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Justin Vivian Bond

Justin Vivian Bond (born May 9, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Described as "the best cabaret artist of [their] generation" and a "tornado of art and activism", they first achieved prominence under the pseudonym of Kiki DuRane in the stage duo Kiki and Herb, an act born out of a collaboration with long-time co-star Kenny Mellman. With a musical voice self-described as "kind of woody and full with a lot of vibration", Bond is a Tony-nominated (2007) performer who has received GLAAD (2000), Obie (2001), Bessie (2004), Ethyl (2007), and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2012) awards. Bond is transgender.

Early life
Bond grew up in Hagerstown, Maryland.

As "a trans kid in a small town", Bond recalls feeling "I wasn't being accepted for who I was, but at the time I didn't even have the words to express who I was." Meanwhile, they were taking voice lessons and singing in church and in the local community theatre.

Bond studied theater at Adelphi University on Long Island from 1981 to 1985. They saw Simon and Garfunkel in concert in Central Park, but it was visiting Carnegie Hall for the first time to see Judy Collins that invoked the realization that "I had escaped my hometown and was finally beginning to live the life I'd dreamed of."

Early career
After graduation, Bond worked briefly at Details magazine with Lumet. Returning to Maryland, they found roles in regional dinner theaters, often doubling as a server. Bond moved to San Francisco in 1988.

Bond started out clerking in a gay bookstore, and at some point, adopted the stage name of Justin.

A turning point occurred when Kate Bornstein cast Bond in her play Hidden: A Gender, using the life of the French, intersex person Herculine Barbin as an autobiographical device. Bond "was not sure [they] could really pull off playing a girl," according to Bornstein, and feared the censure of "[their] gay male friends." With the assistance of Kenny Mellman, they created the lounge act Dixie McCall's Patterns for Living around the persona of actress and singer Julie London. The duo played a number of gigs, both in and out of character; three years after attending Pride for the first time, Bond was hosting the show at the end of the parade. In 1993, Bond hosted the first San Francisco Drag King Contest at the DNA Lounge with Elvis Herselvis. In 1994, they appeared on film for the first time, as Amphetamine in John Moritsugu's Mod Fuck Explosion, and again the following year in Fanci's Persuasion.

Kiki and Herb: 1993–2007
Bond is best known for originating the role of washed-up lounge singer Kiki DuRane, "an alcoholic battle-axe with a throat full of razor-blades." Kiki's equally-damaged accompanist Herb, played by pianist Kenny Mellman, made up the other half of the duo, billed as Kiki and Herb. Critics lauded both the performance and the edgy, eclectic repertoire. Described in one place as "tragically hip", the inspiration arose "out of my own trauma regarding AIDS and so many people dying," according to Bond. "All our friends were dying of AIDS, and it was a way to get out all our rage," said Mellman.

Bond moved to New York City in 1994 in the midst of crackdown on queer clubs by then-mayor Rudy Giuliani. Journalist John Russell saw in Kiki "an icon to rival Hedwig." The New York Times called Kiki "the town's most endearingly unhinged chanteuse", comparing Bond favorably to more conventional performers for whom "the point is never the prettiness of the voice." Bond has said that "I think that the reason people liked Kiki so much is that she had just about everything wrong with her."

Kiki and Herb met with more critical acclaim and developed a cult following. They received their first New York Times review for Have Another, (1999), a show that earned a GLAAD media award the following year. They performed extensively, namely in London's Soho Theatre and Queen Elizabeth Hall and New York's The Knitting Factory and Carnegie Hall, as well as a host of other venues worldwide. Their numerous collaborators included Debbie Harry of Blondie, comedian Sandra Bernhard, and Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. Their recordings included the Christmas album, Do You Hear What We Hear? (2000), and Kiki and Herb Will Die for You: Live at Carnegie Hall (2005). In 2004, Bond and Mellman did a cameo in the Sony Pictures release Imaginary Heroes, with script by Dan Harris. Appearing alongside Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, and Emile Hirsch, the duo reprised the Melanie Safka composition Tonight's the Kind of Night from Do You Hear What We Hear? Their stage act was captured on video in Kiki and Herb Live at the Knitting Factory (2007). They toured twice in the U.S., including the 2007 'Year of Magical Drinking Tour.'

The duo traveled repeatedly to London, where Bond continued to work on an MA in scenography at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design when not performing. London shows included Where Are We Now?, Kiki & Herb: There's a Stranger in the Manger, and Kiki & Herb Mount The President, the latter performed aboard HMS President (1918) in the River Thames. Bond had a Top 20 Single on the UK alternative chart and was named one of England's fifty funniest people by Time Out London. The mockumentaries titled Kiki and Herb on the Rocks (2005) and Kiki and Herb Reloaded (2005) followed the pair to London and around the UK, respectively.

Their show Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway ran for five weeks in 2006, and was nominated for a 2007 Tony for Special Theatrical Event. One critic noted that onstage they are "Alive with a capital A, with all the human vitality and fallibility that that implies." A poster on tribe.net reported hearing them mentioned on an episode of Will and Grace early in 2006, noting that "now they have crossed over."

After closing on Broadway, Bond returned for the final, American tour. This was followed by a return to Carnegie Hall for a one-night show on December 12, 2007, billed as Kiki and Herb: The Second Coming – A Christmas Concert.

Solo career: 1993–present
Before retiring Kiki in 2008, Bond was touring nationally and abroad, appearing in film, and recording under the name of Justin Bond.

Bond's first album was the result of an improvised concert with experimental, electronic sound artist Bob Ostertag and a Japanese turntablist from the Tokyo noise underground, Otomo Yoshihide, at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall in 1997. They already appeared on two tracks ("Not Your Girl" and "The Man in the Blue Slip") on Ostertag's 1995 album "Fear No Love", sharing co-lead vocals duties with Mike Patton. Other guests on the record were Fred Frith and Lynn Breedlove. At the behest of the record label Asphodel, an album was recorded in this location and in studio at Toast, with additional tracks and musicians added later. Because Otomo spoke little English and could not understand what Bond was saying, he watched the recording engineer through the glass and "when I see he laugh, I play something funny." The album was released under the Seeland label in 1999 as PantyChrist, with a European, promotional tour. Although it failed commercially, Ostertag viewed it from an artistic standpoint as "one of my most successful projects."

Bond released a five-track EP Pink Slip in June 2009 featuring four original songs ("The New Depression", "May Queen", "The Puppet Song", "Michael in Blue") and a cover of Radiohead's "Arpeggi/Weird Fishes". Pink Slip was recorded at Le Poisson Rouge and Bond hoped income from the EP would help fund the recording of an album. Both of the albums were self-financed, and both were the result of a collaboration with pianist/producer Thomas Bartlett of the band Doveman. The first, Dendrophile (2011), contained a mix of original compositions and covers modeled on a type of "early-'70s folk-pop variety album" in the spirit of Judy Collins, featuring a duet with English singer-songwriter Beth Orton. Bond used Kickstarter to finance the release of a second album, Silver Wells, in 2012. The album was conceived as an homage to the 1970 Joan Didion novel Play it as it Lays.

In 2012, Bond toured nationally with lesbian-feminist, spoken-word collective Sister Spit. promoting the new album. Later that year, they opened the holiday show Snow Angel.

In June 2006, Bond appeared with David Hoyle in When David Met Justin at London's Bush Hall. Performing with the House of Whimsy Players at The Kitchen in October, Bond staged Re:Galli Blond (A Sissy Fix), "a self-penned musical spectacle of transgender oppression and uplift." They also appeared in Paul Festa's Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006).

Bond has hosted the Weimer New York variety show since its inception in 2007. Justin Bond Is Close to You reinterpreted Karen Carpenter's album Close to You as part of Joe's Pub in the Park in Central Park in 2007, later moving to Australia's Sydney Opera House.

In 2008, the GLAAD-nominated show Lustre premiered at PS122 in the East Village, then toured the UK with stops in London and Manchester as part of the It's Queer Up North Arts Festival. In December 2008, Bond appeared at London's Southbank Centre in Sinderella, written by Martyn Jacques of the Tiger Lillies.

Justin Bond: Christmas Spells opened in December 2010 at Abrons Arts Center on Grand Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. The two-part show included a trademark cabaret performance of holiday tunes, showcasing an original composition Could Baby Jesus in His Manger Foresee the Hate Sprung from That Night? This was followed by a theatrical adaptation of a short story by gender-theorist Kate Bornstein. In December 2015, an EP titled Christmas Spells was released, including three songs (Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Remember (Christmas) and Christmas Spells).

Bond starred as Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis in Jukebox Jackie as part of the 50th anniversary season of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club between May and June 2012. "I've always been really interested in Jackie, Holly Woodlawn, and Candy Darling," they recounted in an interview at the time, "because they, along with Renée Richards and Christine Jorgensen, were the first famous trans people. When I was young, they were really the only trans people to which I had been exposed." According to Bond, the project originated as a revival of one of Jackie's "crazy, amphetamine-fueled" plays, but Bond (and director Scott Wittman) "couldn't really make sense of them" and turned to reportage instead. "I always liked Jackie," they said, "because Jackie wasn't willing to say 'I am a woman trapped in a man's body,' she'd say 'I'm trans, I'm not a man. I'm not a woman. I'm Jackie.' Which, by the way, was the last line of the show."

Bond's show Mx America was slated to open in Australia in February 2013.

Beginning in January 2014, Bond appeared alongside Stephen Spinella in the Classic Stage Company production of the Bertolt Brecht play A Man's a Man (Man Equals Man), with new music by Duncan Sheik. The show ran off-Broadway at the company's theater on 13th Street in Manhattan's East Village, with Bond playing the part of Leokadia Begbick, a role originated by Brecht's wife Helene Weigel.

In December 2014, Bond's performed in ''Star of Light! An Evening of Bi-Polar Witchy Wonder'', which opened at Joe's Pub on Lafayette near Manhattan's Astor Place.

