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August 1

Essays on Insurance Industry

Helo friends, i need to write an assignment/essay on insurance industry. Though i have completed 75% of the assignment, i am stuck for the rest. Thus, can u please recommend me any web sight, blogs, etc. who can help/ guide me in doing my assignments. Free sites will be highly welcome. Waiting for an early replies. Bye, bye. Signed: Kvees. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.100.5.4 (talk) 07:12, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So we don't repeat what you already did, can you say what "the rest" is? Like what topics you want to cover next -- thanks, Julia Rossi (talk) 08:48, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A general essay on the whole insurance industry (including life insurance, marine insurance, motor insurance, crop insurance, travel insurance and so on) would need to be enormously long or else could only be very superficial. Surely your assignment has a focus of some kind? Xn4 (talk) 16:59, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Rossi, Xn4 and net friends, the topic/focus of the assignment is: 'external treats to insurance industry'. i need inflation, interest rates, demography datas, etc. Awaiting ur reply. Bye, bye. signed: kvees. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kvees (talk • contribs) 16:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Who was Prince Maqhubu Dlamini?

I would like to know more about Prince Maqhubu Dlamini from the House of Dlamini - and what had issue means in entries on the pages on the history of clan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.234.240.25 (talk) 10:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

'had issue' means produced heirs - eg had children.

http://ardictionary.com/Issue/7547 (4):

"Issue :Definition: Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants."

87.102.86.73 (talk) 11:46, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The House of Dlamini article looks to be a cut-and-paste from this page, which appears to name Maqhubu Dlamini as a great-grandson of Ngvudgunye (1780–1815).—eric 14:40, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

turkmenistan

What did the religious man say about the book that the late president of this country wrote, which made the religious man die of execution? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.30.202.29 (talk) 13:44, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I guess you mean the Ruhnama, written by Saparmurat Niyazov who was known as 'Türkmenbaşy' (Leader of the Turkmen). Niyazov claimed to have agreed with Allah that any student who read it three times would definitely go to heaven. While the Turkmen authorities have forced the Ruhnama on the community, and religious persecution remains widespread, I have found no record that any priest was executed specifically for comments about the Ruhnama. Sam Blacketer (talk) 15:05, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you know that "religious persecution remains widespread" then it would be good if you could add citations to Turkmenistan#Human_rights, otherwise I'll just assume you're spreading lies.87.102.86.73 (talk) 15:22, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can I trouble you to assume good faith? I have never been to Turkmenistan but there are consistent reports from reliable sources that the state authorities in that country have acted to restrict its citizens from practicing their religion. The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution on the matter. The article on Freedom of religion in Turkmenistan goes into more detail. Sam Blacketer (talk) 16:08, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Assume good faith? given that the death penalty was abolished in 1999 why does the original reply assume a link with turkmenistan?

Or maybe that was the intention of the original poster - to create the impression of a link where there is none - you tell me?87.102.86.73 (talk) 16:17, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From the article you link (which lacks citations as well)

"There were no reports of societal abuses or violence based on religious beliefs or practice" - in fact can you source one example?
"There were no reports of forced religious conversion, including of minor U.S. citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States."

In fact the entire article lacks any reference to the 'religious persecution' which it constantly assertains is happening.

Perhaps you should look at another country - religious executions are up in IRAQ, since it became democratic.

87.102.86.73 (talk) 16:19, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for a term used for a type of person

What do you call a person who does things for you that you never ask for, like packing a lunch every day, washing your sheets, cooking dinner knowing you may not be there, then being mad because you made other plans (yes, I'm talking about someone's mother)? Then, they say things like, "after all I do for you" when you say something they don't like...I know there's a word for it, but I can't think of it! My mother-in-law was like that, now I know a guy whose mother is exactly the same. Thanks for your help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.213.196.90 (talk) 15:50, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Valuable"? :-) --_{tiny plastic} Grey Knight ⊖ 16:03, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

uh...mom? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.178.127.40 (talk) 16:27, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"manipulative" or "guilting"? ---Sluzzelin talk 16:50, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Communist? They give you everything, but they control you too. Though, it is a little harsh to describe your mom or mother-in-law as a Communist.--Xtothe3rd (talk) 17:00, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unappreciated. --LarryMac | Talk 17:46, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I think "mother" is the accepted term. I don't know any mothers that aren't like that! What you call them depends on the connotations you want. Do you want to describe it as a good thing that they do all this stuff, or a bad thing that they do it without asking them to and then get offended when you don't appreciate it? --Tango (talk) 18:05, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Helicopter parent, because they are always hovering.hotclaws 01:29, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Passive aggressive. Corvus cornix_talk 20:36, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Smothering? Clarityfiend (talk) 06:06, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand, these things could be an effort to get a person to move out. OtherDave (talk) 11:17, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Martyr. (From the article: "The word "martyr" is also used satirically in casual conversation to refer to someone who seeks attention or sympathy by exaggerating the impact upon himself of some deprivation or work.")--65.92.124.188 (talk) 15:20, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and specifically, they suffer from the martyr complex. Such individuals seek out situations where they can later claim they were taken advantage of. This is far more common in women. StuRat (talk) 02:16, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

