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RESERVED/PENDING count: 44 =-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= :: During the past week the following ebooks were manually updated and reposted with the indicated filenames and transferred into the corresponding new directories: Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 13, June 25, 1870, by Various 9658 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/9/6/5/9658 ] [Files: 9658.txt; 9658-h.htm] :: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: -=-=-=-=[ 49 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Bobbsey Twins, by Laura Lee Hope 17412 [Subtitle: Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/1/17412 ] [Files: 17412.txt; 17412-h.htm; ] Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third, Walpole 17411 [Author: Horace Walpole] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/1/17411 ] [Files: 17411.txt; ] nimes atudes, by Josep Roig i Ravents 17410 [Language: Catalan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/1/17410 ] [Files: 17410-8.txt] St. Nicholas Magazine, Vol. 5, Sep. 1878, No. 11, by Various 17409 [Title: St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Mary Mapes Dodge] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/0/17409 ] [Files: 17409.txt; 17409-8.txt; 17409-h.htm] The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, by Bernhard Berenson 17408 [Subtitle: With An Index To Their Works] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/0/17408 ] [Files: 17408.txt; 17408-8.txt; 17408-h.htm] Journal of the Swedish Embassy, by Bulstrode Whitelocke 17407 [Title: A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 & 1654, Vol II] [Editor: Charles Morton and Henry Reeve] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/0/17407 ] [Files: 17407.txt; 17407-8.txt; 17407-h.htm] Un viaje de novios, by Emilia Pardo Barzn 17406 [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/0/17406 ] [Files: 17406-8.txt; 17406-h.htm] Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia, by Thomas 17404 [Author: Northcote W. Thomas] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/0/17404 ] [Files: 17404.txt; 17404-8.txt; 17404-0.txt; 17404-h.htm] The Cornet of Horse, by G. A. Henty 17403 [Subtitle: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/0/17403 ] [Files: 17403.txt; 17403-h.htm; ] The Adventures of Kathlyn, by Harold MacGrath 17402 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/0/17402 ] [Files: 17402.txt; 17402-h.htm; ] Audio: The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells 17401C (Note: Human reading submitted by Roy Trumbull) [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/0/17401 ] [Files: 17401-readme.htm; 17401-mp3/ ] The Wright's Chaste Wife, by Adam of Cobsam 17400 [Subtitle: A Merry Tale (about 1462)] [Editor: Frederick J. Furnivall] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/4/0/17400 ] [Files: 17400-8.txt; 17400-0.txt; 17400-h.htm] Tribulat Bonhomet, by Auguste, comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam 17399 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/9/17399 ] [Files: 17399-8.txt] The Cabman's Story, by Arthur Conan Doyle 17398 [Subtitle: The Mysteries of a London 'Growler'] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/9/17398 ] [Files: 17398.txt] Punch, Vol. 159, October 6, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 17397 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/9/17397 ] [Files: 17397.txt; 17397-8.txt; 17397-h.htm; ] The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett 17396 [Illustrator: MB Kork] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/9/17396 ] [Files: 17396.txt; 17396-8.txt; 17396-h.htm] The Book of Art for Young People, by Agnes Conway & Sir Martin Conway 17395 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/9/17395 ] [Files: 17395.txt; 17395-h.htm] The Mantooth, by Christopher Leadem 17394C [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/9/17394 ] [Files: 17394-8.txt; ] Men and Women, by Robert Browning 17393 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/9/17393 ] [Files: 17393.txt; ] O Perfect Love, by H.T. Burleigh 17392 [Subtitle: Wedding Song ] [Files: 17392-readme.txt; 17392-mus.mus; 17392-mid.mid; 17392-pdf.pdf ] The Princess Elopes, by Harold MacGrath 17391 [Illus.: Harrison Fisher] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/9/17391 ] [Files: 17391.txt; 17391-8.txt; 17391-h.htm; ] Hearts and Masks, by Harold MacGrath 17390 [Illus.: Harrison Fisher] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/9/17390 ] [Files: 17390.txt; 17390-8.txt; 17390-h.htm; ] The Dreamer, by Mary Newton Stanard 17389 [Subtitle: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/8/17389 ] [Files: 17389.txt; 17389-8.txt; 17389-h.htm; ] Andrew Marvell, by Augustine Birrell 17388 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/8/17388 ] [Files: 17388.txt; 17388-8.txt; 17388-h.htm; ] Mr. Bamboo and the Honorable Little God, by Fannie C. Macaulay 17387 [Subtitle: A Christmas Story] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/8/17387 ] [Files: 17387-8.txt; 17387-h.htm; ] The Leading Facts of English History, by D.H. Montgomery 17386 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/8/17386 ] [Files: 17386.txt; ] 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s, by Max Millard 17385C [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/8/17385 ] [Files: 17385-8.txt; 10375-r.zip ] The Foundations of Geometry, by David Hilbert 17384 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/8/17384 ] [Files: 17384-t.tex; 17384-pdf.pdf ] Quer Durch Borneo, Zweiter Teil, by A.W. Nieuwenhuis 17383 [Subtitle: Ergebnisse seiner Reisen in den Jahren 1894, 1896-97 und 1898-1900; Zweiter Teil] [Editor: M. Nieuwenhuis-von xkll-Gldenbandt] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/8/17383 ] [Files: 17383-8.txt; 17383-h.htm] A Visit From Saint Nicholas (1862), by Clement Moore 17382 [Illustrator: F.O.C. Darley] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/8/17382 ] [Files: 17382.txt; 17382-h.htm] What Timmy Did, by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes 17381 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/8/17381 ] [Files: 17381.txt; 17381-8.txt; 17381-h.htm; ] Palestiinassa, by Kaarle August Hildn 17380 [Subtitle: Matkamuistelmia] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/8/17380 ] [Files: 17380-8.txt] Quer Durch Borneo, Erster Teil, by A.W. Nieuwenhuis 17379 [Subtitle: Ergebnisse seiner Reisen in den Jahren 1894, 1896-97 und 1898-1900; Erster Teil] [Editor: M. Nieuwenhuis-von xkll-Gldenban] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/7/17379 ] [Files: 17379-8.txt; 17379-h.htm] Successful Recitations, by Various 17378 [Editor: Alfred H. Miles] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/7/17378 ] [Files: 17378.txt; 17378-8.txt; ] The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume IV (of 8), by Guy de Maupassant 17377 Contents: The Old Maid The Awakening In the Spring The Jennet Rust The Substitute The Relic The Man with the Blue Eyes Allouma A Family Affair The Odalisque of Senichou A Good Match A Fashionable Woman The Carnival of Love A Deer Park in the Provinces The White Lady Caught Christmas Eve Words of Love A Divorce Case Who Knows? Simon's Papa Paul's Mistress The Rabbit The Twenty-Five Francs of the Mother Superior The Venus of Braniza La Morillonne Waiter, A "Bock" Regret The Port The Hermit The Orderly Duchoux Old Amable Magnetism [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/7/17377 ] [Files: 17377.txt; 17377-8.txt; 17377-h.htm; ] The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume III (of 8), by Guy de Maupassant 17376 Contents: The Viaticum The Relics The Thief A Rupture A Useful House The Accent Ghosts Crash An Honest Ideal Stable Perfume The Ill-Omened Groom An Exotic Prince Virtue in the Ballet In His Sweetheart's Livery Delila A Mesalliance Bertha Abandoned A Night in Whitechapel Countess Satan Kind Girls Profitable Business Violated Jeroboam The Log Margot's Tapers Caught in the Very Act The Confession Was It a Dream The Last Step The Will A Country Excursion The Lancer's Wife The Colonel's Ideas One Evening The Hermaphrodite Marroca An Artifice The Assignation An Adventure The Double Pins Under the Yoke The Real One and the Other The Upstart The Carter's Wench The Marquis The Bed An Adventure in Paris Madame Baptiste Happiness [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/7/17376 ] [Files: 17376.txt; 17376-8.txt; 17376-h.htm; ] The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8), by Guy de Maupassant 17375 Contents: Monsieur Parent The Father A Vagabond Useless Beauty Fly The Mad Woman That Pig of a Morin The Wooden Shoes A Normandy Joke A Cock Crowed Julot's Opinion Mademoiselle The Mountebanks The Sequel to a Divorce The Man with the Dogs The Clown Babette Sympathy The Debt An Artist Mademoiselle Fifi The Story of a Farm Girl Mamma Stirling Lilie Lala Madame Tellier's Establishment The Bandmaster's Sister False Alarm Wife and Mistress Mad An Unfortunate Likeness The New Sensation [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/7/17375 ] [Files: 17375.txt; 17375-8.txt; 17375-h.htm; ] Bank of the Manhattan Company, by Anonymous 17374 [Subtitle: Chartered 1799: A Progressive Commercial Bank] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/3/7/17374 ] [Files: 17374.txt; 17374-h.htm] The Madonna in Art, by Estelle M. 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[1% world population x #eBooks] 64,879,065 x 17,882 x $.86 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.56 Value Per Book With 17,884 eBooks online as of December 28, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.56 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.67 when we had 14,865 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. At 17,884 eBooks in 34 Years and 05.75 Months We Averaged ~519 Per Year 43.2 Per Month 1.42 Per Day At 2928 eBooks Done In The 357 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.2 Per Day 57 Per Week 249 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. 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28 Dec '05

