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Data to Collect in States
This page is divided into two parts. The first is the standardized data that we would like to collect from all states as we visit them. The second part contains links to the state visit planning pages for each of the seven states (forthcoming) we will be visiting. If there is data that you would like to collect from certain states, please put it into the section at the bottom of the page.
- 1 State Standard Data
- 2 State Specific
State Standard Data
While in states which questions do we want to pose to gather a standard amount of data.
Latest Revision on 2/23/2006
DATA TO BE COLLECTED IN EACH STATE QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED These questions fall in several categories. The questions are just guides to the discussion and give us an idea of the kind of information we want to collect.
General Questions:
- Where is the state library in your state's structure? How does this position impact your ability to facilitate high speed bandwidth for libraries in your state?
- How is the state librarian involved in networking efforts at the state level?
- What is your state's vision for public library Internet connectivity and network service provision?
- What are the most successful methods that libraries have used to connect to high speed access in your state? (Type of connectivity: state network, coalitions, regional networks, unique configurations, etc.)
- What are the general problems and issues you face in getting high speed access for local public libraries to the internet and for other library functions?
- Are there any studies in your state that would be helpful?
- If the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were going to try and help in this arena, what could they do?
Information about each network
These are the questions we want to ask the state run networks rather than the state library networks. For our research, we are trying to determine the following:
- Are public libraries connected to your state network? (which we can find in the document with us).
- What kind of technology powers your network?
- Where does funding come from your network?
- What was the purpose for the creation of the network?
- Who governs your network?
- What are some of the best practices that you have about running your network?
- What are some of the challenges your network faces?
- How do you determine adequate bandwidth for a given connected entity?
If public libraries are connected:
- Approximately how many are connected?
- Do main library branches connect? or Can all library branches connect?
- At what speeds are libraries connected?
- Are the libraries on your network connected to Internet2 and/or Lambda Rail?
- What was the driving force behind getting the libraries connected?
- What services that your network organization provides are public libraries using?
- Are there services that you would like to be able to provide to public libraries that you are unable to?
- What barriers are faced by libraries when they want to join your network?
If public libraries are not connected (and a lot of these questions may be contextual based upon the environment in the state):
- Are you planning on connecting public libraries? If so when? What speeds? (e.g. According to Bryan from Connect Kentucky, Kentucky's network is connecting all public libraries by the end of the year)
- Why are public libraries not connected?
- (Depending on the answer) Are you open to allowing public libraries to connect?
John Windhausen's Telecomm Questions
These are the questions asked of the telecommunication companies and perhaps government officials and the PUC.
- How would you characterize the state of broadband deployment in your state? Is it adequate? Lacking? Growing? Successful?
- Where is the most pressing shortage of capacity? In the long-haul network, the "middle mile" between switching centers and the backbone? Or in the "last mile" connection to the consumer?
- Who are the leaders in broadband deployment in the state? Cable? Bell Companies? Rural telcos? Municipalities? State? Others?
- Are there any studies documenting the state of broadband deployment in your state?
- What are the biggest impediments to greater broadband deployment?
- How active has the state government been in promoting broadband deployment? For instance, has the state helped to aggregate demand? Has the State attempted to coordinate broadband networks? Has the state sponsored education plans for consumers?
- Are there any restrictions on broadband providers that hinder the growth of the broadband market?
- Have municipal control over rights-of-way been a barrier to broadband deployment? What kind of fees or conditions do they attach to using their rights-of-way?
- What is the status of video franchise process? Who has the authority to award video franchises - the cities or the state? Is the current status helpful or harmful to broadband deployment? How could it be improved?
- Are there any difficulties connecting local broadband networks to state networks or to long-haul networks?
- Are there any state regulations issued by the state public service commission that particularly affect broadband deployment – either positively or negatively?
- What affect does the federal high-cost fund have on broadband deployment in the state? The federal e-rate program? Rural health service fund?
- Since our primary focus is getting affordable broadband capabilities to public libraries, what do you think are the major issues affecting libraries' access to broadband?
- Does the state have a universal service fund for schools and libraries? If so, has it worked? If not, should the state adopt such a program?
- Have you heard from or interacted with the libraries in your state? Is there any coordination with the state librarian to promote greater broadband connectivity to libraries?
- What recommendations do you have for promoting broadband deployment to libraries? How should the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
focus its energies?
Questions for Government Officials
- What is your state's vision for highspeed broadband connectivity in the state? How are you defining high speed?
- What steps are you taking (have you taken) to make this vision a reality?
- Who/what is taking (has taken) the lead in bringing this about?
- How successful have you been so far?
- What factors contribute to your establishment of a successful broadband network?
- What barriers are you encountering in your efforts to establish a successful broadband network?
- What role do you see for public libraries in your state's broadband vision?
- Is the state librarian involved in your work to implement high speed broadband access? (Ask if it seems appropriate)
- What might the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation do to help local public libraries get high speed connectivity?
Questions for High Connectivity States
These would be asked of a state library network? They would be asked of the State Librarian or network manager/board.
- How and when was your network formed?
- Who participated in its formation? Who took a leadership role?
- What barriers were encountered and how were they overcome?
- What techniques did you use to get
- Libraries to participate
- Funding
- Other
- Who belongs to your state's network – libraries, schools, universities, other? Does the network only connect to the main library? Is branch connectivity the responsibility of the library entity?
- How is it governed and do libraries participate in the governance?
- Who manages it?
- How many public libraries belong?
- Are there activities at the state level that you feel you would need more bandwidth for?
- What bandwidth is available and how is it supplied?
- Is it scalable?
- How do you help libraries calculate how much high speed access they will need? Or how do they calculate this?
- MB Added: What are the general problems and issues you face in getting higher speed access for local public libraries to the internet and for other library functions?
- Do you have a planning guide that helps local libraries make this decision?
- How is your network funded?
- State
- Regional
- Local
- E-rate
- Higher Education Institutions
- Membership fees
- State Level Telecom Funds e.g
- Other
- E-rate: What role does e-rate play in high speed access for public libraries?
- Who applies for the E-rate funds?
- How does CIPA impact?
- If the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wanted to assist public libraries to achieve high speed connectivity, what would be most helpful?
====Questions for Low Connectivity States==== We will ask these questions of the State Librarian, and State Library staff and anyone else who might provide information.
- Where is the state library in your state's structure? How does the state library's position impact high speed connectivity?
- What is your state's vision for public library Internet connectivity and network service provision?
- Describe your attempts to get high speed connectivity in your state. Are there pockets of high connectivity? What accounts for these pockets?
- What do you see as the largest barriers to connectivity?
- What are the general problems and issues you face in getting high speed access for local public libraries to the internet and for other library functions?
- Are there any studies in your state that would be helpful?
- If the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were going to try and help in this arena, what could they do?
- E-rate: What role does e-rate play in high speed access for public libraries?
- Who applies for the E-rate funds?
- How does CIPA impact?
=Focus Groups
We have discussed conducting at least one focus group in each state with local public libraries. We will ask the state librarian to set it up. We would like a range of librarians, from both small and large libraries, and from libraries with high and with low connectivity if there is not a state network. We would begin the interview with an explanation of the project and its purpose. Possible questions:
- Describe your current network. How is it configured? How much bandwidth do you have? How do you get it? What does it cost? How is it funded? Is it scalable?
- What do you use your bandwidth for?
- Internet connectivity – describe uses
- Internal operations – describe uses
- ILS/PAC – describe
- What would you like to do with your Internet Connection that you cannot do with your current environment?
- Is your bandwidth sufficient? If no, what problems does the insufficient bandwidth cause for your staff and patrons?
- What would you consider sufficient bandwidth? How did you arrive at that amount?
