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Blowout (geomorphology)

Blowouts are sandy depressions in a sand dune ecosystem (psammosere) caused by the removal of sediments by wind.

Commonly found in coastal settings and margins of arid areas, blowouts tend to form when wind erodes patches of bare sand on stabilized vegetated dunes. Generally, blowouts do not form on actively flowing dunes due to the fact that the dunes need to be bound to some extent, for instance by plant roots. These depressions usually start on the higher parts of stabilized dunes on account of the more considerable desiccation and disturbances occurring there, which allows for greater surface drag and sediment entrainment when the sand is bare. Most of the time, exposed areas become quickly re-vegetated before they can become blowouts and expand; however, when circumstances are favourable, wind erosion can gouge the exposed surface and create a tunneling effect which increases local wind speed. A depression may then develop until it hits a non-erodible substrate, or morphology limits it. The eroded substances climb the steep slopes of the depression and become deposited on the downwind side of the blowout which can form a dune that covers vegetation and lead to a larger depression; a process that helps create parabolic dunes.

Note that volcanic features that take the form of depressions are sometimes informally called blowouts, such as "The Blowout" (a lava lake) or "Big Blowout Butte" in central Idaho.

Vegetation
Although there is a wide variety of vegetation that live in dune environments around the world, most plant species play a key role in determining whether blowouts will form or not by the result of how strong their protective skins can suppress erosion and how capable some pioneer species can repress further erosion if a dune becomes exposed.

Protective skin

In the first case, the primary objective for the protective skin is to resist disturbances that will form open exposures and create blowouts. To prevent erosion, vegetation helps reduce shear stress by covering the surface and mechanically binding soil together. The protective skin is composed of vegetation that is above and below ground surface and decomposing plant litter. Additionally, the protective skin can also be composed of a wide variety of species that could constitute environments like grasslands and forest. However, if the climate changes, it can directly influence the health of the vegetation, which can make the skin fragile; nevertheless, the rate of change may take some time and may be different for stabilized dunes in different environments.

Pioneer species

Once disturbances destroy a portion of the protective skin, the exposure can expand and erode other portions of the skin; however, some vegetation, such as pioneer species, can settle in an opening and prevent any further expansion and deflation. Even though a few plants species can be classed as colonizers, these plants tend to withstand high rates of sediment deposition and poor nutrient conditions in the blowout. Moreover, if a blowout does form, the deposited material that travels out of the depression can either continue to become deposited at a greater rate than pioneer vegetation can grow, or become stabilized again. Mostly due to changes in the climate, colonizer species heavily rely on conditions of the environment, which can change dramatically unlike the vegetation in the protective skin.

Coastal sand dunes are found just inland from a beach, and are formed as the wind blows dry sand inland beyond the beach. It follows that this can only happen when there is an area of reasonably flat land inland from the beach. In time, this rather inhospitable surface will be colonised by pioneer species. These species (e.g. marram grass) will stabilise the dunes and prevent them moving any more. The process of plant succession will eventually see these dunes converted to woodland (depending on the climate) and a mature soil will have formed.

Blowouts provide an important habitat for flora and fauna.

Disturbances
Disturbances are general phrases which define a cause that creates an exposure in the vegetative skin to eventually form a blowout formation. Rather than being described as events, disturbances are terms which describe the rate at which breaches create an opening and expand, yet there are numerous types of disturbances that can penetrate the protective vegetative skin. Despite the fact that many factors could influence blowout formations, disturbances usually have three characteristics which determine if a depression will form and expand. The first property states that disturbances must have a penetration magnitude greater than the toughness of the protective vegetative skin. Simply put, if the breach cannot remove the shielding vegetation, then wind erosion cannot create a depression in stabilized dunes. The second property asserts that sediment transportation in an exposure would be limited if exposure's spatial coverage is too small. Presuming that the opening is very compacted, the fetch length would also be very cramped which does not allow much sediment particles to be moved out of the exposure. Lastly, the third property exclaims that spatial configuration of the disturbed openings greatly influences the fetch length and sediment transportation in the exposure. If there were numerous disturbed patches that borderline each other in a downwind direction, wind erosion may be capable of removing and transporting large amounts of sediment particles, which could create blowouts. Thus, although the scale of the disturbances does assist in blowout formation, these characteristics generally help dictate if Aeolian processes can create a depression or not.

Airflow dynamics and morphology
Once an exposure has been spawned, the morphology of the blowout depends on the interaction of wind speed and direction with the stabilized dune's vegetation and topography. There is a wide range of blowout types that form depending on these factors; however, the scientific community mostly utilizes two types of blowouts: trough and saucer. Although there is no obvious reason why one type is formed rather than another in a particular region, saucer blowouts generally have semicircular and saucer shapes while trough blowouts have more elongated shapes with deep deflation basins and steeper slopes. Nevertheless, both types of blowouts have structures that can affect wind flow within the basin.

In troughs, the structure's topography can accelerate flows and form jets that result in maximum erosion along the deflation basin floor and laterally expand the slopes of the blowout. Additionally, when the wind flows on top of the blowout's lateral walls, sediment transport is at its maximum in the middle axis of the trough depositional lobe, leading to formation of a parabolic dune. Although some studies like Hesp and Pringle (2001) noted that wind flow that was oblique to the blowouts’ orientation became pulled into the depression due to a zone of low pressure at the deflation basin and was steered parallel to the orientation of the trough blowout. However, in Smyth, Jackson, and Cooper’s study (2014), little evidence supported that wind flow was being steered along the axis of the blowout, but rather the flow remained constant in the direction that it was flowing before or showed other characteristics like turbulent separated flows.

Saucer blowouts indicate a deceleration of wind flow along the deflation basin as the structure widens over time by reversing flows eroding the sides and expanding upwind. Due to rapid deceleration, saucers tend to form short, wide, radial depositional slopes. When wind flow enters a saucer shape blowout, the wind speed decreases upon entering the blowout and accelerates at the downwind side of the formation. A zone of separation develops along the lee slope as the wind enters the blowout and decrease in speed, yet it accelerates again as it re-attaches at the basin and flow up to the depositional lobe, where sand becomes evacuated.

Even though they are more influences blowout structures have on their morphology, both types basically tend to have deflation basins eroded until they reach their non-erodible base level. A study conducted by Hesp (1982) indicates that depositional length is not correlated with the eroded depth but rather the blowout width. In other words, as the depositional lobe increases, the blowout width also increases by a ratio of 1:2 to 1:3 in saucer blowouts and 1:4 in trough blowouts.

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The First Men in the Moon

The First Men in the Moon by the English author H. G. Wells is a scientific romance, originally serialised in The Strand Magazine and The Cosmopolitan from November 1900 to June 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901. Wells called it one of his "fantastic stories". The novel recounts a journey to the Moon by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the Moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilisation of insect-like creatures they call "Selenites". The inspiration seems to come from the famous 1865 book by Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon, and the opera by Jacques Offenbach from 1875. Verne's novel also uses the word "Selenites" to describe inhabitants of the Moon.

Comparable to Aldous Huxley's Brave New world, the book appears to be an introspective reductio of Wells' own eugenic and especially socialist ideals in favor of more nuanced versions.

Plot summary

The narrator is a London businessman named Bedford who withdraws to the countryside to write a play, by which he hopes to alleviate his financial problems. Bedford rents a small countryside house in Lympne, in Kent, where he wants to work in peace. He is bothered every afternoon, however, at precisely the same time, by a passer-by making odd noises. After two weeks Bedford accosts the man, who proves to be a reclusive physicist named Mr. Cavor. Bedford befriends Cavor when he learns he is developing a new material, cavorite, which can negate the force of gravity.

When a sheet of cavorite is prematurely processed, it makes the air above it weightless and shoots off into space. Bedford sees in the commercial production of cavorite a possible source of "wealth enough to work any sort of social revolution we fancied; we might own and order the whole world". Cavor hits upon the idea of a spherical spaceship made of "steel, lined with glass", and with sliding "windows or blinds" made of cavorite by which it can be steered, and persuades a reluctant Bedford to undertake a voyage to the Moon; Cavor is certain there is no life there. On the way to the Moon, they experience weightlessness, which Bedford finds "exceedingly restful". On the surface of the Moon the two men discover a desolate landscape, but as the Sun rises, the thin, frozen atmosphere vaporises and strange plants begin to grow with extraordinary rapidity. Bedford and Cavor leave the capsule, but in romping about get lost in the rapidly growing jungle. They hear for the first time a mysterious booming coming from beneath their feet. They encounter "great beasts", "monsters of mere fatness", that they dub "mooncalves", and five-foot-high "Selenites" tending them. At first they hide and crawl about, but growing hungry partake of some "monstrous coralline growths" of fungus that inebriate them. They wander drunkenly until they encounter a party of six extraterrestrials, who capture them. The insectoid lunar natives (referred to as "Selenites", after Selene, the Greek moon goddess) are part of a complex and technologically sophisticated society that lives underground, but this is revealed only in radio communications received from Cavor after Bedford's return to Earth.

