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October, 2006

Linda Annala, B.A., M.Ed., C.A.G.S.

Deaf Bayou Columnist

What's Coming Up and Counting in October?

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Yes, 300 million.... with 8 zeroes and!

What am I talking about?

Three hundred million people will be offically counted going over a new three zero zero comma zero zero zero comma zero zero zero people in the United States of America.

October 2006 is the most important month for figures.... According to the United States Bureau of Census, the officals have calculated that sometime this month, the population of Americans, whether being born or coming into this freedom loving country, we are headed for some statistical suprises.  I will try to track down some figures so you can see how many of those people are repesented as a diverse, tossed garden salad of America! 

*Note: The 2005 American Community Survey universe is limited to the household population and excludes the population living in institutions, college dormitories, and other group quarters.

United States of America in October, 2006:          300,000,000

Males      49.0 %

Females  51.0 %

Total     100.0

Under 5 years      7.0%

18 & over           74.6%

need to break down these groups by 10 years...

65 & over           12.1%

Unaccounted*    6.3%

Suggested groups:

below poverty levels:   two lines for one person:  from 2003 Census Review

Under 65 years $9,573  or $797.75 per  month

65 years and over  $8,825 or $735.41 per month

For Louisiana the poverty threshold is at 16.9% and below as calculated per state population.

Centenarians in USA (18 per 100,000 based on 2000 Census)

Subtract the following:

Pro Football players:  32*53*100             -    169.600

All other Sports:        155*100*50            -    775,000

Fans @ home games: 68,000*32            - 2,176,000

subtract the following: These figures are only guesstimates, and not from any offiical source of information.

US Presidents (living & current)    5         -              5

US Senators Present and Past 5*100      -          500

Congresspeople Present and Past 5* 438  -     2,190

State Governors (present and Past) 5*50  -         250

State legislators (present & past) 50*175* 5 -  43,750               estimated

DB in LA                                                           500+ more

People in Power Positions:

1 says "Slip and Fall"                           1

5 on the look out                                  5

Deaf+ people in USA                              - 21,000,000

Deaf+ people in Louisiana                       -        15,000

Usher people in LA                           500+

DeafBlind ppl in USA                   71,500*+

*+ How do we visualize the sheer size and population of 71,500 Deaf Blind people?  I have a suggested view:   The sold-out Louisiana SuperDome and having to put up about 3,500 extra seats on the field to accommodate ONLY Deaf Blind people, sans assistance!!!    Line these people up and the front person walks through the benches to set every single DB person.  How are we going to assist them to cheer the New Olrelans Saints as our home team??

Since this column is due on the 10th of October and I'm preparing my column on the first day of October, so I went to the Population Clock just now at 4:44 AM CDT and here's what I found:

U.S. 299,876,444  at 4:44 AM CDT

US  300,000,000

U.S. 299,876,444

now many 123,556

more to count?    and on what day and time shall we hit the 3 and 8 ZEROES?

I just checked the population clock 5 minutes later and find that we have gained 55 more people in 5 minutes which means every 1 minute we get 11 more people!!!

Friday, October 6, 2006

U.S. 299,917,174
World 6,548,688,268
16:44 GMT (EST+5) Oct 06, 2006

        300, 000, 000

U.S. 299,917,174

                82,826
6:44 GMT (EST+5) Oct 06, 2006

only 82, 826 more people...let's see...

3,000,000,000 as hit on October ?, 2006

            49% males (not deducted)

            51% females (not deducted)

Monday, October 9, 2006

U.S. 299,940,462
World 6,549,328,114
17:34 GMT (EST+5) Oct 09, 2006

59,000 more to go to hit 300Million Mark...

October 10, 2006

U.S. 299,949,069
World 6,549,564,579
20:29 GMT (EST+5) Oct 10, 2006

50,000 more to go

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

U.S. 299,957,968
World 6,549,809,098
00:19 GMT (EST+5) Oct 12, 2006

42,000 more to go before hitting the 300Million mark....

perhaps in the next 4 to 7 days....need to keep checking

Saturday, October 14, 2006

U.S. 299,980,097
World 6,550,417,087
21:31 GMT (EST+5) Oct 14, 2006

200Mth American Ready to Pass the Torch

By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO
Associated Press Writer

October 14, 2006, 4:41 PM EDT

ATLANTA -- When the 300 millionth American is born or immigrates this week, Bobby Woo will welcome a new milestone that surpasses an unofficial distinction he has held for nearly 39 years.

When Woo was born in 1967, Life magazine heralded him as the 200 millionth American.

Growing up, he didn't understand the special distinction until his parents told him it was because he represented "the average American."

While the Atlanta attorney, born of a Chinese immigrant, considers it an honor, he now laughs at the whole concept of average for this diverse nation.

"There's no typical American," he said Tuesday, with a view of his native city sprawling behind the tall windows of his 36th floor law office. "You've got to see us for all our diversity."

The Census Bureau projects that America's population will hit 300 million at 7:46 a.m. EDT Tuesday. The projection is based on estimates for births, deaths and net immigration that add up to one new American every 11 seconds.

Although nobody will know for sure, demographers are betting the milestone baby -- or immigrant -- will be Hispanic: "A Hispanic boy born in Los Angeles County to a Mexican mother," predicts William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. Latinos accounted for almost half the population increase last year, more than any other ethnic or racial group.