- If you had more bandwidth, what would you use if for? What is your vision for your library's connectivity?
- What are the barriers to getting more bandwidth?
- E-rate: What role does e-rate play in high speed access for public libraries?
- Who applies for the E-rate funds?
- How does CIPA impact?
- Who at the regional or state level provides you assistance in analyzing your needs and getting you more bandwidth?
- If the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were to offer assistance in getting more of US public libraries with higher bandwidth, what would be most helpful?
Previous Discussion on Data Collection
State Specific
Connect Kentucky
State Focus Group w/ Regional E-Rate/Network Coordinators
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Hello everyone, and happy Monday to you all! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Things are certainly heating up, and we are still in full swing down at Garden Supply. We have a couple of events coming up that you will want to mark your calendars for. First, the 2010 NC Triangle Race for the Cure event is being held next Saturday, the 12th, at Meredith College. Our Garden Supply team, Gardeners for the Cure, will be there, and we'd love to have you join us. Every 73 seconds we lose another Mom, daughter, wife, sister, friend, or co-worker to breast cancer. We ARE making strides, more than 200 of you are making an IMPACT right now, but we still have a way to go! So here's the link to our team page. http://nctriangle.info-komen.org/site/TR/RacefortheCure/DUR_NCTriangleAffiliate?team_id=133021&pg=team&fr_id=1702 You'll be amazed at what comes back to you. A couple of items to note...you do not actually have to run or even walk on the 12th in order to participate. Simply check the "sleep-in" option on the registration page. For all of you who join us in this fight, you will receive a team Tee shirt, an after- party, and a special 12% discount card for ALL your Garden Supply purchases for the rest of the year. And best of all, your name will be entered in our drawing to receive a $500 gift certificate to Garden Supply. Hurry, online registration ends June 10th.
Also, mark your calendars for out Annual Auction on June 19th. Join us for a full day of fun at our best sale of the year by participating in our absolute auction. Plants, trees, flowers, pots, urns, iron pieces, fountains and lots of other gift items will be sold. It's easy, just register and get a number, bid and be competitive, finish up your landscaping and get it all at a great price. Please check back for more details on this event including live music and other promotions.
And now I have a few more blooming plants to share with you that will add stunning color to your garden all summer while attracting a myriad of wildlife at the same time. With a collection of butterfly bushes in your garden you will be able to behold the beauty and fragrant delight of these plants while also attracting butterflies and hummingbirds who will love to feed off the flowers. There are plenty of butterfly bush varieties from which to choose, they are not picky about where you plant them and they grow hardily no matter what area of the country you are in. You can find blue, ruby, pink, purple and red plants of the buddleia species down at Garden Supply to make your landscape a rainbow of color.
Developed by Dr. Dennis Werner of the JC Raulston Arboretum in NC, Miss Ruby is noted for its compact habit and remarkable vivid, rich pink flowers. The flower color is unlike any other buddleia. This new butterfly bush has silver leaves with a well branched growth habit which results in lots of beautiful flowers.
Miss Ruby photo courtesy of colorchoiceplants.com
Every bush of a Black Knight buddleia is covered with long, star-like almost-black blossoms from summer through fall. An easy-to-grow shrub that should be an essential feature in all yards. Butterflies and hummingbirds can't resist the honey- scented blooms. Place near a patio or pathway and you'll also appreciate their fragrance. Removal of spent flower spikes during the growing season will encourage additional bloom, but consider leaving final blooms in place to facilitate reseeding.
One of the most commonly requested butterfly bushes is the royal red. The royal red butterfly bush, instead of red as one would expect, has brilliant violet flowers that bloom from mid-summer. Royal red butterfly bushes can reach a height of up to seven feet. The blooms of a royal red butterfly bush are very fragrant, and attractive to butterflies, bees and hummingbirds. This vigorous, dense shrub will add structure and grace to a perennial border. The gray-green foliage of the royal red butterfly bush contrasts perfectly with the bright blooms.
Other butterfly bush varieties available at Garden Supply include:
Pink Delight- fragrant pink flower spikes from summer through fall. Grows 4-6 feet tall and wide in an upright, spreading form. The fragrance has been described as similar to honey. The flower sprays are made of many tiny densely packed flowers.
Bicolor-the first Butterfly Bush to feature multiple colors on each bloom. Pannicles grow up to 10" and feature raspberry and butterscotch yellow florets beginning in summer. It is an excellent attractant for butterflies and hummingbirds. Grows 6-8' tall. Drought and deer resistant. Great cut flower.
Harlequin- Spectacular summer color from reddish-purple flower spikes. Terrific fragrance attracts butterflies. Good background or accent plant with the added bonus of variegated leaves.
Ellen Blue- Beautiful blue flowers with an orange eye and medium to high fragrance. Gray/silver foliage, grows to 6'. A seedling of 'Lochinch', selected by Ellen Hornig and named for her.
Lochinch- extremely fragrant lilac-blue flowers with orange eyes. Its arching, mounded habit typically reaches 3 to 5 feet in one season, but can grow much taller in the deep South. The 8- to 12-inch-long flower spikes begin in late summer and bloom until frost.
Creating a butterfly garden is a fun hobby with an amazing pay-off. You get to enjoy the beauty of many different species of colorful butterflies that visit your garden once your butterfly bushes begin to bloom and grow. It is a popular hobby because it is not difficult, it is great for the environment and it is something that pretty much anyone can do. Stop by the garden center and let our helpful experts get you started on your own butterfly garden today.


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Plan your week with our guide to everything going on through 1/22.
MOVIES OPENING (Friday)
A Dangerous Method
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Red Tails
Underworld Awakening
Alcatraz (series premiere; 8 p.m.; Fox)
Gossip Girl (returns; 8 p.m.; the CW)
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl (special; 8 p.m.; NBC)
Betty White's Off Their Rockers (sneak peek; 8:30 p.m.; NBC)
Being human (season premiere; 9 p.m.; Syfy)
Fashion Police: 2012 Golden Globe Awards (special; 9 p.m.; E!)
Republican Primary Debate (special; 9 p.m.; Fox News)
Los Girl (series premiere; 10 p.m.; Syfy)
90210 (returns; 8 p.m.; the CW)
Glee (returns; 8 p.m.; Fox)
New Girl (returns; 9 p.m.; Fox)
Remodeled (series premiere; 9 p.m.; the CW)
Raising Hope (returns; 9:30 p.m.; Fox)
Ragin' Cajuns (series premiere; 10 p.m.; Discovery)
Justified (season premiere; 10 p.m. FX)
Southland (season premiere; 10 p.m.; TNT)
White Collar (season premiere; 10 p.m.; USA)
Guy Code (season finale; 11 p.m.; MTV2)
American Idol (season premiere; 8 p.m.; Fox)
Criminal Minds (returns; 9 p.m.; CBS)
CSI (returns; 10 p.m.; CBS)
Royal Pains (season premiere; 10 p.m.; USA)
Mistresses (season premiere; 10 p.m.; BBC America)
South Carolina Republican Presidential Debate (special; 8 p.m.; CNN)
Symon's Suppers (series premiere; 9:30 p.m.; Cooking)
Archer (season premiere; 10 p.m.; FX)
Beyond Scared Straight (season finale; 10 p.m.; A&E)
Unsupervised (series premiere; 10:30 p.m; FX)
Shark Tank (season premiere; 8 p.m.; ABC)
On Freddie Roach (series premiere; 9:30 p.m.; HBO)
Swanderosa (series premiere; 10 p.m.; CMT)
Bayou Billionaires (season premiere; 9 p.m.; CMT)
My Big Redneck Vacation (season premiere; 9:30 p.m.; CMT)
Scorned: Love Kills (series premiere; 10 p.m.; ID)
NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY (Tuesday)
The Color Purple [Blu-ray]
Dead Poets Society [Blu-ray]
The Ides of March
Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain
NEW BOOKS (Tuesday)
"Ameritopia: the Unmaking of America," Mark R. Levin
"Death of Kings," Bernard Cornwell
"Hallowed," Cynthia Hand
"Shadows in Flight," Orson Scott Card
"Raylan," Elmore Leonard
"The Flame Alphabet," Ben Marcus
"American Sniper," Chris Kyle
NEW ALBUMS (Tuesday)
The Anabasis, "Back From Being Gome"
Attack Attack!, "This Means War"
Jessie Baylin, "Little Spark"
The Big Pink, "Future This"
Bombay Bicycle Club, "A Different Kind of Fix"
Coldplay, "Mylo Xyloto (special edition)"
Ani DiFranco, "Which Side Are You On?"
