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Vote for Deletion
This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. It was marked for cleanup and listed accordingly. -Splash 02:50, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * People like to pick and choose between articles to delete whether they have enough info or if they're no good. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.16.231.21 (talk • contribs).

The Dead
Alright, so the dead were revived because of the machine's breakdown. But what I don't understand is how ALL the revived dead ended up on Earth. The Ginyu Force died on Namek, but why were they resurrected on Earth, like all the others who died away from Earth? Jienum

There is nothing to say they could not have been brought to Earth. It was demonic forces at work, they were not resurrected with the dragon balls. So I don't think it's a goof. --GeneralDuke 21:13, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I accept what you say, but it just doesn't seem right. I mean, Hitler appears in Japan when everyone knows that he died in Germany. Not only do all the villains appear on Earth, but also where the Z Warriors are, even Dracula. Jienum

It was never stated (atleast to my knowledge)that Dragon Ball or Dragon Ball Z takes place in Japan. In every picture of a map of the world of Dragon Ball or Dragon Ball Z it never looks like the Earth that we live on. Also this is a Dragon Ball Z movie, meaning it is non cannon, and non cannon in the world of Dragon Ball Z is known to cause plotholes.

 * Just because it's a movie doesn't make it non-canon. I would consider DBZ movies more canon than the entire GT series, since it's more based off the actual story and is more familiar. metalhead 19:45, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Goofs Section
I began by removing the two 'goofs' that had been based on characters appearing in Japan specifically. The Dragon World is not directly analogous to our Earth, and hence the point is invalid. The Dragon World has no Japan. I then decided to remove the 'goof' based on revived characters appearing on Earth instead of Namek, etc. I find no evidence this is a mistake, GeneralDuke's explanation above seems sufficient cause to justify removal. Following that, I noted that the one remaining 'goof' said that the translation of Goku's name means cloud. I'm no expert, but I've never heard that claim before, so unless it can be confirmed I see no point in keeping it. Concluding that the 'goofs' section was, therefore, rendered completely pointless, I removed it. DigitalAvatar 14:25, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Well you do seem to have a point. First of all, I didn't put the Goku = Cloud thing. And now that you said that Dragon World is not our Earth, I have a new question: How come Romeo, Juliet, Dracula and Adolf Hitler appear in Dragon World if there's no Germany, Italy or Romania? I mean, according to what I've studied, Adolf Hitler never declared war on a place called Ginger Town or Papaya Island. That's a goof, and it should be added, but I'll wait for your answer first. Jienum

 * I'd say all of those characters are considered parodies, not intended to be taken seriously. I don't recall any of the characters being referenced by name, but merely being shown. As they're well-known famous/infamous figures to the viewers, we automatically make our own associations to them. I didn't note any swastikas on Adolf or his army (although since I only saw the dubbed version, I'm uncertain if that was cut or not). I do admit that I've only seen the dub version of this movie, and only once, so I'm by no means an expert on it. DigitalAvatar 07:10, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I've seen the original Japanese dub (You should too: It's more funny!), and they never actually say that the short man with the thin moustache who is doing the Nazi Gesture is Hitler. But Dracula is also there, and he was supposed to be killed in Romania. It's a goof, trust me. Jienum —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.16.231.21 (talk • contribs).

 * Sorry to butt in here, but remember, Jienum... Dracula does have a place on Dragon World.  He was in one of the Dragon Ball movies as a main villain, if I'm not mistaken.  As for the evil Nazi man and the people portraying Romeo and Juliet, who knows...  Bandai and Bird Studio have a history of adding Toriyama-esque goofiness into their Dragon Ball productions. ~ Joseph Collins (U)(T)(C) 22:41, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

 * It's not a goof or anything. it's not even a big deal. it's just a portrayal of the effect of the evil laundering machine's breakdown. and none of it really took place in any specific location to begin with. it's actually kind of simple. metalhead 19:48, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Poster
This is the only DBZ film that doesnt have a poster picture. Could someone find one?

It used to be on the offical Funimation Films website but was tooking off.Themasterofwiki 21:05, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Profanity
I have got the Japanese Version of the movie with English subtitles, and there seems to be a tiny little bit of profanity according to the subtitles. At one point, Vegeta and Trunks respectively refer to Hitler and Janemba as "the bastard". Also, Pikkon seems to scream the word "ASSHOLE" at the crystal jellies. Is that the real dialogue? Or have I got a fansub? Jienum 15:31, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

 * You've got yourself a crappy fansub. Paikuhan actually said "Aho" which means idiot in Japanese.

 * In response to both of you, Paikuhan actually said a lot of things. I prefer watching DBZ episodes and movies in the original japanese version. And profanity is common in DBZ, though it's not really a big deal. metalhead 19:52, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Movie 12 on Toonami.
Note: Fusion Reborn will be aired on Toonami on November 11, 2006. I have already added this to the article. Here is the link where I found the info: .--Wingedregent

Placement in the Dragon Ball Timeline
Since this is a movie event and cannot possibly happen within the canon storyline of Dragon Ball, I noted that the movie takes place in an alternate reality where Goku and Vegeta never came back to life after defeating Buu. When Goku goes Super Saiyan 3, he mentions showing it to Buu, and suspecting that all this would be going on without Buu having been defeated is absurd. --Detective X 09:53, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Already stated in List of Dragon Ball films-- bullet proof  3:16 03:24, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * No mention is made of any timeline changes that would have been made for this movie. As stated above, to claim that this movie could have ever taken place in the "middle" of the Buu saga is wrong on so many levels.  Claiming that it took place in such vein is implying that it could have happened within the actual storyline, and newcomers to the series will infer that.--Detective X 06:50, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't ever recall Goku even mentioning Buu in this movie. metalhead 19:54, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

I did a bit of math on this topic. The closest to real answer I could get is that it takes place within the space of perhaps 10-20 minutes in the Majin Buu Saga. These are my reasons: - Both Vegeta & Son Goku are both deceased, the only time I can recall that was when Son Goku was on the Planet of the Kai's and Vegeta was in Hell. - During this time period of Goku being dead, the only time he used Super Saiyan 3 against Majin Buu was the Fat Buu form. - Gotenks didn't go Super Saiyan 3. [Granted he may not have had to, but we have no way of telling if he could or couldn't. Let's presume he could] - Gohan did not go Super Saiyan, [Although it is unclear weather he had the Elder Kai's power, let's presume he did at this point]

This pretty much leads me to a point between Gotenks leaving the Hyperbolic Time Chamber/Room of Spirit and Time. Also up to the point where Son Gohan is infact his Mystic/Ultimate form, whatever you want to call it.

So. This leads really any time before Goku is revived by the Elder Kaió sacrificing his life, leading us to believe this was before Gohan or possibly even Gotenks were absorbed by Majin Buu. However, presuming of course that Gohan was in his [let's call it Mystic form] Mystic form. We can narrow it down to about, the point where he was either. A) Traveling to Majin Buu to kick seven kinds of heck out of him. B) Kicking seven kinds of heck out of him. C) After Majin Buu blows himself up.

Right. That's about a gap of maximum of maybe... half an hour. Maybe more, we're not sure, but if I go by a relative estimate of the Manga frames. I'd say probably 10 to 70 minutes.

Now of course let's presume Gotenks cannot infact go Super Saiyan 3, and Gohan is not in his Mystic form. That leaves us with only one real option. A) When Gotenks fought [Fat] Majin Buu in his base form, or challenged him in Super Saiyan and powered down due to diffusion. However! the obvious flaw then is that Gotenks cannot infact use Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack at that point, leaving it to my first two choices.

So the estimate is that Fusion Reborn happened in about an hour to an hour and a half at maximum, and as everyone may or may not know. They would not have just grabbed Videl from the Lookout, dashed back down, changed clothes to the Great Saiyaman outfits, had a quick cuppa' and started fighting in a city. Oh, and now that i've thought about it. That probably wouldn't have happened as Majin Buu's Genocide Blast technique killed just about everyone on Earth.

So, the only few choices I was left with was that. A) When Gohan was flying to fight Buu and made a detour for about an hour or so. B) When he was pummeling Buu and decided to go check out a city instead. C) During the space where Majin Buu was waiting for the hour gap for Goten and Trunks to fuse.

Actually, there is one possible time for Fusion Reborn to have happened. That was during Gotenks Vs Super Buu in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber/Room of Spirit & Time, they must have snuck out, had a quick cup of tea and told Majin Buu to wait for a hour or three. - Hycanithe

Wow, large post. It's a movie. It doesn't exist in the timeline. Most of the movies are a "what if" I believe. I think this one is a "what if Mystic Gohan defeated Super Buu" - at least that's what I've read somewhere.

