Okay, so I'm in one of my common country-fascination moods, where I find myself wondering why I don't know as much as I should about what's going on in a particular part of the world. This latest one may have been prompted because the election has just been called in New Zealand, and not for the first time I've found myself thinking that in the UK we just don't hear nearly enough about New Zealand. Seems like half the country has relatives who've emigrated there, but it must be a black hole from which no news ever returns. So my question is, what are the main news and current affairs radio stations in New Zealand, and (I'm more concerned about this bit) how much is there available to listen to over the internet? From a quick look at the relevant Wikipedia articles I came across Morning Report on Radio New Zealand's National Radio, but it doesn't seem to be possible to hear it over the internet. Any ideas? Secondary question to anyone familiar with British TV: when was the last time you saw anything on over here from New Zealand? I racked my brains and somehow came up with Shortland Street which I believe was shown a few years ago and sure enough turns out to be from New Zealand (frightening myself in the process with my ability to recall these soap-type programmes I would never watch), but I can't think of anything that's on at the moment or anything else in the past. For that matter, apart from the obvious ( Neighbours and Home and Away), what TV is there in the UK from Australia? Seems pretty shameful to me that the cultural products of two major English-speaking countries never see the light of day here. It's not as if British viewers are unfamiliar with foreign TV: with the amount of American stuff there is you'd think they could squeeze something in from countries that seem to have quite a bit more in common. And now this has made me think of Canada and how you never see anything from there either. Is TV just crap in these countries, or sadly underappreciated abroad? Thanks in advance to anyone who can find me a radio station or offer some insight. — Trilobite ( Talk) 01:36, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Surprisingly enough, a couple of New Zealand teen TV shows have made it to the US -- the very bizarre "Atlantis High" ( http://www.atlantishigh.com/), and another one about a bunch of kids who have survived an apocalypse without any adults, but I can't remember the name of that one. John Barleycorn 05:24, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
New Zealand has fabulous scenery for movie making, such as Lord of the Rings. AlMac| (talk) 05:27, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Well if you've got Men & Motors (Freeview channel 38) you can see Motorway Patrol which is another of those "follow the cops on their job" type documentary series - the NZ police don't seem to do car chases much, it mostly seems to be crash investigations, overloaded trucks, dangerous driving and speeding. I know the NZ$ isn't worth much, but the size of some of those fixed-penalty speeding tickets they dish out is frightening! -- Arwel 20:15, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Going back to radio stations. Aside from the publically owned National Radio there's also a commercial current affairs station called RadioLive. Here's the website: http://www.radiolive.co.nz.
Looking at the website it seems they do broadcast on the web but you have to register (I don't know if this costs anything). Probably the best times to listen will be early morning and late afternoon NZ time (roughly opposite if you're in the UK with the 12 hour time difference). Hope this helps Lisiate 00:14, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
How would a person go about making sublingual nitroglycerin tablets *safely* in small explosives for quick digging? I am in a geographic area with Caliche making a the majority of the soil below 8-12in, and im sick of blisters from trying to dig through that stuff by hand, and looking in my medicine cabinet one day i find my old nitroglycerin tablets.
My research has identified that, at least in North East England (Tyne & Wear), seperate licensing ledgers for Ale Houses and Beer houses were maintained by the magistrates courts between circa 1900 and 1955. These documents are held by the Tyne & Wear Archive Service, but neither they, or the magistrates licensing clerk seem to know what classified an establishment as one or the other. Can anyone help?
MIke Clarke
Does the Sinéad O'Connor song "Black Boys on Mopeds" refer to a specific incident? Were there ever black boys on mopeds killed on Margaret Thatcher's orders? Also, who is the "Madame George" referred to in the song? The Van Morrison song Madame George doesn't seem to be it. -- Angr/ tɔk tə mi 11:38, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
I am looking for the term for 125 years quin????? I am not sure what to look for can you help. I guess I don't know what 25 years is called. The town of Fulda will be celebrating their 125th year in 2006 and I wanted to know the right term. Thank you. danhawk@rconnect.com
Searching Guiness I found The Observer is the oldest continuously published English Sunday paper. I found no result for daily papers unfortunately. I ask because the The News Letter and Glasgow Herald articles both claim this title. lots of issues | leave me a message 14:44, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
I have a lengthly presentation made in KPresenter, and I'm loath to start it all over again. I need to turn it into a PowerPoint presentation or pdf slide show, but can't find any way to do this. I know I can go from OOo to pdf, so if I can get my presentation into OOo Impress then that would be fine to.
Currently, I can save my presentation as an html slideshow, a KPresentation uncompressed XML file, a KWord file and so on. OOo has a number of import filters, but none of them seem applicable.
I guess in the worst case I can make jpgs of each slide and place them in each powerpoint slide, but I'd hope that there's an easier solution. Thanks!
Ok, that sounded like a good idea, and it ought to work. I'm still having problems, however. Printing from KPresenter, I see that it has the option to print to pdf, but that doesn't seem to work at all (file "prints", but pdf can't be opened). It also has the option of printing to ps, as suggested above. However, this prints a very large file (50MB), which takes several minutes to "print". Using ps2pdf, I can convert it into a pdf (takes about 10 minutes), but the resulting pdf is huge: it takes about half a minute to view each slide. Also the slides are rotated 90 deg.
I can't find any relevent print options that would allow me to 1) make the output ps file smaller and 2) rotate the final slides. I also can't find any way to make the pdf smaller after its been converted. As it is, it's no good (it turns a 15 minte presentation into a 20 minute presentation with a lot of boring waiting while the next slide loads).
Any advice?
Hmmm, well I can't get the files onto a Windows machine when they're 50MB large (got no CDs on me). Also tried using the -r function in ps2pdf: 'ps2pdf -r300 mypresentation.ps' but it didn't reduce the size one whit.
Well, unless someone has a solution, I think I'll use the jpgs of the slides and insert them one by one into a PowerPoint presentation. Good thing I don't have to show this until 9am tomorrow. Sigh...
According to a parent, hitchhiking was illegal in Sweden twenty years ago. Is it still illegal? Any ways in which Swedish hitching is difference to the norm? Or tips. Sweden sounds to me like a very safe place. -- Wonderfool t (c) 17:33, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
What are some of the overriding objectives of a business?
My brother recently married a girl from Tonga. The wedding was pretty traditional, in a church. The reception, though, was a complete mystery to us and my brother's friends. We were sitting isolated from the rest and most of the reception was spoken in Tongan. No one explained to us what was going on or what the different rituals at the reception meant. I was given a hand-knit blanket from the older sister of the bride from her mother, as I am the oldest sister to my brother. Very confusing.
Is there any way I can find out online exactly what a traditional tongan wedding and reception involves? I would like to understand what all the different rituals that happened at the reception MEAN.
Dear sirs , I look forward getting your help know the address of Mr . Natan Sharansky (e-mail address ,phone ,etc..) . I like to contact him regarding his wonderful book ( Tehe Case For Democracy). I want to contact him , or even if you pass my messgage to him . I will be waiting your response .
Your interested and immediate reply will be highly appreciated .
Regards
Another possibility is sar at moch.gov.il , which was Sharansky's email address at the Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction (he resigned last May). They will probably forward your mail in the right direction. David Sneek 11:17, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Natan Sharansky c/o PublicAffairs 250 West 57th Street Suite 1321 New York, NY 10107
Phone number of publisher: 212.397.6666
Email address: PublicAffairs@perseusbooks.com
Hope that helps. Superm401 | Talk 15:04, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
I'd write to him in care of the Author Mail Department, PublicAffairs Books,250 West 57th Street, Suite 1321, New York, New York 10107. PedanticallySpeaking 15:01, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
I've got a query into the Knesset librarian. I'll let you know what she says. PedanticallySpeaking 15:14, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
I have a DVD saved on my computer and I want to upload it to my website but was told by the host that it has to be in a format that the internet can player (like MP3) how do I change the DVD to MP3 or something that will play on my website?
Thanks Marcea
Thank you SO much for your help! I love people who share their knowledge. You were very helpful.
Blessings...Marcea
I would like to travel from Pudong to Suzhou/ Weitang where I would like to purchase pearls and other jewelry. I am interested in both driving directions and public transit. Thank you.
Who wrote the play Peck's Bad Boy which was adapted from the novels by George W. Peck? thanks, Old Bubblehead
Mr. Harris wrote his adapation in 1974 so it would appear that it is not the original which was first performed around 1890. Old Bubblehead
I'm interested in portraying characters who suffer from agoraphobia or claustrophobia who may experience panic attacks. I'm interested to hear from anyone who experiences panic attacks whether you can describe what happens in terms of your visual perception.
If I wanted to create a video, using special effects, with the aim of trying to put the viewer into your point of view - what sort of things would I do to my "normal" footage to try and communicate your experience? -- bodnotbod 14:58, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
Well, this probably isn't helpful and it may be just me, but when I'm having an agoraphobia panic attack, I'm probably at home, and I'm pretty much just seeing the book in front of me that I'm reading to distract me. If by some chance I'm out, I'm looking for the quickest way home. There are no special visual effects. Sorry. Now breathing and heart rate - that's another story, but not very useful for video. -- Mothperson cocoon 02:48, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
At times spider webs are observed outside my front door of my home. The span of the web is greater than 8 feet where it is anchored to objects (trees, house, car, etc.). My question is how does the spider construct this web. Does it go up and down to get back and forth, or depend on the wind to anchor it to a distant object, or is it able to shoot it out like spiderman in the movie, or does it have another method? -- Tdra26 16:47, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Can you provide me with a listing of how many stores each of the major supermarkets has in the following cities? For example 37 Albertsons, 29 Kroger, 13 Safeway, etc. in a specific city.
