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Need information

April 29 is said to be the birthdate of Taliesin, the Bard of Wales. Why April 29? Thank you.

Richard rbcc@erols.com

Who says that's his birthday? As we have difficulty pinning down his life to a particular half century, and not much is known about the man, it's a bit presumptuous to say what his birthday was! Arwel 17:21, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

1st and 14th amendment cases

Hi, my name is john and i have to do a report, a position paper, on how i feel about a certain subject concerning the nazis and the KKK. I was wondering if it would be possible if you could send me all cases concering either of these groups so i can use it to back up my opinion. thank you for your time.

I'll field this one. →Raul654 18:34, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)

cyclinders records

WOULD LIKE TO INFO ON THE VALUE of THESE CYCLINDERS. WHICH ONES ARE THE MOST EXPENSIVE. RUTH HAYNES EMAIL;rhaynes45@yougotnet.com

Wikipedia tends to be generally unconcerned with the economic value of artifacts. We're an encyclopedia, not a commerce site. I suppose if anyone knows what would be the most valuable cylinders (or the most valuable recordings of any type), that would, in principle, be encyclopedia-worthy, but it isn't the sort of thing many of our people seem to concern themselves with. Can anyone possibly refer this woman to a site more along the lines she is looking for? -- Jmabel 02:07, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

abba- "father"

What does the Aramaic word "abba" meannging "father" look like when written in Aramaic?

You might want to consult Aramaic alphabet. In Hebrew, in whose alphabet Aramaic is often written by Jewish sources, the word "abba" (as it is in use in modern Hebrew) is written "אבא". This is not Aramaic script, but it's as good as I can do at the moment. -- Itai 14:19, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Children in California History

I am in need of finding biographies of children who lived in California during early periods in our history. An example would be... a day in the life of a child who rode a covered wagon across California or a child who lived during the Gold Rush era or an immigrant workers child whether ithey were from a migrant farm family or with the Chinese. I need 6 biographies from age 6 - 12 years old. Thank-you for guiding me in the right direction. Not much out there. Please email wendyelkin@comcast.net.

The Library of Congress has an online collection called California as I Saw It that consists of first person naratives from people living in or traveling in, to, or through California from 1849 - 1900. I'll email this to them as well. Gentgeen 04:30, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Question on history of Paramount

To whom it may concern,

I am doing an advertising project on Paramount Pictures and how they first attempted to brand itself in the early nineteen hundreds. If it is at all possible I would like to know in what newspapers or magazines Paramount normally advertised their pictures. If you could be of any help I would appreiciate it.

Thank you,

Erika Palumbo

Have you tried contacting Paramount? -- Jmabel 02:09, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

un shutdown of windows 98

Hello dears, Here i am from Jedda, Saudi Arabia.. seeking the help for my sytem. I have a P4 system, with Win98. I installed Mcaffee Software and had updated the DAT and Enging files in it. after this, when ever I suppose to shutdown the pc, its just hangs after displaying shutdowing the windows, Please wait... then I should end that by switching off the power.. So please any one can help me to solve my problem...

P4 2.0 Ghz 40 Gb 256 MB intel M/B sytem brand Compaq

thanking you

Shaikh Saoud Yakoob

Have you tried un-installing Mcaffee to see whether that is at fault? It's pretty hard to know otherwise. You might try installing Linux if all else fails! Mark Richards 23:08, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This is very common with Windows 98. As long as you wait until the hard drive has stopped moving (about 60 secs or until the light goes off), the computer is safe to turn off. This is generally a lot easier and safer than correcting the problem - certainly a lot easier than replacing the operating system. akaDruid 18:00, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Machine Translation

Do you produce or recommend any machine translation software?

We don't produce any such software. The site itself doesn't give recommendations. I can say that I have personally used www.babelfish.com or www.google.com (language tools), but that I don't care for them much, and I usually use them for brief phrases I'm stuck on in a language I know moderately well. Machine translation is still too choppy to be used for any important purposes. In fact, at our translation facilitation page, Wikipedia:Translation into English, we specifically ask people NOT to use machine translators, which is probably as close to this site's recommendation as you'll get. :) Good luck. Jwrosenzweig 17:11, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Just wonder what makes him think we produce a translater? -- Taku 22:01, Mar 7, 2004 (UTC)

Maybe it's that Wiktionary is also a "translationary." But then again, the poster asked the question here, and not at the appropriate place at Wiktionary. – Minh Nguyễn 02:18, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Roberto Ferruzzi/ Madonnina/19th Century Italian.

