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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
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The Yellow God, by H. Rider Haggard 2857
[Subtitle: An Idol of Africa]
Moon of Israel, by H. Rider Haggard 2856
Elissa, by H. Rider Haggard 2855
Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols 2854
Oct 2001 Quo Vadis, The Time of Nero, by Henryk Sienkiewicz[quvdsxxx.xxx] 2853
[Title: Quo Vadis, A Narrative of the Time of Nero]
[Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin]
Oct 2001 The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle 25[bskrvxxx.xxx] 2852
Sixes and Sevens, by O. Henry 2851
Oct 2001 The Wars of The Jews, by Flavius Josephus [warjexxx.xxx] 2850
[Title: The Wars of The Jews or the History of the Destruction of
Jerusalem]
Oct 2001 Against Apion, by Flavius Josephus[Tr. Wm. Whiston[agaapxxx.xxx] 2849
Oct 2001 The Antiquities of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus [taofjxxx.xxx] 2848
Oct 2001 Josephus' Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades[hadesxxx.xxx] 2847
[Title: An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning
Hades]
Oct 2001 The Life of Flavius Josephus, Tr. by Wm. Whiston [lfjosxxx.xxx] 2846
Oct 2001 Sir Nigel, by Arthur Conan Doyle [A. C. Doyle #24][nigelxxx.xxx] 2845
The Fatal Boots, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2844
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2843
Black Heart and White Heart, by H. Rider Haggard 2842
The Ivory Child, by H. Rider Haggard 2841
(Note: These three are our first eBooks in Flemish/Dutch:)
Sep 2001 De Franse Pers, Heinrich Heine [#3/Flemish/Dutch][fpersxxx.xxx] 2840
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Sep 2001 Franse Toestanden, Heinrich Heine[2/Flemish/Dutch][ftoesxxx.xxx] 2839
[Language: Dutch]
Sep 2001 De Beurs lacht, Heinrich Heine [#1/Flemish/Dutch][fbeurxxx.xxx] 2838
[Language: Dutch]
Sep 2001 Lendas do Sul, by J. Somoes Lopes Netto [lendaxxx.xxx] 2837
[Language: Portuguese] (Note: Our First eBook in Portuguese!)
Sep 2001 Abraham Lincoln and the Union, Nath'l W Stephenson[alatuxxx.xxx] 2836
[Author: Nathaniel W. Stephenson]
Sep 2001 The Canadian Dominion, by Oscar D. Skelton [cndndxxx.xxx] 2835
Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 2, by Henry James[#37][2pldyxxx.xxx] 2834
Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 1, by Henry James[#36][1pldyxxx.xxx] 2833
Sep 2001 Myth, Ritual, and Religion, V1, by Andrew Lang #28[1mrarxxx.xxx] 2832
Sep 2001 A Bundle of Ballads, by Henry Morley [bndbaxxx.xxx] 2831
Sep 2001 Reginald, by Saki (H. H. Munro) [Saki HH Munro #5][rgnldxxx.xxx] 2830
Sep 2001 Fanny and the Servant Problem, by Jerome K. Jerome[fnyspxxx.xxx] 2829
Sep 2001 Under the Deodars, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling #19][undeoxxx.xxx] 2828
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[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,408,790 x 21,002 x $.73 = ~$1 Trillion
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A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.48 Value Per Book To 100 Million
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This "cost" is down from about $.59 when we had 17,063 eBooks a year ago.
Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.
Next Decade's Target: 15% Of The world Population = 1,000,000,000 people.
At 21,002 eBooks in 35 Years and 01.80 Months We Averaged
597 Per Year
50 Per Month
1.64 Per Day
At 2857 eBooks Done In The 238 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
12.0 Per Day
84 per Week
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IZON MISTAKENLY E-MAILS CUSTOMER DATA
Verizon Wireless mistakenly e-mailed an Excel spreadsheet containing
information on more than 5,200 subscribers to about 1,800 customers of
the company. The e-mail was supposed to include an electronic order
form for a Bluetooth wireless headset as part of a promotional offer.
The Excel file did not contain highly sensitive information such as
credit card or Social Security numbers, but it did include names,
e-mail addresses, and cell phone models and numbers. Even with such
relatively benign information, identity thieves have a head start on
committing fraud, according to security experts. James Van Dyke, the
principal analyst at Javelin Strategy and Research, noted that a
skilled con artist could use the information in the spreadsheet to
contact someone on the list, posing as a representative of Verizon, and
possibly obtain more sensitive information. A spokesperson from Verizon
said the company takes seriously its obligation to protect consumer
data and has implemented new measures to prevent a recurrence of this
kind of incident. The company also encouraged customers to add
passwords to their accounts.
CNET, 25 August 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6109883.html
DETAILS SURFACE ABOUT UC DEAL WITH GOOGLE
[This reports seems to have been "sanitized" compared to earlier
such reports that made it sound as if the entire contract between
Google and whole University of California system had been leaked.
In addition, it seems to not quite state flatly that if the deal
requires UC to ONLY provide EXCLUSIVE copies to Google, then the
deal they made with Yahoo's Brewster Kahle would be void. . .and
what would the legal implicaions be?]