^{[citation needed]}

I'd go with manipulative as in The Games People Play -- unconscious, unexamined but goes on anyway. The trick is to under cut the game and watch what happens -- can be very amusing and telling. Julia Rossi (talk) 00:27, 7 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lineage and possible inherited disease questiom

Does anyone know a lot about 'Duke Robert I of Parma's children by his first marriage with princess Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies?'

If so please look at: Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science#Robert_I_of_Parma's_children Thanks 87.102.86.73 (talk) 18:23, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

German cultural institutions in Prague

According to his page, composer Hans Krása (1899-1944) was affiliated with several German cultural institutions in pre-WWII Prague:

German Music Academy
Neuen Deutschen Theater
Deutsches Landestheater

I checked the spellings against the German Wikipedia page, and (oddly) there's no page in the Czech Wikipedia. From the Slovakian Wikipedia page, I gather that the names would have originally been in Czech. I'd appreciate help identifying these, with their actual names and in English-language translation (and ideally with internal links). -- Thanks, Deborahjay (talk) 21:39, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Neues Deutsches Theater (Staatsoper Prag):

One site states that it was founded by the German community in Prague in 1888. Noted artists appearing in the house were Mahler, Strauss, Jeritza, Melba, Caruso and Gigli. The current name is Statni Opera Praha. This has some notes in Czech, English and German.

I can´t find much useful on the other two houses. It seems that Alice Herz-Sommer (survivor of the ghetto Theresienstadt) was a student at the Deutsche Musikakademie. This is mentioned in the German article on her, as well as on other sites. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 11:10, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deutsches Landestheater: This Mahler site (text available in English, Czech, and German) says that Mahler was "second conductor at the Royal German Theatre in Prague (Königlich deutsches Landestheater in Prag, today called The Estates Theatre)" in 1885/86, yet the English WP article says the Estates Theatre was called "Royal Provincial German Theatre" 1862-1920, and renamed "Theatre of the Estates" for the period 1920-1948. The corresponding German article (de:Ständetheater) claims it was called Königlich Deutsches Stadttheater (no mentioning of "provincial" or "Landes-") during the period 1862-1920 but renamed Stavovské Divadlo (Ständetheater) in 1920, when it changed its program to Czech language performances. My head is spinning, after this inconclusive maze, and I need a break. ---Sluzzelin talk 12:19, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My guess is that somebody translated "Landestheater" as "theatre in the country(side)" and concluded it must have been dedicated to the cultivated peasentry, ie a "Provincial Theatre" for the assembled audience of cabbages and beetroot. Not the first Kafkaesque metamorphosis in Prague... --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 13:30, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Additional input has been provided by Rje who had initially translated the German WP page to create the English-language one. I'll transfer all the findings to the article's Talk page and see about what can be sorted out for the mainspace text. -- Thanks, all! Deborahjay (talk) 15:55, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Forced population shifts in Biblical period

The Bible describes how the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires deported populations to and from modern-day Israel and Syria. That would seem to jive with history (the Ten Lost Tribes went somewhere), but why did they do this? What was the point of deporting the Ten Tribes to Mesopotamia and replacing them with Mesopotamians? Why not just leave them where they are and exact tribute? -- Mwalcoff (talk) 23:02, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You seem to think Bible is some sort of accurate historical record. That's completely incorrect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.54.224 (talk) 05:47, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

However, the brutal practices of the Assyrian empire are attested outside of the Bible... AnonMoos (talk) 14:47, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there are some sources in the Neo-Assyrian Empire article. Also The Assyrian conquerors invented a new policy towards the conquered: in order to prevent nationalist revolts by the conquered people, the Assyrians would force the people they conquered to migrate in large numbers to other areas of the empire. More reference to extensive deportation campaigns (i.e. all conquered peoples, regardless of nationality) here. The original Assyrian court records are available from libraries.--65.92.124.188 (talk) 15:29, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]