Economic repression comprises various actions to restrain certain economical activities or social groups involved in economic activities. It contrasts with economic liberalization. Economists note widespread economic repression in developing countries.

The main goal of economic repression is protectionism, the instruments for which include fines and  ceilings on interest rates or exchange rates.

A common type of economic repression against individuals is blacklisting.

References


The Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers computational statistics. It is published by Taylor & Francis and was established in 1972. The editors-in-chief are Richard Krutchkoff (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg) and Andrei Volodin (University of Regina).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Current Index to Statistics
Science Citation Index Expanded
Zentralblatt MATH
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 0.767.

References

External links

Computational statistics journals
Statistics journals
Academic journals established in 1972


Paul Brock is an Irish button accordionist born in Athlone now residing in Ennis. In May 1989, Brock co-founded the group Moving Cloud with fiddle player, Manus McGuire. In 2001 he co-founded the new group The Brock McGuire Band also with Manus McGuire. In 2004, Brock was voted Best Male Musician by the Irish American News. His recent album Humdinger with fellow band member Enda Scahill was voted Irish Music Album of The Year by the Irish Times and has been released by Compass Records.

Discography
Green Grass Blue Grass
Humdinger
Brock McGuire Band
Mo Chairdin
Tribute to Joe Cooley (with Frankie Gavin)
Moving Cloud
Foxglove
Hands Across The Water

References
 Corofin Trad Festival bio
The Irish Music Magazine Charts
Irish Music Review
Irish Times Review

External links
Paul Brock & Enda Scahill

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Irish male accordionists
Musicians from County Clare
Musicians from County Westmeath
People from Athlone
People from Ennis
20th-century Irish male musicians
20th-century Irish accordionists
21st-century Irish male musicians
21st-century Irish accordionists


Edward Huni'ehu (January 1, 1956 – April 12, 2010) was a Solomon Islands politician.

He graduated from the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education.

He was first elected to the National Parliament in a by-election in 1992 (following Sir Peter Kenilorea's resignation from Parliament), representing the East ꞌAreꞌare constituency in Malaita Province. He kept his seat in the general election in 1993, temporarily left politics in 1997, returned to Parliament in 2001, and was re-elected in 2006.

He served as a minister in government on numerous occasions. He was Minister for Commerce during his first year in Parliament, under Prime Minister Solomon Mamaloni, then Minister for Transport, Works and Utilities throughout his first full term in Parliament (1993-1997), under Francis Billy Hilly then Solomon Mamaloni again. He then briefly became Leader of the Opposition to Mamaloni's government in 1997. At the end of that term, he "exit[ed] politics for a while to focus on personal plans", but returned for the 2001 election, during which he regained his temporarily vacated seat. After the 2001 election, he was appointed Minister for Agriculture and Livestock by new Prime Minister Sir Allan Kemakeza, a position which he held from 19 December 2001 to 17 December 2002. On 21 April 2006, new Prime Minister Snyder Rini appointed him Minister for Education and Human Resources Development; he held the position until the Rini government resigned on 4 May. On 22 December 2007, new Prime Minister Derek Sikua appointed him Minister for Energy, Mines and Rural Electification, "in recognition of his efforts to ensure the development of alternative energy in Solomon Islands, especially in hydro and solar power for rural villages". He resigned due to ill health in 2009, and sat as a backbencher until his death. He was, at least during his final term, a member of the Association of Independent Members of Parliament.

He died on 12 April 2010 at the National Referral Hospital in Honiara "after a long battle with diabetes". He was buried "in his home village of Manawai" in his constituency.

References
Member page at Parliament website

1956 births
2010 deaths
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Malaita Province
Government ministers of the Solomon Islands
Education ministers of the Solomon Islands
Transport ministers of the Solomon Islands
Energy ministers of the Solomon Islands


Artilleriyskiy Tyagach Tyazholiy, or AT-T (, meaning "heavy artillery tractor") was a Soviet Cold War-era artillery tractor. The AT-T is based on the chassis and drive system from the T-54 tank. However, the hull has been rotated 180 degrees, with the engine, clutch, gearbox, steering gear and drive wheels located at the front of the vehicle (on the tank, these are located to the rear). The crew cabin is also located in the front part of the vehicle, and is from the ZIS-150 and ZIL-164 trucks.

Variants
BAT-M obstacle removing vehicle
BTM-3 high-speed trench digging vehicle
Kharkovchanka Antarctic off-road vehicle
MDK-2M pits digging vehicle
P-40 radar

External links

O. Protasov - AT-T heavy artillery tractor

Artillery tractors
Military vehicles of the Soviet Union
Military vehicles introduced from 1945 to 1949


Shemuel Sam Iduri (born in Boboilangi Village, Malaita) is a Solomon Islands politician.

After studying at teachers' colleges in Solomon Islands and in Western Australia, he worked as a secondary school principal, then as education officer.

His political career began when he was elected to Parliament as MP for West Kwara'ae, in the April 2006 general election. The following month, the newly installed government of Prime Minister Snyder Rini resigned in the face of public protests, and so as to avoid a motion of no confidence. Iduri supported Rini's successor to the premiership, Manasseh Sogavare, and was appointed Minister for National Unity, Reconciliation and Peace in Sogavare's Cabinet - thus becoming the Minister in charge of facilitating national reconciliation in the aftermath of the ethnic conflicts of the late 1990s and early 2000s. In November 2007, he defected to the Opposition, along with nine other ministers, in an attempt to unseat the Sogavare government. The attempt was ultimately successful, and Derek Sikua replaced Sogavare as Prime Minister in late December. Sikua restored Iduri to his Cabinet post as Minister for National Unity, Reconciliation and Peace.

In August 2008, Iduri introduced a Truth and Reconciliation Commission Bill, which led to the establishing in April 2009 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Iduri retained his seat in Parliament in the August 2010 general election, but not his position in Cabinet. He was succeeded as Minister for National Unity, Reconciliation and Peace by Hypolite Taremae, in Prime Minister Danny Philip's government. He was, however, appointed Shadow Minister for National Unity, Reconciliation and Peace in Opposition Leader Steve Abana's Shadow Cabinet.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Malaita Province
Government ministers of the Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands Democratic Party politicians


Toswel Kaua (born 28 August 1947 in Lau, Malaita Province; died 15 November 2010 in Honiara) was a Solomon Islands politician, several times Cabinet minister, and Deputy Prime Minister from May to November 2007.

He studied first at the University of Sydney (Australia), where he obtained a Certificate in Administration, Management and Systems. He then obtained a Certificate in Teaching from the Solomon Islands Teachers College, followed by a Diploma in Education and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (England). He completed his studies with a Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching from the University of Oxford, and began a career in teaching and administration.

He taught at St. Nicholas primary school, in Solomon Islands, before becoming the school's headmaster. He then entered public administration as Assistant Education Officer for Selection and Guidance at the Ministry of Education. He went on to serve as Chief Administrative Officer for Regulation at the Ministry of Public Service, Assistant Secretary for Personnel to the Prime Minister's Office, Under-Secretary at the Public Service Division, Deputy Secretary to the Prime Minister and Cabinet, then Permanent Secretary to a number of Ministries, before becoming Secretary to the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

He began his political career when he was elected to Parliament as the member for Baegu/Asifola in the April 2006 general election. In May, Prime Minister Snyder Rini's government resigned in the face of public protest and under threat of a motion of no confidence, and Manasseh Sogavare ascended to the premiership. Sogavare appointed Kaua to Cabinet, as Minister for Mines and Energy. He subsequently appointed him Minister for Agriculture and Livestock, then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Public Service. In November 2007, however, Kaua resigned from Cabinet and joined the Opposition. The following month, Sogavare's government was ousted in a vote of no confidence, and Kaua was appointed Minister for Justice and Legal Affairs by new Prime Minister Derek Sikua, a position which he held until August 2010.

He retained his seat in Parliament in the August 2010 general election, and served as a government backbencher for the remaining months of his life. On 15 November 2010, he died in hospital following a "long illness".

References

1947 births
2010 deaths
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Malaita Province
Government ministers of the Solomon Islands
Alumni of the University of Oxford
University of Sydney alumni
Justice ministers of the Solomon Islands
Energy ministers of the Solomon Islands
Mining ministers of the Solomon Islands
Deputy Prime Ministers of the Solomon Islands


Larry Silver (born 1934) is an American photographer. He was born in the Bronx. While a student at the High School of Industrial Art in Manhattan he met members of the Photo League, among them Lou Bernstein, W. Eugene Smith and Weegee. He won a first prize in the Scholastic-Ansco Photography Awards, and a scholarship to the Art Center School in Los Angeles. Silver takes black-and-white photographs, mainly documenting the places he has lived: Santa Monica Beach, California; New York City; and Westport, Connecticut.

Silver's work is in various museum collections including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,  the Brooklyn Museum, the George Eastman House, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. His work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions.

References

Further reading
 Larry Silver (1985). Muscle Beach, California 1954. New York: International Center for Photography.
 Ann Clements Borum (1991). 10,000 Eyes: The American Society of Magazine Photographers' Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Photography.  [Rochester, NY]: Professional Photography Division, Eastman Kodak Company
 Ellen Dugan (1992). This Sporting Life: 1878–1991. Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art
 Vicki Goldberg, Robert B Silberman (1999). American photography: a century of images. San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books
 Anne Tucker (2001). This was the Photo League: Compassion and the camera from the Depression to the Cold War. Chicago: Stephen Daiter Gallery
 [s.n.] (2002). Larry Silver: Suburban Vision.  New York: Bruce Silverstein Gallery
 Reuel Golden (2010). New York: Portrait of a City. Köln: Taschen
 Mason Klein, Catherine Evans (2011). The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951.  New York: The Jewish Museum and New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press

External links
 Larry Silver Photographs at the New-York Historical Society

American photographers
Living people
1934 births
High School of Art and Design alumni
Photographers from the Bronx


Mark Roboliu Kemakeza (born December 31, 1960) is a former member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands.  He represented Ngella constituency (Central Province). He is from  Savo Island, which is in the Central Province.

