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Teacher's edition

Hi there, I am a high school teacher I wanted to know if there is teacher's edition of all high school subjects from gr.9-12 in online such as Gr.10 Addison-Wesley Ontario Principles of Mathematics and Gr.11 Nelson University Chemistry? Thanks.

Why do I get the feeling this is just a student looking for an answer key? Probably because that's what it is, huh? -- Phoeba Wright 01:43, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Addison-Wesley seem to have a number of materials online at their website. I doubt any of them are free to access though. And yes, I agree with Phoeba Wright in that this looks like a student looking for free answers due to the minimal use of punctuation and the run-on sentence. Dismas| 02:18, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

If you really are a school teacher, the head of your department should have given you all the information to access necessary materials, and print copies as well. If there for some reason was an online site that had teacher's editions in PDF, they would surely be leaked all over the internet by now.--GTPoompt 12:22, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

May I warn you against using online cheat sites? A fair number of my students have discovered a cheat site with all the answers to their vocabulary textbook; the problem is that many of the answers on the cheat site are incorrect. In the long run, you'll find it more useful to master the material, anyway. -FisherQueen (Talk) 13:02, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

If you really are a teacher, the publishing company should have supplied a teacher edition for every class that uses the student edition. If they failed to do this, or if copies have gone missing, your school's purchasing office should get the publisher to provide copies. On the other hand, if you are a student, the easiest way to get in trouble for plagiarism would be to use answers from the teacher edition. Teachers will be familiar with these answers and will instantly know where you found them. Marco polo 17:39, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I think you're right, phoeba wright. The question sounds alot like a students doing. :D

Energy efficient vacuum cleaners

I purchased a secondhand vacuum cleaner recently. Apparently it was made at a time when environmentalism was popular, because it's plastered with claims about how energy efficient it is. Among other statements is a rather prominent one of "Cleaning effectiveness = 17.5 per amp". It's clearly an incomplete statement (17.5 whats per amp?), but what I want to know is is there an actual standard for measuring cleaning effectiveness, or is this just an empty marketing claim? --67.185.172.158 02:59, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

This may help: . Rmhermen 05:01, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Yea, is that a method for rating which vacuum cleaner sucks the most ? StuRat 07:07, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Who is on the wrong side of the road

Hello and good day. I'm E, I had people at work who try to get me. It starts some months ago when I asked a co-worker out and got rejected. Not too soon after that she and her friend start to make complants about me been stalking and following her. For I have been explant to the boss what had happened. The boss tell me keep my mouth shut and stay away from her when she around. But the shits keep come back at me, such as takling to in the lift, ask her qustions, ask how she doing,etc. Slways she make a move, and I step back. For poeple like me are victom or not? I feel been bully at workplace and harass by my co-works and my boss!

We cannot answer legal questions, and we cannot give you advice on a matter like this. Her side of the story might be completely different from yours, and she may see herself as the victim here. I'd suggest you talk to someone you know (female, preferably - a relative perhaps?) and ask them if your body language, way of communicating, how close you stand to people, etc. could make someone nervous. --Charlene 06:42, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

You should speak to people in the know. Either your union, if you're in one, or your HR department. Failing either of those, I believe Australia (Your IP is Australian) has a Citizen's Advice Bureau which, if it's anything like the British equivalent, will freely help you as they will have volunteers in many disciplines and they are in a much better place to help. --Phydaux 16:01, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I would follow your boss's advice and stay away from her. If she is in the lift, don't get in, take the stairs or wait for the next one. If she gets in and you are already inside, get off on that floor and take the next lift or the stairs. Don't give her any opportunity to accuse you of inappropriate behavior. If she says "hi" while passing, say "hi" back but keep walking. If you are headed to your car and she is in the parking lot, go back inside and wait until she drives away. Bring your lunch and eat at your desk so you won't run into her in the break room or cafeteria. StuRat 06:56, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Combo Lock on Luggage

For anyone who has a eurolite hardside luggage set can the combo locks on those things be disabled so they do not lock.--logger 08:33, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Name of the Game?

I remember in the early 90's playing a computer animated game - it involved a grubby looking bank robber in a mask covering the eyes and a gun in the hand. He traveled from country to country, sometimes disguised. Several clues were given which helped the player identify the country. Once the country was identifyed, you were asked a question to which you had to answer before you could qualify to the next level. The countries involved were Japan - Tokyo, Singapore, India - New Delhi, Belize, etc. etc. This was a game I played during the time of windows 3.1!

Does anyone remember this game? How do I get hold of this to play on my computer? I am keeping my fingars crossed!!!

Thanks in advance for helping me.

Dru.

That reminds me of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. 152.16.188.111 09:46, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

That was my first thought too - especially with countries the OP mentioned. Icthyos 10:52, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Writing questions and answers for that game was one of the many ways I financed my education! Marco polo 17:30, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Way cool. I would have loved doing that. (Then again, maybe it's best that I didn't, or all the answers would point to Monkeys Eyebrow, Kentucky and Dildo, Newfoundland, etc.) StuRat 06:29, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

word question III

Sorry about all the trouble I have caused, but I have decided not to bother with a word that means something both ways. However I do still need to know one thing. If I were to write a word so that placing a mirror across the last letter, it formed another word in the mirror, and I wanted to be able to read this word without it appearing backwards, is there any way of writing an e so it looks right both ways? If it helps, the way I am writing it means there will probably have to be a line under the e, that can be incorporated into it.

So can anyone suggest ways of doing this, or point me to a website, or give me any advice. Or tell me it is impossible if it is.

Try the external links in our article Ambigram. Making mirror ambigrams with the letter "e" is pretty hard - a rotational one is often easier, because an upside down "e" looks just like an "a". Laïka 10:10, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

So it can't be done then? I don't want it to be an a. Anyone else got any advice? Anything?

