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PT1 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
by Michael Hart 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

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Japp [rlsjpxxx.xxx] 590 Jul 1996 Catriona (Kidnapped2) by Robt L. Stevenson[RLS#25][ctrnaxxx.xxx] 589 Jul 1996 Master Humphrey's Clock, by Charles Dickens [CD#5][mhmphxxx.xxx] 588 Jul 1996 Danny's Own Story, by Don Marquis [Don Marquis #2][dsownxxx.xxx] 587 Jul 1996 Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, et al, Thomas Browne[rmedixxx.xxx] 586 Jul 1996 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, the Crafts [runngxxx.xxx] 585 Jul 1996 Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson [ourngxxx.xxx] 584 Jul 1996 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins [Collins #4] [wwhitxxx.xxx] 583 Jul 1996 A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories [BP#2] [bpstoxxx.xxx] 582 Jul 1996 Ginx's Baby, A Satire, by Edward Jenkins? [ginxbxxx.xxx] 581 Jul 1996 The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens [CD #3-4] [pwprsxxx.xxx] 580 Jul 1996 The Poems of Sidney Lanier [slanrxxx.xxx] 579 Jul 1996 Down With The Cities, by Tadashi NAKASHIMA [dwtctxxx.xxx] 578C Jul 1996 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4 of 16 [sjv04xxx.xxx] 577 Jun 1996 The Project Gutenberg Web Pages [pgwebxxx.xxx] 576 Jun 1996 Essays of Francis Bacon [Francis Bacon #1] [ebacnxxx.xxx] 575 Jun 1996 Poems of William Blake, by William Blake [Blake#1][pblakxxx.xxx] 574 Jun 1996 Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb [tshakxxx.xxx] 573 Jun 1996 The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter [BP #1] [gbtbpxxx.xxx] 572 Jun 1996 The 1995 CIA World Factbook [CIA Factbook #5][world95x.xxx] 571 Jun 1996 The Moravians in Georgia, by Adelaide L. Fries [mrvgaxxx.xxx] 570 Jun 1996 Brann The Iconoclast, William Cowper Brann [vol12][bti12xxx.xxx] 569 Jun 1996 Brann The Iconoclast, William Cowper Brann [vol10][bti10xxx.xxx] 568 Jun 1996 Brann The Iconoclast, William Cowper Brann [vol 1][bti01xxx.xxx] 567 Jun 1996 The History of the Thirty Years' War, by Schiller [1jcfsxxx.xxx] 566 Jun 1996 Zincali, Gypsies of Spain by George Borrow [GB#4] [znclixxx.xxx] 565 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? With 15,530 eBooks online as of February 23, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$1.01 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,112,028 x 15,530 x $1.01 = $1+ trillion With 15,530 eBooks online as of February 23, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.64 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.87 when we had 11,573 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 15,530 eBooks in 33 Years and 07.75 Months We Averaged ~462 Per Year 38.5 Per Month 1.26 Per Day At 574 eBooks Done In The 49 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 11.7 Per Day 82 Per Week 332 Per Month The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] PHONE COMPANY SUSPECTED OF BLOCKING VOIP CALLS The FCC's investigating whether a rural phone company blocked access to the Vonage Internet-phone service, which was competing for the phone company's customers. The company has not been identified. The problem became public several days ago when Larry Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law School and an advocate of Internet freedom, mentioned Vonage's problem at an industry conference in Boulder, Colorado. Shutting off a potential competitor could violate antitrust laws barring companies that control essential facilities from refusing to give competitors the access needed to compete. (Wall Street Journal 17 Feb 2005) <http://www.wsj.com> NO RFID TAGS FOR SCHOOL KIDS -- AT LEAST FOR NOW [I remember the same fight 50 years about out registering dogs and bikes, and everyone thought how silly it was, but now we have to register cats.] The InCom company, which developed Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to monitor the whereabouts of school children, has pulled out of a deal with Brittain Elementary School in Sutter, California. School principal Earnie Graham says, "I'm disappointed... I think I let my staff down. Nobody on this campus knows every student." Dawn Cantrall, the parent who objected to the system and brought the ACLU in to stop its implementation, remains skeptical: "I'm not convinced it's over. I'm happy for now that kids are not being tagged, but I'm still fighting to keep it out of our school system. It has to stop here." The system was conceived as a way of simplifying attendance-taking, reducing vandalism, and keeping students safe. (San Francisco Chronicle 16 Feb 2005 sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/02/16/financial/f075453S34.DTL 'D' IS FOR 'DISMAL' U.S. GOV'T CYBERSECURITY Despite widespread agreement that computer security should be a top priority of U.S. government agencies, the latest cybersecurity progress report from Congress rates overall government efforts a D-, with seven of the 24 largest agencies earning a failing grade -- including the departments of Energy and Homeland Security, which, ironically, houses the National Cyber Security Division. "Several agencies continue to receive failing grades, and that's unacceptable," says Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), chair of the House Government Reform Committee. But on the bright side, says Davis, "We're also seeing some exceptional turnarounds." Those include the departments of Transportation (up from a D+ to an A-), Justice (up from an F to a B-) and the Interior (up from an F to a C+). Davis notes that problem areas include lax security at federal contractor computers; a lack of contingency planning for broad system failures; and scant training opportunities for employees responsible for computer security. (AP/Boston.com 16 Feb 2005) <http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/02/16/agencies_earn EDS SHIFTS CALL CENTER WORK TO INDIA [Isn't this Ross Perot's company?] EDS, a company that manages many corporate computer systems, plans to close 21 call centers in the U.S. and Europe by the end of 2006 and shift some of that work to India. EDS already operates three centers in India, where salaries are much lower in the United States. EDS says that any U.S. job losses would be by attrition and would be part of the 15,000 to 20,000 job eliminations that were revealed by the company last fall. Currently, about 30,000 of the company's 120,000 employees work on software applications, 27% of them in India and other "offshore" locations. (San Jose Mercury News 23 Feb 2005) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10964039.htm> [more on outsourcing] LEGISLATION AGAINST BUSINESSES THAT OUTSOURCE Colorado state senator Deanna Hanna has introduced legislation to require that state to stop doing business with companies that outsource work overseas instead of hiring U.S. workers. But critics of her bill say it would actually cost the state millions of dollars, because so many companies now rely on the practice of "offshoring." U.S. Bank economist Tucker Hart Adams says Hanna's bill "will cost the state in terms of jobs, creating a healthy economy, a good place to do business. Closed economies don't work." (AP/USA Today 23 Feb 2005) www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2005-02-23-colo-outsource-bill_x.htm U.N. PANEL HOPES TO END WEB WAR A U.N.-sponsored panel aims to settle a long-running tug of war for control of the Internet at a Tunis meeting this November at the World Summit on the Information Society, where global control of the World World Wide Web may be decided. At present, the most recognizable Internet governance body is the U.S.-based non-profit corporation called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), but developing countries want an international body such as the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to have control over governance over Internet issues -- ranging from distributing Web site domains to fighting spam. (The Australian 22 Feb 2005) Rec'd from J Lamp, Deakin U. australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12334019%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html ATLANTA SUBWAYS TO FEATURE TV SCREENS Atlanta's subway system, MARTA (the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority), will be the first in the country to offer TV on its trains, and will begin showing closed-caption local news programming this spring. An Atlanta company called the Rail Network, which is providing the technology, will pay MARTA at least $20 million from revenues derived from commercials shown on half-hour local newscasts provided by Atlanta TV station WSB. The TV screens will be visible from every part of MARTA's rail cars, and audio in English or Spanish will be available to passengers with headphones attached to radio FM tuners or cellphones with adapters. (Atlanta Journal Constitution 23 Feb 2005) <http://www.ajc.com> You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. 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Thompson *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Publishers will continue spending millions on copy protection, none of which will last even one year. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK A terabyte of hard drive how costs about the same as the average computer. * "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 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 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. 