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Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope 3409
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, by Maisie Ward 18707
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Runoja, by Valter Juva 18706
[Subtitle: Uusi sarja]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18706 ]
[Files: 18706-8.txt]
The Poor Plutocrats, by Maurus Jokai 18705
[Translator: R. Nisbet Bain]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18705 ]
[Files: 18705.txt; 18705-8.txt; 18705-h.htm]
Pikku ihmisia, by Teuvo Pakkala 18704
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18704 ]
[Files: 18704-8.txt]
Illustrated Catalogue ... Indians of New Mexico ..., by James Stevenson 18703
[Title: Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the
Indians of New Mexico in 1880]
[Subtitle: Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing
Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18703 ]
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book, by Various 18702
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18702 ]
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Choice Readings for the Home Circle, by Anonymous 18701
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18701 ]
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The Mayor of Warwick, by Herbert M. Hopkins 18700
[Author AKA: Herbert Miller Hopkins (1870-1910)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18700 ]
[Files: 18700.txt; 18700-8.txt; 18700-h.htm; ]
The Moving Picture Girls at Sea, by Laura Lee Hope 18699
[Subtitle: or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18699 ]
[Files: 18699.txt; 18699-8.txt; 18699-h.htm; ]
The Recitation, by George Herbert Betts 18698
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18698 ]
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Le capitaine Pamphile, by Alexandre Dumas 18697
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18697 ]
[Files: 18697-8.txt; 18697-h.htm]
The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities, by Henry M. Brooks 18696
[Subtitle: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem,
Massachusetts]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18696 ]
[Files: 18696.txt; 18696-8.txt; 18696-h.htm]
Memoires Tome 8, by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot 18695
[Full title: Memoires pour servir . l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 8)]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18695 ]
[Files: 18695-8.txt]
Avojalka, by Berthold Auerbach 18694
[Translator: Samuli Suomalainen]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18694 ]
[Files: 18694-8.txt]
Nounou, by Roger Dombre 18693
[Subtitle: Histoire de la Moucheronne]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18693 ]
[Files: 18693-8.txt; ]
Une Pupille Genante, by Roger Dombre 18692
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18692 ]
[Files: 18692-8.txt; ]
Queechy, Volume II, by Elizabeth Wetherell 18691
[Author AKA: Susan Bogert Warner]
[See also Project Gutenberg eBook #8874.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18691 ]
[Files: 18691-8.txt; ]
Queechy, Volume I, by Elizabeth Wetherell 18690
[Author AKA: Susan Bogert Warner]
(See also #8874, a later edition)
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/9/18690 ]
[Files: 18690-8.txt; ]
The Wide, Wide World, by Elizabeth Wetherell 18689
[Author AKA: Susan Bogert Warner]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18689 ]
[Files: 18689-8.txt; ]
Daisy in the Field, by Elizabeth Wetherell 18688
[Author AKA: Susan Bogert Warner]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18688 ]
[Files: 18688-8.txt; ]
Daisy, by Elizabeth Wetherell 18687
[Author AKA: Susan Bogert Warner]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18687 ]
[Files: 18687-8.txt; ]
Melbourne House, by Elizabeth Wetherell 18686
[Author AKA: Susan Bogert Warner]
(Note: 1904 edition; see also #12962 & #12963, 1864 edition)
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18686 ]
[Files: 18686-8.txt; ]
Lectures on Modern history, by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 18685
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18685 ]
[Files: 18685.txt; ]
A Certain Rich Man, by William Allen White 18684
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18684 ]
[Files: 18684.txt; 18684-8.txt; 18684-h.htm; ]
Ralph Granger's Fortunes, by William Perry Brown 18683
[Illus.: W. H. Fry]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18683 ]
[Files: 18683.txt; 18683-h.htm; ]
A Declaration of the Causes..., by Anonymous 18682
[Title: A Declaration of the Causes, which mooved the chiefe Commanders
