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R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour

R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour is a live DVD by the Canadian rock band Rush, released on November 22, 2005 in Canada and the US, and November 28, 2005 in Europe. The DVD documents the band's R30: 30th Anniversary Tour, and was recorded on September 24, 2004 at the Festhalle Frankfurt, Germany.

The DVD was released in both a standard and a deluxe set. The standard set includes a DVD of the concert, a second DVD of various interviews/extra live footage/easter eggs, and a booklet. The deluxe edition set includes all the items in the standard edition, as well as two CDs of the DVD content, two limited-edition Rush guitar picks, a souvenir backstage pass, and special slipcase packaging. The CD’s are only available in the deluxe edition set. The guitar picks have Alex Lifeson's and Geddy Lee's signatures printed on them, and come in three colors: red, yellow, and black. The colors of the picks are random in packages.

To reduce overlap with the band's 2003 release Rush in Rio, eight songs were cut from both DVD versions: "Bravado", "YYZ", "The Trees", "One Little Victory", "Secret Touch", "Red Sector A", "La Villa Strangiato", and By-Tor and the Snow Dog". The audio CDs in the deluxe version present the shortened set-list as well. Five of the deleted songs were later released:

 * "Red Sector A" on the Snakes & Arrows Live DVD (2008)
 * "Secret Touch" on the DVD included with the two-disc version of the Retrospective III: 1989–2008 compilation (2009)
 * "One Little Victory" on the DVD included with the two-disc version of the Working Men compilation (2009)
 * "Bravado" and "YYZ" as bonus features for the home media release of the documentary film Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (2010)

The R30 track "Der Trommler" is a drum solo by Neil Peart. The track "R30 Overture" is an instrumental medley of six early Rush songs, one from each of the first six studio albums, with flashes of the band's history appearing in the background at the concerts. The R30 releases also feature four songs from the band's 2004 "cover" EP Feedback. The tour ultimately featured at least one song from every one of their albums up until that point, except Caress of Steel (beyond the snippet of "Bastille Day" as part of the R30 Overture) and Presto.

A Blu-ray version of R30, containing the complete concert, was released on December 8, 2009 in the US, and in late 2013 in Europe.

The booklet includes the tour and show credits, as well as many photos of the band chronologically. At the end, a photo of all their albums are shown, which includes their live releases and some compilations albums. The souvenir backstage pass is a fuzzy sticker with paper on the back. From top to bottom, it reads: "rush [;] WORLD TOUR 2004 [;] R30 [;] all areas".

DVD disc 1

 * 1) "R30 Overture" - ("Finding My Way"/"Anthem"/"Bastille Day"/"A Passage to Bangkok"/"Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage, Book II: Hemispheres - Prelude")
 * 2) "The Spirit of Radio"
 * 3) "Force Ten"
 * 4) "Animate"
 * 5) "Subdivisions"
 * 6) "Earthshine"
 * 7) "Red Barchetta"
 * 8) "Roll the Bones"
 * 9) "The Seeker"
 * 10) "Tom Sawyer"
 * 11) "Dreamline"
 * 12) "Between the Wheels"
 * 13) "Mystic Rhythms"
 * 14) "Der Trommler" (Neil Peart's drum solo)
 * 15) "Resist" (the acoustic arrangement first heard on Rush in Rio)
 * 16) "Heart Full of Soul"
 * 17) "2112" ("Overture"/"Temples of Syrinx"/"Grand Finale")
 * 18) "Xanadu" (abbreviated version)
 * 19) "Working Man"
 * 20) "Summertime Blues"
 * 21) "Crossroads"
 * 22) "Limelight"

Running Time: 2 hours 10 minutes

DVD disc 2

 * 1) 1979: Interview with Geddy Lee at Ivor Wynne Stadium – Tour of the Hemispheres (10:00)
 * 2) 1980: Interview at Le Studio recording studio in Quebec featuring all three members together, on the making of the Permanent Waves album (13:00)
 * 3) 1990: Juno Awards Artist of the Decade interviews (1980s) featuring all three members separately (15:34)
 * 4) 1994: CBC Television: Juno Awards news report - Induction of Rush into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, presented by Tom Cochrane (17:33)
 * 5) 2002: Interview with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson for the release of the album Vapor Trails (12:51)
 * 6) "Fly by Night" - Church Session Video (1975)
 * 7) "Finding My Way" - from the band's appearance on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (1975)
 * 8) "In the Mood" - Same performance as above
 * 9) "Circumstances"
 * 10) "La Villa Strangiato"
 * 11) "A Farewell to Kings" - Seneca College Theatre (1977)
 * 12) "Xanadu" - Seneca College Theatre (1977)
 * 13) "The Spirit of Radio" - sound check at Ivor Wynne Stadium (1979)
 * 14) "Freewill" - Toronto Rocks festival performance (2003)
 * 15) "Closer to the Heart" - Canadian Tsunami Disaster Fund charity telethon performance on CBC Television, with Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies and Mike Smith in character as Bubbles of the Trailer Park Boys (2005)
 * 16) 1988: Rush hits St. John's (Easter egg) - Interviews with Geddy Lee and fans prior to a Rush concert in St. John's
 * 17) 1990: Alex's Interview for Artist of the Decade (1980s) (Easter egg) - Outtakes from Alex Lifeson's Artist of the Decade interview

Running Time: 2 hours 8 minutes

CD disc 1

 * 1) "R30 Overture" – ("Finding My Way", "Anthem", "Bastille Day", "A Passage to Bangkok", "Cygnus X-1", "Hemispheres") – 6:42
 * 2) "The Spirit of Radio" – 5:05
 * 3) "Force Ten" – 4:49
 * 4) "Animate" – 5:49
 * 5) "Subdivisions" – 6:09
 * 6) "Earthshine" – 5:41
 * 7) "Red Barchetta" – 6:49
 * 8) "Roll the Bones" – 6:22
 * 9) "The Seeker" – 3:27
 * 10) "Tom Sawyer" – 5:00
 * 11) "Dreamline" – 5:20

Running Time: 61:19

CD disc 2

 * 1) "Between the Wheels" – 6:17
 * 2) "Mystic Rhythms" – 5:22
 * 3) "Der Trommler" – 9:01
 * 4) "Resist" – 4:33
 * 5) "Heart Full of Soul" – 2:44
 * 6) "2112" ("Overture"/"Temples of Syrinx"/"Grand Finale") – 8:24
 * 7) "Xanadu" (abbreviated version) – 6:44
 * 8) "Working Man" – 6:14
 * 9) "Summertime Blues" – 3:41
 * 10) "Crossroads" – 3:13
 * 11) "Limelight" – 4:57

Running Time: 61:13

Blu-Ray disc
Full concert running time: 182 minutes plus the extra features of the second DVD (127 minutes)
 * 1) "R30 Overture" – ("Finding My Way", "Anthem", "Bastille Day", "A Passage to Bangkok", "Cygnus X-1", "Hemispheres")
 * 2) "The Spirit of Radio"
 * 3) "Force Ten"
 * 4) "Animate"
 * 5) "Subdivisions"
 * 6) "Earthshine"
 * 7) "Red Barchetta"
 * 8) "Roll the Bones"
 * 9) "Bravado" (previously unreleased)
 * 10) "YYZ" (previously unreleased)
 * 11) "The Trees" (previously unreleased)
 * 12) "The Seeker"
 * 13) "One Little Victory" (previously unreleased)
 * 14) "Tom Sawyer"
 * 15) "Dreamline"
 * 16) "Secret Touch" (previously unreleased)
 * 17) "Between the Wheels"
 * 18) "Mystic Rhythms"
 * 19) "Red Sector A" (previously unreleased)
 * 20) "Der Trommler"
 * 21) "Resist"
 * 22) "Heart Full of Soul"
 * 23) "2112" ("Overture"/"Temples of Syrinx"/"Grand Finale")
 * 24) "La Villa Strangiato" (previously unreleased)
 * 25) "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" (previously unreleased)
 * 26) "Xanadu" (abbreviated version)
 * 27) "Working Man"
 * 28) "Summertime Blues"
 * 29) "Crossroads"
 * 30) "Limelight"

Personnel

 * Geddy Lee – bass and acoustic guitars, keyboards, vocals
 * Alex Lifeson – electric and acoustic guitars, bass pedal synth
 * Neil Peart – drums, percussion

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marjolein Hoekstra

 * 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 --Cel e stianpower hablamé 13:58, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Marjolein Hoekstra
Little assertion of notability; I ask fellow editors to help determine this. Half the info in this stub seems a bit vanity-oriented -- her life with husband and dogs, and love of music and helping newbies. If she is notable, it should be better established. paul klenk talk 00:59, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete 96 unique google hits -- fairly typical for a blogger. Pburka 01:56, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. — ceejayoz ★ 02:14, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as above --CastAStone 05:04, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete blogger, even in the websites linked in the article she's not notable. Garion96 11:15, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity CLW 16:04, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN vanity --Rogerd 20:50, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
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Lisa Alther

Lisa Alther (born July 23, 1944) is an American author and novelist.