Please help me with this lost painting. ThomBro3@aol.com

This one? (Someone please send this link to him/her)

Link sent. Jwrosenzweig 00:10, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Supreme Court Act 2003

I want to know which parties give in favour of bill or which are against it..and how many are in favour or how many against

Which Supreme Court Act 2003 are you referring to? There was one in New Zealand by that name, and another one in Victoria, Australia, which is sometimes referred to by that name. There may also be others that I don't know about. If you're asking about the New Zealand legislation, there's information on how parties voted in our article about the Supreme Court of New Zealand - Labour, the Progressives, and the Greens (a total of 63 MPs) voted in favour, while National, New Zealand First, ACT, and United Future (a total of 57 MPs) voted against. I don't know about the Australian case. -- Vardion 06:14, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Cayman Island Dollar (KYD)

Does someone know who determines the exchange rate for the KYD? According to KYD, it is set at a fixed rate by an agreement with the World Bank, but according to Economy of the Cayman Islands, it has changed historically; if both of these are true, who determines the exchange rate from day to day? How often does it change?

I have no idea of the facts, but I did insert the statement in question in the Cayman Dollar (==KYD) article. An anonymous user had created it, and inserted a very precise exchange rate - I thought this inappropriate, but in a conversation of edit summaries, was told it was "fixed by agreement with the World Bank". Having no other source of information, I took the anon's word for it, and added the explanation to the article. - IMSoP 20:05, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This page, part of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority website, might be of some use. It seems that the current exchange rate was established by the Cayman Islands Currency Board, the precursor to the modern Monetary Authority. Hope that helps. -- Vardion 05:19, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Linux questions

Nice, 136 kilobytes... anyway, i've got some linux questions for y'all:

whats the easiest way to add a /swap partition after installing? I installed with only a root partition an dnot a swap partition; red hat says to boot into rescue mode and do it from there, is that really the easiest way?

does red hat come with a c compiler?

does red hat (not fedora, I know fedora does) come with KDE?

thanks -- ugen64

2) Yes - to my knowledge, every distro of linux known to man comes with gcc.

3) Yes - Red Hat comes with KDE (and GNOME and the rest)

→Raul654 23:14, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)

I know, it should come with GCC, but when I tried to compile QT (i think), it stated something like "function G++ not found"

and I can't find how to switch between GNOME and KDE... I suspected both were on red hat, but... I am a linux noobie... -- ugen64

G++ is the C++ add-on to gcc. Is it in your path?

It should be written "g++". No, this isn't nitpicking; G++ is not an actual command in Linux; g++ is. Linux files are case-sensitive. Metasquares 21:27, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'm aware - I was being careless ;) →Raul654 02:28, Mar 7, 2004 (UTC)

As far as KDE - the Red Hat CD comes with it. Whether or not you actually installed it is a very different story. In Red Hat 9, if you are using the graphical login, there's a listing of all the different window managers you can use. It should be listed there (if you installed it). →Raul654 05:13, Mar 3, 2004 (UTC)

1) In case you already have free unpartitioned space for the swap, you can use `parted' to create a new swap partition. Open a terminal (e.g. gnome-terminal, xterm, konsole) and type the following (WARNING: I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR DATA IS LOST BY DOING ANY OF THE FOLLOWING :) ):

$ su - # become root
Password:
# parted
   .
   :
(parted) print
(parted) help mkpartfs
(parted) mkpartfs [logical|primary] linux-swap <starting MB> <ending MB>
   .
   :
(parted) print
(parted) quit

In case you don't have free space, you may have to resize partitions, which may be riskier.

