Robert Laforest (born May 19, 1963) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 5 games in the National Hockey League for the Los Angeles Kings during the 1983–84 season. He is the younger brother of former NHL goalie Mark Laforest. Laforest was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Playing career
Laforest was drafted by the Kings in the fifth round, 87th overall, in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft, after not being selected the two previous years even though he was eligible. Laforest played only 5 games in the NHL all during the 1983–84 season. The highlight of his NHL career occurred in the first game of the 1983–84 season, when Laforest scored his only NHL goal against Minnesota North Stars goaltender Gilles Meloche. After his 5 NHL games Laforest was sent to the minors where he split time between the New Haven Nighthawks and the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League. The following year Laforest began a two-year stint in the International Hockey League (IHL) playing for the Indianapolis Checkers, Fort Wayne Komets, and Milwaukee Admirals.

After his playing career Laforest moved to Welland, Ontario, and became a real estate agent, working as a sales representative with Re/Max Welland Realty Ltd.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

References

External links

1963 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey forwards
Fort Wayne Komets players
Hershey Bears players
Ice hockey people from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Indianapolis Checkers players
Los Angeles Kings draft picks
Los Angeles Kings players
Milwaukee Admirals (IHL) players
New Haven Nighthawks players
Niagara Falls Flyers players
North Bay Centennials players


The Story of Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon (Dae Jang-hwa Hong-ryeon jeon) is a 1962 South Korean film directed by Jeong Chang-hwa. The film is based on a Korean folklore story called Janghwa Hongryeon jeon. It is the second adaptation of the story by the same director, after his 1956 version.

Cast
Jo Mi-ryeong
Choi Nam-hyeon (최남현)
Um Aing-ran

References

External links

South Korean fantasy films
1962 films
Films based on fairy tales
Films directed by Jeong Chang-hwa


Keanan Duffty (born 28 April 1964) is a British fashion designer and musician based in New York City. Duffty studied fashion design at Saint Martin's School of Art in London, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Mentor for the Master's Program in Fashion Styling at Polimoda and Program Director at the Master’s of Professional Studies in Fashion Management at Parsons School of Design.

Early years
Duffty was a founding member of the British Punk band Sordid Details with Martin Beard (Drums), Jonathan Cameron (vocals) and Dave Huzzard (Bass). Formed in 1978 in the North of England Sordid Details were influenced by the Sex Pistols, for whom Duffty would later design stage clothes.

In 1980, Duffty formed Wonder Stories, a New Romantic group which gained support from Radio 1 DJ Peter Powell and reviews in the Sounds music paper. Wonder Stories performed live in 1980 and 1981, however by 1982 Duffty moved to London to study fashion design at St Martin's School of Art. Duffty worked at PX, the London New Romantic boutique where Visage vocalist Steve Strange had also worked.

Duffty was discovered by music business insider Falcon Stuart, former manager of Adam and the Ants, and X Ray Spex. Stuart arranged for Duffty to record demos for EMI and MCA records, eventually releasing a 12" dance mix of Water Sport on Falcon Stuart's Awesome Records label (AOR4) in 1985. Duffty recorded a four song session at Maida Vale Studios for BBC Radio 1 DJ Janice Long. Water Sport was record of the week in Smash Hits, reviewed in the NME by Dylan Jones and became a club hit in the UK. Duffty played a number of London shows including the ID Magazine Fifth anniversary party at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Duffty relocated to New York in 1993 where he recorded the song I Am An Alien. The Video featured famed downtown diva Amanda Lepore as a futuristic nurse.

Fashion
Duffty established his fashion label and SoHo design studio in 1999. The collection is inspired by subversive subcultures and mixes high fashion with youth culture, music and British iconography. Over 70 premium specialty retailers carried the collection from 1999–2006 including Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdales, Fred Segal, Lane Crawford, Harvey Nichols, Bay Crews and Journal Standard in Japan.

Duffty has a celebrity following that included David Bowie. In 2001 Duffty designed a space suit worn by Martha Stewart in a Kmart commercial.

In 2007 Duffty collaborated with David Bowie to create a limited-edition Bowie inspired collection for Target stores nationwide.

Duffty's clothes have been featured on TV shows including American Idol, Entourage, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Rock Star: Supernova and several music videos. Duffty also designs the clothes for his rock band Slinky Vagabond.

In 2010 Duffty announced the return of his signature label, re-entering the market with a contemporary men's collection for spring.  The collection launched with 50 pieces, including woven shirts, knits, outerwear, skinny jeans, vests, trenchcoats and band jackets.  On September 10, Duffty staged a guerilla-style fashion show in New York City.  The models arrived by bus and marched at Lincoln Center with protest signs displaying lyrics from songs by Kraftwerk and Adam Ant.

From 2012 to 2015 Duffty was Senior Academic Director of the Fashion Merchandising program at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.  Polimoda fashion institute in Florence Italy named Duffty as their Mentor for the Masters Program in Fashion Styling, from April 2017.

Music

Duffty has been lead singer in the band Slinky Vagabond, alongside Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), Clem Burke (Blondie), and Earl Slick (David Bowie/John Lennon). Slinky Vagabond made their debut in May 2007 at Irving Plaza as part of Joey Ramone's annual birthday bash. Slinky Vagabond also performed for Gen Art during New York fashion week and at the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp.  In 2008, XS games launched Pop Star Guitar for the Wii and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system. Songs include "Glitterbug" from Slinky Vagabond, along with tracks by Fall Out Boy, Paramore and All-American Rejects.

Duffty also performed at the Marc Bolan 30th Anniversary show at the Delacorte Theatre in September 2007 alongside Patti Smith, Scissor Sisters, Moby, Lloyd Cole and the New York Dolls. On April 18, 2008, Duffty was part of an extraordinary concert line-up featuring performances by Clem Burke, Slash, Tom Morrello, Alan Vega, Ronnie Spector, Ian Hunter, Cheetah Chrome, Joan Jett, and Handsome Dick Manitoba. The world of music and fashion fused as John Varvatos celebrated the opening of his second boutique in New York City at 315 Bowery, a space that formerly housed the seminal underground music club CBGB's.

In May 2008, Duffty was a featured performer at the Loser's Lounge tribute to the Kinks at Joe's Public Theater in New York City with Earl Slick. Duffty regularly sang at downtown New York events such as 'Bowie Ball', held bi-annually at Don Hill's club in the Village.

In December 2012, Duffty released a new album titled Killers in Glitter, a compilation of Duffty's music, from "Water Sport" (1985) to his work with Slinky Vagabond in 2007. Songs were written or co-written by Duffty with the exception of two covers: the David Bowie classic "Boys Keep Swinging" and the Bauhaus goth anthem "Bela Lugosi's Dead". Duffty can be heard covering Katy Perry, Lana Del Rey, Joy Division and Primal Scream on his most recent album Total Dragon Pop (2014) with Earl Slick producing and playing guitar.

Television
Duffty's television credits include hosting The Juice in  2008 on the now defunct US network Plum TV, for which he interviewed cultural icons including Gore Vidal, Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger, Elvis Costello, Russell Simmons, punk impresario Malcolm McLaren, and actors Laura Dern, Courteney Cox, Alec Baldwin and Chase Crawford of Gossip Girl. Duffty has appeared as a mentor on TLC’s Faking It, and has been featured extensively on MTV, Videofashion, E! Entertainment, Sirius XM Radio and BLUE GOLD, a new documentary on the iconic blue jean.

Rebel Rebel-Anti Style
In 2009, Duffty co-authored (with Paul Gorman) Rebel Rebel-Anti Style. Tracing the roots of rebel style to the music scene, the book explores how fashionable music and "anti-fashion" icons, like David Bowie, Sex Pistols, and Gwen Stefani, have inspired fashion. The book was published by Rizzoli (US) and Adelita (UK).

Duffty has given a series of "Rebel Rebel-Anti Style" lectures at fashion schools, including the Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons The New School in New York City, Marist College, the Academy of Art San Francisco, LIM College, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and the Brooklyn Museum.

Velvet Revolver
In 2008, Duffty received two instrumental tracks from Sanctuary Management, the representatives of Velvet Revolver. The two demo tracks were titled 'Muthafucka' and 'Clappy'. Duffty's challenge was to write and record vocals and lyrics for these songs. Duffty went into Club House studios in Upstate New York with Earl Slick as producer. The resulting session produced new versions of the Velvet Revolver instrumentals now entitled "Fear No Evil" and "Prima Donna".

Malcolm McLaren project
Malcolm McLaren: Spectacular Failure has been a documentary film project under development for a decade. Producers Keanan Duffty and Daniel Honan captured the last interview with McLaren in 2008 in Long Island, New York.

References

External links

British fashion designers
Living people
British punk rock singers
1964 births
Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art
Menswear designers


Denis "Denny" Larocque (born October 5, 1967), is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in 8 games in the National Hockey League for the Los Angeles Kings during the 1987–88 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1987 to 1993, was spent in the minor leagues.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

External links

1967 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Cape Breton Oilers players
Dayton Bombers players
Denver Rangers players
Flint Spirits players
Franco-Ontarian people
Guelph Platers players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Los Angeles Kings draft picks
Los Angeles Kings players
Moncton Hawks players
New Haven Nighthawks players
People from Hawkesbury, Ontario
St. Thomas Wildcats players


Gary Laskoski (born June 6, 1959) is a Canadian former ice hockey goaltender. Laskoski played 59 games in the National Hockey League for the Los Angeles Kings during the 1982–83 and 1983–84 seasons.

Biography
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Laskoski played 59 games for the Kings over two seasons after playing for the St. Lawrence University Saints of the ECAC for four years. He also played one season with the New Haven Nighthawks of the American Hockey League before retiring in 1984.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

External links

1959 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
Ice hockey people from Ottawa
Los Angeles Kings players
New Haven Nighthawks players
St. Lawrence Saints men's ice hockey players
Undrafted National Hockey League players


Ségalin is a red French wine grape variety that is a crossing of Jurançon noir and Portugais. As a varietal, Ségalin has the potential to produce well structured wines.