Kathleen Edwards, "Voyageur"
Matt Elliot, "The Broken Man"
Enter Shikari, "A Flash Flood of Colour"
Girls Generation, "Boys"
Anthony Green, "Beautiful Things"
Guided by Voices, "Let's Go Eat the Factory"
Howler, "America Give Up"
The Life and Times, "No One Loves You Like I Do"
Martina McBride, "Hits and More"
Modern English, "Ricochet Days"
Walter Rose, "Cast Your Stone"
Secrets, "The Ascent"
RAMS HEAD LIVE: Domino Falls/Alice Anna (Friday); Dru Hill (Saturday)
BALTIMORE SOUNDSTAGE: Battle of the Bands (Sunday)
SONAR: Jucifer (Wednesday); Welcome 2 the Court Vol. 15 (Thursday); In Fate We Trust (Friday); Part Death (Friday); A389 Anniversary Bash (Saturday)
GOLDEN WEST: Bad Liquor Pond (Friday)
METRO GALLERY: Bamboo, Vlonde, Nest (Thursday); Lush Farm, Asexual Woods (Friday)
OTTOBAR: HaVoC, Apple Scruff (Wednesday); the Evokatones, the Players (Thursday); Cass McComba (Saturday); Ace Enders, Antony Raneri, etc. (Sunday)
RECHER: Executioner, Born of Kings (Thursday); Pandas, Big Ego (Friday); Taproot (Saturday)
8x10: Greensky Bluegrass, Todd Sheaffer (Tuesday); Ha Ha Night of Acoustic Jams and Comedy (Thursday); Garrett Anderson, 3 Fifths (Friday); Hangdog, Swarm the North (Saturday)
RAMS HEAD ON STAGE: Burton Cummings (Tuesday); Robert Earl Keen (Wednesday; sold out); NRBQ (Thursday); Bruce in the USA (Friday); Tom Wopat (Saturday); Cheryl Wheeler (Sunday)
FILLMORE SILVER SPRING: Strange Design (Friday)
9:30 CLUB: The Morrison Brothers Band (Thursday); Collie Buddz (Friday); Ozomatli (Saturday)
BLACK CAT: Bike Trip (Tuesday); Screen Vinyl Image (Wednesday); Liftoff (Thursday); Jucifer (Friday); Real Estate (Sunday; sold out)
ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL: Ghost, Blood Ceremony (Thursday); the Wanted (Friday); the Electric 11s (Saturday)
"Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto" (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday; Meyehoff)
Comedian Josh Blue (Wednesday; Sully's Comedy Cellar)
"Fifty Words" play (Opens Wednesday, runs through Feb. 19; Everyman Theatre)
"Dark Girls" film screening (Thursday; Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric)
Comedian Iliza Shlesinger (Thursday-Saturday; Baltimore Comedy Factory)
Comedian Mickey Cucchiella (Thursday-Saturday; Magooby's Joke House)
Baltimore Boat Show (Thursday-Sunday; Baltimore Convention Center)
Charm City LGBT Film Festival (Friday-Saturday; Creative Alliance)
Baltimore Blast vs. Norfolk SharX (Friday; 1st Mariner)
Baltimore Winter Restaurant Week (Friday-Jan. 29; various locations)
"Also Sprach Zarathustra!" (Saturday; Meyerhoff)
Adam Carolla (Saturday; Fillmore Silver Spring)
Comedian Kevin Lee (Saturday; Baltimore Comedy Factory)
Orioles FanFest (Saturday; Baltimore Convention Center)
Peer One Video Tour launch (Saturday; Walters Art Museum)
"Touch and the Enjoyment of Sculpture: Exploring the Appeal of Renaissance Statuettes" exhibit (opens Saturday, runs through April 15; Walters Art Museum)
Save Our Earth Eco Conference (Sunday; AVAM)


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Fantastic kites that have served me well for over 3 years. I use them with both a twintip and a surfboard. They are built to last and i have not had to replace parts but i do have spare bridles for my 3 sizes. Keep the back lines tight and they are good in gusts.
When they do fall apart they will be replaced with new Wainmans.
The whole rabbit gang and graphics are a joke though. Give me a black or white plain kite with a big wainman logo in the centre - less is more.


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These no nonsense pregnancy workout shorts from Oceanlily have clean, form fitting lines for a smooth flattering fit. The double layer waistband is 4" tall and is very stetchy and supportive. It is designed to be worn underbelly. The waistband has a seam detail across the front on the outside but is completely smooth on the inside. The 4-way stretch nylon/lycra fabric breaths and is non-absorbant. Flat seams to avoid rubbing irritations. These maternity shorts have a light satin hand. Made to fit during and after pregnancy.


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Kemble has been making superior pianos for 100 years and the new K109 is a brand new model. Kemble's most affordable piano ever and yet they have made no compromises in choice of materials and standards of construction. The Kemble K109 with a cabinet size of 109cm, the Kemble K109 is an instrument of great natural beauty – a product of a century of traditional craftsmanship complemented by the highest levels of contemporary technology.
Like all their pianos, it benefits from the famous Kemble tone – warm and mellow, yet powerful.The superior 'crown' soundboard design ensures maximum resonance, and the ribs, specially selected to match the characteristics of the soundboard, further enhance sound performance. A 3-ply solid maple bridge is used to optimise tuning stability whilst additionally making a significant contribution to the K109's tone. Black polish with Chrome fittings
Why choose a Kemble?
We are justly famous for our rich and distinctive 'European' sound – a characteristic largely attributable to the quality of the wood used in our soundboards. We use 'Strunz' Bavarian Spruce soundboards which comes from sustainable managed forests and is widely regarded as the best tone wood available. The stability of the crown (curvature) of the soundboard is also important – to maintain this we use individually shaped spruce ribs. Our skilled technicians carefully 'tone' each of the premium felt hammer heads as part of the final preparation process.
Kemble touch is superbly responsive, being both smooth and even – the result of using our precision engineered action and its fine adjustment by our craftsmen. In addition, whereas some manufacturers compromise on their key material, our keys are made from spruce, a wood renowned for its stability in different climatic conditions.
Our own designers have been schooled in the long and rich tradition of British furniture design, and have created a rather special range of elegant designs. In addition, we have commissioned Conran and Partners, a premier British design firm, to create exciting new styles for us.
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Guest post by Thorn
I just wanted to take a moment, before getting into Part II, to
thank everyone for the compassionate response I received to Part I.
I'll be honest – I'd been petrified to put it up there, but also felt
like it was something I needed to do. I spent yesterday compulsively
checking comments, except when took my kids to the park for a while,
before they drove me crazy. I'd much rather have stayed at the
computer and responded to every single comment, for all that I imagine
it would have meant spending most of the day with tears running down
my face. Even so, I wasn't exactly what you'd call "dry-eyed"
The comments tore me up. I know my mom's experience was not especially
unique. I know the way she was treated is altogether too common for
fat women and men to endure. But I was absolutely not prepared for how
many of you came forward with similar tales of your own, of how you
and/or your loved ones were dismissed or disregarded by people who are
literally oath-bound to help us.
