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Brian Walker (toy inventor)

Brian Walker is a toy inventor from Bend, Oregon who is known for attempting to build his own rocket and as the inventor of several toys, namely the air bazooka.

His rocket is known as Project R.U.S.H., which stands for Rapid Up Super High. It was intended to be fueled by hydrogen peroxide and equipped with parachutes for use when landing. The goal of the project is to launch Walker 50 miles into the sky. He wanted to launch 20 miles in a rocket-propelled aircraft from the world's largest crossbow., but in a 2015 interview, he said that he is no longer looking to launch himself skyward.

Walker has been interviewed by several media personalities, including Art Bell on his radio show Coast to Coast AM; novelist Chuck Palahniuk, who included his interview with Walker in his book Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories.

He has been posting videos to his YouTube channel since 2009.

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Halfway to Sanity

Halfway to Sanity is the 10th studio album by the American punk rock band Ramones, and their last album to feature drummer Richie Ramone. It was produced by Daniel Rey and released on September 15, 1987, by Sire Records. Recording sessions began that April at Intergalactic Studios in New York City, with the band recording instruments before vocals in order to learn songs more quickly. It fared well on charts outside the United States, but peaked at No. 172 on the Billboard 200.

The band members disagreed on many things during the album's production, and producer Rey described them as impatient. The band toured the world following the album's release, but certain show dates were cancelled after Richie left the band due to financial conflicts with Johnny. The band hired Blondie drummer Clem Burke (who took the pseudonym "Elvis Ramone") for two shows, until Marky Ramone returned. Genres varied significantly throughout the album, with some songs showing the influence of hard rock, heavy metal music, and crossover thrash, while others showcased a bubblegum pop sound. Additionally, Joey is heard singing a duet with Blondie vocalist Debbie Harry on "Go Lil' Camaro Go". Despite receiving mixed critical reviews, Stephen Thomas Erlewine later wrote that the album was the last time the band "still sounded like they mattered."

Background
Prior to producing the album, Daniel Rey had opened for the Ramones in the late 1970s as a member of Shrapnel. He had worked with lead singer Joey Ramone and lead guitarist Johnny Ramone separately when writing songs for Too Tough to Die. "I was producing a lot of young bands in my basement," Rey explained. "Johnny heard one and said, 'It's better than our last record.' He knew that he could get me cheap and I was the only person who got along with Johnny and Joey at the same time." In his 2012 autobiography, Commando, Johnny Ramone stated that this period was a "stressful time" for the band.

Production
Recording sessions for Halfway to Sanity began in early 1987 at Intergalactic Studios in New York City, described by Rey as "a dingy place in midtown." Drums, guitars and bass guitar were all recorded earlier in the afternoon, while the vocal track was always recorded later in the evening. Rey explained that they did this because "it was quicker to learn songs without any vocal, so they did." Joey, however, wanted to work out "how to phrase his singing" and was not a fan of this method of recording. Johnny stated that Dee Dee Ramone, while credited as bass player on the album, didn't actually play on it, with producer Daniel Rey playing his parts instead.

On the band's relationship with producer Daniel Rey, Johnny stated that no one involved with the album would listen to Rey nor let him make the decisions he needed to, adding that Joey and drummer Richie Ramone made it particularly difficult for Rey because they wanted to remix or change tracks. Richie did not get along with Rey, saying that the two would "butt heads" often due to the fact that he only liked writing songs with one other person. Richie has explained that this may have been the reason why he never co-wrote any songs on the album with Joey, saying that Rey "always came with the package." Tour manager Monte Melnick, on the other hand, said Rey eventually befriended all the band members. In 2018, Richie stated that the rift between him and Rey occurred when Richie remixed five songs on the album on a request from Joey and although Johnny approved the work, he refused to credit him for it on the album.

Richie added that Johnny, along with their manager Gary Kurfirst, made the album process difficult by keeping the band on a tight budget. He explained that he himself wanted the music to be more radio-friendly and promote it more so they might have a hit album, but Johnny and Kurfirst did not think it would make a difference. Richie would later recall: "Why would you not want an album to be as successful as it could be? Gary Kurfirst seemed to want to keep the Ramones an underground band, I guess his thinking was, he'd profit more."

The band's publicist Ida Langsam agreed that the band and their record company all felt the need to keep to a strict budget for recording, production and promotion of the Ramones' music. She pointed out that just because much of their album process was done "cut-rate," it did not mean that their performance on the album was not done well. Rather they were trying to find people who could do things more cheaply, along with cheaper places to record, such as Intergalactic Studios, where they had also recorded their previous album, Animal Boy. Langsam went on to say that the Ramones were "never afforded the respect a band of their caliber should have," insisting that other bands who were "much less worthy" were more respected. "Everybody thought of them as the local band," she continued, "everybody's friends—'when are you going to break, when are you going to get big, when are you going to reach stardom?'"

Rey claimed that the band was very impatient during the album process, and noted that members, especially Johnny and Joey, weren't getting along. "John was fast in the studio," recalls George Tabb, who was recording with his band the False Prophets at Intergalactic at the same time the Ramones recorded Halfway to Sanity. He called it humorous "because John would be going, 'Enough, enough, it sounds right.' And Joey, the artist, would go, 'I gotta do my vocals, I gotta do my vocals,' and the drummer's going, 'But my drums!' Johnny was like, 'Fuck it. It's the Ramones. It is what it is and comes out like that.' And he was right. It was the Ramones. He was a good businessman about it."

In his book Commando, Johnny Ramone concluded that "the tracks on this one aren't the best. I always had a problem bringing songs into the band unless I was sure they were going to be very good. [...] The other guys brought in things that sucked, but they acted like they were great." However, he cited "I Wanna Live", "Weasel Face", "Bop 'til You Drop" and "Garden of Serenity" as the album's highlights and awarded the album a "B−" grade.

This is the first Ramones album since Leave Home—and their last—to clock in at under 30 minutes.

Musical style and lyrics
The album's opening track, "I Wanna Live", features heavy feedback and a musical style closer to hard rock than punk. Described by author Dave Thompson as similar to contemporary "romantic melodies," the song was written by Dee Dee, who quoted the lyrics "As I load my pistol / Fine German steel" years later in a photo session with Ken Hinchey and Mike Vought as he loaded a gun. The song runs 2 minutes 39 seconds and despite its brevity was called "too long" by music journalist Everett True. Both the next track, "Bop 'Til You Drop", and the fifth track, "Go Lil' Camaro Go", were described by True as "dire 'fun,'" saying it sounded "as if they've been tossed off in a couple seconds—and probably were" and that Joey sang with a "drink-ravaged voice." Thompson wrote that "Go Lil' Camaro Go", a duet with Blondie's Debbie Harry, had a style similar to bubblegum pop. Track three, "Garden of Serenity", incorporates elements used in crossover thrash. The next track is "Weasel Face", written by Dee Dee and Johnny about, according to Johnny, a fan "who had a real weasel face. He came to all our gigs in the South; he followed us around. I think he was from Mississippi." Side A concludes with Richie's "I Know Better", which, along with "Go Lil' Camaro Go", was described by AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine as having a "solid" hook.

Joey wrote the opening track for Side B, "Death of Me", as well as "A Real Cool Time", which True said was a tribute to "summer beach" parties and "New York Cat Clubs," and compared the melody line to the Who's "The Kids Are Alright". The album's longest song is track 11, "Bye Bye Baby", at 4 minutes 33 seconds. It was described as a "tear-jerking" piece by True, and was influenced by '50s/early '60s girl group pop. He wrote that it features a "beautiful chiming guitar sound" that "stands out like a sore thumb" compared to the other songs on the album, because Joey "sings instead of shouting." The song was deemed "Phil Spector-ish" in the WEG Publication's Digital Audio and Compact Disc Review, who also described the album's final track, "Worm Man", as having a "hardcore punk thrashing" style. while True said the latter was similar to the work of Black Flag.

Cover art and photography
The photography for Halfway to Sanity was done by George DuBose, who had also done photography for the band's previous three releases (Subterranean Jungle, Too Tough to Die, and Animal Boy). The front cover's picture was taken in an old stairwell in Chinatown, where they had DuBose's cousin and his cousin's friend—who are credited as "Husky Bros." on the Halfway to Sanity liner notes —block off the crowd while the photo session was in place. DuBose and other crew members set up red lighting and a fog machine. After DuBose's camera went through three reels of film, Johnny insisted that was enough, to which DuBose replied that the record company was paying him a lot of money for the shoot, so they should make it worthwhile. The session, however, only lasted 10 to 15 minutes, and was done in a poorly lit area, which Johnny said was "pretty good not to make us look old, and it was getting harder and harder." The back cover photograph features green tombstones in a Jewish cemetery. Dubose's photos for the inner sleeve depict "Peking ducks hanging in the window of a restaurant, with glaze dripping off their tails."