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ok here my what i think....this happens if you've played ...omg i cant remember the certain GAMEBOY one but, this is supposed to happen after cell explodes and goku has lost "technically" the grand kai's martial arts tournament, the part where you run along snake way and jump to Yemma's office, you hear the explosion and you goto hell and you can either A) fight janemba first or B) make your way thru hell aviod portal fists (janemba's "portal Fists") and vampires and get to vageta...make your way bak to the begining and fight janemba with vegeta (makes it SERIUOSLY easier cuz u can fuse and make gogeta wich kicks janembas ASS ^_^)

Madness (talk) 22:25, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

The movies don't exist in the canon time line. They are just side stories that are based on whatever story arc the show is currently in. The show was in the middle of the Buu saga, so this movie has elements from the Buu saga up till the point the show was at (the fusion dance, Super Saiyan 3, Goku and Vegeta being dead). That's it. Figuring out how it could have happened within the actual time line is pointless, and as such I suggest removing the whole "inconsistencies" section as it just makes things needlessly confusing. Besides, was it even stated in the movie that Goku had become stronger than Super Saiyan 3?

Starone (talk) 17:18, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Somehow this has to fit. It explains how in Dragon Ball GT Vegita knew the Fusion Dance perfectly. Goku had not shown him that during the Buu series. It also explains how even tho Piccolo said Vegita wouldn't get his body back in other world he actually did. Goku didn't go back to other world until he showed Goten and Tanks the fusion technique, and Vegita was dead so this could have been there, but what doesnt make sence is what is happening on earth since Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Videl are in completely different places. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.9.168.8 (talk) 01:59, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Ok so im confused how did vegeta die?????

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Robert Barrat

Robert Harriot Barrat (July 10, 1891 – January 7, 1970) was an American stage, motion picture, and television character actor.

Early years
Barratt was born on July 10, 1891 in New York City, and educated in the public schools there. He left college and home during his sophomore year, traveling on a tramp steamer to Central America, England, France, and South America. After he returned to the United States, he worked for two years on his brother's farm near Springfield, Massachusetts, until he learned of an opening in the chorus for a musical comedy.

Career
Early in his career, Barrat traveled around the United States, sometimes acting with stock theater companies and sometimes performing in vaudeville on the Keith and Orpheum circuits. Returning to New York City, he had a role in The Weavers at the Garden Theatre.

Barrat acted on Broadway, where his credits include Lilly Turner (1932), Bulls, Bears and Asses (1931), This Is New York (1930), Judas (1928), The Lady Lies (1928), A Lady for a Night (1927), Marco Millions (1927), Chicago (1926), Kid Boots (1923), The Breaking Point (1923), The Unwritten Chapter (1920), The Crimson Alibi (1919), The Invisible Foe (1918), and Some One in the House (1918).

Barrat appeared in around 150 films, uncredited in some of them, in a Hollywood career that lasted four decades. He appeared in seven pictures with James Cagney during the 1930s. He played Nick, the sexually abusive father of Barbara Stanwyck's character, Lily, in the Pre-Code classic Baby Face.

Two of his most noted roles were as the murder victim Archer Coe in Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933) and as the treacherous Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy in the 1937 Academy Award-winning film The Life of Emile Zola. He played several other historical characters as well, among them Davy Crockett in Man of Conquest, Zachary Taylor in Distant Drums, Abraham Lincoln in Trailin' West, Cornelius Van Horne in Canadian Pacific and General Douglas MacArthur twice, in They Were Expendable and American Guerrilla in the Philippines. He also appeared with the Marx Brothers in Go West (1940).

In the mid-1950s, Barrat transitioned to television roles. His final acting appearance was in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in 1964.

Death
He died of a heart ailment in Hollywood in 1970, aged 78. He was survived by his wife, Mary Dean. He was buried at Green Hill Cemetery, Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Complete filmography

 * Her Own Way (1915) - Lt. Richard Coleman
 * The Wonder Man (1920) - Alan Gardner
 * Whispering Shadows (1921) - Hugh Brook
 * Honor Among Lovers (1931) - Detective (uncredited)
 * The Wiser Sex (1932) - Plainclothesman (uncredited)
 * Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) - Detective (uncredited)
 * King of the Jungle (1933) - Joe Nolan
 * The Mind Reader (1933) - Detective (uncredited)
 * Picture Snatcher (1933) - Grover
 * Lilly Turner (1933) - Fritz 'Heinie'
 * The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) - Sheriff (uncredited)
 * Ann Carver's Profession (1933) - Andrew Simmons - Attorney (uncredited)
 * The Silk Express (1933) - Mr. Calhoun, Attorney
 * Heroes for Sale (1933) - Max
 * The Mayor of Hell (1933) - Fred Smith
 * Baby Face (1933) - Nick Powers
 * Secret of the Blue Room (1933) - Paul, the Butler
 * The Devil's in Love (1933) - Maj. Bertram (uncredited)
 * Tugboat Annie (1933) - First Mate of 'Glacier Queen' (uncredited)
 * Captured! (1933) - The Commandant
 * My Lips Betray (1933) - Undetermined Role (uncredited)
 * Wild Boys of the Road (1933) - Judge R.H. White
 * I Loved a Woman (1933) - Charles Lane
 * The Kennel Murder Case (1933) - Archer Coe
 * From Headquarters (1933) - Anderzian
 * Massacre (1934) - Dawson
 * Hi, Nellie! (1934) - Beau Brownell
 * Not Tonight, Josephine (1934, Short)
 * Dark Hazard (1934) - Tex Willis
 * Wonder Bar (1934) - Captain Hugo Von Ferring
 * Gambling Lady (1934) - Mike Lee
 * A Very Honorable Guy (1934) - Dr. Snitzer
 * Upper World (1934) - Police Commissioner Clark
 * Fog Over Frisco (1934) - Thorne
 * Return of the Terror (1934) - Pudge Walker
 * Midnight Alibi (1934) - Angie Morley
 * Here Comes the Navy (1934) - Commander Denny
 * Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934) - Alex (Credits) / Alexis Romanoff
 * Housewife (1934) - Sam Blake
 * The Dragon Murder Case (1934) - Stamm
 * Big Hearted Herbert (1934) - Jim
 * I Sell Anything (1934) - McPherson
 * The St. Louis Kid (1934) - Farmer Benson
 * The Firebird (1934) - Halasz - the Apartment House Manager
 * I Am a Thief (1934) - Baron Von Kampf
 * Bordertown (1935) - Padre
 * Devil Dogs of the Air (1935) - Commandant
 * While the Patient Slept (1935) - Adolphe
 * The Florentine Dagger (1935) - The Captain
 * Village Tale (1935) - Drury Stevenson
 * Stranded  (1935) - Stanislaus Janauschek
 * The Murder Man (1935) - Hal Robins - Newspaper Editor
 * Special Agent (1935) - Chief of Internal Revenue Service
 * Dressed to Thrill (1935) - Gaston Dupont
 * Dr. Socrates (1935) - Dr. Ginder
 * Moonlight on the Prairie (1935) - Buck Cantrell
 * Captain Blood (1935) - Wolverstone
 * Exclusive Story (1936) - Werther
 * The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936) - Buck Falin
 * The Country Doctor (1936) - MacKenzie
 * I Married a Doctor (1936) - Nels Valborg
 * Sons o' Guns (1936) - Pierre
 * Mary of Scotland (1936) - Norton
 * The Last of the Mohicans (1936) - Chingachgook
 * Trailin' West (1936) - Abraham Lincoln
 * The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) - Count Igor Volonoff
 * God's Country and the Woman (1937) - Jefferson Russett
 * Black Legion (1937) - Brown (uncredited)
 * The Barrier (1937) - John Gale
 * Mountain Justice (1937) - Jeff Harkins
 * Draegerman Courage (1937) - Martin Crane
 * Souls at Sea (1937) - The Reverend (uncredited)
 * The Life of Emile Zola (1937) - Major Walsin-Esterhazy
 * Confession (1937) - Prosecuting Attorney
 * Love Is on the Air (1937) - J.D. Harrington
 * The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) - 'Hank' Summers
 * The Buccaneer (1938) - Captain Brown
 * Penitentiary (1938) - Prison Yard Capt. Grady
 * Forbidden Valley (1938) - Ramrod Locke
 * Marie Antoinette (1938) - Citizen-Officer (uncredited)
 * The Texans (1938) - Isaiah Middlebrack
 * Breaking the Ice (1938) - William Decker
 * Shadows Over Shanghai (1938) - Igor Sargoza
 * Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938) - Captain Johnson
 * Union Pacific (1939) - Duke Ring
 * The Return of the Cisco Kid (1939) - Sheriff McNally
 * Man of Conquest (1939) - David Crockett
 * Heritage of the Desert (1939) - Andrew Naab
 * Colorado Sunset (1939) - Dr. Rodney Blair
 * Conspiracy (1939) - Tio / Edwards
 * Bad Lands (1939) - Sheriff Bill Cummings
 * Allegheny Uprising (1939) - Duncan
 * The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939) - Jim Harbison
 * Laddie (1940) - Mr. John Stanton
 * The Man from Dakota (1940) - Parson Summers
 * Northwest Passage (1940) - Humphrey Towne
 * Captain Caution (1940) - Capt. Dorman
 * Fugitive from a Prison Camp (1940) - Chester Russell
 * Go West (1940) - 'Red' Baxter
 * They Met in Argentina (1941) - Don Enrique de los Santos O'Shea
 * Parachute Battalion (1941) - Col. Burke
 * Riders of the Purple Sage (1941) - Judge Frank Dyer
 * The Girl from Alaska (1942) - Frayne
 * Fall In (1942) - Col. Elliott
 * American Empire (1942) - Crowder
 * A Stranger in Town (1943) - Mayor Connison
 * They Came to Blow Up America (1943) - Capt. Kranz
 * Bomber's Moon (1943) - Ernst
 * Johnny Come Lately (1943) - Bill Swain
 * The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) - Horace E. Bixby - Riverboat Captain
 * Enemy of Women (1944) - Wallburg the Publisher
 * The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) - Willie's Father (scenes deleted)
 * Grissly's Millions (1945) - Grissly Morgan Palmor
 * The Great John L. (1945) - Billy Muldoon
 * Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945) - Uncle Jim Collinshaw
 * Dakota (1945) - Anson Stowe
 * Road to Utopia (1945) - Sperry
 * They Were Expendable (1945) - General MacArthur
 * San Antonio (1945) - Col. Johnson
 * Strangler of the Swamp (1946) - Christian Sanders
 * Just Before Dawn (1946) - Clyde Travers
 * Sunset Pass (1946) - Rand Curtis
 * The Time of Their Lives (1946) - Maj. Putnam
 * Dangerous Millions (1946) - Hendrick Van Boyden
 * Magnificent Doll (1946) - Mr. Payne
 * The Sea of Grass (1947) - Judge Seth White
 * The Fabulous Texan (1947) - Dr. Sharp
 * Road to Rio (1947) - Johnson
 * I Love Trouble (1948) - Lt. Quint
 * Relentless (1948) - Ed Simpson
 * Joan of Arc (1948) - Jacques d'Arc
 * Bad Men of Tombstone (1949) - Leadville Sheriff
 * Song of India (1949) - Maharajah of Ramjat
 * The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949) - Steve Taylor
 * Canadian Pacific (1949) - Cornelius Van Horne
 * The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949) - Marshal Heck Thomas
 * Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950) - James Lone Eagle
 * Riders of the Range (1950) - Sheriff Cole
 * The Baron of Arizona (1950) - Judge
 * The Kid from Texas (1950) - General Lew Wallace
 * American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) - Gen. Douglas MacArthur
 * The Pride of Maryland (1951) - Colonel Harding
 * Double Crossbones (1951) - Henry Morgan
 * Darling, How Could You! (1951) - Mr. Rossiter
 * Flight to Mars (1951) - Tillamar
 * Distant Drums (1951) - Gen. Zachary Taylor
 * Denver and Rio Grande (1952) - Charlie Haskins
 * Son of Ali Baba (1952) - Commandant
 * Cow Country (1953) - Walt Garnet
 * Tall Man Riding (1955) - Tucker Ordway

