Pl help me giving me a lead for referencing on "textual analysis as a qualitative method". I appreciate material/references that can explain the process of doing this in relation to mental health,education,sociology especially "how to do this" is also another struggle. Thank you much in advance for help/suggestions. malathi
Does Wikipedia have an article on religious food laws, eg no beef for Hindus, no pork for Muslims, kosher foods for Jews, etc? Some quick searching didn't turn anything up. I think it could be an interesting article if written by the right person, but I want to make sure there's not something like this already out there before I put it on Requested Articles. Garrett Albright 21:44, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Can someone give me パジェロ in Romaji please? Thanks. Chameleon 13:42, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I recently came across an article about Demomotus. According to the article, he was a presocratic Greek philosopher. The article doesn't provide any references however, and it was written by a single user who has only contributed for one day. I also couldn't find anything about Demomotus on google, except for content that (apparently) is mirrored from Wikipedia. I also can't find any references in the index of Plato's complete works, who (according to the article) was influenced by him.
Can anyone who knows more about the subject confirm that this article is not a hoax? Sietse 15:32, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I need to list a document from your web site. I have searched but can't seem to find date of article or any other information for MLA format. The article is Mary Kay Letourneau and I used yahoo as the search engine. It's the first article listed on the yahoo search results. Can you help?? My paper is due tomorrow and I need to do a Work Cited Page.
My e-mail address is jvolz@rider.edu.
Thank you.
Can anyone tell me what glacier this is? I think it might be the Muir Glacier, but I'm not sure. I do know that the cruise ship spent a lot of time letting people look at it. - RedWordSmith 17:51, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I'm sure I've been told before that a computer cannot generate a truly random number. Am I just misremembering? If not, why is it not possible? I've looked at our article on randomness which hasn't helped. --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 02:46, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
It's very hard for a digital computer to generate random numbers (let's not say impossible), and most 'random number generators' are deterministic pseudo random number lists, seeded with a number picked from an analogue source (like key presses, or the voltage on an analogue input line). That is to say that if you know all the variables going on, you can predict what numbers a computer will generate. In the old days this was exploited by computer games, notably Elite for the BBC micro, which had a huge number of planets and descriptions. They weren't stored, but were randomly generated they were always the same because the random number generator was always seeded with the same value, and so always generated the same random universe. Computers are essentially deterministic - they do what they are told (exactly what they are told), and knowing the initial circumstances, they can never surprise us. Mark Richards 03:07, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
You might also want to look up Hardware random number generator. — Matt 11:22, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I've been told that the arrows in the images I've done for Lever are in wrong positions and directions. Can anyone verify so I can make the proper changes? — Kieff | Talk 03:00, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
What's the name and location of a monument that is a huge concrete(?) arch? — Kieff | Talk 06:08, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
Hello, I want to quote a therm from wikipedia how should I do in it APA style? Where can I find necessery information such as author, year, etc? Thank you very much in advance.
Cez
Congratulations to the folks who created, maintain and contribute to wikipedia. I find the content of this encyclopedia absolutely terrific and there is nothing else to my knowledge that match it elsewhere. My question is: is there any way to download the entire wikipedia article library or is it available in a dvd so that someone could use it in a location where internet is not available? This encyclopedia is simply phenomenal.
Thank for the info. I tried to download at the site: http://download.wikimedia.org/ at the "IMAGE AND UPLOADED FILES English wikipedia images and files 20040609_upload.tar.aa but I get an error message that the site is not available. Any special reason?
Since upgrading to Windows XP the drive letters on my HDs and CD Roms are not as they were when I had Windows 98. I would like to change the drive letters, with the exception of C of course, so that they make sense to me.
Thanks so much for your help.
Ross Lambourn. <email address removed>
Try this: Inside explorer rt-click on MyComputer and then choose Manage. A new window appears where you should choose disk managament Then a list of drive appears and right click over the partition you want to change and select "change disk drive letter" Good luck
Hi there. I am doing a print journalism course in college and i have to give a seminar on John Kerry's position on the political compass. I was wondering if John Kerry is right wing or left wing, and why he is considered this?
Also, if you could provide me with some places i could find out more about this.
