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Zashiki-warashi

Zashiki-warashi (座敷童子), sometimes also called zashiki bokko (座敷ぼっこ), are spirit-like beings told about mostly in the Iwate Prefecture. They are said to be yokai that live in parlors or storage rooms, and that perform pranks, and that people who see one would be visited with good fortune. There are also legends of how they would bring fortune to families. They are also known from Kunio Yanagita's Tōno Monogatari, Ishigami Mondō, and stories about them appear in the 17th and 18th chapters of the Tōno Monogatari and the 87th chapter titled "Zashiki-warashi" of the Tōno Monogatari Shūi. In the 17th chapter, it is written "families with whom this spirit dwells become prosperous" (kono kami no yadoritamafu ihe ha fūki jizai nari to ifu koto nari). In recent years, television programs and magazines have reported about various Iwate Prefecture ryokan where it is said to be possible to see a zashiki-warashi.

Concept
Reports have mostly been in the Iwate Prefecture, but there are also some scattered across Aomori Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Akita Prefecture and others in the Tōhoku region.

Generally, the beings have a red face, hair that hangs down, and aged from a minimum of around three years to a maximum of around 15 years. They have a bob haircut or very short cropped hair. Both males and females have been seen. The male ones are said to wear blackish clothes with a kasuri pattern and the females are said to wear a red waistcoat (chanchanko), kosode, and sometimes a furisode. It is also said that there are some whose appearance is unclear, making their gender unknown. Sometimes multiple beings would settle in a house at once, such as a boy and a girl. There are also some legends telling of ones that look like a black beast, and others that look like a warrior.

They like causing mischief, so they are said to leave ash or bleaching powder on top of little footprints and at nighttime, they are said to make sounds like that of a revolving spinning wheel, and they would also make sounds in an inner room making sounds like that of a kagura performance. There are also tales told about how when someone in the family is sewing alone, there would be sounds similar to the rustling of papers or someone snorting, and when the wooden door is opened there would be no one there. It is also said that at night, they would do pranks such as riding on top of guest room futons and turning over the pillows in order to not let the person sleep, and when attempts are made to stop it, it would be too strong and powerful for anyone to even affect its actions. Sometimes they also play with children.

In Iwate, there are legends of how the zashiki-warashi of a shrine at Hayachine would follow a shrine visitor who came from afar and follow them into different lands. There are also legends of how the zashiki-warashi would teach the nursery rhyme of Iwate to the children of those lands.

In Gonohe, Aomori Prefecture, there is a legend of how when a new house is built, a zashiki-warashi can be called into it by burying a golden ball under the floors.

There are theories about how they cannot be seen by anyone other than members of the family or how they can only be seen by children but not adults. There are stories about how when adults counted children, there would be one more person than there was originally, but as adults do not understand what zashiki-warashi are, they would not know who the extra person is. Stories like these frequently appear as themes in literature.

Relation to family prosperity
An example of a very characteristic folk belief is that families with a zashiki-warashi would prosper and families whose zashiki-warashi have gone away would decline. This aspect shows that zashiki-warashi are like gods of fortune or protective spirits that rule over a family's prosperity and decline.

In the Tōno Monogatari, there are tales such as one telling about how a family was wiped out by foodborne illness after its zashiki-warashi left it and another tale about how in the Iide section of the village of Tsuchibuchi, Iwate Prefecture (now part of the city of Tōno), a wealthy family's zashiki-warashi was shot by a child with a bow and arrow causing it to leave the family, resulting in the family's fortunes decline. There is also the view that the way families would decline after a zashiki-warashi leaves it and the way families would prosper after a binbōgami leaves it are related.

There is the theory that a white zashiki-warashi is a sign of good things to come and the sight of a red one (with a red face, red clothes, and a red bucket in its hands) is a sign that a zashiki-warashi would leave the family leading to bad things to come. There are also examples where a family that saw a red-clothed one all died from foodborne illness.

Customs
Zashiki-warashi are there in inner guest rooms (zashiki), and their existence is said to have an effect on the direction the family goes in, so there are some families that treat them hospitably and offer them meals every day. They are said to like azuki meshi, so there are families that offer some azuki meshi every day, and if it is not eaten, it is said to be an omen for the family's decline. Zashiki-warashi generally work the same way as having kitsune or having inugami, but the difference between them and zashiki-warashi is that a zashiki-warashi is never considered a nuisance, and in fact they are even protected as gods, and a family that has a zashiki-warashi is usually treated by other people with respect.

In the area around the city of Ninohe, there is a custom of making up a room with desserts and toys left inside for a child who had died or was killed as an infant (infanticide), and giving worship to this child, a custom that remains to the present day. There is also a custom of making a room that a child would like in order to make a zashiki-warashi stay at the house in order to bring the family prosperity.

According to the Tonō Monogatari, the house of a certain wealthy family in the town of Tsuchibuchi had a small space that was called the "Zatō room", and it is considered to be the room that would be used to await the Zatō (a kind of member of the builder's guild such as the tōdōza or members of related groups such as the Anma, moxibustion practitioners, and members of the biwa hōshi, among other organizations) every time a banquet was called, but the literary researcher Sukeyuki Miura surmises that perhaps this room was used to give worship to the god's protective spirit.

Kinds
Zashiki-warashi have various regional names such as zashiki-warabe (座敷童), zashiki-warashi (座敷童衆), zashiki-bokko (座敷ぼっこ), okura-bokko (御蔵ボッコ), zashiki-kozō (座敷小僧), and karako-warashi. The name "zashiki-bokko" is used in the inland regions of Iwate, and this name was also used in the writings of Kenji Miyazawa.

There are also regions and legends where zashiki-warashi have rankings, and in the Jippōan Yūreki Zakki (十方庵遊歴雑記), there are statements about zashiki-warashi seen in the area of Inase, Esashi, Iwate Prefecture (now Esashi District, Ōshū, and that zashiki-warashi in a home's dirt floor are called kometsuki-warashi, notabariko, usutsuriko, among other names, and the white, most beautiful zashiki-warashi that is in the inner zashiki is called the chōpirako. Among these, there are some that have no influence on the family's fortunes and instead merely move around the house making noises, and there are not merely a few that have been deemed creepy.

There are also some that have arms that are long and thin like vines, which they use to beckon people as well as warn of disasters like floods and tsunami, and these can be called hosode (細手, "thin arms") or hosode nagate (細手長手, "thin arms long arms"). There is a story telling of how "a poor man once threw firewood into the water, was invited into the dragon palace, and received as a gift an ugly-looking but fortune-bringing ryūkyū-warashi (dragon palace child)". There are also zashiki-warashi that stay in the dozō, and they are called kura-warashi or kura-bokko (child of the storehouse).

According to the essay "Zashiki-warashi no Hanashi" (ザシキワラシの話, "Stories about Zashiki-warashi") by the folklorist Kizen Sasaki, in a certain home in the aforementioned village of Tsuchibuchi, there is a kabukire-warashi (tree stump child) that lives in the "Mada no Ki" (meaning "Bodhi tree"). It is said to take on the appearance of a child and sneak into the family's zashiki to perform pranks on the family's daughter, as well as take on an appearance with a red face and play on walnut trees where the tree splits into three. It has also been interpreted to be a spirit of this Mada no Ki.

Despite there being many legends of the zashiki-warashi in the Tōhoku region, there are fewer in Akita Prefecture; this is said to be because Akita has the sankichi oni, so lower-class yōkai would not enter Akita.

Origins

Kizen Sasaki noted that perhaps they are the spirits of children who were crushed to death and buried at the home. In the Tōhoku region, infanticide was called usugoro (臼殺, or "mortar kill"), and it is said that children who were killed this way to reduce the number of mouths to feed would be killed by being crushed by a stone mortar. Afterwards, burying them in the dirt floor room (doma) or in the kitchen was a custom. It is said that the spirits of such children would, on rainy days, walk around outer edges, shaking and frightening the guests, which is said to be seen to resemble deeds similar to that of a zashiki-warashi. The aforementioned notabariko and usu-tsuki warashi are seen to be lower ranking among the zashiki-warashi, and the former would peek out from the inner dirt floor (doma) room and crawl around while the latter would use a mortar to make a sound. Due to such acts, it is sometimes suggested that these kinds of zashiki-warashi have a relation to the fact that the location where the infanticide happened is in the dirt floor (doma) room or underneath a mortar.

In addition to this relation to infanticide, the fact that the zashiki-warashi are in both old homes and are often mentioned in relation to legends about how after a visiting Buddhist pilgrim from outside the village was killed, the family of the home came to ruin, it has been suggested that these zashiki-warashi are signs of the dark undersides of the village's community.

In the "Zashiki-warashi wo Mita Hitobito" (座敷わらしを見た人びと) by the author Sadako Takahashi, there are also stories about zashiki-warashi that came about from a curse that resulted from carpenters and tatami makers that were unable to do their construction jobs in comfort, and it is said that there were rituals of taking a doll that had a bit of its wood peeled off and inserting it between the pillars and beams.

There are also many theories that their true identity is that of a kappa, and there are stories of a zashiki-warashi being a kappa that lived in the depths who would rise up and go into a nearby home to do pranks, as well as stories of zashiki-warashi that were kappa that have settled into a home.

Concerning why zashiki-warashi look like children, seeing how in Buddhism there are gōhō-warashi (wrathful gods that protect Buddhism and take on the appearance of a child), there is the theory that they come from folk beliefs in how children connected gods and humans, as well as the theory that the appearance of a child embodies divinity.

In Kunio Yanagita's view, just as the gōhō-warashi were called forth from the heavens by high priests, the protective spirits of Buddhism and folk mikos are related to the faith in giving respect to the freshness of the spirits of young leaves, and this is related to the faith in the zashiki-warashi who became protective spirits of a home in order to will divinity to humans. In folkloristics, after Yanagita also, there has been debate on subjects such as the relation to Okunai-sama and the relation of children that come from another realm such as the Ryūgyū-warashi (dragon palace warashi).