I spent yesterday overwhelmed by sadness, for my own sake and for the
sakes of all of us who are at the mercy of these so-called healers.
This is dreadful. It is awful and unconscionable. How can we live in a
world where the quality of our health care is determined, essentially,
by how attractive our doctors find us??
Thank you all again, for your condolences and kind words, and thanks
especially to those of you who shared your own stories.
I wish I could say that the anger at the
doctor lab-coated shit-stain whose callousness contributed to my mom's death is the sum of all the anger I'm struggling to cope with these days, but it's not. I wish I could say that first part was the end of my Hating The Fat-Haters story.
But it's not.
My mother dying because some doctor fat-shamed her out of believing she deserved health care ought to be enough, certainly is enough, to make me want to wreak some violent revenge on fat-haters everywhere.
But alas, there's more.
Because the fat-hating didn't end with my mother's former doctor.
I mentioned before that I moved out-of-state several years before my mom's death. It's not too far, just 120 miles, but far enough to make just shooting down there for an afternoon impossible, especially with a coupla kids in the mix.
I got the call that my mom had died on a Thursday afternoon. I called my husband, who naturally rushed home to be with me. We then decided that we would leave the next day and stay with my sister for the duration of the funeral arranging and everything.
So Friday we drove down, arrived at my sister's, and Rose (not her real name, but it goes nicely with Thorn, don't you think?) and I made arrangements for our collected kids and my husband while she and I joined my grandfather, one of our aunts (Joan*) and one of our uncles (John*) the next day. We'd meet at Grandpa's, then go to the florist, the funeral home, and finally the church where Mom's Funeral Mass would take place.
Saturday morning we got everyone situated and then my sister and I headed out. Rose's cell phone rang as we turned onto Grandpa's street. It was Aunt Joan, wondering where we were. I remember being restless and kind of pent-up emotionally – it would be the first time I'd seen my mother's family since learning of Mom's death. I was torn between wanting to cry with them, that whole sharing grief and comforting each other thing, and wanting to keep a good Stiff Upper Lip going, since we had a lot of things to take care of that afternoon.
Aunt Joan rushed out to meet us as we got out of the car and proceeded to lecture us about how we need to not take it personally if Grandpa was "testy" because "he's devastated."
As you might guess, my aunt's got a real way of just saying the most appalling things like they're nothing, and this was no exception. Rose and I tried to overlook the implication that somehow we were just jolly about the sudden death of our mother and silently nodded and shared a good "God, I wanna slap her" glance before we headed into the house. Uncle John came out midway through Joan's lecture about Grandpa's emotional state, said, "I'm sorry kiddo," to me and hugged me. At which point Joan kind of looked annoyed and said in the most rote, insincere way possible, "Oh yeah. Sorry Thorn." (She's a real people person, can't you tell?)
Once inside, Grandpa and Rose updated each other on calls they'd each made, having started a lot of the arranging Friday, and then Grandpa said he was going to get ready so we could go.
At which point Joan said, "I need to say something." We all stopped and looked at her. She looked uncomfortable, which was kind of shocking already, and then went on. "I don't mean to be offensive or anything," at this Rose and I looked at each other with alarm. What could be so awful that Joan was aware that her words might be offensive???
Joan went on. "Your mom's death was preventable. Your mom didn't have to die. She was 53 years old, that's too young. She was lucky, she had her kids early." She then looked at my sister and I with her eyes wide, I suspect to indicate her "earnestness" and said, "You two need to see your doctors. You need to do whatever you need to do to get healthy. You don't want your kids to grow up without a mother. I know how hard it is to lose your mother, mine died only two years ago! You don't want your kids to go through that. So… just see your doctor. Get healthy so you can see your kids grow up." There was a long pause. "I just needed to say that."
Rose and I stood there silent, in shock for a moment.
Seriously? Joan's big "offensive" thing was to call us fat? Seriously?? Did she think we don't have mirrors?
Then Grandpa chimed in. "It's not easy, I know. I've had to give up eating sausage and I walk a couple miles a day every day now in the morning. I've been doing that for a couple months now and I've lost 17 pounds. It's not easy – you know how much I love sausage – but it's your health."
John had the grace to look uncomfortable, but that didn't stop him from mumbling something as well, about how he also knew it wasn't easy, but by then I'd kind of stopped listening.
They knew how hard it was? Grandpa had never been more than 30, maybe 40 pounds overweight. I weigh 280 pounds. I could lose 17 pounds and not even notice!
John and Joan? They knew how hard it was?? As if any of my mom's siblings had ever managed to be more than 20 pounds overweight! Neither of my aunts had ever even had a problem losing their pregnancy weight, never mind gaining anything besides!
John was on medication which actually made it /difficult/ for him to gain weight, and was naturally on the slim side to begin with. What the FUCK did they know about how hard losing weight was?
Rose and I assured them we were seeing our doctors regularly and that everything was fine. Rose – being better at this game than I – even thanked them for their concern.
Finally someone changed the subject and we managed to get out of there so we could go to the florist to order flowers for my mother's wake.
My aunt, uncle and grandfather got into my aunt's car. My sister and I got into her car and shut the doors. We sat there a moment in stunned silence. "Did Joan just say what I think she said?"
"The bit about how we're lard-asses and if we were better mothers we'd drop everything to be skinny like her?"
"That would be the part."
"Yeah. She can go to hell."
"No shit."
We cussed out Joan on the way to the florist, managed somehow to get through that entire ordeal, and then managed to shake the rest of them for our trips to the funeral home and the church.
In case anyone was curious, so far as I can tell there is no event so emotionally devastating that you can't make it worse by calling someone on the carpet in front of other people to lecture them about how fat they are.
We were able to ditch my aunt, but her words lingered.
They permeated everything.
We tried to let them go, but it was impossible. We should have been focusing on saying good-bye to our mother. Instead we found ourselves fuming again and again over what had been said, the hundreds of different ways it was thoroughly unjust.
Saturday night Rose and I sat up until the wee hours sorting through photographs, finding pictures of Mom to put up on poster boards for the wake. After Rose went to sleep, I sat up, trying to write some kind of eulogy for my mother, despite all our differences. If I didn't do it, I knew no one would. But Joan's words kept echoing in my head, and instead of my mom's eulogy, I wound up writing the precursor to this guest-blog series. No one ever did write Mom a eulogy.
Originally, we had planned to spend Sunday working on the poster boards with our aunts. But we were both still much too angry at Joan, so instead, we opted to work on them at our dad's, who was happy to help out. For all that he and Mom had divorced years before, they'd always managed to remain cordial for my and Rose's sakes.
We had a hell of a time with those poster boards. Neither of us could concentrate – we were still so pissed off. At one point I was telling my dad about what had happened, when I realized that Rose was in the next room, on the phone with our Aunt Brenda* telling her about what had happened.
Rose said Brenda planned to give Joan a stern talking-to about it. "Joan really should have waited a few weeks for that," she said.
I tried not to scream my fury about how that was really not the point.
When my grandmother died, two years ago, I remember her wake and funeral as being very healing. We all cried, we all shared our grief and comforted each other. I remember feeling closer to my mother's family than I had felt in a very long time, possibly ever.
I contrast that with how I felt during my mother's wake and funeral. I cried a lot, of course, and I hugged everyone, even Joan. I cried and snotted all over Uncle John's lapel. He'd always been my favorite uncle, and fatphobic comments didn't change that. But I didn't feel close to the family. I didn't feel healed or comforted. Because through it all, some small part of me was seething.