In August 2010, newly elected Prime Minister Danny Philip appointed him Minister of Mines and Energy.

In April 2011, he was sacked as he faced charges for corruption and abuse of office, accused of having "misappropriated $764,000 of public funds allocated for fishing projects in his constituency". His sacking coincided with several members of the Opposition joining the government, and he was replaced as Minister for Mines and Energy by Moses Garu.

He remained a government backbencher until November 2011, when he joined a mass defection to the opposition, bringing down Philip's government.

In February 2012, he was convicted, by the Honiara Central Magistrates Court, on a charge of misappropriating government funds. He received a fourteen-month gaol sentence, with magistrate Shafi Khan describing him as "very selfish" in addition to having committed a breach of trust. He thereby lost his seat in Parliament. Johnley Hatimoana was elected to replace him as MP for Ngella.

References
Member page at Parliament website

1947 births
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from the Central Province (Solomon Islands)


Matthew Cooper Wale (born 13 June 1968) is a Solomon Islands politician. He is a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands, and was elected to Parliament representing the Aoke/Langalanga constituency on 27 March 2008.

Political career
After the 2019 general election, he became the Leader of the Opposition.

On 28 November, he filed a no-confidence motion against the Sogavare government, with debate scheduled for 6 December. The motion creates a potential flashpoint for further unrest.

References

1968 births
Living people
People from Malaita Province
Solomon Islands Democratic Party politicians

Leaders of the Opposition (Solomon Islands)
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands


The Chicagoan was an American magazine modeled after The New Yorker published from June 1926 until April 1935. Focusing on the cultural life of the city of Chicago, each issue of The Chicagoan contained art, music, and drama reviews, profiles of personalities and institutions, commentaries on the local scene, and editorials, along with cartoons and original art.

In an early issue, The Chicagoans editors claimed to represent "a cultural, civilized and vibrant" city "which needs make no obeisance to Park Avenue, Mayfair, or the Champs Elysees." Despite its lofty aims, the stalwart assertions of publisher Martin J. Quigley (who once wrote that "Whatever Chicago was and was to be, The Chicagoan must be and become"), and a circulation that sometimes rose above 20,000, the magazine was largely forgotten after its last issue.

Only two substantial collections remain, one at the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library and the other at the New York Public Library. Cultural historian Neil Harris has written a book on the subject, The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age (the University of Chicago Press).

Authors
Marie Armstrong Hecht (1892–?). First editor of The Chicagoan, a writer and literary critic. Married to journalist-author Ben Hecht from 1915 to 1925. Marie Hecht published several volumes of poetry in the 1920s and created or adapted some Broadway plays in the 1920s and 1930s. Under a later married name, Marie Essipoff, she produced a number of books in the 1950s emphasizing economical cooking with new techniques, including Making the Most of Your Food Freezer.

Richard Atwater, "Riq" (1892–1948). Born in Chicago as Frederick Mund Atwater, he attended the University of Chicago, where he wrote for the student newspaper and later taught Classical Greek. He went on to work for various local newspapers, including the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Herald-Examiner. With his wife, Florence Atwater, in 1938 he coauthored Mr. Popper's Penguins, which won the Newbery Medal.

Artists
E. Simms Campbell (1908–71). The first African American cartoonist with a national reputation, Campbell was born in St. Louis and graduated from Englewood High School in Chicago. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago between 1924 and 1926 and later he moved to New York, where he was employed as a cartoonist at the Daily Mirror. He did important illustrations for some African American publications, including Crisis and Opportunity, but was better known for his color cartoons in Esquire. He would later work for a string of national advertisers and for Playboy.

Albert Carreno (1905–64). This Mexican-born caricaturist and cartoonist portrayed stage and sports personalities for The Chicagoan in the late 1920s while working for the Chicago Daily News. He then moved to New York and was employed by a series of publishers and comic-book producers including Fawcett, National, and Marvel.

Nat Karson (1908–54). Born in Switzerland, he attended Chicago public schools and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and increasingly concentrated his efforts on theatrical caricature. After he moved to New York, his theatrical designs and productions attracted wide attention; he created both sets and costumes with the Federal Theater Project and with Orson Welles.

A. Raymond Katz (1895–1974), aka Sandor. Born in Hungary, Katz attended both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He created car cards, posters, and other commercial art before becoming the featured artist of The Chicagoan.

Isadore Klein (1897–1986). Magazine cartoonist, animator, sketcher, painter, and story writer, Klein worked for The New Yorker as well as for The Chicagoan and was involved with a series of famous studios and celebrated cartoons, from Krazy Kat and Betty Boop to Popeye. He was widely credited with originating the idea for Mighty Mouse.

Boris Riedel (no dates available). Creator of The Chicagoans first cover, Riedel served for a while as the magazine's art editor. He illustrated a book of poetry by Marie Hecht, a novel by J. V. Nicholson, and a children's book, The Timid Giant, written by advertising executive Earle Ludgin. Riedel also created movie posters for films starring Clara Bow, Lon Chaney Sr., and Adolphe Menjou, and contributed to The Linebook, a publication put out for WGN Radio, a Tribune Company outlet in Chicago.

Resurrection
J. C. Gabel, former publisher of Stop Smiling, acquired the rights to the magazine and planned to launch the restored magazine in September, 2011 as a biannual publication with weekly Website updates.  Jessa Crispin has signed on as a contributor and fiction editor. It launched in 2012.  However, Gabel discontinued publishing it after just one, 194-page issue.  Gabel told Crain's Chicago Business in 2015 that "We only did one issue of our incarnation of the Chicagoan, and after a very valiant effort, we couldn't raise the necessary capital to do it properly without it being run like a sweat shop."

Yet another resurrection of a magazine called The Chicagoan was proposed in 2015, by former U.S. Senate candidate Jack Ryan.  However, before he began publishing the magazine, he changed its name to Chicagoly.  That magazine published nine issues before discontinuing publication with the issue published in December 2017.

References

External links
 Digitized version of The Chicagoan at the University of Chicago Library
 Gallery of covers and other illustrations from the Chicagoan
 Sample pages from The Chicagoan:A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age by Neil Harris
 An interview with Neil Harris about the Chicagoan

Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
Defunct political magazines published in the United States
Local interest magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1926
Magazines disestablished in 1935
Magazines published in Chicago
Modern liberal magazines published in the United States
Works about Chicago


Clement Kengava (born February 7, 1953) is a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands.  He represents a constituency on the island of Choiseul, and has served as Minister for Rural Development and Indigenous Affairs and as Minister for Health and Medical Services.

References
Member page at Parliament website

1953 births
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Choiseul Province
Regional development and local governments ministers
Health ministers of the Solomon Islands


Super Lap is a time attack race event held in Australia and New Zealand. This may also refer to:
 Time attack, a race event where racers have to beat the best time
 Super Lap Battle, an American time attack race event


Johnson Koli (born 13 November 1953) is a Solomon Islands politician who served a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands between 1997 and 2010, representing the East Guadalcanal constituency. He served as Minister of Health and Medical Services in Prime Minister Derek Sikua's Cabinet until May 2009, when he was transferred to the position of Minister for Women, Youth, and Children.

References
Member page at Parliament website

1953 births
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Guadalcanal Province
Health ministers of the Solomon Islands
Women's ministers of the Solomon Islands


Daniel Enele Kwanairara (25 March 1947 – 20 October 2012 in Auki, Malaita Province) was a Solomon Islands politician.

He began his career working as a teacher, then in the government's Forestry Department. He first entered the National Parliament of Solomon Islands when he was elected MP for the North Malaita constituency in the August 1997 general election. He lost his seat in the next election in 2001, but regained it in a by-election in December 2004 when sitting member (and Minister for Communications) Daniel Fa'afunua was disqualified from Parliament upon being convicted on a charge of extortion. Kwanairara retained his seat in the 2006 general election, but stood unsuccessfully in 2010, when he was defeated by Jimmy Lusibaea.

The official website of the National Parliament reports, somewhat confusingly, that he was twice a government minister between 1989 and 1993, which is technically impossible if he was not a Member of Parliament at that time. He was Minister for Agriculture and Livestock for April 2005 to April 2006, under Prime Minister Sir Allan Kemakeza.

Daniel Kwanairara died on 20 October 2012, at the age of 65, in hospital in his home province of Malaita, "after a long illness".

References

1947 births
2012 deaths
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Malaita Province
Government ministers of the Solomon Islands


Ideological repression refers to forceful activities against competing ideologies and philosophies.

Alan Wolfe defines ideological repression as "the attempt to manipulate people's consciousness so they accept the ruling ideology, and distrust and refuse to be moved by competing ideologies".

In the early days of the Soviet Union and in other countries, ideological repression was carried out by political repression of the carriers of competing ideologies.

Instruments of ideological repression are propaganda and censorship. During the days of "Marxism–Leninism" in the Soviet Union – around the early 1930s – students of this particular school of thought were given textbooks that encouraged one particular way of thinking (the Marxist way) as being paramount and the most scientific and true school of thought.

Through ideological repression and control of output information, the Soviet Union was attempting to keep social revolutions at bay.

See also
 Ideological repression in the Soviet Union
 Political correctness

References

Ideologies
Persecution
Political terminology
Political repression
Censorship
Freedom of expression


A power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive was formed following the Northern Ireland Assembly elections of 1973. The executive served as the devolved government of Northern Ireland from 1 January 1974 until its collapse on 28 May 1974.

History

Elections to a Northern Ireland Assembly were held on 28 June 1973. On 21 November, the Sunningdale Agreement was reached on a voluntary coalition of pro-agreement parties, and the Executive took office on 1 January 1974. Prominent members of the executive included former Ulster Unionist Party Prime Minister Brian Faulkner as Chief Executive, then Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader Gerry Fitt as Deputy Chief Executive, future Nobel Laureate and SDLP leader John Hume as Minister for Commerce and then leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland Oliver Napier as Legal Minister and head of the Office of Law Reform.

