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User talk:KHM03/Archive 3

This is ARCHIVE 3 for my talk page....

Sept 05 through Oct 05.

Reprobation
Thanks for the heads up. But, quite frankly, I'm losing interest in Wikipedia. I don't have time to police the idiots. With a virtually unlimited number of editors, the result will always be the lowest common denominator -- verbose, second rate mediocrity. :-) Jim Ellis 19:32, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Harrumph. All of our verbose mediocrity is first rate!  — Mark (Mkmcconn) ** 19:42, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for the note you left on my talk page. We share some interests, perhaps we should collaborate sometime. Maybe I'll have a look at your to-do list ;) Cheers, Sam Spade 16:46, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

RfA
Just to say thanks for supporting my RfA. Please let me know if you see me screw up. --Doc (?) 19:06, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
I want to thank you very much for your vote on my RFA. Greatly apperciated, I owe you one! Journalist  C./ Holla @ me!

Category
No problem...seems like a useful category. Certainly the best addition to my userpage I've gotten from another user lately. Cheers! Christopher Parham (talk) 22:33, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Cfd
If you have a second, please vote on this: Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005_September_29. It was overturned last time because of some jokers. --Flex 15:13, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikichristian
Hi KHM03

This is Graham here, from wikichristian. I've been browsing wikipedia and I recognized your name. I see you've been a prolific contributor to wikipedia. Wow! I just wanted to let you know that wikichristian is now at www.wikichristian.org (not .com). It's slowly moving along - it grown a little. Perhaps not as much as I would have hoped - but it's in God's hands - if he wants it to grow, it will. Come by and let me know how you think it is going. Let me know if you think there are major flaws or problems with it.

I was actually browsing through the categories section looking at "Christian wikipedians" when I noticed your name. I've sent the following message to other wikipedians in the Christian category to let them know about wikichristian. I've pasted the message here so you can see the direction wikichristian is taking. Tell me what you think...

 * Come and take a look at www.wikichiristian.org and consider contributing. It is still small and has very few users. I'm praying that God helps the site to grow and become a forum for Christians to write and read about all aspects of Christianity. It is not meant to be a copy of wikipedia. It is not meant to be purely an encyclopedia. For any given topic, it will hopefully contain a short summary of the topic followed by links to many sub-articles - some containing simple facts; some sharing experiences; some explaining a particular viewpoint and so on.

 * Take for example the article on grace. It has various "Definition and explanation" articles explaining the meaning of grace. It has a few "Articles / opinions" about grace. It has links for "Quotes' about grace and links to "Songs about grace". The site is also meant to be a resource site containing information about Christian texts, literature, art, music, radio, television and internet.

 * Take a look at the example article on the song Shout to the Lord. It has links to information about the song, lyrics and chords to the song and links for comments or opinions to be expressed about the song.

 * The site also intends to explain the history of important events in Christianity. Take a look at The Reformation section. This has links for "Overview" articles, "Opinion" articles, "Quotes" and "Travel" stories.

 * The site intends to be a reference about major (and minor) figures in the Bible, the early church and today. Take a look at John Stott. It contains "Overview" and "Opinion" articles. It contains texts of "Talks" given by John Stott and links to "Books" by John Stott.

 * In summary, I suppose, that my hope is that WikiChristian becomes a major reference point for Christians and non-Christians to go to find about any issue related to Christianity. I don't believe that this should be carbon-copy of wikipedia. It should resemble it in some ways, but in other ways, it should be quite different in structure and evolution. I realize that there are different views about different topics - and accordingly, there should always be the opportunity for a person to write his personal view under the "Opinion and articles" section of any given page.

 * I would love you to take a look at wikichristian and contribute. If you don't wish to contribute, would you consider visiting it's world wide directory of churches we are setting up and entering your church into the database. The point of the database is to state the location of a church with the service times and add a brief description of the church. You can take a look for example at: Church Directory -> Australia -> South Australia -> Adelaide -> St Matthew's Anglican Church

Thanks for your time.

Graham Grove

Who's RfA
Thank you for supporting my masters RfA. He appreciates your support and comments and looks forward to better serving Wikipedia the best he can. Of course I will be doing all of the real work. He would have responded to you directly, but he is currently out of town, and wanted to thank you asap. Thanks again. --Who's mop?¿? 20:49, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Can you help me?
Hi, Have you made the last post in my user talk page? Actually the first one is by you. And what exactly should I take the post's meaning. I mean, as far as I got it, I think I am not going good?

Thanks if you can help! PassionInfinity 19:43, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

My RfA!
My dear KHM03, I simply wanted to drop by now that my RfA is closed to give you a big THANK YOU! for your kind support. It came at a very important time to me, when I felt I was being somewhat distrusted, and your confidence gave me strength. I hope that we continue to be in contact in the future, and you have in me a new friend. Hugs! Shauri Yes babe?  19:28, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Binitarianism
Hi Keith. I've noticed that you've noticed the Church of God writer, who has been adding the COG view to articles. It's evidently the same fellow who was doing the same thing under an anonymous IP (no problem with that, just clarifying who I'm talking about).

His first full-length article, explaining his perspective, has been created at Binitarianism. I'd like you (and others who watch your talk) to look at that article, and see if you might have some ideas for how to conform it to wp-npov. — Mark (Mkmcconn) ** 19:05, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

10:13, 4 October 2005 User:KHM03 (rv to last version by KHM03)
KHM03, Hi. I'll try and be as polite as possible. Except in the case of vandalsim, simply reverting someone's changes is considered poor form. Reverting to your own version is quite bad form. You may have views that differ from mine, the appropiate place to work them out is on the article's talk page, not via edit summary. I'll look forward to seeing you there. brenneman (t) (c) 22:48, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Response found at User Talk:Aaron Brenneman

Tent revival
Keith, do you think that you might help to fill out the articles that have to do with tent revivalism? I'm surprised to find that there no entries on Tent revival, Chautauqua tent, Chautauqua circuit, Big top revival, or Gospel tabernacle; and the articles on Chautauqua Institute and Camp meeting give only slight indication of the breadth of the movement or size of the phenomenon. Chautauqua movement redirects to the institution (which is imperfectly accurate). — Mark (Mkmcconn) ** 17:18, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Mark...I'll try and get to those and see what I can do. I admit, however, that the Chautauqua/tent revival/Holiness movement aspect of Methodism is not my area of expertise.  I'll see what I can do.  Got to go...meeting with the Bishop tonight about strategic planning in our Conference.  Good, Holy Spirit stuff.  Good luck tonight monitoring Wikipedia; I'll be MIA.  KHM03 20:34, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Unrelated
KHM03, While doing some cleanup, I've found some transclusions of yours. So here's the boilerplate: When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use instead of. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. Keep up the good work! - brenneman (t) (c)  02:08, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Historical persecution by Christians
You might be interested in the Historical persecution by Christians article, and the dispute about the "Modern" section. Jayjg (talk) 16:38, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Book of Common Prayer
Thanks for the greeting! I was really struck by your quote from Wesley "I believe there is no Liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England..." Thomas Cranmer is of course, the greatest liturgist in the history of the English language. This History of the BCP is a great read. The author, echoing Wesley's words says that: "We may be confident that liturgical worship is the best of all. There is some loss in the use of printed words; but there is a greater gain. We have in them the accumulated wisdom and beauty of the Christian Church, the garnered excellence of the saints. We are by them released from the accidents of time and place. Above all we are preserved against the worst dangers of selfishness: in the common prayer we join together in a great fellowship that is as wide as the world; and we are guided, not by the limited notions of our own priest, nor by the narrow impulses of our own desires, but by the mighty voice that rises from the general heart of Christendom."

People just don't write like that anymore do they? Anyway that's my random thought of the day inspired by your User page. :-) --circuitloss 17:31, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome and greeting!
Hi there, my anonymous fellow presbyter!

Although I've known of Wikipedia for years now, and have occasionally used it, for some reason it didn't dawn on me to contribute or edit Wikipedia. (I have contributed to Zeal.com in the past, but not lately.) Starting out with a quick research question I asked Google today, I wound up surfing the apostolic succession and independent Catholic churches entries of Wikipedia today and released I needed to chip in and tweak them a bit.

For 14 years I've been a researcher (and participant) in the field of Independent Catholicism/Old Catholicism, and I maintain the web site Ind-Movement.org.

I also searched the wiki for mentions of "altar bread" and came up on the tiny, overly pious and narrow entry someone created for Sacramental Bread. For now, since I'm pressed for time, I only added a bibliographical reference to my book on said subject. At some point I feel I need to completely rewrite and amplify that entry.

Tony [Fr. Tony Begonja, OSL] Fr. Tony 18:14, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
Thank you for your support on my RfA. Your trust in me is well appreciated. Owen× ☎  22:00, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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Jan Frans van Bredael

Jan Frans van Bredael or Jan Frans van Bredael the Elder (1 April 1686 – 19 February 1750) was a Flemish painter known for his landscapes, battle scenes and equestrian paintings. A prominent member of the third generation of the van Bredael family of painters of Antwerp, he was active mainly in his native Antwerp. He worked also in London and Paris where he enjoyed the patronage of an aristocratic clientele.

Life
Jan Frans van Bredael was born into an artist family in Antwerp as the eldest son of Alexander van Bredael (1663–1720) and Cornelia Sporckmans. Jan Frans trained with his father. His father as well as his grandfather Peeter van Bredael and several cousins were also artists. Jan Frans trained under his father. In 1706 Jan Frans van Bredael and his cousin Jozef entered into a contract with the Antwerp art dealer Jacob de Witte to produce for a number of years copies after the paintings of Philips Wouwerman and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Under the contract, Jan Frans was to receive for each copy he produced 10 guilders in the first year, 12 guilders in the second and 14 guilders in the third and fourth years plus a bonus of 2 shillings. At the end of the contract he would also get a new blue broadcloth coat. His brother Jozef was paid a marginally lower fee but was not bound like Jan Frans by an exclusivity obligation to work only for Jacob de Witte. Since Jan Frans and Jozef did not sign the copies they made, it is not possible to distinguish who was responsible for the individual copies that were produced under the contract. It is possible that the not so scrupulous art dealer de Witte even sold these copies as originals since the copies were such good imitations of the style of the original artists. Jan Frans finally ended up working for de Witte for a period of nine years. Jan Frans van Bredael worked in England early in his career (probably before 1716). Little is known with certainty about his residence in England. He is deemed to have enjoyed the patronage of important clients, among whom James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater and possibly even the King.

