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Andrew Crawford
Andrew Crawford (born July 27, 1971) is an Irish Entrepreneur and the former CEO & Founder of The Book Depository. He was born in Zambia, of Irish Heritage. Crawford was educated at Downside School and then The University of Liverpool studying Engineering Science and Industrial Management. After a brief spell working for his family firm, Crawford worked in the 1990s in Security and Specialist Risk Management working as a Private Security Contractor throughout EMEA. Having been part of the startup team for Bookpages.co.uk and then Amazon.com, he went on to found The Book Depository in 2004 which is working to make "All Books Available to All".
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AOL
AOL Inc. (), formerly known as America Online and logo typeset as "Aol.", is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services.
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Barnaby Dorfman
Barnaby Dorfman, of Seattle, Washington, is the founder and CEO of Foodista.com. His previous employment includes a role as chief product officer at kyte.tv, and executive positions at Peerflix.com and Amazon's A9.com. Dorfman was also executive producer of the film Police Beat, which received a nomination for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. [http://www.barnabydorfman.com Dorfman] is one of the inventors of "System, and method for automatically collecting images of objects at geographic locations and displaying same in online directories." He is also listed as an inventor on several other pending US patent applications.
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Charlie Cheever
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Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979, for which he was awarded the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.
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Guangzhou
Guangzhou (; ; jyutping: Gwong²zau¹; Cantonese Yale: Gwóngjàu), also known as Canton or Kwangchow, is a sub-provincial city and the capital of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. It is one of the five National Central Cities. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key transportation hub and trading port.
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Jason Kilar
Jason Kilar is the current CEO of Hulu, a joint venture of ABC, NBC Universal, and NewsCorp. He was previously an Amazon executive. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Jason Olim
Jason Olim is CEO and a co-founder of Freshman Fund. Prior to Freshman Fund, Olim was CEO and co-founder of CDNOW, Inc., one of the first ecommerce companies (founded in February, 1994). He has earned Entrepreneur of the Year awards from the Small Business Association, Arthur Andersen, the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce (1997) and the Greater Philadelphia Venture Group (1999).
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Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Tau Beta Pi graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994.
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Joyo.com
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Matthew Olim
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Michael Shea
Michael Shea is an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author living in California. He is a multiple winner of the World Fantasy Award.
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Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey (born 1973) is an American monologist, author, and actor best known for his full-length extemporaneous monologues. His breakthrough work 21 Dog Years is an account of life as an Amazon.com employee during the dot-com boom. Since that time he has created monologues about Nikola Tesla, L. Ron Hubbard, the Department of Homeland Security, the history of the New York transit system, 9/11, the inventor of the neutron bomb, Wal-Mart and a variety of other topics, weaving together personal events from his own life alongside historical fact. Paper Magazine described him this way: "...his skill is that he is able to talk about the historical and make it human, the personal and make it universal, so that the listener is both informed and transformed." He is married to his director and collaborator, Jean-Michele Gregory. Currently, they reside in New York City.
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Peter Kent
Peter Kent, PC, MP (born July 27, 1943) is Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Americas in the Canadian Cabinet. In the Canadian federal election, 2008 on October 14, 2008, he ran for the Conservative Party of Canada and was elected as the member of parliament for the riding of Thornhill.
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Red Cross
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Seth Godin
Seth Godin (born July 10, 1960) is an American entrepreneur, author and public speaker. Godin popularized the topic of permission marketing.
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Bangalore
Bangalore , known as Bengaluru (), is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and fifth-most populous urban agglomeration. As of 2009, Bangalore was inducted in the list of Global cities and ranked as a "Beta World City" alongside Geneva, Copenhagen, Boston, Cairo, Riyadh, Berlin, to name a few, in the studies performed by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network in 2008.
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Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire ( or ; abbreviated Beds.) is a ceremonial county of historic origin in England that forms part of the East of England region.
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Bellevue, Washington
Bellevue (, ) is a rapidly growing city on the Eastside (King County, Washington), United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. The population was 109,569 at the 2000 census, but by 2009 had grown to an estimated 126,626.
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Brogborough
Brogborough is a village and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England, by junction 13 of the M1 motorway. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 343. The village is about east of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire.
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Cape Town
Cape Town (; ) is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the largest in land area, forming part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. It is the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape, as well as the legislative capital of South Africa, where the National Parliament and many government offices are located. The city is famous for its harbour as well as its natural setting in the Cape floral kingdom, including such well-known landmarks as Table Mountain and Cape Point.It is hailed as one of the most beautiful cities in the world as officially recognised by Forbes. National Geographic has also enlisted Cape Town as one of the most iconic cities on the planet and "Places of a Lifetime". Cape Town is also Africa's most popular tourist destination.
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Chennai
Chennai (Tamil: ), formerly known as Madras (Tamil: AKA ), is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the fifth most populous city in India. Located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, Chennai city had a population of 4.34 million in the 2001 census within the area administered by the Corporation of Chennai and an extended Metropolitan Population of 6.5 million. The urban agglomeration of metropolitan Chennai has an estimated population over 8.2 million people.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Coffeyville, Kansas
Coffeyville is a city situated along the Verdigris River in the southeastern part of Montgomery County, located in Southeast Kansas, in the Central United States. The population was 11,021 at the 2000 census, and it was estimated to be {{Formatnum: in the year . It is the most populous city of Montgomery County and with its southeast Kansas location is located in the Tulsa, Oklahoma media market.
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Crymlyn Burrows
Crymlyn Burrows is an area of land in Wales, UK to the east of Swansea city centre, and south of Crymlyn Bog. It is bounded by Jersey Marine Beach to the south and the River Neath to the east. The land west of Baldwin's Crescent falls within the City and County of Swansea and from Baldwin's Crescent eastwards falls within Neath Port Talbot.
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Dallas, Texas
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Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor, after whom (what is now called) Cape Henlopen was originally named.
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Doncaster
Doncaster () is a town in South Yorkshire, England, and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. The town is about from Sheffield and is popularly referred to as "Donny". Doncaster has an international airport, and in recent years its centre has undergone regeneration including the development of an Education City campus, currently the largest education investment of its kind in the UK. Doncaster has also recently extended the Frenchgate Centre, a shopping centre and transport interchange.
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Drôme
Drôme (Droma in Occitan, Drôma in Arpitan), a department in southeastern France, takes its name from the Drôme River.
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Dublin
Dublin (; locally or ) is the primate and capital city of Ireland. It is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath or Áth Cliath . The English name is derived from the Irish Dubh Linn (meaning "black pool"). The city has an urban population of over 1 million people and is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region. Originally founded as a Viking settlement, it evolved into the Kingdom of Dublin and became the island's primary city following the Norman invasion. It is currently ranked 29th in the Global Financial Centres Index, has one of the fastest growing populations of any European capital city, and is listed by the GaWC as a global city (with a ranking of Alpha), placing Dublin among the top 30 cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary cultural centre for the country, as well as a modern centre of education, the arts, administration, economy and industry.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (, or ; Scots: Edinburgh ; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland after Glasgow and the seventh-most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a 30-square-mile (78 km2) rural area.
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Fernley, Nevada
Fernley is a city in Lyon County, Nevada, United States. The city incorporated in 2001, including land in Washoe County; prior to that it was a census-designated place (CDP). The population of the CDP was 8,543 at the 2000 census; the city itself had an estimated population of 12,673 in 2007, almost all of whom lived in Lyon County.
