Susan Hacker Stang

Susan Hacker Stang (born Susan Hacker, October 19, 1949) is an American photographer, author, and educator.

Stang served on the faculty of communications at Webster University in St. Louis from 1974 through 2015 and now holds the title Professor Emeritus. She helped found and build the respected photography program there, heading it for most of her tenure at the university. Her work has been collected by more than 25 major museums and libraries around the world and appears in half a dozen books and numerous magazines.

Much of her photography involves the innovative use of alternative cameras, formats, techniques, and media, as evidenced by her two books Encountering Florence (featuring subtly surreal black and white prints of the Italian city using 8 x 10 Polaroid emulsion transfers) and Kodachrome – End of the Run: Photographs from the Final Batches (which chronicles a six-month university photography project in which students and staff would shoot more than 100 roles of rare Kodachrome film for processing on the last day of operations by the world's last remaining Kodachrome processing lab.) In 2016, she published a book of photographs, reAPPEARANCES, which is a sequence of fifty-two photographs made with a digital toy camera (the JOCO VX5).  The volume purports to take the viewer on a visual journey through the uncanny coherence of the look of the world, according to Stang's introductory essay.

Professional and academic career
Stang majored in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned both a BFA (1971) and MFA (1974), and studied under photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.

In 1971 she moved to London where she worked as a photographer for the British fashion magazine NOVA (published 1965–1975). She joined the faculty of Webster University in St. Louis in 1974, where she helped found and build the photographic studies program in the School of Communications. In Jerusalem in 1979 she was Artist-In-Residence at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. In recent years, in addition to her work as head of the Webster University photography program and professor of communications, she has taught summer photography workshops in Florence, Italy, both at the Santa Reparata International School of Art (SRISA) and The Darkroom. She taught at Webster for 41 years and earned the Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Accomplishments as a photographer and educator

Images of Florence
Stang's photography characteristically employs alternative cameras (such as the Olympus Pen-FT half-frame camera, the Kodak Brownie, and the Holga), or alternative formats (such as Polaroid emulsion transfers) and techniques. Her book of Polaroid emulsion transfers, Encountering Florence was published simultaneously in the U.S. and in Italy (under the title Firenze un Incontro) in 2007. Stang's use of the emulsion transfer process involves transferring the fragile, fabric-like emulsion layer of the photograph (bearing the image) to another surface, subtly transforming the original image in a variety of ways. The results were described in Photo Review as giving Stang's portraits of Florence's buildings, streets, statuary, and gardens "a delicate, draping quality ... reminiscent of the fabrics draped on the ancient statues within the images". An Italian reviewer observed that the photographic process presents "a city not previously seen and perhaps a little disquieting". The book's bi-lingual text in English and Italian was selected and edited by Stang and by Andrea Burzi and Susanna Sarti, both of Florence, to present accompanying word-portraits from authors in their own encounters with the city. A portfolio of Stang's work for the book is held by the Rare Books Collection of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze.

On Kodachrome's Last Day
In 2010–11, Stang led the Webster University photography program in a six-month-long focus on the color reproduction qualities of Kodachrome film (long revered by professional and amateur photographer for its true, lush color rendition qualities) to mark the permanent discontinuing of the film's production by Kodak. The project ultimately turned into a book documenting the final demise of the medium, and the last day of Kodachrome production anywhere in the world (at Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas, on January 18, 2011). The last days of processing were covered by The New York Times, National Geographic, and network television.

Edited by Stang and fellow photographer Bill Barrett, Kodachrome: End of the Run presents a selection of four-score Kodachrome images shot on more than 100 roles of the film by Webster University students, faculty, and staff over a five-month period and processed by Dwayne's in the final hours as the last processing chemicals ran out. The book includes essays by Stang, Time Magazine worldwide pictures editor Arnold Drapkin, and Dwayne's Photo vice president Grant Steinle.

Other work
Stang's work is also found in museums and library collections, including the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the California Museum of Photography, Riverside; the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Southeast Museum of Photography; and the Portland Museum of Art.

Her photographs have been published in a number of books and magazines, including Exploring Color Photography, second edition (1993), Jerusalem As She Is (1991), The Visionary Pinhole (1985), Between Twelve and Twenty (1982), Creative Camera International Yearbook (1977), and Women See Woman (1976), Hatzilum Magazine, Israel (July 1979), the British Journal of Photography, London (April 1972), and NOVA (1971–1972 issues).

Books
Stang, Susan Hacker. Encountering Florence (St. Louis, Webster University Press, 2007).
Stang, Susan Hacker. Firenze un Incontro (Rome: Palombi Editori, 2007).
Stang, Susan Hacker and Bill Barrett (editors). Kodachrome – End of the Run: Photographs from the Final Batches (St. Louis: Webster University Press, 2011).
Stang, Susan Hacker.   reAPPEARANCES. (St. Louis, 2016).

Personal life
Stang grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Morris Hacker and Hannah Wruble Hacker. Her sister, Paula Hacker Boutemy, lives in Paris, France. Stang currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri, in the home she had shared since 1992 with her husband of almost 20 years Richard Stang, who died on December 14, 2011.

References

External links

 Webster University
 Encountering Florence/Firenze un incontro(Publisher's website)
 clandestinoweb.com (On-line interview in Italian)
 NOVA magazine

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The Haven, Boston

The Haven is the tidal river of the port of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. It provides access for shipping between Boston Deeps in The Wash and the town, particularly, the dock. It also serves as the outfall into the sea, of the River Witham and of several major land drains of the northern Fens of eastern England, which are known collectively as the Witham Navigable Drains. ().

Physical and economic development

The English settlers who arrived in The Wash, found tidal creeks which gave them entry to the habitable belt of land, inland from the salt-marshes. These creeks, they called "havens". There was a route inland from The Haven, with which this article deals, on which Boston later developed, to the upland of Lindsey. However, the port of Boston did not develop until after natural events had diverted the River Witham into The Haven during the eleventh century.

Simultaneously, this took the river away from Drayton, which had become the successor port of Swineshead as its estuary accumulated silt. The Swin had been to Swineshead what the Zwin was to Bruges but after the loss of the Witham, Bicker became more important than Drayton so its estuary became known as Bicker Haven.

At the time of the Domesday Book (1086), the accounting for Boston was still done under the heading of the manors of Drayton but the wealth of Drayton's holdings, as recorded in the Domesday Book, in Skirbeck makes the presence of a working port at Boston, which then lay in Skirbeck, near certain.

Before The Witham broke into it, The Haven's head was in the area which subsequently became the Market Place. The likely date for the switch of the Witham from Drayton to The Haven is 1014, the date recorded by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as one of unprecedented sea floods. There was another serious flood, later in the century but that came after 1086.

Subsequently, Boston and its Haven became busy with trade as wool was brought into the town for export, particularly to Flanders.

Modern port

Nowadays, the activity has moved below the old centre of the town. The fishing fleet moors below the railway bridge and trading vessels lie either in tidal berths beside the dock where there are facilities for handling scrap steel or in the dock itself where there are facilities for handling paper, steel coil and grain as well as timber and general cargo, including containers.

Work has commenced on building a tidal barrage in the neighbourhood of the Black Sluice in order to reduce the incidence of flooding in the town and to manage boat access between the River Witham and the South Forty-Foot Drain. The work is authorised by a  Transport and Works Act 1992 Order. Originally expected to be completed by 2013, work finally began on the £100 million scheme in 2018.

The Transport and Works Act (1992) was introduced to simplify the process of obtaining permission for the construction or alteration of railways and inland navigations, and any work which interferes with rights of navigation.

Historical connection
In 1607, The Haven, between Boston and the sea (), was the scene of the first, abortive, attempt of the Scrooby Pilgrims, to leave England. Ultimately, in 1620, they became part of the original settlement of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

See also

Canals of the United Kingdom
History of the British canal system

References

External links

Category:Ports and harbours of Lincolnshire
Category:Boston, Lincolnshire
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Thea Halo

Thea Halo (born 1941) is an American writer and painter of Assyrian and Pontic Greek heritage. Born in New York City she is the 8th child of Abraham and Sano Halo (original name Euthemia "Themia", Pontic Greek: Ευθυμία).  Thea began writing poetry and short-stories in 1992 and in 2000 she published her book Not Even My Name (), the memoir of her mother who belonged to Turkey's Pontic Greek minority, natives of the Black Sea coast region of Turkey known as Pontus.

Sano "Themia" Halo was a recipient of the New York State Governor's Award for excellence in honor of Women's History Month, "Celebrating Women of Courage and Vision."

Not Even My Name is the unforgettable story of Sano (Themia) Halo's survival of the death march, at age ten, during the Greek genocide that annihilated her family. The title refers to Themia being renamed to Sano by an Assyrian family who could not pronounce her Greek name, after they took her in as a servant during the Greek genocide.  The story is told by her daughter Thea, and includes their poignant mother-daughter pilgrimage to Pontus, Turkey in search of Sano's home seventy years after her exile.

"As written by her daughter, Thea, Sano's harrowing account of the destruction of her family and her world is told with such vivid detail that every page sears the mind and the heart. Not Even My Name is a work of burning intensity, self-evidently poweful and true" __ NICHOLAS GAGE, author of Eleni

"Deeply moving.....It is impossible to read the story of this woman's life without marveling at the strength of her spirit." __ The Washington Post Book World

"A survivor's tale...Young Themia lost family, freedom, even her name.... Her daughter tells the sad story with simple grace." __ U.S. News & World Report (Top Pick")

"An eloquent and powerful account" __ Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"An unforgettable book." __ Booklist (starred review)

"Sano's is truly an amazing story of survival and resilience. An important and revealing book.... highly recommended for all libraries." __ Library Journal

"Written in fast-moving eloquent prose with seamless suspense and drama" __ The Armenian Reporter

"In telling her mother's epic story of survival and ultimate triumph in America, Thea Halo has written an important book about a largely unknown history: the genocide of the Pontic Greeks at the hands of the Turkish government in the years following World War I. Halo's deeply moving portrait of her mother reverberates with large moral issues that affect us all." __ PETER BALAKIAN, author of Black Dog of Fate

References

External links
Not Even My Name Web site.

