title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: Another league, the Original Stars Hockey League (OSHL), was established in Canada and expected to play four-on-four games between six teams (ostensibly representing the Original Six cities) in various Canadian cities until the lockout was settled. More than 100 players purportedly signed up to play in the OSHL. The league debuted on September 17, 2004 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. In the inaugural game, "Toronto" defeated "Detroit" 16–13. The next and last game was played in Brampton, Ontario with "Boston" defeating "Montreal" 14–11. Jerseys worn by players were based on Original Six (Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, New York, Toronto), but all had the words "OSHL" in white, three stars patches on the shoulders instead of team logos or cities. However, escalating salary demands by players quickly bankrupted the league. Shortly after its first two games, OSHL president Randy Gumbley announced that the league had received firm commitments from only twenty players, and the league soon folded.


title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: NHL players looking for a place to play clearly preferred stable, established European clubs to upstart leagues that have since been derisively dubbed as "fly-by-night" operations by their critics. A small number of players played for established minor league teams near their families and homes, while others chose to repay the league which gave them a start by returning.


title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: The Motor City Mechanics of the UHL got a major boost during their first year in existence when the lockout officially started. The team signed Detroit Red Wings players Chris Chelios, Derian Hatcher, and Kris Draper. This happened because Derian Hatcher knew the team was playing at Great Lakes Sports City Superior Arena where he often played growing up. Because of visa problems Kris Draper never played a game for the Mechanics. Later on they also signed Bryan Smolinski and Sean Avery and were able to roll four NHL players on their opponents. All of the players had some experience or connection to the area.


title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: The ECHL gained some players. Scott Gomez played for his hometown team, the Alaska Aces and won the ECHL's Most Valuable Player award, while Curtis Brown, whose wife is a native of Southern California, played for the San Diego Gulls, and Bates Battaglia joined his younger brother Anthony on the Mississippi Sea Wolves roster. A pair of Nashville Predators teammates, Shane Hnidy and Jeremy Stevenson, both of whom had early careers in the ECHL, returned to the league and found themselves playing against each other in the first round of the Kelly Cup playoffs, as Hnidy's Florida Everblades faced Stevenson's South Carolina Stingrays in the American Conference quarterfinals.


title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: Some prospects who may have never had a serious look were given chances they thought they never would have. Undrafted journeyman Chris Minard had been signed with Alaska for his third season in the ECHL when the lockout allowed Davis Payne to assign him on the same line as Gomez at the Aces. Gomez saw a gem that led to the 2005 ECHL All-Star Game, and a top ECHL player that season; the pairing led to Gomez giving Minard a shot after the lockout ended, and he played his way into the AHL, and eventually signing a two-way contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins, receiving in 2007–08 his first call-up to the NHL. Minard said about the experience, "That's when I learned a lot about being a goal-scorer, playing with a guy like that who can pass the puck. It was a pretty cool experience."


title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: In addition, many younger players who would be impact players on their NHL rosters stayed down in the American Hockey League for a full season – most notably Jason Spezza, who won the league scoring title and MVP awards – changing the aspect of that league's entire season. A record crowd of 20,103 fans packed the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia for Game Four of the Calder Cup finals between the Philadelphia Phantoms and Rosemont's Chicago Wolves. The Wolves, Rochester Americans, Manitoba Moose, Hamilton Bulldogs, and Bridgeport Sound Tigers each saw attendance figures increase over ten percent from 2003 to 2004 in the AHL, with the Moose average attendance soaring 24.09 percent from the previous year. In the ECHL, the Gwinnett Gladiators, San Diego Gulls, Bakersfield Condors, and Charlotte Checkers also saw similar gains, with the Atlanta Thrashers-affiliated Gladiators receiving a gain of over 20 percent in attendance from the previous year.


title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: However, the lockout negatively affected many minor-league players, where the influx of NHL players forced many to play in lower-level leagues for less money or out of jobs altogether.


title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: In addition, other minor hockey leagues benefited from the lack of competition from the major professional league. The Ontario Hockey League was a particular beneficiary, with teams such as the London Knights and Saginaw Spirit garnering considerable attention. The lack of the Stanley Cup playoffs also created increased interest in the 2005 Memorial Cup tournament with record TV ratings. Governor General of Canada Adrienne Clarkson mused publicly about the possibility of awarding the Stanley Cup to the best women's hockey team that year, but this idea was so unpopular that instead the Clarkson Cup was created. The 2005 Allan Cup in Lloydminster also attracted elevated national media interest.


title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: In the Western Hockey League, the Calgary Hitmen were the most watched team in North America, averaging 10,062 fans per game. Their season total of 362,227 shattered the WHL and CHL records and represented a 33% increase over 2003–04. The Vancouver Giants also experienced a massive increase, finishing second in the WHL with 302,403 fans going through the turnstiles.


title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: The lockout had a substantial effect on international tournaments run by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The most notable effect was observed in the 2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Thief River Falls, Minnesota. With the NHL inactive, the top eligible U-20 players were not playing in that league and thus were available to their countries for the tournament. The country that benefitted most as a result was Canada. The Canadians not only ended a seven-year gold medal drought at this competition, they outscored their opponents 41–7 and defeated Russia 6–1 in the final game. Many analysts believe that the Canadian team was the most dominating ever in this tournament, aided in no small part by players such as Patrice Bergeron who could have expected to have commitments in the NHL.


title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: At the time that the 2004–05 season was canceled, it was not immediately clear how the lockout would affect the 2005 World Ice Hockey Championships. Normally, NHL players from teams that failed to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs participate in this tournament. Since no playoffs were being held, theoretically all NHL players could participate. In reality, however, many NHL players declined to participate, and national teams were naturally reluctant to select players who lacked game conditioning. For all of the teams (including the North American ones), the bulk of the national teams' rosters consisted of players who were playing in Europe.


title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: Canadian sports fans also turned to the Canadian Football League, and the CFL recorded significant increases in attendance and television ratings during the final weeks of the 2004 CFL season compared to 2003, ultimately setting a new record for total playoff attendance. The league was able to hold onto at least some of these gains in 2005. The National Lacrosse League also saw a modest boost in attendance. Also in the United States, the National Basketball Association (NBA) also saw some big gains in attendance in markets which have both NHL and NBA teams; this is in part because the NHL and NBA season run in a similar time frame within the year and often play in the same venue. The National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB) also saw some minor gains in attendance in 2004–05. Major League Soccer (MLS) began to become profitable in 2004, which many believed to have been caused by the NHL lockout. To date, the MLS has operated with profit since 2004.


title: 2004–05 NHL lockout

text: The Philips Arena requested the Southeastern Conference to move the SEC Women's Basketball Tournament out of their venue because of logistics, because the 55th NHL All-Star Game was scheduled for late January, while the SEC tournament was scheduled five weeks later. The resulting move led to the BI-LO Center, an ECHL arena 140 miles to the east in Greenville, South Carolina, hosting the tournament, drawing the ire of the NAACP, who wanted the SEC to ban the venue from hosting tournaments because of its location. Philips Arena was granted the NHL All-Star Game in 2008 as compensation.


title: Satte Pe Satta

text: Satte Pe Satta (transl. 'Seven on Seven') is an Indian Hindi-language action-comedy film released in 1982 and directed by Raj N. Sippy, and produced by Romu N. Sippy. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Ranjeeta Kaur and Sachin Pilgaonkar in lead roles with Sudhir Luthria, Shakti Kapoor, Kanwarjit Paintal, Kanwaljit Singh and Vikram Sahu in supporting roles.


title: Satte Pe Satta

text: The story revolves around seven unsophisticated brothers who all are civilized by Indu (Malini), the wife of the eldest brother Ravi Anand (Bachchan). However, things take a turn when Ravi's lookalike Babu is sent to murder Seema Singh (Kaur), a disabled heiress, by her cunning uncle Ranjit Singh (Khan). But Babu falls in love with Kaur.


title: Satte Pe Satta

text: The film was adapted from "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954) and was remade in Marathi by Sachin Pilgaonkar as "Aamhi Satpute" (2008).


title: Satte Pe Satta

text: "Satte Pe Satta" is the story of seven brothers - Som, Mangal, Budh, Guru, Shukra, Shani and Ravi - living on a farmhouse among animals. All the six younger brothers have grown up under the leadership of the oldest brother Ravi Anand (Amitabh Bachchan). Being orphans and uneducated, all of them are unsophisticated bumpkins who lack social etiquette and hygiene. Ravi always defends his youngest brother Shani Anand (Sachin Pilgaonkar) whenever his other five brothers try to trouble him harmfully. However, they all end up forgiving and uniting with each other. Ravi does not plan to marry until he meets a hospital nurse named Indu (Hema Malini) through a sequence of incidents. He falls in love with her, although she dislikes him due to his undisciplined behaviour and disgusting look. Along with Shani, Ravi tricks Indu into believing that he is his only one younger brother. He even grooms himself as a proper human and appears before her in his new form. Indu eventually reciprocates Ravi's feelings and the two get married.


title: Satte Pe Satta

text: After their marriage, Indu is initially happy that only the three of them live in the remote farmhouse, away from loud noise and non-cleanliness, which leaves Ravi frightened. After entering his house, she is shocked to learn that Ravi has five more brothers, all uncivilized and uncouth, but agrees to stay on their request. Shani and the brothers struggle to adjust with a new girl in their lives and so does Indu, who grooms them all too as proper humans and plans to civilize them. Few days later, the brothers meet six sisters at a beach and respectively fall in love with each one, and the feeling is mutual. The sisters are the caretakers of Seema Singh (Ranjeeta Kaur), a wealthy heiress who is unable to walk due to paraplegia. Her uncle Ranjit Singh (Amjad Khan) has devious plans of murdering her in order to gain the possession of her ancestral property. He gets a prisoner Babu Sharma (also Amitabh Bachchan) released from jail and hires him to kill Seema.


title: Satte Pe Satta

text: Meanwhile, Ravi is saddened to see that the brothers are terribly missing their love interests, and are thus unable to concentrate on their work. In order to make them feel better, he unintentionally helps them break into the girls' house and kidnap them all with Seema. Indu is irked with Ravi and the brothers, but agrees to let the girls stay. Soon, Ranjit learns about Seema's visit to the farmhouse and invites Ravi to his house to help him collect some clothes and medicines for Seema.


