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Cambodia national football team

The Cambodia national association football team is the men's national football team that represents Cambodia in association football. It is affiliated with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the regional ASEAN Football Federation (AFF). The team was founded in 1954 and is administered by the Football Federation of Cambodia (FFC).

Beginning of an era
Cambodia formed its first national team following the end of French colonization in 1954. Immediately following the end of French colonialism, Cambodia played its first home game against Malaya in 1956. The game ended with a 9–2 win for the Malays. Like most Asian countries at the time, Cambodia did not seek to participate in the FIFA World Cup qualification nor even AFC Asian Cup qualification, as the country was still trying to consolidate its early football development. However, when Lon Nol decided to topple the Cambodian Kingdom and replaced by a Republic, Cambodia finally decided to participate in the 1972 AFC Asian Cup qualification. The Cambodians managed to qualify for the 1972 AFC Asian Cup in its first qualification attempt, a major success up to date. Cambodia managed to win over Hong Kong, which sent the country to Thailand.

In the tournament as Khmer Republic, the Cambodians lost to Iran and had to play in group B along with South Korea and Kuwait. Despite early loss to the South Koreans, they had qualified to the semi-finals thanked for a resounding 4–0 win over Kuwait, only got beaten later by Iran, again, and Thailand, and won the 4th place overall. It remains as Cambodia's greatest achievement in an international tournament.

Following the success, Cambodia could not participate in further tournaments, due to the eventual rise of the Khmer Rouge.

1990s to 2010s
After decades of war, in which witnessed both Khmer Rouge's genocide and the later Vietnamese invasion which toppled the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia returned to international football in 1993. Cambodia's first tournament as a new team was the 1996 AFF Championship, in which Cambodia was defeated in all four matches. In this tournament, although Cambodia was the weakest among all teams participating in the tournament, Cambodia demonstrated high spirit of football. However, in successive tournaments, Cambodia was not successful and they could not manage to play with high spirits as it used to be. Despite this, Cambodia still gave birth to what would one of Cambodia's football talents in its young history, Hok Sochetra.

Also during this time, Cambodia sent its national team to the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification, the first time Cambodia had ever done so. However, Cambodia had been unsuccessful by large, and often got eliminated in the bottom of their group. The country also withdrew from participating in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification. Likewise, Cambodia also only participated in the 2000 AFC Asian Cup qualification, before withdrew from 2004 and 2007 qualification attempts. The country later suffered AFF Championship drought, failing to qualify for three consecutive tournaments.

2010s and 2020s
Cambodia's football has witnessed resurgence after decades being under shadows. The resurgence of Cambodia had begun with the arrival of South Korean Lee Tae-hoon, who had introduced a significant development of football in the country, with the change of its tactics, as well as youth development and promotion of Cambodian youngsters to the national team, has given hopes of change. At this team, the team has a lot of young talents, notably Chan Vathanaka, the first ever Cambodian to play professional football outside Cambodia, and the fanbase increased as for the achievement. Cambodia once again demonstrated a full spirit of football, despite during the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying stage, they didn't win and also missed out the 2012 and 2014 AFC Challenge Cups, thus missing out in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.

During 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification, Cambodia finished bottom in a group where they suffered losses to Jordan and neighbour Vietnam. Despite this, Cambodia has managed what could be the country's greatest achievement in their qualification history, when they defeated Afghanistan, ranked 158 in that time, above Cambodia which was ranked 174, and had already defeated Cambodia twice in the World Cup qualification, 1–0 at home. It was the country's only win in the qualification and is still regarded to be Cambodia's best performance in its modern football history.

Following its failure to qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, Cambodia participated in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification first round where it beat Pakistan 4–1 on aggregate over two legs to reach the second round being drawn with Hong Kong, Bahrain, Iraq and Iran. On 5 September 2019 in the first fixture, Cambodia obtained a 1–1 draw at home to Hong Kong, 5 days later, it lost against Bahrain 1–0.

In August 2020, Félix Dalmás left their post after completing their contract while on 7 April 2021, fellow countrymen, Ryu Hirose was unveiled as the new head coach of the Cambodia taking the team whenever manager Keisuke Honda is unavailable. Hirose task is to guide Cambodia for the remaining matches of the second round qualifiers of the FIFA 2022 World Cup qualification. Cambodia went on to undergo 2 defeats to Iran, their worst ever defeat, 14–0 on 10 October 2019 and then 10–0 on 11 June 2021 seeing Cambodia picking up a solitary point in its group.

Honda and Hirose would left the national team following 2022 AFF Championship exit. Dalmás would be re-appointed again as the head coach. On the first round of 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification, Cambodia were drawn against Pakistan again like in the previous qualification. However Cambodia failed to qualify to the second round this time, as they were defeated 1–0 on aggregate.

In 2024, FIFA invited Cambodia to the 2024 FIFA Series tournament held in Jeddah where they faced CAF continent Equatorial Guinea and CONCACAF continent Guyana but lost 2–0 and 4–1 respectively.

Cambodia was then placed in the 2027 AFC Asian Cup qualification play-off round where they would face Sri Lanka in September 2024.

Team image
From 2010 to 2022, the home kit was a blue and black shirt with black shorts and blue socks; while the original away kit was all white with a series of horizontal red stripes on the shirt. FBT sponsored this version of the kit.

On May 27, 2022, the team announced its new kit collection. The Khmer sportswear company, Varaman established in February 2022 sponsored them with designs by HCD football agency Clan United. The designs are based upon the flag of Cambodia, with the blue and red tones from the flag featured along with a pattern made from pixelated images of Angkor Wat. The 2022 home shirt uses a 3 toned blue digital camouflage design. The away shirt is all white fabric, with a zoomed in section of the pattern decorated in faint blue and red tones whilst being separated by patterns and shapes. To match each set, the goalkeeper kits are red and blue for home and away respectively. The repeated element is "slightly off-coloured" from the base fabric. The training kits are blue, red, and white with a graffiti styled pattern on each.

Stadiums
Cambodia's home stadium is the Morodok Techo National Stadium with a capacity of 75,000, and associated facilities, was anticipated to be used to facilitate international friendly matches and regional qualifiers which was opened in August 2021 while their former home ground, the National Olympic Stadium will be second in line to host international matches.

Results and fixtures
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, and future matches that have been scheduled.

Coaching history
Updated 22 April 2024, after the match against 🇲🇳 mongolia.

Current squad
The following players were called up for the friendly matches against 🇲🇳 mongolia, on 7 and 11 June 2024.

Caps and goals are correct, after the match against 🇲🇳 mongolia.

Recent call-ups
The following players have been called up within the last 12 months.

INJ Withdrew due to injury

PRE Preliminary squad / standby

RET Retired from the national team

SUS Serving suspension

WD Withdrew due to non-injury issue.

Previous squads

 * AFC Asian Cup:
 * 1972 AFC Asian Cup squad

 * AFF Championship:
 * 1996 AFF Championship squad
 * 2000 AFF Championship squad
 * 2002 AFF Championship squad
 * 2004 AFF Championship squad
 * 2008 AFF Championship squad
 * 2016 AFF Championship squad
 * 2018 AFF Championship squad
 * 2020 AFF Championship squad
 * 2022 AFF Championship squad

Player records

 * Players in bold are still active with Cambodia.

Head-to-head record
Last match updated was against 🇲🇳 mongolia on 11 June 2024.

Including results from Khmer Republic.

 * 1 includes the results of.
 * 2 includes the results of and.
 * 3 includes the results of.

Leagues

 * Cambodian Premier League
 * Cambodian League 2

Cups

 * Hun Sen Cup
 * Cambodian League Cup
 * Cambodian Super Cup

National teams
Men Women Futsal
 * Cambodia national under-23 football team
 * Cambodia national under-21 football team
 * Cambodia national under-17 football team
 * Cambodia women's national football team
 * Cambodia national futsal team

Other

 * Football in Cambodia
 * Cambodian Football Federation

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Lamar Institute of Technology (LIT) is a public technical school in Beaumont, Texas. LIT was formerly a part of Lamar University, but became a separate institution when the university joined the Texas State University System in 1995.

History
Lamar Institute of Technology was chartered in 1949 when the Lamar College Bill was passed. The bill was sponsored in the Texas Legislature by State Representative Jack Brooks and Senator W.R. Cousins, Jr. of Beaumont. LIT began as the Division of Vocations within Lamar College. The division became the Lamar School of Vocations in 1955. In 1971, the division began awarding associate's degrees.

In 1972 it expanded its offerings and was renamed as the College of Technical Arts within Lamar University, which had achieved full university status.

In 1990, all of Lamar University's two-year programs were combined into the Lamar University Institute of Technology. When Lamar University was absorbed into the Texas State University System in 1995, the Institute of Technology became independent. In 1999, the school was renamed the Lamar Institute of Technology by the Texas Legislature.

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A board of nine regents, appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the State Senate for terms of six years, governs The Texas State University System. The Board of Regents delegates the direction of affairs to the president, campus administrative officers, and faculty.

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Lamar Institute of Technology is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges to award degrees at the associate level. The Dental Hygiene Program is accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation. The Respiratory Therapy Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care. The Diagnostic Medical Sonography Programs are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. The Medical Radiologic Technology Program is accredited by the Joint Review Committee for Education in Radiologic Technology. The Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management accredits the Health Information Technology Program.