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Appleton[#20][20tomxxx.xxx] 499 Apr 1996 Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm, by Kate Douglas Wiggin[snybkxxx.xxx] 498 Apr 1996 Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Henry J. Coke [trlstxxx.xxx] 497 Apr 1996 The Little Lame Prince, by Miss Mulock [lamepxxx.xxx] 496 Apr 1996 Amy Foster, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad Series #6] [afostxxx.xxx] 495 Apr 1996 To-morrow, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad Series #5] [2mrowxxx.xxx] 494 Apr 1996 Falk, by Joseph Conrad [#4 in our Conrad Series] [falkxxxx.xxx] 493 Apr 1996 The Art of Writing, Robert Louis Stevenson [RLS22][artowxxx.xxx] 492 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? With 15,454 eBooks online as of February 16, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$1.02 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,112,028 x 15,454 x $1.02 = $1+ trillion With 15,454 eBooks online as of February 16, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.65 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.87 when we had 11,435 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 15,454 eBooks in 33 Years and 07.50 Months We Averaged ~460 Per Year 38.3 Per Month 1.26 Per Day At 498 eBooks Done In The 42 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 11.9 Per Day 83 Per Week 332 Per Month The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] CHINA'S CRACKDOWN ON INTERNET CAFES Chinese authorities shut down more than 12,575 Internet cafes in the last three months of 2004 to create a "safer environment for young people in China," according to the Xinhua News Agency. With 87 million people online, China has the world's second-largest population of Internet users (after the U.S.), and the government actively promotes Internet use for business and education. However, communist authorities block access to Web sites they deem pornographic or subversive and Internet cafes are banned from operating near schools. (AP/Washington Times 14 Feb 2005) <http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_INTERNET_CRACKDOWN?SI TE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME> 'THE NEW FORMAT IS NO FORMAT' Music lovers may well be wondering why it is they're required to buy the same song over and over again in different formats (think vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD, etc.) and one music industry veteran predicts that cycle is coming to an end. "The new format is no format. What the consumer would buy is a data file, and you could create whatever you need. If you want to make an MP3, you make an MP3. If you want a DVD-Audio surround disc, you make that," says George Petersen, editorial director of Mix magazine. The numbers seem to support Petersen's prediction: during the second half of 2004 more than 91 million digital tracks were sold, compared with 19.2 million in the same period in 2003 -- an increase of 376%. And Apple, which reports total iPod sales between 10 and 11 million since its launch in 2001, notes that 8.2 million of those sales took place last year. Meanwhile, record labels who predicted digital music would be the death of them are seeing CD sales up 2.3% last year, compared with 2003. Petersen says music merchants need to capitalize on the digital trend and should consider offering services for customers who might not have the latest technology at home, such as burning CDs for them and offering high-resolutions graphics for a jewel case. "Why aren't record stores using the Internet? If you keep things old-school, you are going to die." (Washington Post 13 Feb 2005) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19831-2005Feb12.html> [Two stories: "Big Brother WILL Be Watching YOU."] [Of course, the secret police won't be carrying these. The reason they will give is that they are SECRET police. You can't have pictures of them, their fingerprints are not in the databases, voiceprints, DNA, etc., are all secret.] 'SMART' DRIVER'S LICENSES A TROJAN HORSE? A move by Congress to endorse a Republican-backed measure that would compel states to redesign their driver's licenses by 2008 to comply with standards for making them electronically readable has critics questioning government's motives, saying it gives the Department of Homeland Security carte blanche to do nearly anything "to protect the national security interests of the United States." Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) says, "Supporters claim it is not a national ID because it is voluntary. However, any state that opts out will automatically make nonpersons out of its citizens. They will not be able to fly or to take a train." Proponents of the Real ID Act say it reflects the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and will help in the battle against terrorism and efforts to identify illegal immigrants. But Paul says, "In reality, this bill is a Trojan horse. It pretends to offer desperately needed border control in order to stampede Americans into sacrificing what is uniquely American: our constitutionally protected liberty." (CNet News.com 14 Feb 2005) <http://news.com.com/From+high-tech+drivers+licenses+to+national+ID+cards/21 00-1028_3-5573414.html> [and on a related issue] CONTROVERSIAL USE OF RFID TECHNOLOGY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Brittan Elementary School in rural Sutter, California, is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification (RFID) badges that can track their movements in order to simplify attendance-taking, curtail vandalism, and improve student safety. But civil libertarians are alarmed, and ACLU representative Nicole Ozer warns, "If this school doesn't stand up, then other schools might adopt it. You might be a small community, but you are one of the first communities to use this technology." Angry parent Michael Cantrall, who alerted the ACLU to the school9s decision to use RFID technology, which is also used to track merchandise, says: "There is a way to make kids safer without making them feel like a piece of inventory. Are we trying to bring them up with respect and trust, or tell them that you can't trust anyone, you are always going to be monitored, and someone is always going to be watching you?" Each student is required to wear identification cards around their necks with their picture, name and grade and a wireless transmitter that beams their ID number to a teacher's handheld computer when the child passes under an antenna posted above a classroom door. But the IDs have been welcomed by some parents, such as one who notes: "This is not Mayberry. This is Sutter, California. Bad things can happen here." (AP 10 Feb 2005) <http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050210/D885RJD81.html> You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage SURVEY PREDICTS SLIDE IN HIGHER ED IT SPENDING A recent Market Data Retrieval survey of IT officials at more than 1,400 two- and four-year colleges and universities suggests a decline of 4 percent in IT spending this year compared to last year, itself a decline over the previous year. Analysts at the research firm said the decline is likely a result not only of tight budgets overall but also of increased performance of hardware, allowing lower costs for some investments. The overall drop of 4 percent is the net of a 13 percent slide in investments at public institutions and a 28 percent increase at private institutions. Private institutions continue to significantly outpace their public counterparts on IT spending per student, spending an average of $553 per student versus $203 at publics. The survey also found slightly lower rates of distance education offerings, down from 67 percent to 64 percent, and an increase in wireless networks, rising from 70 percent last year to 79 percent this year. Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 February 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/02/2005020903n.htm You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or 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 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Last week's prediction read: The results of the Iraqi elections will be held up for so long that no one will care who was elected, or how many voted. . . the fact that elections were held at all will called victory. By now it must be obvious that there is a LOT going on "behind the scenes" of the Iraqi elections, that took place January 30. The media headlined a 57% turnout among eligible voters, but a report on voter registration of Iraqis in the US was at 7% just a day before extended registration periods finally closed. In other countries around the world it was reported a bit higher, but nothing on the order of even half the 57% headline numbers, which would have been about 8 million voters. Even the most literate, or numerate, reporters have now started to question the reliability and validity of these reports, and note that Iraqi election officials are becoming more and more hesitant to answer questions as the vote count proceeds, rather than having more to say as the count is more completed. I know I often test the memories of our readers by asking them to remember previous events of a similar nature, but it is now obvious that the media should be comparing these new election reports to previous elections in countries the United States supposedly was saving from corrupt dictatorships and military threats to world peace. The 1967 Viet Nam elections should be coming to mind, as should the 1984 El Salvador elections, both with similar initially high voter turnout headlines, which had to be "adjusted" to lower and lower figures until it became all too obvious that the initial figures were purely propaganda. If the voter registration figures in Iraq at all resemble those in all the other countries where Iraqis were registered to vote, then it would be quite surprising if even 1/2 of the the 57% of the initial voter turnout reports actually had registered, much less successfully cast ballots. The real question for us, locally, is why our media is not out there asking questions about what is happening, but simply not doing anything but reporting what they have been told to say? Of course, if you really analyze just one week's worth of news, you'll find just how much of the major media tells you is just straight from the mouth of government officials, rather than a "fair and unbiased" investigation into what really happens. Initial reports of strong Sunni voter turnout have now proven to have simply been pie in the sky to encourgage such turnout, but it never caught on, even with the aid of such propaganda relayed by many media sources who said those who reported more truthful turnout figures were incorrect at best, and liars at the worst. Interesting when the liars call the truth tellers liars. . . . When things go wrong, the current plan seems to be to muddy the waters so badly that no one can tell what is happening, and then reports are delayed so long that no one cares. "That report is no longer operational," is what the Nixon media people would say in such cases. I wonder how that technique actually worked out in a historical perspective? Worldwide press seems to be doing a little better, with at least one of the major wire services quoting a high placed Western diplomat as saying that voter turnout in the large Anbar province was "quite low". . .but you probably never heard that from the Western media. Carlos Valenzuela, United Nations Chief Elections Expert in Iraq said that predicted Sunni turnouts were so very low that even if they proved to be too low that the real turnout would still be low. But this hasn't been getting much air time in the U.S. The New York Times may have been one of the only sources to actually report some hard figures, stating that their sources reported "somewhat more than 50,000 of Mosul's 500,000 estimated eligible voters" had turned out in a vote that had been 60% counted by February 3. Yet this is not being used as a basis for other media stories. There is a lot more to be said here, this merely touches the tip of the iceberg. Some are questionning the actual population figures for Iraq, other question those of real voting age, etc., but there don't seem to be hard figures, something the media has had a few years to come up with. *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK "GI Joe was apparently captured and beheaded by terrorists in Iraq, as