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Garnier (French pronunciation: [ɡaʁnje]) is a mass market cosmetics brand of L'Oréal that produces hair care and skin care products. The company started as Laboratoires Garnier in 1906, and was acquired by L'Oréal in the 1970s.^[1] Current product lines include Fructis shampoos and conditioners, and Nutrisse hair color.^[2] Garnier is sold in numerous countries wordwide, with specific product lines targeted for different skin types and cultures.^[3][4] In 2011, Garnier partnered with TerraCycle to promote upcycling of product containers and the introduction of biodegradable products.^[5][6]

Advertising[link]

Tina Fey has produced commercials for the Nutrisse hair color line.^[7][8] The Transplants song "Diamonds and Guns" is played as the background music in many Garnier commercials.^{[citation needed]}

Slogans[link]

• English: "Take Care"; "For hair that shines with all its strength" (Fructis); "Great skin from the inside out" (skincare)

Other languages[link]

"Take Care":

• Hindi - "Apna Khayaal Rakhna"
• Urdu - "اپنا خیال رکھنا "

"Take Care of Yourself":

• Norwegian - Ta vare på deg selv
• Bulgarian - Грижи се за себе си.
• Dutch - Zorg voor jezelf.
• Polish - Dbaj o siebie.
• Czech - Pečuj o sebe.
• Ukrainian - Подбай про себе.
• Italian - Prenditi cura di te.
• Romanian - Ai grijă de tine.
• Russian - Заботься о себе.
• Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Brini o sebi.
• Spanish - Cuida de ti.
• Portuguese (Brazil) - Cuide-se
• Finnish - Huolehdi itsestäsi.
• Pakistan, India: Apna khayal rakhna.
• Hungarian - Törődj magaddal!
• French - Prends soin de toi.
• Slovak - Staraj sa o seba.
• Swedish - Ta hand om dig
• Hebrew - תשמרי על עצמך
• Arabic - إعتني بنفسك
• Turkish - Kendine iyi bak.
• Bulgarian - "Грижи се за себе си"

Other slogans:

• Portuguese - Cuida bem de ti. (Take good care of yourself)
• German Denk an Dich. (Think about yourself), formerly "Sie sind es sich wert" (You are worthy of it)
• Thai - เพราะเราใส่ใจ (Because we care)
• Indonesian - Sayangi dirimu (Love yourself)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site

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Laurent Garnier
Garnier in 2006
Background information
Also known as	Choice, DJ Pedro
Origin	Boulogne-sur-Seine, France

Laurent Garnier (also known as Choice), (born 1 February 1966, Boulogne-sur-Seine, France) is a French techno music producer and DJ. Garnier began DJ-ing in Manchester during the late 1980s. By the following decade, he had a broad stylistic range, able to span deep house, Detroit techno, trance and jazz. He added production work to his schedule in the early 1990s, and recorded several albums.

Early influences[link]

During the late 1970s, Garnier discovered clubbing with his brother in Paris, where his family lived. He loved disco but also listened to all other contemporary musical genres including reggae, funk, and punk. At the age of 16, Garnier had started recording and mixing music on tape recorders.

In 1984, Garnier started working as a waiter for the French Embassy in London.^[1] He stayed there for a year and a half before moving to Manchester in 1986. Living in England he discovered the booming UK house scene and started DJing.^[2]

Career[link]

In 1987, he discovered the The Haçienda in Manchester, and met Mike Pickering the resident DJ. Chicago house and Detroit techno became popular, and Garnier started mixing there under the name of DJ Pedro.^[1]

In 1988, he went back to France to fulfill his military obligations.^[1] He also spent some time in New York where he met Frankie Knuckles.^[1] Garnier shifted his attention back to France in the early 1990s, running the Wake Up parties at the Rex Club in Paris for three years,^[1] while in 1992 he played a three-night long Weekender set at the Cork venue, Sir Henry's. He also mixed in clubs such as le Palace or le Boy, DJing in rave parties and gradually moving into recording as well. For the FNAC label, Garnier released "French Connection" and the A Bout de Souffle EP. After that label went out of business, he formed the F Communications label with Eric Morand (a friend who had also worked for FNAC).^[1][3] He often also DJed at "Open all hours" at London's Ministry of Sound on Friday nights, in the early and mid 1990s, and was a resident at The End before its closure in January 2009.

His first album, Shot in the Dark, was released in 1995.^[4] His second, 30, appeared in 1997 and included one of Garnier's best selling singles, "Crispy Bacon". 30 was followed by the retrospective Early Works. After appearing worldwide with DJ appearances during the late 1990s, Garnier returned to production with Unreasonable Behaviour, released in early 2000, which featured one of his best known songs, "The Man with the Red Face". In 2005, The Cloud Making Machine, was released, followed the next year by Retrospective. This was a best of compilation album, which had both his original work and remixes, including some released on vinyl-only, plus rare tracks. His latest album was Tales of a Kleptomaniac (2009).

