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User talk:Eanorel

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Help or drop me a line. BTW good work on the Hellenes article. Cheers! --maveric149

Per your comment on my talk page: You're welcome. :) BTW a nice way to sign your comments and automatically link to your user page on talk pages is the type three tildas (~) in a row and hit save. This wont show up in the preview though. You can also type four tildas and then a link to your user page and the date is automatically inserted when you save. Go ahead, try it. Power to the wiki! --maveric149, Sunday, April 21, 2002

Kalimera! eimai ellinas kai se vrika apo ti selida Wikipedians/Greece. apla anarotiomoun an ise akomi energos stin wikipedia kai ean mas episkeptese. ean nai, tha xarw na doulepsoume mazi gia na veltiosoume tin elliniki Wikipedia sto mellon. euxaristw, Optim 21:43, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Literature Collaboration of the Week
Patrida, I'm rallying up support for Alexandros Papadiamantis in Literature Collaboration of the Week. So, go vote! :D

Project2501a 16:26, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Need Help
The article vanavsos is up for deletion. Can you please help in this regard. Second, I am having difficulty with Wikinfo:Classical definition of republic and am having trouble on Talk:Republic because they won't allow an external link. It was deleted off of Wikipedia, and I believe it needs to come back on. A serious mistake in deleting this article. Thanks for your time.WHEELER 18:30, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedians in Greece
Hi, I understand that you are either Greek Wikipedian or a Wikipedian living in/with an interest in Greece.

The category page Wikipedians/Greece has been replaced with Category:Wikipedians in Greece but your name still appears on the old list. You might considering moving it. You might also consider adding adding Template:Greekwiki to your user page.

A Greek Wikipedians' notice board has been in existence for some time but is terribly underutilised. It would certainly benefit from your involvement.--Damac 12:16, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for not replying
Sorry for not replying to anyone. I do not visit the English Wikipedia very often as I am active in the Greek Wikipedia so I do not see your messages. If you want to leave me a message and be sure I will see it, please write in my Greek discussion page. Thank you all. Eanorel (talk) 08:12, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

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User talk:Dizzley

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User talk:SpOOk

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User talk:Daniel Kahn

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Vote: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Violence against Israelis
See Votes for deletion/Violence against Israelis. Thank you. IZAK 10:55, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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User talk:Justrob

Still no evidence that I was ever here. :(  I guess I'll have to work on extending the Oregon entry to get my name back!

Wow. Go away for a while and find a lot of work gone. I'm especially sad about the Oregon Constitution. I checked into the suggested page, but really didn't see the debate on removing it. If we've removed it, why not the US Constitution?

 * The articles on the United States Constitution are mainly commentary and explanation that cite portions of the source text (at least, they are now). If the Oregon constitution pages were removed as part of the anti-raw-source-text-dump pogroms, I'm guessing they didn't contain commentary? (I could be wrong.) There likely was no debate specific to that set of pages, but rather in general. --Brion

 * Thanks for the response.  I sort of drifted away after all the edit history was lost.  I ***liked*** being associated with the Oregon text I helped write!

 * I'm working on getting the pre-February histories restored to the new database (if I can get hold of a copy of the old database to convert from!), so hopefully that can get put back. --Brion

Jack Bogdanski ayespy

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Help or drop me a line. Cheers! --maveric149

Hey Rob. I moved the content from your old page (Rob Salzman) here. --Stephen Gilbert

A new Wikipedian.

Welcome, Rob (Mr. Salzman)! Thanks for changing the Aruba article.

No problem. Sorry about the initial misunderstanding. I'll try to contribute what I can, in my own words. :)

Hot damn, Rob!! It's me, AyeSpy! Wotthehellerya doin around these digs?!? In fact, just because you are here, I may put some of my pages back up...

Hey Spy! I got an email inviting me here ... and you know me - always looking for ways to waste what little spare time I've got... Hope to read you here!

Question: I quite like my writeup of Charlemagne, and don't particularly care for the changes. Is it kosher to recorrect someone's correction of my writing? I certainly understand that in this environment, we don't own our own words...

Please, go ahead! Usually in the event that something goes back and forth we start a talk page to clear up what's happening. I'm the one who changed your write up, and you're welcome to change it back, except I found a few things misleading: the kingdom didn't collapse after Charlemagne, but after his successor, and it didn't break into two pieces, but four, of which I would say Italy is pretty significant, if often neglected. I should mention, though, that any quick gloss is doomed to be overwritten sooner or later, by something more thorough.

-User:Josh Grosse :)

You're absolutely right re: capitol/capital. I have a history of confusing the two. Of course, you don't need my permission to change them. :) -- Stephen Gilbert

An additional misspelling? Made by moi? Never! ;-) --Stephen Gilbert

Cool addition, that Oregon constitution. May I make a recommendation? Sometimes I personally click 'this change is a minor edit' when I'm doing large blocks of stuff like this. I do a handful as major edits, so people can see what I'm doing, but then I do the rest as minor edits.

This keeps from churning the RecentChanges page as much.

If you feel differently, by all means do differently. :-)

Thanks - I never knew what the minor edit did. I'll make judicious use of it now...

Wow, Rob. You're up late. I was quite serious about nomads/wikipedia. I think there's maybe five of 'em could contribute a little something meaningful...

Sure. What would it hurt?

And at least one of us that are lurking about trying to discern the difference betwixt meaningful and useful. And still wondering if he should care if he doesn't comply to someone's differing definition thereof. Rob, you and AyeSpy generally have some immediately thought-provoking articles here. I'd classify those under meaningful, but immediately thought-provoking articles are not the only meaningful somethings produced here. I want to contribute something meaningful and I'd like to do so within conventions and without elitism. Any advice on how to do such? --User:Invictus

Your user talk page
Hi Rob, I found your user talk page while checking through some deleted contributions. I have history merged it, so that all the edits are in one place. Hope you don't mind. Graham 87 09:06, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Account
WP:2001 has the list of early accounts. Says you joined in March 2001. Anyway, your old account User:Rob Salzman was compromised by, an LTA, due to a bug in the Phase II software, and as such was indefinitely blocked. You might be able to regain access to it by contacting a developer. — python coder (talk | contribs) 14:41, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Interview Request
Hi Rob, I hope it's okay to contact you in this way. I'm a podcast producer working on an episode about open source and knowledge sharing. I found you on a list of early Wikipedia users and wondered if you'd share your motivation and some experiences on our show. Happy to share more details privately, if interested. Tomtjes (talk) 17:39, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

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User talk:Closely

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Help or drop me a line. BTW we seem to have very similar mottos. Cheers! --maveric149

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User talk:Dasbobo

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User talk:Dsblank

Nomination of Python Robotics for deletion
A discussion has begun about whether the article Python Robotics, which you created or to which you contributed, should be deleted. While contributions are welcome, an article may be deleted if it is inconsistent with Wikipedia policies and guidelines for inclusion, explained in the deletion policy.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Python Robotics until a consensus is reached, and you are welcome to contribute to the discussion.

You may edit the article during the discussion, including to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 05:32, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:Jrincayc

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Help or drop me a line. BTW, great work on your contribs to the Supply and demand article. Cheers! --maveric149

 * Thanks.

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. sorry to start off on the wrong foot, but I notice you're adding articles which are poorly named. While I'm glad to see you adding to the project, typically we try to name articles in a way that's concise and would fit in a standard sentence. That is, Surplus,Supply and demand wouldn't, because it has an unnecessary capital and is missing a space between "surplus," and "supply". I'm not sure what suggestions others might make, since I'm not at all knowledgeable about economic issues. But in the meantime could you see Naming conventions before you continue? Thanks, Koyaanis Qatsi

 * Fixed.

See list of economics topics for a good list of good article titles in this field. Also see Talk:Economics where there are now links to a lot of names of articles, of which about half have been written, and all of which *need* to be. - 142

You left me a message:
 * Minor request. Can you please fill in the summary field more often, especially when it is not a minor edit.  Thanks (makes it easier for me to remember if I have looked a a particular edit before).

