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Samochód pancerny wz. 29

Samochód Pancerny wzór 29 ("armoured car year 1929 model"), commonly known as Ursus or CWS, was a Polish interwar heavy armored car. A handful of these vehicles saw combat during the Polish-German War of 1939.

History and description
The car was designed in 1929 by Rudolf Gundlach. The vehicle was based on the chassis of the Ursus A 2-ton truck (Italian S.P.A. 25C modified by Ursus Mechanical Works in Warsaw), the armored body was built by CWS, Warsaw. The initial armament consisted of the French 37 mm low-velocity gun in the turret front, 7.92 mm machine guns in the turret left-rear and right-rear at 120 degrees to the gun (all operated by the commander), and another 7.92 mm MG in the hull rear (operated by the rear gunner). Although this arrangement helped to achieve good balance of the turret, it was awkward to use. In the mid-1930s the right turret machine gun was removed. The car carried 96 rounds for the main gun and 4032 MG rounds in 16 252-round belts. The vehicle was sufficiently armed and armored for late 1920s, but was underpowered, lacked all-wheel drive (which led to poor off-road mobility) and had high silhouette. Because of these shortcomings, only between 10 and 13 cars were built.

Combat history
Although obsolete by 1939, the car was still in service at the outbreak of the Second World War. 8 vehicles were assigned to the 11th armoured battalion of the Mazowiecka Cavalry Brigade, Army Modlin, as a reconnaissance unit. The vehicles acted well in combat, but by 16 September all of them were lost.

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Satanic School

The Satanic School was a name applied by Robert Southey to a class of writers headed by Byron and Shelley, because, according to him, their productions were "characterized by a Satanic spirit of pride and audacious impiety".

The term was, therefore, initially coined in Southey's A Vision of Judgement (1821) as one of opprobrium and moral condemnation. However, Byron took some delight in Southey's description of him as an author of "monstrous combinations of horrors and mockery, lewdness and impiety". Byron responded to Southey with his own Vision of Judgment (n.b. the "reformist" spelling), where Southey appears as a scribbler writing encomiums on weak kings. Byron, however, additionally took up the theme of a "Satanic" school and developed the "Byronic hero" (not to be confused with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Satanic Hero") who would, like Satan in Paradise Lost, be a tragic figure who is admirable even when wrong. Charles Baudelaire's poète maudit would emerge from the Byronic hero.

Thomas Carlyle responded to this new anti-hero and accused Byron and Shelley of wasting their breath in a fierce "wrangle with the devil", having "not the courage to fairly face and honestly fight him". Byron, in the materials surrounding Manfred, would suggest that these characters are not paragons of bourgeois virtues but are, rather, creatures of fire and spirit.

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Sgraffito

Sgraffito ( sgraffiti) is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colours to a moistened surface, or in pottery, by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip or glaze, and then in either case scratching so as to reveal parts of the underlying layer. The Italian past participle sgraffiato is also used, especially of pottery.

Etymology
The term sgraffito originates in Italian as a portmanteau of graffito, tracing back to the Greek word gráphein 'to write', and the verb sgraffiare 'to scratch', of Lombardic origin.

History
Sgraffito on walls has been used in Europe since classical times. It was popularized in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries and can be found in African art. In combination with ornamental decoration these techniques formed an alternative to the prevailing painting of walls. The technical procedure for sgraffito is relatively simple, resembling the process of painting frescoes.

Sgraffito played a significant role during the Italian Renaissance, with two of Raphael's workshops, Polidoro da Caravaggio and his partner Maturino da Firenze, among the leading specialists. They painted palace facades in Rome and other cities however most of their work has since weathered. During the 16th century, the technique was brought to Germany by the master builders of the Renaissance and taken up with enthusiasm. As a simple native art, old examples of sgraffito can be found in the wide surroundings of Wetterau and Marburg. In Germany, the technique is most predominant in Bavaria. The use of sgraffito was common in the creation of housing façades for the purposes of advertising. The technique was also used in Thuringia, the Engadin, Austria, and Transylvania.

In Catalonia, sgraffito gained prominence during the early 20th century, particularly through the influence of Noucentista neo-classical architects. This period marked a significant resurgence in interest for classical aesthetics and cultural identity, prompting architects to adopt sgraffito as a recurrent technique for embellishing façades. The intricate patterns and designs scratched into the plaster surfaces of buildings became emblematic of the region's architectural heritage, reflecting a harmonious blend of tradition and modernity. As sgraffito adorned numerous buildings throughout Catalonia, it not only served as a decorative element but also as a symbol of cultural revival and artistic innovation during a transformative period in the region's history.

Another application of sgraffito involves a simplified painting technique. Initially, a single coat of paint is applied and allowed to dry on a canvas or sheet of paper. Subsequently, a different color is painted over the first layer. Using a palette knife, oil stick, or similar tool, the artist then scratches out a design, revealing the underlying color. Alternatively, oil pastels may be used for the initial layer, with black ink applied on top. In some cases, the initial layer of paint may be omitted, and the artist scrapes back the wet coat to expose the canvas underneath. However, this method is not applicable when using oil pastels. This technique is frequently employed in art classes to introduce novice art students to the sgraffito technique.

In the process of stained glass creation, finely ground pigments of black, brown, and yellow colors, mixed with either water or glycerin, are delicately applied to sheet glass. Once the pigment mixture has dried, the artist can meticulously remove portions of it, revealing the light from beneath in intricate patterns. This technique of sgraffito is subtractive in nature, enabling the artist to work imagery into the surface of the glass. To permanently fuse the pigment to the glass, multiple firings in a kiln may be necessary. This firing process allows the maker to achieve high definition, contrast, and subtle gradients, utilizing a variety of tools to manipulate the pigment and create the desired effects.

Art Nouveau
Examples of graphic work on facades saw a resurgence c. 1890 through 1915, in the context of the rise of the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Vienna Secession, and particularly the Art Nouveau movement in Belgium and France.

The English artist Heywood Sumner has been identified as this era's pioneer of the technique, for example his work at the 1892 St Mary's Church, Sunbury, Surrey. Sumner's work is sgraffito per se, scratched plaster, but the term has come to encompass a variety of techniques for producing exterior graphic decoration. The incorporation of floral motifs of intricate patterns that uses the contrast of the etching technique.

Although the technique was popularized during the renaissance period, the modern craft movement adopted its usages and have incorporated the styles throughout the crafts movement such as art nouveau that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th century in ceramics, glass, and metals.

Applications across different mediums

 * Glass: Sgraffito can be seen in both blown and stained glass windows, where skilled artisans carve intricate designs into the surface of the glass, creating stunning visual effects when illuminated.
 * Enamel: In the realm of enamelwork, sgraffito techniques are utilized to carve designs into the enamel surface, adding texture and dimension to the finished pieces.
 * Ceramics and Pottery: Sgraffito is perhaps most commonly associated with ceramics and pottery, where artists scratch through layers of glaze or slip to reveal contrasting colors or the natural clay body beneath, resulting in striking surface decoration.
 * Architecture: Sgraffito finds expression in architectural ornamentation, with elaborate designs adorning the facades of buildings, particularly in regions where the technique has historical significance.
 * Furniture: Though less common, sgraffito can also be found in furniture design, particularly in northern European regions like Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Here, it often appears as intricate patterns scratched onto wooden surfaces, adding a touch of folk art charm to furniture pieces.

Other examples include:
 * Ceramic panels on the Grande Maison de Blanc, Brussels, architect Oscar François, artist Henri Privat-Livemont, 1896–1897
 * The Hôtel Albert Ciamberlani, Brussels, architect Paul Hankar, sgraffito designs by Albert Ciamberlani and executed by Adolphe Crespin, 1897.
 * The Golden House, Charleroi (Belgium), sgraffito designs by Gabriel Van Dievoet 1899.
 * Princess of Dreams tile tympanum and other work, Hotel Metropol, Moscow, architect William Walcot, artist Mikhail Vrubel, 1899–1907
 * Cauchie House, Brussels, architect Paul Cauchie, 1905
 * Ceramic Homage to Prague tympanum of the Municipal House in Prague, architect Osvald Polívka, artist Karel Špillar, 1905–1912

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Mobile billboard

A mobile billboard, also known as a "digital billboard truck", is a device used for advertising on the sides of a truck or trailer that is typically mobile. Mobile billboards are a form of transit media; static billboards, and mall/airport advertising fall into this same category. Using a mobile billboard for advertising is an advertising niche called mobile outdoor advertising.

Description
Most mobile billboards are dedicated, customized LED trucks with large bodies for displaying advertisements. Some of these dedicated units offer features such as external sound systems, illumination, LED panels and hot/cold boxes for product sampling, although they are illegal in many cities. Digital mobile billboard trucks have become popular, but the most capable in terms of gaining exposure are static mobile billboards. Static mobile billboards do not share advertising space.

Some of the most cost effective mobile billboards are installed wraps on trucks and trailers that are in service delivering goods serving as multi-purpose vehicles achieving "green status" or "truck side advertising".

Box-type trucks with panels enclosing the cargo space can be turned into a mobile 3D display case. Many companies use these trucks for parades, product launches, furniture displays, and general rapid-awareness creation. Almost anything can be placed inside of the boxes for display.

For micromarketing campaigns, small-engine scooters and human walking billboards are used for experiential marketing and direct to consumer marketing. This form has become a very effective intercity advertising method for Chicago, Illinois.

Installation
Advertisements on standard billboard trucks are installed by applying large vinyl sheets as decals, or by fastening a large sheet of vinyl to the sides of the truck or trailer using specialized aluminum frames. With the new LED mobile digital billboard trucks require large expensive screens to be installed on trucks.

