Special Delivery is a 2008 television film distributed by MarVista Entertainment. The film first aired on September 1, 2008 in the United Kingdom on Sky Movies and on December 21, 2008 in the United States. The lead characters in the film are played by Brenda Song and Lisa Edelstein. Robert Gant also stars. The film aired on the Diva TV network in the summer of 2010 and was available for the international marketplace in the fall of 2009. The film was released on DVD internationally on February 13, 2009.

Production
Most of the film was shot in Oahu, Hawaii. The production company, Special Delivery LLC, is based at Hawaii Media Inc. in Halawa Valley. The film was the first by the Island Film Group and some of the crew were locals. Producer Francis Conway describes Special Delivery as a "Midnight Run-style action-comedy". The film was distributed by MarVista Entertainment. The filming locations included the John A. Burns School of Medicine in Oahu, Hawaii. Some students and locals got extra parts in the film.

MarVista's president, Michael D. Jacobs, and the company's CEO, Fernando Szew, served as executive producers. Marc Lorber, MarVista's senior VP of production, and Sue Reiner, the company's head of television, served as co-executive producers alongside Island Film Group's Ricardo S. Galindez and Roy J. Tjioe. Michael Scott directed the movie from a script written by Matt Dearborn, whose credits include Beyond the Break, Beverly Hills, 90210 and the Disney Channel series Even Stevens. The film was shot in four weeks, according to Song.

Premise
Song has stated, "It also stars Lisa Edelstein from House and Robert Grant, who's on Queer as Folk. It's a great film - she's a courier, a special courier, and she has a job with a businessman in China, (and) he has something that he wants her to deliver, and it's me, "Song explains." She has to deliver me to my mom in Hawaii. There's a whole lot of twists and turns. I can’t say too much about it, but let's say that my dad, he hasn’t been completely honest, and there's some people after us.

"It's fun; it's a movie about forgiveness, whether it's forgiving yourself or a friend or a parent, and it kind of shows two versions of that, which means her story and mine."

The entire film was shot at 16 locations in Oahu, including Kahala, Waikiki, Chinatown, North Shore, Turtle Bay Resort. Honolulu Airport, a nightclub, hospital, and several street scenes.

Plot
The film centers on Alice Cantwell and Maxine Carter. Maxine is the best-connected bond courier working in the Pacific Rim. Maxine is constantly on the move and is always traveling, and likes to keep it that way, ever since she watched her young child, Penny, die in a terrible car accident. Maxine's current delivery is Alice, the troubled and emotionally struggling daughter of one of China's richest businessmen. After a bitter and twisted custody battle, Alice is headed to Hawaii to live with her mother. But almost as soon as they land on US soil, Maxine senses things are not right. She soon figures out that Alice's father is in trouble with the Chinese government and his daughter may not be the only thing he is trying to smuggle into America. With danger around every corner, it's up to Max to deliver Alice safe and sound to her mother's home. The only problem is the longer Alice and Maxine spend together, the more Maxine starts to wonder what's worse, the bad guys after Alice or Alice's bad attitude towards life.

Cast
 Brenda Song - Alice Marie Cantwell
 Lisa Edelstein - Maxine Carter
 Robert Gant - Nate
 Julie Ow - Naomi
 Michael Cowell - Bill Devane
 Stan Egi - Danny Wong
 Dann Seki - Dawson
 Ned Van Zandt - Alan Cantwell
 Milan Tresnak - Rudd Weathers
 Blade Rogers - Dex
 Alana Brennan - Fran
 Bonnie Berger - Flight Attendant
 Brock Little - Darius
 Rob Duval - Keith
 Travis Rose - Bouncer
 Paul T. Mitri - Ivan
 Kristian Peterson - Valet Guy
 Jennifer MacWilliams - Dr. Clare
 Walter Klenhard - Randy
 Matt Goldstein - Passenger Asleep On Plane

Release
The film's full-length trailer was released on November 17, 2008. The film has aired on Sky Movies in the UK and the Lifetime Movie Network in the United States in December 2008. The film was available for the international marketplace in the fall. The UK premiere averaged over 4 million, the highest ever for a movie on Sky Movies. The film aired on Sky Movies's comedy channel on July 8, 2009 and previously aired on BBC One in March 2009. The film additionally had a limited theatrical release in several European countries and was featured in many film festivals.

Critical reception
The film generally received mixed reviews. Sky Movies have given the film a low rating and a moderately negative review. The film's rating in the United Kingdom on Sky Movies was 12A, which means that the film is suitable for children aged 12 years old and older. The film was aired at night because of the rating. In July 2009, the film's rating changed to PG, which means that general viewing may be unsuitable for young children. The Daily Record called the film a very "likeable comedy". The film received a positive review from the site, Comic films.

The reviewer said: "the movie is well filmed and it succeeds in hooking audience attention from within the first few seconds. Clues and information are offered effectively. However the reviewer said certain details of the resolution of the twisting and turning story seem to be rushed, unexplained or lacking. Nonetheless the reviewer said "this is a pleasant night's viewing and strong performances coupled with good direction by Michael Scott create a movie of much higher quality than many other television movies of a similar genre." The reviewer also praised the lead performers in the film, Brenda Song and Lisa Edelstein saying Edelstein brings her usual sintilating skill to the role, immediately causing the character to be both engaging and believably natural. The reviewer also said, Song who sings some of the soundtrack, not only adds to the amusing aspects of the movie, she also succeeds in allowing her bratty character to become both likeable and understandable. They also gave the supporting cast a positive review.

The Australian publication, "Urban CineFilm" said: "Engaging from the start, Special Delivery introduces us to Max (Lisa Edelstein) as the resourceful courier, who was once a high flying lawyer ... and married ... and a mother ... We start picking up the pieces that make up the bigger picture of Max and our interest is piqued. When she takes on the job of escorting a spoilt 14-year-old (Brenda Song) from Macau to Hawaii, the generation gap conflict provides plenty of sparks, but a sense of danger is also introduced, making it an edgy trip. Brenda Song is terrific as the spoilt brat on a journey that will sober her up and Edelstein is feisty and likeable (and reminiscent of Jennifer Connelly) as the no-nonsense Max - with demons to keep at bay. The screenplay has a sense of fun, which director Michael Scott translates well onto the screen, so the action and tension is spiced with hip humour, based on character as well as situation. Max does her job, delivering Alice to her mother - in more ways than she anticipated.

Other than one logic-defying scene, the film offers great escapist entertainment and interesting characters for whom we come to care. The locations are great, too."

Marketing
The film's full-length trailer was released in the internet on November 25, 2008. It was featured in the Living Proof DVD. The film's tagline, which is also featured in the poster is "Danger. Expected."

Soundtrack
The soundtrack of Special Delivery was released exclusively under the Universal Music Group on August 11, 2008. The soundtrack featured tracks from the Velvet Underground, Cheap Trick, David Bowie and a minor track by Brenda Song. The hit single, "4ever" by Australian girl band, The Veronicas was featured in the film's promotional commercials.

DVD

References

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2008 television films
2008 films
2000s coming-of-age comedy-drama films
American coming-of-age comedy-drama films
American comedy-drama television films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


The Guyanese passport is issued to citizens of Guyana for international travel.  As of July 2007, Guyana has issued the common Caribbean passport, featuring the logo of the Caribbean Community on the cover.

The passport contains 32 pages and is issued for a validity period of 5 years. New machine readable passports are issued by the Passport Office within 5–7 days in Guyana (Weekend not included). The old Green cover passports remain valid until the end of their stated period of validity.

All passports are processed and issued by the Central Immigration and Passport Office (an arm of the Guyana Police Force) in Georgetown, Guyana. The Passport Office falls under the purview of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Languages
The previous non-Machine-readable passport (MRP) used English (the official language of Guyana) and French as the two languages in the Passport. The current CARICOM Guyana MRP has dropped French and instead uses English and Spanish as the two languages in the Passport. However, this is only done on the biodata page. All other pages use only English.

Period of Validity
The previous non-Machine-readable passport (MRP) was valid for 5 years, and could be renewed for 5 years after the first expiry date, and another 5 years after the expiry of the renewal (for a total of 15 years total usage). In all cases of renewal, a recent photograph of the bearer is affixed to the passport.
The current Guyana CARICOM Passport is valid for 5 years and may not be renewed. Instead a new passport must be obtained at the end of that 5-year period, or if there is no more space for visas, or travel.

Passport Message
The note contained in both the pre-Guyana CARICOM Passport, and the Guyana CARICOM Passport reads:

"These are to request and require in the name of the President of the Republic of Guyana all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance, and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary."

Design
The current CARICOM Guyana MRP has a striking and colorful design with images of local flora, fauna, architecture, and natural wonders adorning the Visa pages and the inside covers of the passport. The Coat of arms of Guyana is one of the design elements used throughout the passport. The design also includes various security features to protect the integrity of the passport.

Visa requirements
As of 9 November 2022, Guyanese citizens have visa-free or visa on arrival access to 88 countries and territories, ranking the Guyanese passport 64th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley visa restrictions index.

Gallery

See also
 Caribbean passport
 Visa requirements for Guyanese citizens

References

 List of countries whose passport holders do not require visas to enter Ireland .