In 2006, Bond appeared in the film Shortbus. In the movie, directed by fellow Radical Faerie John Cameron Mitchell, they played the mistress of ceremonies at the eponymous avant-garde salon Shortbus, singing the Scott Matthew number "In the End" to the music of the Hungry March Band.

Jake Shears, lead singer of Scissor Sisters, has cited the Kiki and Herb Christmas Show as inspiration. Bond and Shears became friends, with the Scissor Sisters fronting for Kiki and Herb at The Knitting Factory. Bond appeared in the 2017 Music Box Theatre performance of the Tales of the City musical, with score by Shears.

In 2008, Bond participated in a Christmas show at the Knitting Factory that included Rufus Wainwright, members of Wainwright's family, Emmylou Harris, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, and performance artist Laurie Anderson. Revelation Films released the concert DVD in November 2009 under the title A Not So Silent Night (Kate & Anna McGarrigle/Rufus & Martha Wainwright). In May 2011, they appeared with various artists in A Celebration of Kate McGarrigle at New York City's Town Hall to commemorate the passing of the Wainwrights' mother, who had succumbed to cancer the previous year. A DVD was released in 2013. In August 2012, Bond officiated at Rufus Wainwright's Long Island wedding.

Activism
Bond participated in the original Gay Shame event in New York in 1998, performing as Kiki and Herb and recorded in the Scott Berry documentary Gay Shame '98. On September 25, 2012, they hosted a special edition of Weimar as a fundraiser for the reelection of U.S. President Barack Obama. In November, Bond announced a performance to benefit the Ali Forney Center for LGBT youth in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Ahead of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, they appeared in a video by Brooklyn-based Potpourri of Pearls, protesting Russian mistreatment of LGBT persons.

Other projects
In July 2009 Bond made an appearance on the Logo TV comedy series Jeffery & Cole Casserole, playing a Catholic nun who serves as the principal of the show's all-girl Catholic school.

In 2012, Bond announced the creation of a signature fragrance by Ralf Schwieger, a "trans-scent" for all genders named The Afternoon of a Faun after the French poem and modernist ballet of the same name, and issued under the French label État libre d'Orange. It was launched in February 2013, at Manhattan's Museum of Arts and Design on Columbus Circle.

Bond received a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for the memoir Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels. Also in 2012, powerHouse Books released Susie Says, a picture book combining Gina Garan photos of the 1970s fashion doll, Susie Sad Eyes, with bon mots from Bond's Twitter account.

In the summer of 2014, Bond curated and emceed a cabaret season at the Spiegeltent at the Bard SummerScape Festival in the Hudson Valley, New York. They are set to reprise this emcee role in summer 2015, with guests including Alan Cumming, Suzanne Vega, Martha Wainwright, Stephen Merritt, and Lea Delaria.

In July 2020 Bond was announced as part of the cast of Audible's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series, playing the role of Desire of the Endless.

Personal life
Bond is transgender and has said, "for me to claim to be either a man or a woman, feels like a lie. My identity falls somewhere in the middle and is constantly shifting." They undergo feminizing hormone therapy to appear more feminine, and reported feeling great as a result, noting that "I like the way my body looks. Emotionally, it's evened me out." They do not intend to undergo sex reassignment surgery, explaining that "I like my penis, and I am keeping it, but I am creating a transbody—a physical record on my body and a medical record that I am a transgendered person." In 2011, Bond adopted the middle name of Vivian, identifying as Justin Vivian Bond instead of Justin Bond. They use the gender-inclusive honorific Mx. (in place of Ms./Mr.) and neopronoun v (with vself instead of her/himself), a reference to Bond's middle name.

In concert at the end of 2014, Bond disclosed having received an invitation to return home for Thanksgiving, conditional upon leaving behind "that fake woman." Acknowledging that "a lot of trans-kids get kicked out of their homes," they mused. "I didn't until I was 51. So I think I'm gonna make it." Elsewhere, they have said that "if it wasn't for my family and the rage they engendered in me, I wouldn't be here."

Recognition and influence
Bond was referenced in the 1999 Le Tigre song "Hot Topic".

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Forrest Smithson

Forrest Custer Smithson (September 26, 1884 – November 25, 1962) was an American athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Born in Portland, Oregon, Smithson was a student of theology from Oregon State University and an AAU champion in 1907 and 1909 in the 120 yd hurdles.

At London, the main favourites were Smithson's teammates John Garrels and Arthur Shaw who had earlier equaled Alvin Kraenzlein's world record of 15.2 seconds. The 110 m hurdles was not contested on a track as usual, but in a special path in the stadium grass. Only Americans reached the final, which was contested on the last day of the London Games. Smithson defeated Garrels and set a new world record of 15.0 seconds.

Forrest Smithson died in Contra Costa County, California, aged 78.

Bible story
There is a widespread story about Smithson winning the gold medal while carrying a Bible in his left hand (ostensibly to protest against the decision to run the 110 m hurdles final on a Sunday). At first, none of the 110 m hurdles heats nor the final were scheduled or planned to take place on Sunday. The story was not mentioned in the newspapers. This story is based on a picture published in the official report, which was taken during the final.

The fact was that Forrest Smithson was a strong Christian and often ran with a Bible in his hand to point people to the source of his strength and inspiration; his relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Rx Bandits

Rx Bandits are a band based in Seal Beach, California, United States. The band formed in 1995 in Orange County, California. They have appeared on the Vans Warped Tour, at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and The Bamboozle. In the UK they have appeared at Reading/Leeds Festival & Slam Dunk Festival.

Early years (1995-1999)
Originally known as The Pharmaceutical Bandits, the band began their career by participating in the third wave ska revival of the 1990s. In 1996, they released their first studio album, the self-produced Demo(nstration). In 1997, they released Those Damn Bandits, which featured guest appearances by Jimmy the Robot of the Aquabats and Chris Colonnier of Jeffries Fan Club and The Forces of Evil. Noting the Bandits' potential, a Los Angeles Times review of the album said "Now comes a young, talented ska band, the Pharmaceutical Bandits. It would be OK with me if the Grinch spared them but swiped their ska records and left a shelf of Who, Clash, Bob Marley, Elvis Costello and Neil Young." Matt Embree attended Los Alamitos High School, which was an incubator for other third wave ska bands such as Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, and The Scholars.

Drive-Thru years (1999-2006)
In 1998, the band released Halfway Between Here and There. On this album, the band began to branch out beyond the third wave ska sound.

The album's success allowed them to tour with well-known acts such as The Bloodhound Gang, Goldfinger, and Reel Big Fish, and later to headline shows with up-and-comers such as New Found Glory and Freakdaddy frequently opening for them.

In 1999, the album was re-released with a new track list, 2 remastered songs, and new artwork. The '99 release was released under the band's new name—Rx Bandits.

In the time between Halfway Between Here and There and their next release, Progress, bassist Franz Worth and saxophonist Noah Gaffney left the band. Worth was replaced by James Salomone, formerly of My Superhero. Gaffney's position was left open. In June 2000, the band toured the US with Edna's Goldfish and the Gadjits.

With 2001's Progress, the band continued to expand their sound. The album contained the song "Analog Boy", which was made into one of their three music videos. At this point, the band consisted of Embree, Tsagakis, Balling, and Salomone. The album included a number of guest performers, including former member Noah Gaffney.

Shortly after the release of the album, Chris Sheets joined the band on trombone as well as Steve Choi on guitar and keyboards. Choi had played keyboards on the demos for Progress, but when it came time to record, they decided instead to have Rich Zahniser of The Hippos, who was touring with the band, play on the album. Chris Colonnier also played with the band at times, filling the same role as Zahniser. Soon after they gained the new members, James Salomone and Rich Balling left the band. They had many temporary replacements for Salomone, most notably Johnny Tsagakis, Chris' younger brother, but eventually Joe Troy, a longtime friend of Embree, who helped to write the song "What If?" on Halfway Between Here and There, joined the band as their bass player. Balling was replaced by saxophonist Steve Borth, who had played formerly in the popular East Bay ska punk band Link 80. Their line-up of Embree, Tsagakis, Sheets, Choi, Troy and Borth would go on to create the next two albums, The Resignation and ...And the Battle Begun.

2003 saw the release of The Resignation, a CD/DVD combination. Guitars, bass, drums, and some keyboards were all recorded live in studio, and vocals, horns, percussion and additional keyboard parts were then overdubbed. The band allowed themselves a limited number of takes for each part, and once a take was recorded it was left as it was - no punch-ins were allowed. Embree shared songwriting duties with Steve Choi, whereas Embree had previously been responsible for all of the band's material. The Resignation became the first album to debut the Billboard 200. It was charted No. 5 on the Top Heatseekers chart.

Musically, the album continued to branch out beyond Progress into new musical territory, including experimentation with unconventional time signatures. The Resignation featured overtly political lyrics as the band evolved even further from their ska-punk days as the Pharmaceutical Bandits, a subject that drummer Chris Tsagakis commented on in an interview conducted by former member Rich Balling for Skratch Magazine:

A closed-minded person will definitely see a band with horns and think ska or ska-punk. I don't really stress on it, because I know what we are doing transcends genres. We make music, and we are a band that has horns. I would never classify this band under any label. We make music, and we have horns and keys and everything else.

The album cover of The Resignation is an original composition called "Predictable" by Aaron Nagel, a Bay Area artist and member of both Link 80 and DESA.

In 2004, the band released a DVD of live performances that were filmed during their many live shows. It was one of the first released on Embree's Mash Down Babylon Record label (aka MDB Records). It contains two Easter Eggs: a performance of the song "Up to No Good", the only song recorded during the sessions for The Resignation that was not included on the album as well as studio footage of the band working on the album. During the DVD's slide show, the background music is performed by Apotheke, a side project run by several members of the band.

