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PT1b Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

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[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,221,559 x 19,891 x $.77 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] [By the way, the US "popclock" is about to turn to 300 million people.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.50 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 19,621 eBooks online as of June 14, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.50 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.61 when we had 16,473 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. At 19,891 eBooks in 34 Years and 11.25 Months We Averaged 569 Per Year 47.4 Per Month 1.56 Per Day At 1743 eBooks Done In The 161 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 10.8 Per Day 76 per Week 332 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. 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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

pt1a1.606 pt1b1.606 Weekly_June_14.txt ***The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, June 14, 2006 PT1*** *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** * Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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The DTB can also be played back on any other DAISY DTB software or hardware player, as well as any MP3 player - The choice is yours. http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk or http://www.dolphinusa.com *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] FREE BOOKS, ELECTRONICALLY Project Gutenberg is organizing a book fair featuring online texts from its own digital library as well as that of the World eBook Library Consortia. During the World eBook Fair, which will take place from July 4 to August 4, users can download free copies of books from Project Gutenberg's collection of 18,000 texts, which are always free, or from the World eBook Library Consortia, which otherwise cost $8.95 each. Organizers hope the event will encourage more people to start reading books electronically, not only on desktop or laptop computers but also on portable devices. Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, said, "We get a lot of people reading Project Gutenberg e-books on PDAs, iPods, pocket PCs, cell phones, etc." Hart said electronic books benefit those who cannot get physical books from traditional libraries, noting that the goal of Project Gutenberg is to "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy." Daniel Greenstein, executive director of the California Digital Library, said that e-books are typically being used to find facts, not to facilitate "the reading experience that we all know and love." Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 June 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/06/2006060701t.htm TWO UNIVERSITIES JOIN MICROSOFT BOOK-SCANNING PROJECT Microsoft has announced that the libraries of the University of California and the University of Toronto will participate in its book-scanning project, known as Windows Live Book Search. The two libraries joining Microsoft's program, which is being run together with the Open Content Alliance, will allow the project to scan their public-domain materials. Unlike Google's similar project, Microsoft's program is only scanning books in the public domain or for which the copyright owners have granted explicit permission. To that end, Microsoft has set up a Web site where copyright owners can volunteer their materials for being scanned and made available online. Google's approach has been to scan books, including those still covered by copyright, unless a copyright owner specifically objects. CNET, 9 June 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6082258.html BEER LOSES TOP SPOT TO IPOD For only the second time in ten years, drinking beer has been relegated to second on Student Monitor's biannual survey of what is "in" on campus, with iPods slotting in at number one. The only other thing to unseat beer: the Internet, in 1997. Eric Weil of Student Monitor said of the latest results of its Lifestyle and Media Study, "We knew iPods were pervasive on campus as a learning and entertainment device, but we didn't see it rating that high." Between spring 2006 and spring 2006, iPods jumped from 59 percent of students saying they were "in" to 73 percent. Rounding out the top ten spots on the survey are Facebook (which tied beer for second), drinking other alcohol, text messaging, downloading music, going to clubs, instant messaging, working out, and coffee. Dan Updegrove, vice president for information technology at the University of Texas at Austin, pointed out that the speed with which "Internet-based phenomena can emerge" accounts for having so many technologies on the top ten that did not even exist several years ago. USA Today, 7 June 2006 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-06-07-ipod-tops-beer_x.htm ITUNES IN TROUBLE IN EUROPE Government regulators in several European countries are taking Apple to court over the way its iTunes music service functions. Norwegian officials have said that Apple's user agreement violates the country's law and that the inability to play iTunes songs on non-Apple devices likely also is illegal in Norway. Specifically at issue are parts of Apple's user agreement that give the company the right to change the terms without notice and that free Apple from any liability for viruses or other harm caused by iTunes downloads. Bjorn Erik Thon, director of the Consumer Ombudsman's Office of Norway, said his office would hear Apple's counterargument concerning whether iTunes songs should be playable on non-Apple equipment, but he