Passports by country
Government of Guyana


Elisabeth Görgl (born 20 February 1981) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria.

Born in Bruck an der Mur, Styria, Görgl made her World Cup debut in March 2000 and has reached World Cup podiums in all five alpine disciplines, with multiple victories in giant slalom, super-G, and downhill. In January 2008, she won her first World Cup race in the giant slalom at Maribor, Slovenia.

At the 2009 World Championships at Val d'Isère, Görgl won a bronze medal in super combined. In 2011 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, she won two gold medals, the first in the Super-G and a second in the downhill five days later. Her sweep of the two women's speed events marked the third consecutive occurrence at the World Championships – preceded by Lindsey Vonn in 2009 at Val d'Isere and Anja Pärson in 2007 at Åre.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Görgl won the bronze medal in the downhill – the same medal in the same event as her mother half a century earlier at the 1960 and the 1964 Winter Olympics. A week later she also won bronze in the giant slalom. Görgl also participated in 4 disciplines in the 2014 Winter Olympics (Downhill, giant slalom, super-G, combined).

On 12 June 2017 she announced her retirement from active skiing. Her last race was a Super-G in Aspen in March the same year.

Personal
Görgl is the daughter of Traudl Hecher (b. 1943), an alpine racer for Austria in the early 1960s. She won Olympic bronze medals in the downhill in 1960 (at age 16) and 1964, and remains the youngest Olympic medalist in alpine skiing. Görgl's older brother Stephan (b. 1978) is a former World Cup alpine racer; he competed in the giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

World Cup results

Season standings
 Ranking and points

Race victories
 7 wins – (2 DH, 3 SG, 2 GS)
 42 podiums – (14 DH, 6 SG, 15 GS, 3 SL, 1 PS, 3 SC)

World championships

Winter Olympics

References

External links

 Elisabeth Görgl World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation

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 Austrian Ski team – official site – Elisabeth Görgl –
 Head Skis – teams – Elisabeth Görgl

1981 births
Living people
People from Bruck an der Mur
Olympic alpine skiers for Austria
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Austrian female alpine skiers
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Skiers from Styria
20th-century Austrian women
21st-century Austrian women


The Surinamese passport () is issued to citizens of Suriname for international travel. The passport is a Caricom passport as Suriname is a member of the Caribbean Community.

As of 1 January 2017, Surinamese citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 74 countries and territories, ranking the Surinamese passport 65th in terms of travel freedom (tied with Botswana passport) according to the Henley visa restrictions index.

Caribbean
 Visa policy toward Surinamese in the region
 British
 Dutch
 French

See also
 Visa requirements for Surinamese citizens
 Visa policy of Suriname

References

Passports by country
Government of Suriname


Jeff Greenberg is a social psychology professor at the University of Arizona.
He is notable for coining the concept of Terror Management Theory, with two of his colleagues, Sheldon Solomon and Tom Pyszczynski.

Jeff Greenberg is also featured in the 2003 documentary Flight From Death, a film that investigates the relationship of human violence to fear of death, as related to subconscious influences.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Arizona faculty
American social psychologists


Julius James (born 9 July 1984) is a Trinidadian footballer.

Career

College
James played college soccer for the University of Connecticut, and was a 2007 Hermann Trophy candidate and Lowe's Senior CLASS Award finalist.

Professional
James drafted 9th overall in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft by Toronto FC, and played with them during their 2008 preseason, but suffered a shoulder injury against the New York Red Bulls and missed his side's first two matches of the 2008 regular season. He recovered to make the bench for Toronto's first win of the season against the Los Angeles Galaxy, and scored on his MLS debut, also against Galaxy.

James was traded to Houston Dynamo on 12 December 2008 as part of the deal that took Dwayne De Rosario to Toronto FC. On 14 August 2009, after a short loan period at Minnesota Thunder in the USL First Division, James was traded to D.C. United in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft. On 11 September 2010 James scored his 2nd goal for DC in a 1–0 away win vs. his old team Toronto.

On 17 February 2011, D.C. United waived James.

On 28 February 2011, Columbus Crew announced that they had signed James. He made his debut on the next day as a second-half substitute in the second leg of the Crew's CONCACAF Champions League quarter-final series against Real Salt Lake. He played his first league game with the Crew on 19 March 2011 against his former team, D.C. United, in their 2011 MLS season opener.

James signed a multi-year contract extension with Columbus on 6 July 2011.

After the conclusion of the 2012 season, Columbus declined the 2013 option on James's contract and he entered the 2012 MLS Re-Entry Draft. James became a free agent after he went undrafted in both rounds of the draft.

James signed with Carolina RailHawks of the North American Soccer League (NASL) for the 2013 season. On 1 March 2014, James signed with San Antonio Scorpions of NASL. He re-signed with San Antonio on 9 January 2015.

Following the 2015 NASL season, the Scorpions suspended operations. On 27 January 2016, James signed with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers.

International
James played for the Trinidad and Tobago Under-17 Team that traveled to Brazil, Haiti, and the United States, and took part in the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship, where they suffered a 6–1 defeat to Brazil in the group stage. He earned his first senior cap for Trinidad and Tobago national football team against Guyana on 3 September 2008.

Personal
James was a resource economics major at the University of Connecticut. He now resides in Fort Lauderdale, FL and is an elite soccer coach for International Miami CF Academy. He is married with one child.

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Trinidad and Tobago men's footballers
Trinidad and Tobago expatriate men's footballers
UConn Huskies men's soccer players
Westchester Flames players
Toronto FC players
Houston Dynamo FC players
Minnesota Thunder players
D.C. United players
Columbus Crew players
North Carolina FC players
San Antonio Scorpions players
Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Men's association football defenders
People from Tunapuna–Piarco
Trinidad and Tobago expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Trinidad and Tobago expatriate sportspeople in the United States
USL League Two players
Major League Soccer players
USL First Division players
North American Soccer League (2011–2017) players
Toronto FC draft picks
Fort Lauderdale Strikers players
Sacramento Republic FC players
USL Championship players
All-American college men's soccer players
Trinidad and Tobago men's international footballers
National Premier Soccer League players


Gordon Jones may refer to:

Sportspeople
Gordon Jones (footballer, born 1886) (1886–1977), Builth F.C. and Wales international footballer
Gordon Jones (footballer, born 1889), English football player for Bolton Wanderers, Tottenham Hotspur and several other clubs
Gordon Jones (footballer, born 1943), English football player for Middlesbrough
Gordon Jones (Australian footballer) (1913–1999), Australian rules footballer
Gordon Jones (baseball) (1930–1994), Major League Baseball pitcher
Gordon Jones (American football) (born 1957), American football player

Others
Gordon Jones (actor) (1911–1963), noted for playing the Green Hornet in a movie serial
Gordon Jones (folk musician) (born 1947), Scottish musician
Doug Jones (politician) (Gordon Douglas Jones, born 1954), U.S. senator from Alabama


Hawaii, Oslo is a 2004 Norwegian drama film, directed by Erik Poppe with a screenplay by Harald Rosenløw Eeg. It stars Trond Espen Seim, Aksel Hennie, Jan Gunnar Røise and Petronella Barker.

The film's music was composed by John Erik Kaada and Bugge Wesseltoft. Produced by Finn Gjerdrum and distributed by Paradox Spillefilm, the film is in the Norwegian language and was edited by Arthur Coburn.

Production
The film was shot in Oslo, Norway, with an estimated budget of NOK 20,000,000.

Plot
Vidar (Seim), who works at a psychiatric hospital, tries to keep himself awake as much as he can, because he has several times dreamt of horrible events that turned out to be true premonitions. At one point, he dreams that Leon (Røise), one of the patients, who is supposed to meet his ex-girlfriend, never meets her, but is hit by an ambulance instead.

Release and reception
The film was released on 24 September 2004 and was generally well received by the Norwegian press. Dagbladet gave the film five out of six points, and called it an "intense cinematic experience". Aftenposten awarded six out of six points, claiming the movie expanded the boundaries of Norwegian film. Verdens Gang also gave the film six out of six points.

Awards
The film was awarded two Amanda Awards in 2005"Best Film (Norwegian)" and "Best Screenplay". It was also nominated in the categories "Best Director" and "Best Actor" (Stig Henrik Hoff).

Cast

 Trond Espen Seim as Vidar
 Jan Gunnar Røise as Leon
 Evy Kasseth Røsten as Åsa
 Stig Henrik Hoff as Frode
 Silje Torp Færavaag as Milla
 Robert Skjærstad as Viggo
 Petronella Barker as Bobbie
 Bejamin Røsler as Mikkel
 Ferdinand Falsen-Hiis as Magne
 Judith Darko as Tina
 Aksel Hennie as Trygve
 Morten Faldaas as John

See also

 2004 in film
 Cinema of Norway
 List of Amanda Award winners
 List of drama films
 Norwegian films of the 2000s

References

External links

2004 films
2004 drama films
Films set in Oslo
Films shot in Norway
2000s Norwegian-language films
Films directed by Erik Poppe
Films scored by John Erik Kaada
Hyperlink films
Norwegian drama films


Banta is an unincorporated community in Johnson and Morgan counties, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

History
A post office was established at Banta in 1883, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904. Banta was named for David Demaree Banta (1833-1896), a Johnson County historian and judge. Prior to 1883, it was called Dresslarsville.

