title: Troopers Three

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Troopers Three is a 1930 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and B. Reeves Eason and produced and distributed by Tiffany Studios.

Plot
Eddie Haskins (Lease), a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny' (Karns and Summerville). When they are all kicked out of a vaudeville theater in California, they enlist in the U. S. Cavalry.

Eddie falls in love with Dorothy Clark (Gulliver), the daughter of a sergeant and, following a moonlight tryst, they are discovered by Sergeant Hank Darby (London) who himself is in love with Dorothy. They have a fist-fight in which Eddie comes out second best.

When Darby is reprimanded for fighting with an enlisted man, the troopers incorrectly think that Eddie squealed on him, and they punish him with a conspiracy of silence. Dorothy also rejects him. Eddie has a problem. Maybe a fire will break out in the stables and he can rescue Sergeant Darby.

Cast
Rex Lease as Eddie Haskins
Dorothy Gulliver as Dorothy Clark
Roscoe Karns as "Bugs"
Slim Summerville as "Sunny"
Tom London as Sgt. Hank Darby
Joseph W. Girard as Capt. Harris (credited as Joseph Girard)
Walter Perry as Halligan
Murdock MacQuarrie as Army Officer

Preservation status
The film exists in a 25-minute truncated version.

References

External links

1930 films
1930 comedy films
Films directed by Norman Taurog
1930s English-language films
Lost American comedy films
English-language comedy films
American black-and-white films
Tiffany Pictures films
1930 lost films
1930s American films


title: Hot Curves

text:
Hot Curves is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy-drama film produced and distributed by Tiffany Pictures and directed by Norman Taurog. A print is held by the Library of Congress.

Rex Lease, Benny Rubin and Alice Day star. The supporting cast features Pert Kelton.

Plot
Jim Dolan, with a little help from his grandmother, shows the Pittsburgh baseball team what a good pitcher he can be. Jim also becomes involved in romance with Elaine, the manager's daughter, while Maizie, a gold digger, schemes to come between them.

Ballpark vendor Benny, by coincidence, becomes the team's catcher while his quirky sweetheart, Cookie, cheers him on. Jim becomes arrogant, alienates teammates and is even suspended, but snaps out of it in time to save the big game of the World Series.

Cast
Benny Rubin - Benny Goldberg
Rex Lease - Jim Dolan
Alice Day - Elaine McGrew
Pert Kelton - Cookie
John Ince - Mr McGrew, Baseball Team Manager, Elaine's father
Mary Carr - "Grandma Dolan"
Mike Donlin - Baseball Team Scout
Natalie Moorhead - Maizie
Paul Hurst - "Slug" (a baseball player)
Henry Hall - Baseball Team Owner
Marceline Day - Girl
Robert Livingston - a baseball player (billed as Robert Randall)
Greta Granstedt - Girl

See also
 List of baseball films

References

External links

Hot Curves available for free download at Internet Archive

1930 films
1930 comedy-drama films
Films directed by Norman Taurog
1930s English-language films
American comedy-drama films
American black-and-white films
American baseball films
Tiffany Pictures films
1930 comedy films
1930 drama films
1930s American films


title: Follow the Leader (1930 film)

text:
Follow the Leader (a.k.a. Manhattan Mary) is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film, starring Ed Wynn and Ginger Rogers. It was by and distributed by Paramount Publix Corporation.

Cast
Ed Wynn - Crickets
Ginger Rogers - Mary Brennan
Stanley Smith (actor) - Jimmy Moore
Lou Holtz - Sam Platz
Lida Lane - Ma Brennan
Ethel Merman - Helen King
Bobby Watson - George White
Donald Kirke - R. C. Black
William Halligan - Bob Sterling
Holly Hall - Fritzie Devere
Preston Foster - Two-Gun Terry
James C. Morton - Mickie
Tammany Young - Bull
Jack La Rue - A Gangster
William Gargan - A Gangster
Eddie Roberts A gangster
William Black -
Dick Scott -
Jules Epailly - Gaston Duval
Charles Henderson -

References

External links

1930 films
1930 musical comedy films
Films directed by Norman Taurog
1930s English-language films
American musical comedy films
American black-and-white films
1930s American films
English-language musical comedy films


title: Almita texana

text:
Almita texana is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Bernard Landry in 1995. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Texas.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1995
Moths of North America


title: Almita portalia

text:
Almita portalia is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Bernard Landry in 1995. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona and California.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1995
Moths of North America


title: Jerónimo de la Fuente

text:
Jerónimo de la Fuente (born 24 February 1991) is an Argentine professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for Top 14 club Perpignan and the Argentina national team.

Club career
De la Fuente began his club career in his native Argentina for the Duendes Rugby Club in his home city of Rosario.  He earned selection for the Pampas XV squad for the 2013 Vodacom Cup in South Africa and also for their tour of Australia in 2014.

De la Fuente played for the  from 2016 to 2020, when he moved to France to play for USA Perpignan.

International career
De la Fuente played for Argentina Under-20 at the 2011 IRB Junior World Championship.
He then played further representative rugby for the Argentina Jaguars and the Pumas 7s throughout 2012 and 2013.

De la Fuente made his senior international debut in 2014. His first appearance for Los Pumas came on 17 May 2014 against , he followed that up a week later with a try on his second international appearance against .   He was then selected in the Pumas squad for the 2014 mid-year rugby union internationals in which he appeared twice in losses to , but was left out for their final match against .   Despite this he was named in the 30-man squad for the 2014 Rugby Championship.   He was not initially selected for the Pumas opening match against the Springboks, however a late injury to Juan Martín Hernández saw De la Fuente promoted to the replacements bench and he made his championship debut as a second-half substitute in a 6-13 loss.

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Rosario, Santa Fe
Rugby union centres
Duendes Rugby Club players
Jaguares (Super Rugby) players
Pampas XV players
Argentine rugby union players
Argentina international rugby union players
Male rugby sevens players
Argentina international rugby sevens players
2015 Rugby World Cup players
2019 Rugby World Cup players
2023 Rugby World Cup players


title: Carlos Alves (footballer, born 1988)

text:
Carlos Miguel Pereira Alves (born 6 February 1988) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Olivais e Moscavide as a left back.

Club career
Born in Oeiras, Lisbon District, Alves finished his development at local C.F. Os Belenenses. He failed to appear in any competitive matches with the club, being subsequently loaned to neighbouring Atlético Clube de Portugal and Clube Oriental de Lisboa in the third division; in 2009, he signed permanently with the latter.

Alves continued competing in the lower leagues until the age of 26, successively representing C.O. Montijo, AD Oeiras, S.U. 1º de Dezembro and Oriental. In the 2013–14 season, he achieved promotion to the Segunda Liga with the latter team.

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
People from Oeiras, Portugal
Portuguese men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
C.F. Os Belenenses players
Atlético Clube de Portugal players
Clube Oriental de Lisboa players
AD Oeiras players
C.D. Cova da Piedade players
S.U. Sintrense players
GS Loures players
Portugal men's youth international footballers
Portugal men's under-21 international footballers
Footballers from Lisbon District


title: Catoptria algeriensis

text:
Catoptria algeriensis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Johann Müller-Rutz in 1931. It is found in Algeria.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1931
Moths of Africa


title: Catoptria amathusia

text:
Catoptria amathusia is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1965. It is found in Honshu, Japan.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1965
Moths of Japan


title: Catoptria aurora

text:
Catoptria aurora is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1965. It is found in Amur in the Russian Far East.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1965
Moths of Asia


title: Catoptria brachyrhabda

text:
Catoptria brachyrhabda is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1906. It is found in Sikkim, India.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1906
Moths of Asia


title: Catoptria colchicellus

text:
Catoptria colchicellus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Julius Lederer in 1870, as Crambus colchicellus. It is found in Transcaucasia, Turkey, and Iran.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1870
Moths of Asia
Taxa named by Julius Lederer


title: Catoptria daghestanica

text:
Catoptria daghestanica is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1965. It is found in Daghestan.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1965
Moths of Asia


title: Catoptria emiliae

text:
Catoptria emiliae is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Nikolaj Savenkov in 1984. It is found in Russia.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1984
Moths of Asia


title: The Way to Love

text:
The Way to Love is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Maurice Chevalier and Ann Dvorak. Edward Everett Horton was the principal featured player.

At one stage Carole Lombard was to have co starred against Chevalier.

Filming started 9 January 1933.

Cast
Maurice Chevalier
Ann Dvorak
Edward Everett Horton
Minna Gombell
Blanche Frederici
John Miljan
Grace Bradley
George Rigas

Plot
Chevalier portrays a "happy-go-lucky Parisian street gypsy" who protects Dvorak's character when she is threatened by her partner in a knife-throwing act.

References

External links

1933 films
1933 romantic comedy films
1930s English-language films
Films directed by Norman Taurog
American romantic comedy films
American black-and-white films
Paramount Pictures films
1930s American films


title: Catoptria fenestratellus

text:
Catoptria fenestratellus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Aristide Caradja in 1928. It is found in Altai, Russia.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1928
Moths of Asia


title: Eko-Ende

text:
Eko-Ende (or Eko Ende, Eko-Ende) is a community in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ọṣun State, Nigeria.

Location

Eko-Ende has a tropical climate, with an average temperature of .
Average annual rainfall is , with peaks in July and September, and little rain between November and February.
Eko-Ende lies just west of the town of Ikirun.
The farming community lies on the Ikirun-Ogbomoso road, in-between Eko-Ajala and Ore communities.

Dam
The Eko-Ende Dam on the Otin River was impounded in 1973 to form a reservoir with a capacity of 5.5 MCM.
The headworks were designed to supply potable water to the communities of Oba, Eko-Ende, Eko-Ajala, Ikirun, Iragbiji and Okuku. The dam is an earth structure, completed in 1979, with a capacity of .

History
The Jalumi War of 1 November 1878 took place in the hilly country of the northeast of Osun State in the area that includes Ikirun, Iba, Inisa, Okuku and Eko-Ende. It was one of the series of civil wars in Yorubaland between 1793 and 1893.
The traditional ruler is the Elende of Eko-Ende. As of 2013, Oba Abdul-Rauf Adebayo  Ajiboye held this title.

References
Citations

Sources

Populated places in Osun State


title: Rhopobota orbiculata

text:
Rhopobota orbiculata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Gansu, China.