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Progressive student initiative

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete (8 delete, 2 keep). - Mgm|(talk) 23:08, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Progressive student initiative
Less than 100 Google hits and below the 100K radar for Alexa. Denni ☯ 02:52, 2005 July 15 (UTC)
 * Delete nothing suggests notability or verifiability.  I could read the website content and take their word for it, but why?  Friday 03:58, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, college clubs are not normally notable (especially ones just starting up), and advertising. Dcarrano 05:33, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, why delete it? Its obviously a rather new org, and thus would explain the low number of google hits (mainstream US press doesn't give much attention to organizing on the left). As per verifiability, there is a) a registered webdomain (do you seriously suspect that some other org or political tendency has launched a false website?) and a snail-mail address. If you want to check the verfiability, check whether the snail-mail address is faked or not. The article just needs a stub-tag and be rewritten. As per notability, its by no means true that student movement are generally non notable, and this organization clearly states its intention to become a nationwide movement. --212.60.73.2 11:27, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, but intention isn't the same as result, or else I would be getting straight A's. Once they're actually notable--and most small student movements aren't--come back. Best wishes, Meelar (talk) 14:06, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, as Meelar points out, the intention is to become notable, and thus they are not notable yet. -Splash 14:12, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and rename as Progressive Student Initiative. Revolución 01:54, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No claim to notability.  Only 14 unique Googles.  --A D Monroe III 03:34, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete notability not established. JamesBurns 04:13, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Probable vanity. Give them an article later if they do something important. -Aranel (" Sarah ") 23:17, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. -- BD2412 talk 17:15, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. Quale 18:00, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
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Vote for Deletion
This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 02:54, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Turnstiles
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 * In the late1970s and 1980s stations on the line were equipped with automatic ticket barriers, similar to those used on the London Underground. Single tickets, return tickets and season tickets could be purchased. The ticket barriers were turnstiles. Above the barriers were red and green illuminated entry/no entry signs, plus an additional sign which was illuminated when a child fare ticket had been used.

Having moved to Gourock in 1980 and used the line a fair bit, I've no recollection of such turnstiles: they'd be completely impractical at Gourock, Fort Matilda and Greenock Central for starters. Evidence is needed of where and when such turnstiles were added and removed. If you really want photo evidence that they're not here, that can be supplied. ..dave souza, talk 20:21, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

 * They were installed on the line, without question. That leaves two questions, when were they installed and when were they removed?

I moved to Paisley during Easter (April) 1979 and I don't think they were installed at that time, as the season ticket was green card about 1" x 2.5"; but they were installed soon after that. I commuted five days per week down the line from Gilmour Street until about 1987/1988 and they were installed and used in that period. I'm certain they were on all stations between Glasgow Central and Bishopton, and I suspect all stations Langbank to Greenock Central. I can't answer for Fort Matilda and beyond.

I moved to Bishopton in 1988, but left in 1991 so I'm happy to accept that they were not present after about 1988. Several bolt holes were visible in the floor at Gilmour Street until the station was refurbished, as the barriers were relocated several times. Glasgow Central and Bishoton were also refurbished, so there is no evidence at these stations. I'm not sure when they were removed, possibly about the time the trains were painted Strathclyde Orange/mat black. Someone else mentioned APTIS and the train ticket inspectors had PORTIS, so the barriers probably went about the time APTIS/PORTIS was installed - but I cannot put a date to it. Gimour Street booking office was refurbished at that time and has also been refurbished since.

Returning to your comment about photographic evidence for 1980 onwards, what stations are you offering to provide evidence for? I'm adament they were installed on all stations from Glasgow Central to Bishopton and possibly Langbank & Greenock Central. Pyrotec 21:31, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

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 * When I started at Paisley College in October 1980 they were not present at Gilmour Street or at Platforms 9 to 13 at Glasgow Central. I believe the system started to be taken out of use when the Transcard and Raillink family of tickets came into use around the time of the opening of the Argyle Line. In fact it was possibly the refurbishment of the Argyle Street entrance and installation of escalators that resulted in the removal of the automatic barriers to platforms 12 and 13.

 * Stewart 22:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I commuted from Easter 1979 to about 1988 so I know they were present sometime during that period. I've tracked down a definitive reference to APTIS/PORTIS: project authorised in 1983 and introduced in 1986. So they would have been removed, at the latest by 1986.

Incidently I walked passed Paisley College every morning to get to the train at Gilmour Street from about Oct 1979 to 1987/1988 when I moved to Bishopton. I assume you did a 4-year degree, so are you saying they were not present between Oct 1980 and when you graduated?

The old BR season ticket (1 month, 3 month, 12 months) did not suit me, as I only travelled 5 days per week and they were costed on a 7-day week. These machines did singles, returns, 5 or 10 journey tickets, but I used to buy somethink like 25 or 30 or 50 journey tickets as it saved money versus smaller demoninations. Perhaps these were Transcards - I can't remember. I never used the Argyle line until after 2000.

Incidently do you have a picture of the etched glass windows on the central island platforms at Gilmour Street? I half remember them as G&PJR, which if so would make them possibly original 1840's windows. Would go great in the wikipedia Glasgow & Paisley Joint Railway articlePyrotec 23:49, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

 * APTIS/PORTIS are described in Gourvish, Terry (2002). British Rail 1974-97: from Integration to Privatisation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-926909-2, on pages 225, 226, 311 and references on page 594. He states (p225) that the origins of the project lay in the search of Automatic Revenue Collection or ARC, which began in 1970 with an experiment in Scotland, proceeded in rather leisurely fashion, and embraced a pilot scheme in the London area by the end of the decade. Ref 237 (P225) states "The Scottish experiment involved 'stored ride' ticketing on the Glasgow-Gourock-Weymess Bay line. See documents in Chief Executive's files, AN156/449, PRO: RE Minutes, 12 February and 22 October 1979. Campbell was particularly sceptical about the ARC pilot scheme on Southern Region. He told Reid, 'this seems to be comming a dodgier project almost every time I look at it': Cambell-Reid, 4 July 1979, AN156/449, PRO."

Not there yet, but I will prove that they were there - even better if I can find a Gourock photograph in my collection.