David Banta was a trustee of Indiana University in Bloomington, and was the first dean of its law school, now the Maurer School of Law. He served from 1889 until his death in 1896. His elder son George founded the Banta Corporation in 1901 in Menasha, Wisconsin.

Geography
Banta is located at , at an elevation of  above sea level.

References

Unincorporated communities in Johnson County, Indiana
Unincorporated communities in Morgan County, Indiana
Unincorporated communities in Indiana
Indianapolis metropolitan area


AMC Love Radio is a radio station based in Tirana, the capital of Albania. The station broadcasts mostly pop ballads.

Radio stations in Albania
Mass media in Tirana


Alfred Karl Neuland (10 October 1895 – 16 November 1966) was an Estonian weightlifter. He competed in the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal, respectively, becoming the first Olympic gold medalist from Estonia. He won a world title in 1922, and set three ratified world records in 1920–23: one in the snatch and two in the clean and jerk.

Born in Walk (Valga), Governorate of Livonia Neuland studied in Riga, Latvia, and Saint Petersburg, Russia. He took up weightlifting relatively early, and placed second at the Russian championships in 1913 and 1914; he won the Russian lightweight title in 1915 and middleweight title in 1916. Neuland then fought in World War I and in the Estonian War of Independence, and after demobilization he won Estonian weightlifting titles in 1921, 1923 and 1924. After that he retired from competitions and worked as a businessman, weightlifting coach and referee in his hometown of Valga from 1921 to 1940. From 1950 to 1955, Neuland headed the Estonian Experimental Soft Drinks Factory in Tallinn. In 1995 a monument in his honor was installed in Valga, and since 2000 an annual memorial weightlifting tournament has been held there.

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1895 births
1966 deaths
Sportspeople from Valga, Estonia
People from Kreis Walk
Estonian male weightlifters
Olympic gold medalists for Estonia
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Weightlifters at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Olympic weightlifters for Estonia
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Estonian military personnel of the Estonian War of Independence
Burials at Metsakalmistu


Radio Tirana Klasik, formerly known as Boom Boom Radio (101.2 FM), is a classical music oriented radio station based in Tirana County, Albania, and is owned by Albania's public broadcaster RTSH.

External links
Official FB Page of Radio Tirana Klasik
Official FB page of defunct Boom Boom Radio

Radio stations in Albania
Mass media in Tirana

Radio stations established in 2017


The Gozan Bungaku or literature of the Five Mountains (Japanese: 五山文学) is the literature produced by the principal Zen (禅) monastic centers of in Kyoto and Kamakura, Japan. The term also refers to five Zen centers in China in Hangzhou and Ningpo that inspired zen in Japan, while the term "mountain" refers to Buddhist monastery.

Five Mountains literature or gozan bungaku (五山文學) is used collectively to refer to the poetry and prose in Chinese produced by Japanese monks who were active mostly during the 14th and 15th centuries.  Notable writers of the genre include Musō Soseki, Ikkyū Sōjun, Zekkai Chūsin (絶海中津), Sesson Yūbai, Gidō Shūshin, Jakushitsu Genkō, Chūgan Engetsu and Kokan Shiren. Also included are works by Chinese monks residing in Japan such as Seisetsu Shōchō (Qingzhuo Zhengcheng) and Jikusen Bonsen (竺仙梵僊, Zhuxian Fanxian)

History

The literary movement has its origin in the 13th century, influenced by two Chinese monks. The first of them, Yishan Yining, arrived in Japan in 1299 as a Yuan emissary and wrote in the Zen literary style of the Southern Song dynasty. Among his students were Kokan Shiren and Sesson Yūbai.  Another monk from the early Yuan, Kurin Seimu (古林清茂, Gulin Qingmao) was a member of the Rinzai school who initiated a different Zen style in China. Gulin never went to Japan but was nevertheless influential in the country through his Chinese and Japanese students, including Seisetsu Shōchō, Jikusen Bonsen and Sesson Yūbai.

Gozan bungaku literature may be divided into two broad periods, the first from the beginning to the late 14th century, the second from the late 14th century to its decline. Others however subdivided them into the following 4 periods:
 Growth  (279–1330) – A representative of the poets of this early period is Sesson Yūbai, a student of Yishan Yining and who wrote in an "Ancient" style.
 Peak (1330–1386) – Examples are Gidō Shūshin and Zekkai Chūsin, who were students of Musō Soseki and wrote in regulated verse forms.
 Full maturity (1386–1467) – This period saw the greatest extent of the Gozan monastic system, examples of writers in this period include Kōzei Ryūha and Ikkyū.
 Decline (1467–1615) – The start of the Ōnin War marked the decline when the great temples of Kyoto were destroyed and their monks scattered. This scattering of the monks however also helped to spread Gozan influence in poetry, painting, garden design throughout Japan.

Style
The literature of the Five Mountains highly prized a sense of humor and sympathy with life’s ordinariness. A Five Mountains poet might write about anything, in contrast to the proscribed themes of the aristocratic court poets. Kokan Shiren (d. 1346) for example would write about a mosquito.
Snouts sharp as drill bits!
Buzz like thunder as they circle the room.
They sneak through the folds of my robe,
But they could bloody the back of an ox made of iron!
The image in the final line of Mosquitoes reminds the reader of one of the custom in Zen establishments of slapping on the head with a stick those practitioners of meditation who have momentarily dozed off. In contrast, a courtier might write about the cicada and celebrate seasonal associations connected to them. To write about the mosquito would violate the courtier’s strict sense of literary decorum.

In a poem entitled "Sailing in the Moonlight", Kokan focuses on the incongruous humor of life.
We monks boat in moonlight, circle through the reeds.
The boatman shouts the tide recedes; we must return.
The village folk mistake us for a fishing boat
And scramble to the beach to buy our catch.

Five Mountains literature was not entirely concerned with the rustic cloistered world. Often the principal historical events of the day found their way into the works of the monks. Zen clerics themselves often served as advisers to the leading political figures. In a poem, "Written Suddenly While Feeling Remorse Over the Passage of Time" Chugan Engetsu (d. 1375) relates his feelings about the fall of the Kamakura shogunate a year earlier.
A year ago today the Kamakura fell.
In the monasteries now, nothing of the old mood remains.
The peddler girl understands nothing of a monk's remorse-
Shouting through the streets, selling firewood, selling vegetables.

See also
 Five Mountain System

References

Bibliography
Bruce E. Carpenter, 'Priest-Poets of the Five Mountains in Medieval Japan', in Tezukayama Daigaku ronshū, no. 16, 1977, Nara, Japan, pp. 1–11. ISSN 0385-7743.
Martin Collcutt, Five Mountains: The Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan, 1981.
 Marian Ury, Poems of the Five Mountains: An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Monasteries, Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No 10, 1992.

Zen texts
Rinzai school
History of literature in Japan
Japanese Buddhist literature
Zen art and culture
Japanese literature in Classical Chinese
Japanese literary movements
Buddhism in the Muromachi period


Maerua crassifolia is a species of plant in the Capparaceae family. It is native to Africa, tropical Arabia, and Israel, but is disappearing from Egypt. Foliage from this plant is used as fodder for animals, especially camels, during the dry season in parts of Africa.

The plant grows commonly in Yemen, where it is called Meru. In the 18th century the plant's Arabic name Meru () was used as the source for the genus name Maerua. The 18th-century taxonomist was Peter Forsskål, who visited Yemen in the 1760s.

It is used as a common nutrition source in central Africa, where it is called jiga and made into soups and other dishes. It was part of the daily diet of the Kel Ewey tribe of the tuaregs in the Aïr Mountains as late as in the 1980s, who would mix the cooked leaves with goat milk. Maerua crassifolia was considered sacred to the ancient Egyptians.

Distribution
Maerua crassifolia has been found growing along the Tsauchab river in Namibia at the following geo coordinates: 24°38'42.6"S 15°39'06.9"E.

References

Cook, J.A. et al. (1998).  Nutrient content of two indigenous plant foods of the Western Sahel: Balanites aegyptiaca and Maerua crassifolia. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 11:3 221–30.

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 Egyptian Myths

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Flora of Africa
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Flora of Morocco
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Taxa named by Peter Forsskål


Oak Creek Power Plant, also known as South Oak Creek, is a base load, coal- and natural gas-fired, electrical power station located on Lake Michigan in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Oak Creek Power Plant along with Elm Road Generation Station make up the entire Oak Creek Generating Site.

The plant was built for an initial cost of $246 million. It is located on over  of land on the border of Milwaukee and Racine counties.

Advanced Air Quality Control Systems (AQCS) were installed in 2012 for $750 million on all four generating units. In 2009, it was listed as the third largest generating station in Wisconsin with a net summer capacity of 1,135 MW. The plant consumes between 6,000 and 6,400 tons of coal daily depending on system demands.

