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| Why in some moments players aren't allowed to cross the 3rd meter line and the point goes to the opponent team?--] (]) 18:42, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | Why in some moments players aren't allowed to cross the 3rd meter line and the point goes to the opponent team?--] (]) 18:42, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | ||
| :Misplaced Pages has an article titled ] which does cover the rules. The restrictions as to which players may cross the 3-meter line are covered in that article; near as I can tell, it depends on which players start in the back-court before the serve; there's also a player called the "libero" that has restrictions on how and when they can hit the ball. --]''''']''''' 19:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | :Misplaced Pages has an article titled ] which does cover the rules. The restrictions as to which players may cross the 3-meter line are covered in that article; near as I can tell, it depends on which players start in the back-court before the serve; there's also a player called the "libero" that has restrictions on how and when they can hit the ball. --]''''']''''' 19:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | ||
| {{hat|trolling by medeis hooked several people. Let's not digress further--]''''']''''' 02:12, 3 September 2014 (UTC)}} | |||
| ::We played volleyball long before meters even existed. Is tis some sort of europeanism? ] (]) 19:46, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | ::We played volleyball long before meters even existed. Is tis some sort of europeanism? ] (]) 19:46, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | ||
| ::::Vollyball: 1895. Metre (note spelling): 1793. Don't be silly. Welcome to the rest of the world. ] (]) 22:36, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | ::::Vollyball: 1895. Metre (note spelling): 1793. Don't be silly. Welcome to the rest of the world. ] (]) 22:36, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | ||
| :::Volleyball as we know it was invented in the 1890s, and the court was originally measured in feet, somewhat smaller than today's dimensions. Current dimensions are ''almost'' 60 x 30, which means they probably fudged it to make it work out to whole numbers of meters. Not so with the height of the net, though, which is still exactly 8 feet for men and 7'4" for women. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 21:28, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | :::Volleyball as we know it was invented in the 1890s, and the court was originally measured in feet, somewhat smaller than today's dimensions. Current dimensions are ''almost'' 60 x 30, which means they probably fudged it to make it work out to whole numbers of meters. Not so with the height of the net, though, which is still exactly 8 feet for men and 7'4" for women. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 21:28, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | ||
| ::::"The playing court is a rectangle measuring 18 x 9 m, surrounded by a free zone which is a minimum of 3 m wide on all sides...Placed vertically over the centre line there is a net whose top is set at the height of 2.43 m for men and 2.24 m for women." of the ] (International Federation of Volleyball), founded 1947 in Switzerland. To measure pitches for international games in the ] that the ] enacted in the 19th century would be only a sop to mollify such nations as Burma, Liberia and US. ] (]) 21:39, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | ::::"The playing court is a rectangle measuring 18 x 9 m, surrounded by a free zone which is a minimum of 3 m wide on all sides...Placed vertically over the centre line there is a net whose top is set at the height of 2.43 m for men and 2.24 m for women." of the ] (International Federation of Volleyball), founded 1947 in Switzerland. To measure pitches for international games in the ] that the ] enacted in the 19th century would be only a sop to mollify such nations as Burma, Liberia and US. ] (]) 21:39, 2 September 2014 (UTC) | ||
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August 30
Robbie Ross
who wrote the biography of Robbie Ross-Professional Baseball Player? How can I find it myself? On the bio page somewhere? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.143.208.239 (talk) 19:33, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- @74.143.208.239: Do you mean who wrote the Misplaced Pages Article titled Robbie Ross (baseball)? If you do, Misplaced Pages articles are written by many authors, who modify and improve each other's work, most of them known either by a pseudonymous user name, and some identified only by the IP address of the computer they used to make the edit. In any event, you can get a full list of every author, along with every change they made, in the order they made it in, by clicking the "view history" tab while looking at the article in question. --Jayron32 20:00, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
- It's sometimes interesting to go the original creation edit, then click the "cur" button on the far left to compare it to the current version, and see what survived. Pretty close, this time. InedibleHulk (talk) 22:16, August 30, 2014 (UTC)
September 1
Disembowelment
Since the bowels aren't terribly well fixed in place or attached to tendons / bone like other organs, is it possible survive if a large section of your bowel fell out of your abdominal cavity. For instance, say due to a knife wound or some other tearing injury and the whole lot simply fell on the floor. 15 or more feet of the spaghetti. Could you just pick the lot back up yourself and try and cram it back in there. Or would you be generally unconscious at this stage. If not, and you picked it all up and pushed it back in would there be any immediate health consequences beyond just stitching the abdomen back up afterwards.