Also, the folklorist Kazuhiko Komatsu views warashi (children) from the point of view of cultural anthropology, and regarding the question of the fortune within homes and the movement of wealth within a village, he notes that zashiki-warashi have almost all their characteristics in common with animal spirit possession such as izuna-tsukai ("weasel-using"). From an analysis of the supremacy and inferiority within the community of families with a spirit haunting them, he notes that zashiki-warashi have been used as a basis for explaining changes in fortunes within folk society, especially for old homes and families.

In Ueda Akinari's late Edo-period yomihon the Ugetsu Monogatari, in the story "Hinpuku-ron" (Theory of Wealth and Poverty), in Mutsu Province (now Aomori Prefecture), in a certain home of a warrior family, a spirit of money appears in the form of an old man going by the name of "Ōgon no Seirei" ("golden spirit") who said "I'm glad you treat money as something important to you, so I came to tell a story", but the doctor of letters Masamichi Abe suggests that perhaps this is an older, more prototypical type of zashiki-warashi.

Legends after the war
To the people of Tōhoku, the zashiki-warashi was certainly not a legend that came around after the war, and tales of zashiki-warashi were told even in the times of Meiji, Shōwa, and beyond. According to Kunio Yanagita's Yōkai Dangi (妖怪談義), it is said that in the year 1910 or Meiji 43 around the month of July, in the village of Tsuchibuchi (now Tōno, Iwate Prefecture) in Kamihei District, Rikuchū, a zashiki-warashi appeared at a school that was visible only to the first year students and not to the older students and adults.

Certain ryokan that have continued to be managed in the Shōwa and Heisei periods and beyond such as the Ryokufūsō at the Kindaichi Onsen in Iwate Prefecture, the Sugawara Bekkan, and the Warabe both in Tenjin village in Morioka Prefecture are known to be lodges where a zashiki-warashi dwells; there have been tales of guests who saw zashiki-warashi, heard footsteps, were physically touched. However, unlike in the usual legends of zashiki-warashi, the one at Ryokufūsō is considered to be an ancestor that died from an illness and became a protective spirit.

Close to the Warabe, there is the Hayachine Shrine that was opened more than 1200 years ago, and it is said that since there have been festivals for offering prayers to zashiki-warashi ever since the establishment of the Warabe, the shrine's zashiki-warashi goes to the Warabe.

The zashiki-warashi of the Sugawara Bekkan was originally a god of fire of the Edo period that protected the proprietress's original home from fire, and it is said to have followed this proprietress when she married into the family of this establishment. There have also been tales about how guests to this ryokan have been successful in their marriage and jobs.

Similar tales across Japan
Similar to the zashiki-warashi are the zashiki-bōzu of Kadotani, Tōtōmi Province (now Shizuoka Prefecture) and the akashaguma of Tokushima. Near one of the inner temples of the Kotohira-gū in Shikoku, it is said that at nighttime an "akashaguma" appears from a butsudan. "Akashaguma" refers to the fur of a bear that has been stained red, and it is said that a little childlike being wearing this would tickle the old woman owner of this house every night.

In the former Higashiyatsuhiro District in Yamanashi Prefecture, it is said that there is an okura-bōzu (お倉坊主, "warehouse bonze") that stays within the warehouse, and this is thought to be a type of zashiki-warashi.

In Ishikawa Prefecture, there is the makuragaeshi and it is said that if one sleeps in the zashiki of a certain house, especially if one wields two swords, has hair that stands up, wears western clothing, and puts on a haughty face, then one would get dragged into a neighboring room.

The zashiki-warashi of Shirotori, Ōkawa District, Kagawa Prefecture (now part of Higashikawa), is said to appear as a little girl who is called oshobo due to the small, slight (shobo-shobo in Japanese) way it hangs, and sometimes it is said to be invisible to the members of the house, while other times it is said to be visible only to the members of this house.

In addition, in Hokkaido there is the ainukaisei said to attack people in their homes while they sleep, and in the Okinawa Prefecture there is a yōkai called the akagantaa said to play pranks on people in their homes while they sleep, and sometimes these are interpreted to be the same kind of beings as zashiki-warashi.

The folklorist Shinobu Orikuchi enumerates examples such as the okunai-sama, the zashiki-bōzu, the akashaguma, the kijimuna of Okinawa, gaataro of Iki, etc., and sees in them examples of tales of a faithful spirit that came from another land to do work for a certain family whose disappearance would result in the decline of the family. He notes how zashiki-warashi do not descend into the garden and suggests that this is related to how performing arts in the past had a division between "garden", "zashiki", and "stage".

Etymology
The name breaks down to zashiki (Japanese: 座敷), a sitting room or parlor, usually with tatami flooring, and warashi (Japanese: 童子), an archaic term for a child, used particularly in the northeast of Japan.

Sightings
By the end of November 2015, a mirrored website offered video footage from a home video camera in Japan. It captured the image of what appears to be a girl wearing a kimono walking in the house. Her body is translucent and can walk through walls. It is believed that she was a zashiki-warashi.

In popular culture

 * In the animated series Mononoke, zashiki-warashi were represented by the spirits of babies that were forcefully aborted in a brothel and then stored in the walls so the mothers would be able to keep taking clients.
 * In the animated series A Centaur's Life, zashiki-warashi was represented by a small child that played with Sue Mitama, the younger sister of Manami Mitama.
 * In the manga and animated series Kimi ni Todoke, the main character, Sawako Kuronuma, is given the nickname “zashiki warashi” by her cousin because of her ominous physical appearance.
 * In the video game Onmyōji, one of the first Shikigami you can meet is called Zashiki and represents a zashiki-warashi, being said to bring wealth and good fortune to her host.
 * Zashiki-warashi is a prominent secondary character in the manga and anime series xxxHolic.
 * In the 18th episode of Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, the Mushroom Child a zashiki-warashi whom the Kakurangers and the children befriend.
 * In the 45th episode of Engine Sentai Go-onger, the Go-ongers and Go-on Wings meet a zashiki-warashi in a hotel room.
 * In the manga Interviews with Monster Girls, a zashiki-warashi stays at the apartment of college student Yoko Takahashi, who is revealed to be a spirit medium and is the only one that can perceive her in any direct or indirect way. The spirit, a young girl, is named Zashiko.
 * In the manga and its later anime adaptation Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs, the housekeeper of the inn the protagonist stays in, Ms. Nakai, is a Zashiki-warashi.
 * In the video game and anime series Yo-Kai Watch, the zashiki-warashi is a common yokai of the Heartful tribe who specializes in healing abilities. It has an evolution named Zashiki-warashin. For the English release, they were named Gnomey and High Gnomey.
 * In the 2012 Japanese family drama movie Home: Itoshi no Zashiki Warashi directed by Seiji Izumi, shows the spirit of a little 5 years old girl who is a Zashiki Warashi living in a rural house where the Takahashi family from Tokyo city moves into. The Takahashi family suffers from internal disputes within the family members and no happiness seems to be among them. The Zashiki Warashi enters into their lives and brings happiness for them, fixing all the broken bonds within the family and the spirit herself becoming a member of their family.
 * Miyoi Okunoda, the protagonist of the official Touhou Project manga, Touhou Suichoka ~ Lotus Eaters, is a zashiki-warashi with the ability to manipulate memories.
 * A Zashiki Warashi named Osoma can be seen in the anime Osomatsu-san, season two, chapter 18. The anime's protagonist plays Osoma as a Zashiki Warashi who scares people who visit the hut of her "mother" Choroe, telling them the story that she was supposedly killed by his own mother many years ago.
 * In The House of the Lost on the Cape the zashiki-warashi play a crucial role in helping the three main characters restore hope to a region devastated by a tsunami.

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Ștefan Vasilache

Ştefan Vasilache (born 9 May 1979) is a Romanian high jumper.

Vasilache finished eleventh at the 2001 Summer Universiade. At the 2004 World Indoor Championships, he jumped 2.25 metres, which was enough to secure a surprising bronze medal, alongside Jaroslav Bába and Germaine Mason who achieved the same result. Later that year he jumped the same height in the Olympic Games, but was knocked out in the qualification round there. He also competed at the 2002 European Championships and the 2003 World Championships without reaching the final round. He became national champion in 1996 and every year between 2000-2006.

His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in July 2003 in Trikala. This ranks him fourth among Romanian high jumpers, behind Sorin Matei, Eugen-Cristian Popescu and Constantin Militaru.

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Bibra Lake, Western Australia

Bibra Lake is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia; it takes its name from the extensive freshwater lake within its boundaries, Bibra Lake. It is located within the City of Cockburn and its postcode is 6163.

History
The existence of the lake was first reported by Augustus Gregory during a survey of George Robb's land in May 1842. Gregory recorded the Aboriginal name of the lake as Walubup. During the following year, Benedict von Bibra, surveying his own selection on the southern shores of the lake, recorded the name as Walliabup and the latter version was used exclusively on maps for more than half a century. In the summer of 1843, Benedict von Bibra (son of Franz Ludwig von Bibra) bought land at the edge of a wide depression to use as a camping place to shorten the trip between his two carpentry businesses in Perth and Fremantle. He apparently assessed from the stringybark trees that the basin would become a lake in winter of a depth of seven to eight feet. He proved correct.

In 1877, it was found the von Bibra's association with Lake Walliabup was apparently still recalled by locals who referred to the feature as Bibra's Lake. This alternative name was added to plans and, in 1967, adopted in place of the Aboriginal name. In 1898 Bibra Lake was reserved for recreation and all applications to lease land were strenuously opposed by the Fremantle District Roads Board, which was given control of the reserve in 1902. Tearooms were erected and the Reserve became a popular venue for picnics and sports gatherings.