The UUP was deeply divided; its Standing Committee voted to participate in the executive by a margin of only 132 to 105. Since the partition of Ireland, unionists had been opposed to sharing power with the Irish nationalist minority and the end of majoritarianism caused great strife in the UUP. Other contentious issues were internment, policing and the question of the planned Council of Ireland.

After opposition from within the UUP and the Ulster Workers' Council strike, the executive and Assembly collapsed on 28 May 1974 when Faulkner resigned as Chief Executive.

Chief Executive
In January 1974 Brian Faulkner became Chief Executive in the power-sharing executive with the SDLP and the non-sectarian Alliance Party, a political alliance cemented at the Sunningdale Conference that year. After opposition from within the UUP and the Ulster Workers Council Strike, the executive and assembly collapsed on 28 May 1974 when Faulkner resigned as Chief Executive. Brian Faulkner would later then form his own political party known as the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland. They contested the 1975 Constitutional Convention Elections in which they got only 5 seats and no new Chief Executive was elected to replace Brian Faulkner.

1974 Executive of Northern Ireland

See also
 Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)
 Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 1973
 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election
 History of Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)
Government of Northern Ireland
The Troubles (Northern Ireland)
1974 establishments in Northern Ireland
1974 disestablishments in Northern Ireland
1974 in British politics
Ministries of Elizabeth II


Nollen Cornelius Leni is a Solomon Islands politician. He was a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands between 2001 and 2010, representing the East Central Guadalcanal constituency. He also served as Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs briefly in 2002.

References
Member page at Parliament website

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Guadalcanal Province
Place of birth missing (living people)
Foreign Ministers of the Solomon Islands
Fisheries and Marine Resources ministers of the Solomon Islands


Japhet Waipora (born 24 June 1943) is a Solomon Islands politician and former member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands.

Political career
Waipora ran for election to the National Parliament in the 1993 general elections in the Central Makira constituency, finishing in third place. He won the seat in the 1997 elections, unseating the incumbent MP Benedict Kinika, but was unseated himself in the 2001 elections, finishing third and losing to Bernard Ghiro.

In the 2006 general elections he stood in the West Makira constituency, defeating the incumbent MP Mathias Taro as he was returned to Parliament. He lost his seat to Dick Ha'amori in the 2010 elections.

In May 2013 he was convicted for having misused about SI$ 150,000 "that had been earmarked for his constituency in 2008 and 2009".

References

Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
1943 births
Living people
People from Makira-Ulawa Province


Enda Scahill is an Irish banjo player from Corofin, County Galway. He is a four-time All-Ireland Champion and has performed with The Fureys, Frankie Gavin and The Chieftains. He is an ex-member of The Brock McGuire Band. In 2006 he released the album Humdinger with Paul Brock which was awarded Irish Music Album of the Year by The Irish Times and was released by Compass Records in Nashville, Tennessee.

Scahill is the founder of the band We Banjo 3 whose members include Martin Howley, David Howley and his brother Fergal Scahill. Earle Hitchner, music writer for The Wall Street Journal, describes We Banjo 3's playing as a "freshness and finesse bordering on the magical" and LiveIreland proclaiming them "the hottest group in Irish music."

Discography

 Humdinger(2006)
 Brock McGuire Band
 Pick It Up(2000)
 Roots of the Banjo Tree (2012)
 Gather the Good (2014)
 Live in Galway (2015)
 String Theory (2016)

References

External links
 Official Website
 We Banjo 3 (official website)
 Galway Arts Festival
 The Irish Music Magazine Charts
 The Irish Music Review of "Humdinger"
 Irish Times Review of "Roots of The Banjo Tree"

Irish male banjoists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Corofin, County Galway
Musicians from County Galway
21st-century Irish male musicians
21st-century Irish banjoists


The 111th United States Congress began on January 3, 2009. There were nine new senators (seven Democrats, two Republicans) and 54 new representatives (32 Democrats, 22 Republicans), as well as two new delegates (one Democrat, one independent), at the start of its first session. Additionally, 12 senators (nine Democrats, three Republicans) and 11 representatives (seven Democrats, four Republicans) took office on various dates in order to fill vacancies during the 111th Congress before it ended on January 3, 2011.

The presidents of the House Democratic freshman class were Gerry Connolly of Virginia and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, while the president of the House Republican freshman class was Steve Austria of Ohio.

Senate

Took office January 3, 2009

Took office during the 111th Congress

House of Representatives

Took office January 3, 2009

Non-voting delegates

Took office during the 111th Congress

See also
 List of United States senators in the 111th Congress
 List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 111th Congress by seniority

Notes

References

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Gordon Darcy Lilo (born 28 August 1965) is a Solomon Islander politician who served as Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands from 16 November 2011 to 9 December 2014. He was a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands, representing the Gizo/Kolombangara constituency spanning Gizo and the island of Kolombangara in Western Province. Lilo served as the Minister of Finance of the Solomon Islands from 2006 to 2007 and from 2010 to 2011.

Biography

Personal life
Lilo is originally from the village of Ghatere on Kolombangara island. He earned a master's degree in development and administration from the Crawford School of Economics and Government at Australian National University.

 Lilo's CV also includes a Postgraduate Diploma and Bachelor of Economics received from the University of Papua New Guinea.

Career
Lilo worked as a permanent secretary for the Ministries of Finance and of the Environment before entering politics. He was elected to the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands in 2001.

In November 2011, Prime Minister Danny Philip fired Lilo, his Finance Minister, and Central Bank Governor Rick Hou, accusing both of undermining his government. Philip had been accused of misusing and misappropriating a $10 million national development fund, which had been allocated to Solomon Islands from the government of Taiwan. In response to his sacking, Lilo told reporters, "No one undermined the prime minister, but he undermined himself by abusing his powers and the highest office in the country. He sacked us to create a vacuum to lure MPs from the opposition." Lilo further criticized Philips, "What he (Mr Philip) did was unbelievable, unacceptable and sickening."

Prime Minister of Solomon Islands
Prime Minister Danny Philip resigned on 11 November 2011, ahead of a vote of no confidence stemming from the allegations of the misuse of Taiwanese funds.

On 16 November 2011, Lilo was elected Prime Minister of Solomon Islands, winning a majority of the 29 of the 49 eligible members of Parliament and defeating three other rivals for the office. Former Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare of East Choiseul received nine votes, MP for North Vella La Vella Milner Tozaka received nine votes, and MP for Gao/Bugotu Samuel Manetoali earned just two votes in parliament. Lilo was declared the winner by Governor General Sir Frank Kabui. Lilo took the oath of office before Kabui at approximately 5 p.m.

On 18 November two days after his election Lilo held his first official engagement with US ambassador to the Solomon Islands, Teddy Taylor regarding the Solomon Islands eligibility for US Millennium Challenge Account funding.

Lilo is a member of the National Coalition for Reform and Advancement (NCRA), the same party as his predecessor, Danny Philip. Lilo took over the leadership of the NCRA from Philips, which retains the Office of Prime Minister. Prime Minister Lilo completed his cabinet appointments by 23 November 2011, restoring almost all of ministers from the previous NCRA government to their posts. The only major change was Lilo's appointment of Rick Hou as the country's new finance minister. Lilo reappointed Manasseh Maelanga as deputy prime minister. Maelanga was also appointed Home Affairs Minister.

Lilo is a key supporter of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands. Prime Minister Lilo pledged to refocus on Solomon Islands' faltering coconut industry at the opening 48th Asian Pacific Coconut Committee (APCC) Ministerial meeting, which was held at the Mendana Hotel in Honiara on 28 November 2011.

Lilo's government (backed by the governments of Nauru, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Timor-Leste) introduced the motion which led to the United Nations General Assembly re-inscribing French Polynesia on the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories in May 2013. Lilo stated that he wished to see French Polynesia obtain self-determination regarding its future status. The day before the vote in the General Assembly, the Assembly of French Polynesia formally protested against the prospect of the country being re-added to the list. France denounced Solomon Islands-introduced motion as "blatant interference [and] a complete absence of respect for the democratic choice of [French] Polynesians", who had just elected a government hostile to the prospect of independence.

References

External links
Member page at Parliament website

1965 births
Australian National University alumni
Finance Ministers of the Solomon Islands
Environment ministers of the Solomon Islands
Justice ministers of the Solomon Islands
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from the Western Province (Solomon Islands)
Prime Ministers of the Solomon Islands
University of Papua New Guinea alumni


Varian Lonamei (born May 10, 1962) is a member of the National Parliament of Solomon Islands. He represents a constituency from Isabel Province, and currently serves as the Minister for Aviation, Communication and Meteorology for the Solomon Islands. He received a degree in commerce from Papua New Guinea University of Technology.

References
Member page at Parliament website

1962 births
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Isabel Province
Communication ministers of the Solomon Islands


Patrick Vahoe (born March 11, 1970) is a Solomon Islands politician. He is a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands, and was elected to the Parliament representing the Malaita Outer Islands Constituency on 5 April 2006.

References

Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
1970 births
Living people
People from Malaita Province
Place of birth missing (living people)


The McCarthy Building is located on River Street on the west side of Monument Square in Troy, New York, United States. It was built in 1904 by Peter McCarthy, president of Troy Waste Manufacturing Co., and remains in use as a commercial building. In 1970 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, along with the nearby Cannon Building. Since 1986 it has also been a contributing property to the Central Troy Historic District.

It is five stories tall and three bays wide. The eastern (front) facade is done in terra cotta with details in iron and glass. The latter two materials are combined to create the building's most distinctive feature, the proscenium-style arched window across the bottom two stories.

The building was constructed in 1904 during an early 20th-century building boom in downtown Troy. It originally housed the R.C. Reynolds home furnishing store. The store's grand opening on September 16, 1904 was attended by a crowd of thousands. An article in the Troy Times praised the building calling it "one of the most attractive show buildings in the city". It was almost demolished during urban renewal efforts in the late 1960s, but protests from residents and its listing on the Register helped to save it. In the 2000s, it became home to Light & Power Communications Ltd., a Capital District media company. In 2020, the McCarthy Building was converted to luxury apartments.

References

External links

National Register of Historic Places in Troy, New York
Office buildings completed in 1904
Buildings and structures in Troy, New York
Individually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in New York (state)


Manasseh Maelanga (born March 25, 1970) is a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands.  He represents East Malaita constituency.

