Matthew 27

Matthew 27 is the 27th chapter in the Gospel of Matthew, part of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. This chapter contains Matthew's record of the day of the trial, crucifixion and burial of Jesus. Scottish theologian William Robertson Nicoll notes that "the record of this single day is very nearly one-ninth of the whole book".
Text.
The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 66 verses.
Textual witnesses.
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
Structure.
The New International Version (NIV) organises the material in this chapter as follows:
Overview.
During the morning after his arrest, the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin is concluded with plans to have Jesus executed (), and he is taken to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor (procurator) of Judea. As Jesus was being led away, Judas Iscariot, who had betrayed Jesus, sees that his former teacher has been condemned, and is overcome by remorse: in the words of the King James Version, he "repented himself". The word translated as "repented" (, "metamelētheis") is not the same as the word for repentance which John the Baptist and Jesus himself used in their ministry (, "metanoeite"); Arthur Carr, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges notes that "it implies no change of heart or life, but merely remorse or regret".
Judas brings back the 30 pieces of silver which had been given to him by the priests of Judea as recompense for identifying his master to Caiaphas, throwing them down in the temple, and then leaves to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Jesus impresses Pilate, who is taken aback by Jesus' silent dignity at his questioning. Pilate begins to address the crowd, and knowing (or "shrewdly suspecting") that the chief priests had handed Jesus over because they were jealous of his popularity, asks the crowd to choose between freeing a notorious prisoner known as Barabbas, or Jesus. The crowd, persuaded by the chief priests and elders, respond passionately, repeating "Let Him (Christ) be crucified!" Pilate, bewildered by this, asks the crowd for a reason for their choice. Instead, they continue to call ever more loudly for the crucifixion of Jesus.
Pilate comes to see that he cannot reason with the crowd. His wife has had a disturbing dream and asks him to have "nothing to do with that just man". Instead, he tries to absolve himself of his responsibility in the case, washing his hands in a basin and saying to the crowd: "I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it". Then the Jews present at the trial take responsibility for the shedding of Jesus' blood. Pilate has Barabbas released, lets Jesus be flogged and sends him off to be crucified.
Jesus is led away to the Praetorium of the Governor's Residence, where Pilate's guard and the praetorian guard mock him, giving him a scarlet robe in place of his own clothes, a reed to hold as a sign of his "kingship" and a crown made of twisted thorns. The soldiers then replace the robe with Jesus' own clothes and lead him to Golgotha (the "place of a skull"); in Luke's Gospel this journey is recorded with "several particulars of what happened on the way to Golgotha, omitted in the other Gospels: the great company of people and of women who followed Him; the touching address of Jesus to the women; the last warning of the coming sorrows; the leading of two malefactors with Him". A man named Simon, from Cyrene, is compelled to carry Jesus' cross. At Golgotha he is offered wine mingled with gall, but does not drink it. The soldiers cast lots for his garments once he is crucified. Those who passed him deride him, taunting him to come down from the cross, saying "He trusts in God, let God deliver him now".
At three o'clock Jesus cries "My God, why have you forsaken me?", and starts to give up on his life. One passer-by offers Jesus some wine to drink but the group tell him "Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to save him". They misunderstand Jesus' pleas, as he is in tremendous physical pain. Jesus cries out once more, but eventually dies.
Suddenly, "the crucifixion scene transforms into an explosion of triumph": the veil of the Temple sanctuary is torn in two, rocks start to split, and an earthquake occurs (verse 51), and there follows, after Jesus' resurrection, a resurrection of the dead saints, who enter the holy city. This indicates how the earth has been shaken by the death of the Son of God. Centurions stare on at Jesus in disbelief, as do other bystanders.
On the night following Jesus' death, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus, asks for the body of Jesus. Pilate permits this, and Joseph, wrapping the body in a linen cloth, buries the body and rolls a stone against the entrance of the tomb, sealing it from looters and gravediggers.
Meanwhile, the priests and pharisees remember Jesus' remark that "After three days I will rise". The chapter concludes with Pilate authorising a detachment of troops to guard the tomb, in case the disciples come to remove the body.
Analysis.
Matthew's crucifixion story has many parallels with Mark's crucifixion story. However, Matthew follows a theme recurring throughout his gospel by providing deeper descriptions than Mark. Matthew's crucifixion scene runs for only sixteen verses from to , the same number of verses as in the Gospel of Mark, but one more than the Gospel of Luke, and three more than the Gospel of John. It is postulated that all writers wished to simply recall the facts surrounding Jesus' death, rather than engage in theological reflection.
, , , all share a succinct summary of the crucifixion, in that they all say, "They crucified Him". Mark and John give an account of the time of Jesus' death ("The third hour" in , and the "sixth hour" in ), whereas Luke, and Matthew himself do not.
There are differences between the Gospels as to what the last words of Jesus were. Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34 declares that Jesus' last words were: "Why have you forsaken me"?, disagreeing with ("Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit"), and , ("It is finished").
Further differences can be found in the Gospels as to whether Jesus carried his own cross or not. In the Gospels of Matthew, Luke and Mark, Jesus receives assistance from Simon of Cyrene, whereas in the Gospel of John Jesus carries the cross by himself.
Parallelism.
Dale Allison notes an obvious formal feature in -, that is, a parallelism underlining the fulfillment between the scriptural quotation (cf. ) and the narrative:
Other resemblances between and - are also noted by Allison:


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Debbie Weems

Deborah Weems (February 1, 1950 - February 22, 1978) was an American actress and singer. She is best remembered for her recurring roles on the children's television program "Captain Kangaroo".
Biography.
Early life.
Debbie Booth Weems was born in Houston, Texas to Benjamin and Rowene Weems, into a family of two sisters, Debbie being the third of the three. During her childhood her parents divorced and each remarried. A half sister was born of her mother's second marriage. The family later relocated to Marlin, a town near Waco.
During the 1960s, Weems attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. She played a lead role in productions such as "Annie Get Your Gun", "The King and I", and "The Miracle Worker", as well as smaller roles in many other productions. She also attended the Boston Conservatory of Music for two years ('68/'70) where she captured leading roles in two major productions - Carnival and Once Upon A Mattress. Weems later moved to New York City, where she appeared in an Off Broadway musical, Godspell. Weems was also a regular stock player at the Lakewood Musical Playhouse in Barnesville, Pennsylvania during 1971. At Lakewood Debbie played Daisy in "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," Princess Winnifred in "Once Upon a Mattress," Cleo in "The Most Happy Fella," and Meg Brockie in "Brigadoon." She was originally scheduled to play the small role of Sally Cato in "Mame," but due to the sudden departure of the original leading lady, Debbie assumed the lead role of Mame with only one day of rehearsal before opening night. Weems also appeared in various commercials.
Captain Kangaroo.
From 1973 to 1978, Weems appeared as a regular on the hit CBS daily children's series, "Captain Kangaroo". In 1976, songs from the television series sung by Weems was released on an album, "Debbie Weems Sings Songs from Captain Kangaroo", published by Wonderland Records. She was later featured in an article in the October 23, 1976 edition of "TV Guide", called "Don’t Tell Your Mom About Debbie", which was about her career on "Captain Kangaroo".
Final years.
Weems suffered from typecasting, in which people always identified her as "that cute girl on "Captain Kangaroo"", hindering her ability to get roles for movies and TV shows geared toward the adult age group. During her tenure on the show, Weems' only other role during this time was in the 1977 movie "Between the Lines", where she played a small role of "Annie One".
Weems is believed to have suffered from anorexia and depression, shortly before her death, Weems was admitted to a residential treatment facility (The Country Place) in Connecticut.
Death.
On February 22, 1978 Debbie Weems left the treatment facility with an attendant to go to her apartment in Manhattan to retrieve things of a personal nature. Weems is believed to have jumped from a 16th story window; her death has been considered a suicide. Graveside funeral services were held at noon Saturday, February 25, 1978 at the family plot in Marlin, Texas. Her family and closest friends surrounded her at the funeral. The Reverend Allan Green, the Reverend H.B. Streater and the Rev. F.P. Goddard officiated. Debbie Weems was 28 years old.
Despite her death, episodes starring Weems continued to be televised through the summer of 1978.


Hugo Haas

Hugo Haas (19 February 1901 – 1 December 1968) was a Moravian film actor, director and writer. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1926 and 1962, as well as directing 20 films between 1933 and 1962.
Life and career.
Haas was born in Brno, Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic), and died in Vienna, Austria from complications of asthma. He and his brother, Pavel Haas, studied voice at the Brno Conservatory under composer Leoš Janáček. Pavel Haas went on to become a noted composer himself before he was killed in Auschwitz in 1944.
Czechoslovak theater and film.
After graduating from the conservatory in 1920, Hugo Haas began acting at the National Theater in Brno, in Ostrava and in Olomouc. In 1924 he moved to Prague and regularly appeared at the Vinohrady Theatre, where he remained until 1929. In 1930, Karel Hugo Hilar made Hugo Haas a member of the Prague National Theatre drama company, where he remained until his emigration in 1939. One of his most highly acclaimed roles was as Doctor Galén in "The White Disease", which Karel Čapek had written especially for him. His final role at the National Theater was as Director Busman in Čapek's "R.U.R."
Hugo Haas made his film debut as Notary Voborský in the silent film "Jedenácté přikázání" (The Eleventh Commandment) in 1923. (Twelve years later he played the same role again in "Jedenácté přikázání" directed by Martin Frič.) With the advent of sound film, Haas was able to apply his comedic talent in Svatopluk Innemann's "Muži v offsidu" in 1931. By 1938 Haas had acted in some thirty films.
In 1936 he directed his first film, "Camel Through the Eye of a Needle" (co-directed with Otakar Vávra). He later directed "Kvočna" (the film score was composed by his brother Pavel), "The White Disease" and "Co se šeptá". His final comedy in Czechoslovakia was Miroslav Cikán's "Andula Won", which appeared in cinemas in 1938.
Emigration.
Following the 1938 Munich Agreement and the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in early 1939, Hugo Haas was dismissed from the National Theater due to his Jewish origin. In April he and his wife, Maria von Bibikoff ("Bibi"), fled via Paris, Spain, and then from the port of Lisbon, Portugal, to the port of New York in October–November 1940. Their son, Ivan, was taken in by his brother Pavel. Hugo Haas' father Lipmann (Zikmund) Haas and brother Pavel died at Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.
United States.
By the mid-1940s, Hugo Haas had become a character actor in American films. In 1951 he launched a successful if unacclaimed career as a film director in Hollywood with a string of B movie melodramas, usually starring blonde actresses in the role of a predatory mantrap. Haas usually cast himself as the male lead in the films although the female role almost always dominated the storyline and was usually exclusively promoted on film posters. His work also includes a touching human drama, "The Girl on the Bridge" (1951) – which he co-wrote, directed and starred in – about a kindly watchmaker who after having lost his wife and family in the Holocaust, befriends, marries, and raises a second family with a young woman he saves from suicide.
Cleo Moore starred in six films for Haas, becoming a well-known film star in that era. Other actresses who starred in Haas' films were Beverly Michaels and Carol Morris. The Haas pictures generally received poor reviews but were for the most part commercially successful, and on occasion featured such well-known names as Eleanor Parker, John Agar, Vince Edwards, Joan Blondell, Agnes Moorehead, Julie London, Corinne Griffith, and Marie Windsor.
Haas' final film, "Paradise Alley", was rejected by the major studios and sat unreleased for over three years, finally surfacing in a limited run in 1962.
Return to Europe.
In the late 1950s Hugo Haas returned to Europe. After a brief stay in Italy, he settled in Vienna in 1961, where he made occasional appearances on television. Except for a brief visit during the centennial celebrations for the National Theater in Prague in 1963, he never returned to his homeland.


