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Many say it is difficult to predict the stock market. While some YouTubers claim that there are costly paid articles that can only be accessed by wealthy individuals, and they know when the market will crash and when it will rise. Is this true? Fruit Orchard (talk) 07:08, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I see no reason to think that they possess special knowledge not available to the public. If they do and act on it, they will be guilty of the felony of insider trading. ‑‑Lambiam10:26, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not unless they've invented a time machine. Besides, why would they need to charge for articles if they can just cash in themselves on the stock market? Telling others only makes it harder to make money with their alleged "knowledge". It's like a horse race. If I knew the winner in advance and told others, they'd bet on the horse themselves, thereby lowering the odds/my winnings. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:18, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I want to understand the distinction between winter and spring wheat beyond the literal differences in uses, yields, and life cycle. From Henry Christman's Tin Horns and Calico:
The tenants [in early nineteenth-century New York] had economic as well as political complaints: in the last ten or fifteen years, their exhausted soil had been unable to grow winter wheat. Spring wheat, the only kind they could grow on their soil, was rejected. In many instances, they were frustrated in their honest efforts to pay and were compelled to pay the cash equivalent of the very highest market price.
The Wikipedia article as written does not give practical or historical context to this passage, and we don't feel the weight of what Christman has clearly tried to tell us. Shushimnotrealstooge (talk) 02:21, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The question which kinds of wheat will sell on the market is very complicated and cannot be reduced to a general difference between winter and spring wheat. This depends also on the use the wheat will be put to and the demand for that use, the climate it is grown in, the soil and water quality, and the variety of wheat. For example, "... spring wheat grown in Estonian climate has better baking quality than winter wheat".[1] Also, although perhaps not relevant to the situation of these nineteenth-century New Yorkers, the wheat market is not immune to the pork cycle. ‑‑Lambiam06:40, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, it does look like it - as far as the quality of the picture permits. And thanks for the link to fangqi; that makes it plausible. ◅ Sebastian Helm🗨21:21, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm probably wrong about fangqi. I assumed a distant connection to nine men's morris, but perhaps it's from go. Note however the alquerque "see also" section: it has variants that are played in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, on a board extended with one or more triangular sections, and the same board is used for "tiger hunt" type games in India, Indonesia and Siberia ... ah, and there's bagh-chal in Nepal on the unmodified alquerque board. That's a likely guess for the game pictured. Card Zero (talk)12:39, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like the image source, "Goepper 1962", must be de:Roger Goepper and Vom Wesen chinesischer Malerei (The essence of Chinese painting). The Gran enciclopedia del mundo reproduces the painting as «La manada de búfalos» (pastry not acknowledged) and says it's in the Art Institute of Chicago. Fan Zimin was a Taoist monk. He was hardly known as a painter, according to the Benezit dictionary of artists, which gives the title of the scroll as "Oxen in pasture". Another book calls it "Seven oxen and two herdboys relaxing by a stream" and says it was stolen from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969. An old Chinese text on collecting even older Chinese paintings says Kuo Chung-shu [ca. 920-977], Shih K’o [10th century], Li Kueichen [active early 10th century] and Fan Tzu-min [12th century] were all unusual men. People often set out silk, brush, and ink palette, in expectation of their coming, and then would request a painting. When the work was nearly done, the painter would tear it to pieces. If anyone managed to obtain something by these painters, it was never more than a single or half scroll. This paper Ox-Herding Painting in the Sung Dynasty quibbles with Fan Tzu-min's date and puts him in the 12th century. Card Zero (talk)14:20, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Beautiful research - thanks a lot! I added a permanent link to this contribution of yours to the image description. Now I feel we should have an article on this interesting person, but I don't even know how his name is written in Chinese. Thanks also for the link to bagh-chal; that game even has a herder's theme. ◅ Sebastian Helm🗨02:03, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Does anyone know where the first photo from the left in this PDF file are taken from? The second photo from the left are from Boelter's own website so it's fairly obvious that the photos weren't taken nor created by the FBI
I tried to search the individual photos but every news site just lists the source as "FBI" which is likely just an reference to the wanted poster itself Trade (talk) 03:18, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The NY Post credits it to Minnesota Department of Public Safety, if that helps (it doesn't, does it). The image there is a big version at least. The blue background seems rare on mugshots, and you might wonder how he continued working in security if he was in trouble with the law in 2022, but driver's licenses often have that blue background. Card Zero (talk)12:41, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That is a 404 (an archived 404). I did notice a blue background in an Africans United video cap, but that was a different picture. So, maybe? Card Zero (talk)23:16, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I understand that they photo are unlikely to have been taken by the FBI but i need to know by whom and where they were taken. I presume it was after an arrest or something--Trade (talk) 00:28, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You are correct. There were players who played all four years and lost all for Super Bowl games. Further, Gale Gilbert, Cornelius Bennett, and Glenn Parker went on to lost another (fifth) Super Bowl with other teams. 68.187.174.155 (talk) 11:14, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not exactly. Whitey was on 11 Yankees World Series teams. They were winners in 1950, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961 and 1962; and losers in 1955, 1957, 1960, 1963 and 1964. He pitched in 22 games and his won-lost record for those individual games was 10-8, with 4 of them being no decision.[3] ←Baseball BugsWhat's up, Doc?carrots→ 00:32, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
My quibble here is about using the words "in sports history", and then talking about only North American sports MEN. I don't know the answer, but I'm sure there are some men from other countries, and maybe some sports WOMEN, who might qualify. As an Australian, I might nominate Nathan Buckley who left the Brisbane Australian rules football club he was originally drafted to, to go to the Collingwood Football Club in the belief he had more chance of winning a premiership (championship) there. After he moved, Brisbane won three premierships, including two against his new club, and Collingwood won none. HiLo48 (talk) 03:55, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Bruges played the final in a white shirt with a purple stripe, presumably their away kit that year, while the blue shirt with a white stripe was probably their home kit. If they had won the Cup in '78, would the ribbons on the trophy have been the same colour as one of the two kits (in this case, the white away kit), or would the ribbons themselves have been black and blue, based on the club's historic colours? Thank you. 93.147.231.16 (talk) 21:23, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I doubt if it would be possible to find out for sure, but it would have looked odd for a team in white and purple strip on the night to have been presented with a trophy bearing black and blue ribbons.
