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PT1 Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

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Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 1 [01frdxxx.xxx] 2101 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? 1.1 Trillion eBooks Given Away If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,463,640,998 that would be 17,063 x 64,636,410 = ~1.1 Trillion !!! 64,636,410 With 17,063 eBooks online as of August 31, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.91 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,636,410 x 17,063 x $.91 = ~$1 Trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 17,063 eBooks online as of August 31, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.59 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.73 when we had 13,677 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 17,063 eBooks in 34 Years and 01.80 Months We Averaged ~499 Per Year 41.6 Per Month 1.38 Per Day At 2107 eBooks Done In The 238 Days Of 2005 We Averaged ~8.9 Per Day ~62 Per Week ~270 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. 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This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS, BUT NOT ALWAYS FOR TEACHING A new study indicates that computer usage by U.S. schoolteachers is rising, though technology is more frequently used for administrative purposes than for teaching. The study, conducted by Scholastic subsidiary Quality Education Data, found that 70 percent of teachers communicate with parents using e-mail and that a majority use computers for tasks such as attendance, according to CDW Government. Just 54 percent said they have incorporated technology into their teaching, and more of those who use technology in teaching are at the elementary level than in middle or high schools. Teaching with technology appears to be correlated with training: 85 percent of respondents said they have received training in applications such as the Internet, word processing, and e-mail, while 27 percent said they have had little or no instruction in how to include computers in their teaching. CNET, 29 August 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5844057.html FBI SEEKS LIBRARY RECORDS According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the FBI is using one of the powers granted by the USA PATRIOT Act to demand the records of a library in Connecticut. Because the USA PATRIOT Act also forbids disclosure of details surrounding such investigations, the name of the library in question is being kept confidential, though it is known to be a member of the American Library Association. At issue is the authority to subpoena library records using something called a national security letter, which does not require a judge's approval. The ACLU has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the library, saying "it should not be forced to disclose such records without a showing of compelling need and approval by a judge." Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU, said, "This is a prime example of the government using its Patriot Act powers without any judicial oversight to get sensitive information on law-abiding Americans." The FBI did not comment on the lawsuit, but the agency's national security letter noted that it was seeking the library records as part of an investigation "to protect against internal terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities." New York Times, 26 August 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/26/politics/26patriot.html GOOGLE TALK PROVIDES VOICE, IM SERVICES Google has announced a free service called Google Talk that lets e-mail account holders talk to each other using a PC, microphone, and speakers and provides instant messaging capability. Google reportedly plans to make the service compatible with other companies' services, basing it on an open standard, which would allow users to talk to people on competing systems. Users will not be able to make calls to landlines or mobile phones, however. The new service does not carry advertising, but Google hopes it will encourage people to sign up for the Gmail service, which does. BBC, 24 August 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4179322.stm [and in a related story] FCC PROPOSES USF TAX ON NET PHONE USERS A Federal Communications Commission proposal released to public notice by the FCC's federal-state joint board on universal service recommends requiring more companies to pay taxes into the Universal Service Fund (USF). The shift would mostly affect Internet telephone providers, which don't currently pay into the fund. Internet-based services such as chat and instant messaging that don't link to the public telephone network would continue to be exempt from USF taxes, according to the proposal. The USF subsidizes telephone services in rural and high-cost areas, and companies that currently pay into the fund pass the costs on to their customers. ZDNet, 23 August 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-5842237.html HITACHI CLAIMS FIRST TERABYTE HARD DRIVE/DVD RECORDER [And you heard it here, a week ago] Hitachi claims to have developed the first hard disk drive and DVD recorder that can store a terabyte of data or record about 128 hours of high-definition digital broadcasts. The company hopes the new line will make the money-losing DVD recorder part of its business into a profit center by next year. The new line also includes models that can store 160, 250, and 500 gigabytes of data. Hitachi claimed the new models are the first to have the capability of recording two high-definition programs simultaneously. They go on sale in Japan in September. Plans for overseas sales are not firm because of weak interest in high-end recorders in European and U.S. markets, explained a company spokesman. Washington Post, 24 August 2005 (registration req'd) www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/24/AR2005082400194.ht… SONY PLAYSTATION PORTABLE GETS INTERNET BROWSER [With a browser, can eBooks on PlayStations be far behind?] Sony Computer Entertainment America announced plans to add Internet access to its PlayStation Portable gaming device in an attempt to boost the PSP's use as a handheld entertainment center. A software upgrade enables wireless Internet access through a Web browser. The software also boosts data security and enhances sharing of digital photos and playback of video, according to Sony. Yahoo, 24 August 2005 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050824/tc_nm/sony_psp_dc 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 More schools are switching over to eBooks. *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK [Combined this week, due to unprecedented events] Former Governor John Rowland of Connecticut may actually be the first person conviced under the "Revolving Door" law he signed while still governor. Currently he is serving time in Federal Prison ["Club Fed"], but the Connecticut State's Attorney says he intends to bring him back for trial in state court, and, if convicted, to place him among the general prison population. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK John Rowland will NOT serve time in the general prison population. *QUOTE OF THE WEEK [Leaving this one in, as is relevant to the new SAT scores below] US spending on tutors rose to $4 billion is 2004 from $3.4 billion in 2003. [This is enough for 4 million families each to spend $1,000 per year, just on extra tutoring to augment our failing classroom instruction.] Source: The New York Times via Edupage [paraphrased for stand alone grammar]. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/technology/22soft.html [sub. required] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Yesterday the new SAT scores were released with a big hoopla, touting that the US school system was finally improving: but the truth is that this year's scores are virtually identical, and statistically indistinguishable from previous scores. * The nationwide average this year is 1,028, up two points from 2004. 520 for math was up 2, 510 for verbal was totally unchanged; scores in general have risen 9 points since 2000, still less than 1% more, and still less than it would take to make any conclusions, based on statistical standards. 2 points out of ~1,000, and a possible score of 1600 isn't remotely what these testing companies would/could/should call significant in terms of their own statistical expertise. The variances between an SAT of one year and of another are much greater than 2 points, thus the tests are likely to be changing more than actual performance by the schools and/or the students. It would be nice if we could test the tests, and thus have some knowledge of our measuring stick. Verbal scores dropped just below 500 in both 1991 and 1994, and the scoring of the tests was soon revalued, as were the ACT scores when they dropped to 90% of their original scores. Math scores had their lowest point at 492 in 1980 and 1981. We should also consider that most of the students who should not be expected to do very well on such tests do not take them, either for reasons of personal choice, where that is still an option, or based on the fact that they simply are not continuing in school at all. Thus we should be aware that the real national average would be all that much lower if everyone were tested. People ask me why I write something so negative about our students, our schools, and our testing system, and the answer is that I would not have to if the statements made about the various scores will be made more accurately. I didn't hear or read a single media comment questionning whether the 2 point change was valid or reliable, in a statistical sense. What does this mean? The next time you see all the statistical polling done by the media, take a look at a corner, and you will likely see a comment that the results of these surveys are designed to be accurate within + or - 3%. . .that gives a range of 6%, or what would be 60 points on a scale of about 1,000 points. 2 points just isn't enough to be statistically significant, even if the SAT people did three times as well, and guaranteed their values accurate to + or - 1%. . .which would still be a 20 point range the values could fluctuate within before being even mininally mentioned in a statistially relevant sense, and far from having significance. *Just ask your local math teachers about statistical significance.* You probably won't find 3% of these who would say 2 points in 1,000 has as much statistical relevance as a number of other factors in a testing process such as the SAT, where just one question being just slightly poorly written would throw off scores more than 2 points-- not to mention social changes, such as the fallout from 9/11 and an assortment of other geopolitical events. [Results of your survey as above should be accurate to + or - 3%.] We should also keep in mind that the various college tests were not using the same traditional scoring system recently, and in fact the scoring systems have been altered more than once since the time our own SAT and ACT scores were computed. After each of these revalued scorings the news media has been full of the "fact" that scores had improved, without any mention that it was actually a change in what we might call the measuring stick rather than in what we measured. The SATs were "remodeled" in 1990, and "a new SAT was introduced in 1994, and in 1995 SAT scoring was recentered. . . ." "Since the adjustment, SAT averages have gone up." [Quotes from: iApply - Where do you go after high school?] Recently this process has been renewed. WARNING: "Don't Confuse The Map With The Territory." * Another topic not mentioned was that a large percentage of students take the tests more than once, and even more than twice, until they feel they have reached a satisfactory score. * Here are some of the exact scores I have been able to find. If you can provide more, they would be greatly appreciated. Supposedly an ETS [Educational Testing Service?] bulletin is available with a new complete history of SAT scores, but I haven't found one yet. [I now have complete years from 1972-2001, would still like more!] 1980 Low point Math 492 1981 Low point Math 492 [Test "remodeled" in 1990 1991 Verbal 499 Low point 1994 Verbal 499 Low point ["New" test in 1994] [Scoring "recentered" in 1995] 2000 Verbal 505 Math 514 2001 Verbal 506 Math 514 2004 Verbal 508 Math 518 2005 Verbal 508 Math 520 We should note that even from the lowest points to the highest, even with all the "remodeling" and "recentering," that scores have not gone up all that much. * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * POEM OF THE WEEK This is number five of a series of five poems from a volume named: "Thoughts of My Exiled Self." The motto for this poetry volume is, "Upon this Word I shall build my life." 