Ségalin has no synonyms.

References

Red wine grape varieties


Jacques Leonard Lemieux (born April 8, 1943) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 19 games in the National Hockey League for the Los Angeles Kings between 1967 and 1969. He was selected in 15th round, 85th overall by the Kings in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft. Lemieux was one of the players from the 1967 team that was honored before the Kings' first home game of the 2016–17 season.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

References

External links

1943 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Cleveland Barons (1937–1973) players
Denver Spurs (WHL) players
French Quebecers
Houston Apollos players
Los Angeles Kings players
Omaha Knights (CHL) players
People from Matane
Springfield Kings players


Similar to computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), virtual collaborative learning environments aim to produce technology-based learning processes where participants can work together as a group to construct and share knowledge . Such environments “provide a rich opportunity for collaborative knowledge building, particularly through peer-to-peer dialogue.

In context of virtual collaborative learning, virtual structures and spaces are designed for individual and collaborative learning activities .

Virtual collaborative learning in terms of problem-oriented project work in groups facilitated is becoming increasingly common in distributed learning settings where participants are physically in different locations.

The basic affordances of virtual collaborative learning are to have the ability to synchronously and asynchronously communicate via an array of electronic tools, e.g.: group and discussion chats, wikis, and blogs, where application transparency is essential. The main barrier to virtual collaborative learning is the difficulty in achieving agreement when diverse viewpoints, cultural boundaries, acuity of thoughts, or different working and cognitive learning styles exist.

Virtual collaborative learning systems can be divided into two main categories: action-oriented from where the participant’s knowledge is captured and shared or text-oriented which focuses on participants sharing knowledge via written communication. Within these categories, the participants may
use a range of tools for both synchronous (e.g. chat, telephone conference, video conference) and asynchronous (e.g. threaded forum, document pool, e-mail)
communication.

The evolution of virtual collaborative learning systems will depend upon the participant's cognitive processes. The participant may adapt to the technology to change the way that they learn or the participant may utilize their learning and collaborative situation to optimize use the technology.

See also

 Collaborative workspace
 Computer-supported collaborative learning
 E-Learning
 Virtual Learning Environment

References

External links

1. Researching "collaborative knowledge building" in formal distance learning environments. Vanessa Paz Dennen, Trena M. Paulus. Page 96.

2. Proactive Behaviour May Lead to Failure in Virtual Project-Based Collaborative Learning. Pernille Bjørn, Morten Hertzum. Page 1.

3. Collaborative Learning Team PBWiki. DePaul University's PM440 Fall 2008 Collaborative Learning Team, Tony Feldhaus, Ruth Hong, Zoaib Mirza, Ahmad Noordin. http://pm440.pbwiki.com/CLT

4. Designing Collaborative Learning Systems: Current Trends & Future Research Agenda. Angelique Dimitracopoulou. Page 116.

5. Principles and Grand Challenges for the Futures: A Prospectus for the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Community" Eric Hamilton (2007).

6.

7. Virtual Learning – Everything You Need to Know Article By CloudShare

Notes

Virtual learning environments


Mikael Lindholm (born 19 December 1964) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player who played for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League. His son Elias Lindholm is a professional ice hockey player and was selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 1st round (5th overall) of the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. Lindholm is also the uncle of Toronto Maple Leafs centre Calle Järnkrok.

Career statistics

References

External links

1964 births
Living people
Brynäs IF players
Hannover Scorpions players
Los Angeles Kings draft picks
Los Angeles Kings players
Luleå HF players
Malmö Redhawks players
New Haven Nighthawks players
Ice hockey people from Gävle
Phoenix Roadrunners (IHL) players
Swedish ice hockey centres


Brian McReynolds (born January 5, 1965, in Penetanguishene, Ontario) is a former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Winnipeg Jets, New York Rangers, and Los Angeles Kings.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

References

External links

1965 births
Atlanta Knights players
Binghamton Rangers players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden
Canadian ice hockey centres
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Kölner Haie players
Living people
Los Angeles Kings players
Malmö Redhawks players
Michigan State Spartans men's ice hockey players
Moncton Hawks players
NCAA men's ice hockey national champions
New York Rangers draft picks
New York Rangers players
People from Penetanguishene
Phoenix Roadrunners (IHL) players
Starbulls Rosenheim players
Winnipeg Jets (1979–1996) players


Badminton railway station is a closed railway station in Gloucestershire, England on the line between Wootton Bassett to the east, and Patchway and Filton to the west. It served the villages of Badminton and Acton Turville.

The station was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1903 and became part of British Railways on 1 January 1948. The station was closed in 1968.

The station buildings and sections of platforms still stand derelict with trains passing through the site on the South Wales Main Line.

Further reading

External links
Badminton on navigable 1946 O. S. map
Badminton on Geograph
The local M.P. raises the closure in Parliament – May 1968

Former Great Western Railway stations
Disused railway stations in Bristol, Bath and South Gloucestershire
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1903
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1968


Friedrich Karl Max Vierhapper (7 March 1876 in Weidenau – 11 July 1932) was an Austrian plant collector, botanist and professor of botany at the University of Vienna. He was the son of amateur botanist Friedrich Vierhapper (1844–1903), botanical abbreviation- "F.Vierh.".

Background
From 1894 to 1899, he studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna, where he later worked as an assistant to Richard Wettstein at the botanical institute. From 1911 to 1932 he was an honorary professor at the school of veterinary medicine in Vienna. In the meantime, from 1918 he was employed as an associate professor of systematic botany at the University of Vienna.

He specialized in research of botanical species native to Austria, Switzerland and Greece. During his career, he collaborated with botanist August von Hayek (1871-1928) on plant-collecting excursions. He processed and described flora collected from an expedition by the Vienna Academy of Sciences to southern Arabia and Socotra (1898–99).

He was the binomial author of numerous species from the genus Erigeron. The plant genus Vierhapperia was named after him by botanist Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti (1882-1940).

Published works
In 1929 he published the second edition of Anton Kerner von Marilaun's Das Pflanzenleben der Donauländer (The plant life of Danube countries).
 Bau und Leben der Pflanzen : in zwölf gemeinverständliche Vorträge. Wien : C. Konegen, 1905. (with Karl Linsbauer) - Construction and biology of plants; in twelve easy-to-understand presentations.
 Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora Südarabiens und der Inseln Socotra, Semha und Abd al Kuri, 1907 - Contributions to the knowledge of south Arabian flora as well as the Islands of Socotra, Semha and Abd al Kuri
 Entwurf eines neuen Systemes der Coniferen, 1910 - Outline of a new system for conifers.
 Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora Kretas, 1917 - Contributions to the knowledge of Cretan flora.
 Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora Griechenlands, 1918 - Contributions to the knowledge of Greek flora.
 Vegetation und Flora des Lungau (Salzburg), 1935 - Vegetation and flora of Lungau (Salzburg).

References

External links

20th-century Austrian botanists
Academic staff of the University of Vienna
1932 deaths
People from Vidnava
1876 births
Botanists from Austria-Hungary


Shiroka Melnishka, (), often called Melnik (Мелник, distinct from other varieties named after the town) or Broadleafed Melnik, is a red Bulgarian wine grape variety. It is planted primarily near the Greek border. In Bulgarian the grape's name means "broad-leaved vine of Melnik". As a varietal, Shiroka Melnishka has an affinity for oak which can produce pronounced tobacco notes. The wines are often compared to Châteauneuf-du-Pape with its similar profile of spice and power. The wine was a particular favourite of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Notable producers of wine from the variety are Abdyika Vineyard, Villa Melnik, Damianitza, Logodaj and Sintica wineries.

Synonyms
Other transliterations that have been attested include Chiroka Melnichka Losa, Chiroka Melnichka, Melnik, Shiroka Melnichka Loza, Shiroka Melnishka, and Shiroka Melnishka Loza.

Related Varieties
The traditional Broadleafed Melnik grape ripens late, and is harvested as late as October. This makes fully ripened grapes difficult to achieve, as the climate in south-west Bulgaria is becoming cold and damp by this time. In the 20th century there have been number of experimental hybrids made of various varieties to try to develop them in a way more suitable for Bulgarian vineyards. In 1963 a mixture of pollen from Valdiguié, Durif, Jurançon and Cabernet Sauvignon was used to hybridise with the Broadleafed Melnik vine. The resultant variety was approved for use in 1977 but was not much taken up until the first professional fermentation of it in 1999 generated more interest. The variety is called under various synonyms: Melnik 55, or Early Melnik, or Ranna Melnishka Loza (). Genetic testing has now shown the pollen parent was in fact Valdiguié. The resultant wine is usually quite different from that made from Broadleafed Melnik, although some bottles confusingly still bear front labels calling the wine merely "Melnik".

References

External links
 Damianitza Winery
 Logodaj Winery
 Villa Melnik Winery

Red wine grape varieties
Bulgarian wine
Grape varieties of Bulgaria


Ronald Mark Davis (June 18, 1956 – November 6, 2008) was an American physician who specialized in preventive medicine and was a public health and anti-tobacco advocate. Davis served a one-year term as president of the American Medical Association from 2006 to June 2007.

Biography
Davis was born in Chicago on June 18, 1956, to George and Alice Komessar Davis. He earned his Bachelor of Science in zoology from the University of Michigan in 1978, received a Master of Arts in public policy from the University of Chicago in 1981 and was awarded an M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1983.

He served from 1987 to 1991 as the director of the Center for Disease Control's Office on Smoking and Health and was chief medical officer of the Michigan Department of Public Health from 1991 to 1995. He later served as the director of health promotion and disease prevention for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. In 1992, he was the founding editor-in-chief of the medical journal Tobacco Control, published by the British Medical Association.