I'll try to remember. I tend to get sloppy late at night. On a completely unrelated topic, what do you think about the article two part tariff? I have never heard the term used to describe segmentation strategies or price discrimination strategies. This looks like a candidate for VFD. What do you think? mydogategodshat 06:00, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

 * My understanding of a two part tariff is when you have 2 components to the price of a product or service. For example an initial price plus a monthly subscriber fee. User:mydogategodshat 06:57, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

 * It is a form a second-degree price discrimination since essentially it is a quantity discount. I have cleaned up the article and added an example (I also removed the coupon and mail in rebates from the list of methods of imlementing since they sort of are, but they are also a third degree method of price discriminating as well (consumers with more time than money) so it is confusing) so take a look at it now that it is fixed. Jrincayc 15:28, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

 * Excellent work on two part tariff. That was quite a transformation, from one of the worst economics artcles to one of the better ones. I only have one specific comment. The Porter link needs some explanation. It is not clear what the two part tariff has to do with either Porter generic strategies or Porter 5 forces analysis. mydogategodshat 07:57, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * I am not sure what the porter competative model is so I can't answer that one. Membership discount retailers definatly can be considered a two part tariff.  If you know and it doesn't make sense, then go ahead and remove the link. Jrincayc 14:29, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * I think I will remove the link because the connection is weak and certainly not clear without much more elaboration. mydogategodshat Moved rest of discussion to Talk:Giffen goods

Economics
The reason no edit summary is given is because I used the rollback button, which automatically inserts the words reverted to last edit by ... and marks the revert as minor. The reason the revert was made is because User:142.177.etc is a hard banned user. If hard banned users attempt to circumvent their ban and continue editing, the general guideline is to auto-revert them. It's just a way of enforcing the ban when IP blocks don't work. Having said that, if you feel the content is useful, there is nothing stopping you reinserting it. In fact, some articles by this user, which would otherwise have been deleted, have been "kidnapped" by Cyan so that other users feeling the content is useful can repost it under their own name. There's a list of them at User:Cyan/kidnapped if you're interested. There are more details of the ban of this user under his other login names at User:Mediator/ban and User:EntmootsOfTrolls/ban. Angela. 15:44, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Additional comments : in spite of what Angela says, User:Mediator is not hold by the banned user any more, so there is no sense in removing what has been written by that user. Besides, reverting good edits by banned users is controversial. Feel free to revert any edits you think are relevant. thanks PomPom

Fine, you do that. Here's a link: Requests_for_adminship. You might want to request desysopship of the following at the same time as they have all done exactly the same thing over the past month. If you have an issue with the policy, I suggest you write to the mailing list or something rather than making threats towards me. Angela.
 * The Anome
 * Cyan
 * Secretlondon
 * Maveric149
 * Daniel Quinlan
 * Viajero

 * Tell me where this policy is so I can go and complain about it there. If this is a general policy, then I severely disagree with it, and not necessarily you for carrying out the policy.  Jrincayc 21:51, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Try Bans and blocks which states
 * All edits by a hard banned user made since their ban, regardless of their merits, may be reverted by any user. We ask that users not reinstate any edits made by banned users, but some strongly oppose this policy
 * How else do you propose to enforce a ban if a user is allowed to carry on editing? Angela. 21:55, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * Funny, I can't seem to find the place where it states that all edits from an ISP that has had a banned user are to be considered edits from the banned user and should be reverted. I am right now working on hand examining the edit to Economics and it is mostly an improvement to the article.  That same page you quote states:
 * Most Wikipedians are good contributors, and we encourage people to show good Wikiquette when dealing with them. For example, we suggest that it is almost always better to fix bad edits, rather than revert them. In particular, reverting without some meaningful comment is particularly frustrating and off-putting to newcomers.
 * Where is the evidence that the edits by a user from sympatico.ca (an isp with thousands of people) was the same person as the banned user? You have no proof and you reverted edits that are valid nonvandalism edits of an unknown user.  I think that was wrong. Jrincayc 22:13, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I never said "all edits from an ISP that has had a banned user are to be considered edits from the banned user". If you refuse to be civil about this (making edit summaries such as "bullshit"), then I do not intend to discuss this further with you. Try reading Wikiquette. Angela. 22:17, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * I apologize for getting out of hand. I should not have used BS as an edit summary.  While you have not directly stated that "all edits from an ISP that has  had a banned user are to be considered edits from the banned user", so far as I can tell, the only evidence that you have about 142.177.92.201 being EntmootsOfTrolls, is that they are from the same ISP.  Therefore, from my point of view, it seems that you are operating under the assumetion "all edits from an ISP that has had a banned user are to be considered edits from the banned user."  If I am mistaken, I would like to hear why I am mistaken on this point.  Again, I apologize for getting out of hand and being uncivil. Jrincayc 22:30, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Apology accepted. Thanks. You can tell this user by the type of edits he makes. As Adam Bishop said today "IPs tend not to make the kind of sweeping edits, or fully wikified new articles that he makes". Also, I know the topics he works on and the biases he adds to articles, and also the kind of edit summary he makes. He has also created the same articles at Simple recently. Added to this, I knew he was active on Wikipedia as he had been editing Simple and Meta very shortly before, and his edits on Meta are a dead give away - he was creating pages like Banned user club! I am fully aware that not every 142 address is EofT but I strongly believe that this one was. Angela. 00:48, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * I think that you are probably right about the articles that you reverted. I do however strongly disagree with the revert all edits even if they are useful contributions policy.  Jrincayc 16:07, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

 * this is fine Jrincayc. Some prefer reverting in any cases; others, less numerous, support keeping the good edits. Just do as you feel. And be aware reverting back will anger or sadden or just midly irritate those who prefer removing all banned users stuff. So try to do it *only* when it is really worth. Also, Angel knows 142 kind of edits quite well, so likely, when she feels it is 142 edit, it very probably is.

I agree with you about output elasticity
Hi JR, I recall that last month you mentioned that production theory basics would be improved by adding some price, cost, and output elasticity material to it. My comment at the time was that I wanted to keep the article purely non-monetary because the introduction of prices would be too much for some readers to handle in this introductory article and might reduce the clarity of the rest of the material in the article.

I think you are right that this material should be introduced somewhere, in fact, I have discovered that I have to cover it. I was fixing a stub social cost that was on cleanup which lead to my rewriting the article on welfare economics. But I realised that I can’t explain welfare economics adequately without dealing with the pricing and optimum usage of factor inputs, so I am going to start an article optimum factor allocation in which we can add issues like output elasticity, Marginal Revenue Product, and Marginal Resource Costs. In the production theory basics article I want to add a section on isoquants. Just thought I would keep you informed about what I am doing in case you have any more good suggestions.

By the way, what do you think of the new expanded economics page? mydogategodshat 22:19, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)

 * Okay. The new economics page looks fairly good.  I looked at the isoquants section, and added a comment about more that two dimensional isoquants.  I have a thesis to write in the next few months (on teaching the pumping lemma), so I will be rather time constrained, but I will try to continue to at least look at the changes that are happening on wikipedia's economics section.  Keep up the good work. Jrincayc 16:00, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the nomination on labour economics. I would like to reciprocate. What are some of the better articles that you have writen or contributed to? mydogategodshat 01:06, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * You're welcome. Supply and demand might be approriate to nominate.  Jrincayc 17:47, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hello from Berlin
Hi, nice to meet another economist. I saw you are interested in programming languages as well, so I wondered if you might help me with a project about learning I am starting. Please check my user page and let me know. Get-back-world-respect 21:56, 9 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Well, I haven't programmed in basic for a while, and I don't have easy access to quick basic any more (since I use Linux and Mac OS X), but I might take a look some time. If you have specific questions, if you email me the question and the code you have a question about, I will probably respond fairly quickly to it.  Jrincayc 03:16, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

Re: Specialization Versus Study
It was just the wrong word. It was just clearly the wrong word. "I specialize in Macroeconomics" isn't something I've ever heard. "I specialize in open currency flow models for developing economies" is. Stirling Newberry 13:25, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree with the revert. I just think that the summary "reverting minor useless edit" 1) does not explain why the edit was reverted 2) does not give any hint as to how if the editor had a good reason they should explain the reason. 3) could seem nasty to a newcommer. Jrincayc 02:34, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia Problems
What kind of problems do you expect to be discussed on the Unsolved_Problems page? It's not at all clear to me. David Merrill 15:01, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Things that are currently at Why Wikipedia is not so great, but lack evidence. Jrincayc 15:07, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Something to read
Please consider reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Snowspinner/Avala_Evidence

and then voting here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#User:Snowspinner_.2854.2F6.2F2.29_Ends_17:06.2C_31_July_2004

-- orthogonal 18:17, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The Business and Economics Forum
What you might ask is the Business and Economics Forum? Well, Im not sure yet. At this point it is little more than scattered thoughts in my scattered mind. But I do have a vision of what it could be so I wrote this. I respect your opinion, so I am asking for your input before I mention it to anyone else, or list it on the community portal. I am particularly asking for any ideas you have that might make it work. mydogategodshat 18:51, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

License ?
Hi, what's the license of Image:Monopoly pricing.png ? We use it on french wp and would like to know the original license. Thanks in advance. Tipiac 16:42, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Public domain. I just added the license tag to it. Jrincayc 01:48, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the help with the strategic management nomination. mydogategodshat 20:04, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * You are welcome. Thank you for writing such an comprehensive article. Jrincayc 01:15, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wikinews demo up and running
Hi!