Some of these chains operate under different names in different states, sometimes due to buyouts or mergers. Oddly two different companies can have supermarkets with the same names in different states or regions, which is quite odd. FunkyChicken! 14:50, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
Anyone know the origin of the phrase "a penny for your thoughts"? Is this an American phrase, or did it originate outside the U.S.? Is this phrase used outside the U.S.? Thanks in advance, although I'd be surprised if anyone even sees the Penny talk page (that's why I copied it here too). -- Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 18:04, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
(Maybe) see denying the antecedent. Frencheigh 20:13, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Does the common cold cross species? 82.92.119.11 21:12, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
There is evidence that a number of
viruses have and can cross species. This has been thought to occur in south Asia with many varieties of
influenza, which seems to have originated as a bird or swine infection, and from
monkeys in Africa, perhaps those eaten as bush meat. However, this is not the same phenomenon as simple contagion. A cross-species transfer is thought to be a rare event, and associated with an anomalous viral or host factor (such as a mutation) for that particular event. If it occurs, further mutation of the virus can allow it to establish itself in the new host species.
alteripse
00:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
OK, I'm still a bit hazy on the details; let me get more general and more specific at the same time. (Obviously I know little to nothing about biology, so bear with me.)
I would like to cite an article from Wikipedia as a reference in a research paper. Could you give me the proper author, publishing, etc. information that I should have in my list of references?
See Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia. (Why was this removed from the top of the page?) Frencheigh 22:06, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
I get the message "Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system.
DETAIL - Incorrect function." when I log on WindowsXP Home Edition. How can I fix this problem? If it helps, I had to recreate my account and transfer settings manually.
Superm401 |
Talk 22:40, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
She is super hot and I really want to do her. We make out alot and grew up seeing each other naked. So can I have sex with my first cousin? I am serious, I love her and we want to have kids, but we won't if they are going to be freaks or something! 168.216.148.70 00:42, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
You CAN have sex with anyone who consents to have it with you. However you MAY not, if there are laws, where you reside, against doing it if you under age, same gender, or very closely related. Freaks are in the eyes of the beholder. Have you considered safe sex and adoption? AlMac| (talk) 00:54, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Sure its physically possible, but the genetics of any offspring may be screwed up royally! 168.10.27.12 01:01, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I heard of offspring once between two cousins that had an arm growing out of their stomach. ‡ Jarlaxle 01:03, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
It would violate incest laws in many jurisdictions. Superm401 | Talk 01:05, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
In answer to the anon's question - you share around 1/8th of your
genes with your first cousins. This means that there will be a slightly higher risk of your having children with serious birth defects.
Theresa Knott
(a tenth stroke)
01:34, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I have heard before that studies have questioned if the marriage of most first cousins is really a significant genetic problem when it only happens once in a family. The idea is that problems arise when cousins marry repeatedly in the same family or if the family carries particular genes. These articles seem to support this. Of course, that doesn't say anything about what your friends and family will think. You might want to check out Cousins Uniting to Defeat Discriminating Laws through Education, in particular their listing of state laws. If it's legal and your family is understanding, you'd probably want to recieve genetic counselling just to make sure before having kids. Of course, I'm not a doctor. -- Laura Scudder | Talk 01:42, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Since your IP is from West Virginia, I took a look at the West Virginia Code and found this: "A person is guilty of incest when such person engages in sexual intercourse or sexual intrusion with his or her father, mother, brother, sister, daughter, son, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, nephew, niece, uncle or aunt." Looks like you're all good, assuming you're both of legal age of consent. I'd recommend against it though. James 02:06, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
Out of curiosity I'm going to tally the results:
One more question... which side does the family sit on? Groom? Bride? I don't think this is covered in the bridal magazines. ("Single family marraiges - how to avoid those annoying in-laws")- Tεx τ urε 23:00, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
First cousins have a much lesser risk of producing children with genetic disorders that widely perceived; the April 2002 issue of the Journal of Genetic Counseling published studies showing that offspring of first cousins has a 2 to 3 percent greater risk of birth defects than the general population, and a little over 4 percent greater risk of early death. (See [3], [4] [5]
From a personal standpoint, I believe that laws inhibiting relationships between first cousins per se are without scientific or moral basis. Such offspring are not prohibited by either Christianity, Judaism Dating_Advice_130_-_Genetic_Risk.asp, or Islam [6]. and modern social taboos and the practice stem mostly from a false understanding of the facts (a good fact sheet is here). Neutrality talk 04:58, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
I have quite a lot of my old compositions on CakeWalk in the *.wrk format. My new computer runs Windows 2000 and I cannot install my old version of CakeWalk due to DLL incompatibility. Are there any (freeware) solutions to convert my work to MIDI without loss of information? Answers on my talk page please. JFW | T@lk 00:57, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Replied: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jfdwolff#Cakewalk ¦ Reisio 02:52, 2005 July 28 (UTC)
Does anyone know Al Roker's weight before gastric bypass surgery and post op? 168.10.27.12 00:57, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Eight months later, he has dropped 100 pounds from his 320-pound frame, trimmed 14 inches from his waist and put all those Fat Albert jokes to rest." - NY Daily News lots of issues | leave me a message 04:11, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone know where the following heuristic originated from in print? -- HappyCamper 01:02, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I was just looking at the List of birds and Penguin after reading the World Book Encyclopedia. Aren't penguins Aves (class) > Neornithes (Subclass) > Impennes (Superorder) > Sphenisciformes (order)? According to the List of Birds, penguins are in Neognathae, yet the World Book classifies penguins in Impennes (nonexistant in Wikipedia). Maybe a different type of classification? Some google searches come up with many results, yet vague...-- WB 01:06, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
The superorder Impennes Stejneger, 1885 is no longer considered valid. Stejneger considered penguins to be separate from all other birds hence their elevatation to a superorder. However, the more we know about them, the more relationships we find with other birds. There's a summary of the history of penguin classification at evowiki:Sphenisciformes.
Wikipedia follows the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds) and places the penguins in their own order Sphenisciformes; however, the newer Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy (based on DNA hybridization studies and cladistic analysis) demotes them even further, placing them as a family in the order Ciconiiformes. Gdr 01:22:35, 2005-07-30 (UTC)
I'm almost done, and then I will go back to my neglected wiki potages and dragées and real work, but for my BtVS project, would someone, please, kindly give me a Latin translation for something along the lines of "Begone foul spirit/entity. Return to hell and stay there." Not looking for literal here. Just a general adjuring. You know - back off and don't come back if you know what's good for you. That sort of thing.
Actually, this might be useful in many situations. But I need it for a quick spell. Thank you in advance. -- Mothperson cocoon 02:27, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
That sounds like the ticket! I'm going to memorize that one myself. Thanks! -- Mothperson cocoon 14:09, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Hey - that's a great one! I'm going to use (and memorize) them both. They sound most appropriate for many situations. Thanks, guys! -- Mothperson cocoon 16:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Does Jessica Alba apear nude in the Sin City movie? 62.245.167.6 03:19, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Do you know why there are so many cases of cancer and brain tumors in McCurtain county? Has anyone ever studied this area...the environment, etc.? S. Johnson
This sort of question is very common. See [10]. A brief answer is that there are two possibilities:
The CDC has procedures and people for determining which of the two answers is correct. As you probably can guess, it usually turns out to be the second answer, which will be rejected by those of your neighbors who prefer to think that most bad things are someone's fault. alteripse 12:27, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
There's a great resource at the NCI that lets you create profiles of certain areas and see how the rates compare to the rest of the country or state and even how different cancer sites compare. McCurtain County does have a higher rate of cancer, though not by much, but so does Oklahoma in general. If you look at this chart, you can see that the only kind of cancer that is significantly higher than US average is lung and bronchus cancers, which may indicate that an airborne agent is at work, or that there is a higher incidence of smoking in the county. James 18:42, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
To whom shall I write to inquire concerning the status of a piece of land purchased by my wife's grandfather in 1913 and confirmed by the Clerk of the St Hubert county to be still existing but just as scrub in june 1913? It is referred to as pinehurst, east Greenfiekd on the deeds. I think perhaps that East greenfield is now part of Greenfield park. Mike Anthony, in Suffolk England
What is the exact difference between the words "pregancy" and "gestation"? 2004-12-29T22:45Z 06:37:26, 2005-07-28 (UTC)
Maybe our inquirer wants the semantic difference as well. Gestation derived from words that were used to mean pregnancy in the plain sense. Now gestation is used in a formal scientific context to mean pregnancy, but is often used metaphorically to refer to a process or period in which something is being inconspicuously incubated, shaped, formed, or made. Pregnancy originally was a much vaguer word, somewhat euphemistic and polite, roughly equivalent to "expecting" if you are old enough to remember when that was the polite American expression for pregnant. A few figures of speech (a "pregnant pause") still preserve the older meaning, but what was originally a metaphorical and euphemistic implication has now become the plain sense and common usage of the word. alteripse 12:09, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Pregnancy tends to not be used of animals other than humans and perhaps pets. Gestation is the term more often used by doctors, however. James 13:24, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
Did Pirates of the sea actually wear those frilly white shirts and feathers etc. And if so, why? Is there some advantage to excessive clothing I don't know about? --Jake--09:34, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Yes and no. Your mental image of a pirate is perhaps based on caricatures and cartoons, or perhaps the famous Seinfeld shirt [13]. Most seamen dressed very plainly and seamen who sailed ships that plundered others were no different. However, there are perhaps a few "nuggets" of reality in the caricatures. The "Golden Age" of Caribbean piracy was in the late 16th and early 17th century. The fashions even for respectable "gentlemen" were bizarre and extreme to modern eyes [14]. Pirates would presumably wear, rather than waste, much of their plunder. Secondly, those in command almost always dress differently than their men, especially for court appearances, and this finery may be much more likely to be depicted in illustrations even of the period. Finally, (and this is admittedly only my hunch) how would you describe some of the clothing styles which can be seen in large American cities being worn by those who wish to display an "outlaw" style and image? Might there be a similarity in, shall we say, the "couturial aesthetic" of young men lacking the "advantages" of middle class taste suddenly, briefly, but insecurely and illegally wealthy? alteripse 11:55, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
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I found a photo of a car on a website and am wondering what it is. This car was labeled as an "Old Vauxhaul" and it seems to have some sort of Asiatic plate in addition to the New York plate. FunkyChicken! 15:39, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone could help me with the title of a song. I don't know much of the lyrics other than a some point the lyrics mention "audacious sky" or something like that.
