Midas (/ˈmaɪdəs/; Greek: Μίδας) is the name of at least three members of the royal house of Phrygia.
The most famous King Midas is popularly remembered in Greek mythology for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold. This came to be called the golden touch, or the Midas touch. The Phrygian city Midaeum was presumably named after this Midas, and this is probably also the Midas that according to Pausanias founded Ancyra. According to Aristotle, legend held that Midas died of starvation as a result of his "vain prayer" for the gold touch. The legends told about this Midas and his father Gordias, credited with founding the Phrygian capital city Gordium and tying the Gordian Knot, indicate that they were believed to have lived sometime in the 2nd millennium BC, well before the Trojan War. However, Homer does not mention Midas or Gordias, while instead mentioning two other Phrygian kings, Mygdon and Otreus.
Another King Midas ruled Phrygia in the late 8th century BC, up until the sacking of Gordium by the Cimmerians, when he is said to have committed suicide. Most historians believe this Midas is the same person as the Mita, called king of the Mushki in Assyrian texts, who warred with Assyria and its Anatolian provinces during the same period.
Midas is Japanese progressive rock band.
Midas were a Japanese progressive rock band formed in Osaka in 1983. Debut album Beyond The Clear Air released in 1988 and got a high evaluation abroad for a long time. After long-standing activity The world releases the sixth piece album 25th Anniversary Concert & Early Rare Tracks and 1st album Beyond The Clear Air in 2009 when Midas reached the organization 25th anniversary. The seventh piece album Touch The Clear Air after active live activity afterward in the spring of 2013. Playing an active part as one of the bands representing Japan progressive rock now.
Midas is a line of banking system solutions provided by Misys corporation that was initially developed in the 1970s and gained significant market share through the 1980s and 1990s.
Kingsley-Smith and Associates (KSA) was formed in 1972, initially as a full software service company comprising five people serving manufacturing, banks and insurance companies within the UK. By 1973, the company had expanded to around twenty personnel, and begun to focus on UK banks and foreign banks which had operational activities in London.
KSA realised a gap existed in packaged software aimed specifically at banks, at the same time as IBM released its System/32, later known as IBM 5320, as a new small PC system which could easily be programmed in RPG. The original five Kingsley-Smith and Associates members were Brian Kingsley-Smith, David Eley, David Mitchell, David Shaw, and David Harington.
The MIDAS banking system was designed in 1975 at Kingsley Smith and Associates by Barrington (Barry) Fludgate. It was the brainchild of Achie Reid a then director of KSA. The system was originally going to be called FALCON, since SWIFT had just been announced, but at the last minute was changed to MIDAS (Modular International Dealing and Accounting System), the name was suggested by Jeremy Blackman, one of the two original programmers on the development.
It Began
Many Years Ago On The African Sands
God Blew The Breath Of Life
Came Forth Created Man
On Two Legs He'd Stand
The World He Could Command
He Could Make Love And War With The Same Two Hands
And He Did
Erected Pyramids In His Honor
Forgot The Face Of His Father
Wicked Ways To His Daughter
Started Wars
Put His Brethren To The Slaughter
His Soul He Bartered With Evil
To Make Life Harder
Wealth Greed And Envy
For Self We Never Stingy
Gently We Be Giving Ourselves To These Enemies
Never Timidly
We Go Bold For The Night
Forgetting The Light
That Needs To Shine Forever Bright
But We Didn't
So Now Our Souls Turning Acidic
Our Hope Is Hidden Behind
Lies
So Now We Finished
Our Mind Blemished
We Need To Understand The Truth
God Help The Youth
Get It Together Before We Through
Fathom That
How We Get Back To Self Righteousness
Writing This Made Me Realize
We Blind, Sightless
As We Walk Through Life, Lifeless
Sitting In The Dark, Lightless
We Need Fight This
Greed Turning Us All Midas
Instead Of Romance
Its Finance
Children Without No Guidance
Roaming The Streets
Looking For Hope
But Can't Find It
Instead They Fight It
Embrace A Hell And Hate Righteous
Curse And Spit
Slant They Eyes And Yell Fuck This
Existence
Where Nobody Will Even Listen
They Just Follow Tradition Cause They Conditioned To Just Do It
Turn A Blind Eye America
Cause The Truth Is Scaring Ya
It Just Might Bury Ya
Lies Infecting Like Malaria
Can You Handle That Penalty Box
Cause You On Top
You Going Stop
Dead In The Street
Getting Ya Knot Popped
Burning From Heat
Can't Even Sleep
Scared Of Defeat
Out Of Control
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Nigga We Deep
And Losing The Sleep
Well Earned From 400 Years
Of Blood Sweat Tears
Deferred Dreams And Fears
Fathom That
How We Get Back To Self Righteousness
Writing This Made Me Realize
We Blind, Sightless
As We Walk Through Life, Lifeless
Sitting In The Dark, Lightless
We Need Fight This
Greed Turning Us All Midas
Fuck The Killing
The Huallah Star He Want A Million
So We Can Have A City Filled With Black Owned Buildings
For The Women And Children Until We Grossing A Billion
Mob Mentality Keeping The Funds Like Sicilians
Can You Fell It
Hell Ya Nigga We Did It
The Cyne Rip It
War Committed
Walk It And Live It
Talk It And Shit It
Everyday Life Is So Vivid
Cursing The Senate Cause We Need More Blacks Represented
We Need A New Edition Of Government Politicians
And Policies
Cause The Police Politely Causing Atrocities
High Velocity
Keeping My Bank Full Of Broccoli
Buying All Of Ya Property Until I Have Monopoly
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Fathom That
How We Get Back To Self Righteousness
Writing This Made Me Realize
We Blind, Sightless
As We Walk Through Life, Lifeless
Sitting In The Dark, Lightless
We Need Fight This