Effectiveness
Industry analysts, researchers and trade representatives have researched the effectiveness of mobile billboards. Out of Home Advertising Association of America said that 90% of US travelers have noticed outdoor mobile media billboards. 3M and the American Trucking Association noted 91% of the target noticed the text and graphics on truck advertising, and the Traffic Audit Bureau noted that on local routes monthly impressions ranged from one to four million hits. Product Acceptance and Research said 94% of respondents recalled seeing the Mobile Billboard, with 80% recalling the specific advertisement; the billboards resulted in a sales increase of 107%.

Utilisation
Mobile Billboards are generally used due to the perceived benefits such as being able to deliver a message in places where traditional billboards are unavailable. They also offer a medium that does not get cluttered by other advertisements and are not generally seen near competitors. Many also find it advantageous that the message is less likely to be tuned out by drivers than other advertising medians.

Legality
Some municipalities have strict laws against mobile advertisements. According to the London Hackney Carriage Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 33) and section 9 of the Metropolitan Streets Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 134) it is not lawful for any person to carry any picture, placard, notice, or advertisement, on any carriage or on horseback or on foot in London except those which are approved of by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis or the Commissioner of the City of London Police. Ad-bikes and billboard bicycles can often be used as a substitute. Smaller cities code compliance often use a complaint driven model wherein the smaller lighter trucks seem to have fewer complaints and are often allowed. These mobile billboard trucks have been welcomed more by municipalities over the larger trucks.

In the US, mobile advertising falls under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The US Supreme Court has issued rulings that protect "commercial speech" as well. Hence, it is difficult for any jurisdiction to limit such advertising beyond public safety issues. Since most complaints regarding mobile advertising relate to oversized trucks with loudspeakers, the bigger companies are more likely to have lawyers on retainer who can remind the authorities of US Constitutional protection of free speech and commerce. However, content-neutral regulations of speech with a legitimate government interest are subject to a more deferential standard of review. Ordinances banning mobile billboards on traffic and public safety grounds, regardless of message and without singling out commercial advertisement, have been largely upheld as legitimately and reasonably regulating the form, and not content, of speech.

In Norway, the use of wrap advertising on buses was prohibited by the road authorities. The reason behind the ban was that in an emergency, the windows might need to serve as an emergency exit and that the advertising would make the window harder to break with the emergency hammer. Gaia Trafikk argued against the ban, pointing out that their tests showed that the thin wrap had no impact on the breakability of the window, but did remove the advertising which covered the windows.

Other forms
There are many other forms of outdoor mobile advertising, which are considered mobile billboards by some advertising professionals.

One such form is called wrap advertising, which differs from mobile billboards because wrap advertisements typically envelop an entire vehicle, typically a car or small truck, while mobile billboards are large flat surfaces like traditional billboards.

Other mobile advertising formats include bicycles, airplane banner towing, blimps, and mobile billboards on water, towed by boats.

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Happy Day

Happy Day may refer to:

 * The Happy Day, a 1916 musical comedy
 * Happy Day (album), a 2008 album by Tim Hughes
 * "The Happy Day" (Ashes to Ashes), an episode of Ashes to Ashes
 * Hap Day (1901–1990), Canadian professional hockey player
 * "Happy Day", a 1994 song by house musical duo Uncanny Alliance
 * "Happy Day", a song by Talking Heads from their 1977 album Talking Heads: 77
 * "Happy Day" (song), a 2014 song by Georgian singer Lizi Pop
 * Happy Day (film), a 1939 Egyptian film
 * The Happy Day (picture book), a 1949 picture book
 * "Happy Day," a 1755 hymn by Philip Doddridge

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Treasurer-depute

The Treasurer-depute was a senior post in the pre-Union government of Scotland. It was the equivalent of the English post of Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Originally a deputy to the Treasurer, the Treasurer-depute emerged as a separate Crown appointment by 1614. Its holder attended the Privy Council in the absence of the Treasurer, but gained independent membership of the Council in 1587 and sat in the Parliament of Scotland as a Great Officer of State in 1593 and from 1617 onwards.

List of treasurers-depute

 * 1547 James Forrester
 * 1584: Sir Robert Melville
 * 1604–1610: Sir John Arnot
 * 1610–1621: Gideon Murray
 * 1622–1631: Archibald Napier, 1st Lord Napier
 * 1631–?: John Stewart, 1st Earl of Traquair
 * 1636-1649: Sir James Carmichael
 * 1661–1671: William Bellenden, 1st Lord Bellenden
 * 1671–1682?: Charles Maitland, Lord Haltoun
 * 1682–1684: John Drummond
 * 1684–1686?: John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore
 * 1687–1689: Richard Maitland, Viscount Maitland
 * 1690–1698: Alexander Melville, Lord Raith
 * 1699–1703: Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, Lord Ormiston
 * 1703: David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow

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User:GroupOne

Hey HEY! M here of GroupOne, we're Seattle University grad students working on a project for an auditing class (in case you couldn't tell by the page we're working on). Hope you don't become terribly irate with our lack of Wikitude, we're learning on the fly, and any advice you give is appreciated.

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Sierra Morena

The Sierra Morena is one of the main systems of mountain ranges in Spain. It stretches for 450 kilometres from east to west across the south of the Iberian Peninsula, forming the southern border of the Meseta Central plateau and providing the watershed between the valleys of the Guadiana to the north and the west, and the Guadalquivir to the south.

Its highest summit is 1,332 m high Bañuela. Other notable peaks are Corral de Borros 1,312 m and Cerro de la Estrella 1,298 m.

The name Sierra Morena has a strong legendary reputation in Spanish culture and tradition, with myths about bandits (Los bandidos de Sierra Morena), a giant snake (El Saetón de Sierra Morena) and a child brought up by wolves (Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja), among others. This range is also mentioned in the famous Mexican song "Cielito Lindo" and in one of the most well known traditional Spanish songs, "Soy Minero", interpreted by Antonio Molina.

Description
The Sierra Morena stretches for 450 km in an E-W direction from the high course of the Guadalmena River in the Sierra del Relumbrar until northwestern Huelva Province, extending into Portugal. The system is the result of the uplift produced by the pressure of the northward-moving African Plate. It is made up of hard Paleozoic rocks such as granite and quartzite, as well as softer materials such as slate and gneiss.

Its name, roughly meaning 'dark range', is likely derived from the dark color of some of the rocks and vegetation of the ranges that make up the mountainous system. It is also mentioned as Sierra Mariánica in some documents. Formerly it was a border area, a vast wilderness with little population, and its mountain passes were important for the communication between Andalusia and Central Spain.

The peaks of the ranges are not very high on average, in fact Sierra Morena's highest point is the lowest among the mountain systems of the Iberian Peninsula. They are, however, very consistent in altitude, averaging between 600 and 1,300 m all along the system. Since they form the southern edge of the Meseta Central, the Iberian Central Plateau, the northern Sierra Morena ranges barely rise above the level of the surrounding plateau in most places. Nevertheless, the Sierra Morena looks like a true mountain range seen from the Baetic Depression in the south with impressive southward-facing slopes and gorges. Located within the province of Jaén, the Despeñaperros, an abrupt canyon created by the Despeñaperros River, with sheer walls over 500 metres high, is the natural path for crossing the Sierra Morena into Andalusia from the north of the peninsula.

Ranges
The main ranges of the Sierra Morena system from east to west are:

 * Sierra del Relumbrar, Cerro de Pilas Verdes (1,151 m) and Cerro de San Andrés (1,224 m)
 * Sierra Madrona or Sierra de Madrona, Bañuela (1,323 m), Corral de Borros (1,312 m), Abulagoso (1,301 m) and Rebollera (1,161 m)
 * Sierra de Almadén
 * Sierra de Alcudia, Navalmarcos (1,057 m) and Judío (1,107 m)
 * Sierra de Tentudía, also known as Sierra de Tudía, Pico de Tentudía (1,104 m)
 * Sierra Vieja, also known as Sierra de Feria, El Mirrio (811 m)
 * Sierra Grande de Hornachos, also known as Sierra de Hornachos and as Sierra Grande
 * Sierra del Pedroso, marking the limit of the Zújar River basin
 * Sierra de Maria Andrés
 * Sierra de Alconera
 * Sierra de los Pedroches
 * Sierra de Peñaladrones, near Bélmez, Monte Pelayo, (935 m)
 * Sierra Albarrana, a low range within Hornachuelos municipal term
 * Sierra de la Marianta, near Villanueva del Rey
 * Sierra de los Santos, running west of the Guadiato River
 * Sierra de la Aguja, near Fuente Obejuna
 * Sierra de Andújar, Cerro del Cabezo (686 m) with the Virgen de la Cabeza shrine on top
 * Sierra de Cardeña, Pico Colmena (828 m)
 * Sierra de Montoro, Cerro Pingajo (805 m)
 * Sierra de los Calderones, Cerro de la Estrella (1,298 m)
 * Sierra Norte de Sevilla, Cerro de La Capitana (960 m), Pico Hamapega (910 m)
 * Sierra de Aracena, Cerro del Castaño (962 m), Almonaster (915 m)
 * Picos de Aroche

History
The ranges of Sierra Morena have valuable deposits of copper, gold, silver, iron, lead, mercury, and other metals, some of which have been exploited since prehistoric times. The ancient Iberians used the mountain passes as a passage between the high plateau in the north and the Guadalquivir basin.

The bleak Sierra Morena mountains were also notorious in former times for being a haunt of bandits and highwaymen. The Nuevas Poblaciones de Andalucía y Sierra Morena administrative division was started in 1767 during the reign of Charles III of Spain in order to populate the mountainous zone. As a consequence the area around La Carolina was settled with farmers that included German, Swiss and Flemish families. One of the goals of the project was to have safe stopover points for carriages in the desolate region that would be within reasonable distance from each other.

Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja was a child born in Añora who lived by himself in the middle of the Sierra Morena in the area that is now the Sierra de Cardeña y Montoro Natural Park. The film "Entre lobos" by the Cordovan director Gerardo Olivares was based on his experience.

Spanish Civil War
The Sierra Morena was the scenario of many battles and skirmishes throughout the Spanish Civil War.

The battle of Cerro Muriano, part of the August 1936 Córdoba offensive in the region, is famous owing to the picture of a "falling militiaman" taken by Robert Capa, a picture that sought to represent the tragic fate of the Spanish Republic.

The Battle of Valsequillo (also known as 'Battle of Peñarroya'), involving the Extremaduran Army took place further west in the area of the range at the Extremaduran front line between 5 January and 4 February 1939 towards the end of the conflict.

In literature
The Sierra Morena appears in the novel Don Quixote. When Sancho Panza suggests the mountains as a refuge from the Holy Brotherhood after Don Quixote frees a group of galley slaves, the two escape into the Sierra Morena. In the mountains, Quixote contemplates the burdens of knighthood. In Voltaire's satire Candide, the main characters stop there on their escape from Lisbon (chapter 9–10).

The forbidding landscape of Sierra Morena was also the setting for the majority of the eerie and supernatural goings-on in Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Ecology
The Sierra Morena is one of the last habitats of the endangered Iberian lynx. Other charismatic animals of the region include the Iberian wolf (2019 declared extinct regionally by the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe), Wild boar, Red deer, the Spanish imperial eagle and the Golden eagle. Among the amphibians, wells and ponds in many areas of the range provide a habitat for the near-threatened Iberian ribbed newt.

A National Geographic Channel documentary film featuring an overview of some of the region's wildlife was produced in 2015.

Protected areas
Certain sectors of Sierra Morena's are protected areas, including natural parks:
 * Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche Natural Park
 * Sierra Norte de Sevilla Natural Park
 * Sierra de Hornachuelos Natural Park
 * Sierra de Cardeña and Montoro Natural Park
 * Sierra de Andújar Natural Park
 * Despeñaperros Natural Park
 * Peñas de Aroche Natural Site
 * Sierra Pelada and Rivera del Aserrador Natural Site
 * Cascada de la Cimbarra Natural Site

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Roger Frogley

Roger Frogley (13 July 1908 in Ware, Hertfordshire – 30 June 1974 ) was a pioneering British motorcycle speedway rider. He earned three international caps for the England national speedway team and was the 1929 Star Riders' Champion.

Career
Frogley rode for the Crystal Palace Glaziers the majority of his career. He made his debut on 14 April 1928 at High Beach motorcycle speedway located inside of Epping Forest; the track was behind The King's Oak public house. A special trophy was put forth that year for the first, fourth place riders to win races at more than 39 mph. The trophies were won by Roger, his brother Buster, Joe Francis, and Arthur Willimott.

Roger and Buster Frogley rode modified 1928 Dirt Track Rudge motor bikes. In 1929, Roger Frogley rode in forty races, winning eighteen of them. Most significantly, he won the "Home" Star Riders' Championship at Wimbledon Stadium on Monday 21 October, making him the first British Star Rider.

Roger Frogley was the top scoring rider for England, with six points, in the first England versus Australia Test Match at Wimbledon Stadium, Plough Lane, in 1930. He was part of the Crystal Palace team that won the 1931 London Cup.

He retired in 1932, due to a loss of form. and made an unsuccessful comeback at New Cross Lambs in 1935.

In later life he was a successful businessman and lived in a house on Stapleford Airfield with his wife Sonja and his children William and Tanya. He was a keen aviator and sailor. He was a friend of Rupert "Bob" Simpson a pilot with BOAC and fellow boating enthusiast

He suffered from a gastric ulcer and died from cancer of the colon in the 1970s.

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Coyne Airways

Coyne Airways is an all cargo airline based in London, England, United Kingdom. It has a separate operation in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It operates scheduled cargo flights to Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, using Antonov, Boeing and Ilyushin aircraft as required. Its main bases are London Stansted Airport, Cologne Bonn Airport and Dubai International Airport.

History
The airline was established and started operations in 1994. It started as a charter broker specialising in the CIS market. In 1997 it pioneered scheduled freighter services to the Caspian starting with Baku but later adding Tbilisi, Yerevan, Aktau, Atyrau and Uralsk. In December 2006, it began serving this region with a B747 400F from Stansted to Cologne to its hub in Tbilisi, where freight is then transferred to smaller aircraft for distribution around the region.

In July 2002, it inaugurated a freighter service between Seoul and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to meet the growing need for oil and gas development on Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East.

In 2004, it set up the first (and only scheduled freighter services according to the Official Airline Guide) into Iraq serving Baghdad and many destinations around the country. In 2006 it set up scheduled services into Afghanistan, serving Kandahar, Kabul and Bagram twice-weekly.

It also serves Djibouti in the Horn of Africa and Sana'a, Yemen. In January 2008, it commenced Boeing 747 operations into Lagos, Nigeria. These were discontinued in April 2008.

Destinations
Coyne Airways operates freight services to the following destinations (as of June 2013):
 * Afghanistan
 * Bagram – Bagram Air Base
 * Kabul – Kabul International Airport
 * Kandahar – Kandahar International Airport
 * Armenia
 * Yerevan – Zvartnots International Airport
 * Azerbaijan
 * Baku – Heydar Aliyev International Airport
 * Georgia
 * Tbilisi – Tbilisi International Airport Base
 * Iraq
 * Baghdad – Baghdad International Airport
 * Balad – Joint Base Balad
 * Erbil – Erbil International Airport
 * Kazakhstan
 * Aktau – Aktau Airport
 * Atyrau – Atyrau Airport
 * Oral – Oral Ak Zhol Airport
 * Turkmenistan
 * Ashgabat – Ashgabat Airport
 * Türkmenbaşy – Turkmenbashi Airport
 * United Arab Emirates
 * Dubai – Dubai International Airport Base
 * United Kingdom
 * London – Stansted Airport Base

Fleet
Coyne Airways do not have their own aircraft, and instead charter the following:

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Any Day Now (TV series)

Any Day Now is an American drama television series that aired on the Lifetime network from 1998 to 2002. Set in Birmingham, Alabama, Any Day Now explored issues around race and friendship and how they affect the lives of two devoted lifelong friends over the years—from the 1960s to the current day. The show stars Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint, portraying best friends since childhood, as they openly and honestly address events in their interracial community.

The show's title is taken from the 1962 song "Any Day Now", written by Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard. A version performed by Lori Perry served as the show's theme song.

Setting
Any Day Now focuses on the lives and interactions of two female protagonists: Mary Elizabeth "M.E." O'Brien Sims (Potts) and Rene Jackson (Toussaint). The two had grown up as close friends in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. However, their friendship ended when M.E. became pregnant and chose, despite Rene's disapproval, to keep the child, drop out of college, and marry her boyfriend, Colliar Sims.

More than twenty years later, M.E. and her husband still live in Birmingham, where they struggle to make ends meet. Their oldest son, Bobby, died as a child; but they have two more children, daughter Kelly and son Davis. Rene moved to Washington, D.C., where she was a successful attorney for many years; but, after the death of her father, Rene decides to move back to Birmingham and establish a law practice there. She reunites with M.E., and the two quickly resume their close friendship. In every episode, contemporary storylines are interwoven with a storyline from their shared past.

Format
Each hour-long episode explores a theme contained alternating scenes from two different timelines. The 1960s timeline followed the young version of the girls, who were best friends in Birmingham in the 1960s. Their friendship provides an inside look at the civil rights movement as it affects the residents of Birmingham. Their friendship blossoms despite the discomfort of M.E.'s naively bigoted parents and her openly racist Uncle Jimmy, an avowed member of the Ku Klux Klan. M.E. and Rene's friendship was fostered by Renee's activists parents along with M.E.'s loving grandmother and her older brother, Johnny, who was sent to Vietnam, while M.E.'s older sister, Teresa, often threatened to tell their parents that M.E.'s "little colored friend" had been in their house. Colliar Sims (Chris Mulkey), M.E.'s childhood sweetheart and eventual husband, played a large role in this timeline as well. Rene's family included her father, James (John Lafayette), who was a lawyer and an active member of the Civil Rights Movement; her mother, Sarah, also active in the movement; and her older brother Elston, who was the same age as M.E.'s brother Johnny but dodged the draft by fleeing to Canada.

The contemporary timeline showed M.E. and Rene as adults. M.E. is a homemaker with aspirations of becoming a writer, and Rene starts her own law firm in Birmingham. Characters from the 1960s timeline appeared in the contemporary timeline as well, such as Rene's widowed mother, her brother Elston (openly gay, who has a son by a surrogate), who his partner adopts, M.E.'s oft-divorced sister Teresa (Delta Burke), and M.E.'s aging parents, whose views on race had mellowed somewhat over the years, quite in contrast to unrepentantly racist Uncle Jimmy, who still antagonized Rene if given the chance.

The show dealt with issues like modern-day racism, homosexuality, religion, women's rights, rape, natural disaster, alcohol, suicide, and death. During Season 3, M.E.'s daughter Kelly dated an African-American boy, Ajoni (Derrex Brady), and became pregnant by him at age 17, much to Colliar's dismay; Kelly and Ajoni chose to marry and keep the baby, whom they named Emmett. Eventually, M.E. published a book and was invited to teach at the local college. Rene's over-all story arc dealt mainly with her law practice; although she enjoyed great success as a lawyer, eventually focusing her practice on civil rights law, she sometimes regretted that she had never married nor had a family. In the final episode of the show, Rene married Judge Clyde "Turk" Terhune (William Allen Young).

