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YAHOO ANNOUNCES BOOK-SCANNING PROJECT
Yahoo has announced a plan to scan large collections of texts into an
online digital archive, though officials said their approach differs in
important ways from Google's similar venture, which has drawn
extensive criticism and legal action. Yahoo's initiative, called the
Open Content Alliance (OCA), represents a partnership with the
University of California, the University of Toronto, the Internet
Archive, and several other companies and organizations. Unlike
Google's project, they will not scan any copyrighted work without
explicit permission. Organizers of the project said the goal is to
digitize and make freely available as much of what is in the public
domain as possible. In addition, the archive will not be restricted to
users of Yahoo. David Mandelbrot, Yahoo's vice president for search
content, said the texts will be online in such a way that other search
engines will be able to locate them. Much of the scanning for the OCA
will be done by the Internet Archive, which has already been working
with the University of Toronto on scanning several thousand books in
its collection.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 October 2005
http://chronicle.com/free/2005/10/2005100301t.htm

WIKIBOOKS ENTERS TEXTBOOK PUBLISHING FIELD

[Yet Another Entry Into The eBook Field]

The Wikimedia Foundation launched the Wikibooks project to create a
kindergarten-to-college curriculum of textbooks based on an open source
development model. Material written for the new texts can be short or
long and easily modified, and the resulting Wikibooks would be freely
licensed. The goal is to produce thousands of books and smaller entries
on a range of topics by employing a worldwide community of writers and
editors. Any reader or student could create a personalized book or edit
an existing title. Wikibooks currently contains more than 11,000
submissions from volunteers (professionals in many fields, college and
graduate students, and professors). The project is still in the early
stages and faces competitors such as Google's digital library project,
which has run into copyright issues.
ZDNet, 28 September 2005
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5884291.html


FAB LABS ALLOW CREATION, NOT JUST CONSUMPTION

[Something In The Way Of A 3-D Project Gutenberg?]

With the help of host countries, MIT is setting up Fab Labs, or
fabrication laboratories, around the world. Fab Labs provide an
opportunity for individuals to use various technological means to build
things that solve local problems. For example, Haakon Karlsen, a
rancher who lives hundreds of miles north of the Artic Circle, used a
Fab Lab in Norway to devise radio collars for his sheep. The collars
help Karlsen locate his sheep in the conditions where he lives, and
they send information about whether the flock is moving, what the
temperature is, and other data he uses to care for the sheep. Neil
Gershenfeld, professor at MIT and director of the university's Center
for Bits and Atoms, said the labs take people out of the role of simply
being consumers of technology that is available and puts them in the
position of creating the technology they need. For each Fab Lab, MIT
pays for equipment, and the host country provides the location for the
lab. Officials in South Africa are currently working to introduce not
one but four Fab Labs in that country, starting with one just outside
Pretoria. Sushil Borde, who is directing the development of Fab Labs in
South Africa, said the country hopes the labs will open new avenues for
engineers and entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into tangible products.
BBC, 27 September 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4276180.stm

LAMS FOUNDATION LAUNCHES COMMUNITY WEB SITE
The Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) Foundation has announced
the launch of a new Web site that will allow what it calls "open source
teaching," in which educators can share and modify digital lesson
plans. The LAMS Community Web site is based on the .LRN open source
platform, developed at MIT. Using the LAMS Community Web site, teachers
can search through various subset communities, looking for sequences of
learning activities particular to their field. Available communities
will initially include developers, technical support, and education,
which will offer subcommunities for K-12, higher education and
training, and research and development. New communities can be added
later, such as a community focused on math teachers in the Boston area.
The Web site will allow teachers to share their own learning sequences,
access others' sequences, rate them, and discuss them. All of the
content will be used under Creative Commons licenses.
LAMS Foundation, 30 September 2005
http://www.lamsfoundation.org/news/lamscomm.html

[A Similar Project Across The Pond]

IRELAND AND U.K. TO COOPERATE ON E-LEARNING
Education officials in the United Kingdom and Ireland have signed an
agreement to work together in support of an initiative called the
National Digital Repository, which is designed to support higher
education e-learning. The repository, which started in January 2005, is
to be a collection of components of higher education courses, allowing
users to develop online courses in various fields by picking and
choosing from among those components. Components can include images,
multimedia clips, text, maps, and other elements that can support
online learning. The repository is currently funded by the Irish Higher
Education Authority (HEA) and the Department of Education and Science.
Under the agreement between the HEA and the United Kingdom's Joint
Information Services Committee, the two countries will cooperate "in
building a technology infrastructure that provides lifelong access to
programs of study for learners in a manner that is flexible and
convenient to their particular life circumstances," according to Tom
Boland, chief executive of the HEA.
Silicon Republic, 29 September 2005
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single5459

GOOGLE OFFERS TO UNWIRE SAN FRANCISCO
Google is one of more than a dozen organizations that have submitted
bids in response to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's call for a
citywide wireless Internet network. The network would provide free
Internet access to anyone in the city. Google finds itself flush with
more than $7 billion in cash after recent stock sales. Industry
observers speculated that setting up a municipal wireless network in
San Francisco could be the first step in a Google plan to establish
such a network nationwide, though the company said it currently has no
plans to expand beyond the Bay Area. Analysts said Google's interest
in facilitating increased Internet access directly serves the
company's goals of organizing the world's information. In addition,
providing Internet access to greater numbers of people means
potentially more visitors to Google's site, which would increase
advertising revenues.
Wired News, 1 October 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,69059,00.html

[Related Article NOT From Edupage]

*

San Francisco receives more than 24 Wi-Fi bids

Mayor calls free wireless 'a fundamental right'

"City officials said participants ranged from Cingular, the largest
U.S. wireless carrier, to Atlanta-based Internet service provider
EarthLink Inc. to San Francisco wireless broadband start-up Feeva Inc."

Reuters

*

DIGITAL MUSIC SALES SURGE

[If sales "declined by nearly 7 percent in value and 3.4 percent in units,"
that means that somehow the dollar value change in the last year was
double that of the amount of music sold. . .this doesn't compute.]

According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
(IFPI), sales of online digital music more than tripled in the first
half of 2005, compared to the same period in 2004. Sales of legal music
downloads totaled $790 million (representing 6 percent of total music
sales worldwide), up from $220 million the year before. Most of the
gains were seen in the world's top five music markets: the United
States, Britain, Japan, Germany, and France. Sales of physical formats
declined by nearly 7 percent in value and 3.4 percent in units. The
IFPI said it will continue working to spur legal sales of online music
while limiting the illegal sharing of music. John Kennedy, chairman and
chief executive of the IFPI, said that "digital and physical piracy
remain a big threat to our business in many markets. Our industry's
priorities are to further grow this emerging digital-music business
while stepping up our efforts to protect it from copyright theft."
Wall Street Journal, 3 October 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB112834107711958392.html

EOLAS RULING SWINGS BACK TO UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued its final ruling in
favor of the University of California in its patent dispute with
Microsoft. At issue is a technology used for launching certain
applications in Web browsers. The technology was developed at the
University of California at San Francisco and licensed to a company
called Eolas Technologies. Eolas and the university had earlier won a
$521 million judgment against Microsoft for violating the patent in its
software, but that ruling was appealed on the grounds that the patent
was not valid. Despite a preliminary ruling in which the Patent and
Trademark Office indicated its leaning toward Microsoft's position on
the Eolas patent, the final ruling upholds all of the university's
claims. The ruling rejects the assertions of both Microsoft and the
World Wide Web Consortium that the patent relies on "prior art." The
case now returns to district court for trial.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 September 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/09/2005093001t.htm

MASSACHUSETTS PLAN WOULD PROVIDE LAPTOPS FOR ALL STUDENTS
The state of Massachusetts is considering a plan to provide a laptop
computer to every middle and senior high school student in the state.
The plan, offered by Governor Mitt Romney, includes other provisions,
such as adding 1,000 new science and math teachers. The nonprofit One
Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization was credited with the idea of
providing the laptops; in 2000, Maine began a program to equip all
seventh graders in that state with laptops. The initiative depends in
part on acquiring laptops for about $100 each, an idea put forth by
Nicholas Negroponte, founding chairman of MIT~Rs Media Laboratory.
Negroponte formed the OLPC to help provide such inexpensive computers
to children in developing nations. According to Negroponte, pencils are
"tools to think with, sufficiently inexpensive to be used for work and
play, drawing, writing, and mathematics." Computers, he says, can be
seen the same way, though they are "far more powerful."
Federal Computer Week, 29 September 2005
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[As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.]

None of the major US television network news shows even mentioned
Yahoo's effort to form a coalition to compete with Google Print,
whose media blitz covered the television, radio and print news
last December 14th.  Apparently "once bitten, twice shy" is the
rule even for the major media.  Even the BBC barely mentioned it,
sandwiched into Tanya Beckett's business news segment, between the
major news segments of Katty Kay and Mike Embley.