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Garis [arshpxxx.xxx] 2065 A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, by Samuel Johnson 2064 [Title: A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland] Feb 2000 The Trail of the White Mule, by B.M. Bower[BMB#11][tttwmxxx.xxx] 2063 Feb 2000 All For Love, by John Dryden [John Dryden #1][al4lvxxx.xxx] 2062 Feb 2000 Shorter Prose Pieces by Oscar Wilde[Oscar Wilde22][wldspxxx.xxx] 2061 The History of the Caliph Vathek, by William Beckford 2060 Feb 2000 The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr[lsokcxxx.xxx] 2059 Feb 2000 Messer Marco Polo, by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne [mpoloxxx.xxx] 2058 Feb 2000 The Last of the Plainsmen, by Zane Grey [Grey #10][plnsmxxx.xxx] 2057 Feb 2000 Life of William Carey, by George Smith [wmcryxxx.xxx] 2056 Feb 2000 Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana [2yb4mxxx.xxx] 2055 Jan 2000 Iphigenie auf Tauris, Johann von Goethe[#4] German[iphgnxxx.xxx] 2054 Jan 2000 The American Republic, by O. A. Brownson [amrepxxx.xxx] 2053 Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, by Daniel Defoe 2052 Dickory Cronke, by Daniel Defoe 2051 [Subtitle: The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder] Jan 2000 Old John Brown, by Walter Hawkins [ojbrnxxx.xxx] 2050 Jan 2000 Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion, by Wm Hazlitt[nwpygxxx.xxx] 2049 Jan 2000 The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by W. Irving #5[sbogcxxx.xxx] 2048 Jan 2000 Stories of Modern French Novels: Scribners Ed. [sbmfaxxx.xxx] 2047 (This is part of Julian Hawthorne's Lock and Key Library) Contains: Victor Cherbuliez: Count Kostia Paul Bourget: Andre Cornelis Anonymous: The Last of the Costellos; Lady Betty's Indiscretion Jan 2000 Clotel; or, The President's Daughter, by Wm. Brown[clotlxxa.xxx] 2046 (See also #241) * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? 1.1 Trillion eBooks Given Away If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,462,207,246 that would be 17,020 x 64,622,072 = ~1.1 Trillion !!! With 16,960 eBooks online as of August 24, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.91 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,622,072 x 17,020 x $.91 = ~$1 Trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 17,020 eBooks online as of August 24, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.59 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.73 when we had 13,611 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 17,020 eBooks in 34 Years and 01.75 Months We Averaged ~498 Per Year 41.5 Per Month 1.36 Per Day At 2064 eBooks Done In The 231 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.9 Per Day 63 Per Week 266 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] ARIZONA HIGH SCHOOL DROPS TEXTBOOKS FOR IBOOKS Trading printed textbooks for electronic texts, Empire High School in Arizona issued iBook laptops to all of its 340 students when they started the fall semester. Empire High is a new school, conceived as one that does not use printed textbooks, though it does include a library with printed books. According to Calvin Baker, the superintendent of the Vail Unified School District, which includes Empire, the idea was to move technology from being an add-on component of education to a central role. In addition to having no printed textbooks, the school incorporates technology deeply into the curriculum and the design of the facility, which features a school-wide wireless network. Balancing the risks introduced by such technology, the school's network uses a central filter to control inappropriate downloads or distracting applications such as chats and instant messaging. Homework assignments submitted by computer are checked by another application against published material and against other students' work for plagiarism. Wired News, 18 August 2005 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68578,00.html WARNER MUSIC GROUP CREATES E-LABEL Warner Music Group plans to launch an online business model called an e-label that will use digital downloads rather than compact discs to distribute music. Artists will release music in groups of three songs every few months rather than a CD every few years. Artists who sign with the e-label will also retain copyright and ownership of their master recordings. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, about 180 million songs were sold online in the first half of 2005 compared to 57 million in the first half of 2004. In addition, Apple Computer's iTunes service recently exceeded 500 million downloads. ZDNet, 22 August 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5841355.html [Please note: this still requires the likely purchase of two songs you don't want for every song you do want, and thus I predict will not fly as well as the single song download model now in practice. By the way, I think Warner and co. are well aware of this, and have some hopes of actually getting away with it.] [On a similar note, it would appear that SUN Microsystems is trying their own co-optation route to change the Open Source Movement. . .] SUN PUSHES OPEN SOURCE DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT Sun Microsystems announced the Open Media Commons initiative in an effort to rally support behind an open source standard for digital rights management (DRM). The company is releasing code from the Project DReaM (DRM/everywhere available) program under the open source Community Development and Distribution License. The initiative involves developing a device-independent DRM standard called DRM Opera and user-based (versus device-based) licensing. The Register, 22 August 2005 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/22/sun_open_source_drm/ VENDORS SUPPORT COMMUNITY WIRELESS PROJECTS [In spite of the legal pressures companies who want commercial monopoly] High-tech companies led by Intel joined in an international effort to support wireless technology and applications for governments and communities. The Digital Communities initiative supports 13 communities that are desiging, developing, and deploying Wi-Fi, mesh, or other wireless networks and applications. In the United States, Portland, Oregon; Corpus Christi, Texas; Philadelphia, and Cleveland are participants. Applications include support for municipal inspections and repair, law enforcement, and emergency response. Taipei, Taiwan, and Jerusalem, Israel, will also test Wi-Max. Federal Computer Week, 22 August 2005 http://www.fcw.com/article90237-08-22-05-Web [more] WI-FI INITIATIVE SUPPORTS MUNICIPAL NETWORKS A group of leading technology companies has started a program to offer cities resources and discounts to encourage development of wireless networks, both for city services and for residents. The "Digital Communities" program is supported by Intel, Cisco, Dell, and IBM, among others, and more than a dozen cities around the world are currently participating. Organizers of the program believe that wireless municipal networks have the potential to improve services and save money in areas including emergency responders, such as firefighters and police, and civil servants, such as meter readers and building inspectors. Beyond city services, wireless networks allow cities to provide Internet access to all of their citizens, including poor and otherwise underserved communities, argue supporters. In addition to saving money over other communication systems for city workers, the networks can create revenue for cities that choose to charge for Internet access. Taipei, Taiwan, one of the cities involved in the program, is planning to use the network to create an online university program for its 2.63 million residents. CNET, 18 August 2005 NSF GRANT FUNDS STUDY OF ELECTRONIC VOTING A team of researchers will use a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study electronic voting. The grant will support a research center called ACCURATE, A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections. Based at Johns Hopkins University, the center includes researchers from the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; Rice University; the University of Iowa; and California-based research firm SRI International. According to Dan Wallach, associate professor of computer science at Rice, "The basic question is, 'How can we employ computer systems as trustworthy election systems when we know computers are not totally reliable, totally secure, or bug-free?'" The ACCURATE project is expected to produce technical standards for electronic voting and to develop secure voting systems that are easy to use. Washington Times, 17 August 2005 http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20050817-124413-4457r.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 *** More news from alternate sources: BONES REVEAL FIRST SHOE-WEARERS from BBC News Online Sturdy shoes first came into widespread use between 40,000 and 26,000 years ago, according to a US scientist. Humans' small toes became weaker during this time, says physical anthropologist Erik Trinkaus, who has studied scores of early human foot bones. He attributes this anatomical change to the invention of rugged shoes, that reduced our need for strong, flexible toes to grip and balance. http://tinyurl.com/bf835 * *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA A new terabyte DVD recorder unit was announced today by Japanese Hitachi, LTD for about $2,500 [230,000 yen]. Before you get TOO excited, it is really TWO recorders in one box, but it can simultanously record two HDTV shows. Another reason not to get too excited, unless you are in Japan, is that they will be mostly available only there, at least in the current marketing plan. However, presuming that you will be able to get one, you could then copy virtually every word in any of the major libraries of the world on a handful of these DVDs. * More Global Warming *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK The public domain is worthless, because anything over 45 years old is worthless, and copyright is 95 years. DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Iraq is not another Viet Nam. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK China will continue bidding for, and buying, more and more of the world's infrastructure, to the sad detriment of U.S. Congress' inability to veto purchases in other countries. [This has obviously been continuing this week, and likely will become an ongoing event for the next decade or two: the real question is will the media give the full story?] *QUOTE OF THE WEEK US spending on tutors rose to $4 billion is 2004 from $3.4 billion in 2003. [This is enough for 4 million families each to spend $1,000 per year, just on extra tutoring to augment our failing classroom instruction.] Source: The New York Times via Edupage [paraphrased for stand alone grammar]. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/technology/22soft.html [sub. required] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK In Rio de Janeiro over 1,000 people are killed each year by police. [This reported in response to the reporting of the single person killed by London police as a suspected terrorist bomber.] Source: NPR, via WILL-AM, ~9:20AM today In related news, the British Home Secretary announced the "grounds" for deportation on the basis of unBritish behaviour, but experts on the UK legal system say these "laws," not passed by Parliament will never stand up in the courts [and thus are nothing more than "scare tactics" aimed at fear mongering among the general population]. * LaSalle county, Illinois, is reporting the driest summer since 1936, of the infamous "Dust Bowl" era. * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * POEM OF THE WEEK This is number four of a series of five poems from a volume named: "Thoughts of My Exiled Self." The motto for this poetry volume is, "Upon this Word I shall build my life." 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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