title: Satte Pe Satta

text: During their meeting, he is shocked to see that Ravi is an exact doppelganger of Babu. Taking advantage of this, Ranjit sends Babu to impersonate Ravi with an exchange of one lakh rupees in order to have him murder Seema. Ravi is captured and imprisoned at a remote island by Ranjit's henchmen. Undergoing a complete makeover, Babu transforms himself into Ravi whose car and other belongings are obtained by him as well. Babu then goes to live in Ravi's house where he is shocked to learn that Indu is pregnant with Ravi's child. However, he is quickly accepted by Indu and the brothers as no one suspects a thing. Meanwhile, Ranjit makes Ravi suffer a lot at the island and plans to frame him for Seema's murder.


title: Satte Pe Satta

text: At Ravi's house, Babu grabs an opportunity and is about to murder Seema with his dagger but due to the shock, she regains the control of her legs and is able to walk again. On seeing everyone's happiness, Babu is eventually overcome with guilt and falls in love with Seema. During the festival of Karva Chauth, he ends up revealing his true identity and Ranjit's intentions to the family, confessing his crime and subsequent reformation to them. Shanu forgives him as he did not cause any harm to their sister-in-law Indu, who is like a mother to them. Babu then promises Indu that whether he himself lives or not, her husband will surely remain alive.


title: Satte Pe Satta

text: The next day, Babu takes the brothers to the island and tries to trick Ranjit into releasing Ravi. Ranjit outsmarts him and captures him with all the brothers, beating up Ravi badly and knocking him out. However, the brothers motivate Ravi by repeating their motto to regain consciousness and fight against Ranjit. Ravi eventually succeeds in defeating Ranjit (presumably to death) and is reunited with his brothers. Babu then decides to leave which causes a heartbroken Seema to lose the control of her legs again as she had fallen in love with him as well. Using his dagger, Babu makes her stand up from her wheelchair and Ravi also reunites with Indu, while the brothers marry their girlfriends. The films ends with all the eight couples happily embracing each other.


title: Satte Pe Satta

text: The lyrics of all the songs were written by Gulshan Bawra except 'Dilbar Mere', which was written by Anand Bakshi, and music was composed by Rahul Dev Burman.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: Eric Daniel Djemba-Djemba (born 4 May 1981) is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He previously played club football in France, England, Qatar, Denmark, Israel, Serbia, Scotland, India and Indonesia. In international competition, he represented Cameroon, having appeared for his country 34 times, including at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: Djemba-Djemba rose to prominence with Nantes in France, where he forged a successful partnership with Mathieu Berson. His performances as a feisty and uncompromising tackler for the French club earned him a move to Manchester United for £3.5 million in the summer of 2003, signed by Alex Ferguson as a possible eventual successor to the 31-year-old Roy Keane.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: Arriving in England, Djemba-Djemba established his aggressive style on his debut against Arsenal in the FA Community Shield, with a tackle on Arsenal's Sol Campbell which Arsène Wenger called "obscene".


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: In 18 months at Old Trafford, Djemba-Djemba found it difficult to maintain a period of sustained form, and he was eventually unable to establish himself as a player capable of eventually succeeding the ageing captain Roy Keane in the centre of the United midfield. A highlight during his United career was when he scored a looping volley against Leeds United in the League Cup. With the score at 2–2 and three minutes of extra time left, Quinton Fortune swung in a corner which reached Djemba-Djemba, who hit it first time and it looped over Leeds goalkeeper Paul Robinson which secured a 3–2 win and progression to the next round. He scored only once more for United, in a 5–0 UEFA Champions League win over Greek side Panathinaikos.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: Djemba-Djemba was sold to Aston Villa in the January 2005 transfer window for a fee of £1.5 million. However, the move did little to restore the player's reputation as he found it difficult to move ahead of Gavin McCann and Steven Davis in Villa's midfield. After being played only once, as a late substitute against Arsenal in the first ever game at the Emirates Stadium, by new Villa manager Martin O'Neill on the first day of the 2006–07 season, Djemba-Djemba was loaned out to Championship club Burnley for the remainder of the season in the January transfer window.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: Djemba-Djemba made his first appearance for Burnley on 13 January 2007 against Southampton, playing the full 90 minutes. Early in his time at Turf Moor, he was sent off for the Lancashire side after a second bookable offence at Derby County; however he impressed with his skillful and effective play during his loan spell.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: During July 2007, all signs pointed to Djemba-Djemba leaving Villa Park after he was the only member of the first-team squad not to be included in the North American tour and his contract was subsequently terminated by Aston Villa.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: Following his departure from Aston Villa, Djemba-Djemba joined Qatar SC. He only played one season at the Qatar-based club, but managed to get his football career back on track.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: On 16 July 2008, Djemba-Djemba signed a three-year contract with Danish outfit Odense Boldklub, the contract was later extended with a year. He previously went on a trial with the club and made his Odense debut against former club Aston Villa in the Intertoto Cup. Odense drew the match 1–1, losing 2–1 on aggregate. In his career in Odense, Djemba-Djemba impressed the club's fans, with his good ball skills and great performances. In his first season as an Odense player, he played good football and was by many called the league's best player. In 2009, in the 72nd minute against Esbjerg fb away, Djemba-Djemba became the first player in the Danish league to assist with his sock, as the sole of his right boot had come off, forcing him to finish the game with one boot. Later that year, Djemba-Djemba was among three other players to be nominated for the SAS Liga player of the year.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: In the summer of 2010, Djemba-Djemba was linked a move back to England by joining West Brom and Italian side Lecce. After traveling to England for transfer talk, the move was broken down and this led accusations against West Brom by the club and Djemba-Djemba, himself.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: At the end of the 2011–12 season, Djemba-Djemba's future at OB was uncertain after his contract expired. Despite expected negotiations, Djemba-Djemba instead left the club. The year before, he, along with Peter Utaka, had been told by the club's officials that their contracts would not be renewed. As a result of their contracts not being renewed, the club decided to release players sooner rather than later.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: On 14 August 2012, Djemba-Djemba signed a two-year contract with Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. Djemba-Djemba played a total of 28 league games with the Tel Aviv-based team.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: On 24 July 2013, Djemba-Djemba signed a two-year contract with Serbian side Partizan. He made his debut in a Champions League qualifying match away to Ludogorets Razgrad on 31 July 2013, coming on as a substitute in the 64th minute. However, Djemba-Djemba hardly played for Partizan during the first half of the season. The club's signing of Nikola Drinčić on 20 December meant that Djemba-Djemba became surplus to requirements and his contract was terminated on 23 December 2013.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: On 5 February 2014, Djemba-Djemba signed a short-term deal with Scottish Premiership club St Mirren. He said he hoped his move to St Mirren can help him gain a place in the Cameroon squad for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Upon joining the club, manager Danny Lennon described Djemba-Djemba as the club's biggest signing.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: Djemba-Djemba made his debut for the club, in the fifth round of the Scottish Cup, as St Mirren lost 2–1 against Dundee United. After making just three appearances in all competitions, he was released by the club at the end of the season and also failed to secure a place on the Cameroon squad for the world cup.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: In February 2015, Djemba-Djemba signed for Indonesian Super League club then legally known as Persebaya Bhayangkara. Before he could make a debut, the league was cancelled following FIFA's sanction on Indonesia for governmental intervention.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: Djemba-Djemba was a member of the Cameroon team that won the 2002 African Nations Cup and finished as runners-up to France at the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup. While in the Confederations Cup, Djemba-Djemba revealed that he was the last person to have a conversation with Marc-Vivien Foé before Foé collapsed on the pitch and later died in the hospital. He also appeared at the 2002 World Cup. However, Djemba-Djemba was not included for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, due to managerial differences. Despite his attempt to make the Cameroon squad for the 2014 World Cup, Djemba-Djemba was not included in the 28-man provisional World Cup squad and thus missing out on the World Cup under the management of Volker Finke.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: Djemba-Djemba was born in Douala, Cameroon. He was declared bankrupt following his move from Manchester United to Aston Villa in 2007.


title: Eric Djemba-Djemba

text: Djemba-Djemba was married and fathered four children before being divorced. Djemba-Djemba is a Christian.


title: Cob (material)

text: Cob, cobb, or clom (in Wales) is a natural building material made from subsoil, water, fibrous organic material (typically straw), and sometimes lime. The contents of subsoil vary, and if it does not contain the right mixture, it can be modified with sand or clay. Cob is fireproof, resistant to seismic activity, and uses low-cost materials, although it is very labour intensive. It can be used to create artistic and sculptural forms, and its use has been revived in recent years by the natural building and sustainability movements.


title: Cob (material)

text: In technical building and engineering documents, such as the Uniform Building Code of the western USA, cob may be referred to as "unburned clay masonry," when used in a structural context. It may also be referred to as "aggregate" in non-structural contexts, such as "clay and sand aggregate," or more simply "organic aggregate," such as where cob is a filler between post and beam construction.


title: Cob (material)

text: "Cob" is an English term attested to around the year 1600 for an ancient building material that has been used for building since prehistoric times. The etymology of "cob" and "cobbing" is unclear, but in several senses means to "beat" or "strike", which is how cob material is applied to a wall.


title: Cob (material)

text: Cob material is known by many names including "adobe", "lump clay", "puddled clay", "chalk mud", "wychert", "clay daubins", "swish" (Asante Twi), "torchis" (French), "bauge" (French), "bousille" (French mud with moss), and "cat and clay".


title: Cob (material)

text: Some of the oldest human-made structures in Afghanistan are composed of rammed earth and cob. Cobwork ("tabya") was used in the Maghreb and al-Andalus in the 11th and 12th centuries, and was described in detail by Ibn Khaldun in the 14th century.


title: Cob (material)

text: Many old cob buildings can be found in Africa, the Middle East, and the southwestern United States like the Taos Pueblo. A number of cob cottages survive from mid-19th-century New Zealand.


title: Cob (material)

text: Traditionally, English cob was made by mixing the clay-based subsoil with sand, straw and water using oxen to trample it. English soils contain varying amounts of chalk, and cob made with significant amounts of chalk are called "chalk cob" or "wychert". The earthen mixture was then ladled onto a stone foundation in courses and trodden onto the wall by workers in a process known as "cobbing". The construction would progress according to the time required for the prior course to dry. After drying, the walls would be trimmed and the next course built, with lintels for later openings such as doors and windows being placed as the wall takes shape.


