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Letters to Helen, by Keith Henderson 16626
[Subtitle: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front]
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Trekkerswee, by J.D (AKA Totius) du Toit 16543
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Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8),Raphael Holinshed 16669
[Subtitle: The Eight Booke of the Historie of England]
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[Files: 16669.txt; 16669-8.txt; 16669-h.htm]
Maahengen salaisuus, by Valter Henrik Juvelius 16668
[Subtitle: Tohtori salapoliisina]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/6/16668 ]
[Files: 16668-8.txt]
Young Folks' History of Rome, by Charlotte Mary Yonge 16667
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Carette of Sark, by John Oxenham 16666
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Catilina, by Henrik Ibsen 16665
[Language: Norwegian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/6/16665 ]
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Town Life in Australia, by R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny 16664
[Subtitle: 1883]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/6/16664 ]
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The Tale of Solomon Owl, by Arthur Scott Bailey 16663
[Ill.: Harry L. Smith]
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Bad Hugh, by Mary Jane Holmes 16662
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George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life, E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue 16661
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The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, by Unknown 16660
[Subtitle: France, April 1915-November 1918]
[Editor: R.B. Ainsworth]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/6/16660 ]
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Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works, by Kalidasa 16659
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[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/5/16659 ]
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Piano and Song, by Friedrich Wieck 16658
[Subtitle: How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of]
[Musical Performances]
[Translator: Mary P. Nichols]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/5/16658 ]
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The Book of Missionary Heroes, by Basil Mathews 16657
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[Files: 16657.txt; 16657-8.txt; 16657-h.htm]
Dimasalang Kalendariong Tagalog (1922), by Honorio Lpez 16656
[Language: Tagalog]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/5/16656 ]
[Files: 16656-8.txt; 16656-h.htm]
Artist and Public, And Other Essays On Art Subjects, by Kenyon Cox 16655
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/5/16655 ]
[Files: 16655.txt; 16655-8.txt; 16655-h.htm]
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn, by Evelyn Everett-Green 16654
[Subtitle: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/5/16654 ]
[Files: 16654.txt; 16654-h.htm]
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria, by Donald A. Mackenzie 16653
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Yrjn Kailanen ja hnen poikansa, by Gustaf Schrder 16652
[Subtitle: Kuvauksia Ruotsin suomalaisten elmst ja ernkynnist
Wermlannin ja Taalain metsseuduilla]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/5/16652 ]
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The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories, by Ethel M. Dell 16651
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/5/16651 ]
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The Complete Home, by Various 16650
[Editor: Clara E. Laughlin]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/5/16650 ]
[Files: 16650.txt; 16650-8.txt; 16650-h.htm]
La Pantoufle de Sapho, by Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch 16649
[Translator: D. Dolors]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/4/16649 ]
[Files: 16649-8.txt; 16649-h.htm]
Holiday Stories for Young People, by Various 16648
[Editor: Margaret E. Sangster]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/4/16648 ]
[Files: 16648.txt; 16648-8.txt; 16648-h.htm]
An Outline of the Relations, by Robert S. Rait 16647
[Full title: An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland]
[(500-1707)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/4/16647 ]
[Files: 16647.txt; 16647-8.txt; 16647-h.htm]
Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 16646
[Full title: The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II]
[Editor: Frederic G. Kenyon]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/4/16646 ]
[Files: 16646.txt; 16646-8.txt; 16646-h.htm]
Sermons Preached at Brighton, by Frederick W. Robertson 16645
[Subtitle: Third Series]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/4/16645 ]
[Files: 16645.txt; 16645-8.txt; 16645-h.htm]
The Puritan Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins 16644
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/4/16644 ]
[Files: 16644.txt; 16644-h.htm]
Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson 16643
[Editor: Edna H. L. Turpin]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/4/16643 ]
[Files: 16643.txt; 16643-8.txt; 16643-0.txt; 16643-h.htm]
Reizen en vechten in het Zuiden van de Philippijnen, by Reginald Kann 16642
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar volken, Jaargang 1908]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/4/16642 ]
[Files: 16642-8.txt; 16642-h.htm]
Dimasalang Kalendariong Tagalog (1920), by Honorio Lpez 16641
[Language: Tagalog]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/4/16641 ]
[Files: 16641-8.txt; 16641-h.htm]
Punch, Vol. 158, June 30th, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 16640
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/4/16640 ]
[Files: 16640.txt; 16640-8.txt; 16640-h.htm]
The Fotygraft Album, by Frank Wing 16639
