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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
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Oct 1996 The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens [CD#12][curioxxx.xxx] 700
Oct 1996 A Child's History of England, Charles Dickens CD11[achoexxx.xxx] 699
Oct 1996 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, R. L. Stevenson[RLS#33][fleemxxx.xxx] 698
Oct 1996 The Light Princess, by George MacDonald [GM#2] [ltprnxxx.xxx] 697
Oct 1996 The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole [HP#1] [cotrtxxx.xxx] 696
Oct 1996 Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Chas Kingsley [glcusxxx.xxx] 695
Oct 1996 Stories from Everybody's Magazine, 1910 [10evmxxx.xxx] 694
Oct 1996 The Autobiography of a Quack, by S. Weir Mitchell [auqakxxx.xxx] 693
Oct 1996 Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Vol X [10jwrxxx.xxx] 692
Oct 1996 Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Vol I [01jwrxxx.xxx] 691
Oct 1996 Proposed Roads to Freedom, by Bertrand Russell[#1][rfreexxx.xxx] 690
Oct 1996 The Kreutzer Sonata, et al, by Leo Tolstoy/Tolstoi[krsonxxx.xxx] 689
Oct 1996 The Goodness of St. Rocque et al, by Alice Dunbar [stroqxxx.xxx] 688
Oct 1996 A Personal Record, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad #11] [aprjcxxx.xxx] 687
Oct 1996 The Treaty of the European Union [Maastricht] [maastxxx.xxx] 686
Oct 1996 The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [abombxxx.xxx] 685
Oct 1996 Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War-Some Perspectives[nukwrxxx.xxx] 684
Oct 1996 The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton [tcangxxx.xxx] 683
Oct 1996 Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula] [Math#15][ctcstxxx.xxx] 682
Oct 1996 Creatures That Once Were Men, by Maxim Gorky [#1] [crmenxxx.xxx] 681
Oct 1996 The Golden Threshold, by Sarojini Naidu [gldthxxx.xxx] 680
Oct 1996 Poems, by Frances E. W. Harper [pfewhxxx.xxx] 679
Oct 1996 The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens #10 [tcothxxx.xxx] 678
Oct 1996 Heroes, by Charles Kingsley [Greek Fairy Tales] [ghrosxxx.xxx] 677
Oct 1996 The Battle of Life, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#10][batlfxxx.xxx] 676
Oct 1996 American Notes, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #9] [amntsxxx.xxx] 675
Oct 1996 Plutarch's Lives, A. H. Clough, ["Dryden's Trans"][plivsxxx.xxx] 674
Oct 1996 Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [HTML] [pgwhtxxx.xxx] 673C
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Sep 1996 The Secret Guide to Computers, by Russ Walter [sgcwpxxx.xxx] 672C
Sep 1996 Phil, the Fiddler, by Horatio Alger, Jr.[Alger #8][phidlxxx.xxx] 671
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [XZ][pgwxzxxx.xxx] 670C
. . .
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [AB][pgwabxxx.xxx] 660C
Sep 1996 Paul The Peddler, by Horatio Alger, Jr. [Alger #7][ptpedxxx.xxx] 659
Sep 1996 The Fall of Troy, by Quintus Smyrnaeus [400 A.D.] [ftroyxxx.xxx] 658
Sep 1996 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Trans. by James Ingram [angsxxxx.xxx] 657
Sep 1996 Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp [shabrxxx.xxx] 656
Sep 1996 Life and Letters of Robert Browning, by Mrs. Orr [orrbrxxx.xxx] 655
Sep 1996 Grace Abounding to Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan[gacosxxx.xxx] 654
Sep 1996 The Chimes, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #8][tchmsxxx.xxx] 653
Sep 1996 Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, by Samuel Johnson#2[rslasxxx.xxx] 652
Sep 1996 Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll #5[fntsmxxx.xxx] 651
Sep 1996 Pictures From Italy, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#7][picitxxx.xxx] 650
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With 15,530 eBooks online as of February 23, 2005 it now takes an average
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100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!