Details of the recent deal in which the University of California will
join Google's book-scanning project have been released through an
open-records request. Under the deal, the university will provide as
many as 3,000 books per day to the search engine for digitization,
eventually totaling at least 2.5 million books. The university and
Google will keep copies of the digitized works, but the university is
bound by a number of restrictions on how it can use its copies. For
example, the university must prevent other search engines from scanning
the books. Critics of the project, including Brewster Kahle, cofounder
of the Internet Archive, said Google is getting more than it should
from the arrangement. He faulted the university for "spend[ing]
millions of taxpayers' dollars to benefit a single corporation's
interest in building a private library." Daniel Greenstein, director of
the California Digital Library and one of the brokers of the deal, said
that Google's business model and its interests align well with the
university's goal of providing free "public access for the public domain."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 August 2006
http://chronicle.com/free/2006/08/2006082501t.htm
DELL PRIORITIZES BATTERY REPLACEMENTS
[This on top of several other reports of poor quality control
and other woes for Dell after Michael Dell took a more "hands
off" approach to running his company.]
Dell has announced certain prioritizations for its recall of 4.1
million laptop batteries. After reports of some batteries overheating
and possibly catching fire, Dell reached a voluntary agreement with the
Consumer Product Safety Commission to replace the batteries. Troy West,
vice president and general manager of Dell's federal segment, said
that priority will be given to customers in national security, health
care, public safety, and emergency management services for replacement
batteries, though he refused to say when the recall would be complete.
Early bulk shipments of replacement batteries were sent to the
Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Military Academy at West
Point, and Fort Hood, Texas. West also said that several thousand
replacements have been sent to a parts hub in Kuwait that is
distributing them to defense contractors.
Federal Computer Week, 25 August 2006
http://www.fcw.com/article95806-08-25-06-Web
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION EXPOSES LOAN DATA
The U.S. Department of Education said it is working to fix a computer
problem that allowed student borrowers to see loan information for
other students. According to the agency, the problem resulted from a
routine software upgrade by Affiliated Computers Services Inc., a
contractor to the agency. Evidently, that upgrade caused student loan
data for borrowers to be accessed by others when using the Education
Department's Web site. A spokesperson from the Education Department
said that four users of the Web system had notified the agency since
last Sunday of the problem. The breach was said to have affected only a
"limited number" of the 6.4 million students who borrowed money under
the Federal Direct Student Loan program. Those with loans through other
lenders are not affected. The agency said it has temporarily turned off
the features of the student loan Web site that were leading to the
problems and would keep those features off until the problem is resolved.
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*QUOTATION OF THE WEEK
"When nations create secure, secret, or classified documents,
the object is more to preserve their secrecy from their own
population than from their stated enemies. To them, the real
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them out of office."
Noam Chomsky
Paraphrase of statement on Alternative Radio as on WILL-AM
~6:30PM, 08/26/06
/
"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of
'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini.
In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe,
and 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps.
This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement
that demagoguery attains." ---Herbert Hoover
*STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
1/8 of the official population of the United States
is composed of immigrants.
/
85% of Americans Graduate from High School
28% of Americans Graduate from College
That means about 1/3 of the high school grads finish college.
However, equally true is that about 1/3 of the high school grads
have never attained the reading skills required to read a dozen,
or so, books required of them every single year.
President White of the University of Illinois says that colleges
are dropping the ball by graduating only 28% of of Americans for
whom 85% have already managed a high school diploma. He said at
the opening of the Fall semester than government should spend an
increasing amount on education to fill this gap.
Let's look into these statistics a little more:
28% / 85% = ~1/3 of all high school students graduate college.
When I was a kid the percentage of college degress was only some
half as much of the total population. . .~14%, so I would say it
is obvious that college plays an ever incrasing role in lives of
Americans. . .twice as much as it used to, in fact.
However, official US Adult Literacy statistics show that about a
half of all adult Americans would be challenged in reading this,
much less by reading all the materials for a college degree.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) released by the
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), found little
change between 1992 and 2003 in adults' ability to read and
understand sentences and paragraphs or to understand documents
such as job applications.
December 15, 2005 Contacts: Mike Bowler, (202) 219-1662
or David Thomas, (202)401-1576
If you read far enough in their documents, and add up the totals
they refuse to give you outright, you will see that just about a
half of US Adults could be expected to read such materials while
the other half would be challenged to do so.
As with so many other negative government statistics, these were
presented in a manner that diguised their actual meaning.
However, even more negative is the fact that 85% get high school
diplomas, while only about half of them can read at satisfactory
high school graduation levels.
[I suppose this could also qualify for the doublespeak section.]
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
"Hezbollah suffered defeat."
Multiple sources
MORE DOUBLESPEAK
If Congress were honest about estimating the National Debt,
they would give you figures 2 to 10 times as high.
McLaughlin Group, Sunday, August 27
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
There will be another war between Israel and Lebanon,
simply because no one will stop them.
The Iraq War will continue until officials finally
manage to admit it is another viet Nam.
Or, even more unlikely, until there is a real plan.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
[I think the inflation/growth statistics in the news
were plenty odd enough. However, I should add that
manufacturing costs rose sharply around the world,
up 1.1% in the UK in July alone, though those have
not yet reached the consumer markets.]