[Subtitle: Shown to the New Neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters Aged Eleven]
[Illustrator: Frank Wing]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/3/16639 ]
[Files: 16639.txt; 16639-h.htm]
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891, by Various 16638
[Editor: James Elverson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/3/16638 ]
[Files: 16638.txt; 16638-h.htm]
Sleep-Book, by Various 16637
[Subtitle: Some of the Poetry of Slumber]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/3/16637 ]
[Files: 16637.txt; 16637-8.txt; 16637-h.htm]
Makers of Madness, by Hermann Hagedorn 16636
[Subtitle: A Play in One Act and Three Scenes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/3/16636 ]
[Files: 16636.txt; 16636-8.txt; 16636-h.htm]
The Climbers, by Clyde Fitch 16635
[Subtitle: A Play in Four Acts]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/3/16635 ]
[Files: 16635.txt; 16635-8.txt; 16635-h.htm]
Biltmore Oswald, by J. Thorne Smith, Jr 16634
[Subtitle: The Diary of a Hapless Recruit]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/3/16634 ]
[Files: 16634.txt; 16634-h.htm]
Chronica de el-rei D. Pedro I, by Ferno Lopes 16633
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/3/16633 ]
[Files: 16633-8.txt]
Over Here, by Edgar A. Guest 16632
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/3/16632 ]
[Files: 16632.txt; 16632-h.htm; ]
The Skipper and the Skipped, by Holman Day 16631
[Subtitle: Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/3/16631 ]
[Files: 16631.txt]
Empire Builders, by Francis Lynde 16630
[Ill.: Jay Hambidge]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/3/16630 ]
[Files: 16630.txt; 16630-8.txt; 16630-h.htm; ]
The Furnace of Gold, by Philip Verrill Mighels 16629
[Illustrator: J. N. Marchand]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/2/16629 ]
[Files: 16629.txt; 16629-8.txt; 16629-h.htm]
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1% of the world population is 64,650,627 x 17,106 x $.90 = ~$1 Trillion]
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This "cost" is down from about $.73 when we had 13,611 eBooks a year ago.
100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!
At 17,108 eBooks in 34 Years and 02.00 Months We Averaged
~500 Per Year
41.7 Per Month
1.37 Per Day
At 2150 eBooks Done In The 245 Days Of 2005 We Averaged
8.8 Per Day
61 Per Week
269 Per Month
If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S.
you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear,
are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope.
Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the
districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a
bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census"
is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more
people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source.
45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to
this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a
possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I
presume this is in addition to previous adjustments.
Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures,
perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time
between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth.
In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made
about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this
normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found
on the subject of the current Special Census.
If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide,
then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but
rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it
is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this
might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen
300 million go by some time ago.
For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
NO DECISION YET FROM JUDGE ON PATRIOT ACT CASE
U.S. District Court Judge Janet C. Hall has postponed deciding whether
a Connecticut library may publicly disclose its identity as the
institution whose records have been sought by the FBI under the PATRIOT
Act. The act forces any organization whose records have been subpoenaed
to be silent about the investigation, but the library in question and
the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a suit, alleging that
such restrictions are unconstitutional. Hall heard arguments from both
sides this week but declined to issue a ruling until she hears more
from the FBI. Observers noted that Hall seemed dubious of the
government's claim that identifying the library would threaten the
investigation. She said the FBI must demonstrate that risk, which it so
far has not done. Pointing out that controversial provisions of the
PATRIOT Act are under review by Congress, Hall suggested that allowing
the public to see how the law is being applied could be an important
factor in deciding whether the act will be extended.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 September 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/09/2005090102t.htm
MASSACHUSETTS PONDERS GOING OPEN SOURCE
The state of Massachusetts is considering a proposal that would require
all state documents to be compliant with the Open Document format
rather than requiring proprietary software. The Open Document format is
part of Open Office 2.0, a free software suite that is currently under
development. Saying that the proposal is not "an anti-Microsoft
initiative," Peter Quinn, chief information officer of the
Commonwealth, pointed out that 200-year-old papers remain readable in
their original format. He said he hopes that today's records will
remain accessible far into the future, regardless of the comings and
goings of various vendors and their products. Quinn said he hopes
Microsoft will decide to support the format, which allows documents to
be readable by any computer, similar to Adobe PDF. Microsoft's Alan
Yates said the company would not agree to the Open Document format. He
noted that Microsoft provides a free XML schema that allows users
without Microsoft Office to read documents created by that suite of
applications.
