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PT1b Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Weekly_October_26.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, October 26, 2005 PT1* ******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1B Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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With 17,405 eBooks online as of October 26, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.57 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.70 when we had 14,225 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 17,405 eBooks in 34 Years and 03.75 Months We Averaged ~507 Per Year 42.3 Per Month 1.39 Per Day At 2449 eBooks Done In The 294 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.3 Per Day 58 Per Week 251 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. 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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Weekly_October_26.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, October 26, 2005 PT1* ******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1A Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! Please email hart(a)pobox.com or gbnewby(a)pglaf.org Anyone who would care to get advance editions: please email hart(a)pobox.com HOT REQUESTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS STATISTICAL CHANGES Due to various changes in our statistical reporting and coverage, the accuracy of the weekly count of the number of eBooks will not be as redundantly checked by a human count, and we will rely more on the automated system. ***If you notice any inconsistencies, please send email to: hart AT pglaf DOT org * WANTED! >>> !!!People to help us collect ALL public domain eBooks!!! <<< * Wanted: People who are involved in conversations on Slashdot, Salon, etc. * TABLE OF CONTENTS [Search for "*eBook" or "*Intro". . .to jump to that section, etc.] *eBook Milestones *Introduction *Hot Requests, New Sites and Announcements *Continuing Requests and Announcements *Progress Report *Distributed Proofreaders Collection Report *Project Gutenberg Consortia Center Report *Permanent Requests For Assistance: *Donation Information *Access To The Project Gutenberg Collections *Mirror Site Information *Instant Access To Our Latest eBooks *Have We Given Away A Trillion Yet? *Flashback *Weekly eBook update: This is now in PT2 of the Weekly Newsletter Also collected in the Monthly Newsletter Corrections in separate section 5 New From PG Australia [Australian, Canadian Copyright Etc.] 47 New Public Domain eBooks Under US Copyright *Headline News from Edupage, etc. *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists *** *eBook Milestones* ***500+ eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971*** 17,405 eBooks As Of Today!!! [Includes Australian eBooks] We Are ~87% of the Way to 20,000!!! 14,343 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's 250+ eBooks per Month for ~56 Months We Have Produced 2449 eBooks in 2005!!! 2,596 to go to 20,000!!! 7,590 from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Are Averaging ~250 books Per Month This Year [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org] This Site Is Averaging ~58 eBooks Per Week This Year 52 This Week It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2002 to 2005 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.00 years from Oct. 2003 to Oct. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,350 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] HIGHER EDUCATION RESPONDS TO CALEA ORDER The higher education community is preparing several responses to an order by the Federal Communications Commission to extend the provisions of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) to Internet service providers, including institutions of higher education, libraries, and municipalities that provide Internet access. The order would require covered entities to configure their networks to allow law enforcement officials--with the authority of a court order--to tap into data streams remotely. Currently, such taps typically require the assistance of network personnel. Making networks compliant with the new regulations would in most cases require significant investment in new switches and routers, and higher education officials contend that the expense would not be justified by the number of taps placed on their networks. By some accounts, U.S. colleges and universities would incur costs of at least $7 billion to redesign their networks. Those seeking an exception from CALEA for education noted that in 2003, just 12 of nearly 1,500 wiretap orders were issued for computer networks. Representatives of higher education are working on responses including appeals, possible lawsuits, and negotiations with federal officials. Higher education officials said that the objection is not with providing appropriate assistance to law enforcement but that lower-cost solutions would provide the needed capability without placing a large financial burden on colleges and universities and their students. New York Times, 23 October 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/technology/23college.html STANFORD PODCASTS GO TO ITUNES Under a new deal with Apple Computer, podcasts from various aspects of campus life at Stanford University will be available on the iTunes Web site. The arrangement is the first one in which a university has made an institution-wide commitment to provide podcasts to iTunes. The podcasts will include academic content such as lectures, coverage of sporting events, and podcasts created by students. About 400 podcasts are currently included, and Stanford officials said they plan to regularly add content to the site, which is its own section of the iTunes Music Store. Other institutions are said to be considering similar programs, and the addition of capacity to handle video files in iTunes could make the service appealing to still others. In a separate project, Stanford podcasts are being made available through iTunes only to students and professors involved in a group of university courses. Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 October 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005102102t.htm MORE SUITS TARGET GOOGLE'S BOOK SCANNING PROJECT After failing to reach an agreement during several months of negotiations, a group of five publishers has filed a lawsuit against Google over its book-scanning project. The project has come under fire since it was announced, with publishers and copyright holders arguing that scanning their texts constitutes a violation of their copyright, regardless of whether the digital copy is made available online in its entirety. Penguin, McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Simon and Schuster, and John Wiley and Sons have sued Google, seeking to have the project cancelled. The publishers are asking for Google to pay court costs but not damages. All five are members of the Association of American Publishers, which had been in talks with Google for months. Last month, an organization representing writers sued Google over the book-scanning project. Google continues to maintain that it respects the rights of publishers and copyright holders and that the project will bring wider exposure for the scanned text. BBC, 19 October 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4358768.stm You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** News from other sources: The Parents Television Council announced their Top Ten list of recommended television programs this week, only they did not seem to be able to find ten shows they could recommend. *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news.] White House and Congressional "Spin Cycle" from Monday to Friday. Nomination for new Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank [actually NOT a part of the United States government, for those interested] with another White House insider on Monday, October 24. Designed perhaps to distract this news cycle from the impending indictment of several even more prominent White House insiders. [BBC] *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK The White House refuses to comment on ongoing investigations. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK The Valerie Plame incident will continue to be kept low key. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK New releases of conversation between US Vice President Dick Cheney and Lewis "Scooter" Libby on June 12, 2003 have focused attention on Mr. Cheney's possible connection with revealing the identity of covert CIA agent Valeria Plame, and appear to contradict Mr. Libby's previous testimony that he never knew about Ms. Plame until he spoke with newspaper reporters. [See also: Judith Miller and Robert Novak] Ms. Plame had been described as "a working soccer mom," but in fact was a clandestine CIA agent specializing in weapons of mass destruction. The question being investigated is if the Bush administration revealed her identity to the press as retaliation when her husband, Ambassador Joeseph Wilson, publicly announced the Bush administration falsified reports of Iraq buying the now infamous "yellow cake uranium" that was used as an exuse to invade Iraq. Libby's notes indicate Mr. Cheney knew Ms. Plame was CIA over a month before Robert Novak's article revealing her as an agent was published. [Scotsman.com News - International - Cheney drawn into row] [The New York Times] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Virtual Reference Service Notes 40% Increase This Year [KnowItNow, Ohio] [However, other places that have stopped promoting such services say the user level has plateaued. * 2,000 dead in Iraq. However, this is an artifical statistic, as reported in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Miami Herald. In addition, The UK's Herald adds commentary on the return to Vietnam War style of statistical reporting. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/49465.html * Top Ten for kids The Parents Television Council yesterday released its annual list of This week the 10 best and worst shows for family viewing were limited to 10, as they could only find 9 shows they actually approved of. * The first "Tropical Storm Alpha" of recorded history occured this week, the 22nd tropical storm of the season, killing many in the Caribbean. * 882 millibars of air pressure in hurricane Wilma, the lowest air pressure ever recorded in Atlantic hurricanes. * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * POEM OF THE WEEK I Can't I can't be with you only because it makes you happy, I told the Leaf, for I was a Bird singing much too often about freedom unaware that I shared with the Leaf a whole branch Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart Please send comments to: simona_s75 AT yahoo.com & hart AT pobox.com *** *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. 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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
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[1% world population x #eBooks] 64,736,249 x 17,353 x $.89 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. With 17,353 eBooks online as of October 19, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.58 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.71 when we had 14,291 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 17,353 eBooks in 34 Years and 03.50 Months We Averaged ~506 Per Year 42.2 Per Month 1.39 Per Day At 2397 eBooks Done In The 287 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.4 Per Day 58 Per Week 252 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. 