title: 2016 Hong Kong legislative election

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The 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 4 September 2016 for the 6th Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo). A total of 70 members, 35 from geographical constituencies (GCs) and 35 from functional constituencies (FCs), were returned. The election came after the rejection of the 2016/2017 constitutional reform proposals which suggested the electoral method for the 2016 Legislative Council remains unchanged.

An unprecedented number of 2.2 million voters, 58 per cent of the registered electorate, turned out in wake of the 2014 pro-democracy Occupy movement often dubbed as the "Umbrella Revolution" with the localists emerged as a new political force behind the pro-Beijing and pan-democracy camps by winning six seats in the geographical constituencies and gaining nearly 20 per cent of the vote share. Many new faces rose from the post-Occupy political forces got elected which was described as the "youthquake" by the media. Demosisto's Nathan Law, a 23-year-old Occupy student leader became the youngest candidate to be elected in history along with his allies Lau Siu-lai and Eddie Chu.

Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching from the radical localist groups Youngspiration, and Cheng Chung-tai of Civic Passion, also won seats after they were allowed to enter the race following the government controversially disqualifying six localists for their advocacy of Hong Kong independence. As a result, four pan-democrats lost their seats, namely, Neo Democrats' Gary Fan, as well as three veterans, Lee Cheuk-yan and Cyd Ho of the Labour Party and Frederick Fung of the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood.

Many veteran pro-Beijing incumbents, including the LegCo president Jasper Tsang, also Chan Kam-lam and Tam Yiu-chung of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong's (DAB) and Chan Yuen-han of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) decided to step down, while pan-democrat heavyweights, including Civic Party leader Alan Leong, Democratic Party chairwoman Emily Lau and veterans Albert Ho and Sin Chung-kai, as well as pro-Beijing Liberal Party honorary chairman James Tien, chose to stand as second candidate to get their party's newcomers elected. Young Democrat Kwong Chun-yu received the most votes by winning nearly 500,000 votes in the District Council (Second) "super seat".

Together with the six post-Occupy radicals and localists, the anti-establishment forces won 29 out of 70 seats; managed to retain the majority in the geographical constituencies to block the pro-establishment camp's attempt to amend the rule of procedures to curb radicals' filibustering, as well as the opposition's crucial one-thirds minority to maintain the veto power on government's constitutional reform proposals.

These were the last fully free elections to be held in Hong Kong prior to the national security law that was implemented in 2020.

Background

Electoral reform failure and Umbrella Revolution

The election comes after the rejection of constitutional reform proposals of the Leung Chun-ying administration in mid-2015 meant the electoral method for the Legislative Council (LegCo) in 2016 was unchanged. On 31 August 2014, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) set limits for the 2016 Legislative Council and 2017 Chief Executive elections. While reaffirming the electoral method for the 2016 Legislative Council election remained unchanged, the 2014 NPCSC decision allowed the Chief Executive (CE) to be directly elected but "unpatriotic" candidates would have to be screened out by a Beijing-controlled nominating committee. In response to the NPCSC decision, the student activists staged a class boycott which led into a months-long large-scale occupy movement as proposed by the Occupy Central, which was referred as the "Umbrella Revolution".

The government proposals were overwhelmingly rejected in the Legislative Council following a failed walk-out by the pro-Beijing camp on 18 June 2015. In response, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying urged the voters to "punish" the opposition democratic candidates by voting them out in the upcoming legislative election.

Emergence of new political forces

The emergence of new political groups led by young activists began to influence the political landscape: Edward Leung of Hong Kong Indigenous, a pro-independence localist group, received a better-than expected result in the New Territories East by-election in February 2016 by taking more than 66,000 votes and gaining about 15 percent of the total votes. After the election, Edward Leung claimed localism had become the third most important power  grouping in Hong Kong politics alongside the pan-democracy and pro-Beijing camps. A day after the election, three localist groups, Wong Yuk-man's Proletariat Political Institute, Wong Yeung-tat's Civic Passion and Chin Wan's Hong Kong Resurgence Order, announced to run in the upcoming election.

On 10 April 2016, six localist groups which emerged after the 2014 Umbrella Revolution, Youngspiration, Kowloon East Community, Tin Shui Wai New Force, Cheung Sha Wan Community Establishment Power, Tsz Wan Shan Constructive Power and Tuen Mun Community, formed an electoral alliance under the name "ALLinHK" planned to field candidates in four of the five geographical constituencies with the agenda to put forward a referendum on Hong Kong's self-determination, while Hong Kong Indigenous and another new pro-independence Hong Kong National Party also stated that they would run in the upcoming election.

Also on 10 April 2016, the student leaders in the Umbrella Revolution, Joshua Wong, Oscar Lai and Agnes Chow of Scholarism and Nathan Law of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) formed a new party called Demosistō and aimed to field candidates in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon East. The new party calls for referendum on Hong Kong's future after 2047 when the one country, two systems is supposed to expire.

Ronny Tong's Path of Democracy and Tik Chi-yuen's Third Side, the two new political groups which split from the Civic Party and Democratic Party respectively, seek a middle path between the pro-Beijing camp and pan-democracy camp on achieving democracy, with plans to field candidates in the geographical constituency election.

Political scientist Professor Ma Ngok believed the soaring number of political groups and candidates, which was the reflection of the increasing fragmentation of the pro-democracy camp, might split the pro-democracy votes.

ThunderGo plan
In early 2016, Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai, who was inspired by the electoral victory the Democratic Progressive Party received in the 2016 Taiwan legislative election, mapped out a "ThunderGo plan" for pan-democrats to grab half of the seats in the Legislative Council election to increase political leverage in future political reform. He suggests the anti-establishment forces to field no more than 23 lists if their goal was to win 23 seats in the geographical constituencies, six tickets for nine-seat New Territories West and New Territories East, four tickets for six-seat Hong Kong Island and Kowloon West, and three for five-seat Kowloon East respectively. For the functional constituencies, Tai suggested that besides retaining the current six trade-based functional constituencies and three territory-wide directly elected District Council (Second) super seats, the camp needs to target three additional seats in Medical, Engineering and Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape. The plan met with reservations from the very diverse interests within pro-democracy political parties, who could not agree on a united front. Tai's plan hit its setback when the Neo Democrats decided not to support the proposed coordinating mechanism for the District Council (Second) super seats in May.

Tai also worked on a "smart voters" system involving 25,000 voters who would indicate their preferences on an interactive poll via Telegram and would be informed of the popularity of candidates according to polls the day before the official vote and which would be updated through exit polling two and a half hours before polls closed. Such "smart voters" would delay voting until 8 pm and then be signalled to support candidates whose numbers were weaker instead wasting votes on stronger candidates who were already through.

Pre-election issues

Leung Chun-ying's re-election

The pan-democracy camp campaigned to block Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, whose popularity dropped to a new low, from serving a second term. Technology and media entrepreneur Ricky Wong Wai-kay, whose Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV) free-to-air television licence was denied by Leung's Executive Council in October 2013 and sparked public uproar and protests, also started his "ABC campaign" (Anyone but CY) by announcing Leung's exit as his key campaign platform. Wong was backed by the Liberal Party, a pro-Beijing party representing the business sector which had been at odds with the Chief Executive since the 2012 Chief Executive election when the Liberals openly opposed Leung.

On 28 July, President of the Legislative Council Jasper Tsang and Financial Secretary John Tsang both expressed interest in running for the Chief Executive in 2017 on different occasions. Political analysts said that the duo's moves would take some pressure off pro-Beijing camp preparing for the Legislative Council election as pro-Beijing candidates had struggled when asked in public if they supported Leung's re-election.

Causeway Bay bookseller disappearances

Lam Wing-kee, one of the five Causeway Bay booksellers who went missing from October 2015 returned to Hong Kong and revealed at a press conference in June 2016 that he was kidnapped at the China–Hong Kong border in October and put through eight months of mental torture. The controversy ignited fears that mainland law enforcement officers might have acted within the territory of Hong Kong and shook Hong Kong's confidence in the one country, two systems. Professor Lau Siu-kai, former head of the Hong Kong government's think tank, the Central Policy Unit, worried that more people might vote for pan-democracy camp in September's election.

Resignations of ICAC heads controversy

In July, acting head of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Rebecca Li Bo-lan resigned after she was removed from her position by ICAC commissioner Simon Peh Yun-lu, less than a year after he appointed her. The rare move amid speculation that Li was removed over an investigation into Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's receipt of HK$50 million from Australian firm UGL. Less than a week later, long-serving ICAC principal investigator Dale Ko also resigned without any meaningful official explanation. The controversy sparked calls for a special Legislative Council investigation and raised fears about the reputation of the anti-corruption body.

Ban on pro-independence candidates controversy

On 14 July 2016,  the Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) announced its plan to require all candidates to sign an additional "confirmation form" in the nomination to declare their understanding of Hong Kong being an inalienable part of China as stipulated in the Basic Law, in response to many potential localist candidates advocating or promoting Hong Kong independence. The EAC states that anyone making a false declaration in the nomination form was liable to criminal sanction.

EAC returning officers also sent emails to several applicants who had not been confirmed as official candidates, including Hong Kong Indigenous' Edward Leung, Civic Passion's Alvin Cheng, Hong Kong National Party's Chan Ho-tin, to ask whether they would still advocate independence after submitting the nomination form. Those questions were claimed to be a factor to determine the validity of their nominations.

After the end of the nomination period, six localist candidates received emails from the EAC which said their nominations were "invalidated", which included Chan Ho-tin, Democratic Progressive Party's Yeung Ke-cheong, Nationalist Hong Kong's Nakade Hitsujiko, Conservative Party's Alice Lai Yee-man, Hong Kong Indigenous' Edward Leung and independent Chan Kwok-keung, although many of them had signed the additional confirmation form; all except Yeung had signed the declaration statement in the nomination form saying they would "uphold the Basic Law and pledge allegiance to the Hong Kong SAR" as required by the Legislative Council Ordinance. New Territories East constituency returning officer Cora Ho Lai-sheung rejected Edward Leung's nomination on the basis that she did not trust Leung "genuinely changed his previous stance for independence."