At 15,530 eBooks in 33 Years and 07.75 Months We Averaged
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38.5 Per Month
1.26 Per Day
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332 Per Month
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BRAIN DRAIN CHANGES DIRECTION
Whereas a few years ago the "brain drain" of Indian talent to the West
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industry in India is bringing home as many as 45% of the Indian
high-technology workers abroad. Some engineering schools are already
claiming a 50% decline in the number of students leaving the country, and V.
Kalyanaraman of the prestigious engineering school IIT in Madras says:
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EDUCAUSE PUBLISHES FIRST WEB-ONLY BOOK
EDUCAUSE has published its first Web-only book, "Educating the Net
Generation," edited by Diana Oblinger, vice president of EDUCAUSE and
director of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative, and James
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Recent revisions to SAT [Scholastic Aptitude Tests] were
not successful, so even more revisions are being added.
*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"They both thought they were above the law."
[re: Howard Hughes and President Nixon being
involved in the Watergate scandal]
Nixon will be elected "under our sponsorship
and supervision every step of the way."
Howard Hughes
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
India will will be following in the footsteps of China
in terms of industrial development, then Indonesia.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
If you put your hand over the portion of the globe that
represents China, India and Indonesia, etc., half of the
world's population lives in the area represented.
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"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 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
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
Jul 1996 Notes From The Underground/Fyodor Dostoyevsky[#1] [notunxxx.xxx] 600
Jul 1996 Vanity Fair, by William Thackeray [Thackeray #1] [vfairxxx.xxx] 599
Jul 1996 Heimskringla [Norwegian Kings], by Snorri Sturlson[hmskrxxx.xxx] 598
Njal's Saga, by Unknown Icelanders 597
Jul 1996 Rivers to the Sea, by Sara Teasdale [Teasdale #4] [rivsexxx.xxx] 596
Jul 1996 The Sisters' Tragedy, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich[#1][sistrxxx.xxx] 595
Jul 1996 Twilight Stories, by Various Authors [twilsxxx.xxx] 594
Jul 1996 Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant V. 1 [GEM1][swgemxxx.xxx] 593
Jul 1996 Chinese Nightingale, et al, by Vachel Lindsay [#4][ngalexxx.xxx] 592
Jul 1996 Flame and Shadow, by Sara Teasdale [Teasdale #3] [fshadxxx.xxx] 591
Jul 1996 Robert Louis Stevenson, A Memorial by A. H. Japp [rlsjpxxx.xxx] 590
Jul 1996 Catriona (Kidnapped2) by Robt L. Stevenson[RLS#25][ctrnaxxx.xxx] 589
Jul 1996 Master Humphrey's Clock, by Charles Dickens [CD#5][mhmphxxx.xxx] 588
Jul 1996 Danny's Own Story, by Don Marquis [Don Marquis #2][dsownxxx.xxx] 587
Jul 1996 Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, et al, Thomas Browne[rmedixxx.xxx] 586
Jul 1996 Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, the Crafts [runngxxx.xxx] 585
Jul 1996 Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson [ourngxxx.xxx] 584
Jul 1996 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins [Collins #4] [wwhitxxx.xxx] 583
Jul 1996 A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories [BP#2] [bpstoxxx.xxx] 582
Jul 1996 Ginx's Baby, A Satire, by Edward Jenkins? [ginxbxxx.xxx] 581
Jul 1996 The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens [CD #3-4] [pwprsxxx.xxx] 580
Jul 1996 The Poems of Sidney Lanier [slanrxxx.xxx] 579
Jul 1996 Down With The Cities, by Tadashi NAKASHIMA [dwtctxxx.xxx] 578C
Jul 1996 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4 of 16 [sjv04xxx.xxx] 577
Jun 1996 The Project Gutenberg Web Pages [pgwebxxx.xxx] 576
Jun 1996 Essays of Francis Bacon [Francis Bacon #1] [ebacnxxx.xxx] 575
Jun 1996 Poems of William Blake, by William Blake [Blake#1][pblakxxx.xxx] 574
Jun 1996 Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb [tshakxxx.xxx] 573
Jun 1996 The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter [BP #1] [gbtbpxxx.xxx] 572
Jun 1996 The 1995 CIA World Factbook [CIA Factbook #5][world95x.xxx] 571
Jun 1996 The Moravians in Georgia, by Adelaide L. Fries [mrvgaxxx.xxx] 570
Jun 1996 Brann The Iconoclast, William Cowper Brann [vol12][bti12xxx.xxx] 569
Jun 1996 Brann The Iconoclast, William Cowper Brann [vol10][bti10xxx.xxx] 568
Jun 1996 Brann The Iconoclast, William Cowper Brann [vol 1][bti01xxx.xxx] 567
Jun 1996 The History of the Thirty Years' War, by Schiller [1jcfsxxx.xxx] 566
Jun 1996 Zincali, Gypsies of Spain by George Borrow [GB#4] [znclixxx.xxx] 565
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100 million readers is only ~1.5% of the world's population!
