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Annita van Iersel

Anna Johanna Maria "Annita" van Iersel (born 5 October 1948), known as Annita Keating from 1975 to 1998, is a Dutch-born Australian artist and former wife of Paul Keating, former Prime Minister of Australia.

Early life
Born in Oisterwijk, North Brabant, Netherlands, she studied languages in Paris and London. She worked at KLM and Alitalia as a flight attendant.

Marriage
While working with Alitalia, she met Paul Keating, then an aspiring young politician. They married on 17 January 1975. Her parents later joined her in Australia.

While her husband was prime minister (from 1991 to 1996), their four children spent part of their teenage years at The Lodge, the prime minister's official residence in Canberra. Annita was well travelled, and this, along with her knowledge of five languages, proved a valuable diplomatic asset, especially in support of Sydney's bid for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

In 1998, Annita and Paul Keating separated. They did not formally divorce until 2008, though she had resumed her maiden name of van Iersel long before then. Annita revealed some years after the event, in an interview with her by The Bulletin, that Keating had broken off the relationship, not she, and had done it at a dinner party with friends.

Art career
The same year she and Paul separated, Annita enrolled in a Master of Fine Arts course, majoring in photography, at the Australian National School of Arts in Darlinghurst, Sydney. She graduated in 2001. In March 2008 she was scheduled to exhibit a series of paintings – oils on Belgian linen – that she created in her studio on the Hawkesbury River.

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Meskel

Meskel is an Ethiopian Christian and Eritrean Christian holiday that commemorates the discovery of the True Cross by the Roman Empress Saint Helena of Constantinople in the fourth century. Meskel is celebrated by Oriental Orthodox members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and to a lesser extent Roman Catholic members the Ethiopian Catholic Church, the Eritrean Catholic Church, and among Protestant members of P'ent'ay - Ethiopian-Eritrean Evangelicalism (including Pentecostal, Lutheran, Baptist, Mennonite, and other Evangelical churches). It is a localized version of the Feast of the Cross and occurs on the 17 Meskerem in the Ethiopian calendar (27 September, Gregorian calendar, or on 28 September in leap years). "Meskel" (or "Meskal" or "Mesqel", there are various ways to transliterate from Ge'ez to Latin script) is Amharic for "cross".

The feast is held in Meskel Square, named after the festival, in the capital city of Addis Ababa. Religious and civil leaders preside over the celebration, and public figures give speeches and reference biblical themes and stories. Many Ethiopians who live in cities return to their home villages to celebrate the national event. When darkness falls, the Demera is burned. UNESCO inscribed Meskel in 2013 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Overview
The Meskel celebration includes the burning of a large bonfire, or Demera, based on the belief that Queen Eleni had a revelation in a dream. She was told that she should make a bonfire and that the smoke would show her where the True Cross was buried. So she ordered the people of Jerusalem to bring wood and make a huge pile. After adding frankincense, the bonfire was lit and the smoke rose high up to the sky and returned to the ground, exactly to the spot where the Cross had been buried.

According to local traditions, this Demera-procession takes place in the early evening the day before Meskel or on the day itself. The firewood is decorated with daisies prior to the celebration. Charcoal from the remains of the fire is afterwards collected and used by the faithful to mark their foreheads with the shape of a cross (compare Ash Wednesday). Edward Ullendorff records a number of beliefs of the meaning of Demera, with some believing that it "marks the ultimate act in the cancellation of sins, while others hold that the direction of the smoke and the final collapse of the heap indicate the course of future events – just as the cloud of smoke the Lord raised over the Tabernacle offered guidance to the children of Israel (Exod. 40:34–38)." One explanation for the high rank this festival has in the church calendar is that it is believed that a part of the true Cross has been brought to Ethiopia from Egypt. It is said to be kept at Amba Geshen, which itself has a cross-shaped plan.

According to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the discovery of the True Cross is traditionally believed to have been in March, but Meskel was moved to September to avoid holding a festival during Lent, and because the church commemorating the True Cross in Jerusalem was dedicated during September. Ullendorff speculates that Meskel replaced an older festival, with pagan and Hebraic associations, which he believes received its Christian sanction around the reign of Emperor Amda Seyon in the fourteenth century. "The most ancient meaning of these feasts – as was also the case in Israel – was no doubt seasonal: the month of Maskaram marked the end of the rains, the resumption of work, and the reopening of communications."

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Time of the Wolf

Time of the Wolf (Le temps du loup) is a 2003 French dystopian post-apocalyptic drama film written and directed by Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke. Set in France at an undisclosed time, the plot follows the story of a family: Georges (Daniel Duval), Anne (Isabelle Huppert), and their two children, Eva (Anaïs Demoustier) and Ben (Lucas Biscombe). The film also stars Olivier Gourmet and Serge Riaboukine.

The film takes its title from Völuspá, an ancient Norse poem which describes the time before the Ragnarök. It received positive reviews.

Plot
A disaster of some type has occurred, of which the audience only knows that uncontaminated water is scarce and livestock have to be burned. Having fled Paris, the Laurent family arrives at their country home, hoping to find refuge and security, only to discover that it is already occupied by strangers.

The family is assaulted by the strangers and forced to leave, with no supplies or transport. As they seek help from people they have known in the village, they are repeatedly turned away. The family makes its way to a train station where they wait with other survivors in the hope that a train will stop for them and take them back to the city.

Release
Time of the Wolf was screened in the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, out of competition. Patrice Chéreau, a member of that year's jury, stars in the film, which made the film ineligible for any award. The film also screened at the Sitges Film Festival where it won Best Screenplay and was in the running for Best Film. The film was released on DVD in 2004, and included a film trailer and brief biographies of the lead cast, besides the film.

Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Time of the Wolf holds an approval rating of 64%, based on 56 reviews, and an average rating of 6.2/10. Its consensus reads, "A lean and unsettling [sic] thriller." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 71 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews". Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave Time of the Wolf 4 out of 5, while Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine gave it 3 out of 4.

Desson Thomson of The Washington Post commented that "[he] would rather have a more interesting group of desperate people to spend my post-apocalyptic time with" while A.O. Scott of The New York Times said that "You can feel frightened and disturbed by this movie without being especially moved by it". According to Scott Foundas of the Variety Magazine, "Haneke demonstrates profound insight into the essence of human behavior when all humility is pared away, raw panic and despair are the order of the day, and man becomes more like wolf than man."

William Thomas of the Empire Online gave the film 2 out of 5, saying in his closing comments that "A superb European cast is wasted on a portrait of social breakdown that really has very little to say for itself".

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Tanjong Katong Girls' School

Tanjong Katong Girls' School (TKGS) is a government autonomous girls' secondary school in Katong, Singapore. Established on 12 January 1953, the school was the first post-war government English girls' school built in Singapore.

History
TKGS was established on 12 January 1953 with seven classes, 250 pupils, and ten teaching staff. The school was the first post-war government English girls' schools built in Singapore and it was officially opened in 1954 when Assistant Educational Advisor to the Secretary of State for Colonies Freda Gwilliam was invited.

TKGS was actually opened on 12 January 1953, with seven classes. That same year, the school began admitting Chinese school students. In 1955, new science laboratories were constructed.

TKGS became a double-session school in 1960 to cater to the increased enrolment of 1,200. It was also the year Maude Scott, founding Principal of TKGS, was succeeded by See Tin See. TKGS became an integrated school in 1962, with the Chinese language. Since its establishment, TKGS has hosted trainees from the Teachers' Training Course (TTC), and has served as a workshop for Home Economics students. In the late 1970s, TKGS conducted "immersion programmes" for students from the Special Assistance Plan (SAP) schools, where students who had a Chinese medium of language were exposed to English lessons in an English environment. TKGS served as a Music Elective Programme (MEP) centre for students who were taking music as an 'O' Level subject but whose schools did not have suitable facilities.

In January 1966, the school was expanded to include another four-storey block which housed Science laboratories, classrooms and special rooms. A new cookery room was added to the domestic Science block and the canteen was extended to cater to the increased number of students. In 1967, the first Pre-University classes were started, boosting the student enrolment to 2,000. In 1972, TKGS won the champion title at the School Band Competition, and clinched the title at the Inter-School Debate Series in 1973. In 1975, TKGS produced the top girl in the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level examination.

In 1983, TKGS was selected by the Ministry of Education (MOE) for the Music Elective Programme (MEP), and was one of the four schools in Singapore to offer music as an examinable 'O' Level subject. The Pre-University programme was stopped in 1993 in line with MOE policy. In 1995, the school moved to a new campus at Dunman Lane, though the official opening only took place in 1997. The landmark sculpture, the "Spirit of TKGS", was commissioned and unveiled by Education Minister Teo Chee Hean during the school's official opening. Other achievements include gaining autonomous status.

