FOUR DAY WEEK

THE WEEK (2009) 8/7

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Not known for cutting edge social and technological changes, Utah has gone to a 4 day work week. Fridays is the new day off for a 3 day week end. Workers put in 10 hours a day. The state has slashed 1.8 million from their annual electricity bill and 12,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide. 80% of the workforce likes the change.

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Wind is not enough. Spain has gone to wind and the country there finds that it is an

intermittent power. However, those placed in the right locations should be more fruitful, but wind must be thought of as a complimentary power.

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Germs lurk in the sand. As we prepare to meet H1NI, the germs are below the surface. Don’t go there.

Moving walkways are about as fast as regular walking. Use it if you need to.

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Bulletin Trains can reach speeds of slow aircraft as in 150 miles an hour. However, passenger trains have been shunted aside for cars and planes. There may be new rails between big metro areas to slim down the ongoing traffic.

NEWSWEEK (2009) 8/3

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The rainman stereotype of heavy computer users does not hold up.

Constant checking of the computer news and twittering allow us to keep up with long running stories that we would not do with print.

Google is making us smarter. General knowledge can be accessed so that we can stay

afloat with the new news.

News will be easier to copy and share. That‘s good.

TIME (2009) 8/16

Tumulty

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What TIME writer’s record is the mishmash of a bill called Healthcare. However, if you

dig through the print, THERE will be a bill that gives more portability and security. There may be more, but probably less. It will be a barebones bill that Blue Dog Democrats can sell back home.

Further, there may be some side action like WALMART going into the pharmaceutical businesses. They could lobby for more drugs purchased over the counter and get into

a health plan that could drive down prices.

BUSINESS WEEK (2009) 8/3

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The Military’s DARPA has come up with a string of technological hits in the past that

essentially were successful for the country. They invented the internet. So what are they working on relative to alternative energy? Thousands of proposals have come to the civilian wing of DARPA and they are looking at high risk high reward. They look at so many projects where energy is derived and it is not dirty. There is even a project on algae.