He became the first resident ever named to board of the American Medical Association, serving from 1984 to 1987. He was elected to the AMA's board again in 2001 and re-elected in 2005. He served as AMA's 162nd president from June 2007 to June 2008. He was the first physician specializing in Preventive Medicine to be named president of the AMA.

After being diagnosed with the disease in February 2008, Davis used his role as the AMA's president to encourage doctors to increase awareness of pancreatic cancer, a disease that ultimately killed Davis and which kills 34,000 Americans each year. As president of the AMA, Davis played a major role in the apology issued for the AMA's longstanding policies that effectively excluded African-American physicians from joining the organization. The AMA required doctors to be members of local medical associations, many of which refused to admit black doctors. Davis noted "a feeling of profound regret and embarrassment for what has been uncovered. That is why we are issuing this apology, but also because we believe that by confronting our past we can build a better future." Davis was a long-standing member of the American Association of Public Health Physicians, which collaborates with the National Medical Association on historic inequities and health disparities. Davis provided memorable keynote addresses, at the 2008 AMA meeting, and to the AAPHP on June 14, 2008.

Davis died at age 52 on November 6, 2008, in his home near East Lansing, Michigan. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. Davis had married the former Nadine Messina in 1979 and was survived by her and their three sons.

References

1956 births
2008 deaths
Physicians from Chicago
American public health doctors
Deaths from cancer in Michigan
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
People from East Lansing, Michigan
Pritzker School of Medicine alumni
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni
Anti-smoking activists
Presidents of the American Medical Association
University of Michigan School of Public Health alumni


Elias George Conklin (16 August 1845 – 20 April 1901) was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and the fifth Mayor of Winnipeg.

Conklin was born in 1845 near what is today Paris, Ontario. During his private career, he was a partner in the real estate firm Conklin and Fortune and was also involved in construction and grist mill ventures.

Towards the end of 1880, after Conklin had been a city alderman for some time, he defeated William Gomez Fonseca in the Winnipeg mayoral election. Conklin served as Mayor in 1881, then left that office after serving only one year.

Conklin was a Liberal candidate in Winnipeg in the 1882 Canadian federal election.

In 1883, he was elected for the Winnipeg North provincial riding. Conklin served one term there until his defeat in the 1886 provincial election.

References

1845 births
1901 deaths
Manitoba Liberal Party MLAs
Mayors of Winnipeg
People from the County of Brant
Candidates in the 1882 Canadian federal election
Liberal Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons
Manitoba candidates for Member of Parliament


American singer-songwriter Kim Carnes has released 13 studio albums, one live album, five compilation albums, and 48 singles (including seven as a featured artist). She signed with Amos Records in 1971 and released her debut album Rest on Me in the same year. Her self-titled second album was released in the following year. Kim Carnes yielded one single, "You're a Part of Me", which became Carnes' first charting title. The song reached No. 32 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. None of Carnes's albums charted until the release of her fifth studio album Romance Dance (1980). The album peaked at No. 57 on the Billboard 200, No. 77 on the Canadian Albums Chart and No. 89 on the Australian Albums Chart. Romance Dance produced two hit singles; the Smokey Robinson and the Miracles cover "More Love", which made the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 10, and "Cry Like a Baby", which peaked right outside of the top 40, at No. 44.

Carnes' success peaked with the release of Mistaken Identity (1981), which reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album's lead single "Bette Davis Eyes" was an international success, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and in several other countries. Carnes' follow-up album Voyeur saw moderate success, with the title track reaching No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the second single "Does It Make You Remember" reached No. 36.

Carnes released three more albums, Café Racers (1983), Barking at Airplanes (1985) and Light House (1986), before failing to chart on the Billboard 200 again. The most successful single releases on the Billboard Hot 100 from these albums were "Invisible Hands" (No. 40), "You Make My Heart Beat Faster (and That's All That Matters)" (No. 54), and "Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes)" (No. 15). Carnes permanently relocated to Nashville after the release of View from the House (1988); its lead single, "Crazy in Love", reached No. 13 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Her last two albums, Checkin' Out the Ghosts (1991) and Chasin' Wild Trains (2004), failed to chart worldwide.

Albums

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Singles

As lead artist

As guest artist

Soundtracks and Other Appearances

Music videos

References

External links

Country music discographies
Discographies of American artists
Pop music discographies


"Ride on Time" is MAX's 10th single released under Avex Trax. The title track and its b-side were used as the opening and ending theme songs to the drama "Sweet Devil" which starred the members of MAX as a group of college women who become cursed after using forbidden magic after getting involved in the case of a serial killer. The single debuted in the top 5 of the Oricon chart upon release and is the group's third best selling single.

Track list

Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

References

MAX (band) songs
1998 singles
Japanese television drama theme songs
Songs with lyrics by Gorō Matsui
Song recordings produced by Max Matsuura


Fiction Weekly was an American literary magazine based in Lake Charles, Louisiana.  Fiction Weekly was conceived in the summer of 2008 by members of the McNeese State University MFA Program in creative writing.  As its name suggests, Fiction Weekly publishes on a weekly basis; it is published exclusively on the internet and features one previously unpublished piece of fiction on its front page each week.

Authors published in Fiction Weekly have appeared in anthologies such as New Stories From the South, have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and have been published in many other well reputed literary magazines including, Glimmer Train, The Pinch, and Harpur Palate.

However, as of May 2010, the website had not been updated for six months. It was stated that the magazine ceased publication.

Notable Contributors
Michael Knight, Anya Groner, Ryan Crider, Michelle Reed, Josh Canipe, and Paul Michel.

See also
List of literary magazines

References

External links
 Fiction Weekly (official website)

2008 establishments in Louisiana
Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
Fiction magazines
McNeese State University
Magazines established in 2008
Magazines disestablished in 2010
Magazines published in Louisiana
Mass media in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Weekly magazines published in the United States
Online literary magazines published in the United States


Uva Rara is a red Italian wine grape variety that is grown in the Piedmont and Lombardy wine regions of northern Italy. The grape is a permitted blending variety along with Nebbiolo in the Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG) wines of Ghemme. In the Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC) wine region of Oltrepò Pavese the grape is often blended with Barbera and Croatina. While Uva Rara's name means "rare grape" in Italian, the variety is actually widely planted with 608 hectares (1,502 acres) of the vine recorded in Italy in 2000.

History and relationship to other grapes

Uva Rara has a long history of being grown in the Piedmont and Lombardy region, particularly in the provinces of Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Novara, Torino, Vercelli and Pavia. Here the grape has been historically used as a blending grape, with Nebbiolo in Piedmont and with Barbera and Croatina in Lombardy.

Uva Rara is often confused with the Gattinara and Oltrepò Pavese grape Vespolina that is also known as Uva Rara, which means "rare grape" in Italian. Around the communes of Novara, Pavia and Vercelli, Uva Rara is known as Bonarda which has led it to be confused with many of the other grape varieties known as Bonarda, particularly Bonarda Piemontese. However, despite the similarities of synonyms and use in many of the same wines, there is no known relationship between Uva Rara and these other grape varieties.

Viticulture
Uva Rara is a mid to late-ripening grape variety. Among the viticultural hazards that the vine is most susceptible to includes the fungal infection of powdery mildew and millerandage which can lead to the malformation of grape berries if the weather is unfavourable during flowering.

Wine regions

In 2000, there were 608 hectares (1,502 acres) of Uva Rara planted throughout Italy with the vast majority in the Piedmont and Lombardy regions. Here the grape is a permitted blending variety in several DOCs and can be made as a varietal in the Colline Novaresi DOC. In the Oltrepò Pavese and San Colombano al Lambro DOC, Uva Rara is usually blended with Croatina and Barbera while in the Boca, Fara, Coste della Sesia DOC and Sizzano DOCs, it plays a secondary role to Nebbiolo. It is also permitted in the DOCG wine of Ghemme where it plays a similar role in softening the Nebbiolo-based wines of the region.

Styles
While Uva Rara is primarily a blending grape, adding softness and fruit to the wines, it can also be made into a varietal. According to Master of Wine Jancis Robinson, varietal styles of Uva Rara tend to be soft, medium bodied with a very perfumed bouquet but the potential to have a bitter finish.

Synonyms
Over the years Uva Rara has been known under a variety of synonyms including: Balsamea, Balsamina, Balsamina , Bonarda, Bonarda di Cavaglia, Bonarda di Gattinara, Bonarda Novarese, Foglia Lucente, Martellana, Oriana, Orianella, Oriola, Raione, Rairon, Raplum, Raplun and Rara.

References

Red wine grape varieties


Astromantic is the third studio album by the Japanese hip-hop group M-Flo. It was released on May 26, 2004, through Rhythm Zone. Remixes of songs from this album were released as Astromantic Charm School. The album spawned three singles featuring different singers: "Reeewind!" with Crystal Kay, "Miss You" with Melody, and "The Love Bug" with BoA.

Commercially, the album peaked at number two on the Oricon Albums Chart and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for physical sales in June 2004.

Background
Astromantic was released via Avex's record label Rhythm Zone on May 26, 2004, and marks the group's first studio album in over three years, since March 2001's Expo Expo. It is the group's first album without Lisa as the vocalist, since her departure from the trio in April 2002. Instead of finding a new vocalist, the band started to collaborate with different singers, with each collaboration credited to "m-flo loves" the featured artist. Remixes of songs from this album were later released on the Astromantic Charm School remix album, released on September 15, 2004.

Reception
Astromantic reached number 2 on the Oricon Albums Chart and stayed on the chart for a total of 34 weeks. The album sold 330,497 copies by the end of 2004, and ranked at number 42 on the year-end Oricon Albums Chart.

