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Falling Up (poetry collection)

Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein and published by HarperCollins. It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after its release. Falling Up was the recipient of the Booklist Editors' Award in 1996.. In 2015, a special edition of the book was published, with 12 new poems.

Poems

 * Advice - William Tell tries to shoot an apple off his son's head, but misses and hits the boy's forehead by mistake.
 * Allison Beals and Her 25 Eels - A girl has twenty-five pet eels which can do all sorts of things. (The last line of this poem states that one of the eels got a new job on page 59; the eel can be seen on said page in the illustration that accompanies the poem "Writer Waiting.")
 * Alphabalance - A boy tries to carry the entire alphabet in his arms.
 * Bad Cold - A man has a serious cold and demands the reader to bring him things he can sneeze into. The cold only goes away when he's able to sneeze into a circus tent.
 * A Battle in the Sky - The sun and moon battle with each other over whom is superior; neither wins.
 * The Bear, the Fire, and the Snow - The bear, the snow, the fire and river talk about how they are all afraid of one another.
 * Best Mask? - A child wins first prize at a scary mask contest, even though he isn't actually wearing one.
 * Big Eating Contest - A man talks about entering an eating competition and how much money it cost him, feeling exasperated that his prize was only $5.
 * Bituminous? - The narrator names some long words and has trouble remembering what they mean.
 * Blood-Curdling Story - The narrator describes a gruesome horror story with a twist.
 * Body Language - The narrator's body parts all put out conflicting ideas about what they should do; his behind suggests sitting down until they all come to a collective agreement.
 * Camp Wonderful - A child describes a summer camp they are going to that is said to be wonderful, somehow thinking they will not like it.
 * Carrots - A boy hears that carrots help one's eyesight, but after sticking them in his eyes, he wonders if he is not using them right.
 * Castle - The narrator describes a castle that is so thin, going through it takes no time at all.
 * A Cat, a Kid, and a Mom - A cat, a child, and the child's mother talk about how foolish they act when they are around each other.
 * Cat Jacks - The narrator explains why it's not a good idea to play jacks with a jaguar.
 * Cereal - The narrator describes various types of breakfast cereal and laments that there does not exist a cereal to their liking - sloppy and mushy, rather than crisp and crunchy.
 * Christmas Dog - A watchdog tries to protect his family from Santa Claus.
 * Clean Gene - The poet describes a boy who likes to keep clean all the time and constantly protects himself from germs.
 * A Closet Full of Shoes - A girl examines her closet filled with shoes, lamenting that she can't find the shoe that matches the lone one she is wearing.
 * Complainin' Jack - A girl's jack-in-the-box pops out by himself and begins to complain about various things. The girl eventually gets tired of it and shuts him back in.
 * Cookwitch Sandwich - A boy asks Katrina the Cook (who is actually a witch) to make him a sandwich; she takes this instruction literally and turns him into one.
 * Crazy Dream - A boy has a dream in which he is the teacher of his school and all the faculty members are students; he gives them several outrageous homework assignments and inflicts lots of harsh punishments on them until he wakes up.
 * Crystal Ball - A fortune teller looks into her crystal ball and tells her customer what she has eaten for lunch; she soon confesses that she isn't really looking at the ball, but the myriad of stains on the customer's dress.
 * Danny O'Dare - A girl meets a dancing bear known as Danny O'Dare.
 * The Deadly Eye - The narrator warns the readers about an eye that can kill someone just by looking at them.
 * Dentist Dan - A boy talks about his dentist, who cleans his teeth with maple syrup and fills his cavities with chocolate. He seems unaware that because of the dentist's unorthodox practices, he has lost most of his teeth.
 * Description - A group of people argue over what they think God looks like. The narrator claims to have an autographed photo of God, but does not show them.
 * Diving Board - A boy stands on the diving board of a pool, but does not actually dive.
 * Don the Dragon's Birthday - Some children bring a dragon a cake for his birthday and he lights the candles on top with his fiery breath.
 * Eggs Rated - A man enjoys a plate of scrambled eggs and makes several egg-related puns, until he sees the bill and tries to escape.
 * Falling Up - A boy trips on his shoelaces and falls upward instead of down.
 * Feeding Time - A zookeeper asks an alligator where fellow zookeeper Mr. Fred is, as he was supposed to help feed him (the illustration shows us that the alligator has actually eaten Mr. Fred).
 * The Folks Inside - The narrator explains that elderly people sleep inside young people's bodies, until the person grows up and they emerge.
 * Foot Repair - When a boy wears out his feet from too much walking, he decides to visit a cobbler who offers "new soles and heels," but is stunned to find that the total cost would have been roughly the same price for brand-new whole feet.
 * Forgetful Paul Revere - Paul Revere desperately tries to remember the exact order of his commands as he sets out for his famous midnight ride.
 * The Former Foreman's Story - The foreman of a demolition crew recounts the time they were supposed to demolish a house belonging to a family who had moved out, but destroyed the one next to it by mistake (which he thinks is the reason he was fired).
 * Furniture Bash - Several pieces of furniture have a fight and destroy each other.
 * Gardener - A boy who was told to water the plants is scolded for urinating on them.
 * Glub-Glub - A boy jumps into a puddle, which turns out to be a very small (and very deep) lake.
 * The Gnome, the Gnat, and the Gnu - A story of a gnome trying to swat a gnat biting his gnu's nose.
 * Golden Goose - In reference to Aesop's fable The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs, the narrator cooks a golden goose for dinner, finding the task of cooking her golden eggs to be impractical.
 * Hand Holding - Someone in a group of people suggests holding hands, but one little boy has no hand to hold.
 * Hard to Please - The narrator describes several people who annoy him.
 * Haunted - The narrator dares the readers to go inside a creepy haunted house at night, describing all the horrors that can be found inside. He eventually realizes that the dare is silly, and invites the readers to go for ice cream instead.
 * Headless Town - A man tries to sell hats in a town where no one has a head.
 * Headphone Harold - A boy named Harold is always listening to music on his headphones rather than paying attention to the world around him. This habit causes him a problem when he walks on a set of railway tracks and cannot hear the oncoming train.
 * Help! - A unicorn has his horn stuck in a tree, but when offered help, he asks a lot of ridiculous questions.
 * Hi-Monster - The narrator points out that an enormous monster is coming through the mist (the readers see its large, scaly tail stretching across the entire page). He guesses that the monster is huge based on how long its tail is, but it is shown to be quite small and not very threatening in appearance on the next page.
 * Human Balloon - The narrator describes a man who swells to enormous sizes by guzzling several types of cola and offers rides to people who sit in a basket tied to his stomach.
 * Hungry Kid Island - A boy rows out to Hungry Kid Island, which he imagines is full of hungry children who will gladly have lunch with him (he is unaware that the island itself is a giant hungry child).
 * Hypnotized - An amateur hypnotist brainwashes someone into doing all of his housework.
 * Ice Cream Stop - When an ice cream truck stops at a circus, all of the animals request different flavors. The vendor refuses to provide them any treats until he is paid, so the menagerie attacks the truck and eats all of the ice cream (including the vendor).
 * Imagining - A girl thinks that she has a mouse in her hair; the narrator reassures her that this is not the case, but forgets to mention that there is actually an elephant there instead of a mouse.
 * In the Land of... - The narrator describes several made-up countries.
 * James - The narrator introduces an anthropomorphic hamburger named James, then goes on to describe all the different names hamburgers have.
 * Kanga Ruby - The poet describes a kangaroo who becomes a queen.
 * Keepin' Count - Biologist Professor Bacar keeps flies in a jar and challenges other people to count them. A boy accepts this challenge and does considerably well, until a female fly has a baby and he has to start over.
 * Keep-Out House - A boy builds a private house with no doors or windows and wonders how he is going to get in.
 * Little Hoarse - A boy complains about his sore throat, saying he's "a little hoarse." Other children mishear this and ride on his back as if he were a horse.
 * Little Pig's Treat - A piglet riding on his father's back asks to go into a candy store.
 * Long-Leg Lou and Short-Leg Sue - The enormously tall Long-Leg Lou and very tiny Short-Leg Sue are good friends who love to walk and talk together. Eventually, Lou gets tired of Sue not being able to keep up with him and abandons her. He ends up lonely, while Sue befriends Slow-Foot Pete.
 * Long Scarf - A man wears an extremely long scarf at all times; when asked to remove it, he explains that his head was chopped off and the scarf keeps it in place.
 * Lyin' Larry - The narrator describes a young boy who is never truthful.
 * Mari-Lou's Ride - A girl swings so high that the ropes break and she is catapulted across town, eventually landing in her mother's lap.
 * Medusa - Medusa tries to style her hair, but the snakes in her hair all disagree on what she should do with them.