The wingspan is 16–19 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is grey. The hindwings are dark grey.

Etymology
The species name refers to the early rounded ocellar area of the forewings and is derived from Latin orbiculatus (meaning circular).

References

Moths described in 2005
Eucosmini


title: Tom Abell

text:
Thomas Benjamin Abell (born 5 March 1994) is an English first-class cricketer who plays for Somerset County Cricket Club.

Primarily a right-handed batter, he also bowls right-arm medium pace. Abell enjoyed a prolific cricket record while at Taunton School, where in 2012 he accumulated seven centuries and passed 50 in every innings he played at an average of 193, and he was named 2013 Young Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year. He made his Somerset first-class debut against Warwickshire in August 2014, scoring 95 in his first innings. He was appointed Somerset's County Championship skipper for the 2017 season.

Career

Early life and career
Abell was born in Taunton, and educated at the independent Taunton School. He made his debut for the Taunton School's 1st XI side aged 14, where he became the youngest cricketer at the school to reach the 1000-run landmark at the age of just 16. By the time he left school he had scored a record 3,630 runs for the first XI, and as captain of the first team he finished the 2012 season with 1,156 runs at an average of 193  accumulating seven centuries and passing 50 in every innings he played, and also took 19 wickets average of 15. His performances led him to be named 2013 Young Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year, and received the Wetherell Award, presented by The Cricket Society to the leading all rounder in School's Cricket, in 2012. As well as starring for the Taunton School cricket team, he also captained the school hockey team to a second consecutive undefeated season, and also represented the school rugby, rugby sevens and indoor hockey, in which the school reached the semi-finals at the national finals. His all-round sporting successes led him to be nominated for "Male Pupil of the Year" at the Aviva/Telegraph School Sport Matters Awards, where he finished as runner-up to British Olympic diver Tom Daley. While at school he also had a trial for the England men's national hockey team at under-16 level.

Abell played extensively for Somerset's youth teams, appearing at Under-14, Under-15, Under-17 and Under-19 level. He made his senior club cricket debut for Taunton in the 2009 season, aged just 15, scoring an unbeaten 22. At the age of 17, Abell scored 150 in a losing cause as he attempted to chase down a total in excess of 300 against Warminster, in 2013 he scored 768 runs for Taunton at an average of 76.80 and followed this up, in 2014 with 770 runs for Taunton in the West of England Premier League, with a highest score of 185* at an average of 128.33 as he helped the club earn promotion. Abell made his first appearances for the Somerset Second XI in 2010, Abell was named Second XI player of the year in 2013, after he amassed 1,234 runs at an average of 40.13, including four centuries and five scores of 50 or more.

After leaving Taunton School, Abell went on to study a degree in Flexible Combined Honours, Sports Science and French, at the University of Exeter. While at university he led the men's first team to the finals of the BUCS outdoor championships, and the indoor league title.

First-team breakthrough
He made his Somerset first-class debut against Warwickshire in August 2014, having been called up to the team as a late replacement for the county's overseas player Alviro Petersen who had suffered a knee injury. He scored 95 in his first innings, and was the last man out for Somerset with the total on 286, narrowly missing out on the becoming the first Somerset-born player, since Harold Gimblett in 1935, to score a century on their County Championship debut. Abell maintained his place in the Somerset side until the end of the season scoring two further half-centuries, scoring exactly 50 against Middlesex, and 75 in Somerset's final match of the season away at champions Yorkshire, he finished the season with 292 runs at an average of 41. At the end of the season Abell was one of four Somerset players to be awarded a new one-year contract.

After breaking into the Somerset side batting at number four, Abell spent the 2015 season as Marcus Trescothick's regular opening partner. His season began poorly with a second ball duck in Somerset's opening match against the Durham MCC University side. Having missed games during the early part of the season due to university commitments, Abell made his first half-century of the season against defending champions Yorkshire, on 25 May 2015, he also took his maiden first-class wicket in the match having Yorkshire bowler Jack Brooks caught behind for 24, he ended the innings with bowling analysis of 1/11 from 4.4 overs. In early June 2015, Abell was awarded a new four-year contract extension with Somerset. On 15 June 2015, Abell carried his bat through Somerset's innings against Nottinghamshire scoring 76 from 150 balls out of the Somerset's total of 200. Abell also scored a further half century in Somerset's successful fourth innings chase of 401, the second highest in the county's history, to record his first victory in a Somerset shirt. He followed this up with a further half century away at Hampshire in Somerset's next Championship game, and scored an unbeaten 21 to guide Somerset to a nine-wicket victory. On 29 July 2015, Abell made his list A debut for Somerset against Durham, scoring 23 in Somerset's seven wicket defeat. He made his maiden list A half century against Yorkshire, scoring 80 from 112 balls as Somerset chased down 178 to win by six wickets. Somerset were knocked out of the 2015 Royal London One-Day Cup in the group stage, with Abell scoring 202 runs in the competition at an average of 33. Having suffered a number of near misses, Abell scored his maiden first-class century for Somerset against Hampshire, on 10 September 2015. He scored 131 from 203 balls, in a partnership of 272 with Marcus Trescothick. At the end of the 2015 season Abell won the LV= Breakthrough Player Award, for his performances in the County Championship. He ended the season with 726 runs in the Championship at an average of 36, with one century and five half centuries. Abell spent the 2015–16 winter playing grade cricket for Fremantle District Cricket Club in Western Australia, and had a highly successful winter twice winning the Kookaburra player of the round award, in total across all formats he scored 641 runs at an average of 40 while he took 21 wickets with the ball at an average of 18.

The 2016 season saw Abell continue to open in the County Championship with Marcus Trescothick with the club's new captain, former Australian Test match opener, Chris Rogers signed by the club to bat at number 3. After a disastrous campaign for Somerset in the 2016 t20 Blast, Abell made his Twenty20 debut in a much changed side for their final group match against Hampshire on 29 July 2016. Abell batted at number 5, scoring seven runs before being dismissed by Liam Dawson.

Somerset captaincy
On 21 December 2016, Abell was appointed Somerset County Cricket Club captain ahead of the 2017 season.

T20 franchise career
In December 2021, he was signed by the Karachi Kings following the players' draft for the 2022 Pakistan Super League. In April 2022, he was bought by the Birmingham Phoenix for the 2022 season of The Hundred.

International career
In February 2023, Abell was named in England's One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) squad for their series against Bangladesh. Later he was ruled out of the squad due to side strain.

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
Cricketers from Taunton
People educated at Taunton School
English cricketers
Somerset cricket captains
Somerset cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Rangpur Riders cricketers
Birmingham Phoenix cricketers
Brisbane Heat cricketers
Dambulla Aura cricketers
Sunrisers Eastern Cape cricketers
Welsh Fire cricketers


title: Our Common Cause

text:
Our Common Cause (, NCC) is a political party in Benin led by Didier Dahounto.

History
The NCC was established by Albert Teveodjré after he was expelled from the National Rally for Democracy for prematurely declaring his candidacy for the March 1991 presidential elections. It gained support from Catholics, and won six of the 64 seats in the February 1991 parliamentary elections. In the presidential elections Teveodjré finished third with 14% of the vote.

The party was reduced to three seats in the 1995 elections, with Teveodjré, Soumanou Arouna and Denis Adanklounon representing the party in the National Assembly. The party split in 1997 when Teveodjré was expelled and established the National Party "Together". François Tankpinou replaced Teveodjré as party leader. It subsequently lost all three seats in the 1999 elections.

References

Political parties in Benin
Political parties with year of establishment missing


title: Fifty Roads to Town

text:
Fifty Roads to Town is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Don Ameche and Ann Sothern. The film is based on a book of the same name by author Frederick Nebel. This is the third novel Nebel wrote.

Plot

Two cases of mistaken identity complicate matters when a woman he believes to be a process server comes across a man she believes to be a criminal.

A warrant out on him, Peter Norstrand flees his New York City home and heads north. Hiding out, he is spotted by lodge guest Millicent Kendall, who grips a document when she comes to a room. Peter pulls a gun on her and makes her burn it, unaware that it is actually a marriage license.

Millicent is a missing heiress, planning to elope with her fiancé. Peter forces her to spend the night in his cabin so as not to inform on his whereabouts. When she attempts to escape in the snow, he takes away one of her shoes.

A sheriff and his deputies begin a search for an actual fugitive, Dutch Nelson, and are mistaken for trappers by Peter, who fires a gun to scare them away. The lawmen respond with machine guns and tear gas. Peter reveals to Millicent that the warrant is just to force him to testify in a friend's divorce. As she falls in love with him, the real Dutch turns up.

Cast
 Don Ameche as Peter Nostrand
 Ann Sothern as Millicent Kendall
 Slim Summerville as Ed Henry
 Jane Darwell as Mrs. Henry
 John Qualen as Sheriff Dow
 Douglas Fowley as Dutch Nelson
 Allan Lane as Leroy Smedley
 Alan Dinehart as Jerome Kendall
 Stepin Fetchit as Percy
 Paul Hurst as Tom
 Spencer Charters as George Hession
 DeWitt Jennings as Captain Galloway
 Bradley Page as Pinelli
 Oscar Apfel as Smorgen
 John Hamilton as Captain Carroll
 Russell Hicks as Police Official
 Arthur Aylesworth as Deputy

Reviews

References

External links

1937 films
American romantic comedy films
1937 romantic comedy films
Films directed by Norman Taurog
20th Century Fox films
1930s English-language films
American black-and-white films
1930s American films


title: Fujifilm FinePix HS30EXR

text:
The Fujifilm FinePix HS30EXR or Fujifilm FinePix HS33EXR is a DSLR-styled digital ultrazoom bridge camera announced by Fujifilm on January 5, 2012. Its sister model, known as the Fujifilm FinePix HS25EXR or Fujifilm FinePix HS28EXR, and HS33, HS35. Is identical HS25EXR and HS28EXR except for a lower resolution viewfinder, the use of standard AA batteries rather than the model-specific lithium battery of the HS30EXR, and the omission of RAW support in the HS25EXR. Loaded with batteries and memory card, the HS30EXR weighs 687 grams compared to the HS20EXR's 730 grams.