Contesting parties and candidates
An unprecedented number of 289 validly nominated candidates contested in the election, two more than the previous election, after seven candidates were disqualified, six of whom due to their pro-independence stance, and two withdrew their candidatures. 84 lists with a total of 213 candidates contested the 35 geographical constituencies, while 55 candidates contested in the traditional functional constituencies, 43 of them ran for 18 seats in the functional constituencies. A total of 21 candidates belonging to 9 lists contested the five "super seats" in the District Council (Second) functional constituency.

Pro-Beijing camp
 Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB): The flagship Beijing-loyalist party fielded nine candidate lists in the geographical constituencies and District Council (Second) direct elections, two fewer than the 2012 election. Four veterans including the Legislative Council President Jasper Tsang and former party chairman Tam Yiu-chung stepped down from the office, while new faces Cheung Kwok-kwan and Wilson Or took up the candidacies in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon East. North District Councillor Lau Kwok-fan won a four-way intra-party primary to take up Ip Kwok-him's District Council (First) functional constituency. Incumbent Hong Kong Island legislator Christopher Chung who initially led a candidate list but was withdrawn by the party later protested against the party's decision, but later on accepted to be placed second on Cheung's list.
 Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA): Six of the seven legislators from the pro-business party sought for re-election. The party honorary chairman Lau Wong-fat retired from the Heung Yee Kuk and was succeeded by his son Kenneth Lau uncontestedly, while party chairman Andrew Leung and Abraham Shek were also re-elected uncontestedly in their trade-based constituencies. The party's sole geographical constituency legislator Priscilla Leung sought for her third term in Kowloon West.
 Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU): The pro-labour federation rose as the third largest party in the last election in 2012. The FTU remained its five tickets in four geographical constituencies and District Council (Second) "super seat", as well as two candidates in the three-seat Labour functional constituency. Veteran Chan Yuen-han stepped down from the "super seat" and was taken up by Wong Kwok-hing, while Wong's Hong Kong Island seat was taken up by Kwok Wai-keung from the Labour functional constituency.
 Liberal Party: The pro-business party had been vocal for its criticism against the Leung Chun-ying administration and positioned itself as the anti-Leung voice within the pro-establishment camp. The party honorary chairman James Tien initially planned to stand in Hong Kong Island but later stood in New Territories East as the second place with the party's rising star Dominic Lee. The party finalised its target of winning seven seats, two geographical constituencies and five functional constituencies. Incumbents Felix Chung, Tommy Cheung and Frankie Yick sought for re-election in their sectors while vice-chairman Peter Shiu to take up retiring leader Vincent Fang's place in Wholesale and Retail constituency and Joseph Chan Ho-lim to run in Commercial (First) functional constituency against BPA's Jeffrey Lam.
 New People's Party (NPP): Regina Ip's party planned to field candidates with herself and Michael Tien seeking re-election in Hong Kong Island and New Territories West and young barrister Eunice Yung running in New Territories East with the help of its local ally, district-based Civil Force.

Pan-democracy camp
 Civic Party: The Civic Party became the largest pro-democracy party along with the Democratic Party from the last election. The party received 17 nominations for the intra-party primary in January. Four incumbents, Claudia Mo, Kwok Ka-ki, Alvin Yeung and Dennis Kwok would seek re-election while party leader Alan Leong and Kenneth Chan decided to step down. The party decided to field Jeremy Tam in Kowloon East where Leong would stand in Tam's list in the second place and Tanya Chan would contest Hong Kong Island. Tsuen Wan District Councillor Sumly Chan also won the party's nomination to run in District Council (Second). Ken Tsang, who failed to get the party's nomination for running in Social Welfare left the party and ran as an independent.
 Democratic Party: The Democratic Party decided to drastically reduce their candidate lists from ten tickets to only seven in the election by conducting intra-party pre-election primaries for the candidacies. A total number of 14 nominations were received with veterans Emily Lau, Albert Ho and Sin Chung-kai not standing for re-election. The three retirees later decided to run as second candidates in the tickets led by new faces Lam Cheuk-ting, Andrew Wan and Hui Chi-fung who won the primaries. The three other incumbents, James To, Helena Wong and Wu Chi-wai would also seek re-election, while young Yuen Long District Councillor Kwong Chun-yu led a ticket in District Council (Second) "super seat".
 Labour Party: All three of the directly elected Labour incumbents, Lee Cheuk-yan, Cyd Ho and Fernando Cheung sought re-election in New Territories West, Hong Kong Island and New Territories East respectively, while the Social Welfare legislator Cheung Kwok-che announced his retirement. The newly elected chairwoman Suzanne Wu and vice-chairman Chiu Shi-shun also stood in Kowloon East.
 People Power–League of Social Democrats (PP–LSD): Facing challenges from the emerging radical post-Occupy groups, the League of Social Democrats (LSD) and the People Power formed an electoral alliance in the name of "progressive democrats". The alliance fielded nine candidates aiming to win at least six seats, New Territories East incumbents Leung Kwok-hung and Raymond Chan sought re-election with two separate tickets, while League chairman Avery Ng and People Power former chairman Christopher Lau and chairwoman Erica Yuen ran in Kowloon West and Hong Kong Island respectively. People Power's Tam Tak-chi ran in Kowloon East, while League vice-chairman Raphael Wong formed a join ticket with People Power's Albert Chan in New Territories West.
 Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL): Although being barred from running in the District Council (Second) constituency after he lost his District Council seat in the 2015 District Council election, incumbent legislator Frederick Fung changed to run in the New Territories West geographical constituency. 2012 Kowloon West candidate and vice-chairman Tam Kwok-kiu narrowly defeated chairwoman Rosanda Mok in a primary to stand in the same constituency, while Sham Shui Po District Councillor Ho Kai-ming took up Fung's place in District Council (Second).
 Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre (NWSC): The veteran NWSC legislator Leung Yiu-chung left his longtime base of New Territories West to contest in District Council (Second) constituency, while his place in New Territories West was succeeded by his long-time protege Wong Yun-tat.
 Neo Democrats: Once vowed not to participate in the District Council (Second) constituency created under the Democratic Party's modified reform proposals in 2010 which the Neo Democrats broke away from the party to oppose, the Neo Democrats fielded Kwan Wing-yip in District Council (Second), besides its current seat held by Gary Fan in New Territories East.

Localist groups
 ALLinHK and Hong Kong Indigenous: An electoral alliance formed by six post-Occupy groups emerged from the 2014 protests, consisting of Youngspiration, Kowloon East Community, Tin Shui Wai New Force, Cheung Sha Wan Community Establishment Power, Tsz Wan Shan Constructive Power and Tuen Mun Community, field candidates in four of the five constituencies while supporting Hong Kong Indigenous' Edward Leung who received a better-than-expected result in the February by-election to run again. Youngspiration's convenor Baggio Leung who initially intended to run in Hong Kong Island and stood in New Territories West finally submitted his nomination to stand in New Territories East in the wake of the EAC's measure, which he claimed to be a "substitute candidate" in case Edward Leung was disqualified in the constituency. Although nominations of all candidates from the alliance's were accepted, Edward Leung's nomination was invalidated on 2 August.
 Civic Passion–Proletariat Political Institute–Hong Kong Resurgence Order (CP–PPI–HKRO): Wong Yeung-tat's Civic Passion, Wong Yuk-man's Proletariat Political Institute and Chin Wan's Hong Kong Resurgence Order announced their plan in running in all five geographical constituencies in February 2016. The alliance fielded Wong Yuk-man and Wong Yeung-tat for the two Kowloon constituencies, Chin Wan for New Territories East, Cheng Chung-tai for New Territories West and Alvin Cheng for Hong Kong Island. Despite their localist stance, all five tickets were validated under the EAC's new election measure.
 Demosistō: The new party emerged from the 2014 Umbrella Revolution led by the movement leaders planned to field two tickets in Hong Kong Island led by chairman Nathan Law and Kowloon East by vice-chairman Oscar Lai, but Lai later dropped out due to lack of funding. Its allies in the election were Democracy Groundwork's Lau Siu-lai in Kowloon West and Land Justice League's Eddie Chu in the New Territories West who ran as a nonpartisan.
 Hong Kong National Party (HKNP): Convenor Chan Ho-tin of the first party who officially advocated for Hong Kong independence planned to run in New Territories West but was disqualified, as the EAC claimed that Chan's platform violated the Basic Law.

Moderate groups
 Path of Democracy: The new moderate group led by former Civic Party legislator Ronny Tong fielded two candidates, governors Gary Wong Chi-him and Raymond Mak Ka-chun in Hong Kong Island and New Territories East.
 Third Side: The new moderate party led by former Democratic Party vice-chairman Tik Chi-yuen planned to field candidates in Kowloon West and two New Territories constituencies, but later dropped out of the New Territories East contest and triggered the departure of ten party member including two vice-chairmen Marcus Liu Tin-shing and Ben Kuen Ping-yiu. Liu and Kuen later led an independent ticket in New Territories East; another party member Wong Sing-chi decided to run in Social Welfare as an independent.

Retiring incumbents

Campaign

Election strategies
Many political parties and groups and individuals formed strategic alliances in the campaign. Alvin Yeung of the Civic Party who led in the opinion polls in the New Territories East cooperated with Labour Party's Fernando Cheung who traced behind in the polls. Leung Yiu-chung of the Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre (NWSC) who ran in the territory-wide District Council (Second) "super seat" also had joint-promotional leaflets with Lau Siu-lai of Democracy Groundwork in Kowloon West. Liberal Party honorary chairman James Tien who was running in the New Territories East and "middle-of-the-road" politician Ricky Wong Wai-kay who aimed at the last seat in Hong Kong Island also went out of their constituencies and campaigned for each other. James Tien also campaigned for the "middle-of-the-road" party Third Side's Tik Chi-yuen who aimed at the last seat in Kowloon West against Yau Wai-ching of the localist group Youngspiration. On 15 August, it was reported that volunteers and staff from Kowloon West New Dynamic chaired by pro-Beijing politician Priscilla Leung helped Tik arrange a meet-the-public event in Sham Shui Po.