(parted) help resize

Now add the following line to /etc/fstab so that the swap space is activated every time the machine is rebooted:

/dev/<swap_partition_name> swap swap defaults 0 0

where /dev/<swap_partition_name> is the name of the partition created (as shown by the print command in parted). Then activate the swapspace for now using:

# swapon -a
# exit # become non-root again
$

-- Paddu 22:28, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

2)&3) If you don't seem to have gcc & kde it must be because you chose a minimal install or something. You should have chosen `Custom installation' and then manually chosen `Development (incl. gcc)' and `KDE' packages when the package listing comes up. If you have access to the CDs/ISO images/FTP server/whatever media you used to install redhat, then you can search for the rpms named gcc*.rpm and kde*.rpm in those media, copy all of them to some directory in the/a hard disk and then do (AGAIN, I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU LOSE ANY DATA :) ):

# su - # become root
# rpm -Uvh /path/to/copied/rpm/files/*.rpm

-- Paddu

German history

Am trying to determine where the town of Blauberg, Bavaria in Germany would have been in 1906. There is no Blauberg appearing on current maps of Bavaria. We think it would be in the Cham district.

This might not be the same place that you're looking for, but I believe that there's a place called Blauberg in Alb-Donau district, near the city of Ulm in Baden-Württemberg. Blauberg quite near to a larger place called Blaubeuren. Since Ulm is so close to the border of Bavaria, and the border may have changed, could this the place you want? -- Vardion 05:45, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Needing Help

I am not sure if I am asking the appropriate contact, however it is very importan that I receive information on the movie The Horse Soldiers with john Wayne. More specifically, I would like to know if the film ever had location shoots in Louisiana, and if so what (town) or (parish). If you could possibly provide aforementoined information, or maybe give insight on who to ask...I would so very much appreciate it. More than you could ever know. Thank you Charles

According to IMDb [1], some parts were shot in Alexandria. -- 130.49.86.226 06:22, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Word document format to XML and back

Is it possible to convert a Microsoft Word document to an XML form, and then convert that XML back to a Word document? What tools would I use to do that on a Windows XP platform? - Bevo 18:12, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

What it is that you are actually trying to achieve? XML is a standard way of arranging data, but defines nothing in terms of what it means. If you really do just want any old XML format, I believe an export option exists in all versions of Office since at least 2000; or, of course, you could import it into OpenOffice.org, and save it out - a .sxw is actually a .zip containing several XML fragments. Both of these actions should be completely reversible (presumably with some manipulation of yours in between?). If, however, you have a particular format in mind - DocBook is the only example that comes to mind - I have no idea.

- IMSoP 22:28, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

By odd coincidence, I'm been involved in projects to do just that. Assuming that you have a particular XML application (DTD or Schema) in mind, it can be a pretty tough problem. The "and back" part is particularly hard, since there is typically a lot of lost information. If you don't have a particular XML application in mind, the HTML output of Word is pretty close to well-formed. You can easily write a small program to clean up the few issues that make it non-XML. The "and back" would consist of stripping XML document headers, adding HTML document headers, and then just bringing it into Word, which does a fairly good job of reading HTML, especially its own HTML. Hope that's of some help. -- Jmabel

help me please.

hello,sir .

I am an african and want to continue my university in london or germany but in our family we are poor, and i want you to help me pay my fees and have my visa from german embassy to make it to my school .

I'm offering a business course and i want to become a great person i future like you and follow your step to be like you. My name is George Wimbel William Lathbridge.jnr.

My e-mail address is wimbel4k@yahoo.com

or

the above name p.o box 360 madina - accra Ghana.

thank you for reading.

THANKS.

Mr. Wikipedia

Mr. Lathbridge, while I am sure we all applaud your desire to add to your education, this site is not in the business of philanthropy. We have no mechanism for offering funds, and no funds to offer even if we did have that mechanism. I suggest contacting charitable organizations for help. Good luck! Jwrosenzweig 17:43, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Three dimentional "star"

(This heading was posted without a question, but just as a guess, the person who posted it may find something of interest at Kepler solid and the external links on that page. - Nunh-huh 04:25, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)~)

Three dimentional "star"

I am looking for any information on a "star" symbol I have seen and cannot locate. It is a 10-12 pointed, three dimentional star with the top and bottom points slightly longer than the rest....so that is appears to "ride"...like a top....on either one. I have seen it drawn within circles like it is moving rapidly. ANY information or thoughts will be greatly appreciated!

