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Wikipedia talk:Editing the main page

Move
Its a help page after all, does not belong to wiki namespace
 * Move --Cool Cat Talk 00:56, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Oppose Many of the namespace pages are help pages. Indeed the definition of it is as a namespace that provides information about Wikipedia and how to use it. --Henrygb 11:19, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Then we should atleast make a redirect from Help:Editing the main page to here, to avoid confusion. :) --Phroziac(talk)[[Image:Flag_of_Phyzech_Republic.svg|25px]] 17:25, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Move - This was actually my idea, but I guess i forgot to comment. --Phroziac(talk)[[Image:Flag_of_Phyzech_Republic.svg|25px]] 17:25, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. This move cannot be performed. The Help namespace is a mirror of the help namespace on Meta with some auto substitutions for words like "Wikipedia" instead of "Meta". This is meant to provide a common help foundation that can be used on any wiki for getting started. As such the local copies are periodically reset to match changes on Meta and we are not expected to modify it here. Help pages specific to EN Wikipedia stay in the Wikipedia space. Very general help content can be proposed for addition at Meta if you feel that is appropriate. Dragons flight 23:34, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Common sense on MainPage, please.
I was rather disturbed earlier today to find on the MainPage, specifically on selected anniversaries for July 26, an item about somebody being arrested for masturbation in an adult theatre in 1991. ( Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:July_26_selected_anniversaries&oldid=4849052 .) I have removed it right away.

I think Wikipedia should adopt some policy to prohibit various taboos on the MainPage. We have many other wonderful pages to choose. Why not use a little more common sense ? While the 'naughty' pages are available to all, and I give credit to those resourceful little brats with no classes to attend during the summer and know enough about computers to find the pages, I have to say that leaving items like masturbation on the MainPage is not that appropriate. It makes us look bad, especially in the eyes of a parent.

-- PFHLai 07:07, 2004 Jul 26 (UTC)
 * This has actually been discussed before (to death) when Gay bathhouse was nominated as a featured article. I think the ad-hoc policy was pretty much exactly what you just said - we don't censor out content, but (for fear of censorware and alike) we shouldn't "push" it on people by putting it on the main page. The understanding is that if you go to penis, don't be surprised if you find an explicit photo; the main page is not some place you'd expect to find explicit content, so we shouldn't be putting it there. →Raul654 07:13, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)

But that article isn't explicit content. RickK 18:58, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)

 * And it wasn't "somebody." As I immediately suspected from the description, it was Pee Wee Herman. It made front-page news--well, perhaps it wasn't the front page, let me check. OK, not quite. The Boston Globe put it on page 8, and this is how they carried it:

 * PEE-WEE HERMAN ARRESTED IN FLA.

 * Author: Associated Press Date: 07/28/1991 Page: 8 Section: NATIONAL/FOREIGN

 * SARASOTA, Fla. -- Children's television star Pee-wee Herman was arrested for allegedly exposing himself inside an adult theater, authorities said yesterday. Pee-wee Herman, whose real name is Paul Reubens, was arrested Friday night after undercover detectives raided the South Trail Cinema in a sting operation, a Sarasota County Sheriff's affidavit said. Reubens, 38, was charged with exposure of a sexual organ and released from the county jail after posting a $219 bond.

 * I think I would say that putting the word "masturbation" on the main page was inappropriate. Indeed, it's inappropriate on the July 26 page unless someone can cite a source that phrases it that way. The Pee Wee Herman article says "allegedly exposing himself" as does the AP article, and I think that's good enough; no need to add a plausible but unsubstaniated interpretation. And I think I would agree that the events that are only page 8 news in the real world probably shouldn't be main-page material for us.

 * But I don't think "adopting some policy" is helpful. It's not a frequent problem and we have the watchful eyes of editors such as PFHLai to take care of it when it does arise. If we don't have common sense, no policy we write is going to give us common sense. Bye now, I'm off to change "masturbation" to "allegedly exposing himself" on the July 26 page.Dpbsmith 21:20, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Most templates are now protected. -- Kizor 19:41, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Today's featured article
Are everyday's featured articles chosen at random? Trifon Triantafillidis 14:30, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * If yes then they should not. Proof: today's article.
 * If no then it is even worst. I admit it takes a huge imagination to choose Hero of Ukraine as a featured article but I still think there are more interesting things someone could read.
 * Featured articles are chosen because they are considered well written and cover their subjects well, as discussed by Wikipedians in a nomination process. They are not chosen for their broad appeal. I suspect that there will be some Ukrainians and people interested in awards who will be very pleased to see this article get such prominance. For others, just don't click through to it. Try clicking on the Random page button instead, if you're bored, or browse through the categories.

 * The appropriate place to ask this question was Talk:Main Page.-gadfium 20:11, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Pic of the day
The featured image of the day Template:Pic of the day is not mentioned on this page, and it should be. I can't wrap my head around the html/tables on this page right now to add it myself. —Pengo 02:24, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Community Portal protection status
I've noticed that unlike this page says, the Community Portal is only semi-protected. This should be undated on this page. Harryboyles 04:50, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

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United States congressional delegations from Colorado

Since Colorado became a U.S. state in 1876, it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives, beginning with the 44th United States Congress. Prior to statehood, the Colorado Territory sent non-voting delegates to the House of Representatives from 1861 to 1876. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years in general elections, with their re-election staggered. Prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were elected by the Colorado General Assembly. Each state elects varying numbers of members of the House, depending on population, to two-year terms. Colorado has sent eight members to the House in each congressional delegation since the 2020 United States Census.

Current delegation
Colorado's current congressional delegation to the consists of two senators, both of whom are Democrats, and eight representatives comprising five Democrats and three Republicans.

United States House of Representatives
The state of Colorado gained an CO's 8th congressional district beginning in 2023. The current dean of the Colorado delegation is Representative Diana DeGette of the CO's 1st congressional district, having served in the House since 1997.

United States Senate
Two senators from Colorado, Henry M. Teller and Ken Salazar, have also served as the United States Secretary of the Interior, under the Arthur administration and Obama administration respectively. Salazar is currently serving as the United States ambassador to Mexico under the Biden administration. Many senators from Colorado, including John F. Shafroth and Edwin C. Johnson, also served as the governor of Colorado. Many of Colorado's senators have been at the forefront of national politics during their careers, including Eugene Millikin, who served as the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, and Gary Hart, who finished second in the 1984 Democratic Party presidential primaries and was considered a frontrunner in the 1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries.

Senators are elected every six years depending on their class, with each senator serving a six-year term, and elections for senators occurring every two years, rotating through each class such that each election, around one-third of the seats in the Senate are up for election. Colorado's senators are elected in classes II and III. Currently, Colorado is represented in the Senate by Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper.

1861–1876: 1 non-voting delegate
Starting on August 19, 1861, the Territory of Colorado sent a non-voting delegate to the House.

1876–1893: 1 seat
Following statehood on August 1, 1876, the state of Colorado was granted one seat in the House.

1893–1903: 2 seats
Following the 1890 census, Colorado was apportioned with two seats.

1903–1913: 3 seats
Following the 1900 census, Colorado was apportioned with three seats.

1913–1973: 4 seats
Following the 1910 census, Colorado was apportioned with four seats.

1973–1983: 5 seats
Following the 1970 census, Colorado was apportioned with five seats.

1983–2003: 6 seats
Following the 1980 census, Colorado was apportioned six seats.

2003–2023: 7 seats
Following the 2000 census, Colorado was apportioned seven seats.

2023–present: 8 seats
Since the 2020 census, Colorado has been apportioned eight seats.

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Botanomancy

Botanomancy is the art of divination by burning branches of trees or herbs. The most common branches used are vervain and briar. The fire and the smoke are both read to indicate which course of action should be taken.

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Nakoruru

Nakoruru (ナコルル) is a fictional character in the Samurai Shodown (Samurai Spirits in Japan) series of fighting games by SNK. She is one of the series' best known and most popular characters alongside its main protagonist Haohmaru, and has been introduced in the original Samurai Shodown in 1993. Nakoruru is a good-hearted, young Ainu shrine maiden who loves nature and fights evil with the help of her hawk sidekick Mamahaha. She has a younger sister named Rimururu and an aggressive, and bloodthirsty darker side alter-ego known as Rera. As one of SNK's popular mascot characters, Nakoruru has also appeared in many other games and other media.

Samurai Shodown games
Nakoruru is featured as a player character in most game entries in the Samurai Shodown series, including Samurai Shodown (1993), Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits Bushidō Retsuden (a role-playing game), Samurai Shodown II, Samurai Shodown III (where she also makes background appearance in Rimururu's stage), Samurai Shodown IV, Samurai Shodown V, Samurai Shodown V Special, Samurai Shodown VI, Samurai Shodown!, Samurai Shodown 64, Samurai Shodown! 2, Samurai Shodown 64: Warriors Rage, Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny, and Samurai Shodown (2019). She is also playable in various mobile spin-off titles, such as endless runner Samurai Shodown Slash, action game Samurai: Rougetsuki Densetsu, and rising simulation Maid by Iroha.

In Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage, the spirit of Nakoruru is an unplayable story mode character, but its PocketStation mini game is centered around her. She also featured as a non-player character mentor to the protagonist in the spin-off game, Nakoruru: Ano Hito kara no Okurimono, a 2001 visual novel adventure game which takes place between the first two games in the series.

In the series, Nakoruru is a gentle and shy teenage girl serving Mother Nature as a shamanic priestess of the Ainu religion, born on Hokkaido island in 1771. Despite her usually pacifistic ways, she became a Kamui warrior of her peaceful village Kamuikotan (神居古潭) after the death of her idolized father, and continues to fulfill this role throughout the series, fighting evil, often alongside Haohmaru, and even assuming a human form after her death (when she sacrifices herself to restore the balance of nature and preserve the land for her people at the end of the second game). Eventually, she merges her soul with Gaia and becomes "the holy spirit who wanders through time" in a form that resembles a koro-pok-guru. Unable to assume her original form, she asks the player to awaken her younger sibling, Rimururu the Maiden of Light, who has been sealed by Oboro.

