Runa

I've wondered about this question as I know there are plenty of women around the world who either give up their child for adoption shortly after birth or who have medical conditions that make breastfeeding unwise or even dangerous for the baby (e.g. if they are HIV positive). How long does it take before their body gets the message that it doesn't need to make food for a baby?

I'm writing a fantasy story where I have a mother and her three-year-old who have to travel quickly--as in, travel or die painfully. Could the mother find a way to safely ride a horse with both herself and the young child riding it? How could that be done?

I'm trying to figure out how to refer to a specific cell in a table in R. I know that picking a specific cell in an array is done as array [x] where x is the index of the cell in question, but I can't figure out how to apply this to two dimensions.

I recently had an accident in which my phone's screen completely broke. There is no back light and no visible symbols that show up on the screen, and the screen no longer responds to touch. Therefore, all I can control are the buttons on the side.

I will be getting a new phone soon (life pro tip: phone insurance can be really useful if you have an expensive phone) and the people at the phone place said all I needed to do was to switch my SIM card and my memory card in order to transfer all of my data to the new phone. However, I know it's a really bad idea to remove the cards while my phone is on because it can mess with the data on the cards. I'd therefore like to try to turn it off so I can safely remove my data from my old, broken phone.

I've seen this fact several times, but I've yet to find the official source of the comment. Was it in an episode? Was it a Word of God reveal? Was it in supplementary materials?

I'm looking for a basic way to cook boneless skinless chicken breast...but to prepare it for use as an ingredient, such as in chicken casseroles. Most recipes I've found are for bone-and-skin-on breasts, but they weren't on sale this week :p. As far as cooking implements, I have a skillet, a stovetop, and an oven, but no grill or grill pan. I vaguely understand that I need to add some kind of fat (oil or butter) to keep it from becoming bone-dry or burning, but I don't know how much or how to apply it.

This poor college student thanks you in advance!

To summarize: I bought a copy of HM:BtN at a garage sale; there was no manual. I'm borrowing the playstation for the summer and haven't touched one before now. Most internet guides assume you're familiar with mechanics and only want to maximize success. Ergo, I have no experience with any of this stuff and the obvious sources of information aren't available.

I get that when fishing you press the square button and hold it in, and if you do that you'll eventually get a "bite" where the rod gets pulled on. Now, if I release the square button after the "bite", I always get nothing, which I'm pretty sure is not how it's supposed to work. Is my timing off? Am I supposed to press another button? How can I get around this?

I got an old copy of Harvest Moon: Back to Nature for the PS the other day at a garage sale. They no longer had the manual, and I've got nearly no experience with playstation in general (my friend is lending it to me for the summer). I can't find a manual online, so I've got a few really stupid questions.

For starters, how do I put stuff in the bin to sell? I know the square makes me eat things and the X makes me drop things, but the item doesn't end up in the bin. Any help would be very appreciated!

I've been playing around with gnuplot lately, and while I can do 2d graphs just fine, as soon as I try using 3d it stops displaying. It acts the exact same way it would with the 2d graphics from the cygwin command prompt window, but the graph window (it's set to export the display to window id :0) never pops up like it does for 2d graphs. Should I be using a different window?

More specifically, I need to be able to produce either a 0 or a 1 to act as a toggle; this needs to be generated again each time the program is run. The "rand" function in C seems to function differently from the ones in Fortran, Matlab, or any other programming languages I know, so some help would be appreciated.

For some reason, I can't find any data pre-Wall-fall. Sources would be greatly appreciated.

I need to essentially build a stopwatch in C. I'd like it so that the person using the program would press Enter (or space; any specific key will suffice) to start the stopwatch and press the same key again to stop the stopwatch. The output will be the distance in time between the two key-presses. Does this already exist, or if not, how would you suggest I do this?

Also, how does one call the time from the computer's clock, if that isn't involved in building the stopwatch?

My laptop (Toshiba Satellite a-305) suddenly had all audio go gritty, like stressed-out speakers. The weird thing is that both the speaker audio *and* audio using headphones both went gritty at the exact same time, which makes me think it's a software issue (though I put this in the hardware category due to the fact that no other category really applies). Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing it?

First of all, I ask this question out of ignorance and curiosity. I admit I know little about the subject, so anyone willing to shed light on this for me would be greatly appreciated.