Bedford and Cavor break out of captivity beneath the surface of the Moon and flee, killing several Selenites. In their flight they discover that gold is common on the Moon. In their attempt to find their way back to the surface and to their sphere, they come upon some Selenites carving up mooncalves but fight their way past. Back on the surface, they split up to search for their spaceship. Bedford finds it but returns to Earth without Cavor, who injured himself in a fall and was recaptured by the Selenites, as Bedford learns from a hastily scribbled note he left behind.

Chapter 20, "Mr. Bedford in Infinite Space", plays no role in the plot but is a remarkable set piece in which the narrator describes experiencing a quasi-mystical "pervading doubt of my own identity. . . the doubts within me could still argue: 'It is not you that is reading, it is Bedford—but you are not Bedford, you know. That's just where the mistake comes in.'  'Counfound it!' I cried, 'and if I am not Bedford, what am I?  But in that direction no light was forthcoming, though the strangest fancies came drifting into my brain, queer remote suspicions like shadow seem from far away... Do you know I had an idea that really I was something quite outside not only the world, but all worlds, and out of space and time, and that this poor Bedford was just a peephole through which I looked at life..."

By good fortune, the narrator lands in the sea off the coast of Britain, near the seaside town of Littlestone, not far from his point of departure. His fortune is made by some gold he brings back, but he loses the sphere when a curious boy named Tommy Simmons climbs into the unattended sphere and shoots off into space. Bedford writes and publishes his story in The Strand Magazine, then learns that "Mr. Julius Wendigee, a Dutch electrician, who has been experimenting with certain apparatus akin to the apparatus used by Mr. Tesla in America", has picked up fragments of wireless telegraphy from Cavor sent from inside the Moon. During a period of relative freedom Cavor has taught two Selenites English and learned much about lunar society.

Cavor's account explains that Selenites exist in thousands of forms and find fulfilment in carrying out the specific social function for which they have been brought up: specialisation is the essence of Selenite society. "With knowledge the Selenites grew and changed; mankind stored their knowledge about them and remained brutes—equipped," remarks the Grand Lunar, when he finally meets Cavor and hears about life on Earth. Unfortunately, Cavor reveals humanity's propensity for war; the lunar leader and those listening to the interview are "stricken with amazement". Bedford infers that it is for this reason that Cavor has been prevented from further broadcasting to Earth. Cavor's transmissions are cut off as he is trying to describe how to make cavorite. His final fate is unknown, but Bedford is sure that "we shall never… receive another message from the moon".

Influence on C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis explicitly stated that his science fiction books were both inspired by and written as an antithesis to those of H. G. Wells. Specifically, he acknowledged The First Men in The Moon to be "the best of the sort [of science fiction] I have read...." (from a letter to Roger Lancelyn Green).

The influence of Wells's book is especially visible in Out of the Silent Planet, the first book of Lewis's Space Trilogy. There, too, a central role in the story line is played by a partnership between a worldly businessman interested in the material gains from space travel (and specifically, in importing extraterrestrial gold to Earth) and a scientist with wider cosmic theories.

Also in Lewis's book, the two quietly build themselves a spaceship in the seclusion of an English country house, and take off into space without being noticed by the rest of the world. (It may be noted that both Wells and Lewis, like virtually all science fiction writers until the 1950s, grossly underestimated the resources needed for even the smallest jaunt outside Earth's gravitational field.) Like Wells's book, Lewis's reaches its climax with the Earth scientist speaking to the wise ruler of an alien world (in this case Oyarsa, the ruler of Malacandra/Mars) and blurting out the warlike and predatory nature of humanity.

However, in Lewis's book the businessman-scientist pair are the villains of the piece. Moreover, his scientist, Professor Weston, has a philosophy diametrically opposite to Cavor's, being an outspoken proponent of human colonisation of other planets, up to and including extermination of "primitive natives".

Other influences, references, and adaptations
Brian Stableford argues this is the first alien dystopia. The book could also be considered to have launched the science fiction subgenre depicting intelligent social insects, in some cases a non-human species such as the space-traveling Shaara "bees" in the future universe of A. Bertram Chandler, in others (such as Frank Herbert's Hellstrom's Hive) humans who evolved or consciously engineered their society in this direction. Nigel Kneale co-adapted the screenplay (with Jan Read) for the 1964 film version; it is reasonable to assume that Kneale's familiarity with the work may have inspired the idea of the Martian hives which feature so significantly in Quatermass and the Pit, one of Kneale's most-admired creations.

 * In the 1925 novel Menace from the Moon, by English writer Bohun Lynch, a lunar colony, founded 1654 by a Dutchman, an Englishman, an Italian, and "their women", threatens Earth with heat-ray doom unless it helps them escape their dying world.
 * Cavorite was featured as a major plot device in the 1999 first volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Cavor (given the first name of Selwyn) also appears in the volume and is mentioned in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier. In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century, the Selenites are featured as enemies of the nude lunar Amazons.
 * Cavorite also is used as a minor plot device in Warehouse 13, with its gravity blocking properties used by Wells to make a trap.
 * Cavorite and Cavor also play a major role in the end of Scarlet Traces: The Great Game, with the Selenites also briefly depicted.
 * The video game Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne was based both on Wells's The First Men in the Moon, along with Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon.
 * Cavorite, Cavor, and the Selenites are a large factor in The Martian War, where Cavor's ship takes Wells, his wife, and T.H. Huxley first to the Moon, then to Mars. In the story, the Selenites have been enslaved by the Martians, used as food creatures and slaves to build the canals and invasion fleet.
 * In the short story "Moon Ants" by Zinaida Gippius, the narrator is attempting to understand the reason for a sharp increase of local suicides and for the suicide mindset in general. At one point he recollects Wells's novel and eventually decides that mankind, or just Russia in general, has become much like the Selenites in its decadent, self-destructive culture. Like the Selenites, man is seemingly tough on the outside but easily knocked aside, to crumple up and die, by the rigors of life.
 * The events of The First Men in the Moon are used as the precursor to the player's adventure in Larry Niven and Steven Barnes' "Dream Park" series adventure novel, The Moon Maze Game, which describes a fantasy role playing game being played on (and televised from) a crater and tunnels on the Moon.
 * An antigravity material called "cavorite" also appears in Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness in the Sky.
 * A substance similar to cavorite (called gravitar) is used in Space: 1889 & Beyond, which also features a character called Rear Admiral Herbert Cavor and the indigenous population of Luna are called Selenites (the name being derived from the same source material mentioned in The First Men in the Moon). This series also features a character called Commander George Bedford. According to author Andy Frankham-Allen (who also developed the series) this was all a very intentional reference to the works of H. G. Wells, with the main protagonist, Professor Nathanial Stone, a direct reference to Parson Nathaniel from Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds; Nathanial Stone's father is a reverend.
 * Cavorite also lent its name to an alien material in Robert Buettner's Jason Wanderer/Orphan's Legacy novels, with the material being named after H.G. Wells' cavorite due to their similar properties.
 * Cavorite again shows up (with similar properties) in the Japanese anime Princess Principal, set in an alternate history fin-de-siècle steampunk Britain.
 * Cavorite is present in James A. Owen's Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica book series, in which it is described as an incredibly powerful material used in the creation of the Keep of Time and the Zanzibar Gate. It has relatively little relation to the material in The First Men in the Moon.
 * In the Night Terrace episode "Full Steam", cavorite is cited as the miraculous mineral capable of allowing the SSS Implausible, a steam-powered spaceship, to function as though it were an ocean-going steamship. However, Eddie Jones (having read The First Men in the Moon) sees through the deception, being the first in the ship's sixty-year service history to notice; he, Anastasia Black and Susan Denholm later learn that it is in fact another time-and-space-travelling terrace house from the same street as Anastasia's that is the source of the Implausible's power.
 * In the second season of DuckTales (2017 TV series), the ordeal of Della Duck as she is stranded on the Moon bears considerable similarity to that of Cavor, in that a complex society is found on the Moon with an abundance of gold, and the main character (Della, in this case) attempts to contact Earth via radio. In this instance, however, it is the lunar society that is arguably more warlike.
 * In his book The Three-Body Problem (novel) the self-confessed HG Wells fan, author Liu Cixin, names one of his scientists monitoring deep space for signs of life as Ye Wenjie, a role similar to that of Mr. Julius Wendigee in The First Men In The Moon.

