Tommy Lapid

Yosef (Joseph) "Tommy" Lapid (, born as Tomislav Lampel (); 27 December 1931 – 1 June 2008) was a Serbian-born Israeli radio and television presenter, playwright, journalist, politician and government minister known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit. Lapid headed the secular-liberal Shinui party from 1999 to 2006. He fiercely opposed the ultra-Orthodox political parties and actively sought to exclude any religious observance from the legal structure of the Israeli State.

Biography
Lapid was born in Novi Sad, Serbia (then- Kingdom of Yugoslavia), to a family of Hungarian Jewish descent. His family was seized by the Nazis and deported to the Budapest Ghetto. His father was deported to a concentration camp, where he was murdered. Lapid and his mother were rescued by Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest. They survived the war and moved to Israel in 1948 where he worked at the Hungarian language Israeli paper Uj Kelet with Rudolf Kasztner. After serving as a radio operator in the Israel Defense Forces between 1950 and 1953, Lapid graduated with a law degree from Tel Aviv University in 1957. He was married to Shulamit Lapid, an acclaimed novelist. They had three children. Their son, Yair Lapid, is the chairman of Yesh Atid party, which became the second biggest party in the 2013 Israeli elections, and was a columnist and television host. A daughter, Merav, is a clinical psychologist. Their oldest daughter, Michal, was killed in a car accident in 1984.

Media career
Lapid started out as a journalist for the Israeli Hungarian-language newspaper Új Kelet. Later, he was hired by the mainstream daily Maariv, where he became an influential publicist, and went on to become director-general of the Israel Broadcasting Authority and chairman of the Cable TV Union. He was also the founding editor of Israeli women's magazine At, as well as a successful playwright.

In the 1990s Lapid was a regular guest on the political talk show Popolitika aired on Channel 1 which often turned into a shouting match; later on he moved to the Channel 2 talk show, Politika. Lapid was awarded the Sokolov Award, Israel's top award in journalism, in 1998, for his weekly radio show.

Political career
In the late 1990s, Lapid joined Avraham Poraz's Shinui party, which boosted the party's standing in the Israeli political scene. Lapid became party chairman and Shinui won six seats in the 1999 elections, with Lapid entering the Knesset for the first time. In the 2003 elections the party ran on a secularist platform and won 15 seats, making it the third largest in the Knesset after Likud and Labour. Shinui was invited to join the government of Ariel Sharon and Lapid was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice.

It was suggested that Israel's pro-Serbian position in 1999, was a result of the Serbian population's history of saving Jews during the holocaust, personal memories of which were still present among older Israeli politicians serving in government at the time such as Lapid.

Tension between Shinui and Likud grew when the ultra-Orthodox party Agudat Yisrael was brought into the coalition. Shinui could not implement many of its electoral promises, such as instituting civil marriage, and a dispute erupted over state aid to religious institutions. As a result, Shinui quit the coalition in December 2004. In late March 2005, Lapid voted in favor of the budget in exchange for minor concessions in order to keep the government from falling, which was liable to lead to early elections and impede the implementation of the disengagement plan.

In Shinui's primary elections held shortly before the 2006 elections, Lapid retained the party leadership. However, his deputy Poraz lost second place on the list. In the ensuing crisis, Poraz and several other Shinui MKs left the party and founded Hetz. Lapid left Shinui two weeks after the vote and announced his support for Poraz's new party, but chose not to be involved in the new party's leadership, instead serving as a figurehead. In the elections, he was allocated the symbolic 120th place on the Hetz list, but the party failed to win a seat.

Non-political activities
On July 2006, Lapid was appointed Advisory Board Chairman of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, a role he called "a sacred duty".

He appeared on Council of Wise Men, an Israeli television program on Israel 10 channel. He hosted his own radio program on Reshet Bet. He also was a chairman of the Israel Chess Society and served as an honorary member of the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.

Death
Lapid was hospitalized at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv in serious condition on 30 May 2008. He died on 1 June 2008, aged 76, after a battle with cancer.

Other
In March 2011, street Nova 30 in Veternik, a suburb of Novi Sad, was renamed to ulica Tomija Josefa Lapida (Serbian for “Joseph Tommy Lapid street”).


Stefan Trofan

Stefan Trofan (4 April 1962 – 1 September 2008) is a former British para table tennis player. In his childhood years, he was very interested in football and was a keen footballer, he was paralysed from the waist down aged 17 in a bike accident. He played alongside Neil Robinson and James Rawson in table tennis team events internationally. He coached Great Britain's Paralympic table tennis team for the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

He died of oesophageal cancer on 21 August 2008 in Sheffield surrounded by family, days before the Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China.


Nella Larsen

Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen, born Nellie Walker (April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964), was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance. Working as a nurse and a librarian, she published two novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), and a few short stories. Though her literary output was scant, she earned recognition by her contemporaries.

A revival of interest in her writing has occurred since the late 20th century, when issues of racial and sexual identity have been studied. Her works have been the subjects of numerous academic studies, and she is now widely lauded as "not only the premier novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, but also an important figure in American modernism."

Early life
Nella Larsen was born Nellie Walker in a poor district of south Chicago known as the Levee, on April 13, 1891, the daughter of Peter Walker, believed to be a mulatto Afro-Caribbean immigrant from the Danish West Indies, and Marie Walker, née Hansen, a Danish immigrant. Her mother was a seamstress and domestic worker. Her father was likely a mixed-race descendant on his paternal side of Henry or George Walker, white men from Albany, New York, who were known to have settled in the Danish West Indies about 1840. In that Danish colonial society, racial lines were more fluid than in the former slave states of the United States. Walker may never have identified as "Negro." He soon disappeared from the lives of Nella and her mother; she said he had died when she was very young. At this time, Chicago was filled with immigrants, but the Great Migration of blacks from the South had not begun. Near the end of Walker's childhood, the black population of the city was 1.3% in 1890 and 2% in 1910.

Marie married again, to Peter Larsen, a fellow Danish immigrant. They had a daughter Anna together. Nellie took her stepfather's surname, sometimes using versions spelled Nellye Larson and Nellie Larsen, before settling finally on Nella Larsen. The mixed family moved west to a mostly white neighborhood of German and Scandinavian immigrants, but encountered discrimination because of Nella. When Nella was eight, they moved a few blocks back east.

The American author and critic Darryl Pinckney wrote of her anomalous situation:
as a member of a white immigrant family, she [Larsen] had no entrée into the world of the blues or of the black church. If she could never be white like her mother and sister, neither could she ever be black in quite the same way that Langston Hughes and his characters were black. Hers was a netherworld, unrecognizable historically and too painful to dredge up.

Most American blacks were from the South, and Larsen had no connection with them or their histories.

As a child, Larsen lived for a few years with relatives in Denmark, possibly in Jutland. While she was unusual in that place because of being of mixed race, she had some good memories of that time. After returning to Chicago, she attended a large public school. At the same time that the migration of Southern blacks increased to the city, so had European immigration. Racial segregation and tensions had increased in the immigrant neighborhoods, where both groups competed for jobs and housing.

Her mother believed that education could give Larsen an opportunity and supported her in attending Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee. A student there in 1907-08, for the first time Larsen was living within an African-American community, but she was still separated by her own background and life experiences from most of the students, who were primarily from the South, with most descended from former slaves. Biographer George B. Hutchinson found that Larsen was expelled for some violation of Fisk's strict dress or conduct codes for women. Larsen went to Denmark, where she lived for four years. After returning to the US, she continued to struggle to find a place where she could belong.

Nursing career
In 1914, Larsen enrolled in the nursing school at New York City's Lincoln Hospital and Nursing Home. The institution was founded in the 19th century in Manhattan as a nursing home to serve black people, but the hospital elements had grown in importance. The total operation had been relocated to a newly constructed campus in the South Bronx. At the time, the hospital patients were primarily white; the nursing home patients were primarily black; the doctors were white males; and the nurses and nursing students were black females. As Pinckney writes: "No matter what situation Larsen found herself in, racial irony of one kind or another invariably wrapped itself around her."

Upon graduating in 1915, Larsen went South to work at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, where she soon became head nurse at its hospital and training school. While at Tuskegee, she was introduced to Booker T. Washington's model of education and became disillusioned with it. As it was combined with poor working conditions for nurses at Tuskegee, Larsen decided to leave after a year or so.

She returned to New York in 1916, where she worked for two years as a nurse at Lincoln Hospital. After earning the second-highest score on a civil service exam, Larsen was hired by the city Bureau of Public Health as a nurse. She worked for them in the Bronx through the 1918 flu pandemic, in "mostly white neighborhoods" and with white colleagues. Afterwards she continued with the city as a nurse.

Marriage and family
In 1919, Larsen married Elmer Imes, a prominent physicist; he was the second African American to earn a PhD in physics. After her marriage, she sometimes used the name Nella Larsen Imes in her writing. A year after her marriage, she published her first short stories.

The couple moved to Harlem in the 1920s, where their marriage and life together had contradictions of class. As Pinckney writes:

By virtue of her marriage, she was a member of Harlem's black professional class, many of them people of color with partially European ancestry. She and her husband knew the NAACP leadership: W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter White, James Weldon Johnson. However, because of her low birth and mixed parentage, and because she did not have a college degree, Larsen was alienated from the black middle class, whose members emphasized college and family ties, and black fraternities and sororities.

Her mixed racial ancestry was not itself unusual in the black middle class. But many of these individuals, such as Langston Hughes, had more distant European ancestors. He and others formed an elite of mixed race or people of color, some of whom had ancestors who had been free people of color well before the American Civil War. This had given many families an advantage in establishing themselves and gaining educations in the North. In the 1920s, most African Americans in Harlem were exploring and emphasizing their black heritage.

Imes's scientific studies and achievement placed him in a different class than Larsen. The Imes couple had difficulties by the late 1920s, when he had an affair. They divorced in 1933.

