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Robert A. Baines

Robert A. Baines (born June 25, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 53rd mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, from 2000 to 2006. A Democrat, he was first elected in November 1999, defeating incumbent Republican Raymond Wieczorek. Manchester mayoral elections are held every other year. In Baines' last successful bid for the office, he was elected by over two-thirds of the voters. He was defeated by Republican Alderman Frank Guinta on November 8, 2005.

Biography
Baines grew up in Manchester and earned his bachelor's degree in music education from Keene State College located in Keene, New Hampshire, in 1968. He earned his master's in school administration in 1976 from Rivier College; he has done additional graduate study at the University of New Hampshire. He married his wife, Maureen, in 1974.

From 1968 to 1977 he was first a music teacher in a Hudson, New Hampshire high school before becoming assistant principal in the same school. 1980 saw Baines become principal of Manchester High School West, a position he was to hold until 1999, when he became mayor.

Baines is father of three children: Timothy, Christina, and Catherine. He is grandfather of Jacob and Lucas Miller (sons of Christina Vincent and Michael Miller) as well as Shea and Beau Gardner (sons of Catherine and Ryan Gardner).

On July 21, 2006, Baines underwent surgery at Elliot Hospital in Manchester to remove a blockage in his colon. It was later revealed to have been a cancerous growth.

He has served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Secondary School Principals and was an Executive in Residence at Southern New Hampshire University. In June 2007 Baines was named interim president of Chester College of New England, a position he was slated to hold for one year while the college searched for a replacement for former college president William Nevious. He was subsequently named president of the college and held that position until 2012. The Board of Trustees made the decision to close the college because of declining enrollment. The faculty and staff of the college reported a vote of no confidence in Baines prior the closing. He is presently the Director of STEAM Ahead in NH, an educational initiative based in Manchester that focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math. The project is supported by Dyn and SilverTech and is a collaboration with the Manchester School District, Manchester High School WEST, Manchester Community College and the University System of New Hampshire.

Political career and distinctions
Baines served two terms on the Manchester Board of Schools Committee in the early 1970s. He was a member of the 39th Army Band, New Hampshire National Guard from 1970 to 1976, and was awarded the New Hampshire Principal of the Year in 1990. 1996 saw him receive the Educator of the Year award from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. In 2004 and 2005, he was named one of New Hampshire's "Ten Most Powerful People" by Business NH Magazine. As noted above, he was elected mayor of the city of Manchester in 1999, and reelected in 2001 and 2003. He was defeated in a dramatic upset in 2005 after being harshly criticized for several years of consecutive property tax increases.

Baines was a trustee for the University System of New Hampshire.

On May 11, 2007, a New Hampshire Union Leader blog reported that Baines said he will not seek elected office again.

The Manchester rock band Moes Haven wrote a song called "Bring Back Bob Baines" in their 2006 album "September: In Manchvegas."

In 2023, Baines would shockingly announce his candidacy for the Manchester Board of Schools Committee running out of Ward 9. Baines held this same position almost 50 years prior when he served in the early 1970s. He would go on to be uncontested in the election and will go on to serve one more term on the Board.

Electoral history

 * Note: Bob Shaw was a write-in candidate who happened to be affiliated with the Democratic Party.

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WNBL

WNBL may refer to:

 * WNBL (FM), a radio station (107.3 FM) licensed to serve South Bristol Township, New York, United States
 * Women's National Basketball League, an Australian professional women's basketball league
 * Women's National Basketball League (Philippines), a Filipino professional women's basketball league
 * WNRJ (AM), a radio station (1200 AM) licensed to serve Huntington, West Virginia, United States, which used the call sign WNBL from 2010 to 2011

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USRC Taney

The United States Revenue Cutter Taney was one of the 13 cutters of the Morris-Taney class. These cutters were the backbone of the Revenue Cutter Service for more than a decade. Samuel Humphreys designed these cutters for roles as diverse as fighting pirates, privateers, combating smugglers and operating with naval forces. He designed the vessels on a naval schooner concept. They had Baltimore Clipper lines. The vessels built by Webb and Allen, designed by Isaac Webb, resembled Humphreys' but had one less port.

Officially the Roger B. Taney, this cutter initially made an inspection tour from Maine to Texas and then sailed to her first duty station at Norfolk, Virginia. Between 1847 and 1850 the cutter served with the Coast Survey. In May 1851 the Taney sailed for Savannah, Georgia. In 1852, after traveling to New York City, she capsized. In January 1853, after repairs, she sailed to for duty in Eastport, Maine. The Taney arrived back in Savannah in November 1855. Damage due to a strike by lightning off Tybee Island forced the Government to sell the cutter on 5 January 1858.

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Kokosing River

The Kokosing River (ko-KO-sing) is a tributary of the Walhonding River, 57.2 miles (92.1 km) long, in east-central Ohio in the United States. Via the Walhonding, Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 482 square miles (1248 km2). Etymologically, "Kokosing" translates roughly to "River of Little Owls." The Kokosing River rises in Morrow County, northeast of Mount Gilead, and initially flows southwardly. It turns eastwardly near Chesterville and flows through Knox and Coshocton Counties, passing the communities of Mount Vernon, Gambier and Howard. In western Coshocton County the Kokosing joins the Mohican River to form the Walhonding River, about 2 miles (3 km) northwest of Nellie.

Upstream of Mount Vernon, the Kokosing collects its largest tributary, the North Branch Kokosing River, which rises in Morrow County and flows southeastwardly through Knox County, past Fredericktown.

Between Mount Vernon and Howard, the river is roughly paralleled by a rail trail, the Kokosing Gap Trail which continues to the town of Danville.

Variant names
According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Kokosing River has also been known historically as:
 * Kokoshing River
 * Kokosing Stream
 * Owl Creek
 * Vernon
 * Vernon River

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ALMANAC

ALMANAC is a major breast cancer trial. The acronym stands for "Axillary Lymphatic Mapping Against Nodal Axillary Clearance." This major randomized trial performed in several centres in the UK produced clear evidence that sentinel node biopsy (SNB), used to stage axillary spread of disease, can be used with low failed localization and false negative rates, provided both radioisotope and blue dye are used to locate the sentinel nodes.

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Talk:Eagle Mountain (Minnesota)

Which Mountain Range?
What mountain range is it in? So far I have seen: The Sawtooth range, the Gunflint range, and Laurentian range Ravedave 03:52, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Encyclopedic-ness
My bad, I didn't mean to delete the plaque sentence, just the advisory. -- Noetic Sage 04:59, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Photos
The view in the winter picture actually isn't of Eagle Mountain. The slight slope you see on the left is the beginning of the actual hill. The centered one is commonly mistaken for it in photographs.--Greyduk 08:33, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

fixed whale lake/eagle mtn reference Chris.et 01:05, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Chris-- I think it would make sense to delete this photograph from this article. Otherwise people would see it and think they are looking at the mountain.  Kablammo 01:11, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

 * It's not a worthless photo though, consider adding it to the Whale Lake page! --Greyduk 01:33, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. See if you like it.  Kablammo 01:54, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Think I might upload a few more and make a gallery, looks odd having just two, and almost the same exact POV. This really makes me wish I had walked farther around the south side of the lake to get a good picture of the mountain though, as we have no profile pictures of it.--Greyduk 02:00, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I guess you just have to go back! Welcome to you, and I hope you can add more images and text to the articles on northeast Minnesota wilderness subjects.  Kablammo 02:08, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Added two more pictures to Eagle Mountain and three to Whale Lake.

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Frank H. T. Rhodes

Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes (October 29, 1926 – February 3, 2020) was the ninth president of Cornell University from 1977 to 1995.

Biography
Rhodes was born in Warwickshire, England, on October 29, 1926, the son of Gladys (Ford) and Harold Cecil Rhodes. He was educated at Solihull School from 1937–45, during which time he was elected as head boy. Rhodes then attended the University of Birmingham, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1948, and then went on to complete a Ph.D. there, in geology, in 1950; later, in 1963, he also earned a third degree from Birmingham, a D.Sc. (Doctor of Science), also in geology. Following his doctoral studies, he spent a year at the University of Illinois as a Fulbright scholar (1950–51).

Rhodes taught geology at the University of Durham between 1951 and 1954. In 1954 he returned to the University of Illinois as an assistant professor and was named an associate professor in 1955. In 1956 he moved to the University of Wales, Swansea as head of the department of geology and in 1967 he was named dean of faculty of science. During this time Rhodes lectured at other institutions such as Cornell in 1960. In 1965 and 1966 he served as a visiting research fellow at Ohio State University.