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18 Aug '05

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PT1 Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
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17 Aug '05

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Note that updated eBooks usually go in their original directory (e.g., etext99, etext00, etc.) *** Statistical Review In the 32 weeks of this year, we have produced 2004 new eBooks. It took us from 7/71 to 10/99 to produce our FIRST 2004 eBooks!!! That's 32 WEEKS as Compared to ~28 YEARS!!! FLASHBACK! Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2004 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] Dec 1999 The Library, by Andrew Lang [Andrew Lang #20][lbrryxxx.xxx] 2018 Dec 1999 The Dhammapada, Translated by F. Max Muller [dhmpdxxx.xxx] 2017 Dec 1999 The 1998 CIA World Factbook[CIA Factbook #8][No#7][world98x.xxx] 2016 Dec 1999 A Miscellany of Men, by G. K. Chesterton [GKC #13][miscyxxx.xxx] 2015 The Lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes 2014 Dec 1999 The Pit Prop Syndicate, by Freeman Wills Croft [ptprpxxx.xxx] 2013 The Children, by Alice Meynell 2012 Dec 1999 Rudder Grange, by Frank R. Stockton [Stockton #4][rgrngxxx.xxx] 2011 Dec 1999 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin [Darwin #6][adrwnxxx.xxx] 2010 Dec 1999 Origin of Species, 6th Ed., by Charles Darwin [#5][otoos6xx.xxx] 2009 Dec 1999 Mazelli, and Other Poems, by George W. Sands[GS#1][mzllixxx.xxx] 2008 Dec 1999 We Two, by Edna Lyall [wetwoxxx.xxx] 2007 Dec 1999 A Fair Penitent, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #23][frpntxxx.xxx] 2006 Dec 1999 Piccadilly Jim, by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse [#1][pccjmxxx.xxx] 2005 Dec 1999 "Pigs is Pigs," by Ellis Parker Butler [pgpgsxxx.xxx] 2004 Dec 1999 Spirits in Bondage [Lyrics Cycle], by C. S. Lewis [spbndxxx.xxx] 2003 [Title: Spirits In Bondage, A Cycle Of Lyrics] [Author Note: C. S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton] Sonnets from the Portuguese, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2002 Dec 1999 [Reserved for 2001, by Arthur C. Clarke] [ xxx.xxx] 2001* Dec 1999 Don Quijote, by Cervantes in Spanish .txt & .htm [2donqxxx.xxx] 2000 [Language: Spanish] Dec 1999 Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley [Aldous Huxley #1] [crmylxxx.xxx] 1999 Dec 1999 Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche #1 [spzarxxx.xxx] 1998 [Tr.: Thomas Common] Dec 1999 Paradise, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [3ddcnxxx.xxx] 1997 [Tr.: Charles Eliot Norton] Dec 1999 Purgatory, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [2ddcnxxx.xxx] 1996 [Tr.: Charles Eliot Norton] Dec 1999 Hell/Inferno, Divine Comedy, Dante, Tr. by Norton [1ddcnxxx.xxx] 1995 [Tr.: Charles Eliot Norton] Adventures among Books, by Andrew Lang 1994 Dec 1999 Told After Supper, by Jerome K. Jerome [JKJ #15] [tldspxxx.xxx] 1993 Dec 1999 Travels in England, and Fragmenta Regalia [trvfgxxx.xxx] 1992 [Title: Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth by Paul [Hentzner, AND Fragmenta Regalia by Sir Robert Naunton] Dec 1999 Old Friends, Epistolary Parody, by Andrew Lang[18][oldfnxxx.xxx] 1991 Dec 1999 The Bedford-Row Conspiracy, by Thackeray [WMT #11][bdfrcxxx.xxx] 1990 Dec 1999 The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz [fldctxxx.xxx] 1989 Dec 1999 History of Tom Thumb, etc. Edited by Henry Altemus[thumbxxx.xxx] 1988 (Includes: The Stories of the Cat and the Mouse; Fire! Fire! Burn Stick!) Dec 1999 The Outlet, by Andy Adams [outltxxx.xxx] 1987 Dec 1999 Life and Death of Mr. Badman, by John Bunyan[JB#3][badmnxxx.xxx] 1986 Dec 1999 Men's Wives, by William Makepeace Thackeray[WMT10][mnwvsxxx.xxx] 1985 Dec 1999 [Reserved: George Orwell's 1984/Did it come true?][o1984xxx.xxx] 1984* Dec 1999 Monsieur Beaucaire, by Booth Tarkington [BT #8] [mbeauxxx.xxx] 1983 Nov 1999 Rashomon, by Akutagawa Ryunosuke [in Japanese] [rshmnxxx.xxx] 1982 [Language: Japanese] Nov 1999 The Right to Read, by Richard M. Stallman [of GNU][tychoxxx.xxx] 1981C [Language: French] (French version in:) [tychoxxf.xxx] * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,460,779,861 that would be 16,960 x 64,607,796 = ~1.1 Trillion !!! 6,460,779,861 64,607,796 With 16,960 eBooks online as of August 17, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.91 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,607,796 x 16,960 x $.91 = ~$1.1 Trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,960 eBooks online as of August 17, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.59 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.74 when we had 13,538 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 16,960 eBooks in 34 Years and 01.50 Months We Averaged ~497 Per Year 41.4 Per Month 1.36 Per Day At 2004 eBooks Done In The 224 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.9 Per Day 63 Per Week 267 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] IBM DONATES ACCESSIBILITY CODE TO FIREFOX This week, IBM said it will donate code to the Firefox browser that will make the application more usable for people with visual or other types of disabilities. According to the World Health Organization, as many as one billion people worldwide have a speech, vision, hearing, mobility, or cognitive disability, and legislation in at least some countries sets requirments for accessibility of information for individuals with disabilities. Expected in the 1.5 release of Firefox, the code from IBM will allow Firefox users to manipulate and navigate Web pages without a mouse or with reduced numbers of keystrokes. The code also facilitates "rich Internet applications," which are designed for individuals with specific disabilities. Previously, IBM has helped the Mozilla Foundation, the maker of Firefox, make the browser compatible with Microsoft Active Accessibility, a widely used standard for accessibility tools such as screen readers. ZDNet, 15 August 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5833354.html GOOGLE MODIFIES LIBRARY PROJECT Google has announced some changes to its Library Project following vocal criticism from a number of publishers. Under the terms of the project, Google made arrangements with five major libraries to scan some or all of their books, posting at least a portion of each book in an online repository for public access. Publishers complained that making such electronic copies of copyrighted works--regardless of whether they are put online--violates the rights of the copyright holder. Google now says it will not scan any book that a publisher specifically asks to be exempted, and it will not scan any copyrighted books until November, giving publishers time to review titles they might want excluded. Publishers appeared unmoved, however, with the Association of American Publishers (AAP) saying that Google's new plan "places the responsibility for preventing infringement on the copyright owner rather than the user." Peter Givler of the Association of American University Presses echoed the AAP's dissatisfaction with the changes to the project. He was glad that Google is trying to address publishers' concerns but said of the new policy that it "doesn't seem to me that it gets us very far." Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 August 2005 http://chronicle.com/free/2005/08/2005081201t.htm LINUX GOES TO FRENCH SCHOOLS A Linux group in the Auvergne region of France, working with the local government, will distribute CDs with free and open source software to students in the region. In September, every student in Auvergne between 15 and 19 years of age will receive two CDs. One includes OpenOffice.org software, as well as the Firefox browser and GIMP image software. The other is a Linux Live CD, which will allow the users to experiment with a Linux operating system without installing it on their computers. Nicolas Spallinger, a member of the local Linux group, said the idea is to let students try Linux without committing to a particular version. If they are sold on Linux over other operating systems, they can then install their preferred variety of Linux. Organizers of the program hope it will encourage students and their families to consider free and open source applications as an alternative to proprietary software. CNET, 11 August 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5828644.html COLLEGE BOOKSTORES TEST ACCESS TO DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS Ten colleges and universities are participating in a pilot project of selling electronic texts through the campuses' bookstores. Previously, electronic textbooks typically have only been available from individual publishers or online. Organizers of the project hope that by making the texts available from the campus bookstores, they will be able to accurately gauge student demand for the technology. Each participating institution will offer 25 to 30 texts electronically, though the books will also be available in paper form. Electronic texts will be priced at one-third less than hard-copy textbooks. Students who choose the electronic option will download a copy of the text to a computer, where they can read it, print it, search it for keywords, or listen to an audio version of it. The electronic text will have restrictions, however. The text cannot be transferred to any other computer, it cannot be printed in its entirety at one time, and it will only be available for five months, after which point it cannot be sold back to the bookstore. Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 August 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/08/2005080901t.htm UNIV. RECEIVES FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR VOIP TRACKING TECHNOLOGY The National Science Foundation has given researchers at George Mason University a grant of more than $300,000 to develop a technology that would allow limited eavesdropping on voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phone calls. Xinyuan Wang, assistant professor of software engineering at the university and principal investigator, has shown that his method can successfully trace VoIP users without their knowledge. As VoIP service has become more common, law enforcement officials have pointed out that they have no way of tapping such phone calls, potentially resulting in a "haven for criminals, terrorists, and spies," according to the Federal Communications Commission. The technology that Wang and his colleagues are working on does not decrypt conversations. It tracks packets as they move from one user to another, allowing authorities to see who is talking to whom, but not to see what they are saying. Wang conceded that "from a privacy advocate's point of view, this is an attack on privacy," but he also noted that "from a police point of view, this is a way to trace things." CNET, 9 August 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-5825932.html STUDENTS FACE PUNISHMENT FOR COMPUTER TAMPERING [Legal action for looking the other way through the one-way mirror, and, they gave the students the administrators' passwords. Does the term "attractive nuiscance" ring a bell?" Perhaps law enforcement should be looking the other way?] Thirteen high school students in the Kutztown Area School District in Pennsylvania face felony charges of tampering with computers after defeating security measures on laptops issued to them by the school district. The laptops included Internet filters and an application that allowed district administrators to see what students did with the computers. The 13 used administrator passwords--which, for unknown reasons, were taped to the backs of the computers--to override the filters and download software such as iChat that the district policy forbids. The students also modified the monitoring program so that they could see what the administrators did with their computers. The students and their parents argued that the felony charges are unwarranted, but, according to the district, students and parents signed acceptable use policies that clearly state what activities are not allowed and that warn of legal consequences if the policy is violated. The students continued to violate district policies for use of the computers even after detentions, suspensions, and other punishments, according to the district. Only then did school officials contact the police. SPAMMER SETTLES WITH MICROSOFT Microsoft has reached a settlement with Scott Richter, a man once described as one of the top three spammers in the world. Efforts by Microsoft and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in 2003 resulted in the collection of 8,000 e-mail messages containing 40,000 fraudulent statements sent by Richter's company, OptInRealBig. Richter earlier agreed to pay New York State $50,000; under the new settlement, Richter will pay Microsoft $7 million. According to Bradford L. Smith, chief counsel for the software giant, $5 million would be used to "increase our Internet enforcement efforts and expand technical and investigative support to help law enforcement address computer-related crimes," while another $1 million will be spent on improving computer access for the poor in New York State. The settlement also requires Richter to comply with state and federal laws governing e-mail and to submit to oversight of his company's operations for three years. New York Times, 10 August 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/10/technology/10spam.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 *** One more item from alternate sources [More on DNA, and, of course, this new rice will likely be patented, and in the same vein as GMO corn, any DNA that accidentally ends up in "normal" rice, will be considered an actionable offense.] SCIENTISTS CRACK DNA CODE OF RICE from Associated Press NEW YORK, (AP) -- An international team of scientists has deciphered the genetic code of rice, an advance that should speed improvements in a crop that feeds more than half the world's population. It's the first crop plant to have its genome sequenced, which means scientists identified virtually all the 389 million chemical building blocks of its DNA. Certain sequences of these building blocks form genes, like letters spelling words. The advance will help breeders produce new rice varieties with traits such as higher yield, improved nutritional content and better resistance to disease and pests, said one of the project's leaders, W. Richard McCombie of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. http://tinyurl.com/ccor7 *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA China booted out of Unocal purchase by hostile U.S. Congress, but Congress seems to have no idea of the "virtual" deals in China's financial portfolio. Just look at Yahoo! China deals and the Ali Baba deals. "A billion here, a billion there and suddenly you're talking about real money." [The vetoed Unocal deal would have been about $20 billion.] More on China's Energy Policy CHINA TO BUILD OFFSHORE WIND POWER COMPLEX from Associated Press SHANGHAI, China -- China plans to construct its first offshore wind power complex next year in hopes of easing chronic electricity shortages, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday. The complex, to be built in the Bohai Sea off the northern province of Hebei, is designed to have a generating capacity of 1 million kilowatts when completed in 2020, Xinhua said. An initial phase to begin construction late next year will generate 50,000 kilowatts, it said, citing Gao Xihai, a vice manager of the Huanghua Port Development Zone which is promoting the project. http://tinyurl.com/anfu4 * Remember that $67 million dollar bank robbery in Brasil? It now appears that the taxpayers will get billed for it! * Global Warming Refuters Now Refuted ERRORS CITED IN ASSESSING CLIMATE DATA from The New York Times (Registration Required) Some scientists who question whether human-caused global warming poses a threat have long pointed to records that showed the atmosphere's lowest layer, the troposphere, had not warmed over the last two decades and had cooled in the tropics. Now two independent studies have found errors in the complicated calculations used to generate the old temperature records, which involved stitching together data from thousands of weather balloons lofted around the world and a series of short-lived weather satellites. A third study shows that when the errors are taken into account, the troposphere actually got warmer. Moreover, that warming trend largely agrees with the warmer surface temperatures that have been recorded and conforms to predictions in recent computer models. http://tinyurl.com/7pmgc [and, in a separate story] WARMING HITS 'TIPPING POINT' from The Guardian (UK) A vast expanse of western Sibera is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warn today. Researchers who have recently returned from the region found that an area of permafrost spanning a million square kilometres - the size of France and Germany combined - has started to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age. The area, which covers the entire sub-Arctic region of western Siberia, is the world's largest frozen peat bog and scientists fear that as it thaws, it will release billions of tonnes of methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. http://tinyurl.com/93equ *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK "Since December 2000 employment in U.S. manufacturing has fallen 17%, but membership in the National Association of Realtors has risen 58%." The New York Times DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK What does the above mean? It means there is a scramble going on to buy and/or sell real estate as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. A bit more on real estate from Edupage: RESEARCH CENTER COMING TO NEW YORK A real estate company based in California will build a research park in New York City with the hope of attracting scientific and biomedical companies that are routinely spun off from colleges and universities in the city. The city's academic institutions consistently produce start-up companies in biotech fields, but few remain in the city, instead settling in less expensive areas such as New Jersey and California. Despite years of efforts at creating such a research park, previous proposals have been abandoned because developers were reluctant to commit to such a project without guaranteed tenants. Officials from Alexandria Real Estate Equities said projects like this one rarely have tenants before the facility is built. Construction is expected to begin next year, and companies can start moving into the research park in 2008. New York Times, 11 August 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/nyregion/11bio.html *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK China will continue bidding for, and buying, more and more of the world's infrastructure, to the sad detriment of U.S. Congress' inability to veto purchases in other countries. Even the New York Times appears to know what is going on: August 11, 2005 America's Summer of Discontent "Yesterday, Unocal shareholders agreed to be bought by Chevron for about $18 billion in the biggest oil acquisition in years. The deal brought to a final close a sad hostile takeover fight in which a Chinese government-owned company, Cnooc, was effectively blocked from the game by a hostile United States Congress. "When analysts and economic historians look back, this summer may well prove to be the turning point in Chinese-American relations, the time when America chose short-range paranoia over rational behavior." *QUOTE OF THE WEEK "Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too." Heinrich Heine *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Worldwide, only 1 person in 100 reaches the age of 79, but in some countries that is the average lifespan. The average lifespan for the world is 63, much shorter than the duration of the average copyright. * CBS was one of those pillars of society who rejected women's right to wear pants and required skirts or dresses, but they finally gave up forcing women to give the men a chance to do some looking up their skirts. Recently, CBS counted women's choices of clothing as they reported to work one morning and the result was 90 to 11 in favor of pants. Source: 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney, August 14, 2005 * 99% of the United States goverment, the President, Senators, Congresspersons, etc., required to pass and sign a new law-- NEVER EVER READ IT!!! * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * POEM OF THE WEEK This is number three of a series of five poems from a volume named: "Thoughts of My Exiled Self." The motto for this poetry volume is, "Upon this Word I shall build my life." Tonight Tonight is hard to get in touch with my thoughts as my eyelids are heavy with a dreamless sleep in which I feel I am floating like a feather detached from the wings of a mother swan who once knew about a lake, and how the vivid waters felt to the touch but then she got bored, took off and learned about the lightness of air, like the angels who sit on my eyelids tonight Alas, I must be dreaming of flight while I cry myself to sleep under the starry skies of your eyes. Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart Please send comments to: simona_s75 AT yahoo.com & hart AT pobox.com *** *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. 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Last week the Total Count was 16842, including 466 at PG of Australia. This week we added 85 new. RESERVED/PENDING count: 43 =-=-=-=[ 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: The Celibates, by Honore de Balzac 7927 [Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers] [Tr.: Katharine Prescott Wormeley] [Intro.: George Saintsbury] Manalive, by G. K. 