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31 Aug '06

GWeekly_August_30_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 21 Jun 2006 eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 2 of the Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter: - Obtaining Project Gutenberg eBooks - Updates/corrections to previously posted eBooks - 38 New U.S. eBooks this week - 77 New eBooks at Project Gutenberg of Australia - 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). And please note: you can now obtain a listing by language at the above link. 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To report an error in the listings below, please write to news_at_pglaf.org and include the word CORRECTION in the subject line. ========================================================================= [ Here Are The Updated Listings For This Past Week ] ========================================================================= TOTAL COUNT as of today, Wed, 30 Aug 2006: 19,103 PG U.S.A. 1,202 PG of Australia RESERVED/PENDING count: 42 =-=-=-=[ 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: Framley Parsonage, by Anthony Trollope 2860 [Updated edition of: etext01/frmly11.txt ] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/6/2860 ] [Files: 2860.txt; 2860-8.txt; 2860-h.htm] The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde 844 [Subtitle: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/8/4/844 ] [Files: 844.txt; 844-h.htm] :: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: -=-=-=-=[ 38 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Time Traders, by Andre Norton 19145 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/4/19145 ] [Files: 19145.txt; 19145-h.htm] A Visit to the Micmac Indians, by William MacGregor 19144 [Title: Report by the Governor on a Visit to the Micmac Indians at Bay d'Espoir] [Subtitle: Colonial Reports, Miscellaneous. No. 54. Newfoundland] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/4/19144 ] [Files: 19144.txt; 19144-h.htm] Correggio, by Estelle M. Hurll 19143 [Subtitle: A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation] [Illustrator: Correggio] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/4/19143 ] [Files: 19143.txt; 19143-8.txt; 19143-0.txt; 19143-h.htm] The Devil Doctor, by Sax Rohmer 19142 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/4/19142 ] [Files: 19142.txt; 19142-8.txt; 19142-h.htm] Edison's Conquest of Mars, by Garrett Putman Serviss 19141 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/4/19141 ] [Files: 19141.txt; 19141-h.htm] Girlhood and Womanhood, by Sarah Tytler 19140 [Subtitle: The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/4/19140 ] [Files: 19140.txt; 19140-8.txt; 19140-h.htm] Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century, Clarence Henry Haring 19139 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19139 ] [Files: 19139.txt; 19139-8.txt; 19139-h.htm] Resonance in Singing and Speaking, by Thomas Fillebrown 19138 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19138 ] [Files: 19138.txt; 19138-8.txt; 19138-h.htm] Kumarrusmatka, by Robert Kiljander 19137 [Subtitle: Kolminaytoksinen huvinaytelma] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19137 ] [Files: 19137-8.txt] Hayslope Grange, by Emma Leslie 19136 [Subtitle: A Tale of the Civil War] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19136 ] [Files: 19136.txt; 19136-h.htm] The Southerner, by Thomas Dixon 19135 [Subtitle: A Romance of the Real Lincoln] [Illustrator: J. N. Marchand] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19135 ] [Files: 19135.txt; 19135-8.txt; 19135-h.htm] The Empire of Love, by W. J. 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Lawrence 19121 [Subtitle: A Novel] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19121 ] [Files: 19121.txt; 19121-8.txt; 19121-h.htm] The Saddle Boys of the Rockies, by James Carson 19120 [Subtitle: Lost on Thunder Mountain] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19120 ] [Files: 19120.txt; 19120-h.htm] Cerberus, The Dog of Hades, by Maurice Bloomfield 19119 [Subtitle: The History of an Idea] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19119 ] [Files: 19119.txt; 19119-8.txt; 19119-h.htm] The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. 25, Ed. by Blair & Robertson 19118 [Subtitle: Volume VII, 1635-1636] (Note: Vol. 25 of 55) [Ed.: Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson] [Intro. and Notes: Edward Gaylord Bourne] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19118 ] [Files: 19118.txt; 19118-8.txt; 19118-h.htm] Sergeant York And His People, by Sam Cowan 19117 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19117 ] [Files: 19117.txt; 19117-h.htm] How to Sing, by Lilli Lehmann 19116 [Subtitle: Meine Gesangskunst] [Translator: Richard Aldrich] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19116 ] [Files: 19116.txt; 19116-8.txt; 19116-h.htm] Roman Britain in 1914, by F. Haverfield 19115 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19115 ] [Files: 19115.txt; 19115-8.txt; 19115-h.htm] Foe-Farrell, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 19114 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19114 ] [Files: 19114.txt; 19114-h.htm] The Emigrant Trail, by Geraldine Bonner 19113 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19113 ] [Files: 19113.txt; 19113-8.txt; 19113-h.htm] La foire aux vanites, Tome I, by William Makepeace Thackeray 19112 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19112 ] [Files: 19112-8.txt; 19112-h.htm] Code Three, by Rick Raphael 19111 [Illustrator: Schoenherr] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19111 ] [Files: 19111.txt; 19111-h.htm] The Arena, by Various 19110 [Subtitle: Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891] [Editor: B. O. Flower] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19110 ] [Files: 19110.txt; 19110-8.txt; 19110-h.htm] Poems, by Hattie Howard 19109 [Subtitle: Vol. IV] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19109 ] [Files: 19109.txt; 19109-8.txt; 19109-h.htm] The Golden Silence, by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson 19108 [Illustrator: George Brehm] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19108 ] [Files: 19108.txt; 19108-8.txt; 19108-h.htm] -=-=-=-=[ 77 NEW EBOOKS AT PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Aug 2006 The Buln-Buln and the Brolga, by Joseph Furphy [0606841x.xxx] 1202A [Author AKA: Tom Collins (pseud.] [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606841.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606841h.html ] Aug 2006 Michael Howe, by Thomas E Wells [0606831x.xxx] 1201A [Title: Michael Howe-The Last and Worst of the Bush-Rangers of Van Dieman's Land] [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606831.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606831h.html ] Aug 2006 Wake Not the Dead, by Johann Ludwig Tieck [0606821x.xxx] 1200A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606821.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606821h.html ] Aug 2006 Vampire, by Jan Neruda [0606811x.xxx] 1199A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606811.txt or zip ] and 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[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606751.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606751h.html ] Aug 2006 The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin, Anonymous [0606741x.xxx] 1192A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606741.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606741h.html ] Aug 2006 The Mysterious Spaniard, by Anonymous [0606731x.xxx] 1191A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606731.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606731h.html ] Aug 2006 The Murder Hole, by Anonymous [0606721x.xxx] 1190A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606721.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606721h.html ] Aug 2006 The Haunted House, by John Whittier [0606711x.xxx] 1189A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606711.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606711h.html ] Aug 2006 The Desire to be a Man, by de L'isle-Adam [0606701x.xxx] 1188A [Author: Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam] [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606701.txt or zip ] and 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[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606641.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606641h.html ] Aug 2006 Extracts from Gosschen's Diary, by Anonymous [0606631x.xxx] 1181A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606631.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606631h.html ] Aug 2006 Collected stories, by Ellen Wood [0606621x.xxx] 1180A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606621.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606621h.html ] Aug 2006 An Express of the Future, by Jules Verne [0606611x.xxx] 1179A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606611.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606611h.html ] Aug 2006 The True Story of A Vampire & more, Eric Stenbock [0606601x.xxx] 1178A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606601.txt or zip and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606601h.html ] Aug 2006 The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm [0606591x.xxx] 1177A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606591.txt or zip and 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[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606481.txt or zip and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606481h.html ] Aug 2006 A Teacher of the Violin & Other Stories,Shorthouse[0606471x.xxx] 1165A [Author: J H Shorthouse] [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606471.txt or zip and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606471h.html ] Aug 2006 Zastrozzi, by Percy Bysshe Shelley [0606461x.xxx] 1164A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606461.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606461h.html ] Aug 2006 The Wendigo, by Theodore Roosevelt [0606451x.xxx] 1163A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606451.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606451h.html ] Aug 2006 The Miraculous Revenge, by George Bernard Shaw [0606441x.xxx] 1162A [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606441.txt or zip ] and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606441h.html ] Aug 2006 The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew, by Runyon [0606431x.xxx] 1161A [Author: Damon Runyon] [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606431.txt or 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Note that updated eBooks usually go in their original directory (e.g., etext99, etext00, etc.) *** Statistical Review In the 34 weeks of this year, we have produced 2857 new eBooks. It took us from 07/71 to 10/01 to produce our FIRST 2857 eBooks!!! That's 34 WEEKS as Compared to ~30 YEARS!!! FLASHBACK! Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2857 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 are now in new catalog format] The Yellow God, by H. Rider Haggard 2857 [Subtitle: An Idol of Africa] Moon of Israel, by H. Rider Haggard 2856 Elissa, by H. Rider Haggard 2855 Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols 2854 Oct 2001 Quo Vadis, The Time of Nero, by Henryk Sienkiewicz[quvdsxxx.xxx] 2853 [Title: Quo Vadis, A Narrative of the Time of Nero] [Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin] Oct 2001 The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle 25[bskrvxxx.xxx] 2852 Sixes and Sevens, by O. Henry 2851 Oct 2001 The Wars of The Jews, by Flavius Josephus [warjexxx.xxx] 2850 [Title: The Wars of The Jews or the History of the Destruction of Jerusalem] Oct 2001 Against Apion, by Flavius Josephus[Tr. Wm. Whiston[agaapxxx.xxx] 2849 Oct 2001 The Antiquities of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus [taofjxxx.xxx] 2848 Oct 2001 Josephus' Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades[hadesxxx.xxx] 2847 [Title: An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning Hades] Oct 2001 The Life of Flavius Josephus, Tr. by Wm. Whiston [lfjosxxx.xxx] 2846 Oct 2001 Sir Nigel, by Arthur Conan Doyle [A. C. Doyle #24][nigelxxx.xxx] 2845 The Fatal Boots, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2844 Little Travels and Roadside Sketches, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2843 Black Heart and White Heart, by H. Rider Haggard 2842 The Ivory Child, by H. Rider Haggard 2841 (Note: These three are our first eBooks in Flemish/Dutch:) Sep 2001 De Franse Pers, Heinrich Heine [#3/Flemish/Dutch][fpersxxx.xxx] 2840 [Language: Dutch] Sep 2001 Franse Toestanden, Heinrich Heine[2/Flemish/Dutch][ftoesxxx.xxx] 2839 [Language: Dutch] Sep 2001 De Beurs lacht, Heinrich Heine [#1/Flemish/Dutch][fbeurxxx.xxx] 2838 [Language: Dutch] Sep 2001 Lendas do Sul, by J. Somoes Lopes Netto [lendaxxx.xxx] 2837 [Language: Portuguese] (Note: Our First eBook in Portuguese!) Sep 2001 Abraham Lincoln and the Union, Nath'l W Stephenson[alatuxxx.xxx] 2836 [Author: Nathaniel W. Stephenson] Sep 2001 The Canadian Dominion, by Oscar D. Skelton [cndndxxx.xxx] 2835 Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 2, by Henry James[#37][2pldyxxx.xxx] 2834 Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 1, by Henry James[#36][1pldyxxx.xxx] 2833 Sep 2001 Myth, Ritual, and Religion, V1, by Andrew Lang #28[1mrarxxx.xxx] 2832 Sep 2001 A Bundle of Ballads, by Henry Morley [bndbaxxx.xxx] 2831 Sep 2001 Reginald, by Saki (H. H. Munro) [Saki HH Munro #5][rgnldxxx.xxx] 2830 Sep 2001 Fanny and the Servant Problem, by Jerome K. Jerome[fnyspxxx.xxx] 2829 Sep 2001 Under the Deodars, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling #19][undeoxxx.xxx] 2828 / Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,540,879,049 that would be 21,002 x 65,408,790 = ~1.37 Trillion !!! With 21,002 eBooks online as of August 30, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.73 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 65,408,790 x 21,002 x $.73 = ~$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.] [Just turned 299.6 million this week!] A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.48 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 21,002 eBooks online as of August 30, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.48 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.59 when we had 17,063 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. Next Decade's Target: 15% Of The world Population = 1,000,000,000 people. At 21,002 eBooks in 35 Years and 01.80 Months We Averaged 597 Per Year 50 Per Month 1.64 Per Day At 2857 eBooks Done In The 238 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 12.0 Per Day 84 per Week 366 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. However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a 300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M, just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M. 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]. * 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 4th was the first Wednesday of 2006, and thus ended PG's production year of 2005 and began the production year of 2006 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. ***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B*** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] IZON MISTAKENLY E-MAILS CUSTOMER DATA Verizon Wireless mistakenly e-mailed an Excel spreadsheet containing information on more than 5,200 subscribers to about 1,800 customers of the company. The e-mail was supposed to include an electronic order form for a Bluetooth wireless headset as part of a promotional offer. The Excel file did not contain highly sensitive information such as credit card or Social Security numbers, but it did include names, e-mail addresses, and cell phone models and numbers. Even with such relatively benign information, identity thieves have a head start on committing fraud, according to security experts. James Van Dyke, the principal analyst at Javelin Strategy and Research, noted that a skilled con artist could use the information in the spreadsheet to contact someone on the list, posing as a representative of Verizon, and possibly obtain more sensitive information. A spokesperson from Verizon said the company takes seriously its obligation to protect consumer data and has implemented new measures to prevent a recurrence of this kind of incident. The company also encouraged customers to add passwords to their accounts. CNET, 25 August 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6109883.html DETAILS SURFACE ABOUT UC DEAL WITH GOOGLE [This reports seems to have been "sanitized" compared to earlier such reports that made it sound as if the entire contract between Google and whole University of California system had been leaked. In addition, it seems to not quite state flatly that if the deal requires UC to ONLY provide EXCLUSIVE copies to Google, then the deal they made with Yahoo's Brewster Kahle would be void. . .and what would the legal implicaions be?] Details of the recent deal in which the University of California will join Google's book-scanning project have been released through an open-records request. Under the deal, the university will provide as many as 3,000 books per day to the search engine for digitization, eventually totaling at least 2.5 million books. The university and Google will keep copies of the digitized works, but the university is bound by a number of restrictions on how it can use its copies. For example, the university must prevent other search engines from scanning the books. Critics of the project, including Brewster Kahle, cofounder of the Internet Archive, said Google is getting more than it should from the arrangement. He faulted the university for "spend[ing] millions of taxpayers' dollars to benefit a single corporation's interest in building a private library." Daniel Greenstein, director of the California Digital Library and one of the brokers of the deal, said that Google's business model and its interests align well with the university's goal of providing free "public access for the public domain." Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 August 2006 http://chronicle.com/free/2006/08/2006082501t.htm DELL PRIORITIZES BATTERY REPLACEMENTS [This on top of several other reports of poor quality control and other woes for Dell after Michael Dell took a more "hands off" approach to running his company.] Dell has announced certain prioritizations for its recall of 4.1 million laptop batteries. After reports of some batteries overheating and possibly catching fire, Dell reached a voluntary agreement with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to replace the batteries. Troy West, vice president and general manager of Dell's federal segment, said that priority will be given to customers in national security, health care, public safety, and emergency management services for replacement batteries, though he refused to say when the recall would be complete. Early bulk shipments of replacement batteries were sent to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and Fort Hood, Texas. West also said that several thousand replacements have been sent to a parts hub in Kuwait that is distributing them to defense contractors. Federal Computer Week, 25 August 2006 http://www.fcw.com/article95806-08-25-06-Web DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION EXPOSES LOAN DATA The U.S. Department of Education said it is working to fix a computer problem that allowed student borrowers to see loan information for other students. According to the agency, the problem resulted from a routine software upgrade by Affiliated Computers Services Inc., a contractor to the agency. Evidently, that upgrade caused student loan data for borrowers to be accessed by others when using the Education Department's Web site. A spokesperson from the Education Department said that four users of the Web system had notified the agency since last Sunday of the problem. The breach was said to have affected only a "limited number" of the 6.4 million students who borrowed money under the Federal Direct Student Loan program. Those with loans through other lenders are not affected. The agency said it has temporarily turned off the features of the student loan Web site that were leading to the problems and would keep those features off until the problem is resolved. Houston Chronicle, 23 August 2006 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4136336.html 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 *QUOTATION OF THE WEEK "When nations create secure, secret, or classified documents, the object is more to preserve their secrecy from their own population than from their stated enemies. To them, the real enemies are their own people, [the people who could vote them out of office." Noam Chomsky Paraphrase of statement on Alternative Radio as on WILL-AM ~6:30PM, 08/26/06 / "Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, and 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains." ---Herbert Hoover *STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 1/8 of the official population of the United States is composed of immigrants. / 85% of Americans Graduate from High School 28% of Americans Graduate from College That means about 1/3 of the high school grads finish college. However, equally true is that about 1/3 of the high school grads have never attained the reading skills required to read a dozen, or so, books required of them every single year. President White of the University of Illinois says that colleges are dropping the ball by graduating only 28% of of Americans for whom 85% have already managed a high school diploma. He said at the opening of the Fall semester than government should spend an increasing amount on education to fill this gap. Let's look into these statistics a little more: 28% / 85% = ~1/3 of all high school students graduate college. When I was a kid the percentage of college degress was only some half as much of the total population. . .