At 15,530 eBooks in 33 Years and 07.75 Months We Averaged
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38.5 Per Month
1.26 Per Day
At 574 eBooks Done In The 49 Days Of 2005 We Averaged
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82 Per Week
332 Per Month
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PHONE COMPANY SUSPECTED OF BLOCKING VOIP CALLS
The FCC's investigating whether a rural phone company blocked access to
the Vonage Internet-phone service, which was competing for the phone
company's customers. The company has not been identified. The problem became
public several days ago when Larry Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law
School and an advocate of Internet freedom, mentioned Vonage's problem at an
industry conference in Boulder, Colorado. Shutting off a potential
competitor could violate antitrust laws barring companies that control
essential facilities from refusing to give competitors the access needed to
compete. (Wall Street Journal 17 Feb 2005) <http://www.wsj.com>
NO RFID TAGS FOR SCHOOL KIDS -- AT LEAST FOR NOW
[I remember the same fight 50 years about out registering dogs and bikes,
and everyone thought how silly it was, but now we have to register cats.]
The InCom company, which developed Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
tags to monitor the whereabouts of school children, has pulled out of a deal
with Brittain Elementary School in Sutter, California. School principal
Earnie Graham says, "I'm disappointed... I think I let my staff down. Nobody
on this campus knows every student." Dawn Cantrall, the parent who objected
to the system and brought the ACLU in to stop its implementation, remains
skeptical: "I'm not convinced it's over. I'm happy for now that kids are not
being tagged, but I'm still fighting to keep it out of our school system. It
has to stop here." The system was conceived as a way of simplifying
attendance-taking, reducing vandalism, and keeping students safe.
(San Francisco Chronicle 16 Feb 2005
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/02/16/financial/f075453S34.DTL
'D' IS FOR 'DISMAL' U.S. GOV'T CYBERSECURITY
Despite widespread agreement that computer security should be a top
priority of U.S. government agencies, the latest cybersecurity progress
report from Congress rates overall government efforts a D-, with seven of
the 24 largest agencies earning a failing grade -- including the
departments of Energy and Homeland Security, which, ironically, houses the
National Cyber Security Division. "Several agencies continue to receive
failing grades, and that's unacceptable," says Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.),
chair of the House Government Reform Committee. But on the bright side,
says Davis, "We're also seeing some exceptional turnarounds." Those include
the departments of Transportation (up from a D+ to an A-), Justice (up from
an F to a B-) and the Interior (up from an F to a C+). Davis notes that
problem areas include lax security at federal contractor computers; a lack
of contingency planning for broad system failures; and scant training
opportunities for employees responsible for computer security.
(AP/Boston.com 16 Feb 2005)
<http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/02/16/agencies_earn
EDS SHIFTS CALL CENTER WORK TO INDIA
[Isn't this Ross Perot's company?]
EDS, a company that manages many corporate computer systems, plans to
close 21 call centers in the U.S. and Europe by the end of 2006 and shift
some of that work to India. EDS already operates three centers in India,
where salaries are much lower in the United States. EDS says that any U.S.
job losses would be by attrition and would be part of the 15,000 to 20,000
job eliminations that were revealed by the company last fall. Currently,
about 30,000 of the company's 120,000 employees work on software
applications, 27% of them in India and other "offshore" locations.