Tour and personnel changes
To promote the album, the band played a handful of gigs in South America in February 1987. During the spring and summer of 1987, they toured the United States. At a concert on August 12 in East Hampton, New York, Richie left the band due to financial conflicts with Johnny. Richie stated that he had asked to be given a small percentage of the merchandise income based on his tenure with the band and their use of his name and image, which he claimed Joey and Dee Dee was in favor of, but Johnny would refuse. Richie said that he never felt entitled to a large share as he was not a founding member, but that it was about being a part of the band rather than a hired hand and mentioned feeling left out on tours when the other members would go cash their merchandise checks. Joey would later state, "I felt screwed. Me and Richie were friends. He was more than just the drummer. But he was out for himself. He said he would do the New York shows for $500 a night. I'm sure he felt he had us by the balls, as our album was coming out." Richie later said that he had heard a rumour that Johnny was going to fire him even if he played the shows and that convinced him not to come back to the band. DuBose also explained that Richie "quit right before a gig and wasn't very professional."

Johnny began asking around to see if they could find a replacement drummer, at least for the remainder of the tour. Clem Burke of Blondie filled in for Richie for two shows, performing under the alias Elvis Ramone, on August 28 in Providence, Rhode Island and August 29 in Trenton, New Jersey. Johnny deemed the whole situation a "disaster" because of Burke's drumming style, commenting that "double-time on the hi-hat was totally alien to him." Burke was criticized for playing "Durango 95"'s fills incorrectly, and for misplaying the introduction on "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?", forcing Johnny and Dee Dee to improvise on stage. He was also reportedly unable to maintain the faster tempo of the songs "Freak of Nature" and "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment".

Because of this, the band's previous drummer, Marky Ramone (who had replaced original drummer Tommy Ramone), was asked to return. He had been fired after Subterranean Jungle, partially for his drumming style but mostly because of his alcoholism. Once he was sober, however, he began playing in Richie Stotts's heavy metal band King Flux, as well as his own band, M-80. Richie's response to Marky's return was that it "would never happen" but it did. Marky had a meeting with John, rehearsed a couple of Ramones songs and said, "Marc, it's like you never left."

Within a week of Burke's departure, Marky was touring with the band again. The first show Marky played was on September 4 in Oyster Bay, Long Island.

During a sold-out Paris concert, fans who were not able to get in to see the performance began to throw stones at the venue, and were consequently tear-gassed by police. It was also common to see moshing and stage diving at their shows, but the band members discouraged this type of behavior. "They hated it and they tried to stop it as much as possible," artist and the band's lighting director Arturo Vega recalled, "but it would happen. Kids are really resourceful. Once the lawsuits started coming in, a lot of clubs tried to ban it, too. Sometimes the security made it difficult for them, you know. Once, we were in Tijuana—and of course in Tijuana, who cares! They were jumping from a balcony that was at least 20 feet (6 m) high. Jumping into the crowd. It was too much. It was great."

The band was banned from playing at Boston University on the grounds that they promoted "rowdiness, destructiveness, and drug use." In response, the University's Program Council organized an anti-censorship protest rally in Marsh Plaza. At the rally, Joey announced, "We're here to uphold the honor of the students and the Ramones," and pointed out that their performances never incited violence. The Ramones' 1988 tour would have roughly a hundred gigs in the United States, Finland, Japan, United Kingdom, and elsewhere. While touring in Puerto Rico, the band performed for around 2,000 surfers at the World Surfing Championships. These shows were dubbed the "Ramones Non-Stop World Tour" by fans.

Critical
Halfway to Sanity received mixed reviews from critics. When it was released in September 1987, the New York Post praised it as another well produced album by the Ramones, and Billboard said Sire should have released "Go Lil' Camaro Go" as a single. Village Voice critic Robert Christgau gave the album a "C+", writing that, while he felt pained to say it, "with Richie or whoever on the lam, Dee Dee moonlighting as a punk-rapper, Joey frequenting all-acoustic showcases, and Johnny Johnny, a great band has finally worn down into a day job for night people." However, in the United Kingdom, the album received virtually no attention from professional critics. Ramones fanzine writer Mark Bannister explained that critics there thought the album "didn't sound right without some more of Joey's songs to balance out Dee Dee's. There was no equilibrium."

In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album one and a half stars out of five, calling it a "much sharper record" than its predecessor only because it did not overlook the band's "trashy pop roots." While he found the album to be "inconsistent", he praised it as the last release where the band "still sounded like they mattered."

Commercial
The album entered the US Billboard 200 on October 10, 1987 at position 174, moving to its peak at 172 one week later, and spent its last week on the chart at No. 200 on October 24. It peaked at No. 78 on the UK Albums Chart the same day it entered the Billboard chart, although it only ranked in the United Kingdom for one week. On the Netherlands MegaCharts, the album entered at its peak position of 68 on October 10, 1987, staying on the chart for a single week as well. Likewise, it only stayed on the on Swedish Sverigetopplistan chart for one week, peaking at No. 43 on September 14, 1987.

Later use
Two of the tracks on Halfway to Sanity, "Bop 'Til You Drop" and "I Wanna Live", were featured on the band's first compilation album release, Ramones Mania. Both "Garden of Serenity" and "I Wanna Live" were included on the Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology greatest hits compilation, but no songs from the album were featured on Greatest Hits. The 2006 video game Tony Hawk's Project 8 featured "I Wanna Live" on the soundtrack, and the Polish metal band Behemoth covered "I'm Not Jesus" on their 2008 extended play Ezkaton.

Personnel
Ramones
 * Joey Ramone – lead vocals (tracks 1–7, 9–12)
 * Johnny Ramone – guitar
 * Dee Dee Ramone – bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (track 8)
 * Richie Ramone – drums, backing vocals

Additional musicians
 * Debbie Harry – backing vocals (track 5)
 * Walter Lure – additional guitar
 * Daniel Rey – bass guitar

Production
 * Jorge Esteban – engineering
 * Howard Shillingford – assistant engineer
 * DJ Walker – assistant engineer
 * Joe Blaney – mixing
 * Richie Ramone – mixing (uncredited)
 * Jack Skinner – mastering
 * George DuBose – photography, cover design
 * Mark Weinberg – art direction

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Victoria Winters

Victoria "Vicki" Winters is a fictional character from the television Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows and its remakes of the same name. The role was originated by Alexandra Moltke on the ABC series from 1966 to 1968. After Moltke left to raise a family in 1968, actresses Betsy Durkin and Carolyn Groves briefly replaced her for only a handful of episodes, before Victoria was written out completely. Jaclyn Smith, who was married to Dark Shadows actor Roger Davis at the time, was offered the role when Moltke left the show, but she declined.

In the 1991 Dark Shadows series, which aired on NBC, actress Joanna Going assumed the part. The character was subsequently portrayed by Marley Shelton in the 2004 series. In the Dark Shadows film, Victoria is played by Bella Heathcote. A good-natured governess with a mysterious past, she is the de facto female lead in the various incarnations of the story.

Arrival and early days
Victoria was the prominent character on Dark Shadows for its first year of existence. For that year, each episode's opening narration began with, "My name is Victoria Winters..."

She had been left at a foundling home in New York City, and thus, never knew her true parents—although monthly sums of money began to arrive mysteriously when she turned two. She received her surname from the season in which she arrived in New York. Evidently, Vicky attended some college before accepting the offer of a governess position in Collinsport, Maine. Upon her arrival in Collinsport, she met the brooding Burke Devlin (first played by Mitchell Ryan, later portrayed by Anthony George), with whom she would eventually become romantically involved. During the first episode, she also met a young waitress named Maggie Evans (Kathryn Leigh Scott) at the Collinsport Inn. Although Maggie derided Victoria for accepting the job at the Collinwood estate, the two women eventually became very good friends.

Victoria quickly became indispensable to Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (played by Joan Bennett), both as governess to Elizabeth's troubled young nephew David Collins and companion to Elizabeth herself (although her initial quest to learn her true identity dismayed the family matriarch). For her own mysterious reasons, Elizabeth did not want Victoria to learn the truth. Victoria also became important as a family peacemaker, not to mention a stabilizing influence on Elizabeth's daughter, the rebellious Carolyn Stoddard (Nancy Barrett) and on the troubled David (David Henesy), son of Elizabeth's pompous and rather emotionally cold younger brother, Roger (Louis Edmonds). Slowly but surely, Victoria managed to form a bond with David. As she grew closer to Burke, she became embroiled in his old feud with the Collins family, all while she attempted to discover her origins. One early plotline involved Roger nearly dying in a car accident due to a bleed screw being removed from the hydraulic brake system of his car. Burke was a key suspect, but when Roger learned his own son David was the culprit, he dropped the investigation.

When fisherman Bill Malloy threatened to reveal Roger Collins's guilt in the manslaughter trial which led to Burke Devlin's wrongful conviction, he was murdered. Eventually, Victoria realized the killer was the disturbed caretaker Matthew Morgan (Thayer David). He kidnapped her and planned to kill her, but was frightened to death by the ghosts of Malloy, the Widows (women who had jumped from the cliffs after their husbands died), and Josette Collins. Josette would later become a key figure in Victoria's life, as well as Dark Shadows history.