Gun violence in Sweden

Gun violence in Sweden (Swedish: "skjutningar" or "gängskjutningar") increased steeply among males aged 15 to 29 in the two decades prior to 2018, in addition to a rising trend in gun violence there was also a high rate of gun violence in Sweden compared to other countries in Western Europe.
Overview.
According to a report published by academic researchers in 2017, shooting incidents with fatal outcomes are about 4 to 5 times as common in Sweden compared to neighbouring countries such as Germany and Norway when taking population size into account. The city with the highest prevalence of shootings was Malmö. The grave violence in the studied period also changed character, from criminal motorcycle gangs to city suburbs. Sweden also stands out in having a low resolution rate (25%) for gun homicides compared to Germany and Finland at 90%.
In January 2018, police statistics reported an increase in gun homicides from 8 in 2006 to 43 in 2017. Analysis of 2011–2017 gang warfare showed that there were 1500 incidents involving firearms, 131 people had been killed and 520 injured.
In February 2018, criminologist Jerzy Sarnecki stated in an interview with magazine "Forskning & Framsteg" that the increasing levels of gun crime in Sweden had taken him, Swedish criminologists in general and police in Sweden by surprise. He characterised the recent developments as "very serious".
A 2018 systematic review of 25 studies on firearm violence in Sweden by criminologist and physician Ardavan Khoshnood, concluded "that even though knives/sharp weapons continue to be the most common MO in a violent crime in Sweden, firearm-related violence is significantly increasing in the country and foremost when discussing gang-related crimes. Moreover, firearm-related homicides and attempted homicides are increasing in the country. The studies also show that a firearm is much more lethal than a knife/sharp weapon... It is principally the three largest cities of Sweden which are affected by the many shootings in recent years."
According to researcher Amir Rostami at Stockholm University, police statistics for January–November 2018 showed that the number of shootings was at a continued high rate at 274, where up until the end of November 42 people had been shot and killed and 129 wounded compared to 43 in 2017. Rostami also said there had been 100 hand grenade attacks and 1500 shootings in Sweden since 2011, about 40 people are killed annually and 500 had been wounded. Rostami also said that if this violence had been attributed to some form of extremists, this would have considered a form of civil war. Almost half (46%) of all shootings in 2018 happened in public spaces in vulnerable areas. Both victims and perpetrators are becoming younger.
In 2020 there were 366 incidents of shootings in Sweden where 47 people were killed and 117 were wounded, which represented a 10% increase on the previous year. About half the shooting resulting in killings took place in so-called vulnerable areas and represented an increase on the preceding year.
Innocent bystanders.
According to police in 2018, at least nine people who were innocent bystanders had been killed in cross-fire incidents in the last few years and the risk to the public was therefore rising.
In 2017, Minister for Justice Morgan Johansson stated in an interview that the risk to "innocent people" was small.
In the 2011-2020 period 46 bystanders had been killed or wounded in 36 shooting incidents. Of these, 8 were under the age of 15. According to researcher Joakim Skurup, a contributing factor could be the increased use of automatic firearms.


USS Pinon (AN-66)

USS "Pinon" (AN-66/YN-87) was a which was assigned to protect U.S. Navy ships and harbors during World War II with her anti-submarine nets.
Constructed in Wilmington, Delaware.
"Pinon" (AN-66), a net tender, was laid down 9 March 1943 by American Car and Foundry Company, Wilmington, Delaware, as "YN–87"; launched 16 January 1944; designated "Pinon" (AN-66) 20 January 1944; and commissioned 31 March 1944.
World War II service.
After Atlantic coast shakedown and training, "Pinon" stood out of New York Harbor 24 June 1944 and steamed for Belfast, Northern Ireland, arriving 10 July. "Pinon" provided net-tending service in both Belfast and Plymouth, England, through the fall.
Departing Plymouth 6 November, she put in at Norfolk, Virginia 21 November through 10 December. She then underwent availability at Curtis Bay, Baltimore, Maryland, 11 December through 25 January 1945.
"Pinon" called at Hampton Roads, Virginia, 31 January and then cruised via Guantanamo Bay and the Panama Canal, reporting for duty to Commander, Pacific 13 February. After availability at San Diego, California, 19 March, she called at Pearl Harbor and thence tended nets at Eniwetok commencing 22 April, at Guam (27 April through 20 June), at Tinian/Saipan through the first week of July, and at Okinawa until 15 October.
Post-war inactivation.
Calling at Pearl Harbor 12 December, she pushed on to San Diego, California, arriving two days before Christmas. "Pinon" decommissioned at San Diego 5 March 1946, and was struck from the Navy List 20 March 1946. Sold and placed in merchant service as "Alaska Reefer", she was lost at sea 28 August 1961.


D.R. Owen (shipwreck)

D.R. Owen was a schooner, leased by W. R. Sutherland, for hauling lumber. She sank on September 8, 1874, and is generally considered the first shipwreck in the Chequamegon Bay area of Lake Superior.
History.
During the early part of the 1870s Ashland was a small settlement, surrounded by a heavily wooded wilderness. Seeing the potential to make money in the future logging activity of the area, W.R. Sutherland founded the Ashland Lumber Company, the first sawmill in Ashland. (Note: this company should not be confused with a later business of the same name, of which Sutherland was not involved.) A good portion of Sutherland's business consisted of transporting lumber to Isle Royale, which had no sawmill of its own. The "D.R. Owen" was leased to transport lumber to the island.
On the morning of Thursday, September 6, 1874, the "Owen" left the island after delivering a load of lumber. However, an extremely rough storm was soon encountered. Poor visibility, strong winds and rough waters proved to be very difficult for the crew. A leak was discovered in the hull, and the sails were completely wrecked by the violent winds.
The crew attempted to wait out the storm. Friday, September 7, came and went with little change in the stormy conditions. Finally, on Saturday morning, September 8, land appeared on the horizon. The Apostle Islands were spotted, meaning the storm at least had blown the water-logged ship in the right direction. By that afternoon, the ship reached an area east of Ashland, near the mouth of the Bad River, where she sank. The crew survived.


Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance

Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance is a 1863 painting by the English artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It was bought for the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMCS) at the Piccadilly Gallery in 1996, as the first Rossetti painting ever bought by a French museum. Its inventory number is 55.996.8.1.
The model for the painting has a noticeably big chin and strong neck. She may have been a Mrs. Beyer from Germany, or an acquaintance of Rossetti's named Agnes Manetti. The painting is on permanent loan from the MAMCS to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Palais Rohan.


Amnesty International Philippines

Amnesty International Philippines (AIPh) is a human rights organization in the Philippines, Manila. It's an independent organization with the famous parent organization Amnesty International (AI). Among its goals are networking, strengthening the local human rights movement, and lobbying. It works for the passage of anti-torture legislation, ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT), passage of the Reproductive Health Law (RH Law), enactment of a domestic International Humanitarian Law (IHL), work on juvenile justice, repeal of the death penalty law, and passage of the Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act (Anti-VAWC). AIPh was officially registered in 1987 by a board of trustees made up of Edmundo Garcia, Reynaldo Ty, Fe Agpaoa, Gina Putong, Che Duran, Ruth Alegre, Shiela Sison, Nelson Rendon and Ma. Cecilia Macatangay.


Nongmaithem Pahari

Nongmaithem Chittaranjan Singh, more commonly known as Nongmaithem Pahari, was a Manipuri by birth, an Indian singer, a composer, a lyricist, revolutionist and a writer. He was a Manipuri (a language in the 8th schedule of the Indian constitution) singer. He was perhaps the most prolific modern Meitei singer before his death on 18 October 2006 in Imphal, Manipur, India.
Career.
Nongmaithem Pahari's greatest contribution to the culture of Manipur is the way he introduced a new era of music. He was important in consolidating the popularity of modern Meitei music.
Pahari was born on 28 August 1934 in Imphal, Manipur. His father, Nongmaithem Thanil, represented the nobility of that time and was an avid theatre activist. Pahari's affinity towards music was manifested early in his childhood when he was heavily influenced by the likes of KL Saigal, Pankaj Mallik and Mana Dey.
Of the many albums that Pahari released during his lifetime, "Undying Melodies" is considered to be the "magnum opus". This is the album that features quite an eclectic number of his all time hits like "Ningsingli meraagi thabaldo", "Eigee eshei saklaroi", "Ahingda khongbee taamna", "Nangee maithong urubada" and "Nangi Napalgi".
The majority of Pahari's songs were written by B. Jayantakumar Sharma, who composed music for many feature films and many theatre dramas. He had been decorated with almost all the Awards and recognition in the state pertaining to music and culture.
Pahari wrote a book titled "Eigi Diaridagi" meaning "From My Dairy". It was mainly about his experiences inside the Imphal and Tripura Jail with brief but important mention of the real genesis of the political and armed revolution in Manipur.
He was one of the founding members of United National Liberation Front, a revolutionary front formed in Manipur on 24 October 1964 which is still one of the largest insurgent groups in Manipur.
Pahari retired as the Station Director of Doordarshan Kendra Imphal (Television broadcasting station of Manipur) before which he served as the Station Director of All India Radio in various places including Imphal, Kohima and Gangtok. He was the President of Manipur Dramatic Union, Imphal and All Manipur Matam Ishei Kanglup. He also headed many other societies and cultural groups of the state.


