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W. Kemble] [Contents: Strength of Gideon]] [ Mammy Peggy's Pride] [ Viney's Free Papers] [ The Fruitful Sleeping of The Rev. Elisha Edwards] [ The Ingrate] [ The Case of 'Ca'line'] [ The Finish of Patsy Barnes] [ One Man's Fortunes] [ Jim's Probation] [ Uncle Simon's Sundays Out] [ Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker] [ An Old-Time Christmas] [ A Mess of Pottage] [ The Trustfulness of Polly] [ The Tragedy at Three Forks] [ The Finding of Zach] [ Johnsonham, Junior] [ The Faith Cure Man] [ A Council of State] [ Silas Jackson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/8/15886 ] [Files: 15886.txt; 15886-8.txt; 15886-h.htm; ] Les pilotes de l'Iroise, by �douard Corbi�re 15885 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/8/15885 ] [Files: 15885-8.txt; 15885-h.htm] Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20), by Various 15884 [Editor: Edward Singleton Holden] [Subtitle: Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/8/15884 ] [Files: 15884.txt; 15884-8.txt; 15884-h.htm; ] The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life, by Anonymous 15883 [Subtitle: Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/8/15883 ] [Files: 15883.txt; 15883-h.htm] Mon amie Nane, by Paul-Jean Toulet 15882 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/8/15882 ] [Files: 15882-8.txt; 15882-h.htm] The Flower of the Chapdelaines, by George W. Cable 15881 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/8/15881 ] [Files: 15881.txt; 15881-8.txt; 15881-h.htm] The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864, by Various 15880 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/8/15880 ] [Files: 15880.txt; 15880-8.txt; 15880-h.htm] Elene; Judith; Athelstan, Byrhtnoth, Dream of the Rood, by Anonymous 15879 [Full title: Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh;] [Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood] [Subtitle: Anglo-Saxon Poems] [Translator: James M. Garnett] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15879 ] [Files: 15879.txt; 15879-8.txt; 15879-h.htm] The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts, by Honore De Balzac 15878 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15878 ] [Files: 15878.txt] The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3, by Various 15876 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15876 ] [Files: 15876.txt; 15876-8.txt; 15876-h.htm] The Unseen Bridgegroom, by May Agnes Fleming 15875 [Subtitle: or, Wedded For a Week] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15875 ] [Files: 15875.txt; 15875-h.htm] Old Testament Legends, by M. R. James 15874 [Subtitle: being stories out of some of the less-known apochryphal] [books of the old testament] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15874 ] [Files: 15874.txt; 15874-page-images.zip ] The Day of Days, by Louis Joseph Vance 15873 [Subtitle: An Extravaganza] [Illustrator: Arthur William Brown] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15873 ] [Files: 15873.txt; 15873-8.txt; 15873-h.htm] The Memories of Fifty Years, by William H. Sparks 15872 [Subtitle: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished] [Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and] [Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the] [Southwest] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15872 ] [Files: 15872.txt; 15872-8.txt; 15872-h.htm; ] La femme fran�aise dans les temps modernes, by Clarisse Bader 15871 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15871 ] [Files: 15871-8.txt; 15871-h.htm] Of Genius / Preface to The Creation, by Aaron Hill 15870 [Full title: 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The] [Creation] [Commentator: Gretchen Graf Pahl] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/7/15870 ] [Files: 15870.txt; 15870-8.txt; 15870-h.htm] Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2, James Cook 15869 [Contributor: Tobias Furneaux] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/6/15869 ] [Files: 15869.txt; 15869-8.txt] The Man Without a Country and Other Tales, by Edward E. Hale 15868 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/6/15868 ] [Files: 15868.txt; 15868-8.txt; 15868-h.htm] The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware, by Annie Fellows Johnston 15867 [Illustrator: Etheldred B. Barry] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/6/15867 ] [Files: 15867.txt; 15867-8.txt; 15867-h.htm] Humanly Speaking, by Samuel McChord Crothers 15866 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/6/15866 ] [Files: 15866.txt; 15866-8.txt; 15866-h.htm] Noughts and Crosses, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 15865 [Author AKA: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)] [Author AKA: Q] [Subtitle: Stories, Studies and Sketches] [Contents: The Omnibus]] [ Fortunio] [ The Outlandish Ladies] [ Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman] [ The Return of Joanna] [ Psyche] [ The Countess of Bellarmine] [ A Cottage in Troy] [ Old Aeson] [ The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands] [ The Constant Post-Boy] [ A Dark Mirror] [ The Small People] [ The Mayor of Gantick] [ The Doctor's Foundling] [ The Gifts of Feodor Himkoff] [ Yorkshire Dick] [ The Carol] [ The Paradise of Choice] [ Beside the Bee Hives] [ The Magic Shadow] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/6/15865 ] [Files: 15865.txt; ] Garman and Worse, by Alexander Lange Kielland 15864 [Subtitle: A Norwegian Novel] [Tr.: W. W. Kettlewell] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/6/15864 ] [Files: 15864.txt; 15864-8.txt; 15864-h.htm; ] Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, by Cleveland 15863 [Full author: Grover Cleveland] [Subtitle: Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term.] [Editor: James D. Richardson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/6/15863 ] [Files: 15863.txt; 15863-8.txt; 15863-h.htm] Afterwhiles, by James Whitcomb Riley 15862 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/6/15862 ] [Files: 15862.txt] The Things Which Remain, by Daniel A. Goodsell 15861 [Subtitle: An Address To Young Ministers] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/6/15861 ] [Files: 15861.txt; 15861-8.txt; 15861-h.htm] The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864, by Various 15860 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/6/15860 ] [Files: 15860.txt; 15860-8.txt; 15860-h.htm] The Piazza Tales, by Herman Melville 15859 [Contents: The Piazza]] [ Bartleby] [ Benito Cereno] [ The Lightning-Rod Man] [ The Encantadas; Or, Enchanted Islands] [ The Bell-Tower] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15859 ] [Files: 15859.txt; 15859-8.txt; 15859-h.htm; ] The Social Emergency, by Various 15858 [Subtitle: Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals] [Commentator: Charles W. Eliot] [Editor: William Trufant Foster] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15858 ] [Files: 15858.txt; 15858-8.txt; 15858-h.htm] Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira of Malloch, by Boswell et al. 15857 [Full title: Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written] [by Mr. David Malloch (1763)] [Full author: James Boswell, Andrew Erskine and George Dempster] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15857 ] [Files: 15857.txt; 15857-8.txt; 15857-h.htm] Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time, by James Gray 15856 [Subtitle: or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15856 ] [Files: 15856.txt; 15856-8.txt; 15856-h.htm] The Man from Home, by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson 15855 [Ill.: Luther S. White] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15855 ] [Files: 15855.txt; 15855-8.txt; 15855-h.htm; ] Initial Studies in American Letters, by Henry A. 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25 May '05