In 2018, the plant was listed as the fifth largest generation station in Wisconsin with an annual generation of 4,767,153 MW-h, behind Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant (10,128,796 MW-h), Elm Road Generating Station (7,913,698 MW-h), Columbia (6,641,670 MW-h), and Port Washington Generating Station (5,829,109 MW-h).

On November 6th, 2020 - A plan was announced that includes the retirement of the 1,100-megawatt South Oak Creek coal plant in southeastern Wisconsin over the next five years. Units 5 and 6 at South Oak Creek would be shut down in 2023 while units 7 and 8 will be shut down by 2024.   The closures have since been delayed to May 2024 for Units 5 and 6 and late 2025 for Units 7 and 8.

Expansion

In 2005, two 615-megawatt coal-fueled units were constructed just north of the existing Oak Creek facility. Unit 1 began commercial operation on February 2, 2010. with Unit 2 following in 2011.

Units

Electricity Production
In 2021, Oak Creek Power Station (South Oak Creek Power Plant and Elm Road Generating Station combined) generated 12,180 GWh, approximately 19.46% of the total electric power generated in Wisconsin (62,584 GWh) for that year. The South Oak Creek Power Plant (coal only) had a 2021 annual capacity factor of 61.65% and the Elm Road Generating Station (coal only) had a 2021 annual capacity factor of 69.26%.

Subnotes:

(1) : Table data reflects electrical generation from coal fuels only (subbituminous coal, refined coal). The plant also generates a minor amount of electricity (less than 1%) from natural gas.

(2) : Major fuel changed from subbituminous coal to refined coal in January 2016. The major fuel changed back to subbituminous coal in March 2022 .

Subnotes:

1. Table data reflects electrical generation from all coal fuels only (bituminous coal, subbituminous coal, and refined coal). The plant also generates a minor amount of electricity (less than 1%) from natural gas.

Incidents
On February 3, 2009, six contract workers were injured when coal dust ignited in a 65-foot coal dust silo on the power plant site.  They had been preparing the structure for repairs when an unknown source ignited coal dust that had accumulated at the top of the silo.  All suffered burns.

On October 31, 2011, a bluff area roughly the size of a football field and 200 feet above the level of Lake Michigan eroded, washing mud and debris into Lake Michigan. Close to 100 workers were at the site at the time of the collapse; none were hurt or killed.

See also

List of power stations in Wisconsin

References

External links
Oak Creek Power Plant (PDF)
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080513043232/http://www.powerthefuture.net/projects/ocpp.htm
 http://www.powerthefuture.net/qa/genqa_ocexpansion.htm

Energy infrastructure completed in 1959
Energy infrastructure completed in 1961
Energy infrastructure completed in 1965
Energy infrastructure completed in 1967
Energy infrastructure completed in 1968
Buildings and structures in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Buildings and structures in Racine County, Wisconsin
Coal-fired power stations in Wisconsin


Gus Franklin Mutscher (November 19, 1932 – February 26, 2023) was an American politician who was Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 1969 to 1972. He was one of several Texas politicians indicted in the Sharpstown bank stock fraud scandal. He was convicted and sentenced to five years probation for conspiring to accept a bribe. Mutscher’s conviction, however, was later reversed on appeal.

Mutscher died on February 26, 2023, at the age of 90, just 5 days after his successor Rayford Price.

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Perri is a 1957 American adventure film from Walt Disney Productions, based on Felix Salten's 1938 Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel. It was the company's fifth feature entry in their True-Life Adventures series, and the only one to be labeled a True-Life Fantasy. In doing so, the Disney team combined the documentary aspects of earlier efforts with fictional scenarios and characters.

Description
The story's title character is a young female squirrel who learns about forest life, and finds a mate in Porro, a male squirrel. In the film, there are seasons called the Time of Learning, Time of Beauty, Time of Peace, and Together Time. The story of the film was directly inspired by Felix Salten's 1938 novel Die Jogend des Eichornchens Perri, which Disney had secured the rights to in 1933.

The film was produced, narrated, and written by Winston Hibler, who had previously narrated Disney's True-Life Adventures series of documentaries. Perri was described as "True-Life Fantasy" to avoid confusion with True-Life Adventures.

Production
Perri was shot over the course of three years. The footage used in the film was shot on 300,000 feet of 16mm film, which later edited down to 8,000 feet and converted to 35mm film. Parts of the film were shot in Salt Lake City and the Uinta National Forest in Utah. The film's score was written by Paul Smith, and the film was the first on-screen credit for Roy E. Disney, who worked as a photographer.
Since this film is adverted as true-life fantasy it doesn't use animated pencil brush at the beginning of the film.

Reception
Upon its release, Perri was generally well received by critics and audiences. Along with all the True-Life Adventures, it premiered in December 2006 on Disney DVD as part of the Legacy Collection. It was also one of the titles available on Disney+ when the subscription streaming service launched on November 12, 2019.

Awards
 1958 Berlin Film Festival: Golden Bear (Best Documentary)

See also
 List of American films of 1957

References

Literature
Maltin, Leonard (2000). The Disney Films, 4th ed., p. 142–144. Disney Editions. .

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1957 films
Disney documentary films
1950s English-language films
Films about squirrels
Documentary films about nature
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Evolve Festival is an annual multi-genre music and cultural festival in New Brunswick. The festival is dedicated to the promotion of sustainable living and environmental awareness. It uses renewable energy sources, recycled, and biodegradable products and endeavours to limit solid waste.

The festival originally took place near Antigonish, Nova Scotia, until 2016, when the festival's permit was revoked due to issues related to rampant drug use among attendees.; it subsequently relocated to Beersville, New Brunswick. In 2010, Evolve Festival won the CBC Radio 3 contest vote for "Best Festival In Canada".

The festival presents a diverse lineup of rock, jazz, funk, world music, hip hop, bluegrass and electronica performers.

History
The festival was first conceived by Joe MacEachern, a resident of Antigonish, who then recruited Jim Dorey of Toronto to become the second founding member of Evolve Tribe. Jay Cleary joined the duo as the festival publicist and was able to raise significant export development funding from the Nova Scotia Government to develop the festival as a Nova Scotia Tourist Attraction.

The first Evolve Festival was held in 2000 in Antigonish.

In 2005, the team was joined by longtime supporter and Evolve Tribe member Jonas Colter of Fredericton, New Brunswick. In 2006, Jim Dorey sold his shares to Jonas and Joe; in 2008, Joe sold his shares to Jonas in order to pursue a degree in sociology.

In 2016, the festival moved to Beersville, New Brunswick, after the Municipality of the County of Antigonish revoked Evolve's permit due to issues involving the lack of a medical plan.

Performers
Performers at the festival have included k-os, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Trews, Michael Franti, Spearhead, !!!, Battles, Beardyman, Black Tiger Sex Machine, Brazilian Girls, Danny Brown, Chali 2na, Delhi 2 Dublin, Do Make Say Think, Dub FX, Easy Star All-Stars, Grandtheft, Moldylox, Hey Rosetta!, Holy Fuck, Man Man, Medeski Martin & Wood, Pretty Lights, Rezz, Rheostatics, Xavier Rudd, The Sheepdogs, Slowcoaster, The Jimmy Swift Band, Telesma, That 1 Guy, The Be Good Tanyas, Wintersleep, and Luther Wright and the Wrongs.

Elizabeth May of Green Party of Canada spoke at the 2007 event.

In addition to its main stage, the festival also features several smaller stages genres such as electronic, bass, and indie rock. There are smaller yurt stages highlighting smaller acts from around the world.

In 2010, over 115 acts performed.

Controversy
According to CBC News and VICE, Evolve Festival has had a reputation for rampant drug use for most of its history.

In 2015, a 21-year-old man died from natural causes after attending the festival. Though the death was unrelated to the event itself, it brought the festival's drug policies into public interest as medical professionals raised concerns.

In December 2015, Evolve was issued a conditional permit by the Municipality of the County of Antigonish, with one of the conditions being a committed medical plan, developed and overseen by a physician by February 1, 2016. In 2016, the Municipality revoked the festival's permit after Evolve organizers were unable to satisfactorily address a medical plan as per their condition. Evolve was thereby forced to relocate from Antigonish, eventually finding a spot in New Brunswick instead.

References

External links
Evolve Festival

Rock festivals in Canada
Jazz festivals in Canada
Music festivals in New Brunswick
Music festivals in Nova Scotia
Recurring events established in 2000
Electronic music festivals in Canada
Antigonish, Nova Scotia


Robert Joseph Fallon (born February 18, 1960) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for two seasons at the major league level for the Chicago White Sox.

Fallon played baseball at Hollywood Hills High School in Hollywood, Florida where he was teammates with Bill Lindsey, who would also go on to play for the White Sox.

The White Sox drafted him in the 1st round (15th pick) of the secondary phase of the 1979 amateur draft. Fallon played his first professional season with their Class-A (Short Season) Niagara Falls Pirates in , and his last with the Detroit Tigers' Double-A Glens Falls Tigers and Triple-A Nashville Sounds in .

