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Poems, by Christina G. Rossetti 19188
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Chevalier de Mornac, by Joseph Marmette 19187
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Les contemporains, premiere serie, by Jules Lemaitre 19186
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[Language: French]
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Santa Teresa, by Alexander Whyte 19185
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Scientific American, Volume 24, No. 12, March 18, 1871, by Various 19180
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Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights, Kelly Miller 19179
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Kylakertomuksia, by Arne Garborg 19178
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Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting, by Randolph Caldecott 19177
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Kuvauksia metsaelamasta sivistyksen aarimmaisella rajalla, by Cooper 19176
[Subtitle: eli Natty Bumpon elamanvaiheet]
[Author: James Fenimore Cooper]
[Translator: K. E. S.]
[Language: Finnish]
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A Little Rebel, by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford 19175
[Subtitle: A Novel]
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An Australian in China, by George Ernest Morrison 19172
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The Moving Picture Girls, by Laura Lee Hope 19171
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Primavera, by Phillips, Binyon, Ghose, and Cripps 19170
[Subtitle: Poems by Four Authors]
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Baseball ABC, by McLoughlin Bros 19169
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Studies in Forensic Psychiatry, by Bernard Glueck 19168
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Billy Whiskers, by Francis Trego Montgomery 19167
[Subtitle: The Autobiography of a Goat]
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The Quirt, by B.M. Bower 19166
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Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase, by William M. Evarts 19165
[Subtitle: Delivered by William M. Evarts before the Alumni of
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Lectures on Art, by John Ruskin 19164
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Marchen fur Kinder, by Hans Christian Andersen 19163
[Illustrator: Nikolai Karasin, A. Zick, P. Schnorr, F. Reis, E. Klimsch,
E. Kepler, M. Flashar, H. Effenberger]
[Translator: Paul Arndt]
[Language: German]
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The Lost Valley, by J. M. Walsh 19162
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De Roos van Dekama, by J. van Lennep 19161
[Language: Dutch]
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Disturbed Ireland, by Bernard H. Becker 19160
[Subtitle: Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81]
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[Files: 19160.txt; 19160-8.txt; 19160-h.htm]
Project Gutenberg DVD: July 2006 Special 19159C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/5/19159 ]
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The Return, by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire 19158
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/5/19158 ]
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A Mother's List of Books for Children, by Gertrude Weld Arnold 19157
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/5/19157 ]
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The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863, by Various 19156
[Subtitle: Devoted to Literature and National Policy]
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The Seminole Indians of Florida, by Clay MacCauley 19155
[Subtitle: Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government
Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532]
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With Lee in Virginia, by G. A. Henty 19154
[Subtitle: A Story of the American Civil War]
(See also #2805)
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New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology, Volume I, by Bryant 19153
[Author: Jacob Bryant]
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Le journal d'une pensionnaire en vacances, by Noemie Dondel Du Faouedic 19152
[Language: French]
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Punch, Vol. 159, August 11, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 19151
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The Red Conspiracy, by Joseph J. Mereto 19150
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Locus Solus, by Raymond Roussel 19149
[Language: French]
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The Henchman, by Mark Lee Luther 19148
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The House in the Mist, by Anna Katharine Green 19147
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The Entailed Hat, by George Alfred Townsend 19146
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Framley Parsonage, by Anthony Trollope 2860
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The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde 844
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The Time Traders, by Andre Norton 19145
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[Files: 19145.txt; 19145-h.htm]
A Visit to the Micmac Indians, by William MacGregor 19144
[Title: Report by the Governor on a Visit to the Micmac Indians
at Bay d'Espoir]
[Subtitle: Colonial Reports, Miscellaneous. No. 54. Newfoundland]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/4/19144 ]
[Files: 19144.txt; 19144-h.htm]
Correggio, by Estelle M. Hurll 19143
[Subtitle: A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The
Painter With Introduction And Interpretation]
[Illustrator: Correggio]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/4/19143 ]
[Files: 19143.txt; 19143-8.txt; 19143-0.txt; 19143-h.htm]
The Devil Doctor, by Sax Rohmer 19142
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/4/19142 ]
[Files: 19142.txt; 19142-8.txt; 19142-h.htm]
Edison's Conquest of Mars, by Garrett Putman Serviss 19141
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/4/19141 ]
[Files: 19141.txt; 19141-h.htm]
Girlhood and Womanhood, by Sarah Tytler 19140
[Subtitle: The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/4/19140 ]
[Files: 19140.txt; 19140-8.txt; 19140-h.htm]
Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century, Clarence Henry Haring 19139
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19139 ]
[Files: 19139.txt; 19139-8.txt; 19139-h.htm]
Resonance in Singing and Speaking, by Thomas Fillebrown 19138
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19138 ]
[Files: 19138.txt; 19138-8.txt; 19138-h.htm]
Kumarrusmatka, by Robert Kiljander 19137
[Subtitle: Kolminaytoksinen huvinaytelma]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19137 ]
[Files: 19137-8.txt]
Hayslope Grange, by Emma Leslie 19136
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Civil War]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19136 ]
[Files: 19136.txt; 19136-h.htm]
The Southerner, by Thomas Dixon 19135
[Subtitle: A Romance of the Real Lincoln]
[Illustrator: J. N. Marchand]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19135 ]
[Files: 19135.txt; 19135-8.txt; 19135-h.htm]
The Empire of Love, by W. J. Dawson 19134
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19134 ]
[Files: 19134.txt; 19134-8.txt]
Practical Rules for the Management of a Locomotive Engine, by Gregory 19133
[Author: Charles Hutton Gregory]
[Subtitle: in the Station, on the Road, and in cases of Accident]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19133 ]
[Files: 19133.txt; 19133-h.htm]
Banbury Chap Books, by Edwin Pearson 19132
[Subtitle: And Nursery Toy Book Literature]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19132 ]
[Files: 19132.txt; 19132-8.txt; 19132-h.htm]
Golden Lads, by Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason 19131
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19131 ]
[Files: 19131.txt; 19131-8.txt; 19131-h.htm]
Stonehenge, by Frank Stevens 19130
[Subtitle: Today and Yesterday]
[Illustrator: Heywood Sumner]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/3/19130 ]
[Files: 19130.txt; 19130-8.txt; 19130-h.htm]
The She Boss, by Arthur Preston Hankins 19129
[Subtitle: A Western Story]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19129 ]
[Files: 19129.txt; 19129-8.txt; 19129-h.htm]
Ada, by Hasse Zetterstrom 19128
[Language: Swedish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19128 ]
[Files: 19128-8.txt; 19128-h.htm]
Punch, Vol. 159, December 8, 1920, ed. by Owen Seaamus 19127
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19127 ]
[Files: 19127.txt; 19127-8.txt; 19127-h.htm]
Raemaekers' Cartoons, by Louis Raemaekers 19126
[Subtitle: With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers]
[Contributor: H. H. Asquith]
[Editor: Francis Stopford]
[Illustrator: Louis Raemaekers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19126 ]
[Files: 19126.txt; 19126-8.txt; 19126-h.htm]
Satanen muistelmia Pohjanmaalta, by Saara Wacklin 19125
[Translator: J. Aulen]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19125 ]
[Files: 19125-8.txt]
La princesse de Monpensier, by Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette 19124
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19124 ]
[Files: 19124-8.txt]
The Botanical Magazine, Vol. V, by William Curtis 19123
[Subtitle: Or, Flower-Garden Displayed]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19123 ]
[Files: 19123.txt; 19123-8.txt; 19123-h.htm]
Love Instigated, by Douglass Sherley 19122
[Subtitle: The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19122 ]
[Files: 19122.txt; 19122-8.txt; 19122-h.htm]
Sword and Gown, by George A. Lawrence 19121
[Subtitle: A Novel]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19121 ]
[Files: 19121.txt; 19121-8.txt; 19121-h.htm]
The Saddle Boys of the Rockies, by James Carson 19120
[Subtitle: Lost on Thunder Mountain]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19120 ]
[Files: 19120.txt; 19120-h.htm]
Cerberus, The Dog of Hades, by Maurice Bloomfield 19119
[Subtitle: The History of an Idea]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19119 ]
[Files: 19119.txt; 19119-8.txt; 19119-h.htm]
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Vol. 25, Ed. by Blair & Robertson 19118
[Subtitle: Volume VII, 1635-1636] (Note: Vol. 25 of 55)
[Ed.: Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson]
[Intro. and Notes: Edward Gaylord Bourne]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19118 ]
[Files: 19118.txt; 19118-8.txt; 19118-h.htm]
Sergeant York And His People, by Sam Cowan 19117
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19117 ]
[Files: 19117.txt; 19117-h.htm]
How to Sing, by Lilli Lehmann 19116
[Subtitle: Meine Gesangskunst]
[Translator: Richard Aldrich]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19116 ]
[Files: 19116.txt; 19116-8.txt; 19116-h.htm]
Roman Britain in 1914, by F. Haverfield 19115
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19115 ]
[Files: 19115.txt; 19115-8.txt; 19115-h.htm]
Foe-Farrell, by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 19114
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19114 ]
[Files: 19114.txt; 19114-h.htm]
The Emigrant Trail, by Geraldine Bonner 19113
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19113 ]
[Files: 19113.txt; 19113-8.txt; 19113-h.htm]
La foire aux vanites, Tome I, by William Makepeace Thackeray 19112
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19112 ]
[Files: 19112-8.txt; 19112-h.htm]
Code Three, by Rick Raphael 19111
[Illustrator: Schoenherr]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19111 ]
[Files: 19111.txt; 19111-h.htm]
The Arena, by Various 19110
[Subtitle: Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891]
[Editor: B. O. Flower]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/1/19110 ]
[Files: 19110.txt; 19110-8.txt; 19110-h.htm]
Poems, by Hattie Howard 19109
[Subtitle: Vol. IV]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19109 ]
[Files: 19109.txt; 19109-8.txt; 19109-h.htm]
The Golden Silence, by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson 19108
[Illustrator: George Brehm]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19108 ]
[Files: 19108.txt; 19108-8.txt; 19108-h.htm]
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Aug 2006 The Buln-Buln and the Brolga, by Joseph Furphy [0606841x.xxx] 1202A
[Author AKA: Tom Collins (pseud.]