Thank you so much
my email address is blank
Naomi Klein
It depends entirely on your perspective, and indeed, the whole left/right thing is really not that helpful in modern politics. To the extent that we can say at all, Kerry is probably to the left of Bush on most issues, while both are to the right of virtually every other developed world politician. Intrigue 20:37, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
i am interested in obtaining a video clip on the 1996 olympic opening and closing ceremony. the person peter was a trinidadian artist who created ths costumes for this event and i am doing a speech in class on him. please advise how and where i can obtain a copy of this. this is really important to me. thanks
nadia
I've always been told that certain foods like shellfish and dairy products are more prone to spoilage than other foods like beef, but why is that? Also, if you were to take a piece of spoiled food and cook it to a point where you've killed all the bacteria and microorganisms, could you then eat it with little fear of food poisoning? Cvaneg 18:56, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Food spoilage is caused by bacteria, different bacteria thrive in different environments. Presumably those that like shellfish grow faster than those that like beef.
The answer to you second question is a definite no. When a person is infected by bacteria, there is an incubation time of days or even weeks until they become ill. During this time the bacteria are growing inside them. But food poisoning happens much too fast for that to be the case. There is no incubation time, eating bad food will generally make you ill almost straight away. So obviosly something else is going on and the very name tells you what it is. Bacteria growing inside food produce toxins. You are literally poisoned when you eat the food. Heat will kill the bacteria but will not necessarily destroy the toxins that have already been produced. botulism is the classic example of a very powerful toxin. Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 22:15, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
P.s see our article Foodborne illness for details on this. Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 22:18, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I am the owner of a vase made from a gun shell, it has been machined so that it curves in towards the base, and decorated with a rose and the name Argonne 1918. It is a fired shell, and has a large and small 8 stamped on the bottom and some words I can't read. This "vase" must have taken hours to do, as it not only has the words and rose on it, the bottom portion has been shaped to represent leaves all around, and around the words is what I would call punched work...and the top rim of the vase is crimped. Years ago (over 40) I used to read encyclopedias just because I read everything, and in an obscure/also outdated then encyclopedia I read something about the supply ship Argonne fighting an air battle, or possibly it was the last battle of the Argonne, and I am mistaken about what I was reading after all this time...at any rate it was mentioned that the machinists made vases from the fired shells, to commemorate the end of either the battle aboard the ship or the forest. I have not been able to locate any thing like this since and would really like to know more about the history of the vase. Since if nothing else this vase and the other one that isn't nearly as elaborate were probably done at the same time there is some kind of historical value, if not monetary. Could you give me some kind of idea where to look for more information? Thank you, Sherry
I recently read that Britney Spears is thinking about changing her name to Britney Federline. That got me thinking, how common is it for celebrities (especially actresses, who may have to rely on name recognition) to assume their husband's name, without a hypenated or double name? Can anybody come up with some examples? [[User:Rhymeless| Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 03:07, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hillary Rodham only finally started using "Hillary Rodham Clinton" when her husband decided to run for president. -- Jmabel| Talk 03:44, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
How about Courteney Cox Arquette, who I think may have already gone back to just Courteney Cox. Cvaneg 22:33, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Dang... I'm not sure what happened (probably Opera or my connection messing up) but I ended up erasing a section when I replied yesterday. So, I'm gonna ask again:
I'm building a Tesla Coil. I'd like to keep it on the original design, making the terminal be a torus, instead of a simple metal point or sphere. I have no idea where I could possibly get a hollow metal torus, so I thought I could make one myself. I had an idea for building this using PVC tubes and tinfoil (not sure if this word means exactly what I mean), but I'm not sure if this is safe. As far as I know, it is, but I wanna be sure.
I'd first get a section of a tube of big diameter, and then put several small rings of a smaller diameter tube around this one, in the outside. Then I'd wrap it up with tinfoil several times. This would lead to the hollow metal torus, with a PVC structure inside.