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Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter Newsletter editors needed! Please email hart(a)pobox.com or gbnewby(a)pglaf.org Anyone who would care to get advance editions: please email hart(a)pobox.com *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] RESULTS OF RESNET SURVEY RELEASED The ResNet Organization has released results from a survey it conducted earlier this year of those responsible for residential networks at 224 colleges and universities. The leading concern among network administrators is security, with P2P activity coming in at a distant second. Administrators also put security at the top of the list of issues they expect to take significant amounts of time and resources over the next couple of years, with wireless networking coming in second and P2P issues falling to seventh. David G. Futey, associate director of academic computing at Stanford University and a member of the ResNet Organization, said the survey provides new insight into "determining what a res-net service area is at institutions, the level of services it provides, and the technology supported through it." Futey commented that he was surprised to see that of the respondents to the survey, nearly half had not installed wireless networks. The survey also indicated that more than half of responding institutions charge technology fees but that at about half of those that charge a fee, no part of the fee supports residential networks. Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 October 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005101402t.htm ANONYMOUS DONOR BUYS MUSIC FOR STANFORD Money from an anonymous donor will pay for online music service for students at Stanford University. University officials said the donation did not require any particular vendor, and the institution has chosen the recently introduced service from Yahoo. Stanford has said it would not pay for music services and would not use student fees to subsidize such services because it "is not part of our research or teaching mission," according to Susan Weinstein, director of business development at the university. After the first year of service, which Stanford considers a trial program, prices for the Yahoo service will be $1.75 per month for basic service, which allows unlimited streaming or downloads to a computer, or $4.75 per month for a premium service that allows users to transfer songs to other devices, including portable music players. ZDNet, 13 October 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5894967.html PANEL WARNS U.S. NOT KEEPING PACE IN SCIENCE A new report says that the United States stands to lose its leading position in science and research unless efforts are made to strengthen support for educational and other scientific programs. The panel that wrote the report was convened by the National Academies and included representatives from corporations and higher education, as well as Nobel laureates and former presidential appointees. The panel pointed to the narrowing scientific gap between the United States and countries such as China and India; recent results showing declining performance among U.S. students in science and math compared with students around the world; and economic factors that work against U.S. scientific interests. Among the report's recommendations are funding scholarships to support 10,000 students annually to pursue careers in teaching math and science; allocating money for 30,000 students per year to study science, math, and engineering; and relaxing visa regulations to allow international students to find employment in the United States after they graduate. CNET, 13 October 2005 http://news.com.com/2100-11395_3-5894854.html REPORT ADDRESSES SUSTAINABILITY OF DATABASES A new report from a National Science Board task force calls on the federal government to implement a clear and focused strategy to ensure that growing collections of information in databases remain accessible and easy to use in the coming years. The report argues that the National Science Foundation (NSF), which has financed many technological developments in recent years, has not crafted policies and strategies that consider and address the range of technologies for storing data. 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Inside Higher Ed, 13 October 2005 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/13/digital EC PROPOSES INCREASED SPENDING ON RESEARCH The European Commission has called for increased research spending at universities and other research organizations, saying that Europe is lagging behind the United States and Japan in such spending. According to the proposal, spending on research should climb to 3 percent of GDP by 2010, up from 1.9 percent in 2003. The report noted that U.S. spending was 2.59 percent and that Japan spent 3.15 percent of GDP. The report also cautions that countries such as China could surpass Europe in research spending as a percentage of GDP, saying that increases in research spending result in direct increases in GDP. Under the proposal, which must be approved by European governments, more money would be devoted to academic research projects and to partnerships between industry and universities. Guenter Verheugen, EU industry commissioner, said, "Every cent which goes into innovation and research is a cent invested in jobs, growth and hence, our future." San Jose Mercury News, 12 October 2005 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12883018.htm You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** New from other sources: First Million Dollar Download Of Music "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani is the first million dollar download from such legal sites as iTunes, MSN, Napster, MusicMatch, Rhapsody, Sony Connect, Wal-Mart, etc. Sales are still high at 15,000 per week. The million sales mark should soon fall for the ringtone version, too. The CD has already been certified as triple platinum. The song is from her debut album "Love. Angel Music. Baby." This is her first separate album from the supergroup "No Doubt." Apple's iTunes has already recorded over half a billion downloads! Source: www.digitalmusicnews.com etc. [It is now accepted that people will actually download a million copies of items offered via the Internet.] *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.] Holland Banning The Burka? Rita