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Aug 2006 Michael Howe, by Thomas E Wells [0606831x.xxx] 1201A
[Title: Michael Howe-The Last and Worst of the Bush-Rangers
of Van Dieman's Land]
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Aug 2006 Wake Not the Dead, by Johann Ludwig Tieck [0606821x.xxx] 1200A
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Aug 2006 Vampire, by Jan Neruda [0606811x.xxx] 1199A
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Aug 2006 Valperga, by Mary Shelley [0606801x.xxx] 1198A
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Aug 2006 The Weird Violin, by Anonymous [0606791x.xxx] 1197A
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Aug 2006 The Story of Clifford House, by Anonymous [0606781x.xxx] 1196A
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Aug 2006 The Spectre-Smitten, by Samuel Warren [0606771x.xxx] 1195A
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Aug 2006 The Spectre Hand, by Anonymous [0606761x.xxx] 1194A
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Aug 2006 The Seven Lights, by John Mackay Wilson [0606751x.xxx] 1193A
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Aug 2006 The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin, Anonymous [0606741x.xxx] 1192A
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Aug 2006 The Mysterious Spaniard, by Anonymous [0606731x.xxx] 1191A
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Aug 2006 The Murder Hole, by Anonymous [0606721x.xxx] 1190A
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Aug 2006 The Haunted House, by John Whittier [0606711x.xxx] 1189A
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Aug 2006 The Desire to be a Man, by de L'isle-Adam [0606701x.xxx] 1188A
[Author: Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]
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Aug 2006 The Banshee, by Anonymous [0606691x.xxx] 1187A
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Aug 2006 Tales of the Midnight Club, by C E Van Loan [0606681x.xxx] 1186A
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Aug 2006 Red-Headed Windego, by Edward William Thomson [0606671x.xxx] 1185A
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Aug 2006 Lukundoo, by Edward Lucas White [0606661x.xxx] 1184A
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Aug 2006 In a Fog, by Anonymous [0606651x.xxx] 1183A
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Aug 2006 Found and Lost, by Anonymous [0606641x.xxx] 1182A
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Aug 2006 Extracts from Gosschen's Diary, by Anonymous [0606631x.xxx] 1181A
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Aug 2006 Collected stories, by Ellen Wood [0606621x.xxx] 1180A
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Aug 2006 An Express of the Future, by Jules Verne [0606611x.xxx] 1179A
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Aug 2006 The True Story of A Vampire & more, Eric Stenbock [0606601x.xxx] 1178A
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Aug 2006 The Rider on the White Horse, by Theodor Storm [0606591x.xxx] 1177A
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Aug 2006 The Ray of Displacement & other stories, Spofford [0606581x.xxx] 1176A
[Author: Harriet Prescott Spofford]
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Aug 2006 The Past, by Ellen Glasgow [0606571x.xxx] 1175A
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Aug 2006 The Orphan of the Rhine, by Eleanor Sleath [0606561x.xxx] 1174A
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Aug 2006 The Kirk Spook and more, by E G Swain [0606551x.xxx] 1173A
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Aug 2006 The Great Staircase at Landover Hall, by Stockton [0606541x.xxx] 1172A
[Author: Frank Stockton]
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Aug 2006 Olalla, by Robert Louis Stevenson [0606531x.xxx] 1171A
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Aug 2006 No. 11 Welham Square, by Herbert Stephen [0606521x.xxx] 1170A
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Aug 2006 Martin Faber -- The Story of a Criminal, by Simms [0606511x.xxx] 1169A
[Author: William Gilmore Simms]
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Aug 2006 Malvern Chase, by W S Symonds [0606501x.xxx] 1168A
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Aug 2006 Collected stories, by May Sinclair [0606491x.xxx] 1167A
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Aug 2006 Buried Alive!, by Percy B St John [0606481x.xxx] 1166A
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Aug 2006 A Teacher of the Violin & Other Stories,Shorthouse[0606471x.xxx] 1165A
[Author: J H Shorthouse]
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Aug 2006 Zastrozzi, by Percy Bysshe Shelley [0606461x.xxx] 1164A
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Aug 2006 The Wendigo, by Theodore Roosevelt [0606451x.xxx] 1163A
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Aug 2006 The Miraculous Revenge, by George Bernard Shaw [0606441x.xxx] 1162A
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Aug 2006 The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew, by Runyon [0606431x.xxx] 1161A
[Author: Damon Runyon]
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Aug 2006 The Heir of Mondolfo, by Mary Shelley [0606421x.xxx] 1160A
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Aug 2006 The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, by Mary Shelley [0606411x.xxx] 1159A
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Aug 2006 Extraordinary Adventure of a Chief Mate,by Russell[0606401x.xxx] 1158A
[Author: W Clark Russell]
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Aug 2006 St Irvyne, by Percy Bysshe Shelley [0606391x.xxx] 1157A
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Aug 2006 Lodore, by Mary Shelley [0606381x.xxx] 1156A
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Aug 2006 Bloody Blanche, by Marcel Schwob [0606371x.xxx] 1155A
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Aug 2006 A Mysterious Portrait, by Mark Rutherford [0606361x.xxx] 1154A
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Aug 2006 The Greene Murder Case, by S S Van Dine [0606351x.xxx] 1153A
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Aug 2006 The Hundred Days, by Talbot Mundy [0606341x.xxx] 1152A
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Aug 2006 The Witches' Sabbath, by James Platt [0606331x.xxx] 1151A
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Aug 2006 The Unholy Compact Abjured, by Pigault-Lebrun [0606321x.xxx] 1150A
[Author: Charles Pigault-Lebrun]
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Aug 2006 The Insane Root, by Rosa Praed [0606311x.xxx] 1149A
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Aug 2006 The Feather Pillow, by Horacio Quiroga [0606301x.xxx] 1148A
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Aug 2006 The Demon of the Hartz, by Thomas Peckett Prest [0606291x.xxx] 1147A
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Aug 2006 That Damned Fellow Upstairs, by Edmund Pearson [0606281x.xxx] 1146A
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Aug 2006 Luck, by Marjorie Pickthall [0606271x.xxx] 1145A
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Aug 2006 Four wooden Stakes, by Victor Roman [0606261x.xxx] 1144A
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Aug 2006 Collected stories, by Charlotte Riddell [0606251x.xxx] 1143A
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Aug 2006 When I Was Dead & Other Stories,Vincent O'Sullivan[0606241x.xxx] 1142A
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In the 34 weeks of this year, we have produced 2857 new eBooks.
It took us from 07/71 to 10/01 to produce our FIRST 2857 eBooks!!!
That's 34 WEEKS as Compared to ~30 YEARS!!!
FLASHBACK!
Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2857
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
[Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format]
The Yellow God, by H. Rider Haggard 2857
[Subtitle: An Idol of Africa]
Moon of Israel, by H. Rider Haggard 2856
Elissa, by H. Rider Haggard 2855
Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols 2854
Oct 2001 Quo Vadis, The Time of Nero, by Henryk Sienkiewicz[quvdsxxx.xxx] 2853
[Title: Quo Vadis, A Narrative of the Time of Nero]
[Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin]
Oct 2001 The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle 25[bskrvxxx.xxx] 2852
Sixes and Sevens, by O. Henry 2851
Oct 2001 The Wars of The Jews, by Flavius Josephus [warjexxx.xxx] 2850
[Title: The Wars of The Jews or the History of the Destruction of
Jerusalem]
Oct 2001 Against Apion, by Flavius Josephus[Tr. Wm. Whiston[agaapxxx.xxx] 2849
Oct 2001 The Antiquities of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus [taofjxxx.xxx] 2848
Oct 2001 Josephus' Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades[hadesxxx.xxx] 2847
[Title: An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning
Hades]
Oct 2001 The Life of Flavius Josephus, Tr. by Wm. Whiston [lfjosxxx.xxx] 2846
Oct 2001 Sir Nigel, by Arthur Conan Doyle [A. C. Doyle #24][nigelxxx.xxx] 2845
The Fatal Boots, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2844
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2843
Black Heart and White Heart, by H. Rider Haggard 2842
The Ivory Child, by H. Rider Haggard 2841
(Note: These three are our first eBooks in Flemish/Dutch:)
Sep 2001 De Franse Pers, Heinrich Heine [#3/Flemish/Dutch][fpersxxx.xxx] 2840
[Language: Dutch]
Sep 2001 Franse Toestanden, Heinrich Heine[2/Flemish/Dutch][ftoesxxx.xxx] 2839
[Language: Dutch]
Sep 2001 De Beurs lacht, Heinrich Heine [#1/Flemish/Dutch][fbeurxxx.xxx] 2838
[Language: Dutch]
Sep 2001 Lendas do Sul, by J. Somoes Lopes Netto [lendaxxx.xxx] 2837
[Language: Portuguese] (Note: Our First eBook in Portuguese!)
Sep 2001 Abraham Lincoln and the Union, Nath'l W Stephenson[alatuxxx.xxx] 2836
[Author: Nathaniel W. Stephenson]
Sep 2001 The Canadian Dominion, by Oscar D. Skelton [cndndxxx.xxx] 2835
Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 2, by Henry James[#37][2pldyxxx.xxx] 2834
Sep 2001 The Portrait of a Lady, Vol 1, by Henry James[#36][1pldyxxx.xxx] 2833
Sep 2001 Myth, Ritual, and Religion, V1, by Andrew Lang #28[1mrarxxx.xxx] 2832
Sep 2001 A Bundle of Ballads, by Henry Morley [bndbaxxx.xxx] 2831
Sep 2001 Reginald, by Saki (H. H. Munro) [Saki HH Munro #5][rgnldxxx.xxx] 2830
Sep 2001 Fanny and the Servant Problem, by Jerome K. Jerome[fnyspxxx.xxx] 2829
Sep 2001 Under the Deodars, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling #19][undeoxxx.xxx] 2828
/
Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet?
If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of
6,540,879,049 that would be 21,002 x 65,408,790 = ~1.37 Trillion !!!
With 21,002 eBooks online as of August 30, 2006 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.73 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,408,790 x 21,002 x $.73 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
[By the way, the US "popclock" is about to turn to 300 million people.]
[Just turned 299.6 million this week!]
