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I'm Muslim and I read this Wikipedia article about halal. It says that "It is estimated that 70% of Muslims worldwide follow Halal standards". This is confusing me because I know that I have to keep halal. I don't understand it. Should I believe it. What should I choose to follow? Note: I'm not asking for legal advice and please don't tell me this is legal advice. Thank you. Jet (talk) 03:58, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
How important is your college GPA? Does it have major effect on getting jobs later in life or is it usually sufficient to have graduated from a good school? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.114.222.188 ( talk) 06:30, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Well, it definitely has some effect on admission to grad school, and that in turn has an effect on employment later. But supposedly your letters are more important even for that. Free advice, offered as is with no warranty: Don't blow off grades, they do matter somewhat, but also don't duck hard but rewarding classes just to try to be valedictorian, and focus more on understanding the material than on memorizing stuff that might get you an extra two points on the next test. All of which may be out the window if you're trying to get into a first-professional-degree program like med school or law school -- I have a generally low opinion of those programs, but if that's the way you want to go then I guess you have to jump through their hoops, whatever they are, which I wouldn't really know. -- Trovatore ( talk) 07:39, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
What employers mainly look for is: experience, experience, experience. Not your GPA; not whether you went to a fancy college; certainly not whether you were president of the Glee Club in high school. They want to know what you've done and how good of an employee you were. It's amusing how I see so many young people freaking out over things like whether they're going to make National Honors Society in high school or whether they're going to get into a particular college. The wealthiest person I've ever met -- one of the wealthiest in the world -- is a dropout from an unpretentious public university. Another super-wealthy person I met has nothing but a bachelor's degree from Kent State University, which was, when I was in school, considered bottom of the barrel by snobby kids in the Cleveland suburbs. I admit that graduating magna cum laude from Harvard gives you a good start, but it's really all about how you perform on the job. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 21:40, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
This may very well be one of the most pointless questions this Ref desk has seen but here it goes anyway... I have a water bottle, basically a Nalgene bottle but not made by the Nalgene company, which holds about a liter. The bottle is just under 4" in diameter and the mouth of the bottle is just under 2" in dia. The part that I don't understand and I've not been able to figure any reasonable explanation for is the fact that there is a small lip on the interior of the bottle that won't allow all the liquid to flow out. You can turn the bottle upside down and this lip around the interior edge of the mouth of the bottle will keep the last little bit, about two tablespoons, from pouring out. Why would someone design a bottle like this? What's the point? Dismas| (talk) 06:53, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
In Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic", she sings about things that do not appear to actually be irony at all, like a 98 year old man dying the day after he wins the lottery. Thats not ironic, its just bad luck. Irony is the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention. Has anyone told her this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Copy of a copy cat ( talk • contribs) 08:50, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Please help me. I have tried flea flogger, exterminator, and oil of eucalyptus. I ma a kidney diayysis patients and I need to find a cure to get rid of fleas. Please help. Send help to -email removed-. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.252.25 ( talk) 10:52, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
There is a legend that tells that some eskimos get rid off their old-aged parents sending them to the seas on a piece of ice. I think it's just a myth, but is it? 89.236.214.174 ( talk) 12:22, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
On this page, there is a photo (4th row down, 2nd across) of a gentleman wearing a watch that looks like a bracelet. What is this watch called? Who makes it? I cannot find it on eBay. Any help would be most appreciated. -- Endless Dan 13:21, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I want to get a list of the stubs for all categories under 'Biology' (and also Bacteriology and Physics) for he purposes of using these lists to evaluate a list extracted from an ebook. This is for evaluating some rsearch I am doing for my PhD in computational linguistics. trying to access the category pages directly from a program doesn't work as it is not a browser. Downloading the Biology pages is not what I need, just the list of stubs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DDLing ( talk • contribs) 13:49, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