Rhodes joined the University of Michigan faculty as professor of geology and mineralogy in 1968. In 1971, he was named dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Prior to assuming the presidency at Cornell he served for three years as vice president of academic affairs at Michigan. Rhodes was elected the ninth President of Cornell University on February 16, 1977, and he assumed the office on August 1, 1977. He served until June 30, 1995. At the time of his retirement, he was the longest-serving president in the Ivy League. He was a professor emeritus of geology at Cornell.

In addition to his positions in academia, Rhodes played a part in government. He was appointed as a member of the National Science Board under President Ronald Reagan, and as a member of the President's Educational Policy Advisory Committee by President George H. W. Bush. Between 1984 and 2002 Rhodes served on the Board of Directors of General Electric. Rhodes died in Bonita Springs, Florida, on February 3, 2020, at age 93.

Rhodes was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Cornell presidency
During his eighteen-year tenure as president, the percentage of minority students grew from 8 percent in 1977 to 28 percent in 1994. The number of women and minority members of the faculty more than doubled. In the final years of his presidency a capital campaign raised $1.5 billion. In 1995 the building that houses what was then known as the Cornell Theory Center was named Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall. Cornell also has a professorship honoring Rhodes; Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professors are appointed to three-year terms. In 2010, the university also created new postgraduate student fellowships named after Rhodes to support students committed to the field of public interest law, and enable them to gain in-depth experience in work on behalf of the poor, the elderly, the homeless, and those deprived of civil rights.

Opposition to divestment
Rhodes, a descendant of Cecil Rhodes, defied the international call for divestment of university endowments and other investment portfolios from South Africa-related stocks during the massive anti-apartheid divestment campaign of 1985-1987, with Cornell arresting hundreds of peaceful student and faculty protestors calling for divestment even as many other leading US universities divested from South Africa-related holdings.

Campus expansion
Frank Rhodes presided over the construction of more buildings during his tenure than any previous president of Cornell. In addition to many scientific buildings including Snee Hall, Corson-Mudd, Rhodes oversaw construction of the Kroch Library, the Schwartz Performing Arts Center, a new Statler Hotel, and Akwe:kon, the first residential program house founded to celebrate North American Indigenous cultures.

The three original buildings of the New York State College of Agriculture, Stone Hall, Roberts Hall, and East Roberts Hall, had been considered obsolete and hazardous since 1973, when a study conducted by State University of New York suggested that renovation would cost over $14 million. Provost Kennedy and dean of agriculture David Call secured funding from New York State to replace them with two new buildings, which eventually became Kennedy-Roberts Hall. The old buildings were demolished despite opposition by the City of Ithaca and local preservationists, after several years of court battles.

Another controversial Rhodes construction project was a proposed eight-story, 252,000-square foot building to be cited on the edge of Cascadilla Gorge. A number of faculty, residents, and local officials opposed the plan as being insensitive to the visual and ecological effects on the gorge. The proposed building's height was eventually reduced and the site moved thirty feet further from the gorge than initially proposed. The Engineering and Theory Center opened in 1990, and in 1995 the building was renamed Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nigger rich

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The result of the debate was no consensus. Fernando Rizo T/C 00:53, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Nigger rich
This article should either be deleted because of dictdef, or, if someone can expand it, it's name should be changed to "ghetto fabulous" which is the term used far more often.

It's a real phrase that real people use, it describes a real and unique cultural phenomenon... it should be included in the encyclopedia. Don't delete.

Changed, I have altered this article and updated to make it more concise. You can take it off VfD. Piecraft 22:52, 24 August 2005 (UTC) Redirect to Ghetto fabulous. It's a pathetic but nonetheless real term that people use, but I do agree that the latter is used more than the former.--Mitsukai 04:05, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

nigger rich is not the same as ghetto fabulous dumbass
 * Being anonymous to the above post proves to me one thing, that you're a fool. I was merely trying to save this article - otherwords the terms Ghetto fabulous and Nigger rich are as far as I can tell closely related. If you think you can do better then by all means Mr. Anonymous please share your wealth of knowledge. As it is clear you have very little to share in terms of proper language, troglodyte! Piecraft 15:20, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment - Found this deformed VFD page, probably got orphaned or blanked somehow and no one noticed. Trying to rectify it by relisting. - Hahnchen 18:50, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Provisional keep with the requirement that sources be provided. If this really is a term used since the Civil War era, it should be included and not merged with "Ghetto fab", which is much more recent. Sdedeo 20:44, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep/comment.: Growing up in the Deep South, I heard this phrase, along with plenty of similar ones ("nigger rig" and its more recent child, "afro-engineered", both being the same as "Jury Rigged", etc.) for the greater part of my life. I can verify this as a VERY common turn of phrase that well predates "ghetto fabulous".  -HX 13:30, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

This term is in use so it shouldn't be deleted. The only requirement for inclusion in wikipedia SHOULD be that a term is in use, whether it is offensive or not is irrelevant. BTW, here in Texas, this term is very common and simply means someone who comes into some cash that is a large amount for them but in the overall scheme of things is not much money.
 * Delete/Merge since the wikipedia entry for Nigger already says "Within American culture, following the word "nigger" with a second word connotes an extremely negative conception of that second word, usually playing to racist stereotypes. Thus, to call someone "nigger-rich" is to say that they unwisely spend their entire paycheck upon its receipt." do we really need a whole entry to further expand on this one term? Agree, it's not at all the same as ghetto fabulous. Jessamyn 01:19, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Executive Council of the African Union

The Executive Council Union African Union, formally the Executive Council of Ministers of the Union, is one of the seven institutions of the African Union as described in the Constitutive Act of the African Union.

According to the Constitutive Act, the Executive Council is subordinate to the Assembly of the African Union. Somewhat akin to the European Council, the Council elects members to the Commission of the African Union, which is the Union's executive branch. Despite its name, the Executive Council has no executive power. Instead, the Council executes its policy through the Commission and various executive branches of its members states.

The Executive Council is constitutionally responsible for the following policy areas.

 * foreign trade;
 * energy, industry and mineral resources;
 * food, agricultural and animal resources, livestock production
 * forestry;
 * water resources and irrigation;
 * environmental protection, humanitarian action and disaster response and relief;
 * transport and communications;
 * insurance;
 * education, culture, health and human resources development;
 * science and technology;
 * nationality, residency and immigration matters;
 * social security, including the formulation of mother and child care policies, as well as policies relating to the disabled and
 * the handicapped;
 * establishment of a system of African awards, medals and prizes.

Functions
The Executive Council’s core functions include:

 * Preparing the Assembly session agendas and drafting decisions for its consideration,
 * Electing the Members of the Commission for appointment by the Assembly,
 * Promoting cooperation and coordination with the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), African ,Development Bank (AfDB), other African institutions and the UN Economic Commission for Africa,(UNECA),
 * Determining policies for cooperation between the AU and Africa’s partners,
 * Considering and making recommendations to the Assembly on the Commission’s structure, functions and statutes,
 * Ensuring the promotion of gender equality in all AU programmes.

Decisions of the Executive Council

 * The Executive Council shall take its decisions by consensus or, failing which, by a two-thirds majority of the Member States. However, procedural matters, including the question of whether a matter is one of procedure or not, shall be decided by a simple majority.
 * Two-thirds of the total membership of the Union shall form a quorum at any meeting of the Executive Council.

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Talk:Sergey Brin

"Backrub" is used introduced in a paragraph with no prior explanation
Please add some link or sentence to explain what "Backrub" is before using it as if the reader is supposed to know what it is. Bryanfw (talk) 14:46, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Jeffrey Epstein
Is Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Brin notable enough for inclusion?

 * According to a court filing, Epstein advised Brin from 2004 to 2007, including guidance on how to set up a tax shelter — a tax-saving trust for Brin’s kids called a grantor-retained annuity trust, or GRAT — with bankers at JPMorgan Chase. Brin had become a client of the bank in 2004 following a referral from Epstein and subsequently held more than $4 billion in accounts there. The Wall Street Journal notes that Epstein helped billionaire and Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black set up a similar tax shelter. Epstein’s relationship with Brin came to light in an August 2023 court filing by the U.S. Virgin Islands in its civil suit against JPMorgan over the bank’s relationship with Epstein.

Lots more RS's than just this by the way ... good luck finding them on Google though ha ha. DarrellWinkler (talk) 20:30, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Pronounce "Brin"?
It's absurd that this article doesn't say how "Brin" is pronounced. To assume that everybody already knows is unjustifiably presumptuous.

I can think of at least two different ways to pronounce it in English (rhyming with "grin" or rhyming with "green"), which for this English encyclopedia is more important than how it is pronounced in Russian.

The vast majority of readers here will never need to say his name in Russian but will definitely need to say it in English if they ever talk about him. Giving the pronunciation in English IPA would be best, respelling second best, but even "rhymes with 'grin'", etc, would be better than the nothing it gives now.