AWAS Camp
During World War II, there was a battery attached to the 66 Searchlight stationed at Bibra Lake, along with the regimental headquarters of the 116 Light Anti-Aircraft. This was the base for many women who served in the Australian Women's Army Service, performing important home defence duties to free up more men for front line fighting. The camp was dismantled immediately after the end of the war, and all its buildings and materials sold at auction. The camp was rediscovered in 2015 by members of the community, and was threatened by the proposed Roe Highway extension.

Facilities
The majority of the suburb, which is not part of the Beeliar Regional Park contains a major light industrial area, with businesses such as Amcor.

Bibra Lake is the location for several major private recreation facilities, including Adventure World theme park, a bungee jumping tower, Cockburn Ice Arena, paintball and laser tag operations. Bibra Lake also has a Waldorf school and a Montessori primary school.

The manufacturing facilities and headquarters for OKA Australia are in Bibra Lake.

WA Wildlife
WA Wildlife, operated by Native Arc Inc, is a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centre in the Beeliar Wetlands near Bibra Lake. It has a purpose-built hospital to care for the animals, with intensive care unit facilities to care for animals that would have previously been euthanised. WA Wildlife is part of group of organisations helping to protect the nests of the snake-necked turtle that breed around Bibra Lake. In 2020 it was estimated that 25 of the hatchlings were able to make it to the safety of the lake. Native Arc Inc is a registered charity, number 21503, licensed under the Charitable Collections Act 1946.

Bus

 * 512 Murdoch Station to Fremantle Station – serves Sudlow Road and Phoenix Road
 * 514 Cockburn Central Station to Murdoch Station – serves North Lake Road, Bibra Drive, Walliabup Way, Meller Road, Annois Road and Parkway Road
 * 520 Cockburn Central Station to Fremantle Station – serves North Lake Road, Progress Drive, Gwilliam Drive and Forrest Road

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Home for a Rest

"Home for a Rest" is a song by Canadian folk rock band Spirit of the West from their fourth studio album Save This House, released in 1990. It is the band's signature song and is considered a classic of Canadian music.

Although the song received widespread radio and club airplay throughout the 1990s, it was never officially released as a single in its own right until 2014, when a limited edition single was released for Record Store Day.

Background and writing
Written by John Mann and Geoffrey Kelly in 1989 during one of the band's first tours of England, it was originally more of a poem than a full-fledged song. According to producer Danny Greenspoon, the band considered it still a work in progress, and had not brought it to the primary recording sessions for the album; rather, it was brought to Greenspoon's attention only as he was about to conclude work on the project and return home to Toronto. Recognizing the song's potential, he immediately worked with the band to resolve their uncertainties about its readiness, and finally recorded it as the last song of the sessions.

While originally intended to be a throwaway tune, it wound up on the album Save This House at the insistence of producer Danny Greenspoon.

Kelly in an interview with the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame:

It is to me still very strange that Canada has really latched on to the song, because the song is really about being in the U.K... We had no plans for it to be a single or even a video...despite all of that, it’s powered through, and it’s by far our most loved song.

Content
The song tells of a drinking spree in London:

You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best I've been gone for a week, I've been drunk since I left These so-called vacations will soon be my death I'm so sick from the drink, I need home for a rest.

British geographical references such as Euston Station, Charing Cross Road and Yorkshire appear in the lyrics. The later choruses switch the length of time that the narrator has been gone from a week to a month, and in some live performances change from a month to a year. The song's musical arrangement incorporates the traditional reels "Castle Kelly", "Glass of Beer", and "Swallow's Tail".

Music video
Despite not being released as a single in 1990, a music video was released, which was in rotation on MuchMusic and later available on YouTube.

Reception
The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame called the song a "rollicking Irish-flavoured song that is played at celebrations from university parties to weddings". In 2018, the song was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Live performances
"Home for a Rest" was always the final song played at the band's concert performances, excepting encores. A live performance of the song at the band's 2015 Massey Hall concert forms the climax of the 2016 documentary film Spirit Unforgettable; due to Mann's battle with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, he struggles with the lyrics at first but the entire audience begins singing along.

Certifications
On January 16, 2019, the song was certified platinum in Canada.

Popularity
The song was one of two Canadian songs (the other being "Do the Bearcat" by David Wilcox) to appear on the 1998 compilation album Frosh, alongside such party anthems as Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life", The Village People's "YMCA", Denis Leary's "Asshole", and Beastie Boys' "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)".

In 1999, the song was named to CFNY's Top 1002 New Rock Songs of All Time, ranking 689th behind R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People" and ahead of Robert Palmer's "Looking for Clues". In 2007, CFNY named it No. 8 on their Top 102 Canadian New Rock Songs of All Time.

In 2005, "Home for a Rest" was named the 22nd greatest Canadian song of all time in a listener vote on the CBC Radio One series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version.

The song is also frequently covered by other Canadian folk rock bands, including Mudmen and Enter the Haggis. Spirit of the West's original recording has also occasionally been misattributed to Great Big Sea on YouTube and in online lyrics databases.

A limited edition single was released for the 2014 Record Store Day.

At a November 2017 fundraising benefit concert for Mann's medical care at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom, the participants recorded a tribute version of the song onsite prior to the concert; participants included Alan Doyle, Jim Cuddy, Sarah McLachlan, Ed Robertson, Barney Bentall, Colin James, Shari Ulrich, and Jim Byrnes.

From 2005 to 2016, "Home for a Rest" was the fifth best-selling digitally downloaded 1990s song by a Canadian artist in Canada and the best-selling digitally downloaded 1990s song by a Canadian band in Canada.

In 2022, "Home for a Rest" was voted British Columbia's favourite song by a local artist in a Twitter bracket organised by the CBC's Justin McElroy, narrowly beating out "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen in the final. Other finalists in the Top 5 were Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like a Bird", Raffi's "Baby Beluga" and Sarah McLachlan's "I Will Remember You".

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Sergio Acevedo

Sergio Edgardo Acevedo (born 1 May 1956) is an Argentine politician, formerly a provincial governor of Santa Cruz Province and secretary in the national government.

Since 2023, he has been a National Deputy for Santa Cruz, a position he previously held on two separate occasions from 1995 to 1999 and later from 2001 to 2003. Having belonged to the Justicialist Party for most of his career, since 2023 he has formed part of the local SER Santa Cruz party, supporting current governor Claudio Vidal.

Early life and career
Born in Esquel, Chubut Province, Acevedo moved to Pico Truncado in 1958. He became a lawyer and married, having three children. He was elected mayor of Pico Truncando in 1983, serving until 1987 when he became a provincial deputy. In 1991 he returned to be mayor. From 1995 to 1999, Acevedo was a national deputy, and became vice-governor of Santa Cruz Province under then-governor Néstor Kirchner. In 2001 he was elected once again to Congress.

Later career
Acevedo was appointed Secretary of Intelligence by President Eduardo Duhalde, serving from 2002 to mid-2003. He was confirmed by President Néstor Kirchner, but later resigned to take up the post of Governor of Santa Cruz Province, swapping positions with Héctor Icazuriaga. He was elected with almost 75% of the popular vote.

Acevedo resigned as governor in March 2006 citing personal reasons. However, his resignation came after clashes with the national government and amid controversy over police brutality in repressing the Las Heras riot and a corruption scandal involving the family of President Kirchner. The President had himself been governor of Santa Cruz and there had been allegations that public contracts were granted based on bribes and kick-backs. Members of his family held senior positions and Acevedo retained Carlos Kirchner as his provincial minister of works. He was prevented from sacking Carlos Kirchner, allegedly due to interference from Buenos Aires. A judge, the President's nephew, declined to continue the investigation and Acevedo was replaced by Carlos Sancho, vice-governor and employer of the President's son.

It was widely speculated at the time that Acevedo resigned due to Presidential interference, in particular with oil and privatisation policy, and he has subsequently become a vocal, if equivocal, opponent of his former mentor and patron. He has set up a political faction, the Santa Cruz Coalition (Convocatoria Santacruceña), gathering together Peronists and others opposed to the Front for Victory of Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Several provincial deputies and former provincial ministers joined the team.

Return to politics
Following his reappearance on the political scene, there was speculation that Acevedo would run as running mate to Elisa Carrió or Adolfo Rodríguez Saá in the 2007 Presidential elections, but he ruled himself out at an early stage. His coalition, by now called 'New Movement' (Nuevo Movimiento) backed UCR Eduardo Costa for Governor of Santa Cruz, who was defeated by Kirchner's candidate Daniel Peralta in 2007, although the different opposition parties within the Change to Grow coalition fell out over the placings on the regional list for national deputies in the election. Nevertheless, Acevedo's team largely collaborated with opposition forces in municipal and provincial elections across Santa Cruz.

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Coogee, Western Australia

Coogee is a southern coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn.

History
The suburb takes its name from the lake, Lake Coogee, in the area, which translates to "Body of water" in the native Aboriginal Nyoongar language. Originally this lake was named Lake Munster after Prince William, the Earl of Munster, and later King William IV. The Aboriginal name Kou-gee was recorded in 1841 by Thomas Watson and has been variously spelt Koojee, Coojee and Coogee.

The first European settlement in the region occurred with the ill-fated settlement by Thomas Peel at the Clarence townsite behind Woodman Point in 1829, the townsite being abandoned in 1831. Settlement of the area commenced in the 1870s around Lake Coogee on Rockingham Road (the first road between Fremantle and Rockingham).

The current residential area of Coogee commenced development in the 1980s. Previously it was an area of limestone ridge, small rural lots and market gardens in the west and south portions of the current suburb. Denser residential development was limited to a small area in the northwest of the current suburb about Beach Road and King Street. That area was better known as the locality of Coogee Beach. Some buildings still standing in that area date back to the nineteenth century.