*

None of the major media would announce the total deaths of Katrina
when the new, and supposedly final, numbers were released yesterday,
most likely because that number exceeded 1,000.

972 in Louisiana
221 in Mississippi
??? in Alabama

For a total that will probably reach about 1300

CBS, NBC, BBC, etc.

*

Judith Miller was finally released from her imprisonment this week,
after serving about three months for refusing to divulge her source
for an article she never wrote about the White House "outing" of CIA
covert agent Valerie Plame, wife of Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV.
The incident was allegedly sparked by White House retaliation for
Ambassador Wilson's unwillingness to support President Bush's claims
of Weapons of Mass Destruction as per the now infamous "yellow cakes
of uranium" that apparently never existed.  Now that she testified,
it appears this could cause trouble for White House insiders Karl Rove,
VP Cheney's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, as well as for President Bush.

Washington Post
New York Times



*STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK

Many flood victims in St. Bernard Parish [New Orleans] were told by
federal officials they did not need flood insurance.

ABC News 10/04


DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK

Callers to the federal map center were routed to a private
answering service in Tallahassee, Florida, when they called
to find out if they were susceptible to flooding in the New
Orleans area, and the calls were answered by people with no
expertise whatsoever on the subject.  These people who have
now lost everything are "out of luck" as they "can't sue."

ABC News  10/04



*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK

Texas and Florida will continue to get better hurricane
relief than Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, simply
because Texas and Florida have so much more money and so
many more electoral votes that put the Bush administrations
in the White House.

Meet The Press
and/or
Face The Nation


*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK


Senator McCain bluntly declared that "things have not gone as we had
planned or expected, nor as we were told by you, General Myers."

As quoted in The New York Times on October 3, 2005

*

Ex-Chief of FEMA, Michael Brown, attacked Governor Blanco and other
local officials as the cause of problems related to Hurriana Katrina
in one of his first speeches after being re-hired by FEMA in his new
consulting position only a week after his resignation.  Blanco was a
bit more politic about the name calling and refused to comment.

Lehrer News Hour

*

"In the future, computers will weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

"By the year 2000, all computers will weigh under half a ton."
[Popular Electronics, 1950][?]

"In the future, computers will weigh less than a ton."
Unknown, 1949 [Popular Mechanics, 1949][?]

"In  the  future,  computers will weigh no more than a ton."
[Popular Science (1940)][?]



*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK

The current cost of Katrina has passed 35 billion dollars.

Interesting that so much is reported by the foreign news
that is not reported by the US media.

[BBC]

*

INTERNET ADS TAKE OFF IN U.S.
According to numbers from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and
PricewaterhouseCoopers, online advertising revenues in the first half
of 2005 hit a new high of about $5.8 billion, an increase of 26 percent
over the first half of 2004. The percentage of total online ad revenues
earned by keyword-based search ads has held steady at 40 percent, but
income increased. The same holds true for display ads, which accounted

for 20 percent of total online ad revenue. The Internet Advertising
Revenue Report will be published in early October.
The Register, 28 September 2005
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/28/us_internet_advertising_soars/

*

Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.

"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
  8 Africans
  52 would be female
  48 would be male
  70 would be non-white
  30 would be white
  70 would be non-Christian
  30 would be Christian
   6 people  would  possess  59%  of the entire world's wealth
   and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
  1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
  1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
  1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
  1 would be 79 years old or more.

Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.

I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.

I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.

If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.

I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.

BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.

This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge.  Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites.  Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security.  The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.

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POEM OF THE WEEK


Joy is when you close your eyes
And see that the flowers of happy feelings are in bloom
A forest of bright colors and sweet scents
In which you wander careless and free

Joy is when you open your eyes
And see the mountains of doubt crumble and fall
Leaving behind the golden sand of sunny beaches
Where loves step together, holding hands

Joy is when the everlasting trees of your life experience
Share their wisdom with the singing birds
Who then tell it to your senses
And you grow.

Joy is when your action seeds are purposely planted
On fertile ground for future springlings of happy thoughts.

Joy is when you reach the white innocence of the clouds
Just by closing your eyes.

Your inner eye, the most truthful one,
Is now watching over your world.


Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
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Aug 2000 Pandora, by Henry James          [Henry James #21][pndraxxx.xxx] 2299
Aug 2000 Great Astronomers, by R. S. Ball                  [grastxxx.xxx] 2298
Aug 2000 Snow-Bound at Eagle's, by Bret Harte   [Harte #12][sbdaexxx.xxx] 2297
Aug 2000 Pillars of Society, by Henrik Ibsen[Henrik Ibsen2][pllrsxxx.xxx] 2296
Aug 2000 Waifs and Strays, etc, by O Henry Pt 1[O Henry #8][1waifxxx.xxx] 2295

Aug 2000 Anthol. Massachusetts Poets/William S. Braithwaite[mpoetxxx.xxx] 2294
Aug 2000 A New England Girlhood[Beverly, MA] by Lucy Larcom[grlhdxxx.xxx] 2293
Aug 2000 Yet Again, by Max Beerbohm       [Max Beerbohm #8][ytagnxxx.xxx] 2292
Aug 2000 David Elginbrod, by George MacDonald[Scottish][#7][?lgnbxxx.xxx] 2291

Aug 2000 Twenty-Two Goblins, Translated from the Sanskrit  [22gblxxx.xxx] 2290
Aug 2000 Rosmersholm, by Henrik Ibsen    [Henrik Ibsen #1] [rsmrhxxx.xxx] 2289
Aug 2000 Through Russia, by Maxim Gorky   [Maxim Gorky #2] [trussxxx.xxx] 2288
Aug 2000 Havoc, by E. Philips Oppenheim[E. P. Oppenheim #9][havocxxx.xxx] 2287
Aug 2000 Devil's Ford by, Bret Harte       [Bret Harte #11][dvlfdxxx.xxx] 2286

Aug 2000 Ridgway of Montana, by William MacLeod Raine  [#4][rdgwyxxx.xxx] 2285
Aug 2000 Animal Heroes, by Ernest Thompson Seton [Seton #2][anhroxxx.xxx] 2284
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Aug 2000 Tales for Fifteen, by Jane Morgan         [JFC #4][tl415xxx.xxx] 2282
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Aug 2000 The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh etc, by Bret Harte 11[dedloxxx.xxx] 2281
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Aug 2000 A Waif of the Plains, by Bret Harte[Bret Harte #9][awotpxxx.xxx] 2279

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45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to
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In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made
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For more details, see:  www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm


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Aug 2000 Pandora, by Henry James          [Henry James #21][pndraxxx.xxx] 2299
Aug 2000 Great Astronomers, by R. S. Ball                  [grastxxx.xxx] 2298
Aug 2000 Snow-Bound at Eagle's, by Bret Harte   [Harte #12][sbdaexxx.xxx] 2297
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The Heart of the Desert, by Honor Willsie Morrow                        16777
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Poems of Passion, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox                                 16776
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Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men, by Francois Arago           16775
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Teuvo Pakkala, by Juhani Siljo                                           16774
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 443,  June 28, 1884, by Various      16773
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It took us from 7/71 to 10/00 to produce our FIRST 2345 eBooks!!!

          That's 40 WEEKS as Compared to ~29.33 YEARS!!!


FLASHBACK!

Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2294

Mon Year Title and Author                                  [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright

[Note:  books without month and year entries have been reposted]

Oct 2000 The After House, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[MRR #14][ftrhsxxx.xxx] 2358
Oct 2000 Great Jehoshaphat & Gully Dirt, Jewell Ellen Smith[gjagdxxh.xxx] 2357C
Oct 2000 Tommy and Co., by Jerome K. Jerome    [Jerome #22][tomcoxxx.xxx] 2356

Oct 2000 The Formation of Vegetable Mould, by Darwin [CD#9][vgmldxxx.xxx] 2355
Oct 2000 On the Brain, by T. H. Huxley [THH#3]  [Darwin #8][huxbrxxx.xxx] 2354
Oct 2000 Tea-table Talk, by Jerome K. Jerome   [Jerome #21][ttalkxxx.xxx] 2353
Oct 2000 Eurasia, by Chris. Evans                          [uasiaxxx.xxx] 2352
Oct 2000 John Halifax, Gentleman, by Mrs. Craik:Dinah Maria[halifxxx.xxx] 2351

Oct 2000 His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle[A.C.Doyle #23][lstbwxxx.xxx] 2350
Oct 2000 The Adv. of The Devil's Foot, A. Conan Doyle [#22][dvlftxxx.xxx] 2349
Oct 2000 The Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax [ACD #21][lcrfxxxx.xxx] 2348
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Dying Detective, A Conan Doyle #20[dydetxxx.xxx] 2347
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Bruce-Partington Plans [Doyle #19][bplanxxx.xxx] 2346

Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Red Circle  A. Conan Doyle   [#18][rcrclxxx.xxx] 2345
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Cardboard Box, by Conan Doyle  #17[crdbdxxx.xxx] 2344
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of Wisteria Lodge, A. Conan Doyle   [#16][wstraxxx.xxx] 2343
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe 20][?wml8xxx.xxx] 2342
   [Language: German]. . .
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][?wml1xxx.xxx] 2335
Sep 2000 The Works of Rudyard Kipling/One Volume Edition/12[1vkipxxx.xxx] 2334

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1.1 Trillion eBooks Given Away

If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of
6,472,200,341 that would be 17,301 x 64,722,003 = ~1.12 Trillion !!!


