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Question related to the Kelly Osbourne single "One Word"

I have a question...I am looking for the French part of the lyrics of Kelly Osbourne's single, One Word, I have searched for it on Google, but I couldn't find it. And my French is not good enough there is no way of knowing other than asking for help. Thank you for the help!--Faizaguo 02:58, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

According to this Yahoo Answer the words are:

Avez-vous toutes les informations / Elles seront très bien pour vous / Un mot vous dit tout ce…. / M’entendez-vous / Elles seront très bien pour vous

Avez-vous toutes les informations / Un mot vous dit tout ce que vous avez besoin de savoir / Tout ce dont vous avez besoin / Jour après jour / On vous a menti / Un mot (repeat this verse)

Assuming that this is correct and punctuation is as implied, an approximate translation is:

Have you all the information? / It will be very good for you / One word tells you all .../ Do you hear me? /It will be very good for you

Have you all the information? / One word tells you all you need to know / All that you need / Day after day / You have been lied to / One word

Karenjc 20:09, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you!--Faizaguo 20:43, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Instrument And Music Shop On Stoney Plain Road

There's a instrument and music shop on (I think) Stoney Plain Road in Edmonton, Alberta. It's probably in an industrial park, if not. What is this shop?174.3.103.39 (talk) 03:04, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Have you tried searching internet yellow pages and things like that? Running into a random person here who is familiar with music stores in Edmonton is a pretty low propability... --Jayron32.talk.say no to drama 03:26, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't know, we've had pretty good luck giving people directions before... Dismas|^(talk) 05:14, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Would it be this place? (There's also this place, which seems to be a storefront operation with no Web presence.) Deor (talk) 11:41, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Looking for a film

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I saw it about a year ago, wasn't really paying 100% attention to it, but nothing else was on... anyway, basically, what I remember: a guy died and had three of his friends (who didn't know each other) travel somewhere to scatter his ashes (I believe). It was a road trip kind of movie, a little odd. Anybody know what movie this was (an indy film, I'm assuming). The Dominator^Talk_Edits 06:06, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Never mind, managed to find it my self. It was "Love from Ground Zero" [1]. The Dominator^Talk_Edits 06:49, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Crazy TV news and current affairs practices

The following questions, despite appearances, are not rants. I really am curious as to why TV current affairs/news persons adopt odd and unnatural methods of communication that nobody in the real world actually uses. A couple of examples:

• A. The anchor delivers the intro to some piece, then switches to a correspondent in the field for more details. The anchor's next utterance is not a question (with a rising tone), but a statement (with a falling tone). Example: "For more on this breaking story, we switch now to Ken Smith in Copenhagen. Welcome, Ken, and the world leaders have made an unexpected decision at the summit" (falling tone). Ken is supposed to treat that as an invitation to say something about this decision, as if he'd been asked a question about it, which he hasn't been. It sounds completely unnatural and contrived to my ears. Why do they do this? Why not just be normal and ask a question? They all do it nowadays, so there must be a good reason other than "All the other TV stations are doing it".

• B. Another one is the start of the news. We see brief video clips of the 2 or 3 main headlines, with the newsreaders doing voice-over. Then while the intro music is playing out we see the newsreaders for the first time. And what are they doing? Facing each other and chatting about god knows what. They always have happy smiling faces and friendly demeanours while they're chatting. Then they turn to the camera and start reading the news, adjusting their expressions to suit the first story, which is usually of a serious nature. The obvious question is, what was so important to talk about between themselves in the few seconds between the headlines being read out and the actual news stories being delivered? What was so important to take their focus off us, their audience? Clearly, nothing. They're under instructions to display friendliness, and to have a bit of a chat as a way of demonstrating their good relations with each other. They could be saying "Blah, blah, blah" for all we know. Or "What the hell are we going to pretend to be talking about tonight? I'm all out of ideas". It's uber-obvious that this practice is contrived in as cynical a way as possible. Since it's so utterly transparent that even fools like I can see the disconnect and are reduced to wincing, why do they do it? There must be some benefit to them that outweighs the appearance of craziness and is worth taking a risk for. -- JackofOz (talk) 08:19, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

