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Assessment Report
DDStretch   (talk)  02:07, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Article needs to be expanded using WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements as a guide.
 * 2) Perhaps the placement of photos so that some are dispersed around the article would make things a bit more pleasant "on the eye".
 * 3) References and Citations are crucial for wikipedia, and so these must be added as the article is expanded. Make sure that as many as possible are "in-line" citations.(See WP:References, WP:V, and WP:CITE for guidance.)

Origin of name
Is it true that the 'Nant' part of the name comes from 'Natrium', which means Sodium, a major part of salt? smurray  in   chester (User), (Talk) 09:10, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

The origin of the word Nantwich is very clear. The word 'Nant' is a Welsh or Celtic word meaning water source or spring. It occurs widely throughout Europe for example Nantes and Nantua in France.The 'wich'part denotes a settlement or, according to some, a salt spring. Thus, if we accept the latter, Nantwich simply means a salt spring.

John Christopher Williams (johnw@kfupm.edu.sa)

Is it correct to include Norwich in the group of places associated with salt springs? As a former Dabber, I was told that only the Cheshire 'wiches', plus Droitwich, were 'proper' wiches. Does Norwich have any historical association with salt? (Also, most pronunciations of Norwich are more "Norridge" than "Norwitch")Paul W 09:07, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

On the nemeton page there is a cited reference to Nantwich being previously Nametwihc, which would make it a nemeton placename, actually like Nantes, which is also a nemeton placename, not a nant placename. I suggest this is added to the relevant section. Stevebritgimp (talk) 00:21, 18 August 2010 (UTC) In fact I mostly take back the thing on Nantes - any connection there would be obscured through the name of the local tribe the Nemnetes - so connection to nemeton is speculative. Anyways. Stevebritgimp (talk) 00:27, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * As requested by Espresso Addict I've copied across the ref from nemeton - checking the edit history there the ref given definitely covers Nantwich, however I haven't seen this book by Eilert Ekwall with my own eyes, so cannot confirm it is correct. If it's ok there it should be ok here. From what little general internet clues I've read not all of Ekwall's ideas are accepted, but if a form Nametwihc is attested somewhere that would be the origin for sure, in Devon the form is Nymet and there are attestations back to Roman times there. Stevebritgimp (talk) 23:17, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Doing some google digging I found very very little mention of Nantwich name origins outside of wikipedia and mirrors - Nametwilhc (sic) turns up in one hit on the British Geological Survey which discusses saltspring wiches and says namet comes from 'named' in English (which from my POV seems a bit like clutching at straws, although the place did have a guy's personal name attached at one point - or as in 'famous', but then citations say they were famous since Roman times), and at Domesday the name was merely the generic Wich. Nametwihc seems to be connected to Ekwall's citation. Salt workings and a nemeton would both be legitimate activities at a Roman site, and would fit nicely together. If we had the original source for that name we'd be away, one way or the other, although then we venture into OR. Of course different interpretations could be put in the article if cited.  All this is exactly the sort of stuff that irritates me as a punter.  Why can't scholars get things right, and present evidence to support their position.  English scholars say it is 'named' but then I'd want other examples of that word being used to mean renowned, meanwhile anyone with Celtic knowledge can recognise 'nemed' (not 'nant') but then don't find any older citations than the 12th cent, and don't say exactly where and in what context they saw it.  One, other or both of these feels like folk etymology, but I'm powerless to say which. Stevebritgimp (talk) 23:46, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Pictures
There are currently too many pictures for the text to support - and the pictures need an explanation of why they are important, e.g. what is it about 46 High Street which warrants 4 pictures? Salinae 21:29, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Broken link
This link http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/roadsafety/index.shtml in the lead, seems to be broken. --Mcginnly | Natter 12:36, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

A Possible project (or sub-project) for Cheshire
I think a project or a sub-project (within the UK geography project) dealing with the whole of Cheshire would be a good idea. I have taken as a precedent the project about Cornwall, which any project dealing with Cheshire could hope to aspire to, since this project has constructed Featured Articles about Cornwall-related things. So, I've listed a proposed project concerning Cheshire on Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals. I think it can easily co-exist with WikiProject UK geography. I would not want to diminish or withdraw from this other project. If you are interested in contributing to this proposed project, please add your name to list at the appropriate place. If you think it might be better placed as a sub-project of the existing UK Geography Project, please say so on that project's talk page, here, and let us discuss it. Many thanks. DDStretch   (talk)  01:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Images
I propose selecting an image for the lead (in the infobox) and one to illustrate the geography section, linking more prominently to the extensive commons gallery of images, and deleting the images gallery, which is cluttering up the bottom of the article. More images can be added to illustrate the text as the article is expanded. Espresso Addict (talk) 16:39, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Agreed, a commons link has been added to the external links section. There's plenty of choice for a lead image, but I think the image of High Street is the best one, the town square would be good, but the trees are obscuring some detail. Nev1 (talk) 16:44, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

 * I agree the High St image is the most representative, although a little dark (I've tried taking a better photo of the Crown Inn there several times without much success, so perhaps dark is representative!). I'll make sure all the images are in the commons gallery before removing them. Espresso Addict (talk) 16:52, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

 * I've added it as the infobox image, all that remains to be done is making sure everything's on commons. Nev1 (talk) 17:00, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

 * I've moved the town square picture into the body of the article (as it shows the church and war memorial), moved the remaining images to the Commons gallery and deleted the gallery here. Espresso Addict (talk) 05:04, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

The notables of Nantwich
It seems that one or two of us have been editing the notables from Nantwich today, and at the same time. This caused a "ëdit conflict" for me, which I've not come across before. My main task today was adding more notables, but I've also changed the time slots too. I'm less bothered about the time slots (and their names) than about potentially losing several hours work on finding quite a few more notables to add. I hope we can resolve this amicably. If re-posting my work has wiped out other (simultaneous) edits, I'm sorry about that.

ArbieP (talk) 18:28, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

PS I have tried to spot the edits made by others, which my re-posting has wiped out. I've spotted several by comparing versions and have reinstated them on my (later) version. I trust this is an acceptable and hopefully agreeable solution

ArbieP (talk) 18:59, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

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Haddon Tunnel

Haddon Tunnel was built by the Midland Railway in 1863 when extending the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway from Rowsley to Buxton in Derbyshire, England.

The tunnel was constructed to hide the railway from the view of the Duke of Rutland where the line passed Haddon Hall. The tunnel rises towards Bakewell on a gradient of 1:102, is 1058 yd long and was mostly built by the cut and cover method. It was built with five ventilation shafts, one was the full width of the double-track tunnel, the deepest was 12 ft. It was on the Midland Railway's (later London, Midland and Scottish Railway) main line between London and Manchester. The line was closed in 1968 but the tunnel survives; Peak Rail has plans to reopen the line and tunnel on its intended extension to Bakewell.

Construction
In the 1860s, the Midland Railway built its Buxton branch line through the Peak District; the route crossed the Haddon Hall estate which was owned by Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland. To minimise the impact of the railway on the estate and political opposition to the line, the company built tunnels to hide the line. Plans for the tunnel signed by the Midland's Chief Engineer William Henry Barlow, contractor George Thomson, and his brother Peter, depict this section of line as having two separate tunnels, the southern 120 yards long and the northern roughly 900 yards long, separated by a cutting.

On 10 September 1860, ground was broken and work commenced on a shaft close to the main tunnel's midpoint from which a heading was driven. In April 1861, work started at two points in the heading to excavate the tunnel to size; progress was made in lengths of 12 feet, each of which required around 30 pit props of varying dimensions. The tunnel was built in three sections; from the south portal, a cut-and-cover-built portion of roughly 490 yards, a 350-yard tunnel, and another covered segment of 220 yards. For the cut-and-cover sections, once excavated to the correct depth, side walls and arches were built before being backfilled. As a consequence of shallow fill and the gradient of the slope, the ground was unable to counteract the thrust of the arch, which necessitated buttresses to provide sufficient support for the west wall.

Changes to the plans led to a substantially different structure being built despite the convention that dictated engineering contracts required the work to be carried out in accordance with what was designed. Such differences are not uncommon when building tunnels because of unforeseen obstacles that were encountered. The cutting was abandoned and the pair of tunnels were joined except for an open box section, 11 yards long, that provided daylight and some ventilation. Five ventilation shafts were also sunk. On 12 December 1861, John S Allen presented a paper on the tunnel's construction to the Civil & Mechanical Engineers' Society, which attributes the composition of the ground, largely shale, limestone, and clay. The clay caused several land slides, playing a major role in the need for alterations.