title: Cob (material)

text: The walls of a cob house are generally about thick, and windows were correspondingly deep-set, giving the homes a characteristic internal appearance. The thick walls provided excellent thermal mass which was easy to keep warm in winter and cool in summer. Walls with a high thermal mass value act as a thermal buffer inside the home. The material has a long life-span even in rainy and/or humid climates, provided a tall foundation and large roof overhang are present.


title: Cob (material)

text: Cob is fireproof, while "fire cob" (cob without straw or fiber) is a refractory material (the same material, essentially, as unfired common red brick), and historically, has been used to make chimneys, fireplaces, forges and crucibles. Without fiber, however, cob loses most of its tensile strength.


title: Cob (material)

text: When Kevin McCabe constructed a two-story, four bedroom cob house in England, UK in 1994, it was reputedly the first cob residence built in the country in 70 years. His techniques remained very traditional; the only innovations he made were using a tractor to mix the cob and adding sand or shillet, a gravel of crushed shale, to reduce shrinkage.


title: Cob (material)

text: In 2000-01, a modern, four bedroom cob house in Worcestershire, England, UK, designed by Associated Architects, was sold for £999,000. Cobtun House was erected in 2001 and won the Royal Institute of British Architects' Sustainable Building of the Year award in 2005. The total construction cost was £300,000, but the metre-thick outer cob wall cost only £20,000.


title: Cob (material)

text: In the Pacific Northwest of the United States there has been a resurgence of cob construction, both as an alternative building practice and one desired for its form, function, and cost effectiveness. Pat Hennebery, Tracy Calvert, Elke Cole, and the Cobworks workshops erected more than ten cob houses in the Southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada.


title: Cob (material)

text: In 2010, Sota Construction Services in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, completed construction on its new 7,500 square foot corporate headquarters, which featured exterior cob walls along with other energy saving features like radiant heat flooring, a rooftop solar panel array, and daylighting. The cob walls, in conjunction with the other sustainable features, enabled the edifice to earn a LEED Platinum rating in 2012, and it also received one of the highest scores by percentage of total points earned in any LEED category.


title: Cob (material)

text: In 2007, Ann and Gord Baird began constructing a two-storey cob house in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, for an estimated $210,000 CDN. The home of 2,150 square feet includes heated floors, solar panels, and a southern exposure to enable passive solar heating.


title: Cob (material)

text: Welsh architect Ianto Evans and researcher Linda Smiley refined the construction technique known as "Oregon Cob" in the 1980s and 1990s. Oregon Cob integrates the variation of wall layup technique which uses loaves of mud mixed with sand and straw with a rounded architectural stylism. They are experimenting with a mixture of cob and straw bale denominated "balecob".


title: Cob (material)

text: In 2019 an appendix for the International Residential Code (IRC) was approved by a vote in the public comment hearings. Appendix U of the IRC governs use of cob in load-bearing walls of single story residential structures. Based on currently available test data, the appendix limits the conditions under which cob may be used without engineering approval, such as seismic activity.


title: PBS Kids Go!

text: PBS Kids Go! was an educational television brand used by PBS for programs aimed at early elementary-age children, in contrast to the younger, preschool target demographic of PBS Kids. Most PBS member stations aired the PBS Kids Go! block on weekdays during after-school hours, generally 3-6 pm depending on local station scheduling. In addition to the block, there was a PBS Kids Go! section on the PBS Kids website which featured games, videos, and other activities that were geared toward older kids. The brand was used on air and online for nearly nine years from 2004 to 2013.


title: PBS Kids Go!

text: Upon recognizing that educational programming for elementary-age children was lacking, PBS adjusted its mission to include a greater focus on this older subset of viewers."" The PBS Kids Go! programming block was launched on October 11, 2004, alongside the premiere of brand new programs "Maya & Miguel" and "Postcards from Buster". Also part of the block were existing PBS Kids series, "Arthur" and "Cyberchase", both of which were already targeting a slightly older audience.


title: PBS Kids Go!

text: In 2005, PBS joined with Comcast and other production companies to form the cable channel PBS Kids Sprout, effectively replacing PBS' original PBS Kids Channel. This left many local PBS stations with a vacancy on their multicast digital channel offerings, during a time when digital and high-definition broadcasts were increasing reach and gaining popularity. In April 2006, PBS announced plans for a 24-hour digital multicast network called PBS Kids Go! Channel. This would expand upon the afternoon PBS Kids Go! block on PBS, with additional new content and reruns of returning programs, such as HIT Entertainment's "Wishbone" and "Kratts’ Creatures". With only one-third of PBS stations initially committing to carry the new network, the plans for the channel were ultimately withdrawn. Stations found that the sliding scale licensing fees were too high for what little exclusive programming they would have received, especially after spending additional funds for the PBS HD feed. Despite the failure to launch a 24-hour channel, the PBS Kids Go! afternoon block continued to air on local PBS stations over the next several years and continued to expand its lineup with new series, such as "Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman", "WordGirl", "The Electric Company", and "Wild Kratts". Many stations also carried other series under the PBS Kids Go! brand, such as "Design Squad" and reruns of "Wishbone", which typically aired over the weekend.


title: PBS Kids Go!

text: As online streaming began to increase in popularity, PBS developed the PBS Kids Go! video player on its website in 2008. This federally-funded, innovative video streaming platform featured video clips from a number of PBS Kids Go! shows which rotated on a weekly basis and linked to interactive online games. The video player would later evolve into the PBS Kids Video app, which is now the primary source for free streaming of on-demand video clips and full episodes of PBS Kids programming.


title: PBS Kids Go!

text: On May 15, 2013, PBS announced at their annual conference that the PBS Kids Go! brand would be discontinued in the fall, with all Go! programming rebranded with an updated, universal branding design across all of PBS's children's programming. PBS considered the nine year long effort to age up its overall audience to be successful, but studies showed that brand recognition was not strongly differentiated from that of PBS Kids, and many shows ended up being successful with broad audiences in both younger and older age groups. The new PBS Kids redesign was introduced on October 7, 2013 with the premiere of "Peg + Cat", at which point PBS Kids Go! was officially discontinued. After the shutdown, all shows that premiered before the launch of the PBS Kids Go! block returned to the main PBS Kids block after nearly a decade, and all shows that premiered during the PBS Kids Go! block were permanently moved to the main PBS Kids block.


title: PBS Kids Go!

text: PBS Kids Go! aired shorts and other interstitial content related to its main programming, usually in between episodes or right before the end credits. Short-form programming included "The Amazing Colossal Adventures of WordGirl" (debuted on November 10, 2006, and later became a full series) and "Oh Noah!" (debuted as "Noah Comprende" on April 11, 2011), both of which were featured on air and online. As with many other PBS Kids shows, there were miscellaneous live-action interstitials featuring kids talking about things they do; about their families' heritage; or other topics specific to the associated program, typically used as a time-filler. In addition, there were web-exclusive short series on the PBS Kids Go! website, including "Fizzy's Lunch Lab", Jim Henson's "Wilson & Ditch: Digging America", and "Chuck Vanderchuck's 'Something Something' Explosion". The PBS Kids Go! website was also home for new companion websites of then out-of-production series "Kratts' Creatures" and "Zoom", and other educational websites, like "KidsWorld Sports" and "It's My Life".


title: PBS Kids Go!

text: In 2009, PBS launched the first contest called "PBS Kids Go! Writers Contest" to continue the annual writing and illustrating competition for children in kindergarten through 3rd grade, which started in 1995 as the "Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest". In 2014, it was renamed to "PBS Kids Writers Contest".


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: The was a name (based on Edogawa Rampo's fictional villain ""The Fiend with Twenty Faces"") used as an alias by the group responsible for the blackmail letters in the Glico Morinaga case in Japan, in 1984. Variations of the name's translation, including “the Mystery Man with the 21 Faces” and “the Phantom with 21 Faces”, have also been used in articles and books featuring the case.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: At around 9:00pm on 18 March 1984, two masked men armed with a pistol and rifle (later assumed to be toy guns) used a key stolen from the home next door to enter the home of Ezaki Glico president, Katsuhisa Ezaki. The home next door belonged to Katsuhisa's 70-year-old mother, Yoshie, and was located on the same property surrounded by a brick wall. The criminals had broken into her home and tied her up with a cut telephone line. They retrieved the key to her son's home which had a security system installed.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: Having entered the home of Katsuhisa Ezaki, the two masked men tied up his wife Mikieko (35 years old) and his eldest daughter Mariko (7 years old). Mikieko offered the men money and one of them responded, "Be quiet. Money is irrelevant." After cutting some telephone lines the two masked men located Katsuhisa Ezaki who was bathing with his other two children, Yukiko (4 years old) and Etsuro (11 years old). Katsuhisa Ezaki was abducted naked from his home and taken to a warehouse in Ibaraki, Osaka.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: Three days after his abduction, Ezaki was able to escape his captors after breaking free from the ropes they had tied him with. However he was unable to identify the culprits or provide police with any clues as to their motivations.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: Several weeks after Ezaki's abduction, the group set fire to several vehicles at the company's headquarters. Then on 16 April 1984, a plastic container full of hydrochloric acid was found inside a Glico company building in Ibaraki, Osaka, the same city Ezaki was held captive in.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: The letter also told police the color of the vehicle they had driven while kidnapping Ezaki, as well as the supermarket they had bought the food used to feed him during his captivity, although these clues provided little assistance to authorities.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: Meanwhile, the Monster with 21 Faces also sent letters to the media, taunting police efforts to capture the culprit(s) behind the scare. An excerpt from one such letter, written in "hiragana" and with an Osaka dialect, reads, “Dear dumb police officers. Don't tell a lie. All crimes begin with a lie as we say in Japan. Don't you know that?”


