Chosen

Chosen or The Chosen may refer to:

The chosen ones

Chosen people, people who believe they have been chosen by a higher power to do a certain thing including

Jews as a chosen people

Jews as a chosen people

Books

The Chosen (Potok novel), a 1967 novel by Chaim Potok

The Chosen (Smith novel), a 1997 novel by L. J. Smith

The Chosen (Pinto novel), a 1999 novel by Ricardo Pinto

The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, a book by Jerome Karabel

Chosen (Dekker novel), a 2007 novel by Ted Dekker

Chosen (A House of Night novel), a novel in the House of Night fantasy series

Games

Blood II: The Chosen, sequel to the video game Blood

Music

Chosen (album), an album by Vanessa Bell Armstrong

Film and TV

The Chosen (1981 film), a film based on Potok's novel

The Chosen (2015 film), a film starring YouTube personality Kian Lawley

The Chosen (2016 film)

Chosen (TV series), a TV series starring Milo Ventimiglia

"Chosen" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

XCOM 2

XCOM 2 is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux. It was released February 5, 2016. XCOM 2 is the sequel to 2012's reboot of the series, XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Taking place 20 years after the events of Enemy Unknown, it follows the continuity that XCOM, a military organization trying to fight off an alien invasion, has lost the war, and is now a resistance force against their occupation of Earth.

Gameplay

As with previous games in the series, XCOM 2 casts the player as the commander of the eponymous military organization, now a resistance force opposing the ongoing alien occupation of the planet. Players take control of the Avenger, the new mobile base for XCOM. Players are tasked to give commands to squad members in battles against aliens during missions, while commanding the engineering and research department of the base between missions to create and research improved and new gadgets, weapons and technologies to assist players in battle. Soldiers can be recruited, with each soldier class having their own skill trees and abilities. For example, the Grenadier class can gain access to explosives and grenade launchers, while the Ranger is equipped with melee weapons like swords. Armor and weaponry can also be researched and upgraded by the player in the Avenger base. Each mission's environment is influenced by the world's state, while maps are procedurally-generated to create a wide variety of levels, in which every map features different terrain and buildings in each play-through.Mods are also supported. Campaign, class and enemy types can be created by users and can be shared through Steam Workshop. A one-versus-one multiplayer mode also returns from Enemy Unknown. New enemies are also featured, such as units from the new faction, ADVENT, and more alien types like the Viper.

Grand Hustle Records

Grand Hustle Records (formerly Grand Hustle Entertainment), also known as Hustle Gang Music, is an Atlanta, Georgia-based record label, founded in 2003, by American hip hop recording artist T.I. and his business partner Jason Geter. Up until December 2012, the label was distributed by Atlantic Records. It currently operates as an independent record label. The label is home to artists such as B.o.B, Young Dro, Trae tha Truth and Travis Scott, among others. The label also houses a roster of record producers, including DJ Toomp, Lil' C, Khao, Mars, Nard & B, TrackSlayerz and more.

The label has released 21 studio albums in total, with nine of them being certified gold or higher, by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Additionally, the label has released four albums that reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, namely King (2006), T.I. vs. T.I.P. (2007), Paper Trail (2008) and The Adventures of Bobby Ray (2010). Furthermore, Grand Hustle has released multiple Top 40 hit singles, including "Bring 'Em Out", "What You Know", "Shoulder Lean", "Whatever You Like", "Live Your Life", "Dead and Gone", "Nothin' on You", "Airplanes", "Magic", "Strange Clouds", "So Good", "Both of Us", "Antidote" and more.

Peter Wright

Peter Maurice Wright (9 August 1916 – 27 April 1995) was the principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency, noted for writing the controversial book Spycatcher, which became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. Spycatcher was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those. He is said to have been influenced in his counterespionage activity by James Jesus Angleton, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence chief from 1954 to 1975.

Father's footsteps

Peter Wright was born in 26 Cromwell Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the son of (George) Maurice Wright, who was the Marconi Company's director of research, and one of the founders of signals intelligence during World War I.

During the Second World War, Wright worked at the Admiralty's Research Laboratory. In 1946, he began work as a Principal Scientific Officer at the Services Electronics Research Laboratory.

Abracadabra

Abracadabra is an incantation used as a magic word in stage magic tricks, and historically was believed to have healing powers when inscribed on an amulet.

Etymology

The word may have its origin in the Aramaic language, but numerous conflicting folk etymologies are associated with it.

The word Abracadabra may derive from an Aramaic phrase meaning "I create as I speak." or from the Greek "Αύρα κατ' αύρα" meaning "from Αura to Aura". This etymology is dubious, however, as אברא כדברא in Aramaic is more reasonably translated "I create like the word." In the Hebrew language, אברא translates as "I will create" and כדברא "as spoken". The second lexeme in this supposedly Aramaic phrase might be a noun given the presence of the definite article on the end of the word (it cannot be an infinitive construct, as the infinitive cannot take the definite article). Regardless, this phrase would actually be pronounced ebra kidbara, which is clearly different from abracadabra.

"[A]bracadabra may comprise the abbreviated forms of the Hebrew words Ab (Father), Ben (Son) and Ruach A Cadsch (Holy Spirit), though an alternative derivation relates the word to Abraxas, a god with snakes for feet who was worshipped in Alexandria in pre-Christian times." David Pickering's description of the word as an abbreviation from Hebrew is also a false etymology—as he apparently here means Aramaic (בר is Aramaic for "son", it is בן in Hebrew, although בר is an honorific form), nor does he account for the final five letters (i.e., -dabra) in the lexeme.

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'Chosen' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Life Tracker (2013)

Actors: Jay Thomas (actor), Tyler Holtman (miscellaneous crew), Ron Canada (actor), Carol A. Compton (miscellaneous crew), Robert Sidney Mellette (actor), Joe McClean (writer), Joe McClean (director), Bianca Bezdek-Goodloe (miscellaneous crew), Sarju Patel (producer), Norma Maldonado (actress), Matt Dallas (actor), Robert T. Barrett (actor), Darren Kendrick (actor), Stevie Mack (actor), Geeta Malik (producer),

Plot: Dillon stumbles on a little known news story about a company called Life Tracker Limited, which claims it has discovered a way to predict biological events in a human's life by looking at their DNA. Everyone views the story as a modern day form of palm reading that will go nowhere, but Dillon keeps turning on his camera when he finds articles on the Internet or hears about it on the news. The story keeps getting bigger. People all over the world are paying tons of money to see if their DNA shows any trace of disease, or future children, or when they'll die. With little to no resources, Dillon is left to guerilla style street interviews and filming the reactions of his small group of friends. When Dillon, his best friend Scott, and Scott's girlfriend Bell all get their futures predicted their lives start to change... along with the world itself. Nothing is physically changed in any single person's day-to-day life, but the ideas that have been put in people's heads convince them to flip the world upside-down. That's when things start to get out of hand. From the intimate relationships in our every day lives, to the literal future of the human race, nothing will ever be the same after Life Tracker.