I know it's not much to work with
I have the Warner Brothers Cartoon "mechanical music" stuck in my head. It sorta goes "Dum dum dumt da dumt dum da. . ." and it is driving me crazy! Please help! FunkyChicken! 17:40, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
Now if I can only get the old channel 12 "Hello Milwaukee" out of my head! There's a feeling in the air that you can't get anywhere except Milwaukee. I taste a thousand yesterdays, and I love the magic ways of Milwaukee. From the shores of Michigan, I can watch you grow, again, and see you touch the sky. From where the river flows to where the sunset goes, we're all good neighbors passing by. Makes no difference where I go, you're the best hometown I know. Hello, Milwaukee. Hello, Milwaukee. Channel 12 loves you. Makes no difference where I go, you're the best hometown I know. Hello, Milwaukee. Hello, Milwaukee. Channel 12 loves you! The scary thing is that I can remember all the words! FunkyChicken! 18:24, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
I'm having a dispute with another user over on the article on Ohio's senior senator. I've listed his name as "Richard Michael DeWine" but another user claims it is "Michael Richard DeWine". I base my statement on his listing in Who's Who ("R. Michael"), the initials at the bottom of letters he sends out ("RMD"), the fact that his father and son both have the first name Richard, and a Google search for "Richard Michael DeWine" turns up numerous entries whereas "Michael Richard DeWine" returns nothing. Can anyone provide me with a definitive statement on this? PedanticallySpeaking 18:08, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
On this page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_list_of_programming_languages - there is a one-liner on the Coyote programming language and a link. However, when I travel to the Coyote disambiguation page, there is no link to the article. Where is it? --- anon
Dear Sir
Is there a technology available to locate abundant ground water for agricultural purpose ? I saw somewhere that it is possibel through satelite mapping ? Could some one guide me on this point.
Thanks in advance Sukumar
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I'm writing a math parser. If an user types n!!! what should it mean: (n!)!! or (n!!)! (double factorial? maybe triple factorial? ambigous?) Thanks in advance. -- Googlpl 20:41, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Sorry for that question, I found at factorial answer. There are triple factorials. -- Googlpl 21:07, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Are Chlorophytum comosum leaves edible? They look so harmless, and they grow so fast. What about those fat roots underneath? All I've been able to find is that it's on various lists of plants won't acutely poison me, but nothing on long-term consumption (antinutritive factors or what not), or whether it might have unpleasant but non-lethal effects.
What about cucumber greens? I know may other cucurbit vines are good to eat; I've eaten chayote and luffa greens, but I can't find a specific reference one way or the other on cucumbers.
What are some good resources for this kind of question?
Thank you — Pekinensis 21:00, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your prompt response, but this is the sort of list I mentioned above, albeit more authoritative looking than the ones I had found. I do believe I won't die from eating it once, but I'm worried it might make me feel very sick, or maybe after eating it for a month I'll develop an obscure deficiency disorder because it inhibits the absorption of some nutrient I'd never heard of. I'm also suspicious that most of these poison control lists are oriented to accidental or childish ingestion, and might be only talking about the aboveground parts of the plant. (The link you provide does specifically mention plant parts.) Thank you — Pekinensis 21:57, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Alright, thanks. That makes sense. I am more reassured by the non-toxic classification. Regular consumption is probably not a good idea. I will report back after having a small meal of them.
Incidentally, here and here are a couple of interesting documents mentioning the use of Chlorophytum borivilianum leaves as a potherb, and describing the medicinal use of the roots. The effect is supposed to depend on up to 17% saponin content. I'll try to incorporate this into an article.
Thanks again. I'm still very curious about the cucumber shoots, if anybody knows the answer. — Pekinensis 13:29, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
I took a few small bites, fried. It's more bitter, more fibrous, and less mucilaginous than I expected, but not too bad, with a nice nutty flavor. It puffs up in the pan. I feel fine two hours later. Tomorrow I will try some younger leaves in larger quantity. — Pekinensis
I'm trying to learn C at home with the K&R book as a reference. I'm only in chapter one though and I'm having difficulty. I'm using my Mac's Terminal application to do the compiling as well as running the examples in the book. Something seems to be not going like it should though... Does anyone know of a web board/forum/discussion group where I might be able to bounce questions off of experienced programmers? I don't know if maybe "it's supposed to look like that" or if I'm just screwing up. Any help would be appreciated. -- Dismas 21:53, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
#include <stdio.h> /* count characters in input; 2nd version */ main () { double nc; for (nc = 0; getchar() != EOF; ++nc) ; printf("%.0f\n", nc); }
Ah, but what is the end-of-file character? It's not Enter, in any case. :-) Try pressing Ctrl-D and see if output appears.
Incidentally, there's no need to use doubles unless you're doing floating-point arithmetic. An int
will do fine. Use %i
or %d
to print it.
JRM ·
Talk
18:36, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
echo foo | ./yourprogram
When you type control-D, the shell prints ^D to the terminal, but without changing the output position. Then your program overwrites the ^ with the first character of the output, leaving the D visible. If you type 10 or more characters before typing control-D, you'll see that the D is overwritten too!
P.S. You should return a value from main, for example by putting return 0; at the end. Gdr 00:39:55, 2005-07-30 (UTC)
Hello, I have two questions
Firstly, can a sinusiodal function be periodic and hence have an irrational period and freuqency. Eg, is sin(pi^2 t) periodic ?
Secondly how do you calculate the frequency for two sinusoids with different frequencies added together. Eg, how do you calculate the period algebraicly of cos(3 pi t)+sin(7 pi t)?
Regards, Justin.
Is it possible in Outlook Express to send multiple emails to the same person? Because if, in the To: line, I type joebloggs@example.net; joebloggs@example.net; joebloggs@example.net he still only gets it once.-- 84.51.149.80 06:09, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
The Cigarette article makes this claim: "In Massachusetts, minors are allowed to smoke as long as the cigarette was given to them by a parent or guardian." Recently, an annon questioned it, and I wonder about it too - could someone dig up a source for this? Maybe Mass state law site, or something... JesseW 07:10, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please give the answer to me Which country is not having national flag?
Does anyone know whether there is an emerging scholarly consensus on how to render the Arabic definite article (and its "soft" variants) in English? And should it be handled differently in proper and common nouns? Would love an answer to this! If I get it, I'll be happy to harmonize the Wikipedia articles on this issue. Thanks! Babajobu
(moved here from the help desk) - Mgm| (talk) 11:40, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
This book has haunted me since childhood. It was meant to teach children to be brave and say "that didn't hurt" when they fell down, etc.
I don't remember the title but the story haunts me to this day. A clay indian had every kind of accident you can think of, he got his arm cut off in a saw, lost a leg in some bizzare accident and in the end got hit by a truck and all that was left of him was his head. After each accident he said "that didn't hurt!" The last picture I remember in the book was a little girl feeding strawberries to him and his head was perched on a high chair tray. This book is gruesome but was meant to teach children and I am wondering if anyone else remembers it and the Title?
Thank you, Redheadedkatz
The title is Brave Mr. Buckingham.
I think I might be lauged at by people who know more about the topic but hey, I'm just a grade 10 student. My Question Is - How does a person get Deaf? What happens to a person's anatomy to stop aural stimulation? Also, Can wearing headphones really be harmful?