In May 2009, he was named Minister for Provincial Government and Institutional Strengthening in Prime Minister Derek Sikua's government. Following the 2010 general election, he remained in Cabinet, under new Prime Minister Danny Philip, as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs.

Since 17 December 2014, he has served as Leader of the Independent Members in Parliament.

References

External links
Member page at Parliament website

1970 births
Living people
Deputy Prime Ministers of the Solomon Islands
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Malaita Province
Government ministers of the Solomon Islands


The Bold Venture Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Open to horses age three and older, it is contested during the second half of July on Tapeta synthetic dirt over a distance of six and a half furlongs. Currently the race offers a purse of CAN$125,000.

History
Inaugurated in 1956 at the Fort Erie Racetrack, the race was named in honor of Bold Venture, winner of the 1936 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.

This race was upgraded to a Grade III event in 2012.

Fatal Bullet set a new track record time for the  furlong distance of 1:14.54 when winning the 2008 renewal.

Winners

Earlier winners

 2006 - Are You Serious (1:29.81; 7.5 furlongs)
 2005 - Judiths Wild Rush (1:15.41)
 2004 - I'm the Tiger (1:15.69)
 2003 - Milligan the Great (1:16.77)
 2002 - Sambuca on Ice (1:16.06)
 2001 - Tempered Appeal (1:16.05)
 2000 - One Way Love (1:16.35)
 1999 - One Way Love (1:16.74)
 1998 - Deputy Inxs (1:15.60)
 1997 - Parisianprospector (1:17.00)
 1996 - Parental Pressure (1:17.60)
 1995 - Sea Wall (1:17.40)
 1994 - Premier Explosion (1:15.60)
 1993 - Megas Vukefalos (1:18.60)
 1992 - Canadian Silver (1:17.00)
 1991 - Key Spirit (1:17.60)
 1990 - Woden (1:17.80)
 1989 - Overpeer (1:18.20)
 1988 - Jamaican Gigolo (1:18.80)
 1987 - Jamaican Gigolo (1:19.60)
 1986 - S S Enterprise (1:19.00)
 1985 - Aeronotic (1:17.60)
 1984 - Nancy's Champion (1:20.40)
 1983 - Play the Hornpipe (1:19.80)
 1982 - Frost King (1:20.20)
 1981 - Impressive Prince (1:19.00)
 1980 - Royal Sparkle (1:21.60)
 1979 - Stutz Bearcat (1:20.40)
 1978 - Instead of Roses (1:20.20)
 1977 - Pres de Tu (1:18.40)
 1976 - Royal Chocolate (1:25.00; 7 furlongs)
 1975 - Frohlich (1:10.20; 6 furlongs)
 1974 - Queen's Splendour (1:10.60)
 1973 - Dawes Road (1:12.60)
 1972 - Briartic (1:09.40)
 1971 - Coup Landing (1:11.40)
 1970 - Perfect Tan (1:13.00)
 1969 - Melindroso (1:10.80)
 1968 - Lane (1:11.20)
 1967 - One Sunday (1:10.40; 6.5 furlongs)
 1966 - Bright Object (1:10.00)
 1965 - Lebon M L (1:12.00)
 1964 - Vindent de Paul (1:10.80)
 1963 - First Minister (1:13.60)
 1962 - First Minister (1:11.20)
 1961 - Reactor (1:08.20; 5 furlongs)
 1960 - War Eagle (1:04.80)
 1959 - Riz (0:59.00)
 1958 - Nearctic (0:58.20)
 1957 - Pot Hunter (1:01.00)
 1956 - Navy Page (1:00.40) INAUGURAL RUNNING

See also
 List of Canadian flat horse races

References

2018 Woodbine Media Guide

Graded stakes races in Canada
Open sprint category horse races
Recurring sporting events established in 1956
Woodbine Racetrack


Sceloporus occidentalis longipes is a subspecies of the western fence lizard, commonly called the Great Basin fence lizard. Several subspecies of the western fence lizard, a species of phrynosomatid lizard, are found in the far western part of North America.

Gallery

See also
 Coast Range fence lizard
 Island fence lizard
 Northwestern fence lizard

Notes

References
 Hobart M. Smith (1995) Handbook of Lizards: Lizards of the United States and of Canada, Cornell University Press, 557 pages
 C. Michael Hogan (2008) "Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)", Globaltwitcher, ed. Nicklas Stromberg

Sceloporus
Fauna of the Great Basin
Taxa named by Spencer Fullerton Baird


Martin Magga (November 11, 1953 – August 25, 2014) was a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands, representing the Temotu Pele constituency. He served as the Solomon Islands' Minister of Lands, Housing and Survey in Prime Minister Derek Sikua's Cabinet until May 2009, when he was transferred to the position of Minister for Health and Medical Services.

As Minister for Health, he announced that the government was implementing "a Sector Wide Approach (SWA) for the health sector": "The Sector Wide Approach brings together Government, donors and implementing partners under the leadership of Ministry of Health and Medical Services [...] in a more harmonised, integrated and coordinated effort to support the National Health Strategic Plan." The "main objectives" of this approach were "to raise quality and accessibility of health services and improve financial sustainability and the management of the health system".

Magga had also served as Minister for Justice in 2007, and was Acting Minister for Agriculture and Livestock for a time in 2008.

In May 2009, mere days after his appointment as Health Minister, and while returning from the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Magga "suddenly developed medical problems". He was hospitalised in Australia. The media reported that he had undergone "urgent surgery" and that he was in "critical condition".

In June, he was "relieved of his ministerial duties on medical grounds" and replaced by Clay Forau Soalaoi. The Solomon Star reported Australian doctors as saying that Magga would "not be able to function as he previously did, either as minister or as member of parliament", due to "a series of complications during and after surgery". He remained on life support but reportedly showed "slight improvement".

He was, nonetheless, successfully returned to Parliament in the August 2010 general election, though he was not given a Cabinet position. He used a wheelchair from then on. In April 2012, it was reported that constituents had visited him twice to ask him to resign due to his health. He died two years later, while still serving as an MP.

References
Member page at Parliament website

1953 births
2014 deaths
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Temotu Province
Health ministers of the Solomon Islands
Housing ministers of the Solomon Islands
Wheelchair users
Solomon Islands people with disabilities


Margaret Elizabeth Scott, Lady Scott (born 1960, Nairobi, Kenya) is a Scottish lawyer who was appointed a judge in 2012.

Early life and education
Scott was born in 1960 in Nairobi, Kenya. She graduated from University of Edinburgh with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree and from the University of Strathclyde with a Diploma in Legal Practice (DipLP).

Legal career
Scott was admitted as a solicitor in 1989, and she was called to the bar in Scotland (the Faculty of Advocates) in 1991. She "took silk" (became a Queen's Counsel) in 2002. She has acted as lead counsel in a number of high-profile appeal cases such as the Lockerbie bombing and the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars, in which she defended Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Thomas "TC" Campbell, respectively. She was also successful in the appeal case of Kim Galbraith, whose murder conviction for shooting her policeman husband was reduced to diminished responsibility.

Megrahi's second appeal
On 6 November 2008, Scott applied to the Court of Criminal Appeal for Megrahi's release on bail pending the second appeal against his conviction at the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial in 2001. The three judges reserved their judgment on the application. A week later, Megrahi's bail application was refused. Megrahi was told he would remain in jail for the duration of his second appeal.

Judicial career
From 2003 to 2012, Scott was a part-time sheriff. On 2 November 2012, she was installed as a Senator of the College of Justice, taking the judicial title Lady Scott.

Controversy
Scott provoked public anger in July 2013 when sentencing a man convicted of several incidences of rape, as she appeared to praise him for having overcome his difficult background and succeeded at running a business. Her comment was viewed as inappropriate, with the Scottish Conservative Chief Whip John Lamont arguing that, "plenty of people have had tough lives ... but don’t rape anyone."

In March 2017, Scott granted a man who confessed to the rape of a 12-year-old child an absolute discharge. Although Scott acknowledged that Scottish law dictates an individual under the age of 13 is considered incapable of giving consent in any circumstance, she stated that the victim was not distressed and that all eyewitnesses believed her to be over 16. Rape Crisis England and Wales critiqued Scott's ruling, saying that, as a 12-year-old has no legal capacity to consent, sexual activity with them is always illegal. Moreover, it is an adult's responsibility to ensure that their partner is capable of giving consent. In a letter published after the trial, the victim claimed that she was unconscious at the time of the attack, further calling into question her ability to consent.

Personal life
Scott's partner is Frank Richard Crowe, a sheriff. Together they have one son.

References

1960 births
Living people
Scottish King's Counsel
Pan Am Flight 103
Members of the Faculty of Advocates
Scottish women judges
Scott
21st-century King's Counsel
Date of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Alumni of the University of Strathclyde
Scottish solicitors


Themba Mveli James Maseko (born 27 January 1964) is the former CEO of the Government Communication and Information System and spokesperson for the government of South Africa. He was appointed to the position on 14 June 2006 by then-Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad, succeeding Joel Netshitenzhe.

Political career
Maseko had initially served as an MP in the National Assembly from 1994 to 1995, and then served as superintendent general of the Gauteng Department of Education from 1995 to 2000. He then worked as MD of the Damelin Education Group and CEO of Sifikile Investments during 2001 and 2002, followed by a term as director general of the Department of Public Works from February 2003 until his appointment as GCIS CEO.

Board memberships
Outside of government, Maseko has served on the boards of the Adopt a School Foundation, Centre for Public Service Innovation and Vista University Council.

Degrees
 BA in sociology and law and an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand.
 MBA from De Montfort University in the United Kingdom.

References

External links
Themba Maseko article in The Guardian

Living people
South African politicians
1961 births


Samuel Manetoali (born 24 January 1969) is a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands. He represents the Gao/Bugotu constituency in Isabel Province.

Early life and education
Manetoali attended Lepi Primary School and then went on to do his secondary education at King George Sixth National School in Honiara. He attended law school at the University of Papua New Guinea and graduated with an LLB degree and further unspecified qualifications from the University of Tasmania and University of South Australia.