In the District Council (Second) constituency, the Democratic Party also asked the supporters of veteran James To who led in the polls to vote for another Democrat candidate Kwong Chun-yu who was fighting for the last seat against Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) candidate Holden Chow. The Democratic Party invited former Chief Secretary Anson Chan to back Kwong, who also endorsed Civic Party's Sumly Chan who ran in the same constituency.

In late August, the pro-Beijing parties also began to campaign for each other. DAB District Council (Second) candidate Holden Chow campaigned for New People's Party (NPP) New Territories East candidate Eunice Yung who was behind in the opinion polls, in exchange for the 24 NPP New Territories district councillors to campaign for Chow. Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) District Council (Second) candidate Wong Kwok-hing also campaigned with Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) Kowloon West candidate Priscilla Leung, the only constituency where the FTU did not field their candidate.

Issues and election forums
Issues including Hong Kong independence, filibustering, universal retirement protection scheme, standard working hours and Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's administration and re-election took central stage at the election forums. Pro-Beijing candidates questioned pan-democrat parties' stance on Hong Kong independence, while localist Kowloon East Community's Chan Chak-to declared his support for independence at the TVB Kowloon East electoral forum despite six pro-independence candidates had been disqualified. Localist candidates exchanged criticisms with the pan-democrats as the pan-democrat candidates dismissed localists' pro-independence call as empty talk.

The pro-Beijing candidates also accused the pan-democrats of their filibustering and obstructionism in the Legislative Council, while pan-democrat candidates attacked the pro-Beijing candidates did not push for a more progressive universal retirement protection scheme and standard working hours policies. The pan-democrats also criticised the pro-Beijing camp being allies of the Leung Chun-ying government and opposed to use Powers and Privileges Ordinance to investigate into Leung's receipt of HK$50 million from UGL Limited and resignations of ICAC heads.

Ken Chow's dropout
On 25 August, Liberal Party's Ken Chow Wing-kan who ran for New Territories West announced he would stop his electioneering at the Cable TV election forum for fear of "people close to him paying a heavy price". He earlier revealed that he was approached by a middleman to quit the race for a hefty sum of money. Chow passed a voice clip to the media before the election forum, in which a man claimed he would bring 20 to 30 Ho supporters to "pursue" Chow before and after the forum so that he would "lose mood" for the debate. The man in the clip also said the supporters should wear another candidate Lawyer Junius Ho’s vests during the forum. Ho denied having any plans to intimidate Chow and claimed he had rejected one of his supporters' proposal to "pursue" Chow.

Pan-democrat candidates' dropouts
On 2 September less than 48 hours before the election day and after the release of the large-scale opinion poll conducted by University of Hong Kong Public Opinion Programme (HKUPOP) and sponsored by pro-democracy group Power for Democracy, five pro-democrat candidates, independents Paul Zimmerman and Chui Chi-kin in Hong Kong Island, Labour Party's Suzanne Wu in Kowloon East and Civic Party's Sumly Chan and Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood's (ADPL) Kalvin Ho in District Council (Second), suspended their campaigns in the hope of deflecting support to fellow pan-democrats who were seen as standing a better chance. Clarice Cheung Wai-ching, a non-aligned independent also abandoned her campaign in New Territories West and called her supporters to vote for pan-democrat candidates. On 3 September, the third pro-democratic District Council (Second) candidate Kwan Wing-yip also aborted his campaign but marked it as "a dark day for democracy".

Opinion polling

The reliability of the rolling poll conducted by the University of Hong Kong Public Opinion Programme (HKUPOP) was widely questioned. The sample size of the poll, fewer than 300 respondents in each of the five geographical constituencies each day, was criticised as being too small. Additionally, pollsters only mentioned the first candidate on the list during interviews which could have made a difference in the results, as many veterans, including Democrats Sin Chung-kai, Albert Ho and Emily Lau, Liberal James Tien, Civic Party's Alan Leong, and People Power Albert Chan, stood in the second place behind the new faces on their party lists while their lists continued to trail behind in the polls. After the complaints, the HKUPOP decided to mention two candidates on the candidate list to respondents from 22 August night onwards.

Results

Before election:

Change in composition:

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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | DAB
| 361,617 || 16.68 || 3.54 || 7 || 98 || 0.06 || 0.01 || 3 || 568,561 || 29.77 || 0.19 || 2 || 12 || 1
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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | BPA
| 49,745 || 2.29 || N/A || 1 || 4,622 || 2.76 || N/A || 6 || - || - || - || - || 7 || 0
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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | FTU
| 169,854 || 7.83 || 0.77 || 3 || - || - || - || 2 || 233,236 || 12.11 || 3.36 || 0 || 5 || 1
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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | Liberal
| 21,500 || 0.99 || 1.70 || 0 || 6,381 || 3.82 || 3.06 || 4 || - || - || - || - || 4 || 1
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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | NPP
| 167,589 || 7.73 || 3.97 || 3 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 3 || 1
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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | FLU
| - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 1 || - || - || - || - || 1 || 0
|-
| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | New Forum
| - || - || - || - || 1,389 || 0.83 || - || 1 || - || - || - || - || 1 || 0
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| style="background-color:#DDDDDD;" |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 | Pro-Beijing others
| 100,711 || 4.64 || N/A || 2 || 40,255 || 24.07 || N/A || 5 || - || - || - || - || 7 || 1
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| colspan=4 style="text-align:left;" | Total for pro-Beijing camp
| 871,016 || 40.17 || 2.49 || 16 || 52,745 || 31.54 || 4.62 || 22 || 801,797 || 41.98 || 3.45 || 2 || 40 || 3
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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | Democratic
| 199,876 || 9.22 || 4.43 || 5 || 1,231 || 0.74 || 0.29 || 0 || 735,597 || 38.51 || 4.25 || 2 || 7 || 1
|-
| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | Civic
| 207,885 || 9.59 || 4.49 || 5 || 3,405 || 2.04 || 1.11 || 1 || 28,311 || 1.48 || N/A || 0 || 6 || 0
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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | PP–LSD
| 156,019 || 7.20 || 7.39 || 2 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 2 || 1
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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | Professional Commons
| - || - || - || - || 18,384 || 10.99 || N/A || 2 || - || - || - || - || 2 || 0
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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | Labour
| 101,860 || 4.70 || 1.49 || 1 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - ||  1 || 3
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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | NWSC
| 20,974 || 0.97 || 1.45 || 0 || - || - || - || - || 303,457 || 15.89 || N/A|| 1 || 1 || 0
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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | PTU
| - || - || - || - || 45,984 || 27.49 || 5.28 || 1 || - || - || - || - || 1 || 0
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| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | ADPL
| 33,255 || 1.53 || 0.16 || 0 || - || - || - || - || 17,175 || 0.90 || 15.57 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | Neo Democrats
| 31,595 || 1.46 || 0.12 || 0 || - || - || - || - || 23,631 || 1.24 || N/A || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
| style="background-color:#DDDDDD;" |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 | Other democrats
| 29,704 || 1.37 || N/A || 0 || 29,895 || 17.87 || N/A || 3 || - || - || - || - || 3 || 2
|-class="sortbottom" style="background-color:LightGreen"
| colspan=4 style="text-align:left;" | Total for pan-democrats
| 781,168 || 36.02 || 20.14 || 13 || 98,899 || 59.13 || 3.15 || 7 || 1,108,171 || 58.02 || 7.29 || 3 || 23 || 3
|-
| rowspan=5 style="background-color:Moccasin;border-bottom-style:hidden;" |
| style="background-color:#F4681D"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | ALLinHK
| 81,422 || 3.75 || New || 2 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - ||  2 || 2
|-
| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | CP–PPI–HKRO
| 154,176 || 7.11 || N/A || 1 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 1 || 0
|-
| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | Demosistō
| 50,818 || 2.34 || New || 1 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 1 || 1
|-
| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | Democracy Groundwork
| 38,183 || 1.76 || New || 1 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 1 || 1
|-
| style="background-color:#DDDDDD;" |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 | Other localists
| 87,294 || 4.03 || N/A || 1 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 1 || 1
|-class="sortbottom" style="background-color:Moccasin"
| colspan=4 style="text-align:left;" | Total for localists
| 411,893 || 19.00 || - || 6 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 6 || 5
|-
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:#DDDDDD;border-bottom-style:hidden;" |
| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | Path of Democracy
| 18,112 || 0.84 || New || 0  || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 0 || 0
|-
| style="background-color:"|
| align="left" colspan=2 | Third Side
| 13,461 || 0.62 || New || 0 || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || - || 0 || 0
|-
| style="background-color:#DDDDDD;" |
| style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 | Non-aligned independents
| 72,761 || 3.36 || N/A || 0  || 15,613 || 9.33 || N/A || 1 || - || - || - || - || 1 || 1
|-class="sortbottom" style="background-color:#DDDDDD"
| colspan=4 style="text-align:left;" | Total for non-aligned others
| 103,334 || 4.81 || 3.71 || 0 || 15,613 || 9.33 || 7.78 || 1 || - || - || - || - || 1 || 1
|- class="sortbottom"
|colspan=4 style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|  2,167,411 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 100.00 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 35 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 167,257 ||  style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 100.00 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 30 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 1,909,968 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 100.00 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|  || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 5 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 70 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| -
|- class="sortbottom"
| colspan="18" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|- class="sortbottom"
|colspan=4 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | Valid votes || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 2,167,411 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 98.42 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 0.04 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9" rowspan=4 |  || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 167,257 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 96.78 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 2.81 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9" rowspan=4 |  || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 1,909,968 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 96.31 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 1.15 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=3 rowspan=4 |
|- class="sortbottom"
|colspan=4 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | Invalid votes || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 34,872 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 1.58 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 0.04|| style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 5,563 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 3.22 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 2.81 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 73,081 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 3.72 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 1.15
|- class="sortbottom"
|colspan=4 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | Votes cast / turnout || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 2,202,283 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 58.28 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 4.97 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | 172,820 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 74.33 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 4.68 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | 1,983,049 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 57.09 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 5.14
|- class="sortbottom"
|colspan=4 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | Registered voters|| style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 3,779,085 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | 100.00 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 9.03 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 232,498 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 100.00 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 7.15 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 3,473,792 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 100.00 || style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 7.89
|}

Votes summary

Seats summary

Results by district

Incumbents defeated
Fifteen incumbents lost re-election.