Where was that closeness I'd felt after Grandma's funeral? Where was that unity? Here I was, in my hour of greatest need, and all I could do was look around and wonder who to trust. I looked at my aunts and uncles, at Mom's cousins, at the whole family, and I couldn't stop wondering who was judging me and how. Do they think because I'm fat that I'm a bad mother? That I'm lazy? Or greedy? Or that I lack self-control? That I'm stupid?
Joan's words had isolated Rose and I, had othered us from our own family. We had been deemed unfit, just like our mother had been unfit, and we felt ostracized, at a time when what we needed was comfort and support. I mean, our mother was dead. We were supposed to be angsting over what to do for her for Mother's Day, not pillaging The Avenue for something to wear to her funeral.
But we didn't get that, because Joan was so worried about our "health."
I've often thought, in the two months since, that if Joan was really so worried about my and my sister's health, perhaps she ought to overlook our fat asses, and worry more about our broken hearts.
* Names changed to protect me, not the fatphobic.


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- Team size. Mainstream agile processes work very well for smaller teams of ten to fifteen people, but what if the team is much larger? What if it's fifty people? One hundred people? One thousand people? Paper-based, face-to-face strategies start to fall apart as the team size grows.
- Compliance requirement. What if regulatory issues – such as Sarbanes Oxley, ISO 9000, or FDA CFR 21 – are applicable? These issues bring requirements of their own that may be imposed from outside your organization in addition to the customer-driven product requirements.
- Domain complexity. Some project teams find themselves addressing a very straightforward problem, such as developing a data entry application or an informational web site. Sometimes the problem domain is more intricate, such as a bio-chemical process monitoring or air traffic control or perhaps it is changing quickly, such as financial derivatives trading or electronic security assurance. More complex domains will require greater emphasis on exploration and experimentation, including but not limited to prototyping, modeling, and simulation.
- Organization distribution. Sometimes a project team includes members from different divisions, different partner companies, or from external services firms. This lack of organizational cohesion can greatly increase the risk to your project.
- Technical complexity. Some applications are more complex than others. It's fairly straightforward to achieve high-levels of quality if you're building a new system from scratch, but not so easy if you're working with existing legacy systems and legacy data sources which are less than perfect. It's straightforward to build a system using a single platform, not so easy if you're building a system running on several platforms or built using several disparate technologies. Sometimes the nature of the problem that your team is trying to address is very complex in its own right.
- Organizational complexity. Your existing organization structure and culture may reflect traditional values, increasing the complexity of adopting and scaling agile strategies within your organization. To make matters worse different subgroups within your organization may have different visions as to how they should work. Individually the strategies can be quite effective, but as a whole they simply don't work together effectively.
Enterprise discipline. Most organizations want to leverage common infrastructure platforms to lower cost, reduce time to market, and to improve consistency. To accomplish this they need effective enterprise architecture, enterprise business modeling, strategic reuse, and portfolio management disciplines. These disciplines must work in concert with, and better yet enhance, your disciplined agile delivery processes.
There is arguably a "0th" scaling factor, one of lifecycle scope. As you see with Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), the scope of that life cycle is delivery (from starting a project to transitioning the solution into production). Scrum, on the other hand, has a narrower scope, that of Construction, so is a subset of the DAD life cycle and I would argue insufficient on its own for agile teams. Then there's Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), which covers the entire IT lifecycle in scope.
Each factor has a range of complexities, and each team will have a different combination and therefore will need a process, team structure, and tooling environment tailored to meet their unique situation.
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- Agile Requirements at Scale
- The Disciplines of Enterprise IT: Beyond Software Development
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In a San Diego County Grand Jury report released June 3, jurors urged every city and school district in the county to copy the county government and consider "adoption and implementation of managed competition, outsourcing, reengineering and/or reverse auction programs; and/or piggybacking on such programs that are in place at other governmental entities within the county."
If programs are outsourced under such efforts, the result inevitably would be layoffs of public employees. Even if public employee units won contracts under "managed competition" bidding against private service providers, layoffs would often be likely because of the need to cut costs by the units that submitted the best bids.
But in a county grand jury report released Tuesday on the city of San Diego's terrible financial straits, there was this observation/recommendation:
"San Diego city officials state publicly that, in these hard economic times for the city, employee layoffs may be necessary. The grand jury does not endorse such a direction as a final solution to the city's deficit. Layoffs will result in the reduction or elimination of many vital city services, including public safety services such as police and fire/rescue. Layoffs, or not filling vacant positions caused by attrition, do not positively serve the community interest and adversely impact the safety of city residents, businesses and visitors."
Do grand jurors feel a need for intellectual consistency from report to report? Evidently not.
But it gets worse. The grand jury doesn't feel a need for intellectual consistency in the same report.
Elsewhere in the Tuesday report, the grand jury urges the city of San Diego to "explore the feasibility of outsourcing the city's entire library system" and "consider the benefits of outsourcing the entire trash collection operation." It also calls for saving money "by consolidation of various functions performed by both the city and the county."
I applaud the county grand jury for pushing so hard for these aggressive cost-cutting measures, which make a lot of sense. But, sorry, they can't be reconciled with the jurors warning that layoffs "will result in the reduction or elimination of many vital city services" and "do not positively serve the community interest and adversely impact the safety of city residents, businesses and visitors."
Why does this matter? Because a respected grand jury can be a force for positive change in this county – and incoherence makes respect unlikely.
Illegal immigration, Poizner and La Suer: cold hard facts
Steve Poizner's and Jay La Suer's landslide losses in their bids for the Republican gubernatorial nomination and the San Diego County sheriff's job, respectively, pretty much demolish the notion that tough talk about illegal immigrants is the ultimate vote-getter with California Republicans and Californians in general.
That's fine by me, because Poizner and La Suer contributed to the unfocused debate we're having over Arizona's approach to illegal immigration, a debate which confirms anew most of America's utter myopia about who is to blame for the problem. In a May 2009 interview I did with T.J. Bonner, head of the union representing Border Patrol agents, I asked him who was most responsible: bleeding hearts, Latino activists and white Dems pandering to Latinos – or GOP business types. His response:
"A lot of people look at the issue in that partisan manner, but I don't buy that. In reality, both parties are heeding the wishes of the business lobby. Let's be honest about who directly and indirectly provides most funding for both parties – corporations. Most corporations don't care about the ramifications of making it easy to enter the country illegally. Millions of impoverished people who are not trained in escape and evasion tactics successfully enter the U.S. illegally every year."
When I mentioned this on my KOGO 600 AM radio show, I got some grief from people who noted that I often criticized union leaders, but now I was quoting one.
My response: T.J. Bonner is advocating turning off the jobs magnet, which would make the jobs of tens of thousands of Border Patrol agents unnecessary if it ever actually happened. This is not what one would expect a stereotypical union leader to say.
His credibility on this issue is off the scale – and whom does he blame for our illegal immigration problems?
Business interests who want cheap, uncomplaining labor.
This is my starting point in thinking about illegal immigration – not the screeds of the Duncan Hunter Sr./Jr. crowd. Here's hoping that at some point, the Hunters and Joe Arpaio fans figure out their primary nemesis.


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Thursday, December 28, 2006
NEW YORK -- Alex Joseph, a West Indian-born parks worker, rakes the lawn at the grandly gothic Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn when he and his fellow laborers hear what sounds like a flock of sea gulls dive-bombing at their heads. The workers instinctively duck and whip round and look up and see -- those crazy green parrots, expertly mimicking the sea gull's caw.
