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by Michael Hart 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

47 U.S. and 46 Oz. g 330 eu [+0] 370 pp [+1] Newton's Principia Mathematica in raw scan 8,910 dp - 8,872 = [+38] 1,070 au {+46] 18999 US 19000 -42 = 18,968 18,921 last week = [+47] 19,062 - 42 = 19,020 - 18,968 = 52 Three ways to count Subtract last week # - 42 reserved - total 48 via marcello G 43US 21 Au 9am tues * Please see revised counting format below, comments requested. * pt1a2.806 pt1b2.806 Weekly_August_16.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, August 16, 2006 PT1*** *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******* WARNING! I had a MAJOR crash just now when following a link to TIME Magazine where it would appear something took control of my hard drive. . .I had just time to yank the physical connection, so I had to use a recovery file to get back to the Newsletter you see below. I will try to check everything, but it is usually a days long process, and I have only an hour. For now I am leaving PT1a and PT1b combined. 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Volunteers needed to take these duplications into account.] ~7% of the way from 20,000 to 30,000 75,000+ eBooks at the PG Consortia Center http://www.gutenberg.cc [Please note that the four collections totals are eBooks that originated as created, edited, proofread, formatted, etc., by Project Gutenberg and its 50,000 volunteers, while the Project Gutenberg Consortia Center with 75,000+ eBooks contains entire eBook collections from other sources, all the production statistics given here are for some 20,000+ eBooks created by the various teams of Project Gutenberg volunteers, for which we share the responsibility of maintaining. 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[Including PGAu, PGEu and PrePrints] All Four Sites Combined Are Averaging 83 eBooks Per Week In 2006 97 This Week 77 Last Week 174 This Month [Aug] It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~12.5 years from Jan. 1994 to Jun. 2006 to go from 100 to 20,100 It took ~32 months, from 2003 to 2006 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.8 years from Oct. 2003 to Jun. 2006 from 10,000 to 20,000 Not counting the addition of The Project Gutenberg Consortia Center * [Daily PrePrints stats at http://preprints.readingroo.ms/] Please note that sometimes it takes a few weeks for entire collections to fully appear in the PrePrints Section, thus the count sometimes jumps by a large number when the files are eventually completed and added in. 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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. 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Note that updated eBooks usually go in their original directory (e.g., etext99, etext00, etc.) *** Statistical Review In the 29 weeks of this year, we have produced 2336 new eBooks. It took us from 07/71 to 11/00 to produce our FIRST 2336 eBooks!!! That's 29 WEEKS as Compared to ~29 YEARS!!! FLASHBACK! Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2336 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] [Sorry, no time right now, only 6 minutes to deadline] * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,531,968,950 that would be 20,484 x 65,319,690 = ~1.34 Trillion !!! With 20,484 eBooks online as of July 25, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.75 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 6,531,968,95 x 20,102 x $.75 = ~$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 million last month!] * 6,531,968,950 65,319,690 A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.49 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 20,484 eBooks online as of July 25, 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 $.60 when we had 16,842 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people. At 20,484 eBooks in 35 Years and 00.60 Months We Averaged 580 Per Year 48 Per Month 1.60 Per Day At 2336 eBooks Done In The 209 Days Of 2006 We Averaged 11.2 Per Day 78 per Week 340 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] U.S. LEGISLATORS MOVE TO BAN SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES [My own comments about such politicking are included below, but here it is obviously that it is a "bad thing" to let an ordinary society of teens take place if we can't watch over them to make sure others aren't watching over them, too.] A bill introduced by Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) that aims to restrict social networking Web sites in schools and libraries passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 410-15. The Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA) would require organizations that receive funds under the federal E-Rate program to install Internet filters that would block access to sites such as Facebook and MySpace. The FCC would be responsible for defining what sites would be covered by the law. According to the American Library Association (ALA), about two-thirds of U.S. libraries would be subject to the law. Supporters of the legislation said that children who use such Web sites become targets of sexual predators. Opponents of the law said it is overly broad and would prevent computer users from accessing a number of unrelated sites, such as Amazon, blogs, wikis, and even news sites. Leslie Burger, president of the ALA, said, "DOPA is