In that era the winning club were given the actual trophy to hold for ten months (rather than a replica as has been the case since 2009). If Bruges had won in 1978, they would likely have been free to display it in their trophy cabinet and elsewhere with black and blue ribbons substituted (or no ribbons at all), had they wished. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.41.216 (talk) 00:32, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This question probably comes up a lot, but I've never seen a really good answer here or anywhere else for that matter. This is a photo of 19th century San Francisco, sometime between 1866–1892, but more likely 1870-1880. As you can see from the image, every boy and man has a hat. From what I've read, each hat gave off social status signals to other boys and men, allowing them to instantly recognize your social status, class, wealth, etc. I don't know if that's actually true, which is part of this question. Another reason I'm asking is that it is believed part of this stems from religious conservatism, but even that is unknown. One thing that I can't help thinking about is that maybe there was an older folk medicine belief at work here. Perhaps people once believed that going outside bareheaded could lead to catching cold, being exposed to lice, and all the rest? It seems like a reasonable theory given the wildlife back then, and all the stories I've heard about people hiking trails in the Bay Area and having all kinds of ticks and creepy crawlies just drop down on them. Then, there's the facial hair. Why so many beards and mustaches? Viriditas (talk) 01:32, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
C. Northcote Parkinson, in chapter 9 of The law of delay, links the cyclic nature of facial hair fashion to the advances and retreats of western civilization. Consider again that last bearded half-century, 1858 to 1908. Architecture was at its worst, recovering only from about 1890. Art was all but dead, recovering only as the century approached its close. Costume was more stuffily unsuitable than at any time before or since. Furniture and interior decoration reached a climax of inconvenience, ugliness and bulk. The theatre was lifeless and great music an heirloom from the past. Religion bulked large in social life but doubts were undermining its basic doctrines; and while the Americans were at war with each other the preachers were at war with themselves. By every standard, this period was very unattractive indeed. But why was the beard so essential to this confusion? Because it was the thicket behind which the older men could hide their uncertainties. Challenged on the truth of Genesis, the elderly divine could retreat behind a barrier which might represent the wisdom of the ages. Questioned about army organization, the Commander-in-Chief could withdraw behind his beard with a screen of cigar smoke - to cover the movement. Questioned about sex, the Victorian schoolmaster could be evasively hirsute. Questioned by his wife, the Victorian immoralist could use his beard in order to blush unseen. The beard could take the place of wisdom, experience, argument or sincerity. It could give the elderly a prestige based upon neither achievement nor brain. It could serve, and did serve, as defence for the pretentious, the pompous, the dishonest and the dull. And now there are signs that the beard may return. Card Zero (talk)02:09, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That's a funny answer, but it sounds pretty silly. Check out the beard on Eadweard Muybridge. Although he didn't take the above photo, he took others like it, and advanced the field of photography. But to your point, his bio indicates that he was involved in a serious runaway stagecoach crash, thrown from the vehicle, only to land on a rock which smashed his head. More recent historical analysis suggests he sustained some kind of brain damage, and there is an indirect suggestion that he soon grew a long beard (Having fun, folks, don't take this too seriously). Viriditas (talk) 02:24, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dress styles, including head coverings, have served as indicators of social status through the ages in cultures throughout the world. The character Andy Capp wears a flat cap because he is a plain English working-class sod. Dutch has the expression Jan met de pet (Jan with the cap) for "the common man". Mr. Monopoly wears a top hat; he's a rich rentier who looks like he hasn't worked a single day in his life. The book Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing has a chapter "The social meaning of hats", pp. 82–87, that is not easily summarized, but the almost obligatory wearing of hats or caps by men, consonant with their social status, was much more widespread than San Francisco or even America, and lasted well into the 20th century. ‑‑Lambiam05:12, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The hat is indeed never mentioned, but in the original magazine illustrations by Sidney Paget of several stories, the earliest in 1891, Holmes was depicted wearing a deerstalker. Since Doyle liked Paget's illustrations and later asked to have him illustrate further stories, we can assume that he gave his imprimatur to the deerstalker, making it canon. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.41.216 (talk) 18:54, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The Ovo Energy advert running on UK commercial radio at the moment features a talking washing machine that leaves a series of voicemails for its owner, and one of the messages has been bugging me for the last few weeks because I can't seem to catch one of the words. Can anyone tell me what it is that smells like clouds? It sounds like vimy, but surely that wouldn't make any sense. Thanks in advance. This is Paul (talk) 10:12, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Could you give the surrounding text (preferably at least a full sentence) in which you hear this soft-smelling word? ‑‑Lambiam17:39, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also consider the possibility that the art director / copy writer / what ever may have deliberately deployed a nonce word to define the "smell of clouds" to tickle prospective customers.