In the period from 1719 to 1725 he was active in Paris. He returned to Antwerp in 1725 where he joined the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in the same year. He became deacon of the Guild the next year and again in the years 1733, 1734 and 1735. Jan Frans van Bredael married Catharina de Rijck. The couple had two daughters and a son. The son who was also named Jan Frans (born in 1729) became a painter.

In his lifetime van Bredael enjoyed an excellent reputation. It is reported that when King Louis XV of France visited Antwerp visited his studio in 1746 he acquired four small works from the artist.

Jan Frans van Bredael died in Antwerp in 1750.

Work
Jan Frans van Bredael painted in a variety of genres including history and religious painting. However, he is best known for his landscapes with genre scenes, battle and hunting scenes and equestrian paintings. While he initially mainly copied works of Wouwerman and Brueghel, Jan Frans van Bredael was able to develop his own style. Van Bredael quoted Wouwerman’s tropes in his own compositions of equestrian and battle scenes. In his landscapes he remained closer in style to Jan Brueghel the Elder.

As many of the members of the extended van Bredael family painted in a similar style and in the same genres, it is not always easy or possible to ascribe a particular work to a specific van Bredael.

As van Bredael appears to have worked mainly for the export market, very few of his works are in public collections in his home country.

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Nekro (film)

Nekro is a 1997 Romanian thriller film directed by Nicolas Masson. It was written by Viorel Mihalcea and Nicolas Masson and produced by Niki Coman. The music for this film was written by Cornel Ionescu.

Plot
Claiming to be inspired by actual, but never publicized facts, the story of Nekro is staged in mid-1980s Romania. Its basic building block is the eternal fight between God and Satan. Securitatea, the Communist Romanian secret police, takes notices of an illegal religious sect. David, a colonel serving with Securitatea, is assigned to eradicate the sect. He arrests the leader of the sect and subjects him to a series of sadistic interrogations. During the interrogations, David's mind blurs. He gets revelations from the World of Darkness, and starts acting as a man possessed by a demon. The leader of the sect vanishes from prison.

Diagnosed as a madman by a psychiatrist, David is dismissed from Securitatea. Eight years later, he senses the presence of his Master in the surroundings, but cannot locate him. He sees the former leader of the sect, who returned to Romania as a film producer, on the news. David has no doubt that he is his Master. However, as David was not cursed by God to be a Demon, he is able to gather the last of his strength and attempt to kill the Master. Consequently, David is arrested and taken by the police to a hospice.

As all these events unfold, several young women are murdered in Bucharest, the killings becoming breaking news. The psychiatrist who diagnosed David as madman, and who possesses psychic powers, has a vision of the next murder victim. He calls and leaves a message on her answering machine to warn her. The young woman is indeed killed. Looking for clues, the police search her residence and hear the psychiatrist's message. They talk to him, and the psychiatrist directs the detectives to David. The lieutenant in charge of the investigation knows that David cannot be the killer, as he was under surveillance at the hospice at the time the woman was murdered. The lieutenant suspects that they are dealing with a serial killer, as sex was performed on each corpse after the killing. What he does not know though, is that the sex acts were videotaped for commercial purpose.

David escapes from the hospice, and his daughter is kidnapped. His senses take him to a forest that spreads beyond the city limits, where his Master, the actual serial killer, performs the killing rituals. It turns out that he ordered the kidnapping of David's daughter, who is next on his list, but David's appearance in the forest has complicated plans. Eventually, David is ordered to force himself on his own daughter. Instead of doing so, he kills her, and then gets killed himself. Was David cursed by God to be a Demon? In the afterlife, David defeats the evil spirit, who reincarnated itself into the leader of the sect, and later into the film producer. Do God and Satan exist?

Cast
(in alphabetical order)

 * Dan Astileanu
 * Aneta Bancu
 * Zoltan Butuc
 * Dan Condurache
 * Constantin Cotimanis
 * Iulia Gavril
 * Roxana Guttman
 * Ion Haiduc
 * Rona Hartner
 * George Ivaşcu
 * Adrian Lapadat
 * Nicolas Masson
 * Stefan Sileanu
 * Valentin Teodosiu
 * Răzvan Vasilescu

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Jacoby

Jacoby may refer to:

 * Jacoby (given name)
 * Jacoby (surname)
 * Jacoby Glacier, a glacier in Antarctica
 * Jacoby transfer, a convention used in the card game contract bridge
 * Jacoby (typeface), a font from Monotype that was used for various Cartoon Network promos and bumpers during the Powerhouse era.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johannesburg Massage

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. Linuxbeak | Talk 22:22, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Johannesburg Massage
Advertisement Carbonite | Talk 13:21, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Advert. Carbonite | Talk 13:21, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: per above. Solarusdude 23:37, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
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Category:Mayenne

 * Mayenne — a department of the region in central France.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kingfreeze

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was speedied by DragonflySixtyseven. Lupo 07:00, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Kingfreeze
self congratualtory pomp, username and article name coincide without coincidence, Only Kingfreeze I found on Google is a German Rockabilly artist. delete btw author removed first delete tag ! --Isolani 13:21, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. First version of this page was "speedy userfied" by me, but apparently he didn't get it. Lupo 15:13, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, doesn't appear to meet WP:MUSIC.--Isotope23 16:02, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

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Interstate 175

Interstate 175 (I-175) in St. Petersburg, Florida, also known as South Bay Drive, is a 1.3 mi spur route from I-275 into downtown St. Petersburg. It is also designated as the unsigned highway State Road 594 (SR 594). There is a sibling segment of freeway nearby designated as I-375.

Route description
The Interstate begins at I-275 with Tropicana Field on the northeast side of the interchange, going east into downtown St. Petersburg, passing through eastbound exits with 9th Street South/8th Street South and 6th Street South before the Interstate ends at 5th Avenue South next to an at-grade intersection with 4th Street South. Westbound, the Interstate begins with a split from southbound 4th Street South just north of the 4th Street South/5th Avenue South intersection and has no exits until the interchange with I-275. Along with its sister highway, I-375, I-175 lacks exit numbers.

History
The freeway was originally to have been a part of the former Pinellas Belt Expressway, which would have continued from its western terminus at I-275. The Pinellas Belt Expressway was budgeted in 1974 but was canceled in the late 1970s due to local opposition. I-175 was built between 1977 and 1980 and opened on April 23, 1980, at a cost of $5.5 million (equivalent to $ in ).

When I-75 was relocated in the late 1970s–early 1980s, 5 mi of additional Interstate became available; thus, the St. Petersburg feeder sections of I-175 and neighboring I-375 were upgraded to Interstate status.

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Pleasant Screams

Pleasant Screams is the eighth album by pop punk band The Queers and the sixth album released on Lookout! Records before they rescinded their master rights from the label. It was reissued by Asian Man Records with bonus tracks, all from the Today EP.

Track listing
All songs written by Joe Queer, except where noted.
 * 1) "Get a Life and Live It" - 1:58
 * 2) "See Ya Later Fuckface" (King/Weasel) - 1:58
 * 3) "I Wanna Be Happy" (Ramone/King/Weasel) - 3:05
 * 4) "Danny Vapid" - 2:03
 * 5) "I Never Got the Girl" - 2:55
 * 6) "It's Cold Outside" (The Choir) - 2:47
 * 7) "Psycho Over You" (Weasel/Dirty Walter) - 2:33
 * 8) "Generation of Swine" - 1:53
 * 9) "Tic Tic Toc" (Metal Mike Saunders) - 1:58
 * 10) "I Don't Want You Hanging Around" (Weasel) - 2:17
 * 11) "Homo" - 1:57
 * 12) "You Just Gotta Blow My Mind" (Donovan) - 2:15
 * 13) "Debbie Be True" (Fantastic Baggies) - 2:09
 * 14) "Molly Neuman" - 14:40

Reissue bonus tracks

 * 1) "Yeah Well Whatever" - 2:01
 * 2) "I Don't Wanna Go to the Moon" - 1:56
 * 3) "I've Had It with You" - 1:04
 * 4) "I'm the Boy for You" - 2:38
 * 5) "Salt Lake City" (The Beach Boys cover) - 2:25

Personnel

 * Joe Queer - Guitar, Vocals
 * Dangerous Dave - Bass, Keyboards, Vocals
 * Matt Drastic - Drums
 * Gretchen Smear - Lead Vocals on "You Just Gotta Blow My Mind"
 * Philip Hill - Guitar, Vocals
 * Dan Lumley - Drums on "Molly Neuman"

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I'm the Singing Organ-Grinder.

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DG Flugzeugbau LS10

The Rolladen-Schneider LS10 is an 18 metre sailplane designed in Germany by Rolladen-Schneider. A prototype flew in 2003.

After Rolladen-Schneider was placed in receivership the sailplane entered production by DG Flugzeugbau. Certification was not achieved until 2010. Other gliders were designed and manufactured by competitors during this period and were produced in greater numbers.

Design and development
By the mid-nineties Rolladen-Schneider, prompted by customers, began designing a successor to the LS6. Development was protracted, as the LS8 and LS9 projects had higher priority and the company's owner, Walter Schneider, felt the LS6 was still competitive.

The initial design was made under the direction of Wolf Lemke. Werner Scholz then developed the prototype, the LS10-a. Although early 3-view drawings of the LS10 showed a curved canopy rail similar to that of the Schleicher ASW 24, when the prototype was revealed it had the same straight canopy rail as the LS6 and LS8.

The first flight took place at Egelsbach on 6 June 2003. This was followed by extensive flight-testing and then evaluation in competitions. The prototype won the Hockenheim and Bayreuth contests in 2004 and the German Nationals in Lüsse in 2005. It took second place in the 2005 European Championships in Nitra, Slovakia. The flying qualities were reported in the German aviation magazine, Aerokurier, to be excellent.