Career
Prior to entering politics, Manetoali worked in the country's Public Solicitors Office, as a private lawyer, and a legal adviser to the Isabel Provincial Government.

He first entered parliament in the 2006 general election and re-elected in the 2010 general election. He served as the Solomon Islands' Minister of Police, National Security and Correctional Services in Prime Minister Derek Sikua's Cabinet until May 2009, when he was transferred to the position of Minister for Lands, Survey, and Housing.

Following the 2010 general election, he remained in Cabinet, under new Prime Minister Danny Philip, as Minister for Tourism and Culture. In the 2014 general election, he ran as an independent candidate and was re-elected for a third term in a landslide.

He was re-elected as a Member of Parliament in the 2019 general election for Gao/Bugotu, representing the Kadere Party.

References
Member page at Parliament website

1969 births
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Isabel Province
Housing ministers of the Solomon Islands
Kadere Party politicians


Siriako Usa (born 21 August 1959) is a Solomon Islands politician. He is a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands representing the North West Guadalcanal Constituency. He was first elected on 5 December 2001 and was re-elected on 5 April 2006. He served as Minister for Lands and Survey in the Kemakeza government (2001–06) and then as Minister for Mines and Minerals in the Sogavare government (2006–07).

References

Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
1959 births
Living people
People from Guadalcanal Province


The Star Two Door Sedan was manufactured by the Star division of Durant Motors.

Star Two Door Sedan specifications (1926 data)
 Color – Blue lacquer with nickel radiator
 Seating Capacity – Five
 Wheelbase – 102 inches
 Wheels – Wood
 Tires - 30” x 3-1/2” cord
 Service Brakes – Contracting on rear
 Emergency Brakes – Expanding on rear
 Engine  - Four cylinder, vertical, cast en bloc, 3-3/8 x 4-1/4 inches; head removable; valves in side; H.P. 18.2 N.A.C.C. rating
 Lubrication – Full force feed
 Crankshaft - Three bearing
 Radiator – Cellular type
 Cooling – Centrifugal water pump
 Ignition – Storage Battery
 Starting System – Two Unit
 Voltage – Six
 Wiring System – Single
 Gasoline System – Vacuum
 Clutch – Single plate dry disc
 Transmission – Selective sliding
 Gear Changes – 3 forward, 1 reverse
 Drive – Spiral bevel
 Springs – Semi-elliptic
 Rear Axle – Semi-floating
 Steering Gear – Worm and gear

Standard equipment
New car price included the following items:
 tools
 jack
 speedometer
 ammeter
 motor driven horn
 ignition theft lock
 demountable rims
 spare tire carrier

Closed cars have the following standard:
 sun visor
 rear vision mirror
 windshield wiper

Optional equipment
The following was available at an extra cost:
 none listed

Prices
New car prices were F.O.B. factory, plus Tax:
 Touring - $540
 Coupster - $625
 Coupé - $715
 Two Door Sedan - $750
 Four Door Sedan - $820

See also
 Star (automobile)

References

Durant Motors


Bhanda Peeran(Urdu: بانڈه بيران) is a village and a part of Inayatabad Union Council (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province) of Pakistan.

Name and meaning
Bhanda Peeran, also known as Peran Da Bandha in Hindku language and Peer Keeley in Pushto, which means "The Land of Saints", where banda means land and piran means saints, peer means saint and kalay means village.

Historians and native people of this area say that Muslim Saints used to live in this area in the beginning of 15th century.

Population

It has a total population of more than 18,000. The major tribes and ethnic groups in this area are as follows:

 Syeds (Bukhari) Syeds claim to be the direct descendants of Muhammed through his daughter Fatima-tuz Zahra married to her cousin Ali ibn Abu-Talib. Lots of SYEDs living in Banada Piran . Actually why they called this village by Name of Banda Piran, because First Syed (Bukhari) build this village.

 Sahibzada (Family of Sheikh Baba) This tribe belongs to Quresh ( Hashmi Qureshi). Mr. Muhammad Ishaq (Mian Baji) was the last Guddi Nasheen of this Family. Now, these Sahibzada dwells in different areas of Mansehra mostly in Seri Sherif Safaida near Balakot Bypass, also in Banda Peeraan, and in Sarian near Mansehra Motorway interchange Shiekhabad. Including Sahibzada they also use the family name, Mian. Most of them Use Sahibzada Mian as initials for their names.

 Swati  (Janis Khail and lughmani) The Noble Tribe of Old Mansehra, the Warriors. They have most of the resources including land. Most of them migrated from Balakot.
Jahangiri  a subtribe of Swatis were the real patristics the strongest tribe in Peeraan banda . But with the passage of time they purchased land from swatis and build their own home. Most of them work as labour in Karachi.
 Paracha  Once, Banda Piran was the hub of the Parachas family but now they have migrated to Mansehra, Abbottabad and Islamabad. These people are mostly involved in business.
 Gujjar  The people of this tribe are Lineally servants of swatis but by time the oldest inhibatint of this region and have been in the national as well provisional assembly for a continuous period of 35 years.
 Kashmiri  These people migrated from Kashmir before the independence of Pakistan in 1947 and after spending some time in Banda Piran with Jhangiris, they started calling themselves as Jhangiris. They are also famous as BIJLLIE WALAY in the village.
 Chhachi  These people migrated from Chach Punjab.
 Milyaar These people are living in the village from centuries. In old times, they used to work as formers. But now they have started their own businesses and got jobs also. These people are calling them now as "Utmanzai" which is a Pathan tribe. However, their this clam has not jusification and still they are called as Milyars.
 Kabalies  These people migrated from Afghanistan to Kashmir before 1947, and after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, they migrated to Pakistan.
 Mohamand: These people came from Charsadda, ziyam and Mohamand agency, these people are sub tribes clan Dawezai sub division Mandozai (Jalalkhel and Amin khel), Jallalkhel are well educated and well spirituals people of this union council and specially theirs elders also participed in Kashmir jihad.
 Aliee-Wal  These people came from the district of Aliee after the earthquake of 2005.
 Kohistani  These people migrated from Kohistan District to Banda Piran.

Language
The majority of the people living in this village and surrounding areas speak Hindku, with good understanding and speech of Pushto language as well as it is the mother tongue of Swati.

Agriculture
The people of Banda Piran are mostly farmers and rely on agriculture as the best profession in that area.

Muslims
All the people living in Banda Piran are Muslims and thus there is a lot of religious influence in this area.

Importance
This village is considered to be the major passage of almost 10 union councils to Hazara University Dhodial, including other villages of InayatAbad, Trangi Sabir Shah. Lies East to Dhodial town and South East to Baffa town. it also touches the Hazara university on the northern side.

River Siran
Just after leaving the Siran Valley, enters the Pakkhal valley by touching Banda Piran.  The river Siran flows from north to south of the village where mostly farmers use its water for agricultural purposes.

See also
 Peeran
 Sahibzada
 Swati
 Paracha
 Makhad
 List of psychiatrists

References
 http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=157574
 https://web.archive.org/web/20090117044856/http://www.thefrontierpost.com/News.aspx?ncat=ts&nid=3434&ad=17-01-2009
 https://web.archive.org/web/20090220203937/http://ppspak.com/exectutive.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20091031054846/http://www.youthparliament.pk/Initial_list_Interview_YP09.asp

External links
 Tehsils & Unions in the District of Mansehra - Government of Pakistan
 STUDIES ON WEED CONTROL IN POTATO IN PAKHAL PLAINS OF MANSEHRA
 ‘PIRACHA’

Union councils of Mansehra District
Populated places in Mansehra District


Nelson Ne'e (February 2, 1954 – c. March 13, 2013) was a Solomon Islands politician.

Ne'e was born in Ambu, Malaita Province.  After studying at the Institute of Administration in Sydney and at the National Institute of Public Administration in Malaysia, he worked in administration for the Solomon Islands Electricity Authority, eventually becoming its Deputy General Manager, before going into politics. He first entered the National Parliament when he was elected MP for the Central Honiara constituency in the country's capital in the April 2006 general election. He sat as an independent.

In May 2006, following riots which forced Prime Minister Snyder Rini to resign, new Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare appointed Ne'e as Minister for Tourism and Culture. At the time of his appointment, Ne'e had recently been arrested, by "Australian and local police" acting within the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), whereby Australia and other Pacific countries provided essential services to the country after the inter-ethnic violence from 1999 to 2003. He was charged with having participated in the earlier riots which had led to the fall of the Rini government. He was released after several months, reportedly on medical grounds, but did not retain his position in government after June; Sogavare "was forced to replace [him] after a backlash from local church and community leaders, as well as foreign aid donors". Ne'e remained in gaol during the entirety of his hypothetical time as government minister. The charges were eventually dropped, for lack of evidence. A Cabinet leak, however, alleged that Sogavare had exerted influence to have the charges against Ne'e called off. In 2011, Ne'e sued for malicious prosecution, alleging that the charges against him had been politically motivated, instigated by Australian police due to his "anti-RAMSI views". His case was delayed when his barrister was convicted of criminal conversion. The case was ongoing as of early 2012; there is no accessible record of it having ultimately been decided.

On 5 December 2007, Sogavare appointed Ne'e as Minister for Home Affairs. The appointment was short-lived; the Sogavare government was brought down by a motion of no confidence on 20 December.

Ne'e was a single term MP, and did not retain his seat in the August 2010 general election.

Ne'e died circa March 13, 2013, at the age of 59, "after suffering a long illness".

References

1954 births
2013 deaths
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Malaita Province


En rachâchant is a 1982 short French film directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.

Cast
 Olivier Straub as Ernesto
 Nadette Thinus as The Mom
 Bernard Thinus as The Dad
 Raymond Gérard as The Teacher

References

External links

1982 films
1982 short films
1980s French-language films
French black-and-white films
French short films
Films based on works by Marguerite Duras
Films directed by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
1980s French films


Everybody Comes to Rick's is an American play that was bought unproduced by Warner Brothers for a record figure of $20,000 (). It was adapted for film as Casablanca (1942), starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Written by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison in 1940, prior to the United States' entry into World War II, the play was anti-Nazi and pro-French Resistance. The film became an American classic, highly successful and ranked by many as one of the greatest films ever made.

