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I have read on the internet posts with the word "potano" or "potate", for example "meye potano jai ki vabe?", which basically means "how can you ______ girls?" where the blank is potano, but I can't work out what it means.

Another example, "konta beshi kothin, meye potano na chele potano?".

I have also seen the word "potafy" written instead of "potano". Now what is this all about? For example, "I know how to potafy cute babies".

Can someone please help me out! What is "potano", and what is "potafy"?

My hunch is that it means something like convince or manipulate, or maybe reject?

My mother confidently states that Bangladeshi children learn much quicker than their English counterparts. Bangladeshi babies reach their milestones earlier and they learn to walk and talk earlier. By the time Bangladeshi babies are speaking in sentences, English babies have only learnt a few words.

Is this true? Or is there an element of truth in this? Does the Bangladeshi environment help them to learn quicker? Or is this hype? My Gujarati friend at university claims that Asian parents just like to big up their own country/culture.

This is not a question about what's compulsory and what's not, but just which one you find easier. Doing the 5 daily prayers for a day, or fasting from 3am to 9pm (UK fasting times) for a day?

For practicing Muslim women, it's not always easy going swimming. You can't exactly go in a bikini, because you need to be covered from head to toe (only face, hands, and feet may show). So one of the solutions is to wear a Burqini (check out http://www.ahiida.com/). It's like a loose wetsuit complete with head covering.

But what do people think of this? Is it a good idea because it encourages more female Muslims to swim? Or maybe it is a hinderance when trying to swim because there is too much cloth which clings and slows you down? Or does it actually help in swimming due to streamlining? Does anyone think it looks beautiful? Who thinks it looks ridiculous? Does it offend any men because of the idea that women have to be covered up because men cannot control their lust and will probably have sex with them?

In Islam, the 2 angels Kiraman Katibin sit on our shoulders. One to record the good deeds and the other to record the bad deeds that we commit. But if Allah knows everything and knows exactly what we are going to do and what we have done including our good and bad deeds, why does he need 2 angels to write this up?

Jazak'Allah.

Suppose you walk along a street and you find a person lying prone. How do you go about assessing and managing the patient using the Basic Life Support (ABCDE) protocol? As far as I am aware, you are not supposed to move the patient from the position that they are in. But then how do you check the airway? How would you do a chin lift and jaw thrust? Etc.

I hear the term 'bleep' at hospital, which, for those that don't know, is a system whereby health professionals, usually doctors, can contact other health professionals immediately, like using pagers. But I have also come across the term 'fast-bleep' a few times, but not sure exactly how it works. Does the recipient's bleep device make a different sound when you fast-bleep them, indicating that the situation is urgent? Does it only work with certain makes of bleep devices? Maybe some sort of indication comes up on the bleep device's screen when a fast-bleep is made? Presuming fast-bleep is used in urgent/emergency cases, maybe it means the recipient of the bleep does not call the person who bleeped, but instead runs to the ward where the bleep came from? I have no idea.

In the hospital where I am at, to bleep someone normally, you pick up any hospital telephone, press 8 and listen to the message, dial the bleep number of the person whom you want to contact, then dial the extension number of the telephone you are calling from (stated on the telephone), then press #, then replace the handset. The bleep request then gets processed, the recipient hears their bleep device go off, checks it, and sees the extension number that bleeped him/her. Then he/she finds a hospital telephone and dials the extension number from which the bleep came from to contact the person who bleeped him/her and speaks on the phone.

But how does a fast-bleep work? Or what is a fast-bleep if I have got the wrong concept?

Got the following info. from the NHS website:

"Doctors in training earn a basic salary and will be paid a supplement if they work more than 40 hours and/or work outside the hours of 7am-7pm Monday to Friday.

"In the most junior hospital trainee post (Foundation Year 1) the basic starting salary is £22,412. This increases in Foundation Year 2 to £27,798. For a doctor in specialist training the basic starting salary is £29,705. If the doctor is contracted to work more than 40 hours and/or to work outside 7am-7pm Monday to Friday, they will receive an additional supplement which will normally be between 20% and 50% of basic salary. This supplement is based on the extra hours worked above a 40 hour standard working week and the intensity of the work."