In July 2007, Rick Walters placed first in an LS10 at the International Lilienthal Glide 2007 which is the combined Pre-World for the 30th World Gliding Championships and the 2007 German nationals in the 15M and Open Class, in Lüsse Berlin.

There were two models in production: the ‘turbo’ version called the LS10-st, with the same engine installation as the LS8-st; and the LS10-s with just an engine compartment for retrofitting the engine.

It achieved certification in January 2010, but it is no longer listed as a current product by DG Flugzeugbau.

Design of the wing
The LS10 differs from the LS6 mainly in its wing; its other features are similar. The aerofoil was derived from the FX 81-K-130 profile used in the LS6, having as improvements: higher performance at the low and high ends of the speed range, and very low sensitivity to turbulence, rain and bugs. The wings have turbulator tape on the underside to prevent laminar separation bubbles. This suggests the profile lacks the clean natural transition of the Wortmann profile of 1981 and is probably more extensively laminar.

The initial design had an elliptical leading edge similar to the SZD-55-1. However the prototype adopted a triple-tapered shape that is easier to build and - most importantly - to repair. The production version had a thicker profile at the wing root, especially modified for the turbulent flow in the vicinity of the fuselage (as with other recent gliders including the LAK-17a, ASW 28, DG-1000, Discus-2 and the eta).

The wing was built in four parts with interchangeable wing tips, giving 15 or 18 metre span. The partition line for the wing extensions was located considerably inboard in the prototype, a feature that first appeared in the Schempp-Hirth Ventus 2c and which allows optimal planform for both spans and easier rigging. For series production DG-Flugzeugbau gave greater priority to structural and manufacturing considerations and the partition was moved outboard to seven metres from the fuselage axis.

Other design features

 * The ballast system has six integral tanks in the wings. The outboard tanks are filled first and dumped last for better spanwise load distribution. The tail ballast system incorporates two separate tanks to maintain a favourable C.G. during water dumping. The control of the first tail tank is connected to the four outer wing tanks, the second tail tank operates with to the two inner wing tanks.
 * A taller undercarriage increases ground clearance and gives a higher angle of attack than an LS6, allowing a lower speed for take-off and landing. This increases safety when aerotowing from short runways and when landing out.
 * The LS10 has the typical LS full-span flaperons and large, double-blade air brakes, and Hänle-type automatic control connections.

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When I created this, I wasn't entirely sure of the term slowcore is appropriate given that it automatically redirectors to sadcore. I couldn't come up with a better name, though. Someone please think of a better name.
 * I've never heard of "slowcore"Filter1987 20:34, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

The cinema located between your eye and your eyelid sounds more like the colourfull patterns you see when you close your eyes. Im changing that. /Jonas

Wrong album count
I'd like to point out that Refinement of the Decline prominently bears the number 8 on the cover (it's not an infinity sign, the right loop is smaller than the left one, it's an eight on its side), meaning they consider it their 8th album (not 7th as stated in the article), meaning they consider Maneuvering the Nocturnal Hum their 4th album (currently limited or not). 62.147.38.128 (talk) 04:38, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Shouldn't be an issue so long as EP and LP are designated; you're right that it is their eighth album, but it's also their seventh LP. Poussiere (talk) 15:06, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Yes, but when you look at Maneuvering, it is 44:28, thus longer than the LPs of Laudenum (42:07) and Per Aspera (40:47). Also, technically that's not an EP, whether you go by U.S. standards (less than 30 minutes) or UK standards (both less than 25 minutes *and* less than 5 tracks). And having the cover of Refinement prominently imply "8th album" (or "8th release" if you prefer) yet have the article stating it's a 7th, I think that's just confusing for a reader.
 * How about dropping that "EP" qualifier from Maneuvering? Or how about writing the album article leads just counting them all as "albums" (discounting LP album vs EP album) or counting them as "releases"? Thus having Refinement be qualified as their "8th album" or at least "8th release", and so on? I think that would make much more sense for readers; the EP thing seems dubious and pointless in this context. 62.147.37.223 (talk) 20:09, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Maneuvering's cover art itself states that it's an EP. See discogs' image. Refinement of the Decline is their seventh album, period. = ∫tc 5th Eye 20:14, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

 * So the album counts should be updated since, by your own mode of reasoning, Refinement's cover art itself states that it's their 8th release, period. 62.147.39.177 (talk) 19:55, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

 * It doesn't say that explicitly. = ∫tc 5th Eye 00:25, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

band's musical description
When I was reading the article's introduction I found a rather strange sentence, regarding to the band's music:

"Their sound has been described as 'divine, classical drone without the tedious intrusion of drums or vocals'.

I thought it was kind of hilarious, at first, but after then, when I visited the reference page I came across this line:

"A wise man once described SOTL as 'divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals.'"

When I read the first sentence, I asked myself: "who could have said something like this?". It is a strong and very personal sentence. Almost as if it was written by some critic, or a fan. Only then to find out it was written by a "wise man". In my opinion this line should be removed, because it seems too personal, clashing with the impartialism an encyclopedia should have. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.106.53.22 (talk) 05:13, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

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I know that there is no other image available, however the current one only shows the violinists who play with Adam and Brian. BeŻet (talk) 12:35, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

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My name is Hierophants Heart. I am an avid reader and writer, and I seek to improve my writing skills all the time. I am glad I share many interests with many other members of the Wikipedia community, and I gladly accept other members' comments and criticisms regarding my work. I had only just technically joined, but I had been working on numerous articles beforehand. Until recently, I was never interested in joining. I don't often have the time to edit and write Wikipedia articles, but it's always awesome to chill out after school and work and just write. As for my name, well, I just liked the sound of 'hierophant's heart'. Asides from having been an unofficial Wikipedian, I am a graphic design student in Australia. Well, that's it for now, but hopefully sometime in the near future, I'll expand this little profile. Ciao!

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Jerome Brailey

Jerome Eugene "Bigfoot" Brailey (born August 20, 1950) is an American drummer, best known for his work with P-Funk, which included the bands Parliament, Funkadelic, and numerous related projects. Brailey is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.

Career
Jerome Brailey started performing around 1968 with the R&B group The Unifics, The Five Stairsteps, then The Chambers Brothers. George Clinton saw Jerome performing with The Chambers Brothers and invited him to join the Funk Mob after witnessing his style and finesse on drums. He joined the P-Funk collective in 1975 during the time he co-wrote one of Parliament's biggest hits, “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" with Clinton and Bootsy Collins while also playing on many of Parliament-Funkadelic's most popular recordings. Brailey left the P-Funk organization in 1978 due to bad management by producer George Clinton and began working closely with Glenn Goins, who had also left P-Funk and started productions on the funk group Quazar which featured Glenn's brother Kevin Goins on vocals.  Brailey and Goins conceived a band called Mutiny as they were finalizing the Quazar album for Arista Records; however, Glenn Goins died in 1978 at the age of 24, leaving Brailey to complete the album. He then established Mutiny and signed to Columbia Records.

“Mutiny on the Mamaship” (Columbia Records) the debut album, follow by “Funk Plus The One” (Columbia Records) both produced by Jerome Brailey while working alongside guitarist Donald “Lenny” Holmes and bassist Raymone Carter were the makings of collectable recordings. The albums were not far removed from the classic P-Funk style, with emphasis placed on dual lead guitar works. They were seen as successful in musical terms, though some critics complained about the lack of originality but the quality of those recordings were recognized by many. Other noted collections of recordings, “A Night Out With The Boys” (Tuff City Records), Aftershock 2005 (Rykodisc) and Funk Road (Catbone Music Label) are also under the Mutiny's umbrella receiving positive vibes and energy.

Jerome is also noted for his drum style on hit recordings such as The Unifics “Court of Love” and The Five Stairsteps “Ooh Child”. His drum arrangements on the single "Do That Stuff", from the Parliament album The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, in recent have been sampled by Kendrick Lamar on "The Heart Pt.3 (Will You Let it Die ?), Childish Gambino on “Boogieman" a single taken from his third studio album, "Awaken, My Love" and by Westside Boogie - Outside (ft. Joey Bada$) for a continuation of drum rudiments lifted from that Parliament-Funkadelic recording.

Sequence, was an American female hip–hop/vocal trio from Columbia, South Carolina, consisted of members Cheryl Cook, Gwendolyn Chisolm, and Angie Brown Stone released the song “Funky Sound” (Tear The Roof Off) on Sugar Hill Records in 1979. Gerardo “Mo Ritmo” released the single “We Want The Funk” on Interscope Records in 1991 while M.C. Hammer released the single “Turn This Mutha Out", from the "Let's Get It Started" album on Capital Records in 1988. Also Snoop Dogg on the “Doggystyle” album released his most successful single to date, "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" produced by Dr. Dre on Death Row Records and Interscope Records in 1993.  All or part of the interpolation of these recordings are credited to the original song by Parliament-Funkadelic, “Tear the Roof off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)".

The Rolling Stone list of “The 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time” chose Jerome “Bigfoot” Brailey as #68 for his steady kick drum, shifty hi-hat action and intricately unpredictable snare patterns. He also appeared as a session drummer with a diverse group of artists including Keith Richards, Bill Laswell, James Blood Ulmer, Dave Stewart, and Lucky Peterson during his career.

The Mothership, the iconic stage prop made famous by legendary funk collective Parliament-Funkadelic, has been acquired by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC where it will help anchor a permanent music exhibition at the museum in 2016. Each year the Grammy Award Hall Of Fame celebrates a class of outstanding recordings at least 25 years old that exhibits qualitative or historical significance and in its 2018 class “Flash Light” by Parliament was add to the Hall list of classic recordings.

Smith and Hay's release two CD's, Jazz & Jazz (Deluxe) during a series of recordings in 2017 which featured Jerome Bigfoot on many of the songs. Jazz (Deluxe) charted and became the number one Billboard Jazz album in the country in January 2018. With a signature for foot and snare connections during the impact years with Parliament-Funkadelic, The Recording Academy awarded and announced in December 2018 that the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to P-Funk members on May 11, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA. for their creative contributions in music. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just recently listed the 50 greatest drummers in the Hall naming Jerome Bigfoot #48, revealing his drum style kept Parliament-Funkadelic rooted in the old-school, James Brown-style funk on tracks like "Handcuffs", "Do That Stuff" and the Funk anthem "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)".