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Fife
Fife (; ) is a county and council area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. It was originally one of the Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the Kingdom of Fife within Scotland.
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Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the seventeenth-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city within the state of Texas. Located in and the western edge of the American South, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and Wise counties, serving as the seat for Tarrant County. According to the 2010 census estimates, Fort Worth had a population of 727,575. It has been estimated that by 2030 it will have 1,211,665 residents. The city is the second-largest cultural and economic center of the region.
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Free State of Saxony
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Goodyear, Arizona
Goodyear (O'odham: Valin Thak) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 47,359. Goodyear was the third fastest-growing place among all cities and towns in Arizona of any size between 1990 and 2000.
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Gourock
Gourock (, pimple-shaped or rounded, ) is a town falling within the Inverclyde council area and formerly forming a burgh of the historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It has in the past functioned as a seaside resort on the Firth of Clyde. Its principal function today, however, is as a popular residential area, extending contiguously from Greenock, with a railway terminus and ferry services across the Clyde.
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Guangzhou
Guangzhou (; ; jyutping: Gwong²zau¹; Cantonese Yale: Gwóngjàu), also known as Canton or Kwangchow, is a sub-provincial city and the capital of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. It is one of the five National Central Cities. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key transportation hub and trading port.
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Hebron, Kentucky
Hebron is an unincorporated community in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. It is the location of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, which serves Cincinnati and the tri-state area.
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Hessen
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Iaşi
Iași () (also historically referred to as Jassy or Iassy) is a city and municipality in the Moldavia region, in north-eastern Romania. The city was the capital of the Principality of Moldavia from 1564 to 1859, then of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia between 1859–1862 and Romania between 1916–1918.
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Inverclyde
Inverclyde (, ) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders on to Renfrewshire and North Ayrshire, and is otherwise surrounded by the Firth of Clyde. Inverclyde is one of three council areas contained within the boundaries of the historic Renfrewshire, the other two being East Renfrewshire and a Renfrewshire area with reduced boundaries. The older Renfrewshire still remains in the form of a registration county and lieutenancy area covering Inverclyde.
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Irving, Texas
Irving (pronounced 'er-ving') is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 191,615; the 2006 estimate was 201,927 according to the North Central Texas Council of Governments, and 196,084 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated by the U.S. Census Bureau and colloquially referred to as the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
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Jersey Marine
Jersey Marine is a village in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales, UK located about east of Swansea. It falls within the Coedffranc West ward.
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Jersey Shore
The Jersey Shore is a term used in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States to refer to both the Atlantic coast of New Jersey and the adjacent resort and residential communities.
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Kirkland, Washington
Kirkland is a city in King County, Washington, United States. It is a suburb of Seattle on the Eastside (of Lake Washington). The population was 45,054 at the 2000 census; its estimated 2006 population of 46,476 makes it the 9th largest city in King County and the 19th largest city in the state. Effective June 1, 2011, Kirkland will add approximately 33,000 residents by annexation, making it the 6th largest city in King County and the 12th largest in the state.
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Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington (officially Lexington-Fayette Urban County) is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the United States. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region. In 2009 the city's population was estimated at 296,545 anchoring a metropolitan area of 470,849 people and a Combined Statistical Area of 688,707 people.
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Loiret
Loiret () is a department in north-central France named after the river Loiret.
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Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville (usually ; see Pronunciation below) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's estimated population as of 2009 was 721,594 (consolidated; balance total is 566,503), with a population of 1,266,454 in the Louisville metropolitan area. An important internal shipping port in the 19th century, Louisville is today most well known for the Kentucky Derby, the widely watched first race of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
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Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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McDonough, Georgia
McDonough is a city in Henry County, Georgia, United States. The population was 8,493 at the 2000 census. Census Estimates of 2008 indicate a population of 19,768. This is due both in part to growth of the city and extension of the city limits. Inclusion of the unincorporated neighborhoods surrounding McDonough, which are not part of a town/city, raises the population to approximately 30,000. This city is the county seat of Henry County. It is the home of AM radio station Classic Country 1410 WKKP and SCB-TV cable Channel 15 television station.
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Munster, Indiana
Munster is an affluent town located in the North Township, Lake County, in Northwest Indiana in the United States. The town lies in the Chicago metropolitan area, and is surrounded by Hammond to the north, Highland to the east, Dyer and Schererville to the south, and Lansing and Lynwood directly west of the Illinois border. The 2000 U.S. Census counted the town's population at 21,511. As of 2008, the town's population is estimated at 22,105.
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Ontario
Ontario is a Province of Canada located in the east-central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area, (Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are larger in area, but they are not provinces.) The province's largest metropolitan area and Canada's most populous city, Toronto, is the capital city of Ontario. The national capital of Canada, Ottawa, is located in Ontario as well.
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Peterborough
Peterborough ( or ) is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of as of June 2007. For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. The Town Hall is north of Charing Cross, London. The city stands athwart the River Nene, which flows into the North Sea approximately to the north-east, and the East Coast Main Line railway.
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Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix ( , O'odham Skikik, Yavapai Wasinka, Western Apache Fiinigis, Navajo Hoozdoh, Mojave ''Hachpa 'Anya Nyava) is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the fifth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,601,587 people according to the 2009 estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, and is the anchor of the Phoenix metropolitan area (also known as the Valley of the Sun''), the 12th largest metro area by population in the United States with more than 4.3 million people. In addition, Phoenix is the county seat of Maricopa County, and is one of the largest cities in the United States by land area.
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Plainfield, Indiana
Plainfield is a town in Guilford, Liberty and Washington townships, Hendricks County, Indiana, United States. The population was 18,396 at the 2000 census.
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Red Cross
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Republic of Ireland
Ireland (, , , ), described as the Republic of Ireland (), is a state in northwest Europe with a population of almost 4.5 million people. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional republic occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned into two jurisdictions in 1921. It is bordered to the northeast by Northern Ireland, which is a part of the United Kingdom, and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Irish Sea to the east, St George's Channel to the southeast, and the Celtic Sea to the south.
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Romania
Romania ( ; dated: Rumania; ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2009 estimated population of 815,358. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi² (6,688.4 people/km²). It is the most densely-settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million.
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Seattle
Seattle ( ) is the northernmost major city in the contiguous United States, and the largest city in the Pacific Northwest and in the state of Washington. A seaport situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about south of the Canada – United States border, it is named after Chief Sealth "Seattle", of the Duwamish and Suquamish native tribes. Seattle is the center of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan statistical area, the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the northwestern United States. Seattle is the county seat of King County and is the major economic, cultural and educational center in the region. , the city's population was approximately 617,000 within a metropolitan area of some 3.4 million inhabitants. The Port of Seattle and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport are major gateways to Asia, Alaska, and the rest of the world.
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Shibuya, Tokyo
is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008, it had an estimated population of 208,371 and a density of 13,540 persons per km². The total area is 15.11 km².
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Slough
Slough () is a borough and unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Berkshire, England. The town stands athwart the Great West Road and the Great Western Main Line, west of central London. At the 2001 census, the population of Slough was 119,070 (est. 122,000 in 2006) and the borough area was the most ethnically diverse local authority area outside London in the United Kingdom. Slough has the highest proportion of religious adherents in England.
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Sotheby's
'''Sotheby's''' is the world's fourth oldest auction house in continuous operation.