of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in
their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the
mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone, certaine Shippes of corne and other
prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie]
[Subtitle: Prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine, in the Ports
and Prouinces within and about the Sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in the
yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the one and thirtie]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18682 ]
[Files: 18682.txt; 18682-h.htm; ]
Across the Fruited Plain, by Florence Crannell Means 18681
[Illus.: Janet Smalley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18681 ]
[Files: 18681.txt; 18681-h.htm; ]
Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest, by Edward Tyson Allen 18680
[Subtitle: Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the
Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline
of Technical Methods]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/8/18680 ]
[Files: 18680.txt; 18680-8.txt; 18680-h.htm; ]
Historical Mysteries, by Andrew Lang 18679
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18679 ]
[Files: 18679.txt; 18679-8.txt; 18679-h.htm]
A Victorious Union, by Oliver Optic 18678
[Subtitle: SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18678 ]
[Files: 18678.txt; 18678-8.txt; 18678-h.htm]
The Ghost of Jerry Bundler, by W. W. Jacobs and Charles Rock 18677
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18677 ]
[Files: 18677.txt; 18677-h.htm; ]
Our Navy in the War, by Lawrence Perry 18676
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18676 ]
[Files: 18676.txt; 18676-8.txt; 18676-h.htm; ]
Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again 18675
[Author: Joseph Barker]
[Subtitle: A Life Story]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18675 ]
[Files: 18675.txt; 18675-8.txt; 18675-h.htm; ]
A Chinese Wonder Book, by Norman Hinsdale Pitman 18674
[Illustrator: Li Chu-T'ang]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18674 ]
[Files: 18674.txt; 18674-h.htm]
Astrophel and Other Poems, by Algernon Charles Swinburne 18673
[Subtitle: Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles
Swinburne, Vol. VI]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18673 ]
[Files: 18673.txt; 18673-8.txt; 18673-h.htm]
Poignet-d'acier, by Emile Chevalier 18672
[Subtitle: Ou Les Chippiouais]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18672 ]
[Files: 18672-8.txt]
Never-Fail Blake, by Arthur Stringer 18671
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18671 ]
[Files: 18671.txt; 18671-8.txt; 18671-h.htm; ]
Bruges and West Flanders, by George W. T. Omond 18670
[Illus.: Am?d?e Forestier]
[This book has extraordinary illustrations!]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/7/18670 ]
[Files: 18670.txt; 18670-8.txt; 18670-h.htm; ]
Histore de la Republique de Genes, by Emile Vincens 18669
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18669 ]
[Files: 18669-8.txt; 18669-r.rtf]
In Search of the Unknown, by Robert W. Chambers 18668
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18668 ]
[Files: 18668.txt; 18668-8.txt; 18668-h.htm]
Doctor Rabbit and Brushtail the Fox, by Thomas Clark Hinkle 18667
[Illustrator: Milo Winter]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18667 ]
[Files: 18667.txt; 18667-h.htm]
Polly, by L. T. Meade 18666
[Subtitle: A New-Fashioned Girl]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18666 ]
[Files: 18666.txt; 18666-8.txt; 18666-h.htm]
Molly Make-Believe, by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 18665
[Illustrator: Walter Tittle]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18665 ]
[Files: 18665.txt; 18665-8.txt; 18665-h.htm]
The Hills of Hingham, by Dallas Lore Sharp 18664
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18664 ]
[Files: 18664.txt; 18664-8.txt; 18664-h.htm]
The Great Round World, Vol. 2, No. 10, March 10, 1898, by Various 18663
[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/1/8/6/6/18663 ]
[Files: 18663.txt; 18663-8.txt; 18663-h.htm]
The Tale of Buster Bumblebee, by Arthur Scott Bailey 18662
[Illustrator: Harry L. Smith]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18662 ]
[Files: 18662.txt; 18662-h.htm]
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911, by Various 18661
[Editor: A. R. Buckland]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18661 ]
[Files: 18661.txt; 18661-8.txt; 18661-h.htm; ]
The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria, by Charles A. Gunnison 18660
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/6/18660 ]