TKGS curriculum includes all the pure Sciences, humanities and aesthetics. It is also one of the few schools in Singapore to offer Economics as an examinable 'O' Level subject, and at the first Cambridge GCE 'O' Level Economics Examination in 2008, TKGS produced the top Economics students in Singapore. Class periods were extended to 50 minutes in 2003, and in 2005, TKGS announced that it would be one of the first schools in Singapore to offer Drama as an examinable 'O' Level subject. The LEGACY (Leading, Empowering, Guiding, Affirming and Challenging Youths) Programme was introduced as part of the Integrated Character Development Programme as well, consisting of classroom and experiential learning of moral education during curriculum time. Another initiative was the Multi-Disciplinary Project Work for the Secondary 2s, with Future Problem Solving at the core of its framework. The Chinese Special Programme (CSP) and the Malay Special Programme (MSP) were introduced for students in Malay and Chinese respectively to learn the other language. In 2007, TKGS was appointed the East Zone Centre of Excellence (COE) for English Language, in recognition of its innovative approach towards the teaching and learning of English and the students' consistently good performance in English at the GCE 'O' Level examinations.

TKGS now has an enrolment of 1,388 students and around 120 staff, and offers all the Pure Sciences, Economics, Drama, and Music in addition to the normal curriculum.

It offers the Music Elective Programme and the Drama Elective Programme. Every pupil is required to participate in at least one core co-curricular activity. Girls who desire to serve the school may participate in the optional non-core CCAs.

TKGS is partnered with Satri Si Suriyothai School in the Singapore-Thailand Enhanced Partnership (STEP) Programme. Students with good academic results from China, Brunei and Southeast Asian countries are also invited to join the school.

The current principal of TKGS is Chew Ing Lim, who succeeded Mary Seah.

Academic information
TKGS is one of the few schools in Singapore that offer the Music Elective Programme (MEP) to students who wish to pursue Music as a subject at the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level.

Notable alumni

 * Felicia Chin, actress
 * Halimah Yacob, eighth President of Singapore
 * Ho Geok Choo, former Member of Parliament for West Coast GRC
 * Koh Chai Hong, first female pilot in the Republic of Singapore Air Force
 * Jade Seah, model, host and actress
 * Kanwaljit Soin, orthopaedic surgeon and first female Nominated Member of Parliament
 * Kimberly Lim, olympic sailor
 * Haslinda Amin, journalist, Bloomberg Television Anchor and Chief International Correspondent for Southeast Asia

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Sheltered instruction

Sheltered instruction is an educational approach designed to make academic content more accessible to English language learners (ELLs) while promoting their language development. It involves modifying instruction to accommodate students' language proficiency levels and providing additional support to help comprehend and engage with material effectively.

Originating in the field of bilingual education, sheltered instruction has gained prominence as schools worldwide strive to meet the needs of diverse student populations. The approach encompasses various strategies, including differentiated instruction, visual aids, cooperative learning, and explicit language instruction, tailored to the linguistic and academic needs of ELLs.

Central to sheltered instruction is the belief that all students, regardless of language background, deserve equitable access to rigorous academic content. By incorporating language support and scaffolding techniques into classroom instruction, educators aim to empower ELLs to succeed academically while fostering their language proficiency in English.

This article provides an overview of sheltered instruction, its principles, methods, and its impact on teaching and learning in multicultural educational settings.

Origin of sheltered instruction
Stephen Krashen introduced the method in the early 1980s as a way to integrate second language acquisition techniques into teaching various subjects. This approach aims to present academic content, including its vocabulary, concepts, and skills, in a manner that is easily comprehensible by leveraging language and context.

In schools across the United States, the term "sheltered" is often used to refer to specialized courses tailored for English language learners, focusing on subjects such as mathematics, science, and social studies. The term "sheltered" signifies that this type of instruction offers a safe haven from the linguistic challenges of mainstream teaching, which may be too complex for English Language Learners (ELLs) to grasp. Sheltered instruction, also known as SDAIE (Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English) in certain areas, offers support to students through visual aids, adapted reading materials and tasks, and catering to their language-related requirements.

Principles of sheltered instruction
The principles of sheltered instruction are:

 * 1) Language Scaffolding: Teachers provide language support and scaffolding techniques to help ELLs understand and engage with academic content. This might involve using visuals, realia, simplified language, and context clues to aid comprehension.
 * 2) Comprehensible Input: Instruction is delivered in a way that ELLs can understand, typically by using clear, simple language, and avoiding complex sentence structures and academic jargon. Teachers may also use gestures, demonstrations, and other non-verbal cues to support comprehension.
 * 3) Cultural Sensitivity: Teachers respect and value the cultural backgrounds and experiences of ELLs, integrating culturally relevant content and examples into instruction. This helps ELLs feel more connected to the material and promotes a positive learning environment.
 * 4) Active Engagement: ELLs are actively engaged in the learning process through hands-on activities, group work, discussions, and other interactive learning experiences. This promotes language development and helps ELLs make connections between new concepts and their own experiences.
 * 5) Differentiated Instruction: Instruction is differentiated to meet the diverse needs of ELLs, taking into account their varying levels of English proficiency, academic readiness, and learning styles. Teachers may provide additional support or modify assignments as needed to ensure all ELLs can access the curriculum.
 * 6) Explicit Language Instruction: Teachers explicitly teach language skills such as vocabulary, grammar, and language functions within the context of academic content. This helps ELLs develop the language skills they need to participate fully in classroom activities and academic discussions.
 * 7) Assessment for Learning: Assessment practices are used to monitor ELLs' progress, identify areas of need, and adjust instruction accordingly. Teachers may use a variety of formative assessment techniques, such as observation, questioning, and performance tasks, to gather information about ELLs' language development and academic achievement.

By following these principles, educators can create a supportive learning environment where ELLs can thrive academically while developing their English language proficiency.

Methods of sheltered instruction
Sheltered instruction employs various methods to support English language learners (ELLs) in comprehending content while developing language skills simultaneously. One effective approach involves the use of visual aids, such as charts, diagrams, and multimedia resources, to enhance understanding and make abstract concepts more tangible. Additionally, language scaffolding plays a crucial role, as teachers break down complex language into more manageable components, providing support as students build proficiency. Realia and manipulatives further facilitate comprehension by utilizing tangible objects and hands-on materials to illustrate concepts in a concrete manner.

Explicit instruction is another cornerstone of sheltered instruction, with teachers clearly articulating learning objectives, providing step-by-step explanations, and offering multiple examples to reinforce understanding. Graphic organizers serve as valuable tools for organizing information visually, helping students grasp complex concepts more easily. Moreover, contextualized learning strategies involve connecting new information to students' prior knowledge, experiences, and cultural backgrounds, thereby making learning more relevant and meaningful.

Collaborative learning environments promote language development by encouraging students to work together in pairs or groups, engaging in problem-solving activities, discussions, and role-plays. Language development activities, such as debates and discussions, provide structured opportunities for language practice within a supportive context. Modified texts tailored to students' language proficiency levels ensure accessibility without compromising academic rigor. Finally, regular feedback and assessment practices consider both language development and content mastery, allowing teachers to provide targeted support and adjustments as needed. By employing these diverse methods, sheltered instruction enables ELLs to thrive academically while acquiring English language proficiency.

Sheltered instruction's impact of teaching and learning in multicultural educational settings
Sheltered instruction is important for helping students from different cultural backgrounds learn together. It focuses on supporting students who are learning English by using special teaching methods. These methods make lessons easier to understand and help students improve their English skills while still learning the same material as everyone else.

Teachers who use sheltered instruction adapt their teaching to meet the needs of English language learners. They make sure that all students can understand the lessons by using clear language and building on what students already know. This makes sure that everyone has a fair chance to learn and participate in class activities.

Sheltered instruction also helps students feel like they belong in the classroom. By including their cultural backgrounds and encouraging teamwork, teachers create a welcoming environment where everyone's contributions are valued.

Through sheltered instruction, students also learn to appreciate and understand different cultures. By sharing their experiences and working together on projects, they gain respect and empathy for each other's backgrounds, making the learning experience richer for everyone.

Finally, sheltered instruction helps English language learners improve their language skills in all subjects. Teachers focus on teaching important language skills while teaching regular lessons, helping students succeed not just in school, but in life beyond the classroom.

Overall, sheltered instruction makes classrooms more inclusive and helps all students succeed, no matter where they come from or what language they speak. It's about celebrating diversity and giving every student the chance to do their best.

Implementation challenges
Studies of Sheltered Instruction show students make significant gains in academic achievement when the model is implemented with fidelity, which requires support and time for teachers to learn the instructional techniques associated with the model. When two ELL cohorts taught by teachers who were and were not trained in Sheltered Instruction were compared, students of the trained teachers made significantly greater long-term improvements in writing. In another study focused on student achievement in an array of subject areas, 30% teachers trained in Sheltered Instruction and 83% of the untrained teachers were not implementing most of the features of Sheltered Instruction at the end of the second year.