"Man, they do that a couple times a week just to play with our minds," Joseph said, grinning wide and shaking his head. "They are a crazy bunch of immigrants, those birds."
They are the wild parrots of Brooklyn, these emerald-feathered yakkers with the wisenheimer sense of humor. Thought to be long-ago escapees from a container at John F. Kennedy International Airport, their ranks replenished by unauthorized releases from pet shops, the parakeets -- originally from Argentina -- have become accomplished city dwellers. There is a parrot colony along the Hudson River cliffs in New Jersey and another bunch that prefers Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx. Of late, two arrivistes have taken up residency on an apartment ledge on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
But mostly these are Brooklyn parrots, content in their adopted borough of 2.5 million people.
"They are successful Brooklynites, in that they are adaptable, eat a wide variety of foods and like to talk," says Eleanor Miele, a professor at Brooklyn College who lives in the Park Slope neighborhood and has found herself entranced by the parrots.
New York has many wild critters, and a few are not human. A coyote wandered into Central Park before running afoul of sunbathers, and the hawks Pale Male and Lola established aeries on a gilded stretch of Fifth Avenue. Raccoons know their way around Brooklyn's Prospect Park, and muskrats poke at the mud flats of the Harlem River.
But the parrots -- which are about a foot long and are known as monk parakeets because their gray chests and tufts resemble a monk's skullcap and frock -- are among the city's more cacophonous and unexpected residents. Their cry sounds like metal scraping metal. (San Francisco has parrots-in-residence on Telegraph Hill. And Chicago has a broad-shouldered, loud-squawking crew that has been called "Hells Angels with wings.")
Most Brooklyn parrots live in colonies of 50 or 60 birds, although a few less sociable types live on Coney Island or in Canarsie or Gravesend. They favor homes atop light and transmission poles; at Green-Wood Cemetery they inhabit the soaring gothic spires near the gate. Their nests are vast 400-pound constructs, with foyers and anterooms and a space where the females lay eggs and enjoy a respite from the males.
Con Edison knows these nests well, as periodically the power company's workers clamber around them. "These aren't nests; they're condominiums," a spokesman said.
Half a dozen nests can be seen atop the light poles at the Brooklyn College athletic field. On a recent Saturday, 20 or 30 of the resident parrots swooped down and, amid much screeching, alighted on the branches of an oak tree beside a pre-World War II apartment building. Children inside the apartments gestured and called at the birds; sometimes the parrots talk back. (In captivity, monk parakeets can develop a vocabulary of about 200 words.)
Steve Baldwin, 50, lives in Bay Ridge in Brooklyn and acts as the parrots' pro bono publicist and bard. He has composed a Lou Reed-style song, "The Ballad of the Brooklyn Parrots" (available at BrooklynParrots.com), which mixes human and parrot voices and which one "critic" called "Jim Morrison meets Rick Moranis at the Audubon Society."
"They eat berries, ornamental plants and sometimes pizza," Baldwin said as he gave a tour of the Brooklyn College nests to a dozen birders. "They are very intelligent, and of course they don't like the suburbs."
How the parrots came to Brooklyn is a mystery. Apparently a large crate filled with the parrots broke open at Kennedy International Airport in the late 1960s. Baldwin's voluminous research tends to implicate mafia goodfellas in the deed, although that "fact" might be too delicious to check out. The parrots hung around the Jamaica Bay marshes that girdle JFK's southern edges before moving into Brooklyn. The cold was no problem, as the parrots hailed from temperate-to-chilly Argentina.
At first, state and federal wildlife-control officers tried to wipe out this "invasive species." Hundreds of parrots perished, and in the 1970s, the last large colony relocated to light towers at the Rikers Island jail. An eradication team showed up to finish the job -- but the parrots had disappeared.
"Someone tipped the parrots off," Baldwin says with a shrug. "They circled back to Brooklyn, and everyone left them alone."
Now there is a new threat. Poachers with nets are snatching the parrots and selling them to pet stores. The poachers have all but denuded several neighborhoods. It has parrot-loving denizens of Brooklyn talking about vigilante patrols.
Kay Martin lives somewhere near Coney Island, in a house filled with at least nine varieties of parrots. She acknowledges that their racket awakens her at night. So what? They are friends, and they talk to her. Martin, diminutive and pugnacious, spends most of her spare time safeguarding the wild parrots.
Are there nests near your home? She frowns.
"I'm not saying," she says. "The last thing our parrots need is another reporter poking around."


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Mayor Bloomberg And Cuny Chancellor Goldstein Break Ground On New $259 Million Fiterman Hall In Lower Manhattan
December 1, 2009Building Severely Damaged on 9/11 Will Be Rebuilt as State-of-the-Art Academic Facility to Accommodate Borough of Manhattan Community College Expansion
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, City University Chancellor Dr. Matthew Goldstein, Dormitory Authority of the State of New York Executive Director Paul T. Williams Jr., and Judy Rapfogel, Chief of Staff to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, today broke ground on the new $259 million Fiterman Hall in Lower Manhattan for the Borough of Manhattan Community College. The 15-story Fiterman Hall building adjacent to the World Trade Center site was severely damaged in the September 11th attacks. The new state-of-the-art facility will be an environmentally friendly building with 96 classrooms, office space, community gathering areas, a small conference center, art gallery and cafe. It is expected to be completed in 2012. Joining Mayor Bloomberg at the groundbreaking, which took place at Greenwich Street adjacent to the building site, were CUNY Senior Vice Chancellor Jay Hershenson, Borough of Manhattan Community College President Antonio Pérez, Alliance for Downtown New York Chairman Robert R. Douglass, Community Board 1 Chair Julie Menin, and Steve Fiterman, son of Miles and Shirley Fiterman, the donors of the original Fiterman Hall to CUNY.
"Fiterman Hall's reconstruction will be the latest milestone in Lower Manhattan's remarkable comeback, and its transformation into a vibrant, 24/7, family-friendly community," said Mayor Bloomberg. "This new world-class academic building is an investment not only in Borough of Manhattan Community College, but in the students and faculty that will occupy the building and the people that live and work in Lower Manhattan."
"The start of construction on the new Fiterman Hall is a significant milestone for both the BMCC family and lower Manhattan," said Governor Paterson. "The state-of-the-art facility will provide the space needed to support a center of learning and will symbolize the resurgence of an area devastated by terror. I applaud the many individuals and organizations who committed to this project and extend my heartfelt congratulations to the BMCC students, faculty and community."
"This is a long-awaited day in the reconstruction of my Lower Manhattan community," said Speaker Silver. "And it is an especially gratifying day for me, as the careful deconstruction and reconstruction of Fiterman Hall has been at the forefront of my efforts to bring my hometown community back from the devastation of September 11. I look forward with great anticipation to the day when we celebrate the grand re-opening of Fiterman Hall."
"The Council has a long record of funding CUNY capital projects, so we are delighted to witness the start of reconstruction of Fiterman Hall," said City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn. "This is great news for Borough of Manhattan Community College and all of Lower Manhattan. When complete in 2012, it will offer world-class academic facilities for the BMCC community, and it will play a significant role in Lower Manhattan's ongoing revival."
"Upon its completion, Fiterman Hall will be not just a 14-story educational facility but another important piece in the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan," said Borough President Stringer. "As a CUNY graduate I am proud to take part in today's groundbreaking, and I look forward to the day that students can once again utilize the resources at Fiterman Hall."
"A powerful signal has been send throughout the world confirming that our society deeply values higher education opportunity here in downtown Manhattan," said CUNY Chancellor Goldstein.
