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Kypros Chrysostomides

Kypros Chrysostomides (Greek: Κύπρος Χρυσοστομίδης, ; 5 July 19421 December 2022) was a Cypriot politician and member of the Cyprus Parliament, born in the village of Kathikas in Paphos.

Early life and education
Chrysostomides graduated from the Paphos Gymnasium. He studied Law at the University of Athens on a scholarship granted by the Greek government. He continued his studies at the Luxembourg Law School, again on a scholarship, where he studied Comparative Law.

On a further scholarship granted by the German government, he pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Bonn where he obtained a Doctorate in Law (Ph.D.). The area of his specialisation was Business Law. Thereafter, he worked as a scientific assistant to the Professor of Private International Law at the University of Bonn and he continued his studies in England.

Career
For four years (1969–1973) Kypros Chrysostomides worked with the European Commission of Human Rights of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. He returned to Cyprus in 1973 and began practicing law in Nicosia, shortly before the Coup d'état and the Turkish Invasion in 1974.

In 1973, he was appointed a Corresponding Collaborator at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law UNIDROIT. In 1999 Cyprus became a full member of UNIDROIT.

From 1981 until his appointment as government spokesman in 2003, he practised law from his own law firm in Nicosia. From 2003, when Tassos Papadopoulos became President of Cyprus, he was the government spokesman until 2006.

Chrysostomides left this post in 2006 in order to take part in the parliamentary elections of 2006 as a result of which he became a member of the House of Representatives (Cyprus) where he served until March 2008, when he was appointed Minister of Justice and Public Order. He resigned from his post in December 2008, following the escape of a convict from the Cyprus Central Prison. Chrysostomides was not personally to blame for this event, and had no knowledge or control over events that led to the escape. His resignation was an assumption of the idea of ministerial responsibility: the doctrine that a minister takes the blame if something goes wrong in his department, even if it is not his fault and he has no knowledge of it. At the time his resignation was widely acclaimed as an act of dignity and a rare acceptance of political responsibility. It continues to this day to be praised as an unusual act of nobility and a high water mark in Cypriot public life. Chrysostomides declined to receive the government pension to which he was entitled, opting instead for the money to be placed in a Government fund.

In 1998 he established the movement "Epalxis Anasiggrotisis Kentrou" ('Επαλξη Ανασυγκρότησης Κέντρου): Political Grouping for the Restructure of the Centre. In 2006, he cooperated with AKEL Left-New Powers for the 2006 Cypriot legislative election. During those elections he was elected AKEL Left-New Powers member in the House of Representatives of Cyprus.

Chrysostomides always maintained an avid interest in public affairs and became politically active in the progressive and democratic centre. He has also been involved in the scientific and social life in Cyprus. He was the president of the Political Grouping for the Restructure of the Centre, which was established in 1998.

Chrysostomides was a founding member of the Consumers' Association, a member of the Association of Sciences, of the Greek Civilization Association and of the Historic Studies Association. He was the president of the Cyprus Institute of Political Research and European Affairs, which closely cooperates with various scientific institutions of Greece and elsewhere. He was also a member of the International Association of International Law, the Greek Institute of International Law, the International Law Association as well as other International Organizations.

Chrysostomides was a member of the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration (ICC) for two consecutive terms, until June 2018. He was a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), serving his second term.

Personal life
Chrysostomides married lawyer Eleni G. Polyviou in 1974. They had two daughters, Daphne and Georgia.

Chrysostomides died on 1 December 2022, at the age of 80.

Publications
Chrysostomides participated in and was the rapporteur and speaker at numerous international conferences, and a number of his articles were published in the Greek and foreign press. He was keenly interested in matters of international and constitutional law, human rights, and local government for which he has gained international recognition.

Professor Christopher Greenwood's introduction to "The Republic of Cyprus. A Study In International Law", describes how Doctor Chrysostomides examines: "'with great care the constitutional history of the Republic of Cyprus, the legal principles applicable to the Turkish invasion of 1974 and subsequent occupation and the substantial body of case law and State practice regarding Cyprus since that date. He discusses the competing legal arguments concerning the application of the Republic of Cyprus to join the European Union, the controversial decisions of the European Court and Commission of Human Rights and the debate regarding the status of the occupied northern part of Cyprus. .Dr Chrysostomides has performed an invaluable service to the international community by providing an analysis of the legal issues which is both careful and timely'." Chrysostomides' book Cyprus: Legal and Political Reflections, received praise for its depth and extensive analysis of the application of international law and ethics in Cyprus. Writing for the Cyprus Review, Stelios Perrakis described it as "an interesting source of information and arguments that serve as a basis for a global reflection on Cyprus and its future as a sovereign, independent, and undivided Republic."

Chrysostomides' last book on International Law entitled "Διεθνές Δίκαιο: Παραβίαση και Παρακμή: Το κράτος Ανδρείκελο στην κατεχόμενη Κύπρο" ("International Law: Violation and Decline. The Puppet state in the occupied part of Cyprus") (November 2022, Rizes Publications) received very favourable reviews. One such review is available in the Spring 2023 issue of The Cyprus Review. The full review is available here.

Chrysostomides was also the author of two children's stories namely, Ο Αρλεκίνος της Φεγγαρόπολης (2013) and Στο μικρό τους σπίτι στο μικρό τους χωριό (2021). Both have won critical acclaim and have been included in the syllabus of Cyprus public elementary schools. The Ministry of Education and Culture approved the book in an official letter dated 2 February 2022.

Human rights
During the period 1969–1973 Kypros Chrysostomides worked with the European Commission of Human Rights of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. During his term at the European Commission, he participated in the Commission's investigation of the accusations against the Greek Junta for violations of human rights.

As a member of the legal secretariat of the European Commission which visited Athens and examined witnesses regarding the allegations against the Greek Junta, Dr. Chrysostomides participated in the team under one of the leaders of the investigation, Professor James Fawcett.

Doctor Chrysostomides conducted interviews of witnesses including politicians under house arrest and other civilians who suffered torture and degrading treatment at the hands of the Junta police. Various locations were visited by the team and police officers, who were suspected of carrying out acts of torture, were examined. Hearings took place at the Evgenideion Foundation Building.

Chrysostomides was one of the first lawyers to defend cases of refugees and other victims of the Turkish invasion before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. One of his clients was Archimandrite Georgios Papachrysostomou who in 2023 became the Archbishop of Cyprus. During these proceedings Papachrysostomou was awarded pecuniary damages for having suffered humiliating and degrading treatment at the hands of the Turkish army (Application No. 15300/89, adopted on 8 July, 1993).

Honours

 * In 1991 during the presidency of François Mitterrand, he was honoured by the French government with the medal of the "Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite" (Ordre National du Merite) and then by the Government of Jacques Chirac in 2004 with the medal of "Officier de l'Ordre National du Merite".
 * He was also honoured with the "Grand Cross of the Order of Phoenix" («Μεγαλόσταυρος του Τάγματος του Φοίνικα») by the then President of the Third Republic of Greece, Kostis Stephanopoulos.
 * In 2020, he was awarded the Cyprus Business Leader Award by the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
 * In November 2022, he was honoured with the "Lifetime Achievement Award" in the Cyprus Review Annual Book Awards (CRABA 2022) at the University of Nicosia, in recognition of his significant body of published work, especially on the international aspects of the Cyprus Question.
 * In 2023, he posthumously received an award from the Cyprus Consumers Association (of which he was a founding member) in recognition of his life long contribution to consumers and the consumer cause.
 * Several legal and academic conferences and events have taken place in 2023 in memory of Kypros Chrysostomides and as a tribute to the wealth of his contribution to the Cyprus legal, political and academic scene.
 * Notably, in March 2023, the Cyprus Bar Association organised and held at Frederick University a conference entitled "The Cyprus Problem: Quo vadis", paying tribute to Kypros Chrysostomides. A significant number of leading Cypriot and Greek academics and practitioners delivered speeches and presented topics that touch upon current domestic and international law issues pertinent to the Cyprus problem, which was Chrysostomides' prime field of academic interest.
 * In December 2023, the Department of Law of the University of Cyprus held a scientific conference in his memory, during which four significant academic speakers shared views and ideas on current legal developments in the fields of European, Commercial and International law. During this conference, Kypros Chrysostomides' latest book entitled International Law: Illegality and Decadence: The puppet state in occupied Cyprus was presented.

General references

 * 1972 Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights (The Greek case, 1969), European Commission of Human Rights. Martinus Nijhof, The Hague, 1972. ISBN 978-94-015-1224-4

English

 * Cyprus: Legal and Political Reflections, Nicosia 2021, Alfa Dimiourgiki and CIPREA Publications. ISBN 978-9925-580-28-6
 * The Republic of Cyprus: A Study in International Law, Martinus Nijhof Publishers, Hague, Boston, London 2000, Kluwer Law International. Foreword by Christopher Greenwood, QC. ISBN 90-411-1338-X
 * The Republic of Cyprus: A Study in International Law (Developments in International Law) by Chrysostomides, Kypros ISBN 9-78-904-111338-2
 * Cyprus – The Way Forward, CIPREA Publications, Nicosia 2006. ISBN 9963-9234-0-2

Greek

 * Το Κράτος της Κύπρου στο Διεθνές Δίκαιο, Εκδόσεις Αντ. Ν. Σάκκουλα, Αθήνα. Εισαγωγή από τον Καθηγητή Εμμανουήλ Ρούκουνα. Foreword by Emmanouel Roukounas ISBN 960-232-102-4
 * Απόψεις, άρθρα, μελέτες ISBN 9963-7781-0-0 1990.
 * Στο τέλος της αρχής (Πολιτικές παρεμβάσεις στην τροχιά του Κυπριακού), Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη, Αθήνα 1997. ISBN 960-03-1790-9
 * Υπεράσπιση της πολιτικής του αύριο (Κυπριακές πολιτικές συνέχειες), Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη, Αθήνα 2001. ISBN 960-03-3059-X
 * Διεκδίκηση Ενωμένης Πατρίδας (Κύπρος – πριν και μετά το Σχέδιο Ανάν), Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη, 2η έκδοση, Αθήνα 2006. ISBN 960-03-4142-7
 * Πολιτικές Διαδρομές, Εκδόσεις Έπαλξης, Λευκωσία 2008. ISBN 978-9963-9234-27
 * Ανοικτά ζητήματα (Κυπριακό – Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση – ΑΟΖ –Τουρκία), Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη, Αθήνα 2012. ISBN 978-9925-580-28-6
 * Ανάλεκτα, Λευκωσία 2020, Εκδόσεις «Αλφα Δημιουργική» ISBN 978-9925-580-27-9
 * Διεθνές Δίκαιο: Παραβίαση και Παρακμή – Το κράτος ανδρείκελο στην κατεχόμενη Κύπρο, Λευκωσία 2022, Εκδόσεις Ρίζες ISBN 978-9925-7899-2-4