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Lamar Institute of Technology offers more than 50 programs in allied health, business, industry, and public service and safety. Two-year programs provide training prior to entry into a career. Programs are offered on the campus in Beaumont and some classes are offered in other locations throughout the service area.

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Crime of the Century (album)

Crime of the Century is the third studio album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in October 1974 on A&M Records. Crime of the Century was Supertramp's commercial breakthrough in many countries, most notably in the UK, Canada and Germany where it peaked in the Top 5 while also making the Top 20 in Australia and France. It was an improvement over their previous sales in the US, but still only peaked at No. 38, with the US hit being "Bloody Well Right". "School" was another popular track, particularly on album rock-oriented radio stations. The album was eventually certified Gold in the US in 1977 after the release of Even in the Quietest Moments.... In Canada, it was eventually certified Diamond (sales of one million copies). The album was Supertramp's first to feature drummer Bob Siebenberg (at the time credited as Bob C. Benberg), saxophone and clarinet player and vocalist John Helliwell, bassist Dougie Thomson, and co-producer Ken Scott. The album has received critical acclaim, including its inclusion in Rolling Stone's "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time".

The album's dedication reads "To Sam", which is a nickname for Stanley August Miesegaes, the Dutch millionaire who supported the band financially from 1969 to 1972.

Background and recording
After the commercial failure of their first two albums and an unsuccessful tour, it looked like the end of Supertramp, but Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson revitalized the band, recruiting drummer Bob C. Benberg, woodwinds player and backing vocalist John Helliwell, and bassist Dougie Thomson. Their record label, A&M, in particular A&R man Dave Margereson (who would become their manager for the next ten years), sent this new line-up to a seventeenth-century farm in west Dorset to rehearse their next album together.

The album was recorded at several studios, including Trident Studios and Ramport Studios (owned by the Who), with co-producer Ken Scott. While recording the album, Davies and Hodgson recorded approximately 42 demo songs, from which only 8 were chosen to appear on the album. Several other tracks appeared on later albums such as (Crisis? What Crisis? and ...Famous Last Words...).

Due to a contractual agreement, all the songs are credited jointly to the two writers, but some of the songs were written individually. Scott commented that Davies and Hodgson "were very, very different personalities. Those differing personalities made the music sound the way it did." "Asylum", "Rudy" and "Bloody Well Right" were written by Davies, "Dreamer", "If Everyone Was Listening", and "Hide in Your Shell" were written by Hodgson, and both "School" and "Crime of the Century" are Davies/Hodgson collaborations.

Hodgson remarked of "Hide in Your Shell": "I was 23 when I wrote that song, confused about life and like a lot of people are at that age, trying to hide my insecurities. I’ve always been able to express my innermost feelings more openly in song and 'Hide in Your Shell' came to me at a time when I was feeling very lonely – lonely both in life and within the band – with no one who shared my spiritual quest."

"Dreamer" was composed by Hodgson on his Wurlitzer piano at his mother's house when he was 19 years old. At that time he recorded a demo of the song using vocals, Wurlitzer, and banging cardboard boxes for percussion. Hodgson recalled: "I was excited – it was the first time I laid hands on a Wurlitzer." Supertramp cut their own recording of the song in imitation of this early demo. Hodgson also stated on In the Studio with Redbeard while talking about the making of the album that the band had difficulty recreating the song when recording it.

Another of Hodgson's philosophical musings, "If Everyone Was Listening", was inspired by the As You Like It adage "All the world’s a stage, and all the men are merely players". According to Entertainment Weekly, the message of the song is, "Not knowing what’s going on in everyone’s mind is just another form of not being in control. The fear comes not from the absence of knowledge of another person’s thought process, but rather from confronting the fact that we have no control over anything." The song would later provide the title track for Michael Ball's 2014 album of the same name.

The album was named after the final song, "Crime of the Century", which the band members felt was the strongest song on the album. Shortly after his departure from Supertramp, Hodgson commented: "I've had more people come up to me and say that that song touched them more deeply than any other. That song really came together when we were living together at Southcombe Farm, Thorncombe, and just eating, sleeping, and breathing the ideas for the album. The song just bounced between Rick and I for so many weeks before it finally took form." For unknown reasons, in several interviews both before and since, Hodgson has attributed the song as being written solely by Davies.

Hodgson describes "School" as "my song basically" but admits that Davies wrote both the piano solo and a good deal of the lyrics. Interviewed by Jeff Parets of Acoustic Storm in 2010, Hodgson confirmed that the song was based on his experience at boarding school and said of the girl's scream: "Everything, especially that scream that you're talking about just before the band comes in, does represent a lot... I mean, you know, school is a wonderful place. Obviously, it's a school playground but that scream does represent a lot more." Ultimate Classic Rock critic Nick DeRiso rated "School" as Supertramp's 3rd greatest song, calling it a "jazz fusion-informed gem" and praising its "free-form creativity," "plaintive lyric" and "stirring musical specificity."

On the In the Studio with Redbeard episode devoted to the album, Hodgson stated that "Rudy" was the character on the album and was seen as somewhat autobiographical of Davies' life at the time. The sound of the train in "Rudy" was recorded at London Paddington station, while the crowd noises in the song were taken from Leicester Square.

Hodgson and Davies both stated that communication within the group was at a peak during the recording of this album, while drummer Siebenberg stated that he thought it was this album on which the band hit its "artistic peak".

Crime of the Century deals loosely with themes of loneliness and mental stability. Davies consciously linked the opening track "School" to "Bloody Well Right" with the line "So you think your schooling is phoney", and according to Hodgson, any unifying thread beyond that was left to the listener's imagination.

Artwork
The photograph for the cover was Paul Wakefield's first album work. A&M Records' art director Fabio Nicoli invited Wakefield to the studio where the band were recording and had him read the lyrics. With the album title already chosen, Wakefield started asking himself "what an appropriate sentence could be for 'the crime of the century'" and combined it with a line from the song "Asylum": "when they haunt me and taunt me in my cage." One of his ideas, a prison cell window floating in space with a person silently screaming through the bars, was approved by the band, and when Wakefield started to develop the idea, he reduced the prisoner to just hands clutching the bars, "a resignation to fate that the other didn’t have. It felt like there would be no reprieve." A friend made the set of polished aluminum bars and welded it to a stand, and underneath it Wakefield's twin brother grabbed the bars, with his hands whitened with stage make-up. Through multiple exposure, Wakefield shot 12 pictures on transparency film, which he then combined with a back-lit starscape, that was actually a black card sheet filled with holes in a darkened studio. Half of the resulting pictures had the expected result. The back cover photograph, featuring band members in their underwear holding dress suits and top hats, was originally made when the album cover was meant to be a gatefold.

Reception
Crime of the Century was Supertramp's first U.S. Top 40 album and was eventually certified Gold in the U.S. in 1977, after the release of Even in the Quietest Moments.... The album also marked the commercial breakthrough for the band in the United Kingdom; Crime of the Century peaked at number four in the album chart in March 1975, and "Dreamer" reached number thirteen on the singles chart in the same month. The album was particularly successful in Canada, staying on the album chart for over two years, peaking at number four, and being certified Diamond (10 x platinum) signifying sales of over one million copies.

In 1978, Crime of the Century was ranked 108th in The World Critic Lists, which recognised the 200 greatest albums of all time as voted for by notable rock critics and DJs. Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was ambivalent towards the album's "straight-ahead art-rock", which he called "Queen without preening. Yes without pianistics and meter shifts." Adam Thomas's retrospective review in Sputnikmusic described it as one of the better albums of the 1970s for its powerful expression of young adult confusion and alienation, and for its consistent contrast between prog and pop elements.

In the 1987 edition of The World Critic Lists, CBC's Geoff Edwards ranked Crime of the Century the 10th greatest album of all time. A 1998 public poll, aggregating the votes of more than 200,000 music fans, saw Crime of the Century voted among the all-time top 1000 albums, and it was listed in the 2005 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2015, it was chosen as the 27th greatest progressive rock album by Rolling Stone. Paul Elliott of Classic Rock magazine called it a progressive rock masterpiece.

Many of the songs on the album remained staples of the band's shows well into the 21st century ("School", "Bloody Well Right", "Rudy", and the title song). Almost all of the album appears on the band's 1980 live album Paris although the tracks that feature orchestrations on the studio versions ("Asylum", "Rudy", and "Crime of the Century") were replaced by string synthesisers or Oberheim synthesisers, which were played mainly by Helliwell with some help from Hodgson. Hodgson has also included songs from the album ("Dreamer", "Hide in Your Shell", "School" and "If Everyone Was Listening") in his concerts.

Releases
The first release was on vinyl by A&M Records in 1974. In 1977, it became the first pop music LP title re-issued by the audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. A&M released it as one of the first CDs in its "Audio Master Plus" series in 1984, which it then reissued in 1990. Mobile Fidelity also released its own remastered CD version on a gold disc as part of its "Ultradisc" series, in November 1984.