See also
 * Content and language integrated learning (CLIL)
 * Comprehensible input (See: Stephen Krashen)
 * Competition model

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Woodpark

Woodpark may refer to:

 * Woodpark, New South Wales
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Dougie Payne

Douglas Payne (born 14 November 1972) is the bassist and backing vocalist of the Scottish band Travis.

Career
Payne was born in the south side of Glasgow, and was educated at Woodfarm High School. He was also a member of the local 28th Glasgow (Giffnock) Scout Group in his youth. He went on to become a student at the Glasgow School of Art. In 1994 his friend Fran Healy asked him to join Travis, who were called Glass Onion at the time. Payne had never touched a bass guitar in his life; for weeks he refused to do it, until finally he agreed.

Although he is better known for his bass guitar playing and backing vocals, Payne has written songs of his own. Tracks such as "The Score", "Know Nothing" and "Good for Nothing" were all penned by Payne and have featured as b-sides on the band's more recent singles. Payne also sings lead vocals on some b-sides, for example "A Little Bit of Soul", from the reverse of "Flowers in the Window", and on "The Distance" from Singles. He wrote the song "Colder" which features on The Boy With No Name and three of the songs from the sixth album Ode to J. Smith, including single Something Anything, which is the first Travis single not to be written by Fran Healy. Payne also appeared as a backing vocalist in the song "Tumble and Fall" on Feeder's album Pushing the Senses.

Personal life
Payne married actress Kelly Macdonald in 2003. In November 2007, an announcement on the Travisonline message board said that Payne was to become a father for the first time, making him the last member of Travis to do so. Freddie Peter Payne, his son with Macdonald, was born on 9 March 2008. Their second son, Theodore William Payne, was born on 8 December 2012. Payne and Macdonald announced their separation in 2017. Payne likes football and supports Rangers F.C.

Equipment

 * 1970s Fender Jazz Bass Natural Sunburst
 * 1970s Fender Jazz Bass Natural White
 * 1970s Fender Jazz Bass Natural Black
 * 1956 Fender Precision Bass Sunburst

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Merriwa, Western Australia

Merriwa is a coastal, northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, 36 km north of the central business district. It is part of the City of Wanneroo local government area. It is a predominantly residential suburb, containing two RAAF retirement villages.

Name
The name "Hester" was originally approved for the suburb by the Shire of Wanneroo in 1980, after Thomas Hester, one of the first land owners in the vicinity. The neighbouring suburbs of Clarkson and Butler were also named this way. However, the name was opposed by Australia Post due to conflict with the existing town of Hester in south-west WA. "Merriwa", an Aboriginal word meaning "a good place", was then proposed and approved for the area within the same year. The original name survives in Hester Avenue, an east-west arterial road that forms the southern boundary of the suburb.

Suburban development
Up until the late 1980s, Merriwa was unpopulated bushland with no notable land features other than Quinns Road, a two-lane arterial road linking the adjacent townsite of Quinns Rocks to Wanneroo Road. The original Quinns Beach Estate in the south of Merriwa was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Smith Corporation, who were also responsible for the development of the marina in nearby Mindarie at the time. Many early residents of Merriwa suffered from lack of facilities, poorly built pavements and roads, lack of street-lighting, and isolation from other areas (as Marmion Avenue had not yet been extended). This led to the formation of the Merriwa Development Committee, with the purpose of lobbying the Council to support the issues raised.

Carnegie Private Estate was built in the mid 1990s in the area east of Connolly Drive by Town and Country Bank. In 1998, Merriwa was bifurcated along Connolly Drive by the City of Wanneroo, and the eastern half, including the Carnegie Estate, was gazetted as the new suburb of Ridgewood.

Seagrove Estate in the north was built in the early 2000s by Caversham Property, and is delineated from the Quinns Beach Estate by Grand Paradiso Parade and Seagrove Boulevard. This development was also supported by a "Merriwa Structure Plan" devised by the City of Wanneroo, to provide adequate services and public open space for residents of the area.

Two RAAF retirement villages, Merriwa Estate and Cambrai Village, are also located in the northern and southern extremes of the suburb.

Geography
Merriwa is bounded by Butler to the north (Lukin Drive), Ridgewood to the east (Connolly Drive), Quinns Rocks and Mindarie to the west (Marmion Avenue) and Clarkson to the south (Hester Avenue). The suburb was originally much larger, extending to the Joondalup railway line reserve in the east, but was split in two in 1998.

It is 2 km from Quinns Beach and the Indian Ocean to the west.

Demographics
Merriwa had a population of 5,220 at the 2006 Australian census, an increase of 1,167 since the 2001 census. However, the suburb's population is predicted to remain stable in the future. Although Merriwa's 64.2% Australian-born population is below the national average of 70.9%, it is still significantly higher than the adjoining suburbs, which have significantly higher British-born populations, of which Merriwa's is 14.2%. The median age of Merriwa's residents is 33, compared to the national Australian average of 37. Median incomes in the area were considerably below the Australian average, with an average household income of $808 per week, compared to $1,027 nationally.

The most declared religion in the suburb is Christianity, comprising 48.6% of the population across various denominations. However, more residents declared no religion (26.8%) than they did for the most declared Christian denomination, Anglicanism (23.3%.) There is one Pentecostal church, One Church, located in the Seagrove area of the suburb.

Amenities and facilities
Merriwa is primarily residential, but does contain some shopping and retail facilities. It relies on Clarkson and the nearby regional city of Joondalup for most other commercial and public services. The Merriwa Plaza, within the Quinns Beach Estate area, accommodates a large supermarket branch along with several other small shops and take-away restaurants.

Six large parks are scattered throughout the suburb, many with additional sporting facilities. Addison Park features clubrooms and a function hall, while Dalvik Park leads onto the Alkimos Baptist College campus. Also nearby is the Jenolan Way Community Centre that is used for its function rooms and offices.

Brighton Beach Medical Centre in northern Merriwa provides medical services to the suburb's residents. Within the vicinity is a St John ambulance station, opened in 2008. The station operates 24 hours a day and serves all surrounding suburbs from Kinross to Butler.

Telephone services are provided by the Quinns Rocks telephone exchange.

Education
Merriwa contains one primary school, Merriwa Primary School, catering for Kindergarten to Year 6. Located on the same campus is the Merriwa Education Support Centre, specializing in education for intellectually disabled children. Senior Merriwa students from Year 7 onwards fall into the Clarkson Community High School catchment area.

A private school is also located on Dalvik Park in the centre of the suburb, which was known as Kingsway Christian College up until 2007 when it closed down. The campus remained vacant for the next three years until re-opening as Alkimos Baptist College, a private Baptist primary school for children from Kindergarten to Year 8. The staff and students of the college are expected to eventually move to a brand new, purpose-built facility in Alkimos in the future.

Roads
Merriwa is linked by road to Perth by Marmion Avenue and Connolly Drive, two parallel arterial roads that run along Merriwa's western and eastern boundaries respectively. Hester Avenue on the southern edge of Merriwa also links directly to the Mitchell Freeway and Wanneroo Road in the east. Lukin Drive runs along the northern boundary, which will connect to the Mitchell Freeway when the extension to Romeo Road is complete.

There is one backbone road, Baltimore Parade, that cuts through the middle of Merriwa from north to south and links the whole suburb together. The road originally looped westwards onto Marmion Avenue, but was re-aligned during the development of the Seagrove Estate to exit north onto Lukin Drive instead. The old alignment of the road was renamed Hughie Edwards Drive.

Public transport
Merriwa is between the Clarkson Station to the south, and Butler Station to the north, with roughly equal distance to both stations. These stations provides a rail link to the Joondalup CBD, and then the Perth CBD via the Joondalup line.

Merriwa is served by 3 bus services; 483(via Baltimore Parade), 482(southern portion of Marmion Avenue), and 480(Fast service via Marmion Avenue).
 * 483 – Clarkson Station to Alkimos Primary via Merriwa
 * 482 – Clarkson Station to Butler Station via Quins Rocks
 * 480 – Clarkson Station to Butler Station via Marmion Avenue

Politics
Merriwa contains one polling booth at Merriwa Primary School. There is a strong trend for Merriwa residents to vote for the Australian Labor Party at state level and the Liberal Party at federal level, in line with other "mortgage belt" suburbs in the area, such as Clarkson. The Family First Party is also generally preferred over the Christian Democratic Party at minority level.

Merriwa was historically part of the Electoral district of Wanneroo before becoming a member of Mindarie at the 2003 redistribution. It also forms the southern boundary of the federal Division of Pearce.