Film adaptations
The First Men in the Moon has been adapted to film four times, and once prior to that as a mash-up Verne-Wells film:
 * A Trip to the Moon (1902) was released one year after the publication of Wells's book. Some film historians, most notably Georges Sadoul, have regarded the film as a combination of two Jules Verne novels (From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon) plus adventures on the Moon taken from Wells's book. More recent scholarship, however, suggests that A Trip to the Moon draws on a wider variety of source materials, and it is unclear to what extent its filmmaker was familiar with Wells.
 * The first adaptation was made in 1919; the first film made from a science fiction novel.
 * The second adaptation was made in 1964. In this version, the men wear diving suits as spacesuits, which they do not do in the original novel.
 * The third adaptation was made for TV in 2010; this is the version most faithful to the novel.
 * The fourth adaptation, in 3D, by David Rosler, was in production from 2009 to 2010.
 * The fourth adaptation, in 3D, by David Rosler, was in production from 2009 to 2010.

Criticism
Soon after the publication of The First Men in the Moon, Wells was accused by the Irish writer Robert Cromie of having stolen from his novel A Plunge into Space (1890), which used an antigravity device similar to that in Chrysostom Trueman's The History of a Voyage to the Moon (1864). Both novels had certain elements in common, such as a globular spaceship built in secret after inventing a way to overcome Earth's gravity. Wells simply replied: "I have never heard of Mr Cromie nor of the book he attempts to advertise by insinuations of plagiarism on my part."

Jules Verne was publicly hostile to Wells's novel, mainly due to Wells having his characters go to the Moon via a totally fictional creation of an anti-gravitational material rather than the actual use of technology.

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Travis Morrison

Travis Morrison (born December 16, 1972) is an American musician and web developer from the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., United States. He is best known as leader of indie-rock band The Dismemberment Plan and as a solo artist.

Early life
After picking up various instruments around age 12, Morrison stuck with guitar and began forming bands throughout his high school days at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was on Lake Braddock's English Team and claimed to be "pathetically happy" upon defeating the english team of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology one year.

After "getting out of Fairfax" he attended The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia for three years before dropping out to pursue a band. He worked at the campus radio station WCWM, which he claimed was "worth tuition right there." At WCWM he became well versed in many types of music, "from John Coltrane to German art rock." He continues to have wide-ranging musical taste to this very day, having claimed to enjoy everything from Britney Spears, Gladys Knight, XTC, Fugazi, Ludacris and Go-go. He finds additional inspiration in the music of Harry Nilsson, which he often listens to before a concert.

The Dismemberment Plan
In 1993, Morrison formed The Dismemberment Plan with old Lake Braddock friends. Despite his mother's initial reluctance, the band practiced in bassist Eric Axelson's basement frequently and began playing shows. By 1995 they released their debut album ! on D.C. based DeSoto Records. After original drummer Steve Cummings left the band, he was replaced by Joe Easley and the band's lineup would remain that way throughout their existence. Morrison was the guitarist and vocalist for The Plan from their formation in 1993 to their final show at the 9:30 Club in D.C in 2003. The band released four LPs and two EPs and gained a large following for their energetic live show, mostly due to Morrison's "booty-shaking" moves onstage. Their final two studio albums Emergency & I and Change were some of the most revered rock albums in the late-90s and early-2000s. Despite this, the band continued to work freelance jobs on the side to support themselves, Morrison taking up various computer and graphic design jobs.

Solo
In 2004, Morrison moved to Seattle, Washington, and began working closely in the studio with both Ben Gibbard and Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie, a frequent tourmate of The Plan. Morrison then began doing a nationwide tour of a solo show with just him and an acoustic guitar. The shows consisted of him doing mostly covers of songs varying a wide variety of genres (from Spoon to Fiddler on the Roof and beyond). He also began playing some songs he was working on for a solo album. Around this time, he posted up mp3s of songs he was working on for his solo album as well as a cover of Ludacris's "What's Your Fantasy" which was listed as a "must download" in Entertainment Weekly.

In the summer of 2004, Morrison had moved back to the D.C. area and in September 2004 he released his first solo album, Travistan, through Barsuk Records. The album was co-produced by Chris Walla.

Travis Morrison Hellfighters
In September 2004 Morrison assembled a band to play his solo songs live. Consisting of Brandon Kalber (bass, keyboards), Saadat Awan (drums), David Brown (percussion), Kristen Forbes (keyboards and backup vocals) and Morrison on vocals and keyboards. At first the band's live show consisted of three synths, percussion and drums but Morrison stated "none of us could play keyboards very well, so it was kind of hard after a while." Over time, Forbes left the band, the band introduced guitar & bass to their live sound and the band would begin touring as Travis Morrison Hellfighters. Travis and the Hellfighters continued to tour for the album and demoed new songs together. By the summer of 2005, the band had come into their own and were playing shows of entirely new material, only playing the occasional Travistan song. Travis and the Hellfighters have finished a new album, titled All Y'all, that was released on August 21, 2007, and is currently streaming on Travis' website and was produced by Travis's former bandmate, Jason Cadell. The album was mixed by Joel Hamilton.

The final Hellfighters lineup (as of 2009) was:
 * Travis Morrison
 * David Brown
 * Brandon Kalber
 * Vince Magno
 * Thomas Orgren

"Retirement" and current activities
In the summer of 2009, Morrison's official website was updated to state that he has retired from making music, and that there will be no more shows, records or bands. When The Dismemberment Plan reunited for shows in early 2011, Morrison said of the 'retirement', "I think I just didn’t have any plans for any solo music, and I just think I thought it sounded funny to say I was retiring ... I mean, it seems more fun than to say, 'I have no plans.'" In March 2011, he told Glide Magazine that Time Travel plans on making an album. In May 2012, D.C. label Bad Friend Records released a 7" of previously unheard material the Travis Morrison Hellfighters recorded before breaking up.

Personal life
As of mid-2012, Morrison lives in the New York City area, works as a computer programmer (formerly at The Washington Post and then Huffington Post), and is married to journalist and podcaster Katherine Goldstein. Morrison's other singing outlet has been regular participation in an Episcopal Church choir.

Trumpeter of D.C. culture
Morrison is notable for being very vocal about the culture of the Washington, D.C. area. Morrison has always insisted on touring with fellow D.C. acts, both with The Plan and solo. Despite releasing Travistan on Barsuk Records, he remains supportive of D.C.-based DeSoto Records. In his lyrics he makes mention to the area (see below), the liner notes to Change feature photos taken around Washington, D.C., notably of The Uptown Theatre. The logo for Travistan resembles the flag of the District of Columbia. He's a very active fan of Washington area sports, mainly the Washington Wizards. He placed a link on his website to an online petition to change the name of the Washington Nationals to the Washington Grays in honor of the old D.C. Negro leagues team. Both with The Plan and solo he frequently played and continues to play shows at D.C. live venue staples Black Cat, Fort Reno and the 9:30 Club. He has kicked around the idea of doing a tour of the outlying suburbs of D.C since he once lived in Lorton, Virginia, and knows how difficult it can be to get downtown for a show.

Recently around D.C. he has also done volunteer work with We Are Family D.C., a non-profit organization and returned to his William & Mary days by DJing with WMUC at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has also sung in several D.C. area church choirs, including a recent season with the National Cathedral.

In 2005 through most of 2007 Morrison lived in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC with his girlfriend and worked for the website of The Washington Post, heading their advertising programming and production department.

D.C. lyrical references
Morrison frequently refers to D.C. area locations and themes in his songs. References include:
 * The song "13th and Euclid" (!) is named after an intersection in Northwest D.C.
 * In "Fantastic!" (!): "I wouldn't go so far as to call it escape, but I'll head my way up I-95"
 * In "I'm Going to Buy You a Gun" (!): "I'm going to take you out on I-95"
 * In "The Ice of Boston" (The Dismemberment Plan is Terrified): "...and I say 'oh fine, mom; how's Washington?!'"
 * The song "The City" (Emergency and I) is about D.C.
 * In "Spider in the Snow" (Emergency & I): "And as I would walk down K Street to some temping job, as winter froze life out of fall, I must have been having a ball."
 * In "Ellen and Ben" (Change): "The Ocean City girls on the boardwalk, singing oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh"
 * In "My Two Front Teeth Parts 2 & 3" (Travistan): "In front of the Gap at the corner of M and Wisconsin" - the song illustrates a Georgetown mugging, in which the narrator loses his two front teeth, as a metaphor for the September 11, 2001 attacks ("The second I saw, but the first was sucker-punch city.")
 * In "Born in '72" (Travistan): The verse which starts, "Can't ask for more so we're unfulfilled," up to, "through and through," is a lyrical and rhythmic reference to Fugazi's "Break", the opening track on their 1998 album, "End Hits".
 * In "Get Me Off This Coin D" (Travistan): "You named a town, after me now, and no one there can vote" (from the perspective of George Washington, the last of a series of songs commemorating the four presidents on common United States coinage)
 * In "Hawkins' Rock" (All Y'All): "Drivin' down I-95, son" and "Drivin' down I-81, yeah"
 * In "I Do" (All Y'All): "swimming through the heat of a D.C. dawn"
 * "East Side of the River" (All Y'All) is about the part of Washington, DC, east of the Anacostia River.