In most episodes there was either a common theme between the scenes presented from each timeline, or a direct connection between the events depicted in the past and how it affected those in the present. This relationship between past and present often explores the effect of past damage on the present day.

The show included real-life topics such as police traffic stops that are unusually fatal for Black people, in the episode "It's a Good Thing I'm Not Black" in which Rene is forced to lie down on the sidewalk after being pulled over.

In the fourth season, the actresses Mae Middleton (M.E.) and Shari Dyon Perry (Rene) were replaced by Olivia Hack and Maya Goodwin, respectively, as the producers wanted the girls to encounter more mature storylines. However, Dan Byrd kept the role of Colliar Sims.

Any Day Now ended after 88 episodes, with Rene's marriage, as well as M.E. and Rene's mothers finally putting an end to their decades-long animosity.

Any Day Now is currently being aired on Start TV daily at 8 AM/7 AM Central Time.

Main

 * Annie Potts as Mary Elizabeth "M.E." Sims
 * Lorraine Toussaint as Rene Jackson
 * Shari Dyon Perry as Young Rene Jackson (seasons 1–3)
 * Mae Middleton as Young M.E. O'Brien (seasons 1–3)
 * Chris Mulkey as Colliar Sims
 * Derrex Brady as Ajoni Williams
 * Olivia Friedman as Kelly (Sims) Williams
 * John Lafayette as James Jackson
 * Donzaleigh Abernathy as Sara Jackson
 * Maya Goodwin as Young Rene Jackson (season 4)
 * Olivia Hack as Young M.E. O'Brien (season 4)

Supporting

 * Julie St. Claire as Joy (season 1)
 * Christopher Winsor as Davis Sims (season 1)
 * Christopher Babers as Young Elston Jackson
 * William Converse-Roberts as Matthew O'Brien
 * Nancy Mcloughlin as Catherine O'Brien
 * James Deeds as Johnny O'Brien
 * Elise Shirley as Young Theresa O'Brien
 * Delta Burke as Theresa O'Brien
 * Michael Pavone as Jimmy O'Brien
 * Dan Byrd as Young Colliar Sims
 * Millie Perkins as Grandma Irene Otis
 * Richard Biggs as Bill Moody
 * Bronson Picket as Joe Lozano
 * Tony Barriere as Young Tully
 * Mary-Pat Green as Odessa
 * Taneka Johnson as Lakeisha Reynolds
 * Don McManus as Graham Pearce
 * Alyssa Nichols as April
 * Alexandra Hedison as Rhonda
 * Monique Edwards as Cynthia
 * Calvin Devault as Davis Sims (seasons 2–4)

Production
Nancy Miller, co-creator, executive producer and showrunner had spent summers during her childhood in Birmingham at a time when there were still segregated fountains. Miller used those past histories in creating the show. Valerie Woods, who started as first executive story editor and later became co-executive producer, was equally committed to creating a show that would examine difficult topics in a useful way.

Miller started trying to get Any Day Now in to production starting in 1990, envisioning it as a combination of Wonder Years and Mississippi Burning. CBS agreed at one point, but then cancelled before production began.

The writers' room of Any Day Now was diverse - at least 50 percent of the writers were people of color, almost all of whom were black. The diverse cast members themselves also participate in the creative process. Donzaleigh Abernathy, who plays Rene's mother, is the daughter of Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who was a civil rights leader himself. Lifetime was receptive to the show taking on difficult subject.

Critical reception
Anita Gates, writing for The New York Times at the onset of the series panned the initial episode, stating that it "strains credibility, embraces stereotype and generally falls short of expectations." Lynn Elber, writing for the Associated Press, noted at its premiere that it had taken eight years for Any Day Now to be produced, due to its ground-breaking format of being centered on race as well as the lives of women, and being set in the South.

Howard Rosenberg lauded Any Day Now on airing "It's Not Just a Word," which reflects on a certain racial slur and its ongoing effect on Black people, calling the episode "Thoughtful, volcanic, important". He praised the show overall for "raking over the still-raw sores of U.S. racism with candor, but also tenderness and humor. He ends his review by saying, "... if sages of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences don't grant previously overlooked Any Day Now the Emmy attention it deserves this year, they'll have some explaining to do."

Anjali Enjeti praised Any Day Now for avoiding white savior plots and racial caricatures, while focusing on impacts of racism rather than white intent, and the commitment of the producers to delve honestly into difficult topics. Enjeti praised the themes of the show including the trauma caused by racism—both internal and systemic—and the privilege to remain silent in the face of oppression. Enjeti concludes, "If there was ever a time to watch a television series's forthright and intrepid depiction of prejudice, hatred, and the long, windy, and sometimes backward road to justice, it's now."

Young Artist Awards
All performances were categorized into the "Best Performance in a TV Drama Series" category.

 * 1998–1999 — All nominees won their own awards

 * Dan Byrd — Supporting Young Actor
 * Shari Dyon Perry — Supporting Young Actress
 * Mae Middleton — Young Actress Age Ten and Under
 * Tony C. Barriere — Guest Starring Young Actor

 * 1999–2000 — Neither won an award

 * Supporting Young Actor
 * Dan Byrd
 * Tony C. Barriere
 * Supporting Young Actress
 * Shari Dyon Perry
 * Mae Middleton
 * Olivia Friedman

2000–2001 — (Nominated) Best Family TV Drama Series

Primetime Emmy Awards
2000 Primetime Emmy Awards — (Nominated) Outstanding Costumes for a Series: Mary Anne Aston (Costume Supervisor); Elizabeth P. Palmer (Costume Designer)

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Ajige

Ajige (Manchu:, Mölendroff: ajige; 28 August 1605 – 28 November 1651) was a Manchu prince and military general of the early Qing dynasty. He was born in the Aisin Gioro clan as the 12th son of Nurhaci, the khan of the Later Jin dynasty (the precursor of the Qing dynasty).

Ajige was conferred the title "Prince Wuying of the Second Rank" (武英郡王) in 1636, before being promoted to "Prince Ying of the First Rank" in 1644. He was involved in the Manchu conquest of the Ming dynasty. After the death of Dorgon, Ajige attempted to seize the position of Prince-Regent (previously held by Dorgon), but was discovered and placed under arrest. He was forced to commit suicide by the Shunzhi Emperor in 1651.

Physical Appearance
According to the account of Japanese travellers, Ajige was a stalwart, valiant and hot-tempered warrior who had been through numerous battles, and that he had eyes that looked abnormally ferocious.

Family
Primary Consort

 * First primary consort, of the Sirin Gioro clan (嫡妻 西林覺羅氏)
 * Hedu, Prince of the Fourth Rank (貝子 和度; 14 December 1619 – 13 November 1646), first son
 * Second primary consort, of the Khorchin Borjigit clan (繼妻 博爾濟吉特氏)
 * Fulehe, Duke of the First Rank (鎮國公 傅勒赫; 9 January 1629 – 11 May 1660), second son
 * Louqin, Prince of the First Rank (親王 樓親; 9 November 1634 – 25 November 1661), sixth son
 * Mo'erxun (墨爾遜; b. 4 August 1635), seventh son

Concubine

 * Mistress, of the Li clan (李氏)
 * Suo'erke (索爾科; 16 February 1640 – 12 June 1642), eighth son
 * Mistress, of the Yu clan (愉氏)
 * Unknown
 * Princess of the Third Rank (郡主), first daughter
 * married Ebilun (遏必隆) of the Niohuru, son of Eidu and Princess Mukushen, and had issues.
 * Laoqin, Prince of the Second Rank (郡王 勞親; d. 28 November 1651), third son
 * Bo'erxun (伯爾遜; 3 February 1631 – 15 November 1675), fourth son
 * Menzhu (門柱; 4 July 1633 – 23 September 1635), fifth son
 * Fifth daughter (1637–1694)
 * Married Mingju (1635–1708) of the Manchu Yehe Nara clan, and had issue (Xingde)
 * Tongsai (佟塞; 29 April 1641 – 8 November 1701), ninth son
 * Huli (瑚禮; b. 13 August 1641), tenth son
 * Ebai (鄂拜; 20 March 1643 – 13 September 1689), 11th son
 * Banjintai (班進泰; 27 May 1644 – 22 August 1706), 12th son

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User:GavinPearce

Well I'm me, blond hair blu eyes, about 5"7/8.

Umm sailing is my main sport, I work for the Dinghy Store (check em out) if you ever get the chance.

Who ever did write the article about me? I mean I'm flattered but still...

Links

My Site

Sailing Club Site

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Jim Herrick

Jim Herrick (August 1944 – 20 June 2023) was a British humanist and secularist. He studied history and English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge University, and then worked as a school teacher for seven years. He wrote or edited several books on humanism and the history of freethought.

Biography
Herrick was a trustee of the Rationalist Association and was editor of its journal New Humanist for 18 years from 1984. He subsequently became literary editor of New Humanist until his retirement in 2005. He was the recipient of the second International Rationalist Award in the year 2002.

He was editor of International Humanist News, published by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU). In 1996 he received the Distinguished Humanist Service Award from the IHEU. He was a signatory to Humanist Manifesto III.

From January 1977 until 1981, Herrick edited The Freethinker. He later wrote that publication's centenary history. He was a founder member of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association.

Herrick stepped down as a vice-president of the National Secular Society at the 2007 AGM but remained on the Council of Management until stepping down at the 2009 AGM.