Shortly after Morgan's death, David's presumed-dead mother, Laura (Diana Millay) arrived, wanting to reunite with her son. Roger was reluctant, but Laura worked her charm on David, who was overjoyed to have a mother again. With the help of Josette's ghost and others, a suspicious Victoria realized Laura was a phoenix who planned to take herself and David to fiery deaths. Vicky saved him just in time. David was safe, the threat was gone, and Burke had finally settled his vendetta against the Collins family. David truly loved and trusted Vicky now, where before he had been hostile and spiteful toward her. Things were better than they had been for Victoria in some time, but that was not to last.

Enter Barnabas Collins
Shortly after the ordeal with Laura Collins had ended, a mysterious man named Jason McGuire (Dennis Patrick) arrived in Collinsport and immediately convinced Elizabeth to let him stay at Collinwood. Victoria and the family were shocked (especially Carolyn) and put on the defensive when McGuire's off-putting drifter friend Willie Loomis (played originally by James Hall for five episodes before John Karlen assumed, and became more well-known, in the role) joined him. Willie, a former small-time crook, soon proved too much even for Jason to put up with, and he ordered Willie to get out of town. Before leaving town, following a fight with Burke Devlin at the Blue Whale because he was harassing Maggie, Willie heard from David that the Collins family ancestors were buried with their personal jewels; Willie decided to help himself to the jewels by breaking into the Collins family mausoleum. In an effort to abscond with the jewels of Naomi Collins, he inadvertently discovered a secret room in the rear of the crypt. Inside was a single coffin wrapped in large, heavy chains. Willie removed the chains and opened the coffin. Rather than finding a cache of jewelry, however, Willie unwittingly freed Naomi’s son, Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid), who had been turned into a vampire 170 years before and was later chained in his coffin by his friend Ben Stokes (Thayer David) on the request of Barnabas’ father, Joshua Collins.

After being bitten by Barnabas, Willie then became his slave. Shortly after his release, Barnabas showed up at Collinwood and introduced himself, first to Elizabeth, then the rest of the family, as a 'cousin' from England. Victoria was charmed, but was more concerned with Jason's hold on Elizabeth especially when he forced her into marriage and, on her wedding day to Jason, Elizabeth could take no more and finally admitted the truth behind Jason’s hold on her: 18 years earlier, Elizabeth had killed her husband, Paul Stoddard, and that Jason, a friend of Paul’s, had buried his body in the Collinwood basement in a trunk, and that Jason had been blackmailing her with this information. Elizabeth also mentioned that she had confided this to Victoria and made her promise to keep this secret to herself. However, when Burke Devlin and Collinsport Sheriff George Patterson (Dana Elcar) went down to the basement to investigate, they dig up the trunk, and later showed both Elizabeth and Roger that Paul’s body was not in the trunk: it was in fact empty! Jason, apprehended by Patterson’s deputy after fleeing Collinwood, sheepishly revealed privately to Elizabeth that Paul had only been stunned when she hit him, that Jason later helped Stoddard disappear and lied to Elizabeth in order to get blackmail money in exchange for his silence. Elizabeth was furious that she had not only wasted 18 years of both never leaving Collinwood to guard this secret but also that Jason let her live with the guilt of believing that she killed Carolyn’s father. Though Elizabeth does not press charges against Jason, he was then ordered by Patterson to leave Collinsport for good. Before leaving town he meets with Willie to get him many jewels for Jason to sell but is angry when Willie brings him only one item. Not satisfied, Jason tries to rob the Old House, now Barnabas' property on Collinwood, but after greedily ignoring Willie’s frightening warnings about Barnabas, Jason, opening Barnabas’ coffin, meets his end, via strangulation, when the vampire’s hand reached up to Jason’s throat. Barnabas and Willie later carry Jason’s body to the Collins family mausoleum where Barnabas orders Willie to bury it in the mausoleum’s secret room.

Victoria grew concerned about her friend Maggie, who became withdrawn and moody to everyone around her. Maggie was, in actuality, being enslaved by Barnabas due to her strong resemblance to his true love, Josette. Barnabas kidnapped Maggie and began feeding off her blood. She is found with suspicious marks on her neck. He planned to make her his bride by thus controlling or hypnotizing her into being Josette, but with the help of the ghost of his little sister Sarah Collins, Maggie escaped. She was later institutionalized and to protect her from the person who had kidnapped her, Maggie's father, Sam Evans, Joe Haskell, and Doctor Dave Woodard decided to make everyone in Collinsport, including Barnabas, believe that Maggie was dead and she was kept well-guarded afterwards for some months. Believing himself to be in the clear because of Maggie's 'death', Barnabas eventually gave up on her and later tells Willie that he has chosen another girl to be his new Josette: Victoria Winters, and Barnabas began to pursue her. Burke Devlin did not trust Barnabas and began an investigation that ended only when Vicki begged him to stop. The men reached an uneasy truce, and she and Burke became engaged before Devlin went on an ill-fated plane trip to South America in 1967. Victoria believed that Burke had somehow survived when they could not locate his body. With Devlin gone, Barnabas began to more actively pursue Victoria.

Time travel
During the second year of Dark Shadows, Victoria becomes unwittingly involved in Barnabas's sinister plans. After a séance to contact Barnabas' sister, Sarah Collins, Victoria is magically transported to an alternate past in 1795. A time paradox between the years 1795 and 1967 causes a rift in the timeband; a carriage overturns in 1795, exchanging Victoria with its occupant, Phyllis Wick, a governess hired by Naomi Collins. Victoria arrives at the Old Collins House and meets Collins ancestors who look just like the 20th Century Collins family she knows, but with different names, personalities, and relationships.

During this storyline, the origin of Barnabas's transformation into a vampire is finally revealed. Victoria makes the mistake of describing the future to the denizens of the past; she is soon seized by the fanatical Reverend Trask and accused of witchcraft. Despite the best efforts of Peter Bradford, a law student and jailer who came to know Victoria and defended her at her trial, Victoria is sentenced to hang in 1796.

Although five months pass for Victoria in the past, Phyllis Wick experiences only five minutes in 1967. Realizing she is from the 18th century, the 20th century Collins family bombard her with questions, but Phyllis soon collapses in pain, clutching at her throat. At the exact moment of Victoria's "execution" she once again changes places with Phyllis, who dies in her place. Due to Victoria's very near-death experience, and as justice and revenge, a very angry Barnabas personally saw to it that Reverend Trask was sealed away in a very strong brick jail cell forever.

Jeff Clark and Goodbye
When Victoria returned to the present, a worried Barnabas believed that she may have learned his secret and bit her before she could tell anyone of her memories of 1795. He convinced her, under his spell, to elope with him, even though deep down Victoria still had feelings for Peter Bradford. On their way out of town, Victoria and Barnabas were involved in a car accident after seeing a man (Roger Davis) who resembled Peter. After the accident, the mysterious Dr. Eric Lang (Addison Powell) cured Barnabas of his vampirism, and Barnabas's hold over Victoria's mind was gone.

Now known as Jeff Clark, Peter worked for Lang and became involved with Victoria before learning his true identity. Peter/Jeff helped Lang build a Frankenstein-like creature, named Adam, who tried to kidnap Carolyn Stoddard and make her his monster bride. During this time, Roger's new wife Cassandra (actually Angelique in disguise) created a Dream Curse that one person would pass on to another by telling them the dream. The dream would get worse for each person until finally Barnabas would be told. When Vicky had the dream, she did her best to keep it from Barnabas, but to stop her pain, Barnabas made her tell him. He then had the dream, woke up, and was bitten by a vampire bat, but survived.

After Dr. Lang was killed by a spell brought by Cassandra in an attempt to stop him from bringing Adam to life, Barnabas and his ally Dr. Julia Hoffman were forced to create a mate for Adam. That mate, Eve (Marie Wallace), had the life force of Peter's evil lover from the 18th century. She made him realize his true identity and planned to reunite with him, but Adam strangled her. After finding out that he really was Peter Bradford, Jeff faded away into 1795. A despondent Victoria soon followed. Barnabas traveled back in time and rescued both Victoria and Peter from the machinations of the evil witch Angelique Bouchard before returning to the present. Victoria, however, remained behind in the year 1795 with Peter and was never seen again in the series.

Victoria was thought to have lived happily ever after, but in 1970, the ghost of Peter Bradford appeared and told antique store owner Phillip Todd that Victoria had been killed by the Leviathans, the same otherworldly creatures which were battling Barnabas Collins at that time. The ghost tried to convince Todd to destroy the Leviathan leader, Jeb Hawkes. Angelique found out about what was going on and told Peter Bradford to return to his grave, as she was going to take her own vengeance against Jeb and the Leviathans (which she did). Victoria's inexplicable off-screen death came about when Dennis Patrick was unable to reprise the role of Paul Stoddard whose ghost would return to take revenge on Jeb. Another factor involved Alexandra Moltke's decision not to return to the series when asked. Thus, Victoria was apparently killed off in a fit of pique. Most Dark Shadows fans tend to ignore this development as it makes little sense that Jeb existed at the same time Victoria and Jeff departed Collinsport.

Victoria's position as governess went to Maggie Evans. Victoria was last mentioned in 1970 when the ghost of Gerard Stiles haunted Collinwood. Barnabas asked a possessed David to name the governess he had had before Maggie; David could not do so. David and Hallie Stokes then gave Daphne Harridge's suddenly materialized ghost some of Victoria's old clothes to wear.