The Dismemberment Plan

 * Can We Be Mature? (EP) (1994)
 * ! (1995)
 * Give Me the Cure (compilation) (1996)
 * Ooh Do I Love You (compilation) (1996)
 * The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified (1997)
 * Fort Reno Benefit (compilation) (1997)
 * What Do You Want Me to Say? (single) (1997)
 * The Ice of Boston (EP) (1998)
 * Emergency & I (1999)
 * Dismemberment Plan/Juno (split EP) (2000)
 * Change (2001)
 * A People's History of the Dismemberment Plan (compilation) (2003)
 * Live in Japan 2011 (2011)
 * ''Uncanney Valley (2013)

Solo

 * Travistan (2004)

Travis Morrison Hellfighters

 * All Y'All (2007)
 * Cruisin' (All Night Long) (single) (2012)

The Burlies

 * The Burlies EP (2014)

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Craig Burley

Craig William Burley (born 24 September 1971) is a Scottish former professional footballer and sports television pundit and co-commentator for ESPN.

As a player he was a midfielder from 1989 until 2004, notably playing in the Premier League for Chelsea and Derby County and in the Scottish Premier League for Celtic. He also played for Dundee and finished his career in the Football League with Preston North End and Walsall. He earned 46 caps for Scotland, scoring 3 goals.

Since retiring and working as a pundit amongst others he has worked for BBC Sport, ESPN and BT Sport.

Club career
Burley began his professional career with Chelsea in 1989, however he didn't make his debut until April 1991 when he came on as a substitute for Kerry Dixon in a 7–0 defeat against Nottingham Forest. He made his first appearance in the newly formed Premier League on 5 December 1992 in a 2–1 away win at Tottenham Hotspur.

He went on to become a regular under Glenn Hoddle and played in the 1994 FA Cup final against Manchester United, picking up a runners-up medal following a 4–0 defeat. Two years later, Chelsea got to the FA Cup semi finals where they again faced Manchester United. With the score level at 1–1, Burley hit an errant back pass to set up David Beckham for what proved to be the winning goal. Chelsea won the 1996–97 FA Cup; Burley was left out of the squad for the final but played in the semi-final against Wimbledon. He was sold by Ruud Gullit on 25 July 1997 to Celtic for £2.5 million.

He made his Celtic debut on 3 August 1997 against Hibernian, and went on to make 64 appearances scoring 20 goals before transferring back to England with Derby County on 1 December 1999 for £3 million. He played in four seasons for The Rams and suffered his first career relegation when the club lost their Premier League status at the end of the 2001–02 season.

On 12 September 2003 he signed with Dundee on a free transfer but only played twice in a two-month spell before being released and eventually signing for Preston North End in January 2004. By March he was a free agent again after only making four appearances for North End. He signed with Walsall on a free transfer for the remainder of the 2003–04 season and played five times before retiring at the end of the season.

International career
After making his Scotland debut in 1995, Burley was also in the starting line-up for a fixture against Estonia in Tallinn in October 1996, but a scheduling dispute meant the home team did not adhere to a quickly-rearranged afternoon kick-off time, and the match was abandoned at kick-off with no caps awarded to the Scotland players; the fixture was re-arranged for the following February, but Burley was injured and did not take part.

Burley played at UEFA Euro 1996 and in the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. At France '98 he scored the Scotland goal in a 1–1 draw with Norway in Bordeaux, latching on to a ball played forward by defender David Weir. He was then sent off in the final group game against Morocco as Scotland were eliminated. His goal against Norway was the last scored by a Scotland player at a major tournament, until Callum McGregor scored his goal against Croatia in the final group stage of UEFA Euro 2020, 23 years later (held in 2021).

Burley continued to play under Craig Brown until the end of the unsuccessful 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, captaining the side in what proved to be his penultimate appearance. After suffering injury problems, Burley won a Scotland recall against Austria in 2003 under new manager Berti Vogts but then announced his international retirement.

Media career
Burley previously worked as a pundit and commentator for ESPN UK, Absolute Radio, BT Sport and BBC Radio 5 Live. He was ESPN's lead Scottish football co-commentator as well as fill-in for Chris Waddle on Premier League broadcasts and studio pundit for FA Cup. Burley worked the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 as a co-commentator for ITV Sport including the 2010 World Cup Final. He then worked the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016 as a co-commentator and studio pundit for ABC and ESPN. He is currently a pundit on the programme ESPN FC.

Personal life
He is the nephew of former Scotland manager George Burley. Burley is married to Sheryl (born 1971) and they have three children together. In 2013, Burley moved to the US state of Connecticut to work for ESPN.

Honours
Chelsea
 * FA Cup: 1996–97; runner-up: 1993–94

Celtic
 * Scottish Premier Division: 1997–98
 * Scottish League Cup: 1997–98

Individual
 * SFWA Footballer of the Year: 1998

International

 * Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Burley goal.

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George Richardson (baseball)

George Richardson Jr. was a shortstop with the Chicago Union Giants the Algona Brownies from 1900 to 1903.

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Sjakkalle (Check!)  12:37, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Gert Jonnys
I couldn't find anything under WP:MUSIC, and although the article creator claimed that it may be notable as an internet meme, I only got around 1,000 hits on Google that were barely related and got nothing on Alexa. Karmafist 21:30, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nothing notable. Only 570 google hits for me. And absolutely zero Nexis hits. -- Lord Vold e  mort  (Dark Mark) 21:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well 241 unique google hits anyway. -- Lord Vold e  mort  (Dark Mark) 21:47, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-informational. --Hoovernj 21:43, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Undecided. I will let you decide. I don't know how you're searching but I get 4.100 google hits . Indeed, they're not famous for their music. I have seen their funny pictures on several internet forums, blogs, etc. And their internet cult status have gained attention in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers . Norwegian students made a prank by placing two gnomes on the university building, one of which was painted inspired by Gert Jonnys clothes  (Entheta 22:10, 30 September 2005 (UTC))
 * Strong Keep It is a cultural and Internet phenomenon in Sweden. It is listed on the Swedish Wikipedia. We have millions of similar things about the US or the UK that we wouldn't delete because they seem relevant to many more of our users. But this article has value to people interested in Swedish popular culture and internet culture. I don't see the problem. Tfine80 00:37, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - as per Entheta's reasoning (even though that was for an "undecided" vote CLW 06:52, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for now. In the future, consider a merge other Swedish "cult dance bands". // Fred-Chess 09:17, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Tfine80 and CLW (and indirectly Entheta). -- Uppland 10:00, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notability is not restricted to American groups of this kind.--Wiglaf 10:08, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Tfine80. / Alarm 17:18, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
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In Search of Santa

In Search of Santa is a 2004 animated Christmas adventure film starring Hilary Duff and her older sister Haylie Duff in their first voice roles. It was directed by William R. Kowalchuk, the production of the film began in 1998 as it was originally to be entirely made in hand-drawn traditional animation and have planned to be released in 1999, but then somehow decided to, not only it was switched from hand-drawn to fully CGI, but to be pushed further to be released on August 25, 2004, in Australia and on November 23, 2004, in the United States. The movie was animated using Alias Maya 3D software.

Synopsis
King Calvin and Queen Penelope have their eggs laid and as their daughters hatch, the parents name them Crystal and Lucinda. As the sisters grow, despite their differences, they compromise and head to the North Pole to find Santa Claus.

They want to save Christmas, which Crystal believes in earlier and all along. After saving a seal in the middle of their quest, both sisters meet the pirates: Capn' Cragg (a walrus), Bugkus Bill (a stork) and a pelican.

Cast

 * Hilary Duff as Princess Crystal
 * Haylie Duff as Princess Lucinda
 * Jason Michas as Eugene/Gardener Elf
 * Kathleen Barr as Lady Agonysia/Mrs. Clause/Queen Penelope/Katie/Marcus/Mimi
 * Scott McNeil as Mortmottimes/Bugkus Bill/Timebomb Tom
 * Garry Chalk as Derridommis/Capn' Cragg
 * French Tickner as Santa Claus
 * Dale Wilson as King Calvin
 * Nicole Bouma as Baby Crystal/Wing Maiden #1 & #5/Additional Voices
 * Tabitha St. Germain as Baby Lucinda/Additional Voices
 * Lee Tockar as Max/Phillip/Pup
 * Cathy Weseluck as William/Wing Maiden #4 & #6
 * Richard Newman as Narrator

Reception
The film received generally negative reviews,  with viewers heavily criticizing its poor CGI animation quality and weak script. UltimateDisney wrote "the film has not succeeded in challenging, engaging, or even entertaining but it is colorful and somewhat lively" and that "the makers of In Search of Santa hope that the appeal of computer animation, Christmas, and the Duff sisters will encourage people to check their movie out."

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I merged Nina Kent into Adrian Young because Nina Kent has no claim to fame other than being Adrian Young's wife. Does she have some other claim to fame? - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 18:44, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Trapped in a Box
I saw Trapped in a Box, and, while we appreciate the contribution, lyrics aren't appropriate material for Wikipedia, particularly copyrighted lyrics. This version is going to have to be deleted, but if you wanted to write an article about the song, that would be great. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 19:32, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

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Foodfight!