[Files: 18660.txt; 18660-8.txt; 18660-h.htm; ]
The Seventh Manchesters, by S. J. Wilson 18659
[Subtitle: July 1916 to March 1919]
[Preface: Anthony M. Henley]
[Introduction by Gerald B. Hurst]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18659 ]
[Files: 18659.txt; 18659-8.txt; 18659-h.htm; ]
In Macao, by Charles A. Gunnison 18658
[Contents: California]
[ In Macao]
[ My Sapphire Ring]
[ The Hen That Could Lay and Lie]
[ "Oceanic" at Sea]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18658 ]
[Files: 18658.txt; 18658-8.txt; 18658-h.htm; ]
Love's Comedy, by Henrik Ibsen 18657
[Tr.: C. H. Hereford]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18657 ]
[Files: 18657.txt; ]
The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels, by Arthur Scott Bailey 18656
[Ill.: Harry L. Smith]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18656 ]
[Files: 18656.txt; 18656-h.htm; ]
The Cruise of the Noah's Ark, by David Cory 18655
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18655 ]
[Files: 18655.txt; 18655-h.htm]
What Might Have Been Expected, by Frank R. Stockton 18654
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18654 ]
[Files: 18654.txt; 18654-h.htm]
The Mind of the Artist, by Various 18653
[Subtitle: Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art]
[Commentator: George Clausen]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18653 ]
[Files: 18653.txt; 18653-8.txt; 18653-h.htm]
The Tale of Henrietta Hen, by Arthur Scott Bailey 18652
[Illustrator: Harry L. Smith]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18652 ]
[Files: 18652.txt; 18652-h.htm]
A Cigarette-Maker's Romance, by F. Marion Crawford 18651
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18651 ]
[Files: 18651.txt; 18651-8.txt; 18651-h.htm]
The War and the Churches, by Joseph McCabe 18650
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/5/18650 ]
[Files: 18650.txt; 18650-8.txt; 18650-h.htm; ]
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters, by Edmund William Gosse 18649
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18649 ]
[Files: 18649.txt; 18649-8.txt; 18649-0.txt; 18649-h.htm]
Bumper, The White Rabbit, by George Ethelbert Walsh 18648
[Illustrator: Edwin John Prittie]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18648 ]
[Files: 18648.txt; 18648-8.txt; 18648-0.txt; 18648-h.htm]
Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt, by R. Talbot Kelly 18647
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18647 ]
[Files: 18647.txt; 18647-8.txt; 18647-0.txt; 18647-h.htm]
Gypsy's Cousin Joy, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 18646
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18646 ]
[Files: 18646.txt; 18646-8.txt; 18646-0.txt; 18646-h.htm]
Thackeray, by Anthony Trollope 18645
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18645 ]
[Files: 18645.txt; 18645-8.txt; 18645-h.htm; ]
The Swindler and Other Stories, by Ethel M. Dell 18644
[Contents: The Swindler]]
[ The Swindler's Handicap]
[ The Nonentity]
[ Her Hero]
[ The Example]
[ The Friend who Stood By]
[ The Right Man]
[ The Knight-Errant]
[ A Question of Trust]
[ Where the Heart Is]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18644 ]
[Files: 18644.txt; 18644-8.txt; 18644-h.htm; ]
The First Landing on Wrangel Island, by Irving C. Rosse 18643
[Subtitle: With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18643 ]
[Files: 18643.txt; 18643-8.txt; 18643-h.htm]
Women of the Romance Countries, by John R. Effinger 18642
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18642 ]
[Files: 18642.txt; 18642-8.txt; 18642-h.htm]
Hunter Patrol, by Henry Beam Piper and John J. McGuire 18641
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/6/4/18641 ]
[Files: 18641.txt; 18641-8.txt; 18641-h.htm]
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Jun 2006 The Case of Mr Lucraft, by Walter Besant [060214xx.xxx] 0732A
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Jun 2006 The Man in Asbestos, by Stephen Leacock [060213xx.xxx] 0731A
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Jun 2006 The Blindman's World, by Edward Bellamy [060212xx.xxx] 0730A
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CANADIAN PROJECT AIMS TO COORDINATE DISPARATE EFFORTS
A new initiative called AlouetteCanada is designed to bring together
disparate digitization efforts from around Canada into a single online
location. 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
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*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
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*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
72% of troops in Iraq say we should get out by the end of 2006.
