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George H. Scithers

George H. Scithers (May 14, 1929 – April 19, 2010) was an American science fiction fan, author and editor.

A long-time member of the World Science Fiction Society, he published a fanzine starting in the 1950s, wrote short stories, and moved on to edit several prominent science fiction magazines, as well as a number of anthologies. As editor emeritus of Weird Tales, he lectured at the Library of Congress in 2008. Wildside Press published his most recent book, Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction, in 2008.

Career
Scithers' first published fiction, the story "Faithful Messenger", appeared in If magazine in 1969. His involvement in the field, however, dates back to 1957, when he began submitting to the fanzine Yandro. Two years later, he began publishing the Hugo Award-winning fanzine Amra. The term swords and sorcery first appeared there, and Amra became a leading proponent of the subgenre. Several of the articles originally published in Amra were later reprinted as part of two volumes about Conan the Barbarian, which Scithers co-edited with L. Sprague de Camp.

In 1963, Scithers chaired Discon I, the 21st Worldcon, held in Washington, D.C. He was a regular parliamentarian for business meetings of the World Science Fiction Society and authored a guide to running science fiction conventions, The Con-Committee Chairman's Guide based on his experiences chairing DisCon 1 in 1963.

In 1973, Scithers founded Owlswick Press, a small independent publishing company. In 1976, Owlswick published Scithers' book (under the pseudonym Karl Würf), To Serve Man: A Cookbook for People (including recipes for "Boiled Leg of Man", "Texas Chili with Cowboy", and "Person Kebabs").

In 1977, he was named the first editor for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (IASFM). He remained in that position until 1982 and won two more Hugo Awards for his work there. After leaving IASFM, Scithers took the helm at Amazing Stories and edited that magazine until 1986.

In 1988, he worked with John Gregory Betancourt and Darrell Schweitzer to re-establish Weird Tales, the magazine that had introduced one of his earliest interests, Conan the Barbarian, to the world. In 1992, he and Schweitzer won a World Fantasy Award for their work on Weird Tales.

In 2001, Scithers was the fan guest of honor at the Worldcon, Millennium Philcon.

At the 2002 World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis, both Scithers and Forrest J Ackerman won the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Personal life
Scithers served in the Korean War with the United States Army. He was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers. He was also very fond of owls and trains. He resided in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania where Weird Tales was edited in his basement, followed by Rockville, Maryland.

Death
Scithers died April 19, 2010, two days after suffering a heart attack.

Anthologies

 * Astronauts and Androids: Asimov's Choice (1977)
 * Black Holes and Bug-eyed Monsters: Asimov's Choice (1977)
 * Comets and Computers: Asimov's Choice (1978)
 * Dark Stars and Dragons: Asimov's Choice (1978)
 * Extraterrestrials and Eclipses: Asimov's Choice (1978)
 * Isaac Asimov's Masters of Science Fiction (1978) with Isaac Asimov
 * Isaac Asimov's Adventures of Science Fiction (1980) with Isaac Asimov
 * Isaac Asimov's Marvels of Science Fiction (1979)
 * Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction (198 ko 0)
 * Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far (1981)
 * Tales from the Spaceport Bar (1986) with Darrell Schweitzer
 * Another Round at the Spaceport Bar (1989) with Darrell Schweitzer
 * Cat Tales (2007)
 * Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction (2008)

Non-fiction

 * Con-Committee Chairman's Guide (1965)
 * The Conan Swordbook (1969) with L. Sprague de Camp
 * The Conan Grimoire (1972) with L. Sprague de Camp
 * To Serve Man: A Cookbook for People (1976)
 * On Writing Science Fiction (The Editors Strike Back!) (1981) with Darrell Schweitzer and John M. Ford

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Group and individual consciousness
An orphaned article with vague postmodernist nonsense. jni 15:41, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Talking out of their group and individual asses. —Rory ☺ 15:50, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Gibberish.   — Gwalla | Talk 22:14, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: essay. Wile E. Heresiarch 00:52, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not an exposition of a recognized concept. Original research. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 02:00, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Seems like the kind of thing that comes from Gifted programs in high school. In 20 years, the author will be sniggering at what he once thought but will be a mature thinker.  This is the kind of thing that needs to be written.  It's the reason why Big Chief tablets were invented.  It's the true use of Blue Horse notebooks.  Wikipedia is not a Big Chief tablet.  Geogre 18:21, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I re-read my comments, and I realize the references were pretty obscure, even for me. I was referring to A Confederacy of Dunces and its hero, Ignatius, who spends all day writing astute medieval history on Big Chief writing tablets.  Blue Horse were the writing tablets from my childhood of scribbling profound ideas that the world could never understand. Geogre 00:31, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Panaiotis

Panaiotis, also known as Peter Ward, is an American vocalist and composer, currently living in Albuquerque. He received his Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory and a Ph.D. in music from the University of California, San Diego.

He has collaborated with composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros, together co-founding the Deep Listening Band, and Indian santurist Nandkishor Muley.

Discography

 * The Ballad of Frankie Silver (1994)
 * Rising Sun (2001), with Nandkishor Muley

 * Performer:
 * Deep Listening (1989)
 * The Ready Made Boomerang (1991)
 * Troglodyte's Delight (1990)

Musical software
In 2014, Panaiotis brought his software and compositional talents to create *Bandojo, an app that lets novices create melodies in accompaniment with musical textures, and jam together with friends. The iOS version was done in collaboration with Andrew Stone.

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Outsider

Outsider(s) may refer to:

Film

 * Outsider (1997 film), a 1997 Slovene-language film
 * Outsider (2012 film), a Malayalam-language Indian film
 * Outsiders (1980 film), a South Korean film featuring Won Mi-kyung

Literature

 * Outsider (Known Space), a fictional species in Larry Niven's Known Space universe
 * Outsider (comics), a character in various DC Comics storylines
 * Outsiders (comics), a team of freakish superheroes published by DC Comics
 * Young Justice: Outsiders, a TV series featuring the team
 * a fictional species of magical creatures in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files novels; see Cold Days
 * Outsiders, a book by American sociologist Howard S. Becker
 * Outsider, a pseudonym used by Aarne Haapakoski

Music

 * Outsider music, a category of music independent of the music industry
 * Outsider (rapper), a South Korean speed rapper

Albums

 * Outsider (Three Days Grace album), 2018
 * Outsider (Uriah Heep album), 2014
 * Outsider (Comeback Kid album), 2017
 * Outsider (Roger Taylor album), 2021
 * Outsider, 2007 album by the Restarts
 * Outsiders (album), a 2017 album by British punk rock band Gnarwolves

Songs

 * "Outsiders" (Franz Ferdinand song)
 * "Outsiders" (Suede song)
 * "Outsider" (Cliff Richard song), a song written by Roy C. Bennett and Sid Tepper and recorded by Cliff Richard
 * "Outsider", by Chumbawamba from Tubthumper
 * "Outsider", by Jessie Malakouti
 * "Outsider", by Juliana Hatfield from Only Everything
 * "Outsider", by Ramones from Subterranean Jungle

Television

 * "Outsider" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
 * "Outsiders" (The Unit), an episode of The Unit
 * Outsiders (American TV series), a brief 1990 Francis Ford Coppola drama series aired on WGN America
 * Outsiders (Australian TV program), an Australian news commentary program on Sky News Live
 * Outsiders (British TV series), a British outdoor-themed panel show

Other uses

 * Outsider (painting), a 1988 painting by Australian artist Gordon Bennett
 * Outsider (Dungeons & Dragons), a creature (type) in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
 * In the emic and etic perspectives in ethnography and social science, the outsider or etic approach

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Norrbotten Regiment

The Norrbotten Regiment (Norrbottens regemente), designation I 19, is a Swedish Army arctic armoured, light infantry and commando regiment that traces its origins back to the 19th century. The regiment's soldiers were originally recruited from the province of Norrbotten, and it is currently garrisoned in Boden, Norrbotten. The regiment has the responsibility for training two armoured and one special recon battalion, as well as number of Arctic light infantry battalions from the home guard as well as running the army's winter unit.

As of 2018, the Norrbotten Regiment employs 489 professional officers, 402 full-time soldiers, 512 part-time soldiers, 116 civilians and 683 reserve officers.

History
The regiment was created in 1841 when Västerbotten Field Jäger Regiment was split into two corps units of battalion size, one of them being Norrbotten Field Jäger Corps. The unit was upgraded to regimental size and renamed Norrbotten Regiment in 1892. The regiment had its training grounds at various places in Norrbotten, but was eventually garrisoned in Boden in 1907. A ski battalion was created in 1910, and in 1943 this ski battalion was split off from the regiment, later becoming The Army Ranger School and in 1975 Lapland Ranger Regiment.

The regiment merged with the Norrbotten Armoured Battalion (P 5) in 1975 to form Norrbotten Regiment with Norrbotten Armoured Battalion, designated I 19/P 5. For a short time in the 1990s, the unit was then merged with the wartime-organised Norrbotten Brigade, and designated MekB 19. In 2000, the unit was reorganised once again, and was redesignated back to its old designation I 19 despite being an armoured regiment, the name was also changed back to Norrbotten Regiment.