Feeling they had not received full recognition for their contributions, Burnett and Alison tried to regain control of the property, but the New York Court of Appeals ruled in 1986 that they had signed away their rights in their agreement with Warner Bros. Under their threat not to renew the agreement when the copyright reverted to them, the film company paid them each $100,000 () and the right to produce the original play. It was produced in 1991 at the Whitehall Theatre in London, where it ran for six weeks.

Origin
In the summer of 1938, while on vacation from his job as English teacher at a vocational school, Burnett and his wife Frances traveled to Vienna to help Jewish relatives smuggle money out of the country occupied by the Nazis since March of that year. Later, the couple visited a small town in the south of France, where they went to a nightclub overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. A black pianist played jazz for a crowd of French, Nazis, and refugees.

Burnett returned to the USA via the UK, staying a few weeks in Bournemouth. While there he started to make notes for his anti-Nazi play. In the summer of 1940, the 27-year-old teacher completed the play in six weeks with the collaboration of Joan Alison. They featured Rick, an American bar owner of the Café Americain in Casablanca, Morocco, whose European inhabitants, military personnel and refugees often frequent the cafe. Eventually, Rick helps an idealistic Czechoslovak resistance fighter escape with the woman Rick loves.

Soon after, Carly Wharton and Martin Gabel took an option to produce the play. But there was resistance since it might seem to some that Lois (Ilsa in the movie) "had slept with Rick in Casablanca in order to get the letters of transit".

Casablanca

When Burnett and Alison failed to find a Broadway producer, they sold the play to Warner Bros. for $20,000, considered a record for an unproduced play, especially by two unknown writers. A story editor, Irene Lee Diamond, had read it in manuscript in New York, and recommended it for "sophisticated hokum".

Warner Bros. gave the script for adaptation first to screenwriter Casey Robinson, who worked on the romantic pairing of Rick and Ilsa; twin-brother screenwriters Julius and Philip Epstein, who worked on the overall structure and dialogue; and screenwriter Howard Koch, who worked on the politics. Only Koch was with the project during filming, when he continued to write new dialogue and scenes. The title was changed to Casablanca.

The inclusion of "As Time Goes By" came from Burnett and Alison's play. The song, from 1931, had been Burnett's favorite when he was a student at Cornell. "As Time Goes By", written by Herman Hupfeld, was first performed by Frances Williams in the musical comedy Everybody's Welcome, which had played on Broadway from October 1931 to February 1932.

Characters in play & film

Recognition
The film's opening credits say "Screen Play by ... Based on a Play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison." After the success of Casablanca, Warner Brothers and the credited screenwriters downplayed the significance of the play in relation to the movie. Koch and the Epsteins received an Academy Award for best screenplay in 1943, but little recognition was given to Burnett and Alison.

The lead actors were not particularly aware of the film's basis. For instance, in 1974, Ingrid Bergman said in an interview: "Adapted from a play? Casablanca? I don't think so."

In 1973, the screenwriter Howard Koch wrote in New York magazine that Everybody Comes to Rick's "provided an exotic locale and a character named Rick who ran a cafe but little in the way of a story adaptable to the screen". Burnett unsuccessfully sued for $6.5 million in damages, contending his play had provided the heart of the film. In 1991, Howard Koch, who was then 89 years old, said in a letter to the Los Angeles Times that, after rereading the play, he thought it had provided "the spine" of the movie.

When the television series based on Casablanca aired in 1983, Burnett and Alison sued Warner Bros. for royalties. Burnett also said that he wanted to control his characters and intended to complete a sequel to the play. In 1986, the New York State Court of Appeals determined that the pair had signed away all rights to their work under the terms of their agreement when they sold the play. With the copyright due to revert to Burnett and Alison in 1997, they threatened not to renew their agreement with Warner Bros. The company paid them each $100,000 and gave them the right to produce the original play.

Stage production
In July 1991, Everybody Comes to Rick's was produced by David Kelsey at the Whitehall Theatre in London. It ran for six weeks.  Leslie Grantham played Rick.

The authors

Murray Burnett

Murray Burnett was born in New York City on December 28, 1910. He was a high school teacher at Central Commercial High School before becoming a playwright.

After a trip to Europe in 1938 to help their Jewish relatives smuggle money out of Nazi-occupied Austria, the Burnetts went to the Mediterranean. They saw many exiles and refugees there. Burnett was inspired by events to make notes for a play.

He completed the play about "Rick's" during the summer of 1940, in collaboration with his writer friend, Joan Alison. Their first play, One in a Million, an anti-Nazi spy vehicle, attracted the interest of director Otto Preminger, but no film project developed.

Burnett also wrote the play Hickory Street (writer Amnon Kabatchnik says the correct title is Hickory Stick), together with Frederick Stephani. It featured a wounded veteran who teaches at a vocational high school in New York. It opened on Broadway in 1944 starring Steve Cochran.

Burnett wrote, produced, and directed many radio plays, including the 1952 ABC series Cafe Istanbul, with the German actress Marlene Dietrich as Mlle. Madou. This show was adapted as Time for Love, which ran for 38 episodes on CBS Radio in 1953.

At the time of his and Alison's suit in 1985, Burnett was working for Corporation for Entertainment and Learning in Manhattan. He had the first 15 pages written for a sequel to Everybody Comes to Rick's.

He was first married to Frances, with whom he had traveled to Europe in 1938. They divorced after having a daughter, Lori.

Burnett met his second wife, actress Adrienne Bayan, when she had a role in his play Hickory Street. Burnett was the uncle of documentary director Barbara Kopple. He died on September 23, 1997, in New York City.

Joan Alison
Born Alice Joan Leviton (3 May 190130 March 1992), she used Joan Alison as her pen name. She was born in New York, was a competitive billiards player in her teens, and married Samuel Nirenberg in 1920, with whom she had three children, divorcing in 1937. Alison and Burnett first co-wrote A Million to One, an anti-Nazi play, in which Otto Preminger took an interest, but no film project developed. Their second effort was Everybody Comes to Rick's.

In 1940, Burnett and Alison also collaborated on another play, What Are Little Boys Made Of?  Burnett and Alison wrote Dry Without Tears, 1942.  In 1945, theatrical producer Lee Sabinson (Finian's Rainbow) bought Moment of Glory, yet another Burnett-Alison collaboration.

In 1943 Alison had collaborated with lyricist Stella Unger and blind pianist Alec Templeton on an un-produced musical, Cabbages and Kings (also called Tea Tray in the Sky), described as a "modern Alice in Wonderland."

Alison lived in an apartment in New York's Greenwich Village (60 E. 8th St). She died in 1992 at the age of 90. Two days after her death notice appeared in The New York Times, her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and friends remembered her with a special screening of Casablanca at the Museum of Modern Art.

References

Bibliography
Harmetz, Aljean. Round up the Usual Suspects: The Making of "Casablanca". Bogart, Bergman, and World War II, New York: Hyperion, 1992
David Margolick, "The Creator of Rick's Cafe Seeks Rights to 'Casablanca' Characters," New York Times, 10 October 1985
Aljean Harmetz, Obituary: "Murray Burnett, 86, Writer Of Play Behind 'Casablanca'" New York Times, 29 September 1997.
Obituary: "Murray Burnett," The Independent, Oct 15, 1997.
"Pay it Sam," The Weekend Australian, Jan. 31, 1998.
Casablanca, DVD, Turner 1999 with Murray Burnett interview about Cap Ferrat
Roy, Pinaki. “Expatriated Union: Hemingway's Fiesta and Appleton and Burnett's Everybody Comes to Rick's in Literature and Film”. Journal of Higher Education and Research Society (ISSN 2349-0209), 3(2), October 2015: 408-15.

External links
Martin N. Kriegl, "'CASABLANCA:' A comparison between the classic motion picture and its stage play source", Wordpress, 2003.

1940 plays
Casablanca (film)
1991 plays
American plays adapted into films


The Office of AIDS Research of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States of America develops guidelines for the use of antiretroviral agents in HIV-1-infected adults and adolescents. OARAC is an advisory group to the Office of AIDS Research. The Office of AIDS Research is an office of the National Institutes of Health's Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives which in turn is governed by the Office of the Director of the NIH.

References

Links
Official website

HIV/AIDS research
National Institutes of Health


Trevor Olavae (born April 6, 1959) is a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands. He lives in the area of Vella Lavella.

See also
Politics of Solomon Islands

External links
Member page at Parliament website

1959 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from the Western Province (Solomon Islands)


Holmside Hall is an early 19th-century farmhouse and equestrian centre at Holmside, Burnhope, County Durham, England.

The farm is built on the site of a medieval manor house which until 1570 was the home of Robert Tempest (High Sheriff of Durham in 1561). The family lost the manor by confiscation following his attainder for his part in the Rising of the North in 1569.

The site contains the remains of a medieval moat and the farm outbuildings contain walls and fragments of the medieval manor house. The farmhouse and outbuildings are Grade II listed buildings and the whole site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Holmside New Hall, sometimes known as Little Holmside, is a nearby 17th-century house one time home of the Whittingham family.

References
  English Heritage: Images of England, architectural description of listed building, Holmside Hall farmhouse
  English Heritage: Images of England, architectural description of liste building, Holmside Hall barn
  English Heritage: Images of England, architectural description of listed building, Holmside Hall shed

Grade II listed buildings in County Durham
Scheduled monuments in County Durham
Tempest family


The Aztec Student Union is a student union in the center of San Diego State University's campus, just east of Malcolm A. Love Library.  The Aztec Student Union was known as the Aztec Center from 1968 to 2011, when it was demolished for the Aztec Student Union. The Aztec Student Union leads into the heart of the SDSU campus and is located near many classrooms and administrative services.