added that he expects the office to rule against Apple. Thon rejected an earlier claim by Apple that limiting the songs to Apple devices discourages copyright violations. If consumers cannot play songs they have bought, said Thon, "they will get a download of it free from Napster," increasing piracy. Government officials in Sweden and Denmark are expected to follow Norway's lead in these affairs, and Britain reportedly also shares the same concerns. New York Times, 8 June 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/technology/08cnd-apple.html COURT REJECTS CHALLENGE TO CALEA EXPANSION [More Big Brother Looking Over Your Virtual Shoulders] A federal appeals court has ruled against a challenge to an expansion of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to cover network traffic. CALEA requires providers of telecommunications services to make their systems available to law enforcement for authorized wiretapping. The FCC has sought to expand CALEA to cover Internet networks also. The appeals court ruled 2-1 that the FCC is permitted to apply CALEA to networks. A coalition representing higher education had challenged the expansion of CALEA, saying that the law was not written with data networks in mind and that such an expansion would impose considerable costs on higher education for compliance. Speaking for the majority, Judge David Sentelle said the FCC's interpretation of CALEA to cover data networks was reasonable. Judge Harry Edwards, who dissented in the opinion, said the FCC discounted an exemption in the law for information services. San Jose Mercury News, 9 June 2006 http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/14781403.htm To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to You've been reading excerpts from Edupage: 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 What happened to the $25 million reward for Al-Zarqawi? * Dr. Susan Molchan, formerly a clinical researcher at the National Institutes of Health said, under oath, that the spinal fluid samples given by thousands of patients from enduring the procedure known as a "spinal tap" vanished, just disappeared from her scientifically cooled storage, where they were kept for Alzheimer's research. A Congressional investigation is now underway to find if her boss, Dr. Trey Sunderland, gave those samples valued at millions of dollars, to pharacom giant Pfizer who has a new Alzheimer's drug coming out. Apparently Sunderland gave Pfizer "access" to 3200 vials of spinal fluid valued at six million dollars, for which he reported received a commission of just under $300,000 or about 5% of the value of the missing items. Pfizer's new Alzheimer's drug is reportedly bringing the company a whopping $1.6 billion just in one early year-- making it already the #1 such drug in the marketplace. *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "Mission Accomplished" May 1, 2003 "This will not end the war." June, 2006 "It will take time." June 13, 2006 *QUOTES OF THE WEEK "The latest thing in technology is Open Source." Tom Friedman, author of The Earth Is Flat, last night as Charlie Rose made his return. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The Iraq War, like most others, will last as long as it is politically feasible and financially rewarding to those running the war. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 80% of men say they would marry the same woman again if they had it to do all over again. 50% of women say they would marry the same man again if they had it to do all over again. * A Kentucky Fried Chicken 3 pieces extra crispy meal, with sides contains 15 grams = 1/2 ounce of transfat which is more than is recommended for an entire week. This is as much as is in 30 McBurgers. Source: Lawsuit against KFC, CBS News, etc. * By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers now being mentioned so much in the news. Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. [This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.] "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * Correction, the last stanza of this poem was missing last week. Poem of the Week by Simona Sumanaru My Book Of Sounds You, to me, are like a book of poems. I am so very lucky to have found it one day on the dusty shelf of this old book store in which the air is hot and a little humid like spring this year - who would have thought spring could last that long- The store keeper is a little old lady with violet-grayish strands her hands like those of a piano player - one would expect butterflies of sound to be taking flight from right under her fingertips- every time she touches a book she takes these deep breaths and closes her eyes for a little while as if to memorize the feel of the cover on her music-filled finger tips it was a first edition, it was a romance, it was a motivational book that father read to son before football practice or maybe it was a family saga mother read to daughter before the curtains of night fell down and thoughts drifted away into womanhood and married life She knows them well: pages torn, pictures missing, tiny scribblings at the end of every chapter where a student in international politics boldly put in his own ideas, or maybe an educator to be sneaked in her most affectionate considerations before she decided to turn on the page towards the next soul to be molded. The old lady stops. Her eyes so wide, her hands so wise are playing with the butterflies of air. The buzzing sound of the old fan standing tall in one corner becomes the music of poetry. That's where I found you. (C) 2006 Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart * Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. To subscribe to any (or to unsubscribe or adjust your subscription preferences), visit the Project Gutenberg mailing list server: http://lists.pglaf.org If you are having trouble with your subscription, please email the list's human administrators at: help(a)pglaf.org