I suggest you check Anthony cfc 's page, he states on his home page 4th Year at St.Aloysius College, Glasgow, i.e. he was not born during this period, so much for objective evidence!!!!! Pyrotec 08:22, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I think you've got that wrong by a fair few years :) anthony cfc  [ talk] 04:20, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Restart discussion here
I think we have agreement that the ticket barriers aren't here now, and the paragraph should make that clear. The photos I've got to hand are recent, will upload a couple of Greenock Central for that article. The search for evidence is welcome, ticket barriers are the sort of thing I'm quite capable of forgetting. However Gourock would have been problematic as the footpath from the town centre to the ferries runs alongside platform 1: for a lesser distance when the timber quayside was still here, but as I recall it still went along the platform for a distance. The railway timetable info is wrong as there are 4 trains an hour Glasgow to Port Glasgow up till 8pm, then 3 afterwards: will adjust that. Good luck with finding citations! ..dave souza, talk 09:07, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

 * A thought about the yellow tickets. Was there ever an overlap between the re-opening of the Glasgow Subway in 1979, that had ticket gates operated by narrow format yellow tickets (when you bought your Transcard or Rail-link card it had a tear-off portion to exchange for a gate ticket to use on the Underground), and the yellow ticket gates on the Inverclyde line?

 * It may also be useful to find the press releaase / or a magazine article (Modern Railways??) that introduced the ticket barriers.

 * There was a lot of experimental ticketing going on at the time (late 1970's/early 1980's) on the lines out of Glasgow Central. Langside has a prototype white card over printed system (different to that used by Inter-City); there was the predecessor to the APTIS was trialled (the return tickets were double the length of the current tickets and were perforated).

 * I need to investigate my library of old magazines, but that will take some time.

 * -- Stewart 09:13, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Gourvish (Page 594) has the references: PRO: BRB; Railnews: Railway Gazette International: Modern Railways. I can post them here or send them to you, but not today.Pyrotec 16:36, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I do agree there needs to be a Wikipedia article on BR tickets, going from Edmundson's; Ultimatics; Yellow Barrier Tickets; Inter City Card tickets; APTIS/PORTIS (and their prototypes); and the various PTE tickets and other experimental tickets. Oh how I wish I had kept all my ticket collection from the last 30 years.

 * So far all I have found is a summer 1983 reference that announces the introduction of APTIS in Summer 1984.

 * The references quoted would help in producing an excellent article.

 * -- Stewart 18:11, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Found a reference to the commencement..

 * Glagow Stations; Colin Johnstone & John R Hulme (ISBN 0 7153 7569 5); published 1979; pp47 & 48

 * ''...while since 1973 all stations on the Glasgow-Gourock-Wemyss Bay line have operated yellow tickets on the stored-journey system. Unlike traditional season tickets, these are transfereable and are checked and collected automatically. To quote a recent press release:

 * ''the ticket is inserted into a slot in the barrier equipment, the ticket is 'read' and if valid the turnstile for entry is released and the ticket released to the passenger. At the same time the number of journeys remaining are shown on an indiciator on top of the barrier so that every passenger knows exactly how many more times they may use that particular ticket

 * Must concede that I had to go through a barrier (showing my Rail-link ticket to a ticket inspector) when I started at Paisley College in 1980, however by the time I graduated in March 1986, Gilmour Street had become an open station and you could exit straight out into County Square by the doors at the bottom of the stairs (next to John Menzies).

 * -- Stewart 13:02, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Your Johnstone & Hulme reference agrees with my memory. I bought 1, 2, 10 or 25 journey “yellow” tickets; the turnstile read the number in code from the magnetic strip, displayed it on the turnstile, deducted one and rewrote the new number on the magnetic strip.  Sometimes this process did not work, but it was easy to climb over & BR knew that so they put a ticket collector there at peak travel times to discourage it!!

 * I had 25 journey Gilmour St - Bishopton tickets and I often bought Paisley - Glasgow returns. I also did central Glasgow to Hillhead return journeys on the Underground, but I'm not aware of through ticketing from Paisley - if there was I never used it. The yellow tickets and the turnstiles were the same. But possibly did not have the journey counter display. I think that one problem on through ticketing was BR ran the blue & later orange/black trains as agents for Strathclyde PTE and journeys were subject to BR Passenger Conditions of Carriage. The new Underground was either, at the time Glasgow District or Strathclyde PTE run. The old underground (before my time) was Glasgow Corporation Transport - hence I'm not sure who ran the new Underground by then - but Strathclyde PTE "owned it".

 * PORTIS/APTIS lead to open stations, both Gilmour St and Glasgow Central had new ticket offices build. Central changed a lot.

 * Just in case!!! APTIS was the fixed machines used by the ticket clerks in booking offices. Used playing card tickets with round corners.  Tickets were pre-printed with orange BR Conditions of Travel on white, with journey and date dot-matrix printed by APTIS. A “return” journey was two tickets: 1 out and 1 return. Credit card receipts came out on "tissue paper"; and seat reservations (Intercity) on green(?) playing cards. PORTIS was carried on trains, clippie-style, used pre-printed orange-yellow paper, with blue-back thermal print. Tickets were toilet paper sized but half width, strange perforations: toilet paper style in the middle long oblong holes at each end (for the drive motor?). Also two tickets for a return journey – 1 out & 1 return

 * I half remember APTIS did season tickets. Was there not some problem with wife's using husband's season ticket so they later introduced photo I.D? I had a photo ID season ticket for the Glasgow Garden Festival, and I think I had to add a Photo ID for the rail season ticket at the same time (both went in a BR plastic credit-card-folder). I may have it still, but it probably was thrown out during the millennium throw out.

 * For APTIS Gourvish gives – ‘’Railnews’’ January 1983, March 1985, April 1986. ‘’Railway Gazette International’’ February 1983 page 82. ‘’Modern Railways’’, May 1984 pp 256-7, June 1989, pp 294- 295; and I think a book – Simmons & Biddle, ‘’Companion’’.

 * I didn’t knowingly photograph ticket barriers, but I did photograph trains, stations and lines, so I may have some interior station photographs with ticket barriers.  I think I have APT and half-APTs at Shields Road Depot, so I need to find them as well.  Loft hunting, but not today.   Pyrotec 14:36, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Proposal
I've taken the liberty or clarifying the history a bit and making that a separate section. If all are content, the episode of the ticket barriers could be added to that section. The Current operation section could then include a brief explanation of the current system with its mix of manned and unmanned stations as well as ticket collectors who issue tickets on the train. Hope that suits, ...dave souza, talk 22:38, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I like your changes. Agreed. It might be possible for an APTIS/PORTIS article and a separate experimental ARC ticket system article - if the data for the later is recoverable - to be produced; and then to link them into this article.

 * Stations, or at least platforms, were closed before APTIS was introduced: under BR bylaws you needed a train ticket or platform tickets to be there, but I'm not sure that rural stations had platform tickets. APTIS/PORTIS was a Thatcher plan to get guards off trains (sack them) by having one-man EMU & DMU trains and to introduce Open stations. There was a Strathclyde Manning Agreement (I'm not sure I'm able to write about it) to retrain all the guards and give them PORTIS machines. They became on-board ticket sellers/inspectors and mobile flying ticket inspectors. London region went the other way: force people to buy tickets in advance, or if you catch them force them to buy a full price ticket, possibly for the whole lenght of the line, if they could not prove which station they got one; and hit them with a Bylaw fine for not having a ticket. One-man train disputes caused much strike action in the 1980s, SPTE, I think was only hit for one day.

The ticketting / open access system changed again under Railtrack / Network rail. The above is only intended to refer to BR days. Pyrotec 14:58, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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Utah Blaze

The Utah Blaze was a professional arena football team based in Salt Lake City, Utah and competed in the West Division of the Arena Football League. Home games were played at the EnergySolutions Arena. In 2013, the team did not submit proper documentation to remain in the AFL and the entire roster was reassigned to other teams in the league.

The original Utah Blaze (2006–08)
In September 2004, Commissioner C. David Baker announced that Salt Lake City, Utah was awarded an Arena Football League (AFL) franchise for the 2006 season. The Utah Blaze began play on January 28, 2006, on the road against the San Jose SaberCats. The team was coached by longtime Arizona Rattlers coach Danny White and played its home games at the EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, home of the National Basketball Association's Utah Jazz. The team was owned by automobile businessmen John Garff, Robert Garff, and Brett Hopkins.

In their first season, the Blaze had the highest average attendance in the Arena Football League, with 15,498 fans per game. They narrowly edged out Philadelphia's 15,463. Prior to the 2006 season, the Blaze had said EnergySolutions Arena held 13,000 fans due to poor sight lines in most of the building. After 16,705 people attended the home opener, that figure was changed to near 15,000. The Blaze topped that figure 5 of the 8 games their first season.

The offense was led by quarterback Joe Germaine and star wide receiver Siaha Burley. On Saturday, February 11, 2006, the Blaze lost to the New York Dragons 84–81 in the second highest scoring game in the history of the Arena Football League. The Blaze's performance was also the second highest score for a losing team in the AFL's 20-year history.

Despite a losing record of 7–9, the Blaze got into the playoffs as an AC Wildcard (the conference's No. 6 seed). Unfortunately, the newly formed Blaze were given the boot as they lost to the Arizona Rattlers with a final score of 57–34.

