Utah has its 2nd ever Professional Major Leage Championship. (The only previous professional championship was the 1971 Utah Stars of the old ABA baskeball league) Real Salt Lake beat the LA Galaxy to win the Major League Soccer championship. Real won in a shoot out after regulation and overtime end… Continue

From the EM city website:

UDOT ESTABLISHES NUMBER TO REPORT DRIFTING SNOW ON SR-73

UDOT now has a satellite maintenance shed near the crossroads in
Saratoga Springs with snow plows and personnel stationed there during
the winter to increase response time for snow removal on SR-73 and SR-68.

If you see drifting snow on SR-73 that needs to be plowed, please call
*801-766-3210 *and leave a message, including the best description you
can give about the location of the problem, and UDOT will respo… Continue

Today was the last Utah Lake Commission Meeting for the year. The meeting in December has been canceled.

One of the main events of today's meeting was the Utah Lake Carp Removal video report. It is interesting to see the steps that being taken to solve this problem. I am definitely in agreement with the goals of improving the lake by removing 5 million pounds of carp each year.



It was announced that there is a new commission being created to preserve and protect the Jordan R… Continue

I have been getting the Provo meeting assigments, while Ryan Ireland gets the Salt Lake assignments. This meeting was held at the Provo Marriot.

This full project will cost taxpayers $2.5 billion and 40% already complete. This project is spending $3 million per day into local economy.

When finished, the Frontlines 2015 project represents 70 miles of new track in the next 7 years.

The 5 spurs will be:
1. SLC to Airport
2. West Valley Spur (West Valley to 2100 South Trax Station)
3. Daybreak (M… Continue

To celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, I wanted to post Folio's "Information Democracy" video.

I am sure that I am way too idealistic for my own good, but this video has been a powerful influence in my life. There were a lot of important international events going on at this time. There were many of us information technologist that were caught up in the sharing of information. Keep in mind this was prior to the modern internet. Many of the concep… Continue

Utah Crossing bridge links

Info about Utah Lake Bridge Public Hearing Utah Crossing'

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Israel plans missile strike alert system using nation's cell phone network

TEL AVIV — Israel's military's Home Front Command has devised a missile alert network based on cellular phones.

In May 2009, the command successfully tested the network in the Turning Point-3 exercise.
"We realize that most of the people in the country have cellular phones," Lt. Col. Uri Perez, head of the command's Teleprocessing and Warning platoon, said.

Perez said the command has sought to e… Continue

Congratulations to Makelle Yates of Eagle Mountain, a senior at Lehi High School was was named All State by the Deseret News.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705343367/High-school-soccer-4A-all-state-first-team.html

Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off
(AFP) – 10 hours ago

LONDON — Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off.
In an interview in his native Australia, Murdoch accused Google of stealing stories from News Corp. newspapers for the Google News service, and said he might ban them once he introduces charges for the papers' online editions.

Google sa… Continue

Utah County mom takes action to make road safer
Reported by: Annie Cutler
Last Update: 11/09 6:20 pm

Winter driving in snow (ABC 4 News)
EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah (ABC 4 News) - A Utah County woman is taking action to make a road she has to travels safer. She survived a head on collision that happened because of… Continue