Nakoruru fights with a treasured ceremonial makiri (a type of Ainu dagger or short sword sometimes known as "Ainu kodachi") called the Chichi-ushi (チチウシ, Father Bull). Depending on the form, she is aided by either a mountain hawk-eagle named Mamahaha (ママハハ, in her "Slash" form) or a cross between Hokkaido wolf and Siberian wolf named Shikuru (シクルゥ, in her "Bust" form), also having other animal friends. Her powers include communicating with nature, fueling her blade with ki energy, ability to reflect a projectile back to its sender using her cloak, and healing wounds with the power of nature. American ninja Galford D. Weller is in love with her. The endings for Samurai Shodown VI revealed that Nakoruru and an alter-ego of Galford traveled the world together.

The King of Fighters games
In The King of Fighters series, Nakoruru has first appeared playable as a secret character in the Game Boy version of The King of Fighters '95 (without her animals). She also appeared as a non-playable character in The King of Fighters '94 Re-Bout, The King of Fighters 2000 (as a Special Striker for Yuri Sakazaki), The King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match, and The King of Fighters XIII (in the Japan stage and in the Android/iOS versions as a tutorial instructor ).

Nakoruru has made her canonical playable debut in The King of Fighters XIV, as the leader of the "Another World Team", playing a vital role in that new arc. In it, Nakoruru senses recent timeline changes (caused by Ash Crimson at the end of the thirteenth tournament) as a new terrible evil known as Verse is coming through a rift in time and space. To prevent that, Nakoruru travels to the present and teamed up with Dragon Gal's Mui Mui and Sky Love 's Love Heart to enter the tournament and defeat Verse. Together with Team Japan and Team Official Invitation, Nakoruru and her team manage to beat Verse, and afterwards they have fun visiting Hokkaido and China. Nakoruru and her teammates has been revealed was requested, recruited, and helped by the time traveling expert, Dr. Brown Sugar (the unplayable character from World Heroes series). Nakoruru returns as a playable character in SNK All-Star, in which she and four characters from Samurai Shodown (Haohmaru and Ukyo Tachibana) and The Last Blade (Kaede and Yuki) awaken in the modern world and must team up with Kyo Kusanagi in a fight to seal away the KOF series' antagonist Orochi.

Other video games
Besides Samurai Shodown and The King of Fighters games, Nakoruru is playable in the fighting games Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 (as an unlockable secret character ), Capcom vs. SNK 2, SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium (as rival of Capcom's Morrigan Aensland), Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, SNK Gals' Fighters, and SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy. She is also playable in various SNK games such as Neo Geo Tennis Coliseum, Quiz King of Fighters, and The Rhythm of Fighters.

Nakoruru has also made collaboration event appearances in many portable and mobile games, including AFK Arena,''Dai Shingeki RPG! Sister Quest, Dark Avenger X, Granblue Fantasy, The King of Fighters All Star, Kingdom Story: Brave Legion, Kal Kal Kal All Together, Kotatsu Mikuni Kansai Senki, Might & Magic: Elemental Guardians, The Samurai Kingdom, Honor of Kings (Wangzhe Rongyao), Yamato Chronicle, and You Are the Hero!. In Blade Smash she was redesigned as a ninja, while in Lost Saga'' she was made optionally male as well female.

Nakoruru is furthermore a non-player character in the dating sims Days of Memories: Oedo Love Scroll and Kaze Maiu Miyako de Tsukamaete!, and has a cameo of Rera as Nakoruru in Sekai de Ichiban Atsui Fuyu. She appears in cards in SNK Dream Battle and SNK vs. Capcom Card Fighters DS. She also appears as a spirit in Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, where a Mii Fighter costume based on her is available as downloadable content.

Other appearances
Nakoruru appears in an anime film Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture and in an anime OVA miniseries Nakoruru: Ano Hito kara no Okurimono (as titular lead character) and Samurai Spirits 2: Asura-Zanmaden (appearing along with Rera in both OVAs), also making a cameo in Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (in a cosplay of Reiko Chiba ), as well as in a number of manga releases (including as a co-protagonist of Kyoichi Nanatsuki and Yuki Miyoshi's adaptation of the first Samurai Shodown, which was serialized in the West in an American magazine Game On!). Authors of the many (often erotic ) Nakoruru-themed dōjin manga include Aoi Nanase, whose original take on a resurrected Nakoruru was praised by many as arguably better than official illustrations and was even later used for the creation of the series' anime adaptation. She is also featured in several of the series' drama CDs and is a member in SNK's character image band, Band of Fighters, starring in her own character image CD.

Nakoruru further shows up in pachinko slot machine systems, including prominently in "Samurai Spirits" and especially "Samurai Spirits Oni (Nakoruru)". She has dozens of figurines made in her image,    and even a life-size figure, also being featured in various other merchandise such as T-shirts, and in an American collectible card game Universal Fighting System. Keeping in key with her nature-loving persona, Nakoruru was used as a mascot for SNK's environmental awareness campaigns conducted together with city administrations in Mitaka and Kyoto in 1994. In 2007, SNK Playmore also created a social action program for children using Nakoruru and the Fatal Fury star Terry Bogard as their mascots. An image of praying Nakoruru was used to support the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami relief fund-raising.

Design and gameplay
The series' creator Yasushi Adachi chose "the two flagship characters" Haohmaru and Nakoruru as the characters that best sum up the series, with Nakoruru being "a main character in the storyline who has to fight for her life and her destiny, and sacrifices herself in the end to preserve an important cause," and thus representing "some of the most important Samurai Shodown themes." The idea for the character came from a modern Japanese perception of the indigenous Ainu people of Hokkaido, being depicted as revering nature and peacefully coexisting with it. Before the Samurai Spirit project began, one of Nakoruru's creators had thought that "one day Ainu women should have a first-class appearance" in a video game as he thought they have had received too little attention and representation in modern media.

Her costume design was based on Ainu clothing (in two main versions depending on the length of her skirt) and she was supposed to mix a concept of a "petite girl with a lovely appearance and personality" with an "innovative" character performance of commanding a hawk companion in battle. Although Nakoruru was not directly modeled after any particular existing character, Hilda from The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun and Kamui from The Dagger of Kamui helped her conception process. The girl that appears during Nakoruru's entrances in Capcom vs. SNK is one of her childhood friends introduced in Nakoruru: Ano Hito kara no Okurimono, Manari. Nakoruru was notably the first fighting game character brought back to life following her demise and one of the first who used a sidekick character in gameplay.

Nakoruru is a rather petite girl that is 153 cm tall. An alternate, palette swap version of her with tanned skin, different colors of hair and eyes, and a bigger chest is the Bust Nakoruru (羅刹ナコルル, Rasetsu Nakoruru) or EX Nakoruru, a recurring "Easter egg" type character that eventually evolved into Rera. Popularly known as Purple Nakoruru (紫ナコルル), she is a crueler and cockier version of Nakoruru, more violent about fulfilling her mission to protect nature, and her companion is Shikuru the wolf. In the 1999 anime film Samurai Spirits 2: Asura Zanmaden, Rera tries to support her host in giving up fighting for a while, but eventually she understands Nakoruru in what has to be done to help Shiki. Nakoruru leaves to help Shiki, but not before Rera warns her that if she doesn't succeed, she will kill her host. Rera later appears at the end of the film telling Nakoruru to be safe on her journey. In the fan service oriented fighting game SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy, Nakoruru appears as default in a "sexy vampire" costume with a bat as her animal, while in The King of Fighters XIV she can be dressed up in a modern schoolgirl uniform of the "Kamuikotan Private High School".

To compensate for Nakoruru's short weapon range, players must rely on her speed to punish their opponents' mistakes. Nakoruru's strengths lie in her air supremacy (including aerial throws) and ability to jump around the sides of the screen. She can also recover from her moves a little quicker than other characters, making it easier for her to hit-and-run during fights. To balance her out with the rest of the cast, her attack strength is slightly weaker than most fighters. Her move set usually incorporates slightly longer ranged attacks that project her or her animal companions to her foes so her attack range is not limited to her sword. Since Samurai Shodown II, she can also reflect projectiles with the move "Kamui Ryusei". Mamahaha can be used by the player to attack opponents in a diagonal aerial attack, acting as Nakoruru's projectile and anti-air defense. The player may also command Nakoruru to use him as a mount for a limited time. Whilst she is in the air, players can command the pair to hover higher, drop, or use Nakoruru to attack foes; she may do so normally from Mamahaha's height or players may choose to drop her in a swirl attacking motion or use a diagonal nosedive attack. Her moves' names are written in Hokkaido Ainu.

Prior to Samurai Shodown V Special, Nakoruru and Rimururu have been the series' two characters notable for being immune to the Fatality-like bloody killing moves. In Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny, Mamahaha does not appear in fights except in special moves. The presence of monkeys in Nakoruru's stage in the original Samurai Shodown was a mistake of the background designer Tomoaki Fukui which confused many fans as there are no monkeys on Hokkaido. There have been attempts to add Nakoruru into the series The King of Fighters already during the 1990s: a "Samurai Spirits Team" was originally scheduled to participate in The King of Fighters '95 and The King of Fighters '96 as Nakoruru was intended to team up with Galford and Haohmaru.

Reception and cultural impact
As an iconic Samurai Shodown and SNK character, Nakoruru has been well-received worldwide, becoming especially popular in Japan. According to The King of Fighters XIV producer Yasuyuki Oda, this was a surprise, as no one at SNK had expected her to be as popular as she was. Nakoruru was added to 2016's KOF XIV due to her enduring popularity. Her popularity also resulted in some people in Japan becoming more interested in the modern Ainu people. Nakoruru has regularly ranked as one of the best characters based on multiple variables, including by year, platform, and gender. She was named the best character of 1993 by the magazine Gamest, and she was also voted the most popular female character by male readers of Neo Geo Freak in 1997. In a 2018 Famitsu poll for the most popular Neo Geo character, Nakoruru was voted third in general and first among the female ones.

Similar to Capcom's Chun-Li, Nakoruru became particularly popular among cosplaying girls in Japan, as well as even some males, especially at Tokyo Game Show events during the 1990s. A cosplayer dressed as her is featured in Honobu Yonezawa's novel Hyōka and in its anime adaptation.

Her gameplay was commented on by critics in the west, with GamePro finding her to be weak, while Electronic Gaming Monthly felt she was "one of the deadlier fighters" in the game. She has since been included among the series' favourites of many gaming publications, including Anime News Network, GamesRadar, IGN, Joystiq, Official Xbox Magazine, and VideoGamer.com. Nakoruru's hawk, Mamahaha, was regarded as a "defining moment" of Samurai Shodown, with staff citing it as an early example of a "satellite character," which they considered innovative in fighting games.