Abel v. United States

Abel v. United States, 362 U.S. 217 (1960), was a United States Supreme Court case.
Background.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) suspected Rudolph Abel of being a spy for the Soviet Union. They also suspected him of being in the United States illegally. Rather than arresting him for espionage, the FBI turned over their evidence to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which has a lower threshold for securing arrest warrants. The INS chose to arrest Abel for being in the United States illegally, but agreed to allow the FBI to try to flip Abel into becoming a double agent against the Soviet Union before carrying out the arrest. The INS apprehended Abel in his hotel room and after Abel refused to flip the INS arrested him. Pursuant to the arrest, the INS searched the hotel room. They allowed Abel to take some papers with him and check out of the hotel, and the INS searched those papers later. The INS searches uncovered evidence of Abel using a false identity and engaging in espionage and turned this evidence over to the FBI. After Abel had checked out of the hotel, the FBI searched the room with the consent of the hotel and found additional evidence of espionage.
The evidence turned up by the INS and FBI searches was used in Abel's trial, in which he was convicted and sentenced to 30 years imprisonment. Abel, represented by James B. Donovan, appealed to the Supreme Court that the searches violated the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and thus the evidence should not have been used at his trial. The Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari on October 13, 1958 to decide two issues:
After arguments on these issues the Supreme Court could not come to a decision. Thus the case was re-argued to decide the issues reformed as follows:
Opinion of the Court.
The Supreme Court affirmed Abel's conviction in a 5–4 decision. Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote the Court opinion, joined by Justices Tom C. Clark, John Harlan, Potter Stewart and Charles Evans Whittaker. While noting that the government must not be permitted to circumvent the Fourth Amendment by invoking an administrative procedure, the Court accepted the lower courts' findings that the FBI's interaction with the INS in this case was in good faith. The Court then found that the INS searches were made pursuant to a valid arrest, and thus the evidence was discovered appropriately. Further, having appropriately uncovered evidence of a crime, it was appropriate for the INS to share that evidence with the FBI, since this merely represented cooperation between two branches of the United States Department of Justice. Finally, after Abel had checked out of the hotel room, it was appropriate for the hotel to give the FBI permission to search the vacated room, and thus the evidence uncovered by the FBI in its own search was valid.
Dissenting opinions.
Four Justices dissented from the decision in two separate opinions. Justice William O. Douglas wrote a dissent that was joined by Justice Hugo Black, and Justice William Brennan wrote a dissent that was joined by Justices Douglas, Black and Chief Justice Earl Warren. The dissenting opinions put forth the view that the evidence was tainted because the FBI did not get a search warrant.
In popular culture.
The 2015 Steven Spielberg film "Bridge of Spies" includes a scene that dramatizes James B. Donovan, portrayed by Tom Hanks, arguing the case before the Supreme Court.


MV Plassy

MV "Plassy, or Plassey", was a cargo vessel in the Irish Merchant Service, operating during the 1950s. It was built as HMS "Juliet", a naval trawler of the Royal Navy at the start of the Second World War, and sold into merchant service at the end of the conflict. As "Plassy" it was wrecked in a storm off Inisheer, and is best known as the wreck seen on the foreshore of 'Craggy Island' in the TV comedy, "Father Ted".
As "Juliet".
"Juliet" was built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell at Beverley, Yorkshire, at the beginning of World War II. It was ordered on 12 December 1939, and laid down the following May. It was launched on 2 October 1940 and entered service with the Royal Navy on 20 March 1941 as a minesweeper. "Juliet" served in home waters until November 1942 when it took part in Operation Torch, the Allied landings in French North Africa. Thereafter it worked in the Mediterranean. At the end of the conflict "Juliet" was no longer required by the Royal Navy and in 1947 it was converted to a cargo vessel and sold into the British Merchant service as "Peterjon".
As "Plassy".
In 1951 it was acquired by the Limerick Steamship Company and renamed "Plassy" after the Plassey area near Limerick, which was in turn named after Robert Clive (Baron Plassey), who took his title from the 1757 Battle of Plassey, in India. As "Plassy" (sometimes spelled "Plassey") it operated around the coast of Ireland carrying general cargo until her loss in 1960.
Fate.
On 8 March 1960, while sailing through Galway Bay carrying a cargo of whiskey, stained glass and yarn, it was caught in a severe storm and ran onto Finnis Rock, Inisheer, Aran Islands.
A group of local Islanders, the Inisheer Rocket Crew, rescued the entire crew from the stricken vessel using a breeches buoy; an event captured in a pictorial display at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoghaire.
Several weeks later, a second storm washed the ship off the rock and drove it ashore on the island.
The wreck today.
The wreck still lies on the shoreline and is a tourist attraction. It is visible in the opening credits of the television series "Father Ted". In early January 2014, Storm Christine shifted the wreck's position on the coast for the first time since 1991.


Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri ( "‘Izzat Ibrāhīm ad-Dūrī"; 1 July 1942 – 25 October 2020) was an Iraqi politician and Army Field Marshal. He served as Vice Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council until the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and was regarded as the closest advisor and deputy under former President Saddam Hussein. He led the Iraqi insurgent Naqshbandi Army.
Al-Douri was the most high-profile Ba'athist official to successfully evade capture after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and was the king of clubs in the infamous most-wanted Iraqi playing cards. Al-Douri continued to lead elements of the Iraqi insurgency such as the Naqshbandi Army against the then-occupation forces and waged an insurgency against the current regime in Baghdad. Following the execution of Saddam Hussein on 30 December 2006, al-Douri was confirmed as the new leader of the banned Iraqi Ba'ath Party on 3 January 2007.
Al-Douri was reportedly killed in action—along with his nine bodyguards—on 17 April 2015 in a large-scale military operation by Shiite militias and Iraqi forces near the Al-Alaas oil fields in Hemreen east of Tikrit. The Shiite militant organization Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq has alleged that it killed him and transported his apparent body to Baghdad to confirm its identity. According to the BBC, Shiite militias claimed to have killed him, but the Iraqi Baath party denied his death. A Kurdish news source also reported that Iraq did not have al-Douri's DNA to confirm his death. Al-Douri appeared in videos talking about events that took place after his alleged death. According to several Arab media outlets, the Ba'ath party declared that Izzat al-Douri died on 25 October 2020.
Biography.
Youth.
Born in 1942, al-Douri was born in Ad-Dawr, near the Iraqi town of Tikrit, to Ibrahim Khalil al-Douri, a farmer, and Hamdah Saloum al-Douri. Nicknamed "the Iceman" for his humble origins selling blocks of ice, he became involved in revolutionary politics in his late teenage years, despite having had only a primary school education. He befriended Saddam Hussein in 1963, then they both served in the early intelligence apparatus of the Ba'ath Party and participated in what would be known as the 17 July Revolution in 1968.
During the Ba'ath Regime.
Al-Douri was a senior member of the Ba'athist government under Saddam Hussein. This was due to the fact that both al-Douri and Hussein came from the same Tikriti tribal background. When the Ba'athists seized power in 1968, he was made interior minister where he oversaw efforts to sideline political rivals to the Ba'ath Party, mainly the Iraqi Communist Party. Al-Douri became the vice chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council prior to 2003, giving him unprecedented amounts of power and influence within the Iraqi political sphere.
As vice chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, al-Douri was involved in the wars against Iran and Kuwait. During the 1988–1989 Al-Anfal Campaign, al-Douri was said to have ordered Ali Hassan al-Majid (aka 'Chemical Ali') to use Mustard and Sarin nerve gas on Kurdish fighters in Halabja. He was complicit in the invasion of Saudi Arabia and the attack on the town of Khafji in January 1991. During the 1991 uprisings in Iraq, he was involved in the suppression of the revolt led by the Iraqi marsh Arabs. When the Kurds rebelled again in 1991, al-Douri warned them "If you have forgotten Halabja, I would like to remind you that we are ready to repeat the operation."
In 1993, al-Douri was involved in the state-sponsored Return to Faith Campaign "(al-Hamlah al-Imaniyyah)", which sought to encourage devotion to Islam in Iraqi social life. This saw aspects of Islam fused into the Iraqi media, education system and judicial system.
On 22 November 1998, al-Douri escaped an assassination attempt when visiting Karbala.
Following the October 2000 events, Arab leaders including al-Douri gathered in Cairo condemning Israel's reaction to the protests. In response to the Palestinian protests, Al-Douri was said to have remarked "The Jews will be taught a lesson."
On 5 March 2003, during an emergency summit of the then Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation, al-Douri made a heated address where he accused the neighbouring Gulf states of being "traitors" for cooperating with the United States and Israel. He blamed Kuwait for being responsible for Iraq's suffering and scrutinised the United States of America's aggressive stance towards Iraq. These comments sparked the Kuwaiti representative to stand up and protest to which al-Douri responded "Shut up, sit down you small American agent, you monkey!"
Al-Douri, a member of the Naqshbandi Order, was able to use his position in the regime to leverage support to the Naqshbandi community within Iraq. This form of patronage would eventfully culminate in the rise of the Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order during the Iraqi insurgency, of which al-Douri would play a leading role.
Personal life.
Al-Douri married for the first time in 1968; however, he married five times in total and had 24 children: 13 daughters and 11 sons. In a sign of loyalty, al-Douri consented to marry his daughter to Hussein's eldest son, Uday Hussein. Al-Douri's influence with Hussein was so substantial that he could even levy a condition, that the union would not be consummated, and later made a successful petition that his daughter be permitted to divorce Uday.
Al-Douri is believed to have suffered from leukemia and was said to have undergone blood transfusions every six months. In 1999, he visited Vienna, Austria for treatment. The Austrian opposition demanded that he be arrested for war crimes, but the government allowed him to leave the country. His son was reportedly killed in Tikrit in July 2014.
Fall of the Ba'ath regime and Iraqi insurgency.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq.
On 20 March 2003, U.S.-led coalition forces invaded Iraq, leading to the toppling of the regime of President Saddam Hussein on 9 April 2003. Following the fall of Baghdad, al-Douri went into hiding. U.S. officials claimed that he was involved in the subsequent Iraqi insurgency against U.S. forces, directing and funding attacks, as well as brokering an alliance between Ba'athist insurgents and militant Islamists.
In November 2003, the U.S.-led coalition issued a US$10 million bounty for any information leading to al-Douri's apprehension by authorities in response to coordinating attacks against coalition forces. One of al-Douri's wives and a daughter were captured in the same month, to be questioned about his whereabouts.
Al-Douri was made the King of Clubs in the famous most-wanted Iraqi playing cards, making him among the top 8 "most wanted" figures in Saddam Hussein's regime.
At the time of the invasion of Iraq, al-Douri, along with Hussein and Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, were among the three surviving plotters who had brought the Ba'ath Party to power in a coup in 1968.
The Iraqi insurgency and disappearance.
In an interview in May 2008, al-Douri detailed his strategy, indicating that "any negotiations with the invaders without it represents a desertion and treason, and is refused by all national, Pan-Arab and Islamic factions of the resistance." During the interview, al-Douri made the following demands:
Al-Douri was reportedly the head of the Iraqi rebel group Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order as well as the Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation based on his longstanding positions of leadership in the Naqshbandi sect in Iraq.
Whereabouts.
Sometime after the Fall of Baghdad, al-Douri evaded capture and went into hiding. There are many different reports on his whereabouts. Several sources close to al-Douri's family reported to Al Jazeera that they had not heard of al-Douri since April 2003 and did not know where he was hiding.
According to former intelligence officer Malcolm Nance and a U.S. telegram cable, al-Douri and the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council were rumoured to have developed deep relations with Hafez al-Assad and the Syrian Ba'ath party, despite historical differences between the two Ba'ath factions. Al-Douri urged Saddam to open oil pipelines with Syria, building a financial relationship with the Assad family. Nance would also allege that al-Douri fled to Syria after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, where he organised the National Command of the Islamic Resistance which co-ordinated major combat operations during the Iraqi insurgency.
The RAND Corporation reported prior to the capture of Saddam Hussein, al-Douri served as "Saddam’s point of contact in Diyala Governorate" and that he's visited Diyala twice to meet with leaders to organize the insurgency inside Iraq.
According to a 2005 U.S. memo published by WikiLeaks, Abdullah al-Kharbit, a contractor from a prominent Anbar family claims that a man named Abu Mu'ath, which possibly was a pseudonym for al-Douri was in the Iraqi town of Al-Qa'im. There were reports from al-Hayat that al-Douri was allegedly in Mosul visiting his wife, before fleeing to an undisclosed location. NBC News reported that al-Douri was rumoured to be hiding in Syria or elsewhere.
In 2007, Iraqi security forces raided a hideout in Tikrit belonging to al-Douri, the raid was based on "confirmed intelligence" that al-Douri was holding meetings with his aides at the hideout. Al-Douri however was not caught. In early 2007, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani claimed that al-Douri was not in Syria, but that he was in Yemen, he says that the Iraqi government has had this information for a while and has been tracing al-Douri's movements. A U.S. intelligence source told the Long War Journal, that al-Douri was being sheltered in northern Iraq. Iraqi tribal expert and senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, Amatzia Baram, claimed that al-Douri is likely in hiding somewhere between Mosul and the Turkish border. Middle East expert Juan Cole believes that al-Douri is likely in the Mosul area and not Syria.
The U.S. claimed that al-Douri resurfaced in Syria in 2008, however Al-Mawqif Al-Arabi, an Egyptian newspaper which interviewed al-Douri that same year told reporters that he was "on the battlefield" and on a "combat field while weapons were talking", presumably meaning he was still fighting in Iraq. The Combating Terrorism Center reported that al-Douri was still "politically active within Iraq." The Irish Times reported that it was believed that al-Douri was hiding somewhere in Iraq. Likewise, The Times reported that it was believed that al-Douri was hiding around Mosul or Tikrit. Other reports claimed that al-Douri was in the Iraqi town of Ad-Dawr and Iraqi Kurdistan.
According to a leaked U.S. 2009 telegram cable published by WikiLeaks, al-Douri fled to Syria in the spring of 2003, the cable however would admit that his whereabouts between 2003 and 2009 were difficult to pin down. The telegram cable would also claim that al-Douri was no longer part of the "former regime elements" living in Syria, however that same year General David Petraeus who was at the time heading the United States Central Command, instead told reporters from Al Arabiya that al-Douri was still residing in Syria with "complete freedom". The Syrian government denies that al-Douri is residing in Syria. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki claimed to U.S. officials that a Syrian offered to show him al-Douri's home in Damascus during a visit. However, Iraqi intelligence sources in 2009 have emphasized that al-Douri was residing in the southern suburbs of Diyala in an Islamic State of Iraq stronghold.
Unconfirmed speculations located al-Douri somewhere in Gulf or the southern Arabian Peninsula, or in Qatar, while other theories claimed that al-Douri had stayed in Iraq permanently since 2003, or that he had "a number of safe houses in and around Muqdadiya."
Despite allegations from U.S. and Iraqi officials that al-Douri was residing in Syria, al-Douri had opposed and even attempted to oust the Syrian-backed Iraqi Ba'athist, Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed, from the party and he had also criticized the Syrian government for being part of an American conspiracy to undermine the Iraqi Ba'ath Party. Furthermore, analysts have noted that "Douri deeply distrusts working with the Syrians because he distrusts the Iranians, who are strong allies with Syria". According to a U.S. telegram cable published by WikiLeaks, the U.S. claimed that according to "press remarks" in May 2008 that "al-Douri criticized Syria for not providing sufficient support to the "Ba'ath cause". However, in an interview on 26 May 2008, al-Douri boasted that his resistance was not supported or incubated by any outside powers.
Some leaders such as former national security advisor Mowaffak al-Rubaie and former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have accused the Assad government of harbouring and supporting Iraqi militants. A charge Syria heavily denies and demands be proven with evidence.
While U.S. telegram cable claimed by at least October 2009 that al-Douri was no longer part of the "former regime elements" living in Syria, U.S. intelligence believed al-Douri operated out of Syria until the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, when he may have moved to safe houses across the North-western Iraq province of Nineveh. Malcolm Nance, however claims that al-Douri was still in Syria by as late as 2013, before moving to Tikrit in 2014.
Iraqi insurgency and resurfacing.
On 10 November 2011, a man claiming to be Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri released an audio tape condemning a recent arrest campaign targeting suspected Ba'ath Party members.
The first visual evidence of his survival surfaced on 7 April 2012 when a video posted online showed him giving a speech. In the shots, he is seen wearing an olive military uniform and glasses, denouncing the Shiite-led government in Baghdad and interference in Iraqi politics by regional Shia powerhouse Iran. "Everyone can hear the sounds of danger echoing daily and threatening this country," al-Douri says during the hour-long broadcast. Prime Minister Maliki's personal adviser, Ali al-Moussawi, said the tape had a propaganda function but that he doubted al-Douri was still in Iraq as he required extensive medical care for a number of illnesses.
On 5 January 2013, a 53-minute video was released on YouTube in which al-Douri encouraged recent Sunni protests in Nineveh and Anbar Governorates against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, saying that "the people of Iraq and all its nationalist and Islamic forces support you until the realization of your just demands for the fall of the Safavid-Persian alliance." The message, which showed the Ba'athist leader sitting behind a desk with a small Saddam-era Iraqi flag on it, was partially broadcast on the Al Arabiya news channel. In the video, released just before the Iraqi Army Day on 6 January, Douri claimed to be somewhere in Iraq's Babil Governorate. However, former U.S. intelligence officials believe it was filmed in Damascus, Syria. Hours after the tape was released, Iraqi military intelligence arrested Abdul Rahman Mohammed Ibrahim, the nephew of al-Douri, in Saladin Governorate.
In April 2013, the Iraqi government claimed to be closing in on al-Douri, who they claimed was moving between Tikrit and the towns of Hawija and Dour, which is alleged to be an area of strong support for al-Douri, and also where he is claimed to have owned a villa.
In 2014, al-Douri returned to Tikrit during the Iraqi Civil War.
The fall of Mosul and Iraqi Civil War.
Al-Douri played a role in the Northern Offensive as commander of the Naqshbandi Army. Reports soon surfaced that he had links with the jihadist group ISIL, helping them take the city of Tikrit and coordinating attacks against Iraqi security forces. On 13 June, a Twitter account, @wikibaghdadi, claimed a "Meeting between ISIS and Naqshbandi Army near al-Qayara area south of Mosul had taken place with representatives from Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi." In July 2014, al-Douri issued an audio recording praising "the heroes and knights of al Qaeda and the Islamic State" forces in attacking Iraqi government positions within Saladin, Kirkuk, Diyala, and Nineveh Governorates. His connections with Islamist elements in Iraq is said to have emerged as far back as during Saddam's regime. According to the "Soufan Group", al-Douri had close ties with senior ISIL officials Abu Muslim al-Turkmani and Abu Ayman al-Iraqi. Both men had served in the Ba'athist regime under Saddam Hussein, with al-Turkmani being a Lieutenant colonel and serving in the "Istikhbarat" and Special Republican Guard. Al-Iraqi had been a Colonel in Iraq's Air Defense Intelligence.
Al-Douri has been pointed out as one of the main commanders responsible for successful takeover by rebel groups of North Iraq and the city of Mosul in June 2014. The Naqshbandi Army, along with other groups led by former Ba'ath officers, are reported to have assumed an increasingly large role in the governance and administration of occupied cities. Militants were reported to have appointed fellow Ba'ath generals Azhar al-Obeidi and Ahmed Abdul Rashid as the governors of Mosul and Tikrit. Shortly afterwards, unverified reports emerged that the Ba'ath Party, under al-Douri's leadership, declared war on ISIL in response to the displacement of Christians from Mosul. Other reports still maintained that there was a limited degree of cooperation between the two groups.
Iraqi Civil War and resurfacing.
In May 2015, an audio recording alleging to be that of al-Douri, criticized both ISIL and Iran. He also hailed the Saudi-led alliance targeting the Houthi militias in Yemen. On ISIL he stated "We do cross paths ... but what stops us from meeting is that even if we wanted to, they would not accept because they consider the Ba'ath infidels". He claimed that the group was detaining a third of the Ba'ath's command, and then went on to claim the number of ISIL victims in Iraq "does not equal 1% of those killed by the militias". On Iran, al-Douri called for the "Iraqis in Al-Anbar and Karbala to strongly fight the Persian criminal plan, which aims at swallowing Iraq." He stressed that Iran is the main player in Iraq and it is working through the Quds Force.
In October 2015, it was reported that al-Douri's Naqshbandi Army was involved in secret discussions with the Iraqi government, alongside other insurgent groups, as part of a move to create a new Sunni force to fight ISIL in Iraq.
On 7 April 2016, he released a video in which he sits at a desk in military uniform, flanked by two bodyguards and reads a statement. He calls on 'mujahideen' in Iraq to fight the Shia militias and combat Iranian influence in Iraq under the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism created by Saudi Arabia on 15 December 2015. He said: "We consider everything that is happening in Iraq from Iran, its agents, militias, and its security apparatus, is the responsibility of the United States". He added: "If it [U.S.] did not move to save Iraq and its people from Iran's hegemony, control and occupation, and to stop bloodshed, destruction, burning and the changing demographic, then Iraqi people should resist [the occupation]." He stated that one of the ways to deal with the issue in Yemen was to make Iran and its allies adhere to the Security Council decision on ceasefire.
In April 2018, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri released a new video commemorating the 71st anniversary of the Baath party and vowing that U.S. President Donald Trump "will never attack Iran until the Resurrection Day."
Allegations of death.
In November 2005, Arab media reported that al-Douri died of natural causes, probably in Iraq. On 17 April 2015, al-Douri allegedly died during a military operation conducted by the Iraqi Army near Al-Alaas oil fields in Hamrin Mountains, east of Tikrit. Iraqi security forces and Shia militias opened fire at a convoy believed to be carrying al-Douri and nine bodyguards, resulting in a 25-minute firefight. General Haider al-Basri, a senior Iraqi commander, announced to state television that the man believed to be al-Douri and his guards were killed. The Shi'ite militant organization Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq claimed to have killed him, saying that his body was being transported to Baghdad to confirm its identity. Before delivering the body to Baghdad, Shi'ite militias did DNA tests on the body and confirmed the results on 19 April. The body was delivered to Baghdad on 20 April, with the government starting the DNA tests a day after, on 21 April. The governor of Salahaddin province, Raed al-Jabbouri, characterized al-Douri as a "mastermind of Islamic State in Iraq (ISIS)" and stated that his death would be a blow to the group.
On 24 April 2015, the Iraqi Health Ministry spokesman, Dr. Ziyad Tareq, said: "The ministry does not have any DNA test (results) for any relative of al-Douri at the present time, and further efforts will be made to achieve a DNA result."
On 15 May 2015, a Ba'athist television channel released an audio recording, purportedly made by al-Douri, in which the speaker referred to events that had happened since al-Douri's reported death on 17 April.
In June 2018, Raghad Saddam Hussein was reported to have sent a note of condolence to Al Douri's family, with the source saying that "Douri died of a hematological illness at a Tunisian hospital."
Several Arabic language media outlets reported that the Baath Party announced his death on 25 October 2020. It is unknown what he died of. Al-Baath Party issued a statement following his death, which read: "Today, the knight of the Baath and the Iraqi national resistance has dismounted from his horse".
Saddam's daughter, Raghad, tweeted a message regarding Al-Douri's death on October 26.