Larsen was given a generous alimony in the divorce, which gave her the financial security she needed until Imes's death in 1941. But when the alimony ran out after that, Larsen needed to return to nursing. She took a break from writing literature at the time.

Many literary scholars have viewed her decision to take time off as "An act of self-burial, or a "retreat" motivated by a lack of courage and dedication.". Critics have speculated and made interpretations as to why Larsen decided to return to nursing. What they overlooked is that during that time period, it was difficult for a woman of color to find a stable job that would also provide financial stability. For Larsen, nursing was a "labor market that welcomed an African American as a domestic servant". Nursing was something that came naturally to Larsen as it was "one respectable option for support during the process of learning about the work". During her work as a nurse, Larsen was noticed by Adah Thoms, an African-American nurse who co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. Thoms saw potential in Larsen's nursing career and helped strengthen Larsen's  skills. Once Larsen graduated in 1915, Adah Thoms made arrangements for Larsen to work at Tuskegee Institute's John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital.

Larsen draws from her medical background in Passing, to create the character of Brian, a doctor and husband of the main character. Larsen describes Brian as being ambivalent about his work in the medical field. Brian's character may also be partially modeled on Larsen's husband Elmer Imes, a physicist.  After Imes divorced Larsen, he remarried, to a white woman.

Librarian and literary career

In 1921 Larsen worked nights and weekends as a volunteer with librarian Ernestine Rose, to help prepare for the first exhibit of "Negro art" at the New York Public Library (NYPL). Encouraged by Rose, she became the first black woman to graduate from the NYPL Library School. It was run by Columbia University and opened the way for integration of library staff.

Larsen passed her certification exam in 1923. She worked her first year as a librarian at the Seward Park Branch on the Lower East Side, which was predominantly Jewish. There she had strong support from her white supervisor Alice Keats O'Connor, as she had from Rose. They, and another branch supervisor where she worked, supported Larsen and helped integrate the staff of the branches. Larsen transferred to the Harlem branch, as she was interested in the cultural excitement in the African-American neighborhood, a destination for migrants from across the country.

In October 1925, Larsen took a sabbatical from her job for health reasons and began to write her first novel. In 1926, having made friends with important figures in the Negro Awakening (which became known as the Harlem Renaissance), Larsen gave up her work as a librarian.

She became a writer active in Harlem's interracial literary and arts community, where she became friends with Carl Van Vechten, a white photographer and writer. In 1928, Larsen published Quicksand, a largely autobiographical novel. It received significant critical acclaim, if not great financial success.

In 1929, she published Passing her second novel, which was also critically successful. It dealt with issues of two mixed-race African-American women who were childhood friends and had taken different paths of racial identification and marriage. One identified as black and married a black doctor; the other passed as white and married a white man, without revealing her African ancestry. The book explored their experiences of coming together again as adults.

In 1930, Larsen published "Sanctuary", a short story for which she was accused of plagiarism. "Sanctuary" was said to resemble the British writer Sheila Kaye-Smith's short story, "Mrs. Adis", first published in the United Kingdom in 1919. Kaye-Smith wrote on rural themes, and was very popular in the US. Some critics thought the basic plot of "Sanctuary," and some of the descriptions and dialogue, were virtually identical to Kaye-Smith's work.

The scholar H. Pearce has disputed this assessment, writing that, compared to Kaye-Smith's tale, "Sanctuary" is ' ... longer, better written and more explicitly political, specifically around issues of race - rather than class as in "Mrs Adis"." Pearce thinks that Larsen reworked and updated the tale into a modern American black context. Pearce also notes that in Kaye-Smith's 1956 book, All the Books of My Life, the author said she had based "Mrs Adis" on a 17th-century story by St Francis de Sales, Catholic bishop of Geneva. It is unknown whether she knew of the Larsen controversy in the United States.

No plagiarism charges were proved. Larsen received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the aftermath of the controversy, worth roughly $2,500 at the time, and was the first African-American woman to do so. She used it to travel to Europe for several years, spending time in Mallorca and Paris, where she worked on a novel about a love triangle in which all the protagonists were white. She never published the book or any other works.

Later life
Larsen returned to New York in 1933, when her divorce had been completed. She lived on alimony until her ex-husband's death in 1941. Struggling with depression, Larsen stopped writing. After her ex-husband's death, Larsen returned to nursing and became an administrator. She disappeared from literary circles. She lived on the Lower East Side and did not venture to Harlem.

Many of her old acquaintances speculated that she, like some of the characters in her fiction, had crossed the color line to "pass" into the white community. Biographer George Hutchinson has demonstrated in his 2006 work that she remained in New York, working as a nurse.

Larsen died in her Brooklyn apartment in 1964, at the age of 72.

Legacy
In 2018 the New York Times published a belated obituary for her.

Nella Larsen was an acclaimed novelist, who wrote stories in the midst on the Harlem Renaissance. Larsen is most known for her two novels, “Passing” and “Quicksand”, these two pieces of work got a lot of recognition with positive reviews. Many believed that Larsen was intended to be the new up and coming star African American novelist, until she soon after left Harlem, her fame, and writing behind.

Larsen is often compared to other authors who also wrote about cultural and racial conflict such as Claude Mckay and Jean Toomer.

Nella Larsen’s works are viewed as strong pieces that well represent mixed raced individuals, and the struggles with identity that some inevitably face.

There have been some arguments that Larsen’s work did not well represent the “New Negro” movement because of the main characters in her novels being confused and struggling with their race. However, others argue that her work was a raw and important representation of how life was life for many people, especially females, during the Harlem Renaissance.

Larsen’s novel Passing is being made into a film.

Works

1928: Quicksand

Helga Crane is a fictional character loosely based on Larsen's experiences in her early life.  Crane is the lovely and refined mixed-race daughter of a Danish white mother and a West Indian black father.  Her father died soon after she was born. Unable to feel comfortable with her maternal European-American relatives, Crane lives in various places in the United States and visits Denmark, searching for people among whom she feels at home.

Nella Larsen's early life is similar to Helga in that she; was distant from the African-American community as well as, her African-American family members. Larsen and Helga, did not have a father figure.  Both of their mother's decided to marry a white man, in hopes of having a higher social status. Larsen wanted to learn more about her background so she continued to go to school during the Harlem Renaissance. Even though Larsen's early life parallels Helga's, the end the life choices they decide to make end up being very different. Nella Larsen pursued a career in nursing while Helga married a preacher and stayed in a very unhappy marriage.

In her travels she encounters many of the communities which Larsen knew. For example, Crane teaches at Naxos, a Southern Negro boarding school (based on Tuskegee University), where she becomes dissatisfied with its philosophy. She criticizes a sermon by a white preacher, who advocates the segregation of blacks into separate schools and says their striving for social equality would lead blacks to become avaricious. Crane quits teaching and moves to Chicago. Her white maternal uncle, now married to a bigoted woman, shuns her. Crane moves to Harlem, New York, where she finds a refined but often hypocritical black middle class obsessed with the "race problem."

Taking her uncle's legacy, Crane visits her maternal aunt in Copenhagen. There she is treated as an attractive racial exotic. Missing black people, she returns to New York City.  Close to a mental breakdown, Crane happens onto a store-front revival and has a charismatic religious experience. After marrying the preacher who converted her, she moves with him to the rural Deep South. There she is disillusioned by the people's adherence to religion. In each of her moves, Crane fails to find fulfillment. She is looking for more than how to integrate her mixed ancestry. She expresses complex feelings about what she and her friends consider genetic differences between races.

The novel develops Crane's search for a marriage partner. As it opens, she has become engaged to marry a prominent Southern Negro man, whom she does not really love, but with whom she can gain social benefits. In Denmark she turns down the proposal of a famous white Danish artist for similar reasons, for lack of feeling. By the final chapters, Crane has married a black Southern preacher. The novel's close is deeply pessimistic. Crane had hoped to find sexual fulfilment in marriage and some success in helping the poor southern blacks she lives among, but instead she has frequent pregnancies and suffering. Disillusioned with religion, her husband, and her life, Crane fantasizes about leaving her husband, but never does.

The critics were impressed with the novel. They appreciated her more indirect take on important topics such as race, class, sexuality, and other issues important to the African-American community rather than the explicit or obvious take of other Harlem Renaissance writers.

1929: Passing
 Larsen's novel Passing  begins with Irene receiving a mysterious letter from her childhood friend Clare, following their encounter at the Drayton Hotel, after twelve years with no communication. Irene and Clare lost contact with each other after the death of Clare's father Bob Kendry, when Clare was sent to live with her white aunts. Both Irene and Clare are of mixed African-European ancestry, with features that enable them to pass racially as "white" if they choose. Clare chose to pass into white society and married John Bellew, a white man described as a racist. Unlike Clare, Irene passes as white only on occasion, for her convenience in negotiating some segregated spaces. Irene identifies as a black woman, and married an African-American doctor named Brian; together they have two sons. After Irene and Clare reconnect, they become fascinated with the differences in their lives. One day Irene meets with Clare and Gertrude, another of their childhood African-American friends; during that meeting Mr. Bellew meets Irene and Gertrude. Bellew greets his wife with a racial comment as if he did not know she was half black.

Irene becomes furious that Clare did not tell her husband about her full ancestry. Irene believes Clare has put herself in a dangerous situation by lying to a person who hates blacks. After meeting Clare's husband, Irene does not want anything more to do with Clare but still keeps in touch with her. Clare begins to join Irene and Brian for their events in Harlem, New York while her husband is traveling out of town. Because Irene has some jealousy of Clare, she begins to suspect her friend is having an affair with her husband Brian. The novel ends with John Bellew learning that Clare is mixed race. At a party in Harlem, she falls out of a window from a high floor of a multi-story building, to her death, under ambiguous circumstances. Larsen ends the novel without revealing if Clare committed suicide, if Irene pushed her, or if it was an accident.