1991 revival
In the NBC primetime revival of the series, Victoria Winters was played by Joanna Going. The first and only season consisted of a retelling of the early Barnabas and 1795 saga, with the main difference being that this time, Vicki, not Maggie, was the spitting-image of Josette. If the series had continued (as with the original), there were plans to reveal that Victoria was Elizabeth Collins Stoddard's illegitimate daughter.

Return to Collinwood
In 2003 Dan Curtis Productions approved a full-cast audio drama. During the reading of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard's will, the mystery surrounding Victoria Winters (which was never revealed in the TV series) is finally resolved. Carolyn learns that her mother had a child out of wedlock; Victoria is actually Carolyn's older sister. In the late 1960s, Victoria was transported into the past and has not been seen since. In the will, Elizabeth implores Carolyn to find Victoria and bring her home.

2004 pilot
In the unaired WB pilot episode for a potential new series, Victoria Winters was played by Marley Shelton. For the first time, the character was depicted as a blonde. As with the 1991 series, Victoria was identical to Josette.

2012 feature film
In the Tim Burton-Johnny Depp big-screen adaptation of Dark Shadows, Victoria Winters is played by Bella Heathcote. As with the subsequent incarnations of the series, Vicky is the spitting-image of Josette. Also, the roles of Maggie Evans and Victoria Winters were combined for the film. When first meeting Vicki it is revealed that her real identity is Maggie Evans, but she changes it to Victoria Winters while on a train ride to Collinwood where, as in the original series, she has been employed as David's governess. It is presumed that she changed her name because she didn't want anyone to learn of her strange past to find her or send her back to the insane asylum.

Upon first meeting her, Barnabas instantly mistakes her for his lost Josette and instantly becomes smitten with her. He decides to become close to her and to try to make her fall in love with him. During the film it is shown that the ghost of Josette communicates with Victoria and is at a later point revealed that Victoria was Josette reincarnated.

By having Victoria being the reincarnation of Josette the film shows Victoria dealing with her past life regression issues until it finally becomes clear to her in the end. At the party scene when Barnabas and Victoria are outside Victoria unmasks to him about her childhood and they kiss. Angelique walks in and sees them and becomes furiously angry and jealous. A few scenes later, after saving David from a falling disco ball, Victoria sees what Barnabas truly is and becomes afraid and flees.

Late in the film Angelique places the same curse on Victoria as she had done to Josette, i.e. to jump off the cliff and kill herself. A little later at the cliff, Victoria is stopped just in time by Barnabas and she tells him to either make her into a vampire or she'll jump. Barnabas refuses and she jumps, but he jumps after her and bites her. This turns her into a vampire before hitting the rocks and saves her from being killed. When Victoria reawakens, her modest new fangs show she now is also a vampire and she tells Barnabas to call her Josette. Barnabas concludes that his curse has ended as they kiss and the seawater hits them.

Character development
Dan Curtis first dreamed of a dark-haired girl riding a train to an estate, which was the inspiration for Dark Shadows. In Shadows on the Wall, the series' bible, Victoria was initially called Sheila March until the name was changed to suggest a more regal, older time. Her search for answers to her mysterious past, which was the driving force behind her accepting the governess position at Collinwood, would have originally led to the revelation that Victoria was the product of an affair between Paul Stoddard and an unknown woman. Elizabeth was to have discovered Victoria's existence the night she thought she had killed Paul, and her guilt over his death prompted her to send money to the Foundling Home. However, these plans were eventually scrapped when the Dark Shadows production team decided that Victoria would be Elizabeth's illegitimate daughter instead. This was due, in part, to Alexandra Moltke's close resemblance to Joan Bennett. In 1987, Bennett recorded a special video for fans in which, in character as Elizabeth, revealed that Victoria was her daughter.

As the Adam/Eve storyline of 1968 began to wind down, Ron Sproat was in the stages of slanting the plot to reveal Victoria's lineage when Moltke left the series due to her pregnancy. She was briefly replaced twice, but neither actress was (reportedly) accepted by the audience. Attempts were made to persuade Moltke to return, but, unhappy with her diminished role and content to be a stay-at-home mother to her new son, she declined. Any and all plans for the character were ultimately shelved, and Victoria was unceremoniously written out with an off-screen 18th-century death.

Big Finish audio dramas
Although Victoria herself has not yet appeared in any of the Big Finish audio plays to date, the character has been mentioned in passing. In House of Despair, Ed Griffin tells Quentin Collins that the people of Collinsport have not forgotten how "that Winters girl" inexplicably disappeared. In Curse of the Pharaoh, Carolyn recalls Victoria having once dated Frank Garner.

Victoria was heavily referenced throughout And Red All Over, which featured the return of Mitchell Ryan as Burke Devlin. In the audio play, Burke determines to do all he can to find Vicki and bring her home.

Heiress of Collinwood
Lara Parker's 2016 Dark Shadows novel centers around the return of Victoria Winters from her time in the past to find Collinwood deserted. The story continues on from Parker's previous book Wolf Moon Rising, and focuses on Vicki finally learning about her lineage.

Music
Robert Cobert composed "Vicki's Theme" for the character and it was used primarily during the first year of Dark Shadows. Cobert made a new arrangement of the song, which was retitled "Missy" and featured in House of Dark Shadows. In 2011, the alternative rock group Cujo recorded "Victoria Winters", a song about the character and referencing events from Dark Shadows.

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Possible Merger
KapilTagore 12:07, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Seeing as many trade blocs cross the North/South America line, and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas would create a trade bloc spanning both continents, wouldn't it make a lot of sense to merge this article with the Economy of South America article? The latter has had even less work done on it than this so the merger would be very easy. Grunners 01:15, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * It would probably not make any sense. But anyone could make an Economy of the Americas article. - Jerryseinfeld 01:27, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree with Jerryseinfeld; while some trade blocs do cross the line, others cross the North America / Asia line. The present division is one commonly used, but of course an Economy of the Americas article could be useful. Warofdreams 10:21, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I also agree with Jerryseinfeld. I believe the South, Central and North American economies are very dissimilar and not joined together enough to make for a good, complete article. It would be best to do a new, separate Economy of the Americas one, leaving the others for people who want more specific information.

Mexico: Upper middle income Economy?

 * The sentence "Mexico, considered to be an upper-middle income economy, lies between these two extremes and is a part of NAFTA and a member of the OECD." needs a little revising. Upper middle income economy?  Mexico's GDP per capita is around 10,000, which is not upper middle income.  It's below the world average, and the claim is fairly inconsistent with the whole paragraph.

 * FYI, The standard of living in Bermuda ranks above the United States. If Bermuda were independent they would be in the top 3 countries on the UN ranking in terms of standard of living.  That's a fact!  Feel free to google 'Bermuda Standard of living' CaribDigita 01:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, Bermuda along with St. Pierre and Miqqy, is part of the well developed north part mentioned in the article - which obviously needs expanding. WilyD 17:50, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Also keep in mind that you need to be careful with conclusions based upon independence of a small geographical unit such as bermuda. Sure it would rank 3rd but there are dozens of areas of the US for example of equivalent size to bermuda in area and population which if independent would rank 1st in the world in terms of standard of living.  Rankings of small geographical units can easily contain outliers and bermuda would be an example of one of these.Zebulin 16:56, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Millionaires
In the economy of Africa, it shows that the percentage of millionaires is 0.01% and the number of millionaires is 0.1 million, however, in the economy of North America, it shows the actual number of millionaires, and it shows the population. Of course, anybody with basic statistical skills knows how to get percentages. And the percentage is (0.65%). Of course, that percentage will always be a tiny fraction of the population, less than one percent, however, what we need to do is remove the statistical bias here that essentially says North America has more equal wealth distribution than Africa. Of course, this isn't so, as in any capitalist country, there will always be unequal wealth distribution. It's unfair, add the percentage. I can't because that portion of the table is not available for edits (for some strange, mystical reason [censorship of posts?]). Anyways, out. --72.38.219.185 (talk) 00:18, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * All you want is the percentage shown as it is for the africa article?Zebulin (talk) 00:45, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Updates
This page is severely outdated (from 2006) as it needs updated in data and financial figures. --Yoganate79 (talk) 23:01, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

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Gustavus
Can someone find a source saying he originally committed to Gustavus? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.250.150.112 (talk) 04:43, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Eagles
Can anyone verify that the Eagles signed/traded for Fitzgerald. No source has stated this, there have only been rumors. --71.236.76.120 (talk) 18:59, 9 March that Fitzgerald only had 8 touchdowns in his first year and Randy Moss had 17 touchdowns  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cgconle (talk • contribs) 18:54, 2 February 2009 (UTC) Can anybody verify the accuracy of this: "He left college early and was drafted 3rd overall in the 2004 NFL entry draft, by the Arizona Cardinals." It originally said 11th rather than 3rd.
 * Wikipedia's article on the 2004 NFL draft lists him as 3rd, and http://football.about.com/cs/playerprofiles/p/larryfitzgerald.htm says he "[had] just two years of college under his belt" before the draft. 207.172.155.74 17:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * They just mentioned him on ESPN2 - he was drafted 3rd. Also, he only had two years of college because he had one year of prep school.  The NFL requires that you be out of high school for three years before being eligible for the draft.  They counted his one year of prep as one of his three required years. BigDT 01:47, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Somebody needs to add about the death of his mother and struggles in school?--MP123 04:39, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