Personal life
Alther was born in Kingsport, Tennessee in 1944. Her father was a surgeon, while her mother was a homemaker. She has 3 brothers and a sister.

She graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in English literature in 1966. She then attended the Publishing Procedures Course at Radcliffe College.

After graduation Alther worked briefly for Atheneum Publishers in New York before moving to rural Vermont. Alther wrote fiction steadily for years, without success, collecting more than 250 rejection slips without getting published. She was stubborn however, and determined to succeed. When she finally succeeded, with Kinflicks in 1975, the novel was phenomenally successful.

Alther now divides her time among East Tennessee, Vermont, and New York City. She has one daughter.

Career
Alther is the author of six contemporary novels, Kinflicks, Original Sins, Other Women, Bedrock, Five Minutes In Heaven, and Swan Song, as well as a small number of published short stories and many magazine articles. She also wrote Washed in the Blood, a three-part historical novel concerning the earliest European settlement of the southern Appalachians. All of her novels include lesbian or bisexual women characters. She is also known for her humor writing.

She has also written two non-fiction books, Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree—the Search for My Melungeon Ancestors (2007; ISBN 1-55970-832-8) and Blood Feud: The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder and Vengeance (2012; ISBN 978-0762779185).

Alther has taught Southern fiction at Saint Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont, and at East Tennessee State University, where she was awarded the Basler Chair.

Between 1978 and 1980, Alther lived in London, where she became friends with Doris Lessing. Lessing took an interest in Kinflicks and helped get the work published in London through a contact at Alfred A. Knopf.

It was through Lessing that Alther met the writer, thinker and teacher of Sufi mysticism, Idries Shah. Shah had adapted many Sufi classical works and teaching stories for contemporary readers, and, taking a great interest in these works, Alther read them all, and she also wrote reviews for Shah's books, such as World Tales. In 2020 Alther received the Idries Shah Foundation Award for Human Achievement for “contributions to literature.”

Reviews

 * Original Sins - Review by Carolyn Clay in The Boston Phoenix (7 July 1981)
 * Other Women - briefly noted in The New Yorker 60/49 (21 January 1985): 94

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Gustaf Nordenskiöld

Gustaf Nordenskiöld (29 June 1868 – 6 June 1895) was a Swedish scholar of Finnish-Swedish descent who was the first to scientifically study the ancient Pueblo cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde. He was a member of the Nordenskiöld family of scientists and the eldest son of polar explorer Baron Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and his equally aristocratic wife, Anna Maria Mannerheim.

Nordenskiöld was featured on the Ken Burns PBS series The National Parks: America's Best Idea.

Early life
Nordenskiöld completed school at Beskowska skolan in Stockholm and studied at Uppsala University and the new University of Stockholm, graduating with a B.A. from Uppsala in 1889. The next year (1890) he traveled to Svalbard together with J. A. Björling and A. Klinckowström, bringing a collection of plant fossils back to the Swedish Museum of Natural History. After his return, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and went to Berlin for treatment.

Nordenskiöld in America
Nordenskiöld's North American segment of a world tour began when he landed in New York on 27 May 1891 aboard the SS Waesland of the Red Star Line. (Letter No. 2, The Letters of Gustaf Nordenskiöld Mesa Verde 1991). In Letter No. 9 from Charleston, North Carolina, he tells his father to address letters to the Swedish Consulate in San Francisco and on 27 June 1891 he wrote to his mother from Denver, Colorado, and included a request that further letters be addressed to the Swedish Consulate in Yokohama, Japan, so the world tour was still on his mind. Three days later, on 30 June 1891, also from Denver, he tells his father that tomorrow he was going to Durango, Colorado, and the "Mancos Valley" where there are a "number of cliff dwellings".

This break in the itinerary of his world tour was permanent.

When Nordenskiöld arrived in Durango he made arrangements to stay with cattle rancher Richard Wetherill at the Alamo Ranch in Mancos, Colorado. This is confirmed in a 2 July 1893 letter to his father in which he requests his photographic equipment, consisting of a camera, tripod, lens, cassette for photographic plates, shutter, dark cloth, and "as well as my barometer". (Letter No. 15, The Letters of Gustaf Nordenskiöld Mesa Verde 1991.) He also says in the same letter that his father should answer by telegram whether he should remain where he is. He worked with Wetherill, discoverer of the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings in 1888, and Charles Mason. The Wetherill's led Nordenskiöld through the canyons and sandstone cliffs of the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings where he applied his European scientific training, conducting the first archaeological excavation of the cliff dwellings. Nordenskiöld employed Wetherill to supervise excavations at Mesa Verde and trained Wetherill in a number of techniques, such as how to use a trowel (he had been using a shovel). Nordenskiöld explained to Wetherill the importance of documentation.

Arrest and exoneration
In the late 19th century, there were no laws against treasure-hunting or selling artifacts in Colorado; in addition to the ever-present threat of vandalism and looting, scholars and tourists alike had the habit of taking valuable items from Mesa Verde as trophies. In this climate, Nordenskiöld loaded Mesa Verde artifacts into Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad boxcars in Durango, Colorado, and headed for Europe, with most of the items eventually ending up at the National Museum of Finland.

Nordenskiöld biographers Judith Reynolds and David Reynolds describe the ensuing situation as an "international incident." Angry locals charged Nordenskiöld with "devastating the ruins" and had him arrested at midnight at the Strater Hotel even though there were no laws at the time supporting such a charge. In addition to the issue of removing artifacts, xenophobia may have played a role in Nordenskiöld's arrest. In the December 9, 2005, Denver Post article, Electra Draper wrote: "...residents of Durango were beginning to think foreigners shouldn't be removing local artifacts." No intervention was taken against Americans who were also looting the sites.

When Nordenskiöld was arrested on 17 September 1891 he sent this telegram to his father: "much trouble some expense no danger" (original omits capitalization). Letter No. 31, The Letters of Gustaf Nordenskiöld Mesa Verde 1991.

In the end, Nordenskiöld took more than 150 photographs of Mesa Verde, and logged multiple sites.

Originally published in a Stockholm newspaper, and then later written in the preface to his 1892 book "From the Far West, Memories of America" Nordenskiöld states "The free roaming nomadic life, which this research forced me into, appealed greatly to my spirit and created a desire for excursions farther into the deserts of the American West. I decided to go roaming on horseback with two companions through the northern part of Arizona." He made this trip, actually through Indian country in Colorado, Utah and Arizona, which went as far as the Grand Canyon. (Kungl. Boktryckeriet P.A. Norstedt & Soner Stockholm, 1892. In English, The Mesa Verde Museum Association, Mesa Verde National Park, CO 81330)

In 1893 he published one of the first books about Mesa Verde, The Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde, Southwestern Colorado: Their Pottery and Implements, a monumental report of his excavations, describing in detail the buildings, pottery, skeletal remains, and tools found at the sites.

A full rendering of Gustaf Nordenskiöld's book in the 1893 version (see pg. v) is here http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000029476458. (Courtesy of the Hilthi Trust Digital Library, University of Michigan Library.)

After his return from America, Nordenskiöld occupied himself with mineralogical studies, but his health started to deteriorate again in 1894. He died on June 6, 1895, aboard a train traveling to Jämtland, only 27 years old.

As he predeceased his father the Baron, he did not inherit the family title, which therefore passed to his brother Erland, on the death of their father, in 1901.