Verdonk, Holland's hardline Integration Minister, known as the Iron Lady for her hardline stances, simply declined to meet with Muslim officials who who shake hands with here as a result of their sexist views. She current leads a Dutch movement to ban the burka in some situations. In addition there is a current lawsuit being filed by a woman who was refused a job at the prestigious Muslim University in Amsterdam because she refused to wear a headscarf. A court case last year went against Muslim women who had not been allowed to wear burkas during a social work and childcare course. The court ruled that the children should not be prevented from seeing who was taking care of them. Holland would become the first country in Europe to ban the burka in specific situations in public, but several major Belgian cities including Ghent, Antwerp and others banned the public wearing of burkas and have starting issuing hefty municipal fines. Some Italian cities, such as Como, have have passed laws banning the hiding of the face in public, and are imposing fines for wearing Burkas as a result. In addition, France and some of Germany have banned the hijab headscarf in schools and public buildings, this following similar measures in Tunisia and also even reported in Turkey, a majority Muslim nation. Sources: BBC, The Times and The Sunday Times www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1823334,00.html BBC News via WILL AM radio, ~9AM, 10/17 [For centuries Holland has been the greatest example of religious tolerance in the world, so this marks a major historical change.] *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK The whole Valerie Plame finger pointing and no comments exercise. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK 10-20% of anorexics will die from it. "The best estimates are around 10 percent of the women with anorexia nervosa will ultimately die as a result of their illness." Doug Bunnell [Past. Pres. National Eating Disorders Association] [Source: The Clarion-Ledger] [I seem to recall an ABC TV news story saying it was 18%] *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "The new copyright laws have removed a thousands times as many books from free circulation as all the book burnings in history." Anonymous Source * "What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country." Statement made in 1952 by Charles Erwin Wilson, the former head of General Motors and Secretary of Defense under President Eisenhower, to the Senate Armed Forces subcommittee. * "The chief business of the American people is business," President Calvin Coolidge *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK Wholesale prices rose 1.9% last month, the highest rate since the first month of the 1990s. [The oddest thing about it all is that most of the news services are telling us it doesn't mean anything.] THE WASHINGTON POST, Wednesday, October 19, 2005 * Only 8 of ~140 top CEO's are women. NBC News, 10/17 * We are out of names for tropical storms and hurricanes. With 21 named storms already this year, the next one will require us to start with the Greek alphabet: alpha, beta, gamma, etc., which has never happened before. [Not all letters are used, so X, Y, and Z, which would be after the currently force 5 hurricane Wilma, would not be used] Various sources. * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * POEM OF THE WEEK She Loves Me Not Summer loves me not for I am the Fall girl and even though we're sisters I make her leaves tremble and although she suffers from lost love I am the one who cries her tears. 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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
by Project Gutenberg Newsletter 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

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Potgieter 16842 [Subtitle: Blaauw bes, blauw bes!--'T is maar een pennelikker!-- Marie--De ezelinnen--Hanna] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16842 ] [Files: 16842.txt; 16842-8.txt; 16842-h.htm] Johan Doxa, by Herman Teirlinck 16841 [Subtitle: Vier herinneringen aan een Brabantschen Gothieker] [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/4/16841 ] [Files: 16841.txt; 16841-8.txt; 16841-h.htm] Stories of the Wagner Opera, by H. A. Guerber 16840 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/4/16840 ] [Files: 16840.txt; 16840-8.txt; 16840-h.htm] Sixteen Poems, by William Allingham 16839 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16839 ] [Files: 16839.txt; 16839-8.txt; 16839-h.htm] Valkoinen kameeli ja muita kertomuksia itmailta, by Valter Juvelius 16838 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16838 ] [Files: 16838-8.txt] Rystlapsi, by Robert Louis Stevenson 16837 [Subtitle: Kertomus David Balfourin seikkailuista] [Translator: O. E. Lampn] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16837 ] [Files: 16837-8.txt] Mark Hurdlestone, by Susanna Moodie 16836 [Subtitle: Or, The Two Brothers] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16836 ] [Files: 16836.txt; 16836-8.txt; 16836-h.htm] An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy, by W. Tudor Jones 16835 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/3/16835 ] [Files: 16835.txt; 16835-8.txt; 16835-h-htm] The Harris-Ingram Experiment, by Charles E. 