I had to watch a documentary recently (I cannot remember the title at the moment) on India's "missing girls" and how many girls are aborted, killed at birth, or die because of neglect, resulting in a problematic sex ratio. The reason, as is often reported, is that families dread the prospect of having to pay a dowry for their daughter to marry. However, why is it that these families feel their girls MUST marry? I mean, in a poor family, or even a wealthy one, an unwed teen/adult daughter is quite capable of contributing financially to the family, even if it's doing unskilled labor. If the family doesn't marry off their daughter, they've got someone who can contribute to the family just as well as a daughter-in-law, save for the whole producing-heirs bit (and really--if you're concerned financially, would you rather have an adult female worker in your family or a child male who can't work for years?).

If my question offends, I'm sorry. It's just that, in my research on European family structure during the Age of the Dowry (I use that term facetiously), it was expected that younger daughters in a family with many girls would either join a convent (a much cheaper option) or take care of their parents in old age, freeing up the son(s) from that duty.

In a program I'm writing, I need to use a modular operator that will only give me positive results regardless of the argument. For instance, if I want -1 mod 3, I want it to give me 2. The % operator seems to want to give me -1 as the result. What are my other options?

I'm trying to write a program in which the user gives the program the dimensions of an array, and the computer counts up to that number in the array.

Here's a simplified version of the "meat" of the program:

int x, i;

printf("give the length of the array:\n");

scanf("%d",&x);

int xarray [x]; //this is where I'm having issues

for (i = 1; i <=x, i++){

xarray [i-1] = i;

}

printf("%d\n",xarray);

I think there also may be an issue with the last print part of the function, so any help with printing an array of unknown size would be helpful. As I'm a starting programmer, I'd like to know a method that can be used to print a two-dimensional array as well as a one-dimensional.

If it matters, I'm using gcc to compile. And no, this isn't my homework; I'm trying to broaden my scope from my native language of Fortran.

As background, I'm making a *peasant* costume for a local faire. I'm basing it off a late Middle Ages design since peasant clothing changed significantly more slowly than noble clothing, so it's arguably period-appropriate for early Renaissance. I'm also trying for as high a degree of historical accuracy I can.

Because I'm doing lower-class instead of the more common noble, this brings with it a question of frugality that I really haven't seen addressed broadly, specifically, that of how a woman's chemise closes in front.

The chemise (if you aren't familiar with the term) is basically a slip/underdress over which the actual kirtle/gown/dress is worn; if you're looking at an old painting, the chemise would be the white layer that may peek up above the neckline of the kirtle. Most purchaseable ren faire-style gear has this garment close with a drawstring or lace up the front, but there are no paintings from the period that show a drawstring or front lace chemise. Most paintings have no opening visible at all. However, in paintings of a woman nursing (mostly Madonna and childs, see example links at the end of the post), there appears to just be a slit that goes low enough that, as needed, the breast can be comfortably exposed for nursing. I guess that the chemise would be kept in place while not nursing by the snug kirtle.

While I'm not the mother of a very young child who actually has to be concerned about nursing access, it makes me wonder whether a poor woman in the late Middle Ages/early Renaissance might own just one chemise, and that chemise would have to be nursing compatible as pregnancy and childbirth would be expected for any woman who wasn't a nun. Thoughts?

I'm currently working on a ren faire (okay, the costume is TECHNICALLY late medieval) costume for a faire in late January in Florida. There's a chance that it's going to be pretty cold, so I'd like to start thinking of a period outer layer to keep warm.

The problem research-wise is that, unlike most faire-goers, I'm going as a peasant with a very simple gown in a thin flannel (I know, not period, but it was the only thing available where I was shopping that looked remotely wool-y), an unbleached chemise beneath, and a simple veil over the head, more like a headscarf; my reference is this: http://cadieux.mediumaevum.com/Duc_de_Berry_kirtle... .

There are no pictures that I can find from either the Renaissance or late Medieval periods that show female peasants outside in winter. I'd guess a simple rectangular shawl would not be inappropriate, but that's still a guess. Anyone have any ideas with historical basis for me?

Variables will be written with quotes around them for ease of reading.

The basic idea is that I have to take a two digit integer and assign each digit to a different variable (e.g. take the number 39 as input "a" and assign 3 to "x" and 9 to "y," with "x" and "y" both being integers). It occurs to me the best way to get "x" is to divide "a" by ten and then truncate the result to zero decimal places. Will C automatically drop any decimal digits if I have declared "x" to be an integer, or do I have to use a function or other clever coding to make this work?

This is a simplification of the program that I want to write, but it emphasizes the problem I'm having.

I'm trying to write a program that will take in a letter and give me back the number that corresponds to which number that letter is in the standard alphabetical order. For example

>alphabet ('c')

should give

ans = 3

The code I've got so far looks like this:

for i = 1:26

if alphabetorder(i) = letter

alphabetnumber = i

else

x = 0

endif

endfor

What have I got wrong?