Publications

 * Aspiring to the Truth: Two Hundred Years of the South Place Ethical Society. (2016). With an introduction by Nicolas Walter. Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 1-5329793-7-1.
 * Humanism: An Introduction. (2003). ISBN 0-301-00301-7. (Also published by Prometheus Books, 2005. ISBN 1-59102-239-8)
 * Humanist Anthology: From Confucius to David Attenborough. (1995). London, Rationalist Press Association. Edited by Margaret Knight; 2nd edition, revised by Jim Herrick. ISBN 0-301-94001-0
 * Against the Faith: Some Deists, Skeptics and Atheists. (1985). London: Glover & Blair. ISBN 0-906681-09-X (Also published by Prometheus Books, 1994. ISBN 0-87975-288-2).
 * Vision and Realism: A Hundred Years of The Freethinker. (1982). London: GW Foote & Co. ISBN 0-9508243-0-5
 * Selected articles for New Humanist on the newhumanist.org.uk website.

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GunZ: The Duel

GunZ: The Duel (건즈 온라인), or simply GunZ, was an online third-person shooting game, created by South Korean-based MAIET Entertainment.

It was free-to-play, with a microtransaction business model for purchasing premium in-game items. The game allowed players to perform exaggerated, gravity-defying action moves, including wall running, stunning, tumbling, and blocking bullets with swords, in the style of action films and anime.

Gameplay
In Quest mode, players, in a group of up to 4 members, went through parts of a map for a certain number of stages, which were determined by the quest level. In each stage, players were required to kill 18 to 44 creatures, and the game ended when every member of the player team died or completed all of the stages. Quests could take place in the Prison, Mansion, or Dungeon map.

Players could make the quests tougher and more profitable by using special quest items to increase the quest level that could be bought from the in-game store or obtained during a quest. Quest items in-game were stored in glowing chests that spawned where the monster that it came from died; certain items could have been dropped depending on the monster killed. Players ran through these to obtain an item randomly selected from the possibilities of that monster. The items obtained depended on the monster that the chest came from. By sacrificing certain items in combination, players could enter a boss quest. Boss items were obtained through pages and other boss quests, and pages were obtained through the in-game shop. The quest system was designed to reduce the amount of time needed to prepare for boss raids that are typical in many other online games.

A significant and unique part of the gameplay was the movement system. Players could run on walls, perform flips off of them, and do quick mid-air dodges in any horizontal direction. Advanced movement and combat techniques were commonly referred to as "K-Style" or Korean style; a variety of techniques fell under this category. These usually exploited the game's animation and weapon switch systems through a series of animation cancellations to allow the player to perform another action rapidly after the first. One example was the wall cancel; unlike the initially intended, and linear method of running on walls, the player can simply jump (Done by pressing space, with default keyboard settings), dashing in the direction of a wall while still mid-air (done by double tapping either A, W, S or D, depending on where the wall is in relation to the direction of the camera angle) once close enough to slice or stab the wall with the chosen melee weapon (done by pressing the left mouse button). This would cause the player to gain height and momentum by back flipping upwards off of the wall once. With successive timed wall cancellations, it is possible to stay near a wall, descend, ascend or even travel along the side of walls indefinitely, all depending on the angle of the camera angle, and the speed by which the wall-cancellations are produced (slower; descend/staying. Faster; ascend). This, in addition to the fact that these techniques were possible as a result of exploiting flaws in the animation system, has resulted in them being controversial but they became largely accepted as part of the game.

GunZ`s networking system in most parts of the game was peer-to-peer. Players connect to other players through their client, instead of through a central server.

History
The closed beta for ijji GunZ ended on November 17, 2006. ijji GunZ subsequently went live on November 29, 2006. The live service included clan wars and quest mode. The premium item shop was opened on January 8, 2007. Quest mode was updated on February 14, 2007. New sounds and voice narrations were added to the game on May 9, 2007.

The game was managed on an international gaming portal by ijji games until management shifted to the Aeria Games gaming portal in March 2012.

In the first week of May 2013 (1st on the forums and on the homepage ), Aeria announced that the game would be cancelled on May 31, and that the forums would be deleted in June. They stated that only AP purchased during those final four weeks would be refunded, and that AP purchased in prior months/years used to build characters would not be refunded to players.

This closure happened 2 months following the announcement that GunZ 2 would be released for free in English on Steam.

In 2016, Masangsoft picked up the rights to both GunZ: The Duel and GunZ 2.

Critical reception
PC Gamer UK awarded Gunz a 55% review score. MMOHuts gave the game a 3.6 out of 5.

Sequel
In July 2008, MAIET signed a contract to release the sequel for GunZ, titled GunZ: The Second Duel. The Second Duel was to be created more inline with what the creators had originally planned for the original game. In March 2009, MAIET pushed back the date of release from 2009 to 2011, citing "new materials".

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Cy Denneny

Cyril Joseph Denneny (December 23, 1891 – September 10, 1970) was a Canadian ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League from 1917 to 1929 and the Toronto Blueshirts of the National Hockey Association from 1914 to 1917. He won the Stanley Cup five times, four time with Ottawa and once with Boston, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1959.

His younger brother Corbett Denneny also played in the NHL.

Early life
Cy Denneny was born in Farran's Point, Ontario, near Cornwall. He was the son of James Israel Denneny who was a top lacrosse player in the late 19th century and was descended from the Dennenys of County Monaghan, Ireland.

Playing career
Denneny played senior hockey in Cornwall, starting with the Cornwall Sons of England of the Lower Ottawa Valley hockey league in 1909–10. His professional playing career began with the Toronto Ontarios/Shamrocks of the National Hockey Association (NHA) in 1914 (The name of the team changed during the season). He had tried out for the Montreal Canadiens in 1912 but failed to make the team and he returned to senior hockey. He was traded to the Ottawa Senators in 1916 and he would play with the Senators until 1928.

With the Senators during the 1917–18 season, Denneny set an NHL record by opening the season with four straight multi-goal games, a record that was tied in 2013 by San Jose Sharks' forward Patrick Marleau. Denneny was a member of four Senators Stanley Cup-winning teams; in 1920, 1921, 1923 and 1927. He faced his brother Corbett during the 1923 Stanley Cup playoffs, a series which also featured brothers Frank and Georges Boucher. This marked the first time two different sets of brothers faced each other in an NHL or Big Four championship series.

Denneny was sold to Boston in 1928, where he would be an assistant playing-coach of the Bruins' 1929 Stanley Cup-winner. In 1929, Denneny retired to become an NHL on-ice official. In 1932, he re-joined the Senators as head coach, but the team was in decline due to financial difficulties which forced management to sell top players in order to survive. The team finished last and Denneny was not retained as coach.

Denneny was one of the top scorers in the NHL from 1917 through 1925. While leading the league in scoring during the 1923–24 NHL season, he did so by recording 22 goals and one assist for a total of 23 points, the lowest winning total in NHL history. When he retired, he was the all-time top scorer in NHL history. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1959. In 1998, he was ranked number 62 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players. He was the first and fastest player in NHL history to score 200 goals (181 GP). During a six-week span in the 1920–21 NHL season, Cy and his brother Corbett (Toronto St. Patricks), each scored six goals during a game—a feat accomplished by only five other players in the history of the NHL.

Playing style
Despite not being a swift skater, Denneny had one of the most deceptive and accurate shots in the league, which enabled him to achieve his scoring feats so rapidly. He was one of the first known players to use opposing defencemen as screens, and would beat goaltenders with head fakes and subsequently with shots that often would not leave the ice. Denneny was also one of the first players to use a curved blade, which he used to take high-rising shots as well as "sinkers" that would fool goaltenders. He was a very physical player who often acted as an enforcer for his linemates, Jack Darragh and Frank Nighbor.

Personal life
Denneny was married twice. His first wife Melvina died, and Denneny remarried. He was the father of two daughters with his second wife Isobel. After Denneny retired from hockey, he worked for the Canadian federal government. He retired from the civil service in 1959. He died on September 10, 1970, and is buried in Ottawa's Pinecrest Cemetery.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gavin Pearce (0th nomination)

Gavin Pearce appears to be a vanity article. I'll suggest on his IP userpage that he sign up and put this on his own space.

Mr. Billion 20:10, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Lol well it's me alright, but I definately didn't write it.

GavinPearce 21:13, 4 Jun 2005 (BST)


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User talk:Clydeiii

The Mike Church game?
Q1: What is the "Mike Church game"? How is it played? Is that just another term for Ambition?

A: Hey anonymous, "The Mike Church Game" is exactly like The Game except that in if you think about Mike Church or the The Mike Church Game, you lose. --Clydeiii 20:33, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Q2: Why would anyone think of Mike Church?

A2: Well, back in the day, around the time The Mike Church Game was invented, we would lose TMCG everytime we lost The Game. But since then, we only lose it when we actually think of Mike Church, which isn't often. But happens from time to time.

Q3: Wouldn't thinking of The Mike Church Game in conjunction with thinking of the Mike Church be required in order to recognize loss? You can't know you've lost a game without thinking about the game itself.

A3: Hopefully one remembers TMCG when one remembers Mike Church, but sometimes it doesn't happen.

Q4: Does Mike Church know about this game? That would make him TMCG's biggest loser because it's hard not to think about oneself.

A4: Not to my knowledge, though it's certainly possible. We could write him a message via Wikipedia.

Q5: Who is Mike Church? What about him is interesting?

A5: Well, I think you already know! It was YOU that brought up Ambition, his game. But if you really don't know, see Mike Church. He's rather interesting. I sort of worked with him last summer. He invented Ambition, and he admitted to crying while masturbating during a game of "I never." Since he has so many connections to games in my mind, he deserves his own game as well!

