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Syd Kessler

Syd Kessler was a Canadian businessperson and writer.

Career
In 1970-71, Hatus/Hall–the producers of the legendary game show Let's Make a Deal – hired him to develop a game show (The Crosswits) styled after a crossword puzzle.  This show ran on ABC for six seasons.

Kessler then started his own business and was president of Kessler Productions between 1974–78, producing and writing creative radio commercials exclusively for the Canadian marketplace.  The company continued to grow and Kessler took in other partners.  The company changed its name to Kessler Music Inc. and Kessler served as president until 1981, when he merged with the two top audio production companies in Canada and became the dominant player in the marketplace.  This new company was called The Air Company, and Kessler was its president from 1981 to 1988.  In this period, the company won Canadian and International awards such as the I.B.A.s, The Bessies, The One Show, etc.

In 1988, John Labatt Ltd., a multinational Canadian corporation, with over $3 billion CAD in revenue, joint ventured with Kessler Music to create a new entity called Supercorp.  Starting revenues of this company was $10 million.  In four years the revenues rose to $150 million.  Supercorp dominated the commercial production business, this time in all aspects of advertising production.  Supercorp owned the following premiere enterprises:  HYP&N, The Partners Film Company and all its subsidiaries, The Animation House, Sounds Interchange Recording Studios, and The Air Company.  Supercorp controlled 68 percent of all advertising production in Canada and 2% of the television commercial production business in the U.S. Aside from his senior management responsibilities as President and CEO, Syd also consulted in the retail sector of advertising.  He became known as a respected specialist/problem solver, working with such clients as Saffer Advertising, Black's Photography, Esso, Carson Pirie, Towers, etc.  During this time, Kessler was the creative marketing force behind the new positioning of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  Their “GO PUBLIC” campaign was conceived and produced by him.

Following a change in corporate direction at Labatt's in 1994, Kessler sold his shares in Supercorp and started a new company called The Kessler Group.

The Kessler Group was created to address a growing need in the advertising community to move away from the broadcast advertising model, with its inherent inability to deliver measurable results, to a new advertising model called narrowcasting; narrowcasting takes advantage of new digital technologies’ ability to cost-effectively tailor advertising messages to individuals, producing improved and fully measurable results.

Kessler became co-director of KPMG e-commerce practice in 1997.

Books
 The Perfect System (Stoddart Publishing)
 The Perfect System of Parenting (Bastian Books)
 The Master Builder, co-written with Michael Berg
 Vibes, co-written with David Morrison

References

1946 births
Living people
Canadian businesspeople
William Moorcroft

William Moorcroft may refer to:

 William Moorcroft (cricketer) (), English cricketer
 William Moorcroft (explorer) (1770–1825), English explorer and veterinarian
 William Moorcroft (potter) (1872–1945)
Bash Brothers (disambiguation)

The Bash Brothers are a pair of former baseball players.

Bash Brothers may also refer to:

 Nickname for Fulton Reed and Dean Portman in The Mighty Ducks (film series)
 The Bash Brothers DJ Crew co-founded by DJ Concept
 The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience, a musical comedy special by The Lonely Island

See also
Hovelange

Hovelange (, ) is a small town in the commune of Beckerich, in western Luxembourg.  , the town has a population of 285, with a latitude of 49,7225 and a longitude of 5,9072.

References

Beckerich
Towns in Luxembourg
Noerdange

Noerdange (, ) is a small town in the commune of Beckerich, in western Luxembourg.  , the town has a population of 599.

References

Beckerich
Towns in Luxembourg
Oberpallen

Oberpallen () is a small town in the commune of Beckerich, in western Luxembourg. In 2005, the town had a population of 374.

Oberpallen was a commune in the canton of Redange until 25 July 1846, when it was merged into the commune of Beckerich.

Since fuel, tobacco, and alcohol taxes are lower in Luxembourg than in Belgium, many Belgians cross the border to get easy discounts there. In this respect, Oberpallen is like Steinfort and Martelange

Former commune
The former commune consisted of the villages:

 Dideling
 Levelange
 Oberpallen

Beckerich
Former communes of Luxembourg
Towns in Luxembourg
Larry Cain

Laurence J. "Larry" Cain,  (born January 9, 1963) is a Canadian sprint canoeist. He was the first Canadian canoeist since Frank Amyot to win an Olympic gold medal in canoeing.

Early life
Cain was born in Toronto, Ontario. He attended Oakville Trafalgar High School.

Career
Cain began his career in 1974 at the Oakville Racing Canoe Club, now the Burloak Canoe Club, in Oakville, Ontario. 

Cain competed in three Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the C-1 500 m, and a silver medal in the C1 1000 m events.  He also won a silver medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the 1989 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Plovdiv.

In 1984, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 1997, he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.  A trail in Oakville has been named in his honour running along the town's waterfront where Cain trained.

Cain taught Physical Education at St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School until 2014. He then worked as a coach, preparing paddlers for the Olympic Games in Rio.

