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Ernst Wiesner

Ernst Wiesner, also known as Arnošt Wiesner (21 January 1890, in Malacky, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire – 15 July 1971, in Liverpool) was a modernist architect, one of the foremost interwar period architects of Brno. His ancestors with German surnames Wiesner came from the area of modern Austria.

From 1908 to 1913 Wiesner studied at the Technical College and the Academy of Arts (taught by B. Ohmann) in Vienna. After World War I he worked as an independent architect in the city of Brno, until 1939. Wiesner was a very active architect in the city between the World Wars. His work was greatly influenced by Adolf Loos and his pure constructions with their classicized balance and monumentality are amongst the best works to be constructed in Brno at that time.

With the Third Reich's increasing grip on Czechoslovakia, Wiesner emigrated to Great Britain where he lived for the remainder of his life, and joined the foreign anti-fascist resistance during World War II. During 1948-1950 he acted as a lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Oxford and during 1950–1960 at the University of Liverpool. In 1969 he was nominated to the rank of honorary doctor by the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně (now Masaryk University) in Brno. When he died in 1971 he was buried in Liverpool's Allerton Cemetery.

Architectural works in Brno

 * Gutmannův dům (Gutmann's house) 1919–22
 * Moravská zemská životní pojišťovna (Moravian Provincial Life Insurance Company) 1920–1923
 * Česká banka Union (Czech Union Bank; later seat of local branch of the Czechoslovak Broadcast) 1923–26
 * Krematorium (Crematorium) 1926–29
 * Vila Stiassni 1927 - 1929
 * Palác Morava (Palace Moravia) 1927–29. Completely finished in 1936
 * Rodinný dvojdům (Double-family house) 1928
 * Moravská banka (Moravian Bank) 1929–30, co-author Bohuslav Fuchs
 * Činžovní dům Freundschaft (The Freundschaft ["Friendship"] tenement house) 1930–31
 * Various family houses, industrial and manufacturing buildings around the City of Brno

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I just looked at the article and noticed that the "Bands og musikere" section has improper links, since many of them have simply been copied from the en article. E.g. there was a link da:Camel (band) which does not exist. da:Camel exists and is the article about the band, tho (I fixed that one). On the other hand, the Camel article, da:Soft Machine and da:Robert Wyatt do not have links to da:Canterbury Scene, they simply don't mention it. I hardly know any Danish (have a vague plan to learn it, tho), not even what "See also" would be in Danish. Maybe you'd like to fix some of those flaws or can add to the respective talk pages... Regards, --BNutzer 21:26, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

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Sorry about that. I didn't realize it was in Danish, so it just seemed like Total nonsense. Thanks for letting me know. I have changed it back.--Werdan7T @ 19:19, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

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34th Street–Penn Station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)

34th Street–Penn Station is an express station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 34th Street and Seventh Avenue in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, it is served by the 1 and 2 trains at all times, and the 3 train at all times except late nights. Connections are available to the LIRR, NJ Transit and Amtrak at Pennsylvania Station.

The station was built by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) as part of the Dual Contracts with New York City, and opened on June 3, 1917.

Construction and opening
The Dual Contracts, which were signed on March 19, 1913, were contracts for the construction, rehabilitation and operation of rapid transit lines in the City of New York. The contracts were "dual" in that they were signed between the city and two separate private companies, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT), all working together to make the construction of the Dual Contracts possible. The Dual Contracts promised the construction of several lines in Brooklyn. As part of Contract 4, the IRT agreed to build a branch of the original subway line south down Seventh Avenue, Varick Street, and West Broadway to serve the West Side of Manhattan.

The construction of this line, in conjunction with the construction of the Lexington Avenue Line, would change the operations of the IRT system. Instead of having trains go via Broadway, turning onto 42nd Street, before finally turning onto Park Avenue, there would be two trunk lines connected by the 42nd Street Shuttle. The system would be changed from looking like a "Z" system on a map to an "H" system. One trunk would run via the new Lexington Avenue Line down Park Avenue, and the other trunk would run via the new Seventh Avenue Line up Broadway. In order for the line to continue down Varick Street and West Broadway, these streets needed to be widened, and two new streets were built, the Seventh Avenue Extension and the Varick Street Extension. It was predicted that the subway extension would lead to the growth of the Lower West Side, and to neighborhoods such as Chelsea and Greenwich Village.

34th Street–Penn Station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line was opened on June 3, 1917, as part of an extension of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the dominant subway in Manhattan at the time, from Times Square–42nd Street to South Ferry. Concrete-laying for the platforms had started shortly before the station opened, and only the northern part of the express platform was in service on the station's opening day. The passageways to Pennsylvania Station were still under construction, forcing passengers to exit the subway station and walk along the street to access the railroad station. Once the passageways were complete, passengers could access both the railroad station and the neighboring Hotel Pennsylvania at 32nd and 33rd Streets without leaving the subway station.

A shuttle service ran between Times Square and Penn Station until the rest of the extension opened a year later on July 1, 1918. Afterward, the shuttle ran from Times Square to South Ferry. The new "H" system was implemented on August 1, 1918, joining the two halves of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and sending all West Side trains south from Times Square. An immediate result of the switch was the need to transfer using the 42nd Street Shuttle in order to retrace the original layout. The completion of the "H" system doubled the capacity of the IRT system.

Later years
The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940. As part of a pilot program, the BOT installed three-dimensional advertisements at 34th Street–Penn Station in late 1948. The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) announced plans in 1956 to add fluorescent lights throughout the station. On August 23, 1985, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) awarded a $2.24 million contract to rebuild the station and to double the width of the passageway to Penn Station. The project was scheduled to be completed in spring 1987.

Under the 2015–2019 MTA Capital Program, the station, along with thirty-two other New York City Subway stations, underwent a complete overhaul as part of the Enhanced Station Initiative. Updates included cellular service, Wi-Fi, charging stations, improved signage, and improved station lighting. Unlike other stations that were renovated under the initiative, 34th Street–Penn Station was not completely closed during construction. In January 2018, the NYCT and Bus Committee recommended that Judlau Contracting receive the $125 million contract for the renovations of 57th and 23rd Streets on the IND Sixth Avenue Line; 28th Street on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, and 34th Street–Penn Station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and IND Eighth Avenue Line. However, the MTA Board temporarily deferred the vote for these packages after city representatives refused to vote to award the contracts. The contract was put back for a vote in February, where it was ultimately approved. These improvements were substantially completed by May 2019.

The MTA announced in December 2021 that it would install wide-aisle fare gates for disabled passengers at five subway stations, including 34th Street–Penn Station, by mid-2022. The implementation of these fare gates was delayed; none of the wide-aisle fare gates had been installed by early 2023. The MTA announced in late 2022 that it would open customer service centers at 15 stations; the centers would provide services such as travel information and OMNY farecards. The first six customer service centers, including one at 34th Street–Penn Station, were to open in early 2023. The 34th Street station's customer service center opened at the beginning of March 2023. Additionally, the MTA replaced four of the station's elevators; this work was completed in January 2023, along with a new elevator entrance at 33rd Street.

Station layout

The local platforms are served by the 1 at all times and by the 2 during late nights. The express platform is used by the 2 and 3 trains during daytime hours. The next stop to the north is Times Square–42nd Street, while the next stop to the south is 28th Street for local trains and 14th Street for express trains.

This station has two side platforms for local service and a center island platform for express service. Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line and 34th Street–Penn Station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line are the only other stations in the system with this configuration. This is due to the expected increase in ridership and to encourage riders to switch at the next stop northbound, Times Square–42nd Street, as it is set up in the usual island platform manner for cross-platform interchanges.