 * Mirror, Mirror - The Evil Queen from the story of Snow White demands that her Magic Mirror tell her "who's the fairest of them all." The exasperated mirror tells her that it is still Snow White, but when the Queen wonders aloud what would happen if she let him fall on the ground, he quickly changes his answer.
 * Mister Moody - A man is shown frowning; the narrator tells the readers to turn the picture upside down, but once they do this, he mocks them for expecting to see the man smiling.
 * Molly's Folly - A girl named Molly goes to Bali and buys a skateboard, but falls on her pet collie, who bites her in anger.
 * The Monkey - A monkey eats some green bananas on his way to the store and becomes ill (this is told using the numbers 1-11).
 * Morgan's Curse - A boy finds a treasure chest belonging to the pirate Morgan, but after seeing an inscription on it warning that whoever takes the treasure will be cursed, he wonders if he should take the treasure or leave it there.
 * Mummy - A boy wraps himself in toilet paper and pretends to be a mummy as a joke, but nobody finds it amusing.
 * Music Lesson - A girl taking piano lessons complains about having to carry her piano up seven flights of stairs to her music teacher.
 * My Nose Garden - A man complains about his garden of noses that always catch colds and offers some to the readers.
 * My Robot - A boy builds a robot, but every time he orders it to do something, the robot simply rebuffs him.
 * My Sneaky Cousin - A girl sneaks into a washing machine, hoping to get a free bath, but she does not enjoy the results.
 * The Nap Taker - A child is put on trial for literally taking someone's nap and is sentenced to eternal slumber.
 * Needles and Pins - A group of people build a ship and set off for new adventures.
 * New World - A girl looks through her legs and sees the world upside-down.
 * No - A sign is posted that tells people what they are not allowed to do. A beaver is shown chewing on the sign, who reasons that there is no rule prohibiting beavers.
 * No Grown-Ups - A group of children create a secret club where no adults are allowed. They soon change this rule when they go out for pizza and have to pay the bill.
 * No Thank You - When offered a kitten, a man rejects it as he already has too many cats.
 * Noise Day - The narrator describes a holiday where children can make as much noise as they want.
 * Nope - After a boy looks at a piece of cantaloupe under a microscope, he decides to never eat cantaloupe again.
 * Obedient - A boy gets in trouble at school and his teacher tells him to stand in the corner. However, she forgets to tell him to go home, and he stands there all through the summer. Come September, the school is shut down, and the boy remains there for forty years.
 * Ooh! - A child goes to a petting zoo, but when he pets a baby tiger, his fingers are bitten off.
 * One Out of Sixteen - The narrator talks about all the subjects in school that he struggles with.
 * People Zoo - A boy gets captured and locked up in a zoo where animals come to look at him.
 * Pinocchio - A retelling of the story of Pinocchio.
 * Plugging In - A family plugs in all their electronic devices, causing a power outage.
 * Poison-Tester - Self-proclaimed "poison-tester" Tru bravely volunteers to test her friend's food to make sure that it is not dangerous.
 * Porky - The narrator assigns three people to groom a porcupine, but would rather not help them.
 * Quality Time - A father takes his daughter golfing and uses her as a tee.
 * Reachin' Richard - A boy named Richard has a habit of reaching across the table instead of asking politely for the food that he wants.
 * Red Flowers for You - The narrator offers the readers a bouquet of flowers, joking that they might be poisonous.
 * Remote-a-Dad - The narrator describes a remote control that can supposedly control one's father.
 * Rotten Convention - The narrator describes a convention for various gruesome characters.
 * Runners - A group of track runners attribute their success to their practice field and coach (the field is booby-trapped and the coach is a lion).
 * Sack Race - A child signs up for a sack race, but wears his sack the wrong way.
 * Safe? - A girl wonders if it's safe to cross the street, not knowing that an actual safe is about to drop on her head.
 * Scale - An overweight man laments that his enormous stomach keeps him from seeing the scale.
 * Screamin' Millie - A girl named Millie screams so loudly that her facial features fly off her head, which launches off of her neck.
 * Settin' Around - A boy sits around a campfire with three monsters, but they are all scared off when he tells them frightening stories.
 * Shanna in the Sauna - One person tries to invite another into a sauna filled with animals.
 * Sharing - A child is happy to share other people's belongings, but he has a hard time sharing his own.
 * Shoe Talk - A boy talks with his shoe.
 * Short Kid - A boy talks about how people told him he'd "grow another foot" when he got older. But instead of getting taller, the boy actually has another foot growing out of his head.
 * Show Fish - A boy catches a fish and wants to bring it in for show-and-tell, but forgets to; he remembers to bring it in two weeks later, although the fish is now rotten.
 * Sidewalking - A child laughs at the superstition of breaking your mother's back when you step on a crack in the pavement, but finds out that this is actually true.
 * Smile Makers - A grumpy giant gets tired of frowning, so he gets two people to hold up his mouth so he can smile.
 * Snowball - The narrator recounts the time that he made a snowball and kept it as a pet, but it melted overnight.
 * Somethin' New - The narrator describes his various attempts at inventing something new.
 * Sorry I Spilled It - The narrator apologizes to someone for spilling their breakfast in their bed.
 * Spoiled Brat A spoiled girl does many terrible things. She eventually falls into a cooking pot and gets cooked up in a stew, but no one wants to try it "because (the girl) was so spoiled."
 * Stone Airplane - A young aviator "builds an airplane out of stone," but quickly realizes that he won't be going anywhere with it.
 * Stork Story - An extension of the classic story of the stork in which the stork takes elderly people and turns them back into babies.
 * Strange Restaurant - The narrator visits a restaurant and tries to order various meat dishes, but as the place is staffed with various kinds of animals, finding something inoffensive proves difficult. He eventually decides on a salad, but even this is not appropriate, as the owner of the restaurant is a head of cabbage.
 * Stupid Pencil Maker - The narrator complains that his pencil has been built wrong, saying that the eraser is where the point should be (it does not occur to him that he is actually holding it wrong).
 * Sun Hat - A girl owns a sun hat that has a brim so wide, not only does it give her shade, but it gives other creatures shade as well.
 * Sybil the Magician's Last Show - Sybil is a young magician who always she neglects to feed her pet rabbit. Eventually, the rabbit takes revenge by sucking Sybil into her hat and eating her, much to the delight of her audience, who thinks she has disappeared.
 * Tattooin' Ruth - A man gets a suit tattooed onto him, as he does not enjoy wearing clothes.
 * Tell Me - The narrator asks the readers to tell him that he is a good person, but to be honest about it.
 * They Say I Have... - A boy says he has "his father's nose, his grandfather's eyes, and mother's hair," and wonders if his behind is the only thing that is actually his.
 * Tongue Sticker-Outer - The story of a young boy living in Zanzibar who stuck his tongue out and burned it when it touched a star in the sky.
 * The Toy Eater - A child is warned that the "Terrible Toy-Eating Tookle" will come and devour his toys if he does not put them away.
 * Three O'clock - A man accepts a job as a bell ringer, but he actually becomes the bell's clapper.
 * Three Stings - Three men get stung by bees.
 * Turkey? - A boy describes how he ate a drumstick at a picnic dance and how furious everyone was with him (it is shown in the accompanying illustration that the drumstick he ate was a real one, not turkey).
 * Unfair - A girl complains that the apartment she's staying in won't accept pets, even though the giant monster she has as a pet is completely harmless and knows a lot of tricks.
 * Use for a Moose - A girl describes how good a moose's antlers are for hanging clothes to dry, but the moose keeps running off with them.
 * The Voice - The narrator describes what a conscience is.
 * Warmhearted - An animal rights activistis so devoted to not harming animals that the fox fur that she wears is still alive.
 * Wastebasket Brother - The narrator expresses his chagrin that somebody put their baby brother in the wastebasket.
 * Weavers - The poet knits a sweater, but a spider brags about how much better it is at weaving.
 * Web-Foot Woe - A goose chastises people for confusing her with a duck, even though they're actually warning her about an arrow being shot at his head.
 * Weird-Bird - An atypical bird flies north for the winter instead of south, and admits that he likes being the only bird in town sometimes.
 * We're Out of Paint, So… - A painter runs out of paint, so he decides to make a painting using juices from various foods.
 * When I Was Your Age - A man brags to his nine-year-old nephew about how he could do a lot of things better that him at his age, but he soon reveals that he was actually ten at the time.
 * Why Is It? - The narrator talks about a person whose clothes do not feel right, although this is because the person has not put them on properly.
 * Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda - Some "woulda-coulda-shouldas" lie in the sun thinking about the things they might have accomplished, only to run away from "one little 'did.'"
 * Writer Waiting - A boy who has bought a new computer is trying to write a book, but suffers from writer's block.
 * Yuck - A boy gets a sticky substance stuck to his shoe and tries to remove it, only to get all his pets and neighbors stuck too.