In 2016 Cain founded an online paddle-training company called Paddle Monster for standup paddleboarding. Cain also coached High Performance Canoeing at Burloak Canoe Club.

References

External links
Official website
Larry Cain at The Canadian Encyclopedia
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame citation
CBC archives

Paddle Monster

1963 births
Living people
Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Canadian educators
Canadian male canoeists
McMaster University alumni
Members of the Order of Canada
Olympic canoeists for Canada
Olympic gold medalists for Canada
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Sportspeople from Oakville, Ontario
Canoeists from Toronto
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
Canadian schoolteachers
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Points on the Curve

Points on the Curve is the second studio album by English new wave band Wang Chung, released in 1984.

Background
Points on the Curve is Wang Chung's first studio album since changing their name from Huang Chung and switching from Arista to the Geffen Records. It reached No. 34 on the UK album charts on 21 April 1984 and No. 30 on the Billboard 200 album charts on 14 July 1984. The album features the No. 1 dance single "Dance Hall Days" and includes the hit singles: "Don't Let Go", "Don't Be My Enemy" and "Wait". The album cover was designed, and featured art direction by Barney Bubbles, who would kill himself three months after this album was released in the UK.

Critical reception

The Philadelphia Inquirer deemed the band "mean-spirited fops." The Daily Breeze called the album "a collection of fairly standard, English dance numbers." By contrast, in a retrospective review for AllMusic, Kelvin Hayes wrote that "although the sound is a little dated, its craftsmanship still holds true."

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Jack Hues; co-writers are noted.

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the Points on the Curve liner notes.

Musicians
 Jack Hues — lead vocals; guitar; keyboards
 Nick Feldman — bass guitar; additional vocals; guitar; keyboards
 Darren Costin — drums; additional vocals; percussion; keyboards
 Mel Collins — saxophone

Production and artwork
 Chris Hughes – producer
 Ross Cullum — producer
 Mark McGuire — assistant engineer 
 Chris Hughes — rhythm; sequencer and computer programming
 Paul Ridout — MC4 programming
 Greg Fulginiti — original LP mastering
 WCI Record Group — CDD pre-mastering
 Barney Bubbles — LP design and art director
 Brian Griffin — front cover photograph
 Paul Cox — back cover photograph
 Ronn Specer — hand tinting

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links
 

Wang Chung (band) albums
1984 albums
Geffen Records albums
Albums produced by Chris Hughes (musician)
Schweich, Luxembourg

Schweich () is a village in the commune of Beckerich, in western Luxembourg.  , the village has a population of 184.

Beckerich
Villages in Luxembourg
Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique

The Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique (SF2A) is a French society of professional astronomers. It was officially created on November 15, 1978, with Raymond Michard as the first president.
The main goal of the society is the promotion of astronomy in France, associating to it the specialists of the field. The society also represent France in the International Astronomical Union. Its current membership is about 400, under the presidency of Nadège Lagarde.

Each year the SF2A awards a scientific prize to a junior researcher, who must be younger than 36 and who must hold a permanent research position; and a prize for the best doctoral thesis in astronomy (defended in France, during the previous year). The SF2A also edits a directory listing all the French astronomers.
An annual meeting is organized that supports the communication of recent research results by young astronomers, the debate of more political issues related to astronomy, and the gathering of the various members of the French astronomical community.

External links
Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique (French)

Scientific organizations based in France
1978 establishments in France
Scientific organizations established in 1978
Colpach-Bas

Colpach-Bas (, ) is a village in the commune of Ell, in western Luxembourg.  , the village has a population of 105.

Colpach Castle dates from the beginning of the 14th century when it was a stronghold. It was adapted as a manor house in the 18th century. Today it is a convalescent centre run by the Red Cross.

References

Redange (canton)
Villages in Luxembourg
Colpach-Haut

Colpach-Haut (, ) is a village in the commune of Ell, in western Luxembourg.  , the village has a population of 144.

Redange (canton)
Villages in Luxembourg
Ace Combat Advance

Ace Combat Advance is a 2005 combat flight simulation video game in the Ace Combat series. Developed by Hungarian studio Humansoft, it is the first entry in the series released on a handheld game console and the first 2D entry in the series. Unlike other Ace Combat games, Advance was not released in Japan. It was criticized on release for its awkward controls, lack of appeal, difficulty, and poor graphics.

Gameplay
Unlike the usual flight simulation games in the Ace Combat series, Advance is a top-down shooter similar to Strike, but using fighter aircraft instead of attack helicopters.

The game's campaign is divided into 12 missions. These missions are very similar to those in the rest of the Ace Combat series, but there are a few unique missions that require new tactics.

Plot
In the year 2032, eight years before the events of Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, globalization has blurred the borders between countries, and megacorporations have become worldwide economic superpowers. One of these megacorporations, General Resources Ltd., uses state of the art military equipment and their Air Strike Force (ASF) to destroy anybody who could potentially pose a threat to their superiority. A new international military is created to fight back, spearheaded by an elite fighter squadron called the United Air Defense (UAD), which the player is part of.