There is no free transfer between this station and the station of the same name on the IND Eighth Avenue Line, despite the fact that both connect to Penn Station. The nearest transfer location is at Times Square–42nd Street with a free transfer to 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Exits
34th Street–Penn Station spans three streets (32nd, 33rd, and 34th Streets) with a set of entrances/exits at all of these streets. For the purposes of this article, entrance and exit are interchangeable.

There are four entrances directly from the intersection of 34th Street and Seventh Avenue. On the local platforms the turnstiles for these exits are at platform level; passengers wishing to use the express platforms must use a passageway beneath the platforms and tracks. These entrances utilize the northern portions of the platforms. There is also a supplementary and handicapped-accessible entrance to the Penn Station complex in general from 34th Street. A wheelchair-accessible elevator is also present on the south side of 34th Street at Seventh Avenue, within Penn Station's LIRR entrance.

There are three direct entrances from the street at 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue. As a replacement for the southwestern corner's lack of an entrance, there is an underground entrance directly connecting the station with the Long Island Rail Road concourse in the Penn Station complex. The turnstiles for this entrance are located below the track level and utilize the central portions of the platforms. There is an elevator from the street at the northwestern corner of this intersection.

The main entrance to the Penn Station complex is located on the western end of 32nd Street. From there, passengers may go through the New Jersey Transit and Long Island Rail Road concourses and use the entrance to this station at the end of the latter's concourse. There is also a smaller exit from the station at the southern ends of the platforms that connects with the end of the New Jersey Transit concourse where it meets the Long Island Rail Road underneath the main corridor in the station that connects New Jersey Transit and Amtrak. There is also an entrance on the north side of 32nd Street between Seventh and Sixth Avenues.

Ridership
34th Street–Penn Station on the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line is continually ranked as one of the busiest stations in the subway system. In 2016, it was the fifth-busiest subway station, with 27,741,367 riders as recorded by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. By comparison, its sister station on the Eighth Avenue Line is ranked sixth-busiest, with 25,183,869 passengers. When the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line station was a shuttle stop before the rest of the South Ferry extension opened, ridership was quite low; in its first year of operation, only 78,121 boardings were recorded.


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Anastasia of Sirmium

Saint Anastasia (died December 25 A.D. 304) is a Christian saint and martyr who died at Sirmium in the Roman province of Pannonia Secunda (modern Serbia). In the Eastern Orthodox Church, she is venerated as St. Anastasia the Pharmakolytria, i.e. "Deliverer from Potions" (Ἁγία Ἀναστασία ἡ Φαρμακολύτρια). This epithet is also translated as "One who Cures (Wounds)" in Lampe's A Patristic Greek Lexicon.

Concerning Anastasia, little is reliably known, save that she died in the persecutions of Diocletian; most stories about her date from several centuries after her death and make her variously a Roman or Sirmian native and a Roman citizen of patrician rank. One legend makes her the daughter of a certain Praetextatus and the pupil of Saint Chrysogonus. Catholic tradition states that her mother was St. Fausta of Sirmium.

Anastasia has long been venerated as a healer and exorcist. Her relics lie in the Cathedral of St. Anastasia in Zadar, Croatia.

She is one of seven women who, along with Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in the Roman Canon of the Mass.

Hagiography
Before the liturgical reforms of the twentieth century, this martyr enjoyed the distinction, unique in the Roman liturgy, of having a special commemoration in the second Mass on Christmas Day. This daytime Mass was originally celebrated not in honour of Christ's birth but rather in commemorating this martyr, and towards the end of the 5th century, her name was also inserted in the Roman Canon.

A "Passio" not earlier than the 6th century, gives a legendary account that makes Anastasia a Roman without claiming that she suffered martyrdom in Rome. The same legend connects her name with that of St. Chrysogonus, put to death in Aquileia, though the San Crisogono church in Rome is dedicated to him.

The legend makes Anastasia the daughter of Praetextatus, a Roman vir illustris, and affirms that she had Chrysogonus as a teacher. Early in the persecution of Diocletian, the Emperor summoned Chrysogonus to Aquileia where he suffered martyrdom. Anastasia, having gone from Aquileia to Sirmium to visit the faithful of that place, was beheaded on the island of Palmaria, 25 December. Her body was interred in the house of Apollonia, which had been converted into a basilica.

The whole account is purely legendary and rests on no historical foundations. All that is certain is that a martyr named Anastasia gave her life for the faith in Sirmium and that her memory was kept in that city. In Rome, a church in ancient times bore the name of a certain Anastasia and is listed under the name Titulus Anastasia in the acts of the 499 Roman synods. At some point in history, this church came to be seen as dedicated to this martyr of the same name. It has the rank of a basilica and is one of the titular churches of Rome assigned to a cardinal-priest.

Basilica
The basilica of Sant'Anastasia al Palatino in Rome was built in the late 3rd century – early 4th century, possibly by a Roman woman named Anastasia. Later the church was entitled to the martyr with the same name, Anastasia of Sirmium.

In the West
The Martyrologium Hieronymianum records her name on 25 December, not for Sirmium alone, but also for Constantinople, a circumstance based on a separate story. According to Theodorus Lector, during the patriarchate of Gennadius (458-471) the body of the martyr was transferred to Constantinople and interred in a church which had hitherto been known as "Anastasis" (Gr. Anastasis, Resurrection); thenceforth the church took the name of Anastasia.

Similarly, veneration of St. Anastasia was introduced into Rome from Sirmium by means of an already existing church. As this church was already quite famous, it brought the feast day of the saint into especial prominence. There existed in Rome from the 4th century, at the foot of the Palatine Hill and above the Circus Maximus, a church which had been adorned by Pope Damasus (366-384) with a large mosaic. It was known as "titulus Anastasiae", and is mentioned as such in the Acts of the Roman Council of 499. There is some uncertainty as to the origin of this name; either the church owes its foundation to and was named after a Roman matron Anastasia, as in the case of several other titular churches of Rome (Duchesne), or it was originally an "Anastasis" church (dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ), such as existed already at Ravenna and Constantinople; from the word "Anastasis" came eventually the name "titulus Anastasiae" (Grisar). Whatever way this happened, the church was an especially prominent one from the 4th to the 6th century, being the only titular church in the centre of ancient Rome and surrounded by the monuments of the city's pagan past.

Within its jurisdiction was the Palatine where the imperial court was located. Since the veneration of the Sirmian martyr, Anastasia, received a new impetus in Constantinople during the second half of the 5th century, it can be inferred that the intimate contemporary relations between Old and New Rome brought about an increase in devotion to St. Anastasia at the foot of the Palatine.

At all events, the insertion of her name into the Roman Canon of the Mass towards the end of the 5th century show that she then occupied a unique position among the saints publicly venerated at Rome. Thenceforth, the church on the Palatine is known as "titulus sanctae Anastasiae" and the martyr of Sirmium became the titular saint of the old 4th-century basilica. Evidently because of its position as titular church of the district (including the imperial dwellings on the Palatine), this church long maintained an eminent rank among the churches of Rome; only two churches preceded it in honour: St. John Lateran, the mother church of Rome and seat of the Pope, and Santa Maria Maggiore. This ancient sanctuary stands today quite isolated amid the ruins of Rome.

Commemoration of St. Anastasia occurs liturgically in the second Mass on Christmas Day, and is the last remnant of the former prominence enjoyed by this saint and her church in the life of Christian Rome.