Track listing
The Third Impact
Miss You [M-Flo Loves Melody. & Ryohei Yamamoto]
Starstruck - "The Return of the Luvbytes" [M-Flo Loves Ai, Emi Hinouchi & Rum (Heartsdales)]
How to Be Astromantic
Vanessa [M-Flo Loves Bloodest Saxophone]
Way U Move [M-Flo Loves Dragon Ash]
Get On! [M-Flo Loves Crystal Kay]
Astrosexy [M-Flo Loves Chemistry]
Listen to Your Heart
The Love Bug [M-Flo Loves BoA]
Life Is Beautiful [M-Flo Loves Double & Toku]
I Wanna Be Down [M-Flo Loves Ryuichi Sakamoto]
Rendezvous 2014
Cosmic Night Run [M-Flo Loves Maki Nomiya & Crazy Ken Band]
Reeewind! [M-Flo Loves Crystal Kay]
Uchu No Uouo (Woah Woah of Space) [M-Flo Loves Boy-Ken & Black Bottom Brass Band]
Curtain Call

Charts and certifications

Album charts

Certifications

Release history

References

M-Flo albums
Avex Group albums
2004 albums


Vespolina is a red Italian wine grape variety that is planted in Piedmont around Gattinara and Ghemme. Ampelographer believe that the grape is most likely indigenous to this area of Piedmont and recent DNA profiling identified a parent-offspring relationship with Nebbiolo. Outside Piedmont it is found in the Lombardy region of Oltrepò Pavese where the grape is known as Ughetta. In Gattinara, Vespolina is sometimes blended with Nebbiolo and Bonarda Piemontese. Unlike the white Italian grape Vespaiolo, the root of the name Vespolina does not have a direct connection with vespe or wasp. However the true origins of the name are still unclear.

Relationship to other grapes
Through its parent-offspring relationship with Nebbiolo, Vespolina is a half-sibling of several Piemontese wine grape varieties including: Bubbierasco, Brugnola, Freisa, Nebbiolo rosé, Negretta, Neretto di Bairo and Rossola nera.

Synonyms
The grape Vespolina is known under a variety of synonyms. These include Balsamina, Canneta, Croattina, Guzetta, Guzitta, Guzzetta, Inzaga, Inzagre, Massana, Nespolina, Nespolino, Novarina, Solenga, Ughetta, Ughetta di Caneto, Ughetta di Canetto, Ughetta di Canneto, Ughetta di Fassolo, Ughetta di Solenga, Uva Cinerina, Uva Rara, Uvetta, Uvetto, Vespolino, Visparola and Vispavola.

References

Red wine grape varieties


Victor Nechayev (born January 28, 1955) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played three games for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League. He was the first player from the Soviet Union to play in the NHL, as well as the first to score a goal.

A native of Siberia, Nechayev met Cheryl Haigler, an American citizen, in Switzerland in 1976, while he was playing for the Red Army team. They married in 1980 in Leningrad. In April 1982, Nechayev was granted permission to join his wife in the United States.

In the 1982 NHL Entry Draft, Nechayev was picked 132nd overall by the Kings. Unlike other Soviet players, Nechayev was able to join the team immediately, since he was already living in North America at the time he was drafted. He scored his only NHL goal against the New York Rangers on October 17, 1982.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

References

External links

1955 births
Düsseldorfer EG players
HC Sibir Novosibirsk players
Living people
Los Angeles Kings draft picks
Los Angeles Kings players
New Haven Nighthawks players
People from Belogorsk, Amur Oblast
Saginaw Gears players
SKA Saint Petersburg players
Soviet ice hockey forwards
Sportspeople from Amur Oblast


D-Photo is a bi-monthly full colour, perfect bound photography magazine (and associated website) that focuses on digital photography, cameras and related products in New Zealand. D-Photo is produced by Parkside Media and caters to novice, amateur, and enthusiast photographers.

Magazine contents
As of the December/January 2009 issue (#27), the typical magazine contents included:
Editor and contributor columns
Newly released products and imaging events
Product and software reviews
Readers’ letters
Articles outlining tips, tricks and techniques (such as image editing, lighting techniques, etc.)
Interviews with prominent professional photographers
Photo competitions

Website
Daily news articles are available weekdays which are additional to magazine content. Full magazine articles and competition results are available from previous issues, often including additional photos and information (including videos) that could not be fitted into the magazine.

A forum is run as a subsite to encourage user interaction. Users can purchase books related to photography, as well as back issues and subscriptions in the online shop.

Editorial staff
Editor Adrian Hatwell has been with the magazine since 2010. Notable contributors include Fraser Kitt, Wayne Lorimer, Hans Weichselbaum, David Maida, Jackie Ranken, Mike Langford and Harley Ogier.

Support of events in New Zealand
Parkside Media provides some support to the PSNZ (Photographic Society of New Zealand) and is a media partner for the NZIPP (New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography) Annual Iris Photography Awards.

See also
The Photographer's Mail – defunct photography industry magazine also published by Parkside Media
Tone  – defunct consumer technology magazine also published by Parkside Media

References

External links
D-Photo
Parkside Media

1999 establishments in New Zealand
Bi-monthly magazines
Magazines established in 1999
Magazines published in New Zealand
Photography magazines
Photography in New Zealand


Carmel Market (, Shuk HaCarmel) is an outdoor marketplace in Tel Aviv, Israel.

History
The Carmel market was established in the 1920s. It is bordered by Allenby Street and Magen David Square and is principally located along Carmel Street, but has expanded over time to streets such as Nahalat Binyamin Street.

The market is open every day of the week, except Shabbat (Saturday), and sells mostly food but also a variety of items such as home accessories, and flowers. Tuesdays and Fridays are the signature days at the market as several independent artists and vendors sell unique crafts, art, and jewelry along Nahalat Binyamin Street.

References

See also
Mahane Yehuda Market
Carmel Market bombing

Food markets
Retail markets in Israel
Buildings and structures in Tel Aviv


The lilacine amazon (Amazona autumnalis lilacina) or Ecuadorian red-lored amazon is an amazon parrot native to Ecuador in South America. According to the IOC World Bird List, it is still considered to be a subspecies of the red-lored amazon, although Birdlife International considers it to be a separate species, as Amazona lilacina - as does the International Union for Conservation of Nature for the purposes of the IUCN Red List, rating the lilacine amazon as critically endangered.

The lilacine amazon is generally smaller than its related subspecies, with a black beak and more subdued coloring. Lilacine amazons are said to make favorable companion parrots because of their gentle, affectionate nature and agreeable temperament.

Description
The lilacine amazon is a small parrot, approximately 34 cm long when mature, with primarily green plumage. Like the red-lored amazon, it has red lores and yellow cheeks; its distinguishing features include a fully black beak, and lilac-tipped feathers on its crown.

Behavior
The lilacine amazon is known for its gentle and timid nature. In the wild it avoids confrontation with intruders, opting to seek cover in nearby foliage until danger has passed. It usually spends time in small- to medium-sized groups, with which it roosts at night; many birds pair off monogamously within the larger group, and they are most frequently seen flying in pairs.

Diet
The diet of the lilacine amazon consists primarily of fruits, nuts, berries, and seeds. Like most parrots, it possesses a powerful beak; its dexterous tongue also helps to break down and consume a diverse suite of foodstuffs.

Breeding
Sexual maturity is reached at three or four years of age. Like most parrots, the lilacine amazon is a monogamous breeder and a cavity nester. The hen will lay two to four eggs in a tree cavity and incubate them for a period of three weeks; the young fledge about two months after hatching.

As with many other parrots, the male will keep the female and chicks nourished during their time in the nest by consuming additional food and regurgitating it for them.

Distribution and habitat
The lilacine amazon is native to the tropical dry forests of western Ecuador north of the Gulf of Guayaquil, extending to Nariño in extreme south-western Colombia adjacent to the Ecuadorian border, where it intersects with the subspecies A. a. salvini.

Aviculture
Lilacine amazons have become well regarded as companion parrots, intelligent with a personality often described as gentle, affectionate, and loyal. In captivity, they enjoy the company of people, and will often form a strong bond with their owner. They are not known as exceptional talkers, but most individuals are able to learn to mimic at least a few phrases. The World Parrot Trust recommends that the lilacine amazon be housed in an enclosure with a minimum length of 3 metres.

The lilacine amazon has only recently become popular and common in the pet trade, formerly being quite rare. At least one captive breeding program has been established in Europe to increase the bird's numbers.

References

External links

Amazona lilacina - Ecuador Amazon

lilacine amazon
Endemic birds of Ecuador
lilacine amazon
Species endangered by the pet trade


Jan Němeček (born February 14, 1976) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted 215th overall in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings and played seven games in the National Hockey League for the Kings, scoring one goal.

Career statistics

External links

1976 births
Living people
Bolzano HC players
Czech ice hockey defencemen
EK Zell am See players
EHC Freiburg players
Fredericton Canadiens players
HC Karlovy Vary players
Hull Olympiques players
IHC Písek players
Leksands IF players
Long Beach Ice Dogs (IHL) players
Los Angeles Kings draft picks
Los Angeles Kings players
Mississippi Sea Wolves players
Motor České Budějovice players
Nürnberg Ice Tigers players
Odense Bulldogs players
Ice hockey people from Písek
Phoenix Roadrunners (IHL) players
Piráti Chomutov players
Ritten Sport players
SHC Fassa players
Timrå IK players
VEU Feldkirch players
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Canada
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Germany
Czech expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden
Czech expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Czech expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Czech expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Expatriate ice hockey players in Austria
Expatriate ice hockey players in Italy
Expatriate ice hockey players in Denmark


Mark William Collins is an American radio personality, featured in an exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Collins rose to prominence in the early 1990s as a disc jockey on alternative rock station 107.7 FM "The End" (KNDD) in Seattle, Washington, with the popularity of grunge.

He has worked at a number of rock music radio stations along the West Coast, including KYSR 98.7 in Los Angeles, KCR and XTRA-FM (91X) in San Diego, KITS (Live 105) in San Francisco, KNDD in Seattle, KWOD in Sacramento, California, KEXP in Seattle, and KPNW-FM in Seattle.