MDB/Sargent House
...And the Battle Begun was initially released online on June 24, 2006, and was made available for purchase during the band's 2006 US Tour. The album's title refers to the poetry of Lord Byron, in which the phrase appears repeatedly.

The album was originally slated to be released in 2005 through Drive-Thru Records (with one album left on their contract), but for unspecified reasons, the band and label chose to part ways, causing lengthy delays in the release date. Finally free of any legal setbacks, the CD was made available via online order from MDB Records and on specified tour dates. Officially it debuted in retail stores in October 2006, after which the band performed a Northeastern CD release tour to promote the album.

On June 28, 2006, the band announced via their MySpace page that saxophone player and backup vocalist Steve Borth had left the Rx Bandits to pursue his own band, Satori. This announcement came in the midst of their 2006 US Summer Tour to the surprise of many fans. Borth played his final show with the Rx Bandits on Tuesday, June 27, 2006, at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City.

In conjunction with Refused TV, the Bandits recorded a music video for the title track off ...And the Battle Begun. It is only their second music video since the making of a video for "Analog Boy" in 2001, and their first independently produced video for the song "I Will Live" on the Those Damn Bandits album. The "I Will Live" video was never officially released, although some bootleg copies still exist.

They released their live set from the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival 2007 exclusively on the iTunes Store. Live from Bonnaroo 2007 is currently only available for download from the U.S. iTunes Store.

During the summer of 2008 the band did a headlining tour with support from Portugal. The Man, Maps & Atlases, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground and Facing New York.

Cathy Pellow of Sargent House announced via the Rx Bandits fan site plans for a live DVD featuring their live performance at the Glasshouse in Pomona, CA on August 22, 2008, as well as interviews and footage from the writing and recording for the next album. That writing and rehearsing process saw the departure of Chris Sheets, leaving the band a four-piece and without horns for the first time in its history.

Mandala (2009-2011)
Mandala was released as a digital download on July 14, 2009, and the CD was released on July 21, 2009, on Sargent House. They then headed out on a co-headlining tour with Dredg with revolving support from Good Old War, Zechs Marquise and As Tall As Lions. This album peaked No. 117 on the Billboard 200.

On January 4, 2010, the band announced some U.S. tour dates starting in March with support from Zechs Marquise and The Builders And The Butchers. This tour featured a 3-night stand at The Gramercy Theatre in New York City, where they performed (in their entirety) The Resignation, ...And The Battle Begun, and Mandala on each respective night (an album per show). They recruited some close friends to play horns for these shows. In September 2010, they had a similar run of shows at The Troubador in Los Angeles. The full album shows from The Troubador were recorded live and the audio was released by the band via flashdrive.

Last Summer Tour (2011)
On April 12, 2011, the band announced that their forthcoming summer U.S. tour would be their last. A brief statement was given by the band:

We would like to express our love and appreciation for all that you've done for us and how much a part of our growth you have been. We have all mutually decided that this summer will be our last tour. We love each other and love you all and hope to see you at the shows.

The tour was composed of 36 shows spanning from May 4, 2011, to August 7, 2011.

Fans first believed the announcement to mean that the band was breaking up when, in fact, they are simply stopping their summer tours. Steve Choi has confirmed this in a Playmaker interview:

To clarify, we’re not breaking up. We’re just doing our last tour. What we’re gonna do in the future, we’re not quite sure. That’s a big question because it involves what we’re going to do collectively and what we’re going to do individually. Despite popular belief, we don’t live together, sleep together or eat together. Those days have passed. We all have our own lives to tend to. When we’re not full time touring or playing shows, we gotta handle business…

Brazilian Tour (2012)
On May 30, 2012, Rx Bandits announced that they would be performing a series of dates in Brazil during the summer, effectively ending their year-long hiatus.

The Resignation Tenth Anniversary Tour and New EP (2013)
Rx Bandits toured the United States during the summer of 2013 to mark the tenth anniversary of the release of The Resignation. The band released an EP featuring covers of The Police, Blonde Redhead, Weezer, Fugazi, and King Crimson.

Gemini, Her Majesty (2014)
During their special acoustic performance in their hometown of Long Beach, California on December 14, 2013, Embree stated that a new album is halfway written and Rx Bandits will be together again.

The band released a demo recording on January 26, 2014, through PledgeMusic. The track is tentatively titled, "Ready Eddie". The official cut of the track has since been released, and is called "Stargazer", the first track recorded for the new album.

On June 6, 2014, the band announced via Twitter that their new album will be called Gemini, Her Majesty, and it was released on July 22, 2014.

In December 2014 the band played two nights at The Glasshouse in Pomona, CA. The first night was dedicated to playing through Gemini, Her Majesty in its entirety, followed by a six-song encore set with horn players. The second night was a fan-made setlist featuring the horn section again, including many older fan favorites from The Resignation.

In 2015, the band toured with Circa Survive for their "Juturna" 10-year anniversary tour. Drummer Chris Tsagakis was unable to tour during this time, and his role was filled by Javier Torres. The band played as a four piece on this tour, and no horn players were present.

In 2016, the band embarked on a 10-year anniversary tour of "And the Battle Begun", which featured Matt Embree and Steve Choi, but with Javier Torres on drums and Matt Fazzi on bass. Long-time bassist Joe Troy was absent from the tour. Chris Tsagakis stated that he was no longer touring with the band to focus on being a father. Andrew Bornstein also played trombone on this tour, as well as Dennis Passley on saxophone. Since this tour, the band has remained inactive and there seem to be no future plans to tour. Since then, Matt Embree has filled in on tours for numerous bands, and is currently touring with the band Dispatch. He also recorded/engineered the latest Dan P and the Bricks' album.

In 2019, the band announced they would be performing at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California on January 24, 2020, with support from Anthony Green and VIS.

In 2022, the band toured with Nova Charisma.

On November 10, 2023, Steve Choi, on the 'Football, Beer & Punk Rock Podcast', confirmed the band are working on a new album and are back with Sargent House.

On November 15, 2023, the band announced via 'X' (formerly Twitter) that they would be performing a series of 8 shows across the U.S. in March 2024 for the 20-year anniversary of The Resignation.

Side projects
Over the years, several members found time for side projects.

Embree and Chris Tsagakis can also be found in The Sound of Animals Fighting as “Walrus” and “Lynx,” respectively. The group was founded by former Rx Bandits trombonist Rich Balling. Joe Troy, Chris Sheets, and Steve Choi have performed live with the band, which also includes Anthony Green (Saosin, Circa Survive) and Craig Owens (Chiodos vocalist) as well as members of Finch and Days Away.

Steve Borth played with the Northern California skacore band, Link 80, signed to Asian Man Records. He later started the reggae/rocksteady band Satori which has also featured Embree on bass, members of The Exit, and Chris Murray.

Steve Choi collaborated with Asian Man Records founder Mike Park in both The Chinkees and The Bruce Lee Band. The Rx Bandits were featured as Park's Bruce Lee Band during the recording of the Beautiful World EP. Choi is also a member of the band Machines, in which he plays the drums.

September 9, 2008 saw the release of Matt Embree's acoustic side project, entitled Love You Moon. The album consists solely of Matt on the acoustic guitar with the exception of 3 tracks where Chris Tsagakis assists on drums. This album was presold at the Rx Bandits' concurrent tour. He also released an EP of covers entitled "Maracay" during the last Rx tour. The album was recorded during a trip to Venezuela and all proceeds went to Doctors Without Borders.

Embree and Tsagakis have also played guitar and drums, respectively, with Lauren Coleman in her project, Pebaluna. The three met when she was recording in the Elizabethan in late 2005.

Matt Embree can also be heard on other projects such as those of the hip-hop group Seekret Socyetee, 2 Drunk'n Poets, and V.I.T.A.L. Emcee's solo album, "The Secret of the Invisible Man", all of which have been released on Embree's MDB Records.

Tsagakis is recording and performing solo material under the name C-Gak. He also released an album under the moniker of Technology.

Embree also started a new group with Lisa Papineau named ME & LP. They released their first EP Chez Raymond on August 9, 2011, and toured the West Coast.

Choi is currently producing bands, recently working with Silver Snakes, Gardening Not Architecture and The Velvet Teen.

Embree and Tsagakis released an album as Biceratops in November 2012.

Band members

 * Current Members

 * Matt Embree – Vocals/Guitar/Percussion/Keyboard (1995–Present)
 * Steve Choi – Guitar/Keyboards/Vocals/Percussion (2001–Present)
 * Christopher Tsagakis – Drums (1995–Present)

 * Former members

 * Joseph Troy – Bass/Vocals (2001–2022)
 * Christopher Sheets (Trombone/Vocals/Percussion on The Resignation and ...And The Battle Begun) (2001-2008)
 * Steven Borth II (Saxophone/Vocals/Keyboard/Percussion on The Resignation and ...And The Battle Begun) (2002-2006)
 * John Tsagakis (Bass) (2001)
 * James Salomone (Bass on Progress) (2000-2001)
 * Franz J. Worth (Bass on Those Damn Bandits and Halfway Between Here and There) (1995-2000)
 * Noah Gaffney (Saxophone/Vocals on Those Damn Bandits and Halfway Between Here and There) (1995-2000)
 * Neil Burdick (Alto Saxophone/Vocals on Demo and Those Damn Bandits) (1997)
 * Rich Balling (Trombone/Vocals on Those Damn Bandits, Halfway Between Here and There and Progress) (1995-2001)

 * Touring members;

 * Matthew Fazzi (Bass/Vocals) (2016–Present)
 * Andrew Borstein (Trombone/Vocals/Keyboards) (2006–Present)
 * Dennis Passley (Saxophone) (2013–Present)
 * Javier Torres (Drums) (Occasionally between 2015–2021)

 * Rich Zahniser (Keyboards/Trombone/Vocals) (2001)
 * Chris Colonnier (Keyboards/Trombone/Vocals) (1997, 2001–2002)
 * Nat Love (Saxophone) (2010-2011)

 * Timeline

DVD

 * RX Bandits Live: Vol. 1 (2004)

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Neiva, Huila

Neiva is the capital of the Department of Huila. It is located in the valley of the Magdalena River in south central Colombia with a municipal population of 357,392. It is one of the most important cities in southern Colombia, mainly because of its strategic geographical location.

