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SECOND ANNUAL TURKEY TROT RUN-WALK SET FOR THANKSGIVING MORNING
About 300 Participants Last Year
Eagle Mountain, UT, November 24 -- Eagle Mountain City will host our second annual Turkey Trot Run-Walk along the Pony Express/Sweetwater Trail on Thanksgiving morning, Thursday, November 26, starting at 9:00 AM. At the inaugural run last year, approximately 300 people pa… Continue
Added by David Lifferth on November 24, 2009 at 2:25pm —
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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
Added by David Lifferth on November 22, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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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
Added by David Lifferth on November 20, 2009 at 8:09am —
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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
Added by David Lifferth on November 19, 2009 at 11:22am —
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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
Added by David Lifferth on November 13, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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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
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
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
Added by David Lifferth on November 10, 2009 at 12:41pm —
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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
Added by David Lifferth on November 10, 2009 at 8:30am —
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There was a new term that has been added to the English Lexicon this past week. The new word comes from the world of soccer and was coined in Provo Utah.
This video has been viewed over 2 million times on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNmPybFK2_o
The meaning of the word Lambert is to hit someone with cheap shot or play dirty.
Sample usage is: "Dude, she just Lamberted you." Continue
Added by David Lifferth on November 9, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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News Corp Sites May Be Removed From Google
5:29pm UK, Monday November 09, 2009
Adam Arnold, Sky News Online
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has suggested the company's online newspaper pages will be invisible to Google users when it launches its new paid content strategy.
He claimed that readers who randomly reach a page via an internet search hold little value to advertisers.
When asked by Sky News Australia's political editor David Speers why News Corp has not stopped Google from finding… Continue
Added by David Lifferth on November 9, 2009 at 12:01pm —
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I got a phone call from the blood donation folks this past week requesting that I donate a pint of blood. The reason they called me is that there is a newborn that needs to have surgery this next week and that I was a match for blood type and that I was CMV negative. I had heard that I was CMV negative (CMV-) before when I have given blood, but I wasn’t sure what it meant.
I looked it up on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytomegalo… Continue
Added by David Lifferth on November 8, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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[At first I decided not to link to this article, but there were some interesting things that the reporter said about me.]
Incumbent candidates fall in several Utah County cities
David Lifferth in Eagle Mountain is still trying to figure out what he did to lose his council seat. The city, which has a colorful political history, is "in the best shape it's ever been," he said.
The winners -- John Painter and Nathan Ochsenshirt -- beat Lifferth handily.
"They campaigned really hard. They… Continue
The election is over and the voters have spoken.
I congratulate John Painter on a successful and winning campaign. I wish him the best as he serves on the city council. I am grateful that after the campaign and election are over, I have respect for him.
I am very happy for Mayor Jackson. I am glad the voters supported her for another term. I think this bodes well for our city. I know that she will continue to do a great job.
I am also very happy for Nate Ochsenhirt. I know how much he wanted… Continue
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Get election results on Twitter.com/DavidLifferth to learn Election Results as soon as I do. Based on past elections, results may be available at 9pm at the earliest, 9:45-10pm is more likely.
Election 2009 News
As of 5pm, there had been 1,500 votes cast in Eagle Mountain
New:… Continue
Added by David Lifferth on November 3, 2009 at 8:46pm —
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Dear Candidates,
Just some last minute information as you prepare for Election Day this Tuesday!
* The Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
* EARLY VOTING. We had 102 residents come in for early voting which ended on Friday. Early votes will be counted on Election Day at City Hall by the 3 appointed counting poll workers.
* ABSENTEE BALLOTS. Approximately 97 absentee ballots were sent out and to date, 41 have been returned. Absentee ballots come back in a sealed envelope and are delivered to… Continue
Added by David Lifferth on November 2, 2009 at 12:03pm —
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The day starts early at 6:45 when it was still dark. A few die-hard supporters are up in the frosty Autumn morning for a Honk-n-Wave.