Archives and collections
Nordenskiöld's collections from Mesa Verde were bought by a Finnish collector who eventually donated them to the University of Helsinki. They are now held by the National Museum of Finland and were on display at the Museum of Cultures in the Tennispalatsi building in central Helsinki, as part of the collection called "Fetched from Afar" (Kaukaa Haettua) until 19 May 2013. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences contains an archive of photographs, notes, correspondence and newspaper clippings. The Riksarkivet includes letters to his father from Washington, Philadelphia, Charleston, Mammoth Cave (in Kentucky), Durango, Navajo Canyon, and other locations.

Publications

 * From the Far West, Memories of America. G. Nordenskiold. Translated by Larry E. Scott and Kent R. Olson. Reprinted 2010, East Hall Press, Augustana College. Originally published in 1892 as Från Fjärran Västern, Minnen från Amerika in Stockholm by P. A. Norstedt & Söners. ISBN 1878326171
 * The Cliff Dwellers of the Mesa Verde, Southwestern Colorado: Their Pottery and Implements. Appendix: Human remains from the Cliff Dwellings of the Mesa Verde. G. Nordenskiold. Translated by D. L. Morgan. Reprinted 2017 by FB&C Limited. Originally published in 1893 as Ruiner af Klippboningar i Mesa Verde's Cañons in Stockholm by P. A. Norstedt & Söners. ISBN 0265584868
 * The Letters of Gustaf Nordenskiold - with Articles from Ymer and Photographic Times. Publisher: Mesa Verde Museum Association in 1991. ISBN 0937062162.

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Seven Spears of Shizugatake

The Seven Spears of Shizugatake (賤ヶ岳の七本槍) were a sobriquet of 7 vassals of Toyotomi Hideyoshi at the battle of Shizugatake in 1583. At the decisive moment in the battle, Hideyoshi ordered them to leave the position and charge at the opposing army of Shibata Katsuie. After Hideyoshi gained control of Japan, many of the members were promoted to Daimyō.

The Seven Spears of Shizugatake were the following Samurai:

 * Fukushima Masanori (1561–1624)
 * Hirano Nagayasu (1559–1628)
 * Kasuya Takenori (1562–1607)
 * Katagiri Katsumoto (1556–1615)
 * Katō Kiyomasa (1562–1611)
 * Katō Yoshiaki (1563–1631)
 * Wakizaka Yasuharu (1554–1626)

Historiography
The sobriquet of "Seven Spears of Shizugatake" were somewhat a misnomer nicknames as the term actually appeared first in the "Tenshoki" record authored by Edo period writer Omura Yuko, who recorded not 7 but 9 of Hideyoshi's vassals were granted huge rewards for their service in Shizugatake. Meanwhile, historian Watanabe Daimon stated that the term of "Seven Spears" first appeared in Taikōki works by Oze Hoan in 1625, 42 years after the battle of Shizugatake occurred.

Recent academic research has questioned the true achievements of these figures in Shizugatake, as the importance of some of them were actually exaggerated by Hideyoshi, who at that time did not have any vassals with established reputation or strong influence. According to history record, Katō Kiyomasa's rise to fame was largely due to his accomplishments in the finances and civil administration of the Hashiba family, and the anecdotes which told his legendary military feats in Shizugatake were unconfirmed. Fukushima Masanori also said that he felt embarrassed to be compared with Wakizaka Yasuharu.

Context
Fukushima, Katō Kiyomasa and Katō Yoshiaki were given large benefices by Hideyoshi, 240,000 Koku in Owari Province, 195,000 Koku in Higo Province and 100,000 Koku in Iyo Province, respectively. The rest of the members remained as a small retainer of some thousands Koku.

At the Battle of Sekigahara and Siege of Osaka, all of them betrayed Toyotomi Hideyori, the son of Hideyoshi, with the exception of Kasuya Takenori who fought at Sekigahara under Ishida Mitsunari. The rest took the part of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Takenori was later pardoned. After the foundation of the Tokugawa shogunate, they or their successors were ousted from their territories, except Hirano.

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Talk:Gary Birdsong

University of Florida in Gainesville appearance
During the 1999-2000 school year, I saw this guy preach at the University oF Florida in Gainesville, should that be mentioned in the article? He also called people "whores" and "whoremongers," which i did not see mentioned in the article. He did claim to have not sinned at all in the past 17 years or something like that.

This article needs to be revised
This article is mostly slanderous accusations and jokes and as it stands has no place on Wikipedia. I nominated it for a POV dispute. Any actual biographical information or a neutral assessment of the various points of view or controversies surrounding him would be valid but this article was obviously written by someone with a very strong point of view and an agenda to slander this man and make a mockery of him on the internet. Almost everything stated in the article is hearsay, or specifically intended to mock this man or evoke a negative reaction against him. The author of this article has disrepected the purpose of Wikipedia and used it as a forum for his satirical writing, which is completely inappropriate. -bjoleniacz
 * I have removed the "Theories" section, since this was the most egregrious NPOV violation. It appears here: --TexasDex 02:51, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Theories

I feel the theories are legimate, even if not true they are all possibilities, with the exception of the anecdote about hitting his wife. That could possibly go under some kind of "Gary Humor" section, but the theory that it is a school-supported sociology experiment is widely believed. -sublime0bass

As well as taking him on face value, several theories have been formulated about Rev. Birdsong:
 * Birdsong admitted to hitting his wife because "there is nothing he hates more than a nagging woman."
 * Birdsong is hired by the schools at which he preaches, to stir up controversy and incite discussion.
 * Birdsong is actually satirizing evangelical Christianity, perhaps with the intention of turning people away from it.
 * Birdsong doesn't really believe what he says, but, through his appearances, hopes to get students talking about religion and Christianity. When he uses outlandish quotes from the Bible to support seemingly absurd claims, he is attempting to get people to pick up the Bible and read it for themselves.
 * Birdsong is literally insane, and/or craves attention.
 * Rumors have circulated among students that he did have a wife who left him but this has not been confirmed. He has, however, mentioned being divorced since the 70's.
 * Birdsong has a son who he disowned for being homosexual.
 * Birdsong is a latant homosexual whose violent tendencies erupt in debate as he stares at all the hard bodies of the college men.
 * Birdsong is a disgruntled postal worker whose violent tendencies are limited to denouncing all college students.

I personally heard Gary Birdsong say to a large group at UNC Chapel Hill that he beat his wife because she liked it. He then said after he stopped beating his wife, she left him. -- Ivey99

 * Birdsong doesn't really believe what he says, but, through his appearances, hopes to get students talking about religion and Christianity. When he uses outlandish quotes from the Bible to support seemingly absurd claims, he is attempting to get people to pick up the Bible and read it for themselves.

I heard Gary say this himself at NCSU In September 2005. -David77

African American?
Gary accuses students of being African American? Perhaps that should be deleted from the list, or at least clarified...

I never heard the Pit Preacher called the Pit Creature at UNC-CH.

I wish Gary would come to the west coast...

Pit Creature
Yes, Pit Creature is new to me too. He was always the referred to as the Pit Preacher while I was there. I recall seeing some photos of him at NCSU in which he was preaching while a student stipped in front of him. Quite amusing. What was up with those dudes with the giant crucifix banners with the belt mount that would hang out in the pit? Where did they go?

He is NOT called the Pit Creature....simply the Pit Preacher!

UNC*Charlotte November 2, 2005
UNCC****YAY for Meredith and Cassy dancing in their bras on the Belk Tower to some "evil hippie music" and scaring Preacher Gary away...Preacher Gary shouted, ::lunge forward/waving bible:: "homosexual whores, you're going to hell! I will pray for you!!!" and then he walked away!

Oh yes. I am a friend of the two girls who danced and one I let borrow my bra so she could do so. I would say down with Preacher Gary, but it's free entertainment and gets people thinking, as well as an open forum for controversial topics. So kudos to Gary for at least putting it all out there.

UNC*Charlotte
Those last 2 theories are just outlandish and stupid!!!...and I haven't heard that his son was homosexual b4 but he might have said it to someone on another campus...but i think i heard him say something about his 15 year old grand*daughter being pregnant...I can't say for sure this is true though.

This Article Is Accurate
To the person claiming slander and whatnot--have you ever seen/heard Gary Birdsong? I'm a God-fearing (moderate) Christian and would defend to the death your average ultra-conservative preacher, but this guy is clearly either going for entertainment value or there's something wrong with his head. That said, those last two "theories" are absurd and uncalled for. And I too have never heard him called the Pit Creature. Until someone posts a audio/video clip, I'll say for the record that I've heard him say very similar things to what's quoted here. The article is not an exaggeration.