Now, would that be safe, and most important, would that work? Is there a better alternative? — Kieff | Talk 04:36, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
Are there languages where adjectives follow their corresponding nouns rather than precede them (excluding usage in poetry)? -- Sundar 04:40, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
Latin and Greek come immediately to mind and I expect many more. Alteripse 04:48, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, Alteripse and Sarah. -- Sundar 05:20, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
In French, at least, adjectives can have different meanings depending on whether or not they follow the noun. "L'ancien église" is not the same as "L'église ancien" (the former church and the old church, respectively). And some French adjectives have to come before the noun, "un bon homme" for example, never "un homme bon." I'm not sure if that helps, but it's some extra trivia anyway :) Adam Bishop 12:32, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
common than after. If the adjective is before it is called attributive and the adjective is a characteristic that is a personal opinon of the speaking (for example a nice girl in Italian is una bella ragazza). If the adjective is after the noun it is called predicative and the adjective is taking about a characteristic that is an objective description (for example a green grass is in Italian un prato verde and a sunny day is una giornata soleggiata AnyFile 15:21, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
While we are at it, some languages does not have a general rule for order of words. Polish language is one of them. Thus no order is invalid, it might be at most clumsy. Thus zielony autobus (green bus), and autobus zielony (bus green) are both correct, but most will say that first example sounds better. But some substantial amount of pairs sounds better with adjectives after nouns e.g. masło śmietankowe (butter creamy) jajko sadzone (egg over-easy), komputer osobisty (computer personal), Orzeł Biały (eagle white). Generally it depends on what is viewed as important in the pair, and this will go first. Przepla 12:56, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is there an article where we discuss word order across languages? Or would one have to look language-by-language to find this out? -- Jmabel | Talk 23:34, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
Please post further discussions here User_talk:Sundar#Fundamental_characteristic.28s.29_of_all_human_languages or here User_talk:Sundar#Unique_characteristic.28s.29_of_each_human_language. -- Sundar 08:38, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)
I'm seeking info, especially the author and date, of a short story I recall reading in one of my World Lit classes entitled The American School. It took place at a school operated by the Americans in occupied post-war Japan; I believe Japanese teachers were touring it and seeing how the Americans ran things, but there was obviously a lot of tension in the air. Googling "The American School" does little good, as it mostly returns references to actual schools abroad... even adding "Japan" and "short story" to the query doesn't help. :( Garrett Albright 06:51, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I posted this question on the Star-Spangled Banner talk page a while ago, but nobody has come up with an answer. Here goes again:
The date on which the Star-Spangled Banner was officially designated the National Anthem of the USA (March 3, 1931) often turns up in reference works. But before then, was there an official US national anthem, and if so, what was it? If not, what would have been played on appropriate occasions? JackofOz 06:55, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I am doing a report on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and I found your article very helpful. I want to use it as part of my "Works Cited" and I'm not sure how to write a Bibliography for this. Can you help me?
Thank you Tyler Chapman, 6th Grade student Classical Academy, Escondido, California
Is there a site where I can go that tells me which candidate my views most closely align with on the basis of the positions I state on various issues (as in a multiple-choice format)? -- Gelu_Ignisque
Pl help me giving me a lead for referencing on "textual analysis as a qualitative method". I appreciate material/references that can explain the process of doing this in relation to mental health,education,sociology especially "how to do this" is also another struggle. Thank you much in advance for help/suggestions. malathi
Does Wikipedia have an article on religious food laws, eg no beef for Hindus, no pork for Muslims, kosher foods for Jews, etc? Some quick searching didn't turn anything up. I think it could be an interesting article if written by the right person, but I want to make sure there's not something like this already out there before I put it on Requested Articles. Garrett Albright 21:44, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Can someone give me パジェロ in Romaji please? Thanks. Chameleon 13:42, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I recently came across an article about Demomotus. According to the article, he was a presocratic Greek philosopher. The article doesn't provide any references however, and it was written by a single user who has only contributed for one day. I also couldn't find anything about Demomotus on google, except for content that (apparently) is mirrored from Wikipedia. I also can't find any references in the index of Plato's complete works, who (according to the article) was influenced by him.
Can anyone who knows more about the subject confirm that this article is not a hoax? Sietse 15:32, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I need to list a document from your web site. I have searched but can't seem to find date of article or any other information for MLA format. The article is Mary Kay Letourneau and I used yahoo as the search engine. It's the first article listed on the yahoo search results. Can you help?? My paper is due tomorrow and I need to do a Work Cited Page.
My e-mail address is jvolz@rider.edu.
Thank you.
Can anyone tell me what glacier this is? I think it might be the Muir Glacier, but I'm not sure. I do know that the cruise ship spent a lot of time letting people look at it. - RedWordSmith 17:51, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I'm sure I've been told before that a computer cannot generate a truly random number. Am I just misremembering? If not, why is it not possible? I've looked at our article on randomness which hasn't helped. --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 02:46, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
It's very hard for a digital computer to generate random numbers (let's not say impossible), and most 'random number generators' are deterministic pseudo random number lists, seeded with a number picked from an analogue source (like key presses, or the voltage on an analogue input line). That is to say that if you know all the variables going on, you can predict what numbers a computer will generate. In the old days this was exploited by computer games, notably Elite for the BBC micro, which had a huge number of planets and descriptions. They weren't stored, but were randomly generated they were always the same because the random number generator was always seeded with the same value, and so always generated the same random universe. Computers are essentially deterministic - they do what they are told (exactly what they are told), and knowing the initial circumstances, they can never surprise us. Mark Richards 03:07, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
You might also want to look up Hardware random number generator. — Matt 11:22, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I've been told that the arrows in the images I've done for Lever are in wrong positions and directions. Can anyone verify so I can make the proper changes? — Kieff | Talk 03:00, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
What's the name and location of a monument that is a huge concrete(?) arch? — Kieff | Talk 06:08, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
Hello, I want to quote a therm from wikipedia how should I do in it APA style? Where can I find necessery information such as author, year, etc? Thank you very much in advance.