Reception

References

2005 video games
Game Boy Advance games
Game Boy Advance-only games
Video games developed in Hungary
Video games set in the 2030s
Single-player video games
Ace Combat spin-off games
Roodt, Ell

Roodt () is a small town located in the commune of Ell, in western Luxembourg, at an elevation of 412 meters above the sea level. As of 2023, the town has a population of 403.

References 

Towns in Luxembourg
Redange (canton)
Dellen, Luxembourg

Dellen is a village in the commune of Grosbous located in western Luxembourg, situated in the canton of Redange.  , the village has a population of 103.

References

Redange (canton)
Villages in Luxembourg
Bettborn

Bettborn () is a village in the commune of Préizerdaul, in western Luxembourg.  , the village had a population of 218.  It is the administrative centre of Préizerdaul commune.

Préizerdaul
Villages in Luxembourg
Platen, Luxembourg

Platen is a small town in the commune of Préizerdaul, in western Luxembourg. , the town has a population of 507.

Préizerdaul
Towns in Luxembourg
Pratz, Luxembourg

Pratz () is a small town in the commune of Préizerdaul, in western Luxembourg.  , the town has a population of 347.

Préizerdaul
Towns in Luxembourg
Reimberg

Reimberg () is a village in the commune of Préizerdaul, in western Luxembourg.  , the village has a population of 172.

Préizerdaul
Villages in Luxembourg
Boracic lint

Boracic lint () is a type of medical dressing made from surgical lint that is soaked in a hot, saturated solution of boracic acid and glycerine and then left to dry.

It has been in use since at least the 19th century, but is now less commonly used. When in use, boracic lint proved to be very valuable in the treatment of leg ulcers.

The term "boracic" is also used as Cockney rhyming slang for having no money: "boracic lint" → "skint".

References

First aid
Disney Davy Crockett Ranch

The Disney Davy Crockett Ranch is a campground at Disneyland Paris which consists of 595 cabins in a quiet, wooded area located outside the perimeters of the main resort.

The ranch is about a 15-minute drive from the theme parks. Cabins include a TV, double bed, a bunk bed and convertible sofa bed.  It is similar to Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.

Cabins
The cabins are for self-catering stays and each cabin has private parking and a barbecue area. 

1 Bedroom Cabins - a lounge with a convertible sofa, a separate bedroom with one double bed and a set of bunk beds (the bunk beds are not suitable for persons more than 70kg (approx. 11 stone). The upper bed is not suitable for children under 6 years). All cabins have a bathroom with a bath with a shower head, self-catering facilities, telephone, television with international channels and radio. Kitchen: refrigerator, microwave, hob, crockery and utensils, kettle, dishwasher and washing up kit. The beds are already made on your arrival, towels are provided.

2 Bedroom Cabins - a lounge with a convertible sofa, one bedroom with a double bed and one bedroom with bunk beds (the bunk beds are not suitable for persons more than 70kg (approx. 11 stone). The upper bed is not suitable for children under 6 years). All cabins have a bathroom with a bath with a shower head, self-catering facilities, telephone, television with international channels and radio. Kitchen: refrigerator, microwave, hob, crockery and utensils, kettle, dishwasher and washing up kit. The beds are already made on your arrival, towels are provided.

Trails
The cabins are divided over a number of so-called 'trails':

 101-197 Mocassin Trail
 201-284 Wagon Wheel Trail
 1001-1062 Timber Trail
 1101-1176 Bobcat Trail
 1201-1282 Big Bear Trail
 1301-1360 Cherokee Trail
 1401-1479 Tomahawk Trail
 1501-1555 Coyote Trail

Each trail has its own "chalet" where breakfast can be picked up in the morning.

Village
 Crockett's Tavern (restaurant)
 Blue Springs Pool (swimming pool)
 Alamo Trading Post (boutique)
 Saloon (bar)
 Tennis Court
 Davy's Farm
 Amphitheater
 Lucky Raccoon (video arcade)
 Bowie's Bike Barn
 Jogging Track
 Tree Top Trail Adventure

History
The very first employees of the Euro Disney were housed in Disney's Davy Crockett Ranch (then known as Camp Davy Crockett). The Ranch was operational by September 1991, before the other hotels. Crockett's Tavern was the first restaurant to open on 2 February 1992 at the Ranch.

Disney Davy Crockett Ranch officially opened with the Euro Disney Resort in April 1992.

On 26 July 2020, Disney rebranded all their onsite hotels by  dropping the possessive apostrophe. This meant the name was changed from Disney's Davy Crockett Ranch to Disney Davy Crockett Ranch.

Activities
There are many activities residents can participate in.

Swimming
Climbing
Riding
Safari
Archery
Basketball
Pony rides

References

Davy Crockett Ranch
Hotels established in 1991
Hotel buildings completed in 1991
Davy Crockett
1991 establishments in France
Would You Go with Me

"Would You Go with Me" is a song written by Shawn Camp and John Scott Sherrill, and recorded by American country music artist Josh Turner.  It was released in April 2006 as the second single from his album Your Man. It is the first track on Your Man.