Someone made this request in an earlier, archived section, but it was effectively ignored. PLEASE don't sweep it under the rug again. How to pronounce an important person's name is not a trivial concern. —38.49.72.17 (talk) 01:36, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Resurection of email
Is email gonna die *_* or if we can resurect it ,how much would that idea worth? 87.116.132.246 (talk) 21:26, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

== Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is an American businessman best known for co-founding Google with Larry Page. Brin was the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019.[1] He and Page remain at Alphabet as co-founders, controlling shareholders, and board members. As of March 2024, Brin is the 10th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $119 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes.[2][3] ==

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This page is a work in progress. Subject is... Jim Courtright

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 * Timothy Courtright 21000 hits
 * Jim Courtright 43000 hits ---This has been chosen at the article title
 * Timothy Isaiah Courtright 621 hits
 * "Longhair Jim" Courtright 85 hits
 * Timothy "Longhair Jim" Courtright 30 hits
 * Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright 23 hits

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Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright (1845 - February 8th, 1887) was an American lawman of the late 19th century. He was born in the spring of 1845 in Sangamon County, Illinois to father, Daniel Courtright.

Married Sarah Elizabeth Weeks in 1870.

Served in the American Civil War as a member of the Seventh Iowa Infantry.

Possible performer of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Became a marshal in Fort Worth, TX, served three terms.

Went to New Mexico.

Was accused of being involved in two murders in New Mexico.

Returned to Fort Worth.

Texas Rangers and New Mexico Authorities attempt an arrest in Fort Worth.

Escapes custody with help of friends.

Returned to New Mexico and stood trial, aquitted due to insuffiecent evidence.

Died in a gunfight with Luke Short, disagrement unknown.

Sources so far include:

 * The Handbook of Texas Online
 * Fort Worth Police Department History Page


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Aleka's Attic

Aleka's Attic were an alternative folk/rock band from Gainesville, Florida, formed by River Phoenix and Josh Greenbaum in April 1987.

History
The original line up of Aleka's Attic included River Phoenix as lead singer and guitarist, his sister Rain on vocals and occasional percussion, Tim Hankins on viola, Josh McKay on bass and Josh Greenbaum on drums.

The band's name comes from the fictional Aleka, a poet-philosopher who gathered friends in his attic to discuss his ideas. When Aleka dies, his friends form a band to share his beliefs with others through music.

River was offered a two-year development deal with Island Records to develop the band and record a marketable album, which was not accomplished in the time allotted due to River's ongoing film schedule. Island Records opted out of the deal based on their belief that the material lacked marketability. River decided to record the album independently.

The unreleased album
Though Rain spent two years working through unfinished tracks and mixing performances, no finished product was ever completed. The release of the album, with the proposed titles Never Odd Or Even and Zero, was postponed indefinitely due to River's death. The Phoenix family continues to work toward an official release.

An original track list for bootlegs of Zero/Never Odd Or Even:

 * 1) Alone We Elope
 * 2) Below Beloved
 * 3) Bliss Is...
 * 4) Dog God
 * 5) Get Anything
 * 6) Note To A Friend
 * 7) Safety Pins and Army Boots
 * 8) Scales & Fishnails
 * 9) Senile Felines
 * 10) You're So Ostentatious

In 1997, Phoenix's friend Michael Stipe of R.E.M. bought the rights to all of Aleka's Attic's material from Island Records.

Homemade versions of an album and many other songs by the band can be found on various sites throughout the internet.

In the film Sneakers, whose cast includes Aleka's Attic member River Phoenix, the character played by Dan Aykroyd wears an Aleka's Attic T-shirt in one scene.

In December 2018, Rain Phoenix announced on Instagram that Aleka's Attic singles would be released in 2019 with the album being released eventually.

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea is appearing on two unreleased Aleka's Attic songs to mark River Phoenix's 50th birthday.

In July 2020, it was reported that Aleka's Attic heavily influenced a forthcoming novel by British novelist Guy Mankowski, entitled "Dead Rock Stars".

Released tracks

 * The group sold tapes between 1989 and 1990 with the songs "Goldmine", "Too Many Colors", "Across The Way" and "Blue Period".
 * "Across The Way", which was written by River and Josh McKay, was included on the 1989 PETA benefit album, Tame Yourself.
 * "Note To A Friend", featuring River's friend Michael "Flea" Balzary of the Red Hot Chili Peppers on bass, was released on the 1996 compilation 'In Defense Of Animals: Volume II'
 * The song "Too Many Colors", was featured on the unreleased soundtrack of "My Own Private Idaho", a 1991 film starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, directed by Gus Van Sant.
 * The songs "Where I’d Gone" and "Scales & Fishnails" were released on the album "Time Gone" by Rain Phoenix in 2019. Next to this the song "Time is the Killer" by Rain Phoenix and Michael Stipe was also released on the album.
 * "Senile Felines" was published in 2010 on the album Tiny Idols Volume III by Snowglobe Records.
 * The song "In The Corner Dunce" was released in January 2019 by the label LaunchLeft.
 * On August 23, 2020, the label LaunchLeft released the songs "Alone U Elope" and "2x4" in commemoration of River Phoenix's 50th birthday.

Other tracks

 * Too Many Colors - 5:24
 * Goldmine - 5:26
 * Where I'd Gone - 3:17 (solo version by River Phoenix)
 * Get Anything - 3:52
 * Note to a Friend - 1:11
 * Below Beloved - 3:56
 * Popular Thinks (Live) - 2:13
 * You're so Ostentatious - 2:42
 * In The Corner Dunce - 3:41
 * Scales and Fish-nails - 0:41
 * Across the Way - 4:58
 * Senile Felines - 4:40
 * Safety Pins and Army Boots - 1:49
 * Dog God - 3:28
 * Bliss is... - 3:38
 * Blue Period - 5:15
 * Alone we Elope (Hidden Track) - 3:14

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pejman Akbarzadeh

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The result of the debate was copyvio for the first article, and no consensus, so keep for the temp article. Bratsche talk 03:46, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Pejman Akbarzadeh and Pejman Akbarzadeh/Temp
This page appears to have been written by Pejman himself (see edit history) who has an account (User:Pejman) but also edits under different various IPs. Anyways, Pejman Akbarzadeh appears to not be notable enough, as he only gets 296 Google hits. Delete? --Hottentot
 * I was probably going to vote keep, but I think it's a copyvio. I will tag as such.  CanadianCaesar 04:42, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete -- Seems to be vanity & nn. Large number of red links for "prominent musicians," "greatest Persian cultural figures," and "reputable Persian publications" is a strong indicator.  A Google search for one of the publications cited, Bukhara bi-monthly returns only one hit: Pejman's bio.  Several other references yielded similar, circular results.  However, I do have some reservations about this VfD, since I am not even remotely familiar with the Tehran musical or cultural scene, or the volume of net-based data related to it.  -Awyllie 04:47, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless notability further established. Radiant_ >|< 07:21, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete copyvio... nn although does appear to have written a lot... could vote keep if rewrote to show notability -- Ryan Norton T 10:51, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP rewritten version Ryan Norton T 03:39, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. --PhilipO 19:58, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is a published author who has produced two volumes of an ongoing work on Iranian music which has been well received within his community.  He's been interviewed by the weekly literary magazine Ketab-e Hafte, the Iranian.com (which featured him in 2002 as their Iranian of the day) describes him as "the keeper of all things Persian".  He is listed by persiangulfonline.com as one of two "Research and Publication Members".  If I were Iranian (I'm not, as it happens) I'd want to know a bit about this fellow. I'm not Iranian (as I said) and I want to know about this fellow.  This is why we have encyclopedias. This is why I write for this encyclopedia.  We can put stuff into his article and other people can read it.  All those who think this is a good idea say "Aye". --Tony Sidaway Talk  01:16, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. He's not the first Persian musician to write an article about himself at Wikipedia (see Peyman Nasehpour). No biggie, we can rework it so it's not a copy-vio or excessively hagiographical.--Jpbrenna 03:32, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks to that extra information, I can now happily vote Delete as not notable. - brenneman (t) (c)  09:15, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Rewritten version. CanadianCaesar 22:42, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I've added the rewrite to the vote. It's just a stub at the moment but there's quite a lot of other verifiable stuff that can be added. --Tony Sidaway Talk  01:02, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - vanity/not notable - Tεx  τ  urε  15:35, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, Notable enough for me. Paul August ☎ 03:30, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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James Alfred Perkins

James Alfred Perkins (October 11, 1911 – August 19, 1998 ) was an American academic administrator who was the seventh president of Cornell University, from 1963 to 1969.

