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October 27

Solar watch

Can someone give me an advice of a good solar watch that sell under 60usd in amazon.com?

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iskander HFC (talk • contribs) 03:29, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

No. I bought a Casio for about $25. But advice on purchases is outside the realm of the encyclopedia. Try Consumer Reports. Apteva (talk) 03:45, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Or reviews on Amazon. --Mr.98 (talk) 11:41, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

If you want a solar watch for less than $60 (€50) [£40], then you should try to buy a broken one which is of inferior quality, of which there are many examples. 92.0.97.51 (talk) 17:27, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Which is the science and art....

What is the science and art of management of schools and their characteristic way of interaction of students primarily (and faculty) of schools (educational centres) with the built environment? — Preceding unsigned comment added by189.222.145.250 (talk) 10:26, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

There isn't likely one catch-all term for these things. The field of Education (as in, that which is taught and studied in Education School, not just education broadly) more or less try and cover some of these things, but the intersection with the build environment would be a form of Architecture or Environmental Design. If one were, say, trying to study these issues, it would be some intersection between these fields. --Mr.98 (talk) 11:41, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Hungary Drafting 10,000 Militia

I have heard rumours that Hungary has drafted 10,000 militia, in case of civil unrest or even a possible civil war. I cannot find anything on the internet for this. Can anybody else? KägeTorä - (影虎)(TALK) 19:38, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Do you really mean drafted, as in conscription, as opposed to having a 10,000 member volunteer force ? StuRat (talk) 02:32, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

I believe it's a conscripted force, which are all being trained in Budapest - they are legally required to attend. I am not sure what is going on. I am getting garbled messages from people - none of whom are native English speakers, and some messages from a client (an international media organization who came to interview people about this). There seems to be a media blackout (except foreign media - which know nothing much because of the media blackout). I am just trying to find out what's going on. KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 03:14, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

This all looks so implausible. What possible use would 10K untrained raw recruits be in such a situation? And why would they need a media blackout?Clarityfiend (talk) 05:13, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

But if there were a media blackout, and the internet knows nothing about it, how would we here know anything that the rest of world doesn't know? -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 06:08, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

I actually don't know what's going on. When one of my colleagues comes back this afternoon, I will ask him where he got this information, and try to find something. KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 09:52, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

I would note per Military service#Hungary, it doesn't seem clear how this could be done in secret without breaking the law. While conscription is again possible after a recent law change, it seems the National Assembly (Hungary) needs to approve it first. It seems unlikely this would happen in secret and with a complete media blackout. Nil Einne (talk) 10:18, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

That recent law change might be the key to this. I can well imagine someone creating a rumour that takes the raw material of the law change and converts it via the filter of their mind into these concrete plans Kage's heard about it. Until such time as it's confirmed, if it ever is, it has to remain a rumour, and it should be assumed to be baseless. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 19:12, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Living in neighbouring Austria, all I can find are some reports in local media on the demonstrations last Tuesday (commemorating the revolution 1956). These had been organised both by the exparliamentary opposition (Szolidaritas und MILLA) and by the ruling centre-right party ofVictor Orban. There is no mention of any militias being drafted, nor is there any report on civil unrest. It would seem unlikely that the sizable Hungarian community in Vienna (many of them liberal intellectuals) could be oblivious to such a situation. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 12:14, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

I don't know anything about this particular situation or non-situation, but I will note that it's a common conspiracy theory "newsflash" to ominously state that troops are massing here or there. A quick Google for "US is massing troops", for example, returns hits for American troops that are massing in Kuwait, at the Iranian border, at the Mexican border, at the Venezuelan border, and at the Syrian border with Iraq, among many others. Matt Deres (talk) 15:40, 28 October 2012 (UTC)