Organisation

 * 1841
 * Life company
 * Piteå Company
 * Kalix Company
 * Råneå Company

 * 2000
 * Norrbotten Armoured Battalion
 * Norrland Artillery Battalion
 * Norrland Engineer Battalion
 * Norrland Air Defence Battalion
 * Norrland Signal Battalion

The current organisation of the regiment includes:
 * 2007
 * Norrbotten Armoured Battalion
 * Army Ranger Battalion
 * Lappland Ranger Group
 * Norrbotten Group
 * Västerbotten Group
 * Field Ranger Group
 * West Norrland Group
 * Försvarsmaktens vinterenhet (Armed Forces Winter Unit)

 * Regimental Headquarters, in Boden
 * 3rd Brigade Staff
 * Norrbotten Armoured Battalion
 * Army Ranger Battalion, in Arvidsjaur
 * Swedish Armed Forces Winter Unit

Colours, standards and guidons
The Norrbotten Regiment presents one regimental colour, three battalion colours and two battalion standards:

Colour of Norrbotten Regiment
On 31 August 1974, the regiment was presented with a new colour by His Majesty the King Gustaf VI Adolf in connection with the 350th anniversary of the regiment. When the Norrbotten Armoured Battalion (P 5) was amalgamated with the regiment, its standard was carried to the side of the regimental colour. The standard is carried again by the Norrbotten Armoured Battalion since 1 July 2000.

A new colour was presented to the regiment in Boden by His Majesty the King Carl XVI Gustaf on 27 August 2001. The colour is drawn by Kristina Holmgård-Åkerberg and embroidered by machine and hand in insertion technique by Maj-Britt Salander/company Blå Kusten. Blazon: "On blue cloth powdered with yellow estoiles, the provincial badge of Västerbotten; a white reindeer at speed, armed and langued red. On a white border at the upper side of the colour, battle honours (Landskrona 1677, Düna 1701, Kliszow 1702, Fraustadt 1706, Malatitze 1708, Strömstad 1717) in blue and close to the staff the provincial badge of Lappland; a red savage with green garlands on head and around loins, clutching a yellow club on right shoulder (a legacy from the former Lappland Brigade, NB 20).

A new colour was presented to the regiment in Boden by His Majesty the King Carl XVI Gustaf on 7 September 2019. The colour is drawn by Henrik Dahlström, heraldic artist and graphic designer at the State Herald at the National Archives of Sweden. The colour was made by Friends of Handicraft in Stockholm, which is a subcontractor to the Swedish Army Museum. Pre- and post-work as well as embroidery work were done by Viola Edin and Anna Eriksson at company Konstbrodöserna. The wild man in red (I 20's coat of arms) that was to the left of the battle honours in the old colour has been removed, as the Västerbotten Group (Västerbottensgruppen), that carry those traditions, from 2020 belongs to Northern Military Region with the Västerbotten Group in Umeå.

Colour of Norrland Artillery Battalion
The colour is drawn by Kristina Holmgård-Åkerberg and embroidered by machine in insertion technique by Sofie Thorburn. The colour was presented to the battalion in Kristinehamn by His Majesty the King Carl XVI Gustaf on 15 April 2002. The colour may be used according to the decisions of CO I 19. Blazon: "On blue cloth in the centre the lesser coat of arms of Sweden, three yellow crowns placed two and one. In the first corner the town badge of Boden; a white wall with a gatetower embattled (the original name of the battalion was Boden Artillery Regiment, A 8), in the second corner two crossed yellow gunbarrels of older pattern, in the third corner the provincial badge of Västerbotten, a white reindeer at speed, armed red (a legacy from the former Norrbotten Artillery Corps, A 5) and in the fourth corner the provincial badge of Jämtland, a white elk passant, attacked on its back by a rising falcon and in the front by a rampant dog, both yellow; all animals armed red (a legacy from the former Norrland Artillery Regiment, A 4)."

Colour of Norrland Engineer Battalion
The colour is drawn by Kristina Holmgård-Åkerberg and embroidered by machine and hand (the badge) in insertion technique by the company Libraria. The colour was presented to the then Norrland Engineer Battalion in Boden by His Majesty the King Carl XVI Gustaf on 27 August 2001. The colour may be used according to the decisions of CO I 19. Blazon: "On blue cloth in the centre the lesser coat of arms of Sweden, three yellow crowns placed two and one. In the first corner a mullet with a cluster of rays, all in yellow. In the lower part of this the coat of arms of the unit; argent, throughout a wall with a gatetower both embattled gules (the original name of the battalion was Royal Boden Engineers Regiment, Ing 3); on a chief azure three open crowns in fess or (a legacy from the former Svea Engineer Regiment, Ing 1). The shield ensigned with a royal crown proper.

Colour of Norrland Signal Battalion
The colour is drawn by Brita Grep and embroidered by hand in insertion technique by the company Libraria. The colour was presented to the then Royal Norrland Signal Battalion (S 3) in Boden by His Majesty King Gustaf VI Adolf on 7 July 1961. It was used as regimental colour by S 3 until 1 July 2000. The colour may be used according to the decisions of CO I 19. Blazon: "On blue cloth in the centre the lesser coat of arms of Sweden, three yellow crowns placed two and one. In the first corner a mullet with a cluster of rays, all yellow. In the lower part of this placed upon a cluster of yellow bolts, the provincial coat of arms of Västerbotten; azure powdered with estoiles or, a reindeer at speed argent armed and langued gules. The shield ensigned with a royal crown proper."

Standard of Norrland Air Defence Battalion
The standard is drawn by Brita Grep and embroidered by hand in insertion technique by the Kedja studio, Heraldica. The standard was presented to the then Royal Luleå Anti-Aircraft Corps (Lv 7) in Luleå by the military commander of the VI Military District, Major General Nils Rosenblad in 1943. It was used as regimental standard by Lv 7 until 1 July 2000. The standard may be used according to the decisions of CO I 19. Blazon: "On blue cloth in the centre the lesser coat of arms of Sweden, three open yellow crowns placed two and one. In the first corner the town badge of Luleå ; two white keys, the left inverted (the original name of the battalion was Luleå Anti-Aircraft Corps). In the other corners two winged yellow gunbarrels of older pattern in saltire. Yellow fringe."

Standard of Norrbotten Armoured Battalion
The standard is drawn by Brita Grep and embroidered by hand in insertion technique by Libraria. The standard was presented to the former Royal Norrbotten Armoured Battalion (P 5) in Boden by His Majesty the King Gustaf VI Adolf on 28 July 1961. It was used as battalion standard until 1975 and then as a traditional standard at I 19 up to 1 July 2000. The standard may be used according to the decisions of CO I 19. Blazon: "On blue cloth powdered with yellow estoiles the provincial badge of Västerbotten; a white reindeer at speed, armed and langued red. Blue fringe."

Coat of arms
The coat of the arms of the Norrbotten Regiment (I 19) 1977–1994. Blazon: "Azure, powdered with estoiles or, the provincial badge of Västerbotten, a reindeer courant argent, armed and langued gules. The shield surmounted two muskets in saltire or." The coat of arms of the Norrbotten Armoured Battalion (P 5) 1957–1975 and the Norrbotten Regiment and Norrbotten Brigade (NMekB 19) 1994–2000. Blazon: "Azure, powdered with estoiles or, the provincial badge of Västerbotten, a reindeer courant argent, armed and langued gules. The shield surmounted two arms in fess, embowed and vambraced, the hands holding swords in saltire, or". The coat of the arms of the Norrbotten Regiment (I 19) since 2000. Blazon: "Azure, powdered with estoiles or, the provincial badge of Västerbotten, a reindeer courant argent, armed gules".

Medals
In 1967, the Norrbottens regementes (I 19) förtjänstmedalj ("Norrbotten Regiment (I 19) Medal of Merit") in gold/silver/bronze (NorrbregGM/SM/BM) of the 8th size was established. The medal ribbon is of blue moiré with a yellow stripe on the middle followed on each side by a black line and a white stripe.

Other
When the Lapland Brigade (Lapplandsbrigaden, NB 20) was disbanded on 31 December 1997, Norrbotten Regiment took over its traditions and colour, which should not be mixed with the colour and traditions of Västerbotten Regiment, which were transferred on 1 July 2000 to the Västerbotten Group (Västerbottensgruppen). In addition to the traditional heritage of the Lapland Brigade, the regiment also has primarily traditional heritage from Norrbotten Regiment with Norrbotten Armoured Battalion (I 19/P 5), Norrbotten Regiment and Norrbotten Brigade (MekB 19), Norrbotten Armoured Battalion (P 5) and Norrland Dragoon Regiment (K 4).

Commanding officers
Regimental commanders active from 1900. For regimental commanders active from 1994 to 2000, see Norrbotten Regiment and Norrbotten Brigade

Commanders

 * 1899–1904: Axel Otto Fredrik von Arbin
 * 1904–1907: Colonel Lars Tingsten
 * 1907–1908: Constantin Fallenius
 * 1908–1911: Carl Greger Leijonhufvud
 * 1911–1916: Conrad August Falkenberg
 * 1916–1921: Gabriel Hedenberg
 * 1921–1924: Erik Nordenskjöld
 * 1924–1927: Erik Grafström
 * 1928–1934: Colonel Ivar Holmquist
 * 1934–1937: Gustaf Adolf Miles Mauritz Hahr
 * 1937–1942: Sven Ramström
 * 1942–1946: Colonel Nils Björk
 * 1946–1947: Colonel Nils Swedlund
 * 1947–1951: Lars Petrus Lande
 * 1951–1958: Arne G:son Hallström
 * 1958–1961: Colonel Karl Gustaf Brandberg
 * 1961–1963: Olof Rudqvist
 * 1963–1965: Seth Kristian Andrae
 * 1965–1966: Colonel Karl Eric Holm
 * 1966–1971: Bror Bertil Matteus Jansson
 * 1971–1973: Ingemar Grunditz
 * 1973–1984: Jan Wickbom
 * 1984–1986: Colonel Sven-Åke Jansson
 * 1986–1988: Bo Pellnäs
 * 1988–1993: Göran Honkamaa
 * 1994–2000: See Norrbotten Regiment and Norrbotten Brigade
 * 2000–2003: Per Lodin
 * 2003–2004: Ola Hansson
 * 2004–2006: Frank Westman
 * 2006–2010: Jan Mörtberg
 * 2010–2014: Olof Granander
 * 2014–2017: Mikael Frisell
 * 2018–2018: Ulf Siverstedt
 * 2018–2021: Jonny Lindfors
 * 2021–present: Nils Johansson

Deputy commanders

 * 1973–1976: Ulf Ling-Vannérus

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Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu

Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu (ジャッキー・チェン) is an action platform video game developed by Now Production and published by Hudson Soft. It was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990 and for the TurboGrafx-16 in 1991.