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!@! 4 Weeks: The Big Push, Well Not So Big This Time
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08 Jun '06

As most of you are aware, it is 4 weeks until we complete our 35th year of Project Gutenberg history, and we have about 380 eBooks left to make it to 20,000. This would be about 95 per week. . .we did 82 this week. So it's not such a Big Push as we did to get to 10,000, but a rather smaller push, which is why you haven't heard me say an awfully lot about it. . .things are working out much a closer match to reaching 20,000 on our 35th anniversary than anyone, myself included, would likely have predicted. However, especially since I am planning on taking a week off, right at July 4th, I am best man at my best friend's wedding, I am trying to get as much as possible done before I leave as soon as I can after sending out the Newsletter a week before. I am working on the July 5th Newsletter, and will have it out in a fairly complete manner half a day after the previous one goes out, and am hoping that some of our volunteers will have the wherewithal to update it and send it out July 5th with an entirely up to date revision, that hopefully will hit 20,000. If you have any books that are near completion, but would not be totally through all the various processes, we can put them in the "PrePrints" section now, where perhaps a few people in the next few weeks can help with them. More later, I'm just trying to make it one day at a time right now. . . . Thanks!!! Give the world eBooks in 2006!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Blog at http://hart.pglaf.org

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Thank You for all of your work (fwd)
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08 Jun '06

As usual at this time of the year, I will be sending you some "Thank You Notes" from our Project Gutenberg readers. Here is one message, in it's entirety, that I hope you enjoy! Thanks!!! Give the world eBooks in 2006!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Blog at http://hart.pglaf.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:48:23 +0100 From: Amy <amy.e.pedersen(a)gmail.com> To: hart(a)pobox.com Subject: Thank You for all of your work Dear Project Gutenberg, I dont know if many people take the time to thank you, but I just wanted to express my gratitude for the services you provide. Thank you all for your work and dedication. Your work is profoundly appreciated. I am a Peace Corps Volunteer working deep in rural Namibia. I had always admired Project Gutenberg (even donating some time through Distributed Proofreaders) but I have only begun to realize how truly important it is since I have been here. When I was in America it was nice to have access to books whenever I felt like it, without having to go to the trouble of going to a library or bookshop, but here it is vital. Bookshops are rare in Namibia (the nearest one to my village is over 250 kilometres away) and the books they sell are often very very expensive (especially considering my limited financial resources.) Also, the books they sell are often only in Afrikaans or German, neither of which I understand (Peace Corps taught me the tribal language in my villageKhoeKhoeinstead.) Libraries are even rarer and often badly under stocked. I am trying to build up a school library, but we are dependent on donations and it is much more important to get easy to read picture books to help the children with their English than to get classics for my own consumption. Project Gutenberg has become my library. I didnt realize the importance of plain vanilla texts until I got here and realized how slow and expensive internet is. The zipped plain vanilla texts often take less than 5 or 10 minutes to download and provide hours of reading enjoyment. Thank you for being an equalizing force in literacy, allowing books to reach those who would otherwise have a hard time getting them. Your work is thoroughly appreciated. I have shared your site with other volunteers who also enjoy it. Thank you so much. I am immensely grateful. Sincerely, Amy Elizabeth Pedersen

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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
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08 Jun '06

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Cobb 18526 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18526 ] [Files: 18526.txt; 18526-8.txt; 18526-h.htm] On the Trail, by Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard 18525 [Subtitle: An Outdoor Book for Girls] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18525 ] [Files: 18525.txt; 18525-8.txt; 18525-h.htm] A Dark Month, by Algernon Charles Swinburne 18524 [Subtitle: From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18524 ] [Files: 18524.txt; 18524-h.htm] The Poetry of Wales, by John Jenkins 18523 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18523 ] [Files: 18523.txt; 18523-h.htm] The Wreck, by Anonymous 18522 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18522 ] [Files: 18522.txt; 18522-h.htm] An Expository Outline, by Anonymous 18521 [Title: An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation"] [Subtitle: With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18521 ] [Files: 18521.txt; 18521-8.txt] Sabotage in Space, by Carey Rockwell 18520 [Illustrator: Louis Glanzman] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18520 ] [Files: 18520.txt; 18520-h.htm] Manifesto, by Joo Daniel 18519 [Title: Manifesto da Serenissima Sr Rainha de Hungria, e