Early life and education
Perkins was born on October 11, 1911, in Philadelphia. He attended Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and graduated with honors in 1934. At Swarthmore, Perkins joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and played college football alongside his classmate, DU brother and future 1972 Nobel Prize laureate Christian B. Anfinsen.

In 1937, he received a doctorate in political science from Princeton University.

Career
From 1937 to 1941, he was a faculty member at Princeton University. After service in the Office of Price Administration and the Foreign Economic Administration during World War II, he was appointed vice president of Swarthmore University in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he served from 1945 to 1950. In 1950, he joined the Carnegie Corporation, an educational foundation.

U.S. Department of Defense
In 1951–1952, on leave from Carnegie Corporation, he served as deputy chairman of the Research and Development Board at the United States Department of Defense. At Carnegie, he chaired President John F. Kennedy's Advisory Panel on a National Academy of Foreign Affairs, sat on the General Advisory Committee of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the U.S. Committee for UNESCO, and the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation, and headed the Rockefeller Brothers Fund committee that produced the report The Power of the Democratic Idea.

Cornell University president
On October 4, 1963, Perkins was appointed president of Cornell University. On May 31, 1969, he resigned as Cornell president after Willard Straight Hall on the Cornell campus was occupied by armed African American students protesting U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1995, Thomas W. Jones, a trustee of the university who had been a leader of the building occupation, established the James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony in his name.

Organizational leadership and publications
He was a member of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education from 1967 to 1973, and after leaving Cornell, founded the International Council for Educational Development in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1978 he was appointed chairman of President Carter's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.

Perkins' publications include The University in Transition (1966), a series of three lectures in which he argued that a university must balance its three missions of research, teaching, and public service. He died in Burlington, Vermont, of complications after a fall while in the Adirondacks.

In popular culture
In an episode of The Office, Andy Bernard mentions Perkins while conducting an admissions interview of his co-worker.

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Assembly of the African Union

The Assembly of the African Union, which is formally known as the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government (AU-AHSG), is one of several decision-making bodies within the African Union. The other bodies are the Pan-African Parliament; the Executive Council, consisting of foreign ministers of the AU members states; and the African Union Commission. The Assembly of the African Union consists of the 55 heads of state and government of the member countries. The Assembly meets once a year.

The Chairperson of the Assembly presides the annual African Union Summit as well as the Pan-African Parliament during the election and swearing in of the President of the Pan-African Parliament.

History
The Assembly came into existence on 25 May 1963, as part of the ratification of Organization of African Unity (OAU). Initially the Assembly consisted of 32 independent members, the heads of state of the African states that had achieved independence by 1963. Until 2001, the governing constitution of the Assembly was the OAU Charter. The Assembly is now subject to the Union Act that created the African Union.

Functions
The Assembly has nine basic functions:
 * 1) Set policies of the Union.
 * 2) Decide on what action to take after consideration of reports and recommendations from the other organs of the Union.
 * 3) Consider membership requests into the Union.
 * 4) Create bodies for the Union.
 * 5) Monitor the implementation of policies and decisions of the Union as well ensure compliance by all Member States.
 * 6) Create a budget of the Union.
 * 7) Provide direction to the Executive Council on conflicts, war and other emergency situations and the restoration of peace.
 * 8) Select judges for and withdraw judges of the Court of Justice.
 * 9) Appoint the Chairman of the Commission, Commissioners of the Commission, all respective deputies and determine how long they will serve and what duties they will perform.

Decisions

The Assembly shall take its decisions by consensus or, failing which, by a two-thirds majority of the Member States of the Union. However, procedural matters, including the question of whether a matter is one of procedure or not, shall be decided by a simple majority.

Two-thirds of the total membership of the Union shall form a quorum at any meeting of the Assembly.

The Assembly may delegate any of its powers and functions to any organ of the Union.

Members
The AU Assembly of the Heads of State and Government consists of the 55 heads of state and government of the member countries. The Assembly meets once a year at the AU Summit. The current Chairman of the Assembly is President Moussa Faki of Chad.

The current members of the AU-AHSG are:

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Mac and Me

Mac and Me is a 1988 American science fiction film directed by Stewart Raffill, and co-written with Steve Feke. Starring Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, and Tina Caspary alongside Lauren Stanley and Jade Calegory, it centers on a "Mysterious Alien Creature" (MAC) that escapes from nefarious NASA agents and befriends a boy named Eric Cruise. Together, they try to find MAC's family, from whom he has been separated.

The film performed poorly at the box office and was panned by critics, partly due to plot lines similar to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), as well as its elaborate product placement of McDonald's and Coca-Cola. It was nominated for four Golden Raspberry Awards and won Worst Director and Worst New Star (for Ronald McDonald). However, it received four Youth in Film Awards (now Young Artist Awards) nominations. Due to its poor reception, Orion Pictures cancelled the planned sequel. While regarded as one of the worst films ever made, it has become a cult film, and was featured during the twelfth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Plot
A family of aliens on a dying desert planet searches for subterranean water to drink through a straw. A NASA research probe lands and begins taking atmospheric samples via a suction device. The aliens are accidentally sucked into the apparatus, and the probe returns to Earth. The aliens escape from a government base with their ability to manipulate electricity and destroy anything they touch. While three of them run into the desert, the smallest one hides in a passing minivan occupied by single mother Janet Cruise and her two sons (younger son Eric, who uses a wheelchair, and elder son Michael), who are moving to a new home near Los Angeles following the loss of her husband. Eric finds that the alien has trashed most of the new house and sees the creature, but Janet blames him and Michael for what has happened. After noticing the alien outside, Eric tries to catch up to him but rolls down a hill in his wheelchair and falls into a lake, where he is rescued by the alien.

Later that night, he sets a trap with the help of his new friend, Debbie, the girl next door who has also seen the alien. They trap him inside a vacuum cleaner, which malfunctions and causes the neighborhood to suffer a power surge. Eric's behavior toward the alien, which he names MAC (short for "Mysterious Alien Creature"), changes after the alien fixes the damage to the house and leaves behind several newspaper clippings that Eric believes are an attempt to communicate. Meanwhile, FBI agents Wickett and Zimmerman track MAC down and spy on the Cruise residence. Eric disguises MAC in a teddy bear suit and takes him to a birthday party at a local McDonald's, where Debbie's older sister, Courtney, works. Wickett and Zimmerman follow, but MAC starts a dance number as a distraction and escapes with Eric. After Wickett and Zimmerman chase them, Eric and MAC are rescued by Michael and Courtney. Janet, having witnessed the chase, catches up to Wickett and Zimmerman and learns that MAC is real.

Eric, Michael, Debbie, and Courtney decide to reunite MAC with his family, who are lost in the desert. Following MAC's directions, they travel to the mountains on the outskirts of Palmdale, where they find his dying family and rejuvenate them with Coca-Cola. The group goes to a supermarket to buy more Coca-Cola for the aliens. The restless aliens enter the supermarket, causing a panic. After MAC's father steals a firearm from a security guard, the police arrive, and a shootout takes place in the parking lot, which results in Eric being killed by a stray bullet. Once Wickett, Zimmerman, and Janet arrive by helicopter, MAC and his family use their powers to revive Eric. For saving his life, the United States government grants them American citizenship, with the Cruise family and their neighbors, as well as Wickett and Zimmerman, at the ceremony. MAC's family, dressed like Earthlings, drives off in a pink Cadillac, and MAC blows a gum bubble that reads "We'll be back!"

Cast
In addition, Jennifer Aniston and Nikki Cox appear as uncredited background extras.

Development
Producer R. J. Louis had previously worked on advertising campaigns with McDonald's and had an association with their charitable arm Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC). He explained that at the time Ronald McDonald was "even more [well-known] than Santa Claus", but that E.T. was close behind and thus felt that the next "generation" needed an E.T. of their own. Louis was required to negotiate the rights to use the McDonald's brand and its elements within the film. He pitched the project as a cross-promotional endeavor which could be promoted at its restaurants, and with its profits helping to support RMHC.

Some have reported that the film was—at least partially—financed by McDonald's,  which Louis denies. However, he did receive funding from Golden State Foods, a food service distributor whose only client was McDonald's. Despite McDonald's specifying that they did not want Ronald McDonald to appear in the film, he nonetheless appeared in a scene set at a McDonald's which featured an extended dance sequence. The character also appeared in the theatrical trailer.

Louis noted that he was one of the first to leverage the chain as a platform for promoting films (Disney would later enter into a long-term deal with McDonald's to cross-promote properties including their classic films through in-store campaigns such as Happy Meals, although that relationship ended in May 2006, amid pressure to reduce the promotion of junk food to children).