According to tradition, St. Donatus of Zadar brought Anastasia's relics to Zadar from Constantinople, when he was there with the Venetian duke Beato. They had been ordered by Charlemagne to negotiate the border between the Byzantine Empire and the Croatian territories that were under the dominion of Charlemagne's Frankish Empire.

In the East
The Orthodox Church venerates St. Anastasia as a Great Martyr, usually referring to her as "Anastasia the Deliverer from Potions", "Anastasia the Healer" or "Anastasia of Sirmium". She is often given the epithets "Deliverer from Bonds" and "Deliverer from Potions" because her intercessions are credited with the protection of the faithful from poison and other harmful substances. Her feast day is celebrated on 22 December on the Eastern Orthodox (and Byzantine Catholic) Church calendar. According to the Synaxarion, she was the daughter of Praepextatus (a pagan) and Fausta (a Christian).

In the 5th century, the relics of St Anastasia were transferred to Constantinople, where a church was built and dedicated to her. Later, the relics, including her skull, were transferred to the Monastery of St. Anastasia the Pharmokolitria, Chalkidiki of Greece, near Mount Athos. In 2012, the relics were stolen and have not been recovered.

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Winged Foot Golf Club

Winged Foot Golf Club is a private golf club in the northeastern United States, located in Mamaroneck, New York, a suburb northeast of New York City. The club was founded in 1921, by a group largely made up of members of The New York Athletic Club, and opened in June 1923. Winged Foot's name and logo are taken directly from a sculpture in the lobby floor of the New York Athletic Club in Manhattan.

Winged Foot has two 18-hole golf courses, the West and the East, both of which were designed by A. W. Tillinghast. The West Course is a par 72 that measures 7,477 yd; it has a course rating of 76.4 and a slope of 140. The East Course is a par 72 that measures 6808 yd; it has a course rating of 73.6 and a slope of 140. Golf Digest' ranked the West Course 8th and the East Course 65th in its 2009-10 listing of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.

In 2019 Winged Foot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as the last course Tillinghast designed that was complemented by a Clifford Charles Wendehack clubhouse.

Head professionals at Winged Foot
Winged Foot member Tommy Armour won three major titles: the 1927 U.S. Open, 1930 PGA Championship, and the 1931 Open Championship.

Claude Harmon, Sr. was the head professional at Winged Foot G.C. when he won the 1948 Masters and collected a check for $2,500. He was the last club professional to win a major championship. Previously, Winged Foot head professional Craig Wood won the 1941 Masters and U.S. Open, the first time any golfer won those two titles in the same year.

Major championships held at Winged Foot
Winged Foot's West Course has hosted the U.S. Open six times and the PGA Championship once. The East Course has hosted the U.S. Women's Open twice and the U.S. Senior Open.

Winged Foot Golf Club has also hosted the U.S. Amateur twice; in 2004, the tournament was contested on both courses. The 1949 Walker Cup was played on the West Course.

In January 2013, the United States Golf Association announced that Winged Foot Golf Club would host the 120th U.S. Open in 2020. With its sixth U.S. Open, only Oakmont Country Club and Baltusrol Golf Club have hosted the tournament more times.

For USGA championships, the West Course has been typically set up at par 70. In this configuration the 514 yd converted par five ninth hole becomes one of the longest par fours in major championship history. The 640 yd par five twelfth is the sixth longest hole in major championship history.

Ogilvy's 2006 winning score of five-over-par and Irwin's seven-over in 1974 represent two of the highest major championship 72-hole scores in the modern era of golf. Julius Boros' winning score of 293 (+9) in the 1963 U.S. Open (at The Country Club near Boston), played in gusty winds, represents both the highest aggregate score and highest score in relation to par during this era.

On January 9, 2023, it was announced Winged Foot will host the U.S. Open for a seventh time in 2028, the first since 2006 at the course with ticketed spectators.

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Final (39/0/1) ending 19:38 26 August 2005 (UTC) - This is a self-nomination. I've been contributing to Wikipedia since December 2004, mostly working on Philippine-related topics. I've made 7772 edits, 6061 (78%) of which are in the article namespace. I've been around for quite a while, and though I don't claim to have read every page in the Wikipedia namespace, I have a pretty good understanding of our procedures. Previously I hoped to accumulate good edits and hope that somebody would nominate me eventually, since it seemed to me there's a certain lack of good form in coming here and having to promote yourself. But today I found the tag on both WP:IFD and WP:PUI, and I want to be one of those people that can do something about it. I trust people will based their vote on my record than by who presents it to them. :) --Coffee 19:38, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

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 * 1) BRIAN 0918  • 2005-08-19 19:39
 * 2) Support - I've seen you around and you've always been civil but the thing that really made me nominate you is your answers to the questions. IMO, They were really well written and portrayed your point really well. This shows diligence as a writer and there is no doubt in my ming that you would use the mop well. Good luck! --Celestianpower hab 20:08, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Merovingian (t) (c) 20:15, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Sumasang-ayon I mean, Support. Yes, you're more than qualified plus we need more Pinoy admins. :-D --Chris S. 20:32, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support! He's a great editor, answered the questions very well (2000 pages on your watchlist?! Wow!), and he's given me a lot of help with Philippines-related articles.  Plus, his contributions for the cities articles are a very huge task for one non-bot editor to do.  I was somewhat surprised to find he wasn't an admin. --Idont Havaname 21:05, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
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 * 8) Support anyone with 2,000 articles on their watchlist and that does not have an ax to grind gets my vote. We need more of those around. ≈ jossi ≈ 22:27, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
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 * 18) Strong support - Would make an excellent admin. Sango  123  14:27, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support.Journalist 15:06, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support, 2000 pages on your watch list, that must read like the recent changes page! Martin - The non-blue non-moose 18:41, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support, seems to be a fine editor. --Sn0wflake 18:54, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support, partly for those beautiful cubes! Flowerparty  talk 02:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support Hamster Sandwich 06:08, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Cool. --JuntungWu 08:48, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support. Again, better him than me. :-) seav 16:56, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Support. Perk up your wikipedian life with brewed coffee!--Jondel 02:01, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support. Jaxl | talk 02:10, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support - and sorry it took so long! -- DS1953 04:01, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support. I really like your work. --NormanEinstein 12:56, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Support. Nice work, experienced. Meets my standards.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91  ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  15:45, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Support. Had an opportunity to check out his work, and was quite impressed.  Liked his measured answers to the candidate questions. Good luck! Friejose 17:00, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 32) Strong support for calm contributors. - RoyBoy 800 18:15, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 33) Support. Your editing looks very nice. Bratsche talk 5 pillars 03:24, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * 34) Support. Should be given super powers. :)--Noypi380 13:41, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 35) Support. What an impressive candidate. This should have been done long ago.— Encephalon |  ζ   14:26:29, 2005-08-23 (UTC)
 * 36) Support, (I wish I had thought of a coffee-related user name....) Func( t, c, @,) 03:31, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 37) Support FeloniousMonk 08:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 38) Support. Good participation. -- BD2412 talk 15:45, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 39) Support How could I oppose with a user name like that? [[Image:Cup of Coffee with foam.jpg|50px]]. Folgers - good to the last drop?  D. J. Bracey (talk) [[Image:Flag of California.svg|25px]] 16:46, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 40) Support User:Pvenegas 14:24, 1 September 2005 (UTC).
 * Hi User:Pvenegas, I hope you do not mind my striking through your comment. The RFA for User:TheCoffee ended on August 26, 2005, and he is now an administrator. This RFA is not accepting votes any longer. Should you wish to congratulate Coffee, his Talk page is here. Kind regards— Encephalon |  ζ   06:44:27, 2005-09-01 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral
 * 1) Excessive off-topic ranting by myself moved to  SchmuckyTheCat 06:55, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