For a short time during the 1990s, he owned Stampede Records, which released Silkworm's 1993 EP "His Absence is a Blessing" and Muzzle's "Free Trampoline/Come On Down" (7" single).

A documentary, The Glamour & The Squalor, has been made about his life, and his "rise, fall and reemergence" as a radio host and world premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival in Seattle on June 3, 2015. The film has also been shown at Outfest, the L.A. LGBT film festival, and was screened at both the Tacoma Film Festival and the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in October 2015. The film was named one of The 10 Best LGBT Documentaries of 2015 by Out Magazine.

Radio career
Collins' radio career began in 1984 as a DJ on KCR, San Diego State University's college radio station. He quickly became the station's music director, a position he held until leaving the station in 1989. While in San Diego, Collins also worked as an intern and on air host at XTRA-FM.

After working in radio promotions at Relativity Records, Collins took a job at KNDD "107.7 The End" in Seattle. He became the station's music director and assistant program director, in addition to hosting his own show in the evenings. Collins is also credited with birthing KNDD's The Young and the Restless, the station's longstanding all-local music program.

Collins was instrumental in breaking such artists as Beck, The Presidents of the United States of America, Foo Fighters, Harvey Danger's "Flagpole Sitta" and was the first person to play Weezer's "Undone (The Sweater Song)." He is also credited for debuting tracks by Garbage, Death Cab For Cutie, Sunny Day Real Estate and Everclear.

Collins left "The End" in 1998 to take the A&R Director position at Movement Records in Los Angeles. It was there where he worked with acts such as Rage Against the Machine, Sean Lennon and Cypress Hill. He left to take a position at VH1 as the station's Director of Music Programming.

From 2003 until 2005, Marco Collins worked at KWOD 106.5 in Sacramento, California as the afternoon disc jockey and the station's music director. In 2005, he returned to San Diego and accepted the position of Music Director at XTRA-FM (91X) in an attempt to return the station to prominence. Collins was hired by KYSR to host the mid-day show from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in 2008. He also hosted the station's Rewind at Noon segment, featuring rock hits from the 1980s and 1990s. He left the station in September 2009. Collins joined the on-air staff at Seattle's KEXP on January 12, 2009, leaving the station on April 13, 2023. On April 25, it was announced that Collins was joining KPNW-FM in Seattle as the afternoon host.

In 2015, The Glamour & The Squalor, a documentary on the beginning of his career at "107.7 The End" and a look into his personal life premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival.

References

External links

Seattle Times - If Marco Doesn't Get It, There's Nothing To Be Got!
KCR college radio at SDSU
Kitsap Sun- Interview with a Bandmeister
The Stranger - It's My Party
[ Silkworm - "His Absence Is a Blessing"]

American radio DJs
Radio personalities from Los Angeles
Radio personalities from Seattle
San Diego State University alumni
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Radio personalities from San Diego
Year of birth missing (living people)


Richard Allan Petiot (born August 20, 1982) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the fourth round (116th overall) of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft.

Playing career
The Los Angeles Kings drafted Petiot in 2001 from the Camrose Kodiaks of the AJHL. He then played four years of collegiate hockey with Colorado College. Petiot signed a two-year contract with the Kings after his senior year with the Tigers on August 11, 2005.

Petiot made his professional debut in the 2005–06 season, playing mostly with Kings affiliate, the Manchester Monarchs. Petiot spent the next two injury-plagued seasons with the Monarchs before signing as a free agent for the Toronto Maple Leafs on July 15, 2008.

In the 2008–09 season, the Leafs assigned Petiot to their affiliate, the Toronto Marlies, then traded him to the Tampa Bay Lightning for Olaf Kolzig, Andy Rogers, Jamie Heward and a fourth round selection on March 4, 2009.

On July 9, 2009, he was signed as a free agent by the Chicago Blackhawks.

On July 2, 2010, he was signed as a free agent with the Edmonton Oilers to a one-year contract. During the 2010–11 season, Petiot was called up from the Oklahoma City Barons to replace an injured Theo Peckham on March 1, 2011.

On July 2, 2011, Petiot was signed by former team, Tampa Bay, to a one-year, two-way contract. Petiot was limited to only 6 games during the 2011–12 season with affiliate, the Norfolk Admirals, due to injury.

With the NHL lockout affecting his status as a free agent, Petiot waited until the conclusion of the dispute before signing to a professional try-out contract with the St. John's IceCaps of the AHL on January 9, 2013.

Career statistics

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
Camrose Kodiaks players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Colorado College Tigers men's ice hockey players
Edmonton Oilers players
Ice hockey people from Alberta
Los Angeles Kings draft picks
Los Angeles Kings players
Manchester Monarchs (AHL) players
Norfolk Admirals players
Oklahoma City Barons players
People from Flagstaff County
Rockford IceHogs (AHL) players
St. John's IceCaps players
Tampa Bay Lightning players
Toronto Marlies players


Lyle Phair (born August 31, 1961) is a Canadian former ice hockey player who played three season for the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League from 1985 to 1988.

Phair was born in Pilot Mound, Manitoba.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Awards and honors

References

External links

1961 births
Living people
Los Angeles Kings players
Michigan State Spartans men's ice hockey players
New Haven Nighthawks players
People from Pilot Mound, Manitoba
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Selkirk Steelers players
Utica Devils players
Undrafted National Hockey League players


Givi Gachechiladze (born November 5, 1938) is a Georgian composer and conductor, currently the leader of the Tbilisi Municipal Orchestra. Givi Gachechiladze first gained public attention with an instrumental composition called "Vic" which was included in Victor Feldman's Soviet Jazz Themes (Äva, 1962), the world's first album of Soviet jazz released in the US and abroad in 1963. Later, Givi Gachechiladze led the Ukrainian Jazz Orchestra as well as the Pop/Symphony Orchestra of Ukrainian National Television (Kiev-Channel One). After returning to Georgia, he was the leader of the Tbilisi Philharmonic, the composer, conductor and musical director of Rero, the Tbilisi Television Orchestra, Theatron, and Mardzhanishvili Theater. In 1997, he founded the Tbilisi Municipal Orchestra, which brought the band leader even more recognition. Today the orchestra, also known as the Tbilisi Big Band or the Tbilisi Concert Orchestra, is one of the most highly sought orchestras in the post-Soviet region. In 2006, the Tbilisi Municipal Orchestra, Givi Gachechiladze's direction, won the Monte-Carlo International Jazz Awards of 2006.

Gachechiladze is the author of hundreds of jazz and classical compositions, as well as soundtracks for films and plays.

Filmography
 2001 Khveuli kibit
 1989 Cha
 1988 Khdeba kholme... (TV Movie)
 1987 Bravo, Alber Lolish

References

External links
 Gramophone Magazine review, December 1963 issue
 ГАЧЕЧИЛАДЗЕ Гиви Георгиевич

1938 births
20th-century classical composers
20th-century conductors (music)
20th-century male musicians
21st-century classical composers
21st-century conductors (music)
21st-century male musicians
Classical composers from Georgia (country)
Conductors (music) from Georgia (country)
Jazz-influenced classical composers
Living people
Male classical composers
Male conductors (music)
Musicians from Tbilisi
Place of birth missing (living people)
Soviet conductors (music)


The lituus spiral () is a spiral in which the angle  is inversely proportional to the square of the radius .

This spiral, which has two branches depending on the sign of , is asymptotic to the  axis. Its points of inflexion are at

The curve was named for the ancient Roman lituus by Roger Cotes in a collection of papers entitled Harmonia Mensurarum (1722), which was published six years after his death.

Coordinate representations

Polar coordinates
The representations of the lituus spiral in polar coordinates  is given by the equation

where  and .

Cartesian coordinates
The lituus spiral with the polar coordinates  can be converted to Cartesian coordinates like any other spiral with the relationships  and . With this conversion we get the parametric representations of the curve:

These equations can in turn be rearranged to an equation in  and :

 Divide  by :
 Solve the equation of the lituus spiral in polar coordinates:
 Substitute :
 Substitute :

Geometrical properties

Curvature
The curvature of the lituus spiral can be determined using the formula

Arc length
In general, the arc length of the lituus spiral cannot be expressed as a closed-form expression, but the arc length of the lituus spiral can be represented as a formula using the Gaussian hypergeometric function:

where the arc length is measured from .

Tangential angle
The tangential angle of the lituus spiral can be determined using the formula

References

External links
 .

 Interactive example using JSXGraph.
 .
 https://hsm.stackexchange.com/a/3181 on the history of the lituus curve.

Spirals
Plane curves


Leandro González (born October 14, 1985 in Pigué, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine professional  footballer who plays as a forward for Gimnasia Jujuy. He can play as a second forward or wide on the right or left wing.

Club career

González started his playing career in 2005 with Olimpo de Bahía Blanca, the club were relegated to the Argentine 2nd division in 2006, but they bounced straight back, winning both the Apertura and Clausura championships in 2006-07. The following season they were relegated again, prompting González to join Racing Club in 2008.

In 2009 González was transferred to Estudiantes, and he scored his first official goal in a Copa Libertadores 5-1 rout of Peruvian side Juan Aurich, 11 February 2010 .

Omonia Nicosia
On 6 July 2017, Cypriot First Division club Omonia Nicosia announced the signing of González. He made his debut on 10 September 2017 against Ethnikos Achna on the 2017-18 season's premier.