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Category:Writers from New York City
Category:American writers of Greek descent
Category:American women short story writers
Category:American short story writers
Category:American women poets
Category:20th-century American poets
Category:20th-century American women writers


Gene Nudo

Gene Nudo (born April 13, 1958) is a former Arena Football League coach for the Arizona Rattlers  He had a career record of 13-21, including a 1-1 mark in the postseason. 2011 Inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame; 3 time Executive of the year (1997, 1999, 2000), recipient of the Founders Award for lifetime service to the AFL. Nudo spent 8 years as the head coach of Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois. Also former head coach of 1991 Undefeated Illinois High School State Champion Driscoll Catholic High School from Addison, Illinois. Career record as a high school coach is 102-41-1. As a coach, is also a member of Chicago Minor League Football, Minor Pro Football, Driscoll Catholic High School and Ridgewood High School Hall of Fame.

References

External links
Gene Nudo at ArenaFan Online

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Category:Living people
Category:Sportspeople from Cook County, Illinois
Category:Illinois State Redbirds football players
Category:Arizona Rattlers players
Category:Arizona Rattlers coaches
Category:Arena Football Hall of Fame inductees
Category:People from Norridge, Illinois


Gabriella Souza

Gabriella Guimarães de Souza, nicknames Gabi or Gabiru, (born ) is a Brazilian female volleyball player. With her former club Osasco/Molico she competed at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship.
She competed with the Brazil women's national volleyball team, at the 2016 Montreux Volley Masters, 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, and 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League. Her club in 2019 is Sesc RJ.

Clubs

  Niterói Vôlei (2004–2007)
  Fluminense FC (2007–2009)
  Macaé Sports (2009–2011)
  SESI São Paulo (2011–2012)
  Nestlé Osasco (2012–2017)
  SESC-RJ (2017–)

Awards

Individuals
 2010 U20 South American Championship – "Most Valuable Player"
 2014 U22 South American Championship – "Best Outside Spiker"

Clubs
 2012–13 Brazilian Superliga –  Runner-up, with Sollys Nestlé
 2014–15 Brazilian Superliga –  Runner-up, with Molico/Osasco
 2016–17 Brazilian Superliga –  Runner-up, with Molico/Osasco
 2017–18 Brazilian Superliga –  Runner-up, with Rexona-SESC
 2012 South American Club Championship –  Champion, with Sollys Nestlé
 2014 South American Club Championship –  Runner-up, with Molico/Osasco
 2015 South American Club Championship –  Runner-up, with Molico/Osasco
 2018 South American Club Championship –  Runner-up, with Rexona-SESC
 2012 FIVB Club World Championship –  Champion, with Sollys Nestlé
 2014 FIVB Club World Championship –  Runner-up, with Molico/Osasco

External links
 profile at FIVB.org

References

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Category:Living people
Category:Brazilian women's volleyball players
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1987–88 FA Cup qualifying rounds

The FA Cup 1987-88 is the 107th season of the world's oldest football knockout competition; The Football Association Challenge Cup, or FA Cup for short. The large number of clubs entering the tournament from lower down the English football league system meant that the competition started with a number of preliminary and qualifying rounds. The 28 victorious teams from the Fourth Round Qualifying progressed to the First Round Proper.

Preliminary round

Ties

Replays

2nd Replays

3rd Replay

1st Qualifying Round

Ties

Replays

2nd Replays

2nd Qualifying Round

Ties

Replays

2nd Replays

3rd Qualifying Round

Ties

Replays

4th Qualifying Round

Ties

Replays

1987-88 FA Cup
See 1987-88 FA Cup for details of the rounds from the First Round Proper onwards.

External links
Football Club History Database: FA Cup 1987-88
FA Cup Past Results

Qual
Category:FA Cup qualifying rounds


Courgivaux

Courgivaux  is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.

See also
Communes of the Marne department

Category:Communes of Marne (department)


Agostino Bassi

Agostino Bassi, sometimes called de Lodi (25 September 1773 – 8 February 1856), was an Italian entomologist. He preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms was caused by a living, very small, parasitic organism, a fungus that would be named eventually Beauveria bassiana in his honor. In 1844, he stated the idea that not only animal (insect), but also human diseases are caused by other living microorganisms; for example, measles, syphilis, and the plague.

Early life
He was the son of a wealthy farmer and a lawyer who also had a passion for biology. However, his father did not want him to take up biology, but wanted him instead to look after the family's property, to become a civil servant and to join the Imperial administration.

Bassi did so, but also followed the lessons of  Lazzaro Spallanzani, a relative, until he died.

Research
His studies of 1807 concerned mal de segno (also known as muscardine, after a French candy), a lethal disease of domestic silkworms (Bombyx mori). Infected caterpillars are covered with a fine white powder and die. This disease initially appeared in Italy around 1805; then in France, by 1841. After 1849, the silk farms were almost all abandoned because of this devastating disease. The research to find the cause of this disease took him 25 years. Bassi published the results of his investigations in a paper entitled Del mal del segno, calcinaccio o moscardino (1835), stating that a living entity was the culprit, and that it was contagious; we now know that the powdery appearance on the killed silkworms is caused by the production of millions of infectious white fungal spores on the dead insect (see Beauveria bassiana). He is credited with rescuing the economically important silk industry, by recommendations like the use of disinfectants; separating the rows of feeding caterpillars; isolating and destroying infected caterpillars; and keeping the farms clean. This brought Bassi immediate fame. "Del Mal del Segno, Calcinaccio o Moscardino" was translated into French and distributed throughout Europe.

From this work he expanded on a theory explaining that many diseases of plants, animals and human beings were caused by pathogenic organisms. He thus preceded the work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. He was also the author of work on the culture of potatoes, on cheese, wine making, leprosy and cholera.
Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) was greatly influenced by his work. Pasteur had the portraits of both Spallanzani and Bassi in his office.

Bassi’s tomb in Lodi

Agostino Bassi was buried in the Romanesque church of Saint Francis (13th century). His tomb can be seen in the right transept, laid to a wall, at the ground level.

Philately
In 1953 the Italian post office issued a stamp on the 180th anniversary of Bassi's birth in 1773. The stamp features a portrait of Bassi bordered by silkmoth adults and pupae .

References

(reviewed in  )

External links

 Some places and memories related to Agostino Bassi

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WDPM-DT

WDPM-DT, virtual channel 18 (UHF digital channel 23), is a Daystar owned-and-operated television station licensed to Mobile, Alabama, United States and also serving Pensacola, Florida. The station is owned by the Daystar Television Network. WDPM's transmitter is located near Robertsdale, Alabama.

History

The station signed on after the analog signal of PBS member station WSRE (channel 23) signed off for the last time on February 17, 2009.

Since the "channel 23.1" series of virtual channel designations already identifies the existing PBS station's digital subchannels, this numbering sequence would not be available to the new station. According to the ATSC standard, WDPM-DT's channel numbers would therefore need to be displayed (using PSIP) using numbering based on WSRE's digital channel number, 31. From sign-on until February 2010, the station displayed as Channel 4.1, which is considered a violation of these standards.

Digital television

Digital channel

References

External links

Category:Television channels and stations established in 2009
DPM-DT
Category:2009 establishments in Alabama
Category:Daystar Television Network affiliates


1927 Australian Championships

The 1927 Australian Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor Grass courts at the Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne, Australia from 22 January to 1 February. It was the 20th edition of the Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open), the 5th held in Melbourne, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. Australians Gerald Patterson and Esna Boyd won the singles titles.

Finals

Men's Singles

 Gerald Patterson defeated  Jack Hawkes  3–6, 6–4, 3–6, 18–16, 6–3

Women's Singles

 Esna Boyd defeated  Sylvia Lance Harper  5–7, 6–1, 6–2

Men's Doubles

 Jack Hawkes /  Gerald Patterson defeated  Ian McInness /  Pat O'Hara Wood 8–6, 6–1, 6–2

Women's Doubles

 Louie Bickerton /  Meryl O'Hara Wood defeated  Esna Boyd /  Sylvia Lance Harper 6–3, 6–3

Mixed Doubles

 Esna Boyd /  Jack Hawkes defeated  Youtha Anthony /  Jim Willard 6–1, 6–3

External links
 Australian Open official website

Australian Championships

Category:1927 in Australian tennis
Category:Australian Championships (tennis) by year
Australian Championships


2009–10 Livingston F.C. season

The 2009–10 season was Livingston's first season back in the Third Division. They also competed in the Challenge Cup,  League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

Overview
Livingston went into administration on 24 July 2009 as the club was unable to pay bills of £330,000 in rent. The club previously went into administration in 2004. Despite a takeover the First Division club were deemed to be in breach of SFL rules and were relegated to the Scottish Third Division. The club appealed the decision which led to refusal to play their new third division fixtures whilst it was heard. The appeal to the SFL upheld the original decision. On 7 September 2009 a further appeal to the SFA was dismissed. Livingston won the Third Division by 15 points over nearest team Forfar Athletic. Chairman Gordon McDougall apologised to the other clubs in the division saying that It wasn’t our choice to have players on First Division wages in the Third Division and it was distinctly unfair that a full-time club was thrust upon the others clubs in the division.

Results & fixtures

Friendlies

Third Division

Challenge Cup

League Cup

Scottish Cup

Statistics

Squad

|}

Disciplinary record
Includes all competitive matches.

League table

References

Livingston
Category:Livingston F.C. seasons


1974 Big League World Series

The 1974 Big League World Series took place from August 10–17 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. Taipei, Taiwan defeated San Antonio, Texas in the championship game.

This year saw the debut of the Far East, and Mexico regions.

Teams

Results

Opening Round

Winner's Bracket

Loser's Bracket

Elimination Round

References

Category:Big League World Series
Big League World Series


List of Kauri Parks in New Zealand

This is a list of reserves in New Zealand that have been distinguished or treated as Kauri Parks, these include reserves or parks that include the tree Agathis australis, the New Zealand Kauri.

