FCC Sends National Broadband Plan to Congress News release: The Federal Communications Commission has delivered to Congress a National Broadband Plan setting an ambitious agenda for connecting all corners of the nation while transforming the economy and society with the communications network of the future -- robust, affordable Internet...Titled Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan, the Plan found that while broadband access and use have increased over the past decade, the nation must do much more to connect all individuals and the economy to broadband’s transformative benefits. Nearly 100 million Americans lack broadband at home today, and 14 million Americans do not have access to broadband even if they want it. Only 42 percent of people with disabilities use broadband at home, while as few as 5 percent of people living on Tribal lands have access.

A working title, sometimes called a production title, is the temporary name of a product or project used during its development, usually a film. It may also be an informal title for a position. The Working Title is the name of an alternative pop/rock band. Paul McCartney used the name holder Scrambled Eggs for one year before fitting the lyrics of Yesterday to the melody we know it as today.

Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household, March 18, 2010 - Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project. "The multi-generational American family household is staging a comeback—driven in part by the job losses and home foreclosures of recent years, but more so by demographic changes that have been gathering steam for decades. As of 2008, a record 49 million Americans, or 16.1% of the total U.S. population, lived in such a household, up from 28 million, or 12.l% in 1980. Such households had been more common a century ago, but began to fall out of favor after World War II. Now they are coming back."

According to Russell Ackoff, a systems theorist and professor of organizational change, the content of the human mind can be classified into five categories:
Data: symbols
Information: data that are processed to be useful; provides answers to "who", "what", "where", and "when" questions
Knowledge: application of data and information; answers "how" questions
Understanding: appreciation of "why"
Wisdom: evaluated understanding.
See much more at: http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm

No one wants to touch it. Not Toyota, not NHTSA, not any politician. But the issue has to be raised. Driver error is most likely at the root of these sudden unintended acceleration incidents. Unintended acceleration is not a new issue for the auto industry. It's been around for decades and complaints have been filed against virtually every automaker. Even more telling, it was around long before electronic throttle controls (ETC) ever showed up in cars. http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/12/runaway-toyotas-what-about-driver-error/

On the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, Liz Carpenter was in a Dallas police car being driven to Love Field. There she would board Air Force One, the plane returning to Washington with the body of a slain president and his widow, as well as the Texan who would take the oath of office aboard the plane, his wife standing at his side. "Having been a reporter for 20 years of my life, I knew [Lyndon Baines Johnson] would soon face the press," she recalled, "and they were going to want a statement. I pulled out a card and just started writing. Fifty-eight words: 'This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help--and God's.' Carpenter, who served as Lady Bird Johnson's press secretary during her tenure as first lady and who was a founding member of the National Women's Political Caucus, died of pneumonia March 20 in Austin. She was 89. In 1952, Les and Liz Carpenter started Carpenter News Bureau with four employees. At our peak, they had 26 papers. Ms. Carpenter, who served as president of the Women's National Press Club in 1954, also wrote a weekly column. Speeches continued into her ninth decade. She was in the Texas Women's Hall of Fame and on the board of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Research Center. by Joe Holley http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/20/AR2010032002909.html

Q: Is Benjamin Franklin's epitaph special?
A: Which one?
Franklin (1706-1790) composed this charming epitaph at 22 years old: "The body of / B. Franklin, Printer / (Like the Cover of an Old Book / Its Contents torn Out / And Stript of its Lettering and Gilding) / Lies Here, Food for Worms. "But the Work shall not be Lost; / For it will (as he Believ'd) Appear once More / In a New and More Elegant Edition / Revised and Corrected / By the Author." But today, in a downtown Philadelphia cemetery, his tombstone reads: "Benjamin and Deborah Franklin: 1790" -- The Franklin Institute.
Q: What was the first airline?
A: The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line ran the world's first regularly scheduled airline service using heavier-than-air craft during January, February and March 1914. -- Federal Aviation Administration. http://www.thecourier.com/Opinion/columns/2010/Mar/JU/ar_JU_032210.asp?d=032210,2010,Mar,22&c=c_13

Feedback to newly-coined word unexpect in the marketing slogan "Unexpect Yourself." Since unforseen is a synonym for unexpected, then "Unforsee Yourself" could be another marketing slogan.

Three pasta tips
(1) Crush whole black peppercorns in a mortar and pestle or grind them on the coarsest setting in a spice grinder. Then "toast" the cracked pepper by frying it in the olive oil you'll be using for the pasta sauce, heating it until it smells very fragrant.
(2) Boil your pasta until it's just short of al dente, then finish cooking it in the hot pan or skillet containing your sauce, tossing the pasta and the sauce together vigorously
(3) Adding a few ladlefuls of salty, starchy pasta water to the pasta and the sauce as you toss them together will moisten your sauce and add an additional layer of flavor and body to the final dish. http://www.saveur.com/gallery/3-Pasta-Tips