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James Wolfensohn, outgoing President of the World Bank, being replaced by Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq War architect. DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK The White House is chastising Newsweek both for not fact checking to a greater level of accuracy initially, then for not making an earlier public retraction and apology for the article concerning flushing the Koran down the toilet. This is in just about an identical manner as worldwide pressures were brought upon The White House for never going through the process of initially checking their facts on presumed weapons of mass destruction and not making an earlier public apology and a retraction of the U.S. incursion into Iraq based on the alleged presence of WMDs. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The media continue to be gobbled up by "Merger Mania." Ever wonder why so much of North American media content looks as if it were all written by clones? There are ~1,800 newspapers, ~11,000 magazines, ~11,000 radio stations, ~2,000 TV stations and ~3,000+ book publishers in the United States: Companies owning a controlling interest in the major players: 50 in 1984 26 in 1987 10 in 1996 6 in 2002 Today about 90% of the media voices have been silenced by takeovers, just compared to the number we had 20 years ago. . . . Source: NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Massive Media | PBS * You know that clean fresh air smell you get when you hang laundry out to dry on a beautiful day? Sooner than you think it will be illegal for you to get that smell directly, you'll have to get it from a box of Tide, Cheer, All, etc. . .as it will be illegal for most Americans to hang laundry out to dry. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 23 of President Clinton's Circuit Court judge nominations were kept from an up or down vote by the Republicans in his administration, plus the nomination of Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court was blocked, and it was no big item in the news. 6 of President Bush's nominations have been similarly blocked, and it is the biggest political football in America today. 98% of President Bush's nominations have been approved. * There are more "Paycheck Loan" businesses in the U.S. than McDonald's. Some victims of these services have paid over $10,000 on ~$2,500 loans. However, the new bankruptcy laws encourage even more of these. * "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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Howells 2506 [Subtitle: A Farce] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/0/2506 ] [Updated edition of: etext01/slpcr10.txt] [Files: 2506.txt; 2506-h.htm] Lost Face, by Jack London 2429 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/2/2429 ] [Updated edition of: etext00/lstfc10.txt] [Files: 2429.txt; 2429-h.htm] The Muse of the Department, by Honore de Balzac 1912 [Translated by James Waring] [Updated edition of: etext99/msdpt11.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1912 ] [Files: 1912.txt] Modeste Mignon, by Honore de Balzac 1482 [Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley] [Updated edition of: etext98/mdmgn10.txt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/4/8/1482 ] [Files: 1482.txt] Letters on Literature, by Andrew Lang 1395 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/9/1395 ] [Updated edition of: etext98/ltlit10.txt] [Files: 1395.txt; 1395-h.htm] Historical Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley 1360 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/6/1360 ] [Updated edition of: etext98/hstle10.txt] [Files: 1360.txt; 1360-h.htm] The Ancien Regime, by Charles Kingsley 1335 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/3/1335 ] [Updated edition of: etext98/anrgm10.txt] [Files: 1335.txt; 1335-h.htm] An Essay on Comedy, by George Meredith 1219 [Subtitle: And the Uses of the Comic Spirit] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/1/1219 ] [Updated edition of: etext98/esycm10.txt] [Files: 1219.txt; 1219-h.htm] The Jolly Corner, by Henry James 1190 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/1/9/1190 ] [Updated edition of: etext98/jllyc10.txt] [Files: 1190.txt; 1190-h.htm] The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James 898 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/8/9/898 ] [Updated edition of: etext97/tlotm10.txt] [Files: 898.txt; 898-h.htm] Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson 416 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/416 ] [Files: 416.txt] Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy 107 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/0/107 ] [Files: 107.txt; 107-8.txt; 107-h.htm] Reposted in HTML format at PG of Australia: May 2005 Lord Minto, A Memoir, by John Buchan [050026xx.xxx] 0421A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500261h.html ] .:: The Following corrections have been made to GUTINDEX Add language: Esther, by Jean Racine 15790 [Editor: I.H.B. Spiers] [Language: French and English] Correct title: An Outline Of The History Of Christian Thought Since Kant, by Edw. Moore 15780 [Author: Edward Caldwell Moore] Correct author's last name (not Marier): Feb 2006 Peter Ibbetson, by George du Maurier [?pibbxxx.xxx] 9817 [With an Introduction by His Cousin Lady "Madge Plunkett"] [Illustrated by George du Maurier] Add full, correct title (entry will be further corrected when this is eventually re-posted: Aug 1996 America As Seen By Oriental Diplomat, by Tingfang [asbodxxx.xxx] 609 [Title: America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat] [Author: Wu Tingfang] Correct the full title: Apr 1996 The Art of Writing, Robert Louis Stevenson [RLS22][artowxxx.xxx] 492 [Title: Essays in the Art of Writing, and Other Essays] -=-=-=-=[ 38 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Love Conquers All, by Robert C. Benchley 15851 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15851 ] [Files: 15851.txt; 15851-8.txt; 15851-h.htm] Iphigenia in Tauris, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 15850 [Translator: Anna Swanwick] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/5/15850 ] [Files: 15850.txt; 15850-8.txt; 15850-0.txt; 15850-h.htm] Timon d'Athenes, by William Shakespeare 15849 [Translator: Fran�ois Pierre Guillaume Guizot] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15849 ] [Files: 15849-8.txt; 15849-h.htm] La Comedie des Meprises, by William Shakespeare 15848 [Translator: Fran�ois Pierre Guillaume Guizot] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15848 ] [Files: 15848-8.txt; 15848-h.htm] Jules Cesar, by William Shakespeare 15847 [Translator: Fran�ois Pierre Guillaume Guizot] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15847 ] [Files: 15847-8.txt; 15847-h.htm] Beaucoup de Bruit pour Rien, by William Shakespeare 15846 [Translator: Fran�ois Pierre Guillaume Guizot] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15846 ] [Files: 15846-8.txt; 15846-h.htm] Florante at Laura, by Francisco Baltazar 15845 [Commentator: Carlos Ronquillo] [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15845 ] [Files: 15845-8.txt; 15845-h.htm] Escal-Vigor, by Georges Eekhoud 15844 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15844 ] [Files: 15844-8.txt; 15844-r.rtf] Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man, Marie Conway Oemler 15843 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/4/15843 ] [Files: 15843.txt; 15843-8.txt; 15843-0.txt; 15843-h.htm] Valtaset, by Arvid Jarnefelt 15842 [Subtitle: 3-n�yt�ksinen n�ytelm�] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15842 ] [Files: 15842-8.txt] Leonie of the Jungle, by Joan Conquest 15841 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15841 ] [Files: 15841.txt; 15841-8.txt] Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885, by Various 15840 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/4/15840 ] [Files: 15840.txt; 15840-8.txt; 15840-h.htm] The Rebel of the School, by Mrs. L. T. Meade 15839 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/3/15839 ] [Files: 15839.txt; 15839-8.txt; 15839-h.htm] The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 72, October, 1863, by Various 15838 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/3/15838 ] [Files: 15838.txt; 15838-8.txt; 15838-h.htm] Jerusalem, by Selma Lagerl�f 15837 [Author: Introduction by Henry Goddard Leach] [Tr.: Velma Swanston Howard] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15837 ] [Files: 15837.txt; 15837-8.txt; ] Expositions of Holy Scripture, by Alexander Maclaren 15836 [Subtitle: Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. ] [St Matthew Chapters I to VIII] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15836 ] [Files: 15836.txt; 15836-8.txt] William Lilly's History of His Life and Times, by William Lilly 15835 [Subtitle: From the Year 1602 to 1681] [Editor: Elias Ashmole] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15835 ] [Files: 15835.txt; 15835-8.txt; 15835-h.htm] The Book of Joyous Children, by James Whitcomb Riley 15834 [Illustrator: J. W. Vawter] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15834 ] [Files: 15834.txt; 15834-h.htm] Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884., by Various 15833 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15833 ] [Files: 15833.txt; 15833-8.txt; 15833-h.htm] Vallankumouksen vy�ryss�, by Elvira Willman 15832 [Subtitle: Novelli] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15832 ] [Files: 15832-8.txt; 15832-h.htm] The Scientific American Boy, by A. Russell Bond 15831 [Subtitle: The Camp at Willow Clump Island] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15831 ] [Files: 15831.txt; 15831-doc.doc; 15831-pdf.pdf] Three Years in Europe, by William Wells Brown 15830 [Author: Memoir of William Wells Brown by William Farmer] [Subtitle: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/3/15830 ] [Files: 15830.txt; 15830-8.txt; 15830-h.htm; ] Memories, by Fannie A. (Mrs.) Beers 15829 [Subtitle: A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During ] [Four Years of War] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15829 ] [Files: 15829.txt; 15829-8.txt; 15829-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 37, by Various 15828 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,] [No. 37, July 22, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15828 ] [Files: 15828.txt; 15828-8.txt; 15828-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 34, by Various 15827 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,] [No. 34, July 1, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15827 ] [Files: 15827.txt; 15827-8.txt; 15827-h.htm] Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration, by Leona Dalrymple 15826 [Ill.: Charles L. Wrenn] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15826 ] [Files: 15826.txt; 15826-h.htm; ] New National Fourth Reader, by Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes 15825 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15825 ] [Files: 15825.txt; 15825-8.txt; 15825-h.htm; ] Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century, by Various 15824 [Editor: John Clark Ridpath] [Subtitle: Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15824 ] [Files: 15824.txt; 15824-8.txt; 15824-h.htm; ] Voyages abracadabrants du gros Phileas, by Olga de Pitray 15823 [Illustrator: Mme. de la Fargue] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/2/15823 ] [Files: 15823-8.txt; 15823-h.htm] The Faithful Steward, by Sereno D. Clark 15822 [Subtitle: Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian] [Character] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/2/15822 ] [Files: 15822.txt; ] Elsa Finne I-II, by Axel Lundegard 15821 [Language: Swedish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/2/15821 ] [Files: 15821-8.txt] A Book For The Young, by Sarah French 15820 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/2/15820 ] [Files: 15820.txt; 15820-8.txt; 15820-h.htm] The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864, by Various 15819 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/8/1/15819 ] [Files: 15819.txt; 15819-8.txt; 15819-h.htm] The Melting of Molly, by Maria Thompson Daviess 15818 [There are two separate and significantly different versions of this] [text. This is the non-illustrated British magazine version. The] [illustrated American novel version was just posted as e-book #15817.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/1/15818 ] [Files: 15818.txt; 15818-8.txt; 15818-h.htm; ] The Melting of Molly, by Maria Thompson Daviess 15817 [Ill.: R. M. Crosby] [There are two separate and significantly different versions of this] [text. This is the illustrated American novel publication.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/1/15817 ] [Files: 15817.txt; 15817-8.txt; 15817-h.htm; ] La fabrique de crimes, by Paul H.C. 