In his encouraging cameo against Manchester City he made a couple of important contributions and it was telling that he produced one of the few raking passes to find Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Hou's first feature since 2007's Flight of the Red Balloon (a couple of compendium contributions notwithstanding), The Assassin was several years in the making, and finds the acclaimed director of Dust in the Wind, A City of Sadness and The Puppetmaster taking a groundbreaking foray into ancient history.
In between, Ant Botha, the left-arm spinner, had made a couple of important contributions, taking a return catch from an indecisive Moeen Ali drive, then celebrating loudly after Alexei Kervezee, the only batsman to offer any serious threat, was superbly caught at cover off a leading edge for 65.
However, their variety gives rise to a practical and much broader question that is touched upon in a couple of the contributions.
During the conference, it was decided to initiate the current paper series Progress in ecotoxicology, environmental chemistry and ecology and to invite a couple of conference contributions that addressed either of the above-mentioned fields of current ecotoxicological research.
According to the title of the conference 'Ecotoxicology in an urban context' (Ökotoxikologie im urbanen Raum), a couple of conference contributions dealing with the occurrence and availability of pollutants relevant for organisms in urban environments will be published as papers in this series.
But read the credits and you'll see that save for one co-writing credit by Petty and a couple of guitar contributions by Harrison, this is all the theater of Lynne's mind and a product of his talents as a musical appropriator and customizer.
Lewis Gregory, with a career-best unbeaten 73, was one of four men to pass 50 in an innings which included a couple of other valuable contributions from Peter Trego and Craig Overton.
Materazzi may not be a delicate player, and has benefited from having Cannavaro beside him, but his penalty was calmly dispatched and a couple of his defensive contributions stood out.
