ROBOTS & COAL

BUSINESS WEEK (2007) 5/7

BYRNES & ASTON (60-63)

The biggest robots in the world are probably going to be pushing coal to sequestration. The coal is processed by robots and then the dirty byproducts are pumped back into the ground.

Industrial robots are the wave of the future. Whereever they go, they are usually consistent and save the lives of workers.

GREEN (66) Bloggers are becoming big shots. Although there are millions of blogs, those that renew and refresh constantly are few. Those that have an unusual reach to other web sites and millions of readers get the best bet for getting the royal treatment from corporations and politicians.

In other words, BLOGDOM has become key. Further, not only numbers but if your blog does lots of tricks, the number of hits keeps getting bigger. SOCIALVIBES.NET , this site has in 2 years nearly double visitors and hits. Further, original essays as well as reviews that focus on the social sciences attract a sizable upscale audience. Finally, SOCIALVIBES.NET is not a blog. You can communicate with the editor, but not like other blogs. And this site is not a diary or a journal. It looks for original ideas and good articles from numerous sources. Last month had a new high in which the weather was nice. Usually, there is a fall off from the outside as it effects numerous indoor activities including watching cable.

PALMERI (68) Want to live with Barbie? Soon you can go to BarbieGirls.com/ With your B-bucks you can buy things and chat with friends. Now that is the hard part. Don't you think it will attract predators?

CONLIN( 71)  More workers are staying home to do their work. Today companies use a mere 40% of their space. So what to do with the empty cubicles? The company moves into an office with an incredible lobby and then can rent cubicles by the day, week, month year. Cubicles are arranged so that the companies remain in one area and another company in another area.

MORE ON IQ AND WEALTH (79) The Bureau of Labor Statistics  looked at those individuals in the work force from 79' Smart people are just as like to be in financial straights as not so smart people.

MAC MILLAN (86) Get your vita online, but have it looked exceptionally professional. Get off the Web 2.0 areas if you are in a compromising position(s).

PALMERI (32-34)  This housing slump is different. WATCH OUT FOR A MAJOR RECESSION! Negotiators are doing many unusual money strategies to keep buyers in their houses .HOUSES ARE NOW HITTING THE MARKET WITH AN ASKING PRICE BELOW THE MARKET. However, by rebooting now to avoid THE BUSINESS CYCLE can mean a bigger drop later that could impact the entire economy. BUSINESS CYCLES DON'T GO AWAY.

THORTON (50-57) HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD ANOTHER $20.00 A MONTH TO YOUR COMMUTING? Imagine that your 4 lane that you drive back and forth everyday cost an additional 20 dollars a month because it is a toll road. It has been privatized States cut taxes and so went road improvements. In the last 25 years, the population by 40 million, but roads have increased 5%. Further, the toll can keep climbing. The financially comfortable get a clear road, you must do something else. Your state and federal taxes built these roads and now you pay someone else to drive on them.Buddy do you want to buy a bridge?

THE WEEK (2007) 5/11

_______(18) After a traffic stop, Blacks are 3 times more likely to be searched than Whites.

(18) BLOGS are tough for women because of threats from online creeps.

(24) THE BLACK SWAN BY TALEB is essentially a book on wild cards and chaos theory.

(44) Gen X and Gen Y need constant praise. They have been told how outstanding they are for everything and now they demand approval and are constantly unhappy.

U.S NEWS &WORLD REPORT (2007) 5/7

MAREK (34)  Remember those hand held or shoulder mounted missiles that are fired by individuals. There is still concern around airports that creeps will shoot down airplanes and still be able to escape .Numerous technologies are now being inserted or attached to airlines.

SULLIVAN (42-49) COMMUTES are getting longer and new strategies are being tried to make congestion confusion and stress reduced. Population growth is outpacing highway building. The worst commutes are around New York City and Washington D.C. 50% of the population live in 5 states and they are all plugged up. Perhaps some businesses can move to red states and attract populations, but that is another story. Mass transit is great, but not many want to do that.Toll roads and Traffic congestion fees are possible.

MARKELS(59) Inaccurate data can skew the value of a home. However, here are some online

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NEWSWEEK (2007) 5/7

CHARMICHAEL (54) It is a lollipop and it contains one really good pain killer. The patient is using this lollipop off label for migraines. In the mean time, he is losing his teeth. Kids get them and they overdose.

