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March 31

Expat man who abandoned his baby and disappeared

Hi,

I know an expat from the UK who got a lady pregnant in the Philippines and then who disappeared. What options does the lady have to get financial assistance? Can she report him to her or his country's authorities? What if the father left to a third country with no way to be tracked? Can she still ask a DNA sample for one of his family members to prove the kid is his? Will the UK provide her assistance with the kid? Thank you very much. 2001:EE0:4041:3567:74CA:ACE7:E56F:2A46 (talk) 08:58, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you know the man, then you could put some pressure on him to "do the right thing", but we cannot provide legal advice here. Dbfirs 09:32, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This seems to be related to Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2018 March 8#Man who impregnates unwilling women on purpose. 86.169.57.223 (talk) 11:16, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More than related, it's likely the same questioner, a single entry from an IP that geolocates to northern Vietnam. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:45, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

She will likely get very little help in the Philippines, as that country takes several steps to reduce paternal responsibility. Unless he signed an affidavit of admission of paternity, which is unlikely, the child is officially considered illegitimate and both mother and child have limited ability to force him to provide support, especially as he is out of country. Matt Deres (talk) 14:53, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Objects on buildings

I've seen a couple of such objects on the walls of two old buildings in Warsaw. Are these old radio horn loudspeakers (possibly pre-war or post-war) or something else? Brandmeister^talk 19:28, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Think this is a good case where it may help to ask the people who live there. They may not have been living there when these horn where installed but they may have heard why and when they were installed. With that information you can cross check it. They may have been left in place as a reminder of Soviet era. If so, the local people will know this and be able to tell you. Aspro (talk) 19:59, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It looks more like an old warning siren, rather than a loudspeaker. Wymspen (talk) 10:37, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

An old siren would not have that bulb in the horn (a modern elctronic one would). Most old sirens even have no horn at all. This is clearly an old loudspeaker, probably built somewere between 1930 and 1955. Some towns in communist countries used to have pa-systems in the streets, but I'm not sure about Poland or Warsaw. Jahoe (talk) 10:43, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Brandmeister, a couple of references for you:

"The German governor, Ludwig Fischer, called on the population to be calm and to work; the Wehrmacht would destroy the Red Army as the Polish army had done east of Warsaw in 1920 [!]. In the afternoon, he used public loudspeakers to call the people of Warsaw to work on fortifications. 100,000 people were expected to appear; virtually no one showed up". The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 by Włodzimierz Borodziej (p. 68).
"As the taxi sped through Katowice, already congested with confused and panicky civilians, public loudspeakers demanded that city authorities surrender to the German command". The Warsaw Underground: A Memoir of Resistance, 1939-1945 by Jan Rosinski, Richard Hile (p. 6).

Not sure if the system would have been installed by the pre-War Polish government or by the Germans. Alansplodge (talk) 16:37, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Jahoe and Alansplodge. Brandmeister^talk 16:48, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Who is the North Korean (best known) TV broadcaster?

Does Wikipedia have an article about her? What's her name? HOTmag (talk) 20:25, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mean Ri Chun-hee? --Wrongfilter (talk) 20:38, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I mean this woman. Is she Ri Chun-hee? HOTmag (talk) 21:04, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. --Wrongfilter (talk) 21:26, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanx.

Resolved

HOTmag (talk) 21:39, 31 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, when I put Who is the North Korean (best known) TV broadcaster? into Google, an article about Ri Chun-hee is the very first link. All the subsequent links on the first page also mention her by name. Matt Deres (talk) 12:07, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]