I'm writing to let you know that the Wikimedia Board of Trustees has approved the first stage of the Wikinews project. There's now a fully operational English demo site at demo.wikinews.org. This will be used for experimenting with various review models and basic policies before the site is launched officially in about a week. demo.wikinews.org will become the English version later. You voted for the Wikinews project, so I'm asking for your participation now. Everything is open, nothing is final. What Wikinews will and can be depends in large part on you. There already is a global Wikinews mailing list for discussing the project. If you are interested at all, please subscribe -- coordination is of key importance. There's also an IRC channel #wikinews on irc.freenode.net. Realtime discussion can help to polish up articles. If you're looking for something to do, check out the articles in development and articles in review. Or start a new story in the Wikinews workspace, or ignore the proposed review system - it's up to you. I hope you'll join us soon in this exciting experiment.--Eloquence* 02:00, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

Hardware Status

 * Revert MacGyverMagic's edit-summary-less revert back to 212.85.24.83's Justified removal of outdated hardware status (It was old and incorrect since local search is now enabled)

True, I could've been better at explaining the revert, my apologies. I'll do it now.

I don't like deletion of material, when simply updating it could fix it. Have you discussed it with other wikipedians before you deleted? Maybe being informed about it will push someone to update the section. Or since you knew it was wrong why not update yourself? It's essential to have the info available.

By the way, due to recent requests on WP:HD I believe we still can't search locally, but on a database dump, which is not the same thing. I think we should ask some other people for their opinions first. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 15:46, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

 * You managed to hit a pet peeve of mine. I have had a edit of mine that I thought was constructive but was reverted with the default revert message.  I was rather ticked off about it for an hour or so.  I can agree that the deletion probably was wrong, but I think 212.85 probably was well meaning, and so the revert without giving a reason probably would annoy them.  I see a fair number of posts on forum sites about how wikipedia is too quick to revert, and sometimes I think there might be a case.  In other words, I think the there was good reason for you to revert 215.85's edit, however, I think you should have given a specific reason for your revert.  (Of course, deleting material is probably your pet peeve ;) Jrincayc 02:06, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

not
Nah. It's cool. I didn't read enough context before putting it in and got upward/downward sloping backwards. And then I stuffed it in between the wrong two words. It's what I get for doing edits waiting for important stuff to finish running. Blair P. Houghton 04:42, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * That okay. That's what watchlists are for :)  Jrincayc 13:29, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Economics article
What do you mean you second the request for an explanation for my revert? You should have read the talk page prior to putting that on my talk page because I already left an "explanation". I also edited the article again if you are interested in reviewing it. I changed to "all things equal..." for ceteris paribus and I also updated the talk page again if you are interested in reading my "explanation" again. UH Collegian 02:17, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I missed that explaination when I wrote the message on your talk page. Sorry.  Jrincayc 02:23, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Since you are interested in economics, I have a question for you. Now, most universities in the U.S. categorize economics as a "social science" and award either a BS or BA, which I agree with. However, some universities (mostly small ones), categorize economics as "business administration" and grant a BBA degree, which I do not agree with and is totally wrong in my opinion. What is your stance on this?

 * I think that sounds somewhat strange, but I can't say I particularly have a opionion on that. For what its worth, at the University I went to, economics was part of the Agriculture College (you can probably guess that they had a strong agricultural economics program from that fact).  Jrincayc 03:08, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Monopoly
You reverted my revert on that article. You must have overlooked something. The edit I reverted was clearly vandalism. It removed a part of a paragraph that looks like it belongs there. It offered no explanation for doing so. And it left a fragment of a sentence lingering there. Please take another look. Rl 14:43, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You are completely right. My appologies.  I misread the diff. Jrincayc 14:54, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

I was reading through the monopoly article and saw that your monopoly diagram has Profit shown as a polygon. Is this a mistake, or am I missing something?

 * Yes, profit is a polygon of the revenue minus the cost to produce. If this doesn't make sense, ask on the talk page for monopoly.  Jrincayc 12:15, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * My query was more in relation to the profit area being shown. Surely an ATC (or AC) curve is required to derive the cost of production at the Monopoly output? I could be wrong, but I think the diagram and associated description at the moment are misleading.

 * If I recall correctly $$AC(Q)*Q = \int_0^Q{MC(q)dq}$$, so the area of the marginal cost will give the total cost to the company.  In other words, the marginal cost and the average cost curve are related so either could be used for this graph.  Jrincayc 02:15, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

User categorization
Greetings! Your user page hasn't been vandalized :-) --it was updated to use the new User Categorization scheme. I have categorized your User Page as a Wikipedian in Idaho (Category:Wikipedians in Idaho) since your name was listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Idaho page.  The Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Idaho page is scheduled for deletion.  Thanks!   Roby Wayne  Talk •  Hist 00:02, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Invitation
Hi, Would you be interested in joining WikiProject Business and Economics?. Thanks. --Pamri • Talk • [ Reply] 12:32, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Microeconomics rewrite
Hi, User:Radeksz has proposed a rewrite of Microeconomics on that article's talk page, in case you care to have a look. dbtfz talk 09:10, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

consumer theory
Hello. Perhaps you can address my recent comments at talk:consumer theory? Michael Hardy 22:24, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Qur'an
Hi, Thanks for your attention.I should be more careful.--Sa.vakilian 18:16, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing the date. Jrincayc 19:40, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Non sequitur: Space War! & Jrincayc
1. I apologize for intruding, and I hope I'm writing this in the right place. Tonight upon searching for a playable version of the world's second video game, Space War!, I found that Jrincayc has had some historical involvement in this matter: he was listed as the keeper of the source code of a version of it written in 1998. It seems to me that it would be appropriate that he be mentioned somewhere in this connection.

2. As open as he has kept his life on the web, I'd love to have an email contact for him which seems mysteriously not listed where I've looked. Can someone supply that to me, please?

3. As I know little to nothing about the internal workings of Wikipedia, and having only recently attempted a first edit to correct some obvious typos, I know nothing about the messaging conventions on this page, and I apologize in advance if what I've written here is inappropriate in any way.

4. Thanks in advance for your patience,

jim the corndodger corndodger2@hotmail.com

 * Reply via email. Jrincayc 03:08, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Discrete_supply_and_demand.png listed for deletion
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hi there. I am disputing that the figure you drew at Consumer_theory for the substitution effect is correct. However, I do have to say that I love the figures, they are some of the best I've seen! Can you tell me what you used to create them? (The image in question is Image:Substitution_effect.png). Pdbailey (talk) 15:22, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I used Xfig to create the diagrams. (Inkscape is another one that might be work trying.) Jrincayc (talk) 15:09, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I use mainly R to create graphics. But it doesn't have a fully functional vector graphics add on yet. Looking at your figures, I can see that for thin lines and figures with loads of detail, this is hugely helpful. Thanks for the links! Pdbailey (talk) 18:20, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

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In further research on MPEG-1, I came across Philip's Video CD IP licensing program, which includes a handful of potential candidates for patents that may still be in-force, covering MPEG-1. Specifically, any mentioning "frame" "motion" "image" (video), "subband" "filter" (audio), etc., are prime candidates. I haven't done any research yet, so I can't say if any are essential. The list does appear to be comprehensive.