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Geelong College

The Geelong College is an Australian independent and co-educational, Christian day and boarding school located in Newtown, an inner-western suburb of Geelong, Victoria.

Established in 1861 by Alexander James Campbell, a Presbyterian minister, the Geelong College was formerly a school of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and is now operated in association with the Uniting Church in Australia but is not governed or managed by the church. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for over 1,200 students from kindergarten to Year 12, including around 100 boarding students from Years 7 to 12. The boarding students are accommodated in two boarding houses at the senior school campus: Mackie House for boys, Mossgiel House for girls.

The college is affiliated with the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, the Junior School Heads Association of Australia, the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria, the Australian Boarding Schools Association, and has been a member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria since 1908.

History
Following the closure of the first Geelong Grammar, Campbell established a committee to found a new Presbyterian school. On 8 July 1861, Geelong College was officially established. The school year later started with an enrolment of 62. George Morrison was appointed the first principal and three years later became the owner of the school. The school moved to its present location in 1871. The architects Alexander Davidson and George Henderson designed its main building.

In 1908, the college returned to the ownership of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and became a member of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS). St David's Presbyterian Church at the corner of Talbot St and Aphrasia St, Newtown is currently used by the School for religious services. Traditionally, the School used St George’s Presbyterian Church on Latrobe Terrace for Presbyterian Services. Anglican services, when required, were provided at All Saints Church on Noble St. Presbyterian Services however, were transferred to St David’s Church in 1962. The Geelong College Chapel was dedicated on 8 March 1989 as the centre of the school's spiritual life. It was formerly the School’s House of Music, designed by Philip Hudson, built in about 1936 and opened in 1937. Land was acquired in 1946 for a new preparatory campus which did not open until 1960. This particular campus became co-educational in 1974, with co-education being extended to the senior campus in 1975. The college undertook an extensive redevelopment and refurbishment of the middle school, which is on the preparatory campus, in 2012. In 2015 Principal Andrew Barr resigned after he was photographed watching pornography in his office.

Campuses

Talbot Street, Newtown Aberdeen Street, Newtown Minerva Road, Newtown Cape Otway (since 2015)
 * Senior School – Years 9 to 12
 * Middle School – Years 4 to 8
 * Junior School – Kindergarten to Year 3
 * Cape Otway Campus – all years

House system
A house system operates at both the senior and middle schools. Each house is named after a significant person in the college's history. Sporting and music competitions are held between them each year.

At the middle school, there are four houses: Pegasus (white), Bellerophon (blue), Minerva (red) and Helicon (green), which meet for sporting events throughout each year. The house model is not used for pastoral care at this campus. The names of these houses originate from Roman mythology.

Curriculum
Geelong College offers its senior students the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE).

Sport
Secondary students of the college participate in the summer, winter and spring seasons of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria (APS)/Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria (AGSV) sport competition. Choices offered for summer sports include badminton, cricket (boys only), softball (girls only), tennis and rowing. Winter sports include Australian rules football (boys only), netball (girls only), soccer and basketball. Students may also participate in a number of local competitions and the college is particularly known for its excellence and achievement in rowing competitions.

APS and AGSV/APS premierships
Geelong College has won the following APS and AGSV/APS premierships:

Boys:

 * Cricket (7) – 1946, 1947, 1963, 1979, 1982, 1995, 2011
 * Football (6) – 1925, 1927, 1932, 1963, 1964, 2006
 * Rowing (13) – 1936, 1944, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1976, 1990, 1993, 2000, 2001, 2003

Girls:

 * Athletics (5) – 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005
 * Hockey (2) – 1995, 1996
 * Netball (4) – 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998
 * Rowing (10) – 1981, 1982, 1983, 1989, 1992, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011
 * Tennis (6) – 1995, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005

Geelong College Challenge
The Geelong College Challenge is a competition run by the college at the preparatory school campus in which government schools in the region can enter. The challenge started in 1993. Participating schools send in an entry based on the set theme, and the teams with the 16 best entries are accepted. These schools then form a team of four Year 6 students (two boys and two girls). On the weekend of the challenge, the teams participate in various challenges, which include art, music, drama, technology, information technology, physical education and mathematics challenges.

Notable alumni
Alumni of the school are known as Old Geelong Collegians and may elect to join the alumni association, the Old Geelong Collegians' Association (OGCA). Some notable Old Geelong Collegians include:

Academic

 * Sir Robert Honeycombe – scientist and metallurgist, Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy at Cambridge University, UK.
 * John Marden – first headmaster of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (1888–1919) and Pymble Ladies' College (1916–1919); pioneer of women's education; Presbyterian elder

Business

 * Bill Dix – former managing director of Ford Australia and Chairman of Qantas
 * Don Kendell – founder of Kendell Airlines

Entertainment, media and the arts

 * Russell Boyd – cinematographer: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, Crocodile Dundee.
 * John Duigan – film director and writer
 * Gideon Haigh – journalist and author
 * Robert Ingpen – artist, writer and illustrator
 * Rebecca Maddern – journalist
 * Veronica Milsom – comedian and triple j radio presenter
 * George Ernest Morrison – Australian adventurer; correspondent for The Times Peking (Beijing)
 * Guy Pearce – actor
 * Sean Sowerby – journalist
 * Nathan Templeton – journalist

Medicine and science

 * Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet – biologist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine

Politics, public service and the law

 * Lionel Aingimea – President of Nauru since 2019
 * John Button – senior Federal Minister in the Hawke and Keating Governments
 * Sir Arthur Coles – retail founder, MP, Lord Mayor of Melbourne; first Chairman of Australian National Airlines (TAA)
 * Robert Doyle – Lord Mayor of Melbourne, politician; Member for Malvern in the Legislative Assembly (1992–2006); Leader of the Victorian Opposition (2002–2006)
 * Major General Sir James Harrison, KCMG, CB, CBE – former Governor of South Australia
 * Sarah Henderson, MP – Member for Corangamite (Liberal Party) from 2013 to 2019, Senator for Victoria since 2019
 * Barry James Maddern – Australian barrister and jurist
 * Fergus Stewart McArthur, MP – Member for Corangamite (Liberal Party) from 1984 to 2007
 * Sir Gordon Stewart McArthur – Liberal Party politician, President of the Victorian Legislative Council (1958–1965), grazier and barrister
 * James Nimmo – public servant

Religion

 * Thomas Henry Armstrong – first Bishop of Wangaratta

Sport

 * Tom Atkins – AFL footballer for Geelong
 * Jaxson Barham – AFL footballer for Collingwood
 * Alec Boswell Timms – VFA footballer for Geelong and Scottish international rugby union player from 1896 to 1905
 * Tim Callan – AFL footballer for the Western Bulldogs
 * Alex Cincotta- AFL footballer for Carlton
 * David A. Clarke – AFL footballer for Geelong and Carlton
 * David E. Clarke – AFL footballer for Geelong and Carlton
 * Georgie Clarke – Olympian (athletics)
 * Tim Clarke – former AFL footballer for Hawthorn
 * Richard Colman – Paralympic athletics gold medallist
 * Ayce Cordy – AFL footballer for the Western Bulldogs
 * Zaine Cordy – AFL footballer for the Western Bulldogs; premiership player in the 2016 AFL Grand Final
 * Ed Curnow – current AFL footballer for Carlton
 * Charlie Curnow – current AFL footballer for Carlton
 * Josh Dunkley-Smith – 2012 Olympic rowing silver medallist
 * Edward 'Carji' Greeves – winner of the inaugural Brownlow Medal for the best and fairest player in the Victorian Football League (later known as AFL) (1924)
 * Lindsay Hassett – captain of the Australian Test cricket team from 1949 to 1953
 * John "Jack" Bailey Hawkes – Australian tennis champion
 * Lachlan Henderson – current AFL footballer for Geelong
 * Steve Horvat – Australian international soccer player
 * Jack Iverson – Australian Test cricketer
 * Charlie Lazzaro – AFL footballer for North Melbourne
 * Bowen Lockwood – AFL footballer for
 * Ned McHenry – AFL footballer for Adelaide
 * Edward Russell Mockridge – dual gold medallist for cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics
 * David Ramage – two-time Olympic rower
 * Ian Redpath – Australian Test cricketer
 * Josh Saunders – former AFL footballer for St Kilda
 * Will Schofield – AFL footballer for the West Coast Eagles
 * Paul Sheahan – Australian Test cricketer; former headmaster of The Geelong College and Melbourne Grammar School
 * Alex Witherden – AFL footballer for the Brisbane Lions and West Coast Eagles
 * Mason Wood – AFL footballer for North Melbourne and St Kilda

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Talk:Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures

Cheat codes
The cheat codes should be moved to Wikibooks. Wikipedia is not a place for gameFAQs. (unsigned comment from anon)

Merge discussion: Pac-Jr. into Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures
I propose that we merge Pac-Jr. into this article, since Pac-Jr. is only available as a minigame/bonus game in the Mega Drive/Genesis version of Pac-Man 2. (There is no other known official way to access this minigame.)

Note that Pac-Jr. is not the same as Jr. Pac-Man, which was an unauthorized sequel to the original Pac-Man, and which was one of the factors leading to the split between Namco and Midway.

Both articles are small and are highly related, so in my opinion, it makes sense to merge them. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 20:30, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I realized after I proposed this merge that there was so little significant information in the Pac-Jr. article that it might as well be merged into here anyway. I went ahead and performed the merge, but discussion is still available. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 21:22, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

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About the "Sources" link...
Is it useful at all? The article doesn't even use "Pac Man 2: The New Adventures" as an example. ChadyWadyTalk 04:55, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Pac-Man Collection

Making some edits
I'm removing the Trivia section (the first piece is redundant to the beginning of the article, and the second piece is unimportant/obvious), as well as the information stating that Ms. Pac-Man is available in non-US releases of the game (unless someone would like to provide an actual source on this...?) ~Aurakitsune 03:38, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Exclusion from Ms. Pac-Man in US release
Anybody know why Ms. Pac-Man was excluded from the US release? Kinda pissed about that (though Collection is definitely still solid without it). Jeff Silvers 20:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, nevermind, I found out it was probably because Ms. Pac-Man was released as part of Namco Museum Advance a month prior to the release of Collection. Jeff Silvers 01:02, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Ms. Pac-Man where?
I just "acquired" the US, European and Japanese versions of Pac-Man Collection. Let's not ask questions about that.

