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how many law students are there in the US? Please answer to (email removed) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.82.82.184 ( talk) 00:28, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
There are many lists of 'seven reasons for this' or 'seven reasons for that'. Why not six reasons or eight reasons.. What is so special about the number 7 when it comes to lists? Buster Seven Talk 02:35, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
7 as a number has plenty of 'hooks' to make it interesting - there are 7 days in a week, 7 days of creation, 7 deadly sins etc. If you like 7 you might like 6. Or if you like numbers you might like the Guardian's Top 10 numbers between 1 and 10 ( http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/archives/2005/05/16/the_all_time_top_10_best_ever_numbers_between_1_and_10.html) ny156uk ( talk) 14:05, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Recently, while watching an instalment of the New Zealand sports programme The Crowd Goes Wild, I saw a film of an incident in which a baseball was hit for a home run, and as it was heading towards a child who was preparing to catch it, an unrelated man stuck out his hand and caught it, giving it to his child. This seemed a bit rude, although it was not clear whether the man knew the other child was going for the ball. What was this incident, and what is the accepted behaviour when attempting to catch a ball as a trophy ? I did here of the incident in which a guy looking for a home run ball for his son screwed up his own team's chance of a World Series - certainly not on purpose - but how many balls do they allow for a baseball game ?
( In the British Commonwealth we all know that if the cricket ball is caught in the crowd it has to be given back, since the nature of the game allows for one ball to be worn out over the course of the play to allow for changes in the ball's behaviour ( Altough back in January 1993, as Auckland hit the winning runs against my beloved Canterbury in what was then the Shell Cup at a one day match here in Christchurch, the ball went for four, and bounced off the embankment steps which were there in those days, and I caught it - but then I threw it back towards the umpires, since I was not sure if I was even allowed the ball then. ) I also would be curious as to find out whether we are allowed balls as trophies at the end of cricket - assuming the ball in question is not part of some record, as was the one given to Richard Hadlee at Lancaster Park twenty years ago, with which he took his four hundredth test wicket ) Thanks. The Russian Christopher Lilly 06:58, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank You all for those comments. The incident I was referring to was in a baseball game in North America, but I cannot recall where. In New Zealand we play cricket as well as Softball, at which we have been world champions - the last time being in Christchurch in 2004, just a few hundred yards from the place my sister was living in at the time, so I could walk her kids down to see it. Two years ago Australia upset NZ in the softball world final. I do not know if we play baseball. During Cricket at some more parklike grounds without a permananet stadium, like Hagley Oval and QEII here in Christchurch, spectators will sit around the ground close to the boundary rope, and some kids keen on fielding the ball can get in the way of players, but also players themselves can accidentally run into close spectators in such places. There was also an incident here before Christmas where a girl was hit in the face by a ball that leapt up at her once it crossed the boundary. Certainly if someone not from a given country goes to a game, if they do so with locals, then the conventions in existence need to be explained so that Americans do not accidentally take the cricket ball. In indoor cricket they use composite softer yellow balls, and are not so concerned about how many overs a ball does - worn ones can be bought from such places so they can buy newer ones. In test cricket, the red Kookaburra ™ balls have to be replaced once 80 overs have been bowled, giving the fielding team a crack at the batsmen with ten overs to go in the day. New Balls, like in Tennis, will move faster, and in cricket they will swing better ( although older ones achieve what is known as reverse swing ), but they also come off the bat better, allowing the batsman to use less effort. In one day internationals, the white Kookaburra™ is replaced after 34 overs, leaving just over an hour with a fresh ball. If the ball is lost, the umpires will come out with a box of pre used balls of similar wear. They are very strict on this and occasions of ball tampering - one man was even filmed biting a test ball like it was an apple - and it was assumed that it wasn't because he was an hungred. The Russian Christopher Lilly 06:57, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank You, Bugs, that clears a lot of that up. This seems to me to be unsportsmanlike in the sense of not honouring the other team's efforts - even if they are the oppositon. Here at sports the kids will get autographs of opposing players after