Parliament / Funkadelic (1975–1979)

 * Parliament: Mothership Connection (1975)
 * Funkadelic: Tales of Kidd Funkadelic (1976)
 * Funkadelic: Hardcore Jollies (1976)
 * Parliament: The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein (1976)
 * Fuzzy Haskins: A Whole Nother Thang (1976)
 * Parliament: Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome (1977)
 * Bootsy's Rubber Band: Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! (1977)
 * Eddie Hazel: Games, Dames and Guitar Thangs (1977)
 * Parliament: Live: P-Funk Earth Tour (1977)
 * Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns featuring Maceo Parker: A Blow for Me, a Toot to You (1977)
 * Bootsy's Rubber Band: Bootsy? Player of the Year (1978)
 * Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove (1978)
 * The Brides of Funkenstein: Funk or Walk (1978)
 * Fuzzy Haskins: Radio Active (1978)
 * Parlet: Pleasure Principle (1978)
 * Funkadelic: Uncle Jam Wants You (1979)
 * Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns: Say Blow by Blow Backwards (1979)
 * Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns: The Final Blow (recorded 1976–1979) (1994)
 * Eddie Hazel: Rest in P (recorded 1975–1977) (1994)

Mutiny

 * Mutiny on the Mamaship (1979)
 * Funk Plus the One (1980)
 * A Night Out with the Boys (1983)
 * Aftershock 2005 (1996)
 * How's Your Loose Booty? (compilation) (2000)
 * Funk Rd. (2013)
 * Mutiny (2-CD Deluxe Edition) (2015)
 * Black Hat Daddy & The Silver Comb Gang (recorded 1981 / released 2023)

Quazar

 * Quazar (1978)

Chambers Brothers

 * "Right Move" (Avco Records 1975)

Five Stairsteps

 * Five Stairsteps & Cubie Featuring Clarence Jr. – "The Shadow Of Your Love / Bad News" (Buddah Records 1968)
 * The Five Stairsteps "O-o-h Child" (Buddha Records 1970), Bernard Purdie or Jerome Brailey.

The Unifics

 * Sittin In At The Court Of Love (Kapp Records 1968)

Parliament / Funkadelic Compilations

 * Funkadelic: Music for Your Mother (Import / March 1993)
 * Parliament: Tear The Roof Off: 1974-1980 (1993)
 * Parliament: Greatest Hits 1972-1993 (1994)
 * Bootsy Back in the Day: The Best of Bootsy (1994)
 * The Best of Parliament: Give Up the Funk (1995)
 * Mothership Connection: Newberg Session (1995)
 * Parliament / Funkadelic (Live): 1976-1993 (1996)
 * Funkadelic: Ultimate (1999)
 * Parliament: The 20th Century Masters / Millennium Collection: (2000)
 * Bootsy Collins: Glory B da' Funk's on Me (2001)
 * Parliament: Funked Up: The Very Best of... (2002)
 * George Clinton / Parliament Funkadelic: Mothership Connection (DVD / 2002)
 * Funkadelic / Motor City Madness: The Ultimate Funkadelic Westbound Compilation (2004)
 * Funkadelic: Under a Groove (Import / Box Set: March 2004)
 * Funkadelic: Whole Funk & Nothing But the Funk / Definitive (2005)
 * Parliament: Gold: Original Recordings Remastered 1974-1980 (2005)
 * Funkadelic: Funk Gets Stronger (Import, Reissued, Remastered / April 2006)
 * Parliament / The Casablanca Years 1974-1980 (2007)
 * Parliament / Funkadelic: The Mothership Connection Live 1976 (2008)
 * Standing on the Verge: The Best of Funkadelic (2009)
 * Parliament: ICON (2011)
 * Funkadelic: Cosmic Funkers (2011)
 * Funkadelic: Reworked By Detroiters (Import / December 2017)
 * Parliament / Funkadelic: (Live) Madison Square Garden 1977 (Import / December 2017)

New York / Collision Music Years

 * Billy Bass Nelson: Out of the Dark (O.G. Funk) (1993)
 * Liu Sola: Blues in the East (1994)
 * Buckethead: Giant Robot (1994)
 * Tawl Ross: a.k.a. Detrimental Vasoline (1995)
 * Dave Stewart: Greetings from the Gutter (1995)
 * Jah Wobble: Heaven and Earth (1995)
 * Peter's Rock Mass Choir: Message from the Rock (1995)
 * Funkcronomicon: Axiom Funk (1995)
 * Various Artists: Altered Beats: Assassin Knowledges (1996)
 * Material: Intonarumori (1998)
 * James Blood Ulmer: Blue Blood (2001)
 * Lucky Peterson: Black Midnight Sun (2003)

Hip-Hop genre / Jazz Deluxe / Digital Music Mix

 * A Different Kind Of Christmas: Various Artists (2012)
 * Jonathan Hay, Mike Smith, King Tech, Jerome Bigfoot & Various Artists - When Music Worlds Collide (2015)
 * Jonathan Hay & Mike Smith: (Deluxe) When Music World Collide (2016)
 * Smith and Hay: Jazz (September 2017)
 * Smith and Hay: Jazz (Deluxe) (Jan. 2018

Contributions / Sampled Chronology

 * Osiris: O-Zone (1979)
 * The Sequence: (Funky Sound) Tear the Roof Off (1981)
 * M.C. Hammer: Turn This Mutha Out (Let’s Get It Started) (1988)
 * Gerardo: We Want The Funk (1991)
 * Snoop Dogg: What's My Name? (Doggystyle) (Interpolations from "Give Up The Funk) (1993)
 * Snoop Dogg: Undercova Funk (Give Up the Funk) (Undercover Brother) (2002)
 * Dawn Sheppard: The Dawn Of A New Day (2003)
 * Mello Bondz: Billion Dollar Babies (2007)
 * BIGFOOT & Bondz: The Lovinator Experiment (Intro) (2010)
 * Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers (Soundtrack Album) (2010)
 * Moneyball (soundtrack): Give Up The Funk (2011)
 * Lyrica Garrett: Summer Time Love (Ready) (2019)

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British Christmas Tree Growers Association

The British Christmas Tree Growers Association is the trade association for those who grow specialist Christmas Trees in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Membership is open to those who intend to grow or are growing trees for the Christmas market. Associate membership is available for those who provide goods and services to the Christmas Tree sector.

Members of the BCTGA cultivate trees specially for the Christmas festivities.

Annual Competition
The BCTGA holds an annual competition to find the best grower from their membership. Entries to the competition are divided into four categories; Pine, Fir, Spruce and Wreath. All trees must be between 1.8m and 2.2m in height. Each entrant is allowed up to two entries in any given category and the judges look for foliage, shape and marketability.

The competition awards a prize for 'Grower of the Year' and the winner is afforded the honour of providing their tree to be the Downing Street Christmas tree that year. The winner of the best wreath category also provides a wreath to be hung on the famous black door.


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Churches Together in Britain and Ireland

Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) is an ecumenical organisation. The members include most of the major churches in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. CTBI is registered at Companies House with number 05661787. Its office is in Central London. the General Secretary is Nicola Brady, who succeeded Bob Fyffe.

It was formed on 1 September 1990, as the successor to the British Council of Churches, and was formerly known as the Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland.

Its stated aims are to "serve the churches of the four nations on their shared journey towards full visible unity in Christ" and works in areas of Faith and Order, Mission, Inter Faith, Church and Society, Racial Justice, International Affairs and International Students. It also produces material for the "Week of Prayer for Christian Unity" and "Racial Justice Sunday".

CTBI works closely with Action of Churches Together in Scotland, Churches Together in England, Cytûn (Churches Together in Wales), and the Irish Council of Churches. CTBI, unlike its predecessor the British Council of Churches, includes the Catholic Bishops' Conferences of England and Wales and of Scotland as full members, and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ireland as an Associate Member.

The members of CTBI
• Antiochian Orthodox Deanery of UK and Ireland

• Apostolic Pastoral Congress

• Baptist Union of Great Britain

• Cherubim and Seraphim Council of Churches

• Church in Wales

• Church of England

• Church of God of Prophecy

• Church of Ireland

• Church of Scotland

• Christians Abroad

• Congregational Federation

• Coptic Orthodox Church

• Council of African and Caribbean Churches UK

• Council of Oriental Orthodox Churches

• Evangelische Synode Deutscher Sprache in Grossbritannien

• Independent Methodist Churches

• International Ministerial Council of Great Britain

• Joint Council for Anglo-Caribbean Churches

• The Lutheran Council of Great Britain

• The Mar Thoma Church

• Methodist Church in Britain

• Methodist Church in Ireland

• Moravian Church

• New Testament Assembly

• New Testament Church of God

• Oecumenical Patriarchate (Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain)

• Presbyterian Church of Wales

• Catholic Church in England and Wales

• Catholic Church in Scotland

• Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

• Russian Orthodox Church

• Romanian Orthodox Church

• Salvation Army

• Scottish Episcopal Church

• Serbian Orthodox Church

• Trans Atlantic and Pacific Alliance of Churches

• Union of Welsh Independents

• United Free Church of Scotland

• United Reformed Church

• Wesleyan Holiness Church

• Associate Members

• Catholic Church in Ireland

• Seventh-day Adventist Church


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Talk:Adam of Bromen

This is a mistaken reading of Adam of Bremen, on whom there is already an extensive article. I have therefore re-directed from here to the proper article and blanked the text, which is superfluous and was only a stub in any case. I'll take the opportunity to remark that this sort of silly error happens regularly with Nuttall entries, which in my view are a great deal more trouble than they are worth. Staffelde 13:29, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

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Starling (structure)

In architecture, a starling (or sterling) is a defensive bulwark, usually built with pilings or bricks, surrounding the supports (or piers) of a bridge or similar construction. Starlings may be shaped to ease the flow of the water around the bridge, reducing the damage caused by erosion or collisions with flood-borne debris. They may also form an important part of the structure of the bridge, spreading the weight of the piers.

The term cutwater is used for such a structure shaped with water flow in mind, as a pier or starling with a diamond point. A starkwater is a bulwark against ice floes.