Sorry, the problem is that I want it to be a differnt word when looked at the other way. I considered rotational ambigrams, but then there were even more letters that I couldn't get to work.

What I have are two words, one of which is the other spelt backwards. And I want to arrange them one after the other, so the first letter of one is the same as the last letter of the other, and so they look like a mirror reflection. But then some lwtters would be the wrong way around. Are there any ways of writing letters so they look the same both ways?

With somewhat standard block letters, there are only a handful that appear the same in mirror images, e.g. W, T, Y, U, I, O, etc. A creative talent such as Scott Kim can probably create an ambigram out of many words containing other letters; you might want to look at the sites linked from the article about Kim to see if you get any ideas. --LarryMac | Talk 15:03, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I've figured it out now. I used part of an L to turn the e into an E on one side. It sort of works.

colour

Does anyone know any dramatic, interesting and mostly blue ways of colouring in letters?

Are we talking paint, crayon, chalk, or computer? Bielle 17:35, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

computer.

Mostly blue? That limits your options. Perhaps try using gradient or texturize your colored text with bubbles or something. --GTPoompt 20:27, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

If you are thinking of using it on wikipedia, try the following <span style="Text-decoration:blink"><font color="Blue">Hello</font></span>, which produces, Hello. Make sure to view this with Mozilla.
--Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 20:34, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Blink tags are evil. Evil I tells ya! Ever see an entire page filled with rapidly blinking text? If so, you'd think that they were evil too... ;) --Kurt Shaped Box 21:34, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

OOps, Sorry about that. I only saw the preview for what I wrote, not for what came after. Bielle 21:54, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I kinda like this >example< (idea stolen from another user's signature, as some of you can probably easily tell). ---Sluzzelin talk 02:02, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Nuclear Weapons exploding

If a Nuclear ICBM was armed and flying through the air towards its target, and suddenly it just falls out of the air (maybe the fuel somehow leaked out), and it falls to the ground, will it explode? As well, if you were to shoot down a ICBM with a missile, will the ICBM detonate? Lastly, if you have a nuclear weapons storage facility with say, 10 nukes and one was to accidently explode, will it set off the other nukes even if they are not armed? Thanks. 74.14.72.155 21:08, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Nuclear weapons have normal explosives and then the nuclear part. In all of these cases, the normal explosives *might* go off, and the nuclear part will almost certainly *not* go off. A big part of the engineering for these devices is to make sure they don't go off unless they're supposed to. Indeed, quite a number of weapons *have* fallen out of the sky for various reasons, and none has ever had a nuclear detonation. See List of military nuclear accidents. --TotoBaggins 21:22, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Yep, the nukes need to be set off in a *very* specific manner. Dropping them from height, setting them on fire or blowing up something next to them won't work - that'll just break the bomb and maybe scatter a bit of radioactive material in the immediate area. --Kurt Shaped Box 21:33, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

How must the nukes be properly exploded? As well, if the nuke was already armed and flying towards its target, is there something that it has to do to successfully detonate? Otherwise, I don't see why shooting it out of the sky would not detonate the nuclear weapon.74.14.72.155 22:03, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Wade through this article: Nuclear weapon design and then come back with further questions, if any. --Tagishsimon (talk)

As I understand it (and I'm not an expert), the warhead(s) is only actually primed very shortly before detonation. Take a look at Nuclear weapon design for the mechanics of 'make bomb go boom'. --Kurt Shaped Box 22:17, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

(after ec) In short, very precise conditions are required to achieve nuclear fission. Nearby missle explosions, bullet impacts, or ground collisions do not constitute "very precise conditions". For that matter, even most conventional munitions aren't like gasoline -- they're highly stable unless properly and precisely triggered. End result? Nukes (and most bombs) explode only when their fuses trigger them. "Armed", for that matter, is really only the removal of the first safeguard (the fuse is allowed to trigger). It doesn't make the bomb proper any more unstable than it would be if unarmed. — Lomn 22:19, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Look at this image as an example of a primitive nuclear safety device. The space in which the plutonium needs to become supercritically squeezed is full of ball bearings. There is *no way* you're going to get a bang out of that. Before dropping a bomb like this, the flight crew would pull the plug and drain the BBs out. It's easy to imagine modern weapons having a variety of devices on the same principle.

For example, an ICBM could have a plug of strong neutron-absorbing material like cadmium in the middle of the nuclear pit area that is only retracted when the following sequence has occurred: 1) the permissive action link codes have been entered properly, 2) the warhead has experience enormous g forces associated with launch, 3) the altimeter has indicated that the warhead has reached 100km, 4) the gyroscope has indicated that the warhead has been inverted, 5) the microphone has heard the song "We'll Meet Again".

You can have multiple layers of these sorts of guards, making the devices very, very safe. The main thing you need to understand is that nuclear material is not a normal explosive. "Accidentally" setting it off is about as likely as an automobile crash "accidentally" compressing a solid sphere of steel in your trunk to 10% of its original size, perfectly symmetrically, in less time than it takes a bullet to leave the barrel of a gun and hit something 5 feet away (literally! that's why they abandoned the Thin Man design). If you're really interested in this area, I can't recommend Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb highly enough. --TotoBaggins 22:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Now we told terrorists how to make a nuke, why not tell them how to make chemical and germ weapons as well. ARE YOU GUYS NUTS ?! IF there IS another "9-11", worse than that, Misplaced Pages will be investigated by the Dept. of Homeland Security for any complicity in said terrorist attacks. 65.173.105.4 22:50, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

If you think this is at all secret, you're kidding yourself. We're living in a world where the bad guys have big bad weapons too, they're just deciding whether they should and could use them or not. Always look on the bright side of life -- Phoeba Wright 22:55, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

And if you liked wikipedia's "How to make a Nuclear Bomb", you'll LOVE Category:Chemical weapons. After all, as Ben Franklyn put it, "Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither". --Tagishsimon (talk)