Children's books

 * Στο μικρό τους σπίτι στο μικρό τους χωριό, 2021
 * Ο Αρλεκίνος της Φεγγαρόπολης, 2013

Turkish

 * Κibris-Onumuzdeki Yol, CIPREA Publications, Nicosia 2006. ISBN 9963-9234-1-0

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KSL (radio network)

KSL Newsradio is a pair of radio stations serving the Salt Lake City, Utah region, consisting of the original AM station, KSL, licensed to Salt Lake City on 1160 kHz, and FM station KSL-FM, licensed to Midvale on 102.7 MHz. Owned by Bonneville International, a broadcasting subsidiary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the stations share studios with sister television station KSL-TV in the Broadcast House building at the Triad Center in downtown Salt Lake City.

The AM station broadcasts with 50,000 watts non-directional, day and night, the maximum power permitted by the Federal Communications Commission. A Class A clear channel station, it covers most of north-central Utah in the daytime and can be heard in much of western North America at night. The KSL transmitter site is located west of Salt Lake City International Airport, while the KSL-FM transmitter is located on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City.

The AM station is Utah's primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System. Both KSL's AM and FM transmissions broadcast in HD Radio. KSL-FM carries the Latter-day Saints Channel over its HD2 subchannel.

Programming
Both stations simulcast a format of all-news during key hours on weekdays and talk programming the rest of the time.

Weekdays
Once a month during non-election cycles (usually on the last Thursday of the month), the Governor of Utah has airtime on the station for a "Let Me Speak to the Governor" segment, where calls are taken from constituents, with the governor answering questions and concerns.

A notable program from KSL's history was Herb Jepko's Nitecap [Radio Network], a call-in show airing overnight on 1160 KSL from 1964 to 1990. Nightcaps was one of the first U.S. radio talk shows to be syndicated nationally, airing on numerous Mutual Broadcasting System Network stations.

Weekends
Programming airing on weekends includes KSL Outdoors, The KSL Greenhouse Show, Cougar Sports Saturday, The Movie Show Matinee, Best of The Doug Wright Show, Meet The Press, Ric Edelman as well as numerous LDS religious shows and paid programming.

KSL was the flagship station of Brigham Young University's football and men's basketball teams until BYU Radio took over the duties in 2017. KSL remains an affiliate for those teams though. Commentary for football games is provided by Greg Wrubell, the "Voice of the Cougars".

Due to its affiliation with the LDS Church, KSL, along with its television counterparts and other LDS-affiliated outlets in Utah, airs simulcasts of the General Conferences, held twice a year during April and October.

On Sunday mornings, KSL airs its longest-running show, Music and the Spoken Word, a weekly broadcast of The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square which is also syndicated nationwide via CBS Radio and television. Continuously airing since 1929, it is one of the longest-running radio programs in the world, and one of only two radio shows to be inaugurated into the National Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame, along with the Grand Ole Opry.

On Sunday mornings and evenings for 22 years, KSL has broadcast "Religion Today" with host Martin Tanner, which focuses on Christian and Jewish history and doctrine.

KZN/KFPT/KSL
Effective December 1, 1921, the U.S. Department of Commerce, in charge of radio at the time, adopted a regulation formally establishing a broadcasting station category, which set aside the wavelength of 360 meters (833 kHz) for entertainment broadcasts, and 485 meters (619 kHz) for farm market and weather reports.

On April 21, 1922, the Deseret News, a Salt Lake City newspaper owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), was issued a license for a new station on both broadcasting wavelengths. This was the first broadcasting station licensed in the state of Utah. The new station's call sign was KZN. At this time call letters were generally randomly assigned from a roster of available call signs, but it is possible that the KZN call sign was derived from the Zion concept and common motif in the Latter Day Saint movement. The station was located on the roof of the Deseret News Building. KZN's first broadcast began at 3:00 p.m. on May 6, 1922, and included an 8:00 p.m. dedication address by LDS Church president Heber J. Grant, followed by a speech by Salt Lake City Mayor C. Clarence Nelson.

In 1924, KZN was sold to John Cope and his father, F.W. Cope, who formed the Radio Service Corporation of Utah. Ownership was changed to Cope & Johnson, and the station's frequency to 1120 kHz. The call letters became KFPT, with this new call sign coming from an alphabetical roster of available call letters that were normally assigned to new stations. KFPT, still located atop the Deseret New Building, made its formal debut on June 13, 1924. In early 1925 ownership was changed to the Radio Service Corporation of Utah, and the station's frequency to 1150 kHz.

On March 24, 1925, the call letters were changed from KFPT to KSL, and the frequency to 1000 kHz, with the "S" and "L" standing for "Salt Lake". (The KSL call sign had been assigned to a San Francisco station from March 1922 until it was deleted in June 1923.) Earl J. Glade (later a four-term mayor of Salt Lake City) joined the station in 1925 and guided KSL's operations for the next fourteen years. John F. Fitzpatrick, publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune (owned by the Kearns Corporation) acquired a quarter interest of KSL for a modest price, as did the LDS Church. This was the Tribune's first business partnership with the LDS Church, though the Church later reacquired full interest in the station. In 1927, the station moved to 990 kHz.

The recently formed Federal Radio Commission adopted General Order 40 in 1928, which included 40 "clear channel" allocations, which were assignments providing for high-powered stations with extensive nighttime coverage. The resulting reallocation was implemented on November 11, 1928, with KSL given one of the "clear channel" assignments, on 1130 kHz. An upgrade from 5,000 to the current 50,000 watts was dedicated October 22, 1932. In March 1941, with the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, KSL was shifted to 1160 kHz, although it maintained its status as a "clear channel" station.

In 1932, KSL joined the CBS Radio Network. It remained with CBS until 2005, when it switched to ABC News Radio. The station gained a television counterpart in 1949, the CBS affiliate KSL-TV. (KSL-TV switched to NBC in 1995 after KUTV Channel 2 came under the ownership of CBS, following its acquisition by Westinghouse). These stations remained subsidiaries of the Deseret News until 1964, when Bonneville International Corporation was formed as the parent company for the LDS Church's broadcasting interests.

In the mid-1980s KSL adopted an all-talk format, completely dropping music programming, aside from its Sunday broadcasts of the Tabernacle Choir.

KSL-FM
There have been two separate stations that have held the KSL-FM call letters. The original KSL-FM debuted in 1946 on the then sparsely-populated FM band at 100.1 (later 100.3) MHz. After simulcasting KSL for a number of years, the FM station switched to a beautiful music format, a contrast to the then-current KSL format of news and talk interspersed with middle of the road music. KSL-FM was sold to Simmons Family Inc. in 1977, due to FCC restrictions on multiple station ownership, and the new owners changed the call letters to KSFI. The ownership limitations were later loosened, and KSFI and KSL returned to common ownership in 2003 when Bonneville repurchased the station, along with classic rock KRSP-FM (103.5) and then-hot AC KQMB (102.7).

The second, and current KSL-FM, began broadcasting in 1985 as KQMB on 102.7 MHz. In September 2005, KQMB was converted to a simulcast of KSL, and changed its call letters to KSL-FM. The joint operation has been branded as "KSL Newsradio 102.7 FM & 1160 AM", though the AM signal was the main station. KQMB's former branding, call sign, and hot adult contemporary format were picked up by an unrelated company as 96.7 FM in Levan, Utah. But KQMB 96.7 has been flipped from hot adult contemporary format to classic hits format on November 16, 2021.

Hosts

 * Amanda Dickson, "Utah's Morning News", "A Woman's View"
 * Tim Hughes, "Utah's Morning News","KSL Outdoors"
 * Dave Noriega, "Dave and Dujanovic"
 * Debbie Dujanovic, "Dave and Dujanovic"
 * Maria Shilaos, "Utah's Noon News", "KSL Greenhouse Show"
 * Boyd Matheson, "Inside Sources with Boyd Matheson"
 * Jeff Caplan, "Jeff Caplan's Afternoon News"
 * Alex Kirry, "Unrivaled"
 * Scott Mitchell, "Unrivaled"
 * Steve Salles, "The KSL Movie Show"
 * Doug Wright, "The KSL Movie Show"
 * Greg Wrubell, "The Kalani Sitake Show", "The Dave Rose Show", BYU football & men's basketball game broadcasts, Voice of the BYU Cougars
 * Lindsey Aerts, "The KSL Mom Show"
 * Justin and Merrill Osmond, "Sound Advice"

Reporters, anchors & producers

 * Don Brinkerhoff
 * Randall Jeppeson (Executive Producer, "Utah's Morning News" with Tim & Amanda)
 * Marc Giauque (News Director)
 * Mark Jackson
 * Aimee Cobabe (Executive Producer, "Utah's Noon News")
 * Heather Kelly
 * Kira Hoffelmeyer (Executive Producer, "Jeff Caplan's Afternoon News")
 * Nick Wyatt
 * Paul Nelson
 * Mary Richards
 * Maria Shilaos (National News Desk)

Past personalities

 * Parley Baer (1930s) Director of Special Events
 * Grant Nielsen (retired), "Utah's Morning News"
 * Paul James (retired), Voice of the BYU Cougars
 * Rod Arquette, host of "Utah's Afternoon News" (now "Jeff Caplan's Afternoon News")
 * Scott Seeger, host of "Utah's Afternoon News" (now "Jeff Caplan's Afternoon News")
 * Mark Eubank (retired), KSL (radio) & KSL-TV meteorologist
 * Rebecca Cressman, host of "Utah's Noon News"
 * Doug Wright (retired), host of the "Doug Wright Show"
 * Herb Jepko (1960s), known for his Nitecaps show