the game, especially in provincial games where the player in question is a national rep. What happens if a neutral visitor catches the ball from the away team's homer and decides to keep it ? Do they fence off baseball suppporters and such in North America as they do for soccer fans in Britain ? Here we certainly don't, and most people know how to behave. I can see why a foul ball would go back, and certainly there is greater esteem ( what we here call Mana ), in obtaining a homer ball from one's hero, but why wouldn't a Chicago fan keep a diMaggio homer back in the sixties, since unfortunately he can't hit any more now ? Or especially one that Roger Maris hit in 1962 when he broke the record. Of course no one knew he would break it until the very last run. The Russian Christopher Lilly 04:34, 17 January 2011 (UTC) Many fans will keep these balls because they have a monetary value too.You could read up on the hoohah over the notorious 73 with an asterisk ball http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/news/2001/10/07/bonds_73_ap/ Hotclaws ( talk) 05:42, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Two peripheral comments. First: I only watch baseball occasionally, and last year's playoffs were the first time I'd seen a game played at AT&T Park. At one point during one of the games, a home run was hit. Usually a home-run ball goes into the stands, but some stadiums have gaps between sections of stands, and the ball passed through one of these, leaving the ballpark altogether. It was still in sight of the TV cameras and the next thing we saw was three people, who had obviously been waiting for just such an event, racing to be the first to grab and keep it. The interesting part is that they were racing for it in canoes, because the ball had landed in San Francisco Bay! I suppose this happens all the time there.
Second, it also regularly happens in hockey that a puck goes off the ice and into the stands. I read years ago in the book Fifty Years of Hockey by Brian MacFarlane that there was an abrupt change when hockey fans started keeping these pucks as souvenirs. I don't remember when this happened, but I think it would have been about the 1920s, the same period mentioned for baseball above. Before that time they would only bring about 3 pucks for a game. Now I understand it's more like 30. --Anonymous, 08:08 UTC, January 17, 2011.
Thank You all again - sorry I have been this late in commenting further, and I hope I can still get a response even if in the archives. I recall seeing the one where the guys in canoes went after the ball - it was probably on our local show The Crowd Goes Wild ( Related to which, one of their reporters, James McConie or James McOnie - pronounced a bit like Marconi - is the one involved with being accused of being a stalker by Maria Sharapova, even to the point that he wore a sign at the Australian Open confirming that he is not a stalker. Certainly Anna Ivanovic does not think so. ) Now what if at a baseball game one was a neutral spectator, and decided to keep the away team's ball ? If that was me, I would, since I know it is not theft - and fancy those people hassling a four year old. But I guess then they learn from a young age where their loyalties lie. Now here, during a cricket match, as I said, we may not keep the ball, but everyone in the crowd will make a great effort to catch it if it goes for six. That is, straight into the crowd. Here in Christchurch at the 20/20 match between the touring Pakistan team and our New Zealand BlackCaps, one local gentleman even won I think 500 or even 1000 dollars for catching a Pakistani six in the stadium. As it turned out there weren't as many NZ sixes to catch, since when we batted we were totally undone. Never mind. We had already won the series. I guess all this serves to show how different we are as much as how similar. The Russian Christopher Lilly 08:33, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm looking for a city map of Aryanah with the names of the streets. Can somebody help me? In which way can I find the streets (I know only the names of the streets)?-- 79.210.213.6 ( talk) 11:43, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I just got a really nice hip flask, problem is that I'm a non drinker and I don't have a trophy cabinet to put it in (so I'd like to use it). Anyone have any ideas for what drinks I can put in it? 121.216.244.184 ( talk) 12:34, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
spontaneous conviviality inherent in the idea of a hip flask. The OP eschews alcohol. I suggest filling the flask with a cordial: elderflower perhaps, or a concentrate of berries. Then, when the opportunity arises, at a party perhaps, you can whip it out and enliven the glass of anyone drinking water, or tonic. Failing that, you could regift the item. BrainyBabe ( talk) 22:56, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I've seen that in Europe, some streets have sometimes the same direction, are contiguous to each other, but have different names. That's sometimes confusing for non-Europeans, who do not expect that you can be at a different street without turning left or right. Is that indeed not heard of in other continents? Quest09 ( talk) 12:52, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Conversely, I have on occasion been confused by discontinuous streets in US cities: where two streets on the same line, but widely separated from each other, have the same name. There are occasionally discontinuous streets in the UK (for example, where a motorway or bypass has been built, splitting an older road into two) but it is much less common, and they are generally separated by only a short distance. -- ColinFine ( talk) 20:41, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