A single major accident occurred during the tunnel's construction. On 2 July 1861, a partially built 36-foot length of arch in the northern section collapsed while waiting to be keyed with additional stonework. The arch, supported by eight ribs, each fitted with props at both ends and another in the middle, steadied by three rakers held the arch in place but it collapsed without warning, burying several workers. Rescue efforts commenced immediately and the victims were extracted within two hours. Five workers were killed, four outright and another that died the following day. There is a memorial to the casualties in the churchyard of St Katherine's Church, Rowsley. The system had been used in the construction of four other lengths. Having reviewed accounts, Barlow suspected that the cause of the collapse was the suspected loss of a single prop, which may have led to the arch's weight twisting on the central raker before giving way. The railway paid £100 compensation to each of the dead men's families.

Operation
In January 1862, Haddon Tunnel had been officially completed and buried beneath the estate within 16 months. On 1 August 1862, the first public train passed through running to a temporary terminus at Hassop about three miles away. In May 1863, the line reached Buxton.

By the start of the 20th century, inspections of the No.3 ventilation shaft detected movement of around 1 and a half inches at one side of the brick arch and other difficulties such as the accumulation of smoke due to increased traffic levels. During July 1900, the Chief Engineer's office at Derby planned corrective measures which involved the removing the shaft and 33 feet of arch around it to construct an open box to provide better ventilation. Later that year, work commenced that took eleven months during which passenger trains incurred no delays. Some difficulty was experienced removing the crown, but the work proceeded straightforwardly despite its intrusive nature. The cost was £2,904 against the estimate of £2,000.

In 1964, in the Beeching cuts that saw large swathes of Britain's railways closed, a study was published on duplicated trans-Pennine routes and the introduction of electric traction for Manchester-Euston services on the West Coast Main Line, which launched in April 1966. As a result of these changes, from October 1966, freight traffic was instead diverted via the Hope Valley line and it was anticipated that passenger express services were to be withdrawn. On 29 June 1968, 1H18, running from St Pancras to Manchester Piccadilly, became the last train to traverse Haddon Tunnel. The line was closed in 1968 by Labour Minister of Transport Barbara Castle, but the tunnel survives.

Closure and future
After the line closed the infrastructure was dismantled. The disused tunnel and adjacent trackbed were reincorporated into the Haddon Estate. The tunnel was bricked up and not maintained for over 40 years but has survived largely unscathed, and a prospective reopening is a realistic proposition. A campaign championed by Peak Rail and others culminated in a feasibility study into its reinstatement by Derbyshire County Council in 2004. The Haddon Estate is opposed to such plans.

Peak Rail maintains its plans to extend its heritage rail services via both Rowsley railway station and a proposed Haddon Halt towards Bakewell. Fulfilling this ambition would require more work than restoring the tunnel, most significantly reinstatement of a demolished bridge over the A6 road at Rowsley.

It is likely that the tunnel could be opened to pedestrians and cyclists in a plan to extend the Monsal Trail.

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The Springfield Connection

"The Springfield Connection" is the twenty-third episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 7, 1995. In the episode, Marge deals with corruption and crime when she joins the Springfield police force.

The episode was written by Jonathan Collier, with input from David Mirkin, and directed by Mark Kirkland. The episode's story was inspired by executive producer Mike Reiss' wife, who had debated becoming a police officer. "The Springfield Connection" drew on influences from the 1980s police drama Hill Street Blues and the 1971 film The French Connection, and includes references to McGruff the Crime Dog and the theme music to Star Wars.

Reviews in The Sydney Morning Herald and DVD Movie Guide were favorable, and the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide cited Marge's police training as the highlight of the episode.

Contributors to compilation works analyzing The Simpsons from philosophical and cultural perspectives have cited and discussed the episode. Marge's experiences in the episode are compared to the character Rita from the stage comedy Educating Rita by Willy Russell in a literary analysis of the play.

Plot
On their way home from an orchestra performance, Homer and Marge pass through a seedy part of town. Snake entices Homer to play his Three-card Monte game and cheats him of $20. When Marge exposes the con, Snake flees. Marge chases after him and knocks him unconscious with a garbage can lid, giving her a sense of exhilaration. Finding her everyday routine dull and boring, she joins the Springfield police force.

At first, Marge enjoys being a police officer, but is soon discouraged by the laziness of her fellow officers and rampant law-breaking behavior of Springfield's citizens, including Homer, who illegally parks across three handicapped spaces. Marge tries to ticket him, then arrests him after he takes her police hat and taunts her.

Upon his release from jail, Homer hosts an illegal poker game and stumbles across Herman running a jean-counterfeiting operation in the Simpsons' garage. Marge arrives and arrests Herman and his henchmen as they are about to assault Homer. While Marge is handcuffing his minions, Herman takes Homer hostage and flees to Bart's tree house. Herman tries to escape using a pair of counterfeit jeans as a rope, but he falls to the ground when they rip. Marge knows Herman's attempted escape is doomed because of the jeans' shoddy stitching, which she recognizes from years of buying jeans for her husband and children.

After Wiggum and the other officers confiscate the counterfeit jeans for their personal use, the chief informs Marge that they cannot detain Herman because the evidence has mysteriously disappeared. Upset at the corruption on the force, Marge resigns.

Production
"The Springfield Connection" was written by Jonathan Collier and directed by Mark Kirkland. According to Collier, the inspiration for the episode was former The Simpsons executive producer Mike Reiss' wife. At one point, she had seriously decided that she wanted to become a police officer but it did not happen. The joke where the police officers laugh at Marge for a long time was pitched by David Mirkin and features a "crazy twist" at the end where Wiggum says "welcome aboard". Mirkin liked the joke so much that he repeated it again at the end of the episode. Marge uses a "McGriff the crime dog" hand puppet who says "Help me bite crime". The hand puppet is a homage to McGruff the Crime Dog – the producers had wanted to use the real McGruff, but could not get permission to use the character. The idea to have a counterfeit jeans ring was pitched because at the time there had been an explosion in the jeans market, and David Mirkin thought it was right to satirize it.

When the Korean animators were animating the sequence with Marge in the gun training course, they did not know how to correctly animate the "shell com[ing] out of the gun" because guns were illegal in Korea. They had to consult with the American animators, who advised them to watch movies so they could properly animate the guns. The original design for Marge's police uniform had Marge's hair standing up (as it normally is) with the hat on top. Director Mark Kirkland found that it made it awkward for staging in scenes, so they altered the design to have her hair pulled down. David Mirkin later stated that if the design had been used, he would have asked for it to be changed because they were trying to depict Marge as a serious cop.

Cultural references
The title, as well as Herman's illegal activities, are references to the 1971 film The French Connection. The couch gag, a parody of the gun barrel sequence in the James Bond films, shows some similarities to that of Sean Connery's own gun barrel sequences. Several references are made to the 1980s police drama Hill Street Blues: the briefing scene at the police station is similar and the background and end credits music, are parodies of the show's theme. Marge appears on an episode of COPS, and McGriff the dog is a reference to McGruff the Crime Dog, a US police public relations figure. Additionally, Marge's training sequences features homages to Police Academy (1984), Bullitt (1968), and Speed (1994). Marge's difficulties in scaling the wall in the police academy's obstacle course references An Officer and a Gentleman, where the lone female cadet had similar issues. The Springfield Pops play the theme to the Star Wars films at an outdoor venue attended by Homer and Marge, and Homer mistakenly believes that the theme's composer John Williams is dead, complaining: "Laser effects, mirrored balls—John Williams must be rolling around in his grave!". Annoyed at Marge for becoming a police officer, Homer draws a line across the floor and says he is acting "a la I Love Lucy." referenced to the television sitcom I Love Lucy from the 1950s. Homer said to Herman that Calvin Klein, Gloria Vanderbilt and Antoine Bugle Boy are victims of the counterfeit jeans ring.

Reception
In its original broadcast, "The Springfield Connection" finished 58th in ratings for the week of May 1–7, 1995, with a Nielsen rating of 7.9. It was the 4th highest-rated show on the Fox network that week, following Beverly Hills, 90210, The X-Files, and Melrose Place.

Robin Oliver rates the episode "thumbs up" in a review in The Sydney Morning Herald, where she says of The Simpsons as a series: "this encouragingly funny show knows how to tug at the heartstrings".

Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood comment on the episode in their book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide: "..the highlight of this episode has to be Marge's training, especially her sharpshooting on the firing range".