Cez
Congratulations to the folks who created, maintain and contribute to wikipedia. I find the content of this encyclopedia absolutely terrific and there is nothing else to my knowledge that match it elsewhere. My question is: is there any way to download the entire wikipedia article library or is it available in a dvd so that someone could use it in a location where internet is not available? This encyclopedia is simply phenomenal.
Thank for the info. I tried to download at the site: http://download.wikimedia.org/ at the "IMAGE AND UPLOADED FILES English wikipedia images and files 20040609_upload.tar.aa but I get an error message that the site is not available. Any special reason?
Since upgrading to Windows XP the drive letters on my HDs and CD Roms are not as they were when I had Windows 98. I would like to change the drive letters, with the exception of C of course, so that they make sense to me.
Thanks so much for your help.
Ross Lambourn. <email address removed>
Try this: Inside explorer rt-click on MyComputer and then choose Manage. A new window appears where you should choose disk managament Then a list of drive appears and right click over the partition you want to change and select "change disk drive letter" Good luck
Hi there. I am doing a print journalism course in college and i have to give a seminar on John Kerry's position on the political compass. I was wondering if John Kerry is right wing or left wing, and why he is considered this?
Also, if you could provide me with some places i could find out more about this.
Thank you so much
my email address is blank
Naomi Klein
It depends entirely on your perspective, and indeed, the whole left/right thing is really not that helpful in modern politics. To the extent that we can say at all, Kerry is probably to the left of Bush on most issues, while both are to the right of virtually every other developed world politician. Intrigue 20:37, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
i am interested in obtaining a video clip on the 1996 olympic opening and closing ceremony. the person peter was a trinidadian artist who created ths costumes for this event and i am doing a speech in class on him. please advise how and where i can obtain a copy of this. this is really important to me. thanks
nadia
I've always been told that certain foods like shellfish and dairy products are more prone to spoilage than other foods like beef, but why is that? Also, if you were to take a piece of spoiled food and cook it to a point where you've killed all the bacteria and microorganisms, could you then eat it with little fear of food poisoning? Cvaneg 18:56, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Food spoilage is caused by bacteria, different bacteria thrive in different environments. Presumably those that like shellfish grow faster than those that like beef.
The answer to you second question is a definite no. When a person is infected by bacteria, there is an incubation time of days or even weeks until they become ill. During this time the bacteria are growing inside them. But food poisoning happens much too fast for that to be the case. There is no incubation time, eating bad food will generally make you ill almost straight away. So obviosly something else is going on and the very name tells you what it is. Bacteria growing inside food produce toxins. You are literally poisoned when you eat the food. Heat will kill the bacteria but will not necessarily destroy the toxins that have already been produced. botulism is the classic example of a very powerful toxin. Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 22:15, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
P.s see our article Foodborne illness for details on this. Theresa Knott (The torn steak) 22:18, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I am the owner of a vase made from a gun shell, it has been machined so that it curves in towards the base, and decorated with a rose and the name Argonne 1918. It is a fired shell, and has a large and small 8 stamped on the bottom and some words I can't read. This "vase" must have taken hours to do, as it not only has the words and rose on it, the bottom portion has been shaped to represent leaves all around, and around the words is what I would call punched work...and the top rim of the vase is crimped. Years ago (over 40) I used to read encyclopedias just because I read everything, and in an obscure/also outdated then encyclopedia I read something about the supply ship Argonne fighting an air battle, or possibly it was the last battle of the Argonne, and I am mistaken about what I was reading after all this time...at any rate it was mentioned that the machinists made vases from the fired shells, to commemorate the end of either the battle aboard the ship or the forest. I have not been able to locate any thing like this since and would really like to know more about the history of the vase. Since if nothing else this vase and the other one that isn't nearly as elaborate were probably done at the same time there is some kind of historical value, if not monetary. Could you give me some kind of idea where to look for more information? Thank you, Sherry
I recently read that Britney Spears is thinking about changing her name to Britney Federline. That got me thinking, how common is it for celebrities (especially actresses, who may have to rely on name recognition) to assume their husband's name, without a hypenated or double name? Can anybody come up with some examples? [[User:Rhymeless| Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 03:07, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hillary Rodham only finally started using "Hillary Rodham Clinton" when her husband decided to run for president. -- Jmabel| Talk 03:44, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
How about Courteney Cox Arquette, who I think may have already gone back to just Courteney Cox. Cvaneg 22:33, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Dang... I'm not sure what happened (probably Opera or my connection messing up) but I ended up erasing a section when I replied yesterday. So, I'm gonna ask again:
I'm building a Tesla Coil. I'd like to keep it on the original design, making the terminal be a torus, instead of a simple metal point or sphere. I have no idea where I could possibly get a hollow metal torus, so I thought I could make one myself. I had an idea for building this using PVC tubes and tinfoil (not sure if this word means exactly what I mean), but I'm not sure if this is safe. As far as I know, it is, but I wanna be sure.
