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How to apply for a part time job

How do you apply for a part time job at a retail store? Do you go there and hand them your resume or do you ask for an application form and fill that in and give that to them along with your resume? --124.254.77.148 (talk) 02:37, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Normally, the latter. If it were me, I'd go in to the customer service area and ask for an application. Take it home, fill it out, and bring it back in with a resume. Dismas|^(talk) 02:45, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I would expect different stores or chains to have different policies. Some might require a resume, while others might have you fill in everything they're interested in, on their standard form. If you have a particular store in mind, check their website and see if it includes a job application. Also, call the store and pose that question to them. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:47, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Always have a resume prepared and in hand when you go (never more than two pages, and if you're just at the start of your career then you can – and should – almost certainly keep it to one). While it is not always required, it never hurts. Nearly every larger company or chain will use a standardized application form for their part-time positions. Find out if there is one, ask for one politely, and fill it out entirely — even all the bits that duplicate the information on your resume. It's often a good idea to take the application form away with you so you have time to carefully, thoughtfully, and legibly fill everything out.

Hand in the completed application with a copy of your resume. During this entire process, be appropriately dressed and well-groomed because, especially for part-time jobs, you never know when you'll be interviewed. You may be talking to – or seen by – the manager when you pick up or drop off your application. You may well be asked to sit down for a quick chat as soon as you bring in the form. The person responsible for hiring may talk to the cashier you drop off your resume with. You never know. Good luck! TenOfAllTrades(talk) 03:54, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Also, try looking on the company website for a jobs or careers page. Some shops have switched to online applications. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 12:07, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

You can and should collect information about the store before you make yourself known as a job applicant. Visit as a customer and observe what they sell (brands?) and their staff (number, skills needed, who seems to be in charge?) What are the opening times? What role does the store play in the community? This is most apparent in small towns where a store is well established. There is probably local knowledge about who runs the store that you can pick up, for example from other storekeepers. You could say you are interested in local history, which is an easy way to find out about local commerce without revealing your actual interest. An opportunity for an informal contact with the store manager may even arise (grasp it!). In any case it will be to your advantage when you present yourself to know who is the boss that you really need to talk to, and to be prepared to respond intelligently to their likely interests. A store manager will estimate how capable you might be to handle his/her customers from the first impression you make. Otherwise see the good advice above by TenOfAllTrades. Cuddlyable3 (talk) 14:34, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Construction of this house?

Heinrich Zeller House

Any idea what the Heinrich Zeller House is built of? I'd guess brick — it's a little east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and built in 1745 — but I don't know what to think from the picture, and the normally-good sources are silent on this. Nyttend (talk) 07:22, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Kinda looks like stucco. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:31, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I don't know, but this extract from this book says:

Heinrich Zeller House, Fort Zeller, Newmanstown, Pennsylvania, 1745. Key words: flurken-houses, sandstone architrave, baroque manner, carved shield, semi-enclosed stair, ornamental shelf, kick to the roof, chevron-paneled doors, spring in the lower level, arched cellar door, dairy rooms, products for market, sandstone window frames, small windows, 'underframe' post and purlin roof]

--Sean 15:14, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

If you're willing to trust a random person who happens to have taken a picture of the place, this page refers to "the present stone structure". Unfortunately, the NRHP site apparently "has not yet . . . digitized" the nomination form or official record for the house. Deor (talk) 17:30, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

According to this history of the area, it's mortar-covered limestone. This link and this one also indicate it's stone. --Sean 19:50, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Pretty close to stucco. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:04, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

What ever happened to New York Seltzer?

Does anyone recall the refreshing drink of the late 80's / early 90's known as New York SeltzerItalic text? If so, what ever happened to it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.165.196.84 (talk) 10:38, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Is that meant to be something like Alka Selzer? I know what you mean about products disappearing. In New Zealand we used to have Tek toothbrushes. What ever happened to them ? All the others, the bristles come off, and you nearly swallow them.C.B.Lilly 13:09, 16 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Christopher1968 (talk • contribs)

New York Seltzer was a line of soft drinks/flavored sparkling waters. According to this : [1] it was discontinued at some point. 10draftsdeep (talk) 14:50, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Ipana toothpaste. It just disappeared. So iconic, it was used in a scene from the movie Grease. 99.166.95.142 (talk) 17:25, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

NEW YORK SELTZER WAS THE BEST! I WISH IT WOULD COME BACK. THE RED RASPBERRY & PEACH WERE UN-FREAKIN-BELIEVABLE. I SAY IT'S TIME FOR A COME-BACK. -CS-