In a review of the sixth season of The Simpsons, Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide writes that the episode surpasses the quality of the previous episode 'Round Springfield": 'After the dull Round", Season Six rebounds with the pretty good "Connection". I can't quite figure out how Marge stays in such good shape, but her escapades as a cop are funny, and the episode works best when she arrests Homer. I especially like his refusal to remain silent.'

Analysis
Kurt M. Koenigsberger analyzes Homer's comments about the Springfield Pops rendition of the Star Wars theme in Koenigsberger's piece "Commodity Culture and Its Discontents: Mr. Bennett, Bart Simpson, and the Rhetoric of Modernism" published in the compilation work Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture edited by John Alberti. Koenigsberger comments: "The joke in this opening scene involves a confusion of high and popular artistic production: Marge treats the Springfield Pops as 'culture' and expects that the usually boorish Homer will need to be drawn into the spectacle." However, Koenigsberger notes that Homer actually regards Star Wars as a "classic", implying that a "classic" work must have a musical composer that is deceased, and be devoid of light-shows or glitter balls. Koenigsberger uses this example to discuss Homer's application of "a strategy characteristic of literary modernism".

In their book Educating Rita by Willy Russell, Rebecca Mahon and Nick Chedra cite Marge's desire to "enter the world" as an example of their topic called "Into the World". Mahon and Chedra note: "Comedy and parody are frequently used in the episode in order to convey the frustrations Marge is forced to deal with — whether these are based around the corruption of her colleagues, the music used on occasion which parodies former police shows, or even the scene where Marge is forced to arrest her husband." The authors compare Marge's experiences to those of the character Rita from the stage comedy Educating Rita by Willy Russell, commenting that both women later regret the decision to "move into the world".

In the compilation book The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer edited by William Irwin, Mark T. Conard and Aeon J. Skoble, contributors Gerald J. Erion and Joseph A. Zeccardi cite the episode as an example in their piece titled, "Marge's Moral Motivation". Erion and Zeccardi assert that Marge has "virtuous personality traits" which they compare to Aristotle, commenting: "Whether breaking up a counterfeit jeans ring run out of her garage in "The Springfield Connection", escaping a cult commune in "The Joy of Sect", or standing up to a Poe-ssessed "Treehouse of Horror". Marge is rarely short on courage." They also note that "Marge's crime-stopping vigilantism in "The Springfield Connection" and her dangerous escape from the Movementarian commune in "The Joy of Sect" demonstrate that she is genuinely brave, but not foolhardy."

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Sharad Purnima

Sharad Purnima (also known as Kumara Purnima, Kojagari Purnima, Navanna Purnima, Kojagrat Purnima or Kaumudi Purnima ) is a religious festival celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu lunar month of Ashvin (September to October), marking the end of the monsoon season. The full moon night is celebrated in different ways in various cultural regions across Indian subcontinent.

On this day, many Hindu divine pairs like Radha Krishna, Shiva Parvati and Lakshmi Narayana are worshipped along with the Chandra, the moon deity, and are offered flowers and kheer (sweet dish made of rice and milk). Deities in temples are usually dressed in white color signifying the brightness of moon. Many people observe full day fasting on this night.

Significance
Sharad Purnima celebrates the night that the rāsalīlā (a circular dance) was performed between Krishna and the gopis (milkmaids) of Braj. To participate in this divine dance, Shiva took the form of Gopīśvara Mahādevā. Vivid descriptions of this night are given in the Brahma Purana, Skanda Purana, Brahma Vaivarta Purana, and the Linga Purana. It is also believed that, on this full moon night, the goddess Lakshmi descends on the earth to watch the actions of human beings.

Kojagari Purnima concerns the observance of the Kojagara Vrata. People perform this vrata under the moonlight after fasting for the day. Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, is significantly worshipped on this day as it is believed to be her birthday. Indra, the god of rain, along with his elephant Airavata is also worshipped. This day is celebrated by Hindus differently in various regions of India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Sharad Purnima holds great significance in the Swaminarayan Sampradaya, particularly within BAPS, as it marks the birth of Gunatitanand Swami, who is ontologically believed to be Aksharbrahman.

Bengal, Assam & Tripura
In Bengal, Tripura and Assam, the night is known as Kojagari Purnima. Kojagari translates to 'one who is awake' in Bengali. It is believed that Goddess Lakshmi visits people's houses on this night, checks whether they are staying awake, and blesses them only if they are awake. In northern and central states of India, such as Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, kheer is prepared during the night and kept under the moonlight in an open roofed space overnight. It is believed that on this night, moon rays carry amrita (elixir of immortality), which is collected in the kheer. The kheer is then eaten as a prasad on the next day. Also, goddess Lakshmi is worshipped on this night.

For some Bengali tribes, the day is celebrated a few days before or after the exact day, especially in the Dyao,  Brahmo, and  Cumulang traditions, as per various traditions determining which days are auspicious for celebration.

In Maharashtra, it is popularly known as Kojagiri Paurnima. People make masala milk and keep it outside under the moonlight, as moon rays are believed to carry amrita.

In many parts of Gujarat, Garba is performed under the moonlight.

In Mithila region of Bihar, special celebration occurs in the house of newly married groom. Groom's family distribute betel and Makhana gifted from bride family to their relatives & neighbours.

In Odisha, on this day unmarried women fast, with the popular belief of getting their suitable groom (kumara). Unmarried women worship the moon on the occasion of this festival. The puja starts in the early morning when the moon sets with new dress. A kula (a basket made of woven bamboo strips) is filled with rice puffs, sugarcane, betel leaves, betel nuts, cucumbers, coconuts, and seven other fruits such as apples or bananas. In the evening the full moon is worshiped again, and worshippers break their fast by preparing a dish containing the fried paddy and fruits from the kula, along with curd and jaggery and offer it to the moon god before a tulsi plant. After this, maidens play games and sing songs under the light of the full moon.

Nepal
In Nepal, the day is known as Kojagrat Purnima and it concludes the 15–day Dashain festival celebrations. Kojagrat translates to 'one who is awake' in Nepali. Similar to the traditions of eastern India, Nepalese Hindus wake up all night offering reverence to goddess Lakshmi. It is also the last day to receive the Dashain tika from ones relatives.

Valmiki Jayanti
This day is also known as Valmiki Jayanti or the birth anniversary of Valmiki, who composed the Ramayana.

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Microsoft Plus! is a discontinued commercial operating system enhancement product by Microsoft. The last edition is the Plus! SuperPack, which includes an assortment of screensavers, themes, and games, as well as multimedia applications. The Microsoft Plus! product was first announced on January 31, 1994, under the internal codename "Frosting". The first edition was an enhancement for Windows 95, Windows 95 Plus!

The enhancements that make up Microsoft Plus! were generally developed by Microsoft itself. The Plus! packs also included games and content from third-party companies; for example, in Plus! for Windows XP, the HyperBowl game developed by HyperEntertainment Inc. was included. Plus! features that enhance the base operating system or provide utility are generally included free of charge in the next release of Windows.

Microsoft Plus! was discontinued and replaced by Windows Ultimate Extras in Windows Vista. Windows Ultimate Extras would later be completely removed in Windows 7.

Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95

This was the first version of Plus! and had an initial cost of US$49.99. It included Space Cadet Pinball, the Internet Jumpstart Kit (which was the introduction of Internet Explorer 1.0), DriveSpace 3 and Compression Agent disk compression utilities, the initial release of theme support along with a set of 12 themes, dial-up networking server, dial-up scripting tool, and the graphical improvements such as anti-aliased screen fonts, full-window drag, the ability to stretch or shrink the wallpaper to fit the screen and highcolor icons.

Task Scheduler as it is present in later Windows versions was included as System Agent. A utility to notify the user of low disk space (DiskAlm.exe) also ran as part of System Agent. Plus! for Windows 95 was initially marketed for adding features for "high-performance computers", the minimum system requirements were an 80386 CPU with 8 megabytes of RAM. Later releases of Windows 95 (OSR2 and onwards) included DriveSpace 3 and Internet Explorer 3.0. Windows 98 included all of the enhancements included in Plus! for Windows 95. Space Cadet Pinball was not installed by default, but included on the Windows 98 CD. Although Windows NT 4.0 is not intended to support desktop themes, each desktop theme from this pack (except the More Windows theme and the Windows 95 256-color theme) along with the Space theme from the Microsoft Plus! for Kids pack (albeit with a different startup sound) and three additional exclusive desktop themes is installable on this operating system via the Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit.

The screen-saver and wallpaper files include images from the Codex Leicester, which Microsoft co-founder, then CEO Bill Gates bought in 1994.

