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Oct 1998 Massacre at Paris, by Christopher Marlowe  [CM #5][msprsxxx.xxx] 1496
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The Life of Christopher Columbus, by Edward Everett Hale                  1492
Oct 1998 Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang [Lang #9] [letdaxxx.xxx] 1491
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Oct 1998 The New McGuffey First Reader [McGuffey Reader #1][1nmcgxxx.xxx] 1489
The True Story of Christopher Columbus, by Elbridge S. Brooks             1488
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Oct 1998 Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary the Ring, by GB Shaw[sringxxx.xxx] 1487
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Oct 1998 Forty Centuries of Ink, by David N. Carvalho      [40cnkxxx.xxx] 1483
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The Absentee, by Maria Edgeworth                                          1473

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From: hart at pglaf.org (Michael Hart)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:36:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [gweekly] Oops!  PT1a NOT PT1b Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
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Weekly_June 7.txt
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*eBook Milestones
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                   318 Gutenberg Europe     [+2] [Including after July 4]
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                   ~98% of the Way to 20,000


      ***562 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971***

             16,553 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001

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            1,473 New eBooks in 2006 at These Four Sites

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             8,531 total from Distributed Proofreaders
              Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B]
              [Currently over 36,000 DP volunteers]

             We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004
             We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005
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          We Are Averaging ~296 eBooks Per Month This Year
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All Four Sites Combined Are Averaging 70 eBooks Per Week In 2006
                           73 This Week
                          333 This Month


It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks

It took ~32 months, from 2003 to 2006 for our last 10,000 eBooks

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SPAMMER SETTLES, EXPERIENCES CHANGE OF HEART
One of the most notorious spammers has reached a settlement with
Microsoft and the state of Texas and said the experience has been "a
serious reality check." Under the terms of the agreement, Ryan Pitylak
will pay $1 million to settle charges that he sent as many as 25
million spam e-mails per day. He will also forfeit many assets he
gathered as a spammer. Pitylak said he has changed teams, as it were,
and will now work to limit spam. "I am pleased to announce that I am
now a part of the antispam community," he said, "having started an
Internet security company that offers my clients advice on systems to
protect against spam." In his heyday, Pitylak, now 24 years old, was
fourth on Spamhaus's list of world's worst spammers.
CNET, 5 June 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6079868.html

GOVERNMENT WANTS ISPS TO KEEP DATA FOR TWO YEARS
The Department of Justice is working to require ISPs to keep records on
customer activities for two years to help law enforcement officials
fight crimes including terrorism and child pornography. Officials from
the department met recently with leading Internet companies to discuss
details about how such a plan could be put into place. Representatives
of those companies said that while they want to aid efforts to stop or
prevent crime, they have concerns about exactly what information the
Justice Department wants them to keep and how it would be used. A
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actions. He also said access to those records would be restricted and
subject to existing protocols covering who is allowed to see it and
under what circumstances. Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the
Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the proposal amounts to "a
radical departure from current practices" and would pose "an
unnecessary risk to privacy and security of Internet users."
San Jose Mercury News, 2 June 2006
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/14720891.htm

JOHN DOE LIBRARY GROUP GOES PUBLIC
The Connecticut library organization that was targeted by federal
officials but prevented from revealing its identity has held a press
conference concerning the matter. Last year, the Library Connection
received a national security letter from the government demanding
patron records. Authorized by the USA PATRIOT Act, the letters forbid
recipients from even disclosing that they have received the letter.
After months of wrangling over the matter, the Justice Department has
ended its efforts to enforce the gag order. At the press conference,
Peter Chase, vice president of Library Connection, said, "It was
galling for me to see the government's attorney in Connecticut...
travel around the state telling people that their library records were
safe, while at the same time he was enforcing a gag order preventing me
from telling people that their library records were not safe." The
Library Connection continues to fight the demands of the letter and has
not yet given the Justice Department any patron records.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 31 May 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/05/2006053101t.htm

COURT PROTECTS ONLINE JOURNALISTS
A California appeals court has overturned a lower-court ruling, saying
that online journalists have as much protection under the First
Amendment as traditional journalists. The case involved an action by
Apple Computer to discover the identity of individuals responsible for
revealing company secrets online. Apple had argued that the information
was shared not by legitimate reporters but by people who were violating
the company's trade secrets. The appeals court said that online
journalists are covered by a state law that guarantees the
confidentiality of journalists' sources. The three judges on the panel
said there is no reasonable method to distinguish legitimate from
illegitimate news and that First Amendment rights trump Apple's demand
to know who leaked the information. Observers said the case could have
far-reaching implications for bloggers and others who post information
and opinions online outside the context of traditional journalism.
New York Times, 27 May 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/technology/27apple.html

EUROPEAN COURT KILLS PASSENGER-DATA TRANSFER
The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has ruled that a 2004
arrangement between the United States and the European Commission
contravenes European Community law and must be halted. Under the
agreement, which was opposed by the European Parliament, airlines were
required to submit passenger name records to U.S. officials or forfeit
their rights to land at U.S. airports. Despite airlines' having spent
large sums of money to comply with the requirement, the court found the
deal illegal on technical grounds. The European Parliament had
challenged the deal for a number of reasons, technical issues being
just one. After ruling on the technical question, however, the court
ended its inquiry, disappointing the European Parliament, which had
hoped the court would rule on privacy concerns it raised in its case
against the deal.
CNET, 30 May 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6077893.html
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA


*


*



*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK

The new Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, is rarely mentioned
as having been an assistant two of President Nixon's appointees,
John Ehrlichman, head of the Watergate "Plumbers Unit" and also
to Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird in the Viet Nam War.

Even less mention was made of Judge Robert Bork being the author
of "The Saturday Night Massacre" of Watergate fame, when he was
nominated for the Supreme Court.


*QUOTES OF THE WEEK

More journalists have been killed in the Iraq War since
March 20, 2003, 66 as of last week, than in 20 years of
the Viet Nam War, where a total of 63 were killed.

Source:  Reporters Without Borders

*

"Our strength is in our values, and if we give up our values
to fight this enemy, we have already lost."

Various sources from both sides of the aisle.


*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK

The cash flow will continue to reverse, as networks who
used to pay for transmission of their programs to you--
reverse their position and charge affiliates and others
for their programming.

Yes, your local station used to get paid by the network
to show network programming, in return for advertising,
which quite often obviously split between them.

This plan may have originated with the BBC, The British
Broadcasting Company, who used to pay to send shortwave
programs to my area for my whole life until a few years
ago when I bought a new shortwave radio and found I was
not able to pick up any of the dozen plus frequencies I
had listened to the BBC on for years.

Research turned up the fact that the BBC was charging a
fee now for their programs, and thus had shut off their
"North American World Service" I had listened to.  This
fee of millions of dollars per year is paid by a lot of
NPR, National Public Radio, stations through a new PRI,
Public Radio International, which was perhaps made just
for this kind of purpose.

All in all, it would appear that some kind of "pay per"
business plan is sweeping the world of commercial media
outlets, perhaps explaining the success of Youtube, the
media outlet that now receives up to 50,000 videos just
in a single day for worldwide downloading.  Yahoo is in
the process of launching their competitor to Youtube.

As more and more people refuse to watch commercials the
networks are going crazy trying to figure out how to do
their commercials in new ways, including previous notes
concerning "Product Integration" being the new versions
of ye olde "Product Placement."  However, writers had a
serious complaint about being forced to write ads for a
plot line that revolved around sponsors' products.



*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK

According to CBS News Sunday night, the price of crude
went up 14% in the same period that the profits of the
gasoline companies went up 130%.

*

In New Orleans cleanup efforts, NBC reported that more
of the sub-sub-sub-contracting ripoffs were revealed:
Askritt Co., who freely admits they don't own a single
truck for the removal of anything they contracted for,
but simply paid sub-contractors and kept a lion's part
of the government payments.  As I recall this was paid
by the cubic yard of disposal, and the original payees
receieved $23 per cubic yard, then passed on contracts
for $9 per cu. yd., who then did $8 and $7. . .until a
man named Leo actually did the work for $3 per cu. yd.

Source:  Lisa Myers, NBC News, 06/05/06

*

Immigration of Teachers to U.S. Now A Top Priority!

Who Would Have Thought Teaching Would Be Globalized?

The United States may be trying to keep some people in
limbo as far as immigration policies are concerned but
for 10,000 needed teachers, the path may well be paved
with gold as various school districts compete for each
and every available teacher around the world.

Baltimore schools are likely to hire each one of 81 in
a single room of interviewees if they interview well--
the location is Manila in the Philippines.

It's impossible to find enough math, science, special-
education and other teachers in America, so schools in
need are sending their recruiters overseas.

The same recruitment effort that yields interviews for
perhaps five or ten teachers in the U.S. might get you
several hundred to choose from elsewhere.

Las Vegas, perhaps the fastest growing city in the US,
recruits teachers from Canada, Topeka goes to Spain or
India for many of its teachers, Dallas heads south for
teachers from Mexico and Chile, and those are just the
most obvious examples of cities that will recruit some
10,000 foreign teachers to fill classroom vacancies.

These policies are made obvious to other countries and
the result is that they even offer courses of study to
prepare students to become American teachers.

Of course, not everyone approves, the head of the NEA,
National Education Association, says that this policy,
no matter how well intended, will continue to drive an
expected teacher's salary down, and thus force teacher
wannabees into other occupations if they want to share
in the American Dreamz.  For those teachers in Manila,
this IS the American Dream, as they will receive twice
or three times their current salaries in the new jobs.

Didn't anyone think of these sorts of things when they
decided to globalize everything?

Source:  CBS Evening News, 6/6/06

*

More Katrina Recovery Money Goes Into Non-Work Pockets

It seems that every week a new revelation spells out a
new chapter in this never ending spectacle of greed.

Even while denying the hiring of layers of contractors
and sub-contractors and sub-sub-sub-contractors, money
trails show that much of the money paid for a recovery
from last year's hurricanes never leaves the office of
the original contractor, but is merely raked off, then
another contractor is hired, who then rakes off more--
perhaps for 8 levels--until finally a few percent of a
government contract is paid to the contractor who gets
to actually do the job.

Previous reports included the "Blue Roof" program, and
contracts given to Vice President Cheney's Halliburton
company, AshBritt, Bechtel, Akima, etc.  Some of these
contracts magically seemed to grow by millions when it
was announced they would be "no-bid" or limited bidded
government contracts.

For some unknown reason much of the money was spent in
the neighboring states of Texas and Florida, where the
contractors simply passed on the work after taking out
millions of dollars for themselves.

AshBritt, a Pompano Beach, Flordia, company recently a
recipient of one of the half billion dollar contracts,
was recently called before Congress to defend contract
failures that were obvious to all concerned, in only a
few weeks the failures were already obvious.  AshBritt
President Randal Perkins said, "It's normal," to House
Committee members when questioned.

Local contractors quote their own prices as $12.90 and
the like per cubic yard of debris and say contracts of
$36 per cubic yard are going to connected Big Boys.

AshBritt's Perkins said it was more like $23, and Army
Corps of Engineers sources put it at $26, but reports,
already made public, have shown that these contractors
have made over $35 per cubic yard in Louisiana, though
AshBritt was not specifially named.