"The rebuilding of Fiterman Hall is a momentous occasion for BMCC students and the entire Lower Manhattan community," said Borough of Manhattan Community College President Pérez. "The tragic destruction of Fiterman Hall on 9/11 brought together community leaders, political leaders, government agencies at the local, state and federal level, and many other entities to show our students that we believe in their future, and that the future of our City depends on our investment in their education today."
"This is a tremendous step forward," said Alliance for Downtown New York Chairman Robert R. Douglass. "The deconstruction and reconstruction of Fiterman Hall is critical to maintaining Lower Manhattan's competitive position as one of the world's great business and residential districts."
"Community Board 1 is extremely gratified to see that the rebuilding of one of the City's key educational facilities will now rise from the ashes of Ground Zero," said Community Board 1 Chair Julie Menin. "There is no better way to reflect the rebirth of our area than by educating the next generation of students and teaching them tolerance and the values that embody our great city and country."
Borough of Manhattan Community College, which was originally designed to accommodate roughly 10,000 students, today serves more than twice that number. The new Fiterman Hall will provide space for the college's ongoing expansion. The total cost of the project is $325 million, which included $66 million for the deconstruction and decontamination of the old building and $259 million for the construction of the new one. Of the $325 million, $139 million is being provided by the City with the balance coming from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
Fiterman Hall, which served as an extension of the nearby Borough of Manhattan Community College campus starting in 1993, was directly adjacent to Ground Zero. When it was damaged on September 11, 2001, the college lost one-third of its classroom space, just as community college enrollment began a dramatic rise nationwide. A World Trade Center Redevelopment Committee, part of Community Board 1 in Lower Manhattan and led by New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was closely involved in plans to raze and rebuild Fiterman Hall, which was not only structurally damaged, but contaminated with World Trade Center ash and toxic debris.
During the eight years since 9/11, Borough of Manhattan Community College has been a leader among community colleges in the region and nationwide, by continuing to develop degree- and non-degree programs meeting the educational and workforce training needs of New Yorkers striving to change careers or upgrade their current employment in these challenging economic times—students who come from 155 countries, and earn associate degrees in more than 20 fields.Stu Loeser / Andrew Brent
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Listening to screeds about the Carrying Capacity of Earth, reading about predictions of a rapid die-off of the human species, about how this planet can only maintain habitability for 1,200,000,000 or 1,400,000,000 people, it is impossible to miss the rather obvious tone of puritanical Malthusian glee. A great many extreme environmentalists truly envision the human race as some kind of virulent plague that must be stopped, that must be contained, that must be eliminated. I find this mentality not only to be disgustingly self-loathing, but also deeply misguided. This manner of thinking is clearly based on the idea that humankind is somehow separate, distinct, apart from nature, rather than an obvious part of nature.
Extreme environmentalists seem to partake of a cynical, fatalistic sense of self-loathing, a belief that humans are responsible for some abiding, unforgivable and irredeemable sin. Presumably, the virulence of humanity is our historical proclivity for pollution and degradation of the environment, our waste, our contribution to Global Warming. They seem deeply concerned that there are too many of us, living in too much luxury, and the belief that our lifestyles are inevitably unsustainable. Personally, I find this to be nothing more than another symptom of the nostalgia that seems to accompany our relentless technological progress. This nostalgia tends to manifest itself in one of two ways – pining for simpler times, and dire predictions of the impending decimation of some important social virtue if not civilization itself.
Our civilization, raised by backwards looking religions and raised with a deep seated nostalgia for simpler bygone eras seems obsessed with the past, with outdated, useless technology, and afraid of our technological prowess. The reality is that it is technology that has dramatically INCREASED the carrying capacity of this planet. To be sure, we could NEVER have fed and clothed and provided power for nearly 7,000,000,000 people with 16th or 17th or 18th or 19th century technology. Indeed, during much of the 16th, 17th, and 18th, century, the vast majority of the 1,200,000,000 people living on the planet lived on the verge of starvation. Kingdoms and Empires rose and fell because of conflict fed by hunger. We now have nearly 7,000,000,000 people and more than enough food to feed all of them (though many still starve due to failures of political will), how is such a thing possible? Because technology has enabled us to do infinitely more with less.
A similar pattern holds in energy production. The extremist looks at these figures and concludes that they are unsustainable because we will simply run out of resources. This is HIGHLY unlikely because if there is one thing that humankind has proved REMARKABLY adept at, it is adapting and forging new solutions to difficult problems. At some point, probably in the next fifty years, almost certainly in the next century, humans will develop the ability to harness the energy sources that power the heart of stars – nuclear fusion. Critics maintain that scientists have been promising nuclear fusion for fifty years and have failed to produce it economically. That fifty years of scientific development and research would fail to produce cheap, clean and unlimited energy is unfortunate, but in no way surprising. Fusion power is, afterall, an incredibly daunting engineering and scientific undertaking. The simple fact that humanity hasn't achieved it yet doesn't mean that it is impossible.
Humans attempted to fly for over 700 years before the Wright Brothers finally achieved powered flight for 13 seconds in 1913. Most believed that was impossible as well. Now there are over 50,000 commercial flights per day.
Recognize how many centuries passed between the discovery of oil and the use of oil for energy production. We cannot expect to harness the power that drives a star without effort, but make no mistake, humanity WILL harness that power. And in the interim, humanity will make ever greater advances in harnessing the abundant energy that is showered down on us each and every day by the greatest power source humanity has ever known – the Sun. In the coming century, humanity will will rely more and more on solar power. It is highly likely that eventually, our entire system of roads and every rooftop in every city will be a solar cell. If this seems far fetched, recognize that merely thirty years ago, the idea that virtually every item sold in a grocery store would have a computer inside would have seemed ludicrous. Yet we now live in a world where the microchip has become so cheap and so ubiquitous that items which no one would ever have conceived of having or needing any computing power, have become 'smart.' Appliances that shut themselves off, regulate temperature based on contents, track pets, track sales, enable appliances to talk to one another, etc. In the same way that microchips have become integrated into EVERYTHING, solar technology will in the coming centuries, become integrated into everything as well.
The best estimates place the amount of solar energy that strikes the Earth's surface in a given day at something around 8,200,000 QuadBTU (Quadrillion BTUs) per year. As humans currently use about 400 QuadBTUs per year, this is more than 20,000 times the annual energy consumption of the entire human species.
We WILL harness this energy and in doing so, will increase the carrying capacity of this planet once again.
WE will.
Not God, not Yaweh or Allah, but human society, human ingenuity, human genius.
The streets we drive on will power our homes and the electric cars that we drive. Increases in battery technology will enable us to store ever greater quantities of electricity to meet peak demand. Increased transmission capability and ever more interconnected electric grids will allow those regions with the most energy to transfer it to those with the least, making full use of solar, wind, geothermal, etc. With vision, this will likely result in a global electric grid, that will share power between every region on Earth and supply continuous power to the entire planet and most if not all of that power, will eventually be produced by zero-emission technologies like solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and biomass.
In the interim, humanity has a lot of work to do, because the reality is that our planet is slowly, incrementally heating up. And while technology will once again increase the carrying capacity of this planet, we will also likely have to turn to technology to mitigate the environmental excesses and errors of the past as well. There has recently been a renewed interest in the prospect of geoengineering, of using technology to mitigate the effects of our carbon emissions and to mitigate the effects of global warming. Technologies that have been proposed include the construction of vast forests of artificial trees, which essentially draw in carbon dioxide and sequester it via chemical processes, increasing the albedo (reflectivity) of clouds through the introduction of benign chemical agents and scattering reflective particles like sulfur in the stratosphere to diminish the amount of sunlight that strikes the surface. This of course, will lead to increasing acidification of the oceans, however, this is another problem that can likely be resolved through chemistry and the application of technology.