NONE of them have Ms. Pac-Man anywhere. Zip, nada, zilch. None of the box arts even suggest they do (including the one in the article itself). Does anyone have ANY source for this? Was just just random crap added in that should be removed?--Cyberdude93 20:35, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

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Dead or Alive 4

Dead or Alive 4 (デッドオアアライブ4) is a 2005 fighting game developed by Team Ninja and published by Tecmo for the Xbox 360. It is the fourth main entry in the Dead or Alive fighting series.

The story of the game focuses on the continuing war between the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan and DOATEC, and Helena Douglas taking over the mantle of DOATEC as its new president, determined to fight against the corruption within the enormous organization. The game's story mode introduces the player to new characters and opponents via combat which can then be played in the game's other modes. New features are introduced in the gameplay and the game's online mode.

Dead or Alive 4 was generally well received, with an average score of 85/100 on Metacritic. By mid-2006, the game sold over 1 million copies worldwide. On November 15, 2021, Dead or Alive 4 was made available on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S through backward compatibility. The game was later followed by Dead or Alive: Dimensions in 2011 and Dead or Alive 5 in 2012.

Gameplay
Dead or Alive 4 has a number of updates in reference to previous titles. New to DOA4 is the introduction of the "Bounce Combo" system. After knocking an opponent to the ground with a strike attack, players can execute a Bounce Combo to perform further attacks on the opponent when they are bouncing off the ground. Low attacks and some mid attacks can now be performed on opponents while they are down.

Certain stages now have moving obstacles that will cause damage to fighters if they are hit by them, and using a counter hold at the right timing can help players avoid being hit by them.

Certain stages now also have obstacles in which fighters can be knocked over them, and when the opponent is on the other side of an obstacle, players can jump over them and they can also perform flying attacks.

New to the game's Online Mode is the introduction of Avatars and Virtual Environments, making it the first fighting game to include these features. Players can customize their Avatars and the environment and furniture in their Lobby. Players can take part in voice or text-based chat with other players while in the Lobby room. Award points are earned from winning online battles and players can use the points to buy accessories for their Avatars and Lobby rooms.

Characters' move lists have been vastly updated and four new characters have been added to the fighting roster, with returns from a couple of past characters as well. The counter system has been tightened, making the window for counters shorter and more difficult to execute, and the amount of damage that counters inflict has been changed. However, like Dead or Alive 3, the game features a relatively low number of costumes (excluding variants), and several characters now had to be unlocked by the player including Helena.

Characters
Dead or Alive 4 features a total of 23 fighters, including 22 playable characters and the boss character Alpha-152. Returning characters in the game are Ayane, Bass Armstrong, Bayman, Brad Wong, Christie, Hayate, Hitomi, Jann Lee, Kasumi, Leifang, Ryu Hayabusa, Tina Armstrong, and Zack.

DOA4 features three new playable characters: Kokoro, a young geisha in training; Eliot, a 16-year-old boy from England and protégé to Gen Fu; and La Mariposa, a female Lucha Libre wrestler. In addition, DOA4 features a playable unlockable character from the Halo series, a female Spartan supersoldier going by the name "Spartan-458" (with a Halo-themed stage Nassau Station in the game); it would later be revealed that her real name would be "Nicole".

New

 * Alpha-152, the final stage of DOATEC's human weapon series Project Alpha, created from Kasumi's DNA by the evil scientist, Victor Donovan.
 * Eliot, a British xingyiquan practitioner and the only apprentice of the legendary "Immovable Fist", Gen Fu. Having doubts about himself and questioning why Gen Fu chose him as his successor, Eliot enters the tournament to find out if he has the right to carry on Gen Fu's legacy.
 * Kokoro, a young Japanese girl currently training to become a geisha. Though she enjoys her lessons, Kokoro's heart and soul truly belong to her bajiquan, and despite the worries of her mother Miyako, she enters to the tournament to test herself.
 * La Mariposa, a luchadora who hides her past and true identity underneath her flamboyant costume. La Maripsoa rose like a comet to the peak of stardom only a short while after her debut, and has never lost a match.
 * Spartan-458 , real name Nicole, a supersoldier and close-quarters combat practitioner of Microsoft's Halo series. She is the result of the collaboration between Tecmo's Team Ninja and Microsoft's Bungie.

Returning
• Ayane

• Bass Armstrong

• Bayman

• Brad Wong

• Christie

• Ein

• Gen Fu

• Hayate

• Helena Douglas

• Hitomi

• Jann Lee

• Kasumi

• Leifang

• Leon

• Ryu Hayabusa

• Tengu

• Tina Armstrong

• Zack Unplayable boss Guest character Unlockable character Unplayable in Story Mode

Plot
Helena Douglas, daughter of the founder and former chairman of the Dead or Alive Tournament Executive Committee, Fame Douglas, takes over the mantle of DOATEC as its second chairman, determined to fight against the corruption within the enormous organization. After losing both her father and her beloved mother to the darkness of conspiracy, Helena chose to place herself in the middle of the maelstrom in order to put an end to the chain of tragedy once and for all.

The man who holds the true power at DOATEC, Victor Donovan, locked himself in the committee's Bio Lab Core once again to continue coveting his dream of creating the perfect human weapon. His new project, code named "Alpha-152", is the result of the ultimate evolution of hyper-cloning technology, birthed from a DNA sample of Kasumi.

The war between the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan and DOATEC continues. During the last tournament, after Ayane successfully defeats DOATEC's last creation, Omega, Hayate returned to the Mugen Tenshin village, taking over the leadership. Now leader, his heart burns with the desire of revenge as he goes on a quest to put an end to DOATEC for the innumerable pain the Mugen Tenshin Ninjas have suffered from the organization. During the fourth tournament, Hayate brought together the most powerful group of ninjas known to man. He is accompanied by Ayane, Ryu Hayabusa, and other members of the Mugen Tenshin; Kasumi, though reluctant and fearing the worst, is dragged into the events herself as she follows her brother.

The forces of Mugen Tenshin launches an assault on DOATEC's primary headquarters, the gigantic 999 meter Tri-tower building. Other competitors such as Brad Wong, Jann Lee, Leifang, Zack, along with newcomers, Eliot and Kokoro, were also among the chaos during the assault. Hayate is approached by a luchadora named La Mariposa who reveals to him about her manipulation of him in coming to destroy DOATEC. Hayate thanks her, stating that she did him a favor, and he battles her to repay her. Hayate later comes across a vengeful Bayman, who vows to finish off Donovan for his betrayal to him. Hayate also states his reasons for wanting revenge on the mad scientist as well. Bayman warns Hayate not to interfere in his plan for revenge, but Hayate states that he can't let him fool things up while the ninjas proceed with their assault. La Mariposa comes across Helena and reveals to her about her involvement in DOATEC's Epsilon project before the second tournament and her reason for Hayate coming to DOATEC. La Mariposa angrily resents Donovan and wants to put an end to all of his motives. Helena reveals to her that stopping Alpha-152 from awakening is now impossible due to her shutdown mechanism being destroyed, and only one option is left to stop Alpha. Kasumi later confronts Helena, telling her to stop the war between DOATEC and the Mugen Tenshin. Helena refuses, stating that Hayate and the others will stop at nothing until DOATEC is destroyed, and she is willing do anything to stop Donovan and Alpha-152 from causing havoc in the world. Helena attempts to shoot Kasumi with a handgun but Kasumi is saved by Hayabusa. Helena later comes across Christie, who reveals that she was her mother's killer. Almost breaking down in sadness over her loss and now boiling with anger, Helena fights Christie.

The ninjas' assault left the Tri-tower building in an inferno, and the buildings' auto-destruct sequence activated by Helena lead to the buildings' ultimate destruction. While the ninjas continue their assault and Kasumi fights Alpha-152, Helena strolls through the burning buildings, reflecting on certain events of her life from childhood into adulthood, leading up to the current events. Helena decides to end her own life, committing suicide by going up to the Tri-tower Heliport between the three buildings and letting herself be consumed by the flames of the burning buildings as Kasumi and Ayane helplessly watch from afar. Suddenly, Zack came flying in with a chopper, saving her before the Tri-tower buildings collapsed to dust.

Development and release
On May 12, 2005, the first screens from the game were leaked on the Internet via the elotrolado.net message boards. The first official screenshots, in-game demos and cinematics were presented by Microsoft at press conferences, with the game originally slated to be a launch title for the Xbox 360. In an interview with Famitsu Xbox, Tomonobu Itagaki remarked that he spent 99% of his time developing the game, while only sleeping 40 minutes in four days. Technical assistance for Dead or Alive 4 was given by Blindlight.

The game was delayed many times before eventually being released on December 29, 2005, more than a month after the Xbox 360 debuted, having been initially held back by retailers. Famitsu Xbox editor-in-chief Munetatsu Matsui pointed to Dead or Alive 4's absence as a launch title as the main factor behind the slow sales of the Xbox 360 in Japan. It is the first main fighting game in the series (and third overall, following Dead or Alive Ultimate) to receive a Mature rating by the ESRB.

Since Dead or Alive 4's release, a demo version of the game has been available for free download via Xbox Live on July 24, 2006. While the demo showcases the final version of the game, it is a very limited version and only a handful of the features are accessible, while the rest are locked down. Only the Time Attack and Verses modes are playable, there are just five stages available, and only Kasumi, Hayabusa, Brad, Tina, Eliot, and La Mariposa are playable. Some of the settings are also locked-out.

