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2008 Southern Heatwave
A high pressure that has formed over the South Central US has Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, now Colorado, Mississippi has caused and will cause temperatures to climb to record breaking levels for the next several days. It has also caused the formation of a tropical storm that will hit Port O'Connor, Texas and/or the Port Lavaca area of Texas in the next few days. Several electrical companies have suspended all "disconnect orders"("You don't pay your bill, you get disconnected") for the duration of this emergency. The heat wave has also caused the formation of servere thunderstorms that have struck places such as Marshall, Texas and Shreveport, Louisiana. These storms had 60 mph winds and penny sized hail. The high pressure cell has formed in the indicated areas since the middle of July and is the cause of the hellishly high temperatures, the servere weather and the tropical storm currently located near New Orleans, Louisiana. A front that was comming southward was also blocked by this high pressure cell. Heat advisories and heat warnings continue to be posted. The Weather Service has recommended that people stay out of the sun, drink plenty of fluids(NOT alcoholic ones), get to a air conditioned place, such as a library, mall.
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I'm new here. I have seen articles here (long time reader, first time contributor) about then current (like the 2006 heat wave for instance)heat wave articles on here. I am also in the area affected by the heat wave. I've even tried to place this on "Wiki News" but there may be a glitch. 65.173.105.133 ( talk) 01:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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A better place to go to ask about this would be Wikipedia:Articles for creation. The reference desk is really intended for finding out information about non-wikipedia subjects - WP:AfC is specificially intended for new users to propose new articles like this. Grutness... wha? 23:40, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
My username is Slater79. Last night, I made a request that I change my username to Runt. The answer came in the Username Changing section with all this complicated gobildeegoo, with language that only an experienced computer person would or could understand. There was all this language. I don't understand that stuff! I'm basically computer illiterate. Then I went and looked at the section tonight, and any mention of my request was GONE! I am completely confused! Why do they exclude and alienate and turn off the common person by using these terms and stuff; why not use language that's used by a layman, which is what I am? Anyway, I don't understand what the heck is going on. Why was my request taken away? I just need a friendly response on this, not some robot language that's inconcievable and non-understandable. It's easy to get downright flustered when this stuff happens. Could someone who is reading this, a FRIENDLY PERSON, a HUMAN BEING who can relate to OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, please explain to me WHY my request (a simple request) disappeared??? And stuff like that???? What is going on, and stuff like that? I don't have a background in computers. I don't understand. Can someone who is versed in computer and specifically Wikipedia stuff please explain it to me in LAYMAN TERMS, terms that a COMMON HUMAN BEING can understand? I am not a genius, but I AM a bright person, and with all of the editing and contributing that I have helped Wikipedia with for so long that has improved articles, I feel that I should at least get a simple explanation that's not in gobbledeegook language from some robot, or whatever it is! And why did my request seem to disappear? Am I asking for too much to get a friendy response from a REAL HUMAN BEING???? If you are a friendly human being out there who can explain this stuff to me in layman terms, I would certainly greatly appreciate it! Thank you! Slater79 ( talk) 03:57, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for replying to my thing, Useight. I meant "gobbledeegook", which is American slang for describing unnececarrily difficult language that is confusing. Thanks for clearing that up for me. So "Runt" is already being used, eh? Well, that explains that. Slater79 ( talk) 04:16, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
As for the gobbledegook—the problem is that over time Wikipedia has developed, mostly spontaneously, an incredibly intricate bureaucracy with dozens and dozens of little official policies, unofficial policies, words-from-on-high, official philosophies, unofficial philosophies, etc. to coordinate in haphazard fashion the thousands and thousands of different decisions that must be made in order to keep thousands of people from all over the world in league on the same project. When you aren't well-acquainted with these terms or policies or even the general style, it looks like you have been suddenly dropped into a legal journal. It doesn't help that half of the Wikipedians (to just make up a number) seem to love to take the time to show that they really know the policy and point out every exception to any rule they're about to tell you. (Well, it's not so much that they "seem to love it"—it's how authority works around here. He/she who knows the relevant policies backwards and forwards can win basically any policy-related argument.)