See all (4) "Annex A" PDFs listed at: http://www.ip.philips.com/services/?module=IpsLicenseProgram&command=View&id=52&part=4

You may well be the only person on WP that cares (myself included, as I've happily moved on to Citizendium and now refrain from any work on WP) so I opted to point them out to you directly. Good luck. Rcooley (talk) 13:26, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Thank you.  I will have to take a look at those patents. Jrincayc (talk) 03:08, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

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Actually, I don't think the anon has good faith. The anon cares nothing for Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and has been adding material on 350.org and related material without any consideration as to whether it's appropriate. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 21:03, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, there was no comment with the revert, and no discussion on their talk page. Jrincayc (talk) 21:12, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a floating 99.* IP dedicating to spamming information about 350.org around the Internet. Where is an appropriate talk page to comment?  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 23:20, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, Josh. I stumbled across your Python patent code at User:Jrincayc/Patent utils. I was thinking of writing something along these lines too, and would rather piggyback off the work that you've already done. Do you have any objection?

Have you considered open-sourcing this? I looked into this a few years ago, and from time to time I'm contacted by someone who googled to my query and who is looking to do the same thing, asking if I ever found anything; so I think there's a niche for it.

Also, I see that open-source attorney Van Lindberg is going to be presenting at PyCon next month: "How to kill a patent with Python"; and part of his talk may be interesting for this: ''The USPTO as a data source.* The full-text of each patent is available from the USPTO (and now from Google.) What does this data look like? How can it be harvested and normalized to create data structures that we can work with'' TJRC (talk) 21:30, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

 * Absolutely. I added a comment that it can be used under the GPL 2 or later.  If you need a different license feel free to ask.  Jrincayc (talk) 15:49, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

MP3 patent expiration
According to your table at Talk:MP3, the patent will never expire. Take a good look at that date in 2015 :) —mjb (talk) 05:31, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Welcome to the joy of parsing patent text. Sometimes the program only finds month and year, and puts in 32 as the date.  Jrincayc (talk) 14:28, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

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Not truth
I think you need to read WP:Verifiability, not truth. That phrase exists because we have had hundreds of people over the years who have told the community, "WP:But it's true!, so it doesn't matter that it's not verifiable". It does matter if it's verifiable: You may include material that is verifiable, and you may not include material that is not verifiable, even if that unverifiable material is True™.

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"But it's not true!" is the battle cry of many POV pushers in controversial articles. One goal of this sentence is to remind editors that their personal beliefs that abortion is/isn't murder, or that climate change is/isn't happening, or that Barack Obama is/isn't an American citizen, or whatever, are irrelevant. It doesn't matter if it's "really" True™ (according to your personal beliefs). If a proper reliable source didn't say it, then even WP:The Truth does not meet the threshold (=minimum requirement) for inclusion in Wikipedia. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:47, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I disagree with WhatamIdoing in every respect. Wanting the encyclopaedia not to be a pack of lies is not necessarily the "battle cry of POV pushers", and it's extremely unhelpful and belittling to stick that ™ sign after the word "truth".  It's perfectly possible to seek the truth through published sources and I applaud your commonsense stance on this.— S Marshall  T/C 18:11, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

 * For what it is worth, I have read WP:Verifiability, not truth, and I agree with most of it; I think the essay would be better (and mean about the same) if you just removed the 'not truth' part.  I got motivated to this discussion because verifiability was brought up in Talk:The Limits to Growth when we were having a discussion of what the true equation should be.  I have not seen any discussion that changes my mind about removing the 'not truth' from the verifiability page.  I expect that my edit will get reverted tho.  WhatamIdoing, I fully agree with your statement, "You may include material that is verifiable, and you may not include material that is not verifiable, even if that unverifiable material is True." I would also like to list Stress (mechanics) as an exhibit of something that is very verifiable, but does not list a reliable source.  Jrincayc (talk) 03:32, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * And for what it is worth, my person canon: http://jjc.freeshell.org/things_i_believe.html Jrincayc (talk) 03:34, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

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Are the scripts written in python2 or python3? I get some TabErrors (TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation)--Kopiersperre (talk) 15:23, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Python2 Jrincayc (talk) 12:21, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

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"Is there a common phonetic equivalent to this sentence, that has every English phoneme? The only one I could find was "Hum, thou whirring fusion; yes, Joy, pay each show; vie, thaw two wool dock bags." at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIT.1980.1056231 which phonetically is something like "hʌm ,ðaʊ wɝrɪŋ ˈfjuː.ʒən; jɛs, ʤɔɪ, peɪ iʧ ʃoʊ; vaɪ, θɔː tu wʊl dɒk bæɡz." That sentence is a bit awkward however.  Jrincayc (talk) 23:29, 26 November 2010 (UTC)."

Yes, it seems they are called phonetic pangrams and there are several. Some are

 * "That quick beige fox jumped in the air over each thin dog. Look out, I shout, for he's foiled you again, creating chaos."

 * "The hungry purple dinosaur ate the kind, zingy fox, the jabbering crab, and the mad whale and started vending and quacking."

 * "The beige hue on the waters of the loch impressed all, including the French queen, before she heard that symphony again, just as young Arthur wanted."

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 * Awesome, thank you. Jrincayc (talk) 16:15, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

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Country dance

A country dance is any of a very large number of social dances of a type that originated in the British Isles; it is the repeated execution of a predefined sequence of figures, carefully designed to fit a fixed length of music, performed by a group of people, usually in couples, in one or more sets. The figures involve interaction with your partner and/or with other dancers, usually with a progression so that you dance with everyone in your set. It is common in modern times to have a "caller" who teaches the dance and then calls the figures as you dance. Country dances are done in many different styles.

As a musical form written in or  time, the contredanse was used by Beethoven and Mozart. Beethoven's 6 Ecosaises WoO83 are dated to 1806. Mozart's 6 Ländlerische Tänze, K.606 are dated to 1791.

Introduced to South America by French immigrants, Country Dance had great influence upon Latin American music as contradanza.

The Anglais (from the French word meaning "English") or Angloise is another term for the English country dance. A Scottish country dance may be termed an écossaise. Irish set dance is also related.

Characteristics
A set is a formation of dancers. The most common formations are longways for as many as will, i.e. couples in long lines, and squares, consisting of four couples. The longways formation occurs in over 12,000 modern contra dances; it was also the most popular formation in all the dance publications of the 18th and early 19th centuries. In 2003, Burleson's Square Dancer's Encyclopedia listed 5125 calls or figures. Circles and fixed-length longways sets are also very common, but the possible formations are limited only by the imagination of the choreographer.

Thomas Wilson, in 1808, wrote, "A Country Dance is composed of an indefinite number of persons, not less than six, but as many more as chuse, but six are sufficient to perform any figure in the treatise." Wilson was writing about his own period. In fact, there are numerous dances for two couples, and quite a few for three or five dancers.

A figure is a pattern that the dancers trace along the floor, simple ones such as Circle Left are intuitive and can be danced with no prior knowledge, while complex moves such as Strip the willow need to be taught. The stepping and style of dancing varies by region and by period.

Wilson, in 1820, wrote, "Country Dance Figures are certain Movements or Directions formed in Circular, Half Circular, Serpentine, Angular, Straight Lines, etc. etc. drawn out into different Lengths, adapted to the various Strains of Country Dance Music." . Again, the possible figures are limited only by the imagination of the choreographer. Examples of some of the figures are provided in the Glossary of country dance terms.

The music most commonly associated with country dancing is folk/country/traditional/historical music, however modern bands are experimenting with countless other genres.

While some dances may have originated on village greens, the vast majority were, and still are, written by dancing masters and choreographers.

Each dance consists of a series of figures, hopefully smoothly linked together, designed to fit to the chosen music. The most common form of music is 32 bar jigs or reels, but any music suitable for dancing can be used. In most dances the dancers will progress to a new position so that the next time through the music they are dancing with different people.

While English folk dance clubs generally embrace all types of country dance, American English country dance groups tend to exclude modern contra dances and square dances.

Country dancing is intended for general participation, unlike folk dances such as clogging, which are primarily concert dances, and ballroom dances in which dancers dance with their partners independently of others. Bright, rhythmic and simple, country dances had appeal as a refreshing finale to an evening of stately dances such as the minuet.

Historically, the term contra dance is just another name for a country dance. Howe, in 1858, wrote, "The term "Country Dance" is the one invariably used in all books on dancing that have been published in England during the last three centuries, while all works issued in France within the same period employ the term Contra Dance, or in French "Contre Danse". As the authority is equally good in both cases, either term is therefore correct. The Country or Contra Dance has been one of the most popular amusements in the British Isles, France, and other continental countries from time immemorial". However, "contra dance" is most commonly used today to refer to a specific American genre called contra dance.

