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May 26

NCIS music

NCIS: Season 3, Episode 2, "Kill Ari (2)": at the end of the cemetery scene as the team was leaving Kate's burial service, Abby turns on her "mini" boom box to play a "traditional" New Orleans funeral anthem (link @ 21:50). Can someone identify the song/artist? hydnjo (talk) 02:23, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Never mind, found it here. hydnjo (talk) 22:20, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Australian conscription

what were many reasons why Australian anglican Church members wanted conscription in 1916? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tayla-paytton (talk • contribs) 10:44, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

You want many reasons? That sounds like a homework question to me. We don't do homework here. And this question belongs on the Humanities desk in any event, as it's not remotely about Entertainment. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 12:19, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Solid ties with Britain: [1]. I found this by typing Australian Anglican Church Conscription in Google (see here) and this was the first thing that popped up. Buddy431 (talk) 04:19, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Science fiction movie

I've been trying to remember a science fiction film I saw many years ago about a group of scientists who travel through what I think was alternative universes only to find that time there runs at a different rate. They spend much of the film trying to return home. I vaguely recall the ending where they believe they have managed to find themselves back in their own universe only to see themselves as they were just before they started traveling and moving so slowly it was hardly noticeable. I think the film was black & white and I haven't seen it for nigh on 40 years. Occasionally over the years I've thought of this film and never been able to remember the name. Any help would be appreciated. Jack forbes (talk) 10:47, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

The plot doesnt sound familiar but we do have a category on time travel films (which I have had no luck wikilinking). Any luck browsing there? Livewireo (talk) 14:22, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Category:Time travel films -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 14:33, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Sounds like Journey to the Center of Time, or perhaps its inspiration, The Time Travelers. Neither is in b&w, though. Deor (talk) 15:21, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Wohoo! Thanks guys for all your help. It was the time travelers 1964 film. And it was in colour? The mind can play tricks over time. Years and years of scratching my head is now over. I probably didn't get the plot right but you came through for me anyway. Thanks again. Jack forbes (talk) 17:11, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

I've gone for many years thinking that certain color films were shot in black and white, simply because I first saw them on a b&w TV and never saw them in color until much later. Deor (talk) 17:42, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

That makes sense, Deor. I would have seen it in black & white all those years ago. Jack forbes (talk) 17:55, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Throwing in cricket

Having trouble visualising Throwing (cricket), I went to Google Video and found this example. Now I understand the way that it's done, but the article confuses me more — throwing is "when a bowler straightens their arm by more than 15 degrees when delivering the ball", but in the video, the bowler's arm is significantly straighter on the legal delivery than on the throw. What am I missing here? As an aside, what is "Lords"? I noticed that this name was mentioned when the video was showing a group of dignified men; had the British House of Lords become involved in cricket? Nyttend (talk) 13:19, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

For the easy part: Lord's is Lord's Cricket Ground. The dignified men may be members of the MCC. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 13:22, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

The arm should be straight when the ball is bowled. Throwing is when the arm is straightened during the delivery. Warofdreams talk 14:11, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Imagine an arm with no elbow - the intention is for the bowler to bowl with a perfectly straight arm, rather than using any angular momntum from the elbow to propel the ball. To me, the confusion is over the reference in the article to "when a bowler straightens their arm by more than 15 degrees", when it should surely be "flexes their arm by more than 15 degrees" - but I'm no expert on cricket rules (and was even less expert at playing it). Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:00, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

I too am confused by the wording. I've left much the same comment as Ghmyrtle's struck-out sentence, on the article's talk page. Astronaut (talk) 15:42, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

I've responded there. Try throwing something - your arm moves from being angled at the elbow, to being straight. Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:42, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

This summary is quite useful, and its images might help clarify - you can see the bowler's arm straighten through the delivery. Warofdreams talk 15:46, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the input! Until I read this article, I'd imagined that cricket bowling was underhanded, using a motion similar to that used in ten-pin bowling. Nyttend (talk) 21:00, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Underarm bowling in cricket is was until recently within the rules, but highly unusual in the modern game. Ghmyrtle (talk) 21:02, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Bowling underarm was considered underhand even when it was legal, at least at elite level. Hence the huge brouhaha over the Underarm bowling incident of 1981. -- 202.142.129.66 (talk) 05:05, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

And the reason for the value of 15 degrees is that at 15 degrees the arm-straightening becomes visually apparent. There's no use choosing a value which is too small for the human eye (i.e. the spectators and especially the umpire (cricket)) to detect. Some recent notable bowlers who have had problems with throwing: Brett Lee, Shoaib Akhtar (both fast bowlers), Johan Botha and the double-jointed Muttiah Muralitaran (both spin bowlers). Usually when the problem arises the bowler gets bundled off to a facility (I think it's in Australia) where they stick a few sensors on his arm and measure his bowling action. Johan Botha in particular was banned from bowling his doosra (which spins opposite to the usual delivery) because his action for that particular delivery was illegal. Zunaid 09:44, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Nickelodeon st u i d o address.

Do you know the Address of nick st u i do? Thank you , Kurtis —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.0.112.11 (talk) 19:15, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

If you mean an E-mail address - usually people like that don't usually disclose their Email address, just to avoid the amount of spam/hate mail that they may get. There may be an Email address in place specifically for fan mail, though, so I'm hoping someone else might have more details if that is the case. If you mean a physical address - that is even less likely to have been disclosed. The dangers of that are obvious. However, like with an Email address, there may be a physical address specifically for fan mail/correspondence etc. Someone else hopefully should be able to help you with that, as I have no clue. Sorry about that. Chevymontecarlo 19:48, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Their contact details appear to be here. Warofdreams talk 20:52, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

According to our article on Nickelodeon Studios, it no longer exists. It was closed in 2005. — Michael J 18:04, 27 May 2010 (UTC)