I have to agree with Feba. You don't have to go to wikipedia to found out how to make a nuclear bond. By the way, aren't we getting off the subject. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 22:59, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Speaking of off subject, anyone wanna go put disposable cups in gasoline? -- Phoeba Wright 23:00, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

The hardest part about make a nuke is getting the material that goes inside it. Once a terrorist has that then you are already in big, big trouble. Which is why most safeguard regimes and anti-proliferation attention is towards keeping materials safe, not about keeping things secret. Fortunately enriched uranium and plutonium are not the easiest things to procure, even for a nation-state — but there is a lot of both out there in the world, and in some places (Russia, Kazakhstan) it is not kept under optimally safe conditions. Which is actually quite scary. --24.147.86.187 00:53, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

To the anonymous poster who thinks a genie can be put back in the bottle, you might also be interested in: Los Alamos Primer (an A-bomb howto published by the US Federal Government in 1965), and Hydrogen bomb#The Progressive case (an H-bomb howto from public sources). You can't uninvent these things, unfortunately, and the only political means we have to eliminate them is both ignored and actively undermined by the world's nuclear powers. Don't buy any green bananas. --TotoBaggins 23:21, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Buy a cylinder of chlorine gas. Open the valve. --Carnildo 22:55, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

But going back to my first question, I still don't see why a nuke would not explode if it was shot (but not destroyed) out of the sky and landed with all its parts intact. Before the nuke was launched the ball bearings and safetyguards would be all removed and while it's in the air, the sensors will meet all the requirements that TotoBaggins said. What difference is there that allows the nuke to explode if it hits its desired target as opposed to falling short of its target destination? Thanks once again. 65.93.162.165 00:41, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

It depends how "smart" you assume the warhead is. If it is a very sophisticated one whose firing circuit is linked to the right values from its altimeter and GPS and etc. then it won't tell itself to go off and thus you won't get a full-fledged nuclear explosion. If you assume it is a little "dumber", i.e. not high-tech computer wizardry, then it is not that hard to imagine it going off anyway. --24.147.86.187 00:53, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

A number of nukes have fallen out of the sky accidentally. None have ever resulted in a full-fledged nuclear explosion — for the reasons explained above (all modern nukes are safe from that; even the most unsafe early nukes were primed just before being dropped in order to reduce the chance of an accident). However in a few cases the high-explosives used within the nuke detonated, making a reasonably-large (in human terms, not nuke terms) explosion and shooting a bunch of plutonium into the area that they went off — your own, do-it-at-home, multi-million dollar "dirty bomb" or radiological weapon. The worst case of this that I know of was the Palomares H-Bomb Incident (which is an article title begging to be renamed something more official sounding). There are a few other examples of things like this on List of military nuclear accidents; the other one I find most interesting after Palomares is when in 1958 a bomber accidentally dropped its payload in a South Carolina suburb (in that case the explosives did not detonate, but some of the material still got spread around). --24.147.86.187 00:48, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I was refering to nuclear ICBM's. 65.93.162.165 00:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

The point is that not only do the safeties mentioned above have to be disabled, but in addition, the different charges of high explosive have to detonate simultaneously or there won't be a nuclear explosion. And the only thing that will detonate them simultaneously is the missile's fuse system, which of course is designed to activate only when the missile reaches its target. If the missile "thinks" it has reached it, or if the fuse was somehow made to fire when it shouldn't, then yes there would be a nuclear blast; otherwise, at most you get the results already described. --Anonymous, May 31, 2007, 1,379 minutes to midnight, 01:01 (UTC).

AFAIK, modern missiles contain computer technology that only primes the warhead very shortly before it reaches its intended target area. I think that they even have inbuilt self-destruct mechanisms these days that can be remotely triggered, destroying the missile and the nuke without detonating it, should the decision to abort the attack be taken after launch. --Kurt Shaped Box 01:02, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

It's actually quite difficult to get a full nuclear explosion. It requires getting all the nuclear fuel packed in together very quickly. One way to do this is with a spherical conventional explosive charge that compacts it into an empty sphere. The speed must be extremely quick or else you will get a low level chain reaction when it is somewhat compacted, which will only be enough to blow the nuclear fuel away from itself and prevent any further fission. This type of "fizzle" seems likely what happened in North Korea's recent nuclear test. Having a uniform charge is also critical, as a non-symmetrical charge will also fizzle. StuRat 03:41, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

May 31

wii spiderman 3

hey, i have the spiderman 3 game for the wii, and i have been looking around for the spider symbols all around manhattan and i haven't been able to find one. I would just like to know if anyone can help me in that, and if anyone has already found them all, what is the surprise?

Misplaced Pages is not a guide. Check gamefaqs -- Phoeba Wright 02:25, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

WWII lighthouses

A question which I hope someone here might be able to answer... Dunring World War II, blackout conditions were enforced in many countries (stringent ones in the UK in particular). No house lights, no streetlights... but what about lighthouses? On one hand, they'd have been perfect navigational beacons for enemy aircraft, but on the other, extinguishing them would have been hazardous to all shipping, both enemy and friendly. How was this situation dealt with - were lighthouses lit or not? Thanks in advance for any answers. Grutness...wha? 06:16, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

A Google search on "lighthouses", "blackout", and "ww2" produces the answer in the first two hits. (There are lots of variations on that search possible, of course; that was just the first one I tried.) The answer is, some were blacked out, and some were not. Presumably the decision would depend on the particular risks at each location. By the way, this question would have been on-topic for the Humanities reference desk. --Anonymous, May 31, 2007, 06:41 (UTC).

In Norway, common practise was that harbour managers in major port cities along the coast controlled lighthouses close by. Lighthouses were nearly always turned on to aid friendly convoys, off otherwise. 81.93.102.185 17:06, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Likely hood of realistic androids and gynoids?