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: Another letter sent by the Monster with 21 Faces that was received on 23 April was sent to both Sankei and Mainichi newspapers as well as the Koshien police station. It read:


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: The Monster with 21 Faces sent its first letter on May 10 to the giant food company Ezaki Glico following the kidnapping and escape of Katsuhisa Ezaki, president of Glico. The letter stated it had laced $21 million worth of the company's confections with potassium cyanide soda, and it later threatened to put them on store shelves. None of these poisoned candies were found, but Glico products were removed from stores, resulting in a loss of more than $20 million and the laying off of 450 part-time workers. By the end of the whole ordeal, Glico reported a total decrease in sales of nearly $130 million.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: On 26 June, the Monster with 21 Faces issued a message proclaiming its forgiveness of Glico, and subsequent harassment of the company ceased.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: After ceasing its harassment of Glico, the Monster with 21 Faces began targeting Morinaga, another confectionery company, and food companies Marudai Ham and House Food Corporation with similar criminal campaigns, using the same alias.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: In October 1984, a letter addressed to "Moms of the Nation" and signed by the Monster with 21 Faces was sent to Osaka news agencies with a warning similar to those sent to Glico. It stated that 20 packages of Morinaga candy had been laced with deadly sodium cyanide. After receiving this letter, police searched stores in cities from Tokyo to western Japan and found over a dozen lethal packages of Morinaga Choco Balls and Angel Pie before anyone was poisoned. These packages had labels, such as "Danger: Contains Toxins", put on them. More tampered confections were found in February 1985 for a total of 21 lethal sweet products.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: On November 1, 1984, a threatening letter from the Monster with 21 Faces arrived at the Tokyo home of Morinaga Dairy vice president Mitsuo Yamada:


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: Morinaga responded on November 6 to the criminals by placing the missing persons advertisement in the Mainichi Newspapers Morning Edition: "Dear Jiro, Bad friend disappeared. Come back. Warm meal is waiting. Mother Chiyoko."


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: Two letters from the Monster with 21 Faces were sent to House Foods on November 7. Furthermore, Morinaga & Company was forced to reduce its current production by 90% that day due to the poisoning.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: Unable to capture the suspect believed to be the mastermind behind the Monster with 21 Faces, the police superintendent Yamamoto of Shiga Prefecture died by suicide by self-immolation in August 1985. Five days after this event, on August 12, "the Monster” sent its final message to the media:


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: After this letter, the Monster with 21 Faces was not heard from again. The statute of limitation for the kidnapping of Katsuhisa Ezaki, president of Glico, ran out in June 1995, and the statute of limitation for the attempted poisonings ran out in February 2000. At one point, it was even estimated that over a million police officers had worked on the case in some capacity or another over the years, chasing down more than 28,000 tips and investigating nearly 125,000 persons-of-interest. However, no suspect was ever charged.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: Following threats by the Monster with 21 Faces to poison Glico confections and the resulting mass withdrawal of Glico products from shelves, a man wearing a Yomiuri Giants baseball cap was caught placing Glico chocolate on a store shelf by a security camera. This man was believed to be behind the Monster with 21 Faces. The security camera photo was made public after this incident.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: On June 28, 1984, two days after the Monster agreed to stop harassing Marudai Ham in exchange for 50 million yen, police came close to capturing the suspected mastermind. An investigator disguised himself as a Marudai employee and followed the Monster's instructions for the money exchange. As he was riding a train to the money's drop point, he noticed a suspicious man watching him. He was described as a large, well-built man wearing sunglasses and with his hair cut short and permed. He was also quoted to have "eyes like those of a fox". As investigators tailed him from train to train, the eventually eluded them. In a later incident, investigators saw the Fox-eyed Man again, accompanying the alleged "Monster" group during another secret money exchange with House Food Corporation. Once again, he was able to elude police and avoid capture.


title: The Monster with 21 Faces

text: Tokyo Metropolitan Police at first identified Manabu Miyazaki, the son of a known yakuza boss and a criminal himself, as the Fox-eyed Man and the Videotaped Man because of his resemblance to these suspects. Miyazaki had also been involved with a labor dispute with Glico about ten years prior. However, after his alibis were checked, he was cleared of the Glico-Morinaga crimes, though some still suspect he could have been involved with the group.


title: Zoosk

text: Zoosk is an online dating service available in 25 languages and in more than 80 countries. The founders of the company are Shayan Zadeh and Alex Mehr, who ran the company until December 2014. After struggles that year, Kelly Steckelberg became the company's new CEO. In July 2019, Zoosk became part of Spark Networks SE.


title: Zoosk

text: Zoosk launched in December 2007. Its co-founders, Shayan Zadeh and Alex Mehr, were the company's original CEOs. They are both Iranian immigrants who migrated to US to continue their education. Zadeh and Mehr met as undergraduates at Sharif University of Technology in Iran and travelled to the US together to attend graduate school at the University of Maryland. Zadeh worked at Microsoft after graduating with a master's degree from University of Maryland in computer science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. Mehr earned his master's degree and PhD and later worked for NASA. Mehr attended business school at the University of California at Berkeley, but he dropped out to work on Zoosk.


title: Zoosk

text: In April 2014, Zoosk filed S-1 paperwork for an initial public offering as it sought to raise $100 million in capital. In the S-1, the company reported 2013 revenues of $178.2 million, a 63% increase over the previous year, and that it had cut losses 87% to $2.6 million. It has 27 million members, of which 650,000 were paying subscribers, and its membership was growing 44% year-over-year. Zoosk had reached the position of no. 1 grossing dating app and a top 25 grossing app on the Apple iOS App Store.


title: Zoosk

text: Despite $200 million in revenue collected in 2014, as well as a profit the previous year, Zoosk lost money in 2014 due to the company overspending on expansion and over-hiring. The company operated on the start-up principle that profits do not matter. With these problems at the company, Zoosk canceled its IPO in December. In January 2015, they laid off 15% of their staff. To improve revenue, the company decided in November 2014 to require a paid membership to send messages.


title: Zoosk

text: On March 21, 2019, Spark Networks SE (a global dating company with a portfolio of dating brands) announced a definitive deal to acquire Zoosk. The deal was finalized on July 1, 2019, forming North America's second-largest dating company in revenues.


title: Zoosk

text: Zoosk has an iOS and Android app and a desktop chat client. Zoosk uses big data and algorithmic recommendations technology to help users find partners. Its "proprietary Behavioral Matchmaking engine" learns from users' clicks, messaging, and other actions to help produce more accurate matches. The idea is that the more data Zoosk obtains from its users, the better its recommendations can be.


title: Zoosk

text: In August 2014, Zoosk added its Photo Verification service, designed to prevent users from "posting photos of themselves when they were 10 years younger or 20 pounds lighter". To verify a photo, users are asked to take a video selfie in order to record their appearance from multiple angles. Zoosk moderators then determine if the user's profile photo and video match. When they do, the user receives a green check next to his or her photos. The feature was released first to the Zoosk iOS app, followed by Android.


title: Zoosk

text: In January 2018, Zoosk launched Insignia, a way for U.S. military service members to verify their status. The feature is meant to reduce instances of stolen valor, particularly in connection to romance scams.


title: Zoosk

text: Zoosk's investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, ATA Ventures and Canaan Partners. The company has raised more than $60 million in equity.


title: Zoosk

text: Until November 2014, Zoosk charged no fee to start using the app and to send one message to another person. Since November 2014, contact and interaction beyond the first message per person requires a premium (i.e., paid) subscription.


title: Zoosk

text: In 2014, Zoosk was named to the Inc. magazine's Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, ranking no. 1660.


title: Zoosk

text: In 2014, the "San Francisco Business Times" also named Shayan Zadeh to its 40 Under 40 list of Bay Area entrepreneurs.


title: Zoosk

text: "The Wall Street Journal" ranked Zoosk no. 29 on its The Next Big Thing 2011 – The Top 50 Venture-Funded Companies list, up from the No. 42 spot the previous year.


title: Zoosk

text: About.com's 2011 Reader's Choice Awards named Zoosk's iPhone app a finalist in its Best Dating App competition.


title: Zoosk

text: According to AppAppeal, in August 2012 Zoosk was the fifth most popular dating app in the world and the third in the U.S. In 2012, the company also won an Effie Award for its advertising campaign "Online Dating, Your Way".


title: Hip Hop Is Dead

text: Hip Hop Is Dead is the eighth studio album by American rapper Nas, released December 19, 2006, on Def Jam Recordings. His first album for the label, it was co-financed by Nas's previous label, Columbia Records, which once distributed for Def Jam. The album's title was inspired by Nas's view of the music industry and the state of hip hop music at the time. The album features appearances from Nas's then wife Kelis, Kanye West, Jay-Z, will.i.am, Snoop Dogg, The Game and Chrisette Michele, among others.


title: Hip Hop Is Dead

text: The album debuted at number one on the U.S. "Billboard" 200 chart, selling 355,880 copies in its first week. His fourth U.S. number-one album, it had sold 941,000 copies by November 2008, eventually over time it went platinum by the RIAA. Upon its release, "Hip Hop Is Dead" received generally positive reviews from most music critics. "Hip Hop Is Dead" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, ultimately losing to Kanye West's "Graduation" at the 50th Grammy Awards.


title: Hip Hop Is Dead

text: Nas announced the album's title after a performance on May 18, 2006. In a late September interview on English DJ Tim Westwood's Radio show, Nas said, "Hip-hop is dead because we as artists no longer have the power." He went on to say, "Could you imagine what 50 Cent could be doing, Nas, Jay, Eminem, if we were the Jimmy Iovines? Could you imagine the power we'd have? I think that's where we're headed." He has described the album as a mixture of "street" records, "political" records and collaborations. In another interview for MTV.com, Nas discussed the concept of the album title and the social atmosphere and condition of the music industry that inspired it, stating:


title: Hip Hop Is Dead

text: A promo single, "Where Y'all At", was released in June 2006 and produced by Salaam Remi. It contained a sample from Nas' "Made You Look", but it did not make the final cut for "Hip Hop Is Dead". It was, however, released as a bonus track on the Japanese import version of the album.


title: Hip Hop Is Dead

text: A music video for "Can't Forget About You" premiered on February 5, 2007, the song featuring Chrisette Michele and sampling Nat King Cole's song "Unforgettable". Another video, Hustlers, featuring The Game, followed.


