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I ask because I’m trying to loose wait and controlling the amount of calories I eat. I planned a diet based on google and searching “how many calories in 100g of rice”.

According to Google, there are 111cal in 100g of rice. BUT, according to the back of my supermarket value pack of long grain white rice, each 100g serving contained 325kcal.

Research tells me kcal and cal are the same thing – so which one is correct?

Hi,

Can anyone recommend an app (either Apple or Android as I have both) that allows me to download COMPLETE news stories to read offline?

***PLEASE READ***

Please don't just search for "RSS Offline Reader" because I've done that and they don't!! I've downloaded about 5 of them on either operating system, the best they do is download a headline and one line of news, then if you want to read it you have to have a connection to go to the original site.

What I'd like is an App which when you have a wifi connection, you can download all the days stories from an RSS feed, then turn off wifi and read it on the way to work.

I've tried:

Easy RSS

gReader

RSS Offline Reader (yeah I know, sounds like it should work but doesn't)

RSS Reader

Thanks

Hi,

I work with children under 12, as a treat/reward they're allowed to play games for 10 minutes on-line.

The site we've been using (www.pog.com) is a goos site with a nice selection of games, but contains really unsuitable content (a torture game, Al-Qaida games etc).

Can anyone recommend a site like www.pog.com which doesn't have any blood & guts games?

NB: I know there's lots of flash games sites out there, but I was after one which specfically filters such content for the under 12s

I have a large quantity of expensive 6" flue from old, I have recently acquired a multi-fuel stove with a 7" aperture, I want to use the flue I have and not buy £££s worth of new flue.

I've found a number of adapters online which will enable me to reduce a 7" flue to a 6" flue, but I've been speaking to 3 or 4 suppliers of stove flue who've told me "it's not recommended" or "against building regs".

For the last 2 years I've been doing a self build, as well as being a qualified plumber, I'm well used to "building regs" and am aware sometimes building regs are there because to go against them is suicide, but then on the other side some building regs are just belt and braces pedantic bearocracy that protects the wilfully stupid.

I was after some balance to the argument I've heard from these flue suppliers (who don't stock the part by the way) who've informed by "you can't/shouldn't reduce a flue", as I can understand that reducing 8" flue down to 4" flue for a run of 6 meters could interfere with successful exhaust of combustion gases, but surely a reduction from 7" to 6" on a straight run of 4M isn't going to be dangerous.

Additional thoughts would be appreciated.

Hi I work in a school/college, I'm planning an "Easter Event" which is an opportunity for people (16/17/18 years old) to get involved in over a lunch time period.

In the past we've had a Quiz, a Spelling Bee, an Obstacle race.

Can anyone suggest any good events we could hold?

It needs to be something with an EASTER theme, that anyone from 10-100 people can join in with, will take no more than 30 minutes from start to finish, has some competitive element to it which we can award prizes to at the end?

I'm in a pinch, just discovered a sizable leak on my gas pipe. There's a length of 32mm MDPE which is reduced down to 25mm before it enters the house, it's this joint which is failed (don't know yet but pretty sure - it was under tension when it was fitted and since then a drive was laid on top which I think set it off)

I want to get this sorted ASAP, I'll have to wait a few days for a 32>25 MDPE gas coupling to come through the post. I can't find any evidence online which says you can't use a 32>25 MDPE water fitting.

What's the difference between MDPE gas and water fittings?

I'm looking to do a school experiment with a centrifuge, can anyone suggest some good liquids to use?

i.e. liquids that start out looking even, but layer to one or more layers of stark differences such as milk or juice?

I have a ZTE Blade II (aka Orange San Franscio II) running 2.3.5

I just uninstalled Barclays Pingit (dissapointing paypal-esq app) in favour of the Barclays Mobile Banking - which didn't work. I tried to reinstall Pingit but it tells me that my phone appears to be rooted and won't install.

My phone isn't rooted - what settings would be making this app think my phone is rooted and can I resolve this?

I'm planning a college experiment for Chromatography.

I've bought two different jars of ink (Parker Quink Ink & Craft Shop general Indian Ink) but neither of them separate out into different colours as expected. They're just mono pigments, one colour of blue or black fading to clear on the chromatography paper.

I think modern inks tend to be a different type to what I remember at school, where a black ink could be split into different colours.

Can anyone recommend a brand of ink to use in an experiment like this which splits into different colours?

Specifically I want to insert sequential weekday dates into 5 different sheets in one word document - and I can't figure out how to do it.

To flesh out that question a bit...

I'm producing weekday requisition sheets, each of them slightly different in structure, so 5 different sheets of paper. At the top I want the date Monday 11th June, Tuesday 12th June, Wednesday 13th June etc.

Then I want this repeated for Monday 18th June - Friday 22nd; Monday 25th - Friday 29th and on

THEN I want it to pick up Monday 2nd July and continue with the numbering, for August, September etc.

I tried a mail merge via Excel but couldn't work it - has anyone got any suggestions?

In 1906 a French physicist name Bernard Brunhes discovered that there were stripes on the surface of the planet which related to north and south (the tiny grains of Iron ore, like miniature compasses pointed either north or south)

Later in the 1950s Blackett and Runcorn discovered that specifically at certain times in the earth's history, the earth's axis spins 180 degrees, magnetic north is up, then magnetic north is down, this has been happening since the birth of the earth and is nothing to worry about.