A new remastered CD version of the album was released by A&M in 1997, followed by a different remaster on 11 June 2002. The newer A&M remasters feature all of the album art restored plus credits and full lyrics, which were missing from some earlier editions. Both 1997 and 2002 A&M remasters were from the original tapes by Greg Calbi and Jay Messina at Sterling Sound in New York.

The 1997 remaster has all tracks peaking at 100 per cent, significantly altering the original dynamic range of the recording and effectively adding new distortion to the sound. The 2002 edition is not quite as loud but still has much of the same effect.

The album was re-issued by German audiophile label Speaker's Corner in 1999, as a 180 gram vinyl LP. It has none of the dynamic range compression applied to the A&M remastered CD versions.

It was announced in October 2014 that the album, remastered by Ray Staff, would be reissued in CD, digital download, and 180g vinyl formats on 9 December 2014. In addition to the original album, the release would include a complete recording of a 1975 Hammersmith Odeon concert, a 24-page booklet of photographs, and an essay written by Phil Alexander with new interviews with Ken Scott, Dave Margereson, and most of the band members. Two 10×8 prints and a longer version of the essay were announced as exclusives of the vinyl version.

Personnel
Supertramp  Additional musicians
 * Rick Davies – vocals, keyboards, harmonica
 * Roger Hodgson – vocals, guitar, pianos
 * John Anthony Helliwell – saxophones, clarinet, backing vocals
 * Dougie Thomson – bass guitar
 * Bob Siebenberg (credited as Bob C. Benberg) – drums, percussion

 * Christine Helliwell – backing vocals (3)
 * Scott Gorham – backing vocals (3)
 * Vicky Siebenberg – backing vocals (3)
 * Anonymous street musician – saw (3)
 * Ken Scott – water gong (8)

Production
 * Ken Scott – producer, engineer
 * Supertramp – producer
 * John Jansen – engineer
 * Ray Staff – original vinyl mastering
 * Richard Hewson – string arrangements
 * Paul Wakefield – cover design and photography
 * Pabio Nicoli – art direction

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The song "Crime of the Century"
Does anyone here know why producer Ken Scott would playback the tape of the harmonica intro from "School" before the song "Crime of the Century" fades out?

This is more evident on the live version Supertramp did in November 1979 in Paris. After all the synthesizers die down, you can clearly hear the opening harmonica intro to the studio version of "School."

WikiPro1981X (talk) 01:08, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Another question relating to the same song; is it supported by sources that it is supposed to be a collaboration between Rick and Roger? Because Roger never listed it as such on his website, and his objection to the "Paris" DVD was that the writers weren't listed. The version that was finally approved by him had "School" listed in mixed colours to indicate it as a collaboration, but not "Crime of the Century" - which indicates that he doesn't claim a credit for it. Jules TH 16 (talk) 14:51, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

 * Who can say why record producers do the things they do? If he hasn't commented in an interview, I guess he doesn't think it's important. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:18, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Genre (Progressive Rock)
Although the album's current genre "Art rock" fits, Progressive rock should also be added. This album was made by Supertramp during their Prog era, and countless reviews from websites like Sputnik music and Ultimate Guitar call it Prog. Y45ed (talk) 23:06, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

 * Agreed. Dan56's reasoning for discounting the Sputnik review is weak at best, since the context makes it obvious what the reviewer meant by "progressive music". (Not to mention, the review also uses the term "prog"!) Since it's been over four days since you posted this and no one's voiced any objections, I'll go ahead and put "progressive rock" back in.--Martin IIIa (talk) 13:36, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

 * Everyone knows "prog" is short for "progressive rock," just like everyone knows "rock" is short for "rock and roll." It's a shortsighted interpretation to argue a point based on rock critics using abbreviated term for genres, when none of them have said the entire term in print in decades. It's entirely likely that no music writer in history has ever used the term "progressive rock and roll electric guitar music."--Madrigalbladder (talk) 17:07, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

 * Cite a source that says "progressive rock" or refrain from genre warring at this article. WP:NOR is clear on citing sources that directly and explicitly support what is being cited rather than making novel interpretations of said sources. Dan56 (talk) 01:51, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

 * Dan56, I suggest you read over threads before replying to them. Y45ed and Martin IIIa have already refuted the argument you state here.--NukeofEarl (talk) 16:57, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

 * Dan56, after investigating the edit history i discovered that it was you who originally removed Progressive rock from the album's genres, without providing a reason for doing so. Y45ed (talk) 23:30, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

 * a. Not agreeing with NOR is not refuting it. b. The content was unsourced, so I replaced it with something that is sourced. c. We are relying on an editor's interpretation of what the source says instead of what it actually says (WP:STICKTOSOURCE). Stick to the source or find one that actually says "progressive rock". P.S. Cute way of getting back at me for reverting your disruptive editing to PBR&B, Madrigalbladder. Dan56 (talk) 01:42, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Just to add some sources, Mojo refers to the album's music as "the music mixed the ambition and scale of prog rock with Hogson's instinctive feel for a poppy melody, which drew in listeners who steered well clear of King Crimson or Gentle Giant's knottier constructions." (source). Personally to avoid edit warring, I try to lean towards sources that discuss the sound of the album and how it suits it. I'm not sure if Chrstgau's art-rock assertion is appropriate as he says "art rock" then follows it up with "sort of". I would prefer if text was expanded within the article to suggest the sound beyond just citing something in the infobox. Andrzejbanas (talk) 12:23, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * a. We all agree with NOR. What we disagree with is your warped interpretation of one of its subclauses. b. Not clear what you're talking about here. What content? c. As NukeofEarl said, this point has already been refuted. P.S. See WP: Assume good faith and WP: GRUDGE.--Martin IIIa (talk) 12:33, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, Martin IIIa, but I think quoting "Assume good faith" is giving Dan56's accusation far too much credit. To even suggest that an editor would make a reasoned and relevant post to an article's talk page as an act of revenge is ludicrous.
 * I've reverted Dan56's recent edit to the infobox, first and foremost because Progressive music simply goes to a disambiguation page. Also, since it contradicts the same opinions as Dan56's original edit did, it's not a compromise edit by any stretch of the imagination.--NukeofEarl (talk) 15:45, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * You're clearly not very intuitive. Dan56 (talk) 02:33, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, Dan56, you are completely ignoring the rest of the review. You are just using the fact that is says "progressive music" as a shield. It also says the album is from the "sea of 70s progressive rock albums" and that it's songs are prog. This is a much stronger source than the one citing "art rock"Y45ed (talk) 17:29, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

 * You cited this review, right? I'm not seeing "prog rock" or "progressive rock" anywhere. "Progressive music" redirects to a list that includes "art rock" atop, perhaps that's a hint, wink wink. You're being unreasonable. The source does not say "progressive rock", plain and simple. According to whom does "prog" mean "progressive rock"? The review doesn't even use the word "rock". What review are you reading that it says "sea of 70s progressive rock albums"? Dan56 (talk) 02:19, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

 * WP:STICKTOSOURCE is self-explanatory (warped interpretation?), unlike you're interpretation of "progressive music" as "progressive rock", the former of which like you said has a dab page. If this genre is an accepted interpretation among appropriate sources like critics or journalists, why don't you just find a source that actually says "prog rock" or "progressive rock"? Dan56 (talk) 02:21, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

 * Dan56, "Progressive" is not a genre. Removing the link just so it doesn't link to a disambiguation page doesn't make it valid. Put it this way; it is a rock album, and it's progressive. I'll let you figure the rest out by yourself. Y45ed (talk) 16:44, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Sputnik Music doesn't say the album is "progressive rock". Your interpretation of the source is WP:SYNTHESIS. If you read the review it says "Musically, on Crime of the Century Supertramp play 70's radio-pop with strong progressive tendencies". In that sense the word progressive cannot be 100% interpreted to mean "progressive rock", when in the same sentence the review takes about 70s pop. The bit where "progressive" is being cited from is the summary of the review, however, in the actual review the word progressive doesn't refer to a specific genre as per say. As such the source should not be interpreted to mean "progressive rock".  → Lil- ℧niquԐ 1 - {  Talk  } -  21:33, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

From Classic Rock: "With Crime… Supertramp defined their signature sound and created a progressive rock masterpiece." This source seems explicit enough to me. Adabow (talk) 21:46, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

 * There you go then, Classic Rock explicitly calls it Progressive Rock. Dan56, is this reliable enough for you? Y45ed (talk) 21:55, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
 * ^ this is fine by me.  → Lil- ℧niquԐ 1 - {  Talk  } -  22:25, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

 * Yes, because it clearly says "progressive rock", unlike the previous source. Added. Dan56 (talk) 23:57, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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Personnel - instruments
The Personnel section is currently unsourced. Here's an image of the original back cover with the instrument credits. Here's a typical list of personnel. Where have all the additions/ embellishments come from? Particularly the synthesizers? This review specifically says this: "With the stunning 1974 release Crime of the Century, London’s Supertramp suddenly exhibited a consistency of band sound, eschewing the ubiquitous electric guitar and the obligatory synthesizer of most progressive rock bands, in favor of grand piano, the distinctive percussive Wurlitzer electric, and John Helliwell‘s clarinet and saxophone solos, giving Supertramp a decidedly Continental feel. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:32, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Good spot... I think they may have used a tiny bit of synth here and there. Here is a site that says Davies played Moog on School (the low drone intro?), Hide in Your Shell and Rudy, plus string synth on Hide in Your Shell. However that info may well come from an earlier version of this wikipage... Jules TH 16 (talk) 16:44, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Well, it's probably likely, as the original cover credits Davies with "keyboards". But I would have expected some more obviously reliable source(s), maybe even a book source. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:56, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

I met John Helliwell and his wife at a neighbour's party in Todmorden, where he once lived. John's wife told me she sang on the album. Does anyone know anything about additional vocals?130.88.123.137 (talk) 14:21, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

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Black Liberators

The Black Liberators was a militant civil-rights organization formed in St. Louis, Missouri, in the spring of 1968. The Liberators were led through most of their short existence by Charles Koen, who went on to organize a nationally noted civil-rights campaign in Cairo, Illinois.