Bohemia, Arquiduqueza de Austria, etc.] [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18519 ] [Files: 18519-8.txt] Fete aerostatique, by Anonymous 18518 [Full title: Fete aerostatique, qui sera celebree aujourd'hui au champ] de Mars; Arostation: etablissement d'une compagnie aeronautique] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18518 ] [Files: 18518-8.txt] Anti-Achitophel (1682), by Elkanah Settle, et al 18517 [Subtitle: Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden] [Editor: Harold Whitmore Jones] [Contents;] [Absalom Senior by Elkanah Settle] [Poetical Reflections by Anonymous] [Azaria and Hushai by Samuel Pordage] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18517 ] [Files: 18517.txt; 18517-8.txt; 18517-h.htm] Het Leven der Dieren, by A. E. Brehm 18516 [Subtitle: 5 Robben; 6 Insecteneters] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18516 ] [Files: 18516-8.txt; 18516-h.htm] Police!!!, by Robert W. Chambers 18515 [Illustrator: Henry Hutt] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18515 ] [Files: 18515.txt; 18515-8.txt; 18515-h.htm] The Black-Sealed Letter, by Andrew Learmont Spedon 18514 [Subtitle: Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney.] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18514 ] [Files: 18514.txt; 18514-8.txt; 18514-h.htm; ] Jesus of Nazareth - A Biography, by John Mark 18513 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18513 ] [Files: 18513.txt; 18513-h.htm] Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare 18512 [Translator: Paavo Cajander] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18512 ] [Files: 18512-8.txt] Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15), by Charles Morris 18511 [Subtitle: The Romance of Reality] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18511 ] [Files: 18511.txt; 18511-8.txt; 18511-h.htm] The Chequers, by James Runciman 18510 [Subtitle: Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in] [a Loafer's Diary] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/1/18510 ] [Files: 18510.txt; 18510-8.txt; 18510-h.htm] Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches, by George P. 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Clarke 18504 [Subtitle: or, A Fair Chance for Girls] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18504 ] [Files: 18504.txt; 18504-8.txt; 18504-h.htm; ] Our Day, by W. A. Spicer 18503 [Subtitle: In the Light of Prophecy] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18503 ] [Files: 18503.txt; 18503-8.txt; 18503-h.htm] The Annual Monitor for 1851 18502 [Subtitle: or, Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in] [Great Britain and Ireland, for the year 1850] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18502 ] [Files: 18502.txt; 18502-h.htm] The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886, by Various 18501 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18501 ] [Files: 18501.txt; 18501-8.txt; 18501-h.htm] Complete Works of Robert Burns, by Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham 18500 [Full title: The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems,] [Songs, and Correspondence.] [Subtitle: With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and] [Biographical by Allan Cunningham] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18500 ] [Files: 18500.txt; 18500-8.txt; 18500-h.htm] Suzanna Stirs the Fire, by Emily Calvin Blake 18499 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/9/18499 ] [Files: 18499.txt; 18499-8.txt; 18499-h.htm] King John of Jingalo, by Laurence Housman 18498 [Subtitle: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/9/18498 ] [Files: 18498.txt; 18498-8.txt; 18498-h.htm] My Second Year of the War, by Frederick Palmer 18497 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/9/18497 ] [Files: 18497.txt; 18497-8.txt; 18497-h.htm] Big Brother, by Annie Fellows-Johnston 18496 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/9/18496 ] [Files: 18496.txt; 18496-8.txt; 18496-h.htm] The Drama of the Forests, by Arthur Heming 18495 [Subtitle: Romance and Adventure] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/9/18495 ] [Files: 18495.txt; 18495-8.txt; 18495-h.htm] Le dernier vivant, by Paul Feval 18494 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/9/18494 ] [Files: 18494-8.txt; 18494-h.htm] Introduction to Non-Violence, by Theodore Paullin 18493 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/9/18493 ] [Files: 18493.txt; 18493-8.txt; 18493-h.htm] Star Surgeon, by Alan Nourse 18492 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/9/18492 ] [Files: 18492.txt; 18492-8.txt; 18492-h.htm] Lettre relative l'organisation des postes et relais, by Ch. Dugas 18491 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/9/18491 ] [Files: 18491-8.txt; 18491-h.htm] Jacques Cartier, by mile Chevalier 18490 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/9/18490 ] [Files: 18490-8.txt; 18490-h.htm] A Court of Inquiry, by Grace S. Richmond 18489 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/8/18489 ] [Files: 18489.txt; 18489-8.txt; 18489-h.htm] The Place Beyond the Winds, by Harriet T. Comstock 18488 [Illustrator: Harry Spafford Potter] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/8/18488 ] [Files: 18488.txt; 18488-8.txt; 18488-h.htm] Food Remedies, by Florence Daniel 18487 [Subtitle: Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/8/18487 ] [Files: 18487.txt; 18487-8.txt; 18487-h.htm] Quiet Talks on Following the Christ, by S. D. Gordon 18486 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/8/18486 ] [Files: 18486.txt; 18486-8.txt; 18486-h.htm] Slave Narratives: Georgia, Part 4, by Work Projects Administration 18485 [Full title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United] [States From Interviews with Former Slaves] [Subtitle: Georgia Narratives, Part 4] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/8/18485 ] [Files: 18485.txt; 18485-8.txt] Slave Narratives: Georgia, Part 3, by Work Projects Administration 18484 [Full title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United] [States From Interviews with Former Slaves] [Subtitle: Georgia Narratives, Part 3] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/4/8/18484 ] [Files: 18484.txt; 18484-8.txt; 18484-h.htm] Fighting France, by Stephane Lauzanne 18483 [Contributor: James M. Beck] [Translator: John L. B. 