redundant and unnecessary legislation," noting that the Children's Internet Protection Act already requires institutions to block Web content considered harmful to children. The bill now goes to the Senate. BBC, 31 July 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5230506.stm [Note that this coverage is from the BBC [British Broadcasting Co., who often covers such issues when American media refuses to. . .the reason many of these articles are included here, just to stop bias] [Speaking of Social Networking of the younger generations. . . .] MTV ENTERS SOCIAL NETWORKING GAME MTV is introducing a new cable channel and Web site designed to take advantage of the immense popularity of social networking software. Sites such as MySpace (which was recently purchased by Rupert Murdoch), YouTube, and Bebo have large numbers of loyal users who go to the sites to find others with similar interests, share content, and communicate with friends through various means. MTV's social networking entry, Flux, will combine online tools with a cable channel, allowing users to select the videos that they see on the channel, upload multimedia files, and talk with other users. The site also lets users interact through avatars--animated figures that represent individual users. An official from MTV said Flux puts control in the hands of users, "challenging the status quo in TV programming." CNET, 24 July 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-6097692.html PROVOSTS BACK OPEN ACCESS TO PUBLIC RESEARCH An open letter signed by the provosts of 25 universities supports passage of the Federal Public Research Access Act, which would require federal agencies to publish their research findings online and free within six months of publication elsewhere. Publishers, including scholarly associations, oppose the bill, claiming that it could endanger research and threaten many journals. The provosts' letter encourages higher education to consider changing the way research findings are disseminated while acknowledging that the bill would force publishers and scholarly societies to consider significant shifts in their publishing approach. Inside Higher Ed, 28 July 2006 http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/07/28/provosts KAZAA PAYS TO SETTLE PIRACY LAWSUITS [And Kazaa fooled us into thinking there weren't a big business!] Kazaa, the file-sharing service now owned by Sharman Networks Ltd., agreed to pay more than $115 million to settle lawsuits brought against it by the entertainment industry. Kazaa also agreed to use filtering systems to prevent users from exchanging copyrighted music and movie files and plans to work with entertainment companies to sell licensed content. The agreement marks the end of litigation against Kazaa that began in 2001. Wall Street Journal, 28 July 2006 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115400080714018951.html?mod=technology_main _whats_news GOOGLE LAUNCHES SITE CATERING TO VISUALLY IMPAIRED A new service from Google Labs promises easier searching for users with visual impairments. Web sites full of graphics and animations are fine for sighted users, but screen readers and other technologies that assist the blind or visually impaired have considerable difficulty rendering such sites in a way that can easily be understood. The new service, called Google Accessible Search site, will evaluate how easily assistive technologies are likely to be able to parse and present the content of a Web page and moves those sites higher in the listing of search results. According to T.V. Raman, research scientist in charge of the service, the service is an "early-stage experiment" that he hopes can be further developed and refined based on user feedback. CNET, 19 July 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6096169.html INDIA CLAMPS DOWN ON BLOGS The Indian government has ordered the country's 153 ISPs to block access to 17 Web sites, some of them blogs, causing an outcry among the country's bloggers. The government issued a directive in 2003 noting that it has the authority to restrict Web sites if they are deemed threatening to the state or its relationship with other countries or could potentially incite crime. The blogging community in India has reacted strongly, criticizing the government for censoring free speech. One blogger, Amit Agarwal, said his country has "joined the Internet Filtering Club of China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Ethiopia." Others expressed fears that the government is trying to restrict all blogs in the country, a charge the government denied. BBC, 19 July 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5194172.stm [Meanwhile, in China. . . .] CHINA SENDS INTERNET REPORTER TO PRISON Chinese courts have convicted another individual of using the Internet to distribute content deemed inappropriate and subversive. Li Yuanlong was accused of writing essays critical of unemployment and rural poverty and e-mailing them to Chinese-language news outlets based in the United States. Charges filed in February against Li said the essays "fabricated, distorted and exaggerated facts, incited subversion of the state, and [sought] to overthrow the socialist system." The court found Li guilty and sentenced him to two years in prison. Li's lawyer noted that although he believes the ruling was unjust, the sentence could have been much longer. Similar charges in other cases have resulted in prison