The organization was strongly inspired by the Black Panther Party, which had established a firm base in the neighboring city of Chicago, adopting the party military-style uniforms, radical rhetoric, and black self-determination. The Black Liberators group was formally established in the summer of 1968 by veteran St. Louis civil rights activist Charles Koen opening a formal headquarters at 2810 Easton in downtown St. Louis. Just as the Black Panthers had adopted a Ten-Point Program, the Black Liberators adopted a five-point programme:

 * 1) That we be given a chance to prove ourselves as other men have done.
 * 2) That we gain enough living space to find ourselves and prove ourselves as full-fledged citizens.
 * 3) That we plan to do for ourselves in all areas of human living.
 * 4) That we move out and up into human dignity.
 * 5) That we have sufficient funds to carry our creativity to fruition.

On August 17, 1969, the Black Liberators served as protection for African-American Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. who represented New York City's historically black Harlem district. The following month the 9th Precinct of the Saint Louis Police Department was shot at by an unknown assailant and an African-American member of the police board had his real estate office firebombed, the metropolitan police suspected the Liberators.

Following these events, the Black Liberators' headquarters were substantially damaged, according to witnesses, by plainclothes police officers. Matters escalated when, eight days later, police arrested Charles Koen and Leon Dent for carrying a concealed weapon during a traffic stop, which was later determined to be a comb.

Following the arrest, Koen and Dent received strong public support from groups such as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 688, NAACP, and St. Louis Argus.

In response to the arrest, the Liberators voted in favor of Yusuf Shabazz to succeed Koen as prime minister of the group, resulting in the decline and eventual end of the group. Nine months following his inauguration, Shabazz was arrested for mail fraud, and during court proceedings it was revealed that Shabazz had been operating as an informant for the metropolitan police.

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Rheinturm

The Rheinturm ('Rhine Tower') is a 240.5 m concrete telecommunications tower in Düsseldorf, capital of the federal state (Bundesland) of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Construction commenced in 1979 and finished in 1981. The Rheinturm carries aerials for directional radio, FM and TV transmitters. It stands 172.5 metres high and houses a revolving restaurant and an observation deck at a height of 168 metres. It is the tallest building in Düsseldorf.

The Rheinturm was inaugurated on 1 December 1981. It contains 7,500 cubic metres of concrete and weighs 22,500 tons. Before October 15, 2004, when an aerial antenna for DVB-T was mounted, it was 234.2 metres high. The observation deck is open to public daily from 10:00 to 23:30.

As a special attraction, a light sculpture on its shaft works as a clock. This sculpture was designed by Horst H. Baumann and is called Lichtzeitpegel (light time level). The light sculpture on the Rheinturm is the largest digital clock in the world. The clock is a 24-hour clock with six sets of lights, two each for the Hour (00 to 24), Minutes (00 to 60), and Seconds (00 to 60), to be read from top to bottom.

Literature

 * Klaus Müller, Hermann Wegener, Heinz-Gerd Wöstemeyer: Rheinturm Düsseldorf: Daten und Fakten Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-7998-0060-3.
 * Roland Kanz: Architekturführer Düsseldorf. Dietrich Riemer Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3, S. 81.
 * Klaus Englert: … in die Jahre gekommen. Der Rheinturm in Düsseldorf. In db Deutsche Bauzeitung 141, 2007, Nr.6, S. 85–88, ISSN 0721-1902.
 * Erwin Heinle, Fritz Leonhardt: Türme aller Zeiten, aller Kulturen. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-421-02931-8, S. 235.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Wikiclub

Wikiclub was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.

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Sonic Drift 2

Sonic Drift 2, (ソニックドリフト) released in Europe as Sonic Drift Racing, is a kart racing video game by Sega for the Game Gear. The sequel to Sonic Drift, it was released in Japan and Europe in April 1995 and in North America in November 1995. It added three characters: Knuckles, Fang the Sniper, and Metal Sonic, and marked the first time the last two were playable characters. Sonic Drift 2 was later released worldwide as part of Sonic Adventure DX in 2003 and the compilation game Sonic Gems Collection in 2005. It was released again in 2023 as part of Sonic Origins Plus.

Gameplay
Similar to Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2 is a kart racing game. Players drive into the direction of the screen and around corners, including by drifting. They can also drive into video monitors on the track to pick up various power-ups, such as mines that can be used as a weapon, and a star that freezes all opponents. Rings on the track can be collected to use special abilities unique to each character. Alongside Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Dr. Eggman returning from the first game, there are three additional playable characters: Metal Sonic, Fang, and Knuckles.

Tracks in the game are based on locations from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic 3, as well as original to the game. Some tracks are circuits, while others are linear point-to-point courses. Various road hazards are present and create further obstacles for players to avoid.

There are three gameplay modes. In the Chaos GP mode, players are awarded with Chaos Emeralds should they come in first place in a race. Free Run mode allows for players to test drive on the game's tracks alone, and Versus mode allows for competitive multiplayer, which requires two consoles and a link cable.

Reception
Like its predecessor, Sonic Drift 2 was met with mixed to negative reviews from critics. On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the game a 19 out of 40. GamePro's Sir Garnabus commented that, "Hairpin turns, bombs in the road, and competitors who never give up make Sonic Drift 2 Game Gear racing at its best." He also praised the detailed graphics, controls, and the use of a different musical piece for each track.

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Brazil socio-geographic division

The Brazil socio-geographic division is a slightly different division than the Brazilian Division by Regions. It separates the country into three different and distinctive regions:

 * Amazônia Legal
 * Centro-Sul
 * Nordeste

Historically, the different regions of Brazil had their own migratory movements, which resulted in racial differences between these areas. The Southern region had a greater impact of the European immigration and has a large White majority, which contrasts with the Northern and Northeastern regions, which have a large Pardo (mixed-race) majority.

In Northern Brazil, the main racial contribution was of the native Amerindians, with a smaller European and African influence. In Northeastern Brazil, the main contribution was of Africans, with a smaller European and Amerindian influence. In Southeastern Brazil, the main contribution was of Europeans, with a smaller African and Amerindian influence.

Socio-geographic distinction
This does not separate the country by borders of states. The north of Minas Gerais, for example, is in the socio-geographic division of Nordeste, but its southern part is in Centro-Sul.

However, it is not very used, mainly because it is unofficial; all official information by IBGE is listed by the criteria of regions. The division by Socio-Geographic similarities is used mainly in universities and private companies, and it is little mentioned at regular school (grades 6–10).

South
The South of Brazil is the region with the largest percentage of Whites. According to the 2005 census, people of European ancestry account for 79.6% of the population. In colonial times, this region had a very small population.

The region what is now Southern Brazil was originally settled by Amerindian peoples, mostly Guarani and Kaingangs. Only a few settlers from São Paulo were living there. This situation made the region vulnerable to attacks from neighboring countries. This fact forced the King of Portugal to decide to populate the region. For this, settlers from the Portuguese Azores islands were sent to the coast.

To stimulate the immigration to Brazil, the king offered several benefits for the Azorean couples. Between 1748 and 1756, six thousand Portuguese from the Azores moved to the coast of Santa Catarina. They were mainly newly married who were seeking a better life. At that time, the Azores were one of the poorest regions of Portugal. They established themselves mainly in the Santa Catarina Island, nowadays the region of Florianópolis. Later, some couples moved to Rio Grande do Sul, where they established Porto Alegre, the capital. The Azoreans lived on fishing and agriculture, especially flour. They composed over half of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina's population in the late 18th century. The state of Paraná was settled by colonists from São Paulo due to their proximity (Paraná was part of São Paulo until the mid-19th century).

With the development of cattle in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, enslaved Africans began arriving in large numbers. By 1822, Blacks were 50% of Rio Grande do Sul's population. This number decreased to 25% in 1858 and to only 5.2% in 2005. Most of them came from Angola.

After independence from Portugal (1822) the Brazilian government started to stimulate the arrival of a new wave of immigrants to settle the South. In 1824 they established São Leopoldo, a German community. Major Schaeffer, a German who was living in Brazil, was sent to Germany in order to bring immigrants. From Rhineland-Palatinate, the Major brought the immigrants and soldiers. Settlers from Germany were brought to work as small farmers, because there were many land holdings without workers.