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No. 474., Supplementary Number] Volume number corrected from 161 to 156: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 9, 1919, by Various 12614 -=-=-=-=[ 84 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Another World, by Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes) 16503 [Subtitle: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/5/0/16503 ] [Files: 16503.txt; 16503-8.txt] The Witness, by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz 16502 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/5/0/16502 ] [Files: 16502.txt; 16502-8.txt; 16502-h.htm] The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, V5, 1582-83, ed. by Blair/Robertson 16501 [Ed.: Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson] [Intro. and Notes: Edward Gaylord Bourne] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/5/0/16501 ] [Files: 16501.txt; 16501-8.txt; 16501-h.htm] More Translations from the Chinese, by Various 16500 [Translator: Arthur Waley] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/5/0/16500 ] [Files: 16500.txt; 16500-8.txt; 16500-0.txt; 16500-h.htm] Henriette, by Franois Coppe 16499 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/9/16499 ] [Files: 16499-8.txt; 16499-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 59, December 23, 1897, by Various 16498 [Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/9/16498 ] [Files: 16498.txt; 16498-8.txt; 16498-h.htm] The Moon out of Reach, by Margaret Pedler 16497 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/9/16497 ] [Files: 16497.txt; 16497-8.txt] Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (1 of 8),Raphael Holinshed 16496 [Subtitle: From the Time That It Was First Inhabited, Vntill the Time] [That It Was Last Conquered: Wherein the Sundrie Alterations] [of the State Vnder Forren People Is Declared; And Other] [Manifold Observations Remembred] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/9/16496 ] [Files: 16496.txt; 16496-8.txt; 16496-h.htm] Your Boys, by Gipsy Smith 16495 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/9/16495 ] [Files: 16495.txt; 16495-8.txt; 16495-h.htm] The Transvaal from Within, by J. P. Fitzpatrick 16494 [Subtitle: A Private Record of Public Affairs] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/9/16494 ] [Files: 16494.txt; 16494-8.txt; 16494-h.htm] The Man Without a Country, by Edward E. Hale 16493 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/9/16493 ] [Files: 16493.txt] Biribi, by Georges Darien 16492 [Subtitle: Discipline militaire] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/9/16492 ] [Files: 16492-8.txt; 16492-h.htm] Vergilius, by Irving Bacheller 16491 [Subtitle: A Tale of the Coming of Christ] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/9/16491 ] [Files: 16491.txt; 16491-8.txt] Kuningas Lear, by William Shakespeare 16490 [Translator: Paavo Cajander] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/9/16490 ] [Files: 16490-8.txt] Igiene dei piaceri, by Auguste Debay 16489 [Full title: Igiene dei piaceri secondo le et, i temperamenti e le] [stagioni] [Translator: Gianpietro Introzzi] [Language: Italian] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/8/16489 ] [Files: 16489-8.txt; 16489-h.htm] Debussy's Pellas et Mlisande, by Lawrence Gilman 16488 [Subtitle: A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/8/16488 ] [Files: 16488.txt; 16488-8.txt; 16488-h.htm] The Story of the Living Machine, by H. W. Conn 16487 [Subtitle: A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard] [to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living] [Activity] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/8/16487 ] [Files: 16487.txt; 16487-8.txt; 16487-h.htm] Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton, by Anonymous 16486 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/8/16486 ] [Files: 16486.txt; 16486-8.txt; 16486-h.htm] Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777, Philip Thicknesse 16485 [Subtitle: Volume 1 (of 2)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/8/16485 ] [Files: 16485.txt; 16485-8.txt; 16485-h.htm] Juanita La Larga, by Juan Valera 16484 [Commentator: Paulino Garagorri, prologue] [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/8/16484 ] [Files: 16484-8.txt; 16484-h.htm] Muistoja lapsen ja hopeahapsen 3, by Anders Ramsay 16483 [Subtitle: Kuvauksia] [Translator: Knut Sarlin] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/8/16483 ] [Files: 16483-8.txt] Muistoja lapsen ja hopeahapsen 2, by Anders Ramsay 16482 [Subtitle: Kuvauksia] [Translator: Knut Sarlin] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/8/16482 ] [Files: 16482-8.txt] Muistoja lapsen ja hopeahapsen 1, by Anders Ramsay 16481 [Subtitle: Kuvauksia] [Translator: Knut Sarlin] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/8/16481 ] [Files: 16481-8.txt] Beechenbrook, by Margaret J. Preston 16480 [Subtitle: A Rhyme of the War] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/8/16480 ] [Files: 16480.txt; 16480-8.txt; 16480-h.htm] The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran, by Anonymous 16479 [Subtitle: Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of] [The Celtic Saints] [Translator: R.A. Stewart MacAlister] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/7/16479 ] [Files: 16479.txt; 16479-8.txt; 16479-h.htm] Records of a Girlhood, by Frances Ann Kemble 16478 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/7/16478 ] [Files: 16478.txt; 16478-8.txt; 16478-h.htm] Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa, by Edward Hutton 16477 [Subtitle: With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson] [And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/7/16477 ] [Files: 16477.txt; 16477-8.txt; 16477-h.htm] The Rover Boys on Land and Sea, by Arthur M. Winfield 16476 [Subtitle: The Crusoes of Seven Islands] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/7/16476 ] [Files: 16476.txt] The Great Round World, Vol. 1, No. 58, December 16, 1897, by Various 16475 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1,] [No. 58, December 16, 1897] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/7/16475 ] [Files: 16475.txt; 16475-8.txt; 16475-h.htm] Lectures and Essays, by Thomas Henry Huxley 16474 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/7/16474 ] [Files: 16474.txt; 16474-8.txt; 16474-h.htm] Queen Hildegarde, by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 16473 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/7/16473 ] [Files: 16473.txt; 16473-8.txt; 16473-h.htm] Through Forest and Fire, by Edward Ellis 16472 [Subtitle: Wild-Woods Series No. 1] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/7/16472 ] [Files: 16472.txt; 16472-8.txt; 16472-h.htm] General History, Volume 16, by Robert Kerr 16471 [Full title: A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels,] [Volume 16] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/7/16471 ] [Files: 16471.txt; 16471-8.txt; 16471-h.htm] The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition, by Upton Sinclair 16470 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/7/16470 ] [Files: 16470.txt; 16470-8.txt; 16470-h.htm] Lives of the Poets Volume II, by Theophilus Cibber 16469 [Full title: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)] [Subtitle: Volume II] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/6/16469 ] [Files: 16469.txt; 16469-8.txt; 16469-h.htm] The Pot of Gold, by Mary E. Wilkins 16468 [Subtitle: And Other Stories] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/6/16468 ] [Files: 16468.txt; 16468-8.txt; 16468-h.htm] Musicians of To-Day, by Romain Rolland 16467 [Commentator: Claude Landi] [Translator: Mary Blaiklock] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/6/16467 ] [Files: 16467.txt; 16467-8.txt; 16467-h.htm] Four Months Besieged, by H. H. S. Pearse 16466 [Subtitle: The Story of Ladysmith] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/6/16466 ] [Files: 16466.txt; 16466-8.txt; 16466-h.htm] Le chteau de La Belle-au-bois-dormant, by Pierre Loti 16465 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/6/16465 ] [Files: 16465-8.txt; 16465-h.htm] The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tin B Calnge, by Unknown 16464 [Translator: Joseph Dunn] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/6/16464 ] [Files: 16464.txt; 16464-8.txt; 16464-h.htm] In the Shadow of Death, by P. H. Kritzinger and R. D. McDonald 16463 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/6/16463 ] [Files: 16463.txt; 16463-8.txt; 16463-h.htm] With the Boer Forces, by Howard C. Hillegas 16462 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/6/16462 ] [Files: 16462.txt; 16462-8.txt; 16462-h.htm] A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible, by Frank Nelson Palmer 16461 [Subtitle: Second Edition] [Commentator: J. Wilbur Chapman] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/6/16461 ] [Files: 16461.txt; 16461-h.htm] >From Aldershot to Pretoria, by W. E. Sellers 16460 [Subtitle: A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa] [Commentator: R. W. Allen] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/6/16460 ] [Files: 16460.txt; 16460-8.txt; 16460-h.htm] Musical Memories, by Camille Saint-Saens 16459 [Translator: Edwin Gile Rich] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/5/16459 ] [Files: 16459.txt; 16459-8.txt; 16459-h.htm] The Princess Pocahontas, by Virginia Watson 16458 [Illustrator: George Wharton Edwards] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/5/16458 ] [Files: 16458.txt; 16458-8.txt; 16458-h.htm] All Around the Moon, by Jules Verne 16457 [Translator: Edward Roth] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/5/16457 ] [Files: 16457.txt; 16457-8.txt; 16457-h.htm] The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 6 (of 18), by John Dryden 16456 [Subtitle: Limberham; Oedipus; Troilus and Cressida; The Spanish Friar] [Editor: Walter Scott] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/5/16456 ] [Files: 16456.txt; 16456-8.txt; 16456-h.htm] The Otterbein Hymnal, by Edmund S. Lorenz 16455 [Subtitle: For Use in Public and Social Worship] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/5/16455 ] [Files: 16455.txt; 16455-8.txt; 16455-h.htm] The Upas Tree, by Florence L. Barclay 16454 [Subtitle: A Christmas Story for all the Year] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/5/16454 ] [Files: 16454.txt; 16454-8.txt; 16454-h.htm] The Measure of a Man, by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 16453 [Illustrator: Frank T. Merrill] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/5/16453 ] [Files: 16453.txt; 16453-8.txt; 16453-h.htm] The Iliad of Homer, by Homer 16452 [Subtitle: Translated into English Blank Verse] [Translator: William Cowper] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/5/16452 ] [Files: 16452.txt; 16452-8.txt; 16452-h.htm] The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. 