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Sterling, Virginia
Sterling, Virginia is an unincorporated suburb of Washington, D.C., located in Loudoun County, Virginia. It is located northwest of Herndon, east of Ashburn, and west of Great Falls, and includes part of Dulles International Airport and the former AOL corporate headquarters. Sterling is also home to the National Weather Service building for the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.
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Suzhou
Suzhou (; Suzhou dialect: ; ancient name: ) is a prefecture-level city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Taihu Lake in the province of Jiangsu, China. The city is renowned for its stone bridges, pagodas, and meticulously designed gardens which have contributed to its status as a great tourist attraction. Since the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Suzhou has also been an important centre for China's silk industry and continues to hold that prominent position today. The city is part of the Yangtze River Delta region.
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Swansea
Swansea ( , , "mouth of the Tawe") is a coastal city and county in Wales, United Kingdom. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands. Swansea is the second most populous city in Wales after Cardiff and the third most populous county in Wales after Cardiff and Rhondda Cynon Taf. During its 19th century industrial heyday, Swansea was one of the key centres of the world copper industry, earning the nickname 'Copperopolis'.
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Trademark
A trademark or trade mark or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or services from those of other entities.
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USPTO
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Whitestown, Indiana
Whitestown is a town in Worth Township, Boone County, Indiana, United States. It is northwest of Indianapolis. The population was 471 at the 2000 census.
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Yachiyo, Chiba
is a city located in Chiba, Japan.
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How to create your own software pt 1 : Getting started
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- Duration: 6:19
- Published: 12 Oct 2009
- Uploaded: 03 Jan 2012
- Author: BrandonioProductions
Have you ever wanted to make your own Home made software? Well now you can, and heres how! www.microsoft.com Thanks for watching! brandonsoft.com
http://wn.com/How_to_create_your_own_software_pt_1__Getting_started
Creating your first program "Hello World" - C Sharp Visual Studio 2008
The first in a series of tutorials in visual studio 2008 in the C# programming language. In this tutorial I will show you how to make your first application, "Hello World". If you have anything you need to learn with c# leave a comment or head to my forums and I will make a video of me doing it. Website (With all the programs I coded myself): www.Quack-Ware.com Forums www.Quack-Ware.com DONT FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE TO MY VIDEOS
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How To Make A Simple Program or Software With Notepad (HD)
--HIGH DEFINITION-- -New Chatroom!- www.youtube.com This uses commands Like; START ECHO @echo off :LABEL Goto Label For An Example of my work or Links To The Program/icons go to www.mediafire.com
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I Create Everything - EMC2 The AIM Program
The first release from the "Spirit of Self Healing" Collection, a visualization tool for self healing developed by Stephen Lewis, coauthor of Sanctuary: The Path to Consciousness and developer of The AIM Program of Energetic Balancing. Daily experience this video and consciously create your amazing abundant life. For more info, please visit www.energeticmatrix.com
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Creating with Cricut's Design Studio Program
I demonstrate here how the Design Studio program comes in handy to create a die cut that I do not have on hand. Sorry that the video is so dark. I hope to share more with you in the future.
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Java Swing/GUI Tutorial: Create a Password Field- Password Protecting Program
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- Duration: 5:47
- Published: 27 Aug 2009
- Uploaded: 17 Dec 2011
- Author: MrJavaHelp
This tutorial will show you how to create a Password field in Java. A password field can be useful if you only want certain users gaining access to some parts of your program. If you hide the source code or store the password in a different file, then the user cannot see the password by looking at your source code.
http://wn.com/Java_Swing/GUI_Tutorial_Create_a_Password_Field_Password_Protecting_Program
Maharishi Vedic Pandits are Chanting to create World Peace from the center of India
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- Duration: 3:37
- Published: 12 Apr 2009
- Uploaded: 25 Dec 2011
- Author: vedicpandits
www.vedicpandits.org Can we permanently stop terrorism and war? If 50 demonstration projects and 23 published scientific studies can be believed, the answer is Yes. If this large body of evidence—accepted and published by mainstream scientific journals—is accurate, groups of peace-creating experts can dramatically reduce violent crime, terrorism, and war. If the scientific process is meaningful, ancient sages were correct about the peace-creating power of human consciousness. Modern science and timeless wisdom have come together in a practical, powerful technology of peace. For countless generations the knowledge of Yoga and Yagya has been passed on from teacher to student in Vedic India. Today, under the guidance of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1600 (leading to 16000) custodians of this ancient knowledge Maharishi Vedic Pandits - are gathering in the geographical centre of India, the Brahmasthan, to create world peace. Through their daily performance of Yoga and Yagya these groups will generate invincibility for every nation. Maharishi has revived the system of Yagya in its purity and effectiveness, and thousands of Maharishi Vedic Pandits (Pundits) of India are being trained in their performance, to neutralize negativity in world consciousness and restore balance in Nature. Through the Yagya Programme, individuals and whole nations can be saved from the influence of their past actions. Maharishis Vedic Peace Programme includes the twice daily group practice of <b>...</b>
http://wn.com/Maharishi_Vedic_Pandits_are_Chanting_to_create_World_Peace_from_the_center_of_India
009 - Using Netbeans to Create a Java Program
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- Duration: 8:22
- Published: 08 Oct 2009
- Uploaded: 22 Oct 2011
- Author: classofcrow
This tutorial shows how to create a simple program using the Netbeans IDE. For a complete set of ordered lessons visit www.tihl.info
http://wn.com/009__Using_Netbeans_to_Create_a_Java_Program
Top 10 Graphic Design Programs (Free / Open Source)
Here are 10 useful graphic design programs that are free to use. To download them, just go to Google and search "gimp download" for example. I hope you enjoy this video. More to come.