In 2007, Burley set league records for most receptions (166) and receiving yards (2,129) in a single season, and also finished with 49 touchdown receptions, second in the league that year. For his efforts, he was named the Arena League's Offensive Player of the Year. Germaine continued his strong play at QB, passing for 5,033 yards. The team finished with a record of 8-8, and lost to the Los Angeles Avengers 64-42 in the wildcard playoff game.

The team's mascot was a dalmatian named "Chief". The Blaze were winners of the league"Commissioners Award" in 2006 and won the "Support Staff of the Year Award" in back-to-back seasons (2006–2007), an award that goes to the league's best training and equipment staff, which was headed by Hagen Featherstone and Kevin Seamans in the inaugural season and Kevin Seamans and Darin Featherstone in 2007.

During the 2008 season the Blaze became the first, and only, professional football team to record three 1,500-yard receivers in the same season, with Huey Whittaker, J.J. McKelvey, and Aaron Boone. This also marks the first time three players each caught 120 or more passes in the same season.

Upon the AFL's suspension of operations, the Blaze did so for the same time period.

AFL folding and AIFA (2009)
The second Utah Blaze organization was originally the Utah Valley Thunder, a member of the American Indoor Football Association during the 2009 season. During their lone season in the AIFA, they were based in Orem, Utah, and played their home games at the McKay Events Center. They finished at a respectable 11–3, finishing second in the Western Division and qualifying for a playoff berth before losing to the Wyoming Cavalry in the Western Divisional playoff.

AFL revival and return of the Blaze (2010–2013)
On September 28, 2009, the Thunder announced their intention to join Arena Football 1 for the 2010 season and beyond, also announcing relocation to the E Center (now Maverik Center) in West Valley City. Over two months later, on December 8, AF1 was awarded the original AFL's assets after they submitted the highest bid in a bankruptcy court auction. Current AF1 teams were given the right to adopt the former AFL teams' identities, but initially, Utah chose to brand as the "Utah Thunder." The Blaze's previous owner attempted to claim the Blaze logo as his own, but was unsuccessful in doing so. Finally, on January 26, 2010, the team announced it would indeed be using the Blaze name and logo. Less than a month later, the AF1 announced it was going back to the former Arena Football League moniker.

On January 25, 2011, the team announced in a press release that they would be moving back to the EnergySolutions Arena.

Quarterback Tommy Grady set the single season touchdown record throwing his 118th against the Georgia Force, on June 23, 2012. The Blaze also clinched their first winning season in franchise history during the 2012 season.

For the 2012 season the Blaze's defensive line was coined "Sack Lake City" due to their tremendous amount of pressure and quarterback sacks. In a game against the Iowa Barnstormers the Blaze recorded a league record 11 sacks in one game. Led by the combination of Caesar Rayford and Mike Lewis with 3.5 sacks each. In 2 seasons with the Utah Blaze the pair have recorded 3 All Pro Honors, along with 40 sacks combined.

In March 2013, Co-Owner Kristin Murdock sold her majority ownership share of the team to Salt Lake City businesswoman, Kim Brown.

In September 2013, the Arena Football League announced that the Utah Blaze had not submitted paperwork to the league committing for both the 2014 and 2015 seasons. As a result, the Blaze (along with the Chicago Rush) were removed from the league, with Commissioner Jerry Kurz stating, "We fully expect both Chicago and Utah to return to become members of the AFL family again in the near future".

All-Arena players
The following Blaze players were named to All-Arena Teams:
 * QB Joe Germaine (1), Tommy Grady (1)
 * WR Siaha Burley (1), Huey Whittaker (1), Aaron Boone (1), Aaron Lesué (1)
 * DL Caesar Rayford (1), Mike Lewis (2)
 * OS Siaha Burley (1)

All-Ironman players
The following Blaze players were named to All-Ironman Teams:
 * OL/DL Hans Olsen (1)
 * WR/LB Ryan Dennard (1)

All-Rookie players
The following Blaze players were named to All-Rookie Teams:
 * DL Maurice Fountain

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Deep Roy

Gurdeep Roy (born Mohinder Purba; 1 December 1957), known professionally as Deep Roy, is a Kenyan and British actor, puppeteer, and stuntman. At 132 cm tall, he has often been cast as diminutive characters, such as Teeny Weeny in The NeverEnding Story, all the Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Keenser in Star Trek and its sequels, and in television series such as The X-Files, Doctor Who, and Eastbound & Down.

Life and career
Roy was born on 1 December 1957 in Nairobi to Indian parents in a Sikh family. He studied accounting in London before dropping out at 18. He later enrolled in The Slim Wood School of Comedy and got his start in the entertainment arena in England in 1970 as a stand-up comic in local cabaret clubs. In April 1970, Roy opened on the UK stage in Ray Cooney's Miracle Worker at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea. He made his professional screen acting debut in a 1976 episode of The New Avengers, titled "Target!" as a character named Klokoe. He made his film debut later that same year, in The Pink Panther Strikes Again, as the Italian Assassin. Another early role was as Mr. Sin, the "pig-brained Peking Homunculus", a villain with a distinct appetite for homicide, in the Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang. In 1979, Roy played a genetically engineered life form "Decima" in the first season of Blake's 7 episode "The Web", the diminutive chess genius, "The Klute", in the second season of Blake's 7 episode "Gambit" and he voiced the character "Moloch", in the third season of Blake's 7 episode "Moloch". He was a stand-in for the Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. He is uncredited on the film but can be seen in many behind-the-scenes photos dressed as Yoda for perspective shots filmed towards the end of production.

He has played apes in two movies: Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, and again in the Tim Burton remake of Planet of the Apes (2001) in two roles, one as a young gorilla boy and as Thade's niece. He has worked for Burton in three other films, Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), where he supplied General Bonesapart's voice, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (also 2005). He played all the Oompa-Loompas (165 of them) in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In referencing his workload during production, director Tim Burton called Roy the "hardest-working man in show biz". Roy had extensive training for the role in dance, yoga, and some minor instrument playing.

He has performed many other roles in films and on television, including The X-Files, Flash Gordon, Return to Oz (as the Tin Woodman), Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal as a puppeteer extra, The NeverEnding Story as Teeny Weeny, the rider of the "racing snail", Alien from L.A., Howling VI: The Freaks as Mr Toones and Return of the Jedi as Droopy McCool.

He appeared in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) as an Egyptian border guard and in the film Star Trek (also 2009) as Keenser, Scotty's assistant on the ice planet Delta Vega; he reprised the Keenser role in the sequels Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond. In one of his more prominent speaking roles, Roy played Aaron, a violent Mumbai-born Mexican criminal in the second season of the HBO comedy Eastbound & Down. Roy starred as Sandeep Majumdar in the 2012 short film The Ballad of Sandeep.

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Talk:Standing sex positions

I suggest coming up with a new stub marker. I couldn't think of one. (7/14/05)

Proposal to merge
I think that all standing sex positions can and should be discussed on one page. They really aren't very different. With all on one page, it will be easier to compare and contrast. --Strait 04:11, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

no! that's crap! comparing and contrasting is for chumps! i like to be confused and not get half the information! boo merging.

(see article: "sarcasm")

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Merton Hodge

Horace Emerton Hodge (28 March 1903 – 9 October 1958), known as Merton Hodge was a playwright, actor and medical practitioner.

Life
Hodge was born in Taruheru, Poverty Bay, New Zealand. His father was a farmer named Alfred Hodge. He studied at Kings College in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland and later attended The University of Otago to study medicine in 1925. During his time at university, Hodge developed an interest in performing arts and was a member of the University Dramatic Society. He wrote a play for the society that later became The Wind and the Rain.

Hodge graduated from the University of Otago in 1928 (M.B., Ch.B). He briefly worked at Wellington Public Hospital as a casualty officer and also as a doctor aboard the 'Port Pirie' ship. In 1931, Hodge arrived in the United Kingdom and underwent postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh.

After a stint in New York working in theatre, Hodge returned to London in 1939 and worked for Camberwell Hospital for Nervous Diseases. He later toured with ENSA before resuming medicine in 1948. Hodge relocated from London to Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand in 1952.

Hodge is believed to have married Kathleen Rutherford. However, some sources dispute this.

Hodge ended his life by drowning on 9 October 1958, aged 54.

Plays
Hodge is best known for his comedy The Wind and the Rain, which was performed 1,001 times, from 1933, at St. Martin's Theatre in London's West End, and six months in 1934 at the Ritz Theatre on New York's Broadway, toured the world and was translated into nine languages.

Plays produced in London:
 * The Wind and the Rain, St Martin's Theatre, 1933–1935;
 * Grief Goes Over which starred Sybil Thorndike, Globe Theatre, 1935;
 * Men in White (anglicised version of the play by Sidney Kingsley), Lyric Theatre, 1935;
 * The Orchard Walls, St James Theatre, 1937;
 * The Island, writtem with actor Godfrey Tearle, Comedy Theatre, 1938;
 * The Story of An African Farm, New Theatre (from Olive Schreiner's novel), 1938;
 * To Whom We Belong, Q Theatre, 1939;
 * Once There Was Music, Q Theatre, 1942;

Recordings

 * My Life in the Theatre, series for overseas broadcast for British Broadcasting Service.