Coogee Hotel
In 1898, Walter Powell applied for a publican's licence in Four-mile Well, Coogee. He extended and renovated the existing building, turning it into the Coogee Hotel. He traded for twenty years, until his death in 1923, fostering local sports, particularly horse racing, and giving the local community of meat workers and market gardeners a place to socialise and relax. The hotel was de-licensed in 1927, and became a holiday home for orphans under the Swan Anglican Children's Homes in 1930. In 1946 the orphans were housed there full-time. In 1968, threatened with demolition by Main Roads to build a high-capacity road through the area, the orphanage sold the hotel and moved out. It was not demolished, and was used intermittently as private offices. An extension was added in the early 1990s, and the building was heritage listed in 2001.

Restaurateur Nic Trimboli and property developer Adrian Fini bought the building from Main Roads in 2017 with the intention of opening the building as a restaurant. The restaurant refurbishment was underway in December 2019, and reopened as Coogee Commons on 5 March 2022.

Geography
Coogee is located 7 km south of Fremantle and overlooks Cockburn Sound with views of Garden Island, Carnac Island and Rottnest Island. The suburb is bounded by Ocean Road to the north, Hamilton Road to the east, the Beeliar Drive (road extension) to the south and Cockburn Road/Indian Ocean to the west. To the southwest of the suburb lies Woodman Point, an "A" Grade reserve with several kilometres of beach frontage onto Cockburn Sound. Features of Woodman Point include a large jetty used during World War II for the transport of munitions. There are also a large number of disused but preserved munitions stores in the reserves. The Reserve also features large picnic areas and is a popular fishing locality.

A project known as Port Coogee is under construction to the North-West of Coogee in the suburb now known as North Coogee. It includes a new marina and a housing estate to complement the existing suburb of Coogee.

While geographically the suburb of Coogee is a relatively small and defined residential area, the name Coogee has been used extensively as a regional name and reference point. The Southern part of the neighbouring suburb of Munster was previously known as the two localities of South Coogee (or Coogee South) and Woodman Point. Lake Coogee is now within that portion of Munster. In December 2005 a portion of Coogee was incorporated into the new suburb of North Coogee.

Facilities
There is a single government primary school, Coogee Primary School, located in the southern portion of the suburb.

The main recreation reserves are Poole Reserve on Hamilton Road and Coogee Beach on the Indian Ocean. Immediately south of Coogee Beach is the Coogee Beach Caravan Park.

Transport
Transperth's 548, 532 and 512 route buses pass through the suburb of Coogee, and connect it with Fremantle, Murdoch, Western Australia, Spearwood, Western Australia, Rockingham and Cockburn Central.

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Hamilton Hill, Western Australia

Hamilton Hill is a suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, located 23 km southwest the central business district. Its local government area is the City of Cockburn.

History
The earliest known settler at Hamilton Hill was Sydney Smith, the agent of Captain George Robb. Robb arrived in Western Australia in 1830 and took up land south of Fremantle. During the next twelve months Smith was actively engaged in establishing Robb's farm. In a letter dated 27 August 1830, he gives his address as Hamilton Hill. The origin of the name, and whether it was Robb or Smith who did the naming, remains uncertain but the area has been known as such ever since.

In 1860 Charles Alexander Manning bought 364 ha of Robb's land, and six years later built Davilak House for his son Lucius Manning. The house of twelve rooms, was built using convict labour and was owned by the Manning family until they abandoned it in the late 1950s. It burnt down in 1960, and after this the Shire of Cockburn took over the administration of the whole estate.

A second homestead was built in 1920 by the eldest daughter of Lucius Manning, Azelia Ley. She had married John Morgan Ley in 1900, and after he died in 1927 she continued to maintain the family farm. This house became derelict after Azelia died in 1954, but was restored by the Historical Society of Cockburn in 1983 and now serves as a comprehensive Azelia Ley Homestead Museum of artefacts pertaining to the Cockburn district.

At the turn of the century South Fremantle and the northern parts of Cockburn like Hamilton Hill became the location of semi rural industries such as market gardening and horse racing stables.

Geography
Hamilton Hill is bounded by Cockburn Road to the west, Phoenix Road to the south, Stock Road to the east and Jean Street and Winterfold Road to the north.

Educational
Hamilton Hill has three public primary schools, East Hamilton Hill Primary School, Phoenix Primary School and Southwell Primary School, and one independent combined primary and secondary school, Fremantle Christian College. With the merger of the long-serving public Hamilton Senior High School with a nearby school and closure of the site in late 2017, Fremantle Christian College remains the only mainstream secondary school in Hamilton Hill.

Recreational
Manning Reserve is a 900 acre reserve in southwestern Hamilton Hill. Its name comes from the family who were well known in the area from 1859 onwards.

Cultural
A historical building, the Azelia Ley Homestead Museum, is located within the boundaries of Manning Reserve. This building was restored by the Cockburn Council and prominent residents in 1983.

Randwick Stable, Hamilton Hill, is a heritage listed, working horse stable that adjoins Clontarf Hill another landmark in Hamilton Hill. The stables complex was erected in the 1920s for Frederick Charles John "Jack" Marks, one of the prominent horse-racing Marks family.

Horse racing played an integral role in the development of South Fremantle and Hamilton Hill with the first horse races in the Swan River Colony held at South Beach on 3 October 1833. Horse stables were a characteristic feature in residential areas located near South Beach. At the height of the horse racing industry it is believed 400 horses were stabled in the area and trained at South Beach.

Randwick Stables comprises a series of paddocks, a timber framed bungalow, stables, laundry stone well, water closet and metal clad stables.

Randwick Stables is now occupied by tenants and continues to operate as a licensed stable.

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Fernando de Santibañes

Fernando de Santibañes (born March 11, 1945) is an Argentine politician and banker. He was the Secretariat of Intelligence (SIDE) of the Argentine Republic from December 1999 to October 2000, during the first half of Fernando de la Rúa's presidency. De Santibañes resigned the position after the media discovered the Secretariat's involvement in the Senate Bribery scandal. He was absolved of all charges related to the scandal in 2013.

Biography
Born in Berisso, a working class suburb of La Plata, de Santibañes studied Economics at the Universidad del Salvador and the University of Chicago. He was a banker at the Banco Financiero from 1984 and headed the company from 1993 until it was sold to BBVA Banco Francés in 1997 for $184 million. His tenure at Financiero was highlighted by the acquisition of the much larger Banco de Crédito Argentino.

Tenure at State Intelligence
De Santibañes was appointed Secretary of Intelligence by his close friend and neighbor, the newly inaugurated President Fernando de la Rúa. Discontent at the agency intensified when de Santibañes had 1,200 SIDE personnel fired, drastically reducing the agency's operational capabilities.

The most serious controversy, however, arose when de Santibañes was implicated in the Argentine Senate bribery scandal of 2000, in which SIDE provided $5 million in cash that was later used to bribe six senators and the Parliamentary Secretary, Mario Pontaquarto, to support a government-sponsored labor law flexibilization bill in April of that year. De Santibañes reacted by staging a series of television interviews in which he criticized the governing political coalition, the Alliance, declaring it should dissolve because its internal crisis was hampering economic growth. His resignation had been demanded by members of FrePaSo, the government's junior coalition partner; Vice President Carlos Álvarez, FrePaSo's most prominent figure, resigned in October over de la Rúa's reluctance to dismiss the SIDE Secretary. De Santibañes ultimately resigned as SIDE chief on October 23, 2000.

Following his resignation, de Santibañes dedicated himself to breeding horses at his estate in Pilar, Buenos Aires. He, as well as Dick Morris' and Roger Stone's IKON Public Affairs, were sued in 2004 by Mattie Lolavar, a U.S. born public relations agent, for breach of contract. Her political consulting firm, Triumph Communications, was hired by IKON in July 2000 to represent the SIDE as media consultants in both Argentina and the United States; the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled against Lolavar in 2005. Following a number of stays, de Santibañes, former President de la Rúa, and other officials faced criminal charges related to the Senate Bribery scandal in 2007; they were ultimately absolved of all charges on December 23, 2013.

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Hammond Park, Western Australia

Hammond Park is a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn. Hammond Park was previously part of Banjup, and the suburb was created in March 2002. It was named after James Hammond, a pioneer of the Jandakot district who settled there in 1887.

Education
The three primary schools in Hammond Park are Wattleup East Primary School (planning name) will be built in 2024. Hammond Park Primary School (established 2014) and Hammond Park Catholic Primary School (established 2013). The only secondary school in Hammond Park is Hammond Park Secondary College (established 2020). Hammond Park Secondary College had 175 Year 7 students in 2020 and it is expected to have a full year 7-12 campus by 2025.

Sport
Hammond Park is home to the Hammond Park Junior Football Club, who currently play at Botany Park.

In early 2021 construction began for the Frankland Park Sports and Community Facility. The multipurpose facility will be built on Frankland Avenue and will include amenities to cater for the Hammond Park Junior Football Club and Melville Braves Baseball Club. The facility will comprise club and function spaces, food and beverage areas, toilets, change rooms, and ablutions (toilets/showers). External sporting facilities will include two fenced, bore-reticulated grass ovals with lighting for AFL use, a baseball batting cage, exercise equipment and a spectator viewing area. A carpark for 151 cars will have shade trees and lighting. Construction of the facility is expected to be completed in early 2022.