~14%, so I would say it is obvious that college plays an ever incrasing role in lives of Americans. . .twice as much as it used to, in fact. However, official US Adult Literacy statistics show that about a half of all adult Americans would be challenged in reading this, much less by reading all the materials for a college degree. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), found little change between 1992 and 2003 in adults' ability to read and understand sentences and paragraphs or to understand documents such as job applications. December 15, 2005 Contacts: Mike Bowler, (202) 219-1662 or David Thomas, (202)401-1576 If you read far enough in their documents, and add up the totals they refuse to give you outright, you will see that just about a half of US Adults could be expected to read such materials while the other half would be challenged to do so. As with so many other negative government statistics, these were presented in a manner that diguised their actual meaning. However, even more negative is the fact that 85% get high school diplomas, while only about half of them can read at satisfactory high school graduation levels. [I suppose this could also qualify for the doublespeak section.] *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "Hezbollah suffered defeat." Multiple sources MORE DOUBLESPEAK If Congress were honest about estimating the National Debt, they would give you figures 2 to 10 times as high. McLaughlin Group, Sunday, August 27 *QUOTES OF THE WEEK *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK There will be another war between Israel and Lebanon, simply because no one will stop them. The Iraq War will continue until officials finally manage to admit it is another viet Nam. Or, even more unlikely, until there is a real plan. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK [I think the inflation/growth statistics in the news were plenty odd enough. However, I should add that manufacturing costs rose sharply around the world, up 1.1% in the UK in July alone, though those have not yet reached the consumer markets.] * 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. * 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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GWeekly_August_23_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 21 Jun 2006 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 - 45 New U.S. eBooks this week - 55 New eBooks at Project Gutenberg of Australia - 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). And please note: you can now obtain a listing by language at the above link. 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To report an error in the listings below, please write to news_at_pglaf.org and include the word CORRECTION in the subject line. ========================================================================= [ Here Are The Updated Listings For This Past Week ] ========================================================================= TOTAL COUNT as of today, Wed, 23 Aug 2006: 19,065 PG U.S.A. 1,125 PG of Australia RESERVED/PENDING count: 42 =-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= :: During the past week the following ebooks were manually updated and reposted with the indicated filenames and transferred into the corresponding new directories: :: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: Correct author's name (Robert W., not Rob): Ducks at a Distance, by Robert W. Hines 18884 [Subtitle: A Waterfowl Identification Guide] -=-=-=-=[ 45 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- An Arkansas Planter, by Opie Percival Read 19107 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19107 ] [Files: 19107.txt; 19107-h.htm] Reconocimiento del fuerte del Carmen del Rio Negro, by Ambrosio Cramer 19106 [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19106 ] [Files: 19106-8.txt; 19106-h.htm] Punch, Vol. 159, December 1, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 19105 [Editor: Owen Seaman] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19105 ] [Files: 19105.txt; 19105-8.txt; 19105-h.htm] Secret Societies And Subversive Movements, by Nesta H. Webster 19104 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19104 ] [Files: 19104.txt; 19104-8.txt; 19104-0.txt; 19104-h.htm] The Discovery of a World in the Moone, by John Wilkins 19103 [Subtitle: Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet (1638)] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19103 ] [Files: 19103.txt; 19103-8.txt; 19103-0.txt; 19103-h.htm] Dearest, by Henry Beam Piper 19102 [Illustrator: Vincent Napoli] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19102 ] [Files: 19102.txt; 19102-h.htm] The Girl with the Green Eyes, by Clyde Fitch 19101 [Subtitle: A Play in Four Acts] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19101 ] [Files: 19101.txt; 19101-8.txt; 19101-h.htm] The Covenants And The Covenanters, by Various 19100 [Subtitle: Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation] [Editor: James Kerr] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19100 ] [Files: 19100.txt; 19100-8.txt; 19100-h.htm] The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863, by Various 19099 [Subtitle: Devoted to Literature and National Policy] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19099 ] [Files: 19099.txt; 19099-8.txt; 19099-h.htm] Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan,Clement A. Miles 19098 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19098 ] [Files: 19098.txt; 19098-8.txt; 19098-h.htm] The Young Carpenters of Freiberg, by Anonymous 19097 [Subtitle: A Tale of the Thirty Years' War] [Tr.: J. Latchmore] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19097 ] [Files: 19097.txt; 19097-8.txt; 19097-h.htm; ] Indian Legends and Other Poems, by Mary Gardiner Horsford 19096 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19096 ] [Files: 19096.txt; 19096-8.txt; 19096-h.htm] Kihlajaiskemut, by Robert Kiljander 19095 [Subtitle: Naytelma 4:ssa naytoksessa] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19095 ] [Files: 19095-8.txt] Magic, by G.K. Chesterton 19094 [Subtitle: A Fantastic Comedy] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19094 ] [Files: 19094.txt; 19094-8.txt; 19094-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 22. October, 1878, by Various 19093 [Title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19093 ] [Files: 19093.txt; 19093-8.txt; 19093-h.htm] The Adventures of Paddy Beaver, by Thornton W. Burgess 19092 [Illustrator: Harrison Cody] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19092 ] [Files: 19092.txt; 19092-h.htm] Robur de Veroveraar, by Jules Verne 19091 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19091 ] [Files: 19091-8.txt; 19091-h.htm] Star Hunter, by Andre Alice Norton 19090 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19090 ] [Files: 19090.txt; 19090-8.txt; 19090-h.htm] A Pagan of the Hills, by Charles Neville Buck 19089 [Illus.: George W. Gage] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19089 ] [Files: 19089.txt; 19089-h.htm; ] Maksimilian Aukusti Myhrberg, by Julius Krohn 19088 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19088 ] [Files: 19088-8.txt] The King Nobody Wanted, by Norman F. Langford 19087 [Illustrator: John Lear] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19087 ] [Files: 19087.txt; 19087-h.htm] Vijf weken in een luchtballon, by Jules Verne 19086 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19086 ] [Files: 19086-8.txt; 19086-h.htm] The Prelude to Adventure, by Hugh Walpole 19085 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19085 ] [Files: 19085.txt; 19085-8.txt] In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II, by Various 19084 [Subtitle: Christmas Tales from 'Round the World] [Editor: Harrison S. Morris] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19084 ] [Files: 19084.txt; 19084-8.txt; 19084-h.htm] The Border Boys Across the Frontier, by Fremont B. Deering 19083 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19083 ] [Files: 19083.txt; 19083-8.txt; 19083-h.htm; ] The Destiny of the Soul, by William Rounseville Alger 19082 [Subtitle: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19082 ] [Files: 19082.txt] The Great Round World, Vol. 2, No. 11, March 17, 1898, by Various 19081 [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/1/9/0/8/19081 ] [Files: 19081.txt; 19081-8.txt; 19081-h.htm] Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists. by Elbert Hubbard 19080 [From: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 12] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19080 ] [Files: 19080.txt; 19080-8.txt; 19080-h.htm] The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer, by Thornton W. 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Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2742 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 are now in new catalog format] The Cenci, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere 2742 The Borgias, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere 2741 (**The 18 volumes listed above comprise "Celebrated Crimes" by Dumas, Pere**) Jul 2001 More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II[Darwin13][2mlcdxxx.xxx] 2740 Jul 2001 More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I[Darwin#12][1mlcdxxx.xxx] 2739 [Pending / Unfilled / Unknown] 2738* Jul 2001 A Grandpa's Notebook. by Meyer Moldeven (C)2000 [grnpaxxx.xxx] 2737C The Champdoce Mystery, by Emile Gaboriau 2736 (Note: Sequel to #2451) Jul 2001 The Golden Dog, by William Kirby [?ggldxxx.xxx] 2735 [Alternate Title: Le Chien d'Or] Jul 2001 Gwaith Twm o'r Nant (Cyfrol II.) [In Welsh] [twmntxxx.xxx] 2734 [Title AKA: The Works of Twm o'r Nant (Volume II)] [Language: Welsh] Jul 2001 Romano Lavo-Lil, by George Borrow [Geo. Borrow #8][rmlavxxx.xxx] 2733 [Alternate Titles: Romany Dictionary; Gypsy Dictionary] Jul 2001 Ballads, by William Makepeace Thackeray [WMT #20][?bwmtxxx.xxx] 2732 The Christmas Books, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2731 [Author Note: written under the pseudonym M. A. Titmarsh] Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard 2730 (See also #1918) Jul 2001 A Tale of Three Lions, by H. Rider[HR Haggard #16][3lionxxx.xxx] 2729 Hunter Quatermain's Story, by H. Rider Haggard 2728 Allan's Wife, by H. Rider Haggard 2727 Jul 2001 Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott [LM Alcott #3][8csnsxxx.xxx] 2726 Jul 2001 Red Pepper Burns, by Grace S. Richmond [rpbrnxxx.xxx] 2725 Jul 2001 Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland[trtmsxxx.xxx] 2724 [Title: Theodore Roosevelt and His Times, a Chronicle of the Progressive Movement] A First Family of Tasajara, by Bret Harte 2723 Morning Star, by H. Rider Haggard 2722 Eric Brighteyes, by H. Rider