History
Country dances began to influence courtly dance in the 15th century and became particularly popular at the court of Elizabeth I of England. Many references to country dancing and titles shared with known 17th-century dances appear from this time, though few of these can be shown to refer to English country dance. While some early features resemble the morris dance and other early styles, the influence of the courtly dances of Continental Europe, especially those of Renaissance Italy, may also be seen, and it is probable that English country dance was affected by these at an early date. Little is known of these dances before the mid-17th century.

John Playford's The English Dancing Master (1651) listed over a hundred tunes, each with its own figures. This was enormously popular, reprinted constantly for 80 years and much enlarged. Playford and his successors had a practical monopoly on the publication of dance manuals until 1711, and ceased publishing around 1728. During this period English country dances took a variety of forms including finite sets for two, three and four couples as well as circles and squares.

The country dance was introduced to the court of Louis XIV of France, where it became known as contredanse, and later to Germany and Italy. André Lorin, who visited the English court in the late 17th century, presented a manuscript of dances in the English manner to Louis XIV on his return to France. In 1706 Raoul Auger Feuillet published his Recüeil de Contredances, a collection of "contredanses anglaises" presented in a simplified form of Beauchamp-Feuillet notation and including some dances invented by the author as well as authentic English dances. This was subsequently translated into English by John Essex and published in England as For the Further Improvement of Dancing.

By the 1720s the term contradanse had come to refer to longways sets divided into groups of three or two couples, which would remain normative until English country dance's eclipse. The earliest French works refer only to the longways form as contradanse, which allowed the false etymology of "a dance in which lines dance opposite one another". The square-set type also had its vogue in France and spread to much of Europe, Russia and North America during the later 18th century as the quadrille and the cotillion. These usually require a group of eight people, a couple along each side. "Les Lanciers", a descendant of the quadrille, and the "Eightsome Reel" are examples of this kind of dance. Dancing in square sets still survives in Ireland, under the name "set dancing" or "figure dancing".

For some time English publishers issued annual collections of these dances in popular pocket-books. Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy all loved country dancing and put detailed descriptions into their novels. But the vogue for the waltz and the quadrille ousted the country dance from English ballrooms in the early 19th century, though Scottish country dance remained popular.

Influence
The English country dance and the French contredanse, arriving independently in the American colonies, became the New England contra dance, which experienced a resurgence in the mid-20th century. The quadrille evolved into square dance in the United States while in Ireland it contributed to the development of modern Irish set dance. English country dance in Scotland developed its own flavour and became the separate Scottish country dance. English céilidh is a special case, being a convergence of English, Irish and Scottish forms. In addition certain English country dances survived independently in the popular repertoire. One such is the Virginia Reel, which is almost exactly the same as the "Sir Roger de Coverley".

The contradanza, the Spanish and Spanish-American version of the French contradanse, became an internationally popular style of music and dance in the 18th century. The contradanza was popular in Spain and spread throughout Spanish America during the 18th century, where it took on folkloric forms that still exist in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Panama and Ecuador. In Cuba during the 19th century the contradanza became an important genre, the ancestor of danzon, mambo and cha cha cha. Haitians fleeing the Haitian Revolution of 1791 brought to the Cuban version a Creole influence and a new syncopation.

The Engelska (Swedish for "English") or Danish Engelsk is a 16-bar Scandinavian folk dance in. Its name comes from the adoption in Scandinavia of English country dances and contra dances in the early 19th century. In Denmark the description "Engelsk" was used for both line and square dances of English origin.

Revival
Only due to the efforts of Cecil Sharp, Mary Neal and the English Folk Dance and Song Society in the late 19th and early 20th century did a revival take place, so that for some time schoolchildren were taught country dances. In the early 20th century, traditional and historical dances began to be revived in England. Neal, one of the first to do so, was principally known for her work in ritual dances, but Cecil Sharp, in the six volumes of his Country Dance Book, published between 1909 and 1922, attempted to reconstruct English country dance as it was performed at the time of Playford, using the surviving traditional English village dances as a guide, as the manuals defined almost none of the figures described. Sharp and his students were, however, almost wholly concerned with English country dances as found in the early dance manuals: Sharp published 160 dances from the Playford manuals and 16 traditional village country dances. Sharp believed that the Playford dances, especially those with irregular forms, represented the original "folk" form of English country dance and that all later changes in the dance's long history were corruptions. This view is no longer held.

The first collection of modern English country dances since the 1820s, Maggot Pie, was published in 1932, though only in the late 20th century did modern compositions become fully accepted. Reconstructions of historical dances and new compositions continue. Interpreters and composers of the 20th century include Douglas and Helen Kennedy, Pat Shaw, Tom Cook, Ken Sheffield, Charles Bolton, Michael Barraclough, Colin Hume, Gary Roodman, and Andrew Shaw.

The modern English country dance community in the United States consists primarily of liberal white professionals.

History

 * A multi-edition transcription of Playford's The Dancing Master, compiled by Robert M. Keller, hosted by the Country Dance and Song Society.  Or go straight to the alphabetical index.
 * Evolution of the Playford dances (archived) by Nicole Salomone
 * A transcription of the first edition of Playford's The Dancing Master.
 * The Colonial Dancing Master Books and recordings.
 * Alan Winston's history survey English Country Dance and its American Cousin
 * Gene Murrow's comments on the history of ECD
 * John Gardiner-Garden's 10 volume 7,000 page magnum opus on social dance from 1450 to 1900 Historic Dance

Interpretation

 * Michael Barraclough
 * Colin Hume
 * Patri J. Pugliese
 * John Gardiner-Garden

Dance associations

 * Bay Area Country Dance Society promotes, preserves, and teaches traditional English and American music and dance in the San Francisco Bay area.
 * CD NY Country Dance New York holds weekly dances in New York City.
 * Country Dance and Song Society is a United States umbrella organization whose members enjoy English dance.
 * Country Dance*New York runs English and contra dance events in New York City.
 * Country Dance Society, Boston Centre runs English and contra dances in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
 * Ann Arbor Community for Traditional Music and Dance is an umbrella organization whose sponsored events include English and American music and dance in Michigan.
 * Dover English Country Dancers runs English dances in Dover, DE, USA & presents demonstrations at festivals & historic sites in MD & DE.
 * Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy run dance classes and balls in Australia, as well as a Shakespeare Dance & Music Festival, Baroque Dance Weekend, Jane Austen Festival Australia and Yarrangobilly 19th Century Dance Retreat.
 * ECD around the United States A list of English dance series.
 * English Folk Dance and Song Society has an online shop selling books and compact disks.
 * Felpham & Middleton Country Dance Club has written a history from 1933–1994, just about one of the oldest extant English Country Dance clubs in England.
 * Society for Creative Anachronism practices many English country dances in a historical context.
 * The Leesburg Assembly is an English Country Dance community centered in Northern Virginia, USA.
 * The Victoria English Country Dance Society is a group of friendly people who gather once a week to dance in Victoria, BC, Canada. Live music is provided by The Dancehall Players.

General

 * Folk dances from County of Nice, France
 * Scottish Country Dancing database

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Peter Minuit

Peter Minuit (also Pierre Minuit (french version), or Peter Minnewit (dutch version)) (between 1580 and 1585 – August 5, 1638) was a walloon (then part of the Spanish Netherlands) merchant born in Wesel, in present-day northwestern Germany. He was the 3rd Director of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and 3rd Governor of New Netherland. He founded the Swedish colony of New Sweden on the Delaware Peninsula in 1638.

Minuit is generally credited with orchestrating the purchase of Manhattan Island for the Dutch West India Company from representatives of the Lenape, the area's indigenous people. Manhattan later became the site of the Dutch city of New Amsterdam, and the borough of Manhattan of modern-day New York City. A letter written by Dutch merchant Peter Schaghen to directors of the Dutch East India Company stated that Manhattan was purchased for "60 guilders worth of trade", an amount worth ~$1,143 U.S. dollars as of 2020.

Early life
Peter Minuit was born in Wesel, Germany between 1580 and 1585 into a Calvinist family that had moved from the city of Tournai (presently part of Wallonia, Belgium) in the Southern Netherlands controlled by Spain, in order to avoid Spanish Catholic authorities, who were not favorably disposed toward Protestants. His surname means "midnight" in French.

His father, Johann Minuit, died in 1609 and Peter took over management of the household and his father's business. Peter had a good reputation in Wesel, attested by the fact that he was several times appointed a guardian. He also assisted the poor during the Spanish occupation of 1614–1619.