Reviews
Initial reviews on the HS30EXR have been favourable, with users citing the 30x zoom lens as one of the camera's key benefits. This view was also echoed by a wildlife and safari photographer who tried the camera out in the field

Notes and references
http://www.dpreview.com/products/fujifilm/compacts/fujifilm_hs30exr/specifications

HS30EXR
Cameras introduced in 2012
Bridge digital cameras
Superzoom cameras


title: The Girl Downstairs (film)

text:
The Girl Downstairs is a 1938 American romantic-comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Franciska Gaal, Franchot Tone and Walter Connolly. It is a remake of the 1936 Austrian film Catherine the Last, directed by Henry Koster, which had been a major hit for Gaal.

This was Franciska Gaal's third appearance in American films, and her first for MGM. It was her final American film before her return to Hungary in 1940.

Synopsis
Wealthy playboy Paul Wagner wants to romance Rosalind Brown, but her father does not allow it, so Paul uses a maid to get access to Rosalind, however the maid falls in love with him.

Main cast
 Franciska Gaal as Katerina Linz
 Franchot Tone as Paul Wagner
 Walter Connolly as Mr. Brown
 Reginald Gardiner as Willie
 Rita Johnson as Rosalind Brown
 Reginald Owen as Charlie Grump
 Franklin Pangborn as Adolf Pumpfel
 Robert Coote as Karl, Paul's Butler
 Barnett Parker as Hugo, the Butler
 James B. Carson as Rudolph
 Billy Gilbert as Garage Proprietor

References

External links

1938 films
1938 romantic comedy films
1930s English-language films
Films directed by Norman Taurog
American romantic comedy films
American remakes of foreign films
Remakes of Austrian films
Films produced by Harry Rapf
American black-and-white films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
1930s American films


title: Kibi Clan Rebellion

text:
The  from 463 was a revolt against the Yamato state on the Korean peninsula, involving two brothers from the : Tasa and Oto. The revolt was triggered when Tasa learned that the Japanese Emperor Yūryaku had moved him to the Japanese post at Mimana on the Korean Peninsula in order to seize his beautiful wife. The incident falls into Japan's proto-historic period and is recounted in the Nihon Shoki.

Outline
When Yūryaku ascended the throne in 456, Japan was on friendly terms with the Korean kingdom of Paekche and—since the reign of Empress Jingū (201–269)—also held a military outpost on the Korean peninsula at Mimana.  However relations with the neighboring kingdom of Silla had been strained after the harsh treatment of their convoy in 453. Angered by this incident, Silla had reduced the number of ships between the countries and articles sent as tribute. Since 456, Silla had not sent the customary presents to the Japanese Emperor.

In 463, Tasa, omi of Upper Kibi, was at the Imperial Palace and speaking to his friends, praised his wife, Waka:

In order to possess Waka, Emperor Yūryaku had Tasa moved out of the way to the distant post of governor of Mimana and made Waka-hime one of his concubines. When Tasa learned that he had been robbed of his wife, he started a revolt looking for help from Silla. Yūryaku, known for his cruelty, ordered Tasa's son, Oto, to lead an army against his father. Oto was joined by a group of men who wanted to secure skilled artisans from Paekche.  Oto had settled for several months in Paekche (without taking any action against Tasa or Silla) when he received a message from his father suggesting he hold Mimana and Paekche and break off communication with Japan:

However Oto's wife, Kusu, was a very patriotic woman who foiled Tasa's plot by killing her husband. Over several years, Yūryaku sent four expeditions to Korea, but could not recover his hold on the peninsula.  Brinkley asserts that Japan lost its standing in Korea "because of Yūryaku's illicit passion for one of his subjects."  After the death of Yūryaku on the 7th day of the 8th month, 479, Prince Hoshikawa, encouraged by his mother, the "robbed" consort Waka-hime, claimed the throne against the designated crown prince, Shiraka, which led to the Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion.

See also
List of Japanese battles
Military history of Japan

Notes

References

Bibliography

Battles involving Japan
460s conflicts
Kofun period
463
5th century in Japan
5th-century rebellions
Rebellions in Japan
Kibi clan


title: Rhopobota fanjingensis

text:
Rhopobota fanjingensis is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Guizhou, China.

The wingspan is about 14.5 mm.

Etymology
The species name refers to Mount Fanjing, the type locality.

References

Moths described in 2005
Eucosmini


title: Michael Green (tennis)

text:
Michael E. Green (born 20 February 1937 in Miami, Florida) is a former amateur tennis player from the United States who competed in the 1950s and 1960s. He played on the 1956 NCAA Championship Team at UCLA and was the No. 2 player behind Mike Franks for three years.. He reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Championships in 1957 and 1958. Green played Davis Cup in 1956 and 1957, both years the team reached the Challenge Round before losing to Australia. Mike died in Ohio in 2016.

In 1959 he was a runner-up to Alex Olmedo in the singles event at the Eastern Grass Court Championships.

References

External links

American male tennis players
1937 births
Living people
UCLA Bruins men's tennis coaches
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles
Australian Championships (tennis) junior champions
Tennis players from Miami
American tennis coaches


title: 2012–13 Segunda Divisão

text:
The 2012–13 Segunda Divisão season was the 79th season since its establishment. Varzim were the defending champions. It was the last edition of the competition as Campeonato Nacional de Seniores was created in 2013 to replace the Segunda Divisão B and Terceira Divisão (third and fourth tier of the Portuguese football league system respectively) for the 2013–14 season.

Zona Norte

Zona Centro

Zona Sul

Play-offs

Top goalscorers

References

Portuguese Second Division seasons
Port
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title: Frank W. Hirschi

text:
Frank William Hirschi (February 2, 1925 – August 13, 2014) was an American educator and politician.

Born in Montpelier, Idaho, his parents were immigrants from Switzerland. Hirschi served in the United States Navy during World War II. He then received his bachelor's degree, masters, and doctorate degrees from Utah State University and then taught agriculture in high school. Hirschi served in the Idaho House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966. He also served as Mayor of Centerville, Utah from 1998 to 2002 and on the Centerville City Council. He died in Pleasant Grove, Utah.

Hirschi was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For a time he worked for the Church in the seminaries and institutes program, including serving as a coordinator based in Garden Grove, California. He had begun his career as a high school agriculture teacher. In Centerville, Utah he worked in the central office of the Church Educational System. Over the years he served in several callings including bishop and a counselor in a stake president. He was the first president of the Church's Jackson Mississippi Mission from 1979 to 1982 and later served as president of the MTC in New Zealand, a stake patriarch and a sealer in the Bountiful Utah Temple.

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title: Robot of Sherwood

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"Robot of Sherwood" is the third episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It was written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Paul Murphy, and was first broadcast on BBC One on 6 September 2014.

In the episode, the alien time traveller the Doctor and his companion Clara (Jenna Coleman) arrive in Sherwood Forest in 1190, where they encounter legendary hero Robin Hood (Tom Riley) as well as the gold-plundering Sheriff of Nottingham (Ben Miller), who has allied himself with robotic knights. The episode was watched by 7.28 million viewers in the UK and received generally positive reviews from television critics.

Plot

The Twelfth Doctor and Clara land in Sherwood Forest in 1190, where they are met by Robin Hood. Robin challenges the Doctor to a duel which the Doctor wins by knocking Robin into a river. Clara learns that Robin is looking for his Maid Marian, but the Doctor believes there is something wrong. Robin competes in an archery contest held by the Sheriff of Nottingham where the prize is a golden arrow. The Doctor interrupts the contest by exploding the target with his sonic screwdriver. Intrigued by the Doctor's power, the Sheriff commands his robot knights to capture the Doctor. The Doctor allows the robots to capture him, Robin and Clara so he can learn more about the Sheriff's plans.

The Doctor and Clara learn that the Sheriff intends to use a crashed spaceship (disguised as part of a castle) and its robot knights to take over the world. The Sheriff and the knights have plundered the countryside to collect enough gold to repair the engines' circuits, but the engines are too damaged and will create an explosion that will destroy half of England. The Doctor is initially convinced that Robin is a creation of the robots in order to give the oppressed peasants hope using the legends of Earth, but ultimately learns that he is real. Clara and Robin escape the castle, but the Doctor is taken prisoner again. The Doctor leads the prisoners in a revolt against the robots. Most of the robots are destroyed, and the prisoners flee. Robin returns to save the day. The Sheriff challenges Robin to a duel, which Robin wins by knocking the Sheriff into a gold vat using a trick the Doctor taught him.

The spaceship, controlled by the remaining robots, takes off but still lacks the power to make it off the planet. The Doctor decides to fire the golden arrow into the engines to give the ship a power boost to reach orbit. Since Robin's arm is injured (and the Doctor cheated during the archery contest), the Doctor, Clara, and Robin work together to fire the golden arrow from the contest into the ship, allowing it to reach orbit and harmlessly detonate. As he prepares to leave, the Doctor admits that Robin will be remembered as a legend rather than as a man which Robin is content with. When the Doctor continues to find Robin's story hard to believe, Robin, having learned of the Doctor's history from Clara, points out that the Doctor is of a similar background who started his adventures for the same reasons as Robin did. The Doctor and Robin mutually deny they are heroes; Robin suggests that their role is to inspire others to be heroes in their name. The Doctor and Clara depart; the Doctor leaving Robin with Maid Marian, who was a prisoner freed in the revolt.

Continuity
Sceptical about the reality of Robin Hood, his men and their environment, the Doctor initially believes that he and Clara might be in a miniscope. A miniscope was featured in the Third Doctor story Carnival of Monsters (1973).

Production

Writing
In an interview with Doctor Who Magazine, writer Mark Gatiss stated that his intent with the episode was "to do the Doctor and Robin Hood in 45 minutes".  He went on to state: "The premise is inherently funny, but I didn’t think of it as the funnier episode when I was doing it. It’s still asking big questions. But it’s definitely more frivolous."

Filming
The read-through for the episode was on 20 March 2014.  Filming for the episode began on 25 March 2014, with location filming taking place in Fforest Fawr on 15 April 2014, and later at Caerphilly Castle on 17 April.  Both Fforest Fawr and Caerphilly Castle had previously served as locations for Doctor Who, the former as a setting for scenes from "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End", and the latter for "Vampires of Venice" and "Nightmare in Silver". Several external shots of Bodiam Castle were also used. Filming completed on 3 May 2014.

One of the images of the Robin Hood myth that the Doctor shows to the real Robin is that of Patrick Troughton in the 1953 TV series Robin Hood, the first TV appearance by the character. Troughton played the Second Doctor between 1966 and 1969.