Critical reception
It was his second number 1 country single in a row after "Your Man" peaked at the top on the Billboard Country chart in early 2006. "Would You Go with Me" spent two weeks at the top. On the Billboard Hot 100, its highest position was number 43.

Shortly after the song had peaked, Turner's performance of the song on the CMAs lead to a huge sales spike on online retailers sending the song back up the Billboard Hot 100, Hot Digital Songs, and Pop 100 charts to new peaks. On September 7, 2012 it was certified Platinum by the RIAA.

Grammy nominations
In late 2006, the nominees for the 2007 Grammy Awards were announced. Turner received a nomination for Male Country Vocal Performance of the Year for "Would You Go with Me." He also earned a nomination for Country Album of the Year for Your Man.

Music video
The music video for "Would You Go with Me" was shot in an abandoned farmhouse in Watertown, Tennessee using green and blue screens. Kristin Barlowe directed the video. 

The video follows a boy and a girl who wander into the farmhouse as children. It shows them at different stages in their lives together in different locations all within the house using CGI.

The video starts out as two children run into an empty house. Josh begins singing in the dark house while holding a lamp. The children find a jar of sand in the house and dump it out onto the floor, transforming the room into the beach. It then shows them in various outdoor locations at different ages. At the end of the video, the boy, now an old man, returns to the beach with a chest of his wife's ashes. The little girl, played by Peter Cetera's second daughter Senna, then returns and the old man transforms into the little boy again and the two run off together. Josh is shown throughout the house and outdoor settings singing. Musicians playing the mandolin, dobro, guitar and banjo are also featured in the video.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

See also
 List of number-one country singles of 2006 (U.S.)

References

2006 singles
2006 songs
Josh Turner songs
MCA Nashville Records singles
Song recordings produced by Frank Rogers (record producer)
Songs written by Shawn Camp (musician)
Songs written by John Scott Sherrill
U.S. Route 49E

U.S. Route 49E (US 49E) is an  U.S. Highway in the Delta region of Mississippi. It travels through Yazoo, Holmes, Leflore, and Tallahatchie counties.

Route description

US 49E begins at an interchange between US 49 and US 49W, just north of downtown Yazoo City in Yazoo County. It heads northeast along the western edge of some Loess bluffs for several miles to pass through Eden and enter the Hillside National Wildlife Refuge before crossing into Holmes County.

The highway passes through the refuge for several miles before leaving, crossing over some railroad tracks, and heading north along the banks of Bee Lake to pass through Thornton. US 49E turns northeast to become concurrent with MS 12 and pass through Mileston before passing through rural farmland for a few miles to enter Tchula. In Tchula, the highway bypasses downtown to south and east, where it intersects unsigned MS 835 and MS 12 splits off toward Lexington. US 49E parallels Tchula Lake as it passes through the Morgan Brake National Wildlife Refuge and Cruger, where it intersects unsigned MS 818. It then crosses into Leflore County shortly thereafter.

The highway immediately passes through the Mathews Brake National Wildlife Refuge before passing through Sidon, where it intersects MS 706, and Rising Sun. US 49E now enters Greenwood and comes to an interchange and becomes concurrent with US 82/MS 7 just south of downtown. Prior to this point, the entire route of US 49E is a two-land highway. The highway heads as a four-lane highway to pass through business districts and cross the Yazoo River before leaving Greenwood and US 49E splits off and heads north. US 49E narrows to 2-lanes and has an intersection with MS 442 before passing through Minter City, where it intersects MS 8. It now crosses into Tallahatchie County.

US 49E crosses a bridge over a creek before passing through Glendora (where it intersects MS 734), Webb (where it has a short concurrency with MS 32), and Sumner (where it intersects MS 728) as it parallels the Tallahatchie River to the east. The highway then enters Tutwiler and comes to an end shortly thereafter at a Y-Intersection between US 49, US 49W, and MS 3.

History

U.S. Route 49E represents the original route of US 49 between 1928 and 1932, when the US 49E/W split between Yazoo City and Tutwiler was made. This route is now generally perceived as the lesser of the two.

It is notable that for several years during the 1930s, a second split route existed on US 49 in South Mississippi, similar to but shorter than the split that still exists in the Delta region.  Between Brooklyn and Hattiesburg, travelers had the option of a  direct route via US 49W, or a somewhat shorter but broken route on US 49E, serving the Forrest County Agricultural High School and the small community of McLaurin, Mississippi.

Major intersections

See also

References

External links

E
49E
49E
Transportation in Yazoo County, Mississippi
Transportation in Holmes County, Mississippi
Transportation in Leflore County, Mississippi
Transportation in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
The Winter Market

"The Winter Market" is a science fiction short story written by William Gibson and published as part of his Burning Chrome short story collection. The story was commissioned in 1985 by Vancouver Magazine, who stipulated that Gibson – who at the time was "unquestionably the leading Vancouver author on the international literary scene" – set it in the city (thereby making it unique among the author's works until 2007, when he set the final third of Spook Country in and around the Port of Vancouver).

