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September 22

Identify the words in this video

Can someone please identify what is being said in this video? --Melab±1 ☎ 01:40, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I very much doubt it. For anyone hesitant to click on the link, it's just a few seconds some incomprehensible and very muffled rap.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:55, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I did click on it and could make no sense of it. It might be an idea for the OP to ask the poster of the video. He seems to have posted a lot of videos of himself (?) singing. I'm sure he'd be glad to help. PM him or write in the comments. KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 10:48, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Molecular Cohesion

Is there a connection between molecular cohesion and projecting a mass from one place to the next without time and space involved? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lamyc72 (talk • contribs) 06:54, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No. Splitting molecules up doesn't allow you to teleport them instantly. It might be a component of a theoretical teleportation device, but not necessarily. It should be possible to scan the object to be teleported without disassembling the molecules first. StuRat (talk) 06:59, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

bedbugs- repellents, insecticides

Will any substances repel, discourage, or kill bedbugs in California? Neem oil? Oil of orange? Powders? Preferably substances that a layperson can buy; and that don't harm vertebrates. Franhattan941 (talk) 15:30, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Diatomaceous earth, though finding ways to apply it might be difficult as well. To vertebrates they're just white powder. To insects, they are a field of daggers. -- Obsidi♠n Soul 15:32, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Have you read our article on bed bug control techniques?--Shantavira|^{feed me} 16:18, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Buying from Canongate Books from outside the UK

Hi,

Why does Canongate Books website require a billing address in the United Kingdom when you want to buy an e-book?

Thanks. Apokrif (talk) 17:04, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Because they've bought the rights to sell a given book only inside the UK (and probably other markets). If you're particularly interested in the Julian Assange [auto]biography, the US (and probably other markets) rights are (or perhaps now that's were) owned by Alfred A. Knopf rather than Canongate. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 17:20, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Do you think it would be a problem if for some reason the billing address was incorrect and the bill (if they send one via snail mail) could not be delivered (and were perhaps returned to the bookseller)? Or if a British buyer paid with a foreign card (would then the bookseller assume the buyer is not a UK citizen and then refuse to sell the e-book?). Apokrif (talk) 13:17, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If the billing address is wrong, the credit card transaction will likely fail, as this is usually part of the validation process. The citizenship of the buyer is irrelevant - their contract will allow them to sell to Americans in London, but not to Britons in New York. It sounds like they're using the CC billing address to derive the payer's location, which is an imperfect but mostly effective way of keeping them on the right side of their contract obligations. I can't think of a straightforward way for an American (without British friends) to buy such a geo-restricted ebook. I imagine paper copies of the Assange book will be available in the US (probably on ebay) as grey market imports (much as Spycatcher was available in the UK for decades despite not being published here). -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 21:30, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Old House at Home

There are numerous pubs in England called The Old House at Home. Anyone know the origin of the name? I think the pub sign shown here may be a clue - a song popular during World War I? — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 18:20, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I found this but can't say anything further. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 18:28, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This pub dating from "some time between 1820 and 1855" says on its website: "The name the Old House at Home comes from an early Victorian song popular with soldiers far from home." This site agrees: "This name originates from a once-popular ballad, often recounted by soldiers longing to return home from the battlefield." It's a bit odd because I can't think of any other common pub name connected with a song. Alansplodge (talk) 19:30, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a challenge I can possibly pass up. According to the Daily Mail there are five Lincolnshire Poachers and nine Cat and Fiddles in England. I imagine some of the 132 Rising Suns were named by Eric Burdon fans as well. --Antiquary (talk) 21:47, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well done - however one might quibble whether five pubs in the whole UK is exactly common ;-) Alansplodge (talk) 20:23, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

After a trawl through the depths of the internet, I've found an older song than the one linked by Grandiose above. It appears in a book of poems by Thomas Haynes Bayly who died in 1839.

"Oh! the old house at home where my forefathers dwelt,

Where a child at the feet of my mother I knelt,

Where she taught me the pray'r, where she read me the page,

Which, if infancy lisps, is the solace of age;

My heart, 'mid all changes, wherever I roam,

Ne'er loses its love for the old house at home!"