Some critics described this novel as an example of the genre of the tragic mulatto, a common figure in early African-American literature after the American Civil War. In such works, it is usually a woman of mixed race who is portrayed as tragic, as she has difficulty marrying and finding a place to fit into society. Others suggest that this novel complicates that plot by playing with the duality of the figures of Irene and Clare, who are of similar mixed-race background but have taken different paths in life. The novel also suggests attraction between them and erotic undertones in the two women's relationship. Irene's husband is also portrayed as potentially bisexual, as if the characters are passing in their sexual as well as social identities. Some read the novel as one of repression. Others argue that through its attention to the way "passing" unhinges ideas of race, class, and gender, the novel opens spaces for the creation of new, self-generated identities.

Since the late 20th century, Passing has received renewed attention from scholars because of its close examination of racial and sexual ambiguities and liminal spaces. It has achieved canonical status in many American universities.

Bibliography

Books
 Quicksand (1928)
 Passing (1929)

Short stories
 "Freedom" (1926)
 "The Wrong Man" (1926)
"Playtime: Three Scandinavian Games," The Brownies' Book, 1 (June 1920): 191–192.
"Playtime: Danish Fun," The Brownies' Book, 1 (July 1920): 219.
"Correspondence," Opportunity, 4 (September 1926): 295.
"Review of Black Spade," Opportunity, 7 (January 1929): 24.
"Sanctuary," Forum, 83 (January 1930): 15–18.
"The Author's Explanation", Forum, Supplement 4, 83 (April 1930): 41–42.

Notes


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Charles Hepburn Johnston

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Biography
He was born in London, the son of Ernest Johnston and Emma Hepburn, on 11 March 1912.  He was educated at Winchester College, and Balliol College, Oxford, joining the Diplomatic Service in 1936.  He was appointed Third Secretary in Tokyo 1939–1941; First Secretary in Cairo 1945–1948; and Madrid 1948–1955; Head of the China and Korea Department 1952–1954; and Counsellor in Bonn 1954–1955.

His first senior appointment was as Ambassador to Jordan 1956–1959.  He then became Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Aden and High Commissioner for the Protectorate of South Arabia 1959–1963.

His final posting was as High Commissioner to Australia 1965–1971.  On retirement, he became a company director and published several volumes of prose and poetry. He also translated Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin from the Russian, preserving its unusual Onegin stanza form. The translation was published in 1977.

Honours
Within the Order of St Michael and St George he was successively appointed Commander (CMG; 1 June 1953), Knight Commander (KCMG; 1 January 1959) and Knight Grand Cross (GCMG; 1 January 1971).  He was named a Knight of the Venerable Order of St John (KStJ) on 16 November 1960.

Family

On 22 April 1944 he married Princess Natasha Bagration, a member of the Georgian royal Bagrationi dynasty, and great-great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.  Her mother was Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia.

Sir Charles Johnston died in London on 23 April 1986.


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FIRA-AER European Sevens

2008-09 Squad
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2010 Squad
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Coaches
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Notable alumni
Ron Barber, U.S. Representative for Arizona (since 2012)
Jason Jacome, Former MLB player (New York Mets, Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians)
Jimmy Johnson, former minor league infielder and manager
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Janet Varney, actress
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Medallists

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Gita Dey (5 August 1931 – 17 January 2011) was an Indian actress in Bengali cinema, theatre and Bengali folk theater.  She became a stage artist at the age of 6 years. She came to the film industry in 1943.  Her first film release was Ahuti (1941) as a child actress. She acted in over two hundred Bengali language films and over two thousand stage shows. She acted in the movie Teen Kanya under the direction of Satyajit Roy and Rittik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara, Subarnarekha,  Komal Gandhar, Kato Ajanare. She also acted in Hindi movies such as Parineeta (2005) with Vidya Balan and Sanjay Dutt and other movies. She was associated with All India Radio for a long time doing Shruti Natok. She received the Presidential Award for Lifetime Achievement from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and many other awards during her lifetime.

Early life
She started as an actress in the Bengali film industry based in Kolkata's Tollygunge since 1938. Her first role was as a child artiste when she was six years old in Ahutee directed by Dhiren Ganguly.

Later career
She has been associated with All India Radio since 1954, and enacted character roles in radio plays. However, her last play was Badsahi Chaal (1996), which was directed by Ganesh Mukherjee, and was staged at the Rangana theatre in north Kolkata.

She acted diverse roles in a wide variety of films, and is known for her versatile outlook in her many roles. Her acting even caught the attention of the legendary Laurence Olivier.

Proficient in both negative and comic roles, Dey was brilliant in the role of torn and scheming mother in Ritwik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara.

Throughout her long career, she worked with directors like Sisir Bhaduri, Ritwik Ghatak, Debaki Bose and Satyajit Ray. She also acted in a Bollywood musical based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's  Parineeta, starring Saif Ali Khan and Vidya Balan.

Though ailing, she went on acting and won applause in recent films like Tolly Lights and Chirodini Tumi Je Amar.

Dey died on 17 January 2011 in Kolkata, aged 79.

Selected filmography
Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960)
Teen Kanya (1961)
Dampati
Indrani (film) (1958)
Nauka Dubi
Malyadan(1971)
Abhaya o Srikanta
Komol Gandher (1961)
Abhaya o Srikanta
Dainee (1961)
Kathin Maya (1961)
Kanchanmulya (1961)
Sathi Hara (1961)
Kancher Swarga (1962)
Shubba Drishti (1962)
Bandhan (1962)
Saat Paake Bandha (1963)
Dui Bari (1963)
Chhaya Surya (1963)
Nishipadma
Sesh Porjonto (1969)
Bagh Bondi Khela (1975)
Datta (film) (1976)
Surya Sakhi (1981)
Dui Bhai
Ahoban
Barnochora
Pita Putro
Mouchak
Hirer Shikal (1988)
Mahaprithibi (1991)
Tolly Lights
Chirodini Tumi Je Amar
 Kathavasheshan (Malayalam)
 Parineeta

Awards
For her lifetime contributions to Bengali cinema, in 1998 she received a star medal from the University of Calcutta from the then Governor of West Bengal Saiyid Nurul Hasan.
She also got the presidential award for lifetime contribution to Bengali cinema and theater.


Humane Farm Animal Care

Humane Farm Animal Care was established to promote and administer its certification and labeling program, Certified Humane Raised & Handled, for meat, dairy, eggs and poultry raised under its animal care standards in the USA. It is a non-profit organization governed by a Board of Directors and retains a Scientific Committee which includes scientists and veterinarians. The organization is endorsed by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

History
Both the organization and the Certified Humane Raised & Handled program were founded in 2003, by Adele Douglass. In the late 1990s, Douglass had traveled to England to study "Freedom Food", a single brand of farm products which claimed to derive from "humanely raised" animals.

Mission
Humane Farm Animal Care's mission is "improving the lives of farm animals in food production from birth through slaughter."

"Certified Humane Raised and Handled" program
The certification program requires the inspection of aspects of production, including raising of live animals, slaughter and the processing/packaging of animal products, to ensure the authenticity of the Certified Humane Raised & Handled label. It publishes an annual Policy Manual which describes its certification program requirements and specifications. The program has obtained International Organization for Standardization,  ISO Guide 65  certification and is the only humane organization in the US to have received this designation.


Nana Gecaga

Nana Gecaga (born 1978), is a Kenyan businesswoman and corporate executive, who serves as the CEO of the Kenyatta International Convention Centre, a building owned by the government of Kenya, which hosts conferences, concerts and exhibitions.

Background and education
She was born in Kenya in March 1978 to Jeni Wambui, a daughter to Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya (1964–1978), and Udi Gecaga, son of Jemimah Gecaga. Nana is a niece to Uhuru Kenyatta, the current president of Kenya (2013–present). She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing obtained from the American InterContinental University in London, United Kingdom. The London campus of American InterContinental University was founded in 1978 and re-branded to Regent's University London in 2013.

Career
Gecaga works primarily in international marketing and tourism. She is credited with being partly responsible for Kenya's successful bid to host the 2009 MTV Africa Music Awards.

She has previously worked as the Head of Marketing at KICC. Following that, she was employed as Marketing and Special Programmes Advisor to the Cabinet Secretary, Kenya Ministry of Tourism.

Effective 1 April 2016, Najib Balala, the Tourism Cabinet Secretary appointed Nana Gecaga as the acting Managing Director of the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), pending the selection of a substantive CEO.

Other considerations
Nana Gecaga is a single mother of three children. In July 2018, she was elected deputy chairperson of the African chapter of the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA). She is a recovering alcoholic, who has been sober since 1999.


Bing Concert Hall

Bing Concert Hall is a performing arts facility at Stanford University that opened in January  2013. The heart of the building is the oval-shaped concert hall, which has 842 seats arranged in a vineyard style surrounding the stage in terraces. All the seats are within 75 feet of the conductor, and the seats in the center section begin at the stage level.  On the north side of the central concert hall is the smaller Bing Studio, which can be configured to accommodate a variety of performance types, e.g., cabaret, club, and theater.

The hall is named after Peter and Helen Bing, notable donors to Stanford who donated the lead gift of $50 million towards its construction Eventual construction cost was $111.9 million.

Bing Concert Hall was designed by Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects, with the acoustics done by Yasuhisa Toyota of Nagata Acoustics, who also worked on Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California and New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida.


Sullia taluk

Sullia taluk is a taluk of the Dakshina Kannada district of the Indian state of Karnataka. The headquarters is the town of Sullia. In 2012, the government of Karnataka has planned to setup a rubber factory in Sullia taluk.


Ahmed Gamal (footballer)

Ahmed Gamal (; born January 3, 1994) is an Egyptian professional footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for the Egyptian club Smouha SC.