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Creating Amazon Affiliate Links
www.thirtydaychallenge.com Watch how to create a link in the Amazon affiliate marketing program: www.thirtydaychallenge.com
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Visual C++: Creating an Executable (.exe) File (2010)
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- Duration: 3:05
- Published: 27 Oct 2010
- Uploaded: 02 Jan 2012
- Author: xoaxdotnet
xoax.net Lesson Page: xoax.net For this C++ tutorial, we demonstrate how to create an executable (.exe) file in Visual C++ 2010 that you can transfer to other machines and run independently of Microsoft Visual Studio. Please submit all questions to our forum: xoax.net
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Creating Basic Lightsabers in Adobe After Effects Tutorial HD
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- Duration: 10:29
- Published: 24 Feb 2009
- Uploaded: 03 Jan 2012
- Author: theunholybudders
This is my own tutorial on how to create lightsabers using the program Adobe After Effects. It covers all of the basics of creating a lightsaber in Adobe After Effects. More extensive tricks will be covered in the future. I originally learned from Ryan Weiber's tutorial, and have since built on it and changed it around, until I have finally settled on a method which I believe yields the best results. This tutorial covers the rotoscoping method, rounding the ends, and blurring to create a "light" effect. I have recorded and uploaded this in full HD for the best possible tutorial; the only downside being is that when I recorded, when I played the clip it lagged, but otherwise, this tutorial is pretty simple to do, it just takes time. However, I will note, this tutorial is not intended for those who know nothing about After Effects. You are recommended to have some prior knowledge on the basic functionality of the program, prior to attempting this tutorial. I don't have the time to answer everyone's questions when everyone is asking questions that are related to a lack of understanding of the program, rather than my tutorial. I am more than happy to answer questions people may have about this tutorial, but I simply cannot answer everyone's questions about After Effects. UPDATE: a LOT of people have been complaining about not being able to change the saber color when it comes time to. Like I said, you need to follow this tutorial carefully, as I went back through, checked it <b>...</b>
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How to create your own textures for Minecraft
READ DESCRIPTION: A quick tutorial on how to completely edit your own textures in Minecraft Beta and "install" them back into your game. Please watch the video with: Annotations: [ON] OFF Volume: LOUD [MEDIUM] SOFT Video Size: [480p] 360p 240p Subscription: [Subscribed √] Subscribe ;) DOWNLOADS: Winrar: www.win-rar.com (at the bottom) OR 7-zip: sourceforge.net Paint.net: paint.net OR Gimp gimp.org IF YOU CANNOT OPEN MINECRAFT.JAR You are not opening it with the right program. You can't just double-click, you have to right click and select "open with," then choose the .exe program you wish to use (this is outlined a little more under FAQ→C) I recommend downloading Winrar or 7-zip to do this. TO MAKE THEM SELECTABLE (zipped texture pack): Check out another tutorial I made: www.youtube.com ----------FAQ----------- A) Why can't I use paint? ---MSPaint does not support opacity (see-through stuff) so it just fills in all the transparent with white. Technically, you could use it, but doors, torches, rails, ladders, and everything else that doesn't take up the full 16x16 space will have white in the empty parts. I prefer photoshop, but you could use gimp or paint.net (both free). Just google these names. B) I don't have a "minecraft.jar", only a "minecraft"! ---You most likely don't have file extensions shown. The "minecraft" file will work exactly the same, but I find it best to enable file extensions on my computer. You don't have to do this, but if you want to, I'll explain <b>...</b>
http://wn.com/How_to_create_your_own_textures_for_Minecraft
Glow Dark Stars For Ceilings | Learn How To Create The Star Ceiling On BBC1 DIY SOS
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- Duration: 1:31
- Published: 22 Mar 2010
- Uploaded: 14 Jun 2011
- Author: thestarmanUK
www.amazingstarceiling.com - Learn how to create the exact same effects as on the DIY SOS programme. I have been creating these glow in the dark stars for ceilings since 1995 and taught Carl who is in the video the techniques in 2008.
http://wn.com/Glow_Dark_Stars_For_Ceilings_|_Learn_How_To_Create_The_Star_Ceiling_On_BBC1_DIY_SOS
Create Your Own Cod4 Bot Server (Read Discription first)
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- Duration: 6:33
- Published: 07 Jun 2009
- Uploaded: 02 Jan 2012
- Author: liamvidnut
Video on shipment!!!! (but you can have these bots on any maps) sorry these bots are a bit retarded but i will try to fix and give you another config.ff 1.download it from : files.filefront.com 2.create a folder in C:\programme files\activision\mods called 'Bots' 3.Extract all the files by winrar and put them into the 'Bots' folder Sorry there may be a few spelling mistakes and I know at one point i pop from one side to another but that was becuase it was a diffrent video clip
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![How to create a MapleStory v83 Private Server [HD/720P]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8bZD1qEvPXg/0.jpg "How to create a MapleStory v83 Private Server [HD/720P]")
How to create a MapleStory v83 Private Server [HD/720P]
VISIT mapletalk.net for support Private Server discussion! {--Web--} WAMP - bit.ly {--Database--} MySQL 5.0 - bit.ly MySQL Query Browser - bit.ly {--Java---} Java JDK - bit.ly JCE Policy - bit.ly {--Other--} v83 XML WZ - bit.ly v83 MoopleDEV Source - bit.ly v83 MapleStory Installer - tinyurl.com v83 Localhost - bit.ly JCE Policy Locations: C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\security C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib/ext C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\ext C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\security PS: AFTER YOU LAUNCH THE SERVER, YOU CAN PLAY IT BY: 1) Downloading v83 Localhost 2) Extracting the .EXE/content, drag + drop into your v83 MapleStory folder. 3) Launch the program Q/A: Q: What is WAMP? A: WAMP is an acronym for windows Apache MySQL PHP [WAMP] Q: What is MySQL? A: That will be your database. You are also downloading MySQL Browser so you can view your databse in a GUI (General User Interface) Q: What is Java JDK? A: Java Development Kit. It'll allow the source code (Games core) to run on the machine. Q: What are the WZ files? I already have them A: No you don't. These are XMLs and are in a different format then your .WZ's in your game folder. Q: Can I get a list of the songs used in the video? A:They will be in the credits/last video. Q: LOL YU USE INTERNET EXPLORER? A: Cause I have important and confidential links on my main browser's bookmark toolbar. VISIT mapletalk.net for <b>...</b>
http://wn.com/How_to_create_a_MapleStory_v83_Private_Server_ HD/720P
How to Program a Calculator pt 1: The Basics
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- Duration: 7:09
- Published: 29 May 2008
- Uploaded: 21 Dec 2011
- Author: AlbatrossNecktie
Part 1 of 4. When I was learning how to program a calculator, I tried to learn online, but that was almost useless. Instead, I taught myself, and now I pass that information on to whomever is interested. The Basics covers some simple actions such as sending, receiving, and deleting programs, storing numbers in letters, and creating new programs. It also goes over these basic commands: "prompt", "display", "clrhome", "if", "then", "end", and "stop". Part 2 is where I show the viewer how to use this information to actually create a program. A Palaverous Production created by Jeff Green on 5-28-2008. Helpful site for programming: bgo.netfirms.com How to Program a Calculator: 1: The Basics 2: Creating a Simple Program 3: Perfecting a Program 4: Making Menus
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Aerobatics RENAUD ECALLE Tribute - Free Programme 2010 - Voltige
Each pilot flying Unlimited must create and fly its own Free Programme, a personal combination of 9 figures from the Aresti System, the total points should not exceed 420k. Some specific figures are mandatory such as the tail slide, spin, positive & negative snap rolls, etc... Renaud's free programme is highly technical. While one usually tries to minimize the difficulties, he always challenged himself to fly high level sequences in order to catch the judges' eye... only for top experienced pilots. Here you can see no fewer than 10 negative snap rolls mixed up with positive ones, all flown in a very narrow flying box. Renaud is demonstrating again his powerful and elegant flying style, close to perfection. The first right and left rolls are explosives, the following inverted push is at -9.0g and the rest of the flight is very well trimmed and accurate. The judges are sitting at the opposite side of the camera, this means they can't see Renaud's taking advantage of the very last negative snap pushing him away, allowing him to execute this one of a kind (insane...) right hand rolling turn at very high speed, towards the judges, at the limit of a dynamic stall... from the judges' perspective this was very impressive to see ! This programme is probably the very best free 420k ever executed. Dedicated to our dearest friends Renaud (29), Alice (34) and their young kids Adrien (4) and Louise (2) who didn't survive the crash of their Jodel DR-1050 Ambassadeur flying back home on <b>...</b>
http://wn.com/Aerobatics_RENAUD_ECALLE_Tribute__Free_Programme_2010__Voltige
TI-84 Calculator Quadratic Formula Program
Create a Quadratic Formula Program on your TI-84, its easy. Have Questions? E-mail me at wdwspacemountain@comcast.net
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how to create a car in google sketchup (Tutorial)
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- Duration: 5:50
- Published: 12 Apr 2009
- Uploaded: 04 Jan 2012
- Author: sokkaperri
This is how you create a car in google sketchup, get the blueprints at www.the-blueprints.com and register there. SketchUp is a 3D modeling program designed for architects, civil engineers, filmmakers, game developers, and related professions. It also includes features to facilitate the placement of models in Google Earth. It is designed to be easier to use than other 3D CAD programs. DOWNLOAD GOOGLE SKETCHUP HERE sketchup.google.com
http://wn.com/how_to_create_a_car_in_google_sketchup_Tutorial
3D CAD: Alibre 11 Design Program Overview
See www.caddit.net or alibre.com. Alibre offers powerful 3D feature based solid part and assembly modelling and 2D layout drawing for mechanical, industrial and commercial design. Alibre offers most of the features found in SolidWorks or Solid Edge at a fraction of the cost. This short video tutorial introduction gives a partial overview of this affordable software.