Gameplay
The player controls Jackie Chan, the well-known martial arts stunt master, and brawls against many enemies during his quest to save his sister. The game is played through five levels (each with a boss at the end).

Throughout the game, the player would encounter frogs that carry power-ups or rice bowls (which are items in the game that restore health), but the frogs would have to be hit in order for the item to be obtained. Power-ups can allow the player to do a special type of attack over a limited number of times (although the player is only able to carry one power-up). Jackie is also able to charge a special beam-like attack, although it can only be used up to five times. Most of the enemies that the player defeats will drop green orbs, but enemies killed by beam attacks will not drop any orbs. If the player collects 30 orbs, life will be replenished (as well as the 5 charged shots).

If the player dies, all of the orbs and power-ups are lost and must be gained again. The player only has 1 life in the game, but may continue up to five times initially. Extra continues may be earned through bonus stages throughout the game, which are levels triggered by bells in the levels which transport Jackie to the bonus stages, each of which have a 30-second time limit and usually involve jumping on clouds or hitting statues to earn points. At the end of 30 seconds, those points are tallied and may also be used to buy extra lives and special attacks.

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Talk:Stillmatic

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Okay, the praise in this article is a tad too effusive for me. Could we stick to facts? --Neschek 15:47, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Yah, I really agree, this was probably written by NaS.-- Wikifiend 6:54, 30 Mar 2005 (EST)

Street's Disciple is definitely not Nas's highest selling album, I don't even think it went platinum yet. Stillmatic is Nas's best selling album. In addition, this article makes it seem as if Stillmatic is considered a lesser album than The Blueprint because it sold less. Most hip hop experts would agree that Stillmatic was a better album than The Blueprint; it's just that Nas has never matched Jay-Z in terms of record sales. --Mjp797 00:10, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * most hip-hop "experts," hah. always amusing how BP got near-universal critical acclaim, while Stillmatic got the thumbs down from plenty of critics. but Nas keeps it "realer" i guess.
 * anyway, because of their feud, the comparison is notable, and should be included. it doesn't necessarily imply a view on the album. 64.7.90.206 11:25, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

In response to Mjp797, Stillmatic is not Nas' best selling album; that would be 1996' It Was Written with sales of 3 million worldwide.

Quote: "At the time, the song's hard-hitting caliber was such that the song could have potentially ended Nas' career". I'm not going to bother asking for a reference for this, the claim that a 'diss' on a rap song could have ended Nas' career is absurd. Tripe like this needs to be removed to do justice to the great album. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.247.237.207 (talk) 21:49, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

producers and samples
this is the same post as the one i posted on the illmatic article, but it applies here more

i labeled each track with its corresponding producer because solo hip hop artists almost always use tracks from producers other than the one executive producing their album. Even an album produced by a famous producer will often feature tracks from others or the artists themselves (Eminem’s Slim Shady LP), unless the artist/producer collaboration states otherwise (Hi-Tek and Talib Kweli’s Reflection Eternal or Blueprint and RJD2 as Soul Position). The majority of hip hop artists, however, remain solo acts that strive to gather instrumentals from one side of the industry to the other. Because of this, I don’t think the standard album infobox template is inefficient at describing the details of a hip hop album. (Perhaps each integral genre of music should have a slightly different template.)

I suggest that only the executive producer be named under producer in the album template and each track be labeled with its producer, i.e. (prd. …) or (produced by …). (but i'll wait for feedback before i do more of this)

Production is important. It lets you see who did what, how their music evolves and relates to other things they produced. Kanye West is a perfect example, he did talib’s “get by” mobb deep’s “throw your hands up” and used excerpts from both those previous recording to make john legends “I used to love you” and talib’s “I try.” Knowing details like that (and I think most people did) almost bridge songs to each other, and it certainly paints a portrait of kanye’s style, for those interested in this kinda shit anyway.

from the begining nas has been good at choosing his beats this way, as he says, "to brigde the gap," and here it shows. Large Professor sampled a Lillian armstrong piece, and trackmasters a brit pop band.--Pointyfingers 19:52, 18 July 2005 (UTC) Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt was certified 4.5 mics upon release; it was changed to 5 later in his career. Both Illmatic and Stillmatic were certified 5 mic albums upon release. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.125.78.12 (talk) 03:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Would like to know if any avid Nas fan out there can verify if "What Goes Around" was produced from a sample? If so, what?

album cover
There should be soem information about the significance of the album art. especially about the flood and dove. and how it compares to noah's ark. (202.172.117.45 05:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC))

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You're Da Man sample
I'm pretty sure the vocal sample on You're Da Man is from Sugar Man by Sixto Rodriguez. It's the same song as the one listed but a different recording. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.227.211.228 (talk) 23:42, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Stillmatic album cover.
I edited a section in which The Stillmatic album cover has a different approach compared to Nas' previous album covers but was deleted. I just find it significant since a new album cover concept was featured in this album Themanilaxperience (talk) 04:36, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Like everything on Wikipedia, it needs a reliable source cited. Dan56 (talk) 11:39, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

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Little Ninja Brothers

Little Ninja Brothers, known in Japan as Super Chinese 2 (スーパーチャイニーズ2), is a 1989 video game developed and published by Culture Brain for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989 in Japan, 1990 in the United States, and 1991 in Europe. It is the second game in the Super Chinese series.

Little Ninja Brothers is the first game in the Super Chinese series to feature role-playing video game elements, an addition to the series that would continue into the other games. The plot follows two young brothers, Jack and Ryu, attempting to find out the mysterious reason for the invasion of Chinaland.

It was the second game in the series, preceded by Kung-Fu Heroes, and followed up by a sequel Super Ninja Boy, released on the Super NES. There were also two Ninja Boy spin-off games released for the Game Boy in both regions. A manga adaptation of the game was serialized in early issues of video game magazine GamePro. The game was included in a 2004 Game Boy Advance collection titled Super Chinese I+II Advance.

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Benedict

Benedict may refer to:

Names

 * Benedict (given name), including a list of people with the given name
 * Benedict (surname), including a list of people with the surname

Religious figures

 * Pope Benedict I (died 579), head of the Catholic Church from 2 June 575 to his death in 579
 * Pope Benedict II (635–685), also a saint
 * Pope Benedict III (died 858), head of the Catholic Church from 29 September 855 to his death in 858
 * Pope Benedict IV (died 903), head of the Catholic Church from 1 February 900 to his death in 903
 * Pope Benedict V (died 965), head of the Catholic Church from 22 May to 23 June 964, in opposition to Pope Leo VIII
 * Pope Benedict VI (died 974), head of the Catholic Church from 19 January 973 to his death in 974
 * Pope Benedict VII (died 983), head of the Catholic Church from October 974 to his death in 983
 * Pope Benedict VIII (died 1024), head of the Catholic Church from 18 May 1012 to his death in 1024
 * Pope Benedict IX (c. 1010–1056), in Rome, was the head of the Catholic Church on three occasions between October 1032 and July 1048
 * Pope Benedict XI (1240–1304), head of the Catholic Church from 22 October 1303 to his death in 1304
 * Pope Benedict XII (c. 1280–1342), head of the Catholic Church from 20 December 1334 to his death in 1342. He was the third Avignon Pope
 * Pope Benedict XIII (1649–1730), later Friar Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O.P., was the head of the Catholic Church from 29 May 1724 to his death in 1730
 * Pope Benedict XIV (1675–1758), head of the Catholic Church from 17 August 1740 to his death in 1758
 * Pope Benedict XV (1854–1922), head of the Catholic Church from 3 September 1914 to his death in 1922
 * Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022), head of the Catholic Church from 19 April 2005 until his resignation in 2013
 * Antipope Benedict X (c. 1000–c. 1070), son of Guido (the youngest son of Alberic III, Count of Tusculum), a brother of the notorious Pope Benedict IX (deposed in 1048), a member of the dominant political dynasty in the region at that time
 * Antipope Benedict XIII (1328–1423), known as el Papa Luna in Spanish, was an Aragonese nobleman, who is officially considered by the Catholic Church to be an antipope
 * Antipope Benedict XIV, the name used by two closely related minor antipopes of the 15th century

Places

 * Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, an area in Los Angeles County, California
 * Benedict (crater), a lunar crater
 * Benedict Fjord, Greenland
 * Benedict Glacier, Canada
 * Benedict, Georgia, U.S.
 * Benedict, Kansas, U.S.
 * Benedict, Maryland, U.S.
 * Benedict, Minnesota, U.S.
 * Benedict, Nebraska, U.S.
 * Benedict, North Dakota, U.S.
 * Benedikt, Slovenia, Slovenia

Other uses

 * Benedict College, South Carolina, United States
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Wanderly Wagon

Wanderly Wagon is an Irish children's television series which aired on RTÉ from Saturday 30 September 1967 until 1982.

Plot
Wanderly Wagon followed human and puppet characters as they travelled around Ireland visiting interesting locations, rescuing Princesses and generally doing good. The original premise of the show expanded to follow the characters to magical lands of Irish mythology, and into outer space. The Wagon could fly, and using chroma key effects, the Wagon was shown hovering in mid-air, landing in various magical lands, and even traveling underwater.