Ita Rina

Tamara Đorđević (born Italina Lida Kravanja, 7 July 1907 – 10 May 1979), known professionally as Ita Rina, was a Slovenian film actress and beauty queen. She was one of the major film stars in Germany and Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s and the early 1930s. Rina retired from her career shortly after her wedding in 1931, when she changed her religion from Roman Catholic to Serbian Orthodox and her name to Tamara Đorđević.
Early life and modeling career (1907—1926).
Ita Rina was born on 7 July 1907 in the small town of Divača (then Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) as Italina Lida Kravanja. She was called Ida Kravanja for short. The first daughter of Jožef and Marija Kravanja, Rina had a younger sister Danica. Shortly after the outbreak of the World War I, the family moved to Ljubljana, where Rina matriculated in 1923. She was not a good student; she repeated the third grade of elementary school. However, her dream was to be an actress.
In October 1926, "Slovenski narod" (Slovenian People) magazine organized a beauty pageant, and Rina entered the competition. She was crowned Miss Slovenia and was to travel to the final event for Miss Yugoslavia, which was supposed to be held on 20 December 1926 in Zagreb. However, her mother did not want to let her go to Zagreb. After a group visit from the Slovenian delegation, Marija Kravanja relented. Unfortunately, when Rina arrived in Zagreb, the jury was already choosing the most beautiful of three finalists. She was, however, noticed by Adolf Müller, the owner of "Balkan Palace" cinema in Zagreb. He immediately sent her photographs to German film producer Peter Ostermayer. As her mother did not want to let her go to Berlin, Rina ran away from home.
Film breakthrough and success (1927—1939).
Rina arrived in Berlin in 1927. Shortly after she had her first audition, following which she had classes in acting, diction, dancing, driving and riding. She made her debut in the 1927 film "What Do Children Hide from Their Parents", directed by Franz Osten. After several small film roles in 1927 and 1928, the critics finally noticed her in the 1928 film "The Last Supper". The same year, Rina met her future husband Miodrag Đorđević, a student. Her big breakthrough came the following year, in the film "Erotikon", directed by Gustav Machatý. She starred in the leading female role, Andrea. The great success of the film upset some moral and Christian organizations. The Catholic Abbot Battleme, wrote: "... First, they lie next to each other, and then one to another ... It is true that the cover hides their figures, but it certainly does not hide their movements... The protagonists are shown in particularly long shots, especially Ita... A viewer can recognize her excitement, then her expression of anxiety mixed with longing, then the pain and at the end... I blush while describing the scenes". This was, however, the best advertisement for the film, and the beginning of Rina's career.
In 1930, Rina acted in three films, most notable being the first talking Czech film "Tonka of the Gallows", which is often named her best role. Meanwhile, she married Miodrag Đorđević in 1931, and changed her religion from Roman Catholic to Serbian Orthodox. Rina was baptised in Russian Orthodox Church, and also got her new Orthodox name, Tamara Đorđević. "I wanted to be named Ljubica, but the Russian priest would not allow that name. He proposed to me the Russian variety, Ljubov, but I refused it. So, I was named Tamara", Rina stated about her change of name. The same year, Rina was given an offer from Hollywood, but her husband forced her to choose between her career and their marriage; Rina chose to stay with him. Although she had announced her retirement from her film career, she acted until the outbreak of World War II. Her last prewar film was crime drama "Zentrale Rio".
Marriage, later years and death (1940—1979).
After she left her film career, Rina and her husband settled in Belgrade. In 1940, she gave birth to their son Milan. After the bombing of Belgrade in 1941, the family moved to Vrnjačka Banja, where Rina gave birth to a daughter, Tijana. They moved back to Belgrade after the end of World War II in 1945. Although she was promised several roles in Yugoslav films, all projects were cancelled. After receipt of a letter she had written to President Tito, Rina began working as a co–production advisor in Avala Film. She returned to the silver screen once, in the 1960 film "Atomic War Bride", directed by Veljko Bulajić. This was her last role.
As she suffered from asthma, Rina and her husband moved to Budva (then Yugoslavia, now Montenegro) in 1967. There, she took care of her husband, who was ill with sclerosis. Rina died on 10 May 1979 from an asthmatic attack. She was buried a few days later in Belgrade, in the presence of numerous film artists, admirers, friends and family.


Murder of Jacqueline Thomas

Jacqueline Mary Thomas (1945 or 1946 – 18 August 1961) was an English 15-year-old biscuit factory worker from Alum Rock, Birmingham, who was sexually assaulted and strangled after disappearing on 18 August 1961. Her body was discovered a week later close to her home, and the murder sparked a manhunt involving several hundred police officers. A suspect was identified at the time, but there was insufficient evidence to charge him, and the crime remained unsolved for over four decades until a cold case review in the 2000s. In 2007, 70-year-old Anthony Hall – already serving a life sentence for the murder of another teenager – was charged with Thomas's murder. However, a judge subsequently ruled the charge should be stayed owing to the length of time that had passed since the incident. Hall subsequently died in prison.
Background.
Jacqueline Thomas lived with her family in the Alum Rock area of the city, where she was one of eight sisters. On Friday, 18 August 1961 she attended a funfair at nearby Ward End with friends, and failed to return home afterwards. She was last seen alive at around 10:30 pm talking to a young man. Her family reported her missing when she did not return home. A week later on 25 August 1961, a dog walker found her body hidden in undergrowth at disused allotments close to her house in Everton Road. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.
The ensuing murder investigation involved several hundred police officers who visited more than 1,000 homes in the area, and conducted interviews with local residents, as well as Thomas's colleagues and workers from the fair where she had last been seen. Police launched a poster appeal, while a request for information was made at the city's St Andrew's Stadium during a football match between Birmingham City and Leicester City.
Witnesses recalled Thomas speaking with a young man at the fair; he was subsequently identified as 24-year-old Anthony Hall, a married father of one. He admitted being at the fairground with Jacqueline Thomas on the evening of her death, and that they had embraced and kissed, but he denied killing her. He asked his mother to provide a false alibi, because he did not want his wife to know he had been "larking about" with girls. Although he was considered as a suspect, Hall was not charged with the murder as there was no evidence linking him to the crime.
Sylvia Whitehouse case.
In March 1969 Hall was convicted of the murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Whitehouse, whom he stabbed to death with a screwdriver after offering her a lift in his car. Her body was discovered by a lorry driver in December 1968 on waste ground at Bickenhill Lane, Marston Green, near Birmingham Airport. The location was a popular destination for courting couples, and the case subsequently became known as the "Lovers' Lane Murder". Following his trial, Hall was jailed for life, and remained in custody until his death in 2011.
Cold case review.
As part of their effort to routinely re-examine evidence from unsolved cases, West Midlands Police's Major Crime Review Team revisited the investigation in early 2007. Advances in DNA technology made it possible to identify fresh evidence. Documents from the Jacqueline Thomas investigation were studied by detectives, and the case file was closely examined by lawyers from the Crown Prosecution Service. In November 2007 a decision was made to charge Hall with Jacqueline Thomas's murder, and he appeared at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on 29 November 2007. He again denied having anything to do with her death, and was remanded in custody.
At a hearing at Birmingham Crown Court on 19 August 2008, Judge Frank Chapman ruled that Hall should not stand trial for the murder because the events had occurred "too long ago", and any case against Hall would not be fair and balanced. Chapman told the court that since the 1961 investigation, 21 witnesses had died, while others could either not be traced or were too ill to attend a trial. Moreover, police had not kept evidence and records from the investigation, and because of the passage of time, Chapman believed it was unlikely that those witnesses who could give evidence would recall events with sufficient clarity for it to be reliable. Consequently, he stayed proceedings against Hall.
Outlining the essential case against the suspect, he said that it rested on two significant points – Jacqueline Thomas's time of death and the last person seen with her beforehand: "If they (the prosecution) had turned up something new it would have made all the difference, or may have done." Following the hearing, a member of the Major Crime Review Team commented: "Clearly we are not looking for anybody else but we respect the decision of the court."
On 6 December 2011, Anthony Hall died at a hospice following a long term illness. He remained in custody at the time of his death.