http://wn.com/3D_CAD_Alibre_11_Design_Program_Overview
3D tutorial 2 - HexaGreat3D - part2
this is a tutorial on creating anime faces using HexaGreat3D you can get it here rapidshare.com and if the link doesnt work just google for it
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"FLIGHT" by CREATE Film Festival
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- Duration: 6:29
- Published: 07 Dec 2011
- Uploaded: 01 Jan 2012
- Author: UCreateChange
Growing up, Jeremy has always been fascinated with airplanes. But when he is shortlisted for the Air Force pilot selection programme, he is taken aback by his own lack of response... isn't this what he always wanted? A short film by local filmmaker, Boo Junfeng. "Flight" is brought to you as part of the CREATE Film Festival which showcases 2 other short films: "Hi I'm an Engineer", and "Building Dreams". Visit us at www.createtomorrow.com.sg
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Earlier this month, online streaming music service Spotify made waves by announcing the launch of its Spotify Apps program, which allows software developers to create free applications that leverage its 10 million user-strong platform’s key features. (Full transparency: Rolling Stone is...
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| Coordinates | 55°45′06″N37°37′04″N |
|---|---|
| company name | Amazon.com, Inc. |
| company logo | |
| company type | Public |
| traded as | NASDAQ-100 ComponentS&P 500 Component |
| foundation | 1994 |
| founder | Jeff Bezos |
| location | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| area served | Worldwide |
| key people | Jeff Bezos(Chairman, President & CEO) |
| industry | Online shoppingCloud computing |
| products | Amazon.comZapposAmazon StudiosAmazon Web ServicesA2Z DevelopmentA9.comAlexa InternetAudible.comEndless.comIMDbKindleLovefilmWoot |
| revenue | US$ 34.204 billion (2010) |
| operating income | US$ 1.406 billion (2010) |
| net income | US$ 1.152 billion (2010) |
| assets | US$ 18.797 billion (2010) |
| equity | US$ 6.864 billion (2010) |
| num employees | 33,700 (2010) |
| url | amazon.com |
| website type | E-commerce |
| language | English, Japanese, German, French, Italian & Chinese |
| advertising | Web bannersVideos |
| launch date | 1995 |
| alexa | 17 () }} |
Amazon.com, Inc. () is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is the world's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc., as of January 2010.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and the site went online in 1995. The company was originally named Cadabra, Inc., but the name was changed when it was discovered that people sometimes heard the name as "Cadaver". The name Amazon.com was chosen because the Amazon River is one of the largest rivers in the world and so the name suggests large size, and also in part because it starts with "A" and therefore would show up near the beginning of alphabetical lists. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Japan, and China. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.
History
Amazon was founded in 1995, spurred by what Bezos called "regret minimization framework", his effort to fend off regret for not staking a claim in the Internet gold rush. Company lore says Bezos wrote the business plan while he and his wife drove from New York to Seattle, although that account is disputed. Bezos flew from New York to Texas, where he picked up a car from a family member, and then drove from Texas to Seattle.
The company began as an online bookstore; while the largest brick-and-mortar bookstores and mail-order catalogs for books might offer 200,000 titles, an online bookstore could offer more. Bezos named the company "Amazon" after the world's largest river. Since 2000, Amazon's logotype is an arrow leading from A to Z, representing customer satisfaction (as it forms a smile); a goal was to have every product in the alphabet.
Amazon was incorporated in 1994, in the state of Washington. In July 1995, the company began service and sold its first book on amazon.com - Douglas Hofstadter's ''Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought''. In 1996, it was reincorporated in Delaware. Amazon issued its initial public offering of stock on May 15, 1997, trading under the NASDAQ stock exchange symbol AMZN, at an IPO price of US$18.00 per share ($1.50 after three stock splits in the late 1990s).
Barnes and Noble filed a lawsuit on 12 May 1997, alleging that Amazon's claim to be "The world's largest bookstore" was false. They asserted "[It] isn't a bookstore at all. It's a book broker." The suit was later settled out of court. Amazon continued to call itself "The world's largest bookstore." This was followed by Walmart filing suit on 16 October 1998, alleging that Amazon had stolen trade secrets by hiring former Walmart executives. Although this suit was settled out of court, it led to work restrictions and reassignment of the former Walmart executives.
Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years. Its "slow" growth provoked stockholder complaints that the company was not reaching profitability fast enough. When the dot-com bubble burst, and many e-companies went out of business, Amazon persevered, and finally turned its first profit in the fourth quarter of 2001: $5 million or 1¢ per share, on revenues of more than $1 billion, but the modest profit was important in demonstrating the business model could be profitable. In 1999, ''Time'' magazine named Bezos Person of the Year, recognizing the company's success in popularizing online shopping.
Acquisitions
1998: Bookpages.co.uk, a UK online book retailer, which became Amazon UK on October 15, 1998. 1999: Internet Movie Database (IMDb).; Cambridge, Massachusetts-based PlanetAll, a reminder service; Sunnyvale-based Junglee.com, an XML-based data mining startup Alexa Internet, Accept.com, and Exchange.com 2003: online music retailer CD Now. 2004: Joyo.com, a Chinese e-commerce website. 2005: BookSurge, a print on demand company, and Mobipocket.com, an eBook software company. CreateSpace.com (formerly CustomFlix), a Scotts Valley, California-based distributor of on-demand DVDs. CreateSpace has since expanded to include on-demand books, CDs, and video. 2006: Shopbop, a Madison, Wisconsin-based retailer of designer clothing and accessories for women. 2007: dpreview.com, a London-based digital photography review website; Brilliance Audio, the largest independent publisher of audiobooks in the United States. 2008: Audible.com; Fabric.com; Box Office Mojo; AbeBooks; Shelfari; (including a 40% stake in LibraryThing and whole ownership of Bookfinder.com, Gojaba.com, and FillZ); Reflexive Entertainment, a casual video game development company. 2009: Zappos, an online shoe and apparel retailer Lexcycle 2010: Touchco., Woot, Quidsi, Buyvip, Amie Street. 2011: Lovefilm, The Book Depository
Investments
2008: Engine Yard, a Ruby-on-Rails platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company. 2010: LivingSocial, a local deal site.
Spinoffs
2004: A9.com, a company focused on researching and building innovative technology.