I'd first get a section of a tube of big diameter, and then put several small rings of a smaller diameter tube around this one, in the outside. Then I'd wrap it up with tinfoil several times. This would lead to the hollow metal torus, with a PVC structure inside.
Now, would that be safe, and most important, would that work? Is there a better alternative? — Kieff | Talk 04:36, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
Are there languages where adjectives follow their corresponding nouns rather than precede them (excluding usage in poetry)? -- Sundar 04:40, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
Latin and Greek come immediately to mind and I expect many more. Alteripse 04:48, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, Alteripse and Sarah. -- Sundar 05:20, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
In French, at least, adjectives can have different meanings depending on whether or not they follow the noun. "L'ancien église" is not the same as "L'église ancien" (the former church and the old church, respectively). And some French adjectives have to come before the noun, "un bon homme" for example, never "un homme bon." I'm not sure if that helps, but it's some extra trivia anyway :) Adam Bishop 12:32, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
common than after. If the adjective is before it is called attributive and the adjective is a characteristic that is a personal opinon of the speaking (for example a nice girl in Italian is una bella ragazza). If the adjective is after the noun it is called predicative and the adjective is taking about a characteristic that is an objective description (for example a green grass is in Italian un prato verde and a sunny day is una giornata soleggiata AnyFile 15:21, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
While we are at it, some languages does not have a general rule for order of words. Polish language is one of them. Thus no order is invalid, it might be at most clumsy. Thus zielony autobus (green bus), and autobus zielony (bus green) are both correct, but most will say that first example sounds better. But some substantial amount of pairs sounds better with adjectives after nouns e.g. masło śmietankowe (butter creamy) jajko sadzone (egg over-easy), komputer osobisty (computer personal), Orzeł Biały (eagle white). Generally it depends on what is viewed as important in the pair, and this will go first. Przepla 12:56, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is there an article where we discuss word order across languages? Or would one have to look language-by-language to find this out? -- Jmabel | Talk 23:34, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)
Please post further discussions here User_talk:Sundar#Fundamental_characteristic.28s.29_of_all_human_languages or here User_talk:Sundar#Unique_characteristic.28s.29_of_each_human_language. -- Sundar 08:38, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)
I'm seeking info, especially the author and date, of a short story I recall reading in one of my World Lit classes entitled The American School. It took place at a school operated by the Americans in occupied post-war Japan; I believe Japanese teachers were touring it and seeing how the Americans ran things, but there was obviously a lot of tension in the air. Googling "The American School" does little good, as it mostly returns references to actual schools abroad... even adding "Japan" and "short story" to the query doesn't help. :( Garrett Albright 06:51, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I posted this question on the Star-Spangled Banner talk page a while ago, but nobody has come up with an answer. Here goes again:
The date on which the Star-Spangled Banner was officially designated the National Anthem of the USA (March 3, 1931) often turns up in reference works. But before then, was there an official US national anthem, and if so, what was it? If not, what would have been played on appropriate occasions? JackofOz 06:55, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I am doing a report on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and I found your article very helpful. I want to use it as part of my "Works Cited" and I'm not sure how to write a Bibliography for this. Can you help me?
Thank you Tyler Chapman, 6th Grade student Classical Academy, Escondido, California
Is there a site where I can go that tells me which candidate my views most closely align with on the basis of the positions I state on various issues (as in a multiple-choice format)? -- Gelu_Ignisque