The market of the title was modelled on that of Granville Island, though in a state of bohemian decay. As the author commented in a 2007 blog post: "Vancouver's Granville Island, centered around Granville Island Market (produce and food fair) is a very successful (and pleasant) retrofit of an under-bridge urban island that previously was heavily industrial. When the story was written, the retrofit was recent, and I dirtied it up for requisite punky near-future effect."

Plot
The story primarily concerns human relationships and their tenuous and problematic qualities by deploying the concept of technological immortality, in which one's consciousness is separated from the body and "uploaded" into a supercomputer, where it continues to think and function on its own. Characters in the story are marked by a distinct failure to connect, while they express typical genre concerns regarding this type of theoretical mind transfer; whether or not the online consciousness really is the same individual, and whether or not it was moral to allow this to happen. In this particular tale, Lise's original body is defective and failing, partially due to a congenital disease, and partially due to drug abuse. Hence, the act of leaving behind the original physical form is potentially one of escape into an untainted existence. However, the story undercuts this simplistic reading by convincingly evoking Lise's humanity and her longing for a "normal" relationship to her body.

Analysis

According to the analysis of critic Pramod Nayar, the story "depicts the body as a vehicle for experiencing dreams edited into Hollywood thrillers".

Critic David Seed saw the character of Rubin as a "thinly disguised" incarnation of performance artist Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories.

Reception
The story was critically well-received, garnering nominations for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, the "short-form, English" Prix Aurora award, and the British Science Fiction Association award for best short story. It also finished highly in several science fiction magazines' annual readers polls in 1987, coming fourth in the Locus novelette category, third in the Interzone fiction category, and joint second in the Science Fiction Chronicle novelette category.

References

External links
"The Winter Market" at SFTropes
"The Winter Market" at the William Gibson Aleph

1985 short stories
Brain–computer interfacing in fiction
Cyberpunk short stories
Short stories by William Gibson
Vancouver in fiction
Works set in the 2010s
Short stories about diseases and disorders
Disney Hotel Cheyenne

The Disney Hotel Cheyenne is a hotel located at Disneyland Paris. Designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern Architects (who also designed Disney's Newport Bay Club), it is devised to create the illusion that it is a Western town in the archetypal Hollywood style rather than a single hotel complex. This is accomplished through façades and other decor inspired by popular representations of the American Old West. The façades feature the names of such Western institutions as "Saloon", "Jail", "Billy The Kid" or "Annie Oakley". It shares an area of Disneyland Resort Paris with Disney Hotel Santa Fe, located on either side of a man-made river called the "Rio Grande". (The actual Rio Grande forms the border between Texas and Mexico.)

The hotel opened with the Euro Disney Resort in April 1992.

Around 1997, the hotel was surrounded by white "desert" sand and the streets were still largely covered in this sand, giving it the feeling of a quiet desert town. A few years later however the streets had been paved and the whole town was surrounded by pine trees. There is also a child's play area consisting of a wooden fort and three teepees within the town.

Before the pine trees were planted, Hotel Santa Fé was clearly visible from this area, because they were only separated by the Rio Grande.

Hotel Cheyenne was completely renovated from 2015 to 2017 and subsequently upgraded from 2 to 3 stars.

Cheyenne is a 10-minute walk from the resort's parks and there is a regular free shuttle bus between the hotel and the parks.

On 26 July 2020, Disney rebranded all their onsite hotels by  dropping the possessive apostrophe. This meant the hotel name was changed from Disney's Hotel Cheyenne to Disney Hotel Cheyenne.

References

Cheyenne
Hotels established in 1992
Hotel buildings completed in 1992
Robert A. M. Stern buildings
1992 establishments in France
William Moorcroft (potter)

William Moorcroft (1872-1945) was an English potter who founded the Moorcroft pottery business.

Personal details
He was born in Burslem, Staffordshire. He studied art at Burslem then in London and Paris.

He married Florence Nora Fleay Lovibond (1879-1926) in 1913. They had a daughter, Beatrice (1914) and a son, Walter (1917). He then married, in 1928, Marian Lasenby, who was related to the Lasenby Liberty family who owned the popular department store in London. Miss Lasenby decided not to wear white when she married: her husband was a widower and 27 years her senior. Instead she ordered a dress with a hat and matching reversible coat from Liberty's.

Career
In 1897 Staffordshire pottery manufacturers James Macintyre & Co. Ltd employed 24-year-old William Moorcroft as a designer, and within a year he was put in full charge of the company's art pottery studio. Early in his employment at Macintyre's, William Moorcroft created designs for the company's Aurelian Ware range of high-Victorian pottery, which had transfer-printed and enamelled decoration in bold red, blue and gold colours. Moorcroft developed highly lustred glazes and used oriental shapes and decorations.  Some of his techniques were closely guarded trade secrets.