I think that this entry is an accurate depiction of Rev. Birdsong. I have heard him preach on several occasions and the things described in the entry are consistent with his sermons. I do not have an ax to grind with religion, but I do not think the article is biased toward any particular viewpoint -- I think they stem from his own words, which are accurately quoted.

-- I agree with this statement. I have heard nearly all of these claims personally, and none of them are slanderous in nature or in tone. Though hard to believe, the claims made about Gary birdsong are all true. -- Ivey99

-- I too corroborate all the statements in this article -- AaronRoe

-- I was at NCSU from 97-01 and most of the article is spot-on. What is missing is that he also has what I'd call Gary Disciples. They hang out with him and sometimes are out on Hillsborough St preaching alone. I've also seen him in downtown Raleigh in front of the courthouse preaching quite a few times in recent years.

-- I am in agreement with the above poster--I too was at NCSU (from 96-01), and I saw it all. Except for the middle name bit. Eugene, really? Who found that out? Man, no wonder. -- Pb

-- This article is much more fact than fiction. Please remember that Gary is a secretive person. He tells his audience enough about himself to raise questions and gather attention, but he does not ever clarify his past. He makes reference to his past as a Hell's Angel, a potsmoker, and a generally bad person, but he never makes any of it clear. That said, almost any logical person could put the story together and figure out that he really is a lunatic. This article is funny, yet based almost entirely on fact. -Matt

--The majority of the content in this article is factual and unbiased. I've listened to Gary preach three or four times this semester, and he covers nearly all of that content in each sermon. -Kassie

Its true, oh its true
I went to UNC from 95-99 and I would have to say the majority of the wikipedia article about Gary is true. If youve spent more than 2 minutes listening to his sermons, they are filled with ridiculous rhetoric that he can not back up. I watched people question him about certain things in the bible text and rather than open the book and point it out, he would simply refute them as "fornicators and sinners". He is entertaining no doubt, and makes some valid points, but this article is in no way slanderous or skewed. Its dead on. -John in Dallas TX

p.s. any guy promoting the article on GNAA shouldnt be commenting on religion.

edit Jan 5, 06
I have just completed an edit of this article. I am a student journalist at NCSU and author of the photo of Gary and the guy with the thong. I applaud the removal of the "theries" section. I would definitely not publish those in a paper. I can vouch what this article says on 1/5/06 is true. I also removed subjection in the UNCC section - but did not change the content. Before it was wordy but now it is straightforward. I added a text description of assaults on Gary that I have both personally witnessed and photographed at NCSU. Confirmed that Gary lives in Knightdale. (Source: http://msweb03.co.wake.nc.us/bordelec/Waves/WavesSearch.asp Voter # 000031256419 ) -robrcb

 * What happend to the photo of the dude at NCSU who stood with fist raised in front of Gary in a thong? This would be an excellent addition to the article. AaronRoe 04:46, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I changed the description of the pie attack on Gary. I also witnessed it, and he was definitely hit on the top of his head, not in the face.  There was also another incident which resulted in his grappling with a student which I will probably add a description of at some point in the future.  I also have it on good authority that there is a group of like-minded people who pay his living expenses in order that he may spend his time preaching.  I will, however, talk with my authority and see if I can get more details or means of confirmation before I add that. --Keith Irwin24.225.84.177 08:00, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Please?
Please somebody change "Evangelical Christian" to "Fundamentalist Christian" in the first sentence - Not that the current media seems to know the difference between the two (it seems to be en vogue these days to use the two interchangeably) but there is a difference.

I am a sophomore at NCSU, and I must say that the article is neither slanderous, nor misrepresenting. I think that even Gary himself would say the same. I enjoy chilling out at the Atrium between classes, eating Chic-fil-a, and listening to Gary "preach." His last round at State was about a week ago, where I personally heard him admit to "love tapping" his wife to keep her "in line." This dude is crazy; I don't know how much or if any of his history is true, but if it is, he is the true definition of hypocritical. Even so, I enjoy the unity of avid Gary-Watchers against his "preachings", whether they be Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Bahai'i, Wiccan, Athiest, Agnostic, or whatever.

152.7.52.18 04:53, 27 January 2006 (UTC)NCSU student

Erasing all doubt
Regardless of how many witnesses in a crowd may confirm Birdsong's behavior and statements, it will never hold water with those who have never been there. Along with the images I contributed in the External Links section, I will make efforts in the future to capture audio when he next comes to NCSU. I suggest to other students with audio editing software to do the same. cddweller

BLP
I just removed most of the article per our guidelines for biographies of living persons. Please ensure all potentially-controversial material is well-sourced. --ElKevbo (talk) 04:18, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Abuse Photo
Is the picture of two college students doing...something or another to Garry Birdsong really necessary? I feel like photographs of people abusing him are just going to be humor for some people, and while I don't know enough about what he says to champion or condemn him (I've never been there for much of any of his sermons, and the little bit of one that I saw wasn't all that controversial), I don't think that Wikipedia really needs to provide a platform to publicize immaturity. Chri$topher (talk) 20:33, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I've seen probably a dozen of his sermons and they indeed get quite controversial. You might want to check out some of his sermons on youtube. It is also quite common to see him getting heckled by the croud, which is what the picture depicts. Rreagan007 (talk) 20:37, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It's common for him to be harassed; that part I remember pretty well. I just don't feel like Wikipedia should host photographs of someone's harassment without good reason.  In this context, though, the picture doesn't really serve much of a purpose, and no one would even know what it depicted without the questionable caption beneath it (which I would say makes light of it a little too much).  It might be better to just say that he's controversial, some students harass him, and be done with it that way without including a photograph of his harassment. Chri$topher (talk) 23:27, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

PitPreacher.com Link
I'm kind of curious whether the PitPreacher.com link is really helpful or useful in any way. For now, it seems like it's just a link to a photoshopped picture of Mr. Birdsong holding a rabbit. Is there any content there that I can't find, or should this just be deleted? 69.77.158.195 (talk) 23:50, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 15:49, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Can a fundamentalist be unorthodox?
It seemed to me a bit strange that this article calls this man a fundamentalist preacher but then goes on to say that he is known for his unorthodox interpretations of the Bible. Vorbee (talk) 07:53, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

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Death of Allen Ross

US filmmaker Allen Ross married Linda Greene and followed her cult, the Samaritan Foundation, based in Guthrie, Oklahoma, US. The couple moved from place to place following her instructions. Following Allen's murder on November 22, 1995, the group disbanded. Prosecutors believe that Linda Greene committed the murder. She died of liver failure in 2002 and was never charged. A cult member, Julia Williams, was found guilty of being an accessory after the fact to murder, by helping to bury the body in the basement. She was sentenced to two years in prison.

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RubyGems

RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries (in a self-contained format called a "gem"), a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them. It was created by Chad Fowler, Jim Weirich, David Alan Black, Paul Brannan and Richard Kilmer during RubyConf 2004.

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Development on RubyGems started in November 2003 and was released to the public on March 14, 2004, or Pi Day 2004. In 2010, the default public repository for gems moved from gems.rubyforge.org to rubygems.org, which is still in use. Also, RubyGems development was moved to GitHub in 2010. Though RubyGems has existed since Ruby 1.8, it was not a part of the standard Ruby distribution until Ruby 1.9.

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Walter Patrick Twinn

Walter Patrick Twinn (March 29, 1934 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian Chief of the Sawridge First Nation starting in 1966, and Senator from 1990 to 1997. He took control as chief just after oil was discovered on Sawridge reserve land; with the royalties from that he created a legacy for the Sawridge band by building first the Sawridge hotel and then other buildings. His funeral was held at St. Peters Celestin Roman Catholic Church on November 4.

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Talk:Sparks (band)

Good Article
I've just nominated this for good article status, which I think it deserves. Hopefully get some more eyes on it KaptKos 10:48, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

 * After reading, checking image copyright and 1 minor format using if have promoted to GA status. Well done to all who contributed to the article Gnangarra 12:56, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup!
Okay, this needs work. I can't handle it. For starters, the discography... hardly any of the links actually lead anywhere, and with the exception of Kimono My House (which has the wrong cover), they all lead somewhere totally unrelated (see Indiscreet, Interior Design, and... well, let's just say Balls leads exactly where it's expected). The links section could use a bit of weeding and condensing. The article itself is not very comprehensive; for one thing, it doesn't mention anything about working with Giorgio Moroder.