History
Neiva was first founded in 1539 by Juan de Cabrera in an area now belonging to the municipality of Campoalegre. In 1550, Juan de Alonso y Arias relocated the city to the place that is now the municipality of Villavieja. At this location, the city was destroyed by indigenous tribes in 1560. The city was founded, at its current location, for the third and final time in 1612 by Diego de Ospina y Medinilla.

Neiva became important during the colonial times because of its strategic location. It was located in the trade route that communicated the Viceroyalty of Peru with Bogotá and Caracas. The city was declared as the capital of the Province of Neiva, made up of the Neiva, La Plata, Timaná, Purificación cabildos. In 1905 the city became the capital of the newly created Huila Department, which had been severed from the Tolima Department by the national government.

In 1967, the city was hit severely by an earthquake of magnitude 7.2. The earthquake destroyed several buildings including the Palacio de las 57 ventanas, the Governor's building.

In 2003 the city was the scene of a large bombing that was targeted at the Colombian President. 13 people were killed.

Geography and climate
The city has the dry-summer tropical savannah climate (Köppen climate classification: As), relatively rare and scattered across the world.

Due to its location near the equator and its low altitude, the city has a hot annual average climate with daytime temperatures ranging from 88 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit. It is about 300 kilometers / 186.4 miles (about a five-hour drive) from the Colombian capital, Bogotá.

The city of Palembang in Indonesia is the antipode of Neiva.

Ethnography
According to DANE, the ethnography composition of the city is:
 * Whites or Europeans descendants and mestizos: 98.9%
 * Indigenous: 0.3%
 * Black, mulatto or afro-descendant: 0.8%

Economy
Neiva is a distribution center for many consumer goods to the national economy such as rice, coffee, beef, milk, leather by-products and other agricultural products. Its annual agricultural fair held in May showcases horses, cattle and pork from local municipalities and other surrounding towns.

Tourist attractions
Throughout the city a tourist might enjoy the scattered city monuments, especially around the edges of the Magdalena River, where the local government has been maintaining the recently built sanctuary meant to safeguard the Magdalena from any pollutants and human produced contamination. Around this sanctuary there are parks and gardens usually crowded by locals and tourists who came to the growing city. The city can be reached by road travel, or by all major national airlines, coming to the Benito Salas Airport.

Education
Neiva is home to several universities which serve primarily Southern Colombia. Among the most important are the Universidad Surcolombiana, the Corporación Universitaria del Huila, and the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia.

Air transportation
The Benito Salas Airport, named after Benito Salas Vargas, is located inside the city and serves domestic destinations.

Culture
The city is known as the Bambuco capital. José Eustasio Rivera, born in Rivera, is the most famous writer of a "pléyade" of creators that lived in Neiva (Regulo Suárez, Eustaquio Álvarez, Felio Andrade, Antonio Iriarte, Yezid Morales, Humberto Calderón, Jorge Guebelly, Luis Alberto Campos, Winston Morales, Jader Rivera, David Alberto Campos)

Festivals and events
This city is known for the Festival Folclórico y Reinado Nacional del Bambuco festivities held between the last two weeks of June and early July. During this time, there are daily parades through the downtown area and showings of the Sanjuanero, a folk dance, where the participants dress in a typical costumes and compete for being the best performers of the Sanjuanero choreography.

Sports
Soccer is currently the most popular sport in the city. The city is the base for the Atlético Huila club which competes in the top division of the Colombian professional football (soccer) league, the Categoría Primera A. The games are played at the Guillermo Plazas Alcid Stadium.

Basketball had historically a high popularity, although it has decreased in recent years. The cities Basketball games are played at the Coliseo Álvaro Sánchez Silva court.

The city has hosted important national and international sport events. For example:
 * XI National Games of Colombia 1980
 * Juvenile Finswimming World Championship 2008
 * South American Basketball Championship 2010
 * FIBA Americas Championship for Women 2011

The city of Neiva was one of the host cities for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Sister cities

 * 🇸🇪 Kungsbacka, Sweden
 * 🇪🇸 Cadiz, Spain
 * 🇦🇺 Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
 * 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, United States
 * 🇮🇹 Milan, Italy
 * 🇨🇴 Bogotá, Colombia
 * 🇫🇷 Lyon, France
 * 🇸🇪 Malmö, Sweden
 * 🇨🇴 Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
 * 🇦🇺 Perth, Western Australia
 * 🇺🇸 Leesburg, Florida, United States
 * 🇮🇩 Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia

Notable people

 * Misael Pastrana Borrero, president of Colombia
 * Olga Duque de Ospina, senator and governor of Huila
 * Rodrigo Lara, lawyer and politician
 * Natalia Valenzuela, model, presenter and beauty pageant titleholder
 * Claudia Bahamón, model and presenter

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Mississippi Nights

Mississippi Nights was a music club in St. Louis, Missouri. It opened on October 11, 1976 and was located at 914 N 1st Street, on the western bank of the Mississippi River, four blocks north of the Gateway Arch in Laclede's Landing.

Concerts at the venue, which held up to 1,000 people, were often "all ages" events, with just over one percent restricted to patrons 21 and over.

The club is the subject of a song on the album Venue Songs by They Might Be Giants. George Thorogood & the Destroyers' album Live: Let's Work Together features tracks recorded at Mississippi Nights.

Closure
In early 2003, rumors began circulating that the club would close to make way for Horseshoe St. Louis (at the time known as Lumière Place), a new casino development. The rumors were confirmed in early 2007, and the last show was held on January 19, 2007.

The last band to play on its stage was The Urge fronted by a band member from Mudworm, which also played. The Urge sold out 93 of 100 shows at Mississippi Nights.

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Navy Commendation Star

The Navy Commendation Star or Navy Letter of Commendation Star was a Department of the Navy personal military decoration issued as ribbon device which was authorized in 1918 to be "placed" on the World War I Victory Medal. A $3/16$ inch silver star was issued to any service member of the Navy and Marine Corps who had been cited and commended by the Secretary of the Navy for performance of duty. Among the recipients of the Commendation Star was future Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.

The Navy Commendation Star was placed on the suspension and service ribbon of the World War I Victory Medal, above all battle clasps. When the star was worn on the medal's service ribbon, the star was placed before all bronze service stars. The Navy Commendation Star was identical to the United States Army Citation Star which also was a $3/16$ inch silver star worn on the World War I Victory Medal to denote a soldier (or a marine or Navy corpsman attached to the Second Division), was cited for gallantry in action and awarded a citation. Unlike the Citation Star, however, the Navy Commendation Star could not be converted to the Silver Star Medal (1932).

At the start of the Second World War, the Navy Commendation Star was declared obsolete and none were issued between 1941 and 1945. In the 1950s, the Department of the Navy began accepting applications from eligible World War I veterans authorized a Navy Commendation Star for conversion to the Navy Commendation Ribbon with Metal Pendant, and in 1960, to the Navy Commendation Medal. In 1994, an authorized Navy Commendation Star could be exchanged for the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal.

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Texians

Texians were Anglo-American residents of Mexican Texas and, later, the Republic of Texas. Today, the term is used to identify early Anglo settlers of Texas, especially those who supported the Texas Revolution. Mexican settlers of that era are referred to as Tejanos, and residents of modern Texas are known as Texans.

Colonial settlement
Many different settler groups came to Texas over the centuries. Spanish colonists in the 17th century linked Texas to the rest of New Spain. French and English traders and settlers arrived in the 18th century, and more numerous German, Dutch, Swedish, Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and Welsh settled in the years leading up to Texas independence in 1836. Before Texas became a sovereign state in 1836, Texian referred to any resident, of any race, color or language.

In 1834–1836, the Texian Army was organized for the Texas Revolution of independence from Mexico, a nation which had won its independence from Spain in 1821. Although the Texian army was predominantly made up of Anglo-Americans who traced their ancestries to Colonial America, it was a diverse group of people from many different nations and states. The Texian Army was composed of Tejano volunteers, volunteers from the Southern United States; and immigrants directly from Europe including countries like England, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Portugal, and what is now the Czech Republic. Used in this sense, terms like "Texian Army", "Texian forces", or "Texian troops" would refer to any of the inhabitants of Texas, in that era, who participated in the Texas Revolution.

Republic of Texas
Texian was a popular demonym, used by Texas colonists, for all the people of the Republic of Texas (1836–1846), before it became a U.S. state. This term was used by early colonists and public officials, including many Texas residents, and President Mirabeau Lamar frequently used it to foster Texas nationalism.

Over time, the English-speaking Americans in Texas began to champion the usage of "Texan" instead of "Texian". Overwhelming numbers in the United States used the term Texan. Due to the 19th-century influx of Americans into the Republic and later U.S. state of Texas, Texan became the standard term after 1850.

The Texas Almanac of 1857 bemoaned the shift in usage, saying "'Texian...has more euphony, and is better adapted to the conscience of poets who shall hereafter celebrate our deeds in sonorous strains than the harsh, abrupt, ungainly, appellation, Texan—impossible to rhyme with anything but the merest doggerel.'" The Almanac continued to use the earlier term until 1868. Many who had lived through the times of Revolution and Republic continued to call themselves Texians into the 20th century.

Armed forces

 * Texian Militia
 * Texian Navy

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Stock and flow

Economics, business, accounting, and related fields often distinguish between quantities that are stocks and those that are flows. These differ in their units of measurement. A stock is measured at one specific time, and represents a quantity existing at that point in time (say, December 31, 2004), which may have accumulated in the past. A flow variable is measured over an interval of time. Therefore, a flow would be measured per unit of time (say a year). Flow is roughly analogous to rate or speed in this sense.