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GWeekly_May_18_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 18 May 2005 eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 2 of the Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter: - Obtaining Project Gutenberg eBooks - Updates/corrections to previously posted eBooks - 38 New U.S. eBooks this week - 1 New eBooks at Project Gutenberg of Australia - Last, but not least: insights and other fine stuff - Mailing list information - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .:: HOW TO GET EBOOKS FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG ::. The easiest way to obtain our eBooks is at our search page at http://gutenberg.org/find which allows searching by title, author or eBook number; there is also an Advanced Search page which allows for additional search criteria (note that our newer postings may not yet be indexed for all additional criteria). 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Last week the Total Count was 16209, including 437 at PG of Australia. This week we added 39 new. RESERVED/PENDING count: 44 =-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= .:: During the past week the following ebooks were manually updated and reposted with the indicated filenames and transferred into the corresponding new directories: .:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: Nina Balatka, by Anthony Trollope 8897 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/8/8/9/8897 ] [Files: 8897.txt; 8897-h.htm] The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope 5231 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/5/2/3/5231 ] [Files: 5231.txt; 5231-8.txt; 5231-h.htm] A House-Boat on the Styx, by John Kendrick Bangs 2618 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/1/2618 ] [Updated edition of: etext01/hstyx10.txt] [Files: 2618.txt; 2618-h.htm] The Caged Lion, by Charlotte M. 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GWeekly_May_18.txt **The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, May 18, 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 Please note that we are still in the process of correcting our statistical program data. Last week we subtracted a few that we thought had been in a duplicate count situation, but either that correction didn't stick or some new similar problem has occured. As always, the total count should be the consideration of some attention as to possibly being off by a few eBooks. Please note that PT2 of this Newsletter is currently in flux, as we shift from to an automated PT2 sender. The situation with Monthly Newsletters is in flux to an even greater degree. 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Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #1289 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright [Note: books without month and year entries have been reposted] La belle Gabrielle, vol. 1, by Auguste Maquet 11300 [Language: French] O cancioneiro portuguez da Vaticana, by Teophilo Braga 11299 [Subtitle: e suas relacoes com outros cancioneiros dos seculos XIII e XIV] [From: Zeitschrift fuer Romanische Philologie 1877] [Language: Portuguese] Wanderings by Southern Waters, Eastern Aquitaine, Edward Harrison Barker 11298 Travels Through the Empire of Morocco, by John Buffa 11297 Tyomiehen vaimo, by Minna Canth 11296 [Language: Finnish] Lehtori Hellmanin vaimo, by Minna Canth 11295 [Language: Finnish] Juhana Herttuan ja Catharina Jagellonican lauluja, by Eino Leino 11294 [Language: Finnish] Jan van Huysums Blomsterstykke, by Henrik Wergeland 11293 [Language: Norwegian] Sekund vecnosti, by Dragutin J. Ilijc 11292 [Subtitle: istocnjacki roman] [Translated title: One Second of Eternity: An Eastern Novel] [Language: Serbian] Kameno doba, by Jovan Zujovic 11291 [Title translation: Stone Age] [Language: Serbian] Emilie the Peacemaker, by Mrs. Thomas Geldart 11290 What is Coming?, by H. G. Wells 11289 Ons Vaderland van de vroegste tijden tot de 15de eeuw, by Coopman 11288 [Author: M. Lievevrouw-Coopman] [Language: Dutch] De omwenteling van 1830, by Hendrik Conscience 11287 [Language: Dutch] Meesterstukken van Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn, by G. Kielder 11286 [Subtitle: Leesboek voor het Lager en Voortgezet Onderwijs] [Language: Dutch] Een Heldin, by A.C. Kuiper 11285 [Language: Dutch] Punch, Vol. 156, 26 Mar 1919, Ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 11284 Plays of Gods and Men, by Lord Dunsany 11283 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 2, No 336 11282 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 2, No 334 11281 Maggie Miller, by Mary J. Holmes 11280 The Slim Princess, by George Ade 11279 Folk-Tales of Napoleon, by Honore de Balzac and Alexander Amphiteatrof 11278 [Subtitle: The Napoleon of the People; Napoleonder] [Translated, and an introduction added, by George Kennan] Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life, by E. A. Wallis Budge 11277 Civil Government in the United States, by John Fiske 11276 [Title: Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins] The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus, by American Anti-Slavery Society 11275 [Contains: etexts 11271, 11272, 11273 and 11274] Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4, by American Anti-Slavery Society 11274 Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4, by American Anti-Slavery Society 11273 Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4, by American Anti-Slavery Society 11272 Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4, by American Anti-Slavery Society 11271 Practical Illustration of Woman's Right to Labor, by Marie E. Zakrzewska 11270 [Subtitle: A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia] [Editor: Caroline H. Dall] * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? With 16,289 eBooks online as of May 18, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.96 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,422,556 x 16,248 x $.96 = ~$1 trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,289 eBooks online as of May 18, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.62 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.79 when we had 12,700 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 16,248 eBooks in 33 Years and 10.50 Months We Averaged ~480 Per Year 40.0 Per Month 1.31 Per Day At 1289 eBooks Done In The 133 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 10 Per Day 68 Per Week 286 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 Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] MOVING BEYOND LISTS FOR SEARCHING THE WEB Supporters of non-text-based representations of Web search results got a boost this week as Groxis, the makers of Grokker, released a version of the software that runs as a Java plug-in for browsers. Previously, the software, which returns search results in a circular "map," was only available as a separate, $49 application. The company will now depend on revenue from advertisements placed next to search results by search engine Yahoo. For the past nine months, 2,000 students and faculty of Stanford University have been testing the Grokker software, which has earned a strong following there. Michael A. Keller, Stanford's