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Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. There are over 2000 pages on my watchlist, and I'd certainly like the rollback tool to combat vandalism and keep these articles clean. I occassionally do New page patrol and I've often wished for the ability to delete on sight, and the ability to block persisent vandalizers. Mostly I'd want to help with administrator work on pages where a backlog develops, like WP:IFD and WP:PUI.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. Here's a few...
 * I spent a great deal of work in June/July creating 1000+ simple articles for cities and municipalities in the Philippines based on census data. This way, newbies writing about their hometown have some framework to work with, and we won't have to keep adding stub tags and categories to these articles anymore. Of the 1617 cities and municipalities, I've added locator maps to about a third of them so far, and I'm still working on them..
 * I've also done a lot of work improving the articles for Presidents of the Philippines. They were patchy when I first came to Wikipedia, but I've expanded them all to decent articles. I've also given them a standard set of templates, with an infobox, a footer navigation template, and a succession box.
 * I've done quite a bit of work on Rubik's Cube, even to the extent of pulling out my scrappy digital camera and taking pictures of my cube (and feeling like a total dork). One day I'd like to go all out on that article and get it to Featured Article status.
 * On a very superficial level, I'm proud of creating the 600,000th article in the English Wikipedia. ;)
 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. I'm not confrontational, and I don't often edit topics that are controversial and likely to provoke edit wars. (Let people with strong opinions wrangle over those and hammer them into NPOV). But I did get into a small dispute with an anonymous user over a single line in an article a month ago. There were some back and forth edits and he started throwing personal attacks at me, though I was being completely civil. It was especially frustrating because he didn't seem to have a grip on what Wikipedia is all about, if you get my meaning. I just pointed him towards the appropriate Wikipolicy pages and tried to hammer out a compromise wording for the article. I've run into a few other conficts from time to time, but I find most of them can be resolved by keeping a cool head, assuming good faith, and reminding others to do the same. An encyclopedia that anyone can edit won't work unless we be nice. :)


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Bergie

Bergie is a term used for a subsection of homeless people in Cape Town, South Africa. The word originates from the Afrikaans berg meaning "mountain" – the term originally referred to the homeless people who sheltered in the forests of the slopes of Table Mountain. The synonymous term stroller typically refers to street children living a bergie lifestyle.

They are vagrants and scavengers, sometimes begging, performing odd jobs or working as informal car guards for tips. Most of them are Cape Coloureds who speak Afrikaans mixed with a few English terms, and are known for their sense of humour, vulgar language and alcohol consumption.

Their lifestyle is portrayed in the 1987 novel The Strollers by Lesley Beake, the 1998 documentary film Pavement Aristocrats: The Bergies of Cape Town by François Verster, and the play Suip!, a black comedy co-written and directed by Heinrich Reisenhofer. Bergie, an award-winning short film by Dian Weys, depicts how a law enforcement officer removes people that are homeless in order to make way for a 10km fun-run.

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Category:Södermanland

For the present-day Swedish county, see Södermanland County.

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User talk:Varana

Hello, Varana. Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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 * Thank you for the welcome. :) Varana 12:56, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Maxentius
Comments have been added to Talk:Maxentius/Comments. As it stands the article could be of B quality if references were given. It could be of GA or A quality if the lead was larger and references were given for most of the article and if the prose would become compelling. Apart from these few advices and comments please feel free to ask for more information and help if unsure. Lincher 14:07, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Constantine I
Hi there - I noticed you replaced the category 'Deified Roman Emperors' in the article. As Constantine abolished the Imperial cult, and no senate or emperor after his death even attempted to deify him, I don't see where the deification comes in. Certainly nobody built temples in his honour. Unless you're referring to his being venerated as a saint... InfernoXV 17:43, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi. Actually, Constantine was made divus, i.e. deified, after his death, and this practice continued for the whole century (even Theodosius I was made divus). This is testified by both coinage (for instance, this one), and Eusebius describing exactly these coins. (And probably inscriptions, too, though I can't think of an example right now, but will look for one, if you want.) Constantine remained pontifex maximus of all Romans, including pagans; while he personally became Christian, he didn't abolish the imperial cult (we have an inscription from the town of Hispellum: Constantine grants the town's wish to build a temple to the Flavian dynasty, he only forbids bloody sacrifices). Certainly, his deification was not emphasized by his Christian sons and is rarely mentioned in literary sources, as virtually all later pro-Constantinian sources are Christian, but it happened. Action of the Senate was required only formally, if at all, and was certainly obtained if necessary (Constantius I could be called divus right after his death in Britain). While the Senate and Constantine might have been not on the best of terms sometimes, the Senate never had any power to defy any emperor's wishes in Constantinian times. Constantine might have been pro-Christian, but above all, he was a realist when it came to power, who ruled an Empire with a still considerable pagan population, and it shouldn't be surprising that he catered to both Christians and Pagans. (Apart from that: our modern view of strictly opposed, confronting sides doesn't do justice to Late Antique reality; there was a large area of overlapping and common ground. Christian Saint and pagan Deified Emperor is typical for Constantinian religious politics.) Varana 19:32, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * A palpable hit! Good one, I hadn't realised or noticed that. I checked my coins and found you were right. Thanks for the info! InfernoXV 11:39, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Thankyou!
Thanks for your fascinating contributions to the Byzantine discussion at Talk:Byzantine Empire. I appreciate the polite and friendly way you have contributed to the discussion, and also I must thank you for helping me by producing an excellent map of the partition of the Byzantine Empire in the Fourth Crusade. Thankyou very much! :) Best wishes, Bigdaddy1204 22:43, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

New map?
Is there any chance that you would be able to create another map for Byzantine Empire? Ideally, I am looking for a map similar to this one, but showing the empire in about 867AD:

Would this be possible? Bigdaddy1204 15:35, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Heya,
 * certainly, though not before the weekend. :)
 * By "similar to this one", do you mean also looking like your series of maps, i.e. the Empire in red on the yellow landmass (to keep "corporate identity" *g*), or in the vein of the Latin Empire map? Varana 16:06, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi again, I've made a new map now which can be seen here: []. Yes I meant following the yellow and red maps so as to make it part of the series. Tell me what you think of the new map (be honest :) ).

Is there any chance you would be able to produce an animated map? Combining all the following Byzantine Empire maps:

Also, do you think we should have a map of the empire in 476AD? Otherwise, people reading the article at Byzantine Empire might get confused and think it started out at Justinian's size... What do you think? Bigdaddy1204 17:51, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Image:Byzantium550.png
 * Image:ByzantineEmpire717AD.png
 * Image:ByzantineEmpire867AD3.PNG
 * Image:1025AD.PNG
 * Image:Byzantium1095.jpg
 * Image:John'sEmpire.jpg
 * Image:Byzantium in 1170(3).PNG
 * Image:Byzantium1270.jpg