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Lee (A Representative from Virginia)] [Subtitle: Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16822 ] [Files: 16822.txt; 16822-8.txt; 16822-h.htm] The Scarlet Gown, by R. F. Murray 16821 [Subtitle: being verses by a St. Andrews Man] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16821 ] [Files: 16821.txt; 16821-h.htm] Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre, by Octave Mirbeau 16820 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/2/16820 ] [Files: 16820-8.txt; 16820-h.htm] Les misres de Londres, by Pierre Alexis de Ponson du Terrail 16819 [Subtitle: 4. Les tribulations de Shoking] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16819 ] [Files: 16819-8.txt; 16819-h.htm] Les misres de Londres, by Pierre Alexis de Ponson du Terrail 16818 [Subtitle: 3. La cage aux oiseaux] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16818 ] [Files: 16818-8.txt; 16818-h.htm] Les misres de Londres, by Pierre Alexis de Ponson du Terrail 16817 [Subtitle: 2. L'enfant perdu] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16817 ] [Files: 16817-8.txt; 16817-h.htm] Le roman de la rose, by G. de Lorris and J. de Meung 16816 [Subtitle: Tome I] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16816 ] [Files: 16816-8.txt; 16816-h.htm] Physiologie de l'amour moderne, by Paul Bourget 16815 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16815 ] [Files: 16815-8.txt; 16815-h.htm] Le culte du moi 3, by Maurice Barresm 16814 [Subtitle: Le jardin de Berenice] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16814 ] [Files: 16814.txt; 16814-8.txt; 16814-h.htm] Le culte du moi 2, by Maurice Barrs 16813 [Subtitle: Un homme libre] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16813 ] [Files: 16813.txt; 16813-8.txt; 16813-h.htm] Le culte du moi 1, by Maurice Barrs 16812 [Subtitle: Sous l'oeil des barbares] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16812 ] [Files: 16812.txt; 16812-8.txt; 16812-h.htm] Gurre kamilaroi, by William Ridley 16811 [Subtitle: Kamilaroi Sayings (1856)] [Illustrator: W Mason] [Language: Kamilaroi and English] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16811 ] [Files: 16811.txt; 16811-0.txt] Black and White, by Timothy Thomas Fortune 16810 [Subtitle: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/8/1/16810 ] [Files: 16810.txt; 16810-8.txt; 16810-h.htm] The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador, by Dillon Wallace 16809 [Subtitle: A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. 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This "cost" is down from about $.71 when we had 14,076 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 17,301 eBooks in 34 Years and 03.25 Months We Averaged ~505 Per Year 42.0 Per Month 1.38 Per Day At 2345 eBooks Done In The 280 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.4 Per Day 59 Per Week 254 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. 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Jerome [Jerome #21][ttalkxxx.xxx] 2353 Oct 2000 Eurasia, by Chris. Evans [uasiaxxx.xxx] 2352 Oct 2000 John Halifax, Gentleman, by Mrs. Craik:Dinah Maria[halifxxx.xxx] 2351 Oct 2000 His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle[A.C.Doyle #23][lstbwxxx.xxx] 2350 Oct 2000 The Adv. of The Devil's Foot, A. Conan Doyle [#22][dvlftxxx.xxx] 2349 Oct 2000 The Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax [ACD #21][lcrfxxxx.xxx] 2348 Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Dying Detective, A Conan Doyle #20[dydetxxx.xxx] 2347 Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Bruce-Partington Plans [Doyle #19][bplanxxx.xxx] 2346 Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Red Circle A. Conan Doyle [#18][rcrclxxx.xxx] 2345 Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Cardboard Box, by Conan Doyle #17[crdbdxxx.xxx] 2344 Oct 2000 The Adv. Of Wisteria Lodge, A. Conan Doyle [#16][wstraxxx.xxx] 2343 Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe 20][?wml8xxx.xxx] 2342 [Language: German]. . . Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][?wml1xxx.xxx] 2335 Sep 2000 The Works of Rudyard Kipling/One Volume Edition/12[1vkipxxx.xxx] 2334 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? 1.1 Trillion eBooks Given Away If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,472,200,341 that would be 17,301 x 64,722,003 = ~1.12 Trillion !!! With 17,301 eBooks online as of October 12, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.89 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 64,722,003 x 17,301 x $.89 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. With 17,301 eBooks online as of October 12, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.58 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.71 when we had 14,076 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 17,301 eBooks in 34 Years and 03.25 Months We Averaged ~505 Per Year 42.0 Per Month 1.38 Per Day At 2345 eBooks Done In The 280 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.4 Per Day 59 Per Week 254 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week. ***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B*** *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] YAHOO ANNOUNCES PODCAST DIRECTORY Yahoo will launch a new service to search podcasts, making it the first of the major search services to delve into that type of audio content. Yahoo estimates that five million people listen to podcasts, and sales of Apple's iPod--the leading MP3 player--total more than 20 million. Smaller services such as Odeo.com and Podcast.net offer services geared toward podcasts. With the Yahoo tools, users can search the Web for podcasts, looking for those in particular topic areas, and can rate the podcasts they listen to. Yahoo's service does not include tools to create podcasts, though officials with the company said one day it might. Many analysts see audio and video searching as the future for most search engines, and Yahoo's venture into podcast searches will likely prompt companies including Google to offer similar services. MSNBC, 9 October 2005 http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9645653/ AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER PULL BOOKS FROM GOOGLE Google's controversial program to scan millions of books has run afoul of a very prolific author and his publisher. Jacob Neusner, a research professor of theology at Bard College, has written more than 900 books. Calling Google's book-scanning project a violation of copyright, Neusner requested that his books not be included in the database. Google's response was that Neusner must submit a separate form for each book he wanted excepted from the project. Siding with Neusner, the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, which has published many of Neusner's titles, then told Google it wanted all of its titles excluded from the project as well. Calling the scanning project "unfair and arrogant," Jed Lyons, president of Rowman & Littlefield, said, "[W]e don't want to do business with an organization that thumbs its nose at publishers and authors." Lyons said representatives from Google are trying to persuade the publisher to change its decision. Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 October 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005100701t.htm DELAWARE COURT SHIELDS IDENTITY OF BLOGGER The Delaware Supreme Court has rejected an effort to identify an anonymous blogger accused of defamatory remarks online. Patrick Cahill, a councilman in the city of Smyrna, had sought the blogger's identity from Comcast following several unflattering postings on the person's blog. Although a lower court judge had denied the blogger's request for protection, the Supreme Court said that court had applied the wrong standard. In the absence of substantial evidence of defamation, Cahill's petition to identify the blogger will be denied, according to the high court. In the ruling, the court said it found for the blogger to protect against what it called "the chilling effect on anonymous First Amendment Internet speech that can arise when plaintiffs bring trivial defamation lawsuits primarily to harass or unmask their critics." An attorney for the blogger said that statements on electronic bulletin boards and blogs are not generally considered factual but are seen as individuals' opinions. The court's judgment, however, did not identify the medium as pertinent in its application of legal standard. New York Times, 6 October 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/technology/06blog.html MORE HINTS POINT TO IDENTITY OF CONNECTICUT LIBRARY The American Library Association (ALA) has filed a court brief in the ongoing wrangling over a provision of the USA PATRIOT Act that prevents organizations under investigation from publicly speaking about the investigation. Under the terms of that law, federal authorities had sought information from a Connecticut library group, which has been forced to keep its identity secret. An article in the New York Times, though, said the Library Connection Inc., of Windsor, Conn., is the probable target of the investigation. According to the ALA's brief, because the Library Connection has refused to confirm or deny the story in the Times, it is clear that the speculation is correct. Further, because the identity has been guessed, keeping the group from speaking about the investigation is pointless, according to the brief. The brief states: "If the reporting is accurate, the information the government seeks to suppress has already been revealed, and the gag order serves no interest but that of silencing a citizen." Last month a judge ordered that the gag order be lifted, but an appeals court has reimposed the gag order pending its review of the case. Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 October 2005 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/10/2005100601t.htm FTC SUES FOR ALLEGED SPYWARE The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Odysseus Marketing, accusing the company of engaging in distributing spyware. Odysseus distributed an application called Kazanon, which supposedly allowed users to trade files anonymously, without fear of being identified by record companies. According to the FTC, users who downloaded the application also got a range of adware programs that fed advertisements to those users' computers and added items to the search results pages of popular search engines, including Google and Yahoo. The added items, which were indistinguishable from those supplied by the search engine, directed users to companies that paid Odysseus for the placement. Further, the software did not offer users a simple option to uninstall it. Walter Rines, owner of Odysseus, disputed all of the FTC's claims. He noted that the user agreement informs consumers of what will be installed when they download the Kazanon program. He also said an uninstall tool is available and that his company's software did not remove any search results but merely added to the list. Rines also said the lawsuit was "moot" because his company stopped distributing adware several weeks ago. MSNBC, 5 October 2005 http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9598897/ GOOGLE AND SUN ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP Google and Sun Microsystems have announced a partnership that many see as a joining of forces against Microsoft. Sun has long been a direct competitor with Microsoft, and most analysts believe Google has aspirations to compete with the software giant. Few specifics were released about the new arrangement. Google, which already buys Sun hardware, will expand those purchases, and Sun customers who download Java will have the option of also downloading Google's toolbar. Beyond those changes, most speculation about the deal concerns Sun's OpenOffice, an open source application that competes with Microsoft's Office suite of software. The companies said they will jointly develop OpenOffice, though some analysts expect Google to take primary responsibility for the work. John Rymer, an analyst with Forrester Research, said he believes Google will not simply redistribute OpenOffice. "When [Google does] something," he said, "it has to be cool. It has to go further than Microsoft Office." The deal is also a reunion of sorts for Sun CEO Scott McNealy and Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who worked together at Sun for 14 years. San Jose Mercury News, 5 October 2005 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/12823481.htm You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** New from other sources: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112793789066654830-Vjbpkz_NLQ83hrpULt Cy0XXHgbA_20061010.html?mod=blogs "You'll find a reasonable argument that Google Print is a Good Thing, including a link to Jonathon Band's analysis of it, which argues that it's `fair use'." (Band is a Georgetown U. law professor and gun for hire on IP issues.) * [Not many details available yet, but this week Microsoft apparently managed to both get out from under all the pending anti-trust case load that has been plaguing them for years and years, and also has taken over an even larger portion of the virtual world via mergers or cooperative efforts with Yahoo, RealNetworks, and others. Microsoft will team with Yahoo in yet another attempt to take over the world of instant messaging, while their deal with RealNetworks brings them into direct competition with iTunes and other services bring music over the Internet, and also takes another step towards worldwide domination of the video game market. ;=) ] [Seattle Times, ZDNet, Reuters, etc.] *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible.] More and more schools, colleges, and universities are either handing out free laptop computers to students, or are requiring them to buy their own. Indians State University, not very far south and east where I live, is reportedly going to hand out free computers to all students with a "B" average or over in the coming year, and then require all students to have one the following year, 2007. WILL-AM Radio, ~12:00 Noon, 10/10 [A word of caution when dealing with grade averages: when grades were first invented, these were designed such that a "C" was the average grade on the scale: A = Excellent/Superior B = Above Average/Good C = Average/Fair D = Below Average/Poor E = Fail However, during the years since the peak school year of the class of 1965, we have seen "grade inflation" taking place, in which artificially high grades were given to make us think that students were doing well when their performance was actually declining. Not only today, but even over 30 years ago, averages were being fudged so that the average grade was over a "B". . .even as famously censored reports stated a wide use of grade inflation was upon us. The Hoover Report from the University of Illinois still had one of the most limited exposures the last time I looked in the library for it, still not in circulation even after over 30 years and having been created at great expense and labor by serious researchers. The same process has been called into question about the various nationwide tests, such as the SAT & ACT, which have recently been renormed when averages fell below 90% of their original levels.] *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "The Plum Book" as it is known to Washington insider circles, is the list of thousands of goverment jobs given from the new administrations to their friends, campaign staff. Example: The daughter of of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the wife of Michael Chertoff, "The Vulture," Secretary of Homeland Security, somehow kept her job at FEMA when everyone was being sent to DHS. [The Nation, etc.] *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK China's much publicized efforts to slow growth so that the gap between the rich and the poor will not continue to widen will have little effect on the gap between the rich and the poor, but may cause general economic haze. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "If you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and our crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down." William Bennett, former Secretary of Education [Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, etc. * "They're all bloody civil servants moonlighting as journalists. "It's their job to protect the status quo." Sylvia Plath *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK The Atlantic Monthly: a child growing up in a family earning over $90,000 has a 1 in 2 chance of getting a college degree by age 24; a child in a family earning $35,000 to $61,000 has a 1 in 10 chance; a child in a family earning under $35,000 has a 1 in 17 chance. * When real estate brokers sell their own houses, they take 10% more time to sell than when they sell your houses and get 3% - 4% more. [ABC 20/20, 10/9] * The low visibility wedding industry takes in about $72 Billion per year. The high visibility video game industry takes in only about $7 Billion. * FEMA paid Carnival Cruise lines hundreds of millions of dollars to put hurricane refugees up, the price based on what Carnival would have had as a result of these being normal bookings over a total of six months. The three ships involved seem to have been filled about half way. Even if the ships were filled to capacity, the price would be $1,275 a person for this service, but at half full, the price would be $2,550-- while you can book full service Carnival Cruises for $599, as per Sen. Tom Coburn's office. Senator Coburn is an Oklahoma Republican. [Carnival says it is not making any more than they would have otherwise but I wonder if they are counting all the extra money passengers spend] "When the federal government would actually save millions of dollars by forgoing the status quo and actually sending evacuees on a luxurious six-month cruise it is time to rethink how we are conducting oversight. A short-term temporary solution has turned into a long-term, grossly overpriced sweetheart deal for a cruise line," according to Senators Coburn and Barack Obama in a joint statement. They called for a CFO [Chief Financial Officer] to be appointed in charge of all current hurricane relief. [The Washington Post, 9/28] * Cornbelt News Farmers are spending ~$11.50 per acre this year just on harvest fuel. [University of Illinois Extension on WILL-AM Radio, 10/7] [If they are getting 115 bushels of corn per acre, a very low amount, then it is costing them an additional $.10 per bushel. Soybeans were more like 40 bushels per acre, which would be nearly $.30 a bushel in total fuel prices, probably about double what it was last year. At 50+ pounds of corn per bushel, this would increase the price of one