US addresses such as 9438 Short Road are not only caused by their habit of never renaming streets that run in a straight line. Something I discovered on moving to the US is that they go up by 100 every block (i.e. at every cross street, which is roughly equivalent to saying "every n metres" given the grid system). So Short Road might have numbers between 2 and 98 until it crosses some other street, and than have 100 to 198, and so on. 9438 Short Road means that it's in the 95th block, which means it's a longish street, but not necessarily anywhere near as long as you'd expect if it had to have 9438÷2 houses between number 1 and number 9438. Marnanel ( talk) 21:11, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
It's not uncommon for roads to change names in the U.S. as you go from one town or county to another. But usually, there's several miles between each name change. In Europe, the street names sometimes change as often as every few blocks. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 23:30, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Philadelphia has some well-known streets which have discontinuities in them. In New England, streets generally are named for the next town over that they lead to - since people in towns used to refer to (say) the "Norwalk Road" as the road leading to Norwalk. In short: expect names to be valid for only short distances as a rule, except for Yonge Street in Canada. Collect ( talk) 20:56, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
I live in a suburby residential area where there are only a few main roads and then lots of little subdivisions whose roads go nowhere except the other houses in that small neighbourhood (this causes lots of traffic snarls as everyone in a population of about 30 000 must take one of the five or six main streets that actually go somewhere - a spectacular failure of city planning). But this means that where one of these main streets runs through several subdivisions, it might get different names that match the "theme" of each subdivision. It also means that if two subdivisions lie on opposite sides of a main street, the roads on either side of the intersection have different names because they are in differently themed subdivisions, even though it's actually just one straight road. Cherry Red Toenails ( talk) 04:56, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Has Duisburg many street names which are used for different streets in different quarters? -- 84.62.207.101 ( talk) 18:58, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
My ten yr. old grandson had a high level of hmocysteine in his blood. Blood work was done because my dtr. has Leiden's and Factor Vlll. So she had her 13 yr.old dtr. tested as well as her son. Dtr. was negative. What advice can you give to lower the level.I just came from your website which states raising the levels of folic acid,B12 and pyridoxine. If she gives him a concentrated B only vitamins, will that help? ANy dietary recommendations?He is a very healthy, well nourished, active in sports(football) child. Will this be a problem only later in life or is he @ risk as a child? Thank you so much for your response. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.70.198.114 ( talk) 15:29, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I work in a organization and I want to change my Job.... whenever I go for an interview they ask me "Why do you want to change your job, you are with a good organization ?" every time I try to satisfy interviewer with my answeres but it doesn't work.. can anyone help me .. what can be a good answer for leaving a good organization../
If the job is in a different city, you have an easy answer. If you have to put up with long commute times, you could also answer that you don`t want to spend that much time commuting anymore. Quest09 ( talk) 18:29, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
I am Greg Abate American Saxophonist musician I would like to be added to the list please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.80.145 ( talk) 21:24, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
If we measure interior space by the volume of the largest convex solid a structure can hold (without interference from any architectural/structural elements), what enclosed structure would be the largest in the world? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.49.11.68 ( talk) 21:30, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Here's a List of largest buildings in the world, may be of use (though suspect most are just average height but reaaaaaaaaally wide/long. ny156uk ( talk) 10:18, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