You can see the the old house at home#1 full text here. The same words are set to music by E L Loder in an 1839 issue of the New Yorker, apparently "sung in the opera Francis the First". Alansplodge (talk) 20:36, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

British Musical Biography: a dictionary of musical artists, authors, and composers born in Britain and its colonies" Loder, George, cousin of E. J. Loder, composer and singer, bom at Bath, in 1816: died at Adelaide, Australia, May 15, 1866. Composed "The Old House at Home," I'll stop now before this becomes an obsession. Alansplodge (talk) 20:51, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We have an article on Edward Loder which credits him with "Francis the First, opera by McKinlan (6 November 1838, Drury Lane Theatre, London)". Enough is enough. Alansplodge (talk) 20:59, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, this is definitely the last: The Literary Gazette 1838: "On Monday, an opera under the title Francis the First was produced here with pretty music by J S Loder... The few of the public who were present thought it the most stupid piece of trash that ever disgraced the stage; in which opinion we entirely agree with them..." On that note, I wish you goodnight one and all. Alansplodge (talk) 21:19, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

facebook, wikipedia, and the wikipedia article titled "Arlington High School (Lagrange, New York)"

To Whom It May Concern, My name is Al and I have a long complicated question involving facebook and it's connection to wikipedia. The wikipedia article involved in this question is Arlington High School (LaGrange, New York) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and the facebook page involved is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Arlington-High-School-LaGrange-New-York/184771638225707. So, a lot of the beginning of this question has a lot to do with facebook and is going to require me to tell a story so bear with me. So my curiosity began when facebook changed their profile layout in mid-2010, when the facebook-user's interests and "likes" such as movies and tv shows were automatically linked to a different facebook page. For example if someone "liked" the hobby of "Cooking" a small picture showing the act of cooking would be mounted on their facebook profile in their "interests" section and when clicking on it you'd be directed to a different facebook page showing the description of cooking. What I found interesting was that on this "Cooking" facebook page there was a tab on the left hand side that said "Wikipedia" indicating that all of the information presented on the "Cooking" facebook page was actually extracted from wikipedia. I thought this was really cool. In addition to "interests" and "movies" having there own pictures mounted on one's profile, there are also pictures of the person's college or high school mounted on a person's profile in their education section. I went to Duke University, so there is a picture of the Duke emblem mounted in my profile in the education section of my profile. When I click on this emblem I am directed to a new facebook page, much like the cooking one, where information on the college from wikipedia is displayed. However, my high school (which is named Arlington High School located in Lagrange, New York) did not have a little picture representing it on my facebook profile, instead it was just a silhouette of a person wearing a graduation cap, which I guess is the default picture for schools that have no facebook page, or not a lot of information has been posted on that particular school online. When clicking on this silhouette picture though, I am directed to a different Arlington High School-one that is located in Arlington, Texas. So at this point in time, I was motivated to create a facebook page for my own high school, upload my high school's emblem to it's facebook page, and somehow link my high school's wikipedia page to the facebook page (my high school does in fact have a wikipedia page, it is titled "Arlington High School (Lagrange, New York)"). So I went ahead and tried to do some of that; if you go to facebook and you search "Arlington High School (Lagrange, New York)" you will find my facebook page with the correct description of my high school and the correct emblem as its profile picture (it is currently "liked"by only 14 people). My main question is: am I taking the right approach to doing this? My ultimate goal is to have the emblem of my high school appear mounted on the education section of my facebook profile, and when clicking on it, to be directed to a facebook page displaying the information, extracted from wikipedia, of the correct Arlington High School I attended (in Lagrange, New York). What are the steps that I would need to take do this? Was going ahead and creating a facebook page for my high school a good first step? Will the wikipedia page for my high school somehow get automatically linked to the facebook page when a certain amount of people "like" it? Do you know who I should ask to get this process rolling? So far I have sent a million messages to facebook and they haven't responded. I'm hoping some wikipedia users can give me some help. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you, Al Wikiwest999 (talk) 23:30, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You lost me at "bear with me." I suggest you state in just a single sentence what, essentially, you would like help with. You'll be much likelier to get a response. μηδείς (talk) 20:47, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I understood the question. It was straightforward and intelligible. I just don't know the answer. Comet Tuttle (talk) 19:46, 24 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]