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Talk:Lakemba, New South Wales

How to add your photo to a wiki article
My apologies if this is not the best place for this but I know a helper will direct me to a more appropriate forum. I would like to help others and to help myself by being able to write the article on How to add your photo to a wiki article. I can compress an image, and upload it, but at the moment that is as far as I can take it. This is for images from cameras which people are prepared to place in the public domain. I have read and tried but to no avail. The furthest I got was to create a link to my photo; it did not get imbedded in the article. I know the instructions are there somewhere, deep in the many pages of detail. I would like to have and write (or provoke the writing of) the BRIEF SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS for embedding a picture in a wiki article. I look forward to being experienced and useful and being a helper myself. Garrison Roo
 * After you upload the photo, it should give you a link that you can use in your wiki articles. What was the name of the image file that you uploaded? (e.g. "Lakemba_main_street.JPG"). It might make it easier to help us find it for you. Also, did you upload it to the commons, or just to the wikipedia? -- All the best, Nickj (t) 01:41, 5 September 2005 (UTC)its a nice town

SydneySuburbs and compass directions
For SydneySuburbsBox2, what do we define by "near"? E.g. bordering, or do we include subjects a few suburbs away? If the former, I'd be tempted to remove Punchbowl, Mount Lewis, Belfield, South Strathfield from that list. In between strathfield south is belfield and belmore, so that'd be a 3-suburb away "near"-ness, which imho is stretching it? Also, I'd associate Belmore as north-east rather than south-east, greenacre as north-west, south strathfield as north, belfield north east, e.g.

Though that still makes it look like south strathfield is right next to lakemba even though it isn't... which is why I asked the first question. So ideally it would be something like this:

but that looks quite empty. So is the implementation of sydneysuburbsbox2 being discussed anywhere? Blu3d 10:16, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Personally I'd say get rid of it altogether because it isn't very applicable to Sydney's non-geometric suburb boundaries. --Garrie 01:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Also - check out Suggested Suburb Skeleton

it gives excellent structure for a suburb page, including a nicer version of the suburb box (yeah, nicer == POV)--Garrie 01:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Lakemba Mosque name and Imams?
Am trying to find details for Lakemba Mosque article. Seems its proper name may be the "Al-Imam Ali Mosque" and its Imams are Yahya Safi and Hilaly. See [WP:Talk:Lakemba_Mosque] for more details if interested. Anyone here got more references for this? SmithBlue 09:56, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Demographic Data Added from 2001 Census
I added comprehensive data — from the 2001 census — relating to birthplace, home language and religion. I am planning to add this data to each suburb in Australia as I get round to it. Unfortunately, I cannot work out how to add references. The data I quoted for Lakemba derived from and I would be grateful if anyone more proficient than myself could add this reference to the article. Thanks. 193.61.177.95 21:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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Henderson, Western Australia

Henderson is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn.

History
The suburb of Henderson comprises land resumed by the Commonwealth Government in 1915 for defence purposes. A large naval base was planned by Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson, and the area was sometimes referred to as "Henderson Naval Base". The name was approved for the suburb in 1973.

In 2019, the City of Cockburn approved a split of the neighbouring suburb Munster, whereby the north-western part of the suburb would become the new suburb of Lake Coogee while another part, in the south-west, would be added to Henderson. The changes came into effect on 30 March 2020, thereby enlarging the suburb of Henderson.

Geography
It is bounded by Russell Road to the north, Cockburn Sound to the west, the Perth freight railway line to the east, and Dalison Avenue and the municipal boundary with the City of Kwinana to the south.

Australian Marine Complex
The Australian Marine Complex is located on Cockburn Sound and is considered one of the largest ship building precincts in Australia. It contains dry dock facilities and Australia's second largest ship-lift (nominal lifting capacity of 8065 tonnes). Some of the companies located in the complex include ASC, Austal, BAE Systems Australia and Civmec. In 2002 the Government proposed to use Garden Island and the facilities at Henderson for the "sea-swap" program with the United States Seventh Fleet.

Bus

 * 548 Fremantle Station to Rockingham Station – serves Cockburn Road and Sparks Road
 * 549 Fremantle Station to Rockingham Station – serves Rockingham Road

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Living Greyhawk

Living Greyhawk (LG) was a massively shared Dungeons & Dragons living campaign administered by RPGA that ran from 2000 to 2008. The campaign setting and storyline were based on Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk setting, and used the Dungeons and Dragons Third Edition (later v3.5) rules. During the lifespan of the campaign, more than a thousand adventures were published, and these were played by tens of thousands of players around the world.

Chronology of the campaign
During the 1990s, a shared RPGA roleplaying campaign called Living City that used the Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition rules had been relatively successful. With the introduction of the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons in 2000, RPGA conceived of a new and improved campaign called Living Greyhawk that would be more far-reaching in scope and played on a larger, continental scale. Instead of one city and its environs, this campaign would cover 30 in-game regions of Oerth, each linked to a real-world area, as well as "core" in-game regions that were not assigned to any specific real-world area.

The first introductory adventures of the campaign premiered at Gen Con in August 2000, and the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, which contained background material, was published in November 2000. Volunteers were recruited to handle regional storylines, and regional play began in 2001.

At the end of 2001, campaign administrators changed the treasure rewards from a certificate-based system (a special item discovered during the adventure was given to one of the players as a certificate or "cert") to an equal-access system in which a special item could be purchased at the end of the adventure by any player and recorded on an adventure record ("AR"). This, and a rule change that immediately prohibited crafters of magic items from selling items to other players, caused some protest from players. However, in 2002, RPGA dropped its membership fee, and the number of players who had dropped out of the campaign was more than made up for by new RPGA members, and interest in Living Greyhawk increased substantially. In 2003, the campaign was converted to the revised Dungeon and Dragon v3.5 rules.

In 2005, the campaign saw the first of several direct tie-ins to new rule expansion books published by Wizards of the Coast, with the launch of a new story arc set in the Bright Lands desert that coincided with the publication of Sandstorm.

In 2007 at Gen Con Indy, concurrent with the announcement that the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons would be published the following year, RPGA announced that the Living Greyhawk campaign would not be converted to 4th edition, but would instead be brought to a close.

The final adventures of the Living Greyhawk campaign premiered at the Origins convention in June 2008, and play ended on December 31, 2008.

Design of the campaign
RPGA already knew from their experience with Living City that an adventure in a shared campaign had to be run the same way by every DM, to be equitable for all players. This created problems with some of the rules, which could be adjudicated several different ways according to circumstance. There was also the problem of certain character classes and items that could unbalance the campaign by providing one character with too much power.

To try to avoid these problems, Living Greyhawk used Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition (later v3.5), but modified by a set of "house rules" set out in the Living Greyhawk Campaign Sourcebook. Some of these house rules included:
 * Limits on starting character classes and races All new characters were required to start at 1st level. Originally only races and character classes found in the Players Handbook were allowed. This was later modified to include some new character classes such as favoured soul and hexblade. Occasionally access to new races was granted under particular circumstances. For example, if a player chose to play the first adventure of the "Bright Sands" story arc, centaur could be chosen as a race. In another instance, a special card issued by RPGA allowed the player holding the card to create a kobold character.
 * Limits on levels gained. Although D&D 3.0/3.5 was designed for characters up to 20th level, LG required characters to retire from the campaign when they reached 18th level. (This was later modified to require retirement when 16th level was reached.)
 * No evil Characters could not have an evil alignment, nor could they worship an evil deity. If a character committed an evil act, such as attacking another player character, the DM was required to report this to the local Triad. If the Triad decided this act indicated a change of character alignment to evil, then the character would be permanently removed from the campaign. For this reason, any character infected by lycanthropy was given a chance to remove the curse, but if unsuccessful, was removed from the campaign.
 * One play opportunity only. Players were only allowed to play each adventure once. If a person had already run the adventure as a DM before playing it, then he or she was barred from playing the adventure afterward. (This was called "eating a module".)
 * Certain things banned from LG. To try to maintain some balance between the characters and adventure encounters, and also some fairness in the powers and abilities of the characters, some character classes, prestige classes, magic items, weapons and spells were banned from play. Additionally only new items, spells and powers found in books published by Wizards of the Coast were allowed in the campaign.
 * The use of Time Units to regulate number of adventures played per year See Time Units below.
 * Campaign documentation. In addition to the standard character sheet used in Dungeons & Dragons, every player was required to keep complete campaign documentation for each character. Living Greyhawk was sometimes derisively called "Living Accounting", since the list of documents could include
 * an Adventure Record (AR) for each adventure played by the character, which tracked accumulated gold pieces, experience points and Time Units spent, as well as access to magic items and spells, and any favours or curses gained during the adventure;
 * a Master Item Logsheet (MIL), which described when each special or magical item had been bought or created by the character.
 * a Magic Item Creation sheet (MIC), which logged magic items created by the character
 * any campaign documentation or certificates earned during adventures
 * Character Death If a character died and the player was unable or unwilling to pay for resurrection during or immediately following the adventure, the character was removed from the campaign. A dead character could not be resurrected or otherwise brought back to the campaign at a later date.

The various adventures themselves were loosely tied together and storylines were developed based on general successes or failures from previous adventures. To enable the Circle to monitor this, at the conclusion of some adventures, the DM was required to submit the results to the Circle (campaign administrators), which then planned future plotlines based on these results. This interactivity was what inspired the word "Living" in the title of this type of shared campaign.

Regionality of campaign
The LG campaign differed from previous shared-world campaigns in one important respect: thirty of the regions from World of Greyhawk were linked to real-world areas; volunteers from these real-world locations then assumed responsibility for the storyline and administration of that particular region. In return, the real-world location was the only place where one could play adventures belonging to that region. Any adventures set outside these thirty regions were "core" adventures that could be played by anyone anywhere. See Regions of LG below.

Metaregions
To present story arcs with larger themes than the local concerns presented in regional adventures, the Circle gathered the thirty regions into five larger metaregions. This provided a level of storyline that fell between the strictly local interests of regional adventures and the continent-wide story arcs of "core" adventures.