Gross I know but it seems like it's one of those 'questions' outta hollywood that you just wonder about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.199.169.27 (talk) 14:59, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
- An abdominal hernia matches the situation, except the bowel extrudes past the abdominal musculature, but not the dermis. I suffered that after a previous surgery, and wasn't operated on for a year, even though you could feel a loop of sausage under my skin that gradually grew almost a foot long, and slid in and out of my abdominal wall. Both hernia and disembowelment are eminently survivable so long as the guts themselves are not ruptured, but there is the risk of strangulation (cut off of blood supply) with both and especially infection with the latter. See also Truss (medicine). μηδείς (talk) 15:25, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
- Plucked from the internet at random: Disemboweled biker to make full recovery. I suspect that in a time before antibiotics, peritonitis would get you if shock didn't. Not a medical opinion, just a guess. Alansplodge (talk) 20:25, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
- Valerie Lakey had her guts sucked out of her butt (transanally disemboweled) by a swimming pool in 1993. As of 2006 (maybe today), she's still alive, though still not back to normal, despite a lot of professional medical help. Almost certainly couldn't have done it alone.
- The intestines may seem like a chaotic mess, compared to the more rigid organs, but they're actually folded rather precisely. Like trying to refold a road map or rebox Christmas lights, ripping and tangling are common problems. If you're rushing and distracted (as a disemboweled person should be), that risk increases. Gotta remember to wash your hands well, too. They may be normally full of crap, but only on the inside. InedibleHulk (talk) 02:13, September 3, 2014 (UTC)
- Artur and Heitor Rocha are set to have their bowels removed from each other's abdominal cavities. That's a whole other level of complexity, but doctors figure it's possible. InedibleHulk (talk) 02:18, September 3, 2014 (UTC)
- Note that (per the Disembowelment article), Ms. Lakey now has short_bowel_syndrome, and must be fed intravenously. I don't know if this is because of the circumstances surrounding her accident, or if it is a normal consequence of this sort of thing. OldTimeNESter (talk) 16:39, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- I don't think it would be a good idea to push them back in immediately, because that would introduce lots of bacteria into the body cavity, and the resulting massive infection would be likely to be fatal. Better to have medical professionals disinfect the intestines first, repair any damage to them, then put them back in the proper location. Also note that the intestines are pulled out of the body, at least in part, during some medical procedures. My Dad had that done, to clear a blockage, but they didn't put them back in the right way and he looked "lumpy" from then on. StuRat (talk) 14:27, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
dakimakura question
Do lesbian girls in Japan use yuri-themed dakimakuras or is it just a male phenomenon? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.56.17.68 (talk) 16:23, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
- See Rule 34. --Jayron32 02:58, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Could you explain how that article is relevant to the question? I am asking about Japanese society / culture. Just because someone, somewhere might have drawn "porn" of it doesn't mean it happens in real life. 210.56.17.68 (talk) 12:47, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- I think what Jayron means is, inevitably and undoubtedly, yes. If you're still in doubt you could always ask a lesbian.--Shantavira| 15:01, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- Indeed. The broad implication of Rule 34 is that if you can think of any sexual situation, someone in the world is undoubtedly into that thing. The world is a giant, divers place with billions of people. Finding one or two into some specific kink isn't that hard; if you've thought of it, others have already thought of it and done it. --Jayron32 22:27, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- The world might be a big place but the question specifically asked about Japanese lesbians in Japan. So the billions and billions of people across the whole world who might be "into it" as a fetish is not at all relevant to the question of whether it actually happens in Japan. 46.209.217.173 (talk) 13:59, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
- Indeed. The broad implication of Rule 34 is that if you can think of any sexual situation, someone in the world is undoubtedly into that thing. The world is a giant, divers place with billions of people. Finding one or two into some specific kink isn't that hard; if you've thought of it, others have already thought of it and done it. --Jayron32 22:27, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- I think what Jayron means is, inevitably and undoubtedly, yes. If you're still in doubt you could always ask a lesbian.--Shantavira| 15:01, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
September 2
How to use Ebscohost Connection?
In my searches for references, I've occasionally come across articles listed on Ebscohost Connection. I'm not familiar with this website and have been struggling to understand it. I believe that I managed to access an article through the site once, but that was a couple of years ago - I don't remember what I did at the time. My recent attempts to access anything through the site have proved futile. I put a lot of effort into it a couple of months ago and just ended up confused and frustrated. I just tried again today and this is what has happened:
- I clicked on the blue flag-like box that says, "Read the article courtesy of your local library"
- This opens a green box
- I enter my zipcode to search by location
- I select a library in my local area - it isn't the library that I usually go to, but my card should still be valid there
- I enter my library card number
- I get a message saying, "Thank You! You will now be redirected to EBSCOhost to read the full text: The Bros. Runt courtesy of Fairfax County Public Library. If you are not automatically redirected, click here to go to the full text."