Wall Street Journal, 1 September 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112561152150829537,00.html
PURDUE TURNS TO PODCASTS
Purdue University has begun providing podcasts of lectures for certain
courses. Purdue offers recordings for students who miss a class or who
want to review specific lectures. Previously, recordings were available
for about 100 courses but only on audio cassettes. Starting this fall,
recordings for lectures from some courses are availble as MP3 files,
allowing students to download the recordings rather than going to the
library to check out tapes. Michael Gay, manager of broadcast networks
and services, said faculty who agree to have their courses added to the
podcast service need only submit an online request form and wear a
microphone while they lecture. So far, almost 50 courses are part of
the podcasting service, and Purdue officials hope that number rises
next semester. Currently, podcasts are available publicly, though in
the future they may be restricted to campus users. Users of the service
can download a specific lecture or all of the lectures from an entire
course. As for the notion that some students might decide simply never
to attend lectures in favor of listening to the downloads, Gay
commented that "most instructors agree that any student who thinks an
audio recording is a surrogate for class is doomed to failure." Critics
said podcasting programs favor students who can afford portable music
players, but Gay noted that the podcasts are in a format that can be
played on any computer.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 31 August 2005 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/08/2005083101t.htm
GOOGLE PRESSES FORWARD SCANNING BOOKS
Google is moving ahead with its plans to digitize vast numbers of books
and make them available online. The search engine this week expanded
its book search service to 14 countries, including the United Kingdom,
Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and Australia, where users
can now search English-language books. Although laws in each country
dictate small differences in how the service works, according to Jim
Gerber, director of content partnerships, in all countries the service
offers three types of results: for books in the public domain, the
entire text is available online; copyrighted works whose publishers
have signed agreements with Google are available to the extent that
those agreements allow; for copyrighted books whose publishers have not
made agreements with Google, only selected portions will be available
online. This last group of results has raised the ire of publishers,
who argue that Google has no right to display any part of copyrighted
works without permission. Google has offered publishers the opportunity
to identify specific titles that will be excluded from the service, but
most publishing groups have said that approach is inherently backwards,
giving Google blanket authority until and unless publishers complain.
Internet News, 31 August 2005
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3531221
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
Where Is The Offical Aid For Katrina's Victims???
Most of the efforts we are seeing seem to be private,
with little or no presence by the national guards, or
the military services, Coast Guard, FEMA [the Federal
Emergency Management Agency]. etc.
With years of general warnings, and days of specifics
for this particular event, the questions being raised
are simple: why aren't the official agencies there?
Some say it's a paperwork SNAFU, totally FUBARed.
Others simply point to the fact the Republicans, such
as they are, take care of their own, and this results
from a long standing tradition of Republican snubbing
of Democrats, who are in office there.
Many are asking if the results would be the same, for
Florida, where the president's brother's governor, if
Katrina had struck there instead.
Sean Penn and others have organized their own various
personal efforts and have been rescuing people on the
verge of drowning, suffering from malnutrition, and a
host of other life-threatening situations, and theirs
is an effort that seems to be more alone than anyone,
at least a week ago, would have expected.
After 9 hours in a private boat making the rounds for
various rescues and giving aid, Mr. Penn reported the
official presence in the entire 9 hours numbered only
three other boats containing official recscue people.
Similar stories from other celebrities making efforts
on their own, but downplayed even further, perhaps at
their own requests.
*STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK
In a telethon to help victims of hurricane Katrina,
Kanye West pointed out what was on many minds, that
"the the setup, the way America's set up to help the
the poor, the black people, the less well-off as
slowly as possible. . .and they've given them
permission to go down and shoot us."
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
George Tenet received the highest US civilian honor,
the Medal of Freedom, for his role as CIA chief; for
others involved in the same efforts concerning 9/11,
the weapons of mass destruction fiasco, etc., the ax
is still falling, and heads are still rolling.
In the same ceremony, President Bush also honored in
a similar manner Four Star General Tommy Franks, for
his unparalled success in our Afghansistan policies,
and L. Paul Bremer for his even greater contribution
to carrying our our policies in Irag, as the interim
ruler of the country; credit will also obviously get
given to others for these as the ax continues work.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Continuing with last week's prediction:
China will continue bidding for, and buying, more and more
of the world's infrastructure, to the sad detriment of U.S.
Congress' inability to veto purchases in other countries.
This has obviously been continuing this week, and likely
will become an ongoing event for the next decade or two:
the real question is will the media give the full story?
No mention of China's effect on US energy prices at all,
they are blaming it all on Katrina, and each other.
*QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"If Katrina had hit a big Florida city, such as Miami,
St. Petersburg, Tampa, Orlando, or, heaven forbid, the
Disney complex or Cape Canaveral, do you think brother
W would have taken so long to help his brother Jeb?"
[For those who may have forgotten, Jeb Bush, the First
Brother, is Governor of Florida, and may have been the
lynchpin of the Republicans' efforts to carry the last
two presidential elections.]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
10 years ago there were 2 million cars in China.
Since then they have averaged nearly that many new cars per year,
for a current total of over 20 million.
If they grow to 10 times more again in the next 10 years, China
will have about the same number of cars as the United States.
Then where will the price of gas have risen to?
*
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
*
POEM OF THE WEEK
Parade 1
daylight dreams dancing flashes
playing loudly with restless chains
of hour glass around their necks
apparitions failing to haunt
their fear handed over to night chaos
glaring whispers interrupted sleep
then darkness claws around an eerie death
sheer madness lightning brilliance
the giants of color laugh delicious laughter
soft love locked in the fight of two drops of dew
silky drapes unveil tall windows
the band of rainbow giants appears awake
Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
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Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and Wisdom, by Swedenborg 16627
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Letters to Helen, by Keith Henderson 16626
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Clsicos Castellanos: Libro de Buen Amor, by Juan Ruiz 16625
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No and Yes, by Mary Baker Eddy 16624
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300 million go by some time ago.
For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm
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production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon,
starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was
the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production
year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon.
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS, BUT NOT ALWAYS FOR TEACHING
A new study indicates that computer usage by U.S. schoolteachers is
rising, though technology is more frequently used for administrative
purposes than for teaching. The study, conducted by Scholastic
subsidiary Quality Education Data, found that 70 percent of teachers
communicate with parents using e-mail and that a majority use computers
for tasks such as attendance, according to CDW Government. Just 54
percent said they have incorporated technology into their teaching, and
more of those who use technology in teaching are at the elementary
level than in middle or high schools. Teaching with technology appears
to be correlated with training: 85 percent of respondents said they
have received training in applications such as the Internet, word
processing, and e-mail, while 27 percent said they have had little or
no instruction in how to include computers in their teaching.
CNET, 29 August 2005
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5844057.html
FBI SEEKS LIBRARY RECORDS
According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the FBI is
using one of the powers granted by the USA PATRIOT Act to demand the
records of a library in Connecticut. Because the USA PATRIOT Act also
forbids disclosure of details surrounding such investigations, the name
of the library in question is being kept confidential, though it is
known to be a member of the American Library Association. At issue is
the authority to subpoena library records using something called a
national security letter, which does not require a judge's approval.
The ACLU has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the library, saying
"it should not be forced to disclose such records without a showing of
compelling need and approval by a judge." Anthony D. Romero, executive
director of the ACLU, said, "This is a prime example of the government
using its Patriot Act powers without any judicial oversight to get
sensitive information on law-abiding Americans." The FBI did not
comment on the lawsuit, but the agency's national security letter
noted that it was seeking the library records as part of an
investigation "to protect against internal terrorism or clandestine
intelligence activities."
