that sank there. You also get the story of the Englishmen's free port during Napoleon's continental block 1807-1812. The stories are exciting for kids and adults.
115 steps up the lighthouse and get a wonderful view.
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Belle-Amie and Silvana departs from Hönö Klåva to Vinga all year round,.
Departs daily on a set timetable during the summer months June 15, until August 31 10.30AM from Vinga 3PM.
From July 6 until August 3 departs at 11.30AM and returns from Vinga at 4PM.
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New for the 2019 photo exhibition "Under the surface around Vinga" in Båken.
Winga friends rent out houses, have a kiosk in the guest harbor and do guided tours.
Getting married on Vinga has become very popular. Call us to book a wedding or childhood in the becon that is used as a wedding / baptismal chapel.
Please remember to place an order for meals the day prior to the trip. See our menu further down this page.
When you need a taxi boat, just give us a call.
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It is exciting to go fishing on the Swedish west coast and around Vinga.
The fishing trips with GG 100 departs from Fotö old quay, Korsviksvägen 27, Fotö.
We can accommodate larger groups in co-operation with other fishing boats.
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For groups and companies call or email info@tourist-fishing.se with your request and pricing.
Mackerel fishing trip with the fishing boat GG 100.
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title: "My name is John Daker"
slug: "my-name-is-john-daker"
date: "2010-07-15T23:10:47-06:00"
author: "fak3r"
categories:
- featured
- humor
- music
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[ took notice. Now it's your turn, I present to you the video entitled, My name is John Daker...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8beYR1iBQ
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More background on this fun from the [Statemaster Encyclopedia](http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/John-Daker)

> In the video, he performs two songs: "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today" and "That's Amore" in a pseudo-operatic voice with various odd and sometimes alarming facial expressions to accompany his vocal stylings. Daker remains totally still with his arms at his side during most of his performance. Additionally, during his performance, he tends to forget lyrics and either looks angry or simply hums along until he recalls a word (often, the wrong word). Simply by watching the video, it is difficult to tell if he is embarrassed, truly trying to sing the song, extremely nervous, or slightly inebriated.

The vivacious music teacher, Reva, is apparently the one to thank for all the fun, and the Encyclopedia continues with her story...

> Reva Cooper Unsicker taught singing, piano, and organ. Twice a year she would have her students perform their recitals on the local cable access channel, and the hour-long programs developed a cult following in the vein of Mrs. Miller. Videotapes of the "revafests" as they were called were sought after. John Daker was always on the Revafests. He sang among other songs the theme to "The Woody Woodpecker Show."

As with all good memes, there is now a Facebook group, it's called [The John Daker Experience](http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=155909976191&ref=ts&v=info), I've joined, so you should probably too. Then we have the parodies, with the predictable, but enjoyable, _American Idol_ version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD1cXWZXVkI&feature=related
Followed by an animated singalong video (of all things), so the next time you have a karaoke night with friends you'll have a big surprise for them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgJxEfYT3Kg&feature=player_embedded
In fact the only thing I didn't find that I expected to was an official John Daker page on [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Daker). This is obviously an epic oversight, and I hope someone steps up soon to right this wrong. Meanwhile, we wait for another internet meme that makes me laugh more than this one, again I really, really think this one should get more attention - it's fantastic.

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Zhang Yali (, born 24 February 1964) is a female Chinese rower. She competed at 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. Together with her teammates, she won a bronze medal in the Eights.

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Chinese female rowers
1964 births
Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic rowers of China
Olympic bronze medalists for China
Living people
Olympic medalists in rowing
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
20th-century Chinese women
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The Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium (AMG) is a school in Bensberg, part of the city of Bergisch Gladbach in Germany. It provides secondary education in the German system from grade 5 to 12/13. It was founded in 1858 as the Bensberger-Progymnasium. Since 1958 it exists in current form providing nine years of education which has changed for new students since 2005 to eight years. The student body comprises between 900 and 1100 students with 70 to 90 teachers.

The school is named after Albertus Magnus, a religious scholar and philosopher.

The school offers different types of education:

 main education (German/English from grade 5 on)
 bilingual education (German/more English classes from grade 5 on and from grade 7 on History, Politics and Geography in English instead in German)
 "dual" education (German/English and French from grade 6 on)

Schools in North Rhine-Westphalia
Bergisch Gladbach
Educational institutions established in 1858
1858 establishments in Prussia