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November 9

Big league in italy

Big four are the highest sport league in North America, what are the highest sport league in taly?--95.235.210.209 (talk) 11:54, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There doesn't seem to be an exact equivalent, but our article on Sport in Italy has some suggestions. Football, volleyball and basketball are the top 3 team sports given, and the respective top leagues for those three are Serie A, Italian Volleyball League and VTB United League. Buttons to Push Buttons (talk | contribs) 14:24, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And if you want direct equivalents of the American Top Four, there's also the Italian Baseball League and Serie A (ice hockey), but just to stress, these are quite minor compared to the US/Canadian equivalents (and conversely, the football/soccer/calcio Serie A is massive compared to Major League Soccer) Smurrayinchester 13:14, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

November 11

'Hazzard'ous and 'Fog'gy bling

In the earliest episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard, Rosco would wear a turquoise ring. In The Fog, Stevie Wayne would wear a silver ring. What has become of the bling items these days?2604:2000:712C:2900:DD7B:484B:A6C6:133C (talk) 05:04, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt if we would be able to find that answer. They might have been given to the stars, kept by the studio, sold off, or any other number of possibilities, and since that was pre-Internet, it seems unlikely that such info would be posted online at a later date. It's also possible those were the actor's own property. I wouldn't think a TV show would bother to have rings made for their actors unless they were somehow critical to at least one episode, but a big budget movie might worry about minor details like that. StuRat (talk) 04:40, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Did the OP mean those specific objects? Or is he asking why actors don't wear "bling" so much anymore? (Supposing that's true.) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:05, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose they might have meant it that way. StuRat (talk) 05:17, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I meant those specific objects, actually.2604:2000:712C:2900:6171:4153:B084:B7CC (talk) 23:58, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As props, they could be anywhere. If they were considered valuable at the time the show ended, they might have been kept by collectors or even by the actors who wore them. If not, they might have been used as props in other productions. Or they might have been trashed. You might be able to find one or more websites that discuss the disposition of TV and film props. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:47, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rebecca Soler birth place age

Hi, everyone know the age and birthplace of voice actress Rebecca Soler? I only found her birth date...--Maxie1hoi (talk) 19:41, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

November 12

Laugh meter ?

Does anyone rate sitcoms, comedies, etc., by measuring how much viewers (in the audience or at home) laugh when watching ? If so, where can I find the results ? (If you want to know why I would prefer those over other ratings, those indicate a show is "popular", but that might very well be for reasons I don't care about, like having celebrities in the cast, being in a prime viewing slot between other good shows, etc.) StuRat (talk) 04:36, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

With or without the laugh track? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:03, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Without, of course. The object is to identify shows (and episodes) which are actually funny. (I realize that "funny" is an opinion that will vary by audience, but those which generate few laughs I can safely skip.) StuRat (talk) 05:19, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AFAIK, the only studies of audience reactions in media are done through focus groups: You get a group of volunteers to sit in a room and rate the programs on a number of factors. I do not know that the results are necessarily published publicly: show producers probably keep such market research in house and don't necessarily publish it. --Jayron 32 13:23, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Measuring laughter directly would be difficult (what's better, two chuckles or one belly laugh?) but the mood worm is used to gauge how much people actual enjoy what they're watching. That's a dial that the viewer holds, which they turn up or down depending on how they feel. Perhaps even closer is Sentiment analysis – trying to work out how people feel by what they post on social media. It looks like some companies do provide this for TV shows, but you have to pay. Smurrayinchester 14:37, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This page [1] says one Yoji Kimura at Kansai university has developed a method for quantifying laughter, and also distinguishing real laughter from fake laughter. I cannot find any original research articles about the project/device, maybe they are in Japanese. SemanticMantis (talk) 22:22, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Charlotte Eiram - Musiker

Charlotte Eiram er en danmarkskends sanger og sangskriver der bl.a. har udigvet nummeret Ikke uden dig.

Charlotte har varmet op for Sash! og spillet med DJ Bailar Project. Sunget kor for Hampenberg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arelstone (talk • contribs) 14:49, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Presumably the question is "Why doesn't she have an article?" The answer is WP:MUSIC - she does not satisfy our rules for notability. We do have a reference to one of her songs in Girls on Top (album). Tevildo (talk) 20:46, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

November 13

Hiring independent musicians

I know all about Bandcamp and similar sites that let you listen to independent artists' music online and support them via something like PayPal. But what if I actually want to hire an independent musician for a gig? What would I use then - a website; something else? Theskinnytypist (talk) 02:39, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It might depend on the gig. If it's for a wedding reception, there are usually wedding related magazines in your local big chain bookstore that have bands advertising. Other avenues might be Craigslist or calling around to independent music shops. Dismas|^(talk) 03:07, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Depending on where you are (and what your budget is), there may be relevant local or national/international Music magazines (printed or online) that include classified advertisements by musicians seeking engagements. Some of these may specialise in particular musical genres (Jazz, Folk, etc.) should you have one in mind.

(Who can forget those 1970s ads in the back of Melody Maker that were always headed by one for "A Able Accordianist"?) {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 185.74.232.130 (talk) 13:39, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a local branch of Craigslist? Most medium-to-large cities in the USA have site for their region, and you can solicit for musicians under the "Gigs" section. SemanticMantis (talk) 17:34, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I said that. :) Dismas|^(talk) 01:06, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is Colors about Matt Healy?