Northland Region

Waipoua Forest, a large forest in Western Northland
Trounson Kauri Park, a forest in Northland
HB Matthews Reserve, a closed forest as of 2019 to prevent the spread of Kauri dieback
Puketi Kauri Forest, a forest near Kerikeri in Eastern Northland
Omahuta Kauri Forest, a forest next to Puketi Kauri Forest
Warawara Forest, home to a large amount of Kauri

Auckland Region

Waitakere Ranges, home to multiple Kauri Forests
Hunua Ranges, large tracts of Kauri forests still remain intact.
Cornwall Park, home to a small plantation of Kauri, however under threat from a growing population of Common brushtail possum.
Ngaheretuku Reserve, a closed forest as of 2019 to prevent the spread of Kauri dieback
Kerr-Taylor Reserve, a closed forest as of 2019 to prevent the spread of Kauri Dieback
Matuku Reserve, a closed forest as of 2019 to prevent the spread of Kauri Dieback
Onetangi Reserve, a closed forest as of 2019 to prevent the spread of Kauri Dieback
Kauri Park (reserve), a closed forest as of 2019 to prevent the spread of Kauri Dieback

Waikato Region

Coromandel Peninsula

Waiau Kauri Grove, many Kauri are present in this chunk of forest
Moehau Range, multiple mature Kauri are present
Kauri Block Track, many Kauri live here
Square Kauri, a large Kauri forest
Manaia Forest, a sanctuary for Kauri and other flora

Elsewhere in the Waikato Region

Hakarimata Range, home to multiple large Kauri

References

Kauri Parks in New Zealand
Kauri Parks
Kauri Parks


My Documents (DVD)

My Documents is a DVD by Bosnian alternative rock band Sikter that was released on June 19, 2007. It was released by record label Gramfon in co-production with Pro.ba, modern art center from Sarajevo.

The main part of DVD occupies a documentary film "I Was Dreaming of a Smirnoff Buffalo". It's biographical film which follows band from formation in 1990 until 2007 and releasing their third album My Music. Film including subtitles on Bosnian and English language.

Contents

My Film
This part consists from documentary film "I Was Dreaming of a Smirnoff Buffalo". Film was directed by Timur Makarević and premiere was on 24 August, 2007. It follows band from formation in 1990 until 2007. Also many interviewees participated in film, mostly current and former members of band and some Bosnian artists.

My Audio
Some unreleased audio recording from early and war period of band. Also a lots of live recordings are contained on this part.

My Video
All music videos from 1995 to 2007 and some unreleased live videos. It also contains a music video of song "Shake 'em" with the forbidden subliminal message.

My Photos
Sentimental photo album of the current and former members of the band. Most photographs are never published.

My Recycle Bin
Uncensored shoots from recording of the film "I Was Dreaming of a Smirnoff Buffalo".

Personnel
Sikter
Enes Zlatan - vocals, keyboards
Esad Bratović - guitar
Dragan Rokvić - bass guitar, vocals
Igor Čamo - keyboards
Nedim Zlatar - drums
Dejan Kajević - backing vocals
Leonardo Šarić - backing vocals
Production
Timur Makarević - director
Redžimald Šimek - mastering

External links
Gramofon: Sikter - My Documents

Category:Sikter albums
Category:2007 video albums


Russula amethystina

Russula amethystina is a conspicuous mushroom, which appears sporadically from mid-summer until the autumn under spruce and fir trees. In Northern Europe, it is very rare. It is edible, but not very easy to distinguish from similarly coloured Russula species, and practically identical to Russula turci from which it can only be distinguished by microscopic differences in spore texture.

Description
The cap can be up to 12 cm in diameter and varies in colour between violet, lilac, wine-red and wine-red-brown.
The cap skin can be pulled off from the edge, right to the centre.
The gills are from cream to bright yellow. Spore print is cream to light orange.
The hollow stipe is initially white, later becoming yellowish or brownish.

See also
List of Russula species

References

Image from the Russulales news web site

amethystina
Category:Fungi of Europe
Category:Edible fungi
Category:Taxa named by Lucien Quélet


Samuel Cleland Davidson

Sir Samuel Cleland Davidson, KBE (18 November 1846 – 18 August 1921) was a British inventor and engineer. Through his career in the tea import business he invented and patented a number of industrial machines and developed the earliest air conditioning systems. He founded the Sirocco Works in Belfast in 1881.

Early life
Davidson was born in County Down on 18 November 1846, the youngest child of a family of Ulster Scots. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution (the "Inst") and left at the age of 15 to work at a Belfast civil engineering firm, William Hastings.  As a teenager he gained experience as an apprentice to a surveyor in Belfast, and visited his uncle John Davidson's flax mill in Drumaness, probably the first in Ulster to be equipped with power machinery.  He also became familiar with John's experimental approach using scientific methods to increase crop yields in flax farming for the linen industry. These early experiences gave Sam a lifelong appreciation for learning through personal hands-on experience, and innovation in commercial agriculture and engineering.

Career

In 1864 he left his job to work for his father, James Davidson who owned a flour mill close to the site of the later Sirocco works.  The Indian government had discovered wild tea growing in the Assam region and was determined to initiate a massive tea-growing operation there with the potential to generate huge wealth for the British Empire as it consolidated its hold on the economy of India.  The opportunity to have its own tea industry and become less dependent on importing the Empire's favourite drink from China was too important to ignore.  Initially the government paid for and organised clearing the forest and the planting and management of tea 'gardens', as the large plantations were called.  Once they were established they were sold to private investors to consolidate and expand, and develop a commercially viable industry.

Samuel's father and uncle set up a business importing tea and bought a share in a tea estate in Cachar, 300 miles north-east of Calcutta in India.  Samuel's cousin James went to India to personally manage the estate and later invited 17 year old Samuel and some other local young men to join him.

Samuel Davidson quickly gained a reputation as a hard working, trustworthy and successful estate manager.  He applied his agricultural and engineering knowledge to significantly improve crop yields, and to begin mechanising every stage of the archaic and very labour-intensive processes involved in turning plucked tea leaves into a marketable product of consistent quality.  As a person who had not pursued higher education at home, Samuel's innovations mainly came about through persistent experimentation, and his greatest successes were sometimes counter-intuitive to the assumptions of engineers at the time.  Not knowing that what he was trying to achieve with centrifugal fans was considered impossible by more educated mechanical engineers turned out to be a great blessing.  When he later travelled to America to prove to sceptical patent authorities that his design actually worked he said "An ounce of fact is worth a ton of theory." ('The Sirocco Story: Birth and growth of an industry' by Edward Maguire 1958)

He sold the property in India in 1874 and returned to Ireland where he began to manufacture his patented tea machinery with Combe, Barbour and Coombe of Belfast. After a year of manufacturing the first versions of his tea machinery in Belfast, Samuel returned to India in 1878 and toured the major centres of tea production with a portable tea factory which he set up in each remote location to demonstrate to the planters what his products could achieve.  The orders started to flood in and his machines became the standard for the whole industry over the following years.  His expertise in every aspect of the industry was so respected that tea companies paid him to spend time in each area he took his factory to making assessments of the local estates and recommendations for how they could best raise their productivity. He also paid for the trip by selling hundreds if another invention of his - a simple wheeled hoe which the planters loved.  In 1881 he started his own manufacturing operation in Belfast.

The success of his innovative use of stoves to move hot air led him to develop a convection heating system for use in human environments, and by the end of the 1880s his Sirocco stoves were in popular use in schools, church halls and workrooms. He developed his invention further with the introduction in 1898 of a forward-bladed centrifugal fan, which was significantly more powerful than conventional fan designs. This innovation, originally designed for drying tea, evolved into the first air conditioning system. The powerful force of moving hot air across a room with one of his centrifugal fans led one of Davidson's planter colleagues to remark that it reminded him of the Sirocco, the hot wind that blows across the North African desert, and Davidson adopted Sirocco as his brand name, applying it to his products and to the firm's Belfast factory, the Sirocco Engineering Works.

Davidson & Co grew into one of the largest engineering firms in Ireland, manufacturing and exporting equipment for cooling, drying, dust collecting, heating, ventilating, pneumatic conveyance, and mechanical handling, all invented by Davidson himself.  He supplied ventillation fans for the Titanic which was built practically next door to the Sirocco works at the Harland and Wolff shipyard, and have been photographed on the wreck.

During World War I the Sirocco works supplied the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy.  When the German fleet was scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919, it was discovered that nearly every German ship was equipped with Sirocco fans manufactured before the war.  Desperate to use his inventing skills to aid the war effort in World War 1, he designed and made prototypes of a hand-held grenade-launching pistol or 'Hand Howitzer' for use in the trenches where his son Jim was fighting as a machine gun captain.  The American military were close to placing a big order for these when the war ended.

Samuel was always aware of the diverse applications of the technology he invented and newspapers of the late 1800s and early 1900s featured adverts for Sirocco products ranging from lawn tennis net poles to ventillation machinery for mining operations.  He invented and marketed a sparkling tea drink, and was close friends with John Dunlop as they were both experimenting with the vulcanisation of rubber, another imperial cash crop with huge potential for the British economy.

Samuel was a very effective strategist -  he could think ahead, see the big picture and take bold steps to change the circumstances for his businesses if necessary.  An example of this was the retail price of tea.  It was still very expensive in the late Victorian era and he realised that if the Indian tea estates and his machinery were to make a profit in the long term the retail price would have to come down significantly and become affordable for the whole population.  To fix this he set up the Sirocco Bonded Tea Store, imported and sold tea at a far lower price than usual that forced the larger tea companies to cut their prices too, then closed that company once it had achieved its goal.  He brought the retail price of tea in Belfast down from 5 shillings to 2 shillings per pound.

Throughout the political tensions and upheavals in Northern Ireland Samuel was a keen Unionist who believed strongly that Irish businesses like his were safer in the British Empire than out of it, and he was a staunch supporter of Edward Carson and the original Ulster Volunteer Force opposing home rule for Ireland.  However, he never indulged in sectarian bigotry and employed Protestants and Catholics alike at the Sirocco Works.  When anti-Catholic gangsters demanded that he sack his Catholic employees Samuel refused and posted armed guards at the works to protect them until the threats subsided.

When his son and heir James, who had been groomed to inherit the company, was killed at the Somme Samuel's health began to decline and his son in law Frederick Maguire who was already a senior manager led the company through the next generation.

In 1988, the Davidson Group was acquired by the fan and heat exchanger firm James Howden & Co (established 1854 by the Scottish engineer James Howden) to form Howden Sirocco Limited, today known as Howden UK.  Davidson's Sirocco Works were eventually vacated and in 2009 the property was demolished as part of the redevelopment of the Belfast Waterfront.  The name of Davidson's former factory continues today in the Sirocco Works Football Club, a team formed in 1924 by works employees which continues to play today in the Northern Amateur Football League.