New York, New York

What is the origin or justification for New York referring to its courtrooms as " parts " ? I have seen this on both Law and Order and Raising the Bar.C.B.Lilly 13:07, 16 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Christopher1968 (talk • contribs)

Can you provide a complete sentence containing such a reference? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:32, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

They're not referring to the courtroom itself, but to the cases. They'll say something like "xxx part two is now in session, please rise..." and on the shows (IIRC) they print something similar on the bottom of the screen. Matt Deres (talk) 14:59, 16 December 2009 (UTC) Based on Edison's comment, I think I'm mistaken here; I assumed that it worked similarly to what we've got in Canada (I was a witness in a recent case that was XXX ats XXX part 2 because... it was the second part to the trial. Obviously the NY legal system is too advanced to use such straightforward terminology!) Matt Deres (talk) 23:33, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

The New York state court system is unusual, in that the lowest level court for hearing such cases as felonies is called the "Supreme Court." In other states this lowest criminal court might be called the "Circuit Court." There are "parts", that is physical courtrooms, dockets and judges. Judge Jones may be in room 1100 overseeing Part 11. If he goes on vacation, Judge Smith may step in , same part, same room. Here is a present list of parts: [2]. This question was asked and answered previously at The Straight Dope. Verdicts from the New York "Supreme Court" may be appealed at the state Court of Appeals." See also New York Supreme Court and New York Court of Appeals. Edison (talk) 16:52, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank You all. Are you basically saying that a part can refer both to the trial itself, as well as the room ? In Raising the Bar the conservative judge who carries the gun ( good idea ) says something to the effect of someone being in " his part ", so I thought then he meant room, but that could also refer to his trial that he is overseeing. C.B.Lilly 04:42, 17 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Christopher1968 (talk • contribs)

Telephone number for ka de we kaufhaus berlin germany

I need the telephone number for ka de we kaufhaus in berlin germany, I have searched their namwe with no success. Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.75.3.88 (talk) 13:44, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Tel +49 (0)30 2121 0. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 14:05, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

That is, if you're in Germany, dial 030 2121 0. If you're outside Germany, dial your International dialing prefix, then 49 30 2121 0. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 14:29, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Bar Code.

Hi, I know there is downloadable software to create accurate barcodes available somewhere, but I can't find it. Could you show to me what "Lauren" would look like as a barcode. It's my name. :) Thanks. ت ت ت ت (talk) 14:26, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

There is an online version at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/generator/. I suggest you select Code 128 and enter the content as ^104^102Lauren^101 ^103Lauren. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 15:04, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Note that there are MANY kinds of barcode out there - so there is no single barcode that says "Lauren" - there are many different ones. SteveBaker (talk) 21:09, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

But not all support alpha characters and not all support lower case, thus my suggestion of Code 128 one of the most versatile linear barcode symbologies. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 12:37, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Personally I suggest a bokode even if isn't really a barcode. More seriously though I would say Data matrix (computer) and QR Code and perhaps Aztec Code would be other good bets, I'm actually starting to see them in ads and products and stuff nowadays and with the continouing proliferation of mobile phones with cameras and internet connections and I guess the need for more barcode storage capacity they're likely to keep on increasing Nil Einne (talk) 16:41, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. :) ت ت ت ت (talk) 13:08, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

12 Days of Christmas

What is the cost of the gifts in the song in today's dollars?

thanks,

Howard nutt —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.151.90 (talk) 18:50, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I think that, the Christmas Price Index is exactly the calculation you are looking for. APL (talk) 19:05, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Did British POWs in WW2 still get paid while imprisoned?

As above. Thanks. 92.22.54.24 (talk) 19:58, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

POWs are supposed to be paid for their labour under the Geneva Convention, but it was kind of a pittance, and the Nazis and Japanese weren't likely to follow it anyway. The US had an agreement to pay the equivalent of their own ranks (a German lieutenant would get an American lieutenant's pay, etc), according to this article (which is at JSTOR so you'd need a subscription to see more than the first page). Did they get back pay from their own government when they were released? I'm not sure about that but I'll keep looking. Adam Bishop (talk) 21:47, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I found this[3]. I know merchant seamen had their pay stopped as soon as their ship sank which seems a bit harsh. Alansplodge (talk) 22:08, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

To pay their bills, they had to float a loan. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 11:26, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Not clever and not funny!Froggie34 (talk) 13:13, 17 December 2009 (UTC)Froggie34

De gustibus non est disputandum Edison (talk) 19:44, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

