Can someone please help me translate the sentences below from English to french (in the imperative).

By on October 31st, 2009

When you wake up in the morning, could you please sweep round the compound and water the flowers. In addition, i beg you to wash the dishes in the kitchen sink. I hate to bother you further, but it is important that you also ensure that the dining and sitting room furniture are cleaned. Please remember that we have to be at the bus stop by 8am on our way to school.

Do you think I can trust someone I met online.

By on October 30th, 2009

There was an ad on Kijiji, a student looking for Cirque du Soleil tickets. She said she was on a student budget and couldn’t afford the minimum $100 ticket, and those are for bad seats. She was hoping someone could donate 1 ticket to her, or at least offer her a cheap deal.

I have two tickets which I might not be able to use. The tickets I have are actually VIP tickets. Amazing seats, backstage pass, champagne, the whole works. Lets say they cost more than the $100 minimum. Anyways, I responded to her, saying she can have both tickets IF she can promise me that she and whoever she is taking will volunteer for a whole day at a soup kitchen.

I am hoping that by doing something nice for a stranger, it will inspire this stranger to do something nice as well. But do you think I can trust a random person to do this. Or would there be a tendency to just take the ticket, say “yeah, I’ll do it next week” but end up never volunteering.

POLL: Take the Car Name Quiz.

By on October 29th, 2009

Number then clue then number of letters
1 Minty Loop 4
2 Anne or Margaret 8
3 Garden Visitor 5
4 Fashion of the Sixties 4
5 Chocolate 6
6 A Carribean Bay 7
7 Young Horse 4
8 Zodiac Sign 7
9 Underground Railway 5
10 Precious Stone 8
11 Old Pound Coin 9
12 Red, Round and Juicy 6
13 Italian First 3
14 Person of Diminuitive Stature 6
15 Very Cold Lady 8
16 Kitchen Cupboard 4
17 A Little Devil 3
18 Spotted Beast 6
19 Picturesque 6
20 Change Position 4
21 Spanish Provincial Capital 7
22 Outdoor Meal 6
23 Boat Park 6
24 Half a Soccer Club got the Bird 5-6
25 What value the Lettuce 8
26 Balearic Island 5
27 Winner 6
28 On the East Coast 6
29 Egyptian Water Lily 5
30 Goes Past Witney 1-2
31 Old Boy Scout 5
32 Pertaining to the City 5
33 Fencing Weapon 5
34 Achieve Supremacy 7
35 Bus Name Changed 7
36 Gentle Breeze 6
37 Could be a Star 5
38 Spanish Rugged Heights 6
39 Inuit’s Animal Friend 5
40 Experienced Trusted Adviser 6
41 Milligram 1-1
42 Continental Carnival 6
43 Chopping Tool 2
44 Enjoys the Chase 6
45 Ornamental Staff 7
46 Small Mischievious Mythological Being 3
47 1000 + A Musical Instrument 6
48 Re-route Shakespear’s River 4
49 Wartime Saviour 8
50 As Far as the eye can see 7
51 Barrel Maker 6
52 Party for Men 4
53 Gracie’s Island 5
54 Mother Unites 11 4
55 Miming Game 7
56 Latin American Dance 5
57 Curved Sword 8
58 A Toy to play with 6
59 Old ‘Mother’ of drag 5
60 Pert Sly Playful Girl 4
61 Eminent Conductor 7
62 Miss Capulet’s First Love 4-5
63 Previous Chancellor 6
64 British Money 8
65 Shallow River Crossing 4
66 Finding 9
67 Small Wild Horse 7
68 A Lot of Bottle 6
69 Astronomical Constellation 5
70 Garage with a car in 6
71 Unbranded Calf 8
72 Nippon Light Bulb 5
73 Fine Sword made in Japan 6
74 Neutral Vehicle 7
75 Unravel a Spring 4
76 Traditional English Dance 6
77 Tactful Person 8
78 Stick to Stir Washing 5
79 Engrave as Required 7
80 In a Gondola 7
81 Traveller in Undiscovered Territory 8
82 Praise Publicly 7
83 Group of Animals 5
84 9 or 18 Holes 4
85 Popular Unfounded Belief 6
86 Particular Mode of Pronunciation 6
87 Traveller in Undiscovered Territory 8
88 Praise Publicly 7
89 Resign Upset 6
90 Composition for Solo Instrument 8
91 Dimitris Last Letter 5
92 Vivacity 4
93 24 Hour Court 6
94 Large area Treeless Grassland 7
95 O Demon Car. 6
96 American Politician 7
97 P.O has Red Mail Van 7
98 Bobby’s Car 5
99 Positive Elementary Particle 6
100 Cry of Salute 4
101 Large Plancton eating Ray 5
102 Large area Treeless Grassland 7
103 American Indian Tribe 8
104 Promising Young Performer 7
105 Winged Seed from Sycamore 6

regarding the HR plan.

By on October 28th, 2009

i would like to know how can i design and recommend a system of remuneration for the Food and Beverage Department bar/restaurant/kitchen.Including both monetary and non monetary incentives(different level,implications)

Can you recommend an online restaurant supplier for pots and pans that will sell to the public.

By on October 27th, 2009

I recently read in the book kitchen confidential that the place to get the best pots and pans for the money is from a restaurant supplier instead of a department store. Can you recommend any online vendors that will sell to the public. The suppliers in my area are only open during working hours and I can never seem to get there when they’re open.

Help. i need help with my home ec class. We are doing a worksheet on kitchen equiptment.