While geoengineering sounds like science fiction, it is simply the logical and intelligent response to the reality that life is a messy process, that living things produce a lot of waste, a lot of gasses, and a lot of byproducts. Humanity has long been engineering the planet through any number of processes, irrigation, dams, agriculture, city construction, management and mitigation of the atmosphere is simply the most logical means of mitigating our impact to maintain the Biosphere we know for as long as possible.
The stark and unforgiving reality is that eventually, the Biosphere we know and love, the distribution of plants and animals with which human civilization is familiar are destined to change no matter what we do. Extinction, even MASS extinction is a natural process in the life cycle of this planet. Even a cursory examination of the geological record indicates that ice ages come and go, over the course of thousands of years. Our Biosphere would certainly be dramatically altered if, for example, the northern and central United States were under a mile of ice as they were approximately 10,000 years ago. Historically speaking, we should be entering a phase of cooling, a period of re-glaciation, it is difficult to imagine the havoc THAT particular environmental terror would wreak not only on human civilization, but on the global Biosphere we know so well.
Nature does not play favorites, and whether we like it or not, if wish to maintain the Bisophere human civilization developed in, WE will have to actively work to maintain it. Fortunately, the natural cycles of this planet are incredibly long. Equally fortunate, in comparison to those cycles, human technological development is INCREDIBLY rapid.
And if humankind seeks to maintain a balance in the atmosphere through the introduction of gases and particulate matter? So what? Humankind has been THOUGHTLESSLY and MINDLESSLY pouring gases and particulate matter into the atmosphere for CENTURIES, manipulating the atmosphere without any rhyme or reason whatsoever. We are already engaged in geoengineering, we are simply doing it stupidly. If we do so intelligently for a particular purpose, to resolve a problem and maintain the world we know and love, that is not only profoundly wise, it is quintessentially human, it is transcendent. For in working intelligently and collectively to associate with and maintain the entire planet, that represents a heretofore unknown ability to meaningfully associate with an entire planet in a way humans have never known before. In this way, we give something back to the planet that has given us so much.
I simply do not understand the extreme environmentalist's revulsion at the idea of utilizing technology to solve the problems created by technology. As I understand the argument, it is offensive when humans interfere because they disrupt the natural balance of life on Earth. This, however, is a ridiculous argument, because life on Earth is NOT balanced. It never has been. Nature is NOT in balance. The life cycles of Earth are NOT in balance. The life cycles of this planet almost invariably end with the mass extinction and utter annihilation of entire Biospheres, the decimation of entire ecosystems. Our own Biosphere is ultimately destined to be destroyed, 5,000 to 10,000 years from now. Why should we allow such a thing to occur? Why WOULD we allow such a thing to occur if we can prevent it? If humanity can evolve into a greater symbiosis with the planet, using our minds and our hands, our bodies, and our technology to maintain a balance that the Earth itself DOES NOT maintain, why is that bad?
I believe the extreme environmentalist suffers most from an extreme lack of long range historical perspective. They have a visceral and deeply emotional attachment to the way things APPEAR to have been forever. And to be sure, our world HAS been remarkably ecologically stable since the last ice age ended, however, when one steps back, it is hard to ignore the rather obvious fact that both before and after that time, ecosystems come and go. Nearly 99.8 percent of every species that has ever lived on this planet is extinct. Our brief period of ascendancy is less than a yawn in Geological time. Countless ecosystems have been utterly annihilated by the natural rhythms of Earth and every single time, life adapts, evolves, rebounds and thrives in renewed splendor. We ourselves and everything around us are the results of the last great extinction event. Given that our ecosystem is ultimately destined for destruction, why would we not take every possible step to maintain the present Biosphere? To be sure, humanity has NOT taken great care of the planet, but up until the last century, humanity was not even conscious of the fact that there was a problem. Now that humanity IS aware that there is a problem, why would we not turn every technological tool at our disposal towards mitigating the damage, towards diminishing its effects, towards establishing the long term viability of our Biosphere? Why would we NOT utilize technology to do what the Planet cannot do for itself?
As a simple analogy, I offer the following: Catastrophic meteor impacts are a recurring natural phenomenon that have occurred throughout Earth's history and throughout the history of every planet in the Solar System. They are a natural phenomenon in a Universe in which massive objects travel at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour on divergent orbits over billions of years. Such collisions are, indeed inevitable. Our planet has suffered at least two such impacts since the advent of life, both of which extinguished nearly all living things on the planet. These quintessential natural phenomenon resulted in the total destruction of their respective Biospheres. If NASA or the European Space Agency were to announce tomorrow, that a massive asteroid was going to strike the Earth in 30 years, would we not turn every technological effort into avoiding it? Would we not utilize every technological tool at our disposal to shift its course? Such technology is within our capability even today. We can do something for this planet that it could not, in all of its 4.5 billion year history, do for itself. We can protect this planet from an external threat it would never have been able to see, let alone stop. We have such capability. And if we would employ our vast technological capability to protect the planet from an external threat, why would we or SHOULD we not use our technological capability to engineer the planet to ensure its ongoing habitability? Such an act would enable humanity to achieve a level of symbiosis with our planet heretofore unimaginable. Earth itself will become a bio-technological hybrid and achieve a level of integration far beyond anything the ancients could have imagined.
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Fly Lands on Obama's Face, World Net Daily Raves About Satan - Update: Satan Discovered Writing for WND
Today at the craziest of the crazy right wing sites, ace reporter Aaron Klein is covering an issue that the mainstream media are too afraid to touch: Is Obama Biblical 'Lord of the Flies'?
Yes, in addition to being a socialist, a Marxist, Hitler, an angry black radical, a secret Muslim, and a tyrant, President Barack Obama can also lay claim to the title of His Nibs, the Horned One. The Prince of Darkness. The King of Hell. The malignant arch-fiend Beelzebub.
Those reaching to connect Obama's fly troubles with the darkest biblical references won't have much difficulty.
One name commonly used to refer to Satan is Beelzebub, which translates from Hebrew into "Lord of the Flies."
A posting at the popular Free Republic Web forum discusses Beelzebub and asks, "Is the White House fly infestation evidence of demonic presence and influence there?"
The End Times blog named Obama the "Lord of the Flies."
The blog connects Obama to Beelzebub, writing, "This really isn't an academic question. The Lord of the Flies is real."
Over at RevalationNow.net, a posting by "editorial staff" muses about whether Obama is possessed by a demonic entity.
"I feel like I am watching a horror movie and the secret evil character is revealed by the evil signs around him," the post reads.
Klein concludes his investigative piece with several paragraphs of citations from the Bible and Torah, helpfully explaining the many ways in which Satan has been linked to flies.
Some of World Net Daily's super-smart commenters suggest an alternate explanation, however.
Flies are a very good judge of excrement.
Well as a dog owner I've seen a lot of dog poop in the yard through the years over the course of 4 dogs & as an eye witness I can say poop usually has lots of flies swarming around it & sitting on it. Maybe we should start calling obammie the BigTurd-in-Chief. ;-)
HAHAHAHA! That was funny. :)
World Net Daily may have a huge, no, an apocalyptic problem much closer to home, though. The signs are undeniable. One of their own columnists is also attracting flies.
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Hi, whats up there?
I went through something that I really didn't have enough information about it. It was about a flash drive that Windows displayed a wrong size for it. I had some research about that but what I've got is not well classified and I'm kinda confuzed. It seemed that the physical information is stored in MBR and each partition's FAT. I found some texts about it. I used a hex editor and found that bytes in their positions. There I could change them.
My problem is that if the FAT has wrong info then Windows doesn't see the memory correctly. For example windows may see only a portion of memory 60 MBs of a 256MB flash memory for instance. How can this be solved? Am I correct that Windows reads size info from FAT?