Family

Samuel Cleland Davidson married Clara Mary Coleman in 1873 and they had five children, Annie Davidson 1873-1874 who was born and died in India, Clara May Davidson 1875-1950, James Samuel Davidson 1877-1916, Richard 'Dick' Frederick Davidson 1878-1897 (died of Meningitis aged 18) and Kathleen Davidson 1882-1970. Clara married one of her father's employees, Frederick George Maguire, in 1903.  James worked as general manager in his father's business and patented several of his own mechanical engineering developments. He toured the world in 1911 making business deals in Russia, Japan and America, and was expected to eventually take over from his father.  He served as a volunteer with the 1st Battalion North Down Regiment of the Ulster Volunteer Force and during World War I he became a captain in the 13th Royal Irish Rifles. James was shot dead by a German sniper on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, aged 39, while being carried back to the British trenches after fighting hard all day and being shot in the knee.

Later life and death

Samuel Cleland Davidson became a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1888, and in 1921 he was knighted by King George V although too ill to make the journey to London for the ceremonials.  A few months later Davidson died on 18 August 1921 in Seacourt, Bangor, County Down. He was buried alongside his wife, Clara Mary, in Belfast City Cemetery.

Davidson's contribution to engineering in Ireland was commemorated by the Northern Bank in its Inventor series of banknotes celebrating Northern Irish inventors.  Sir Samuel featured with tea plants and some of his machinery on the bank's £50 note. Three design versions of this series were issued over the years, the second being hastily replaced by the third after a major bank robbery by the IRA.  The note was discontinued in 2013 when the bank reissued its banknotes under the new Danske Bank brand.

External links

References

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Gangneung City FC

Gangneung City FC is a South Korean Association football club based in the city of Gangneung. Currently Gangneung City FC plays in the K3 League. In 2019 they became the final champions of the Korea National League before it was integrated into the K3 League.

Current team squad

2019 season squad

Honours

Domestic competitions

League
 National League
  Winners (2): 2009, 2019
  Runners-up (1): 2004

Cups
 National League Championship
  Runners-up (1): 2014
 National Sports Festival
  Gold Medal (2): 2007, 2012
  Silver Medal (1): 2003
 President's Cup
  Winners (1): 2009

Statistics

See also
List of football clubs in South Korea

External links
  Gangneung City FC Official Website
  Gangneung City FC Official Twitter

Category:Association football clubs established in 1999
Category:Sport in Gangwon Province, South Korea
Category:Sport in Gangneung
Category:Korea National League clubs
Category:1999 establishments in South Korea


1978–79 Phoenix Suns season

The 1978–79 Phoenix Suns season was the 11th season for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association and the first time they reached the 50-win mark to end the regular season. The team repeated a second-place finish in an expanded Pacific division and the Western Conference's second-best record, thus earning a spot in the playoffs, the franchise's first time extending the season in back-to-back seasons. For the first time since the '75–'76 team, the Suns returned to the Western Conference Finals, before being dispatched by Pacific division champion Seattle in seven games. The Suns were led by head coach John MacLeod and played all home games in Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

Paul Westphal, whom led the Suns with his 24 points per game, made his third straight appearance in the All-Star Game and was again named to the All-NBA First Team. Walter Davis followed up his Rookie of the Year Award performance from the previous season with his second consecutive All-Star selection and by season's end, voted to the All-NBA Second Team. Fourth-year big man Alvan Adams hauled in a career-high 9.2 rebounds a game to go with an average of 17.8 points.

Offseason

NBA Draft

Roster
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! colspan="2" style="background:#423189; color:#ff8800; text-align:center;"| Phoenix Suns roster
|- style="background:#ff8800; color:#423189; text-align:center;"
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Regular season

Standings

Record vs. opponents

Game log

!!Streak
|-
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 1
| October 13
| San Diego
| W 128–114
| Paul Westphal (21)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum11,217
| 1–0
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 2
| October 15
| Golden State
| W 129–110
| Walter Davis (35)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum9,750
| 2–0
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 3
| October 17
| San Antonio
| L 107–110
| Paul Westphal (24)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum8,755
| 2–1
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 4
| October 18
| @ Golden State
| W 122–112
| Paul Westphal (33)
| Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena7,139
| 3–1
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 5
| October 22
| @ Portland
| W 124–116
| Walter Davis (28)
| Memorial Coliseum12,666
| 4–1
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 6
| October 24
| Milwaukee
| W 124–116
| Walter Davis (38)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum11,728
| 5–1
| W 3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 7
| October 25
| @ Denver
| L 104–108
| Paul Westphal (29)
| McNichols Sports Arena14,448
| 5–2
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 8
| October 27
| @ Chicago
| W 115–110 (OT)
| Paul Westphal (38)
| Chicago Stadium7,807
| 6–2
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 9
| October 28
| @ Kansas City
| L 102–112
| Alvan Adams,Walter Davis (23)
| Kemper Arena9,534
| 6–3
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 10
| October 31
| New York
| W 120–108
| Paul Westphal (35)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum11,197
| 7–3
| W 1
|-
!!Streak
|-
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 11
| November 2
| @ New Orleans
| W 106–99
| Paul Westphal (27)
| Louisiana Superdome6,943
| 8–3
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 12
| November 4
| @ Houston
| L 103–110
| Walter Davis (25)
| The Summit9,163
| 8–4
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 13
| November 8
| Cleveland
| W 118–96
| Ron Lee (24)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum9,311
| 9–4
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 14
| November 10
| Denver
| L 132–150
| Paul Westphal (27)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum10,277
| 9–5
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 15
| November 12
| New Orleans
| W 128–122
| Alvan Adams (33)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum9,158
| 10–5
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 16
| November 15
| @ San Antonio
| W 125–119
| Paul Westphal (39)
| HemisFair Arena10,489
| 11–5
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 17
| November 17
| @ Philadelphia
| L 94–95
| Paul Westphal (25)
| The Spectrum11,513
| 11–6
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 18
| November 18
| @ Detroit
| W 119–105
| Paul Westphal (28)
| Pontiac Silverdome10,789
| 12–6
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 19
| November 21
| @ Cleveland
| W 110–108
| Walter Davis (28)
| Coliseum at Richfield6,524
| 13–6
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 20
| November 22
| @ Indiana
| W 115–110
| Walter Davis (32)
| Market Square Arena9,432
| 14–6
| W 3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 21
| November 24
| Houston
| W 120–113
| Walter Davis (37)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 15–6
| W 4
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 22
| November 26
| Chicago
| W 125–109
| Alvan Adams (22)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum10,921
| 16–6
| W 5
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 23
| November 28
| @ Chicago
| L 112–124
| Walter Davis (26)
| Chicago Stadium7,826
| 16–7
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 24
| November 30
| Detroit
| W 119–109
| Paul Westphal (29)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum9,633
| 17–7
| W 1
|-
!!Streak
|-
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 25
| December 1
| @ Los Angeles
| L 122–130
| Paul Westphal (32)
| The Forum10,529
| 17–8
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 26
| December 2
| Golden State
| L 108–116
| Alvan Adams (29)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum9,167
| 17–9
| L 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 27
| December 6
| Atlanta
| W 136–109
| Walter Davis (25)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum10,345
| 18–9
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 28
| December 8
| @ Boston
| W 124–104
| Paul Westphal (30)
| Boston Garden11,762
| 19–9
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 29
| December 9
| @ Washington
| L 98–101
| Paul Westphal (30)
| Capital Centre17,438
| 19–10
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 30
| December 12
| @ Milwaukee
| L 114–120
| Paul Westphal (36)
| MECCA Arena10,938
| 19–11
| L 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 31
| December 16
| Los Angeles
| W 119–100
| Alvan Adams,Paul Westphal (25)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum11,327
| 20–11
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 32
| December 17
| @ San Diego
| L 110–116
| Alvan Adams (32)
| San Diego Sports Arena6,068
| 20–12
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 33
| December 20
| Washington
| L 129–137
| Paul Westphal (36)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum9,789
| 20–13
| L 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 34
| December 22
| Kansas City
| W 123–103
| Alvan Adams (32)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum10,533
| 21–13
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 35
| December 26
| @ Denver
| W 106–102
| Walter Davis (31)
| McNichols Sports Arena16,325
| 22–13
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 36
| December 28
| Portland
| W 129–127 (OT)
| Walter Davis (42)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,510
| 23–13
| W 3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 37
| December 29
| @ Seattle
| L 92–119
| Mike Bratz (15)
| Kingdome20,565
| 23–14
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 38
| December 30
| Boston
| W 112–109
| Alvan Adams (28)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 24–14
| W 1
|-
!!Streak
|-
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 39
| January 2
| @ New York
| W 114–102
| Alvan Adams (28)
| Madison Square Garden11,266
| 25–14
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 40
| January 5
| @ Washington
| L 94–104
| Ron Lee (19)
| Capital Centre14,929
| 25–15
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 41
| January 6
| @ Philadelphia
| W 143–139 (OT)
| Walter Davis (35)
| The Spectrum16,109
| 26–15
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 42
| January 7
| @ New Jersey
| L 112–117
| Alvan Adams (32)
| Rutgers Athletic Center3,439
| 26–16
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 43
| January 11
| Seattle
| L 106–109
| Walter Davis (26)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 26–17
| L 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 44
| January 13
| Indiana
| L 99–102
| Walter Davis (24)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 26–18
| L 3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 45
| January 17
| @ Milwaukee
| L 118–123
| Truck Robinson (25)
| MECCA Arena10,661
| 26–19
| L 4
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 46
| January 18
| @ Detroit
| W 97–87
| Walter Davis (26)
| Pontiac Silverdome5,839
| 27–19
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 47
| January 20
| Houston
| W 116–97
| Paul Westphal (28)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 28–19
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 48
| January 24
| Philadelphia
| W 101–94
| Truck Robinson (26)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 29–19
| W 3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 49
| January 26
| New York
| W 108–107
| Walter Davis (24)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum11,813
| 30–19
| W 4
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 50
| January 28
| New Jersey
| L 114–117
| Alvan Adams,Walter Davis (25)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,357
| 30–20
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 51
| January 31
| Milwaukee
| W 123–118
| Paul Westphal (28)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum11,736
| 31–20
| W 1
|-
!!Streak
|-
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 52
| February 2
| San Antonio
| W 133–108
| Alvan Adams (24)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 32–20
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 53
| February 6
| @ Portland
| L 93–110
| Truck Robinson (19)
| Memorial Coliseum12,666
| 32–21
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 54
| February 9
| Atlanta
| L 102–105
| Paul Westphal (32)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum11,928
| 32–22
| L 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 55
| February 11
| Cleveland
| W 136–101
| Truck Robinson (24)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum10,972
| 33–22
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 56
| February 15
| Washington
| W 119–108
| Paul Westphal (32)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 34–22
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 57
| February 16
| @ Seattle
| L 104–119
| Mike Bratz (19)
| Kingdome23,103
| 34–23
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 58
| February 17
| New Orleans
| W 136–112
| Alvan Adams (22)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 35–23
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 59
| February 20
| @ New York
| W 117–107
| Paul Westphal (36)
| Madison Square Garden10,921
| 36–23
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 60
| February 21
| @ New Jersey
| L 112–123
| Paul Westphal (25)
| Rutgers Athletic Center3,812
| 36–24
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 61
| February 23
| @ Kansas City
| L 112–121
| Truck Robinson (28)
| Kemper Arena10,768
| 36–25
| L 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 62
| February 24
| @ Atlanta
| L 85–110
| Truck Robinson (21)
| Omni Coliseum12,281
| 36–26
| L 3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 63
| February 28
| Indiana
| W 103–102
| Paul Westphal (27)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum10,735
| 37–26
| W 1
|-
!!Streak
|-
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 64
| March 2
| Denver
| L 105–119
| Paul Westphal (28)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum11,835
| 37–27
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 65
| March 4
| Philadelphia
| W 119–94
| Walter Davis (26)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum10,722
| 38–27
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 66
| March 8
| Chicago
| W 132–117
| Alvan Adams,Don Buse,Walter Davis (21)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum10,126
| 39–27
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 67
| March 11
| @ Indiana
| L 111–112
| Paul Westphal (24)
| Market Square Arena14,173
| 39–28
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 68
| March 13
| @ Cleveland
| W 124–120
| Walter Davis (36)
| Coliseum at Richfield7,690
| 40–28
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 69
| March 14
| @ Boston
| W 126–117
| Paul Westphal (39)
| Boston Garden10,308
| 41–28
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 70
| March 16
| @ San Antonio
| W 128–122
| Paul Westphal (43)
| HemisFair Arena14,864
| 42–28
| W 3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 71
| March 17
| @ Houston
| L 122–134
| Paul Westphal (22)
| The Summit12,557
| 42–29
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 72
| March 18
| @ New Orleans
| L 117–121
| Walter Davis,Paul Westphal (29)
| Louisiana Superdome5,108
| 42–30
| L 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 73
| March 21
| Boston
| W 134–113
| Walter Davis (33)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum11,568
| 43–30
| W 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 74
| March 23
| Kansas City
| W 126–107
| Paul Westphal (36)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 44–30
| W 2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 75
| March 25
| @ Golden State
| W 111–95
| Paul Westphal (25)
| Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena10,651
| 45–30
| W 3
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 76
| March 28
| Los Angeles
| W 112–106
| Paul Westphal (32)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum11,805
| 46–30
| W 4
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 77
| March 30
| Seattle
| W 113–111 (OT)
| Walter Davis (40)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 47–30
| W 5
|-
!!Streak
|-
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 78
| April 1
| Detroit
| W 116–105
| Alvan Adams (23)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum10,550
| 48–30
| W 6
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 79
| April 4
| Portland
| W 106–95
| Paul Westphal (21)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum11,305
| 49–30
| W 7
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc"
| 80
| April 6
| San Diego
| W 118–117
| Alvan Adams (23)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 50–30
| W 8
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 81
| April 7
| @ San Diego
| L 116–120
| Walter Davis,Paul Westphal (22)
| San Diego Sports Arena11,614
| 50–31
| L 1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc"
| 82
| April 8
| @ Los Angeles
| L 103–111
| Walter Davis (21)
| The Forum11,973
| 50–32
| L 2
|-