KSL

 * FCC History Cards for KSL (covering 1927-1980)

KSL-FM

 * KSL-FM in the FCC FM station database
 * KSL-FM on Radio-Locator
 * KSL-FM in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
 * FCC History Cards for KFSI (was KSL-FM from 1943 to 1978)

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Priscus (disambiguation)

Priscus is the Latin word for "ancient" or "venerable." There were several figures in Antiquity named Priscus:

 * Priscus of Panium, 5th-century historian
 * Priscus Attalus, senator and briefly Emperor
 * Priscus of Epirus, 4th-century Neoplatonist philosopher and friend of the emperor Julian
 * Marcus Statius Priscus, 2nd-century Roman general and politician
 * Caerellius Priscus, governor of Roman Britain in the 170s
 * Gaius Julius Priscus, Roman usurper
 * Priscus (magister militum), Byzantine general of the late 6th/early 7th centuries
 * Helvidius Priscus, Stoic philosopher
 * Tarquinius Priscus, legendary king of Rome
 * Clutorius Priscus, Roman poet
 * Priscus (gladiator), 1st-century Roman gladiator
 * Saint Priscus
 * Iavolenus Priscus, 1st-century Roman jurist
 * Titus Julius Priscus, 3rd-century Roman governor and usurper
 * Priscus of Lyon (d. in the 580s), bishop of Lyon

Other uses

 * Bison priscus, a Pleistocene species of Bison from Eurasia
 * 13653 Priscus, an asteroid

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Belina coat of arms

Belina is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Blazon
Azure, between horseshoes argent, two facing each, the third in base, a sword proper. the hilt in chief or. Crest: A dexter arm embowed in armour or, holding a sword pointed to the right.

Notable bearers
Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:
 * Andrus Konotopski

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Bob Bradley

Robert Frank Bradley (born March 3, 1958) is an American soccer coach who is currently manager of Norwegian club Stabæk.

A native of New Jersey and graduate of Princeton University, Bradley coached in the American college game and Major League Soccer (MLS), managing the Chicago Fire, MetroStars, and Chivas USA over nine seasons. In 2006, he was appointed manager of the United States men's team, winning the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2007 and finishing runner-up in 2009 and 2011 as well as in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. His team also reached the last 16 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He then managed Egypt.

He then became the first American to manage a team in a European first division with Stabæk of Norway in 2014. He moved on to French club Le Havre and Welsh side Swansea City, becoming the first American to manage a Premier League club, but was fired less than three months later. He returned to MLS, managing Los Angeles FC and Toronto FC.

Early life and career
Bradley was born and raised in New Jersey, playing soccer at West Essex High School and Princeton University. Following his graduation from Princeton, Bradley briefly worked in the Procter & Gamble executive training program before entering the Ohio University sports management graduate school in 1981. While there, Bradley's coaching career began when he was named head coach of the Ohio University Bobcats's NCAA Division I soccer program at the age of 22. After two seasons with Ohio, Bradley worked as an assistant coach and scout for University of Virginia manager Bruce Arena for two years before taking the top job at his alma mater, Princeton. Bradley led the Tigers from 1984 to 1995, winning two Ivy League titles and reaching the NCAA Final Four in 1993.

Major League Soccer
In 1996, Bradley was hired again as Arena's assistant, this time with D.C. United of Major League Soccer, the then newly formed U.S. professional league. After back-to-back championship seasons with DC, he became the first head coach of the Chicago Fire, an expansion team that began play in 1998. Bradley steered the newly assembled squad to the MLS Cup and U.S. Open Cup double in its first season and was named MLS Coach of the Year for his achievements. He won a third trophy in 2000, when the Fire again won the Open Cup.

After the 2002 MLS season, Bradley resigned as coach of the Fire to return to New Jersey as head coach of the MetroStars (now the New York Red Bulls). Bradley began his tenure with the historically underachieving team headed in the right direction as the MetroStars advanced to the U.S. Open Cup final for the first time in club history in 2003 as well as earning a playoff berth. Bradley also gained attention for an infamous incident in a match against D.C. United that season in which he exploited an MLS rule allowing a 4th substitution for a goalkeeper by switching starting goalkeeper Tim Howard into an outfield player so that midfielder Eddie Gaven (who would go on to score the winning goal) could enter the game classified as a goalkeeper, before switching positions with Howard after ten seconds of play.

Bradley stayed with the MetroStars for three years before he was fired with three games left in the 2005 regular season. The club had suffered losses in back-to-back fixtures and diminishing playoff prospects prior to Bradley's firing. Shortly after leaving the MetroStars, Bradley was named the coach at Los Angeles club Chivas USA for the 2006 season. Bradley revived a Chivas USA team that had endured a poor inaugural season in 2005, discovering young talents such as Sacha Kljestan and Jonathan Bornstein and leading the team to a third-place finish in the Western Conference before losing in the playoffs to eventual champions Houston Dynamo.

United States
Following the U.S. men's national team's disappointing showing at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, U.S. Soccer appointed Bradley the interim coach of the team, succeeding Arena in December 2006. On his debut on January 20, his team defeated Denmark 3–1 in a friendly in Los Angeles. In May, having won three out of four games, he was appointed permanently. His team won the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup in June, with a 2–1 final win over Mexico. Weeks later at the 2007 Copa América in Venezuela, the team lost all three games, his first defeats in charge.

Bradley led the U.S. team to an unlikely second-place finish in the 2009 Confederations Cup, including a 2–0 semi-final victory over European champions Spain, ending the Spaniards' 35-game unbeaten streak and 15-game winning streak. In the final, Bradley's U.S. team opened up a 2–0 lead on Brazil before losing 3–2. With the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup taking place immediately following the Confederations Cup, Bradley selected a largely second-tier squad, which advanced to the final before losing 5–0 to Mexico. With a 3–2 away win against Honduras on October 10, the team secured qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

At the World Cup finals in South Africa, the U.S. finished on top of Group C after a 1–1 draw with England, a 2–2 draw with Slovenia, and a 1–0 victory over Algeria through a dramatic late goal by Landon Donovan. In the knockout round, Bradley and the U.S. faced Ghana, who eliminated the Americans for the second consecutive World Cup with a 2–1 victory in extra time following a 1–1 draw.

Following the World Cup, Bradley signed a contract extension in August 2010 to remain as the U.S. coach until the 2014 World Cup after a reported approach from English club Aston Villa. In June 2011 he led the U.S. to the final of the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup, but an early 2–0 lead in the final was overturned by Mexico, who eventually won 4–2. On July 28, 2011, he was relieved of his duties by the United States Soccer Federation to be replaced by former Germany national team manager Jürgen Klinsmann.

Egypt

On September 14, 2011, Bradley reached a deal to take over as manager of the Egypt national team beginning October 15, 2011. He made his debut on November 14, in a friendly against Brazil, losing 2–0. Bradley was praised for choosing to live in Egypt despite the unrest following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and continuing to guide the Pharaohs despite the suspension of the Egyptian Premier League following the Port Said Stadium riot.

Egypt was perfect in its first six matches of qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, but fell decisively to Ghana in the third round playoffs. Bradley was not retained following Egypt's elimination. American Pharaoh, a documentary by Hossam Aboul-Magd about Bradley's tenure in Egypt, aired on PBS on June 16, 2014.

Stabæk Fotball
It was reported on January 2, 2014, that Bradley had agreed to manage Stabæk Fotball in Norway, making him the first American to manage a club in a European top flight. His competitive debut came on March 30, in a 3–0 home win over Sogndal. During this tenure the club reached the qualifying phase of the Europa League, also a first for an American coach. On November 5, 2015, Stabæk announced that Bradley would be leaving the club at the end of the season to pursue other jobs.

Le Havre AC
On November 10, 2015, Bradley was officially named as the new manager of French Ligue 2 side Le Havre AC, signing a two-year contract. He recorded his first win at the club on December 1 against Evian TG in a 3–2 victory at home. Bradley led the team to a tie on points with FC Metz for third place in the league and the final promotion place, but the team was left in fourth based on the goals scored tiebreaker.

Bradley managed his final match on October 3, 2016, a league home game against Sochaux, which Le Havre won 2–1.

Swansea City
On October 3, 2016, Bradley was appointed as the new Swansea City manager after Francesco Guidolin's dismissal. The Swansea supporters trust – who own a 21% stake in the club – issued a statement saying they were 'disappointed' in the new appointment given Bradley had been appointed without them being consulted. With the appointment, Bradley became the first American to manage a Premier League club. Many fans and pundits criticized the appointment, suggesting that he had been given the job by the club's new American owners by virtue of being American.

On December 27, 2016, following a 1–4 defeat by West Ham United, Bradley was sacked by Swansea after only 85 days and 11 games in charge of the club, the fourth shortest reign of any manager in the history of the Premier League. He left with a record, conceding 29 goals – the most goals conceded by any Premier League club in the same time period, with Swansea gaining only 8 (24.2%) out of a maximum 33 points available for the 11 game period – an average of 0.73 points per game. In a club statement, Huw Jenkins, the Swansea chairman, said: "We are sorry to lose Bob after such a short period of time. Unfortunately things haven't worked out as planned and we felt we had to make the change with half the Premier League season remaining. Personally, I have nothing but praise for Bob. He is a good man; a good person who gave everything to the job. His work-rate is phenomenal and we wish him well for the future."

Following his sacking, Bradley said that the club's owners Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien were swayed by a "negative atmosphere" at the club and failed to realize this was a project and that they needed to stick to the plan. He also said: "You can look at even top managers and recognize that in a league as competitive as the Premier League, anyone can go through a stretch of 10 or 11 games where you don't get the results you should. ''

At Swansea, Bradley had been criticized for using American soccer vocabulary such as "PK" for a penalty kick and "road game" for what the British call an away game. He defended himself by saying that the vocabulary for the game varies in every country. Sky Sports program Soccer AM parodied him as the character "Brad Bobley", an American coach who uses exaggeratedly American words. Analysis by The Wall Street Journal found that Bradley in fact used British terms such as training, supporters and clean sheet far more frequently than their American equivalents practice, fans and shutout, and had never once called the sport soccer in a British interview.