Outcome

A unprecedented number of 2.2 million voters cast their votes, which composed of 58 per cent of the total electorate. Many voters queued outside the polling stations even after polling stations were due to close at 10:30 pm and a polling station in Taikoo Shing, the last vote was cast at almost 2:30am. the anti-establishment forces, including the pan-democrats and the localists, won 29 out of 70 seats; managed to retain the majority in the geographical constituencies to block the pro-Beijing camp's attempt to amend the rule of procedures to curb radicals' filibustering and the opposition's crucial one-thirds minority to maintain the veto power on government's constitutional reform proposal.

The localists, six backers of self-determination for Hong Kong, including Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the post-Occupy group Youngspiration, Occupy student leader Nathan Law of the Demosisto, who became the youngest ever candidate to be elected, Polytechnic University lecturer Lau Siu-lai, Eddie Chu, were returned in the geographical constituencies, securing of nearly 20 per cent of the vote share. Eddie Chu, a social activist and environmentalist, bagged more than 84,000 votes, the highest votes received in the geographical constituencies, without any party backing in New Territories West, leading the first runner-up, New People's Party's Michael Tien by about 13,000 votes. His allies, Nathan Law and Lau Siu-lai also became the pro-democrats which received the highest votes in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon West. The three took a total of 173,122 votes. For the ardently localist faction, Baggio Leung, leader of Youngspiration won in New Territories East after his ally, Hong Kong Indigenous' Edward Leung was barred from poll while Yau Wai-ching won last seat in Kowloon West by about 400 votes at the expense of veteran Wong Yuk-man of the Proletariat Political Institute. Wong's ally, Civic Passion leader Wong Yeung-tat also lost in his second bid in Kowloon East. Only Cheng Chung-tai from the electoral alliance won a seat in the New Territories West.

The pan-democrats saw their big names losing, including Labour Party's Lee Cheuk-yan and Cyd Ho and Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood's (ADPL) Frederick Fung. As a result, ADPL and Neo Democrats were ousted from the legislature while Labour retained only one seat. Benny Tai's ThunderGo plan was blamed as he released on the election day a list of recommended pro-democratic candidates based on pre-polling. It drew the voters to vote for the candidates who were on the brink of losing as shown in the polls from other candidates, which resulted in highest votes received by Eddie Chu, Lau Siu-lai and Nathan Law at other veteran democrats' expenses. Kwong Chun-yu, a Democratic Party young candidate in the District Council (Second) "super seat" who was also tracing behind in the polls received the highest votes of nearly 500,000 votes as a result, while the former "King of Votes", veteran Democrat James To who had led in the polls for weeks faced a tough battle with pro-Beijing Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions's (FTU) Wong Kwok-hing for the last of the five "super seats". To secured the third seats for the pan-democrats with a thin margin of 10,694 votes. By putting themselves on the second place in their candidate lists, the veteran Democrats also managed to help their young colleagues to be elected, which made the Democratic Party the largest pro-democratic party again, overtaking the Civic Party. The pro-democrats retained their six out of nine seats in New Territories East, with both radicals democrats, Leung Kwok-hung of the League of Social Democrats (LSD) and Chan Chi-chuen of the People Power retained their seats despite the overcrowding of the pro-democratic tickets. Leung, who took the last seat in the New Territories East by the margin of only 1,051 votes.

The pan-democrats also boost their functional constituency seats to 10. Besides retaining the pan-democrats' traditional strongholds including Legal and Education, as well as Kenneth Leung's Accountancy and Charles Mok's Information Technology, pan-democrat Edward Yiu made a surprise victory in Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape, defeating incumbent pro-Beijing Tony Tse who became the only incumbent who lost in the functional constituencies. The pro-Beijing camp remained dominant in the functional constituencies. The pro-business Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) dominated in the functional constituencies by retaining six seats as well as Priscilla Leung's seat in Kowloon West. The Liberal Party came second by retaining the four functional constituency despite Joseph Chan's unsuccessful challenge against BPA's Jeffrey Lam in Commercial (First) and Dominic Lee's failed bid in New Territories East. The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) maintained its status as the largest party by winning 12 seats in total, one seat fewer than the previous election, while Regina Ip's New People's Party took one extra seat in New Territories East with a young barrister Eunice Yung who was supported by the Liaison Office. Another pro-Beijing candidate supported by the Liaison Office, independent lawyer Junius Ho, also won the last seat in New Territories West against Lee Cheuk-yan.

Candidate lists and results
The nominations received and validated by the Electoral Affairs Commission listed as following:

Geographical Constituencies (35 seats)
Voting system: Party-list proportional representation with largest remainder method and Hare quota.

District Council (Second) Functional Constituency (5 seats)
Voting system: Party-list proportional representation with largest remainder method and Hare quota.

Other Functional Constituencies (30 seats)
Voting systems: Different voting systems apply to different functional constituencies, namely for the Heung Yee Kuk, Agriculture and Fisheries, Insurance and Transport, the preferential elimination system of voting was used; and for the remaining 24 FCs the first-past-the-post voting system.

Aftermath
New People's Party chairwoman Regina Ip's car was caught driving out from the Liaison Office few hours after the election. Ip initially told Ming Pao her car was at the Liaison Office because she was sending some books she wrote to her friends there. She later admitted she lied about it as she "was requested by the other party to keep the meeting confidential". She also denied that she went there to thank Beijing for its support in the election. She was criticised as the Liaison Office had been accused for meddling in local politics and elections.

Rosanda Mok of the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood and Erica Yuen of the People Power resigned as chairwoman after the parties' election defeats. Gary Fan who lost Neo Democrats' only seat in the legislature also resigned from the party's executive committee. Three Neo Democrats' Sha Tin District Councillors, Yau Man-chun, Billy Chan Shiu-yeung and Sunny Chiu Chu-pong, who campaigned for another pro-democrat Andrew Cheng without the party's consent were expelled from the party after the election. Fan criticised Cheng, Fan's mentor, for splitting the votes and causing his defeat.

Benny Tai's tactical voting plan ThunderGo was also blamed for causing the losses of the veteran pan-democrats, including Labour Party's Lee Cheuk-yan, as well as Civic Passion's Wong Yeung-tat, in whom the plan advise to drop to make way for League of Social Democrats' Wong Ho-ming and People Power's Tam Tak-chi in New Territories West and Kowloon East respectively. The seats were eventually won by pro-Beijing independents Junius Ho and Paul Tse in those constituencies. Benny Tai said the root of the matter was the fragmenting of the opposition camp, leading to many candidate lists which led to the need for tactical voting.

After the election, nonpartisan Eddie Chu, who was widely known for taking on the Heung Yee Kuk over its land rights, complained of "imminent" death threats against him and his family. Chu's campaign drew public attention to the long-time allegations of collusion between the government, business, landlords and triads behind the Wang Chau housing project, which made the government to scale down the housing project from 17,000 flats to only 4,000 due to the pressure from the powerful rural leader Tsang Shu-wo who owned the brownfield land in Wang Chau. He was placed under round-the-clock protection by the police days after the election. The incident escalated into the a major political crisis in the following weeks as the government was questioned over the alleged collusion.

On 8 September, Chan Ho-tin of the Hong Kong National Party (HKNP) who was disqualified from standing in the election challenged the government through an election petition. Edward Leung of Hong Kong Indigenous also filed his legal petition over his disqualification on 7 October. On 13 February 2018, the High Court ruled against Chan Ho-tin on his petition.

See also
6th Legislative Council of Hong Kong
2016 President of the Hong Kong Legislative Council election
2018 Hong Kong by-election
Hong Kong legislative elections
Hong Kong LegCo members' oath-taking controversy
2014 NPCSC Decision on Hong Kong, which affected this election

Footnotes

References

External links

Official websites
 2016 Legislative Council election official website
 Electoral Affairs Commission
 Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Manifestos and platforms
 Civic Party: "Our Future Our Say"
 Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong: "Moving Forward · Hong Kong"
 Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre: Autonomy for the Grassroots and Fight Against Hegemony of All Kinds

Legislative
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Hong Kong
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Hong Kong


title: Badminton at the 2014 Asian Games – Men's team

text:
The badminton men's team tournament at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon took place from 20 September to 23 September at Gyeyang Gymnasium.

A total of ten countries entered the competition.

The final of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games on 23 September was a repeat of the Guangzhou Asian Games, with the South Korea men's team meeting China. In the end, South Korean players defeated their Chinese rivals and gained their third Asian Games men's title.

World No 2 seed Chen Long lost to seventh-ranked Son Wan-ho of South Korea 5–21, 24–22, 14–21 to hand the host a 1–0 lead in the best-of-five series. Korean doubles team made it 2–0. Five-time champion Lin Dan, eased past Lee Dong-keun of South Korea in the third, critical match. China won the second doubles match but Korea went to win the series 3–2. The bronze medal went to Malaysia and Chinese Taipei.

Schedule
All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Results

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal match

Non-participating athletes

References

Results

External links
Official website

Badminton at the 2014 Asian Games


title: Smyrna, Nebraska

text:
Smyrna is an unincorporated community in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, United States.

History
A post office was established at Smyrna in 1887, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1913. The community was named after the ancient city of Smyrna.

References

Unincorporated communities in Nuckolls County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Avani Davda

text:
Avani Davda was the first CEO at Tata Starbucks and at 33, the youngest CEO in the Tata Group. In 2014, she ranked 13 on 'The Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink' list in Fortune and Food & Wine.

