HEATH - OUR LOVE IS AS ALIVE TODAY AS HIS SPIRIT REMAINS TO BE IN OUR HEARTS

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here

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my youtube video that I did last night. I started when it was time to go to bed and finished around 8:00 a.m. this morning. It has some flaws in it. But, I don't get paid to do it, I told myself and present it here "as is".

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A Knights Tale's deleted scene of Mr. and Mrs. Chaucer appears at 2:12.

Uploaded by me - ilovemylifesblog

Special thanks to youtube poster jopicca who makes beautiful video tributes for Heath Ledger. The lovely picture in my video that is in triplicate is from her. One of her videos:
Heath Ledger - In Loving Memory


My Little Soapbox of Creative Disappointment

I don't know why, but when I run this video on my MAC with iMovie, there are no glitches - the video runs smoothly. But at Youtube there are glitches - mainly at the end where I have a picture of Heath hugging fans (which only plays on youtube for a split second for some unknown reason) and then my photos of the beach and sky, one of which is completely left out on youtube's site. I apologize. I did try to fix the issues and have better transitions overall. I edited and re-edited and uploaded it at youtube four times. But this is it for this video. Disappointing for me, but I put my best effort forward and still ended up...well, with what looks like gaps in my presentation. Done with love, though.

A Knights Tale cast:
imdb

A Knights Tale can be purchased at:
www.amazon.com

Quotables from A Knights Tale:

Rufus Sewell (Adhemar): * You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. In what world could you possibly beat me?

Alan Tudyk (Wat): We're the sons of peasants. Glory, and riches, and stars are beyond our grasps. But a full stomach, that dream can come true.

James Purefoy (Prince Edward): Your men love you. If I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough.

Heath Ledger (William): Welcome to a New World. God save you, if it is right that he should do so.

Alan Tudyk (Wat): You have been weighed
Mark Addy (Roland): You have been measured
Laura Fraser (Kate): And you have absolutely...
Paul Betteny (Chaucer): Been found wanting.

* What does this Bible scripture line mean?

* This expression is rooted in the Bible Book of Daniel, Chapter Five.

The occasion was a feast that King Belshazzar held. Belshazzar, who ruled Babylon in the days of Daniel, came under God’s judgment,. In the year 539 B.C.E., a strange handwriting appeared on the wall of his banquet room while he and his royalty were having a feast, in which they defiled the sacred vessels that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jehovah’s temple in Jerusalem sixty-eight years earlier

The handwriting warned him: “God has numbered the days of your kingdom and has finished it. . . . you have been weighed in the balances and have been found deficient. . . . your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.”
(Daniel 5:26-28)

Writer, producer and director, Brian Helgeland, of A Knights Tale tells that * this line was taken from the Bible in the commentary of the dvd of the movie.

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By the way, if you have a chance, try listening to the dvd special feature Brian Helgeland and Paul Bettany Commentary On option. Two friends sit and talk about the movie from beginning to the end. I thoroughly enJOYed it, emphasis on JOY. During the commentary, Paul Bettany, the actor who played Geoffrey Chaucer and the director, Brian Helgeland, give interesting information. The bonus is they are a hoot together. I laugh every time to the same stuff and catch things I missed before.

Included in the commentary, is the fact that Heath met Brian on the street one night in Prague, the Czech Republic and told Brian that he had a better idea for the music for the dance scene. The song was supposed to be Get Down Tonight by KC and the Sunshine Band. Brian agreed with Heath that Golden Years by Davie Bowie was a better idea and that's what we have for eternity.

Brian also shares that Montgomery Cliff practiced for weeks and weeks so that he could just step into the sadle's stirrup in one movement and mount the horse in the movie Red River. And Heath did it in his stylish graceful way in A Knights Tale - the first time he wears his armour when he is being laughed at due to his newly designed lightweight armour.

During this scene:
Mark Addy/Roland: If the nobles find out who you are, theyll be hell to pay.

Heath/William: Then pray that they dont.

Heath smiles. No, Heath lights up the screen and FLASHES a SMILE.

During this scene, the dialogue is:

Paul Bettany Here, a shot (waiting for Heath to smile)......THERE you go, WHAT a smile. (A photo of this Heath glowing smile is at 9:01 in my video above.)

Brian follows that with: Errol_Flynn .

A few other bits included:
James Purefoy (Paul called him James Puresex) was voted sexiest man in the film by the cast. And Rufus Sewell had some "free" parties. And a very special moment when Brian is complimenting his friend, Paul's acting talent and Paul slides in easily and naturally, "I love you." And Brian responds, "I love you, man."