To attract the immigrants, the Brazilian government had promised large tracts of land, where they could settle with their families and colonize the region. The first years were not easy. Many Germans died of tropical disease, while others left the colonies to find better living conditions. The German colony of São Leopoldo was a disaster. Nevertheless, in the following years, a further 4,830 Germans arrived at São Leopoldo, and then the colony started to develop, with the immigrants establishing the town of Novo Hamburgo (New Hamburg).

From São Leopoldo and Novo Hamburgo, the German immigrants spread into others areas of Rio Grande do Sul, mainly close to sources of rivers. The whole region of Vale dos Sinos was populated by Germans. During the 1830s and part of the 1840s German immigration to Brazil was interrupted due to conflicts in the country (Ragamuffin War). The immigration restarted after 1845 with the creation of new colonies. The most important ones were Blumenau, in 1850, and Joinville in 1851, both in Santa Catarina state; these attracted thousands of German immigrants to the region. In the next five decades, other 28 thousand Germans were brought to Rio Grande do Sul to work as small farmers in the countryside. Until 1914, it is estimated that 50 thousand Germans settled in this state.

Another immigration boom to this region started in 1875. Communities with Italian immigrants were also created in southern Brazil. The first colonies to be populated by Italians were created in the highlands of Rio Grande do Sul (Serra Gaúcha). These were Garibaldi and Bento Gonçalves. These immigrants were predominantly from Veneto, in northern Italy. After five years, in 1880, the great numbers of Italian immigrants arriving caused the Brazilian government to create another Italian colony, Caxias do Sul. After initially settling in the government-promoted colonies, many of the Italian immigrants spread themselves into other areas of Rio Grande do Sul seeking further opportunities.

They created many other Italian colonies on their own, mainly in highlands, because the lowlands were already populated by Germans and native gaúchos. The Italian established many vineyards in the region. Nowadays, the wine produced in these areas of Italian colonization in southern Brazil is much appreciated within the country, though little is available for export. In 1875, the first Italian colonies were established in Santa Catarina, which lies immediately to the north of Rio Grande do Sul. The colonies gave rise to towns such as Criciúma, and later also spread further north, to Paraná.

A significant number of Poles have settled in Southern Brazil. The first immigrants arrived in 1869 and until 1959, it is estimated that over 100,000 Poles migrated to Brazil, 95% of whom were peasants. The State of Paraná received the majority of Polish immigrants, who settled mainly in the region of Curitiba, in the towns of Mallet, Cruz Machado, São Matheus do Sul, Irati, and União da Vitória. Russians and Ukrainians are present as well.

Southeast
The Southeastern region of Brazil is the ethnically most diverse part of the country. Whites make up 58.8% of its population, and those of mixed-race and African descent make up, together, 40.2%. It has the largest percentage of Asian Brazilians, composing 0.8%, and small Amerindian community (0.2%).

Southeast Brazil is home to the oldest Portuguese village in the Americas, São Vicente, São Paulo, established in 1532. The region, since the beginning of its colonization, is a melting pot of Whites, Indians and Blacks. The Amerindians of the region were enslaved by the Portuguese. The race mixing between the Indian females and their White masters produced the Bandeirante, the colonial inhabitant of São Paulo, who formed expeditions that crossed the interior of Brazil and greatly increased the Portuguese colonial territory. The main language spoken by these people of mixed Indian/Portuguese heritage was Língua geral, a language that mixed Tupi and Portuguese words.

In the late 17th century the Bandeirantes found gold in the area that nowadays is Minas Gerais. A gold rush took place in Brazil, and thousands of Portuguese colonists arrived during this period. The confrontation between the Bandeirantes and the Portuguese for obtaining possession of the mines led to the Emboabas' War. The Portuguese won the war. The Amerindian culture declined, giving space to a stronger Portuguese cultural domination. In order to control the richness, the Portuguese Crown moved the capital of Brazil from Salvador, Bahia to Rio de Janeiro. Thousands of African slaves were brought to work in the gold mines. They were landed in Rio de Janeiro and sent to other regions. By the late 18th century, Rio de Janeiro was an "African city": most of its inhabitants were slaves. No other place in the world had so many slaves, since the end of the Roman Empire. In 1808 the Portuguese royal family, fleeing from Napoleon, took charge in Rio de Janeiro. Some 15 thousand Portuguese nobles moved to Brazil. The region changed a lot, becoming more European.

After independence and principally after 1850, Southeast Brazil was "inundated" by European immigrants, who were attracted by the government to replace the African slaves in the coffee plantations. Most immigrants landed in the Port of Santos and have been forwarded to the coffee farms within São Paulo. The vast majority of the immigrants came from Italy. Brazil attracted nearly 5 million immigrants between 1870 and 1953. A large numbers of Italians are apparent in many parts of Southeast Brazil. Their descendants are nowadays predominant in many areas. Northeast São Paulo is 65% Italian, for example.

The arrival of immigrants from several places of Europe, the Middle-East and Asia produced an ethnically diverse population. The city of Bastos, in São Paulo, is 11.4% Japanese. The city of São Paulo is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan itself.

Northeast
The population of Northeast Brazil is a result of an intensive race mixing, which has occurred in the region for more than four centuries. According to the 2006 census people reported as "brown" make up 62.5% of the population. Those reported as Black account for 7.8%.

This region did not have much effect from the massive European immigration that took place in Southern Brazil in the late 19th century and first decades of the 20th century. The Northeast has been a poorer region of Brazil since the decline of sugar cane plantations in the late 17th century, so its economy did not require immigrants.

The ethnic composition of the population starts in the 16th century. The Portuguese settlers rarely brought women, which led to relationships with the Indian women. Later, interracial relationships occurred between Portuguese and African females. The coast, in the past the place where millions of Black slaves arrived (mostly from modern-day Angola, Ghana, Nigeria and Benin) to work in sugar-cane plantations, is where nowadays there is a predominance of Mulattoes, those of Black and White ancestry. Salvador, Bahia is considered the largest Black city outside of Africa, with over 80% of its inhabitants being African-Brazilians. In the interior, there is a predominance of Indian and White mixture.

North
Northern Brazil, largely covered by the Amazon rainforest, is the Brazilian region with the largest Amerindian influences, both in culture and ethnicity. Inhabited by diverse indigenous tribes, this part of Brazil was reached by Portuguese and Spanish colonists in the 17th century, but it started to be populated by non-Indians only in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exploitation of rubber used in the growing industries of automobiles, has emerged a huge migration to the region.

Many people from the poor Northeast Brazil, mostly Ceará, moved to the Amazon area. The contact between the Indians and the northeastern rubbers created the base of the ethnic composition of the region, with its mixed-race majority.

Central-West
The Central-West region of Brazil was inhabited by diverse Indians when the Portuguese arrived in the early 18th century. The Portuguese came to explore the precious stones that were found there. Contact between the Portuguese and the Indians created a mixed-race population. Until the mid-20th century, Central-West Brazil had a very small population. The situation changed with the construction of Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, in 1960. Many workers were attracted to the region, mostly from northeastern Brazil.

A new wave of settlers started arriving from the 1970s. With the mechanization of agriculture in the South of Brazil, many rural workers of German and Italian origin migrated to Central-West Brazil. In some areas, they are already the majority of the population.

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Coalition Against the Marcos Dictatorship

The Coalition Against the Marcos Dictatorship was a North America-based antiimperialist organization that was at the center of the international movement opposing the dictatorship of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos from the 1970s.

CAMD changed its name to Committee to Advance the Movement for Democracy and Independence (CAMDI) in February 1986, after the People Power Revolution toppled the corrupt and brutal Marcos regime.

History
Following the proclamation of martial law in the Philippines, the Katipunan ng mga Demokratikong Pilipino (KDP) was established in July 1973 by young activists and students in Santa Cruz, California. It had a dual program of supporting the national democratic revolution in the Philippines and fighting for social justice in the United States. Its founders wrote: "“[In] the struggle for national democracy in the Philippines,” the KDP must address the “exploitation and racist oppression of U.S. monopoly-capitalism” in America and in the Philippines."

In 1974, the KDP was among various anti-martial law groups to petition the U.S. Congress to stop support for Marcos. The campaign was followed by the first national anti-martial law conference in Chicago. The conference established the National Coordinating Committee of the Anti-Martial Movement, which later became the Anti-Martial Law Coalition (AMLC) in New York.

The AMLC set up its task force in Washington, D.C. to act as a watchdog on congressional action and to help coordinate mass pressure campaigns. It also developed policy positions and conducted patient work with congressional personnel to help sway options.

Expansion
Local formations of AMLC and anti-martial law alliances were developed in various cities to allow the participation of individuals who were not members of existing anti-martial law groups, such as the Movement for a Free Philippines (MFP) and the Friends of the Filipino People (FFP).

KDP leader and AMLC organizer Rene Ciria-Cruz wrote: "AMLC launched well-coordinated campaigns, educating the community and non-Pilipino sectors on the plight of political prisoners, the U.S. motivation in supporting the regime, Marcos' maneuvers for legitimacy and more... These campaigns took the form of petition drives, demonstrators, Christmas caroling, speaking tours of exiled or deported oppositionists, and fund-raisers for the workers movement. The AMLC also sent human rights delegations to the Philippines, and during the rigged 1978 election, staged occupations of Philippine consulated in five cities."