The range paid to the actual local contractors seems a
range from about $13 to $17 per cubic yard, while that
same contract to non-local contractors appears in many
sources as $23 to $35+.

Various politicians, including Mississippi's Governor,
are founders of some of these contracting agencies for
whom this has been a windfall profits year as Barbour,
Griffith & Rogers, founded by Governor Haley Barbour.

Apparently politicians on both sides of the aisle have
concentrated as much or more on profiteering, some had
even resigned their positions in the first month after
Katrina to concentrate on such contracting.

Many of the stocks of these companies has risen 50-90%
in various periods after Katrina some with more than a
billion dollars of contracts still waiting for work.

While some workers are benefitting by getting $17/hour
for cleanup work, the contractors who hire them get an
admitted $30,000 per day.

In some cases it would appear that private farmers are
being paid to take mulch made from downed vegetation--
and some are reported to be making millions from it.

[Search both AshBritt, Asbritt, and variant spellings]

Sources:
NBC
MSNBC
Taxpayers for Common Sense
House Reform Committee Testimony
CorpWatch
Carlsbad Current Argus



*

500Gb drives on sale for $190

Thus you can now add a terabyte in two drives for $380,
or 1.2Tb in 3 drives for $357.

I managed to get one of the 500G drives right over the counter,
at Fry's in Chicago, no rebates required.

*

Want $4.1 in revenge on the media?

Lock them in a hot room with no air-conditioning and make them
bid for what they want with only phone contact with the bosses
all night long. . .literally. . . .

*



By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.

Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world.  In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]

"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

by Simona Sumanaru


My Book Of Sounds

You, to me, are like a book of poems.
I am so very lucky to have found it one day
on the dusty shelf of this old book store
in which the air is hot and a little humid
like spring this year - who would have thought
spring could last that long-

The store keeper is a little old lady
with violet-grayish strands
her hands like those of a piano player
- one would expect butterflies of sound
to be taking flight from right under her fingertips-

every time she touches a book
she takes these deep breaths and closes her eyes
for a little while
as if to memorize the feel of the cover
on her music-filled finger tips

it was a first edition, it was a romance,
it was a motivational book that father read to son
before football practice
or maybe it was a family saga mother read to daughter
before the curtains of night fell down
and thoughts drifted away
into womanhood and married life

She knows them well: pages torn, pictures missing,
tiny scribblings at the end of every chapter
where a student in international politics
boldly put in his own ideas,
or maybe an educator to be sneaked in
her most affectionate considerations
before she decided to turn on the page
towards the next soul to be molded.


(C) 2006 Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart


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August First, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray      18529
   [Ill.: A. I. Keller]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18529 ]
   [Files: 18529.txt; 18529-8.txt; 18529-h.htm; ]

Carta de hum cidadam de Genova, by Anonymous                             18528
   [Full title: Carta de hum cidadam de Genova a hum seu correspondente]
   [em Londres]
   [Language: Portuguese]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18528 ]
   [Files: 18528-8.txt]

Preparations for a Catastrophic California Earthquake, by Various        18527
  [Title: An Assessment of the Consequences and Preparations for a
   Catastrophic California Earthquake: Findings and Actions Taken]
   [Subtitle: Prepared By Federal Emergency Management Agency]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18527 ]
   [Files: 18527.txt; 18527-8.txt; 18527-h.htm]

Eating in Two or Three Languages, by Irvin S. Cobb                       18526
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18526 ]
   [Files: 18526.txt; 18526-8.txt; 18526-h.htm]

On the Trail, by Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard                       18525
   [Subtitle: An Outdoor Book for Girls]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18525 ]
   [Files: 18525.txt; 18525-8.txt; 18525-h.htm]

A Dark Month, by Algernon Charles Swinburne                              18524
   [Subtitle: From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18524 ]
   [Files: 18524.txt; 18524-h.htm]

The Poetry of Wales, by John Jenkins                                     18523
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18523 ]
   [Files: 18523.txt; 18523-h.htm]

The Wreck, by Anonymous                                                  18522
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18522 ]
   [Files: 18522.txt; 18522-h.htm]

An Expository Outline, by Anonymous                                      18521
   [Title: An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History
    of Creation"]
   [Subtitle: With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to
    the Vestiges]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18521 ]
   [Files: 18521.txt; 18521-8.txt]

Sabotage in Space, by Carey Rockwell                                     18520
   [Illustrator: Louis Glanzman]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18520 ]
   [Files: 18520.txt; 18520-h.htm]

Manifesto, by Joo Daniel                                                18519
   [Title: Manifesto da Serenissima Sr Rainha de Hungria, e Bohemia,
    Arquiduqueza de Austria, etc.]
   [Language: Portuguese]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18519 ]
   [Files: 18519-8.txt]

Fete aerostatique, by Anonymous                                          18518
   [Full title: Fete aerostatique, qui sera celebree aujourd'hui au champ]
    de Mars; Arostation: etablissement d'une compagnie aeronautique]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18518 ]
   [Files: 18518-8.txt]

Anti-Achitophel (1682), by Elkanah Settle, et al                         18517
   [Subtitle: Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden]
   [Editor: Harold Whitmore Jones]
   [Contents;]
   [Absalom Senior by Elkanah Settle]
   [Poetical Reflections by Anonymous]
   [Azaria and Hushai by Samuel Pordage]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18517 ]
   [Files: 18517.txt; 18517-8.txt; 18517-h.htm]

Het Leven der Dieren, by A. E. Brehm                                     18516
   [Subtitle: 5 Robben; 6 Insecteneters]
   [Language: Dutch]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18516 ]
   [Files: 18516-8.txt; 18516-h.htm]

Police!!!, by Robert W. Chambers                                         18515
   [Illustrator: Henry Hutt]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18515 ]
   [Files: 18515.txt; 18515-8.txt; 18515-h.htm]

The Black-Sealed Letter, by Andrew Learmont Spedon                       18514
   [Subtitle: Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney.]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18514 ]
   [Files: 18514.txt; 18514-8.txt; 18514-h.htm; ]

Jesus of Nazareth - A Biography, by John Mark                            18513
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18513 ]
   [Files: 18513.txt; 18513-h.htm]

Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare                                    18512
   [Translator: Paavo Cajander]
   [Language: Finnish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18512 ]
   [Files: 18512-8.txt]

Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15), by Charles Morris                      18511
   [Subtitle: The Romance of Reality]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18511 ]
   [Files: 18511.txt; 18511-8.txt; 18511-h.htm]

The Chequers, by James Runciman                                          18510
   [Subtitle: Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in]
   [a Loafer's Diary]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18510 ]
   [Files: 18510.txt; 18510-8.txt; 18510-h.htm]

Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches, by George P. Goff             18509
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18509 ]
   [Files: 18509.txt; 18509-h.htm]

Arthur Mervyn, by Charles Brockden Brown                                 18508
   [Subtitle: Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18508 ]
   [Files: 18508.txt; 18508-8.txt; 18508-h.htm]

Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence, by Emanuel Swedenborg            18507
   [Translator: William Wunsch]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18507 ]
   [Files: 18507.txt]

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II, by Burton and Cameron               18506
   [Subtitle: A Personal Narrative]
   [Author: Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18506 ]
   [Files: 18506.txt; 18506-8.txt]

A Popular Schoolgirl, by Angela Brazil                                   18505
   [Illus.: Balliol Salmon]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18505 ]
   [Files: 18505.txt; 18505-8.txt; 18505-h.htm; ]

Sex in Education, by Edward H. Clarke                                    18504
   [Subtitle: or, A Fair Chance for Girls]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18504 ]
   [Files: 18504.txt; 18504-8.txt; 18504-h.htm; ]

Our Day, by W. A. Spicer                                                 18503
   [Subtitle: In the Light of Prophecy]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18503 ]
   [Files: 18503.txt; 18503-8.txt; 18503-h.htm]

The Annual Monitor for 1851                                              18502
   [Subtitle: or, Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in]
   [Great Britain and Ireland, for the year 1850]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18502 ]
   [Files: 18502.txt; 18502-h.htm]

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886, by Various   18501
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Complete Works of Robert Burns, by Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham     18500
   [Full title: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems,]
   [Songs, and Correspondence.]
   [Subtitle: With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and]
   [Biographical by Allan Cunningham]
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Suzanna Stirs the Fire, by Emily Calvin Blake                            18499
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King John of Jingalo, by Laurence Housman                                18498
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My Second Year of the War, by Frederick Palmer                           18497
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Big Brother, by Annie Fellows-Johnston                                   18496
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The Drama of the Forests, by Arthur Heming                               18495
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Le dernier vivant, by Paul Feval                                         18494
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Introduction to Non-Violence, by Theodore Paullin                        18493
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Star Surgeon, by Alan Nourse                                             18492
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Lettre relative  l'organisation des postes et relais, by Ch. Dugas      18491
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Jacques Cartier, by mile Chevalier                                      18490
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A Court of Inquiry, by Grace S. Richmond                                 18489
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The Place Beyond the Winds, by Harriet T. Comstock                       18488
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Food Remedies, by Florence Daniel                                        18487
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Quiet Talks on Following the Christ, by S. D. Gordon                     18486
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Slave Narratives: Georgia, Part 4, by Work Projects Administration       18485
   [Full title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United]
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Slave Narratives: Georgia, Part 3, by Work Projects Administration       18484
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Fighting France, by Stephane Lauzanne                                    18483
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The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick, by Various                      18482
   [Editor: James O'Leary]
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Oppikirja suomalaisen kirjallisuuden historiassa, by B. F. Godenhjelm    18481
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Bolougne-Sur-Mer, by Reverend William Canon Fleming                      18480
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Campaigns of the British Army 1814-1815, by G. R. Gleig                  18479
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John Ward, Preacher, by Margaret Deland                                  18478
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Yksinkertainen sydan, by Gustave Flaubert                                18476
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Nach Amerika! Erster Band, by Friedrich Gerstacker                       18475
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Subject: [gweekly] !@! 4 Weeks:  The Big Push, Well Not So Big This Time 
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For only the second time in ten years, drinking beer has been relegated
to second on Student Monitor's biannual survey of what is "in" on
campus, with iPods slotting in at number one. The only other thing to
unseat beer: the Internet, in 1997. Eric Weil of Student Monitor said
of the latest results of its Lifestyle and Media Study, "We knew iPods
were pervasive on campus as a learning and entertainment device, but we
didn't see it rating that high." Between spring 2006 and spring 2006,
iPods jumped from 59 percent of students saying they were "in" to 73
percent. Rounding out the top ten spots on the survey are Facebook
(which tied beer for second), drinking other alcohol, text messaging,
downloading music, going to clubs, instant messaging, working out, and
coffee. Dan Updegrove, vice president for information technology at the
University of Texas at Austin, pointed out that the speed with which
"Internet-based phenomena can emerge" accounts for having so many
technologies on the top ten that did not even exist several years ago.
USA Today, 7 June 2006
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-06-07-ipod-tops-beer_x.htm