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Off the Field Issues
No mention of the fact that he had a son with his long time girlfriend and denied strongly that he was the father, going so far as to have his father say to the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he wasn't the father? Or that an order of protection was filed against him by his child's mother after he allegedly grabbed her by the neck and threw her to the ground? Is the article protected so that people can't add these facts, or what? Being good at sports should not buy you immunity from having the truth about you told. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.81.13.145 (talk) 19:14, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I wrote a section about this, will sourced information from a major metropolitan newspaper. This information can be found on many news sites and is widely discussed and disseminated and yet it continues to get removed from the article without an explanation. If you'd like to discuss why you think it should be removed, post something. Don't just remove verifiable, sourced information because you like the guy as a football player. Pandabullets (talk) 14:29, 27 January 2009 (UTC) Loves Pie. The gossip columnist that "reported" the information Pandabullets speaks of, "C.J.", is known in the media to be highly unreliable and barely more trustworthy than a tabloid writer. Her columns are used in the ASU Cronkite School of Journalism curriculum as exhibits of shady, unreliable, sensationalist, and otherwise poor journalism in major media outlets. Until a RELIABLE source can be used, i.e. public court records, it should be left off the article altogether. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.3.119.155 (talk) 19:15, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Once again, until an reliable and noteworthy source, NOT A GOSSIP COLUMNIST, shows that there was a paternity test and/or a domestic violence complaint, please do not put this into the article. This is Wikipedia, not Gossipedia.68.3.119.155 (talk) 00:01, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Agree that the Star Tribune links were worthless gossip.  Enigma msg  01:18, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Put it back in with sources from NY Times and USA Today; also tried to make it sound more alleged and NPOV. Jomasecu talk contribs 00:45, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * C.J. regularly speaks to Fitzgerald Sr. and in one case she spoke to Nazario's mother. Nowhere has any party involved disputed anything that she put in any of her articles that I linked to.  Aside from that, the fact is that the people deleting the information know that it is true, they are using the source as a pretense for deleting factual information about an athlete whose image they apparently can't handle see tarnished, even if by his own actions.Pandabullets (talk) 18:32, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Official Website
Larry's official website is not www.larryfitzgeraldjr.com, it is www.larryfitzgerald11.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cgoodman27 (talk • contribs) 19:09, 10 December 2009 (UTC) -It works either way you type it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.138.195.179 (talk) 23:17, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

change in official website link
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 * ✅ Algebraist 17:49, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

High school information is incorrect
in the Professional Career Section it incorrectly states

"Although Fitzgerald had played at Pitt for only two years without redshirting, he petitioned the NFL to allow him to enter the 2004 NFL Draft, as he had left high school during his senior year to attend Holy Angels Academy. The NFL granted an exception to allow Fitzgerald to enter the draft, as Fitzgerald had convinced the NFL that the time he spent at the Academy, combined with his time at Pitt, was the minimum three years removed from high school to make him eligible for the draft. Although former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett was suing the NFL at the time to overturn the rule (a case Clarett ultimately won, but was later overturned on appeal), the NFL considered Fitzgerald's case separate from Clarett's.[5]"

In fact Larry left Holy Angels Academy to attend Valley Forge Military Academy. Here are some sources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Holy_Angels http://academy.vfmac.edu/Athletics/Football.aspx http://www.nfl.com/player/larryfitzgerald/2506106/profile — Preceding unsigned comment added by 214.13.123.202 (talk) 12:58, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

'07 All-Pro team?
This page lists him as a member of the 2007 All-Pro Team, but neither that page nor pro-football-reference.com can corroborate this. Morgan Wick (talk) 04:11, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

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Consecutive games with a reception
I noticed under the NFL records section, the consecutive games with a reception is pretty dated. Fitzgerald recently passed Tony Gonzalez for second-longest streak and his number is up to 213, per Pro Football Reference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ttauscher (talk • contribs) 20:31, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Broadcast career ? ? ?
Why no mention of his broadcast career that began after his 2920 season ? 2600:8800:204:C400:3D69:366E:6EA6:C6B3 (talk) 21:11, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Retirement
I’ve been scavenging for a video or an article on Larry’s retirement, nothings showing up. Just because he hasn’t played doesn’t mean he’s retired. In all the videos I’ve seen, the titles say he doesn’t have the urge to play right now. If he does retire, then it’ll be headline news but there’s no news articles on Larry’s retirement or a retirement speech. So that means, he’s a free agent. Richard DeMelo (talk) 16:34, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

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Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, based on stories from the 2000 collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd. It also stars Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. The film follows Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald (Swank), an underdog amateur boxer who is helped by an underappreciated boxing trainer (Eastwood) to achieve her dream of becoming a professional.

Million Dollar Baby was theatrically released on December 15, 2004, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received critical acclaim and grossed $216.8 million worldwide. The film garnered seven nominations at the 77th Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (for Swank), and Best Supporting Actor (for Freeman). It has since been cited as one of the best films of the 2000s, the 21st century and of all-time.

Plot
Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald, a waitress from the Ozarks, comes to the Hit Pit, a rundown boxing gym in Los Angeles operated by Frankie Dunn. Dunn is a cantankerous Irish-American trainer, estranged from his daughter. Maggie asks Frankie to train her, but he refuses because he does not want to train women and believes Maggie is too old. Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris, Frankie's friend and employee, helps Maggie.

Frankie's prize prospect, "Big Willie" Little, signs with the successful manager Mickey Mack after becoming impatient with Frankie rejecting offers for a championship bout. Frankie reluctantly agrees to train Maggie.

Maggie fights her way up in the women's amateur boxing division with Frankie's coaching. Since she has earned a reputation for quick knockouts, Frankie bribes managers to put their trainee fighters against her. Scrap, concerned when Frankie rejects several offers for big fights, arranges a meeting for Maggie with Mickey Mack, but out of loyalty to Frankie, she declines. Frankie bestows Maggie a Gaelic nickname, embroidered on her boxing robe, Mo Chuisle, but does not tell her its meaning. The two travel to Europe as she continues to win. Maggie eventually saves enough of her winnings to buy her mother a house, but her mother berates Maggie for endangering her government aid, claiming that everyone back home is laughing at her.

Frankie is finally willing to arrange a title fight. He secures Maggie a $1 million match in Las Vegas against the WBA women's welterweight champion, Billie "the Blue Bear" Osterman, a German ex-prostitute who has a reputation as a dirty fighter. Maggie begins to dominate the fight, but Billie knocks her out with an illegal sucker punch from behind after the bell rings to end the round. Maggie lands hard on her corner stool, placed there by Frankie’s assistant, breaking her neck and leaving her a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic.

Frankie goes through the five stages of grief, seeking multiple doctors' opinions in denial, lashing out in anger at Scrap, and trying to bargain with God through prayer. He later apologizes to Scrap and blames himself. Scrap tells him not to as Maggie owed it to him for getting her shot at the world championship.

While in the hospital, Maggie looks forward to a visit from her family. They arrive only after first touring Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood. Accompanied by an attorney, their sole concern is to get Maggie's assets transferred to them. Disgusted, she orders them to leave and threatens to report their welfare fraud if they try to contact her again.

Maggie develops bedsores and undergoes an amputation for an infected leg. She asks Frankie to help her die, declaring that she had everything she wanted out of life. A horrified Frankie refuses, so Maggie later bites her own tongue in an attempt to bleed to death. Knowing the fatherly affection Frankie has developed for Maggie, Frankie's priest warns him that he would never find himself again if he were to go through with Maggie's request. Frankie sneaks into the hospital one night, unaware that Scrap is watching from the shadows. Just before administering a fatal injection of adrenaline, he tells Maggie the meaning of "mo chuisle": "my darling, and my blood", then gives Maggie a final goodbye kiss. He never returns to the gym. Scrap writes to Frankie's daughter, informing her of her father's true character.