the pictures previously released have now been identified as the diminutive U.S. soldier of great fame." *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK A new DVD will become available that will be able to hold nearly every word in every book in the Library of Congress. [Details available on request] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Blogs are becoming the latest successor to the Gutenberg Press, as they become the predominant fact releasing tool for the public. [see Charlie Rose, 2/15/05] * "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 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 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. *** *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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Reu] Clarification of other contributors, also additional contents: Feb 1996 The Hymns and Small Cathechism of Martin Luther [thomlxxx.xxx] 417 [English Version Ed. by Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Assisted by Nathan H. Allen] [Note: this eBook also contains a translation by Robert E. Smith of Luther's Little Instruction Book (The Small Catechism of Martin Luther). See also eBook #1670] Add addition contributor: Feb 1996 Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson [wnbrgxxx.xxx] 416 [Intro.: Irving Howe] Entry corrected to add full title, supplemental clarification, and conform to other entries in this series: Jan 1996 Little Journeys: John J. Astor, by Elbert Hubbard [jastrxxx.xxx] 412 [Title: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Business Men: John J. Astor] [From: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great] Add editor: Jan 1996 Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis[5][alrhdxxx.xxx] 405 [Ed.: Charles Belmont Davis] Correct title: Jan 1996 Helen of Troy And Other Poems, by Sara Teasdale [helenxxx.xxx] 400 Correct title: Jan 1996 Four Poems by John Milton [Milton #3] [miltpxxx.xxx] 397 [Title: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas] .:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: An RTF file has been added: Lenore et autres ballades, by Gottfried August Buerger 14912 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/1/14912 ] [Files: 14912-r.rtf] We have reposted an improved edition of the following: Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete, by Edward Bulwer Lytton 9774 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/9/7/7/9774 ] [Files: 9774.txt] -=-=-=-=[ 85 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851, by Various 15080 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/8/15080 ] [Files: 15080.txt; 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15067-h.htm] La Vuelta de Martin Fierro, by Jose Hernandez 15066 [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/6/15066 ] [Files: 15066.txt; 15066-8.txt] Continental Monthly, Vol. I., No. IV., April, 1862, by Various 15065 [Subtitle: Devoted To Literature And National Policy] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/6/15065 ] [Files: 15065.txt; 15065-8.txt; 15065-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 152, April 25, 1917, Ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 15064 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/6/15064 ] [Files: 15064.txt; 15064-h.htm] Your United States, by Arnold Bennett 15063 [Subtitle: Impressions of a first visit] [Illustrated by Frank Craig] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/6/15063 ] [Files: 15063.txt; 15063-8.txt; 15063-h.htm] Elaman hawainnoita X, by Pietari Paivarinta 15062 [Title: Elaman hawainnoita X: Poyhkea isanta; Kauppias=mummo; Matkustaja] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/0/6/15062 ] [Files: 15062-8.txt] Aliina, by Kauppis-Heikki 15061 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/0/6/15061 ] [Files: 15061-8.txt] L'hotel hante, by Wilkie Collins 15060 [Tr.: Henry Dallemagne] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/0/6/15060 ] [Files: 15060-8.txt; 15060-r.rtf] Les petites filles modeles, by Comtesse de Segur 15059 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/0/5/15059 ] [Files: 15059-8.txt; 15059-r.rtf] Les malheurs de Sophie, by Comtesse de Segur 15058 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/0/5/15058 ] [Files: 15058-8.txt; 15058-r.rtf] Les vacances, by Comtesse de Segur 15057 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/0/5/15057 ] [Files: 15057-8.txt; 15057-r.rtf] De Wallis-eilanden, by Emile Deschamps 15056 [From "De Aarde en Haar Volken", Jaargang 1886] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/5/15056 ] [Files: 15056-8.txt; 15056-h.htm] The Free Rangers, by Joseph A. Altsheler 15055 [Subtitle: A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/5/15055 ] [Files: 15055.txt; 15055-8.txt; 15055-h.htm] Viajes de un Colombiano en Europa, II, by Jose Maria Samper 15054 [Subtitle: Volume 2 of 2] [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/5/15054 ] [Files: 15054.txt; 15054-8.txt] The Evolution Of An English Town, by Gordon Home 15053 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/5/15053 ] [Files: 15053.txt; 15053-8.txt; 15053-h.htm] Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891, by Various 15052 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/5/15052 ] [Files: 15052.txt; 15052-8.txt; 15052-h.htm] Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891, by Various 15051 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/5/15051 ] [Files: 15051.txt; 15051-8.txt; 15051-h.htm] Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891, by Various 15050 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/5/15050 ] [Files: 15050.txt; 15050-8.txt; 15050-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 103, August 20, 1892, Ed. by Francis Burnand 15049 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/4/15049 ] [Files: 15049.txt; 15049-8.txt; 15049-h.htm] Mijnheer Snepvangers, by Lode Baekelmans 15048 [Language: Dutch and Flemish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/4/15048 ] [Files: 15048-8.txt; 15048-h.htm] Bases da ortografia portuguesa, by Goncalves Viana and Guilherme Abreu 15047 [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/4/15047 ] [Files: 15047-8.txt; 15047-0.txt] Un paseo por Paris, retratos al natural, by Roque Barcia 15046 [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/4/15046 ] [Files: 15046-8.txt] Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi, by Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi 15045 [Title: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.)] [Subtitle: Edited with Notes and Introductory Account of her Life and Writings] [Edited by A. Hayward] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/4/15045 ] [Files: 15045.txt; 15045-8.txt; 15045-h.htm] A Reversible Santa Claus, by Meredith Nicholson 15044 [Illustrated by Florence H. Minard] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/4/15044 ] [Files: 15044.txt; 15044-8.txt; 15044-h.htm] Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12), by Burke 15043 [Author: Edmund Burke] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/4/15043 ] [Files: 15043.txt; 15043-8.txt; 15043-h.htm] Life Of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, by J. Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw 15042 [Title: A Narrative Of The Most Remarkable Particulars In The Life Of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, As Related By Himself] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/4/15042 ] [Files: 15042.txt; 15042-8.txt; 15042-h.htm] The Negro Problem, by Booker T. Washington, et al. 15041 [Authors: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Wilford H. Smith, H.T. Kealing, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. Thomas Fortune] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/4/15041 ] [Files: 15041.txt; 15041-h.htm] McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, by William Holmes McGuffey 15040 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/4/15040 ] [Files: 15040.txt; 15040-doc.doc; 15040-pdf.pdf] Reis in Utah en Arizona, by Albert Tissandier 15039 [From "De Aarde en Haar Volken", Jaargang 1886] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/3/15039 ] [Files: 15039-8.txt; 15039-h.htm] Krakatau en de Straat Soenda, by Anonymous 15038 [From "De Aarde en haar volken", Jaargang 1886] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/3/15038 ] [Files: 15038-8.txt; 15038-h.htm] Een Jaar aan Kaap Hoorn, by Door Doctor Hijades 15037 [From "De Aarde en Haar Volken", Jaargang 1886] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/3/15037 ] [Files: 15037-8.txt; 15037-h.htm] Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, by Moses Grandy 15036 [Title: Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/0/3/15036 ] [Files: 15036.txt; 15036-h.htm] Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine, by Walter H. Rich 15035 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/0/3/15035 ] [Files: 15035.txt; 15035-8.txt; 15035-h.htm; ] Stories for the Young, by Hannah More 15034 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/0/3/15034 ] [Files: 15034.txt; 15034-8.txt; 15034-h.htm] Tell England, by Ernest Raymond 15033 [Subtitle: A Study in a Generation] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/0/3/15033 ] [Files: 15033.txt; 15033-8.txt; 15033-h.htm] Hamlet, by William Shakespeare 15032 [Translator: Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/0/3/15032 ] [Files: 15032-8.txt; 15032-h.htm] Sermons on Various Important Subjects, by Andrew Lee 15031 [Subtitle: Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume] [Intro.: Fredric B. Lozo] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/0/3/15031 ] [Files: 15031.txt; ] The Unity of Civilization, by Various, Ed. by F.S. Marvin 15030 Contents: Introductory: The Grounds of Unity, by F.S. Marvin Unity in Prehistoric Times, by J.L. Myres The Contribution of Greece and Rome, by J.A. Smith Unity in the Middle Ages, by Ernest Barker Unity and Diversity in Law, by W.M. Geldart The Common Elements in European Literature and Art, by the Rev. Dr. A.J. Carlyle Science and Philosophy as Unifying Forces, by L.T. Hobhouse The Unity of Western Education, by J.W. Headlam Commerce and Finance as International Forces, by Hartley Withers International Industrial Legislation, by Constance Smith Common Ideals of Social Reform, by C. Delisle Burns The Political Bases of a World-State, by J.A. Hobson Religion as a Unifying Influence in Western Civilization, by H.G. Wood The Growth of Humanity, by F.S. Marvin [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/0/3/15030 ] [Files: 15030.txt; 15030-8.txt; 15030-h.htm; ] Kit of Greenacre Farm, by Izola Forrester 15029 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/0/2/15029 ] [Files: 15029.txt; 15029-8.txt; 15029-h.htm; ] Selbstbetrachtungen, by Marc Aurel 15028 [Ed.: Alexander von Gleichen-Ruwurm] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/2/15028 ] [Files: 15028-8.txt; 15028-h.htm] La Novela Picaresca, by Various 15027 [Compiled by Federico Ruiz Morcuende] [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/2/15027 ] [Files: 15027-8.txt; 15027-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 103, August 6, 1892, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 15026 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/2/15026 ] [Files: 15026.txt; 15026-8.txt; 15026-h.htm] Prose Fancies, by Richard Le Gallienne 15025 [Illustrated by R. Wilson Steer] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/2/15025 ] [Files: 15025.txt; 15025-8.txt; 15025-h.htm] "Samre folk", by Daniel Sten 15024 [Subtitle: En berattelse] [Language: Swedish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/2/15024 ] [Files: 15024-8.txt] Tunnustus, by Alli Nissinen 15023 [Subtitle: Tosikuvaus elamasta] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/2/15023 ] [Files: 15023-8.txt] The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Ed. by Blair and Robertson 15022 [Subtitle: Volume XII, 1601-1604] [Ed. & Annotations: Emma Helen Blair And James Alexander Robertson] [Intro. & Notes: Edward Gaylord Bourne] Punch, Vol. 152, April 18, 1917, by Sir Owen Seaman 15021 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/2/15021 ] [Files: 15021.txt; 15021-8.txt; 15021-h.htm] Architectural Illustration, Vol 1, No. 11, November 1895, by Various 15020 [Title: The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration] [Subtitle: The Country Houses of Normandy] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/2/15020 ] [Files: 15020.txt; 15020-8.txt; 15020-h.htm] A Queens Delight, by Anonymous 15019 [Subtitle: The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. As also, A right Knowledge of making Perfumes, and Distilling the most Excellent Waters] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/1/15019 ] [Files: 15019.txt; 15019-8.txt; 15019-h.htm] Elements of Civil Government, by Alexander L. Peterman 15018 [Subtitle: A Text-Book for Use in Public Schools, High Schools and Normal Schools and a Manual of Reference for Teachers] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/0/1/15018 ] [Files: 15018.txt; 15018-h.htm; ] A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, by Cornelius Tacitus 15017 [Title: A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence] [From: The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] [Ed. and Tr.: Arthur Murphy] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/1/15017 ] [Files: 15017.txt; 15017-8.txt; 15017-0.txt; 15017-h.htm] Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX., by Various 15016 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/1/15016 ] [Files: 15016.txt; 15016-8.txt; 15016-h.htm] Sex and Society, by William I. Thomas 15015 [Subtitle: Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/0/1/15015 ] [Files: 15015.txt; 15015-8.txt; 15015-h.htm; ] Winnie Childs, by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson 15014 [Subtitle: The Shop Girl] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/0/1/15014 ] [Files: 15014.txt; 15014-8.txt; 15014-h.htm] The Keeper of the Door, by Ethel M. 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Yonge] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/8/14988 ] [Files: 14988.txt; 14988-8.txt; 14988-h.htm] Architectural Illustration, Vol. 1, No. 10, by Various 14987 [Title: The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 1, No. 10, October 1895] [Subtitle: French Farmhouses] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/8/14987 ] [Files: 14987.txt; 14987-8.txt; 14987-h.htm] Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1, by Michael Faraday 14986 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/9/8/14986 ] [Files: 14986.txt; 14986-8.txt; 14986-h.htm; ] Valere Aude, by Louis Dechmann 14985 [Subtitle: Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/8/14985 ] [Files: 14985.txt; 14985-8.txt; 14985-h.htm] Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5, by Robert Kerr 14984 [Title: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 5] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/8/14984 ] [Files: 14984.txt; 14984-8.txt] Elaman hawainnoita VII, by Pietari Paivarinta 14983 [Title: Elaman hawainnoita VII: Rauta=mies; Hairahdus; Pentti ja Inka] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/8/14983 ] [Files: 14983-8.txt] Panukala sa Pagkakana nang Republika nang Pilipinas, Apolinario Mabini 14982 [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/8/14982 ] [Files: 14982-8.txt; 14982-h.htm] The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela, by Benjamin of Tudela 14981 [Tr.: Marcus Nathan Adler] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/8/14981 ] [Files: 14981.txt; 14981-8.txt; 14981-h.htm] Outwitting Our Nerves, by Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury 14980 [Subtitle: A Primer of Psychotherapy] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/8/14980 ] [Files: 14980.txt; 14980-8.txt; 14980-h.htm] Cape Cod, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4, by Various 14979 [Title: Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Vol. 6, No. 4] [Subtitle: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Southeastern Massachusetts] [Ed.: Lemuel C. Hall] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/7/14979 ] [Files: 14979.txt; 14979-h.htm] A Village Ophelia and Other Stories, by Anne Reeve Aldrich 14978 Contents: A Village Ophelia A Story Of The Vere De Vere A Lamentable Comedy An African Discovery An Evening With Callender] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/7/14978 ] [Files: 14978.txt; 14978-8.txt] The Red Record, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 14977 [Subtitle: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States] [Preface by Frederick Douglass] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/7/14977 ] [Files: 14977.txt; 14977-8.txt; 14977-h.htm] Mob Rule in New Orleans, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 14976 [Subtitle: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/7/14976 ] [Files: 14976.txt; 14976-h.htm] Southern Horrors, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 14975 [Subtitle: Lynch Law in All Its Phases] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/7/14975 ] [Files: 14975.txt; 14975-h.htm] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 4, 1917, by Various 14974 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/7/14974 ] [Files: 14974.txt; 14974-8.txt; 14974-h.htm] Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, by John Addington Symonds 14972 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/7/14972 ] [Files: 14972.txt; 14972-8.txt; 14972-h.htm] History of Holland, by George Edmundson 14971 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/7/14971 ] [Files: 14971.txt; 14971-8.txt; 14971-h.htm] Academica, by Marcus Tullius Cicero 14970 [Revised And Explained By James S. Reid] [Language: Latin with English and Greek (ancient)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/7/14970 ] [Files: 14970.txt; 14970-8.txt; 14970-0.txt; 14970-h.htm] Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, by Sigmund Freud 14969 [Translated by A. A. 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A Sequel to Grandmother Elsie] [Author AKA: Martha Farquharson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/9/0/14909 ] [Files: 14909.txt; 14909-h.htm; ] Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants, by William Pittman Lett 14908 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/0/14908 ] [Files: 14908.txt; 14908-8.txt; 14908-h.htm] Living Alone, by Stella Benson 14907 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/0/14907 ] [Files: 14907.txt; 14907-8.txt; 14907-h.htm] Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems, by Thomas Runciman 14906 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/0/14906 ] [Files: 14906.txt; 14906-8.txt; 14906-h.htm] Traite du Pouvoir du Magistrat Politique, by Hugo Grotius 14905 [Title: Traite du Pouvoir du Magistrat Politique sur les choses sacrees] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/0/14905 ] [Files: 14905-8.txt] Constituicao politica da Monarchia portugueza, Legislation of Portugal 14904 [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/0/14904 ] [Files: 14904-8.txt] The Knights of the White Shield, by Edward A. 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Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #409 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright Feb 1996 Frivolous Cupid, by Anthony Hope [Hawkins] [frcupxxx.xxx] 428 Feb 1996 The Great War Syndicate, by Frank Stockton [FS#2] [wsyndxxx.xxx] 427 Feb 1996 Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson[#18][tlfnsxxx.xxx] 426 Feb 1996 Familiar Studies of Men & Books, by Stevenson[#17][fsombxxx.xxx] 425 Feb 1996 General Booth, Other Poems, by Vachel Lindsay [#2][gnbthxxx.xxx] 424 Feb 1996 Round The Red Lamp, By Arthur Conan Doyle[Doyle#8][rrlmpxxx.xxx] 423 Feb 1996 The Romany Rye, by George Borrow [Borrow #2] [trryexxx.xxx] 422 Feb 1996 Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson [RLS #17] [kdnpdxxx.xxx] 421 Feb 1996 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, by L. Frank Baum[#4][dorozxxx.xxx] 420 Feb 1996 The Magic of Oz, by L. 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Du Bois [soulbxxx.xxx] 408 Jan 1996 The Reporter Who Made Himself King, by Davis[#7] [rkingxxx.xxx] 407 Jan 1996 Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis [Davis#6] [aprhdxxx.xxx] 406 Jan 1996 Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis[5][alrhdxxx.xxx] 405 Jan 1996 Industrial Biography, by Samuel Smiles [Smiles#1] [inbioxxx.xxx] 404 Jan 1996 Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis[RHD4][soldfxxx.xxx] 403 Jan 1996 Penrod, by Booth Tarkington [Tarkington #2] [pnrodxxx.xxx] 402 Jan 1996 Blix, by Frank Norris [#4 in Frank Norris series] [blixnxxx.xxx] 401 Jan 1996 Helen of Troy, by Sara Teasdale [helenxxx.xxx] 400 Jan 1996 Cast Upon the Breakers, by Horatio Alger[Alger#3] [cubrkxxx.xxx] 399 Jan 1996 1st Book of Adam and Eve, Rutherford Platt [1adamxxx.xxx] 398 Jan 1996 Four Poems by John Milton [Milton #3] [miltpxxx.xxx] 397 Jan 1996 The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton [ladytxxx.xxx] 396 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? With 15,365 eBooks online as of February 09, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$1.02 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,417,750 x 15,365 x $1.02 = $1+ trillion With 15,365 eBooks online as of February 09, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.65 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.89 when we had 11,320 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 15,365 eBooks in 33 Years and 07.25 Months We Averaged ~457 Per Year 38.1 Per Month 1.25 Per Day At 409 eBooks Done In The 35 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 