If there is an article about this, kindly point me to it. Thanks
- curtisbindra 15:06, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
can i get detail on MEMS, why r they imp. now-a-days
I was interested in getting some information about a person in Italy around the date of 870 AD. He was royalty and had one daughter. The daughter was proposed by 3 different royal men 3 different times and one dies after the other before the marraige. I was interested in getting any information about that, and/or the names of that man and his daughter. The daughter might of been a princess which would make the father the king. And apparently the daughter disappears. This is very important and I would appreciate any information because I have an idea where she might have disappeared to. Thank you, Ismael
The United States Congress is considering a law to extend the beginning and ending dates of Daylight Saving Time. This will mean that just about every PC in the country will no longer automatically reset its time when DST occurs. Is there a possibility of some sort of firmware download which will cause your PC to change its DST time change automatically, or will we have to do it manually, and then remember to uncheck the DST option so that it won't set it again when the old DST beginning and ending dates pass? John Barleycorn 18:24, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
Any suggestions as to where I might find the proportion of urban population (to the total population) in various ancient and medieval empires? I am especially curious about Roman Empire, Persia (of the same period), China (Han), etc? And also, for somewhat later period, Byzantine Empire and Europe both during Dark Ages and during High Middle Ages. Ornil 18:03, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cloud_cover shows a symbol for 9/8. How can there be more than 8/8 coverage? — Sebastian (talk) 20:36, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
How would I go about finding out more information on Nicholas and Helena Roerich? Thank You, Terri Love
Tring to find out Just found out in canada they have access 2 entertainemtn pass for going to mvoies and can not find anything in usa i need a list of Movie Chains in the USA or if they have something like they do in Canada
As I'm obtaining my history (through one of the external links in Credit score), I see a host of requests by companies which had no business with me – other than maybe sending me "pre-approved" credit cards. The page explains: "According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, credit grantors listed ... had a permissible purpose to review your information" – but it doesn't list the purpose for any of them. What constitutes such a permissible purpose? — Sebastian (talk) 01:52, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
I've heard that a man named William Beckford was the first Englishman to die a millionaire. Is this William Beckford (politician)? Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 05:24, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
The article on William Thomas Beckford, the son of the man you mentioned above, says that he inherited a million pounds from his father, so it does seem that his father did, indeed, die a millionaire. Whether he was the first is not indicated. John Barleycorn 06:24, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
The Oxford DNB article on William Thomas Beckford: "His daughter Susan later presented the tower and a plot of his land to Walcot parish and his body, after the land was consecrated, was reinterred there in 1848. Susan inherited the major part of his estate, valued at under £80,000." lots of issues | leave me a message 00:01, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
I am curious as to who first coined the hip-hop phrase "I got my mind on my money and my money on my mind". I have heard it many times, but who can really take credit for such an awesome phrase? --Jake--10:51, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
How can you instert regular jpg's or other filetypes into a LaTeX document?
As I listened to an NPR reporter filing a story from Niger about the famine there, I found myself wondering: How can this guy just report on people dying from hunger, and then go back to a (relatively) cushy hotel room and fool around with his laptop? I understand that journalists can't do much, and really shouldn't do anything, in a war zone. But what about a situation in which his help would so obviously make a difference? Is there some convention on this? 24.125.140.160 14:03, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Actually, there is an unfortunate correlation between the amount of airtime a famine gets on the media, and the amount of international aid given. The aid community is always complaining about journalists 'discovering' famines, and then serious aid arriving. Generally, they cannot be 'discovered' by the media untill people start dying. This leads to the phenomenon of forgotten famines or forgotten wars which are just not covered, so do not receive much in the way of donations.
I agree with both of the above. And chances are, the journalist can make a bigger change by reporting about it so that the world can hear it than they could by spending 24hrs a day feeding people and giving every dime they have to buy food for the starving. It's leverage. Make a big enough noise about it, and more help will arrive. Which is not to say the journalists don't also do everything they can to help while they are there. - Taxman Talk 19:28, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
I am looking for non-porn photos of nude mixed race women for a project, but there is so much porn out there it is impossible to find! Can you help?
I saw what looks like screencaps from a DVD on the Dragnet (drama) page and am wondering if the 2003 Version of Dragnet on is DVD? 66.133.152.242 14:38, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Yes, those are screen captures from DVD. There are some screener copies for Emmy consideration, TV critics, etc. floating around. I know there was a release scheduled for season one a few years ago, but it did't pan out. If you are in the LA area, there are a couple of good used record stores like Heavy Rotation that may have the screeners. FunkyChicken! 14:53, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
A double helix DNA is split into two strands by enzymes in preperation for mRNA templating (protein synthesis). Are all genes mRNA templated on the same strand? Or is the templating done on each strands in a staggered configuration?
If the staggered configuration is correct then what is ment by "sense strand" and "antisense strand". Are these terms used to name an entire DNA strand or just parts of it?
(The Wikipedia lookup for "antisense strand" could be eddited to address these questions.)
scot.parker at abbott dot com
Ok, last LaTeX question I ask -- I promise!
[Cleared first two questions away - answered them myself]
Finally (last!), the titles of my references in the bibliography seem to be set to start with an uppercase and have a lowercase second letter in the title. This is a problem both for a title that starts 'GA experiments...' (--> 'Ga experiments...') and for one that starts '"Niche selection" and..." (--> '"niche selection" and...'). What can I do to override this?
Many thanks!
30 years ago, while travelling in England, I heard two lines from a poem that I gather was commonly learned by English schoolchildren. Each line of the poem mentioned an individual king or queen (the whole poem contained all the English monarchs listed in chronologic order). My recall of the poem yields only the first two lines , which essentially is a good example for the whole: "William the Conqueror long did reign, William his son by an arrow was slain." etc etc. The poem was probably doggerel at best but it was a great way, I gather to know the lineage of English kings and queens. I stumbled upon your website and wonder if you know of the existence of such a poem? kip mackenzie-- 4.169.140.213 18:31, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Someone told me today that if you sneeze a big sneeze, "everything in your body suddenly stops - including your heart." Is this true? Does the heart really stop when you sneeze? If not, what actually happens when you sneeze? Thanks for your help! -- HappyCamper 18:49, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Since Chinese is a tonal lanuage, the same pronounced word can mean different things if it is said in a higher or lower pitch. There's a famous example of this where an entire poem is created of the same word over and over again.
I think that it's plot had something to do with lions, and that the word was translitterated as "shu" or something close to that. But I could easily be wrong.
I originally read this poem and the article about it on Wikipedia, so I know it's here somewhere. I just can't find it.
Anybody know? Thanks, Skylark 18:49, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Can someone give an example in Cantonese of an unaspirated glottal stop described in the chart in the article Standard Cantonese? I'd like to learn what this acutally is with an example. Thanks for your help! -- HappyCamper 19:17, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
The glottal stop is treated as a stop consonant for convenience but in fact it's quite different in articulation. Most stops are produced by making a complete closure between a passive articulator and an active articulator; in the case of oral stops, air pressure builds up between the glottis and the articulation because air is still escaping through the glottis but cannot escape through nose or mouth. With a glottal stop the buildup of air pressure is below the glottis, not above it. It's not possible to produce a voiced glottal stop. The glottal stop is produced by completely shutting the glottis; voiced consonants are produced by letting the vocal folds as air passes through them. If the vocal folds are shut tight, air can't pass through them, so they can't vibrate. A glottal stop also is very different from a canonical voiceless consonant, which is produced with the vocal folds spread wide apart so that they don't vibrate while the air passes through. An aspirated glottal stop is in theory possible (you can release the glottal stop and go straight into an [h] before beginning the vowel sound), but it's not very likely to occur, since aspiration usually results from leaving the vocal folds open after a voiceless consonant before a vowel, and in the glottal stop the folds weren't open to begin with, so they'd have to move from completely closed to completely open to only slightly open (their position for voiced sounds like vowels). -- Angr/ tɔk tə mi 20:04, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
The Wikipedia article titled Charles Hermite said:
An anonymous editor changed "air meet" to "hair meet". Could someone who knows French well comment? Thanks. Michael Hardy 19:49, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
(Besides "recurring character", of course.) This came up in the context of Strong Bad, who has served (in various toons) as a villain, an anti-hero, (upon rare occasion) a hero, a protagonist, an antagonist, and a commentator upon the action.
What to call such a character? "Recurring character" hardly fits such a character, because his appearances are too frequent to fit properly within the implications of those words.
Thanks,
Luc "Somethingorother" French
21:27, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Don't ask how this came up, but...do cross-eyed (or wall-eyed) people see themselves as such when they look at themselves in the mirror? Or does their vision compensate somehow? Mjklin 02:44, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
Wow do you render the word hummus in Greek and Arabic? Neutrality talk 04:46, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
Do you know if this is the official flag of the Creek Nation??? For I have seen another some-what similar flag. Or, is it neither, I am sooooo confused. I am a Creek decedent and trying to research my background. I would also like to purchase “The Official” Flag of the Creek Nation. If you have any answers or info that would prove useful PLEASE e-mail me at memereed02@sbcglobal.net Thank you, Teresa Reed Copied from the help desk. DES 05:25, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
I'm trying to find info about my mothers first husband. In 1957 she was 16 he (Jimmy Rogers)was 56 when they got married, prearranged at the time of her birth. She use to tell me she played the guitar and sang on the radio with him. As far as I know she lived in southern MO.. I'm unable to find any info about a Jimmy Rogers,Country singer around the years of 1957 thru 1960. Can someone help me out? -- HudsonHart 07:41, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
There is this comany in Miami that makes model aircraft and model aircraft parts, everything from desktop models to full size 737 nose sections. I can't remember the name. Help!
This has been bothering me and my father for years. When a fly flies up to the ceiling and sits there, head downwards, does it turn around its length axis or its breadth axis? — JIP | Talk 13:53, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
We always hear that the US GDP growth rate beats the EU's hands down. But the US has much more immigration than the EU, and in the EU people are working fewer and fewer hours. How do they compare when these two factors are taken into account? How do the US and EU compare for GDP growth per person, and per hour worked? 82.82.194.56 16:17, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
There are many Internet map sites that can accept latitude and longitude co-ordinates, and then show you a map of where that place is. How can I do it the other way around? I mean, look at a map, pick one place, and get its latitude and longitude? At the present I have to use trial and error to repeatedly input co-ordinates around the place until I zero in on it. It's very frustrating. — JIP | Talk 17:06, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
do you have any articles on how to remove thistles? I have some stuck in my hand from gardening. Thank you.
Please make sure you sterilise any instruments you use to fish around for pieces, also, some antiseptic ointment on the wound will help reduce the risk of infection.
Can you tell me where the origin of the expression "More tea vicar" came from? thank you.