Characters

 * Rory - originally the lead character. Played by stage actor Bill Golding. Golding left the series in its middle years.
 * O'Brien - a bumbler played by Eugene Lambert, who was also the puppeteer and ventriloquist for some of the animal characters. Other voices were provided by puppeteer members of the Lambert family.
 * Godmother - a sensible mother-figure played by Nora O'Mahoney.
 * Judge - a dog. He was the voice of reason and good sense, a moral conscience to the rest of them (he also starred in television road safety advertisements). To this day, Judge is held in great affection by people who remember him - many of whom can still sing his song, "I Am the Flying Dog"
 * Fortycoats - a gruff, bearded character in a costume made of ragged swatches of many different materials, he owned a flying sweetshop. An occasional character who later had an eponymous spin-off show. Originally played by Bill Golding and later by Fran Dempsey.
 * Mr Crow - a crow who lived in a cuckoo clock. Crow was a sarcastic fellow with a cutting sense of humour.
 * Foxy - a fox who lived in a barrel on the side of the wagon and spoke with an American gangster style accent.
 * Doctor Astro - a recurring villain played by Frank Kelly (a direct parody of Doctor Who from British Television)
 * Sneaky Snake - Doctor Astro's sidekick, also voiced by Frank Kelly
 * Maeve the Witch - a mischievous witch, whose attempts at villainy always ended in failure
 * moon mice - four mice who lived in the attic.
 * squirrels - two squirrels played by Miriam Lambert.

Production

Don Lennox and Eugene Lambert came up with the idea of Wanderly Wagon along with Jim O'Hare. O'Hare was recalling a recent family holiday spent on a horse drawn caravan in County Cork. Lennox became the first producer of Wanderly Wagon and O'Hare designed the wagon and the show's costumes.

In the early years of the show, each episode was recorded live, and as such there was no editing. If there was a mistake, it would either have to be left in or the whole episode would have to begin shooting again from the start. In addition, boom mics were not in use and each actor had to be fitted with a hidden microphone on a trailing wire, which restricted movement around the set.

Various episodes were written by Neil Jordan, Carolyn Swift, Pat Ingoldsby, Martin Duffy and Frank Kelly, who also played several characters on the show.

The series developed a tradition of transmitting a Christmas Day show from a Dublin children's hospital every year. The original Wanderly Wagon used in the making of the show is on display at Tinahely Farm Shop in County Wicklow. The smaller replica of the Wanderly Wagon used when filming the opening scenes of Wanderly Wagon is on display in The Little Museum of Dublin on St. Stephen's Green in Dublin.

Spin-offs
The character of Fortycoats was given his own show, Fortycoats & Co., played by Fran Dempsey. In the show Fortycoats is accompanied by two companions; Sofar Sogood (played by Conal Kearney), a prim goody two shoes character, and Slightly Bonkers (played by Virginia Cole), a naive schoolgirl. They travelled in the Flying Tuck Shop doing good, and battling the evil Whilomena the Whirligig Witch and The Pickarooney.

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Karol Adamiecki

Karol Adamiecki (Dąbrowa Górnicza, 18 March 1866 – 16 May 1933, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish engineer, management researcher, economist, and professor.

Life
Karol Adamiecki was a prominent management researcher in Eastern and Central Europe. He began his research at the Institute of Technology in St. Petersburg, Russia (1884–90). In 1891 he graduated in engineering from the university in St. Petersburg. He then returned to Dąbrowa Górnicza, where he was in charge of a steel rolling mill. While working in the steel industry, he developed his ideas on management.

In 1919 he joined the Warsaw Polytechnic as a lecturer, becoming a professor in 1922. From 1922 he headed the newly established Department of Work Organization and Industrial Enterprises at the Polytechnic's Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. He was the founder and first director (1925–1933) of the Institute of Scientific Organization (Instytut Naukowej Organizacji) in Warsaw. He served as vice president of the European Association of Scientific Management (Europejskie Stowarzyszenie Naukowego Zarządzania).

In 1896 Adamiecki invented a novel means of displaying interdependent processes so as to enhance the visibility of production schedules. In 1903 his theory caused a stir in Russian technical circles. He published some articles on it in the Polish magazine Przegląd Techniczny (Technical Review), nos. 17, 18, 19 and 20 (1909). In 1931 he published a more widely known article describing his diagram, which he called the harmonogram or harmonograf. Adamiecki had, however, published his works in Polish and Russian, languages little known in the English-speaking world. By this time, a similar method had been popularized in the West by Henry Gantt (who had published articles on it in 1910 and 1915). With minor modifications, Adamiecki's chart is now more commonly referred to in English as the Gantt chart.

Adamiecki published his first papers in management in 1898, before Frederick Winslow Taylor had popularized scientific management. In 1925 Adamiecki founded the Polish Institute of Scientific Management.

He did most of his research and observations in the field of metallurgy. He is the author of the law of harmony in management: harmony should comprise three parts:
 * harmony of choice (all production tools should be mutually compatible, with special regard to their output production speed)
 * harmony of doing (the importance of time coordination — schedules and timetables)
 * harmony of spirit (the importance of creating a good team)

In 1972 the State College of Economic Administration in Katowice was named after him, and in 1974 it became the Karol Adamiecki University of Economics (Akademia Ekonomiczna im. Karola Adamieckiego w Katowicach).

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Frank Gaul

Francis E. Gaul (August 8, 1924 - September 15, 2013 ) was an American politician of the Democratic party. He was the Treasurer of Cuyahoga County, Ohio from 1976 to 1995.

Gaul started his career as a city councilman in Cleveland, Ohio, representing a predominantly Irish-Catholic ward on the west side.

Treasurer of Cuyahoga County
Gaul served as Treasurer of Cuyahoga County from 1975 to 1996.

In 1994, The Plain Dealer reported that Gaul had made risky investments using county funds through the Secured Assets Fund Earnings (SAFE) investment pool. When the investment pool collapsed, the county lost $115 million. In 1997, Gaul was acquitted by the Ohio Court of Appeals of any criminal wrongdoing in association with SAFE. The court overturned Gaul's conviction by an inferior court for "dereliction of duty", for which he had been sentenced to 90 days in jail.

In 1989, Gaul was criticized for appearing in radio advertisements in which he endorsed certificates of deposits at Transohio Saving Bank. Gaul said he had been paid for the advertisements but donated the payment to charity.

Other political offices and candidacies
Gaul also served on Cleveland City Council and on the board of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority.

In 1994, Gaul was the Democratic nominee who unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Martin R. Hoke. In 1982, he was a candidate in the Democratic Primary for Ohio Secretary of State, won by Sherrod Brown.

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Talk:Snare drum

Untitled
Grammar In the first paragraph, the word "stretched" was spelt wrong. I fixed it.

"Genre Specification" cleanup?
Half of this reads like a how-to buyer's guide. I'm considering possible cleanup and/or wikification; as a relatively new contributor, I welcome everyone's objections or suggestions. Geo.per 15:54, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

To be honest, with different drummers' preferences varying greatly within genres, this whole section is relatively pointless. It doesn't bring forth any real information to the article, it just kind of says that many different sizes can be used and there is no standard. That being said, it defeats the purpose of the whole section. This drum is the worst drum in the world. El_Chupanibre El Chupanibre That is false it is simply just not true that is opinion not fact so go away you riff raff

Picture
Why is it that there is a picture of an old drum when there is no present snare drum picture? I'm going to add and if people think it neccesary remove it... Foolzter

Ok all done... I think it fits the article but I could be wrong... Foolzter

Origin
I think it would be nice to have iformation on the original creator/inventor of the snare drum, or at least a more definite period as it is very ambiguous, and i have searched the whole internet for this tiny piece of infomation with no real results. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.219.40.2 (talk) 10:32, 2 May 2007 (UTC).
 * I suspect the inventor is lost in time - I popped in here to see if there was more info than I've found. The rattle part was added to the Tabor around the 1600s (there are many sources for this - a search should come up with some legitimate ones, the Tabor itself dates to the 1300s or earlier). The name itself probably originates from the Dutch word snaar (cord) or the Old High German snuor, or maybe the modern German word schnur (string) but personally I suspect the German word schnarre (pronounced sch and then like you're saying snarl without the l, and the ch is silent in some dialects) may be a factor in why it is called a snare drum - that word literally means to rattle. The occupation of Schnarre/Schnorr/Schnirer/etc (there are a bunch of similar ones) historically is... string/rope makers. Oh, and by the way, Germans call the snare drum a Leinentrommel (linen drum, probably referring to a canvas head, the word also means canvas), so it very well might have been migrants that named it the word English speakers know. 63.169.138.2 (talk) 22:45, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Re: "Genre Specification" cleanup?
Done, the previous Types section was a POV commentary so I replaced it with verifiable information regarding materials and sizes. Still need to get some cites regarding history. -Bikinibomb 07:04, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

hey
hey —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.154.10.125 (talk) 21:18, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Ethiopia?
Snare drums originated in Ethiopia? anyone have some proof of this claim, or is it BS Verratensie (talk) 04:06, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know one way or another, but without a reference to cite, it's gone for now. __Just plain Bill (talk) 15:59, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

History of snare drum
I added a couple things I learned about the history of the snare drum when looking for other items. It's a start, but really not enough. Apologies. I don't know if Groves dictionary has some explanation or anyone else? (I don't have access to it, so it's kind of hard). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ll1324 (talk • contribs) 04:06, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

cassa chiara
I've seen "cassa" and "cassa chiara" in classical music scores from time to time. Googling around, it appears to be a snare drum. Are the terms directly synonymous? Can I simply create a redirect here for the term or is there a subtle distinction? Thanks.DavidRF (talk) 19:00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Kick snare
Is a kick snare a kind of snare drum? 70.247.172.237 (talk) 21:19, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

 * The kick is the bass drum. Hyacinth (talk) 04:58, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Rewrite
This article needs major work, starting with the lead... The snare drum or side drum is a melodic percussion instrument... (my wikilinking)... no it's not. Andrewa (talk) 00:05, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Under way...Andrewa (talk) 10:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Melodic percussion
I decided I was sufficiently fascinated by the question of who might think that a snare drum was melodic percussion that I tracked it down...

added 21 November 2011

and it's by an IP with no other edits to date. That trail is now cold enough that we'll probably never know whether it was ignorance, deliberate vandalism, or an unofficial tiger team test, ie someone wanting to see or demonstrate how good or bad we are at detecting misinformation. In any case we didn't do very well...