She resigned from the role on 18 December 2015 being replaced by Sumi Ghosh. Now, she is the Managing Director of Godrej Nature's Basket.

Davda grew up in Mumbai and holds a bachelor’s degree from the H.R. College of Commerce and Economics and a master's degree in business administration from the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies. Before her elevation to CEO, she worked at other Tata Group companies, including Tata Administrative Services, The Indian Hotels Company (aka Taj Hotels) and Infiniti Retail Ltd.

References

Indian chairpersons of corporations
Businesswomen from Maharashtra
Tata Group people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Indian chief executives
Indian women chief executives


title: Kate Richards

text:
Kate Richards is an Australian writer, doctor and medical researcher.  She writes and speaks about her experiences with mental illness, and is the author of two books on the subject.

Early life and education
Richards is a graduate of  RMIT University in Melbourne, and Monash University, where she trained as a doctor while battling mental illness in the form of severe depression.

Career

After battling depression for fifteen years, including periods of self-harm and attempted suicide, Richards wrote a detailed account of her personal experiences, both with the illness itself and with the many psychiatrists and other health professionals who treated her.  The book, titled Madness: A Memoir, was published by Penguin Books in 2013, and has been widely discussed and positively reviewed by both the literary and the medical communities.  In 2014 the book won the $5000 Dobbie Literary Award for a first book by an Australian female writer  and the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature (non-fiction).

In 2014, Richards' second book. Is There No Place For Me? Making Sense of Madness was published by Penguin Books. This book was shortlisted for the Government of Australia Human Rights Non-Fiction Literature Award.

In 2019 her first novel, Fusion, was published by Penguin Books. It was shortlisted for Best Novel at the 2019 Australian Shadow Awards.

Richards works as a medical researcher, and also writes and lectures about the writing process and about her experiences with mental illness.

Works
 Madness: A Memoir, Penguin Books, 2014
 Is There No Place For Me? Making Sense of Madness, Penguin Books, 2014
 Wild Minds: Writing from the Heart of Madness, Alternativas, 2018
 Fusion, Penguin Books, 2019

References

External links
http://www.penguin.com.au/contributors/6859/kate-richards
"The dark well" Sydney Morning Herald, 20 January 2013

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian medical writers


title: Sport in Astana

text:
Astana is home to many sports teams.

Football

The city has a variety of sporting teams. The major association football team is FC Astana of the Kazakhstan Premier League. Founded in 2009, Astana won one Kazakhstan Premier League title, two Kazakhstan Cups and one Kazakhstan Super Cup. Their home ground is the Astana Arena, which is also serves as a home for the Kazakhstan national football team. The FC Astana-1964 is based in the Kazhimukan Munaitpasov Stadium and plays in the Kazakhstan First Division, the second tier of football in Kazakhstan. The club's most successful years were 2000s, when they won Kazakhstan Premier League for 3 times. The FC Bayterek is also plays in the Kazakhstan First Division. They were founded in 2012, to develop youth football.

Ice hockey

Astana is home for several professional ice hockey teams. The Barys Astana, a founding member of the Kontinental Hockey League in 2008. The Nomad Astana and the HC Astana are play in the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship. The Snezhnye Barsy of the Junior Hockey League is a junior team of the Barys Astana. All of the teams are based in the Kazakhstan Sports Palace. Astana annually hosts the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan's Cup ice hockey tournament. The Barys Arena is an ice hockey venue under construction will be home arena for Barys Astana.

Other sports teams

The Astana Pro Team of the UCI World Tour, founded in 2006 to develop the brand "Astana" in the international sporting arena. The team is one of the most successful teams of recent years, winning several grand tours. The BC Astana of the VTB United League and the National Basketball League is the only basketball team in Astana. They are most crowned basketball team in Kazakhstan with 3 National Basketball League titles and 4 National Basketball Cups. Their home arena is the Saryarka Velodrome, which is mainly used for track cycling events. The Saryarka Velodrome hosted the UCI Track Cycling World Cup stage in 2011. The Astana Arlans are an amateur boxing team competing in the World Series of Boxing. Arlans became champions in the third edition of WSB in 2013. The Astana Presidential Sports Club was founded in 2012, to combine the main sports teams in Astana. The organization supported by Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna. The 2011 Asian Winter Games were partly held in the capital. The Alau Ice Palace is annually hosts the ISU Speed Skating World Cup. The President's Cup tennis tournament annually held at the National Tennis Center Daulet. In 2014, Astana will open the National Paralympics Training Center for paralympic athletes in Kazakhstan. Although bandy is the only team sport in which Kazakhstan has brought home World Championship medals, it has just started to be played again in Astana. The city has organised both national championships for youth in rink bandy and in regular bandy for adults. After having been based in both Almaty and Oral, the seat of Kazakhstan Bandy Federation is now the in capital.

Notable sports figures
 Alexander Achziger
 Anna Alyabyeva
 Larisa Bergen
 Maxim Iglinsky
 Valentin Iglinsky
 Arman Kamyshev
 Mark Starostin
 Gulzat Uralbayeva
 Maksim Zhalmagambetov
 Igor Zubrilin

References


title: O'Hara's Playboys

text:
John O'Hara and His Playboys was a Glasgow 1960s–70s pop group. The band had a  successful career in Germany between 1962 and 1966. They toured widely in Germany, headlining at the Star Club in Hamburg several times, and sang with Barbara Murphy. O'Hara went on to play with British band The Californians. After the band's return to UK they supported various major American bands in concert and 1968-69 made eight TV appearances on ITV, Scottish Television, Teilifís Éireann, BBC1 and BBC2 including the Golden Shot. They were the first band to be given both halves of an episode of Colour Me Pop being filmed live in Sheffield for the first half of the programme and then recording the second half at the BBC.

Discography

Singles
1964 - "Louie Louie" / "Stampfkartoffeln Tä-Tä-Rä" - John O'Hara and His Playboys, Decca Germany 1964 Decca D19552
1964 - "Das War Gestern" / "Ein Zwei Drei"  - Decca Germany
1964 - "Doo Wah Diddy Diddy" / "Mr Moonlight" - Decca D19554
1966 - "Start all over" / "I've Been Wondering" - Fontana TF763
1967 - "Spicks and Specks" / "One Fine Lady" - Fontana TF793
1967 - "Ballad of the Soon Departed" / "Tell Me Why" - Fontana TF 872
1967 - "Island in the Sun" / "Harry" - Fontana TF893
1968 - "In the Shelter of Your Heart" / Goodnight Mr Moonlight - Fontana TF924
1968 - "I Started A Joke" / "Show Me" - Fontana TF974
1968 - "Voices" / "Blue Dog" - Fontana
1969 - "More Than Just A Woman" / "No No No No" - Fontana TF1043

Albums
1964 LP - Playboys Party No1 - Decca BLK16295P Last night/ Medley: Mashed potatoes; Es gibt kein bier auf Hawai; Mashed potatoes/Das Humbta-Tatera / Skinny Minnie/ Watermelon man/ La Bamba/ Twist and shout/ What'd I say/ Jumping with symphony Sid.
1968 LP - Get Ready - Fontana TLF461

References

Scottish pop music groups


title: Edward Lisbona

text:
Edward Maurice Lisbona (16 July 1905 – 30 November 1989) was an English songwriter, who under the name of Eddie "Piano" Miller, was also a popular piano player and bandleader of the 1950s and 1960s.

Lisbona was born in Manchester, England. He died in Pinellas Park, Florida, United States.

Songwriter
"It's My Mother's Birthday Today", a hit for Arthur Tracy
"Bob's Your Uncle"
"Ticky-Ticky-Tee (Shoemaker's Serenade)"
"Symphony of Spring"
"Gently", recorded by Elvis Presley in 1961 (Something for Everybody)
"Prayer", written with Alfred Bryan, recorded by Eddy Arnold

References

1905 births
1989 deaths
English male songwriters
English pianists
Big band bandleaders
Musicians from Manchester
20th-century British musicians
20th-century British pianists
British expatriates in the United States


title: Seattle Cascades

text:
The Seattle Cascades were a charter franchise of World Team Tennis (WTT). The team first played as the Hawaii Leis in the league's inaugural 1974 season, before becoming the Sea-Port Cascades for the 1977 season, when it played half its home matches in Seattle, Washington and the other half in Portland, Oregon. The team left Portland in 1978, and played nearly all its home matches in Seattle. The Cascades announced the team would fold following the 1978 season.

Team history

Founding and inaugural season
The Cascades were founded as WTT's charter franchise for San Diego, California in 1973, by orthodontist Dr. Leonard Bloom. The team adopted the name San Diego Swingers.

The top 10 draft choices of the Swingers in the WTT inaugural draft were

None of these players were on the Leis' opening day roster.

Before ever playing in San Diego, Bloom sold the team on February 15, 1974, to San Rafael, California lumber sales executive Don Kelleher who relocated the team to Honolulu, Hawaii. Rudy Tulipani was Kelleher's minority partner. After a contest was held to name the team, and more than 600 entries were submitted, the Swingers were renamed the Hawaii Leis. The Leis played nine of their 22 home matches at the Honolulu International Center and the other 13 at the Student Council Gymnasium on the campus of President William McKinley High School during the league's inaugural in 1974 season.

After moving to Hawaii, the team was active in the trade market. The Leis acquired Dennis Ralston and Ann Kiyomura in trades with the San Francisco Golden Gaters and Valerie Ziegenfuss and Ross Case in a trade with the Los Angeles Strings. Other players opening the season with the Leis were Brigitte Cuypers, Mike Machette and Kristy Pigeon. Ralston was the team's player-coach.

On May 7, 1974, the Leis played their inaugural match at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in the hamlet of Uniondale in the town of Hempstead, New York against the New York Sets in front of 4,999 fans. Under rules used only during the first few weeks of the season, the match comprised two sets of women's singles, two sets of men's singles and two sets of mixed doubles. No men's or women's doubles were played. WTT changed the match format on May 18, 1974, to one set each of men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. Ziegenfuss topped Pam Teeguarden in the opening set of women's singles for the Leis, 6–4. Case took the second set in men's singles against Manuel Santana, 6–4. The Leis went on to win four of the six sets and take the match, 29–25.