Playoffs

Game log

!!Streak
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 1
| April 10
| Portland
| W 107–103
| Paul Westphal (28)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 1–0
| W 1
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#fcc;"
| 2
| April 13
| @ Portland
| L 92–96
| Walter Davis (31)
| Memorial Coliseum12,666
| 1–1
| L 1
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 3
| April 15
| Portland
| W 101–91
| Paul Westphal (26)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 2–1
| W 1
!!Streak
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 1
| April 17
| Kansas City
| W 102–99
| Paul Westphal (25)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 1–0
| W 1
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#fcc;"
| 2
| April 20
| @ Kansas City
| L 91–111
| Truck Robinson (17)
| Kemper Arena13,659
| 1–1
| L 1
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 3
| April 22
| Kansas City
| W 108–93
| Walter Davis (22)
| Arizona State University Activity Center14,301
| 2–1
| W 1
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 4
| April 25
| @ Kansas City
| W 108–94
| Paul Westphal (26)
| Kemper Arena13,184
| 3–1
| W 2
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 5
| April 27
| Kansas City
| W 120–99
| Paul Westphal (32)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 4–1
| W 3
!!Streak
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#fcc;"
| 1
| May 1
| @ Seattle
| L 93–108
| Alvan Adams (18)
| Kingdome14,098
| 0–1
| L 1
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#fcc;"
| 2
| May 4
| @ Seattle
| L 97–103
| Paul Westphal (29)
| Kingdome31,964
| 0–2
| L 2
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 3
| May 6
| Seattle
| W 113–103
| Paul Westphal (25)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 1–2
| W 1
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 4
| May 8
| Seattle
| W 110–91
| Walter Davis (27)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 2–2
| W 2
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 5
| May 11
| @ Seattle
| W 99–93
| Paul Westphal (27)
| Kingdome28,935
| 3–2
| W 3
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#fcc;"
| 6
| May 13
| Seattle
| L 105–106
| Paul Westphal (29)
| Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum12,660
| 3–3
| L 1
|-  style="text-align:center; background:#fcc;"
| 7
| May 17
| @ Seattle
| L 110–114
| Walter Davis (26)
| Kingdome37,552
| 3–4
| L 2
|-

Awards and honors

All-Star
Paul Westphal was voted as a starter for the Western Conference in the All-Star Game. It was his third consecutive All-Star selection. Westphal finished second in voting among Western Conference guards with 251,829 votes.
Walter Davis was selected as a reserve for the Western Conference in the All-Star Game. It was his second consecutive All-Star selection. Davis finished fifth in voting among Western Conference forwards with 118,546 votes.

Season
Paul Westphal was named to the All-NBA First Team.
Walter Davis was named to the All-NBA Second Team. Davis also finished tenth in MVP voting.
Don Buse was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team.

Player statistics

Season

* – Stats with the Suns.
^ – Minimum 125 free throws made.

Playoffs

† – Minimum 20 field goals made.

Transactions

Trades

Free agents

Additions

Subtractions

References
 Standings on Basketball Reference

Category:Phoenix Suns seasons
Phoenix


Heather Nabozny

Heather Nabozny (born 1970) is an American groundskeeper. She is the head groundskeeper of the Detroit Tigers' Comerica Park since it opened in 2000, becoming the first female head groundskeeper in the history of Major League Baseball.

On September 5, 2014 Nabozny badly injured her leg as the Comerica Park grounds crew attempted to cover the field during a severe storm during a game between the Tigers and San Francisco Giants. She underwent surgery on her knee and managed her grounds crew's preparation for the American League Division Series between the Tigers and Baltimore Orioles one month after her injury with her leg in a cast.

Early life
Nabozny was born in Milford, Michigan. Her father Louis, who worked 30 years at Ford Motor Company, started a lawn care business when she was 10. She used to work for her father during the summer. She grew up as a Tigers fan and attended games at Tiger Stadium with her father.

She studied sports turf-management at the Michigan State University and was graduated in 1993. She started her career with the Toronto Blue Jays at their spring training complex in Dunedin, Florida. She was named head groundskeeper for the Detroit Tigers prior to the 1999 season, the Tigers' last at Tiger Stadium. She was the youngest head groundskeeper in Major League Baseball at the time at 28 years of age.

See also

 Comerica Park

References

Category:Living people
Category:Groundskeepers
Category:Detroit Tigers personnel
Category:People from Milford, Michigan
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2010 Clipsal 500

The 2010 Clipsal 500 was the third event of the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series and the twelfth running of the Adelaide 500. It was held on the weekend of 11–14 March on the streets of Adelaide, in South Australia.

Holden Racing Team driver Garth Tander won his second Adelaide 500, winning both races, salvaging his season after a poor start in the Middle-Eastern leg of the championship. Second in both races was leading Ford competitor, Dick Johnson Racing's James Courtney. The remaining podium positions were shared by Lee Holdsworth for Garry Rogers Motorsport on Saturday and Ford Performance Racing lead driver Mark Winterbottom on Sunday.
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Race results

Qualifying Race 5

Qualifying timesheets:

Race 5
Race timesheets:

Qualifying Race 6

Qualifying timesheets:

Race 6
Race timesheets:

Standings
 After Race 6 of 26

Source

References

External links
Adelaide 500 website

Category:Adelaide 500
Clipsal
Category:2010s in Adelaide


Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein

Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (His Serene Highness Prince Botho of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein) (16 February 1927 in Eisenach – 27 January 2008 in Salzburg) was a German politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union and represented the party in the Bundestag from 1965 to 1980. He first gained a direct mandate as representative of Siegen-Wittgenstein and subsequently was elected from the land list.

He served as president of the German Red Cross between 1982 and 1994.

External links and references
Welt Online: Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein obituary (German) 28 January 2008

Notes

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Category:2008 deaths
Category:Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein
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Mrzeżyno

Mrzeżyno  (German: Deep, or Treptower Deep, after 1930 often Regamünde) is a village with a fishing seaport in Gryfice County. This is also a health resort with a lots of pensions, campsites and spa. It is located near the estuary of the Rega river. The village has a popular beach. Every year in July and August, Mrzeżyno is visited by many Polish and German tourists. The right riverside is more developed than left, where there is only one settlement. The population numbers 1,727(2009). The village is situated by a special area of the conservation of nature according to the European Union's program Natura 2000. It lies approximately  north of Trzebiatów,  north of Gryfice, and  north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.

In the 1920s Lyonel Feininger often came to the Treptower Deep to paint and reside.