                                      Thanks!       Aurora

Check here, especially #34, the small stellated dodecahedron. - Nunh-huh 04:43, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

stem cell treatment transplant

i don't know if i'm posting to right page here but maybe someone can direct me if i'm not. i'm trying to find out if it is posssible to treat endometriosis,fibromyalgia and psoriasis together by way of a multiple platform injection into the stomach abdominal wall,by using hematopoietic stem cells,as i have been offered this treatment in India or Russia i would need a course of four injections in total,given every three months any advice would be much appreciated. 195.93.33.11

On its face, this sounds like a horrible form of quackery, one which has no basis in logic by which it might possibly be successful. You need to consult a reputable physician for medical advice, obtain a second opinion, and not undergo experimental or unproven treatment solely on the say-so of the person offering it to you. I don't believe there's any special expertise in stem cell research in India or Russia. -- Nunh-huh 21:48, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

North Atlantic air temps

To whom it may concern

Would it be possible to give me some of your valued advice? I have a vessel shipment that is scheduled to ship out of Antwerp on March 27th, and dock approx 4/4 in New York. The material is raw cosmetic goods, and should not be subjected to freezing temperatures. (Material could become damaged) Do you feel it wise to ship at this date, or perhaps wait 1 or 2 weeks. I don't know who else would be able to assist in this matter, so I'm hoping you can help. It is greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

Mike Finnedt

Mike, I suggest http://answers.google.com/answers/ which offers answers to questions from full-time researchers for a small fee. The investment would, in this case, be very worthwhile, I think. Alternatively, a meteorology department at a local university would be a good free option, should one be convenient. Best of luck, Jwrosenzweig 17:46, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

William Murdoch (1754 - 1839)

A recent article in the "Scotland on Sunday" gave some details about William Murdoch... I would like to learn more.. do you have any other sites or books that you could suggest that I could review ?

email johnbyars2000@yahoo.co.uk

My interest is that I have been informed that he was my Great,Great,Great Uncle ...!

Many Thanks

John Byars

John, a very brief article is available here at William Murdoch. I'm afraid I don't know of other places to look -- university libraries are my standard answer for this sort of thing. One request -- should you discover more about this notable relative of yours, please come back and add it to our article! We'd appreciate it, and hope that what the article currently covers is of some assistance. Good luck, Jwrosenzweig 17:49, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

There is now a lot more in this article. AllanHainey 11:59, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Can a solar system have two suns?

I am a student who has to argue whether Jupiter could have been a star. I need to know if a solar system can have two suns.

Thank you.

rbisnake21@aol.com

I'll take this one. →Raul654 15:54, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)

I think I've heard of certain systems being called "binary"; that is, they have two suns. I'm not 100% sure about that, though. Metasquares 01:08, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yes, you are correct. See binary star. Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to earth (besides our own) is in fact a trinary star system.

For the record, Jupter would have to be 100 times more massive before it could successfully undergo fusion and become a star. I emailed all this info to the questioner about 2 days ago. →Raul654 01:18, Mar 6, 2004 (UTC)

In fact current estimates suggest that the majority of stars are in binary systems and ours is unusual. See for example http://www.solstation.com/orbits.htm

A related but harder problem is whether you can have stable planetary orbits in a binary star system. In general it is difficult to find stable orbits for planets orbiting two suns with comparable masses. The norm seems to be that the smaller planets are likely to get thrown out of such a system. See for example http://cdsaas.u-strasbg.fr:2001/PASP/journal/issues/v115n809/203083/brief/203083.abstract.html

The orbits for systems with three or more bodies cannot be completely solved (see N-Body problem) and proved to be stable. So it is not certain that planets from our own solar system will not get ejected at some time in the future. However, numerical simulations suggest that there is not likely to be a problem any time soon.

belly buttons

As a person gains weight, does their belly button hole get deeper and deeper? Or does the bottom part of the hole move out too? ike9898

<purely anecdotal>In my experience, lightweight people have very shallow belly buttons and heavy people have much deeper bellybuttons. I have never seen someone who was overweight with a very shallow bellybutton. Therefore, it is my semi-confident answer that the hole deepens. Take it for what you will. :-) </purely> Jwrosenzweig 17:52, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

heh. My belly button is deeper than any one elses that I know but I'm not heavy. my weight is pretty average. —Noldoaran (Talk) 00:57, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC)