References

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Fallon, Bob
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Tom Pyszczynski () is an American social psychologist.
He is notable, together with Jeff Greenberg and Sheldon Solomon, for founding the field of Terror Management Theory (TMT). TMT is a theory that is based on the writings of Ernest Becker, along with other existential thinkers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Otto Rank, and Heidegger. At the heart of TMT is the notion that human beings have a unique capacity for self-awareness, which makes them realize that death is inevitable. This realization, which conflicts with people's instinctive need for self-preservation, gives rise to a potential for existential anxiety, or terror, that is greater than that in other animals. To manage this potential for terror, people have constructed cultural worldviews, which assure people of either a literal form of afterlife (e.g., heaven, nirvana) or a symbolic form of death transcendence (e.g., being remembered after one has died). When people live up to the standards implied by their cultural worldviews, they attain a sense of positive self-esteem. Thus, TMT suggests that one major psychological function of self-esteem lies in protecting people against existential anxiety. TMT was explicitly formulated to be open to empirical testing. Indeed, since TMT was first conceived in the 1980s, the theory has inspired hundreds of experiments that were designed to test core ideas of TMT. For instance, in support of TMT, many experiments have shown that reminding people of their own mortality (versus a neutral or aversive control topic) leads people to defend their cultural worldviews more vigorously. For instance, people who are briefly reminded of death are more dismissive of someone who criticizes their culture.

References

1954 births
Living people
American social psychologists


Joanna Klink is an American poet. She was born in Iowa City, Iowa. She received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Ph.D. in Humanities from Johns Hopkins University. She was the Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University and for many years taught in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Montana. She currently teaches at UT Austin's Michener Center for Writers. Her most recent book, The Nightfields, was published July 7, 2020 by Penguin.

Publications
 They Are Sleeping (University of Georgia Press, 2000)
 Circadian (Penguin Books, 2007)
 Raptus (Penguin Books, 2010)
 Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy (Penguin Books, 2015)
 The Nightfields (Penguin Books, 2020)

Honors and awards
 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2003)
 Briggs-Copeland Poet, Harvard University (2008-2011)
 Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer's Award (2012)
 Civitella Ranieri (2012, 2017)
 American Academy of Arts and Letters (2013)
 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship (2018)
 The Bogliasco Foundation (2018)
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2019)

External links
 Official website
 Penguin Author Page

References

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21st-century American poets
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Le Conservatoire, or A Marriage by Advertisement (Konservatoriet eller et Avisfrieri) is a two-act vaudeville ballet created by the Danish choreographer and ballet master August Bournonville in 1849 for the Royal Danish Ballet. The ballet's setting is a dance studio at the Conservatoire de Paris. Bournonville studied at the Paris Conservatoire in the 1820s with the renowned dancer Auguste Vestris. The ballet launched the career of prima ballerina Juliette Price. A divertissement within the larger work called "The Dancing School" (Pas d'école) permitted Bournonville to display the basics of his style and raise them to the level of enduring art.

Summary
The first act is a recreation of a Vestris dance class of the exact type attended by Bournonville during his Paris sojourn in the 1820s. In the second act, Monsieur Dufour, an inspecteur at the Conservatoire, writes a matrimonial advertisement in the newspaper but ends up marrying his housekeeper, Mademoiselle Bonjour. Typical of Bournonville’s ballets, the plot provides opportunities for introducing different dance divertissements. In the second act, for example, the pupils of the Conservatoire make a fool of Monsieur Dufour by disguising themselves as attractive women.

Music
The vaudeville genre relied on a particular musical practice that made conscious use of well-known melodies that were suitable to establish period and local color and to facilitate the audience's understanding of the extensive mime. The ballet's composer Holger Simon Paulli attempted to evoke Paris in the 1820s and 1830s. The ballet opens with Paulli's orchestrated version of Weber's concert waltz, Invitation to the Dance. Later in the score Paulli utilised Chopin's Grande valse brillante in E-flat major and Paisiello's aria Nel cor più non mi sento from the opera La Molinara. The divertissement in act 1 (Pas d'école) relies heavily on musical borrowings and the well-known pas de trois employs nearly all of Pierre Rode's Violin Concerto No.7, Op.9 from 1800, a concerto that was used as an examination piece for young violinists at the time Bournonville was living in Paris and studying with Vestris.

History
The complete two-act ballet was performed by the Royal Danish Ballet from 1849 until 1934, when it disappeared from the repertoire, perhaps because it was considered old-fashioned. In 1942, Harald Lander, the Royal Ballet director at the time, extracted "The Dancing School" (Pas d'école) from the larger work and staged it as a one-act divertissement.

In 1995, the Royal Danish Ballet brought the complete two-act version back into the repertoire with the help of three Bournonville experts: Kirsten Ralov, former Assistant Director and principal of the company, principal dancer Niels Bjørn Larsen, and teacher Dinna Bjørn, Larsen's daughter.

By combining personal memories of the stagings in the early 1930s, Bournonville's notations, and the writings of dancer Valborg Borchsenius regarding Harald Lander’s staging in the 1930s, the three directors made it possible to re-stage the complete Le Conservatoire.

See also
List of ballets by August Bournonville

References

Bournonville: Le Conservatoire

Ballets by August Bournonville
1849 ballet premieres


Club FM (100.4 FM) is a national radio station based in Tirana, Albania which focuses on new releases and current music hits. It first went on air in February 1998 by broadcasting gold music, but soon turned to a pop format. Its music genre is different from most other Albanian radio stations as it mostly plays commercial music and promotes professional musicians. The studios are located in the centre of Tirana at Hotel Rogner.

Promotional activities
Important singers and famous groups such as Bellini, Boney M, Antique, London Beat and Shaft have been invited by Radio Club FM to broadcast for its listeners in Albania.

In addition, the station has made it possible for listeners to take part in big concerts across Europe by singers such as Sting and Eros Ramazzotti.

References

Radio stations in Albania
Radio stations established in 1998
Mass media in Tirana
Defunct mass media in Albania


The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College (Hebrew: המכללה האקדמית עמק יזרעאל ע״ש מקס שטרן) is an academic college located in the Jezreel Valley (Galilee region) of Israel, between the cities Afula and Nazareth, and next to Kfar Gid'on, Tel Adashim and Mizra.

Founded in 1965 as Emek Yezreel College, Max Stern College later served as a regional branch of University of Haifa from 1973 to 1994. In 1994 the Israel Council for Higher Education gave accreditation to Max Stern College as an independent academic institution capable of granting bachelor's degrees. The college offers BA degrees to some 5,000 students in a diverse array of fields, including Economics, Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences, Communication Studies, Human Services, Health Administration, Nursing Studies and General Studies.

The college is named after Max Stern, whose son Leonard N. Stern gave a monetary gift in his name when he died.

See also
List of universities and colleges in Israel

References

Colleges in Israel
Educational institutions established in 1965
1965 establishments in Israel


Robert McGill Loughridge (December 24, 1809 – July 8, 1900) was an American Presbyterian missionary who served among the Creek in Indian Territory. He attended Miami University, Ohio, and graduated in 1837. Loughridge was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in October 1842.

He entered Indian Territory in 1843, when he established the Koweta Mission in the Creek Nation. Seven years later, in 1850, he established the Tullahassee Mission, also in Creek territory.

Like most missionaries, he left the territory during the American Civil War, and preached in Texas for eighteen years. He returned in 1881 at the request of the foreign mission board and the Creek. During his ministry, he became skilled in the Creek language. With help from Legus Perryman, he translated and transcribed portions of the Bible into Muskogee (Creek), along with hymns and catechisms, assisted by Ann Eliza Robertson. In 1890, Loughridge published an English-Muskogee dictionary with David M. Hodge; it was the first of the Creek language and the only one for nearly a century.

Early life and education
Robert Loughridge was born December 24, 1809, in Lawrenceville, South Carolina, to parents of Scots-Irish ancestry. They valued education and encouraged him to take every opportunity available. When Loughridge was fourteen years old, his family moved to St. Clair County, Alabama, where for seven years he and his brothers worked on the farm. They received formal schooling infrequently, as there were no public schools at the time.

At the age of twenty-one, Loughridge became the assistant teacher at Dr. Beebe's school in Mesopotamia, Alabama for several months. He professed his religious faith at twenty-two, and became a member of the Presbyterian church, under Rev. John H. Gray, D.D. Feeling divinely called to preach the gospel, he immediately started the study of Latin and Greek under his pastor. He later attended the Mesopotamia Academy in Eutaw, Alabama for four years, preparing for college.  He entered in the sophomore class in Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. After three years, having taken all the required courses, he graduated in 1837 with a degree of Bachelor of Arts.

He soon entered the Princeton Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey. He stayed a year, returning home after his father died. He studied theology for two more years under his old pastor, Rev. J. H. Gray. Loughridge was licensed to preach by the presbytery council at Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 9, 1841.

Beginning ministry

In agreement with a call from three vacant churches of Oxford, Paynesville and Elizabeth, Alabama, Loughridge preached six months. Soon afterward, he was appointed by the Presbyterian board for foreign missions to visit the Creek in their territory west of Arkansas, to find out whether they would allow a preaching and mission school on their lands. Loughridge set out on horse-back, November 2, 1841, from Eutaw, and rode about six hundred miles. On December 6 he met the chiefs of the Creek (Muskogee) Nation, and brought this matter before them.