The first postwar Poland's Wedding to the Sea was performed in Mrzeżyno on 17 March 1945, as Regamünde became part of Poland, according to the Potsdam Conference which ceded most of the German province of Pomerania to the People's Republic of Poland.

See also
 Trzebiatów

References

External links

 Safety of Navigation Office about the seaport (in polish but very good maps and photos)

Category:Villages in Gryfice County


Alonso Gonzalez Calderón

Alonso Gonzalez Calderón (c.1610-1696) was a Spanish Captain, who served during the Viceroyalty of Peru as regidor, and mayordomo of Santa Fe.

He was born in Santander, possibly son of Antonio Calderón, who served as alguazil of Santa Fe City in 1625. He was married to Gerónima Cortés granddaughter of Diego Thomas de Santuchos and Catalina Correa de Santa Ana.

His son Bartolomé Calderón, was married to María Robles descendant of Antonio Thomas (conquistador), born in Portugal.

References

External links
santafe.gob.ar

Category:1600s births
Category:1696 deaths
Category:People from Santa Fe, Argentina
Category:Spanish colonial governors and administrators


Stortorvet

Stortorvet ('The Grand Plaza') is a square in Oslo, Norway, located west of Oslo Cathedral.

It was officially inaugurated during the autarchic times, in 1736. A town market was held here until 1889. Marketing still exists, but has largely been moved to Youngstorget. The building that houses the restaurant Stortorvets Gjæstgiveri is a Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site.  Other buildings surrounding the square are business buildings such as GlasMagasinet and the main entrance of the Oslo Cathedral.

Stortorvet was located on the outskirts of the part of the capital that was founded by King Christian IV, Christiania. A bronze statue of the king pointing is located in the square, entitled "here the city is to be".

The square became an important hub for public transportation with the introduction of the tramway. A balloon loop for the Ekeberg Line was located here until the 1960s. Stortorvet is still served by a station on the Oslo Tramway—Stortorvet—as well as buses.

The so-called Battle of the Square took place here in 1829.

Gallery

Historical gallery

References

Category:Squares in Oslo


Mordicai Jones

Mordicai Jones is the 1971 album by pioneer Rock & Roll guitarist, and Shawnee Indian Link Wray. The album was credited to mysterious singer Mordicai Jones, who was Link's piano/mandolin player Bobby Howard. It was recorded under supervision of producer Steve Verocca at Wray's Shack Three Track studio in Accokeek, Maryland during the Link Wray/Beans and Fatback sessions by Link's brother Vernon "Ray Vernon" Wray and Chuck Irwin.

History
This Link's album was credited to lead vocalist Mordicai Jones, alias for Bobby Howard. That music is an Americana blend of blues, country, soul, and folk rock. The same casual and laid-back sound was used on the Link Wray/Beans and Fatback sessions. Some tracks from the album later surfaced on the compilation Guitar Preacher: The Polydor Years, and it was included in its entirety together with other "shack" recordings of '71 (Link Wray and Beans and Fatback) on Wray's Three Track Shack 2CDs compilation.

Track listing
All songs written by Link Wray and Steve Verroca, except where noted.

"Walkin' in the Arizona Sun" - 2:53
"Scorpio Woman" - 3:47
"The Coca Cola Sign Blinds My Eye" (Link Wray, Steve Verroca, Mordicai Jones) - 6:24
"All I Want To Say" - 3:12
"All Because of a Woman" - 3:20
"On the Run" (Wray, Verroca, Jones) - 5:45
"Son of a Simple Man" - 4:22
"Precious Jewel"  (Roy Acuff) - 2:14
"Days Before Custer" - 4:01
"Gandy Dancer" - 3:30

Personnel
Link Wray - electric guitar, dobro, steel guitar, bass guitar
Doug Wray - rhythm guitar, proccnail can percussion, background vocals
Mordicai Jones (a.k.a. Bobby Howard) - lead vocals, piano, mandolin, harp
Bill Hodges - organ, piano, scratcher percussion, background vocals
Steve Verroca - drums, background vocals
John Grummere - electric rhythm guitar, background vocals
Norman Sue - bass guitar, background vocals
Ned Levitt - foot stomp, hand claps, background vocals

Production
Producer: Steve Verroca
Recording Engineer:  Ray Vernon (a.k.a. Vernon Wray), Chuck Irwin
Mixing: Chuck Irwin
Photography: unknown
Art Design: unknown

References

Category:Link Wray albums
Category:1971 albums
Category:Polydor Records albums


United Faculty of Theology

The United Faculty of Theology was a recognised teaching institution of the University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia.

It was founded in 1969 as an informal association of theological colleges and ceased operating in December 2014.

The Faculty comprised:
The Jesuit Theological College of the Society of Jesus (incorporated in Victoria), Jesuit College of Spirituality from 2016
Trinity College Theological School, part of Trinity College and affiliated to the Anglican Province of Victoria
The Uniting Church Theological College (Synod of Victoria and Tasmania), Pilgrim Theological College from 2015
The Anglican Church continues to provide theological education through the Trinity College Theological School and the Uniting Church through Pilgrim Theological College.

History
The Faculty arose from co-operation between the theological halls (seminaries) based at Queen's College and Ormond College, respectively Methodist and Presbyterian foundations affiliated with the University of Melbourne. In the 1960s, and even earlier, they shared resources while preparing resident theological students for the externally-examined graduate Bachelor of Divinity degree of the Melbourne College of Divinity. The two bodies effectively amalgamated before the formal union of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches as the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977.

During the same period, the Jesuit Theological College moved to nearby facilities in Parkville and asked Ormond College to accommodate its library. The result was the Joint Theological Library (later the Dalton-McCaughey Library) which over time came to serve all member institutions of the Faculty.

In 1969 the Faculty was formally created by the three halls of what later became the Pilgrim Theological College the Uniting Church, together with the Jesuit college and the Theological School of Trinity College, the Anglican residential college at the University of Melbourne, agreed to form the Faculty and to teach a new degree, the undergraduate Bachelor of Theology (BTheol).

The Faculty ceased operating in December 2014.

References

External links

Category:Seminaries and theological colleges in Australia
Category:Education in Melbourne
Category:Uniting Church in Australia
Category:Catholic Church in Australia
Category:Catholic universities and colleges in Australia


Elliot–Harris–Miner House

The Elliot–Harris–Miner House is an historic house located at 1406 Old Louisquisset Pike in Lincoln, Rhode Island.  It is a rambling three-section structure, whose main block is 2-1/2 stories tall with a cross-gable roof with bracketed eaves.  The oldest portion of the house, however, was at its rear: it was originally a 1-1/2 story Cape style structure built c. 1710, but this has been torn down and replaced by a garage with a cross-gable roof matching that of the main block.  These two sections are joined by a third section with a gable roof.  The rear section was believed to be the oldest surviving Cape in Lincoln.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1984.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence County, Rhode Island

References

External links
 Archiplanet (contains satellite view)
 Images of Rhode Island (contains photo of house)

Category:Houses completed in 1710
Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Category:Houses in Lincoln, Rhode Island
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Providence County, Rhode Island
Category:1710 establishments in Rhode Island


Huan Hesketh

Huan Hesketh (or Hugh Hesketh) was a pre-Reformation clergyman who served as the Bishop of Sodor and Man in the early 16th-century.

He was appointed the bishop of the Diocese of Sodor and Man by papal provision on 15 April or 18 May 1513. It is not known when his episcopate ended, but his successor John Howden was appointed in May or June 1523.

References

Category:16th-century Roman Catholic bishops
Category:Bishops of Sodor and Man
Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:Year of death unknown


Fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator

A Fixed-Field alternating gradient Accelerator (FFA) is a circular particle accelerator concept on which development was started in the early 50s, and that can be characterized by its time-independent magnetic fields (fixed-field, like in a cyclotron) and the use of strong focusing (alternating gradient, like in a synchrotron). Thus, FFA accelerators combine the cyclotron's advantage of continuous, unpulsed operation, with the synchrotron's relatively inexpensive small magnet ring, of narrow bore.

Although the development of FFAs had not been pursued for over a decade starting from 1967, interest has been revived since the mid-1980s for usage in neutron spallation sources, as a driver for muon colliders   and to accelerate muons in a  neutrino factory since the mid-1990s.

The revival in FFA research has been particularly strong in Japan with the construction of several rings. This resurgence has been prompted in part by advances in RF cavities and in magnet design.

We note that the acronym for Fixed-Field alternating gradient Accelerator has recently changed from FFAG to FFA.  Thus, when searching older literature, one will find more often the original acronym of FFAG.

History

First development phase

The idea of fixed-field alternating-gradient synchrotrons was developed independently in Japan by Tihiro Ohkawa, in the United States by Keith Symon, and in Russia by Andrei Kolomensky.  The first prototype, built by Lawrence W. Jones and Kent M. Terwilliger at the University of Michigan used betatron acceleration and was operational in early 1956.  That fall, the prototype was moved to the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA) lab at University of Wisconsin, where it was converted to a 500 keV electron synchrotron.  Symon's patent, filed in early 1956, uses the terms "FFAG accelerator" and "FFAG synchrotron". Ohkawa worked with Symon and the MURA team for several years starting in 1955.

Donald Kerst, working with Symon, filed a patent for the spiral-sector FFA accelerator at around the same time as Symon's Radial Sector patent.  A very small spiral sector machine was built in 1957, and a 50 MeV radial sector machine was operated in 1961.  This last machine was based on Ohkawa's patent, filed in 1957, for a symmetrical machine able to simultaneously accelerate identical particles in both clockwise and counterclockwise beams. This was one of the first colliding beam accelerators, although this feature was not used when it was put to practical use as the injector for the Tantalus storage ring at what would become the Synchrotron Radiation Center.  The 50MeV machine was finally retired in the early 1970s.

MURA  designed 10 GeV and 12.5 GeV proton FFAs that were not funded.  Two scaled down designs, one for 720 MeV and one for a 500 MeV injector, were published.

With the shutdown of MURA which began 1963 and ended 1967, the FFA concept was not in use on an existing accelerator design and thus was not actively discussed for some time.

Continuing development

In the early 1980s, it was suggested by Phil Meads that an FFA was suitable and advantageous as a proton accelerator for an intense spallation neutron source, starting off projects like the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator at Argonne National Laboratory and the Cooler Synchrotron at Jülich Research Centre.