Despite this, Louis remarked that he was "still the only person in the universe that ever had the exclusive motion picture rights to the McDonald's trademark, their actors, their characters and the whole company."

Stewart Raffill
Stewart Raffill, who had made a number of family films, was brought on as director even before the film had a completed script. He says he was recommended to the producer by James Brolin, with whom Raffill had made 1981's High Risk.

Raffill later recalled: "I was hired out of the blue. And the producer asked me to come down to the office. So I did and he had a whole crew there, a whole crew on the payroll. It was amazing. He had the transportation captain. The camera department head. The AD. The Production Manager. He had everybody already hired and I said, 'Well, what's the script?' And he said, 'We don't have a script. I don't like the script. You have to write the script. You're gonna have to write it quickly so prep the movie and write the script on the weekends.'"

The crew aimed to distinguish the film from E.T. by having Mac be a member of a family and having powers and skills.

Raffill says the producer wanted to use an actor who was handicapped. "So he found a kid who had spina bifida. The kid had never acted before, but he was a wonderful kid. But when they finished it was as if the fact that they used a real encumbered person to play the person didn't mean anything to even the people who lived in the world." Raffill says "the moment Disney heard we had this deal with McDonald's, they went in and hammered out a three-year deal to get all their toys put in their Happy Meals and have that relationship with Coca-Cola. As such, the McDonald's people were then not particularly enthused with us as they now had Disney, but they had to fulfill their arrangement with us."

Filming
In one scene, Eric Cruise (played by Calegory, who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair in real life) is seen rolling down a hill in his wheelchair. Raffill noted that he performed a portion of the stunt himself, explaining that "it's very hard to do physical things when you're in that condition. It's very hard to make a wheelchair work because it's not a very balanced thing. When you start going fast in a wheelchair, you place tremendous risk on the child, so you have to try and figure out how to do that in a controlled fashion."

The shooting of Eric, although cut from most prints, was explicitly shown in the Japanese VHS release of the film. For the film's mainstream release in theaters and on home video, this scene had been cut from the test screening phase of the film following negative reactions from test audiences; the altered version made it so that Eric would die offscreen.

Music
The film's soundtrack album was released by Curb Records, featuring one track from its musical score, composed, and conducted by Alan Silvestri, and the theme song "Take Me (I'll Follow You)" by Bobby Caldwell.
 * Soundtrack

Track listing:
 * 1) "You're Not a Stranger Anymore (Theme from Mac and Me)" - Jara Lane (3:42)
 * 2) "Take Me, I'll Follow You" - Bobby Caldwell (5:32)
 * 3) "You Knew What You Were Doing (Every Inch of the Way)" - Marcy Levy (3:30)
 * 4) "Down to Earth" - Ashford & Simpson (5:27)
 * 5) "Waves" - Debbie Lytton (3:44)
 * 6) "Send Out a Signal" - Larry Hart (4:31)
 * 7) "Wait and Break My Heart Tomorrow" - The Flint River Band (4:40)
 * 8) "Overture (Theme from Mac and Me)" - Alan Silvestri (4:24)

In 2014, Quartet Records released a limited edition disc (1000 copies) of Silvestri's complete score. The disc also includes "You're Not a Stranger Anymore (Theme from Mac and Me)" and "Take Me (I'll Follow You)," which Silvestri co-wrote for the film.
 * Score

Box office
The film premiered in Hong Kong on August 5, 1988, with a United States release following on August 12. A box office bomb, it grossed $6,424,112 in the U.S. against a $13 million budget. It had a profit-sharing arrangement with Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Critical response
Upon release, the film was panned, due to its imitations of numerous concepts from Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Los Angeles Times critic Michael Wilmington wrote that it is "an amazingly bald-faced copy of E.T., even though this is E.T. in a sticky wrapper, left under the heater two hours too long. Almost everything in the earlier movie has a double here." Richard Harrington of The Washington Post amended the famed "E.T., phone home" phrase to "E.T., call lawyer" and said, "Why is it so hard to like this film? Having seen it done so much better by Spielberg doesn't help, of course." Henry Mietkiewicz of The Toronto Star said that "it's a common complaint that movies are mass-produced like sausages. Case in point: MAC And Me. The only difference is that this excruciating children's movie is a hamburger right off the conveyor belt—McDonald's, to be exact. If only we could order 'One movie to go. And hold the schmaltz!' But no such luck. In fact, this shameless rip-off of E.T. [...] often looks and feels like a feature-length commercial."

The contrivance of the "Mysterious Alien Creature" being referred to by the acronym "MAC" (a seemingly innocuous reference to the McDonald's hamburger called the "Big Mac", as well as a dance number featuring mascot Ronald McDonald), and the characters' wearing of McDonald's clothing, prompted Deseret News journalist Chris Hicks to declare: "I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie that is as crass a 90-minute commercial as Mac and Me." Hicks, along with Caryn James of The New York Times, observed additional promotion of Coca-Cola and Sears —the latter brand carried McKids, the McDonald's line of children's clothing. James also took exception to the "awfully irresponsible" treatment of wheelchair-using main character Eric Cruise, who is placed in potentially dangerous situations before MAC intervenes. Calegory's lead performance was named a highlight of the film by several critics, and the filmmakers garnered praise for their use of a protagonist who has spina bifida.

Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave it a 1½ star rating, and wrote, in a capsule review: This is what happens when someone doesn't make a sequel to a hit movie fast enough. Someone else, with a lot of brass, makes a ripoff that is even less satisfying. "Mac and Me" is a pale carbon copy of "E.T.," with an alien creature who looks like a cross between E.T. and Yoda, hiding out at a suburban California house where only the kids and the government believe the creature really exists. Can the kids save the creature and get him reunited with his family? This may sound benign, but there are two problems: dozens of brazen commercial plugs and a couple of truly frightening scenes with a child in a wheelchair going over a cliff and nearly drowning and, later, being pronounced dead after a fire.

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with 28 reviews, the film has a 7% approval rating, and an average rating of 3.4/10. The site's consensus reads, "Mac and Me is duly infamous: not only is it a pale imitation of E.T., it's also a thinly-veiled feature length commercial for McDonald's and Coca-Cola." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 26 out of 100 based on 12 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

The film is widely regarded as one of the worst films ever made, with The Telegraph noting that it is "frequently pulled out in 'worst film of all time' arguments". Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock cited it as the most egregious example of product placement in cinema history, as well as the "worst thing you'll ever see in your entire life". It was also named the worst film ever in the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as by broadcaster Simon Mayo, and writer/producer Damon Lindelof. Michael Hayden of GQ India referred to it as "hands down the worst family movie in Hollywood history."

Nathan Rabin reviewed the film as part of his "My Year of Flops" series for The A.V. Club, writing:

"Mac and Me was designed as an especially brazen knock-off of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Instead, it plays like an indecent bizarro-world incarnation of Steven Spielberg's beloved family classic. E.T. is a marvel of daring, inspired character design that somehow manages to look simultaneously ugly and adorable, but Mac is a repulsive little monster that looks like an overgrown, horrifically scarred fetus covered with blisters. [The] creepy little alien’s mouth is permanently fixed in the O shape of a blow-up sex doll, though the average blow-up sex doll is more animated and has more dignity than Mac. [The] alien doesn’t move, so much as he twitches and burbles randomly; over the course of the film, its hideousness and comic inexpressiveness engenders morbid fascination. Suspension of disbelief becomes impossible: Mac is never anything more than a poorly manipulated puppet."

In popular culture
It has nevertheless become a cult film. Lindelof allowed that it is "the fifth-best alien comedy ever made," and it has appeared in various "so-bad-it's-good" listings. Jim Vorel of Paste ranked it no. 52 in "The 100 Best 'B Movies' of All Time" (noting that it cannot be "enjoyed un-ironically"), while Cracked journalist Jeff Steinbrunner placed it at no. 1 in "The 10 Most Shameless Product Placements in Movie History", calling it "unintentionally awesome" and "almost genius." Complex wrote: "As an accidentally riotous failure, Mac and Me comes highly recommended, but its real purpose requires a line of shot glasses...everyone must take a shot whenever Raffill's film displays one of its countless product placements."

The film is part of a running gag by actor Paul Rudd. When appearing as a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, O'Brien's later show Conan, and O'Brien’s podcast Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Rudd would perform a "bait-and-switch" by routinely showing the same clip from it (in which Eric Cruise, watched by MAC, loses control of his wheelchair and falls down a hill into a lake) instead of showing clips from the actual films he was ostensibly promoting. While giving an interview alongside Captain America: Civil War costar Chris Evans in 2016, Rudd expressed his appreciation of its "blatant" advertising of McDonald's, "unearned" positioning of Bobby Caldwell ballad "Take Me (I'll Follow You)", and inclusion of a fly landing on MAC's nose, declaring: "I love it...it's so good." Evans also professed to "love" the film, noting that he "grew up on it."