The Leis' first home match was a 26–19 loss to the Golden Gaters in front of 2,689 fans at the Honolulu International Center on May 20, 1974.

The Leis signed Hawaiian player Charlie Panui midway through the season. Panui teamed with Kiyomura in mixed doubles on July 30, to take a set from David Lloyd and Ann Haydon Jones of the Minnesota Buckskins in a tiebreaker. The Leis lost the match in front of a home crowd of just 545 fans.

The Leis signed Barry McKay during the season.

The Leis finished the 1974 season with 14 wins and 30 losses, last place in the Pacific Section.

Buchholz becomes new coach
With six teams either folding or being contracted, one suspending operations and one new expansion team joining the league, there were many players who participated in WTT in 1974 who were available for 1975. The Leis brought back Brigitte Cuypers from the prior year's squad. They added Owen Davidson (Minnesota Buckskins), Butch Buchholz (Chicago Aces) and Chris Evert (Florida Flamingos) in the dispersal draft. John Newcombe was on loan from the Houston E-Z Riders who had suspended operations (and would later fold). The Leis selected Helen Gourlay in the dispersal draft when the E-Z Riders suspended operations. They also added Kathy Kuykendall and Tom Edlefsen. Evert, who had not expressed interest in playing WTT in 1975, was traded to the San Francisco Golden Gaters for Margaret Court who sat out 1974, while she was pregnant but signed with the Leis for 1975. Buchholz became the player-coach. The Leis also added four local Hawaiian players: Heather Dahlgren, Stanley Pasarell, Peter Burwash and Jim Osborne.

The Leis played a 46-match WTT regular season schedule in 1975. The league used neutral-site matches to cut down on travel and create events where fans could see multiple teams either with one admission or over the course of a few days. These special events were called WTT Spectaculars. Because of these and because of scheduling challenges created when the E-Z Riders suspended operations just days before the season started, the 10 teams in the league did not play an equal number of matches. Seven of them played 44 matches, while the Leis, Boston Lobsters and San Diego Friars each played 46 matches. The Leis played home matches at both the Hawaii International Center and the Royal Lahaina Tennis Ranch in Lāhainā, Maui County, Hawaii.

With the remade roster filled with big-name stars, the Leis were doing much better at the gate. The team's average home attendance was up 72% over the prior year, the second largest percentage increase in WTT, as of the mid-season Wimbledon break.

Newcombe and Davidson were not committed to the Leis full-time. In addition, Newcombe suffered torn cartilage in his knee in June, which caused him to miss matches. The Leis struggled to a record of 14 wins and 32 losses, barely avoiding last place in the Western Division and the worst record in WTT by winning a standings tiebreaker over the Friars who had the same record.

Năstase joins the Leis
Although the Leis (then the Swingers) had drafted Ilie Năstase with their fourth pick in the WTT inaugural draft, they had left him unprotected in the 1974 draft, and he was selected by the New York Sets. In late 1975, Năstase expressed interest in playing WTT but not in New York, because New York fans had widely criticized him for his on-court behavior and emotional outbursts. The Sets agreed to allow the Leis to negotiate with Năstase with compensation going from Hawaii to New York if the Leis were to sign him to a contract. The Leis signed Năstase to a one-year contract worth in excess of $100,000. Leis owner Don Kelleher would not describe the amount with any more specificity than, "It was six figures." The Leis sent undisclosed cash consideration and draft picks to the Sets to complete the deal. The announcement of the trade for and signing of Năstase was made at the WTT's 1975 draft at which the most noteworthy player chosen by the Leis was two-sport star John Lucas.

On April 23, 1976, the Leis reached a deal with the Pittsburgh Triangles whereby the Triangles would loan Sue Stap to the Leis for one year for an undisclosed amount of cash consideration. Under the deal, the rights to Stap revert to the Triangles after the 1976 season.

In addition to Năstase and Stap, the Leis also acquired Marcie Louie from the Golden Gaters. Player-coach Butch Buchholz, Owen Davidson and Helen Gourlay all returned from the previous season's team. The rights to John Newcombe were traded to the Los Angeles Strings. Margaret Court retired to have her third child.

On June 2, the Leis acquired Nancy Gunter in a trade with the Triangles for Sue Stap which completed both teams' obligations under the player loan agreement for Stap.

On June 6, Leis president Don Kelleher announced plans to sue Năstase for breach of contract seeking $4 million in damages. Năstase had left the Leis, because his visa had expired and then informed the team that he was not coming back.

The Leis planned to play all their home matches in the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena, the largest venue within the Honolulu International Center complex in 1976, leaving behind the smaller venues they had used in their first two seasons in Hawaii. Attendance at Leis' home matches was disappointing. While it hadn't slipped significantly from 1975, it was averaging about 2,500 fans per match for the first seven home dates of 1976. On July 2, Leis' president Kelleher announced that six home matches in late July would be moved: three to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon and three to the Seattle Center Coliseum in Seattle, Washington. Kelleher said that he was looking into the possibility of moving the Leis to one of those two cities or having a joint franchise that would play in both cities. When announcing the movement of the six home matches to the Pacific Northwest, Kelleher said, "We feel we'll move." He then backed down slightly and said, "Let's say we're thinking of it. If we do move, Seattle is a strong possibility."

The Leis finished the 1976 season with 12 wins and 32 losses, last place in the Western Division and the worst record in WTT.

Move to Pacific Northwest

On September 23, 1976, team president Don Kelleher announced that the Leis would leave Hawaii for the 1977 season and play half their home matches in Seattle, Washington and the other half in Portland, Oregon. The team was renamed the Sea-Port Cascades.

Kelleher wanted to repair the rift with Ilie Năstase. However, Năstase did not want to live in the Pacific Northwest. The Cascades traded his rights to the Los Angeles Strings who gave him a six-year contract worth $1.5 million and two silver Corvettes. The Cascades selected Evonne Goolagong Cawley in the dispersal draft held after the Pittsburgh Triangles folded. Kelleher was in serious negotiations with her when she became pregnant and decided not to play. The Cascades did have success signing Betty Stöve whom the team had selected in the draft, after she was left unprotected by the San Francisco Golden Gaters.

In February 1977, former Leis player Marcie Louie filed a lawsuit against the Cascades claiming breach of contract, libel, slander and invasion of privacy. She was seeking $1.5 million in damages.

Kelleher hired Marty Loughman as the team's general manager. Loughman signed JoAnne Russell, Erik van Dillen, Patricia Bostrom and Steve Docherty as free agents. Bostrom had been a star collegiate player with the Washington Huskies. On March 6, 1977, the Cascades landed another local player when they signed Tom Gorman who was ranked 12th in the world at the time and had played collegiate tennis for the Seattle Chieftains.

The Cascades played 11 of their 22 home matches at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland and the other 11 in Seattle. Some of the home matches in Seattle were played at the Seattle Center Coliseum. Most of them were played at the smaller Mercer Arena.

The Cascades were streaky in 1977. They started their season with 6 wins in their first 8 matches. Then, they lost 9 of their final 11 matches closing the first half of the season. Several players had bright moments during the season. Stöve had a brilliant Wimbledon during the break in the WTT schedule, reaching the final in women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles, but losing all three. She did return after the break to win the WTT Female All-Star Match Most Valuable Player Award. Russell teamed with former Leis player Helen Gourlay to beat Stöve and Martina Navratilova in the Wimbledon women's doubles final. In league play, Gorman recorded two set wins over Björn Borg who was at the peak of his Hall of Fame career.

The Cascades players maintained residences in Seattle during the 1977 season. After home matches in Portland, the players were expected to catch the first commercial flight back to Seattle, because team president Kelleher refused to pay for hotel rooms for them.

At the start of the Wimbledon break, Kelleher fired the Cascades public relations director George Hill. In announcing the firing, Kelleher said, "We looked around at all the empty seats and felt we needed to be more sales oriented." However, the team had lost 9 of its previous 11 matches, and Kelleher refused to allocate any money in the team's budget to pay for advertising. Upset with the firing of Hill, salesperson Dianne Shorett and secretary/bookkeeper Molly Cheshier both quit. Shortett later sued the Cascades claiming $3,360.03 in unpaid salary and commissions.

The Cascades finished the 1977 season with 18 wins and 26 losses, fourth place in the Western Division and secured the first playoff berth in franchise history.

The Cascades went on the road for the first match of the best-of-three Western Division Semifinals and lost, 30–14, to a seasoned Phoenix Racquets team on August 16. Two days later, the Cascades hosted the second match at Pamplin Sports Center in Portland. Kelleher was convinced that no advertising was needed for a playoff match in which the opposing team featured Chris Evert. When general manager Loughman saw the advance ticket sales were very low, he drove through the streets of downtown Portland on the day of the match with a loudspeaker on top of his car advertising the playoff match and the presence of Evert and the Racquets. It didn't help. Fewer than 700 people showed up to see the Cascades fall in a tight match, 27–26, ending the season for Sea-Port. After the match, Evert said, "I haven't played before a crowd like this, in a high school gym like this, since I was playing juniors."

Loughman resigned as general manager on September 7, saying, "It's Don Kelleher's team and his money, and he's entitled to run the club and spend his money any way he wants. But for me to be involved it had to be more professional."

Final season
On September 11, 1977, Kelleher announced that the Cascades were leaving Portland and planned to play all their 1978 home matches in Seattle and would be renamed the Seattle Cascades.

In late 1977, the Cascades announced that John DeVries had been named the team's executive director. Just three months after taking the job, DeVries was fired after a dozen sales people had resigned. DeVries said, "Joining the franchise was one of the worst mistakes of my life. They are still not a first-class operation. What they need are new owners. They are still looking for the Seattle business community to support them. They are Jesse James trying to get into everybody's pocket."