For example, U.S. nominal gross domestic product refers to a total number of dollars spent over a time period, such as a year. Therefore, it is a flow variable, and has units of dollars/year. In contrast, the U.S. nominal capital stock is the total value, in dollars, of equipment, buildings, and other real productive assets in the U.S. economy, and has units of dollars. The diagram provides an intuitive illustration of how the stock of capital currently available is increased by the flow of new investment and depleted by the flow of depreciation.

Stocks and flows in accounting
Thus, a stock refers to the value of an asset at a balance date (or point in time), while a flow refers to the total value of transactions (sales or purchases, incomes or expenditures) during an accounting period. If the flow value of an economic activity is divided by the average stock value during an accounting period, we obtain a measure of the number of turnovers (or rotations) of a stock in that accounting period. Some accounting entries are normally always represented as a flow (e.g. profit or income), while others may be represented both as a stock or as a flow (e.g. capital).

A person or country might have stocks of money, financial assets, liabilities, wealth, real means of production, capital, inventories, and human capital (or labor power). Flow magnitudes include income, spending, saving, debt repayment, fixed investment, inventory investment, and labor utilization. These differ in their units of measurement. Capital is a stock concept which yields a periodic income which is a flow concept.

Comparing stocks and flows
Stocks and flows have different units and are thus not commensurable – they cannot be meaningfully compared, equated, added, or subtracted. However, one may meaningfully take ratios of stocks and flows, or multiply or divide them. This is a point of some confusion for some economics students, as some confuse taking ratios (valid) with comparing (invalid).

The ratio of a stock over a flow has units of (units)/(units/time) = time. For example, the debt to GDP ratio has units of years (as GDP is measured in, for example, dollars per year whereas debt is measured in dollars), which yields the interpretation of the debt to GDP ratio as "number of years to pay off all debt, assuming all GDP devoted to debt repayment".

The ratio of a flow to a stock has units 1/time. For example, the velocity of money is defined as nominal GDP / nominal money supply; it has units of (dollars / year) / dollars = 1/year.

In discrete time, the change in a stock variable from one point in time to another point in time one time unit later (the first difference of the stock) is equal to the corresponding flow variable per unit of time. For example, if a country's stock of physical capital on January 1, 2010 is 20 machines and on January 1, 2011 is 23 machines, then the flow of net investment during 2010 was 3 machines per year. If it then has 27 machines on January 1, 2012, the flow of net investment during 2010 and 2011 averaged $$3 \tfrac{1}{2}$$ machines per year.

In continuous time, the time derivative of a stock variable is a flow variable.

More general uses
Stocks and flows also have natural meanings in many contexts outside of economics, business and related fields. The concepts apply to many conserved quantities such as energy, and to materials such as in stoichiometry, water reservoir management, and greenhouse gases and other durable pollutants that accumulate in the environment or in organisms. Climate change mitigation, for example, is a fairly straightforward stock and flow problem with the primary goal of reducing the stock (the concentration of durable greenhouse gases in the atmosphere) by manipulating the flows (reducing inflows such as greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, and increasing outflows such as carbon dioxide removal). In living systems, such as the human body, energy homeostasis describes the linear relationship between flows (the food we eat and the energy we expend along with the wastes we excrete) and the stock (manifesting as our gain or loss of body weight over time). In Earth system science, many stock and flow problems arise, such as in the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the water cycle, and Earth's energy budget. Thus stocks and flows are the basic building blocks of system dynamics models. Jay Forrester originally referred to them as "levels" rather than stocks, together with "rates" or "rates of flow".

A stock (or "level variable") in this broader sense is some entity that is accumulated over time by inflows and/or depleted by outflows. Stocks can only be changed via flows. Mathematically a stock can be seen as an accumulation or integration of flows over time – with outflows subtracting from the stock. Stocks typically have a certain value at each moment of time – e.g. the number of population at a certain moment, or the quantity of water in a reservoir.

A flow (or "rate") changes a stock over time. Usually we can clearly distinguish inflows (adding to the stock) and outflows (subtracting from the stock). Flows typically are measured over a certain interval of time – e.g., the number of births over a day or month.

Synonyms

Calculus interpretation
If the quantity of some stock variable at time $$\,t\,$$ is $$\,Q(t)\,$$, then the derivative $$\,\frac{dQ(t)}{dt}\,$$ is the flow of changes in the stock. Likewise, the stock at some time $$t$$ is the integral of the flow from some moment set as zero until time $$t$$.

For example, if the capital stock $$\,K(t)\,$$ is increased gradually over time by a flow of gross investment $$\,I^g(t)\,$$ and decreased gradually over time by a flow of depreciation $$\,D(t)\,$$, then the instantaneous rate of change in the capital stock is given by

 * $$\frac{dK(t)}{dt} = I^g(t) - D(t) = I^n(t)$$

where the notation $$\,I^n(t)\,$$ refers to the flow of net investment, which is the difference between gross investment and depreciation.

Example of dynamic stock and flow diagram

Equations that change the two stocks via the flow are:

 * $$ \ \text{Stock A} = \int_0^t -\text{Flow }\,dt $$

 * $$ \ \text{Stock B} = \int_0^t \text{Flow }\,dt $$

List of all the equations, in their order of execution in each time, from time = 1 to 36:

 * $$1) \ \text{Flow}= \sin( 5t ) $$

 * $$2.1) \ \text{Stock A}\ -= \text{Flow}\ $$

 * $$2.2) \ \text{Stock B}\ += \text{Flow}\ $$

History
The distinction between a stock and a flow variable is elementary, and dates back centuries in accounting practice (distinction between an asset and income, for instance). In economics, the distinction was formalized and terms were set in, in which Irving Fisher formalized capital (as a stock).

Polish economist Michał Kalecki emphasized the centrality of the distinction of stocks and flows, caustically calling economics "the science of confusing stocks with flows" in his critique of the quantity theory of money (circa 1936, frequently quoted by Joan Robinson).

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Gen Re

General Reinsurance Corporation is an American multinational property/casualty and life/health reinsurance company offering a range of reinsurance products and services. The company is a primarily direct reinsurer and is represented in all major reinsurance markets worldwide through a network of more than 40 offices. Gen Re is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Financial strength ratings of Gen Re's reinsurance operations:
 * A.M. Best: A++ (Superior)
 * Standard & Poor's Claims Paying Ability Rating: AA+
 * Moody's Financial Strength Rating: Aa1

General Re Corporation is the holding company for Gen Re's global reinsurance and related operations. It owns General Reinsurance Corporation, General Re Life Corporation and General Reinsurance AG, the direct reinsurers which conduct business as Gen Re. In addition, the insurance, reinsurance and investment management companies in the General Re group include: Gen Re Intermediaries, NEAM, General Star, Genesis, USAU and Faraday.

History
General Reinsurance Corporation’s history began in 1921 as the General Casualty and Surety Reinsurance Corporation, before it took over the U.S. business of the Norwegian Globe Insurance Company of Christiania, Norway.

In 1923, American investors acquired the company and changed the name to General Reinsurance Corporation.

In 1928, the General Alliance Corporation was organized to acquire and hold the shares of General Reinsurance Corporation, as well as a half interest in the holdings of the Royal Exchange Assurance Group (London) in the United British Insurance Co., Ltd.

In 1929, the General Alliance Corporation owned all the stock of General Reinsurance Corporation, and jointly with the Royal Exchange Group, a controlling interest in the United British. The United British Insurance Co., Ltd. established a U.S. branch that transacted casualty reinsurance as a "running mate for the General, and has the same management as the General. The two companies transact practically all forms of casualty and surety reinsurance and constitute the first example of a 'Group' in the history of American casualty reinsurance."

Also in 1929, General Reinsurance affirmed that it would be only a direct reinsurer. In 1945, General Reinsurance merged with Mellon Indemnity Corporation. In 1954, the company created the first professional casualty facultative reinsurance department. Property facultative followed, beginning in 1956. North America branch offices were opened during this time. In the 1950s, General Reinsurance began writing reinsurance internationally, expanding in this area during the 1960s and 1970s. The company continued to grow through the next two decades, opening more U.S. and Canada branch offices and making various acquisitions. The company moved its headquarters from New York City to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1974, and then to Stamford, Connecticut in 1984. In 1980, General Re Corporation, the parent holding company, was formed and listed on the New York Stock Exchange as GRN.

In 1994, General Reinsurance Corporation formed an alliance with what was then Cologne Re (Kölnische Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, which was founded in 1846), now General Reinsurance AG. In 1998, General Re Corporation was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and in 2003 General Reinsurance Corporation and Cologne Re began marketing under the brand name of Gen Re. In 2009, General Reinsurance Corporation completed its purchase of Cologne Re, whose name was changed to General Reinsurance AG in 2010.

AIG Securities Fraud
In October 2000, some Wall Street analysts questioned the decline in American International Group (AIG) loss reserves. In an effort to quell these concerns, AIG entered into two sham reinsurance transactions with Cologne Re Dublin, a subsidiary of General Reinsurance, that had no economic substance but were designed to add $500 million in phony loss reserves to AIG’s balance sheet in the fourth quarter of 2000 and first quarter of 2001.

In 2005, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer began an investigation into the two reinsurance transactions. Soon afterwards, AIG came under market pressure, and admitted it had undertaken what could be construed as securities fraud. The staff admitted that the two reinsurance transactions had inflated AIG’s balance sheet and propped up AIG’s stock price. In the resultant stock crash, investors lost $500 million in investments.

Cologne Re Dublin's CEO, John Houldsworth, agreed to turn state's witness for the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission, in agreement for a plea bargain. Houldsworth then pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit securities fraud, resultantly facing a sentence of up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. The final sentencing was placed on hold, subject to consequential SEC prosecutions.