This is what is known in the television news community as "happy talk," a phrase coined by Variety in 1970. It was a trend that began in 1968 and then escalated in the 1970s with the widespread introduction of co-anchors at local stations. News consultants visited different stations and showed the co-anchors how to do "happy talk," which increased ratings according to research. This article [2] explains how "happy talk" evolved from the earlier "happy news" as developed by Gabriel Heatter and other radio newscasters. It all came crashing down in 1973 when veteran newsman Hughes Rudd and print journalist Sally Quinn co-anchored the CBS Morning News. Quinn had no experience in TV journalism but was told to engage in happy talk with Rudd after he read a news story. Unfortunately, no one fully explained happy talk to Quinn (or even told her that the light on the camera meant it was operating). If I correctly recall her account of her first day from her book We're Going to Make you a Star (1975), Rudd read a story about a tragic incident in which someone had fallen from an airplane in flight and was stunned when Quinn happily joked, "Watch that first step, huh?" Pepso2 (talk) 13:23, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Death Cult Armageddon

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Hi, does anyone knows what type of synthesizers or music library does Dimmu Borgir band/Mustis uses for the Death Cult Armageddon album. Relevant background music like Progenies Of Great Apocalypse and Eradication instinct defined. Probably most of their background orchestral music from all albums was done with the same music library, but I don't know the name of it. Thanks. --TudorTulok (talk) 09:56, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Resolved, not sampling, but real orchestra: Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

Templates

I have created a couple of articles on old and now closed theatres in Glasgow, Scotland, one them being Glasgow Empire Theatre. Having looked at another theatre artice, King's Theatre, Glasgow, I see a template at the bottom of the page called Theatres of Scotland. As all those included in the template are current theatres I presume former theatres do not belong there. Is there some way of creating a template that will fit former theatres or is there already one there and I'm missing it? Coll Mac (talk) 11:26, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

You could use that template (Template:Scottish Theatres) as a model to create one for former theatres, but it might be a good idea to ask the folk at WikiProject Scotland for their opinions before doing so. We do have a category Category:Former theatres in Scotland that may obviate the need for a template. (By the way, a better venue for questions of this sort, where the responses are likely to be better informed, is Wikipedia:Help desk.) Deor (talk) 12:07, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. You may be right and there is no need for a template. I may do as you suggest and ask at Wikiproject Scotland. Coll Mac (talk) 12:23, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Searching for a SNES game

I've been searching for a SNES game I played years ago. I tried Wikipedia's list of SNES games, but it does not seem there. The game is a side-scroller/platformer à la Mario Bros but the main protagonist is a humanoid cat. The first level takes place on a bridge and the player needs to jump from car to car. The second one takes place in a horror themed (?) building. As far that I know, it is not Bubsy.Rachmaninov Khan (talk) 16:04, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Eek! The Cat? (screenshots) --jh51681 (talk) 07:53, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

internet source

Hello,

I'm doing research on the Red Sox and I was wondering if you know of an internet source where I could find obscure information like, the winning pitcher for the 5000th Red Sox franchise win?

Thank you,

Ken Fougere —Preceding unsigned comment added by KenFougere (talk • contribs) 17:23, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

The folks at Elias Sports Bureau have that sort of info at their fingertips, but not for free. They are a pay service, but depending on how desperate you are for this information, they would definately be the people to contact. If it happened in sports, they can find out for you. --Jayron32.talk.say no to drama 17:28, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

You can probably do the math yourself on some stuff at www.baseball-reference.com, which has a lot of stats for free.209.244.30.221 (talk) 23:58, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, you can - see Boston's all-time win/loss stats, and just count up all the wins. That takes you to 5015 at the end of 1966. Since they won 72 games that year, the 5000th win was their 57th win of the season, which, according to the 1966 schedule, was August 27, when they beat the Orioles 3-2. The winning pitcher was Jim Lonborg. You can even see the entire boxscore for the game. Adam Bishop (talk) 02:05, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Is this site any use to you? http://www.baseball-almanac.com/....hotclaws 09:42, 15 July 2009 (UTC)