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October 15

Anyone recognize this actress?

I recently happened to see this TV commercial and was struck by the woman looking familiar to me, as if I'd seen here playing a guest or supporting role in some TV show. Now I'm not terribly good at recognizing faces, so I often find that people look familiar when they aren't, and I finally figured out that she reminded me of Alyssa Diaz from The Rookie, but it wasn't her.

But then just now I saw this commercial and realized it was the same women who was in the other one. So now I'm curious again: does anyone happen to recognize her? The site I found the links on doesn't identify her. --184.144.99.72 (talk) 07:21, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It appears to be Celestine Caravaggio. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:18, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sure looks like her to me! And in fact I didn't know her from anything the IMDB knows about, excluding commercials. Thanks. --184.144.99.72 (talk) 08:38, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

October 16

Timekeeper, please set the clock...

In Canadian football games, the referee wears a microphone that is linked to the stadium PA system so he can announce things to everybody. For example, "No yards, Hamilton, 15-yard penalty; first down" or "After review, the ruling on the field stands. Calgary loses a timeout and cannot challenge again". But also, nowadays from time to time I will hear the referee announce, "Timekeeper, please set the game clock to 1 minute 12 seconds". Obviously this happens when the time on the clock is wrong, for example if the officials did not react promptly when a timeout was called.

But what I'm wondering about is, how does the referee know to do this? How does he* know that the clock is wrong, and exactly what it should read? And if there's an official whose job it is to tell him, why doesn't that person speak to the timekeeper directly?

I'm guessing that everything** here is the same in American football, in which case an answer for American football will suffice.

Notes:

*Or she, but so far the referees are still all men.

**Except for the failure of American football rulemakers to invent the "no yards" rule.

--184.144.99.72 (talk) 08:25, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What is the "no yards rule"? I don't see that in your link. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:18, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Read more carefully. --184.144.99.72 (talk) 21:24, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This has discussion of how one timing error was corrected in ~2011 [1]. Whether that's the norm nowadays, I don't know. Nil Einne (talk) 20:17, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"A supervising official in a booth above the field" spotted the error and informed the referee by pager. Okay, maybe that's the answer. Thanks. --184.144.99.72 (talk) 21:24, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

On the field in Canadian football, the responsibility for watching the official clock and correcting any errors with it is assigned to the Field Judge, a member of the on-field officiating team. Of course, any official who notices a timing error may report it to the referee to announce a correction, but the primary responsibility in Canadian football for doing so lies with the field judge. Commonly, these mistakes occur because the clock official either missed the signal to stop the clock, and let it run too long, or forgot to start the clock at the correct time. In American football, the same task is assigned to the Back Judge. While both sports have both named officials, the one of the two responsible for watching the clock is different. (I have been a clock official for many years in high school American football, and am quite familiar with the inner workings of the game. Canadian football, from what I am reading on the subject, is timed very similarly as American football). --Jayron 32 16:23, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Jay. --184.144.99.72 (talk) 23:19, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

October 17

cultural icons in Olympics

I know some Maneki-neko was featured during Tokyo 2020. But were any also featured during Nagano 1998, Sapporo 1972 and Tokyo 1964?2603:7000:8100:6D5:F077:2E08:6ED0:9063 (talk) 06:23, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nagano used Sukki, Nokki, Lekki and Tsukki. I cannot find any information on icons or mascots used during the Sapporo or Tokyo games. --Jayron 32 16:11, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Goldilocks

Why on Earth is Goldilocks in the Lord of the Rings? Is she meant to be the same character as in the fairy story? SpinningSpark 14:12, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewing the subject in Google, it appears she got that name because of her blonde hair - the same reason that the fairy tale character was called Goldilocks. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:32, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It should be noted that The Shire is roughly modeled on an idyllic English countryside (The Lord of the Rings was part of Tolkien's attempt to create a mythos for the English people in the same way that other European ethnicities such as the Greeks, the Norse, etc. had a mythos; a pantheon of Gods, great epics, etc. that England lacked). You can see this at The Shire#Inspiration. Many of the words (people's names, place names, government officials) are either taken directly from native English place names or modeled linguistically after them. It is unsurprising that he would use a name like "Goldilocks" for one of his characters, given the fact that it is a basic native English word meaning "blond haired". --Jayron 32 16:08, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Perp, alias "Goldilocks", wanted for burglary and theft. Believed to have fled to her family in The Shire. Approach with caution. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:19, 18 October 2021 (UTC) [reply]

The use of "goldilocks" in the common name for various flowers having yellow heads (not just the goldilocks buttercup) predates the use of the name Goldilocks for these fictional characters.^[2][3][4]

Master's world record?

Today, Sandra Morchner ran Hamburg half Marathon in 1:15:13, which is considered german record in age class W50, https://www.leichtathletik.de/news/news/detail/75639-regensburger-doppelsieg-und-deutsche-bestleistungen-bei-halbmarathon-dm-in-hamburg. This would be faster than hitherto world record of 1:15:18 by Linda Somers from 2011, according https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_masters_world_records_in_road_running#Half_Marathon_2.

Can this Morchner run be considered new world record W50, or is there still an official recognition process necessary? Rosenkohl (talk) 18:21, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It needs to be recognized by the governing body World Masters Athletics and then written about in a published reliable source so you can cite it RudolfRed (talk) 01:57, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

According to List of masters world records in road running it would be Association of Road Racing Statisticians for half marathon. If they recognize it then they will presumably publish it and it can be added. Road running has route requirements to avoid easy races. I don't know whether the Hamburg half Marathon qualifies. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:58, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

October 19

Whooshy low-pitched sound used in film trailers

It seems like every modern film trailer uses a particular auditory trope. Cuts from one clip to another are accompanied by a subwoofery whooshy noise, like a subway train rushing by. Not every cut has a whoosh; it's some kind of punctuation used to give a rhythm to the trailer. Does this sound effect have a name? How long has it been used? Lantzy : Lantzy 02:51, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See flanging. 41.165.67.114 (talk) 05:48, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]