terms of five and even ten years for those found guilty. CNET, 13 July 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6094022.html [and] CHINESE AUTHORITIES TO TIGHTEN CONTROL OF INTERNET ACCESS Chinese authorities, keen to exert considerable control over access inside the country to online content it finds objectionable, has announced plans to increase restrictions on Internet and cell-phone technologies. Among the proposals is a requirement that users of cell phones would have to register themselves. Currently, Chinese citizens can use cell phones anonymously, which allows many millions to access and share information that would otherwise be prohibited by the government. Search engines are another likely target for tightened control. Despite recent agreements with major search engines operating in the country, "more and more harmful information is being circulated online," according to Cai Wu, director of the Information Office of the State Council. The planned crackdown riled many Chinese bloggers, but others, including Wang Yi, law professor at Chengdu University, were more optimistic. Wang noted that each generation of new technologies has been censored by government authorities but that new tools continue to appear, staying one or two years ahead of the restrictions. New York Times, 4 July 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/world/asia/04internet.html [and] ACADEMICS SNEAK PAST CHINESE FIREWALL Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a way to circumvent the firewall operated by the Chinese government and also to use it to launch denial-of-service attacks. Chinese authorities implemented the firewall to try to prevent computer users in the country from accessing any information deemed inflammatory by the government. According to Richard Clayton of the university's computer lab, the firewall allows packets in and out of the country, but, when a packet contains prohibited information, the firewall initiates a reset, which causes the connection between the sending and receiving computers to fail. "If you drop all the reset packets at both ends of the connection, which is relatively trivial to do," said Clayton, "the Web page is transferred just fine." At the same time, spoofed return addresses for Internet transmissions will cause the firewall to temporarily block traffic to and from those computers. Clayton noted that even with a single dial-up connection, a hacker could create a very disruptive attack. The researchers have reported their findings to the Chinese Computer Emergency Response Team. CNET, 3 July 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6090437.html LAWSUIT ALLEGES COLLUSION IN CHIP MARKET [Didn't you wonder why RAM chips didn't go down as other chips did? 34 states' attorneys general wonder why, too. . .price fixing??] Attorneys general in 34 states, led by California's Bill Lockyer, have filed a suit alleging that seven makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips conspired to artificially inflate prices between 1998 and 2002. The lawsuit contends that the companies named fixed prices, limited supplies, and rigged bids for the chips. Makers of consumer products that use DRAM chips, including most computer manufacturers, were forced to pay inflated prices and passed those extra costs on to consumers, according to the complaint. A federal investigation launched in 2002 into chipmakers' practices resulted in fines totaling hundreds of millions of dollars for the world's leading chipmakers. The current suit was filed in California because that is the home of many of the computer makers directly affected by the alleged scheme. ZDNet, 13 July 2006 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6094140.html RICE PRESS REBORN AS ONLINE ONLY [I remember when Rice was one of the most conservative about such matters] Rice University will restart its press, which was closed in 1996, as an online-only operation, publishing peer-reviewed books and monographs. Faced with declining budgets, many libraries buy fewer books, leaving academic publishers unwilling to publish books unless they can justify the printing costs. Rice's model does away with printing, allowing the press to publish texts not published otherwise while considerably speeding up the publishing process. Because texts will be peer-reviewed, organizers hope the reborn Rice press will be as prestigious--and as valid for tenure or promotion--as a traditional press. The press will operate through Connexions, a site that offers course materials free of charge. Separately, Connexions will also begin offering print-on-demand custom textbooks, assembled from individual modules within Connexions. The textbooks are expected to cost significantly less than comparable offerings from traditional textbook publishers. Inside Higher Ed, 14 July 2006 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/07/14/rice SQUABBLE OVER CELL PHONES IN SCHOOL GOES TO COURT Parents of public school kids in New York City have filed a lawsuit to overturn a ban on cell phones in schools. The ban, which was originally put in place in 1988 and concerned primarily pagers, was not widely enforced until recently, when schools added X-ray machines to help keep schools safe. Under the ban, cell phones can be confiscated and only returned to parents, who must go to the school to pick them up. Parents objected, saying cell phones represent a safety issue for kids and that