With 17,301 eBooks online as of October 12, 2005 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.89 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 64,722,003 x 17,301 x $.89 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]


Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers.

With 17,301 eBooks online as of October 12, 2005 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.58 from each book.
This "cost" is down from about $.71 when we had 14,076 eBooks a year ago.
100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!

At 17,301 eBooks in 34 Years and 03.25 Months We Averaged
      ~505 Per Year
        42.0 Per Month
         1.38 Per Day

At 2345 eBooks Done In The 280 Days Of 2005 We Averaged
     8.4 Per Day
      59 Per Week
     254 Per Month


If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S.
you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear,
are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope.

Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the
districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].

However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a
bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census.  A "Special Census"
is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more
people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source.

45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to
this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a
possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I
presume this is in addition to previous adjustments.

Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures,
perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time
between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth.

In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made
about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this
normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found
on the subject of the current Special Census.

If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide,
then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but
rather should expect something more along the norm.  However, if it
is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this
might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen
300 million go by some time ago.

For more details, see:  www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm


The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks'
production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon,
starts with the first Wednesday of January.  January 5th was
the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production
year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon.

This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week.


***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B***


*Headline News from Edupage

[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]

YAHOO ANNOUNCES PODCAST DIRECTORY
Yahoo will launch a new service to search podcasts, making it the first
of the major search services to delve into that type of audio content.
Yahoo estimates that five million people listen to podcasts, and sales
of Apple's iPod--the leading MP3 player--total more than 20 million.
Smaller services such as Odeo.com and Podcast.net offer services geared
toward podcasts. With the Yahoo tools, users can search the Web for
podcasts, looking for those in particular topic areas, and can rate the
podcasts they listen to. Yahoo's service does not include tools to
create podcasts, though officials with the company said one day it
might. Many analysts see audio and video searching as the future for
most search engines, and Yahoo's venture into podcast searches will
likely prompt companies including Google to offer similar services.
MSNBC, 9 October 2005
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9645653/

AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER PULL BOOKS FROM GOOGLE
Google's controversial program to scan millions of books has run afoul
of a very prolific author and his publisher. Jacob Neusner, a research
professor of theology at Bard College, has written more than 900 books.
Calling Google's book-scanning project a violation of copyright,
Neusner requested that his books not be included in the database.
Google's response was that Neusner must submit a separate form for
each book he wanted excepted from the project. Siding with Neusner, the
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, which has published many of
Neusner's titles, then told Google it wanted all of its titles
excluded from the project as well. Calling the scanning project "unfair
and arrogant," Jed Lyons, president of Rowman & Littlefield, said,
"[W]e don't want to do business with an organization that thumbs its
nose at publishers and authors." Lyons said representatives from Google
are trying to persuade the publisher to change its decision.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 October 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005100701t.htm

DELAWARE COURT SHIELDS IDENTITY OF BLOGGER
The Delaware Supreme Court has rejected an effort to identify an
anonymous blogger accused of defamatory remarks online. Patrick Cahill,
a councilman in the city of Smyrna, had sought the blogger's identity
from Comcast following several unflattering postings on the person's
blog. Although a lower court judge had denied the blogger's request
for protection, the Supreme Court said that court had applied the wrong
standard. In the absence of substantial evidence of defamation,
Cahill's petition to identify the blogger will be denied, according to
the high court. In the ruling, the court said it found for the blogger
to protect against what it called "the chilling effect on anonymous
First Amendment Internet speech that can arise when plaintiffs bring
trivial defamation lawsuits primarily to harass or unmask their
critics." An attorney for the blogger said that statements on
electronic bulletin boards and blogs are not generally considered
factual but are seen as individuals' opinions. The court's judgment,
however, did not identify the medium as pertinent in its application of
legal standard.
New York Times, 6 October 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/technology/06blog.html

MORE HINTS POINT TO IDENTITY OF CONNECTICUT LIBRARY
The American Library Association (ALA) has filed a court brief in the
ongoing wrangling over a provision of the USA PATRIOT Act that prevents
organizations under investigation from publicly speaking about the
investigation. Under the terms of that law, federal authorities had
sought information from a Connecticut library group, which has been
forced to keep its identity secret. An article in the New York Times,
though, said the Library Connection Inc., of Windsor, Conn., is the
probable target of the investigation. According to the ALA's brief,
because the Library Connection has refused to confirm or deny the story
in the Times, it is clear that the speculation is correct. Further,
because the identity has been guessed, keeping the group from speaking
about the investigation is pointless, according to the brief. The brief
states: "If the reporting is accurate, the information the government
seeks to suppress has already been revealed, and the gag order serves
no interest but that of silencing a citizen." Last month a judge
ordered that the gag order be lifted, but an appeals court has
reimposed the gag order pending its review of the case.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 October 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005100601t.htm

FTC SUES FOR ALLEGED SPYWARE
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Odysseus Marketing,
accusing the company of engaging in distributing spyware. Odysseus
distributed an application called Kazanon, which supposedly allowed
users to trade files anonymously, without fear of being identified by
record companies. According to the FTC, users who downloaded the
application also got a range of adware programs that fed advertisements
to those users' computers and added items to the search results pages
of popular search engines, including Google and Yahoo. The added items,
which were indistinguishable from those supplied by the search engine,
directed users to companies that paid Odysseus for the placement.
Further, the software did not offer users a simple option to uninstall
it. Walter Rines, owner of Odysseus, disputed all of the FTC's claims.
He noted that the user agreement informs consumers of what will be
installed when they download the Kazanon program. He also said an
uninstall tool is available and that his company's software did not
remove any search results but merely added to the list. Rines also said
the lawsuit was "moot" because his company stopped distributing adware
several weeks ago.
MSNBC, 5 October 2005
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9598897/

GOOGLE AND SUN ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
Google and Sun Microsystems have announced a partnership that many see
as a joining of forces against Microsoft. Sun has long been a direct
competitor with Microsoft, and most analysts believe Google has
aspirations to compete with the software giant. Few specifics were
released about the new arrangement. Google, which already buys Sun
hardware, will expand those purchases, and Sun customers who download
Java will have the option of also downloading Google's toolbar. Beyond
those changes, most speculation about the deal concerns Sun's
OpenOffice, an open source application that competes with Microsoft's
Office suite of software. The companies said they will jointly develop
OpenOffice, though some analysts expect Google to take primary
responsibility for the work. John Rymer, an analyst with Forrester
Research, said he believes Google will not simply redistribute
OpenOffice. "When [Google does] something," he said, "it has to be
cool. It has to go further than Microsoft Office." The deal is also a
reunion of sorts for Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Google CEO Eric Schmidt,
who worked together at Sun for 14 years.
San Jose Mercury News, 5 October 2005
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12823481.htm


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http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112793789066654830-Vjbpkz_NLQ83hrpULt
Cy0XXHgbA_20061010.html?mod=blogs

"You'll find a reasonable argument that Google Print is a Good Thing,
including a link to Jonathon Band's analysis of it, which argues that
it's `fair use'."  (Band is a Georgetown U. law professor and gun for
hire on IP issues.)

*

[Not many details available yet, but this week Microsoft apparently
managed to both get out from under all the pending anti-trust case
load that has been plaguing them for years and years, and also has
taken over an even larger portion of the virtual world via mergers
or cooperative efforts with Yahoo, RealNetworks, and others.

Microsoft will team with Yahoo in yet another attempt to take over
the world of instant messaging, while their deal with RealNetworks
brings them into direct competition with iTunes and other services
bring music over the Internet, and also takes another step towards
worldwide domination of the video game market.  ;=)  ]

[Seattle Times, ZDNet, Reuters, etc.]



*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA

[As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.]


More and more schools, colleges, and universities are
either handing out free laptop computers to students,
or are requiring them to buy their own.

Indians State University, not very far south and east
where I live, is reportedly going to hand out free
computers to all students with a "B" average or over
in the coming year, and then require all students to
have one the following year, 2007.

WILL-AM Radio, ~12:00 Noon, 10/10

[A word of caution when dealing with grade averages:
when grades were first invented, these were designed
such that a "C" was the average grade on the scale:

A = Excellent/Superior
B = Above Average/Good
C = Average/Fair
D = Below Average/Poor
E = Fail

However, during the years since the peak school year
of the class of 1965, we have seen "grade inflation"
taking place, in which artificially high grades were
given to make us think that students were doing well
when their performance was actually declining.