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Talk:Hampstead Heath

"Largest ancient parkland" but Richmond Park 3 times bigger?
The article calls HH "London's largest ancient parkland covering 790 acres", but Richmond Park is officially almost 2500 acres and 2360 according to Wikipedia. Should this claim qualified with "one of ...", or maybe removed? --William —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.183.134.209 (talk) 21:44, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree - and the source doesn't support this statement, only the figure itself. I propose to remove it as it is misleading and unsourced. Pob1984 (talk) 23:00, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Bit late, but I'd suggest putting it back. Richmond Park is larger, but not ancient - it is a relatively recent creation, whereas the Heath has never been farmland or similar. Also, someone would need to check this on a borough boundary map, but I have a sneaking suspicion that Richmond Park is actually part of the borough of Kingston these days, and so not part of London. 94.170.107.247 (talk) 01:17, 12 July 2010 (UTC)Dave
 * The Heath isn’t ancient, and is partly reclaimed brownfield land, having been commercial sandpits and brickfields in the past - the part known as “Sandy Heath” actually has a board up showing the presence of one old tree (which survives) surrounded by virtually nothing as a result of the works there. The Heath Extension was farmland until campaigners had it included. Jock123 (talk) 21:50, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

30 St Mary Axe? Not on my gherkin!
Why do people insist on calling it 30 St. Mary Axe here? Is it because "The Gerkhin", the name by which it is known universally to Londoners, isn't thought suitable to an encyclopedia? Even the owners of the place have started to refer to it by its common name, The Gherkin, on their website. 30 St. Mary Axe is just an address, like 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. --Tony Sidaway Talk 14:01, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * er the website at www.30stmaryaxe.com in the FAQ says thats the official name. Boring it may be. Personally I am disappointed that people just call it the gherkin not the original "erotic gherkin". Justinc 22:18, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Suggestions copied from main page, where they must have been misplaced.
Hampstead Heath is NOT owned by the Corporation of London. It is owned by the Sovereign as part of the Royal Parks asset portfolio but is managed by the Corporation of London under an agreement ratified by Parliament to provide unlimited enjoyment of its acres to the public.

Its category as a World Heritage Site is the result of intense lobbying by the Sovereign who went to considerale litigation lengths to block housing development on it during the 1970s and 1980s when it was under threat by local planning authority submissions.

In 1992 the Crown Solicitors published a number of legal documents relating to the Sovereign's ownership of the Heath and the management arrangements held by the Corporation of London. Access to these under the Freedom of Information Act is sparse at present. (68.198.181.134 04:26, 6 January 2007 (UTC))

Merge Parliament Hill
Parliament Hill, London is proposed for merging into the Parliament Hill section on the Hampstead Heath article as Parliament Hill is a part of the Heath - there is no differentiation between the two other than a metalled footpath. Both articles are small, and the intention is to build the one. The Parliament Hill article is a stub, and it is unlikely it will ever grow much beyond what it is at the moment - and if it does, that would be the time to break it out in Summary style as per Wiki guidelines. This link (which can be found as a source on the Parliament Hill stub) is a map of Hampstead Heath showing how Parliament Hill is part of the south side with no physical or visual differentiation.  SilkTork  * SilkyTalk 11:57, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Entirely disagree, on three points. Firstly, that Parliament Hill and Hampstead Heath are, legally, two separate entities; one is not 'a part of the other' although the City of London presently manage them both (they didn't in the past). You might as well say that every road in the country should have the same name because they are all contiguous! Secondly, their history is separate as regards how they came to be private then public spaces and, whilst they may be adjacent, to link them together intimately in a single article would be a disservice. Thirdly as there are other 'Parliament Hill's. That you believe both these articles to be stubs is not a reason to merge with loss of information (as you did) but a better reason to expand both articles. --AlisonW (talk) 12:15, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Dimensions of Hampstead Heath
A quick check on Google revealed that the area of Hampstead Heath is given as 320 hectares or 3.2 squ km. However, the acreage is variously given as 790, 791 or 792 acres. This works out as 319.71, 320.106 or 320.511 hectares. As the area in hectares appears to be more stable this would appear to be the primary unit. Perhaps it would be better to put either hectares or square kilometres in first place. Michael Glass (talk) 14:23, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * See 791 acre - the heath is managed by the corporation, and they should know. I've ref'd it in the article, 790 is an acceptable approximation. Providing the figure in the larger unit will just make it more approximate! Kbthompson (talk) 14:48, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Coordinate error
The coordinates need the following fixes: 51.5635723978476, -0.168142318725585

This point is much more the center of the heath.

173.12.21.129 (talk) 19:01, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Agreed and done, the previous co-ordinates were for Golders Hill Park, in whose section they appeared. Ehrenkater (talk) 20:11, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

High-Way Men
NOtorious hangout in the old days. 76.117.247.55 (talk) 17:21, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

This is all rather whitewashed
No mention of the various Hampstead Heath sex scandals? Was Alan Amos the only one? -mattbuck (Talk) 09:59, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Does "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" feature Hampstead Heath?
“The 1968 film "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" was mainly filmed in Hampstead Village and Belsize Park.” That is as maybe - although it is contradicted by the article on said film, which says that in spite of the title, it wasn’t filmed in Belsize Park - however, there is also nothing in this entry in the “Culture” section which says that it features Hampstead Heath. The article on the film doesn’t corroborate this either, although it talks of someone cycling in a “park”. Anyone who has seen the film and can confirm one way or another? Jock123 (talk) 21:56, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

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Original research?
Can anyone explain the reference that reads:

Thompson, Hampstead, 130, 165, 195, 317-18, 329- 30; G.L.R.O., E/MW/H, old no. 27/15 (sales parts. 1875)

(This is currently footnote no. 9.)

If I'm not mistaken, G.L.R.O refers to the Greater London Council Records Office (and should rightly be G.L.R.C.O). And E/MW is the Maryon Wilson Papers within the G.L.R.C.O. If that's right, this looks very much like original research. Presumably "Thompson" is Professor F.M.L Thompson who quoted from the above papers in his 1974 book about Hampstead.

Unless anyone objects, I will change the citation to a proper bibliographic reference (assuming I can reconcile the page numbers)

Mike Marchmont (talk) 17:08, 6 June 2023 (UTC).

 * I have now replaced the above reference with a citation to the ODNB. I also replaced a "citation needed" template with a reference to the same source.

 * While I am here, I must say that it is surprising that a Wikipedia article on Hampstead Heath does not mention Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, who was surely a key figure in the history of the subject. I will try to rectify that (unless another editor cares to do so).

 * Mike Marchmont (talk) 14:04, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

July 2023 edits
Following my above remark about the absence of any mention of Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, I have now greatly expanded the History section to include an account the battles to preserve the Heath in the 19th century. Previously, there was a big gap in this section, between Henry II and the 1871 Hampstead Heath Act. It is this gap which I have tried to fill. I would welcome any comments or additional material from any editors who have specific knowledge of this part of the world. Mike Marchmont (talk) 16:30, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

"contains the largest single area of common land in Greater London"
Afraid I'm no expert on this, but thought I should point out that the above statement is disputed in this blog post - though it may be London's largest "registered common". https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/ Sfjohna (talk) 07:50, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

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English Women's Golf Association

The English Women's Golf Association (EWGA) was the governing body responsible for many aspects of women's and girls' amateur golf in England. It ran from 1952 to 2011, until it merged with the men's English Golf Union to form England Golf.

It was based on Highfield Road in Birmingham.

History
The EWGA (formerly ELGA) was founded in 1952 as an offshoot of the Ladies' Golf Union (LGU), the organisation which governs the female amateur game across the whole of Great Britain and Ireland.

Responsibilities
The LGU was concerned with essential policy matters and the organisation of all Britain and Ireland Championships and international events. The EWGA and its counterparts in Ireland, Scotland and Wales handled local events in their own countries, the handicapping system through their membership of the Council of National Golf Unions (CONGU) and liaison with clubs. The EWGA was also responsible for promoting golf to girls and women in England.

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Sources re: Ultimate Spider-man
Right now the article claims twice that the series was meant to be the Ultimate Spider-man and once that readers who believed it to be in non-Ultimates continuity were mistaken. No sources are provided to back up this assertion.

The closest it gets to citing sources for it is this part from the Reception section: "The reveal that series' main characters, May, Ben, Mary and Richard, are meant to be Peter Parker's Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and his parents Richard and Mary Parker, and thus, the revelation that the Ultimate Marvel incarnation of Aunt May is actually Peter Parker's biological mother was seen as highly controversial among Spider-Man fans, with many criticisms of the series mistakenly implying the series to be set in Marvel's primary continuity,[2][3][4]"

Of the references provided: [2] goes to a piece about it getting a trade paperback release & mentions it as being intended as the primary continuity origin. Useful as showing that people interpreted it as being in the primary continuity, but not for proving it wasn't intended as such. [3] is a 1965 Spider-man issue. [4] is a 1997 issue. These last two are completely irrelevant here & I am assuming are left over from a previous version of this section where they made sense as references.