Haggard 2721 Jul 2001 The Pension Beaurepas, by Henry James [James #35][penbrxxx.xxx] 2720 Jul 2001 Greville Fane, by Henry James [Henry James #34][gfanexxx.xxx] 2719 Jul 2001 The Chaperon, by Henry James [Henry James #33][chprnxxx.xxx] 2718 Jul 2001 Nona Vincent, by Henry James [Henry James #32][nonavxxx.xxx] 2717 Jul 2001 Sir Dominick Ferrand, by Henry James [James #31][frrndxxx.xxx] 2716 Jul 2001 The Real Thing, by Henry James [Henry James #30][rlthgxxx.xxx] 2715 Jul 2001 Long Live the King, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [#15][llkngxxx.xxx] 2714 Maiwa's Revenge, by H. Rider Haggard 2713 [Subtitle: The War of the Little Hand] A Drift from Redwood Camp, by Bret Harte 2712 A Phyllis of the Sierras, by Bret Harte 2711 Jul 2001 Louise de la Valliere, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere #9[luisexxx.xxx] 2710 (Note: We are releasing these as BOTH xxxxx10.txt AND xxxxx10h.htm and in zip files. Please see the introduction which describes the various books of this title, and how the various editions were published, and how they have been named, and in what order to read them.) Jul 2001 The Man Who Was Afraid, by Maxim Gorky [Gorky #3][fomagxxx.xxx] 2709 [AKA: Foma Gordeev/Gordyeeff] Columba, by Prosper Merimee 2708 [Trans.: Mary Loyd] Jul 2001 The History of Herodotus V1 by Herodotus/ Macaulay[1hofhxxx.xxx] 2707 [Tr.: G. C. Macaulay] (See also: see #2456 for Vol. 2) / Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,536,460,759 that would be 20,890 x 65,364,608 = ~1.37 Trillion !!! With 20,890 eBooks online as of August 23, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.73 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 65,364,608 x 20,890 x $.73 = ~$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.] [Just turned 299.5 million this week!] A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.48 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 20,8790 eBooks online as of August 23, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.48 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.59 when we had 17,020 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. Next Decade's Target: 15% Of The world Population = 1,000,000,000 people. At 20,890 eBooks in 35 Years and 01.50 Months We Averaged 595 Per Year 50 Per Month 1.63 Per Day At 2742 eBooks Done In The 231 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 11.9 Per Day 83 per Week 366 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. However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a 300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M, just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M. 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]. * 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 4th was the first Wednesday of 2006, and thus ended PG's production year of 2005 and began the production year of 2006 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. ***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B*** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] SANDISK MP3 PLAYER DOUBLES STORAGE OF IPOD NANO SanDisk has introduced the Sansa e280, a flash-based MP3 player with twice the storage capability of Apple's iPod nano, in an attempt to gain market share against Apple Computer. The new player includes 8 gigabytes of flash memory and an optional 2 GB microSD card. The price of the 4 GB iPod nano is $249, almost the same as the 10 GB Sansa e280 at $249.99. The new device also comes with a digital FM tuner to record and store songs, photo display, video playback, a voice recorder, and a user-replaceable lithium battery. Red Herring, 21 August 2006 http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18057&hed=SanDisk+Takes+on+iPod PENN STATE ADOPTS TEXT MESSAGES TO STUDENTS Pennsylvania State university will launch a text-messaging wireless service called PSUTXT today as an expansion of Penn State Live, a news service with 360,000 subscribers. The university plans to use the service to send text messages of news alerts to mobile devices. Registered users can sign up for short message service (SMS) text messages on campus emergencies, sports, and concert information. Topics will expand as users indicate an interest in other types of information. PSUTXT targets Penn State students, faculty, and staff, although anyone may subscribe. CNET, 16 August 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6106302.html EU ORDERS DEUTSCHE TELEKOM TO SHARE NETWORK The European Commission (EC) supported German regulators who ordered Deutsche Telekom AG to open its high-speed Internet networks to competitors. As a result of the order, the company must permit competitors to buy access on its broadband network to offer their own services to end users. German regulators will have advance approval of the price charged. Past refusals to grant access forced the company's business rivals to build their own networks, effectively preventing them from operating outside cities and causing higher Internet prices in rural areas, according to the EC. Wall Street Journal, 21 August 2006 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115616823663141011.html while in the US. . . . APPEALS COURT SUPPORTS FCC RULE ON HIGH-SPEED LINES A federal appeals court has turned down an appeal of a decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that exempted certain kinds of telecom lines from regulations that require companies to lease access to rivals. A law passed in 1996 forces telecom companies to unbundle local phone networks and allow competitors to buy access to them. The FCC ruled that this requirement should not apply to certain lines, including new fiber-optic lines to residential customers, because requiring such sharing would discourage companies from making investments in this kind of infrastructure. EarthLink challenged the ruling, but the appeals court sided with the FCC, giving a boost to companies including AT&T and Verizon. Wall Street Journal, 16 August 2006 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115569776929237003.html MICROSOFT REPAIRS SECURITY PATCH Microsoft announced that it has fixed a bug in the MS06-040 Windows Server services update, a critical security patch. The bug affected programs that use large amounts of memory on some versions of Windows. Although the bug did not affect most Windows systems, it did cause problems in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and the 64-bit version of Windows XP Professional Edition. The company's fix for the problem is available online. PCWorld, 21 August 2006 http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126839-c,windowsbugs/article.html and. . . . MS WINDOWS FLAWS AGAIN TARGETED BY HACKERS Security companies have identified a new worm circulating that seeks to take advantage of a flaw in the Windows operating system and allows hackers to use infected computers to send spam. Earlier this month, Microsoft issued a patch for 23 vulnerabilities, including the one that the new worm uses. Because the patch has only been available for a week, however, experts said many computers are likely still at risk for the malicious code. Infected computers can be used as spam proxies--computers that send millions of junk e-mails on behalf of spammers. Many spammers are resorting to this sort of approach because ISPs are increasingly unwilling to host such e-mail campaigns. BBC, 16 August 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4797949.stm and. . . . MS SECURITY UPDATE NEEDS AN UPDATE Microsoft acknowledged that a patch issued earlier this month for significant flaws in its operating system has led to new problems for some users. Computers that installed the August patch on Windows 2000 or Windows XP machines with Service Pack 1 and Internet Explorer 6 are experiencing browser crashes when they visit Web sites that use HTTP 1.1 and compression. Fred Dunn, a systems administrator at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, said that at his institution, computers with the patch are crashing when users access pages in PeopleSoft applications. The workaround, he said, is to disable the compression in the PeopleSoft applications, which slows performance considerably. Microsoft said that on August 22 it would issue a new patch to replace the patch that is causing these problems. ZDNet, 16 August 2006 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6106039.html ENCRYPTION FOR MOBILE PHONES A British company said it has developed technology that encrypts transmissions on cell phones, allowing users to make calls with confidence that their conversations cannot be intercepted. One Day Mobile reportedly developed the technology with German company Safe.com and with the military. With the software, which must be installed on cell phones, users can decide which of their calls will be encrypted. Encrypted calls are sent over the data network, however, rather than the voice network, which can result in decreased performance. Voice networks are built to ensure smooth and fast transmission, but using the data network to transfer voice traffic can be slower and bumpier and can impose delays. The Register, 16 August 2006 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/16/mobile_encryption/ 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 *QUOTATION OF THE WEEK "We have united our enemies, and divided our friends." Multiple sources / "Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, and 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains." ---Herbert Hoover *STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 1/8 of the official population of the United States is composed of immigrants. / President White of the University of Illinois says that colleges are dropping the ball by graduating only 28% of of Americans for whom 85% have already managed a high school diploma. He said at the opening of the Fall semester than government should spend an increasing amount on education to fill this gap. Let's look into these statistics a little more: 28% / 85% = ~1/3 of all high school students graduate college. When I was a kid the percentage of college degress was only some half as much of the total population. . .~14%, so I would say it is obvious that college plays an ever incrasing role in lives of Americans. . .twice as much as it used to, in fact. However, official US Adult Literacy statistics show that about a half of all adult Americans would be challenged in reading this, much less by reading all the materials for a college degree. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), found little change between 1992 and 2003 in adults' ability to read and understand sentences and paragraphs or to understand documents such as job applications. December 15, 2005 Contacts: Mike Bowler, (202) 219-1662 or David Thomas, (202)401-1576 If you read far enough in their documents, and add up the totals they refuse to give you outright, you will see that just about a half of US Adults could be expected to read such materials while the other half would be challenged to do so. As with so many other negative government statistics, these were presented in a manner that diguised their actual meaning. However, even more negative is the fact that 85% get high school diplomas, while only about half of them can read at satisfactory high school graduation levels. [I suppose this could also qualify for the doublespeak section.] *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "Hezbollah suffered defeat." Multiple sources MORE DOUBLESPEAK Multiple sources *QUOTES OF THE WEEK *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK There will be another war between Israel and Lebanon, simply because no one will stop them. The Iraq War will continue until officials finally manage to admit it is another viet Nam. Or, even more unlikely, until there is a real plan. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK [I think the inflation/growth statistics in the news were plenty odd enough. However, I should add that manufacturing costs rose sharply around the world, up 1.1% in the UK in July alone, though those have not yet reached the consumer markets.] * 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. * 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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[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,350,196 x 20,790 x $.74 = ~$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.] [Just turned 299.5 million this week!] A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.48 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 20,790 eBooks online as of August 16, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.48 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.59 when we had 16,961 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. At 20,790 eBooks in 35 Years and 01.25 Months We Averaged 592 Per Year 49 Per Month 1.62 Per Day At 2642 eBooks Done In The 224 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 11.8 Per Day 83 per Week 364 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. However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a 300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M, just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M. 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]. * 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 4th was the first Wednesday of 2006, and thus ended PG's production year of 2005 and began the production year of 2006 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. ***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B*** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] EDITORS RESIGN AFTER WEB SITE BUDGET SLASHED Two editors of a Web site associated with Columbia University resigned after Nicholas Lemann, the dean of the university's graduate school, cut the site's budget by almost half. The site, CJRDaily.org, was launched in 2004 to cover the election, but the popularity of its political analysis prompted the university to keep the site up. Although CJRDaily reportedly has nearly 500,000 page views per month, the site is free and currently includes no ads. Lemann said the site would begin to carry ads. After failing to raise enough funds to maintain the site's budget, he decided to redirect money to fund a campaign to increase subscriptions to the print magazine, "The Columbia Journalism Review." The expected increased revenues from the print journal, said Lemann, would be used to support CJRDaily. Steve Lovelady, the site's managing editor, and Bryan Keefer, the assistant managing editor, resigned in protest, reducing the staff to six. Lovelady said he disagrees with Lemann's idea to take money from the online venture and put it toward a print journal. New York Times, 11 August 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/business/media/11mag.html UC SYSTEM SIGNS ON TO GOOGLE BOOK SCANNING The University of California will join Oxford University, Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library in Google's controversial book-scanning project. The UC System comprises more than 100 libraries on 10 campuses, and the new deal will give Google access to many millions of volumes housed at those libraries. As with other texts in Google's program, digital copies will only be accessible through its own search engine. Google still faces legal opposition to its program, which scans copyrighted material as well as public domain texts, though access to protected work is limited. The UC System also participates in the Open Content Alliance (OCA), which takes a different approach to copyrighted works, scanning only those for which copyright owners have provided explicit permission. Although Jennifer Colvin, strategic communications manager at the California Digital Library, rejected the idea that participating in both projects represents a conflict, others disagreed. Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, said, "Having a public institution decide to go with Google's restrictions doesn't help the idea of libraries being open in the future." CNET, 8 August 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6103540.html AOL REGRETS DISCLOSING SEARCH RESULTS Officials at AOL have apologized for making search records public, calling it a "screw-up" that would not have happened had it been properly reviewed. Researchers in a number of fields use, or would like to use, search records to understand Web surfing habits and how to make searches more efficient. AOL put randomly selected search histories for 658,000 subscribers online, where researchers and the public could access them. Although the records did not contain names, many said the posting puts those users at risk of being identified through inductive reasoning based on their searches. Ari Schwartz, deputy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, said, "We think it's a major privacy concern, and we're glad to see AOL is taking it seriously." AOL said that despite their intention of assisting the research and academic communities, putting the search records online was wrong and they have since taken them down. Internet researcher Steve Beitzel noted that AltaVista and Excite have previously disclosed similar information and that no harm came from those disclosures. ZDNet, 8 August 2006 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,39020336,39280573,00.htm BOWDOIN BACKS AWAY FROM CITY WI-FI, CITES CALEA A planned rollout of wireless Internet service by Bowdoin College to the residents of in Brunswick, Maine, has been halted, at least temporarily, due to concerns over the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The FCC has said that the law, which mandates law enforcement access to communications systems, should apply to network operators, including colleges and universities. Higher education has opposed that decision, saying it would be extremely costly for them to comply and that there are other ways for institutions to cooperate with law enforcement. Following legal action and lobbying, a court allowed an exception for "private" networks. Bowdoin, which is in Brunswick, had been working to implement a wireless network in the city for students and town residents. Saying that it isn't clear whether allowing town residents to access the network would compromise its being a "private" network, officials from the college have decided that the network will only be available to students. Mitch Davis, CIO at Bowdoin, noted that the plan to open the network to everyone in town is currently suspended, not dead. Inside Higher Ed, 7 August 2006 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/07/wireless 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 The amount of water it takes to make ethanol is truly staggering, particularly to the localalities in which ethanol is being created, yet it never appears in the hundreds national news stories about ethanol, only in the local or regional news where the problem hits the ecology the hardest. "Robbing Peter to pay Paul," comes to mind. *STATISTICS OF THE WEEK "No Child Left Behind???" It would appear 1 out of 5 who would qualify for some extra tutoring ARE being left behind. 1 out of 5 "No Student Left Behind" potential tutoring students are being "left behind" as millions of these qualified students have sub-standard tutoring projects or are receiving no tutors, whatsoever from the "No Child Left Behind Program." In some of these cases the schools simply have not gotten with the program and in others it appears that the raft of paperwork required to enter the program has been designed in such a way that parents, even those who would have signed up, either do not recognize it as not being junk mail, or can't fill out the paperwork to some level of satisfaction that would get the child in the program. It is hard to blame the schools when they are confronted with a years long "unfunded mandate" in which the least funded schools are the ones who need the program the most. It will be hard to put the blame on the program, as it is backed by policking, not the educational system. Perhaps the forms should be labeled in a clear manner to avoid them being throw out with the 100 pound level of junk mail the average family receives per year, or, it might be nice if the schools handed out the paperwork to insure the right hand could fill the papers the left hand received. Source: WILL_AM radio, 8/15, around 8:30AM Congress Tackles Internet Gambling An estimated 8 million Americans spend 6 billion dollars/year, according to Frank deFord, who strongly stated this morning on NPR's Morning Edition that their legistlation was akin to that single finger in the dike. *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Economists are reporting record growth for Europe, based on a 0.9% improvement from the first quarter, yielding a 2.4% annual growth rate, very close to the US rate of 2.5%. They say this is the fastest growth in six year, but neglect to mention the inflation rate, either for the US or for Europe. Figures from the European Central Bank indicated that European inflation is over 2%, and revision is expected to reveal an inflation rate roughly equal to the 2.4% growth rate, as the previous published rate of 2.1% may be falling behind. US inflation was reported at 1.55% for the same quarter, for an annual rate of ~3.75%, higher than either of the reported growth rates. What happens when inflation outpaces growth figures? It means that the economy is really shrinking, using the yardstick of constant dollars, real spending power, etc. Multiple sources MORE DOUBLESPEAK If you keep track of such inflation figures for years, and then decades, you will also see that the yearly preliminary figures are replaced the next year by even higher figures. For reasons unknown to me, the figure often seems to be low by about .83%, added in the following year. I can only surmise that this is some kind of attempt to keep the consumers buying, as the consumers seem to have a short memory for an assortment of tricks such as this, as tricks such as these seem to also be common in some famous reports on college testing that say a large improvment has been recorded, when the truth is that it was just the figures having been juggled via some recalibration scheme. Multiple sources *QUOTES OF THE WEEK [Who is it we are at war with right now? Is it Oceania or Eurasia? Be sure to be up to date with the latest edition of an instant classic, The 13th Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary, Ed. Winston Smith." Google "Winston Smith" and "Newspeak".] "As we have said many times, we are a nation at war." US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [Concerning the almost literal midnight change in the flight regulations that now prohibit liquids. What a person with a medical condition is supposed to do was not in the announcements I heard.] 