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
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Tony Kline Collection, 223 HTML eBook Files
Widger Library, 2,600 HTML eBook Files
CIA's Electronic Reading Room, 2,019 Reference Files
=======Grand Total Files=========~137,142 Total Files=====
Average Size of the Collections 8,067.18 Total Files
These eBooks are catalogued as per the instructions of
their donors: some are one file per book; some have a
file for each chapter; and some even have a file for a
single page or poem. . .or are overcounted for reasons
I have not mentioned. . .each of which could cause the
overcounting or duplication of numbers.
If we presume 2 out of 3 of these files are overcounts,
that leaves a unique book total of
~45,714 Unique eBooks
If we presume 3 out of 4 of these files are overcounts,
that leaves a unique book total of
~34,286 Unique eBooks
*
The new overall collection size, which has reduced the
need to account for duplications and eBooks with files
for each chapter, etc.
75,000+ Unique eBooks
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Please also note that over 25,000 eBooks are listed via
The Online Books Page, of which over 6,300 are from PG.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
In addition: The Internet Public Library had a similar
listing which is now in limbo. If anyone knows what is
happening with the IPL, please let us know. Inquiries,
made months ago, and again recently, have not turned up
any current information.
You can try a new IPL service at:
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/
It would appear that The Internet Public Library ended
its first incarnation with about 22,284 entries, which
has now been surpassed by the Online Books Page.
Still looking for more Internet Public Library info.
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Today Is Day #231 of 2006
This Completes Week #33 and Month #07.50 [364 days this year]
133 Days/21 Weeks To Go [We get 52 Wednesdays this year]
9,110 Books To Go To #30,000
[Our production year begins/ends
1st Wednesday of the month/year]
83 Weekly Average in 2006
61 Weekly Average in 2005 [Counting 216 PGEu]
57 Weekly Average in 2005 [Not Counting PGEu]
78 Weekly Average in 2004
79 Weekly Average in 2003
47 Weekly Average in 2002
24 Weekly Average in 2001
42 Only ~45 Numbers Left On Our Reserved Numbers List
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In the 33 weeks of this year, we have produced 2742 new eBooks.
It took us from 07/71 to 07/01 to produce our FIRST 2742 eBooks!!!
That's 33 WEEKS as Compared to ~30 YEARS!!!
FLASHBACK!
Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2742
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
[Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format]
The Cenci, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere 2742
The Borgias, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere 2741
(**The 18 volumes listed above comprise "Celebrated Crimes" by Dumas, Pere**)
Jul 2001 More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II[Darwin13][2mlcdxxx.xxx] 2740
Jul 2001 More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I[Darwin#12][1mlcdxxx.xxx] 2739
[Pending / Unfilled / Unknown] 2738*
Jul 2001 A Grandpa's Notebook. by Meyer Moldeven (C)2000 [grnpaxxx.xxx] 2737C
The Champdoce Mystery, by Emile Gaboriau 2736
(Note: Sequel to #2451)
Jul 2001 The Golden Dog, by William Kirby [?ggldxxx.xxx] 2735
[Alternate Title: Le Chien d'Or]
Jul 2001 Gwaith Twm o'r Nant (Cyfrol II.) [In Welsh] [twmntxxx.xxx] 2734
[Title AKA: The Works of Twm o'r Nant (Volume II)] [Language: Welsh]
Jul 2001 Romano Lavo-Lil, by George Borrow [Geo. Borrow #8][rmlavxxx.xxx] 2733
[Alternate Titles: Romany Dictionary; Gypsy Dictionary]
Jul 2001 Ballads, by William Makepeace Thackeray [WMT #20][?bwmtxxx.xxx] 2732
The Christmas Books, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2731
[Author Note: written under the pseudonym M. A. Titmarsh]
Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard 2730
(See also #1918)
Jul 2001 A Tale of Three Lions, by H. Rider[HR Haggard #16][3lionxxx.xxx] 2729
Hunter Quatermain's Story, by H. Rider Haggard 2728
Allan's Wife, by H. Rider Haggard 2727
Jul 2001 Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott [LM Alcott #3][8csnsxxx.xxx] 2726
Jul 2001 Red Pepper Burns, by Grace S. Richmond [rpbrnxxx.xxx] 2725
Jul 2001 Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland[trtmsxxx.xxx] 2724
[Title: Theodore Roosevelt and His Times, a Chronicle of the
Progressive Movement]
A First Family of Tasajara, by Bret Harte 2723
Morning Star, by H. Rider Haggard 2722
Eric Brighteyes, by H. Rider Haggard 2721
Jul 2001 The Pension Beaurepas, by Henry James [James #35][penbrxxx.xxx] 2720
Jul 2001 Greville Fane, by Henry James [Henry James #34][gfanexxx.xxx] 2719
Jul 2001 The Chaperon, by Henry James [Henry James #33][chprnxxx.xxx] 2718
Jul 2001 Nona Vincent, by Henry James [Henry James #32][nonavxxx.xxx] 2717
Jul 2001 Sir Dominick Ferrand, by Henry James [James #31][frrndxxx.xxx] 2716
Jul 2001 The Real Thing, by Henry James [Henry James #30][rlthgxxx.xxx] 2715
Jul 2001 Long Live the King, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [#15][llkngxxx.xxx] 2714
Maiwa's Revenge, by H. Rider Haggard 2713
[Subtitle: The War of the Little Hand]
A Drift from Redwood Camp, by Bret Harte 2712
A Phyllis of the Sierras, by Bret Harte 2711
Jul 2001 Louise de la Valliere, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere #9[luisexxx.xxx] 2710
(Note: We are releasing these as BOTH xxxxx10.txt AND xxxxx10h.htm and
in zip files. Please see the introduction which describes the various
books of this title, and how the various editions were published, and
how they have been named, and in what order to read them.)