Merchant partnerships
The website CDNOW is powered and hosted by Amazon. Until June 30, 2006, typing ToysRUs.com into a browser would similarly bring up amazon.com's Toys & Games tab; however, this relationship was terminated as the result of a lawsuit. Amazon also hosted and ran the website for Borders bookstores, but this ceased in 2008.Amazon.com powers and operates retail web sites for Target, Sears Canada, Benefit Cosmetics, bebe Stores, Timex, Marks & Spencer, Mothercare, and Lacoste. For a growing number of enterprise clients, currently including the UK merchants Marks & Spencer, Benefit Cosmetics' UK entity, edeals.com, and Mothercare, Amazon provides a unified multichannel platform where a customer can seamlessly interact with some people that they call the retail website, standalone in-store terminals, or phone-based customer service agents. Amazon Web Services also powers AOL's Shop@AOL.
Locations
Amazon.com has offices, fulfillment centers, customer service centers and software development centers across North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
Headquarters
The company's global headquarters are located in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood.
Software development centers
The company employs software developers in centers across the globe. While much of Amazon's software development is in Seattle, other locations include Slough (England) and Edinburgh (Scotland), Dublin (Ireland), Bangalore, Chennai, and Hyderabad (India), Cape Town (South Africa), Iaşi (Romania), Shibuya, Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China), Orange County (United States), and San Francisco (United States).
Fulfillment and warehousing
Fulfillment centers are located in the following cities, often near airports. These centers also provide warehousing and order-fulfillment for third-party sellers:
:*Canada: Ontario, Mississauga - Canada Post facility
Closed fulfillment and warehousing locations
::These U.S. distribution centers have been closed: Red Rock, Nevada; Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; Munster, Indiana; and McDonough, Georgia.
Products and services
Amazon product lines include books, music CDs, videotapes and DVDs, software, consumer electronics, kitchen items, tools, lawn and garden items, toys & games, baby products, apparel, sporting goods, gourmet food, jewelry, watches, health and personal-care items, beauty products, musical instruments, clothing, industrial & scientific supplies, and groceries.
The company launched amazon.com Auctions, a Web auctions service, in March 1999. However, it failed to chip away at industry pioneer eBay's large market share. amazon.com Auctions was followed by the launch of a fixed-price marketplace business, zShops, in September 1999, and the now defunct Sotheby's/Amazon partnership called ''amazon.com'' in November. Auctions and zShops evolved into Amazon Marketplace, a service launched in November 2000 that let customers sell used books, CDs, DVDs, and other products alongside new items. Today, Amazon Marketplace's main rival is eBay's Half.com service.
In August 2005, Amazon began selling products under its own private label, "Pinzon"; the trademark applications indicated that the label would be used for textiles, kitchen utensils, and other household goods. In March 2007, the company applied to expand the trademark to cover a more diverse list of goods, and to register a new design consisting of the "word PINZON in stylized letters with a notched letter O whose space appears at the "one o'clock" position". Coverage by the trademark grew to include items such as paints, carpets, wallpaper, hair accessories, clothing, footwear, headgear, cleaning products, and jewelry. On September 2008, Amazon filed to have the name registered. USPTO has finished its review of the application, but Amazon has yet to receive an official registration for the name.
Amazon MP3, its own online music store, launched in the US on September 25, 2007, selling downloads exclusively in MP3 format without digital rights management. This was the first online offering of DRM-free music from all four major record companies.
In August 2007, Amazon announced AmazonFresh, a grocery service offering perishable and nonperishable foods. Customers can have orders delivered to their homes at dawn or during a specified daytime window. Delivery was initially restricted to residents of Mercer Island, Washington, and was later expanded to several ZIP codes in Seattle proper. AmazonFresh also operated pick-up locations in the suburbs of Bellevue and Kirkland from summer 2007 through early 2008.
In 2008 Amazon expanded into film production, producing the film ''The Stolen Child'' with 20th Century Fox.
Amazon's Honor System was launched in 2001 to allow customers to make donations or buy digital content, with Amazon collecting a percentage of the payment plus a fee. The service was discontinued in 2008. and replaced by Amazon Payments. Amazon launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, which provides programmatic access to latent features on its website. Amazon also created "channels" to benefit certain causes. In 2004, Amazon's "Presidential Candidates" allowed customers to donate $5–200 to the campaigns of 2004 U.S. presidential hopefuls. Amazon has periodically reactivated a Red Cross donation channel after crises such as the 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean. By January 2005, nearly 200,000 people had donated over $15.7 million in the US.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) was first launched as a public beta of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud running Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server. This was later expanded to several operating systems including various flavors of Linux and OpenSolaris.In March 2006, Amazon launched an online storage service called Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). An unlimited number of data objects, from 1 byte to 5 terabytes in size, can be stored in S3 and distributed via HTTP or BitTorrent. The service charges monthly fees for data stored and transferred. In 2006, Amazon introduced Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), a distributed queue messaging service, and product wikis (later folded into Amapedia) and discussion forums for certain products using guidelines that follow standard message board conventions. Also in 2006, Amazon introduced Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a virtual site farm, allowing users to use the Amazon infrastructure to run applications ranging from running simulations to web hosting. In 2008, Amazon improved the service adding Elastic Block Store (EBS), offering persistent storage for Amazon EC2 instances and Elastic IP addresses, static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing. Amazon introduced SimpleDB, a database system, allowing users of its other infrastructure to utilize a high reliability high performance database system. Amazon continues to refine and add services to AWS, adding such services as Scalable DNS service (Amazon Route 53), payment handling, and AWS specific APIs for their Mechanical Turk service.
Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime offers free two day shipping with no minimum purchase amount for a flat annual fee, as well as discounted one day shipping rates. Amazon launched the program in the continental United States in 2005, in Japan, the United Kingdom and Germany in 2007, and in France (as "Amazon Premium") in 2008. In February 2011, Amazon Prime membership was expanded to include access to 5,000 instant streaming movies and TV shows at no additional cost.
Amazon Publishing
Amazon Publishing is Amazon's publishing unit. It is composed of AmazonEncore, AmazonCrossing, Montlake Romance, Thomas & Mercer, and Powered by Amazon. Additional imprints are planned.In May 2009 Amazon launched AmazonEncore, the inaugural flagship general imprint. AmazonCrossing was announced in May 2010, for translated works into English. The first translated books were the French-language novel ''The King of Kahel'' and the German-language novel ''The Hangman's Daughter'' which were released in November and December 2010, respectively.
In May 2011 Amazon launched two genre-focused imprints, Montlake Romance, and Thomas & Mercer. Montlake Romance is an imprint for the romance genre, "Romance is one of our biggest and fastest growing categories, particularly among Kindle customers," said Jeff Belle, vice president of Amazon Publishing. Thomas & Mercer is for mystery titles.
Powered by Amazon is a self-publishing platform that allows the publication of a series of books under any imprint name. For example in May 2011 Seth Godin launched The Domino Project, an imprint created to publish a series of manifestos. It was the inaugural Powered by Amazon imprint project.
Subscribe & Save
Amazon's Subscribe & Save program offers a discounted price on an item (usually sold in bulk), free shipping on every Subscribe & Save shipment, automatic shipment of the item every one, two, three, or six months, with the option of canceling at any time.