Depending on their shape and location, some starlings may accumulate river debris, mud and other objects, potentially creating navigational hazards or hindering downstream water flow.

Shape
Starlings may form part of a buttress for the vertical load of the bridge piers, so would typically be symmetrical. Other symmetrical starlings may be used on tidal stretches of rivers because of bi-directional flow, requiring dual cutwaters; at low tide, Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow, on the Welsh border, can be seen to have cutwaters on both ends of the piers and their foundations. Cutwaters may also be provided downstream to reduce riverbed scour. Other starlings may be asymmetrical, with only an upstream cutwater, the downstream end being flat or rounded.

The starling has a sharpened or curved extreme, sometimes called the nose. The cutwater may be of concrete or masonry, but is often capped with a steel angle to resist abrasion, focusing force at a single point to fracture floating pieces of ice striking the pier. In cold climates, the starling is typically sloped by about 20 to 45° from vertical, so current pushing against part-submerged ice tends to lift and shear it; this can be known as a starkwater. This is distinct from a sloping top to shed the rain.

On a narrow bridge, a cutwater shape can be carried up to the top of the parapet, to provide a pedestrian refuge.

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User talk:Brandoale

Welcome to Wikipedia!

Thanks for your useful contribution on Talk:Fausto Bertinotti. I've edited the page to take it into account.

By the way, when you see something on Wikipedia that needs fixing, feel free to fix it yourself. That's the whole idea of the project. Don't worry about your English: from what I've seen it's good enough for the job. More importantly, most users can notice and fix poor English, and this will usually happen quickly enough. Not everybody will notice a mistake in an article on something they don't know very much about, so it's very helpful if people who do know about the subject fix mistakes that they see in articles.

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John Catsimatidis

John A. Catsimatidis Sr. (born September 7, 1948) is an American billionaire businessman and radio talk show host. He is the owner, president, chairman, and CEO of grocery chains Gristedes and D'Agostino Supermarkets in Manhattan, as well as the Red Apple Group, a real estate and aviation company with about $2 billion in holdings in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania. He is also the chairman and CEO of the Red Apple Group subsidiary United Refining Company.

Catsimatidis is also a talk radio show host. He hosts The Cats Roundtable on WABC and the Cats at Night show. He acquired the WABC radio station in 2019.

Catsimatidis was the runner-up in the Republican nomination for mayor of New York City in the 2013 election.

Early life
Catsimatidis was born on the Greek island of Nisyros on September 7, 1948. He came to the United States with his parents when he was six months old. The family moved to West Harlem, where Catsimatidis grew up. Catsimatidis' father had been a lighthouse operator in Greece but worked as a busboy in New York. Catsimatidis graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1966. He received a congressional nomination to West Point, but chose to study electrical engineering at New York University instead.

While in college, Catsimatidis worked for the uncle of a friend, Tony, in a small supermarket on 137th Street which Tony and his uncle owned. While Catsimatidis was still in college, Tony sold his half of the store to Catsimatidis. Catsimatidis completed four years of college, but dropped out eight credits short of graduating.

Business career
In 1971, Catsimatidis opened his first business in Manhattan's Upper West Side; it was the first Red Apple grocery store. Shortly thereafter, he purchased another grocery store on 87th street just west of Broadway, naming it Red Apple. Among his business innovations were keeping stores open late seven days a week, offering free delivery, and cashing checks for customers.

Catsimatidis has said that by the time he was 24, he had "built up ten stores and the business was doing $25 million a year", and that he was earning $1 million per year. By the summer of 1981, Red Apple had 27 stores in the Bronx and Manhattan, with annual sales of around $40 million. Red Apple's sales grew to $110 million in 1985.

In 1986, Red Apple purchased 36 Gristedes supermarkets and 11 affiliated Charles & Co. speciality-food stores from the Southland Corporation. In 2009, it was reported that Catsimatidis's main holdings included 50 Gristedes supermarkets, 371 gas stations in three states, $500 million in real estate, and an expanding oil business.

In 1986, Catsimatidis acquired United Refining Co., the owner of gasoline refineries in Pennsylvania and Alabama. In October 2009, Forbes magazine reported that United Refining Energy Corp., a publicly-traded special-purpose acquisition company sponsored by United Refining Company, was purchasing "privately held Chaparral Energy in a deal worth roughly $1.6 billion." However, United Refining Energy Corp. shareholders did not approve the deal and it was terminated in December 2009. Catsimatidis is the chairman and CEO of United Refining Co., which is a subsidiary of the Red Apple Group.

In 2008, Catsimatidis became engaged in efforts to take over SemGroup LP, a bankrupt oil, gas, and asphalt trading, storage and transportation company, headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Catsimatidis gained control over a majority of the company's management committee, but his efforts were met by opposition from the company's existing management, who argued for selling off at least some of the company's assets, while Catsimatidis wanted to keep the company together. In February 2009, Catsimatidis was sued by a group of SemGroup executives, who sought the removal of Catsimatidis and his allies from the committee. In July Catsimatidis reached a settlement with SemGroup, pursuant to which he acquired a piece of SemGroup's asphalt business and dropped his competing plan for the company's proposed reorganization.

In 2015, the Red Apple Group ranked 156th on Forbes magazine's list of "America's largest private companies", with revenue of $3 billion and 8,000 employees. (This compares to its 2008 and 2009 rank, both at 100th, 2010 at 78th, 2011 at 98th, and 2012 at 97th).

Catsimatidis is a minority investor in the political newspaper and website The Hill as referenced on the website's articles which mention him.

Catsimatidis shared his rags-to-riches story in his memoir How Far Do You Want To Go?: Lessons From A Common-Sense Billionaire; published by Matt Holt, in February 2023.

Radio
On Sunday mornings, Catsimatidis hosts the talk radio show The Cats Roundtable. The show originated on WABC radio and is syndicated to other stations around the U.S. Catsimatidis also hosts the one-hour Cats at Night show, heard weeknights on WABC and also available as a podcast. In 2019, he acquired WABC for $12.5 million.

Political activities before mayoral campaigns
Catsimatidis and his wife have made contributions to a variety of both Republican and Democratic campaigns. Among Republicans, the Catsimatidises contributed over $60,000 to the Republican National Committee, and have also made significant contributions to the National Republican Congressional Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, Mitt Romney, Eric Cantor, Olympia Snowe, Richard Lugar, and others. Among Democrats handful of Democratic campaigns, including to Carolyn B. Maloney, Charlie Rangel, and Jerrold Nadler. In local New York City races, Catsimatidis has given to Bill de Blasio (while he was a city councilman), Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Cyrus Vance Jr., and Staten Island borough president James Molinaro. In the 1992 Democratic presidential primaries, Catsimatidis contributed $150,000 to the campaign of fellow Greek-American Paul Tsongas.

Catsimatidis put on a fundraiser in 2006 with Michael Bloomberg for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to support his third party run as an independent after Lieberman lost the Democratic primary nomination for reelection to the Senate.

Catsimatidis has been described as a "longtime", "loyal", and "high-level Clinton donor". Catsimatidis donated a significant sum to the Clinton Presidential Center, thought to be between $100,000 and $500,000. Catsimatidis was a member of Hillary Clinton's finance team during her 2008 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying in February 2007 of Clinton, "She's unstoppable. She's got such a machine." Catsimatidis hosted a number of fundraising dinners with Bill Clinton at his home in New York that in total raised well in excess of $750,000 for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Catsimatidis has said that he is friends with Bill Clinton and that the former president "often" has flown in one of Catsimatidis' two airplanes. Hillary Clinton attended Catsimatidis' daughter's wedding.

In 2015, press reports indicated that Catsimatidis donated the use of a chartered jet valued at $70,000 to the Republican primary campaign of Scott Walker.

2009 mayoral campaign
A donor to Bill Clinton during the Clinton years, Catsimatidis, while still enrolled as a Democrat, considered becoming a candidate in the 2009 mayoral election as a Republican. In May 2007, he was reported to be "systematically wooing local Republicans", attending various Republican fundraisers in Queens and Staten Island and stating that he would "probably have a press conference" to announce his intentions "sooner rather than later" and would consider spending between $30 million and $40 million if he ran.

In 2008, Catsimatidis was viewed as a potential mayoral candidate. By July 2008, Catsimatidis formed an exploratory committee. In 2009, Catsimatidis spent nearly $300,000, much of it on polls and consultants, to explore a candidacy. He said he only agreed to drop out after Bloomberg informed him of his plans to seek a third term. Once the city term limits law was changed to allow Bloomberg to run for a third term, Catsimatidis quietly withdrew.

2013 mayoral campaign
During the spring of 2012, Catsimatidis described his dismay over the quality of the announced as well as the presumed candidates. He suggested that he would support New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, but when Kelly repeatedly denied any intention to run, Catsimatidis expressed his own interest.

In December 2012, Catsimatidis established an exploratory committee to consider running for mayor. On January 3, 2013, he filed paperwork with the New York City Campaign Finance Board.

Catsimatidis made his official announcement on January 29, 2013, vowing to be "a leader for Harlem and Wall Street." He stated "I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire. I'm not wearing a $5,000 suit." Through May 15, Catsimatidis (a self-financed candidate) had spent $880,000 on the campaign, mostly on television and radio ads, but also on billboards and items including lip balm and groceries. He hired a campaign consulting firm, Millennial Strategies LLC, that mostly works on Democratic campaigns.

On a December 13 appearance on Inside City Hall, Catsimatidis compared raising taxes on the wealthy to how "Hitler punished the Jews".

Catsimatidis expressed support for the New York City stop-and-frisk program, and two weeks after the Boston Marathon bombing, his campaign ran a radio ad attacking "career politicians want to end stop and frisk and cut the NYPD's powers of surveillance." At a candidates' forum Catsimatidis suggested that "a robot" or other future technology would make the stop-and-frisk program unnecessary in the future, but stated that until that time the program should continue.

At campaign events in April 2013, Catsimatidis claimed that he could have beaten Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election and got into a contentious exchange with various Republican audience members, telling one to "go bullshit yourself if you want!"