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The Gaelic College

The Gaelic College (Colaisde na Gàidhlig), formally The Royal Cape Breton Gaelic College (Colaisde Rìoghail na Gàidhlig), is a non-profit educational institution located in the community of St. Anns, Nova Scotia, on Cape Breton Island, along the Cabot Trail. Founded in 1938, its focus has been on the perpetuation of Highland Scottish Gaelic culture.

History
Colaisde na Gàidhlig, The Gaelic College, was founded in 1938 by Presbyterian minister the Reverend A.W.R. MacKenzie, opening in a one-room log building on land in St. Ann's.

In September 2011, former Premier of Nova Scotia Rodney MacDonald was named president of the college. In December 2013, to recognize the 75th anniversary of the college's founding, its name was changed to "The Royal Cape Breton Gaelic College" (Colaisde Rìoghail na Gàidhlig) after Elizabeth II, the reigning Canadian monarch, granted permission for use of the prefix "royal", as requested to the federal Cabinet by the college's board of directors. However some, including Allan MacMaster, Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Inverness, objected to the name change as offensive to Nova Scotians descended from Highlanders who had had to leave Scotland because of the Highland Clearances. In response Kirk McRae, the Acting Chair of the Gaelic College, said it was "just an honour of name, it doesn't take away what the goals are of the college ... that is to grow the Gaelic culture." The Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada, Robert Finch, characterized the prefix as "a Canadian honour distinct from history's disputes between English and Scots." In March 2014, the board of governors decided to discontinue day-to-day use of the "royal" prefix.

In 2021, the college announced the opening of a new Gaelic-medium school at its satellite campus, Beinn Mhabu (Mabou Hill College) – the first of its kind in North America. The satellite centre will also host a Gaelic-language internet radio station, as well as artists, and will provide courses accredited by Cape Breton University.

Mission
The institution's mission is:

"To promote, preserve and perpetuate through studies in all related areas: the culture, music, language, arts, crafts, customs and traditions of immigrants from the Highlands of Scotland."

The early years of the college's history were dedicated to the instruction of the Scottish Gaelic language, which, in the 1930s, was under significant threat of dying out. It had once been spoken by over 100,000 Nova Scotians until the advent of modern transport and communications in the early 20th century began to force English assimilation in the agrarian economies of Cape Breton Island and Nova Scotia.

Today, the organization has a broader mandate to preserve the culture of the Scottish Highlanders, who settled in the area. Thousands of students from all over North America and around the world attend both summer sessions and courses held throughout the year. The college is also home base for organizations like the Cape Breton Fiddlers' Association and the annual Celtic Colours International Festival.

Program
The college's curriculum covers the following:
 * Gaelic language
 * Gaelic song
 * Gaelic history
 * Gaelic storytelling
 * Gaelic drama
 * Highland bagpiping
 * Cape Breton fiddling
 * Cape Breton piano accompaniment
 * Guitar accompaniment
 * Cape Breton step dance
 * Scottish highland dance
 * Bodhrán
 * Celtic harp
 * Tin Whistle
 * Celtic weaving and textiles

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Category:Wards of Tokyo

Each such special ward has a status equivalent to a city in Japan. In this way they differ from ordinary wards within cities.

See also: Category:Wards of cities in Japan and Category:Dissolved municipalities of Tokyo.

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Category:Tokyo

Tokyo (東京; Tōkyō) is a metropolis located in the Kantō region on the island of Honshū, Japan containing the central part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The capital is considered to be the ward Shinjuku.

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VP-10

Patrol Squadron 10 (VP-10) is a United States Navy Patrol Squadron based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It is nicknamed the "Red Lancers" and is equipped with the Boeing P-8A Poseidon. It is the third squadron to be designated VP-10. The first VP-10 was redesignated VP-2D15 on 21 September 1927 and the second VP-10 was redesignated VP-25 on 1 July 1939.

1951-1990

 * February – June 1954: VP-10 deployed to various locations in the Caribbean area during the Guatemala coup d'état and a tense revolutionary atmosphere in Central America. Detachments were located at Lajes Field, Azores, Roosevelt Roads Naval Station San Juan, Puerto Rico, NAS Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and NAS Key West, Florida.
 * October 1954: VP-10 deployed to NAS Keflavik, Iceland. During the period of Icelandic patrols, the squadron was tasked with conversion from the P2V-5 to the newer P2V-5F, which necessitated sending crews to Burbank, California, to pick up the replacement aircraft at the factory. The transition was completed prior to the return of the squadron to NAS Brunswick in January 1955.
 * 1957: VP-10 deployed to NAS Argentia, Newfoundland. During the deployment the squadron participated in the annual exercise Operation Springboard at Roosevelt Roads. Before returning to home base in late 1957, the squadron flew to Thule Air Base, Greenland, to collect valuable information on the location and movement of ice formations in the northeast areas of Canada and Greenland.
 * July 1958: VP-10 was split into two detachments. One detachment deployed to Iceland with six aircraft to plot the ice coverage over the Denmark Strait. During the deployment the detachment visited Norway, Denmark, Holland, England, Germany and French Morocco. The second detachment flew to Lebanon and provided support during the Lebanon Crisis. Following the end of the crisis, they visited Spain, Morocco, Italy, Greece, Libya and Malta.
 * February 1959: A three-aircraft detachment visited Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. A second detachment of three aircraft visited Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Dutch Guyana. The flights were intended to bolster the faltering democratic governments of South American allies with a demonstration of U.S. military power and the "long reach" of Navy patrol squadrons.
 * September 1960: VP-10 conducted a "Hurrivac," flying to Battle Creek, Michigan, to escape Hurricane Donna. At the end of the month, a part of the squadron deployed to NAS Argentia, Newfoundland, for one week to assist the fleet in Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercises.
 * 6–29 January 1961: VP-10 conducted a split deployment with six aircraft deployed to Naval Station Rota, Spain, and five aircraft to Keflavik, Iceland. On 27 Jan 1961, the Rota detachment received an unusual request from the Portuguese government to assist in the search for Santa Maria, a hijacked Portuguese liner. The detachment operated briefly from the Isle DeSal in the Cape Verde Islands from 27 to 29 January 1961, before Portuguese authorities captured the ship.
 * 7 November 1961: A VP-10 P2V-5F Neptune flying on ASW patrol crashed into the ocean with the loss of all 11 crewmen.
 * 10 October 1962: VP-10 deployed a four-aircraft detachment to Lajes Field in support of the Cuban Quarantine.
 * 13 April 1963: VP-10 flew SAR flights in an attempt to locate the missing nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593). After several hours of searching, a squadron aircraft spotted an oil slick at 41°43'N 64°57'W and radioed the position to surface vessels involved in the search. Remote submersible cameras located the wreckage, but all hands were lost.
 * 30 January 1966: VP-10 deployed to NAS Keflavik, relieving VP-21. A detachment of the squadron also deployed to NAS Argentia. VP-10 was the first patrol squadron on that station with the P-3A Orion. The squadron transitioned to the newer P-3B upon return from deployment in June.
 * 13 January 1967: VP-10 deployed to NAS Keflavik with five of its new P-3Bs. Four other crews deployed to Puerto Rico to take part in the annual Operation Springboard exercises at Roosevelt Roads. Upon completion, three aircraft deployed to Lajes Field, while the fourth rejoined the squadron at NAS Keflavik.
 * 15 March 1974: The squadron lost P-3B, BuNo. 152749, in a crash at sea 41 mi from NAS Brunswick, Maine. The crash resulted in the death of all five crew members and ended the squadron's record of 95,232 accident-free flying hours.
 * 9 August 1978: VP-10 deployed to NAS Bermuda, during which the squadron received a Meritorious Unit Commendation for its achievements in tracking Soviet submarines.
 * January – September 1980: The squadron began receiving the updated P-3C UII aircraft at the rate of one per month. The squadron's P-3Bs were transferred to fleet reserve squadrons.
 * 2 January 1980: A detachment of P-3B Orions of VP-10 deployed to NS Rota, flew photoreconnaissance missions to locate areas damaged by an earthquake which struck the Azores the day before, killing some 50 people and injuring another 500.
 * 26 July 1981: VP-10 deployed to NAS Keflavik. During the deployment the squadron was engaged in operation Ocean Venture against numerous friendly "targets." One of the players in the exercise turned out to be a Soviet Papa-class submarine that had wandered into the area while trying to conduct surveillance of the NATO surface activities. The successful exposure of the submarine and the squadron's general performance during the deployment earned VP-10 a Meritorious Unit Commendation from the Secretary of the Navy.
 * 25 October – 2 November 1983: VP-10 provided several aircraft and crews for patrols in the vicinity of Grenada during the U.S. Invasion of Grenada.
 * 13 September 1989: A VP-10 P-3C Orion deployed on anti-drug patrol in the Puerto Rico operating area spotted a suspicious ship in the offshore waters of the Dominican Republic. Authorities were notified and the suspects were caught on the beach 11 mi from Santo Domingo attempting to off-load 2,930 pounds of pure cocaine.
 * 1 June 1991: VP-10 deployed to NAS Sigonella, Sicily and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The deployment had originally been planned for the Caribbean, but two factors changed those plans abruptly at the last moment: the disestablishment of VP-44 and Operation Desert Storm.

1990-2015

 * January - July 1993: Deployed to NAS Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico in support of counter-drug operations in the Caribbean.
 * August 1994 - February 1995: Deployed to NAS Sigonella, Sicily in support of NATO operations Sharp Guard and Deny Flight in the Adriatic Sea related to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
 * In 1996, VP-10 transitioned to the P-3C Update III. After completing transition to the P-3C Aircraft Improvement Program (AIP) in late 1998, the squadron deployed to the European theater of operations in support of the Kosovo War and were the first to conduct P-3 overland strike operations.
 * In the 2000s, VP-10 deployed multiple times in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and more recently, maritime security and anti-piracy operations in support of Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa.
 * In 2005, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommended that Brunswick Naval Air Station be closed and the squadron be moved to Naval Air Station Jacksonville. The squadron completed the home port change in December 2009 following their return from a combined Central and Africa Command deployment.