Byzantine vs Eastern Roman empire
Hi Varana. I made some additions in 'Byzantine Greeks', a section in language and some copyediting. I experimentally removed a reference on the languages such as Arabic, Slavic, Armenian etc, simply because they weren't spoken by the people we call 'Byzantines', but by people who were frequently their subjects and frequently their enemies. For example by "Romans" we mean a specific group of people, of a specific language and civilisation, and not all peoples of Roman citizenship. Considering how all ancient and medieval Empires are treated, I find it biased to make an exception out of Byzantium. The post-Byzantine Greeks for example, who are occasionally named "Ottoman Greeks", were the worst enemies of the "Ottoman", and not Ottomans themselves. And eventhough the Ottoman citizenship was given to muslims of the Ottoman Empire (whether arabic, Slavic or Kurdish), the 'Ottomans' by default are the Turkish-speaking citizens. I'm saddened by some editors biased attempts to present the Byzantine Greeks or Byzantines as a medieval civilisation with no identity which suddenly disappeared after the sack of Constantinople. I think we would resolv our dispute if we drew a line between the "Eastern Roman" and "Byzantine" Empires like most historians do. As Ostrogorsky puts it, the 7th century marks the transition from the Eastern Roman to the Medieval Greek (Byzantine) Empire. Eventhough their articles are the same, we editors should make it clear that within specific context, they are not synonymous entities. Regards. Miskin 23:00, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Varana. I'm not throwing around exaggeration, maybe that's not your personal opinion but it's the opinion of others such as Roydosan. If you look into Anglophone sources you'll find out that "Byzantine Greek" is in wide use, without referring to a specific "Greek ethnic" group of the Byzantines. They refer by default to the Byzantines. Other sources use simply "Greeks", and I called it pragmatic because it was the de facto ethnonym used by the non-Byzantines to refer to them (and and a lesser degree by Byzantines). Miskin 18:02, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

"The Byzantine Empire rules over Byzantine people, and a subject of the Emperor is a Byzantine." Personally, I don't agree with this sentence for the simple reason that e.g. "Celtic" and "Greek" ethnonyms were always present within the Roman Empire that you used as an example, independently of citizenship. In Byzantium however there's no "Greek" identity separate to that of "Byzantine". Secondly it's clearly not how it is viewed by scholars, as it is shown in my earlier citations. Byzantine is not "Jew, Slav, Arab" or any culture of the Empire. It's any "Greek or Hellenized" person of the empire, independently of ethnic origin. Miskin 18:09, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Byzantine Empire
Hello! I am eager to know what you think about the latest proposal at Talk:Byzantine Empire. There is a vote about whether or not we should change the Byzantine Empire from pink to purple in all the maps of the article. I would be very happy to see your support or object, or even comment on this issue. Please let us know what you think! Thanks, Bigdaddy1204 13:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

File:LatinEmpire.png
Thanks for your offer to re-colour File:LatinEmpire.png so that it can be understood by red-green colour-blind users such as myself. You may find the hints and tips offered in Category:Articles with images not understandable by color blind users useful.

In particular the best thing to do would be to scrap the idea of using colour alone to distinguish "country"/dominion/area-of-influence. Much better would be to use bold outlines around the area edges and then to use clear high-contrast text to name them and name their affiliation. For areas which are too small to fit the text, a good idea might be to use numbers or arrows to label text elsewhere.

Another alternative would be to use high-contrast patterns such as cross-hatching, polka-dots, stripes etc. However the legend would have to be large enough for samples of those patterns to be distinguishable.

I am extremely grateful for your offer of help. A group of middle-aged friends and I are currently using your map to play out a historical wargame, and we would all like to pass on our thanks. Andrew Oakley (talk) 09:52, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Heya,
 * thanks for your help (and I'm extremely flattered by your use of the map *blush* :D).
 * I've uploaded a version with alternate colours here:
 * Please tell me what you think and if it's readable for you. (I'll fix the legend later.) Is "Ven." as abbreviation for "Venice/Venetian" understandable? In German, such abbreviations are very common in maps; I'm not sure about English usage, though.
 * For this kind of map, with underlying geographical features, I find patterns difficult to do; except really bold lines etc., which would obscure the features _and_ look ugly. :D So I hope I can work out a combination of colours that works.
 * Regards, Varana (talk) 18:37, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Superb, I can understand that one much better. Many thanks. Andrew Oakley (talk) 23:47, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Panegyrici Latini fact tags
Hey, thanks for the reply. Your wording was no big deal; I certainly didn't feel offended. As you've noted, the second fact tag was unnecessary, given that the information was already in the table above the paragraph, so I didn't bring it back in my partial revert. I understand your concerns, and you've pretty much said everything in your note on my talk page that I thought I might have to include in a reply to you. I think we're pretty much on the same page. I hope you find the reference in Galletier or Pichon! Geuiwogbil (Talk) 18:01, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Roman Empire infobox
Hi. In response to your note: (1) Online Shorter OED defines cipher or cypher as a "code" or "a key to a code". I am not sure if this covers SPQR, so I'll change it to acronym, which certainly does. (2) Regarding Romania, I haven't read the article concerned (the summary was provided by another user). My understanding is that Romania became the normal colloquial term used for the Empire by its inhabitants during the 3rd c., after the grant of Roman citizenship to all free inhabitants of the Empire in 212. But you are right to demand evidence. Can you give me a little time to find this before you scrub Romania from the box? Regards EraNavigator (talk) 14:05, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Hi. I've got hold of the article, which is mainly about the use of the term Romania in medieval Byzantium. For our purposes, the relevant passage is (pp 2-3):

"These investigations indicate that Romania made its first appearances in the so-called Chronicle Consularis Constantinopolitana, edited about the year 330, and in a series of other Greek and Latin texts of the 4th and 5th centuries: SS> Epiphanius, Athanasius, and Nilus, and the Latins Ammianus Marcellinus, Orosius and Possidius, the biographer of Augustine. In this period, the term was clearly used to denote the orbis Romanus, or the imperium Romanum; it was essentially a popular rather than a literary expression, formed perhaps by analogy on the model of Gallia, Graecia and Britannia. It was used specifically in contrast with the barbarian world: thus Orosius reports the boast of the Gothic king Ataulf that he would turn all Romania into Gothia, and to Possidius, the barbarians were eversores Romaniae."

The Ammianus quote is interesting, because of the latter's authority. In XVI.11.7 he talks of utilitatem Romaniae ("the benefit of the country"). Although some editors have amended this to utilitatem Romanam, the majority view of scholars is that the original is authentic.

On the basis of this evidence, it seems safe to say that by the 4th c., Romania was the common colloquial term used by the man-in-the-street to denote the Empire. It seems likely that such usage developed during the 3rd c., after all the inhabitants became Roman citizens. Regards EraNavigator (talk) 09:32, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

 * If you are interested in more detail about the use of Romania before 476, the articles gives the following refs:

Romania is also used in Jordanes Getica EraNavigator (talk) 09:56, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * G. Paris "Romani etc" in Romania I (1872)
 * P. Monceaux Bulletin de la Societe Nationale des Antiquaires de France (1920) pp 152ff
 * E. Fehrle "Romania bei Ammianus Marcellinus" in Philologische Wochenschrift XLV (1925) cols 381-2

 * Hi. I beg to differ. It seems to me that your interpretation of the passage runs contrary to its natural meaning. What the article is saying is that literary refs to Romania are scant in the literature of the 3rd and 4th centuries (although much more frequent than just Ammianus - see the refs I gave you) precisely because the term was colloquial, not official: just as you would not expect to see Britain referred to by its popular name of "Blighty" in serious newspapers. And in the ancient world there was much greater divide between the language of the literary elite and that of the man-in-the-street - not least the use of Latin itself, which was classical in the literature but probably closer to modern Spanish in the street. But the concept that Romania was a commonplace term from the 3rd c. onwards has heavyweight academic support. I remember reading it in a history of the Roman empire (Michael Grant, I think), but as a helpful user has pointed out in my talk page, it is also contained in Ancient Coin Collecting 2nd Ed., by W.G. Sayle a leading expert on Greco-Roman numismatics.