ITUNES IN TROUBLE IN EUROPE
Government regulators in several European countries are taking Apple to
court over the way its iTunes music service functions. Norwegian
officials have said that Apple's user agreement violates the
country's law and that the inability to play iTunes songs on non-Apple
devices likely also is illegal in Norway. Specifically at issue are
parts of Apple's user agreement that give the company the right to
change the terms without notice and that free Apple from any liability
for viruses or other harm caused by iTunes downloads. Bjorn Erik Thon,
director of the Consumer Ombudsman's Office of Norway, said his office
would hear Apple's counterargument concerning whether iTunes songs
should be playable on non-Apple equipment, but he added that he expects
the office to rule against Apple. Thon rejected an earlier claim by
Apple that limiting the songs to Apple devices discourages copyright
violations. If consumers cannot play songs they have bought, said Thon,
"they will get a download of it free from Napster," increasing piracy.
Government officials in Sweden and Denmark are expected to follow
Norway's lead in these affairs, and Britain reportedly also shares the
same concerns.
New York Times, 8 June 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/technology/08cnd-apple.html


COURT REJECTS CHALLENGE TO CALEA EXPANSION

[More Big Brother Looking Over Your Virtual Shoulders]

A federal appeals court has ruled against a challenge to an expansion
of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to
cover network traffic. CALEA requires providers of telecommunications
services to make their systems available to law enforcement for
authorized wiretapping. The FCC has sought to expand CALEA to cover
Internet networks also. The appeals court ruled 2-1 that the FCC is
permitted to apply CALEA to networks. A coalition representing higher
education had challenged the expansion of CALEA, saying that the law
was not written with data networks in mind and that such an expansion
would impose considerable costs on higher education for compliance.
Speaking for the majority, Judge David Sentelle said the FCC's
interpretation of CALEA to cover data networks was reasonable. Judge
Harry Edwards, who dissented in the opinion, said the FCC discounted
an exemption in the law for information services.
San Jose Mercury News, 9 June 2006
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/14781403.htm






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What happened to the $25 million reward for Al-Zarqawi?

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Dr. Susan Molchan, formerly a clinical researcher at the
National Institutes of Health said, under oath, that the
spinal fluid samples given by thousands of patients from
enduring the procedure known as a "spinal tap" vanished,
just disappeared from her scientifically cooled storage,
where they were kept for Alzheimer's research.

A Congressional investigation is now underway to find if
her boss, Dr. Trey Sunderland, gave those samples valued
at millions of dollars, to pharacom giant Pfizer who has
a new Alzheimer's drug coming out.

Apparently Sunderland gave Pfizer "access" to 3200 vials
of spinal fluid valued at six million dollars, for which
he reported received a commission of just under $300,000
or about 5% of the value of the missing items.

Pfizer's new Alzheimer's drug is reportedly bringing the
company a whopping $1.6 billion just in one early year--
making it already the #1 such drug in the marketplace.



*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK

"Mission Accomplished"  May 1, 2003

"This will not end the war."  June, 2006

"It will take time."  June 13, 2006



*QUOTES OF THE WEEK

"The latest thing in technology is Open Source."

Tom Friedman, author of The Earth Is Flat, last
night as Charlie Rose made his return.


*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK

The Iraq War, like most others, will last as long as
it is politically feasible and financially rewarding
to those running the war.


*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK

80% of men say they would marry the same woman again
if they had it to do all over again.

50% of women say they would marry the same man again
if they had it to do all over again.

*

A Kentucky Fried Chicken 3 pieces extra crispy meal,
with sides contains 15 grams = 1/2 ounce of transfat
which is more than is recommended for an entire week.

This is as much as is in 30 McBurgers.

Source:  Lawsuit against KFC, CBS News, etc.

*

By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.

Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world.  In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]

"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.


*

Correction, the last stanza of this poem was missing last week.

Poem of the Week

by Simona Sumanaru


My Book Of Sounds

You, to me, are like a book of poems.
I am so very lucky to have found it one day
on the dusty shelf of this old book store
in which the air is hot and a little humid
like spring this year - who would have thought
spring could last that long-

The store keeper is a little old lady
with violet-grayish strands
her hands like those of a piano player
- one would expect butterflies of sound
to be taking flight from right under her fingertips-

every time she touches a book
she takes these deep breaths and closes her eyes
for a little while
as if to memorize the feel of the cover
on her music-filled finger tips

it was a first edition, it was a romance,
it was a motivational book that father read to son
before football practice
or maybe it was a family saga mother read to daughter
before the curtains of night fell down
and thoughts drifted away
into womanhood and married life

She knows them well: pages torn, pictures missing,
tiny scribblings at the end of every chapter
where a student in international politics
boldly put in his own ideas,
or maybe an educator to be sneaked in
her most affectionate considerations
before she decided to turn on the page
towards the next soul to be molded.

The old lady stops. Her eyes so wide, her hands so wise
are playing with the butterflies of air.
The buzzing sound of the old fan
standing tall in one corner
becomes the music of poetry.
That's where I found you.

(C) 2006 Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart


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Mon Year Title and Author                                  [filename.ext] ###
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May 1999 Laws, by Plato [#29 and last of this Plato series][plawsxxx.xxx] 1750
   [Translation of entire series by Benjamin Jowett]
Cousin Betty, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: James Waring]                     1749

May 1999 Other People's Money, by Emile Gaboriau  [E.G. #4][opmnyxxx.xxx] 1748
May 1999 The Red Seal, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln           [redslxxx.xxx] 1747
May 1999 New Collected Rhymes, by Andrew Lang    [Lang #14][nwclrxxx.xxx] 1746
May 1999 Poetical Works, by John Milton                    [pmsjmxxx.xxx] 1745
May 1999 Philebus, by Plato   [More of Socrates][Plato #28][philbxxx.xxx] 1744
May 1999 Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells[HGW#17][12sadxxx.xxx] 1743
May 1999 Miss Civilization, by Richard Harding Davis  [#12][miscvxxx.xxx] 1742
May 1999 The White Moll, by Frank L. Packard   [Packard #2][wtmolxxx.xxx] 1741

May 1999 The Flying U's Last Stand, by B. M. Bower [BMB #8][fuslsxxx.xxx] 1740
May 1999 The Black Death/The Dancing Mania,by J.F.C. Hecker[bdadmxxx.xxx] 1739
May 1999 Statesman, by Plato                    [Plato #27][sttsmxxx.xxx] 1738
Facino Cane, by Honore de Balzac  [Tr.: Clara Bell & Others]              1737
May 1999 Cromwell, Shakespeare Apocrypha                   [1ws49xxx.xxx] 1736
May 1999 Sophist, by Plato    [More of Socrates][Plato #26][sophtxxx.xxx] 1735
The Secret Places of the Heart, by H. G. Wells                            1734
May 1999 The Red Cross Girl, by Richard Harding Davis [#11][rdcrgxxx.xxx] 1733
The Schoolmistress and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov                    1732

May 1999 Sister Songs, by Francis Thompson [F. Thompson #3][ssngsxxx.xxx] 1731
Michael, Brother of Jerry, by Jack London                                 1730
The Deserted Woman, by Honore de Balzac    [Tr.: Ellen Marriage]          1729

Apr 1999 The Odyssey, by Homer, Butcher & Lang Tr[Homer #3][dyssyxxa.xxx] 1728
Apr 1999 The Odyssey, by Homer, Tr. by Samuel butler       [dyssyxxx.xxx] 1727
   (See also: #348, Collection of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica)
Apr 1999 Theaetetus, by Plato [More of Socrates][Plato #25][thtusxxx.xxx] 1726
Heart of the West, by O. Henry [AKA: William Sidney Porter]               1725

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Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet?

If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of
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With 19,891 eBooks online as of June 14, 2006 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.77 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,221,559 x 19,891 x $.77 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
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A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.50 Value Per Book To 100 Million

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of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.50 from each book.
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Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.


At 19,891 eBooks in 34 Years and 11.25 Months We Averaged
       569 Per Year
        47.4 Per Month
         1.56 Per Day

At 1743 eBooks Done In The 161 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
    10.8 Per Day
      76 per Week
     332 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,
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However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a
300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M,
just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so
it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M.

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].

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Taken by the Enemy, by Oliver Optic                                      18579
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   [Files: 18579.txt; 18579-h.htm]

Our Unitarian Gospel, by Minot Savage                                    18578
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/7/18578 ]
   [Files: 18578.txt]

News from the Duchy, by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch                  18577
   [Author AKA: Q]
   [Contents: Pipes in Arcady]]
   [          Our Lady of Gwithian]
   [          Pilot Matthey's Christmas]
   [          The Mont-Bazillac]
   [          The Three Necklaces]
   [          The Wren]
   [          Not Here, O Apollo]
   [          Fiat Justitia Ruat Solum]
   [          The Honour of the Ship]
   [          Lieutenant Lapenotiere]
   [          The Cask Ashore]
   [          Ye Sexes, Give Ear]
   [          Frenchman's Creek]
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The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone, by Margaret A. McIntyre                18576
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/7/18576 ]
   [Files: 18576.txt; 18576-8.txt; 18576-h.htm]

One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories, by Various                   18575
   [Subtitle: Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles]
   [Editor: Antoine de la Salle]
   [Illustrator: Leon Lebeque]
   [Translator: Robert B. Douglas]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/7/18575 ]
   [Files: 18575.txt; 18575-8.txt; 18575-h.htm]

Across the Sea and Other Poems., by Thomas S. Chard                      18574
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/7/18574 ]
   [Files: 18574.txt]

Abraham Lincoln, by Richard Henry Stoddard                               18573
   [Subtitle: An Horatian Ode.]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/7/18573 ]
   [Files: 18573.txt]

The President, by Alfred Henry Lewis                                     18572
   [Subtitle: A novel]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/7/18572 ]
   [Files: 18572.txt; 18572-8.txt; 18572-h.htm; ]

The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503, by Various                   18571
   [Editor: Julius E. Olson and Edward Gaylord Bourne]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/7/18571 ]
   [Files: 18571.txt; 18571-8.txt; 18571-0.txt; 18571-h.htm]

Yule-Tide in Many Lands, by Mary P. Pringle and Clara A. Urann           18570
   [Illustrator: L. J. Bridgman]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/7/18570 ]
   [Files: 18570.txt; 18570-8.txt; 18570-h.htm]

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, by Voltaire                         18569
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/6/18569 ]
   [Files: 18569.txt; 18569-8.txt; 18569-h.htm]

Vaarallista vakea, by Kristian Elster                                    18568
   [Translator: O. Relander]
   [Language: Finnish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/6/18568 ]
   [Files: 18568-8.txt]

Tintinnalogia, by Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman                   18567
   [Full title: Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing]
   [Subtitle: Wherein is laid down plain and easie Rules for Ringing all]
   [sorts of Plain Changes]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/6/18567 ]
   [Files: 18567.txt; 18567-8.txt; 18567-h.htm]

Hawthorne, by Henry James, Junr.                                         18566
   [Subtitle: (English Men of Letters Series)]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/6/18566 ]
   [Files: 18566.txt; 18566-8.txt; 18566-h.htm]

A Little Swiss Sojourn, by W. D. Howells                                 18565
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/6/18565 ]
   [Files: 18565.txt; 18565-8.txt; 18565-h.htm]