the chancellor of schools overstepped his authority in banning the devices. School officials said students use cell phones for cheating, making drug deals, taking photos in locker rooms, and other inappropriate activities. The parents hoping to overturn the ban are looking to a case from the early 1990s in which the courts ruled that the school system went beyond its authority in distributing condoms to students. The argument, which the court accepted, was that such activity is properly under the purview of parents, not the school. Opponents of the cell phone ban contend that having a cell phone is similarly the decision of parents rather than school administrators. New York Times, 13 July 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/nyregion/13cnd-cellphone.html PENTAGON ACKNOWLEDGES MONITORING STUDENT E-MAIL Surveillance reports obtained through the Freedom of Information Act indicate that the Department of Defense monitored student e-mail as part of its efforts to identify and track potential terrorist suspects. The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network filed requests for the information, and the reports released so far cover e-mail surveillance at the State University of New York at Albany, Southern Connecticut State University, the University of California at Berkeley, and William Paterson University of New Jersey. Student e-mail was monitored when it dealt with protests against the war in Iraq or against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" program concerning gay and lesbian members of the armed forces. Instances of monitoring were evidently prompted by reports of suspicious behavior, but a Pentagon spokesperson would not say who submitted the reports that led to the monitoring described in the surveillance reports. Kermit Hall, president of SUNY-Albany, said his institution is investigating the nature of the monitoring and how it was conducted and would decide later how to proceed. Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 July 2006 (sub. req'd) http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/07/2006070601n.htm PARIS LOOKS TO INCREASE CITY ACCESS The mayor of Paris has announced plans to significantly increase Internet access in the city, through both wired and wireless channels. Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said that the city will work with private companies to establish a free Wi-Fi network across Paris by the end of 2007. The access points for the network would be located in parks, squares, libraries, and other public areas. The city will also cut taxes on fiber-optic cables in an effort to increase the availability of high-speed connections to 80 percent of the city. Currently, 60 percent of Parisians have access to high-speed Internet, according to Delanoe. Under the proposal, which Delanoe will submit to the city council next week, fees for fiber-optic cable running through the city's sewer system would fall by one-fourth. Additionally, companies would be eligible for tax breaks as high as 90 percent on the first 400 meters of fiber-optic cabling that is installed to buildings that are not currently connected to high-speed lines. ZDNet, 4 July 2006 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6090503.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 *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK [This part from an earlier report, slightly modified. . .more below] 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% who own half of everything in the US actually lived on their blocks, and owned half the land, half the cars, half the stock, bonds, cash, boats, etc., while the next 1% owned half of what was left, the next 1% owned half of that, etc. . .leaving only a few percent for 90% of the block's residents???] [Meanwhile this week Congress approved a bill to finally increase an entirely out of date minimum wage of $5.15 to $7.25 over three years of phase in time, over objections from big business that this should not be done because it would make the US non-competitive world-wide, as they could not compete with globalization of sweatshop owners for the world markets. This was all in return for a quid pro quo voting down estate taxes on the very wealthy. It would appear that you can't get a vote for the common worker with no return vote for the very rich in the current Congress. In common parlance, this is known as "robbing Peter to pay Paul." For some reason this reminds me of our own local recycling tax, $24, for a weekly pick up of certain materials, after years of politics-- including perhaps a million dollars in wasted money and productivity on a "bottle bill" that was eventually passed by referendum, several times for several areas, then voted on my multiple city council vote taking after even more wasted time, then approved by one mayor, then finally. . .after all that. . .the other mayor. . .having allowed us to work through all those years of effort. . . vetoed the bottle bill. But we ended up with that $24 recycling tax and plastic bins for the households to put out recycling materials in, bins that we never see in use in front of the average house if you drive down the streets-- but we still have bottles littering more houses than use the bins. See why I am apolitical to the point of being anti-political? One last point. . .the Equal Rights Amendment. . . . "Equality of rights under the law shall not be deined or abridged by the United Sttes or by any state on account of sex." That's the entire thing, other than two even shorter sentences for a power to enforce and take effect. . . . The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced only 3 years after a movement finally got women the right to vote in the United States. 