I've known this for a while, but have always asked, but never had answered - what will this actually mean in physical terms for the earth the next time it happens? Man has been on the planet for many cycles of this flip already, but all the other times we've not had things like compasses, let alone computers, satellites and GPS - so does anyone know how these things will be effected during the next cycle?

I've had a letter through the post from my current car insurer asking for my No Claims certificate from my previous insurer. But for the life of me I can't remember who it is, and I can't find my paper work from last year.

Is there a way I can easily and cheaply (preferably free) find out who I was insured with before my current cover?

Are you?

Why?

The only people I know who say that tend to mean "I support England during the World Cup" and that's about it - which if that's the stall you're setting out, fair enough, if your pride manifests around draping a St George's Cross out your front facing bedroom windows for 2 weeks every 4 years and drinking your body weight in Carling, I'm not judging you, there's worse ways of spending a fortnight.

But if you are English and Proud, is it just a sports team you're proud of, or is there anything about English History, Politics, Art & Culture, Engineering, Science, Gastronomy, Music, Law and Order, Foreign Policy etc. that makes you proud?

simply that, why is a standard lamp called a standard lamp?

yes, I can guess also, but does anyone know?

It was on TV, for the life of me I can't remember what it was called.

It was about a brother and sister. It was set in England during a huge heatwave during the summer. The brother and sister had an incestuous relationship. This was found out by the girls boy friend towards the end of the film. There mother died and I think they kept her in the freezer.

It was one of those films for me that really stuck in my brain, it was a hot horrible summer, the sort where the grass was parched and heat just burst out of all the concrete walls and floors in this family's untidy garden.

Anyone got any ideas?

He's a general all round builder.

I've used him before, he's a top guy, he's worked for free before, let us have stuff for free that he's had left over from jobs.

I asked him the other month - can you help with this job. He said yeah, we agreed on £120 a day labour. He has to travel about 75-80 mile round trip a day to us.

It's coming up to the first weeks payday, he's asked me for £15 a day petrol on-top of the £120 day rate (another £75 a week).

We didn't agree to this at the start, didn't say "it'll be £120 a day, oh and another £15 petrol". One part of me thinks it's a bit sh1t - you didn't normally do that do ya? I kind of imagine that's absorbed into your day rate.

Part of me thinks, if he works for £120 a day in his home town - that's his rate. But he has to travel so far to work at my house he wants petrol money. So I think - fair enough

Like I said, he's a honest nice guy, I don't want money to screw up a good relationship. I've just got this feeling - gah! What did someone say about money being the root of all evil?

Anyway - thoughts?

Regardless of moral posturing, and liberal ideals, I'm talking about a specific case involving you, not something which should form public policy, views of national corporal punishment should be set aside.

In this hypothetical question, imagine you live in the country (as I do), are surrounded by fields with no neighbours. One night an intruder, with a mask, a weapon, threatens you and your family demanding x, y and z. You grab the first thing to hand, hit them, incapacitating them (arguably reasonable force, in the eyes of the law) but adrenalin and anger coursing through your body you hit them again, this time killing them.

Now, pathologists' reports would almost certainly conclude that the first hit stopped them, but the second hit killed them. You MIGHT get away with self defence, but there's a good chance you'd be put away for manslaughter (or even murder).

Would you tell the police and risk being away from your wife, your kids, endangering the rent/mortgage, the stigma your whole family would have to face?

Or

Would you find a corner of one of the fields on your land and bury them. Chances being the intruder didn't tell anyone they were robbing your house specifically, and all being well you'd get away with it.

Hi, I'm 33, live in the UK and would like to try multiplayer.

Can someone recommend a server with mature players, who aren't crule/rude and arn't pompous - this is just a game after all, I'm not applying for a mortgage here, having to answer 20 questions and submit a small dissertation on my motivation and psychometric type is a little on the pretentious side.

I just want a simple place, with kind people to offer guidance and general chat, and somewhere where there's a few trees and a hole in the ground to call my own - any suggestions?

****1st off, gas installation in the UK can ONLY be done by a Gas Safe reg engineer and shouldn't be done by anyone else****

I'm doing a barn conversion, I'm a qualified plumber, I've got plenty of friends who are GS Reg'd who will be signing the job off for me. But currently the supply is DEAD there is no gas, before there is gas in the house it will be checked - so please no finger waggling and stating the obvious.

I've laid a supply of 32mm MDPE, which reduces using a yellow UG compression reducer to 25mm which runs into the property. However I need to reduce the 25mm MDPE to 22mm copper before running it into the Combi. I've been to all my builders merchants and I've not had any luck finding a MDPE > copper reducer specifically for gas.

I've currently got a plasson 32 (MDPE) to 22 (copper) reducer on for water, when I bought it mail order I was under the impression it'd be both compression fittings - but the 22 side is push fit, which I believe isn't good to use with gas (because of the low pressure).

Can anyone give any advice about a transitional fitting for gas 25mm MDPE > 22mm copper?

Cheers