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Launched in 2005, Amazon Shorts offers exclusive short stories and non-fiction pieces from best-selling authors for immediate download. By June 2007, the program had over 1,700 pieces and was adding about 50 new pieces per week. In November 2005, amazon.com began testing Amazon Mechanical Turk, an application programming interface (API) allowing programs to dispatch tasks to human processors.In 2007 Amazon launched Amapedia, a now-defunct wiki for user-generated content to replace ProductWiki, the video on demand service Amazon Unbox, and Amazon MP3, which sells downloadable MP3s. Amazon's terms of use agreements restrict use of the MP3s, but Amazon does not use DRM to enforce those terms. Amazon MP3 sells music from the Big 4 record labels EMI, Universal, Warner Bros. Records, and Sony BMG, as well as independents. Prior to the launch of this service, Amazon made an investment in Amie Street, a music store with a variable pricing model based on demand. Also in 2007 Amazon launched Amazon Vine, which allows reviewers free access to pre-release products from vendors in return for posting a review, as well as payment service specifically targeted at developers, Amazon FPS. In November 2007, Amazon launched Amazon Kindle, an e-book reader which downloads content over "Whispernet", via the Sprint Nextel EV-DO wireless network. The screen uses E Ink technology to reduce battery consumption to provide a more legible display. As of March, 2011, the stated library numbers over 850,000 titles. In December 2007, In August 2007, Amazon launched an invitation-only beta-test for online grocery delivery. It has since rolled out in several Seattle, Washington suburbs.
In January 2008 Amazon began rolling out their MP3 service to subsidiary websites worldwide. In December, 2008, Amazon MP3 was made available in the UK. In September, IMDB and amazon.com launched a Music metadata browsing site with wiki-like user contribution. In November, Amazon partnered with Fisher-Price, Mattel, Microsoft and Transcend to offer products with minimal packaging to reduce environmental impact and frustration with opening "clamshell" type packaging. Amazon Connect enables authors to post remarks on their book pages to customers. WebStore allows businesses to create custom e-commerce websites using Amazon technology. Sellers pay a commission of 7 percent, including credit-card processing fees and fraud protection, and a subscription fee of $59.95/month for an unlimited number of webstores and listings.
In July 2010 Amazon announced that e-book sales for its Kindle reader outnumbered sales of hardcover books for the first time ever during the second quarter of 2010. Amazon claims that, during that period, 143 e-books were sold for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there is no digital edition; and during late June and early July sales rose to 180 digital books for every 100 hardcovers.
In 2011, Amazon announced that it was releasing a Mac download store in order to offer dozens of games and hundreds of pieces of software for Apple computers.
Amazon.com exclusives
An Amazon.com exclusive is a product, usually a DVD, that is available exclusively on Amazon.com. Some DVDs are produced by the owner of the film/product, while others are produced by Amazon.com, itself. The DVDs produced by Amazon are made using their Createspace program, in which DVDs are created once ordered using DVD-R technology. The DVDs are then shipped about two days later after being produced. Some DVDs (such as the Jersey Shore Season 1 or The Unusuals Season 1) first release their DVD on Amazon as an Amazon.com Exclusive for a limited time before being released elsewhere. On May 23, 2011 Amazon.com offered customers to download Lady Gaga's Born This Way album for $0.99 which extremely high volume causing downloads to be delayed.
Website
The domain ''amazon.com'' attracted at least 615 million visitors annually by 2008, twice the number of ''walmart.com''. Amazon attracts approximately 65 million customers to its U.S. website per month. The company has also invested heavily on a massive amount of server capacity for its website, especially to handle the excessive traffic during the December Christmas holiday season. There are different versions of the website for different countries, such as amazon.co.uk, amazon.fr, amazon.de, amazon.it, amazon.at, amazon.jp, amazon.ca. These sites vary in assortment and prices.
Reviews
:''See also Amazon.com controversies#Amazon Reviews'' Amazon allows users to submit reviews to the web page of each product. Reviewers must rate the product on a rating scale from one to five stars. As with most rating scales, one star stands for the product being abysmal, five stars meaning that the item is stellar. Amazon provides an optional badging option for reviewers which indicate the real name of the reviewer (based on confirmation of a credit card account) or which indicate that the reviewer is one of the top reviewers by popularity. Customers may comment or vote on the reviews, indicating whether or not they found it helpful.
Content search
"Search Inside the Book" is a feature which allows customers to search for keywords in the full text of many books in the catalog. The feature started with 120,000 titles (or 33 million pages of text) on October 23, 2003. There are currently about 300,000 books in the program. Amazon has cooperated with around 130 publishers to allow users to perform these searches.To avoid copyright violations, amazon.com does not return the computer-readable text of the book. Instead, it returns a picture of the matching page, disables printing, and puts limits on the number of pages in a book a single user can access. Additionally, customers can purchase online access to some of the same books via the "Amazon Upgrade" program.
Third-party sellers
Amazon derives about 40 percent of its sales from affiliate marketing called "Amazon Associates" and third-party sellers who sell products on Amazon. Associates receive a commission for referring customers to Amazon by placing links on their websites to Amazon, if the referral results in a sale. Worldwide, Amazon has "over 900,000 members" in its affiliate programs. Amazon reported over 1.3 million sellers sold products through Amazon's World Wide Web sites in 2007. Unlike eBay, Amazon sellers do not have to maintain separate payment accounts; all payments are handled by Amazon.Associates can access the Amazon catalog directly on their websites by using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) XML service. A new affiliate product, aStore, allows Associates to embed a subset of Amazon products within, or linked to another website. In June 2010, Amazon Seller Product Suggestions was launched (rumored to be internally called "Project Genesis") to provide more transparency to sellers by recommending specific products to third party sellers to sell on Amazon. Products suggested are based on customers' browsing history.
A January 2010 survey of third-party sellers by Auctionbytes.com found that Amazon was 4th overall. amazon.com placed second in "Profitability". Its lowest rating, but still above average, was in "Ease of Use". Sellers felt Amazon had clearly defined rules, provided a steady stream of traffic to their listings, and put less emphasis on a community component. amazon.com came in second in the Recommended Selling Venue category.
Controversies
Since its founding, in summary, the website Amazon.com has attracted criticism and controversy from multiple sources over its actions, such as its "1-Click patent" claims, anti-competitive actions, price discrimination, anti-unionization efforts, Amazon Kindle remote content removal, taking public subsidies and avoiding sales tax collection duties. Various decisions over whether to censor or publish content such as the WikiLeaks web site; LGBT book sales rank; and works containing libel, facilitating dogfight, cockfight, or pedophile activities have been controversial.
Sales and use taxes
Amazon has been criticized for its refusal to collect sales taxes from customers in states in which it does not have a physical presence, thus giving it a comparative advantage over brick-and-mortar retailers. Possibly, such customers should pay the equivalent amount in use tax directly to their state; however, few customers do so.
Lobbying
Amazon.com lobbies the federal government and state governments on issues such as the enforcement of sales taxes on online sales, transportation safety, privacy and data protection, and intellectual property. According to regulatory filings Amazon.com focuses its lobbying on the US Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Federal Reserve. Amazon.com spent $450,000 on lobbying during the second quarter of 2011, $630,000 in the first quarter of 2011, and $500,000 during the second quarter of 2010.
Entrepreneurship by former employees
A number of companies have been started and founded by former Amazon.com employees.