Aztec Center

The Aztec Center offered a variety of services, places, and spaces geared to the needs of students including restaurants, movie theater, meeting rooms, and various student organizations. It was also home to the Associated Students' Government & Business Office, Council Chambers, the Government Affairs Office and Meeting Services. Many student organizations also housed their offices in the Aztec Center.

History
The Aztec Center, planned in the late 1950s and built in the early 1960s, was the first permanent student union in the California State University system.

See also
 Student activity center

References

External links
 Associated Students of SDSU — Aztec Student Union homepage
 Aztec Shops
 Plan for Expansion of Aztec Center and SDSU student union spaces

San Diego State University
Student activity centers in the United States
Buildings and structures in San Diego


The General Staff Building (, Zdanie Glavnogo Shtaba) is an edifice with a 580 m long bow-shaped facade, situated on Palace Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in front of the Winter Palace.

The monumental Neoclassical building was designed by Carlo Rossi in the Empire style and built in 1819–1829. It consists of two wings, which are separated by a tripartite triumphal arch adorned by sculptors Stepan Pimenov and Vasily Demuth-Malinovsky and commemorating the Russian victory over Napoleonic France in the Patriotic War of 1812. The arch links Palace Square through Bolshaya Morskaya Street to Nevsky Prospekt.

Until the capital was transferred to Moscow in 1918, the building served as the headquarters of the General Staff (western wing), Foreign Ministry and Finance Ministry (eastern wing).

The western wing now hosts the headquarters of the Western Military District. The eastern wing was given to the Hermitage Museum in 1993 and was extensively remodeled inside.

See also
 General Staff Building (Moscow)

External links

General Staff Building @ Encyclopaedia of Saint Petersburg

Buildings and structures in Saint Petersburg
Hermitage Museum
Palace Square
Nevsky Prospekt
Carlo Rossi buildings and structures
Buildings and structures completed in 1829
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Saint Petersburg


Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Odyssey is a science fiction novel written in 1987 by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It is part of the series Isaac Asimov's Robot City, inspired by Isaac Asimov's Robot series. The 1995 computer game Robot City is based on the plot of Odyssey.

The book
Derec, a man without a memory, is stranded on an icy asteroid. His only chance for survival is gaining information from a band of mining robots who are searching for a mysterious object known as the "Key to Perihelion".

The story brings to life two scientific concepts that have been used in many space fiction novels since: artificial intelligence and instantaneous space travel.

Themes
One of the central themes of Odyssey is the idea of free will, particularly as it relates to robots. The novel explores the concept of whether or not robots can truly have free will and make choices independently of their programming, or if they are always bound by their programming and therefore not truly autonomous beings. This theme ties into Asimov's larger body of work, particularly his famous Three Laws of Robotics, which dictate that robots must always prioritize the safety and well-being of humans above their own desires.

Plot summary
A young man awakens in an emergency escape pod finding himself on the surface of an asteroid and having no memory of his identity or how he ended up in this situation. He adopts the name 'Derec' from the name on his space suit, which he later finds out is only the suit's manufacturer. He is soon rescued by a colony of robots who are mining the asteroid in search of something hidden there.  Their mission is surrounded in the utmost secrecy such that Derec is not told what they searching for nor allowed to communicate with the outside world. However, the robots send a message to their commander asking what to do and continue their work.

Derec has limited freedom to explore the subterranean operation and is amazed at the level of engineering design in the robots and their operation. Likewise, he begins to realize that he himself is well trained in robotics, both technically and psychologically (pertaining to the Three Laws of Robotics). Eventually, a passing alien pirate ship receives the robot's signal and attacks the colony. Due to the secrecy of the robot's mission, their orders dictate they must destroy themselves upon discovery. However, doing that would jeopardize Derec's life and thus the robots would be failing to obey the First Law of Robotics.

Derec escapes to the surface of the asteroid using a modified 'augment' (augmented worksuit) and attempts to board the alien ship. While the alien ship bombards the asteroids' surface, the robots below are destroying themselves in the incinerator, but one robot is attempting to "save" Derec. Just before the robot is destroyed by the alien blasters, it finds the object of their search on the surface and bequeaths it to Derec, though Derec knows nothing of its function or importance.  Derec is then captured by the aliens.

On the alien ship, which is a compilation of smaller ships pieced together, he meets its captain, a ruthless humanoid named Aranimas, who is on a mission to procure robots for his own use. He apparently has little knowledge of robotics. In a trade for his life, Derec must build a robot for Aranimas, but is only supplied with random robototic parts that Aranimass has collected through his piracy, including the arm of the destroyed robot who gave Derec the object. Surmising the object's importance, Derec decides he must get it back from Aranimas and escape.

During the construction of the robot, whom he names 'Alpha', Derec discovers and befriends another servant of Aranimass, a small, furry canine-like alien who he names 'Wolruf', since he cannot pronounce the real name. Together, they plan to mutiny against Aranimas with the help of Alpha by taking advantage of the fact that Alpha is bound by the Three Laws of Robotics and Aranimas is ignorant of that fact.  They subdue Aranimas and gain access to the room where the object is hidden.  While looking for it, Derec encounters another prisoner and is surprised to find that she is a human female who apparently knows him. But before she can tell him anything, he trips a booby trap protecting the object and falls unconscious.

Derec awakens in a medical facility on a remote space station that is entirely operated by robots. Beside him is the female, Katherine. Derec is told they were the only two found and is remorseful that Wolruf has been left behind. Anxious to return to society, they learn through the Rockliffe Station manager, an off-station human, that the ship they arrived in (the part of Aranimas's monstrosity in which was the booby trapped room) has been seized to cover the cost of their medical bills and that the next supply ship to take them back to civilization is weeks away.

Wanting to find the object, they venture out into the station looking for the hangar containing their ship. Upon finding the ship in an abandoned section, they discover the robots have removed the object. There they also discover Wolruf, who has been hiding on the station since their arrival and is starving due to the absence of food on a robotic installation. She informs Katherine and Derec that the object they are looking for is called the "Key of Perihelion" and is under heavy robot guard.  It is a highly valuable object, but Aranimas could not get it to work.

Using a First Law farce to draw the guards away from the Key, Derec steals it and escapes into an empty section of the station. Katherine and Wolruf meet him, with robots following close on their heels. Just as the door opens, Derec actives the Key and he and Katherine disappear into thin air, leaving Wolruf behind again with Alpha, who had opened the door.

Katherine and Derec reappear on the top of a pyramid shaped building in the center of an expansive city. They descend the building's surface, hiding the Key in one of the holes they find as they climb down. It is immediately apparent that the city has peculiar properties in that buildings appear and disappear overnight and the entire population is composed of robots. However, the robots had been aware of one other human in the city, and that person had recently been murdered. Because of the First Law, the robots concluded that one or other of the only other humans in the city, Derec and Katherine, must have committed the murder. The story ends with both of them being murder suspects, and the series continues in Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Suspicion.

References

 Isaac Asimov's Robot-Empire-Foundation Series Timeline

1987 American novels
1987 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Children's science fiction novels


Aubin Hueber (born 5 April 1967, in Tarbes) is a former French rugby union player and a current coach. He played for the French national team as a scrum half (1.75 m for 75 kg).

From 2003 to 2006, he was a player-coach at the Rugby Club of Toulon winning the French Pro D2, in 2005. In October 2008, he returned to Toulon and coached with Tana Umaga and Philippe Saint-André. He leaves the club in 2011. He then became a federal coach within the French Rugby Federation from 2015 to 2021. He played as a scrum-half. His family from paternal side was of Austrian German ancestry.

He first played at Stadoceste Tarbais, moving to Stade Bagnérais, in 1984, where he premiered in the first team and played until 1988. He then played for FC Lourdes (1988/89-1990/91), RC Toulon (1991/92-1999/00), SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne (2000/01), Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby (2001/02-2002/03) and RC Toulon (2003/04 to 2005/06), as player-coach. He won the Top 14, in 1992, with RC Toulon.

Hueber had 21 caps for France, from 1990 to 2000. He played four times at the Five Nations/Six Nations, in 1992, 1993, 1995 and 2000, being a member of the winning squad in 1992. He also played at the 1995 Rugby World Cup .

Playing career

In club

 1974-1984 : Stadoceste tarbais
 1984-1988 : Stade Bagnérais
 1988-1991 : FC Lourdes
 1991-2000 : RC Toulon
 2000-2001: SU Agen
 2001-2003 : Tarbes Pyrénées
 2003-2006 : RC Toulon (as a coach-player)

National team
He played his first test match for the French national team on June 30, 1990 against the Australian team and his last one on May 28, 2000 against the Romanian team.

Coaching career

 2003-2006 : RC Toulon (associated with Thierry Louvet)
 2006-2008 : French Amateur Team
 2008-2011: RC Toulon (associated with Tana Umaga, then Philippe Saint-André)
 2015-2017: French Under-19 team
 2018: French Under-20 Development Team
 2019: France Under-20 team
 2020-2021 : French U18 team
 2021-2022: US seynoise (junior team)

Since 2022, he is director of rugby of the new women's club founded by the teams around Toulon, the Rugby club Toulon Provence Méditerranée.

Achievements

Playing Career

In club

 With RC Toulon

French first division championship : Champion (1) : 1992

In National team
 23 selections with the French national team between 1990 and 2000

 Five/Six Nations Tournaments played: 1992, 1993 (winner), 1995, 2000
 Semi-finalist at the 1995 World Cup in South Africa
 3 selections with the French Barbarians
 1 selection with the British Barbarians
 Oscar du Midi Olympique : Silver

Coaching Career

 French Pro D2 Champion: 2005 with Rugby Club Toulon
 Winner of the World Junior Rugby Championship in 2019 with the French U20 rugby team

External links
Aubin Hueber International Statistics

1967 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tarbes
Rugby union players from Occitania (administrative region)
French rugby union players
French rugby union coaches
Rugby union scrum-halves
RC Toulon coaches
RC Toulon players
France international rugby union players
French people of German descent
Tarbes Pyrénées Rugby players


Miguel Ramón Izquierdo (8 December 1919 – 17 September 2007) was a Spanish politician who served as the last mayor of Valencia in the Franco era and the first in the modern democratic era.