I wanted to make a video with the gems from this special feature, but everything on the dvd was accessible but this one thing. Hmmm....

Click on my post's title and find another tribute to Heath. There are a bunch of us at youtube who can't let loose of our admiration and love for Heath, so making videos is an expression of our love that is as alive today as his spirit remains to be in our hearts.

I read this quotable paragraph of Heath's at andreabby008

"I don't have a technique. I've never been a believer in having one set technique on how to act. There are no rules and there is no rulebook. At the end of the day, it all comes down to my instincts. That's the one thing that guides me through every decision professionally. Socially, also. That's my technique. Yeah, you read through the script 100 times. I guess I have little characteristics about myself. Sometimes, most often than not, once we start shooting I won't look at the script at all until we finished shooting. It's kind of like it's been imprinted in my head during rehearsals. You just let it go." -Heath Ledger

Lyrics

"Let's Be Friends (Skin To Skin)"

I been watchin' you a long time
Trying to figure out where and when
We been moving down that same line
Time is now maybe we could get skin to skin

Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of comin' to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of slippin' a-way
Let's be friends, baby let's be friends

I know we're different you and me
Got a different way of walkin'
The time has come to let the past be history
Yeah if we could just start talkin'

Don't know when this chance might come again
Good things got a way of comin' to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good things got a way of slippin'
Let's be friends, baby let's be friends

Do, do do doo do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Let's be friends
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Do, do do doo do do do doo
Let's be friends

There's a lot of talk going 'round you
Let them talk you know you're the only one
There's a lot of walls need tearing down
Together we could take them down one by one

Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of comin' to an end
Don't know when this chance might come again
Good times got a way of slippin'
Let's be friends, baby let's be friends.

What is going on?

I have had 1,509 page views of my blog posts and 941 readers and 60 off-site clicks - since 3:00 a.m. last night on my blog and it will keep counting until 3:00 a.m. EST USA. This is not typical. More typical is the day before statistics: 437 page views, 283 readers, 22 off-site clicks. And those are really strong statistics for my humble little blog. I hadn't even posted a new post since last Thursday, September 24, 2009.

So, I wonder what is going on.

Usually, my posts with Rafael Nadal pictures get the most hits. And well after they have been posted. But for some reason an old post (September 19, 2007) has picked up a lot of activity lately: There's a Woman in Somalia - She Lives a Life She Didn't Choose and this one gets a lot of views (I think because of the post title): Heath Ledger - Soul in Search - Pain Always Finds a Way to Show Up
(183 hits yesterday)

This one is also getting a lot of renewed attention lately and does periodically:
The Neglected Story of Discrimination - Indigenous Native Americans

And this one also:
Slingin Sammy Baugh and My Dad Played Football - Some Memorabilia

I got a lot of hits during my posts on Ted Kennedy, too. A lot of people wanted to hear the song sung: Love Changes Everything Sung by Nick Littlefield
and hear the Memorial Service. Great source of information at this website:
www.tedkennedy.org

Every once in awhile this one gets a lot of hits:
Though My Dad Died He Lives On

For me, it is difficult to figure out this increase. Probably, Rafa. The China Open is upcoming October 5 - 11, 2009. www.chinaopen.com Although, Heath, also brings people here.

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Remember Darfur

No More Empty Promises


Whatever you did for one of the least of these
I don't consider myself a religious person at all.
Spiritual person, yes. Religious, no.
However, I love this passage of the Bible at the above link.

We are visitors on this planet.

We are here for ninety or one hundred years

at the very most.

During that period,

we must try to do something good,

something useful, with our lives.

If you contribute to other people’s happiness,

You will find the true goal, the true meaning of life.

H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama

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GENOCIDE WILL STOP WITH US


"The Most Important Office is That of Private Citizen"
Louis D. Brandeis

Comments to President Obama:
202-456-1111 or 1-800-GENOCIDE

Dear President Obama - A letter sent March 12, 2009

Join the Fast for Darfuris

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people could change the world.
Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead

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Help - Use Your Voice

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If We Only Have Love

RUFUS SEWELL ~ ONE OF THE BEST ACTORS

Rufus Sewell as Count Adhemar in A Knight's Tale

I have just discovered some great actors in the last year that have been doing great work for a long time. I just didn’t know about them. Rufus Sewell was outstanding in
Amazing Grace, where I was introduced, not only to the lead character played by Ioan Gruffudd, but to Rufus Sewell. He played Thomas Clarkson (pictured above). Loved him. Also saw him recently in Tristan and Isolde. Great in that, also.And thanks to Youtube I have been introduced to other works of Rufus. I love Youtube. I find when I love an actor's work in one movie, it pretty much means I will love him in other works. His birth name is Rufus Frederick Sewell and his nickname is Roof. He is 6 feet tall (1.83 m). Rufus was born on the 29th of October 1967 in Twickenham, England. His father, Bill, was an Australian animator, who died when Rufus was 10. He has one brother, Caspar. He attended London's Central School of Speech and Drama and left in June of 1989 after completing three years of training. He made his London Stage debut in "Making It Better" for which he won the "Best Newcomer Award”. He is a prolific actor .
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=ALxw70CxphA
Rufus Sewell, scene from Uncorked
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=hUAuhbDdqFw
The movie is Uncorked. A montage of scenes set to the song Someone Like You. …………………………………………………

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=NZt1M3Kuu2c
Rufus Sewell sings I Have Often Walked On This Street Before in Gone to Seed …………………………………………………
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=dnK_VLPEjM
Rufus Sewell's shining career through pictures of his works in cinema, theatre and television, from 1991 to 2007. Music by Butterfly Boucher ~ Life is short.

As Agamemnon

JUST WANT TO CUT LOOSE

Do you ever feel like you need a complete contrast to the focus of your life?

That is what I am feeling tonight. After an endeavor taking over my life for the last two months, I now only have to do the "finishing" off of the follow-ups with the press and stuff. The event I produced was today. So as a decompression act I am online reading blogs and freely cruising.

It is the feeling I got when I was teaching full-time - music, in the public schools, where I taught 8 and 9 classes day. And at night I was in a trilogy playing Ruth in the British comedy, The Norman Conquests. I loved the part. But when the play closed, I felt like I needed to break out. Needed a release - needed to be less contained in my responsibilites of a life that was over-scheduled.

And the song that expressed my feeling was Dogs in the Yard.
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I want to be bad
And not even care
I want to go out of my head somewhere
I want run crazy
Like the dogs in the yard
I want to cut the rope
But it's getting so much harder

I think I'll play poker
Stay out every night
Throw stones at the water
In the morning light

I want to be lazy like the dogs in the yard
Why can't I fly tonight?
Why can't I sleep all morning?
I'm going out of my mind tonight
That's where I'm going
That's where I'm going

Gonna have a good time
Before it's too late
Come on, baby, let's go uptown and celebrate
Gonna celebrate!

We're gonna run crazy
Like the dogs in the yard
We're gonna fly tonight
We're gonna sleep all morning

We're going out of our minds tonight
That's where we're going

I became very impressed last spring with the acting in the movie Amazing Grace that is to be released as a DVD November 13, 2007. I was unfamiliar with the actors cast in this movie until I saw AG. But I became an instant fan of Ioan Gruffudd, Rufus Sewell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Youssou N'Dour, Michael Gambon, Ciarán Hinds, Nicholas Farrell, Jeremy Swift, Marianne Thornton, Romola Garai, Toby Jones and I already knew one, Albert Finney

http://imdb.com/title/tt0454776/

digitalfairy24 has posted the entire movie in 11 segments online. Some of my favorite scenes are in segment 8:
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And this is the final section, 11. THE ONLY WAY TO A GREAT MOVIE- a great cast to begin...IOAN GRUFFUDD, RUFUS SEWELL, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, JEREMY SWIFT...

And while cruising I found this gem. Ioan Gruffudd speaking his beloved Welsh:
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http://www.theamazingchange.com/abolish.html
Link to abolishing slavery today. Yes, that's right. Today

IOAN GRUFFUDD – A BEAUTIFUL MAN

The movie Amazing Grace is the first film I have seen with Ioan Gruffudd in it. I first became introduced to Ioan Gruffudd through my interest in Matthew Rhys, who plays Kevin Walker on my favorite TV show, Brothers and Sisters. Ioan and Matthew both grew up in the capital of Wales, Cardiff and knew each other in childhood. They both attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, as well as owning a home together at one time for ten years.

Currently, Ioan is starring as William Wilberforce in the inspirational film, Amazing Grace. April 6, he can be seen in the movie, The TV Set.

Here are select photos which were downloaded from www.ioanonline.com which is great source for Ioan Gruffudd admirers.