head librarian and an adviser to Groxis, said the application allows users to find appropriate information more quickly. Another company, Vivisimo, is developing a search engine that, while still text-based, displays groups of folders next to ranked lists of results. The folders give users another method of sifting through search results for useful resources. New York Times, 9 May 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/technology/09yahoo.html We'd like more feedback on this, Grokker, and similar programs. REPLACING BOOKS WITH COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES [This article is well worth reading, more than one point of view in it] As digital delivery of printed material becomes increasingly efficient and common, some colleges and universities are relocating books from libraries to make room for facilities where students access content on computers. The University of Southern California was one of the first to create such a digital learning laboratory in 1994, and in the past few years it has been joined by schools including Emory University, the University of Georgia, the University of Arizona, the University of Michigan, and the University of Houston. The University of Texas at Austin has recently decided to move all of the books from its undergraduate library to other facilities and create an "electronic information commons." No one expects books to disappear completely, but, according to Geneva Henry, executive director of the digital library initiative at Rice University, libraries should be primarily concerned with the exchange of ideas rather than simply storage of books. As colleges and universities work to provide appropriate services to students who have grown up with computers, the trend to use electronic resources is likely to continue. New York Times, 14 May 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/14/education/14library.html CLICKING ON CAMPUS Faculty at hundreds of colleges and universities are using small electronic devices similar to television remote controls as part of their in-class instruction. Commonly referred to as "clickers," the devices allow students to respond to instructor questions by choosing one of several options or, in some cases, by entering a numeric answer. Answers are transmitted by either infrared or radio frequency signal to a receiver connected to a computer, which logs the responses and can track individual students' responses, as for a quiz, or display responses from the entire class anonymously. Faculty who use the devices said that because they allow students to respond anonymously, they encourage participation from students who might be too shy to answer verbally in class, and they elicit more honest answers on controversial subjects. Stephen Bradforth, a chemistry professor at the University of Southern California, said that after he began using clickers in his classes, attendance and participation increased. He also noted that the devices force professors to think differently about how they teach their courses. Wired News, 14 May 2005 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67530,00.html UNIVERSITY SEEKS NAMES OF BLOGGERS Officials at St. Lawrence University are trying to obtain the names of individuals responsible for a blog that includes content the university finds inappropriate. Included in the blog, whose stated goal is to fight a "right-wing assault" on the university, are pictures of and harshly derogatory comments about students and faculty whom the blog's contributors see as conservative. Other blog posts criticize university policies and administrators, but Macreena Doyle, a spokesperson for St. Lawrence, said the institution is most concerned about the anonymous attacks on students. "If these were posters attacking students on campus," said Doyle, "we would take action." The university has filed "John Doe" court actions with Time Warner Cable, whose service was used to make postings to the blog, demanding information that would identify the blog's contributors. Google disclosed IP addresses from which blog postings came after being ordered to do so by the courts, but it is not clear whether Time Warner will do the same. Inside Higher Ed, 13 May 2005 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/05/13/lawrence TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM AT U OF MAINE TO REQUIRE IBOOKS Beginning in the fall 2005 semester, students entering the teacher certification program at the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine will be required to have Apple iBook laptop computers. According to Robert Cobb, dean of the college, "It is essential that aspiring teachers understand and know how and when to use wireless laptop technology in the teaching and learning process." The machines will meet a standard configuration, both for hardware and software, as determined by the college. The college's Teacher Education Faculty opted for Apple computers because they are less frequently the targets of computer viruses, relative to Windows-based machines, and because of the state's Learning Technology Initiative. Under that program, all seventh- and eighth-grade students and teachers in Maine public schools have iBook computers. Macworld, 11 May 2005 http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/05/11/umaine/index.php IBM PUSHES FIREFOX The Firefox Web browser received a boost this week when IBM began encouraging all of its more than 300,000 employees to use the open source browser instead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). Employees will be able to download the browser from company servers, and IBM help desk staff will be trained to support the browsers. Despite having been downloaded about 50 million times since its launch last November, Firefox is still dwarfed by IE, which holds more than 90 percent of the browser market. IBM has a history of supporting open source products, and the Firefox announcement furthers its support of open source technologies while shedding some of the company's dependence on Microsoft products. Brian Truskowski, chief information officer at IBM, said supporting Firefox is a "good example of walking the talk when it comes to open standards and open source." Truskowski said he expects IBM will ultimately save money using Firefox instead of IE. CNET, 12 May 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5704750.html DUTCH ACADEMICS LAUNCH OPEN-ACCESS SITE Dutch academics have publicly announced a Web site that offers free access to scholarly material from all of the country's universities. The Digital Academic Repositories (DARE) project, which started a year ago as a test program, is a joint effort among all Dutch universities, the National Library of the Netherlands, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. DARE includes 47,000 academic articles and other digital resources, including bibliographic information, full text materials, and audio and video files. Organizers of the project said no other country allows such widespread and easy access to its academic