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December 8

Air pollution in Belarus

Forgive the oddly specific question, but I need to know the maximum allowable concentration (MAC; sometimes also stated as "maximum acceptable concentration") of standard air pollutants (NO2, SO2, O3, CO, PM10, PM2.5) as defined by law and/or regulation in Belarus. Ideally, also identifying when those air pollution limits were adopted. I've sent an email enquiry to the Belarus Center for Hydrometeorology, Radiation Control and Environmental Monitoring, but they haven't responded. As one might guess, I don'thttp://www.bsu.by/Cache/pdf/700283.pdf speak Belarusian, and I haven't had much luck with Google Translate aided searches. Perhaps I simply haven't hit on the right search terms yet. Thanks in advance for anyone that wants to give it a go. (FYI, the country code for Belarus websites is .by) Dragons flight (talk) 16:15, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a page that has a bunch of Belorussian laws. There are three related to the environment. Here is an actual report (in English) of the environmental status of Belarus. Here is an English language page for the Department of Environmental and Agrarian Law at the Belarusian State University. That should give you some leads. --Jayron 32 17:06, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I also don't speak Belarusian (and neither do many Belarusians), but this is almost certainly the currently edition of the regulation of the ministry of health (in Russian). It contains a table with all the pollutants and their allowed greatest acceptable concentration (Величина предельно допустимой концентрации) in mg/m3. Helpfully, most of the pollutants include chemical formulas. The three columns of values are "maximum momentary", "average daily" and "average annual". The regulation is dated 8 November 2016 and, according to this, came into force 30 November 2016. The second page of the regulation also makes reference to the preceding regulation from 2010 (the original text of that regulation is here) and all the intermediary acts changing the 2010 regulation, in case you want to verify the values at a particular time. No longer a penguin (talk) 12:16, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, thank you very much. Dragons flight (talk) 16:13, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a name for this style of hat?

Is it just a toque? -165.234.252.11 (talk) 18:54, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia has a rather extensive List of headgear. --Jayron 32 19:04, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The article Portrait of a Condottiero (Bellini) describes it as "a blue beret". Gabbe (talk) 21:16, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Berets I'm familiar with are flat, but perhaps that's one with some type of form inside, or just his hair, to give it height. StuRat (talk) 22:22, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

it's not a beret and a toque to me is a wool hat with a pompom (but that may be a regionalism due to my background.) Looking at the list. Elinruby (talk) 04:58, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

given that a chef's hat is also a toque, with no wool and no pompom, there seems to be considerable room within the genre for variation :) - Nunh-huh 08:58, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Camaro and montenegrin hat seem close and are from the right part of the world Elinruby (talk) 04:58, 13 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I should like to park a Camaro on the heads of a few people. StuRat (talk) 15:32, 13 December 2016 (UTC) [reply]

1 yen coin

The mintage figures in our article seem absurdly small, are they perhaps in thousands? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:16, 8 December 2016 (UTC).[reply]

The source text is in Japanese, which I cannot read. You might want to ping a native Japanese speaker and ask if they can read the original and decide what it really says. All I can say is that the numbers match with what is in the source, but the source MAY say something like "in thousands" which would, of course, need to be indicated here as well. --Jayron 32 20:22, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A quick Google translate suggests "Unit: Thousands". I doubt that would be mistranslated. No longer a penguin (talk) 11:28, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated it to reflect that. If this is in mistake, feel free to revert. --Jayron 32 14:40, 9 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]