Not only today, but even over 30 years ago, averages
were being fudged so that the average grade was over
a "B". . .even as famously censored reports stated a
wide use of grade inflation was upon us.  The Hoover
Report from the University of Illinois still had one
of the most limited exposures the last time I looked
in the library for it, still not in circulation even
after over 30 years and having been created at great
expense and labor by serious researchers.

The same process has been called into question about
the various nationwide tests, such as the SAT & ACT,
which have recently been renormed when averages fell
below 90% of their original levels.]



*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK

"The Plum Book" as it is known to Washington insider
circles, is the list of thousands of goverment jobs
given from the new administrations to their friends,
campaign staff.

Example:  The daughter of of the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, is the wife of Michael Chertoff, "The
Vulture," Secretary of Homeland Security, somehow kept
her job at FEMA when everyone was being sent to DHS.

[The Nation, etc.]


*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK

China's much publicized efforts to slow growth so that
the gap between the rich and the poor will not continue
to widen will have little effect on the gap between the
rich and the poor, but may cause general economic haze.


*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK

"If you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole
purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and our
crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous,
morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down."

William Bennett, former Secretary of Education

[Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, etc.

*

"They're all bloody civil servants moonlighting as journalists.

"It's their job to protect the status quo."


Sylvia Plath



*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK


The Atlantic Monthly:  a child growing up in a family earning over
$90,000 has a 1 in 2 chance of getting a college degree by age 24;
a child in a family earning $35,000 to $61,000 has a 1 in 10 chance;
a child in a family earning under $35,000 has a 1 in 17 chance.

*

When real estate brokers sell their own houses, they take 10% more
time to sell than when they sell your houses and get 3% - 4% more.

[ABC 20/20, 10/9]

*

The low visibility wedding industry takes in about $72 Billion per year.

The high visibility video game industry takes in only about $7 Billion.

*

FEMA paid Carnival Cruise lines hundreds of millions of dollars to put
hurricane refugees up, the price based on what Carnival would have had
as a result of these being normal bookings over a total of six months.
The three ships involved seem to have been filled about half way.

Even if the ships were filled to capacity, the price would be $1,275 a
person for this service, but at half full, the price would be $2,550--
while you can book full service Carnival Cruises for $599, as per Sen.
Tom Coburn's office.  Senator Coburn is an Oklahoma Republican.

[Carnival says it is not making any more than they would have otherwise
but I wonder if they are counting all the extra money passengers spend]

"When the federal government would actually save millions of dollars
by forgoing the status quo and actually sending evacuees on a
luxurious six-month cruise it is time to rethink how we are conducting
oversight.  A  short-term temporary solution has turned into a
long-term, grossly overpriced sweetheart deal for a cruise line,"
according to Senators Coburn and Barack Obama in a joint statement.
They called for a CFO [Chief Financial Officer] to be appointed in
charge of all current hurricane relief.

[The Washington Post, 9/28]

*

Cornbelt News


Farmers are spending ~$11.50 per acre this year just on harvest fuel.

[University of Illinois Extension on WILL-AM Radio, 10/7]


[If they are getting 115 bushels of corn per acre, a very low amount,
then it is costing them an additional $.10 per bushel.  Soybeans were
more like 40 bushels per acre, which would be nearly $.30 a bushel in
total fuel prices, probably about double what it was last year.

At 50+ pounds of corn per bushel, this would increase the price of one
pound of corn by at most 1/20 of a cent at the elevator.  Presuming an
operation raises the prices of corn 10 times over, that 1/20 of a cent
would become a 1/2 cent increase by the time it reaches your table; if
they increased prices by 20 times, your cost would go up a penny.

Think about this when you see the price of corn go up $.10 - $.25

By the way, at a very low 11,500 ears per acre, fuel prices per ear of
corn would go up 1/10 of a cent; consider this when you go to farmers'
markets next time around, and let us know.]

*

Nicole, a great white shark that has been under observation,
swam from Africa to Australia and back, totalling over 12,000 miles,
and for the first time proving a link between the two shark populations.

*

Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.

"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
  8 Africans
  52 would be female
  48 would be male
  70 would be non-white
  30 would be white
  70 would be non-Christian
  30 would be Christian
   6 people  would  possess  59%  of the entire world's wealth
   and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
  1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
  1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
  1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
  1 would be 79 years old or more.

Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.

I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.

I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.

If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.

I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.

BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.

This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge.  Then I realized that the US
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than the non-whites.  Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security.  The average poor non-white may never
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Study of a Woman, by Honore de Balzac                                     1373
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The Land of Mystery, by Edward S. Ellis                                  16855
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Mkeln Liisu, by Theodolinda Hahnsson                                     16854
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Fern's Hollow, by Hesba Stretton                                         16853
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L'alouette du casque, by Eugne Sue                                       16851
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   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/5/16851 ]
   [Files: 16851-8.txt; 16851-r.rtf]

Au pays des lys noirs, by Adolphe Rett                                   16850
   [Subtitle: Souvenirs de jeunesse et d'ge mr]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/5/16850 ]
   [Files: 16850-8.txt; 16850-r.rtf]

Les huguenots, by Charles Alfred de Janz                                 16849
   [Subtitle: Cent ans de perscution 1685-1789]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/4/16849 ]
   [Files: 16849-8.txt; 16849-r.rtf]

Numa Roumestan, by Alphonse Daudet                                       16848
   [Subtitle: Moeurs Parisiennes]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/4/16848 ]
   [Files: 16848-8.txt; 16848-r.rtf]

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3), by Eliot     16847
   [Author: Charles Eliot]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/4/16847 ]
   [Files: 16847.txt; 16847-0.txt; 16847-h.htm]

Mjallhvt, by Anonymous                                                  16846
   [Subtitle: fintri handa brnum]
   [Translator: M. Grmsson]
   [Language: Icelandic]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/4/16846 ]
   [Files: 16846-8.txt; 16846-0.txt; 16846-h.htm]

Arthur, from the Marquis of Bath's MS., ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall    16845
   [Subtitle: A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse
    of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Edited and Copied From
    the Marquis of Bath's MS.]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/4/16845 ]
   [Files: 16845.txt; 16845-0.txt; 16845-h.htm]

Catalogue of Early Books, W.L. Andrews Collection, Yale University Lib.  16844
   [Title: Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books
    in the Library of Yale University]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/4/16844 ]
   [Files: 16844.txt; 16844-8.txt; 16844-0.txt; 16844-h.htm]

Cvicen malickch ve svatm nbozenstv, by Peregrin Obdrzlek                 16843
   [Title: Cvicen malickch ve svatm nbozenstv krestansko-katolickm,
    ponejvce v prostonrodnm rmovn
   [Language: Czech]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/4/16843 ]
   [Files: 16843-8.txt; 16843-0.txt]

Liedekens van Bontekoe en vijf novellen, by E.J. Potgieter               16842
   [Subtitle: Blaauw bes, blauw bes!--'T is maar een pennelikker!--
    Marie--De ezelinnen--Hanna]
   [Language: Dutch]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16842 ]
   [Files: 16842.txt; 16842-8.txt; 16842-h.htm]

Johan Doxa, by Herman Teirlinck                                          16841
   [Subtitle: Vier herinneringen aan een Brabantschen Gothieker]
   [Language: Dutch]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/4/16841 ]
   [Files: 16841.txt; 16841-8.txt; 16841-h.htm]

Stories of the Wagner Opera, by H. A. Guerber                            16840
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/4/16840 ]
   [Files: 16840.txt; 16840-8.txt; 16840-h.htm]

Sixteen Poems, by William Allingham                                      16839
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16839 ]
   [Files: 16839.txt; 16839-8.txt; 16839-h.htm]

Valkoinen kameeli ja muita kertomuksia itmailta, by Valter Juvelius      16838
   [Language: Finnish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16838 ]
   [Files: 16838-8.txt]

Rystlapsi, by Robert Louis Stevenson                                     16837
   [Subtitle: Kertomus David Balfourin seikkailuista]
   [Translator: O. E. Lampn]
   [Language: Finnish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16837 ]
   [Files: 16837-8.txt]

Mark Hurdlestone, by Susanna Moodie                                      16836
   [Subtitle: Or, The Two Brothers]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16836 ]
   [Files: 16836.txt; 16836-8.txt; 16836-h.htm]

An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy, by W. Tudor Jones       16835
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16835 ]
   [Files: 16835.txt; 16835-8.txt; 16835-h-htm]

The Harris-Ingram Experiment, by Charles E. Bolton                       16834
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16834 ]
   [Files: 16834.txt; 16834-8.txt; 16834-h.htm]

Auguste Comte and Positivism, by John-Stuart Mill                        16833
   [Language: English]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16833 ]
   [Files: 16833.txt; 16833-8.txt; 16833-h.htm]

Ben-Hur, by Lewis Wallace                                                16832
   [Subtitle: Een verhaal van den tijd van Jezus' omwandeling op aarde]
   [Language: Dutch]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16832 ]
   [Files: 16832.txt; 16832-8.txt; 16832-h.htm]