Cast

 * Clint Eastwood as Frankie Dunn, a gruff but well-meaning elderly boxing trainer
 * Hilary Swank as Mary Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald, a determined, aspiring boxer trained up by Frankie Dunn
 * Morgan Freeman as Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris, Dunn's gym assistant and former boxer
 * Jay Baruchel as Dangerous Dillard Fighting Flippo Bam-Bam Barch or "Danger", a simpleton would-be boxer
 * Mike Colter as Willie "Big Willie" Little, a boxer whom Dunn has trained for years
 * Lucia Rijker as Billie "The Blue Bear" Osterman, a former prostitute and vicious boxer
 * Brían F. O'Byrne as Father Horvak, the priest of the church which Dunn attends
 * Anthony Mackie as Shawrelle Berry, an overzealous boxer and frequent tenant of Dunn's gym
 * Margo Martindale as Earline Fitzgerald, Maggie's selfish mother
 * Riki Lindhome as Mardell Fitzgerald, Maggie's welfare-cheating sister
 * Michael Peña as Omar, a boxer and Shawrelle's best friend
 * Bruce MacVittie as Mickey Mack
 * Ned Eisenberg as Sally Mendoza
 * Marcus Chait as J.D. Fitzgerald, Maggie's incarcerated brother
 * Tom McCleister as Mr. Johnson, a lawyer
 * Benito Martinez as Billie's Manager
 * Grant L. Roberts as Billie's Cut Man

Development and production
After being fired from the television series Family Law, Haggis wrote the script on spec, and it took four years to sell it. The film was stuck in development hell for years before it was shot. Several studios rejected the project even when Eastwood signed on as actor and director. Even Warner Bros., Eastwood's longtime home base, would not agree to a $30 million budget. Eastwood persuaded Lakeshore Entertainment's Tom Rosenberg to put up half the budget (as well as handle foreign distribution), with Warner Bros. contributing the rest. Eastwood shot the film in less than 40 days between June and July 2004. Filming took place in Los Angeles and film sets at Warner Bros. Studios. The titular phrase 'million dollar baby' was used as an insult during pre-fight publicity by Sonny Liston to Muhammad Ali, the latter of whom was an underdog at the time. Eastwood had his daughter Morgan Colette appear in a cameo as a girl who waves to Swank's character at a gas station.

Eastwood had confidence in Swank's acting, but upon seeing Swank's small physique, he had concerns, "I just thought, 'Yeah, this gal would be great. If we can get her trained up. If we can get a little bit more bulk on her, to make her look like a fighter'...She was like a feather. But what happened is, she had this great work ethic."

Consequently, to prepare for her role, Swank underwent extensive training in the ring and weight room, gaining 19 pounds of muscle, aided by professional trainer Grant L. Roberts. She trained for nearly five hours every day, winding up with a potentially life-threatening staphylococcus infection out of blisters on her foot. She did not tell Eastwood about the infection because she thought it would be out of character for Maggie.

Box office
Million Dollar Baby initially had a limited release, opening in eight theaters in December 2004. In its later wide release opening, the film earned $12,265,482 in North America and quickly became a box-office hit both domestically and internationally. It grossed $216,763,646 in theaters; $100,492,203 in the United States, and $116,271,443 in other territories. The film played in theaters for six and a half months.

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, Million Dollar Baby has an approval rating of 90% based on 269 reviews, with an average rating of 8.40/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Clint Eastwood's assured direction—combined with knockout performances from Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman—help Million Dollar Baby to transcend its clichés, and the result is deeply heartfelt and moving." On Metacritic it has a weighted average score of 86 out of 100, based on reviews from 39 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "A" on an A+ to F scale.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars and stated that "Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby is a masterpiece, pure and simple," listing it as the best film of 2004. Michael Medved stated: "My main objection to Million Dollar Baby always centered on its misleading marketing, and effort by Warner Brothers to sell it as a movie about a female Rocky, with barely a hint of the pitch-dark substance that led Andrew Sarris of the New York Observer...to declare that "no movie in my memory has depressed me more than Million Dollar Baby."

In early 2005, the film sparked controversy when some disability rights activists protested the ending. The Disability Rights Education Fund released a statement about the film in February 2005 that included the following: "Perhaps the most central stereotype fueling disability prejudice is the mistaken assumption inherent in the message of the movie that the quality of life of individuals with disabilities is unquestionably not worth living. This stereotype is contradicted by the personal experience of many thousands of people with significant disabilities in this country and around the world who view our own lives as ordinary and normal. It is further contradicted by plenty of hard data. Research overwhelmingly shows that people with disabilities find satisfaction in our lives to the same degree, or greater, than does the general public."

The Chicago Tribune reported that protests against the film by disability activists occurred in Chicago, Berkeley, and other cities, and that Clint Eastwood had lobbied for weakening provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Wesley J. Smith in The Weekly Standard also criticized the film for its ending and for missed opportunities; Smith wrote "The movie could have ended with Maggie triumphing once again, perhaps having obtained an education and becoming a teacher; or, opening a business managing boxers; or perhaps, receiving a standing ovation as an inspirational speaker."

Eastwood responded to the criticism by saying the film was about the American dream. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Eastwood distanced himself from the actions of characters in his films, noting, "I've gone around in movies blowing people away with a .44 Magnum. But that doesn't mean I think that's a proper thing to do". Roger Ebert stated that "a movie is not good or bad because of its content, but because of how it handles its content. Million Dollar Baby is classical in the clean, clear, strong lines of its story and characters, and had an enormous emotional impact".

The Gaelic nickname for Swank's character comes from the original phrase a chuisle mo chroí, meaning "O pulse of my heart"; one critic noted that the use of Gaelic in the film led to some interest in the language and the phrase.

Top ten lists
Million Dollar Baby was listed on many critics' top 10 lists for films released in 2004.
 * 1st – A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
 * 1st – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
 * 2nd – Richard Schickel, Time
 * 2nd – Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
 * 2nd – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
 * 2nd – Claudia Puig, USA Today
 * 2nd – Keith Phipps, The A.V. Club
 * 2nd – Ty Burr and Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
 * 3rd – Kevin Thomas and Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
 * 3rd – Jack Matthews, New York Daily News
 * 3rd – Glenn Kenny, Premiere
 * 3rd – Carla Meyer & Ruthie Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
 * 3rd – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
 * 4th – Mike Clark, USA Today
 * 4th – David Ansen, Newsweek
 * 4th – Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
 * 5th – Robert Koehler, Variety
 * 5th – James Berardinelli, Reelviews
 * 6th – Stephen Holden, The New York Times
 * 6th – Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club
 * 6th – Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
 * 9th – Desson Thompson, Washington Post
 * 10th – Nathan Rabin, The A.V. Club
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Accolades
Million Dollar Baby received the award for Best Picture of 2004 at the 77th Academy Awards. Clint Eastwood was awarded his second Best Director Oscar for the film, and he received a Best Actor in a Leading Role nomination. Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman received Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscars, respectively. Joel Cox, Eastwood's editor for many years, was nominated for Best Film Editing, and Paul Haggis was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay award.

The film was named the third "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far" in 2017 by The New York Times. It also ranked number 63 on Parade's list of the "100 Best Movies of All Time" in 2023.

Home media
The film was released on VHS and DVD on July 12, 2005, and all editions of the Region 1 DVD, except for the deluxe edition, came with a paperback copy of the book Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner. An HD DVD release was issued on April 18, 2006. The Blu-ray Disc version was released on November 14, 2006. It was the first Best Picture winner released on either high-definition optical disc format in the U.S.; it and Unforgiven (also starring Eastwood and Freeman) were the only ones released in the U.S. on HD DVD prior to the first one released in the U.S. on Blu-ray, Crash. The film is also available online through video on demand and most major streaming platforms.

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Concerning the removed text in the Python section by User:Fredrik on 14 Dec 2004: "It should be noted that non-sequence collection types, such as    (an associative mapping), do not support iteration directly.  To iterate over   these collection the user first must convert them to sequence types." That limitation in the language was only removed as of Python version 2.2. In all versions of Python prior to that it was/is still true that you can not directly iterate over dictionaries. - Dmeranda 01:18, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Iterators as in CLU or Ruby
The mentioned Python (unknown to me) seems to support "generators". Apart from this the way iterators were introduced by CLU has been forgotten. There these are free-standing procedures which have (invisible and implicitly) the loop body as a parameter. This kind of iterators is supported directly by the above mentioned programming languages.

We have developed the functional equivalent of a CLU iterator in Delphi (16 and 32 bit) using knowledge of the compiler output, and we are using this successfully for years. With some auxiliary routines (e.g. iterating, see below) the call of an iterator is essentially as follows:

iterator(parameters); while iterating do  body;

The usual applications are: Stepping through containers (tree, list, registry, ...; possibly with premature loop end), and the "perverted" case where only one callback occurs, e.g. allocate and deallocate resources, wait and signal of semaphores, synchronize (run in main thread).

There is no real alternative to such iterators since with means of the high languages (e.g. Delphi, C++, Java) the iterator can not transfer the local scope and can only call a method or a global procedure. This leads to unattractive effort to feed an auxiliary object (this could be the current object as well) with parameters and local variables, call the iterator and finally transfer back all these variables. An iterator supported by the language does not meet such problems!

The Japanese Wikipedia page for this subject seems to contain at least a reference to Ruby...

-- Jasper1711 15:49, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

 * There should be something about Alphard in this article as well. 131.155.99.235 10:58, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Iterators in JavaScript
Is someone likely to mention JavaScript iterators? In JavaScript, iteration can easily break if someone pollutes an object in the prototype chain and the code doing the iteration assumes that all iterated elements come from the object and not its prototype chain.