A previous question referring to exonyms and endonyms piqued my curiosity: Does anyone know of a map or atlas published entirely with endonyms? It may not be very practical to speakers of a single language, but it would be interesting to see. Thank you. — Michael J 14:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I have an atlas that does a fairly good job of this, showing place names in both regular English form and various local forms, with a system of transliteration or transcription for non-latin alphabets. Unfortuantely out of print, it is Rand McNally's "Illustrated Atlas of the World", 1992, revised 1994, ISBN 0-528-83492-4. For example the map of the Baltic Region shows several names for the Baltic Sea, each located near the country in which that name is used, including Östersjön/Itämeri/Baltijskoje More, Balti Meri, Baltijas Jura, Baltijos Jura, and Morze Baltyckie (I'm not sure how to type a couple of the diacritics used -- a horizontal line over a u and a slash through an l). Egypt is shown as Misr (with a diacritic squiggle under the s), the Persian Gulf as Khalij-e Fars / Al-Khalij al-'Arabi (with several diacritics in there). The Sea of Japan is "Japonskoje More / Tong-hae / Nippon-kai". And so on. I haven't seen another atlas that does this. It's too bad this one is out of print because it is pretty nifty. Pfly ( talk) 21:52, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I post this here becasue I can't see that Wikiquotes has a ref desk. A beautifully worded email circulated in the days after 9/11. I think it was written by a high-up corporate type (a woman in publishing, maybe?) to all the company's employees. The email said, there are more important things than your job. If you need to skip some meetings to spend time with people you love, go ahead. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Who was she and what has happened to her? Is the text available? I know it's not much to go on. Thanks BrainyBabe ( talk) 16:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed that my school cafeteria has an interesting sort of informal change policy: if you don't have the correct change to pay for something whose price ends in one or two cents, they round down the price to the nearest five or ten cents. (On one occasion, they even rounded a $1:20 item down to one dollar, when I didn't have any change.) However, I've never been shorted any change at the cafeteria. I have two questions about this:
-Firstly, is it at all illegal? -Secondly, is it possible for a business to lose a substantial amount of money by rounding down prices now and then? 207.233.87.236 ( talk) 17:33, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
If they want they can sell with a €1 price tag for 2 cents or €1,000, the price is just an invitation to bargain, so you can even haggle the price down (Though don't cos other people in the shop will think you're a moron and the people who run it might get annoyed and bar you).-- Serviam ( talk) 23:09, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
what happens when you run gasoline in a diesel engine? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Evant1129 ( talk • contribs) 18:21, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Moved here from WP:New contributors' help page
Please fill in the subject box above, then replace this text with your question, and don't forget to sign by leaving the following four tildes (~'s) in place which automatically formats to your signature once you click "save page" below. 216.174.242.140 ( talk) 17:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC) name jerry l capps recently i was contacted by several mediums and several psychics around the world all the big names as in biggest such as anthony carr lee moorehead etc my question is this i have been told by one ri--research in brooklyn that there is a thing called beyonders and i have the ability to heal people by touch how real is this my name is jerry l capps thank you am baffled at such things
Who is the author of Goldielocks and the three bears —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.171.129.69 ( talk) 20:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I'm a 24 year old guy in the U.S. Do you think I could get away with wearing this shirt without getting laughter or weird looks? The one I have is size XL (14/16) so it fits me fine. 76.8.208.24 ( talk) 20:45, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
This reminds me of the time I bought a T-shirt with a picture of George W. Bush with the text "International Terrorist" from an online store. I did it because I had heard of some American guy that had got expelled from school solely for wearing such a T-shirt, so I felt I just had to get one for myself. When I wore it to the World Bodypainting Festival 2007, no less than three people asked me to pose for a photograph for them. JIP | Talk 21:39, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Do those nice-looking ornamental ball-thingies found on women's high-heeled shoes at the top edge of the shoe have a name? JIP | Talk 21:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I would like to know, how do you make your wikipedia bots that can clean up vandalism and the like? I would like to do this on a wiki I am currently a member of and would appreciate it if you told me ow. Any help is grealy appreciated :) -- Seablue254 ( talk) 22:51, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