New York Times, 26 August 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/26/politics/26patriot.html
GOOGLE TALK PROVIDES VOICE, IM SERVICES
Google has announced a free service called Google Talk that lets e-mail
account holders talk to each other using a PC, microphone, and speakers
and provides instant messaging capability. Google reportedly plans to
make the service compatible with other companies' services, basing it
on an open standard, which would allow users to talk to people on
competing systems. Users will not be able to make calls to landlines or
mobile phones, however. The new service does not carry advertising, but
Google hopes it will encourage people to sign up for the Gmail service,
which does.
BBC, 24 August 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4179322.stm
[and in a related story]
FCC PROPOSES USF TAX ON NET PHONE USERS
A Federal Communications Commission proposal released to public notice
by the FCC's federal-state joint board on universal service recommends
requiring more companies to pay taxes into the Universal Service Fund
(USF). The shift would mostly affect Internet telephone providers,
which don't currently pay into the fund. Internet-based services such
as chat and instant messaging that don't link to the public telephone
network would continue to be exempt from USF taxes, according to the
proposal. The USF subsidizes telephone services in rural and high-cost
areas, and companies that currently pay into the fund pass the costs on
to their customers.
ZDNet, 23 August 2005
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-5842237.html
HITACHI CLAIMS FIRST TERABYTE HARD DRIVE/DVD RECORDER
[And you heard it here, a week ago]
Hitachi claims to have developed the first hard disk drive and DVD
recorder that can store a terabyte of data or record about 128 hours of
high-definition digital broadcasts. The company hopes the new line will
make the money-losing DVD recorder part of its business into a profit
center by next year. The new line also includes models that can store
160, 250, and 500 gigabytes of data. Hitachi claimed the new models are
the first to have the capability of recording two high-definition
programs simultaneously. They go on sale in Japan in September. Plans
for overseas sales are not firm because of weak interest in high-end
recorders in European and U.S. markets, explained a company spokesman.
Washington Post, 24 August 2005 (registration req'd)
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/24/AR2005082400194.html
SONY PLAYSTATION PORTABLE GETS INTERNET BROWSER
[With a browser, can eBooks on PlayStations be far behind?]
Sony Computer Entertainment America announced plans to add Internet
access to its PlayStation Portable gaming device in an attempt to boost
the PSP's use as a handheld entertainment center. A software upgrade
enables wireless Internet access through a Web browser. The software
also boosts data security and enhances sharing of digital photos and
playback of video, according to Sony.
Yahoo, 24 August 2005
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050824/tc_nm/sony_psp_dc
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
More schools are switching over to eBooks.
*STRANGE WORDS OF THE WEEK
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
[Combined this week, due to unprecedented events]
Former Governor John Rowland of Connecticut may actually be the
first person conviced under the "Revolving Door" law he signed
while still governor. Currently he is serving time in Federal
Prison ["Club Fed"], but the Connecticut State's Attorney says
he intends to bring him back for trial in state court, and, if
convicted, to place him among the general prison population.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
John Rowland will NOT serve time in the general prison population.
*QUOTE OF THE WEEK
[Leaving this one in, as is relevant to the new SAT scores below]
US spending on tutors rose to $4 billion is 2004 from $3.4 billion in 2003.
[This is enough for 4 million families each to spend $1,000 per year,
just on extra tutoring to augment our failing classroom instruction.]
Source: The New York Times via Edupage [paraphrased for stand alone grammar].
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/technology/22soft.html [sub. required]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
Yesterday the new SAT scores were released with a big hoopla,
touting that the US school system was finally improving: but
the truth is that this year's scores are virtually identical,
and statistically indistinguishable from previous scores.
*
The nationwide average this year is 1,028, up two points from 2004.
520 for math was up 2, 510 for verbal was totally unchanged; scores
in general have risen 9 points since 2000, still less than 1% more,
and still less than it would take to make any conclusions, based on
statistical standards.