Conferences exploring this possibility were held at Jülich Research Centre, starting from 1984. There have also been numerous annual workshops focusing on FFA accelerators at CERN, KEK, BNL, TRIUMF, Fermilab, and the Reactor Research Institute at Kyoto University. In 1992, the European Particle Accelerator Conference at CERN was about FFA accelerators.

The first proton FFA was successfully construction in 2000, initiating a boom of FFA activities in high-energy physics and medicine.

With superconducting magnets, the required length of the FFA magnets scales roughly as the inverse square of the magnetic field.  In 1994, a coil shape which provided the required field with no iron was derived. This magnet design was continued by S. Martin et al. from Jülich.

In 2010, after the workshop on FFA accelerators in Kyoto, the construction of the Electron Machine with Many Applications (EMMA) was completed at Daresbury Laboratory, UK. This was the first non-scaling FFA accelerator. Non-scaling FFAs are often advantageous to scaling FFAs because large and heavy magnets are avoided and the beam is much better controlled.

Scaling vs non-scaling types
The magnetic fields needed for an FFA are quite complex.  The computation for the magnets used on the Michigan FFA Mark Ib, a radial sector 500 keV machine from 1956, were done by Frank Cole at the University of Illinois on a mechanical calculator built by Friden.  This was at the limit of what could be reasonably done without computers; the more complex magnet geometries of spiral sector and non-scaling FFAs require sophisticated computer modeling.

The MURA machines were scaling FFA synchrotrons meaning that orbits of any momentum are photographic enlargements of those of any other momentum.  In such machines the betatron frequencies are constant, thus no resonances, that could lead to beam loss, are crossed.  A machine is scaling if the median plane magnetic field satisfies

,
where
,
 is the field index,
is the periodicity,
 is the spiral angle (which equals zero for a radial machine),
 the average radius, and
 is an arbitrary function that enables a stable orbit.

For  an FFA magnet is much smaller than that for a cyclotron of the same energy.  The disadvantage is that these machines are highly nonlinear. These and other relationships are developed in the paper by Frank Cole.

The idea of building a non-scaling FFA first occurred to Kent Terwilliger and Lawrence W. Jones in the late 1950s while thinking about how to increase the beam luminosity in the collision regions of the 2-way colliding beam FFA they were working on.  This idea had immediate applications in designing better focusing magnets for conventional accelerators, but was not applied to FFA design until several decades later.

If acceleration is fast enough, the particles can pass through the betatron resonances before they have time to build up to a damaging amplitude.  In that case the dipole field can be linear with radius, making the magnets smaller and simpler to construct.  A proof-of-principle linear, non-scaling FFA called (EMMA) (Electron Machine with Many Applications) has been successfully operated at Daresbury Laboratory, UK,.

Vertical FFAs
Vertical Orbit Excursion FFAs (VFFAs) are a special type of FFA arranged so that higher energy orbits occur above (or below) lower energy orbits, rather than radially outward. This is accomplished with skew-focusing fields that push particles with higher beam rigidity vertically into regions with a higher dipole field.

The major advantage offered by a VFFA design over a FFA design is that the path-length is held constant between particles with different energies and therefore relativistic particles travel isochronously. Isochronicity of the revolution period enables continuous beam operation, therefore offering the same advantage in power that isochronous cyclotrons have over synchrocyclotrons. Isochronous accelerators have no longitudinal beam focusing, but this is not a strong limitation in accelerators with rapid ramp rates typically used in FFA designs.

The major disadvantages include the fact that VFFAs requires unusual magnet designs and currently VFFA designs have only been simulated rather than tested.

Applications
FFA accelerators have potential medical applications in proton therapy for cancer, as proton sources for high intensity neutron production, for non-invasive security inspections of closed cargo containers, for the rapid acceleration of muons to high energies before they have time to decay, and as "energy amplifiers", for Accelerator-Driven Sub-critical Reactors (ADSRs) / Sub-critical Reactors in which a neutron beam derived from a FFA drives a slightly sub-critical fission reactor.  Such ADSRs would be inherently safe, having no danger of accidental exponential runaway, and relatively little production of  transuranium waste, with its long life and potential for nuclear weapons proliferation.

Because of their quasi-continuous beam and the resulting minimal acceleration intervals for high energies, FFAs have also gained interest as possible parts of future muon collider facilities.

Status
In the 1990s, researchers at the KEK particle physics laboratory near Tokyo began developing the FFA concept, culminating in a 150 MeV machine in 2003. A non-scaling machine, dubbed PAMELA, to accelerate both protons and carbon nuclei for cancer therapy has been designed. Meanwhile, an ADSR operating at 100 MeV was demonstrated in Japan in March 2009 at the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA), achieving "sustainable nuclear reactions" with the critical assembly's control rods inserted into the reactor core to damp it below criticality.

Further reading

References

Category:Particle accelerators


Didier Défago

Didier Défago (born 2 October 1977) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland.

Born in Morgins, Valais, Défago made his World Cup debut at age 18 in March 1996, and was Swiss national champion in downhill (2003) and Giant slalom (2004). At the 2010 Winter Olympics, he won the downhill at Whistler to become the Olympic champion.

Défago finished the 2005 World Cup season as sixth overall and fourth in the Super-G, his most successful season so far. In 2009 he won two downhill races in a row, the classics at Wengen and Kitzbühel. He was the first to win these in consecutive weeks since Stephan Eberharter in 2002, and the first Swiss racer since Franz Heinzer in 1992.

While training on a glacier above Zermatt in mid-September 2010, Defago fell and injured ligaments in his left knee, ending his 2011 season.

Défago announced his retirement on March 18, 2015, after a second-place finish at the World Cup finals in the downhill in Méribel, France. Défago had his final World Cup race the next day in the super-G.

World Cup results

Season standings

Race podiums
 5 wins – (3 DH, 2 SG)
 16 podiums – (5 DH, 7 SG, 3 SC, 1 GS)

World Championship results

Olympic results

References

External links

 Didier Défago World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation

 YouTube video – Didier Défago – Wengen victory – 17 January 2009
 YouTube video – Didier Défago – Kitzbühel victory on full course – 24 January 2009

Category:Swiss male alpine skiers
Category:Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Category:Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Category:Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
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Category:1977 births
Category:Olympic alpine skiers of Switzerland
Category:Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
Category:Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Category:Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Category:Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics


Nada Sōsō (film)

is a 2006 Japanese romance film directed by Nobuhiro Doi. Starring Masami Nagasawa, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kumiko Asō as Kaoru Aragaki, Yotaro Aragaki and Keiko Inamine, the film depicts Okinawan step-siblings, Kaoru and Yotaru, growing up.

Reception
Nada Sōsō was nominated for Best Actor (Satoshi Tsumabuki) and Best Actress (Masami Nagasawa) for the 2007 Japanese Academy Awards. However, for the 2007 Bunshun Kiichigo Awards, Nada Sōsō was ranked 4th worst film and Masami Nagasawa as worst actress.

The Japan Times Mark Schilling comments that the film "has the feel of a more hardscrabble, pure-spirited time and place, when struggle, sacrifice and premature death for the virtuous on-screen heroes were as common as chopsticks."  Film critic Victor Chan commends the film, saying, "Nada Sou Sou boasts of all-round great acting by its cast, and its simple but homely style neatly complements the strong rural Okinawan setting, making this movie a classic triple hanky tearjerker which should appeal to not just the young Japanese movie fan, but also older audiences who have been starved for good tearjerkers."  Calvin McMillin, reviewing for LoveHKFilm, criticises the relationship between Tsumabuki and Nagasawa, saying they "do a serviceable job as would-be lovers, but both performances are somewhat problematic in execution. Although likeable enough, Tsumabuki doesn't seem to be able to handle the emotional scenes, as it always looks as if he's going to laugh even when he's breaking down in tears." He criticises Nagasawa's acting by stating "[she] is so over-exuberant (perhaps intentionally so) in the initial parts of the film that she's more of a grating presence than an endearing one. However, Nagasawa's performance improves considerably as the more dramatic aspects of the plot kick into overdrive." He also underlines the film's main downfall in trying to "adhere to the "Pure Love" aesthetic [that] the filmmakers completely gloss over the complications that could arise from a blossoming romantic relationship between these step-siblings by purposely avoiding the issue at any cost."

References

External links

German review

Category:2006 films
Category:Japanese films
Category:Japanese-language films
Category:2000s romance films
Category:Japanese romance films
Category:Films directed by Nobuhiro Doi
Category:Films set in Okinawa Prefecture
Category:Films about siblings


Against Meidias

Against Meidias () is one of the most famous judicial orations of the prominent Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes.

Historical background
Meidias, a wealthy Athenian, publicly slapped Demosthenes, who was at the time a choregos at the Greater Dionysia. Meidias was a friend of Eubulus and supporter of the unsuccessful excursion in Euboea. He also was an old enemy of the orator, forcibly entering Demosthenes' house  along with his brother Thrasylochus in 361 BC, in order to take possession of it.

The oration
Demosthenes made no resistance to Meidias' violation of the place and occasion, but after the festival, when at a special meeting of the Assembly, he entered a complaint against Meidias. The orator wrote the judicial speech Against Meidias, but he probably never pronounced it. He retired his accusation probably for political reasons although Aeschines maintained that Demosthenes received money to drop the case.

Against Meidias is regarded as one of the most intriguing forensic speeches to survive. It gives valuable information about Athenian law and festivals, and especially about the Greek concept of hubris (aggravated assault), which was regarded as a crime not only against the citizen or city but against society as a whole. As Galen O. Rowe points out, "the single most important recurrence in the speech is the root of hubris in its various grammatical forms and parts of speech. In fact hubris, to use the noun for every manifestation of the root, occurs in the speech 131 times, as opposed to 274 times in the entire Demosthenic corpus and 170 times in all the other Greek orators". This speech also gives valuable information about Athenian law. The orator underscores that a democratic state perishes, if the law is undermined by wealthy and unscrupulous men, and asserts that the citizens acquire power and authority in all state-affairs due "to the strength of the laws".

J. H. Vince asserts that while the speech is indisputably authentic, it seems improbable that it was published by Demosthenes himself. According to the same scholar, "the speech is notable as being the earliest in which the Demosthenic note of δεινότης (terrible earnestness) is heard, but it leaves an unpleasant impression. In the pathetic passages we remember the trivial occasion of the action, nor can the victim's indignation hide the fact that he accepted a compromise".