Two songs by the American rock band Aerosmith also appear in Dead or Alive 4. "Eat the Rich" was the opening theme, and "Amazing" was played during Helena's ending movie and over the credits.

As of November 15, 2021, Dead or Alive 4 is now backward compatible on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.

Merchandise
An Arcade Stick for Dead or Alive 4 made by Japanese video game peripheral manufacturer Hori was released on February 4, 2006, exclusively for the Xbox 360.

The Soundtrack CD Dead or Alive 4 Original Sound Trax (KWCD-1009) was released in Japan by Wake Up in 2006. A guide book titled Dead or Alive 4: Official Game Guide by Prima Games was published in North America on January 24, 2006. Three guide books were published in Japan in 2005-2006: Dead or Alive 4 Official Guide Basic File (by Famitsu Xbox / Enterbrain), Dead or Alive 4 Best Shot (by SoftBank), and Dead or Alive 4 Official Guide Master File (by Enterbrain). The Platinum Collection edition of the game was released in Japan on November 1, 2007.

Reception
Dead or Alive 4 received very positive reviews. Review aggregators GameRankings and Metacritic gave the game a score of 85.49% and 85/100, respectively. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a near-perfect score of 39 out of 40.

Douglass C. Perry of IGN called the game "a fighter with subtle yet significant changes and an online mode that rocks" and "a move in the right direction for the series". Perry praised the fighting system as "deeper and more sophisticated", and praising the online mode as "a tremendous improvement, giving the series another layer of play that should take off and breathe new life into the series". Greg Kasavin of GameSpot wrote: "It's simple: If you like fighting games, DOA4 is for you. Between its great selection of powerful fighters, its terrific action, and its addictive online mode, there's an awful lot to sink your teeth into, learn, and master in this latest and greatest installment in the series." Che Chou of 1Up.com said: "DOA4 comes very close to being a competitive fighting game, but its failings in a few key areas cripple its longevity. Although it's by far the series' best entry, DOA4 still boggles the mind with its insanely unbalanced characters and easily exploitable moves." Matt Conzen of eToychest praised Dead or Alive 4's online mode, calling it "innovative" and how it "fuels the fire that Team Ninja set forth on the Xbox 360 community", calling Dead or Alive "the only console fighting series with a decent online mode", overall calling Dead or Alive 4 "a game that carries the easy to play, difficult to master label, but is well worth mastering in the long run" and how "Dead or Alive 4 is a must play for any fighting game fan". Play Magazine stated: "They don't make 3D fighters more beautiful and fluid than Dead or Alive 4." Gamerfeed called Dead or Alive 4 "so close to being flawless it's unbelievable". Game Informer stated how "The incredible craftsmanship that went into this title makes it the pinnacle in the series and another fantastic Xbox Live application." Gamer 2.0 stated: "If you want to be visually impressed, Itagaki and his Team Ninja have knocked another one out of the park with this game." Official Xbox Magazine wrote: "Fan’s of Itagaki’s “jujitsu-jousting” philosophy….can comfortably mark DOA 4 as the most refined version of their beloved fighter to date."

Sales and awards
Dead or Alive 4 sold over 1 million copies worldwide by mid-2006. It came in number 9 on Japanese charts during the first week of January 2006. Prior to release, Dead or Alive 4's E3 presentation was awarded "Best High-Definition Movies" by Gamespot, and "Best Non-Playable Xbox 360 Presentation" by IGN. After its release, Famitsu awarded Dead or Alive 4 the "Super Visual Award". It was also nominated for "Xbox Game of the Year" at the Golden Joystick Awards, and "Best Fighting Game" at the Spike Video Game Awards.

Legacy
Dead or Alive 4 was included in the Evolution Championship Series (Evo), Championship Gaming Series (CGS) and World Cyber Games (WCG). Dead or Alive 4 became the first fighting game to have a televised esport event with its inclusion in the CGS esport league in 2007 and 2008. The CGS league was operated and fully broadcast by DirecTV in association with British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) and STAR TV. Dead or Alive 4 is credited for launching the careers of pro-gamers Kat Gunn and Vanessa Arteaga, who would become two of the gaming industry's highest paid women pro-gamers. It is also credited for expanding the career of pro-gamer Emmanuel Rodriguez, who entered the competitive fighting game scene in 2004, first competing in Dead or Alive 3 and Dead or Alive Ultimate, and became a Koei Tecmo employee in 2012.

Dead or Alive 4 is featured in the Guinness World Records for being the "First 7th-generation fighting videogame", and the "First retail game to include “zero point” achievements". Dead or Alive 4 player, Reginald "ElectrifiedMann" Wysinger, holds the Guinness World Record for the "Fastest “Time Attack” completion on Dead or Alive 4 (“Very Hard”)".

Dead or Alive 4 was the first fighting game to feature Avatars and Virtual Environments in its Online Mode. The innovative fighting game features were later expanded upon in the short-lived Dead or Alive Online, and were later featured in other fighting games such as Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8.

In 2008, GamePro staff ranked it as the 11th best fighting game, stating: "The first new-generation fighter to be released, Dead or Alive 4 still makes a strong case as the best one. [...] This is a fighting game that can stand in the ring with any major series." In 2009, Virgin Media ranked it as the seventh top 20 beat 'em-up of all time. In 2011, Peter Rubin of Complex ranked it as the 28th best fighting game of all time. The game was also featured in 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. It was also included in a top 10 list of Xbox 360 titles that are still fun to play.

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Talk:Bernard Moitessier

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Neal376@aol.com - Tuesday February 28th, 2006

This article is disturbingly short. A man of such stature warrents a longer write up. I will help anyone who is willing to commit. ---

This comes mostly from the article about Moitessier in the French Wikipedia. The titles and dates for his books are the original French ones. The English translations of the titles are from the English editions. This could use more about his family and personal history (he fought against the Viet Minh, I think). Binkymagnus 07:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

completed circumnavigation or not?
The article seems to say that he didn't finish the circumnavigation (and thus the race) but then says:
 * Moitessier circumnavigated the world and sailed almost two-thirds of the way round a second time

This seems to contradict and should be clarified. --Singkong2005 tc 05:41, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Moitessier did not complete the race, but turned around in the Atlantic, went past the Cape of Good Hope a 2nd time and finally stopped in Tahiti. Amazingly he did this without resupplying or contacting the outside world, if I remember correctly he could not even get a message off to his loved ones while passing the Cape and was assumed lost at sea. I agree that this article is "disturbingly short" as this man influenced the world of sailing/yachting immeasurably.

Removal of Link/Reference to Reid Stowe
Skol fir, while I certainly appreciate your efforts in trying to promote Reid Stowe here at Wikipedia, I don't think that including a link to his BLP is appropriate. Should we list each and every sailor that was inspired by Moitessier in this article? What of other biographies of inspirational people? Should we do the same?

Also, as has been discussed at the Stowe article, Stowe never met Motessier, though on a number of occasions he has falsely claimed he had. He met people who met Mortessier, and read his book. He may very well have been inspired by the man, but that's not worthy of inclusion in Mortessier's bio, unless you think the Wiki article on the Holy Bible should cross reference every Wiki bio where the subjects were inspired by reading it. Regatta dog (talk) 17:31, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

child
I agree that such an important figure deserves a longer entry. But this is actually quite good. I would like a mention of his partner and their son Stephan who seems to have had an extraordinary childhood. 70.26.152.54 (talk) 18:38, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

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Talk:Jarhead (film)

first talk
The plot summary added in this edit is a presumed copyright violation, from the movie's official website (site uses Flash - click "Story"). I've removed it. ←Hob 07:12, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, we could quote it and credit it:

 * 'Jarhead' (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Jake Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle Eastern deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom.

It seems more accurate than "centers around his pre-Gulf War experiences" - the previews make it seem like it's more about military than civilian life. Uncle Ed 17:17, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

The comment about Gyllenhaal's nude scene: does it count as "Trivia," considering that it just describes a scene from the film? JustADuck 22:41, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Preview?
Does anyone know the name of the hip-hop song playing during the preview of the film?--67.184.163.248 22:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC)Ikiroid

-- Jesus Walks - Kanye West http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/K/Kanye-West/Jesus-Walks.html

Infobox duplication

 * Tagline: Welcome To The Suck

 * The film co-stars Peter Sarsgaard, and Oscar-winning actors Chris Cooper and Jamie Foxx.

 * This is the third film by Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes, whose previous two films were American Beauty and Road to Perdition.

I cut the above, because it doesn't tell you anything about the movie. Sure, it's nice that 2 of the actors won oscars and that it's the director's third film - but this reads more like a press release than an encyclopedia article.

Let's send one of our writers to watch the film and THEN write about it. Uncle Ed 17:05, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Existentialist overtones?
Can anyone find any primary sources confirming how much this movie was influenced by Camus' The Stranger? (it's the book he's reading throughout the movie, in fact) It's easy to draw parallels, but some commentary from the screenplay author or the director or somebody would be interesting.

 * Troy's comment about the ending of Metroid (Nothing happens and it's meaningless)
 * Killing Arabs
 * Discussions about the meaning of life
 * Finding meaning only in sex (Marie/Christina)

That's all I can really think of. JustADuck 20:21, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

JustADuck 21:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The horse in the oil slick. Swofford knows the animal will continue to suffer and there is nothing he can do; it is meaningless
 * Swofford and Christina's graphic sex scene. The lovers say "I love you" to each other but it is truly meaningless because they are simply expressing the physical pleasure they feel at the moment. Oh ok.
 * Recurring theme of masturbation: masturbation is considered a meaningless activity within our culture because... because I don't know.