In the external links, there's an archived article from the press conference launching it. It makes only one reference to Ultimate Spider-man, which is concerned with orders for the first issue, not continuity. Comments about whether or not the story is intended to be Peter Parker's origin are met with equivocating from Millar & Jemas. No comments are made about it involving the Ultimate universe, and at least one statement of Millar's suggests (though does not state) that he viewed it as the primary continuity: "When asked whether or not he viewed this as the origin of Peter Parker and related continuity issues, Millar said: 'I think the idea at the moment is that we believe this is what going on, and if people like the story, they can think that too,' Millar said. 'Marvel's quite interesting in that people were saying 'Aunt May grew up in the twenties!' But I think that Marvel has been quite cleverly vague about that for 40 years. Peter Parker doesn't become Spider-Man in the early '60s, he became Spider-Man ten or twelve years ago. In 50 years' time, he'll just have become Spider-Man ten or twelve years ago. So in that sense, this story is set and then ends nine months before Peter Parker enters the world.'"

TL;DR: the article needs sources if it's going to assert that it Marvel editorial intended for Ultimate Spider-man continuity; none of the links currently present even so much as imply that. (Suggesting that it was primary continuity also isn't well supported, but with what's currently there it's better than Ultimates continuity.) --g026r (talk) 21:14, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

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Manohar Hardikar

Manohar Shankar Hardikar (8 February 1936 – 4 February 1995) was an Indian Test cricketer.

Hardikar represented India in two Tests against West Indies in 1958–59. He was dismissed by Roy Gilchrist off the very first ball that he faced in Test cricket. He then took a wicket with his third ball in Test cricket by dismissing Rohan Kanhai. In the second innings, he scored 32* and added 85* with G.S. Ramchand which saved India from a possible defeat.

In the next Test at Kanpur, Hardikar was hit on the head by a beamer from Wes Hall. Hall had been angered by no-ball calls from the umpire Mohammad Yunus. The ball hit Hardikar behind his left ear and knocked him down. He played no more international matches but was indirectly involved in the controversy that led to the resignation of Polly Umrigar later in the series.

Hardikar played for Bombay from 1955–56 to 1967–68. In the Ranji final in his first year, he took a career best 8 for 39 against Bengal. He captained Bombay in twelve matches, winning five and drawing the rest. Bombay won the title in 1965–66 and 1967–68 under his captaincy.

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Getai

Getai refers to boisterous live stage performances typically held during the Ghost Festival in the seventh lunar month and on the birthdays of Chinese deities. These shows typically last from 7.30pm to after 10pm and are commonly organised in Singapore, Malaysia and some parts of Indonesia (mainly in Riau, Riau Islands and North Sumatra). Additionally, stage setups are usually composed of temporary structures like tents situated in the suburbs of the city- namely, in empty fields, parking spaces or housing estates.

Stage backdrops are usually made of cardboard and cloths painted in bright colours, vibrantly illuminated by coloured spotlights. The performers normally don loud and glittery clothing. Some getai hosts indulge in crude humour; others maintain quick-witted dialogue, joking about local and current affairs, sometimes switching between Mandarin, local Chinese dialects, and even English and Indian languages. Younger people in Singapore may relate to Getai as kitsch, while older people enjoy dancing and singing along to familiar songs, often in Hokkien. Traditional singers such as Liu Lingling tend to dress conservatively, while young performers drawn to getai may choose more revealing outfits. The first row of seats at getai performances are also typically left empty and blocked off from the public as they are reserved for spirits and deities whom Chinese communities believe will return to the world of the living during the Hungry Ghost Festival. In Singapore's contemporary getai scene, performances feature local artistes such as the Baobei ("Darling" in Mandarin) Sisters and even international singers such as Hao Hao and Ya Ya from Taiwan, Bai Hui Mei from Hong Kong and Malaysia's "Little Princess", Li Bao En.

During the colonial period, Chinese operas and puppet shows were popular in Singapore. However, getai eventually began to overshadow these traditional forms of entertainment with its shorter and upbeat music performed by singers and live bands. Initially a popular form of entertainment found in amusement parks and theatres, getai eventually evolved into performances meant for wandering spirits during the Lunar Seventh Month's Hungry Ghost Festival and audiences in the world of the living.

Early getai acts during the mid-20th century have origins in Shanghainese culture and tradition- namely in its format, which incorporates a variety of acts into a single show. This style was characteristic of gewutuan (歌舞团), which translates to "song and dance troupe", a popular form of entertainment which first arrived on Singapore's shores in the 1930s but declined in the 1940s. Subsequently, performers previously in the gewutuan business moved over to getai and brought dancing, drama, magic tricks and acrobatic acts to getai shows. Hence, leading to getai program lineups with a variety of acts reminiscent of gewutuan performances.

History

Getai emerged in Singapore in the years of Japanese occupation in the 1940s. The first getai performance, known as Dayehui (大夜会), was organised by a business owner at the New World Amusement Park in hopes of attracting more customers to his drinks store. In particular, patrons could enjoy live music and singing for three hours if they purchased a drink. This sale of refreshments contributed to the wages earned by getai troupes, which could also be the reason why the locale of such live shows were referred to as "evening cafes", "night cafes" or "singing cafes" by the English newspapers in Singapore during the 1950s. During its early days, getai performances were permanently held in the Worlds Amusement Parks: Great World, Happy World and New World. One of such getai stages was the Weiyang Gong ("Palace of Day and Night") in the New World Amusement Park. However, it was bombed by the Japanese and a new stage Gongkai Tai ("Public Stage") was built. Nonetheless, getai performances also attracted a Japanese audience, namely, senior officers from the Japanese army who brought music scores of songs they wanted to hear to getai artists and musicians to perform.

Performance areas were usually marked out by a short fence and would vary from show to show, and from venue to venue. Sometimes they took place under shelters and at other times, both audience and performers were subject to the elements of the weather. Additionally, acts would be performed on a proscenium stage, complete with a cloth backdrop designed according to the theme of the show. Shows typically began at 8 pm and ended at 11 pm daily at areas delineated by a short fence. Tables covered with white tablecloths which were set up in the vicinity of the performance could seat up to 4 people and some would be reserved for regulars. Unreserved seats were first-come-first serve and those who arrived after all tables were occupied had to stand during the performance. Seated patrons would then be served refreshments which could cost from 80 cents to a dollar. These included bottled soft drinks such as Greenspot, which was an orange drink.

Getai shows usually began with an opening song, some examples being marches like Qiancheng Wanli ("A Bright Future") and Boaige ("Song of Universal Love"), by all of the performers who would line up on stage. The opening act would be followed by magic tricks, acrobatics, songs and dancing- which could be solos or duets. During the 1950s, traditional folk songs and popular Mandarin songs from Mainland China were commonly sung, danced to, and enjoyed by the local crowd during getai performances. However, dancing and singing simultaneously during a live performance was not commonplace for getai singers at this point and artistes typically sang while reading lyrics off a music stand. At the mid-point of the lineup, performers would then put on comedy skits before more supporting acts followed. Sometimes, getai acts drew from Western influences and adapted stories such as Samson and Delilah from the Bible, and a getai performer named Bai Yan even wrote and acted out a satirical skit about Adolf Hitler, which he titled The Great Dictator. After these segments came the highlight of the show, a spoken or dance drama before a final act which incorporated striptease. These performances were usually frequented by Chinese youth as well as journalists, students, housewives teachers and writers.

Besides permanent acts in amusement parks, there were also travelling getai troupes known by various names such as yanwutuan (艳舞团 translated to "exotic dance troupe"), gewujutuan (歌舞剧团 translated to "dance drama troupe") and gejutuan (歌剧团 translated to "song-and-drama troupe"). These performing groups travelled around and performed in various venues, including permanent getai stages such as those at the three World Amusement Parks.

The golden age of getai
After World War II, the subsequent Korean War led to a flourishing economy in Malaya. This was due to an increase in demand for rubber and tin, the two main commodities traded in the Malayan economy, by parties involved in the subsequent Korean War who were in need of military materials. The bourgeoning economy then led to an increased desire for leisure on the local scene which fuelled the demand for entertainment such as getai performances. Furthermore, the dissemination of Chinese mosquito newspapers, the main paper that contained information and articles about getai, also aided in increasing show publicity. Getai became increasing popular, and by the 1950s, there were many getai stages established at the three "Worlds" Amusement Parks such as the Bailemen ("Paramount"), Xianggelila ("Shangri-La"), Yehuayuan ("Night Garden"), Menjianghong ("Red Filling the River"), Xianle ("Heavenly Joy") and Fenghuang ("Phoenix"). During this period, performers earned wages that could go up to SGD$1,200.

In the 1950s, prominent business owners operating in the getai industry included the Shaw Brothers who owned amusement parks and cinemas which gave them the power to invite performers to various locations under their name. The Cathay also rose as a competitor and invited many getai troupes to perform in their cinemas but were unable to overtake the Shaw Brothers.

From the mid-1940s to the early 1960s, at least 50 getai shows were hosted in Singapore. However, getai in amusement parks declined in popularity in the late 1950s and stages began close down in the 1960s. It had however become established by the 1970s as popular entertainment on makeshift stages set-up along streets and in other public spaces during the Hungry Ghost Festival.