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The government reportedly is considering spending up to $885 million on the search-engine plan as part of its efforts to become more dominant online. ZDNet, 21 December 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6004037.html PATENT OFFICE EXPECTED TO REJECT NTP PATENTS The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office notified NTP, a patent holding company, and Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, that it expects to reject the five patents held by NTP. The two companies are involved in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by NTP. The patent office had issued preliminary rejections of the e-mail patents in the past, but speeded its review process in response to a request by RIM. The patent review is separate from the patent infringement lawsuit, which could potentially stop most BlackBerry service in the United States. NTP expects to appeal the final patent rulings, a process that could take several years. New York Times, 19 December 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/technology/20rim.html HACKERS HIT SECURITY COMPANY DATABASE Hackers gained access to the financial and personal data of 3,800 law enforcement and network security professionals when they broke into the customer database of Guidance Software in Pasadena, California. Guidance Software is a leading provider of software to diagnose hacker attacks, and its EnCase product is used by hundreds of security researchers and law enforcement agencies worldwide, including the U.S. Secret Service and FBI. The break-in took place in November and was discovered December 7. The company alerted its customers within two days after the discovery and assured them it would no longer store customer credit card data. The company is working with the Secret Service on a detailed investigation of the incident. Washington Post, 20 December 2004 (registration req'd) www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/19/AR2005121901525.ht… You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** INTERESTING QUOTES: "There is no question that what this platform, what I call the `flat world platform,' does is really empower individuals. "We've gone from a globalization that was really built around countries, to one built around companies, to one that is increasingly empowering individuals." Tom Friedman Source: www.pbs.org/newshour/newshour_index.html * "Freedom is what promotes innovation." Reed Hastings, Netflix Founder * News From Other Sources Reports surfaced today that Harry Pooter and the Pyramid of Furmat will be the 7th and final book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. However, similar reports indicated the title of The Half Blood Prince would be Harry Potter and the Pillar of Storge. "The Pyramids of Furmat lie a few miles east of the famous Fortress of Shadows, not far from the magnificent Pillar of Storge." According to Ms. Rowling. http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=2468322005 and Glasgow Daily Record, UK - Dec 26, 2005 *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Vice President Cheney removed his residence from online sources, says The New York Times, December 28, 2005. Google then replaced the tampered government photographs with others from a more reliable/valid private source. See Maureen Dowd's column. * Delphi auto parts has finally withdrawn from the table a proposal to cut workers' wages to 33%, not *by* 33%, in the face of asking for hundreds of millions to pay 600 executives it wants to keep as it files bankruptcy, the same 600 executives who led them into bankruptcy. If changes at Delphi do not run smoothly, General Motors could also face insolvency. ABC News Automotive News Detroit Free Press * At least there was some mention of the over 200,000 deaths due to the tsunami in some of the "year in review" stories. * No mention of Valerie Plame, whose husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, warned before the Iraq war that the WMD [Weapons of Mass Destruction] cited by President Bush and others did not exist. Ms. Plame was then "outed" as a CIA agent, presumably in response. [No mention even in the Top 100 stories of the year.] * The "eminent domain" strategies of moving people out of their neighborhoods to move in big businesses who would pay more taxes got no mention either. However, at least one story mentioned that most Seaside, MS. homes were over $1 million, and that once offshore floating casinos will now be rebuilt on land, land once owned by the poor who lived there for a number of generations, who will never get to rebuild. Apparently residents there are being pressured by the city to sell cheap rather than rebuild. Source: msnbc.msn.com/id/10549743/ * No mention of Special Agent Coleen Rowley's memo to the FBI about 9/11 after 21 years on the job. Though she was one of TIME's persons of the year, 2002, all of whom were whistleblowers, all of whom were women. The others brought down Enron and Worldcom, and not much mention of them, either. * What about those in Congress who were advised of wiretaps? Was it only a dozen? Were they sworn to not tell anyone, even other members of Congress? *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "We will rebuild the hurricane damage to the poor." or "We will rebuild the hurricane damage for the rich." *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK New Orleans WILL have Mardi Gras. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "The only ones complaining about trailers are those already living in houses." ABC World News Tonight 12/20 *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK There will be a "leap second" added between 2005 and 2006 to correct for some slowing of rotation of the earth, mostly due to drag from the moon. This is a common occurance, done 7 years ago and some 21 times since Greenwich Mean Time began in 1884. [Also called Coordinated Universal Time] * Movie theater grosses are down 14% over last year for the holiday season, but the statistics do not include any reference to the fact that more money is coming in from video rentals than theaters. * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * POEM OF THE WEEK Prediction Facilitators again pop up at me through covers of books, pictures in motion, songs I sometimes listen to when I'm ready to listen saying things I thought I knew but then realized I never quite got growing in me a sort of feeling that resembles maturity as a non-profit living in a profit oriented world grey skies readily situated me on the brink of a paradise lost situation when I met this man; he sang Happy Birthday to Jesus every Christmas while this woman he loved was mailing gifts to Santa Claus the child I hold within still listens hard the chimes of freedom are ringing again on their veranda; let my soul be yours this very moment the new year breathes its first breaths the swing they sit on makes little squeaking noises, the night is chilly, their feet covered in fluffy blankets. A tiara of fireflies lights up an airy path thoughts wander on while reading from the classics: two books for a dollar again this year wonderers like marlins dive into the depth of each other's eyes. The Moon predicts they'll always keep them open. Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart Please send comments to: simona_s75 AT yahoo.com & hart AT pobox.com *** *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. To subscribe to any (or to unsubscribe or adjust your subscription preferences), visit the Project Gutenberg mailing list server: http://lists.pglaf.org If you are having trouble with your subscription, please email the list's human administrators at: help(a)pglaf.org

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25 Dec '05

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Happy Holidays!!!
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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
by Project Gutenberg Newsletter 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

GWeekly_December_21_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 21 Dec 2005 eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 2 of the Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter: - Obtaining Project Gutenberg eBooks - Updates/corrections to previously posted eBooks - 57 New U.S. eBooks this week - 2 New eBooks at Project Gutenberg of Australia - Last, but not least: insights and other fine stuff - Mailing list information - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - :: HOW TO GET EBOOKS FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG ::. The easiest way to obtain our eBooks is at our search page at http://gutenberg.org/find which allows searching by title, author or eBook number; there is also an Advanced Search page which allows for additional search criteria (note that our newer postings may not yet be indexed for all additional criteria). 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Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] [I think this is only the first or second time we ever included ALL the entries from a single edition of Edupage. From here:] U.S. HOUSE REQUIRES HDTV CONVERSION IN 2009 The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation requiring complete conversion to HDTV broadcasting in early 2009. The bill included funding to aid consumers with analog TV sets who watch free TV stations to purchase converter boxes. Satellite and cable TV consumers would not be affected by the digital switch. The requirements and funding were part of a larger deficit-cutting bill still to be addressed by the Senate. A major goal of the digital TV requirement is to gain radio spectrum for emergency use. [i.e. Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc?] Yahoo, 19 December 2005 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051219/ap_on_hi_te/congress_digital_tv NIST SETS DATA SPECS FOR BIOMETRIC ID CARDS The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established and published biometric data specifications, required for federal ID cards slated for implementation in October 2006. The new specs cover fingerprints and facial image recognition. Comments on the draft specs will be accepted until January 13, 2006. [Are they hoping no one will be paying attention over the holidays?] Federal Computer Week, 16 December 2005 http://www.fcw.com/article91747-12-16-05-Web MEETING COMPLIANCE LAWS RAISES IT COSTS According to a recent Gartner study, laws on corporate governance and compliance, such as the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act, force businesses to spend more on information technology. The report predicts increases in IT budgets from 10 to 15 percent in 2006, up from roughly 5 percent in 2004. The survey included 326 audit, finance, and IT professionals in North America and Western Europe. Gartner recommended solutions that can support multiple regulations across a business to maximize effectiveness on spending for compliance. [Businesses are being forced to pay extra so the above listed agencies can spy on them?] ZDNet, 15 December 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5996670.html EXPERT-EDITED ALTERNATIVE TO WIKIPEDIA Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, plans