Copy machines of the 60s

I'm just looking for information about a photocopy machine I used sometime back in the sixties. You fed the original into the machine between two special pieces of paper (as I recall). When the document & pages came out the other side, you had to peel the two outside papers off; one was trashed, the other was the photo of the original. Does anyone know what the make/model of this machine was? Thanks.

eloker@earthlink.net

I haven't been able to find anything on a three-layer process (if you do, come back and write about it!), but you might have a look at duplicating machines, especially spirit duplicator and thermofax machine, and see if they are close to what you're talking about. Good luck! Catherine 18:54, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

(emailed as well)

Are you talking about the ones with a kind of purple tinge to them? Mark Richards 06:24, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

State Chief Justices

Hello, I am trying to compile a list of all current general counsels and chief justices of all courts North of DC to the Mississippi River. Can you point me in a good direction? I've been doing research all morning and was so happy to find your site. I hope you can help. Many thanks, RM

Rm, this site http://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html looks weird, but I think if you browse it enough, it does list all chief justices of every state, including the current one. If, that is, all you want is their names. General counsels....ouch, I don't know. That might demand going to every state's individual web site and crawling around (I don't know other state websites, though I think they follow the general pattern of www.<two letter state code>.gov -- the State of Washington, I know, can be reached at www.wa.gov, which redirects to their acutal site). Sorry I don't have more. Good luck! Jwrosenzweig 18:33, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

UPDATE: that site is semi-decent. Having looked around, some states do not list all their chief justices, but some (e.g., Michigan http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/spcj.html) do. You have to go to the "Offices Held or Sought" page, and then choose a state you're interested in, and then within that state, the Chief Justices page. Sorry it isn't of more help. Jwrosenzweig 18:36, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Canadian Baseball League

I know that this league shut down the season early last year. Could you tell me if the league has decided to completely fold? Thank you, Sonya Y. Badger sonyabadger@hotmail.com

Sonya, given that their web site [2] is now a home page for a band called the "Amoreys", I would wager it's not coming back. I haven't seen anything official, though. Jwrosenzweig 18:08, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Latin Inscription

Can some kind soul tell me what the following Latin inscription means? I need it for the Buckinghamshire article...

Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum

Cheers, Graham :) 18:10, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

As usual, Google is your friend: [3] -- DrBob 18:13, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

D'Oh! I should have tried that first shouldn't I? Thanks for that. Graham :) 18:18, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I should have tried that first shouldn't I

Yah, basically. Before I ever post to the village pump or here, I try to google for my answers for :) →Raul654 19:21, Mar 5, 2004 (UTC)

Politics stops at the water's edge

"Politics stops at the water's edge."

Where does that come from?

Here's a quote from http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp9904.htm

Just after the Second World War, Republicans and Democrats reached a historic consensus over post-war security policy in Europe when they accepted the Marshall Plan and U.S. membership in NATO. Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a former isolationist, led his party into the world, famously saying, "Politics stops at the water's edge."

It seems to be saying that Vandenberg was the first to say it, though it's not entirely clear on that. moink 21:29, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

f-14

This is with regards to the F-14.

I am a thrid year Aeronautical engineerig student at clarkson university in new york. I am doing a class research project on the flight characteristics of the F-14. I would like ot know at what Mach number, altitude and angle of attack the aircraft begins to sweep/unsweep its wings. also, if there is any information about the rate at which it sweeps/unsweeps its wings and the amount of wing surface area that is hidden when the wings are in their flight-swept position.

Thank you for your time,

Josh Butler

I don't think the wing area changes when the wing sweep changes. The span does, though.

 Wing span: unswept............................19.54 m (64 ft 1½ in)
   swept.......................................11.65 m (38 ft 2½ in)
   overswept...................................10.15 m (33 ft 3½ in

Areas:

 Wings, gross.................................52.49 m2 (565.0 sq ft)
 Leading-edge slats (total).....................4.29 m2 (46.2 sq ft)
 Trailing-edge flaps (total)...................9.87 m2

Wing sweepback variable from 20º leading-edge

to 68º; oversweep of 75º used for carrier stowage without wing fold; wing pivot point 2.72 m (8 ft 11 in) from aircraft centreline.

