Dave Teo Ming is a Singaporean former soldier who gained national headlines when he went absent without official leave (AWOL) on 2 September 2007 from Mandai Hill Camp with a SAR-21 assault rifle and eight live 5.56mm rounds. Before he went AWOL, he was serving as a Full-Time National Serviceman (NSF) in the 1st Singapore Infantry Regiment and held the rank of Corporal.
Teo was arrested by the police 20 hours later in the Orchard Road shopping district with the assault rifle, the eight rounds and a knife in his possession. Facing charges in the High Court, Teo was sentenced in July 2008 to nine years and two months' imprisonment and 18 strokes of the cane for various weapon charges. The incident has also led to the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) reviewing and tightening security procedures in its camps.
On 2 September 2007 at 11.59 pm, Teo was discovered missing from Mandai Hill Camp with his SAR-21 assault rifle and five live rounds issued to him for guard duty. The Military Police Command was called in at 3.30am on 3 September to conduct a search within the camp premises. After finding that he was no longer in the camp, the Singapore Police Force was contacted at 5.45am to initiate an island-wide manhunt with 200 officers.
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Mingə is a village in the Ismailli Rayon of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Keyvəndi. The area is renowned for excessive bush and dryness, due to being situated on one of the two highest peaks of Azerbaijan.
The Ming dynasty (Chinese: 明朝; pinyin: Míng Cháo), or the Great Ming (Chinese: 大明; pinyin: Dà Míng), also called the Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming, described by some as "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history," was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic Han Chinese. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng (who established the Shun dynasty, soon replaced by the Manchu-led Qing dynasty), regimes loyal to the Ming throne – collectively called the Southern Ming – survived until 1662.
The Hongwu Emperor (ruled 1368–98) attempted to create a society of self-sufficient rural communities ordered in a rigid, immobile system that would guarantee and support a permanent class of soldiers for his dynasty: the empire's standing army exceeded one million troops and the navy's dockyards in Nanjing were the largest in the world. He also took great care breaking the power of the court eunuchs and unrelated magnates, enfeoffing his many sons throughout China and attempting to guide these princes through the Huang Ming Zu Xun, a set of published dynastic instructions. This failed spectacularly when his teenage successor, the Jianwen Emperor, attempted to curtail his uncles' power, prompting the Jingnan Campaign, an uprising that placed the Prince of Yan upon the throne as the Yongle Emperor in 1402. The Yongle Emperor established Yan as a secondary capital and renamed it Beijing, constructed the Forbidden City, and restored the Grand Canal and the primacy of the imperial examinations in official appointments. He rewarded his eunuch supporters and employed them as a counterweight against the Confucian scholar-bureaucrats. One, Zheng He, led seven enormous voyages of exploration into the Indian Ocean as far as Arabia and the eastern coasts of Africa.
Ming is the third album by David Murray to be released on the Italian Black Saint label and the first to feature his Octet. It was released in 1980 and features performances by Murray, Henry Threadgill, Olu Dara, Lawrence "Butch" Morris, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Wilber Morris and Steve McCall.
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide said "both Ming and Home display an excellent balance between written material and solos by a distinguished group of sidemen".
The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 5 stars stating "His octet was always the perfect setting for tenor saxophonist David Murray, large enough to generate power but not as out of control as many of his big-band performances. Murray contributed all five originals (including "Ming" and "Dewey's Circle") and arrangements, and is in superior form on both tenor and bass clarinet. The "backup crew" is also quite notable: altoist Henry Threadgill, trumpeter Olu Dara, cornetist Butch Morris, trombonist George Lewis, pianist Anthony Davis, bassist Wilbur Morris, and drummer Steve McCall. These avant-garde performances (reissued on CD) are often rhythmic enough to reach a slightly larger audience than usual, and the individuality shown by each of these major players is quite impressive. Recommended.".
Why can't you see
That this is how our love was meant to be?
I'll never understand why you are putting me down
Ruining everything
And when I'm looking into your eyes
I see someone I've grown to despise
There isn't any point in me hanging around
Living the life I live
I told you once but you misunderstood
I never gave up though I did all I could
I can't believe what you're putting me through
I did all I had to do
Just when it's out of reach
Everybody needs to love
But that's how it's got to be
What everybody wants is love
Don't turn your back on me
Everybody's needs to love
That's how it's got to be
It's too late now and you've got to be free
Hard to believe
The way you always try and deceive
There isn't any point in me hanging around
I'm sick of the way I feel
Am I the only one who regrets
The things you always try to forget
Why is it always life ends up dragging you down
Coloring everything
I told you once but you misunderstood
I never gave up though I did all I could
I can't believe what you're putting me through
I did all I had to do
Just when it's out of reach
Everybody needs to love
But that's how it's got to be
What everybody wants is love
Don't turn your back on me
Everybody needs to love
That's how it's got to be
It's too late now and you've got to be free
Just when it's out of reach
Everybody needs to love
But that's how it's got to be
What everybody wants is love
Don't turn your back on me
Everybody needs to love
That's how it's got to be
It's too late now and you've got to be free
Just when it's out of reach
Everybody needs to love
But that's how it's got to be
What everybody wants is love
Don't turn your back on me
Everybody needs to love
That's how it's got to be