Publications
The plays The Wind and the Rain, Grief Goes Over, Men in White, The Island, The Story of An African Farm and a novelised version of The Wind and the Rain'', 1936.

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Kill Switch (video game)

Kill Switch (stylized as  kill.switch) is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Namco Hometek in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. A Game Boy Advance port was released in 2004. The GBA port was created independently of Namco, due to a licensing deal with Destination Software. The PAL release of the PS2 port came with a demo of SOCOM II U.S. Navy SEALs on a separate disc.

The most distinguishing characteristic of Kill Switch is its cover system, a mechanic that has the player character taking cover behind objects and around corners in a manner similar to Namco's own Time Crisis series of light gun shooters as well as Koei's third-person shooter WinBack and Hideo Kojima's stealth game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

Story
Protagonist Nick Bishop (voiced by Marcus McCollum) is a super-soldier remotely controlled via direct neural connection by a man known only as "Controller" (voiced by Chuck McQuary) in a series of combat missions designed to bring "the North" and "the West" to war. Profiteer Archer (voiced by Adam Baldwin) plans to benefit by selling the technology used to control Bishop, who gives Controller headaches on recollection of suppressed memories featuring a woman and the phrase "Say my name". Moments before launching a biological warhead, Controller is killed by a surge triggered when a woman known as "Duchess" (voiced by Adrienne Wilkinson) seizes control of Bishop. Sent to attack Controller's base, Bishop's memories are eventually restored: the woman from his memories was his new wife, who Archer killed when he captured Bishop to sell the technology inside him. Freed, Bishop kills Archer in a final assault and walks away.

Reception
Kill Switch received a wide range of reviews across all platforms, with the Xbox version receiving a score of 75 out of 100 on Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews", while the PC and PS2 versions received scores of 66 and 73 out of 100 respectively, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Criticism was directed towards its thin plot and simplistic level design, while the gameplay mechanics, especially the cover system, were lauded and considered engaging. It was compared to the Time Crisis series. The Xbox version of the game was said to possess enhanced graphics over the PS2 version. GameSpot awarded the Xbox version a 6.9 out of 10.

The GBA version of the game was similarly received, with IGN calling it a "solid portable action title" and awarding it a 7.5 out of 10.

Legacy
Kill Switch is best remembered for its cover system as a core game mechanic, and for introducing the blind fire mechanic to the cover system. Several shooters took inspiration from Kill Switch and implemented similar cover systems. In the design of Gears of War, lead developer Cliff Bleszinski of Epic Games credits Kill Switch's cover system as one of the influences they put into the game's design, as Kill Switch's lead designer Chris Esaki was employed by Epic Games and was involved in the development of Gears of War.

Naughty Dog's Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, which began development in 2005 and was released in 2007, also took inspiration from Kill Switch, which Uncharted's lead designers Evan Wells and Amy Hennig credited as inspiration for the game's cover system. Other examples of shooters that featured Kill Switch-inspired cover systems include the 2005 third-person shooter CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect, and the 2006 games Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas, a first-person shooter released in the same month as Gears of War, and Killzone: Liberation, an isometric shoot 'em up released a month before Gears of War.

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Talk:Jimmy Winston

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Good God, someone needs to fix this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.38.137 (talk) 02:57, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with the comment. Even for Stones/Faces fans, this is vanity.--Crid 06:26, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

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born in chelsea hospital, chelsea, not in stratford. the family lived in stratford at the time over a pub owned by his father. the pub was called the pidgeon's hotel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leahtwosaints (talk • contribs) 09:47, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

I removed this sentence
because it is not clear, sounds like an unreferenced opinion and might or might not be accurate,
 * "Jimmy was the tallest good looking band member of The Small Faces and he and Steve Marriott had a clash of egos."

I mean, what does "the tallest good looking band member" even mean? Was Marriott the shortest good looking band member and the other were. . . . the best looking middle sized band member? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 19:31, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

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User:Mike H.

Mike H.

Mike Harrison is s 56-year-old resident of Toronto, Canada. His academic/professional background is in Social Work. Semi-retired, he is currently a youth worker at a shelter for homeless young people.

Mike is also trained and experienced in pastoral ministry and is a former teacher in Catholic adult education for prospective converts.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beautiful land

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete.. - Mgm|(talk) 23:11, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Beautiful land
Created by User:Kojangee to illustrate a point. Foreign language dicdef at best; I do not see any potential for this to become encyclopedic. Therefore, delete. Visviva 02:58, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Would it be too POV to merely redirect this to the United States? Hehe. —Cleared as filed. 04:19, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as currently unverifiable, although I would probably change my vote if given cites, it would be an interesting thing to note if true. Dcarrano 05:39, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete self-referential dic def. Also, hopes to be policy about use of the word which goes against current naming conventions. - Mgm|(talk) 08:19, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete To explain, Beautiful Land is a transliteration of miguk(미국;美國) which is in turn taken from mirigyeon(미리견;美利堅), old Chinese transliteration of America. The character mi(미) means beautiful, but the meaning was not a factor in constructing the name of the country. Btw, Japanese use "米国" which also reads miguk in Korean, but means "Rice Land." noirum 09:03, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi, just a note on linguistic jargon: Beautiful Land is the literal translation of the abbreviated Chinese/Korean transliteration (in the broadest sense of the term) of America.--Defrosted 00:50, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per MoS (use English). Kokiri 11:30, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as I was fishing and indeed caught my fish as Kokiri has given me enough evidence to demonstrate my point on another issue. For those interested, Beautiful Land is indeed a translation of what Koreans and Chinese use for America. However, most modern Japanese use "Ah-Meh-Lee-Kah" and not Rice Land, an antiquidated term in Japanese. The point I was trying to make was that Koreans use the term "East Sea" (Donghae) for the "Sea of Japan" in Korean, yet some people are too stubborn and want to use the Korean word but put into English. My point is that if they want to use the Korean name and put it into English, why would the reverse not be called for? Anyway, my point has been made. Kojangee July 15th, 2005 19:33 Beijing Time
 * Because the English name of the United States is not a matter of international dispute, perhaps...? Oh, wait, it must be because we're idiotic dupes of the great international Korean conspiracy to denature the English language.  -- Visviva 14:28, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * delete the Korean name for the United States translates as "United States" and not "beautiful land". Revolución 02:04, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete POV, not encyclopedic. JamesBurns 04:14, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per JamesBurns' comment. Also, wrt the Japanese name for the US (アメリカ), it's Amerika in the official romanisation and not Ah-Meh-Lee-Kah. --Denihilonihil 16:47, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Preaky 04:04, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
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James Griffith

James Jeffrey Griffith (February 13, 1916 – September 17, 1993) was an American character actor, musician and screenwriter.

Education
Griffith attended Santa Monica High School, where he was a classmate with Glenn Ford. Both were active in school drama productions. He later graduated from UCLA with a degree in music.

Career
Born in Los Angeles, Griffith aspired to be a musician rather than an actor. Instead after graduating from University of California, Los Angeles, he managed to find work in little theatres around Los Angeles, where the budding musician eased into a dual career of acting. He found success in the production They Can't Get You Down in 1939, but put his career on hold during World War II to serve with the United States Marine Corps. Following the war, Griffith switched from the stage to films when he appeared in the 1948 film noir picture Blonde Ice. From then on, he enjoyed a lengthy career of supporting and bit roles (sometimes uncredited) in westerns and detective films.

Though Griffith was generally cast as the outlaw in Western pictures, he managed to garner a few memorable "good guy" roles over his many years in Hollywood – Abraham Lincoln in both 1950's Stage to Tucson and 1955's Apache Ambush, sheriff Pat Garrett in 1954's The Law vs. Billy the Kid, and Davy Crockett in 1956's The First Texan. In 1957, he co-starred on Gunsmoke, playing a simple farmer involved in a feud in S3E16's "Twelfth Night", as well as in other episodes.

In 1959, Griffith appeared as John Wesley Hardin on the TV western Maverick in the episode titled "Duel at Sundown" featuring James Garner and Clint Eastwood.

In the role of Aaron Adams, the town barber, Griffith appeared in 1958 in twelve episodes of the CBS western series, Trackdown.

Griffith also portrayed deputy Tom Ferguson in the syndicated series, Sheriff of Cochise, starring John Bromfield, and U.S. Marshal.

Griffith made more than seventy guest appearances on television shows, including eight episodes of Wagon Train, seven episodes of The Range Rider, seven episodes of The Lone Ranger, two episodes of Annie Oakley, four episodes of Cheyenne, three episodes of Buffalo Bill, Jr., six episodes of Gunsmoke, four episodes of Perry Mason, four episodes of Dragnet, three episodes (42, 43 and 108) of Batman, and two segments of Little House on the Prairie.

Throughout his acting career, Griffith continued to practice his original love of music, having performed in the Spike Jones band. He composed music for the 1958 film Bullwhip and the 1964 picture, Lorna, in which he also had a role and served as screenwriter. Griffith played the Reverend in Black in the opening, closing, and a few in the middle scenes of Lorna, starring Lorna Maitland in one of director Russ Meyer's black-and-white 'skin' movies before the height of Meyer's career in 1968 with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

Griffith made his last onscreen appearance in a 1984 episode of CBS's Trapper John MD.