Toru Kumon

was a Japanese mathematics educator, born in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the College of Science at Osaka University with a degree in mathematics and taught high school mathematics in his home town of Osaka. In 1954, his son, Takeshi,  performed poorly in a Year 2 mathematics test. Prompted by his wife, Teiko, Toru closely examined Takeshi's textbooks and believed they lacked the proper opportunity for a child to practice and master a topic. As a result, he began to handwrite worksheets each day for his son. By the time Takeshi was in Year 6, he was able to solve differential and integral calculus usually seen in the final years of high school. This was the beginning of the Kumon Method of Learning.

As a result of Takeshi's progress, other parents became interested in Kumon's ideas, and in 1956, the first Kumon Center was opened in Osaka, Japan. In 1958, Toru Kumon founded the Kumon Institute of Education, which set the standards for the Kumon Centers that began to open around the world.

The Kumon Programs are designed to strengthen a student's fundamental maths and language skills by studying worksheets tailored to a student's ability. The method also aims for students to learn independently and to study advanced material beyond their school grade level.

Students progress once they demonstrate mastery of a topic. Kumon defined mastery as being able to achieve an excellent score on the material in a given time. Kumon strongly emphasised the concepts of time and accuracy.

Even in his later years, Toru Kumon gave lectures on his method of learning including the importance of having students learn material that is suited to their ability and not their age and the benefits of allowing students to learn material well ahead of their grade level.

Toru Kumon died in Osaka on July 25, 1995 at the age of 81 from pneumonia. There is a Toru Kumon museum in Osaka, Japan and a Kumon Foundation Day celebrated on October 20 each year. Asteroid 3569 Kumon is named after him.


Tetsundo Iwakuni

is a prominent Japanese politician who, until 2009, represented  Democratic Party of Japan, as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

He was born in Osaka and graduated from the University of Tokyo. He worked at Nikko Securities from 1959 to 1977, heading its offices in London, Paris and Beirut, and then at Morgan Stanley from 1977 to 1984. In 1984 he became the CEO of Merrill Lynch Japan, and in 1987 was promoted to a senior executive position at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in the US.

In 1989, Iwakuni left Merrill Lynch to become mayor of Izumo, Shimane. After running unsuccessfully for the governorship of Tokyo in 1995, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996. He served as the Director-General of the International Department of the Democratic Party of Japan until 2009, when he decided to step down from politics. He has also served as vice president of the DPJ.  Iwakuni now serves as Senior Adviser to GR Japan, a government relations consultancy, and teaches at several universities in Japan, Korea, and the U.S. In 2010 he was appointed as a policy advisor to the Liberal Democratic Party.


Royal Project Foundation

The Royal Project Foundation is a Thai non-profit organisation based in north Thailand. It was founded by King Bhumibol Adulyadej as an umbrella organization for his charitable initiatives and research. The focus of the foundation is to improve the quality of life of hill tribes. Ancillary goals are to reduce opium-growing and to revive forests and water resources. The Royal Project Foundation is considered one of the first and most successful projects for opium production elimination. It was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding in 1988.

History

The project began in 1969, when King Bhumibol Adulyadej visited an opium-growing hill tribe village in Doi Pui. During his visit, the king learned that a local peach could provide income for the hill tribe people. He found that the Doi Put Development Centre, Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, was testing and developing a suitable type of peach for the environment. It could provide higher incomes to the local people than opium-growing. He instructed the Crown Property Bureau to give 200,000 baht to the project.

After the first few years, the project received support from international agencies. In 1972, the UN realised the importance of alternative agriculture to replace opium-growing. The UN/Thai Program for Drug Abuse Control was begun.  Between 1973 and 1984, USDA-ARS also supported the project by giving money to the project for research and development to find the best and most suitable fruits and vegetables for the highlands.

In 1992, the royal project changed its name to the Royal Project Foundation and became a public organisation for the people's benefit permanently.

Purpose

The goals of the Royal Project Foundation are:

 To help hill tribes achieve a better life
 To prevent the destruction of natural resources
 To stop opium growing
 To care for make best use of the soil in each area
 To increase the amount of alternative agriculture for the benefit of Thailand's economy

Development centres
Today, the Royal Project Foundation has 38 development centres spread across five provinces in northern Thailand: Chiang Mai Province, Chiang Rai Province, Mae Hong Son Province, Lamphun Provinceand Phayao Province. The development centres are not only for researching and developing projects for the foundation, but some have become tourist destinations.

In Chiang Mai, there are 27 development centres which include three Royal Agriculture Stations: Doi Ang Khang, Doi Inthanon, and Pangda; one research station, Mae-Lod; and 23 development centres: Ka Noi, Khun Phae, Khun Wang, Teen Tok, Tung Rao, Tung Roeng, Tung Luang, Nong Khieo, Nong Hoi, Pa Mieng, Pang Ung, Mon Ngo, Mok Cham, Mae Tho, Mae The Nuier, Mae Phae, Mae Sa Pok, Mae Sa Mai, Mae Hae, Wat Chan, Haui Luk, Haui Siao, and Huai Som Poi.

In Chiang Rai, There are three development centres: Pha Tung, Mae Poon Luang, and Sa Ngo.

In Mae Hong Son, there are six centres: Mae La Noi, Mae Sariang, Huai Nam Khun, Huai Nam Rin, Huai Pong, and Huai Lang.

In Lamphun, there is one development centre, Pha Bath Huay Tom.

In Phayao, there is one development centre, Pang Cha.

Projects
Projects are changing, developing and adapting to the issues that need to be solved and improved in various communities and regions of Thailand. All the projects are made to achieve the main purposes that the Royal Project Foundation has and to improve the quality of life of communities.

Currently, 4,741 projects are part of the royal initiative.

The Marketing Project is research on the cost and profitability of the Royal Project's fruits and vegetables. This project also studies the customer behaviour in choosing and buying the products. This is to come up with the best marketing plan for selling the project's produce.

The environmental conservation project researches the highland environment, forests, water, and soil, to optimize sustainable yields.

The Royal Project Culinary
Although the Royal Project Foundations were founded to solve problems of deforestation, opium and poverty, many have since become tourist attractions in Thailand.  There are a diverse range of things for tourists to do, including: learning how to make a unique local dish, releasing fish into the seas, feeding cattle or teaching the village children before spending a night in the house of a local family.

In end 2016, the Tourism Authority of Thailand held an "Amazing Dream Journey" contest, where winners had the chance to have a free trip to Thailand and sample dishes by a Thai celebrity chef (Chumpol Jangprai), using Royal Project food products.

At the "KHAO" restaurant at Chiang Mai's Four Seasons hotel resort, chefs sources certain ingredients exclusively from farmers who work with the Royal Project, with a focus on preserving local knowledge on agriculture and helping communities become self-sufficient.

Royal Project winter fruit also featured at the ASEAN Tourism Forum held in Chiang Mai in January 2018.


François Pitti-Ferrandi (1838-1894)

François-Marie Pitti-Ferrandi (22 February 1838 – 9 March 1894) was a French doctor and politician who was briefly Senator for Corsica.

Early years

François Pitti-Ferrandi was born on 22 February 1838 in Pietra-di-Verde, Corsica.
He attended the lycée of Bastia for his secondary education.
He studied medicine at the Faculty of Paris, then returned to Bastia to practice his profession at the lycée.

Politics

Pitti-Ferrandi's family had been involved in politics, and he became a municipal councillor in Bastia.
He then represented the canton of Corte, where he had been born, in the general council of Corsica, where he replaced one of his brothers.
In 1885 another of his brothers took his seat in the general council, while he became general councilor for his wife's canton of Muro.
In 1889 he ran unsuccessfully for election to the senate to replace Patrice de Corsi, who had died.
In 1892 he again ran unsuccessfully to replace  François Morelli, who had died.

Pitti-Ferrandi  was elected senator for Corsica on 7 January 1894.
He won 415 out of 747 votes, and sat with the republican left.
He died unexpectedly on 9 March 1894 at a party at the home of his friend Sébastien Gavini(fr), a deputy for Corsica.

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1993 NBA Finals

The 1993 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1992–93 NBA season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. It featured the Eastern Conference playoff champion Chicago Bulls, led by Michael Jordan, and the Western Conference playoff champion Phoenix Suns, winners of 62 games and led by regular season MVP Charles Barkley. The Bulls became the first team since the legendary Boston Celtics of the 1960s to win three consecutive championship titles, clinching the "three-peat" with John Paxson's game-winning 3-pointer that gave them a 99–98 victory in Game 6. Remarkably, the away team won every game except for Chicago's win at home in Game 4.

Background

Chicago Bulls

With two consecutive NBA championships, the Bulls aimed at an elusive 'three-peat'. No team had won a third consecutive NBA title since the Boston Celtics achieved a run of eight titles in a row from 1959 to 1966.

In the offseason, Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen played for the Dream Team at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, winning the gold medal. They entered the new season with little rest, but it did not stop both Jordan and Pippen from leading the Bulls to a 57–25 record, good for second in the Eastern Conference.

Chicago began its push for a 'three-peat' with back-to-back sweeps of the Atlanta Hawks and Cleveland Cavaliers. But against the top-seeded New York Knicks, the Bulls fell behind 2–0, before winning the next two games in Chicago, tying the series. In a crucial Game 5 at Madison Square Garden, the Bulls stole a rare road victory, aided by an array of blocks on Charles Smith in the final seconds, before wrapping up the series in Game 6 at Chicago Stadium.

Phoenix Suns

The Suns were a team on the rise, led by their All-Star point guard Kevin Johnson. Johnson arrived via trade in 1988, and propelled the Suns to two consecutive trips to the conference finals in his first two full seasons.

