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Question: Daniel Imperato, his legitimacy as a candidate, and some useful biographical information research strategies/resources

Who is Daniel Imperato? He has a gazillion self-generated web pages and news releases but they all come from him. He claims to be running for president in 2008. Can we get any proof that he is some kind of legitimate candidate or is he just making this up? And suppose you are a reference librarian, and a patron asks you who a person is, what he stands for, what he has accomplished in life, what his personal history is. What do you do?

Question: religious services in library meeting rooms

I am researching the question of whether public libraries, when they open up their meeting rooms to outside groups, have to allow the rooms to be used for religious services. I understand there is a case in California being decided now, Faith Center Church Evangelistic Ministries v.

Question: Grant resources to help start a collective restaurant run by women

Do you know of any grant resources that could be used to help start a collective restaurant run by women?

Question: How To Obtain Proof of Employment at a Closed Business?

How would you prove employment at that job if it was many years ago and the employer is no longer in busiess?

Question: How many civilian deaths/wounded in Iraq?

How many civilians have been killed by US troops in Iraq? How many have been wounded? This information seems to be suppressed in America. The data I have seen is fragmentary and contradictory.

Question: Corporate advertisement in public libraries

Can you help me with some references to public libraries accepting corporate donations and guidelines for acknowledging the donations?

Here in Sacramento, CA, the Sacramento Public Library accepted computers for a branch library from the local professional basketball NBA teams. In turn, the library allowed what amounts to excessive brazen advertisement in the building for the teams. (I won't go into it at length here, but it really is.) SPL administrators dismiss concerns and focus on the usefulness of the computers, but admit they have no guidelines.

Question: Cooperative Labor Laws

Do you know of any free legal resources reguarding labor laws as they pertain to cooperatives and collectives, specifically the issues involved in profit sharing in lieu of wages. Nationally and the state of missouri.

Question: TIA and NSA budget

I just finished reading the democracy now interview with Shane Harris about total information awareness (TIA) and it left me wondering:

"Congress" cancelled TIA but Congress evidently re-authorized it by funding the secret NSA budget. So, the question I have is:

Question: Genetically Engineered tree industry in Latin America

What are the top 4 corporations involved in the Genetically Engineered tree industry in Latin America?
We need to know their names, logos, and lil background on what they're up to.

Question: Circumnavigation

I am looking for the name of European who really completed first circumnavigation of the globe...Not Magellan.

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