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June 17

Secrets & Lies (film) , 1996, by Mike Leigh : who is the father ?

Hello Learned Ones! We just watched in family the movie on our Arte (french cultural TV channel), & keep wondering : who was Hortense's father ? Some of us think it was the american medical student who left Cynthia in Benidorm; but some think this was Roxanne's father, & that nothing was said about Hortense's. There is even somebody ( actually known for dozing away during the movies...) sustaining that Hortense's father is plainly described as an afro-american NCO from a peri-londonian SHAPE barracks...What do you think ? Thanks a lot beforehand for your answers Arapaima (talk) 07:11, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

As the film says, and you rightly quote from the article, the American medical student was Roxanne's father and nothing is said about Hortense's father. I'm not sure why you think there is anything more to it than that. --Viennese Waltz 07:39, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a lot V. Waltz ! Arapaima (talk) 15:46, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

NBA license fee and allowance of referees

How much does each NBA team pay for the license? How much must a new team pay to enter the nba league? And: How much do the referees earn? 112.198.77.254 (talk) 08:42, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Typically, entrance fees are set up with each expansion and are not standard. When the Charlotte Bobcats joined the NBA in 2004-05, the fee was set at $300 million [1]. It would presumably be higher if the NBA were to expand again (there are no such plans at this time, according to Commissioner Adam Silver [2]. This site [3] gives a salary range of $100,000 to $300,000 for NBA referees, which sounds about right. I'm not sure what you mean about the licence: the league covers its costs out of league-wide broadcasting and merchandising rights and other revenues, and pays some of this revenue back to member teams, not the other way around; you may be thinking of a European model in which teams have to pay fees to their sports federation, but it's not how it works in North America. --Xuxl (talk) 09:33, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Star Wars - didn't the Death Star originally have a firing countdown ?

So Star Wars was on recently... and several of us sat half-watching...
and as the Death Star prepared to fire on Yavin IV, it occured to me there was no countdown...

I'm sure there used to be a countdown to firing ( obviously cut short when the Death Star itself explodes )
But now, there's just a voice that twice says: "stand by..."

No-one else seemed to remember a countdown - I didn't imagine it, did I ?
Was it one of the changes made in some version or other ?
90.244.130.210 (talk) 12:32, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

There is a line in both visible firing sequences in Star Wars: A New Hope (the one that destroyed Alderaan and the one that was targeting the Rebel base) stating "Commence primary ignition", then some buttons being pressed and a lever being pulled back. In the first sequence, we see the energy beam generated and then it obliterated Alderaan. In the second sequence, intermingled with Luke bombing the exhaust port, we get the "Stand by ... stand by" dialogue followed by the Death Star exploding. IIRC, there is no numerical countdown in either sequence. --McDoobAU93 13:15, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

There is a visual countdown to when the death star makes it around the planet you can see here: http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/zs/anh/by07screen.jpg I believe the count is occasionally announced verbally but not really counted all the way down. This is mentioned at this page detailing changes: http://swrevisited.wordpress.com/anhr-change-list/ Staecker (talk) 12:28, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

F♯ major or G major ?

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SK9qKKau48

Good afternoon, this song is in F♯ major or G major ? Fort123 (talk) 17:53, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

My absolute pitch tells me it's in F♯ major. Graham87 13:45, 19 June 2014 (UTC)