title: Hip Hop Is Dead

text: In an interview on the music television show "106 & Park", while promoting his untitled 2008 album, Nas said that he chose "Hip Hop Is Dead" as the title of the album in order to engender excitement and a reaction among hip hop artists. He went on to say that it worked, due to reactions from artists like Lil Wayne and Kanye West (whether West was actually reacting to the title of the album or merely promoting the album is unclear, given that he produced on two of the album's tracks). The title had a major impact in the hip hop world, especially for Southern hip hop, whose artists were blamed at the time for cheapening the quality of hip-hop with crunk and snap music. Southern rapper Young Jeezy had made statements against the title of Nas' album, and also furthered his comments by questioning Nas' street credibility. They have since reconciled, with Nas appearing on Jeezy's 2008 single, "My President". Many other Southern rappers such as Ludacris, Trick Daddy, and Big Boi (whose fellow Outkast member, Andre 3000, declared hip hop dead on 2001's "Funkin' Around", off "Big Boi and Dre Present...Outkast") have also attacked Nas' album title claiming that it is targeted at Southern hip hop. Nas also has a fair share of supporters such as fellow New York rappers KRS-One, DMX, Raekwon, and Ghostface Killah.


title: Hip Hop Is Dead

text: "Hip Hop Is Dead" received generally positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 22 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Nas is hip-hop's "grumpiest man", according to Jody Rosen for "Entertainment Weekly", and the album "is a lot like Nas himself: impossible not to admire, but hard to love". Among those music writers and critics that reviewed "Hip Hop Is Dead" favorably was Jason Rubin of "The A.V. Club", which gave the album an A− rating. Rubin praised the album's production quality and lyrical concept, and stated ""Hip Hop" is unsparing in its diagnosis of rap's ills, but ultimately, it's hopeful. It contains a smart, tight, cohesive analysis of where rap went astray, but also the seeds of the genre's rebirth and renewal."


title: Hip Hop Is Dead

text: Despite perceiving its sound and musical quality as weaknesses, "Los Angeles Times" writer Soren Baker gave it 3 out of 4 stars and wrote "Nas demonstrates why he remains one of rap's most revered artists, as his defense of hip-hop culture is impassioned and informed, if not fully realized". Sean Fennessey of "Vibe" called the album "disorienting and sometimes brilliant" and complimented its "bold, startling production and a renewed lyrical vigor". The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, losing to Kanye West's "Graduation" (2007), at the 50th Grammy Awards in February 2008.


title: Hip Hop Is Dead

text: "Hip Hop Is Dead" debuted at number one on the US "Billboard" 200, selling 355,880 copies in its first week. The album has joined "It Was Written" (1996) and "I Am…" (1999) as Nas's third album to debut at number one on the chart. In its second week, the album dropped to number four on the chart, selling an additional 101,000 copies. In its third week, the album dropped to number eight on the chart, selling 44,800 copies that week. On March 12, 2007, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 500,000 copies in the United States.


title: Hip Hop Is Dead

text: The title track "Hip Hop Is Dead" (produced by will.i.am), which contains samples from "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly, and "Apache" by Incredible Bongo Band (which Nas previously used on "Made You Look", and Billy Squier's "The Big Beat", was the first single of the album. It received airplay on radio stations in Australia (Triple J), the UK, and in United States, notably on Hot 97. The single recently reached #48 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and #41 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The second single from the album Hip Hop Is Dead is "Can't Forget About You" (Featuring Chrisette Michele). It contains a sample from Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable".


title: Tu Aashiqui

text: Tu Aashiqui (Translation: You are my love) is a 2017 Indian musical drama romance television show based on two lovers' efforts to unite. It is produced by Mahesh Bhatt under Gurudev Bhalla production house. It stars Jannat Zubair Rahmani, Ritvik Arora and Rahil Azam as Pankti, Ahaan and JD respectively.


title: Tu Aashiqui

text: The series premiered on Colors TV on 20 September 2017 and had its last episode telecast on 12 October 2018.


title: Tu Aashiqui

text: Pankti Sharma is a beautiful young girl. Kind-hearted and charming, Ahaan Dhanrajgir is a musician. He meets and falls for Pankti, who also feels an attraction to him. Her mother Anita, being a failed actress and almost completely bankrupt, sells Pankti for money to Ahaan's rich, cruel and manipulative uncle, the middle-aged JD.


title: Tu Aashiqui

text: Ahaan wants to save Pankti and fulfill her dream of becoming successful singer. Eventually, he frees Pankti whose sister, Poorva falls in love with her boss, Monty after Anita sells her to him.


title: Tu Aashiqui

text: Eventually, the truth about JD is exposed to the entire family. JD's wife, Sheetal (Himanshi Choudhry), asks for a divorce but JD makes her sign over all her property to him. JD tries to kill Sheetal but she ends up in a coma. Pankti now pursues her singing career with Ahaan's support. JD posts indecent photos of Pankti but Ahaan supports her and they run away to live a new life where no one knows them. JD threatens to kill Poorva unless Anita files a complaint against Ahaan for abducting Pankti. Ahaan and Pankti are given shelter in a village but have to escape from JD again and go to the house of Uday Mathur (Rushal Parekh), Ahaan's best friend and manager. Ahaan tries to clear Pankti's name by lying about the photos being fake but Pankti appears on the talk show and clears her own name by telling the truth. Sheetal wakes up from the coma and shoots JD but unbeknownst to her, it is a fake bullet. Sheetal is arrested and JD is presumed dead.


title: Tu Aashiqui

text: JD returns under the persona of a man named Reyansh Diwan (Raqesh Bapat) and befriends Ahaan and Pankti organizing a concert in London where Ahaan is attacked by a hooded goon. Sheetal is released on bail and discovers Reyansh is actually JD. She tries to warn Ahaan and Pankti but JD blackmails her to stay silent and kidnaps her. Pankti and Ahaan argue and Reyansh makes matters worse by creating more misunderstandings between them. Pankti sets up a trap for Reyansh and decodes Sheetal's last message as "JD is Reyansh". Pankti and Uday defeat JD along with Sheetal's son, Vikram (Buneet Kapoor), and free Ahaan and Sheetal. JD is arrested, and the family celebrate.


title: Tu Aashiqui

text: Ahaan and Pankti meet a famous singer named Rangoli Rai (Krissann Barretto). In public, Rangoli pretends to be nice but behind closed doors she is obsessed with herself and her fame. Vikram becomes jealous of the attention Ahaan gets and instead of launching Ahaan as JMD's new face, he launches Rangoli. Rangoli tries to get close to Ahaan. Pankti struggles as people in the music industry remind her of her past as a mistress and try to take advantage of her. Ahaan becomes friends with Rangoli.


title: Tu Aashiqui

text: Rangoli comes to sing the final recording of a song but can't hit any notes right. The music director wants to replace her with Pankti angering Rangoli. Vikram does not want Pankti to sing as she is not a member of the JMD Company. Ahaan instead organises a concert for Pankti, but Rangoli has the concert cancelled. Ahaan, Pankti and Rangoli are scheduled to sing at a charity concert organized by KK. Fans praise Pankti's voice over Rangoli's and Vikram decides to sign Ahaan and Pankti for the benefit of his company. Rangoli plans to separate Ahaan and Pankti. Pankti discovers Rangoli's intentions but Ahaan doesn't believe her. Pankti gets upset, gathers evidence against Rangoli, and finally exposes her.


title: Tu Aashiqui

text: Ahaan and Pankti are set to be married on the same day as Monty and Poorva. Before Ahaan and Pankti can complete their vows, the police arrive and arrest Ahaan as Rangoli has accused him of rape. Ahaan is taken into custody while Rangoli tells Ahaan that she would take her complaint back if he marries her but he refuses. Ahaan's trial begins and Rangoli hires Dinesh Khandelwal (Ashwin Kaushal), a cunning lawyer. Eventually, Ahaan's mother, Aparna Dhanrajgir (Dolphin Dwivedi) becomes Ahaan's lawyer and wins the court case in Ahaan's favour.


title: Tu Aashiqui

text: Pankti and Ahaan overcome all their problems, and marry. The show ends with Ahaan and Pankti living happily with their family.


title: Tu Aashiqui

text: Mostly composed and sung by Rahul Jain as Ahaan's voice. The tune of "Har Dafa" was reused for "Tu Aashiqui (Romantic Version)", and a snippet of the main tune in "Tu Aashiqui (Rock Version)" was used in the composition of "Tu Wafa".


title: Once Upon a Time (season 2)

text: The second season of the American ABC fantasy-drama series "Once Upon a Time" was announced on May 10, 2012. It premiered on September 30, 2012, and concluded on May 12, 2013.


title: Once Upon a Time (season 2)

text: The season's plot follows the breaking of the curse and the introduction of magic by Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold into Storybrooke in the first season finale, with the characters having to deal with their dual identities and new emerging threats. Existing fictional characters introduced to the series during the season include Captain Killian "Hook" Jones, Princess Aurora, Mulan, Prince Phillip, Robin Hood, the Darling family and the Lost Boys.


title: Once Upon a Time (season 2)

text: With the curse broken, the residents of Storybrooke struggle with resolving their original and cursed memories, left wondering about the fate of their land. When Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold successfully introduces magic into the world, some of the Storybrooke residents try to figure out how to return home, leading to an incident with the Mad Hatter's teleporting hat that causes Emma and Snow White/Mary Margaret to be accidentally transported to the Enchanted Forest. They discover that part of the realm was spared from the curse, keeping the remaining inhabitants frozen during the twenty-eight years. Among them are allies Aurora, Mulan, and Phillip, along with Regina/Evil Queen's mother Cora and Captain Hook. The latter two follow Emma and Mary Margaret as they successfully make it back to Storybrooke, with Cora wanting to get even with Regina, and Hook wanting to kill "the Crocodile" (Rumplestiltskin) for taking his hand and his lover. Meanwhile, Rumpelstiltskin works to bypass the protective boundary and leave Storybrooke to find his missing son Bae, discovering that Bae is actually Henry's father Neal. The magical boundary of Storybrooke starts to falter, allowing strangers inside Storybrooke, including outsiders Greg Mendell and Tamara, both secretly working for a mysterious organization tracking and eliminating magic around the world, with their actions leading to Henry's captivity in Neverland, setting up the third season.


title: Once Upon a Time (season 2)

text: On May 10, 2012, ABC ordered "Once Upon a Time" for a second season, which premiered on September 30, 2012.