Administration
The campaign was overseen by the Circle, a group of six RPGA staff. Five of the members had individual oversight for one of the five metaregions; the sixth Circle member had responsibility for Core adventures. The responsibilities of the Circle included approval of all adventures that rewarded treasure, coordination of overall campaign and metaregional story arcs, approving story ideas for Core and metaregional adventures and editing same, producing campaign documentation and rules, ruling on reports of cheaters and unsportsmanlike conduct, and appointing and maintaining a Triad for each region.

Due to the workload, some metaregions also added a metaregional coordinator volunteer to assist with metaregional storylines and adventures.

Each region was overseen by its Triad (three volunteers who lived in the region), who reported to their respective Circle member. The Triad was responsible for finding writers for regional adventures (or writing the regional adventures themselves), approving story ideas, editing adventures and submitting finished adventures to the Circle for approval, writing special missions for individual players, answering questions from players, arbitrating disputes regarding play, auditing players' documents, and maintaining a regional website.

Adventures Types
Given the "regionality" of the campaign, the Living Greyhawk campaign produced five categories of role-playing adventures:
 * Regional adventures
 * Metaregional adventures
 * Core adventures
 * Adapted adventures
 * Adaptable adventures.

Regional
These were produced by the regional Triad and approved by the corresponding Circle member. The adventures could only be played within the borders of the corresponding real world Region, although players from other Regions could, while visiting the Region, play them at double the cost of Time Units.
 * Regional introductory adventures were similar to regional adventures but were designed to be played by 1st-level characters only (and in some cases, only by completely new characters). No treasure could be gained from these adventures, and Circle approval was not required.
 * Special missions were one-time adventures written by the Triad (or a Triad-appointed writer) for a specific character to resolve a character plotline that could not be resolved through a regular adventure e.g. getting married, fulfilling the requirements for a prestige class, etc. No treasure could be gained through these, and Circle approval was not required.
 * Regional interactive adventures were one-time adventures written for play at a single convention. These were often used to reveal important developments in the regional storyline (e.g. assassination of an important NPC, results of an election, etc.), or to develop regional flavour e.g. a cultural festival with characteristics unique to the region. Players often dressed up as or physically role-played their character in a style similar to a LARP.

Metaregional
These adventures had to be played within the borders of the corresponding real world Metaregion and dealt with events set within that portion of the World of Greyhawk corresponding to the Metaregion. Production of Metaregional adventures was overseen by the Circle member or Metaregional Coordinator.

Core
Core adventures dealt with events in regions that had not been assigned to a real-world counterpart. This included the Free City of Greyhawk, the Amedio Jungle and the Northern Wastes, among others. Because these regions did not belong to a real world area, they could be played by players living anywhere in the real world. Production of Core adventures was overseen by the Circle member with special responsibility for the Core regions.
 * Core special adventures were generally played only at large conventions, and generally took the form of a "dungeon crawl", where most of the adventure was taken up by battles with little or no roleplaying element. Some core special adventures were made available to only eight conventions worldwide, while others were run at a selection of big conventions but then reissued (possibly in a rewritten format) for home play.

The table below is a list of Core regions that have been used in core modules.

Adapted
Some commercially produced adventures published by Wizards of the Coast (such as Red Hand of Doom ) were selected by the Circle and adapted for play in Living Greyhawk. These adventures counted as Core adventures, although they had not been published by the Circle.

Adaptable
Only produced in the first two years of the campaign, these adventures were published by the Circle and sent to each regional Triad, which could then modify aspects of the adventure to fit the story arc and characteristics of their region.

Time units
At the start of each calendar year, each character in the campaign started with 52 time units (TUs). Most regional adventures cost 1 TU to play (double if the character was visiting from another region), and most Core adventures cost 2 TUs. TUs could also be spent for out-of-adventure reasons such as crafting a magical item or being a member of an organization or a guild. Once a character spent 52 TUs, that character could no longer be played until the start of the following calendar year. This was ameliorated by the fact that each player could have as many characters in play at the same time as desired. Once one character had run out of TUs, the player could simply switch to playing another character until the start of the new year reset TUs back to 52.

While 1 TU was ostensibly equal to one week of game time, in fact this was simply an arbitrary number designed to limit how many adventures one character could play in a calendar year, and therefore restrict how much wealth and power a single character could accumulate in a single year.

After the end of the campaign was announced in August 2007, the rules concerning TUs were relaxed. From November 1, 2007 until the end of the campaign, adventures no longer cost any TUs (although "in-game" activities such as crafting magic items still had a TU cost). The effect was to allow each character an unrestricted amount of play to reach 16th level and "retire" by the end of the campaign.

Regions of LG
One of the main differences between Living Greyhawk and previous shared-world campaigns was regionality: thirty regions of the campaign world were linked to thirty real-world locations. These real-world locations were then given responsibility for developing the storylines and adventures for the campaign region. In return, the campaign region became the "property" of its real-world "owner"—only players who were physically in the real-world location could play the adventures of that location's campaign region.

For example, Onnwal was assigned to the United Kingdom, Sunndi to the Benelux countries, and Ekbir to France. A player sitting at a table in Manchester, England could play an Onnwal adventure, but could not play an adventure set in Ekbir or Sunndi, since those adventures could only be played in France and Benelux respectively. However, if that player travelled to France or Benelux, the player could play Ekbir or Sunndi adventures respectively.

The only exception to this rule was made at large conventions such as Gen Con, when a late-night world-wide "Fiesta" play opportunity was granted to DMs from any region of the world so they could present an adventure from their home region.

In 2007, to recognize the growth of the internet and an abundance of cheap long-distance telephone rates, the physical location rule was relaxed somewhat: as long as the DM and more than 50% of the players were physically together, other players who lived in that region but were currently travelling out of region could teleconference into the game.

When creating a character, the player had to choose a "home region" for it, which could be any one of the thirty regions linked to a real-world location. However to promote an esprit de corps within each region, Living Greyhawk rules made it more costly in terms of Time Units for a character to participate in adventures outside of its "home region".

For instance, nothing in the rules prevented a player living in France from making the character's home region Sunndi (belonging to Benelux) rather than Ekbir (belonging to France). However, any time the player used that character to play Ekbir adventures in France, it cost the Sunndi character double the number of Time Units, since the character was effectively playing out of region. If done regularly, this would halve the number of adventures this character could play each year. For this reason, most players simply made their characters' home region the region that they physically lived in.

The thirty regions linked to real-world locations were in turn grouped into one of five metaregions. The table below shows the real-world areas that were linked to each region, grouped by metaregion. Any region not listed below—such as the Free City of Greyhawk, the Duchy of Tenh or the Amedio Jungle—was a "Core" region, and could not be used by characters as a home region.

title: Living Greyhawk


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Slavnik

At 1028 m high, Slavnik is one of the highest peaks of the Slovenian Istria. It is part of the Čičarija landscape. Tuma Hut on Slavnik, named after the mountaineer, stands about 10 m below its peak. At its peak stands a broadcast transmitter.

It is distinguished by very broad panoramic view. In the direction of north-east one can see in the distance Kamnik-Savinja Alps and closer Nanos, Vremščica, Brkini. Visible to the east are Javorniki, Trojica and Snežnik, and in the distance also Gorski Kotar, Risnjak, Snježnik. From the east to the south there is Kvarner bay, before that Planik and Učka and Čičarija, as well as Istria. Towards the west, the coast of the Adriatic sea and places like Umag, Piran, Koper, Trieste, also Venice, are visible from the peak. From the west to the north one case see Dolomites, Julian Alps including the highest mountain in Slovenia Triglav, as well as the Karawanks.

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Munster, Western Australia

Munster is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn.

History
The suburb was named in 1954 from the original name of Lake Coogee, being Lake Munster, which was named after Prince William, Earl of Munster, and later King William IV. The district had been known as South Coogee since the 1870s and this earlier name remains in use by older settlers of the area. The district contains the site of Thomas Peel's original settlement, the Clarence townsite, the first recorded land grants in the Cockburn area, and around Lake Coogee the remains of the cottages built by the Pensioner Guards in the 1880s. The Munster district is unique in the continuous occupation of the Anderson, Newman, and Sawle properties by those families since the last century.

In 1895 a postal directory mentioned that the suburb of Lake Munster was "also known as Coogee". In later years this name was applied more to the area north-west of the lake, while the rest of the area became known for postal purposes as Woodman Point and South Coogee in the 1950s. Munster was officially adopted as a suburb name in 1954.

In 2019, the City of Cockburn approved a split of Munster, whereby the north-western part of the suburb became the new suburb of Lake Coogee while another part, in the south-west, was added to the suburb of Henderson. Only the eastern part of Munster remained part of the existing suburb. The changes came into effect on 30 March 2020.

Geography
The suburb is bounded by Fancote Avenue to the north, Lorimer and Henderson Roads to the east, Russell Road to the south and Rockingham Road to the west.

The suburb contains the Cockburn Cement works, which has a significant impact on the surrounding land use (restricting the residential growth of the area). The Australian Marine Complex was, until 2020, also partially located within the southern portion of the suburb, primarily the Technology Precinct (which includes Raytheon Australia, and a new TAFE facility - Australian Centre for Energy and Process Training (ACEPT) - South Metropolitan TAFE).

Bus

 * 549 Fremantle Station to Rockingham Station – serves Rockingham Road

title: Munster, Western Australia


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Poker Million

The Poker Million has been a televised European poker tournament since its inception in November 2000. The final debuted to 30 million viewers and has since remained popular. It was created by UK gaming outfit Ladbrokes with the help of sports promotion firm Matchroom Sport. In 2009 sponsorship was transferred from Ladbrokes to Full Tilt Poker, which produced Poker Million VIII.