JustADuck 20:46, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Throwing grenades at nothing
 * Firing at nothing
 * Navigating through empty minefields

 * I don't have any primary sources but Jarhead resembles Waiting for Godot but in a military context. Htra0497 09:59, 2nd January 2006 (AEST)

Tijer 17:39, 13th february 2006 (CET) I agree with the existentialist tone throughout the entire movie. I believe it would be fair to add it to the live page as a main theme. Though I believe we should put "absurdist" rather than "existentialist". Note, Camus was a warm adherent to human rights, I think this also has a minor-theme.

Synopsis?
Does anyone want to start work on a synopsis of the film here? It'll be a group project. Everyone join in with the bits you remember. Later we'll cut it down to a decent encyclopedic length and then edit. JustADuck 23:55, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Opening scene:
 * head bashed in chalkboard
 * head bashed in chalkboard

Flashbacks:
 * e.g. parents conceiving Swoff

Don't Worry, Be Happy sequence:
 * branding mindfuck showcases the masculinity of the group: they grab Swoff and he immediately retaliates without taking any time to think. At this point he has no idea what they might even be thinking of doing, yet his violent retaliation seems like a reflex.
 * branding mindfuck showcases the masculinity of the group: they grab Swoff and he immediately retaliates without taking any time to think. At this point he has no idea what they might even be thinking of doing, yet his violent retaliation seems like a reflex.

Faking flu and mouth trumpeting:

Training
 * soldier shot in head
 * jogging & hydrating

Swoff falls in love with his rifle
 * scene where they zoom in on Gyllenhaal's eyes and the audience can see the pure desire for killing

Flight of the Valkyries scene:
 * every man knows every single part of the movie
 * they think it's beautiful and are practically drooling
 * Swoff starts saying under his breath "shoot that motherfucker" etc.

Chris Cooper on stage:
 * shown picture of Kurdish boy

Gas, gas, gas!:
 * the group makes comments on Christina
 * Cortez's pregnant wife

[blanking out on what goes here]

Boredom sequence:
 * endless masturbation
 * Scorpion fights

Showing off to reporters
 * soldiers talk to reporters about why they are in the Marines
 * football in MOPP/NBC suits
 * field fuck

Vacation in the rear-rear
 * Cortez finds out his wife had her/their child & Swoff finds out Christina has a new friend who's a good listener
 * brief shower scene
 * Swoff's dream
 * wife sends pornographic videotape

Swoff buys alcohol
 * "Dear sweet Gloria, I wish I was up in you now with a finger in your ass" etc.

The Christmas party
 * Swoff's nude dance
 * fireworks things go off and men are disappointed it wasn't gunfire

Burning shitters & confronting Fergus:
 * Morning Glory

Swoff speaks arabic:
 * 5 men, 3 camels/ 8 men, 5 camels ?
 * they find out Fowler shot their camels

[blanking out on what occurs here]

Warfare scenes
 * Swoff urinates in his pants
 * Swoff runs through battlefield to retrieve dead batteries

Highway of death
 * Swoff sits with charred corpses and then vomits

Oil fields
 * oily horse
 * oily horse

"Just let him take the shot"
 * Troy's breakdown

"War is over" party:
 * burning desert camos
 * firing rifles

"Soldier's Things" sequence:
 * Crazy Marine onboard bus
 * Christina had an affair
 * Kruger is in business; [Laz Alonso's character] at grocery store; Cortez with wife and two kids; Swoff smoking
 * Troy's funeral (book says he died driving drunk and then skidding on ice; would that be appropriate to mention here?)
 * last scene "we are still in the desert"

Trivia
The comment about Gyllenhaal's nude scene: does it count as "Trivia," considering that it just describes a scene from the film? It strikes me as sort of "tee hee, penis" for an encyclopedia article. It seems that somebody took it out and then someone put it back in. Should it be taken back out? JustADuck 05:03, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Couldn't take it anymore. If anyone decides it's appropriate it's quoted here verbatim:
 * "In the movie, Jake Gyllenhall has a nude scene. In the scene, he is only wearing a Santa hat on his head, and his penis area." JustADuck 20:50, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Are either of the "homage" pieces of trivia worth noting? Both are common experiences to the Corps and not specific to a particular movie other than they portrayed them first. In fact, to anyone who has served in the US military, Anthony Swofford's book and movie read like a collection of military urban legends. Many, if not most of his autobiographical anecdotes, are stories that soldiers tell to each other that start "did you hear about the guy ..." only when you try to track down that guy, he doesn't really exist. But all of these things either happened to Swofford or someone he directly knew. Dubious.

I agree with the comments about the homage. Every Marine knows and has said the Rifleman's Creed (the mantra Jamie Foxx makes his men repeat), so it's not something that is just from Full Metal Jacket. I think people just assumes it's from Full Metal Jacket, because no one has seen anything about the Marine Corps except from movies.

Correction: Dennis Miller invented the nickname for Saddam, Saddamn Insane for Saturday Night Live when he was the anchor for SNL News. I was there, I saw it happen. Don't believe me? Call the man himself.

What the bloody hell?
The Plot section of this article is nothing but a damn review, it needs to be edited immedietely!

Seriously, the section breaks Wikipedias rules so bad it's not funny, shame on the original author!

Is it really appropriate to have a list of guns shown in the movie? If you really wanted to know what sort of guns the army had in the first gulf war, why dont they just go to their page via the links? Great flick though!

 * I'm going to remove the list of weapons, because it doesn't really fit. This page is about the movie, not the props. Sum0 19:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Weapons

 * M9 Pistol
 * Colt M-16A2
 * M40A1 Sniper Rifle
 * M60 Machine Gun
 * M60E3
 * M249 SAW
 * Browning M2HB
 * M203 Grenade Launcher

opinion
This film is an embarrasment to the U.S.M.C, the U.S.A and to the entertainment establishment. They should be ashamed of themselves for producing a true piece of garbage like this. What a load of crap! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bonnee1 (talk • contribs). moved here from article -- Zondor 05:06, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It's good that this was removed from the article, but this isn't a discussion page for the movie; it's a discussion page for the article. It shouldn't be here at all. 68.9.205.10 20:02, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Agreed. The user's opinion on the film has no place here at all. I'd delete it myself, but I'm unsure on the Wikipedia protocol on this sort of thing. It's hardly neutral, anyway! Ackatsis 12:18, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Edit by a dude: This is fucking Wikipedia man, no room for reviews! Go to metacritic or some shit, this place is neutral! The information here is neutral! Wikipedia is supposed to educate and show both sides of the spectrum not a battleground for arguing if it’s good or bad!

Trivia Dupes
Most of the trivia appear also in the IMDB entry. I don't think this information needs to be duplicated. The section should be pruned. gbrandt 07:52, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I am of the opinion that trivia is not encyclopedic, and that the triva section of just about everything should be removed. Your thoughts? Seaphoto 03:34, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

"Cameo"
The article contains the claim: "The videogame Metroid makes a verbal cameo in the movie." This, to me, appears to stretch credibility. Can a videogame make a cameo? (No, it would be part of the mise-en-scene). And since videogames cannot talk, I have a horrible suspicion that by "making a verbal cameo" the contributor means "Metroid is mentioned by someone".

So ... someone mentions a videogame in the course of this movie. Is this worth saying at all, never mind entering on wikipedia, never mind actually reading? I'm not going to delete it, in case my interpretation is wrong, but would someone kindly explain if I've got it wrong? Garrick92 10:03, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Should this movie have a tag on it as an anti-war film? When I saw it, I thought the scene where there is a horse running around the desert and Gyllenhaal whips the oil off of it, there seems to be an underlying idea that war is senseless and the effects of it not only on humans but other creatures as well. Just a thought.

uniforms
did anyone notice no name tags on the bdu's? that is why most military films suck. Keltik31 21:09, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I was watching it and noticed that and realized that this film SUCKED because there were no nametags. I started throwing stuff around and broke a lot of furniture.Capt Jim 07:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

The Marines did not put name tapes on their cammies until 1992 or 1993. Marines in the Desert in 1991 would not have had name tapes. Get angry at it for other reasons - there are a few. --Bdunbar 23:54, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Bdunbar is correct. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 17:42, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Slate?!
The word slate is linked to the mineral. Somebody correct that?

Novel??
I have changed the word novel to book, as novel implies fiction, where as Jarhead is a factual book

Characters List
Anyone else think we should have a character list like on the Platoon (film) article?Capt Jim 07:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I've created a characters section, feel free to correct any mistakes. Capt Jim 21:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Paradox
From the PLOT: Fowler is seen to be spending time with his girlfriend at a bar...

Yet, under CHARACTERS:

...and after the war he is shown in a bar with what appears to be a prostitute of Asian descent.