This kinda fits into both science and computing, so I figured i'd put it here. About when will robots be able to pass themselves as humans, such as in any number of sci-fi, kinda leaning towards Chobits or A.I., past the uncanny valley, and able to converse fairly realistically (at least a low highschool grade level)? And when will these be availble at realistic costs, around the cost of a car nowadays? -- Phoeba Wright 06:22, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps they're already passing for human ... how could you tell? Dum dum DUM! Neil (►) 09:59, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I believe ASIMO is pretty much how far our so called robots have reached in intelligence. From what I think, it's a stupid robot compared to the ones in tv shows and such. We would still need to develop a sort of AI that can create it's own logic, or somehow be programmed for infinite possibilites since interacting with humans is random, at best. Looks like ASIMO is 166,000 USD/year for rent. As for when? I think sometime in the next 20 or 30 years, but your guess is as good as mine.--GTPoompt 12:40, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

There seems little point in creating robots that are only as good as humans at doing stuff. It's a whole lot cheaper and more useful to build specialist robots that can do one thing better or more efficiently than a human, whether it's washing your dishes or mowing your lawn. There is only one area in which making lifelike robots is economical, and that is proceeding by leaps and bounds.--Shantavira| 13:25, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that's true, there's plenty of markets for realistic robots. Maids, nannies, caretakers for the elderly, companionship for the lonely, and in general, just something people will be expected to have, even if they don't really need them, like cars or a TV. I'm more looking for professional opinions/articles on when this would be probable, though -- Phoeba Wright 19:26, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I would expect development of such bots to stop at the lip of the uncanny valley. —Tamfang 01:03, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

A.I. is taking a lot longer than people expected it to, and robots that can reliably interact with the difficulties and unpredictabilities of physical reality still seem quite some time off, though in the last decade or so some big jumps have been made. As for cost, I think the price of a car is probably about right, maybe cheaper depending on the constituent parts, assuming you are mass-producing them and not building them as one-off, two-off models. --24.147.86.187 13:48, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

What you are asking about is a robot that can pass the Turing test. I doubt that there will be many such robots ever, because although it may be useful to have a robot on the far side of uncanny valley, having one that can pass pass for human is pretty pointless; besides, as robots become more humanlike, people will learn to be better able to tell robots and humans apart. — Daniel 03:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

ASIMO is preprogrammed to walk, isn't it? I remember seeing ASIMO and another robot on a program, and the other robot has the ability to learn stuff on its own. For example, if you were to delete its walking program, it can relearn it through trial and error, much like a baby. Anyone know of this robot? I'm not sure how much else the robot can do, but still, that's pretty impressive to me. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 19:23, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

The one I saw on the program wasn't as small as Pino, a robot that can also learn to walk, and it was developed by a group that spoke English, as they had no translators during the program. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 19:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Architecture

Where does it fit in to Ref Desk enquiries I wonder. Anyway, does anyone know who designed the Ministry of Transport building here in Tbilisi, Georgia: Thanks Mhicaoidh 10:43, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Georgy Chakhava, according to this new york times article. "Mr. Chakhava was not only an architect but also the minister of highway construction. As such, he was not just his own client; he could also hand-pick the project’s site." ---Sluzzelin talk 12:47, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

extended lifecycle of food products

could you please help me to understand what the title of this homework means: "list products that have had their lifecycles extended ie mars bars" --89.240.86.145 13:53, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Question slightly refactored. Answer: it's not a very good question, for the reason that it is ambiguous in nature. Taking the example cited, it is (to me, at least) unlikely that mars bars have had their lifecycle extended. A mars bar is a chocolate & toffee based confection, which without modification will probably last for months and years. Breaking the question down, it could be asking about a couple of things - list products which have a longer shelf life (i.e. longer period in which the product is usable) as a result of some process which extends the life (like canning fruit, ultra-heat-treated milk). Or it could be asking about products which in recent times have achieved longer shelf lives as a result of recent innovations (e.g. selling sandwiches in containers filled with inert gases, or the use of carbon dioxide gas, bacteriocin production, high-pressure, pulsed electric fields and irradiation to increase the shelf life of milk.) I'd advise you to answer the question by setting out the two possible branches of answer, and then illustrate each as I've done. You may find a google search on extending shelf life of milk and more generally on extending shelf life useful. --Tagishsimon (talk)

Oh boy! You have a problem with the setter of this question. I can't think of any way that Mars Bars have had their life extended. Extension comes primarily from promotion, based on either a real or perceived improvement. i.e. Soap power brands gained extended life through adding blue pieces of bleach, perfume, etc. But the Mars Bar hasn't changed. The Mars Bar Brand, however, has been extended... into Easter Eggs, mini-bars, ice cream and so on. You must define your terms (and hope that whoever set this question is smarter and fairer than it would seem). (p.s. Not a snide comment. Have been examiner for 20 years and this question is awful.)86.202.156.187 14:59, 31 May 2007 (UTC)petitmichel

Good catch. In which case Product life cycle management won't help you much, but it is at least in the right area. --Tagishsimon (talk)

word(s)?

What is it called when someone does something to get people to notice them. I think it begins with p. HS7 14:17, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

• pestering?
• Self-promotion? --Tagishsimon (talk)

Pose, as in poser ?86.202.156.187 14:51, 31 May 2007 (UTC)petitmichel

"Grandstanding"? Bielle 15:43, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

"Peacocking" would also be a possibility. Friday (talk) 16:25, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Posing, preening, posturing, or pretence/pretension? Neil (►) 17:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Publicity stunt?

Politics?

Atlant 20:01, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Peeing in Public? Thats 2Ps for the price of one!