C'mon. These guys are about to release their twentieth album. Give 'em the royal treatment.

I just fixed the album problem (accidentally following the Balls link not remember what else besides a Sparks record is called that)... I wish I knew more about Sparks, otherwise I'd help expand the article.

History Rewrite
Just completed an initial rewrite of the history section. Please correct my bad spelling/grammer and factual insccuracies as well as expand everything, espicially the mid/late 80s early 90s bit as I can find next to nothing on this period.

Suggestion for what to do next appreciated. I think a reputations section, influences and influence on sections, collaboration as well as tidying up the discographies and getting some pics/clips are all in order.

Please help - you know these guys deserve a proper article --KaptKos 15:01, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

excellent rewrite kaptKos, the atricle is looking so much better now. I've corrected the date of Terminal Jive from '81 to '80. Also I think this line needs attention :"The follow up albums, Indescreet, produced by Tony Visconti, and Propaganda, with Winwood returning as producer", as it makes it sound like Indescreet was released before Propaganda. Jason

I've just redone the line myself by cutting & pasting the original sentence, so that the sentence is maintained in KaptKos own words. Jason

 * My mistake, I rearranged the comment on the album covers so they flow like your edit--KaptKos 09:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the quote attributed to John Lennon ("Christ, they've got Hitler on the telly!"). Lennon was in the USA for the whole of 1974, so it is next to impossible that he would have been watching Top of the Pops. I know the quote was referenced, I just think that the original article was unreliable on this count. There are a lot of apocryphal Lennon quotes out there, most of which seem to forget that he left the UK at the beginning of the 70s and never went back. I have to say, I thought Ron Mael looked like Hitler when I saw him on TOTP, so you can quote me, but I'm not quite as famous as John Lennon... Hinschelwood 18:23, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Influenced by Steve Reich, maybe
Just added some stuff bout the use of repeated lyrics on recent albums and seems to me this is highly influenced by Steve Reich, but I haven't come across any refs for this. If someone could come up with something along these lines that would be cool, I'll drop a line on Reich talk as well KaptKos 09:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Album stubs
All albums now have stubs. Please expand and correct as you see fit--KaptKos 10:33, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Quick notes
First of all, Weird Al's new album has a song which is reportedly a Sparks style parody. I haven't heard anything by Sparks myself, and I don't know yet if there's any official word from Al on this (he usually confirms the style parodies when asked), so I'll leave it up to someone else to decide if it's accurate and worth noting in the article.

Second, does the first sentence in the article really need a footnote/citation? It's just a general description like those found in the beginning of articles for countless other groups and singers. - Ugliness Man 13:13, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

 * First: A Sparks in Popular Culture (or something similar) section could be created to accomodate this sort of thing. I've removed some stuff like this before as when its in the main body it just looks like trivia (and it would be invariably unreferenced)
 * Second: Having a reference for a statement is better than not, regardless of where it occures. Isn't it?--KaptKos 13:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I finally got my copy of Straight Outta Lynwood today. What's significant about this album is that it's the first time that he's mentioned the artists which he paid tribute to in pastiches. In the past, he always thanked those who gave permission for parodies and for use of portions of unaltered lyrics in his polka medlies, but, for example, Devo didn't get thanked for "Dare to be Stupid" and Talking Heads didn't get thanked for "Dog Eat Dog".

Anyway, the point is, among the many names listed under "special thanks to" are "Ron & Russell Mael". Not only that, but in the animated video for the song "Virus Alert", one of the keyboard players has a mustache that looks pretty much the same as Ron's. I'd call this a confirmation that "Virus Alert" is indeed an explicit Sparks pastiche. - Ugliness Man 17:41, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Popular culture section
Tidied up this section as per Manual of Style, removed the wiki link from "Virus Alert" as it redirects to "Straight..". Also added Fact tags. This article is very well sourced, any detail added to it, as should be the case with all wiki articles, needs references to is sources, see Citing sources. These must be external sources - do not use circular references to other wiki articles, any unsourced material will be removed--KaptKos 10:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * How exactly am I supposed to "cite" the liner notes of the CD? I don't have a scanner. - Ugliness Man 10:35, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * If you haven't already read Citing sources as I suggested above, maybe now would be a good time. Citing liner notes works pretty much like citing journals (magazines, professional journals etc). You don't have to scan the notes and upload them.  The source you will ref is widely available, I don't, and probably won't, have access to it but I know other beside you do, therefore I know if you fake or misinterperate the info in the source someone else can refute or correct your changes. Also the more sources the better, if you google "Weird Al" +sparks you'll also find plenty which you can ref.  The point of this is that sourced info has greater validity/staying power than unsourced.  Check out the journal sources refs for Mojo or Record Collector in the article for the liner notes and the Online newspaper edition(Scotsman, Independant etc) sources for anything you find through google.  Drop a line here if you need any help--KaptKos 11:53, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Section should be removed IMO. Neither of these 'facts' are worth mentioning. - Coil00 09:45, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree regardless of what I said above, I'm sick of these crappy sections. If the detail is worth mentioning in should be incorporated into the main body, these are not worthy, IMO, of being in the main body, therefore they should not be included anywhere in this article. Stick them in Weird Al and The Gilmore Girls if you must--KaptKos 10:10, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Weird Al is considered by many to be a pop culture compass of sorts. At least a few artists, including Nirvana, have stated that they felt they "made it" when Al chose them as a parody target.  For such a relatively obscure band to be given a nod from a grammy-winning satirist, known largely for lampooning the likes of Madonna, Michael Jackson] and [[Eminem (with their blessing and support), is at the very least noteworthy.
 * And returning to the increasingly circular debate of a citeable source, there's an article on MTV.com in which he unambiguously identifies the subjects of each of the pastiches on the new album, including the Sparks tribute... unfortunately, the way the website is constructed (it's pretty much one big Shockwave interface), it's impossible to get a direct link URL to that article, so it appears that will have to join the long list of things we're going to pretend don't exist due to technicalities. - Ugliness Man 14:53, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Weird Al stuff belongs in the Weird Al article, not in the Sparks article. If we were to include every public mention or reference made to an artist in their article, well, then wikipedia would just be collection of irrelevant lists. - Coil00 15:21, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Merge proposal
The article Halfnelson (band) should be merged into this one, as it was the same band, under a different name. There's space for it in this article - I don't believe their earlier incarnation needs it own article. Terraxos 13:27, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

On the other hand, they should be findable as HalfNelson, and a simple redirect could be confusing.212.32.66.106 (talk) 18:40, 23 January 2008 (UTC) Just a well overdue addendum to the halfnelson/sparks history, which in some form is all over the place, regarding John Mendelssohn and myself as members of the band: John and I were essentially Christopher Milk from about 1967 to 1973 with others involved, of course. Sometime in 1968 Ron and Russ, who were friendly cross town rivals, asked John and I to do a couple of tracks for them. By this time Earl had left to work at Brother records, I think. The tracks were John on drums and me on bass. We worked to a click track. Chilly Farn Farny was one title, I forget the other. At no time were we members of the band, nor were we ever fired. Just friends helping friends. This garbage has stuck in my craw for a long time, and I hope the truth will out at this time. For the record, my phone is 303-449-1676, and I don`t like email. If interested parties want to talk, feel free. Sincerely, blind surly ralph, bluesboy, wonderboy (no sheds) oswald.75.71.74.40 (talk) 00:07, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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Singles in the album table
Who cares about the bonus tracks? Why not list the singles of the album instead of bonus tracks?? 91.8.171.227 (talk) 20:24, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Ingmar Bergman radio musical
The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman was broadcast on Swedish radio last night, August 14 - world premiere - and can be listened to here: http://www.sr.se/webbradio/webbradio.asp?type=db&Id=1898771&BroadcastDate=&IsBlock= (the rm file will be up for about a month) A stage version of this ironic, very Sparksy story is something the band hope to do in the future. I added a paragraph about this project to the Revival section. Enjoy! /Strausszek (talk) 23:42, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I've nominated the article on The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman for WP:GA. -- JN 466  15:26, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Chart table
Any chance of a chart table of say UK, US, Germany as on the pages for several other bands? It would show neatly how their career was resurrected by Giorgio Moroder and overall how it took a decade for them to achieve recognition in their own country. I must also take issue with the phrase 'Whilst never achieving peak chart success', pedantically this is correct, but 'This Town' getting to number 2 in 1974 is pretty damn close! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yacht Dance (talk • contribs) 17:04, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Cultural References
Many pages have a section listing other references to the subject at hand. I think it is worthy to note that Paul McCartney 'parodied' Ron Mael in his 1980 video for "Coming Up". if it is okay to add this see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDBkySeyiDo Ronster76 (talk) 05:55, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I probably can't support this well enough to get it into the main article, but music fan Matt Howarth had a long running comic called Those Annoying Post Brothers about Ron and Russ Post. There is a degree of homage.Nickpheas (talk) 09:01, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Neutrality
Whole article reads like it was written by die hard fan of a band. Charts topping singles (while not topped even single one), just ridiculous lines about pioneering plenty of musical styles and making major influences and so on - everything based on some kinda interviews. Come'on, one musician sad: yeah, Sparks are great - does it mean they exerted major influence on him?--Submixster (talk) 14:13, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