35 states have ratified the amemdment. The cost in money and time has been billions of dollars, if not from all aspects a trillion dollars. The text of the Equal Rights Amendment is simple. . . . It's what is said ABOUT it that is not simple. Some say that equal rights for too many is ruining the United States. Just another reason to hate politicking.] [Darn! I thought I was done with politicking for the time being but the radio just reminded me that we are going through a "prohibition" stage with smoking that is becoming reminiscent of the "prohibition" period concerning drinking. This is particularly evident here, in a state that proudly or not is the home of Al Capone, Roger Touhy, and and host of other gangland legends involved in the prohibition era. What is happening here is the same thing that happened with drinking in that certain areas are becoming "dry" or "smoke free" with a wide variety of laws prohibiting smoking. However, where _I_ live, in an odd community composed of two cities and a major university, the law can get quite tricky when and if more than one jurisdiction takes an action to enforce a law, which is usually the case, as follows. Both city councils decided that smoking was a "bad thing" and should be outlawed, at least in all locations they could manage. However, due to "situational ethics" each community was afraid a law passed by their city council but not by the other, would simply move consumers. . .the God of any retail marketing society. . .to spend a greater and greater proportion of their time in the other town and a greater and greater proportion of their money. . .along with it. This is particularly evident in some neighborhoods I have lived in-- where bars line one side of the street, while the other is dry, from certainl laws that take effected here and there, and now and then. The city councils were actively concerned with the same thing, and a very public snafu ocurred when they couldn't get it together, read a term equal to "conspiracy" but with no legal implications, since the city councils are beyond that sort of thing. However, eventually laws were passed that are supposed to shut down, more or less, smoking within various city limits, including campus. Obviously we will still see those adult delinquents still gathered a bunch here and a bunch there, smoking furiously during coffee breaks that may have the same effect when caffeine joins nicotine as banned substances, since we never learned from alcohol prohibition. No coffee. No cigarettes. No alcohol. But wait, didn't they believe in having multiple wives? They must be the most immoral of all! [Ok. . .ok. . .more than enough about politics, and I do not want to get into religion any more than I want to get into politics. Having made what I hope is a point about why, I retire from the scene until something rears its ugly head that I can't ignore.] *QUOTES OF THE WEEK "We'll give you a ~$2 an hour pay raise over three years if you will give us millions of dollars in tax cuts for the rich right now." *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, as well as of the collection of information "above and beyond a call of duty" by the United States since the start of the FBI," and well beyond the scope of the FBI. *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK I interviewed a high level Washington source on location during my tour of the East Coast and asked for just one thing I should tell you that you won't find in the news media. The answer? "More people are dying than you know" in the various conflicts. * 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. 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GWeekly_July_26_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 26 Jul 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 - 42 New U.S. eBooks this week - 44 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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Henty 18868 [Subtitle: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman] [Ill.: William Rainey ] Correct translator's name ("Herford", not "Hereford"): Love's Comedy, by Henrik Ibsen 18657 [Tr.: C. H. Herford] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18657 ] [Files: 18657.txt; ] -=-=-=-=[ 42 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Biology, by Edmund Beecher Wilson 18911 [Subtitle: A lecture delivered at Columbia University in the series on Science, Philosophy and Art November 20, 1907] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/1/18911 ] [Files: 18911.txt; 18911-8.txt; 18911-h.htm] Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915, by Anonymous 18910 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/1/18910 ] [Files: 18910.txt; 18910-8.txt; 18910-h.htm] Poems Teachers Ask For, by Various 18909 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/0/18909 ] [Files: 18909.txt; 18909-h.htm] Christmas, ed. by Robert Haven Schauffler 18908 [Subtitle: Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/0/18908 ] [Files: 18908.txt; 18908-8.txt; 18908-h.htm; ] Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight, by Emily Mayer Higgins 