Mike Brooks (journalist)

Mike Brooks is a former television news correspondent for CNN. He appeared regularly on HLN's "Nancy Grace" show, and "Prime News" and gave significant coverage of the Anna Nicole Smith paternity controversy, as well as the Virginia Tech massacre. Brooks could be seen on Tru TV's "In Session" (formerly Court TV), where he provided commentary as their law-enforcement analyst. He is 6'7" tall.
Brooks is also a retired police detective, employed for 26 years by the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. He was assigned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Joint Terrorism Task Force, and also served as an instructor for several public safety courses. His work on the FBI Evidence Response and Rapid Deployment Team included assignments to the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, the United States Embassy bombing in Kenya, and the crash of TWA Flight 800. Brooks left Turner Broadcasting in October 2014.


Viktor Kalivoda

Viktor Kalivoda (born September 11, 1977 in Slaný - September 26, 2010 in Valdice Prison), also known as the "Forest Killer", was a Czech spree killer who shot three people.
Youth.
Kalivoda was born in Slaný, where he studied at the local grammar school, excelling in mathematics and physics. His classmates described him as a silent, introverted loner.
In 1996, he passed his matura. He then studied at the Faculty of Informatics of the Masaryk University in Brno and the Faculty of Education of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, before working as a policeman for Prague 6. He attempted suicide several times, once even longing to jump off from the Nusle Bridge.
In 2004, he won 320 000 Czech koruna on "Chcete být milionářem?".
Murders.
Two days after his 28th birthday, he decided to kill people. On October 13, 2005, an older couple was shot dead in the forest near Nedvědice, hitting them in the chest and head. Three days later, on October 16, he gunned down a Malíkovice man who was on a walk with his dog.
On October 20, he was arrested on the basis of eyewitness testimonies in Slaný in front of the panel house Vikova 272, where he lived. A Glock 34 was found inside.
Trial and death.
The trial began in 2006. Kalivoda did not admit his motive during the hearing, but said that he wanted to shoot up the Prague Metro, in particular the Line C, before the triple murder. Several times he hid a pistol with a newspaper in the metro, but did not find courage to do it.
He did not show regret for his actions. On June 27, 2006, he was sentenced to life imprisonment; the possibility of resocialization was, according to psychologists, zero.
In prison letters, he admitted to being inspired by Olga Hepnarová.
On September 26, 2010, he committed suicide in the Valdice Prison by cutting his veins.


Michael Sands (media)

Michael Sands (December 14, 1945 – April 6, 2012) was an American fashion print model and actor turned media consultant, representing clients such as George Lazenby, Michael Reagan, Gary Devore, Mr. Blackwell, and Kevin Federline.
Biography.
Sands acted in various roles, including in the Dennis DeYoung Music Video "Don't Wait for Heroes," and frequently discussed celebrity images in the national media. Through producing CelebrityDoctor.co in the late 1990s, Sands pioneered the trend for live TV/web screenings of face-lifts, most famously with Arabella Churchill.
The book "The CIA in Hollywood" by Tricia Jenkins reports that Sands supported the CIA in establishing a presence in Hollywood in the mid-1990s and even assisted in the capture of Abu Abbas, the terrorist behind the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in 1985. Sands arranged for Abbas to be interviewed in Baghdad for a book and movie deal, and then gave the interview and Abbas's contact details to the FBI and CIA. US Special Forces captured Abbas in 2003.
In 2011 Sands was approached by the Utah family of Wassef Ali Hassoun over a $1m book and movie deal about the Marine corporal charged with desertion who allegedly faked his own kidnapping in Iraq.
Death.
On March 24, 2012, Sands started choking on free food sample in a Los Angeles deli. He was pronounced dead on the scene for five minutes, then revived and taken to Cedars Sinai hospital. At the hospital, Sands was placed in a medically induced coma to prevent inflammation of the brain. He died thirteen days later on April 6, 2012 at the age of sixty-seven.


Leon G. Turrou

Leon George Turrou (September 14, 1895 – December 10, 1986) was an American special agent and translator with the Federal Bureau of Investigation who was tasked with leading an investigation that located and interrogated Nazi German spies within the United States. He also became the author of a popular book at its time called "Nazi Spies in America". His writings were adapted into the film, "Confessions of a Nazi Spy".
Early life.
Turrou was born on September 14, 1895, in Kobryn in the Russian Empire. He became an orphan at a very young age with his father passing away about six months before his birth, and his mother not long after his birth. He was later adopted by a wealthy tradesman and spent a majority of his youth travelling around the world. At the age of 18, he moved to the United States where he found a job working as a translator for "The New York Times" due to his multi-linguistic skills.
From 1916 to 1920, Turrou served with the French Army and was soon sent to fight on Eastern Front. He was wounded in an engagement with the Germans. In 1928, after going through a list of occupations, he was eventually hired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation headed by J. Edgar Hoover at the time. It was through this appointment that he became an FBI Special Agent responsible for locating and arresting Nazi German spies in America.
Career.
After working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for about 10 years from 1928 to 1938, Leon G. Turrou led the investigation into a Nazi spy ring operation in 1938. Although three Nazi spies were convicted and imprisoned and Turrou became famous, he deeply disappointed the FBI for leaking information about the case to the New York press and writing a series of articles about the case for a newspaper.
During his interrogation of the spies he told them they would have to testify before a grand jury, which led to many of them fleeing the country, so that four times as many spies escaped as were captured. The FBI today considers him to have bungled the case. Turrou was fired from the FBI in June 1938. During the trial itself, which took place in October 1938, his testimony was impeached by the defence using the accusations of seeking to make money and fame from the case, as well as allegations of witness tampering and even taking a bribe from Greibl. The allegations did not stand up, but the FBI thought Turrou had made the organization look amateurish, unable to defend the nation against espionage. He served with U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel from 1943 to 1946 during World War II. He settled in France and became a leader in the American veteran expatriate community, and also was employed by J. Paul Getty as his personal security chief until his retirement in 1955. He died on December 10, 1986 in Paris, France.
During his investigation, Turrou used polygraph tests to interview his suspects, perhaps the first of its use by the FBI in an espionage investigation. The subjects of his investigation were Martin Schade, Captain William Drechsel, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Herrmann, John Baptiste Unkel, Kate Moog and Dr. Ignatz Theodor Griebl. Turrou's newspaper articles were used as the basis of the film, "Confessions of a Nazi Spy".