Los Angeles FC
On July 27, 2017, Bradley was announced as the team's first head coach for the inaugural season of Los Angeles FC, an expansion MLS team that started playing in the 2018 season. On March 4, 2018, Los Angeles FC won 1–0 against the Seattle Sounders in the team's first ever game. It was Bradley's first domestic club job since leaving Chivas USA for the USMNT in 2006.

During Bradley's time in Los Angeles, he established LAFC as a leading club in the league, guiding the club to the post-season in their first three seasons of existence. In 2019, the Black and Gold amassed the most points at that time in MLS history with 72, winning the Supporters' Shield in the process. The club lost to the Seattle Sounders in that year's conference final, 2–1.

On November 18, 2021, 11 days after LAFC failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time, Bradley and Los Angeles FC parted ways.

Toronto FC
On November 24, 2021, Bradley was announced as head coach and sporting director of Toronto FC, reuniting with his son Michael, who has been the club's captain since 2015. He tied 1–1 at FC Dallas on his debut the following February 26, concluding his first season in second-from-bottom in the Eastern Conference; the team signed Italian international trio Domenico Criscito, Lorenzo Insigne and Federico Bernardeschi in July 2022.

Bradley's Toronto FC won the delayed 2020 Canadian Championship on June 5, 2022, with a penalty shootout win over Forge FC in Hamilton, Ontario. The following month, they lost the 2022 edition to Vancouver Whitecaps FC on the same method.

On June 26, 2023, Toronto FC announced that it had parted ways with Bradley after a 3W-10D-4L record to start the season.

Return to Stabæk
In September 2023, Bradley returned to Stabæk on a deal until the end of the 2023 Eliteserien season, with the option for a further year. His new team was in second-last place with 11 games remaining. He was unable to prevent the team from relegation to the Norwegian First Division, but his contract was renewed, with his son Michael joining him as a volunteer coach.

Personal life
Bob Bradley is the eldest of three brothers. The middle sibling, Scott, played for the Seattle Mariners and three other Major League Baseball teams in the 1980s and 1990s, and is the current baseball coach at Princeton University. The youngest, Jeff, was a sports journalist who has worked for ESPN and the New York Daily News.

Bradley is married to Lindsay (née Sheehan), a former University of Virginia lacrosse player. Their son, Michael, was drafted by the MetroStars in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft, and played in the Eredivisie, Bundesliga, Premier League and Serie A before transferring to Toronto FC in January 2014. Bob also has a daughter named Ryan, who is married to Andy Rose, a former professional soccer player for Vancouver Whitecaps FC and current assistant coach for Seattle Sounders.

Honors

 * Chicago Fire
 * MLS Cup: 1998
 * U.S. Open Cup: 1998, 2000

 * Los Angeles FC
 * Supporters' Shield: 2019

 * Toronto FC
 * Canadian Championship: 2020 (played 2022)

 * United States
 * CONCACAF Gold Cup: 2007

Individual

 * MLS Coach of the Year: 1998, 2006, 2019
 * National Soccer Hall of Fame: 2014
 * Eliteserien Manager of the Year: 2015

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Cover for the album "Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss" by Hayseed Dixie


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Bełty coat of arms

Bełty is a Polish coat of arms.

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Face to Face (1984 Face to Face album)

Face to Face is the self-titled debut album of the Boston new wave band Face to Face, originally released in 1984 on LP (BFE 38857) and Cassette by Epic Records. It peaked at #126 on the Billboard pop album charts in the summer of 1984.

Reissue
Epic Records made this available on Compact Disc in Japan exclusively, though the single "10-9-8" can be found on various 1980s compilation CDs made in North America. In 2006, the independent label Wounded Bird Records (woundedbird.com) issued the album on CD for the first time ever in the United States.

Music videos
"10-9-8" and "Under the Gun" were released as singles. Both videos can be found on YouTube.

Track listing
All songs written by Angelo Petraglia, except where indicated.

Side 2
Track 11: Track 12:
 * Originally released in 1984 as Epic 12" Single 49-4989
 * Produced and mixed by Arthur Baker
 * Originally released in 1984 as Epic 12" Single 49-5033
 * Produced by Arthur Baker
 * Mixed by Arthur Baker & Chris Lord-Alge
 * Edited by DJ Tony Moran & DJ Albert Calbrera (aka the Latin Rascals)

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Lee Eddy

Lee Eddy (born 1978) is an American stage actress, comedian and writer best known for her work on Mo and Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood.

Early life and career
Eddy was born in Shreveport, Louisiana where as a child she was a member of The Peter Pan Players, a children's theater group. She continued her theatrical pursuits and had a long-running comedy and live theater career in Austin, Texas. Eddy has been voted "Best Actress in Austin" in The Austin Chronicle ' s Reader poll for 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Eddy lived in Brooklyn, NY for a time and was a house team member at Peoples Improv Theater and a company member of the acclaimed Story Pirates.

Her early voice over career consisted of working with Rooster Teeth, voicing the character of Four Seven Niner in Red vs. Blue, Gwen in their animated series, Camp Camp, and playing Lex in their live-action drama Day 5.

Eddy has recurring roles on many television series, including Netflix/A24 Mo, season 1 of Cruel Summer, and young adult thriller Panic. Eddy has recently appeared in Richard Linklater's Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood, Macon Blair's I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, and Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon.

Personal life
She is married to actor, screenwriter, and director Macon Blair.

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3:47 EST

3:47 EST is the debut album by the Canadian progressive rock group Klaatu, released in August 1976. The album was renamed Klaatu when released in the United States by Capitol Records. The album is notable for its Beatlesque psychedelia. The Juno-nominated album cover was painted by a friend of Klaatu's members, a Canadian graphic artist, Ted Jones.

Rumours spread in the wake of the album's release that Klaatu were, in fact, a secretly reunited Beatles. The album was moderately successful in the United States, largely as a result of the Beatles rumours. Capitol Records seized the opportunity by giving elusive answers to press inquiries regarding the rumour, which further fueled media attention and publicity.

A remastered version of the album was released on Klaatu's indie record label "Klaatunes" in 2011. To accompany this release, a music video was made for the remastered version of "Calling Occupants".

Origin of the title
In the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still, the alien emissary Klaatu arrives in Washington, D.C. at 3:47 in the afternoon Eastern Standard Time. According to a 1981 issue of the group's newsletter, "one of the band's member[s] viewed a screening ... and was immediately impressed by the appropriateness of the character Klaatu's arrival time on earth as the title of the band Klaatu's debut record album".

Musical style
AllMusic's Dave Sleger said "Klaatu frequently alternated between Beatlesque pop, the showy guitar rock and vocal theatrics of early Queen, and the electronic orchestral techniques pioneered by Wendy Carlos, or worked all three into the structure of a four- or five-minute song". Peter Kutz observed surf music, ‘70s progressive rock, and children’s novelty song on the album. Pitchfork described the album as “a wonderfully weird cross-section of Beatles-esque psych pop and '70s prog”.

Goldmine called the album a collection of “well-produced pop-rock songs”, and noted similarities to the Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, King Crimson, and the Beatles. MusicHound, in its guide to rock music, observed baroque pop arrangements.

Track listing
The album ends with a mouse squeak. Their following album, Hope, begins with a mouse squeak. CDs that feature both albums on one disc omit one of these squeaks.

Personnel
The first pressing, and most reissues of this album, do not list the names of the band members.
 * Klaatu
 * John Woloschuk - vocals, piano, organ, mellotron, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, synthesizers, percussion
 * Dee Long - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric sitar, synthesizers, ukulele, mellotron
 * Terry Draper - drums, percussion, tympani, vocals

 * Additional musicians
 * Doug Riley - strings, woodwind, and xylophone on "Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III"
 * Vern Dorge - chimes on "Sub Rosa Subway"
 * Bruce Cassidy - trumpet on "Doctor Marvello"
 * Dave Kennedy - guitars on "California Jam"
 * Raymond Gassi - backing vocals on "California Jam"

 * Production
 * Produced by Terry Brown & Klaatu
 * Recorded & engineered by Steve Vaughn & Terry Brown
 * Tape operators: Brian Bell & Paul Barker

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Białynia coat of arms

Białynia is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

History
This coat of arms was acquired in Poland in 1332 during the last year of the reign of Władyslaw Łokietek (Władysław I the Elbow-high). The king led an expedition against the Knights of the Teutonic Order (Teutonic Knights). When the army reached the enemy's camp, a knight of the house Jastrzębiec concealed flaming arrows from the night watch and torched the enemy's tents. The fire enabled the king's army to rout and kill the enemy with dispatch. The knight's ingenuity was rewarded with the addition of an arrow to the family's coat of arms which was then named for the village, Białynia, near which the action took place. The talked of expedition likely took place during the famous Battle of Płowce which occurred on 27 September 1331.

Blazon
A white horseshoe with its ends pointing upwards with a cross in the middle on a shield, above the cross an arrow flying upwards upon a blue background. Five ostrich feathers on the knight's helmet.

Variations
A number of variations of the Bialynia coat of arms appeared for different families.

Notable bearers
Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:

 * Józef Białynia Chołodecki
 * Mikołaj Światopełk-Mirski

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Talk:Select Society of Sanitary Sludge Shovelers

somehow i dont really belive this. Nonetheless, it appears to be a tongue-in-cheek organization and the article (if not deleted for the subject's lacking notability) should mention that. Bongomatic (talk) 10:16, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * seems legit to me. The links check out, and google gives many results. 24.71.17.50 16:56, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Actually it happens to be a very serious organization, one for which it is quite difficult to attain the status of being asked to enter. Initiates are generally wastewater professionals who have dedicated their entire careers to the field of wastewater and who have gone above and beyond the job in order to support the organization backing the society, The Water Environment Association. The name may appear to be humorous but the honor of being an initiate is quite the opposite. Initiates very proudly wear their golden shovel at any event or meeting where there might be another professional present, for being caught without your pin by another member of the society carries consequences, playful ones, but none-the-less penalties they are! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bowbees (talk • contribs) 21:48, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

 * Actually, this is a “good ole boy” system entirely based on who you know. Our state membership is led by a local manufacturers representative who continually blocks nominations of competing representatives. Leadership should be by lead engineers or the local EPA leadership 130.44.40.212 (talk) 15:49, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

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Brochwicz coat of arms

Brochwicz is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families.