Loughridge had to wait about three weeks for the council to meet to consider his proposal. While there he visited several parts of the nation. No other missionaries were operating there. He found only one government school, run by a man who was later found out to be a counterfeiter. After the council met, they told Loughridge that they did not want preaching, because it broke up their old customs, their busks, ball-plays and dances; but they did want him to establish a school. He said that he was a preacher and would not help unless he could preach. After a long conference, the council agreed to let him preach at the school house, but nowhere else. Loughridge agreed to these terms; and returned to Alabama by horse to prepare for the move to Indian Territory. He returned by steamer up the Arkansas River with his wife Olivia; they reached the Verdigris landing, February 5, 1843.

Loughridge's wife, Olivia, also served as a teacher at the Koweta Mission which he founded. She bore two sons before dying in 1845. The following year Loughridge married Mary, a teacher at the Park Hill school.

Koweta Mission

After a few days of observation at his new home in Indian Territory, Loughridge bought a horse and saddle, and set out to find the most appropriate place for the mission; at the suggestion of the principal chief, it was located in the area of present-day Coweta.

As he described in a letter to the US Indian agent, Loughridge bought a vacant Indian cabin of 14x24 feet; it had a dirt floor and covered with clapboards. It was located on a small unfenced field and had a few fruit trees. He paid the owner ten dollars, and named it "Koweta". The Mission was situated near Coweta, one and one-half miles east of the Arkansas River, and twenty-four miles northwest of Fort Gibson. Soon he had built a larger cabin for school and church purposes. He invited the people to attend church, and to send their children to school; fifteen or twenty children were enrolled. His wife, an experienced teacher, began teaching classes. Initially few Creek attended Loughridge's preaching. They were devoted to their own culture and religion.

He was discouraged at the beginning, saying it was "a day of small things;" the people were very friendly, but shy, and seemed afraid to attend preaching. During the following year, Loughridge built a large, hewed-log house. At the request of parents who lived distant from the mission, he and his wife agreed to take in eight or ten children, boys and girls, to live with them in order to attend school. This is considered the beginning of manual labor boarding schools, thought to be effective in "civilizing and Christianizing" the Indian youth. Gradually, the number of boarding students increased to forty. The Creek adults began to attendpreaching more regularly and some converted to Presbyterianism. In about two years Loughridge organized a church.

Tullahassee Mission

The Seminole, who spoke the same Muskogee language as the Creek, did not have any schools or churches. The Board of Foreign Missions directed Loughridge to visit them and see whether they would allow a mission and school. In the summer of 1846, he visited them with his interpreter, and learned that the most of their chiefs were willing to have schools and allow preaching in their nation.

In April 1847, Hon. Walter Lowrie, secretary of the board of foreign missions, New York, visited the mission. He entered into an agreement with the chiefs to enlarge the Koweta Mission, and to establish the Tullahassee Mission, to accommodate eighty students, forty boys and forty girls. The schools were funded both by the Presbyterian Church and the Creek school fund.

A large brick building, three stories high, was erected for the Tullahassee school. It contained separate dormitories for boys and girls. It was located on a ridge, in the Arkansas district, one and a-half miles north of the Arkansas River. Rev. H. Balentine was sent by the board to take over (with other missionaries) the Koweta Mission, while Loughridge was appointed as superintendent of the Tullahassee Mission.

As a result of his transfer , he moved to Tullahassee to supervise the construction of the building and other preparations before opening the school. William S. Robertson, A. M. of New York, was appointed as principal teacher, and other assistant teachers were sent by the board. On March 1, 1850, the school opened.

In addition to the main building, there were out-buildings, stables, corn-cribs, fences, etc.; cattle, horses, wagons, and teams were all purchased; furniture for the building, and all kinds of supplies, books, papers, etc. had been provided. The school opened with thirty students, both boys and girls. The mission's full number of eighty was not reached until the fall. Loughridge and Robertson thought it better to start with fewer students, and give the teachers experience before more arrived. The school had a large bell that was donated by the mission board. It hung in the cupola of the building, and was used to mark a range of different activities at the school and the church.  Dr. Wells from Fort Gibson donated a weather vane designed as an Indian standing with a bow and arrow.

A number of well-qualified teachers and assistants came from time to time, as Loughridge wanted the best staff for the school. The students' exercises were conducted on the manual labor plan, and six hours each day were spent studying.

The students also did chores for two hours each day: the boys worked on the farm, in the garden or chopped firewood, while the girls did household duties, assisted with sewing, cooking and washing, and took care of the dining room. The students were provided with three meals a day, and were given plenty of time to sleep and play. Religious study was required, including church on Sunday and praying each morning and evening daily. Every night at dinner, along with singing and praying, every student had to recite a verse, or part of a verse, of Scripture from the Bible.

The school was well maintained and fully equipped all of the time, "self-denying, devoted teachers and assistants, worked faithfully and cheerfully, and were content with salaries of only $100 per year".

Mission closings
The Tullahassee Mission continued to grow and do a job in educating the children of the Creek Nation until July 10, 1861, when it was suddenly closed due to the outbreak of the Civil War. All of the mission property, (which amounted to $12,270 in 1861), was taken possession by the chiefs of the nation. The same thing happened with the Koweta Mission. The Creek children were sent back to their homes, while the dedicated teachers took a mournful leave of each other and went back to their homes in the Northern and Southern parts of the country.

After eleven years of successful operation, both of the Missions were abandoned. The Koweta mission was never re opened; but towards the end of the Civil War, November 1866, one of the former teachers, Rev. William S. Robertson (who was ordained an evangelist during the war), was sent out by the board, along with others, and revived the school to something like its former size and usefulness in March 1868 after relentless hours of work. The school continued in operation, doing good work in educating many of the Creek children, for twelve more years until December 19, 1880 when, from a defective flue in the chimney, the building caught fire and was burned to the ground; almost all of its contents were consumed.

Later ministry
During the time the Tullahassee Mission was broken up, in 1861 Loughridge moved his family East into the Cherokee Nation, and preached to the churches there for one year. Other missionaries had already left the territory because of the outbreak of war. Members of both the Creek and Cherokee peoples were divided on the war question; but the majority allied with the South. The Cherokee principal chief and his party were allied with the North but other Cherokee fought on behalf of the Confederacy.

Loughridge and his family felt increasingly at risk in the territory. On July 17, 1862, the family packed their belongings in two small wagons, and went south to Texas. Most of his relatives were already living there. During the war and for the next eighteen years, Loughridge worked as a preacher in different parts of the state. His wife worked as a teacher in several different schools during this period. With their efforts, they could provide for their children's education, as public school was limited.

Return to Indian Territory
Loughridge received a word from the board of foreign missions, and also from several of the prominent Indians, wanting him to return and continue mission work among the Creeks. Loughridge decided that he would return along with his wife on January 5, 1881. He began preaching for the Wealaka church, in the Broken Arrow district; during the two years that he preached in this district, ten people joined the church, and twenty-eight children of believing parents were baptized.

After the Tallahassee Mission was burned, the council decided to rebuild and on a bigger scale, and to locate it further west, where more of the Creek people lived. The trustees selected a beautiful site on the south side of the Arkansas River, surrounded in the distance by several grand old mountains. Named for a nearby Creek town, it would be known as Wealaka Mission. A large and magnificent brick building,  x 42 and three stories high, was erected and was soon occupied by 100 children who were boarded and taught there. Having been appointed superintendent of the school, Loughridge opened it on November 1, 1882, and continued in charge for two years before he resigned from his position. After his two years at the Mission he began to preach in different places in the Creek Nation. Loughridge preached the first sermon in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1883, standing on the front porch of a local store and in 1907 Loughridge founded and built the First Presbyterian Church of Coweta, which is now a museum and listed on the National Register of Historic Places list. He also translated books in the Creek language. The books prepared and published by Loughridge, with the assistance of his interpreter, were a hymn book, a catechism, translation of the Gospel of Matthew, a treatise on baptism, and a dictionary in two parts, Creek and English, and English and Creek.  In honor and memory of Loughridge's efforts in the Indian Territory, Camp Parthenia in Tulsa, Oklahoma was renamed Camp Loughridge in 1959.

Final years
Toward the end of his life Loughridge was still loyal to his Christian beliefs. In 1881 during an autobiographical sketch of his life Loughridge wrote, "…during my long pilgrimage of nearly eighty-two years, many have been the afflictions I have been called to bear. Three of my six children have passed over the Jordan of death, and I am now living with my third wife, who is seventy-three years of age. But in all these bereavements, we are comforted with the assurance that all the dear ones thus taken away, are safely housed in their Heavenly home, where we shall meet again, and be forever with the Lord".

On June 26, 1886, Loughridge was honored by his alma mater, Miami University, which conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. Robert McGill Loughridge spent his last years in Waco, Texas, where he died on July 8, 1900.

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Keith Cameron (born 3 February 1978 in Whakatāne) is a New Zealand rugby union player who currently plays as a prop for Otago in the Air New Zealand Cup.