Foodfight! is a 2012 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Threshold Entertainment and directed by Lawrence Kasanoff (in his feature directorial debut). The film features the voices of Charlie Sheen, Wayne Brady, Hilary Duff, Eva Longoria, Larry Miller, and Christopher Lloyd. Foodfight! takes place in the "Marketropolis" supermarket, which, after closing time, transforms into a city inhabited by "Ikes", personifications of well-known food mascots. The story follows a cereal brand mascot, Dex Dogtective, who, along with his best friend Daredevil Dan, join forces with their fellow "Ikes" to fight against the forces of the evil Brand X, who threaten to take over the entire supermarket.

After raising tens of millions of dollars in funding, Foodfight! had a troubled and much-delayed production. The film was originally scheduled for a Christmas 2003 theatrical release; however, this failed to materialize, and later planned release dates in 2005 and 2007 were also missed. By September 2011, after the producers defaulted on a loan, creditors auctioned off the film's assets and all associated rights to Fireman's Fund Insurance Company.

In 2012, the film had a modest release, being direct-to-video in most territories. Its critical reception was overwhelmingly negative, with most criticism directed towards the animation, humor, story and excessive product placement. It has often been discussed as one of the worst films of all time.

Plot
When night falls at the supermarket Marketropolis, the store products' mascots ("Ikes") come to life and interact with each other. Heroic cereal mascot Dex Dogtective is about to propose to his girlfriend Sunshine Goodness, a raisin mascot, but she goes missing just before he is able to do so.

Six months later, a Brand X representative named Mr. Clipboard arrives at Marketropolis and aggressively pushes Brand X's range of generic products to Leonard, the store's manager. In the world of the Ikes, the arrival of Lady X, the seductive Brand X detergent Ike, causes a commotion at Dex's club, the Copabanana.

Brand X products begin to replace previous products, which is mirrored in the Ikes' world with the deaths of several Ikes. After Dex's friend Daredevil Dan, a chocolate squirrel, disappears, Dex begins to investigate. After rebuffing Lady X's attempts to bring him to Brand X's side, Dex is locked in a dryer with Dan to be melted, but the two manage to escape. Dan and Dex find out that Brand X contains an addictive and toxic secret ingredient.

Dex and Dan attempt to initiate a product recall with Leonard's computer, but a Brand X Ike cuts power just as they send the message. Dex then rallies the citizens of Marketropolis to fight the armies of Brand X in a massive food fight. The citizens win the battle by using the supermarket's electricity.

Dex rescues Sunshine, who had been held hostage in the Brand X tower, and escapes with the help of Dan. Mr. Clipboard then enters the Ikes' world, but he is taken down by Dex, who discovers that he is a robot controlled by Lady X. Lady X reveals that she had previously been the hideous Ike of an unsuccessful brand of prunes, and had been stealing Sunshine's essence to create a new brand. Dex and Sunshine defeat her, reverting her to her original form. With Brand X defeated and a cure found that revives the killed Ikes, Dex and Sunshine finally get married.

Cast
Along with many licensed characters, the principal characters of the film are original characters.

 * Charlie Sheen as Dex Dogtective, an anthropomorphic dog investigator, owner of the Copabanana nightclub, and mascot for a cereal product.
 * Wayne Brady as Daredevil Dan, Dex's best friend; a squirrel pilot of a small aircraft and mascot for a chocolate product and the film's comic relief.
 * Hilary Duff as Sunshine Goodness, an anthropomorphic cat mascot for a raisin brand; Dex's fiancée.
 * Eva Longoria as Lady X / Priscilla, former mascot of the prune product turned owner and leader of Brand X.
 * Larry Miller as Vlad Chocool, a chocolate cereal vampire bat with attraction for Dan.
 * Christopher Lloyd as Mr. Clipboard, the robotic representative for Brand X products in the human world.
 * Robert Costanzo as Maximillus Moose
 * Chris Kattan as Polar Penguin
 * Ed Asner as Mr. Leonard
 * Jerry Stiller as General X
 * Christine Baranski as Hedda Shopper
 * Lawrence Kasanoff as Cheasel T. Weasel
 * Harvey Fierstein as Fat Cat Burglar
 * Cloris Leachman as Brand X Lunch Lady
 * Haylie Duff as Sweetcakes
 * Shelley Morrison as Lola Fruitola
 * Edie McClurg as Mrs. Butterworth
 * George Johnsen as Kaptain Krispy
 * Greg Ellis as Hairy Hold
 * James Arnold Taylor as Doctor Si Nustrix
 * Jeff Bennett as Lieutenant X
 * Stephen Stanton as Mr. Clean (deleted scene), Lord Flushington
 * Jeff Bergman as Charlie Tuna
 * Sean Catherine Derek as Toddler's Mom
 * Enn Reitel as Kung Tofu / François Fromage
 * Daniel Franzese as Twinkleton
 * Jason Ortenberg, Zachary Liebreich-Johnsen, Andrew Ortenberg and Jennifer Keith as the Ike Kids
 * Joshua Wexler, George Johnsen, Jason Harris, and Greg Eagles as the Hairless Hamster Henchmen

Additional voices are provided by Melissa Disney, Jennifer Keith, Bob Bergen, Susan Silo, Daniel Bernhardt, Jeff Bennett, Stephen Stanton, James Arnold Taylor, and John Bloom.

Soundtrack
Foodfight! had an extensive soundtrack built mostly of cover versions of well-known contemporary songs and original songs sung by the characters' voice actors, provided by a variety of licensing companies. The film's end credits overlay soundtrack, an upbeat duet pop song titled "The Brightside" by Tif McMillin and Richard Page, was an original song.

"It's Our World" "Tonight's the Nite" "Dare The Day" "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" "Wow!" "You Are My Sunshine"
 * Written by Neil Jason and John McCurry
 * Written by Neil Jason and J. Davis
 * Performed by Wayne Brady
 * Written by Michael Lloyd and Greg O'Connor
 * Performed by Joe Esposito (as "Joe Bean Esposito") and Brooklyn Dreams
 * Written by Norman Whitfield (as Norman J. Whitfield) and Barrett Strong
 * Performed by Good Grief featuring Shanna Crooks
 * Written by Keith Ridenour, Bud Tower, Douglas Shawe and Wayne Hood
 * Written by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell

"Honor is Ours" "Brand X" "USDA" "Fire in the Skies" "The Brightside" "You Got Me Believing" "Hava Nagilah"
 * Performed by The Swamp Daddys
 * Written by Keith Ridenour, Dean Madonia and Scott Avery
 * Performed by Jeff Bennett
 * Written by Lawrence Kasanoff
 * Written by Lawrence Kasanoff
 * Written by Janey Street, Charles English and Pam Wolfe
 * Performed by Tif McMillin and Richard Page
 * Written by Janey Street and Vince Melamed
 * Performed by Joe Esposito (as "Joe Bean Esposito") and Brooklyn Dreams
 * Written by Donna Summer and Bruce Sudano
 * Adapted by Michael Lloyd and John D'Andrea

Conception
Lawrence Kasanoff and a Threshold Entertainment employee, Joshua Wexler, created the concept in 1997. A $25 million joint investment into the project was made by Threshold and the Korean investment company Natural Image, with the producers expecting that foreign pre-sales and loans against the sales would provide the remaining portion of the budget. The estimated remainder was $50 million. Kasanoff also decided to produce and direct the film, despite having no prior experience in the animation field.

Production setbacks
The film was created and produced by the digital effects shop at Threshold, located in Santa Monica, California in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. In December 2002, Kasanoff reported that hard drives containing most unfinished assets from the film had been stolen, in what he called an act of "industrial espionage" and "an incredibly complex crime". An investigation, which involved the United States Secret Service, was unable to find the perpetrator. However, those who worked on the film did not recall this happening, with one assistant claiming that the original hard drives were saved and stored properly and believed that Kasanoff was simply not satisfied with them. A behind-the-scenes showreel Kasanoff put together to entice investors is the only significant surviving footage of the original incarnation of the film. The film was supposed to be computer-animated, with an exaggerated use of "squash and stretch" to resemble the Looney Tunes shorts, but after production resumed in 2004, Kasanoff changed it to a style more centered in motion capture, with the result being that "he and animators were speaking two different languages".

Kasanoff's haphazard micromanaging and misunderstanding of animation frustrated the crew, made more difficult due to his insistence of bringing his dogs into the studio, one of whom was difficult to maintain. Kasanoff also reportedly asked for a personal nude 3D render of Lady X - which he would keep and admire in his off time - and could not understand why animators trained exclusively on texturing could not work on other aspects of the film. As production wore on, many notable brands that had previously signed on to appear in the film backed out, including Cheetos and M&M's. Allegedly, the latter was displeased with how the M&M characters were to be portrayed; the animators had mistakenly rendered the Green M&M, a female mascot, as male within the footage shown to company representatives.