Death
Griffith died of cancer in Avila Beach, California, on September 17, 1993.

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Limacella

Limacella is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi in the family Amanitaceae in order Agaricales. Some of the species have been classified as members of genus Lepiota. Limacella was described by mycologist Franklin Sumner Earle in 1909.

In some older classification schemes, Limacella has alternatively been placed in family Pluteaceae. The species formerly classified in the genus Limacella are now placed in 4 genera; Catatrama, Limacellopsis, Limacella, and Zhuliangomyces.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fairlawn Library

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was listed as copyvio. - Mgm|(talk) 23:15, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Fairlawn Library
Libraries are great, but this one seems unremarkable (and is not listed in the List of libraries). Delete. Nukeqler 03:04, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article asserts no special claim to library fame. Dcarrano 05:41, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Not notable by itself, but merge with South Dade Regional Library, Concord Library, West Flagler Library + general info and other branches - some extraneous detail into Miami-Dade Public Library System. --Pharos 05:45, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, Fairlawn Library, South Dade Regional Library and Concord Library are all copyvios.--Pharos 06:21, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
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1988–89 NHL season

The 1988–89 NHL season was the 72nd season of the National Hockey League. The Calgary Flames won an all-Canadian Stanley Cup Finals against the Montreal Canadiens four games to two. This remains the last time two Canadian teams faced each other for the Stanley Cup.

Regular season
This year saw the start of Wayne Gretzky's tenure with the Los Angeles Kings, having been traded in the off-season after leading the Edmonton Oilers to the 1988 Stanley Cup. Coinciding with Gretzky's acquisition, the team also changed its uniforms and colours for 1988–89, scrapping the purple and gold associated with its co-tenant at the Great Western Forum, the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, in favour of black and silver. Gretzky's presence signaled a dramatic on-ice turnaround for the Kings. Prior to his arrival via trade with the Edmonton Oilers on August 9, 1988, Los Angeles had the fourth-worst record in the NHL at 30 wins, 42 losses, and 8 ties. After Gretzky's first season with the Kings, however, they moved all the way up to fourth-best in the NHL, with a record of 42 wins, 31 losses, and 7 ties for 91 points. They also managed to defeat Gretzky's former team, the Oilers, in seven games in the Smythe Division semifinals before falling victim to a four-game sweep at the hands of the eventual Cup champion Flames in the division finals.

Four years after Andy Van Hellemond became the first on-ice official to wear a helmet, the NHL also made helmets mandatory for its officials like it did with its players in 1979; like the ruling for players, any official that was not wearing a helmet before the ruling could also go helmetless if they so desired.

Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Art Ross Trophy for the second consecutive season, leading the league with 199 points and recording all three of his eight point games in his career, with one of them happening during the playoffs. Lemieux remains the only player other than Gretzky to approach the 200 point plateau (Gretzky surpassed the 200 point mark four times in five years during the 1980s). This was the only season that there were four players that scored 150 or more points; Gretzky tallied 168, while Steve Yzerman and Bernie Nicholls totalled 155 and 150 points, respectively. This was also the only time that two teammates, Gretzky and Nicholls of the Los Angeles Kings, had hit the 150 point mark. Narrowly edging out Lemieux, Gretzky won his ninth Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's MVP, while Yzerman finished third in the balloting. Yzerman was voted by his fellow players as the NHLPA MVP, taking the Lester B. Pearson Award.

New York Rangers rookie Brian Leetch broke the record for goals by a rookie defenceman with 23. He finished that season with 71 points and easily captured the Calder Memorial Trophy.

On March 22, an incident took place in Buffalo during a game between the Buffalo Sabres and the St. Louis Blues. During a goalmouth collision between the Blues' Steve Tuttle and the Sabres' Uwe Krupp, Tuttle's skate blade slashed the throat of Buffalo goaltender Clint Malarchuk, severing the latter's jugular vein. Thanks to some timely action by Sabres trainer and former US Army Vietnam War veteran Jim Pizzutelli, Malarchuk quickly received treatment and was released from the hospital the next day. He returned to action 10 days later.

This was the first season that every NHL arena had full rink board advertisements.

Final standings
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points

Playoffs
The 1989 Stanley Cup Finals featured two Canadian hockey teams, the Montreal Canadiens and the Calgary Flames. Montreal finished the regular season with 115 points, only two behind the league leader Calgary. They had last faced each other only three years earlier, with Montreal winning a five-game series in 1986. Calgary was only the second opposing team in NHL history to win a Stanley Cup at the Montreal Forum (the New York Rangers defeated the Montreal Maroons in 1928) and the first to do so against the Canadiens, marking the first time since that the Stanley Cup wasn't awarded in the province of Alberta.

Stanley Cup Finals
The Stanley Cup Finals was decided between the top two teams during the 1988–89 NHL regular season. Co-captain Lanny McDonald scored the second Flames goal in Game 6. This turned out to be the last goal in his Hockey Hall of Fame career as he retired during the following off-season. Doug Gilmour scored two goals in the third period, including the eventual game and Cup winner to cement the victory for the Flames.

Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes, PPG = Powerplay Goals, SHG = Shorthanded Goals, GWG = Game Winning Goals Source: NHL.

Leading goaltenders
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage Source: Quanthockey.com.

Patrick Division

 * New Jersey Devils: Jim Schoenfeld
 * New York Islanders: Al Arbour
 * New York Rangers: Michel Bergeron and Phil Esposito
 * Philadelphia Flyers: Paul Holmgren
 * Pittsburgh Penguins: Gene Ubriaco
 * Washington Capitals: Bryan Murray

Adams Division

 * Boston Bruins: Terry O'Reilly
 * Buffalo Sabres: Ted Sator
 * Hartford Whalers: Larry Pleau
 * Montreal Canadiens: Pat Burns
 * Quebec Nordiques: Ron Lapointe and Jean Perron

Norris Division

 * Chicago Blackhawks: Mike Keenan
 * Detroit Red Wings: Jacques Demers
 * Minnesota North Stars: Pierre Page
 * St. Louis Blues: Brian Sutter
 * Toronto Maple Leafs: John Brophy and George Armstrong

Smythe Division

 * Calgary Flames: Terry Crisp
 * Edmonton Oilers: Glen Sather
 * Los Angeles Kings: Robbie Ftorek
 * Vancouver Canucks: Bob McCammon
 * Winnipeg Jets: Dan Maloney

Debuts
The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1988–89 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):
 * Don Sweeney, Boston Bruins
 * Stephane Quintal, Boston Bruins
 * Sergei Pryakhin, Calgary Flames
 * Paul Ranheim, Calgary Flames
 * Theoren Fleury, Calgary Flames
 * Ed Belfour, Chicago Blackhawks
 * Jeremy Roenick, Chicago Blackhawks
 * Randy McKay, Detroit Red Wings
 * Tim Cheveldae, Detroit Red Wings
 * Martin Gelinas, Edmonton Oilers
 * Mike Modano*, Minnesota North Stars
 * Eric Desjardins, Montreal Canadiens
 * Jyrki Lumme, Montreal Canadiens
 * Mike Keane, Montreal Canadiens
 * Eric Weinrich, New Jersey Devils
 * Paul Ysebaert, New Jersey Devils
 * Tom Fitzgerald, New York Islanders
 * Tony Granato, New York Rangers
 * Mike Richter*, New York Rangers
 * John Cullen, Pittsburgh Penguins
 * Mark Recchi, Pittsburgh Penguins
 * Curtis Leschyshyn, Quebec Nordiques
 * Joe Sakic, Quebec Nordiques
 * Rod Brind'Amour*, St. Louis Blues
 * Trevor Linden, Vancouver Canucks
 * Bob Essensa, Winnipeg Jets

Last games
The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1988–89 (listed with their last team):
 * Mark Napier, Buffalo Sabres
 * Hakan Loob, Calgary Flames
 * Lanny McDonald, Calgary Flames
 * Doug Halward, Edmonton Oilers
 * Tomas Jonsson, Edmonton Oilers
 * John Anderson, Hartford Whalers
 * Ron Duguay, Los Angeles Kings
 * Craig Hartsburg, Minnesota North Stars
 * Dennis Maruk, Minnesota North Stars (The last active player to have been a member of the California Golden Seals/Cleveland Barons franchise.)
 * Bob Gainey, Montreal Canadiens
 * Billy Smith, New York Islanders
 * Marcel Dionne, New York Rangers
 * Anton Stastny, Quebec Nordiques
 * Mel Bridgman, Vancouver Canucks
 * Bengt Gustafsson, Washington Capitals

Firsts
Ron Hextall, Philadelphia Flyers, First goaltender to score a goal in post-season.

Broadcasting
This was the first season of the league's new Canadian national broadcast rights deals with TSN and Hockey Night in Canada on CBC. Saturday night regular season games continued to air on CBC, while TSN televised selected weeknight games. Coverage of the Stanley Cup playoffs was primarily on CBC, with TSN airing first round all-U.S. series.