Jul 2001 The Man Who Was Afraid, by Maxim Gorky [Gorky #3][fomagxxx.xxx] 2709
[AKA: Foma Gordeev/Gordyeeff]
Columba, by Prosper Merimee 2708
[Trans.: Mary Loyd]
Jul 2001 The History of Herodotus V1 by Herodotus/ Macaulay[1hofhxxx.xxx] 2707
[Tr.: G. C. Macaulay] (See also: see #2456 for Vol. 2)
/
Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet?
If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of
6,536,460,759 that would be 20,890 x 65,364,608 = ~1.37 Trillion !!!
With 20,890 eBooks online as of August 23, 2006 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.73 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,364,608 x 20,890 x $.73 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
[By the way, the US "popclock" is about to turn to 300 million people.]
[Just turned 299.5 million this week!]
A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.48 Value Per Book To 100 Million
With 20,8790 eBooks online as of August 23, 2006 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.48 from each book.
This "cost" is down from about $.59 when we had 17,020 eBooks a year ago.
Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.
Next Decade's Target: 15% Of The world Population = 1,000,000,000 people.
At 20,890 eBooks in 35 Years and 01.50 Months We Averaged
595 Per Year
50 Per Month
1.63 Per Day
At 2742 eBooks Done In The 231 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
11.9 Per Day
83 per Week
366 Per Month
If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S.
you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear,
are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope.
However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a
300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M,
just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so
it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M.
Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the
districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
*
The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks'
production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon,
starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 4th was
the first Wednesday of 2006, and thus ended PG's production
year of 2005 and began the production year of 2006 at noon.
This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week.
***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B***
*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
SANDISK MP3 PLAYER DOUBLES STORAGE OF IPOD NANO
SanDisk has introduced the Sansa e280, a flash-based MP3 player with
twice the storage capability of Apple's iPod nano, in an attempt to
gain market share against Apple Computer. The new player includes 8
gigabytes of flash memory and an optional 2 GB microSD card. The price
of the 4 GB iPod nano is $249, almost the same as the 10 GB Sansa e280
at $249.99. The new device also comes with a digital FM tuner to record
and store songs, photo display, video playback, a voice recorder, and a
user-replaceable lithium battery.
Red Herring, 21 August 2006
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18057&hed=SanDisk+Takes+on+iPod
PENN STATE ADOPTS TEXT MESSAGES TO STUDENTS
Pennsylvania State university will launch a text-messaging wireless
service called PSUTXT today as an expansion of Penn State Live, a news
service with 360,000 subscribers. The university plans to use the
service to send text messages of news alerts to mobile devices.
Registered users can sign up for short message service (SMS) text
messages on campus emergencies, sports, and concert information. Topics
will expand as users indicate an interest in other types of
information. PSUTXT targets Penn State students, faculty, and staff,
although anyone may subscribe.
CNET, 16 August 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6106302.html
EU ORDERS DEUTSCHE TELEKOM TO SHARE NETWORK
The European Commission (EC) supported German regulators who ordered
Deutsche Telekom AG to open its high-speed Internet networks to
competitors. As a result of the order, the company must permit
competitors to buy access on its broadband network to offer their own
services to end users. German regulators will have advance approval of
the price charged. Past refusals to grant access forced the company's
business rivals to build their own networks, effectively preventing
them from operating outside cities and causing higher Internet prices
in rural areas, according to the EC.
Wall Street Journal, 21 August 2006
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115616823663141011.html
while in the US. . . .
APPEALS COURT SUPPORTS FCC RULE ON HIGH-SPEED LINES
A federal appeals court has turned down an appeal of a decision by the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that exempted certain kinds of
telecom lines from regulations that require companies to lease access
to rivals. A law passed in 1996 forces telecom companies to unbundle
local phone networks and allow competitors to buy access to them. The
FCC ruled that this requirement should not apply to certain lines,
including new fiber-optic lines to residential customers, because
requiring such sharing would discourage companies from making
investments in this kind of infrastructure. EarthLink challenged the
ruling, but the appeals court sided with the FCC, giving a boost to
companies including AT&T and Verizon.
Wall Street Journal, 16 August 2006
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115569776929237003.html
MICROSOFT REPAIRS SECURITY PATCH
Microsoft announced that it has fixed a bug in the MS06-040 Windows
Server services update, a critical security patch. The bug affected
programs that use large amounts of memory on some versions of Windows.