(San Jose Mercury News 23 Feb 2005)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10964039.htm>
[more on outsourcing]
LEGISLATION AGAINST BUSINESSES THAT OUTSOURCE
Colorado state senator Deanna Hanna has introduced legislation to
require that state to stop doing business with companies that outsource work
overseas instead of hiring U.S. workers. But critics of her bill say it
would actually cost the state millions of dollars, because so many companies
now rely on the practice of "offshoring." U.S. Bank economist Tucker Hart
Adams says Hanna's bill "will cost the state in terms of jobs, creating a
healthy economy, a good place to do business. Closed economies don't work."
(AP/USA Today 23 Feb 2005)
www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2005-02-23-colo-outsource-bill_x.htm
U.N. PANEL HOPES TO END WEB WAR
A U.N.-sponsored panel aims to settle a long-running tug of war for
control of the Internet at a Tunis meeting this November at the World Summit
on the Information Society, where global control of the World World Wide Web
may be decided. At present, the most recognizable Internet governance body
is the U.S.-based non-profit corporation called the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), but developing countries want an
international body such as the UN's International Telecommunication Union
(ITU) to have control over governance over Internet issues -- ranging from
distributing Web site domains to fighting spam. (The Australian 22 Feb 2005)
Rec'd from J Lamp, Deakin U.
australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12334019%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
ATLANTA SUBWAYS TO FEATURE TV SCREENS
Atlanta's subway system, MARTA (the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit
Authority), will be the first in the country to offer TV on its trains, and
will begin showing closed-caption local news programming this spring. An
Atlanta company called the Rail Network, which is providing the technology,
will pay MARTA at least $20 million from revenues derived from commercials
shown on half-hour local newscasts provided by Atlanta TV station WSB. The
TV screens will be visible from every part of MARTA's rail cars, and audio
in English or Spanish will be available to passengers with headphones
attached to radio FM tuners or cellphones with adapters. (Atlanta Journal
Constitution 23 Feb 2005) <http://www.ajc.com>
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
How one party managed to get a majority in Iraq elections
after all predictions were that they could not.
*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Hunter S. Thompson
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Publishers will continue spending millions on copy protection,
none of which will last even one year.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
A terabyte of hard drive how costs about the same as
the average computer.
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"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 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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La maison de la courtisane, by Oscar Wilde 15150
[Subtitle: Nouveaux Pomes]
[Tr.: Albert Savine]
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The Palace Beautiful, by L. T. Meade 15149
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[Language: French]
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My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales, by Edric Vredenburg 15145
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Punch, Vol. 103, August 27, 1892, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 15144
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Famous Modern Ghost Stories, by Various, Ed.: Emily Dorothy Scarborough 15143
Contents:
The Willows, by Algernon Blackwood
The Shadows on the Wall, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Messenger, by Robert W. Chambers
Lazarus, by Leonid Andreyev
The Beast with Five Fingers, by W. F. Harvey
The Mass of Shadows, by Anatole France
What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien
The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, by Ambrose Bierce
The Shell of Sense, by Olivia Howard Dunbar
The Woman at Seven Brothers, by Wilbur Daniel Steele
At the Gate, by Myla Jo Closser
Ligeia, by Edgar Allan Poe
The Haunted Orchard, by Richard Le Gallienne
The Bowmen, by Arthur Machen
A Ghost, by Guy de Maupassant
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Punch, Vol. 103, August 13, 1892, Ed. by Sir Francis Burnand 15142
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Beethoven, by George Alexander Fischer 15141
[Subtitle: A Character Study, together with Wagner's Indebtedness to
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Washington's Birthday, by Various, Ed. by Robert Haven Schauffler 15140
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Notizie del pubblico giardino de' semplici di Padova, Giovanni Marsili 15139
[Title: Notizie del pubblico giardino de' semplici di Padova compilate
intorno l'anno 1771]
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/3/15139 ]
[Files: 15139-8.txt; 15139-h.htm]
A Hoosier Chronicle, by Meredith Nicholson 15138
[Illus.: F. C. Yohn]
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The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, by Beatrix Potter 15137
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Amedeide, by Gabriello Chiabrera 15136
[Subtitle: Poema eroico]
[Language: Italian]