The Improvement of Human Reason, by Ibn Tufai                            16831
   [Subtitle: Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16831 ]
   [Files: 16831.txt; 16831-8.txt; 16831-h.htm]

Een klein heldendicht, by Herman Gorter                                  16830
   [Language: Dutch]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16830 ]
   [Files: 16830.txt; 16830-8.txt; 16830-h.htm]

Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen, by Johan Huizinga                            16829
   [Language: Dutch]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16829 ]
   [Files: 16829.txt; 16829-8.txt; 16829-h.htm]

Rob-Roy, by Walter Scott                                                 16828
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16828 ]
   [Files: 16828-8.txt; 16828-r.rtf]

Le village arien, by Jules Verne                                         16827
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16827 ]
   [Files: 16827-8.txt; 16827-r.rtf]

Face au drapeau, by Jules Verne                                          16826
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16826 ]
   [Files: 16826-8.txt; 16826-r.rtf]

Souvenirs entomologiques - Livre I, by Jean-Henri Fabre                  16825
   [Subtitle: tude sur l'instinct et les moeurs des insectes]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16825 ]
   [Files: 16825-8.txt; 16825-r.rtf]

Les possds, by Fdor Mikhalovitch Dostoevski                              16824
   [Translator: Victor Derly]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16824 ]
   [Files: 16824-8.txt; 16824-r.rtf]

My Neighbors, by Caradoc Evans                                           16823
   [Subtitle: Stories of the Welsh People]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16823 ]
   [Files: 16823.txt; 16823-8.txt; 16823-h.htm]

Memorial Addresses, by Various                                           16822
   [Title: Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H.F. Lee
    (A Representative from Virginia)]
   [Subtitle: Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate,
    Fifty-Second Congress, First Session]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16822 ]
   [Files: 16822.txt; 16822-8.txt; 16822-h.htm]

The Scarlet Gown, by R. F. Murray                                        16821
   [Subtitle: being verses by a St. Andrews Man]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16821 ]
   [Files: 16821.txt; 16821-h.htm]

Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre, by Octave Mirbeau                     16820
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16820 ]
   [Files: 16820-8.txt; 16820-h.htm]

Les misres de Londres, by Pierre Alexis de Ponson du Terrail             16819
   [Subtitle: 4. Les tribulations de Shoking]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16819 ]
   [Files: 16819-8.txt; 16819-h.htm]

Les misres de Londres, by Pierre Alexis de Ponson du Terrail             16818
   [Subtitle: 3. La cage aux oiseaux]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16818 ]
   [Files: 16818-8.txt; 16818-h.htm]

Les misres de Londres, by Pierre Alexis de Ponson du Terrail             16817
   [Subtitle: 2. L'enfant perdu]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16817 ]
   [Files: 16817-8.txt; 16817-h.htm]

Le roman de la rose, by G. de Lorris and J. de Meung                     16816
   [Subtitle: Tome I]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16816 ]
   [Files: 16816-8.txt; 16816-h.htm]

Physiologie de l'amour moderne, by Paul Bourget                          16815
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16815 ]
   [Files: 16815-8.txt; 16815-h.htm]

Le culte du moi 3, by Maurice Barresm                                    16814
   [Subtitle: Le jardin de Berenice]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16814 ]
   [Files: 16814.txt; 16814-8.txt; 16814-h.htm]

Le culte du moi 2, by Maurice Barrs                                      16813
   [Subtitle: Un homme libre]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16813 ]
   [Files: 16813.txt; 16813-8.txt; 16813-h.htm]

Le culte du moi 1, by Maurice Barrs                                      16812
   [Subtitle: Sous l'oeil des barbares]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16812 ]
   [Files: 16812.txt; 16812-8.txt; 16812-h.htm]

Gurre kamilaroi, by William Ridley                                       16811
   [Subtitle: Kamilaroi Sayings (1856)]
   [Illustrator: W Mason]
   [Language: Kamilaroi and English]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16811 ]
   [Files: 16811.txt; 16811-0.txt]

Black and White, by Timothy Thomas Fortune                               16810
   [Subtitle: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16810 ]
   [Files: 16810.txt; 16810-8.txt; 16810-h.htm]

The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador, by Dillon Wallace                 16809
   [Subtitle: A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/0/16809 ]
   [Files: 16809.txt; 16809-h.htm]

The Story of the Guides, by G. J. Younghusband                           16808
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/0/16808 ]
   [Files: 16808.txt; 16808-8.txt; 16808-h.htm]

Falling in Love, by Grant Allen                                          16807
   [Subtitle: With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/0/16807 ]
   [Files: 16807.txt; 16807-8.txt; 16807-h.htm]

Rosmersholma, by Henrik Ibsen                                            16806
   [Subtitle: Nelinytksinen nytelm]
   [Translator: Hilda Asp]
   [Language: Finnish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/0/16806 ]
   [Files: 16806-8.txt]

The Jungle Fugitives, by Edward S. Ellis                                 16805
   [Subtitle: A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many
    Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring]
   Contents:
     The Jungle Fugitives]]
     Lost in the Woods]
     In the Nick of Time]
     Lost in the South Sea]
     An Unpleasant Companion]
     A Stirring Incident]
     Cyclones and Tornadoes]
     Lost in a Blizzard]
     Throwing the Riata]
     A Waterspout]
     An Heroic Woman]
     The Writing Found in a Bottle]
     That Hornet's Nest]
     A Young Hero]
     Overreached]
     A Battle in the Air]
     Who Shall Explain It?]
     A Fool of a Genius]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/0/16805 ]
   [Files: 16805.txt; ]

An Eye for an Eye, by Anthony Trollope                                   16804
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/0/16804 ]
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RESULTS OF RESNET SURVEY RELEASED
The ResNet Organization has released results from a survey it conducted
earlier this year of those responsible for residential networks at 224
colleges and universities. The leading concern among network
administrators is security, with P2P activity coming in at a distant
second. Administrators also put security at the top of the list of
issues they expect to take significant amounts of time and resources
over the next couple of years, with wireless networking coming in
second and P2P issues falling to seventh. David G. Futey, associate
director of academic computing at Stanford University and a member of
the ResNet Organization, said the survey provides new insight into
"determining what a res-net service area is at institutions, the level
of services it provides, and the technology supported through it."
Futey commented that he was surprised to see that of the respondents to
the survey, nearly half had not installed wireless networks. The survey
also indicated that more than half of responding institutions charge
technology fees but that at about half of those that charge a fee, no
part of the fee supports residential networks.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 October 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005101402t.htm

ANONYMOUS DONOR BUYS MUSIC FOR STANFORD
Money from an anonymous donor will pay for online music service for
students at Stanford University. University officials said the donation
did not require any particular vendor, and the institution has chosen
the recently introduced service from Yahoo. Stanford has said it would
not pay for music services and would not use student fees to subsidize
such services because it "is not part of our research or teaching
mission," according to Susan Weinstein, director of business
development at the university. After the first year of service, which
Stanford considers a trial program, prices for the Yahoo service will
be $1.75 per month for basic service, which allows unlimited streaming
or downloads to a computer, or $4.75 per month for a premium service
that allows users to transfer songs to other devices, including
portable music players.
ZDNet, 13 October 2005
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5894967.html

PANEL WARNS U.S. NOT KEEPING PACE IN SCIENCE
A new report says that the United States stands to lose its leading
position in science and research unless efforts are made to strengthen
support for educational and other scientific programs. The panel that
wrote the report was convened by the National Academies and included
representatives from corporations and higher education, as well as
Nobel laureates and former presidential appointees. The panel pointed
to the narrowing scientific gap between the United States and countries
such as China and India; recent results showing declining performance
among U.S. students in science and math compared with students around
the world; and economic factors that work against U.S. scientific
interests. Among the report's recommendations are funding scholarships
to support 10,000 students annually to pursue careers in teaching math
and science; allocating money for 30,000 students per year to study
science, math, and engineering; and relaxing visa regulations to allow
international students to find employment in the United States after
they graduate.
CNET, 13 October 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-11395_3-5894854.html

REPORT ADDRESSES SUSTAINABILITY OF DATABASES
A new report from a National Science Board task force calls on the
federal government to implement a clear and focused strategy to ensure
that growing collections of information in databases remain accessible
and easy to use in the coming years. The report argues that the
National Science Foundation (NSF), which has financed many
technological developments in recent years, has not crafted policies
and strategies that consider and address the range of technologies for
storing data. The report praises the improvements that have been made
to systems that collect various types of material in digital form and
make those materials widely available online, but it says the need is
"urgent" for a strategy to guarantee the viability of those materials.
The concern, according to the report, is that as technology platforms
continue to evolve, some digital content could be left in the lurch,
unable to be accessed by newer systems. The report makes a number of
recommendations for the NSF, including coordinating efforts between
data storage and users of those data, promoting effective training, and
supporting efforts to educate "a sufficient number of high-quality data
scientists" to manage such systems.
Inside Higher Ed, 13 October 2005
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/13/digital

EC PROPOSES INCREASED SPENDING ON RESEARCH
The European Commission has called for increased research spending at
universities and other research organizations, saying that Europe is
lagging behind the United States and Japan in such spending. According
to the proposal, spending on research should climb to 3 percent of GDP
by 2010, up from 1.9 percent in 2003. The report noted that U.S.
spending was 2.59 percent and that Japan spent 3.15 percent of GDP. The
report also cautions that countries such as China could surpass Europe
in research spending as a percentage of GDP, saying that increases in
research spending result in direct increases in GDP. Under the
proposal, which must be approved by European governments, more money
would be devoted to academic research projects and to partnerships
between industry and universities. Guenter Verheugen, EU industry
commissioner, said, "Every cent which goes into innovation and research
is a cent invested in jobs, growth and hence, our future."
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First Million Dollar Download Of Music

"Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani is the first million dollar download
from such legal sites as iTunes, MSN, Napster, MusicMatch, Rhapsody,
Sony Connect, Wal-Mart, etc.  Sales are still high at 15,000 per week.
The million sales mark should soon fall for the ringtone version, too.
The CD has already been certified as triple platinum.