You can say that again. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:09, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Rib it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:18, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I heard many years ago that they were supposed to receive "camp money" from the Germans, which could be used within the POW camp, while their British pay continued to accrue. When they were liberated, they received their back pay, minus what they were supposed to have received in the camps (which they didn't always get). -- Arwel Parry (talk) 13:32, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

I always assumed that soldiers got paid by their governments even while in POW camps, whcih is why it was always considered their duty to escape. One of our own, Charles Hazlitt Upham, did so so often, they sent him to Colditz. This now concerns me, since my late great uncle Bill Hughes was in a Stalag with the later actor Clive Dunn( 1920 - ) . I am aware that NZ returned servicemen were offered farms by the government as a token of their service. Upham turned this down. I am not sure what great uncle Bill did. It would have been nice to have returned home to a bit of money, even if only a few hundred pounds, since they had nowhere to spend it like they did on active duty, but I suspect it would still seem like a small consolation for the ordeal they had had. I can imagine a number of governments stiffing their heroes, and giving themselves a big raise. The Russian.C.B.Lilly 13:12, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Slightly late response, but it may be useful to someone searching through the archive. Based off of this letter [4] from Kurt Vonnegut (and others) after his release from a POW camp, it would appear that US troops were paid their back pay for the entire time they were imprisoned. The pay that he mentions ($600), doesn't really match up for his rank of Private that he attests to in the letter, which had a pay rate of $50 a month[5], being that he was captured in December 1944, and was writing the letter in May 1945. It is possible that due to certain circumstances he hadn't drawn pay for several months prior to being captured, however. Zharmad (talk) 05:13, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

The "|" Key

On my Dell Studio laptop, above between the Enter and Backspace key, there is the "\" key. But when holding shift, it makes a "|" sign instead - much like the wikipedia mark up used to link images. What is the function of this symbol "|", aside from Wiki use? Acceptable (talk) 20:44, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

We have an article for everything, including that - it's a Vertical bar. (It doesn't seem to be on the page, but personally, I use it to separate metrical units when scanning poetry.) Adam Bishop (talk) 20:59, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

It's used a lot by programmers to mean "OR" as in:

  if ((( ham | sausages | herring ) & eggs ) | ( toast & marmalade ) ) then breakfast ;

(If you have ham or sausages or herring and you have some eggs - or if you have toast and marmalade - then you have ingredients for breakfast.)

...and it's used in UNIX systems (Linux, MacOS, etc) to mean "pipe" as in:

  cal 2010 | lpr

...which displays a calendar for the year 2010 and 'pipes' the resulting text to the printer.

Some people use them for making diagrams using "ASCII art":

   +------------------+
   |                  |
   |  This is a box!  |
   |                  |
   +------------------+

There are probably lots of other uses too. If you are getting '|' when you type '\' then you probably have the wrong 'international keyboard' settings on your computer.

SteveBaker (talk) 21:01, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I remembered another usage, to separate bars in guitar tablature. Man, it's been forever since I made any of those. Adam Bishop (talk) 21:34, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

How old is the key? I took a look at the typewriter photos on the Typewriter page and didn't see it on any of them. Does it just date to computer keyboards? IBM PC keyboard says "| is a vertical bar, originally used as a typographic separator for optical character recognition." It's an odd little character; I'd be interested in knowing an authoritative story of how it become so dang standard. It has less obvious origins than most of the keys, which are obviously holdovers from typewriters and written characters. --Mr.98 (talk) 22:22, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

The unshifted and shifted characters available on the standard IBM PC US keyboard layouts are no more and no less than the printable ASCII characters. So the real question might be: Why is the "|" character one of the ASCII characters? --Bavi H (talk) 00:58, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I can't cite a reference, but I've read that the primary reason was for drawing diagrams, like the ASCII art example above. Once it was there, of course, people found other uses for it. --Anonymous, 03:05 UTC, December 17, 2009.

I doubt that - there was a vertical bar character in the EBCDIC character set in the 1950's - and that came from one of the myriad of punched card formats from before that. It's likely that this symbol predates computers...and therefore predates character-based "art". SteveBaker (talk) 04:00, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Citation needed, Steve. According to Wikipedia, EBCDIC was created in 1963-64, which makes it pretty much the same age as ASCII. As far as I know, there were no earlier character sets with more than 6 bits per character, a small enough limit that they had to be frugal with the punctuation marks; and I'm ont aware of any such character sets that included "|".

Obviously the "|" symbol predates computers; but so do lots of others that we never saw in computer character sets before Unicode. The question Bavi asked and I was answering was why "|" was considered important enough to include in ASCII (and, it seems, EBCDIC). --Anonymous, 09:55 UTC, December 17, 2009.