History
According to Tomasz Jurek, both, the coat of arms Brochwicz (Stag) and its name could have been shaped already in the 12th century. According to this researcher, several Silesian coats of arms shown in miniatures in the "Lubin Codex", including the coat of arms Brochwicz, belonged to families with old certificates and Polish origin and Polish connections. According to Józef Szymański, the Brochwicz coat of arms, which can be found among those depicted in the miniatures of the "Lubin Codex", has references to forms known in Polish heraldry. Its appearance reflects heraldic situation prevailing in Silesia in the mid-fourteenth century. Consequently, strong foreign influence shaped its appearance. The first mention of the coat of arms dates back to the Teutonic Order period, and more detailed information is found in 1544. The name Brochwicz probably comes from the word "paroháč" (a stag), transformed into "broháč" and then polonized to the form "Brochwicz". The origin of the coat of arms, however, does not need to be Czech. Medieval Polish and Czech languages, both Slavic, had a lot of similarities (for example, the Czech word "ať" was used instead of the word "niech" /"let"/).

Blazon
''In the silver field red stag with front legs raised up, with a gold crown on the neck. Peacock feathers in the jewel over the helmet''.

In numerous versions of the Brochwicz coat of arms there is also golden or red background. The colour of the stag is usually red, sometimes black or silver. There are also known cases, where the stag is pictured sitting. The oldest image of the coat of arms appears on the seal of Sobiesław Przebimiłowic (Przybysławic) dating from 1268. Second oldest the seal of Michał (Michael) Mironowic from Sośnica from 1282. On the seal of Sobiesław it was depicted with a beam between horns. The seal of Michał depicts a deer with a horn of five appendages. The oldest coloured heraldic witness of the appearance of the Brochwicz coat of arms is the "Codex of Lubin" ("Legend of St. Hedwig") from 1353. The coat of arms was depicted in miniatures depicting Silesian knights participating in the Battle of Legnica against the invasion of the Mongols. It depicts black deer with head raised up, turned to the right, on a silver background.

Notable bearers
Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:
 * House of Kątski: Marcin Kątski (1636–1710)
 * Eduard von Lewinski (1829–1906) – Prussian general
 * Tadeusz Wiktor (1859–1922) – general
 * Janusz Brochwicz-Lewiński (1920–2017) – member of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), battalion "Parasol" in Warsaw Uprising (1944).
 * Bronisław Brochwicz-Rogoyski (1861–1921) – architect
 * Wanda Broszkowska-Piklikiewicz (1926–2019) – member of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) during WW2.
 * Stanisław Sobek z Sułowa (died 1569) – great podskarbi of the crown

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Warnia coat of arms

Warnia is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Notable bearers
Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:
 * Ćwirko-Godycki Michał (1901–1980), Polish anthropologist. Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University and the academy of physical education in Poznań. Author of many academic works.

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Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss

Kiss My Grass: A Hillbilly Tribute to Kiss is the third album by American band Hayseed Dixie, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music). The album consists entirely of covers of songs by the hard rock band Kiss performed in the bluegrass style.

Track listing

 * 1) "Calling Dr. Love" (Gene Simmons) – 2:54
 * 2) "Detroit Rock City" (Bob Ezrin, Paul Stanley) – 4:10
 * 3) "Christine Sixteen" (Simmons) – 3:10
 * 4) "Cold Gin" (Ace Frehley) – 3:53
 * 5) "Let's Put the X in Sex" (Desmond Child, Stanley) – 3:22
 * 6) "Love Gun" (Stanley) – 3:25
 * 7) "Lick It Up" (Vinnie Vincent, Stanley) – 3:16
 * 8) "I Love It Loud" (Vincent, Simmons) – 3:34
 * 9) "Rock and Roll All Nite" (Simmons, Stanley) – 2:49
 * 10) "Heaven's on Fire" (Child, Stanley) – 3:58

Charts
Album - Billboard (United States)


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Category:History of the papacy

Articles related to the history of the Popes, the bishops of Rome and ex officio leaders of the worldwide Catholic Church. Since 1929, the popes have also been heads of state of Vatican City, a city-state enclaved within Rome, Italy.

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Wierzbna coat of arms

Wierzbna is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Notable bearers
Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:
 * Jan de Czernina - starosta of Wschowa and Kościan, castellan of Międzyrzecz
 * Henryk de Wierzbno - canon of Wrocław

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Talk:Charlie McCreevy

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How would we go about getting a mugshot to scare people? zoney ♣ talk 16:55, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I sent a request to the WebMaster at finance.gov.ie! -- Rye1967 00:56, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

 * OK, I got a 1mb bitmap from them. It needs re-sizing etc.  I don't have the software. Can someone who has email me. Also posted on the notice board.  PS: I didnt ask for a scary shot, but they must've see this request.  He's positively glowering. -- Rye1967 22:49, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

 * We could do with some more on his republican background. His mother, Eileen Mills, came from a strongly republican background; his uncle Peter Mills served time on the prison ships. Charlie referred to this in an RTE interview over the holidays when asked why he had not joined the PDs. Filiocht 10:57, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

A rhetorical disaster? Wow. Looks like random B-grade speech writer stuff, not oops-I-started-a-war material to me. Is there any evidence that it was a disaster? pde 11:21, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * It doesn't look like it warrants quite that phrase, but I do not doubt that even a secondary school student (who is good at English) could write a better speech! D-minus grade I think! zoney ♣ talk 12:00, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This guy gives five speeches a day... amazing! See: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/whatsnew_en.htm

I'm removing some of the citation-needed stuff as it's all out there on the web and non-contentious. Come down here to Kildare and ask people what they think; many referred to him in the 1990s as 'The Real Taoiseach'. I know his diction isn't D4 or media-savvy but that adds to his popularity. His courageous and in hindsight accurate opposition to Squire Haughey in 1982 set him up for life.Red Hurley 12:06, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

This guy is evil [citing the request to extend copyright to 95 years, and hide banks fron scrutinity]. Can we mark him as such? Add a tag "EVIL" ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.207.162.102 (talk) 07:28, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Must cite Sources
Citation is a principle of Wikipedia. Otherwise it is POV. If it is all out there, please link to it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.46.247.133 (talk • contribs) 11:15, 13:01, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Tidied up by using list-defined references. I suggest that any long citations be placed in the Reflist. - Diffly (talk) 17:11, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

McCreevy's medical card for over 70s
Leaving aside his deals with the bookies, Punchestown Racecourse and many other vested interests, this is the man, this is the man, who first gave a medical card without means test to all senior citizens over 70 in his 2001 Budget. After he publicly announced it the Irish government began negotiations with the Irish Medical Organisation, the representatives of general practitioners, on the cost of it- yes, after it was announced. Unfuckingbelievable. But it gets better. The Irish Medical Organisation did not want the government paying for Senior Citizens over 70 and said the money would be better spent elsewhere. Senior Citizens, however, are high voters so McCreevy was trying to win their vote in the subsequent election. And the best has yet to come. The state paid every general practitioner/medical doctor of senior citizens over 70 who were on the medical card before 70, as a result of being on low incomes or on social welfare (i.e. "means tested" medical cards), between €36 and €171 for each of these people the doctor saw every year. However, for these new senior citizens who were not means tested, and were probably in the majority of cases financially better off, the Irish state under this Charlie McCreevy paid €462 for every single one of these new, well-off over 70s. So the state, thanks to this idiot, paid between €36 and €171 for a 73-year-old man poor enough to be under the old scheme, and paid €462 for a 73-year-old man wealthy enough to be under the new scheme. They received precisely the same treatment. As for fulfilling wikipedia's need for citations, read all of the above here: http://www.herald.ie/national-news/budget-2009/shocking-uturn-on-over70s-medical-card-is-total-fiasco-1499219.html. This guy is a fucking idiot; in fact he is king of the world's idiots. He, along with Mary Harney, represents so much of what is ugly about Irish society. It is an embarrassment that he is our representative in the European Commission. He is the nearest thing Ireland has ever produced to a eurosceptic, and he is by any standards a barely-intelligible first-rate mumbling troglodyte. In typical Irish fashion, he is only in the European Commission because he was posing a threat to the serving Taoiseach and was accordingly shifted out of government and off to Europe. You couldn't invent this stuff. You really could not invent it. 86.42.115.6 (talk) 15:45, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Very interesting but your language belongs on a blog not wikipedia.86.42.216.196 (talk) 22:14, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, I agree, he was the worst finance minister Ireland ever had and now he gets appointed to boards of Directors - not only Ryanair ( who like to pay minimum wage to their employees ), he was also on the board of directors of a private hospital - after giving them tax breaks as minister of finance. What this article is missing is information on all the directorships he is currently on. tko — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.234.70.92 (talk) 17:22, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Lisbon 2008
I've grouped the material with citations. Mr Schultz should have ensured that the treaty was legibly drafted in the first place.86.42.216.196 (talk) 22:14, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Overall bias
This seems like a fairly poorly sourced and moderately biased article (a claim not exactly dispelled by this talk page). There's a lot of criticism without much support, and significant parts of the article come across as more of an editorial against him than a non-POV article. See especially the unsupported and tendentious references to "give-away budget" and lack of tax individualisation, the claim that he's the "worst finance minister" ever for Ireland, the gossip about not judging audiences well (for a single minor speech? who cares?), the unsupported claim that copyright extension is harmful to consumers (it might increase production of consumable material, and this is not the place to have that fight), the confusing Northern Rock section, and the gossip-like misinterpretations of a claim that no sane person would read a legalistic document. I am not Irish (or a citizen of an EU country), so I have no dog in this fight; this is simply a disappointing article. Talk readers, please adjust this article, or respond in Talk here to my concerns; or I may in the near future do a bit of culling from this poor biographical entry.