In the 1992 offseason, the Suns made a blockbuster trade, acquiring Charles Barkley from the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for Jeff Hornacek, Tim Perry and Andrew Lang. They also hired Paul Westphal as head coach, unveiled new logos and uniforms, and moved to the brand new America West Arena from the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

The Suns made the most of these moves, winning a franchise record 62 games. Barkley's efforts won him the MVP award. In the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, the Suns eliminated the Los Angeles Lakers in five games. In the second round the Suns defeated the San Antonio Spurs in six games, and were again pushed to a decisive game seven by the Seattle SuperSonics before ultimately winning the conference finals. For the Suns, it was their first NBA finals appearance since 1976 and second overall.

Road to the Finals

Regular season series
Both teams split the two meetings, each won by the road team:

Team rosters

Chicago Bulls

Phoenix Suns

Series summary

Game 1

Phoenix displayed an introduction animation in the vein of Chicago's well-known intro animation, set to the same song, before the game, which was remarked upon by the commentators. Before the game a moment of silence was observed in memory of New Jersey Nets guard Dražen Petrović, who had been killed in a car accident two days earlier.

Game 2

Both teams were locked in battle throughout the first half until Chicago took over in the 2nd quarter, shooting with a higher shooting percentage. In the second half, the Suns began to pressure the Bulls, but late in the 4th quarter with time running out, it came down to a battle of determination. Scottie Pippen blocked Danny Ainge's 3-point attempt to seal the win and Phoenix became the first team to lose their home-court advantage twice in the first two games of the NBA Finals.

Game 3

The Phoenix Suns won Game 3 in triple overtime, 129–121. Suns Head Coach Paul Westphal became the only person to appear in two triple-overtime finals games: the first was the classic 1976 Game 5 contest against Boston as a player. His Suns also  became the only team to appear in two triple-overtime finals games, the first of which they lost 126–128. Westphal made a surprising move that paid off, helping to get Kevin Johnson back on track after Johnson had two terrible performances in Games 1 and 2, by having him guard Michael Jordan. KJ played much better all-around basketball for the rest of the Finals.

Suns: Kevin Johnson 25, Dan Majerle 28, Charles Barkley 24, Mark West 11, Richard Dumas 17, Danny Ainge 10, Tom Chambers 12, Oliver Miller 2, Frank Johnson 0, Jerrod Mustaf 0

Bulls: B.J. Armstrong 21, Michael Jordan 44, Scottie Pippen 26, Horace Grant 13, Bill Cartwright 8, Scott Williams 4, Trent Tucker 3, Stacey King 0, John Paxson 2, Darrell Walker 0

Game 4

In Game 4, Michael Jordan was unstoppable, scoring 55 points at Chicago Stadium and making a tough driving layup late in the game while getting fouled. The Bulls won 111–105. Scott Williams, who like MJ played his college basketball at UNC for Dean Smith, joked afterwards about "being proud that the two former Tar Heels combined for 57 points."

Suns: Charles Barkley 32, Dan Majerle 14, Kevin Johnson 19, Richard Dumas 17, Mark West 8, Tom Chambers 7, Danny Ainge 2, Oliver Miller 2, Frank Johnson 4

Bulls: Michael Jordan 55, Scottie Pippen 14, Horace Grant 17, B.J. Armstrong 11, Bill Cartwright 3, John Paxson 6, Scott Williams 2, Stacey King 3, Rodney McCray 0, Darrell Walker 0, Trent Tucker 0

Game 5

Before Game 5, Charles Barkley told the press he had announced to his teammates that they needed to win to "Save the City", a reference to the riots anticipated in Chicago if the Bulls won the championship at home. Both Paul Westphal and Kevin Johnson later expressed amusement about Barkley taking credit for the line because Westphal had made a tongue-in-cheek comment to that effect in a pregame meeting.

The Suns won 108–98 and headed home for Game 6 down 3–2.

Suns: Dan Majerle 11, Charles Barkley 24, Kevin Johnson 25, Mark West 5, Richard Dumas 25, Danny Ainge 8, Oliver Miller 8, Frank Johnson 2, Tom Chambers 0, Jerrod Mustaf 0

Bulls: Michael Jordan 41, Scottie Pippen 22, Horace Grant 1, B.J. Armstrong 7, Bill Cartwright 2, John Paxson 12, Scott Williams 4, Stacey King 4, Will Perdue 0, Trent Tucker 5, Darrell Walker 0

Game 6

The Bulls got off to a good start in Game 6 but struggled in the fourth quarter, squandering a double-digit lead to trail 98–94. Michael Jordan made a layup to cut the lead to 2 points, and Dan Majerle's 30-foot three-pointer fell short on the Suns' next possession. Trailing 98–96 and playing a Game 7 on the road if they lost that day, Chicago ran a play that Phil Jackson called "Blind Pig" that had them increasing the play's "thrust" by bringing the ball from 3/4 back of the basket. Although Westphal's sole instruction on the play was for none of the players to double-team any of the Bulls (even Michael Jordan), Danny Ainge left John Paxson to try and either steal the ball or foul Horace Grant, who had missed all five of his shot attempts in the game and wasn't a good crunch-time free throw shooter. Grant saw Paxson alone 25 feet from the basket and fired a perfect pass, and Paxson then made a three pointer with 3.9 seconds left, giving the Bulls a 99–98 lead. Paxson's three-point field goal was the only score by any Bulls player other than Michael Jordan in the entire fourth quarter. The victory was secured by a last-second block from Grant on Kevin Johnson, thanks to Paxson's game-winning 3-point field goal.

Bulls: Michael Jordan 33, Scottie Pippen 23, B.J. Armstrong 18, Horace Grant 1, Bill Cartwright 2, John Paxson 8, Scott Williams 5, Trent Tucker 9, Stacey King 0

Suns: Dan Majerle 21, Kevin Johnson 19, Charles Barkley 21, Richard Dumas 8, Mark West 4, Tom Chambers 12, Danny Ainge 9, Oliver Miller 4, Frank Johnson 0

Michael Jordan, who averaged a Finals-record 41.0 PPG during the six-game series, became the first player in NBA history to win three straight Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Awards. He joined Magic Johnson as the only other player to win the award three times. The NBA started awarding the Finals MVP in 1969.

Player statistics

Chicago Bulls

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| align="left" |  || 6 || 6 || 41.8 || .508 || .526 || 1.000 || 1.8 || 5.0 || 0.8 || 0.2 || 13.5
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| align="left" |  || 6 || 6 || 21.3 || .400 || .000 || .500 || 3.2 || 1.7 || 0.5 || 0.2 || 4.3
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| align="left" |  || 6 || 6 || 38.8 || .528 || .000 || .579 || 10.3 || 2.3 || 1.5 || 1.5 || 11.2
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| align="left" |  || 6 || 6 || 45.7 || .508 || .400 || .694 || 8.5 || 6.3 || 1.7 || 0.7 || 41.0
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| align="left" |  || 6 || 0 || 8.2 || .273 || .000 || .875 || 1.3 || 0.5 || 0.3 || 0.2 || 2.2
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| align="left" |  || 1 || 0 || 4.0 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0
|-
| align="left" |  || 6 || 0 || 16.0 || .619 || .643 || .000 || 1.5 || 0.8 || 0.5 || 0.2 || 5.8
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| align="left" |  || 1 || 0 || 9.0 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 3.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0
|-
| align="left" |  || 6 || 6 || 44.3 || .439 || .000 || .543 || 9.2 || 7.7 || 2.0 || 1.0 || 21.2
|-
| align="left" |  || 6 || 0 || 6.8 || .700 || .600 || .000 || 0.3 || 0.7 || 0.2 || 0.0 || 2.8
|-
| align="left" |  || 3 || 0 || 1.7 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 0.0 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0
|-
| align="left" |  || 6 || 0 || 26.5 || .406 || .000 || .286 || 6.3 || 1.7 || 0.5 || 1.5 || 4.7

Phoenix Suns

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| align="left" |  || 6 || 0 || 27.0 || .475 || .667 || .778 || 3.0 || 2.5 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 8.8
|-
| align="left" |  || 6 || 6 || 46.2 || .476 || .250 || .750 || 13.0 || 5.5 || 1.2 || 0.5 || 27.3
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| align="left" |  || 6 || 0 || 15.3 || .359 || .000 || .800 || 3.0 || 0.5 || 0.2 || 0.5 || 6.7
|-
| align="left" |  || 6 || 6 || 26.7 || .571 || .000 || .778 || 4.3 || 1.0 || 1.3 || 1.0 || 15.8
|-
| align="left" |  || 6 || 0 || 7.3 || .412 || .000 || 1.000 || 0.3 || 0.8 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 3.0
|-
| align="left" |  || 6 || 6 || 43.3 || .421 || .000 || .920 || 3.0 || 6.5 || 1.3 || 0.3 || 17.2
|-
| align="left" |  || 6 || 6 || 46.8 || .443 || .436 || .800 || 8.2 || 3.7 || 1.3 || 2.2 || 17.2
|-
| align="left" |  || 6 || 0 || 17.8 || .444 || .000 || .750 || 4.2 || 1.3 || 0.7 || 2.0 || 5.0
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| align="left" |  || 2 || 0 || 1.0 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0
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| align="left" |  || 6 || 6 || 21.7 || .619 || .000 || .533 || 4.3 || 0.7 || 0.0 || 1.2 || 5.7

Media coverage
This series was aired on NBC with Marv Albert, Bob Costas (hosts), Mike Fratello, Magic Johnson, Quinn Buckner (analysts), Ahmad Rashād (Bulls sideline) and Hannah Storm (Suns sideline) (reporters) calling the action.

The 1993 NBA championship documentary, Three-Peat, marked the first time since 1982 that NBA Entertainment used film in on-court or off-court action, although most of it used videotape. It was narrated by Hal Douglas, who narrated the NBA Championship documentaries of 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997.