 * I don't think JavaScript's iteration qualifies. As far as i understand it, the for ... in construct can only iterate over the keys of an object/array;  you can't even use it to iterate over the contents of JavaScript's builtin arrays, let alone user-defined containers and sequences.  --Piet Delport 09:59, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

 * What about the  idiom in modern JavaScript? Pastafaryanist (talk) 21:02, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Generators
I rewrote the article's description of generators, to clear up some misconceptions. For the record, here's the original version, with my objections:

 * "A generator is a special kind of iterator in which the container object is not fully realized. This allows abstract or even infinite collections to be processed one element at a time."
 * This is a vacuous truth. Just like conventional iterators, generators support both finite container traversal and lazy/infinite sequence realization equally.  There's simply no difference between them at all, as far as this is concerned.  (What does distinguish generators and conventional iterators is how their state is maintained;  an analogous relationship exists between closures and function objects.)
 * "Generators are common in functional programming languages, or languages which borrow some functional concepts."
 * I'm not sure where this idea comes from. Generators are very much a procedural/imperative concept, as opposed to functional.  Perhaps the author was thinking of list comprehension syntax?
 * "Generators are often implemented in terms of continuations."
 * While (like every other control structure :) generators can be implemented in terms of continuations, this is not the case with any generator-supporting language i know of.

--Piet Delport 17:41, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

 * While your observations are correct, and I do appreciate cutting most of the details in favor of the separate generators article, I think that perhaps it is still quite useful here to still explain that generators are often used in cases where the collection is inifinite or expensive to compute or store. True, an iterator can do that too, but it is far less common to see them used that way.  I see nothing wrong with mentioning this common practical difference between generators and iterators, even if it's not a technical absolute. -- Dmeranda 05:20, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

 * That's precisely what the practical difference between them isn't, though. If you read the motivation for adding generators to Python, you'll find that it doesn't even mention lazy computation (of infinite/expensive-to-calculate sequences) at all, but is instead entirely concerned with how iterators that usually need cumbersome, explicit state maintenance (state machines, manual recursion stacks) are much more clearly and naturally expressed as generators.  Looking at real-life Python code (such as the standard library) confirms this:  large/infinite iterations with simple or no state, like computing large/infinite number sequences, or lazily iterating through large files, lists, dicts, or other simply-structured data sets, are actually implemented using plain (non-generator) iterators, while more complex, stateful things like iterating though hierarchical/recursive collections, parsing/tokenization, and algorithms like diff, are usually expressed as generators, even though those are all finite, and aren't any less expensive to calculate due to being generators.
 * In other words, in practice, the decision between generator and non-generator iterators is entirely governed by state management, not computational laziness. If the iterator doesn't need to manage state, then there's very little practical difference between the two choices, regardless of how infinite/expensive the computed sequence is;  if anything, the non-generator versions are sometimes slightly smaller and clearer than the generator version.
 * In other words, saying "Generators are often used for infinite/expensive sequence computation" is just as technically correct, and just as misleading, as saying "Automatic (as opposed to manual) transmission cars are often used for long-distance driving". It's true, but entirely besides the point of what the distinction is actually about.
 * --Piet Delport 14:05, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Why do I get a redirecton from enumerator ?
Hi. Tried to look up Enumerator and got a redirection to Iterator. They are definitely not the same as far as I understand. While an Iterator allows me to move over a set of Objects. An enumerator defines a named collection of objects or variables. Or do I get that wrong ?

 * Are you thinking of a particular programming language, or in general? While some languages might assign different meanings to "iterator" and "enumerator", i doubt there's any generalizable difference that Wikipedia can reflect.  --Piet Delport 12:35, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * An enumeration is a type construct (such as an enum in Java or C). Enumerator is synonymous to iterator. Wouter Lievens 14:19, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * You're right mixed it up with enumeration...

An enumerator is really a specialized kind of iterator rather than being synomymous with it, and is so-named because of the mathematical concept enumeration, the mapping of the natural number sequence onto a set. The distinction is that an enumerator usually consecutively numbers the items as the iteration proceeds, whereas an iterator only must produce a sequence, numbered or not. Consider Python's enumerate, which indexes a sequence. And enumerated type is a different programming concept altogether. Dmeranda 15:20, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Good point. Sadly, though, Python is the only programming language (that i'm familiar with) that uses the term in this more correct sense, instead of as another word for "iterator/iteration".  --Piet Delport 02:39, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like catch up to APLs to me
Since the 1960s the vocabularies of APL languages descended from Ken Iverson's work have been composed almost completely of iterators as I understand the term being expressed here. The fundamental objects are arrays or lists of lists and even the elementary functions like +  or =  iterate over all items in their arguments. Beyond this, are the operators like /  ( across ), and '  ( each ) which perform iterations of arbitrary functions on lists.

For that matter, Lisp's map operators ought to be mentioned --CoSyBob 07:55, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Those are all ways of mapping, folding, or otherwise distributing operations across collections, which is distinct from what this article discusses: ways of representing (abstract or realized) collections as "item sources". (These are sometimes distinguished as "internal" and "external" iteration, respectively.)
 * While these two approaches have some amount of functional overlap, they are quite distinct in terms of how they work, and what situations they handle well. (Specifically: while the mapping approach is more terse, specialized and appropriate for stateless/independent operations across concrete data structures, the iterator approach is more flexible, allowing much easier expression of things like in-iteration state management, abstract sequence/operation composition, and dynamically-realized/infinite sequences.)
 * --Piet Delport 12:45, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * This article already seems to have become yet another occasion on which every language must have a mention and code snippet, whether it adds anything or not, so I would definitely avoid mentioning any others. Removing stuff like Java, Python, ActionScript, Ruby, which can hardly be seminal users of iterators, and some research, discussion and examples of where the concept originated would be a great idea. This should be an article about the history and concept of a comp sci technique, not a language tutorial—we don't need seven examples, and certainly not four tutorials in different languages. NicM 00:23, 10 August 2007 (UTC).

 * Agreed. —Piet Delport 2007-08-10 09:13

Elements disambiguation
I've been clearing up links to the element page, and for this one I have redirected to element (mathematics). If this is wrong, please correct. If the link was aiming at "element" to mean "fundamental part" then there is no such link in WP, please delete the link. LeeG 12:13, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

 * The term is used here more or less as a general, open-ended synonym for "item" or "member". While element (mathematics) is not far from the intended meaning, in many cases, none of the set theoretic concepts and connotations described there need apply here, so i'll unlink it.  Thanks for the heads-up.  --Piet Delport 21:52, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Concerning merging Iterators to this article
I definitely agree with merging Iterators into this article. However it doesn't really appear to offer any additional information not already covered here—with the possible exception of mentioning that stack and queue don't usually require iterators; something I'm not sure needs mentioned anyway. So I'm really more for just turning Iterators into a redirect to here. --Dmeranda 18:07, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Agreed. Chip Zero 18:45, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thirded. This article (Iterator) to me is a clearer explanation as well. hateless 20:03, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Resolved. I changed the Iterators article into a simple redirect to this one. I had checked that article again to make sure no new content had been added, which none had. I still saw nothing worthy of merging, so this article, Iterator, has not been changed other than to remove the MergeFrom tag. Dmeranda 22:11, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

C++0x
The C++ section here mentions Boost lambda functions for inline iterator processing code, but makes no mention of the now native C++0x lambda functions. I know it's not formally finalised yet, but might it be worth mentioning these anyway as they are very unlikely to not be included, and are already supported be a lot of compilers.Y Less (talk) 12:58, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Explicit vs. Implicit, External vs. Internal
At the moment there are two subsections dealing with these distinctions: External iterators and the iterator pattern and Implicit iterators , but no "internal iterators" and "explicit iterators" subsections. This results in a lack of distinction between the four. In addition, neither is mentioned in the classifying iterators subsection. If we can have an expert on the subject review and clarify that would be nice. François Robere (talk) 08:20, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

 * ✅ Pastafaryanist (talk) 22:03, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I just want to add that explicit and implicit iterators aren't types of iterators, they are just different ways of using them. Internal and external iterators also aren't types of iterators, they just refer to the controller of the iteration (Where, for an internal iterator, the iteration would be controlled by the function specified). So that's why they aren't mentioned in the "classifying iterators" subsection. Also, there are a lot of explicit/implicit usage of iterators "In different programming languages" section. Pastafaryanist (talk) 22:03, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Code reuse
I suggest we write that iterators is an extension to the idea of code reuse. AXO NOV (talk) ⚑ 10:16, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

 * They are orthogonal concepts. I don't think any coding construct is an extension of code reuse. The iterator might make code reuse more elegant in some situations, but code reuse is always possible regardless of the constructs available in a language. Maybe someone claims that iterators were invented to support code reuse, which may be true (IDK). But, what construct has been invented that does not support code reuse and code quality in general? Stevebroshar (talk) 12:27, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Description section
Lumping most of the interesting information in a section Description seems lame to me. It's too generic; just a punt. I am going to attempt to organize in a more meaningful way. Stevebroshar (talk) 12:31, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

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Uncle (disambiguation)

An uncle is a family relative and, in some cultures, is used as a term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly man.