The best way to approach this is to say to whomever you are talking to, calmly, "I don't really understand the policy you are mentioning—could you summarize it for me in rather simple terms, with an emphasis on what I need to do in order to get what I want, if that is possible?" If you get exasperated, then everything will fall apart. (In my experience as a one-time admin, the easiest way to get rid of trolls is to throw policy at them about trolls, then they explode and start cursing, then you throw policy at them about cursing, then they go off the rails, then you can ban them forever. I'm not at all saying you're a troll—I'm just pointing out that emotional responses are often used as excuses for considering someone officially "unreasonable", whether or not the response is really justified.) -- 98.217.8.46 ( talk) 12:33, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I get it. Thanks for the info! Slater79 ( talk) 01:32, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Who introducted the full-skirted silhouette dubbed the "New Look" in the late 1940's? Which material is not illegal in the United States? "Hamd" means? Which woman has never been an editor of Vogue magazine? Which shoemaker began his career as a jeans buyer? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.152.240.82 ( talk) 11:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I am trying to find out when the F. W. Woolworth's Store in 69th Street, Upper Darby, PA was opened.- Ladycat53fl ( talk) 12:43, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I know, goofy question, but here's the background and why I ask.
In a college class some years ago, a communication experiment required 2 people to sit back to back and describe a picture for the other to draw; the drawer could not ask questions. One thing I said to draw was a triangle; I'm pretty sure I said a "right triangle." When we were finished, she said that part had stumped her; I said I understood because she may not have recalled the term "right triangle" from Geometry. However, she said she didn't remember what a triangle was!
Now, I could understand if it was an abstract concept - I can see the average Joe on the street not recalling exactly what a noun or verb are, for instance. But, a triangle is a very basic shape, the kind we learn in Kindergarten - or before, on Sesame Street - when I say it, I would presume most get a mental picture, because it has been so ingrained. (And, before you ask, no, it was not early in the morning - I could *easily* see that being the problem, but it was an afternoon course.)
So, are there any studies that show that knoledge of common shapes (tires are circles, etc.)? I know she could have excused something like dyslexia but with shapes by saying it wasn't common knowledge, not wanting to just tell anyone she had it, but my main query is whether it is common knowledge. 209.244.30.221 ( talk) 12:45, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
my name is kaveri and my husband name is svs markendyulu his dob is 28th jan 1970 and mine is aug 3rd 1974. we saw one west facing house and we did not weather it is good for us and at present we are leaving in south facing housing is that good.
thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.205.200.220 ( talk) 15:19, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Does anzbody know any British patriotics songs that arent subject to copyright? I wish to use one on a youtube video without getting fined! Thanks v. much! -- 217.227.90.214 ( talk) 18:34, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
You are in a relationship with someone and someday a dog bites his or her face and there is no plastic surgery to repair the damage. What would you do: leave the person and admit that your relationship were only with his or her face ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.K. ( talk • contribs) 19:51, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I think it can be assumed that there is a relationship of some depth, not just a relationship of the most superficial variety. With that in mind, I feel that there is a type of inertia that tends to keep relationships going despite a setback of the nature of a facial disfigurement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trom503 ( talk • contribs) 20:05, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Some people might be too distressed by the horrible scarring to be able to deal with it, even if they really did care about the other person as a person. Some people just have different levels of emotional capacity / squeamishness, and being capable of physical attraction to your partner is important. Also, they might have PTSD. (To answer the question for myself: even if my husband got chewed by a dog, I would stay with him.) -- Masamage ♫ 20:19, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
This sounds like an opening for discussion such as might be found in a forum. This is not a forum, but a reference desk. There are many forums on the internet where you can have long, involved conversations about this; please help keep this reference desk reference-desky (and not-deleted) by avoiding asking and answering these sort of questions. 79.66.32.107 ( talk) 22:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
baseball terminology - what is a two seamer? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.215.18.70 ( talk) 21:39, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Its a type fastball
Two-seam fastball --
Nick910 (
talk) 22:28, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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2008 Southern Heatwave
A high pressure that has formed over the South Central US has Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, now Colorado, Mississippi has caused and will cause temperatures to climb to record breaking levels for the next several days. It has also caused the formation of a tropical storm that will hit Port O'Connor, Texas and/or the Port Lavaca area of Texas in the next few days. Several electrical companies have suspended all "disconnect orders"("You don't pay your bill, you get disconnected") for the duration of this emergency. The heat wave has also caused the formation of servere thunderstorms that have struck places such as Marshall, Texas and Shreveport, Louisiana. These storms had 60 mph winds and penny sized hail. The high pressure cell has formed in the indicated areas since the middle of July and is the cause of the hellishly high temperatures, the servere weather and the tropical storm currently located near New Orleans, Louisiana. A front that was comming southward was also blocked by this high pressure cell. Heat advisories and heat warnings continue to be posted. The Weather Service has recommended that people stay out of the sun, drink plenty of fluids(NOT alcoholic ones), get to a air conditioned place, such as a library, mall.