18907 [Subtitle: Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/0/18907 ] [Files: 18907.txt; 18907-8.txt; 18907-h.htm; ] History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2),by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 18906 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/0/18906 ] [Files: 18906.txt; 18906-8.txt; 18906-h.htm; ] The War and Unity, by Various 18905 [Subtitle: Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918] [Editor: David Herbert Somerset Cranage] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/0/18905 ] [Files: 18905.txt; 18905-8.txt; 18905-h.htm] Pohjan-Piltti, by Yrjo Sakari Yrjo-Koskinen 18904 [Subtitle: Kuvaus lopulta 13:tta vuosisataa] [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/0/18904 ] [Files: 18904-8.txt] The Last Harvest, by John Burroughs 18903 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/0/18903 ] [Files: 18903.txt; 18903-8.txt; 18903-h.htm] Flood Tide, by Sara Ware Bassett 18902 [Illus.: M. L. Greer] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/0/18902 ] [Files: 18902.txt; 18902-8.txt; 18902-h.htm; ] Woman as Decoration, by Emily Burbank 18901 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/0/18901 ] [Files: 18901.txt; 18901-8.txt; 18901-h.htm; ] A Text-Book of the History of Painting, by John C. Van Dyke 18900 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/9/0/18900 ] [Files: 18900.txt; 18900-8.txt; 18900-h.htm] Mademoiselle Clocque, by Ren. Boylesve 18899 [Language: NU] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/9/18899 ] [Files: 18899-8.txt; 18899-h.htm] Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Vol. 17 New Series, No. 437, May 15, 1852 18898 [Editor: Robert Chambers and William Chambers] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/9/18898 ] [Files: 18898.txt; 18898-8.txt; 18898-h.htm] The Epic of Gilgamish, by Stephen Langdon 18897 [Subtitle: A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/9/18897 ] [Files: 18897.txt; 18897-8.txt; 18897-h.htm] Faith Gartney's Girlhood, by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney 18896 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/9/18896 ] [Files: 18896.txt; 18896-8.txt; 18896-h.htm; ] At Home with the Jardines, by Lilian Bell 18895 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/9/18895 ] [Files: 18895.txt; 18895-8.txt; ] Then I'll Come Back to You, by Larry Evans 18894 [Illus.: Will Stevens] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/9/18894 ] [Files: 18894.txt; 18894-8.txt; 18894-h.htm; ] Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete, by John Symonds 18893 [Subtitle: Series I, II, and III] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/9/18893 ] [Files: 18893.txt; 18893-8.txt; 18893-h.htm] Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III, by John Symonds 18892 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/9/18892 ] [Files: 18892.txt; 18892-8.txt; 18892-h.htm] Dot and the Kangaroo, by Ethel C. Pedley 18891 [Illustrator: Frank P. Mahony] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/9/18891 ] [Files: 18891.txt; 18891-8.txt; 18891-h.htm] Mmoire pour le service actuel des messageries, by Anonymous 18890 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/9/18890 ] [Files: 18890-8.txt; 18890-h.htm] Memoire sur la reunion des trois services, by M. De Saint-Victour 18889 [Title: Memoire sur la reunion des trois services, des postes aux chevaux, de la poste aux lettres, et des messageries, sous une seule administration] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/8/18889 ] [Files: 18889-8.txt; 18889-h.htm] Ang mga Anak Dalita, by Patricio Mariano 18888 [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/8/18888 ] [Files: 18888-8.txt; 18888-h.htm] Si Rizal at ang mga Diwata, by Jose N. Sevilla 18887 [Subtitle: Zarzuelang Tagalog na may Dalawang Yugto] [Language: Tagalog] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/8/18887 ] [Files: 18887-8.txt; 18887-h.htm] Franklin Kane, by Anne Douglas Sedgwick 18886 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/8/18886 ] [Files: 18886.txt; 18886-8.txt; 18886-h.htm] Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878, by Various 18885 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/8/18885 ] [Files: 18885.txt; 18885-8.txt; 18885-h.htm] Ducks at a Distance, by Rob Hines 18884 [Subtitle: A Waterfowl Identification Guide] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/8/18884 ] [Files: 18884.txt; 18884-8.txt; 18884-h.htm; ] The Four Feathers, by A. E. W. Mason 18883 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/8/18883 ] [Files: 18883.txt; 18883-8.txt; 18883-h.htm; ] The Isles of Sunset, by Arthur Christopher Benson 18882 Contents: The Isles of Sunset The Waving of the Sword Renatus The Slype House Out of the Sea Paul the Minstrel [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/8/18882 ] [Files: 18882.txt; 18882-h.htm; ] The Idiot, by John Kendrick Bangs 18881 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/8/18881 ] [Files: 18881.txt; 18881-8.txt; 18881-h.htm; ] The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 18880 [Author: Various] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/8/18880 ] [Files: 18880.txt; 18880-8.txt; 18880-h.htm; ] The Age of the Reformation, by Preserved Smith 18879 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/7/18879 ] [Files: 18879.txt; 18879-8.txt; ] Highway Transport