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The Three Black Pennys, by Joseph Hergesheimer 15135
[Subtitle: A Novel]
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Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador, by William Wood 15134
[Subtitle: Supplement to an Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William
Wood, F.R.S.C. Before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of
Conservation in January, 1911]
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Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains, by Stella M. Francis 15133
[Subtitle: or, A Christmas Success against Odds]
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[Files: 15133.txt; 15133-h.htm]
Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, by William Wells Brown 15132
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With Rimington, by L. March Phillipps 15131
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The Fugitive Blacksmith, by James W. C. Pennington 15130
[Subtitle: or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington]
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Ang Singsing nang Dalagang Marmol, by Isabelo de los Reyes 15129
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Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, by Jacob D. Green 15128
[Title: Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from
Kentucky]
[Subtitle: Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846,
and 1848]
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Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.), by C. A. Toledano 15127
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Lecture On The Aborigines Of Newfoundland, by Joseph Noad 15126
[Subtitle: Delivered Before The Mechanics' Institute, At St. John's,
Newfoundland, On Monday, 17th January, 1859]
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[Files: 15126.txt; 15126-8.txt; 15126-h.htm]
The Awakening of China, by W.A.P. Martin 15125
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The Lighthouse, by Robert Ballantyne 15124
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David Lockwin--The People's Idol, by John McGovern 15123
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The Little Colonel's Hero, by Annie Fellows Johnston 15122
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Punch, Vol. 152, May 2, 1917, Ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 15121
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The Broadway Anthology, by Edward L. Bernays et al. 15120
[Author: Edward L. Bernays, Samuel Hoffenstein, Walter J. Kingsley,
Murdock Pemberton]
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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations, Compiled by George W. Powers 15119
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The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C., Lunsford Lane 15118
[Subtitle: Embracing an Account of His Early Life, the Redemption by
Purchase of Himself and Family from Slavery, and His Banishment from
the Place of His Birth for the Crime of Wearing a Colored Skin]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/1/1/15118 ]
[Files: 15118.txt; 15118-h.htm; ]
Sea and Shore, by Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield 15117
[Subtitle: A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs"]
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[Files: 15117.txt; 15117-8.txt; 15117-h.htm]
The Jervaise Comedy, by J. D. Beresford 15116
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[Files: 15116.txt; 15116-8.txt; 15116-h.htm]
Novelas y teatro, by Cervantes 15115
[Language: Spanish]
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[Files: 15115-8.txt; 15115-h.htm]
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, by George Boole 15114
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/1/1/15114 ]
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Vie de Jesus, by Ernest Renan 15113
[Subtitle: Histoire des origines du christianisme; 1]
[Language: French]
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[Files: 15113-8.txt; 15113-h.htm]
Oeuvres completes de Paul Verlaine, Vol. 1, by Paul Verlaine 15112
[Subtitle: Poemes Saturniens, Fetes Galantes, Bonne chanson, Romances
sans paroles, Sagesse, Jadis et naguere]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/1/1/15112/ ]
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Randy and Her Friends, by Amy Brooks 15111
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Lessons of the War, by Spenser Wilkinson 15110
[Subtitle: Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith]
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A Woman's Part in a Revolution, by Natalie Harris Hammond 15109
[Author AKA: Mrs. John Hays Hammond]
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Lazarre, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood 15108
[Illus.: Andre Castaigne]
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La corde au cou, by Emile Gaboriau 15107
[Language: French]
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Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.), by C. H. Thomas 15106
[Subtitle: The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/1/0/15106/ ]
[Files: 15106.txt; 15106-8.txt; 15106-h.htm]
Jutelmia lahelta ja kaukaa I, by Pietari Hannikainen 15105
[Full title: Jutelmia lahelta ja kaukaa I: Etelan ja Pohjoisen Tytar;
Punainen Lahde]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/1/0/15105 ]