Although the bug did not affect most Windows systems, it did cause
problems in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and the 64-bit version of
Windows XP Professional Edition. The company's fix for the problem is
available online.
PCWorld, 21 August 2006
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126839-c,windowsbugs/article.html
and. . . .
MS WINDOWS FLAWS AGAIN TARGETED BY HACKERS
Security companies have identified a new worm circulating that seeks to
take advantage of a flaw in the Windows operating system and allows
hackers to use infected computers to send spam. Earlier this month,
Microsoft issued a patch for 23 vulnerabilities, including the one that
the new worm uses. Because the patch has only been available for a
week, however, experts said many computers are likely still at risk for
the malicious code. Infected computers can be used as spam
proxies--computers that send millions of junk e-mails on behalf of
spammers. Many spammers are resorting to this sort of approach because
ISPs are increasingly unwilling to host such e-mail campaigns.
BBC, 16 August 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4797949.stm
and. . . .
MS SECURITY UPDATE NEEDS AN UPDATE
Microsoft acknowledged that a patch issued earlier this month for
significant flaws in its operating system has led to new problems for
some users. Computers that installed the August patch on Windows 2000
or Windows XP machines with Service Pack 1 and Internet Explorer 6 are
experiencing browser crashes when they visit Web sites that use HTTP
1.1 and compression. Fred Dunn, a systems administrator at the
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, said that at
his institution, computers with the patch are crashing when users
access pages in PeopleSoft applications. The workaround, he said, is to
disable the compression in the PeopleSoft applications, which slows
performance considerably. Microsoft said that on August 22 it would
issue a new patch to replace the patch that is causing these problems.
ZDNet, 16 August 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6106039.html
ENCRYPTION FOR MOBILE PHONES
A British company said it has developed technology that encrypts
transmissions on cell phones, allowing users to make calls with
confidence that their conversations cannot be intercepted. One Day
Mobile reportedly developed the technology with German company Safe.com
and with the military. With the software, which must be installed on
cell phones, users can decide which of their calls will be encrypted.
Encrypted calls are sent over the data network, however, rather than
the voice network, which can result in decreased performance. Voice
networks are built to ensure smooth and fast transmission, but using
the data network to transfer voice traffic can be slower and bumpier
and can impose delays.
The Register, 16 August 2006
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/16/mobile_encryption/
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
*QUOTATION OF THE WEEK
"We have united our enemies,
and divided our friends."
Multiple sources
/
"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of
'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini.
In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe,
and 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps.
This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement
that demagoguery attains." ---Herbert Hoover
*STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
1/8 of the official population of the United States
is composed of immigrants.
/
President White of the University of Illinois says that colleges
are dropping the ball by graduating only 28% of of Americans for
whom 85% have already managed a high school diploma. He said at
the opening of the Fall semester than government should spend an
increasing amount on education to fill this gap.
Let's look into these statistics a little more:
28% / 85% = ~1/3 of all high school students graduate college.
When I was a kid the percentage of college degress was only some
half as much of the total population. . .~14%, so I would say it
is obvious that college plays an ever incrasing role in lives of
Americans. . .twice as much as it used to, in fact.
However, official US Adult Literacy statistics show that about a
half of all adult Americans would be challenged in reading this,
much less by reading all the materials for a college degree.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) released by the
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), found little
change between 1992 and 2003 in adults' ability to read and
understand sentences and paragraphs or to understand documents
such as job applications.
December 15, 2005 Contacts: Mike Bowler, (202) 219-1662
or David Thomas, (202)401-1576
If you read far enough in their documents, and add up the totals
they refuse to give you outright, you will see that just about a
half of US Adults could be expected to read such materials while
the other half would be challenged to do so.
As with so many other negative government statistics, these were
presented in a manner that diguised their actual meaning.
However, even more negative is the fact that 85% get high school
diplomas, while only about half of them can read at satisfactory
high school graduation levels.
[I suppose this could also qualify for the doublespeak section.]
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
"Hezbollah suffered defeat."
Multiple sources
MORE DOUBLESPEAK
Multiple sources
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
There will be another war between Israel and Lebanon,
simply because no one will stop them.
The Iraq War will continue until officials finally
manage to admit it is another viet Nam.
Or, even more unlikely, until there is a real plan.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
[I think the inflation/growth statistics in the news
were plenty odd enough. However, I should add that
manufacturing costs rose sharply around the world,
up 1.1% in the UK in July alone, though those have
not yet reached the consumer markets.]
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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[ Here Are The Updated Listings For This Past Week ]
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TOTAL COUNT as of today, Wed, 23 Aug 2006:
19,065 PG U.S.A.