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It currently receives about 3 thousand visitors a day, many from educational institutions. Now in its 7th year of operation. http://www.livinginternet.com/ TEXT TO SPEECH Dolphin Producer is a new software package which will convert a text document into a fully synchronized text and audio DTB at the push of a single button. The DTB can then be played back using Dolphin's EaseReader software player - which is included in Dolphin Producer. The DTB can also be played back on any other DAISY DTB software or hardware player, as well as any MP3 player - The choice is yours. http://www.dolphinuk.co.uk or http://www.dolphinusa.com *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] SPAMMER SETTLES, EXPERIENCES CHANGE OF HEART One of the most notorious spammers has reached a settlement with Microsoft and the state of Texas and said the experience has been "a serious reality check." Under the terms of the agreement, Ryan Pitylak will pay $1 million to settle charges that he sent as many as 25 million spam e-mails per day. He will also forfeit many assets he gathered as a spammer. Pitylak said he has changed teams, as it were, and will now work to limit spam. "I am pleased to announce that I am now a part of the antispam community," he said, "having started an Internet security company that offers my clients advice on systems to protect against spam." In his heyday, Pitylak, now 24 years old, was fourth on Spamhaus's list of world's worst spammers. CNET, 5 June 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6079868.html GOVERNMENT WANTS ISPS TO KEEP DATA FOR TWO YEARS The Department of Justice is working to require ISPs to keep records on customer activities for two years to help law enforcement officials fight crimes including terrorism and child pornography. Officials from the department met recently with leading Internet companies to discuss details about how such a plan could be put into place. Representatives of those companies said that while they want to aid efforts to stop or prevent crime, they have concerns about exactly what information the Justice Department wants them to keep and how it would be used. A spokesperson from the Justice Department said they want to see records of Web searches and e-mail exchanges but not the content of those actions. He also said access to those records would be restricted and subject to existing protocols covering who is allowed to see it and under what circumstances. Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the proposal amounts to "a radical departure from current practices" and would pose "an unnecessary risk to privacy and security of Internet users." San Jose Mercury News, 2 June 2006 http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/14720891.htm JOHN DOE LIBRARY GROUP GOES PUBLIC The Connecticut library organization that was targeted by federal officials but prevented from revealing its identity has held a press conference concerning the matter. Last year, the Library Connection received a national security letter from the government demanding patron records. Authorized by the USA PATRIOT Act, the letters forbid recipients from even disclosing that they have received the letter. After months of wrangling over the matter, the Justice Department has ended its efforts to enforce the gag order. At the press conference, Peter Chase, vice president of Library Connection, said, "It was galling for me to see the government's attorney in Connecticut... travel around the state telling people that their library records were safe, while at the same time he was enforcing a gag order preventing me from telling people that their library records were not safe." The Library Connection continues to fight the demands of the letter and has not yet given the Justice Department any patron records. Chronicle of Higher Education, 31 May 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/05/2006053101t.htm COURT PROTECTS ONLINE JOURNALISTS A California appeals court has overturned a lower-court ruling, saying that online journalists have as much protection under the First Amendment as traditional journalists. The case involved an action by Apple Computer to discover the identity of individuals responsible for revealing company secrets online. Apple had argued that the information was shared not by legitimate reporters but by people who were violating the company's trade secrets. The appeals court said that online journalists are covered by a state law that guarantees the confidentiality of journalists' sources. The three judges on the panel said there is no reasonable method to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate news and that First Amendment rights trump Apple's demand to know who leaked the information. Observers said the case could have far-reaching implications for bloggers and others who post information and opinions online outside the context of traditional journalism. New York Times, 27 May 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/technology/27apple.html EUROPEAN COURT KILLS PASSENGER-DATA TRANSFER The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has ruled that a 2004 