Garnier has collaborated with System 7, and played several live shows with Bugge Wesseltoft (those recordings appeared on Public Outburst and Retrospective).

Selected discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Shot In The Dark (1994), F Communications
• Raw Works (US only compilation) (1996), Never Recordings
• 30 (1997), F Communications/PIAS France
• Unreasonable Behaviour (2000), F Communications
• Early Works (compilation) (1998), Arcade
• The Cloud Making Machine (2005), F Communications/PIAS
• Retrospective 1994 - 2006 (compilation) (2006), F Communications/PIAS
• Public Outburst (live album) (2007)
• Tales of a Kleptomaniac (2009), PIAS

Singles and EPs[link]

With Ed Banger Records[link]

• "Timeless EP" -2012

With FNAC Music Dance Division[link]

• "French Connection" (with Mix Master Doody) - 'as French Connection' (1991)
• Stronger By Design EP (1992)
• "Join Hands" (remixes) - (1992)
• Paris EP - 1993 - as 'Choice' (also published by Fragile Records)
• A Bout de Souffle EP - (1993) (also published by Warp Records)
• "For House Music Lovers" - 1993
• "Lost in Alaska" - 'as Alaska' - 1993
• Planet House EP - 1993

With F Communications[link]

• Dune (with Pascal Feos) - Alliance EP - 1994
• "Astral Dreams" - 1994
• Alaska - Deuxième EP - 1995
• Club Traxx EP - 1995
• "The Hoe" - 1996
• "Crispy Bacon Part 1" - 1997 - UK #60^[5]
• "Crispy Bacon Part 2" - 1997
• "Flashback" - 1997
• "Coloured City" - 1998
• Club Traxx EP Vol 2 - 1998
• "The Sound of the Big Babou" - 1999
• "The Man with the Red Face" - 2000 - UK #65^[5]
• "Greed" / "The Man with the Red Face" - 2000 - UK #36^[5]
• "Sambou" - 2002
• "Returning Back to Sirius" - 'as Alaska' - 2003
• Marl Chingus (with Ludovic Llorca) - "6 Months Earlier" - 2004
• "The Cloud Making Machine" (reworks vol 1 & 2) - 2005

With Innervisions[link]

• Back To My Roots EP - 2008

DVDs[link]

• Greed - DVD single - F Communications, Film Office, TDK Mediactive - 2001
• Live à l'Elysée Montmartre - F communications - 2002

Compilations and DJ sessions[link]

• X-Mix - Destination Planet Dream (Studio !K7 - 1994)
• Mixmag Live Vol. 19 (1995)
• Laboratoire Mix (2xCD, React, 1996)
• Early Works (2xCD, 1998)
• Fashion TV: Spring - Summer 2001 Collection
• Classic And Rare : La Collection Chapter 3 (F Communications, 2002)
• Excess Luggage (3xCD, F Communications, 2003)
• The Kings Of Techno (Rapster Records, 2006)
• Mixmag 25 Years Anniversary (2008)
• BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (2009)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Laurent Garnier — official site
• Laurent Garnier discography at Discogs
• Laurent Garnier profile at club The End's website
• Laurent Garnier interview on HarderFaster
• Laurent Garnier biography from RFI Musique (in French)
• Laurent Garnier Essential Mix 2009
• Laurent Garnier DJ mix

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"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.

The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.^[1]

History[link]

The earliest recorded use^{[citation needed]} of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." ^{[2][dubious – discuss]} In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.

It was also used as a term for a drug dealer in the 1950s and 1960s and can be seen in such media as Curtis Mayfield's "No Thing On Me", William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch, and in the Velvet Underground song "I'm Waiting for the Man", in which Lou Reed sings about going to Uptown Manhattan, specifically Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, to buy heroin.

The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their battles against authority, such as the Yippies, which, according to a May 19, 1969 article in U.S. News and World Report, had the "avowed aim ... to destroy 'The Man', their term for the present system of government". The term eventually found its way into humorous usage, such as in a December 1979 motorcycle ad from the magazine Easyriders which featured the tagline, "California residents: Add 6% sales tax for The Man."

In present day, the phrase has been popularized in commercials and cinema, featuring particularly prominently as a recurring motif in the 2003 film School of Rock.^[3][4][5][6]

Use as praise[link]

The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)." One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, "The old Jew, he is the man."^{[7][dubious – discuss]}

In more modern usage, it can be a superlative compliment ("you da man!") indicating that the subject is currently standing out amongst his peers even though they have no special designation or rank, such as a basketball player who is performing better than the other players on the court. It can also be used as a genuine compliment with an implied, slightly exaggerated or sarcastic tone, usually indicating that the person has indeed impressed the speaker but by doing something relatively trivial.

See also[link]

• Absentee landlord
• Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• New World Order (conspiracy theory)
• Ruling class
• The Establishment
• Power elite
• Corrections officer
• YTMND

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Lighter, J.E. (Ed.). (1997). Random House Dictionary of American Slang. New York: Random House.