After Martial Law and Renaming
In 1981, after the formal proclamation of martial law was lifted, AMLC became the Coalition Against the Marcos Dictatorship (CAMD), and had identifiably become an anti-imperialist organization.

In 1983, CAMD merged with the Philippine Support Network to form CAMD/PSN, following a rift between former members of the Friends of the Filipino People (FFP).

"Regularized activities like annual protests on the anniversary of martial law, Christmas caroling, community forums, annual conferences, and mass distribution of the Taliba newsletter kept the controversy over martial law alive in the Filipino community and general public during periods of low political activity (“ebbs”) around the Philippines. All KDP activists, regardless of their principle area of work (e.g., anti-racist, cultural, national staff, etc.), participated in some aspect of the martial law work. The consistency of the activities paid off when developments began to heighten in the Philippines during the early 1980s, accelerated by the assassination of Senator Benign0 (Ninoy) Aquino in August 1983, and erupting into the “people’s revolution” three years later."

Known leaders included Maxi Villones, Odette Taverna, Christine Araneta, Greg Santillan, Ia Rodriguez, Armin Alforque, Dean Alegado, Fely Villasin, Liz Fenkell, Becky Villones, Lulu Ross, Pierre Thiry.

Post-Marcos Era
In 1986, the CAMD and the KDP joined with the MFP and the organizationally looser Ninoy Aquino Movement, as well as spontaneous local formations such as the Friends of Cory Aquino in a campaign to mobilize political and financial support for the presidential candidacy of Corazon Aquino, following her husband's assassination.

CAMD/PSN was again re-named as the Committee to Advance the Movement for Democracy and Independence (CAMDI).

In 2016, former members of CAMD/PSN joined international gathering and protest rallies against the planned burial of Ferdinand Marcos at Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery) in Fort Bonifacio, Metro Manila, Philippines.


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Lynels
I would say the Lynels of Zelda qualify, but I'll let another editor be the judge.

It's not just DaD: They're in Maelstrom and things like that too.

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Talk:Six degrees of separation

Improved diagram requested
I agree with Robert K S:

I therefore propose we remove the image File:Six degrees of separation.svg (from our article) until a better version can be proposed.

At minimum the colors need to be redone to make sense (a given color should always correspond to a given degree of separation from A). CapnZapp (talk) 12:16, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ File:Six degrees of separation.svg temporarily removed per above. CapnZapp (talk) 14:11, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * & I've labelled and coloured file:arctic_food_web.svg as an alternative. Hope this works, cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 23:46, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your effort, but this article isn't about just any degrees of separation, such as logical or spatial; it's specifically about social separation. The article defines its subject as "the idea that all people are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other". I searched for suitable images, and one of the few that truly illustrates the concept is this one, at hackerearth.com. Obviously we can't use it, but I hope it conveys my point. Cheers CapnZapp (talk) 09:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I've replaced the fish food web diagram with File:Six Degrees of Larry Stone (3820038625).jpg on that basis, which is the best one I was able to find, although it's a bit too plainly a bunch of somebody's private jokes. Perhaps a neutral diagram could be made, that just has names in connected circles and allows for a caption of "Alice is six degrees separated from Bob". --Lord Belbury (talk) 19:29, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I've now drawn and applied a neutral diagram, reusing the names from the previous one: File:Six degrees social network.png. --Lord Belbury (talk) 10:23, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Citation for Watts experiment wrong?
Text says experiment was done in 2001, but citation is to a 1998 paper? Aviad.rubinstein (talk) 00:58, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

politics
In most countries, everyone will know a politician or someone who knows a politician, that politician will know their national party leader. This route alone will deliver most of the connections. Just a small number of national figures are enough to link most populations. 80.7.168.14 (talk) 07:55, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Sloppy
The article seems to go to great lengths to avoid empirical research that contradicts the main thesis. It also switches from "All people" to "All people on average". Heck, it doesn't even attempt to distinguish between "average" (mean) and median (the latter is often preferred central measure for social population statistics). I note that without any definition of what "social connection" means, this article is sloppy and vague. I suggest that it be restructured with an "early" section (All people) separate from the more modern "The average person" interpretation of what "six degrees" is about. Finally, consider the graph with 6 edges between Ryan and Pablo. It would be remarkable if there were no women who were degree 6 separated. Let's assume there are two women in their reproductive years with 6 degree separation. Then let them give birth as single mothers. The two neonates are 8 degrees separate from one another (unless there is a father, or the midwives/medical staff are of degree 4 from the all of the others.) This points out one example of the implausibility of the original 6 degree idea. I suspect the authors don't want to admit, up front, that the idea is just not true, but shouldn't that be demanded of a Wikipedia article? Why not be honest and say up front that it IS an modern myth?72.16.96.150 (talk) 01:04, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

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Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

History
Massachusetts was founded by Puritans who did not accept such aspects of the Church of England as bishops and the Book of Common Prayer. The first Anglican parish in the Massachusetts Bay Colony was King's Chapel in Boston, founded in 1688, 58 years after the city. After the American Revolution, King's Chapel became the first Unitarian congregation in North America. The oldest remaining parishes in the diocese are Christ Church in Quincy, founded in 1704, St. Paul's in Newburyport, founded as Queen Anne's Chapel in 1711, St. Michael's Church in Marblehead, founded in 1714, Christ Church in Boston (Old North Church), founded in 1723, and St. Andrew's Church in South Scituate (now Hanover), founded in 1727.

The diocese was organized in 1784, five years before the Episcopal Church itself. The first bishop (for New England and New York) was Samuel Seabury who was consecrated by the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church in 1784.

Today, it is one of the largest dioceses in the ECUSA in terms of membership. It encompasses the eastern part of Massachusetts, specifically, the nine counties east and southeast of Worcester County.

The diocese was the first in the Anglican Communion to consecrate a woman as a bishop. Barbara Harris became bishop suffragan of the diocese in 1989. It became the first diocese in the Episcopal Church to install an African American as diocesan bishop when John Melville Burgess was consecrated as the 12th bishop in 1970.

The current diocesan bishop is Alan M. Gates. He was consecrated bishop in 2014 and succeeded M. Thomas Shaw upon the latter's retirement in September 2014. The current bishop suffragan is Carol Gallagher, consecrated in January 2003.

Historically, the diocese has been considered Low Church; however, there are a number of Anglo-Catholic parishes, the most notable of which is the Church of the Advent in Boston. Its best-known Low Church parish is Trinity Church in Boston's Copley Square. However, Trinity and most other parishes in the diocese have become 'higher' in the last 25 years with the introduction of Mass vestments such as the chasuble. Earlier distinctions between Low and High Church have largely disappeared across every diocese.

 * The see city is Boston.
 * Episcopal Divinity School was located in the diocese from its formation in 1974 until moving to New York City in 2017. Many of the diocese's clergy are alumni of EDS.
 * List of Bishops in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

The diocesan offices are located at 138 Tremont Street, adjacent to the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.

The diocese had 87,000 members in 2013 and had fallen to 82,450 by 2014.

Diocesan Bishops

 * 1) Edward Bass (1797-1803)
 * 2) Samuel Parker (1804)
 * 3) Alexander Viets Griswold (1811-1843)
 * 4) Manton Eastburn (1843-1872)
 * 5) Benjamin Henry Paddock (1873-1891)
 * 6) Phillips Brooks (1891-1893)
 * 7) William Lawrence (1893-1927)
 * 8) Charles Lewis Slattery (1927-1930)
 * 9) Henry Knox Sherrill (1930-1947)
 * 10) Norman Burdett Nash (1947-1956)
 * 11) Anson Phelps Stokes (1956-1970)
 * 12) John Burgess (1970-1975)
 * 13) John Bowen Coburn (1976-1986)
 * 14) David Johnson (1986-1995)
 * 15) M. Thomas Shaw (1995-2014)
 * 16) Alan McIntosh Gates (2014–present)

Suffragan Bishops

 * 1) Samuel G. Babcock (1913-1938)
 * 2) Raymond A. Heron (1938-1954)
 * 3) Frederic C. Lawrence (1956-1968)
 * 4) John M. Burgess (1962-1969)
 * 5) Morris F. Arnold (1972-1982)
 * 6) Barbara C. Harris (1989-2003)
 * 7) Roy F. Cederholm Jr. (2001-2011)
 * 8) Gayle E. Harris (2003–2023)
 * 9) Carol J. Gallagher (2023–present)

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Sofmap

is one of the largest personal computer and consumer electronics retailers in Japan. In 2000, it was the second largest e-commerce company in the country. Bic Camera acquired a majority stake in Sofmap in 2006, and turned it into a wholly owned subsidiary in January 2010. Formerly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under the code 2690, Sofmap was delisted on 26 January 2010 after the transaction was completed.

As of 2018, Sofmap has 29 stores in 21 districts, mainly in Tokyo and Akihabara.

History
Sofmap was established by in 1982 as a membership-based software rental business in Shinjuku, followed by branches in Kanda, Akihabara, and Shibuya, as well as franchise stores in Hiyoshi and Kawasaki in the Kanagawa Prefecture. In 1984, Sofmap expanded its business to new and used PC hardware, as well as Nintendo Family Computer and PC software sales. A year later, the software rental business was discontinued after it was declared illegal by the Japanese government.