 * I've made many of the changes I suggested above. I took out the entire half-paragraph on tax individualization, which, in addition to being without citation or link, was so confusingly written that I could not tell if it was an attack on McCreevy, a support of him, or indeed what the issue was at all.  This is still a bit of a hit piece, but at least more of the criticisms have citations now.  Generally, this article needs about fifteen or so additional references for context to a relatively major international figure.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seanose (talk • contribs) 12:58, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

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Living in the Material World

Living in the Material World is the fourth studio album by the English musician George Harrison, released in 1973 on Apple Records. As the follow-up to 1970's critically acclaimed All Things Must Pass and his pioneering charity project, the Concert for Bangladesh, it was among the most highly anticipated releases of that year. The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America two days after release, on its way to becoming Harrison's second number 1 album in the United States, and produced the international hit "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)". It also topped albums charts in Canada and Australia, and reached number 2 in Britain.

Living in the Material World is notable for the uncompromising lyrical content of its songs, reflecting Harrison's struggle for spiritual enlightenment against his status as a superstar, as well as for what many commentators consider to be the finest guitar and vocal performances of his career. In contrast with All Things Must Pass, Harrison scaled down the production for Material World, using a core group of musicians comprising Nicky Hopkins, Gary Wright, Klaus Voormann and Jim Keltner. Ringo Starr, John Barham and Indian classical musician Zakir Hussain were among the album's other contributors.

Upon release, Rolling Stone described it as a "pop classic", a work that "stands alone as an article of faith, miraculous in its radiance". Most contemporary reviewers consider Living in the Material World to be a worthy successor to All Things Must Pass, even if it inevitably falls short of Harrison's grand opus. Author Simon Leng refers to the album as a "forgotten blockbuster", representing "the close of an age, the last offering of the Beatles' London era". EMI reissued the album in 2006, in remastered form with bonus tracks, and released a deluxe-edition CD/DVD set that included film clips of four songs.

Background
George Harrison's 1971–72 humanitarian aid project for the new nation of Bangladesh had left him an international hero,  but also exhausted and frustrated in his efforts to ensure that the money raised would find its way to those in need. Rather than record a follow-up to his acclaimed 1970 triple album, All Things Must Pass, Harrison put his solo career on hold for over a year following the two Concert for Bangladesh shows, held at Madison Square Garden, New York, in August 1971. In an interview with Disc and Music Echo magazine in December that year, pianist Nicky Hopkins spoke of having just attended the New York sessions for John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" single, where Harrison had played them "about two or three hours" worth of new songs, adding: "They were really incredible." Hopkins suggested that work on Harrison's next solo album was to begin in January or February at his new home studio at Friar Park, but any such plan was undone by Harrison's commitment to the Bangladesh relief project. While he found time during the last few months of 1971 to produce singles for Ringo Starr and Apple Records protégés Lon & Derrek Van Eaton, and to help promote the Ravi Shankar documentary Raga, Harrison's next project in the role of music producer was not until August 1972, when Cilla Black recorded his composition "When Every Song Is Sung".

Throughout this period, Harrison's devotion to Hindu spirituality – particularly to Krishna consciousness via his friendship with A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada – reached new heights. As Harrison admitted, his adherence to his spiritual path was not necessarily consistent. His wife, Pattie Boyd, and their friend Chris O'Dell would joke that it was hard to tell whether he was dipping into his ever-present Japa Yoga prayer bag or "the coke bag". This duality has been noted by Harrison biographers Simon Leng and Alan Clayson: on one hand, Harrison earned himself the nickname "His Lectureship" during his prolonged periods of fervid devotion; on the other, he participated in bawdy London sessions for the likes of Bobby Keys' eponymous solo album and what Leng terms Harry Nilsson's "thoroughly nasty" "You're Breakin' My Heart", both recorded in the first half of 1972. Similarly, Harrison's passion for high-performance cars saw him lose his driving licence for the second time in a year after crashing his Mercedes into a roundabout at 90 miles an hour, on 28 February, with Boyd in the passenger seat.

In August 1972, with the Concert for Bangladesh documentary film having finally been released worldwide, Harrison set off alone for a driving holiday in Europe, during which he chanted the Hare Krishna mantra nonstop for a whole day, he later claimed. Religious academic Joshua Greene, a Hare Krishna devotee, has described this trip as Harrison's "preparation" for recording the Living in the Material World album.

Songs
Rather than revisit compositions left over from the All Things Must Pass sessions, Harrison's material for Living in the Material World was drawn from the 1971–72 period, with the exception of "Try Some, Buy Some", which he wrote in 1970 and recorded with former Ronette Ronnie Spector in February 1971. The songs reflected his spiritual devotion – in the case of "The Lord Loves the One (That Loves the Lord)", "Living in the Material World", "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" and "Try Some, Buy Some" – as well as his feelings before and after the Bangladesh benefit concerts, with "The Day the World Gets 'Round" (and the non-LP single B-side "Miss O'Dell").

Both "The Lord Loves the One" and the album's title track were directly inspired by Prabhupada's teachings. Greene writes of Harrison adapting a passage from the Bhagavad Gita into his lyrics for "Living in the Material World" and adds: "Some of the songs distilled spiritual concepts into phrases so elegant they resembled Vedic sutras: short codes that contain volumes of meaning." On "Give Me Love", Harrison blended the Hindu bhajan style (or devotional song) with Western gospel music, repeating the formula of his 1970–71 international hit "My Sweet Lord". In his 1980 autobiography, I Me Mine, he describes the song as "a prayer and personal statement between me, the Lord, and whoever likes it".

Whereas Harrison's Krishna devotionals on All Things Must Pass had been uplifting celebrations of faith, his latest compositions betrayed a more austere quality, partly as a result of the Bangladesh experience. His musical arranger, John Barham, would later suggest that a spiritual "crisis" might have been the cause; other observers have pointed to Harrison's failing marriage to Boyd. Leng writes of his frame of mind at this time: "while George Harrison was bursting with musical confidence, Living in the Material World found him in roughly the same place that John Lennon was when he wrote 'Help!' – shocked by the rush of overwhelming success and desperately wondering where it left him."

Other song themes addressed the Beatles' legacy, either in direct references to the band's history – in the case of "Living in the Material World" and "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" – or in Harrison's stated desire to live in the present, free of his former identity, in the case of "The Light That Has Lighted the World", "Who Can See It" and "Be Here Now". The lyrics to "Who Can See It" reflect Harrison's disenchantment with his previous, junior status to former bandmates Lennon and Paul McCartney, while "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" was his comment on McCartney's 1971 High Court action to dissolve the band as a business entity. In line with Prabhupada's teachings, all such pursuits of fame, wealth or position meant nothing in Harrison's 1972 world-view. Author Gary Tillery writes of Material World's lyrical content: "The album expresses his impressions of the mundane and the spiritual worlds and the importance of ignoring the lures of the everyday world and remaining focused on the eternal verities." Even in seemingly conventional love songs such as "That Is All" and "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long", Harrison appeared to be addressing his deity as much as any human partner. Musically, the latter composition reflects the influence of Brill Building songwriters of the early 1960s, while Harrison sings of a love delivered "like it came from above".

Harrison donated his copyright for nine of the eleven songs on Living in the Material World, together with the non-album B-side "Miss O'Dell", to his Material World Charitable Foundation. The latter initiative was set up in reaction to the tax issues that had hindered his relief effort for the Bangladeshi refugees, and ensured a perpetual stream of income, through ongoing publishing royalties, for dispersal to the charities of his choice.

Production
After the grand, Wall of Sound production of All Things Must Pass, Harrison wanted a more understated sound this time around, to "liberate" the songs, as he later put it. He had intended to co-produce with Phil Spector as before, although the latter's erratic behaviour and alcohol consumption ensured that, once sessions were under way in October 1972, Harrison was the project's sole producer. Spector received a credit for "Try Some, Buy Some", however, since Harrison used the same 1971 recording, featuring musicians such as Leon Russell, Jim Gordon, Pete Ham and Barham, that they had made for Ronnie Spector's abandoned solo album.

A release date was planned for January or February 1973, with the album title rumoured to be The Light That Has Lighted the World. Within a month, the title was announced as The Magic Is Here Again, with an erroneous report in Rolling Stone magazine claiming that Eric Clapton was co-producing and that the album was set for release on 20 December 1972.

Recording
In another contrast with his 1970 triple album, Harrison engaged a small core group of musicians to support him on Living in the Material World. Gary Wright, who shared Harrison's spiritual preoccupations, and Klaus Voormann returned, on keyboards and bass, respectively, and John Barham again provided orchestral arrangements. They were joined by Jim Keltner, who had impressed at the 1971 Bangladesh concerts, and Nicky Hopkins, whose musical link to Harrison went back to the 1968 Jackie Lomax single "Sour Milk Sea". Ringo Starr also contributed to the album, when his burgeoning film career allowed, and Jim Horn, another musician from the Concert for Bangladesh band, supplied horns and flutes. The recording engineer was Phil McDonald, who had worked in the same role on All Things Must Pass.

All the rhythm and lead guitar parts were performed by Harrison alone – the ex-Beatle stepping out from the "looming shadow" of Clapton for the first time, Leng has noted. Most of the basic tracks were recorded with Harrison on acoustic guitar; only "Living in the Material World", "Who Can See It" and "That Is All" featured electric rhythm parts, those for the latter two songs adopting the same Leslie-toned sound found on much of the Beatles' Abbey Road (1969). Ham and his Badfinger bandmate Tom Evans augmented the line-up on 4 and 11 October, although their playing would not find its way onto the released album.