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Silmankaantaja, by Pietari Hannikainen 15104
[Subtitle: eli Jussi Oluvisen matka Holmolaan; ilveilys 2:ssa naytoksess]
[Language: Finnish]
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The Imaginary Marriage, by Henry St. John Cooper 15103
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A Working-Alms-House or Hospital, by Richard Haines 15102
[Title: Proposals For Building, In Every County, A Working-Alms-House
or Hospital]
[Subtitle: As The Best Expedient To Perfect The Trade And Manufactory
Of Linnen Cloth]
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The Mountain Spring And Other Poems, by Nannie R. Glass 15101
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The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay, by Arthur Phillip 15100
[Subtitle: With An Account Of The Establishment Of The Colonies Of
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The Hoosier Schoolmaster, by Edward Eggleston 15099
[Subtitle: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana]
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Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2), by John Morley 15098
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A Grammar of the English Tongue, by Samuel Johnson 15097
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My Life In The South, by Jacob Stroyer 15096
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The Story of a Picture, by Douglass Sherley 15095
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/5/0/9/15095 ]
[Files: 15095.txt; 15095-h.htm]
The Cab of the Sleeping Horse, by John Reed Scott 15094
[Illus.: William van Dresser]
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[Files: 15094.txt; 15094-8.txt; 15094-h.htm; ]
Phyllis, by Maria Thompson Daviess 15093
[Ill.: Percy D. Johnson]
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The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1872, by Various 15092
[Subtitle: A Typographic Art Journal]
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[Files: 15092.txt; 15092-8.txt; 15092-h.htm]
Architectural Illustration, Vol 1, No. 2, February 1895, by Various 15091
[Title: The Brochure Series Of Architectural Illustration]
[Subtitle: Byzantine-Romanesque Doorways in Southern Italy]
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Isain pahat teot lasten paalla, by Pietari Paivarinta 15090
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
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Apr 1996 From Twice Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne [#3][2talexxx.xxx] 508
Apr 1996 Adam Bede, by George Eliot [#2] [Mary Anne Evans] [adambxxx.xxx] 507
Apr 1996 The Shuttle, Frances Hodgson Burnett [Burnett #8] [tshtlxxx.xxx] 506
Apr 1996 Warfare of Science/Theology, Andrew Dickson White [hwswtxxx.xxx] 505
Apr 1996 The Fifth String, by John Philip Sousa [strngxxx.xxx] 504
Apr 1996 The Blue Fairy Book, A LARGE Collection [Fairy#1] [blfryxxx.xxx] 503
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Apr 1996 Desert Gold, by Zane Grey [Zane Grey eBook #2] [dgoldxxx.xxx] 502
Apr 1996 The Story of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting [dolitxxx.xxx] 501
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Apr 1996 Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, V. Appleton[#20][20tomxxx.xxx] 499
Apr 1996 Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm, by Kate Douglas Wiggin[snybkxxx.xxx] 498
Apr 1996 Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Henry J. Coke [trlstxxx.xxx] 497
Apr 1996 The Little Lame Prince, by Miss Mulock [lamepxxx.xxx] 496
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Apr 1996 To-morrow, by Joseph Conrad [Conrad Series #5] [2mrowxxx.xxx] 494
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Apr 1996 The Art of Writing, Robert Louis Stevenson [RLS22][artowxxx.xxx] 492
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CHINA'S CRACKDOWN ON INTERNET CAFES
Chinese authorities shut down more than 12,575 Internet cafes in the
last three months of 2004 to create a "safer environment for young people in
China," according to the Xinhua News Agency. With 87 million people online,
China has the world's second-largest population of Internet users (after the
U.S.), and the government actively promotes Internet use for business and
education. However, communist authorities block access to Web sites they
deem pornographic or subversive and Internet cafes are banned from operating
near schools. (AP/Washington Times 14 Feb 2005)
<http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_INTERNET_CRACKDOWN?SI
TE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME>
'THE NEW FORMAT IS NO FORMAT'
Music lovers may well be wondering why it is they're required to buy
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8-track, cassette, CD, etc.) and one music industry veteran predicts that
cycle is coming to an end. "The new format is no format. What the consumer
would buy is a data file, and you could create whatever you need. If you
want to make an MP3, you make an MP3. If you want a DVD-Audio surround
disc, you make that," says George Petersen, editorial director of Mix
magazine. The numbers seem to support Petersen's prediction: during the
second half of 2004 more than 91 million digital tracks were sold, compared
with 19.2 million in the same period in 2003 -- an increase of 376%. And
Apple, which reports total iPod sales between 10 and 11 million since its
launch in 2001, notes that 8.2 million of those sales took place last year.