AMAZING GRACE “WE WERE APES, THEY WERE HEROES.”

http://www.amazinggracemovie.com

My Topic of Discussion at the website for Amazing Grace

http://s177430995.onlinehome.us/amazing_grace/newsite/community/viewtopic.php?t=111

William Wilberforce played by Ioan Gruffudd

www.ioanonline.com

"I wish I could remember their names. . . their beautiful African names.
We call them with just a grunt, noises.
We were apes, they were heroes."

John Newton to William Wilberforce

Cast of “Amazing Grace”

William Wilberforce
played by Ioan Gruffudd

Barbara Spooner
played by Romola Garai

Olaudah Equiano
played by Youssou N'Dour

John Newton
played by Albert Finney

Pitt the Younger
played by Benedict Cumberbatch

Lord Fox
played by Michael Gambon

Thomas Clarkson
played by Rufus Sewell

Lord Tarleton
played by Ciaran Hinds

Duke of Clarence
played by Toby Jones

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John Newton died in 1807.

Three days before William Wilberforce died he saw slavery abolished in England.

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For Still Pictures from the film go to
http://www.amazinggracemovie.com/gallery.php

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Meet William Wilberforce

Harriet Beecher Stowe praised him in the pages of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Novelist E. M. Forester compared him to Gandhi. Abraham Lincoln invoked his memory in a celebrated speech. In the houses of Parliament, Nelson Mandela recalled his tireless labors on behalf of the sons and daughters of Africa, calling Britain "the land of William Wilberforce—who dared to stand up to demand that the slaves in our country should be freed." The cat in residence at 10 Downing Street between 1973 and 1987 quickly earned a "Wilberforce-ian" reputation for catching mice, and as such was given the name Wilberforce and served under four prime ministers.

William Wilberforce (1759-1833) led the twenty-year fight to end the British slave trade, a victory now regarded as He finally succeeded in March 1807 and continued to fight for abolition until, days before his death in 1833, he saw the institution of slavery abolished throughout the British colonies. Not limiting himself to just abolitionist work, he dedicated his life to what he called his "two great objects:" abolishing slavery in the British Empire and what he called "the reformation of manners [society]." To this end, he advocated for child labor laws, campaigned for education of the blind and deaf, and founded organizations as diverse as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) and the National Gallery (of Art). "Good causes," it has been said, "stuck to him like pins to a magnet."

- Wilberforce biographer and Amazing Grace lead historical consultant, Kevin Belmonte

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About Ioan Gruffudd

Ioan Gruffudd will reprise his role as Mr Fantastic in The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, based on the Marvel Comic Superheroes, starring alongside Julian McMahon, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chilkis, following the success of the last year's blockbuster The Fantastic Four.

Ioan began acting in his teens in his home town of Cardiff. He enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and immediately began work upon graduation. He starred in the Welsh language Academy® nominated romantic drama Soloman and Gaenor.

He first found fame in the title role of the award-winning television series Hornblower. Other recent television successes include the popular miniseries The Forsyte Saga, with Damian Lewis and Gina McKee; the lead role in the adaptation of Tony Parson's bestselling novel Man and Boy, and the role of Pip in Tony Marchant's Great Expectations, starring alongside Charlotte Rampling and Justine Waddell.

His film profile continued to rise with recent leading roles in 102 Dalmations, co-starring with Glenn Close and Alice Evans and TV Set, starring with David Duchovny and Sigourney Weaver.

Above from:

http://www.amazinggracemovie.com/castcrew_wilberforce.php

Some thoughts of my own:

The wonderful actor who portrays William Pitt and such a dear, precious friend of William Wilberforce is played by Benedict Cumberbatch. He is simply marvel - ous in this role.

ALL of the relationships with William Wilberforce were engaging all by themselves. They include Barbara Spooner, Richard, William's butler, Thomas Clark, Lord Charles Fox, James Stevens, Olaudah Equiano, even the little twerp, Duke of Clarence who in the end had a line something akin to

"Even a Noble man must recognize the virtue of an exceptional commoner," once the bill had finally passed. WHAT a scene! What a sorry thing that such a triumphant act took so much persuasive energy and articulation. And time. While human beings were being treated worse than plants and animals.


I went back and combed through my scratchings of notes that I wrote down during the second viewing of the movie - on paper that already had writing on it - so these notes are difficult to decipher and found the following of Francis Bacon's quotes via Richard, William Wilberforce's butler:
From the scene of William and Richard sitting on the wet grass at William’s house:
“It is a sad fate when a man is known to everyone else but he is unknown to himself.”

Said at the feeding/reception of many people, I think immediately following Barbara and William’s “both impatient and prone to rash decisions" marriage
“Great changes are easier than small ones.”