Kelleher attracted a group of four local Seattle investors to buy shares of the team. The group was led by radio industry executive Howard Leendersten. At the insistence of the new investor group, the Cascades hired Pat Dawson as operations director. Dawson had experience as a publicist and many connections in the community.

The Cascades signed Sherwood Stewart, Marita Redondo, and Chris Kachel during the off-season. They also reacquired Brigitte Cuypers who had played for the team in 1974 and 1975. Player-coach Tom Gorman and Betty Stöve returned from the previous season's team.

The Cascades played 1978 home matches at both Seattle Center Coliseum and Mercer Arena. Of the team's 22 home matches, 19 were played in Seattle. Portland, Corvallis, Oregon and Boise, Idaho each hosted one Cascades home match.

The Cascades were involved in a noteworthy incident during a home match against the New York Apples. The Cascades had a 21–17 lead after four sets with mixed doubles remaining. Billie Jean King and Ray Ruffels beat Stöve and Stewart, 6–2, to tie the match at 23 and send it to a super tiebreaker. After Stöve and Stewart took a 5-1 lead in the 13-point tiebreaker game, the teams changed ends. During the changeover, Cascades scoreboard operator Bruce Below said, "You guys are in trouble now." King and Ruffels glared at Below, and King yelled, "Do you work for the team?" Below replied that he did, and King said, "Well, then shut up. If you're working for them you shouldn't be saying anything." The Cascades won two of the next three points to win the super tiebreaker, 7–2, and earn the victory in the match. After the final point, Ruffels charged Below, grabbed him by the neck and shook him. He needed to be restrained by the umpire, Brian Howell, and his linesman. King then started screaming at Howell and also approached him, grabbing and shoving him. King slammed her racquet on the scorer's table in anger.

The Cascades finished the 1978 season with the best record in franchise history at 20 wins and 24 losses, fourth in the Western Division. Despite their fifth straight losing season, they qualified for the playoffs for the second time in a row.

The Cascades met the Western Division Champion San Diego Friars in the WTT Quarterfinals and dropped the first match in San Diego, 30–22, on August 15, losing four straight sets after Gorman and Stewart took the opening set of men's doubles from Rod Laver and Ross Case. The Cascades hosted the second match in Seattle on August 17, and posted a 28–20 victory to stave off elimination. Gorman overcame a 4–1 deficit to take the men's singles set, 6–4, against Laver. Redondo took the women's singles set from Kerry Reid, 6–4, after trailing, 4–2. Stöve and Cuypers took the opening set of the match with a 6–3 set win against Kerry Reid and Mona Guerrant. Stewart and Gorman took the men's doubles set from Laver and Case, 6–3. The series returned to San Diego for the third match on August 18. The Friars opened the match with a set win in women's doubles by Guerrant and Kerry Reid, 7–6, over Stöve and Cuypers. The Cascades took a 12–10 lead when Gorman beat Laver, 6–3, in men's singles. They extended their lead to 18–12 when Gorman and Stewart topped Laver and Raz Reid, 6–2, in men's doubles. Redondo fell behind, 3–1, and then rallied to win five straight games in women's singles against Kerry Reid to extend the Cascades' lead to 24–15. Stöve and Kachel closed out the match with a mixed doubles set win against Raz Reid and Janet Young, 7–5, for a 31–20 victory.

The Cascades then lost to the Boston Lobsters in the WTT Semifinals.

On September 28, 1978, Kelleher announced that the Cascades would not be in Seattle for the 1979 season, because it was not "economically feasible." Attendance in 1978 averaged approximately 1,695 per match, down from 3,100 in 1977. Kelleher mentioned that a group in Houston had shown interest in the team and that there were other candidates as well. "It's really kind of funny," Kelleher said, "We've had three or four cities come out of the woodwork recently with offers."

Following the 1978 season, between October 27 and November 9, the New York Apples, Boston Lobsters, Los Angeles Strings, San Diego Friars and Indiana Loves all announced that they were folding, cutting the size of WTT from 10 teams to five. On the following day, the Cascades, Anaheim Oranges and New Orleans Sun Belt Nets announced that they were folding as well.

Season-by-season records
The following table shows regular season records, playoff results and titles won by the Seattle Cascades franchise since its founding in 1974.

Home courts
The following table shows primary home venues used by the Seattle Cascades franchise.

Honolulu International Center and Student Council Gymnasium both served as primary home venues in 1974. Honolulu International Center and Royal Lahaina Tennis Ranch both served as primary home venues in 1975. Seattle Center Coliseum, Mercer Arena and Veterans Memorial Coliseum all served as primary home venues in 1977. One home playoff match was played at Pamplin Sports Center in 1977. Seattle Center Coliseum and Mercer Arena both served as primary home venues in 1978. The Leis also played three 1976 home matches in Seattle and three in Portland. In 1978, the Cascades played one home match in Portland, one in Corvallis, Oregon and one in Boise, Idaho.

Individual honors
The following table shows individual honors bestowed upon players and coaches of the Seattle Cascades franchise.

Hall of Fame players
The following players who are enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame played for the Seattle Cascades franchise:
 Butch Buchholz
 Margaret Court
 Owen Davidson
 Ilie Năstase
 John Newcombe
 Dennis Ralston

Final roster
The Seattle Cascades final roster for the 1978 season was
 Tom Gorman, Player-Coach
 Brigitte Cuypers
 Chris Kachel
 Marita Redondo
 Sherwood Stewart
 Betty Stöve

See also

 World TeamTennis

References

External links
 Official World TeamTennis Website

Defunct World TeamTennis teams
1973 establishments in California
1974 disestablishments in California
1974 establishments in Hawaii
1976 disestablishments in Hawaii
1976 establishments in Oregon
1977 disestablishments in Oregon
1976 establishments in Washington (state)
1978 disestablishments in Washington (state)
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title: 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 200 metre freestyle

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The women's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on 21 August at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre in Gold Coast, Australia.

Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

The following records were established during the competition:

Results

Heats

B Final

A Final

References

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Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
2014 in women's swimming


title: Sweet Savior

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Sweet Savior is a 1971 film directed by Robert L. Roberts (credited as "Bob Roberts"), written by Willie Gilbert (under the pseudonym "Matt Cavanaugh"), and starring Troy Donahue as a Charles Manson-type cult leader.

It was also known as The Idiotic Couple and Frenetic Party, and ultimately released on video by Troma Entertainment as The Love-Thrill Murders.

Production
Lloyd Kaufman was the production manager.

Troy Donahue said while promoting the film:
I play Moon, a religious creep who murders a lot of people, a real heavy trip. But I don't want anyone to think I'm playing it in some phony exploitation flick that takes advantage of the Manson case to make a fast buck. I don't like many things, man, but I dig this picture... We're trying to show both sides of the problem. The Hollywood glamor society is as guilty as the depraved hippy cults. They pick up people on the Sunset Boulevard and tease them. When they made fun of Manson they picked on the wrong guy. I was up at the Tate house. It was a freaky scene. Sure I met Manson at the beach playing volleyball.
Director Bob Roberts said:
I had the idea not to make the Mason story per se but to inform people the Sharon Tate thing was not just an isolated incident. Many other cults are murdering people. They're just not as publicised. There are a lot of so-called families like Mason's with one dictatorial leader who controls his group through drugs, pills, sex, LSD and many other ways. These people are a threat to the fabric of society because they commit murder without conscience.
"This is going to be a very big picture," said Donahue. "I have a feeling it's going to be bigger than Love Story."

See also
 List of American films of 1971

References

External links

Review at TrashFilm Guru

1971 films
American thriller films
1970s thriller films
1970s English-language films
1970s American films


title: Flood Tide (1958 film)

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Flood Tide is a 1958 American CinemaScope drama film noir romance film directed by Abner Biberman and starring George Nader, Cornell Borchers, and Michel Ray.

Plot
A 10-year-old boy's testimony results in Bill Holeran being sent to prison. Steve Martin, landlord to widow Anne Gordon and her young son, suspects that something is amiss with the child's story, and resumes a romantic relationship with Anne that he had previously broken off, in order to get at the truth.

Cast
 George Nader as Steve Martin
 Cornell Borchers as Anne Gordon
 Michel Ray as David Gordon
 Judson Pratt as Maj. Harvey Thornwald - Naval Doctor
 Joanna Moore as Barbara Brooks
 Charles Arnt as Mr. Appleby - Grocer (as Charles E. Arnt)
 Russ Conway as Bill Holeran
  John Morley as Detective lieutenant
 John Maxwell as John Brighton - Halleran's Attorney
 Carl Bensen as Dist. Atty. Adams
 Della Malzahn as Beverly
 Hugh Lawrence as Charlie "Barney" Barnum

See also
 List of American films of 1958

External links

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1958 romantic drama films
American romantic drama films
American black-and-white films
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Films scored by William Lava
1950s English-language films
1950s American films


ARY Film Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the ARY Film Awards of Merit presented annually by the ARY Digital Network and Entertainment Channel to recognize the male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working in the film industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the AFA for Best Supporting Actor. While actors are nominated for this award by AFA members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the AFA membership as a whole.

History

The Best Supporting Actor category originates with the 1st ARY Film Awards ceremony since 2014. The Best Supporting Actor is awarded by viewers voting and known as Best Supporting Actor Viewers Choice but officially it is termed as Best Supporting Actor. Since ARY Film Awards has been just started, this category has not a brief history.

Winners and nominees
For the Best Supporting Actor winner which is decided by Viewers, but simply regarded as Best Supporting Actor as compared to other four Jury Awards which has superfix of Jury. As of the first ceremony, total of five actors were nominated. This category is among fourteen Viewers Awards in ARY Film Awards.

Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the film year in which they were releases, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the films of its previous year.

2010s

References

External links

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ARY Film Awards


title: Crambus attis

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Crambus attis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Graziano Bassi in 2012. It is found in South Africa and Eswatini.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 2012
Moths of Africa


title: Charitar 71

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Charitar 71 is an auto-biographical tale presented in Sri Charitropakhyan composition present in Dasam Granth. This tale is also called "Tale of Kapal Mochan".  This tale is added to list of tales narrated by wise minister to King Chitra Singh to prevent the King's son from a death sentence, due to the false allegation of attempted rape of the King's younger wife by Prince Hanuvant Singh.