title: Once Upon a Time (season 2)

text: Co-creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis spoke about the repercussions of the first season finale's events, stating, "Magic as we know always comes with a price and we are introducing it to a world where it has never been before and I think that’s going to have unpredictable results. It’s going to affect everybody this season because that’s what’s more fun." said Kitsis. On everyone in Storybrooke's memories returning Horowitz commented, "One of the things that’s interesting to us to explore is this notion that just because the memories have returned does not mean that the past 28 years did not happen. Those memories, the Davids, the Mary Margarets, the Mr. Golds, all those people, who they were existed and what they did actually happened and those are the things that will have to be dealt with."


title: Once Upon a Time (season 2)

text: The show still bounced back-and-forth between the fairy-tale world and Storybrooke, although there were slight differences compared to season one. It was hinted that another form of narrative was introduced during the season.


title: Once Upon a Time (season 2)

text: In June 2012, it was reported that season one recurring actresses Meghan Ory (Red Riding Hood/Ruby) and Emilie de Ravin (Belle/Lacey) had both been promoted to series regulars for the second season. In July 2012, it was announced that "Pretty Little Liars" star Julian Morris would be guest starring as Prince Phillip, an altruistic hero and adept warrior, while "Teen Wolf" actor Sinqua Walls was cast as Sir Lancelot, a former member of the round table. In the same month, it was announced that "The Tudors" star Sarah Bolger and "The Hangover Part II" actress Jamie Chung had joined the recurring cast as Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) and Chinese warrior Mulan. On August 3, 2012, "The Rite" actor Colin O'Donoghue booked the recurring role of Captain Killian "Hook" Jones, the prime antagonist of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. O'Donoghue joined the main cast during the second half of the season. The same day, it was reported that "True Blood's "Michael Raymond-James had joined the season's recurring cast in an unknown role, described only as "mysterious". This was later revealed to be Neal Cassidy (Rumplestiltskin's son Baelfire, Emma Swan's ex-boyfriend and Henry Mills' father). "Lost" alum Jorge Garcia recurs as Anton the Giant, referenced from Jack and the Beanstalk. Garcia was originally scheduled to appear in only one episode, but his character was later expanded. Actor Raphael Sbarge, who portrays Jiminy Cricket, was made part of the recurring guest cast this season, as opposed to being included in the first season's main cast. The L Word actress Rachel Shelley played the recurring role of Milah, Rumplestiltskin's wife. "Eureka" actor Christopher Gauthier is recurring throughout the season as Mr. William Smee, Captain Hook's right-hand-man. In October 2012, "Can't Hardly Wait" star Ethan Embry joined the recurring cast as an unknown visitor to Storybrooke. Eion Bailey (Pinocchio/August Booth) made guest appearances in episodes six and 18. Tony Perez (Prince Henry) and Alan Dale (King George/Albert Spencer) both made recurring appearances in some capacity throughout the season.


title: Once Upon a Time (season 2)

text: Actor Noah Bean reprised his role as Daniel, the Evil Queen's love-interest, during episode five, "The Doctor". "The X-Files" actress Annabeth Gish guest starred as Anita, the leader of a pack of werewolves, in "Child of the Moon". "The Christmas Card" actor Chad Michael Collins and "24" veteran Gregory Itzin appeared in "In the Name of the Brother" as Gerhardt/Frankenstein's Monster, Dr. Frankenstein's younger brother and as Alphonse, the boys' father, respectively. "Scream" and "Charmed" actress Rose McGowan portrayed a young Cora in "The Miller's Daughter". Lesley Nicol, of "Downton Abbey" fame, was cast as Johanna in "The Queen is Dead" which also featured "Heroes" vet Rena Sofer as Queen Eva, Snow White's mother. It was implicated that the role has the potential to become recurring. "Caprica" actor John Pyper-Ferguson guest starred in "Welcome to Storybrooke" as Kurt Flynn, a widower who longs to aid his son after experiencing the loss of his mother. Season one co-star Jamie Dornan also reprised his role as Sheriff Graham Humbert in the episode.


title: Once Upon a Time (season 2)

text: Since the first season, "Kings" actor Sebastian Stan had portrayed Jefferson/The Mad Hatter in a recurring role; he has since departed from the show with obligations to the Broadway play "Picnic" and his role as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was reported that ABC was set to recast the role with the potential for a possible spin-off based on the character. However, Stan's recasting was repudiated by series co-creator Adam Horowitz, saying that Stan "is a very busy man, I don't know when he will be making his way back toward us". He later confirmed that Stan would not be returning to the series in 2013.


title: Once Upon a Time (season 2)

text: Principal photography for the season began in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 16, 2012 and completed on April 5, 2013. The town of Steveston doubles as Storybrooke for the series.


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: Bohdan Mykolayovych Stashynsky (, born 4 November 1931) is a former Soviet spy who assassinated the Ukrainian nationalist leaders Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera in the late 1950s. He defected in West Berlin in 1961.


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: Born to a family of villagers in Barszowice near Lwów, Stashynsky completed his early education in 1948 and studied to become a teacher. His family were supporters of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Stashynsky's three sisters were members of the organization. In 1950, Stashynsky was arrested for traveling without a ticket on public transportation to Lviv from his village. After agreeing to act as an informer, he was released. Through his sisters, he infiltrated the workings of the UPA and forwarded the information to the MGB.


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: In 1953, he was sent to Kyiv to continue studies in espionage. In 1954, he was sent to East Germany under the name Josef Lehmann where he perfected his knowledge of German. In 1956, Stashynsky often traveled to Munich, West Germany, where he began to perfect his false identity.


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: Stashynsky received the instructions to carry out the assassination directly from the headquarters of the KGB in Moscow. At that time, Alexander Shelepin was Chairman of the Committee for State Security of the Council of Ministers. The assassination was known to and approved by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Nikita Khrushchev.


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: In 1957, the KGB trained the 25-year-old Stashynsky to use a spray gun that fired a jet of poison gas from a crushed cyanide capsule. The gas was designed to induce cardiac arrest, making the victim's death look like a heart attack. Stashynsky used the weapon to kill Lev Rebet in 1957. On 15 October 1959, he used an improved version of the same gas gun to assassinate Stepan Bandera in Munich.


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: Stashynsky was honoured by Moscow with the Order of the Red Banner by Shelepin for his work and given his final assignment to kill Yaroslav Stetsko. Stetsko, also living in Munich, was a prominent anti-Soviet Ukrainian fascist leader and also the President of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations. He was to be assassinated in 1960, but it could not be perpetrated for reasons which have not been clarified.


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: Stashynsky met and fell in love with an East German woman, Inge Pohl, in 1957. At first his bosses tried to persuade him not to marry a foreigner, but he persisted. However, the KGB demanded that Pohl become a Soviet citizen and KGB agent. Although he was unhappy with the arrangement, Stashynsky nevertheless agreed as it was the only way he could marry Pohl. After they were married, the KGB bugged their Moscow apartment and heard them express anti-Soviet sentiments. The KGB would not let the couple travel abroad together out of fear of defection, which the couple was indeed planning.


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: In 1961, Inge returned to East Berlin to give birth to their son, Peter, but Stashynsky was unable to visit them. In August, Peter suddenly developed a fever and died at four months old. The KGB relented after the family tragedy and allowed him to travel to East Berlin for the baby's funeral. Against KGB orders, Stashynsky took his Joseph Lehmann identity card with him to East Germany, as well as other documents that would confirm his identity as a KGB agent. On 13 August 1961, hours before their son's funeral, Stashynsky and his wife fled on foot from her parents’ home in Dallgow, walking to the town of Falkensee to avoid any KGB agents that would intercept them at the Dallgow train station. They took a taxi to East Berlin, where he used the Lehmann identity card at a checkpoint. They then traveled to West Berlin via train, where he defected to U.S. officials at a police station.


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: The CIA was suspicious of Stashynsky, who was flown to Frankfurt for interrogation and doubtful of his claims that he had assassinated Rebet and Bandera. The CIA was unaware that Rebet had been murdered, and Stashynsky's account of his assassination of Bandera was inconsistent with what the U.S. knew of his death. The CIA had concluded that Bandera had been poisoned by someone close to him, and Stashynsky's claim of shooting him with a poison spray gun seemed farfetched. They concluded that Stashynsky "would not be valuable operationally as a double agent, that he was not a bona fide defector and the individual he purported to be."


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: After three weeks, the CIA – believing Stashynsky to be useless – handed him over to West German authorities, who now began to investigate him for the two murders. At first, the West German police were also suspicious of his stories, but after interrogation and visits to the two murder sites, where Stashynsky re-enacted the killings, authorities determined that Stashynsky was telling the truth.


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: After Stashynsky's defection, the Soviet government tried to avert negative exposure. On 13 October 1961, the Soviet Union arranged a press conference in East Berlin where Soviet secret service agent Stefan Lippolz blamed the murder on the cashier of Bandera's own organization, Dmytro Myskiv, who had since died. However, it was established that Dmytro Myskiv was not in Munich when Bandera was assassinated but was in Rome at the time.


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: Stashynsky was put on trial for the two murders in October 1962, and sentenced to eight years in prison. Very unusually, legally Stashinskyi was an accessory to his own crime. In German law there is no minimum and maximum penalty for assisting a crime. Getting good-time credit, he served 4 years and was released. Explaining what motivated him to kill Rebet, Stashynsky told a court that he had been told that Rebet was "the leading theorist of the Ukrainians in exile," since "in his newspapers "Suchasna Ukrayina" ("Contemporary Ukraine"), "Chas" ("Time"), and "Ukrayinska Trybuna" ("Ukrainian Tribune") he not so much provided accounts of daily events as developed primarily ideological issues."