Honours
Olimpo
Primera B Nacional (1): 2006–07
Estudiantes
Argentine Primera División (1): 2010 Apertura

References

External links

1985 births
Living people
Argentine men's footballers
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Footballers from Buenos Aires Province
Men's association football forwards
Club Olimpo footballers
Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers
Estudiantes de La Plata footballers
Club Atlético Colón footballers
Defensa y Justicia footballers
Atlético Tucumán footballers
AC Omonia players
Quilmes Atlético Club footballers
Club Atlético Temperley footballers
Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy footballers
Argentine Primera División players
Primera Nacional players
Cypriot First Division players
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games
Pan American Games silver medalists for Argentina
Pan American Games medalists in football
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games


Christopher Schmidt (born March 1, 1976) is a German-Canadian former professional ice hockey player who last played for the SERC Wild Wings of the DEL2. He also played on the German national team during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Career
Born  in Beaverlodge, Alberta, Schmidt played for DEL club DEG Metro Stars during the 2005–06 season before joining fellow DEL team ERC Ingolstadt during the 2006 offseason. After one year in Bavaria he signed with his third DEL club, the Iserlohn Roosters, where he played for two seasons before joining Mannheim in 2009.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

1976 births
Canadian people of German descent
Ice hockey people from Alberta
Ice hockey players at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Living people
Los Angeles Kings draft picks
Los Angeles Kings players
Olympic ice hockey players for Germany
People from the County of Grande Prairie No. 1
Phoenix Roadrunners (IHL) players
Seattle Thunderbirds players
Canadian ice hockey centres
Canadian ice hockey defencemen


USS Wallacut (YTB-420), later YTM-420, was a tug that served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1947 and from 1950 to 1976.

Wallacut was laid down on 14 August 1944 by the United States Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland. She was launched on 28 October 1944, sponsored by Miss Sally Koshorek, and completed on 23 March 1945. She was delivered to the U.S. Navy and placed in service on 31 March 1945.

Wallacut departed Curtis Bay on 8 April 1945 and, after stops  at  Norfolk, Virginia, Charleston, South Carolina; Miami, Florida; Key West, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana, and Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone, reached Eniwetok on 21 July 1945. She remained there for two weeks, then moved on, via Guam and Saipan, to Okinawa, where she arrived on 3 September 1945, the day after Japan's formal surrender ceremony ended World War II.  She served at Okinawa until June 1947 when she headed, via Guam and Kwajalein, to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where she was placed out of service, in reserve, in August 1947.

Wallacut remained in reserve until American involvement in the Korean War increased the U.S. Navy's need for active ships. She returned to active service on 11 August 1950 and departed Pearl Harbor for the Far East on 3 October 1950. After stops at Kwajalein, Guam, and Sasebo, Japan, the tug reached Korean waters on 16 November 1950. She served at Hungnam in December 1950 during the evacuation of United Nations troops following the intervention of Chinese communist troops. At the completion of her part in that operation, she stopped over at Pusan briefly before returning to Sasebo on 27 December 1950.

Records of Wallacuts service after 1950 are almost nonexistent. She continued to be listed as an active unit of the United States First Fleet until 1960, when she was assigned to the Commander, Naval Forces, Far East. Within a year, she was reassigned simply to the United States Pacific Fleet, and her duty location or locations are unrecorded.

In February 1962, Wallacut was redesignated a medium harbor tug and reclassified YTM-420. As such, she continued to serve the Pacific Fleet until January 1973, when she was placed in reserve and berthed at Guam in the Mariana Islands. After three years of inactivity at Guam, she was struck from the Navy list in June 1976. She was sunk as a target on 1 September 1976.

References

External links
Naval Vessel Register Inactive Vessels
Photo gallery at navsource.org

World War II auxiliary ships of the United States
Korean War auxiliary ships of the United States
Sassaba-class tugs
Ships built in Baltimore
1945 ships


The Headquarters Historic District of Glacier National Park comprises the administrative and housing buildings near West Glacier, Montana on the west side of the park.  The area contains a mixture of styles, ranging from National Park Service Rustic to more modern structures built immediately after World War II.

Many of the buildings were built by labor from the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps. Post-World War II development consists primarily of housing developed under the Mission 66 initiative. Significant buildings in the National Park Service Rustic style include the Superintendent's Residence (1923), the original Administration Building (1923), and a number of residences. Shared facilities included a messhall, bunkhouses and utility buildings.

References

Civilian Conservation Corps in Montana
Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
National Park Service rustic in Montana
Works Progress Administration in Montana
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
National Register of Historic Places in Flathead County, Montana
National Register of Historic Places in Glacier National Park
Mission 66
1923 establishments in Montana
Government buildings completed in 1923


eGanges (electronic Glossed adversarial nested graphical expert system) is an expert system shell, mainly for the domains of law, quality control management, and education. It represents and processes systems of mixed hypothetical and categorical syllogisms, no matter how large and complex. The hypothetical premises or rule systems are represented in River graphics that are tributary structures like Ishikawa diagrams that may be nested to any depth required by the expertise.

Instructions on the user’s categorical premises are received as input when answers are given to questions in the communication system of the interface. Each antecedent and consequent in the rule system is represented as a node in the River graphic, and each node has a question with three alternative answers: positive, negative and uncertain. As answers are selected by the user, their node labels appear as feedback in the appropriate adversarial case window and the Current result is available in the Current result window if the Current result button is pressed.

The answers are alternate three values and there is a fourth value, unanswered, allowed in the combinatoric deductive processing, where the user does not select an answer. Thus the process simulates the application of a four value logic. Its heuristics incorporate expert priorities in conjunctions and disjunctions, in determining pro tem and Final consequents throughout a consultation.

Each node may also be glossed in different ways. A spectrum gloss is available to represent inductive instances that fall into the three categories of positive, negative and uncertain, as data to assist the selection of answers. Abductive glosses may take free form as text providing justification or reasons for a rule or part thereof. There may also be gloss links to other programs or websites that provide further understanding of the rule system and what input should be given by the user.

Dr Pamela N. Gray designed eGanges in 2002 as part of her doctoral work. Subsequently, the design was programmed by her son, Xenogene Gray, who is a computational physicist. The software was first presented at the JURIX Conference at Utrecht University in 2003. A small eGanges applet in the field of finance law can be trialled at:

http://www.grayske.com/FinLawTrial/index.html

References

Expert systems


Buyezo is a small town located near Potes and Picos de Europa in Cantabria, Spain.

Towns in Spain
Populated places in Cantabria


Mathew Cheeseman (born 2 April 1985) is a retired Australian soccer referee. He officiated 84 games in the A-League as an Assistant Referee as well officiating 420 games across all disciplines in the  Football West State League. He is the Referees Manager for Football Federation Australia.

Cheeseman was appointed as an Assistant Referee for the 2012 A-League Grand Final, becoming only the second Western Australian official to be appointed to a national league grand final.

In 2012 Cheeseman won his third consecutive Golden Whistle as Referee of the Year in the Football West State League. He has also won four State League Assistant Referee of the Year trophies in 2005, 2009, 2010 & 2011.

He was added to the FIFA International Referees List for 2013 as an assistant referee.

An Achilles injury and subsequent surgery saw him retire from active refereeing in August 2016, however he remains involved in the game as a referee assessor and instructor for Football Federation Australia.

References

A-League Men referees
Australian soccer referees
Living people
Sportspeople from Perth, Western Australia
1985 births


Hòutǔ () or Hòutǔshén (), also Hòutǔ Niángniáng (in Chinese either  or ), otherwise called Dimǔ () or Dimǔ Niángniáng (), is the deity of all land and earth in Chinese religion and mythology. Houtu is the overlord of all the Tudigongs ("Lord of Local Land"), Sheji ("the State"), Shan Shen ("God of Mountains"), City Gods ("God of Local City"), and landlord gods world wide.

In Taoism, Houtu is one the four Four heavenly ministers, which are four of the highest ranking gods in Taoism.

Role
Houtu was originally the god of all land and earth in early chinese mythology, before being absorbed into Daoism to be one of the Four heavenly ministers.

In early mythology
According to early Chinese classics Zuo Zhuan (late 4th century BC), Book of Rites and Classic of Mountains and Seas, Houtu is the son of Gonggong, being able to control the flood by installing mountains of earth. He is also the assistant god to one of the Great Five Emperors, the Huang Di, being the god of the Earth element in Wuxing system.

In early myths Gonggong also was related to the first Tudigong, his son  who was appointed as a god of the soil by Zhuanxu.

In Daoism
In Daoism, Houtu is one of the Four heavenly ministers, along with Jade Emperor, Gouchen Emperor and Ziwei Emperor. In some daoism scripts, another two gods, Changsheng Emperor and Qinghua Emperor () are added to constitute "Six heavenly ministers" () The Daochang of Houtu is at Mount Jiuhua.

Due to the belief that Tian (sky) represents yang and Di (earth) represents yin, most people believe Houtu is a female deity.

In Buddhism
Some scholars link Houtu to the Buddhist goddess Bhumi, which is the personification of Earth.

Worship
Houtu was first worshipped by Emperor Wen of Han (in Fenyin County, modern-day Wanrong County, Shanxi). Houtu was worshiped by Emperor Wu of Han in 113 BC.

Yellow River Map
Houtu is featured in some versions of the myth of the Great Flood of China: Yu did not do such a great job of channeling the Yellow River into the sea, dredging the wrong way. Sacred Mother Houtu then made the Yellow River Map and sent one of her divine messenger birds to tell Yu what to do; specifically, that he should open a channel to the east, to allow the right drainage.

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Notes

Works cited

Further reading

See also
Huangtian Shangdi ()
Huangtian Dadi ()
Tian () and Di ()
Tu Di Gong ()
Sheji ()
Chinese spiritual world concepts

Deities in Taoism
Chinese goddesses
Earth goddesses

Four heavenly ministers


The Ladies' Repository was a monthly periodical based in Cincinnati and produced by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. From 1841 to 1876, the magazine devoted itself to literature, arts and doctrines of Methodism, containing articles, poetry, fictions, engravings, and notes of interest to its readers.