The Religion of Ancient Rome, by Cyril Bailey                            18564
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/6/18564 ]
   [Files: 18564.txt; 18564-8.txt; 18564-h.htm]

Raw Gold, by Bertrand W. Sinclair                                        18563
   [Subtitle: A Novel]
   [Illustrator: Clarence H. Rowe]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/6/18563 ]
   [Files: 18563.txt; 18563-8.txt; 18563-h.htm]

Outlines of the Earth's History, by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler           18562
   [Subtitle: A Popular Study in Physiography]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/6/18562 ]
   [Files: 18562.txt; 18562-8.txt; 18562-h.htm]

The Ontario Readers, by Ontario Ministry of Education                    18561
   [Subtitle: Third Book]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/6/18561 ]
   [Files: 18561.txt; 18561-8.txt; 18561-h.htm]

Chopin and Other Musical Essays, by Henry T. Finck                       18560
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/6/18560 ]
   [Files: 18560.txt; 18560-8.txt; 18560-h.htm]

The Child's Day, by Woods Hutchinson                                     18559
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/5/18559 ]
   [Files: 18559.txt; 18559-8.txt; 18559-h.htm]

The Good Shepherd, by Anonymous                                          18558
   [Subtitle: A Life of Christ for Children]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/5/18558 ]
   [Files: 18558.txt; 18558-8.txt; 18558-h.htm]

The Battle of Principles, by Newell Dwight Hillis                        18557
   [Subtitle: A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery
    Conflict]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/5/18557 ]
   [Files: 18557.txt; 18557-8.txt; 18557-h.htm]

Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earthquakes, by Miguel Saderra Maso 18556
   [Title: Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earthquakes in the
    Philippines]
   [Subtitle: With an Appendix: Earthquakes in the Marianas Islands
    1599-1909]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/5/18556 ]
   [Files: 18556.txt; 18556-8.txt; 18556-h.htm]

A Chance Acquaintance, by W. D. Howells                                  18555
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/5/18555 ]
   [Files: 18555.txt; 18555-8.txt; 18555-h.htm]

Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864, by Various         18554
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/5/18554 ]
   [Files: 18554.txt; 18554-8.txt; 18554-h.htm]

>From Isolation to Leadership, Revised, by John Holladay Latane           18553
   [Subtitle: A Review of American Foreign Policy]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/5/18553 ]
   [Files: 18553.txt; 18553-8.txt]

Der Wendekreis - Zweite Folge, by Jakob Wassermann                       18552
   [Subtitle: Oberlins drei Stufen, Sturreganz]
   [Language: German]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/5/18552 ]
   [Files: 18552-8.txt; 18552-0.txt; 18552-h.htm]

Der Wendekreis - Erste Folge, by Jakob Wassermann                        18551
   [Subtitle: Novellen]
   [Language: German]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/5/18551 ]
   [Files: 18551-8.txt; 18551-0.txt; 18551-h.htm]

Erechtheus, by Algernon Charles Swinburne                                18550
   [Subtitle: A Tragedy (New Edition)]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/5/18550 ]
   [Files: 18550.txt; 18550-8.txt; 18550-0.txt; 18550-h.htm]

The Von Toodleburgs, by F. Colburn Adams                                 18549
   [Subtitle: Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family]
   [Illustrator: A. R. Waud]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/4/18549 ]
   [Files: 18549.txt; 18549-8.txt; 18549-h.htm]

Transactions of the ASCE, Paper No. 1151, by Charles M. Jacobs           18548
   [Title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
    Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910]
   [Subtitle: The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
    The North River Division. Paper No. 1151]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/4/18548 ]
   [Files: 18548.txt; 18548-h.htm]

Madame Flirt, by Charles E. Pearce                                       18547
   [Subtitle: A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera']
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/4/18547 ]
   [Files: 18547.txt; 18547-8.txt; 18547-h.htm]

Denslow's Mother Goose, by Anonymous                                     18546
   [Illustrator: William Wallace Denslow]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/4/18546 ]
   [Files: 18546.txt; 18546-h.htm]

A Mummer's Tale, by Anatole France                                       18545
   [Translator: Charles E. Roche]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/4/18545 ]
   [Files: 18545.txt; 18545-8.txt; 18545-h.htm]

Mission to Central Africa in the Years 1850-51, Vol. 2, by Richardson    18544
   [Title: Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the
    Years 1850-51, Volume 2]
   [Subtitle: Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's
    Government]
   [Author: James Richardson]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/4/18544 ]
   [Files: 18544.txt; 18544-8.txt; 18544-0.txt; 18544-h.htm]

Abrege de l'Histoire: Charlemagne jusques . Charlequint, by Voltaire     18543
   [Title: Abrege de l'Histoire Universelle depuis Charlemagne jusques
    a Charlequint (Tome Premier)]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/4/18543 ]
   [Files: 18543-8.txt; 18543-0.txt]

How to Cook Fish, by Olive Green                                         18542
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/4/18542 ]
   [Files: 18542.txt; 18542-8.txt; 18542-h.htm]

Voyage of the Liberdade, by Captain Joshua Slocum                        18541
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/4/18541 ]
   [Files: 18541.txt; 18541-8.txt; 18541-h.htm]

Abraham Lincoln, by Rev. T. M. Eddy                                      18540
   [Subtitle: A Memorial Discourse]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/4/18540 ]
   [Files: 18540.txt]

Nature Mysticism, by J. Edward Mercer                                    18539
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/3/18539 ]
   [Files: 18539.txt; 18539-8.txt; 18539-0.txt; 18539-h.htm]

I Married a Ranger, by Dama Margaret Smith                               18538
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/3/18538 ]
   [Files: 18538.txt; 18538-8.txt; 18538-h.htm]

Scenes de la vie de jeunesse, by Henry Murger                            18537
   [Subtitle: Nouvelles]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/3/18537 ]
   [Files: 18537-8.txt; 18537-h.htm]

Cahangahangang Buhay ni Santa Margarita de Cortona, by Cleto R. Ignacio  18536
   [Language: Tagalog]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/3/18536 ]
   [Files: 18536-8.txt; 18536-h.htm]

La capitaine, by Emile Chevalier                                         18535
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/3/18535 ]
   [Files: 18535-8.txt]

The Hurricane Guide, by William Radcliff Birt                            18534
   [Subtitle: Being An Attempt To Connect The Rotary Gale Or Revolving
    Storm With Atmospheric Waves.]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/3/18534 ]
   [Files: 18534.txt; 18534-8.txt; 18534-h.htm]

The Child at Home, by John S.C. Abbott                                   18533
   [Subtitle: The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Illustrated]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/3/18433 ]
   [Files: 18433.txt]

Verhalen van de Zuidzee, by Jack London                                  18532
   [Translator: Leo Leclercq]
   [Language: Dutch]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/3/18532 ]
   [Files: 18532-8.txt; 18532-h.htm]

Timothy's Quest, by Kate Douglas Wiggin                                  18531
   [Subtitle: A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/3/18531 ]
   [Files: 18531.txt; 18531-8.txt; 18531-h.htm]

Elsie Inglis, by Eva Shaw McLaren                                        18530
   [Subtitle: The Woman with the Torch]
   [Commentator: Lena Ashwell]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/3/18530 ]
   [Files: 18530.txt; 18530-8.txt; 18530-h.htm]


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Jun 2006 War in Heaven, by Charles Williams                [060145xx.xxx] 0663A
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Jun 2006 The Hampdenshire Wonder, by J D Beresford         [060141xx.xxx] 0659A
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Jun 2006 The White People, by Arthur Machin                [060137xx.xxx] 0655A
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Jun 2006 The Land of Mist, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle       [060135xx.xxx] 0653A
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Jun 2006 Collected Stories, by Olaf Stapledon              [060134xx.xxx] 0652A
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Jun 2006 A Man Divided, by Olaf Stapledon                  [060133xx.xxx] 0651A
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Jun 2006 Proteus Island, by Stanley G Weinbaum             [060132xx.xxx] 0650A
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MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOLS TO RECEIVE GRANT FROM MICROSOFT
Microsoft has announced a donation of as much as $30 million in
software to high school and college students in Massachusetts. The
software package will include software-writing and Web-development
tools and is valued at about $800 per high school student and $2,400
per college student. The software will be offered to all public high
schools and colleges in the state; the total amount of the donation
will depend on how many of the state's students participate in the
program. Massachusetts has about 300,000 high school and 125,000
college students. Nate Mackinnon, a spokesman for the Massachusetts
Department of Education, said the donation could help minimize a
growing gap in science between U.S. and international students by
seeding an interest in technology in high school and being able to
foster those skills in college.
Associated Press, 13 June 2006
http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=5026245

NIELSEN TO TRACK ONLINE VIEWERSHIP

[The Times They Are A'Changin!]

Responding to a changing landscape of media, Nielsen Media Research has
said it will begin tracking viewership of television programs over the
Internet. Media companies have criticized Nielsen for only tracking shows
that people watch on televisions in their homes, even as growing
numbers of consumers watch shows on computers, cell phones, or other
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be introduced over several years and could have a considerable bearing
on ratings of shows, particularly sporting events, which analysts
believe are especially likely to be watched outside the home. Nielsen
said it would provide its "Nielsen families"--those whose television
viewing provides ratings data--with portable devices so they can keep
tabs on any television they watch away from their homes.
Wall Street Journal, 15 June 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115030869031780267.html

FEDS SUE TO PROTECT NSA ACTIVITIES
The U.S. Justice Department has filed suit against the attorney general
of New Jersey to prevent her from finding out whether telecom companies
in the state have provided customer information to the National
Security Agency (NSA). An uproar followed the reporting last month
that several companies had given call data to the NSA as part of its
efforts to find and fight terrorists. Citing a range of privacy concerns,
many objected to those transfers of information and filed lawsuits to
prevent further such cooperation. Zulmia Farber, attorney general of
New Jersey, sent subpoenas to a number of telecom companies, seeking
to find out whether they had provided data to the NSA. The new lawsuit
from the Justice Department argues that complying with those subpoenas
would reveal information that would ultimately threaten national security.
The suit claims that Farber does not have the authority to request such
information.
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Nokia and Siemens are merging to create a combined
cell phone and Internet provider system with great
horizontal and vertical integration.

They say the number of cell phones will be

FOUR BILLION

in 2010

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cell phone eBooks more and more available.

The number of computers in 2010 may not even make
it to two billion.



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



*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK




*QUOTES OF THE WEEK

Ben Bradlee, Editor of the Washington Post during the huge
events surrounding the Watergate burglary by a White House
created "Plumbers Unit" to "stop leaks," said in interview
conversations with Jim Lehrer of The PBS News Hour, that a
story he withheld at the request of very high officials in
Washington about the US wiretaps of Russian communications
via an undersea cable, then appeared on NBC while he could
have allowed Bob Woodward, who also broke Watergate, to do
the story in The Washington Post.  President Reagan called
Katherine Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post and
personally convinced her not to run the story.

Ben Bradlee said reporting truth was the highest standard,
except when lives were at stake, or national security.

However, he added that most of the time when someone would
claim national security, it was really their own security.

The Russians had had the Ivy Bells listening device on KGB
museum display for years, so there is some questions as to
how much national security was involved, but Reagan said a
number of terrorist incidents had been foiled in just that
year due to information from Ivy Bells, and that the story
might make the Russians think again about the subject.