As per Neil above, "posturing" and "preening" would both fit. I'd be inclined to go with "posturing". In yesterday's Times newspaper, columnist Matthew Syed described Graham Poll, the controversial football referee who is now retiring, as "preening" and "pouting"; if you read the article (see here), Syed certainly holds the view that Poll is somebody who often "does something to get people to notice" him! Hassocks5489 08:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Spelling Bee Protests

BBC News currently has a intriguing quote which it claims comes from protesters outside a spelling bee - however, I can't find anything, either on the BBC or through a Google News search, which explains why people would be protesting over a simple spelling competition. Can anyone shed some light on this story? Laïka 14:34, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

An article from 2004 regarding this "fenomenon". --LarryMac | Talk 14:40, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Spelling Reform -- Phoeba Wright 20:51, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Wiki Markup

In and other versions you can download Misplaced Pages, what I'm wondering is: where is a list of the markup (stuff like <foo>bar</foo>), and there function, that, I've heard but not seen, gets used? Thanks, Jeffrey.Kleykamp 14:34, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I found something, is the markup used in the download the same as this: Wiki markup? Jeffrey.Kleykamp 14:41, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Are you talking about HTML? Neil (►) 17:04, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

No, I heard that the all files in the link are all text files with extra markup in between. Jeffrey.Kleykamp 18:44, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

The database dumps use XML. I'm not sure if there's a schema document for it or not, but it's pretty self-explanatory. --Carnildo 23:01, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Location of image

Can someone help me identify this building?

That's quite the building. Can you tell us what city and/or country it is located in? That information will help us narrow it down, as well as encourage people with the appropriate, specialized knowledge to click through. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

To my untrained eye, the writing on the boat looks like it could be in Arabic, suggesting a Middle Eastern or North African location. Rockpocket 18:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Or Farsi (Iran) or Urdu (Pakistan). Marco polo 19:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I just asked some friends in an IRC chat who reside all over the world. The general consensus is that it's probably in Thailand. This is deduced from the type of building and the dragon on the side of the boat. However, being from Tunisia or Morocco is just as likely. JoshHolloway 20:33, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

My eye is even more untrained in respect of languages, but my immediate thought on viewing the picture was "Thailand". I did spend some time there and something about what little we can see of the writing on the boat suggests Thai lettering to me. Bielle 04:36, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm not convinced that there's enough resolution to say for sure that the marking on the stern is writing, but if it is, I agree with Rockpocket that it's most likely Arabic script (which, as Marco points out, is also used in Iran and Pakistan). I can't absolutely rule out any other script. —Tamfang 05:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

If you are so eager to know, try to post the image in the Science RD. Maybe the vegetation would help narrow down the location. CG 11:47, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I have already tried that scope of investigation, the resolution of the image doesn't appear sufficient to identify vegetation precisely. There is what appears to be at least two Arecaceae species, but they grow through-out the tropics and subtropics. The thin pointy trees are more interesting and I can't identify them. This question is driving me crazy, I'm going to be pissed if we can't get to the bottom of it! Rockpocket 17:29, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

This t-shirt

Is the "Tooth Juice" t-shirt male or female? Thanks, 86.148.185.28 17:21, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

The shirt goes either way from what I can tell. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 17:43, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

The shirts that have straight sides are generally unisex. Girl's t-shirts have a curvature on the side. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 20:20, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Food coloring in water

This may seem a little out there, but: once water has had food coloring put in to change its color, what would one have to add to it to make it appear clear again?--Fyre2387 18:32, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I believe you could try and freeze it or boil it. There's probably nothing that could simply be added would make the water clear, unless it's a very specific sort of food colouring. Neil (►) 19:05, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Bleach will probably remove some colors of food coloring, see here (scroll down to item K912). Just don't drink the water afterward. --LarryMac | Talk 19:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

United States Postal Inspection Service

...is headquartered where? The official link does not give an answer. Scriberius 19:06, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

According to the article's infobox, the headquarters is in Washington, D.C. Marco polo 19:12, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, but I need the address. Scriberius 19:19, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Since the headquarters is supposed to be in Washington, I don't know if this address is correct but I found it on the website.

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS SERVICE CENTER

222 S. RIVERSIDE PLAZA STE 1250

CHICAGO IL 60606-6100

Hope that helps. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 19:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, the C.I.C. is just a branch - isn't the HQ located in Washington, D.C.? A source would be great... -- Scriberius 19:38, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay. Here is a source. Notice that the second person listed in the second panel is the Chief Postal Inspector, head of the US PIS, who is based in Washington. Note the statement of the top post in this thread that US PIS employees are employees in the USPS headquarters. (Admittedly not the most reliable source.) The USPIS is a division of the US Postal Service, as you can see in this organizational chart. Per this document, and other documents on the web, the office of the postmaster general, and USPS headquarters as a whole (including the USPIS) is at 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC 20260. Marco polo 20:13, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Alright, that's more than I expected ₪ thanks for the research! -- Scriberius 01:41, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Harmonica

Hi!

I need to know two things. Well, first I would like, (if possible) the information on the author, publisher and copyright date of Misplaced Pages-The Encyclopedia. Also, I would like to know waht material(s) the harmonica was originally constructed of.

 Thank you!

P.S. Please supply by today! (Thursday, May 31)

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I agree that it's a little hard to tell by reading the article, but it sounds as if the materials haven't changed very much in the hundred years or so that harmonicas have been around. The article seems to me to imply, though not state, that the earliest harmonicas would have been metal, like the majority of modern ones. -FisherQueen (Talk) 22:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

How many feet are in a year?

Plz answer how many feet are in a year?

