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Calumet "K", by Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster 18154
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Oscar, by Walter Aimwell 18153
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Inaugureele Rede, by Hieronymus David Gaubius 18147
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The Children's Portion, ed. by Robert W. Shoppell 18146
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Contents:
The Golden Age
The Merchant of Venice
The Afflicted Prince
"His Ludship"
Pious Constance
The Doctor's Revenge
The Woodcutter's Child
Show Your Colors
Her Danger Signal
A Knight's Dilemma
"His Royal Highness"
Patient Griselda
Let It Alone
The Man Who Lost His Memory
The Story of a Wedge
Prince Edwin and His Page
Cissy's Amendment
The Winter's Tale
A Gracious Deed
"Tom"
Steven Lawrence, American
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/1/4/18146 ]
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Lady Rosamond's Secret, by Rebecca Agatha Armour 18145
[Subtitle: A Romance of Fredericton]
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[Files: 18145.txt; 18145-8.txt; 18145-h.htm; ]
Timon Ateenalainen, by William Shakespeare 18144
[Translator: Paavo Cajander]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/1/4/18144 ]
[Files: 18144-8.txt]
Romeo et Juliette, by William Shakespeare 18143
[Subtitle: Tragedie]
[Translator: Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/1/4/18143 ]
[Files: 18143-8.txt; 18143-h.htm]
Ellenore, Volume II, by Sophie Gay 18142
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/1/4/18142 ]
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Contents: Dreamthorp
On the Writing of Essays
Of Death and the Fear of Dying
William Dunbar
A Lark's Flight
Christmas
Men of Letters
On the Importance of a Man to Himself
A Shelf in My Bookcase
Geoffrey Chaucer
Books and Gardens
On Vagabonds
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[Subtitle: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben]
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[Title: La cathedrale de Strasbourg pendant la Revolution (1789-1802)]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/1/3/18133 ]
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A Canadian Heroine, Vol. 3, by Mrs. Harry Coghill 18132
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[Language: French]
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Jul 1997 Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [NH #6] [tnglwxxx.xxx] 976
Jul 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 5 [#5] [5spnexxx.xxx] 975
The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad 974
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, by Howard Pyle 973
Jul 1997 The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce[Bierce3][dvldcxxx.xxx] 972
Jul 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 4 [#4] [4spnexxx.xxx] 971
Jul 1997 Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories, by Cal Stewart[ncjshxxx.xxx] 970
Jul 1997 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte [B#4] [wldflxxx.xxx] 969
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Jul 1997 Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens[Dickens #32][chuzzxxx.xxx] 968
Jul 1997 Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens[Dickens #31][ncklbxxx.xxx] 967
Jul 1997 Maid Marian, by Thomas Love Peacock [maidmxxx.xxx] 966
Jul 1997 The Black Tulip, by Alexandre Dumas[Pere][Dumas#1][tbtlpxxx.xxx] 965
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle 964
Jul 1997 Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #30] [ldortxxx.xxx] 963
Jul 1997 The Poems of Henry Kendall, by Henry Kendall [phkndxxx.xxx] 962
Jul 1997 Glinda of Oz, by L. Frank Baum [LFB#17][Oz#14][14wozxxx.xxx] 961
Jun 1997 The Tin Woodman of Oz, by Baum [LFB#16][Oz#12][12wozxxx.xxx] 960
Jun 1997 The Lost Princess of Oz, by Baum [LFB#15][Oz#11][11wozxxx.xxx] 959
Jun 1997 Rinkitink In Oz, by L. Frank Baum [LFB#14][Oz#10][10wozxxx.xxx] 958
Jun 1997 The Scarecrow of Oz, by L. Frank Baum[FB#13][Oz#9][09wozxxx.xxx] 957
Jun 1997 Tik-Tok of Oz, by L. Frank Baum [Baum #12][Oz #8][08wozxxx.xxx] 956
Jun 1997 The Patchwork Girl of Oz, by L. Frank Baum[Baum12][07wozxxx.xxx] 955
Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his War Tank, by Victor Appleton [21tomxxx.xxx] 954
Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Big Tunnel, by Victor Appleton [19tomxxx.xxx] 953
Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Air Glider, by Victor Appleton [12tomxxx.xxx] 952
Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Sky Racer, by Victor Appleton [09tomxxx.xxx] 951
Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Electric Runabout, by V. Appleton [05tomxxx.xxx] 950
Jun 1997 Tom Swift & his Submarine Boat, by Victor Appleton[04tomxxx.xxx] 949
Jun 1997 Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza/Elwes Part 3 [#3] [3spnexxx.xxx] 948
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300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M,
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it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M.
Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
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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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CABLE COMPANIES ROUND OUT OFFERINGS
[Around here SBC/AT&T is offering deal for unlimited long distance,
DSL and satellite TV for about $90. Has anyone tried such offers?]
A set of new deals signals even tighter competition among communication
services providers, as cable companies work to expand their offerings
to align more directly with those of phone companies. The goal for
cable companies is to be able to offer TV, telephone, computer, and
wireless services, all from the same provider. Most notably, Comcast,
Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, and Bright House Networks have
announced a deal with Sprint Nextel that will allow cable customers
access for wireless devices. Although some of the details remain to be
decided, under the arrangement, consumers will be able to access TV
programming over cellular networks and possibly to use handsets that
use cellular networks outdoors and Wi-Fi networks indoors. Analyst
Aryeh Bourkoff noted that cable companies already have an advantage
over phone companies, such as Verizon and AT&T, in that phone companies
have an uphill path to being able to enter the TV market. "The phone
companies have the advantage of wireless today," Bourkoff said, "but
they have to build video, and that's going to be very expensive."
New York Times, 9 April 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/10/technology/10cable.html
EFF CALLS FOR PATENT TO BE INVALIDATED
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has called on the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office (USPTO) to invalidate a patent that broadly covers
technologies that allow tests to be posted and taken online. In 2003,
the USPTO granted the patent to Test.com, which has since contacted a
number of colleges and universities, as well as businesses, that
conduct online testing, saying those services violate the patent. Many
of those approached by Test.com believe that the idea of putting tests
on the Web is too obvious to warrant a patent. Now, the EFF says it has
evidence that, even if the idea justifies a patent, Test.com was not
the first to develop the technology to make it happen. According to the
EFF, the IntraLearn Software Corporation began selling products with
online testing capabilities in 1997, two years before Test.com applied
for its patent. Jason Schultz, staff lawyer for the EFF, said that the
USPTO would address the validity of the patent, which could take as
long as a year or more. If the office determines that a patent is
appropriate, said Schultz, it will "a tiny insignificant patent" rather
than the very broad patent granted to Test.com.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 April 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/04/2006040601t.htm
GOOGLE, EARTHLINK TO TAKE SAN FRANCISCO WIRELESS
San Francisco has chosen Google and EarthLink to build a wireless
network that will cover the city. The companies submitted a joint bid,
which was selected over five other bids by the San Francisco
TechConnect committee. Under the terms of the bid, Google will provide
free service at 300 Kbps, while EarthLink will manage a paid service
that will cost at most $20 per month and will operate at 1 Mbps. A
report recently released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the
Electronic Privacy Information Center argued that the Google-EarthLink
proposal was the worst of the bids in terms of protecting user privacy.
Others had questioned whether the Google-EarthLink network would
sufficiently penetrate buildings to reasonably provide full coverage.
Chris Vein, executive director of the Department of Telecommunications
and Information Services for San Francisco, said that he had not read
the report on privacy and that the city would negotiate with the companies
to provide as much access as possible. The deal must be approved by the
city of San Francisco and reviewed by the Board of Supervisors.
CNET, 6 April 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-6058432.html
MIT RESEARCHERS BUILD MICRO BATTERIES
A team of researchers led by a group at MIT have put viruses--the
biological kind--to work in the manufacture of nanowires, which the
researchers said can be used to make extremely small batteries.
The project involved modifying the genes of the virus such that its outer
surface would bind to certain metal ions. Researchers then bred the
virus in a cobalt chloride solution, which resulted in the production
of cobalt nanowires just 6 nanometers wide by 880 nanometers long.
The wires, which also included small amounts of gold so they could
adequately transmit electricity, were then used as positive electrodes
for batteries. The researchers hope that with this technology they can
create batteries as small as a grain of rice.
ZDNet, 6 April 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6058703.html
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Remember, the subject is not the article's subject,
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MISUSE OF EMINENT DOMAIN TAKEN UP BY MINNESOTA'S CONGRESS
Remember those news reports from Ohio, Connecticut, etc.,
in which homes and businesses were being eminent domained
just so richer people and/or businesses could move in?
The ostensible reasons for this was to the advantages tax
collectors would have by having a richer tax base. i.e.,
if you force out the middle class and replace them with a
whole new upper class population, you have a better town.