 * Hi Clyde. Let me make a correction. I said that I never did that. That's completely opposite what you put up.

 * For those unfamiliar with the context, "Never Have I Ever" is a game where people come up with scandalous things they've not done, and anyone who has done it has to take a drink. The first person to have to take 10 drinks in this way is the loser/most corrupted person. I was out of things to say, and decided to play off Chapelle's joke: "Never have I ever cried while masturbating". I never have; the thought of anyone doing this is horrifyingly creepy. The joke got some laughs but, as I expected, no one had to drink anything. It was just a funny thing to say, and I was drunk at the time of saying it.

 * So, correction: I never have done that, as was clear; I just made a joke about it. Mike Church 01:52, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Really? I could've sworn you drank on that one... --Clyde 15:09, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Maybe I drank just to get drunk faster, but no, I've never done that. Anyway, I apologize for engendering the misconception. Mike Church 3 July 2005 20:15 (UTC)

Ambition?
Hi Clyde. I'm moving out to the Maryland area, and I'm a card gamer. I see that you mentioned The Game in conjunction with Ambition. Is Ambition pervasive out there?

How does the game work? Is it a good game? I've been looking for something to play besides Hold 'em.

Thanks. Ajax the crumb 04:43, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Are you Mike Church? --Clyde 04:52, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

 * No. I take it you're not, either. Ajax the crumb 17:19, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Looking for articles to work on?
Hello, Clydeiii. I'm SuggestBot, a Wikipedia bot that helps new members contribute to Wikipedia. You might like to edit these articles I picked for you based on things you've edited in the past. Check it out -- I hope you find it useful. -- SuggestBot 14:53, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Block
Hi there. Please don't screw up process by posting notices to Digg, etc., about AFD and DRV discussions and thereby drawing in dozens of otherwise-uninvolved people to make it more difficult for the admins.

To help you remember this in the future, you have been blocked for one week. DS 02:01, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --Clyde 21:54, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

The Game

You lost. --Bkkbrad 12:35, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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Lazlow Jones

Jeffrey Crawford "Lazlow" Jones (born September 4, 1973) is an American writer, producer, director, voice actor, and radio personality. He is best known for his work with Rockstar Games, with which he has worked on the Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, and Red Dead Redemption series and for his radio shows Technofile and The Lazlow Show.

Radio
Lazlow's Technofile show ran from February 1995 to July 2007.

In 2005, Lazlow launched The Lazlow Show on Sundays on WXRK-FM in New York City. After 23 shows, the program ceased on terrestrial radio in December 2005. From April 2006, the show re-launched on a non-regular basis on The ViRus, an uncensored channel on XM Satellite Radio as part of its Saturday Night Virus line-up. All episodes and extras are available for purchase on Lazlow's website. His co-hosts were Reed Tucker and "Big" Wayne. As of January 2, 2010, The Lazlow Show no longer airs; Lazlow and his staff were reportedly dissatisfied by management after Sirius and XM merged. The program has streamed live on the Internet on an irregular schedule since then. In 2014, "Big" Wayne died of a heart attack; Lazlow and Tucker hosted a special show in Wayne's memory.

Grand Theft Auto series
Lazlow has also been involved in writing, producing and doing voice-work as a fictionalized version of himself for the Grand Theft Auto series of video games. He had worked at an advertising agency as a writer and producer, along with writer Reed Tucker (who is now his talk radio show's producer) on advertisements for a variety of consumer-related products. Since Grand Theft Auto III (2001), he co-wrote the radio stations in the games with Dan Houser of Rockstar Games.

Lazlow produced, scripted and hosted the popular Chatterbox FM radio station in Grand Theft Auto III.

Lazlow took a larger role in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002). Rockstar Games hired his production company to co-write and produce all the radio stations in Vice City and the pedestrian dialogue. In this game, which takes place in 1986, he is the host of the Vice City radio station V-Rock. In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004), Lazlow co-wrote and produced the in-game media and hosted Entertaining America on WCTR after the original host Billy Dexter was killed by fictional character Jack Howitzer on air.

Lazlow "returned" as the host of Chatterbox radio show in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (2005), although in a minor role in the game's chronology (which takes place in 1998) that has Chatterbox as a show on a channel, not an entire channel of its own. During his show on the Public Access station, he hints that he will be getting his own channel during a call that frustrates him, when he says that "My buddy Donald [Love] and I have big plans for this station. C-box 24/7!"

Lazlow "returned" in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006), which is set in 1984, as an intern at V-Rock working for his real-life friend, Couzin Ed. In their real-life radio careers, Lazlow was the sidekick of Couzin Ed, whom he would almost always tease on the radio.

Lazlow is the host of radio station Integrity 2.0 in Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City (2009). Integrity's sole program consists of his on-site reporting from around Liberty City. The content of this show is more profane than previous installments, with the character's justification being that he's "fed up with the system." He provides the ZiT! service, where listeners can request the artist and title of the song currently playing on the radio. He is also credited among others for creating the conversations of pedestrians in Liberty City. He has an in-game criminal record, as can be seen in the Liberty City Police Department database.

On 15 September 2013, Lazlow presented a special radio show alongside Pete Donaldson on Absolute Radio in the United Kingdom to celebrate the launch of Grand Theft Auto V. He confirmed that he had been working on the game for the last five years. He appears in the game as a co-host of the talk radio show called Chattersphere and as the host of the TV talent competition Fame or Shame. He makes his first on-screen appearance in the series in the mission "Fame or Shame" in which he is chased and threatened by protagonists Michael De Santa and Trevor Philips. He also appears in person in other missions, including one in which Michael physically assaults him. In 2018, he makes a brief appearance in some missions of the After Hours update in Grand Theft Auto Online. Afterwards, he is seen having fun or despair in the player's nightclub (which was included with the update) depending on the club's popularity.

He has arranged voice cameos in the Grand Theft Auto series for several key figures from the magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, including Emmanuel Goldstein, Bernie S. and Kevin Mitnick.

Other series
Lazlow has collaborated with Rockstar Games on Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3, co-writing and directing pedestrian dialogue and in-game media. He was also a writer and audio director on Red Dead Redemption 2.

Post-Rockstar
In April 2020, Lazlow left Rockstar Games on account of personal reasons, after spending nearly 20 years at the company. He has since operated Radio Lazlow, an independent production company working on projects for studios like Disney and Netflix.

Lazlow co-founded Absurd Ventures with co-founder of Rockstar Games, Dan Houser.

Other projects
Lazlow has written articles for Playboy and the Long Island Press, and was an occasional guest on the Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez shows on SiriusXM. He is affiliated with 2600, having appeared on their Off the Hook radio show, their film Freedom Downtime and as a panellist and staffer at several of the H.O.P.E. conferences.

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Woody Dumart

Woodrow Wilson Clarence Dumart (December 23, 1916 – October 19, 2001) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, most notably for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Dumart's uncle Ezra Dumart was also a professional ice hockey player.

Amateur career
Dumart was raised in Kitchener, Ontario. He played his junior hockey with the Kitchener Greenshirts of the Ontario Hockey Association on a line with childhood friends Milt Schmidt and Bobby Bauer, which was dubbed the "Kraut line" by Albert Leduc, a defenceman for the Montreal Canadiens. After two seasons with the Greenshirts, the entire Kraut Line was signed by the Bruins.

Professional career
After spending the bulk of the 1935–36 and 1936–37 seasons in the minor leagues with the Boston Cubs of the Can-Am League, Dumart made the Bruins for good in early 1937. Reunited with Schmidt and Bauer, the trio become one of the most famous lines in hockey history. Dumart scored his first NHL goal on February 21, 1937, in a 2–2 tie versus the Montreal Canadiens at Boston Garden. Dumart – at 6'1", one of the largest wingers of his day – was the skilled checking and defensive component to the line, while contributing good scoring, and helped lead the Bruins to Stanley Cup victories in 1939 and 1941. His contributions were recognized by being named the left wing on the second All-Star team in both 1939–40 and 1940–41.

Then World War II intervened – leading to the line being renamed, briefly and abortively, the "Kitchener Kids" due to anti-German sentiment – and Dumart enlisted with teammates Schmidt, Bauer and Frank Brimsek. Joining the Royal Canadian Air Force halfway through the 1941–42 season, Dumart joined the Ottawa RCAF Flyers hockey team which challenged for the Allan Cup, Canada's senior league championship, and scored over a goal a game in leading the team to the title. He played briefly in the fall of 1942 for the Flyers before being shipped overseas, where he served until the end of the war.

Dumart returned in 1945 and played nine more seasons for Boston, and was named a Second Team All-Star for the third time in 1947.

On March 26, 1949, Dumart scored a game-winning overtime goal in the Stanley Cup playoffs versus Toronto.

His scoring skills diminishing in his final years, he ended his NHL career with Boston after the 1954 playoffs. He played one last stint the following season with the Providence Reds of the American Hockey League, suiting up for fifteen games before hanging up his skates at last.

Retirement
Dumart retired having played sixteen NHL seasons in all, scoring 211 goals and 218 assists for 429 points in 772 games.

He settled in the Boston area, and remained active with charitable affairs, being the longtime coach of the Bruins' Alumni Association team. He was father of three: Jeff, Judy, and Bruce.

On his way to Ray Bourque Night, with his son Jeff Dumart, at the FleetCenter, Woody suddenly became ill with heart trouble and was taken to the hospital, where he died on October 19, 2001.

He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992.

Achievements

 * Retired as the leading scoring left wing in Bruins' history and remains fourth in that category, as well as in games played.
 * Played in the first two annual NHL All-Star Games, in 1947 and 1948.