Aftermath
A month after the Bulls' third straight championship, Michael Jordan's father, James R. Jordan, Sr., was murdered. Distraught by the murder of his father, Jordan announced his retirement from basketball a few weeks before the 1993–94 NBA season began, citing a loss of desire to play basketball. Even without Jordan, the Bulls still managed to win 55 games behind the All-Star efforts of Scottie Pippen; however the loss of Jordan was steep to overcome, and following a controversial call that gave the New York Knicks a win in Game 5, the Bulls lost to Knicks in the conference semi-finals of the 1994 NBA Playoffs in Game 7. Jordan returned from retirement in March 1995, following a brief baseball career and made the 1995 NBA Playoffs, losing to the Orlando Magic in six games.

The Phoenix Suns finished with 56 wins in the 1993–94 season, but were eliminated from the playoffs by the Houston Rockets after leading 2–0 in the Western Conference semifinals. The following year, Phoenix took a commanding 3–1 lead against a sixth-Seeded Houston team only to lose again, losing Games 5 and 7 on their home court, the last of which was decided on a 3-pointer by Mario Elie and an ensuing free throw session. The Rockets went on to win both the 1994 and 1995 NBA Finals. , this remains the Suns' last Finals appearance. In a last-ditch attempt to win a championship, Barkley was soon traded to the Rockets in 1996 for Sam Cassell, Robert Horry and Chucky Brown. Despite forming a "Big Three" with Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon, the Rockets failed to make the NBA Finals in Barkley's four seasons. The 1993 Finals was the only appearance of Charles Barkley's Hall of Fame career.

The 1993 NBA Finals marked the only instance in the "Big Four" professional sports in which a Chicago team defeated a Phoenix/Arizona team in a playoff series. In the 2007 National League Division Series, the Arizona Diamondbacks swept the Chicago Cubs 3–0, while in the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs, the Phoenix Coyotes defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 4–2.


Project46

Project46 is a heavy metal band from São Paulo, Brazil. Since forming in 2008 by guitarists and childhood friends, Jean Patton and Vinicius Castellari, the quintet has released one E.P. and three full-length albums and have played several large rock and metal festivals in and around Brazil and South America. Known for their politically and socially controversial lyrics, Project46’s popularity outside of Brazil has been steadily growing. The band debuted on American satellite radio in 2015 by José Manguin of Sirius XM Radio's Liquid Metal, who played “Caos Renomeado” from their 2014 album, "Que Seja Feita A Nossa Vontade".

Project46 played at the 30th anniversary of Rock in Rio, September 24, 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, opening for Halestorm, Lamb of God and Deftones.

History
Project46 started as a Slipknot tribute band named Kroach, but evolved into writing original music and taking on the moniker "Project46" to pay homage to Slipknot members #4 and #6. The band initially experimented with lyrics in English on their first release, 2009's E.P., If You Want Your Survival Sign Wake up Tomorrow, which included four tracks and was released independently.

Their first full-length album, Doa a Quem Doer, was produced by notable Brazilian metal producer, Adair Daufembach, and released independently in 2011. Shortly after its release, the band announced that Henrique Pucci would replace Gui Figueiredo as drummer.

In November 2012, Project46 played their first shows outside of Brazil. Invited to play the 2012 Maquinaria Festival in Chile, they shared the stage with such acts as Cavalera Conspiracy, Stone Sour and Slayer. Footage from this performance was used in the video for “Acorda Pra Vida”.

They opened São Paulo's Monsters of Rock Festival in 2013, when fans voted them in as the local act to open the two-day festival. They warmed up the crowd for Gojira, Korn and Slipknot on day one.

Project46’s rendition of Slipknot's "Heretic Anthem" was chosen as the “Best Slipknot Cover 2013” by the Fans of Slipknot Facebook page, which helped introduce the band to an international audience.

Towards the end of 2013, they began recording their next full-length album, again pairing up with producer Adair Daufembach. Their sophomore effort, "Que Seja Feita a Nossa Vontade", was released by the Wikimetal Music label in April 2014, with an album release party dubbed “46Fest”, held at the Carioca Club in São Paulo.

Their third studio album, Tr3s, was released in 2017. The album has won "Best National Album" in Brazil, as voted by readers of Roadie Magazine. The album was produced by Adair Daufembach and recorded at his Los Angeles based studio.

Band members
Current Members
 Caio MacBeserra - Vocals (2008–present)
 Jean Patton - Guitars (2008–present)
 Vinicius Castellari - Guitars (2008–present)
 Baffo Neto - Bass (2016–present)
 Betto Cardoso - Drums (2016–present)

Former Members
 Gui Figueiredo - Drums (2008-2011)
 Rafael Yamada - Bass, Vocals (2008–2016)
 Henrique Pucci - Drums (2011-2016)

Discography
 If You Want Your Survival Sign Wake up Tomorrow, E.P. (2009)
 Doa a Quem Doer (2011)
 Live at Inferno Club, Live Album (2012)
 Que Seja Feita a Nossa Vontade (2014)
 TR3S (2017)


Motoro

Motoro is a god in Polynesian mythology (specifically Mangaia) who did not desire human sacrifices.


1939–40 Netherlands Football League Championship

The Netherlands Football League Championship 1939–1940 was contested by 52 teams participating in five divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the eastern, northern, southern and two western football divisions of the Netherlands. Feijenoord won this year's championship by beating Blauw-Wit Amsterdam, Heracles, Juliana and GVAV Rapiditas.

This season's championship was not considered official. Owing to the start of World War II, not all teams played an equal number of matches.

New entrants
Eerste Klasse East:
Promoted from 2nd Division: Enschedese Boys
Eerste Klasse North:
Promoted from 2nd Division: WVV Winschoten
Eerste Klasse South:
Promoted from 2nd Division: HVV Helmond & Limburgia
Eerste Klasse West-I:
Moving in from West-II: Ajax, DOS, HVV 't Gooi, HFC Haarlem and VSV
Eerste Klasse West-II:
Moving in from West-I: CVV Mercurius, HBS Craeyenhout, Hermes DVS, Sparta Rotterdam and Xerxes

Divisions

Eerste Klasse East

Eerste Klasse North

Eerste Klasse South

Eerste Klasse West-I

Eerste Klasse West-II

Championship play-off


1J

1J or 1-J may refer to:

AH-1J, a model of Bell AH-1 SuperCobra
ISS 1J, designation for STS-124


Shōgo Tomiyama

Shōgo Tomiyama (富山省吾, born 1952 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese writer and producer.

Biography

Shogo Tomiyama was an aspiring producer, who took the reins of the Godzilla series following Tomoyuki Tanaka's death. His persistence is what kept the Godzilla series alive following its rough start near the turn of the millennium. After Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) failed at the box office, Tomiyama switched gears and handed the series over to director Shusuke Kaneko, who churned out the highly successful Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack in 2001. By 2003, though, the series had once again gone stagnant with the box office disappointment of Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.. Tomiyama had big things in store for the following year, though, as he stepped up to become the president of Toho along with co-writing and producing the most expensive Godzilla film to emerge from Toho to date: Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). Preceding the film's release, Tomiyama commented that Godzilla would go into a decade long retirement following the release of the 2004 film, and, after surveying the disappointing box office receipts for Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), stayed true to his word.

Filmography

Producer

 Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
 Chōshōjo Reiko (1991)
 Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
 Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
 Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
 Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
 Yamato Takeru (1994)
 Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)
 Rebirth of Mothra (1996)
 Rebirth of Mothra II (1997)
 Rebirth of Mothra III (1998)
 Godzilla 2000 (1999)
 Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
 Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
 Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
 Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
 Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

Writer
 Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)


Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade – Women's 400 metres

The women's 400 metres event at the 1997 Summer Universiade was held on 28, 29 and 30 August at the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Italy.

Medalists

Results

Heats

Semifinals

Final


David P. Harmon

David P. Harmon was an American scenarist and producer born September 3, 1918 in Buffalo New York, and died August 28, 2001 in Los Angeles (California).

Biography

Filmography

As scenarist
 1956 : Reprisal!
 1957 : The Shadow on the Window
 1958 : The Big Beat
 1958 : The Last of the Fast Guns
 1962 : The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
 1964 : L'Intrigo 1967 : The Deadly Years (Star Trek: The Original Series) (TV)
 1968 : A Piece of the Action (Star Trek: The Original Series)) (TV)
 1968 : Call to Danger (TV)
 1969 : Honeymoon with a Stranger (TV)
 1972 : Killer by Night (TV)
 1974 : The Eye of the Beholder (Star Trek: The Animated Series) (TV)
 1975 : Murder on Flight 502 (TV)
 1978 : Rescue from Gilligan's Island (TV)
 1981 : The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (TV)
 1992 : When It Was a Game 2 (TV)

 As producer
 1991 : When It Was a Game'' (TV)

External links


Strobilurin

Strobilurins are a group of natural products and their synthetic analogs. A number of strobilurins are used in agriculture as fungicides. They are part of the larger group of QoI inhibitors, which act to inhibit the respiratory chain at the level of Complex III.

The first parent natural products, strobilurins A and B were extracted from the fungus Strobilurus tenacellus.

Commercial strobilurin fungicides were developed through optimization of photostability and activity.

Strobilurins represented a major development in fungus-based fungicides. First released in 1996, there are now ten major strobilurin fungicides on the market, which account for 23-25 % of the global fungicide sales.

Examples of commercialized strobilurin derivatives are azoxystrobin, kresoxim-methyl, picoxystrobin, fluoxastrobin, oryzastrobin, dimoxystrobin, pyraclostrobin and trifloxystrobin.

Strobilurins are mostly contact fungicides with a long half time as they are absorbed into the cuticle and not transported any further. They have a suppressive effect on other fungi, reducing competition for nutrients; they inhibit electron transfer in mitochondria, disrupting metabolism and preventing growth of the target fungi.

Gallery of strobilurin structures


Liberty Bell (It's Time to Ring Again)

The cover has George Washington, Betsy Ross, and her helper.

"Liberty Bell (It's Time to Ring Again)" is a song from 1917 written during World War I. Joe Goodwin wrote the lyrics, and Halsey K. Mohr wrote the music. The song was published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. in New York City.