Editors
 1841 – 1844: Leonidas Lent Hamline
 1844 – 1846: Edward Thomson
 1846 – 1852: Benjamin Tefft
 1852 – 1853: William Clark Larrabee
 1853 – 1863: Davis Wasgatt Clark
 1864 – 1872: Isaac William Wiley
 1872 – 1876: Erastus Wentworth
 1876: Daniel Curry

See also
 Early American Methodist Newspapers

External links
 Browse Ladies' Repository by volume/issue
 American Views from Ladies' Repository

Visual arts magazines published in the United States
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Religious magazines published in the United States
Christian magazines
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The Upper Lake McDonald Ranger Station in Glacier National Park was a formerly isolated site that became an administrative center with the opening of the Going-to-the-Sun Road. The National Park Service Rustic cabin was typical of the preferred style for western park structures of the period. The ranger station is similar to its counterparts at Belly River and  Sherburne, as well as the Polebridge Ranger Station residence.

The district includes the ranger station, a woodshed, boathouse, garage, cabin, fire cache and a pumphouse.

The boathouse burned in the Howe Ridge Fire of 2018 and only the foundation remains.  The ranger station itself and other buildings were saved.

References

Ranger stations in Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
National Park Service rustic in Montana
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
National Register of Historic Places in Flathead County, Montana
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1924 establishments in Montana
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Jose Chatruc (born 9 November 1976) is an Argentine football midfielder.  He is of Ukrainian descent.

Chatruc made his league debut on 11 March 1996 for Platense in a 1-0 defeat to Lanús. In 1999, he joined Racing Club where he has played over 100 games in his two spells with the club. He was part of the championship winning team in Apertura 2001.

Chatruc has played outside Argentina for Grasshoppers of Switzerland and Barcelona Sporting Club of Ecuador. He has also played for a number of other clubs in Argentina including San Lorenzo, Estudiantes, Quilmes and Banfield. In 2007, he rejoined Racing for a second stint with the club.

In 2009, he joined Tiro Federal of the Argentine 2nd division.

Honours

Team
Racing Club de Avellaneda:
Argentine League: 2001 Apertura
San Lorenzo:
Copa Sudamericana: 2002
Grasshopper (Switzerland):
Swiss Super League: 2002–03 Nationalliga A

References

External links
Statistics at Irish Times
 Racing Club Official Player Profile
 Argentine Primera statistics

1976 births
Living people
Argentine men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Club Atlético Platense footballers
Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers
San Lorenzo de Almagro footballers
Copa Sudamericana-winning players
Estudiantes de La Plata footballers
Quilmes Atlético Club footballers
Club Atlético Banfield footballers
Tiro Federal footballers
Grasshopper Club Zürich players
Barcelona S.C. footballers
Argentine Primera División players
Swiss Super League players
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Ecuador
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Argentine people of Ukrainian descent
Footballers from Buenos Aires


Monroe Public Schools is a school district in Monroe, Connecticut, United States.

Schools
Chalk Hill Middle School (reopened December 19, 2012 as a temporary facility for Sandy Hook Elementary School students; it had to be evacuated on Wednesday, October 1, 2014, due to a bomb threat call)
STEM Academy at Masuk High School
Early Intervention Center (Preschool)
Fawn Hollow Elementary School
Jockey Hollow School
Masuk High School
Monroe Elementary School
Stepney Elementary School
Pre-First Program

References

External links
Monroe Public Schools

School districts in Connecticut
Education in Fairfield County, Connecticut
Monroe, Connecticut


Five Star Bank is an American commercial bank. It was founded in the 1850s in Warsaw, New York as Wyoming County Bank by Wolcott J. Humphrey.

Five Star Bank is the reformation of Wyoming County Bank under Financial Institutions, Inc, along with The National Bank of Geneva, First Tier Bank & Trust, Bath National Bank, and Pavilion State Bank. Five Star Bank bought 4 HSBC branches and four First Niagara Branches in 2012. In 2016, Five Star Bank moved its regional headquarters to Five Star Bank Plaza in Rochester, New York, formerly one HSBC plaza.

References

External links

 Official site

Banks based in New York (state)


Air ambulances in the United States are operated by a variety of hospitals, local government agencies, and for-profit companies. Medical evacuations by air are also performed by the United States Armed Forces (for example in combat areas, training accidents, and United States Coast Guard rescues) and United States National Guard (typically while responding to natural disasters).

Cost
In 2002, the federal government increased the reimbursement for medical flights for Medicare and Medicaid patients. This caused an increase in the number of for-profit ambulance services, which charge much higher rates than non-profit hospitals and expanded services available to people with private health insurance. With lower reimbursements, hospitals could still operate the service as a loss leader because severely injured patients would be incurring significant charges for medical treatment. NPR cited one 2008 case where two patients were transported from the same accident scene to the same hospital, where the hospital charged $1,700 and the private service charged $13,000.

List of air ambulances

 Acadian Ambulance & Air Med Services – Headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, covers most of the state of Louisiana and parts of western Mississippi.
 AirCare – with CHI Health Good Samaritan. - The first Nebraska air-medical transport service outside of Omaha, NE. In continuous operation since 1982. Covering all of central Nebraska and north Kansas.
 Air Evac Lifeteam – the largest medical transport program under one name, covers Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. Also operates Texas LifeStar in Central Texas.
 AirLife Georgia (Air Methods Corporation) – Serving the state of Georgia and surrounding states. AirLife Georgia is accredited by CAMTS.
 Airlift Northwest - non-profit program of the University of Washington School of Medicine and Harborview Medical Center serving Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska.
 AirMed International – Based in Birmingham, Alabama
 Air Methods – Largest US air ambulance operator under a single FAA part 135 certificate.
 AMR Air Ambulance – Provides domestic and international air medical transportation using specially equipped fixed wing aircraft.
 ARCH Air Medical Service – Missouri, Illinois, and the surrounding regions.
 Boston MedFlight – Headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts Boston MedFlight transports emergency patients
 Calstar (California Shock Trauma Air Rescue) is a nonprofit regional air ambulance company serving California and northern Nevada.
 CareFlite – a 501c not-for-profit that is based in Dallas Texas area and sponsored by Baylor Scott & White Hospitals, Parkland Hospital, THR hospitals, JPS Hospital, and Methodist Hospitals.
 Carolina Aire Care - Carolina Air Care is a CAMTS accredited critical care and emergency transportation agency serving North Carolina and surrounding areas. Headquartered in Chapel Hill, NC is a nonprofit regional air ambulance.
 CareFlight – serves the Dayton, Ohio region and a  radius to serve much of Southwest Ohio. Based at Miami Valley Hospital
 Critical Air Medicine – Doing business as Critical Air, is based in San Diego, California
EastCare – University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina owned, and operates in Eastern North Carolina
 Flight for Life – many bases of operation across the United States
 Life Flight – Air ambulance based out of the Memorial Hermann Hospital- Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas.
Life Flight Network – Largest non-profit air ambulance in the US, serving Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
 LifeNet, Inc. – Based in Texarkana, Texas with operations also out of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
 UT Lifestar - Based out of University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. Operates from 5 bases in the East Tennessee region.
 Maryland State Police Aviation Command – division focusing on medical evacuation operations. Aviation also supports ground units of the state and local police. Funding comes from vehicle registration fees.
Medflight – Based out of Columbus, Ohio.
Mercy Flights – Medford, Oregon. Was the first successful air ambulance in the country, is non-profit. Serves mainly Southern Oregon and Northern California;  radius for helicopter, and almost anywhere West of the Rocky Mountains for the fixed wing airplane, within  of Medford.
Metro Life Flight – Cleveland, Ohio, run by MetroHealth, serves the Northeast Ohio area. Operates both air and ground services.
MyMedFlight - Miami, Florida. Powered by Aero-plan.com, MyMedFlight gathers air ambulance prices from our worldwide network of nearly 90 quality vetted air ambulance providers at no charge to the consumer.
Omniflight Charleston – Air ambulance service in South Carolinaand part of Georgia.
Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Service in Elmhurst Illinois serves IL, IN, WI, MI, OH
STAT Medevac – based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Survival Flight – Ann Arbor, Michigan – CAMTS certified critical care transport program of Michigan Medicine, provides rapid and safe transport of critically ill and injured patients of any age group.
Trauma Hawk Aero-Medical Program – Palm Beach County, Florida taxpayer funded – trauma transport only
Travis County STAR Flight – Austin, Texas – Public emergency helicopter service for Travis County and surrounding areas.
 University of Wisconsin MedFlight

See also
 Air ambulances in Canada
 Air ambulances in the United Kingdom
 Emergency Aviation in the United Kingdom (disambiguation)
 International SOS, Provider of air ambulance evacuation & repatriation services
 Medical escort
 Medical evacuation

References

Air ambulance services in the United States


The Capture of Vĩnh Long (Vietnamese: Vĩnh Long) on 22 March 1862 was the last major allied victory of the Cochinchina campaign (1858–62). This campaign, fought between the French and the Spanish on the one side and the Vietnamese on the other, began as a limited punitive expedition and ended as a French war of conquest. The war concluded with the establishment of the French colony of Cochinchina, a development that inaugurated nearly a century of French colonial dominance in Vietnam.

Background
The Vĩnh Long campaign was undertaken by the French and Spanish as a reprisal for Vietnamese guerrilla attacks in February and March 1862 on French troops and gunboats in the vicinity of Mỹ Tho. French marching columns were sniped at on the roads, and on 10 March a French gunboat (No. 25) carrying a company of soldiers blew up shortly after it left Mỹ Tho. Fifty-two men were killed or wounded in this incident, and a commission of enquiry found that the explosion was due to sabotage.

