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GWeekly_August_03_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 03 Aug 2005 eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 2 of the Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter: - Obtaining Project Gutenberg eBooks - Updates/corrections to previously posted eBooks - 56 New U.S. eBooks this week - 3 New eBooks at Project Gutenberg of Australia - Last, but not least: insights and other fine stuff - Mailing list information - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - :: HOW TO GET EBOOKS FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG ::. The easiest way to obtain our eBooks is at our search page at http://gutenberg.org/find which allows searching by title, author or eBook number; there is also an Advanced Search page which allows for additional search criteria (note that our newer postings may not yet be indexed for all additional criteria). 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H. Carpenter 16410 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/1/16410 ] [Files: 16410.txt; 16410-8.txt; 16410-h.htm] Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850, by Various 16409 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/0/16409 ] [Files: 16409.txt; 16409-8.txt; 16409-h.htm] The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes, by Israel Zangwill 16408 Contents: The Grey Wig Chass-Crois The Woman Beater The Eternal Feminine The Silent Sisters The Big Bow Mystery Merely Mary Ann The Serio-Comic Governess [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/0/16408 ] [Files: 16408.txt; 16408-8.txt; 16408-h.htm; ] Under the Dragon Flag, by James Allan 16407 [Subtitle: My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/0/16407 ] [Files: 16407.txt; 16407-8.txt; 16407-h.htm; ] An Introduction to Philosophy, by George Stuart Fullerton 16406 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/0/16406 ] [Files: 16406.txt; 16406-8.txt; ] Stories of Mystery, by Various 16405 [Subtitle: The Ghost, by William D. O'Connor; The Four-Fifteen Express,] [by Amelia B. Edwards; The Signal-Man, by Charles Dickens;] [The Haunted Ships, by Allan Cunningham; A Raft That No Man] [Made, by Robert T.S. Lowell; The Invisible Princess, by] [Francis O'Connor; The Advocate's Wedding-Day, by Catherine] [Crowe; The Birthmark, by Nathaniel Hawthorne] [Editor: Rossiter Johnson] Contents: The Ghost, William D. O'Connor The Four-Fifteen Express, Amelia B. Edwards The Signal-Man, Charles Dickens The Haunted Ships, Allan Cunningham A Raft That No Man Made, Robert T.S. Lowell The Invisible Princess, Francis O'Connor The Advocate's Wedding-Day, Catherine Crowe The Birthmark, Nathaniel Hawthorne [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/0/16405 ] [Files: 16405.txt] Notes and Queries, Issue No. 61, December 28, 1850, by Various 16404 [Subtitle: A Medium Of Inter-Communication For Literary Men, Artists,] [Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/0/16404 ] [Files: 16404.txt; 16404-8.txt; 16404-h.htm] Led Astray and The Sphinx, by Octave Feuillet 16403 [Subtitle: Two Novellas In One Volume] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/0/16403 ] [Files: 16403.txt; 16403-8.txt; 16403-h.htm] The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18), ed. by Walter Scott 16402 [Subtitle: The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/0/16402 ] [Files: 16402.txt; 16402-8.txt; 16402-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 158, February 18th, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 16401 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/0/16401 ] [Files: 16401.txt; 16401-8.txt; 16401-h.htm] Libris Grammaticis, by M. Terentius Varro 16400 [Editor: Augustus Wilmanns] [Language: Latin] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/4/0/16400 ] [Files: 16400.txt; 16400-8.txt; 16400-0.txt; 16400-h.htm] A Winter Tour in South Africa, by Frederick Young 16399 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/9/16399 ] [Files: 16399.txt; 16399-8.txt; 16399-h.htm; ] What Necessity Knows, by Lily Dougall 16398 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/9/16398 ] [Files: 16398.txt; 16398-8.txt; ] Larry Dexter's Great Search, by Howard R. Garis 16397 [Subtitle: or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/9/16397 ] [Files: 16397.txt; 16397-8.txt; 16397-h.htm; ] A Conspiracy of the Carbonari, by Louise Mhlbach 16396 [Translator: Mary J. Safford] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/9/16396 ] [Files: 16396.txt; 16396-8.txt; 16396-h.htm] Runoelmia, by Kaarlo Kramsu 16395 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/9/16395 ] [Files: 16395-8.txt] Punch, Vol. 158, February 11, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 16394 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/9/16394 ] [Files: 16394.txt; 16394-8.txt; 16394-h.htm] Tuomo sedn tupa, by Harriet Beecher Stowe 16393 [Editor: Maikki Friberg] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/9/16393 ] [Files: 16393-8.txt; 16393-h.htm] Set Tuomon tupa, by Harriet Beecher Stowe 16392 [Editor: A. H. Fogowitz] [Translator: Aatto S.] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/9/16392 ] [Files: 16392-8.txt] Vanhan pivkirjan lehti, by Berta Edelfelt 16391 [Subtitle: Episodi J. L. Runebergin elmst] [Commentator: Werner Sderhjelm] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/9/16391 ] [Files: 16391-8.txt; 16391-h.htm] Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple, by Sophie May 16390 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/9/16390 ] [Files: 16390.txt; 16390-h.htm] The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim 16389 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/8/16389 ] [Files: 16389.txt; 16389-8.txt; ] Bulletin de Lille, Dec. 1915, by Anonymous 16388 [Subtitle: Publi sous le contrle de l'aurit allemande] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/8/16388 ] [Files: 16388-8.txt; 16388-h.htm] History of Rome, by William C. Taylor 16387 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/8/16387 ] [Files: 16387.txt; 16387-8.txt; 16387-h.htm] Juan Tamad, by Anonymous 16386 [Title: Bhay na Pinagdaanan ni Juan Tamad na Anac ni Fabio at ni Sofia] [Subtitle: Sa Caharian nang Portugal, na Hinango sa Novela] [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/8/16386 ] [Files: 16386-8.txt; 16386-h.htm] Obras poticas, by Nicolau Tolentino 16385 [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/8/16385 ] [Files: 16385-8.txt] O Mandarim, by Ea Queirs 16384 [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/8/16384 ] [Files: 16384-8.txt] Dotty Dimple Out West, by Sophie May 16383 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/8/16383 ] [Files: 16383.txt; 16383-8.txt; 16383-h.htm] In Clive's Command, by Herbert Strang 16382 [Subtitle: A Story of the Fight for India] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/8/16382 ] [Files: 16382.txt; 16382-h.htm; ] The Summons, by A.E.W. Mason 16381 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/8/16381 ] [Files: 16381.txt; 16381-8.txt; 16381-h.htm] The Odds, by Ethel M. Dell 16380 [Subtitle: And Other Stories] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/8/16380 ] [Files: 16380.txt; 16380-8.txt; 16380-h.htm] Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, Book Two, by Augusta Stevenson 16379 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/7/16379 ] [Files: 16379.txt; 16379-8.txt; 16379-h.htm] The Art of Perfumery, by G. W. Septimus Piesse 16378 [Subtitle: And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/7/16378 ] [Files: 16378.txt; 16378-8.txt; 16378-h.htm] The Blue Book of Chess, by Howard Staunton and "Modern Authorities" 16377 [Subtitle: Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis] [of All the Recognized Openings] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/7/16377 ] [Files: 16377.txt; 16377-h.htm] Browning's Shorter Poems, by Robert Browning 16376 [Editor: Franklin T. Baker] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/7/16376 ] [Files: 16376.txt; 16376-8.txt; 16376-h.htm] The King's Achievement, by Robert Hugh Benson 16375 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/7/16375 ] [Files: 16375.txt; 16375-8.txt] Kuppari-Maija, by Heikki Merilinen 16374 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/7/16374 ] [Files: 16374-8.txt] Mrs. Red Pepper, by Grace S. Richmond 16373 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/7/16373 ] [Files: 16373.txt; 16373-8.txt; 16373-h.htm] Fortuna, by Enrique Perez Escrich 16372 [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/7/16372 ] [Files: 16372-8.txt; 16372-h.htm] Bluebell, by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston 16371 [Subtitle: A Novel] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/7/16371 ] [Files: 16371.txt; 16371-8.txt; 16371-h.htm] Lameness of the Horse, by John Victor Lacroix 16370 [Subtitle: Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/7/16370 ] [Files: 16370.txt; 16370-8.txt; 16370-h.htm; ] Fishing with a Worm, by Bliss Perry 16369 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/6/16369 ] [Files: 16369.txt; 16369-h.htm; ] The White Ladies of Worcester, by Florence L. Barclay 16368 [Subtitle: A Romance of the Twelfth Century] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/3/6/16368 ] [Files: 16368.txt; 16368-8.txt] Watch--Work--Wait, by Sarah A. 