1,125 PG of Australia
RESERVED/PENDING count: 42
=-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
:: During the past week the following ebooks were manually updated and
reposted with the indicated filenames and transferred into the corresponding
new directories:
:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements:
Correct author's name (Robert W., not Rob):
Ducks at a Distance, by Robert W. Hines 18884
[Subtitle: A Waterfowl Identification Guide]
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An Arkansas Planter, by Opie Percival Read 19107
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19107 ]
[Files: 19107.txt; 19107-h.htm]
Reconocimiento del fuerte del Carmen del Rio Negro, by Ambrosio Cramer 19106
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19106 ]
[Files: 19106-8.txt; 19106-h.htm]
Punch, Vol. 159, December 1, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 19105
[Editor: Owen Seaman]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19105 ]
[Files: 19105.txt; 19105-8.txt; 19105-h.htm]
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements, by Nesta H. Webster 19104
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19104 ]
[Files: 19104.txt; 19104-8.txt; 19104-0.txt; 19104-h.htm]
The Discovery of a World in the Moone, by John Wilkins 19103
[Subtitle: Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There
May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet (1638)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19103 ]
[Files: 19103.txt; 19103-8.txt; 19103-0.txt; 19103-h.htm]
Dearest, by Henry Beam Piper 19102
[Illustrator: Vincent Napoli]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19102 ]
[Files: 19102.txt; 19102-h.htm]
The Girl with the Green Eyes, by Clyde Fitch 19101
[Subtitle: A Play in Four Acts]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19101 ]
[Files: 19101.txt; 19101-8.txt; 19101-h.htm]
The Covenants And The Covenanters, by Various 19100
[Subtitle: Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation]
[Editor: James Kerr]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19100 ]
[Files: 19100.txt; 19100-8.txt; 19100-h.htm]
The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863, by Various 19099
[Subtitle: Devoted to Literature and National Policy]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19099 ]
[Files: 19099.txt; 19099-8.txt; 19099-h.htm]
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan,Clement A. Miles 19098
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19098 ]
[Files: 19098.txt; 19098-8.txt; 19098-h.htm]
The Young Carpenters of Freiberg, by Anonymous 19097
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Thirty Years' War]
[Tr.: J. Latchmore]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19097 ]
[Files: 19097.txt; 19097-8.txt; 19097-h.htm; ]
Indian Legends and Other Poems, by Mary Gardiner Horsford 19096
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19096 ]
[Files: 19096.txt; 19096-8.txt; 19096-h.htm]
Kihlajaiskemut, by Robert Kiljander 19095
[Subtitle: Naytelma 4:ssa naytoksessa]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19095 ]
[Files: 19095-8.txt]
Magic, by G.K. Chesterton 19094
[Subtitle: A Fantastic Comedy]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19094 ]
[Files: 19094.txt; 19094-8.txt; 19094-h.htm]
Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 22. October, 1878, by Various 19093
[Title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19093 ]
[Files: 19093.txt; 19093-8.txt; 19093-h.htm]
The Adventures of Paddy Beaver, by Thornton W. Burgess 19092
[Illustrator: Harrison Cody]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19092 ]
[Files: 19092.txt; 19092-h.htm]
Robur de Veroveraar, by Jules Verne 19091
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19091 ]
[Files: 19091-8.txt; 19091-h.htm]
Star Hunter, by Andre Alice Norton 19090
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19090 ]
[Files: 19090.txt; 19090-8.txt; 19090-h.htm]
A Pagan of the Hills, by Charles Neville Buck 19089
[Illus.: George W. Gage]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19089 ]
[Files: 19089.txt; 19089-h.htm; ]
Maksimilian Aukusti Myhrberg, by Julius Krohn 19088
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19088 ]
[Files: 19088-8.txt]
The King Nobody Wanted, by Norman F. Langford 19087
[Illustrator: John Lear]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19087 ]
[Files: 19087.txt; 19087-h.htm]
Vijf weken in een luchtballon, by Jules Verne 19086
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19086 ]
[Files: 19086-8.txt; 19086-h.htm]
The Prelude to Adventure, by Hugh Walpole 19085
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19085 ]
[Files: 19085.txt; 19085-8.txt]
In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II, by Various 19084
[Subtitle: Christmas Tales from 'Round the World]
[Editor: Harrison S. Morris]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19084 ]
[Files: 19084.txt; 19084-8.txt; 19084-h.htm]
The Border Boys Across the Frontier, by Fremont B. Deering 19083
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19083 ]
[Files: 19083.txt; 19083-8.txt; 19083-h.htm; ]
The Destiny of the Soul, by William Rounseville Alger 19082
[Subtitle: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19082 ]
[Files: 19082.txt]
The Great Round World, Vol. 2, No. 11, March 17, 1898, by Various 19081
[Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19081 ]
[Files: 19081.txt; 19081-8.txt; 19081-h.htm]
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists. by Elbert Hubbard 19080
[From: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 12]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19080 ]
[Files: 19080.txt; 19080-8.txt; 19080-h.htm]
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer, by Thornton W. Burgess 19079
[Illustrator: Harrison Cady]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19079 ]
[Files: 19079.txt; 19079-h.htm]
The Red Book of Heroes, by Leonora Blanche Lang 19078
[Editor: Andrew Lang]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19078 ]
[Files: 19078.txt; 19078-8.txt; 19078-h.htm]
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties, by Janet McKenzie Hill 19077
[Subtitle: With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19077 ]
[Files: 19077.txt; 19077-8.txt; 19077-h.htm]
Naudsonce, by H. Beam Piper 19076
[Illustrator: Morey]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19076 ]
[Files: 19076.txt; 19076-h.htm]
Traduction nouvelle, Tome I, by Aristophane 19075
[Subtitle: Les Akharniens; Les chevaliers; Les nuees; Les guepes; La paix]
[Commentator: Sully Prudhomme]
[Translator: Eugene Talbot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19075 ]