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how many law students are there in the US? Please answer to (email removed) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.82.82.184 ( talk) 00:28, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
There are many lists of 'seven reasons for this' or 'seven reasons for that'. Why not six reasons or eight reasons.. What is so special about the number 7 when it comes to lists? Buster Seven Talk 02:35, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
7 as a number has plenty of 'hooks' to make it interesting - there are 7 days in a week, 7 days of creation, 7 deadly sins etc. If you like 7 you might like 6. Or if you like numbers you might like the Guardian's Top 10 numbers between 1 and 10 ( http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/archives/2005/05/16/the_all_time_top_10_best_ever_numbers_between_1_and_10.html) ny156uk ( talk) 14:05, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Recently, while watching an instalment of the New Zealand sports programme The Crowd Goes Wild, I saw a film of an incident in which a baseball was hit for a home run, and as it was heading towards a child who was preparing to catch it, an unrelated man stuck out his hand and caught it, giving it to his child. This seemed a bit rude, although it was not clear whether the man knew the other child was going for the ball. What was this incident, and what is the accepted behaviour when attempting to catch a ball as a trophy ? I did here of the incident in which a guy looking for a home run ball for his son screwed up his own team's chance of a World Series - certainly not on purpose - but how many balls do they allow for a baseball game ?
( In the British Commonwealth we all know that if the cricket ball is caught in the crowd it has to be given back, since the nature of the game allows for one ball to be worn out over the course of the play to allow for changes in the ball's behaviour ( Altough back in January 1993, as Auckland hit the winning runs against my beloved Canterbury in what was then the Shell Cup at a one day match here in Christchurch, the ball went for four, and bounced off the embankment steps which were there in those days, and I caught it - but then I threw it back towards the umpires, since I was not sure if I was even allowed the ball then. ) I also would be curious as to find out whether we are allowed balls as trophies at the end of cricket - assuming the ball in question is not part of some record, as was the one given to Richard Hadlee at Lancaster Park twenty years ago, with which he took his four hundredth test wicket ) Thanks. The Russian Christopher Lilly 06:58, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank You all for those comments. The incident I was referring to was in a baseball game in North America, but I cannot recall where. In New Zealand we play cricket as well as Softball, at which we have been world champions - the last time being in Christchurch in 2004, just a few hundred yards from the place my sister was living in at the time, so I could walk her kids down to see it. Two years ago Australia upset NZ in the softball world final. I do not know if we play baseball. During Cricket at some more parklike grounds without a permananet stadium, like Hagley Oval and QEII here in Christchurch, spectators will sit around the ground close to the boundary rope, and some kids keen on fielding the ball can get in the way of players, but also players themselves can accidentally run into close spectators in such places. There was also an incident here before Christmas where a girl was hit in the face by a ball that leapt up at her once it crossed the boundary. Certainly if someone not from a given country goes to a game, if they do so with locals, then the conventions in existence need to be explained so that Americans do not accidentally take the cricket ball. In indoor cricket they use composite softer yellow balls, and are not so concerned about how many overs a ball does - worn ones can be bought from such places so they can buy newer ones. In test cricket, the red Kookaburra ™ balls have to be replaced once 80 overs have been bowled, giving the fielding team a crack at the batsmen with ten overs to go in the day. New Balls, like in Tennis, will move faster, and in cricket they will swing better ( although older ones achieve what is known as reverse swing ), but they also come off the bat better, allowing the batsman to use less effort. In one day internationals, the white Kookaburra™ is replaced after 34 overs, leaving just over an hour with a fresh ball. If the ball is lost, the umpires will come out with a box of pre used balls of similar wear. They are very strict on this and occasions of ball tampering - one man was even filmed biting a test ball like it was an apple - and it was assumed that it wasn't because he was an hungred. The Russian Christopher Lilly 06:57, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank You, Bugs, that clears a lot of that up. This seems to me to be unsportsmanlike in the sense of not honouring the other team's efforts - even if they are the oppositon. Here at sports the kids will get autographs of opposing