Minuit married Gertrude Raedts from Cleve on August 20, 1613. Gertrude was from a wealthy family and she probably helped Peter Minuit establish himself as a broker. A will drawn up in 1615 in the Dutch city of Utrecht, mentions "Peter Minnewit" as a diamond cutter. Whether he traded in other items is unknown. He spelled his own surname as Minuit, but the spelling Minnewit shows the pronunciation. Thus in some old books Minnewit is used.

By 1624, the city was in an economic decline and in 1625, he had left Wesel and like others, went to Holland. At first, Gertrude went to stay with her relatives in Cleve.

As director of New Netherland

Minuit joined the Dutch West India Company, probably in the mid-1620s, and was sent with his family to New Netherland in 1625 to search for tradable goods other than the animal pelts that then were the major product coming from New Netherland. He returned in the same year, and in 1626 was appointed the new director of New Netherland, taking over from Willem Verhulst. He sailed to North America and arrived in the colony on May 4, 1626.

Minuit is credited with purchasing the island of Manhattan from Native Americans in exchange for traded goods valued at 60 guilders. The figure of 60 guilders comes from a letter by a representative of the Dutch States-General and member of the board of the Dutch West India Company, Pieter Janszoon Schagen, to the States-General in November 1626. In 1844, New York historian John Romeyn Brodhead converted the figure of Fl 60 (or 60 guilders) to US$24. By 2006 sixty guilders in 1626 was worth approximately $1,000 in current dollars, according to the Institute for Social History of Amsterdam.

According to researchers at the National Library of the Netherlands, "The original inhabitants of the area were unfamiliar with the European notions and definitions of ownership rights. For the Indians, water, air and land could not be traded. Such exchanges would also be difficult in practical terms because many groups migrated between their summer and winter quarters. It can be concluded that both parties probably went home with totally different interpretations of the sales agreement."

A contemporary purchase of rights in nearby Staten Island, to which Minuit also was party, involved duffel cloth, iron kettles, axe heads, hoes, wampum, drilling awls, "Jew's harps", and "diverse other wares". "If similar trade goods were involved in the Manhattan arrangement", Burrows and Wallace surmise, "then the Dutch were engaged in high-end technology transfer, handing over equipment of enormous usefulness in tasks ranging from clearing land to drilling wampum."

Minuit conducted politics in a measure of democracy in the colony during his time in New Netherland. He was highest judge in the colony, but in both civil and criminal affairs he was assisted by a council of five colonists. This advisory body would advise the director and jointly with him would develop, administer, and adjudicate a body of laws to help govern the colony. In addition there was a schout-fiscal, half-sheriff, half-attorney-general, and the customs officer. During Minuit's administration, several mills were built, trade grew exponentially, and the population grew to almost 300.

In 1632, the Dutch West India Company (WIC) suspended Minuit from his post for reasons that are unclear, but probably for (perhaps unintentionally) abetting the landowning patroons who were engaging in illegal fur trade and otherwise enriching themselves against the interests and orders of the West India Company. He arrived back in Europe in August 1632 to explain his actions, but was dismissed and was succeeded as director by Wouter van Twiller. It is possible that Minuit had become the victim of the internal disputes over the rights that the board of directors had given to the patroons.

Establishing the New Sweden colony

After having lived in Emmerich (Duchy of Cleves) for several years, Minuit made arrangements with Samuel Blommaert and the Swedish government in 1637 to create the first Swedish colony in the New World. Located on the lower Delaware River within territory earlier claimed by the Dutch, it was called New Sweden. Minuit and his company arrived on the Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel at Swedes' Landing, which is present-day Wilmington, Delaware, on 29 March, 1638. Minuit left the colony on 20 May, 1638 and sailed to the Caribbean island of St. Christopher, where he arrived on 15 June to barter salt, a ship's cargo of wine and liquor for tobacco to make the voyage profitable.

Death
During this voyage, Minuit drowned when the ship he was visiting (at the invitation of its Dutch captain, a friend of Minuit), The Flying Deer, was lost with all hands during a hurricane near St. Kitts. One ship sank near the Azores, another arrived without mast. The losses suffered, such as goods and Minuit, caused irreversible damage to Sweden's colonization attempts. Two years later, Swedish Lt. Måns Nilsson Kling, whose rank was raised to captain, replaced Minuit as governor. Nine expeditions to the colony were carried out before the Dutch captured it in 1655.

Places named after Minuit

 * The Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal's Peter Minuit Plaza, north of the South Ferry – Whitehall Street station . Following the 400th-anniversary celebrations of Henry Hudson's voyage to Manhattan, a pavilion was opened there to honor the Dutch. Each night at midnight, LED lights around the pavilion's perimeter glow in honor of Minuit.
 * A marker in Inwood Hill Park at the supposed site of the purchase of Manhattan.
 * A granite flagstaff base in Battery Park, which depicts the historic purchase
 * A school and playground in East Harlem, which are named for him.
 * An apartment building at 25 Claremont Avenue in Manhattan, which bears his name above the front entrance
 * The Peter Minuit Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
 * A memorial on Moltkestraße in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

In popular culture

 * The beginning lines of Rodgers and Hart's 1939 song "Give It Back to the Indians" recount the sale of Manhattan: "Old Peter Minuit had nothing to lose when he bought the isle of Manhattan / For twenty-six dollars and a bottle of booze, and they threw in the Bronx and Staten / Pete thought he had the best of the bargain, but the poor red man just grinned / And he grunted "ugh!" (meaning "okay" in his jargon) for he knew poor Pete was skinned."
 * Minuit was played by Groucho Marx in the 1957 comedy film The Story of Mankind.
 * Minuit was played by Michael Landon in the 1970 film Swing Out, Sweet Land.
 * Minuit is mentioned on the HBO drama Boardwalk Empire, where the character Edward Bader tells a joke featuring the line, "'50 bucks?' the fella says. 'Peter Stuyvesant only paid 24 for the entire island of Manhattan!'", while Steve Buscemi's' character Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson has to correct Bader and inform him that it was in fact Peter Minuit who bought Manhattan, not Stuyvesant.
 * Bob Dylan mentions Minuit in his song "Hard Times in New York Town" (released on The Bootleg Series Volume 1) in the following line: Mister Hudson come a-sailing down the stream, / and old Mister Minuit paid for his dream. In the released recording of the song, however, Dylan spoonerizes "Mister Minuit" by mispronouncing his name as "Minnie Mistuit." The official lyrics have the correct version of the name, except that Minuit is spelled "Minuet."
 * Minuit is mentioned in the first episode, Uno, of the AMC drama Better Call Saul. Jimmy McGill (the later titular Saul), while confronting lawyers at his brother's law firm, accuses them of being "like Peter Minuit" and suggests that they "throw in some beads and shells" to the $26,000.00 being given to his brother.
 * In Manahatta, a play by Mary Kathryn Nagle, Minuit is a featured character, depicted in his involvement in the colonization of Turtle Island.

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Flintstone

Flintstone may refer to:

 * Flint, a type of stone, sometimes called flintstone
 * Flintstone, Georgia
 * Flintstone, Maryland
 * Flintstone, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
 * The Flintstones, an animated television show and related productions
 * The Flintstones (1988 video game)
 * The Flintstones (1993 video game), a 1993 video game based on the animated television show
 * The Flintstones (pinball)
 * The Flintstones (film), a 1994 live action film based on the animated television show
 * Flintstones Chewable Vitamins, supplemental multivitamins for children based on the animated television show
 * The Flintstones (2016 comic book)
 * Flintstonization, a term coined in the book Sex at Dawn regarding the projecting of modern assumptions and beliefs onto earlier societies.

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Flint

Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start fires.

Flint occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones. Inside the nodule, flint is usually dark grey or black, green, white, or brown in colour, and has a glassy or waxy appearance. A thin, oxidised layer on the outside of the nodules is usually different in colour, typically white and rough in texture. The nodules can often be found along streams and beaches.

Flint breaks and chips into sharp-edged pieces, making it useful in constructing a variety of cutting tools, such as knife blades and scrapers. The use of flint to make stone tools dates back more than three million years; flint's extreme durability has made it possible to accurately date its use over this time. Flint is one of the primary materials used to define the Stone Age.

During the Stone Age, access to flint was so important for survival that people would travel or trade long distances to obtain the stone. Grime's Graves was an important source of flint traded across Europe. Flint Ridge in Ohio was another important source of flint, and Native Americans extracted the flint from hundreds of quarries along the ridge. This "Ohio Flint" was traded across the eastern United States, and has been found as far west as the Rocky Mountains and south around the Gulf of Mexico.