My question is, how does this banding work exactly? If an F1 works 40 hours per week, say 9am-5pm Monday-Friday, then their pay will be no less than £22,412 for the year. If that person works an extra 10 hours weekly, outside of 7am-7pm Monday-Friday, then how much extra salary is that? Is the banding fixed for any specialty you are based in? I heard that in one hospital, banding was 40% for A&E, and different rates for other specialties. I also heard banding differs from hospital to hospital, or foundation school to foundation school, and in some places there is no banding at all. Is this true?

Do they calculate your basic hourly rate of pay, then just add the banding percentage to that when you work extra hours outside 7am-7pm Mon-Fri? I heard an F1 gets £30 an hour for doing evenings/nights.

I know the NHS website also says the band supplements depends on the intensity of the work, but how do they judge/calculate that? Does that just depend on which area you are doing that work in - e.g. A&E more intense/psychiatry ward less intense?

Any clarification on this would be greatly appreciated.

I have a 3G USB dongle with the Three network and I use it to get internet on my laptop via the 3G network. My question is, can I turn my laptop into a wi-fi hotspot and share this 3G internet connection, and how? The laptop is running Windows 7 64-bit, and yes it does have a wi-fi card built in.

I know I can do it with a cabled ethernet connection, because I have done it before on my other laptop. And I know there is a program called Connectify which you can use to share your internet connection. But I tried using Connectify yesterday to turn my laptop into a wi-fi hotspot and I tried changing some network settings to enable the 3G connection to be shared, but it didn't work. So I wondered if someone who has done it before, or knows how to do it can take me through exactly what settings I need changing.

Thank you.

I have received spam several times in the past whereby the email in the 'To' part is not my email, yet the email still came to my inbox.

For example, one of the emails I got today had the following details:

from: Asshwray Tanfelde <asshwray.tanfelde@etc3financeace.com>

to: asshwray.tanfelde@gmail.com

cc: zdguest@guest-etc3financeace.com

date: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:31 PM

subject: Afternoon News: Check out NAPW membership benefits

My email address is not the same as any of those mentioned above, but the email was still delivered to my Gmail inbox. How does that work?

I used to own a Nokia N95, before I upgraded to a Nokia N95 8GB. When I owned the N95, I would transfer data to the microSD card using my memory card reader on my PC, then would put the card into the phone.

When I upgraded to the N95 8GB (which doesn't have removable storage feature i.e. no memory card slot), I had to use the USB connection to transfer data to the mass storage on the phone.

I noticed that transferring data using the USB connection was a lot slower compared to transferring data to a microSD card using a memory card reader. It was like comparing USB 1.1 to USB 2.0! And the USB connection was definitely through a USB 2.0 port.

Is it the same in all USB devices? Are they all this slow?

If you look anywhere, you will see that most digital SLR cameras are black in colour, whereas the compact, more stylish digital cameras are mostly metallic/silver in colour. Why is this? Is it just because it has always been like that? Is it because of the material used? Is it to give it a professional image?

When talking to someone on Windows Live Messenger version 2009, where is the button which you click to submit text when chatting to the other person? I noticed the previous Messengers had it, but not this one. I know I can just press enter on the keyboard, but wondered if there's an option to reveal the button.

I have an Orange pay as you go SIM card.

I am aware of the following contact information on the Orange website:

pay monthly mobile customers -

Just call 150 from your pay monthly phone or 07973 100 150 from any other phone.

pay as you go mobile customers -

Simply dial 450 from your pay as you go phone or 07973 100 450 from any other phone.

I can dial 450 from my pay as you go phone free of charge, but if I want to talk to customer services, the call will then become chargeable, and because I don't have any credit on my SIM, I can't continue with the call. But what I really want to know is how to get through to them for free, if it is possible. I can't top up anyway (then call them), because I don't have a 4-digit ID code, which Orange customers need, and in fact that is the reason I want to talk to customer services, to try and get my code!

As stated, Orange provide this alternative number - 07973 100 450 for pay as you go customers to call. Looks like a mobile number to me. If I call this number using inclusive minutes I have to any network any time from another SIM of mine (Vodafone), will it be free? Or will it still be charged?