Meanwhile, record labels who predicted digital music would be the death of
them are seeing CD sales up 2.3% last year, compared with 2003. Petersen
says music merchants need to capitalize on the digital trend and should
consider offering services for customers who might not have the latest
technology at home, such as burning CDs for them and offering
high-resolutions graphics for a jewel case. "Why aren't record stores using
the Internet? If you keep things old-school, you are going to die."
(Washington Post 13 Feb 2005)
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[Two stories: "Big Brother WILL Be Watching YOU."]
[Of course, the secret police won't be carrying these.
The reason they will give is that they are SECRET police.
You can't have pictures of them, their fingerprints are not
in the databases, voiceprints, DNA, etc., are all secret.]
'SMART' DRIVER'S LICENSES A TROJAN HORSE?
A move by Congress to endorse a Republican-backed measure that would
compel states to redesign their driver's licenses by 2008 to comply with
standards for making them electronically readable has critics questioning
government's motives, saying it gives the Department of Homeland Security
carte blanche to do nearly anything "to protect the national security
interests of the United States." Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) says, "Supporters
claim it is not a national ID because it is voluntary. However, any state
that opts out will automatically make nonpersons out of its citizens. They
will not be able to fly or to take a train." Proponents of the Real ID Act
say it reflects the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and will help in
the battle against terrorism and efforts to identify illegal immigrants.
But Paul says, "In reality, this bill is a Trojan horse. It pretends to
offer desperately needed border control in order to stampede Americans into
sacrificing what is uniquely American: our constitutionally protected
liberty." (CNet News.com 14 Feb 2005)
<http://news.com.com/From+high-tech+drivers+licenses+to+national+ID+cards/21
00-1028_3-5573414.html>
[and on a related issue]
CONTROVERSIAL USE OF RFID TECHNOLOGY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Brittan Elementary School in rural Sutter, California, is requiring students
to wear radio frequency identification (RFID) badges that can track their
movements in order to simplify attendance-taking, curtail vandalism,
and improve student safety. But civil libertarians are alarmed, and ACLU
representative Nicole Ozer warns, "If this school doesn't stand up, then
other schools might adopt it. You might be a small community, but you are
one of the first communities to use this technology." Angry parent Michael
Cantrall, who alerted the ACLU to the school9s decision to use RFID
technology, which is also used to track merchandise, says: "There is a way
to make kids safer without making them feel like a piece of inventory. Are
we trying to bring them up with respect and trust, or tell them that you
can't trust anyone, you are always going to be monitored, and someone is
always going to be watching you?" Each student is required to wear
identification cards around their necks with their picture, name and grade
and a wireless transmitter that beams their ID number to a teacher's
handheld computer when the child passes under an antenna posted above a
classroom door. But the IDs have been welcomed by some parents, such as one
who notes: "This is not Mayberry. This is Sutter, California. Bad things can
happen here." (AP 10 Feb 2005)
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>From Edupage
SURVEY PREDICTS SLIDE IN HIGHER ED IT SPENDING
A recent Market Data Retrieval survey of IT officials at more than
1,400 two- and four-year colleges and universities suggests a decline
of 4 percent in IT spending this year compared to last year, itself a
decline over the previous year. Analysts at the research firm said the
decline is likely a result not only of tight budgets overall but also
of increased performance of hardware, allowing lower costs for some
investments. The overall drop of 4 percent is the net of a 13 percent
slide in investments at public institutions and a 28 percent increase
at private institutions. Private institutions continue to significantly
outpace their public counterparts on IT spending per student, spending
an average of $553 per student versus $203 at publics. The survey also
found slightly lower rates of distance education offerings, down from
67 percent to 64 percent, and an increase in wireless networks, rising
from 70 percent last year to 79 percent this year.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 February 2005 (sub. req'd)
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
Last week's prediction read:
The results of the Iraqi elections will be held up for so long
that no one will care who was elected, or how many voted. . .
the fact that elections were held at all will called victory.