 * I've got to admit, I noticed this, as well.  I know the thing's been on and off the 'Good Article' listings for a while; would improving the neutrality help?

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I've added multiple sources but I haven't found anything for major bands like ABBA, Pixies and Arcade Fire. I think it is wiser to withdraw the following acts from the article: Dax Riggs, Arcade Fire, MGMT, Panda Bear, Pixies and ABBA.

And obviously, Queen must have been influenced by them as Freddie Mercury & co were the support band of Sparks at London's Marquee in 1972. Plus according to Russell Mael, Brian May had been approached to play guitars on "This Town..." and he advised them another guitarist. This would need to be investigated as well. Woovee (talk) 21:14, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

 * From the Queen's Concerts website (linked in the references) it appears that Queen played on Dec 20, 1972 with Fantasy, and Sparks played the next night, on the 21st. I did not see evidence of Queen 'opening' for Sparks, although absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.  137.187.109.190 (talk) 14:36, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Agree. The Marquee poster image just says "Two Live Groups" for Dec 20, so I have removed that claim. But I've left that source in, as it has the poster image. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:46, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

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on American Bandstand
This piece could still use some elaboration on the band's attempts to infiltrate the American (so-called) consciousness. Heck, until the 1990s I thought they were a Brit band.

I was a big Alice Cooper fan in the early '70s. When I saw that AB was going to feature the song "No More Mr. Nice Guy," that's all I needed to get me to tune in. Well, actually, it wasn't the AC band, rather a peripatetic singer & somewhat cadaverous pianist, in somewhat Cooperish clothing & makeup; at one point, the latter chased the former across the stage, wielding what I think was a large foam mallet. Dick Clark said they were Sparks, and the song of course was "No More Mr. Nice Guys."

THe second time I saw Sparks on AB, they performed (mimed?) "Talent Is An Asset." I have no idea which had the earlier original broadcast date.

Now that I think on it, I recall TV ads for Propaganda. Weeb Dingle (talk) 02:36, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Band members
Are we sure that band membership was just limited to the Mael brothers? I'm seeing a lot of sites treat the musicians who played with them as full-fledged members. 72.208.178.248 (talk) 06:22, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

 * There doesn't seem to be a clean way to treat the matter. Clearly the Maels have always been the nucleus of the group, at least- the ones directing the group creatively and in business. Past them, the three other musicians who initially played with the band (the Mankeys and Feinstein) have a good claim to be members, as they performed as part of Sparks both on stage and on record, and are pictured on the covers of the band's first two albums; but they were not such principal members that they couldn't be left behind when the Maels relocated to England in 1973. (There are two other musicians who were members of Halfnelson before Jim Mankey and Harley Feinstein, but who left before the band cut any recods- Ralph Oswald on bass, and John Mendelssohn on drums. Neither is mentioned anywhere in the article as it stands.) Past that, it gets even murkier- there were full, regular Sparks lineups in the mid 70s and early 80s, that performed both on stage and on record with the Maels, but which were comprised, evidently, of hired musicians, who were let go at the Maels' whim. Are those guys members? Reliable sources tend not to delve into the minutiae of whether someone who played with the band was a full member, a touring member, a session musician, a guest musician, etc, so I don't think there's a clear way to solve this problem. The current listing of "former members and supporting musicians" is a kludge, but probably the best that can be managed under the circumstances. Yspaddadenpenkawr (talk) 14:11, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

Listening examples removed
I removed the four non-free audio listening examples per WP:NFCCP entry number 8: no "contextual significance" was supplied. Per Manual of Style/Music samples, every non-free listening example must have a description of what the listener is hearing, setting the context. Binksternet (talk) 16:33, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * There's a chance File:Sparks this town aint big enough for the both of us(clip).ogg won't be spotted as an orphan, as the user who uploaded it stopped editing 14 years ago? It's lasted all this time untouched? Probably deserves a few tweaks to save it. Martinevans123 (talk) 17:51, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, it would require a process which is backwards to my usual one. Usually, I am looking at a prose description published in reliable sources, and I think to myself "this should be a listening example". I select a part of the song demonstrating the prose description, and I upload a short sample of it. I insert the sample, describe what is heard in the sample, and cite the source.
 * Coming at it the other way would entail searching in published sources to support a sample that was already chosen by somebody else, for their own reasons. It's possible but it's more difficult. Binksternet (talk) 19:25, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, there's the whole 3 minutes 6 seconds, in the video, over at the single, so maybe not essential. Martinevans123 (talk) 19:34, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Just my opinion, but I honestly think that this should be a featured article.
Sparks are just one of those bands that many more people just need to know about. It would be really awesome if this article could get featured somehow, one way or another. 2601:204:1:9430:6127:51B4:FC77:72D7 (talk) 02:45, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

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Cosmic Tradition

The Cosmic Tradition is a series of six volumes, and also a cosmological doctrine, authored by Max and Alma Théon around the turn of the 20th century. The books, four volumes of which are available on-line in French, tell a creation myth and early human history, in an elaborate mythological style reminiscent of the works of H.P. Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner (Cosmic Memory), Edgar Cayce, and Ann Ree Colton.

The account of creation at the start of the first volume also incorporates elements of Lurianic Kabbalah.

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Maryland Route 36

Maryland Route 36 (also known as MD 36 or Route 36) is a 29.43 mi state highway located in Allegany County, Maryland, United States. MD 36's southern terminus is at the West Virginia Route 46 (WV 46) bridge in Westernport and its northern terminus at U.S. Route 40 Alternate (US 40 Alt.) near Cumberland. Between Westernport and Frostburg, it is known as Georges Creek Road, and from Frostburg to Cumberland it is known as Mount Savage Road. Like the majority of Maryland state highways, MD 36 is maintained by the Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSHA).

MD 36 serves as the main road through the Georges Creek Valley, a region which is historically known for coal mining, and has been designated by MDSHA as part of the Coal Heritage Scenic Byway. MD 36 is the main road connecting the towns of Westernport, Lonaconing, and Midland in southwestern Allegany County, as well as Frostburg, Mount Savage, and Corriganville in northwestern Allegany County.

Route description
MD 36 has two main sections: Georges Creek Road, which runs along the Georges Creek Valley, from Westernport to Frostburg in southwestern Allegany County, and Mount Savage Road, which runs eastward from Frostburg to Cumberland in northwestern Allegany County. MD 36 is a part of the National Highway System as a principal arterial from Interstate 68 (I-68) to US 40 Alt. in Frostburg and from MD 35 at Corriganville to US 40 Alt. in Cumberland.

Georges Creek Road
MD 36 begins at the WV 46 bridge in Westernport, crossing MD 135 in Westernport, and runs northeast across western Allegany County as a two-lane undivided road named Georges Creek Road, named for Georges Creek, a North Branch Potomac River tributary which the road parallels. The roadway also parallels the Georges Creek Railway. A short distance outside Westernport city limits, MD 36 intersects MD 937, an old alignment of MD 36. Near Barton, MD 36 intersects MD 935, which is the old alignment of MD 36 through Barton. MD 36 bypasses Barton, climbing the hillside above the Georges Creek Valley before descending back into the valley as it approaches Lonaconing. MD 935 returns to MD 36 south of Lonaconing, with its northern terminus at MD 36.