Uncle, UNCLE or The Uncle may also refer to:

Film and TV

 * U.N.C.L.E., a fictional organization in the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
 * Uncle (British TV series), a BBC Three sitcom
 * Uncle (2000 film), an Indian Telugu drama film
 * Uncle (2018 film), an Indian Malayalam drama thriller film
 * Uncle (2019 film), a Danish film
 * Uncle (South Korean TV series), a 2021 television series
 * Uncle, a 2023 Taiwanese television series starring Wang Shih-hsien and Ray Chang
 * The Uncle, a 1965 British drama film

Other uses

 * "Uncle", a song by Mindless Self Indulgence on the album If (2008)
 * Uncle, a term sometimes used to address an Australian Aboriginal elder (of any age)
 * Uncle (book series), by J. P. Martin
 * Uncle (novel), a children's novel by J. P. Martin

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Should this be called River Tryweryn? Every other river article is called "River ...", but Tryweryn is Welsh so maybe the proper name would be Afon Tryweryn? I don't think is has an English name, unlike River Dee, Wales (Afon Dyfrdwy).

Tebbb 19:47, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

New Article
Now known as Canolfan Tryweryn, the national white water centre should really have a wiki page. However I'm not going to remove this article as it refers specifically to the river.DevAnubis 17:41, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Finished Canolfan Tryweryn yesterday, and I am planing to merge the two articles as it practically makes this one redundant. DevAnubis 12:50, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Good idea, especially seeing as the info is duplicated across the two. However, you could argue that there are other aspects of the rather which do not relate to whitewater, adding them to the Canolfan Tryweryn page would not make sense (for example, our friends the fishermen or birdwatchers :) ). Maybe Afon Tryweryn should be reduced to a stub, with a link to Canolfan Tryweryn? Jamsta 13:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Another Idea I had would be to merge the two under "The Tryweryn" with two main sections, Canolfan Tryweryn (which is actually the name of the centre) and Afon Tryweryn, with details about the river. And then direct everything to this one page. Oh and thanks for getting back to me so quickly! DevAnubis 13:22, 8 September 2006 (UTC) EDIT: bulleted conversation, I find it's easier to read. DevAnubis 13:27, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Afon Tryweryn proposed merge
DevAnubis -thanks for your note re the suggested merger. Sorry but I don't think that would be a good idea, so for the record ,I oppose the merger. Many reasons not least that all the other significant Welsh rivers have their own discrete articles but - much more that - each River articles can and should cover a host of sub topics - geology, geo-morphology, habitat, riparian zones,  ecology, power generation, river regulation, fisheries, social history, pollution, economy etc. etc. whilst Canolfan Tryweryn just relates solely to the recreational use by Kayak and Raft. For the record I have had a professional input into Canolfan Tryweryn and have made use of its facilities so I'm not just a river freak! Mrs Trellis 16:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm a season ticket holder there and try my best to paddle there most weekends. I agree that the river should keep it's own page. And now that I think of it, it would actually be a better idea to just update Afon Tryweryn a little so that it links nicely to Canolfan Tryweryn and then do the same for CT, so that the description of the river is listed as main page: Afon Tryweryn. I'll get to work! DevAnubis 16:45, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't want to duplicate the three descriptions of the river sections, should they go here or on Canolfan Tryweryn? Personally I think here. Also, I'm thinking of maybe scrapping the CT page, redirecting searched for it to Afon Tryweryn and then adding the canolfan centre details, keeping it in one page. Yes, No? DevAnubis 17:04, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

The Tryweryn
I am proposing a "merged" page titles "The Tryweryn" encompassing all references to the river Tryweryn (although it will be referred to as Afon Tryweryn to keep with the Welsh river's theme). See my Sandbox for the draft. 18:30, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Completely scraped the merged page, instead left Canolfan Tryweryn mostly as it was, and simply sub-sectioned Afon Tryweryn for water sports.

 * Looks good - excellent call ! I'll try and find some-time to put the other "rivery" things into the Afon Tryweryn article. Mrs Trellis 19:09, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm probably going to be up at the Tryweryn at some point in the next fortnight so I'll try and get a couple of pics of the rapids (especially mill falls!). but i don't really want ot over full it. maybe one of mill falls, chapel falls, and the ski jump. those are the main features. although arguably all the ones listed in Canolfan Tryweryn are main..., meh. we'll see.

Content
Perhaps this article should concentrate more on the controversy and pain caused by the damming of this river in the 1960s, than its current usage as a yuppie leisure facility. --MacRusgail (talk) 14:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Good coverage of the issues relating to the damming of the river on Llyn Celyn page - probably more appropriate page than on Afon Trweryn page. Tim P (talk) 20:13, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

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Illuminatus

Illuminatus may refer to:

 * singular of Illuminati
 * Illuminatus of Arce (fl. 1219), companion of Saint Francis
 * Illuminatus of Assisi (d. c. 1281), bishop
 * The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975), a series of novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
 * Illuminatus (band), an alternative metal band from Nottingham
 * Illuminatus (video game), a computer game originating from an April fool's joke
 * Illuminatus, a 1995 album by Green Magnet School

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Renaissance Center
This article was a stub for quite some time, and I was able to add a considerable amount of information about this interesting and well-known Detroit landmark. (Self-nomination) Gsgeorge 01:24, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Object - extremely short and no references. There has to be more material to add - more info on the history, on who works in there, whatever.  You include a link to "Detroit Renaissance" (http://www.detroitrenaissance.com/) and say that it is "the group that financed the construction", but you don't say anything about them in the article itself.  You don't have the years and dates wikied, and the "Nonetheless" in the last sentence of the lead doesn't make sense. And the last paragraph of the article seems to disagree with what you say in the lead (that the center revitalized the city). --Spangineer ∞ 02:15, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Object needs expansion as Spangineer said. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 08:19, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments. I've corrected a few things mentioned by Spangineer.  Personally, I feel the article is very nice, but I can understand when you say it needs expansion.  If there are enough objections I'll work on it for consideration in the near future. Thanks! Gsgeorge 12:32, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * ObjectIt is a nice article and the images are fantastic, brilliant in fact. However, the page need to be expanded quite a lot, and the text tidied up for it  to be a feature article. Giano 13:11, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Object too short --ZayZayEM 01:10, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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GBR

GBR or GbR may refer to:

Organisations

 * GbR (Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts), a form of business entity in Germany
 * General Botha Regiment, an infantry regiment of the South African Army
 * Great Britain at the Olympics (Team GB), by IOC country code
 * Great British Railways, a planned British railway body

Places

 * Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland, Australia
 * Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada
 * United Kingdom, by ISO 3166-1 code
 * Walter J. Koladza Airport (or Great Barrington Airport), United States (by IATA code)

Science and technology

 * GBR (subpixels) (Green, Blue, Red), an RGB display pixel layout
 * GBR compound, nomenclature code for a series of molecular drugs that are congeners with benztropine
 * Gerber format, a file format with extension gbr
 * Guaranteed Bit Rate, a characteristic of LTE network traffic flows
 * Guided bone regeneration, a medical procedure

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FRA

Fra is a title of a friar.

Fra or FRA may also refer to:

Codes

 * fra, the ISO 639-2 code for the French language
 * FRA, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for France
 * FRA, the IOC country code for France at the Olympics
 * Framingham station, Amtrak station code
 * Frankfurt Airport, Germany, IATA code

Education

 * Flint River Academy, Woodbury, Georgia, US
 * Franklin Road Academy, Nashville, Tennessee, US

Molecular biology

 * Fra1, aka Fos-related antigen 1
 * Fra2, aka Fos-related antigen 2

Agencies, organizations, companies

 * Alfarista Radical Front (Spanish: Frente Radical Alfarista), an Ecuadorian political party
 * Federal Railroad Administration, USA
 * Fleet Reserve Association
 * Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union
 * Forces Royales Air, the official French name for the Royal Moroccan Air Force
 * National Defence Radio Establishment (Swedish: Försvarets radioanstalt), in Sweden
 * FRA law (Swedish: FRA-lagen), in Sweden

Other uses

 * Fra McCann (born 1953), Irish politician
 * Fixed-radio access or wireless local loop
 * Flash Recovery Area, an Oracle Database technology
 * Formula Regional Americas Championship (FRA championship), a Formula 3 regional racing league
 * Forward rate agreement
 * Full retirement age, in US Social Security

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AUT

AUT may refer to the following.

Locations

 * Austria (ISO 3166-1 country code)
 * Agongointo-Zoungoudo Underground Town, Benin
 * Aktio–Preveza Undersea Tunnel, Greece
 * Airstrip on Atauro Island, East Timor (IATA airport code)

Organizations

 * Arriva UK Trains
 * Association of University Teachers, a former British trade union
 * Aut Even Hospital, Ireland

Education

 * Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
 * Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
 * Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 * American University of Technology, Lebanon
 * Association of University Teachers a former trade union in the United Kingdom

Computing

 * Advanced and application unit testing, test techniques in computer programming
 * Application under test, in software testing, the software that is to be tested (by other software)
 * Atlantis Underwater Tycoon, a computer game
 * Autonomous Things, technologies that bring autonomous computers into the physical environment

Other fields

 * An automorphism group in mathematics
 * Automated ultrasonic testing, for pipeline construction girthwelds
 * Aeronautica Umbra Trojani AUT.18, an Italian fighter aircraft prototype of 1939
 * Reporting mark for Autauga Northern Railroad
 * Reporting mark for Auto-Train Corporation

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