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: According to West German Intelligence chief Reinhard Gehlen, ...Bohdan Stashinskyi, who had been persuaded by his German-born wife Inge to confess to the crimes and take the load off his troubled conscience, stuck resolutely to his statements. His testimony convinced the investigating authorities. He reconstructed the crimes exactly as they had happened, revisiting the crumbling business premises at the Stachus, in the heart of Munich, where Lev Rebet had entered the office of a Ukrainian exile newspaper, his suitcase in his hand. And he showed how the hydrogen cyanide capsule had exploded in Rebet's face and how he had left him slumped over the rickety staircase. The case before the Federal court began on October 8, 1962, and world interest in the incident was revived. Passing sentence eleven days later, the court identified Stashinskyi's unscrupulous employer Shelyepin as the person primarily responsible for the hideous murders, and the defendant – who had given a highly credible account of the extreme pressure applied to him by the KGB to act as he did – received a comparatively mild sentence. He served most of it and was released. Today the KGB's 'torpedo' is living as a free man somewhere in the world he chose on that day in the summer of 1961, a few days before the wall was erected across Berlin.


title: Bohdan Stashynsky

text: In 1966, Stashynsky was released from prison early on parole and was reportedly handed over to the CIA. According to the historian of the Soviet state security organs Boris Volodarsky, after Stashynsky was released from prison, he underwent plastic surgery. Bohdan Stashynsky and Inge Stashinsky were given new identities and provided asylum by South Africa in 1984, where they live under false names to this day, although this version is questioned by many. The further fate of Stashinsky and his wife is unknown. It is suggested that he may have settled in the United States or another Western country, with some reports in the 2000s suggesting that, together with Inge, he had visited his native village in present-day Ukraine.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: John William Grant (born July 25, 1968) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter who holds both American and Icelandic citizenship. He came to prominence as the co-founder, lead singer, pianist, and primary songwriter for the alternative rock band the Czars. After releasing six studio albums from 1994 to 2006, the band split up and Grant took a break from music before starting a solo career in 2010.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: Grant's debut solo album "Queen of Denmark" (2010) was named the best album of the year by "Mojo", and his second album "Pale Green Ghosts" (2013) was named the best album of the year by Rough Trade. His third album "Grey Tickles, Black Pressure" (2015) received widespread critical acclaim and peaked at No. 5 on the UK albums chart, while his fourth album "Love Is Magic" (2018) entered the top 20 in the UK. His fifth album "Boy From Michigan" (2021) also received acclaim. He also released the live album "John Grant and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Live in Concert" (2014), in which he performed songs from his first two albums while accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: Grant is also known for his collaborations with varied musicians such as Hercules and Love Affair, Budgie, Elbow, Goldfrapp, GusGus, Elton John, Midlake, Kylie Minogue, Sinéad O'Connor, Tracey Thorn, and Robbie Williams.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: John William Grant was born in Buchanan, Michigan, on July 25, 1968, the son of a housewife mother (died 1995) and an engineer father. He has three siblings, and grew up in a conservative Methodist household which was at odds with his realization that he was gay. When he was 12 years old, the family moved to Parker, Colorado. He was bullied both physically and emotionally in high school. He would later sing openly, often with deadpan and snarky lyrics, about the experiences that pained him and shaped his life; he did not feel comfortable with his sexuality until his mid-20s, having been raised in an environment where he was taught that "those people were going to Hell". He moved to Germany in 1988 to continue his study of languages, and began listening to artists such as Siouxsie and the Banshees, Ministry, Scritti Politti, Skinny Puppy, and the Cocteau Twins.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: In 1994, Grant returned to the U.S. and co-founded the Denver-based alternative rock band The Czars. With Grant as its lead singer, pianist, keyboardist, and primary songwriter, the band enjoyed critical success and released six studio albums, but commercial recognition proved elusive. Grant met with English musician Simon Raymonde, a member of one of Grant's favorite bands, the Cocteau Twins; Raymonde had recently started the record label Bella Union and, although he was not particularly looking for new acts at that time, he saw potential in The Czars and agreed to produce two of their albums. After releasing "Sorry I Made You Cry" in 2004, the band split in 2006. Grant then took a four-year hiatus, which he spent working in New York City as a waiter at the Gramercy Tavern, medical interpreter for Russian patients in a hospital, record store clerk, and flight attendant. The Czars' "Best Of" album was released in December 2014.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: During his hiatus in New York City, Grant had a chance encounter with members of the Texas-based folk rock group Midlake, who eventually persuaded him to return to music. They joined him to record and produce "Queen of Denmark", his first solo album, which was released on the Bella Union label in April 2010. Described as a "deeply personal album", it explores Grant's struggles with alcohol and drug addiction as well as his personal struggle to reconcile his homosexuality. He described the members of Midlake as his "brothers" in an interview. "Queen of Denmark" received critical acclaim and was chosen as the best album of 2010 by British music magazine "Mojo", which also awarded Grant its Best Live Act Award and nominated him for its Best Breakthrough Act Award. Filmmaker Andrew Haigh used several songs from "Queen of Denmark" in his 2011 film "Weekend".


title: John Grant (musician)

text: During a trip to Iceland to perform at the Airwaves Festival, Grant met Birgir Þórarinsson (aka Biggi Veira) of Icelandic electronic pop group GusGus. The electronic, synthesized dance sounds that he was looking for and experimented with in Veira's studio formed much of the backdrop to his second album "Pale Green Ghosts", which Veira himself produced. Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor was guest vocalist on three tracks. Grant was quickly and deeply touched by the people and landscape of Iceland, so much so that he now has a permanent home in Reykjavík.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: "Pale Green Ghosts" was released in March 2013 to critical acclaim. It was Rough Trade Records' Album of the Year, and ranked at No. 2 on "The Guardian" list of Best Albums of 2013. A nomination for Best Solo Artist at the Q Awards followed, with David Bowie and Laura Marling among the other nominees. He also received a nomination for Best International Male Solo Artist at the Brit Awards in 2014, Later that year, Grant put his linguistic skills to effect by translating Ásgeir Trausti's album "Dýrð í dauðaþögn". The English version, "In the Silence", was released in October.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: In 2014, Grant co-wrote "No Prejudice", the Icelandic entry for that year's Eurovision Song Contest performed by Pollapönk. He also guested on the 40th anniversary release of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", covering the song "Sweet Painted Lady". He also guested on the album "The Feast of The Broken Heart" by Hercules & Love Affair, and was also named Man of the Year for 2014 by "Attitude" magazine. Also in 2014, he joined British group Elbow on the North American leg of their tour.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: In October 2014, accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Grant performed tracks from his first two albums for a concert on BBC Radio 6 Music arranged by Fiona Brice. This was released as an album called "John Grant and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Live in Concert". Grant concluded 2014 with rave reviews following his UK concert hall tour with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. "Clash" magazine wrote that the concert "could honestly be one of the greatest gigs of all time at London's Royal Festival Hall". That night, he duetted with Alison Goldfrapp on the Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood song "Some Velvet Morning" at the Royal Albert Hall.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: In 2015, Grant released his third solo album "Grey Tickles, Black Pressure". Recorded in Dallas and produced by John Congleton, it featured guest vocalists Tracey Thorn and Amanda Palmer and drummer Budgie. The album was acclaimed by "NME", "The Guardian", and "Mojo". Before embarking on a worldwide tour, Grant appeared on British talk show "Later... with Jools Holland" in early October. Accompanied on stage by a band including several backing singers and guest drummer Budgie, he delivered a show at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, receiving a five-star review in the national press. In July, he played at the Glastonbury and Latitude festivals before embarking on a world tour. The following year, he toured across much of the U.S. and Europe. In October of that year, he made a third appearance on the BBC Two show "Later... with Jools Holland".


title: John Grant (musician)

text: Grant co-wrote and recorded the track "I Don't Want To Hurt You" with Robbie Williams, featured on Williams' 2016 album "The Heavy Entertainment Show". In 2016, he performed a solo show at the Royal Albert Hall, which was met with rave reviews. He was joined on stage by Richard Hawley who performed "Disappointing" from "Grey Tickles, Black Pressure". Also guesting were Cate Le Bon, who duetted on "Torn Between Two Lovers" (a song made famous by Mary MacGregor) and Kylie Minogue in a performance of "Glacier". Minogue invited Grant back to the Royal Albert Hall to duet with her on "Confide In Me" for A Kylie Christmas in December that year. Two songs from 2013, "Black Belt" and "Pale Green Ghosts", appeared on the HBO series "Looking". On December 3, Grant was the subject of BBC Radio 4's "Reimagining the City", where he took listeners around his new home city of Reykjavík.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: In 2017, Grant appeared at the Hay Literary Festival in conversation with Cosey Fanni Tutti to discuss her autobiography "Art Sex Music", which had been named Book of the Year by "Sunday Times", "Telegraph", and Rough Trade Records. Grant announced in 2017 that he had signed with publishers Little, Brown and Company to write his own autobiography. 2017 also saw him curate North Atlantic Flux: Sounds From Smoky Bay, a four-day event celebrating the best in Nordic and Scandinavian culture as part of Hull's year as UK City Of Culture. The festival, a collaboration with Curated Place, went on to win three awards at The Drum UK Event Awards, including the prestigious Cultural Event of the Year. Highlights of the festival included performances from Susanne Sundfør, GusGus, Tonik Ensemble, Nils Bech, Adelle Stripe, Wrangler and Grant himself, who also gave a two-hour Q&A hosted by writer and poet Adelle Stripe and later described as "enthralling". In July, Grant returned to the Royal Albert Hall to contribute to a fund-raising event on behalf of Stonewall, for a conversation with Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins; the evening marked the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offenses Act 1967. That month, Grant also joined a distinguished line up celebrating the music of Scott Walker, as part of the BBC's Late Night Proms. The Heritage Orchestra conducted by Jules Buckley joined special guests Grant, Susanne Sundfør, Richard Hawley, and Jarvis Cocker to perform a string of Walker's songs. The event was broadcast on BBC Four, BBC Radio 3, and BBC Radio 6 Music. Grant also recorded "Mountaineers", a duet with Susanne Sundfør for her album "Music for People in Trouble", which was released in August 2017.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: Having toured with Elbow in the U.S. in 2014, Grant teamed up with Guy Garvey to record a duet version of Elbow's "Kindling (Fickle Flame)", which was released in September 2017. Grant was a guest vocalist on "The Great Distraction", an album by Leeds-based art–electro rock quintet Vessels. The single "Erase the Tapes" featuring Grant was released in September 2017.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: Grant also spent time working on a side project called Creep Show, a collaboration with Wrangler members Stephen Mallinder, Phil Winter, and Benge. Described as "experimental pop" and "surreal funk", the group's first single "Modern Parenting" from their album "Mr Dynamite" was released on January 30, while the full album was released on March 16, 2018.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: On July 9, 2018, Grant released a short teaser video on social media. The following day, together with the announcement of his fourth album, "Love Is Magic", a song of the same name, taken from the new album, was released as a digital download and lyric video. The album "Love Is Magic" was released in October with favourable reviews. In a 5 out of 5 star review, "The Independent" described the record as "sardonic wit and heart-stopping drops of sheer honesty", and "NME" hailed it as an album of "arch brilliance that also makes room for quiet introspection". Grant then went on tour in the UK with a full band including Budgie on drums, before embarking on a world tour from November.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: In January 2021, Grant released the anti-Trump song "The Only Baby" with an accompanying music video. In March, he released the single "Boy From Michigan" and announced that his upcoming album would share the single's name. In May, the single "Billy" was released, the second from the new album. The album was released on June 25 and received acclaim.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: In 2022, Grant recorded a cover of the folk song "God's Gonna Cut You Down" to be used as the opening theme for the BBC One thriller series "Inside Man".