- 75.4.200.230 09:39, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

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Dear John video
When I first saw this movie, I called BS on the video part. I first heard that story in Germany in the late 1980's. I heard it in 1991 in Saudi Arabia. In both cases, it happened to someone in the "next unit over." Since those experiences don't count, here is what Snopes has to say about Video Bye-Bye, with the book Jarhead as a source. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 18:13, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

character personalities
You know, some of the guys in the movie are very introverted. Swofford's spotter Troy and the guy Fergus who accidentally set fire during Swofford's Christmas Eve watch are both very introverted. I thought it was very interesting that they did contribute to the Marines in their own ways. Troy actually kept Fowler in line. learnportuguese 20:55, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Plot section
The plot section keeps being expanded and having added endless irrelevant minutia, by anon ips. I understand that this being a Mendes movie, it probably has some sort of cult following, but nevertheless, I think it should be pruned. --W2bh (talk) 14:06, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Comment: I also have doubts of the relevance of the extensive and precisely detailed characters section. --W2bh (talk) 14:14, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Shooting Accident
I would like to know if the shooting accident of an private, shown in the recruit training scene is based on a real fact. Or is it one of those USMC legends? Did they really use 'real bullets' for the training, like shown in this movie? Did it really happen in Anthony Swoffords unit? Maybe someone knows more about it. Thx for your response. 84.159.49.59 (talk) 10:24, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

It was his Dad!
the article says:

"The mood is disturbed when a disheveled Vietnam veteran, possibly suffering from the memories of the conflict, jumps into their bus, and congratulates them all"

It was actually his Dad - he calls Swoff 'son' when he calls the others 'Marine'. Also the flashback early of 'conversations with Dad' backs this up. I haven't changed the article as someone else might want to verify this. PseudoEdit  (yak)(track) 19:29, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Branding
"a cruel joke played on him by the senior Marines. This involves branding onto him the initials of the United States Marine Corps, USMC, with a hot iron. This is a popular tattoo amongst Marines. He faints upon sight of the iron. After regaining consciousness, he is greeted coolly by Troy (Peter Sarsgaard), who says to him, "Welcome to the Suck.""
 * This misses out the critical point that, when he woke up, he realised that he hadn't been branded at all (with Troy explaining that the iron was cold, and if you want a brand, you have to earn it). Or did I misinterpret that scene? Wardog (talk) 14:16, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

suck
The tagline "Welcome to the suck" is probably a reference to Full Metal Jacket, taglined "Welcome to Vietnam where the wind doesn't blow, it sucks", among numerous other FMJ referencesД narchistPig (talk) 03:08, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

References to Full Metal Jacket movie
Im suprised there isnt a section about the clear references to the borrowed dialogue and scenes in Jarhead. Its been a while since I've seen Jarhead but I remember there were quite a few. Bortson (talk) 18:32, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

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You may be interested in the discussion of an article on a sequel at Draft:Jarhead: Law of Return. Thanks. --2604:2000:E010:1100:71FC:6C85:2112:8826 (talk) 07:55, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Are the "sequels" actually sequels or just unrelated films where someone put the word "Jarhead" in the title?
If the latter, should they be here? - Immigrant laborer (talk) 01:23, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

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Mercury?
Is there a citation for the cartridge tilt sensor containing mercury? It's supposed to use a solid-state piezo sensor and I'm having trouble finding piezo sensors which contain any mercury. In fact, I'm having trouble finding any official statement explaining the launch delay.--Unsigned

I'm removing this until I see a citation. I cannot understand why any piezoelectric gyro would contain mercury, and until then I can only assume that the "popular opinion" is only due to a misguided concept of how these things work (perhaps suggested by a mercury thermostat). It's not something that we should repeat without evidence as mercury is rather dangerous. 63.241.207.195 20:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * It's completely unlikely anyway as producing the cart would involve manoeuvring around laws and such that prevent children from having access to such things. --Thaddius 18:29, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yoshi's Univesal Gravitation was released in Europe without any problem, and it features the same piezoelectric gyro of Wario Ware Twisted. --217.203.239.128 (talk) 20:08, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The claim has been added back, with no citation. Fixing. 216.59.225.251 (talk) 21:40, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Special Appearances
There is an appearance of the magical music box he is trapped in during Wario Land 3. It appears in the training level at Wario's house. It's first seen while the mouse is walking through the inside of Wario's house (after passing the motorcycle). It is seen on top of a cupboard with Wario's laptop (the room also features the clock in the Speed Spin levels).

There is also a special appearance of a picture from (what I think is) Wario Land 4 in the room mentioned above. It is hanging on the right of the screen, and has part of a pyramid in it.

There may also be Wario's radio from the original game, but I'm not sure.

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State of European release
If it was never released in Europe, why is there a European box? Unless is was a pre-released image, and not an actual box. In that case, suggestions of European release should be removed since seriously...the GBA is dead.—Ｌｏｖｅはドコ？ (talk • contribs) 16:52, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * You're mixing things up. The game was never released in Europe, and there's no European box; it's a PAL box from Australia. The Australian release date seems to be missing in the article, but it was definitely released over there according to Mobygames and various sites. Kariteh 16:56, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * OMG, there's a PEGI icon, it's really an European box... Weird. I guess it should be replaced with the NA or AUS box art then. Kariteh 17:05, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The game was all lined up to be released on two occasions. Press releases and boxart went out to the press and retail, but the game never actually reached the shelves. That's probably where the image came from. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.195.68.169 (talk) 18:31, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Do you really think Nintendo will release a GBA game in 2008?
I noticed on the page it says that Wario Ware Twisted is still under developement for Europe, but will Nintendo really bother as it is already 2008? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthall1991 (talk • contribs) 18:10, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * They released Animal Crossing about this late, so it's certainly still possible. 62.30.149.104 (talk) 09:32, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It is ridiculously unlikely now I agree, but Nintendo's official line (as stated in the article) remains that it is undergoing testing for release in Europe. U-Mos (talk) 14:02, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok thanks, As it is already May 2008, It is nearly certain not to get a European release so I removed all the refrences in the article about it awaiting release in Europe. Anthall1991 (talk) 15:46, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Someone has added the "TBD" for Europe again. It's right that NoE's site states that Twisted!'s EU release is "TBD". But the entry for Twisted! on NoE's site exists since ages and has not just been added as the article implies, and the "TBD" is there since ages as well. The upcoming DSi will even not have a GBA slot anymore. I would be very happy if this game came to Europe, but I highly doubt it. I don't think it's necessary to say in the article that a reputed European release is still possible, it's just too unlikely. --Grandy02 (talk) 22:23, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

microgame relation
"Three Microgames from WarioWare: Twisted! appear during 9-Volt's stage in WarioWare: Smooth Moves using the "Chauffeur" form"

Why is this noteworthy? There are a number of the same or similar microgames featured in multiple WarioWare games. Zixor (talk) 01:28, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

European consolation
"However European Gamers Can Experance Twisted In WarioWare Smooth Moves For Wii As A Mirco Game."

I don't know what is a "Mirco Game" (maybe a microgame?), or "experance", but the phrase added to the article, that I have already removed, is false, because the whole videogame was never included into Smooth Moves. It's common in the Wario Ware series that some minigames from a title are remade or included in another title. Actually, the only way for an european to play Wario Ware Twisted is to import it from the USA and pay a lot of money. Thank you, Nintendo of Europe. --217.203.239.128 (talk) 20:06, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Yoshi's Universal Gravitation
This game was actually released in Europe and contained the tilting sensor featured in Wario Ware. --217.203.239.128 (talk) 01:13, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

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Catalina Fish Kitchen
Single, non-notable restaurant in Costa Mesa. -- Kjkolb 07:13, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

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Michael Burns (actor)

Michael Thornton Burns (born December 30, 1947) is an American professor emeritus of history at Mount Holyoke College, and a published author and former television and film teen actor, most known for the television series Wagon Train.

Background
Michael Thornton Burns was born in Mineola, New York, on Long Island, to director and producer Frank Xavier Burns (best known for the early television series, Martin Kane, Private Eye) and Mary Lou DeWeese. He has an older sister, Pamela.

In 1949, the family moved to Yonkers. In 1956, the family relocated to Beverly Hills, California, where he attended Beverly Hills High School.

He attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia for a year before he transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles. There he took classes mostly in the evening, as he often worked as an actor during many days. He resided in Redondo Beach.

He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. He obtained his Master of Arts in European history at the same institution. In 1977, he entered Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and earned a PhD in modern European history.

Actor
Burns was discovered by Lee Wallace, the head of casting for 20th Century Fox, who arranged Burns's appearance on the 1960 episode "A Taste of Lobster" of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; Burns played a shrewd 13-year-old businessman, Chrissie Tyler, who owned a babysitting agency. His first credited appearance occurred on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the 1959 episode "Special Delivery" (Season 5 Episode 10) as Joe. He also guest-starred that first year (1960) in Wagon Train as the son of title character played by Leslie Nielsen in the episode "The Jeremy Dow Story".

He co-starred in a 19-episode NBC comedy/drama It's a Man's World (1962–63 season) as 14-year-old Howie Macauley. Beginning in the fall of 1960, Burns made five guest appearances on Wagon Train during its third and fourth seasons. His sixth guest appearance on the final sixth-season episode in 1963 introduced his character, Barnaby West, a regular until the series' end in 1965.

Burns appeared with James Stewart in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, a 1962 film. In 1965, Burns auditioned for The Monkees and was one of the 14 finalists who completed screen tests. In 1966, he joined Audie Murphy in the Western film, 40 Guns to Apache Pass. He appeared as a guest star in over 35 series during the 1960s and 1970s, mostly Westerns, including Gunsmoke, The Virginian, The Road West, The Legend of Jesse James, and The Big Valley. In his 20s, he appeared in several films, including Journey to Shiloh (1968), The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968), That Cold Day in the Park (1969), Thumb Tripping (1972), and Santee (1973). He appeared as Blue Boy in "The LSD Story", the pilot episode of the relaunched Jack Webb police series Dragnet 1967.