2 points out of ~1,000, and a possible score of 1600 isn't remotely
what these testing companies would/could/should call significant in
terms of their own statistical expertise. The variances between an
SAT of one year and of another are much greater than 2 points, thus
the tests are likely to be changing more than actual performance by
the schools and/or the students. It would be nice if we could test
the tests, and thus have some knowledge of our measuring stick.
Verbal scores dropped just below 500 in both 1991 and 1994, and the
scoring of the tests was soon revalued, as were the ACT scores when
they dropped to 90% of their original scores. Math scores had their
lowest point at 492 in 1980 and 1981.
We should also consider that most of the students who should not be
expected to do very well on such tests do not take them, either for
reasons of personal choice, where that is still an option, or based
on the fact that they simply are not continuing in school at all.
Thus we should be aware that the real national average would be all
that much lower if everyone were tested.
People ask me why I write something so negative about our students,
our schools, and our testing system, and the answer is that I would
not have to if the statements made about the various scores will be
made more accurately. I didn't hear or read a single media comment
questionning whether the 2 point change was valid or reliable, in a
statistical sense. What does this mean? The next time you see all
the statistical polling done by the media, take a look at a corner,
and you will likely see a comment that the results of these surveys
are designed to be accurate within + or - 3%. . .that gives a range
of 6%, or what would be 60 points on a scale of about 1,000 points.
2 points just isn't enough to be statistically significant, even if
the SAT people did three times as well, and guaranteed their values
accurate to + or - 1%. . .which would still be a 20 point range the
values could fluctuate within before being even mininally mentioned
in a statistially relevant sense, and far from having significance.
*Just ask your local math teachers about statistical significance.*
You probably won't find 3% of these who would say 2 points in 1,000
has as much statistical relevance as a number of other factors in a
testing process such as the SAT, where just one question being just
slightly poorly written would throw off scores more than 2 points--
not to mention social changes, such as the fallout from 9/11 and an
assortment of other geopolitical events.
[Results of your survey as above should be accurate to + or - 3%.]
We should also keep in mind that the various college tests were not
using the same traditional scoring system recently, and in fact the
scoring systems have been altered more than once since the time our
own SAT and ACT scores were computed. After each of these revalued
scorings the news media has been full of the "fact" that scores had
improved, without any mention that it was actually a change in what
we might call the measuring stick rather than in what we measured.
The SATs were "remodeled" in 1990, and "a new SAT was introduced in
1994, and in 1995 SAT scoring was recentered. . . ." "Since the
adjustment, SAT averages have gone up."
[Quotes from: iApply - Where do you go after high school?]
Recently this process has been renewed.
WARNING:
"Don't Confuse The Map With The Territory."
*
Another topic not mentioned was that a large percentage of students
take the tests more than once, and even more than twice, until they
feel they have reached a satisfactory score.
*
Here are some of the exact scores I have been able to find. If you
can provide more, they would be greatly appreciated. Supposedly an
ETS [Educational Testing Service?] bulletin is available with a new
complete history of SAT scores, but I haven't found one yet.
[I now have complete years from 1972-2001, would still like more!]
1980 Low point Math 492
1981 Low point Math 492
[Test "remodeled" in 1990
1991 Verbal 499 Low point
1994 Verbal 499 Low point
["New" test in 1994]
[Scoring "recentered" in 1995]
2000 Verbal 505 Math 514
2001 Verbal 506 Math 514
2004 Verbal 508 Math 518
2005 Verbal 508 Math 520
We should note that even from the lowest points to the highest,
even with all the "remodeling" and "recentering," that scores
have not gone up all that much.
*
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
*
POEM OF THE WEEK
This is number five of a series of five poems from a volume named:
"Thoughts of My Exiled Self."
The motto for this poetry volume is,
"Upon this Word I shall build my life."
A Thought
To Nichita Stanescu, the poet
A thought exploded in me
saying that the dawn's cheeks blush
because they long for the night
and that the wave of the sea
is a restless traveler
who seeks pearls of words
among the empty shells
I am enslaved by this thought
with the crazy passion of the Moon
to embrace the Sun
and thus give birth to a new Universe
with no rules or regulations
just castles of sand that last
and boats carrying a fisherman
who can walk on the sea.
Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart
Please send comments to: simona_s75 AT yahoo.com & hart AT pobox.com
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