The tales is told in 10 stanzas with 3 Chopais and 4 Dohras.

Synopsis

After Battle of Bhangani, Guru Gobind Singh heads towards Kapal Mochan, an ancient pilgrimage of Hindus. For honoring soldiers who fought in Battle, Guru Gobind Singh sent some of his Singhs to Buria to bring turban. Singhs went to Paonta and Buria to purchase robes but no robes were available in city. At same time, there was huge gathering of people. At morning time, Guru Gobind Singh found that pilgrims are urinating and doing toilet on small distances from holy pond. This pollute the place and especially ponds during heavy rains. Guru Gobind Singh complained the local priests about their mismanagement, as pond water is used for bathing, drinking and even for performing religious rituals. Temple priests said that people do not listen even on multiple requests and requested Guru Gobind Singh to provide some permanent solution.

To hit two with one arrow, Guru Gobind Singh asked Singhs that if they found any person urinating or passing stools at short distances of ponds, just remove his turban and say him to leave the pilgrimage. The next day, Singhs started removing turban of such persons, which leads to stampede and many turbans fall. The turbans were collected, washed and same is given in honor and remaining were sold. Thus by solving his purpose and temple management.

References

Dasam Granth
Sri Charitropakhyan


ARY Film Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the ARY Film Awards of Merit presented annually by the ARY Digital Network and Entertainment Channel to recognize the female actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working in the film industry. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the AFA for Best Supporting Actor. While actors are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the AFA membership as a whole.

History

The Best Supporting Actress category has originated with the 1st ARY Film Awards ceremony circa 2014. The Best Supporting Actress is awarded by viewers voting and known as Best Supporting Actress Viewers Choice but officially it is termed as Best Supporting Actress.

Winners and nominees
For the Best Supporting Actress winner, it is decided by viewers. It is simply regarded as Best Supporting Actress as compared to the other four Jury Awards which have the "super-fix" of Jury. As of the first ceremony, a total of five actresses were nominated. This category is among fourteen Viewers Awards in ARY Film Awards.

Not unlike other award shows, the award ceremony is held for the films of its previous year.

2010s

References

External links

 ARY Film Awards Official website

ARY Film Award winners
ARY Film Awards
Film awards for supporting actress


title: Ng Chau-pei

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Stanley Ng Chau-pei (born February 1970) is a Hong Kong pro-Beijing politician and trade unionist and the incumbent President and former Chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU), the largest trade union in Hong Kong, and also a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress. He is also as a member of the Legislative Council, representing the Hong Kong Island East constituency.

Biography
He was born in February 1970 of Fujianese origin.  He is a member of the Hong Kong Clerical and Professional Employees General Union and its President. Through the General Union he has become the core member of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) after he joined in 1997 and became the Chairman of the HKFTU. He is also a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress and member of the Standing Committee of the Xiamen Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

In the 2006 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections, he was elected through the Labour Subsector as the member of the HKFTU. The 800-member election committee was responsible for the 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election in which Beijing's favourite Donald Tsang won against Alan Leong from the pan-democracy camp.

He was appointed by the Hong Kong government to many public positions such as the Employee's Compensation Insurances Levies Management Board from 2013, the Labour Advisory Board from 2011, the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Appeal Board from 2012 to 2014, the Standard Working Hours Committee since 2013. He had also been a part-time member of the government's Central Policy Unit.

Ng was also one of initiators of the Alliance for Peace and Democracy, a counter political alliance orchestrated by Beijing against the Occupy Central with Love and Peace launched by the pan-democrats to pressure Beijing to implement genuine democracy. He organised the anti-"Occupy" rally on 17 August 2014.

In April 2018, he succeeded Lam Shuk-yee to be the President of the FTU with Vice President Wong Kwok replaced him as the Chairman.

Ng criticised the decision of Court of Final Appeal in September 2018 to free the group of 13 activists, who had each received jail sentences of up to 13 months from a lower court for unlawful assembly outside the Legislative Council Complex on 13 June 2014. "How could this be an act of loving and protecting young people? [The judges] are killing them!" Ng said as he accused the judges "sinners of society". Ng's remarks drew criticism from the pro-democrats, as well as Chief Executive Carrie Lam which said his comments as "unacceptable".

During the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, Ng slammed Li Ka Shing with coarse Cantonese slang, depicted Li "cockroach" king in a post on social media. "Cockroach" is frequently being used by the police in Hong Kong as a slur for protestors.

In March 2021, Apple Daily reported that Ng had criticized RTHK, stating that it was skewed and unprofessional.

In February 2022, after the Witman Hung birthday party controversy, Ng defended Hung and said that "His awareness about the epidemic situation was not strong enough, but he has faced public criticisms over it, and I do not see why he should step down from the NPC".

In August 2023, after the High Court ruled that the Department of Justice could not ban the song Glory to Hong Kong, Ng said "The court's ruling has failed to fully consider the facts and legal points provided by the DoJ."

References

1970 births
Living people
Delegates to the 12th National People's Congress from Hong Kong
Delegates to the 13th National People's Congress from Hong Kong
Delegates to the 14th National People's Congress from Hong Kong
HK LegCo Members 2022–2025
Hong Kong activists
Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions
Hong Kong pro-Beijing politicians
Hong Kong trade unionists
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2007–2012
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2012–2017
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2021–2026


title: Raavan (1984 film)

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Raavan is a 1984 Indian Hindi film.

In the Indian epic Ramayana, Vishnu assumes the human form of Rama to end the rule of demon king Ravana, an occasion celebrated among the Hindus as Vijayadashami to mark the triumph of good over evil, and burn giant effigies of Ravana, his son Indrajit, and brother Kumbhakarna. In the distant village of Agar, the villagers gather together to burn the effigies of only Indrajit and Kumbhakarna, and let Ravana's alone. The elder of the village explains this unique custom to a news reporter about the love of a woman Ganga (Smita Patil) for a cruel man named Ravana (Gulshan Arora), and how she went about to change this Ravana into a Ram.

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1984 films
1980s Hindi-language films
Films based on the Ramayana
Hindu mythological films


title: Ayumi Hamasaki videography

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Japanese musician Ayumi Hamasaki has released more than 100 music videos since her debut in 1998, creating works for songs she has released as singles, as well as songs found exclusively on albums. Hamasaki has released 37 video albums, including 27 concert footage releases. Many of these have been successful, debuting at number one in Japan or Taiwan, while several have been certified gold by the RIAJ: Complete Live Box A (2003), A Museum: 30th Single Collection Live (2004), Arena Tour 2005 A: My Story (2005) and Arena Tour 2006 A: (Miss)understood (2006). Most of these concerts feature footage from her arena tours in Japan, or from her annual Countdown Live New Year's events. Her Tour of Secret video album featured footage from her concerts in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Shanghai in 2007, while her Ayumi Hamasaki Asia Tour 2008: 10th Anniversary concert recording was filmed exclusively in Taipei, Taiwan.

Music videos

As a featured artist

Video albums

Music video albums

Live concert video albums

Other video albums

Notes

References

Videography
Videographies of Japanese artists


title: Mabrya acerifolia

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Mabrya acerifolia, or brittlestem, is a mat-forming herbaceous perennial native to south-central Arizona. It has pale yellow tubular flowers. It was first described by Francis W. Pennell in 1924 in the genus Maurandya and transferred to Mabrya by Wayne J. Elisens in 1985. The epithet acerifolia refers to the somewhat maple-like shape of its leaves.

References

acerifolia
Plants described in 1924


title: 2014–15 FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast season

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The 2014–15 Ural season was the 2nd successive season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia, and 7th in total. Ural also took part in the Russian Cup.

Squad
As of 3 February 2015, according to the official RFPL website .

Out on loan

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Notes
 YEKT time changed from UTC+6 to UTC+5 permanently on 26 October 2014.

References

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title: Gladys Taylor (publisher)

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Gladys Taylor (née Tall; 1917 – May 31, 2015) was a Canadian writer and publisher.

Biography
Born in Swan River, Manitoba, she trained as a teacher in Winnipeg and taught in her hometown for several years before marrying Lorne Taylor in 1940; during World War II, Lorne served in the Canadian Armed Forces while Gladys served in the Canadian Women's Army Corps.

Following the war, the couple moved to Thetford Mines, Quebec. As a mother and housewife, she began writing fiction as a hobby, and won the Ryerson Fiction Award twice in the 1950s for her novels Pine Roots in 1956 and The King Tree in 1958. She also served for several years as editor of Canadian Bookman & Quarterly, the quarterly trade publication of the Canadian Authors Association.

Following her divorce from Lorne at age 50, Taylor moved to Alberta. With few immediate opportunities for work, she placed a classified advertisement to promote her services as an editor. She received a response from a man who was launching a new magazine, Western Leisure, and became an editor and investor in the magazine, eventually buying out her partner and serving as the magazine's publisher. She then expanded her business by acquiring a network of community newspapers, including The Wheel and Deal, the Rocky View Five Village Weekly, the Carstairs Courier and the Airdrie Advance.

In 1977, she went on a driving tour in Australia, publishing the memoir Alone in the Australian Outback in 1984; the book formed the basis for the 1992 film Over the Hill. In 1987, she published Alone in the Boardroom, a memoir of her experience as a woman in business at a time when that was still a relative novelty.

She was also known for her editorials in her newspapers, which were harshly critical of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Alberta premier Don Getty. She endorsed the Reform Party of Canada in the 1988 federal election.

She ran as an independent candidate in the 1989 Alberta Senate nominee election, finishing fourth of six candidates.

Taylor's fifth book, Valinda, Our Daughter, was published in 1993. The book tells of the EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacking, with a focus on one of the Canadian passengers.

Taylor died on May 31, 2015, in Airdrie, Alberta.

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1917 births
2015 deaths
20th-century Canadian novelists
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People from Swan River, Manitoba
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20th-century Canadian women writers
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