players after the game, especially in provincial games where the player in question is a national rep. What happens if a neutral visitor catches the ball from the away team's homer and decides to keep it ? Do they fence off baseball suppporters and such in North America as they do for soccer fans in Britain ? Here we certainly don't, and most people know how to behave. I can see why a foul ball would go back, and certainly there is greater esteem ( what we here call Mana ), in obtaining a homer ball from one's hero, but why wouldn't a Chicago fan keep a diMaggio homer back in the sixties, since unfortunately he can't hit any more now ? Or especially one that Roger Maris hit in 1962 when he broke the record. Of course no one knew he would break it until the very last run. The Russian Christopher Lilly 04:34, 17 January 2011 (UTC) Many fans will keep these balls because they have a monetary value too.You could read up on the hoohah over the notorious 73 with an asterisk ball http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/news/2001/10/07/bonds_73_ap/ Hotclaws ( talk) 05:42, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Two peripheral comments. First: I only watch baseball occasionally, and last year's playoffs were the first time I'd seen a game played at AT&T Park. At one point during one of the games, a home run was hit. Usually a home-run ball goes into the stands, but some stadiums have gaps between sections of stands, and the ball passed through one of these, leaving the ballpark altogether. It was still in sight of the TV cameras and the next thing we saw was three people, who had obviously been waiting for just such an event, racing to be the first to grab and keep it. The interesting part is that they were racing for it in canoes, because the ball had landed in San Francisco Bay! I suppose this happens all the time there.
Second, it also regularly happens in hockey that a puck goes off the ice and into the stands. I read years ago in the book Fifty Years of Hockey by Brian MacFarlane that there was an abrupt change when hockey fans started keeping these pucks as souvenirs. I don't remember when this happened, but I think it would have been about the 1920s, the same period mentioned for baseball above. Before that time they would only bring about 3 pucks for a game. Now I understand it's more like 30. --Anonymous, 08:08 UTC, January 17, 2011.
Thank You all again - sorry I have been this late in commenting further, and I hope I can still get a response even if in the archives. I recall seeing the one where the guys in canoes went after the ball - it was probably on our local show The Crowd Goes Wild ( Related to which, one of their reporters, James McConie or James McOnie - pronounced a bit like Marconi - is the one involved with being accused of being a stalker by Maria Sharapova, even to the point that he wore a sign at the Australian Open confirming that he is not a stalker. Certainly Anna Ivanovic does not think so. ) Now what if at a baseball game one was a neutral spectator, and decided to keep the away team's ball ? If that was me, I would, since I know it is not theft - and fancy those people hassling a four year old. But I guess then they learn from a young age where their loyalties lie. Now here, during a cricket match, as I said, we may not keep the ball, but everyone in the crowd will make a great effort to catch it if it goes for six. That is, straight into the crowd. Here in Christchurch at the 20/20 match between the touring Pakistan team and our New Zealand BlackCaps, one local gentleman even won I think 500 or even 1000 dollars for catching a Pakistani six in the stadium. As it turned out there weren't as many NZ sixes to catch, since when we batted we were totally undone. Never mind. We had already won the series. I guess all this serves to show how different we are as much as how similar. The Russian Christopher Lilly 08:33, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm looking for a city map of Aryanah with the names of the streets. Can somebody help me? In which way can I find the streets (I know only the names of the streets)?-- 79.210.213.6 ( talk) 11:43, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I just got a really nice hip flask, problem is that I'm a non drinker and I don't have a trophy cabinet to put it in (so I'd like to use it). Anyone have any ideas for what drinks I can put in it? 121.216.244.184 ( talk) 12:34, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
spontaneous conviviality inherent in the idea of a hip flask. The OP eschews alcohol. I suggest filling the flask with a cordial: elderflower perhaps, or a concentrate of berries. Then, when the opportunity arises, at a party perhaps, you can whip it out and enliven the glass of anyone drinking water, or tonic. Failing that, you could regift the item. BrainyBabe ( talk) 22:56, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I've seen that in Europe, some streets have sometimes the same direction, are contiguous to each other, but have different names. That's sometimes confusing for non-Europeans, who do not expect that you can be at a different street without turning left or right. Is that indeed not heard of in other continents? Quest09 ( talk) 12:52, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Conversely, I have on occasion been confused by discontinuous streets in US cities: where two streets on the same line, but widely separated from each other, have the same name. There are occasionally discontinuous streets in the UK (for example, where a motorway or bypass has been built, splitting an older road into two) but it is much less common, and they are generally separated by only a short distance. -- ColinFine ( talk) 20:41, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