He then developed his famous Florian Ware, with heavy slip and a translucent glaze which produces brilliance of colour.  Florian Ware was influenced by art nouveau. It was decorated entirely by hand, with the design outlined in trailed slip using a technique known as tubelining. Florian Ware was a great success and won him a gold medal at the World's fair, the St. Louis International Exhibition in 1904. Unusually at that time, he adopted the practice of signing his name, or his initials, on nearly all the pottery he designed, the production of which he personally oversaw. In due course the extent to which his success had overshadowed Macintyre's other manufacturing activities resulted in resentment on the part of his employers, culminating in their decision in 1912 to close down his studio.

In 1913, William Moorcroft then set up his own factory at Cobridge with staff from Macintyres, and backed by a financial arrangement with Liberty & Co of London, The business succeeded. Much of the output was sold through Liberty & Co. and Tiffany in New York City. In 1928 Queen Mary made him "Potter to the Queen" through a Royal Warrant, which was stamped on the pottery. His son, Walter joined the company when he was twenty, and took over the management of the pottery in 1945 just before William's death.

See also
 Moorcroft

References

English potters
People from Burslem
1872 births
1945 deaths
Disney Hotel Santa Fe

The Disney Hotel Santa Fe is a hotel at Disneyland Paris. It is designed by Albuquerque-based architect Antoine Predock, whose other work stands mainly in the American Southwest, to evoke the atmosphere of a motel in Santa Fe, New Mexico with its typical Pueblo Revival architecture. Surrounding the buildings is a desert-like environment in which cacti and decorative neon have been placed to further emphasise the American Southwestern theme. A drive-in theater screen is permanently displaying characters from the Cars franchise, and an intentionally derelict neon sign stands at the entrance.  It shares an area of Disneyland Paris with Disney Hotel Cheyenne, located on either side of a man-made river called the Rio Grande.

The hotel opened with the Euro Disney Resort in April 1992.

On 26 July 2022, Disney rebranded all their onsite hotels by  dropping the possessive apostrophe. This meant the name was changed from Disney's Hotel Santa Fe to Disney Hotel Santa Fe.

Trails
The rooms are divided over several buildings (pueblos) in a number of so-called 'trails':
10-18 Trail of Artifacts
20-33 Trail of Water
40-49 Trail of Monuments
50-58 Trail of Legends

Since the grand renovation of the hotel and with the adding of the Disney-Pixar Cars theme the trails are called Luigi, Mater, McQueen and Sally respectively.

Trivia
 Another example of recreated Southwestern pueblo architecture can also be found in the Disneyland Park: the Fuente del Oro restaurant in Frontierland displays massive adobe-style walls with protruding wooden beams and deeply inset windows.

References

Santa Fe
Hotels established in 1992
Antoine Predock buildings
Hotel buildings completed in 1992
1992 establishments in France
Disney Newport Bay Club

The Disney Newport Bay Club is a hotel situated at Disneyland Paris. It was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and styled after archetypal New England architecture with its white clapboard exterior, porches, woodwork and nautical memorabilia. Its name was derived from the town of Newport, Rhode Island. Restaurants feature seafood and the hotel itself is built in a crescent shape around one extreme (or the "bay") of Lake Disney, which itself features a small lighthouse. It is the largest hotel on property and at the time of its opening held more rooms (1093) than any other hotel in Western Europe.

History
Robert A.M. Stern Architects had previously designed two similar hotels which opened two years prior to the Newport Bay Club, in 1990: Disney's Beach Club Resort and its adjacent Disney's Yacht Club Resort share the late 19th century New England nautical theme at the Walt Disney World Resort.

The hotel opened with the Euro Disney Resort in April 1992. In this same year, the hotel was temporarily closed during the winter due to the low occupancy the resort hotels suffered during their early years. The hotel had not ceased operation since, until the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

On 26 July 2020, Disney rebranded all their onsite hotels by  dropping the possessive apostrophe. This meant the name was changed from Disney's Newport Bay Club to Disney Newport Bay Club.

References

Newport Bay Club
Hotels established in 1992
Hotel buildings completed in 1992
Robert A. M. Stern buildings
1992 establishments in France
St. Francisville Bridge

St. Francisville Bridge may refer to:
John James Audubon Bridge (Mississippi River) in Louisiana
Wabash Cannonball Bridge over the Wabash River in Illinois and Indiana
Henry I (bishop of Augsburg)

Henry I (died 14 July 982), from the Luitpolding family, was the bishop of Augsburg from 973 to his death. He succeeded Saint Ulrich. A bellicose warrior-bishop, under him the diocese suffered.

Henry aided the rebels against the Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor. In 977, he took part in the War of the Three Henries as one of the three Henries. At an Easter court at Magdeburg in 978, he was imprisoned and remained so until July. After his liberation, he denounced the rebels and remained loyal to the king.

He died in the Battle of Stilo and bequeathed to his church his possessions at Geisenhausen.

References

10th-century bishops in Bavaria
982 deaths
Roman Catholic bishops of Augsburg
German military personnel killed in action
Year of birth unknown
List of major crimes in the United Kingdom

This is a list of major crimes in the United Kingdom and Crown dependencies that received significant media coverage and/or led to changes in legislation.