(p. 30): "In AD 212, emperor Garacalla declared all free persons in the empire to be Roman citizens, entitled to call themselves Roman, not merely subject to the Romans. Within a few decades, people began to refer to the entire empire less often as Imperium Romanorum (Domaine of the Romans) and more often as Romania (Romanland)". This passage supports exactly my entry in the infobox. I therefore suggest the entry should stand. Regards EraNavigator (talk) 11:51, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

 * (1) OK, I'll change it to "from 4th c.", since that is all that the available evidence supports strictly speaking, although if it did start as a popular term, then it would have become commonplace long before it appeared in the formal literature. PS: Do you have some problem with Romania? I see that you also opposed its inclusion in the lead (and presumably the infobox) of Byzantine empire, even though there is no dispute that the Byzantines, throughout their long history, called themselves "Romans" (Ρὢμαίοι) and their country Romania (Ροὓμανία). It's like arguing that the article on Greece should not mention in the lead and infobox that the Greeks themselves call it Hellas, or in Hungary that the Hungarians call it Magyarorszag.
 * (2) I disagree with removing "Greek equivalent" as it is the exact Greek translation of imperium Romanorum, but we can shorten it to just "Greek"; also I strongly suggest we keep the transliteration, as the great majority of readers, unlike us, are unfamiliar with Greek letters and pronunciation (how would you like the infobox to have entries written in Arabic script or Chinese characters without a transliteration?). While I concur that the infobox should be kept as concise as possible, that must not be at the expense of essential or very useful data. Infoboxes should be informative. Regards EraNavigator (talk) 16:52, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

 * I understand the point about nationalist propaganda all too well. I've had to revert numerous edits to the infobox of one of my own articles, Battle of Navarino (1827): for example an Irishman who removed "Ireland" from then official name of the British state, "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" and a Russian who objected to "Russian Empire" and repeatedly changed it to simply "Russia" and replaced the Romanov double-headed eagle flag with the modern flag of Russia, which only became official in 1896! But I assure that I am not motivated by Romanian nationalism (I'm Italo-British, not Romanian!). My sole motivation in entering Romania is that I genuinely believe (and the evidence supports) that it was how the Romans commonly called their country in the later period and into Byzantium. Overall, my own opinion is that the infobox name section is fine as it now stands. Informative without being overcrowded with detail. Regards EraNavigator (talk) 13:31, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

 * PS: Your example of Finland is not strictly relevant to transliteration, as the Finns use the Latin alphabet. A better parallel is the article on Libya, where the official name is given in (i) English translation of the official name (ii) official name in Arabic script, and (iii) transliteration of the Arabic script into Latin script

 * PPS: I haven't finished yet with the Roman empire infobox. I want to improve the Currency section, giving the value-relationships and chronological sequence of the various denominations.

Mediation of Byzantine Empire
A RfM has been submitted at the RfM page here for the article Byzantine Empire. You may add any comments you may have on this page and are welcome, but your presence is not required. Monsieur dl   mon talk 23:23, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Today Part Of infoboxes
Thanks for your message. I agree that the Today Part Of lists get a little long for the big empires. I copied the format I found already established for the Abbasid Caliphate. The Today Part Of lists really help me (& I'm guessing other people) put some of these entities in the context of the world today & thus make them more relevant. If they take up too much room in the main infobox, perhaps we can move them lower in the article, near the bottom? I like that something visible & easy to peruse is available, so that if, for instance, I'm studying the history of Armenia I can easily jump to the Roman Empire & see if the Roman Empire made it as far east as Armenia without having to do a word search for "Armenia" in the Roman Empire article. The list seems even more useful for ancient empires since Armenia may have been called something other than Armenia by the Romans, and a word search for "Armenia" may not even show up that region as being part of the Roman Empire when it in fact was, just under a different name. Markwiki (talk) 23:45, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I also tried today to make the box collapsible but couldn't figure it out. Maybe you know how to do that?  If the box was collapsed with the option to open it, it wouldn't interfere with page layout but would be easily available for those who want to access the information. Markwiki (talk) 18:35, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Sources needed for images
The following images that you uploaded need source and license information. If you're not sure what to list, please just describe where you got each of the images, and I'll be happy to fill in the rest. Thanks.

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If any of them are pictures that you took yorself, please say so along with the date and place, and we can follow up on that on a case-by-case basis. -Harmil 19:47, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You can find information on how to do this at Image copyright tags, just edit the image and add the tag. If you took or created the photos, you can just add PD-self to the description text. If you do not, they will be deleted.  Thanks.   ∞ Who ? ¿ ?  19:09, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Removing comments
It's considered rude to remove the comments of other editors on talk pages, including your own. I would ask that you restore the comments which were left here previously. -Harmil 11:28, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Jtornell.jpg
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Image Tagging Image:Desiarnaz.jpg
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AfD nomination of List of Cuban Americans
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bindows

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

The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 18:00, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Bindows
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Nelder–Mead method

The Nelder–Mead method (also downhill simplex method, amoeba method, or polytope method) is a numerical method used to find the minimum or maximum of an objective function in a multidimensional space. It is a direct search method (based on function comparison) and is often applied to nonlinear optimization problems for which derivatives may not be known. However, the Nelder–Mead technique is a heuristic search method that can converge to non-stationary points on problems that can be solved by alternative methods.

The Nelder–Mead technique was proposed by John Nelder and Roger Mead in 1965, as a development of the method of Spendley et al.

Overview
The method uses the concept of a simplex, which is a special polytope of n + 1 vertices in n dimensions. Examples of simplices include a line segment in one-dimensional space, a triangle in two-dimensional space, a tetrahedron in three-dimensional space, and so forth.

The method approximates a local optimum of a problem with n variables when the objective function varies smoothly and is unimodal. Typical implementations minimize functions, and we maximize $$f(\mathbf x)$$ by minimizing $$- f(\mathbf x)$$.

For example, a suspension bridge engineer has to choose how thick each strut, cable, and pier must be. These elements are interdependent, but it is not easy to visualize the impact of changing any specific element. Simulation of such complicated structures is often extremely computationally expensive to run, possibly taking upwards of hours per execution. The Nelder–Mead method requires, in the original variant, no more than two evaluations per iteration, except for the shrink operation described later, which is attractive compared to some other direct-search optimization methods. However, the overall number of iterations to proposed optimum may be high.

Nelder–Mead in n dimensions maintains a set of n + 1 test points arranged as a simplex. It then extrapolates the behavior of the objective function measured at each test point in order to find a new test point and to replace one of the old test points with the new one, and so the technique progresses. The simplest approach is to replace the worst point with a point reflected through the centroid of the remaining n points. If this point is better than the best current point, then we can try stretching exponentially out along this line. On the other hand, if this new point isn't much better than the previous value, then we are stepping across a valley, so we shrink the simplex towards a better point. An intuitive explanation of the algorithm from "Numerical Recipes": The downhill simplex method now takes a series of steps, most steps just moving the point of the simplex where the function is largest (“highest point”) through the opposite face of the simplex to a lower point. These steps are called reflections, and they are constructed to conserve the volume of the simplex (and hence maintain its nondegeneracy). When it can do so, the method expands the simplex in one or another direction to take larger steps. When it reaches a “valley floor”, the method contracts itself in the transverse direction and tries to ooze down the valley. If there is a situation where the simplex is trying to “pass through the eye of a needle”, it contracts itself in all directions, pulling itself in around its lowest (best) point.

Unlike modern optimization methods, the Nelder–Mead heuristic can converge to a non-stationary point, unless the problem satisfies stronger conditions than are necessary for modern methods. Modern improvements over the Nelder–Mead heuristic have been known since 1979.