Policing striptease in the 1950s
In the 1950s, getai performances began to incorporate more risqué elements and striptease due to the popularisation of erotic entertainment in Singaporean society. This trend began as early as the 1930s and 1940s when Western trends and images of the sexualised female body began to permeate Singaporean society in public media. Performers and show-runners in the getai business then began to capitalise on the growing market for such forms of entertainment and came up with programs which appealed to the public in a sexually provocative manner. Additionally, the erotic genre appealed even more to individuals and artistes in the getai industry as it brought in more revenue compared to regular programs. In particular, strippers could earn up to SGD$1,500 a month which even surpassed the salary of cream-of-the-crop getai artists at that time. Getai performances began to incorporate sexual elements such as songs which contained alluring or flirtatious lyrics known as "tofu songs [豆腐歌曲]". However, other shows such as Fong Fong cafe's "Model" program performed in 1951 and 1953 included striptease as well as interactive segments where artistes would kiss audience members. Fong Fong cafe's "Model" was later replicated by other getai stages as well which featured female performers dressed in sheer, nude-coloured underwear made to appear fully unclothed with stage lighting. These getai shows also began to attract multi-ethnic audiences beyond the Chinese community which led to a variety of languages being used during shows such as Chinese dialects, Malay, English and Mandarin.

As the trend persisted into the mid-1950s, the term roudan (肉弹), or "bombshell" was increasingly used in Chinese communities to refer to strippers who performed erotic acts at shows which mirrored the ways in which Western strippers were represented as "bombs". Additionally, Mosquito newspapers which advertised getai acts began to use the term "bomb" (弹) when advertising getai performances incorporating striptease. However, this term also had derogatory undertones to it which painted female strippers performing in Singapore in a negative light.

These performances also attracted criticism from Chinese newspapers such as Nanfang Wanbao and XinLi Bao whose writers condemned striptease for threatening public morality. The colonial police began to exert control over such erotic entertainment under the 1895 Theatres Ordinance which allowed the authorities to revoke show-runners' location permits if performances were perceived as obscene and only return them when the striptease acts were removed from the program. However, at this time, what was considered obscene and what was not had not yet been defined in local legislations in Singapore and Malaya, which allowed getai program planners and artistes to reinterpret and restructure erotic forms of entertainment to avoid getting caught. This manifested in the form of a new program by Fong Fong cafe, titled "Night Butterfly (夜蝴蝶)" where artistes wore gauze butterfly wings and sheer, nude-coloured undergarments with gold stars placed on certain parts of the body which was also replicated by other getai programs.

Pressured by religious organisations such as the Malayan Christian Council, Singapore Buddhist Federation and Chinese Young Men Christians’ Association (YMCA), the colonial police clamped down harder on striptease acts by suspending entertainment licences, increasing the frequency of checks on program content and imposing rules which prohibited getai performers from performing risqué programs amongst other criteria. Performers and show-runners who were affected by these laws then either chose to move into the travelling entertainment business by forming yanwutuan or limited sexual content from programs in order to continue performing in Singapore. In 1959, the Singaporean government launched an anti-yellow movement which aimed to eradicate all forms of immoral or decadent behaviour, including erotic forms of entertainment like striptease present in getai shows. Such risqué elements were banned as they were perceived as a threat to the nation building project.

Getai in the 21st century
A groundbreaking getai performance was organised by getai veteran Peter Low in 2006. The act showcased a twelve-hour program featuring many famous performers gracing the stage and bringing the crowd to their feet. In keeping up with trends and technology, stage design has shown major changes throughout the years, including upgrading sound systems and adding LED Panels. On 31 July 2011, getai performances were also held at Orchard Road Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza for the first time with these new sound and light systems. As it was the first getai show to be held in the shopping strip in front of a wider audience, including tourists, instead of the usual open fields in neighbourhood areas, the show did not feature any crude humour and scantily clad dancers or singers.

Getai has also been organised for other Chinese festivals, such as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Resorts World Sentosa's casino included getai in its 2010 Chinese New Year celebrations. Additionally, Loyang Tua Pek Kong Temple arranged getai performances for their 2010 Mid-Autumn celebrations.

Nonetheless, in the 21st century, the getai industry continues to be subject to restrictions imposed by Singapore's authorities such as being censored for sexually provocative content like revealing costumes, risqué dances and drag performances. Additionally, as more residences are being built in housing estates for Singapore's population, the number of performance sites such as open fields in these areas have dwindled over the years, making it challenging for getai show-runners to secure locations for events.

GeTai Challenge
In 2015 & 2018, Singapore Mediacorp Channel 8 held a competition for getai singers named GeTai Challenge (歌台星力量). The show run for two seasons with the most recent season premiered on 20 April 2018 and ended on 10 August 2018.

Getai in Singapore's media
Getai has been increasingly accepted and celebrated by the mainstream media. Royston Tan's 2007 movie 881 is based on a pair of getai singers. The Straits Times's social networking and citizen journalism portal STOMP holds the Getai Awards annually to honour popular getai artists. These artists are selected via voting by the general public.

Getai in a digital age
First streamed on the RINGS.TV mobile phone application available on android and Apple iOS, getai performances were increasingly broadcast on Facebook Live as early as 2013. This practice became more established in 2016. Such forms of content are typically uploaded by Chinese temples, entertainment organisations such as LEX(S) Entertainment (Lixing Entertainment 麗聲娛樂製作), photojournalists, videographers, getai fans and members of the Taoist community such as Victor Yue. Yue is well-known amongst individuals who consume online content on Taoism and Chinese Temples in Singapore and he is the founder of the Facebook group, "Taoism Singapore", where various photographs, videos and live streams of getai performances are shared both by himself and other individuals in the group. Other groups where getai content is shared and circulated include "Singapore Getai Supporter", "Singapore Getai Fans Page", "Lixin Fan Page" and "LEX-S Watch Live Channel"- a majority of which were created and managed by LEX(S) Entertainment Productions.

The digitisation of getai performances has broadened the reach of these live shows. Previously, performances were only available to audience members physically at the event but with the advent of live streaming, viewers are still able to witness religious events such as the possession of spirit mediums by deities, songs and other entertainment acts even if they are unable to be present for the show. Additionally, this can be done at any point in time after the live show as well as performances which were broadcast would be archived and saved on Facebook, enabling online audiences to re-watch or catch up on getai shows they may have missed even after it has ended. In 2020, getai performances were held digitally via YouTube and Facebook to entertain the elderly. This transition to an online format also ensured jobs for crew and performers as getai shows were not available during the coronavirus outbreak in Singapore.

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List of mountains of New Zealand by height

The following are lists of mountains in New Zealand ordered by height. Names, heights, topographic prominence and isolation, and coordinates were extracted from the official Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Topo50 topographic maps at the interactive topographic map of New Zealand site.

Mountains are referred to as maunga in the Māori language.

Named summits over 2,900 m
All summits over 2900 m are within the Southern Alps, a chain that forms the backbone of the South Island, and all but one (Mount Aspiring / Tititea) are within a 10 mi radius of Aoraki / Mount Cook. Some of these summits are mere shoulders on the ridges of Aoraki and Mount Tasman.

Gordon Hasell was the first person who, by 1960, had climbed all New Zealand's peaks above 10,000 feet. The achievement mentions 27 peaks and is thus counts individual peaks that may make up one mountain, e.g. Mount Haast has three individual peaks that are all above that height.

The 100 highest mountains
These are all the mountains over 2400 m with a topographic prominence (drop) of at least 300 m, closely matching those on the list of mountains of New Zealand by the New Zealand Alpine Club. Five peaks overlooked on that list are indicated with an asterisk. Of these 100 mountains, all but two — Ruapehu (Tahurangi Peak) (19th highest) and Mount Taranaki (65th highest) — are in the South Island. Tapuae-o-Uenuku, in the Kaikōura Ranges, is the highest peak outside the Southern Alps.