In addition Bradlee said, "Don't be a member of anything,"
country clubs, press clubs, etc., you must be independent.

Source:  PBS, 6/19
Codename: Operation Ivy Bells
Search:  "Ivy Bells" Moscow
See:  Veils, The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987,
by Bob Woodward

*

CIA Director John McLaughlin said that as soon as the 2nd
plane hit The World Trade Center everyone knew it was Bin
Laden carrying out his threats.

Frontline, PBS 6/20



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likely reach a total of 80,000 eBooks by July 4.

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*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK

Once a minute in the U.S. an ambulance is turned away from
a hospital because of overcrowding and "many hospitals have
shut down emergency rooms to save money."

NBC News, CBS News 06/14  ABC News 06/16

*

51% of colleges students have visited MySpace, 78% for Facebook.

Inside Higher Ed, 16 June 2006
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/06/16/internet

*

Noticed an Increase in Radio and Television Commercials?


There are now segments on the radio that contain more commercial
time than programming time. . .on a regular basis.

However, I noted when logging one of these today, that they seem
to have gotten some message about just how much they can include
as the commercials roughly equalled the substantive material.

When I first started monitoring this it appeared as if sometimes
the advertising was literally 5 times as long as the "program."

Interestingly enough, these are likely driving listeners to just
channel surf more and more, as radios and televisions become the
frontlines of a new kind of "economic warfare" in which the ads,
such as they are, are being force fed through alimentaries of an
ever more angry listening and viewing audience.

The trouble is that these advertisers are losing their audience,
their prime audience, those who can afford to buy all the stuff,
both to non-commercial subscription services and Tivo, etc., who
lets them skip the commercials altogether.

By the way, in case you didn't know, legislation has been put in
committees to FORCE the commercials to be included in programs--
which will lead to even more channel surfing.

As long a people have an alternative, and commercials are not an
entertaining format, people will find ways to ignore them.

Some Madison Avenue types are making millions by making ads that
you can't really tell are ads, or that contain music you want to
hear and so keep the channel where it is. . . .

See previous story about "Product Integration."

*

One of the longest running TV shows in the world will end July
30, 2006.  "Top of the Pops" debuted 1964; The Rolling Stones,
and The Beatles started and ended that first show.

Today the show is syndicated to over 100 nations, all over the
world, but the BBC says it is time to hand over the reins to a
new music media generation that gets its music from iPods, the
Internet, and other sources.

Today the show brings in just barely a million BBC viewers but
there was no count for the 100+ other countries, to compare to
the 19 million viewers at its highest ratings.

Source: The Guardian Unlimited

*

In local news, one of the U of Illinois home towns will double
it's property taxes to provide for the poor, and will match up
now with the property taxes of the other home town.  Champaign
and Urbana are the UI home towns.

The trouble with property taxes is that then then you rent the
property they pretend you own.  I paid more in property taxes,
this year, than I ever paid in rent any year of my life.

*

By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.

Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world.  In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]

"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

by Simona Sumanaru


Joyride

You make me be a child
with colored toys of playfulness and youth
and pinkish cheeks of passion and laughter
running down the streets bare feet
white dress fluttering as I go
carefree, hopeful, unaware
bumping into these little old ladies
going to church on early Sundays
apologizing with a song
and riding aback the morning breeze
rushing to meet Spring

and as I listen to the blooming trees
I learn that I was born to be riding
on the swirl of love.


(C) 2006 Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart


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    79   Weekly Average in 2003
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Mon Year Title and Author                                  [filename.ext] ###
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Old Christmas, by Washington Irving                                       1850
Aug 1999 The Yellow Crayon, by E. Phillips Oppenheim[EPO#5][ycrynxxx.xxx] 1849
Montezuma's Daughter, by H. Rider Haggard                                 1848
Aug 1999 Songs, Merry and Sad, by John Charles McNeill     [sngmsxxx.xxx] 1847

Aug 1999 The Vision Splendid, by William MacLeod Raine [#3][vspldxxx.xxx] 1846
Aug 1999 Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm  [Max Beerbohm #5][zdbsnxxx.xxx] 1845
Aug 1999 The Scholemaster, by Roger Ascham  [In Markup]    [smstrxxx.xxx] 1844
[AKA:  The Schoolmaster, by Roger Ascham]
Aug 1999 Vera, The Medium, by Richard Harding Davis[RHD#29][veramxxx.xxx] 1843

Aug 1999 Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne [Jules Verne #10][strgfxxx.xxx] 1842
Z. Marcas, by Honore de Balzac                                            1841
   [Tr.: Clara Bell and others]
The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser                                        1840
Aug 1999 Other Things Being Equal, by Emma Wolf            [otbeqxxx.xxx] 1839

Jul 1999 A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Lawson          [nvycrxxx.xxx] 1838
The Prince and The Pauper, Complete, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)       1837
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Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.


At 19,994 eBooks in 34 Years and 11.50 Months We Averaged
       572 Per Year
        48 Per Month
         1.57 Per Day

At 1846 eBooks Done In The 168 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
    11.0 Per Day
      77 per Week
     334 Per Month


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Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
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districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].

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              710 Australian eBooks   [+42] [Included in above line]
              318 Gutenberg Europe     [+0] [Including after July 4]
              368 PG   PrePrint Site [  +0] [Included in above total]
              109 Total New Books This Week
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      ***572 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971***

             16,832 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001

           That's ~262 eBooks per Month for ~64.50 Months

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             We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005
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          We Are Averaging ~336 eBooks Per Month This Year
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***Progress Report, including Distributed Proofreaders


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It took us from Jul 1971 to Aug 1999 to produce our first 1,852 eBooks!

            That's 24 WEEKS as Compared to ~28 Years!!!

                 109   New eBooks This Week
                 271   New eBooks Last Week
                 380   New eBooks This Month [Jun]

                 336   Average Per Month in 2006
                 266   Average Per Month in 2005 Counting 216 PGEu
                 248   Average Per Month in 2005 Not Counting PGEu
                 336   Average Per Month in 2004
                 355   Average Per Month in 2003
                 203   Average Per Month in 2002
                 103   Average Per Month in 2001

                1852   New eBooks in 2006
                3186   New eBooks in 2005  Counting 216 PGeu
             >  2970   New eBooks in 2005  Not Counting PGEu
                4049   New eBooks in 2004
                4164   New eBooks in 2003
                2441   New eBooks in 2002
                1240   New eBooks in 2001
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              16,932   New eBooks Since Start Of 2001
                       That's Only 65.50 Months!
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              20,000  Total Project Gutenberg eBooks  [Auto-count]
              16,518   eBooks This Week Last Year
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               3,482   New eBooks In Last 12 Months
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                 710   eBooks From Project Gutenberg of Australia
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                 318   eBooks From Project Gutenberg of Europe

               1,228   Total from PG Australia and PG Europe
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                 368   Items in Project Gutenberg PrePrints

             ~75,000+  Project Gutenberg Consortia Center
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Black Mask Collection,             12,000 HTML eBook Files
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eBooks at Adelaide Collection,        27,709 eBook Files
Himalayan Academy,                  3,400 HTML eBook Files
Internet Archive                  ~30,000 eBook Files [In Progress]  <<<
Literal Systems Collection,            68 MP3 eBook Files
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Project Gutenberg Collection,      15,035 eBook Files
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Renascence Editions Collection,      561 HTML eBook Files
Swami Center Collection,               78 HTML eBook Files
Tony Kline Collection,                223 HTML eBook Files
Widger Library,                     2,600 HTML eBook Files
CIA's Electronic Reading Room,      2,019 Reference Files
=======Grand Total Files=========~137,142 Total Files=====

Average Size of the Collections     8,067.18 Total Files


These eBooks are catalogued as per the instructions of
their donors:  some are one file per book; some have a
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If we presume 2 out of 3 of these files are overcounts,
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                                  ~45,714 Unique eBooks

If we presume 3 out of 4 of these files are overcounts,
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You can try a new IPL service at:

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    77   Weekly Average in 2006
    61   Weekly Average in 2005  [Counting 216 PGEu]
    57   Weekly Average in 2005  [Not Counting PGEu]
    78   Weekly Average in 2004
    79   Weekly Average in 2003
    47   Weekly Average in 2002
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The Forsyte Saga, Complete, by John Galsworthy                            4397
   [Contents:]
   [Part 1. The Man of Property]
   [Part 2. Indian Summer of a Forsyte]
   [In Chancery]
   [Part 3. Awakening]
   [To Let]
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The Burning Spear, by John Galsworthy                                     2905
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The Patrician, by John Galsworthy                                         2774
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Fraternity, by John Galsworthy                                            2773
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The Country House, by John Galsworthy                                     2772
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The Island Pharisees, by John Galsworthy                                  2771
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Five Tales, by John Galsworthy                                            2684
   [Contents:]
   [The First And Last The First And Last]
   [A Stoic A Stoic]
   [The Apple Tree The Apple Tree]
   [The Juryman The Juryman]
   [Indian Summer Of A Forsyte]
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Saint's Progress, by John Galsworthy                                      2683
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Villa Rubein and Other Stories, by John Galsworthy                        2639
   [Contents:]
   [Villa Rubein]
   [A Man of Devon]
   [A Knight]
   [Salvation of a Forsyte]
   [The Silence]
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The Forsyte Saga, Volume III., by John Galsworthy                         2596
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The Forsyte Saga, Volume II., by John Galsworthy                          2594
   [Subtitle: Indian Summer of a Forsyte and In Chancery]
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The Forsyte Saga, Volume I., by John Galsworthy                           2559
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The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5), by John Marshall           18593
   [Subtitle: Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War]
   [which Established the Independence of his Country and First]
   [President of the United States]
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Phineas Redux, by Anthony Trollope                                       18640
   [This is the fourth book of Trollope's six "Palliser" or "political"]
   [novels and the most important of his works hitherto missing from the PG]
   [library.]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18640 ]
   [Files: 18640.txt; 18640-8.txt; 18640-h.htm; ]

The Victorian Age in Literature, by G. K. Chesterton                     18639
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18639 ]
   [Files: 18639.txt; 18639-8.txt; 18639-0.txt; 18639-h.htm]

Ideal Commonwealths, by Various                                          18638
   [Editor: Henry Morley]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18638 ]
   [Files: 18638.txt; 18638-8.txt; 18638-0.txt; 18638-h.htm]

Constitution of the U.S.: Analysis and Interpretation, ed. by E. Corwin  18637
   [Title: The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and
    Interpretation]
   [Editor: Edward Corwin]
   [Subtitle: Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the]
   [United States to June 30, 1952]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18637 ]
   [Files: 18637.txt; 18637-8.txt; 18637-h.htm; ]

The Story of Newfoundland, by Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead  18636
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18636 ]
   [Files: 18636.txt; 18636-8.txt; 18636-h.htm; ]

The Treaty Held with the Indians, by Various                             18635
   [Title: The Treaty Held with the Indians of the Six Nations at]
   [Philadelphia, in July 1742]
   [Subtitle: To which is Prefix'd an Account of the first Confederacy]
   [of the Six Nations, their present Tributaries, Dependents,]
   [and Allies]
   [Editor: Sir George Thomas]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18635 ]
   [Files: 18635.txt; 18635-8.txt; 18635-h.htm]