Historian
In 1980, Burns became a professor of history at Mount Holyoke. In 1991, he authored, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789–1945, a study of the Dreyfus affair in France during the 1890s. A reviewer of Burns's book writing in The New York Times called the work "a solidly written book about the man and his family, a book that emphasizes the elemental human drama of the captain's story." Upon his retirement in 2002, Burns was honoured by Mount Holyoke with the designation professor emeritus.

Later life
While on the faculty at Mount Holyoke College, Burns wed the college's then-president, Elizabeth Topham Kennan in June 1986. She has a son, Frank Alexander Kennan, from her previous marriage.

Since 2002, the couple have resided in Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky. They have restored the Cambus-Kenneth Estate, a crop, cattle, and thoroughbred horse farm listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Burns is a member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders, and the Kentucky Cattlemen's Association.

A Democrat, Burns was a donor to U.S. Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election and to Daniel Mongiardo, the party nominee for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky that same year. Kerry and Mongiardo lost to incumbent Republicans George W. Bush and Jim Bunning, respectively.

Books

 * France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History (1998)
 * Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789–1945 (1991)
 * Rural Society and French Politics: Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair, 1886–1900 (1984)

Reviews

 * Michael Burns, review of Gillian Tindall's The Journey of Martin Nadaud: "Local Hero: How a provincial laborer became a reformer in 19th-century France", The New York Times, October 8, 2000.

Select filmography and television

 * Police Woman – Powers (1977)
 * The Bionic Woman – Carl Franklin (1977)
 * The Streets of San Francisco (1973–1976)
 * Love, American Style (1972–1973)
 * Santee – Jody (1973) With Glenn Ford
 * Thumb Tripping – Gary (1972)
 * Gidget Gets Married – Jeff (Moondoggie) (1972)
 * The F.B.I. – Holt Campbell (Season 6, Ep 22, 1971)
 * The Partridge Family – Paul (1971) "The Undergraduate"
 * Hawaii Five-O – William T. Shem Jr. (Episode 78, 1971)
 * Then Came Bronson Billy Mulavey (Episode 16, 1970)
 * The Virginian (6 episodes 1966–1971)
 * Gunsmoke – Arlie Joe (1968–1970)
 * That Cold Day in the Park – The boy (1969)
 * Dragnet 1969 – Joy Riders as Harold Rustin (1969)
 * The Mad Room – George Hardy (1969)
 * The Outcasts – as Randy Forrest in the episode "The Bounty Children" (1968)
 * The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell – Private Johnny Bannon (1968)
 * Journey to Shiloh – as Eubie Bell (1968)
 * The Big Valley – Danny Wiggins (1968)
 * Daniel Boone – Cal Trevor in the episode "The Spanish Horse" (1967)
 * Dragnet 1967 – Benjie "Blueboy" Carver in "The LSD Story" with Robert Knapp (1967)
 * Dundee and the Culhane – Nugget Hughes in "The 1000 Feet Deep Brief" (1967)
 * ’’40 Guns to Apache Pass’’ (1967)
 * Bonanza – Donny Benson in the episode "Napoleon's Children" (1967)
 * Insight – six episodes from 1967 to 1972, the last as Douglas Hendricks in '"Nobody Loves a Rich Uncle"
 * The Big Valley – Lon Morton (1966)
 * Bonanza – Jamie in the episode "The Trouble with Jamie" (1966)
 * Wagon Train – Barnaby West (28 episodes, 1960–1965)
 * Kraft Mystery Theater – Little Bob Longstreet in the episode "Shadow of a Man" (1963)
 * It's A Man's World – Howie Macauley (1962–1963)
 * "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" – Danny Hobbs (1962)
 * Wagon Train – Billy Latham in "The Dr. Denker Story" Season5, Episode 16, Jan 31, 1962
 * The Twilight Zone – Paul Stockton in "The Shelter" (1961)
 * The Tall Man – Danny in "Ransom of a Town" (1961)
 * Wagon Train – Homer Banning in "The Odyssey of Flint McCullough" (02/15/1961)
 * Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961) (Season 6 Episode 29: "The Pearl Necklace") - Billy Lansing
 * Tales of Wells Fargo – Billy Matson in "Frightened Witness" (1960)
 * Shotgun Slade – in "The Missing Dog" (1960)
 * Wrangler – Clary Browning in the episode "The Affair with Browning's Woman" (1960)
 * The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis – Chrissie Tyler in the episode "A Taste For Lobster" (1960)
 * Wagon Train – Bruce Millikan in the episode "The Jeremy Dow Story" (1960 – S4E14)
 * Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960) (Season 6 Episode 2: "The Doubtful Doctor") - Sidney
 * Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959) (Season 5 Episode 10: "Special Delivery") - Joe

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Projection pursuit

Projection pursuit (PP) is a type of statistical technique that involves finding the most "interesting" possible projections in multidimensional data. Often, projections that deviate more from a normal distribution are considered to be more interesting. As each projection is found, the data are reduced by removing the component along that projection, and the process is repeated to find new projections; this is the "pursuit" aspect that motivated the technique known as matching pursuit.

The idea of projection pursuit is to locate the projection or projections from high-dimensional space to low-dimensional space that reveal the most details about the structure of the data set. Once an interesting set of projections has been found, existing structures (clusters, surfaces, etc.) can be extracted and analyzed separately.

Projection pursuit has been widely used for blind source separation, so it is very important in independent component analysis. Projection pursuit seeks one projection at a time such that the extracted signal is as non-Gaussian as possible.

History
Projection pursuit technique were originally proposed and experimented by Kruskal. Related ideas occur in Switzer (1970) "Numerical classification" pp31–43 in "Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences: Geostatistics, and Switzer and Wright (1971) "Numerical classification of eocene nummulitids," Mathematical Geology pp 297–311. The first successful implementation is due to Jerome H. Friedman and John Tukey (1974), who named projection pursuit.

The original purpose of projection pursuit was to machine-pick "interesting" low-dimensional projections of a high-dimensional point cloud by numerically maximizing a certain objective function or projection index.

Several years later, Friedman and Stuetzle extended the idea behind projection pursuit and added projection pursuit regression (PPR), projection pursuit classification (PPC), and projection pursuit density estimation (PPDE).

Feature
The most exciting feature of projection pursuit is that it is one of the very few multivariate methods able to bypass the "curse of dimensionality" caused by the fact that high-dimensional space is mostly empty. In addition, projection pursuit is able to ignore irrelevant (i.e. noisy and information-poor) variables. This is a distinct advantage over methods based on interpoint distances like minimal spanning trees, multidimensional scaling and most clustering techniques.

Many of the methods of classical multivariate analysis turn out to be special cases of projection pursuit. Examples are principal component analysis and discriminant analysis, and the quartimax and oblimax methods in factor analysis.

One serious drawback of projection pursuit methods is their high demand on computer time.

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Merge
It seems that "Dollart" is the german name, while Netherlands is Dollard. Google prefers dollart; but this is because of German massive prevalence. If restrict to English pages only the prevalence is less, but still due to german originated pages. So my choice would be "Dollard" for the main page. mikka (t) 07:15, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Exporting a .dif from 3D World Studio

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Philip Wadler

Philip Lee Wadler (born April 8, 1956) is a UK-based American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory. He is holds the position of Personal Chair of theoretical computer science at the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He has contributed to the theory behind functional programming and the use of monads; and the designs of the purely functional language Haskell and the XQuery declarative query language. In 1984, he created the Orwell language. Wadler was involved in adding generic types to Java 5.0. He is also author of "Theorems for free!", a paper that gave rise to much research on functional language optimization (see also Parametricity).

Education
Wadler received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Stanford University in 1977, and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in 1984. His thesis was entitled "Listlessness is better than laziness" and was supervised by Nico Habermann.

Research and career
Wadler's research interests  are in programming languages.

Wadler was a research fellow at the Programming Research Group (part of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory) and St Cross College, Oxford during 1983–87. He was progressively lecturer, reader, and professor at the University of Glasgow from 1987 to 1996. Wadler was a member of technical staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (1996–99) and then at Avaya Labs (1999–2003). Since 2003, he has been professor of theoretical computer science in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

Wadler was editor of the Journal of Functional Programming from 1990 to 2004.

Since 2003, Wadler has been a professor of theoretical computer science at the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and is the chair of theoretical computer science. In 2006, he was working on a new functional language for writing web applications, called Links. He has supervised many doctoral students to completion. He is also a member of the university's Blockchain Technology Laboratory. Wadler has a h-index of 72 with 26,864 citations at Google Scholar.

Since 2018 Wadler has also been a senior research fellow and area leader for programming languages at IOHK (now Input Output Global), the blockchain engineering company developing Cardano. He has contributed to work on Plutus, a Turing-complete smart contract language for Cardano written in Haskell; the UTXO ledger system, native tokens, and System F in Agda.

Awards and honours
In 2003, Wadler was given the award for the most influential paper from ten years earlier by the Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages. The award cited "Imperative functional programming", a paper written jointly with Simon Peyton Jones in 1993. In 2005, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). In 2007, he was inducted as a fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2023.

title: Philip Wadler