11.7 Per Day 82 Per Week 357 Per Month The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] GREECE BANS E-MAIL SNOOPING Greece's personal data watchdog has ordered companies not to violate employee privacy by snooping into their private e-mail. The independent Data Protection Authority (DPA), whose decisions are binding, has barred firms from collecting and processing information on workers' communications, including e-mail. The decision did not include fines. The authority acted on a complaint by the workers' union of an unnamed company, alleging the company remote-controlled employees' computers through virtual network control, specialized software that transmits the screen and keyboard and mouse clicks between two computers on a network. (The Australian 2 Feb 2005) <http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12124895%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5 E,00.html> By J Lamp Deakin U. WHY BUY WHEN YOU CAN RENT? Until recently, subscribers to music download services were restricted in their ability to transfer songs they purchased to portable players, while Apple has touted the portability of its iTunes service, aimed at owners of its iPod portable music player. But Napster is hoping to change all that with its Napster To Go service, which it's promoting in a SuperBowl ad urging music fans to compare the costs of spending $10,000 to buy and transfer 10,000 songs to an iPod, compared with the $15 per month fee to carry songs from a catalog of more than a million tracks on Napster-compatible players. The Napster service will use Microsoft's new Janus digital rights management software, and manufacturers like Samsung, iRiver, Gateway and Creative are cranking up production of Janus-compatible devices ranging in price from about $250 to $500. An IDC analyst predicts the price eventually will fall below $100, creating tougher competition for Apple. (Reuters 3 Feb 2005) <http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=7521346> [More. . .] THAT MUSIC IN THE AIR HAS BECOME A RENT-OR-BUY DECISION The business model made popular by Apple's iTunes Music Store and its iPod portable player -- which allows music fans to buy songs by the track -- is being severely tested not only by new subscription services that treat music as a pay-as-you-listen proposition, but by Microsoft's new copy-protection software that allows subscribers to move their rented tracks from their PCs to portable music players. How does this work? By putting a timer on the tracks loaded on the player, and automatically checking whether a user's subscription is still current. Phil Leigh of Inside Digital Media says, "This is potentially the first serious challenge that the iPod is going to face. What these devices are going to be able to do is attack iPod where it's weak." But of course renting and buying can live together in peace: Jupiter Research's Michael Gartenberg says, "There's going to have to be some education in the marketplace. There's some stuff that consumers watch over the air and on cable but don't actually own and some DVDs consumers actually go out and buy. There's going to be some coexistence here as well." (AP/San Jose Mercury News 3 Feb 2005) <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10804837.htm> WHO GETS TO DECIDE WHAT JOURNALISM IS? [Talk about reducing a country wide argument to an extreme: Mom and Son] A California court will soon decide whether bloggers have the same legal protections as journalists under "shield" laws that protect reporters from revealing their sources. Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Kurt Opsahl, who represents two bloggers targeted by Apple for leaking information about new company products, maintains that if the bloggers are forced to give up their sources "the public will lose out on a vital outlet for independent news, analysis, and commentary." An opposing view is offered by University of Iowa law professor Randall Bezanson, who says that simply expressing opinions to a tiny audience isn't journalism -- because if it were "then I'm a journalist when I write a letter to my mother reporting on what I'm doing. I don't think the free-press clause [of the U.S. Constitution] was intended to extend its protections to letters to mothers from sons." (USA Today 2 Feb 2005) <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2005-02-02-about-a-blog_x.htm> [and. . .] YOUR LYING EYES IN THE PHOTOSHOP AGE [Who remembers the doctored FBI photograph of the March on Washington that spelled the end of the Viet Nam War? It turned out they took the picture after the march was over, but didn't realize the Washington Monument was, in fact, a HUGE sundial, and that it was obvious to any observer that the photograph had been taken hour after the march ended. Of course, we wouldn't have that problem today, would we?] Have the ethics of photojournalism been changed in some way by such software as Adobe Photoshop, which allows easy manipulation of digital photos? The National Press Photographers Association says it's wrong to alter the content of a photograph "in any way that deceives the public," and the director of photography at the Los Angeles Times director of photography says, "If our readers can't count on honesty from us, I don't know what we have left." Dartmouth computer science professor Hany Farid is working to solve the problem of dishonest photographs by developing computer algorithms that can detect when an image has been altered. But Farid says, "It's a bit of an arms race. It's tamper and tamper protection, and we can already predict who's going to win. We simply make it harder" for the average person with the average amount of skill to get away with photographic deceptions. (CSM/USA Today 2 Feb 2005) <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/ethics/2005-02-02-photos-and-t he-truth_x.htm> SCHOOL DAYS: WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING ON? It is increasing commonplace now for teachers and schools to use the Internet to distribute grades, pending assignments, written comments, class participation, and disciplinary actions -- and to allow parents to check on both the academic progress and general activities of their children. One parent says, "My sixth grader has not bothered to tell me he is failing math for the first time in his life. I was just perusing [the school's Web site] and he's got one, two, three, four, five zeros. I have immediately put a call in to that teacher." The parent adds: "If everybody would use it and use it more, we could be more involved in our children's education." Yet Pearson Education, one of the vendors for systems to manage student information, estimates that only a quarter of its 16,000 school districts buy the optional parental-access package. Among the reasons schools are reluctant to use it is that teachers just don't want to let parents quibble with them about grades. Yet without such systems some parents won't even know that there's anything to quibble over, because, in the words of another parent, "Kids don't always bring the bad stuff home." (AP 2 Feb 2005) <http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050202/D8803G1O0.html> SCHOOL NEWS: FIRST AMENDMENT? WHAT FIRST AMENDMENT? A University of Connecticut survey of more than 100,000 high school students has found that educators are failing to give high school students an appreciation of the First Amendment9s guarantees of free speech and a free press. Commissioned by the Knight Foundation, the $1 million, two-year study found that nearly three-fourths of high school students either do not know how they feel about the First Amendment or admit they take it for granted; seventy-five percent erroneously think flag burning is illegal; half believe the government can censor the Internet; and more than a third think the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees. Knight Foundation chief executive Hodding Carter III says, 3These results are not only disturbing; they are dangerous. Ignorance about the basics of this free society is a danger to our nation9s future.2 (Knight Foundation 31 Jan 2005) <http://www.knightfdn.org/default.asp?story=news_at_knight/releases/2005/200 5_01_31_firstamend.html> FLAT-PANEL SHAKEUP Fierce competition from Korean manufacturers is driving down prices of flat panel displays and eroding profits for many of the companies that make them. With LCD screen prices down as much as 40% in the last year, Fujitsu announced it's selling its LCD operation to Sharp for an undisclosed amount. The divestiture comes on the heels of an announcement last week that Fujitsu will sell back to Hitachi a large piece of the 50% stake it has in the companies' plasma display joint venture. "Fujitsu's been planning an exit strategy for flat panels for some time and it's finally come to fruition," says an analyst for UFJ Tsubasa Securities in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Hitachi and Matsushita are joining forces to develop, manufacture and market plasma displays, a market they hope will prove more lucrative than LCDs. Matsushita is the world's third-largest maker of plasma displays after Samsung and LG Electronics. Hitachi will rank No. 4 once it's completed its deal with Fujitsu. (New York Times 8 Feb 2005) <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/08/technology/08flat.html> HOLOGRAPHIC DISKS WILL STORE HUNDREDS OF MOVIES With the competition between the next-generation Blu-ray and HD DVD technologies still red-hot, technology firms are seeking a cooler solution for the third-generation DVD. Six leading companies, including Sony, Fuji Photo, CMC Magnetics and Optware, have formed the Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) Alliance in the hope of building a consensus early. The Alliance says consumers conceivably could store a terabyte of data -- as much as 200 standard DVDs -- on a single HVD disc, and transfer data at over one gigabit per second, or 40 times faster than a DVD. (WebIndia123.com 7 Feb 2005) <http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=64927&cat=Science> You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage DOES GOOGLE FACE COPYRIGHT TROUBLES? Google's recently announced plans to scan millions of volumes in several libraries has some wondering if the project is at risk of running into copyright limitations. Google will scan books that are in the public domain and make those texts available online; the company will also scan copyrighted books and offer short excerpts of a few lines each. Some publishing groups argued that putting even small pieces online will violate copyright and that the company should seek explicit permission from copyright owners. Critics also expressed reservations about copyright determinations for books that might, for example, be in the public domain in one country but not in another. Sally C.L. Morris, chief executive of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, said that although the sheer number of academic publishers represents a powerful disincentive to obtaining permissions from all of them, "that doesn't mean there's not a legal requirement to do it." For its part, Google insists that its actions are acceptable. Google spokesperson Steve Langdon said, "In every case, Google's presentation of the works to the public will keep authors and publishers in mind and be well within the bounds of copyright law." Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 February 2005 (sub. req'd) You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or 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 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Apparently Iraqi government forces have been trying to buy ballot boxes filled with votes they want to change. * AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. . .OR RATHER 71.6 DAYS !!! Ellen MacArthur wrote her way into several history book records this week as she completed her 26,000 mile non- stop solo sail around the world. This new world record of hers of 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes, 33 seconds is over an entire day faster than the previous record from Francis Joyon of France. Praise for her efforts has been coming in worldwide and also from Mr. Joyon, himself, along with Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac. Ellen, who will now be Dame Ellen, is the youngest person ever to be awarded Britain's highest honor at the ripest old age of 28. However, it would appear this may be just the beginning for England's newest superstar. She said she could see beating that record by about a week with more favorable weather, as there were severe problems this time. Some other world records are already in her sights including the old clipper ship records from Shanghai to London at 67 days, circumnavigating the British Isles, and a west to east Atlantic crossing. These trips are particular grueling as sleep only comes in 15-30 minute catnaps, and there are always emergency repairs, this time requiring her climb the mast to make repairs the the mainsail. Being bruised and battered a world away from home out in the middle of nowhere is an essential portion of most such voyages. The BBC World News devoted just over 1/3 of their story segments to covering the finish of this record breaking story, but United States networks seemed to ignore this story completely. The media seems to be quite different these days from a standpoint of biased reporting than it was in a variety of previous incarnations during the 1900's and 1800's. And, of course, let's not forget just how great stories such as this one fly in the face of Harvard's President only a week after he left the news with egg on his face after commenting about women not being suited for study or careers in the areas of science and mathematics that are required to accomplish such a record breaking feat. If you don't think applying science and math to sailing around the world requires much study, then you have not actually tried it, or else you are a natural math whiz. We tend to forget that the rigors of navigation, even a modern computer-aided navigation, are still well beyond the capabilities of the normal math and science student or professor, not to mention being able to calcuate the winds, currents, location, weather reports, maps, reefs and all the other naval navigation requirements. This feat is truly one of the most difficult we hear on the news as well as one of those requiring the greatest possible endurance of mind and body working together. Whether that mind and body are female or male. . . . *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK I hope you saw The Daily Show's segment on the largest cache of chemical weapons in the world. It's in a place called Al Abama. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The results of the Iraqi elections will be held up for so long that no one will care who was elected, or how many voted. . . the fact that elections were held at all will called victory. Of course, that victory will not encourage anyone to go home. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK We don't usually associate smog advisories with the middle of winter, but there is just such an "air quality alert" [to put it in NewSpeak] for a handful of counties surrounding Terra Haute, Indiana, and apparently a few more in northern Indiana. [Terra Haute is south of Indianapolis, not far from Illinois.] !!! Well, I spoke a little too soon, only a day after sending out this report we were under a "smog alert" as they called it before the Political Correction Officers insisted on a new NewSpeak Dictionary that doesn't include "smog alert." Yes, right here in my Central Illinois hometown surrounded by cornfields we are having our own smog alert, and people are being warned not to go outside if they are old or have any medical concerns about breathing. Apparently lots of particles are in the atmosphere from cars, factories, furnaces and the like; first time we've had one of these new-fangled alerts, at least according to the news. * "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 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 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. *** *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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GWeekly_February_02.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, February 02, 2005 PT1 *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971****** Newsletter editors needed! Please email hart(a)pobox.com or gbnewby(a)pglaf.org Anyone who would care to get advance editions: please email hart(a)pobox.com HOT REQUESTS I was just wondering if you or might know someone from PG who could help a Linux newbie like me. There are some programs I want to install, but I need step-by-step guidance to ensure the programs compile correctly and so forth. Jared Buck <JBuck814366460(a)aol.com> * Request someone to find a paper copy of The Breaking Point, by Mary Roberts Rinehart We need to know the last line of Chapter 22, and the first line of Chapter 23 [XXII-XXIII] * HEADLINE NEWS Project Gutenberg of Canada needs your help! Please email: pgcanada(a)lists.pglaf.org * v0.2 version of PodReader is out, and it interfaces to PG. 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Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #291 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright Jul 1995 United States Declaration of Independence in HTML [1whenxxa.zip] 300C Jul 1995 Tales From Two Hemispheres, Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen [twohexxx.xxx] 299 Jul 1995 The Market-Place by Harold Frederic [Frederic #2] [marktxxx.xxx] 298 The Flirt, by Booth Tarkington 297 Jul 1995 The Cash Boy, by Horatio Alger, Jr. [Alger #2] [cashbxxx.xxx] 296 Jul 1995 The Early Short Fiction, Edith Wharton #5 Part One[whrt1xxx.xxx] 295 Jul 1995 The Captain of the Polestar, by A. 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With 15,247 eBooks online as of February 02, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$1.05 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,112,028 x 15,247 x $1.05 = $1+ trillion With 15,247 eBooks online as of February 26, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.66 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.89 when we had 11,219 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 15,247 eBooks in 33 Years and 07.00 Months We Averaged ~454 Per Year 37.8 Per Month 1.24 Per Day At 291 eBooks Done In The 28 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 10.4 Per Day 73 Per Week 291 Per Month The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] SHAKEOUT IN CONSUMER ELECTRONICS FORECAST Experts are predicting a major shakeout in the consumer electronics industry, similar to the one computer makers endured two decades ago. Hordes of upstart rivals, plummeting prices and a host of new technologies are pummeling profits at industry stalwarts such as Sony, Pioneer and Philips Electronics. "We're seeing price depreciation that would have been unimaginable in the past," says Sony chief strategy officer Katsumi Ihara. "What's behind it is that with the switch to digital components, anyone can make them and there aren't compelling ways to distinguish one's products." In an effort to cope with the onslaught of mass look-alikes, the big electronic makers have scrambled to control the few key components that still yield reasonable profit margins, such as flat-panel displays. That, in turn, has led to a debilitating supply glut, with LCD prices falling 40% since last summer. The result has been a refocusing on the part of Philips and Thomson SA of France, which are now placing more emphasis on medical equipment and broadcasting gear, respectively. Meanwhile, Sony and Samsung are finding new life in cooperative ventures, teaming up to build the world's largest LCD panel factory. Hitachi, Toshiba and Matsushita are following suit, with an LCD plant that will open next year. The bottom line will be good for consumers, however, as electronics manufacturers struggle to churn out innovative products at ever-lower prices. (Wall Street Journal 27 Jan 2005) <http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110676809779336933,00.html> (sub req'd) REPORT URGES DEGREE PROGRAMS FOR ONLINE EDUCATION A new report from the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness identifies degree programs as the single largest factor that determines whether a distance education program is successful. In preparing the report, "Achieving Success in Internet-Supported Learning in Higher Education," the group conducted a survey of 21 distance education programs it deemed successful. Among those schools, 89 percent offered online degrees rather than just online courses. "It's easier to measure the progress at a programmatic level," according to the report's author, Rob Abel, president of the alliance. "The programmatic approach also gets institutions thinking about student-support services," Abel continued. Among the institutions profiled in the study is the University of Florida, which currently has more than 6,000 students enrolled in distance education programs. According to William H. Riffee, associate provost for distance, continuing, and executive education at the university, the program was a response to growing numbers of students who wanted degrees from the university, which could not handle them all. Riffee attributes his school's success to its having scaled the program effectively. The report also identified the for-profit institution Westwood College as successful. Shaun McAlmont, president of Westwood College Online, credits some of the success to the agility of the for-profit educational industry, compared to traditional higher education, which he said is slow to change. Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 February 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i22/22a03101.htm You have been reading excerpts from NewsScan: NewsScan Daily is underwritten by RLG, a world-class organization making significant and sustained contributions to the effective management and appropriate use of information technology. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the text, html, or handheld versions of NewsScan Daily, send the appropriate subscribe or unsubscribe messages (i.e., with the word 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' in the subject line) to: Text version: Send message to NewsScan(a)NewsScan.com Html version: Send mail to NewsScan-html(a)NewsScan.com NewsScan-To-Go: http://www.newsscan.com/handheld/current.html * >From Edupage SUN MOVES SOLARIS TO OPEN SOURCE Sun Microsystems has announced it will make its Solaris 10 operating system available as an open source product. Sun has lost ground to companies including Dell and HP that increasingly offer Linux-based products. Changing consumer sentiment regarding proprietary systems has left Sun defending its products, and the company's latest move is designed to persuade developers to once again consider Sun's technology. The open source Solaris will be available free of charge, and developers will be able to make changes to the operating system to improve it as they see fit. According to John Loiacono, executive vice president for software at Sun, the goal is to get more developers using Solaris, thereby increasing opportunities for Sun to sell its other products and hardware. The company also announced it would modify its stance on intellectual property and allow free use of 1,600 of the patents it holds on the Solaris operating system. New York Times, 26 January 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/technology/26sun.html MICROSOFT TO LIMIT DOWNLOADS TO LEGAL SOFTWARE OWNERS Microsoft will soon begin requiring users to employ a program called Windows Genuine Advantage before downloading software patches or updates. The program verifies that the computer requesting the download is running a legitimate copy of Windows software rather than a pirated or counterfeit version. Initially, the requirement will apply to users in China, Norway, and the Czech Republic, but it will include all users by the middle of the year. Users will still be able to receive software updates and patches using the Automatic Updates feature. The program is part of Microsoft's three-pronged approach to limiting software piracy: educating users, designing products that discourage illegal copying, and legal enforcement. In addition to allowing downloads, the program will also offer users discounts on Microsoft products and services. Analysts noted that although the obvious benefit of the program is to Microsoft by way of decreasing the incidence of software piracy, users stand to benefit as well. Ensuring that a computer is running a legitimate version of an operating system shields that computer from bugs and glitches associated with pirated software, while guaranteeing that patches and upgrades will work properly. CNET, 25 January 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5550205.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html or 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 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA First Amendment On The Decline A University of Connecticut study sponored by the Knight Foundation reports from their massive study of 112,003 students 7,889 teachers and 327 school principals: 36% believe newspapers should get "government approval" before publishing. 13% had no opinion, leaving 51% for a free press. 32% say the press has "too much" freedom. 10% say the press has too little freedom. 37% say the amount of press freedom is just right. 75% thought flag burning was illegal. *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK We are the enemies of democracy, and all those who promote democracy. We believe in the will of God. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi * Subject: Reaction to Harvard's president Summers' comments about women in science This reminds me of the famous Dr. Clark (Harvard also) comments from around the 1850's. Education was bad for women because studying took necessary nutrients away from the ovaries and sent them to the brain. His proof: educated women had fewer children. At least the distribution of eBooks is done in a manner that is not based on color, creed, gender, religion, etc. However, those of us in areas in which the vast majority not only have computers but also have Internet access, and even over half have high speed Internet access, must take some time to consider that most of the world has no access at all to computers or the Internet. Nearly half the people in the world have never been part of a plain, non-emergency phone call. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK There will be a race in May to see which happens first: Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith or The resumption of the Space Shuttle flights *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The single greatest cause of personal bankruptcy in the US: Unpaid medical bills [Is there any other country in which this is the case? * We don't usually associate smog advisories with the middle of winter, but there is just such an "air quality alert" [to put it in NewSpeak] for a handful of counties surrounding Terra Haute, Indiana, and apparently a few more in northern Indiana. [Terra Haute is south of Indianapolis, not far from Illinois.] * This year, for the first time the photographic industry will be predominantly digital as opposed to film. * For the last year we have been reporting on China's growth, and once mentioned [here or elsewhere] that China was buying up all the scrap metal available in the entire world. This struck close to home yesterday, as 30 salaried employees came to work to find they had no jobs as a result of there being not enough scrap metal here in the Heartland to keep them working. * Most of you have probably seen something like this: "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 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 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. 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Which actually means something pretty close to absolutely nothing.) -=-=-=-=[ 75 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader, by William Holmes McGuffey 14880 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/8/14880 ] [Files: 14880.txt; 14880-doc.doc; 14880-pdf.pdf] The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island, by Cyril Burleigh 14879 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/7/14879 ] [Files: 14879.txt; 14879-h.htm] The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka, by Oscar Ludvig Olson 14878 [Title: The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf] [Subtitle: A Contribution to the History of Saga Development in England and The Scandinavian Countries] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/7/14878 ] [Files: 14878-8.txt; 14878-0.txt] The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, by Beatrix Potter 14877 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/7/14877 ] [Files: 14877.txt; 14877-8.txt; 14877-h.htm] The Forest Runners, by Joseph A. Altsheler 14876 [Subtitle: A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/7/14876 ] [Files: 14876.txt; 14876-8.txt; 14876-h.htm] Elsie's children, by Martha Finley 14875 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/7/14875 ] [Files: 14875.txt; 14875-8.txt; 14875-h.htm] Elsie's Womanhood, by Martha Finley 14874 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/7/14874 ] [Files: 14874.txt; 14874-8.txt; 14874-h.htm] Instructions on Modern American Bridge Building, by G. B. N. Tower 14873 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/7/14873 ] [Files: 14873.txt; 14873-8.txt; 14873-h.htm] The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, by Beatrix Potter 14872 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/7/14872 ] [Files: 14872.txt; 14872-h.htm] Poems, by Mary Alice Walton 14871 [Subtitle: A Message of Hope] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/7/14871 ] [Files: 14871.txt; 14871-h.htm] Rebuilding Britain, by Alfred Hopkinson 14870 [Subtitle: A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/7/14870 ] [Files: 14870.txt; 14870-8.txt; 14870-h.htm] Soldier Songs and Love Songs, by A.H. Laidlaw 14869 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/6/14869 ] [Files: 14869.txt; 14869-8.txt; 14869-h.htm] The Tailor of Gloucester, by Beatrix Potter 14868 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/6/14868 ] [Files: 14868.txt; 14868-h.htm] Oriental Religions and Christianity, by Frank F. Ellinwood 14867 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/6/14867 ] [Files: 14867.txt; 14867-8.txt] Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador, by William Wood 14866 [Subtitle: An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/6/14866 ] [Files: 14866.txt; 14866-8.txt; 14866-h.htm] Gwaith Alun, by Alun 14865 [Ed.: Owen M. Edwards] [Illus.: John Thomas, S. Maurice Jones] [Language: Welsh] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/8/6/14865 ] [Files: 14865.txt; 14865-h.htm] Elaman hawainnoita V, by Pietari Paivarinta 14864 [Full title: Elaman hawainnoita V: Kirjailija; Mutta elaapa han wiela sittenkin; Waara mammona] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/6/14864 ] [Files: 14864-8.txt] The Tinder-Box, by Maria Thompson Daviess 14863 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/6/14863 ] [Files: 14863.txt; 14863-8.txt; 14863-h.htm] Laara, by Kauppis-Heikki 14862 [Subtitle: Kuvaus Savon kansan elamasta] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/6/14862 ] [Files: 14862-8.txt] Kivesjarvelaiset; Simo Hurtta; Bellerophon, by Eino Leino 14861 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/6/14861 ] [Files: 14861-8.txt] The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, by Walter Scott 14860 [Subtitle: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] [Annotated by David Douglas Devlin] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/6/14860 ] [Files: 14860.txt; 14860-8.txt; 14860-0.txt; 14860-h.htm] Daddy Takes Us to the Garden, by Howard R. Garis 14859 [Subtitle: The Daddy Series for Little Folks] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/5/14859 ] [Files: 14859.txt; 14859-8.txt; 14859-h.htm] The Man Thou Gavest, by Harriet T. Comstock 14858 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/5/14858 ] [Files: 14858.txt; 14858-h.htm] The Story of Versailles, by Francis Loring Payne 14857 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/5/14857 ] [Files: 14857.txt; 14857-8.txt; 14857-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 152, March 28, 1917, Ed. by Owen Seaman 14856 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/5/14856 ] [Files: 14856.txt; 14856-8.txt; 14856-h.htm] A Few Short Sketches, by Douglass Sherley 14855 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/5/14855 ] [Files: 14855.txt; 14855-h.htm] Martha