23, Ed. by Blair & Robertson 16451 [Subtitle: Volume XXIII, 1629-1630] [Ed.: Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson] [Intro. and Notes: Edward Gaylord Bourne] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/5/16451 ] [Files: 16451.txt; 16451-8.txt; 16451-h.htm] The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent, by S.M. Hussey 16450 [Editor: Home Gordon] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/5/16450 ] [Files: 16450.txt; 16450-8.txt; 16450-h.htm] The Number Concept, by Levi Leonard Conant 16449 [Subtitle: Its Origin and Development] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/4/16449 ] [Files: 16449.txt; 16449-8.txt; 16449-h.htm] Jewel's Story Book, by Clara Louise Burnham 16448 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/4/16448 ] [Files: 16448.txt; 16448-8.txt; 16448-h.htm] The Clarion, by Samuel Hopkins Adams 16447 [Illustrator: W. D. Stevens] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/4/16447 ] [Files: 16447.txt; 16447-8.txt; 16447-h.htm] Buntong Hininga, by Pascual De Leon 16446 [Subtitle: Mga Tulang Tagalog] [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/4/16446 ] [Files: 16446-8.txt; 16446-h.htm] Observations and Reflections, by Hester Lynch Piozzi 16445 [Full title: Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a] [Journey] [through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/4/16445 ] [Files: 16445.txt; 16445-8.txt; 16445-h.htm] Indian Unrest, by Valentine Chirol 16444 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/4/16444 ] [Files: 16444.txt; 16444-8.txt] Uma famlia ingleza, by Jlio Dinis 16443 [Subtitle: Scenas da vida do porto] [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/4/16443 ] [Files: 16443-8.txt] The Doctrine of Evolution, by Henry Edward Crampton 16442 [Subtitle: Its Basis and Its Scope] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/4/16442 ] [Files: 16442.txt; 16442-8.txt] The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened, by Kenelm Digby 16441 [Editor: Anne MacDonell] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/4/16441 ] [Files: 16441.txt; 16441-8.txt; 16441-h.htm] The Water Supply, by J. L. Campbell 16440 [Full title: The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway] [from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/4/16440 ] [Files: 16440.txt; 16440-8.txt; 16440-h.htm] De Re Coquinaria, by Apicius 16439 [Subtitle: Librorvm X Qvi Dicvntvr De Re Coqvinaria] [Editor: Cesare Giarratano and Friedrich Vollmer] [Language: Latin] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/3/16439 ] [Files: 16439.txt; 16439-8.txt; 16439-0.txt; 16439-h.htm] Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College Cambridge, Benson 16438 [Full author: Arthur Christopher Benson] [Subtitle: Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences] [Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The] [Same College] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/3/16438 ] [Files: 16438.txt; 16438-0.txt; 16438-h.htm] The Children of France, by Ruth Royce 16437 [Subtitle: A Book of Stories of the Heroism and Self-sacrifice of] [Youthful Patriots of France During the Great War] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/3/16437 ] [Files: 16437.txt; 16437-8.txt; 16437-h.htm] Poems Every Child Should Know, by Various 16436 [Subtitle: The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library] [Editor: Mary E. Burt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/3/16436 ] [Files: 16436.txt; 16436-8.txt; 16436-h.htm] The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays, by Various 16435 [Editor: Sterling Andrus Leonard] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/3/16435 ] [Files: 16435.txt; 16435-8.txt] Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel, by Friedrich Froebel 16434 [Translator: Emilie Michaelis] [H. Keatley Moore] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/3/16434 ] [Files: 16434.txt; 16434-8.txt; 16434-h.htm] The Gay Cockade, by Temple Bailey 16433 [Illustrator: C. E. Chambers] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/3/16433 ] [Files: 16433.txt; 16433-8.txt; 16433-h.htm] Esperanto, by Richard Bartholdt and A. Christen 16432 [Full title: Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/3/16432 ] [Files: 16432.txt; 16432-8.txt; 16432-h.htm] Richard Wagner, by John F. Runciman 16431 [Subtitle: Composer of Operas] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/3/16431 ] [Files: 16431.txt; 16431-8.txt; 16431-h.htm] The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859, by Various 16430 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/3/16430 ] [Files: 16430.txt; 16430-8.txt; 16430-h.htm] Contos para a infncia, by Guerra Junqueiro 16429 [Subtitle: Escohidos dos melhores auctores] [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/2/16429 ] [Files: 16429-8.txt] Os fidalgos da Casa Mourisca, by Jlio Dinis 16428 [Subtitle: Chronica da aldeia] [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/2/16428 ] [Files: 16428-8.txt] The Splendid Folly, by Margaret Pedler 16427 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/2/16427 ] [Files: 16427.txt; 16427-8.txt; ] Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2), by Carl Lumholtz 16426 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/2/16426 ] [Files: 16426.txt; 16426-8.txt; 16426-h.htm] Amor de Perdio, by Camillo Castello Branco 16425 [Subtitle: Memorias d'uma familia] [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/2/16425 ] [Files: 16425-8.txt] Some Christian Convictions, by Henry Sloane Coffin 16424 [Subtitle: A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/2/16424 ] [Files: 16424.txt; 16424-8.txt; 16424-h.htm] A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale, by Samuel Ward 16423 [Subtitle: In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/2/16423 ] [Files: 16423.txt; 16423-8.txt; 16423-h.htm] The Home in the Valley, by Emilie F. 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Scully Mary Musgrave, Anonymous Gregorio, by Percy Hemingway Nov 1999 The Perdue Chicken Cookbook, by Mitzi Perdue [mitzixxx.xxx] 1979C Nov 1999 Buttercup Gold, et. al., by Ellen Robena Field [btrcpxxx.xxx] 1978 Nov 1999 Phaedra, by Jean Baptiste Racine [Tr.: RB Boswell][phrdrxxx.xxx] 1977 [Tr.: Robert Bruce Boswell] Nov 1999 Peter Ruff and the Double Four, by Oppenheim[EPO8][rff44xxx.xxx] 1976 Nov 1999 The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins [Collins#22][lcainxxx.xxx] 1975 Nov 1999 Poetics, by Aristotle, Tr. SH Butcher[Aristotle#1][poetcxxx.xxx] 1974 Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities, by Andrew Lang 1973 Nov 1999 History Of The Britons, by Nennius [brtnsxxx.xxx] 1972 [Tr.: J. A. Giles] Erewhon Revisited, by Samuel Butler 1971 [Subtitle: Twenty Years Later. Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by his Son] Nov 1999 A Poor Wise Man, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[MRR #12][pwsmnxxx.xxx] 1970 Nov 1999 Catherine: A Story, by William Thackeray[W.M.T.#9][cthrnxxx.xxx] 1969 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix, by Honore de Balzac 1968 [Introduction: George Saintsbury] The Brotherhood of Consolation, by Honore de Balzac 1967 [Tr.: Katharine Prescott Wormeley] Nov 1999 The Path of the King, by John Buchan [Buchan #6][tpotkxxx.xxx] 1966 Nov 1999 Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini [R. Sabatini #3][cpbldxxx.xxx] 1965 Nov 1999 [Reserved for Pietro di Miceli] [ xxx.xxx] 1964* Nov 1999 The Confession, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [MRR #11][cnfsnxxx.xxx] 1963 Nov 1999 A Defence of Poesie and Poems, by Philip Sidney [dfncpxxx.xxx] 1962 Nov 1999 Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang[Andrew Lang #16][bkbkmxxx.xxx] 1961 Nov 1999 Sight Unseen, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[Rinehart10][stnsnxxx.xxx] 1960 Nov 1999 The Crown of Thorns, by E. H. Chapin [thrnsxxx.xxx] 1959 Nov 1999 Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[handdxxx.xxx] 1958 Beatrix, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Katharine Prescott Wormeley] 1957 Nov 1999 And Even Now, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #7][evnowxxx.xxx] 1956 Nov 1999 The Darrow Enigma, by Melvin L. Severy [dngmaxxx.xxx] 1955 Colonel Chabert, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Ellen Marriage & Clara Bell] 1954 Nov 1999 The Diary of an Old Soul, by George MacDonald [#6][doaosxxx.xxx] 1953 Nov 1999 The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman2[ylwlpxxx.xxx] 1952 Nov 1999 The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer Lytton[Lytton#5][cmgrcxxx.xxx] 1951 Nov 1999 A Woman of Thirty, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #87][thrtyxxx.xxx] 1950 Nov 1999 On The Ruin of Britain, by Gildas Sapiens [otrobxxx.xxx] 1949 Nov 1999 The Story of a Bad Boy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 7[soabbxxx.xxx] 1948 Nov 1999 Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini[Rafael Sabatini#2][scmshxxx.xxx] 1947 Oct 1999 On War, by Carl von Clausewitz [Volume 1] [CvC #1][1onwrxxx.xxx] 1946 Oct 1999 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe [Goethe #2][egmntxxx.xxx] 1945 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,459,357,434 that would be 16,927 x 64,593,574 = 1.09 Trillion !!! With 16,927 eBooks online as of August 10, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.91 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,593,574 x 16,926 x $.91 = ~$1 trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,927 eBooks online as of August 10, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.59 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.74 when we had 13,484 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 16,927 eBooks in 34 Years and 01.25 Months We Averaged ~496 Per Year 41.4 Per Month 1.36 Per Day At 1971 eBooks Done In The 217 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 9.1 Per Day 64 Per Week 272 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] FCC DROPS TELECOM RULES ON NETWORK ACCESS [Why do they say they can't tell if prices will change as a result?] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has dropped regulations that forced telephone companies to lease network access at FCC-determined rates to rival providers of broadband services. Internet service providers will have a year to transition from the current system. Whether the change will affect prices and availability of DSL is not known, since phone companies can profit by leasing their lines to rivals and benefit from all increased DSL purchases by U.S. customers. DSL service providers are more concerned by competition for broadband customers from cable companies, which claim 56 percent of broadband customers versus 36.5 percent for DSL, according to data from the FCC. San Jose Mercury News, 8 August 2005 www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/12331081.htm FBI ISSUES RFP FOR SENTINEL [Carnivore Reincarnate?] Following cancellation in March of the Trilogy program at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which was meant to modernize the agency's computer systems, the bureau has issued a request for proposals for Sentinel, its next-generation information management system. Submissions are due by fall, with a contract expected by the end of the year. The FBI announced last week that it had deployed its public key infrastructure, which is a prerequisite for Sentinel. Federal Computer Week, 8 August 2005 http://www.fcw.com/article89836-08-08-05-Web KANSAS SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON OWNERSHIP OF FACULTY WORK [I suppose this would allow Kansas to censor evolution materials.] The Kansas Supreme Court will evaluate an appellate court decision giving public institutions in Kansas the right to claim ownership of any faculty work, including books, with no negotiation on terms required. The lower court treated faculty work as "work for hire" under federal copyright law, classifying scholarly work as within the scope of employment of a faculty member. The current policy, designed in 1998, allows faculty to keep their book rights and has a revenue-sharing model for technology copyrights. Should the higher court decide in favor of the board, the policy could be changed at will. The case pits the Kansas Board of Regents against the Kansas National Education Association. Inside Higher Ed, 7 August 2005 http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/08/08/kansas ***More on Kansas this week from alternate sources*** KANSAS BOARD OKAYS EVOLUTION KNOCK from CBS/Associated Press The Kansas Board of Education voted 6-4 to include greater criticism of evolution in its school science standards, but it decided to send the standards to an outside academic for review before taking a final vote. The Kansas school system was ridiculed around the country in 1999 when the board deleted most references to evolution. The system later reversed course, but the language favored by the board Tuesday comes from advocates of intelligent design or creationism. The belief, which many say is deeply tied to religious belief, holds that some features of the natural world are best explained by an unspecified intelligent cause. Evolution is a fundamental scientific theory that species evolved over millions of years through natural selection. http://tinyurl.com/ceuec *** SURVEY SHOWS MIXED IMPACT OF INTERNET ON STUDENTS A survey conducted in May 2004 by Steve Jones, professor of communciation at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Camille Johnson-Yale, a graduate student in communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, determined that 42 percent of the professors surveyed saw a decline in the quality of student work with the advent of the Internet, while 22 percent noted an improvement. [One might suspect a study in which declines outweighed unchanged, and the unchanged was never mentioned. 