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I'm new here. I have seen articles here (long time reader, first time contributor) about then current (like the 2006 heat wave for instance)heat wave articles on here. I am also in the area affected by the heat wave. I've even tried to place this on "Wiki News" but there may be a glitch. 65.173.105.133 ( talk) 01:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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A better place to go to ask about this would be Wikipedia:Articles for creation. The reference desk is really intended for finding out information about non-wikipedia subjects - WP:AfC is specificially intended for new users to propose new articles like this. Grutness... wha? 23:40, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
My username is Slater79. Last night, I made a request that I change my username to Runt. The answer came in the Username Changing section with all this complicated gobildeegoo, with language that only an experienced computer person would or could understand. There was all this language. I don't understand that stuff! I'm basically computer illiterate. Then I went and looked at the section tonight, and any mention of my request was GONE! I am completely confused! Why do they exclude and alienate and turn off the common person by using these terms and stuff; why not use language that's used by a layman, which is what I am? Anyway, I don't understand what the heck is going on. Why was my request taken away? I just need a friendly response on this, not some robot language that's inconcievable and non-understandable. It's easy to get downright flustered when this stuff happens. Could someone who is reading this, a FRIENDLY PERSON, a HUMAN BEING who can relate to OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, please explain to me WHY my request (a simple request) disappeared??? And stuff like that???? What is going on, and stuff like that? I don't have a background in computers. I don't understand. Can someone who is versed in computer and specifically Wikipedia stuff please explain it to me in LAYMAN TERMS, terms that a COMMON HUMAN BEING can understand? I am not a genius, but I AM a bright person, and with all of the editing and contributing that I have helped Wikipedia with for so long that has improved articles, I feel that I should at least get a simple explanation that's not in gobbledeegook language from some robot, or whatever it is! And why did my request seem to disappear? Am I asking for too much to get a friendy response from a REAL HUMAN BEING???? If you are a friendly human being out there who can explain this stuff to me in layman terms, I would certainly greatly appreciate it! Thank you! Slater79 ( talk) 03:57, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for replying to my thing, Useight. I meant "gobbledeegook", which is American slang for describing unnececarrily difficult language that is confusing. Thanks for clearing that up for me. So "Runt" is already being used, eh? Well, that explains that. Slater79 ( talk) 04:16, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
As for the gobbledegook—the problem is that over time Wikipedia has developed, mostly spontaneously, an incredibly intricate bureaucracy with dozens and dozens of little official policies, unofficial policies, words-from-on-high, official philosophies, unofficial philosophies, etc. to coordinate in haphazard fashion the thousands and thousands of different decisions that must be made in order to keep thousands of people from all over the world in league on the same project. When you aren't well-acquainted with these terms or policies or even the general style, it looks like you have been suddenly dropped into a legal journal. It doesn't help that half of the Wikipedians (to just make up a number) seem to love to take the time to show that they really know the policy and point out every exception to any rule they're about to tell you. (Well, it's not so much that they "seem to love it"—it's how authority works around here. He/she who knows the relevant policies backwards and forwards can win basically any policy-related argument.)