Microsoft Plus! for Kids
This version was released in 1997 and aimed at children of ages 3 to 12. It includes three new applications: Talk It!, a text-to-speech program that says what users type using various voices; Play It!, an electronic keyboard with music and sound effects; and Paint It!, a version of Paint oriented for kids. It also contained a "picture picker" along with clipart, fonts, 10 new desktop themes, and Protect It!, parental controls for Internet Explorer. Plus! for Kids was the only Plus! release from the Microsoft Home and Entertainment division rather than the Windows Operating System development group. Four desktop themes from this collection - Baseball, Jungle, Space and Underwater – were included in Windows 98 and Windows Me; the Underwater theme, however, was modified to have its sounds play in different events.

There is also a demo version for Microsoft Plus! for Kids; however, it only contains the readme for the program and the Underwater theme. The pack can also be installed on Windows NT 4.0 if the user is granted administrative privileges, according to the Readme document included with the pack, although Protect It! and the desktop themes cannot be installed, mainly due to design differences between Windows 95 and NT 4.0.

Microsoft Plus! 98
As the sequel to the original suite of enhancements to Windows, Plus! 98 included eighteen new desktop themes (some of which were based on popular comics such as FoxTrot and Garfield ), along with new programs and tools for Windows 98. An "organic art" 3D screensaver rendered unique infinite 3D visual shapes. A Start Menu cleanup utility was added to Windows 98's Maintenance Wizard. A Cybermedia Non-Critical File Cleaner utility was integrated into Disk Cleanup. ZIP file integration with Windows Explorer was first introduced with this version under the name of "compressed folders". New games, such as Microsoft Golf 1998 Lite, Lose Your Marbles and the now popular Spider Solitaire were also part of Plus! 98. A Deluxe CD Player with CDDB support and a basic "express" version of Picture It! were also included. Finally, Plus! 98 came with McAfee VirusScan 3.0, along with a six-month supply of free updates.

Some Plus! 98 features such as compressed folders and the Spider Solitaire game were included in Windows Me and later Windows versions. The Deluxe CD Player was included with Windows 2000. Although Windows Me does not include all of the Plus! 98 features and Plus! 98 Setup is blocked by Windows Me as incompatible, it can be installed on Windows Me by copying the setup files to the local hard disk and renaming Setup.exe before running it.

It is possible to use the Plus! for Windows 95, Plus! for Kids, and Plus! 98 desktop themes on Windows 2000 and Windows XP, by copying,  , and   folder from the   directory from an existing Windows 98/Me computer to a Windows 2000/XP computer. It is recommended to run the Desktop Themes control panel in Windows 98/Me compatibility mode, to avoid crashes.

The screensaver /  files are stored in   on Windows 98/Me, and can be copied over to   directory on Windows 2000/XP.

Microsoft Plus! Game Pack: Cards & Puzzles
This Plus! pack was released at the time of Windows Millennium Edition; however, it could also be installed on Windows 95-98, NT 4.0 and 2000. It included the Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection - a collection of 10 arcade games and Microsoft Bicycle Card Collection, another set of 12 card games (Hearts, Spades, Cribbage, Pinochle, Crazy 8's, Oh Hell!, Go Fish, Old Maid, Euchre, Gin Rummy, Schafkopf and Skat). A trial version of Microsoft Pandora's Box was also included.

Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP
Marketed as "The Ultimate Companion for Windows XP", Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP was launched alongside the Windows XP operating system on October 25, 2001. This version of Plus! was created to show off the enhanced capabilities that Windows XP presented with its updated Windows Media Player and DirectX 3D core technologies. Continuing the feature categories of the previous Plus! products, the product features were desktop themes, screen savers, games, and utilities.

Plus! for Windows XP includes:
 * Plus! Themes (Aquarium, Nature, da Vinci and Space)
 * Plus! Screen Savers (Aquarium, Nature, da Vinci, Space, Robot Circus, Sand Pendulum, Mercury Pool and Plus! My Pictures Premium screensaver)
 * Plus! Voice Command for Windows Media Player
 * Plus! Personal DJ
 * Plus! MP3 Converter
 * Plus! CD Label Maker
 * Plus! Speaker Enhancement
 * Plus! 3D Visualizations for Windows Media Player (Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Maxx's Kingdom and Plus! Undersea Wonders)
 * Plus! Skins for Windows Media Player (Aquarium, Nature, da Vinci and Space)
 * Plus! Hyperbowl
 * Plus! Russian Square
 * Plus! Labyrinth

Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition
Marketed as "The Ultimate Photo, Music, and Movie Enhancement Pack for Windows XP", Microsoft launched Plus! Digital Media Edition along with Windows XP Media Center Edition. Plus! Digital Media Edition signified the first time Microsoft had released a second Plus! product based on the same base operating system. Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition was also the first Microsoft product to be made available for sale to consumers via e-commerce as full product download through online retailers.

Released on January 7, 2003, Plus! Digital Media Edition built upon two newly enhanced Windows XP core components: Windows Media Player and Windows Movie Maker 2. This product version focused more on utility features for photos, music and movies rather than including the more traditional Plus! features like themes, screen savers, and games.

Plus! Digital Media Edition includes:
 * Plus! Photo Story 2
 * Plus! Party Mode
 * Plus! Analog Recorder
 * Plus! CD Label Maker
 * Plus! Dancer
 * Plus! Audio Converter
 * Plus! Effects and Transitions for Windows Movie Maker 2
 * Plus! Alarm Clock
 * Plus! Sleep Timer
 * Plus! Skins for Windows Media Player 9 Series
 * Plus! Sync & Go for Pocket PC

Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition is the only version of Microsoft Plus! to require activation.

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 includes some of the themes and screensavers from Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP, as it retains the Aquarium, Da Vinci, Nature and Space themes. It also includes some applications from Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition, namely, Audio Converter, CD Label Maker, Dancer and Party Mode and the My Pictures Premium screensaver. A Windows Media Player skin called Darkling, developed by The Skins Factory is included, the skin is exclusive to Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition.

Microsoft Plus! SuperPack for Windows XP
On October 19, 2004, Microsoft replaced its two separate Plus! products for Windows XP with a single combined version called the Microsoft Plus! SuperPack for Windows XP. There were no new features or functionality added nor are the two separate products integrated. On Windows XP Media Center Edition the Pack was not needed as it had included the Plus Pack features. The Plus! series has been discontinued, as some of its features have been integrated into Windows Vista and later Windows versions.

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Megaceros

Megaceros is a genus of hornworts in the family Dendrocerotaceae. The genus is found in the Old World tropics of east Asia and Australia. Its name means 'big horn', and refers both to the exceptionally large size of the gametophyte thallus and to the large, horn-shaped sporophyte that the plants produce. Many species have a branching thallus that is more than two centimeters wide. The gametophytes are monoicous.

The genus Megaceros is unusual among hornworts in that the sporophyte does not have stomata, and the spores are green because they contain chloroplasts, as does the related genus Dendroceros. They can have as many as 14 chloroplasts per cell, the highest known number in hornworts. The elaters are helical.

The genus Megaceros was first recognized in 1907 by D. Campbell. More recently, the genera Nothoceros and Phaeomegaceros have been split off from this genus. The former genus includes all New World species previously included in Megaceros.

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Deletion review nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Merge — 4 votes merge, 1 vote merge/delete, 2 votes delete, 1 vote keep — the article is to be merged into Third Watch and then deleted. --Gareth Hughes 21:33, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Third Watch broadcasters
Just a list of stations that have broadcasted episodes of some TV show. Granted, I'm a big fan of this show, but this article is just non-encyclopedic trivia. Delete. Gamaliel 09:17, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - if we do this for one show, we have to do it for them all. Unmaintainable and prone to become outdated very quickly especially with syndicated shows. 23skidoo 12:10, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, gives an idea of popular the show is and where. No need to be complete. 14:45, 15 October 2005 (UTC) Unsigned by Kappa
 * Merge into Third Watch in prose form to save space: "The show was broadcast in the United States on NBC, in Australia on Nine Network, in Canada on CTV ...." and redirect accordingly. --Metropolitan90 16:30, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as Metropolitan90 instructed. The Literate Engineer 17:02, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * A merge into the Third Watch article should do the trick. --Optichan 17:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge or Delete per both Metropolitan90 and 23skidoo hard to pick --JAranda | watz sup 21:51, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Third Watch. Anyone looking for this info would look there first. Denni ☯ 23:33, 15 October 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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Hassop

Hassop is a village in the local government district of Derbyshire Dales in Derbyshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Great Longstone

It developed around a number of lead mines, with such names as "The Brightside", "Backdale", "Harry Bruce", "Waterhole" and "Whitecoe", which lasted until the mid-nineteenth century.