Many variations exist depending on the actual nature of the problem being solved. A common variant uses a constant-size, small simplex that roughly follows the gradient direction (which gives steepest descent). Visualize a small triangle on an elevation map flip-flopping its way down a valley to a local bottom. This method is also known as the flexible polyhedron method. This, however, tends to perform poorly against the method described in this article because it makes small, unnecessary steps in areas of little interest.

One possible variation of the NM algorithm
(This approximates the procedure in the original Nelder–Mead article.)

We are trying to minimize the function $$f(\mathbf x)$$, where $$\mathbf x \in \mathbb{R}^n$$. Our current test points are $$\mathbf x_1, \ldots, \mathbf x_{n+1}$$.

1. Order according to the values at the vertices:
 * $$f(\mathbf x_1) \leq f(\mathbf x_2) \leq \cdots \leq f(\mathbf x_{n+1}).$$

 * Check whether method should stop. See Termination (sometimes called "convergence").

2. Calculate $$\mathbf x_o$$, the centroid of all points except $$\mathbf x_{n+1}$$.

3. Reflection
 * Compute reflected point $$\mathbf x_r = \mathbf x_o + \alpha (\mathbf x_o - \mathbf x_{n+1})$$ with $$\alpha > 0$$.
 * If the reflected point is better than the second worst, but not better than the best, i.e. $$f(\mathbf x_1) \leq f(\mathbf x_r) < f(\mathbf x_n)$$,
 * then obtain a new simplex by replacing the worst point $$\mathbf x_{n+1}$$ with the reflected point $$\mathbf x_r$$, and go to step 1.

4. Expansion
 * If the reflected point is the best point so far, $$f(\mathbf x_r) < f(\mathbf x_1)$$,
 * then compute the expanded point $$\mathbf x_e = \mathbf x_o + \gamma (\mathbf x_r - \mathbf x_o)$$ with $$\gamma > 1$$.
 * If the expanded point is better than the reflected point, $$f(\mathbf x_e) < f(\mathbf x_r)$$,
 * then obtain a new simplex by replacing the worst point $$\mathbf x_{n+1}$$ with the expanded point $$\mathbf x_e$$ and go to step 1;
 * else obtain a new simplex by replacing the worst point $$\mathbf x_{n+1}$$ with the reflected point $$\mathbf x_r$$ and go to step 1.

5. Contraction
 * Here it is certain that $$f(\mathbf x_r) \geq f(\mathbf x_n)$$. (Note that $$\mathbf x_n$$ is second or "next" to the worst point.)
 * If $$f(\mathbf x_r) < f(\mathbf x_{n+1})$$,
 * then compute the contracted point on the outside $$\mathbf x_c = \mathbf x_o + \rho(\mathbf x_{r} - \mathbf x_o)$$ with $$0 < \rho \leq 0.5$$.
 * If the contracted point is better than the reflected point, i.e. $$f(\mathbf x_c) < f(\mathbf x_{r})$$,
 * then obtain a new simplex by replacing the worst point $$\mathbf x_{n+1}$$ with the contracted point $$\mathbf x_c$$ and go to step 1;
 * Else go to step 6;
 * If $$f(\mathbf x_r) \geq f(\mathbf x_{n+1})$$,
 * then compute the contracted point on the inside $$\mathbf x_c = \mathbf x_o + \rho(\mathbf x_{n+1} - \mathbf x_o)$$ with $$0 < \rho \leq 0.5$$.
 * If the contracted point is better than the worst point, i.e. $$f(\mathbf x_c) < f(\mathbf x_{n+1})$$,
 * then obtain a new simplex by replacing the worst point $$\mathbf x_{n+1}$$ with the contracted point $$\mathbf x_c$$ and go to step 1;
 * Else go to step 6;

6. Shrink
 * Replace all points except the best ($$\mathbf x_1$$) with
 * $$\mathbf x_i = \mathbf x_1 + \sigma(\mathbf x_i - \mathbf x_1)$$ and go to step 1.

Note: $$\alpha$$, $$\gamma$$, $$\rho$$ and $$\sigma$$ are respectively the reflection, expansion, contraction and shrink coefficients. Standard values are $$\alpha = 1$$, $$\gamma = 2$$, $$\rho = 1/2$$ and $$\sigma = 1/2$$.

For the reflection, since $$\mathbf x_{n+1}$$ is the vertex with the higher associated value among the vertices, we can expect to find a lower value at the reflection of $$\mathbf x_{n+1}$$ in the opposite face formed by all vertices $$\mathbf x_i$$ except $$\mathbf x_{n+1}$$.

For the expansion, if the reflection point $$\mathbf x_r$$ is the new minimum along the vertices, we can expect to find interesting values along the direction from $$\mathbf x_o$$ to $$\mathbf x_r$$.

Concerning the contraction, if $$f(\mathbf x_r) > f(\mathbf x_n)$$, we can expect that a better value will be inside the simplex formed by all the vertices $$\mathbf x_i$$.

Finally, the shrink handles the rare case that contracting away from the largest point increases $$f$$, something that cannot happen sufficiently close to a non-singular minimum. In that case we contract towards the lowest point in the expectation of finding a simpler landscape. However, Nash notes that finite-precision arithmetic can sometimes fail to actually shrink the simplex, and implemented a check that the size is actually reduced.

Initial simplex
The initial simplex is important. Indeed, a too small initial simplex can lead to a local search, consequently the NM can get more easily stuck. So this simplex should depend on the nature of the problem. However, the original article suggested a simplex where an initial point is given as $$\mathbf x_1$$, with the others generated with a fixed step along each dimension in turn. Thus the method is sensitive to scaling of the variables that make up $$\mathbf x$$.

Termination
Criteria are needed to break the iterative cycle. Nelder and Mead used the sample standard deviation of the function values of the current simplex. If these fall below some tolerance, then the cycle is stopped and the lowest point in the simplex returned as a proposed optimum. Note that a very "flat" function may have almost equal function values over a large domain, so that the solution will be sensitive to the tolerance. Nash adds the test for shrinkage as another termination criterion. Note that programs terminate, while iterations may converge.

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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 17:59, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-H)
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-H) and USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-I). Not only are they fictional, they don't even exist in fiction. Delete. Gamaliel 19:40, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Wikipedia is not a crystal fancruft ball. -Satori 20:22, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, for the same reason Enterprise-B was kept for years before we saw it on screen.Gateman1997 20:38, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * That rationale can only be applied by people travelling backwards in time (and even then it is flawed). Star Trek: Generations was released in 1994.  Our article on USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) was written ten years later, in 2004. Uncle G 20:57:36, 2005-08-19 (UTC)
 * Delete; oh dear. Erwin Walsh
 * Gateman, that was in the days when there was a running Star Trek series. Delete. The only possible content is "They may exist but we know nothing about them" DJ Clayworth 20:54, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No, they can not exist. Even if they were talked about they are still fictional craft, remember? Dystopos 06:19, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The final sentence of both articles ("In official canon nothing is, as yet, known about her or her crew.") tells us outright that the subject is unverifiable. If there's no knowledge, there can be no encyclopaedia article. Delete. Uncle G 20:57:36, 2005-08-19 (UTC)
 * delete non existant non existant starships. Sabine's Sunbird 21:18, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Recreate it if and when there is at least a little bit to say about it, other than that nothing is known about it. ManoaChild 22:54, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete both articles per above. Fernando Rizo T/C 23:05, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * This article made me laugh out loud. I love it.  Delete. —Charles O'Rourke 23:19, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete the worst kind of cruft. And wiki didn't even exist when Generations came out, right? ;) --  Etacar11   03:56, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete both as fanon, crystal ball, take your pick. When a movie or TV series establishes these vessels, let's have articles about them. 23skidoo 05:20, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This Trekker knows these are ridiculously unverifiable. Xoloz 20:10, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for H and Strong Delete for I -  Given that some existing suffix systems avoid the use of the letters I and O to avoid confusion with 1 and 0, one can't even make the assumption that because there was a fictional Enterprise-J that there will have been a fictional Enterprise-I. Caerwine 23:56, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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John Loder (sound engineer)

John F. Loder (7 April 1946 – 12 August 2005) was an English sound engineer, record producer and founder of Southern Studios, as well as a former member of EXIT and co-founder of the Southern Records distribution company with his wife Sue. He was also the studio engineer of choice for Crass and Crass Records, and was often considered to be the band's "ninth member".