to launch a project called Digital Universe that will take advantage of public input for its content but rely on acknowledged experts to edit the submissions. Material will be free, with copyrighted material available to subscribers for a fee. A number of institutions have already signed up for the project, including the American Museum of Natural History and the National Council for Science and the Environment. Sanger has raised $10 million in start-up funding. [Is the timing here just a coincidence? More on Wikipedia below.] The Register, 19 December 2005 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/19/sanger_onlinepedia_with_experts/ GOOGLE BUYS PART OF AOL Google has agreed to buy a 5 percent stake in America Online (AOL) from parent company Time Warner for $1 billion cash. The goal is dominance in the online advertising market. Microsoft competed with Google for the partnership agreement, which must still be approved by the Time Warner board. As part of the deal, Google will give AOL ads special placement on its site, a switch from its ad auction system. New York Times, 17 December 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/technology/17aol.html [To here] STUDY EVALUATES WIKIPEDIA CONTENT According to a research study published in the journal Nature, Wikipedia compares favorably with the Encyclopedia Britannica in the accuracy of its information despite recent criticisms of its content and methods. The Nature study compared articles from both Web sites on a wide range of topics, asking field experts to review the accuracy of the entries. Serious errors (such as misunderstandings of vital concepts) were evenly distributed between the two encyclopedias, with four serious errors each. As for errors of fact, omissions, or misleading text, Wikipedia had 162 such errors and Britannica had 123. The study is the first to use peer review to compare the accuracy of the two sources' coverage of science. Silicon.com, 16 December 2005 http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39155109,00.htm MICHIGAN PONDERS ONLINE REQUIREMENT High school students in Michigan will be required to take at least one online course in order to graduate under a proposal before the Michigan State Board of Education, which is expected to approve it. Mike Flanagan, the Michigan state superintendent of public instruction, offered the proposal as a way to help students in the state prepare for college and for professional lives, which he said increasingly employ technology. The board is expected to pass the new regulation, which would make Michigan the first state to require an online course for a high school diploma. Kathleen N. Straus, president of the board, said, "We think we'd be on the cutting edge" if they pass the new rule, which would still require the approval of the state legislature and the governor. The proposal would allow noncredit online courses, such as ACT prep classes, to count toward the requirement, but Flanagan said he hopes students would choose to take for-credit courses. Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 December 2005 http://chronicle.com/free/2005/12/2005121301t.htm COLLEGES JOIN THE RFID BANDWAGON A number of colleges and universities are launching academic programs that focus on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. RFID tools, which use small electronic devices to track physical goods, are seen by many as the future for management of inventories and supply chains. MBA students at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University are using a model train equipped with tiny transmitters to learn about and test RFID technology in a way that simulates a conveyor belt in a factory. As the Kelley School's Ashok Soni said, having a real conveyor belt just wasn't feasible. Meanwhile, the University of California at Irvine announced an RFID certificate program that includes courses such as "Solving Business Problems with Radio Frequency Identification Devices." Research firm Gartner estimates that the market for RFID this year will be $504 million, an increase of 39 percent over last year. The company also predicts that RFID spending will grow to $3 billion annually by the end of the decade. CNET, 13 December 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-5993692.html ONLINE EDUCATION BOOMING Analysts speaking at a conference on the business of higher education this week argued that the market for online learning, though often downplayed relative to other topics, is thriving and represents the future of for-profit education. Online music, for example, receives a lot of hype in the media, according to one analyst, but the market for online education is seven times larger than that for online music. Douglas L. Becker, CEO of Laureate Education Inc., which operates a network of international universities, said that in many parts of the world the demand for higher education far outstrips the supply. Moreover, while for-profit colleges enroll less than 5 percent of all college students, more than a third of all students taking an online course are enrolled at a for-profit institution. The conditions are ripe for online education to lead to significant growth in for-profit colleges in the coming years, according to analysts. Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 December 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/12/2005121305n.htm QUANTA TO PRODUCE MIT'S $100 LAPTOPS Computer maker Quanta has been chosen to manufacture the $100 laptops that are the brainchild of MIT's Nicholas Negroponte and supported by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organization. Based in Taiwan, Quanta is the world's largest maker of laptops, building the devices for companies including Dell and HP. Some believe that supplying the developing world with inexpensive computer technology will be a boon for educational and economic development of those nations, and the notion of an inexpensive laptop is part of that vision. Previous attempts to build and deploy similar technology have failed, and detractors argue that the $100 laptop program doesn't stand much of a chance. Nevertheless, recruiting a major hardware manufacturer signals the level of support that the project enjoys. Of the announcement, Negroponte said, "Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop could be made for education in the developing world has just gone away." Silicon.com, 14 December 2005 http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39155040,00.htm CSIA GIVES FEDS D+ ON CYBERSECURITY In a report card released by the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the federal government received a grade of D+ for cybersecurity. CISA gave credit to the Department of Homeland Security for establishing a new position, the assistant secretary for cybersecurity. Six months after that job was created, however, it remains unfilled. Paul Kurtz, executive director of CSIA, commented that "Cybersecurity research is in a crisis." CSIA also launched what it calls a Digital Confidence Index, a measure of public confidence in efforts to protect computers and systems. The initial rating for the index is 58 out of 100. CSIA issued a set of 13 recommendations, called the National Agenda for Information Security in 2006, designed to improve the nation's cybersecurity. Among the recommendations are calls to increase funding for cybersecurity research and to promote cooperation among federal agencies. Federal Computer Week, 13 December 2005 http://www.fcw.com/article91710-12-13-05-Web You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Hidden by all the rest, was the news that super-lobbiest Abramoff is trying to make a deal for a reduced sentence on his many charges by testifying against his former business and political partners. Source: Albany Times Union * Intelligent Design Is Just Creationism Renamed, says Judge Jones "We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board's real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom." Federal judge, John E Jones III Appointed by President George W. Bush In the Dover School Board case, Judge Jones revealed that in 150 instances in the book "Of Pandas and People" the term "intelligent design" had merely replaced terms such as "creation science" or "creation" or "creationism" and similar terms in a ploy to get around the recent major decisions against teaching creationism in public school science classes. Judge Jones said, Intelligent Design/Creationism "has not generated peer-reviewed publications, nor has it been the subject of testing and research." Source The Telegraph, UK PBS *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, a wiretap requires a a court order." "Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so," he added. President George W. Bush April 20, 2004, Buffalo, NY "You see, what that meant is if you got a wiretap by court order, and by the way, everything you hear about requires court order, requires there to be permission from a FISA court, for example," President George W. Bush Hershey, Pennsylvania "A couple of things that are very important for you to understand about the Patriot Act. First of all, any action that takes place by law enforcement requires a court order. "In other words, the government can't move on wiretaps or roving wiretaps without getting a court order," he said. "What the Patriot Act said, is let's give our law enforcement the tools necessary, without abridging the Constitution of the United States, the tools necessary to defend America." President George W. Bush July 14, 2004 Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin Source: [all 12/20/05 and 12/21/05] Los Angeles Times "Cheney Defends Domestic Spying" Gulf Times, Qatar "For Years, Bush Said Court Orders Required For Spying Baltimore Sun "Cheney Supports Wiretap Authority" New York Newsday "Cheney Defends Domestic Spying" Arkansas Democrat-Gazette "Police-State Methods No Answer To Terror" *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Oil-drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) will become as much an albatross around Senator Ted Stevens neck as his infamous "bridge to nowhere." * Hesitating to even quote any of those mentioning impeachment. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "Watergate and a lot of the things around Watergate and Vietnam, both during the 1970s, served, I think, to erode the authority I think the president needs to be effective, especially in the national security area." VP Dick Cheney, to reporters traveling on Air Force Two with him. Cheney added that "the vast majority" approve of the recently revealed surveillance without court orders. [Echoing Nixon's "Silent Majority."] "And so if there's a backlash pending, I think the backlash is going to be against those who are suggesting somehow we shouldn't take these steps in order to defend the country." Source: Los Angeles Times White House Press Pool * A bipartisan letter from five Senators stated for the record: "At no time, to our knowledge, did any administration representative ask the Congress to consider amending existing law to permit electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists without a warrant," [Two Republicans, Three Democrats] [Similar letters are being made available from other members of Congress, some still waiting for declassification, written in 2002 when some dozen members were advised of the situation. Some say the fact that they kept silent, as requested, was a form of tacit approval, a charge also levied at the New York Times, who broke the story a few days ago, after knowing about it for a year. Condensed from multiple sources, apologies that my note taking was going to fast to get everything.] * "Why is it that President Bush went in front of the American people and said that a wiretap 'requires a court order' after having approved a wiretap program without a court order two years earlier?" Howard Dean * "When the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was created in 1978, one of the things that the Attorney General at the time, Griffin Bell, testified before the intelligence committee, and he said that the current bill recognizes no inherent power of the President to conduct electronic surveillance." He said, 'This bill specifically states that the procedures in the bill are the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance may be conducted.' Sources: James Bamford Christian Science Monitor * "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 shall be the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance ... may be conducted." [FISA; 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2511(f)] Source: Bush's Use of NSA Spying and the Law Institute for Public Accuracy (press release), DC - Dec 19, 2005 * In addition, the FBI has been reported to be spying on various groups supporting animal rights and other such causes, as per FBI documents obtained under the Freedom Of Information Act. These include: A vegan community project [vegetarians] A Catholic workers group PETA [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals] However, the FBI officially denies that "Just being referenced in an FBI file is not tantamount to being the subject of an investigation," according to FBI spokesman John Miller. [However, you might notice that Mr. Miller did NOT deny that these people were under FBI investigation.] "The Justice Department does not comment on or confirm the existence of criminal investigations. All matters referred to the department by the intelligence agencies for purposes of further investigation are taken seriously and thoroughly reviewed." Brian Roehrkasse, Justice Dept. spokesman. "It goes back to the dark days of Nixon and the enemies list." Jeff Kerr, PETA General Counsel Source: FBI ACLU United Press International The Washington Post Also see: Joint Terrorism Task Forces *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The WTA strike [transit strike] in New York City is costing the union $1 million per day in fines, and costing New York City $400-$660 million is lost business. Source: International Herald Tribune Bloomberg Voice of America * Google is trying to buy 5% of AOL. * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * POEM OF THE WEEK This Room This room contains us all. The walls stretch out to encompass the angry me, the wicked me, the mother & child me, the melancholic me, the sanctified self of the loving me. Design dating back when all things were just beginning, and the beginning had already begun. We are stuck here. Pinned into place onto this board. Past days present. Present days all here. Future hopes drawn like tattoos on the stretching arms of the walls. One finds it great to have flexible views. Feelings live in separate compartments, drawn in through secret passageways of senses. Counting rains and rainbows, I found them all, handily located at the trysting place between heart and soul. Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart Please send comments to: simona_s75 AT yahoo.com & hart AT pobox.com *** *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. 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Note that updated eBooks usually go in their original directory (e.g., etext99, etext00, etc.) *** Statistical Review In the 49 weeks of this year, we have produced 2891 new eBooks. It took us from 7/71 to 9/01 to produce our FIRST 2819 eBooks!!! That's 49 WEEKS as Compared to ~30 YEARS!!! FLASHBACK! Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2697 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright [Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format] Oct 2001 The Wars of The Jews, by Flavius Josephus [warjexxx.xxx] 2850 [Title: The Wars of The Jews or the History of the Destruction of Jerusalem] Oct 2001 Against Apion, by Flavius Josephus[Tr. Wm. Whiston[agaapxxx.xxx] 2849 Oct 2001 The Antiquities of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus [taofjxxx.xxx] 2848 Oct 2001 Josephus' Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades[hadesxxx.xxx] 2847 [Title: An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning Hades] Oct 2001 The Life of Flavius Josephus, Tr. by Wm. Whiston [lfjosxxx.xxx] 2846 Oct 2001 Sir Nigel, by Arthur Conan Doyle [A. C. Doyle #24][nigelxxx.xxx] 2845 Oct 2001 Fatal Boots, by William Makepeace Thackeray [#25][fbootxxx.xxx] 2844 Oct 2001 Little Travels and Roadside Sketches, by Thackeray[ltarsxxx.xxx] 2843 Oct 2001 Black Heart and White Heart, by H. R. Haggard[#24][bwhrtxxx.xxx] 2842 Oct 2001 The Ivory Child, by H. Rider Haggard [Haggard #23][ivoryxxx.xxx] 2841 (Note: These three are our first eBooks in Flemish/Dutch:) Sep 2001 De Franse Pers, Heinrich Heine [#3/Flemish/Dutch][fpersxxx.xxx] 2840 Sep 2001 Franse Toestanden, Heinrich Heine[2/Flemish/Dutch][ftoesxxx.xxx] 2839 Sep 2001 De Beurs lacht, Heinrich Heine [#1/Flemish/Dutch][fbeurxxx.xxx] 2838 Sep 2001 Lendas do Sul, by J. Somoes Lopes Netto [lendaxxx.xxx] 2837 [Language: Portuguese] (Note: Our First eBook in Portuguese!) Sep 2001 Abraham Lincoln and the Union, Nath'l W Stephenson[alatuxxx.xxx] 2836 Sep 2001 The Canadian Dominion, by Oscar D. Skelton [cndndxxx.xxx] 2835 Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 2, by Henry James[#37][2pldyxxx.xxx] 2834 Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 1, by Henry James[#36][1pldyxxx.xxx] 2833 Sep 2001 Myth, Ritual, and Religion, V1, by Andrew Lang #28[1mrarxxx.xxx] 2832 Sep 2001 A Bundle of Ballads, by Henry Morley [bndbaxxx.xxx] 2831 Sep 2001 Reginald, by Saki (H. H. Munro) [Saki HH Munro #5][rgnldxxx.xxx] 2830 Sep 2001 Fanny and the Servant Problem, by Jerome K. Jerome[fnyspxxx.xxx] 2829 Sep 2001 Under the Deodars, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling #19][undeoxxx.xxx] 2828 Sep 2001 Aslauga's Knight by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque 4[slkntxxx.xxx] 2827 Sep 2001 The Two Captains by Friedrich de la Motte-Fouque 3[2cpnsxxx.xxx] 2826 Sep 2001 Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque[Fouque #2][undinxxx.xxx] 2825 Sep 2001 Sintram and His Companions, by Friedrich Fouque #1[sntrmxxx.xxx] 2824 [Author: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouque] Sep 2001 The Fitz-Boodle Papers/William Makepeace Thackeray[fitzbxxx.xxx] 2823 Sep 2001 London in 1731, Don Manoel Gonzales [londnxxx.xxx] 2822 Sep 2001 The Story of the Gadsby, by Rudyard Kipling[RK#18][tsotgxxx.xxx] 2821 Sep 2001 La Fin des Livres by Octave Uzanne & Albert Robida[endbkxxh.zip] 2820 [English Title: The End of Books] Sep 2001 Barrack-Room Ballads, by Rudyard Kipling [RK #17][barbaxxx.xxx] 2819 Sep 2001 Beautiful Joe, by Marshall Saunders [beajoxxx.xxx] 2818 Sep 2001 Chamber Music, by James Joyce [James Joyce #2][chamuxxx.xxx] 2817 Sep 2001 The City of the Sun, by Tommaso Campanells [tcotsxxx.xxx] 2816 Sep 2001 Democracy An American Novel, by Henry Adams[HA #2][demamxxx.xxx] 2815 Sep 2001 Dubliners, by James Joyce [James Joyce #1] [dblnrxxx.xxx] 2814 Sep 2001 The Grand Babylon Hotel, by Arnold Bennett [grbahxxx.xxx] 2813 Sep 2001 Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero #2][letcixxx.xxx] 2812 [Tr. by E. S. Shuckburgh] Sep 2001 Letters of Pliny the Younger, Tr. William Melmoth [ltplnxxx.xxx] 2811 [Revised by F. C. T. Bosanquet] (Note: the filename ltplnxxx.xxx is also used for a totally different eBook, #3234 in etext02) Sep 2001 Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, by Plunkitt and Riordan [plnthxxx.xxx] 2810 Sep 2001 Main-Travelled Roads, by Hamlin Garland [matraxxx.xxx] 2809 Sep 2001 Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, by Cicero [tfroaxxx.xxx] 2808 Sep 2001 To Have and To Hold, by Mary Johnston [thathxxx.xxx] 2807 Sep 2001 Phantom 'Rickshaw & Other Ghost Stories by Kipling[phricxxx.xxx] 2806 Sep 2001 With Lee in Virginia [US Civil War], by G.A. Henty[leeivxxx.xxx] 2805 Sep 2001 Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott [Alcott #7] [rsblmxxx.xxx] 2804 [This is the sequel to Eight Cousins, #2726] Sep 2001 The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan [lvnskxxx.xxx] 2803 Sep 2001 Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson [rmonaxxx.xxx] 2802 Sep 2001 The Commonwealth of Oceana, by James Harrington [oceanxxx.xxx] 2801 Sep 2001 The Koran, Translated by J.M. Rodwell [koranxxx.xxx] 2800 [Title AKA: Al-Qur'an; Q'uran; Quraan] [Intro. by Rev. G. Margoliouth, M.A.] (Note: previously incorrectly listed as The Koran, by Mohammed/Mohammad) (See also: #3434, #7440) * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet From http://gutenberg.org? 1.15 Trillion eBooks Given Away If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,485,055,987 that would be 17,775 x 64,850,560 = ~1.15 Trillion !!! With 17,775 eBooks online as of December 14, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.87 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 64,850,560 x 17,775 x $.87 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.57 Value Per Book With 17,775 eBooks online as of December 14, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.56 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.68 when we had 14,707 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. At 17,775 eBooks in 34 Years and 05.25 Months We Averaged ~516 Per Year 43.0 Per Month 1.41 Per Day At 2819 eBooks Done In The 343 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.2 Per Day 58 Per Week 251 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. 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