The local landowners were the Eyre family of Padley, who built Hassop Hall. In 1643 they defended the house against the Parliamentarians. Manholes in the floor of the cellar are reputed to allow entrance to a former lead-mine under the Hall. Hassop Hall was extensively rebuilt in Classical style between 1827 and 1833. It is now a private hotel.

The Church of All Saints was built in 1816-18 for the Eyre family.

Hassop railway station was about two miles south of the village, built by the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway in 1863. It closed in 1964 and the station building has since been converted to a bookshop and cafe. The trackbed through the station is part of the 8.5 mile Monsal Trail, a walk and cycleway.

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Guy Boyd (sculptor)

Guy Martin à Beckett Boyd (12 June 1923 – 26 April 1988) was an Australian potter and figurative sculptor noted for his ability to represent sensuality in the female nude with fluid forms. He was also active in environmental and other causes, including protesting against the damming of the Franklin River and advocating the innocence of Lindy Chamberlain.

Background and early years
Born in Murrumbeena, Victoria, Guy was the third child of William Merric Boyd, potter, and his wife Doris Lucy Eleanor Bloomfield, née Gough, a painter, and thus was a member of the Boyd artist dynasty. Brother of Arthur and David, both painters, Lucy a potter, and Mary, a painter (who married first John Perceval, and then later Sidney Nolan, both artists), he grew up in his father's pottery.

The Boyd family artistic dynasty includes painters, sculptors, architects, writers and other arts professionals, and descends from Boyd's grandfather Arthur Merric Boyd, Boyd's father Merric and mother Doris, uncles Penleigh Boyd and Martin Boyd.

After the privations of the Great Depression followed by a disastrous fire at his father's pottery, where he was assistant, in 1937 Boyd found work first as a jeweller's apprentice, then in a number of jobs, including at a nuts and bolts factory and as a builder's labourer. In 1941–46 he served in the Australian Army Reserve, however as a committed pacifist he was deployed as a draughtsman in Melbourne and then at Fortuna mansion in Bendigo, before conflicts with his superiors resulted in his being posted interstate in 1944 to the 103rd Convalescent Depot, Ingleburn, where he volunteered to teach pottery to the patients. Examples of the injured combatants' work were exhibited in Sydney in 1945.

Ceramicist
After World War 2, Boyd worked as a potter, establishing both Martin Boyd Pottery and later Guy Boyd Pottery. These studios mass-produced a wide range of modernist objects from house-wares to decorative pieces which enjoyed strong commercial success. Iconic Australian imagery, particularly flora and indigenous motifs, feature frequently. This period of work is also steeped in the 'atomic age' aesthetics of the 1950s and early 1960s with a familiar colour palette and shapes that strongly echo Eames and others.

Sculptor
Boyd turned away from this commercial work and to a full-time career in sculpture in 1965 when he held his first solo show at Australian Galleries in Melbourne. His commissions include sculptures in both Melbourne and Sydney's international airports, Caulfield Town Hall, the Commonwealth Bank, and has pieces in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. He had exhibitions of his work in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. In 1968 he won a Churchill Fellowship to study art overseas. He was recognised with a large format monograph, Guy Boyd written by gallerist Anne Von Bertouch and art historian Patrick Hutchins and published by Lansdowne Press. Later that year Guy and Phyllis migrated to Canada with their four younger children, settling in Toronto in 1976, but returned to live in Australia five years later. He was appointed the Art Advisor to Deakin University in 1988.

Technique
Boyd's early sculptures and reliefs were mostly in terracotta and plaster. James Gleeson, writing in the Sun-Herald, Sydney in June 1966 provides insight into Boyd's choice of sculptural medium during his transition from the ceramic industry, his method of working, and its influence on the forms he favoured: "Boyd's technique is not merely original (for that in itself is not necessarily a virtue), it is original and entirely at one with the intention of the artist. He has perfected the ideal means for saying what he wants to say, so the originality of his technique is also artistically important. First stage in the transmutation of nature into art is a wax model. This is the creative stage when the soft wax must be thumbed into a work of art that is alive with the vibrancy of nature.  The next stage is the plating of the model with silver or copper, but the usual process would smooth away the subtleties of surface modelling and destroy its vitality.  So the wax effigy sits in its acid bath for weeks on end and a very low charge of electricity gradually deposits a paper thin layer of metal on its surface.  The wax is chemically dissolved, the shell is strengthened on the inside and finally filled with a plastic stone that will neither expand nor contract to endanger the metal skin."

Boyd also experimented with an electrolytic deposition of silver combined with a layer of copper, but abandoned that after finding that applying heated carbon tetrachloride to dissolve the wax from the metal shell was affecting his health. Boyd discontinued the electroplating with powdered granite compound infill described above in 1966, and the majority of his mature work is fine-face bronze casts using the lost wax process, in which he innovated through the admixture of silicon with wax, with editions of usually six produced in bronze and aluminium. Often a thin finish in silver is applied over the bronze or aluminium cast, oxidised to near-black then burnished lightly to reveal texture in relief; his 1971 Aboriginal Legend of Flight, commissioned for Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport arrivals gate, after an earlier version (1969) for Tullamarine Airport, is an example. It is five and a half metres in width, modelled in clay, cast in plaster and then sand-cast in aluminium in 27 sections, coated in sterling silver over nickel and copper layers, then oxidised before being bolted together and the joins concealed. It is displayed against a black Swedish marble wall.

Of his working technique, art historian, art critic and curator Sasha Grishin noted that Boyd worked directly with his wax or clay, rather than through preparatory drawings, accepting the modelling and subtraction of material, and revelation of the unexpected, as crucial to the creative process.

Subject matter and critical reception
Boyd adhered to figuration throughout his career, though he rarely worked directly from the model and preferred to rely on his memory of bodies in movement and of gestures. His subjects are mostly girls and women and for the earliest of his exhibitions of the 1960s he referred to record covers and magazine pictures of African dancers. Often figures are drawn from experience of his large family and observations of bathers at Brighton beach, with some groups of mother and child, or of lovers, along with a few portraits. Much of the work makes reference to mythology, particularly to stories of transformation.

Bernard Smith in 1965 noted that "Stance and gesture are caught lyrically and sensuously" by Boyd, and he admired the way "oxidised surfaces, burnished along the ridges, achieve a jewel-like beauty of texture".

Elwyn Lynn had a mixed reaction to Boyd's early exhibition at Bonython's Hungry Horse Gallery in a review in The Australian, 4 June 1966; "He is best in the silvery, blackened, self-contained pieces when the figure is preoccupied with some simple, inevitable gesture. Lapses are profound: one gauche bronze dancing girl must be destined for a suburban garden and a mother and child is embarrassing in execution and sentiment", but goes on to admit "facile virtuosity is countered by breaking surfaces with light catching impressionist touches [...] lissom yet awkward poses [...] delight in their skill"

Reviewing one of Boyd's last shows, at Beaver Galleries in Canberra, Sacha Grishin writing in The Canberra Times in 1987, contrasts the sculptor's Boyd family inheritance of "figurative humanism" against the prevailing abstract sculpture imitative of Anthony Caro. Describing Boyd as never having been a "fashionable sculptor" he praises his avoidance of "slick" realism and his concentration on the human figure as a "vehicle for communicating ideas", his ability to convey beauty without "sentimentalism" and to represent freedom in movement through "an exciting resolution of the arrangement of volumes within graceful floating lines".

Professor Patrick Hutchings' discussion of the sculpture in the 1979 monograph attributes Boyd's fascination with transformation and change to his inheritance of a Boyd "clan style", "a family theme, one of metamorphosis", a motif evident in a 1948 two-handled pot by his father Merric, which Guy had kept.

Activism
A determined and natural leader, in 1967 Boyd founded and was President of the Brighton Foreshore Protection Committee; he was vocal in condemning inappropriate development and council corruption in the suburb, where he had settled after purchasing and restoring a house that was once his grandparents', and advocated for councillors to be paid in order to attract candidates less compromised than those who were real estate agents and property developers. His campaigns resulted in the defeat of a proposal to build a marina at Brighton and the halting of a high-pressure oil pipeline that was to be extended by Esso and BHP under Port Phillip Bay. A plaque commemorating his achievements in preservation and conservation was later erected on the beach at Brighton.

After he, Phyllis Boyd and daughters Lenore and Sally, were early involved in calls for a judicial inquiry into Lindy Chamberlain's trial which resulted in a charge of the murder of her baby daughter, they were active in drawing up a petition entitled 'A Plea for Mercy'. He became the Australian Co-ordinator of the effort and, in 1984, edited the book Justice in Jeopardy in Chamberlain's defence. In 1983, as a member of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, Boyd lobbied against the Tasmanian State Government's plan to dam the Franklin River.