By now it must be obvious that there is a LOT going on "behind
the scenes" of the Iraqi elections, that took place January 30.
The media headlined a 57% turnout among eligible voters, but a
report on voter registration of Iraqis in the US was at 7% just
a day before extended registration periods finally closed. In
other countries around the world it was reported a bit higher,
but nothing on the order of even half the 57% headline numbers,
which would have been about 8 million voters.
Even the most literate, or numerate, reporters have now started
to question the reliability and validity of these reports, and
note that Iraqi election officials are becoming more and more
hesitant to answer questions as the vote count proceeds, rather
than having more to say as the count is more completed.
I know I often test the memories of our readers by asking them
to remember previous events of a similar nature, but it is now
obvious that the media should be comparing these new election
reports to previous elections in countries the United States
supposedly was saving from corrupt dictatorships and military
threats to world peace. The 1967 Viet Nam elections should be
coming to mind, as should the 1984 El Salvador elections, both
with similar initially high voter turnout headlines, which had
to be "adjusted" to lower and lower figures until it became all
too obvious that the initial figures were purely propaganda.
If the voter registration figures in Iraq at all resemble those
in all the other countries where Iraqis were registered to vote,
then it would be quite surprising if even 1/2 of the the 57% of
the initial voter turnout reports actually had registered, much
less successfully cast ballots.
The real question for us, locally, is why our media is not out
there asking questions about what is happening, but simply not
doing anything but reporting what they have been told to say?
Of course, if you really analyze just one week's worth of news,
you'll find just how much of the major media tells you is just
straight from the mouth of government officials, rather than a
"fair and unbiased" investigation into what really happens.
Initial reports of strong Sunni voter turnout have now proven
to have simply been pie in the sky to encourgage such turnout,
but it never caught on, even with the aid of such propaganda
relayed by many media sources who said those who reported more
truthful turnout figures were incorrect at best, and liars at
the worst.
Interesting when the liars call the truth tellers liars. . . .
When things go wrong, the current plan seems to be to muddy
the waters so badly that no one can tell what is happening,
and then reports are delayed so long that no one cares.
"That report is no longer operational," is what the Nixon
media people would say in such cases. I wonder how that
technique actually worked out in a historical perspective?
Worldwide press seems to be doing a little better, with at
least one of the major wire services quoting a high placed
Western diplomat as saying that voter turnout in the large
Anbar province was "quite low". . .but you probably never
heard that from the Western media.
Carlos Valenzuela, United Nations Chief Elections Expert
in Iraq said that predicted Sunni turnouts were so very
low that even if they proved to be too low that the real
turnout would still be low. But this hasn't been getting
much air time in the U.S.
The New York Times may have been one of the only sources
to actually report some hard figures, stating that their
sources reported "somewhat more than 50,000 of Mosul's
500,000 estimated eligible voters" had turned out in a
vote that had been 60% counted by February 3. Yet this
is not being used as a basis for other media stories.
There is a lot more to be said here, this merely touches
the tip of the iceberg. Some are questionning the actual
population figures for Iraq, other question those of real
voting age, etc., but there don't seem to be hard figures,
something the media has had a few years to come up with.
*STRANGE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"GI Joe was apparently captured and beheaded by terrorists
in Iraq, as the pictures previously released have now been
identified as the diminutive U.S. soldier of great fame."
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
A new DVD will become available that will be able to hold
nearly every word in every book in the Library of Congress.
[Details available on request]
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
Blogs are becoming the latest successor to the Gutenberg Press,
as they become the predominant fact releasing tool for the public.
[see Charlie Rose, 2/15/05]
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"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 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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