2015 - present

 * March 2015: The squadron started the transition to the P-8A Poseidon, their first transition in 50 years.
 * September 2015: VP-10 completed the transition to the P-8A and completed a 12-month Fleet Readiness Training Plan in preparation for an upcoming deployment to United States Seventh Fleet.
 * September 2016: The Red Lancers departed Jacksonville on their inaugural P-8A deployment to United States Seventh Fleet. The squadron provided critical intelligence through Maritime Domain Awareness, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, and Anti-Submarine Warfare flights. In the span of six months, VP-10 detached to 16 different locations, conducted over 652 sorties, and flew over 3,600 hours in the Pacific theater.
 * 2017: During their inter-deployment Fleet Response Training Plan (FRTP) training period, the Lancers conducted numerous operational detachments. In the Fall of 2017, Lancers flew P-8's on Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) missions in Texas, Florida and U.S. Virgin Islands after Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, and Irma. During the same time, VP-10 also surged aircraft and crews to support TASW operations in Europe. In November, VP-10 sent an aircraft and personnel to Argentina to help search for the stricken submarine ARA San Juan. That effort led to a Meritorious Unit Citation for the squadron.
 * 2018: VP-10 deployed to the United States Sixth Fleet Area of Responsibility, flying nearly 5,000 hours while conducting ASW, ISR, CSG support, Theatre Security and Cooperation, and numerous NATO and Allied exercises in over a dozen detachments to 9 countries. VP-10 was awarded the 2018 Battle Effectiveness Award.

Aircraft assignments
The squadron was assigned the following aircraft, effective on the dates shown:
 * P-2V-2 - March 1951
 * P-2V-3 - 1952
 * P-2V-5 - 1954
 * P-2V-5F - December 1954
 * P-2V-5F Mod - October 1960
 * P-3A - July 1965
 * P-3B - January 1967
 * P-3C UII - January 1980
 * P-3C UII.5 - 1993
 * P-3C UIIIR - 1995
 * P-8A - 2015

Home port assignments
The squadron was assigned to these home ports, effective on the dates shown:
 * NAS Jacksonville, Florida - 10 March 1951
 * NAS Brunswick, Maine - February 1952
 * NAS Jacksonville, Florida - December 2009

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USS Woolsey (DD-77)

The first USS Woolsey (DD-77) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Melancthon Taylor Woolsey.

History
Woolsey was laid down on 1 November 1917 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works. The ship was launched on 17 September 1918, sponsored by Mrs. Elise Campau Wells. The destroyer was commissioned on 30 September 1918, Lieutenant Commander Frederick V. McNair, Jr. in command.

After trials out of Bath and outfitting at the Boston Navy Yard and the Newport Torpedo Station, Woolsey headed for New York on 9 October to join the battleship USS Virginia (BB-13) before sailing for Europe. On 13 October, she and Virginia departed New York harbor in the screen of Convoy HX 52. After a relatively uneventful voyage, the convoy was turned over to a British escort force on 22 October. Woolsey then set course for Buncrana, located in the far northern portion of Ireland, and arrived there on 23 October. Two days later, she departed Buncrana and stood down the Irish Sea en route to Ponta Delgada in the Azores. After fueling at Ponta Delgada on 30 October, the destroyer continued her voyage home and reentered New York on 5 November. After about a month at New York, during which time hostilities ended under the armistice of 11 November, Woolsey left New York on her way back to Europe to join the American naval contingent assigned there for postwar duty. She arrived in Brest, France on 20 December and reported for duty to the Commander, Naval Forces Europe.

For the next seven months, she performed various missions for the United States' naval establishment in Europe. Her primary mission consisted of runs between Brest and ports in southern England – notably Plymouth and Southampton – transporting passengers and mail. On 11 March 1919, she was one of the four American destroyers to escort SS George Washington into Brest when that ship arrived with President Woodrow Wilson embarked. After a four-month return to cross-channel runs between England and France, Woolsey was honored a second time when she was assigned duty as one of George Washington's escorts for President Wilson's return voyage to the U.S. from the Versailles peace conference. She departed Brest late in June 1919 in company with George Washington and arrived in Hampton Roads on 8 July.

Ten days later, Woolsey put to sea again bound for a new assignment – the Pacific Fleet. She reached Panama on 24 July, transited the Panama Canal, and headed for maneuvers in the Hawaiian Islands. At the completion of those maneuvers, she returned to the continental United States at San Diego. On 31 May 1920, the destroyer was placed out of commission at the Mare Island Navy Yard – probably for an extensive overhaul because she was recommissioned again on 20 October. For the remainder of her relatively brief career, Woolsey operated with the Pacific Fleet along the western coast of North America. While operating off the Pacific coast of Panama near Coiba Island early on the morning of 26 February 1921, Woolsey was cut in half during a collision with the merchant ship SS Steel Inventor and sank. There were 100 survivors, 17 injured, and 16 killed. Only one body was recovered. Survivors were rescued by her sister ship, USS Aaron Ward (DD-132).

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Space Ace

Space Ace is a LaserDisc video game produced by Bluth Group, Cinematronics and Advanced Microcomputer Systems (later renamed RDI Video Systems). It was unveiled in October 1983, just four months after the Dragon's Lair game, followed by a limited release in December 1983 and then a wide release in Spring 1984. Like its predecessor, it featured film-quality animation played back from a LaserDisc.

The gameplay is similar to Dragon's Lair, requiring the player to move the joystick or press the fire button at key moments in the animated sequences to govern the hero's actions. There is also the occasional option to either temporarily have the character transform into his adult form or remain as a boy with different styles of challenge.

The arcade game was a commercial success in North America, but was unable to achieve the same level of success as Dragon's Lair. It was later ported to a number of home systems.

Gameplay
Like Dragon's Lair, Space Ace is composed of numerous individual scenes, which require the player to move the joystick in the right direction or press the fire button at the right moment to overcome the various hazards Dexter/Ace faces. Space Ace introduced a few gameplay enhancements, most notably selectable skill levels and multiple paths through several of the scenes. At the start of the game, the player could select one of three skill levels: "Cadet", "Captain" or "Space Ace" for easy, medium and hard respectively; only by choosing the toughest skill level could the player see all the sequences in the game (only around half the scenes are played on the easiest setting). A number of the scenes had "multiple choice" moments when the player could select how to act, sometimes by deciding which way to turn in a passageway, or by choosing whether or not to react to the on-screen "ENERGIZE" message and transform back into his Ace form. Most scenes also have separate, horizontally flipped versions. Dexter usually progresses through scenes by avoiding obstacles and enemies, but Ace goes on the offensive, attacking enemies rather than running away; although Dexter does occasionally have to use his pistol on enemies when it is necessary to advance. An example can be seen in the first scene of the game, when Dexter is escaping from Borf's robot drones. If the player presses the fire button at the right moment, Dexter transforms temporarily into Ace and can fight them, whereas if the player chooses to stay as Dexter, the robots' drill attacks must be dodged instead.

Plot
Space Ace follows the adventures of the dashing hero Dexter, better known as "Ace". Ace is on a mission to stop the villainous Commander Borf, who is seeking to attack Earth with his "Infanto Ray" to render Earthlings helpless by reverting them into infants. At the start of the game, Ace is partially hit by the Infanto Ray, which reverts him into an adolescent, and Borf kidnaps his female sidekick Kimberly, who thus becomes the game's damsel in distress. It is up to the player to guide Ace, in his adolescent form of Dexter, through a series of obstacles in pursuit of Borf, in order to rescue Kimberly and prevent Borf from using the Infanto Ray to conquer Earth. However, Dexter has a wristwatch gadget which optionally allows him to "ENERGIZE" and temporarily reverse the effects of the Infanto-Ray, to turn him back into Ace for a short time and overcome more difficult obstacles in a heroic manner. The game's attract mode introduces the player to the story via narration and dialogue.

Voices

 * Will Finn as Dexter/Baby Borf
 * Jeff Etter as Ace
 * Lorna Cook as Kimberly
 * Don Bluth as Borf/Aliens/Dark Side Dexter/Dark Side Ace
 * Michael Rye as Narrator

Development
The animation for Space Ace was produced by the same team that tackled the earlier Dragon's Lair, headed by ex-Disney animator Don Bluth. To keep the production costs down, the studio again chose to use its staff to provide voices for the characters rather than hire actors (one exception is Michael Rye, who reprises his role as the narrator of the attract sequence in Dragon's Lair). Bluth himself provides the (electronically altered) voice of Commander Borf. In an interview about the game, Bluth stated that had the studio been able to afford more professional actors, he thought Paul Shenar would have been more suitable for the role of Borf than himself. The game's animation features some rotoscoping, wherein models were built of Ace's spaceship "Star Pac", his motorcycle, and the tunnel in the game's dogfight sequence, then filmed and traced over to render moving animated images with very realistic depth and perspective.

The game's budget was $2.5 million.

Format
Space Ace was made available to distributors in two different formats: a dedicated cabinet, and a conversion kit that could be used to turn an existing copy of Dragon's Lair into a Space Ace game. Early version #1 production units of the dedicated Space Ace game were actually issued in Dragon's Lair style cabinets. The latter version #2 dedicated Space Ace units came in a different, inverted style cabinet. The conversion kit included the Space Ace laserdisc, new EPROMs containing the game program, an additional circuit board to add the skill level buttons, and replacement artwork for the cabinet. The game originally used the Pioneer LD-V1000 or PR-7820 laserdisc players, but an adaptor kit now exists to allow Sony LDP series players to be used as replacements if the original player is no longer functional.

Ports
Numerous versions of Space Ace were created for home computers and game systems, most of which attempted to mimic the arcade version's lushly animated hand-drawn footage, with varying degrees of success. Along with the floppy disk-based versions for Amiga, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, MS-DOS and Macintosh, ReadySoft issued a CD-ROM version featuring downsampled video for MS-DOS and Macintosh which preserved almost all of the original laserdisc content. A sequel, Space Ace II: Borf's Revenge, was created and shipped on floppy disk for the aforementioned computer platforms mixing new animation with scenes from the original game that were left out of the previous version due to large file sizes.

In 1991, Leland Corporation released a slightly updated version of Space Ace in the form of a conversion kit for the then recently released Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp. The updated version added more complicated moves (including diagonal moves), and dropped the easier skill levels, meaning only the "Ace" (difficult) level could be played.

In 1993, Space Ace was released for the Philips CD-i (Compact Disc Interactive). It was later released on the Sega CD in 1994.

Space Ace was also released for the SNES by Absolute Entertainment in 1994 under the same name. However, since a SNES cartridge has limited storage, it ended up being a top-down perspective action game with levels based on the scenes from the original. In order to see the credits, the player must get an "Ace" rank on every level, meaning that they must have near-perfect accuracy and collect all the disks found throughout the game.