First Impressions of the New World, by Isabella Strange Trotter          18634
   [Subtitle: On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18634 ]
   [Files: 18634.txt; 18634-8.txt; 18634-h.htm]

My Lady of Doubt, by Randall Parrish                                     18633
   [Illustrator: Alonzo Kimball]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18633 ]
   [Files: 18633.txt; 18633-8.txt; 18633-h.htm]

Crossroads of Destiny, by Henry Beam Piper                               18632
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18632 ]
   [Files: 18632.txt; 18632-8.txt; 18632-h.htm]

The Lady of Fort St. John, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood                   18631
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18631 ]
   [Files: 18631.txt; 18631-8.txt; 18631-h.htm; ]

The Tale of Frisky Squirrel, by Arthur Scott Bailey                      18630
   [Ill.: Eleanore Fagan]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/3/18630 ]
   [Files: 18630.txt; 18630-h.htm; ]

Nature Near London, by Richard Jefferies                                 18629
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18629 ]
   [Files: 18629.txt; 18629-8.txt; 18629-h.htm]

Oracao funebre, by Antonio Vasconcellos                                  18628
   [Full title: Oracao funebre recitada nas exequias do Illm.^o e Exm.^o]
   [Sr. Pedro Alexandrino da Cunha]
   [Language: Portuguese]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18628 ]
   [Files: 18628-8.txt]

Notre-Dame-d'Amour, by Jean Aicard                                       18627
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18627 ]
   [Files: 18627-8.txt; 18627-h.htm]

The Tale of Major Monkey, by Arthur Scott Bailey                         18626
   [Illustrator: Lawrence Brehm]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18626 ]
   [Files: 18626.txt; 18626-h.htm]

Contemporary American Literature, John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert  18625
   [Subtitle: Bibliographies and Study Outlines]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18625 ]
   [Files: 18625.txt; 18625-8.txt; 18625-h.htm]

Rouva Katariina Boije ja hanen tyttarensa, by Frederika Runeberg         18624
   [Subtitle: Kertomus ison vihan ajoilta]
   [Translator: Arvo Lempiranta]
   [Language: Finnish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18624 ]
   [Files: 18624-8.txt]

Le saucisson a pattes I, by Eugene Chavette                              18623
   [Subtitle: Fil-a-beurre]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18623 ]
   [Files: 18623-8.txt; 18623-h.htm]

Captain Sam, by George Cary Eggleston                                    18622
   [Subtitle: The Boy Scouts of 1814]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18622 ]
   [Files: 18622.txt; 18622-8.txt; 18622-h.htm; ]

The Story of Cooperstown, by Ralph Birdsall                              18621
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18621 ]
   [Files: 18621.txt; 18621-8.txt; 18621-h.htm]

Phantasten, by Erich von Mendelssohn                                     18620
   [Language: German]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/2/18620 ]
   [Files: 18620-8.txt; 18620-0.txt; 18620-h.htm]

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II., by Various                     18619
   [Subtitle: The Songs of Scotland of the past half century]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18619 ]
   [Files: 18619.txt; 18619-8.txt; 18619-0.txt; 18619-h.htm]

Stories of Later American History, by Wilbur F. Gordy                    18618
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18618 ]
   [Files: 18618.txt; 18618-8.txt; 18618-h.htm; ]

On The Blockade, by Oliver Optic                                         18617
   [Subtitle: SERIES: The Blue and the Gray Afloat]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18617 ]
   [Files: 18617.txt; 18617-8.txt; 18617-h.htm]

Moral Principles and Medical Practice, by Charles Coppens                18616
   [Subtitle: The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18616 ]
   [Files: 18616.txt; 18616-8.txt; 18616-0.txt; 18616-h.htm]

Hugh, by Arthur Christopher Benson                                       18615
   [Subtitle: Memoirs of a Brother]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18615 ]
   [Files: 18615.txt; 18615-8.txt; 18615-h.htm; ]

At the Back of the North Wind, by Elizabeth Lewis and George MacDonald   18614
   [Ill.: Maria L. Kirk]
   [This is clearly from a different edition than that used to prepare]
   [e-book #225 (etext95/nwind10.txt).]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18614 ]
   [Files: 18614.txt; 18614-8.txt; 18614-h.htm; ]

The Golden Scorpion, by Sax Rohmer                                       18613
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18613 ]
   [Files: 18613.txt; ]

>From the Housetops, by George Barr McCutcheon                            18612
   [Illustrator: F. Graham Cootes]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18612 ]
   [Files: 18612.txt; 18612-8.txt; 18612-0.txt; 18612-h.htm]

Les vrais sous-offs, by Georges Darien and Edouard Dubus                 18611
   [Subtitle: Reponse a M. Descaves]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18611 ]
   [Files: 18611-8.txt; 18611-h.htm]

Eloge du sein des femmes, by Claude-Francois-Xavier Mercier de Compiegne 18610
   [Subtitle: Ouvrage curieux]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/1/18610 ]
   [Files: 18610-8.txt; 18610-h.htm]

Hark!  The Herald Angels Sing, by Felix Mendelssohn                      18609
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18609 ]
   [Files: 18609.txt; 18609-mus.mus; 18609-pdf.pdf ]

Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, by Lewis Redner                             18608
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18608 ]
   [Files: 18608.txt; 18608-p.pdf 10608-mus.mus ]

The Manobos of Mindanao, by John M. Garvan                               18607
   [Subtitle: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII,
    First Memoir]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18607 ]
   [Files: 18607-8.txt; 18607-h.htm; ]

The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods, by Hildegard G. Frey             18606
   [Subtitle: Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18606 ]
   [Files: 18606.txt; ]

A Pair of Patient Lovers, by William Dean Howells                        18605
   [Contents: A Pair of Patient Lovers]]
   [          The Pursuit of the Piano]
   [          A Difficult Case]
   [          The Magic of a Voice]
   [          A Circle in the Water]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18605 ]
   [Files: 18605.txt; 18605-8.txt; 18605-h.htm; ]

The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales, by Hans Christian Anderson              18604
   [Translator: Fanny Fuller]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18604 ]
   [Files: 18604.txt; 18604-8.txt; 18604-h.htm]

What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, by William Graham Sumner          18603
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18603 ]
   [Files: 18603.txt; 18603-8.txt; 18603-h.htm]

The Fourth R, by George Oliver Smith                                     18602
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18602 ]
   [Files: 18602.txt; 18602-8.txt; 18602-h.htm]

Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, by Joshua Coffin   18601
   [Subtitle: and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the
    United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18601 ]
   [Files: 18601.txt]

Mi Ultimo Adios, by Jose Rizal                                           18600
   [Language: Spanish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/0/18600 ]
   [Files: 18600-8.txt; 18600-h.htm]

Bully and Bawly No-Tail, by Howard R. Garis                              18599
   [Illustrator: Louis Wisa]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/9/18599 ]
   [Files: 18599.txt; 18599-8.txt; 18599-0.txt; 18599-h.htm]

Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6), by Various                     18598
   [Editor: Asa Don Dickinson]
   [Subtitle: Authors and Journalists]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/9/18598 ]
   [Files: 18598.txt; 18598-8.txt; 18598-h.htm; ]

Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6), by Various                    18597
   [Editor: Asa Don Dickinson]
   [Subtitle: Orators and Reformers]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/9/18597 ]
   [Files: 18597.txt; 18597-8.txt; 18597-h.htm; ]

Ride A Cock-Horse and A Farmer Went Trotting, by Anonymous               18596
   [Title: Ride A Cock-Horse To Banbury Cross & A Farmer Went Trotting
    Upon His Grey Mare]
   [Subtitle: R. Caldecott's Picture Books]
   [Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/9/18596 ]
   [Files: 18596.txt; 18596-h.htm]

The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 (of 5), by John Marshall           18595
   [Subtitle: Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War]
   [which Established the Independence of his Country and First]
   [President of the United States]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/9/18595 ]
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Massachusetts Homeopathic  Medical Society, by Various                   18589
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George Borrow, by Edward Thomas                                          18588
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La San-Felice, Tome IV, by Alexandre Dumas                               18586
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Les Nez-Perces, by Emile Chevalier                                       18585
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The Edge of the Knife, by Henry Beam Piper                               18584
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Brancas; Les amours de Quaterquem, by Alfred Assollant                   18583
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Adrift in New York, by Horatio Alger                                     18581
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Los favores del mundo, by Juan Ruiz de Alarcon                           18580
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CANADIAN PROJECT AIMS TO COORDINATE DISPARATE EFFORTS
A new initiative called AlouetteCanada is designed to bring together
disparate digitization efforts from around Canada into a single online
location. Many universities and museums in the country maintain
small-scale digitization efforts of material relevant to the history
and culture of Canada. Much of this content is inaccessible to most
people, however, according to Carole Moore, chief librarian of the
University of Toronto, one of the universities participating in
AlouetteCanada. The University of Alberta and the University of
Brunswick are also part of the project, and Moore said hundreds of
other organizations could conceivably contribute material. Ernie
Ingles, chief librarian at the University of Alberta, said
AlouetteCanada is, in some ways, the antithesis of Google's
book-scanning project. Although Google is making content available
publicly, he said, "it is making that content available in a commercial
way." Ingles questioned whether Google would be around forever to make
that content available.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 June 2006 (sub. req'd)
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RESEARCHERS CLAIM FASTEST SILICON CHIP
A team of academic and industry researchers has demonstrated a speed
of 500 gigahertz for a silicon-based computer chip they developed.
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Korea University in South Korea, and IBM. To reach 500 gigahertz, which
is about 250 times faster than many chips used today, the researchers
conducted the test in an environment 451 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit);
at room temperature, the chip reportedly still reaches speeds of around
350 gigahertz. Technology consultant Dan Olds said the announcement
indicates that "we're not coming anywhere near the end in what
processors are capable of." IBM's Bernard Meyerson said the chips,
which might be available in consumer devices within two years,
could lead to significant leaps in the capabilities of computing devices.
New York Times, 20 June 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/technology/20chip.html

ETHICAL HACKING PROGRAM TO REQUIRE BACKGROUND CHECK
Students who want to take part in an ethical hacking program at the
University of Abertay in Scotland will be required to pass a background
check to weed out those who might apply the skills learned in the
program to malicious ends. University officials will work with the Home
Office and a Scottish disclosure service to screen applicants, looking
for anyone with a criminal background. The program, called Ethical
Hacking and Countermeasures, is a four-year degree intended to teach
hacking skills to students who will then work with businesses to
prevent hackers from doing damage to computer systems and data.
It is the first program of its kind in the United Kingdom.
Responding to concerns that the program will simply create more hackers,
Lachlan McKinnon, a professor in the program, said the university will
do all it can to ensure students use their skills in a positive manner.
He added, however, that there are no guarantees. "Harold Shipman
qualified as a doctor, after all," he said, "before deciding
to become a murderer."
The Register, 19 June 2006
http://www.theregister.com/2006/06/19/hackers_background/