The DOJ subsequently undertook successful prosecutions against four former Gen Re executives and one former AIG executive: CEO Ronald Ferguson was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $200,000; CFO Elizabeth Monrad was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $250,000; Senior Vice President Christopher Garand was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $150,000; Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel Robert Graham was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $100,000; AIG's Vice President Christian Milton was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $200,000.

In 2009, in front of U.S. District Judge Christopher Droney in Hartford, Houldsworth apologized. As a result, he was fined $5,000 and ordered to perform 400 hours of community service during a two-year probation period.

On August 1, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the five Gen Re and AIG defendants’ convictions and remanded the defendants for a new trial, holding that the reported drop in share prices could not be attributed to the two reinsurance deals.

Resolution
"In June 2012, the U.S. government agreed to not pursue any further legal action against the former Gen Re executives pursuant to deferred prosecution agreements that have since expired and are no longer in effect. As a result, the government matter is fully and finally resolved. Civil litigation related to the AIG matter has also been fully and finally resolved.  The lead plaintiffs and Gen Re reached a settlement agreement which the court approved pursuant to a final order entered on September 11, 2013."

Office locations
Gen Re's headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut.

In North America, Gen Re also operates in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Hartford, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, South Portland, St. Paul and Toronto.

Gen Re further operates in Latin America (Mexico City, São Paulo), Europe/Middle East (Cologne, Copenhagen, Dubai, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Vienna), Africa (Cape Town, Johannesburg), Asia (Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo) and Australasia (Auckland, Sydney).

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Fruit of the Loom

Fruit of the Loom is an American company that manufactures clothing, particularly casual wear and underwear. The company's world headquarters is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Since 2002, it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.

Products manufactured by Fruit of the Loom itself and through its subsidiaries include clothing (t-shirts, hoodies, jackets, sweatpants, shorts and lingerie), and sports equipment (softballs and basketballs) manufactured and commercialized by Spalding.

Company profile
Fruit of the Loom is one of the largest manufacturers and marketers of underwear, printable T-shirts and fleece for the activewear industry, casualwear, women's jeanswear, and childrenswear. The company employs more than 32,400 people worldwide.

The company's logo comprises a red apple, leaves, green grapes, purple grapes, and white currants (or yellow gooseberries), but not a cornucopia. In July 2023, a Snopes reporter said that a search of newspaper advertisements between the 1920s and 2020s revealed none that depicted a cornucopia — this is often cited as an example of the Mandela Effect.

The company is a vertically integrated manufacturer. In 2006, Fruit of the Loom acquired Russell Brands, LLC, a global company whose brands included Russell Athletic, Brooks Running, and Spalding, among other names in athletic wear. The purchase amount was $600 million.

Rhode Island beginnings
The origin of the Fruit of the Loom company dates back to 1851 in Rhode Island, when textile mill owner Robert Knight and his brother Benjamin established the "B.B. and R. Knight Corporation" after they acquired the Pontiac Mills in Warwick, Rhode Island. In 1856, the company introduced the brand name "Fruit of the Loom", while producing its first muslins.

A friend of Robert Knight named Rufus Skeel owned a small shop in Providence that sold cloth from Knight's mill. Skeel's daughter painted images of apples and applied them to the bolts of cloth. The ones with the apple emblems proved most popular. Knight thought the labels would be the perfect symbol for his trade name, Fruit of the Loom – an expression referring to clothes, paralleling the phrase "fruit of the womb", which can be traced back to the Bible (Psalm 127:3).

In 1871, just one year after the first trademark laws were passed by Congress, Knight received trademark number 418 for the brand "Fruit of the Loom". Much of its athletic outerwear was sold under the "Pro Player" label, a now defunct division.

20th century
The company was part of Northwest Industries, Inc., until NWI was purchased by William F. Farley in 1985 and renamed Farley Industries, Inc.

Farley served as president, CEO, and majority shareholder for 15 years. Fruit of the Loom's sales revenue rose from approximately US$500 million at the time of NWI's purchase (equivalent to $ billion in ) to roughly US$2.5 billion nearly 15 years later (equivalent to $ billion in ), about a three-fold increase after inflation. Debt financing proved difficult to manage, however, even as dollar sales revenue quintupled.

On March 23, 1987, the company sold its subsidiary General Battery to Exide Corporation.

In the 1990s, the American textile industry overall experienced widespread downsizing in the wake of North American Free Trade Agreement and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

In 1995, Chairman Farley announced that the company would close six plants in the Southeastern United States, and cut back operations at two others. Operations were moved to cheaper plants abroad. 3,200 workers, or about 12 percent of its American work force, were laid off. Farley also announced that company earnings fell 22 percent, despite a 10 percent increase in sales.

In 1999, Fruit of the Loom filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, shortly after posting a net loss of $576.2 million. including structuring the company into an off-shore entity in the Cayman Islands to avoid taxes.

21st century
The company was bought from bankruptcy by Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, controlled by investor Warren Buffett, who wanted the valuable brand. He agreed in January 2002 to purchase the company for approximately $835 million in cash. The deal was concluded on April 29, 2002. A condition of the purchase required that former COO and then interim CEO John Holland remain available to be the CEO for the company.

The company purchased Russell Brands, LLC, effectively taking the former competitor private, in a deal valued at $598.3 million that was completed August 1, 2006.

The company announced the purchase of VF Corporation's intimate apparel company named Vanity Fair Intimates for $350 million in cash on January 23, 2007. This company was renamed Vanity Fair Brands and is operated as a wholly owned subsidiary.

In 2010, Rick Medlin was named president and CEO of Fruit of the Loom. Longtime CEO John Holland became the company's chairman. In 2014, the company closed its Jamestown, Kentucky, plant, which had once been the second manufacturing plant in the state, and laid off all 600 employees. The company acknowledged it was moving the plant's operations to Honduras to reduce production costs.

In December 2016, Melissa Burgess Taylor was named chairman and CEO of Fruit of the Loom by Buffett after the death of Rick Medlin.

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Pampered Chef

Pampered Chef is a multinational multi-level marketing company that offers a line of kitchen tools, food products, and cookbooks for preparing food in the home. They also offer some products to help transport some of their products and gardening tools.

It has a worldwide direct sales force of about 35,000 in addition to 400 corporate staff. The company is headquartered in Addison, Illinois, and operates in five countries: the United States, Germany, Canada, Austria, and France.

History
Doris Christopher founded Pampered Chef in 1980 in the basement of her suburban Chicago home. Christopher came up with a party plan to offer kitchen tools directly to consumers through in-home cooking demonstrations, a concept first popularized by Tupperware. The company expanded to Canada in 1996, the UK in 1999, Germany in 2000, Austria in 2019, and France in 2020.

The company was acquired in 2002 by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway corporation. On October 30, 2014, Berkshire Hathaway appointed long time advisor Tracy Britt Cool to the position of CEO. According to Direct Selling News, "the company’s revenue has fallen from $320 million in 2015 to $280 million in 2018." In March 2020, the company's COO, Andrew Treanor, took over on the role of CEO.

The company closed its UK business, and wound down UK operations as of December 31, 2015.

Products
In 1990, Pampered Chef released a product known as the Valtrompia bread tube. The product is a metal tube in which refrigerated bread dough can be baked into a narrow, scalloped-edge loaf. As of the late 1990s, the product is available in five shapes—flower, square, heart, scalloped, and star. The bread is baked with the tube placed upright in the oven, allowing the bread to rise vertically along the tube.

Lawsuit
In April 2023, Pampered Chef was sued for alleged data sharing and sharing video viewing history from people visiting the company website with Google and Facebook. In June 2023, Pampered Chef settled the lawsuit claiming they did share video viewing history of users.

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Fandom wank was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was ambiguous however, even after discarding the probable sockpuppets and anonymous votes, there is not a clear consensus to delete. By default, the article is kept for now. Rossami 23:57, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