The song is from her debut album "Love. Angel Music. Baby."  This is
her first separate album from the supergroup "No Doubt."

Apple's iTunes has already recorded over half a billion downloads!

Source:  www.digitalmusicnews.com  etc.

[It is now accepted that people will actually download a million
copies of items offered via the Internet.]


*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA

[As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.]


Holland Banning The Burka?

Rita Verdonk, Holland's hardline Integration Minister,
known as the Iron Lady for her hardline stances, simply
declined to meet with Muslim officials who who shake
hands with here as a result of their sexist views.

She current leads a Dutch movement to ban the burka
in some situations.  In addition there is a current
lawsuit being filed by a woman who was refused a job
at the prestigious Muslim University in Amsterdam
because she refused to wear a headscarf.

A court case last year went against Muslim women who
had not been allowed to wear burkas during a social
work and childcare course.  The court ruled that the
children should not be prevented from seeing who was
taking care of them.

Holland would become the first country in Europe to
ban the burka in specific situations in public, but
several major Belgian cities including Ghent, Antwerp
and others banned the public wearing of burkas and
have starting issuing hefty municipal fines.

Some Italian cities, such as Como, have have passed
laws banning the hiding of the face in public, and
are imposing fines for wearing Burkas as a result.

In addition, France and some of Germany have banned
the hijab headscarf in schools and public buildings,
this following similar measures in Tunisia and also
even reported in Turkey, a majority Muslim nation.

Sources:  BBC, The Times and The Sunday Times
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1823334,00.html
BBC News via WILL AM radio, ~9AM, 10/17

[For centuries Holland has been the greatest example
of religious tolerance in the world, so this marks
a major historical change.]


*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK

The whole Valerie Plame finger pointing and no comments exercise.



*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK

10-20% of anorexics will die from it.

"The best estimates are around 10 percent of the women with anorexia
nervosa will ultimately die as a result of their illness."

Doug Bunnell
[Past. Pres. National Eating Disorders Association]

[Source:  The Clarion-Ledger]

[I seem to recall an ABC TV news story saying it was 18%]


*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK

"The new copyright laws have removed a thousands times as many
books from free circulation as all the book burnings in history."

Anonymous Source

*

"What is good for the country is  good for General Motors,
and what's good for General Motors is good for the country."

Statement made in 1952 by Charles Erwin Wilson, the former head of
General Motors and Secretary of Defense under President Eisenhower,
to the Senate Armed Forces subcommittee.

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"The chief business of the American people is business,"
President Calvin Coolidge



*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK

Wholesale prices rose 1.9% last month, the highest rate since the
first month of the 1990s.  [The oddest thing about it all is that
most of the news services are telling us it doesn't mean anything.]

THE WASHINGTON POST, Wednesday, October 19, 2005

*

Only 8 of ~140 top CEO's are women.

NBC News, 10/17

*

We are out of names for tropical storms and hurricanes.
With 21 named storms already this year, the next one
will require us to start with the Greek alphabet:
alpha, beta, gamma, etc., which has never happened before.
[Not all letters are used, so X, Y, and Z, which would be
after the currently force 5 hurricane Wilma, would not be used]

Various sources.

*

Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.

"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
  8 Africans
  52 would be female
  48 would be male
  70 would be non-white
  30 would be white
  70 would be non-Christian
  30 would be Christian
   6 people  would  possess  59%  of the entire world's wealth
   and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
  1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
  1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
  1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
  1 would be 79 years old or more.

Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.

I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.

I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.

If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.

I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.

BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.

This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge.  Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites.  Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security.  The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.

*

POEM OF THE WEEK

She Loves Me Not

Summer loves me not
for I am the Fall girl
and even though we're sisters
I make her leaves tremble
and although she suffers from lost love
I am the one who cries her tears.

Summer loves me not.
She cherishes me.


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The Napoleon of the People, by Honore de Balzac                           7958
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Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, by Edward Bellamy                               7052
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Options, by O. Henry                                                      1583
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   [Contents:
       "The Rose of Dixie"
       The Third Ingredient
       The Hiding of Black Bill
       Schools and Schools
       Thimble, Thimble
       Supply and Demand
       Buried Treasure
       To Him Who Waits
       He Also Serves
       The Moment of Victory
       The Head-Hunter
       No Story
       The Higher Pragmatism
       Best-Seller
       Rus in Urbe
       A Poor Rule ]

Ursula, by Honore de Balzac                                                1223
  [Translator: Katharine Prescott Wormeley]
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Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory, Vol. 1, by John M'lean            15342
  [Title: Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay
   Territory, Volume I]
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The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon From Ifugao to Kalinga, by Willcox    12970
  [Subtitle: A Ride Through the Mountains of Northern Luzon With an
   Appendix on the Independence of the Philippines]
  [Author: Cornelis De Witt Willcox]
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May Brooke, by Anna H. Dorsey                                            16902
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/0/16902 ]
   [Files: 16902.txt; 16902-8.txt]

Madame Rose; Pierre de Villergl, by Amde Achard                          16901
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/0/16901 ]
   [Files: 16901-8.txt; 16901-h.htm]

The First Book of Farming, by Charles L. Goodrich                        16900
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/0/16900 ]
   [Files: 16900.txt; 16900-8.txt; 16900-h.htm]

Sa Tabi ng Bangin, by Jose Maria Rivera                                  16899
   [Subtitle: Kasaysayan Tagalog]
   [Language: Tagalog]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/9/16899 ]
   [Files: 16899-8.txt; 16899-h.htm]

Green Bays.  Verses and Parodies, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch         16898
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/9/16898 ]
   [Files: 16898.txt]

The Tables Turned, by William Morris                                     16897
   [Subtitle: or, Nupkins Awakened.  A Socialist Interlude]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/9/16897 ]
   [Files: 16897.txt; 16897-h.htm]

Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2), by Mme de Stael                                16896
   [Subtitle: Or Italy]
   [Commentator: George Saintsbury]
   [Illustrator: R. S. Greig]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/9/16896 ]
   [Files: 16896.txt; 16896-8.txt; 16896-h.htm]

Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2), by Frank Harris                            16895
   [Subtitle: His Life and Confessions]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/9/16895 ]
   [Files: 16895.txt; 16895-8.txt; 16895-h.htm]

Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2), by Frank Harris                            16894
   [Subtitle: His Life and Confessions]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/9/16894 ]
   [Files: 16894.txt; 16894-8.txt; 16894-h.htm]

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare                                          16893
   [Translator: Paavo Cajander]
   [Language: Finnish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/9/16893 ]
   [Files: 16893-8.txt]

Samuel Rutherford, by Alexander Whyte                                    16892
   [Subtitle: and some of his correspondents]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/9/16892 ]
   [Files: 16892.txt; 16892-h.htm]

Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia, by Goodrich            16891
   [Author: Samuel Griswold Goodrich]
   [Editor: Rev. T. Wilson]
   [Author AKA: Peter Parley]
   [Ill.: S. Williams]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/9/16891 ]
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Hetty Wesley, by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch                         16890
   [Author AKA: Q]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/9/16890 ]
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The Enchanted Canyon, by Honore Willsie Morrow                           16889
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/8/16889 ]
   [Files: 16889.txt; 16889-8.txt; ]

Auguste Comte et Herbert Spencer, by E. de Roberty                       16888
   [Subtitle: Contribution - l'histoire des idees philosophiques au
    XIXe siecle]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/8/16888 ]
   [Files: 16888-8.txt; 16888-h.htm]

La philosophie de M. Bergson, by Albert Farges                           16887
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/8/16887 ]
   [Files: ; 16887-0.txt; 16887-h.htm]

Le livre des masques, by Remy de Gourmont                                16886
   [Subtitle: Portraits symbolistes]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/8/16886 ]
   [Files: 16886-8.txt; 16886-h.htm]


Aline et Valcour, tome 1, by D.A.F. de Sade                              16885
   [Subtitle: ou le roman philosophique]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/8/16885 ]
   [Files: 16885-8.txt; 16885-h.htm]