References

External links
Demosthenes, Against Meidias (in both Greek text and English translation, at Perseus)
J.H. Vince's introduction to the speech

Category:Works by Demosthenes
Category:Ancient Greek orations


Siedlątków

Siedlątków  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pęczniew, within Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately  north of Pęczniew,  west of Poddębice, and  west of the regional capital Łódź.

Notes

References

Category:Villages in Poddębice County


Rice & Curry

Rice & Curry is the first studio album by Swedish bubblegum dance artist Jonny Jakobsen under his pseudonym Dr. Bombay, released in 1998.

The album was the subject of mild controversy upon its release, prompted by a negative reaction to its faux-ethnic themes by the Indian government but no legal action was ever pursued.

Two of its tracks have been featured in the Beatmania IIDX series of video games and one is featured in the 2000 edition of Samba de Amigo.

Track listing
 Intro – 0:38
 Dr Boom-Bombay – 3:22
 Calcutta (Taxi Taxi Taxi) – 3:19
 Rice & Curry – 3:13
 Safari – 3:23
 S.O.S (The Tiger Took My Family) – 3:26
 Holabaloo – 3:04
 Shaky Snake – 3:03
 Girlie Girlie – 3:10
 My Sitar – 3:04
 Indy Dancing – 3:18
 Outro – 2:11

Music videos
Four music videos were produced for songs on the album. All of the music videos would later be released as bonus content on Jakobsen's first compilation album, The Hits. Videos were produced for the following songs:
 Calcutta (Taxi Taxi Taxi)
 Rice & Curry
 S.O.S (The Tiger Took My Family)
 Girlie Girlie

Chart position
Rice & Curry became Jakobsen's first major career success, topping the Swedish charts at number 1.

References

External links
Dr. Bombay at Bubblegum Dancer
The album at 7digital

Category:1998 albums
Category:Jonny Jakobsen albums
Category:Warner Records albums


Menotti (TV series)

Menotti is an Australian television series which screened in 1980-1981 on the ABC. The thirteen part series was centred around Father Menotti, a progressive priest involved with issues in his community in an inner-city suburb of Sydney.

Menotti was created by Michael Craig and produced by John Croyston. It was written by Michael Jenkins, Peter Schreck, Robert Caswell, Michael Craig and Ted Roberts. It was directed by Julian Pringle, Frank Arnold, Russell Webb and Di Drew.

Cast
 Ivar Kants as Father Menotti
 Peter Gwynne as Father Donnelly
 Geoffrey Rush as Father Peter Fuller

See also
 List of Australian television series

References

External links
 Menotti at IMDb
 Menotti at the Australian Television Information Archive

Category:Australian adventure television series
Category:1980 Australian television series debuts
Category:1980s Australian television series
Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation shows


Jon Levy

Jon Levy may refer to:

Jon Levy (photographer), founder and director of British photography company Foto8
Jon D. Levy (born 1954), American judge in Maine
Jon Levy (behaviorist), behavior expert and social engineer

See also
John Levy (disambiguation)


Robert Scott (engineer)

Robert Julian Scott MIME, MICE, FAIEE, NZSocCE (14 September 1861 – 8 November 1930) was a notable New Zealand railway engineer and professor of engineering. He was also the creator of possibly New Zealand's first indigenous steam buggy in 1881.

Background
He was born in Plymouth, Devonshire, England, on 14 September 1861. The son of Commander Robert Anthony Edwards Scott RN, and Fanny Mary Julian. He was the cousin of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott. On 22 October 1889 Scott married Gertrude Elizabeth Bowen, the daughter of Georgina Eliza Markham and Charles Bowen. Although they had no children Scott was guardian and mentor to Peter Phipps, later a Vice Admiral.

Education, career, and designs

Scott was educated at Abbey School, Beckenham, Kent; King's College London and the Royal School of Mines. On leaving school he worked in the locomotive department of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway where he was trained by William Stroudley. In 1880 he went to New Zealand worked for the New Zealand government railways firstly as a draughtsman and then as an engineer.

In 1881 he designed and had built a 35-horsepower steam buggy by Cutten and Co, Dunedin. The steam buggy was designed to carry ten passengers, and was the first New Zealand designed and built powered passenger vehicle.

Scott also designed a prototype insulated frozen-meat wagon in the mid-1880s, the "V" and "W" class locomotives, and New Zealand's first oil engine. By the age of 26 he was the General Manager of the Government's Addington Railway Workshops in Christchurch.

Canterbury University (formerly Canterbury College)
When Canterbury University set up its Department of Engineering in 1887, Scott became one of its part-time lecturers. In August 1889 Scott was offered an engineering post in the Railway's head office in Wellington. To retain Scott the University offered him a full-time position in charge of the School of Engineering. He was appointed in November 1889.

Scott accepted and began the development of school. In 1902 he was elected to the University of New Zealand Senate, representing Canterbury.

He even declined a salary increase to ensure the building of a mechanical engineering laboratory. The laboratory was completed in 1891 and fully equipped by 1894. On his retirement on 28 February 1923, Scott was honoured by the title professor emeritus.

Other
Scott's Chairman of a Royal Commission's on Railway rolling stock and Tramways, and Commission's on the Addington Railway Workshops, and wartime munitions. He was granted a seat on the university's professorial council in 1890 and became its chairman in 1893. In 1903 he sat on the University of New Zealand senate, a post he held until his retirement.

Scott was also a keen yachtsman and marine designer. He was one of the founders of the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club. His sailing and design prowess became apparent in the 1888 when Scott with a group of friends acquired an old yacht Fleetwing, upgraded it, and won a number of races.

He died of heart failure in Christchurch on 8 November 1930, having suffered from long periods of ill health over a number of years.

Notes and references

Notes

References

Category:1861 births
Category:1930 deaths
Category:English emigrants to New Zealand
Category:People from Plymouth
Category:University of Canterbury faculty
Category:20th-century New Zealand engineers
Category:19th-century New Zealand engineers
Category:Alumni of King's College London


Simmler

Simmler is a surname. It may refer to:

Josias Simmler (Josiah Simler, Simlerus; 1530–1576), Swiss theologian and classicist
Józef Simmler (1823–1868), Polish painter


Theobald of Marly

Saint Theobald of Marly () (died December 8, 1247) was a French abbot and saint.  He was born at the castle of Marly, Montmorency, and was trained as a knight.  He served as a knight at the court of Philip Augustus, though he later entered the Cistercian monastery of Vaux-de-Cernay in 1220.  He was elected prior in 1230 and ninth abbot in 1235.  He was held in high esteem by Saint Louis.

Veneration
He is venerated in Thann and Hemel Hempstead.

References

External links
Saint of the Day, July 27: Theobald of Marly at SaintPatrickDC.org

Category:Medieval French saints
Category:1247 deaths
Category:French Cistercians
Category:13th-century Christian saints
Category:Year of birth unknown


1951 World Weightlifting Championships

The 1951 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Palazzo del Ghiaccio, Milan, Italy from October 26 to October 28, 1951. There were 62 men in action from 14 nations.

Medal summary

Medal table

References
Results (Sport 123)
Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics

External links
International Weightlifting Federation

World Weightlifting Championships
World Weightlifting Championships
Category:International weightlifting competitions hosted by Italy
Category:World Weightlifting Championships


Bracken Nature Reserve

Bracken Nature Reserve is a  piece of protected land in the suburb of Brackenfell in Cape Town, South Africa.

This park preserves badly threatened Cape Flats Sand Fynbos and Swartland Granite Renosterveld vegetation. A diverse array of orchids, succulents and flowering bulbs are among the over 160 plant species that occur here. Of these, ten occur only within the city of Cape Town and are in serious danger of extinction, including Antimima aristulata, cowslip (Lachenalia aloides), canary yellow vygie (Lampranthus glaucus) and carrion flower (Orbea variegate).
The park is also home to a variety of small mammals, reptiles and amphibians, as well as range of bird species.

There is an indigenous garden at the entrance, and footpaths that take visitors past birdlife and views of the surrounding countryside. The reserve is situated on top of an old quarry and landfill site so gas extraction pipes have had to be installed, to let the excess gases from the decomposing waste escape.

See also
 Biodiversity of Cape Town
 Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
 List of nature reserves in Cape Town
 Renosterveld

References

Category:Nature reserves in Cape Town
Category:Protected areas of the Western Cape
Category:Fynbos
Category:Ecoregions of South Africa


Back with the Thugz Part 2

Back with the Thugz Part 2 is the fourteenth solo studio album by Bizzy Bone released on the Hi-Power Entertainment label on July 14, 2009. The album features appearances by Mr. Capone-e, Mr. Criminal and HPG's.

Critical reception
Back with the Thugz Part 2 received mixed reviews from critics. David Jeffries of Allmusic gave the album 2.5 out of 5. "This second volume is as messy, rushed, and uneven as the first volume, but it's also just as interesting and holds as many highlights, making it of interest to the hardcore fan. The serene Bizzy found on 2008's high-profile release, A Song for You, is wiped off the planet by the vicious ""Empty out My Clip"," a G-funk-fueled rant that touches upon schizophrenia, precious metals, and the rise of Satan while quoting Bone Thugs' classic ""First of the Month"." "Put Your Hands Up" is a club track with enough comparative mythology and comparative religion to interest Joseph Campbell, while "Not Scary" steals a bit of Europe's '80s hit "The Final Countdown" so Bizzy can riff on all of his sins before declaring "Jesus loves reggae" as if it was the path to freedom. Poetic and bizarre interludes just add to the wildness, but the production from Serious Sam, Makavelik, and Nu-Nation is thuggish and familiar, influenced by the West Coast of the '90s and the South of the 2000s. A strange, erratic, and manic side release, Bizzy fanatics have been here before."

Track listing
 Back With the Thugz Pt. 2
 Empty Out My Clip - (featuring Mr. Capone-E) (Produced by NuNation Productions)
 Put Yo Hands Up
 Dedicated
 I Know
 On The Inside
 Dealing With A Thug - (featuring Mr. Capone-E)
 Breath of Bizzy
 Fire, Fire, Fire
 I Demand Much Respect
 Look Into My Eyes
 Not Scary - (featuring Mr. Criminal)
 Automatic Glock
 Getcha Money
 Always Be With You - (featuring Hazardous)
 Diary of a G (promo) - (featuring Mr. Capone-E, The Game and Snoop Dogg)

References

Category:Bizzy Bone albums
Category:2009 albums