The oldest animal fossil found is from 600 million years ago during the Precambrian period. They were "soft, cup-shaped animals that lived on a muddy sea floor" [23]. James 20:28, July 31, 2005 (UTC
Okay, so I'm in one of my common country-fascination moods, where I find myself wondering why I don't know as much as I should about what's going on in a particular part of the world. This latest one may have been prompted because the election has just been called in New Zealand, and not for the first time I've found myself thinking that in the UK we just don't hear nearly enough about New Zealand. Seems like half the country has relatives who've emigrated there, but it must be a black hole from which no news ever returns. So my question is, what are the main news and current affairs radio stations in New Zealand, and (I'm more concerned about this bit) how much is there available to listen to over the internet? From a quick look at the relevant Wikipedia articles I came across Morning Report on Radio New Zealand's National Radio, but it doesn't seem to be possible to hear it over the internet. Any ideas? Secondary question to anyone familiar with British TV: when was the last time you saw anything on over here from New Zealand? I racked my brains and somehow came up with Shortland Street which I believe was shown a few years ago and sure enough turns out to be from New Zealand (frightening myself in the process with my ability to recall these soap-type programmes I would never watch), but I can't think of anything that's on at the moment or anything else in the past. For that matter, apart from the obvious ( Neighbours and Home and Away), what TV is there in the UK from Australia? Seems pretty shameful to me that the cultural products of two major English-speaking countries never see the light of day here. It's not as if British viewers are unfamiliar with foreign TV: with the amount of American stuff there is you'd think they could squeeze something in from countries that seem to have quite a bit more in common. And now this has made me think of Canada and how you never see anything from there either. Is TV just crap in these countries, or sadly underappreciated abroad? Thanks in advance to anyone who can find me a radio station or offer some insight. — Trilobite ( Talk) 01:36, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Surprisingly enough, a couple of New Zealand teen TV shows have made it to the US -- the very bizarre "Atlantis High" ( http://www.atlantishigh.com/), and another one about a bunch of kids who have survived an apocalypse without any adults, but I can't remember the name of that one. John Barleycorn 05:24, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
New Zealand has fabulous scenery for movie making, such as Lord of the Rings. AlMac| (talk) 05:27, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Well if you've got Men & Motors (Freeview channel 38) you can see Motorway Patrol which is another of those "follow the cops on their job" type documentary series - the NZ police don't seem to do car chases much, it mostly seems to be crash investigations, overloaded trucks, dangerous driving and speeding. I know the NZ$ isn't worth much, but the size of some of those fixed-penalty speeding tickets they dish out is frightening! -- Arwel 20:15, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Going back to radio stations. Aside from the publically owned National Radio there's also a commercial current affairs station called RadioLive. Here's the website: http://www.radiolive.co.nz.
Looking at the website it seems they do broadcast on the web but you have to register (I don't know if this costs anything). Probably the best times to listen will be early morning and late afternoon NZ time (roughly opposite if you're in the UK with the 12 hour time difference). Hope this helps Lisiate 00:14, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
How would a person go about making sublingual nitroglycerin tablets *safely* in small explosives for quick digging? I am in a geographic area with Caliche making a the majority of the soil below 8-12in, and im sick of blisters from trying to dig through that stuff by hand, and looking in my medicine cabinet one day i find my old nitroglycerin tablets.
My research has identified that, at least in North East England (Tyne & Wear), seperate licensing ledgers for Ale Houses and Beer houses were maintained by the magistrates courts between circa 1900 and 1955. These documents are held by the Tyne & Wear Archive Service, but neither they, or the magistrates licensing clerk seem to know what classified an establishment as one or the other. Can anyone help?
MIke Clarke
Does the Sinéad O'Connor song "Black Boys on Mopeds" refer to a specific incident? Were there ever black boys on mopeds killed on Margaret Thatcher's orders? Also, who is the "Madame George" referred to in the song? The Van Morrison song Madame George doesn't seem to be it. -- Angr/ tɔk tə mi 11:38, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
I am looking for the term for 125 years quin????? I am not sure what to look for can you help. I guess I don't know what 25 years is called. The town of Fulda will be celebrating their 125th year in 2006 and I wanted to know the right term. Thank you. danhawk@rconnect.com
Searching Guiness I found The Observer is the oldest continuously published English Sunday paper. I found no result for daily papers unfortunately. I ask because the The News Letter and Glasgow Herald articles both claim this title. lots of issues | leave me a message 14:44, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
I have a lengthly presentation made in KPresenter, and I'm loath to start it all over again. I need to turn it into a PowerPoint presentation or pdf slide show, but can't find any way to do this. I know I can go from OOo to pdf, so if I can get my presentation into OOo Impress then that would be fine to.
Currently, I can save my presentation as an html slideshow, a KPresentation uncompressed XML file, a KWord file and so on. OOo has a number of import filters, but none of them seem applicable.
I guess in the worst case I can make jpgs of each slide and place them in each powerpoint slide, but I'd hope that there's an easier solution. Thanks!
Ok, that sounded like a good idea, and it ought to work. I'm still having problems, however. Printing from KPresenter, I see that it has the option to print to pdf, but that doesn't seem to work at all (file "prints", but pdf can't be opened). It also has the option of printing to ps, as suggested above. However, this prints a very large file (50MB), which takes several minutes to "print". Using ps2pdf, I can convert it into a pdf (takes about 10 minutes), but the resulting pdf is huge: it takes about half a minute to view each slide. Also the slides are rotated 90 deg.
I can't find any relevent print options that would allow me to 1) make the output ps file smaller and 2) rotate the final slides. I also can't find any way to make the pdf smaller after its been converted. As it is, it's no good (it turns a 15 minte presentation into a 20 minute presentation with a lot of boring waiting while the next slide loads).
Any advice?
Hmmm, well I can't get the files onto a Windows machine when they're 50MB large (got no CDs on me). Also tried using the -r function in ps2pdf: 'ps2pdf -r300 mypresentation.ps' but it didn't reduce the size one whit.
Well, unless someone has a solution, I think I'll use the jpgs of the slides and insert them one by one into a PowerPoint presentation. Good thing I don't have to show this until 9am tomorrow. Sigh...
According to a parent, hitchhiking was illegal in Sweden twenty years ago. Is it still illegal? Any ways in which Swedish hitching is difference to the norm? Or tips. Sweden sounds to me like a very safe place. -- Wonderfool t (c) 17:33, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
What are some of the overriding objectives of a business?
My brother recently married a girl from Tonga. The wedding was pretty traditional, in a church. The reception, though, was a complete mystery to us and my brother's friends. We were sitting isolated from the rest and most of the reception was spoken in Tongan. No one explained to us what was going on or what the different rituals at the reception meant. I was given a hand-knit blanket from the older sister of the bride from her mother, as I am the oldest sister to my brother. Very confusing.
Is there any way I can find out online exactly what a traditional tongan wedding and reception involves? I would like to understand what all the different rituals that happened at the reception MEAN.
Dear sirs , I look forward getting your help know the address of Mr . Natan Sharansky (e-mail address ,phone ,etc..) . I like to contact him regarding his wonderful book ( Tehe Case For Democracy). I want to contact him , or even if you pass my messgage to him . I will be waiting your response .
Your interested and immediate reply will be highly appreciated .
Regards
Another possibility is sar at moch.gov.il , which was Sharansky's email address at the Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction (he resigned last May). They will probably forward your mail in the right direction. David Sneek 11:17, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Natan Sharansky c/o PublicAffairs 250 West 57th Street Suite 1321 New York, NY 10107
Phone number of publisher: 212.397.6666
Email address: PublicAffairs@perseusbooks.com
Hope that helps. Superm401 | Talk 15:04, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
I'd write to him in care of the Author Mail Department, PublicAffairs Books,250 West 57th Street, Suite 1321, New York, New York 10107. PedanticallySpeaking 15:01, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
I've got a query into the Knesset librarian. I'll let you know what she says. PedanticallySpeaking 15:14, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
I have a DVD saved on my computer and I want to upload it to my website but was told by the host that it has to be in a format that the internet can player (like MP3) how do I change the DVD to MP3 or something that will play on my website?
Thanks Marcea
Thank you SO much for your help! I love people who share their knowledge. You were very helpful.
Blessings...Marcea
I would like to travel from Pudong to Suzhou/ Weitang where I would like to purchase pearls and other jewelry. I am interested in both driving directions and public transit. Thank you.
Who wrote the play Peck's Bad Boy which was adapted from the novels by George W. Peck? thanks, Old Bubblehead
Mr. Harris wrote his adapation in 1974 so it would appear that it is not the original which was first performed around 1890. Old Bubblehead
I'm interested in portraying characters who suffer from agoraphobia or claustrophobia who may experience panic attacks. I'm interested to hear from anyone who experiences panic attacks whether you can describe what happens in terms of your visual perception.
If I wanted to create a video, using special effects, with the aim of trying to put the viewer into your point of view - what sort of things would I do to my "normal" footage to try and communicate your experience? -- bodnotbod 14:58, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
Well, this probably isn't helpful and it may be just me, but when I'm having an agoraphobia panic attack, I'm probably at home, and I'm pretty much just seeing the book in front of me that I'm reading to distract me. If by some chance I'm out, I'm looking for the quickest way home. There are no special visual effects. Sorry. Now breathing and heart rate - that's another story, but not very useful for video. -- Mothperson cocoon 02:48, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
At times spider webs are observed outside my front door of my home. The span of the web is greater than 8 feet where it is anchored to objects (trees, house, car, etc.). My question is how does the spider construct this web. Does it go up and down to get back and forth, or depend on the wind to anchor it to a distant object, or is it able to shoot it out like spiderman in the movie, or does it have another method? -- Tdra26 16:47, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Can you provide me with a listing of how many stores each of the major supermarkets has in the following cities? For example 37 Albertsons, 29 Kroger, 13 Safeway, etc. in a specific city.