A non-notable website. Andris 16:59, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete, basically a blog. --Golbez 17:05, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Changing to Keep if and only if it can be expanded the way 4chan, et.al. have. As it is, it's an unnotable blog; if it is indeed so notable, then it can have more than a paragraph. So, a provisional keep. --Golbez 14:31, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * how boring. I was secretly hoping it would be about intimate practices involving ropes, chains and judiciously applied voltage from the local telephone system. Delete. --Ianb 18:34, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * No, that would be modem wank. :D --Golbez 19:00, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: I am against bondage and domination substub breakouts concerning fans humiliating their favorite stars and insulting...oh. Delete for Wikipedia not being a web directory. Geogre 19:26, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: Someone double-check, but I'm sure this has been listed before ... 82.6.10.139 14:49, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * comment: if so, and it survived, the VfD comment page should be archived on the respective talk page, which is currently empty. --Ianb 17:49, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Don't Delete: FW is now a cultural phenomenon within fandom. The words, "You've been Fandom Wanked!" have brought threads, LJ communities, messageboards, and even entire fandoms to a screeching halt. Sometimes, even accusing someone of being "wanky" is enough to start a full-fledged flamewar. Fandom Wank: it's not just a dessert topping, it's part of fannish lexicon!nmw 09:35, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Note. The above was the first (and, so far, the only) edit by User:Nmwallace. Andris 10:31, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * comment: that may well be the case, but I - and the rest of the world not involved in "fandom wanking" - would never have guessed, which makes the article a bit pointless, and just a random (offensive sounding) website ad. Feel free to expand on the phenomonen and transform this article into something informative. What's an "LJ community" btw? --Ianb 11:02, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * comment: An LJ Community is a collaborative LiveJournal   — Gwalla | Talk
 * Don't Delete: The article needs expansion to include the history of Fandom_Wank, which has its own subculture and a massive following. It could be made into something far more than what it currently is.  It doesn't need deletion, it just needs content.  thephotoman | talk
 * Note. The above vote was cast by an anon with 68.201.215.156 IP adress. Andris 10:29, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * Note. the above vote, linked in that comment, was indeed by thephotoman, who just has no clue what the hell he's doing. Thephotoman 04:08, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable blog. "FW" is hardly a "cultural phenomenon within fandom". "Bringing entire fandoms to a halt" is pretty blatant hyperbole, and asserting that any time somebody calls someone "wanky" is a reference to a specific blog is just silly.   — Gwalla | Talk 20:16, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Appearantly, you've not seen fandom wank bring fandoms to a halt. I have--and I've been in the fandoms that it's brought to the dead stop.  It's really fun to watch. Thephotoman 04:08, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * comment: Yes? And which fandoms were they? Do you really mean to tell me that this website caused large groups of people to lose interest in things they liked? If you can expand on that, add it to the article and maybe I'll change my vote. Otherwise, it's a substub signifying nothing.   — Gwalla | Talk 03:56, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Actually, the massive drama has caused people to lose interest in the communities surrounding the things they liked. Fandom_Wank tends to lay the dirty laundry out in the open so that everyone can get a good laugh at it.  However, some people don't like the drama that they get themselves involved in (usually due to involvement in some subcommunity that has been posted to Fandom Wank) that they "leave fandom", or just leave the community.  This happens with some regularity in the Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings--Real People Slash (involving writing homoerotic fiction about the actors in the films by Peter Jackson) fandoms.  It should be appended, but there are people who know far more about it than what I've seen.  Thephotoman 04:08, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and heavily expand. Fandom Wank has made itself quite well known within many fandoms. Wikipedia has entries for far less notable entities. Aris Katsaris 03:32, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep It's a fandom institution now, according the jf.net admins, who undeleted it when the mods took it down for a laugh. It's inspired jokes and icons all over LJ. Nostalgia 13:41, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable enough. --Dittaeva 21:47, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, no useful content - SimonP 15:13, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. It has become culturally significant in the on-line fandoms ~ Random
 * Keep. It has had an impact on fandom behavior. If fandom is mentioned here, fandom_wank should be as well. It has become noticable because it is a hub where people of many different fandoms cluster, meaning it's sort of a news source, in a way.
 * Keep. Fandom wank is a meaningful site for people in fandom on the internet.  1889 people with accounts on the Journalfen watch the community; many others visit the site without bothering to make an account, or do not visit the site but act in a certain way because it is there (i.e., keeping their obnoxious behavior in blog entries intended only for their circle of acquaintances so as not to get "wanked" on fandom_wank).  The entry should be expanded to make it more useful to people trying to figure out what is going on in certain online fandom subcultures.  Mayhap 07:42, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Definitely. We need our listing here, dammit, people! And, also, as aforementioned, if you've got a listing for 'fandom' (and especially 'Harry Potter', the archnemesis of Fandom_Wank) you should definitely have this here for completeness. El Juno 01:48, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep (And where did my other comment go where I voted to keep?  Did that get editted out?  Why was my vote edited out?)  Fandom Wank is comparable to other articles like FanFiction.Net in terms of relevance to the fan fiction community.  A google test on it shows 282,000 search results.  The site is relevant to fan scholars doing research on fan fiction studies.  The community influences fannish language that occassionally crosses over into non-fannish circles. --PurplePopple 18:51, 20 August 2006 (UTC)


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Lucien Hervé

Lucien Hervé (born László Elkán: 7 August 1910, – 26 June 2007 ) was a Hungarian photographer. He was notable for his architectural photography, beginning with his work for Le Corbusier.

Biography

 * 1910 : Born as László Elkán on 7 August in Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary, son of Nelly Ritscher and Lajos Elkán (a leather merchant and town councillor).
 * 1918 : The Elkán family moves to Budapest
 * 1920 : 3 March, his father dies. Beginning of his piano studies.
 * 1923 : In addition to his studies of music, sport plays an increasing role in his life. He goes in for Greco-Roman wrestling and swimming. He befriends working-class youths and turns away from the bourgeois lifestyle of his mother.
 * 1928 : Goes to Vienna, where he enrolls in the university to study economics. At the same time, he takes drawing courses at the Academy of Fine Arts and visits museums.
 * 1929 : In the summer, joins his brother in Paris and spends his time visiting museums. At the end of the year, returns to Budapest.
 * 1930 : In February, returns to Paris, where he lives with Lucienne Savin. Becomes a bank clerk. Abuses at the bank lead to his resignation in 1931. Having been placed on the "black list", he cannot find a job. He becomes active in the French-Hungarian trade union movement, studies economics and attends the workers' university.
 * 1932 : Works as designers' representative and then as a fashion designer for couture firms such as: Patou, Rochas, Lelong, Paquin, Worth, Schiaparelli, Molineaux, Lanvin, Chanel.
 * 1934 : Member of the French volleyball team that beats Germany in official competition. Joins the French Communist Party. Lives with Fernande Lacroix (a sales clerk with Patou).
 * 1935 : Organises strikes in the fashion industry and is consequently dismissed by the fashion design company Patou. Becomes a union representative in the Confédération générale du travail (CGT), France's national organized-labor group, then secretary-general of the Central Labour Organization in the eighth arrondissement of Paris. Lives with Mado Ferrand (a head seamstress). Works illegally under the name of Elec.
 * 1938 : Receives French citizenship. In March, he is expelled from the French Communist Party. In July, begins working with the Hungarian photographer Miklós Müller, and he produces photo reportages for Marianne Magazine, a literary publication. In September, when the Munich Agreement is signed, Müller leaves France.
 * 1939 : After Müller's departure, Elkán becomes a photojournalist for Marianne Magazine; for convenience, he uses Müller's byline. His reports deal mainly with social issues, but he also returns to fashion: at the Maggy Rouff fashion house, he makes a report with the actress Alice Cocea, entitled History of a Dress. He is drafted into the army, in the Fifth Infantry Régiment, and becomes an army photographer under the command of Colonel Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. Marries Mado Ferrand.
 * 1940 : 4 June, captured by the German forces in the Battle of Dunkirk. Prisoner of war in Hohenstein, East Prussia. Begins to paint during his captivity. Serves as spokesman for the French Resistance in the prison camp. He and some of his fellows found an underground communist party.
 * 1941 : 2 February, arrested by the Gestapo for Resistance activities in the camp. Escapes in September. He reaches Vichy France, works for Union Electric on the construction of a hydroelectric station in Fond de France. Joins the underground army of the French Résistance in Grenoble, is in charge of resupplying camps in the mountains. He joins the Maquis du Vercors, the groups of resistants. Takes the Résistance name of Lucien Hervé. He paints and takes part in the exhibitions of the Salon d'Automne in Paris.
 * 1943 : Reinstated into the underground French Communist Party. In December, called to Paris to direct the secret activity of the Mouvement national des prisonniers de guerre et des déportés (MNPGD), an organization to help the prisoners of war and the deported people. He produces and distributes leaflets, and goes into hiding.
 * 1945 : Works in the direction of the MNPGD, along with François Mitterrand. Assistant of the president of the French Red Cross and then general-secretary of the French Aid Organisation for Soviet POWs and Deportees. Meets the Chinese government leader Deng Xiaoping, whose portrait he draws at the Founding Congress of the World Fédération of Trade Unions. Divorces Mado Ferrand. He resumes painting.
 * 1946 : In February, sent by Georges Bidault, président of France's provisional government, on a consular mission to Budapest. Stays for three months.
 * 1947 : In January he is expelled for a second time from the French Communist Party. Works occasionally as an interior decorator and a designer of theatre scenery and film posters. He continues to paint and exhibit, and resumes his writing and photography work for magazines such as France Illustration, Point de vue, Regards, Lilliput. He compiles reports on artistic and cultural themes. He meets Judith Molnár, who later becomes his wife.
 * 1949 : Meets the Dominican Father Marie-Alain Couturier, the editor-in-chief of the ecclesiastical art magazine L'Art Sacré, who introduces him to Henri Matisse. In December, on the advice of Father Couturier, he goes to Marseille to photograph the Unité d'Habitation of Le Corbusier. He sends Le Corbusier the 650 prints taken in one day. The architect asks him to become his photographer.
 * 1950 : Starts photographing intensively for Le Corbusier. 3 November, he marries Judith Molnar.
 * 1950-1955 : Photographs regularly for Le Corbusier and, at the same time, for many other international architects (Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Kenzo Tange, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer, Aulis Blomstedt), as well as numerous French architects (Bernard Zehrfuss, Jean Balladur, Georges Candilis, Georges-Henri Pingusson, Michel Écochard, etc.) and architect-engineers such as Jean Prouvé.
 * 1955 : Accompanies Le Corbusier to Chandigarh and Ahmedabad in India. He photographs the government buildings under construction as well as local historical architecture. He travels to Fatehpur Sikri, Delhi and Jaipur. Commissioned to photograph the construction of the Paris offices of UNESCO, designed by the architects Marcel Breuer, Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfuss. He follows the construction work for three years until its completion.
 * 1957 : 2 May, the birth of his son, Daniel Rodolf Hervé.
 * 1959 : Commissioned by the Spanish publishing house RM Editorial, he photographs the Escorial and Méditerranéen vernacular architecture in Spain. The books remained unpublished.
 * 1961 : Second trip to Chandigarh. Takes advantage of contracts with the French Electrical and Metallurgy Fédérations, the magazine Architecture d'aujourd'hui, and the publishing house Éditions Gallimard to travel around the world (visiting Japan, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Greece, Crete, California, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil).
 * 1962 : Engaged by the director of the French Middle Eastern Archaeological Institute to photograph archeological sites in Syria, Lebanon, and Iran.
 * 1963 : Joins the editorial board of Carré Bleu, an architectural journal founded in 1958. Launches the traveling exhibition Langage de l'architecture.
 * 1965 : First signs of multiple sclerosis appear. 27 August, Le Corbusier dies.
 * 1966-1970 : His illness limits his movements, he concentrates on organising exhibitions and the publication of his books. Makes collages, often using his own photographs. Progressively returns to photography, continuing his researches on abstraction begun in the late 1940s. He writes for architectural journals and studies urban planning issues.
 * 1970 : Travels to Belgium to work with the architect Pierre Puttemans on the photographs for a book on modern architecture in Belgium, often accompanied and assisted by his son. Starting in the 1970s, serves on many graduate-exam juries for architecture schools (École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, École Camondo, Paris).
 * 1974-1984 : A difficult period of his illness. Thanks to his traveling exhibitions, he has a constant presence in artistic life.
 * 1997-1998 : Travels to Austria to work with the architect Attila Batár on the photographs for a book on the urban planning of the Mölkersteig district in Vienna.
 * 13 October 2000, his son, the photographer and video artist Daniel Rodolf Hervé, died.