Ubu Roi, by Alfred Jarry                                                 16884
   [Subtitle: ou les Polonais]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/8/16884 ]
   [Files: 16884-8.txt; 16884-h.htm]

Les amours jaunes, by Tristan Corbiere                                   16883
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/8/16883 ]
   [Files: 16883-8.txt; 16883-h.htm]

Het leven van Rozeke van Dalen, deel 2, by Cyriel Buysse                 16882
   [Language: Dutch]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/8/16882 ]
   [Files: 16882.txt; 16882-8.txt; 16882-h.htm]

Het leven van Rozeke van Dalen, deel 1, by Cyriel Buysse                 16881
   [Language: Dutch]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/8/16881 ]
   [Files: 16881.txt; 16881-8.txt; 16881-h.htm]

Uber die Dichtkunst, by Aristoteles                                      16880
   [Language: German]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/8/16880 ]
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Some One Like You, by James W. Foley                                     16879
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/7/16879 ]
   [Files: 16879.txt; 16879-h.htm; ]

Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, by Isaac Newton              16878
   [Title: Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the
    Apocalypse of St. John]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/7/16878 ]
   [Files: 16878.txt; 16878-8.txt; 16878-h.htm]

Punch, Vol. 159, September 8th, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman             16877
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/7/16877 ]
   [Files: 16877.txt; 16877-8.txt; 16877-h.htm]

Paula Monti, Tome II, by Eugene Sue                                      16876
   [Subtitle: ou L'Htel Lambert - histoire contemporaine]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/7/16876 ]
   [Files: 16876-8.txt; 16876-h.htm]

Paula Monti, Tome I, by Eugene Sue                                       16875
   [Subtitle: ou L'Htel Lambert - histoire contemporaine]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/7/16875 ]
   [Files: 16875-8.txt; 16875-h.htm]

Claude et Juliette, by Alfred Assollant                                  16874
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/7/16874 ]
   [Files: 16874-8.txt; 16874-h.htm]

"Colony,"--or "Free State"?, etc., by Alpheus H. Snow                    16873
   [Title: "Colony,"--or "Free State"? "Dependence,"--or "Just Connection"?
    "Empire,"--or "Union"?]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/7/16873 ]
   [Files: 16873.txt; 16873-h.htm]

Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer, by Charles Sotheran  16872
   [Commentator: Charles W. Frederickson]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/7/16872 ]
   [Files: 16872.txt; 16872-h.htm]

Skyrider, by B. M. Bower                                                 16871
   [Author AKA: Bertha Muzzy Bower Sinclair Cowan]
   [Illus.: Anton Otto Fischer]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/7/16871 ]
   [Files: 16871.txt; 16871-8.txt; 16871-h.htm; ]

Injun and Whitey to the Rescue, by William S. Hart                       16870
   [Illus.: Harold Cue]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/7/16870 ]
   [Files: 16870.txt; 16870-8.txt; 16870-h.htm; ]

Oonomoo the Huron, by Edward S. Ellis                                    16869
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/6/16869 ]
   [Files: 16869.txt; 16869-8.txt; 16869-h.htm; ]

Adventures of a Despatch Rider, by W. H. L. Watson                       16868
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/6/16868 ]
   [Files: 16868.txt; 16868-8.txt; 16868-h.htm]

The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy, by Padriac Colum       16867
   [Illus.: Willy Pogany]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/6/16867 ]
   [Files: 16867.txt; 16867-8.txt; 16867-0.txt; 16867-h.htm]

The Eclipse of Faith, by Henry Rogers                                    16866
   [Subtitle: Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/6/16866 ]
   [Files: 16866.txt]

Pinocchio, by C. Collodi                                                 16865
   [Subtitle: The Tale of a Puppet]
   [Illustrator: Alice Carsey]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/6/16865 ]
   [Files: 16865.txt; 16865-8.txt; 16865-h.htm]

Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory, Vol. 2 (of 2), by John M'lean     16864
   [Title: Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay
    Territory, Volume II (of 2)]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/6/16864 ]
   [Files: 16864.txt; 16864-8.txt; 16864-h.htm]

Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons, by Arabella W. Stuart                   16863
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/6/16863 ]
   [Files: 16863.txt; 16863-8.txt; 16863-h.htm]

Le monsieur au parapluie, by Jules Moinaux                               16862
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/6/16862 ]
   [Files: 16862-8.txt; 16862-h.htm]

The Wedge of Gold, by C. C. Goodwin                                      16861
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/6/16861 ]
   [Files: 16861.txt; 16861-8.txt; 16861-h.htm]

A Lover in Homespun, by F. Clifford Smith                                16860
   [Subtitle: And Other Stories]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/6/16860 ]
   [Files: 16860.txt; 16860-8.txt; 16860-h.htm]

Woman's Endurance, by A.D.L                                              16859
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/5/16859 ]
   [Files: 16859.txt; 16859-8.txt; 16859-h.htm]

Eight Popular Lectures, by George W. Bain                                16858
   [Title: Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven
    into Eight Popular Lectures]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/5/16858 ]
   [Files: 16858.txt; 16858-h.htm]

Probabilities, by Martin Farquhar Tupper                                 16857
   [Subtitle: The Complete Prose Works of Tupper, Volume 6 (of 6)]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/5/16857 ]
   [Files: 16857.txt; 16857-8.txt; 16857-h.htm]

The Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson                     16780
   [Title:The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America]
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HIGHER EDUCATION RESPONDS TO CALEA ORDER
The higher education community is preparing several responses to an
order by the Federal Communications Commission to extend the provisions
of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to
Internet service providers, including institutions of higher education,
libraries, and municipalities that provide Internet access. The order
would require covered entities to configure their networks to allow law
enforcement officials--with the authority of a court order--to tap into
data streams remotely. Currently, such taps typically require the
assistance of network personnel. Making networks compliant with the new
regulations would in most cases require significant investment in new
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costs of at least $7 billion to redesign their networks. Those seeking
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STANFORD PODCASTS GO TO ITUNES
Under a new deal with Apple Computer, podcasts from various aspects of
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site. The arrangement is the first one in which a university has made
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are currently included, and Stanford officials said they plan to
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to students and professors involved in a group of university courses.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 October 2005 (sub. req'd)
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MORE SUITS TARGET GOOGLE'S BOOK SCANNING PROJECT
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Google over its book-scanning project. The project has come under fire
since it was announced, with publishers and copyright holders arguing
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regardless of whether the digital copy is made available online in its
entirety. Penguin, McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Simon and Schuster,
and John Wiley and Sons have sued Google, seeking to have the project
cancelled. The publishers are asking for Google to pay court costs but
not damages. All five are members of the Association of American
Publishers, which had been in talks with Google for months. Last month,
an organization representing writers sued Google over the book-scanning
project. Google continues to maintain that it respects the rights of
publishers and copyright holders and that the project will bring wider
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News from other sources:

The Parents Television Council announced their Top Ten list
of recommended television programs this week, only they did
not seem to be able to find ten shows they could recommend.


*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA

[As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.
Remember, the subject is not the article's subject,
the subject is the manipulation of the world news.]


White House and Congressional "Spin Cycle" from Monday to Friday.

Nomination for new Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank [actually
NOT a part of the United States government, for those interested]
with another White House insider on Monday, October 24.  Designed
perhaps to distract this news cycle from the impending indictment
of several even more prominent White House insiders.

[BBC]


*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK

The White House refuses to comment on ongoing investigations.



*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK

The Valerie Plame incident will continue to be kept low key.


*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK


New releases of conversation between US Vice President Dick Cheney
and Lewis "Scooter" Libby on June 12, 2003 have focused attention
on Mr. Cheney's possible connection with revealing the identity of
covert CIA agent Valeria Plame, and appear to contradict Mr. Libby's
previous testimony that he never knew about Ms. Plame until he spoke
with newspaper reporters.  [See also: Judith Miller and Robert Novak]

Ms. Plame had been described as "a working soccer mom," but in fact
was a clandestine CIA agent specializing in weapons of mass destruction.

The question being investigated is if the Bush administration revealed
her identity to the press as retaliation when her husband, Ambassador
Joeseph Wilson, publicly announced the Bush administration falsified
reports of Iraq buying the now infamous "yellow cake uranium" that was
used as an exuse to invade Iraq.

Libby's notes indicate Mr. Cheney knew Ms. Plame was CIA over a month
before Robert Novak's article revealing her as an agent was published.

[Scotsman.com News - International - Cheney drawn into row]
[The New York Times]


*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK


Virtual Reference Service Notes 40% Increase This Year

[KnowItNow, Ohio]

[However, other places that have stopped promoting such services
say the user level has plateaued.


*

2,000 dead in Iraq.

However, this is an artifical statistic, as reported in the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Miami Herald.

In addition, The UK's Herald adds commentary on the return
to Vietnam War style of statistical reporting.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/49465.html

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Top Ten for kids
The Parents Television Council yesterday released its annual list of
This week the 10 best and worst shows for family viewing were limited
to 10, as they could only find 9 shows they actually approved of.