Delays
Lionsgate established a distribution deal and the financing company StoryArk represented investors who gave $20 million in funding to Threshold in 2005 due to the Lionsgate deal, the celebrity voice actors, and the product tie-ins. A release date in 2005 was later announced, but missed. Another distribution deal was struck in 2007, but again, nothing came of it. Lionsgate had a negative reaction to the delays. The investors had grown impatient due to the film production company defaulting on its secured promissory note and the release dates that were not met.

Auction
Finally, in 2011, the film was auctioned for $2.5 million. StoryArk investors had ultimately invoked a clause in their contract that allowed the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, which had insured Foodfight!, to complete and release the film as inexpensively and quickly as possible. Animator Ken Bailey stated that "The film was already ruined. They were just trying to salvage what they could."

Release
The insurance company received the copyright to the film in 2012 and began releasing it and its associated merchandise. In June 2012, Foodfight! received a limited release in the United Kingdom, grossing approximately £15,000 of ticket sales on its single week in theatres. It was released on DVD in Europe that October with distribution by Boulevard Entertainment.

In February 2013, the film was released on VOD and was released on DVD in the United States on May 7, 2013. Jake Rossen of The New York Times described the film's United States release as "a muted debut". The United States release was delayed because the American distributor, Viva Pictures, wanted to release it when Walmart could arrange for a satisfactory product display for the film. According to company president Victor Elizalde, Viva Pictures' modest investment of an unspecified sum had proved profitable.

Reception
Upon the film's initial announcement in 2001, it was denounced for taking product placement to the extreme, and doing it in a film targeted at children. Kasanoff responded to the controversy by stating that they were not paid monetarily for the brand inclusion, and therefore the addition of known brands did not constitute product placement; however, the brands were expected to provide $100 million worth of cross-promotion.

Since its release, Foodfight! has been negatively received by critics and audiences alike, and is considered one of the worst films ever made: Mental Floss included it in a list of "10 Really Bad Movies that Define 'Bad Movies'" in 2012 and it appeared in lists of the worst movies ever made on Digital Trends in 2017, MSN in 2018, Fotogramas in 2020 and Time Out in 2022. It has also been referred to as one of the worst animated films ever made by Indiewire in 2015, Comic Book Resources in 2021, and twice by Screen Rant, in 2017 and 2020. In 2017, Rebecca Hawkes of The Daily Telegraph described Foodfight! as "the worst animated children's film ever made".

A 2012 review by Kate Valentine of Hollywood News called it "by far the crappiest piece of crap I have ever had the misfortune to watch", and a 2013 article from The New York Times was similarly scathing, saying, "The animation appears unfinished [...] And the plot [...] is impenetrable and even offensive." The New York Times article also reported that Foodfight! has been "seized upon by Internet purveyors of bad cinema".

Describing the film as "one of those fall-of-civilization moments", Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club wrote in 2013 that: "the grotesque ugliness of the animation alone would be a deal-breaker even if the film weren't also glaringly inappropriate in its sexuality, nightmare-inducing in its animation, and filled with Nazi overtones and iconography even more egregiously unfit for children than the script's wall-to-wall gauntlet of crude double entendres and weird intimations of inter-species sex". Rabin revisited Foodfight! in a 2019 article, stating that it "was the kind of bad movie I live for. This is the kind of movie so unbelievably, surreally and exquisitely terrible that you want to share it with the rest of the world. I was put on earth to suffer through abominations like Foodfight! so that society as a whole might benefit from my Christ-like sacrifice." In 2020, Esquire's Tom Nicholson wrote that the film was "The Room, rendered in horribly sharp polygons" and that it was "easily the most horrifically ugly, confusing and unsettling animated film ever made."

In 2024, a documentary covering details in the production (with interviews and footage of early animation) called Rotten: Behind the Foodfight was released.

Merchandise
Associated Foodfight! merchandise was produced and was sold in stores and online, with a fair amount being released several years prior to the film, including plush toys and a Deluxe Sound Storybook. A cancelled video game tie-in was being developed at Cat Daddy Games from 2005 to 2007. Footage and details of the video game were leaked in 2024.

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Scott Radinsky

Scott David Radinsky (born March 3, 1968) is an American left-handed former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball, who had an 11-year career from 1990–1993 and 1995–2001. Radinsky is also the lead singer of the punk rock band Pulley, former lead singer of the bands Scared Straight and Ten Foot Pole and co-owner of the skate park which houses the Skateboarding Hall of Fame.

Radinsky finished his playing career with a 42–25 record, a 3.44 ERA, and 358 strikeouts in $481 2/3$ innings pitched. Radinsky also only gave up 33 home runs throughout his career, an average of 1 every 14.5 innings. He won the 1995 Tony Conigliaro Award.

Early and personal life
Radinsky was born in Glendale, California, later lived in Simi Valley, California. His parents were Marshall L. Radinsky (from West Virginia) and Barbara (Kornetsky) Radinsky (from Boston). His mother is Jewish but Radinsky himself does not identify as Jewish.

He graduated from Simi Valley High School, for whom he played baseball, in Simi Valley, in 1986. In his senior year in high school, he was 14-1 with an ERA of 0.72, and had 180 strikeouts in 100.1 innings.

Baseball career
Radinsky was drafted by the Chicago White Sox at the age of 18 in the third round in 1986 out of Simi Valley High School.

Minor leagues
Radinsky pitched in the minor leagues from 1986–1989, and parts of later years. In 1989, he had 31 saves, a 1.75 ERA, and averaged 5.7 hits allowed and 12.1 strikeouts per 9 innings pitched as he was voted a Midwest League All Star.

Chicago White Sox
He made his major league debut for the White Sox on April 9, 1990, retiring the one batter he faced (Greg Brock of the Milwaukee Brewers) on a pop up to short. He was the first pitcher in six years—since Dwight Gooden—to go straight from Single A to the Major Leagues. He picked up the win with $1 1/3$ innings of relief the following day. He was unconventional; he blasted punk music in the clubhouse, rode his bicycle to and from Comiskey Park, was a fan favorite, and was known as his teammates as "Rad." He told a sportswriter: " I love the five minutes I'm actually in the game. Those five minutes are why I come to the ballpark and put up with the writers, the dress code, the team meetings, the authority of the dugout, the major corporation that is baseball." In 1990, he posted a record of 6–1 with four saves in his rookie season.

From that point through 1993, he was a fixture in a White Sox bullpen that also included hardthrowing Bobby Thigpen and Roberto Hernández.

In 1991, Radinsky enjoyed his finest year with the White Sox, going 5–5 with 8 saves and a 2.02 ERA. He was 10th in the league with 67 appearances. He held batters to a .116 batting average with runners in scoring position.

In 1992, he was seventh in the AL, pitching in 68 games, and had a 2.73 ERA and a career-high 15 saves. In 1993, he was second in the league, pitching in 73 games, and won a career-high eight games while saving four.

During the 1993–94 off-season, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease, a type of lymphoma. The treatment for the disease forced Radinsky to miss the entire 1994 baseball season. He remembered:

"Oh, it sucks to have a doctor tell you that you have cancer, but in the same breath, he told me that with aggressive treatment they can treat this particular disease. Thank God I didn't have Internet back then, so I couldn't get all wrapped up in it. I didn't have access to see how bad it could be. They told me I had to go through six months of this and five weeks of that, and that's all I really looked at: the end."

He underwent surgery at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, and months of radiation therapy and chemotherapy. During spring training in 1994 his White Sox teammates wore a patch of Radinsky's # 31 on their jersey.

In his 1995 return to the White Sox, his ERA ballooned to 5.45, prompting the White Sox to release him after the season. In December 1995 Radinsky was honored with the Tony Conigliaro Award.

Los Angeles Dodgers
His release from the Sox paved the way for his return home to Southern California to play for the Los Angeles Dodgers, with whom he signed as a free agent in January 1996. He enjoyed three excellent years (1996–98) in Los Angeles, with his ERA never exceeding 2.89. Out of the bullpen, he worked as a set-up pitcher for Todd Worrell and Jeff Shaw, the Dodgers' closers. Radinsky's home-town status, excellent on-the-field performance, blue collar attitude, and at times fiery personality made him an instant fan favorite in Los Angeles. For the 1996 season, he was 5-1 with a 2.41 ERA.

In 1997, he pitched in a career-high 75 games, 7th in the NL, and was 5-1 with a 2.89 ERA. However, after the 1998 season, in which he was 6-6 with 13 saves and a 2.63 ERA, the Dodgers and Radinsky decided to cut ties.

St. Louis Cardinals
He went on to play for the St. Louis Cardinals, with whom he signed as a free agent in November 1998. He was in 43 games in 1999, with a 4.88 ERA.