Cameron made his provincial debut for Otago in the NPC in 1999. He transferred to Southland for the 2001 season, but later returned to Otago. He was selected in the Highlanders squad for the 2007 Super 14 season and made his Super Rugby debut against the Lions on 10 February 2007. He was also selected for the New Zealand Māori squad (representing Te Whānau-ā-Apanui iwi) for the 2007 Churchill Cup and played two games, starting against Canada and coming on as a reserve in the final against England Saxons.

For the 2009 Super 14 season, Cameron is part of the Highlanders' wider training group, although not the main squad.

References

External links
Otago player profile
New Zealand Māori player profile

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Māori All Blacks players
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Admiral Sir Edward Thornbrough, GCB (27 July 1754 – 3 April 1834) was a senior, long-serving veteran officer of the British Royal Navy during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He saw action in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, being wounded several times and once captured by American forces after a shipwreck. During the wreck, his conduct towards American prisoners aboard his ship was considered so exemplary that the American authorities later released him without parole or exchange.

During the later conflict, Thornbrough won praise for taking his frigate into the thick of the action at the Glorious First of June, towing the shattered HMS Bellerophon to safety after she was isolated by several French ships of the line. Later, Thornbrough became a senior admiral in both the Channel Fleet and the Mediterranean Fleet under Cuthbert Collingwood, who held him in high esteem. He retired in 1818 and settled in Devon with his third wife, dying in 1834.

Early career
Thornbrough was born in 1754, the son of Commander Edward and Mary Thornbrough. With a father in the Navy, young Edward's career was destined, especially given his close proximity in his early life to the sea; he was born on Plymouth Dock. Thornbrough joined his father at sea in 1761, as captain's servant on HMS Arrogant, and spent two years in the Mediterranean becoming used to the sea. Aged nine in 1763, he attended school whilst being on the books of HMS Firm. He returned to the sea in 1768 aboard HMS Temeraire with his father. The ship was commanded by Edward Le Cras. Thornbrough would later marry two of Le Cras's daughters.

Temeraire was guardship at Portsmouth, and in the time of peace this was a monotonous duty. Thornbrough therefore moved around several ships to broaden his education, traveling to Gibraltar and spending time on HMS Albion. He moved to HMS Captain with his father and in 1771 they sailed for Boston. For two more years the ship acted as guardship in the American port and also provided a floating headquarters for Admiral John Montagu. Thornbrough performed a brief independent cruise in HMS Cruizer, but the service was otherwise uneventful and he returned to Britain with Captain in 1774.

American Revolutionary War
In 1775, at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, Thornbrough returned to North America in the sloop HMS Falcon as second in command. Falcon participated in the bombardment of rebel positions during the Battle of Bunker Hill, and in August Thornbrough was badly wounded in a failed attempt to seize an American schooner from Cape Ann harbour. Invalided to Britain, Thornbrough recovered in 1776 and joined the frigate HMS Richmond off the Eastern Seaboard. In 1779 he was transferred to HMS Garland and escorted a convoy to Newfoundland. Returning to Europe in 1780, Thornbrough joined the frigate HMS Flora and in her participated in the capture of the French frigate Nymphe after a long and bloody action.

As consequence of his part in this engagement, Thornbrough was promoted to commander and took over the hired vessel HMS Britannia escorting a convoy to New York City. On arrival, Thornbrough was again promoted to post captain and took over captaincy of the frigate HMS Blonde. In 1782, Blonde captured an American brig and attempted to tow her to Halifax, Nova Scotia. During the operation the ship became lost in fog and Blonde was wrecked on a rocky islet whilst the brig continued to Halifax. On the islet, Thornbrough made sure that the American prisoners from the brig were given the same standards of treatment as the British sailors. When the survivors were rescued by two American ships a few days later, the American authorities were so impressed with his behaviour that they conveyed him to New York and released him without conditions as a reward. Returning to Britain, Thornbrough was to be given the ship of the line HMS Egmont, but the end of the war prevented this.

French Revolutionary Wars
The ten years of peace following the American war resulted in many officers entering semi-retirement on half-pay. Thornbrough however was given the prize frigate HMS Hebe and had Prince William Henry on board as a lieutenant. Although the Prince was a notoriously difficult officer to serve alongside, Thornbrough became friends with his subordinate, whose patronage would help him with his future career. Thornbrough married Ann Le Cras in 1784, and Prince William requested that their first son was to be named after him. The son would later become Lieutenant William Henry Thornbrough, but died in 1798 aged 14. The couple would also have another son, Edward Le Cras Thornbrough, who became an admiral and four daughters. Also in 1784, Thornbrough's father died. In 1790 during the Spanish armament, Thornbrough briefly took over HMS Scipio.

At the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, Thornbrough requested and received command of the frigate HMS Latona. In November 1793, Thornbrough engaged several French ships of the line in a vain attempt to delay them until British warships could arrive to challenge them. In May 1794, Latona was a scout for the Channel Fleet under Lord Howe during the Atlantic campaign of May 1794. The campaign resulted in the Glorious First of June, when Latona was initially used as a repeating ship to relay Howe's signals down the British line. Later in the action however, Thornbrough was called on to take his relatively diminutive ship through the battle lines to rescue the shattered HMS Bellerophon which was being pounded by several large French ships. Latona not only reached Bellerophon, but then drove off the French battleships with her small broadsides and took the dismasted Bellerophon in tow to safety, all without suffering a casualty.

Thornbrough then took command of the ship of the line HMS Robust with the Channel Fleet, participated in the ill-fated 1795 invasion of Quiberon Bay with French Royalist forces. The operation was a failure and Robust was also engaged in its desperate evacuation. Three years later, Thornbrough participated in another invasion, this time thwarting a French attempt to land troops in Ireland. At the Battle of Donegal, Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron, including Robust, destroyed a French troops convoy off Tory Island to the north of Ireland. As reward, Thornbrough was given the thanks of parliament and took over the 90-gun HMS Formidable, flagship of Sir Charles Cotton. Formidable then entered the Mediterranean and spent several months searching for an elusive enemy fleet.

Napoleonic Wars
In 1801, Thornbrough became a rear-admiral and commanded the inshore squadron off Brest in his flagship HMS Mars. In 1801 his first wife died and a year later, Thornbrough married Elizabeth Jeynes of Bristol. With the renewal of war in 1803, Thornbrough was given command of The Downs under Viscount Keith and later was fleet captain to Lord Gardner. In 1805 he was in HMS Kent on his way to join Nelson's fleet off Cadiz when he heard of the Battle of Trafalgar. That year he was promoted to vice-admiral and led the independent blockade of Rochefort and later a squadron in the English Channel from HMS Prince of Wales.

A period of ill-health required a brief shore leave in 1807, but he was soon back at sea, in HMS Royal Sovereign. For the next three years he was second in command to Lord Collingwood in the Mediterranean but returned to Britain in December 1809 due to ill-health shortly before his commander's death. Both Collingwood and Earl St Vincent admired his spirit, professional skill and bravery, but the latter considered that Thornbrough was too indecisive to make a good fleet commander.

Retirement
From 1810 until 1813, Thornbrough busied himself in command of the Cork Station. In 1813 he again briefly retired as a full admiral and in 1815 was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in recognition of his long service. In 1813 his second wife had died and again he remarried less than a year later, to Frances Le Cras, younger sister of his first wife. Between 1815 and 1818, Thornbrough served as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth and he retired for good in 1818 after just under 50 years of service in the Navy, an exceptionally long career.

Thornbrough lived the rest of his life at Bishopsteignton Lodge in Devon. In 1825 he was made a Knight Grand Cross. He was however active in naval circles and became Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom and Lieutenant of the Admiralty in 1833 during his retirement. He died at home in 1834.

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Thomas Carson Filer (born December 1, 1956) is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher between  and  for the Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, Milwaukee Brewers, and the New York Mets.

Career
He was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1978. Filer played his first professional season with their Class-A (Short Season) Oneonta Yankees in 1979, and his last with the Mets' Triple-A Norfolk Tides in 1993. He graduated from La Salle University with a B.S. in Marketing. He is currently the Assistant Pitching Coordinator for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Occulus is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually as an enemy of the Fantastic Four. He was one of the first villains imprisoned in the Negative Zone prison.

Publication history

He first appeared in Fantastic Four #363 (April 1992).

Fictional character biography
The two youths who would later become known as Occulus and the Wildblood were orphans, and became wards of the Gem Guild of their planet in the Inniverse. As was the standard, both were tested by the Gem Guild to see if they had the gift of manipulating the energy of the power gems which adorned the skies of the Inniverse. Occulus was found to have the talent and was spirited away by the Guild, but his brother proved of no value. Pampered by the Guild and instructed by the evil Dangor himself, the talented brother grew in knowledge and power. Eventually, he plucked out his own right eye in a quest for Gem supremacy. None were certain whether his action was motivated by an overwhelming sense of responsibility to his world or the result of madness. However, now taking the name Occulus, he was never the same.

Occulus sent a squadron of soldiers to capture the Wildblood. They detected a portal to Earth-616, created by Reed Richards, through which the Wildblood had passed. They passed through the portal, defeated Ben, Reed, and Sue, and abducted the Wildblood, as well as Sue and Franklin Richards, taking them all back into the Inniverse.