Among the "off-the-cuff—and off-beat—policy proposals" that Catsimatidis suggested during the campaign included giving police tricycles to improve mobility, allowing casinos in hotels, and launching a program to give free pet food to people who adopt homeless animals. Catsimatidis's economic proposals include a revival of the 1964 New York World's Fair. The New York Times reported that Catsimatidis "struck an odd note when discussing education policy, expressing unease about the makeup of his daughter's graduating class from New York University's Stern School of Business," stating that "I think close to 480 of the 580 were Asian — Asian including India. And, it was scary. And then when you think about it, we’re going to deport most of these kids."

Catsimatidis called for street vendors to be limited to certain areas, and prohibiting setting up within 300–500 feet of stores selling the same products, complaining at a candidates' forum that "We have cart people right in front of our doorstep. They're selling bananas for half price in front of my own stores. That is wrong."

In the September 2013 Republican primary, Catsimatidis lost to Joseph J. Lhota, receiving 24,864 votes to Lhota's 32,236 votes. Catsimatidis did carry the borough of Staten Island.

Catsimatidis could have chosen to contest the general election on two other ballot lines, either that of the Liberal Party of New York and of a third-party line he created in summer 2013, but two days after his primary, he announced that he would withdraw from the race.

Since 2013

Together with his spouse, Catsimatidis contributed $515,000 to Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign, and he is a vocal Trump supporter.

The New York Times reported in October 2020 that Catsimatidis and his family run the Manhattan Republican Party; his daughter Andrea is the chairwoman, and Catsimatidis, his wife Margo Catsimatidis, and his son John Catsimatidis Jr. are vice-presidents. Between February and July 2020, Catsimatidis contributed $50,000 of the party's $52,000 of income.

Catsimatidis said he considered running in the 2021 New York City mayoral election. He originally suggested he'd run as a Democrat, but retracted that and suggested he would either run again as a Republican or as a member of the Liberal Party.

Catsimatidis told the Washington Examiner in April 2023 that he was ruling out supporting Florida governor Ron DeSantis in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries, due to the latter not returning his phone calls.

On April 24, in an interview with Steve Bannon, Catsimatidis hinted at a potential run in the 2025 New York City mayoral election. He spoke about law and order, and proposed to clean up the streets in 60 days. He also said he would pressure the president of Columbia University to stop pro-Palestinian protesters, and supported nuclear energy.

Personal life
On October 2, 1988, Catsimatidis married Margaret "Margo" Vondersaar at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York; the two had met when she became his secretary in 1972. A previous marriage had ended in divorce; he stated that he was "sometimes" together with Margo while still married to his first wife. At the time of their wedding, Margo led her own advertising agency, MCV Advertising Associates in New York, and was president of The Hellenic Times.

Catsimatidis and Margo have two children, Andrea and John Jr. Andrea married Christopher Cox, grandson of former President Richard Nixon, on June 4, 2011, at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, "before a church packed with family members and political powerhouses." Catsimatidis said that he spent "in excess of $1 million" on the wedding. Andrea Catsimatidis and Cox divorced in 2014.

In the 2015 Forbes 400 "richest people in America" list, Catsimatidis ranked 182nd, with a personal net worth estimated at $3.4 billion; in the Forbes list of global billionaires, he ranked No. 577.

Philanthropy
As of 2001, Catsimatidis was one of the largest donors to the G&P Foundation for Cancer Research He founded and was co-chairman of Brooklyn Tech Endowment Foundation, which benefited his alma mater. Catsimatidis funds the John Catsimatidis Scholarship Fund at the New York University Stern School of Business, which has since 1988 awarded two scholarships each year. Catsimatidis was for five years president of the Manhattan Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He has been on the board of directors of the Police Athletic League of New York City, and the Drum Major Institute.

Other organizations with which Catsimatidis has been active are the National Kidney Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Young Men's Philanthropic League, and Alzheimer's Foundation of America. Catsimatidis was the vice-chairman of the Ellis Island Awards Foundation of the National Ethnic Coalition Organization (NECO), and received an Ellis Island Medal of Honor from that organization.

In light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Catsimatidis created the WABC Radio Foundation to provide humanitarian relief for Ukrainians in need.

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Paleface Adios

Paleface Adios (1969–1989) was an Australian harness racing horse which competed as a pacer throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. He raced from 1972 to 1981, (from the age of two years until he was retired at the age of 11 years) when there was top competition from the likes of the Hondo Grattan and Pure Steel.

He was a chestnut Standardbred pacer with a white blaze and feet, and a golden mane. Paleface Adios was foaled on 1 November 1969, at Temora, NSW and was by Deep Adios (by Adios) out of Rayjen by Brigade Command. Rayjen was the dam of several full siblings to Paleface Adios, but they failed to match his ability as racehorses.

Racing record
Paleface Adios was trained and driven throughout his career by Colin Pike, and was owned by Colin's wife, Shirley Pike. He was nicknamed The Temora Tornado, in honour of the town where he was bred and trained. He raced with a 'daisy cutting' action which gave the impression that his feet were not touching the ground with each stride that he took. Paleface had brilliant early speed and when drawn from the front row of the mobile barrier or in a standing start was rarely headed at the start of his races. He did however win many races coming from back in the field with a sprint in the last lap.

The colt however made an inauspicious debut at Sydney's Harold Park as a two-year-old when he fell, as a short priced favourite. He started in an incredible seven consecutive Miracle Miles at Harold Park (one of Australia's Grand Circuit races which is invitation only) winning once in 1976 beating Don't Retreat and Hondo Grattan in a time of 1.58.4. The 1974 Miracle Mile will live in the memories of those that saw it as Paleface Adios and Hondo Grattan contested the last lap with victory going to Hondo Grattan over his arch-rival to the applause of the crowd. He was also second in the Miracle Mile four times and third once.

He never won Australasia's biggest race, the Inter Dominion but did win eight heats of the event including two heats in 1980 at Harold Park at the age of 10. In his first attempt at the Inter Dominion in 1974 he was involved in a multi horse fall at the start of the race and did not finish. He had the distinction of competing in the Sydney series with his full brother Jacraig Adios, a rare feat.

At one time he held the world record for 1,000 metres following a time trial at Hawkesbury, New South Wales. He became known as the 'Nellie Melba' of trotting as he was retired to stud on several occasions only to be brought back to racing again successfully at the top level. He raced throughout Australia – from Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Brisbane and across to Adelaide and Perth! He won many feature races other than the Miracle Mile such as the Sir Clive Uhr Championship at Albion Park in Brisbane in 1975 and 1977 and the Winfield Cup in Melbourne in 1977 where he defeated Pure Steel and Rip Van Winkle. He also won Cup races at Harold Park including the Lord Mayor's Cup in 1974 and 1976. He was second in the A G Hunter Cup in 1975 behind Royal Gaze and in 1977 to Pure Steel and was third in the Sir Clive Uhr Championship behind Don't Retreat in 1976 and second to Koala King in 1979. He was voted Australian Harness Horse of the Year for the 1976/77 season when he also won the Australian Pacers Grand Circuit. His historic hundredth race win came when he won the 1980 Cranbourne Cup.

During the 1970s, Paleface Adios became a household name in Australia, especially in Melbourne. Harness racing was featured weekly on Saturday night TV as part of the popular live variety show The Penthouse Club. His clashes with Hondo Grattan (the Bathurst Bulldog) were legendary.

Summary
Paleface Adios had 240 starts, for 108 wins (second to Cane Smoke for the all-time most wins in a lifetime [bred in Australia]), 43 seconds and 25 thirds over his career for more than $500,000 in prizemoney.

In the early 1990s Paleface Adios was included in a satirical song honouring Australian sporting legends presented by Graham and The Colonel on ABC TV's The Late Show.

Paleface Adios died at Temora, NSW, on 11 December 1989. It is believed that this was a result of a snake bite but this was never confirmed. He is commemorated by a life-sized monument in Hoskins Street, the main street of Temora.

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Partido Ortodoxo

The Party of the Cuban People – Orthodox (Partido del Pueblo Cubano – Ortodoxos, PPC-O), commonly shortened to the Orthodox Party (Partido Ortodoxo), was a Cuban populist political party. It was founded in 1947 by Eduardo Chibás in response to government corruption and lack of reform. Its primary aims were the establishment of a distinct national identity, economic independence and the implementation of social reforms.

History
In the 1948 general elections Chibás came third in the presidential election, whilst the party won four seats in the House of Representatives. In the 1950 mid-term elections they won nine. Chibás' cousin, Roberto Agramonte, was the favorite to win the 1952 election (for the Ortodoxos) but Fulgencio Batista staged a coup almost three months before the election.

Fidel Castro was an active member of the PPC-O in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He intended to run as a PPC-O candidate for the Cuban parliament prior to Batista's coup.

Ideology and platform
The PPC-O was a catch-all party, open to all that wanted join to it. Generally populist, there were not distinct internal factions or organizations, with all members united by their support of Eduardo Chibás' goals and ideals. The party's composition included several ideological groups ranging from the political centre to the left:
 * Former members of the Authentic Party: staunch nationalists, supporting anti-imperialism and revolutionary goals
 * Former members of the Popular Socialist Party: young socialists and communist soldiers, disappointed by their party's misconduct
 * Former members of the Liberal Party of Cuba: petite bourgeoisie, with more pro-business views

The political program reflected PPC-O's catch-all nature, claiming support for:
 * Direct democracy
 * A multi-party political system
 * The fight against political corruption, embezzlement and criminals
 * Progressivism
 * Anti-imperialism (mainly anti-Americanism) and nationalism
 * Agrarian reform: Abolition of latifundios and monoculture, agricultural diversification
 * Fair payments and economic redistribution
 * Nationalization of railways, power plants, and telecommunications
 * The free market and respect for private ownership
 * Social corporatism and labor rights

The left-wing of the PPC-O had its most influence in the party's youth wing, the Orthodox Youth (Juventud Ortodoxa). A 1948 pamphlet by the Orthodox Youth espoused a Marxist-inspired, democratic socialist platform, but it was also critical of the Soviet-aligned Popular Socialist Party, which upheld Marxism–Leninism.