The sessions took place partly at Apple Studios in London, but mostly at Harrison's home studio, FPSHOT, according to Voormann. Apple Studios, together with its Savile Row, London W1 address, received a prominent credit on the Living in the Material World record sleeve, as a further sign of Harrison's championing of the Beatles-owned recording facility. At the weekends during these autumn months, Hopkins recorded his own solo album, The Tin Man Was a Dreamer (1973), at Apple, with contributions from Harrison, Voormann and Horn. Voormann has described the mood at the Friar Park sessions as "intimate, quiet, friendly" and in stark contrast to the sessions he, Harrison and Hopkins had attended at Lennon's home in 1971, for the Imagine album. Keltner recalls Harrison as having been focused and "at his peak physically" throughout the recording of Living in the Material World, having given up smoking and taken to using Hindu prayer beads.

The sessions continued until the end of November, when Hopkins left for Jamaica to work on the Rolling Stones' new album. During this period, Harrison co-produced a new live album for Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan for a January release on Apple Records, the highly regarded In Concert 1972.

Overdubbing and mixing
After hosting a visit by Bob Dylan and his wife Sara at Friar Park, Harrison resumed work on the album in January 1973, at Apple. "Sue Me, Sue You Blues", which he had originally given to Jesse Ed Davis to record in 1971, was taped at this point. The lyrics' courtroom theme had a new relevance in early 1973, as he, Lennon and Starr looked to sever all legal ties with manager Allen Klein, who had been the prime cause for McCartney's earlier litigation.

For the rest of January and through February, extensive overdubs were carried out on the album's basic tracks – comprising vocals, percussion, Harrison's slide guitar parts and Horn's contributions. "Living in the Material World" received significant attention during this last phase of the album production, with sitar, flute and Zakir Hussain's tabla being added to fill the song's two "spiritual sky" sections. The resulting contrast between the main, Western rock portion and the Indian-style middle eights emphasised Harrison's struggle between physical-world temptations and his spiritual goals. The Indian instrumentation overdubbed on this track and "Be Here Now" also marked a rare return to the genre for Harrison, recalling his work with the Beatles over 1966–68 and his first solo album, Wonderwall Music (1968).

Barham's orchestra and choir were the final items to be recorded, on "The Day the World Gets 'Round", "Who Can See It" and "That Is All", in early March. With production on the album completed, Harrison flew to Los Angeles for Beatles-related business meetings and to begin work on Shankar and Starr's respective albums, Shankar Family & Friends (1974) and Ringo (1973).

Album artwork

As he had done with All Things Must Pass and The Concert for Bangladesh, Harrison entrusted the album's art design to Tom Wilkes, and the latter's new business partner, Craig Baun. The gatefold and lyric insert sleeves for Living in the Material World were much commented-on at the time of release, Stephen Holden of Rolling Stone describing the record as "beautifully-packaged with symbolic hand-print covers and the dedication, 'All Glories to Sri Krsna'", while author Nicholas Schaffner likewise admired the "color representations of the Hindu scriptures", in the form of a painting from a Prabhupada-published edition of the Bhagavad Gita. Reproduced on the lyric insert sheet (on the back of which was a red Om symbol with yellow surround), this painting features Krishna with Arjuna, the legendary archer and warrior, in a chariot, being pulled by the enchanted seven-headed horse Uchchaihshravas. With the album arriving at the height of the glam or glitter rock musical trend, Clayson writes of this image: "a British teenager might have still dug the gear worn by Krishna in his chariot … Androgynous in beaded kaftan, jewelled fez and peacock feather, and strikingly pretty, the Supreme Personality of Godhead was not unlike some of the new breed of theatrical British chartbusters."

For the album's striking front-cover image, Wilkes used a Kirlian photograph of Harrison's hand holding a Hindu medallion. The photo was taken at UCLA's parapsychology department, as was the shot used on the back cover, where Harrison instead holds three US coins: a couple of quarters and a silver dollar.

The gatefold's inner left panel, opposite the album's production credits, showed Harrison and his fellow musicians – Starr, Horn, Voormann, Hopkins, Keltner and Wright – at a long table, laden with food and wine. A deliberate parody of da Vinci's The Last Supper, the picture was taken in California at the mock-Tudor home of entertainment lawyer Abe Somer, by Hollywood glamour photographer Ken Marcus. As with the US coinage used on the back cover, various details in the photo represent what Harrison termed the "gross" aspects of life in the material world. Clayson has speculated about the symbolism and hidden messages within the photo: whether the nurse with a pram, set back from and to the left of the table, was a reference to Boyd's inability to conceive a child; and the empty, distant wheelchair in memory of Harrison's late mother. Theologian Dale Allison observes the anti-Catholic sentiment within this inner-gatefold photo, following on from Harrison's lyrics to his 1970 song "Awaiting on You All". Harrison is dressed as a priest, all in black, sporting an Old West six-shooter – "a slam at the perceived materialism and violence of the Roman church", Allison writes.

On the back cover, underneath the second hand-print design, text provides details of the fictitious Jim Keltner Fan Club, information on which was available by sending a "stamped undressed elephant" – for: self-addressed envelope – to a Los Angeles postal address. This detail was an affectionate thank-you to the popular drummer (Starr would repeat the gesture on his album later in the year), as well as a light-hearted dig – in its use of "wing" symbols, like those in Wings' logo – at McCartney, who had recently launched a fan club for his new band.

Release

Due to the extended recording period, Living in the Material World was issued at the end of a busy Apple release schedule, with April and May 1973 having already been set aside for the Beatles compilations 1962–1966 and 1967–1970 and for Paul McCartney & Wings' second album, Red Rose Speedway. Schaffner recorded in his book The Beatles Forever: "For a while there ... album charts were reminiscent of the golden age of Beatlemania." Preceding Harrison's long-awaited release was the acoustic single "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)", which became his second number 1 hit in the United States. This was accompanied by a billboard and print advertising campaign, including a three-panel poster combining the album's front and back covers, and an Apple publicity photo showing Harrison, now free of the heavy beard familiar from the All Things Must Pass–Concert for Bangladesh era, with his hand outstretched, mirroring Wilkes' album cover image.

Living in the Material World was issued on 30 May 1973 in America (with Apple catalogue number SMAS 3410) and on 22 June in Britain (as Apple PAS 10006). It enjoyed immediate commercial success, entering the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart at number 11 and hitting number 1 in its second week, on 23 June, demoting Wings' album in the process. Material World spent five weeks atop the US charts, having been awarded a gold disc by the RIAA selling more than 500,000 copies within two days of release based on advance orders. Global US sales of the album stand at almost 1 million copies. Nonetheless, despite such high initial sales, the record's follow-on success was limited by what Leng terms the "anomalous" decision to cancel the release of a second US single, "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long".

In the UK, the album peaked at number 2, held from the top position by the soundtrack to Starr's film That'll Be the Day. Material World also topped albums charts in Australia and Canada. In January 1975, the Canadian Recording Industry Association announced that it had been certified as a gold album.

With Living in the Material World, Harrison achieved the Billboard double for a second time when "Give Me Love" hit the top position during the album's stay at number 1 – the only one of his former bandmates to have done it even once being McCartney, with the recent "My Love" and Red Rose Speedway. Harrison carried out no supporting promotion for Material World; "pre-recorded tapes" were issued to BBC Radio 1 and played repeatedly on the show Radio One Club, but his only public appearance in Britain was to accompany Prabhupada on a religious procession through central London, on 8 July. According to author Bill Harry, the album sold over 3 million copies worldwide.

Contemporary reviews
Leng describes Living in the Material World as "one of the most keenly anticipated discs of the decade" and its unveiling "a major event". Among expectant music critics, Stephen Holden began his highly favourable review in Rolling Stone with the words "At last it's here", before hailing the new Harrison album as a "pop classic" and a "profoundly seductive record". "Happily, the album is not just a commercial event," he wrote, "it is the most concise, universally conceived work by a former Beatle since John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band." Billboard magazine noted the twin themes found throughout the album – "the Beatles and their mish-mash" versus a "spiritual undercoat" – and described Harrison's vocals as "first-rate".

Two weeks ahead of the UK release date, Melody Maker published a full-page "exclusive preview" of Material World by its New York correspondent, Michael Watts. The latter wrote that "the most strikingly immediate impression left by the album" concerned its lyrics, which, although "solemn and pious" at times, were "more interesting" thematically than those on All Things Must Pass, such that Material World was "as personal, in its own way, as anything that Lennon has done". While describing the pared-down production as "good artistic judgement in view of the nature of the lyrics", Watts concluded: "Harrison has always struck me before as simply a writer of very classy pop songs; now he stands as something more than an entertainer. Now he's being honest."

While Holden had opined that, of all the four Beatles, Harrison had inherited "the most precious" legacy – namely, "the spiritual aura that the group accumulated, beginning with the White Album" – other reviewers objected to the overt religiosity of Living in the Material World. This was particularly so in Britain, where by summer 1973, author Bob Woffinden later wrote, "the Beatle bubble had undoubtedly burst" and for each of the former bandmates, his individual "pedestal" was now "an exposed, rather than a comfortable, place to be".

In the NME, Tony Tyler began his review by stating that he had long idolised Harrison as "the finest packaged object since frozen pizza", but he had changed his opinion dramatically in recent years; after the "dire, ennui-making" All Things Must Pass, Tyler continued, "the unworthiness of my heretical thoughts smote home around the time of the Bangla Desh concerts." Tyler dismissed Material World with the description: "[It's] pleasant, competent, vaguely dull and inoffensive. It’s also breathtakingly unoriginal and – lyrically at least – turgid, repetitive and so damn holy I could scream." The reviewer concluded: "I have no doubt whatever it'll sell like hot tracts and that George'll donate all the profits to starving Bengalis and make me feel like the cynical heel I undoubtedly am." Robert Christgau was also unimpressed in Creem, giving the record a "C" grade and writing that "Harrison sings as if he's doing sitar impressions". In their 1975 book The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Tyler and co-author Roy Carr bemoaned Harrison's "didactically imposing said Holy Memoirs upon innocent record-collectors" and declared the album's spiritual theme "almost as offensive in its own way" as Lennon and Yoko Ono's political radicalism on Some Time in New York City (1972).