Loder was born near Plymouth and educated at boarding school before studying electrical engineering at London's City University. During his post-graduate work there, he became involved in early experiments in digital encoding of audio for the military. By 1970 he had joined EXIT, alongside Penny Rimbaud, utilising a one-track tape-recorder. This led to Loder eventually founding a record studio in his garage after the disbanding of EXIT in 1974. Loder was recording advertising jingles in 1977 when his path crossed once again with Rimbaud, who had by then co-founded Crass, and invited Loder to become the band's engineer and financial manager, roles Loder happily accepted.

When Crass founded their own record label, Loder worked as an engineer on most of the label's releases, and when Loder saw potential in a number of bands turned away by Crass Records, Loder set up Southern Records.

Loder engineered and produced for many bands other than Crass, among them the Jesus and Mary Chain (for whom he engineered the recordings of the Psychocandy album), Big Black (Songs About Fucking), PJ Harvey, Babes in Toyland, Fugazi (mastering the vinyl edition of 2001's The Argument), Ministry and Shellac (mastering 2000's 1000 Hurts). American musician and recording engineer Steve Albini (member of Big Black and Shellac), has spoken highly of Loder and described him as a critical influence:
 * When I was in Big Black we did a session with him, and I thought he was a terrific engineer. He showed me the potential for getting the most out of the equipment without making the equipment the focus of attention. He knew how to do things quickly and with great sensitivity to the band, and had a complete working knowledge of his equipment. In any situation he could snap his fingers and do the right thing, because he knew exactly how things worked and what to do.

In the mid-1980s, Loder established a television production facility at Southern. Its notable output included the music show Snub TV, which after first being syndicated nationwide in the US, went on to further success on BBC2 and in other countries.

Loder was responsible for encouraging and establishing independent alternative ezines, donating the use of Southern's servers and bandwidth, taking part in pioneering online media streaming and simulcasting.

Loder died of a brain tumour on 12 August 2005, aged 59.

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Glas Slavonije

Glas Slavonije (lit. 'The Voice of Slavonia') is a Croatian daily newspaper published in Osijek. In 2000, its average daily circulation was c. 9000, making it the 7th largest daily newspaper in Croatia.

History
It is considered that Glas Slavonije is successor of Hrvatski list, a newspaper from Osijek published from 1920 to 1945.

The first issue of Glas Slavonije was published in 1943.

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I (may have) answered your question over at the Reference Desk. -Splash 19:44, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi there. Yes, I think you haven't told LaTeX to \usepackage{amsmath} which introduces most of the mathematical commands, and is the package that, in this case at least, the stretchy brace is taken from. Here is a compiling, full document that just produces the table you mentioned. You should be able to copy-paste this into a blank .tex file and have it compile:

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 * A & 1 & $x=f_1(y)$\\
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 * $\left\{\begin{matrix} \mathrm{C} \\ \mathrm{D} \\ \mathrm{E} \end{matrix} \right.$ & 3 & $x=f_3(y)$ \\
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 * \end{table}
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If you plan to do much that is clever with mathematics, you'll find things like \usepackage{amsfonts} and \usepackage{amssymb} useful too. Hope that helps. -Splash 21:08, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

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Latinus according to Hesiod was son of Pandora 2 (Pandora 1, the one with the box, was her grandmother).MATIA 19:45, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

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Henry Haydn Jones

Sir Henry Haydn Jones (27 December 1863 – 2 July 1950) was a Welsh Liberal Party politician.

Upbringing
Henry (sometimes known as "Harry") Haydn Jones was born in Ruthin, Wales. He was the son of Joseph David Jones (1827–70), a schoolmaster in the town and a respected Welsh musician and composer. After the early death of his father, Haydn Jones was brought up by uncles at Towyn (now called Tywyn) where he was educated at the Board School & Academy. In 1903 he married Barbara Annie Gwendolen Davies Jones, daughter of Lewis D. Jones, who was Welsh-born and the original agent for Price Waterhouse & Co. in the U.S.

Politics
In 1889, Haydn Jones was elected as one of the first members of Merionethshire County Council, representing the Towyn Urban District. A year later he was the chair of the council. He was eventually elected an Alderman. Jones continued to rise in the political world being elected as the MP for Merioneth at the January 1910 general election. He continued to serve in this role until 1945 general election, when aged 81. He was knighted in 1937.

Business
In 1909, the Bryn Eglwys slate quarry, the Abergynolwyn estate and village and Talyllyn Railway came up for sale. Aware of the distress which would be caused by permanent closure of the quarry Sir Haydn bought the lot himself in 1911 for £5250, and became the sole owner of what became the Abergynolwyn Slate and Slab Company. In 1935 he extended his quarry ownership, leasing the Aberllefenni Slate Quarry in the neighbouring Corris district.

The quarrying and slate business did well until the early 1920s when demand fell and the Bryn Eglwys quarry was only kept open by pillaring the easy to obtain slate rather than by digging out new underground chambers. At times there was a three-day week, but the quarry soldiered on until 1941 when Sir Haydn's lease expired. He continued on a yearly lease until 1946 when a roof fall caused by the continued pillaring closed the quarry for good.

Talyllyn Railway
By buying Bryn Eglwys, Haydn Jones had become effectively owner of the Talyllyn Railway built to carry slate from the quarry to Tywyn. After the quarry collapse and closure in 1946, the railway had little reason to continue operating. Haydn Jones declared that the railway would remain open while he remained alive and it continued to run until 1950. After his death, his widow reached an arrangement with L. T. C. Rolt and his associates allowing them to lease the railway, which continues operating to this day.

One of the Talyllyn locomotives, ex-Corris Railway No.3, was named Sir Haydn after him in 1951. This was more appropriate than was known at the time, as Sir Haydn's strong support of the Corris Railway during his time as lessee of Aberllefenni Quarry was instrumental in the railway continuing to operate throughout World War Two and the locomotive therefore avoiding the wartime scrap drive.

It is in his role as owner of the Talyllyn Railway that Sir Haydn Jones became a figure known, albeit not by name, to many small children. One of the early railway preservation people who joined Rolt was the Rev. W.V. Awdry, and in the form of the owner of the Skarloey Railway, Sir Haydn was immortalised in his books as Sir Handel Brown. As in real life, loco No.3 on the Skarloey Railway was named after him as Sir Handel.

Papers and legacy
The papers of Sir Henry Haydn Jones are archived at the National Library of Wales, donated by his widow in 1995. Sir Henry Haydn Jones succeeded (barely) in keeping his promise that the railway would outlive him. After the railway was revived by L. T. C. Rolt and others it prospered and became a major Welsh tourist attraction and flagship to the infant Heritage railway movement. Quarrying at Aberllefenni finished in 2003, although in 2019, slate is still processed at the mill there.

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