Legacy and honors

 * 1985 : Under the auspices of the Rencontres d'Arles, he receives the Medal of the City of Arles, as one of the first donors of his photographs to the Musée Réattu. He also is awarded by the honorary citizenship of Arles.
 * 1990 : Receives the medal of the French Legion of Honour for his activity in the French Resistance.
 * 1993 : Receives the Fine Arts Medal from the Académie of Architecture, Paris.
 * 1994 : Named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
 * 2000 : Receives Grand Prize in Photography from the city of Paris. Hungary awards him the Order of Merit of the Republic.
 * 2001 : In Hungary, he is elected as a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts. He receives an oeuvre award from the Association of Hungarian Photographers. He is awarded with the officer degree of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
 * 2004 : He establishes a photographic award – Prix Lucien Hervé et Rodolf Hervé, to support young professional photographers.

Solo exhibitions

 * 1985	Perception de l'architecture The Rencontres d'Arles festival
 * 1999	Architecte de l'ombre / Le Beau court la rue" The Rencontres d'Arles festival
 * 2004	Fotografie di architettura – Le Corbusier, Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia di Brescia, Italy
 * 2005 	Lucien Hervé, L'œil de l'architecte, CIVA, Brussels
 * 2007 	Construction - Composition / Le Corbusier – Lucien Hervé Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris (this exhibition was on show in India as well)
 * 2007 Le Corbusier – Lucien Hervé, Galerie Taisei, Tokyo
 * 2007 Rétrospective Lucien Hervé, Galerie Caméra Obscura, Paris
 * 2007 In memoriam Lucien Hervé, Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris
 * 2008 Lucien Hervé, Photographies, Chapelle Bacchus, Besançon
 * 2008 Le Corbusier e Lucien Hervé Construção/Composição, Lisbon
 * 2008 Párizsi fotográfiák és művészportrék, Magyar Fotográfusok Háza – Mai Manó Ház, Budapest
 * 2008 Lucien Hervé – The Soul of an Architect, Michael Hoppen Photography, London
 * 2009 Architettura in immagini. Lucien Hervé fotografa Le Corbusier, Palazzo Te, Mantua
 * 2010 Lucien Hervé, Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris
 * 2010 Lucien Hervé, sculpteur d'images, Keitelman Galerie, Brussels
 * 2010 Lucien Hervé 100, Szépművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest
 * 2010 Elkán László hazatér. Lucien Hervé 100, Emlékpont Múzeum, Hódmezővásárhely (Hungary)
 * 2011 Vivants, Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneau, Gentilly
 * 2012 « Contacts » – Lucien Hervé, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris

Documentary films

 * Tamás Margit : « Lucien Hervé », documentaire, 21' – 1992
 * Szilvia Seres : « Lucien Hervé », documentaire, 50' – 2005
 * Anne Ikhlef, Concerto en noir et blanc documentary, 50' - 2007
 * Illés Sarkantyu, Lucien Hervé, documentary, 26' - 2010
 * Gerrit Messiaen,, documentary, 52' - 2013
 * Jérôme Bertrand, Chandigarh vu par Lucien Hervé, documentaire, 22' – 2013 (Kinokast, Vimeo)

Collections and archives
Photographs of the UNESCO Headquarters taken between 1955-1958 were donated to UNESCO by Judith Hervé in 2008, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Organization's Headquarters, according to Hervé's wishes.

The Getty Research Institute holds a collection of over 18,000 of Hervé’s photographic negatives and his photographs are held by other major museums, for example, the Tate and MoMA.

The Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art is in the process of digitising its archive of primarily architectural photographs, including images taken by Hervé of Le Corbusier's Unité d’Habitation.

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Yelena (or Elena)
Ivan III's daughter-in-law was arrested before he died, not after. She was arrested on his orders in January 1505, and he died in October of that same year.Shield2 00:23, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

New materials
I've just found some new material on the Sect and some of the facts in it differ from what I've posted. Can historians agree on anything?? For example, my version says Skhariya was a loner, came from Lithuania and was later executed; the stuff that I've just read says he brought two more Jewish companions with him, they all came from Kiev and after converting a number of Russian clergymen quietly dissappeared from Russia. That's just wonderful!

KNewman 23:07, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)

Conclusions and interpretations
I have question regarding the following, which is the end of one paragraph followed by another:
 * ''The sectarians themselves, Volotsky nicknamed zhidovomudrstvuyuschie (жидовомудрствующие, or “those who think like Jews”), thus, arbitrarily presupposing their adherence to Judaism, even though most of Skhariya’s followers had been ordinary Russians of Orthodox faith and low-ranking Orthodox clergy and had never confessed Judaism.

 * The Sect of Skhariya renounced the Holy Trinity and the divine status of Jesus Christ, monasticism,ecclesiastic hierarchy, ceremonies, and even immortality of soul. Some sectarians even professed iconoclasm. Priests Denis and Aleksei were considered ideologists? of this heretical movement.''

When Volotsky nicknamed them "those who think like Jews", did he really presuppose their adherence to Judaism, or was he trying to make the point that many of their beliefs (as listed in the latter paragraph above) were more in agreement with Judaism then with Russian Orthodoxy? That is the conclusion I would be inclined to draw, based solely on the information in this article.

Aside from this, there are a number of places where this article draws conclusions and makes interpretations regarding history. These are good and useful, but should be probably be qualified along the lines of "many historians conclude that..." or "students of Russian history generally see this as a turning point that marked..." This would make it clear that Wikipedia is not doing original research or historical study, but is documenting what historians have already said.

I should add a thanks for the addition of this and several other articles on Russian history; this is certainly a subject about which I'm interested in learning more. Wesley 17:01, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Widely spread?
I have no idea what the lead sentence means when it says that the sect was "widely spread in Tsarist historic literature". That historians were members of the sect? That many historical writings allude to it? or what? -- Jmabel | Talk 05:14, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Zacharias Ghisolfi
I have suspicions that Skhariya the Jew is identical to Zacharias Ghisolfi. Reasons: I will try to look further. `'mikka (t) 18:43, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * the same time (mid-15th century)
 * This article says Skariya came from Lithuania. This may be a guesswork, since some mentioned spellings of Ghisolfi do look like Lithuanian names: Guigursis, Guilgursis.

POV?
The sect is frequently described as heretical. Surely this is a matter of opinion. Bhumiya (said/done) 22:24, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

prove it!
Prove that "zhid" wasn't offensive. --VKokielov 17:21, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

"Zhid" was an East Slavic word that simply meant "Jew". It has been retained in many languages, including Polish, Czech, Croatian, etc., where it has no necessarily negative context. Even languages that are not Slavic but retain Slavic loan-words, like Hungarian, retain the word. "In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Jews occupied in Kiev a separate quarter, called the Jewish town ("Zhidy"), the gates leading to which were known as the Jewish gates ("Zhidovskiye vorota")." Jewish Encyclopedia. Like the word "Jew", "Zhid" could be used as a racial epithet, depending on who was speaking the word and their tone, but it had no necessarily negative connotations and Jews themselves, historically, used the term to refer to themselves. See Immonen, Visa. "The stratigraphy of a life: An archaeological dialogue with Leo Klejn." Archaeological Dialogues (2003), 10: 57-75 Cambridge University Press. For more on the origins of the word see Essays in Early Slavic Civilization/Studien zur Fruhkultur der Slaven by Henrik Birnbaum, pp 26-36. By Catherine the Great's time, the term "Evrei" was preferred, but this means "Hebrew" and is therefore not a perfect synonymn. There is no dispute that today "Zhid" is used in Russian only by anti-Semites as an epithet. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 17:54, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Move to "Heresy of the Judaizers"
According to the article, the term "Heresy of the Judaizers" is more common. I therefore suggest that the article should be moved to that lemma. DeMonsoon (talk) 05:57, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

 * Wholeheartedly agree, the article as titled doesn't even come up in certain web searches, change to "Heresy of the Judaizers" is warranted. SlavicatAJE (talk) 18:42, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * It probably makes sense to move the article, see for example. Mellk (talk) 13:46, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I have moved it. This title probably appeared in results mainly due to WP:CIRCULAR. Mellk (talk) 14:09, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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Inaccurate history
"Erez Eisen was born in September 8, 1980 and has early musical training: he learned to play the organ at age 4 and started studying piano in the Haifa Conservatory at the age of 8. At age 11 he started toying with computerized music, first using Impulse Tracker, later moving to more advanced musical composition software." This isn't right somehow... If he was born in 1980, then he would have been 11 in 1991, predating Impulse Tracker by several years. Maybe he started off with some other tracker prog (say, Scream Tracker 2? that one was created in '90) and worked his way up to IT? --68.117.193.138 03:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

 * The reference says "Impulse Tracker", but it doesn't say anything about age 11, just that he made his first album with it. Either the "age 11" part is wrong, or he used something else previously. You're correct either way, that is a factual error. Dementia13 (talk) 22:52, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I just submitted an edit to remove that particular inaccuracy about age 11. I don't like including "later" twice in the same sentence, but I couldn't think of better wording without knowing more about the musicians' lives or changing a lot of the article. Jordanlees2 (talk) 03:36, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

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