Death
Boyd died 26 April 1988 from coronary atherosclerosis and was buried with Anglican rites in Brighton cemetery. His wife, Phyllis, and their five daughters and two sons, survived him. Critic Sasha Grishin, in marking Boyd's passing, called him "one of our most significant post-war figurative sculptors".

Solo
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 * 1965: Australian Galleries, Melbourne
 * 1965: Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide
 * 1966: Bonython's Hungry Horse Art Gallery, Sydney
 * 1967: Australian Galleries, Melbourne
 * 1967: The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
 * 1968: Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide
 * 1968: Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
 * 1969: The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
 * 1970: The Leicester Galleries, London
 * 1970: Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney
 * 1971: Andrew Ivanyi Galleries, Melbourne
 * 1971: Von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
 * 1971: Skinner Galleries, Perth
 * 1972: Bonython Art Gallery, Adelaide
 * 1972: The Johnstone Gallery, Brisbane
 * 1973: Manyung Galleries, Victoria
 * 1973: Von Bcrtouch Galleries, Newcastle
 * 1973: Skinner Galleries, Perth
 * 1974: Andrew Ivanyi Galleries, Melbourne
 * 1974: Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
 * 1975: Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
 * 1975: Andrew Ivanyi Galleries, Melbourne
 * 1976: von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
 * 1976: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
 * 1976: Dominion Gallery, Montreal
 * 1977: The Randall Gallery, New York
 * 1978: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
 * 1978: Retrospective: The Australian Embassy, Washington DC
 * 1979: Shaw Gallery, Toronto
 * 1980: The Randall Gallery, New York
 * 1980: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
 * 1981: von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
 * 1981: Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
 * 1982: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
 * 1983: von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
 * 1983: Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
 * 1984: Greenhill Galleries, Perth
 * 1984: Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
 * 1984: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
 * 1985: von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
 * 1985: Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
 * 1985: Golden Age (David Ellis) Gallery, Ballarat
 * 1986: Clarkson University, New York
 * 1987: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
 * 1987: David Ellis Fine Art, Melbourne
 * 1987: Beaver Galleries, Deakin, Canberra
 * 1988: Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney
 * 1988: Greenhill Galleries, Perth

Posthumous solo

 * 1989: von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle
 * 1990: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane}}

Group
From 1945, Guy Boyd exhibited in group shows in all Australian State capitals, with representation as recently as 2012, and overseas, including Leicester Galleries, London in 1957, and at galleries in New York, San Francisco and Montreal.

Awards
1968: Churchill Fellowship

Collections and Commissions
• Australian National Gallery, Canberra

• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

• Australian National University

• University of Melbourne, Melbourne

• University of Newcastle, Newcastle

• University of Wollongong

• McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Melbourne

• Colac Otway Sculpture Park

• Churchill House, Canberra

• International Airport, Melbourne

• International Airport, Sydney

• Prudential Art Museum, Toronto

• Art Gallery of Ballarat

• La Trobe University, Melbourne

• Monash University, Melbourne

• Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra

• Newcastle Art Gallery

• Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

• Deakin University

• Australian Catholic University

• Clarkson University, New York

• Shepparton Art MuseumThe bronze Lovers given to Melbourne University by Boyd and housed in the fourth floor bridge in the John Medley Building, was stolen and never been recovered. Boyd provided a replacement, a bather figure for the east garden of University House.

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Howard Blake

Howard David Blake (born 28 October 1938) is an English composer, conductor, and pianist whose career has spanned more than 50 years and produced more than 650 works. Blake's most successful work is his soundtrack for Channel 4’s 1982 film The Snowman, which includes the song "Walking in the Air". He is increasingly recognised for his classical works including concertos, oratorios, ballets, operas and many instrumental pieces.

Early life
Howard Blake was born in London and grew up in Brighton. His mother played piano and violin, and his father sang tenor in the church choir. At Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School for Boys, from the age of 11 he sang lead roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas and was recognised as a good pianist, but few were aware that he was also writing music.

At the age of 18, he won the Hastings Musical Festival Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied piano with Harold Craxton and composition with Howard Ferguson, but he found himself at odds with his contemporaries in regard to musical style. He virtually stopped composing, instead becoming interested in film, and on leaving the Academy briefly worked as a film projectionist at the National Film Theatre.

Music career
Missing music, Blake played the piano in pubs and clubs for a couple of years until being discovered and signed by EMI to make a solo album and work as a session musician on many recordings. This led to work as an arranger and a composer, employment that gradually became his full-time occupation.

In the late 1960s, on the recommendation of Bernard Herrmann, Blake began working as a keyboard player and arranger with veteran screen composer Laurie Johnson on music for the hit ITV television series The Avengers. During the program's sixth and final season in 1968–1969, Johnson was commissioned to write the soundtrack music for the feature film Hot Millions; to enable him to work on the film score, Johnson recruited Blake to take over composing duties for him, and Blake composed the incidental music for ten complete episodes of that series. In 1970, shortly after the series finished, he lived in a beach hut in Cornwall for about two months, "to get away from it all".

Over an active career he has written numerous film scores, including The Duellists with Ridley Scott and David Puttnam, which gained the Special Jury Award at the Cannes Festival in 1977; A Month in the Country with Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth, which gained him the British Film Institute Anthony Asquith Award for musical excellence in 1989; and The Snowman, which was nominated for an Oscar after its first screening on Channel 4 in 1982, and has won many other prizes internationally. From this, his famous song "Walking in the Air", for which he also wrote the lyrics, was the success that launched Aled Jones in 1985 (although Jones only recorded the song three years after the release of the film, while the song on the soundtrack is sung by the St Paul's chorister Peter Auty. Blake's concert version of The Snowman for narrator and orchestra is now performed worldwide, as is the full-length ballet of the same name, launched in 1997, which in 2013 celebrated its 16th consecutive Christmas season for Sadler's Wells at the Peacock Theatre in London.

In 1980, Blake was commissioned to write an orchestral music score for Flash Gordon, in collaboration with Queen. He was given only 10 days to produce the results, and after completion fell ill with pneumonia brought on by exhaustion. He recovered, and he and Queen were jointly nominated for a BAFTA Award. It was, however, a disappointment to him that the makers of Flash Gordon did not use much of his score.

Blake has composed many concert works, including the Piano Concerto commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra for the 30th birthday of Princess Diana in 1991, in which he also featured as soloist; the Violin Concerto to celebrate the centenary of the City of Leeds in 1993; the cantata to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations in 1995, performed in the presence of the Royal Family in Westminster Hall; and the large-scale choral/orchestral work Benedictus, championed by Sir David Willcocks and the Bach Choir, which was given its London premiere in Westminster Cathedral in 1989 with Cardinal Basil Hume as narrator, and which has been widely performed ever since.

More recent works are Lifecycle – 24 pieces for solo piano – recorded for ABC Classics in 2003; Songs of Truth and Glory, the Elgar Commission for the Three Choirs Festival in 2005; and a first recording of The Land of Counterpane a song-cycle to words by Robert Louis Stevenson, recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in March 2007, which he conducted.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and, in 1994, received the OBE for services to music. On 20 October 2010 Blake was presented a BASCA Gold Badge Award for outstanding work within the music industry.