research. Such open access publishing projects remain anathema to most commercial publishers, but supporters of open access argue that it is the appropriate publishing model, given digital technologies and increasing subscription costs for traditional academic publishing. The Register, 11 May 2005 http://www.theregister.com/2005/05/11/open_access_research/ HAMLET DATABASE NEARS COMPLETION An online database that includes all available commentary on Shakespeare's Hamlet is expected to debut within the next few months. The database was the brainchild of Bernice W. Kliman, who, in the early 1990s was working on a printed edition of such a collection for the Modern Language Association. Kliman saw the Internet as a better tool for such a project, and she raised about $1 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her idea. Over the past 10 years, scholars including Eric C. Rasmussen, a professor of English at the University of Nevada at Reno, have been working to gather every bit of scholarship and criticism ever written about the play and add it to the database. When the database is complete, users will be "able to see 400 years' worth of commentary" for any single line of the play, according to Rasmussen. Certain items from critics in the 20th century had to be left out, however, due to copyright concerns. "We tried to, of course, credit the edition," said Kliman, "but also just paraphrase rather than copy sentence by sentence." Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 May 2005 http://chronicle.com/free/2005/05/2005051001t.htm You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA The list of billion dollar companies defaulting on their pensions plans is enormous, including Bethelhem Steel, National Steel, Polaroid, Kaiser Aluminum, US Airways, etc. *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK UK Member of Parliament Galloway's entire address to U.S. DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Given court rulings and new bills signed into law, it is now easier for corporations to declare bankruptcy to get out of their pension plan responsibilities, but in great reversal, it is now harder for bankruptcy to be declared by an individual or family. It turns out this one is having increased effects, while not being reported. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Graphical representations of search data, see above, will become a major information tool. Try the new Grokker. . . . *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Women who wear makeup get promoted 30% faster than those who do not. * You've probably seen something like this statistic: "A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it." Then: "This may have been true a half a billion seconds ago, too, but now they're spending faster, so it doesn't take so long. It's less than five hours." And lately: "It's 3 hours, 30 minutes now, for the feds to spend a billion USD, not counting some off-budget expenditures." * "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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At 16,205 eBooks in 33 Years and 10.25 Months We Averaged ~479 Per Year 39.9 Per Month 1.31 Per Day At 1250 eBooks Done In The 126 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 10 Per Day 70 Per Week 295 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 Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] MOVING BEYOND LISTS FOR SEARCHING THE WEB Supporters of non-text-based representations of Web search results got a boost this week as Groxis, the makers of Grokker, released a version of the software that runs as a Java plug-in for browsers. Previously, the software, which returns search results in a circular "map," was only available as a separate, $49 application. The company will now depend on revenue from advertisements placed next to search results by search engine Yahoo. For the past nine months, 2,000 students and faculty of Stanford University have been testing the Grokker software, which has earned a strong following there. Michael A. Keller, Stanford's head librarian and an adviser to Groxis, said the application allows users to find appropriate information more quickly. Another company, Vivisimo, is developing a search engine that, while still text-based, displays groups of folders next to ranked lists of results. The folders give users another method of sifting through search results for useful resources. New York Times, 9 May 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/technology/09yahoo.html STUDENT SHUTS DOWN BLOG AFTER THREAT FROM SINGAPORE Chen Jiahao, a graduate student in chemical physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has shut down his personal blog and issued two apologies after an agency of the government in Singapore threatened to sue Chen for defamation. A*Star, the agency in Singapore dealing with science and research, accused Chen, who is from Singapore, of libelous statements that "went way beyond fair comment." The agency demanded a public apology but said Chen's first apology was insincere and insisted on another. A*Star said it welcomes various opinions and perspectives, but many in the journalism community rejected that claim. Singapore has long had a reputation for using tactics including lawsuits to silence critics. Organizations including the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters without Borders have decried Singapore's threats to Chen and journalists. "Chen criticized some of A*Star's policies," said Julien Pain, head of Reporters without Borders' Internet freedom desk, "but there was nothing defamatory in what he wrote." Reuters, 9 May 2005 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8422422 APPEALS COURT REJECTS BROADCAST FLAG A federal appeals court has struck down regulations passed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to control unauthorized dissemination of digital broadcasting signals. At issue was a "broadcast flag," a technology that would be added to digital signals that would prevent them from being distributed over the Internet. The FCC's regulation would also have required makers of video-recording equipment to modify their products to support the broadcast-flag technology. The American Library Association filed a case arguing that the regulation would impose undue restrictions on libraries, preventing them from distributing digital content to online classrooms. Consumer groups had also opposed the regulation, arguing it would drive up costs of electronic products and would keep consumers from making legitimate copies of digital works. In its ruling, the court said flatly that the FCC had overstepped its authority in issuing the regulation. Wall Street Journal, 6 May 2005 (sub. req'd) http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111539047987326903,00.html DARTMOUTH NEARS COMPLETION OF NETWORK CONVERGENCE Dartmouth College expects this fall to complete a project begun in 2001 to converge the school's phone, cable, and wireless systems into a single network. When finished, the network--described