Over 2,000 metres

 * Te Heuheu – 2732 m- highest peak in the north of the crater rim of Mount Ruapehu
 * Mount Strauchon – 2391 m
 * Mount Bonpland – 2343 m
 * Turner Peak – 2341 m
 * Mount Franklin (Tasman) – 2340 m
 * Mount Travers – 2338 m
 * Mount Taylor – 2333 m
 * Double Cone – 2319 m
 * Mount Tūwhakarōria – 2307 m
 * Somnus – 2293 m
 * Mount Ngauruhoe – 2287 m
 * Mount Hopeless – 2278 m
 * Mount Rolleston – 2275 m
 * Mount Aurum – 2245 m
 * Faerie Queen – 2236 m
 * Mount Paske – 2216 m
 * Mount Adams – 2208 m
 * Mount Awful – 2192 m
 * Mount Hutt – 2185 m
 * Mount Franklin (Canterbury) – 2145 m
 * Mount Cloudsley – 2107 m
 * Mount Olympus – 2094 m
 * Dobson Peak – 2095 m
 * David Peaks – 2093 m
 * Mount Macfarlane – 2077 m
 * Tooth Peak – 2061 m
 * Mount Damfool – 2030 m
 * Mount Dreadful – 2030 m
 * Jane Peak – 2022 m

1,000 to 2,000 metres

 * Castle Hill Peak – 1998 m
 * Mount Tongariro – 1978 m
 * Cecil Peak – 1978 m
 * Mount Pisa – 1963 m
 * Mount Cardrona – 1936 m
 * Mount Ollivier – 1933 m
 * Benmore Peak (Benmore Range) – 1932 m (site of Benmore Peak Observatory)
 * Mount Owen – 1875 m
 * Sutherlands Peak (Benmore Range) – 1846 m
 * Totara Peak (Benmore Range) – 1822 m
 * Walter Peak – 1800 m
 * Mount Arthur – 1795 m
 * Mount Hikurangi (Gisborne District) – 1754 m (highest peak in the North Island, excluding volcanoes)
 * Ben Lomond – 1751 m
 * Mount Peel – 1743 m
 * Mount Mangaweka – 1730 m (second highest peak in the North Island, excluding volcanoes)
 * Kaweka J (Kaweka Range) – 1724 m
 * Mount Axford – 1720 m
 * Brown Peak, Sturge Island (subantarctic island) – 1705 m or 1524 m
 * Mount Winterslow – 1700 m
 * Mitre Peak – 1692 m
 * Mount Somers / Te Kiekie – 1688 m
 * Purple Hill (Lake Pearson, above Waimakariri Valley) – 1680 m
 * Mount Pisgah – 1643 m (highest peak of the Kakanui Range)
 * Roys Peak – 1578 m
 * The Mitre (Tararua Range) – 1571 m
 * Mount Hector (Tararua Range) – 1529 m
 * Angle Knob (Tararua Range) – 1510 m
 * Hauhungatahi – 1521 m
 * Mount Lyndon – 1489 m
 * Mid Dome – 1478 m
 * Mount Luxmore – 1472 m
 * Mount Holdsworth (Tararua Range) – 1470 m
 * The Cairn (Benmore Range) – 1464 m
 * Summit Peak – 1450 m (highest point of the Rock and Pillar Range)
 * Mount Arowhana – 1439 m
 * Jumbo Peak (Tararua Range) – 1405 m
 * Pouakai (Pouakai Range) – 1400 m
 * Mount Alfred – 1375 m
 * Mount Oxford – 1364 m
 * Young Island (subantarctic island) – 1340 m
 * Mount Isobel (Hanmer, South Island) – 1324 m
 * The Buscot (Benmore Range) – 1245 m
 * Buckle Island (subantarctic island) – 1239 m
 * Mount Noble – 1220 m
 * Mount Te Kinga – 1204 m
 * Mount Grono (Secretary Island) – 1196 m (highest peak in main New Zealand chain not in the North or South Island)
 * Mount Pureora – 1175 m
 * Mount Tarawera – 1111 m
 * Mount Tauhara – 1088 m
 * Mount John – 1031 m (site of Mount John University Observatory)
 * Mount Thomas – 1023 m

Under 1,000 metres

 * Mount Ross – 983 m (highest point in the Aorangi Range)
 * Mount Anglem / Hananui – 979 m (highest peak on Stewart Island/Rakiura)
 * Mount Pirongia – 959 m
 * Mount Te Aroha – 952 m (highest point in the Kaimai Range)
 * Mount Matthews – 940 m (highest peak in Rimutaka Range)
 * Mount Herbert (Te Ahu Patiki) – 920 m (highest point on Banks Peninsula)
 * Wharite Peak – 920 m
 * Queenstown Hill – 907 m
 * Maungatua – 900 m
 * Moehau – 892 m (highest point on the Coromandel Peninsula)
 * Mount Graham – 829 m
 * Putauaki (Mount Edgecumbe) – 820 m
 * Maungatautari – 797 m (site of the Maungatautari Restoration Project)
 * Te Raupua – 781 m (highest point in Northland)
 * Tutamoe – 770 m (second highest point in Northland)
 * Tākaka Hill – 760 m
 * Ngongotahā – 757 m
 * Mount Karioi – 756 m (overlooks Raglan)
 * Swampy Summit – 739 m (highest remnant of the Dunedin Volcano)
 * Mount Hauturu on Little Barrier Island – 722 m (highest point in the Auckland Region)
 * Mount Wainui – 722 m (highest peak in Akatarawa Forest)
 * Mount Pye – 720 m (highest point in The Catlins)
 * Mount McKerrow – 706 m
 * Mount Dick (highest point in the Auckland Islands, on Adams Island) – 705 m
 * Kohukohunui (highest point in the Hunua Ranges) – 688 m
 * Patuha (New Zealand) (highest point in the Kaitake Range) – 684 m
 * Mount Cargill – 680 m
 * Flagstaff (Dunedin) – 666 m
 * Mount Clime – 665 m
 * Kahurānaki – 645 m Hawkes Bay Region
 * Mount Hikurangi (Northland) – 625 m
 * Mount Hobson (highest point on Great Barrier Island) – 621 m
 * Hokonui Hills – 600 m
 * Mount Honey (Campbell Island) – 558 m
 * Mount Karangahake (Hauraki District – 544 m
 * Castle Rock in the Coromandel Range – 525 m
 * Moumoukai – 516 m (highest point in the Kermadec Islands, on Raoul Island)
 * Hawkins Hill, Wellington – 495 m
 * Te Heru o Kahukura / Sugarloaf (Christchurch) – 494 m
 * Kohinurākau (Hastings) – 490 m
 * Te Toiokawharu (highest point in the Waitākere Ranges) – 474 m
 * Saddle Hill (Dunedin) – 473 m
 * Rangituhi / Colonial Knob (Porirua, Wellington) – 468 m
 * Kakepuku (Waikato, North Island) – 449 m
 * Mount Kaukau (Wellington) – 445 m
 * Ruaotuwhenua (Waitākere Ranges, Auckland) – 440 m
 * Mount Charles – 408 m (highest point on the Otago Peninsula)
 * Mount Manaia (Whangarei) – 403 m
 * Te Mata Peak (Hastings) – 399 m
 * Signal Hill (Dunedin) – 393 m
 * Mayor Island / Tuhua – 355 m
 * Pukematekeo (Waitākere Ranges, Auckland) – 336 m
 * Whakaari / White Island – 321 m
 * Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu – 305 m
 * Te Ahumairangi – 301 m
 * Brooklyn Hill (Wellington) – 299 m
 * Maungatere Hill – 294 m (highest named point in the Chatham Islands)
 * Mangere – 286 m (highest point on Mangere Island)
 * Bluff Hill / Motupohue ("The Bluff", Bluff, Southland) – 265 m
 * Rangitoto Island – 260 m
 * Maunganui (Waiheke Island) – 231 m
 * Mount Maunganui – 230 m
 * Mount Victoria (Wellington) – 196 m
 * Maungawhau / Mount Eden (Auckland) – 196 m
 * Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill (Auckland) – 182 m
 * Paritutu (New Plymouth) – 156 m
 * Mount Wellington (Auckland) – 137 m
 * Mount Albert (Auckland) – 135 m
 * Roys Hill (Hastings) – 134 m
 * Mount Roskill (Auckland) – 110 m
 * Māngere Mountain – 107 m
 * Bluff Hill (Napier) – 101 m

Historical perspective
Prior to the introduction of the metric system in New Zealand, the mountains regarded as tall were those over 10000 ft. Lists of mountains or peaks by height have over the decades been published by the New Zealand government in its official yearbook. The 1920–21 edition was the first to contain a list of mountains and it had six of them at over 10,000 feet.

This table remained the same in the two subsequent editions until 1924, when the secretary of the New Zealand Alpine Club had provided a fuller list of 16 mountains:

In the 1931 yearbook, Torres Peak was added to that list. Andy Anderson was the first to climb all 17 mountains by late December 1950.

The 1931 list remained unchanged until the late 1950s, and was used as the starting point by mountaineer Gordon Hasell (1933–2018) to compile an amended list. Not all the mountains had been officially surveyed and Hasell added 12 new ones to the list that he considered likely to also reach the 10,000 feet mark and deleted 2 (De la Beche and The Minarets), making a total of 27 peaks. This list was published in the 1957 edition of the New Zealand Alpine Journal and stood for the next 25 years. It is shown here as published in geographical order from north-east to south-west.


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I notice that half of the pages linking here aren't looking for John Montgomery Ward, to which this page currently just redirects. (I happen to have been looking for the physicist John Clive Ward, coming from Ward identities, who certainly meets the Criteria for inclusion of biographies; some of the other John Wards may not, but still the false link to Monte Ward doesn't seem right). What does wikipedia culture want done in this case? No articles exist for the other John Wards so a disambiguation page doesn't quite seem right.