Compositions

 * Four Miniatures, Op 7 (1958)
 * Symphony No 1, Impressions of a City, Op. 42 (1967)
 * Violin Sonata, Op. 586 (1973/2007)
 * Piano Quartet, Op. 179 (1974)
 * Penillion for violin & piano, Op. 571 (1975/2005)
 * Jazz Dances for violin & piano, Op. 520a (1976/2008)
 * The Song of Saint Francis, Op. 248 (1977) cantata for chorus and orchestra
 * Benedictus, Op. 282 (1980) dramatic oratorio
 * Sinfonietta for brass, Op. 300 (1981)
 * Four songs of nativity (1990)
 * Suite for strings – A Month in the Country, Op. 446(1992)
 * Lifecycle, Op. 489 (1996) 24 piano pieces in all 24 major and minor keys
 * The Passion of Mary, Op. 577 (2006) dramatic oratorio
 * Flute Quintet for flute, two violins, viola and cello

Selected film scores

 * An Elephant Called Slowly (1969)
 * Some Will, Some Won't (1970)
 * All the Way Up (1970)
 * The Duellists (1977)
 * The Odd Job (1978)
 * The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
 * S.O.S. Titanic (1979)
 * Flash Gordon (1980)
 * The Snowman (1982)
 * Amityville 3-D (1983)
 * The Lords of Discipline (1983)
 * The Hunger (1983) (music director)
 * A Month in the Country (1987)
 * Granpa (1989)
 * The Bear (1998)
 * My Life So Far (1999)

Concertos

 * Clarinet Concerto (commissioned by Thea King and premiered by her and the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer 1984)
 * Violin Concerto "The Leeds" (commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the City of Leeds, premiered Edinger/Daniel/ENP 1993)
 * Piano Concerto (commissioned by The Philharmonia to celebrate the 30th birthday of Diana Princess of Wales, composer as soloist 1991)
 * Diversions for cello and orchestra (a cello concerto in 8 movements with a cello part edited with Maurice Gendron 1985)
 * Flute Concerto (for flute and string orchestra commissioned by Gabrielle Byam Grounds 1996)
 * Toccata (a celebration of the orchestra) commissioned by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for their 30th anniversary 1976
 * Oboe Concerto (for oboe and string orchestra, composed for David Powell 1971)
 * Heartbeat (for tenor saxophone, big band and orchestra, commissioned by the BBC and first performed with soloist Ian Dixson 1990)

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Talk:Sharad Purnima

what is this?
according to what religion/culture? would be good to make a link, so other people know. --naught101 09:22, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

rationale for move from Kojagiri poornima
I have moved this to "Kojagari Purnima" to correct the capitalisation and standardise the spelling. The Google hits for various spellings are as follows: - Kojagari -1300 Kojagiri -1360 Kojagari Purnima -808 Kojagiri Purnima -261 Kojagari poornima -10 Kojagiri poornima -357 Apart from this article, we have articles titled "Kojagiri Purnima" and "Kojagiri" which, along with the mirrors have generated marginally more hits for the non-standard spelling. I'd be redirecting those articles to this article. --Gurubrahma 05:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

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Bruce Edgar

Bruce Adrian Edgar (born 23 November 1956) is a former cricketer who represented New Zealand in both Test and One Day International (ODI) format. A chartered accountant by profession, Edgar played as a left-handed opening batsman and an occasional wicketkeeper during one of New Zealand's most successful eras in international cricket. He gained respect across the cricket world for his courage against the fastest bowlers of his era (which included greats like Imran Khan, Michael Holding, Bob Willis and Dennis Lillee), his classically straight batting technique, and his outstanding teamwork.

In 1981, Edgar became the first cricketer to be unbeaten on 99 in an ODI innings

Early life and playing career
Edgar was born and raised in Wellington, New Zealand. His father, Arthur, had represented Wellington in a few first-class matches. He was educated at Rongotai College, where he attracted attention for his brilliant batting, but would later curb his attacking instincts for the sake of the team when opening for both Wellington and later New Zealand.

In internationals, he formed a successful opening partnership with fellow left-hander John Wright.

Edgar was at the non-striker's end during the infamous underarm bowling incident which occurred on 1 February 1981 during the third World Series Cup final between New Zealand and Australia at the MCG. His striking partner, Brian McKechnie, needed a six to tie the match from the final ball. Australian bowler Trevor Chappell, on orders from the team captain and older brother Greg Chappell, bowled the ball underarm, rolling it on the ground to prevent McKechnie from getting the six and winning the match for Australia, with McKechnie hurling his bat away in disgust and Edgar aiming a V-sign towards Trevor Chappell.

The unfortunate part of the incident was that, at the time, Edgar was 102 not-out for the innings, his only one-day international century and highest score. It is often considered "the most overlooked century of all time."

The following season, some consolation for Edgar is the fact that his highest test score, 161, was against Greg Chappell's Australians at Eden Park, Auckland. New Zealand won this Test match, only their second against Australia, by five wickets and took a 1–0 lead in the three-test series, with Edgar named Man of the Match. The series was drawn 1–1, after Australia won the final test by eight wickets at Lancaster Park, Christchurch. Edgar topped the Kiwi batting averages with 278 runs at 55.60.

Life after playing career
In 1981, Bruce Edgar was professional for the Hyde team which won the Central Lancashire League championship.

Edgar has since become involved with the Gordon Grade Cricket Club in Sydney. He coached the A.W. Greenshield team in the 2010–11 season and has continued to play an integral role in the running of the club.

In August 2013, Edgar returned to his homeland to take up the part-time position of General Manager national selection with New Zealand Cricket. His main role would be to coordinate a selection panel that would report to head coach Mike Hesson. Edgar resigned from his position in May 2015. While reduced work and pay, as well as lack of support from the board were key reasons, Edgar also mentioned the less-than-hospitable experiences at the 2015 Cricket World Cup, including having to sit with the wives and girlfriends of the Australian players during the final, a situation he described as "awkward". The following month, Edgar was appointed Head Coach of Wellington on a three-year contract, replacing Jamie Siddons.

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Linden Ashby

Clarence Linden Garnett Ashby III (born May 23, 1960) is an American actor. On television, he portrayed Brett Cooper on the final two seasons of the Fox soap opera Melrose Place (1997–1999) and Sheriff Noah Stilinski on all six seasons of the MTV supernatural drama Teen Wolf (2011–2017). He is also known for portraying Johnny Cage in the 1995 film Mortal Kombat, an adaptation of the video game franchise of the same name.

Early life
Ashby was born in Atlantic Beach, Florida, the son of Eleanor (Johnson), a civic organizer, and Clarence Linden Garnett Ashby Jr., a pharmaceuticals manufacturer. Ashby graduated from The Bolles School, a private school located in Jacksonville, Florida. He attended Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, but dropped out his junior year to pursue an acting career. Ashby studied acting at Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.

Career
Ashby's first role on television, in 1985, was on the ABC soap opera Loving, where he was the second actor to play the role of Curtis Alden. Soon after, he was cast as Lance Reventlow, the only son of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton (played by Farrah Fawcett) in the Golden Globe-winning miniseries Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story.

Drawing on his martial arts background, Ashby portrayed Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat, the 1995 film adaptation of the video game of the same name; the film became a cult classic. He would later return to voice Johnny Cage in the Mortal Kombat 11 video game.

In the second quarter of 1997, Ashby starred in the short-lived ABC drama Spy Game. Later that year, he joined the main cast of Melrose Place as Brett Cooper, a role he had until the start of the seventh season in late 1998. He first appeared on the show in the first season in 1993 as Jo Reynolds's estranged husband Charles, in the episodes "Peanut Butter and Jealousy" and "Single White Sister". He was in the movie Wyatt Earp where he played Morgan Earp, Wyatt Earp's (Kevin Costner) younger brother. He played Cameron Kirsten on The Young and the Restless from 2003 to 2004. He also began playing the role of Paul Hollingsworth on Days of Our Lives in March 2008.

Ashby also portrayed Beacon Hills' sheriff and father to Stiles Stilinski on MTV's Teen Wolf series.

In September 2021, it was announced that a reunion film for Teen Wolf had been ordered by Paramount+, with Jeff Davis returning as a screenwriter and executive producer of the film. The majority of the original cast members, including Ashby, were set to reprise their roles. The film was released on January 26, 2023.

Personal life
Ashby is married to actress Susan Walters. The couple met on the set of Loving in 1983, where she was a regular and he was filming a guest appearance (he would later become a regular cast member in 1985). They have two daughters, born in 1991 and 1992. Ashby has been a student of martial arts on and off since he was 21 and studied Karate, Tae Kwon Do and Kung Fu.

Linden has admitted to previously suffering panic attacks before auditions which threatened to shorten his career.

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Don Covay

Donald James Randolph (March 24, 1936 – January 31, 2015), better known by the stage name Don Covay, was an American R&B, rock and roll, and soul singer-songwriter most active from the 1950s to the 1970s.

His most successful recordings include "Mercy, Mercy" (1964), "See-Saw" (1965), and "It's Better to Have (and Don't Need)" (1974). He also wrote "Pony Time", a US number 1 hit for Chubby Checker, and "Chain of Fools", a Grammy-winning song for Aretha Franklin. He received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1994.

Writing in the Washington Post after his death, Terence McArdle said, "Mr. Covay’s career traversed nearly the entire spectrum of rhythm-and-blues music, from doo-wop to funk."

Early life
Covay was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina. His father, a Baptist preacher, died when Covay was eight. He resettled in Washington, D.C., with his mother Helen Zimmerman Randolph and his siblings in the early 1950s and initially sang in the Cherry Keys, his family's gospel quartet. He crossed over to secular music as a member of the Rainbows and made his first recordings with that group in 1956.