Of course, there IS a certain kind of logic to this and a
rash of copycat locations have been trying to do the same
sorts of things around the country; classifying perfectly
good homes and businesses below community standards so an
eminent domain takeover can be accomplished, with results
being that the properties are then sold to similar people
and businesses with more money. The expected results are
that the rich will then renovate the neighborhoods with a
much higher taxable assessment level and the tax man will
get more money to give to the local governments.
Today Minnesota's State House is working on a legislation
package to prevent such uses of eminent domain as the new
eminent domain takeovers should be ruled as benefits to a
government, but not to the public.
It's class warfare all right, with the first shots fired.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
*
Department of Homeland Security Caught With Online Sex
NBC's Dateline reported on April 9 that two Department of
Homeland Security people were trapped in their online sex
sting operation when they tried to get together with fake
young girls at the sting locations.
*
"The ones who know, don't care any more,
and the ones who care, don't know."
Nicholas Cage, "The Lord of War"
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Congress is passing "Ironclad Ceilings On Spending"
with great public fanfare and media coverage as the
National Debt approaches $10 Trillion dollars: but
at the same time they have passed two amendments to
virtually unpass these "Ironclad Ceiling" bills.
One of these bills exempts Congress from the limit,
which is about half of national spending, such as a
continuing payment for the Iraq war, etc., with the
second bill exempting entitlement programs which is
the other half.
*STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK
This is actually about quotes you did not hear. . . .
re: Katie Couric becoming the next Dan Rather, Walter Cronkike
or Edward R. Murrow at $13 million per year guaranteed over the
next 5 years or so:
As many of you probably know, Ms. Couric does the "Thanksgiving
Day Macy's Parade every year with Al Roker and Matt Lauer: but
last year might have been her last one for several reasons.
Apparently there was a big cover up of the fact that people had
been injured by the crash of the M&M's balloon into a lamppost,
which then crashed to the ground injuring some wheelchair bound
women who could not escape in time and her sister who stayed to
take care of her.
This was not just the mild kind of cover up when bad news isn't
mentioned at all, but a more active kind of cover up in which a
clip from last year's parade was substituted for live coverage,
so the audience could see the [now fake] M&Ms in good health.
It is presumed that the M&Ms will be patched up and ready to go
for the next parade, but no comment has been heard about others
such as the injured parties or Ms. Couric's attendance.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
>From a reply to the announcement of specific brands of terabyte boxes at
Fry's this past week for $649. Other places have the same products from
the same brand[s] at $699.
Of course, if you are willing to simply buy 4 @ 250G drives for $99 each,
and put them in a less sophisticated box than previously mentioned, these
new terebytes can be added for ~$450 rather than the $649-$699 mentioned.
Add another $50 each time you want to add a serious feature.
However you want to count it, though, if you have been considering buying
a terabyte, the time is obviously coming when there will quite many wider
and wider ranges of selections, and you will likely see terabytes sold at
Best Buy, Circuit City, etc., for under $500 by next year's holidays.
If you want a top of the line terabyte box you can get one at about $1500
that includes rows of SCSI and GigE connectors, dual power supplies, etc.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
This week's statistics come to you courtesy of the big flap
in the United States Congress in response to President Bush
making a felony issue out of being an illegal alien.
As previously mentioned in reference to the U.S. population
reaching 300 million shortly, the actual population is very
undercounted, as witnessed by the 5% push by Congresspeople
to get more representation based on such undercounts.
In addition, Congress is now citing numbers over 11 million
for undocumented workers in the U.S., including who knows a
total of how many children they have had while in the U.S.,
which makes those children legal citizens, under previously
enforces U.S. citizenship laws.
This is also bringing attention to labor unions.
Today unions represent under 1/12 of United States workers,
but rates approaching 1/2 exist in certain jobs, such as an
assortment of local government workers. Where do you think
AFSME gets all that money to advertize with?
AFSME = Association of Federal, State and Municipal Employees
The highest union rates across jobs are among men with less
than 9th grade educations.
It's not always the United States, the same cycle happens
with Canadian workers, as below.
In 1998 the average full time union worker received $19/hr,
as compared to $15.64 for full time non-union workers.
This is just over a 20% advantange for union workers.
However, the different among part time workers is greater--
$16.55/hr for unions, $9.71 for non-union workers. 70%+
In addition, unionized workers usually get more hours/week,
receiving weekly paychecks of $325.64 versus $161.92, which
is just over DOUBLE the paychecks of non-union workers.
*
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.
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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