08/10/06 *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The war will continue, just as the Viet Nam war did, until something unprecented happens, such as ousting the US President who is running the war, as happened with President Nixon. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK [I think the inflation/growth statistics in the news were plenty odd enough. However, I should add that manufacturing costs rose sharply around the world, up 1.1% in the UK in July alone, though those have not yet reached the consumer markets.] * 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. * 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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Note that updated eBooks usually go in their original directory (e.g., etext99, etext00, etc.) *** Statistical Review In the 31 weeks of this year, we have produced 2548 new eBooks. It took us from 07/71 to 05/01 to produce our FIRST 2548 eBooks!!! That's 31 WEEKS as Compared to ~30 YEARS!!! FLASHBACK! Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #1954 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 are now in new catalog format Mar 2001 The Poor Clare, by Elizabeth Gaskell[E. Gaskell#9][prclrxxx.xxx] 2548 Mar 2001 Half a Life-time Ago, by Elizabeth Gaskell[E.G.#8][hlflfxxx.xxx] 2547 Mar 2001 Rustler Round-Up (Bar-20), C.E. 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Hart] Mar 2001 The Pocket R.L.S., by Robert Louis Stevenson [#39][pkrlsxxx.xxx] 2537 Mar 2001 Amphitryon, A play by Moliere, Tr. by Waller [M#2][amphixxx.xxx] 2536 Eugene Pickering, by Henry James 2534 Mar 2001 Round the Sofa, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#8][rndsfxxx.xxx] 2533 The Half-Brothers, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2532 An Accursed Race, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2531 Feb 2001 The Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace [1malayxx.xxx] 2530 Feb 2001 The Analysis of Mind, by Bertrand Russell [analmdxx.xxx] 2529 Feb 2001 The Women of the French Salons, Amelia Gere Mason [frsalxxx.xxx] 2528 Feb 2001 The Sorrows of Young Werther, by J.W. Goethe [#31][sywerxxx.xxx] 2527 Feb 2001 The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Charles Johnston [patanxxx.xxx] 2526 Feb 2001 John Ingerfield etc by Jerome K. Jerome [#25][jhnngxxx.xxx] 2525 My Lady Ludlow, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2524 Feb 2001 The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, by Victor Hugo[Hugo#2][vhugoxxx.xxx] 2523 A Dark Night's Work, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2522 Lizzie Leigh, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2521 Feb 2001 The Man, by Bram Stoker [Bram Stoker #3][thmanxxx.xxx] 2520 Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi, by David Livingstone 2519 [Title: A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,533,604,659 that would be 20,696 x 65,336,047 = ~1.35 Trillion !!! With 20,696 eBooks online as of August 09, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.74 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 65,336,047 x 20,696 x $.74 = ~$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.] [Just turned 299.4 million this week!] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.49 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 20,696 eBooks online as of August 09, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.48 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.59 when we had 16,927 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. At 20,696 eBooks in 35 Years and 01.00 Months We Averaged 590 Per Year 49 Per Month 1.62 Per Day If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,533,604,659 that would be 20,696 x 65,336,047 = ~1.35 Trillion !!! With 20,696 eBooks online as of August 09, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.74 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 65,336,047 x 20,696 x $.74 = ~$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.] [Just turned 299.4 million this week!] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.49 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 20,619 eBooks online as of August 02, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.49 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.59 when we had 16,842 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. At 20,619 eBooks in 35 Years and 00.75 Months We Averaged 588 Per Year 49 Per Month 1.61 Per Day At 2471 eBooks Done In The 210 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 11.8 Per Day 82 per Week 366 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. However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a 300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M, just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M. 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]. * 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 4th was the first Wednesday of 2006, and thus ended PG's production year of 2005 and began the production year of 2006 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. ***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B*** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] UC TO JOIN GOOGLE'S BOOK SCANNING PROJECT? The University of California is reportedly in talks with Google to join its controversial book-scanning project. The university is already participating in the Open Content Alliance (OCA), which is also working to digitize vast numbers of books but with a different approach. Rather than scanning all books, copyrighted or not, unless copyright holders request that a book be left out of the program, the OCA has taken the approach of only scanning copyrighted books whose owners have given explicit permission. The university and Google did not disclose details of the negotiations, but questions arose about how the institution's participation in the two projects might be reconciled. Brewster Kahle, director of the Internet Archive, which was a founder of the OCA, wondered if perhaps Google would move its project to a more open model, closer to that of the OCA, because, as he said, "there is no point in scanning these books twice." Daniel Greenstein, director of the University of California system's California Digital Library, said the issue is fundamentally not about specific companies or organizations but about the university's mission to support public education and explore new roles for libraries in the digital age. Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 August 2006 http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/08/2006080301t.htm CHILD ONLINE IDENTITY CARD DEBUTS An online identity service for children has debuted in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Conceived by U.K. businessman Alex Hewitt, the NetIDMe system requires parents to apply for ID cards for their kids and to supply a credit card as verification. Another person who knows the child must countersign the application. Once an ID is established, users can communicate with others online with the assurance that users who say they are children are not in fact adults who prey on kids. The service, which costs 10 pounds per year, is only effective if both communicating parties participate. Jim Gamble, chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, said that this effort, like any other that works to verify the age and identity of Internet users, will help prevent children from becoming victims of online predators. Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Porter of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency noted that Web users should nonetheless be cautious. "We would advise all parents and young people to...ensure no personally identifiable information is shared with online strangers." BBC, 2 August 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5238992.stm CHINA CLOSES LIBERAL WEB SITE Government officials in China have taken another step in limiting what Internet users in the country can access, causing an uproar among intellectuals and others critical of the Communist Party. During the past week, access inside China to the Century China Web site has been cut off, prompting a petition that accuses the government of trying to control public opinion. More than 100 outspoken individuals--both inside the country and abroad--have signed the petition, which was sent by e-mail to the media. The petition states, in part, "The shutdown of Century China is just another instance of the Chinese government suppressing the freedom of its people." It also describes the Century China Web site as "the one spiritual home we had in the cyberworld." CNET, 2 August 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6101267.html 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 STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Concerning the recent miniumum wage and estate tax legislation. There are ~6.25 million minimum wage workers in the United States. On the average each ones works under 2,000 hours per year. 250 days times 8 hours = 2,000 hours. 50 weeks times 40 hours = 2,000 hours. Obivously there are more days off than just weekends, so this is a very conservative estimate for these purposes. At $2 per year increase in pay, this about about $4,000 each. 6.25 million times $4,000 = 25 billion dollars. After a 3 year phase in period. 26.25 billion if you count in the extra dime, which will be eaten by inflation before the first year of phasing in. Now let's count the other side of the coin. If the estate tax repeal only effects the richest 1% of the US, that is about 3 million people. Given that people are dying on the average at the rate of well over 1% per year [the average life-expectancy would have to be 100, for it to be 1%, and it is more like 75, for those dying today, though we might have to take into account better health care for the wealthy, since the US is the only developed country without a national health care. So, to be VERY conservative in our estimation, we will figure on a 1% per year death rate among the 1% wealtiest Americans. That's 30,000 people per year who stand to get estate tax repeal. At just 1 million dollars each that is 30 billion dollars. . . . When you look at your own estate, or that of your parents, might be that you will realize that the estates of the top 1% are many times larger than yours and yours is still a reasonable fraction of a million dollars. Now perhaps you can visualize why the legistlation was defeated. 