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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] Oct 1999 [Reserved for WWI] [ xxx.xxx] 1914* Oct 1999 The Drums Of Jeopardy, by Harold MacGrath [jprdyxxx.xxx] 1913 The Muse of the Department, by Honore de Balzac [Tr.: James Waring] 1912 Oct 1999 Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther[#6][clbtyxxx.xxx] 1911 Sep 1999 La Tulipe Noire, by Alexandre Dumas[Pere#6/French][tlpnrxxx.xxx] 1910 [Language: French] (Note: abridged edition) (See Also: #965, Full-length English Edition) Sep 1999 Darwin and Modern Science, by A.C. Seward[50th Yr][drwnmxxx.xxx] 1909 Sep 1999 Her Prairie Knight, by B. M. Bower[B.M. Bower #10][hrprkxxx.xxx] 1908 Sep 1999 Rowdy of the Cross L, by B. M. Bower [BM Bower #9][rowdyxxx.xxx] 1907 Erewhon, by Samuel Butler[Subtitle: or, Over the Range] (Revised Edition) 1906 Sep 1999 The Governess [Female Academy], by Sarah Fielding [gvrnsxxx.xxx] 1905 Sep 1999 Life & Perambulations of a Mouse by Dorothy Kilner[lpoamxxx.xxx] 1904 Sep 1999 Everybody's Guide to Money Matters, by Wm. Cotton [egtmmxxx.xxx] 1903 The Old Peabody Pew, by Kate Douglas Wiggin 1902 [Subtitle: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church] Sep 1999 Secret of the Woods, by William J. Long [sctwdxxx.xxx] 1901 Sep 1999 Typee, by Herman Melville [Herman Melville #2][typeexxx.xxx] 1900 Sep 1999 The Village Rector, by Honore de Balzac[Balzac#79][vrctrxxx.xxx] 1899 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,457,924,389 that would be 16,859 x 64,579,244 = 1.08 Trillion !!! With 16,859 eBooks online as of August 3, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.92 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,579,244 x 16,859 x $.92 = ~$1 trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] With 16,859 eBooks online as of August 3, 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 13,438 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 16,859 eBooks in 34 Years and 01.00 Months We Averaged ~495 Per Year 41.2 Per Month 1.35 Per Day At 1903 eBooks Done In The 210 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 9.1 Per Day 63 Per Week 276 Per Month The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. *** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] HP ENDS IPOD SALES Executives at HP have put an end to a deal with Apple Computer under which iPod music players were available as HP-branded devices. Although the deal was first announced in January 2004, the first models were not available from HP until the fall of 2004, and sales of HP iPods accounted for just 5 percent of iPod sales on average. According to an HP spokesperson, the company remains committed to a strategy of digital entertainment, but "reselling the iPod does not fit within that strategy." Under the terms of the original agreement, HP will continue to provide support for the iPods it has sold, and HP is not allowed to market a competing digital music player until August 2006. HP expects its current inventory of iPods, iPod Minis, and iPod Shuffles will last through the end of September. The company will continue to sell other digital-entertainment products, such as televisions and Media Center PCs. CNET, 29 July 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-1047_3-5810643.html PRINCETON DEBUTS UNIVERSITY CHANNEL Princeton University has launched the University Channel, an online repository of video footage of academic lectures. The service serves as a central location for finding lectures and presentations from colleges and universities that submit materials. Donna Liu, executive director of the project, noted that although some institutions provide Webcasts of important lectures, frequently tapings of lectures are purely for archival purposes and cannot be easily located or viewed later. The focus of the channel initially will be lectures on public policy and international affairs, and several institutions have already submitted content for the site. Topics might be expanded in the future. The University Channel is also working with cable companies to broadcast some of the lectures over cable networks. The new channel is similar in concept to a project at the University of Washington called the Research Channel, which focuses on scientific and medical research. Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 July 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/07/2005072801t.htm BROADENING THE SCOPE OF FREE COURSEWARE Rice University's Connexions project is an effort to take the idea of free educational materials to a new level. Started in 1999 by Richard Baraniuk, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice, Connexions is not unlike MIT's OpenCourseWare project, which puts course materials from all MIT classes online for free. In contrast, Connexions takes the approach of aggregating course materials from professors at any school. Connexions also offers feedback tools that allow users to rate content, similar to rating systems on sites such as Amazon.com. In Connexions, ratings happen after publication, rather than before publication as in traditional peer review, but Baraniuk believes the rating system can provide an alternative to traditional peer review, a system Baraniuk believes is broken. Baraniuk also sees enormous potential in Connexions to help community colleges, which rely heavily on adjunct professors who often have little time for course development. With relatively limited resources, faculty at community colleges could use Connexions to create courses tailored for their institution and students, rather than the common practice of simply having to rely on a single textbook for material. Inside Higher Ed, 29 July 2005 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/07/29/open CISCO AND SECURITY RESEARCHER AGREE TO DISAGREE Security researcher Michael Lynn and Cisco Systems have reached an agreement that should put an end to Cisco's legal action against Lynn for speaking publicly about a flaw in the company's router software. Lynn, who until Wednesday was employed by Internet Security Systems (ISS), gave a presentation at the Black Hat Conference discussing the vulnerability. Cisco and ISS had discouraged Lynn from giving the presentation, saying that a patch had been issued for the flaw. Lynn believed Cisco had not been open with consumers about the severity of the problem, and he resigned from ISS to protest the company's position that he should not give the presentation. After he left ISS, however, Lynn faced legal action from Cisco, which argued that he had no right to make the presentation since he was no longer employed by ISS. Under the agreement, Lynn will stop disclosing information about the flaw, and the legal action will be canceled. Computer security expert Bruce Schneier applauded Lynn for his conviction in exposing what he thought was a serious flaw despite the risks of going public. Matt Bishop, professor of computer science at the University of California- Davis, said he sees the practice of exposing flaws publicly as a dangerous practice and that working with the affected vendor is preferable. San Jose Mercury News, 29 July 2005 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12255870.htm CONGRESS GETS SERIOUS ABOUT DATA PRIVACY Ahead of its August recess, Congress moved data-security measures to the top of its agenda, with various House and Senate committees considering three different bills dealing with the protection of sensitive information. The broadest legislation being considered is the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act, which would place new restrictions on how personal information may be used and imposes criminal penalties for those found to have violated it. The bill would limit the sale and publication of Social Security numbers, require notification of consumers in the event their personal data is compromised, and restrict the authority of the states in writing their own regulations for data protection. Other bills working their way through the Senate include similar requirements that consumers be notified of data breaches, but they only include civil penalties. The other measures, including one passed by the Senate Commerce Committee, place oversight and enforcement authority with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Critics of the proposed legislation argue that it is being rushed through without proper discussion. CNET, 28 July 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-5808894.html You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Hurricanes growing 50%v fiercer due to global warming Hurricanes have grown significantly more powerful and destructive over the last three decades due in part to global warming, MIT professor, Kerry Emanuel, who warns in the journal Nature that this trend could continue. Both the number of days per hurricane and their highest wind speeds have increased by ~50 percent over the last 50 years. * Announced last week: Sony Music, now known as Sony/BMG, will pay a $10 million settlement as per New York's Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer. Memos released in this investigation: "Please be advised that in this week's Jennifer Lopez Top 40 Spin Increase of 236 we bought 63 spins at a cost of $3,600." "Please be advised that in this week's Good Charlotte Top 40 Spin Increase of 61 we bought approximately 250 spins at a cost of $17K" The names were embargoed, but everyone seem to know who they were. * Karl Rove and Robert Novak, whose comments "outed" CIA operative Valerie Plame, managed to get off the hot seat at the expense of Bush's unilateral appointment of now Ambassador Bolton to the United Nations, but Judith Miller still languished in jail for not revealing sources for the story she never wrote. For those who don't