By-the-Day, by Julie M. Lippmann 14854 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/5/14854 ] [Files: 14854.txt; 14854-8.txt] The Stowmarket Mystery, by Louis Tracy 14853 [Subtitle: Or, A Legacy of Hate] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/5/14853 ] [Files: 14853.txt; 14853-8.txt; 14853-h.htm] The Younger Set, by Robert W. Chambers 14852 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/5/14852 ] [Files: 14852.txt; 14852-8.txt; 14852-h.htm] Uncle Silas, by J. S. LeFanu 14851 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/5/14851 ] [Files: 14851.txt; 14851-8.txt; 14851-h.htm] Het zwevende schaakbord, by Louis Couperus 14850 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/5/14850 ] [Files: 14850-8.txt; 14850-h.htm] Leaves of Life, by Margaret Bird Steinmetz 14849 [Subtitle: For Daily Inspiration] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/4/14849 ] [Files: 14849.txt; 14849-8.txt; 14849-h.htm] The Story of Miss Moppet, by Beatrix Potter 14848 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/4/14848 ] [Files: 14848.txt; 14848-h.htm] Veden paalla liikkuva kaupunki, by Jules Verne 14847 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/4/14847 ] [Files: 14847-8.txt] Punch, Volume 103, July 16, 1892, Ed. by Francis Burnand 14846 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/4/14846 ] [Files: 14846.txt; 14846-8.txt; 14846-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 102, Feb. 13, 1892, Ed. by Francis Burnand 14845 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/4/14845 ] [Files: 14845.txt; 14845-8.txt; 14845-h.htm] The Taming of Red Butte Western, by Francis Lynde 14844 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/4/14844 ] [Files: 14844.txt; 14844-8.txt; 14844-h.htm] The Manor House of Lacolle, by W.D. Lighthall 14843 [Subtitle: A Description and Historical Sketch of the Manoir of the Seigniory of de Beaujeu of Lacolle] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/4/14843 ] [Files: 14843.txt; 14843-8.txt; 14843-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, September 1880, by Various 14842 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/4/14842 ] [Files: 14842.txt; 14842-8.txt] Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6), by Thomas Moore 14841 [Subtitle: With his Letters and Journals] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/4/14841 ] [Files: 14841.txt; 14841-8.txt; 14841-h.htm] Vaihdokas, by Juho Reijonen 14840 [Subtitle: Kuvaus vanhan kansan elamasta] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/4/14840 ] [Files: 14840-8.txt] Filipinas Dentro De Cien Anos (Estudio Politico-Social), by Jose Rizal 14839 [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/3/14839 ] [Files: 14839-8.txt; 14839-h.htm] The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter 14838 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/3/14838 ] [Files: 14838.txt; 14838-h.htm] (Direct link to the illustrated html file with the lovely old images which may recall childhood to many thousands of old folks: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/3/14838/14838-h/14838-h.htm) The Tale of Tom Kitten, by Beatrix Potter 14837 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/3/14837 ] [Files: 14837.txt; 14837-h.htm] A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', by Annie Allnut Brassey 14836 [Subtitle: Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/8/3/14836 ] [Files: 14836.txt; 14836-8.txt; 14836-h.htm; ] The Burglar and the Blizzard, by Alice Duer Miller 14835 [Subtitle: A Christmas Story] [Illus.: Charlotte Harding] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/8/3/14835 ] [Files: 14835.txt; 14835-h.htm; ] The Whence and the Whither of Man, by John Mason Tyler 14834 [Subtitle: A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/8/3/14834 ] [Files: 14834.txt; 14834-8.txt; 14834-h.htm; ] Varney the Vampire, by Thomas Preskett Prest 14833 [Subtitle: Or the Feast of Blood] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/3/14833 ] [Files: 14833.txt; 14833-h.htm] A Maid of the Silver Sea, by John Oxenham 14832 [Illus.: Harold Copping] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/8/3/14832 ] [Files: 14832.txt; 14832-8.txt; 14832-h.htm; ] Andy Grant's Pluck, by Horatio Alger 14831 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/3/14831 ] [Files: 14831.txt] Aljaska en de Canada-spoorweg, by Anonymous 14830 [From "De Aarde en haar volken", Jaargang 1892] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/3/14830 ] [Files: 14830-8.txt; 14830-h.htm] Our Holidays, by Various 14829 [Subtitle: Their Meaning and Spirit] [Historical Stories Retold From St. Nicholas Magazine] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/2/14829 ] [Files: 14829.txt; 14829-8.txt; 14829-h.htm] Les iles, by Narcisse-Henri-Edouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice 14828 [Subtitle: Promenades dans le golfe Saint-Laurent: une partie de la Cote Nord, l'ile aux Oeufs, l'Anticosti, l'ile Saint-Paul, l'archipel de la Madeleine] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/2/14828 ] [Files: 14828-8.txt; 14828-h.htm] Etude sur Shakspeare, by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot 14827 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/2/14827 ] [Files: 14827-8.txt; 14827-h.htm] Mythen en Legenden van Egypte, by Lewis Spence 14826 [Tr.: J. W. van Rooijen] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/2/14826 ] [Files: 14826-8.txt] Our Foreigners, by Samuel P. Orth 14825 [Subtitle: A Chronicle of Americans in the Making] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/2/14825 ] [Files: 14825.txt; 14825-8.txt; 14825-h.htm] Furnishing the Home of Good Taste, by Lucy Abbot Throop 14824 [Subtitle: A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/2/14824 ] [Files: 14824.txt; 14824-8.txt; 14824-h.htm] A Student in Arms, by Donald Hankey 14823 [Subtitle: Second Series] [Intro.: J. St. Loe Strachey] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/2/14823 ] [Files: 14823.txt; 14823-8.txt; 14823-h.htm] Kartilyang Makabayan, by Hermenegildo Cruz 14822 [Subtitle: Mga Tanong at Sagot Ukol Kay Andres Bonifacio at sa KKK] [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/2/14822 ] [Files: 14822-8.txt; 14822-h.htm] A Spray of Kentucky Pine, by George Douglass Sherley 14821 [Subtitle: Placed at the Feet of the Dead Poet James Whitcomb Riley] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/8/2/14821 ] [Files: 14821.txt; 14821-h.htm; ] Une femme d'argent, by Hector Malot 14820 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/2/14820 ] [Files: 14820-8.txt] Elaemaen hawainnoita IV: Kontti=Anna; Ruoti=ukko, Pietari Paeivaerinta 14819 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/1/14819 ] [Files: 14819-8.txt] The Daughter of Anderson Crow, by George Barr McCutcheon 14818 [Illus.: B. Martin Justice] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/8/1/14818 ] [Files: 14818.txt; 14818-8.txt; 14818-h.htm; ] The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 14817 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/1/14817 ] [Files: 14817.txt] La Mare Balena, by Victor Catala 14816 [Language: Catalan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/1/14816 ] [Files: 14816.txt; 14816-8.txt] Peck's Compendium of Fun, by George W. Peck 14815 [Subtitle: Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite Humorist] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/8/1/14815 ] [Files: 14815.txt; 14815-8.txt; 14815-h.htm; ] The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, by Beatrix Potter 14814 [Links: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/1/14814 ] [Files: 14814.txt; 14814-h.htm ] The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, by Maurice Hewlett 14813 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/1/14813 ] [Files: 14813.txt; 14813-8.txt; 14813-0.txt; 14813-h.htm] A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees, by Edwin Asa Dix 14812 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/1/14812 ] [Files: 14812.txt; 14812-8.txt; 14812-h.htm; ] The New Freedom, by Woodrow Wilson 14811 [Subtitle: A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/1/14811 ] [Files: 14811.txt; 14811-8.txt; 14811-h.htm] La maison a vapeur, by Jules Verne 14810 [Subtitle: Voyage travers l'Inde septentrionale] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/1/14810 ] [Files: 14810-8.txt] The Origin and Deeds of the Goths, by Jordanes 14809 [Subtitle: Part of a Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Princeton University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ] [Trans.: Charles C. Mierow ] ["Jordanes" is the only name of the book's 6th-century author.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/0/14809 ] [Files: 14809.txt; 14809-8.txt; 14809-h.htm; ] Punch, Vol. 101, August 8, 1891, Ed. by Francis Burnand 14808 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/0/14808 ] [Files: 14808.txt; 14808-8.txt; 14808-h.htm] Marjapojat, by Theodolinda Hahnsson 14807 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/0/14807 ] [Files: 14807-8.txt; 14807-h.htm] The Present State of Wit (1711), by John Gay 14800 [Subtitle: In A Letter To A Friend In The Country] [Intro.: Donald F. Bond] [Includes: Bibliographical Note and Excerpts from "The English Theophrastus: or the Manners of the Age", With an Introduction by W. Earl Britton] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/8/0/14800 ] [Files: 14800.txt; 14800-8.txt] ============================================================================= [ This Week's Other Stuff ] ============================================================================= >From David Price, about #14865, Gwaith Alun: For those wishing to know: Alun (pronounced Alin) was born in 1797 in Mold, North Wales. His real name was John Blackwell. He didn't receive much education as a child but showed a great interest in literature (English and Welsh). A group of local well-to-do people were impressed by him and got together enough money to fully educate him. He went to Oxford University in 1824. Later he became a clergyman in Manordeifi (Wales) until his death in 1841. The book is collection of his works, mainly in Welsh although a few letters in English have been included. Since many people who see the Gutenberg releases don't read Welsh and might be interested in seeing a specimen translation of the work here's a verse from Can Gwraig Y Pysgotwr (Song of the Fisherman's Wife): Hush, restless wave! and landward gently creeping, No longer sullen break; All nature now is still and softly sleeping, And why art thou awake? The busy din of earth will soon be o'er, Rest thee, oh rest upon thy sandy shore. ~ ~ ~ Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. -Mark Twain ~ ~ ~ And yes I said yes today is the 83rd anniversary of the first publication of Ulysses. =============================================================================

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