Legally each deliberate and unlawful killing of a human being is murder; there is no crime of assassination or serial killing as such, for example.

Child/teenage killings

Individual murders
Murder is the unlawful killing of another person without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought.

Serial killings

Sex crimes

Massacres
 Hungerford massacre in 1987: Michael Robert Ryan shoots at multiple bystanders and police officers. 16 people are killed.
 Dunblane massacre in 1996: Thomas Hamilton shoots dead 16 school children and their teacher before turning the gun on himself.
Cumbria shootings in 2010: Taxi man killed 12 people across West Cumbria and shot a further 11 who survived; before killing himself later in the day.
 Plymouth shooting in 2021: 22-year-old Jake Davison fatally shoots five people and injures two others before committing suicide.

Organised crime, corporate crime, employment related crime, corruption, criminal conspiracies and terrorism

See also
 List of heists in the United Kingdom
 List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom

References

 

Assassinated British people
Organised crime in the United Kingdom

British murder victims
People murdered in the United Kingdom
British police officers
United Kingdom crime-related lists
Major crimes
Disney Hotel New York – The Art of Marvel

Disney Hotel New York – The Art of Marvel is a hotel situated in Disneyland Paris. Originally called Disney's Hotel New York, the original hotel was designed by the 2011 Driehaus Prize winner and postmodern architect Michael Graves. Citing early 20th century Art Deco it was designed to echo the essence and feel of New York City. The exterior of the hotel itself is a stylised skyscraper-filled skyline. The hotel opened in 1992.

During the 2017 edition of D23, Bob Chapek, chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, announced that the hotel would be reimagined by Walt Disney Imagineering to Disney's Hotel New York – The Art of Marvel. The reimagined hotel eventually opened in June 2021. A subsequent rebrand that saw the possessive apostrophe dropped took place in July 2022. This meant the name became Disney Hotel New York – The Art of Marvel.

Retheming into The Art of Marvel
During the D23 expo of August 2019, it was announced that one of the suites of the hotel would be fully themed into Spider-Man, while the more standard rooms are more Iron-Man inspired.

Activities and dining
The hotel features two restaurants, the Manhattan Restaurant originally based on Manhattan's Cotton Club; now features many elements of the MCU including an Asgardian chandelier. Also, the Downtown Restaurant is an art-deco style buffet restaurant with Marvel comics adorning its walls. The Skyline Bar and Bleecker Street Lounge serve drinks and light snacks. Outside features Bryant Park; an event space based on the park of the same name in Manhattan.

A small gift shop, the New York Boutique, sells themed clothing, souvenirs, photographs taken with characters or on rides, the hotel's signature scent, bottled beverages, as well as a small selection of travel essentials.

Super Hero Station is a character meet opportunity for guests of the hotel, also featuring backdrops displaying scenes from Marvel Cinematic Universe films. An indoor/outdoor pool with a jacuzzi and pool toys is available. The Empire State Club once held Character breakfasts. A Disney character used to appear every morning next to the hotel lobby.

Location
Disney Hotel New York – The Art of Marvel is the nearest to Panoramagique and Disney Village.

References

New York
Michael Graves buildings
Hotels established in 1992
Hotel buildings completed in 1992
Castúo

Castúo is the generic name for the dialects of Spanish spoken in the autonomous community of Extremadura, in Spain. Not to be confused with Extremaduran, a language between Asturleonese and Castilian, or Fala, another language spoken in Extremadura which is most similar to Galician-Portuguese.

Phonology
 Debuccalization (reduction to ) of  and  in syllable-final position, as is common in Spanish varieties in the southern half of Spain.
 Frequent loss of d, in any position, as is common in Spanish varieties in the southern half of Spain.
 Simplification of the consonantic group -nf, to f
 Simplification of the consonantic group -rj, to j
 Simplification of the consonantic group rn, to nn
 Pronunciation of word-initial 'h' as a glottal fricative, , in many words in which Latin had an initial 'f', as is common in most Andalusian varieties.
 Occasional consonantic change l/r and r/l, which occurs in Andalusian Spanish as well
 General loss of r in final position

Morphology
 Anteposition of article before possessive pronoun, as in Extremaduran
 Use of diminutives ino and ina, a product of contact with Leonese
 Use of masculine article er before a consonant

Writers
 José María Gabriel y Galán
 Luis Chamizo Trigueros
 Miguel Herrero Uceda
 Elisa Herrero Uceda

References
APLEx Association for the study and divulgation of Extremaduran linguistic patrimony

External links
 José María Gabriel y Galán's poems, poetry in castúo

Spanish dialects of Spain
Extremaduran culture
Ramp function

The ramp function is a unary real function, whose graph is shaped like a ramp. It can be expressed by numerous definitions, for example "0 for negative inputs, output equals input for non-negative inputs". The term "ramp" can also be used for other functions obtained by scaling and shifting, and the function in this article is the unit ramp function (slope 1, starting at 0).

In mathematics, the ramp function is also known as the positive part.