The lyrics to "Liberty Bell (It's Time to Ring Again)" resembles a call to action. The chorus repeats,
Liberty Bell, It's time to ring again...
Your voice is needed now;
Liberty Bell...
Though you're old and there's a crack in you,
Don't forget Old Glory's backin' you
Through the song Goodwin and Mohr were able to point out that the purpose of World War I was to "defeat tyrants who wanted to stifle American freedom, that precious legacy bequeathed by the Revolutionary War." The cover of the sheet music shows a woman, presumably Betsy Ross, mending a flag. A woman is helping her, while a man stands behind her. The Liberty Bell is above their heads. The song was written for voice and piano.

Recordings and commercial success

It was recorded by the Peerless Quartet and Arthur Fields.

The musical score was reprinted four times.

The version sung by Arthur Fields and released by Columbia Records reached the number five spot on the US song charts.


Muchundi Mosque

Muchundi Mosque (Malayalam: മുച്ചുന്തിപ്പള്ളി Muccunti Palli, formerly Muchiyan/Machinde/Muchandi Palli) is a mosque located at Kuttichira, within in the city of Kozhikode (Calicut) in the Indian state of Kerala. Kuttichira is the medieval Muslim quarter in the city of Calicut. It is situated south of Mishkal Mosque, Kuttichira Tank and the Kuttichira Jum'ah Masjid. The mosque does not conduct the jum'ah prayers – the special noon service on Friday that all adult, male, free Muslims are obliged to attend.

The current mosque structure is built in Kerala architectural style, without minarets, domes or arches. Roof of the mosque contains elaborate calligraphy of the Qur'anic verses, decorated with carved flowers on the side. It is reasonable to assume that the foundations must have supported one of the oldest mosques in Kozhikode.

Muchundi Mosque holds a granite inscription datable to c. 13th century AD. The inscription is the only surviving document recording endowment by a Hindu king (the Zamorin of Calicut) to the Muslims of Kerala. As per the inscription, the mosque was established by certain Shahab al-din Raihan. Historians tentatively assume that "Muchiyan" might be the Old Malayalam name given to Raihan by the people of Kozhikode. Raihan must have been a wealthy Arab merchant settled at Kozhikode. A medieval Muslim aristocratic house called "Muchintakam" is situated close to the mosque. A traditional jaram – a mausoleum/tomb – called "Muchiyante Jaram" is also found near the mosque. The Zamorins of Calicut remained the protectors of the mosque throughout the medieval times. The salary of the qadi of the mosque was paid by from Kozhikode.

The mosque is sometimes associated with Shaikh Zain-ud-Din Makhdum II, the 16th century polymath, and the famous author of Tuhafat al-Mujahidin.

Muchundi Mosque Inscription

William Logan, former Collector and Magistrate of Malabar District, makes a reference to the Muchundi Inscription in his famous manual Malabar (1887). The mosque was called "Machchinde Mosque" by W. Logan. The inscription was eventually deciphered by historians M. G. S. Narayanan, M. R. Raghava Warrier and Kunhu Muhammed.

The highly damaged, worn and fragmentary donative inscription is engraved on a granite stone slab (slab is seen as fixed on the wall at Mosque Muchundi). The inscription is undated, but can be positioned on paleographic grounds to the c. 13th century AD. The content is divided on functional grounds between Old Malayalam and Arabic. The concluding portion is in Arabic, while the functional portion recording the specific details of the endowment is in Old Malayalam. The script of the Old Malayalam portion is Vattezhuthu, a type of medieval script closely related to modern Malayalam and Tamil. The letters are not carved into the stone surface – like the usual Kodungallur Chera style – but are raised on the stone in imitation of the standard practice in Islamic inscriptions.

Text
The text is divided into two distinct halves. First half has 32 very short Vattezhuthu lines in Old Malayalam. It describes the assignment of revenues accruing from certain lands for the expenditure of Muchundi Mosque. The inscription mentions two local place names, "Kunnamangalam" and "Pulikkizhu".

As per M. G. S. Narayanan, the old Malayalam (Vatteluttu) portion can be read as,

"This is an order of Punturakkon, this is to...by the Officer - in - Attendance (Kettu Viliyan). He ordered that daily expenses of one nazhi [of rice should be] granted to the Muchiyan's Mosque...He ordered that from Kunnamangalam...Pulikkizhu...to the Mosque...future also...Twelve para..."

The Arabic portion, the second half, starts with the opening prayer from Qur'an. It says that certain Shahab al-din Raihan purchased the piece of land and constructed thereon the mosque, and made provision for its imam and mua'dhdhin.

As per Z. A. Desai, the Arabic portion can be read as,

"Shahab al-din Raihan was a freed slave (atiq) of the late Mas'ud, purchased ...(?)... out of his own money, land from its owner and constructed thereon this mosque and well and made [provision] for its imam and mua'dhdhin by constructing a big edifice"

Traveller Ibn Batutah (14th century AD) had indicated that certain Shihab-ud-Din Khasaruni was a Port Officer (Shah Bandar) of the Samoothir of Kozhikode.


Los Angeles Highlanders FC

Los Angeles Highlanders FC are an American soccer team. They play their home games at Moyse Stadium on the grounds of Glendale High School in the city of Glendale, California.

History

The Highlanders were founded in 1997 by a group of Armenian American businessmen and soccer fans as a competitive branch of the locally based Ararat Soccer Club, to compete in the nationwide amateur soccer league, the USL Premier Development League. The club rose to the pinnacle of the league quickly, becoming playoff champions in only their second season in 1998, having defeated the previously unbeaten Jackson Chargers 3–2 in the PDL Championship game and ensuring a Southwest Division champion for the third straight season.

Following the 2001 season the team ceased operations.

After a 15-year absence the club announced their return in January 2017 joining the United Premier Soccer League.

Season-by-season


Ralph Talmont

Ralph Talmont (born 1963) is an Australian/Polish author, entrepreneur, multimedia producer and communications consultant, residing in Warsaw, Poland. As a photographer and writer he has authored or co-authored over twenty  books on subjects ranging from wine and yachting to world cities and crafts and his work has been published in magazines including National Geographic Traveler, GEO Saison and New Zealand Geographic.

Monographs
 Auckland: A Portrait (1997)
 Georgia: The Building and Travels of the World's Largest Sloop (2000)
 Legends of the Land: Living Stories of Aotearoa as Told by Ten Tribal Elders (2000)
 Tiara (2004)
 From Breadballs to Brazil (2004)
 Janice of Wyoming (2005)

Contributions
 New Zealand Geographic (1995)
 The Shadowcatchers - New Zealand, The Millennium (2000)
 The Human Race (Nike) (2008)
 The Best of New Zealand Geographic (2009)


Arnulfstraße (KVB)

Arnulfstraße is a station on the Cologne Stadtbahn line 18, located in the Cologne district of Lindenthal. The station lies on Luxemburger Straße, adjacent to nearby Arnulfstraße, after which the station is named.

The station was opened in 1898 and consists of one island platform with two rail tracks.


Some Great Reward

Some Great Reward is the fourth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was released on 24 September 1984 by Mute Records. The album peaked at number five in the United Kingdom and number 51 in the United States, and was supported by the Some Great Reward Tour.

Critical reception

Melody Makers Barry McIlheney hailed Some Great Reward and noted a "truly remarkable development" in Dave Gahan's voice, concluding that while "[i]t used to be okay to slag this bunch off because of their lack of soul, their supposed synthetic appeal, their reluctance to really pack a punch", the album "just trashes such bad old talk into the ground and demands that you now sit up and take notice of what is happening here, right under your nose".

New Musical Express critic David Quantick was critical of the sound of the record, and felt that it "suffers from too many missed grips on good ideas". He continues: "It ought to be an intelligent chart contender, a mix of commercial class and magpie manipulation of the unconventional; it isn't. When that bonk and clatter is used... it's just a nod to left-field, rather than use of the sound." Of the songs and singing he says: "Often the tunes are ordinary; Martin Gore, as ever, favours a bit of a drone. In small doses (singles) this is fine. Over 40 minutes, the interest begins to wane. Dave Gahan's voice has improved greatly – in that he's learned how to use its limited range – but like the melodies, it imparts mucho sameiness to the record." He concludes: "Depeche Mode can be one the few acts worthy of the name pop group. It's just that they should be so much better."

In No. 1, Sunie expressed similar reservations: "The sadly under-rated Depeches turn out consistently excellent singles. But 45s rather than LPs remain their forte [...] They've progressed a million musical miles from their boppy origins, but Martin Gore's lyrics haven't kept up. Over a whole LP, their gaucheness is a major distraction from the record's musical merits."

Carole Linfield, in Sounds, felt the balance of powerful music and personal lyrics was just right: "The combination of the Depeche strength of vocal and now the Depeche delicacy is going to be hard to beat... This package is a carefully assorted, daintily arranged symphony ... one that carries emotion, devotion and yet never gives way to feebleness or predictability. OK... the lyrics look trite, often naïve and frequently cliched when printed out [...] Yet Depeche have the right balance and necessary gauche to pull it off. Perhaps it's simply that power – never mawkish – that sustains it. Whichever way, the combination locks in. The Depeche Mode clicks."

Re-release
In 2006, Some Great Reward was re-released with a bonus DVD. The CD was remastered and was released on a CD/SACD hybrid. The bonus DVD includes the B-sides "In Your Memory" and "(Set Me Free) Remotivate Me" in addition to a remix of "Somebody" and several live versions of some of the songs from the album. The DVD also includes a documentary on the making of the album.

The remastered album was released on vinyl in March 2007.

Track listing

2006 Collectors Edition CD + DVD
Video

Audio

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Some Great Reward.