I searched on Google for a free number to Orange and found this - 0800 100 450 - posted on moneysavingexpert.com. I tried to call it, but it didn't work - I just got a constant bleep.

I have searched Yahoo answers already for similar questions and found one, but the only answer given was this - "Go to the Orange website and get customer services to call you back.". I couldn't find out how to do this, however, on their website.

I walked into an Orange shop (to bypass calling customer services on phone and just talking to someone directly) and asked them about how I can go about getting a 4-digit ID code, but they said I should have had it texted to me when I first inserted my SIM into my phone, and that if I don't have it, there's not much I can do. But on the Orange website, it clearly says if you have forgotten or you don't know your code, you can call Orange customer services to resolve the problem. I am sure I didn't get a text from Orange stating my 4-digit ID code. So that is why I am trying to contact customer services by phone, to get this code, but want to do it without getting charged.

I have tried enquiring by email to Orange, but am still waiting for a response, but mainly I am making an issue of this just so that other people who are in a similar boat to me and want to contact Orange for free by phone, can find this question on Yahoo answers, and hopefully some good answers too.

So to summarise, are there any free numbers to Orange, apart from 0800 100 450?

Is 07973 100 450 free using inclusive minutes?

Just asking because I would like to receive both online billing and paper billing (right now I only have paper bills), but on the Vodafone website it states "Online billing means no paper bills – help protect the environment".

I am searching for a song which I just cannot find! It is an Arabic song sung by a female artist. I first heard it back in December 1999 on board an Emirates flight to Dubai on the in-flight entertainment system. I heard it once again back in the UK on an Arabic channel on TV. That is all the information I can give. I know that I haven't described it enough, but I can't really describe it any further! I don't know the lyrics of the song, but I sort of know the tune, which I can't exactly put across in words.

Does anybody have any ideas? Maybe you know popular female Arabic artists or songs from 1999 that you could name? Or maybe you can just provide an archive of Arabic song listings.

Also, I may have heard it for the forst time in 1999, but it could have been released much earlier, maybe 1997/1998. But I think it's likely to be 1999, or even 2000.

I say Arabic, but it could be Lebanese or other areas of the middle-east, not 100% sure.

I need that song!

Thanks in advance

Background info. - cousin - 14/female/Canada.

Recently my cousin came to stay with us in Sheffield for the summer. 7 days ago, a few of us went to London for a short trip, including me and my cousin. We spent quite a lot of time outside. We returned to Sheffield 2 days later and about a day after that my cousin fell ill. She has been feeling ill ever since (past 4 days or so).

Her symptoms:

Her first symptom was a fever. The fever tends to vary in severity - rises and goes down daily. She has reddish pimples over her head, face, neck and stomach. Also, they are purulent (contain pus). It feels quite sticky and itchy over the areas with pimples. She has swollen glands behind her ears. She experiences some pain when she swallows. She has loss of appetite. It hurts when breathing. She has pain in her right side of her body, especially in hips, but this is probably due to her sleeping position. She has only taken Tylenol for her symptoms (it's like paracetamol).

What's happening?

My friend's PC runs Windows XP. She has an expired Norton Antivirus 2005. When you boot the PC, Norton Antivirus automatically starts and in the yellow bubble in the bottom left corner of the screen it tells you that the computer is infected with a virus. However, when you double click on the Norton icon it doesn't open. The computer is much slower with the virus. After a few minutes a blue screen of death will show. It says something about disabling some BIOS options such as caching and shadowing if the problem persists. To get out of the blue screen you have to manually press the computer's reset switch. Then Windows boots up and its just a cycle that keeps repeating.

My friend went out and bought Norton Antivirus 2007 to get rid of her virus. However, to install it, she needs to get rid of her previous Norton Antivirus first. But she cannot uninstall it from add/remove programs as she gets a blue screen of death every time she tries to do it. Safe mode doesn't help either.

I see Arabic written in English letters, for example 'habiba ya 3ayni', and I'm not entirely sure why the 3 is present. My guess it is to do with the pronunciation of the word. Do you make a guttural sound before you say ayni in that example? Is the reason why the number 3 is used because of the lack of Arabic accents on an English keyboard?