At the beginning of their hardware sales, Sofmap specialized in "box sales", where it set up shops at small-sized commercial buildings in Akihabara and Osaka/Nipponbashi and sold computers at low prices. In 1986, the company published a free publication titled, which listed computer products and prices. To differentiate themselves from other PC stores, Sofmap introduced their warranty system: five years for new computers and three years for used computers.

In anticipation of the PC boom that started with the release of Windows 95, Sofmap increased its floor space and focused on display sales for new PC users. However, during the mid-1990s, sales declined due to a combination of factors such as falling prices of personal computers, reduced distribution and profitability due to shortened product cycles of used products, and sluggish sales of home video games. In 1997, amidst rumors of the company filing for bankruptcy, Sofmap was purchased by Marubeni.

In 2000, Suzuki retired and was replaced by. The sofmap.com website was also established that year.

In 2005, Marubeni partially transferred its shares of Sofmap to Bic Camera, with Bic owning 61.56% of Sofmap by 2006. On January 29, 2010, Sofmap became a wholly owned subsidiary of Bic Camera. On March 1, 2012, the retail division was split and Sofmap Co., Ltd. was established, and the remaining store real estate management division was merged into Bic Camera. On June 5, 2017, Sofmap's main Akihabara branch was converted into a Bic Camera branch while the rest of the Akihabara branches were rebranded as.

On October 31, 2019, Sofmap acquired anime shop from Bunkyodo Group Holdings.

Stores
Sofmap has stores in the following locations:

 * Tokyo
 * Akihabara
 * Akihabara Station Square Hall (former Sato Musen and Yamada Denki LAB1 store)
 * Akiba Digital Building
 * Animega x Sofmap Amusement Building

 * Ikebukuro
 * Bic Camera Outlet x Sofmap Ikebukuro East Exit
 * Sofmap Re Collection Ikebukuro

 * Sofmap Re Collection Shimbashi
 * Sofmap Re Collection Nakano Broadway
 * Shinjuku
 * Tachikawa
 * Bic Camera x Sofmap Machida

 * Kanagawa
 * Yokohama
 * Bic Camera Outlet x Sofmap Vivre Shop

 * Saitama Prefecture
 * Kawagoe
 * Ōmiya

 * Miyagi Prefecture
 * Sendai
 * Sofmap x Animega Sendai Station Square

 * Shizuoka Prefecture
 * Shizuoka

 * Aichi Prefecture
 * Nagoya
 * Sofmap x Animega Nagoya Station West

 * Osaka
 * Namba
 * Animega x Sofmap
 * Bic Camera Outlet x Sofmap
 * Sofmap Re Collection Namba

 * Hyōgo Prefecture
 * Sofmap x Kojima Kobe Harborland

 * Hiroshima Prefecture
 * Sofmap Re Collection Hiroshima Station Square

 * Okayama Prefecture
 * Okayama Station

 * Kyushu
 * Fukuoka
 * Sofmap x Animega Tenjin

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British Empire Medal

The British Empire Medal (BEM; formerly British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service) is a British and Commonwealth award for meritorious civil or military service worthy of recognition by the Crown. The current honour was created in 1922 to replace the original medal, which had been established in 1917 as part of the Order of the British Empire.

Award
The British Empire Medal is granted in recognition of meritorious civil or military service by His Majesty the King. Recipients are entitled to use the post-nominal letters "BEM" with special privileges to use St Paul's Cathedral for funerals, baptisms and weddings. BEM holders can also apply for a family crest designed by the Monarchs artist.

Since December 1918, the honour has been divided into civil and military divisions in a similar way to the Order of the British Empire itself. While recipients are not members of the Order, the medal is affiliated to it.

Between 1993 and 2012, the British Empire Medal was not awarded to subjects of the United Kingdom, although it continued to be awarded in some Commonwealth realms during that time. The practice of awarding the Medal to British subjects was resumed in June 2012, to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee,

Since March 1941 a clasp attached to the ribbon can be bestowed to denote a further award.

A holder of the BEM subsequently appointed to membership of the Order of the British Empire is permitted to wear the insignia for both.

1917–1922
The Medal of the Order of the British Empire was established in June 1917, along with the Order of the British Empire of which it was a part, and could be awarded for either meritorious service or for gallantry. It was awarded to 2,014 people, 800 of whom were from foreign countries.

1922–1940
In 1922, the original medal was discontinued, and was replaced by two separate honours, both of which still formed part of the Order of the British Empire. These two honours were known as the Medal of the Order of the British Empire for Meritorious Service (usually referred to as British Empire Medal, BEM) and the Medal of the Order of the British Empire for Gallantry (usually referred to as Empire Gallantry Medal, EGM). Of these medals, the EGM was awarded for acts of bravery, until it was replaced by the George Cross in 1940. The BEM was awarded in similar circumstances as the other Order of the British Empire medals. In the uniformed services, it was awarded to non-commissioned officers of the armed forces, officers below superintendent rank in the police,

1940–1992
On 24 September 1940, the George Cross was established, and the EGM was revoked by Royal Warrant the same day. All living recipients, other than honorary recipients, and the next-of-kin of those posthumously awarded the EGM after 3 September 1939, the start of the Second World War, were to exchange their insignia for the George Cross. Recipients of the BEM were not affected by these changes.

From 1940, the war led to an increasing number of BEMs awarded to service personnel and civilians, including the merchant marine, police and civil defence, for acts of gallantry that did not reach the standard of the George Medal (GM). Such awards often had citations, while awards for meritorious service usually did not.

From 14 January 1958, awards of the BEM for acts of gallantry were formally designated the British Empire Medal for Gallantry and consisted of the BEM with a silver oak leaf emblem worn on the ribbon. The first recipients of this newly designated award were two Board of Customs officers, George Elrick Thomson and John Rees Thomas, who ventured into a burning steamship hold in an attempt to rescue a colleague. Like the GM, the BEM for Gallantry could not be awarded posthumously and was eventually replaced in 1974 with the Queen's Gallantry Medal (QGM). Again, recipients of the BEM for services other than acts of bravery were not affected by these changes.

1992–2012
The BEM continued to be awarded to subjects of the United Kingdom until 1992. After a 1993 review of the British honours system, the government decided that the distinction between the BEM and MBE had "become increasingly tenuous" and the Prime Minister, John Major, ended the award of the BEM to British subjects, although the medal continued to be awarded in some Commonwealth countries, such as the Bahamas and the Cook Islands.

From 2012
Following the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the BEM would once again be awarded in the United Kingdom; this would start beginning in 2012, to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. In the 2012 Birthday Honours, released on 16 June 2012, the BEM was awarded to 293 people.

Although those awarded the honour do not receive it from the monarch in person, but from the Lord Lieutenant of their county, recipients are invited to a Buckingham Palace garden party to celebrate their achievement.

Appearance
The Medal of the Order of the British Empire awarded from 1917 to 1922 was a circular silver medal, 30 mm in diameter, showing a seated Britannia and the inscription FOR GOD AND THE EMPIRE on the obverse and the Royal cypher on the reverse. The medal had a ring suspender for the 27 mm wide ribbon of plain purple, the military division having a red central stripe. The medal was awarded unnamed.

The medals introduced in 1922 broadly follow the same design but, with a diameter of 36 mm, are larger than the previous medal, and have either FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE or FOR GALLANTRY in the obverse exergue. The medal has a straight bar suspender for the 1.25 in wide ribbon. This was plain purple, with a red central stripe for the military division, until 1937 when, like the Order, the ribbon changed to the current design of rose-pink with pearl-grey edges, with an additional pearl-grey central stripe for the military division. The medal was presented with the recipient's name on the rim.

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Crisis? What Crisis?

'Crisis? What Crisis?' is the fourth album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in 1975. It was recorded in Los Angeles and London – Supertramp's first album to have recording done in the US.

A remastered CD version of the album was released on 11 June 2002 on A&M Records. The remaster features the original artwork and credits plus lyrics to all of the songs, which the original release lacked.

Record Mirror included ''Crisis? What Crisis?'' on its end-of-year list for 1975, recognising the best albums of the year.

Background and recording
Having achieved commercial success with Crime of the Century (1974), the pressure was on for Supertramp to deliver a followup, and the record company pushed them to begin work as soon as the touring for Crime of the Century was finished. While touring the west coast of North America, Supertramp unintentionally gained extra time: Hodgson injured his hand, forcing the band to cancel the rest of the tour and leaving them with nothing better to do than work on the album. Despite this, the band still had no time to rehearse for the album, and much like Indelibly Stamped (1971), songwriters Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson had no vision for a completed album worked out. Furthermore, the band's busy touring schedule had left no time for writing songs, and so they entered A&M's Los Angeles recording studios with only leftover songs from Crime of the Century (or even earlier) for material. Due to shortage of material, production had to be halted at one point so that Davies and Hodgson could write two new songs, one of which was "Ain't Nobody But Me".

Ultimate Classic Rock critic Nick DeRiso suggested that the melody of "Sister Moonshine" planted the seeds for Supertramp's later song "Give a Little Bit," which became one of their biggest hits.