Some of these chains operate under different names in different states, sometimes due to buyouts or mergers. Oddly two different companies can have supermarkets with the same names in different states or regions, which is quite odd. FunkyChicken! 14:50, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
Anyone know the origin of the phrase "a penny for your thoughts"? Is this an American phrase, or did it originate outside the U.S.? Is this phrase used outside the U.S.? Thanks in advance, although I'd be surprised if anyone even sees the Penny talk page (that's why I copied it here too). -- Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 18:04, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
(Maybe) see denying the antecedent. Frencheigh 20:13, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Does the common cold cross species? 82.92.119.11 21:12, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
There is evidence that a number of
viruses have and can cross species. This has been thought to occur in south Asia with many varieties of
influenza, which seems to have originated as a bird or swine infection, and from
monkeys in Africa, perhaps those eaten as bush meat. However, this is not the same phenomenon as simple contagion. A cross-species transfer is thought to be a rare event, and associated with an anomalous viral or host factor (such as a mutation) for that particular event. If it occurs, further mutation of the virus can allow it to establish itself in the new host species.
alteripse
00:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
OK, I'm still a bit hazy on the details; let me get more general and more specific at the same time. (Obviously I know little to nothing about biology, so bear with me.)
I would like to cite an article from Wikipedia as a reference in a research paper. Could you give me the proper author, publishing, etc. information that I should have in my list of references?
See Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia. (Why was this removed from the top of the page?) Frencheigh 22:06, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
I get the message "Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system.
DETAIL - Incorrect function." when I log on WindowsXP Home Edition. How can I fix this problem? If it helps, I had to recreate my account and transfer settings manually.
Superm401 |
Talk 22:40, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
She is super hot and I really want to do her. We make out alot and grew up seeing each other naked. So can I have sex with my first cousin? I am serious, I love her and we want to have kids, but we won't if they are going to be freaks or something! 168.216.148.70 00:42, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
You CAN have sex with anyone who consents to have it with you. However you MAY not, if there are laws, where you reside, against doing it if you under age, same gender, or very closely related. Freaks are in the eyes of the beholder. Have you considered safe sex and adoption? AlMac| (talk) 00:54, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Sure its physically possible, but the genetics of any offspring may be screwed up royally! 168.10.27.12 01:01, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I heard of offspring once between two cousins that had an arm growing out of their stomach. ‡ Jarlaxle 01:03, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
It would violate incest laws in many jurisdictions. Superm401 | Talk 01:05, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
In answer to the anon's question - you share around 1/8th of your
genes with your first cousins. This means that there will be a slightly higher risk of your having children with serious birth defects.
Theresa Knott
(a tenth stroke)
01:34, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I have heard before that studies have questioned if the marriage of most first cousins is really a significant genetic problem when it only happens once in a family. The idea is that problems arise when cousins marry repeatedly in the same family or if the family carries particular genes. These articles seem to support this. Of course, that doesn't say anything about what your friends and family will think. You might want to check out Cousins Uniting to Defeat Discriminating Laws through Education, in particular their listing of state laws. If it's legal and your family is understanding, you'd probably want to recieve genetic counselling just to make sure before having kids. Of course, I'm not a doctor. -- Laura Scudder | Talk 01:42, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Since your IP is from West Virginia, I took a look at the West Virginia Code and found this: "A person is guilty of incest when such person engages in sexual intercourse or sexual intrusion with his or her father, mother, brother, sister, daughter, son, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, nephew, niece, uncle or aunt." Looks like you're all good, assuming you're both of legal age of consent. I'd recommend against it though. James 02:06, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
Out of curiosity I'm going to tally the results:
One more question... which side does the family sit on? Groom? Bride? I don't think this is covered in the bridal magazines. ("Single family marraiges - how to avoid those annoying in-laws")- Tεx τ urε 23:00, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
First cousins have a much lesser risk of producing children with genetic disorders that widely perceived; the April 2002 issue of the Journal of Genetic Counseling published studies showing that offspring of first cousins has a 2 to 3 percent greater risk of birth defects than the general population, and a little over 4 percent greater risk of early death. (See [3], [4] [5]
From a personal standpoint, I believe that laws inhibiting relationships between first cousins per se are without scientific or moral basis. Such offspring are not prohibited by either Christianity, Judaism Dating_Advice_130_-_Genetic_Risk.asp, or Islam [6]. and modern social taboos and the practice stem mostly from a false understanding of the facts (a good fact sheet is here). Neutrality talk 04:58, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
I have quite a lot of my old compositions on CakeWalk in the *.wrk format. My new computer runs Windows 2000 and I cannot install my old version of CakeWalk due to DLL incompatibility. Are there any (freeware) solutions to convert my work to MIDI without loss of information? Answers on my talk page please. JFW | T@lk 00:57, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Replied: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jfdwolff#Cakewalk ¦ Reisio 02:52, 2005 July 28 (UTC)
Does anyone know Al Roker's weight before gastric bypass surgery and post op? 168.10.27.12 00:57, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Eight months later, he has dropped 100 pounds from his 320-pound frame, trimmed 14 inches from his waist and put all those Fat Albert jokes to rest." - NY Daily News lots of issues | leave me a message 04:11, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone know where the following heuristic originated from in print? -- HappyCamper 01:02, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I was just looking at the List of birds and Penguin after reading the World Book Encyclopedia. Aren't penguins Aves (class) > Neornithes (Subclass) > Impennes (Superorder) > Sphenisciformes (order)? According to the List of Birds, penguins are in Neognathae, yet the World Book classifies penguins in Impennes (nonexistant in Wikipedia). Maybe a different type of classification? Some google searches come up with many results, yet vague...-- WB 01:06, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
The superorder Impennes Stejneger, 1885 is no longer considered valid. Stejneger considered penguins to be separate from all other birds hence their elevatation to a superorder. However, the more we know about them, the more relationships we find with other birds. There's a summary of the history of penguin classification at evowiki:Sphenisciformes.
Wikipedia follows the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds) and places the penguins in their own order Sphenisciformes; however, the newer Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy (based on DNA hybridization studies and cladistic analysis) demotes them even further, placing them as a family in the order Ciconiiformes. Gdr 01:22:35, 2005-07-30 (UTC)
I'm almost done, and then I will go back to my neglected wiki potages and dragées and real work, but for my BtVS project, would someone, please, kindly give me a Latin translation for something along the lines of "Begone foul spirit/entity. Return to hell and stay there." Not looking for literal here. Just a general adjuring. You know - back off and don't come back if you know what's good for you. That sort of thing.
Actually, this might be useful in many situations. But I need it for a quick spell. Thank you in advance. -- Mothperson cocoon 02:27, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
That sounds like the ticket! I'm going to memorize that one myself. Thanks! -- Mothperson cocoon 14:09, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Hey - that's a great one! I'm going to use (and memorize) them both. They sound most appropriate for many situations. Thanks, guys! -- Mothperson cocoon 16:36, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Does Jessica Alba apear nude in the Sin City movie? 62.245.167.6 03:19, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Do you know why there are so many cases of cancer and brain tumors in McCurtain county? Has anyone ever studied this area...the environment, etc.? S. Johnson
This sort of question is very common. See [10]. A brief answer is that there are two possibilities:
The CDC has procedures and people for determining which of the two answers is correct. As you probably can guess, it usually turns out to be the second answer, which will be rejected by those of your neighbors who prefer to think that most bad things are someone's fault. alteripse 12:27, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
There's a great resource at the NCI that lets you create profiles of certain areas and see how the rates compare to the rest of the country or state and even how different cancer sites compare. McCurtain County does have a higher rate of cancer, though not by much, but so does Oklahoma in general. If you look at this chart, you can see that the only kind of cancer that is significantly higher than US average is lung and bronchus cancers, which may indicate that an airborne agent is at work, or that there is a higher incidence of smoking in the county. James 18:42, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
To whom shall I write to inquire concerning the status of a piece of land purchased by my wife's grandfather in 1913 and confirmed by the Clerk of the St Hubert county to be still existing but just as scrub in june 1913? It is referred to as pinehurst, east Greenfiekd on the deeds. I think perhaps that East greenfield is now part of Greenfield park. Mike Anthony, in Suffolk England
What is the exact difference between the words "pregancy" and "gestation"? 2004-12-29T22:45Z 06:37:26, 2005-07-28 (UTC)
Maybe our inquirer wants the semantic difference as well. Gestation derived from words that were used to mean pregnancy in the plain sense. Now gestation is used in a formal scientific context to mean pregnancy, but is often used metaphorically to refer to a process or period in which something is being inconspicuously incubated, shaped, formed, or made. Pregnancy originally was a much vaguer word, somewhat euphemistic and polite, roughly equivalent to "expecting" if you are old enough to remember when that was the polite American expression for pregnant. A few figures of speech (a "pregnant pause") still preserve the older meaning, but what was originally a metaphorical and euphemistic implication has now become the plain sense and common usage of the word. alteripse 12:09, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Pregnancy tends to not be used of animals other than humans and perhaps pets. Gestation is the term more often used by doctors, however. James 13:24, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
Did Pirates of the sea actually wear those frilly white shirts and feathers etc. And if so, why? Is there some advantage to excessive clothing I don't know about? --Jake--09:34, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Yes and no. Your mental image of a pirate is perhaps based on caricatures and cartoons, or perhaps the famous Seinfeld shirt [13]. Most seamen dressed very plainly and seamen who sailed ships that plundered others were no different. However, there are perhaps a few "nuggets" of reality in the caricatures. The "Golden Age" of Caribbean piracy was in the late 16th and early 17th century. The fashions even for respectable "gentlemen" were bizarre and extreme to modern eyes [14]. Pirates would presumably wear, rather than waste, much of their plunder. Secondly, those in command almost always dress differently than their men, especially for court appearances, and this finery may be much more likely to be depicted in illustrations even of the period. Finally, (and this is admittedly only my hunch) how would you describe some of the clothing styles which can be seen in large American cities being worn by those who wish to display an "outlaw" style and image? Might there be a similarity in, shall we say, the "couturial aesthetic" of young men lacking the "advantages" of middle class taste suddenly, briefly, but insecurely and illegally wealthy? alteripse 11:55, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
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I found a photo of a car on a website and am wondering what it is. This car was labeled as an "Old Vauxhaul" and it seems to have some sort of Asiatic plate in addition to the New York plate. FunkyChicken! 15:39, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
I was wondering if anyone could help me with the title of a song. I don't know much of the lyrics other than a some point the lyrics mention "audacious sky" or something like that.