21% say out now.
Source: Zogby, and various sources that quoted the polls also
done by Le Moyne College.
[As a result, only 6 Senators voted to end the war by year end
this week]
Americans Lose Touch, Report Fewer Close Friends
In the last 20 years the number of close friends reported
by Americans has dropped from about 3 to 2.
In 1985 2.94 friends a person could discuss the important
issues of their lives with were reported.
In 2004 that had dropped to 2.08, a drop of .043 per year
for those 20 years which would be down to about 2 friends
by now, in mid-2006.
Not only do Americans have fewer persons they can discuss
important matters with, but those they do have are family
rather than the traditional friends we tend to think of.
"This change indicates something that's not good for our society,"
said Lynn Smith-Lovin, Professor of Sociology at Duke University.
The study appears in the June American Sociological Review.
[This supports the growing realization that millions of people in
the United States know Oprah Winfrey better than their neighbors]
Source: LiveScience.com
[Perhaps this is why MySpace has 87 million subscribers!]
*
The Big 10 Opens Its Own Television Channel
In an effort to bring in more money from collegiate sport events
The Big 10 has opted to create its very own source of income for
their sporting events for the next 20 years, and should reap the
amount of an extra $7.5 million per year as a result.
The only trouble is that right now you will have to subscribe to
DirecTV to get it.
For at least the first 10 years of this, there should be some of
the normal television coverage of the past, as The Big 10 is now
also reported to have inked lucrative deals with Disney's sports
coverage, from their ESPN and ABC television subsidiaries.
Viewers will have to subcribe to The Big 10 Channel [BTC] via an
opt-in selection to DirecTV's Total Choice package, available to
just over 15 million households.
This isn't the first collegiate sports collective to do this and
it certainly won't be the last. Believe it or not, The Big 10's
action on this was taken from some little known Western Mountain
college conference.
[Just one more step on the way to "pay per everything." Whether
you pay per month, week, day, or per event, it's still pay per.]
DirecTV's Total Choice package costs $41.99 per month.
Source: TV Week, Various Big 10 press releases.
and www.usdirect.com/programming/total_choice.php
*
The "Tahiti" oil well is going down further beneath sea level than
Mt. Everest goes above sea level.
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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Old Christmas, by Washington Irving 1850
Aug 1999 The Yellow Crayon, by E. Phillips Oppenheim[EPO#5][ycrynxxx.xxx] 1849
Montezuma's Daughter, by H. Rider Haggard 1848
Aug 1999 Songs, Merry and Sad, by John Charles McNeill [sngmsxxx.xxx] 1847
Aug 1999 The Vision Splendid, by William MacLeod Raine [#3][vspldxxx.xxx] 1846
Aug 1999 Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm [Max Beerbohm #5][zdbsnxxx.xxx] 1845
Aug 1999 The Scholemaster, by Roger Ascham [In Markup] [smstrxxx.xxx] 1844
[AKA: The Schoolmaster, by Roger Ascham]
Aug 1999 Vera, The Medium, by Richard Harding Davis[RHD#29][veramxxx.xxx] 1843
Aug 1999 Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne [Jules Verne #10][strgfxxx.xxx] 1842
Z. Marcas, by Honore de Balzac 1841
[Tr.: Clara Bell and others]
The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser 1840
Aug 1999 Other Things Being Equal, by Emma Wolf [otbeqxxx.xxx] 1839
Jul 1999 A New Voyage to Carolina, by John Lawson [nvycrxxx.xxx] 1838
The Prince and The Pauper, Complete, by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1837
(See also #7154-#7162)
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A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.50 Value Per Book To 100 Million
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572 Per Year
48 Per Month
1.57 Per Day
At 1846 eBooks Done In The 168 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
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77 per Week
334 Per Month
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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].
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