The film is one of six movies featured in Season 12 of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

The podcast How Did This Get Made? reviewed the movie in Episode 10, featuring guest host Adam Pally.

Cancelled sequel
A sequel was announced at the time of the film's release. It ends with the text "We'll be back!", but given its unpopularity, a sequel did not happen. Producer R.J. Louis spoke of the ending in a 2017 interview and did not rule out a sequel. He claimed there is public interest because home video sales have made the film profitable for Orion Pictures, and also said that MAC would resonate with modern, young moviegoers.

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Larry Bond

Lawrence L. Bond (born June 11, 1951) is an American author and wargame designer. He is the designer of the Harpoon and Command at Sea gaming systems, and several supplements for the games. Examples of his numerous novels include Dangerous Ground, Day of Wrath, The Enemy Within, Cauldron, Vortex and Red Phoenix. He also co-authored Red Storm Rising with Tom Clancy.

Early life and education
Bond was born on June 11, 1951, and grew up outside St. Paul, Minnesota. When he was eight years old, an uncle gave him a copy of Afrika Korps, spurring his lifelong interest in wargames. In 1973, Bond graduated from St. Thomas College with a degree in quantitative methods, and worked as a computer programmer for two years before joining the U.S. Navy.

U.S. Navy
Bond graduated from the United States Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1976. He spent six years on active naval duty, including four years on destroyers, followed by two years in the Naval Reserve Intelligence Program. After leaving the navy, he worked as a naval analyst for defense consulting firms in the Washington, D.C., area.

Harpoon gaming system
Bond's Harpoon gaming system was first published in 1980. Designed as a general-purpose air, surface, and submarine naval simulation, it combines playability with a wealth of information on modern naval weapons systems. Designed for the entry-level player, it has found acceptance in both the commercial market and the professional naval community. It is used at the Naval Academy, several ROTC installations, and on several surface ships as a training aid.

Now in its fourth edition, Harpoon won the H.G. Wells Award, a trade association honor, in both 1981 and 1987 as the best miniatures game of the year. The computer version of the game first appeared in 1989 and won the 1990 Wargame of the Year award from Computer Gaming World, an industry journal.

Literary career
Bond's began his writing career by collaborating with Tom Clancy on Red Storm Rising (1986), a New York Times bestseller that was one of the best-selling books of the 1980s. It depicted a hypothetical conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, drawing heavily on current analysis of what such a conflict would be like. It has been used as a text at the Naval War College.

Since then, Bond's books have depicted military and political crises, emphasizing accuracy and fast-paced action. Red Phoenix, Vortex, and Cauldron were all New York Times bestsellers. Red Phoenix is set in South Korea and depicts an invasion of the south instigated by the North Korean government. Vortex tells the story of a reactionary Afrikaner government trying to roll back the clock in South Africa. Cauldron shows a financial crisis in Europe that grew out of control, leading to a military confrontation between France, Germany and countries of the Eastern Europe (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary) supported by the United States.

Personal life
Bond makes his home in Springfield, Virginia. He and his wife Jeanne are the parents of two daughters.

With Tom Clancy

 * ''Red Storm Rising, 1986

With Patrick Larkin

 * Red Phoenix, 1989
 * Vortex, 1991
 * Cauldron, 1993
 * The Enemy Within, 1996
 * Day of Wrath, 1998

With Chris Carlson

 * Lash-Up, 2015
 * Red Phoenix Burning, 2016

Jerry Mitchell Series

 * Dangerous Ground, 2005
 * Cold Choices, 2009
 * Exit Plan, 2012
 * Shattered Trident, 2013
 * Burial at Sea, 2013
 * Fatal Thunder, 2016
 * Arctic Gambit, 2018

First Team Series

 * 1) Larry Bond's First Team, 2004
 * 2) Larry Bond's First Team: Angels of Wrath, 2006
 * 3) Larry Bond's First Team: Fires of War, 2006
 * 4) Larry Bond's First Team: Soul of the Assassin, 2008

Red Dragon Rising Series

 * 1) Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising: Shadows of War, 2009
 * 2) Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising: Edge of War, 2010
 * 3) Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising: Shock of War, 2012
 * 4) Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising: Blood of War, 2013

Edited by Larry Bond

 * Crash Dive: True Stories of Submarine Combat, 2010

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Threefold office

The threefold office (munus triplex) of Jesus Christ is a Christian doctrine based upon the teachings of the Old Testament of which Christians hold different views. It was described by Eusebius and more fully developed by John Calvin.

The doctrine states that Jesus Christ performed three functions (or "offices") in his earthly ministry – those of prophet, priest, and king.

In the Old Testament, the appointment of someone to any of these three positions could be sanctioned by anointing him by pouring oil over his head. Thus the term messiah, meaning "anointed one", is associated with the concept of the threefold office. While the office of king is that most closely associated with the Messiah, the role of Jesus as priest, which involves intercession before God, is also prominent in the New Testament, being most fully explained in chapters 7 to 10 of the Book of Hebrews.

The three offices
Eusebius worked out this threefold classification, writing: "And we have been told also that certain of the prophets themselves became, by the act of anointing, Christs in type, so that all these have reference to the true Christ, the divinely inspired and heavenly Word, who is the only high priest of all, and the only King of every creature, and the Father’s only supreme prophet of prophets." During the Reformation this concept played a substantial role in scholastic Lutheran Christology and in the christology of Reformed theologians such as John Calvin as well as that of John Wesley.

The entry in the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology claims that Christian theologians view all the other roles of Christ as falling under one of these three distinctions.

Prophet
Christ is the mouthpiece of God as the Prophet, speaking and teaching the Word of God, infinitely greater than all prophets, who spoke for God and interpreted the will of God. The Old Testament prophet brought God's message to the people. Christ, as the Word, the Logos, is the source of revelation. Accordingly, Jesus Christ never used the messenger formula, which linked the prophet's words to God in the prophetic phrase Thus says the Lord.

The Bible refers about the prophetic nature of Christ in the following verses, among others:
 * John 17:4 – "I have glorified thee on earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do."
 * John 14:24 – "These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me."
 * Acts 2:22 – "Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, A man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know."
 * Mark 6:4 – But Jesus said unto them, "A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house."
 * Luke 4:43 – And he said unto them, "I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent."

There are several instances in the Bible that suggest that Jesus' contemporaries regarded him as a prophet:
 * After raising the widow's son at Nain in Luke 7:16, the witnesses say: "A great prophet has arisen among us!"
 * In Luke 24:19, Jesus is called a prophet by the people who do not recognize him when they say: "The things about Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word in the sight of God and some of the people".

Priest

Christ, whom believers draw near to in confidence, offered Himself as the sacrifice for humanity as High Priest. Old Testament priests declared the will of God, gave the covenant of blessing, and directed the processing of sacrifices. The priest represented humankind before God. While humankind took the office of priesthood in their weakness, Jesus holds the position with an indestructible power that overcomes the weakness of humanity as described throughout the book of Hebrews. The atoning death of Christ is at the heart of his work as High Priest. Metaphors are used to describe his death on the cross, such as, "Christ, the Lamb of God, shed his blood on the cross as the sin offering for humankind." Christ made one sin offering as High Priest in contrast to the Old Testament priests, who continually offered sacrifices on behalf of humanity. Because of the work of Christ on the cross, humanity has the opportunity to have a living relationship with God. Conversely, the individuals that deny the work of God are described as dead in sin, without God and without hope. In traditional Christianity (the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican Church, Oriental Orthodox, and Assyrian Churches), it is believed that a priest, having received the Sacrament of Holy Orders through the laying on of hands, shares the one priesthood of Christ, and thus it is only priests (and their superiors in Holy Orders, the bishops) who can offer the Eucharistic Sacrifice.

In John 21 we see Him revealing His authority over circumstances as King. The disciples are fishing the whole night and cannot catch fish, they are living the curse out mentioned in Genesis 3. Jesus tells them to cast their net on the right hand side and they immediately catch 153 fish. Jesus is King. The place they do this in is also topical, its named Tiberius, the emperor of the day, the king of the day, this is where Jesus reveals Himself as King.

King
Christ, exalted High Priest, mediates the sin that estranges humankind from the fellowship of God. In turn, he has full rights to reign over the church and world as King. Christ sits at the right hand of God, crowned in glory as "King of kings and Lord of lords". "God put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come. And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church." So priest, prophet and king are the threefolds.