Ben, Johnny, and Reed stormed the Inniverse, fighting Occulus' soldiers in the process. Meanwhile, the captives were brought before Occulus, who chastised (i.e., slew) the captain of the guards for praising his troop's accomplishments. When Franklin Richards' powers proved to be connected to that of the gems, Occulus thought to slay him, but was convinced that they might instead exploit his power for their own use. Sue Richards tried to free Franklin, even managing to cut off his air supply, but she was distracted when Dangor threatened to slay Franklin, and Occulus knocked her out. Occulus then used Dangor's machine to tap into Franklin's latent power to increase his own gemstone-derived powers.

His powers vastly amplified, Occulus took to the skies to slaughter the Rebel Underground. Occulus proved his power to easily overpower the soldiers and the male members of the Fantastic Four, but allowed them to escape to live in fear of him. Returning to his palace, he ignored the advice of both Landa and Dangor, instead deciding that everyone on his world should love and honor him—or suffer the fearful consequences! Meanwhile, he allowed the others to free Sue and Franklin, but then confronted and attacked them. He easily drove back Ben and Wildblood, but Reed used an Enervator—designed to sap the gem power—to weaken him. However, Reed hesitated before finishing him off, and Occulus recovered and destroyed the weapon. He continued to use his powers to toy with the others. However, following Reed's instructions, the Underground had constructed a giant Gem Screen with a charge opposite to that of Occulus'. When activated, the screen—with its energies channeled by Sue's force field—caused a massive backlash against Occulus' energies, and the Unforgiving One was cast adrift into space.

Later appearance
Occulus was among the enemies of the Fantastic Four drawn from different eras to oppose members of the Fantastic Four and Fantastic Force on behalf of Aron the Rogue Watcher, who was attempting to transform the Milky Way Galaxy into his own pocket universe. Occulus destroyed a device which Ant-Man was working on in an attempt to halt Aron, forcing Ant-Man to physically assault Aron's devices.

Years later Occulus stole the adamantium arms of Doctor Octopus, becoming "Doc Occulus." He fought the Human Torch and Spider-Man. He later attended a gathering of enemies of the Fantastic Four held by the Puppet Master, who suggested that they combine their forces. Occulus left with the others, without even acknowledging the Puppet Master's scheme, unaware that the Mad Thinker had obtained a DNA sample from him, as per his primary intentions. The Fantastic Four captured Occulus and transferred him to the newly constructed Vault in the Negative Zone.

Powers and abilities

Occulus is a mutant of his species who possessed the ability to tap as a source of energy the crystals surrounding his planet, the gems of the Inniverse, which granted him a variety of energy powers. The crystals in turn draw power from the subatomic cohesive force. The more gems he possessed, the greater his power. He had enhanced human strength and stamina.

Thanks to the replacement of his right eye by one of the power-gems, he can form force fields, fire beams of heat, light, and concussive force from his gem eye, levitate, and detect various forms of energy. He also has the ability to perceive otherwise invisible objects through this yellow gem-eye.

Absorbing energy from Franklin Richards augmented his powers. With his powers enhanced, he could form energy constructs and force fields, fly at subsonic speeds by manipulating anti-gravitons, fire more powerful beams of heat, light, and concussive force from his hands, and had the ability to increase his own strength and durability to superhuman levels.

Occulus wore body armor composed of alien materials, designed by the Gem Guild.

Occulus was a master of the martial arts of his planet. He was an experienced administrator, strategist, and tactician.

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Tommy Greer (born 29 December 1983) is an Australian former professional basketball player who is currently the CEO of the South East Melbourne Phoenix of the National Basketball League (NBL). Greer played college basketball for Augusta State University and Nova Southeastern University and played his entire professional career for the Melbourne Tigers.

Basketball career

College
In 2003–04, Greer attended Augusta State University where he was named the Peach Belt Conference and Augusta State Freshman of the Year after he averaged 9.9 points and a team-high 5.3 rebounds per game. Greer then transferred to Nova Southeastern University for 2004–05 and led the team with 11.2 points and 4.9 rebounds per game in a solid sophomore season. He played in all 28 games, starting 27, which led the team for starts and appearances.

Melbourne Tigers
Greer made his NBL debut on 3 September 2005 for Melbourne against the Wollongong Hawks. He won a championship with the Tigers in his rookie season and was part of the championship winning Tigers again in 2008. He was also awarded the Tigers Most Improved Player in 2007–08.

In September 2013, Greer tore his Pectoralis tendon and was sidelined for three months. On 12 April 2014, Greer announced his retirement from basketball to pursue off-court career opportunities.

Post-playing career
In May 2015, Greer was appointed Melbourne United's basketball operations manager. In August 2018, he was appointed general manager of the South East Melbourne Phoenix. He was elevated to the position of CEO for their inaugural season in the NBL in 2019–20.

References

External links
Eurobasket.com profile
Take 40: Tommy Greer
NBL stats
Big V stats

1983 births
Living people
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Flying Colors is a studio album by American country music artist Robert Ellis Orrall, released in October 1992 via RCA Records. Although it was his fourth studio album overall, it was his first and only solo album of mainstream country music, as opposed to his more rock-oriented albums in the 1980s. The tracks "Boom! It Was Over", "A Little Bit of Her Love" and "Every Day When I Get Home" were released as singles.

Although Orrall never recorded a solo album after Flying Colors, he would later team up with Curtis Wright to record one album as the duo Orrall & Wright. In addition, Orrall has recorded several albums of indie rock as a member of the band Monkey Bowl.

Reception
In his 4.5 star (out of a possible five) star review for allmusic, Roch Parisien said that "[Orrall]'s vocals come across with a throaty, good-nature[d] charm reminiscent of Huey Lewis."  He went on to say that "if you ever wondered what Huey would sound like with better melodies and a country backing, this disc's for you."

Track listing

AThe audio cassette version omits "'Til the Tears Fell".

Personnel
Compiled from liner notes.

Musicians
 Eddie Bayers - drums
 Bruce Bouton - steel guitar
 Richard "Spady" Brannan - bass guitar
 John Catchings - cello
 Bill Cuomo - keyboards
 Dan Dugmore - steel guitar
 Rob Hajacos - fiddle
 Paul Hollowell - keyboards
 Jerome Kimbrough - acoustic guitar
 Bernie Leadon - acoustic guitar
 Josh Leo - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
 Chris Leuzinger - electric guitar
 Brent Mason - electric guitar
 Vince Melamed - keyboards
 Steve Nathan - keyboards
 Robert Ellis Orrall - lead vocals
 Gary Prim - keyboards
 Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
 Tom Roady - percussion
 Leland Sklar - bass guitar
 Steuart Smith - electric guitar
 Bobby Taylor - oboe
 Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
 John Willis - electric guitar
 Lonnie Wilson - drums

Technical
 Mike Bridges - recording ("Flying Colors") only
 Jeff Giedt - engineering
 Dave Latto - second engineering
 Josh Leo - production
 Steve Marcantonio - production, recording, mixing
 Russ Martin - second engineering
 Robert Ellis Orrall - production
 Denny Purcell - mastering

Background vocalists
 Larry Byrom
 Paul Gregg
 Marcus Hummon
 Larry Michael Lee
 Robert Ellis Orrall
 Jim Photoglo
 John Wesley Ryles
 Karen Staley
 Larry Stewart
 Harry Stinson
 Dennis Wilson
 Lonnie Wilson
 Curtis Wright

"Boom-ers and Boom-ettes" on "Boom! It Was Over"
 Bart Allmand
 Barbara Behler
 Alison Booth
 Theresa Durst
 Paula Erickson
 Miranda Granger
 Jill Humphrey
 Zac Taylor-Jarrett
 Tavenner King
 Dave Latto
 Steve Marcantonio
 Judy Matter
 Greg McCarn
 Ginger McFadden
 Claudine Sartor
 Billy Spencer
 Carolyn Stewart
 Norman Taylor
 Dyanne Vinyard
 Shane Wilson

References

1992 albums
Robert Ellis Orrall albums
RCA Records albums
Albums produced by Josh Leo


William Peter Filson (born September 28, 1958) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played during seven seasons at the major league level for the Minnesota Twins, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, and Kansas City Royals.

Playing career
Filson attended Temple University, and in 1977 and 1978 he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He was selected by the Yankees in the 9th round of the 1979 MLB Draft.

Filson played his first professional season with their Rookie league Paintsville Yankees and Class-A (Short Season) Oneonta Yankees in 1979, and split his last between Kansas City and their Triple-A Omaha Royals in 1990. Filson can be seen delivering a single pitch as a Royal in the Ken Burns documentary Baseball, at the beginning of the section entitled "Extra Innings."

He was dealt along with Larry Milbourne and John Pacella from the Yankees to the Twins for Butch Wynegar and Roger Erickson on May 12, 1982.

With the Twins, Filson was affectionately nicknamed "Freeze".

Coaching career
In 2003 Filson was hired as pitching coach for the Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League, Filson remained with the team until 2006.

Filson is currently a pitching instructor at AFC Baseball in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, where he provides instruction to players at Harriton High School, Radnor High School, the Chester County Crawdads, and Wayne Wolverines.

References

External links

 www.afcbaseball.com

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