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I'm Muslim and I read this Wikipedia article about halal. It says that "It is estimated that 70% of Muslims worldwide follow Halal standards". This is confusing me because I know that I have to keep halal. I don't understand it. Should I believe it. What should I choose to follow? Note: I'm not asking for legal advice and please don't tell me this is legal advice. Thank you. Jet (talk) 03:58, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
How important is your college GPA? Does it have major effect on getting jobs later in life or is it usually sufficient to have graduated from a good school? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.114.222.188 ( talk) 06:30, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Well, it definitely has some effect on admission to grad school, and that in turn has an effect on employment later. But supposedly your letters are more important even for that. Free advice, offered as is with no warranty: Don't blow off grades, they do matter somewhat, but also don't duck hard but rewarding classes just to try to be valedictorian, and focus more on understanding the material than on memorizing stuff that might get you an extra two points on the next test. All of which may be out the window if you're trying to get into a first-professional-degree program like med school or law school -- I have a generally low opinion of those programs, but if that's the way you want to go then I guess you have to jump through their hoops, whatever they are, which I wouldn't really know. -- Trovatore ( talk) 07:39, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
What employers mainly look for is: experience, experience, experience. Not your GPA; not whether you went to a fancy college; certainly not whether you were president of the Glee Club in high school. They want to know what you've done and how good of an employee you were. It's amusing how I see so many young people freaking out over things like whether they're going to make National Honors Society in high school or whether they're going to get into a particular college. The wealthiest person I've ever met -- one of the wealthiest in the world -- is a dropout from an unpretentious public university. Another super-wealthy person I met has nothing but a bachelor's degree from Kent State University, which was, when I was in school, considered bottom of the barrel by snobby kids in the Cleveland suburbs. I admit that graduating magna cum laude from Harvard gives you a good start, but it's really all about how you perform on the job. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 21:40, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
This may very well be one of the most pointless questions this Ref desk has seen but here it goes anyway... I have a water bottle, basically a Nalgene bottle but not made by the Nalgene company, which holds about a liter. The bottle is just under 4" in diameter and the mouth of the bottle is just under 2" in dia. The part that I don't understand and I've not been able to figure any reasonable explanation for is the fact that there is a small lip on the interior of the bottle that won't allow all the liquid to flow out. You can turn the bottle upside down and this lip around the interior edge of the mouth of the bottle will keep the last little bit, about two tablespoons, from pouring out. Why would someone design a bottle like this? What's the point? Dismas| (talk) 06:53, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
In Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic", she sings about things that do not appear to actually be irony at all, like a 98 year old man dying the day after he wins the lottery. Thats not ironic, its just bad luck. Irony is the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention. Has anyone told her this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Copy of a copy cat ( talk • contribs) 08:50, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Please help me. I have tried flea flogger, exterminator, and oil of eucalyptus. I ma a kidney diayysis patients and I need to find a cure to get rid of fleas. Please help. Send help to -email removed-. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.252.25 ( talk) 10:52, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
There is a legend that tells that some eskimos get rid off their old-aged parents sending them to the seas on a piece of ice. I think it's just a myth, but is it? 89.236.214.174 ( talk) 12:22, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
On this page, there is a photo (4th row down, 2nd across) of a gentleman wearing a watch that looks like a bracelet. What is this watch called? Who makes it? I cannot find it on eBay. Any help would be most appreciated. -- Endless Dan 13:21, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I want to get a list of the stubs for all categories under 'Biology' (and also Bacteriology and Physics) for he purposes of using these lists to evaluate a list extracted from an ebook. This is for evaluating some rsearch I am doing for my PhD in computational linguistics. trying to access the category pages directly from a program doesn't work as it is not a browser. Downloading the Biology pages is not what I need, just the list of stubs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DDLing ( talk • contribs) 13:49, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