Character-based art has a much longer pedigree than EBCDIC or computers. There are a number of nineteenth century examples, and typewriter art was a popular art medium in the 1950s to the 1970s. It's not that likely that the pipe predated the artform. see also [6]; and sadly I saw in the last fortnight but cannot find a character typeset map of US states or counties dating from circa 1870. --Tagishsimon (talk) 04:16, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

(1) I think you have to have a very limited ASCII set for this sentence to be true: “The unshifted and shifted characters available on the standard IBM PC US keyboard layouts are no more and no less than the printable ASCII characters.” It's not hard to think of printable ASCII characters that don't show up on the vast majority of PC keyboards. That's why Windows user tools include a Character Map, one of which I've planted to the left of my taskbar. (2) I first encountered the straight vertical stroke in a juvenile attempt to read Principia Mathematica (Cambridge, 1910-1913, 1927) by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, where it's called the Sheffer stroke and indicates that the full propositions on either side of the stroke cannot both be true. But most of Principia Mathematica was set from type already available at the Cambridge University Press, and I'm sure the character is much older. It might be something, like black boxes of different widths, that can be produced by manipulating the physical type for other characters of letterpress printing. —— Shakescene (talk) 09:11, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

ASCII is a limited set. 7 bits, 128 characters. It has been extended and manipulated in many ways since its inception, but it certainly predates Windows. There is some interesting history here; the mathematical use referred to is most likely indicating absolute value. This rather exhaustive history (via the Internet Archive) shows that the vertical line character didn't become part of ASCII until the 1967 draft, although it seems that it may have been the "broken vertical line" at that point. Unfortunately, that page skips over the discussion of the "national graphics" characters (also mentioned in the prior link), referring us to " Coded character sets, history & development by Charles E. Mackenzie, ISBN 0-201-14460-3 (Addison-Wesley, 1980), " for all the juicy details of the debates. This image of a page from a November 1967 discussion of ASCII-1967 mentions how the (broken) vertical line might be used, and perhaps more importantly mentions that " ... X.32 attempted to include the characters commonly encountered in programming languages." --LarryMac | Talk 13:52, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

I just compared the ASCII character set to the symbols my US-English keyboard can produce: there are no symbols in ASCII that cannot be produced by my keyboard, and no symbols that my keyboard can produce that are not in ASCII.

As for the vertical bar, I've seen it used to write a variation of set-builder notation, which I believe solidly pre-dates ASCII. --Carnildo (talk) 00:29, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Shakescene: Just to clarify, the printable ASCII characters are only the characters that appear in the image at the beginning of the the ASCII article. --Bavi H (talk) 02:25, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

The vertical bar is a logical OR symbol in Boolean algebra, developed in the 1840s. I found a bit of history on the inclusion in the ASCII set at http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin1/ascii-hist.html#7C. Incidentally, the ASCII article uses File:ASCII Code Chart-Quick ref card.jpg which is from a GE card in my collection. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 03:57, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

if only somebody had linked to that ASCII history website earlier --LarryMac | Talk 12:59, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

British economy question.

The Wikipedia page on the British economy states that the 2008 est. GDP was $2674 trillion. Given the population of the UK is about 60 million (in total), I calculate that the GDP per capita is about $4.5 million per skull (impossible imho). Which contrasts with Wiki's own calculation stating GDP per Capita is $43,785 (a much lower number but still very high). So firstly, is a trillion equal to 1 million million (1,000,000,000,000) or 1 thousand million (1,000,000,000), and secondly, even if it is the lower figure, how can every man, woman and child in the UK produce $43,785 per annum (based on the 2008 figures)? I just don't get it. Especially when you consider that most of the employed folk are in non-manufacturing jobs nowadays. So thirdly, just what does GDP include? And please don't tell me that public sector clerks pushing paper files around each others desks are adding value. Thanks. 92.22.54.24 (talk) 21:00, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

There is confusion about 'billion' and 'trillion' in British English - originally a billion was a million millons - and a trillion was a million, million, millons - but the American English usage of a billion being a thousand million and a trillion being a million million is becoming more common. In this case, certainly a million million is what's intended. That said, $4.5M per capita does sound high. SteveBaker (talk) 21:05, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

This report [7] gives a per capita GDP of $48,000 for 2008 - they must mean billion, not trillion. I think we (the Brits) have been going with the US (originally French) billions for a very long time now. Alansplodge (talk) 22:00, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