Commitee, Bulletin 1, by US Government 18878 [Title: Highway Transport Commitee Council of National Defence, Bulletin 1] [Subtitle:Return-Loads Bureaus To Save Waste In Transportation] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/7/18878 ] [Files: 18878.txt; 18878-h.htm] In het Schemeruur, by P. Louwerse and Jan Sluijters 18877 [Language: Dutch] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/7/18877 ] [Files: 18877-8.txt; 18877-h.htm] Woman Triumphant, by Vicente Blasco Ibanez 18876 [Subtitle: (La Maja Desnuda)] [Translator: Hayward Keniston] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/7/18876 ] [Files: 18876.txt; 18876-8.txt; 18876-h.htm] The Prairie Wife, by Arthur Stringer 18875 [Illustrator: H. T. Dunn] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/7/18875 ] [Files: 18875.txt; 18875-8.txt; 18875-h.htm] The Boy With the U. S. Foresters, by Francis Rolt-Wheeler 18874 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/7/18874 ] [Files: 18874.txt; 18874-8.txt; 18874-h.htm] Contes et legendes, by H. A. Guerber 18873 [Subtitle: 1re Partie] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/7/18873 ] [Files: 18873-8.txt; 18873-h.htm] The Field of Clover, by Laurence Housman 18872 [Illustrator: Clemence Housman] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/7/18872 ] [Files: 18872.txt; 18872-8.txt; 18872-h.htm] A Channel Passage and Other Poems, by Algernon Charles Swinburne 18871 [Subtitle: Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne--Vol VI] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/8/7/18871 ] [Files: 18871.txt; 18871-8.txt; 18871-h.htm] Soitannollisia satuja ja jutelmia, by Elise Polko 18870 [Translator: Ferd. 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Corrington] [Subtitle: The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/5/18754 ] [Files: 18754.txt; 18754-h.htm] The Space Pioneers, by Carey Rockwell 18753 [Illustrator: Louis Glanzman] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/5/18753 ] [Files: 18753.txt; 18753-8.txt; 18753-h.htm] Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqu.e 18752 [Editor: Mary Macgregor] [Illustrator: Katharine Cameron] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/5/18752 ] [Files: 18752.txt; 18752-8.txt; 18752-h.htm] A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. 18751 [Author: Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/5/18751 ] [Files: 18751-8.txt; 18751-h.htm; ] Wandering Heath, by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 18750 Contents: Prologue The Roll-Call of the Reef The Looe Die-Hards My Grandfather, Hendry Watty Jetsom Wrestlers The Bishop of Eucalyptus Widdershins Visitors at the Gunnel Rock Letters from Troy The Legend Of Sir Dinar "Flowing Source" A Young Man's Diary The Captain From Bath [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/5/18750 ] [Files: 18750.txt; 18750-h.htm; ] L'art russe, by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc 18749 [Subtitle: Ses origines, ses elements constitutifs, son apogee, son avenir (1877)] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/4/18749 ] [Files: 18749-8.txt; 18749-h.htm] Transactions of the A.S.C.E., Paper No. 1173, by A. 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Randolph 18747 [Title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910] [Subtitle: Locomotive Performance On Grades Of Various Lengths, Paper No. 1172] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/4/18747 ] [Files: 18747.txt; 18747-8.txt; 18747-h.htm] The Great Round World, Vol. 2, No. 24, June 16, 1898, by Various 18746 [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/1/8/7/4/18746 ] [Files: 18746.txt; 18746-8.txt; 18746-h.htm] The Great Round World Vol. 2, No. 23, June 9, 1898, by Various 18745 [Full title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2,] [No. 23, June 9, 1898] [Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] [Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/4/18745 ] [Files: 18745.txt; 18745-8.txt; 18745-h.htm] Tuonelan joutsen; Sota valosta; Johan Wilhelm, by Eino Leino 18744 [Language: Finnish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/4/18744 ] [Files: 18744-8.txt] Krindlesyke, by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 18743 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/4/18743 ] [Files: 18743.txt; 18743-8.txt; 18743-0.txt; 18743-h.htm] Willie Mouse, by Alta Tabor 18742 [Illustrator: Florence White Williams] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/4/18742 ] [Files: 18742.txt; 18742-h.htm] Introduction to Infinitesimal Analysis, by Oswald Veblen & N. J. Lennes 18741 [Subtitle: Functions of one real variable ] ] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/4/18741 ] [Files: 18741-t.tex; 18741-pdf.pdf] Rouen, It's History and Monuments, by Theodore Licquet 18740 [Subtitle: A Guide to Strangers] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/4/18740 ] [Files: 18740.txt; 18740-8.txt; 18740-0.txt; 18740-h.htm] Zophiel, by Maria Gowen Brooks 18739 [Subtitle: A Poem] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/3/18739 ] [Files: 18739.txt] Les Femmes de la Revolution, by Jules Michelet 18738 [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/3/18738 ] [Files: 18738-8.txt; 18738-h.htm] Argelaga florida, by Josep Roig i Raventos 18737 [Language: Catalan] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/3/18737 ] [Files: 