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SBM Offshore

SBM Offshore N.V. (IHC Caland N.V. prior to July 2005) is a Dutch-based global group of companies selling systems and services to the offshore oil and gas industry. Its constituent companies started their offshore activities in the early 1950s and SBM subsequently became a pioneer in single buoy moorings (SBM) systems. The firm leases and operates Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels, and is involved in the design and engineering, construction, installation,  operation and maintenance of floating production equipment for the offshore Oils and Gas industry. It is a main board listed company on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange and has been a member of the AEX index since 2003. It had been involved in part of a massive corruption scandal in Brazil.

The IHC Holland Partnership
The roots of SBM offshore can be found in the partnership Industriële Handels Combinatie (IHC) founded in The Hague. The idea for IHC came up when the Billiton company made plans for tin mining after the war, and a number of shipyards each deemed themselves incapable to build the required vessels on their own after the war. The partnership consisted of Conrad Shipyard in Haarlem, Gusto Shipyard in Schiedam, Machine Factory De Klop in Sliedrecht, J. & K. Smit in Kinderdijk, L. Smit in Kinderdijk, and Verschure & Co. in Amsterdam. These were all strong players in dredging, but wanted to be more efficient. Therefore they bundled their sales abroad in order have more presence abroad for less cost. IHC Holland did very well. As a specialist in dredging, it had seemed rather immune to the international crisis in shipbuilding, which had been deepest in 1962. Meanwhile the companies all remained independent, and did their own local sales.

The IHC Holland Company
In 1965 the boards of 5 of the 6 companies which cooperated in IHC Holland decided to merge. Conrad Shipyard en Stork Hijsch N.V. could not join, because it was part of the Stork conglomerate. In the new company, Gusto Shipyard in Schiedam would specialize in offshore products. Gusto's Offshore product line had started with drilling pontoons, which were followed by oil platforms, drillships, single buoy moorings (e.g. the famous Brent Spar), etc. The 1973 oil crisis severely hit IHC Holland's offshore activities.

Gusto Staalbouw (Slikkerveer)
The construction shop / shipyard Gusto Staalbouw (Slikkerveer) was founded on 1 October 1973 as a separate company called IHC Gusto Staalbouw BV. The reasons to do this were thought to be in the wage differences between steelworkers and shipbuilders. Gusto Staalbouw first moved to Sliedrecht, and then to Slikkerveer in 1975, where it replaced the local Gusto shipyard. Gusto Staalbouw built a number of offshore products like jackup rigs, but also the single buoy mooring, which was fundamental for the growth of SBM.

Single Buoy Moorings (SBM) established in 1969
The single buoy mooring was an idea by Shell. Gusto shipyard started production of SBM's in the late 1950s with technical assistance by Shell. SBM's became a very successful product of Gusto in the 1960s. However, during installation the builder Gusto often had to call on operator Shell for assistance. In order to solve this Robert Smulders (from the Gusto family) founded a new IHC daughter company on 27 February 1969. This was SBM Inc., specialized in SBM's. It would do marketing and sales, delivery, training of operator staff, after sales, and ideas for new products.

IHC Inc. S.A. was established as a foreign holding in Fribourg, Switzerland. It held the participations in the French offshore drilling company Forasol / Foramer, and SBM Inc. Designers, sales, procurement, and financial administration moved to Switzerland. The holding structure meant that instead of paying 48 % corporate income tax in the Netherlands, IHC paid only 16 % in Switzerland. Soon after the designers moved to Monaco. Monaco had 35 % corporate income tax, and no personal income tax, so this move seemed like tax-shopping. On the other hand Monaco had huge housing cost. The real reason to move there, was that the very international staff required many and speedy work permits, which Switzerland was not willing to provide.

In order to install the buoys, SBM had a ship later called Installer I lengthened at Gusto Schiedam. It got a 50 tons crane, and place on deck for two single buoys moorings. For precise positioning it had many anchors and a system to determine her exact location. She had drills and hammers for undersea pile driving. Her first job was to install a single buoys mooring before the Humber Refinery in England. An early example of SBM's activity was when in the winter of 1970-1971 it installed two SBM's in 80 m deep water in the North Sea.

In 1970 a holding IHC Inter was created to become the proxy owner of the foreign activities. Another new daughter in 1970 was Terminal Installations Inc., designated to specialize in installation of Single Buoy Moorings, and said to be the owner of Installer I.

In August 1971 Egypt ordered 8 single buoy moorings for 65 million guilders, the biggest order for IHC up to that time. It was related to the Sumed pipeline that would be constructed between Suez and Alexandria. In Suez three single buoy moorings would be installed to handle supertankers up to 250,000 ton. In Alexandra there would be five more single buoy moorings. In September 1973 IHC created a participations division, of which SBM was part. In July 1975 Gusto Slikkerveer delivered a more conventional Single Buoy Mooring of 17 m diameter and a height of 11 m. It was especially designed to unload tankers of over 500,000 DWT. Because these could not enter any European harbor, the tankers could also fuel up at the buoy. It would be placed before the coast of Wales in the Irish Sea. It shows the character of the first group of single buoy moorings, which were basically meant as near-offshore loading unloading terminals.

Meanwhile a second group of SBM's was developed to serve as loading points near offshore crude oil platforms. In January 1974 Gusto Slikkerveer delivered an ELBSM, 'Exposed Location Single Buoy Mooring', this was a subtype of group II SBM's meant for rough conditions. It was 76 m long (i.e. high) and had a 24 m diameter. It would be placed in the Auk oilfield of Esso-Shell near the center of the North Sea. It had a helicopter platform, and would stick 24 m above sea level. Another subtype is the SPAR, which is similar to the ELSBM, but includes storage space. By 1975 IHC had delivered over 60 Single Buoy Moorings.

Reorganization of IHC Holland in 1977-1979
In January 1977 IHC Holland had accepted orders for dredging material amounting to 210 million guilders. These orders were known to lead to a significant loss, but the alternative was worse. In order to get government permission for collective layoffs, and subsidies for modernization, IHC was prepared to get rid of its shipyard Gusto Schiedam. This shipyard built offshore products for which there was little demand, and had not yet been modernized. The total of closing Gusto shipyard in Schiedam came to 80 million guilders for IHC, the state paid another 233 million. IHC kept Gusto Staalbouw in Slikkerveer, which had started construction of single buoy moorings only a few years before. The plan to keep the famous Gusto engineering office failed. Its employees moved to Rijn-Schelde-Verolme together with the other employees.

By March 1978 about 100 single buoys moorings had been sold. The total concept, including installation etc. was very successful. By 1978, there was almost a 100 million guilders of foreign profits in the bank accounts of IHC Inc. in Fribourg Switzerland. A substantial amount of these profits would be used in the reorganization of the parent company.

Single Buoy Storage
Meanwhile the Single Buoy Storage (SBS) had been developed in 1973. It was basically an old tanker permanently fixed to a simple single buoy mooring by a fixed yoke. It allowed the tanker to rotate freely while the yoke prevented it from hitting the buoy in calm weather. From 1973 to 1982 SBM delivered 12 SBS's. While the idea of the SBS (and its successor the FPSO) is simple, the technique is complex. The maximum mooring load, or force, that a permanently affixed tanker can exercise on the buoy is huge compared to that of a tanker which is decoupled in bad weather. When the connection is rigid the mooring load increases even more. Therefore, the link between the SBS and the sea bottom has to be elastic, but stiff enough to hold the SBS in position so she can do her work.

Holdings IHC Inter & Caland Holdings (1978-1984)
IHC Inter N.V. was a holding which became the majority owner of the companies which formed the nucleus of SBM Offshore. In 1977 IHC Inc. S.A. was founded by merging IHC Inter S.A. (see above) and IHC Invest S.A. The new S.A. owned Single Buoy Moorings and Terminal Installations Inc. (TII). In 1978 the new company IHC Inter N.V. was founded. During the foundation of the new company the shares of 3.2 million guilder nominal were given to the shareholders of IHC Holland as dividend. Before that, IHC Inc. S.A. first paid 25 million in dividend to IHC Holland. IHC Inter NV would then pay 36.2 million guilders in 10 years to IHC Holland for 60 % of the shares in IHC Inc. S.A. The net result was that the profitable international operations of IHC Inc. S.A. became independent, or safe from the possibility that the troubled dredging division could drag it down. The shares of IHC Inter were irregularly traded at the Amsterdam exchange.

Over 1979 IHC Inter announced a profit of 10.3 million, and that IHC Inc. had just got an order for a floating production system. Over 1980 IHC Inter earned 12.2 million, but did not pay dividend. In June 1981 IHC emitted 191.760 certificates of shares at 105 guilders a piece, i.e. an emission of 20,134,800 guilders. The emission was probably related to IHC stepping into the market for Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) units.

Caland Holdings N.V. (first called IHC Holdings) would become a minority shareholder in a new shipbuilding company IHC Holland, and had other participations. The old IHC Holland, officially named N.V. Industrieele Handelscombinatie Holland, was renamed to IHC Holdings NV in October 1978. The colloquial name IHC Holland then became the official name of a new dredging daughter company, which included the shipyards and Gusto Staalbouw. IHC Holdings became a 45 % shareholder. IHC Holdings NV, the shares of which were traded on the Amsterdam Exchange, was so often confused with IHC Holland, that the name IHC Holdings NV was changed to Caland Holdings NV in October 1979. It would be wrong to think of Caland Holdings primarily as 'parent company' of IHC Holland. In the annual report over 1980 Caland gave its shares in IHC Holland a nill value, but still made a profit of 17.6 million from other sources.

The FPSO
The first floating production system was Transworld 58, a converted drilling rig, deployed on the Argyll field in the North Sea in 1975. The world’s first Floating Production Storage and Offloading unit, or FPSO, was introduced in 1977. It served on Shell’s Castellon field in 117 m deep water in the Spanish Mediterranean. Delta was basically a Single Buoy Storage in which the 59,000 DWT tanker also served to produce oil, instead of simply loading it from the buoy. By the 1976 contract, SBM arranged engineering, procurement, and construction of Delta.