US addresses such as 9438 Short Road are not only caused by their habit of never renaming streets that run in a straight line. Something I discovered on moving to the US is that they go up by 100 every block (i.e. at every cross street, which is roughly equivalent to saying "every n metres" given the grid system). So Short Road might have numbers between 2 and 98 until it crosses some other street, and than have 100 to 198, and so on. 9438 Short Road means that it's in the 95th block, which means it's a longish street, but not necessarily anywhere near as long as you'd expect if it had to have 9438÷2 houses between number 1 and number 9438. Marnanel ( talk) 21:11, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
It's not uncommon for roads to change names in the U.S. as you go from one town or county to another. But usually, there's several miles between each name change. In Europe, the street names sometimes change as often as every few blocks. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 23:30, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Philadelphia has some well-known streets which have discontinuities in them. In New England, streets generally are named for the next town over that they lead to - since people in towns used to refer to (say) the "Norwalk Road" as the road leading to Norwalk. In short: expect names to be valid for only short distances as a rule, except for Yonge Street in Canada. Collect ( talk) 20:56, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
I live in a suburby residential area where there are only a few main roads and then lots of little subdivisions whose roads go nowhere except the other houses in that small neighbourhood (this causes lots of traffic snarls as everyone in a population of about 30 000 must take one of the five or six main streets that actually go somewhere - a spectacular failure of city planning). But this means that where one of these main streets runs through several subdivisions, it might get different names that match the "theme" of each subdivision. It also means that if two subdivisions lie on opposite sides of a main street, the roads on either side of the intersection have different names because they are in differently themed subdivisions, even though it's actually just one straight road. Cherry Red Toenails ( talk) 04:56, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Has Duisburg many street names which are used for different streets in different quarters? -- 84.62.207.101 ( talk) 18:58, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
My ten yr. old grandson had a high level of hmocysteine in his blood. Blood work was done because my dtr. has Leiden's and Factor Vlll. So she had her 13 yr.old dtr. tested as well as her son. Dtr. was negative. What advice can you give to lower the level.I just came from your website which states raising the levels of folic acid,B12 and pyridoxine. If she gives him a concentrated B only vitamins, will that help? ANy dietary recommendations?He is a very healthy, well nourished, active in sports(football) child. Will this be a problem only later in life or is he @ risk as a child? Thank you so much for your response. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.70.198.114 ( talk) 15:29, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I work in a organization and I want to change my Job.... whenever I go for an interview they ask me "Why do you want to change your job, you are with a good organization ?" every time I try to satisfy interviewer with my answeres but it doesn't work.. can anyone help me .. what can be a good answer for leaving a good organization../
If the job is in a different city, you have an easy answer. If you have to put up with long commute times, you could also answer that you don`t want to spend that much time commuting anymore. Quest09 ( talk) 18:29, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
I am Greg Abate American Saxophonist musician I would like to be added to the list please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.80.145 ( talk) 21:24, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
If we measure interior space by the volume of the largest convex solid a structure can hold (without interference from any architectural/structural elements), what enclosed structure would be the largest in the world? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.49.11.68 ( talk) 21:30, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Here's a List of largest buildings in the world, may be of use (though suspect most are just average height but reaaaaaaaaally wide/long. ny156uk ( talk) 10:18, 16 January 2011 (UTC)