By on October 26th, 2009

Here are the questions i have left.
1) this type of spoon can help you lift ingredients in a marinated salad.
2)this type of spoon has a long heat proof handle.
3) you can use this tool to cool rolls/breads
4)These types of bowls are usually made of pottery, glass, or metal
5)You can use a liquid measuring cup to measure this(4 letter word)
6)what is another name for cooking and baking pans
7)Use this knife to chop broccoli for a stir fry dish
8)this can be used in cooking vegetables to hold the food above boiling water
9)Use this to pour soup into a soup bowl

put your answer in this format
number then answer (1. whatever the answer is)
answer whatever u can
1 more
10) someone can use this tool cut the fat in flour when making buscuit
Most of those are correct janet but i still need:
the one about marinated salad
another name for cooking and baking pans

am i putting too much money into my house.

By on October 25th, 2009

i bought a house last year that was built in ‘79. so far, i’ve spent about 10k redoing 2 bathrooms, sprucing up the basement, and a good amount of landscaping. i’m planning on doing the kitchen and the last bath as well. i’ve been doing the work myself, and i’ve been using nicer materials like travertine floor tile and granite countertops. i’m still not sure whether or not i will sell it in 3-5 years or hold onto it for a rental. it just seems that, living by myself, i would be able to save more money with an apartment that has no repairs. i bought the house at the bottom of the market, so at it’s remodeled condition, i would profit about 40-50k. it sounds good, but is my time and labor really worth it.

Is there a kitchen thermometer that I can use to find out the exact temperature for baking.

By on October 24th, 2009

I have this amazing oven it is so good for baking but unfortunately it doesn’t have a control panel that shows the real temperature. I think having such a tool will solve my problem
I live in Jordan and the oven I am talking about is called an “Arabic oven” it’s very popular around here and easy to use. it’s a cubical shaped oven with four legs to stand on. it works by connecting that oven to a cylindric-shaped metal bottle filled with gas with a rubbery hose. I can control the quantity of gas through a small tab opening it counterclockwise or closing it clockwise I hold a lighter or a match inside the oven near a firing unit waiting for the gas to come out from that unit then boom it’s lit.

What is the name of this song.

By on October 23rd, 2009

I watched this video once on TV but I don’t remember the name of the artist nor the song.I know that in the song title there are the words smoke/fire/burn(one of those 3) It’s a male singing. In the vid, the band members/singer don’t appear. It shows a kitchen(I think) and then some furniture and fuel is thrown gradually on the furniture and they all catch fire until everything is burning.The vid goes on like this, there’s no other scenario. That’s all I remember. I hope someone can help me

If you’ve read these books, I need suggestions.

By on October 22nd, 2009

Book List

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century by Barbara Tuchman

Renaissance Lives by Theodore K. Rabb

The Last Days of the Renaissance & The March to Modernity by Theodore K. Rabb

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Michaelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg

Tudor England by John Guy

Henry VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick

The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey

The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir

Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey

Anne Boleyn by E. W. Ives

A Crown for Elizabeth by Mary M. Luke

The Virgin Queen by Christopher Hibbert

Mary Queen of Scotts by Antonia Fraser

Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda

The Habsburg Monarchy by A. J. P. Taylor

Christopher Columbus by Samuel Eliot Morison

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin

Isabella of Castille by Nancy Rubin

The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis

Cavaliers and Roundheads by Christopher Hibbert

Cromwell the Lord Protector by Antonia Fraser

Crisis, Revolution, and Absolutism: Europe 1648-1715 by Raymond Biln

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Louis XIV by Maurice Ashley

Louis XIV A Royal Life by Oliver Bernier

The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton

Galileo Courtier: The Practise of Science in the Culture of Absolutism by Mario Biagioli

Candide by Voltaire

Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom by Roger Pearson

Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie

Catherine the Great by Isabel de Madariaga

Catherine the Great by Zoe Oldenbourg

Joseph II: In the Shadow of Maria Theresa, 1741-1780, Volume I by Derek Beales

Joseph II: Against the World, 1780-1790, Volume II by Derek Beales

Louis and Antoinette by Vincent Cronin

Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre

The French Revolution by J. M. Thompson

The French Revolution by J. F. Bosher

The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France by David Andress

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr

Earthly Powers by Michael Burleigh

Napoleon by Vincent Cronin

Napoleon by Felix Markham

Nelson: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert

Moscow 1812 by Adam Zamoyski

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian

Lord Nelson by David and Steven Howarth

Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and The Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski

Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites by Kirkpatrick Sale

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Queen Victoria by Giles St. Aubyn

Personas of Consequence: Queen Victoria by Louis Anchincloss

The Royal Victorians by Christopher Hibbert

The Victorians by A. N. Wilson

Victoria: The Young Queen by Monica Charlot

Queen Victoria by Cecil Woodham-Smith

Sophia’s World by Jostein Gaarder

1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport

Les Miserable by Victor Hugo

Disraeli by Robert Blake

Garibaldi by Christopher Hibbert

A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People by Steven Ozment

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark

Bismarck: The Man and Statesman by A. J. P. Taylor

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky

The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman

Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

The Great War 1914-1918 by Cyril Falls

World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone

The First World War by Hew Strachan

The Fall of the Dynasties by Emond Taylor

The Fall of Eagle: Great European Dynasties by G. I. Sulzberger

Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erick Remarque

Modernism by Peter Gay

Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes

A Concise History of the Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes

Nicholas II: The Last of the Tsars by Marc Ferro

Nicholas and Alexandria by Robert K. Massie

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

Winston and Clementine: The Churchills by Richard Hough

The Last Lion: Winston Churchill by William Manchester

Hitler and Stalin by Allan Bullock

The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans

The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by Robert Payne

Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by C. R. Browning