pound of corn by at most 1/20 of a cent at the elevator. Presuming an operation raises the prices of corn 10 times over, that 1/20 of a cent would become a 1/2 cent increase by the time it reaches your table; if they increased prices by 20 times, your cost would go up a penny. Think about this when you see the price of corn go up $.10 - $.25 By the way, at a very low 11,500 ears per acre, fuel prices per ear of corn would go up 1/10 of a cent; consider this when you go to farmers' markets next time around, and let us know.] * Nicole, a great white shark that has been under observation, swam from Africa to Australia and back, totalling over 12,000 miles, and for the first time proving a link between the two shark populations. * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be male 70 would be non-white 30 would be white 70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer from malnutrition 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater] 1 would be 79 years old or more. Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years, but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure to expire within that 63 year period. I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date, as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer then there would be only 60 million people in the world who owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States households have computers, out of over 100 million households. Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in the United States. I just called our local reference librarian and got the number of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at: 111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports. If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million, and that's counting just one computer per household, and not counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc. I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate given above, and would like some help researching these and other such figures, if anyone is interested. BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old. This means that basically 90% of the world's population would never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they can receive more per year, but because they will live more years to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in. * POEM OF THE WEEK Day Seven On the seventh day, let your soul light up your eyes like two candles in the Easter night, like a lighthouse in the middle of the ocean where feelings swim, and hope floats. 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Note that updated eBooks usually go in their original directory (e.g., etext99, etext00, etc.) *** Statistical Review In the 39 weeks of this year, we have produced 2294 new eBooks. It took us from 7/71 to 08/00 to produce our FIRST 2294 eBooks!!! That's 39 WEEKS as Compared to ~29 YEARS!!! FLASHBACK! Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2294 Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ### A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright [Note: books without month and year entries have been reposted] Aug 2000 The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin [Darwin #7][dscmnxxx.xxx] 2300 Aug 2000 Pandora, by Henry James [Henry James #21][pndraxxx.xxx] 2299 Aug 2000 Great Astronomers, by R. S. Ball [grastxxx.xxx] 2298 Aug 2000 Snow-Bound at Eagle's, by Bret Harte [Harte #12][sbdaexxx.xxx] 2297 Aug 2000 Pillars of Society, by Henrik Ibsen[Henrik Ibsen2][pllrsxxx.xxx] 2296 Aug 2000 Waifs and Strays, etc, by O Henry Pt 1[O Henry #8][1waifxxx.xxx] 2295 Aug 2000 Anthol. Massachusetts Poets/William S. Braithwaite[mpoetxxx.xxx] 2294 Aug 2000 A New England Girlhood[Beverly, MA] by Lucy Larcom[grlhdxxx.xxx] 2293 Aug 2000 Yet Again, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #8][ytagnxxx.xxx] 2292 Aug 2000 David Elginbrod, by George MacDonald[Scottish][#7][?lgnbxxx.xxx] 2291 Aug 2000 Twenty-Two Goblins, Translated from the Sanskrit [22gblxxx.xxx] 2290 Aug 2000 Rosmersholm, by Henrik Ibsen [Henrik Ibsen #1] [rsmrhxxx.xxx] 2289 Aug 2000 Through Russia, by Maxim Gorky [Maxim Gorky #2] [trussxxx.xxx] 2288 Aug 2000 Havoc, by E. Philips Oppenheim[E. P. Oppenheim #9][havocxxx.xxx] 2287 Aug 2000 Devil's Ford by, Bret Harte [Bret Harte #11][dvlfdxxx.xxx] 2286 Aug 2000 Ridgway of Montana, by William MacLeod Raine [#4][rdgwyxxx.xxx] 2285 Aug 2000 Animal Heroes, by Ernest Thompson Seton [Seton #2][anhroxxx.xxx] 2284 Aug 2000 The Lost Road, etc, by Richard Harding Davis [#30][lstrdxxx.xxx] 2283 Aug 2000 Tales for Fifteen, by Jane Morgan [JFC #4][tl415xxx.xxx] 2282 [Jane Morgan is a pseudonym of James Fenimore Cooper] Aug 2000 The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh etc, by Bret Harte 11[dedloxxx.xxx] 2281 Aug 2000 A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready, by Bret Harte 10[amrnrxxx.xxx] 2280 Aug 2000 A Waif of the Plains, by Bret Harte[Bret Harte #9][awotpxxx.xxx] 2279 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet??? 1.1 Trillion eBooks Given Away If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,470,772,250 that would be 17,250 x 64,707,722 = ~1.1 Trillion !!! 6,470,772,250 64,707,722 With 17,250 eBooks online as of October 05, 2005 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.90 from each book. 1% of the world population is 64,707,722 x 17,250 x $.90 = ~$1 Trillion] [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. With 17,250 eBooks online as of October 05, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.58 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.72 when we had 13,891 eBooks a year ago. 100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population! At 17,250 eBooks in 34 Years and 03.00 Months We Averaged ~504 Per Year 42.0 Per Month 1.38 Per Day At 2294 eBooks Done In The 273 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.4 Per Day 59 Per Week 255 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. 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