Cut scene
On 4 September 2014, the BBC announced that a beheading scene from the episode's climactic battle had been edited out due to the recent murders of James Foley and Steven Sotloff by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.  In the original scene, Robin would have decapitated the Sheriff, revealing that the Sheriff was a robot.

Cast notes
Trevor Cooper, who plays Friar Tuck in the episode, had previously appeared on Doctor Who, playing Takis in 1985's Revelation of the Daleks from season 22.  Ian Hallard (Alan-a-Dale) played Richard Martin in An Adventure in Space and Time.

Broadcast and reception

Pre-broadcast leak
The script for the episode was one of five scripts leaked online from a BBC Worldwide server in Miami, where they had been sent in preparation for broadcast in Latin America.

On 18 August 2014, a rough version of the episode was leaked online.  The leaked version is black-and-white, and its visual and audio effects and music are preliminary and incomplete.  It contains the Sheriff beheading scene (about one minute of footage) that was cut before the episode was broadcast.  This leak followed the leaks of the previous two episodes, "Deep Breath" and "Into the Dalek". The BBC released a statement urging fans not to spread spoilers from the unofficial copy.

Broadcast
Overnight viewing figures showed that the episode was watched by 5.2 million viewers. Final figures show that the episode was watched by 7.28 million. In the United States, the original broadcast on BBC America was watched by 1.14 million viewers. The episode received an Audience Appreciation Index score of 82/100, considered excellent.

Critical reception

The critical reception of the episode was generally positive. Dan Martin of The Guardian praised the writing and acting, but criticised the more minor role of the Doctor in the episode, and the length, which did not do the mythology justice. Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times called it "a superb, witty, heart-warming encounter between two heroes," praising Gatiss' "elegant, hugely witty script that delivers a coherent plot," and calling the Doctor and Robin Hood "one of the funniest double acts ever seen in Doctor Who." Michael Hogan of The Daily Telegraph gave the episode five stars out of five. He said this was the episode in which "Capaldi truly came into his own as The Doctor," noting his channeling of Malcolm Tucker in his Doctor made for some truly comedic moments. Simon Brew of Den of Geek commended the lightness of the episode, in contrast to Capaldi's opening two episodes and called it "hugely entertaining," and "wonderfully silly." He writes that "Robot of Sherwood" is "the kind of Doctor Who you reach for when you've got a spare hour, and just want to get a great big smile on your face."

Tim Liew of Metro criticised the episode for trying to be "too funny" and presenting a Doctor "whose behaviour jars with previous episodes". Forbes also noted the shift in personality for the Doctor, but commended Capaldi for finding "enough rope in the script to bring his interpretation to the role."  They enjoyed the "extra layer the story delivered by setting everything in a 1930s Errol Flynn movie," and the development of the characters in that "every character had another shell around them." However, they felt the story had very little "substance," and that it "suffer[ed] from poor editing and direction." Neela Debnath of The Independent was likewise critical of the episode, calling it "a dull and nonsensical disappointment." She thought it to be "an oddly-pieced together episode that didn't make much sense," with "no silver linings either." She criticised the backward development of Clara as reverting to "the school girl with the crush." IGN gave a mixed review, calling it "a frivolous, flimsy throwaway adventure for the new Doctor."

In print

Pearson Education published a novelisation of this episode by David Maule for students of English language reading 24 May 2018.

References

External links

Twelfth Doctor episodes
2014 British television episodes
Television episodes written by Mark Gatiss
Doctor Who pseudohistorical serials
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Fiction set in the 1190s
Television episodes set in England
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title: Steven Kokelj

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Steven Kokelj is a Canadian environmental scientist.
Meagan Wohlberg, writing in the Northern Journal, called him NWT's foremost expert on permafrost.

Kokelj's PhD thesis, published in 2003, was entitled, "Near-surface Ground Ice in Sediments of the Mackenzie Delta Region, Northwest Territories".
Since then Kokelj has held several research positions in the Northwest Territories.

In 2014 Kokelj was the very first speaker invited to lead off a series of talks on Northern issues, hosted in NWT's legislative assembly.
The talks were modeled after the TED conferences, and the legislature has made them available via podcast.

Publications

References

Living people
Canadian naturalists
University of Ottawa alumni
Carleton University alumni
Canadian geologists
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title: Borshchovychi

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Borshchovychi (, ) is a village in Lviv Raion of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine. It belongs to Novyi Yarychiv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. First mentioned in 1442 in court documents of the nearby city of Lviv.

History

According to a 1564 census, the village was inhabited by 20 peasants and 3 innkeepers. Decimated by three successive Tartar raids in the 17th century, by 1665 the population dropped to merely 8 inhabitants. In 1721, the village was bought by Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski who intended to rebuild the village, however a severe famine in 1726 and 1727 forces him to cede the village to the mighty Potocki family in 1729. According to the 1765 census the village was inhabited by 64 families, there are numerous weavers shops, two distilleries, a brewery and an inn. Twenty years later the population of Barszczowice includes 108 peasants and 7 artisans.

Following the Partitions of Poland, the village along with the surrounding region became part of Austro-Hungarian Galicia. The 1820 census lists 127 houses in Barszczowice, including 15 in a nearby colony named Hołodówka and 7 in a colony named Chałupki. Around that time the village was acquired by Jan Maszkowski, a noted Polish painter, better known as the tutor of Juliusz Kossak, Artur Grottger and Henryk Rodakowski. His manor was often visited by some of the most notable Polish artists of the epoch.

On 12 July 1869 a train station of the Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis was opened in the village, bolstering its growth. Initially the village belonged to the Roman Catholic parish of Jaryczów with local Greek Catholics attending masses in nearby Pikułowice. However, in 1898 Zofia Siemieńska-Lewicka financed a construction of St. Mary's church, consecrated later the same year. According to the 1910 Austro-Hungarian census the village was inhabited by 2129 people, including 1705 Polish speakers, 424 Ukrainian speakers and 79 Jews. In the course of the brief Polish-Ukrainian War, the village was captured by Polish forces on 29 December 1918. Since then the village was part of Poland. In 1923 local Ukrainians built a small wooden Holy Trinity Church. Until 1928 the number of inhabitants rose to over 2400.

During World War II the village shared the history of nearby city of Lwów: it was first annexed by the Soviet Union as part of its pact with Nazi Germany, then captured by the Nazis during the Operation Barbarossa. Although far from Ukrainian-populated areas, the village was targeted by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army raids during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, which started an exodus of local inhabitants. In 1945 most remaining Poles are forcibly evicted and resettled further west, while the village was repopulated with Ukrainians.

After the war the village was annexed by the Soviet Union, renamed to its modern Ukrainian name and attached to the Ukrainian SSR. The church was confiscated by the communist authorities and turned into a branch of the Lviv Historical Museum. Since the dissolution of the USSR it is part of independent Ukraine. In the early 1990s the church was refurbished and donated to the Greek Catholic community.

Until 18 July 2020, Borshchovychi belonged to Pustomyty Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Pustomyty Raion was merged into Lviv Raion.

Notable people

Among the people born in the village are:
 Edmund Cieczkiewicz, Polish painter (born 1872)
 Jan Bukowski, Polish artist (born 1873)
 Stasiv Ostap, Ukrainian physicist (born 1903)
 Bohdan Stashynsky, Soviet assassin (born 1931)

References

Villages in Lviv Raion


title: June Mendoza

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June Yvonne Mendoza, AO, OBE, RP, ROI, HonSWA (born 1924) is an Australian portrait painter, working mainly in oil.

Early life

June Mendoza was born in Melbourne, Australia. Her parents, John Morton and Dot (née Mendoza), were both musicians, performers and composers in violin and piano respectively, her younger brother Peter Mendoza (born 1927) was an actor most notably with JC Williamsons in Australia and repertory theatre in England. As a child she toured with her mother, working in small mime parts and crowd scenes for the opera, ballet, musicals and revue. During these tours she started sketching in her spare time.
She realised that art was her calling at age 12 and commenced life classes at 14 and portraiture eventually became her forte.

In 1960 she married Keith Mackrell, whom she accompanied on two overseas postings, 1960-65 in the Philippines and 1969-73 in Australia. They have 4 children.

Career

Mendoza's commissions have included portraits of royalty (such as Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Diana, Princess of Wales), prime ministers (Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Corazon Aquino, Goh Chok Tong, John Gorton) and other politicians, sports people, military officers and celebrities.

Her works are in a number of collections, including those of Britannia Royal Naval College, Girton College, Cambridge, the Green Howards Regimental Museum, the National Portrait Gallery (three works), the Open University, the Palace of Westminster, Queens' College, Cambridge, the Royal Scots Museum, and Trinity College, Oxford.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 8 September 1979, and in 1985 painted the presenter, Roy Plomley.

Honours

She is an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) and of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP). She is an Honorary Vice President of the Britain-Australia Society. She is a Patron of the Tait Memorial Trust, an Australian performing arts charity based in London.

DVD

References

External links

 Video in which Mendoza discusses sittings by Queen Elizabeth II
 National Library of Australia

1924 births
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Australian expatriates in England
Officers of the Order of Australia
Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Living people
20th-century Australian painters
20th-century Australian women artists
21st-century Australian painters
21st-century Australian women artists


title: Palasport

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Palasport may refer to:

Indoor sports arenas
(by city)
 Palasport Del Mauro, Avellino, Italy
 Palasport Biella, Biella, Italy
 Unipol Arena, Bologna, Italy, formerly known as Palasport Casalecchio
 Palasport Pianella, Cucciago, Cantù, Italy
 Palasport Mario Radi, Cremona, Italy
 Nelson Mandela Forum, Florence, Italy, formerly known as Palasport
 Palasport di Genova, Genoa, Italy
 Palasport Giuseppe Taliercio, Mestre, Italy
 Palasport di San Siro, Milan, Italy
 PalaArgento (Palazzetto dello Sport Mario Argento), Naples, Italy
 Kioene Arena, Padua, Italy, formerly known as Palasport San Lazzaro
 Palasport Fondo Patti, Palermo, Italy
 PalaBigi, Reggio Emilia, Italy, formerly known as Palasport
 Palasport Roberta Serradimigni, Sassari, Italy
 Palasport Mens Sana, Siena, Italy
 Pala Alpitour (Palasport Olimpico), Turin, Italy
 PalaRuffini, Turin, Italy, formerly known as Palasport di Torino
 Palasport Primo Carnera, Udine, Italy
 Palasport Lino Oldrini, Varese, Italy

Metro
 EUR Palasport, a station on Line B of the Rome Metro


title: Dmitry Grigoryev (businessman)

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Dmitriy Mihailovich Grigoriyev (born July 29, 1975) is a businessman.  Mr. Grigoriyev is the former Chief Financial Officer of The Rompetrol Group (currently KazMunayGas International NV), a Romanian oil company, that operates in many countries around the world.