Convinced that the mandarins of the province of Vĩnh Long were behind these attacks, Admiral Louis-Adolphe Bonard, the French commander-in-chief, decided to capture the town of Vĩnh Long with a flotilla of despatch vessels and gunboats and a joint Franco-Spanish landing force. On 20 March 1862 he arrived before the fortress of Vĩnh Long with the dispatch vessels Ondine (his flagship) and Shamrock, the gunboats Dragonne and Fusée and seven small gunboats. The landing force, embarked aboard the gunboats, numbered 700 French soldiers and 300 Spanish soldiers, under the orders of Lieutenant-Colonel Reboul of the marine infantry. On 20 March these troops, reinforced by the ships’ landing companies, were set ashore at Dinh Kao, to the southeast of the citadel.

The capture of Vĩnh Long

The following account of the attack by Reboul's French and Spanish troops on Vĩnh Long was given by Colonel Thomazi, the historian of the French conquest of Indochina:
On 22 March they crossed two arroyos under fire and advanced into view of the enemy batteries, which had been fighting a violent artillery duel with the gunboats. During the night, after a seven-hour struggle, all the batteries were occupied, and on the following day we entered the citadel, where we found 68 cannon and considerable quantities of materiel.

Mopping-up operations
The Vietnamese defenders of Vĩnh Long fell back to a fortified earthwork at My Cui,  west of Mỹ Tho. Admiral Bonard sent two columns under the respective command of capitaine de vaisseau Desvaux and Colonel Carlos Palanca y Guttierez to capture My Cui. Desvaux's column, which consisted of two companies of Turcos and a detachment drawn from the garrison of Vĩnh Long, set off from Vĩnh Long and approached My Cui via Cai Lay.

Palanca y Guttierez's column, which consisted of 200 Spanish troops, a company of Turcos and a section of artillery, marched directly on My Cui from Vĩnh Long.  The two columns attacked My Cui simultaneously and captured it. Lieutenant de vaisseau Vergnes, who was watching the arroyos around Mỹ Tho with a detachment of fusiliers-marins, intercepted and inflicted a further defeat on the retreating Vietnamese. Vietnamese casualties were heavy, and the allies also captured a large number of weapons.

Aftermath
Coming on the heels of earlier allied victories at Mỹ Tho (April 1861) and Biên Hòa (December 1861), the capture of Vĩnh Long disheartened the Court of Hue, and in April 1862 Tự Đức let it be known that he was willing to make peace.

Notes

References
 Taboulet, G., La geste française en Indochine (Paris, 1956)
 Thomazi, A., La conquête de l'Indochine (Paris, 1934)
 Thomazi, A., Histoire militaire de l'Indochine français (Hanoi, 1931)

Vinh Long
Vinh Long
Vinh Long
1862 in Vietnam
Conflicts in 1862
Cochinchina campaign
March 1862 events
History of Vĩnh Long Province


"Grace of My Heart" is MAX's 11th single released under Avex Trax. The title track was used in commercials for Communicase Gum. Its B-side, "Getting Over" was used in a series of commercials for DyDo Mistio soft drinks including one commercial featuring Namie Amuro. Upon release the single debuted at #2, becoming their second highest ranking single behind "Give Me a Shake" which debuted at #1.

Track list

Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

References

See also
Grace of My Heart, film

1998 singles
MAX (band) songs
Song recordings produced by Max Matsuura
1998 songs


The South Florida Fair is an annual fair held in West Palm Beach, Florida every January. The fairgrounds site occupies  and is located on the site of the former Palm Beach Speedway at the intersection of Southern Boulevard (US 98/SR 80) and Fairground Road, adjacent to the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre. In 2012, the fair celebrated its 100th anniversary since its founding in 1912. Nearly 500,000 people attend the South Florida Fair each year.

The fair features a midway of rides, games, and concessions, themed exhibition halls, an agricultural and livestock agriplex, and smaller exhibition areas. There is also Yesteryear Village, a history park on the northeastern corner of the property.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, West Palm Beach Police and security guards are the fair's patrollers.

History
The South Florida Fair began as the Palm Beach County Fair in March 1912. The first fair took place under a single tent near the Palm Beach County Courthouse in downtown West Palm Beach over a four-day period. Sponsored by prominent local citizens, the fair aimed to showcase livestock, winter crops, and real estate, with farmers receiving monetary prizes from Henry Flagler. In 1913, the fair moved to the railroad depot, located just north of its previous location. After the fair experienced growth in its early years, the Great Depression forced it to only operate a carnival midway between 1930 and 1937, before being discontinued altogether. The attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 disrupted plans to restore the fair in 1942. The fair resumed in 1946 at the National Guard Armory in West Palm Beach. Two years later, the fair moved to Morrison Field (now the Palm Beach International Airport) and stayed until the United States Air Force converted the airport to a military base for the Korean War a few years later.

In 1953, the fair incorporated as an organization. Between then and 1955, the fair was held at the Palm Beach Speedway, near the present site of the South Florida Fairgrounds. The fair moved to the current location of Palm Beach State College's (then known as Palm Beach Junior College) Lake Worth campus in 1956 after being deeded  by the Palm Beach County government. However, the county reversed its decision and deeded the land to PBJC instead, forcing the fair to move to John Prince Memorial Park in 1957. Later that year, the fair bought the Palm Beach Speedway property, comprising about . The acquisition of the land occurred in June via the fair organization selling $100,000 in bonds and receiving matching funds from the Florida Department of Agriculture after depositing $30,000. Additionally, Palm Beach County donated about  in exchange for the property at John Prince Memorial Park, to be used to expand PBJC. Construction on two exhibition halls began on June 10. Finally, on January 27, 1958, the fair began operating at its present location. In 1960, the Palm Beach County Fair was renamed the South Florida Fair.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, South Florida Fair & Palm Beach County Expositions, Inc. scaled-back the January 2021 event, with all exhibits, shows, and vendors remaining outdoors, while only kiddie rides were operated. The organization also developed a COVID-19 safety plan, which required attendees, employees, vendors, and volunteers to follow CDC guidelines. However, a full-fledged fair event in 2021 was held from May 7-May 23. The 2022 event saw the resumption of the typical, full-fledged fair held in the month of January, as well as the removal of most pandemic-related restrictions.

Organization
The South Florida Fair and Palm Beach County Expositions, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation organized and existing pursuant to Chapter 616 of the Florida Statutes. It has a board of trustees that consists of 17 people who are responsible for setting policy and seeing that management of the association is carried out under direction of an executive staff consisting of the president/CEO and currently two vice presidents. The fair also has directors who serve in an advisory capacity. There are currently 55 directors. The trustees and directors are non-paid volunteers. The day-to-day operation is the responsibility of the president, Rick Vymlatil, who oversees a staff of over 45 full-time employees.

Economic impact
According to a study released in 2000 by Economic Research Associates, Inc., the South Florida Fairgrounds generated a total economic impact of $149,924,000 in 1999. This was prior to the development of the Expo East Exhibit Hall, the enhancement of Yesteryear Village (including the new Bink Glisson and the Sally Bennett "Big Band Hall of Fame") and the aggressive marketing of the Americraft Expo Center exhibit floor space. In addition, the Cruzan Amphitheatre alone is estimated to generate an economic impact in excess of $20 million. But not only does the Fair generate a significant economic impact, it makes a substantial annual cash distribution to the youth of this area from its own resources. In the 2007/08 fiscal year, the South Florida Fair paid in excess of $200,000 in scholarship and 4-H premium awards, compensation to choruses and bands performing during the annual Fair, and contributions to Palm Beach County schools through its Partners-In-Education Advance Ticket program.

Fairgrounds
Approximately  comprise the property known as the South Florida Fairgrounds. In 1957, Palm Beach County gave the fair  at its present site but later took back  for the stockade. This contribution was made in consideration of the fair agreeing to relocate from John Prince Park in order that the county could vie for a state university (PBCC). The fairgrounds is partitioned into several pods or tracts: the parking tracts, Yesteryear Village, the Coral Sky Amphitheatre, and the exhibit buildings, including the Americraft Expo Center and the Agriplex. The space available on the fairgrounds for trade shows and exhibits exceeds . During the annual South Florida Fair, the southern parking tract is utilized as the "midway" containing rides, shows, games, and concessions.

Events
The main event on the fairgrounds is the annual South Florida Fair, which occurs over a 17-day period, generally in the last two weeks of January each year. Over the past several years, the annual fair has incorporated a theme as a means of stimulating tourism as well as the educational and cultural interest of the residents of Palm Beach County. For instance, "Florida" was featured at the 1998 fair and "Alaska"; "Tales of the American West"; "New England"; "Hollywood"; "Having a Ball"; "Dreams, screams, thrills, chills"; "Party with the Animals"; and "A World of Fun" were showcased in previous fairs. One of the greatest aspects of the annual fair is its agricultural and livestock exhibits which clearly provide the greatest variety of such exhibits anywhere within Palm Beach County. Even though agriculture is such a tremendous part of Palm Beach County's economic base, many school children have never been exposed to it. However, at the annual South Florida Fair, not only can they see and learn all about agriculture, but can even witness a calf being born, or learn how a dairy is operated. The annual fair attracts nearly 500,000 people through its turnstiles. However, 650,000 people will attend various events on the fairgrounds on an annual basis. Besides the . Americraft (now South Florida Fair) Expo Center, there are 10 other smaller exhibit buildings along with the Cruzan Amphitheater, Agriplex, Palm Beach Model Railroaders and Yesteryear Village. These events constitute 250 event days.

Yesteryear Village
Yesteryear Village is a history park and exhibit on , showcasing buildings and artifacts from the 1850s to the 1950s. It exhibits a large collection of early, original, and replicated buildings, including an old school, a farm, a blacksmith shop, a general store, a church, a fire department, a post office, a bait & tackle shop, and the famed Riddle House. Included is the only big band museum in the United States, the Sally Bennett Big Band Hall of Fame Museum. Guided tours are available.

See also
Americraft Expo Center

References

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Festivals in Florida
Tourist attractions in Palm Beach County, Florida
West Palm Beach, Florida
1912 establishments in Florida
Recurring events established in 1912