42% decline 34% same 22% improve, thus the majority were either unchanged or showed improvement] However, a majority of respondents, 67 percent, indicated that the Internet had improved their communication with students. The nationwide survey of 2,316 faculty elicited a concern with student plagiarism, and 74 percent of respondents said they use the Internet or other tools to detect plagiarism. The researchers have presented some of their findings at academic conferences and have submitted their work to a peer-reviewed academic journal. Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 August 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i49/49a03201.htm CHINESE SEARCH ENGINE IPO TAKES OFF [Remember the previous predictions about China?] Chinese search engine company Baidu.com launched its initial public offering (IPO) of shares Friday on the Nasdaq stock market. The stocks were priced at $27, opened at $66, and rose to $122.54 by market close. Investors in Baidu include Google and several Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Baidu is the top search engine in China, followed by Google, and there is speculation that Google might attempt to acquire the company in the future. New York Times, 7 August 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/technology/08baidu.html UT TO RECEIVE $1.8 FROM BLACKBERRY The maker of BlackBerry devices will pay the University of Texas System $1.8 million to settle a patent-infringement case over technology that allows users to enter text into telephone-style keypads. Under the terms of the settlement, Research in Motion, based in Canada, will also be granted a license to continue using the technology. Part of the settlement will fund research at the UT Ssystem's Arlington campus, where the technology was developed by George Kondraske, a professor of electrical and biomedical engineering, and Adnan Shennib, who was a graduate student when the technology was invented in 1987. The UT System is pursuing similar charges against more than 40 other companies for illegally using the patented technology. The university, which earns between $11 and $14 million annually from royalties on patents it holds, has recently hired a vice chancellor for research and technology transfer and will soon appoint an associate vice chancellor to help protect its patents. Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 August 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/08/2005080305n.htm COURT REJECTS APPLE DEAL WITH GEORGIA SCHOOLS A Georgia court has issued a ruling that seemingly puts an end to a deal between Apple Computer and the Cobb County School District to provide as many as 63,000 iBook laptops to the district's teachers and middle and high school students. Critics of the deal argued that the school district did not adequately inform voters that a sales tax increase passed in 2003 would be used to fund the laptop program. The issue was taken to court, and the judge in the case agreed with the plaintiffs. The school board held a meeting to discuss its options, which might include appealing the ruling. For the moment, however, the deal appears to be over. Kathie Johnstone, president of the school board, said that providing a laptop to all of the district's students "is no longer an option." Because district officials had promised teachers computers before the sales tax ballot issue, teachers might still receive laptops. CNET, 2 August 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1047_3-5816034.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 *** One more item from alternate sources SCIENCE OF DNA from The New York Times (Registration Required) The sequence of deals, intrigue and lawsuits would not have raised an eyebrow in the art world. But the target this time was a collection of scientific papers from the early days of molecular biology, a set that some scientists had hoped to buy for an archive at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island. Instead, it has been bought for several million dollars by J. Craig Venter, the maverick biologist who forced the government to a draw in a race to produce a draft sequence of the human genome. The Jeremy Norman collection, as the papers are known, was put together before the materials had any clear market value. Mr. Norman and Al Seckel, two private collectors in California, started gathering the papers at a time when some scientists were discarding their archives, and many institutions had no interest in them. http://tinyurl.com/c9etz *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA When Did The News People Become The News? Something that no one will report is that the three major TV networks spent more time talking about ABC's Peter Jennings' death on Monday than they did reporting the actual news, for their evening broadcasts. *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK Peter Jennings never completed the 10th grade. DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Companies that mismanage their pension funds and then as their governments to free them from responsibility are like children who kill their parents and then "throw themselves on the mercy of the court" and say the court must help them because they're now orphans. [I have heard several versions of this, but have no idea where it was originally said, sorry.] *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK People will accept the forced change to HDTV, even though it will cost the country a fortune [100,000,000 sets at $1,000 each would be 100 billion dollars] but by putting more and more "fine print" and scrollbars on the screen, the television industry is making a significant portion of the public dissatisfied with current TVs. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Allergies in the U.S. have doubled since 1970. Asthma has doubled since 1980. "Since 1980, the number of Americans suffering from asthma has doubled." * Apple's new iTunes site in Japan sold its first million singles in just four days. * The error level accepted in the Chinese census is greater than the level of the entire United States population. [In fact I think it might be double the US population] * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 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. * POEM OF THE WEEK This is number one of a series of five poems from a volume named: "Thoughts of My Exiled Self." The motto for this poetry volume is, "Upon this Word I shall build my life." At the Death Of My Fish At the death of my fish I mourned with the seagulls on a late fall's day When the mountains of empty shells stand still at the shores and the water ripples the wind plays with turn white with foam as if they were asked to dress up in lace for the ceremony. 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10 Aug '05

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Note that updated eBooks usually go in their original directory (e.g., etext99, etext00, etc.) *** Statistical Review In the 30 weeks of this year, we have produced 1903 new eBooks. It took us from 7/71 to 10/99 to produce our FIRST 1903 eBooks!!! That's 30 WEEKS as Compared to ~28+ YEARS!!! FLASHBACK! Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #1903 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] Nov 1999 Stories by English Authors in Africa, Scribners Ed[sbeaaxxx.xxx] 1980 Contains: The Mystery of Sasassa Valley by A. Conan Doyle Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard King Memba's Point, by J. Landers Ghamba, by W. C. Scully Mary Musgrave, Anonymous Gregorio, by Percy Hemingway Nov 1999 The Perdue Chicken Cookbook, by Mitzi Perdue [mitzixxx.xxx] 1979C Nov 1999 Buttercup Gold, et. al., by Ellen Robena Field [btrcpxxx.xxx] 1978 Nov 1999 Phaedra, by Jean Baptiste Racine [Tr.: RB Boswell][phrdrxxx.xxx] 1977 [Tr.: Robert Bruce Boswell] Nov 1999 Peter Ruff and the Double Four, by Oppenheim[EPO8][rff44xxx.xxx] 1976 Nov 1999 The Legacy of Cain, by Wilkie Collins [Collins#22][lcainxxx.xxx] 1975 Nov 1999 Poetics, by Aristotle, Tr. SH Butcher[Aristotle#1][poetcxxx.xxx] 1974 Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities, by Andrew Lang 1973 Nov 1999 History Of The Britons, by Nennius [brtnsxxx.xxx] 1972 [Tr.: J. A. Giles] Erewhon Revisited, by Samuel Butler 1971 [Subtitle: Twenty Years Later. Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by his Son] Nov 1999 A Poor Wise Man, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[MRR #12][pwsmnxxx.xxx] 1970 Nov 1999 Catherine: A Story, by William Thackeray[W.M.T.#9][cthrnxxx.xxx] 1969 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix, by Honore de Balzac 1968 [Introduction: George Saintsbury] The Brotherhood of Consolation, by Honore de Balzac 1967 [Tr.: Katharine Prescott Wormeley] Nov 1999 The Path of the King, by John Buchan [Buchan #6][tpotkxxx.xxx] 1966 Nov 1999 Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini [R. Sabatini #3][cpbldxxx.xxx] 1965 Nov 1999 [Reserved for Pietro di Miceli] [ xxx.xxx] 1964* Nov 1999 The Confession, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [MRR #11][cnfsnxxx.xxx] 1963 Nov 1999 A Defence of Poesie and Poems, by Philip Sidney [dfncpxxx.xxx] 1962 Nov 1999 Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang[Andrew Lang #16][bkbkmxxx.xxx] 1961 Nov 1999 Sight Unseen, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[Rinehart10][stnsnxxx.xxx] 1960 Nov 1999 The Crown of Thorns, by E. H. Chapin [thrnsxxx.xxx] 1959 Nov 1999 Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[handdxxx.xxx] 1958 Beatrix, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Katharine Prescott Wormeley] 1957 Nov 1999 And Even Now, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #7][evnowxxx.xxx] 1956 Nov 1999 The Darrow Enigma, by Melvin L. Severy [dngmaxxx.xxx] 1955 Colonel Chabert, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: Ellen Marriage & Clara Bell] 1954 Nov 1999 The Diary of an Old Soul, by George MacDonald [#6][doaosxxx.xxx] 1953 Nov 1999 The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman2[ylwlpxxx.xxx] 1952 Nov 1999 The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer Lytton[Lytton#5][cmgrcxxx.xxx] 1951 Nov 1999 A Woman of Thirty, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac #87][thrtyxxx.xxx] 1950 Nov 1999 On The Ruin of Britain, by Gildas Sapiens [otrobxxx.xxx] 1949 Nov 1999 The Story of a Bad Boy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 7[soabbxxx.xxx] 1948 Nov 1999 Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini[Rafael Sabatini#2][scmshxxx.xxx] 1947 Oct 1999 On War, by Carl von Clausewitz [Volume 1] [CvC #1][1onwrxxx.xxx] 1946 Oct 1999 Egmont, by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe [Goethe #2][egmntxxx.xxx] 1945 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,459,357,434 that would be 16,926 x 64,593,574 = 1.09 Trillion !!! With 16,926 eBooks online as of August 10, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.91 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,593,574 x 16,926 x $.91 = ~$1 trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,926 eBooks online as of August 10, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.59 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.74 when we had 13,484 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 16,926 eBooks in 34 Years and 01.25 Months We Averaged ~496 Per Year 41.4 Per Month 1.36 Per Day At 1970 eBooks Done In The 217 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 9.1 Per Day 64 Per Week 272 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] FCC DROPS TELECOM RULES ON NETWORK ACCESS [Why do they say they can't tell if prices will change as a result?] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has dropped regulations that forced telephone companies to lease network access at FCC-determined rates to rival providers of broadband services. Internet service providers will have a year to transition from the current system. Whether the change will affect prices and availability of DSL is not known, since phone companies can profit by leasing their lines to rivals and benefit from all increased DSL purchases by U.S. customers. DSL service providers are more concerned by competition for broadband customers from cable companies, which claim 56 percent of broadband customers versus 36.5 percent for DSL, according to data from the FCC. San Jose Mercury News, 8 August 2005 www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/12331081.htm FBI ISSUES RFP FOR SENTINEL [Carnivore Reincarnate?] Following cancellation in March of the Trilogy program at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which was meant to modernize the agency's computer systems, the bureau has issued a request for proposals for Sentinel, its next-generation information management system. Submissions are due by fall, with a contract expected by the end of the year. The FBI announced last week that it had deployed its public key infrastructure, which is a prerequisite for Sentinel. Federal Computer Week, 8 August 2005 http://www.fcw.com/article89836-08-08-05-Web KANSAS SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON OWNERSHIP OF FACULTY WORK [I suppose this would allow Kansas to censor evolution materials.] The Kansas Supreme Court will evaluate an appellate court decision giving public institutions in Kansas the right to claim ownership of any faculty work, including books, with no negotiation on terms required. The lower court treated faculty work as "work for hire" under federal copyright law, classifying scholarly work as within the scope of employment of a faculty member. The current policy, designed in 1998, allows faculty to keep their book rights and has a revenue-sharing model for technology copyrights. Should the higher court decide in favor of the board, the policy could be changed at will. The case pits the Kansas Board of Regents against the Kansas National Education Association. Inside Higher Ed, 7 August 2005 http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/08/08/kansas ***More on Kansas this week from alternate sources*** KANSAS BOARD OKAYS EVOLUTION KNOCK from CBS/Associated Press The Kansas Board of Education voted 6-4 to include greater criticism of evolution in its school science standards, but it decided to send the standards to an outside academic for review before taking a final vote. The Kansas school system was ridiculed around the country in 1999 when the board deleted most references to evolution. The system later reversed course, but the language favored by the board Tuesday comes from advocates of intelligent design or creationism. The belief, which many say is deeply tied to religious belief, holds that some features of the natural world are best explained by an unspecified intelligent cause. Evolution is a fundamental scientific theory that species evolved over millions of years through natural selection. http://tinyurl.com/ceuec *** SURVEY SHOWS MIXED IMPACT OF INTERNET ON STUDENTS A survey conducted in May 2004 by Steve Jones, professor of communciation at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Camille Johnson-Yale, a graduate student in communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, determined that 42 percent of the professors surveyed saw a decline in the quality of student work with the advent of the Internet, while 22 percent noted an improvement. [One might suspect a study in which declines outweighed unchanged, and the unchanged was never mentioned. 42% decline 34% same 22% improve, thus the majority were either unchanged or showed improvement] However, a majority of respondents, 67 percent, indicated that the Internet had improved their communication with students. The nationwide survey of 2,316 faculty elicited a concern with student plagiarism, and 74 percent of respondents said they use the Internet or other tools to detect plagiarism. The researchers have presented some of their findings at academic conferences and have submitted their work to a peer-reviewed academic journal. Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 August 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i49/49a03201.htm CHINESE SEARCH ENGINE IPO TAKES OFF [Remember the previous predictions about China?] Chinese search engine company Baidu.com launched its initial public offering (IPO) of shares Friday on the Nasdaq stock market. The stocks were priced at $27, opened at $66, and rose to $122.54 by market close. Investors in Baidu include Google and several Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Baidu is the top search engine in China, followed by Google, and there is speculation that Google might attempt to acquire the company in the future. New York Times, 7 August 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/technology/08baidu.html UT TO RECEIVE $1.8 FROM BLACKBERRY The maker of BlackBerry devices will pay the University of Texas System $1.8 million to settle a patent-infringement case over technology that allows users to enter text into telephone-style keypads. Under the terms of the settlement, Research in Motion, based in Canada, will also be granted a license to continue using the technology. Part of the settlement will fund research at the UT Ssystem's Arlington campus, where the technology was developed by George Kondraske, a professor of electrical and biomedical engineering, and Adnan Shennib, who was a graduate student when the technology was invented in 1987. The UT System is pursuing similar charges against more than 40 other companies for illegally using the patented technology. The university, which earns between $11 and $14 million annually from royalties on patents it holds, has recently hired a vice chancellor for research and technology transfer and will soon appoint an associate vice chancellor to help protect its patents. Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 August 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/08/2005080305n.htm COURT REJECTS APPLE DEAL WITH GEORGIA SCHOOLS A Georgia court has issued a ruling that seemingly puts an end to a deal between Apple Computer and the Cobb County School District to provide as many as 63,000 iBook laptops to the district's teachers and middle and high school students. Critics of the deal argued that the school district did not adequately inform voters that a sales tax increase passed in 2003 would be used to fund the laptop program. The issue was taken to court, and the judge in the case agreed with the plaintiffs. The school board held a meeting to discuss its options, which might include appealing the ruling. For the moment, however, the deal appears to be over. Kathie Johnstone, president of the school board, said that providing a laptop to all of the district's students "is no longer an option." Because district officials had promised teachers computers before the sales tax ballot issue, teachers might still receive laptops. CNET, 2 August 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1047_3-5816034.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 *** One more item from alternate sources SCIENCE OF DNA from The New York Times (Registration Required) The sequence of deals, intrigue and lawsuits would not have raised an eyebrow in the art world. But the target this time was a collection of scientific papers from the early days of molecular biology, a set that some scientists had hoped to buy for an archive at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island. Instead, it has been bought for several million dollars by J. Craig Venter, the maverick biologist who forced the government to a draw in a race to produce a draft sequence of the human genome. The Jeremy Norman collection, as the papers are known, was put together before the materials had any clear market value. Mr. Norman and Al Seckel, two private collectors in California, started gathering the papers at a time when some scientists were discarding their archives, and many institutions had no interest in them. http://tinyurl.com/c9etz *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA When Did The News People Become The News? Something that no one will report is that the three major TV networks spent more time talking about ABC's Peter Jennings' death on Monday than they did reporting the actual news, for their evening broadcasts. *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK Peter Jennings never completed the 10th grade. DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Companies that mismanage their pension funds and then as their governments to free them from responsibility are like children who kill their parents and then "throw themselves on the mercy of the court" and say the court must help them because they're now orphans. [I have heard several versions of this, but have no idea where it was originally said, sorry.] *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK People will accept the forced change to HDTV, even though it will cost the country a fortune [100,000,000 sets at $1,000 each would be 100 billion dollars] but by putting more and more "fine print" and scrollbars on the screen, the television industry is making a significant portion of the public dissatisfied with current TVs. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Allergies in the U.S. have doubled since 1970. Asthma has doubled since 1980. "Since 1980, the number of Americans suffering from asthma has doubled." * Apple's new iTunes site in Japan sold its first million singles in just four days. * The error level accepted in the Chinese census is greater than the level of the entire United States population. [In fact I think it might be double the US population] * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 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. * POEM OF THE WEEK This is number one of a series of five poems from a volume named: "Thoughts of My Exiled Self." The motto for this poetry volume is, "Upon this Word I shall build my life." collage scattered wood shavings fallen feathers waves of sand tossed on a toasty beach undulating pattern shows my heart and eyes ensemble riding on the high tide of beauty without boundaries Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. 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