The Dragon's Lair Deluxe Pack released by Digital Leisure in 1997 featured Space Ace along with both arcade Dragon's Lair games. They also released a version of Space Ace on DVD that could be played on most DVD players, although it lacked the skill level select of the arcade version, and also played somewhat differently (if the player made a mistake on the arcade version they simply picked up again roughly where they left off, whereas the DVD version made the player replay the entire scene from the beginning).

DAPHNE, an emulator for laserdisc based games, can emulate both the original and 1991 versions. It requires the ROM files plus the original laserdisc to run. Alternatively, an MPEG-2 video stream and Ogg Vorbis audio stream can be substituted for the laserdisc. These streams can be generated from the original laserdisc or from Digital Leisure's DVD.

As with Dragon's Lair, a comic book miniseries incorporating elements from both the game and its Saturday Supercade version (such as Ace randomly changing into Dexter and back, instead of "energizing" back into Ace) was released in 2003 by Crossgen Publishing.

In the December 2003 issues of PSW (PlayStation World) and XBW (Xbox World), a free disk was given away with the magazine featuring Space Ace on one side (accompanied by trailers for similar games), and trailers for upcoming games on the other.

In May 2009, the game was made available on iOS.

In October 2010, Space Ace appeared on Wii as part of the Dragon's Lair Trilogy, which also features Dragon's Lair and Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp. It was later released as DSiWare in North America on December 6 and in the PAL region on December 31.

The PlayStation 3 port by Digital Leisure was released through the PlayStation Network on February 22, 2011.

An Android port of the game was released on December 28, 2012, via Google Play.

In August 2013, the game was made available through Steam.

In July 2015, Rebecca Heineman released the source code from a reverse engineered Apple IIGS version (dating back from 1990) on GitHub.

There is a compilation sold on the PlayStation Store also called Dragon's Lair Trilogy, which contains the original Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp as a set.

Space Ace appeared on Nintendo Switch as part of the Dragon's Lair Trilogy (a possible port of the Wii release), which also features Dragon's Lair and Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp in January 2019.

An NES version of Space Ace was developed, but never released.

In July/August 2022, Brutal Deluxe developed and released an improved version of the existing Space Ace port, as well a new port of Space Ace II: Borg's Revenge, for the Apple IIGS (the latter reportedly completed in 1991 by ReadySoft, but never released)

Reception
In the United Kingdom, it was the top-selling CD-i game in April 1994.

The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the CD-i version a 7.75 out of 10. They described it as a "pixel perfect" conversion of the arcade game, though they criticized that the game lacks replay value.

In their review of the Sega CD version, GamePro gave the game an overall score of 3.9 out of 5, remarking that the game 'unfortunately highlights the color bleeding of the Sega CD', but praised the story, voicing, and music, and concluded "Space Ace is great for animation buffs or gamers who enjoyed Dragon's Lair". Next Generation gave the Sega CD version two out of five stars, criticizing the game's story as "juvenile" and the gameplay as 'overly limited': "The only way to beat any of the game's 13 stages is to play through it over and over until your reactions are automatic. You could surely train a monkey to do the same thing".

A reviewer for Next Generation gave the PC version two out of five stars, commenting that "Don Bluth's LaserDisc classic remains an entertaining cartoon attached to the antithesis of interactivity. ... Space Ace does manage to come out looking and sounding almost exactly like the original arcade adventure, but in the end, that's not necessarily a good thing".

Entertainment Weekly gave the game a B− and wrote that "Space Ace is part of a unique genre of CD games, the so-called decision point disc, in which, instead of controlling your character's every movement, you respond to specific threats. But Space Ace is a mixed blessing at best. It features terrific Don Bluth animation and an amusing plot involving the evil Commander Borf and his Infanto Ray. On the other hand, thanks to very tricky timing, it's such a frustrating experience you may want to turn the disc into a Frisbee".

Sequel
Space Ace II: Borf's Revenge is a continuation of the home computer version of Space Ace, mostly featuring content that could not fit in available storage space on said version. It was released for Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS and Macintosh in 1991. An Apple IIGS port was also completed, but never released (detailed IIGS loading instructions appear in the manual for the other ports). A new Apple IIGS conversion was developed and released by Brutal Deluxe in 2022, based on the DOS version.

Other media
A short-lived cartoon series based on Space Ace was produced in 1984 as part of the Saturday Supercade cartoon block (which was composed of animated shorts based on then-current video games) with Ace voiced by Jim Piper, Dexter voiced by Sparky Marcus, Kimberly voiced by Nancy Cartwright, and Commander Borf voiced by Arthur Burghardt. Twelve Space Ace episodes were produced.

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The Xindi

"The Xindi" is the 53rd episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the first episode of the third season. It first aired on September 10, 2003, on the UPN. The episode was written by executive producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, and directed by Allan Kroeker.

Set in the 22nd century, the series follows the adventures of the first Starfleet starship Enterprise, registration NX-01. Beginning with this episode, season three of Enterprise features an ongoing storyline following an attack on Earth by previously unknown aliens called the Xindi at the end of season two. In this episode, the crew of the Enterprise attempt to track down the location of the Xindi homeworld by asking a lone Xindi enslaved in a mining colony. After being tricked by the mining foreman, Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III (Connor Trinneer) escape with the Xindi, with assistance from Lieutenant Malcolm Reed (Dominic Keating) and the ship's new Military Assault Command Operations (MACO) team.

"The Xindi" saw the first appearance of several new sets, as well as a new costume for Sub-Commander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock). The episode saw a large number of guest stars, including several who would recur several more times during the third season such as Major Hayes played by Steven Culp, Tucker Smallwood as the Xindi-Primate Councilor and Randy Oglesby as Degra. The episode received ratings of 2.6/5 percent according to Nielsen Media Research, and was watched by 4.1 million viewers. "The Xindi" received a mixed reception from critics, who praised the increase of action promised for the season by this episode but criticised elements such as the writing and the MACOs.

Plot
As Enterprise travels deeper into the Delphic Expanse, a secret council of aliens discuss what to do with the lone human spaceship. Meanwhile, Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) directs Enterprise to a mining penal colony within the Expanse. He then strikes a deal with the mine's foreman (Stephen McHattie): in exchange for a half-liter of liquid platinum, Archer and Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III (Connor Trinneer) will be allowed to meet a Primate worker named Kessick (Richard Lineback).

Archer requests the coordinates of Xindus, the Xindi homeworld, from Kessick (who reveals that he is one of five Xindi species). But the alien refuses to help unless Archer helps him escape. Archer declines, but he soon learns that the foreman had ulterior motives, since he has ordered three warships to overpower Enterprise and enslave his crew. Kessick claims to know how to escape the mine, but asks for Archer's help in return for guiding the Starfleet officers. Archer reluctantly agrees, and Kessick leads him and Tucker through the mine's sewage removal system. However, the group is soon detected in a conduit, and the foreman floods the system with plasma in an effort to kill them. They narrowly escape being killed, but quickly fall into the hands of the mine's security forces.

Meanwhile, Sub-Commander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) persuades Lieutenant Malcolm Reed (Dominic Keating) to allow the newly assigned MACOs (Military Assault Command Operations) to attempt an extraction. Led by him, they perform remarkably well in combat, and manage to rescue Archer, Tucker, and Kessick. Enterprise then leaves orbit just as the warships arrive. Kessick dies, but not before providing coordinates for the Xindi homeworld. When the ship reaches this position, there is nothing but a 120-year-old field of space debris.

Character development
"Vulcan Neuro-Pressure" becomes a routine Enterprise activity beginning with this episode and provides the structure for the ongoing development of the "Trip'Pol" (Trip + T'Pol) relationship, further sexualizing both actor Blalock and her character T'Pol as she appears topless alone in the same room with Trip. As noted previously, Trip can't sleep because he is haunted by his sister's death. Quantum anomalies from The Expanse (which will be explored throughout Season 3 in general and in the next episode in particular) are disturbing T'Pol's ability to sleep as well. Vulcan Neuro-Pressure (VNP) can release mental stresses and allow sleep probability to increase. Because of these weaknesses, the two agree to "treat" each other.

Production
The episode followed up on the plot introduced in the final instalment of the second season in which a probe from an unknown alien species attacks Earth. A number of new sets and costumes were required, with preparations beginning for some departments up to three weeks before filming began. One change which was made was a new outfit for T'Pol, with costume tests taking place a week in advance of filming. The redesign was due to studio executives wanting the show to appeal more to the 18–49 male demographic. The production team looked to emulate the mid-series boost that the introduction of Seven of Nine provided on Star Trek: Voyager. Kate O'Hara of New York Magazine later chided in reference to the change, "Women of the future will certainly choose to wear tight, uncomfortable, skin-tight catsuits!"

"The Xindi" was seen as a new pilot by executive producers Brannon Braga and Rick Berman, who also wrote the episode. Braga said: "We were re-establishing an Enterprise that was going to be a little bit different this year, so we had to think of it in those terms." They felt the best way to do this was to immediately reveal the Xindi to the audience, and to give the MACOs something to do in order to introduce them. He called it a "big episode" as they sought to set up the rest of season. The shoot began on June 26, 2003, taking nine days instead of the usual seven to complete. One of the special effects used ground Styrofoam, which had been dyed blue and processed through a wood chipper, to represent the mineral Trellium-D. The Styrofoam particles stuck to the actors' shoes and costumes and ended up being spread throughout the Paramount lot where the series was filmed. It would turn up in unexpected places on set for the rest of the series, and was found in among the sets as they were being dismantled after the end of season four.

Guest cast

"The Xindi" featured several actors who would reappear throughout the season. These included the MACO marines under the command of Major Hayes, played by Steven Culp, in his first of five episodes. At the time of his appearance in "The Xindi", he felt that he did not have any characterisation to work with. During the production of his second episode, "The Shipment", Culp read an article in the Los Angeles Times about a troubled youth who joined the military and in serving in the Iraq War had found himself. After discussing it with the director, this became the basis for the character. Daniel Dae Kim made his first of three appearances as Corporal Chang; he had previously appeared as Gotana-Retz in the Voyager episode "Blink of an Eye". Nathan Anderson had previously appeared as Namon in the Voyager episode "Nemesis"; he made one further appearance as Sergeant Kemper in the following episode, "Anomaly".