Four of the songs ("Sister Moonshine", "Another Man's Woman", "Lady", and "Just a Normal Day") were performed live before the tracks were recorded and released, as documented on the BBC recorded performance of the band playing at The Hammersmith Odeon in London in March 1975 and were included on the 2001 live release Is Everybody Listening?.

Hodgson was unhappy with the album, describing it as a rushed job with none of the cohesion of Crime of the Century. Bassist Dougie Thomson concurred: "We thought that the Crisis album was a little bit disjointed and the band as a whole at that time didn't really like the album."

In the mid-1980s, however, Roger Hodgson called it his favourite Supertramp album.

Artwork
Both the title and the concept of the cover were conceived by Davies, as John Helliwell recounted: "It was Rick that came up with the name Crisis? What Crisis? and one day, when we were sitting around Scorpio Studio, he came in with this sketch of a guy in a deck chair under an umbrella with all this chaos going on around him." It appears he was inspired by Yves Robert's Alexandre le bienheureux. "Crisis? What Crisis?" is a line in the film The Day of the Jackal (1973). The phrase was used as a headline in The Sun newspaper during the Winter of Discontent in 1979 to convey a popular impression of the UK government at the time, attributed to then Prime Minister James Callaghan but denied by him. Hodgson stated that the title "came to mean more to us as a title than it did to other people because it was really a crisis album. We learnt how not to make an album, coming right off the road and going into the studio. We really didn’t enjoy making it and in the end it was kind of a patch up job." Artist Paul Wakefield returned after his work in Crime of the Century, photographing the backgrounds at the Welsh mining valleys, which were later composited with a model shot in the studio afterwards.

Critical reception
Rolling Stone panned the album in their brief review, ridiculing the lyrics in particular.

AllMusic commended the album in its retrospective review, praising Rick Davies's keyboard work, Roger Hodgson's vocals, and John Helliwell's saxophone. They especially noted the emotionally powerful songwriting, which they felt gave the album a "warm personality and charmingly subtle mood."

Track listing
All songs written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson.

Personnel

 * Supertramp
 * Rick Davies – lead and backing vocals, acoustic piano (tracks 3, 5, 7, 8), Wurlitzer piano (track 7), harmonica (track 2), organ (tracks 2, 3, 6, 10), harpsichord (tracks 4, 6, 10), synthesizers (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9)
 * Roger Hodgson – lead and backing vocals, electric guitar (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9) 12-string guitar (tracks 1, 2, 9, 10), acoustic piano (track 4), Wurlitzer piano (track 6), flageolet (track 2), cello (track 7), pump organ (track 10), marimba (track 6), electric sitar (tracks 1, 2)
 * John Anthony Helliwell – saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet (tracks 7, 10), backing vocals (tracks 3, 6, 7, 10)
 * Dougie Thomson – bass guitar
 * Bob Siebenberg (credited as Bob C. Benberg) – drums, percussion

Production

 * Ken Scott - producer
 * Supertramp - producers
 * Greg Calbi - remastering
 * Jay Messina - remastering
 * John Jansen - assistant
 * Ed Thacker - assistant
 * Richard Anthony Hewson - arranger
 * Fabio Nicoli - cover design
 * Paul Wakefield - cover design
 * Dick Ward - cover design

2002 A&M reissue The 2002 A&M Records reissue was mastered from the original master tapes by Greg Calbi and Jay Messina at Sterling Sound, New York, 2002. The reissue was supervised by Bill Levenson with art direction by Vartan and design by Mike Diehl, with production coordination by Beth Stempel.

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Socratic

Socratic means "related to Socrates".

Socratic may also refer to:

Common

 * Socratic dialogue
 * Socratic method
 * Socratic problem
 * Socratic questioning

Other uses

 * Socratic (band)
 * Socratic (Google)

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Brian Zembic

Brian Zembic, nicknamed the Wiz, born 1961 (age 63), is a magician and high-stakes gambler specializing in blackjack and backgammon. In the late 1990s, he became famed as 'a man who would do anything to win a bet'. His most famous wager was in 1996 when he agreed to receive breast implants and keep them for one year in return for US$100,000 (US$0 in 2024). The year passed and he won the bet but he became accustomed to the breasts and did not have them removed.

Early life
Zembic was born 1961 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

The Breast bet

In the summer of 1996, Zembic was gambling in a high-stakes game when the conversation turned to women's breast implants. One of his friends, another gambler named Jobo, had the opinion that having implants in order to attract men was a crazy thing to do. Zembic disagreed and said that it was not a serious event and that the consequences were small. An argument ensued and the two agreed that they would enter into a wager where Zembic would receive breast implants and if he kept them in for a year he would win US$100,000 (US$0 in 2024).

The two established a contract to work out the details. Zembic would pay for the operation to have 38C implants placed under his pec muscles. Jobo placed the money with a third party to guarantee payment if Zembic won the bet. For a few months in 1996 he didn't follow through with the wager but in the fall of 1996 Zembic lost a large amount of money playing the stock market and sought out a surgeon to go through with the procedure in order to win the $100,000 prize to cover his losses.

Through his gambling contacts he found a cosmetic surgeon who was also a gambler and after a few games of backgammon Zembic was able to get the $4,500 surgery in exchange for forgiving the doctor's debt. In October 1996, Zembic underwent the breast augmentation surgery in New York City. Jobo upon hearing that Zembic had undergone surgery offered to buy out the bet by paying $50,000 to cancel the wager but Zembic refused and said he would see the wager through for the full year and full $100,000. In October 1997, he fulfilled the arrangements of the bet and Jobo deposited the full $100,000 into a Swiss bank account.

After the one-year mark passed, he became a celebrity of sorts because of the wager. In 1999, his tale was the title feature in a book of short stories called The man with the $100,000 breasts and other gambling stories.

Other wagers
Although Zembic is a notorious gambler, he claims the 'breast bet' remains the most stupid he has ever accepted. He has taken part in other wagers, including one for $14,000 when he lived in a bathroom for a week before the people he took the bet with bought him out for $7,000. He once played famous poker player Doyle Brunson in a ping pong game where the winner, Zembic, took $14,000. On another bet he slept the night in New York's Central Park with $20,000 on his person. He also lived in a box for a week to win another $25,000.

Other work
On March 25, 2005, Zembic played in the Season 2 of World Series of Blackjack where he lost to Jason Geraci, Michelle Richards, "MIT Mike" Aponte, and Eric Kiel (winner of a million dollar tournament) in round 9. Zembic is also a professional magician.

Public appearances
He was seen by millions as the guy with the band-aids on his nipples on The Man Show. For this feat, the hosts paid Brian $100. On that show, he also recounted his experience living in a bathroom for a month in exchange for $15,000.
 * The Man Show

Zembic appeared on the popular Ripley's TV show in 2001.
 * Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Zembic appeared on Season 3, Episode 2, "Man Boobs," aired 2016-05-17, describing his personal history involving his breast implants and consulting with Drs. Dubrow and Nassif on the health concerns involving retaining or removing them.
 * Botched (TV series)

Book

 * - Total pages: 234

Untitled movie
In a 2005 interview, Zembic stated that starting in 1999, there was a movie in the works about his story. Fox Searchlight Pictures bought the rights to his story. The script has been completed and various stars have been attached like Drew Carey and David Duchovny. Zembic says part of the reason he hasn't had the implants removed is that "... every year when they renewed the rights, they kept saying, 'Keep the tits so you can appear at the end of the movie. It'll be really cool.'" But David Higgins the producer attached to the film says, "I'm not insisting that he keep his implants in; it's completely up to him," he says. "It would be great for marketing, of course, but we can always find another way."

Family
In 2000, Zembic fathered a daughter, Mika with his then-wife. When asked about her father's mammaries Mika said, "I know why you have boobs: Uncle Mike paid you money to put them in." In a 2006 interview, he said that Mika was one of the few reasons he would have the implants taken out: if they caused her to be bullied in school, he would have them removed.

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Two of Us
I don't have the album, but is that a cover of the Beatles' Two Of Us? The Person Who Is Strange 16:12, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

No, it is not a cover of the Beatles song. STTOS12

Lyrics on the LP
I'm from Brazil and I've got this album on LP (1975 release), and there are lyrics for all of the songs in a paper inside the cover. You should fix the article. I don't know if it comes with the brazilian release only... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.35.48.144 (talk) 20:23, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

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Day of the Jackal?
This clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-A55uTBh4 seems to show the line is used, but it seems a coincidence. Talk to SageGreenRider 21:32, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

 * There's nothing "dubious" about it whatsoever. The line is indeed used - twice. Given the year of release of the film, it's hard to resist the conclusion that just a few years later, it would still be fresh in everyone's mind. Hanoi Road (talk) 22:11, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Alexandre le bienheureux
Thought I add this for interest: The last words spoken before the scene in which Alexandre sits on a deck chair under an umbrella etc. are those by the merchant woman when she says: "Il finira sur le road comme en gale roadeur.", i.e.: "He'll end on the road as a mangy tramp." though the subtitles simply say: "He'll end up a tramp.", which is of course what he does at the end of the film, so possibly the film even influenced the band name. 95.90.253.82 (talk) 16:12, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

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