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March 4

Yasuma musical inst.co. est 1950 in Japan

When did Yasuma stop making acoustic guitars? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Southern voyager (talk • contribs) 02:26, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This page: http://hub pages.com/entertainment/Japanese-Manufacturers-of-Made-In-Japan-Badged-Guitars-from-1950-to-1980 (it's on the blacklist, so remove the space between hub and pages) claims that Yasuma still exists, but builds guitars which are branded for Yamaha instead. Other sources I find say that Yasuma stopped making Yasuma branded guitars after a lawsuit in the 1970s by C.F. Martin claimed that the Yasuma-branded guitars took too many design elements from Martin Guitars, see here. None of these are really great sources, however, and I'm not sure which to believe. It is clear that the Yasuma brand of guitars stopped being produced in the 1970s; but whether the company continued on producing guitars under other names, I can't find definitively. --Jayron 32 14:50, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Any refs?

Any references yet to people doing a 'Donald' when trumping?--31.109.183.147 (talk) 02:26, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain what you mean by "doing a Donald" (having intercourse with a cartoon duck?) and by "trumping" (playing a card of a special suit?) and it might be possible to answer the question. Edison (talk) 04:28, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Trombone Trouble. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 04:38, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As the OP locates to the UK maybe they are referring to this. Richard Avery (talk) 07:37, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As in "Partner, why did you donald my ace?" —Tamfang (talk) 17:51, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I should point out that the technical term is "ruff" for the action performed with a trump card. To "donald an ace" would be like saying "to michael a ball". Incidentally, the entirely inoffensive phrase "blow a raspberry" is reputedly derived from the rhyming slang for the activity the OP proposes to associate with the GOP candidate... Tevildo (talk) 23:08, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

music

was listening to this

youtu.be/ZhP6F-vxeZI?t=1m42s

and realized i heard it somewhere. then remembered it's here

youtu.be/KVu3gS7iJu4?t=1m32s

they arent quite the same but with this much similarity isn't this plagiarism? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Money is tight (talk • contribs) 10:42, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It depends. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:41, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

They're both choral, the (simple) rhythm is very similar, but I would say the melody is not similar enough to get in trouble. —Tamfang (talk) 08:54, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A few notes can be enough to get you in trouble with musical copyright. Of course, you would have to prove derivation. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 16:33, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Considering that Men at Work disbanded some years ago, who do the copyright owners expect to pay the royalties they won in court? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:08, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

found the full track for man of steel trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZTUbNrrRE same person craig armstrong. no wonder Money is tight (talk) 03:20, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How many percents of the universities have studies on Saturday?

In addition, is it considered common or acceptable to study on Saturdays in your countries? 93.126.95.68 (talk) 22:09, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I live in the U.S. and attended a public university. In the U.S. there generally aren't regular classes or other academic functions on the weekend. There can be the occasional exceptions. I think I had some weekend study sessions, if I recall correctly. But let me point out these were some of numerous sessions held on different days by different teacher's assistants. The scheduling was up to the TAs, as long as rooms were available, and some students wanted weekend sessions because it made their schedules easier. Also facilities such as labs may, depending on the school, be open on weekends or just Saturdays, for people doing "self-directed" things like lab work. --71.119.131.184 (talk) 06:57, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also I should point out that some community colleges and other schools in the U.S. do offer some regular weekend classes. These are often tailored to people who are studying while also working regular jobs. The situation I described above is representative of "four-year colleges" where the majority of students live at the school and are pursuing a bachelor's or graduate degree (I attended a University of California campus). --71.119.131.184 (talk) 10:50, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There's the Open University in the UK. Alansplodge (talk) 14:26, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A typical lecture course at Cambridge University has 24 lectures over 8 weeks, and these are on (the mornings of) Monday, Wednesday and Friday or Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. E.g. see here for the Mathematical Tripos Part 1A (= first year) lectures. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 17:03, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'll just offer this anecdote It was possible at my (I assume you mean) university to schedule almost, if not all of your classes between 12 and 5 pm, M/W or T/Th. (Presumably, this also suited the professors.) That meant at 5:30pm Thursday, there was a good hour-long back-up on the freeway, of kids going home for a Thursday meal at their parents, with a sack of laundry, and no intention of going back to school until 9am Monday. Older students who had off-campus apartments and jobs often treated school as secondary to their job and social life. They also knew the ways to avoid the home-bound rush by back roads. I use to work 5p-2a M-Th and spend the rest of my free time asleep, stoned, and/or at the nude beach, when I didn't have a boy or girlfriend available.

Yes, they did offer Saturday classes, especially Chem and Organic Lab. The proper strategy was to take the lab class a year after the lecture (as a sophomore or junior, rather than as a freshman or sophomore, since scheduling was done by class year). Rank hath its Privileges.

μηδείς (talk) 22:47, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Getting help for mentally ill person

How do you assist a mentally ill relative who's not even in the same region as you? Like, how do you contact authorities to get aid when you live on opposite sides of the country? I really believe this person needs to be held under an involuntary psychiatric hold, I fear she may hurt herself and her child. 74.12.214.104 (talk) 22:43, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Contacting the police department where she is located would be the thing to do, but they would need some kind of proof, like a letter or e-mail where she says she intends to harm her child. If you have no such proof, you might contact her friends or relatives in the area, and maybe they can help. (I actually had a similar situation, where a woman who I play a MMORPG with was showing signs of mental problems. I managed to contact her husband via a mutual friend and let him know. She was previously hospitalized for mental health issues, so this made her husband more willing to believe me. ) StuRat (talk) 23:14, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in general, you call the authorities for where the person lives. I can't speak for every place on Earth, but at least here in the U.S. it's pretty routine for police departments to publish their phone numbers. Just asking a search engine for "city police department", replacing "city" with the name of the city in question, has a good chance of getting this information for places in the U.S. One caveat is that rural areas that are not incorporated generally don't have a local police department; in this case it's usually the county sheriff's department you want (or parish, in Louisiana). --71.119.131.184 (talk) 23:15, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The phrase "I think her child may be at risk" is probably the one thing that'll get some attention from police or social services - but you have to understand that they aren't likely to take you at your word without a considerable amount of convincing, not least because just anyone could prank-call them and cause grief for some unfortunate individual (See Swatting for an extreme example). SteveBaker (talk) 17:27, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]