Cleveland Indians
He then pitched for the Cleveland Indians, with whom he signed as a free agent in January 2001. He injured his pitching elbow in his first game with the Indians, requiring Tommy John surgery. After rehabilitating the elbow, he then returned to make two major league appearances in 2001 before retiring. He played his final major league game for the Indians on October 5, 2001, and retired in early 2002, at 34 years of age.

Coaching career
Radinsky rejoined the Cleveland Indians organization in 2005 as a pitching coach for the South Atlantic League's Lake County Captains. He held the same post in 2006 with the Double-A Akron Aeros. In 2007, he was promoted by the Indians to serve as the pitching coach for the Buffalo Bisons. in 2009 he was the coach of the Columbus Clippers for the third straight season.

On November 16, 2009, Radinsky was named as bullpen coach for the Indians major league club for the 2010 season.

On October 14, 2011, it was announced that Radinsky would be promoted to pitching coach for the Indians for the 2012 season, to replace Tim Belcher who stepped down at season's end to spend more time with his family. On August 9, 2012, the Indians fired Radinsky and replaced him with Ruben Niebla, from their Triple-A affiliate, the Columbus Clippers, on an interim basis.

On January 23, 2013, Radinsky was hired as the Pitching Coach for the Ogden Raptors, a Rookie Level affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, playing in the Pioneer League. He was promoted to pitching coach for the AA Chattanooga Lookouts in 2014, and again in 2015 to pitching coach for the AAA Oklahoma City Dodgers.

He became the bullpen coach for the Los Angeles Angels in 2016. A position he held through the 2018 season.

In October 2023 he became the head coach for the Dutch club UVV, based in Utrecht.

Music career
Besides baseball, Radinsky's other passion is punk rock. A fixture in the 1980s "Nardcore" (Oxnard, California hardcore) scene, he sang for Scared Straight, which recorded an LP ("You Drink, You Drive, You Die") and several compilation cuts for Mystic Records. The band later changed their name to Ten Foot Pole and after recording two albums, in 1995 parted ways with Radinsky, due to his time-consuming baseball career.

Since 1994, Radinsky has been the lead vocalist for the punk rock band Pulley, which has toured three continents and opened for bands such as Green Day. In 2017, he was featured in Baseball Punx, a documentary exploring the intersection between baseball and punk rock. Describing his life mixing both baseball and punk, he noted: "I don't think some of the guys [in Pulley] realized that I was on an eight-month tour [playing and coaching baseball] every day from February until October, and then I'd come home and a couple of weeks later we'd go out on a three-week European tour playing a gig every single day."

Discography

 * with Scared Straight
 * Nardcore Compilation LP (Mystic Records, 1984)
 * Party Animal - We got Power II Compilation LP (Mystic Records, 1984)
 * Mystic Super Seven Sampler No. 1 Compilation 7" (Mystic Records, 1985)
 * Born to be Wild" 7 (Mystic Records, 1985)
 * You Drink, You Drive, You Die LP (Mystic Records, 1988)

 * with Ten Foot Pole
 * Swill (Ten Foot Records, 1993)
 * Rev (Epitaph Records, 1994)
 * Ten Foot Pole & Satanic Surfers Split EP (Bad Taste Records, 1995)

 * with Pulley
 * Esteem Driven Engine (Epitaph Records, 1996)
 * 60 Cycle Hum (Epitaph Records, 1997)
 * @#!* (Epitaph Records, 1999)
 * Together Again for the First Time (Epitaph Records, 2001)
 * Matters (Epitaph Records, 2004)
 * The Slackers/Pulley Split (Do Tell Records, 2004)
 * Beyond Warped: Live Music Series (Immergent Records, 2005)
 * Time-Insensitive Material (Whens Lunch Records, 2009)
 * The Long And The Short Of It (Whens Lunch Records, 2011)
 * No Change in the Weather (Cyber Tracks, 2016)
 * The Golden Life (Sbäm Records, 2022)

Skateboard park
Radinsky was the owner of Skatelab in Simi Valley, California from its opening in 1997 until its closure in January 2019. The skatepark also housed a very comprehensive skateboarding museum displaying pieces from all eras of skateboarding, including many rare and collectible skateboards, and the Skateboarding Hall of Fame.

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Pedro Ramos

Pedro Ramos Guerra (born April 28, 1935) is a Cuban former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Senators / Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, and the expansion Washington Senators, all of the American League (AL), and the Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Cincinnati Reds, all of the National League (NL), over the course of a 15-year career (1955–1967; 1969–1970). Ramos was elected to the AL All-Star team in 1959. He led the league in losses four times, in 1958 (18), 1959 (19), 1960 (18), and 1961 (20). On April 11, 1961, in the Twins’ first game ever, Ramos was the winning pitcher, when the team defeated the Yankees, 6–0, at Yankee Stadium.

A starter most of his career, "Pete" Ramos became an unexpected sensation in September 1964 after being traded from the Indians to the Yankees for $75,000 and two players to be named later (after the season, the Indians received Ralph Terry and Bud Daley). In 13 appearances for the Yankees, all in relief, Ramos saved eight games and posted a 1.25 earned-run average as the Yankees barely held off the Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles down the pennant stretch. In 21 innings, Ramos struck out 21 batters and walked none. Because the trade came after August 31, Ramos was not eligible to pitch in the World Series, which New York lost in seven games to the Bob Gibson-led St. Louis Cardinals.

As a Senator, in his second big-league season, Ramos surrendered one of the more memorable home runs in the career of Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle. On May 30, 1956, Mantle tore into a Ramos pitch and nearly drove it out of Yankee Stadium, hitting the facade of the top deck in right field. In their heyday, Ramos and Mantle were considered among the fastest runners in the major leagues. Mantle and Ramos raced with Ramos stumbling at the start, Mantle winning.

As a hitter, Ramos was an occasional home run threat. He posted a .155 batting average (109-for-703) with 76 runs, hitting 15 home runs with 56 RBI. Defensively, he recorded a .977 fielding percentage, which was 19 points higher than the league average at his position.

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Gainesboro, Virginia

Gainesboro is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia. Gainesboro is located northwest of Winchester off the North Frederick Pike (US 522) on Gainesboro Road (VA 684). Gainesboro is the northernmost community in Virginia.

Gainesboro was established in 1798 and originally known as Pugh Town or Pughtown after an early settler, Job Pugh, who surveyed and plotted the original village.

Historic sites

 * Gainesboro School (1935), 5629 North Frederick Pike
 * Gainesboro United Methodist Church

Government
At the national level, Gainesboro is located in Virginia's 10th congressional district, represented by Democrat Jennifer Wexton as of January 3, 2019.

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Merritt Ranew

Merritt Thomas Ranew (May 10, 1938 – October 18, 2011) was an American professional baseball catcher who appeared in 269 games over all or parts of five Major League Baseball seasons (1962–65; 1969) for five different teams. He batted left-handed, threw right-handed, and was listed as 5 ft tall and 170 lb.

Early professional career
Ranew was born in Albany, Georgia. After graduating from Lee County High School (Leesburg, Georgia), he signed with the Milwaukee Braves in 1957 and spent five years rising through the Braves' farm system, reaching the Triple-A level in 1961 with the Louisville Colonels. At Louisville, he batted .347 in limited service, his third consecutive over-300 season. On October 10, 1961, he was the 17th overall selection in the 1961 MLB Expansion Draft as the ninth pick of the fledgling Houston Colt .45s.

Major League service
Ranew began on the Colt .45s' roster. He appeared in 63 games, starting 45 games at catcher, through July 15, but he hit only .227 with three home runs and was sent to Triple-A Oklahoma City for six weeks before a September recall. During spring training in, Houston traded him to the Chicago Cubs, where he spent the full season as a pinch hitter and third-string catcher and batted a lofty .338 with three home runs and 15 RBI in 78 games. He was especially successful as a pinch hitter, with 17 hits in 41 at-bats (.415), including two doubles and one home run. However, he began in a deep slump and was hitting only .091 with three hits in 16 games when he was traded back to the Braves on June 3. He collected only two more hits with Milwaukee before he was sent to Triple-A Toronto. The Los Angeles Angels acquired Ranew before the campaign and recalled him from the Triple-A Seattle Angels in June; he spent the rest of the season with the MLB Angels, appearing in 24 games and collecting 19 hits.

Returning to Seattle at the outset of 1966, Ranew was batting .283 in 25 games when, on May 11, he sustained serious head injuries during a wild, on-field fight between his club and the Vancouver Mounties. After Seattle pitcher Jim Coates was accused of throwing beanballs, Vancouver's Tommie Reynolds dropped a bunt down the first-base line and charged into Coates as he tried to field it, precipitating a bench-clearing brawl. Catcher Ranew, engaging with Reynolds, was hit in the head by a bat-wielding Santiago Rosario, the on-deck hitter. Ranew was hospitalized and underwent surgery in a Seattle hospital on June 4 to relieve a blood clot; he missed the rest of the season recovering from the injury. Rosario was suspended for the balance of the 1966 campaign.