Early life and education

Dmitry Grigoriev was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, to a Russian family.

At 17 he enrolled in the Kazakh State Academy of Management and graduated with a Diploma of Excellence, specialized in monetary and financial relations. In 1996 Grigoriyev attended SDA Bocconi School of Management. He graduated in 1998 with a Master of Business Administration. Additionally he followed specialized courses on mergers and acquisitions held internationally.

He began his career as the Executive Director of the Construction company “EAST Engineering” and continued at financial and banking institutions in Kazakhstan.

In 1998 his career evolved internationally, Grigoriyev moved to London, UK in order to undertake his new position as Manager-coordinator at Аlcam International. Further, he held the position of Manager of Business Development at AONET spa in Milan, Italy.

In 2003 he returned to Kazakhstan to continue his career as the Deputy Manager of the Department for Import and Substitution in Major Oil and Gas Projects at KazMunaiGas. Further, Grigoriyev undertook the position of the Deputy Manager of Export Department at Trade House KazMunaiGas.

The Rompetrol Group

In August 2007, the Kazakh company KazMunayGas acquired 75% of The Rompetrol Group share  and along with other specialists, Dmitriy Grigoriyev was invited to undertake the position of the Deputy Financial Manager of the Group. In July 2009 KazMunayGas acquired 100% of The Rompetrol Group and he was appointed Group Chief Financial Officer of the Group.

Personal life

In 2007, Grigoryev married  Elvina Grigoriyeva and together they have four children Domenika, Raffaella, Leonardo, Michelangelo.

References

Notes
Roxana Petrescu, "Dmitry Grigoryev, CFO al Rompetrol: Am terminat cu ştirile negative. Vom atinge pragul de rentabilitate în 2012", http://www.zf.ro/companii/dmitry-grigoryev-cfo-al-rompetrol-am-terminat-cu-stirile-negative-vom-atinge-pragul-de-rentabilitate-in-2012-8079202, 20.03.2011;
Irina Popescu, "Rompetrol doesn’t owe the Romanian state “a penny”, says CFO Grigoryev", http://www.romania-insider.com/rompetrol-doesnt-owe-the-romanian-state-a-penny-says-cfo-grigoryev/28788/, 19.06.2011;
Adrian Negrescu, "Rompetrol, povestea unei afaceri de succes marca Patriciu: Statul roman isi cauta dreptatea in Kazahstan", http://www.dailybusiness.ro/stiri-companii/rompetrol-povestea-unei-afaceri-de-succes-marca-patriciu-statul-roman-isi-cauta-dreptatea-in-kazahstan-47958/, 26.08.2010;

1975 births
Living people
Chief financial officers


title: Rhopobota floccosa

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Rhopobota floccosa is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Hunan, China.

The wingspan is about 11 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is grey, but brown at the apex. The hindwings are grey.

Etymology
The species name refers to the sacculus with a tuft of hairs situated below the ventral edge of the basal opening in the male genitalia and is derived from Latin floccosus (meaning woolly).

References

Moths described in 2005
Eucosmini


title: In the Forest of the Night

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"In the Forest of the Night" is the tenth episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 25 October 2014. The episode was written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and directed by Sheree Folkson.

In the episode, the alien time traveller the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and his companion, schoolteacher Clara (Jenna Coleman), go looking for Maebh (Abigail Eames), a missing student of Clara's who is able to hear the voices of a large forest that covered all of Earth the previous night.

The episode received mixed reviews from critics.

Plot
Clara, Danny, and several Coal Hill students on an overnight school trip wake up to find Earth has been covered by large forests. One of the students, Maebh, hears a thought from Clara to find the Twelfth Doctor. She finds him in Trafalgar Square. Clara, Danny, and the other students regroup in Trafalgar Square to recover Maebh. In the TARDIS, Danny finds a pile of student notebooks that Clara had left behind. He realises Clara lied about forgoing future travels with the Doctor. Among the notebooks is Maebh's, each page having a picture of an angry sun striking down trees. Maebh goes missing; Clara explains that since the disappearance of her sister Annabel, Maebh hears voices in her head, and takes medication to calm these effects.

The Doctor explains to Clara that he believes a giant solar flare will strike Earth today. They find Maebh. As Maebh's medication wears off, the Doctor examines her movements and thinks she is communicating with something. He temporarily creates a gravity field around Maebh, revealing many bug-like creatures. They speak through Maebh, claiming responsibility for growing the forest, as they had done before in the north and in the south.

The Doctor believes Earth is doomed from the solar flare, and offers to take Clara, Danny, and the students away in the TARDIS.  The students prefer to stay and find their parents, Danny insists on staying with the students, and Clara refuses to become the last of her kind. Later admitting he was wrong, the Doctor tells Clara, Danny, and the students the creatures were referring to the Tunguska Event and the Curuçá impact, events that should have been catastrophic for life on Earth. The Doctor believes that the trees shielded Earth from the solar flare as they had for those impacts. The Doctor hacks into the global cellular network and Maebh reads off a message prepared by the other students to tell everyone on Earth to leave the trees alone, and to request Annabel to come home. Danny tells Clara he wants to know the truth about her travels with the Doctor, and asks her to think about it first.

The Doctor and Clara watch the solar flare harmlessly strike Earth from space. As the trees dissipate, the Doctor explains that humanity will forget about the sudden appearance of the trees, as they have before, but the memory will linger as fairy tales. Outside her house, Maebh reunites with Annabel.

Continuity
The Doctor responds to Clara's suggestion that he save himself and abandon the Earth with her words to him in "Kill the Moon": "This is my world, too. I walk your Earth. I breathe your air".

Outside references
The title is from the second line of William Blake's The Tyger: Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night. (The forests appear overnight and a tiger appears in the episode).
This episode contains many elements of fairy tales, as explained in Doctor Who Extra. For example, Maebh in a red coat getting chased by wolves ("Little Red Riding Hood"). Maebh's last name is Arden, a reference to the forest in William Shakespeare's play As You Like It.

Broadcast and reception
Overnight viewing figures were estimated at 5.03 million viewers. The episode was watched by a total of 6.92 million viewers. On BBC America this episode was seen by 1.06 million viewers, being the most watched episode since the airing of "Listen". It also received an Appreciation Index of 83.

Critical reception

The episode received mixed reviews from critics, with some praising its poetic, unique feel and contrasts with the darker episodes of the series, while some were critical of the lack of threat. Ben Lawrence of The Daily Telegraph gave it four stars out of five and called it "powerful". He was positive toward the Doctor's character development and Peter Capaldi's performance. Chris Pyke of Wales Online said the episode was not a "scary or fun adventure", but "languished somewhere in between" and seemed like a filler before the series' conclusion. Matt Dennis of The News Hub criticised the story for the lack of "any real threat or tension for the most part", and described it as "45 minutes of wandering aimlessly about". Patrick Mulkern gave the episode three stars in Radio Times. He called it a "delightful fable for kids and indulgent grown-ups", but found the premise was "almost as credulity-stretching" as the Moon being an egg in the same series. Neela Debnath of The Independent said that it was not "the strongest instalment", but the "witty dialogue and young guest cast make up for it". She felt that it was "a novel concept that starts off well but unravels fairly quickly", whereas Jamie McLoughlin of Liverpool Echo gave an overwhelmingly positive review, giving it five stars, calling it a "masterclass".

However, Morgan Jeffery of Digital Spy gave a negative review, granting it two stars out of five. He called the script "unsophisticated" and "an utterly disappointing experience". However, he gave a positive review of Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and Samuel Anderson's performances. Matt Risley of IGN gave a rating of 7.4 out of 10. He felt it worked far better than the previous light-hearted episode of the series, "Robot of Sherwood", and that it was a refreshing change from the dark undertones of the series, but felt that Anderson was underused and criticised the disparate narratives.

Showrunner Steven Moffat defended the episode, saying it was "beautifully and elegantly written," and added, "I think will grow in stature over the years."

References

External links

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2014 British television episodes
Doctor Who stories set on Earth
Works by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Television episodes set in London
Television episodes set in forests


title: Leyland B21

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The Leyland B21 was a bus chassis manufactured by Leyland between 1979 and 1985. The chassis was as used by the Leyland National and was designed for overseas markets. Its biggest market was Australia.

The B21 was assembled at Workington's works with some work performed at Leyland's Bristol works.

Operators
In Australia, Transperth purchased 20 and Darwin Bus Service 18. Other purchasers included Benders Busways, Delwood Coaches, Melbourne-Brighton Bus Lines, Nowra Coaches and Surfside Buslines. All of the Australian chassis were powered by the GM 6V71.

In Belgium, SNCV, Brussels purchased 25. Israeli operator Egged sought to import 150, but difficulties over financing saw the deal fall through.

In the United Kingdom, Ipswich Buses purchased four and Ulsterbus six.

References

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Vehicles introduced in 1979
Bus chassis


title: Dark Water (Doctor Who)

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"Dark Water" is the eleventh episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 1 November 2014. The episode was written by showrunner and head writer Steven Moffat and was directed by Rachel Talalay. It is the first of a two-part story; the concluding episode "Death in Heaven", the finale of the eighth series, aired on 8 November.

In the episode, Danny Pink (Samuel Anderson) is killed, and finds himself in an afterlife called the Nethersphere. As the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and his companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) try to find Danny, they find themselves in a facility that accommodates Cybermen, run by recurring character Missy (Michelle Gomez). In the episode's climax, Missy reveals her true identity as a female incarnation of the Doctor's arch-enemy The Master, last seen in the 2009–10 serial "The End of Time".

The episode received widespread critical acclaim, with the performances of Capaldi, Gomez, Coleman and Anderson being praised. Critics praised the horror strand of the episode, the maturity level, and the darker, more mature and morbid themes.