GOOGLE DEBUTS SHAKESPEARE SITE
Google has launched a new Web site specifically for the works of
William Shakespeare and related resources. At the site, users have
access to the full texts of Shakespeare's 37 plays and can search
those texts for words or phrases. The site also has links to academic
resources concerning the plays, online groups that focus on
Shakespeare, and videos of stage productions of Shakespeare's plays.
The site also points users toward Google Earth, which coordinates maps
of the globe with Internet searching. With Google Earth, users can
locate the Globe Theatre in London and find other resources with
information about the site. The site was introduced as part of
Google's sponsoring of New York's "Shakespeare in the Park."
USA Today, 14 June 2006
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-06-14-shakespeare-google_x.htm

WIKIPEDIA ADJUSTS EDITING POLICY
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia based on the model that anyone can
contribute to or edit any entry, has placed new restrictions on
editing. Certain entries in any reference work are bound to be
contentious, and with Wikipedia, disagreements can escalate to a
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Semi-protected entries can only be changed by someone who has been a
registered user for more than four days, the idea being that such a
"cooling off" period will avoid most of the problems resulting from
disagreements. Despite the steps Wikipedia has taken away from the
ideal of "anyone can edit," founder Jimmy Wales says the resource works
and is valuable. Most entries are only protected for a short period of
time, he said, and they represent a fraction of the 1.2 million entries
in the English-language version.
New York Times, 17 June 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/technology/17wiki.html

DOE CONTRACTS FOR PETAFLOP SUPERCOMPUTER
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has ordered the first petaflop
supercomputing system and an upgrade of its Blue Gene system from Cray.
DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced the $200 million
arrangement last week, with plans for completion of the new
supercomputer in 2008. The new system reportedly will attain 1,000
trillion floating-point operations per second (teraflops), or one
petaflop. Oak Ridge scientists plan to use the system to tackle
problems in energy, biology, and nanotechnology. The lab also expects
to offer computing time to other researchers through a program that
grants supercomputer access to academic and corporate institutions.
Federal Computer Week, 26 June 2006
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*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK


"We follow the law."

This reply was repeatedly thrown in the face of Senator Arlen Specter
in recent hearings, to determine the scope of the release of national
telephone users' information to the intelligence communities, by AT&T
CEO Edward Whitacre, as he time and again refused to answer questions
directing him to inform the Senate whether AT&T had or had not sent a
plethora of information for intelligence gathering operations.

In the wake of the revelations by The New York Times that such a data
mining opportunity was being given to the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc., many a
Senator and Congressperson has raised the same question.

Harsh criticism of The New York Times ensued, even though they sat on
the story for a year before publishing it, and only published it when
it became obvious it was going to be published elsewhere.

[Note that The Washington Post got scooped on the "Ivy Bells" story--
mentioned in last week's Newsletter, when President Reagan convinced,
in a personal phone call to their publisher, them not to run it for a
few days, but then someone leaked it to NBC.  Whether this was in the
way of retaliation for The Washington Post forcing President Nixon to
resign over The Watergate Affairs no one is actually saying aloud.]

Here are the direct quotations from the current hearings:

Specter: Does AT&T provide customer information to any law enforcement agency?

Whitacre: We follow the law, senator.

Specter: That is not an answer Mr. Whitacre, you know that.

Whitacre: That's all I'm gonnna say, is we follow the law.  It is an answer.
I'm telling you we don't violate the law, we follow the law.

Specter: Now, that's a legal conclusion, Mr. Whitacre.  You may be
right or you may be wrong, but I'm asking you for a factual matter --
does your company provide information to the federal government or any
law enforcement agency, information about customers?

Whitacre: If it's legal and we're requested to do so, of course we do.

Specter: Have you?

Whitacre: All I'm going to say is we follow the law.

Specter: That's not an answer, it's not an answer, it's an evasion.

Whitacre: It's an answer.

Specter: If you're under instructions by the federal government...

Whitacre: We follow the law, senator.

Specter: You've said that. I don't care to hear it again.

Whitacre: I don't care to repeat it again, but we do.

Specter: Well then, don't. If you're under instructions by the federal
government as a matter of state secrecy not to talk, say so.

Whitacre: Senator, we follow the law.

Specter: Well, I think that answer is contemptuous of this committee.


Specter finally forced Whitacre to admit that any response by him
would violate what he had been instructed was "classified information."

Source:  ABC


MORE DOUBLESPEAK

The Senate refused to repeal 100% of the estate tax that had been
vilified as "The Death Tax," by embattled White House guru Karl Rove,
but in the end it will cost the real taxpayers just as much, as the
deal is being engineered by repealing what may be all timber company
taxes to win over Senate votes from timber rich Washington State.

All in all The Estate Tax is being repealed for all but the richest
1% or less in the country, and it should be mentioned that that 1%
owns half of everything that can be owned in the United States.

Source:  The Washington Post

[I wonder how rest of the country would react to all this if that 1%
actually lived on their blocks, and owned half the land, half the cars,
half the stocks, bonds, cash, boats, etc. while the next 2% owned half
of what was left, and the next 4% owned half of that, etc. . .leaving
only a few percent to be earned by 90% of the block's residents???]


*QUOTES OF THE WEEK

"We follow the law."


*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK

It will eventually be determined that there has been an overall
pattern of divulging the personal information of U.S. citizens.


*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK

72% of troops in Iraq say we should get out by the end of 2006.

21% say out now.

Source:  Zogby, and various sources that quoted the polls also
done by Le  Moyne  College.

[As a result, only 6 Senators voted to end the war by year end
this week]


Americans Lose Touch, Report Fewer Close Friends

In the last 20 years the number of close friends reported
by Americans has dropped from about 3 to 2.

In 1985 2.94 friends a person could discuss the important
issues of their lives with were reported.

In 2004 that had dropped to 2.08, a drop of .043 per year
for those 20 years which would be down to about 2 friends
by now, in mid-2006.

Not only do Americans have fewer persons they can discuss
important matters with, but those they do have are family
rather than the traditional friends we tend to think of.

"This change indicates something that's not good for our society,"
said Lynn Smith-Lovin, Professor of Sociology at Duke University.

The study appears in the June American Sociological Review.

[This supports the growing realization that millions of people in
the United States know Oprah Winfrey better than their neighbors]

Source:  LiveScience.com

[Perhaps this is why MySpace has 87 million subscribers!]

*

The Big 10 Opens Its Own Television Channel

In an effort to bring in more money from collegiate sport events
The Big 10 has opted to create its very own source of income for
their sporting events for the next 20 years, and should reap the
amount of an extra $7.5 million per year as a result.

The only trouble is that right now you will have to subscribe to
DirecTV to get it.

For at least the first 10 years of this, there should be some of
the normal television coverage of the past, as The Big 10 is now
also reported to have inked lucrative deals with Disney's sports
coverage, from their ESPN and ABC television subsidiaries.

Viewers will have to subcribe to The Big 10 Channel [BTC] via an
opt-in selection to DirecTV's Total Choice package, available to
just over 15 million households.

This isn't the first collegiate sports collective to do this and
it certainly won't be the last.  Believe it or not, The Big 10's
action on this was taken from some little known Western Mountain
college conference.

[Just one more step on the way to "pay per everything."  Whether
you pay per month, week, day, or per event, it's still pay per.]

DirecTV's Total Choice package costs $41.99 per month.

Source:  TV Week, Various Big 10 press releases.
and www.usdirect.com/programming/total_choice.php

*

The "Tahiti" oil well is going down further beneath sea level than
Mt. Everest goes above sea level.

*

By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.

Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world.  In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]

"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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Nov 1999 A Defence of Poesie and Poems, by Philip Sidney   [dfncpxxx.xxx] 1962
Nov 1999 Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang[Andrew Lang #16][bkbkmxxx.xxx] 1961
Nov 1999 Sight Unseen, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[Rinehart10][stnsnxxx.xxx] 1960
Nov 1999 The Crown of Thorns, by E. H. Chapin              [thrnsxxx.xxx] 1959

Nov 1999 Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[handdxxx.xxx] 1958
Beatrix, by Honore de Balzac  [Tr.: Katharine Prescott Wormeley]          1957
Nov 1999 And Even Now, by Max Beerbohm    [Max Beerbohm #7][evnowxxx.xxx] 1956
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Colonel Chabert, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Ellen Marriage & Clara Bell]   1954
Nov 1999 The Diary of an Old Soul, by George MacDonald [#6][doaosxxx.xxx] 1953
Nov 1999 The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman2[ylwlpxxx.xxx] 1952

The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer Lytton                                  1951
A Woman of Thirty, by Honore de Balzac                                    1950

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Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet?

If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of
6,525,015,623 that would be 20,102 x 65,250,156 = ~1.31 Trillion !!!

With 20,102 eBooks online as of June 28, 2006 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.76 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,250,156 x 20,102 x $.76 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
[By the way, the US "popclock" is about to turn to 300 million people.]
[Just turned 299 million last week!]

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A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.50 Value Per Book To 100 Million

With 20,102 eBooks online as of June 28, 2006 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.50 from each book.
This "cost" is down from about $.60 when we had 16,559 eBooks a year ago.

Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.


At 20,102 eBooks in 34 Years and 11.75 Months We Averaged
       575 Per Year
        48 Per Month
         1.57 Per Day

At 1954 eBooks Done In The 175 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
    11.2 Per Day
      78 per Week
     340 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.

However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a
300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M,
just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so
it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M.

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].

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, by Maisie Ward                                 18707
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18707 ]
   [Files: 18707.txt; 18707-8.txt; ]

Runoja, by Valter Juva                                                   18706
   [Subtitle: Uusi sarja]
   [Language: Finnish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18706 ]
   [Files: 18706-8.txt]

The Poor Plutocrats, by Maurus Jokai                                     18705
   [Translator: R. Nisbet Bain]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18705 ]
   [Files: 18705.txt; 18705-8.txt; 18705-h.htm]

Pikku ihmisia, by Teuvo Pakkala                                          18704
   [Language: Finnish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18704 ]
   [Files: 18704-8.txt]

Illustrated Catalogue ... Indians of New Mexico ..., by James Stevenson  18703
   [Title: Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the
    Indians of New Mexico in 1880]
   [Subtitle: Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
    Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing
    Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18703 ]

The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various                             18702
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18702 ]
   [Files: 18702.txt; 18702-8.txt; 18702-h.htm; ]

Choice Readings for the Home Circle, by Anonymous                        18701
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18701 ]
   [Files: 18701.txt; 18701-h.htm; ]

The Mayor of Warwick, by Herbert M. Hopkins                              18700
   [Author AKA: Herbert Miller Hopkins (1870-1910)]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18700 ]
   [Files: 18700.txt; 18700-8.txt; 18700-h.htm; ]

The Moving Picture Girls at Sea, by Laura Lee Hope                       18699
   [Subtitle: or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18699 ]
   [Files: 18699.txt; 18699-8.txt; 18699-h.htm; ]

The Recitation, by George Herbert Betts                                  18698
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18698 ]
   [Files: 18698.txt; 18698-8.txt; 18698-h.htm; ]

Le capitaine Pamphile, by Alexandre Dumas                                18697
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18697 ]
   [Files: 18697-8.txt; 18697-h.htm]