A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.48 Value Per Book To 100 Million
With 21,002 eBooks online as of August 30, 2006 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.48 from each book.
This "cost" is down from about $.59 when we had 17,063 eBooks a year ago.
Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.
Next Decade's Target: 15% Of The world Population = 1,000,000,000 people.
At 21,002 eBooks in 35 Years and 01.80 Months We Averaged
597 Per Year
50 Per Month
1.64 Per Day
At 2857 eBooks Done In The 238 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
12.0 Per Day
84 per Week
366 Per Month
If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S.
you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear,
are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope.
However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a
300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M,
just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so
it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M.
Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the
districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
IZON MISTAKENLY E-MAILS CUSTOMER DATA
Verizon Wireless mistakenly e-mailed an Excel spreadsheet containing
information on more than 5,200 subscribers to about 1,800 customers of
the company. The e-mail was supposed to include an electronic order
form for a Bluetooth wireless headset as part of a promotional offer.
The Excel file did not contain highly sensitive information such as
credit card or Social Security numbers, but it did include names,
e-mail addresses, and cell phone models and numbers. Even with such
relatively benign information, identity thieves have a head start on
committing fraud, according to security experts. James Van Dyke, the
principal analyst at Javelin Strategy and Research, noted that a
skilled con artist could use the information in the spreadsheet to
contact someone on the list, posing as a representative of Verizon, and
possibly obtain more sensitive information. A spokesperson from Verizon
said the company takes seriously its obligation to protect consumer
data and has implemented new measures to prevent a recurrence of this
kind of incident. The company also encouraged customers to add
passwords to their accounts.
CNET, 25 August 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1029_3-6109883.html
DETAILS SURFACE ABOUT UC DEAL WITH GOOGLE
[This reports seems to have been "sanitized" compared to earlier
such reports that made it sound as if the entire contract between
Google and whole University of California system had been leaked.
In addition, it seems to not quite state flatly that if the deal
requires UC to ONLY provide EXCLUSIVE copies to Google, then the
deal they made with Yahoo's Brewster Kahle would be void. . .and
what would the legal implicaions be?]
Details of the recent deal in which the University of California will
join Google's book-scanning project have been released through an
open-records request. Under the deal, the university will provide as
many as 3,000 books per day to the search engine for digitization,
eventually totaling at least 2.5 million books. The university and
Google will keep copies of the digitized works, but the university is
bound by a number of restrictions on how it can use its copies. For
example, the university must prevent other search engines from scanning
the books. Critics of the project, including Brewster Kahle, cofounder
of the Internet Archive, said Google is getting more than it should
from the arrangement. He faulted the university for "spend[ing]
millions of taxpayers' dollars to benefit a single corporation's
interest in building a private library." Daniel Greenstein, director of
the California Digital Library and one of the brokers of the deal, said
that Google's business model and its interests align well with the
university's goal of providing free "public access for the public domain."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 August 2006
http://chronicle.com/free/2006/08/2006082501t.htm
DELL PRIORITIZES BATTERY REPLACEMENTS
[This on top of several other reports of poor quality control
and other woes for Dell after Michael Dell took a more "hands
off" approach to running his company.]
Dell has announced certain prioritizations for its recall of 4.1
million laptop batteries. After reports of some batteries overheating
and possibly catching fire, Dell reached a voluntary agreement with the
Consumer Product Safety Commission to replace the batteries. Troy West,
vice president and general manager of Dell's federal segment, said
that priority will be given to customers in national security, health
care, public safety, and emergency management services for replacement
batteries, though he refused to say when the recall would be complete.
Early bulk shipments of replacement batteries were sent to the
Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Military Academy at West
Point, and Fort Hood, Texas. West also said that several thousand
replacements have been sent to a parts hub in Kuwait that is
distributing them to defense contractors.
Federal Computer Week, 25 August 2006
http://www.fcw.com/article95806-08-25-06-Web
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION EXPOSES LOAN DATA
The U.S. Department of Education said it is working to fix a computer
problem that allowed student borrowers to see loan information for
other students. According to the agency, the problem resulted from a
routine software upgrade by Affiliated Computers Services Inc., a
contractor to the agency. Evidently, that upgrade caused student loan
data for borrowers to be accessed by others when using the Education
Department's Web site. A spokesperson from the Education Department
said that four users of the Web system had notified the agency since
last Sunday of the problem. The breach was said to have affected only a
"limited number" of the 6.4 million students who borrowed money under
the Federal Direct Student Loan program. Those with loans through other
lenders are not affected. The agency said it has temporarily turned off
the features of the student loan Web site that were leading to the
problems and would keep those features off until the problem is resolved.
Houston Chronicle, 23 August 2006
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4136336.html
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
*QUOTATION OF THE WEEK
"When nations create secure, secret, or classified documents,
the object is more to preserve their secrecy from their own
population than from their stated enemies. To them, the real
enemies are their own people, [the people who could vote
them out of office."
Noam Chomsky
Paraphrase of statement on Alternative Radio as on WILL-AM
~6:30PM, 08/26/06
/
"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of
'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini.
In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe,
and 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps.
This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement
that demagoguery attains." ---Herbert Hoover
*STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
1/8 of the official population of the United States
is composed of immigrants.
/
85% of Americans Graduate from High School
28% of Americans Graduate from College
That means about 1/3 of the high school grads finish college.
However, equally true is that about 1/3 of the high school grads
have never attained the reading skills required to read a dozen,
or so, books required of them every single year.
President White of the University of Illinois says that colleges
are dropping the ball by graduating only 28% of of Americans for
whom 85% have already managed a high school diploma. He said at
the opening of the Fall semester than government should spend an
increasing amount on education to fill this gap.
Let's look into these statistics a little more:
28% / 85% = ~1/3 of all high school students graduate college.
When I was a kid the percentage of college degress was only some
half as much of the total population. . .~14%, so I would say it
is obvious that college plays an ever incrasing role in lives of
Americans. . .twice as much as it used to, in fact.
However, official US Adult Literacy statistics show that about a
half of all adult Americans would be challenged in reading this,
much less by reading all the materials for a college degree.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) released by the
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), found little
change between 1992 and 2003 in adults' ability to read and
understand sentences and paragraphs or to understand documents
such as job applications.
December 15, 2005 Contacts: Mike Bowler, (202) 219-1662
or David Thomas, (202)401-1576
If you read far enough in their documents, and add up the totals
they refuse to give you outright, you will see that just about a
half of US Adults could be expected to read such materials while
the other half would be challenged to do so.
As with so many other negative government statistics, these were
presented in a manner that diguised their actual meaning.
However, even more negative is the fact that 85% get high school
diplomas, while only about half of them can read at satisfactory
high school graduation levels.
[I suppose this could also qualify for the doublespeak section.]
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
"Hezbollah suffered defeat."
Multiple sources
MORE DOUBLESPEAK
If Congress were honest about estimating the National Debt,
they would give you figures 2 to 10 times as high.
McLaughlin Group, Sunday, August 27
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
There will be another war between Israel and Lebanon,
simply because no one will stop them.
The Iraq War will continue until officials finally
manage to admit it is another viet Nam.
Or, even more unlikely, until there is a real plan.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
[I think the inflation/growth statistics in the news
were plenty odd enough. However, I should add that
manufacturing costs rose sharply around the world,
up 1.1% in the UK in July alone, though those have
not yet reached the consumer markets.]
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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FLASHBACK!
Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #2742
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
[Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format]
The Cenci, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere 2742
The Borgias, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere 2741
(**The 18 volumes listed above comprise "Celebrated Crimes" by Dumas, Pere**)
Jul 2001 More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II[Darwin13][2mlcdxxx.xxx] 2740
Jul 2001 More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I[Darwin#12][1mlcdxxx.xxx] 2739
[Pending / Unfilled / Unknown] 2738*
Jul 2001 A Grandpa's Notebook. by Meyer Moldeven (C)2000 [grnpaxxx.xxx] 2737C
The Champdoce Mystery, by Emile Gaboriau 2736
(Note: Sequel to #2451)
Jul 2001 The Golden Dog, by William Kirby [?ggldxxx.xxx] 2735
[Alternate Title: Le Chien d'Or]
Jul 2001 Gwaith Twm o'r Nant (Cyfrol II.) [In Welsh] [twmntxxx.xxx] 2734
[Title AKA: The Works of Twm o'r Nant (Volume II)] [Language: Welsh]
Jul 2001 Romano Lavo-Lil, by George Borrow [Geo. Borrow #8][rmlavxxx.xxx] 2733
[Alternate Titles: Romany Dictionary; Gypsy Dictionary]
Jul 2001 Ballads, by William Makepeace Thackeray [WMT #20][?bwmtxxx.xxx] 2732
The Christmas Books, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2731
[Author Note: written under the pseudonym M. A. Titmarsh]
Long Odds, by H. Rider Haggard 2730
(See also #1918)
Jul 2001 A Tale of Three Lions, by H. Rider[HR Haggard #16][3lionxxx.xxx] 2729
Hunter Quatermain's Story, by H. Rider Haggard 2728
Allan's Wife, by H. Rider Haggard 2727
Jul 2001 Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott [LM Alcott #3][8csnsxxx.xxx] 2726
Jul 2001 Red Pepper Burns, by Grace S. Richmond [rpbrnxxx.xxx] 2725
Jul 2001 Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland[trtmsxxx.xxx] 2724
[Title: Theodore Roosevelt and His Times, a Chronicle of the
Progressive Movement]
A First Family of Tasajara, by Bret Harte 2723
Morning Star, by H. Rider Haggard 2722
Eric Brighteyes, by H. Rider Haggard 2721
Jul 2001 The Pension Beaurepas, by Henry James [James #35][penbrxxx.xxx] 2720
Jul 2001 Greville Fane, by Henry James [Henry James #34][gfanexxx.xxx] 2719
Jul 2001 The Chaperon, by Henry James [Henry James #33][chprnxxx.xxx] 2718
Jul 2001 Nona Vincent, by Henry James [Henry James #32][nonavxxx.xxx] 2717
Jul 2001 Sir Dominick Ferrand, by Henry James [James #31][frrndxxx.xxx] 2716
Jul 2001 The Real Thing, by Henry James [Henry James #30][rlthgxxx.xxx] 2715
Jul 2001 Long Live the King, by Mary Roberts Rinehart [#15][llkngxxx.xxx] 2714
Maiwa's Revenge, by H. Rider Haggard 2713
[Subtitle: The War of the Little Hand]
A Drift from Redwood Camp, by Bret Harte 2712
A Phyllis of the Sierras, by Bret Harte 2711
Jul 2001 Louise de la Valliere, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere #9[luisexxx.xxx] 2710
(Note: We are releasing these as BOTH xxxxx10.txt AND xxxxx10h.htm and
in zip files. Please see the introduction which describes the various
books of this title, and how the various editions were published, and
how they have been named, and in what order to read them.)
