Mick

My Yahoo Profile page includes Comments that I posted in response to Yahoo News articles. How do I delete them? I tried deleting them from the Yahoo News articles they were posted to, but they still appear on my Profile page.

Many years ago, when the only fluorescent lights were the long tube type, I read that fluorescent lights use a lot of energy getting lit up, and hardly any once they're lit. Supposedly it used less electricity to leave the light lit than to shut it off and turn it back on, unless you were going to leave it off for several hours. Is this correct? And if it's true of fluorescent tubes, is it also true of the new compact fluorescent bulbs?

Since I never watch TV except for baseball games, I haven't updated my video stack in decades; could the obsolescence of my equipment be the source of my problem? I have an old, non-cable-ready TV and two VCRs. The cable goes into one VCR, then the second VCR, then the TV using coaxial cable, and I tune the channels using a VCR's tuner. The VCRs are also hooked up in series using the in and out jacks, which allows copying from one VCR to the other.

I got tired of watching DVDs on my computer, so I bought a DVD player to plug into my video stack. I connected it via the output and input jacks to one of the VCRs, replacing the first VCR in the series, so it would play through the remaining VCR and into the TV, just like the VCR it replaced. But it doesn't. The DVD player starts and runs, but no signal reaches the TV.

I doubt that the DVD player is defective right out of the box, though I have no way to check. I can't connect it directly to the TV, as it's meant to be hooked up, because my ancient TV doesn't have input jacks.

Am I missing something obvious, or is there a reason why a DVD player won't work when it's hooked up that way? Do I need a new, more modern TV with direct input jacks?

I want to reinforce a split seam on an old car seat. It doesn't have to look great, just hold it together and keep the stuffing from falling out.