Writing in the inaugural issue of the Australian publication Ear for Music, Anthony O'Grady remarked on the album's religiosity: "oftentimes the music is a more truthful guide to the sense of the lyrics than the words themselves. Harrison is not a great wordsmith but he is a superb musician. Everything flows, everything interweaves. His melodies are so superb they take care of everything." Like Holden, Nicholas Schaffner approved of the singer's gesture in donating his publishing royalties to the Material World Charitable Foundation and praised the album's "exquisite musical underpinnings". Although the "transcendent dogma" was not always to his taste, Schaffner recognised that in Living in the Material World, Harrison had "devised a luxuriant rock devotional designed to transform his fans' stereo equipment into a temple".

Aside from the album's lyrical themes, its production and musicianship were widely praised, Schaffner noting: "Surely Phil Spector never had a more attentive pupil." Carr and Tyler lauded Harrison's "superb and accomplished slide-guitar breaks", and the solos on "Give Me Love", "The Lord Loves the One", "The Light That Has Lighted the World" and "Living in the Material World" have each been identified as exemplary and among the finest of Harrison's career. In his book The Beatles Apart (1981), Woffinden wrote: "Those who carped at the lyrics, or at Harrison himself, missed a great deal of the music, much of which was exceptionally fine." Woffinden described the album as "a very good one", Harrison's "only mistake" being that he had waited so long before following up his successes over 1970–71.

Retrospective assessment
In the decades following its release, Living in the Material World gained a reputation as "a forgotten blockbuster" – a term used by Simon Leng and echoed by commentators such as Robert Rodriguez and AllMusic's Bruce Eder. The latter describes Harrison's 1973 album as "an underrated minor masterpiece" that "represent[s] his solo playing and songwriting at something of a peak". John Metzger of The Music Box refers to Material World as "the most underrated and overlooked album of [Harrison]'s career", adding that it "coalesces around its songs … and the Zen-like beauty that emanates from Harrison's hymns to a higher power inevitably becomes subtly affecting."

Writing in Rolling Stone in 2002, Greg Kot found the album "drearily monochromatic" compared to its predecessor, and to PopMatters' Zeth Lundy, it suffers from "a more anonymous tract" next to the "cathedral-grade significance" of All Things Must Pass. Reviewing Harrison's solo career for Goldmine magazine in 2002, Dave Thompson considered the 1973 album to be the equal of All Things Must Pass, reasoning: "While history insists that Living in the Material World could not help but be eclipsed by its gargantuan forebear, with the two albums in the CD player and the 'shuffle' function mixing them up, it's difficult to play favourites."

In his review of the 2006 remastered release, for Q magazine, Tom Doyle praised the album's ballads, such as "The Light That Has Lighted the World" and "Be Here Now", and suggested that "the distance of time helps to reveal its varied charms". Mojo's Mat Snow wrote of "this long overdue reissue" being "worth it alone for four wonderful songs", including "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" and "The Day the World Gets 'Round", and concluded: "The rest is Hari Georgeson at his most preachy, but it's never less than musical and often light on its feet." In another 2006 review, for the Vintage Rock website, Shawn Perry wrote of Material World being "more restrained and immediate without the wall of sound whitewash of its predecessor, but its flow and elegance are unmistakable". Perry admired Harrison's slide guitar playing and rated the album an "underrated, classic record". Writing for Uncut in 2008, David Cavanagh described Material World as "a bit full-on, religion-wise" but "the album to play if you want musicianship at its best".

Living in the Material World was listed as the fifth best Beatles solo album by Paste in 2012. In their similar lists, Ultimate Classic Rock ranks it at number 7 and The Independent at number 6.

2014 appraisal and legacy
Reviewing the 2014 reissue, Blogcritics' Chaz Lipp writes that "this chart-topping classic is, in terms of production, arguably preferable to its predecessor", adding: "The sinewy 'Sue Me, Sue You Blues,' galloping title track, and soaring 'Don't Let Me Wait Too Long' rank right alongside Harrison's best work." Alex Franquelli of PopMatters refers to it as "a worthy successor" to All Things Must Pass and an album that "raises the bar of social awareness that had only been touched on lightly in the previous release". Franquelli concludes: "It is a work that enjoys a more elaborate dynamic development, where layers are kept together by Harrison’s clever work behind the mixing desk." In another 2014 review, for Classic Rock, Paul Trynka writes: "All these years on, it's his most overtly spiritual album that sparkles today … The well-known songs, such as 'Sue Me, Sue You Blues' (dedicated to the rapacious Allen Klein), stand up well, but it's the more restrained tracks – 'Don't Let Me Wait Too Long', 'Who Can See It' – that entrance: gorgeous pop songs, all the more forceful for their restraint." Trynka goes on to describe "Be Here Now" as the album's "towering achievement" and "a masterpiece".

Among Beatles biographers, Alan Clayson approves of Material World's "self-production criterion closer to the style of George Martin", after the "looser abundance" of All Things Must Pass. Within the more restrained surroundings, Clayson adds, Harrison laid claim to the title "king of rock 'n' roll slide guitar", in addition to giving perhaps his "most magnificent [vocal] performance on record" on "Who Can See It". Rodriguez also approves of a production aesthetic that allows instruments to "sparkle" and "breathing space" for his melodies, and rates Harrison's guitar playing as "stellar" throughout. Peter Lavezzoli describes the album as "a soulful collection of songs that feature some of Harrison's finest singing, particularly the gorgeous Roy Orbison-esque ballad 'Who Can See It'".

Leng has named Living in the Material World as his personal favourite of all of Harrison's solo albums. According to Leng, with its combination of a defiant "protest" song in "The Day the World Gets 'Round", the anti-stardom "The Lord Loves the One", and "perfect pop confections" in "Give Me Love" and "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long", Living in the Material World was the last album to capture the same clear-sighted, utopian spirit that characterised the 1960s. Eder likewise welcomes Material World's bold idealism, saying: "Even in the summer of 1973, after years of war and strife and disillusionment, some of us were still sort of looking – to borrow a phrase from a Lennon–McCartney song – or hoping to get from them something like 'the word' that would make us free. And George, God love him, had the temerity to actually oblige ..."

2006
While solo works by Lennon, McCartney and Starr had all been remastered as part of repackaging campaigns during the 1990s and early 21st century, Harrison's Living in the Material World was "neglected over the years", author Bruce Spizer wrote in 2005, an "unfortunate" situation considering the quality of its songs. On 25 September 2006, EMI reissued the album in the UK, on CD and in a deluxe CD/DVD package, with Capitol Records' US release following the next day. The remastered Material World featured two additional tracks, neither of which had previously been available on an album: "Deep Blue" and "Miss O'Dell", popular B-sides, respectively, to the 1971 non-album single "Bangla Desh" and "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)". The CD/DVD edition contained a 40-page full colour booklet that included extra photos from the inner-gatefold shoot (taken by Mal Evans and Barry Feinstein), liner notes by Kevin Howlett, and Harrison's handwritten lyrics and comments on the songs, reproduced from I Me Mine.

The DVD featured a concert performance of "Give Me Love", recorded during Harrison's 1991 Japanese tour with Eric Clapton, and previously unreleased versions of "Miss O'Dell" and "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" set to a slideshow of archival film. The final selection consisted of the album's title track playing over 1973 footage of the LP being audio-tested and packaged prior to shipment. While Zeth Lundy found that the deluxe edition "bestows lavish attention upon a record that may not exactly deserve it", with the DVD "an unnecessary bonus", Shawn Perry considered the supplementary disc to be possibly the "pièce de résistance" of the 2006 reissue, and concluded: "this package is a beautiful tribute to the late and great guitarist any Beatles and Harrison fan will cherish."

2014
Living in the Material World was remastered again for inclusion in the Harrison box set The Apple Years 1968–75, issued in September 2014. Also available as a separate CD, the reissue reproduces Howlett's 2006 essay and adds "Bangla Desh" as a third bonus track, after "Deep Blue" and "Miss O'Dell". In his preview of the 2014 reissues, for Rolling Stone, David Fricke pairs Material World with All Things Must Pass as representing "the heart of the [box] set". Disc eight of The Apple Years includes the four items featured on the 2006 deluxe edition DVD.

Track listing
All songs written by George Harrison.

Original release
Side one
 * 1) "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" – 3:36
 * 2) "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" – 4:48
 * 3) "The Light That Has Lighted the World" – 3:31
 * 4) "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" – 2:57
 * 5) "Who Can See It" – 3:52
 * 6) "Living in the Material World" – 5:31

Side two
 * 1) "The Lord Loves the One (That Loves the Lord)" – 4:34
 * 2) "Be Here Now" – 4:09
 * 3) "Try Some, Buy Some" – 4:08
 * 4) "The Day the World Gets 'Round" – 2:53
 * 5) "That Is All" – 3:43

2006 remaster
Tracks 1–11 as per the original release, with the following bonus tracks:
 * 1) "Deep Blue" – 3:47
 * 2) "Miss O'Dell" – 2:33

Deluxe edition DVD
 * 1) "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" (recorded live at Tokyo Dome on 15 December 1991)
 * 2) "Miss O'Dell" (alternative version)
 * 3) "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" (acoustic demo version)
 * 4) "Living in the Material World"

2014 remaster
Tracks 1–11 as per the original release, with the following bonus tracks:
 * 1) "Deep Blue" – 3:47
 * 2) "Miss O'Dell" – 2:33
 * 3) "Bangla Desh" – 3:57

Personnel

 * George Harrison – lead and backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, dobro, sitar
 * Nicky Hopkins – piano, electric piano
 * Gary Wright – organ, harmonium, electric piano, harpsichord
 * Klaus Voormann – bass guitar, standup bass, tenor saxophone
 * Jim Keltner – drums, percussion
 * Ringo Starr – drums, percussion
 * Jim Horn – saxophones, flute, horn arrangement
 * Zakir Hussain – tabla
 * John Barham – orchestral and choral arrangements
 * Leon Russell – piano (on "Try Some, Buy Some")
 * Jim Gordon – drums, tambourine (on "Try Some, Buy Some")
 * Pete Ham – acoustic guitar (on "Try Some, Buy Some")

Weekly charts

 * Original release

 * Reissue

title: Living in the Material World


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