Other actors included the members of the Xindi council. As with Kim and Anderson, Tucker Smallwood had already appeared on Voyager, as Admiral Bullock in the episode "In the Flesh". He appeared as his Xindi character nine times during the third season of Enterprise. Randy Oglesby, who played Degra, was another Voyager alumnus. He had appeared as Kir in the episode "Counterpoint". Rick Worthy had appeared as several different characters in the Star Trek franchise, including an appearance in the 1998 film Star Trek: Insurrection. As well as Kornan in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Soldiers of the Empire", he too had appeared in Voyager, but in two roles; first as the androids 3947 and 122 in "Prototype" and then as Noah Lessing in "Equinox". In addition, making a return to the Star Trek franchise was Stephen McHattie, who had previously appeared as the Romulan senator Vreenak in the Deep Space Nine episode "In the Pale Moonlight".

Reception
"The Xindi" was first aired in the United States on UPN on September 10, 2003. According to Nielsen Media Research, it received a 2.6/5 percent share among adults. This means that it was seen by 2.6 percent of all households, and five percent of all of those watching television at the time of the broadcast. It was estimated that "The Xindi" was watched by 4.1 million viewers. The following episode, "Anomaly", received the same rating but the viewer number increased by 200,000.

Robert Bianco reviewed "The Xindi" for USA Today, giving it two out of four stars. He said that while the Xindi storyline "does promise to provide more action and excitement", some of the alterations "smack[ed] of desperation". He called T'Pol "Seven of Vulcan", and said the main issue with the series was the "subpar" writing. In this episode, he felt that Tucker was written so poorly that Trineer seemed like he was overacting to compensate for it. Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described the new season as "less boring", he appreciated the faster pace than most episodes "but it does trip over itself", but criticized the incomprehensible aliens and ridiculous seduction scene between T'Pol and Trip.

IGN gave it one out of five, and said it was "like watching a television episode made up of all the things from the 'Stuff We've Tried That Doesn't Work on Star Trek' list." Criticism was directed at the introduction of the MACOs, which were described as Starship Troopers clones, and at the modification to the theme tune. The Xindi themselves were described as "bad Farscape knock offs", and the reviewer said that they set a poor tone for the rest of the season. Aint It Cool News gave it 2.5 out of five, and wrote: "This is easily the most mundane and haphazardly constructed of the Enterprise season openers." Michelle Erica Green of TrekNation said she was of a "double mind" about "The Xindi" as there were both good and bad elements. She praised the action sequences, the make-up and McHattie as the alien foreman. Green enjoyed the twist at the end with the Xindi homeworld being already destroyed, and felt that the Xindi species could be interesting if developed well. She wondered if the writers had learned at all from past mistakes, as the show was still not doing a good job with the dramatic tension among characters. She said the guest Xindi was given "more personality, wit and depth than any of these new semi-regulars" and feared the MACO's would not get the character development they would need, as it still had not happened for Mayweather after two seasons.

Novelization
"The Xindi" was adapted as a novel in conjunction with the preceding episode, "The Expanse", by J.M. Dillard. Entitled The Expanse, the book was published by Pocket Books in trade paperback format in October 2003.

Home media release
The first home media release of "The Xindi" was as part of the season three DVD box set, released in the United States on September 27, 2005. The Blu-ray release of Enterprise was released on January 7, 2014.

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Xidan

Xidan (Chinese: 西单; Pinyin: Xīdān) is a major traditional commercial area in Beijing, China. It is located in the Xicheng District.

The Xidan commercial district incorporates the Xidan Culture Square, North Xidan Street, as well as many supermarkets and department stores. The Xidan Cultural Square is the largest venue for cultural events with shopping nearby in downtown Beijing.

Area
Xidan occupies around 80 hectares (197.7 Acres) within the Xicheng District.

Name
The name Xidan (literally, "West Single") came from the paifang that existed on one of the streets there. In this context, the name "Xidan" refers to the single (单) paifang that existed on the west side (西) of the city.

The paifang was rebuilt in 2008, and now stands at the Xidan Culture Square.

History

Xidan began to develop in the Ming Dynasty as an area alongside the passage for traders from Southwestern China to enter Beijing. Restaurants and shops were eventually built for these merchants. Eventually, as the Western part of the city became the residential area for officials, Xidan became a commercial area. The location of several government agencies when Beijing was under the administration of the Republic of China also helped Xidan's economic growth.

The area began to experience massive growth in the 1950s, as the population of Beijing began to move westwards. By the 1970s, Xidan, along with Qianmen and Wangfujing, became the three major commercial areas in Beijing.

Currently, the area is known throughout Beijing as a shopping area. Many malls and department stores have stores within the area, the oldest of which is the China branch of the Taiwanese department store Chungyo.

Xidan is also home to Lingjing Alley, which, at 32m (34 yards), is considered to be the broadest hutong in Beijing.

Xidan Wall
Xidan Wall, also called Democracy Wall, is a long brick wall on Xidan Street. Erected in 1978, the event is generally recognized as the beginning of the Beijing Spring. Xidan Wall played a significant role in the democracy movement in Beijing during the summer of 1979. It was at that time where the wall received a significant number of posters that criticized China's leaders. Even an award-winning Canadian journalist John Fraser put up his own "dazibao," whose notice about a lost gold signet ring that concluded in vague political sentiment bizarrely resulted in his addressing the 1979 summer masses in Tiananmen Square. However, by December 1979, Beijing's municipal government banned the posting of wall posters on Xidan Wall in an attempt to curtail the democracy movement. The municipal government instead allowed allow posters on a site within Yuetan Park, a small park located in Beijing, but required registration with the city and an agreement to be "held responsible for political and legal implications of their messages." Eventually, the most widely regarded poster writer for Xidan Wall, Wei Jingsheng, was sent to prison.

Transportation
The area is served by Xidan station, which is an interchange between Line 1 and Line 4 of the Beijing Subway system. In addition, many Beijing Bus lines serve the area.

Government and infrastructure
The Chinese Ministry of Education is headquartered in Damucang Hutong, Xidan.

Education
Beijing Xidan Primary School (S: 北京市西单小学, P: Běijīng Shì Xīdān Xiǎoxué) serves Xidan. The school's predecessor was a private school, Jiemin Primary School (洁民小学), established in 1934. The Ministry of Education took control in 1953. In 1958 Jiemin merged with Xidan Toutiao Primary School (西单头条小学) and Baimiao Primary School (白庙小学). The school received its current name in August 2002.

Future
The Chinese Government has targeted Xidan in its 11th Five Year Plan, which is scheduled to conclude by 2010, with a stated mission of improving the area's environment, as well as diversifying the genre of stores that open in the area. Portions of the plan were already completed in the run up to the 2008 Olympic Games.

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LaGrange College

LaGrange College is a private college in LaGrange, Georgia. Founded in 1831 as a female educational institution, LaGrange is the oldest private college in Georgia. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and offers more than 55 academic and pre-professional programs, including graduate degrees in education.

History
On December 26, 1831, the charter for LaGrange Female Academy was granted by the Georgia Legislature. Most of the Creek Indians had been removed from the LaGrange area six years before and relocated to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. At the time, the only other college in the state was Franklin College, now the University of Georgia.

The college began as a women's academy (high-school level), housed in a large white building down the street from where the current campus was developed. A few years later, in 1851, the institution moved to its present location on "the Hill," the highest geographical point in the city of LaGrange.

In 1847, the school was renamed as LaGrange Female Institute, and the charter was amended to allow the school the power to confer degrees. The name was changed to LaGrange Female College in 1851, with the adoption of a four-year curriculum.

The Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South took ownership of the college in 1856. Today, it is an institution of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church.

As discussions continued about admitting men, LaGrange Female College became LaGrange College in 1934. In 1953, the institution's Board of Trustees officially made it coeducational.

The size of the campus doubled in 1992 thanks to the donation of land and facilities from the Callaway Foundation, which included Callaway Auditorium, Callaway Education Building, six tennis courts, two softball fields, sites for Cleaveland Baseball Field and the soccer field, and a swimming pool that was converted into Charles D. Hudson Natatorium in 1995.

Academics
The college offers more than 55 academic and pre-professional programs. Students may earn a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Music, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. A Master of Arts degree in Teaching, a Master of Education degree in Curriculum and Instruction, and a Specialist in Education degree in Curriculum and Instruction also are offered.

LaGrange operates on the modified (4-1-4) semester system for day classes, which provides for fall and spring semesters, separated by a January Interim Term. There is an evening session during the regular year and in the summer. In addition, LaGrange College began offering online courses in the Spring 2013 term.

Servant Scholars Program
Begun in the fall of 2012, the Servant Scholars Program is exclusively for juniors and seniors who have demonstrated high academic achievement, engagement, and leadership on campus. Living and serving locally, these students partner in building a stronger and healthier community.

The program is housed in the newly renovated Broad Street Apartments, a local landmark built in 1936 and located halfway between the campus and downtown LaGrange. Among the only apartments in the city at the time, they filled a vital housing gap and provided a first home for many families.

After falling into disrepair, the apartments were purchased by Callaway Foundation, Inc., in December 2009. The foundation funded their renovation, and the work was completed by Batson-Cook Co. of West Point. The property was turned over to the college in the spring of 2012.

Evening classes
Students enrolled in Business Administration or Human Development programs normally attend classes on Monday through Thursday evenings. Students may enroll in September, January, or March. Students in the above programs also may earn a minor in Sociology, Psychology or Human Resource Management.

Transfer students with 60 hours of acceptable credit are eligible to apply for enrollment in the Degree Completion Programs in Public Health or Health and Human Services. Classes in the 23-month cohort programs are scheduled one night per week.

Evening College offers four degrees:
 * Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration
 * Bachelor of Arts in Health and Human Services
 * Bachelor of Arts in Human Development
 * Bachelor of Arts in Public Health

Accreditation
LaGrange College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Education, Master of Arts in Teaching, the Specialist in Education degree in Curriculum and Instruction, and the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership.

LaGrange College is also approved by the United Methodist University Senate. It has membership in the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Georgia Foundation for Independent Colleges.

LaGrange College's teacher education (undergraduate and graduate) programs are accredited by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission to recommend candidates for certification in the areas of early childhood, middle grades or secondary education.

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing program is accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission.

The undergraduate programs in business administration, business management, and accounting are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).

Campus
The LaGrange campus blends historic and contemporary buildings on roughly 120 acres in the heart of LaGrange, Georgia.