- I am then taken to a login page, where it asks for a User ID and Password
I don't think that I actually got this far when I tried a few months ago. But I'm not sure what login information the site is looking for. Do I need to set up an account with EBSCOhost? If so, how do I do that? I don't see an option for creating an account. --Jpcase (talk) 17:27, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- I'm in the UK but I've always found it best to access EBSCOHost via the library website itself as it uses a different logon form. From your example - the Fairfax link is here which takes you to this login page. Nanonic (talk) 19:18, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks. I was able to log in through that link. However, I remember getting to this point before, when I tried a few months ago. I can't figure out how to use the search option from this point. For example, I'm interested in finding articles about the television series Ed, Edd n Eddy and have been able to find many on EBSCOhost through the area of the site that I linked to above. When I go through the login page that you provided though, and search Ed, Edd n Eddy, I only get five results - none of them having to do with the show. Any thoughts? --Jpcase (talk) 19:40, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- EBSCO is the provider, but not all libraries have equal access to all titles that EBSCO has. Some libraries choose specialist databases that are relatively narrow (technical papers, journals, etc.) Others are more generalist. Could be that you bumped into this and that's why you aren't seeing many results. Mingmingla (talk) 21:44, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- @Mingmingla: That would make sense. But how can I see which libraries carry a certain article? --Jpcase (talk) 21:49, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- You can't, really. Mingmingla (talk) 17:14, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
- Hmm...well that's inconvenient. --Jpcase (talk) 17:19, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
- You can't, really. Mingmingla (talk) 17:14, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
- @Mingmingla: That would make sense. But how can I see which libraries carry a certain article? --Jpcase (talk) 21:49, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- EBSCO is the provider, but not all libraries have equal access to all titles that EBSCO has. Some libraries choose specialist databases that are relatively narrow (technical papers, journals, etc.) Others are more generalist. Could be that you bumped into this and that's why you aren't seeing many results. Mingmingla (talk) 21:44, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks. I was able to log in through that link. However, I remember getting to this point before, when I tried a few months ago. I can't figure out how to use the search option from this point. For example, I'm interested in finding articles about the television series Ed, Edd n Eddy and have been able to find many on EBSCOhost through the area of the site that I linked to above. When I go through the login page that you provided though, and search Ed, Edd n Eddy, I only get five results - none of them having to do with the show. Any thoughts? --Jpcase (talk) 19:40, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
3rd meter line violation in volleyball
Why in some moments players aren't allowed to cross the 3rd meter line and the point goes to the opponent team?--93.174.25.12 (talk) 18:42, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Misplaced Pages has an article titled Volleyball which does cover the rules. The restrictions as to which players may cross the 3-meter line are covered in that article; near as I can tell, it depends on which players start in the back-court before the serve; there's also a player called the "libero" that has restrictions on how and when they can hit the ball. --Jayron32 19:05, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- We played volleyball long before meters even existed. Is tis some sort of europeanism? μηδείς (talk) 19:46, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Vollyball: 1895. Metre (note spelling): 1793. Don't be silly. Welcome to the rest of the world. 82.21.7.184 (talk) 22:36, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- Volleyball as we know it was invented in the 1890s, and the court was originally measured in feet, somewhat smaller than today's dimensions. Current dimensions are almost 60 x 30, which means they probably fudged it to make it work out to whole numbers of meters. Not so with the height of the net, though, which is still exactly 8 feet for men and 7'4" for women. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 21:28, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- "The playing court is a rectangle measuring 18 x 9 m, surrounded by a free zone which is a minimum of 3 m wide on all sides...Placed vertically over the centre line there is a net whose top is set at the height of 2.43 m for men and 2.24 m for women."Official Volleyball Rules of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (International Federation of Volleyball), founded 1947 in Switzerland. To measure pitches for international games in the quaint units that the long-decayed empire of Queen Victoria enacted in the 19th century would be only a sop to mollify such nations as Burma, Liberia and US. 84.209.89.214 (talk) 21:39, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
- We played volleyball long before meters even existed. Is tis some sort of europeanism? μηδείς (talk) 19:46, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
September 4
Google Plus
How can I see exactly who +1'd my posts? I can see the number of +1's, but not the names of the people who did it. 202.153.41.162 (talk) 17:14, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
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