1.   His first beatings were administered by his mother.

2.   The group alleges that it is a common practice in Korea to consume dog meat after first beating, torturing and strangling the dog to increase its adrenaline level.

3.   Two nights later, he took his first beating.

4.   After the first beating, Zhang protested to camp officials, earning him a second beating three days later.

5.   The first beating at their Brooklyn apartment came when she asked permission to visit her family in Pakistan, she said.

6.   They also said there was no proper cause for the first beating and that both beatings were neither moderate nor reasonable.

7.   The Sonics lost the first three games of the finals but inflicted the first back-to-back beatings on Chicago since February to force a sixth game Sunday in Chicago.