When struck against steel, flint will produce enough sparks to ignite a fire with the correct tinder, or gunpowder used in weapons, namely the flintlock firing mechanism. Although it has been superseded in these uses by different processes (the percussion cap), or materials (ferrocerium), "flint" has lent its name as generic term for a fire starter.

Origin

The exact mode of formation of flint is not yet clear, but it is thought that it occurs as a result of chemical changes in compressed sedimentary rock formations during the process of diagenesis. One hypothesis is that a gelatinous material fills cavities in the sediment, such as holes bored by crustaceans or molluscs and that this becomes silicified. This hypothesis would certainly explain the complex shapes of flint nodules that are found. The source of dissolved silica in the porous media could be the spicules of silicious sponges (demosponges). Certain types of flint, such as that from the south coast of England and its counterpart on the French side of the Channel, contain trapped fossilised marine flora. Pieces of coral and vegetation have been found preserved inside the flint similar to insects and plant parts within amber. Thin slices of the stone often reveal this effect.

Flint sometimes occurs in large flint fields in Jurassic or Cretaceous beds, for example, in Europe. Puzzling giant flint formations known as paramoudra and flint circles are found around Europe but especially in Norfolk, England, on the beaches at Beeston Bump and West Runton.

The "Ohio flint" is the official gemstone of Ohio state. It is formed from limey debris that was deposited at the bottom of inland Paleozoic seas hundreds of millions of years ago that hardened into limestone and later became infused with silica. The flint from Flint Ridge is found in many hues like red, green, pink, blue, white, and grey, with the colour variations caused by minute impurities of iron compounds.

Flint can be coloured: sandy brown, medium to dark grey, black, reddish brown or an off-white grey.

Tools or cutting edges
Flint was used in the manufacture of tools during the Stone Age as it splits into thin, sharp splinters called flakes or blades (depending on the shape) when struck by another hard object (such as a hammerstone made of another material). This process is referred to as knapping.

Flint mining is attested since the Paleolithic, but became more common since the Neolithic (Michelsberg culture, Funnelbeaker culture). In Europe, some of the best toolmaking flint has come from Belgium (Obourg, flint mines of Spiennes), the coastal chalks of the English Channel, the Paris Basin, Thy in Jutland (flint mine at Hov), the Sennonian deposits of Rügen, Grimes Graves in England, the Upper Cretaceous chalk formation of Dobruja and the lower Danube (Balkan flint), the Cenomanian chalky marl formation of the Moldavian Plateau (Miorcani flint) and the Jurassic deposits of the Kraków area and Krzemionki in Poland, as well as of the Lägern (silex) in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland.

In 1938, a project of the Ohio Historical Society, under the leadership of H. Holmes Ellis began to study the knapping methods and techniques of Native Americans. Like past studies, this work involved experimenting with actual knapping techniques by creation of stone tools through the use of techniques like direct freehand percussion, freehand pressure and pressure using a rest. Other scholars who have conducted similar experiments and studies include William Henry Holmes, Alonzo W. Pond, Francis H. S. Knowles and Don Crabtree.

To reduce susceptibility to fragmentation, flint/chert may be heat-treated, being slowly brought up to a temperature of 150 to 260 C for 24 hours, then slowly cooled to room temperature. This makes the material more homogeneous and thus more knappable and produces tools with a cleaner, sharper cutting edge. Heat treating was known to Stone Age artisans.

To ignite fire or gunpowder

When struck against steel, a flint edge produces sparks. The hard flint edge shaves off a particle of the steel that exposes iron, which reacts with oxygen from the atmosphere and can ignite the proper tinder.

Prior to the wide availability of steel, rocks of pyrite (FeS2) would be used along with the flint, in a similar (but more time-consuming) way. These methods remain popular in woodcraft, bushcraft, and amongst people practising traditional fire-starting skills.

Flintlocks

A later, major use of flint and steel was in the flintlock mechanism, used primarily in flintlock firearms, but also used on dedicated fire-starting tools. A piece of flint held in the jaws of a spring-loaded hammer, when released by a trigger, strikes a hinged piece of steel ("frizzen") at an angle, creating a shower of sparks and exposing a charge of priming powder. The sparks ignite the priming powder and that flame, in turn, ignites the main charge, propelling the ball, bullet, or shot through the barrel. While the military use of the flintlock declined after the adoption of the percussion cap from the 1840s onward, flintlock rifles and shotguns remain in use amongst recreational shooters.

Comparison with ferrocerium
Flint and steel used to strike sparks were superseded in the 20th century by ferrocerium (sometimes referred to as "flint", although not true flint, "mischmetal", "hot spark", "metal match", or "fire steel"). This human-made material, when scraped with any hard, sharp edge, produces sparks that are much hotter than obtained with natural flint and steel, allowing use of a wider range of tinders. Because it can produce sparks when wet and can start fires when used correctly, ferrocerium is commonly included in survival kits. Ferrocerium is used in many cigarette lighters, where it is referred to as "a flint".

Fragmentation
Flint's utility as a fire starter is hampered by its property of uneven expansion under heating, causing it to fracture, sometimes violently, during heating. This tendency is enhanced by the impurities found in most samples of flint that may expand to a greater or lesser degree than the surrounding stone, and is similar to the tendency of glass to shatter when exposed to heat, and can become a drawback when flint is used as a building material.

As a building material
Flint, knapped or unknapped, has been used from antiquity (for example at the Late Roman fort of Burgh Castle in Norfolk) up to the present day as a material for building stone walls, using lime mortar, and often combined with other available stone or brick rubble. It was most common in those parts of southern England where no good building stone was available locally, and where brick-making was not widespread until the later Middle Ages. It is especially associated with East Anglia, but also used in chalky areas stretching through Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey and Kent to Somerset.

Flint was used in the construction of many churches, houses, and other buildings, for example, the large stronghold of Framlingham Castle. Many different decorative effects have been achieved by using different types of knapping or arrangement and combinations with stone (flushwork), especially in the 15th and early 16th centuries. Because knapping flints to a relatively flush surface and size is a highly skilled process with a high level of wastage, flint finishes typically indicate high status buildings.

During World War I, in the chalky-soil country of France, the British filled sandbags with flint and used these sandbags as breastworks.

Ceramics
Flint pebbles are used as the media in ball mills to grind glazes and other raw materials for the ceramics industry. The pebbles are hand-selected based on colour; those having a tint of red, indicating high iron content, are discarded. The remaining blue-grey stones have a low content of chromophoric oxides and so are less deleterious to the colour of the ceramic composition after firing.

Until recently calcined flint was also an important raw material in clay-based ceramic bodies produced in the UK. In clay bodies calcined flint attenuates the shrinkage whilst drying, and modifies the fired thermal expansion. Can also be used in glazes as a network former. However, the use of flint has now been superseded by quartz. Because of the historical use of flint, the word "flint" is used by some potters (especially in the U.S.) to refer generically to siliceous raw materials used in ceramics that are not flint.

Jewelry
Flint bracelets were known in Ancient Egypt, and several examples have been found.