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David Cox (statistician)

Sir David Roxbee Cox (15 July 1924 – 18 January 2022) was a British statistician and educator. His wide-ranging contributions to the field of statistics included introducing logistic regression, the proportional hazards model and the Cox process, a point process named after him.

He was a professor of statistics at Birkbeck College, London, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, and served as Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford. The first recipient of the International Prize in Statistics, he also received the Guy, George Box and Copley medals, as well as a knighthood.

Early life
Cox was born in Birmingham on 15 July 1924. His father was a die sinker and part-owner of a jewellery shop, and they lived near the Jewellery Quarter. The aeronautical engineer Harold Roxbee Cox was a distant cousin. He attended Handsworth Grammar School, Birmingham. He received a Master of Arts in mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge, and obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch. His dissertation was entitled Theory of Fibre Motion.

Career
Cox was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, from 1946 to 1950 at the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds, and from 1950 to 1955 worked at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. From 1956 to 1966 he was Reader and then Professor of Statistics at Birkbeck College, London. In 1966, he took up the Chair position in Statistics at Imperial College London where he later became head of the mathematics department. In 1988 he became Warden of Nuffield College and a member of the Department of Statistics at Oxford University. He formally retired from these positions in 1994, but continued to work at Oxford.

Cox supervised, collaborated with, and encouraged many notable researchers prominent in statistics. He collaborated with George Box on a study of transformations such as the Box–Cox transformation and they were especially delighted to be credited as Box and Cox. He was the doctoral advisor of David Hinkley, Peter McCullagh, Basilio de Bragança Pereira, Wally Smith, Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro, Valerie Isham, Henry Wynn, Claudio Di Veroli and Jane Hutton. He served as president of the Bernoulli Society from 1979 to 1981, of the Royal Statistical Society from 1980 to 1982, and of the International Statistical Institute from 1995 to 1997. He was an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College and St John's College, Cambridge, and was a member of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.

Personal life
In 1947, Cox married Joyce Drummond, and they had four children. He died on 18 January 2022, at the age of 97.

Research
Cox made pioneering and important contributions to numerous areas of statistics and applied probability, of which the best known are:

 * Logistic regression, which is employed when the variable to be predicted is categorical (i.e., can take a limited number of values, e.g., gender, race (in the US census)), binary (a special case of categorical with only two values - e.g., success/failure, disease/no disease), or ordinal, where the categories can be ranked (e.g., pain intensity can be absent, mild, moderate, severe, unbearable). Cox's 1958 paper and further publications in the 1960s addressed the case of binary logistic regression.
 * The proportional hazards model, which is widely used in the analysis of survival data, was developed by him in 1972. An example of the use of the proportional hazards model is in survival analysis in medical research. The model can be used in clinical trials to investigate time-based information about cohorts of patients, such as their response to exposure to certain chemical substances.
 * The Cox process was named after him.

Awards
Cox received numerous awards and honours for his work. He was awarded the Guy Medals in Silver (1961) and Gold (1973) of the Royal Statistical Society. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1973. The next year, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1985. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1990. Cox became an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy in 1997 and was a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He was a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. In 1990, he won the Kettering Prize and Gold Medal for Cancer Research for "the development of the Proportional Hazard Regression Model." In 2010 he was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society "for his seminal contributions to the theory and applications of statistics", the same year in which he was elected a foreign fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was also the first ever recipient of the International Prize in Statistics. He received the award in 2016. In 2013 Cox was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2016, he won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category jointly with Bradley Efron, for the development of "pioneering and hugely influential" statistical methods that have proved indispensable for obtaining reliable results in a vast spectrum of disciplines from medicine to astrophysics, genomics or particle physics.

Publications
Cox wrote or co-authored over 300 papers and books. From 1966 to 1991 he was the editor of Biometrika. His books are as follows:

 * Planning of experiments (1958)
 * Queues (Methuen, 1961). With Walter L. Smith
 * Renewal Theory (Methuen, 1962).
 * The theory of stochastic processes (1965). With Hilton David Miller
 * Analysis of binary data (1969). With Joyce Snell
 * Theoretical statistics (1974). With D. V. Hinkley
 * Problems and Solutions in Theoretical Statistics (1978). With D. V. Hinkley
 * Point Processes (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1980). With Valerie Isham
 * Applied statistics, principles and examples (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1981). With Joyce Snell
 * Analysis of survival data (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1984). With David Oakes
 * Asymptotic techniques for use in statistics. (1989) With Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen
 * Inference and asymptotics (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1994). With Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen
 * Multivariate dependencies: models, analysis and interpretation (Chapman & Hall, 1995). With Nanny Wermuth
 * The theory of design of experiments. (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2000).  With Nancy M. Reid
 * Complex stochastic systems (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2000). With Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen and Claudia Klüppelberg
 * Components of variance (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2003). With P. J. Solomon
 * Principles of Statistical Inference (Cambridge University Press, 2006). ISBN 978-0-521-68567-2
 * Selected Statistical Papers of Sir David Cox 2 Volume Set
 * Principles of Applied Statistics (CUP). With Christl A. Donnelly

He was named editor of the following books:

The following book was published in his honour:

 * Celebrating Statistics: Papers in honour of Sir David Cox on his 80th birthday ISBN 978-0-19-856654-0

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lazlow

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 14:39, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Lazlow
Is Lazlow really a talk show host? If so, can someone flesh this out a bit? Or should it just be deleted. Shoaler 20:20, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * A fictional talk show host from Grand Theft Auto 3, and as the article is content-free then speedy delete. Keep now. — Xezbeth 20:22, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * A DJ on GTA -yes. Fictional - no. He is the host of Techno-File, a nationally syndicated radio program. www.lazlow.com Keep DS1953 21:19, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * You learn something new every day. Still, the article as it stands is speediable. — Xezbeth 21:29, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Someone should expand this article - DS1953 seems to know a bit - as the fact that this guy was good enough to be hired for a huge video game establishes notability. Harro5 22:49, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * I have expanded this article somewhat - please have another look and try to expand on what is there. Thanks. Harro5 23:05, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable fictional DJ, also moderately notable real person. Kappa 23:35, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Lazlow Jones is most definitely real, and even if he wasn't doing a radio show that is syndicated on 80 stations in America, considering how much critical acclaim and attention the GTA series' radio shows have garnered, being the guy who co-wrote, produced and acted in them oughta make him notable enough. -- Captain Disdain 00:24, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've always wondered about this guy. Maybe if the article is fleshed out I may learn more. --Bletch 01:10, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Nationally syndicated radio hosts are notable enough for mine and he has done other stuff of note as well. Capitalistroadster 09:43, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Babe Dye

Cecil Henry "Babe" Dye (May 13, 1898 — January 3, 1962) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto St. Patricks/Maple Leafs, Hamilton Tigers, Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Americans between 1919 and 1930. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Dye was known as an excellent stick-handler, and goal-scorer.

Dye began his professional ice hockey career with the Toronto St. Patricks in 1919. He became the NHL's scoring champion in the 1922–23 season, a feat he repeated during the 1924–25 season. In 1926, the St. Patricks sold Dye's contract to the Chicago Black Hawks. In 1927, Dye suffered a major leg injury during training camp, and did not return to play until the last 10 games of that season. Following that season, he was traded to the New York Americans. Dye's production dropped significantly as a result of his leg injury, and was reassigned to the Americans' minor league affiliate, the New Haven Eagles in 1929. The next year, Dye signed as a free agent with the first professional team he played for, since renamed the Maple Leafs. Dye played six games with the Maple Leafs before he retired from the sport.

He won his only Stanley Cup with the St. Patricks, in 1922. He was the NHL's top goal scorer of the 1920s, and remains the St. Patricks/Maple Leafs' all-time franchise points per game leader. Dye was posthumously inducted as a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1970, eight years after his death.

In addition to playing professional ice hockey, he also played professional baseball with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Buffalo Bisons, and the Baltimore Orioles of the International League. He also was a halfback for the Toronto Argonauts, a Canadian football team.

Early life
Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Dye moved to Toronto when he was one year old, following the death of his father. Dye credited his goal-scoring abilities to his mother, who had built Dye an outdoor rink, as well as ensuring that he completed his skating and shooting drills. He played junior ice hockey from 1916 to 1918 for the Toronto Aura Lee and Toronto De La Salle of the Ontario Hockey Association. As a senior, he played for the amateur Toronto St. Patricks in 1918–19. He enlisted in the Canadian military on May 3, 1918, joining the 69th Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery; Dye trained at a base in Petawawa, Ontario but did not leave Canada during the war.

Ice hockey
Dye made his professional ice hockey debut in the 1919–20 season with the Toronto St. Patricks of the NHL. A slow skater, Dye was known for his hard and accurate shot. He played with the St. Patricks for eight seasons, leading the league in goals scored in the 1920–21, 1922–23, and 1924–25 seasons, leading the league in scoring in 1923 and 1925, and finishing second in goals scored in 1921–22 and 1923–24. When the Quebec Bulldogs moved to Hamilton in 1920 to become the Hamilton Tigers, Dye was loaned to the team for their first game; a native of Hamilton and a former star in the amateur OHA, it was hoped he would boost the attendance, as he was familiar to spectators. He was recalled back to Toronto after one game with Hamilton, as the team needed him to replace the injured Corb Denneny.

He led the St. Patricks to Stanley Cup championship in 1922, scoring nine goals in the five-game final series. Dye scored a hat trick in the series-clinching fifth game of the Finals, becoming only the second NHL player to do so; his feat would not be replicated again for 101 years. In 1926, Dye was also inadvertently responsible for Conn Smythe's dismissal from the New York Rangers, after Smythe disagreed with the Rangers' owner, John S. Hammond, about acquiring Dye. By the end of the 1925-26 season, the toll of playing two professional sports was becoming apparent to St. Patricks' management. Because of the club's suspicions that playing two professional sports would take a toll on Dye's body, as well as their own financial struggles, in 1926, the club announced that Dye's contract would be up for bid.