Jul 2001 The Man Who Was Afraid, by Maxim Gorky [Gorky #3][fomagxxx.xxx] 2709
[AKA: Foma Gordeev/Gordyeeff]
Columba, by Prosper Merimee 2708
[Trans.: Mary Loyd]
Jul 2001 The History of Herodotus V1 by Herodotus/ Macaulay[1hofhxxx.xxx] 2707
[Tr.: G. C. Macaulay] (See also: see #2456 for Vol. 2)
/
Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet?
If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of
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With 20,890 eBooks online as of August 23, 2006 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.73 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,364,608 x 20,890 x $.73 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
[By the way, the US "popclock" is about to turn to 300 million people.]
[Just turned 299.5 million this week!]
A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.48 Value Per Book To 100 Million
With 20,8790 eBooks online as of August 23, 2006 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.48 from each book.
This "cost" is down from about $.59 when we had 17,020 eBooks a year ago.
Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.
Next Decade's Target: 15% Of The world Population = 1,000,000,000 people.
At 20,890 eBooks in 35 Years and 01.50 Months We Averaged
595 Per Year
50 Per Month
1.63 Per Day
At 2742 eBooks Done In The 231 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
11.9 Per Day
83 per Week
366 Per Month
If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S.
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are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope.
However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a
300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M,
just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so
it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M.
Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the
districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
SANDISK MP3 PLAYER DOUBLES STORAGE OF IPOD NANO
SanDisk has introduced the Sansa e280, a flash-based MP3 player with
twice the storage capability of Apple's iPod nano, in an attempt to
gain market share against Apple Computer. The new player includes 8
gigabytes of flash memory and an optional 2 GB microSD card. The price
of the 4 GB iPod nano is $249, almost the same as the 10 GB Sansa e280
at $249.99. The new device also comes with a digital FM tuner to record
and store songs, photo display, video playback, a voice recorder, and a
user-replaceable lithium battery.
Red Herring, 21 August 2006
http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18057&hed=SanDisk+Takes+on+iPod
PENN STATE ADOPTS TEXT MESSAGES TO STUDENTS
Pennsylvania State university will launch a text-messaging wireless
service called PSUTXT today as an expansion of Penn State Live, a news
service with 360,000 subscribers. The university plans to use the
service to send text messages of news alerts to mobile devices.
Registered users can sign up for short message service (SMS) text
messages on campus emergencies, sports, and concert information. Topics
will expand as users indicate an interest in other types of
information. PSUTXT targets Penn State students, faculty, and staff,
although anyone may subscribe.
CNET, 16 August 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1039_3-6106302.html
EU ORDERS DEUTSCHE TELEKOM TO SHARE NETWORK
The European Commission (EC) supported German regulators who ordered
Deutsche Telekom AG to open its high-speed Internet networks to
competitors. As a result of the order, the company must permit
competitors to buy access on its broadband network to offer their own
services to end users. German regulators will have advance approval of
the price charged. Past refusals to grant access forced the company's
business rivals to build their own networks, effectively preventing
them from operating outside cities and causing higher Internet prices
in rural areas, according to the EC.
Wall Street Journal, 21 August 2006
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115616823663141011.html
while in the US. . . .
APPEALS COURT SUPPORTS FCC RULE ON HIGH-SPEED LINES
A federal appeals court has turned down an appeal of a decision by the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that exempted certain kinds of
telecom lines from regulations that require companies to lease access
to rivals. A law passed in 1996 forces telecom companies to unbundle
local phone networks and allow competitors to buy access to them. The
FCC ruled that this requirement should not apply to certain lines,
including new fiber-optic lines to residential customers, because
requiring such sharing would discourage companies from making
investments in this kind of infrastructure. EarthLink challenged the
ruling, but the appeals court sided with the FCC, giving a boost to
companies including AT&T and Verizon.
Wall Street Journal, 16 August 2006
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115569776929237003.html
MICROSOFT REPAIRS SECURITY PATCH
Microsoft announced that it has fixed a bug in the MS06-040 Windows
Server services update, a critical security patch. The bug affected
programs that use large amounts of memory on some versions of Windows.
Although the bug did not affect most Windows systems, it did cause
problems in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and the 64-bit version of
Windows XP Professional Edition. The company's fix for the problem is
available online.
PCWorld, 21 August 2006
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126839-c,windowsbugs/article.html
and. . . .
MS WINDOWS FLAWS AGAIN TARGETED BY HACKERS
Security companies have identified a new worm circulating that seeks to
take advantage of a flaw in the Windows operating system and allows
hackers to use infected computers to send spam. Earlier this month,
Microsoft issued a patch for 23 vulnerabilities, including the one that
the new worm uses. Because the patch has only been available for a
week, however, experts said many computers are likely still at risk for
the malicious code. Infected computers can be used as spam
proxies--computers that send millions of junk e-mails on behalf of
spammers. Many spammers are resorting to this sort of approach because
ISPs are increasingly unwilling to host such e-mail campaigns.
BBC, 16 August 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4797949.stm
and. . . .
MS SECURITY UPDATE NEEDS AN UPDATE
Microsoft acknowledged that a patch issued earlier this month for
significant flaws in its operating system has led to new problems for
some users. Computers that installed the August patch on Windows 2000
or Windows XP machines with Service Pack 1 and Internet Explorer 6 are
experiencing browser crashes when they visit Web sites that use HTTP
1.1 and compression. Fred Dunn, a systems administrator at the
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, said that at
his institution, computers with the patch are crashing when users
access pages in PeopleSoft applications. The workaround, he said, is to
disable the compression in the PeopleSoft applications, which slows
performance considerably. Microsoft said that on August 22 it would
issue a new patch to replace the patch that is causing these problems.
ZDNet, 16 August 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6106039.html
ENCRYPTION FOR MOBILE PHONES
A British company said it has developed technology that encrypts
transmissions on cell phones, allowing users to make calls with
confidence that their conversations cannot be intercepted. One Day
Mobile reportedly developed the technology with German company Safe.com
and with the military. With the software, which must be installed on
cell phones, users can decide which of their calls will be encrypted.
Encrypted calls are sent over the data network, however, rather than
the voice network, which can result in decreased performance. Voice
networks are built to ensure smooth and fast transmission, but using
the data network to transfer voice traffic can be slower and bumpier
and can impose delays.
The Register, 16 August 2006
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/16/mobile_encryption/
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
*QUOTATION OF THE WEEK
"We have united our enemies,
and divided our friends."
Multiple sources
/
"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of
'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini.
In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe,
and 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps.
This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement
that demagoguery attains." ---Herbert Hoover
*STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
1/8 of the official population of the United States
is composed of immigrants.
/
President White of the University of Illinois says that colleges
are dropping the ball by graduating only 28% of of Americans for
whom 85% have already managed a high school diploma. He said at
the opening of the Fall semester than government should spend an
increasing amount on education to fill this gap.
Let's look into these statistics a little more:
28% / 85% = ~1/3 of all high school students graduate college.
When I was a kid the percentage of college degress was only some
half as much of the total population. . .~14%, so I would say it
is obvious that college plays an ever incrasing role in lives of
Americans. . .twice as much as it used to, in fact.
However, official US Adult Literacy statistics show that about a
half of all adult Americans would be challenged in reading this,
much less by reading all the materials for a college degree.
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) released by the
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), found little
change between 1992 and 2003 in adults' ability to read and
understand sentences and paragraphs or to understand documents
such as job applications.
December 15, 2005 Contacts: Mike Bowler, (202) 219-1662
or David Thomas, (202)401-1576
If you read far enough in their documents, and add up the totals
they refuse to give you outright, you will see that just about a
half of US Adults could be expected to read such materials while
the other half would be challenged to do so.
As with so many other negative government statistics, these were
presented in a manner that diguised their actual meaning.
However, even more negative is the fact that 85% get high school
diplomas, while only about half of them can read at satisfactory
high school graduation levels.
[I suppose this could also qualify for the doublespeak section.]
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
"Hezbollah suffered defeat."
Multiple sources
MORE DOUBLESPEAK
Multiple sources
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
There will be another war between Israel and Lebanon,
simply because no one will stop them.
The Iraq War will continue until officials finally
manage to admit it is another viet Nam.
Or, even more unlikely, until there is a real plan.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
[I think the inflation/growth statistics in the news
were plenty odd enough. However, I should add that
manufacturing costs rose sharply around the world,
up 1.1% in the UK in July alone, though those have
not yet reached the consumer markets.]