Plot
Clara phones Danny, ready to admit the full truth of her travelling with the Twelfth Doctor and that she sincerely loves Danny. Danny is killed by a passing car midway through the call. Visibly upset, Clara schemes to use a hypnotic patch on the Doctor to blackmail him into saving Danny. The Doctor eventually reveals that the patch did not work on him; instead, he had used it on Clara to learn why she was upset and to see how far she was willing to go. He offers—as a friend, despite her betrayal of him—to see if they can locate Danny in the afterlife.

Clara focuses on Danny's location with the TARDIS' telepathic interface. The Doctor and Clara arrive at a mausoleum called the  Institute, which holds several tanks of human skeletons submerged in a substance called dark water; the dark water hides the exoskeletons that support the skeletons. They are greeted by Missy, who says she is a welcome droid. The scientist Dr Chang explains to them that 3W was founded to protect the dead after voices heard within white noise broadcast signals suggested the dead are aware of their bodies being cremated.

During all of this, Danny is greeted by Seb in an apparent afterlife called the Nethersphere. Seb helps Danny adjust to his recent death. As part of his orientation, a meeting is arranged between Danny and a young civilian boy he accidentally killed while he was a soldier in Afghanistan. The boy runs off. Danny receives a call from Clara at 3W. The Doctor leaves with Chang to investigate further while Clara takes the call. Not wishing Clara to die, Danny does not convince her that he is really Danny, and tricks her into ending the call. Though Danny almost deletes his emotions, he hesitates when he sees the boy watching him.

Missy instructs the skeletons to rise and begin draining the tanks. She kills Chang with a handheld device. The skeletons are revealed to be Cybermen. Missy tells the Doctor that dying minds are uploaded to the Nethersphere—a spherical Time Lord "hard drive"—where the emotions are deleted and the mind is downloaded into upgraded Cyberman bodies. The Doctor realises that Missy is not a droid, but a Time Lady. The Doctor races out of 3W and finds that it is inside St Paul's Cathedral in contemporary London. Missy reveals her identity as a female incarnation of the Master, having changed her name to fit her new sex. Clara is trapped in Chang's laboratory with another Cyberman.

Production
The read through for "Dark Water" took place on 12 June 2014. Filming began soon afterwards, on 16 June 2014. Locations for the episode included Cardiff, Pontypool and St. Paul's Cathedral. When filming the episode's climax, Peter Capaldi and Michelle Gomez mouthed their lines as the Doctor and Missy—recorded later using automated dialogue replacement—to hide the revelation from all spectators of the filming. To further ensure there was no leak, the climax was removed from all preview copies of the episode.

Dan Martin calls the scene with the Cybermen emerging from St. Paul's Cathedral "a direct reference" to a similar shot from the 1968 serial The Invasion, and suspects the tomb-filled mausoleum may likewise reference the 1967 serial The Tomb of the Cybermen.

Cast notes
Sheila Reid made her second appearance as Clara's grandmother, having been introduced in "The Time of the Doctor"; she had previously appeared in Vengeance on Varos in 1985.
Chris Addison appears as Seb.

Broadcast and reception

Preview release
Scenes of "Dark Water" were removed from the DVD previews sent to reviewers, and a media blackout had been imposed on any plot details that were not released by the BBC. One notable scene removed by the BBC was the revelation of Missy's identity.

Ratings
Overnight viewing figures were estimated at 5.27 million. It was watched by a total of 7.34 million viewers. The episode achieved an Appreciation Index score of 85. In the US, the episode was watched by an estimated 1.02 million on BBC America.

Critical reception

The episode received critical acclaim. Michael Hogan of The Daily Telegraph gave it five stars out of five and called it "bone-rattling and suitably spooky fare". He praised the source of everyday fears such as death for the horror and praised the performances of Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson and Gomez. Neela Debnath of The Independent said that the episode was "sad, funny, scary, romantic" and "is everything you could ask for from a Doctor Who finale the day after Halloween." Richard Edwards of SFX gave the episode four and a half stars out of five, claiming "...in a series of great Capaldi performances, this is one of the best". He praised the opening premise and the big reveal at the end and also commented on its allusions to The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Invasion.

Matt Risley of IGN praised the episode for its "tense and traumatic dose of Who", but was critical of the lack of action, which usually went hand-in-hand with the Cybermen. Overall, he rated the first part of the finale an 8.4. Alaisdair Wilkins of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B rating, claiming that "Dark Water could be a good episode, or it could be a terrible one", indicating that it was only the first half of the story.

Despite the positive critical reception, the episode received criticism from viewers concerning the use of death and cremation in the storyline. The BBC defended the use of the themes in the show's context. The BBC also noted that it was stated several times that the truth may be distressing and that the Doctor dismissed this straight away.

Critical analysis
A book length study of the serial (covering both "Dark Water" and "Death in Heaven"), was written by Philip Purser-Hallard, and published as part of The Black Archive series from Obverse Books in 2016.

The serial was covered in volume 79 of the Doctor Who: The Complete History book series, which reprinted Andrew Pixley's Archive features from Doctor Who Magazine and the various Doctor Who Magazine Special Editions, as well as new articles created specifically for the book.

References

Further reading

External links

Twelfth Doctor episodes
2014 British television episodes
Television episodes written by Steven Moffat
The Master (Doctor Who) television stories
Cybermen television stories
Doctor Who stories set on Earth
Television episodes about the afterlife
Television episodes about death
Television episodes set in London


title: Rhopobota bucera

text:
Rhopobota bucera is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Shaanxi, China.

The wingspan is about 12.5 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is grey. The costa has seven pairs of strigulae (fine streaks). The hindwings are grey.

Etymology
The species name refers to the shape of the tegumentary projections in the male genitalia and is derived from Latin bucerus (meaning horned).

References

Moths described in 2005
Eucosmini


The National Union for Solidarity and Progress (, UNSP) was a political party in Benin led by Eustache Sarré.

History
The UNSP contested the 1991 parliamentary elections in an alliance with the Social Democratic Party. The alliance received 10% of the vote and won 8 of the 64 seats in the National Assembly. Most of the MPs joined Renewal alliance in 1993.

Prior to the 1995 elections the party formed the "New Generation" alliance with the Forum for Democracy, Development and Morality. The two parties received 3% of the vote, winning two seats. The seats were taken by Souléman Zoumarou and Mamoudou Zoumarou.

It was part of the Star Alliance for the 1999 elections. The Alliance received 4% of the vote and won four seats.  The party nominated Wallis Zoumarou as its candidate for the 2001 presidential elections. Zoumarou finished ninth in a field of 17 candidates.

References

Defunct political parties in Benin


title: Catoptria furciferalis

text:
Catoptria furciferalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1900. It is found in Russia (Ussuri).

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1900
Moths of Asia


title: Catoptria harutai

text:
Catoptria harutai is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Okano in 1958. It is found in Japan (Honshu).

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1958
Moths of Japan


title: Catoptria hilarellus

text:
Catoptria hilarellus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Aristide Caradja in 1925. It is found in Taurus Mountains of Turkey.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1925
Moths of Asia

Insects of Turkey


title: Catoptria inouella

text:
Catoptria inouella is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1965. It is found in Honshu, Japan.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1965
Moths of Japan


title: John Bailey (cutler)

text:
John Bailey (born 1736) was an American cutler and metalworker. Born in Sheffield, England, he moved to New York City in 1755 and set up his own metalworking business 1771. He was married to Anne Brigstoke later that same year. After the British occupation he moved to Frederickstown and later in 1778 to Fishkill, where he continued his cutlery business. He also owned and operated a 200-acre farm just outside Fishkill.

In 1784, Bailey returned to New York and was granted American citizenship. Despite applying to George Washington for a post minting coinage for the new United States of America, Bailey was not granted a commission.

Washington's sword

Bailey is best known as the creator of George Washington's Battle Sword, a lightweight sword around three feet in length, which he constructed in Fishkill. The sword showcases the jade-green stained hilt design for which Bailey was well known. On Washington's death it was bequeathed to his nephew Samuel T. Washington, whose son presented it to Congress in 1843.

References

American metalsmiths
1736 births
Year of death missing


title: Catoptria latiradiellus

text:
Catoptria latiradiellus, the three-spotted crambus moth or two-banded catoptria, is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Yukon and British Columbia to Newfoundland, south to Pennsylvania, Michigan and Colorado.

Adults are on wing from July to August.

The larvae probably feed on mosses.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1863
Moths of North America


title: Carli Palace of Verona

text:
Carli Palace is a Neoclassical style palace located in Via Roma in the city center of Verona.

History
The building was commissioned by Marquis Giuseppe Della Torre in the second half of the 18th century. At his death in 1778, he left the building to his wife Elena Carli. A few years later, her brother Count Alessandro Carli rebuilt the palace improving its structure and, in 1812, he sold it to the Basilea brothers.

In 1839 the building was purchased by the Imperial Austrian Authorities as the house of Supremo Imperial Regio Senato di Giustizia del Regno Lombardo Veneto (the Supreme Court of Justice for the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia). It performed this function until 1851.

In 1853 the building became Field Marshal Johann Joseph Radetzky's residence, the Lombardo-Veneto Civilian and Military Governor.

In 1857 it was converted into an accommodation for high-rank guests, subsequently in 1859 the Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Commander in Chief of the Veneto Army, established his Headquarters.

In October 1866, at the end of the Third War of Independence, the act of ceding of Verona to the Local Municipality was signed here, in the "Sala degli Stucchi".

The building maintained its military functions even under the Kingdom of Italy, as the seat of the Corps Headquarters deployed in Verona.

On February 22, 1951, an Italian four star Army headquarters (HQ) was activated in the building, but on July 10 it became a NATO headquarters, named Allied Land Forces Southern Europe  (LANDSOUTH), until 1999, when it was reappointed as JOINT COMMAND SOUTH (JC SOUTH). The headquarters were de-activated on July 1, 2004.

Since 1997, Palazzo Carli has been the seat of the Italian Army Operational Land Forces Command (COMFOTER).

Architecture
The main body perspective on an inner courtyard where there is a beautiful fountain. The facade is divided into three registers, the ground are rusticated arches with Doric pillars, the first floor there is a large central hall with a loggia. Inside they are preserved frescoes of Giambettino Cignaroli, Domenico Pecchio and Marco Marcola.