Reformed and Presbyterian traditions
The Heidelberg Catechism interprets the title "Christ" in terms of the threefold office, in Lord's Day 12, Question and Answer 31:

Q. Why is he called "Christ," meaning "anointed"?

A. Because he has been ordained by God the Father
 * and has been anointed with the Holy Spirit to be
 * our chief prophet and teacher
 * who perfectly reveals to us
 * the secret counsel and will of God for our deliverance;
 * our only high priest
 * who has set us free by the one sacrifice of his body,
 * and who continually pleads our cause with the Father;
 * and our eternal king
 * who governs us by his Word and Spirit,
 * and who guards us and keeps us
 * in the freedom he has won for us.

The Westminster Shorter Catechism explains the role of Christ as redeemer in terms of the threefold office:

Q. 23: What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer?
 * Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.

Q. 24: How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
 * Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.

Q. 25: How doth Christ execute the office of a priest?
 * Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.

Q.26: How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
 * Christ executeth the office of a king, in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies.

Lutheranism
(a) The prophetical office (munus, or officium propheticum) includes teaching and the miracles of Christ.

(b) The priestly office (munus sacerdotale) consists of the satisfaction made for the sins of the world by the death on the cross, and in the continued intercession of the exalted Savior for his people (redemptio et intercessio sacerdotalis).

(c) The kingly office (munus regium), whereby Christ founded his kingdom, defends his church against all enemies, and rules all things in heaven and on earth. The old divines distinguish between the reign of nature (regnum naturae sive potentiae), which embraces all things; the reign of grace (regnum gratiae), which relates to the church militant on earth; and the reign of glory (regnum gloriae), which belongs to the church triumphant in heaven.

The theologians who followed Luther and Melanchthon down to the middle of the seventeenth century treat Christ's saving work under the two heads of king and priest. Calvin, in the first edition of his Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536), did the same, and it was not till the third edition (1559) and the Genevan Catechism that he fully presented the three offices. This convenient threefold division of the office of Christ was used by the theologians of both confessions during the seventeenth century. Ernesti opposed it, but Schleiermacher restored it.

Roman Catholicism
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "Jesus fulfilled the messianic hope of Israel in his threefold office of priest, prophet, and king."

In his 5th century Gospel harmony book Harmony of the Gospels Saint Augustine viewed the variations in the gospel accounts in terms of the different focuses of the authors on Jesus: Matthew on royalty, Mark on humanity, Luke on priesthood and John on divinity.

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Deane Waldo Malott

Deane Waldo Malott (July 10, 1898 – September 11, 1996) was an American academic and administrator.

Biography
The son of a banker, Malott was born in Abilene, Kansas and went on to study at the University of Kansas. While at school there, he wrote for the University Daily Kansan and was a brother in the Alpha Nu Chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and the Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity. He graduated in 1921 with a degree in economics, and he went on to the Harvard Business School. After his 1923 graduation, he worked as an administrator at Harvard until 1929 when he was hired by the Hawaiian Pineapple Company. He returned to Harvard in 1933 as a Professor and then in 1939 he returned to his alma mater to become Chancellor of University of Kansas. While serving as Chancellor of the university, he helped oversee the transition of a peacetime campus to a wartime one, and enabled KU to train thousands of military personnel.

In 1951, Malott accepted the position of 6th president of Cornell University. His 12-year term as president brought about the era of 'Big Science' at Cornell: in 1961 sponsored research funding came to over $39 million. His term also saw the construction of new campuses for the School of Labor Relations and the Colleges of Engineering and Veterinary Medicine as well as other major facilities, including the Arecibo Observatory and Lynah Rink. Though a social conservative, Malott was publicly very critical of McCarthyism; he saw it as a major threat to academic freedom.

After his retirement from Cornell, he would go on to serve on the boards of B.F. Goodrich, Owens-Corning, and General Mills.

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structure of CX717
Yahoo Finance's COR board has some interesting theories on the structure of CX717:

“Experiments were conducted to study the neuroprotective effect of two positive modulators of AMPA receptors, Ampakine CX516 [1-(quinoxalin-6-ylcarbonyl)piperidine] and the related compound CX727. CX727 is a metabolically stable analog of Ampakine CX516”

So, CX727 is amide ring closed CX516 (no big difference in structure really).

As CX691 is the most tested Ampakine after CX516, it appears CX717 is CX691 with amide ring closed.

CX691's formula is 1-(2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-5-ylcarbonyl)piperidine.

Press releases
Most of the content on this page appears to be derived from Cortex press releases. In particular, all the material introduced by User:Ampakines on 2007-05-18 is simply a verbatim quotation from a Cortex press release, with a bit of wikilinking added and no acknowledgement of its origin.

I've tried to make it a bit clearer where this comes from and to make potentially controversial claims take the form "According to a Cortex press release, ...". The article could do with further cleanup to make it more encyclopaedic and less recycled PR. Gareth McCaughan (talk) 12:28, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Use of CX-717
Has anyone reading this essay been through clinical trials of and/or Rxed CX-717--especially if diagnosed with an impaired or borderline-impaired mnemonic function? What effects, good or bad, did you notice? Side-effects? John Frazier York (talk) 05:48, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

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Oscar Klein

Oscar Klein (5 January 1930 in Graz, Austria – 12 December 2006 in Baden-Württemberg) was an Austrian born jazz trumpeter who also played clarinet, harmonica, and swing guitar. His family fled the Nazis when he was young. He became known for "older jazz" like swing and Dixieland. In the early sixties he joined the famous Dutch Swing College Band in the Netherlands as first trumpeter and played on several of their recordings. He played with Lionel Hampton, Joe Zawinul, Jerry Ricks and others. In 1996 he was honored by the Austrian President Thomas Klestil.

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The Red Pony

The Red Pony is an episodic novella written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1933. The first three chapters were published in magazines from 1933 to 1936. The full book was published in 1937 by Covici Friede. The stories in the book are tales of a boy named Jody Tiflin. The book has four stories about Jody and his life on his father's California ranch. Other main characters include Carl Tiflin – Jody's father; Billy Buck – an expert in horses and a working hand on the ranch; Mrs. Tiflin – Jody's mother; Jody's grandfather – Mrs. Tiflin's father, who has a history of crossing the Oregon Trail, and enjoys telling stories about his experiences; and Gitano – an old man who wishes to die at the Tiflin ranch. Along with these stories, there is a short story (taken from one of Steinbeck's earlier works, The Pastures of Heaven) at the end of the book titled "Junius Maltby". However, this last story is omitted in the edition published by Penguin Books.

Chapter 1 – The Gift
The book's action begins when Carl Tiflin gives his son Jody a red pony colt. Overjoyed, Jody quickly agrees to all of the conditions his father places on the gift (to feed the pony, to clean his stall, etc.). Jody is so awed at the pony's magnificence that he decides to name him Gabilan, after the grassy and oak-dotted Gabilan Mountains that border the Salinas Valley ranch. After several weeks of training and getting to know Gabilan, Jody is told by his father that he will be allowed to ride the horse by Thanksgiving. Though the ranch hand Billy Buck assures him there would be no rain, the pony is caught in a downpour and catches what appears to be a cold after being left out to corral. Billy tries to cure the horse of its illness to no avail and finally diagnoses the illness as strangles, placing a steaming wet bag over the pony's muzzle and entrusting Jody to watch the pony. In the night, Jody becomes sleepy in spite of his constant worry and drifts off to sleep, forgetting about the open barn door. By the time he awakens, the pony has wandered out of the barn. When Billy arrives, he deems it necessary to cut a hole in the horse's windpipe so he can breathe. Jody stays by his side, constantly swabbing out the mucus that clogged the windpipe.

After falling asleep, Jody dreams of increasingly powerful winds and wakes up to see that the pony is gone again. Following the pony's trail he then notices a cloud of buzzards circling over a nearby spot. Unable to reach the horse in time, he arrives while a buzzard is eating the horse's eye. In his rage, Jody wrestles with the bird and beats it repeatedly, not stopping until he is pulled off by Billy Buck and his father, though the bird had long since died. The story overall deals with ideas regarding the fallibilities of adults and the entrance into manhood, and the inevitability of death for all living things.

"The Gift" was first published in the November 1933 issue of North American Review.

Chapter 2 – The Great Mountains
Jody gets bored. He looks at the great mountains, wishing he could explore them. Suddenly, an old Mexican man named Gitano appears, claiming he was born on the ranch. Gitano requests to stay on the farm until he dies. Carl Tiflin refuses, although he does allow him to stay the night, noting that the old man is very similar to his useless old horse, Easter. That night, Jody secretly visits Gitano. He is polishing his old rapier. Jody asks if he has ever been to the great mountains, and Gitano says he has but remembers little. The next morning Gitano is gone, as is Easter. Jody searches the old man's things, but is disappointed to find no trace of the sharp sword. A neighbor reports seeing Gitano riding the missing horse into the mountains with something in his hand. The adults assume that this is a gun but, as Jody seems to know, it is most likely the rapier. Jody's father wonders why the man has gone into the mountains and jokes that he saved him the trouble of burying the old horse. The story ends with Jody filled with longing and sorrow at thoughts of the old man, the rapier, and the mountains.