I know it's not much to work with
I have the Warner Brothers Cartoon "mechanical music" stuck in my head. It sorta goes "Dum dum dumt da dumt dum da. . ." and it is driving me crazy! Please help! FunkyChicken! 17:40, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
Now if I can only get the old channel 12 "Hello Milwaukee" out of my head! There's a feeling in the air that you can't get anywhere except Milwaukee. I taste a thousand yesterdays, and I love the magic ways of Milwaukee. From the shores of Michigan, I can watch you grow, again, and see you touch the sky. From where the river flows to where the sunset goes, we're all good neighbors passing by. Makes no difference where I go, you're the best hometown I know. Hello, Milwaukee. Hello, Milwaukee. Channel 12 loves you. Makes no difference where I go, you're the best hometown I know. Hello, Milwaukee. Hello, Milwaukee. Channel 12 loves you! The scary thing is that I can remember all the words! FunkyChicken! 18:24, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
I'm having a dispute with another user over on the article on Ohio's senior senator. I've listed his name as "Richard Michael DeWine" but another user claims it is "Michael Richard DeWine". I base my statement on his listing in Who's Who ("R. Michael"), the initials at the bottom of letters he sends out ("RMD"), the fact that his father and son both have the first name Richard, and a Google search for "Richard Michael DeWine" turns up numerous entries whereas "Michael Richard DeWine" returns nothing. Can anyone provide me with a definitive statement on this? PedanticallySpeaking 18:08, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
On this page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_list_of_programming_languages - there is a one-liner on the Coyote programming language and a link. However, when I travel to the Coyote disambiguation page, there is no link to the article. Where is it? --- anon
Dear Sir
Is there a technology available to locate abundant ground water for agricultural purpose ? I saw somewhere that it is possibel through satelite mapping ? Could some one guide me on this point.
Thanks in advance Sukumar
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I'm writing a math parser. If an user types n!!! what should it mean: (n!)!! or (n!!)! (double factorial? maybe triple factorial? ambigous?) Thanks in advance. -- Googlpl 20:41, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Sorry for that question, I found at factorial answer. There are triple factorials. -- Googlpl 21:07, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Are Chlorophytum comosum leaves edible? They look so harmless, and they grow so fast. What about those fat roots underneath? All I've been able to find is that it's on various lists of plants won't acutely poison me, but nothing on long-term consumption (antinutritive factors or what not), or whether it might have unpleasant but non-lethal effects.
What about cucumber greens? I know may other cucurbit vines are good to eat; I've eaten chayote and luffa greens, but I can't find a specific reference one way or the other on cucumbers.
What are some good resources for this kind of question?
Thank you — Pekinensis 21:00, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your prompt response, but this is the sort of list I mentioned above, albeit more authoritative looking than the ones I had found. I do believe I won't die from eating it once, but I'm worried it might make me feel very sick, or maybe after eating it for a month I'll develop an obscure deficiency disorder because it inhibits the absorption of some nutrient I'd never heard of. I'm also suspicious that most of these poison control lists are oriented to accidental or childish ingestion, and might be only talking about the aboveground parts of the plant. (The link you provide does specifically mention plant parts.) Thank you — Pekinensis 21:57, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Alright, thanks. That makes sense. I am more reassured by the non-toxic classification. Regular consumption is probably not a good idea. I will report back after having a small meal of them.
Incidentally, here and here are a couple of interesting documents mentioning the use of Chlorophytum borivilianum leaves as a potherb, and describing the medicinal use of the roots. The effect is supposed to depend on up to 17% saponin content. I'll try to incorporate this into an article.
Thanks again. I'm still very curious about the cucumber shoots, if anybody knows the answer. — Pekinensis 13:29, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
I took a few small bites, fried. It's more bitter, more fibrous, and less mucilaginous than I expected, but not too bad, with a nice nutty flavor. It puffs up in the pan. I feel fine two hours later. Tomorrow I will try some younger leaves in larger quantity. — Pekinensis
I'm trying to learn C at home with the K&R book as a reference. I'm only in chapter one though and I'm having difficulty. I'm using my Mac's Terminal application to do the compiling as well as running the examples in the book. Something seems to be not going like it should though... Does anyone know of a web board/forum/discussion group where I might be able to bounce questions off of experienced programmers? I don't know if maybe "it's supposed to look like that" or if I'm just screwing up. Any help would be appreciated. -- Dismas 21:53, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
#include <stdio.h> /* count characters in input; 2nd version */ main () { double nc; for (nc = 0; getchar() != EOF; ++nc) ; printf("%.0f\n", nc); }
Ah, but what is the end-of-file character? It's not Enter, in any case. :-) Try pressing Ctrl-D and see if output appears.
Incidentally, there's no need to use doubles unless you're doing floating-point arithmetic. An int
will do fine. Use %i
or %d
to print it.
JRM ·
Talk
18:36, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
echo foo | ./yourprogram
When you type control-D, the shell prints ^D to the terminal, but without changing the output position. Then your program overwrites the ^ with the first character of the output, leaving the D visible. If you type 10 or more characters before typing control-D, you'll see that the D is overwritten too!
P.S. You should return a value from main, for example by putting return 0; at the end. Gdr 00:39:55, 2005-07-30 (UTC)
Hello, I have two questions
Firstly, can a sinusiodal function be periodic and hence have an irrational period and freuqency. Eg, is sin(pi^2 t) periodic ?
Secondly how do you calculate the frequency for two sinusoids with different frequencies added together. Eg, how do you calculate the period algebraicly of cos(3 pi t)+sin(7 pi t)?
Regards, Justin.
Is it possible in Outlook Express to send multiple emails to the same person? Because if, in the To: line, I type joebloggs@example.net; joebloggs@example.net; joebloggs@example.net he still only gets it once.-- 84.51.149.80 06:09, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
The Cigarette article makes this claim: "In Massachusetts, minors are allowed to smoke as long as the cigarette was given to them by a parent or guardian." Recently, an annon questioned it, and I wonder about it too - could someone dig up a source for this? Maybe Mass state law site, or something... JesseW 07:10, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please give the answer to me Which country is not having national flag?
Does anyone know whether there is an emerging scholarly consensus on how to render the Arabic definite article (and its "soft" variants) in English? And should it be handled differently in proper and common nouns? Would love an answer to this! If I get it, I'll be happy to harmonize the Wikipedia articles on this issue. Thanks! Babajobu
(moved here from the help desk) - Mgm| (talk) 11:40, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
This book has haunted me since childhood. It was meant to teach children to be brave and say "that didn't hurt" when they fell down, etc.
I don't remember the title but the story haunts me to this day. A clay indian had every kind of accident you can think of, he got his arm cut off in a saw, lost a leg in some bizzare accident and in the end got hit by a truck and all that was left of him was his head. After each accident he said "that didn't hurt!" The last picture I remember in the book was a little girl feeding strawberries to him and his head was perched on a high chair tray. This book is gruesome but was meant to teach children and I am wondering if anyone else remembers it and the Title?
Thank you, Redheadedkatz
The title is Brave Mr. Buckingham.
I think I might be lauged at by people who know more about the topic but hey, I'm just a grade 10 student. My Question Is - How does a person get Deaf? What happens to a person's anatomy to stop aural stimulation? Also, Can wearing headphones really be harmful?