"That said, $4.5M per capita does sound high." no kidding... :-P Nil Einne (talk) 18:37, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

The UK GDP is $2.674 trillion - note the decimal point, so the GDP per capita is about $43,000. To answer your second question, GDP includes everything, not just tangible assets produced. The standard way of measuring GDP is not to directly measure production, but rather consumption. If someone was consumed, it must have been produced, so the two should be the same (you do have to compensate for imports, exports and capital investments, though, all of which result in things being consumed at a different place or time than they were produced). Since someone is willing to pay the public sector clerks for pushing paper around, that work does have value (in the economic sense of the word), so it does count as production. --Tango (talk) 22:12, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Our List of countries by GDP (nominal) says GB has GDP of 2,680,000 million, so it looks like someone forgot a . in the number. Googlemeister (talk) 22:15, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Looking at the article, it's using a comma rather than a period as the decimal separator. --Carnildo (talk) 23:55, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

To answer your third question: The definition of GDP is in the intro to our GDP article: It is the market value of all final goods and services made within the borders of a country in a year. The use of the term "final goods" means that the shoes manufactured in Aberdeen count toward the total, but not the shoelaces manufactured in Birmingham which are sent over to Aberdeen in order to make the shoes. (But, of course, the shoelaces sent from Birmingham over to London for direct consumer sale are counted.) Comet Tuttle (talk) 23:22, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

To answer your question about how the mean per capita GDP can be so high, when the median British household does not earn $48,000 per person, remember that this is the sum total that all of the workers of the UK have produced divided by the total number of workers. If you are a Briton who works, a fair part of what you produce ends up going to your bosses as pay (since as you and I know they get heaps of money but don't actually produce much), another part goes to shareholders in your company, another part goes to bondholders from whom your company has borrowed, and another part goes to the government for redistribution through corporate taxes before it even enters your gross pay. Marco polo (talk) 02:23, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

As for the comment “most of the employed folk are in non-manufacturing jobs nowadays,” that is the only way you can actually get above about $15,000-$20,000 per capita income. Manufacturing won’t do it; the economy needs to move into higher value-added work, which means services. Remember, metal-bashing is only a virtue when artists or musicians do it! DOR (HK) (talk) 08:36, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Question about insurance statistics

I am seeking information regarding the percentage of homes covered either with homeowners or renter's insurance in a specific area of Washington State in the USA. I could not find a Census data set that included this data. Is there a data set I missed or another source of data that would include this information? Thanks! 64.128.84.168 (talk) 22:58, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I don't think Census questionnaires ask about this, even the detailed forms that are received by the small subset of the population. Does this link answer your question? This page (funded by the insurance industry, by the looks of it) has a lot of very interesting homeowners insurance stats for the US for 1999-2008 but doesn't answer your exact question. Comet Tuttle (talk) 23:29, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Statistics by the United Nations and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (cont.)

I am going to ask you these questions. This time, can you please just simply answer YES or NO?

1. Does 2000-2005 cover the entire period from the beginning of the year 2000 to the end of the year 2005? Does 2005-2010 cover the entire period from the beginning of the year 2005 to the end of year 2010?

2. Does 1901-1910 cover the entire period from the beginning of the year 1901 to the end of the year 1910? Does 1999-2001 cover the entire period from the beginning of the year 1999 to the end of the year 2001?

3. Does the 2000 revision of World Population Prospects for 2000-2005 includes predictions for statistics for what the whole period 2000-2005 would be?

Bowei Huang (talk) 23:37, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

At this point, no one here is apparently able to answer this question, which has been asked multiples times using slightly different wording. I suppose someone who missed the last 3 go arounds may be have some inside information on how that data was compiled, but it comes down to the fact that no one is really any more certain than you are on this. If it is really that important, than your best recourse is to contact the bureaus and agencies responsible for publishing that data, and asking them directly how they calculate it. There is a very good chance you'll get an answer. Most people are perfectly willing to take 2-3 minutes to respond to a friendly email or phone call asking this sort of question, if you can find the right person to ask. For example the Australian Bureau of Statistics contact information is here. That page has a phone number and indicates they would be perfectly happy to receive your call. The United Nations is a big organization, and I am not sure which division is responsible for keeping track of the statistics you seek; but there is likely a way to contact them as well. --Jayron32 02:31, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

1. No. It covers the period starting in the full year 2000 and ending in the full year 2005. There is no indication of partial coverage at all. 2. Same answer, different years. 3. No idea; I don’t have a copy.

DOR (HK) (talk) 08:38, 17 December 2009 (UTC)