title: John Grant (musician)

text: Grant moved to Iceland and settled in Reykjavík in 2013. He was given Icelandic citizenship in 2022. He has explored his homosexuality in his lyrics, and was previously in a relationship with an Icelandic graphic designer whose identity was not disclosed. He has described himself as a lover of languages; in addition to his native English, he is fluent in German, Icelandic, Russian, and Spanish, and can hold basic conversations in French and Swedish.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: Grant's years with the Czars were troubling as he battled with drug and alcohol addiction, as well as severe anxiety, having suffered with the latter throughout his adult life. During his hiatus from music between 2006 and 2010, he lived in New York City, where he worked as a waiter at the Gramercy Tavern and as a medical interpreter for Russian patients in a hospital. He also worked as a record store clerk and flight attendant. He felt compelled to continue writing music during this time, and began the process of confronting the addictions that had been so destructive during his time with the Czars.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: While on tour in 2011, Grant lost his passport and was not allowed to board a flight from London to Verona; after remembering that the day's edition of "The Times" newspaper featured his image and details of an interview on the front page, he used a copy of the newspaper as a form of ID and obtained an emergency passport from London's American embassy, which allowed him to board a later flight.


title: John Grant (musician)

text: In 2012, while performing with Hercules and Love Affair at the Meltdown Festival in London, Grant revealed that he had been diagnosed as HIV-positive while living in Sweden the year before. His experience with the disease is reflected in the lyrics to his song "Ernest Borgnine". He has since spoken candidly of his diagnosis and explained, "I was messing around with my life and indulging in destructive behaviours and ended up getting a disease that could have totally been avoided. When I look at the fact that there are millions of children in Africa with HIV, who never got to choose, it makes me need to figure out why I let that happen to myself. That song is saying all those things."


title: The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light

text: Six months have passed since the Seven Deadly Sins disbanded after defeating the Demon King and Cath Palug, the previous battle won at the cost of their comrade Escanor. Having left Liones with Elizabeth to visit the places she lived at in her previous lives before their coronation, Meliodas encounters his younger brother Zeldris and his beloved Gelda as they were on a similar journey before returning to the Demon Realm. The brothers then encounter a fatally wounded demon who reveals the Demon World was taken over by a fairy and a giant, the culprits revealed to be the missing Second Fairy King Dahlia and the "Giant Master Craftsman" Dubs who overpowered the brothers before capturing Meliodas and Elizabeth.


title: The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light

text: Meanwhile, King and Diane have their wedding in the Fairy King's Forest with Ban and Gowther present while King Batra holds a ceremony in Liones to celebrate Elizabeth's return. But both events are attacked by an army of fairies and giants seeking to punish the Seven Deadly Sins and their allies for ruining the Holy War. The Sins manages to defeat the army by disarming them of the weapons Dubs crafted to maintain Dalhia's enchantment on them. Back in the Demon World, Zeldris manages to convince his kinsmen to help him free Meliodas and Elizabeth with the brothers managing to defeat Dahlia and Dubs. But the duo were revealed to be under another's enchantment.


title: The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light

text: Back in Liones, Mael arrives to warn everyone of an attack by the revived Goddess Race under direct orders from the Supreme Deity herself. Having observed the Sins' actions through Elizabeth's eyes, the Supreme Deity commends the Sins for defeating the Demon King yet intends to destroy them for ending the Holy War by any means. The Supreme Deity overpowers the group before Meliodas and Zeldris arrive with Elizabeth attempting to convince her mother to leave, only to be confused when the Supreme Deity explains the conflict between the Demon and Goddess Clans is needed to maintain balance in the world. Meliodas reveals that his time being possessed by Demon King allowed him to view his father's memories, revealing the two gods were created to battle one another with the Holy War merely a game to them. The Supreme Deity says that an inferior being cannot have an opinion on a god's will while intending to begin a new Holy War, only to be destroyed by Meliodas and Zeldris despite warning them that her death would issue an era of chaos. After Meliodas' wedding and coronation, with Hawk and Wild in attendance, he has a drink with Zeldris while allowed to freely visit the Demon World.


title: The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light

text: Meanwhile, having slaughtered a faction of Dalhia and Dubs's mind controlled minions while rebuilding his kingdom, Arthur is approached by Merlin who informs him of the Supreme Deity's demise and that the Age of Humans and Chaos can truly begin.


title: The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light

text: Takayuki Hamana is directing the film at Studio Deen, with Rintarō Ikeda writing the film's scripts. Kohta Yamamoto and Hiroyuki Sawano are composing the music. The theme song for the film is "Sono Saki no Hikari e" by Akihito Okano.


title: The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light

text: The second film was released theatrically in Japan on July 2, 2021. On October 1, 2021, Netflix began streaming the film.


title: The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed by Light

text: The Seven Deadly Sins: Cursed By Light earned 122 million yen (about US$1.10 million) and ranked at #3 in its opening weekend. The film sold 98,000 tickets in its first three days (including Friday) and dropped from #3 to #10 in its second weekend.


title: Saving All My Love for You

text: "Saving All My Love for You" is a song written by Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin, originally recorded by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. for their album "Marilyn & Billy" (1978). American singer Whitney Houston recorded a cover of the song for her self-titled debut studio album (1985). It was released on August 13, 1985, by Arista Records as the second single from the album in the United States and third worldwide.


title: Saving All My Love for You

text: Houston's version of "Saving All My Love for You" garnered positive critical response, with reviewers praising its melodious production and her vocal performance, and picked it as one of the album's highlights. The song became a global success and represented a commercial breakthrough for Houston, topping the charts in four countries and reaching the top 10 in various other regions. It became her first song to top the US "Billboard" Hot 100, staying there for one week, and is certified Platinum by the RIAA for sales of over 1 million copies. At the 28th Annual Grammy Awards, it won for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.


title: Saving All My Love for You

text: "Saving All My Love for You" was written by Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin during the 1970s and originally recorded with Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. on their LP "Marilyn and Billy" (1978). Years later, Masser saw Whitney for the first time when he went into New York City's Sweetwater club, an invitation made by Arista Records president Clive Davis, and she was singing one of his songs, "The Greatest Love of All". After her performance, the singer told Masser that the song was one of her favorites and later, Masser was chosen by Arista to produce some tracks for Houston's self-titled debut. After getting the right emotionally vulnerable-tailored take from Houston, the producer guaranteed her that it would become "a woman's song", meaning that women will feel a special affinity for the song.


title: Saving All My Love for You

text: After the success of her previous single, "You Give Good Love", the label initially didn't think about releasing "Saving All My Love for You" as the next single. When Masser heard that another single besides the song was being considered for the next single, he made a friendly wager with Davis during one of Houston's performance at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. He proposed that if all the women get on their feet when Houston sings "Saving...", then Davis would agree that it should be the next single. Ultimately, the song was released as the second single in the United States and third single worldwide.


title: Saving All My Love for You

text: "Saving All My Love for You" is a soul and R&B song, composed in the key of A major, having a slow tempo of 84 beats per minute. Houston's vocal range on the song extends from the low note of F#3 to the high note of F#5. The song features a saxophone solo by Tom Scott and it's lyrics describe the thoughts of a young woman preparing for the arrival of her married lover, with lyrics like, "You've got your family, and they need you there/Though I've tried to resist, being last on your list/But no other man's gonna do/So I'm saving all my love for you." Dave Heaton of "PopMatters" wrote that Whitney sings some parts with bittersweet lightness ("that’s just an old fantasy") and other parts with urgent heaviness ("tonight is the night"), which he considers exactly right for carrying the feelings in the song.


title: Saving All My Love for You

text: The song caused controversy due to its theme of having an affair with a married man. Houston's mother Cissy Houston didn't at all like the scenario described in the lyric, claiming that the song's message would reflect badly on her daughter. However, Whitney herself confessed, "I was going through a terrible love affair. He was married, and that will never work out for anybody. Never, no way."


title: Saving All My Love for You

text: "Saving All My Love for You" received critical acclaim. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of "AllMusic" picked the song as a highlight on the album, writing that the song "burns slowly and seductively." Dave Heaton of "PopMatters" praised Whitney for "singing as 'the other woman', ratcheting up the drama without overdoing it." Liam Lacey of "The Globe and Mail" wrote that 'Saving All My Love for You', 'Greatest Love Of All' and 'Hold Me' "are some of the loveliest pop singing on vinyl since the glory days of Dionne Warwick." "Sputnikmusic" called it "the sexiest, most romantic song on the record." Brad Wete of "Vibe" called it "goliath", writing that the song "was a fresh serving of precocious talent compared to 1985's mildly flavored R&B bluffet." "Los Angeles Times" praised her vocal performance, writing that, "it should mean a cinch Grammy nomination."


title: Saving All My Love for You

text: Released in 1985, Houston's version of "Saving All My Love for You" entered the "Billboard" Hot 100 at number 53, jumping to number 39 the following week (August 24), and reaching the Top 10 five weeks later. The single reached the number-one spot the week of October 26, 1985, and would become the first of seven record-setting consecutive number-one singles in the United States for Houston; a record that still holds. The single eventually spent fifteen weeks in the top forty. It also hit the top of the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It ranked number 5 on "Billboard" Year-end Top Black Singles chart.