Bibliography
 T. Lenotti, Palazzi di Verona, Verona, Vita veronese, 1964.
 F. Dal Forno, Case e palazzi di Verona, Verona, Banca popolare di Verona, 1973.
 P. Floder Reitter, Case palazzi e ville di Verona e provincia, Verona, I.E.T. edizioni, 1997
 G. Forti, La scena urbana: strade e palazzi di Verona e provincia, Verona, Athesis, 2000
 M. Luciolli, Passeggiando tra i palazzi di Verona, Garda, 2003.
 R. Caloi, Palazzo Carli a Verona, Verona, 2009.

Related items
 Verona Austrian
 Monuments of Verona
 History of Verona

Palaces in Verona
Neoclassical architecture in Verona


title: Catoptria mediofasciella

text:
Catoptria mediofasciella is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Zerny in 1914. It is found in Armenia.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1914
Moths of Asia


title: Catoptria mienshani

text:
Catoptria mienshani is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1965. It is found in Shanxi, China.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1965
Moths of Asia


title: Catoptria montivaga

text:
Catoptria montivaga is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Inoue in 1955. It is found in Japan (Honshu).

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1955
Moths of Japan


title: Catoptria munroeella

text:
Catoptria munroeella is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Stanisław Błeszyński in 1965. It is found in Honshu, Japan.

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1965
Moths of Japan


title: Siyot Caves

text:
The Siyot Caves, sometimes referred to as the Kateshwar Buddhist Caves, are five rock-cut caves located near Siyot village in the Lakpat Taluka of Kutch district, Gujarat, India. The caves are believed to belong to the first century AD.

The main cave has east facing sanctum, ambulatory and space divisions which suggests a Shiva temple from the first or second century. The cave was used by Buddhists later which can be concluded based on the seals found herein and the traces of Brahmi inscriptions. Other caves are simple single cells which were probably the part of eighty Buddhist caves located near the mouth of the Indus river as reported by Xuanzang in seventh century. Local people believe that these caves were used by dacoits to hide things looted from people in past.

Excavations in 1988–89 recovered clay seals engraved with Buddha images in various mudras and seals engraved with late Brahmi and Devnagari inscriptions. Other findings were copper rings, Gadhaiya coins, terracotta Nandi with bell and chain, different types of earthen wares like Surahi. Based on stratigraphic evidence, it is established that the site was occupied by Buddhist before it was again occupied by Shaivaites around twelfth or thirteenth century. The site was repaired after 2001 Gujarat earthquake.

There is a primitive stepwell located nearby.

References

Hindu cave temples in India
Caves of Gujarat
Kutch district
Buddhist caves in India
Indian rock-cut architecture


title: Rhopobota blanditana

text:
Rhopobota blanditana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China (Sichuan, Guizhou), Vietnam and Thailand.

References

Moths described in 1988
Eucosmini


title: Catoptria nana

text:
Catoptria nana is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Okano in 1959. It is found in Japan (Honshu, Hokkaido).

References

Crambini
Moths described in 1959
Moths of Japan


title: Benny Tai

text:
Benny Tai Yiu-ting (; born 12 July 1964) is a Hong Kong legal scholar, political figure, and democracy activist. He was an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong.

From 2013, Tai launched and is known for his initiation of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace, as he considered Hong Kong to lack "true universal suffrage" and should participate in an Occupy movement to win universal suffrage in the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election. His suggestion ultimately resulted in the eruption of the Umbrella Movement the following year, as a result of which he was found guilty of "conspiracy to commit public nuisance" and "inciting others to commit public nuisance" and sentenced to six months in prison. Citing this conviction, in July 2020, the University of Hong Kong's governing council controversially fired Tai.

After the protests, Tai repeatedly campaigned to pressure for greater electoral reforms in Hong Kong, launching "Operation ThunderGo" in the 2016 Legislative Council election, a "smart voter" mechanism aiming at getting the most pro-democracy candidates elected to the Legislative Council. He also initiated "Project Storm" for the pro-democrats to win the majority in the 2019 District Council elections.

On 6 January 2021, Tai was arrested along with 54 other pro-democracy campaigners, activists, social workers, and former legislators  on suspicion of "subversion of state power" under the national security law for organising the 2020 pro-democracy primaries.

Academic background
Tai was educated at the Diocesan Boys' School and then graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a law degree and a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws, followed by a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics. His classmates included  Rimsky Yuen and Keith Yeung.

He joined the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong in 1990, became an assistant professor in 1991 and an associate professor in 2001. He was also the Associate Dean of the law faculty from 2000 to 2008. He specialised in constitutional law, administrative law, law and governance, law and politics and law and religion.

Tai has been active in promoting civic education in the community, having served on the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee as a student representative from 1988 to 1990 and a member of the Committee on the Promotion of Civil Education and the Bilingual Laws Advisory Committee from 1995 to 2003. He was also a part-time member of the Hong Kong government's Central Policy Unit in 2007.

In July 2020, Tai was fired by the University of Hong Kong, his long-time employer, citing the criminal conviction he incurred for his role in the 2014 pro-democracy protests, known as Occupy Central. The university's governing council controversially overturned (by 18 votes to 2) a previous ruling by its senate, which recommended against dismissal. His salary and benefits were immediately suspended. Tai claimed that the decision to fire him was "made not by the University of Hong Kong but by an authority beyond the University through its agents."

Occupy Central with Love and Peace

On 16 January 2013, Tai wrote an article entitled "Civil Disobedience's Deadliest Weapon" on Hong Kong Economic Journal which sparked public debate. In the article, Tai postulated a non-violent civil disobedience seven-step progression to pressure the Hong Kong government to implement genuine full democracy: 10,000 participants signing a declaration (taking a vow and pledge of willingness to occupy the streets), live TV broadcast of discussions, electronic voting on methods for universal suffrage, a referendum on the preferred formula, resignation of a "super-seat" Legislative Council member to be filled in a by-election to be seen as a referendum on the plan, civil disobedience, and, finally, Occupy Central in July 2014 if the plan was rejected by the Beijing government.

He and sociology scholar Chan Kin-man and pro-democracy priest Reverend Chu Yiu-ming founded the Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP) on 27 March 2013. The plan was supported by the pan-democracy camp and rounds of deliberations were held among the Occupy participants from 2013 to 2014 before an referendum on the electoral reform proposal in June 2014. The plan was strongly condemned by the Beijing authorities. Tai also received death threats.

In response to the decision on constitutional reform proposal of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) which set the restrictive framework on the electoral method of the 2017 Chief Executive election, Tai announced the official start of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace civil disobedience campaign on 28 September 2014 after the student activists' storming of the forecourt of the government headquarters led by Joshua Wong on the last day of the class boycott campaign.

As the occupation ended its first month, Tai and Chan Kin-man resumed their teaching duties at their respective universities and OCLP handed over the command of its medic, marshal and supplies teams to the student groups, the Hong Kong Federation of Students and Scholarism. On 3 December 2014, the Occupy Central trio, along with 62 other key figures turned themselves in to the police, admitting taking part in an unauthorised assembly as originally planned. They declared that they did so to fulfil their promise to bear legal responsibility and uphold the rule of law, as well as to affirm their principles of love and peace.

In March 2017, he and eight other Occupy leaders were arrested on the rare charges of conspiracy to cause public nuisance, inciting others to cause public nuisance, and inciting people to incite others to cause public nuisance. University of Hong Kong principal law lecturer Eric Cheung Tat-ming and criminal defence lawyer Jonathan Midgley described the charges as "not at all common".

In April 2019, Tai was found guilty of conspiracy to cause public nuisance and inciting others to cause public nuisance. He was sentenced to 16 months in prison.

Operation ThunderGo

In early 2016, Tai mapped out an "Operation ThunderGo" for pan-democrats to grab half of the seats in the Legislative Council election to increase political leverage in future political reform in the response to the increasing fragmentation of the pan-democracy camp in the post-Occupy era. He suggested the anti-establishment forces to field no more than 23 lists if their goal was to win 23 seats in the geographical constituencies. 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 needed 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 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 of wasting votes on stronger candidates who were already through.

Tai's Operation ThunderGo was blamed as he released on the election day a list of recommended pro-democratic candidates based on pre-polling. It drew a large number of voters to vote for the candidates who were on the brink of losing as shown in the polls from other candidates, which resulted in the high votes received by fresh faces Eddie Chu, Lau Siu-lai and Nathan Law at other veteran democrats' expenses including Lee Cheuk-yan, Cyd Ho and Frederick Fung who failed to retain their seats.

Remarks on Hong Kong independence

In a seminar in Taipei organised by the Taiwan Youth Anti-Communist Corps in March 2018, Tai was recorded making an argument that following the end of "dictatorship" in China, the country's various ethnic groups could exercise their right to self-determination and decide how they could link up with each other. "We could consider going independent, being part of a federal system or a confederation system similar to that of the European Union," he said.

Tai was condemned by Pro-Beijing media in Hong Kong for several days in a row, followed by a rare statement of condemnation from the Hong Kong government. The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO) and the Liaison Office also issued strongly worded comments condemning Tai, stating that a "small number of people in Hong Kong have colluded with external separatist forces" to advocate the city's independence. "They have fully exposed their attempts to split the country and violated the national constitution, the Hong Kong Basic Law, and the relevant laws in Hong Kong. They are challenging the bottom line of 'one country, two systems'. Such activities must not be ignored or tolerated." Hong Kong member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) Tam Yiu-chung asked if it was still appropriate for Tai to keep his job at HKU. Tai responded by saying his comments were "imaginations of the future", which in his opinion did not violate any criminal laws. He also added that he does not support independence. He warned that a "Cultural Revolution-style denouncement could have started against me. It will quickly spread to affect all Hong Kong people." He expressed fears for his personal safety
as he suspected that he was being followed by officers from "powerful" mainland agencies who may be posing as journalists, and that the police were unable to help him.

Project Storm

In April 2017, Tai proposed the "Project Storm" to win the majority of the District Council seats for the pro-democrats in the 2019 Hong Kong local elections. He stated that by winning a majority of the some 400 District Council seats, pro-democrats could gain an additional 117 seats of the District Council subsectors on the 1,200-member Election Committee which elects the Chief Executive. Tai believed that by making it harder for Beijing to control the Chief Executive election, it would compel Beijing to restart the stalled political reform after its restrictive proposal was voted down in 2015.