Whilst we have an article on olfactory language there is no mention of clouds. Most of us will be aware that the air holds a specific smell prior and shortly after a thunderstorm. Not that I remember a specific term for this...
Being a regular in a tiny wine bar hidden in a back alley to our Gothic cathedral I once listened to a discussion involving a connoisseur (?) on a specific grape. Multiple terms, relating to smell and taste, were used and some of the words clearly belonged to the jargon of sommeliers, being largely meaningless to me. It may be possible that meteorologists have developed erudite terminologies for sniffing in the exalted athmospheres. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 13:06, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think the idea in the advert is that people can imagine what clouds might smell like, as an analogy to describe what they are actually smelling (which I understand from similar adverts is meant to evoke "freshness"). {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.41.216 (talk) 00:16, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Forearm Forklift" is a well known brand of these, at around $35. These ones[5] from Hobo Freight are $13 and look similar. Anyone know if there is a significant difference? I'd be an infrequent user. I just have a few not too horrendous pieces of furniture to move.
I'm also puzzled by the claim these things can lift 800 lb. It's a two person operation: do they think each person can lift 400?
At a later time I may want to move a 350 lb appliance and I sure can't lift 175. It's a little bit odd that there doesn't seem to be a 4 person version. I'd be interested to know if anyone has tried using two sets (either the forearm version or the shoulder dolly version) with 4 people. I heard somewhere that is possible, but I think the "person"* who said that may have been hallucinating.
* "Person" = Duckduckgo GPT-4o chatbot. I had never talked to one before and I'm halfway impressed, but meh.
I see "700 lb. maximum capacity" for the HAUL-MASTER Forearm Lifting Straps, which means a promise that if the load is 700 lb, and some agent or combination of agents can deliver an upward force of more than 700 lbf, the straps will support the weight. Home Depot rates the Forearm Forklift FF000012 also at 700 lb and lists a price of $29.98.
People in good condition can support a substantially heavier weight from their shoulders, and there are also shoulder lifting straps on the market.[6] The risk of overloading one's shoulders or back, with ensuing physiological damage, should, however, not be taken lightly.
I expect that a group of 4 persons can use two 2-person sets, positioned orthogonally to each other (☩) across the centre of mass. ‑‑Lambiam09:48, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, some commenters on Reddit said that while the shoulder style might be able to move more weight, the forearm ones are more maneuverable and flexible. Since the items I'm immediately trying to move are in the 100 lb range max, I think the forearm ones should be enough. Mostly I wanted to know if I should spend $30 instead of $13 getting the name brand instead of HFT. I think I will get the HFT ones and if they don't suffice, then either upgrade or get the shoulder type. For the 350 thing (later in the year, if it happens at all) maybe I can rent a stairclimber. 2601:644:8581:75B0:A5A0:D83B:8060:B185 (talk) 21:45, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Is "male as norm" the most common name for the concept it refers to?
I wasn't sure if this question belonged under Humanities or Language, so I've decided to ask it here.
When I came across the Male as norm article, I thought to myself that the term (as it is used) is phrased weirdly and that Male normativity would be a better title for it, but I'm not sure if it's more commonly called that. If there is a more common name, I may make a talk page request asking for consensus as to whether or not the article should be moved to such a name. – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 13:28, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
– MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 13:28, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia articles are preferentially titled by the most commonly used name for the subject, rather than the most technically correct or official, to maximise success in searching for them (see WP:COMMONNAME).
If I were searching for an article about this subject, without knowing what it was actually called, I think I'd be more likely to guess something like 'Male as norm' than 'Male normativity'.
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