*

The first "Tropical Storm Alpha" of recorded history occured this week,
the 22nd tropical storm of the season, killing many in the Caribbean.

*

882 millibars of air pressure in hurricane Wilma,
the lowest air pressure ever recorded in Atlantic hurricanes.

*

Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.

"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:

57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
  8 Africans
  52 would be female
  48 would be male
  70 would be non-white
  30 would be white
  70 would be non-Christian
  30 would be Christian
   6 people  would  possess  59%  of the entire world's wealth
   and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
  1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
  1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
  1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
  1 would be 79 years old or more.

Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.

I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
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then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
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the United States.

I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.

If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.

I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.

BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.

This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge.  Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites.  Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security.  The average poor non-white may never
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I Can't

I can't be with you
only because it makes you happy, I told the Leaf,
for I was a Bird
singing much too often about freedom
unaware that I shared with the Leaf
a whole branch


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Unconscious Comedians, by Honore de Balzac                                1242
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887, by Various  16948
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Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society, John Wesley Powell  16947
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Kitty Canary, by Kate Langley Bosher                                     16946
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The White Road to Verdun, by Kathleen Burke                              16945
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Pikku haltijoita, by Harriet Beecher Stowe                               16944
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Paris: With Pen and Pencil, by David W. Bartlett                         16943
   [Subtitle: Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/4/16943 ]
   [Files: 16943.txt; 16943-h.htm]

Thoughts on Religion, by George John Romanes                             16942
   [Editor: Charles Gore]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/4/16942 ]
   [Files: 16942.txt; 16942-8.txt; 16942-h.htm]

The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah, by Baha'u'llah                          16941C
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/4/16940 ]
   [Files: 16941.txt; 16941-8.txt; 16941-0.txt; 16941-h.htm; 16941-pdf.pdf;
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Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, by Baha'u'llah               16940C
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   [Files: 16940.txt; 16940-8.txt; 16940-0.txt; 16940-h.htm; 16940-pdf.pdf;
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Gems of Divine Mysteries, by Baha'u'llah                                 16939C
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   [Files: 16939.txt; 16939-8.txt; 16939-0.txt; 16939-h.htm
          16939-pdf.pdf; 16939-tei.tei]

ASCE: Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth, by J. C. Meem        16938
   [American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174,
    Volume LXX, December 1910]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/3/16938 ]
   [Files: 16938.txt; 16938-8.txt; 16938-h.htm]

Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3), by John Morley                       16937
   [Subtitle: Essay 1: Vauvenargues]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/3/16937 ]
   [Files: 16937.txt; 16937-8.txt; 16937-h.htm]

Parker's Second Reader, by Richard G. Parker                             16936
   [Subtitle: National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For
    The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C.]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/3/16936 ]
   [Files: 16936.txt; 16936-8.txt; 16936-h.htm]

Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work, P. Chalmers Mitchell 16935
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/3/16935 ]
   [Files: 16935.txt; 16935-8.txt; 16935-0.txt; 16935-h.htm]

L'paulette, by Georges Darien                                           16934
   [Subtitle: Souvenirs d'un officier]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/3/16934 ]
   [Files: 16934-8.txt; 16934-h.htm]

Joan of Arc, by Ronald Sutherland Gower                                  16933
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/3/16933 ]
   [Files: 16933.txt; 16933-8.txt; 16933-h.htm]

The Religious Life of the Zui Child, by Mrs. Tilly E. Stevenson         16932
   [Subtitle: Bureau of American Ethnology]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/3/16932 ]
   [Files: 16932.txt; 16932-8.txt; 16932-h.htm]

Four American Leaders, by Charles William Eliot                          16931
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/3/16931 ]
   [Files: 16931.txt; 16931-8.txt; 16931-h.htm]

A Short History of Russia, by Mary Platt Parmele                         16930
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/3/16930 ]
   [Files: 16930.txt; 16930-8.txt; 16930-h.htm]

Treat 'em Rough, by Ring W. Lardner                                      16929
   [Subtitle: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer]
   [Illustrator: Frank Crerie]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/2/16929 ]
   [Files: 16929.txt; 16929-h.htm]

The Romance of a Pro-Consul, by James Milne                              16928
   [Subtitle: Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon.
    Sir George Grey, K.C.B.]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/2/16928 ]
   [Files: 16928.txt]

Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II, by Caius Cornelius Tacitus     16927
   [Translator: W. Hamilton Fyfe]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/2/16927 ]
   [Files: 16927.txt; 16927-8.txt; 16927-h.htm]

Skookum Chuck Fables, by Skookum Chuck (pseud for R.D. Cumming)          16926
   [Subtitle: Bits of History, Through the Microscope]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/2/16926 ]
   [Files: 16926.txt; 16926-8.txt; 16926-h.htm]

Sally Bishop, by E. Temple Thurston                                      16925
   [Subtitle: A Romance]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/2/16925 ]
   [Files: 16925.txt; 16925-h.htm]

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 425, by Various                        16924
   [Subtitle: Volume 17, New Series, February 21, 1852]
   [Editor: Robert Chambers & William Chambers]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/2/16924 ]
   [Files: 16924.txt; 16924-h.htm]

A Handbook for Latin Clubs, by Various                                   16923
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/2/16923 ]
   [Files: 16923.txt; 16923-8.txt; 16923-ly.ly; 16923-h.htm]

Opsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo II, by Alexandre Herculano      16922
   [Language: Portuguese]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/2/16922 ]
   [Files: 16922-8.txt]

Plague Ship, by Andre Norton                                             16921
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/2/16921 ]
   [Files: 16921.txt; 16921-h.htm]

Venere ed Imene al tribunale, by Jean Baptiste Bouvier                   16920
   [Title: Venere ed Imene al tribunale della penitenza: manuale dei
    confessori]
   [Translator: Osvaldo Gnocchi Viani]
   [Language: Italian]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/2/16920 ]
   [Files: 16920-8.txt]

The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler, by Francis W. Doughty                  16919
   [Subtitle: or, Working for the Custom House]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/1/16919 ]
   [Files: 16919.txt; 16919-h.htm]

Hills of the Shatemuc, by Susan Warner                                   16918
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/1/16918 ]
   [Files: 16918.txt; 16918-8.txt]

Art, by Clive Bell                                                       16917
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/1/16917 ]
   [Files: 16917.txt; 16917-8.txt; 16917-h.htm; ]

The Fatal Jealousie, by Henry Nevil Payne                                16916
   [Commentator: Willard Thorp]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/1/16916 ]
   [Files: 16916.txt; 16916-8.txt; 16916-h.htm]

The Life of Nelson, Vol. II. (of 2), by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan      16915
   [Subtitle: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/1/16915 ]
   [Files: 16915.txt; 16915-8.txt; 16915-h.htm]

The Life of Nelson, Vol. I (of 2), by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan        16914
   [Subtitle: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/1/16914 ]
   [Files: 16914.txt; 16914-8.txt; 16914-0.txt; 16914-h.htm]

Life of Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. II (of 2), by James Harrison  16913
   [Title: The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson,
    Vol. II (of 2)]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/1/16913 ]
   [Files: 16913.txt; 16913-8.txt]

Life of Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. I (of 2), by James Harrison   16912
   [Title: The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson,
    Vol. I (of 2)]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/1/16912 ]
   [Files: 16912.txt; 16912-8.txt]

The Romance of the Coast, by James Runciman                              16911
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/1/16911 ]
   [Files: 16911.txt; 16911-8.txt; 16911-h.htm; ]

A Short History of France, by Mary Platt Parmele                         16910
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/1/16910 ]
   [Files: 16910.txt; 16910-8.txt; 16910-h.htm]

The Halo, by Bettina von Hutten                                          16909
   [Illustrator: B. Martin Justice]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/0/16909 ]
   [Files: 16909.txt; 16909-8.txt; 16909-h.htm]

Once Upon A Time, by Richard Harding Davis                               16908
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/0/16908 ]
   [Files: 16908.txt; 16908-8.txt; 16908-h.htm]

Greenwich Village, by Anna Alice Chapin                                  16907
   [Illustrator: Alan Gilbert Cram]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/0/16907 ]
   [Files: 16907.txt; 16907-h.htm]

Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell, by Grigsby     16906
   [Title: Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton
    Waller Tazewell]
   [Author: Hugh Blair Grigsby]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/0/16906 ]
   [Files: 16906.txt; 16906-8.txt; 16906-h.htm]

The Great Red Frog, by Mosnar Yendis (AKA Sidney Ransom)                 16905
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/0/16905 ]
   [Files: 16905.txt; 16905-h.htm]

'Hello, Soldier!', by Edward Dyson                                       16904
   [Subtitle: Khaki Verse]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/9/0/16904 ]
   [Files: 16904.txt]

The Gold-Stealers, by Edward Dyson                                       16903
   [Subtitle: A Story of Waddy]
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