The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities, by Henry M. Brooks  18696
   [Subtitle: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem,
    Massachusetts]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18696 ]
   [Files: 18696.txt; 18696-8.txt; 18696-h.htm]

Memoires Tome 8, by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot                     18695
   [Full title: Memoires pour servir . l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 8)]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18695 ]
   [Files: 18695-8.txt]

Avojalka, by Berthold Auerbach                                           18694
   [Translator: Samuli Suomalainen]
   [Language: Finnish]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18694 ]
   [Files: 18694-8.txt]

Nounou, by Roger Dombre                                                  18693
   [Subtitle: Histoire de la Moucheronne]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18693 ]
   [Files: 18693-8.txt; ]

Une Pupille Genante, by Roger Dombre                                     18692
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18692 ]
   [Files: 18692-8.txt; ]

Queechy, Volume II, by Elizabeth Wetherell                               18691
   [Author AKA: Susan Bogert Warner]
   [See also Project Gutenberg eBook #8874.]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18691 ]
   [Files: 18691-8.txt; ]

Queechy, Volume I, by Elizabeth Wetherell                                18690
   [Author AKA: Susan Bogert Warner]
   (See also #8874, a later edition)
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18690 ]
   [Files: 18690-8.txt; ]

The Wide, Wide World, by Elizabeth Wetherell                             18689
   [Author AKA: Susan Bogert Warner]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18689 ]
   [Files: 18689-8.txt; ]

Daisy in the Field, by Elizabeth Wetherell                               18688
   [Author AKA: Susan Bogert Warner]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18688 ]
   [Files: 18688-8.txt; ]

Daisy, by Elizabeth Wetherell                                            18687
   [Author AKA: Susan Bogert Warner]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18687 ]
   [Files: 18687-8.txt; ]

Melbourne House, by Elizabeth Wetherell                                  18686
   [Author AKA: Susan Bogert Warner]
   (Note: 1904 edition; see also #12962 & #12963, 1864 edition)
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18686 ]
   [Files: 18686-8.txt; ]

Lectures on Modern history, by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton   18685
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18685 ]
   [Files: 18685.txt; ]

A Certain Rich Man, by William Allen White                               18684
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18684 ]
   [Files: 18684.txt; 18684-8.txt; 18684-h.htm; ]

Ralph Granger's Fortunes, by William Perry Brown                         18683
   [Illus.: W. H. Fry]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18683 ]
   [Files: 18683.txt; 18683-h.htm; ]

A Declaration of the Causes..., by Anonymous                             18682
   [Title: A Declaration of the Causes, which mooved the chiefe Commanders
    of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in
    their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the
    mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone, certaine Shippes of corne and other
    prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie]
   [Subtitle: Prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine, in the Ports
    and Prouinces within and about the Sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in the
    yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the one and thirtie]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18682 ]
   [Files: 18682.txt; 18682-h.htm; ]

Across the Fruited Plain, by Florence Crannell Means                     18681
   [Illus.: Janet Smalley]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18681 ]
   [Files: 18681.txt; 18681-h.htm; ]

Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest, by Edward Tyson Allen       18680
   [Subtitle: Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the
    Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline
    of Technical Methods]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18680 ]
   [Files: 18680.txt; 18680-8.txt; 18680-h.htm; ]

Historical Mysteries, by Andrew Lang                                     18679
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18679 ]
   [Files: 18679.txt; 18679-8.txt; 18679-h.htm]

A Victorious Union, by Oliver Optic                                      18678
   [Subtitle: SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18678 ]
   [Files: 18678.txt; 18678-8.txt; 18678-h.htm]

The Ghost of Jerry Bundler, by W. W. Jacobs and Charles Rock             18677
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18677 ]
   [Files: 18677.txt; 18677-h.htm; ]

Our Navy in the War, by Lawrence Perry                                   18676
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18676 ]
   [Files: 18676.txt; 18676-8.txt; 18676-h.htm; ]

Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again    18675
   [Author: Joseph Barker]
   [Subtitle: A Life Story]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18675 ]
   [Files: 18675.txt; 18675-8.txt; 18675-h.htm; ]

A Chinese Wonder Book, by Norman Hinsdale Pitman                         18674
   [Illustrator: Li Chu-T'ang]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18674 ]
   [Files: 18674.txt; 18674-h.htm]

Astrophel and Other Poems, by Algernon Charles Swinburne                 18673
   [Subtitle: Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles
    Swinburne, Vol. VI]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18673 ]
   [Files: 18673.txt; 18673-8.txt; 18673-h.htm]

Poignet-d'acier, by Emile Chevalier                                      18672
   [Subtitle: Ou Les Chippiouais]
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18672 ]
   [Files: 18672-8.txt]

Never-Fail Blake, by Arthur Stringer                                     18671
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18671 ]
   [Files: 18671.txt; 18671-8.txt; 18671-h.htm; ]

Bruges and West Flanders, by George W. T. Omond                          18670
   [Illus.: Am?d?e Forestier]
   [This book has extraordinary illustrations!]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18670 ]
   [Files: 18670.txt; 18670-8.txt; 18670-h.htm; ]

Histore de la Republique de Genes, by Emile Vincens                      18669
   [Language: French]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18669 ]
   [Files: 18669-8.txt; 18669-r.rtf]

In Search of the Unknown, by Robert W. Chambers                          18668
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18668 ]
   [Files: 18668.txt; 18668-8.txt; 18668-h.htm]

Doctor Rabbit and Brushtail the Fox, by Thomas Clark Hinkle              18667
   [Illustrator: Milo Winter]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18667 ]
   [Files: 18667.txt; 18667-h.htm]

Polly, by L. T. Meade                                                    18666
   [Subtitle: A New-Fashioned Girl]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18666 ]
   [Files: 18666.txt; 18666-8.txt; 18666-h.htm]

Molly Make-Believe, by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott                          18665
   [Illustrator: Walter Tittle]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18665 ]
   [Files: 18665.txt; 18665-8.txt; 18665-h.htm]

The Hills of Hingham, by Dallas Lore Sharp                               18664
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18664 ]
   [Files: 18664.txt; 18664-8.txt; 18664-h.htm]

The Great Round World, Vol. 2, No. 10, March 10, 1898, by Various        18663
   [Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It]
   [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
   [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18663 ]
   [Files: 18663.txt; 18663-8.txt; 18663-h.htm]

The Tale of Buster Bumblebee, by Arthur Scott Bailey                     18662
   [Illustrator: Harry L. Smith]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18662 ]
   [Files: 18662.txt; 18662-h.htm]

The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911, by Various                            18661
   [Editor: A. R. Buckland]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18661 ]
   [Files: 18661.txt; 18661-8.txt; 18661-h.htm; ]

The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria, by Charles A. Gunnison                    18660
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18660 ]
   [Files: 18660.txt; 18660-8.txt; 18660-h.htm; ]

The Seventh Manchesters, by S. J. Wilson                                 18659
   [Subtitle: July 1916 to March 1919]
   [Preface: Anthony M. Henley]
   [Introduction by Gerald B. Hurst]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18659 ]
   [Files: 18659.txt; 18659-8.txt; 18659-h.htm; ]

In Macao, by Charles A. Gunnison                                         18658
   [Contents: California]
   [          In Macao]
   [          My Sapphire Ring]
   [          The Hen That Could Lay and Lie]
   [          "Oceanic" at Sea]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18658 ]
   [Files: 18658.txt; 18658-8.txt; 18658-h.htm; ]

Love's Comedy, by Henrik Ibsen                                           18657
   [Tr.: C. H. Hereford]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18657 ]
   [Files: 18657.txt; ]

The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels, by Arthur Scott Bailey                    18656
   [Ill.: Harry L. Smith]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18656 ]
   [Files: 18656.txt; 18656-h.htm; ]

The Cruise of the Noah's Ark, by David Cory                              18655
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18655 ]
   [Files: 18655.txt; 18655-h.htm]

What Might Have Been Expected, by Frank R. Stockton                      18654
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18654 ]
   [Files: 18654.txt; 18654-h.htm]

The Mind of the Artist, by Various                                       18653
   [Subtitle: Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art]
   [Commentator: George Clausen]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18653 ]
   [Files: 18653.txt; 18653-8.txt; 18653-h.htm]

The Tale of Henrietta Hen, by Arthur Scott Bailey                        18652
   [Illustrator: Harry L. Smith]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18652 ]
   [Files: 18652.txt; 18652-h.htm]

A Cigarette-Maker's Romance, by F. Marion Crawford                       18651
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18651 ]
   [Files: 18651.txt; 18651-8.txt; 18651-h.htm]

The War and the Churches, by Joseph McCabe                               18650
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18650 ]
   [Files: 18650.txt; 18650-8.txt; 18650-h.htm; ]

Some Diversions of a Man of Letters, by Edmund William Gosse             18649
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18649 ]
   [Files: 18649.txt; 18649-8.txt; 18649-0.txt; 18649-h.htm]

Bumper, The White Rabbit, by George Ethelbert Walsh                      18648
   [Illustrator: Edwin John Prittie]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18648 ]
   [Files: 18648.txt; 18648-8.txt; 18648-0.txt; 18648-h.htm]

Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt, by R. Talbot Kelly                           18647
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18647 ]
   [Files: 18647.txt; 18647-8.txt; 18647-0.txt; 18647-h.htm]

Gypsy's Cousin Joy, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps                           18646
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18646 ]
   [Files: 18646.txt; 18646-8.txt; 18646-0.txt; 18646-h.htm]

Thackeray, by Anthony Trollope                                           18645
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18645 ]
   [Files: 18645.txt; 18645-8.txt; 18645-h.htm; ]

The Swindler and Other Stories, by Ethel M. Dell                         18644
   [Contents: The Swindler]]
   [          The Swindler's Handicap]
   [          The Nonentity]
   [          Her Hero]
   [          The Example]
   [          The Friend who Stood By]
   [          The Right Man]
   [          The Knight-Errant]
   [          A Question of Trust]
   [          Where the Heart Is]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18644 ]
   [Files: 18644.txt; 18644-8.txt; 18644-h.htm; ]

The First Landing on Wrangel Island, by Irving C. Rosse                  18643
   [Subtitle: With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18643 ]
   [Files: 18643.txt; 18643-8.txt; 18643-h.htm]

Women of the Romance Countries, by John R. Effinger                      18642
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18642 ]
   [Files: 18642.txt; 18642-8.txt; 18642-h.htm]

Hunter Patrol, by Henry Beam Piper and John J. McGuire                   18641
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18641 ]
   [Files: 18641.txt; 18641-8.txt; 18641-h.htm]


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Jun 2006 The Crystal sceptre, by Philip Verill Mighels      [060223xx.xxx] 0741A
   [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602231.txt or zip
   and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602231h.html ]

Jun 2006 The Trial Trip of the Flying Cloud, by J R Orton   [060222xx.xxx] 0740A
   [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602221.txt
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Jun 2006 How will the World End, by Herbert C Fyfe          [060221xx.xxx] 0739A
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Jun 2006 The Soul of Lilith (3 volumes), by Marie Corelli   [060220xx.xxx] 0738A
   [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602201.txt or zip
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Jun 2006 The Smoky God, by Willis George Emerson            [060219xx.xxx] 0737A
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