As the road enters Lonaconing, it narrows and passes through the town as Main Street, intersecting Douglas Avenue near the center of Lonaconing. Along Main Street in Lonaconing is the Lonaconing Iron Furnace, a historic blast furnace which operated in the early 19th century.

MD 36 then continues toward Midland. At Midland, there is a sharp curve in the road. Along this curve, MD 36 intersects Church Street, which connects to MD 936, the old alignment of MD 36 between Midland and Frostburg. The new alignment of MD 36 proceeds northeast, passing near Vale Summit, where it intersects MD 55.

North of the MD 55 intersection, MD 36 passes west of a park and ride lot before it meets I-68/US 40 at a diamond interchange at exit 34. Near this interchange is God's Ark of Safety, a church famous for its attempt to build a replica of Noah's Ark. Between Midland and Frostburg, there is a short section near the I-68/US 40 interchange where MD 36 expands to four lanes. Upon entering Frostburg, MD 36 joins US 40 Alt. as Main Street. MD 36 follows Main Street westward through Frostburg, meeting the northern terminus of MD 936 at Grant Street. At Depot Street, near the center of Frostburg, MD 36 connects to the western depot of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad. At the intersection with Water Street, MD 36 leaves US 40 Alt., and upon leaving Frostburg city limits its name changes to Mount Savage Road.

Mount Savage Road
After leaving Frostburg, MD 36 is known as Mount Savage Road, as it travels eastward, perpendicular to its signed direction, toward Mount Savage. North of Eckhart Mines, MD 36 meets MD 638, which connects MD 36 to US 40 Alt. in Eckhart Mines. The road between Frostburg and Mount Savage is particularly curvy, and includes several hairpin turns near Frostburg.

As the road enters Mount Savage, it passes by the Mount Savage Castle, a Scottish-style castle built in 1840, which currently operates as a bed-and-breakfast. In Mount Savage, the route narrows as it follows Main Street. East of Mount Savage, the route widens.

In Barrelville, MD 36 intersects MD 47, which connects it with Pennsylvania Route 160 (PA 160) in Somerset County. From its intersection with MD 47 to its terminus at Cumberland, MD 36 follows newer alignments, with the old alignments being designated MD 831. At Corriganville, MD 36 intersects MD 35, which connects it with PA 96 in Bedford County. MD 36 ends at US 40 Alt. at the Narrows near Cumberland.

History
MD 36 passes through the Georges Creek Valley, which has a long history of coal mining. In recognition of this, the MDSHA has designated MD 36 as part of the Coal Heritage Scenic Byway. Coal mining was a major industry in western Maryland in the 19th century, with railroads being the major route connecting the coal mines to markets outside the Georges Creek Valley. Deep mining, which was the primary mining method used in western Maryland, declined in use after World War II, replaced primarily by surface mining. Although Maryland coal production is now only a small fraction of total U.S. coal production, coal from the Georges Creek Valley is used to power the AES Warrior Run power plant in Cumberland.

MD 36 was assigned a route number before 1927, earlier than most of the other Maryland state highways. The original alignment of MD 36 in southern Allegany County closely paralleled the Georges Creek Railroad. Later realignments have shifted MD 36 away from the railroad in several locations, but three crossings remain: one north of Lonaconing, one south of Lonaconing near the MD 935 intersection, and a third crossing near Westernport.

Over the years, multiple new alignments of MD 36 have been built for various reasons, such as to smooth out curves in the road. Several of the old alignments have been assigned route numbers of their own. The southernmost of these is MD 937, which consists of the old alignment through Westernport. Prior to the construction of the bridge connecting MD 36 to WV 46, MD 937 was the alignment of MD 36 through Westernport, ending at MD 135. In Barton, MD 935 carries the old alignment of MD 36. The longest of the old alignment sections is MD 936, which runs from Midland to Frostburg, and was bypassed in the 1970s with a new alignment of MD 36 following part of MD 55 and connecting to Interstate 68 (I-68). Prior to this change, MD 55 ended in Midland; it has since been truncated to its current terminus at Vale Summit.

North of Frostburg, several old alignments are designated as MD 831, though these segments of road are not signed. Among these segments of road are Kriegbaum Road (designated as MD 831C), and Old Mount Savage Road (designated as MD 831A). Kriegbaum Road splits from MD 36 west of Corriganville and runs through Corriganville, returning to MD 36 east of the town. Old Mount Savage Road intersects MD 36 west of the Cumberland Narrows, and runs southward to intersect US 40 Alt. near its current intersection with MD 36.

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For the 2024–2025 session, the 39th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Holly Schepisi (R, River Vale) and in the General Assembly by Robert Auth (R, Old Tappan) and John V. Azzariti (R, Saddle River).

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Heron station

Heron station is a stop on Ottawa's transitway served by OC Transpo buses. It is located in the south-eastern transitway section at Heron Park on Heron Road.

Nearby government buildings including Canada Post and Mooney's Bay station for the O-Train, are the main trip generators as well as a residential area just to its east.

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Nick Lazzarini

Nick Lazzarini (born August 4, 1984) is an American dancer. He is best known as the first season winner on the Fox reality show So You Think You Can Dance. He is a trained dancer in jazz, lyrical, hip hop, ballet and modern dance styles.

Early life
Lazzarini was born to Italian American parents. Lazzarini grew up in Mountain View, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from Springer Elementary in Mountain View, California and Blach Intermediate School in Los Altos, California. Lazzarini began attending Showbiz when he was 8 years old. In the early 2000s, he travelled every other weekend from San Francisco to Fresno to dance at Dance Rage. He was trained under Keith Banks. His performance at Showbiz in 2001 caught the attention of Dance Spirit magazine, and they featured him on the cover of their October 2001 issue.

At the time of his appearance on "So You Think You Can Dance," he was living in Van Nuys, California.

Early career
Lazzarini has been dancing since age four and began teaching and doing choreography at age fourteen.

In 2003, Lazzarini, competing as part of a dance group called Hot Under The Collar, appeared on CBS's "Star Search" remake.

Prior to competing on the Fox reality show, Lazzarini spent two years at the Dance Company of San Francisco and also toured Europe with the RAW dance company, which was founded by choreographer Mia Michaels, one of the judges on "So You Think You Can Dance".

So You Think You Can Dance
Lazzarini was the first person who auditioned for the show before it even began. Nigel and Bonnie Lythgoe approached him to see if he would be a good match for a show they were then planning. For his win on the first season of the show, Lazzarini received a cash prize of $100,000 and the use of a penthouse apartment in Manhattan for one year. According to judge Nigel Lythgoe, Lazzarini chose to exchange the value of the apartment for a cash equivalent.

Post SYTYCD
Lazzarini became the first person ever to appear on the cover of Dance Spirit twice, with the January 2006 issue. Beginning in March 2006, Lazzarini became a founding member (of 15) of the Evolution Dance Company, which debuted at the OC Pavilion in Santa Ana, California, alongside SYTYCD alumni Melody Lacayanga and Craig DeRosa. Choreographers in the company include Liz Imperio and Mia Michaels.

Lazzarini was formerly a faculty member of Jump Dance Convention (www.breakthefloor.com).

In November 2011, Oxygen Media announced that Nick, along with fellow dancers Travis Wall, Teddy Forance, and Kyle Robinson, is part of a series in development titled All the Right Moves. This docu-series follows the four dancers as they work to start a new dance company in LA called Shaping Sound. He is co-creator of Shaping Sound, a traveling dance company that was still active in 2017.

Personal life
Lazzarini is best friends with Melody Lacayanga, and they have been since their teens. He is also best friends with dancer and choreographer Travis Wall, whom he has known since he was 9 years old. He was fired from the dance company Break the Floor for posting then removing a video of himself online masturbating.

Awards and honors

 * Junior Mr. Dance of America
 * Teen Mr. Dance of America

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HeadLand

headLand is an Australian drama television series produced by the Seven Network which ran from 15 November 2005 to 21 January 2006. The Seven Network filmed 52 episodes in the first series. Production on the second series had begun before any episodes were aired.