In machine learning, it is commonly known as a ReLU activation function or a rectifier in analogy to half-wave rectification in electrical engineering.   In statistics (when used as a likelihood function) it is known as a tobit model.

This function has numerous applications in mathematics and engineering, and goes by various names, depending on the context. There are differentiable variants of the ramp function.

Definitions 
The ramp function () may be defined analytically in several ways.  Possible definitions are:
 A piecewise function: 
 The max function: 
 The mean of an independent variable and its absolute value (a straight line with unity gradient and its modulus):  this can be derived by noting the following definition of ,  for which  and 
 The Heaviside step function multiplied by a straight line with unity gradient: 
 The convolution of the Heaviside step function with itself: 
 The integral of the Heaviside step function: 
 Macaulay brackets: 
 The positive part of the identity function:

Applications 
The ramp function has numerous applications in engineering, such as in the theory of digital signal processing.

In finance, the payoff of a call option is a ramp (shifted by strike price). Horizontally flipping a ramp yields a put option, while vertically flipping (taking the negative) corresponds to selling or being "short" an option. In finance, the shape is widely called a "hockey stick", due to the shape being similar to an ice hockey stick.

In statistics, hinge functions of multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) are ramps, and are used to build regression models.

Analytic properties

Non-negativity 

In the whole domain the function is non-negative, so its absolute value is itself, i.e.

and

Derivative 
Its derivative is the Heaviside step function:

Second derivative 
The ramp function satisfies the differential equation:

where  is the Dirac delta. This means that  is a Green's function for the second derivative operator. Thus, any function, , with an integrable second derivative, , will satisfy the equation:

Fourier transform 

where  is the Dirac delta (in this formula, its derivative appears).

Laplace transform 
The single-sided Laplace transform of  is given as follows,

Algebraic properties

Iteration invariance 
Every iterated function of the ramp mapping is itself, as

See also
 Tobit model

References 

Real analysis
Special functions
My First Alphabet

My First Alphabet is an educational video game for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. It was designed and programmed by Fernando Herrera and published by the Atari Program Exchange in 1981. My First Alphabet won the first Atari Star Award, an annual recognition of the best APX submission. It was moved to Atari Inc.'s product line. The award led to the creation of First Star Software and a string of games from Herrera.

Development

Herrera's son, Steve, was born with severe cataracts and was pronounced blind by medical specialists. Refusing to place his son in remedial classes, Herrera wrote a program to help his son learn the alphabet. After several months, his son made rapid progress, overcoming his handicap. The program later evolved into My First Alphabet.

Reception
When Atari began recognizing the top APX submissions in 1981, My First Alphabet was the first Atari Star Award winner, including a $25,000 prize. Herrera used the money to found First Star Software. Herrerra wrote First Star's initial title, Astro Chase (1982), as well as  Bristles (1983). First Star was the publisher of Boulder Dash (1984) and Spy vs. Spy (1984).

External links
atariarchives.org - Description of APX software
atarimania.com Review - My First Alphabet
Atari HQ - "Fernando Herrera" - First Star in the Atari Universe

1981 video games
Atari Program Exchange software
Atari 8-bit family games
Atari 8-bit family-only games
Children's educational video games
Video games developed in the United States
Single-player video games
Forest of Dean District Council elections

Forest of Dean District Council is the local authority for the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. The council is elected every four years. Since the last boundary changes in 2019, 38 councillors are elected from 21 wards.

Council elections
1973 Forest of Dean District Council election
1976 Forest of Dean District Council election
1979 Forest of Dean District Council election
1983 Forest of Dean District Council election (New ward boundaries)
1987 Forest of Dean District Council election
1991 Forest of Dean District Council election
1995 Forest of Dean District Council election
1999 Forest of Dean District Council election (Some new ward boundaries)
2003 Forest of Dean District Council election (New ward boundaries reduced the number of seats by 3)
2007 Forest of Dean District Council election
2011 Forest of Dean District Council election
2015 Forest of Dean District Council election
2019 Forest of Dean District Council election (New ward boundaries reduced number of seats from 48 to 38)
2023 Forest of Dean District Council election

By-election results

1995-1999

1999-2003

2003-2007

2007-2011

2011-2015

2015-present

References

By-election results

External links
Forest of Dean District Council

 
Council elections in Gloucestershire
Forest of Dean
District council elections in England
James Carnegie

James Carnegie may refer to:

James Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Southesk (died 1669), Scottish nobleman
James Carnegie (died 1700), Scottish MP for Forfarshire
James Carnegie (died 1707), Scottish MP for Forfarshire
James Carnegie (pirate) (fl. 1716), pirate active in the Caribbean who sailed with Henry Jennings
James Carnegie, 5th Earl of Southesk (1692–1730), Scottish nobleman
Sir James Carnegie, 3rd Baronet (1716–1765), Scottish MP for Kincardineshire
Sir James Carnegie, 5th Baronet (1799–1849), Scottish MP for Aberdeen Burghs 
James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk (1827–1905), his son, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife (1929–2015), Scottish peer