arrangement between the United States and the European Commission contravenes European Community law and must be halted. Under the agreement, which was opposed by the European Parliament, airlines were required to submit passenger name records to U.S. officials or forfeit their rights to land at U.S. airports. Despite airlines' having spent large sums of money to comply with the requirement, the court found the deal illegal on technical grounds. The European Parliament had challenged the deal for a number of reasons, technical issues being just one. After ruling on the technical question, however, the court ended its inquiry, disappointing the European Parliament, which had hoped the court would rule on privacy concerns it raised in its case against the deal. CNET, 30 May 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6077893.html To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to You've been reading excerpts from Edupage: 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 * * *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK The new Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, is rarely mentioned as having been an assistant two of President Nixon's appointees, John Ehrlichman, head of the Watergate "Plumbers Unit" and also to Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird in the Viet Nam War. Even less mention was made of Judge Robert Bork being the author of "The Saturday Night Massacre" of Watergate fame, when he was nominated for the Supreme Court. *QUOTES OF THE WEEK More journalists have been killed in the Iraq War since March 20, 2003, 66 as of last week, than in 20 years of the Viet Nam War, where a total of 63 were killed. Source: Reporters Without Borders * "Our strength is in our values, and if we give up our values to fight this enemy, we have already lost." Various sources from both sides of the aisle. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The cash flow will continue to reverse, as networks who used to pay for transmission of their programs to you-- reverse their position and charge affiliates and others for their programming. Yes, your local station used to get paid by the network to show network programming, in return for advertising, which quite often obviously split between them. This plan may have originated with the BBC, The British Broadcasting Company, who used to pay to send shortwave programs to my area for my whole life until a few years ago when I bought a new shortwave radio and found I was not able to pick up any of the dozen plus frequencies I had listened to the BBC on for years. Research turned up the fact that the BBC was charging a fee now for their programs, and thus had shut off their "North American World Service" I had listened to. This fee of millions of dollars per year is paid by a lot of NPR, National Public Radio, stations through a new PRI, Public Radio International, which was perhaps made just for this kind of purpose. All in all, it would appear that some kind of "pay per" business plan is sweeping the world of commercial media outlets, perhaps explaining the success of Youtube, the media outlet that now receives up to 50,000 videos just in a single day for worldwide downloading. Yahoo is in the process of launching their competitor to Youtube. As more and more people refuse to watch commercials the networks are going crazy trying to figure out how to do their commercials in new ways, including previous notes concerning "Product Integration" being the new versions of ye olde "Product Placement." However, writers had a serious complaint about being forced to write ads for a plot line that revolved around sponsors' products. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK According to CBS News Sunday night, the price of crude went up 14% in the same period that the profits of the gasoline companies went up 130%. * In New Orleans cleanup efforts, NBC reported that more of the sub-sub-sub-contracting ripoffs were revealed: Askritt Co., who freely admits they don't own a single truck for the removal of anything they contracted for, but simply paid sub-contractors and kept a lion's part of the government payments. As I recall this was paid by the cubic yard of disposal, and the original payees receieved $23 per cubic yard, then passed on contracts for $9 per cu. yd., who then did $8 and $7. . .until a man named Leo actually did the work for $3 per cu. yd. Source: Lisa Myers, NBC News, 06/05/06 * Immigration of Teachers to U.S. Now A Top Priority! Who Would Have Thought Teaching Would Be Globalized? The United States may be trying to keep some people in limbo as far as immigration policies are concerned but for 10,000 needed teachers, the path may well be paved with gold as various school districts compete for each and every available teacher around the world. Baltimore schools are likely to hire each one of 81 in a single room of interviewees if they interview well-- the location is Manila in the Philippines. It's impossible to find enough math, science, special- education and other teachers in America, so schools in need are sending their recruiters overseas. The same recruitment effort that yields interviews for perhaps five or ten teachers in the U.S. might get you several hundred to choose from elsewhere. Las Vegas, perhaps the fastest growing city in the US, recruits teachers from Canada, Topeka goes to Spain or India for many of its teachers, Dallas heads south for teachers from Mexico and Chile, and those are just the most obvious examples of cities that will recruit some 10,000 foreign teachers to fill classroom vacancies. These policies are made obvious to other countries and the result is that they even offer courses of study to prepare students to become American teachers. Of course, not everyone