1. The estate tax releal would kick in right away. 2. The minimum wage raise was already eaten away by inflation. 3. The minimum wage figures are in pre-tax dollars, workers do not get nearly that much in their pockets. 4. The estate tax is in post-tax dollars, they keep it all. 5. The great fortunes of the Rockefellers, etc. were made with income tax rates as high as 93%, and passed on with estate tax. / >From "Media Matters" The states with the greastest discrepancies between exit polls and votes reported were Republican states. [Some say this is just because Republicans are more private.] *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK [Sorry, this was supposed to go in last week, still learning system.] The House passed a bill finally raising the minimum wage from $5.15 over a 3 year period to ~$7.25, but only for the quid pro quo of an extra repeal of the estate tax on the very wealthy. In reality, the poor are not even really getting a raise, they are merely getting an inflation offset, while the rich are getting the millions they now have passed on from generation to generation for the formation of the same kind of "Landed Gentry" aristocracy that ruined Europe and caused the American and French revolutions. Let's see: "You give us billions in tax cuts for the very wealthy and we will give you ~$2 an hour in inflated money that gives your salary less buying power than was available 50 years ago." "That's what common folk call: "Robbing Peter to pay Paul." Robin Hood would call it: "Robbing the poor to give to the rich." MORE DOUBLESPEAK The Senate refused to repeal 100% of the estate tax that had been vilified as "The Death Tax," by embattled White House guru Karl Rove, but in the end it will cost the real taxpayers just as much, as the deal is being engineered by repealing what may be all timber company taxes to win over Senate votes from timber rich Washington State. All in all The Estate Tax is being repealed for all but the richest 1% or less in the country, and it should be mentioned that that 1% owns half of everything that can be owned in the United States. Source: The Washington Post [I wonder how rest of the country would react to all this if that 1% actually lived on their blocks, and owned half the land, half the cars, half the stocks, bonds, cash, boats, etc. while the next 2% owned half of what was left, and the next 4% owned half of that, etc. . .leaving only a few percent to be earned by 90% of the block's residents???] *QUOTES OF THE WEEK *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK It will eventually be determined that there has been an overall pattern of divulging the personal information of U.S. citizens. By the way, I think evidence of this was in the media last week. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK * 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 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. * 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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RESERVED/PENDING count: 42 =-=-=-=[ 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: Le corricolo, by Alexandre Dumas 9262 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/9/2/6/9262 ] [Files: 9262-8.txt] Doctor Thorne, by Anthony Trollope 3166 [Updated edition of: etext02/drthn12.txt ] [Note that the title is changed from Dr. Thorne to Doctor Thorne. This is the usual spelling of the title and the spelling used by Trollope in his autobiography. A few publishers abbreviate "Doctor".] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/6/3166 ] [Files: 3166.txt; 3166-8.txt; 3166-h.htm] :: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements: -=-=-=-=[ 51 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Le dangereux jeune homme, by Rene Boylesve 18962 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/6/18962 ] [Files: 18962-8.txt; 18962-h.htm] The Craft of Fiction, by Percy Lubbock 18961 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/6/18961 ] [Files: 18961.txt; 18961-8.txt; 18961-h.htm; ] The King's Men, by Wheelwright, O'Reilly, Dale, and Grant 18960 [Subtitle: A Tale of To-morrow] [Author: Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. Dale, and John T. Wheelwright] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/6/18960 ] [Files: 18960.txt; 18960-8.txt; 18960-h.htm; ] A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium, by Hugh Gibson 18959 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/5/18959 ] [Files: 18959.txt; 18959-8.txt; 18959-h.htm] The Brother Clerks, by Xariffa 18958 [Subtitle: A Tale of New-Orleans] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/5/18958 ] [Files: 18958.txt; 18958-8.txt; 18958-h.htm] Strangers at Lisconnel, by Barlow Jane 18957 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/5/18957 ] [Files: 18957.txt; 18957-8.txt; 18957-h.htm] Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D., by Orville Dewey 18956 [Subtitle: Edited by his Daughter] [Editor: Mary Dewey] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/5/18956 ] [Files: 18956.txt] Hiwaga ng Pagibig, by Balbino B. Nanong 18955 [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/5/18955 ] [Files: 18955-8.txt; 18955-h.htm] Tom Slade with the Boys Over There, by Percy K. Fitzhugh 18954 [Illustrator: R. Emmett Owen] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/5/18954 ] [Files: 18954.txt; 18954-h.htm] The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse, by Arthur Scott Bailey 18953 [Illustrator: Diane Petersen] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/5/18953 ] [Files: 18953.txt; 18953-h.htm] Boy Scouts on a Long Hike, by Archibald Lee Fletcher 18952 [Subtitle: Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/5/18952 ] [Files: 18952.txt; 18952-h.htm] Benefits Forgot, by Honor. Willsie 18951 [Subtitle: A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love] [Illustrator: Charles E. Cartwright] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/5/18951 ] [Files: 18951.txt; 18951-8.txt; 18951-h.htm] The Short Cut, by Jackson Gregory 18950 [Ill.: Frank Tenney Johnson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/5/18950 ] [Files: 18950.txt; 18950-8.txt; 18950-h.htm; ] Day of the Moron, by Henry Beam Piper 18949 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/4/18949 ] [Files: 18949.txt; 18949-8.txt; 18949-h.htm] Damn! by Henry Louis Mencken 18948 [Subtitle: A Book of Calumny] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/4/18948 ] [Files: 18948.txt; 18948-8.txt; 18948-h.htm] The Younger Edda, by Snorre 18947 [Subtitle: Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda] [Translator: Rasmus B. Anderson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/4/18947 ] [Files: 18947-8.txt; 18947-0.txt; 18947-h.htm] Continental Monthly, Vol IV, Issue VI, December 1863, by Various 18946 [Subtitle: Devoted to Literature and National Policy] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/4/18946 ] [Files: 18946.txt; 18946-8.txt; 18946-h.htm] Robin, by Frances Hodgson Burnett 18945 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/4/18945 ] [Files: 18945.txt; 18945-8.txt; 18945-h.htm] La Tete-Plate, by Emile Chevalier 18944 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/4/18944 ] [Files: 18944-8.txt] Tom Slade at Black Lake, by Percy Keese Fitzhugh 18943 [Illustrator: Howard L. Hastings] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/4/18943 ] [Files: 18943.txt; 18943-h.htm] Memoires de Joseph Fouche, by Joseph Fouche 18942 [Title: Memoires de Joseph Fouche, Duc d'Otrante, Ministre de la Police Generale] [Subtitle: Tome I] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/4/18942 ] [Files: 18942-8.txt; 18942-h.htm] Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812, by Ralph D. Paine 18941 [Subtitle: The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/4/18941 ] [Files: 18941.txt; 18941-8.txt; 18941-h.htm] La cite de Carcassonne, by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 18940 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/4/18940 ] [Files: 18940-8.txt; 18940-h.htm] Andy at Yale, by Roy Eliot Stokes 18939 [Subtitle: The Great Quadrangle Mystery] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/3/18939 ] [Files: 18939.txt; 18939-8.txt; 18939-h.htm] Great Book-Collectors, by Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton 18938 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/3/18938 ] [Files: 18938.txt; 18938-8.txt; 18938-h.htm] My First Picture Book, by Joseph Martin Kronheim 18937 [Subtitle: With Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kronheim] [Illustrator: Joseph Martin Kronheim] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/3/18937 ] [Files: 18937.txt; 18937-h.htm] Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers, by Elbert Hubbard 18936 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/3/18936 ] [Files: 18936.txt; 18936-8.txt; 18936-h.htm] Vanity, All Is Vanity, by Anonymous 18935 [Subtitle: A Lecture on Tobacco and its effects] [Editor: J. 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Many universities and museums in the country maintain small-scale digitization efforts of material relevant to the history and culture of Canada. Much of this content is inaccessible to most people, however, according to Carole Moore, chief librarian of the University of Toronto, one of the universities participating in AlouetteCanada. The University of Alberta and the University of Brunswick are also part of the project, and Moore said hundreds of other organizations could conceivably contribute material. Ernie Ingles, chief librarian at the University of Alberta, said AlouetteCanada is, in some ways, the antithesis of Google's book-scanning project. Although Google is making content available publicly, he said, "it is making that content available in a commercial way." Ingles questioned whether Google would be around forever to make that content available. Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 June 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/06/2006062101t.htm RESEARCHERS CLAIM FASTEST SILICON CHIP A team of academic and industry researchers has demonstrated a speed of 500 gigahertz for a silicon-based computer chip they developed. The team included individuals from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Korea University in South Korea, and IBM. To reach 500 gigahertz, which is about 250 times faster than many chips used today, the researchers conducted the test in an environment 451 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit); at room temperature, the chip reportedly still reaches speeds of around 350 gigahertz. Technology consultant Dan Olds said the announcement indicates that "we're not coming anywhere near the end in what processors are capable of." IBM's Bernard Meyerson said the chips, which might be available in consumer devices within two years, could lead to significant leaps in the capabilities of computing devices. New York Times, 20 June 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/technology/20chip.html ETHICAL HACKING PROGRAM TO REQUIRE BACKGROUND CHECK Students who want to take part in an ethical hacking program at the University of Abertay in Scotland will be required to pass a background check to weed out those who might apply the skills learned in the program to malicious ends. University officials will work with the Home Office and a Scottish disclosure service to screen applicants, looking for anyone with a criminal background. The program, called Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures, is a four-year degree intended to teach hacking skills to students who will then work with businesses to prevent hackers from doing damage to computer systems and data. It is the first program of its kind in the United Kingdom. Responding to concerns that the program will simply create more hackers, Lachlan McKinnon, a professor in the program, said the university will do all it can to ensure students use their skills in a positive manner. He added, however, that there are no guarantees. "Harold Shipman qualified as a doctor, after all," he said, "before deciding to become a murderer." The Register, 19 June 2006 http://www.theregister.com/2006/06/19/hackers_background/ GOOGLE DEBUTS SHAKESPEARE SITE Google has launched a new Web site specifically for the works of William Shakespeare and related resources. At the site, users have access to the full texts of Shakespeare's 37 plays and can search those texts for words or phrases. The site also has links to academic resources concerning the plays, online groups that focus on Shakespeare, and videos of stage productions of Shakespeare's plays. The site also points users toward Google Earth, which coordinates maps of the globe with Internet searching. With Google Earth, users can locate the Globe Theatre in London and find other resources with information about the site. The site was introduced as part of Google's sponsoring of New York's "Shakespeare in the Park." USA Today, 14 June 2006 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-06-14-shakespeare-google_x.htm WIKIPEDIA ADJUSTS EDITING POLICY Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia based on the model that anyone can contribute to or edit any entry, has placed new restrictions on editing. Certain entries in any reference work are bound to be contentious, and with Wikipedia, disagreements can escalate to a "revert war," in which competing factions simply change an entry back and forth to reflect their opinions. Such disputes have resulted in a status of "protected" for 82 entries, meaning they cannot be changed at all, and a status of "semi-protected" for another 179 entries. Semi-protected entries can only be changed by someone who has been a registered user for more than four days, the idea being that such a "cooling off" period will avoid most of the problems resulting from disagreements. Despite the steps Wikipedia has taken away from the ideal of "anyone can edit," founder Jimmy Wales says the resource works and is valuable. Most entries are only protected for a short period of time, he said, and they represent a fraction of the 1.2 million entries in the English-language version. New York Times, 17 June 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/technology/17wiki.html DOE CONTRACTS FOR PETAFLOP SUPERCOMPUTER The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has ordered the first petaflop supercomputing system and an upgrade of its Blue Gene system from Cray. DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced the $200 million arrangement last week, with plans for completion of the new supercomputer in 2008. The new system reportedly will attain 1,000 trillion floating-point operations per second (teraflops), or one petaflop. Oak Ridge scientists plan to use the system to tackle problems in energy, biology, and nanotechnology. The lab also expects to offer computing time to other researchers through a program that grants supercomputer access to academic and corporate institutions. Federal Computer Week, 26 June 2006 http://www.fcw.com/article95010-06-26-06-Web 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 "We follow the law." This reply was repeatedly thrown in the face of Senator Arlen Specter in recent hearings, to determine the scope of the release of national telephone users' information to the intelligence communities, by AT&T CEO Edward Whitacre, as he time and again refused to answer questions directing him to inform the Senate whether AT&T had or had not sent a plethora of information for intelligence gathering operations. In the wake of the revelations by The New York Times that such a data mining opportunity was being given to the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc., many a Senator and Congressperson has raised the same question. Harsh criticism of The New York Times ensued, even though they sat on the story for a year before publishing it, and only published it when it became obvious it was going to be published elsewhere. [Note that The Washington Post got scooped on the "Ivy Bells" story-- mentioned in last week's Newsletter, when President Reagan convinced, in a personal phone call to their publisher, them not to run it for a few days, but then someone leaked it to NBC. Whether this was in the way of retaliation for The Washington Post forcing President Nixon to resign over The Watergate Affairs no one is actually saying aloud.] Here are the direct quotations from the current hearings: Specter: Does AT&T provide customer information to any law enforcement agency? Whitacre: We follow the law, senator. Specter: That is not an answer Mr. Whitacre, you know that. Whitacre: That's all I'm gonnna say, is we follow the law. It is an answer. I'm telling you we don't violate the law, we follow the law. Specter: Now, that's a legal conclusion, Mr. Whitacre. You may be right or you may be wrong, but I'm asking you for a factual matter -- does your company provide information to the federal government or any law enforcement agency, information about customers? Whitacre: If it's legal and we're requested to do so, of course we do. Specter: Have you? Whitacre: All I'm going to say is we follow the law. Specter: That's not an answer, it's not an answer, it's an evasion. Whitacre: It's an answer. Specter: If you're under instructions by the federal government... Whitacre: We follow the law, senator. Specter: You've said that. I don't care to hear it again. Whitacre: I don't care to repeat it again, but we do. Specter: Well then, don't. If you're under instructions by the federal government as a matter of state secrecy not to talk, say so. Whitacre: Senator, we follow the law. Specter: Well, I think that answer is contemptuous of this committee. Specter finally forced Whitacre to admit that any response by him would violate what he had been instructed was "classified information." Source: ABC MORE DOUBLESPEAK The Senate refused to repeal 100% of the estate tax that had been vilified as "The Death Tax," by embattled White House guru Karl Rove, but in the end it will cost the real taxpayers just as much, as the deal is being engineered by repealing what may be all timber company taxes to win over Senate votes from timber rich Washington State. All in all The Estate Tax is being repealed for all but the richest 1% or less in the country, and it should be mentioned that that 1% owns half of everything that can be owned in the United States. Source: The Washington Post [I wonder how rest of the country would react to all this if that 1% actually lived on their blocks, and owned half the land, half the cars, half the stocks, bonds, cash, boats, etc. while the next 2% owned half of what was left, and the next 4% owned half of that, etc. . .leaving only a few percent to be earned by 90% of the block's residents???] *QUOTES OF THE WEEK "We follow the law." *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK It will eventually be determined that there has been an overall pattern of divulging the personal information of U.S. citizens. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 72% of troops in Iraq say we should get out by the end of 2006. 21% say out now. Source: Zogby, and various sources that quoted the polls also done by Le Moyne College. [As a result, only 6 Senators voted to end the war by year end this week] Americans Lose Touch, Report Fewer Close Friends In the last 20 years the number of close friends reported by Americans has dropped from about 3 to 2. In 1985 2.94 friends a person could discuss the important issues of their lives with were reported. In 2004 that had dropped to 2.08, a drop of .043 per year for those 20 years which would be down to about 2 friends by now, in mid-2006. Not only do Americans have fewer persons they can discuss important matters with, but those they do have are family rather than the traditional friends we tend to think of. "This change indicates something that's not good for our society," said Lynn Smith-Lovin, Professor of Sociology at Duke University. The study appears in the June American Sociological Review. [This supports the growing realization that millions of people in the United States know Oprah Winfrey better than their neighbors] Source: LiveScience.com [Perhaps this is why MySpace has 87 million subscribers!] * The Big 10 Opens Its Own Television Channel In an effort to bring in more money from collegiate sport events The Big 10 has opted to create its very own source of income for their sporting events for the next 20 years, and should reap the amount of an extra $7.5 million per year as a result. The only trouble is that right now you will have to subscribe to DirecTV to get it. For at least the first 10 years of this, there should be some of the normal television coverage of the past, as The Big 10 is now also reported to have inked lucrative deals with Disney's sports coverage, from their ESPN and ABC television subsidiaries. Viewers will have to subcribe to The Big 10 Channel [BTC] via an opt-in selection to DirecTV's Total Choice package, available to just over 15 million households. This isn't the first collegiate sports collective to do this and it certainly won't be the last. Believe it or not, The Big 10's action on this was taken from some little known Western Mountain college conference. [Just one more step on the way to "pay per everything." Whether you pay per month, week, day, or per event, it's still pay per.] DirecTV's Total Choice package costs $41.99 per month. Source: TV Week, Various Big 10 press releases. and www.usdirect.com/programming/total_choice.php * The "Tahiti" oil well is going down further beneath sea level than Mt. Everest goes above sea level. * 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. * 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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