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and there were quite a lot of edits in the meantime... didn't any of those editors read the lead before editing the article? Or did none of them know that a snare drum is unpitched percussion? The mind seriously boggles...

Still, if we didn't have ignorance, we wouldn't need Wikipedia... (-> Andrewa (talk) 16:13, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Infobox
I've added an infobox relating to the drum as a musical instrument, not too successfully. It's too wide to match the drum kit component infobox, and the Hornbostel–Sachs data is of dubious value. Andrewa (talk) 10:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Big, uncited lists at the bottom
At the bottom of the article, there's a series of long lists with no citations. The "Famous solo works" and "Famous orchestral repertoire" sections are obviously relevant, but does this article benefit at all from a list of method books and brands, each of which individually is longer than both of the lists of works combined? Someone should consider removing them, or at least cutting them down to size.24.21.118.190 (talk) 22:02, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I removed the whole list. If any of the works are notable we could include them again. Bjelleklang -  talk 10:15, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:Aya Matsuura

It might be best to have the Japanese name of the songs alongside the English translations. I am assuming they are different. - James Foster 16:00, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Audition
The first two sentences under "Career" is oxymornic. If you take out the middle, this is how it reads...

"Aya auditioned in 2000 for the fourth Morning Musume & Heike Michiyo Protegee Audition, ... It is a common misconception that Aya originally auditioned to be a part of Morning Musume, which she didn't."

Well this couldn't be any more unclear. Did she audition for Morning Musume or didn't she? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.206.124.190 (talk) 04:54, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

 * She auditioned to be a protégée (妹分) of Morning Musume and Michiyo Heike. Separate auditions were held to find new members of Morning Musume. - Goyt Fermin (talk) 23:11, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Infobox picture
The infobox picture doesn't really serve the purpose of identification. It should be replaced with a more useful one, as available.Matttoothman (talk) 14:50, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

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Mutual

Mutual may refer to:

 * Mutual organization, where as customers derive a right to profits and votes
 * Mutual information, the intersection of multiple information sets
 * Mutual insurance, where policyholders have certain "ownership" rights in the organization
 * Mutual fund, a professionally managed form of collective investments
 * Mutual Film, early American motion picture conglomerate, the producers of some of Charlie Chaplin's greatest comedies
 * Mutual Base Ball Club (1857-1871), defunct early baseball team usually referred to as "Mutual" in the standings.
 * Mutual Broadcasting System, a defunct U.S. radio network
 * Mutual Improvement Association, the name of two youth programs run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Mutual authentication, used in cryptography
 * "Mutual", a 2018 song by Shawn Mendes from Shawn Mendes

 * Place names
 * Mutual, Maryland, a community in the United States
 * Mutual, Ohio, a village in the United States
 * Mutual, Oklahoma, a town in the United States
 * Mutual railway station in Cape Town, South Africa

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Dietikon District

Dietikon District is a district of the Swiss canton of Zürich. The capital of the district of Dietikon is the city of Dietikon, located in the Limmat Valley (German: Limmattal).

Dietikon District was created in 1989 by splitting the former Zürich District into three parts. The western part became the Dietikon District, the eastern part became the district (respectively city) of Zürich and the municipality of Zollikon (located east of Zürich) was integrated into the Meilen District.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Modhvadia Family History part 2of 2

Modhvadia Family History part 2of 2
A beginning of a geneology or just nonsense. Delete. jni 16:01, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a genealogical or biographical dictionary or phonebook, What Wikipedia is not, point 17. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 02:02, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks more like nonsense than anything else. Should be speedy deleted. Nadavspi 02:19, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: I wish it were nonsense. Unfortunately, it's just non-encyclopedic.  Fragmented (and where's part 1of2?), anti-contextual stuff from the subcontinent. Geogre 18:23, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)


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Lord Buckhurst

Lord Buckhurst is a courtesy title or style used since 1890 by heirs apparent to the title of Earl De La Warr. The style was previously used by heirs apparent to the title of Earl of Dorset.

Lord Buckhurst may also refer to:

Dorset

 * Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), styled Lord Buckhurst from 1567 to 1604
 * Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset (1561–1609), styled Lord Buckhurst from 1604 to 1608
 * Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset (1589–1624), styled Lord Buckhurst from 1608 to 1609
 * Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset (1622–1677), styled Lord Buckhurst from birth to 1652
 * Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset (1643–1706), styled Lord Buckhurst from 1652 to 1677
 * Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688–1765), styled Lord Buckhurst from birth to 1706
 * Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset (1711–1769), styled Lord Buckhurst from 1711 to 1720

De La Warr

 * Reginald Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr (1817–1896), 2nd Baron Buckhurst, inherited title of Lord Buckhurst in 1870 and Earldom in 1873
 * Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr (1900–1976), styled Lord Buckhurst from birth to 1915
 * William Sackville, 10th Earl De La Warr (1921–1988), styled Lord Buckhurst from birth to 1976
 * William Sackville, 11th Earl De La Warr (born 1948), styled Lord Buckhurst from 1976 to 1988
 * William Sackville, Lord Buckhurst (born 1979), styled Lord Buckhurst

Titles

 * Baron Buckhurst, a barony first created in 1567, held as a subsidiary title by the Earls of Dorset; recreated in 1864 and merged since 1873 with the De La Warr earldom

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William H. Davies

William H. Davies Bill Davies, was a Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (BCSC), Canada, from 1982 until his retirement in 1999. In 2007 he was appointed Commissioner of the Davies Commission Inquiry which investigated circumstances around the 1998 death by hypothermia of Frank Paul, a Mi'kmaq homeless man.

Education
He graduating from University of British Columbia Law School in 1955.

Career
He articled with Baker, Newby LLP, then known as Wilson & Hinds Law Office in Chilliwack, where he became a partner in 1956.

In 1978 Davies was appointed as a County Court of New Westminster in 1978, Bill started his new role as a judge.

Davies served as Justice on the Supreme Court of British Columbia from 1982 until his retirement in 1999.

He also served as Justice in the North West Territories.

He retired in 1999.

Davies Commission Inquiry
Justice Davies was called out of retirement to chair the (2007 - 2009) Davies Commission Inquiry into the 1998 death by hypothermia of Frank Paul, a homeless Mi'kmaq man originally from Elsipogtog First Nation, New Brunswick. According to the report, Paul died of hypothermia in an alley in east side Vancouver where he had been released by Vancouver police. In his 446-page report, Justice Davies was "harshly critical" of the actions of Vancouver Police Department (VPD) in relation to Paul's death. In his May 2011 report, "Alone and Cold: Criminal Justice Branch Response", he questioned the decision "on the part of the crown prosecutors to not proceed with criminal charges against Sergeant Sanderson and Constable Instant in the death of Frank Paul." Davies "ruled that the B.C.'s Criminal Justice Branch needed an overhaul to its conflict-of-interest policies that were brought up during the inquiry" The Inquiry "resulted in the recommendation to establish the Independent Investigations Office which investigates officer-related incidents of death or serious harm in BC."

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Football in Italy

Football (calcio ) is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italy national football team is considered one of the best national teams in the world. They have won the FIFA World Cup four times (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006), trailing only Brazil (with five), runners-up in two finals (1970, 1994) and reaching a third place (1990) and a fourth place (1978). They have also won two European Championships (1968 and 2020), also appeared in two finals (2000, 2012), finished third at the Confederations Cup (2013) and the Nations League (2021 and 2023), won one Olympic football tournament (1936) and two Central European International Cups (1927–30 and 1933–35).

Italy's top domestic league, the Serie A, is one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the world due to the fact that it is often depicted as the most tactical national football league, and is among the top five European football leagues. Italy's club sides have won 48 major European trophies, making them the second most successful nation in European football. Serie A hosts three of the world's most famous clubs as Juventus, Milan, and Inter, all founding members of the G-14, a group which represented the largest and most prestigious European football clubs; Serie A was the only league to produce three founding members.

Juventus, Milan, and Inter (the Big Three), along with Roma, Lazio, and historically Parma and Fiorentina but now Napoli and Atalanta, are known as the Seven Sisters of Italian football due to their popular support and dominance in league and cups between the 1990s and 2020s. Italian managers are among the most successful in European football, especially in competitions such as the Champions League. More players have won the coveted Ballon d'Or award while playing in Serie A than any other league in the world after La Liga.

Ancient times and calcio fiorentino
Other forms of football were played in Italy in ancient times, the earliest of which was Harpastum, played during the times of the Roman Empire. This game may have also been influential in other forms throughout Europe due to the expansion of the Roman Empire, including Medieval football. From the 16th century onwards, calcio fiorentino, another code of football distinct from the modern game, was played in the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Some famous Florentines were among the players of the game, particularly the Medici family including Piero, Lorenzo, and Alessandro de' Medici, as well as popes who played the game in the Vatican, such as Clement VII, Leo XI, and Urban VIII. The name calcio ("kick") was later adopted for football in Italy (attested first in 1889, "Il Foot-ball ovvero il Giuoco del Calcio"), becoming the synonym for Italian association football worldwide,  as well as the most popular sport in Italy.