18737-8.txt] The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879, by James Stevenson 18736 [Title: Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879] [Subtitle: Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/3/18736 ] [Files: 18736.txt; 18736-8.txt; 18736-0.txt; 18736-h.htm] The Little Red Hen, by Florence White Williams 18735 [Subtitle: An Old English Folk Tale] [Illustrator: Florence White Williams] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/3/18735 ] [Files: 18735.txt; 18735-h.htm] The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.), by Various 18734 [Editor: Marshall P. Wilder] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/3/18734 ] [Files: 18734.txt; 18734-8.txt; 18734-h.htm] Die Italienische Plastik, by Wilhelm Bode 18733 [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/3/18733 ] [Files: 18733-8.txt; 18733-0.txt; 18733-h.htm] Aesop's Fables, by Aesop 18732 [Subtitle: A New Revised Version From Original Sources] [Illustrator: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel and Ernest Griest] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/3/18732 ] [Files: 18732.txt; 18732-8.txt; 18732-0.txt; 18732-h.htm] Geschichte der Englischen Sprache und Literatur, by Ottomar Behnsch 18731 [Subtitle: von den altesten Zeiten bis zur Einfuhrung der Buchdruckerkunst] [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/3/18731 ] [Files: 18731-8.txt; 18731-0.txt; 18731-h.htm] Lore of Proserpine, by Maurice Hewlett 18730 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/3/18730 ] [Files: 18730.txt; 18730-8.txt; 18730-0.txt; 18730-h.htm] Lourdes, by Robert Hugh Benson 18729 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/2/18729 ] [Files: 18729.txt; 18729-8.txt; 18729-0.txt; 18729-h.htm] The Well of Saint Clare, by Anatole France 18728 [Translator: Alfred Allinson] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/2/18728 ] [Files: 18728.txt; 18728-8.txt; 18728-0.txt; 18728-h.htm] Histoire de Paris II, by Theophile Lavallee 18727 [Title: Histoire de Paris depuis le temps des Gaulois jusqu'a nos jours - II] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/2/18727 ] [Files: 18727-8.txt; 18727-h.htm] Poems and Ballads (Third Series), by Algernon Charles Swinburne 18726 [Subtitle: Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne--Vol. III] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/2/18726 ] [Files: 18726.txt; 18726-h.htm] A Napa Christchild; and Benicia's Letters, by Charles A. Gunnison 18725 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/2/18725 ] [Files: 18725.txt; 18725-8.txt; 18725-h.htm] Hokousai, by Edmond de Goncourt 18724 [Subtitle: L'art japonais au XVII Sicle] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/2/18724 ] [Files: 18724-8.txt] Proyecto de traslacion, by Sebastian Undiano y Gastelu 18723 [Full title: Proyecto de traslacion de las fronteras de Buenos Aires] [al Rio Negro y Colorado] [Language: Spanish] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/2/18723 ] [Files: 18723-8.txt; 18723-h.htm] Transactions of the A.S.C.E., Paper No. 1159, by Brace, Mason, Woodard 18722 [Title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910] [Subtitle: The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159] [Author: James H. Brace, Francis Mason and S. H. Woodard] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/2/18722 ] [Files: 18722.txt; 18722-8.txt; 18722-h.htm] The Victim, by Thomas Dixon 18721 [Subtitle: A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis] [Ill.: J. N. Marchand] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/2/18721 ] [Files: 18721.txt; 18721-8.txt; 18721-h.htm; ] In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I, by Various 18720 [Subtitle: Christmas Tales from 'Round the World] [Editor: Harrison S. Morris] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/2/18720 ] [Files: 18720.txt; 18720-8.txt; 18720-h.htm] Space Tug, by Murray Leinster 18719 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/1/18719 ] [Files: 18719.txt; 18719-h.htm] Micah Clarke - Tome III, by Arthur Conan Doyle 18718 [Subtitle: La Bataille de Sedgemoor] [Translator: Albert Savine] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/1/18718 ] [Files: 18718-8.txt; 18718-h.htm] Micah Clarke - Tome II, by Arthur Conan Doyle 18717 [Subtitle: Le Capitaine Micah Clarke] [Translator: Albert Savine] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/1/18717 ] [Files: 18717-8.txt; 18717-h.htm] Micah Clarke - Tome I, by Arthur Conan Doyle 18716 [Subtitle: Les recrues de Monmouth] [Translator: Albert Savine] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/1/18716 ] [Files: 18716-8.txt; 18716-h.htm] La petite Jeanne, by Zulma Carraud 18715 [Subtitle: ou Le devoir] [Language: French] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/1/18715 ] [Files: 18715-8.txt; 18715-h.htm] Abe and Mawruss, by Montague Glass 18714 [Subtitle: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/1/18714 ] [Files: 18714.txt; 18714-8.txt; 18714-h.htm] Violets and Other Tales, by Alice Ruth Moore 18713 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/1/18713 ] [Files: 18713.txt; 18713-8.txt; 18713-h.htm; ] Levels of Living, by Henry Frederick Cope 18712 [Subtitle: Essays on Everyday Ideals] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/1/18712 ] [Files: 18712.txt; 18712-8.txt; ] Kreikkalaisia satuja, by J. 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