See also
References
Further reading
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| Coordinates | 55°45′06″N37°37′04″N |
|---|---|
| name | The Basics |
| background | group_or_band |
| origin | Melbourne, Australia |
| genre | Rock |
| years active | 2002 – (present) |
| label | Independent, Albert Records |
| associated acts | Gotye, Down Hills Home, Dog With Wheels, Blood Red Bird |
| website | The Basics Official Website |
| current members | Wally De BackerTim HeathKris Schroeder |
| past members | Michael Hubbard |
| notable instruments | Lead guitar, drums, bass guitar. }} |
With close to 1000 shows in their nine-year career, their live performances are well-known for their sense of humour and energy.
Formation
The Basics were formed after Kris met Wally at a party in Melbourne. The event was to see off the young aspiring producer, who was about to depart for Los Angeles, and together with a number of musician friends, the two jammed on some blues-rock standards. Later that night, they bonded over a mutual love of The Beatles, 70s & 80s cartoon theme songs and old Sierra adventure games.Initially they played around Melbourne as an acoustic guitar/drums combo, starting at The Opposition in Frankston and the House of Fools in Footscray, where in late 2002 they met and later invited Michael Hubbard to join them on electric guitar. Though lacking any real experience with the instrument, Kris willingly purchased his first bass guitar and the trio was born. During this time the group start performing songs with more complicated three-part harmony.
During late 2002 and early 2003 The Basics recorded and released an album called ''Get Back'' through MGM Distribution. They began what was to become regular tours of the East and West coasts of Australia.
2004-2005: Current lineup
Tim Heath joined the group in June 2004, after Michael decided to pursue his solo career, which has included being one half of Down Hills Home. Tim was reportedly the only person to reply to an advertisement in Melbourne's Beat Magazine looking for a new guitarist. Tim apparently answered the advertisement - which said the applicant "must have a love of 50s and 60s rock'n'roll" - thinking that he would be meeting "a couple of old guys to play with on the weekends over some beers". They soon recorded ''For Girls Like You''.The Basics in 2005 continued to tour and play small festivals, and after releasing ''For Girls Like You'' through MGM Distribution they departed for a national tour of Australia, which lasted for two months and took them to every Australian state and territory. Stuart Padbury, a young Melbourne sound engineer, joined them on much of this tour. On returning, the band began demoing songs for a new album.
2006-2009: Touring and soundtracks
In 2006, The Basics began recording what is to become known as ''Stand Out/Fit In''. This took several months and was not completed until the end of the year, despite intentions to have it released in June. Instead, they held a successful 'album preview' where each of the tracks was demonstrated in 'rough form' accompanied by a music video for each (produced by Melbourne photographic artist James Bryans). The band also talked about the origins of the songs. This event brought a lot of attention to the band for the idea's originality. They pre-released a radio single 'Just Hold On' from the album. The band were invited to play the hugely popular Homebake Festival in Sydney, where they received a great response ("one of the highlights" wrote ''The Daily Telegraph'').In 2007, the band departed on a tri-state residency which saw them play Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane every week for the month of April - a bold move which brought further attention to the band for its original idea. Riding on the wave of this tour, Schroeder, De Backer and Heath departed on their first overseas tour which saw them performing 26 shows around Japan, Norway and the United Kingdom. They also toured twice more up the East Coast, one of which was with popular Japanese band The Bawdies. Their song 'Rattle My Chain' was used in a series of commercials for Volvo Australia. The song 'Hey There!' featured in the British film ''The Bank Job'' - starring Jason Statham - and was used as the backing for a February 2007 short film directed by Tim Longhurst called The Rip. Their song 'Better' was featured in a surfing documentary about the invention of the shortboard in 1967.
In 2008, the band appeared on Australia's Channel 9 for Australia Day celebrations, performing two of their songs - 'Just Hold On' and 'Hey There!' - to an estimated audience of 2 million. Securing an Australian Government grant, they embarked on a two-month tour of Australia, specifically targeting "culturally underprivileged groups" in rural and regional schoolchildren and Indigenous communities. The programme had them holding masterclasses and performing alongside Indigenous groups in the remote Northern Territory and Queensland. Their initiative also had them raising money for the charity Lifeline, their contribution to which was recognised with a plaque at the end of the tour. Season two of ''Californication'' starring David Duchovny featured their cover of the classic 'Have Love, Will Travel', most famously covered by 'The Sonics'.
In 2009, The Basics for the first time enjoyed the support of Australian radio network Triple J, which had reportedly snubbed the band's previous material. The singles 'With This Ship' and 'Like A Brother' were added to the station's playlist, and momentum carried The Basics overseas for a second tour of the United Kingdom and Norway, and also a series of shows in Dublin, Ireland. They were joined by the longtime front-of-house engineer Stuart Padbury who had been mixing them since 2005. The band was often seen in the Grafton Street Mall in Dublin busking to promote their concerts there. Their second show in Oslo, Norway saw the band perform with Hot Tub, one of the members of the Norwegian boy band "Boyzvoice", in his first performance for several years. Season Eight of ''Scrubs'' featured the song 'Lookin' Over My Shoulder'.
Despite all this promise, the band's album ''Keep Your Friends Close'' - produced and part-recorded by Peter Cobbin at London's Abbey Road Studios - though enjoying many favourable reviews, failed to impress Richard Kingsmill, music director of Triple J. This effectively ended the band's apparent upward spiral and the resulting album launch tour was reportedly "trying".
2010: Hiatus and live album
In 2010, following the band's fourth stint at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, and the recording of a yet-unreleased live album, an indefinite hiatus was announced on the band's websites. This was in part due to the impending release of a new album produced by Wally for his Gotye project, and also to reported tensions within the band following the previous year's disappointments.However, this hiatus was soon broken with a two-month residency at the Northcote Social Club in Melbourne, which saw an apparent return to form. The band's EP "Wait For You" enjoys airplay on Triple J. The Basics also played a one-off show at Sydney's Oxford Art Factory.
On 20 August 2010, The Basics released their fourth LP , available free online and exclusively from *[www.FreeBasicsAlbum.com]. The band had reportedly moved to expand their listenership through this free giveaway, though 300 "Deluxe" CD/Vinyl versions have been printed. was recorded at the Northcote Social Club on 6 February, "in front of a live studio audience", and like the previous record was mixed by Peter Cobbin at Abbey Road Studios. Technically a self-titled album, the phonetics spell out the accurate pronunciation of the band’s name. Kris Schroeder: "For years we’ve worked at bringing our live energy into the studio and thus far it’s been a bit hit-and-miss. Our trick this time was to pull a switcheroo and bring the studio to us instead; the result is the best and closest to us we’ve sounded yet."
Melbourne thespian and Dog With Wheels bassist David Bramble - friends with Heath from university days - has occasionally joined the band on tour, playing keys, often while sporting a large moustache. Other guests have included Jake Mason (saxophone), also of Cookin' on 3 Burners and The Bamboos, Gideon Brazil (saxophone, flute), Simon Imrei (guitar and vocals) and Monty MacKenzie (saxophone).
Covers have often made an appearance from various sources: to date, some of the bands covered have been Cream, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Police, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, New Kids on the Block, Richard Berry, Sonny Curtis and The Crickets, JJ Cale, Harry Nilsson, Bill Scott, Ryan Adams and The Coasters (via The Beatles for their cover of Three Cool Cats).
Members
Discography
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Upcoming projects
The band are taking a two year hiatus, set to return to the stage together in early 2012. Wally De Backer will be launching a new album under his Gotye act in August 2011, Tim Heath will be touring and recording with Blood Red Bird, and Kris Schroeder is currently recording a solo album.
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