Italian football is born in Turin and Genoa
The modern variation of the game was brought to Italy during the 1880s. Edoardo Bosio, a merchant worker in the British textile industry, had visited England and experienced the game. He returned to Turin in 1887 and was motivated to help spread football in his homeland. He founded the first football club in Italy (Torino Football and Cricket Club) that year, while Nobili Torino (Turin Nobles) soon followed. The second club bore the name noble because it contained Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, and Alfonso Ferrero de Gubernatis Ventimiglia, who would later become president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). The two merged in 1891 to form Internazionale Football Club Torino. Genoa Cricket and Football Club, formed as a cricket club to represent England abroad, was founded by Englishmen in 1893. In 1896, a man named James Richardson Spensley arrived in Genoa and introduced the football section of the club, becoming its first manager.

Some early tournaments were organised by the Italian Gymnastics Federation (FGI, then FGNI) between 1895 and 1897 and until 1913. In 1898, a new federation, the future FIGC but then known as Federazione Italiana del Foot-ball (FIF) until 1909, had been formed, with its centre originally in Turin and the first president as Mario Vicary. The FIGC created the Italian Football Championship with the four founding clubs being; Genoa, Torinese, Ginnastica Torino, and Internazionale Torino. Its first competition, the 1898 Italian Football Championship, was held at the Velodrome Humbert I in Turin on 8 May 1898, and was won by Genoa. While it was common for clubs to compete in both FIGC and FNGI competitions early on, the titles won in the FIGC championship are the only ones officially recognised by the modern-day league. In the following years, the tournament (called Prima Categoria) was structured into regional groups with the winners of each group participating in a playoff with the eventual winners being declared champions. Until 1904, the tournament was dominated by Genoa, who won six titles in seven years. Between 1905 and 1908, a Final Group among regional champions was contested to award the title and the Spensley Cup. Juventus won his first title and Spensley Cup in 1905, while the following two championships were won by Milan.

Italianisation and split of the championship
In November 1907, the FIF organised two championships in the same season:
 * 1) Italian Championship, the main tournament where only Italian players were allowed to play; the winners would be proclaimed Campioni d'Italia (Italian Champions) and would be awarded the Bruni Cup.
 * 2) Federal Championship, a secondary tournament where foreign players (if they lived in Italy) were also allowed to play; the winners would be proclaimed Campioni Federali (Federal Champions) and would be awarded the Spensley Cup.

The FIF wanted to organise two different championships in order to allow weaker clubs, composed only of Italian players (squadre pure italiane, "pure Italian teams"), to win the national title, and to relegate simultaneously the big clubs, composed mostly of stronger foreign players (squadre spurie internazionali, "spurious international teams") in a minor competition for a "consolation prize". The majority of big clubs (Genoa, Milan, and Torino) withdrew from both the championships in order to protest against the autocratic policy of the FIF. The Federal Championship was won by Juventus against Doria, while the 1908 Italian Championship and the Bruni Cup were won by Pro Vercelli, beating Juventus, Doria, and Milanese. The Federal Championship won by Juventus was later forgotten by FIGC due to the boycott by the dissident clubs. 1908 also saw a scission within Milan that led to the foundation of Inter.

In the 1909 Italian football season, the two different championships were organised again, with the Oberti Cup in lieu of the Spensley Cup for the Federal Championship. This time, the majority of big clubs decided to only withdraw from the Italian Championship in order to make the Federal competition the most relevant tournament and to diminish the Italian one. The Federal Championship was won by Pro Vercelli, beating Milanese in the Final, while the Italian Championship was won by Juventus, again beating Milanese in the Final. Ultimately, the dissenters' strategy worked out, as the failure of the Italian Championship won by Juventus forced the FIGC to later recognise the Federal Champions of Pro Vercelli as "Campioni d'Italia 1909", disavowing the other tournament and depriving Juventus of another title.

The format was modified for the 1909–10 Prima Categoria, which was played in a league format. Nine clubs participated, playing each other both home and away. The split between Federal and Italian championship was not completely abolished because, while unifying these tournaments, it was decided for the last time to assign two titles at the end of the season. In fact, the FIGC established to proclaim as Federal Champions (now turned into the main title) the first-placed club in the general classification, while recognised as Italian Champions (now become the secondary title) would be the best placed club among the four "pure Italian teams", depending on the head-to-head matches. At the end of the season, Pro Vercelli and Inter finished joint-top, so a playoff was needed in order to assign the Federal title (the Italian one was won by Pro Vercelli). This season was the first victory for Inter, having defeated Pro Vercelli in the final by a score of 10–3. Even the Italian title won by Pro Vercelli was later forgotten.

National championship
A first national competition organised by the Italian Gymnastics Federation (FGNI–FGI) was played in 1896, the same year of the first modern Olympic Games, and won by a team from Udine, an Italian northeast city in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, named Udinese. In 1897, a second national gymnastic-football tournament was won by SG Torinese. In 1898, the Federazione Italiana del Foot-ball (FIF–FIGC) was finally formed and the first national championship was organised, with regional tournaments and playoffs. Held in Turin on the occasion of the International Exhibition for the fiftieth anniversary of the Albertine Statute, with about one hundred spectators in attendance, it included four clubs, three matches, and lasted a single day. This is considered to be the first proper national football championship and was won using the Pyramid formation (2–3–5) by Genoa,  which then went on to win five more championships in six years. Caffaro, a newspaper in Genoa, headlined "The Genoese winners of the national championship", while another reported that the competitors gathered at a restaurant, where they had dinner and the championship cup was delivered to the winning team. To celebrate the event of the first national football championship, Franco Bernini wrote a book in 2005 entitled La prima volta.

National teams
The Italy national football team, called Azzurri or squadra azzurra for their blue shirts, are the third-most successful national team in the World Cup for number of medals. During the 1970s to early 1990s, Italy became famous for their catenaccio, thus heralding a long line of world class defenders, such as Virginio Rosetta, Pietro Rava, Carlo Parola, Giacinto Facchetti, Armando Picchi, Gaetano Scirea, Antonio Cabrini, Claudio Gentile, Franco Baresi, Giuseppe Bergomi, Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Nesta, Fabio Cannavaro, Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci, and Giorgio Chiellini. Defence is traditionally the best part of Italian teams, and Italian defence is generally considered historically the best in the world. A women's team, an under-21 team, an under-20 team, an under-19 team, and an under-17 team also compete. Their honours include:

World Champions squads

 * 1934 FIFA World Cup squad
 * 1938 FIFA World Cup squad
 * 1982 FIFA World Cup squad
 * 2006 FIFA World Cup squad

European Champions squads

 * UEFA Euro 1968 squad
 * UEFA Euro 2020 squad

European competitions for clubs

 * 12 UEFA European Cups/Champions Leagues won in 29 finals (third behind Spain and England)
 * 7 UEFA Cup Winners' Cups won in 11 finals (first is England with 8 wins in 13 finals)
 * 9 UEFA Cups/Europa Leagues won in 17 finals (tied for second behind Spain)
 * 1 UEFA Europa Conference League won in 2 finals (tied for first with England)
 * 9 UEFA Super Cups won in 13 finals (tied for second behind Spain)
 * 9 Intercontinental/Club World Cups won in 13 finals (tied for third behind Spain and Brazil)

In total:
 * Italy, 47 cups and 85 finals (second behind Spain)

UEFA Champions League
The following teams have reached the final of the UEFA European Cup/Champions League. Bold indicates winners, italics indicates runner-ups.
 * Fiorentina (1956–57).
 * Inter (1963–64, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1971–72, 2009–10, 2022–23)
 * Juventus (1972–73, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2002–03, 2014–15, 2016–17)
 * Milan (1957–58, 1962–63, 1968–69, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2006–07)
 * Roma (1983–84)
 * Sampdoria (1991–92)

Italian football stadiums
Stadiums with a capacity of 40,000 or higher are included.

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Soft dollar

The term soft dollars refers to a Wall Street practice, especially in the asset management and securities industries, and means the benefits provided to an asset manager by a broker-dealer as a result of commissions generated from a financial transaction executed by the broker-dealer for client accounts or funds managed by the asset manager. In a soft dollar arrangement, the investment manager directs commissions generated by a client's or fund's transactions to a broker-dealer or other trading venue. Soft dollars, in contrast to hard dollars (actual cash) which have to be reported, are incorporated into brokerage fees and paid expenses, which may not be reported separately (partly due to the difficulty in their valuation). Most investment managers follow the limitations detailed in Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. In particular, if soft dollar arrangements are entered into with respect to registered investment companies and pension plans (ERISA and public plans), compliance with Section 28(e) is generally required. However, hedge funds, which are generally not registered, may not be subject to the limitations of Section 28(e) and, thus, in some cases, the fund's commissions may be used for the adviser's benefit. In situations where fund commissions are used outside of the Section 28(e) safe harbor, full and comprehensive disclosure must be provided to fund investors.

Background and history
In the brokerage business, soft dollars have been in use for many years. Prior to May 1, 1975—sometimes referred to as "May Day"—all brokerage firms used a fixed price commission schedule published by the New York Stock Exchange; the schedule was a matrix listing the number of shares in the trade on one axis, the stock's price per share on the other axis, and the corresponding commission charge in the cells of the matrix. Because broker/dealers traditionally were required to charge a fixed commission and could not compete by lowering the commission for a trade, they soon began to compete by providing additional services to their institutional clients. In the industry this became known as "bundling" services with commissions.