I know the sweep changes automatically, but I couldn't find the conditions that cause it to do so. moink 21:17, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Found more for you. From [4], read the whole thing but check out this paragraph:

The wings are shoulder-mounted and are programmed for automatic sweep during flight, with a manual override provided. It's adjustable wing design provides amazing versatility between blazing speed and turn performance. The wings can be adjusted automatically by an onboard computer or manually by the pilot for optimum performance at all altitudes and airspeeds. The twin, swept fin-and-rudder vertical surfaces are mounted on the engine housings and canted outward. The wing pivot carry- through structure crosses the central structure; the carry through is 22 ft (6.7 m) long and constructed from 33 electron welded parts machined from titanium; the pivots are located outboard of the engines. Normal sweep range is 20 to 68 deg with a 75-deg "oversweep" position provided for shipboard hangar stowage; sweep speed is 7.5 deg per second.

So that gives you the sweep rate. Still don't know the conditions for automatic sweep though. moink 21:22, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

More research has convinced me that you're not going to find a simple relation for the sweep control algorithm. All the sites just say it finds an "optimal" sweep value, as a function of data from the air data computer. The best I could find is from [5]:

The Central Air Data Computer (CADC) is an AiResearch CP-1166B/A. It uses data from sensors which measure pitot and static pressures, air temperatures, and angle attack to select the optimal wing sweep angle and sends commands to the control surfaces.

I suspect the actual control equations are classified or proprietary. moink 21:32, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Unidentified Indonesian spider?

Anyone know what this is? I spotted it in Indonesia, it's leg-span was about one and a half times the size of my (large) hand. Thanks, Mark Richards 04:29, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps try asking in Talk:Spider. Garrett Albright 00:53, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Idea key

I need a valid IDEA encryption key to test a program I am writing. I had been using all 0's but the subkeys it generates have no multiplicative inverse (nothing multiplies 0 to get 1). It should be 128 bits. Binary or hex format preferred. →Raul654 14:50, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

Please disregard. I did some further checking, and all keys are reversable. (For the record, the modular multiplicative inverse of 0000000000000000 is 0000000000000000) →Raul654 22:11, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

Low Income Senior Housing & Low Income Apartments

Hello,

I went US HUD, and ended up here at Wikipedia.

I live in Pennsylvania. I have family in Boardman, Ohio. Youngstown area.

I need to learn who to write to for a "list" of senior housing apartments and low income apartment buildings.

Would you please direct me?

Thank you very much!!!

Sincerely,

Sharon Miller (sleighmi@yahoo.com)

I don't know the wikipedia policies on posted e-mail addresses; in general (as a professional systems administrator) I would discourage them, since they can be used to harass a third party. (That seems unlikely in this case).

Sharon, if you started at HUD (U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development) then they should have been able to provide a list of any such housing which was receiving federal funding. I cannot imagine that we could have more authoritative information than that. In general the following Google search might help:

http://www.google.com/search?q=low+income+senior+housing

... and adding +ohio to that leads (with a little reading) to:

JimD 18:36, 2004 Mar 9 (UTC)

Life span of The Norway Lemming?

My daughter is doing a report on Norway lemmings. In every article we have searched, nowhere do they tell you what the life span is. What is the life span of a Norway lemming?

A Google search suggests about 24 months for "lemmings" in general:

http://pub103.ezboard.com/fsmallandfurriesfrm12.showMessage?topicID=8.topic

and likewise for Norwegian Lemmins in particular:

http://wonderclub.com/Wildlife/mammals/norwegian_lemming.html

JimD 18:22, 2004 Mar 9 (UTC)

Numbers and demographics of FPS's

I'm looking for numbers and demograhpics of FPS's on pc's. I am conducting research and am having difficulty finding the information. Any help or guidance would be appreciated!

By FPSs, do you mean First-person shooters? Could you perhaps go into more specifics as to what "numbers" you are looking for; sales numbers, age ranges, or...? Garrett Albright 00:50, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)