Smith Hall
Smith Hall, also known as College Home, is the oldest building on the campus. The main portion of the building was constructed in 1860 of handmade brick formed from local clay. Smith Hall served as a hospital for wounded soldiers during the Civil War. An addition was built in 1887. Smith Hall was named in memory of Mrs. Oreon Mann Smith, wife of former college president Rufus Wright Smith, who served from 1885 until he died in 1915. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1982.

A major renovation was completed in 1989 at a cost of more than $2.5 million. The building now houses offices, classrooms, and seminar rooms. It is located at coordinates 33.03944°N, -85.0425°W | ///dimes.dividends.schoolwork.

Other campus structures
Broad Street Apartments Originally constructed in 1936 and fully renovated in 2012, the Broad Street Apartments, located two blocks east of the main campus and presented to the college as a gift from the Callaway Foundation, Inc., now house the Servant Scholars Program.

Callaway Auditorium Built in 1941, Callaway Auditorium was originally designed as a multipurpose venue. It served in that capacity for more than half a century. Though versatile, the facility was severely limited in its ability to provide an accommodation that was greatly needed by the community and LaGrange College: an acoustically pleasing music performance venue. The demand for such a facility was satisfied in 2005 with the auditorium's transformation into a state-of-the-art concert hall.

Callaway Education Building Built in 1965, renovated in 1994, and given a $2 million, 17,000-square-foot addition in 2006, the building houses the music program, offices of intercollegiate and intramural athletics, offices of health and physical education, a weight room, an athletic training room, and a football locker room.

Cason J. Callaway Science Building Built in 1972, this three-story brick building provides for instruction in biology, chemistry, math, and physics.

Fuller E. Callaway Academic Building Completed in 1981 and renovated in 2000, the Fuller E. Callaway Academic Building houses the History, Political Science, and Psychological Science programs and the Department of Nursing.

The Chapel The materials used in the construction of the Chapel in 1965 link it with Christian worship in LaGrange and other parts of the world. Included in the structure are two stained glass windows made in Belgium more than 100 years ago; a stone from the temple of Apollo at Corinth, Greece; a stone from the Benedictine Monastery in Iona, Scotland; and a stone from St. George's Chapel in Windsor, England. Lamar Dodd Art Center Completed in 1982 and fully renovated and modernized in 2011, this building provides a physical environment and the equipment needed for art instruction as well as gallery space for the college's art collection. The building is named in honor of the late Lamar Dodd, a Georgia artist who grew up in LaGrange and whose paintings won international recognition.

Frank and Laura Lewis Library January 2009 saw the opening of the 45,000-square-foot Frank and Laura Lewis Library at LaGrange College. Named for two former librarians, the facility includes numerous small-and-large-group study rooms; a 24-hour study room with a coffee bar/snack bar area; an auditorium; a multi-media classroom; a multi-media production center; student and faculty research carrels; and state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment.

The print and electronic collections in the library support the curriculum and general information needs of students and faculty. Included are more than 200,000 printed and electronic books, an excellent reference collection, a large DVD and CD collection, and numerous full-text databases for all academic disciplines. Notable digital collections include JSTOR, Project Muse, the Archive of Americana, the Burney 17th and 18th Century British Newspapers, the London Times Digital Archives, PsycArticles, MathSciNet, ATLAS Religion Database, CINAHL, ReferenceUSA, Access World News, plus many more in addition to the various databases available through GALILEO.

Price Theater Completed in 1975, this building features a 280-seat proscenium theater with 36 fly lines, eight electrics (including four beam positions over the auditorium), and a hydraulic orchestra pit. It also houses the Theatre Arts program, including faculty offices, a scenery workshop, dressing rooms, a costume shop, an actors' lounge, and a Black Box Theatre.

Sunny Gables Alumni House Built by Mary and Julia Nix in 1925, Sunny Gables Alumni House is an outstanding example of early 20th-century Tudor Revival architecture. Designed by P. Thornton Marye, it is now part of the National Register of Historic Places' Vernon Road Historic District. This multipurpose facility serves as the permanent home for alumni. The facility extends entertainment space to the college's constituents for specific programming purposes.

Turner Hall Built in 1958 (not long after the institution became co-educational), this three-story brick building was first used to provide campus housing for men, and later, women. In 2003, the structure was renovated and enlarged. The Mabry Gipson Student Center features large and small meeting rooms, a student grill, and the Jones Zone on the first two floors. Student housing on the third floor is known as the William H. Turner Jr. Residence Hall.

Student life
LaGrange offers more than 50 student groups as part of its living/learning experience. Many students also participate in service efforts, Greek life, and spiritual life activities.

Fraternities:
 * Pi Kappa Phi
 * Delta Tau Delta
 * Alpha Delta Gamma

Sororities:
 * Alpha Omicron Pi
 * Kappa Delta
 * Phi Mu

Intramural sports
Overseen by Athletics, intramurals provide opportunities for recreation and competition among members of the campus community. Teams representing campus organizations and independents compete in organized tournaments and events throughout the year. Competitive events include flag football, volleyball, basketball, softball, dodge ball and Ultimate Frisbee. Special awards are presented to the men and women's groups with the highest participation rates and best records of the entire year. In addition, male and female "Athletes of the Year" are selected.

Many opportunities are available for recreational use of the facilities in the LaGrange College Aquatics Complex: recreational swimming and lap swimming all year round in the indoor pool, as well as water aerobics or aqua exercise classes (non-credit). Students also enjoy the use of a weight-training room and a fitness area.

Spiritual life
Growing out of its history of service and its connection to the United Methodist Church, the college offers several opportunities for students, faculty, and staff members to celebrate life and explore God's intention for human living through intellectual, social, and spiritual growth. The college employs two ministers to help students, faculty and staff to deepen their understanding of their faith as they engage in free intellectual inquiry.

Athletics
LaGrange College is a member of NCAA Division III and the Collegiate Conference of the South (CCS), formed in July 2022 by an amicable split of the previously 19-member USA South Athletic Conference. The college's nickname is Panthers and its colors are red and black. Intercollegiate teams compete in women's soccer, basketball, cross country, volleyball, softball, swimming, lacrosse, and tennis; and men's baseball, football, lacrosse, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming, and tennis. The CCS does not sponsor football or women's lacrosse; under the terms of the conference split, all CCS members that sponsor those sports, including LaGrange, are USA South associate members in those sports.

Under NCAA guidelines, no athletic scholarships are offered at Division III schools.

The Panthers football program was launched in 2006, and women's lacrosse was added in 2010. The school also has a host of intramural activities. LaGrange athletic facilities include a $2 million baseball stadium, a natatorium, and a softball complex.

In 2008, the Panthers football team rewrote NCAA Division III history when it went from its first two seasons of 20 straight losses to a 9-1 conference championship and a trip to the national playoffs, a turnaround record that stands to this day.

In 2014 & 2016 the Men's Lagrange College Basketball team won the Conference Championship.

The LaGrange College Softball team won the Conference Championship from 2007 to 2009.

The 2003 Baseball and Men's Golf teams won the USCAA National Championships. The 2003 baseball team set a school record for most wins in a season (36) and fewest losses (10).

Alumni
Famous alumni include Dean W. Young (1960), nationally syndicated cartoonist of the "Blondie" comic strip; Dwayne Shattuck (1983), Emmy Award-winning producer of "Mad Men" and "Magic City;" Elizabeth Carlock Harris (1961), former First Lady of Georgia; Terry Kay (1959), best-selling author ("To Dance with the White Dog"); Lee Crowe (1981), special effects animator for Warner Brothers; R. Lee Walburn (1959), writer and editor of "Atlanta Magazine; "  and Blake Clarke (1969), television and film actor ("Home Improvement," "The Waterboy" and "Boy Meets World").

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Neighborhoods in Atlanta

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The city of Atlanta, Georgia is made up of 243 neighborhoods officially defined by the city. These neighborhoods are a mix of traditional neighborhoods, subdivisions, or groups of subdivisions. The neighborhoods are grouped by the city planning department into 25 neighborhood planning units (NPUs). These NPUs are "citizen advisory councils that make recommendations to the Mayor and City Council on zoning, land use, and other planning issues". There are a variety of other widely recognized named areas within the city. Some are officially designated, while others are more informal.

Other areas
In addition to the officially designated neighborhoods, many other named areas exist. Several larger areas, consisting of multiple neighborhoods, are not formally defined but commonly used. Most notable are Buckhead, Midtown, and Downtown. Other smaller examples exist, such as Little Five Points, which encompasses parts of three neighborhoods. Some of these regions may overlap, such as West Midtown, an area which includes several neighborhoods on the west side of the larger Midtown area.

Some of these areas are connected with community groups such as Midtown Alliance or Community improvement districts (CIDs) such as the Buckhead CID. While those organizations often have an associated definition of the areas they represent, those definitions may not be the same as the common usage. Less formally, some areas of the city are referred to by compass directions, such as Southwest Atlanta.

Intown Atlanta
The term "intown" is historically most commonly used to refer to any neighborhoods close to the central part of the city.

Downtown

 * Downtown Atlanta n is a neighborhood that contains the following sub-districts:
 * Castleberry Hill n h
 * Centennial Hill district
 * Fairlie-Poplar district h
 * Five Points district
 * Hotel District h
 * Luckie Marietta district
 * Peachtree Center
 * SoNo n
 * South Downtown

Midtown

 * Midtown, as defined by the Midtown Alliance, consists of these neighborhoods:
 * The Midtown neighborhood proper which contains the districts:
 * Midtown Core
 * Midtown Neighborhood h
 * Ansley Park
 * Atlantic Station
 * Georgia Tech and Technology Square
 * Home Park
 * Loring Heights
 * Sherwood Forest

Westside
Sometimes Bolton and Hills Park are also included (see below: Northwestern Atlanta)
 * Westside or The West Side, is an agglomeration of neighborhoods west of I-75/85 (frequently referred to as the "Connector") and is an unofficial area whose definition varies, and includes:
 * Berkeley Park
 * Blandtown
 * Western Home Park
 * Knight Park/Howell Station
 * Marietta Street Artery

East Side

 * Atkins Park
 * Cabbagetown
 * Candler Park
 * Druid Hills (part in Atlanta)
 * East Atlanta
 * East Lake
 * Edgewood
 * Inman Park
 * Kirkwood
 * Lake Claire
 * Lindridge-Martin Manor
 * Morningside-Lenox Park
 * Oakland
 * Old Fourth Ward
 * Ormewood Park
 * Piedmont Heights
 * Poncey-Highland
 * Reynoldstown
 * Sweet Auburn
 * Scottdale
 * Virginia-Highland

The Little Five Points district is located where Inman Park and Candler Park meet.