In the early 1970s, the U.S. government investigated the brokerage industry's pricing practices. They concluded the industry was engaged in price fixing. The government told the brokerage industry that, as of May 1, 1975 it would be required to "fully negotiate" brokerage commissions with each client for each trade. As the May 1, 1975 deadline approached the brokerage industry went through several changes in an attempt to restructure itself so it could offer services and negotiate the price of each service separately. In the industry this process was known as "unbundling" and it created the discount-brokerage segment of the industry. At the same time, the brokerage industry lobbied Congress to allow it to continue to include the cost of investment research given to institutional clients as part of the fully negotiated commission. Shortly after May 1, 1975 Congress passed an amendment to Section 28 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Section 28(e) provides a "safe harbor" for any fiduciary that "pays up" from its fully negotiated commission rate to receive qualifying research or brokerage services from its broker(s).

The Securities and Exchange Commission is responsible for interpreting and enforcing Section 28(e). In Section 28(e) the definition of qualifying services is detailed and explicit, but Section 28(e) is not a rule it is just a "safe harbor". The use of client commissions to pay for services which are not within the safe harbor of Section 28(e) is not within the safe harbor. A fiduciary who "pays up" in client commissions to receive non-qualifying services must be able to defend this practice under applicable law. For pension plans subject to ERISA, a fiduciary can use client assets only for the exclusive benefit of clients and cannot use the client assets for the fiduciary's benefit. Most public pension plans have similar prohibitions. For registered investment companies (such as mutual funds), Section 17(e)(1) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 generally prohibits a fund affiliate—such as the fund adviser—receiving compensation when purchasing or selling property for a registered fund. As a result, for all practical purposes, brokerage arrangements for pension plans and registered investment companies must come within the Section 28(e) safe harbor or run afoul of these restrictions. Statistical studies over several recent years and large populations of institutional trade data have revealed that the cost of executing and clearing institutional trades is between 1.25 and 1.65 cents per share. Most institutional advisors pay between 3 and 5 cents per share commissions to their brokers. Many of these institutional fiduciaries provide no disclosure of what "services" they are receiving for the excess over their fully negotiated commission rate. In bundled full service brokerage arrangements this lack of disclosure is particularly problematic because it makes it difficult to apply Section 28(e) tests and measure Section 28(e) compliance.

In 2018, the European Union banned Soft Dollar payments for research, as part of Mifid II.

Examples
Lets assume that ABC Capital needs ongoing access to the daily closing prices of certain securities, and receives this data from XYZ Database Services, a subsidiary of XYZ Brokerage. If an outsider would pay $12,000 per year (paid in hard cash), yet ABC directs his broker to reduce his commissions that would have been charged to XYZ, then XYZ receives $12,000. "The only one who is out any real money is the broker."

An example of illegal use of undisclosed soft dollars might be when a mutual fund manager pays commissions to a broker-dealer and in return the broker-dealer provides furniture for the fund adviser's use. Likewise, the adviser to a registered mutual fund cannot send brokerage to a wire-house for providing "shelf space" and marketing favoritism for the family of funds. Such brokerage arrangements, where favors are traded in exchange for institutional clients' excess commissions have been criticized by securities regulators. Full-service brokerage bundled commission arrangements involving the exchange of brokerage firms' undisclosed proprietary services provided for institutional clients' brokerage commissions (paid in excess of a fully negotiated execution-only commission rate) can create conflicts of interest. The lack of transparency in these full-service brokerage arrangements may shield abuses from immediate detection.

In soft dollar arrangements, the brokerage commissions are generally higher than they would be for an "execution only" trading relationship, and over time investment performance may suffer by the higher commission cost. Because institutional funds can trade a significant number of shares every day, the soft dollars add up quickly. Over time, investment performance may deteriorate if the soft dollars are not used to purchase research that enhances performance. However, many believe that as long as full disclosure is made, clients will gravitate to managers that use an appropriate mix of soft dollar and other arrangements.

In the US, although soft dollar transactions have incurred a lot of scrutiny lately, the practice is still allowed.

Similar terminology
In Australia, soft dollars are not illegal although they are discouraged and must be disclosed in plain language terms to clients. Many other jurisdictions also regulate soft dollars—sometime called "soft commissions," including the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, and France.

In 1977, the New York Times used a headline Soft Dollars and Hard Economics to refer to a situation it described as a "declining dollar."

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Benediction (band)

Benediction are a British death metal band, formed in 1989 in Birmingham, England.

History
Benediction's first album, Subconscious Terror was released in 1990. The band's latest album latest album Scriptures was released in 2020.

Members
Current
 * Peter Rewinsky – lead guitar (1989–present)
 * Darren Brookes – rhythm guitar (1989–present)
 * Dave Ingram – vocals (1991–1998, 2019–present)
 * Giovanni Durst – drums (2019–present)
 * Nik Sampson – bass (2023–present)

Former
 * Mark "Barney" Greenway – vocals (1989–1990)
 * Paul Adams – bass (1989–1991)
 * Ian Treacy – drums (1989–1993)
 * Frank Healy – bass (1992–2017)
 * Neil Hutton – drums (1994–2005)
 * Dave Hunt – vocals (1998–2019)
 * Nicholas Barker – drums (2005–2011)
 * Perra Karlsson – drums (2011–2013)
 * Ashley Guest – drums (2013–2019)
 * Dan Bate – bass (2018–2023)

Timeline

Discography
Studio albums
 * Subconscious Terror (1990)
 * The Grand Leveller (1991)
 * Transcend the Rubicon (1993)
 * The Dreams You Dread (1995)
 * Grind Bastard (1998)
 * Organised Chaos (2001)
 * Killing Music (2008)
 * Scriptures (2020)

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Mutual of Omaha

Mutual of Omaha is a Fortune 500 mutual insurance and financial services company based in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1909 as Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association, Mutual of Omaha is a financial organization offering a variety of insurance and financial products for individuals, businesses and groups throughout the United States.

The company provides a variety of financial services, including Medicare Supplement, life insurance, long-term care coverage and annuities, as well as group coverage including life, disability and 401(k).

Subsidiaries
Mutual of Omaha has multiple subsidiaries including:

United of Omaha Life Insurance Company
Founded in 1909, this company provides life insurance, pension and annuity products for groups and individuals.

United World Life Insurance Company
Through direct marketing and independent agent networks, this company has offered health and accident coverage and specialty life plans since 1983.

Mutual of Omaha Investor Services, Inc.
Mutual funds are offered to individuals through the company's agents and Retirement Plans brokers.

East Campus Realty, LLC
East Campus Realty, LLC was established to develop Midtown Crossing at Turner Park, which is directly to the east of Mutual of Omaha's headquarters.

History
Mutual of Omaha was founded in 1909 by a medical student at Omaha's Creighton University and his wife, Dr. C.C. Criss and Mabel Criss. It has grown into a Fortune 500 company offering insurance and financial solutions for individuals, businesses and groups throughout the United States.

In 1927, V. J. Skutt joined their team and was named president in 1949. With a license to sell insurance in all 48 states, an abbreviated name and distinctive Native American symbol, the company gained nationwide prominence in the 1950s.

In 1963, the company began sponsoring Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, a wildlife program hosted by Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler that remained on television for more than 20 years. The company was one of the first companies to provide disability insurance to non-professional workers, and in 1966 was among the first companies to provide supplementary coverage for people enrolled in Medicare.

As of 2020, Mutual of Omaha holds the 300th rank on Fortune 500's top companies. The current CEO is James T. Blackledge. The company and its affiliates have more than 5,000 employees plus a network of sales advisors. The home office remains in Omaha, NE, with satellite or sales offices in most states. The company holds an A+ rating from A.M. Best and AA− rating from Standard & Poor's.
 * March 5, 1909 – Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association filed articles of incorporation with the Nebraska Insurance Department.
 * 1920 – Premium income exceeded $1 million for the year.
 * 1924 – Mutual of Omaha ranked 8th in comparison to other insurance companies.
 * 1926 – The subsidiary, United Benefit Life Insurance Company, was founded.
 * 1941 – The company founded its Group Insurance department.
 * 1950 – Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association changed its name to Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company.
 * January 6, 1963 – Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom premiered on network television. The original show was hosted by Marlin Perkins, Jim Fowler, and Peter Gros, and ran until 1988.
 * 1974 - Slogan changed from "People who pay" to "People you can count on", through 2020.
 * 1981 – United Benefit Life Insurance Company became United of Omaha.
 * 2001 – The company revitalized its brand and began sponsoring USA Swimming.
 * 2002 – A new Wild Kingdom series premiered on Animal Planet.
 * 2005 – Daniel P. Neary is named chairman and chief executive officer.
 * 2007 – Omaha Financial Holdings, Inc. was created as the parent company of Mutual of Omaha's banking initiatives.
 * 2009 – Mutual of Omaha celebrates their 100th anniversary.
 * 2015 – James T. Blackledge is named chief executive officer and elected to the board.
 * 2016 – The company reaches $3 billion in policyholder surplus.
 * 2018 – James T. Blackledge replaces Dan Neary as chairman of the board.
 * 2019 – Agreed to sell Mutual of Omaha Bank to CIT's banking subsidiary, CIT Bank, N.A., for a purchase price of $1 billion.
 * 2020 – The logo was changed from the Indian to a lion. The new slogan was: "Protect your kingdom".
 * 2022 − Mutual of Omaha announced they would build their new headquarters in downtown Omaha on the site of the W. Dale Clark Library, with the under construction 44 story height giving it to be the new tallest building in Omaha.