[Files: 19075-8.txt; 19075-h.htm]
Italy at War and the Allies in the West, by E. Alexander Powell 19074
[Note: Volume IV of "The War on All Fronts"]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19074 ]
[Files: 19074.txt; 19074-8.txt; 19074-h.htm; ]
Cocoa and Chocolate, by Arthur W. Knapp 19073
[Subtitle: Their History from Plantation to Consumer]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19073 ]
[Files: 19073.txt; 19073-8.txt; 19073-h.htm]
Opuscula Selecta Neerlandicorum, by Erasmus et al. 19072
[Author: Desiderius Erasmus, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Jan Swammerdam,
Herman Boerhaave, Hieronymus David Gaubius and
Franciscus Cornelis Donders]
[Subtitle: Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde]
[Editor: Hector Treub]
[Translator: L. Hillesum, W. Julius, L. Hillesum and A. H. Kan]
[Contents:
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, Encomium artis medic.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, De lof der geneeskunde
ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK, Den waaragtigen omloop des
Bloeds, als mede dat de Arterien en Ven. gecontinueerde
Bloedvaten zijn, klaar voor de oogen gestelt
JAN SWAMMERDAM, Proefnemingen van de particuliere
bewegingen der spieren van den Kikvorsch, die in het
gemeen op alle de bewegingen der spieren in de
menschen en beesten toegepast worden
HERMAN BOERHAAVE, De usu ratiocinii mechanici in
medicina
HERMAN BOERHAAVE, Het nut der mechanistische methode in
de geneeskunde
HIERONYMUS DAVID GAUBIUS, Oratio inauguralis qua
ostenditur chemiam artibus academicis jure esse
inserendam
HIERONYMUS DAVID GAUBIUS, Inaugureele rede, waarin wordt
aangetoond, dat de scheikunde met recht een plaats
verdient onder de akademische wetenschappen
FRANCISCUS CORNELIS DONDERS, De harmonie van het dierlijke
leven de openbaring van wetten]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19072 ]
[Files: 19072-8.txt; 19072-0.txt; 19072-h.htm]
The Way of the Wind, by Zoe Anderson Norris 19071
[Illus.: Oberhardt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19071 ]
[Files: 19071.txt; 19071-h.htm; ]
Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower, by G. A. Henty 19070
[Illus.: Ralph Peacock]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19070 ]
[Files: 19070.txt; 19070-h.htm; ]
The Silent House, by Fergus Hume 19069
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19069 ]
[Files: 19069.txt; 19069-8.txt; 19069-h.htm]
Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm 19068
[Illustrator: Walter Crane]
[Translator: Lucy Crane]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19068 ]
[Files: 19068.txt; 19068-h.htm]
Police Operation, by H. Beam Piper 19067
[Illustrator: Cartier]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19067 ]
[Files: 19067.txt; 19067-8.txt; 19067-h.htm]
Brigands of the Moon, by Ray Cummings 19066
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19066 ]
[Files: 19066.txt; 19066-8.txt; 19066-h.htm]
Swimming Scientifically Taught, Frank Eugen Dalton and Louis C. Dalton 19065
[Subtitle: A Practical Manual for Young and Old]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19065 ]
[Files: 19065.txt; 19065-8.txt; 19065-h.htm]
The Triumph of John Kars, by Ridgwell Cullum 19064
[Subtitle: A Story of the Yukon]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19064 ]
[Files: 19064.txt; 19064-8.txt; 19064-h.htm; ]
Little Alice's Palace, by Anonymous 19063
[Subtitle: or, The Sunny Heart]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19063 ]
[Files: 19063.txt; 19063-h.htm]
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Aug 2006 The Wood Devil Thing, by Gordon MacCreagh [0606071.xxx] 1125A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606071.txt or zip ]
and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606071h.html ]
Aug 2006 The White Wolf and more, by Frederick Marryat [0606061.xxx] 1124A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606061.txt or zip]
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Aug 2006 The Water Spectre, by Francis Lathom [0606051.xxx] 1123A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606051.txt or zip]
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Aug 2006 The Separate Room, by Ethel Colburne Mayne [0606041.xxx] 1122A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606041.txt or zip]
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Aug 2006 The Phial of Dread and other stories, by F H Ludlow [0606031.xxx] 1121A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606031.txt or zip]
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[Author: Fitz Hugh Ludlow]
Aug 2006 The Ghosts at Grantley, by Leonard Kip [0606021.xxx] 1120A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606021.txt or zip]
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Aug 2006 The Ghost Whistle, by Eugene K Jones [0606011.xxx] 1119A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606011.txt or zip]
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Aug 2006 The Escape Agents, by Cutcliffe Hyne [0606001.xxx] 1118A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0606001.txt or zip]
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Aug 2006 The Conspirators, by J P Sousa [0605991.xxx] 1117A
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Aug 2006 The Anaconda, by M G Lewis [0605981.xxx] 1116A
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Aug 2006 Mistrust, or Blanche and Osbright, by M G Lewis [0605971.xxx] 1115A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605971.txt ]
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Aug 2006 Leixlip Castle, by Charles Maturin [0605961.xxx] 1114A
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Aug 2006 Collected stories, by Maurice Level [0605951.xxx] 1113A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605951.txt ]
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Aug 2006 Collected stories, by Henry James [0605941.xxx] 1112A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605941.txt ]
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Aug 2006 Adventures of Captain Kettle, by Cutcliffe Hyne [0605931.xxx] 1111A
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Aug 2006 A Warning to the Curious, by M R James [0605921.xxx] 1110A
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Aug 2006 A Night in Monk-Hall, by George Lippard [0605911.xxx] 1109A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605911.txt ]
Aug 2006 Though One Rose From the Dead, William Dean Howells [060590x.xxx] 1108A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605901.txt