ADLER (56) John Doe has heart attack, with new strategies, he has not a 15% survival rate, but an 80% survival rate. Why? They massage his heart and GENTLY bring the cells back to life. In the traditional way, he gets a BLAST of oxygen.

THE NEW REPUBLIC (2007) 5/7

CHAIT (18-26) The Right began to take over the Republican party with Barry Goldwater. From his election onward they kept getting stronger through organization that peaked with Ronald Reagan. Then it moved on through the Bushes. The second Bush is much more conservative than the first and had control of house, senate, white house, and now the supreme court. The author suggests that the Right has it right when it comes to winning. Once a week, there is a meeting with Grover Norquist at the helm. Everyone in the Right is on the same page. They disagree, but they remain loyal. A person like David Brock who wrote a neutral account of Hillary Clinton was thought to be disloyal and was banished. On the other hand, Progressives are all over the map. When you ask a Right wing think tank person what their role in the movement is they know exactly what to say. On the other hand, a Progressive would be troubled by that. Now NETROOTS

is beginning to evolve. Here is what they inherited. When you look at 68' Humphrey lost overwhelmingly to Nixon and Wallace. Most every election after that meant that the Democratic party kept moving to the right and kept losing. Only Carter and Clinton won as Eisenhower Republicans. NETROOTS wants to mimic the discipline on the right. They saw old Liberalism and the New Left go up in flames in the late 60's and they do not have a basic framework yet to work with. Old Liberals are divided and the country is basically conservative. However, if they can work on the basis of a moderately Liberal platform maybe it can work. HOWEVER, it took the Right at least a decade to get the whole movement going and it is still vibrant.

THE ECONOMIST (2007) 4/28

(31) Years ago, the supreme court in Brown vs. Topeka said that the USA is not a separate but equal school system. Some thought after the decision, that schools would be intergrated. That word integration is an old one as new words have come and gone and most schools are generally segregated. The latest case is one in which an attractive school has an opening in which a Black youngster has a chance to get in and a White youngster who lives in the neighborhood of this attractive school can not get in. It would appear that the supreme court as it is presently

constituted will reverse the decision and the White youngster will be the new student. Thus, maintaining racial balance essentially will die.

40) There is a growing Anti-Americanism and a growing Anti-European ism. We can only see what will happen after Bush leaves office.

45) Millions of Chinese are investing in the stock market in China. They are new to capitalism and what may sour them on strict capitalism is the business cycle.This bull market also has the

internet involved so we will see what happens.

(3-14) mid section  THE WI-FI SOCIETY means that many things have the possibility of being connected to the many other things. That may be the next big thing. So many pages are allocated to this, that this brief summary can only indicate that if one thing goes wrong, it is possible that many things can go wrong.

Further a gizmo can be placed in your arm and can act as a gps system. Another could monitor your health. You are faraway in the countryside to get away from it all, but the chip let a few or many know where you are. You call them with your cell phone.

71) Marine energy/ by tapping the energy from ocean waves, experimenters are trying to find a cost effective way to help supply the necessary energy for future electricity. This is coming from Seattle.

73) Hedge funds are now financing films. The really safe bets are funded by the studio, but hedge funds take on the riskier movies. The BIG BLOCKBUSTERS are in the SUMMER & CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. To add to the changing movie season is that of capacity. Now movie theatres are in stadium seating and in multiplexes. If you have 15 movie theatres together, for a big one 12 can be rented. Further, it is in the best interest of competitions not to release at the same time. So each gets a week end. Incidentally, the week end is the big part of the profit. It may be in the future that a big blockbuster will be released in theatres, DVD's, and pay per view all at once.

78) Renault-Nissan is releasing their new LOGAN for about $7,000 before taxes in the USA.

81) AUSTRAILIA IS SUFFERING FROM WATER WARS. It is dry as a bone.

90) People who live on a one dollar a day which is about 1 billion people are not necessarily unhappy or happy. Annihilation can be their future so they just do what they can. They don't act rationally, they act traditionally.

91) There is a new gizmo that replaces the eye and acts as an eye.

92) honey bee colony collapse started in mid-November 2006, numerous studies are now being conducted to rule out various variables. These include cell phones, immune systems, pesticides, and numerous other indices. They are now looking at key worker bees.

92) honey appears to help wounds.93) Birds appear to be able to plan ahead.

94) There appears to another earth.