as the first of its kind at a U.S. university--will give students and faculty wireless access to the university's online services, including cable television and telephone, from anywhere on campus. In addition, the network will allow users to create individual "channels," which can include various forms of video content with a cable-quality signal. Channels could be set up, for example, to let students view video snippets of lectures when choosing classes. Having a network that allows students to watch cable programming any time, from anywhere on campus, including during class, has some worried about keeping students focused on studies, but university officials are optimistic that the network will offer compelling tools for professors to hold students' attention. Dartmouth said it saved more than $2 million by installing its new network when old systems needed to be replaced, and the network reportedly saves close to $1 million each year on maintenance and other costs. New York Times, 4 May 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/technology/techspecial/04zezima.html APPLE WORKS FOR SCHOOL IBOOK DEAL A tentative deal between Apple Computer and the Cobb County School District in Georgia could see as many as 63,000 iBook computers going to teachers and students in the district. The school board has already given its approval to the purchase of 17,000 iBooks, for all teachers and for students at four high schools. If approved, the program could be expanded to include all students in the district. Apple's efforts to persuade school districts to provide a computer for every student--what it calls its one-to-one solutions--are aimed at regaining ground in the education market that has been lost to companies selling Windows-based products, most notably Dell. In 2001, Apple signed a four-year deal with the Henrico County Public Schools in Virginia, only to see that contract given to Dell last week when it came up for renewal. Officials of Cobb County said they were aware of the situation at Henrico when they selected Apple but that the problems with that contract had been overcome. Henrico wanted the Microsoft Office software suite on their computers and didn't have it, according to Jay Dillion, a spokesperson for Cobb County. "We ... required Apple to pre-load Office on all our iBooks." 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Jeaneane Garafolo DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK It turns out that government and military officials knew sat on the knowledge that that NFL star Pat Tillman been killed by "friendly fire" for weeks, waiting to figure out the best time, place and manner to release the data. * Given court rulings and new bills signed into law, it is now easier for corporations to declare bankruptcy to get out of their pension plan responsibilities, but in great reversal, it is now harder for bankruptcy to be declared by an individual or family. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Graphical representations of search data, see above, will become a major information tool. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 10 years ago 40% of workers were covered by pensions. Today it is only 20%, and half of those are underfunded. * The divorce rate in the U.S. passed 1/2 some time ago, and is now about half way to 2/3. * You've probably seen something like this statistic: "A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it." Then: "This may have been true a half a billion seconds ago, too, but now they're spending faster, so it doesn't take so long. It's less than five hours." And lately: "It's 3 hours, 30 minutes now, for the feds to spend a billion USD, not counting some off-budget expenditures." * "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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Dakyns[#7][hieroxxx.xxx] 1175 Jan 1998 Hellenica, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#6][hllncxxx.xxx] 1174 Jan 1998 The Economist, by Xenophon, Dakyns translation[#5][econmxxx.xxx] 1173 Jan 1998 The Cavalry General by Xenophon, trans. Dakyns[#4][cvlryxxx.xxx] 1172 Jan 1998 The Apology by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns[#3][aplgyxxx.xxx] 1171 Jan 1998 Anabasis, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#2][anbssxxx.xxx] 1170 Jan 1998 Agesilaus, by Xenophon, translation by Dakyns [#1][agslsxxx.xxx] 1169 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? With 16,159 eBooks online as of May 04, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.96 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,394,041 x 16,159 x $.96 = ~$1 trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,159 eBooks online as of May 04, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.62 from each book, This "cost" is down from about $.79 when we had 12,581 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 16,159 eBooks in 33 Years and 10.00 Months We Averaged ~478 Per Year 39.8 Per Month 1.31 Per Day At 1203 eBooks Done In The 119 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 10.11 Per Day 71 Per Week 301 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 Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] PROPOSED DATABASE WORRIES SECURITY EXPERTS Amid a rash of corporate and institutional data breaches recently, security experts are questioning whether a "unit record" database proposed by the Department of Education could be kept secure. Currently the department collects aggregate data on college students and graduation rates. A unit record database would track individual students through their college careers, presenting what some see as an extremely tempting target for hackers. The current system would force a hacker to "compromise several databases," according to Eugene Spafford, professor of computer sciences and electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, whereas with a database like the one proposed, "it's possible to attack it from any point in the system." Barbara Simons, former president of the Association for Computing Machinery, was also concerned about a unit record database, suggesting that it might not be the safest way to accomplish the department's goals. Grover Whitehurst, director of the Institute of Education Sciences at the Education Department, said the agency is investigating security options for the proposed database and welcomes suggestions. He noted that the system might not use Social Security numbers as identifiers and said that if the information in the system were limited in scope, it would not be very appealing to hackers. Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 May 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i35/35a03701.htm TIME WARNER REPORTS DATA LOSS A company that handles data storage for Time Warner lost tape backups containing personal information for about 600,000 employees. Iron Mountain Inc., based in Boston, reportedly lost the tapes during transport. Officials from Time Warner said the tapes did not contain customer information. In a statement, Larry Cockell, chief security officer at Time Warner, said that although no evidence exists that the data have been accessed or misused, "we are providing current and former employees with resources to monitor their credit reports while our investigation continues." Time Warner owns America Online, HBO, and Warner Brothers. Reuters, 2 May 2005 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8363208 HEARINGS FOCUS ON LIBRARY PROVISIONS OF USA PATRIOT ACT Amid both House and Senate hearings on whether to renew certain portions of the USA PATRIOT Act, supporters and critics of Section 215, which authorizes law enforcement to obtain records from libraries and other institutions, have lined up to voice their opinions. Section 215 allows gaining access to various types of records with only the approval of a secret court. Further, those whose information has been collected are barred from disclosing that fact, even to attorneys. Representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has been highly critical of the legislation, said they could support its renewal if several concessions were made, including limiting the authority to investigate only "agent[s] of a foreign power" and eliminating the gag order for those under investigation. Groups including the American Library Association said they supported the ACLU's recommendations. Rep. Howard Coble (R-N.C.) defended the law as it stands, saying there has been much "misinformation" about Section 215 and how it has been used. Kenneth L. Wainstein, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said that the law has not been used to obtain records from libraries, though he acknowledged that it could be used that way in the future. Chronicle of Higher Education, 29 April 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/04/2005042901t.htm FIU SUFFERS COMPUTER HACK Officials at Florida International University (FIU) are warning faculty and students about possible identity theft after it was discovered that a hacker had user names and passwords for 165 computers on campus. Although only a few of the computers contained personal information, and despite the fact that no evidence exists that anyone's information has been misused, school officials fear that the hacker may have had enough access to put the university's entire network in question. University staff have been instructed to inspect 3,000 computers on campus to determine if they have been compromised. FIU has recommended that faculty and students remove any personal information from their computers and that they monitor their credit cards for suspicious activity that could indicate fraud. The Register, 29 April 2005 http://www.theregister.com/2005/04/29/fiu_id_fraud_alert/ U.S. STRENGTHENS COPYRIGHT LAW President Bush this week signed into law the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, which allows for stiffer penalties for copyright violations. Under the law, individuals found guilty of possessing one or more copyrighted movie, music, or software files that have not been released to the public face a fine and prison term of up to three years. The law also criminalizes using a camcorder to record movies in theaters. Copyright holders supported the measure. Dan Glickman of the Motion Picture Association of America thanked Congress for what he called "their strong advocacy for intellectual property rights." Although some consumer groups opposed the law, some observers described it as a relatively minor expansion of existing law. Eric Goldman, professor of copyright law at Marquette University Law School, said he expects the Justice Department to use its new authority responsibly. Silicon.com, 28 April 2005 http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39129955,00.htm SPITZER FILES SUIT AGAINST MARKETING FIRM FOR SPYWARE New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has filed suit against California-based Intermix Media for installing spyware on millions of computers. The marketing company, which conceded that previous owners indeed distributed spyware, is accused of violating state laws concerning false advertising, deceptive business practices, and trespassing. The state is seeking injunctions barring the company from distributing any more spyware; an accounting of revenues the company realized from the spyware; and fines of $500 for each act of installing spyware. A statement from the company said that it voluntarily stopped installing spyware recently and that no personal information was ever collected with the secretly installed software. The statement hinted at trying to reach a settlement with New York, a resolution that observers said is a typical outcome of situations like this one. New York Times, 29 April 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/nyregion/29internet.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Bill Gates and Thomas Friedman on the subject of the U.S. high school system. *STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK "I don't know what the future holds, but I do know who holds the future." DOUBLESPEAK OF THE DAY In the bombing of the Toykyo, Japan area the vast majority of U.S. bombing runs were total disasters with very heavy losses and most of the bombs missing their targets, but it was never reported at the time. Curtis LeMay, commander of these air raids, was later promoted from Lt. Colonel to Major General in just 18 months and even became the Air Force Chief of Staff. However, he pursued failure after failure in that office, and, finally, after his abortive candidacy for Vice President under segregationist George Wallace, his career in the public eye was over. In his favor, however, was his stance against the gradual buildup to U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, but he was once again ignored. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The New York Stock Exchange will remain steady, not moving much more than 5% above and below 10,500. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 20% of U.S. adults have completed 4 years or more of higher education, which is 1 out of 5. 40 years ago college was more exclusive, as only 1 out of 7 had a college education. Even with this influx of moderate students, the grade average has increased, yet the SAT and ACT college test scores continued to decline though the same period, at least from then up to the point where the tests were rescored to make things look as if they were not so bad. However, when such testing was initiated, it was for an even wider portion of the U.S. population, servicemen of the World War Two era. * You've probably seen something like this statistic: "A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it." Then: "This may have been true a half a billion seconds ago, too, but now they're spending faster, so it doesn't take so long. It's less than five hours." And lately: "It's 3 hours, 30 minutes now, for the feds to spend a billion USD, not counting some off-budget expenditures." * "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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