The best way to approach this is to say to whomever you are talking to, calmly, "I don't really understand the policy you are mentioning—could you summarize it for me in rather simple terms, with an emphasis on what I need to do in order to get what I want, if that is possible?" If you get exasperated, then everything will fall apart. (In my experience as a one-time admin, the easiest way to get rid of trolls is to throw policy at them about trolls, then they explode and start cursing, then you throw policy at them about cursing, then they go off the rails, then you can ban them forever. I'm not at all saying you're a troll—I'm just pointing out that emotional responses are often used as excuses for considering someone officially "unreasonable", whether or not the response is really justified.) -- 98.217.8.46 ( talk) 12:33, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, I get it. Thanks for the info! Slater79 ( talk) 01:32, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Who introducted the full-skirted silhouette dubbed the "New Look" in the late 1940's? Which material is not illegal in the United States? "Hamd" means? Which woman has never been an editor of Vogue magazine? Which shoemaker began his career as a jeans buyer? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.152.240.82 ( talk) 11:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I am trying to find out when the F. W. Woolworth's Store in 69th Street, Upper Darby, PA was opened.- Ladycat53fl ( talk) 12:43, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I know, goofy question, but here's the background and why I ask.
In a college class some years ago, a communication experiment required 2 people to sit back to back and describe a picture for the other to draw; the drawer could not ask questions. One thing I said to draw was a triangle; I'm pretty sure I said a "right triangle." When we were finished, she said that part had stumped her; I said I understood because she may not have recalled the term "right triangle" from Geometry. However, she said she didn't remember what a triangle was!
Now, I could understand if it was an abstract concept - I can see the average Joe on the street not recalling exactly what a noun or verb are, for instance. But, a triangle is a very basic shape, the kind we learn in Kindergarten - or before, on Sesame Street - when I say it, I would presume most get a mental picture, because it has been so ingrained. (And, before you ask, no, it was not early in the morning - I could *easily* see that being the problem, but it was an afternoon course.)
So, are there any studies that show that knoledge of common shapes (tires are circles, etc.)? I know she could have excused something like dyslexia but with shapes by saying it wasn't common knowledge, not wanting to just tell anyone she had it, but my main query is whether it is common knowledge. 209.244.30.221 ( talk) 12:45, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
my name is kaveri and my husband name is svs markendyulu his dob is 28th jan 1970 and mine is aug 3rd 1974. we saw one west facing house and we did not weather it is good for us and at present we are leaving in south facing housing is that good.
thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.205.200.220 ( talk) 15:19, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Does anzbody know any British patriotics songs that arent subject to copyright? I wish to use one on a youtube video without getting fined! Thanks v. much! -- 217.227.90.214 ( talk) 18:34, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
You are in a relationship with someone and someday a dog bites his or her face and there is no plastic surgery to repair the damage. What would you do: leave the person and admit that your relationship were only with his or her face ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.K. ( talk • contribs) 19:51, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I think it can be assumed that there is a relationship of some depth, not just a relationship of the most superficial variety. With that in mind, I feel that there is a type of inertia that tends to keep relationships going despite a setback of the nature of a facial disfigurement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trom503 ( talk • contribs) 20:05, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Some people might be too distressed by the horrible scarring to be able to deal with it, even if they really did care about the other person as a person. Some people just have different levels of emotional capacity / squeamishness, and being capable of physical attraction to your partner is important. Also, they might have PTSD. (To answer the question for myself: even if my husband got chewed by a dog, I would stay with him.) -- Masamage ♫ 20:19, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
This sounds like an opening for discussion such as might be found in a forum. This is not a forum, but a reference desk. There are many forums on the internet where you can have long, involved conversations about this; please help keep this reference desk reference-desky (and not-deleted) by avoiding asking and answering these sort of questions. 79.66.32.107 ( talk) 22:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
baseball terminology - what is a two seamer? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.215.18.70 ( talk) 21:39, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Its a type fastball
Two-seam fastball --
Nick910 (
talk) 22:28, 4 August 2008 (UTC)