Arrest for role in 2020 democratic primaries
On 6 January 2021, Tai was among 55 members of the pro-democratic camp who were arrested under the national security law, specifically its provision regarding subversion. The group stood accused of organising and participating in unofficial primary elections held by the camp in July 2020. Tai was released on bail on 7 January.

Personal life
Benny Tai is married with one daughter and two sons. He is a Christian who considers himself a "part-time theologian", and said he could write a thesis on the topic of Christianity and the Occupy protests. He stated that his political views were inspired by his Christian faith, adding that the movement was guided by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

References

1964 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Hong Kong
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong activists
Hong Kong writers
Hong Kong legal scholars
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021
Hong Kong Protestants
Prisoners and detainees of Hong Kong
Political prisoners held by Hong Kong
People convicted under the Hong Kong national security law


title: Rhopobota falcata

text:
Rhopobota falcata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China (Guangxi) and Japan.

The wingspan is 12-15.5 mm.

References

Moths described in 1999
Eucosmini


title: Bundaleer Station

text:
Bundaleer Station was a pastoral lease that operated as a sheep station in South Australia.

It is situated approximately  south of Jamestown and  north of Spalding.

The property was established in 1841 by John Bristow Hughes and occupied an area of .

In 1854, Charles Brown Fisher bought Bundaleer from Hughes for £31,000.

By 1864 it was estimated that the property was carrying about 80,000 sheep worth over £40,000.

See also
List of ranches and stations

References

Stations in South Australia
1841 establishments in Australia


title: Rhopobota okui

text:
Rhopobota okui is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China (Henan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou) and Japan.

References

Moths described in 2000
Eucosmini


title: Rhopobota symbolias

text:
Rhopobota symbolias is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in China (Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou) and India.

References

Moths described in 1912
Eucosmini


title: Renée Simonot

text:
Jeanne Renée Deneuve (10 September 1911 – 11 July 2021), known professionally as Renée-Jeanne Simonot, was a French actress and voice artist. She was married to actor Maurice Dorléac, the mother of actresses Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac and the grandmother of actor Christian Vadim and actress Chiara Mastroianni.

Early life and career
Born in Le Havre, France to Joseph-Sévère Deneuve and Antoinette-Jeanne Deneuve (née Schenardi), she debuted at the Odéon Theatre in 1918 at the age of seven. Primarily a stage actress, she remained there for 28 years, holding the post of "leading lady". Her daughter Catherine chose to use her maiden name, Deneuve, as her stage name. Simonot is Renée's stage name, which she took from an opera singer and family friend.

Renée Simonot was one of the first French actresses to begin the dubbing of American films in France from the beginning of the talkies in 1929 through the 1930s. She was the voice of Olivia de Havilland (in most of her films), Sylvia Sidney, Judy Garland, Donna Reed and Esther Williams, among others.

Personal life
She had her first daughter, Daniele, out of wedlock on 27 October 1936 with actor Aimé Clariond. Simonot told Le Point magazine in 2013: "Mr. Clariond was not my husband. He was married, not divorced and separated from his wife for a long time. The only happiness he gave me is a child. For the rest, he was charming, but we could not count on him."

While dubbing for MGM, she met Maurice Dorléac and they married in 1940. The couple had three daughters: Françoise (1942–1967), Catherine (born 22 October 1943) and Sylvie (born 14 December 1946).

Simonot had been a widow since 1979 and lived in Paris. In an interview conducted a few months before her 102nd birthday in 2013, she said: "My old age is not sad. I am lucky to be very surrounded. There is not a day where I don't get a phone call or a visit from my children and grandchildren."

In 2019, ahead of her 108th birthday, daughter Catherine told Gala: "It's pretty amazing, it comes from her genes. My sisters and I are holding her. She has been in a home for two or three years. At the same time it's a little scary, it still seems very far in life. I am all the more surprised by her longevity that she is not sick."

Simonot died in Paris in July 2021 at the age of 109.

Selected stage work
1921: Les Misérables (Cosette) by Paul Meurice and Charles Hugo based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Odéon Theatre
1922: Molière by  and , directed by Firmin Gémier, Odéon Theatre
1928: La Belle Aventure by Gaston Arman de Caillavet, Robert de Flers and Étienne Rey, Odéon Theatre
1932: Le Favori by Martial Piéchaud, Odéon Theatre
1934: Jeanne d'Arc by Saint-Georges de Bouhélier, Odéon Theatre

References

1911 births
2021 deaths
20th-century French actresses
Dorléac family
French centenarians
French child actresses
French film actresses
French people of Norman descent
French stage actresses
French voice actresses
Actresses from Le Havre
Women centenarians


title: My Mistress

text:
My Mistress is a 2014 Australian film.

Plot
A sixteen-year-old boy discovers his father's suicide. Distraught, he goes searching for ways to numb the pain. He then meets a mysterious woman who turns out to be a dominatrix and finds solace in her arms.

Cast

 Emmanuelle Beart as Maggie / The Mistress
 Harrison Gilbertson as Charlie Boyd
 Rachael Blake as Kate Boyd
 Socratis Otto as Leon
 Malcolm Kennard as Michael

Production
Filming took place on the Gold Coast.

The production of the film had the BDSM consultancy of the Brazilian dominatrix Kalyss Mercury and the French dominatrix Maîtresse Françoise.

Notes

References

External links

Review at SBS movies

2014 films
Australian erotic drama films
Erotic romance films
Films set in Queensland
BDSM in films
Films shot on the Gold Coast, Queensland
2010s English-language films
2010s Australian films


title: 1997–98 Watford F.C. season

text:
During the 1997–98 English football season, Watford F.C. competed in the Football League Second Division.

Season summary
In the 1997–98 season, Kenny Jackett was demoted to the position of assistant manager and Graham Taylor returned for a second spell as Watford manager. The transition proved a success; Watford secured the Division Two title, beating Bristol City into second place after a season-long struggle.

Final league table

Results
Watford's score comes first

Legend

Football League Second Division

FA Cup

League Cup

Football League Trophy

Players

First-team squad
Squad at end of season

Reserve squad

References

Notes

Watford F.C. seasons
Watford


title: Ian Rusted

text:
Ian Edwin Lawman Hollands Rusted  (July 12, 1921 – July 14, 2007) was a Canadian doctor in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The son of Reverend Canon Ernest E. Rusted and Faith Hollands Rusted, he was born in Upper Island Cove, Newfoundland and attended school in Carbonear and St. John's. Rusted earned a pre-med degree from Memorial University College in 1940 and continued his studies at Trinity College, Toronto and Dalhousie University. He interned at Victoria General Hospital in Halifax and went on to earn a BSc from McGill University in 1949. He was awarded a fellowship in medicine by the Mayo Foundation and continued post-graduate studies at the Mayo Clinic from 1949 to 1952. In 1952, he became a fellow in the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. Later that year, he returned to Newfoundland, where he specialized in internal medicine. From 1952 to 1967, he served as medical consultant to the Newfoundland Department of Health. He was director of Medical Education, director of the Memorial University Research Unit and chairman of the Department of Medicine at St. John's General Hospital, also practising privately.

Rusted was able to persuade the federal and provincial governments to create a faculty of Medicine at Memorial University in 1967 and he served as its first dean and as professor of medicine. He stepped down as dean in 1974, when he was named vice-president of Health Sciences. He retired from that position in 1988.

In 1949, Rusted married Ellen Marie Hansen and they had two sons.

He was named an Officer in the Order of Canada in 1985. In 2013, he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

His older brother Nigel was also a physician.

References

1921 births
2007 deaths
Physicians from Newfoundland and Labrador
Officers of the Order of Canada

Dalhousie University alumni
McGill University alumni
Canadian expatriates in the United States


title: Warren Woodcock

text:
Warren W. Woodcock (born 22 September 1936) is an Australian former amateur tennis player who competed in the 1950s and 1960s. He reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Championships in 1957 and the final of a US Pro Championship in 1967, losing to Sam Giammalva.

References

External links

Australian male tennis players
1936 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles
Australian Championships (tennis) junior champions


title: Blood Rites

text:
Blood Rites may refer to:

Blood Rites (Dresden Files), the 6th book in The Dresden Files, Jim Butcher's continuing series about wizard detective Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden
Blood Rites, 2012 novel by S. J. Rozan
Blood Rites (film), 1968 American horror film


Summer Evening at Skagen Beach – The Artist and his Wife () is an 1899 painting by Peder Severin Krøyer. One of the best known paintings of the Skagen Painters, it depicts Krøyer with his wife Marie and his dog Rap strolling on the beach in the moonlight.

Background

The Skagen Painters were a close-knit group of mainly Danish artists who gathered each summer from the late 1870s in the fishing village of Skagen in the far north of Jutland, painting the local fishermen and their own gatherings. P. S. Krøyer arrived there in 1882, quickly becoming the most prominent member of the group.

In 1895, in a letter to his friend Oscar Björck, Krøyer wrote "I am also thinking of painting a large portrait of my wife and me together — but for that I shall definitely need good weather, so it won't be this year." In fact it was four years later, in the summer of 1899, that he finally created his large painting. Maybe it was in recognition of 10 years of marriage with Marie Triepcke as illustrated in other works of family life at the time as well as in a number of the photographs and sketches he used as a basis for the work.

Painting description

The final result nevertheless has a rather melancholic tone. Despite the beautiful surroundings, Marie appears distant, disappearing into the blue moonlight. Even Krøyer's own weak figure seems to be experiencing difficulty in supporting her on his arm while the closest figure of all is Krøyer's faithful dog, Rap. After Krøyer had worked on the painting throughout the summer, he submitted it to the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1900. It was not very well received there, being criticized as banal. In fact, it presents the blue half-light, a favourite with the Symbolists who believed the twilight hour heralded the coming of death. In 1907, Krøyer conveyed his own feelings about Skagen evenings: "Skagen can look so terribly dull in the bright sunlight ... but when the sun goes down, when the moon rises up out of the sea, ... with the fishermen standing on the beach and the cutters sailing by with loosened sails ... in recent years this has been the time I like most of all." A few months after the spring exhibition, Krøyer was admitted to Middelfart Mental Hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown.

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Further reading

1899 paintings
Paintings by Peder Severin Krøyer
Paintings in the Hirschsprung Collection
Dogs in art
Ships in art
Moon in art