SS China Arrow

China Arrow was a steam tanker built in 1920 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation of Quincy for Standard Oil Co., with intention of transporting oil and petroleum products between United States and the Far East. During the first part of her career the tanker was used to carry oil and gasoline between United States and Asia, later becoming a coastal tanker serving East Coast of the United States. The ship was torpedoed and sunk in February 1942 on one of her regular trips.
Design and construction.
Early in 1919 Standard Oil Co. decided to add four more tankers of approximately 12,500 deadweight to its existing fleet, expanding their oil carrying business. A contract for these vessels was awarded to the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. "China Arrow" was the first of these four ships and was laid down at the Fore River shipyard in Quincy (yard number 1385) and launched on 2 September 1920, with Miss Fredericka H. Fales, daughter of F.S. Fales, President of Standard Transportation Company, serving as the sponsor. The ship was shelter-deck type, had two main decks and was built on the Isherwood principle of longitudinal framing providing extra strength to the body of the vessel. The ship was equipped with wireless of De Forest type and had electrical lights installed along the decks. The tanker had a cargo pump room located amidships, and had ten double main cargo tanks constructed throughout the vessel with a total capacity to carry 3,665,700 US gallons of oil.
As built, the ship was long (between perpendiculars) and abeam, and had a depth of . "China Arrow" was originally assessed at and and had deadweight of approximately 13,950. The vessel had a steel hull, and a single 636 Nhp (3,200 ihp) vertical surface-condensing direct-acting reciprocating quadruple expansion steam engine, with cylinders of , , and diameter with a stroke, that drove a single screw propeller and moved the ship at up to . The steam for the engine was supplied by three single-ended Scotch boilers fitted for oil fuel.
The sea trials were held on 1 October 1920 in the Massachusetts Bay during which the vessel managed to reach maximum speed of and a mean speed of exceeding contract requirements. Following successful completion of full load run, the ship was transferred to her owners and sailed for Philadelphia and from there proceeded on her shakedown trip down to Gulf ports of Texas to load her first cargo for the Orient.
Operational history.
After delivery to Standard Oil, "China Arrow" was assigned to Arrow Line and proceeded to Beaumont and Sabine to load her cargo. She departed Port Arthur on October 12 carrying 10,640 tons of oil for Woosung and other Chinese ports. After stopping at San Francisco for fuel in early November, the vessel reached Tientsin on December 4. Upon unloading her cargo the tanker returned to San Francisco in ballast on 6 January 1921 thus successfully concluding her maiden voyage. "China Arrow" conducted three more trips from California refineries to China before being laid up together with several other vessels in August 1921 due to shortage of cargo. The tanker was reactivated at the end of September 1921 and departed for another trip to China on October 3 carrying 4,000,000 barrels of kerosene. For the next twelve months "China Arrow" remained in the Far Eastern trade carrying oil and kerosene to Hong Kong, Shanghai as well as ports in Japan. On 3 February 1922 "China Arrow" was raided by harbor police and prohibition officials resulting in confiscation of large quantities of contraband whiskey and arrest of the first officer. In April 1922 the tanker took first oil cargo to Russia in many years, when she transported 80,000 barrels of oil to Japanese-controlled Vladivostok. From October 1922 and for the next nine months the ship was chartered by the United Petroleum Company to carry petroleum products between Beaumont and ports in the Northeast of the United States. After the end of the charter the ship returned to Oriental service and largely remained there through July 1927. The tanker served mostly ports in Japan and China, but her travels also took her occasionally to places as far away as Calcutta and Madras. In December 1927 the tanker sailed to Buenos Aires carrying nearly 100,000 barrels of gasoline. During 1928 "China Arrow" was serving route from San Pedro in California or Beaumont in Texas to ports of New York, Boston and Philadelphia carrying oil, gasoline and kerosene. After a brief return to Oriental service in 1929, the tanker was permanently moved to inter-coastal trade and remained in this capacity through the end of her career.
At about 5 o'clock in the morning on July 26, 1938 in thick fog while leaving Boston on her usual trip to San Pedro "China Arrow" nearly collided with fishing trawler "Dorchester" who was rounding Graves Light just off Nahant. Due to low speed of the vessels there was enough time for both of them to change course and barely scrape each other's sides.
After conducting her last voyage to Beaumont in January 1939 Socony-Vacuum decided to retire "China Arrow" due to her advanced age and a joint with the government plan to build a fleet of new, more modern and speedier vessels. The tanker arrived in New York in early February 1939 and was laid up in anticipation of eventual break up. However, due to mounting shipping losses in the early stages of World War II the company was forced to reconsider and in late February 1940 "China Arrow" was towed to the dockyard of the Maryland Drydock Company where the old tanker was to be completely rebuilt at a cost of approximately .
On 9 August 1940 it was reported that the US Maritime Commission approved charter of two American tankers by the government of the Soviet Union to deliver oil and motor fuel to the Pacific ports of Vladivostok or Nagaevo after the Soviet government bought over 1,000,000 barrels of high-octane automotive gasoline. "China Arrow" was one of the tankers selected while she was nearing the end of her rebuilding work and sailed from Baltimore on August 17 for San Pedro upon completion of all the required work and reached her destination on September 5. After completion of all the necessary procedures and loading, the tanker finally sailed from El Segundo for Vladivostok on October 25 carrying full load of gasoline. While en route, "China Arrow" was approved for another trip to Russia and after return from Vladivostok on December 24, sailed four days later with a similar cargo. During her second trip to Soviet Union "China Arrow" collided in Vladivostok harbor with an icebreaker and had to go to the Hunter's Point drydock upon arrival in San Francisco for repairs. Following return from her third and final trip to Soviet Union in May 1941, "China Arrow" proceeded to Aruba and delivered a cargo of fuel oil to Philadelphia in June of the same year. After one more trip to the Caribbean the tanker was reassigned back to her original route between Beaumont, Corpus Christi and other Texas Gulf ports and New York and Philadelphia where she remained for the rest of her career.
Sinking.
"China Arrow" departed for her last voyage from Beaumont at the end of January 1942 carrying 81,773 barrels of fuel oil bound for New York. The tanker was under command of captain Paul Hoffman Browne and had a crew of eight officers and twenty nine men. In the morning of February 5 the tanker was off Winter Quarter Shoals, approximately from the shore and running a zigzag course. At approximately 11:15 local time the ship was suddenly struck on her starboard side in quick succession by two torpedoes fired by German submarine around #8, #9 and #10 holds. The resulting explosion blew the oil over 100 feet up onto the air and immediately ignited fire in the holds. The steam firefighting system was employed and managed to extinguish the fire in #9 and #10 holds, but failed to do so in hold #8. Seeing that the fire cannot be brought under control, captain Browne ordered the crew to abandon ship. Three lifeboats were lowered and everyone on board with the exception of the captain and radio operator Kenneth W. Maynard left the vessel at approximately 11:40. As the antenna was shot off after the first torpedo impact it was impossible to send the S.O.S signal, but the radioman managed to create an improvised one and send out the distress signal. "U-103" surfaced soon after about 500 feet away and the last two remaining crew members on board "China Arrow" had to hastily leave the ship. The submarine then proceeded to fire between 15 and 20 shots from the deck gun into the damaged vessel causing "China Arrow" to go down stern first heavily listing on her starboard side at 12:30 in an approximate position . While the lifeboats were well provisioned and had blankets, most men left the vessel in such a haste that many of them had only their pajamas or underwear on. At approximately 15:45 US Army B-25A patrol plane spotted three lifeboats with survivors, and relayed the message to the Inshore Patrol (INSPAT). They also spotted what they claimed to be a diving submarine and proceeded to drop four 500-lbs bombs from approximately 1,000 feet with unknown results. At 16:20 patrol boat "PE-56" and the Coast Guard cutter were dispatched to the reported location. The lifeboats managed to stay close together for the next two days while rowing towards the shore, and none of the crew suffered any serious adverse effects. In the afternoon of February 7 Norfolk-based aircraft sighted the lifeboats again and continued circling them until "Nike" arrived at the scene and picked up all survivors by 19:45. They were then taken to the US Coast Guard station at Lewes where they were all safely landed in the early morning of February 8.
Captain Browne was given the Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal by the President of the United States for heroism and distinguished service under unusual hazards. For the President the award was given by Admiral Emory S. Land.


Amnesty International Australia

Amnesty International Australia is a section of the Amnesty International network, and is part of the global movement promoting and defending human rights and dignity. Amnesty International Australia searches out facts about human rights abuses and raises awareness of these abuses in Australia, the Asia-Pacific and around the world. The organisation undertakes advocacy and mobilises people to put pressure on governments and others to end rights violations.
Campaigns.
Amnesty International Australia campaigns on international and domestic human rights issues. These have included: calling for an end to the human rights abuses that drive and deepen poverty, through the Demand Dignity campaign; working to stop violence against women; the fair treatment of refugees and asylum seekers; calling for a Human Rights Act in Australia; taking action for individuals around the world who are in imminent danger; upholding human rights in counter-terrorism activities; and calling for the end of the death penalty internationally, as part of an international campaign to see full human rights for everyone. Current campaign focus areas for Amnesty International Australia are Indigenous youth incarceration under the campaign name of Community Is Everything, refugees, and gender and sexuality.
Human rights in the Asia-Pacific region is a key concern for Amnesty International Australia.
Support.
Amnesty International Australia has over 250,000 members and financial supporters. The organisation is impartial and independent of any political ideologies, economic interests or religions, and as such does not accept any money from governments or political parties. The organisation reported over AUD $25M in revenue in 2018.
Personnel.
In 2019, National Director Claire Mallinson announced she was stepping down from her role in October after 12 years with the organisation. The Board appointed Sam Klintworth as National Director, commencing in November 2019.


Gays Against Guns

Gays Against Guns (GAG) is a direct action group of LGBTQ people committed to ending gun violence through nonviolent means, civil disobedience, and activism. The group was founded by Kevin Hertzog, Brian Worth and John Grauwiler in 2016, as a result of the Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando, Florida which had killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a mass shooting. It is the deadliest incident of violence against LGBTQ people in U.S. history and the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Two weeks after the June 2016 attack, a group of activists presented a large banner made by Gilbert Baker, inventor of the rainbow flag, stating “Gays Against Guns”, and led the New York City LGBT Pride March. Their contingent of 750 marchers, plus 49 veiled in white, staged die-ins along the 5th Avenue route and introduced their “Human Beings”, people dressed in white with white veils representing the gun violence victims. They also had a second massive banner stating "Republican Hate Kills." Within two months the group had over 300 New York City members, and chapters in nine cities across the U.S. They were going to go after gun manufacturers, including Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co. the two largest gun companies, gun lobbyists, their shareholders, and corporate backers. In an October 2017 "Teen Vogue" op-ed, GAG's social media director posited that gun violence is a disease that can be treated and cured.
Opposition to the National Rifle Association.
From the beginning the group included veterans of ACT UP, a famous LGBTQ direct action group, and set an intention to take action in opposition to the National Rifle Association (NRA), one of the most influential lobbying groups in Washington, D.C. Part of the strategy was to target where the NRA would get its funds, including from corporations like Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, The Hertz Corporation, and FedEx. In early 2018 they staged protests at FedEx's Manhattan corporate headquarters and local chapters targeted stores across the country. The nationwide protests took place on the 26th of each month to bring attention to the 26% discount FedEx gave to NRA members. In October 2018 FedEx cut ties with the NRA.
The group has staged die-ins at money managers BlackRock, one of the largest funders of gun makers. Starting at a local park, the protesters followed people draped in white veils holding placards honoring victims of gun violence. The protesters had signs with “Gun$ sell. People die. $tock soars.” At BlackRock, no one from the company would come out so they staged a die-in, twelve people laid down, representing the twelve people killed in the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting. The participants were given white chalk outlines and surrounded with red popcorn to represent the spilled blood. Said a campaigner, “They’re smart enough to acknowledge they profit from massacres but can’t find a way to unload those stocks? That’s amoral.” Other companies targeted include MetLife and Visa Inc. GAG warns companies to drop the NRA or lose the LGBTQ communities’ business, which was estimated at $917 billion in 2017.
Art components.
Their campaigns include both a direct action component and an art component that expresses the groups sensibilities. After the February 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which killed 17 people, GAG members traveled to Florida to offer support. At Rockefeller Center GAG sang adapted carols to Christmas shoppers. They also advocate for gun control laws. In February 2019, for Valentine's Day, they protested to draw attention to pending gun legislation in the United States Capitol, in addition to their Human Beings, a group dressed in red formed a giant broken heart on the ground. Other LGBTQ groups including Human Rights Campaign and Pride Fund to End Gun Violence, which formed in response to Pulse club massacre, also call for gun control. In March 2018 they staged a protest outside the NRA's headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, where they sang Broadway showtunes with modified lyrics. March 2018 GAG set up a fashion runway at the March for Our Lives, a student-led demonstration in support of legislation to prevent gun violence, planned by student organizers from Never Again MSD in collaboration with Everytown for Gun Safety. GAG encouraged the estimated 800,000 people to note “These politicians act so ridiculous, so we're going to show them just how ridiculous they really are,” while ‘sashaying away’, recalling the famous RuPaul line from "RuPaul's Drag Race" when contestants lose the final lip sync challenge.
Protests and campaigns.
In 2016 GAG protested CrossFit Games, where prizes included handguns, and firearms manufacturer SIG Sauer in New Hampshire. In July 2016, to protest Donald Trump on the first night of the Republican National Convention, GAG staged an action at Trump Tower. In August 2016, the newly formed D.C. chapter protested the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The Los Angeles chapter, which started at this time, pulled inspiration from the "Flower Power" photograph. In February 2017 they held a protest to honor the victims of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. In March 2017 GAG's first advertising campaign was launched in opposition to The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017. In April 2017 GAG's Orlando, Florida chapter was launched. In June 2017 GAG held a protest and memorial at Stonewall Inn to mark the one year anniversary of the Pulse massacre, and the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina. In November 2018 they held a protest rally to honor the twelve Thousand Oaks shooting victims.