This is not a meaningful question, because a foot measures length, while a year measures time. -FisherQueen (Talk) 21:31, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

However, you can find how many feet are in a light year, should that have been your intent. Google "feet in a light year" for the answer. — Lomn 21:34, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm thinking one unisyllabic foot (if there is such a thing) in "year", or one iambic foot in "a year". Clarityfiend 21:47, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

How many insane questions until Wikipedians refuse to answer more? :))) Keep up the good work! 81.93.102.185 22:07, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

There will always be new Wikipedians to answer the insane questions when the old Wikipedians get tired of them, or die. So the answer is, "As long as there are insane questions, there will be insane Wikipedians to answer them." -FisherQueen (Talk) 22:09, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

The answer is blowing in the wind. —Tamfang 05:57, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Maybe it means how many feet are grown by all the animals in the world in a given year. —Tamfang 01:10, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps this user/ip means how far does the earth move in a year? --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 01:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

1. V-Man - /_C 03:48, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Or perhaps the OP wants to know how many footsteps the "average person" takes in a year. -- JackofOz 01:58, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't think an object can be inside a unit of time. ❤ ɱӑԀסԀÏƏ₭Ⓐ†Ǝ ✭ | 03:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

You can say either "I'll send it to you in a week" or "I'll send it to you in a padded envelope." —Tamfang 03:53, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

If year is a typo for yard, the answer is three. ---Sluzzelin talk 05:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Pace (unit of length) may be useful. -- SGBailey 06:12, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

My friend used to have a calculator which would happily convert seconds to meters to energy etc. I'll have to see if I can get hold of it 213.48.15.234 08:29, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

42 --LarryMac | Talk 13:16, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

A year is 1/100th of a century. In cycling, a century is 100 miles. So 1 year = 1 mile. Thus 5280 feet in a year. iames 15:49, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

What about cricket? —Tamfang 03:53, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Five tons of flax. NeonMerlin 14:58, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

times square recruitment center

are there any picture on the internet of the interior of the times square recruitment center? also does the building have 1 or 2 floors

I could not find any picture right away, but an idea would be to do a google image seacrh for time square recruitment center. As to the 1 or 2, from the exterior photos I found, it looked like two. I'm not sure though. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 01:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

This is the building, and looks like it probably only has one floor, because of the way it's stuctured. Plus, it'd be just too small to fit two floors in for fully grown adults, so unless they employ midgets on the top floor, I can't see it being two. No luck on the interior front, sorry JoshHolloway 09:59, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Both of you might be correct as per Storey#First floor. Europeans count floors AFTER the ground floor, while in US ground floor is synonymous with first floor. Shinhan 19:46, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

That's silly. Naming floors is different from counting them. A two-stor(e)y building has two floors, weather they're called first and second or ground and first. To put it another way, if a building has floors called ground floor and first floor, you wouldn't call it a one-storey building or say it has one floor. 20:25, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

June 1

Geography

What are the jobs that are related to Geography?

According to the article, mostly engineering- and analysis-type jobs are available in that area. V-Man - /_C 03:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

These days Geographic information systems are widely used and a lot of people are employed in the ever-growing field. Of course, the work tends to be computer database management and software/web programming, just like every other field these days it seems. Pfly 06:05, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

It also depends which area of geography you enter. Obviously, there are academic jobs. Beyond that, there are jobs with government agencies managing the environment. Geography is a good preparation for graduate study in city and regional planning, which leads to planning careers. Geography is useful in some areas of marketing and logistics. I myself have a geography degree and have ended up (for the time being) in educational publishing, where my geography training gives me valuable content expertise. One of my former colleagues, a climatologist, is now a television reporter on the Weather Channel (a U.S. television channel specializing in weather). If you study climatology (a subfield of geography), a career as a meteorologist is an option. Marco polo 17:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Banned from Redstate

Since the kind folks at RedState seem to be unwilling to reply, I will post this here in hopes that someone knows anything about this. It seems I have been banned (without warning) for no stated reason. I had been arguing that a certain blogger's support of the French Revolution while discussing the merits of the Iraq War was rather bizarre coming from a supposed "conservative". The original poster replied with personal attacks and accused me of "mobying". I was subsequently banned. Being a conservative myself, I am wondering why I have been banned. I am also wondering what "mobying" means. The post in question --71.189.165.175 02:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

From Googling "mobying," it seems to have something to do with the musician Moby and his remarks about posing as one party to make the other party look good. Perhaps you have been accused of misrepresenting the conservative movement? V-Man - /_C 03:07, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Apparently the possibility of an anti-war conservative seems absurd to them for some reason. I guess Paleoconservatism is a liberal conspiracy. --71.189.165.175 03:16, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages is in no position to know what goes on in other websites, or what rules they adopt. I think this is something you need to take up with the administrators of Redstate. I appreciate you've already asked them. I think any site that blocks people for unstated reasons and doesn't respond to questions about why the block was put in place, is not really worth spending much time on. Wikipedians sometimes get blocked here, but they always know exactly why. -- JackofOz 03:19, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Is the "original poster" European? The term "mobbing" (but pronouncing with a long "o") is used in German to mean harassment of one person by several others, for example, in a work environment where a clique makes a point of treating an individual badly. A more involved discussion can be found here. W. B. Wilson 05:48, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Blue moon

Since tonight is a blue moon (going from the definition of 2 full moons in a calendar month), I was wondering, what is the maximum number of blue moons in a year? 68.231.151.161 05:23, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

See Blue moon#Calendar blue moons. It seems the term "blue moon" is ill-defined, but in the sense I think you mean, while there are normally 12 full moons every year, every 2.72 years on average there are 13 of them. There are never more than 13, which means there can only ever be at most 1 blue moon in any one year. JackofOz 05:46, 1 June 2007 (UTC) ... except when there's no full moon at all in February, in which case both January and March will have a blue moon. (acknowledgments to my friends below for this correction) JackofOz 13:10, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Quote from Blue moon#Calendar blue moons. The months of the Gregorian calendar are all very close to the 29.5306-day period of the moon's phases: the synodic month, or lunation. Most of the months are longer than this by one or two days, except February, which is the only month which cannot contain a calendar blue moon. Since February is one or two days shorter than the moon's cycle, very occasionally it has no full moon – there is a full moon at the end of January, and the next one is at the beginning of March. What this means is that both January and March will have blue moons. This happens, on average, once every thirty-five years." -- SGBailey 06:04, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

All the math is beyond me; I have troubles with counting. However, this site says that two in a year are possible, but only every 400-500 years. Leap year comes into it somehow. Bielle 06:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Look again: it says ";four or five times in a hundred years", which is more than one in 35 but in the same ballpark. —Tamfang 07:28, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

It last happened in 1999. It next happens in 2037.--Shantavira| 08:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

sensors and transducers used in the ship control system

what sensors and transducers are used in the ship control system,and where on the ship they are used,what is their working principle and which companies supplies them in the market,and how they are maintained?