Format
The Poker Million is a no-limit Texas holdem “shootout” tournament. Shootout tournaments differ from standard tournaments in that starting tables do not rebalance as players are eliminated. Instead, each starting table is an independent “heat” which plays down to one player, who then advances to the next round.

The exact format for The Poker Million has changed with sponsorship over the years, but typically involves a starting field of 72 players in 12 heats. The winners of each heat advance to one of two semi-final tables. The semi-final tables play down to three players, and then combine to form the final table.

History
Poker Million I was sponsored by Ladbrokes and Matchroom Sport and took place at the Hilton Hotel on the Isle of Man in November, 2000. Coverage of the final table drew 30 million viewers. John Duthie, who later created the European Poker Tour, defeated Teddy Tuli with a full house on the final hand to win the first place prize of £1 million.

The tournament returned in 2003 with Poker Million II. Snooker-player Jimmy White won $150,000 for first place at a final table featuring heart rate monitors and exposed hole cards.

The field for Poker Million III was expanded to feature 72 players, including 36 online qualifiers and number of celebrities. Among the celebrities were snooker stars Stephen Hendry, Mark Williams and 2003 winner Jimmy White; rugby World Cup star Mike Tindall; and, sports celebrities Tony Cascarino and 16 time World Darts Champion Phil Taylor. Irish poker professional Donnacha O'Dea won first place and $300,000.

Ladbrokes guaranteed a $1 million first place prize for Poker Million IV. Freeroll qualifier Tony Jones outlasted 66 fellow online qualifiers, eventually defeating television celebrity Helen Chamberlain heads up to claim the million dollar prize.

Northampton, UK resident Rajesh “foggy71” Modha won Poker Million V after qualifying in a $9 satellite. He overcame a final table draw that seated two-time bracelet winner and chip leader Mel Judah to his left, earning $1.2 million for the effort.

Joe Beevers won Poker Million VI when his pocket nines held up against Marty Smyth’s King high. It was the second consecutive year Smyth was eliminated at the final table of the Poker Million.

Smyth returned in 2008 to win the Poker Million VII for $1 million, after being reduced to one set of blinds on the third hand at the final table.

James Akenhead won the 2009 Poker Million VIII, held in London on December 4. Akenhead entered heads up play at a slight chip disadvantage to Juha Helppi. Akenhead eventually gained the chip lead and went all-in pre-flop with pocket tens to Juha Helppi’s pocket 6s. Akenhead earned $500,000 for 1st, and Helppi $250,000 for 2nd.

Gus Hansen won the 2010 Poker Million IX on December 10, defeating Tony Bloom heads up to win the $1,000,000 winner takes all prize from a final table of 8.

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North Lake, Western Australia

North Lake is a suburb located 18 km south of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, and 8 km from the Indian Ocean. Named after the eponymous lake, the suburb and lake are located within the City of Cockburn local government area.

Geography
The suburb is named after the lake of the same name within the locality. It is part of the northernmost lake within a chain of lakes which make up the Beeliar Regional Park (North Lake, Bibra Lake, South Lake, Booragoon Lake, Yangebup Lake, and Thomsons Lake). The lake has been known by this name since 1877, and the name was approved for the suburb in 1954.

The suburb is located on the northern edge of the City of Cockburn. It is bounded by Farrington Road to the north, the Kwinana Freeway to the east, the Roe Highway road reservation to the south and North Lake Road to the west.

Education
There are no schools within the suburb, with many North Lake residents using the state government primary schools in Coolbellup and Kardinya. Directly to the north of the suburb lies Murdoch University and Kennedy Baptist College.

Recreation
The Lakeside Recreation Centre is located in North Lake on the corner of Farrington Road and Bibra Drive. It is home to four basketball courts, a Baptist church, a gym, and a creche. Lakeside Recreation Centre is the home court of the State Basketball League team, the Lakeside Lightning.

Apart from North Lake and the surrounding Beeliar Regional Park, the suburb contains the Perth Spanish Club, a golf driving range, Adventure World, Cockburn Ice Skating arena, and an adventure playground next to the lake at Progress Drive.

Bus

 * 512 Murdoch Station to Fremantle Station – serves Murdoch Drive, Bibra Drive and Farrington Road
 * 514 Murdoch Station to Cockburn Central Station – serves Murdoch Drive, Bibra Drive and Farrington Road

title: North Lake, Western Australia


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Windsor North School

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus, so kept. JYolkowski // talk 13:56, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Windsor North School
Nominated by Kapa who I immediately blocked as an impersonator of Kappa. I am finishing the nomination. Most likely a bad faith nomination, but the article is a very short one. My vote is merge with Invercargill. Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:01, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah I can't find much else about this place, so redirecting seems reasonable (the info is there already). Kappa 11:05, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Vote keep after improvements by Grutness. Kappa 14:56, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Might want to mention that even though the history appears to show Kappa as the only contributor to this article, it was actually made by User:202.74.213.236, under the title Windsor north school. It was then apparently deleted and moved simultaneously. So please don't start spamming Kappa's talkpage asking for an explanation of why he is making such substubs. Sjakkalle (Check!)  11:13, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, leave a redirect as per Kappa. Proto t c 12:12, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep unless we are giving no schools their own pages. Very little is on Google, but enough to learn that Roger Stephenson is the principal.
 * Keep - Schools are notable too! UniReb 12:38, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It is a one line article, and no one yet has found any information to expand it sufficiently. (Of course, the avenging might of Tony Sidaway may.)  Perhaps you could actually look at the article before voting 'keep' unthinkingly. Proto t c 12:42, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The article establishes that it's a school, and as UniReb says, schools are notable. We keep one-line articles on villages, rivers, universities etc for the same reason. Kappa 12:54, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with Kappa. I do look at the articles before determining if it should be kept or not and I felt this particular article can be very much expanded but also kept. Thank you very much!! :-) UniReb 19:37, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've substantially enlarged the article. Hope it's up to standard now. Grutness...  wha?  13:52, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - based on improvement done since nomination. --rob 14:28, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep — RJH 15:29, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, still not notable per Schools for Deletion.Gateman1997 15:54, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete Thsi is a primary school and nothign in the article in any way indicates any unusual notability as far as I can see. DES (talk) 16:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per DES and Gateman.-- encephalon |  ζ   16:52:54, 2005-09-02 (UTC)
 * Merge with Invercargill. That's the town it's in and there is an Education section already denoted. NeevaN 17:04, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Schools are notable. Details about schools should not clutter town articles. CalJW 17:35, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Needs a lot of work. --Tony Sidaway Talk  17:42, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * keep please this school is really important so why erase it Yuckfoo 17:53, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Super strong delete - primary schools aren't usually notable. This one isn't an exception. Dunc|☺ 18:20, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * keep the rewrite. I'm in the "schools are notable" camp. Brighterorange 18:30, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Primary schools are not inherently notable, but the article establishes notability. Sdedeo 21:56, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per User:Soltak/Views Soltak | Talk 22:32, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Article contains some small, but notable events. Evil Eye 23:24, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Klonimus 23:39, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. CDThieme 00:31, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete another unmentionably insignificant school. Dottore So 01:11, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Most likely a bad faith nomination as already suggested.  —RaD Man (talk) 03:06, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Notability not established. Hamster Sandwich 05:24, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Being at one time the largest primary school in a province is pretty notable! Grutness...  wha?  11:01, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Non-notability not established. --Nicodemus75 10:29, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * delete ni --TimPope 18:26, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Enough of this pointless, time-wasting, impositional deletionist nonsense! Keep. --Gene_poole 13:31, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete old does not equal notable. --Kennyisinvisible 00:53, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:Schools/Delete arguments. - brenneman (t) (c)  01:15, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Although, given the age of the school, I suspect that there may be an argument for notablity, this article does not make that argument. Cmadler 19:32, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It is fascinating yet sad that there are factions of Wikipedians bent on deleting important school-related articles.  Silensor 19:41, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The same could be said for factions that are bent on keeping some unimportant school articles. It cuts both ways on this issue.Gateman1997 21:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * To a certain extent I must disagree. No rational argument can be made to support the idea that all schools are unimportant, yet there are people voting delete regardless of how well things such as notability and importance are conveyed within the article.  Silensor 21:21, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * While that is true, again look at prior VfD's, we've had people who desire to keep any school, just so long as it's a school (some of them even voted to keep a local grocery store just because it existed). By that logic my house should be kept as an article as learning takes place there and it's multicultural. I'm not defending the 100% deletionists by any means, but I'm also very much against the 100% keep people as well. Neither position is tenable. Gateman1997 23:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and stop nominating schools until consensus is reached on them --Ryan Delaney talk 10:20, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I suggest that people continue to nominate any article they genuinely feel should be deleted. Discussion is ongoing and, as long as everyone is civil, an AfD aids that discussion. -  brenneman (t) (c)  23:08, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I suggest that people get on with the business of editing and creating articles. Meaningful discussion has long since ceased and a number of people are no longer civil, an AfD merely exacerbates that lack of meaningful discussion.--Nicodemus75 10:44, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm going to concentrate my efforts for a few days on cataloguing the current rate of growth of school articles on Wikipedia. I've a feeling that when we all get a clear picture of the raw growth rate we'll all agree that any efforts made on AfD, except those that result in improvement of articles during a discussion, are unlikely to be effective in restraining the growth rate of relatively low quality school stubs.
 * I don't decry the listing of articles on AfD, at least at the reasonable rates that have pertained since the mass nominations of mid-May, but neither do I believe that it's possible to represent the AfD process truthfully as posing a quality control on school articles insofar as it deletes articles of poor quality.
 * I support school AfDs (although I nearly always vote keep) for a different reason: the discipline of the five day discussion followed by a life-or-death decision is useful in focussing attention and driving the research and expansion process of school stubs. Without that process, I don't think so many articles about schools would have attained of good quality in so short a time--some of them only days after first creation.  I'm convinced that school articles will nearly all converge to a good quality as the decades pass, and that the number of school articles on Wikipedia will continue to increase for many years to come, but the AfD process has been useful in driving the process and pushing thw quality up early in the game. --Tony Sidaway Talk  12:34, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Er... did anyone noice the reason I submitted this article to the AFD list? Perhaps if you read my "nomination"... Sjakkalle (Check!)  13:26, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for my usual reasons. --Idont Havaname 14:35, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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South Lake, Western Australia

South Lake is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia within the City of Cockburn. South Lake is located approximately 22 km south of the Perth CBD.