This was also the first season of the league's new U.S. national broadcast rights deal SportsChannel America. While SportsChannel America agreed to pay more than double what previous rightsholder ESPN paid for the previous three years, SportsChannel America was only available in a few major markets. Notably absent though were the Detroit, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis markets. In this first year of the deal alone, SportsChannel America was available in only 7 million homes when compared to ESPN's reach of 50 million. Whereas the previous deal with ESPN called for up to 33 games per regular season and only one nationally televised game a week, SportsChannel America televised 80–100 games and up to three nights a week.

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Pyrrichos

Pyrrichos (Πύρριχος; called "Πούρρχο", Pourcho by local Maniots) is one of the oldest towns in Mani peninsula, Laconia, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit East Mani. It was promised to Achilles by the Achaeans if he took part in the Trojan War.

Name
According to one tradition Pyrrichos was named after Pyrrhichos, the legendary Laconian founder of Pyrrhichus.

According to another tradition Pyrrhichios was named after the son of Achilles, Pyrrhus (Πύρρος) (alternative name of Neoptolemus), who was the first who danced Pyrrhichus, after defeating in battle Eurypylus, son of Telephus, who fought on the side of the Trojans during the end of the Trojan War.

Another legend say that the name is after the Pyrrhichus who was one of the gods called Curetes.

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MilkDrop

MilkDrop is a hardware-accelerated music visualization plugin for Winamp and Kodi, which was originally developed by Ryan Geiss in 2001. It uses DirectX and beat detection to render iterated images which blend seamlessly. MilkDrop uses a complex system of interpolation to transition between presets gradually through time, creating a constantly changing visual experience.

Presets
MilkDrop is an environment for running presets, software which controls MilkDrop, and does not produce visualizations by itself.

Presets are saved in .milk file format, typically in a subfolder of the MilkDrop plugin directory. Creating new presets is generally referred to as authoring, or writing, making the person that wrote a preset its author. Presets are distributed on the Internet through Winamp, the Winamp forums, and through the personal webpages of MilkDrop preset authors. A preset's title also doubles as its .milk save name, and usually includes the preset author or authors' pseudonym. MilkDrop presets often have more than one author, which is generally referred to as remixing or editing. A remix or an edit will often include these terms in the preset's title.

Double-Presets
MilkDrop 3.0 introduced a new type of .milk2 file format combining two presets and displaying them simultaneously. The first lines contains the blending information (blending_pattern, blending_progress, blending_direction and the fives random values used for blending pattern like plasma. The first preset is saved between [PRESET1_BEGIN] and [PRESET1_END], the second one between [PRESET2_BEGIN] and [PRESET2_END], and since MilkDrop version 3.2, an extra line containing the original preset name after 'NAME='.

Creating presets
A current .milk file is composed of four major different kinds of scriptable equations. These include per_frame and per_pixel equations, as well as custom shapes and custom waves.

Code in the per_frame section is executed once for each frame, modifying variables which affect different parameters that can be passed to other areas of code. Trigonometric functions which modify MilkDrop's internal looping time variable, systems of logic, and interaction with the audio information received from Winamp or other applicable media player's Fast Fourier transform (FFT) can be used to govern how these parameters evolve through time.

Code in the per_pixel section of MilkDrop is not actually re-evaluated at every pixel as the name would suggest, rather the screen is divided into a grid and the code is evaluated at each grid point. The pixels in-between these points interpolate their values from the surrounding four points on the grid. The size of the grid is 32×24 by default, but can be set higher or lower by the user. Per_Pixel equations allow the preset author to alter some of MilkDrop's parameters differently in certain areas of the screen based upon x and y values, distance from the center of the screen, and the angle.

Custom shapes and custom waves each have variables which allow the author to change the shape, size, color, and location on screen, among other things. Shapes and custom waves each have internal per_frame code that affects these variables similarly to how per_frame equations affect the entire preset. Custom shapes and waves equations are included in MilkDrop version 1.04 and later. While initially MilkDrop allowed four custom shapes and waves, the latest version of the MilkDrop beta allows up to five custom shapes and five custom waves to be utilized per preset, and up to 16 in the version of MilkDrop 3.0.

History
Milkdrop is the successor of an earlier music visualization software by Ryan Geiss, the geiss plugin for Winamp, released around 1998. The geiss plugin did the real-time music visualization purely software rendered by utilizing the CPU effectively by highly optimized, hand-tuned assembly code.

In 2001 the first version of milkdrop was written, built around the now widely available GPU hardware. Ryan Geiss released 12 versions of MilkDrop between 5 November 2001 and 31 July 2003.

Originally closed source, version 1.04 Milkdrop's source code was released under the BSD license in May 2005. Geoff "Redi Jedi" Potter has taken up developing the program since 2005 and has released six beta versions.

With the availability of the source code, MilkDrop has been ported to many platforms: for instance to XBMC (now Kodi), a homebrew developed media player that can be downloaded for Xbox, PC, or as a LiveCD.

projectM is an implementation of MilkDrop using OpenGL in C++, and is released under the GNU LGPL. It is available as a plugin for Audacious, XMMS, Winamp, iTunes, Jack, PulseAudio, foobar2000, Windows Media Player, VLC media player and XBMC, and also as a standalone desktop application. The VLC versions 2.2.x does not support the projectM plugin. however it returned to VLC 3.0.0. It comes natively with Clementine, Poweramp, and Qmmp that are also available in the Play Store on Android.

MilkDrop 2.0 was released in 2007, introducing Per Pixel Shader support. It is available with Winamp 5.5 or from projectM in their 2.0.1 version for use with other players like VLC media player. MilkDrop 2 added DirectX 9.0 support and added the ability to use pixel shaders in its presets.

The source code for MilkDrop 2.25c has been released on 15 May 2013.

Milkdrop is implemented in Winamp (actual 5.66).

MilkDrop 2.25d was released in December 2022.

MilkDrop 3.0 has been released on the 3rd March 2023.

Reception
In 2011, Milkdrop was retrospectively described as "the greatest single work of art produced during the naughties".

According to the Winamp main download page, the milkdrop plugin and its predecessor Geiss were the most downloaded plugins overall, with 2,737,890 and 4,686,010 downloads (on 10 August 2014), respectively.

The Flickernoise software for the Milkymist One video synthesizer is largely inspired by MilkDrop, and is compatible with MilkDrop presets to some extent.

Butterchurn
Butterchurn (2018) is a web implementation of the original source code of Milkdrop released on the WinAmp forum in 2007.

2020
Butterchurn v2.6.7.1e-complete (2020-08-20) is easy to implement with example webpage and extended functions and implementation manual.

MilkDrop 3.0
MilkDrop 3.0 (2023) is an updated fan version of MilkDrop released on the WinAmp forum in 2023 by MilkDrop2077. MilkDrop3 supports any audio sources (like Spotify or YouTube), double-presets, loading presets based on beat detection, new waveforms, new transition effects, injecting effects in the shaders, saving any image directly in the preset and is actively developed.
 * MilkDrop3 website.''

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Charles Camarda

Charles Joseph "Charlie" Camarda (born May 8, 1952, in Queens, New York) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who flew his first mission into space on board the Space Shuttle mission STS-114. He served as Senior Advisor for Engineering Development at NASA Langley Research Center. and was a senior advisor for innovation at the office of Chief Engineer in the Johnson Space Center.

Personal life
Camarda is a native of Ozone Park, Queens, New York and graduated from academic and athletic powerhouse Archbishop Molloy High School in 1970. Speaking of his early interest in space flight, Camarda said, "It was a time when spaceflight was so intriguing. It was natural for me to want to be an astronaut, to dream of being an astronaut." He is married to Katherine Camarda.

He has one daughter, one grandson and one granddaughter.

Education
Camarda graduated from Nativity B.V.M.(Now known as Divine Mercy Catholic Academy)and went to Archbishop Molloy High School. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1974, a master's degree in engineering science from George Washington University in 1980, and a doctorate in aerospace engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1990.

Career
After receiving his bachelor's degree, Camarda began work as a research scientist at the NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In the Thermal Structures Branch, he was responsible for demonstrating the viability of a heat-pipe cooled leading edge for the Space Shuttle. Camarda then headed up the High-Speed Research and Reusable Launch Vehicle programs and oversaw several test facilities such as the Thermal Structure Laboratory, where he worked on numerous Shuttle component developments.

Camarda holds seven patents on various innovations, including NASA's Heat-Pipe-Cooled Sandwich Panel, named one of the top 100 technical innovations of 1983 by Industrial Research Magazine. After more than 20 years of experience in diverse Shuttle technology applications, he made a career change that put him closer to his work while achieving his dream. Camarda was named a mission specialist in 1996. He also served as a faculty at NYU Poly.

NASA career
Camarda served as a back-up crew member for Expedition 8 of the International Space Station. His first space flight was STS-114, NASA's "return to flight" mission following the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia.

Camarda continues to work for NASA and has pioneered an engineering pedagogical approach called EPIC - that explores how to develop a mission as a collaborative training project. He has toured with this including in Finland in 2018.

Following his flight, he was the Director of Engineering at NASA's Johnson Space Center and served as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Office of Chief Engineer, NASA Headquarters. Camarda retired from NASA in 2019.

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