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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[Subtitle: Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There
May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet (1638)]
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The Girl with the Green Eyes, by Clyde Fitch 19101
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The Covenants And The Covenanters, by Various 19100
[Subtitle: Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation]
[Editor: James Kerr]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/0/19100 ]
[Files: 19100.txt; 19100-8.txt; 19100-h.htm]
The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863, by Various 19099
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[Files: 19099.txt; 19099-8.txt; 19099-h.htm]
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan,Clement A. Miles 19098
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[Files: 19098.txt; 19098-8.txt; 19098-h.htm]
The Young Carpenters of Freiberg, by Anonymous 19097
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Thirty Years' War]
[Tr.: J. Latchmore]
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[Files: 19097.txt; 19097-8.txt; 19097-h.htm; ]
Indian Legends and Other Poems, by Mary Gardiner Horsford 19096
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[Files: 19096.txt; 19096-8.txt; 19096-h.htm]
Kihlajaiskemut, by Robert Kiljander 19095
[Subtitle: Naytelma 4:ssa naytoksessa]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19095 ]
[Files: 19095-8.txt]
Magic, by G.K. Chesterton 19094
[Subtitle: A Fantastic Comedy]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19094 ]
[Files: 19094.txt; 19094-8.txt; 19094-h.htm]
Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 22. October, 1878, by Various 19093
[Title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19093 ]
[Files: 19093.txt; 19093-8.txt; 19093-h.htm]
The Adventures of Paddy Beaver, by Thornton W. Burgess 19092
[Illustrator: Harrison Cody]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19092 ]
[Files: 19092.txt; 19092-h.htm]
Robur de Veroveraar, by Jules Verne 19091
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19091 ]
[Files: 19091-8.txt; 19091-h.htm]
Star Hunter, by Andre Alice Norton 19090
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/9/19090 ]
[Files: 19090.txt; 19090-8.txt; 19090-h.htm]
A Pagan of the Hills, by Charles Neville Buck 19089
[Illus.: George W. Gage]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19089 ]
[Files: 19089.txt; 19089-h.htm; ]
Maksimilian Aukusti Myhrberg, by Julius Krohn 19088
[Language: Finnish]
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The King Nobody Wanted, by Norman F. Langford 19087
[Illustrator: John Lear]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19087 ]
[Files: 19087.txt; 19087-h.htm]
Vijf weken in een luchtballon, by Jules Verne 19086
[Language: Dutch]
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[Files: 19086-8.txt; 19086-h.htm]
The Prelude to Adventure, by Hugh Walpole 19085
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19085 ]
[Files: 19085.txt; 19085-8.txt]
In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II, by Various 19084
[Subtitle: Christmas Tales from 'Round the World]
[Editor: Harrison S. Morris]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19084 ]
[Files: 19084.txt; 19084-8.txt; 19084-h.htm]
The Border Boys Across the Frontier, by Fremont B. Deering 19083
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19083 ]
[Files: 19083.txt; 19083-8.txt; 19083-h.htm; ]
The Destiny of the Soul, by William Rounseville Alger 19082
[Subtitle: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19082 ]
[Files: 19082.txt]
The Great Round World, Vol. 2, No. 11, March 17, 1898, by Various 19081
[Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It]
[Subtitle: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls]
[Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19081 ]
[Files: 19081.txt; 19081-8.txt; 19081-h.htm]
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists. by Elbert Hubbard 19080
[From: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 12]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/8/19080 ]
[Files: 19080.txt; 19080-8.txt; 19080-h.htm]
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer, by Thornton W. Burgess 19079
[Illustrator: Harrison Cady]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19079 ]
[Files: 19079.txt; 19079-h.htm]
The Red Book of Heroes, by Leonora Blanche Lang 19078
[Editor: Andrew Lang]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19078 ]
[Files: 19078.txt; 19078-8.txt; 19078-h.htm]
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties, by Janet McKenzie Hill 19077
[Subtitle: With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19077 ]
[Files: 19077.txt; 19077-8.txt; 19077-h.htm]
Naudsonce, by H. Beam Piper 19076
[Illustrator: Morey]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19076 ]
[Files: 19076.txt; 19076-h.htm]
Traduction nouvelle, Tome I, by Aristophane 19075
[Subtitle: Les Akharniens; Les chevaliers; Les nuees; Les guepes; La paix]
[Commentator: Sully Prudhomme]
[Translator: Eugene Talbot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19075 ]
[Files: 19075-8.txt; 19075-h.htm]
Italy at War and the Allies in the West, by E. Alexander Powell 19074
[Note: Volume IV of "The War on All Fronts"]
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[Files: 19074.txt; 19074-8.txt; 19074-h.htm; ]
Cocoa and Chocolate, by Arthur W. Knapp 19073
[Subtitle: Their History from Plantation to Consumer]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/7/19073 ]
[Files: 19073.txt; 19073-8.txt; 19073-h.htm]
Opuscula Selecta Neerlandicorum, by Erasmus et al. 19072
[Author: Desiderius Erasmus, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Jan Swammerdam,
Herman Boerhaave, Hieronymus David Gaubius and
Franciscus Cornelis Donders]
[Subtitle: Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde]
[Editor: Hector Treub]
[Translator: L. Hillesum, W. Julius, L. Hillesum and A. H. Kan]
[Contents:
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, Encomium artis medic.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, De lof der geneeskunde
ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK, Den waaragtigen omloop des
Bloeds, als mede dat de Arterien en Ven. gecontinueerde
Bloedvaten zijn, klaar voor de oogen gestelt
JAN SWAMMERDAM, Proefnemingen van de particuliere
bewegingen der spieren van den Kikvorsch, die in het
gemeen op alle de bewegingen der spieren in de
menschen en beesten toegepast worden
HERMAN BOERHAAVE, De usu ratiocinii mechanici in
medicina
HERMAN BOERHAAVE, Het nut der mechanistische methode in
de geneeskunde
HIERONYMUS DAVID GAUBIUS, Oratio inauguralis qua
ostenditur chemiam artibus academicis jure esse
inserendam
HIERONYMUS DAVID GAUBIUS, Inaugureele rede, waarin wordt
aangetoond, dat de scheikunde met recht een plaats
verdient onder de akademische wetenschappen
FRANCISCUS CORNELIS DONDERS, De harmonie van het dierlijke
leven de openbaring van wetten]
[Language: Dutch]
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The Way of the Wind, by Zoe Anderson Norris 19071
[Illus.: Oberhardt]
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[Files: 19071.txt; 19071-h.htm; ]
Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower, by G. A. Henty 19070
[Illus.: Ralph Peacock]
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[Files: 19070.txt; 19070-h.htm; ]
The Silent House, by Fergus Hume 19069
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19069 ]
[Files: 19069.txt; 19069-8.txt; 19069-h.htm]
Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm 19068
[Illustrator: Walter Crane]
[Translator: Lucy Crane]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19068 ]
[Files: 19068.txt; 19068-h.htm]
Police Operation, by H. Beam Piper 19067
[Illustrator: Cartier]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19067 ]
[Files: 19067.txt; 19067-8.txt; 19067-h.htm]
Brigands of the Moon, by Ray Cummings 19066
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19066 ]
[Files: 19066.txt; 19066-8.txt; 19066-h.htm]
Swimming Scientifically Taught, Frank Eugen Dalton and Louis C. Dalton 19065
[Subtitle: A Practical Manual for Young and Old]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19065 ]
[Files: 19065.txt; 19065-8.txt; 19065-h.htm]
The Triumph of John Kars, by Ridgwell Cullum 19064
[Subtitle: A Story of the Yukon]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/6/19064 ]
[Files: 19064.txt; 19064-8.txt; 19064-h.htm; ]
Little Alice's Palace, by Anonymous 19063
[Subtitle: or, The Sunny Heart]
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(8swanxxh.zip has three files; single HTML available in:)[swannxxh.xxx]
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George Cruikshank, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2648
May 2001 V1 Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, by Trevelyan[1lllmxxx.xxx] 2647
[Author: George Otto Trevelyan]
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, William Makepeace Thackeray 2646
The Second Funeral of Napoleon, by William Makepeace Thackeray 2645
[Author AKA: Michael Angelo Titmarch]
May 2001 Isaac Bickerstaff, by Richard Steele [iscbkxxx.xxx] 2644
[Ed.: Henry Morley]
May 2001 John Bull, by J. Arbuthnot [jhnblxxx.xxx] 2643
May 2001 Back Home, by Eugene Wood [bckhmxxx.xxx] 2642
May 2001 A Room With A View, by E. M. Forster [Forster #2][rmwvwxxx.xxx] 2641
May 2001 St. Martin's Summer, by Rafael Sabatini [RS #6] [stmsmxxx.xxx] 2640
Villa Rubein et al, by John Galsworthy 2639
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With 20,718 eBooks online as of August 16, 2006 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.73 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,350,196 x 20,790 x $.74 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
[By the way, the US "popclock" is about to turn to 300 million people.]
[Just turned 299.5 million this week!]
A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.48 Value Per Book To 100 Million
With 20,790 eBooks online as of August 16, 2006 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.48 from each book.
This "cost" is down from about $.59 when we had 16,961 eBooks a year ago.
Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.
At 20,790 eBooks in 35 Years and 01.25 Months We Averaged
592 Per Year
49 Per Month
1.62 Per Day
At 2642 eBooks Done In The 224 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
11.8 Per Day
83 per Week
364 Per Month
If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S.
you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear,
are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope.
However, for those keeping track of how quickly the U.S. reaches a
300 million population level, and who noticed the passing of 298M,
just two weeks ago. . .the U.S. is already 1/6 the way to 299M, so
it will probably be 10 more weeks to 299M and 22 more to 300M.
Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the
districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that
all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details].
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production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon,
starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 4th was
the first Wednesday of 2006, and thus ended PG's production
year of 2005 and began the production year of 2006 at noon.
This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week.
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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
EDITORS RESIGN AFTER WEB SITE BUDGET SLASHED
Two editors of a Web site associated with Columbia University resigned
after Nicholas Lemann, the dean of the university's graduate school,
cut the site's budget by almost half. The site, CJRDaily.org, was
launched in 2004 to cover the election, but the popularity of its
political analysis prompted the university to keep the site up.
Although CJRDaily reportedly has nearly 500,000 page views per month,
the site is free and currently includes no ads. Lemann said the site
would begin to carry ads. After failing to raise enough funds to
maintain the site's budget, he decided to redirect money to fund a
campaign to increase subscriptions to the print magazine, "The Columbia
Journalism Review." The expected increased revenues from the print
journal, said Lemann, would be used to support CJRDaily. Steve
Lovelady, the site's managing editor, and Bryan Keefer, the assistant
managing editor, resigned in protest, reducing the staff to six.
Lovelady said he disagrees with Lemann's idea to take money from the
online venture and put it toward a print journal.
New York Times, 11 August 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/business/media/11mag.html
UC SYSTEM SIGNS ON TO GOOGLE BOOK SCANNING
The University of California will join Oxford University, Harvard
University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the
New York Public Library in Google's controversial book-scanning
project. The UC System comprises more than 100 libraries on 10
campuses, and the new deal will give Google access to many millions of
volumes housed at those libraries. As with other texts in Google's
program, digital copies will only be accessible through its own search
engine. Google still faces legal opposition to its program, which scans
copyrighted material as well as public domain texts, though access to
protected work is limited. The UC System also participates in the Open
Content Alliance (OCA), which takes a different approach to copyrighted
works, scanning only those for which copyright owners have provided
explicit permission. Although Jennifer Colvin, strategic communications
manager at the California Digital Library, rejected the idea that
participating in both projects represents a conflict, others disagreed.