Krissy Taylor

Kristen Erin "Krissy" Taylor (May 15, 1978 – July 2, 1995) was an American model.
Early life and career.
Taylor was born in Miami and lived in South Florida with her parents and two older sisters. Taylor’s foray into the modeling world was largely due to being supermodel Niki Taylor's younger sister. At age 11, Taylor began going to shoots with Niki, and photographers began to include her in photos. Her first shoot with sister Niki appeared in "Seventeen". She soon signed with her sister’s modeling agency in New York, IMG.
At age 13, after accompanying Niki to castings for the Fall Shows in Milan, the designers impulsively fitted Taylor, and she walked the runways alongside Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, and Claudia Schiffer. Thereafter, Taylor began getting calls to work solo. Taylor had amassed an impressive résumé of credits, including "ELLE", Italian "Glamour", "YM", "Cosmopolitan", and "Vogue". She had 13 covers to her credit, and appeared on "Entertainment Tonight" and MTV. She also did the 1994 Spring Collections in New York, landing eight shows, including Ralph Lauren.
Her last photo shoot was with sister Niki Taylor for the July/August 1995 cover of "Ocean Drive" magazine.
Death.
On July 2, 1995, Niki Taylor found Krissy lying unconscious on the floor of their family's home in Florida. After attempts to revive Taylor by her family and authorities failed, she was rushed to Memorial Hospital West and pronounced dead at 5:39 a.m. She was 17 years old.
Taylor was known to have had allergies that congested her upper respiratory system.
The official cause of death was an acute asthma attack complicated by sudden cardiac arrhythmia. However, she had no prior history of asthma, and no symptoms of a heart condition. Uncertain of the medical examiner's diagnosis, the Taylor family hired independent experts to study tissue samples of Taylor's heart muscle, and concluded that the more likely cause of her death was a rare cardiac disease called arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.
Taylor’s mother, Barbara, is now involved with the Cardiac Arrythmias Research and Education (CARE) Foundation.


Gol D Roger


Her Love Boils Bathwater

 is a 2016 Japanese drama film directed by Ryōta Nakano. It was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Plot.
A woman named Futaba, single-handedly raising her teenage daughter Azumi, learns that she is diagnosed with advanced cancer. She decides to use the last few months of her life to improve the life of her family. To do this, she returns to the house of her husband, who went to another and was in turn abandoned with a little daughter in her arms. Together they reopen the family bath, which will provide them with a comfortable life. Another challenge facing Futaba is to help her daughter fend for herself at school and introduce her to her biological mother.


Seamus McCaffery

Seamus P. McCaffery (born June 3, 1950) is an American retired Justice on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his election to the Supreme Court, he was a judge on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, and prior to that was a municipal court judge in Philadelphia. He was the judge at "Eagles Court", an "ad hoc" court created to deal with unruly fans at Philadelphia Eagles games.
Personal.
McCaffery was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1950. His family emigrated to the United States when he was five. He graduated from Cardinal Dougherty High School in Philadelphia and joined the United States Marine Corps.
After leaving active duty, McCaffery joined the Marine Corps Reserve and joined the Philadelphia Police Department. He served in the police department for 20 years, rising to sergeant. While a police officer, McCaffery put himself through university at La Salle University and law school at Temple University. He became a member of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. bars and worked as a litigation associate.
In 2008 he retired as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. He is also a 33° Mason.
Judicial career.
In 1993, McCaffery won election to Municipal Court in Philadelphia. With support from members of the city council, he developed Eagles Court in 1998 in response to a 1997 Monday Night Football game between the Eagles and the San Francisco 49ers. With over 60 fistfights reported at the nationally televised game, stadium violence became an embarrassment for the city. McCaffery presided over the court, which was convened in the basement of Veterans Stadium, and handed out fines or jail time to fans arrested during games.
Prior to protests at the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, McCaffery announced a plan for the preventive detention of protesters. Because of this, defense attorneys asked him to recuse himself from trials involving the protests, but he refused, without hearing the arguments.
He was elected to the Superior Court in 2003 and successfully ran for the Supreme Court in 2007, where he was a landslide winner attaining over 2 million votes statewide.
Resignation.
McCaffery abruptly resigned from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on October 27, 2014, one week after his October 20, 2014 suspension by four fellow Justices and the public disclosure by Chief Justice Ronald Castille that Justice McCaffery had sent or received 234 emails containing pornography between late 2008 and May 2012 to an agent in the attorney general's office. The Chief Justice had requested copies of the emails from Attorney General Kathleen Kane.
A fellow justice, Michael Eakin, (who abstained from the suspension vote) also had gone public with an accusation he filed on October 17, 2014, that Justice McCaffery tried to coerce him into taking his side against Chief Justice Castille. The justices voting to suspend McCaffery cited King's Bench power to "protect and preserve the integrity" of the state's judicial system. The justices, in their order suspending McCaffery, directed the state Judicial Conduct Board, which was already investigating McCaffery, to determine within 30 days whether there was "probable cause to file formal misconduct charges" against him.
The court said McCaffery may also have allowed his wife, who was his chief legal clerk, to collect legal referral fees while she was a state court employee, and he may have tried to fix a traffic ticket for her. In his concurring statement on the suspension, Chief Justice Castille described McCaffery as exhibiting the traits of a sociopath.
The Supreme Court confirmed McCaffery's resignation in an order lifting his suspension. McCaffery's retirement agreement not to seek senior judge status and not seek future judicial positions ended the state Judicial Conduct Board investigation of him. By retiring instead of being impeached, McCaffery was able to keep an $11,000 per month retirement benefit ($134,000 annual pension) from the State Employees' Retirement System (SERS) paid for by Pennsylvania taxpayers, even after he cashed out $455,000 of his own contributions plus interest.


Randy Jurgensen

Randy Jurgensen (Born December 7, 1933) is a former NYPD detective, best known as the lead investigator into the murder of patrolman Phil Cardillo as well as his contribution as a consultant on various film and Tv projects.
Early life and Career.
Jurgenson was born in 1933 to Elizabeth and Randolf Jurgenson in Harlem, NY.
He served in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper and was in the Battle of Pork Chop Hill in the Korean War. He was decorated with three bronze stars and a purple heart. After serving in the Army, he entered the New York Police Department in 1958 as a patrolman and was quickly promoted to detective.
In the early 1960s, Jurgensen and his partner performed undercover work to investigate homosexual murders in New York City. Homosexuals were being targeted by two perpetrators who posed as police officers. This investigation was inspiration for the film "Cruising", with Al Pacino playing his character.
He worked undercover investigating members of the Black Liberation Army. At one point, the BLA placed a $50,000 bounty on his head, which is believed to still exist today. From 1973 to 1976, he led the Investigation into the murder of Officer Phil Cardillo. He was forced to retire from the NYPD, pleading nolo contendere to a series of charges brought up on by the NYPD.
While still a detective for the NYPD, he began working on films as a consultant. He transitioned to a career in film acting and production and has appeared in more than 30 films.
1972 Harlem mosque incident.
On April 14, 1972, dispatchers received a 9-1-1 call from a "Detective Thomas", claiming to need assistance at the Nation of Islam's Mosque No. 7 on West 116th Street in Harlem. Five uniformed officers responded. What happened next is still in dispute. The police say they were overpowered and assaulted when they arrived; When additional officers arrived, a melee ensued, in which Officer Cardillo was shot at point-blank range, and several officers were seriously injured.
Imam Louis Farrakhan and the other worshippers present at the Nation of Islam Mosque say the police interrupted them with guns drawn during prayers, and refused repeated requests to wait or at least leave their guns, which their faith forbade to be carried into a place of worship, outside. At a press conference the next day, he would claim it was a premeditated attack and the 9-1-1 call just a ruse.
Original investigation.
Jurgensen was assigned the case in 1974 after the initial investigator Basil "Sleepy" Slepwitz retired. Numerous obstacles were placed in his way. Most notably, he was not allowed to visit the actual crime scene. He requested that any detective from other precincts notify him when any Muslim in the city was arrested. This was done so that he could interview the arrestee with the hopes that there might be a connection to others who were in the Mosque at the time of the shooting. After years of fruitless interviews, he got his break when Foster 2X Thomas was arrested on a credit card fraud charge. Thomas was a baker at the Mosque and present on the day of the Cardillo murder. Thomas eventually testified at the murder trial of Lewis 17X Dupree, who was acquitted after two trials.
Second investigation.
In 2006, Jurgensen published his first book, "Circle of Six", which is a recount of the Mosque incident and subsequent investigation. After the book was released, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly launched a new investigation. Kelly was an NYPD sergeant at the time of the mosque occurrence and knew Jurgensen. In 2012, the NYPD announced that the investigation had yielded no new evidence.
Campaign to honour Cardillo.
Jurgensen was active in the campaign to have a street in New York City renamed after Patrolman Cardillo, which was eventually achieved in 2015 when the street in front of the Police Academy in Queens was renamed 'Patrolman Philip Cardillo Way'.
Film career.
Jurgensen began working as a technical consultant in the film industry, while a detective for the NYPD. His work has been instrumental in the creation of notable films such as The French Connection, Donnie Brasco and Cruising.