Recognition

 * 2016 - Mutual of Omaha received an A+ rating from A.M. Best Company, Inc. for overall financial strength and ability to meet policy holder-related obligations.
 * 2017 - Mutual of Omaha was ranked 5th of 18 large life insurance companies by NerdWallet.

Wild Kingdom and professional golfing sponsorships
In 1963, Mutual of Omaha introduced a wildlife television program, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. The original show ran from 1963 to 1988, and their toll-free phone number of (800) 228-9800 was mentioned so frequently that many people still remember the number decades later. The show has been since relaunched several times, with its current iteration running as a Saturday morning offering as part of NBC's The More You Know and produced by Hearst Media Production Group

Mutual of Omaha sponsors 7 PGA Tour golfers and 2 LPGA golfers, including Russell Knox, Henrik Stenson, Pádraig Harrington, Paula Creamer, Jessica Korda, Bud Cauley, Brandon Hagy, Robby Shelton and David Leadbetter.

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Lubricated Goat

Lubricated Goat are an Australian noise rock band which originally formed in 1986 by multi-instrumentalist Stu Spasm. They achieved brief notoriety in November 1988 for appearing nude on the ABC TV program Blah Blah Blah, wearing only their instruments and shoes. Mainly influenced by the Stooges and the Birthday Party, they are credited for playing a grimy, confrontational style of rock, which preceded grunge. They have issued five studio albums, Plays the Devil's Music (1987), Paddock of Love (1988), Psychedelicatessen (1990), Forces You Don't Understand (1994) and The Great Old Ones (2003).

History
Lubricated Goat were formed in Sydney in 1986 by Stu Spasm (real name Stuart Gray) on lead vocals, guitar, synthesiser and bass guitar. Spasm had previously been a member of Exhibit A, Zulu Rattle, Salamander Jim, Beasts of Bourbon, James Baker Experience, Death in Vegas and Hot Property. The original band also included Martin Bland on drums and backing vocals (ex-Head On, Crawling Eye, Acid Drops, Bloodloss, Zulu Rattle, Salamander Jim, Primevils), Brett Ford on drums, and Pete Hartley on bass guitar and guitar (the latter two both formerly of the Kryptonics).

En route to Sydney after a visit to England, Spasm went via Perth to visit former Singing Dog drummer Ford, who was then playing in the Kryptonics with Hartley. While in Perth, Spasm recorded side 1 of the band's debut album, Plays the Devil's Music, at No Sweat Studios with Ford and Hartley. Side 2 was recorded in Adelaide on a 4-track with Bland.

Lubricated Goat signed to Red Eye Records offshoot Black Eye Records, established by John Foy., which released Plays the Devil's Music in July 1987. According to Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane, "For the musicians involved, it was simply a chance to exist on the very edges of the Sydney rock scene, and to play out a sick joke for their own entertainment... Foy... liked the joke and formed the Black Eye label specifically as an outlet for the recorded works of this bunch of noise terrorists".

In Sydney, Spasm recruited bassist Guy Maddison of Perth band the Greenhouse Effect (later a member of Mudhoney), Hartley switched to lead guitar. Most band members lived on Cleveland Street in an old, run-down three-story mansion which was dubbed Gracelands. The house was a haven for musicians and artists who hosted art shows and nude discos. In July 1988 the group released their second album, Paddock of Love, which included the track "In the Raw".

On 2 November 1988, the band provided a nude performance, lip-syncing to "In the Raw", on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV program, Blah Blah Blah. The event created national media outrage, according to McFarlane: "The sight of the Goats' real (and imagined) body parts was enough to prompt scores of irate callers to jam the ABC's switchboard for 30 minutes, for the Daily Mirror to run a front-page exposé and for current affairs shows like the Midday Show, Hinch and Newsworld, plus radio commentators like Ron Casey, to call for an end to such moral depravity". The criticism was met by ABC-TV's presenter, Tim Bowden of Backchat, who "appeared shirtless behind his desk so as to give an impression of nudity while discussing listener's letters about [that group's] appearance". A documentary film about the event, directed by Cousin Creep and also titled In the Raw, explained why the band were nude for that performance. It premiered on 11 December 2009 at the 19th Meredith Music Festival. The lineup for the ABC performance included musician Peter Read (also of the band Thug), who was brought in on a temporary basis when another band member felt uncomfortable about appearing nude.

In a line-up change, Hartley was dismissed and Ford quit, replaced respectively by guitarist Charles Tolnay (ex-Grong Grong, King Snake Roost) and drummer Gene Revet (ex-Ragdoll, the Space Juniors). In May 1989, they issued the Schadenfreude EP. Lubricated Goat's back catalogue was reissued by Amphetamine Reptile Records in the United States and on Normal in Europe before the band embarked on its first US tour in mid-1989. Tolnay and Revet did not participate in the tour; Spasm and Maddison were joined by ex-Bloodloss member Renastair EJ (on guitar and saxophone) and Bland (on synthesiser as well as drums). Later, after Maddison's departure, this line-up recorded a third full-length album, Psychedelicatessen, with Lachlan McLeod (ex-Salamander Jim) on bass guitar and audio sampler. McFarlane noted that the album showed "a variety of styles (from noisy free-form jazz to noisier hard rock), with tortured guitars and raw vocals being the band's characteristic mode of operation".

In 1990, the group commenced its first European tour, one that was plagued with tragedy via the stabbing of Spasm in Berlin – "in a drug deal gone wrong", according to McFarlane. The incident placed Lubricated Goat on hiatus.

Various incarnations of Lubricated Goat (often featuring only Spasm) existed in the early 1990s, documented on the 7-inch singles "Meating My Head" (1990, part of the Sub Pop Singles Club), "Shut Your Mind" (1992, Sympathy for the Record Industry) and "Play Dead" (1993, Sub Pop). During this period, Spasm was also a member of grunge supergroup, Crunt, which featured his then-wife Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland as well as Jon Spencer Blues Explosion drummer, Russell Simins; Crunt released their eponymous debut in 1994.

Lubricated Goat resumed activity in the mid-2000s. Among the members were Australian drummer Hayden Millsteed (also a founder of New York post-punk band Bell Hollow), who performed on the band's 2003 album, The Great Old Ones, which featured re-recordings of previously released Lubricated Goat and Crunt tracks.

In 2007, a new line-up of Lubricated Goat started performing with Anne Mette Rasmussen on keyboards, sound effects and backup vocals; Creighton Chamberlain (formerly of Heroine Sheiks) on bass; and drummer Rich Hutchins (formerly of Live Skull and Of Cabbages and Kings).

The line-up changed again in 2009, with Chamberlain replaced by Jack Natz, formerly of the 1980s New Jersey punk band the Undead as well as Black Snakes, Cop Shoot Cop and Red Expendables. Natz had previously played bass in Lubricated Goat intermittently from the late 1990s through to the mid-2000s. Rasmussen left to form her own band, LoveStruck, which also included both Spasm and Hutchins.

As of 2015, Spasm now heads The Art Gray Noizz Quintet with Hutchins, Skeleton Boy (formerly of Woman) on bass, Andrea Sicco (of Twin Guns) and Grace Bergere on guitar, Nikki D'Agostino on saxophone, and Nicholas John Stevens on trombone.

Temporary 1988 member Read died in Melbourne in 2016 after battling liver cancer.

A full-length documentary was released chronicling the life and music of Stu Spasm, entitled "I Should Have Been Dead Years Ago". Directed by Jason Axel Summers, the film premiered in May 2024 and is touted as "Exploring the life, music, & artistic output of Stuart Gray, the notorious underground rocker who created the most psychotronic group to emerge from Australia – the legendary Lubricated Goat. Shot over 20 years, featuring archival footage, photos, interviews, Gray’s sculptures and paintings, live performance footage including Gray’s current band, The Art Gray Noizz Quintet."

Studio albums

 * Plays the Devil's Music (1987, Black Eye Records)
 * Paddock of Love (1988, Black Eye Records) (1989, Amphetamine Reptile Records)
 * Psychedelicatessen (1990, Black Eye Records/Amphetamine Reptile Records)
 * Forces You Don't Understand (1994, PCP Entertainment)
 * The Great Old Ones (2003, Reptilian Records)

Extended plays

 * Schadenfreude 12-inch (Black Eye Records, 1989)

Singles

 * "Meating My Head" 7-inch (1990, Sub Pop)
 * "Shut Your Mind" 7-inch (1992, Sympathy for the Record Industry)
 * "Play Dead" 7-inch (1993, Sub Pop)

Compilation appearances

 * "Jason's Place" on Waste Sausage LP (1987, Black Eye Records)
 * "In the Raw" on Good Beer, Tasty Sandwiches cassette (1989, Twin/Tone Records/Amphetamine Reptile Records)
 * "Bad Times" on Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking in the Streets Volume Four double 7-inch EP (1990, Amphetamine Reptile Records)
 * "Bad Times" on Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking in the Streets Volumes 4–7 CD (1990, Amphetamine Reptile Records)
 * "All Too Sane", "Guttersnipe", "Kill Somebody Today", "Can't Believe We're Really Making Love" and "Jason the Unpopular" on Love God – Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD (2000, Koch Records)
 * "Play Dead" on Color of Noise Comp CD (2012, Amphetamine Reptile Records)
 * "Play Dead" on The Color of Noise (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) LP (2015, Amphetamine Reptile Records)

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Category:Italian chefs

 * This category is about Italian people, who are chefs, who may or may not be into Italian cuisine.

 * For chefs of Italian cuisine, who may or may not be Italian people, see Category:Chefs of Italian cuisine.

title: Category:Italian chefs


text: Category:American chefs

title: Category:American chefs


text: Category:Gregg County, Texas

title: Category:Gregg County, Texas