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, said, "Having a public
institution decide to go with Google's restrictions doesn't help the
idea of libraries being open in the future."
CNET, 8 August 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6103540.html
AOL REGRETS DISCLOSING SEARCH RESULTS
Officials at AOL have apologized for making search records public,
calling it a "screw-up" that would not have happened had it been
properly reviewed. Researchers in a number of fields use, or would like
to use, search records to understand Web surfing habits and how to make
searches more efficient. AOL put randomly selected search histories for
658,000 subscribers online, where researchers and the public could
access them. Although the records did not contain names, many said the
posting puts those users at risk of being identified through inductive
reasoning based on their searches. Ari Schwartz, deputy director of the
Center for Democracy and Technology, said, "We think it's a major
privacy concern, and we're glad to see AOL is taking it seriously."
AOL said that despite their intention of assisting the research and
academic communities, putting the search records online was wrong and
they have since taken them down. Internet researcher Steve Beitzel
noted that AltaVista and Excite have previously disclosed similar
information and that no harm came from those disclosures.
ZDNet, 8 August 2006
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,39020336,39280573,00.htm
BOWDOIN BACKS AWAY FROM CITY WI-FI, CITES CALEA
A planned rollout of wireless Internet service by Bowdoin College to
the residents of in Brunswick, Maine, has been halted, at least
temporarily, due to concerns over the Communications Assistance for Law
Enforcement Act (CALEA). The FCC has said that the law, which mandates
law enforcement access to communications systems, should apply to
network operators, including colleges and universities. Higher
education has opposed that decision, saying it would be extremely
costly for them to comply and that there are other ways for
institutions to cooperate with law enforcement. Following legal action
and lobbying, a court allowed an exception for "private" networks.
Bowdoin, which is in Brunswick, had been working to implement a
wireless network in the city for students and town residents. Saying
that it isn't clear whether allowing town residents to access the
network would compromise its being a "private" network, officials from
the college have decided that the network will only be available to
students. Mitch Davis, CIO at Bowdoin, noted that the plan to open the
network to everyone in town is currently suspended, not dead.
Inside Higher Ed, 7 August 2006
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/07/wireless
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
The amount of water it takes to make ethanol is truly
staggering, particularly to the localalities in which
ethanol is being created, yet it never appears in the
hundreds national news stories about ethanol, only in
the local or regional news where the problem hits the
ecology the hardest.
"Robbing Peter to pay Paul," comes to mind.
*STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
"No Child Left Behind???"
It would appear 1 out of 5 who would qualify for some
extra tutoring ARE being left behind.
1 out of 5 "No Student Left Behind" potential tutoring students
are being "left behind" as millions of these qualified students
have sub-standard tutoring projects or are receiving no tutors,
whatsoever from the "No Child Left Behind Program." In some of
these cases the schools simply have not gotten with the program
and in others it appears that the raft of paperwork required to
enter the program has been designed in such a way that parents,
even those who would have signed up, either do not recognize it
as not being junk mail, or can't fill out the paperwork to some
level of satisfaction that would get the child in the program.
It is hard to blame the schools when they are confronted with a
years long "unfunded mandate" in which the least funded schools
are the ones who need the program the most. It will be hard to
put the blame on the program, as it is backed by policking, not
the educational system. Perhaps the forms should be labeled in
a clear manner to avoid them being throw out with the 100 pound
level of junk mail the average family receives per year, or, it
might be nice if the schools handed out the paperwork to insure
the right hand could fill the papers the left hand received.
Source: WILL_AM radio, 8/15, around 8:30AM
Congress Tackles Internet Gambling
An estimated 8 million Americans spend 6 billion dollars/year,
according to Frank deFord, who strongly stated this morning on
NPR's Morning Edition that their legistlation was akin to that
single finger in the dike.
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
Economists are reporting record growth for Europe,
based on a 0.9% improvement from the first quarter,
yielding a 2.4% annual growth rate, very close to
the US rate of 2.5%.
They say this is the fastest growth in six year,
but neglect to mention the inflation rate, either
for the US or for Europe.
Figures from the European Central Bank indicated
that European inflation is over 2%, and revision
is expected to reveal an inflation rate roughly
equal to the 2.4% growth rate, as the previous
published rate of 2.1% may be falling behind.
US inflation was reported at 1.55% for the same
quarter, for an annual rate of ~3.75%, higher
than either of the reported growth rates.
What happens when inflation outpaces growth figures?
It means that the economy is really shrinking,
using the yardstick of constant dollars, real
spending power, etc.
Multiple sources
MORE DOUBLESPEAK
If you keep track of such inflation figures for
years, and then decades, you will also see that
the yearly preliminary figures are replaced the
next year by even higher figures. For reasons
unknown to me, the figure often seems to be low
by about .83%, added in the following year.
I can only surmise that this is some kind of
attempt to keep the consumers buying, as the
consumers seem to have a short memory for an
assortment of tricks such as this, as tricks
such as these seem to also be common in some
famous reports on college testing that say a
large improvment has been recorded, when the
truth is that it was just the figures having
been juggled via some recalibration scheme.
Multiple sources
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
[Who is it we are at war with right now?
Is it Oceania or Eurasia? Be sure to be
up to date with the latest edition of an
instant classic, The 13th Edition of the
Newspeak Dictionary, Ed. Winston Smith."
Google "Winston Smith" and "Newspeak".]
"As we have said many times, we are a nation at war."
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
[Concerning the almost literal midnight change in the
flight regulations that now prohibit liquids. What a
person with a medical condition is supposed to do was
not in the announcements I heard.] 08/10/06
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
The war will continue, just as the Viet Nam war did,
until something unprecented happens, such as ousting
the US President who is running the war, as happened
with President Nixon.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
[I think the inflation/growth statistics in the news
were plenty odd enough. However, I should add that
manufacturing costs rose sharply around the world,
up 1.1% in the UK in July alone, though those have
not yet reached the consumer markets.]
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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Eco da Voz Portugueza por Terras de Santa Cruz, by A. F. de Castilho 19062
[Full author: Antonio Feliciano de Castilho]
[Language: Portuguese]
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Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Vol VIII, by Various 19061
[Subtitle: Italy and Greece, Part Two]
[Editor: Francis W Halsey]
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Gli amanti, by Matilde Serao 19060
[Subtitle: pastelli]
[Language: Italian]
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[Files: 19060-8.txt]
Col fuoco non si scherza, by Emilio De Marchi 19059
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/5/19059 ]
[Files: 19059-8.txt]
Ordnance Instructions for the USN, by Bureau of Ordnance, USN 19058
[Title: Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy]
[Subtitle: 1866. Fourth edition]
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Red-Robin, by Jane Abbott 19057
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Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions, by George S. Boutwell 19056
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Steve Yeager, by William MacLeod Raine 19055
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Alleen op de Wereld, by Hector Malot 19054
[Translator: Gerard Keller]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/0/5/19054 ]
[Files: 19054-8.txt]
Theory of Circulation by Respiration, by Emma Willard 19053
[Subtitle: Synopsis of its Principles and History]
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Stories That Words Tell Us, by Elizabeth O'Neill 19052
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Modern Religious Cults and Movements, by Gaius Glenn Atkins 19051
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Northern Nut Growers Association Annual Report, 1917, by Various 19050
[Editor: Northern Nut Growers Association]
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[Files: 19050.txt; 19050-8.txt; 19050-h.htm]
The Builders, by Joseph Fort Newton 19049
[Subtitle: A Story and Study of Masonry]
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[Files: 19049.txt; 19049-8.txt; 19049-h.htm]
Storia di un'anima, by Ambrogio Bazzero 19048
[Language: Italian]
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[Files: 19048-8.txt]
Sysmalainen, by Berthold Auerbach 19047
[Subtitle: Kylainen tarina]
[Translator: Arvid Genetz]
[Language: Finnish]
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Sonetos, by Antero Quental 19046
[Language: Portuguese]
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Peaux-rouges et Peaux-blanches, by Emile Chevalier 19045
[Language: French]
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Adrift on an Ice-Pan, by Wilfred T. Grenfell 19044
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The Terrible Twins, by Edgar Jepson 19043
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Animal Figures in the Maya Codices, Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 19042
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Blister Jones, by John Taintor Foote 19041
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Takats Sandor Szalai Barkoczy Krisztina 1671-1724, by Angyal David 19040
[Title: Takats Sandor Szalai Barkoczy Krisztina 1671-1724 czimu
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[Language: Hungarian]
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Margherita Pusterla, by Cesare Cantu 19039
[Subtitle: Racconto storico]
[Language: Italian]
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English Walnuts, by Various 19038
[Subtitle: What You Need to Know about Planting, Cultivating and
Harvesting This Most Delicious of Nuts]
[Compiler: Walter Fox Allen]
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Transactions of the A.S.C.E., Paper No. 1158, by Brace and Mason 19037
[Title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910]
[Subtitle: The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158]
[Author: James H. Brace and Francis Mason]
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Complete, by Lewis Goldsmith 3899
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The Tiger of Mysore, by G. A. Henty 18813
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Jane Allen: Right Guard, by Edith Bancroft 19015
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Sciencias Naturaes, by Anonymous 19013
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The Two-Gun Man, by Charles Alden Seltzer 19012
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The Admirable Tinker, by Edgar Jepson 19010
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, by Estelle M. Hurll 19009
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Memoires, by Joseph Fouche 19008
[Title: Memoires de Joseph Fouche, Duc d'Otrante, Ministre de la Police
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Danger Signals, by John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady 19007
[Subtitle: Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery,
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Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them, James John Howard Gregory 19006
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The Rose of Dawn, by Helen Hay 19005
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FLASHBACK!