"The Great Mountains" was first published in the December 1933 issue of North American Review.

Chapter 3 – The Promise
Carl Tiflin thinks it is time for Jody to learn more responsibility, so he arranges for Jody to take the mare Nellie to be serviced at a neighbor's farm. The stud fee is five dollars and Jody works hard all summer to satisfy the five dollar credit his father held over him. After a few months, Billy Buck determines Nellie is pregnant.

While Jody and Billy take care of the mare, Billy states that his mother died in childbirth and he was raised on mares' milk. That's why Billy is supposed to be so good with horses. Jody dreams often about his coming foal. Billy explains that mares are more delicate than cattle and sometimes the foal has to be torn to pieces and removed to save the mare's life. This worries Jody. He thinks of his pony Gabilan, who died of strangles. Billy failed to cure the pony, and now Jody worries something will happen to Nellie. This doubt also assails Billy, who is insistent on not failing the boy again, both for Jody and his own pride.

Jody wakes up in the middle of the night. He dreams of all the possible things that could go wrong with Nellie's pregnancy, hoping none of them would come true. Then, "he [slips] his clothes on" and sneaks out to the barn to check on Nellie. When Jody catches sight of Nellie, "She [does] not stop her swaying nor look around." Before Jody can try to return to sleep again, Billy Buck frantically tells everyone that Nellie is ready to give birth. Billy Buck kneels down to her and realizes that "It's wrong" and that he "can't turn [the colt]". Billy Buck orders Jody to "turn [his] face". Billy Buck then hits Nellie over the head and performs a cesarean section on Nellie to deliver the promised colt to Jody. Billy then asks for Jody's help in caring for the new animal, and Jody goes to the house, but the image of Nellie and the bloody foal still linger in his mind.

"The Promise" was first published in the October 1937 issue of Harper's Monthly.

Chapter 4 – The Leader of the People
Jody's grandfather comes to visit. Carl Tiflin complains about how his father-in-law is constantly re-telling the same stories about leading a wagon train across the plains. Mrs. Tiflin and Billy, however, believe he's earned the right to tell of his adventures, and Jody is delighted to hear them no matter how many times. The morning after his arrival, Carl Tiflin complains about Grandfather's stories at the breakfast table: "Why can't he forget it, now it's done?...He came across the plains. All right!  Now it's finished.  Nobody wants to hear about it over and over." At that moment Grandfather walks into the room.

Afterwards Jody's grandfather becomes melancholic. He acknowledges that his stories may be tiresome, but explains:

"I tell those stories, but they're not what I want to tell. I only know how I want people to feel when I tell them. It wasn't Indians that were important, nor adventures, nor even getting out here. It was a whole bunch of people made into one big crawling beast.  And I was the head.  It was westering and westering.  Every man wanted something for himself, but the big beast that was all of them wanted only westering.  I was the leader, but if I hadn't been there, someone else would have been the head.  The thing had to have a head. Under the little bushes the shadows were black at white noonday.  When we saw the mountains at last, we cried – all of us.  But it wasn't getting here that mattered, it was movement and westering. We carried life out here and set it down the way those ants carry eggs.  And I was the leader.  The westering was as big as God, and the slow steps that made the movement piled up and piled up until the continent was crossed. Then we came down to the sea, and it was done." He stopped and wiped his eyes until the rims were red.  "That's what I should be telling instead of stories."

Jody, attempting to console his weary, nostalgic, and heartbroken grandfather, tells him that he wants to be a leader as well. The story ends with Jody preparing a lemonade for his grandfather, allowed to do so by his mother after she realizes he is acting out of genuine sympathy, not in an effort to win himself a treat.

"The Leader of the People" was first published in the August 1936 issue of Argosy.

Junius Maltby
The short story concerns a man named Junius Maltby, who, dissatisfied with his life as an accountant in San Francisco, finally breaks with that life on the advice of his doctor, who recommends drier weather for his respiratory illness. Junius, in fairer climate, takes boarding with a widow and her children in his convalescence. After some time, with the townsfolk beginning to talk about the single man living so long with the widow, Junius promptly marries his landlord and becomes the head of the well-kept, profitable ranch/farm. The widow releases her working man and tries to put Junius to work on the farmstead, but Junius, having become accustomed to a life of leisure, ignores his duties. Eventually the farm falls into disrepair, the family goes broke, and without enough food or clothes, the widow and her children succumb to disease.

Only Junius and his lone son by the widow survive. Junius, with his barefoot child and a hired servant as lazy as he, spends his time reading books and having fanciful discussions with his companions, never actually working. Because of this, his son is raised in rags, though well trained to independent thought and flights of the imagination. Despite his appearance and the intention of the other children to torment him, the child is well received at school and indeed becomes a leader of the children. So influenced by him are they, the other children begin to spurn their shoes and tear holes in their clothes.

Except for the teacher, who finds the man and his son to be romantically dignified, the rest of the community has nothing but scorn for Junius and sympathy for his child. The story ends with members of the school board attempting to give the child some shoes and new clothes as a present. Upon realizing the regard in which he is held by society, he loses the last of his innocence and becomes ashamed, realizing for the first time that he is poor. The last scene has the sympathetic teacher see Junius and his son, cleaned and well dressed though painfully so, on their way back to San Francisco where Junius will go back to dull work and ill-health in order to provide for his unwilling son.

Adaptations
In the summer of 1947 Lewis Milestone produced and directed a motion picture named The Red Pony for Republic Pictures, in Technicolor, starring Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, and child actor Peter Miles. The music for the movie was composed by Aaron Copland, who also arranged a suite for orchestra from the film score. Copland recorded this music for Columbia Records in London in 1975. The film was released in 1949.

Another film version was made for television in 1973, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. Jerry Goldsmith won his first Emmy for the score, which was released in a limited edition by Varèse Sarabande in 2012.

Reception
Billboard complimented the novel by stating that "The Red Pony, [by] John Steinbeck, [is a] wrenching story of adolescent initiation into the world of death, birth, and disappointment."

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Permanent Representatives' Committee of the African Union

The Permanent Representatives' Committee of the African Union is made up of nominated representatives of member countries by the African Union.

Chair		-	Nigeria

1st Vice-Chair	-	Republic of Congo

2nd Vice-Chair	-	Rwanda

3rd Vice-Chair	-	Libya

Rapporteur	-	Botswana

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Algis Kizys

Algis Antanas Kizys (born September 8, 1960 in Chicago) is a New York City bass guitarist best known for his long-time membership in New York City band Swans. First joining Swans on 1986's Greed LP, he stayed with the group through The Great Annihilator (1995). He is also a founding member of Of Cabbages and Kings, an offshoot of Bag People.

Biography
Of Cabbages and Kings featured Kizys, founder/guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist/producer Carolyn Master, Roy Mayorga (Nausea, Soulfly, Stone Sour), Vinnie Signorelli (Unsane), Ted Parsons (Prong, Swans, Godflesh, Jesu, Teledubgnosis) and Diane Wlezein. Kizys, Master, and Wlezein previously played in Bag People.

Kizys has spent time in Foetus' live incarnation and played for Glenn Branca in his Symphony No. 6.

Kizys was a member of Problem Dogs, his first band formed with Rick Radtke, John Connors, and Demetra Plakas (who later played drums with L7).

During this time, August 1982, he briefly joined forces with guitarist Edward "Phast Eddie" Lines, Connors and Plakas as Phlegm Magnets, which played several shows at the Space Place in Chicago.

From 1994 -1997 Algis Kizys created a band with singer songwriter Soraya Rashid called "Soraya". Other members included Norman Westberg (ex Swans), Ted Parsons (Prong), Vinnie Signorelli (Swans, Unsane), Eric Hubel (Glenn Branca), and J. G. Thirlwell (Foetus)

Kizys with Jonathan Bepler and David Thorpe composed "Firmament" for Nerve magazine's "Sweet & Vicious" audio book. Firmament served as a soundscape to the JT Leroy story, "Natoma Street", performed by Callie Thorne. Gus Van Sant used "Firmament" for the pivotal scene in his film, "Finding Forrester", starring Sean Connery.

Kizys's current band, NeVAh, features Vinnie Signorelli from Unsane and Norman Westberg from Swans. NeVAh are currently playing in what is left of New York's underground scene.

Discography

 * Swans

 * Of Cabbages and Kings

 * Other appearances

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