SBM then fundamentally changed its business model by becoming the owner of an FPSO. In 1980 SBM signed a turnkey contract with Amoco for FPSO II, including procurement and conversion of the production tanker. The system would be owned by SBM, and leased to Amoco Philippines for a minimum of three years, including operating and maintenance crews. It cost 84 million guilders. This FPSO was in production for four months in 1981, and during the whole of 1982. In 1992 FPSO II was leased out for three years for USD 30 million, the investment for an FPSO was about USD 70 million.

In 1982 IHC inc. delivered another FPSO to Shell for use on the Tunisian coast.

Gusto Engineering is bought back
IHC Caland had always mourned the loss of the Engineering Office of Gusto Schiedam, which designed large offshore vessels and structures like oil platforms. After the closure of Gusto Schiedam, it had become RSV Gusto Engineering with 120 employees. In early 1980 the ROS plan to continue shipbuilding and offshore construction at RSV failed. In December 1980, IHC Inter N.V. and IHC Holland then each took one third of the shares of Gusto Engineering. One of the labor unions objected, fearing that IHC would use the office to build abroad. In 1984 IHC Caland would buy the remaining shares of RSV.

IHC Inc. owned by IHC Caland (1984-2005)
In 1984 IHC Inter NV (60 % owner of SBM) and Caland Holdings (40 % owner of SBM) merged again to become IHC Caland. This changed little for IHC Caland's shipbuilding daughter IHC Holland. For IHC Inc. the merger meant the loss of independence. On the other hand it could profit from know how of IHC Holland. BNP Paribas soon built up an interest of 35 % of the shares.

Profit of IHC Caland over 1984 was 34.6 million against 45 million in 1983. Meanwhile another tanker was bought to build an FPSO that would be leased out. Over 1985 IHC Caland suffered a loss of 15 million, because the lower oil price necessitated a depreciation of the oil reserves of its daughter Caland Petroleum Corporation. Over 1986 the result was even worse, with a loss of 72 million guilders, and liquidation of Caland Petroleum Corporation. Over 1987 there was a small profit of 2.8 million.

In 1988 IHC Caland lost its old shares in IHC Holland, and got a new 47 % share in it. Other participants were Ellicott Machine Corp. for 42 % and Algemene Participatie Maatschappij for 12 %. The total price was 34 million. Over 1988 there was still a loss of 45 million, mainly caused at the 33.3 % participation in French drilling company Forasol. Over 1989 there was a profit of 26.9 million, mainly from the share in IHC Holland. In April 1990 IHC Caland then increased its share in IHC Holland to 70 %. Over 1990 profit was 33 million. A nice aspect of IHC Holland was that it contained so much old losses, that its contribution to the holding would not be subject to taxes till about 2000. Meanwhile IHC Caland thought about increasing its fleet of FPSO's which consisted only of two units, one in Nigeria and one in the Philippines. In 1991 profit was 51.6 million. In 1992 IHC Caland had three FPSO's. In May 1992 IHC Caland announced that it had become 100 % owner of IHC Holland after purchasing the last 30 % from Ellicott. Over 1992 profit was 45 million.

In February 1993 IHC Caland bought De Merwede Shipyard in Hardinxveld-Giessendam. It had 400 employees and primarily built dredging vessels. At that time IHC Holland, with operations in Sliedrecht and Kinderdijk had more work than it could handle. IHC wanted to prevent competitors from easily (re)entering the dredging market by buying Merwede shipyard. At the time IHC Holland differed from other shipyards by working with many temporary staff. The acquisition increased its capacity. Merwede would be reorganized to become more effective, and would specialize in tankers and containerships. Over 1993 profit was 53.5 million. In 1994 profit was 64.2 million. While it was obvious that IHC Caland guarded its dredging secrets, this also applied to offshore. SBM was ordered to have the most advanced parts of her systems made at IHC Holland. CEO J. Bax: 'We do not want this knowledge to leak away to the far east. It will probably be somewhat more expensive, but we gladly pay this price.'

Offshore Design (1984-2012)
IHC Caland's daughter Gusto Engineering continued to be successful with designs for drill ships, offshore cranes, crane ships etc. In 1989 IHC Caland then bought Marine Structure Consultants (MSC), an engineering office that was very successful in the design of jackup rigs. In 2011 Gusto Engineering and MSC were merged into GustoMSC. In 2012 SBM Offshore sold GustoMSC for US$185 million to investment firm Parcom Capital, a subsidiary of ING Group Capital. GustoMSC was subsequently purchased by American multinational oil equipment and rig manufacturer National Oilwell Varco.

SBM Offshore
On 1 March 2005 IHC Caland sold its daughters IHC Holland and De Merwede, and continued with only the far more profitable SBM daughter. It then changed its name to SBM Offshore.

Bribery and corruption scandal (2005-to present)
The company was involved in one of the biggest worldwide corporate bribery and corruption scandals in recent history. It was alleged that between 2005 and 2011 SBM Offshore had paid more than 250 million dollars (185 million euros) in bribes in many countries, and committed other malpractices. This could be seen in a document from somebody, who identified himself as: 'a former employee'. SBM identified him as a former judicial employee who stole the information in 2012, and tried to blackmail SBM for three million euro, according to Jonathan Taylor According to the website of the magazine Quote SBM confirmed that the document is genuine.

In November 2014 SBM Offshore avoided criminal prosecution in the Netherlands by paying a record settlement of $240 million to the Dutch Public prosecutor (OM) for the affairs in Brazil, Angola and Equatorial Guinea. In exchange no court case followed and no admission of guilt was entered. For the prosecutor it was important that the company had implemented major reforms to prevent re-offending. "We are now a white swan in a pitch-black pond" said SBM director Sietze Hepkema in an interview in December 2014. The man hired to clean up the company said he did not expect further fines in Brazil. "I really think we were punished enough, and took the necessary steps to become transparent" he said. "As such we refuse to be considered as Brazil’s smelly kid in the classroom." One of the measures that was taken was to move the headquarters of SBM from Monaco to Amsterdam.

The center of the corruption scandal was in Brazil, where SBM bribed officials of the state oil company Petrobras in order to secure contracts. During the epic corruption investigation Operation Car Wash, Brazilian authorities investigated the embezzlement of 2-13 billion USD in Petrobras funds. Operation Black Blood, which started in December 2015, was one of the over 50 offshoot investigations of Operation Car Wash. It investigated the role of SBM, whose representative Júlio Faerman was accused of having paid USD 139 million in bribes to Petrobras employees. Júlio Faerman was also charged with paying bribes for Rolls-Royce to sell power turbines to Petrobras. In order to be able to take part in Petrobras contracts in the future, SBM agreed to a R$1 billion (c. EUR 285 million) settlement with the Brazilian government. Nevertheless, many of SBM's executives still faced criminal charges in Brazil.

It would indeed take some time for SBM to finally end the corruption affair. In 2016 it settled for USD 162.8 million, of which 149 million for Petrobras for corruption between 1996 and 2012. In late 2017 SBM settled with the American authorities for USD 238 million for bribery in Brazil, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Kazachstan and Iraq. In September 2018 SBM reached what would prove to be a final settlement in Brazil, paying 48 million to Petrobras. In October 2019 this settlement was finalized when the last case of the Brazil authorities was retracted for unclear reasons.

Operations
The company was the first to offer an integrated oil and gas production service through the investment in a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit. The lease and operation of FPSOs has become a large component of the company's activity and SBM Offshore now owns and operates the world's largest fleet. Other activities include design and engineering, turnkey supply, and specialised services such as maintenance and offshore installation. The most recent addition to the product line is midscale LNG (liquefied natural gas) FPSOs for a capacity in the range of 1 and 2 MTPA (Million Tonne Per Annum) with Nitrogen expansion liquefaction technology, developed in collaboration with The Linde Group.

The firm operates from five main execution centres: the global headquarters in Schiedam, Monaco, Kuala Lumpur, Houston and Brazil. The company employs over 8,000 individuals worldwide.

On 18 August 2009, SBM Offshore announced the signing of a framework agreement with Shell for the supply of turret mooring systems for Shell's floating liquified natural gas (FLNG) project. The deal covers the supply of turret mooring systems for a period of up to 15 years. The 3.5-million-tonne-per-annum FLNG facility will produce liquefied natural gas offshore and will be moored with an internal and permanently connected freely weather-vaning turret mooring system. SBM Offshore said the turret mooring system is expected to be the largest in terms of diameter with capability to handle mooring loads in excess of current systems.

Group companies

 * LMC Atlantia Inc., Houston
 * LMC Holding Inc. S.A
 * SBM Schiedam B.V.
 * SBM Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur
 * SBM Production Contractors Inc., Monaco
 * Single Buoy Moorings Inc., Monaco
 * SBM Nauvata Private Limited., Bengaluru India

In November 2012 SBM sold offshore design company GustoMSC B.V. in Schiedam, the Netherlands, to investment firm Parcom Capital, a subsidiary of ING Group Capital.

FPSOs

 * Alexandre de Gusmão FPSO (under construction)
 * Almirante Tamandaré FPSO (under construction)
 * Aseng FPSO
 * Brasil FPSO (de-commissioned)
 * Capixaba FPSO (de-commissioned)
 * Cidade de Anchieta FPSO (former Espadarte FPSO)
 * Cidade de Paraty FPSO
 * Cidade de Ilhabela FPSO
 * Cidade de Maricá FPSO
 * Cidade de Saquarema FPSO
 * Espírito Santo FPSO
 * Falcon FPSO (de-commissioned)
 * Jaguar FPSO (under construction)
 * Kikeh FPSO
 * Kuito FPSO (de-commissioned)
 * Liza Destiny FPSO
 * Liza Unity FPSO
 * Marlim Sul FPSO (de-commissioned)
 * Mondo FPSO
 * N'Goma FPSO (former Xikomba FPSO)
 * ONE GUYANA FPSO (under construction)
 * P-57 FPSO (sold)
 * Prosperity FPSO
 * Saxi-Batuque FPSO
 * Sepetiba FPSO
 * Serpentina FPSO
 * Thunder Hawk
 * Turritella FPSO (sold)

Vessels

 * Deep Water Installation Vessel - Normand Installer
 * Diving Support and Construction Vessel - SBM Installer
 * DSV Dynamic Installer (Sold in 2012)

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redirect to non-existent page, the organisation seems to exist... but.. this article doesnt add anything --Isolani 13:32, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

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