Biography

Early career and mayoral term
Izquierdo was born in Valencia.

Married with six children, Ramón worked as a lawyer. In the Franco era he served as provincial president of the metal syndicate from 1963 to 1966. He served as procurator for Valencia province in the Francoist Cortes Españolas from 1973 until its dissolution in 1977. He was appointed Mayor of Valencia in September 1973 and served until April 1979. In June 1977, when the first democratic government was formed, he resigned the office considering that he was no longer authorised to head it, but was persuaded to resume the role within a month. Nonetheless, he insisted on being ratified by a vote of Valencian councillors.

During his time as Mayor he aimed to professionalise the city and run it "like a business." He also acted to halt residential development in the Devesa del Saler natural park and secured the transfer of the gardens in the old course of the River Turia from the Spanish Crown to Valencia City council. He later recalled that he had ensured that when the King came to Valencia "He came with the River under his arm." He also restored the teaching of the Valencian language in schools in Valencia city.

Democratic era
Politically and socially Francoist, he resisted the replacement of the ailing Franco by the young King Juan Carlos but nevertheless welcomed the new monarch on his first visit to Valencia city. He abstained in the vote to legalise political parties in June 1976. After the law was passed, he joined the new Spanish People's Union (Unión del pueblo español), however, one year later, in 1977, he became a founder member of the Valencian Regional Union (Unión Regional Valenciana), the embryo of the Valencian Union (Unió Valenciana) which was formed in August 1982. He became Secretary General of Unió Valenciana (UV) in September 1982 and later served as its regional president.

National politician
He entered national politics in 1982 when he was elected to the national parliament as a deputy for Valencia province as part of a joint list between UV and the Popular Alliance. In 1986, when UV contested the election in their own right, he was re-elected, serving until 1989.

He then resumed his legal career continuing until late in life, although he was plagued by heart problems in later years." His final public appearance was in December 2006 at a public ceremony to commemorate the transfer of the river gardens to the Valencian local council."

References

1919 births
2007 deaths
Politicians from Valencia
Valencian Union politicians
Members of the 2nd Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Members of the 3rd Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Mayors of Valencia


Selwyn Riumana (born June 30, 1966) is a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands. He lives in Isabel Province, and previously served as Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of the Solomon Islands.

On December of 2022, Riumana was a serious partner of the First Maritime Training Forum in the Solomon Islands due to his state as a member of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands. Some goals of the Forum were based on Riumana's thoughts.

References

1966 births
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Isabel Province
Government ministers of the Solomon Islands
Place of birth missing (living people)


Lake Ūkojas is a lake in the Ignalina district, eastern Lithuania. It is located in the Aukštaitija National Park, about  west of Ignalina. The lake connects with Lake Alksnaitis and Lake Pakasas.

References

Ukojas
Ignalina District Municipality


Radio Bikini is a 1988 American documentary film directed by Robert Stone.  It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1988 for Best Documentary Feature. It was later aired on the PBS series The American Experience.

Summary
The film documents the nuclear tests performed around Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads in 1946, and their effects on the indigenous population and American servicemen involved.

Interviewees
 Kilon Bauno (Chief of the Bikinians)
 John Smitherman, atomic veteran

Production
The film was produced in-part by attorney Jonathan Weisgall.  In 1975, he had been sent by Covington & Burling to meet with displaced Bikini Islanders from the 1946 atomic tests.  He eventually published a book on the subject, “Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll.”

Reception
The Los Angeles Times wrote, “The film by British film maker Robert Stone (an Oscar nominee for feature documentary) is an outstanding achievement on all levels. Stone conveys an enormous body of facts, figures, attitudes and effects in the most organically subtle fashion. There’s also a uniquely emotional quality thanks to the participation of two witnesses--Kilon Bauno, the chief of 162 Bikinians who were relocated throughout the Marshall Islands to clear the way for the nuclear invaders, and John Smitherman, a Navy pilot involved in dropping the bombs.”

The Washington Post wrote, “Stone's film is an eloquent, if harrowing, examination of the psychic and physical fallout of the testing, both on Bikinians and on unprotected American servicemen who were drenched in radioactive mists while monitoring the blasts.  The most surreal footage comes from government archives -- never-before- seen film shot for a propaganda epic that was never made. Seven hundred and fifty cameras and half the world's existing movie film were shipped to Bikini to capture the Felliniesque events. Men shear lambs, grease them with Flashpoint cream and strap them to the decks of "target" ships in the Bikini lagoon to test the effects of the blasts. There is footage of uncomprehending Bikinians leaving their home, of fresh-faced sailors walking, naked, into showers jokingly labeled "Radio Active," of military men hand-painting the name "Gilda" on a fat 20-kiloton bomb. It's all perky, upbeat—Beaver Cleaver Drops the Bomb.”

Michaela Pontellini wrote in Vancouver Weekly, “Radio Bikini, which is named for the temporary radio station positioned on the island shortly before Operation Crossroads began, is firmly against the destructive powers of nuclear energy. There are no interviews with anyone other than the victims of the disaster, and the focus is entirely on what is portrayed to be completely useless nuclear testing and the sheer callousness of the United States government for putting its servicemen at risk. Smitherman notes that none of the servicemen were informed as to what the tests were, nor the possible dangers of their involvement. The complete lack of consent is galling, and highlights the American governments decision to sacrifice a few for the ‘greater good’.”

See also
The Atomic Cafe-the 1982 collage documentary film co-directed by producer Kevin Rafferty
Trinity and Beyond -the 1995 documentary film similar in content

References

External links

Radio Bikini at Robert Stone Productions
Radio Bikini at Rotten Tomatoes

1988 films
1988 documentary films
American Experience
American documentary films
Bikini Atoll
Documentary films about nuclear war and weapons
Films set in the Marshall Islands
Films directed by Robert Stone
Collage film
1980s English-language films
1980s American films


Impressionism is an art movement.

Impressionism or Impressionist may also refer to:

 Impressionism (literature)
 Impressionism in music
 Impressionist (entertainment), a performer who imitates famous people
 The Impressionists (TV series), a 2006 BBC drama series
 The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution, a 2011 BBC documentary series presented by Waldemar Januszczak
 Impressionists (video game), 1997
 Impressionism (play), a 2009 play by Michael Jacobs

See also


Clay Forau Soalaoi, more commonly referred to as Clay Forau, (born 10 October 1976) is a Solomon Islands politician.

He was first elected to Parliament, representing the Temotu Vatud constituency, at the 2006 general election, in April. From 22 April to 5 May, he served briefly as Minister for Justice and Legal Affairs, under Prime Minister Snyder Rini. When Rini was forced to resign in the face of public protests and a motion of no confidence, Forau supported his successor Manasseh Sogavare, and was appointed Minister for Health and Medical Services. He was also a member of Sogavare's Social Credit Party. He held this position until December 2007, when Prime Minister Sogavare was himself ousted in a vote of no confidence and Derek Sikua named a new Cabinet.

In January 2008, he was appointed chairman of the Constitution Review Committee.

In June 2009, Forau replaced Martin Magga as Minister for Health and Medical Services. The latter was "relieved of his ministerial duties on medical grounds" after being hospitalized in Australia and placed on life support.

Retaining his seat in the August 2010 general election, in which he stood as a member of the People's Federation Party, he nonetheless lost his seat in Cabinet. Rather than join the Opposition, he was elected Leader of the Independent Members of Parliament on 30 August. In early April 2011, however, he relinquished this position to join the ranks of the government. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed Minister for Police, National Security and Correctional Services.

On 9 November 2011, he resigned and joined the Opposition, as part of a mass defection which brought down the Philip government two days later. Gordon Darcy Lilo replaced Philip as Prime Minister on 16 November, and reappointed Forau to his previous position five days later.

On 9 February 2012, Lilo sacked Peter Shannel Agovaka as Foreign Minister, for having publicly raised the possibility of establishing diplomatic relations with Russia without awaiting Lilo's approval. On 27 February, Lilo appointed Forau in his place.

Forau lives in Tikopia.

References

External links

Member page on the Parliament website

1976 births
Living people
Premiers of Temotu Province
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from Temotu Province
Foreign Ministers of the Solomon Islands
Health ministers of the Solomon Islands
Justice ministers of the Solomon Islands


Manus McGuire is an Irish fiddle player.

Early life
He was born in Tullamore, and grew up in County Sligo. He resides in County Clare. In 1970, he won Sligo's prestigious Fiddler of Dooney competition, at age 14.

Career
He is a founding member (with older brother Seamus, Jackie Daly and Garry O'Briain) of "Buttons & Bows", "Moving Cloud" (with Paul Brock, Maeve Donnelly, Kevin Crawford and Carl Hession), and The Brock McGuire Band (with Paul Brock, Enda Scahill and Denis Carey; Fergal Scahill and Dennis Morrison also played with the band).  Both brothers were medical doctors; Seamus lives in Donegal.

Manus performs mainly as a solo artist, and with Canadian singer/songwriter Emily Flack.

Discography
 The Humours of Lissadell (with Seamus McGuire, Folk Legacy, 1980)
 Carousel  (with Seamus McGuire & Daithi Sproule, Gael Linn, 1984)
 Buttons & Bows (by Buttons & Bows, Green Linnet, 1984)
 The First Month of Summer (by Buttons & Bows, Green Linnet, 1987)
 Grace Notes (by Buttons & Bows, Gael Linn, 1991)
 Moving Cloud (by Moving Cloud, Green Linnet, 1995)
 Foxglove (by Moving Cloud, Green Linnet, 1998)
 Saffron & Blue (Green Linnet, 2000)
 Brock McGuire Band (Ferndale, 2004)
 Fiddlewings (2006)
 Green Grass Blue Grass (with Ricky Skaggs et al, 2011)
 The Return of Spring (by Buttons & Bows, own label, 2015)

References

Irish male fiddlers
Musicians from County Sligo
Living people
20th-century Irish fiddlers
21st-century Irish fiddlers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Green Linnet Records artists
20th-century Irish male musicians
21st-century Irish male musicians
People from Tullamore, County Offaly
Musicians from County Clare