But then, in 1967 a white baby born in the suburbs should have been typical, Frey said. Instead, while the Census doesn't pinpoint it, the unofficial milestone went to Woo, who was indeed raised in the Atlanta suburb of Tucker, but whose mother immigrated from southern China when she was 15 and whose entire family is ethnically Asian.

When a Life magazine reporter and photographer visited Woo in kindergarten to keep up with the milestone child, the then-5-year-old was embarrassed and nervous. The pressure didn't diminish when his parents told him all the attention was because he was the average American.

"But then they realized how it would be impossible to be," he said.

Woo -- whose wife's parents also came from China -- doesn't read much into the speculation about the ethnicity of the 300 millionth person. He said he's proud that so many immigrants are woven into the fabric of the U.S. that any one of them might be the milestone thread.

"I could be nothing but for immigrants," Woo said. "I'm very proud to be American and also very proud to be Asian-American."

He hopes that whoever becomes his successor in fame will treat it as an honor.

As for himself, he's looking forward to the media spotlight's move elsewhere, so he can "get a lot more work done."

U.S. Population Set to Hit 300M on Tues.

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
Associated Press Writer

October 15, 2006, 3:02 AM EDT

WASHINGTON -- America's population is on track to hit 300 million on Tuesday morning, and it's causing a stir among environmentalists.

People in the United States are consuming more than ever -- more food, more energy, more natural resources. Open spaces are shrinking and traffic in many areas is dreadful.

But some experts argue that population growth only partly explains America's growing consumption. Just as important, they say, is where people live, what they drive and how far they travel to work.

"The pattern of population growth is really the most crucial thing," said Michael Replogle, transportation director for Environmental Defense, a New York-based advocacy group.

"If the population grows in thriving existing communities, restoring the historic density of older communities, we can easily sustain that growth and create a more efficient economy without sacrificing the environment," Replogle said.

That has not been the American way. Instead, the country has fed its appetite for big houses, big yards, cul-de-sacs and strip malls. In a word: sprawl.

"Because the U.S. has become a suburban nation, sprawl has become the most predominant form of land use," said Vicky Markham, director of the Center for Environment and Population, an advocacy group. "Sprawl is, by definition, more spread out. That of course requires more vehicles and more vehicle miles traveled."

America still has a lot of wide-open spaces, with about 84 people per square mile, compared with about 300 people per square mile in the European Union and almost 900 people per square mile in Japan.

But a little more than half the U.S. population is clustered in counties along the coasts, including those along the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. Also, much of the population is moving away from large cities to the suburbs and beyond.

The fastest growing county is Flagler County, Fla., north of Daytona Beach; the fastest growing city is Elk Grove, Calif., a suburb of Sacramento; and the fastest growing metropolitan area is Riverside, Calif., about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.

"In New York City, people tend to think of that as an urban jungle, but the environmental impact per capita is quite low," said Carlos Restrepo, a research scientist at New York University. "It tends to be less than it is for someone who lives in the suburbs with a big house where they need more than one car."

The Census Bureau projects that America's population will hit 300 million at 7:46 a.m. EDT Tuesday. The projection is based on estimates for births, deaths and net immigration that add up to one new American every 11 seconds.

The estimated 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. are included in official population estimates, though many demographers believe they are undercounted.

The population reached its last milestone, 200 million, in 1967. That translates into a 50 percent increase in 39 years.

During the same period, the number of households nearly doubled, the number motor vehicles more than doubled and the miles driven in those vehicles nearly tripled.

The average household size has shrunk from 3.3 people to 2.6 people, and the share of households with only one person has jumped from less than 16 percent to about 27 percent.

"The natural resource base that is required to support each person keeps rising," Replogle said. "We're heating and cooling more space, and the housing units are more spread out than ever before."

The U.S. is the third largest country in the world, behind China and India. The U.S. is the fastest growing of the industrialized nations, adding about 2.8 million people a year, or just under 1 percent. India is growing faster but the United Nations considers it to be a less developed country.

About 40 percent of U.S. population growth comes from immigration, both legal and illegal, according to the Census Bureau. The rest comes from births outnumbering deaths.

"It's not the population, it's the consumption that can do us in," said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. "These are the luxuries we have been able to support until now. But we're not going to be able to do it forever."

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On The Net:

Census Bureau population clock: http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Population Clocks

U.S. 299,986,925
World 6,550,604,678
18:52 GMT (EST+5) Oct 15, 2006

Monday, October 16, 2006

U.S. 299,995,478
World 6,550,839,699
21:37 GMT (EDT+5) Oct 16, 2006

Monday night, October 16, 2006:

1,032

 -888 for one minute world population increases

144 people per minute for the world;

435

430 per minute in USA

5 people per minute in USA

at 10:47 PM CDT I clocked the following:

Population Clocks

U.S. 299,997,450
World 6,550,893,886
03:47 GMT (EDT+4) Oct 17, 2006

Shall we trust these census guys that their estimate time of receiving our 300Mth person appriximately around 7:46 AM EDT on Tuesday, October 17, 2006.

There may be some articles to follow up on this new arrival named and numbered the 300Mth person.

See you in November,

Linda