I simply and deeply loved the scene where William falls to the floor in the arms of his beloved and pregnant wife. What beautiful acting, indeed! William’s line just before he falls to the floor: “I can’t even enjoy the moment of this victory…” Oh to live such passion and to have the convictions to grant you such passion and to have the relationship with your partner that we were witness to in this WONderful film.

OH, and that speech which I don’t have down perfectly in my chicken scratches, “Great men are spoken about when it’s to do with violence, such as Napoleon and return to pomp. Rarely do they speak of men of peace. William Wilberforce, however, will return to his family with head on pillow, knowing the slave trade is no more – making a better world.….” Thomas Clarkson, I believe delivers this speech. Please correct me, if I have that wrong. This isn’t the exact wording and it isn’t complete, but those of you who saw the movie KNOW what I am referring to. Wasn’t that speech just delectable and so true!!!

I loved the scene where we see William Pitt and William Wilberforce running barefoot in the fields of Wilberforce’s house.
William Pitt:
“…….at least they would know we mean business.
......Why is it that you only feel the thorns on your feet when you walk on them slowly?"

William Wilberforce: "Is that a metaphor for …? "

William Pitt: "Yes, it means you should move fast."

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Miscellaneous lines I love:

Wilberforce:
“First step, we are talking about the truth…”

Lord Charles Fox arrives
Wilberforce: "Oh, God, dear God."
Fox: "Well, almost."


Barbara to William Wilberforce: “……and you still have passion. That matters more.”

I couldn’t agree more.

Lovingly submitted,

ilovemylife
http://ilovemylifebrothersandsisters.blogspot.com/


PLEASE, sign the petition of Amazing Changes Campaign
http://www.theamazingchange.com/abolish.html

Let's do more than love this movie. Let us be inspired to act. To act with our own "will" and "force" of passion, conviction and knowing the truth.

“Loose Change to Loosen Chains”
Use your loose change to free slaves around the world.

Email to let Zach Hunter, a fifteen year old who was a slave, know what you are doing in your community to end slavery:
contact@theamazingchange.com

His website:
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My trailer:

“…unless we all have plenty
one of us will become a thief and the thief will make you angry
you will hurt him

this will hurt his children
they will punish you
this will hurt your children
they will punish his children
and that’s how it begins

to believe in man is to know
peace will not work if just one man alive
is unjust
if one man alive
is ignorant
or hungry
or crazy
or ashamed
FOR we have seen if only one of us
decides to pull the plug, the millions of us can kiss
the world good-bye
whether we like it or not.”

........From Joseph Pintauro’s little book “to believe in man”
........Illustrated by Sister Corita Kent

"The strong can not expect the weak to placate
them and call it healing."

........Sandra Hammel, aka ilovemylife

Don’t let weeds grow around your dreams.

.......From H. Jackson Brown, Jr.’s
........Life’s Little Instructon Book. Volume 2

“We are All the Keepers of Justice. OR not.”

........Sandra Hammel, aka ilovemylife

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This John Newton documentary video is wonderfully done. I love this one.

CAST
William Wilberforce		Ioan Gruffudd
Barbara Spooner		Romola Garai
William Pitt		Benedict Cumberbatch
John Newton		Albert Finney
Lord Charles Fox		Michael Gambon
Thomas Clarkson		Rufus Sewell
Olaudah Equiano		Youssou N’Dour
Lord Tarleton		Ciaran Hinds
Duke of Clarence		Toby Jones
Henry Thornton		Nicholas Farrell
Marianne Thornton		Sylvestra Le Touzel
Richard the Butler		Jeremy Swift
James Stephen		Stephen Campbell Moore
Lord Dundas		Bill Paterson
Sir William Dolben		Nicholas Day
Hannah Moore		Georgie Glen
Harrison		Nicholas Woodeson
John Ramsay		Tom Fisher
Speaker of the House		Richard Ridings
Lord Camden		David Hunt
Beggar		David Toole
Heckler		Alex Blake
Marjorie		Angie Wallis
Edward Hope (Quaker)		Harry Audley
Michael Shaw (Quaker)		Chris Barnes
Physician		Tom Knight
MP 1		Andrew Whipp
MP 2		Andrew Neil
Maid		Estelle Morgan
Camber		Philip Dunbar
Parliamentary Clerk		Adam Woodroffe
Newton’s Secretary		Joseph Traynor
Young Parliamentary Officer		Simon Delaney
Old Parliamentary Official		Neville Phillips
Young African Woman		Eki Maria
Delivery Coach Driver		Daniel Naprous
Delivery Assistant		Peter White