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Talk:New Netherland

New Sweden did not precede NNL
The insertion of information in infobox that insinuates that New Sweden PRECEDED New Netherlands is inappropriate. Djflem (talk) 00:04, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

 * Wasn't it conqured in 1655 Kanto7 (talk) 11:18, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

 * The information is in the article.Djflem (talk) 20:16, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

 * So it preceded new netherland Kanto7 (talk) 01:30, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

 * New Sweden did not precede New Netherland. The Swedes established it in 1638 (see the New Sweden article and also the Fort Casimir article) so several years after New Netherland was founded and Manhattan was purchased. Besides, New Sweden was only a small part of the territory of the New Netherland colony, after the conquest by Stuyvesant. So I think the info box should indeed be amended. I don't know how to do it, so I leave the edit to people that are better equipped.--Ereunetes (talk) 21:19, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Dutch soldiers sold into slavery in Virginia
The article mentions in the section on the 1664 capitulation the depredations of Sir Robert Carr, knight (there is an article on a Sir Robert Carrr, bart, but that is a different person) in the New Amstel part (in present day Delaware) of New Netherland (see also the Delaware Colony article.) Among those depredations was the enslavement of the garrison of fort New Amstel (apparently they were sold into slavery in the Virginia colony). Apparently this assertion does not meet with much skepticism (other than in the Delaware Colony article, where someone put up a demand for a citation, which I have provided there). Still, it should raise a few eyebrows, as these soldiers were presumably free white Europeans. Before I edited the Delaware Colony article I did some research into the matter, and found a number of references in rather obscure 19th-century local Delaware histories (the references provided in the New Netherland article are even more obscure). So I decided to dig a little deeper. I think the American references ultimately go back to a deposition made by the sheriff of New Amstel, Gerrit van Sweeringen, made shortly after the event, which may be found in. But I also found the same assertion being made in a deposition about the capitulation and his role therein by none other than Peter Stuyvesant himself after his return to the Dutch Republic in 1665 (available in the Amsterdam City Archives). In other words, there seems to be good evidence that these assertions were indeed made from the Dutch side, shortly after the event. But that does not make them true, of course. So I wondered if a sale into slavery of Dutch prisoners of war would even have been legal in the colonial Virginia of the time. I found several wiki articles on subjects related to slavery in Virginia that give a partial account. Let me for brevity refer to the Partus sequitur ventrem article that appears to contain the most relevant information, although it chiefly pertains to the legal developments in 1662 that made chattel slavery more convenient in the English colonies in North America. Reading between the lines of that article I understand that under English common law foreigners (i.e. not-English-subjects) had no rights and could indeed be sold into slavery without objection, though this could not happen to English subjects (before 1662 these could only be held in indentured servitude). Still, it would be interesting to find archival material about slave sales in Virginia of the period to find out what happened to these former Dutch soldiers. Has anybody information on this matter?--Ereunetes (talk) 22:03, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

What is and why is "(VOC)" in the article?
In this paragraph below c/p from the article is this "(VOC)" beside "Dutch East India Company" what does it mean and/or why is it even there? It doesn't match as far as I can tell: "In 1609, English sea captain and explorer Henry Hudson was hired by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) located in Amsterdam to find a Northeast Passage to Asia, sailing around Scandinavia and Russia." IrishLas (talk • 14:18, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
 * https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vereenigde_Oostindische_Compagnie

Southwestern Cape Cod, MA
May I ask why isn’t Massachusetts listed as part of “today part of” listing. The areas including southwestern cape cod were part of new Netherlands, which is in Mass. Please correct the issue 2603:9001:600:24AA:89B0:555F:E090:FBF0 (talk) 05:52, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

 * Land was claimed but never settled. Djflem (talk) 19:28, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

New York Dutch
The statement "The descendants of the New Netherlanders are the New York Dutch".

Should read "were" or were known as (since it is an archaic term). Belongs in the legacy section which clearly discusses the impact of the colony and its residents AFTER the colony had come into the possession of English, but remained a vital force in the region.

Besides, the name is NOT supported by any sources other than that of a private club. Djflem (talk) 19:08, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

South River and New Sweden
New Sweden was established on Lenape territory not Susquehannock (Minquas) territory.

Most reliable sources use Peach War not Peach Tree War to describe the September 1655 one-day occupation of New Amsterdam by several hundred Munsee, and the subsequent raids on Staten Island and Pavonia. Describing it as retaliation for the conquest of New Sweden is problematic since the two events occurred concurrently. Of the two sources cited, Shorto calls the Peach War a retaliation orchestrated by the Susquehannock, while Trelease notes that direct action by the Susquehannock against the Dutch on the Delaware River would have been more to the point. Meanwhile, in Brothers among Nations, historian Cynthia van Zandt argues that the Susquehannock encouraged the Munsee to occupy New Amsterdam in order to force Stuyvesant to abandon the attack on New Sweden. Text has been changed to "an attempt to disrupt the attack on New Sweden." Griffin's Sword (talk) 19:08, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Edwin Beard Budding

Edwin Beard Budding (25 August 1796 – 25 September 1846 ), an engineer born in Eastington, Stroud, was the English inventor of the lawnmower (1830) and adjustable spanner (1842).

Lawnmower
Budding had the idea of the lawnmower after seeing a machine in a local cloth mill that used a cutting cylinder (or bladed reel) mounted on a bench to trim the irregular nap from the surface of woolen cloth and give a smooth finish. Budding's mower was designed primarily to cut the lawn on sports grounds and extensive gardens, as a superior alternative to the scythe, and was granted a British patent on 31 August 1830. It took ten more years and further innovations to create a machine that could be worked by animals, and sixty years before a steam-powered lawn mower was built. The first machine produced was 19 inches in width with a frame made of wrought iron. The mower was pushed from behind with motive power coming from the rear land roller which drove gears to transfer the drive to the knives on the cutting cylinder; the ratio was 16:1. There was another roller placed in between the cutting cylinder and the land roller which was adjustable to alter the height of cut. On cutting, the grass clippings were hurled forward into a tray-like box. It was soon realized, however, that an extra handle was needed in front of the machine which could be used to help pull it along. Two of the earliest Budding machines sold went to Regent's Park Zoological Gardens in London and the Oxford Colleges. In an agreement between John Ferrabee and Edwin Budding, dated 18 May 1830, Ferrabee paid the costs of development, obtained letters of patent and acquired rights to manufacture, sell and license other manufacturers in the production of lawn mowers. Budding realized that a similar device could be used to cut grass if the mechanism was mounted in a wheeled frame to make the blades rotate close to the lawn's surface. Budding went into partnership with a local engineer, John Ferrabee, and together they made mowers in a factory at Thrupp near Stroud.

Examples of the early Budding type mowers can be seen in Stroud Museum, the London Science Museum and at Milton Keynes Museum.

Adjustable spanner
Budding is also credited with the invention of the screw adjustable spanner in 1842.

Firearms
Budding's engineering and manufacturing skills also extended to the production of a five-shot percussion revolver having brass manually-rotated barrels in about 1830.

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Cryptocrystalline

Cryptocrystalline is a rock texture made up of such minute crystals that its crystalline nature is only vaguely revealed even microscopically in thin section by transmitted polarized light. Among the sedimentary rocks, chert and flint are cryptocrystalline. Carbonado, a form of diamond, is also cryptocrystalline. Volcanic rocks, especially of the felsic type such as felsites and rhyolites, may have a cryptocrystalline groundmass as distinguished from pure obsidian (felsic) or tachylyte (mafic), which are natural rock glasses. Agate and onyx are examples of cryptocrystalline silica (chalcedony). The quartz crystals in chalcedony are so tiny that they cannot be distinguished with the naked eye.

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Sill

Sill may refer to:

 * Sill (dock), a weir at the low water mark retaining water within a dock
 * Sill (geology), a subhorizontal sheet intrusion of molten or solidified magma
 * Sill (geostatistics)
 * Sill (river), a river in Austria
 * Sill plate, a construction element
 * Window sill, a more specific construction element than above
 * Automotive sill, also known as a rocker panel; see Glossary of automotive design
 * Fort Sill, a United States Army post near Lawton, Oklahoma
 * Mount Sill, a California mountain
 * Aquatic sill, a shoal near the mouth of a fjord, remnant of an extinct glacier's terminal moraine

Sill

 * Anna Peck Sill (1816-1889), American educator
 * Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887), American poet and educator
 * George G. Sill (1829–1907), American politician from Connecticut
 * Joel Sill (born 1946), American music producer
 * John M. B. Sill (1831–1901), American diplomat
 * Joshua W. Sill (1831–1862), American Civil War brigadier general
 * Judee Sill (1944–1979), American singer and songwriter
 * Lester Sill (1918–1994), American record label executive
 * Thomas Hale Sill (1783–1856), American politician from Pennsylvania
 * Zach Sill (born 1988), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Zach Sill (born 1988), Canadian ice hockey player

Sills

 * Beverly Sills (1929–2007), American operatic soprano
 * David Sills (judge) (1938–2011), American jurist
 * David Sills (American football) (born 1996), American football player
 * Douglas Sills (born 1960), American actor
 * Eileen Sills (born 1962), British chief nurse and NHS national guardian
 * Josh Sills (born 1998), American football player
 * Kenneth C.M. Sills (1879–1954), American educator
 * Milton Sills (1882–1930), American stage and film actor
 * Paul Sills (1927–2008), American director and improvisation teacher
 * Saskia Sills (born 1996), British windsurfer and sailor
 * Steven Sills (fl. 1991–present), American screenwriter and film producer
 * Tim Sills (born 1979), English footballer

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