Career
Covay's solo career began in 1957 as part of the Little Richard Revue, when he worked both as the star's chauffeur and as an opening act. A single, "Bip Bop Bip", on which Covay was billed as "Pretty Boy", was released on Atlantic, produced by Little Richard and featuring his backing band, the Upsetters.

Over the next few years, Covay drifted from label to label, eventually signing with Columbia Records in 1961, but success remained elusive. Later that year, however, he had his first chart success, when "Pony Time", a song he co-wrote with fellow Rainbows member John Berry, reached No. 60 on the Billboard pop chart. It was issued by the small Arnold label and credited to his group, the Goodtimers. The song was later recorded by Chubby Checker and became a US No. 1 single.

In 1962, Covay had his first hit on Cameo-Parkway Records under his own name, "The Popeye Waddle", a dance-oriented track. He also started writing songs for Roosevelt Music in the Brill Building in New York City, writing a hit for Solomon Burke, "I'm Hanging Up My Heart for You". Gladys Knight & the Pips reached the US Top 20 with Covay's song "Letter Full of Tears", and Wilson Pickett recorded Covay's "I'm Gonna Cry (Cry Baby)" as his first single on Atlantic.

His singing career continued to falter until 1964, when he had one of his biggest pop hits on the small, Atlantic-distributed Rosemart label with "Mercy, Mercy". It was co-written with Goodtimers guitarist Ronnie Miller, which established Covay's earthy bluesy style, and featured a young Jimi Hendrix on guitar. The following year the song was recorded by the Rolling Stones for their album Out of Our Heads, on which Mick Jagger closely followed Covay's singing style.

Atlantic bought Covay's contract and minor R&B hits followed, but it was a year before Covay returned to the pop chart, with "See-Saw", co-written with guitarist Steve Cropper and recorded at Stax, along with "I Never Get Enough of Your Love", "Sookie Sookie" (both also co-written by Covay and Cropper), and "Iron Out the Rough Spots" (by Cropper, Booker T. Jones, and David Porter). His relationship with Stax's staff has been described as difficult, both with its musicians and with its management. Cropper ascribed it to a clash between executive Jim Stewart's more conservative persona and Covay's unpredictable creative character. Cropper emphasized his appreciation of Covay: "I loved Don to death. We get along great but I don't think Jim and them understood Don. He thinks in different areas and he was kind of driving people bananas." According to Carla Thomas, the musicians enjoyed working with artists sent by Atlantic, including Covay and Wilson Pickett, but resented having to give them studio time. On "See-Saw", Covay "achieved an even more powerfully soulful edge;" but he did not maintain momentum as a performer, and most of his later recordings for Atlantic failed to chart.

However, his songwriting continued to be successful, as he wrote songs for Etta James, Otis Redding, Little Richard (his 1965 hit, "I Don't Know What You Got but It's Got Me", for Vee-Jay and a couple of soul dancers for Brunswick, released in 1967), and notably Aretha Franklin, who had a hit in 1968 with "Chain of Fools", a song Covay had written some fifteen years earlier. Franklin won a Grammy for her performance. Over the years Covay's compositions have been recorded by such varied artists as Gene Vincent, Wanda Jackson, Connie Francis, Steppenwolf, The Daughters of Eve, Bobby Womack, the Rolling Stones, Wilson Pickett, Small Faces, Grant Green, Bonnie Raitt, and Peter Wolf, among others.

Covay organized the Soul Clan, a collective venture with Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, Ben E. King and Arthur Conley, in 1968, but it was relatively unsuccessful. In 1969, he joined former Shirelles guitarist Joe Richardson and blues and folk singer John P. Hammond to form the Jefferson Lemon Blues Band. The band's single "Black Woman" made number 43 on the R&B chart in 1970 and they recorded two albums: The House of Blue Lights and Different Strokes for Different Folks, before splitting up.

Covay joined Mercury Records in 1972, as an A&R executive, while also starting to record his album Superdude. The album yielded two of his most successful songs, "I Was Checkin' Out, She Was Checkin' In" and "Somebody's Been Enjoying My Home". He followed up with two more successful singles, "It's Better to Have (and Don't Need)" in 1973, his only hit as a performer in the UK, followed by "Rumble in the Jungle" in 1974, inspired by the boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. In the late 1970s, he recorded for Philadelphia International Records but then withdrew from recording for several years, reappearing as a backing singer on the 1986 Rolling Stones album Dirty Work.

Covay had a stroke in 1992. The following year, Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, Todd Rundgren and others performed on a Covay tribute album, Back to the Streets: Celebrating the Music of Don Covay. He was presented with a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1994.

He released the album Adlib in 2000 on the Cannonball label, his first album in 23 years. Collaborating musicians included Paul Rodgers, Wilson Pickett, Lee Konitz, Otis Clay, Kim Simmonds, Ann Peebles, Syl Johnson, Paul Shaffer, Huey Lewis, and Dan Penn. The cover art was by Ronnie Wood.

Personal life and death
In an interview published in the UK music weekly Record Mirror in 1967, Covay said, "Singing is my first love, but I like to express my thoughts in the songs I write as well as in the way I sing them. I am always looking for experiences we all know and try to relate them through both my writing and my singing."

Covay's wife, Yvonne Darby, died in 1981. A son, Donald Covay Jr., died in 2010.

Donald Covay died after a stroke on January 31, 2015, at the age of 78 at a hospital in Franklin Square, New York.

He was survived by his four children (Wendy Covay, Wanda Richardson, Ursula Covay Parkes, Antonio Covay), three brothers (Eddie Randolph, Thomas Randolph, Leroy Randolph), and five grandchildren.

Albums

 * Mercy! (1965)
 * See Saw (1966)
 * The House of Blue Lights (1969)
 * Different Strokes for Different Folks (1972)
 * Super Dude I (1973)
 * Hot Blood (1975)
 * Travelin' in Heavy Traffic (1976)
 * Funky Yo Yo (1977)
 * Adlib (2000)
 * Super Bad (2009)

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User:Bodnotbod/Flickr

The purpose of this page is for me to draw up a message suitable for posting as a comment beneath a photo hosted on Flickr that I would like to see in Wikipedia.

Needs much more work:
 * Cut down length of message
 * Better to give a step by step tutorial on how to upload and then insert image into article.
 * Eg
 * Suggest their choices when they get to the licensing drop-down box (ie, those under I took this photograph type licenses.
 * Give basic image syntax
 * Advise to place "I have placed an image into the article, I invite other users to position / format it for me as I am a new to Wikipedia" in edit summary.

Message begins
Hello,

I am a long-standing contributor to Wikipedia. I saw the photo above and thought it would make a great addition to Wikipedia's article on insert article name at:

Insert article URL

I note that your licensing terms do not allow me to use the picture without your permission and would therefore like to invite you to add the photo to Wikipedia yourself.

About Wikipedia:

The English edition of Wikipedia can be found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

And has received extremely broad press attention, including coverage by:

The BBC

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Anews.bbc.co.uk%20wikipedia

The Times in England

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7947-1187423,00.html

And all other major news outlets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_coverage

The English edition of Wikipedia alone is currently the 45th most visited website in the world according to Alexa:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=en.wikipedia.org

So your picture has the potential to reach a wide audience.

In order to add the image I invite you to read the following:

About images in Wikipedia:

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To upload an image you would need to visit this page:

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And you would also have to release your picture under Wikipedia's licensing terms, which you may wish to consider carefully before doing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights

I hope you will consider contributing your photograph.

Best wishes,

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Agathocles

Agathocles (Greek: Ἀγαθοκλῆς) is a Greek name. The most famous person called Agathocles was Agathocles of Syracuse, the tyrant of Syracuse. The name is derived from ἀγαθός and κλέος.

Other people named Agathocles include:
 * Agathocles, a sophist, teacher of Damon
 * Agathocles (writers), was the name of a number of ancient writers, including an ancient historian referred to by Pliny and Cicero
 * Agathocles of Pella, father of Lysimachus
 * Agathocles, one of the sons of Agathocles of Syracuse from his first marriage
 * Agathocles (son of Lysimachus), the son and heir of Lysimachus
 * Agathocles, grandson of Agathocles of Syracuse with his third wife Theoxena of Syracuse
 * Agathocles of Egypt, son of the above named Agathocles; guardian of Ptolemy V Epiphanes and brother of Agathoclea, mistress of Ptolemy IV Philopator
 * Agathocles of Bactria, an Indo-Greek king who ruled about 185 BC
 * Agathocles of Samos, a Greek writer. He wrote at least one book, which was called Commonwealth of Pessinus and mentioned by Pseudo-Plutarch

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