Here's a sample of what books we were doing around eBook #1954
Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
A "C" Following The eText # Indicates That This eText Is Under Copyright
[Note: books without month and year entries are now in new catalog format
Mar 2001 The Poor Clare, by Elizabeth Gaskell[E. Gaskell#9][prclrxxx.xxx] 2548
Mar 2001 Half a Life-time Ago, by Elizabeth Gaskell[E.G.#8][hlflfxxx.xxx] 2547
Mar 2001 Rustler Round-Up (Bar-20), C.E. Mulford[Mulford#1][hcrruxxx.xxx] 2546
[Title: Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up (Bar-20)]
[Author: Clarence Edward Mulford]
Mar 2001 When God Laughs, and Other Stories, by Jack London[gdlghxxx.xxx] 2545
>From Sand Hill to Pine, by Bret Harte 2544
Polyuecte, by Pierre Corneille 2543
[Translator: Thomas Constable]
Mar 2001 The Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen[Henrik Ibsen #5][dlshsxxx.xxx] 2542
Mar 2001 Character, by Samuel Smiles [Samuel Smiles #6][crctrxxx.xxx] 2541
Father and Son, by Edmund Gosse 2540
Mar 2001 The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russell Wallace V2[2malayxx.xxx] 2539
(See also: V1 #2530)
Mar 2001 Poems and Tales from Romania, by Simona Sumanaru [patfrxxx.xxx] 2538C
[Author: Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart]
Mar 2001 The Pocket R.L.S., by Robert Louis Stevenson [#39][pkrlsxxx.xxx] 2537
Mar 2001 Amphitryon, A play by Moliere, Tr. by Waller [M#2][amphixxx.xxx] 2536
Eugene Pickering, by Henry James 2534
Mar 2001 Round the Sofa, by Elizabeth Gaskell [#8][rndsfxxx.xxx] 2533
The Half-Brothers, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2532
An Accursed Race, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2531
Feb 2001 The Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace [1malayxx.xxx] 2530
Feb 2001 The Analysis of Mind, by Bertrand Russell [analmdxx.xxx] 2529
Feb 2001 The Women of the French Salons, Amelia Gere Mason [frsalxxx.xxx] 2528
Feb 2001 The Sorrows of Young Werther, by J.W. Goethe [#31][sywerxxx.xxx] 2527
Feb 2001 The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Charles Johnston [patanxxx.xxx] 2526
Feb 2001 John Ingerfield etc by Jerome K. Jerome [#25][jhnngxxx.xxx] 2525
My Lady Ludlow, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2524
Feb 2001 The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, by Victor Hugo[Hugo#2][vhugoxxx.xxx] 2523
A Dark Night's Work, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2522
Lizzie Leigh, by Elizabeth Gaskell 2521
Feb 2001 The Man, by Bram Stoker [Bram Stoker #3][thmanxxx.xxx] 2520
Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi, by David Livingstone 2519
[Title: A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi
and Its Tributaries]
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With 20,696 eBooks online as of August 09, 2006 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.74 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,336,047 x 20,696 x $.74 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
[By the way, the US "popclock" is about to turn to 300 million people.]
[Just turned 299.4 million this week!]
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A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.49 Value Per Book To 100 Million
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Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.
At 20,696 eBooks in 35 Years and 01.00 Months We Averaged
590 Per Year
49 Per Month
1.62 Per Day
If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of
6,533,604,659 that would be 20,696 x 65,336,047 = ~1.35 Trillion !!!
With 20,696 eBooks online as of August 09, 2006 it now takes an average
of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.74 from each book.
[1% world population x #eBooks] 65,336,047 x 20,696 x $.74 = ~$1 Trillion
[Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.]
[By the way, the US "popclock" is about to turn to 300 million people.]
[Just turned 299.4 million this week!]
*
A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.49 Value Per Book To 100 Million
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of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.49 from each book.
This "cost" is down from about $.59 when we had 16,842 eBooks a year ago.
Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100,000,000 people.
At 20,619 eBooks in 35 Years and 00.75 Months We Averaged
588 Per Year
49 Per Month
1.61 Per Day
At 2471 eBooks Done In The 210 Days Of 2006 We Averaged
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82 per Week
366 Per Month
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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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*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
UC TO JOIN GOOGLE'S BOOK SCANNING PROJECT?
The University of California is reportedly in talks with Google to join
its controversial book-scanning project. The university is already
participating in the Open Content Alliance (OCA), which is also working
to digitize vast numbers of books but with a different approach. Rather
than scanning all books, copyrighted or not, unless copyright holders
request that a book be left out of the program, the OCA has taken the
approach of only scanning copyrighted books whose owners have given
explicit permission. The university and Google did not disclose details
of the negotiations, but questions arose about how the institution's
participation in the two projects might be reconciled. Brewster Kahle,
director of the Internet Archive, which was a founder of the OCA,
wondered if perhaps Google would move its project to a more open model,
closer to that of the OCA, because, as he said, "there is no point in
scanning these books twice." Daniel Greenstein, director of the
University of California system's California Digital Library, said the
issue is fundamentally not about specific companies or organizations
but about the university's mission to support public education and
explore new roles for libraries in the digital age.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 August 2006
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/08/2006080301t.htm
CHILD ONLINE IDENTITY CARD DEBUTS
An online identity service for children has debuted in the United
Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Conceived by U.K.
businessman Alex Hewitt, the NetIDMe system requires parents to apply
for ID cards for their kids and to supply a credit card as
verification. Another person who knows the child must countersign the
application. Once an ID is established, users can communicate with
others online with the assurance that users who say they are children
are not in fact adults who prey on kids. The service, which costs 10
pounds per year, is only effective if both communicating parties
participate. Jim Gamble, chief executive of the Child Exploitation and
Online Protection Centre, said that this effort, like any other that
works to verify the age and identity of Internet users, will help
prevent children from becoming victims of online predators. Detective
Chief Superintendent Tom Porter of the Scottish Crime and Drug
Enforcement Agency noted that Web users should nonetheless be cautious.
"We would advise all parents and young people to...ensure no personally
identifiable information is shared with online strangers."
BBC, 2 August 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5238992.stm
CHINA CLOSES LIBERAL WEB SITE
Government officials in China have taken another step in limiting what
Internet users in the country can access, causing an uproar among
intellectuals and others critical of the Communist Party. During the
past week, access inside China to the Century China Web site has been
cut off, prompting a petition that accuses the government of trying to
control public opinion. More than 100 outspoken individuals--both
inside the country and abroad--have signed the petition, which was sent
by e-mail to the media. The petition states, in part, "The shutdown of
Century China is just another instance of the Chinese government
suppressing the freedom of its people." It also describes the Century
China Web site as "the one spiritual home we had in the cyberworld."
CNET, 2 August 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6101267.html
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STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
Concerning the recent miniumum wage and estate tax legislation.
There are ~6.25 million minimum wage workers in the United States.
On the average each ones works under 2,000 hours per year.
250 days times 8 hours = 2,000 hours.
50 weeks times 40 hours = 2,000 hours.
Obivously there are more days off than just weekends, so this is
a very conservative estimate for these purposes.
At $2 per year increase in pay, this about about $4,000 each.
6.25 million times $4,000 = 25 billion dollars.
After a 3 year phase in period.
26.25 billion if you count in the extra dime, which will be
eaten by inflation before the first year of phasing in.
Now let's count the other side of the coin.
If the estate tax repeal only effects the richest 1% of the US,
that is about 3 million people. Given that people are dying on
the average at the rate of well over 1% per year [the average
life-expectancy would have to be 100, for it to be 1%, and it
is more like 75, for those dying today, though we might have to
take into account better health care for the wealthy, since the
US is the only developed country without a national health care.
So, to be VERY conservative in our estimation, we will figure on
a 1% per year death rate among the 1% wealtiest Americans.
That's 30,000 people per year who stand to get estate tax repeal.
At just 1 million dollars each that is 30 billion dollars.
. . .
When you look at your own estate, or that of your parents, might
be that you will realize that the estates of the top 1% are many
times larger than yours and yours is still a reasonable fraction
of a million dollars.
Now perhaps you can visualize why the legistlation was defeated.
1. The estate tax releal would kick in right away.
2. The minimum wage raise was already eaten away by inflation.
3. The minimum wage figures are in pre-tax dollars, workers do
not get nearly that much in their pockets.
4. The estate tax is in post-tax dollars, they keep it all.
5. The great fortunes of the Rockefellers, etc. were made with
income tax rates as high as 93%, and passed on with estate tax.
/
>From "Media Matters"
The states with the greastest discrepancies between exit polls
and votes reported were Republican states.
[Some say this is just because Republicans are more private.]
*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
[Sorry, this was supposed to go in last week, still learning system.]
The House passed a bill finally raising the minimum wage from $5.15
over a 3 year period to ~$7.25, but only for the quid pro quo of an
extra repeal of the estate tax on the very wealthy.
In reality, the poor are not even really getting a raise, they are
merely getting an inflation offset, while the rich are getting the
millions they now have passed on from generation to generation for
the formation of the same kind of "Landed Gentry" aristocracy that
ruined Europe and caused the American and French revolutions.
Let's see: "You give us billions in tax cuts for the very wealthy
and we will give you ~$2 an hour in inflated money that gives your
salary less buying power than was available 50 years ago."
"That's what common folk call:
"Robbing Peter to pay Paul."
Robin Hood would call it:
"Robbing the poor to give to the rich."
MORE DOUBLESPEAK
The Senate refused to repeal 100% of the estate tax that had been
vilified as "The Death Tax," by embattled White House guru Karl Rove,
but in the end it will cost the real taxpayers just as much, as the
deal is being engineered by repealing what may be all timber company
taxes to win over Senate votes from timber rich Washington State.
All in all The Estate Tax is being repealed for all but the richest
1% or less in the country, and it should be mentioned that that 1%
owns half of everything that can be owned in the United States.
Source: The Washington Post
[I wonder how rest of the country would react to all this if that 1%
actually lived on their blocks, and owned half the land, half the cars,
half the stocks, bonds, cash, boats, etc. while the next 2% owned half
of what was left, and the next 4% owned half of that, etc. . .leaving
only a few percent to be earned by 90% of the block's residents???]
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
It will eventually be determined that there has been an overall
pattern of divulging the personal information of U.S. citizens.