Southeastern Atlanta

 * Amal Heights
 * Benteen Park
 * Betmar LaVilla
 * Blair Villa/Poole Creek
 * Boulevard Heights
 * Browns Mill Park
 * Chosewood Park
 * Custer/McDonough/Guice
 * Englewood Manor (AHA property demolished 2008)
 * Glenrose Heights
 * Grant Park
 * High Point
 * Joyland
 * Lakewood
 * Lakewood Heights
 * Leila Valley (AHA property demolished 2008)
 * Norwood Manor
 * Orchard Knob
 * Peoplestown
 * Polar Rock
 * Rebel Valley Forest
 * Rosedale Heights
 * South Atlanta
 * South River Gardens
 * State Facility
 * Summerhill
 * Swallow Circle/Baywood
 * The Villages at Carver
 * Thomasville Heights— not to be confused with the former housing project of the same name, located near the neighborhood. (AHA property demolished 2010–11)
 * Woodland Hills

Southwestern Atlanta

 * Adair Park
 * Adams Park
 * Adamsville
 * Arlington Estates
 * Ashley Collegetown (former Harris Chiles)
 * Ashley Courts
 * Ashview Heights
 * Atlanta University Center
 * Audubon Forest
 * Audubon Forest West
 * Baker Hills
 * Bakers Ferry
 * Beecher Hills
 * Ben Hill
 * Ben Hill Acres
 * Ben Hill Forest
 * Ben Hill Pines
 * Ben Hill Terrace
 * Boulder Park
 * Brentwood
 * Briar Glen
 * Bush Mountain
 * Butner/Tell
 * Campbellton Road
 * Capitol View
 * Capitol View Manor
 * Carroll Heights
 * Cascade Avenue/Road
 * Cascade Green
 * Cascade Heights
 * Chalet Woods
 * Collier Heights
 * Deerwood
 * East Ardley Road
 * Elmco Estates
 * Fairburn
 * Fairburn Heights
 * Fairburn Road/Wisteria Lane
 * Fairburn Tell
 * Fairburn Mays
 * Fairway Acres
 * Florida Heights
 * Fort McPherson
 * Fort Valley
 * Green Acres Valley
 * Green Forest Acres
 * Greenbriar
 * Greenbriar Village
 * Hammond Park
 * Harland Terrace
 * Heritage Valley
 * Horseshoe Community
 * Hunter Hills
 * Huntington
 * Ivan Hill
 * Just Us
 * Kings Forest
 * Lake Estates
 * Laurens Valley
 * Magnum Manor
 * Mays
 * Meadowbrook Forest
 * Mechanicsville
 * Mellwood
 * Midwest Cascade
 * Mt. Gilead Woods
 * Niskey Cove
 * Niskey Lake
 * Oakcliff
 * Oakland City
 * Old Fairburn Village
 * Old Gordon
 * Pomona Park
 * Perkerson
 * Peyton Forest
 * Pittsburgh
 * Princeton Lakes
 * Regency Trace
 * Ridgecrest Forest
 * Rue Royal
 * Sandlewood Estates
 * South Oaks
 * Southwest
 * Summerdale Commons
 * Sylvan Hills
 * Tampa Park
 * Venetian Hills
 * West End
 * West Manor
 * Westhaven
 * Westview
 * Westwood Terrace
 * Wildwood
 * Wildwood Forest
 * Wilson Mill Meadows
 * Wisteria Gardens

Northwestern Atlanta

 * Almond Park
 * Atlanta Industrial Park
 * Bankhead
 * Bankhead Courts (AHA property demolished 2010)
 * Bolton
 * Bolton Hills
 * Bowen Apartments
 * Brookview Heights
 * Carey Park
 * Carver Hills
 * Center Hill
 * Chattahoochee
 * Dixie Hills
 * English Avenue
 * English Park
 * Grove Park
 * Harvel Homes
 * Hills Park
 * Hunter Hills
 * Knight Park/Howell Station
 * Monroe Heights(45)
 * Mozley Park
 * Penelope Neighbors
 * Riverside
 * Rockdale
 * Scotts Crossing
 * Vine City
 * Washington Park
 * West Highlands (includes Perry Homes)
 * West Lake
 * Whittier Mill Village

Buckhead

 * Ardmore
 * Argonne Forest
 * Arden/Habersham
 * Brookhaven
 * Buckhead Forest
 * Brandon
 * Brookwood
 * Brookwood Hills
 * Buckhead Forest
 * Buckhead Village
 * Castlewood
 * Channing Valley (also includes Memorial Park)
 * Chastain Park
 * Collier Hills (also includes Brookwood Hills)
 * Colonial Homes
 * East Chastain Park
 * Garden Hills
 * Haynes Manor
 * Historic Brookhaven
 * Kingswood
 * Lindbergh/Morosgo
 * Loring Heights
 * Margaret Mitchell
 * Mount Paran/Northside
 * Mount Paran Parkway
 * North Buckhead
 * Paces
 * Peachtree Heights East
 * Peachtree Heights West
 * Peachtree Hills
 * Peachtree Park
 * Pine Hills
 * Randall Mill
 * Ridgedale Park
 * Springlake
 * South Tuxedo Park
 * Tuxedo Park
 * Underwood Hills
 * West Paces Ferry/Northside
 * Westminster/Milmar
 * West Peachtree Battle (Known as Wesley Battle by city government )
 * Whitewater Creek
 * Wildwood
 * Woodfield
 * Wyngate

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William Winant

William Winant (born 1953) is an American percussionist.

In addition to his work in contemporary classical music—notably performing Lou Harrison's compositions—Winant has worked in a variety of genres, including noise rock, free improvisation and jazz. Notable collaborators include Glenn Spearman, Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth, Mr. Bungle (with whom he toured in support of their albums Disco Volante and California), Secret Chiefs 3, Mondo Cane and Oingo Boingo. A member of the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio, he has also frequently collaborated with John Zorn. He received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2016).

Winant attended the California Institute of the Arts for a couple of years before dropping out to go tour with Oingo Boingo. He later received an undergraduate degree from York University before pursuing graduate work at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he is currently a faculty member. He also gives percussion lessons and teaches the percussion ensemble at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Films

 * 1995 - Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy - Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, and Terry Riley. Directed by Michael Blackwood.

Discography
Productions under the direction of Winant
 * Lou Harrison – La Koro Sutro (1988)
 * Bun-Ching Lam – ...Like Water (Tzadik, 1997)
 * Luc Ferrari – Cellule 75 (Tzadik, 1998) with Chris Brown
 * Christian Wolff – Burdocks (Tzadik, 2001)
 * Lou Harrison – Drums Along the Pacific (New Albion, 2003)
 * Peter Garland – Love Songs (Tzadik, 2005) All pieces written for Winant.
 * Fred Frith – Back to Life (Tzadik, 2008)

As equal member of groups and projects
 * White Out (with Jim O'Rourke) – China Is Near (ATP, 2005)
 * Gratkowski / Brown / Winant (with Frank Gratkowski and Chris Brown) – Wake (Red Toukan, 2009)
 * Gratkowski / Brown / Winant and Gerhard E. Winkler – Vermilion Traces / Donaueschingen 2009 (Leo, 2012)

With Chris Brown With John Cage, Joan LaBarbara With Alvin Curran With Danny Elfman With Fred Frith With Lou Harrison With Jon Hassell With Joan Jeanrenaud With Alvin Lucier With Roscoe Mitchell With Thurston Moore and Tom Surgal With Mr. Bungle With Mike Patton With Secret Chiefs 3 With Glenn Spearman With David Tanenbaum With James Tenney With John Zorn
 * Room with Larry Ochs (Sound Aspects, 1989)
 * Lava (Tzadik, 1995)
 * Duets (1996), Winant only on "Duo"
 * Rouge Wave (2005)
 * Iconicities (New Albion, 2011)
 * John Cage at Summerstage with Leonard Stein (rec. 1992, Music and Arts Programs of America, 1995)
 * Music for 17 with the San Francisco Symphony Players, Stephen L. Mosko (1993)
 * Theme Park (Tzadik, 1998)''
 * Batman Returns (1992)
 * Eleventh Hour (Winter & Winter/WDR 3, 2005) Winant plays guitars on Stick Figurs (for 6 Guitars and 2 Players, 1990)
 * The Happy End Problem (Music for Dance) (Fred, 2006)
 * Double Concerto (1983)
 * First Recordings, Solstice, and Ariadne (1990)
 * 3rd Symphony with Dennis Russell Davies, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra (1990)
 * Vernal Equinox (1977)
 * Strange Toys (2008)
 * Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas Part II Numbers 5-8 (1984, reissue 2003)
 * Numbers (RogueArt, 2011)
 * Angel City (RogueArt, 2012)
 * Bells for the South Side (ECM, 2017)
 * Piece for Jetsun Dolma (Les Éditions Victoriaville, 1996)
 * Lost to the City / Noise to Nowhere (Intakt, 2000)
 * Disco Volante (Warner Bros., 1995)
 * California (Warner Bros., 1998)
 * Pranzo Oltranzista (Tzadik, 1997) with John Zorn, Marc Ribot and Eric Friedlander
 * Zulfikar II (1998)
 * Hurqala: 2nd Grand Constitution & Bylaws (1998)
 * Book M (2001)
 * Path of Most Resistance (2007)
 * Mystery Project (1993)
 * Smokehouse (1994)
 * The Fields (1996)
 * Blues for Falasha (Tzadik, 1999)
 * Lou Harrison – Serenado (New Albion, 2003, expanded reissue of The Perilous Chapel)
 * Terry Riley – Book of Abbeyozzud (New Albion, 1999)
 * Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kontakte (Recorded 1978, Ecstatic Peace, 1997) first live recording of “Kontakte” (1959/60)
 * Elegy (Eva, 1992)
 * Kristallnacht (Eva, 1993)
 * Music for Children (Tzadik, 1998)
 * Xu Feng (Tzadik, 2000)
 * Chimeras (Tzadik, 2003)
 * Rituals (Tzadik, 2004)
 * From Silence to Sorcery (Tzadik, 2007)
 * Music and Its Double (Tzadik, 2012)
 * Fragmentations, Prayers and Interjections (Tzadik, 2014)

Viewing

 * performed by members of the William Winant Percussion Group.

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