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Aug 2006 The Spectre Bridegroom, by William Hunt [060589x.xxx] 1107A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605891.txt
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Aug 2006 The Shadow of a Shade, by Tom Hood [060588x.xxx] 1106A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605881.txt
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Aug 2006 The Prayer, by Violet Hunt [060587x.xxx] 1105A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605871.txt
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Aug 2006 The Flayed Hand, by Guy De Maupassant [060586x.xxx] 1104A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605861.txt
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Aug 2006 The Devil Stone, by Beatrice Heron-Maxwell [060585x.xxx] 1103A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605851.txt
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Aug 2006 Little Lisbeth, by Paul Heyse [060584x.xxx] 1102A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605841.txt
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Aug 2006 Collected Stories, by James Hogg [060583x.xxx] 1101A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605831.txt
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Aug 2006 Mlle de Scuderi, by E T A Hoffman [060582x.xxx] 1100A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605821.txt or zip
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Aug 2006 Flaxman Low, Occult Psychologist, Collected Stories [060581x.xxx] 1099A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605811.txt or zip
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[Author: E and H Heron]
Aug 2006 The Golden Flower Pot, by E T A Hoffman [060580x.xxx] 1098A
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Aug 2006 The Sand-Man and other stories, by E T A Hoffman [060579x.xxx] 1097A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605791.txt or zip
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Aug 2006 Carnacki Supernatural Detective and Others,Hodgson [060578x.xxx] 1096A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605781.txt or zip
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[Author: William Hope Hodgson]
Aug 2006 The Everlasting Club by William Arthur Gray [060577x.xxx] 1095A
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Aug 2006 Collected Stories, by William Fryer Harvey [060576x.xxx] 1094A
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Aug 2006 Authenticated Vampire Story, by Franz Hartman [060575x.xxx] 1093A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605751.txt
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Aug 2006 A Ghost Story and Others, by Lafcadio Hearn [060574x.xxx] 1092A
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Aug 2006 The Mummy's Foot and other stories, by T Gautier [060573x.xxx] 1091A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605731.txt or zip
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[Author: Theophile Gautier]
Aug 2006 Jettatura, by Theophile Gautier [060572x.xxx] 1090A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605721.txt or zip
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Aug 2006 St Leon, by William Godwin [060571x.xxx] 1089A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605711.txt or zip
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Aug 2006 The Castle Spectre, by M G Lewis [060570x.xxx] 1088A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605701.txt or zip
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Aug 2006 Witch In-Grain, by Robert Murray Gilchrist [060569x.xxx] 1087A
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Aug 2006 Uncle Christian's Inheritance, by Erckmann-Chatrian [060568x.xxx] 1086A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605681.txt
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Aug 2006 The Werewolf, by Eugene Field [060567x.xxx] 1085A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605671.txt
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Aug 2006 The Vampire of Croglin Grange, by Augustus Hare [060566x.xxx] 1084A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605661.txt
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Aug 2006 The Spider, by Hans Heinz Ewers [060565x.xxx] 1083A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605651.txt
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Aug 2006 Le Femme Noir, by Ann Maria Hall [060564x.xxx] 1082A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605641.txt
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Aug 2006 Collected Stories, by Thomas Hardy [060563x.xxx] 1081A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605631.txt
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Aug 2006 Collected Stories, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman [060562x.xxx] 1080A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605621.txt
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Aug 2006 My Crowded Solitude, by Jack McLaren [060561x.xxx] 1079A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605611.txt
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Aug 2006 Trilby, by George du Maurier [060560x.xxx] 1078A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605601.txt
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Aug 2006 The Phantom Coach and other stories,Amelia B Edwards[060559x.xxx] 1077A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605591.txt
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Aug 2006 The Old Nurse's Story and Other Tales, by E Gaskell [060558x.xxx] 1076A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605581.txt
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[Author: Elizabeth Gaskell]
Aug 2006 The Napoleon of Notting Hill, by G K Chesterton [060557x.xxx] 1075A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605571.txt
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Aug 2006 The Grey Woman, by Elizabeth Gaskell [060556x.xxx] 1074A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605561.txt
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Aug 2006 The Eye of Osiris, by R Austin Freeman [060555x.xxx] 1073A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605551.txt
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Aug 2006 Lois the Witch, by Elizabeth Gaskell [060554x.xxx] 1072A
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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
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*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.
*
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