Too many questions and too much like homework, I think, to raise an answer. And, indeed, too many sensors. --Tagishsimon (talk)

Is gold Quest legal and safe?

Betaj 12:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)some days ago , one of my friend informed me about the company Gold Quest. They are demanding Rs/-30000, for a gold coin(market value Rs/-15000-16000) and if I can recruit another 3+3 people for them, they will pay me Rs/-11000 and this chain will continue. This company belongs to Hong-Kong. I want to know , is this legal in India and is it at all safe?

Please help me as I am very confused.Betaj 12:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

It does not sound like an arrangement that can ever benefit all customers; it is analogous to a ponzi scheme, in that you make a return if you introduce others to the scheme. I opine that it is of dubious legality in most jurisdictions and very very unlikely to be safe. One to avoid, I think. --Tagishsimon (talk)

You might find our article on pyramid schemes to be helpful. The company claims that it is legit, but it has been accused of being a pyramid scheme, and has been banned in Iran, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. I found news stories out of Iran and Nepal that do not report positively on the experiences that Gold Quest investors have had. -FisherQueen (Talk) 12:41, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

This sounds like multi-level marketing, not a pyramid scheme. It is probably legal, but you are unlikely to be able to recruit enough people. NeonMerlin 18:52, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

It's obviously a pyramid scheme - which would make it illegal in many countries in the world. Don't join it - you're either going to lose 15k - or someone you recruit will - either way, it's not good. The problem with pyramid schemes is that only the people at the top of the pyramid can 'win'. The more people are recruited, the fewer 'suckers' there are left to be at the end of the chain - all of those people lose out horribly in order to make the people at the top of the chain money. Trust me when I tell you that you aren't at the top of the pyramid! So it's certainly not safe - whether it's legal or not depends on your local laws. I know it would be illegal in the USA or UK. SteveBaker 16:51, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Yep. In a pyramid scheme, assuming EVERYONE continues the chain until a certain generation, at least 80% of the participants get screwed -- Phoeba Wright 20:50, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Digestion of steak

Some website I read a while ago claimed that a steak takes 9 months to digest. That's complete bullshit, right?

Right. Imagine what would happen if you ate, say, five large steaks within 9 months, if that were the case. --140.247.248.42 14:03, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

It is AFAIK possible for bits of fecal matter to remain in the large intestine for very long periods; the supporters of Colon hydrotherapy make claims that they manage to extract old bits of gristle through that process. But that aside, digested or undigested, that steak will for the most part pass through your digestive tract in a matter or a couple of days or so. --Tagishsimon (talk)

What does the steak digest that takes so long ?86.197.17.24 14:40, 1 June 2007 (UTC)DT

The large chunks that you don't chew well enough, usually. V-Man - /_C 17:40, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

What websites are good

What websites are good other than Wikipecia.

What a nice implied compliment! As for "good", it means, as in most cases, "good for what?" It depends on what you want to do with the web. If you want to buy things online, there are good and bad sites for that. If you want gaming advice, there are good and bad sites for that. If you want news about gadgets, there are good and bad sites for that. And so on. --140.247.248.42 14:04, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

A list of the most popular websites can be found at Alexa. JoshHolloway 15:02, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Pokey the Penguin. Recury 18:24, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

While we're on the subject of penguins, I spend a lot of time at Ubuntuforums.org. Personally I'd rather play a good MMO than be on websites though -- Phoeba Wright 18:29, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I like http://www.watching-grass-grow.com/ and http://www.watching-paint-dry.com/ —Keenan Pepper 07:52, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Certainly Misplaced Pages is pretty darned amazing - but if you look at (say) the most visited sites by American users, we're not the most popular. The ranking (as of today) is:

1. Yahoo!
2. Google
3. Myspace
4. Microsoft Network (MSN)
5. YouTube
6. EBay
7. Thefacebook
8. Craigslist
9. Misplaced Pages

(You get vastly different results if you look at UK visitors or something - but if you look at world-wide rankings, you get a lot of chinese language sites that probably aren't what our questioner wants)

So if we ignore the search engines, we're the sixth most popular in the USA. Those that are more popular (does that equate to 'better'?) ones are Myspace (a social network where people can set up webpages, etc), YouTube (where you can watch a lot of kooky videos and talk about them), Ebay (buying and selling your 'stuff'), Facebook (another 'social network') and Craigslist (look up businesses, classified ads, etc). But it all depends on what you want. Your personal interests might radically change your opinions. If you are into movies (for example) then IMDB might be a site you'd prefer over Misplaced Pages for looking up movies. If you're a computer geek - then you might crave news at Slashdot rather than reading WikiNews. There are lots of specialist sites that are better than Misplaced Pages within their niche. But as a completely generalised source for everything - it's pretty clear that Misplaced Pages wins hands-down. SteveBaker 16:37, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

NFL

Who is the tallest person in the NFL? Also, who is the player that weighs the least?