If there is an article about this, kindly point me to it. Thanks
- curtisbindra 15:06, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
can i get detail on MEMS, why r they imp. now-a-days
I was interested in getting some information about a person in Italy around the date of 870 AD. He was royalty and had one daughter. The daughter was proposed by 3 different royal men 3 different times and one dies after the other before the marraige. I was interested in getting any information about that, and/or the names of that man and his daughter. The daughter might of been a princess which would make the father the king. And apparently the daughter disappears. This is very important and I would appreciate any information because I have an idea where she might have disappeared to. Thank you, Ismael
The United States Congress is considering a law to extend the beginning and ending dates of Daylight Saving Time. This will mean that just about every PC in the country will no longer automatically reset its time when DST occurs. Is there a possibility of some sort of firmware download which will cause your PC to change its DST time change automatically, or will we have to do it manually, and then remember to uncheck the DST option so that it won't set it again when the old DST beginning and ending dates pass? John Barleycorn 18:24, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
Any suggestions as to where I might find the proportion of urban population (to the total population) in various ancient and medieval empires? I am especially curious about Roman Empire, Persia (of the same period), China (Han), etc? And also, for somewhat later period, Byzantine Empire and Europe both during Dark Ages and during High Middle Ages. Ornil 18:03, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cloud_cover shows a symbol for 9/8. How can there be more than 8/8 coverage? — Sebastian (talk) 20:36, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
How would I go about finding out more information on Nicholas and Helena Roerich? Thank You, Terri Love
Tring to find out Just found out in canada they have access 2 entertainemtn pass for going to mvoies and can not find anything in usa i need a list of Movie Chains in the USA or if they have something like they do in Canada
As I'm obtaining my history (through one of the external links in Credit score), I see a host of requests by companies which had no business with me – other than maybe sending me "pre-approved" credit cards. The page explains: "According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, credit grantors listed ... had a permissible purpose to review your information" – but it doesn't list the purpose for any of them. What constitutes such a permissible purpose? — Sebastian (talk) 01:52, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
I've heard that a man named William Beckford was the first Englishman to die a millionaire. Is this William Beckford (politician)? Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 05:24, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
The article on William Thomas Beckford, the son of the man you mentioned above, says that he inherited a million pounds from his father, so it does seem that his father did, indeed, die a millionaire. Whether he was the first is not indicated. John Barleycorn 06:24, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
The Oxford DNB article on William Thomas Beckford: "His daughter Susan later presented the tower and a plot of his land to Walcot parish and his body, after the land was consecrated, was reinterred there in 1848. Susan inherited the major part of his estate, valued at under £80,000." lots of issues | leave me a message 00:01, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
I am curious as to who first coined the hip-hop phrase "I got my mind on my money and my money on my mind". I have heard it many times, but who can really take credit for such an awesome phrase? --Jake--10:51, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
How can you instert regular jpg's or other filetypes into a LaTeX document?
As I listened to an NPR reporter filing a story from Niger about the famine there, I found myself wondering: How can this guy just report on people dying from hunger, and then go back to a (relatively) cushy hotel room and fool around with his laptop? I understand that journalists can't do much, and really shouldn't do anything, in a war zone. But what about a situation in which his help would so obviously make a difference? Is there some convention on this? 24.125.140.160 14:03, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Actually, there is an unfortunate correlation between the amount of airtime a famine gets on the media, and the amount of international aid given. The aid community is always complaining about journalists 'discovering' famines, and then serious aid arriving. Generally, they cannot be 'discovered' by the media untill people start dying. This leads to the phenomenon of forgotten famines or forgotten wars which are just not covered, so do not receive much in the way of donations.
I agree with both of the above. And chances are, the journalist can make a bigger change by reporting about it so that the world can hear it than they could by spending 24hrs a day feeding people and giving every dime they have to buy food for the starving. It's leverage. Make a big enough noise about it, and more help will arrive. Which is not to say the journalists don't also do everything they can to help while they are there. - Taxman Talk 19:28, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
I am looking for non-porn photos of nude mixed race women for a project, but there is so much porn out there it is impossible to find! Can you help?
I saw what looks like screencaps from a DVD on the Dragnet (drama) page and am wondering if the 2003 Version of Dragnet on is DVD? 66.133.152.242 14:38, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Yes, those are screen captures from DVD. There are some screener copies for Emmy consideration, TV critics, etc. floating around. I know there was a release scheduled for season one a few years ago, but it did't pan out. If you are in the LA area, there are a couple of good used record stores like Heavy Rotation that may have the screeners. FunkyChicken! 14:53, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
A double helix DNA is split into two strands by enzymes in preperation for mRNA templating (protein synthesis). Are all genes mRNA templated on the same strand? Or is the templating done on each strands in a staggered configuration?
If the staggered configuration is correct then what is ment by "sense strand" and "antisense strand". Are these terms used to name an entire DNA strand or just parts of it?
(The Wikipedia lookup for "antisense strand" could be eddited to address these questions.)
scot.parker at abbott dot com
Ok, last LaTeX question I ask -- I promise!
[Cleared first two questions away - answered them myself]
Finally (last!), the titles of my references in the bibliography seem to be set to start with an uppercase and have a lowercase second letter in the title. This is a problem both for a title that starts 'GA experiments...' (--> 'Ga experiments...') and for one that starts '"Niche selection" and..." (--> '"niche selection" and...'). What can I do to override this?
Many thanks!
30 years ago, while travelling in England, I heard two lines from a poem that I gather was commonly learned by English schoolchildren. Each line of the poem mentioned an individual king or queen (the whole poem contained all the English monarchs listed in chronologic order). My recall of the poem yields only the first two lines , which essentially is a good example for the whole: "William the Conqueror long did reign, William his son by an arrow was slain." etc etc. The poem was probably doggerel at best but it was a great way, I gather to know the lineage of English kings and queens. I stumbled upon your website and wonder if you know of the existence of such a poem? kip mackenzie-- 4.169.140.213 18:31, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Someone told me today that if you sneeze a big sneeze, "everything in your body suddenly stops - including your heart." Is this true? Does the heart really stop when you sneeze? If not, what actually happens when you sneeze? Thanks for your help! -- HappyCamper 18:49, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Since Chinese is a tonal lanuage, the same pronounced word can mean different things if it is said in a higher or lower pitch. There's a famous example of this where an entire poem is created of the same word over and over again.
I think that it's plot had something to do with lions, and that the word was translitterated as "shu" or something close to that. But I could easily be wrong.
I originally read this poem and the article about it on Wikipedia, so I know it's here somewhere. I just can't find it.
Anybody know? Thanks, Skylark 18:49, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Can someone give an example in Cantonese of an unaspirated glottal stop described in the chart in the article Standard Cantonese? I'd like to learn what this acutally is with an example. Thanks for your help! -- HappyCamper 19:17, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
The glottal stop is treated as a stop consonant for convenience but in fact it's quite different in articulation. Most stops are produced by making a complete closure between a passive articulator and an active articulator; in the case of oral stops, air pressure builds up between the glottis and the articulation because air is still escaping through the glottis but cannot escape through nose or mouth. With a glottal stop the buildup of air pressure is below the glottis, not above it. It's not possible to produce a voiced glottal stop. The glottal stop is produced by completely shutting the glottis; voiced consonants are produced by letting the vocal folds as air passes through them. If the vocal folds are shut tight, air can't pass through them, so they can't vibrate. A glottal stop also is very different from a canonical voiceless consonant, which is produced with the vocal folds spread wide apart so that they don't vibrate while the air passes through. An aspirated glottal stop is in theory possible (you can release the glottal stop and go straight into an [h] before beginning the vowel sound), but it's not very likely to occur, since aspiration usually results from leaving the vocal folds open after a voiceless consonant before a vowel, and in the glottal stop the folds weren't open to begin with, so they'd have to move from completely closed to completely open to only slightly open (their position for voiced sounds like vowels). -- Angr/ tɔk tə mi 20:04, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
The Wikipedia article titled Charles Hermite said:
An anonymous editor changed "air meet" to "hair meet". Could someone who knows French well comment? Thanks. Michael Hardy 19:49, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
(Besides "recurring character", of course.) This came up in the context of Strong Bad, who has served (in various toons) as a villain, an anti-hero, (upon rare occasion) a hero, a protagonist, an antagonist, and a commentator upon the action.
What to call such a character? "Recurring character" hardly fits such a character, because his appearances are too frequent to fit properly within the implications of those words.
Thanks,
Luc "Somethingorother" French
21:27, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Don't ask how this came up, but...do cross-eyed (or wall-eyed) people see themselves as such when they look at themselves in the mirror? Or does their vision compensate somehow? Mjklin 02:44, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
Wow do you render the word hummus in Greek and Arabic? Neutrality talk 04:46, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
Do you know if this is the official flag of the Creek Nation??? For I have seen another some-what similar flag. Or, is it neither, I am sooooo confused. I am a Creek decedent and trying to research my background. I would also like to purchase “The Official” Flag of the Creek Nation. If you have any answers or info that would prove useful PLEASE e-mail me at memereed02@sbcglobal.net Thank you, Teresa Reed Copied from the help desk. DES 05:25, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
I'm trying to find info about my mothers first husband. In 1957 she was 16 he (Jimmy Rogers)was 56 when they got married, prearranged at the time of her birth. She use to tell me she played the guitar and sang on the radio with him. As far as I know she lived in southern MO.. I'm unable to find any info about a Jimmy Rogers,Country singer around the years of 1957 thru 1960. Can someone help me out? -- HudsonHart 07:41, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
There is this comany in Miami that makes model aircraft and model aircraft parts, everything from desktop models to full size 737 nose sections. I can't remember the name. Help!
This has been bothering me and my father for years. When a fly flies up to the ceiling and sits there, head downwards, does it turn around its length axis or its breadth axis? — JIP | Talk 13:53, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
We always hear that the US GDP growth rate beats the EU's hands down. But the US has much more immigration than the EU, and in the EU people are working fewer and fewer hours. How do they compare when these two factors are taken into account? How do the US and EU compare for GDP growth per person, and per hour worked? 82.82.194.56 16:17, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
There are many Internet map sites that can accept latitude and longitude co-ordinates, and then show you a map of where that place is. How can I do it the other way around? I mean, look at a map, pick one place, and get its latitude and longitude? At the present I have to use trial and error to repeatedly input co-ordinates around the place until I zero in on it. It's very frustrating. — JIP | Talk 17:06, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
do you have any articles on how to remove thistles? I have some stuck in my hand from gardening. Thank you.
Please make sure you sterilise any instruments you use to fish around for pieces, also, some antiseptic ointment on the wound will help reduce the risk of infection.
Can you tell me where the origin of the expression "More tea vicar" came from? thank you.
The oldest animal fossil found is from 600 million years ago during the Precambrian period. They were "soft, cup-shaped animals that lived on a muddy sea floor" [23]. James 20:28, July 31, 2005 (UTC