Why they say that Colors (song) by Halsey (singer) is about Matt Healy?Chandelia16 (talk) 10:05, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To make things a bit easier for research, I am giving the correct links: Colors (Halsey song), Halsey (singer), and there is no article on the Matt Healy (or Matty Healy or Matthew Healy) you mean, but we do have one on his band The 1975. ---Sluzzelin talk 11:06, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

November 14

which discworld book describes the structure and operation of a clacks tower

I don't know about described, but this says they were introduced in The Fifth Elephant. InedibleHulk (talk) 07:58, November 14, 2015 (UTC)

Also, this isn't my question. It just looks that way. InedibleHulk (talk) 07:58, November 14, 2015 (UTC)

Going Postal seems to be where Pratchett got into the nuts and bolts. InedibleHulk (talk) 08:01, November 14, 2015 (UTC)

I just read Going Postal, and I can confirm that that's where Pratchett covers the inner workings of the clacks towers: the technology, the Grand Trunk company culture, and how some people manage to intercept messages and feed their own messages into the clacks system. A good chunk of the plot revolves around that. Monstrous Regiment touches more briefly on the subject in a subplot involving another group of people who intercept communications between the towers. AtticusX (talk) 08:47, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ancient widescreen

I recently watched some old TV shows ( Dead or Alive, 1959; Rocky and Bullwinkle, 1963) on a new screen, and am puzzled that 1/4 of the screen's width is not empty, as it ought to be when displaying a picture created for a 4:3 screen. Nor is anything obviously cut off at top or bottom. What wizardry is this? —Tamfang (talk) 08:49, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The remaining method to fit 4:3 content onto a widescreen display is to stretch it. This results in fat, short people (when standing up). Do they seem fat and short ? (Probably easier to tell with actual people, as the cartoon characters might have been drawn excessively thin to begin with, such as Natasha Fatale, or short and fat, such as Boris Badenov.) StuRat (talk) 08:52, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'd thought that crap only flew on the Internet, but it seems not even The Simpsons are safe. InedibleHulk (talk) 10:10, November 14, 2015 (UTC)

No, nothing is distorted. —Tamfang (talk) 08:30, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How are you watching them? (e.g. DVD, Blu-ray, broadcast, other?) Anamorphic_widescreen seems to only discuss viewing widescreen media on narrower screens, but I think it goes the other way too. Many newer TVs have settings you can mess with, and they can stretch/zoom/crop the signal in many different ways. Also consider that the lack of obvious cutoff may conceivably be the result of Shoot_and_protect. Contrary to Stu's assertion, there are many techniques these days that are not simple linear transforms that distort the way people look. Here's an example of one way that GoPro cameras do dynamic stretching [2], here's one for a TV [3], perhaps you can look up what your own model is capable of. For broadcast, Active_Format_Description has some info too.

So without knowing more details, it could be any combination of how the material was remastered for distribution, your playback device, your TV, or all the above interacting. SemanticMantis (talk) 18:04, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Another relevant article is Anamorphic_stretch_transform, sadly lacking sample images. SemanticMantis (talk) 18:11, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Solely stretching the edges would make it look rather distorted, especially as people and other objects passed into and out of the edges. Changing aspect ratios could be rather nauseating. This would be a better approach to a single frame image, where you could specify what to stretch and what not to stretch. StuRat (talk) 18:49, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly tilt and scan, where they move the margins over time to avoid cropping important parts of the frame. -- BenRG (talk) 20:49, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

But I watched DVDs from both series on the old 4:3 TV, and they looked normal there too. —Tamfang (talk) 08:25, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to watch on both TVs at the same time (if you haven't). Could clear things up. InedibleHulk (talk) 09:11, November 15, 2015 (UTC)

The Magnificent Seven Ride: Questionable scene

In the 1972 western film The Magnificent Seven Ride, Chris' wife Arrila is killed by bandits. When he and Noah find her dead, Chris asks Noah "Did they use her?". What does he mean by that? And why does he say "Raped, killed and left for the buzzards"? Rape is when you force someone to have sex with you against their will and sex is associated with love, not with hate. Bandits are bad people. Non-bandits are good people. If bandits hate non-bandits, why would they want to have sex with them? That is morally violet. Violence dwells on pain or injury, not on sex. And it's associated with hate, not with love. Chris should have asked Noah "Did they torture her?" and said "Beaten, killed and left for the buzzards". And the film is rated PG. Sexual violence is associated with rated 15 and 18 films.5.81.235.234 (talk) 23:53, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Use" as in "abuse", most likely. The moral violence committed against a non-bandit woman would be precisely the point - to harm someone they inherently don't like. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:49, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rape is when you force someone to have sex with you against their will - er, the victim is hardly "having sex with" the rapist. They're just effectively a piece of meat that the rapist is using forcibly to obtain sexual gratification from, and impose their own power over. Not unlike a lump of liver (see Portnoy's Complaint) or a plastic sex doll; the only difference being that the liver/sex doll happens to be a live human being. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 08:38, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rape has long been a weapon of war and torture,and the penis has long been used as a weapon and instrument of power over both men and women. We have an article on Wartime sexual violence and if you want to learn more about sexual politics and consent, try this site. --TammyMoet (talk) 14:35, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

November 15

Summerland: Region 2 DVD

Is the TV series Summerland released on DVD in region 2?5.81.235.234 (talk) 15:45, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What is the music at the end of Episode 4, Sharpe, of the BBC television programme 'Together'?

What is the music at the end of Episode 4, Sharpe, of the BBC television programme 'Together'? 82.31.133.165 (talk) 19:59, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]