Set at a university, headLand premiered in Australia on Tuesday, 15 November 2005 at 7:30 pm. On 23 January 2006, the Seven Network officially announced that the series has been cancelled. The show aired on weekdays at 7:30 pm in the United Kingdom on E4, re-formatted as half-hour episodes. E4 eventually dropped the show, but episodes continued to be broadcast on Channel 4 at 12:30 pm, this time in the original hour-long format.

Storylines
The show's biggest storyline during its short run was the mystery of the crash which killed four people and put its driver Craig Palmer in a coma. The car crash gave Craig amnesia, but then he remembered Angela McKinnon, his girlfriend and one of the people who died in the crash, was doing drugs at the party and some of her drugs were accidentally consumed by John, Craig's best friend and another person who died in the crash. He also remembered as John had overdosed Angela was screaming at someone in a car, and after the crash their phones were stolen by someone Craig would meet later during the investigation, Detective Sam Wiley. Sam claimed he was doing detective work at the party. Craig was found guilty but after a testament by Sam, Craig was given a two-year jail sentence, but the judge reduced it to 100 hours of community sentence.

Another storyline was Adam Wilde's relationship with his estranged father, Ben Wilde. His father had spent 15 years in prison for murdering his mother after she said Adam wasn't his. There was even belief that bartender Mick McKinnon, who had an affair with Adam's mother before he was born, was Adam's biological father. After a DNA test, it showed Ben was Adam's biological father.

Main

 * Sam Atwell as Craig Palmer
 * Conrad Coleby as Adam Wilde
 * Brooke Harman as Kate Monk
 * Sophie Katinis as Mel Bennett
 * Jody Kennedy as Maddie McKinnon
 * Adrienne Pickering as Elly Tate
 * Steve Rodgers as Mick McKinnon
 * Josh Quong Tart as Will Monk
 * Reshad Strik as Andy Llewellyn
 * Libby Tanner as Grace Palmer
 * Rachael Taylor as Sasha Forbes
 * Matthew Walker as Heath Forbes
 * Mark Tokutomi as Jeff Wu
 * Yvonne Strahovski as Freya Lewis
 * Rowan Schlosberg as Gareth Williams

Recurring

 * Gyton Grantley as Dane Pickerstaff (11 episodes)
 * Penny McNamee as Charlie Cooper (8 episodes)
 * Rohan Nichol as Det. Luke Palermo

Guests

 * Amanda Muggleton as Geraldine Pye (2 episodes)
 * Grant Piro as Dr Baker (1 episode)
 * Craig Horner (2 episodes)
 * Luke Ford as Seth Baxter (5 episodes)
 * Murray Bartlett as James Brogan (5 episodes)
 * Roy Billing as Col (4 episodes)
 * Russell Kiefel as Lionel Travers (2 episodes)
 * Sarah Chadwick as Diane Forbes (5 episodes)
 * Vanessa Downing as Pamela Martin (3 episodes)

Development and production
In 2002, Seven Network's script executive Bevan Lee was asked to create a Home and Away spin-off with the hope of attracting the UK broadcaster Five as a co-producer. He created a show called Away From Home that told the story of Home and Away characters at the Yabbie Creek University. Five were not interested for various reasons, and a big reworking of the original concept was undertaken, and the show was renamed Campus, and later Ten Degrees South – a title eventually rejected due to a possible confusion with UK series 55 Degrees North.

In early 2005, the show's title was finalised as headLand and filming began, with the series earmarked for a July premiere. However, with the pilot reportedly failing initial audience test screenings, some major changes were made, and the pilot was reshot. This and other minor production delays pushed the airdate to much later that year.

Filming locations
The show's exterior scenes were filmed on location in Austinmer, New South Wales. A disused psychiatric hospital at the Sydney College of Arts, Rozelle and the University of Wollongong, doubled as the fictional South Coast University. Studio scenes are filmed at White Bay Studios in Sydney, making it the first Seven Network Sydney drama not to be filmed at the ATN-7 studios in Epping.

Australian broadcast
headLand was originally scheduled to screen at 7:30 pm on Tuesday and Thursday nights throughout the summer, continuing into 2006. However, after a strong debut, the show quickly suffered a large slump in the ratings. With Home and Away on summer hiatus, the show was shifted to the earlier 7 pm slot and broadcast on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in hope of building up more interest in the show during the non-ratings period. However, ratings failed to pick up and the show even suffered its lowest viewership during the period.

Because of this, on 1 December 2005, Seven announced to industry insiders that headLand would be removed from the schedule after Thursday, 22 December 2005. A day later they reversed their decision, but a little over a week later rumours started surfacing that headLand would be removed from prime time as early as Monday, 12 December 2005. This was confirmed to be just a rumour, as Seven announced headLand would remain in its current timeslot until 12 January 2006. Beginning 16 January 2006, headLand was removed from its Monday-Thursday 7:00 pm slot due to the return of Home and Away and the airing of the Australian Open tennis tournament. Further episodes of headLand were aired in a Saturday timeslot until the start of the 2006 ratings season.

The remaining episodes that had not been broadcast on the Seven Network were eventually aired on its digital channel 7two at 11 am weekdays. The series ended with Grace and Luc getting engaged, but many other storylines were left up in the air at the end.

Home media
In March 2020, the complete series was made available on 7plus.

Reception
A Herald Sun reporter stated headLand was "destined to go down as one of the worst soaps this country has produced."

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Muscle Tussle

Muscle Tussle is a 1953 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon was released on April 18, 1953 and stars Daffy Duck.

Synopsis
Daffy goes to the beach with his girlfriend Melissa Duck, who bears a strong resemblance to Veronica Lake (voiced by an uncredited Gladys Holland), and prepares to take her picture. While posing, she sees a muscle-bound duck and turns her attention toward him. Daffy gets upset and calls out the muscle-bound duck (a soft-spoken yet still arrogant fellow) for "tryin' to muscle in on [his] chick". He replies that he'll bob Daffy so hard he'll have to open his vest to eat if he says one more word. Daffy takes the threat rather lightly, and the muscle-bound duck proceeds to hit Daffy so hard that his head sinks into his stomach. In a daze, Daffy orders "One cheeseburger, hold the onions".

Melissa urges Daffy to fight back, but he backs down knowing the size of his opponent. Disgusted by his cowardice, Melissa goes off with the muscle-bound duck and bids Daffy farewell, calling him a "scrawny little nine-pound weakling" which offends Daffy as he considers himself a "scrawny little ten-pound weakling." A glad-handed traveling salesman who happens to be nearby overhears the whole thing and sells Daffy some muscle tonic (actually hot mustard), which he thinks has made him as strong as the muscle-bound duck and just might help him win back his girl. Daffy repeatedly falls short in his attempts to demonstrate his strength, but through a fluke (and one of the salesman's props, a "five thousand-pound" barbell), manages to dispose of his rival in the end. The muscle-bound duck lifts the "barbell" which sends him rocketing thousands of feet into the air. When he plummets back to Earth now squashed from the impact, he tells the couple "You all can call me shorty!", and waddles off. With that, Melissa takes Daffy back saying she likes her man “tall, dark and gruesome”.

Home media

 * DVD - Trouble Along the Way

Censorship

 * The ABC version of this cartoon cuts the part where the big, muscular duck pounds Daffy's head into his shirt.

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Sergio Cragnotti

Sergio Cragnotti (born 9 January 1940, in Rome, Italy) is an Italian entrepreneur and sports executive.

One of the most high-profile and wealthy business figures in Italy in recent times, Cragnotti is best known for having been President of S.S. Lazio. However, his most influential position was as head of food conglomerate Cirio. This company included all Cirio food brands as well as those of the acquired Del Monte Foods International from the late 1990s. In 1992 Cragnotti bought football team S.S. Lazio from previous owner Calleri. In December 1993, the Ontario Securities Commission fined him for insider trading. The Cragnotti family owned 80% of the Cirio group which in turn owned a 51% stake in the Roman club. In 2002, the Cirio company declared default on its bonds. The default cost about 1.125 million euros to a plethora of small investors, most of them Italian.

Cragnotti presided over perhaps the most successful period in Lazio's recent history, ploughing in record amounts of money which attracted notable athletes Pavel Nedvěd, Christian Vieri and Marcelo Salas. His successes included winning both Serie A along with the final European Cup Winners' Cup, both under the guidance of close friend, Sven-Göran Eriksson.

In November 2006 he published his autobiography, titled Un calcio al cuore, co-written with Fabrizio Pennacchia.

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