A previous question referring to exonyms and endonyms piqued my curiosity: Does anyone know of a map or atlas published entirely with endonyms? It may not be very practical to speakers of a single language, but it would be interesting to see. Thank you. — Michael J 14:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I have an atlas that does a fairly good job of this, showing place names in both regular English form and various local forms, with a system of transliteration or transcription for non-latin alphabets. Unfortuantely out of print, it is Rand McNally's "Illustrated Atlas of the World", 1992, revised 1994, ISBN 0-528-83492-4. For example the map of the Baltic Region shows several names for the Baltic Sea, each located near the country in which that name is used, including Östersjön/Itämeri/Baltijskoje More, Balti Meri, Baltijas Jura, Baltijos Jura, and Morze Baltyckie (I'm not sure how to type a couple of the diacritics used -- a horizontal line over a u and a slash through an l). Egypt is shown as Misr (with a diacritic squiggle under the s), the Persian Gulf as Khalij-e Fars / Al-Khalij al-'Arabi (with several diacritics in there). The Sea of Japan is "Japonskoje More / Tong-hae / Nippon-kai". And so on. I haven't seen another atlas that does this. It's too bad this one is out of print because it is pretty nifty. Pfly ( talk) 21:52, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I post this here becasue I can't see that Wikiquotes has a ref desk. A beautifully worded email circulated in the days after 9/11. I think it was written by a high-up corporate type (a woman in publishing, maybe?) to all the company's employees. The email said, there are more important things than your job. If you need to skip some meetings to spend time with people you love, go ahead. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Who was she and what has happened to her? Is the text available? I know it's not much to go on. Thanks BrainyBabe ( talk) 16:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I've noticed that my school cafeteria has an interesting sort of informal change policy: if you don't have the correct change to pay for something whose price ends in one or two cents, they round down the price to the nearest five or ten cents. (On one occasion, they even rounded a $1:20 item down to one dollar, when I didn't have any change.) However, I've never been shorted any change at the cafeteria. I have two questions about this:
-Firstly, is it at all illegal? -Secondly, is it possible for a business to lose a substantial amount of money by rounding down prices now and then? 207.233.87.236 ( talk) 17:33, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
If they want they can sell with a €1 price tag for 2 cents or €1,000, the price is just an invitation to bargain, so you can even haggle the price down (Though don't cos other people in the shop will think you're a moron and the people who run it might get annoyed and bar you).-- Serviam ( talk) 23:09, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
what happens when you run gasoline in a diesel engine? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Evant1129 ( talk • contribs) 18:21, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Moved here from WP:New contributors' help page
Please fill in the subject box above, then replace this text with your question, and don't forget to sign by leaving the following four tildes (~'s) in place which automatically formats to your signature once you click "save page" below. 216.174.242.140 ( talk) 17:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC) name jerry l capps recently i was contacted by several mediums and several psychics around the world all the big names as in biggest such as anthony carr lee moorehead etc my question is this i have been told by one ri--research in brooklyn that there is a thing called beyonders and i have the ability to heal people by touch how real is this my name is jerry l capps thank you am baffled at such things
Who is the author of Goldielocks and the three bears —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.171.129.69 ( talk) 20:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I'm a 24 year old guy in the U.S. Do you think I could get away with wearing this shirt without getting laughter or weird looks? The one I have is size XL (14/16) so it fits me fine. 76.8.208.24 ( talk) 20:45, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
This reminds me of the time I bought a T-shirt with a picture of George W. Bush with the text "International Terrorist" from an online store. I did it because I had heard of some American guy that had got expelled from school solely for wearing such a T-shirt, so I felt I just had to get one for myself. When I wore it to the World Bodypainting Festival 2007, no less than three people asked me to pose for a photograph for them. JIP | Talk 21:39, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Do those nice-looking ornamental ball-thingies found on women's high-heeled shoes at the top edge of the shoe have a name? JIP | Talk 21:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
I would like to know, how do you make your wikipedia bots that can clean up vandalism and the like? I would like to do this on a wiki I am currently a member of and would appreciate it if you told me ow. Any help is grealy appreciated :) -- Seablue254 ( talk) 22:51, 28 May 2008 (UTC)