approves, the head of the NEA, National Education Association, says that this policy, no matter how well intended, will continue to drive an expected teacher's salary down, and thus force teacher wannabees into other occupations if they want to share in the American Dreamz. For those teachers in Manila, this IS the American Dream, as they will receive twice or three times their current salaries in the new jobs. Didn't anyone think of these sorts of things when they decided to globalize everything? Source: CBS Evening News, 6/6/06 * More Katrina Recovery Money Goes Into Non-Work Pockets It seems that every week a new revelation spells out a new chapter in this never ending spectacle of greed. Even while denying the hiring of layers of contractors and sub-contractors and sub-sub-sub-contractors, money trails show that much of the money paid for a recovery from last year's hurricanes never leaves the office of the original contractor, but is merely raked off, then another contractor is hired, who then rakes off more-- perhaps for 8 levels--until finally a few percent of a government contract is paid to the contractor who gets to actually do the job. Previous reports included the "Blue Roof" program, and contracts given to Vice President Cheney's Halliburton company, AshBritt, Bechtel, Akima, etc. Some of these contracts magically seemed to grow by millions when it was announced they would be "no-bid" or limited bidded government contracts. For some unknown reason much of the money was spent in the neighboring states of Texas and Florida, where the contractors simply passed on the work after taking out millions of dollars for themselves. AshBritt, a Pompano Beach, Flordia, company recently a recipient of one of the half billion dollar contracts, was recently called before Congress to defend contract failures that were obvious to all concerned, in only a few weeks the failures were already obvious. AshBritt President Randal Perkins said, "It's normal," to House Committee members when questioned. Local contractors quote their own prices as $12.90 and the like per cubic yard of debris and say contracts of $36 per cubic yard are going to connected Big Boys. AshBritt's Perkins said it was more like $23, and Army Corps of Engineers sources put it at $26, but reports, already made public, have shown that these contractors have made over $35 per cubic yard in Louisiana, though AshBritt was not specifially named. The range paid to the actual local contractors seems a range from about $13 to $17 per cubic yard, while that same contract to non-local contractors appears in many sources as $23 to $35+. Various politicians, including Mississippi's Governor, are founders of some of these contracting agencies for whom this has been a windfall profits year as Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, founded by Governor Haley Barbour. Apparently politicians on both sides of the aisle have concentrated as much or more on profiteering, some had even resigned their positions in the first month after Katrina to concentrate on such contracting. Many of the stocks of these companies has risen 50-90% in various periods after Katrina some with more than a billion dollars of contracts still waiting for work. While some workers are benefitting by getting $17/hour for cleanup work, the contractors who hire them get an admitted $30,000 per day. In some cases it would appear that private farmers are being paid to take mulch made from downed vegetation-- and some are reported to be making millions from it. [Search both AshBritt, Asbritt, and variant spellings] Sources: NBC MSNBC Taxpayers for Common Sense House Reform Committee Testimony CorpWatch Carlsbad Current Argus * 500Gb drives on sale for $190 Thus you can now add a terabyte in two drives for $380, or 1.2Tb in 3 drives for $357. I managed to get one of the 500G drives right over the counter, at Fry's in Chicago, no rebates required. * Want $4.1 in revenge on the media? Lock them in a hot room with no air-conditioning and make them bid for what they want with only phone contact with the bosses all night long. . .literally. . . . * By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers now being mentioned so much in the news. Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. [This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.] "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * Poem of the Week by Simona Sumanaru My Book Of Sounds You, to me, are like a book of poems. I am so very lucky to have found it one day on the dusty shelf of this old book store in which the air is hot and a little humid like spring this year - who would have thought spring could last that long- The store keeper is a little old lady with violet-grayish strands her hands like those of a piano player - one would expect butterflies of sound to be taking flight from right under her fingertips- every time she touches a book she takes these deep breaths and closes her eyes for a little while as if to memorize the feel of the cover on her music-filled finger tips it was a first edition, it was a romance, it was a motivational book that father read to son before football practice or maybe it was a family saga mother read to daughter before the curtains of night fell down and thoughts drifted away into womanhood and married life She knows them well: pages torn, pictures missing, tiny scribblings at the end of every chapter where a student in international politics boldly put in his own ideas, or maybe an educator to be sneaked in her most affectionate considerations before she decided to turn on the page towards the next soul to be molded. 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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

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