Jonathan Ogden is 6'9", I think he is tallest currently. Recury 18:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Roscoe Parrish weighs 168 pounds. He is the smallest I've found looking through the rosters on NFL.com (I'm bored at work). Recury 18:24, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Defensibility of the bottom of a trench

During trench warfare, wouldn't it have been easy to open a raid of the enemy trench by digging tunnels across no man's land, to either intersect the enemy trench or lay explosives under it? NeonMerlin 18:41, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, basically! Recury 18:54, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Some info as it relates to trench warfare here as well. Recury 18:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Where did the barbarians go?

If the Roman Empire fell to "the barbarians", where did the barbarians go? Is it true that we (modern Europeans) are the descendants of those same peoples?

Elinde7994 19:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I bet if you asked this in Humanities that Clio would give you an lengthy and entertaining answer but here you just get directed the article because I don't know anything about anything. It says "The term "barbarian" is commonly used by medieval historians as a non-pejorative neutral descriptor of the catalog of peoples that the Roman Empire encountered whom they considered "foreigners", such as the Goths, Gepids, Huns, Picts, Sarmatians, etc." which I think supports your thesis. Recury 19:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

A good idea would to read the articles Goths, Huns, and other barbarian tribe articles. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 21:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

It was partly a matter of perception. If you were a Roman being attacked by them, they certainly seemed like a group of uncivilized savages, but if you lived in their home towns they probably seemed similar to other civilized people. On the other hand, if you were a "barbarian" captured in battle by the Romans and about to be killed for sport in the Coliseum to the cheers of the crowd, you likely wouldn't find the Romans to be very "civilized", either.

Many "barbarians" also eventually adopted many of the Roman ways, like the Latin alphabet, so became more Roman over time. To look at just one group of "barbarians", those north of Hadrian's Wall eventually became the Scots, and, to this day, are rather distinct from the rest of Great Britain. They could be thought of as a bit more "earthy" than the English, so there is perhaps a bit of the old barbarian spirit still left in them. StuRat 02:53, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Och StuRat, ye will regret that slight on me noble forbears, ya puny sasenach! ; ) Mhicaoidh 05:46, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Alas, I fear his days are numbered! He'll be kilt for sure. Clarityfiend 06:41, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

StuRat made a mistake!! What?? Never!! I don't believe it!!! Oh yes he did!! Hadrian's Wall doesn't separate England from Scotland and never did. And neither does or did the more northerly Antonine Wall that runs East to West across Scotland from the River Forth to the River Clyde as it passes through my home town of Falkirk. Both walls were built at the command of different Roman Emperors to keep out the marauding northern tribes (not necessarily Scots) then accustomed to attacking the Roman occupation of Britain. Neither wall succeeded in achieving that objective of course and long after the Romans left for home, the English and the Scots, with help from the Irish, Welsh, French, Belgians, Germans, and others, continued to battle over the Border issue. Just look at Berwick upon Tweed which changed hands umpteen times with murderous loss of life in the process. Today, Berwick is just on the English side of the Border, yet strangely, it's soccer team plays in the Scottish League. So the best that can be said, for the Antonine Wall at least, is that for a relatively short period of time, it marked the northern extremity of the Roman Empire. Sorry StuRat.

Circumcision

What was the real purpose of curcumcision apart from the supposed jewish religiuos significance? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.110.181.1 (talk • contribs) ..a banned user, who enjoys himself more than anything else, so why was this one restored after being deleted twice?

See our article on circumcision. Gandalf61 20:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

There are a lot of help benefits. As above see the article. --Tλε Rαnδоm Eδιτоr 21:04, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I'd better bloody well avoid making any cutting remarks in this sensitive area, so I've decided to clip this comment short. StuRat 07:38, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

June 2

"N/A" ZIP code

I live in Canada. Is there a standard U.S. ZIP code to use in poorly-designed online forms that demand one even when I specify that I'm in Canada? NeonMerlin 02:44, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

A gift company that I occaisionally work at uses five zeros for a foreign zip code. Dismas| 02:58, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

The backup for most US citizens is 90210, although if you want something shipped to you that might not be a good idea. There's 60062, from The Breakfast Club. Five of a single number is probably best though-- Phoeba Wright 04:08, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Restaurant business

I am keen to open a vegetarian restaurant specializing in South Indian delicacies( Only three items)in Delhi. However, I am a novice as far as restaurant business is concerned. I would like the guidance of readers to achieve my dream?

Some factors to consider:

1) Do you know of a location which needs that type of restaurant ? That is, is there a shortage of such restaurants in that area ?

2) Is there a location you can rent or buy there ? An existing restaurant would be ideal, as it would have most of the equipment you will need. However, be sure to ask why they are renting it out or selling it instead of operating a restaurant themselves.

3) Will you need to hire employees ? If so, how much will you need to pay them ?

4) How much money do you have saved up ? Will you need a loan to get your business started ?

5) Do you plan to do any advertising ? If so, factor that cost in.

6) Are there any legal requirements (licenses, permits) required ?

7) Should you form a corporation for tax and liability purposes ?

StuRat 07:20, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

boarding pass question

For those of you who printed out your boarding passes for united airlines flights you may have taken. I am wondering what the big black numbers on the bottom left of the boarding pass stub mean.Thanks--logger 07:18, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Depending on the company you're going through, it could be a confirmation number, just to make sure that you are the person who printed the ticket at the time of purchase. Usually it is logged in the airline's system with your name, and your identification will complete this check. V-Man - /_C 17:45, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Stellarium

pl. help me to download the above software. i couldn't find the correct link to download. thank you124.43.243.233 08:01, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Go to http://www.stellarium.org/ and then click on the OS of your choice in the upper right of the screen. For me, I just clicked on the Mac OS X version and it started downloading automatically. Dismas| 09:43, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Daily Death Rate in Iraq

Approximately - what is the daily death rate OF CHILDREN under 16 years of age, in Iraq, excluding those caused by natural causes?

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