Before the 1926–27 season, the Toronto St. Patricks sold Dye to the Chicago Black Hawks, a new NHL franchise. Dye had an outstanding season in Chicago, again leading the league in goals scored on the NHL's highest-scoring team, playing on a line with fellow Hamilton-born player Dick Irvin, who led the league in assists. Unfortunately, both players would soon suffer serious injuries that curtailed their playing careers. At training camp before the next season, Dye's leg was broken and he was never the same player again. He went scoreless for the Black Hawks in 10 games in the 1927–28 season and was then sold to the New York Americans. Over 42 games in 1928–29, Dye had just one goal for the Americans. In November 1929, he was traded to the minor league New Haven Eagles of the Canadian–American Hockey League.

In February 1930, he was signed as a free agent by his former team in Toronto, which had been renamed the Maple Leafs. Dye played six games with the club in the 1930–31 season before being released. Over his final 58 games in the NHL after his injury in 1927, Dye had scored just one goal. His 38 goals in the 30-game 1924–25 season set a St. Patricks/Maple Leafs franchise record that stood for 35 years until broken by Frank Mahovlich in the 70-game 1960–61 season. Over his first six seasons in the NHL, Dye scored 176 goals in 170 games.

Baseball
Dye was also a professional baseball player, beginning his career with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League in 1920. He was sent to Brantford of the Class B Michigan-Ontario League, popularly known as the Mint League. The Boston Red Sox held an option on Dye but chose not to exercise it.

In September 1921, the Brantford baseball club announced that it had sold Dye to the Buffalo Bisons of the IL for the highest price ever paid for a Brantford player. He had a strong season with the Bisons in 1923, and was then considered a top prospect for the major leagues. In September 1923, Dye announced that he was retiring from ice hockey to focus on baseball, but when the season started he re-signed with the St. Patricks. After the season, he re-joined the Bisons for training camp in March 1924. "Dye is surely a nifty baseball player, a good hitter, reliable outfielder, and speedy on the base paths," reported The Sporting News in August 1924. Dye again played for the Bisons in 1925 and was sold to the baseball Leafs after the end of the season. He was released by Toronto in July 1926 and signed by the Baltimore Orioles of the International League, where he finished his baseball career that year.

Playing style
While not known as a fast skater, Dye was an excellent stickhandler  and possessed one of the hardest and most accurate wrist shots in hockey during his tenure with the league. Almost unique among his contemporaries with the exception of Gordie Roberts and Harry Cameron, he was capable of great precision from long distances, while maintaining unrivaled velocity. As a testament to this combination of power and precision, Dye scored 12 of his 31 goals from behind the red line, during his third season with Toronto.

Dye's release was so quick that, on occasion, his goals would be in dispute because neither the linesmen, referee or goaltender had seen them enter the net. A notable instance of this occurred during the 1922 Finals versus the Vancouver Millionaires. Toronto centreman Reg Noble won a faceoff in the Vancouver end, passing the puck back to Dye. The right winger immediately whipped the puck past Hugh "Old Eagle Eyes" Lehman, who had stood stock still without noticing the rubber entering his net. Players from both teams and the on-ice officials took several seconds to find the puck before the game could resume. It was one of 9 goals he would score during the winning series, and this remains a Stanley Cup record since the playoff format was implemented in 1914; Frank McGee's 15 goals in two games remains the all-time Stanley Cup single-series goal-scoring record.

Although weighing 150 pounds, Dye had immensely strong arms and used a stick made of solid hickory. While ice hockey sticks at the time were commonly made from maple, yellow birch, ironwood, ash or hickory, the latter is by far the strongest and most flexible. It is also far harder than the others, without being exceptionally brittle like ironwood, which is twice as hard as hickory. Dye used this stick and his wrist strength to propel the puck at occasionally dangerous speeds, and his "wicked drives" and shots that goalies "could not see" were mentioned many times in game summaries. His shots were capable of snapping a two-inch thick plank, and Jack Adams recalled seeing several of Dye's drives punch clean through the back-rests of arena seats and even through the 1/8-inch thick wire mesh used as crowd protection at Toronto's Arena Gardens. Opposing defencemen would attempt to knock down long shots made by Dye from centre ice, only to find out in dismay that their sticks had been shattered in two.

Sprague Cleghorn claimed that Babe Dye was the best shot of anyone he'd ever seen, and Adams rated him as superior in ability to Bryan Hextall, Grindy Forrester, Didier Pitre, Carson "Shovel-Shot" Cooper and even Charlie Conacher: "Dye was the peer of them all".

Other achievements
Following his retirement as a player, Dye coached the Port Colborne Sailors to the Ontario Sr A Finals, and the following season he became head coach of the Chicago Shamrocks of the American Hockey Association in 1931–32, winning the league title. Despite the team's success, Dye was fired just before the championship-winning game because he hadn't prevented the team captain from going to Toronto to get married between games of the championship series. Dye said the player was determined to go and there was nothing he could do about it. The Shamrocks ended up folding before the next season began.

After ice hockey, Dye worked for Seneca Petroleum in Chicago for 20 years. He died at the age of 63 in Chicago, where he had been hospitalized for several months following a heart attack. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1970. In 1997, he was ranked number 83 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players.

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The Power of Four

"The Power of Four" is a joint anthem composed for the British & Irish Lions rugby union team. It was written by Neil Myers in 2005. It was commissioned by the Lions head coach, Sir Clive Woodward for the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand as the official song. It was intended to be a universal anthem for the British & Irish Lions to be sung before every game. However it was criticised as being uninspiring as members of the Lions squad did not engage with it and it was also noted that the fans did not like it. It was dropped as the Lions anthem after the 2005 tour and led to changes in the way music would be chosen in future Lions tours.

Background
The Lions were originally a representative team of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, but players from the Irish Free State remained eligible after it left the U.K. in 1922. Donal Lenihan recalled his dissatisfaction that the U.K. anthem "God Save the Queen" was played during the 1989 tour to Australia. Later Lions teams lacked any anthem. There was similar discontent among Northern Ireland players about the use by the Ireland national team of "Amhrán na bhFiann", anthem of the Republic of Ireland. This led the Irish Rugby Football Union to commission "Ireland's Call" in 1995 as an alternative.

2005 Lions Tour
The Power of Four was commissioned by Sir Clive Woodward for the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand and was written by Neil Myers. It was recorded by the Melody Music Lions Choir. The song is a classical composition played in a high key. It was first performed live by Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins before the British & Irish Lions rugby union match against Argentina at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales in 2005. it was performed despite suggestions of either God Save the Queen, the Welsh national anthem Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau or a combination of the anthems of the Home Nations of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland being played instead of The Power of Four. It is always sung in English.

Before the British & Irish Lions squad was selected, Woodward sent out bracelets with "The Power of Four" printed on them to potential British & Irish Lions players to try and create a sense of unity and to make them think about the upcoming tour to New Zealand. This was criticised as being "crazy". The Power of Four was also used as a motivational slogan in some of the Lions' team building activities.

The lyrics of The Power of Four were circulated to all of the members of the British & Irish Lions tour squad and the song was pre-added to the playlists on their tour iPods. The song was not released as a single however it was permitted to be broadcast by radio stations and it was made available to download on the Internet. The British & Irish Lions players were shown the words of The Power of Four on the Saturday before their first game and it was expected that they would know the words by the time they had arrived in New Zealand; however, it was mentioned by a British & Irish Lions spokesman that the players were under no obligation to sing it.

Reception
The BBC opined during the Lions' warm-up game against Otago that it was not inspiring for the Lions supporters to sing. Austin Healey observed that the players did not appear to like "The Power of Four" ("Power") when it was performed.

Before the first Test match, it was noticed that despite Lions fans being filmed singing "Power", none of the players did sing it when it was played as the Lions anthem before God Defend New Zealand. It was also noted that Lions fans felt that "Power" was not catching on and some even suggested that Axel F would be better than "Power". It was also suggested that due to a perceived selection bias towards English members of the Lions, that Land of Hope and Glory should be used instead of "Power". The Lions' acting captain Martin Corry said that he did not attempt to sing "Power" because he felt that he would not be able to reach the correct notes. In 2009, Lions lock Alun Wyn Jones said that "I'd rather sing "The Power of Love" when asked if he would want to sing "The Power of Four".

The song experienced a mixed response in the media. In July 2005, following the Lions tour, a journalist on the BBC Sport website, James Standley, commented that "Power" is "hollow and disliked by fans." However, Lions coach Sir Clive Woodward said he hoped it would "stir the passions". It was also described in The Independent as an "excruciating mix of politburo and classical pop". However Danny Stevens in The New Zealand Herald said that "Power" was not a bad song but unfortunately nobody actually knew the tune or the words." The words of "Power" were also compared to be similar to the New Zealand Māori rugby union team's "Timatanga" haka in The Telegraph.

The anthem did not return for the 2009 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa, which received a positive reaction from Sky Sports reporters.

Legacy
The negative reception of The Power of Four was listed as one of the issues used to criticise Woodward for the failures of the tour. It was also pointed out that Woodward and team manager, Bill Beaumont used The Power of Four whenever they entered into a press conference which led to the press conferences being referred to as possibly being "mistaken for a revivalist meeting".

After 2005, The Power of Four became largely forgotten. During the 2013 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia, ESPN jokingly suggested that The Power of Four would be remixed into a hip hop song for the third test by Pharrell Williams and would be performed by Snoop Dogg.

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