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Metroplan Orlando

Metroplan Orlando is the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for Greater Orlando, Florida, which consists of Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties. As the regional MPO, Metroplan Orlando provides a forum for multi-modal transportation planning and inter-governmental partnership.

The Metroplan Orlando Board comprises local elected officials and representatives from the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA), the Central Florida Expressway Authority (CFX), the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority (Lynx), and the Sanford Airport Authority. Non-voting members include representatives from Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 5 and Kissimmee Gateway Airport, as well as the Chairpersons from Metroplan Orlando's Citizens' Advisory Committee (CAC), Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC), Transportation Technical Committee (TTC), and Municipal Advisory Committee (MAC).

The major responsibility of the Metroplan Orlando Board is to prioritize transportation projects for funding, including highway, transit, bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

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Andrew Barlow

Andrew Nicholas Barlow (3 July 1899 – 13 July 1961) was an Australian Test cricket umpire.

Barlow was born at Newport, Victoria. During World War I, he volunteered for service in the Australian Imperial Force in September 1916 at the age of 17 years and 2 months. Enlisting in Melbourne, he embarked for overseas in October 1916 and served with the 6th Battalion. He returned to Australia in December 1918. In his junior years, Barlow played cricket as a wicketkeeper for Newport, but war injuries including the partial loss of a thumb prevented him from returning to the game as a player after the war. His umpiring career began in 1922–23, in the Victorian Junior Cricket Association. In 1927–28 he began umpiring second XI matches for the Victorian Cricket Association before stepping up to first XI matches and interstate games the next season.

Barlow umpired eleven Test matches between 1931 and 1951. His first match, at the age of 31, was between Australia and the West Indies at the Melbourne on 13 February to 14 January 1931. This game resulted in Australia taking just two days to win by an innings, with Don Bradman scoring 152 and Bert Ironmonger taking 11 wickets. Barlow's partner in this match, Joseph Richards, was standing in his only Test match.

Barlow did not umpire another Test match until the series against India in the 1947/48 season, when he stood in four Test matches. He stood in four matches against Freddie Brown's English team in 1950/51. He finished his career as he began it, in a match against the West Indies, at Sydney on 30 November to 5 December 1951.

In addition to umpiring in Tests, he also umpired 86 first class cricket games, and AFL matches in Victoria. He died at Melbourne, Victoria, aged 62.

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SGR

SGR may refer to:

 * Heart Colchester and Heart Ipswich, radio stations in Suffolk, England both once known as SGR
 * Sagittarius (constellation) abbreviation
 * Scary Go Round, a webcomic
 * Scientists for Global Responsibility, a United Kingdom group that promotes the ethical practice and use of science and technology
 * Segar LRT station in Bukit Panjang, Singapore (LRT station abbreviation)
 * Select Graphic Rendition (ANSI), an ANSI X3.64 escape sequence
 * Service Général du Renseignement et de la Sécurité, the French name of the Belgian General Information and Security Service
 * SGR (band), a ska band from New Jersey, United States
 * Shale Gouge Ratio, a mathematical algorithm aiming to predict the fault rock types for simple fault zones
 * The Shaw Group, a company which formerly used SGR as its ticker symbol
 * Slade Green railway station in London, England (National Rail station code)
 * Smart Green Resilient (planning concept) abbreviation
 * Societa' di Gestione del Risparmio, an Italian abbreviation for investment management companies
 * Soft gamma repeater, in astronomy
 * South Gippsland Railway, a former heritage railway in Victoria, Australia
 * Specific growth rate, a biology concept
 * Standard gauge railway, commonly abbreviated SGR in East Africa
 * Kenya Standard Gauge Railway (Madaraka Express)
 * Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya
 * Uganda Standard Gauge Railway
 * Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway
 * Stargate: Resistance, an online, third-person shooter based on the television series Stargate SG-1
 * State of Good Repair, in mass transit
 * Substantia gelatinosa of Rolando, a V-shaped or crescentic mass of translucent, gelatinous neuroglia in the spinal cord
 * Sugar Land Regional Airport (SGR) in Texas, United States
 * Sustainable growth rate, a finance concept
 * Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, a concept used by Medicare (United States)

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Independent Radio Drama Productions

Independent Radio Drama Productions (IRDP) started in 1987 as an independent producer of radio drama. IRDP was a non profit company run by directors Tim Crook, Richard Shannon, and Marja Giejgo. IRDP's ambition was to promote the value of radio drama and to expand opportunities for writers new to radio. IRDP ran festivals and competitions which resulted in the production and broadcast of many plays by new writers who would not otherwise have had the chance to hear their work aired on the radio. In 1996, IRDP received a nomination at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards for 'Developing and Fostering New Writing' in recognition of this work. The Woolwich Young Radio Playwrights' Competition was awarded the Daily Telegraph / ABSA award for Best Youth Sponsorship in 1991. The company ceased trading in 2003.

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Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week/Gym

Gym

 * Nominated on 14:14, 1 September 2005 (UTC); needs 5 votes by September 8.

Has no mention of the modern meaning of a place to work out in.

Support:
 * 1) Richy 14:14, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

 * 1) Leptictidium 13:18, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Tuam

2006 posts
Removed the phrase repeating that Tuam is offically a town, as I think it's already clear from the description that it's a town in Galway. This also makes my comment about the two cathederal read a little better. Aside, I went to school in Tuam, and always heard that it was the fact it had two cathederals was the defining factor in the rumour it was really a city, not just one. Also I recall that Blockbuster (the quiz show) had Tuam as the answer to a question smallest city in the world. Small town, big ambitions, eh? :) MartinRe 21:58, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Technically, there are tons of smaller cities worldwide. Some can have a population of only a few people. So if someone won that quiz show by answering "Tuam", they won it on false knowledge. But, a cathedral is no longer the foundation of a city, Drogheda, Monaghan and Clougher, but to name a few are all Irish towns/villages, not cities. 20:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

There is no mention of the legend surrounding St. Jarlath and the foundation of the town, or the fact it was once the seat of the high king of Ireland around the 12th century. (Leninbenjamin 12:19, 5 April 2006 (UTC))

Crimes
In 1742 John Bodkin killed 11 members of his family and acquaintances at his father's house in Truam according to [this]. Might be worth mentioning, especially if he's related to John Bodkin Adams the suspected serial killer. Malick78 (talk) 21:27, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Notability
There is not much point added every single person from Tuam who every wrote a book, song or poem to the notable people section. It is already overpopulated with people of only minor significance (eg McDonnell, Breathnach, Cunniffe,). Even though they have the distinction of Tuam! Quite a few in the list should be removed. Johnny Rotten's father was from Tuam, Johnny supposed had a few holidays in the town, hardly an endorsement for his inclusion in the list? Just because a 2 or 3 line biographical stub exists in wikipedia doesn't mean it has to be linked to this section. TuamPrefecture (talk) 11:00, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Too add any notable person related to a town within these lists appear to be common practice, see WP:NLIST. The only point is that notability must be given which is apparently given for Patrick Greaney as there exists an article for him. --AFBorchert (talk) 13:28, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * That is true; a Wiki article is "proof" of notability. Thus, there are literally thousands of "notable" GAA club players on Wiki. And, therefore, every village (never mind a veritable metropolis like Tuam) will have it's sturdy band of "notables"! Sarah777 (talk) 13:33, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, at the end it would be better to transform such a simple list of links into some structured prose text where peoples are ordered by their occupations including possibly a subsection about club players. In such a context, it is also surely a good idea to start weighing the individuals. But as long this does not happen, these lists take their simple course through small edits adding another one from that town and all you can hope for that these added people are indeed notable. --AFBorchert (talk) 14:10, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Motto
My husband, Garret Toomey of Dublin, believes the motto for the town where his ancestors came from is not "Long Live the People of Tuam," but is in fact, "Always Carry a Spare Chariot Wheel." Patricia O'Tuama.Risssa (talk) 01:48, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

 * sounds like an unquestionable source, patricia 2001:BB6:AB78:5400:1C58:1F17:1659:BFE2 (talk) 18:39, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

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both written and directed by women
Is it worth noting on the page that this is the *only* Doctor Who story ever to have been both written and directed by women? Angmering 14:15, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 14:28, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

unwanted } }
There is a }} at the top of the page. I cannot remove it without removing the infobox. Can someone help out and do so please? Thanks. Tom walker 15:53, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That came from someone's attempt to include a couple more fields in the infobox — it should be gone now. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 17:17, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

oops. Ignore me... AlanD 19:04, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Ephemeral
you should mention in the continuity section that this is the first time humans were called ephemerals, they would also be called that in the Sarah Jane Adeventures story- "What Happened Ever To Sarah Jane?" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.242.77.122 (talk) 04:35, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Special Edition
There needs to be more detail on the 75-minute Special Edition and its differences from the original serial.Lee M (talk) 03:02, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

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