History
Established in the early 1980s the suburb's name was proposed by Taylor Woodrow Homes Builders and the City of Cockburn in March 1982 after a previous suggestion (Oxley) had been rejected because of duplication. It is situated to the south of North Lake, hence the name. The suburb name was approved in August 1982.

Geography
It is bounded by the freight rail line to the north, the Kwinana Freeway to the east, Berrigan Drive, Semple Court and North Lake Road to the south and North Lake Road to the west.

Education
The suburb contains two schools: South Lake Primary School and Lakeland Senior High School. Lakeland Senior High School is an independent public school, offering specialised programs in music technology and touch football.

Recreation
The South Lake Leisure Centre, which contained indoor pools, gymnasium and hardball courts, adjacent to the Lakeland High School was closed and replaced by the Cockburn ARC in May 2017. The former buildings were transferred to the Department of Education.

A field hockey facility was then constructed in the area to the west of the former Leisure Centre, which is the current home of the Fremantle Hockey Club.

title: South Lake, Western Australia


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Spearwood, Western Australia

Spearwood is a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn. This suburb derives its name from the Spearwood bush which is a common shrub in the area.

History
Settlement appears to have begun in Spearwood in the 1850s when Alfred Hooker took up Cockburn Sound Location 97, although several adjoining blocks were taken up during the same period by Charles Manning. When Cockburn Sound Location 264 was offered for subdivision by real estate entrepreneur James Morrison in 1883 he used the name The Spearwood Estate, the first time the name was used. The Spearwood area soon became one of Perth's major market gardening areas.

Geography
It is bounded by Phoenix Road to the north, Stock Road to the east, Barrington Street and Troode Street to the south and Hamilton Road to the west.

Phoenix Road was named by John Healy after Phoenix Park Dublin, where the British Chief Secretary for Ireland was assassinated by Fenians in 1882, although an alternative suggestion is that it was named by Steve Dobra, the first settler on Phoenix Road, who worked in Phoenix, Arizona before coming to Western Australia in 1912. Barrington Street is named after Barrington C. Wood, the first Mayor of Fremantle (1883–1885). Troode Street is named after Edward Thomas Troode, the original owner of the Woodlands Estate from 1860. The suburb is approximately 85% shrubland.

Commercial
The main shopping area is Phoenix Shopping Centre, a thriving commercial centre located along Rockingham Road, with a smaller centre, Stargate Spearwood located further south, also on Rockingham Road.

Cultural
The City of Cockburn's main administrative offices and library are located on Coleville Crescent immediately to the south of the Phoenix Shopping Centre. The Spearwood Library and Cockburn Seniors Centre are both located next to the council buildings.

Educational
There are four primary schools located within the suburb: Spearwood Primary School, Newton Primary School, Phoenix  Primary school and Spearwood Alternative School.

Aged Care Facilities
There are 2 main aged care facilities in Spearwood. The first being Aegis Amberley Aged Care, belonging to the Aegis Aged Care Group and the second one is Villa Dalmacia Aged Care.

Recreational
Dalmatinac Park is home to the Spearwood Dalmatinac Amateur Soccer Club and the Dalmatinac Netball Club.

Watsons Oval is home to the Southern Spirit Soccer Club.

Beale Park is home to Cockburn City Soccer Club which plays in the Premier league of the State's Football (Soccer) Association and also the Cockburn City Teeball and Baseball Club.

Manning Park is a picturesque park located around Manning Lake. There are a number of walking trails around the park. It is home to the Spearwood Walking Racers Association, where walkers can be seen around the park on weekends holding time trials.

Spearwood is also home to many Croatian sporting clubs and community centres. There is a significant Croatian cultural history in the Spearwood area.

Transport
Bus
 * 512 Fremantle railway station to Murdoch railway station serves - Spearwood Ave, Rockingham Rd & Phoenix Rd.
 * 530 Fremantle railway station to Cockburn Central railway station serves - Rockingham Rd
 * 531 Fremantle railway station to Cockburn Central railway station serves - Doolette St, Spearwood Ave, Coleville Cres & Rockingham Rd
 * 532 Fremantle railway station to Cockburn Central railway station serves - Rockingham Rd

title: Spearwood, Western Australia


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Helsby railway station

Helsby railway station serves the village of Helsby in Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II listed building.

The station is on the Chester–Warrington line between Chester and Warrington Bank Quay and on the Hooton–Helsby line to Hooton.

Facilities
There is a BT Payphone on Platform 1. Limited seating exists on Platform 1 and 2.

The station has won numerous Best Kept Station awards. A Customer Information System has been installed and is operational.

There is no disabled access to trains calling at this station due to the low platforms. Platforms for the Manchester and Ellesmere Port services can also only be reached by using the footbridge.

The station is operated by Transport for Wales and is unstaffed requiring passengers to purchase tickets from the ticket vending machine located on Platform 1. The nearest station with additional ticketing facilities is Chester. Penalty fares do not operate here.

From 2005 until the franchise was handed over in 2018 the Helsby station was operated by Arriva Trains Wales.

Services

Most services at Helsby are operated by Transport for Wales, with a limited service operated by Northern Trains.

Transport for Wales generally operate an hourly service between Manchester Airport and Chester, with most services continuing to and from Llandudno via Shotton, as well as an hourly service between Liverpool Lime Street and Chester. These services combine to give an off-peak service of two trains per hour in each direction.

The station is also served by a limited peak hour Northern Trains service between Chester and Leeds with four trains per day to Chester and three trains per day to Leeds via Manchester Victoria. Northern Trains also operate two trains per day on weekdays and Saturdays only to and from Ellesmere Port that start and terminate at Helsby, with the exception of one afternoon service that continues to Liverpool Lime Street.

Adopt-a-station
The North Cheshire Rail Users' Group has adopted this station and regularly ensure the station is clean and tidy. The station has won the "Best Kept Station " six times, and the plaques commending this are fixed to the signal box located on the island platforms, (2 + 3).

Connections
Helsby has several bus links operated primarily by Arriva North West and Stagecoach Merseyside.

 * Route X30 operates between Chester and Warrington hourly. (Arriva NW) (Monday - Saturday)
 * Route X2 operates between Runcorn and Chester via Ince & Elton, and Ellesmere Port, hourly. (Stagecoach Merseyside) (Monday - Saturday)

title: Helsby railway station


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Success, Western Australia

Success is a southern suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn.

The name Success comes from Captain James Stirling's ship HMS Success (1825).

Urban development of Success didn't begin until the early 1990s when the Kwinana Freeway was extended to Forrest Road (now Armadale Road and Beeliar Drive). The population grew from 4,854 in the 2006 census to 10,148 in the 2016 census.

Amenities and facilities
Success is home to Cockburn Gateway Shopping City, which features more than 180 stores, including Kmart (replaced Target in October 2020), Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, and Big W. The shopping centre also features five alfresco dining areas.

Aubin Grove railway station is located at the southeastern end of Success and services the southern end of the suburb. The northern end is serviced by Cockburn Central railway station just outside its northeastern boundary.

Bus

 * 233 Cockburn Central Station to Gosnells Station – serves Cockburn Gateway Shopping City
 * 514 Cockburn Central Station to Murdoch Station – serves Beeliar Drive
 * 518 Cockburn Central Station to Murdoch TAFE – serves Cockburn Gateway Shopping City
 * 523 Cockburn Central Station to Treeby – serves Cockburn Gateway Shopping City
 * 525 Cockburn Central Station to Aubin Grove Station – serves Cockburn Gateway Shopping City, Alabaster Drive, Baningan Avenue, Hammond Road and Russell Road
 * 526 Cockburn Central Station to Aubin Grove Station – serves Cockburn Gateway Shopping City and Wentworth Parade
 * 527 Cockburn Central Station to Aubin Grove Station – serves Cockburn Gateway Shopping City
 * 530, 531 and 532 Cockburn Central Station to Fremantle Station – serve Cockburn Gateway Shopping City and Beeliar Drive
 * 534 Aubin Grove Station to Wattleup – serves Russell Road
 * 535 Aubin Grove Station to Hammond Park West – only serves Aubin Grove Station
 * 536 Aubin Grove Station to Hammond Park Secondary College – only serves Aubin Grove Station
 * 537 Aubin Grove Station to Wandi – only serves Aubin Grove Station

Rail

 * Mandurah Line
 * Aubin Grove Station

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Wattleup, Western Australia

Wattleup is a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn. In the mid 1990's to the early 2000's, planning was undertaken to redevelop the suburb as part of the Hope Valley-Wattleup Redevelopment Project, also known as "Latitude 32". This was to involve the acquisition and demolition of the townsite, and its rezoning and redevelopment for industrial use. The townsite of Wattleup was located at the western end of the suburb, at the intersection of Wattleup Road and Rockingham Road. Wattleup had many market gardens in the past. They provided agricultural produce for the town of Fremantle.

The suburb's name originates from Wattleup Road which dates back to 1931. The name of Wattleup was approved for the suburb in May 1962.

Bus

 * 534 Wattleup to Aubin Grove Station – serves Collis Road, Lorimer Road and Russell Road
 * 549 Fremantle Station to Rockingham Station – serves Rockingham Road

title: Wattleup, Western Australia