By the way, I think evidence of this was in the media last week.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
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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CANADIAN PROJECT AIMS TO COORDINATE DISPARATE EFFORTS
A new initiative called AlouetteCanada is designed to bring together
disparate digitization efforts from around Canada into a single online
location. Many universities and museums in the country maintain
small-scale digitization efforts of material relevant to the history
and culture of Canada. Much of this content is inaccessible to most
people, however, according to Carole Moore, chief librarian of the
University of Toronto, one of the universities participating in
AlouetteCanada. The University of Alberta and the University of
Brunswick are also part of the project, and Moore said hundreds of
other organizations could conceivably contribute material. Ernie
Ingles, chief librarian at the University of Alberta, said
AlouetteCanada is, in some ways, the antithesis of Google's
book-scanning project. Although Google is making content available
publicly, he said, "it is making that content available in a commercial
way." Ingles questioned whether Google would be around forever to make
that content available.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 June 2006 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/06/2006062101t.htm
RESEARCHERS CLAIM FASTEST SILICON CHIP
A team of academic and industry researchers has demonstrated a speed
of 500 gigahertz for a silicon-based computer chip they developed.
The team included individuals from the Georgia Institute of Technology,
Korea University in South Korea, and IBM. To reach 500 gigahertz, which
is about 250 times faster than many chips used today, the researchers
conducted the test in an environment 451 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit);
at room temperature, the chip reportedly still reaches speeds of around
350 gigahertz. Technology consultant Dan Olds said the announcement
indicates that "we're not coming anywhere near the end in what
processors are capable of." IBM's Bernard Meyerson said the chips,
which might be available in consumer devices within two years,
could lead to significant leaps in the capabilities of computing devices.
New York Times, 20 June 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/technology/20chip.html
ETHICAL HACKING PROGRAM TO REQUIRE BACKGROUND CHECK
Students who want to take part in an ethical hacking program at the
University of Abertay in Scotland will be required to pass a background
check to weed out those who might apply the skills learned in the
program to malicious ends. University officials will work with the Home
Office and a Scottish disclosure service to screen applicants, looking
for anyone with a criminal background. The program, called Ethical
Hacking and Countermeasures, is a four-year degree intended to teach
hacking skills to students who will then work with businesses to
prevent hackers from doing damage to computer systems and data.
It is the first program of its kind in the United Kingdom.
Responding to concerns that the program will simply create more hackers,
Lachlan McKinnon, a professor in the program, said the university will
do all it can to ensure students use their skills in a positive manner.
He added, however, that there are no guarantees. "Harold Shipman
qualified as a doctor, after all," he said, "before deciding
to become a murderer."
The Register, 19 June 2006
http://www.theregister.com/2006/06/19/hackers_background/
GOOGLE DEBUTS SHAKESPEARE SITE
Google has launched a new Web site specifically for the works of
William Shakespeare and related resources. At the site, users have
access to the full texts of Shakespeare's 37 plays and can search
those texts for words or phrases. The site also has links to academic
resources concerning the plays, online groups that focus on
Shakespeare, and videos of stage productions of Shakespeare's plays.
The site also points users toward Google Earth, which coordinates maps
of the globe with Internet searching. With Google Earth, users can
locate the Globe Theatre in London and find other resources with
information about the site. The site was introduced as part of
Google's sponsoring of New York's "Shakespeare in the Park."
USA Today, 14 June 2006
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-06-14-shakespeare-google_x.htm
WIKIPEDIA ADJUSTS EDITING POLICY
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia based on the model that anyone can
contribute to or edit any entry, has placed new restrictions on
editing. Certain entries in any reference work are bound to be
contentious, and with Wikipedia, disagreements can escalate to a
"revert war," in which competing factions simply change an entry back
and forth to reflect their opinions. Such disputes have resulted in a
status of "protected" for 82 entries, meaning they cannot be changed at
all, and a status of "semi-protected" for another 179 entries.
Semi-protected entries can only be changed by someone who has been a
registered user for more than four days, the idea being that such a
"cooling off" period will avoid most of the problems resulting from
disagreements. Despite the steps Wikipedia has taken away from the
ideal of "anyone can edit," founder Jimmy Wales says the resource works
and is valuable. Most entries are only protected for a short period of
time, he said, and they represent a fraction of the 1.2 million entries
in the English-language version.
New York Times, 17 June 2006 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/technology/17wiki.html
DOE CONTRACTS FOR PETAFLOP SUPERCOMPUTER
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has ordered the first petaflop
supercomputing system and an upgrade of its Blue Gene system from Cray.
DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced the $200 million
arrangement last week, with plans for completion of the new
supercomputer in 2008. The new system reportedly will attain 1,000
trillion floating-point operations per second (teraflops), or one
petaflop. Oak Ridge scientists plan to use the system to tackle
problems in energy, biology, and nanotechnology. The lab also expects
to offer computing time to other researchers through a program that
grants supercomputer access to academic and corporate institutions.
Federal Computer Week, 26 June 2006
http://www.fcw.com/article95010-06-26-06-Web
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
*DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
"We follow the law."
This reply was repeatedly thrown in the face of Senator Arlen Specter
in recent hearings, to determine the scope of the release of national
telephone users' information to the intelligence communities, by AT&T
CEO Edward Whitacre, as he time and again refused to answer questions
directing him to inform the Senate whether AT&T had or had not sent a
plethora of information for intelligence gathering operations.
In the wake of the revelations by The New York Times that such a data
mining opportunity was being given to the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc., many a
Senator and Congressperson has raised the same question.
Harsh criticism of The New York Times ensued, even though they sat on
the story for a year before publishing it, and only published it when
it became obvious it was going to be published elsewhere.
[Note that The Washington Post got scooped on the "Ivy Bells" story--
mentioned in last week's Newsletter, when President Reagan convinced,
in a personal phone call to their publisher, them not to run it for a
few days, but then someone leaked it to NBC. Whether this was in the
way of retaliation for The Washington Post forcing President Nixon to
resign over The Watergate Affairs no one is actually saying aloud.]
Here are the direct quotations from the current hearings:
Specter: Does AT&T provide customer information to any law enforcement agency?
Whitacre: We follow the law, senator.
Specter: That is not an answer Mr. Whitacre, you know that.
Whitacre: That's all I'm gonnna say, is we follow the law. It is an answer.
I'm telling you we don't violate the law, we follow the law.
Specter: Now, that's a legal conclusion, Mr. Whitacre. You may be
right or you may be wrong, but I'm asking you for a factual matter --
does your company provide information to the federal government or any
law enforcement agency, information about customers?
Whitacre: If it's legal and we're requested to do so, of course we do.
Specter: Have you?
Whitacre: All I'm going to say is we follow the law.
Specter: That's not an answer, it's not an answer, it's an evasion.
Whitacre: It's an answer.
Specter: If you're under instructions by the federal government...
Whitacre: We follow the law, senator.
Specter: You've said that. I don't care to hear it again.
Whitacre: I don't care to repeat it again, but we do.
Specter: Well then, don't. If you're under instructions by the federal
government as a matter of state secrecy not to talk, say so.
Whitacre: Senator, we follow the law.
Specter: Well, I think that answer is contemptuous of this committee.
Specter finally forced Whitacre to admit that any response by him
would violate what he had been instructed was "classified information."
Source: ABC
MORE DOUBLESPEAK
The Senate refused to repeal 100% of the estate tax that had been
vilified as "The Death Tax," by embattled White House guru Karl Rove,
but in the end it will cost the real taxpayers just as much, as the
deal is being engineered by repealing what may be all timber company
taxes to win over Senate votes from timber rich Washington State.
All in all The Estate Tax is being repealed for all but the richest
1% or less in the country, and it should be mentioned that that 1%
owns half of everything that can be owned in the United States.
Source: The Washington Post
[I wonder how rest of the country would react to all this if that 1%
actually lived on their blocks, and owned half the land, half the cars,
half the stocks, bonds, cash, boats, etc. while the next 2% owned half
of what was left, and the next 4% owned half of that, etc. . .leaving
only a few percent to be earned by 90% of the block's residents???]
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"We follow the law."
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
It will eventually be determined that there has been an overall
pattern of divulging the personal information of U.S. citizens.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
72% of troops in Iraq say we should get out by the end of 2006.
21% say out now.
Source: Zogby, and various sources that quoted the polls also
done by Le Moyne College.
[As a result, only 6 Senators voted to end the war by year end
this week]
Americans Lose Touch, Report Fewer Close Friends
In the last 20 years the number of close friends reported
by Americans has dropped from about 3 to 2.
In 1985 2.94 friends a person could discuss the important
issues of their lives with were reported.
In 2004 that had dropped to 2.08, a drop of .043 per year
for those 20 years which would be down to about 2 friends
by now, in mid-2006.
Not only do Americans have fewer persons they can discuss
important matters with, but those they do have are family
rather than the traditional friends we tend to think of.
"This change indicates something that's not good for our society,"
said Lynn Smith-Lovin, Professor of Sociology at Duke University.
The study appears in the June American Sociological Review.
[This supports the growing realization that millions of people in
the United States know Oprah Winfrey better than their neighbors]
Source: LiveScience.com
[Perhaps this is why MySpace has 87 million subscribers!]
*
The Big 10 Opens Its Own Television Channel
In an effort to bring in more money from collegiate sport events
The Big 10 has opted to create its very own source of income for
their sporting events for the next 20 years, and should reap the
amount of an extra $7.5 million per year as a result.
The only trouble is that right now you will have to subscribe to
DirecTV to get it.
For at least the first 10 years of this, there should be some of
the normal television coverage of the past, as The Big 10 is now
also reported to have inked lucrative deals with Disney's sports
coverage, from their ESPN and ABC television subsidiaries.
Viewers will have to subcribe to The Big 10 Channel [BTC] via an
opt-in selection to DirecTV's Total Choice package, available to
just over 15 million households.
This isn't the first collegiate sports collective to do this and
it certainly won't be the last. Believe it or not, The Big 10's
action on this was taken from some little known Western Mountain
college conference.
[Just one more step on the way to "pay per everything." Whether
you pay per month, week, day, or per event, it's still pay per.]
DirecTV's Total Choice package costs $41.99 per month.
Source: TV Week, Various Big 10 press releases.
and www.usdirect.com/programming/total_choice.php
*
The "Tahiti" oil well is going down further beneath sea level than
Mt. Everest goes above sea level.
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
estimates just passed 298 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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