remember, you might recognize Bolton if you look closely as a key player in stopping election recounts in the first Bush election. Of course, no one would ever mention such a thing, nor a similar case, in which Judge Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court without any mention of his being the "author of the Saturday Night Massacre" of Watergate fame in which no Attorney General or nominee would fire the prosector, and we went through quite a few that night before Bork was willing to do the dirty work to get the position. *STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK Walter McCormick, Jr, President and CEO, United States Telecom Assn, is criticizing municipal wireless links to the Internet as being too competitive with the businesses of the members of his association. I wonder if automobile and gasoline manufacturers should get on the bandwagon and criticize cities for allowing taxis, busses, trains, and subway systems to compete, thus reducing sales of cars and gas? DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Africa Should Be Self-Sustaining After We Pillaged Rain Forests The information has been hidden for so long that even the Africans seem to have forgotten that the reason for droughts has been the cutting down of the rain forests at the behest of the white world for more exports of lumber and wood products. If you don't understand how rain forests work, just take a look at the early NASA pictures of Africa and you can see the clouds that form over rain forests after the rains, and then are blown further to provide rains to other downwind areas. When the rain forests disappeared, so did the rain, and clearly show with the aid of NASA photographs from before rain forests had been eliminated as an African environmental control system. By the way, no one seems to have learned from this, rain forests are continually being cut down around the world, and more drought is expected, just keep watching the news and try to remember. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK Now that Novak and Rove are off the hot seat, will they consider releasing Judith Miller from jail while no one is looking? *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Still Watching China and India In the first half of the year Macao's [China] exports dropped 27% while imports rose 3.8%, suggesting the first possibility that China's import-export ratio may have peaked. The cause of the export drop is largely due to the fact that Macao's exports are largely in textiles, which have been very volatile as per various international trade agreements recently. The UK Office of National Statistics announced that it will be outsourcing a major portion of Britain's population database to India via a 3 year contract with Siemens. Several sources have expressed worry concerning identity theft at the source and say the savings from outsourcing are not in line with the risks to passport holders and others. Of course, the World Trade Organization approves of the deal. Project Director, Carrie Armitage, from The UK Office of National Statistics said in a prepared statement: "It is essential to create new solutions to save time and money and give better service to the public, particularly as there is a growing number of applications for certificates." * [The number of deaths from medical errors in the US is more than the number of deaths from automobile accidents! Why no big movement to save THOSE lives?] [Edupage synopsis] NEW LAW ESTABLISHES DATABASES OF MEDICAL ERRORS A bill signed into law last week mandates the creation of a network of databases that store anonymous information on medical errors. According to a 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine, medical errors cost the lives of 98,000 people in the United States each year. Sharing information about those errors is seen by many as a useful step toward preventing similar errors in the future, but many health care providers have been reluctant to share such information for fear of litigation. To that end, the databases mandated by the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 will strip identifying information regarding patients and providers. Reporting information to the databases will be voluntary, and backers of the measure hope that the anonymity provision will encourage providers to submit details of medical errors, allowing others to learn from their mistakes. Dr. J. Edward Hill, president of the American Medical Association, called the new law "the catalyst we need to transform the current culture of blame and punishment into one of open communication and prevention." Federal Computer Week, 1 August 2005 http://govhealthit.com/article89736-07-29-05-Web * 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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