Ranew was able to rejoin the Seattle Angels in 1967 and played in 91 Pacific Coast League games. Then, after spending 1968 in the New York Yankees' organization, he returned to Seattle as a member of the Seattle Pilots, the American League expansion team. He appeared in 54 games for the Pilots, starting nine contests at catcher, three in left field, and one at third base, collected 20 hits and hit .247—coincidentally, his career big-league batting average. It was his last year in the major leagues. He retired in 1971 after 15 seasons in professional baseball.

Ranew's 147 MLB hits included 20 doubles, nine triples and eight home runs. He had 54 career runs batted in.

After leaving baseball, he became a well-known trainer of quarter horses and cutting horses in Georgia, Florida and Texas, as well as a rider. He died in Valdosta, Georgia, aged 73.

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Shane Rawley

Shane William Rawley (born July 27, 1955) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball from 1978 through 1989 for the Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, and Minnesota Twins.

Rawley began his MLB career as a relief pitcher with the Mariners and became a starting pitcher with the Yankees. He was selected to the National League All-Star team in 1986 as a member of the Phillies. The next year, he won a career-high 17 games, leading the NL in games started with 36. In his major league career, Rawley had a 111–118 win–loss record with 991 strikeouts and a 4.02 earned run average (ERA).

Career
Rawley attended William Horlick High School in Racine, Wisconsin. He starred on the baseball and basketball teams, and was named All-City for basketball as a senior. Rawley graduated in 1973 and enrolled at Indian Hills Community College (IHCC) for the 1973–1974 academic year. Playing for their college baseball team, he had a 6–2 win–loss record with 63 strikeouts while allowing 30 hits and 19 runs. The Montreal Expos selected him in the 1974 MLB draft. On May 27, 1977, the Expos traded Rawley and Ángel Torres to the Cincinnati Reds to complete an earlier trade for Santo Alcalá. After the 1977 season, the Reds traded Rawley to the Seattle Mariners for Dave Collins.

Rawley made his major league debut with the Mariners in April 1978. He pitched as a setup reliever and had a 7–7 win–loss record and 13 saves in the 1980 season. He broke his foot in January 1981 and struggled when he returned. He had a 0–3 with a 4.41 earned run average at the time of the 1981 MLB strike. On April 1, 1982, the Mariners traded Rawley to the New York Yankees for Bill Caudill, Gene Nelson, and a player to be named later. On April 6, the Yankees sent Bobby Brown to Seattle to complete the trade. The Yankees transitioned Rawley into a starting pitcher in July 1982 and he had a 11–10 win–loss record as a starter. After the 1982 season, the Yankees signed Rawley to a four-year contract.

On June 30, 1984, the Yankees traded Rawley to the Philadelphia Phillies for Marty Bystrom and Keith Hughes. Rawley was named to the 1986 Major League Baseball All-Star Game and finished the season with 17 wins and a 3.54 ERA. Though his 17 wins were the second-most in the National League, he did not receive any votes for the Cy Young Award. Rawley was the Phillies' Opening Day starting pitcher for the 1987 and 1988 seasons.

After the 1988 season, the Phillies traded Rawley and cash considerations to the Minnesota Twins for Tom Herr, Eric Bullock, and Tom Nieto. In 1989, he had a 5–12 record and a 5.21 ERA and became a free agent after the season. Rawley signed with the Boston Red Sox for the 1990 season, but they released him at the end of spring training. He completed his major league career with a 111–118 record, a 4.02 ERA, 991 strikeouts, and 40 saves.

Personal life
In the 1980s, Rawley contributed to the building of a softball complex in Yorkville, Wisconsin, and co-owned it for several years before selling his share.

Rawley was inducted into the Racine County Sports Hall of Fame in 2011 and the IHCC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014.

After retiring from baseball, he has owned Shaner's Pizzeria in Sarasota, Florida, since August 2011. In 2023, he published a novel about a baseball player who fought in the Vietnam War.

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Mount Ulmer

Mount Ulmer (-77.58333°N, -86.15°W) is a prominent peak situated 2 miles north of Mount Washburn in Gromshin Heights on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It surmounts the head of Vicha Glacier to the east and Newcomer Glacier to the west.

The mountain was discovered in his trans-Antarctic flight on November 23, 1935, by Lincoln Ellsworth who called it "Mount Mary Louise Ulmer", after his wife. The peak was reidentified by comparing Ellsworth's photograph with those taken in 1959 by the U.S. Navy.

The peak of the mountain rises to a total of 3,800 meters.

Maps

 * Newcomer Glacier. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map.  Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1961.
 * Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

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Talk:Agricultural show

Comment
I have redirected field day and Field Day to the specific section here. If anyone ever comes up with enough material for another article, please update those links. Thanks. Quill 21:34, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

to merge or not to merge
It has been suggested that "State fair" be merged into this article.

 * oppose merge. Unless it is clear that a livestock show comprises all the elements of an Ag show, such as an amusement park, sideshows, trade fair etc.  The livestock show article suggests that a livestock show could be that large or could be a small exhibition of breeding stock.  In that case, a short article on the specifics of a livestock show is appropriate as it is not covered here, and it really doesn't have to be.  Quill 20:18, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

 * oppose merge. Ag show implies corn and vegetables.  Livestock shows are strictly animals.

 * oppose merge. State Fairs are a combination of agricultural, other competitions, midway rides, concerts, and other things.  •  Sbmeirow  •  Talk  •  05:45, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

 * Strongly oppose This is a terrible idea, and whoever suggested it hasn't discussed why. State fairs were first created in the 19th century, when the U.S. was still a predominantly agrarian society. As it became more industrial in the 20th century, the fairs adapted to this to the point where today, they are cultural events, including entertainment, auto racing, amusement, and more. This merge would be inappropriate. State fair may be a bit thin (little more than a list), but the remedy is developing it, not effectively burrying it somewhere else. Since the suggestion is so old, I will be bold, close this, and remove the tags. JustinTime55 (talk) 16:15, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Royal shows
I'm not sure what the point is of the distinction between the lists of "Royal" shows and "Other" shows in this article. If it's merely "shows with/without 'Royal'" in their title" then firstly that's a trivial distinction, apparent from the name itself, and secondly three of the shows in the "Royal" list (Great Yorkshire Show, Tendring Hundred Show and Cloone Agricultural Show) shouldn't be on that list as there's no "Royal" in the name. If there's some other attribute that makes a show "Royal" ("visited by royalty at some time?") then firstly the article should make this clear and secondly that should be sourced, for example this.

I propose merging these two lists and breaking out into a separate List of Agricultural Shows. Tonywalton Talk 09:29, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

 * I believe that the merging of the show list and The Royal show list is well past due. As said above, the only distinction between the two lists is the addition of the appellation/honourific Royal. Van Dieman (talk) 06:04, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

I believe the term "Royal" is used too indicate that a show is sponsored or arranged by the Royal Agricultural Society, and not due to any specific royal connection.82.34.107.136 (talk) 20:37, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Here again the word Royal is an honourific conferred by the Monarch. There is no substantive difference in form or function, other than in name, between an Agricultural Society and a Royal Agricultural Society. Van Dieman (talk) 06:04, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

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Johnny Ray (second baseman)

Johnny Cornelius Ray (born March 1, 1957) is an American former second baseman and outfielder in Major League Baseball who had a 10-year career from 1981 to 1990. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League and the California Angels of the American League. He also played two seasons for the Yakult Swallows in Japan in 1991 and 1992.

Biography
Ray played college baseball for the University of Arkansas, finishing up in the 1979 College World Series for the runner-up Razorbacks. Ray was selected by the Houston Astros in the 12th round of the amateur baseball draft. He was traded to the Pirates on August 31, 1981, along with Randy Niemann for Phil Garner.

Ray became the Pirates' starting second baseman. As a rookie in 1982 he played in every game and was named the Rookie of the Year by The Sporting News, even though the Baseball Writers' Association of America selected Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Steve Sax as the Rookie of the Year.

Besides, Ray continued his productive hitting, leading the league in doubles in 1983 and 1984. He then won the Silver Slugger Award for second baseman in 1983, and finished fifth in the league in batting average in 1984. By that time, the switch-hitting Ray was consistently one of the most difficult batters to strike out.

The Pirates, going with a youth movement, traded Ray to the Angels on August 29, 1987, for Miguel García and minor league prospect Bill Merrifield. García had a brief career in the major leagues while Merrifield never made it out of the minor leagues. Meanwhile, after narrowly missing making the All-Star team during a couple of seasons, Ray was finally chosen to the American League All-Star team in 1988. Ray also played some games in left field.

After his career in the Major Leagues, Ray played for two seasons with the Yakult Swallows in Japan. Since retiring, Ray returned to Chouteau, Oklahoma, where he was born, raised and still lives. As a mark of distinction, one roadside sign outside the eastern Oklahoma town reads "Chouteau, OK. Home of Johnny Ray."

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