Depeche Mode
 Martin Gore
 Alan Wilder
 David Gahan
 Andrew Fletcher

Technical
 Daniel Miller – production
 Depeche Mode – production
 Gareth Jones – production
 Ben Ward – engineering assistance
 Stefi Marcus – engineering assistance
 Colin McMahon – engineering assistance

Artwork
 Brian Griffin – photography
 Stuart Graham – photography assistance
 Martyn Atkins – design
 David A. Jones – design
 Marcx – design

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications


Tristachycera

Tristachycera viridis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Tristachycera.


16th government of Turkey

The 16th government of Turkey (10 September 1947 – 10 June 1948) was a government in the history of Turkey. It is also called the first Saka government.

Background
Recep Peker of the Republican People's Party (CHP), who was the previous prime minister, resigned on 9 September 1947 after a harsh discussions in the parliament.  İsmet İnönü, the president, assigned Hasan Saka, a more moderate politician, as the prime minister. Saka's government was, however, similar to that of Peker.

The government
In the list below, the  cabinet members who served only a part of the cabinet's lifespan are shown in the column "Notes".

Aftermath

Saka was criticized as too mild to struggle against the Democrat Party opposition. He resigned on 8 July 1948. However, ten days later, he founded his second government.


Small nucleolar RNA SNORD98

Small Nucleolar RNA SNORD98 (also known as HBII-419) is a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) molecule which functions in the biogenesis (modification) of other small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs). This type of modifying RNA is located in the nucleolus of the eukaryotic cell which is a major site of snRNA biogenesis. It is known as a small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) and also often referred to as a guide RNA.

SNORD98 belongs to the C/D box class of snoRNAs which contain the C (UGAUGA) and D (CUGA) box motifs. Most of the members of the box C/D family function in directing site-specific 2'-O-methylation of substrate RNAs.
SNORD98 is predicted to guide the 2'0-ribose methylation of 18S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) residue G867.


52nd New Zealand Parliament

The 52nd New Zealand Parliament is the current meeting of the legislative branch of New Zealand's Parliament. It was elected at the 2017 general election. The 52nd Parliament consists of 120 members, and is serving from its opening on 7 November 2017 until the next general election. Under section 17 of the Constitution Act 1986, Parliament expires three years "from the day fixed for the return of the writs issued for the last preceding general election of members of the House of Representatives, and no longer." With the date for the return of writs for the general election set at 12 October 2017, the 52nd Parliament must be dissolved on or before 12 October 2020.

The Parliament was elected using a mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) voting system. Members of Parliament (MPs) represent 71 geographical electorates: 16 in the South Island, 48 in the North Island and 7 Māori electorates. The remaining members were elected from party lists using the Sainte-Laguë method to realise proportionality. The number of geographical electorates was increased by one at the 2014 election, to account for the North Island's higher population growth.

2017 general election

The 2017 general election was held on Saturday, 23 September 2017. Voters elected 120 members to the House of Representatives, with 71 electorate members and 49 list members. Official results indicated that the National Party had won a plurality, winning 56 seats; down from 60 in 2014. The Labour Party won 46 seats, up from 32 at the last election. Their partner, the Green Party won 8 seats, down from 14. New Zealand First won 9 seats, down from 11. ACT won the electorate of Epsom, and enough party votes to avoid an overhang, but failed to win any more party votes to entitle it to more seats. New Zealand First was left in the position of Kingmaker between National and the Labour/Green bloc. On 19 October, Winston Peters announced he was forming a coalition agreement with Labour, with the Greens in a confidence-and-supply agreement. The Greens' support, plus the coalition, resulting in 63 seats to National's 56—enough to ensure that Ardern maintains the confidence of the House.

Major events
 12 October 2017 — The writ for election is returned; officially declaring all elected members of the 52nd Parliament.
 19 October 2017 — A coalition government between Labour and NZ First is confirmed, with C&S from the Green Party.
 25 October 2017 — Chris Hipkins is confirmed Leader of the House.
 26 October 2017 — Jacinda Ardern is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand.
 7 November 2017 — The Governor-General issued the Commission of Opening of Parliament. The House elected Trevor Mallard as Speaker.
 8 November 2017 — State Opening of Parliament.
 13 February 2018 — Bill English announced he would resign as Leader of the National Party and Leader of the Opposition on 27 February, before retiring from Parliament on 1 March, thus resigning as Father of the House.
 27 February 2018 — Simon Bridges is elected as National Party leader, succeeding Bill English as Party Leader and Leader of the Opposition
 27 February 2018 — Fletcher Tabuteau replaces Ron Mark as Deputy Leader of New Zealand First
 22 March 2018 — Jonathan Coleman, MP for Northcote, resigns from Parliament, triggering a by-election in Northcote.
 8 April 2018 — Marama Davidson is elected the female co-leader of the Green Party.
 17 May 2018 — The 2018 budget is presented to Parliament.
 21 June 2018 — Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern takes maternity leave following giving birth to a baby girl. Winston Peters becomes acting Prime Minister.
 2 August 2018 — Jacinda Ardern returns as Prime Minister after six weeks of maternity leave.
 7 September 2018 — Labour MP Clare Curran resigns from all of her ministerial portfolios.
 20 September 2018 — Labour MP Meka Whaitiri is removed as a minister following an investigation of an alleged assault in her office.
 30 May 2019 — The 2019 budget, also named the Wellbeing Budget, is presented to Parliament.

Legislation

On 31 October 2017, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the government would amend the Overseas Investment Act 2004 by Christmas to categorise existing residential properties as 'sensitive', to restrict its sale to citizens and permanent residents only.

On 8 November 2017, Bill 1-2 extending paid parental leave to 22 weeks from 1 July 2018 and 26 weeks from 1 July 2020, was introduced in the name of Minister of Immigration Iain Lees-Galloway, and given royal assent on 4 December 2017.

Ministry
The Sixth Labour Government began with the 52nd Parliament, following the announcement of a coalition deal between the Labour Party and New Zealand First, with the Green Party providing confidence and supply, thus giving the government 63 seats, opposite the main opposition party, National, with 56 seats. The government was formally sworn in on 26 October 2017 by Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy.

Jacinda Ardern, as Leader of the Labour Party, serves as Prime Minister. Winston Peters, as Leader of New Zealand First, serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Prime Minister Ardern appointed Grant Robertson as Minister of Finance, Ron Mark as Minister of Defence, Kelvin Davis as Minister of Corrections, David Parker as Attorney General, Andrew Little as Minister of Justice, Dr David Clark as Minister of Health, and Chris Hipkins as Minister of Education and Leader of the House.

For a period of six weeks beginning 21 June 2018, Winston Peters served as Acting Prime Minister of New Zealand, while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern took maternity leave. Ardern was only the second head of government to give birth while in office, after Benazir Bhutto, who gave birth while serving as Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Officeholders
The current officers of the 52nd Parliament are listed below:

Speaker
 Speaker of the House: Rt. Hon. Trevor Mallard (Labour)
 Deputy Speaker of the House: Hon. Anne Tolley (National)
 Assistant Speaker of the House: Hon. Ruth Dyson (Labour)
 Assistant Speaker of the House: Adrian Paki Rurawhe (Labour)

Other parliamentary officers
The following is a list of other parliamentary officers who are non-political:
 Clerk: David Martin Wilson
 Deputy Clerk: Suze Jones
 Serjeant-at-Arms: Steve Streefkerk

Party leaders
 Prime Minister of New Zealand: Rt. Hon. Jacinda Ardern (Labour)
 Deputy Leader of the Labour Party: Hon. Kelvin Davis
 Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand: Rt. Hon. Winston Peters (New Zealand First)
 Deputy Leader of New Zealand First:
 Hon. Ron Mark (until 27 February 2018)
 Fletcher Tabuteau (from 27 February 2018)
 Leader of the Opposition (National):
 Rt. Hon. Bill English (until 27 February 2018)
 Hon. Simon Bridges (from 27 February 2018)
 Deputy Leader of the Opposition: Hon. Paula Bennett (National)
 Co-leaders of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand:
 Male Co-leader: Hon. James Shaw
 Female Co-leader: Marama Davidson (from 8 April 2018)
 Leader of ACT New Zealand: David Seymour

Floor leaders
 Leader of the House: Hon. Chris Hipkins
 Deputy Leader of the House: Hon. Iain Lees-Galloway
 Shadow Leader of the House:
 Hon. Simon Bridges until 27 February 2018
 Hon. Gerry Brownlee from 11 March 2018

Whips
 Senior Government Whip: Michael Wood
 Junior Labour Whip: Kieran McAnulty
 Assistant Labour Whip: Kiri Allan
 Senior Opposition Whip:
 Barbara Kuriger from 11 March 2018
 Jami-Lee Ross until 11 March 2018
 Junior Opposition Whip:
 Matthew Doocey from 11 March 2018
 Barbara Kuriger until 11 March 2018
 Third Opposition Whip:
 Tim van de Molen from 11 March 2018
 Matthew Doocey until 11 March 2018
 New Zealand First Whip: Clayton Mitchell
 Green Party Musterer: Gareth Hughes
 Green Party Deputy Musterer: Marama Davidson

Shadow Cabinets
 Opposition Cabinet of Simon Bridges during the 52nd Parliament
Opposition Cabinet of Bill English during the 52nd Parliament until 27 February 2018

Members
The table below show the members of the 52nd Parliament based on the official results of the 2017 general election. Ministerial roles were officially announced on 25 October 2017.

Overview
This table shows the number of MPs in each party:

Notes
 New Zealand First announced a coalition agreement with the Labour Party on 19 October 2017.
 The Green Party entered into confidence-and-supply agreement with the Labour Party on the same day as the coalition was announced.
The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.

Members

Seating plan
The chamber is in a horseshoe-shape.

As of 7 November 2017 (start)

As of 12 February 2019 (current)

Committees

The 52nd Parliament has 12 select committees and 6 specialist committees. They are listed below, with their chairpersons and deputy chairpersons:

Summary of changes during term
The following changes occurred in the 52nd Parliament: