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Sep 6, 2013 - By Bruce Tippets, Sports EditorThe Shoshoni Wranglers swept Burlington for a successful volleyball home opener on Thursday night.
Shoshoni rolled 25-10, 25-17, 25-18.
The Wranglers placed third last Saturday at the Douglas Invitational.
"We played well for our first game on our home floor," SHS Christina Mills said. "I was very proud of the team's defensive effort."
Serving was another strong point for the Wranglers.
"We served very and kept the ball playable," Mills said. "The girls are really understanding how to place the ball for both serves and hitting. It's exciting to watch them continue to improve."
SHS was in control for most of the match.
"I'm not sure there was necessarily a pivotal moment or set in the game," Mills said. "We just continued to take care of the things that we have in our control and that was the difference."
SHS was credited with nine aces in the victory.
Annika Dechert had three aces.
Shayde LeClair and Michelle Tarango had two aces apiece.
Dechert paced SHS with 13 digs. Tasha Maddock had 12, while LeClair ended with 11.
LeClair slammed down 15 kills. Raine Pingetzer had eight, and Erika Eckley contributed with six kills.
"Our serving was much improved based on serving to designated areas and serving tough," Mills said.
"We also did a nice job of moving the ball around and getting players in positions to hit."
The Wranglers will now enjoy a weekend off from competition.
"As always, we will continue to work on ball control in areas," Mills said.
"We are a young team, so this our main area of focus.
We need to continue to communicate and move well on defense so that we can dig big hits and lead our offense."
The Wranglers will be in the Big Horn Invitational on Sept. 13-14.
The next home match is Sept. 27 vs. Kemmerer.
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A day after the wife of ex-Syracuse assistant coach Bernie Fine said she intends to sue ESPN for libel, ESPN has fired back.
A large part of Laurie Fine's 44-page lawsuit centered on an audio tape of a phone conversation Bobby Davis secretly recorded. Davis, who accused Bernie Fine of molesting him when he was a child, provided ESPN with the audio, and ESPN played excerpts in which Laurie Fine seemed to acknowledge Fine and Davis' sexual relationship. (Bernie Fine was then fired. He has denied wrongdoing.)
Laurie Fine's lawyer told reporters Wednesday that the audio was "spliced" and "doctored." He also said only ESPN and The (Syracuse, N.Y.) Post-Standard had heard the full audiotape, so the public didn't really know how the conversation went and what was twisted.
ESPN's rebuttal? Posting the entire audio tape.
Lawrence H. Fisher, the Pittsburgh-based attorney who represents Laurie Fine, said in in email Thursday afternoon that she "celebrates the release of the 47 minute version of the Davis audiotape because it dooms the reporting of ESPN as defamatory."
Fisher also said on Thursday that Fine has not yet filed the 44-page libel suit that was released on Wednesday morning before Laurie Fine read a statement to reporters at Belhurst Castle in Geneva.
"Now that we have this 47 minute version of the audiotape, our experts will examine it more fully," Fisher said in the email. "I expect that upon further expert examination, Laurie Fine's defamation suit will be established even further.
"Finally, I would note that the release of the 47 minute version of this audiotape is an obvious public relations tactic by ESPN aimed at desensitizing the community to the defamation deriving from it."
MORE: Mike Lang, Davis' stepbrother and another man who has accused Bernie Fine of molesting him when he was a child, spoke to the Post-Standard about the scandal. Lang also spoke about his willingness to let his son work as a ballboy under Fine, and he said he was glad the defamation suit against coach Jim Boeheim was thrown out. The lengthy story is worth a read.
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I like Houston (they are my darkhorse), but Chicago? I think you are just scared of their annoying fans.
Besides, Houston is just Miami light... how do you justify taking Houston to go to the Finals while at the same time picking the Heat to get knocked out in the first round? They are the practically the same team, only Houston is in the tougher conference....
Differences between Miami and Houston:
McGrady's healthy, Wade is not.
Riley's old and tired, Van Gundy is not.
Shaq is old and fat, Yao is not.
Miami completely limped into the post season, Houston did not.
Houston scores more, allows less, in the tougher conference and division.
Miami is done.
The only team that is going to prevent the Heat from repeating is Phoenix. Miami can't deal with them.


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Monday, May 23 2011 - In the Media
NSA whistleblower Tom Drake talks Espionage Act, 9/11, Intelligence with '60 Minutes'
May 22, 2011
Thomas Drake worked for the National Security Agency before he was indicted by it. Drake felt that taxpayer money was being misused on unnecessary intelligence, not the information that would lead to the successful capture of terrorists.
While the government says he betrayed his country, Drake, facing 35 years in prison if convicted, says he only pointed out government mismanagement. Drake was imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917.
"The entire national security establishment -- it was a failure, a fundamental systemic breakdown," Drake told "60 Minutes"' Scott Pelley in his first televised interview.
Watch the full interview below, which originally aired on "60 Minutes" on May 22, 2011, embedded courtesy of CBS.
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Tommy Chong, the actor who rose to fame in the 1970s as part of the cannabis-consuming comedy duo Cheech and Chong, recently endorsed B.C. NDP leadership candidate Dana Larsen. Mr. Larsen is the director of the Vancouver Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary and the founder of the B.C. Marijuana Party. Mr. Chong played host to a Larsen campaign fundraiser Monday night in Vancouver. He tells The Globe and Mail why Mr. Larsen should be premier and when he thinks marijuana will be legalized.
Why did you decide to endorse Mr. Larsen?
My whole life, the right thing always appeared at the right time. Right now, I'm at the end of a reunion tour, looking for something else. The tour that we had was called "Get it Legal" and it was all about trying to get pot legal. And Dana fit right in there. He was the guy that I needed in my life at this particular time.
How would you sum up Mr. Larsen's chances to be premier?
His chances are excellent. It doesn't matter whether you get elected or not, the point is getting the publicity. Whether you hold office or not, that's one thing. But getting the message out there and having the millions of Canadians realizing that there is hope for them, whether we vote it in now or later. We're looking at probably the greatest premier Canada has ever known. I see that. He's young enough, he's got the right Barack Obama approach and Canada needs it.
How closely have you been following the NDP leadership campaign?
It's hard to with Charlie Sheen. It's hard to watch anything that doesn't have Charlie Sheen involved with it. In fact, that's the trouble with the U.S. You don't get any kind of global news. You've really got to watch BBC to find out what's going on in Canada. But I stay in touch with [marijuana advocate]Jodie Emery, I'm on Facebook, everybody's been keeping me up to date with Vancouver. Personally, I would have loved to have gotten into politics but I would have had to have gotten some kind of education first.
Is it too late for you to go into politics?
Oh yeah, I've seen what it did to Arnold Schwarzenegger. I don't want to be like that.
Do you expect to see legalization of marijuana in your lifetime?
Eventually. I mean, you can only be stupid for so long. There is a cutoff date on stupidity. It usually is death. Think about this, I will be 73 years old. That's how long pot's been illegal. I think I was put on this Earth because it's my job to get it legal.
You live in L.A. How much time do you spend in B.C?
I try and get at least four or five months up here [each year] … Vancouver's probably one of the most interesting places in the world. You can go to all of these different [cultures]without going 20 miles out of your way. It's great.
Mr. Larsen's fundraiser featured a Q&A with you. What question are you asked most often?
"Where's Cheech?" That's the first question. "Want to get high later?" That's the second question. "Who's Dana?" That'll be the third one.
Have you and Mr. Larsen planned more events for the future?
We'll play it by ear. More than anything, I'll be a conduit to the press. If we've got something to announce, good or bad, I'll be in there.
What are you working on now?
I've got an animated movie coming out. We animated our old record hits; it should be out in the summer. And I'm halfway through the next Cheech and Chong movie. I'll be writing and directing it. That'll shoot probably this summer. We've got a few more gigs to do, but we're right on the last legs. We're the rented horse that can smell the barn, you know?
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Let's say you want to switch to solar—for ecological or economic reasons—but are a renter. Installing solar panels on your roof isn't really an option unless you get permission from your landlord. Enter Solar Gaps, or photovoltaic solar blinds that can be installed easily, and temporarily, on any window. According to their Kickstarter, Solar Gaps can reduce your electricity bill by up to 70%

The smart blinds track the sun throughout the day and adjust their position accordingly. They can generate up to 100W-150W of renewable energy per 10 sq. ft. (≈ 1 m2) of a window, which can power three MacBooks. They also are still regular blinds, and so can reduce energy by shading the interior to lower AC costs. Moreover, the Solar Gaps integrate with existing smart home tech, like Google Home, and can be controlled with your smart phone.

It's a pretty nifty idea, and their implementation is pretty easy to imagine. As of now, they have the look of photovoltaics, so they don't necessarily blend i...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/149993737/mit-startup-creates-camouflage-solar-panels MIT startup creates camouflage solar panels Alexander Walter 2017-02-24T14:17:00-05:00 >2017-02-28T19:56:06-05:00
Founded at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Sistine creates custom solar panels designed to mimic home facades and other environments, with aims of enticing more homeowners to install photovoltaic systems. Sistine's novel technology, SolarSkin, is a layer that can be imprinted with any image and embedded into a solar panel without interfering with the panel's efficacy. Homeowners can match their rooftop or a grassy lawn.

The product caters to the growing "aesthetic solar" market which tries to attract homeowners that are considering going solar but fear the aesthetic impact of the traditional, bleak-looking dark solar panels on their home's appearance. Just last fall, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a line of glass, photovoltaic cell-embedded roof tiles that mimic (currently) four common roof covering styles.

Here a few more examples of Sistine's SolarSkin technology that allows—so the company claims—the panels to either completely blend in with the existing roof or display any desired image, like business logos or advertisements.

All images via Sistine Solar's website.
 http://archinect.com/news/article/149988830/refugee-shelter-takes-top-prize-for-the-beazley-designs-of-2016 Refugee shelter takes top prize for the Beazley Designs of 2016 Julia Ingalls 2017-01-26T20:13:00-05:00 >2017-02-07T21:04:07-05:00
Designed by Johan Karlsson, Dennis Kanter, Christian Gustafsson, John van Leer, Tim de Haas, Nicolò Barlera, the IKEA Foundation and UNHCR, the photovoltaic panel-powered refugee shelter "Better Shelter" has been named the Beazley Design of the Year, beating out the five other category winners to take the top spot.

According to a press release, 30,000 of the shelters, which only take a few hours to assemble from their two-box, fully equipped kit, are currently being used globally.

 http://archinect.com/news/article/149980848/santa-monica-s-impossibly-green-building-dreams-the-challenging-path-to-living-building-certification Santa Monica's 'impossibly green' building dreams: the challenging path to Living Building certification Alexander Walter 2016-11-30T14:57:00-05:00 >2016-11-30T17:31:24-05:00
On a small and skinny lot wedged behind its historic city hall, Santa Monica is trying to accomplish something that has never been done before in California. By 2020, the city hopes to construct a 50,000-square-foot city services building that will meet the requirements of the International Living Future Institute's "Living Building Challenge" — the most stringent environmental building standard in the world.

"Should the city succeed it will prove that net-zero water is possible in our arid climate, even in a drought — and that if we're serious about staving off the effects of drought and climate change, we should settle for no less. It will also familiarize code officials with new innovations, making it easier for developers to build sustainably."

Related stories in the Archinect news:

Say goodbye to clunky solar panels, and hello to Tesla's sleek new glass solar roof tiles

Architecture Dean Poh says reduction in energy savings is not enough: "I am for net zero."

Seattle's Super-Green Bullitt Center Opened on Earth Day

 http://archinect.com/news/article/149975987/say-goodbye-to-clunky-solar-panels-and-hello-to-tesla-s-sleek-new-glass-solar-roof-tiles Say goodbye to clunky solar panels, and hello to Tesla's sleek new glass solar roof tiles Nicholas Korody 2016-10-31T15:09:00-04:00 >2016-11-04T12:42:12-04:00
While solar panels have been subsidized in many cities for a while now, the blocky, rectangular panels aren't heavily implemented in part because they tend to appear as, well, an addition, rather than a constitutive element of home design. That's about to change, as Tesla has announced a (potentially) revolutionary new intervention in the development of self-powered homes.

At a press event at Universal Studios, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a line of glass, photovoltaic cell-embedded roof tiles. And they look strikingly like old-fashioned roof tiles, coming in a four distinct styles: "Textured Glass Tile", "Tuscan Glass Tile", "Smooth Glass Tile" and "Slate Glass Tile". From above, the glass is transparent to the sun. From street-level, the solar cells aren't visible.

Tesla states that the tiles will cost less than traditional roofing when energy savings are factored in. Manufactured out of durable, long-lasting tempered glass, the roof tiles will "last longer than the house", Musk ass...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/149957887/nyc-s-lowline-is-approved-by-city-officials-becoming-world-s-first-underground-park NYC's Lowline is approved by city officials, becoming world's first underground park Julia Ingalls 2016-07-14T14:25:00-04:00 >2016-07-17T20:13:48-04:00
What do you do with a sad, funky, abandoned trolley terminus? Well, if it's the former Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal under Delancey Street in New York City, you make the world's first underground park by virtue of adding some mirrors, skylights, and vegetation. One acre in size, the freshly city-approved park (which took nearly a decade to go from its initial concept to getting the green light from the city) makes use of solar technology to pour sunlight into the former terminal, which has remained unused since 1948.

"Every designer dreams of doing civic work that contributes to society and to the profession," said James Ramsey, Lowline Co-Founder and Creator. "Over the last 8 years, we just stuck to what we thought was a great idea that could make our city and our community better. We're thrilled to move ahead on designing and building a space that people will enjoy for generations to come."

For more on innovative design news in NYC:

Designing around sea-level rise in New York

T...

 http://archinect.com/news/article/149941589/san-francisco-to-mandate-solar-panels-for-new-constructions San Francisco to mandate solar panels for new constructions Nicholas Korody 2016-04-20T13:44:00-04:00 >2016-05-04T23:03:17-04:00
The solar power industry is about to get a big boost in San Francisco. On April 19, the city's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to become the first major US metropolitan area requiring that new buildings install solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on their roofs. California already mandates that new buildings with 10 floors or less designate at least 15% of their rooftop area (pdf, p8) as being ready for solar panel installation.

"The city of San Francisco now requires that builders actually install solar panels in these areas (at a minimum) starting in 2017. Larger buildings are exempt for now."

Curious about other efforts to make American cities reduce their carbon footprint through harvesting solar energy? Check out these articles:

US government agency develops new batteries that could revolutionize energy infrastructure

Turn the 2 into housing (or a park or a solar array): Christopher Hawthorne's pitch for one of LA's most awkward freeways

MIT researchers have created a new material that stores and releases solar energy

Students endure the final home stretch at the U.S. Solar Decathlon 2015

 http://archinect.com/news/article/149938451/new-nevada-solar-plant-can-store-heat-from-the-sun-for-up-to-10-hours-with-molten-salt New Nevada solar plant can store heat from the sun for up to 10 hours – with molten salt Alexander Walter 2016-04-05T13:50:00-04:00 >2016-04-05T22:38:11-04:00
Renewable energy like solar and wind is booming across the country as the costs of production have come down. But the sun doesn't always shine, and the wind doesn't blow when we need it to. [...] A company called SolarReserve may have found a solution: It built a large solar plant in the Nevada desert that can store heat from the sun and generate electricity for up to 10 hours even after sundown.

Related stories in the Archinect news:

Denver selected to host the 2017 Solar Decathlon

A river of solar power: a scheme for the Tijuana river

How this new gigafactory may popularize residential solar power technology

 http://archinect.com/news/article/149606391/how-this-new-gigafactory-may-popularize-residential-solar-power-technology How this new gigafactory may popularize residential solar power technology Justine Testado 2016-03-04T21:24:00-05:00 >2016-03-17T21:56:02-04:00
When production begins, SolarCity, already the leading installer of residential solar panels in the [U.S.] will become a vertically integrated manufacturer and provider...At a time when conventional silicon-based solar panels from China have never been cheaper, investing in a new type of solar technology is a risky undertaking. However, the potential benefits are huge. The new factory...could transform both SolarCity's business...and the economics of residential solar power.

The MIT Technology Review profiles the upcoming Buffalo-based SolarCity factory and their ambitious plans that could potentially make solar power technology more widely available to consumers.

More news about alternative energy:

Cloud-harvesting skyscraper: renderings of proposed new sustainable Tokyo development

Michigan State University researchers develop completely transparent solar panels

Could 'quantum dots' be the key to turning windows into photovoltaics?

Turning Japan's golfing greens into solar farms
 http://archinect.com/news/article/95359906/win-a-place-in-the-sun-green-living-and-the-solar-home Win "A Place in the Sun: Green Living and the Solar Home" Justine Testado 2014-07-09T14:21:00-04:00 >2014-07-09T17:00:44-04:00
Need some ideas for designing a solar home or to make your space a little greener? "A Place in the Sun: Green Living and the Solar Home" could be a helpful guide -- and Archinect is giving away 5 copies to our readers.

Released this past April, the 228-page hardcover book by green-living writer and advocate Stephen Snyder includes an intro by John Hix of John Hix Architect Studios, over 200 color illustrations, and 28 featured profiles on green residences.

To enter this random drawing, fill out this survey by midnight Friday, July 11. Winners will be selected at random. Good luck!

Here's more detail into the book:

"The book vividly demonstrates that living green does not have to mean sacrificing comfort and living with less...Snyder demonstrates that the new solar home is also the new energy-efficient home, the new geothermal home, the new rainwater-harvesting home, and even the new recycled home. This generation of sustainable residences applies earth-friendly techniques throughout—in ...
 http://archinect.com/news/article/87532474/why-solarcity-and-tesla-are-going-to-replace-your-utility Why SolarCity and Tesla are going to replace your utility Archinect 2013-11-27T15:00:00-05:00 >2013-11-27T18:13:11-05:00
SolarCity, the Silicon Valley solar installer, has quietly begun to offer some homeowners a lithium-ion battery pack made by electric carmaker Tesla to store electricity generated by their rooftop photovoltaic arrays. Stem, another Silicon Valley company, will sell or lease a $100,000, 54-kilowatt-hour battery pack to businesses so they can arbitrage the grid by storing electricity when rates are cheap and then using that energy when they're high.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/65165261/peel-and-stick-solar-panels-a-world-first Peel-and-Stick Solar Panels: A World First Anna Johnson 2013-01-09T19:31:00-05:00 >2013-01-14T20:19:04-05:00
Researchers at the Stanford School of Engineering have succeeded in developing the world's first peel-and-stick thin-film solar cells. The idea will allow the cells to be applied to almost any surface, with successful tests having been conducted on paper, plastic and window glass. This opens up significant opportunities for alternative applications for solar technology, previously limited by traditional solar cells, which must be mounted on stiff, often heavy, fixed panels.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/58289332/team-rh-ne-alpes-canopea-house-wins-the-2012-solar-decathlon-europe Team Rhône-Alpes' Canopea House Wins the 2012 Solar Decathlon Europe MikeChino 2012-09-29T17:29:00-04:00 >2012-09-29T20:42:30-04:00
Big news out of Madrid: Team Rhône-Alpes' Canopea House has won the 2012 Solar Decathlon Europe! At the forefront of the competition since winning the Architecture and Operations prizes, this compact home is topped with a 10,7 kW array of photovoltaic panels that produce enough energy for both floors and a mini EV.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/34362899/soda-bottle-sunlight-water-chlorine-55-watt-lightbulb Soda bottle + sunlight + water + chlorine = 55 Watt lightbulb Paul Petrunia 2012-01-13T11:30:00-05:00 >2012-01-13T22:46:03-05:00
 A simple, yet brilliant, new concept is providing free solar-powered light for thousands of families in poverty-stricken Philippines.
 http://archinect.com/news/article/25241734/apple-plans-solar-farm-at-data-center-site Apple plans solar farm at data center site Archinect 2011-10-26T11:42:54-04:00 >2011-10-26T11:42:54-04:00
Permits issued by Catawba County show that the Cupertino, Calif., company has been approved to reshape the slope of some of the 171 acres of vacant land it owns on Startown Road, opposite the data center, in preparation of building a solar farm.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/22064222/google-rent-your-solar-panels-from-us Google: Rent your solar panels from us Archinect 2011-09-28T20:05:08-04:00 >2011-10-02T17:39:26-04:00
Google, the investor in this case, will technically own the solar panels, while the maintenance and upkeep responsibility of the solar panels stays with the installer and Clean Power Finance. The homeowners, who are essentially giving roof space in exchange for a chance to buy solar-generated electricity, will pay a monthly fee. Google's return on investment comes via the electricity that is generated by the solar panels and sold to customers.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <meta> http://archinect.com/news/article/18583347/ivanpah-solar-plant-towers-by-rafaa Ivanpah Solar Plant Towers by RAFAA Alexander Walter 2011-08-29T13:48:18-04:00 >2011-08-29T13:51:08-04:00
Swiss design firm RAFAA has shared with us their entry to the invited competition for Ivanpah, a 392-megawatt solar thermal power facility currently being built by BrightSource Energy Inc in the Californian Mojave Desert. The project - which counts NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource as equity investors - is currently the largest solar plant under construction in the world.

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Diawa Lease just sent Inhabitat the first photos of their new transforming EDV-1 shelter, which can be set on any terrain, doubles in size with the flick of a switch, and can sustain itself without any outside resources for up to a month by catching and reusing water and generating electricity with a huge built-in solar array.

 Diawa Lease just unveiled its solar-powered EDV-1 emergency shelter, which doubles in size with the flick of a switch and features a luminous LED facade.
 http://archinect.com/news/article/8308740/world-s-first-solar-powered-floating-island-opens-in-seoul World's First Solar-Powered Floating Island Opens in Seoul MikeChino 2011-05-31T18:16:28-04:00 >2011-05-31T18:49:15-04:00
The citizens living off the Han River in Seoul, South Korea inaugurated the world's largest floating island just last week. The stunning structure includes a 700 seat convention hall, restaurants and arcades — all powered by solar energy. When the development is completed, a trio of islands will be linked together by twenty-three weather-proof chains.

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By Dave Goodell
Dec 9, 2011
The culverts (large water tubes) under the dam are blocked by sediment and debris. This means that water flows over the dam instead of through/under it. I imagine that on a hot summer day this stream crossing is refreshing, but at the beginning of December it was absolutely frigid and painful. On December 4th the water was about 3 inches deep and flowing at a moderate rate.
Besides the cold water itself, the concrete conducts a significant amount of heat away from your feet. On top of all of this, the concrete is slimy and slick, which means you must move slowly and carefully to avoid taking a spill.
I recommend bringing along stream crossing shoes/sandals/crocs/whatever if you intend to to head to Muscle Beach.
We also saw a sign over by the trash cans that mentioned several bridges and dams on FS 9b were going to be removed some time in 2012. This seemed to imply that this clogged dam would be one of those demolished, although it was not 100% clear.
By cyd
Nov 29, 2015
Just went to Muscle Beach yesterday. There is a ton of New Development the renders the old directions completely useless. The dam is no longer there, neither is the parking area or the campsite on the inside left bend for Minas wall.
Now, for people who have never been there, you park 1.5 miles down the gravel road (it's closed for the season of 2015). Walk the gravel road until you get to a board/sign and some bear protected garbage containers. It should be rather obvious, as it's now a large piece of excavated land. Currently there's a wood sided porti poti on the right as well.
Essentially when you come up to the sign (which explains the creek restoration project) you can see the top of Muscle Beach straight ahead. Poking out with a bit of orange rock feature through the top of the trees. This is particularly evident if it's winter/fall.
Cross the creek, there are several rock hopping ways. We crossed almost directly behind the sign. Walk Straight across the field, almost bearing left a little, until you hit the tree line. Go straight uphill and pick the path of least resistance. You should after maybe 200 ft of uphill find what could be considered an "old road". It's clear it might have been a road, and not natural to the forest, but it's very very overgrown. Lot's of small trees and bushes and overgrowth. Don't expect an old tire track dirt road. But when you hit it, I think, it's obvious. Take the road left (otherwise North west ish). It will gradually wind up the hill, crossing many mounds. Eventually you'll be able to pick up a very very faint trail. Keep following the road/trail.
You'll make it to a spot where boulders start appearing. There will be four downed trees across the road (although there are many down trees on the road, these four are somewhat together, separated by no more than 25 ft in between them). You should be able to see the cliffline at this point. After the first downed tree, veer left up the bank and follow a very very faint trail up hill towards the cliff line. Keep mostly right and you should come up to the 5.9 crack.
By Chris Chaney
From: Stanton, Kentucky
Dec 18, 2015
|Other than the creek crossing the directions should still work. I'll check it out soon and revise if necessary.
By Derek Michael
Jun 23, 2017
|I'd probably just skip this crag in the summer unless you like ticks, posion ivy, and thorny bramble. The approach trail seemed non-existent.


text: Spring-like weather has prevailed in Reilly Springs this week. The temperatures have been pleasant and we received about half an inch of rain on Monday. It's the kind of weather that we typically expect for this time of the year and has many in the community working in their gardens or yards.


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A Global Action Plan
for Electronic Commerce
Prepared by Business with Recommendations for Governments
A joint statement by:
Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC)
Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC)
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
International Telecommunication Users Group (INTUG)
World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA)
Collectively, the coalition that produced this Global Action Plan represents the following organisations:
Asociace Pro Pora denstvi v Podnikani (APP) (Czech Republic)
Asociacion Espanola Empresas Informatica (SEDISI) (Spain)
Associaçao Industrial Portuguesa
Association of the Computer Industry (PIKOM) (Malaysia)
Associazione Nazionale Aziende Service Info. e Telematica (Italy)
ASUT (Switzerland)
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI)
Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)
AUTEL (Spain)
Bangladesh Computer Samity
Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI)
Bundesverband Informationstechnologien (BVITeV) (Germany)
Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände
Canada Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC)
Canadian Council for International Business (CCIB)
Canadian Council for International Business (CCIB)
Chinese Taipei Business Council of ICC
CISA (China, Taipei)
Computer Suppliers Association (COMSA) (Zimbabwe)
Computing Services & Software Association (CSSA) (UK)
Confederacionde Camaras Industriales de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (CONCAMIN)
Confederacion Espanola de Organizaciones Empresariales
Confederacion Patronal de la Républica Mexicana (COPARMEX)
Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic
Confederation of Netherlands Industry (VNO-NCW)
Confederazione Generale dell'Industria Italiana
Conseil National du Patronat Français (CNPF)
Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening (Danish Employers' Confederation)
Dansk Industri (Confederation of Danish Industries)
Fédération des Entreprises de Belgique (FEB-VBO)
Fédération des Industriels Luxembourgeois
Federation of Dutch Branch Associations in +Information Technology
Federation of German Industry (BDI)
Federation of Hellenic Information Technology Enterprises (Greece)
Federation of Korean Information Industries (FKII) (Republic of Korea)
Hong Kong, China Business Council of ICC
ICC Argentina
ICC Australia
ICC Austria
ICC Bangladesh
ICC Belgium
ICC Brazil
ICC Burkina Faso
ICC Chile
ICC China
ICC Colombia
ICC Cyprus
ICC Denmark
ICC Ecuador
ICC Egypt
ICC Finland
ICC France
ICC Germany
ICC Hungary
ICC Iceland
ICC India
ICC Indonesia
ICC Iran
ICC Ireland
ICC Israel
ICC Italy
ICC Japan
ICC Jordan
ICC Mexico
ICC Morocco
ICC Nederland
ICC Norway
ICC Peru
ICC Portugal
ICC Saudi Arabia
ICC Singapore
ICC South Africa
ICC Spain
ICC Sri Lanka
ICC Sweden
ICC Switzerland
ICC Syria
ICC Togo
ICC Tunesia
ICC Turkey
ICC Ukraine
ICC United Kingdom
ICC Uruguay
ICC Venezuela
ICC Yugoslavia
Information Technology Association of America (ITAA)
Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC)
Information Technology Association of New Zealand (ITANZ)
Information Technology Services Association (TIPAL) (Finland)
Irish Business and Employers Confederation
Israeli Association of Software Houses (IASH)
IT Association of New Zealand (ITANZ)
Japan Information Service Industry Association (JISA)
Keidanren - BIAC Japan (Federation of Economic Organisations)
Konfederacja Pracodawcow Polskich (Confederation of Polish Employers)
L'Association des Professionnels de L'Informatique de la Bur (Morocco)
Mongolian National Information Technology Association
Naeringslivets Hovedorganisasjon (Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry)
National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) (India)
New Zealand Employers' Federation (NZEF)
NORTIB (Norway)
Norwegian IT Association (KDL)
NTK (Sweden)
Singapore Federation of the Computer Industry (SFCI)
Svenska Arbetsgivareföreningen (Swedish Employers' Confederation)
Sveriges Industriförbund (Federation of Swedish Industries)
Swedish IT-Companies Organisation
Syndesmos Ellinikon Viomichanion (Federation of Greek Industries)
Syntec Informatique (France)
Teollisuuden Ja Työnantajain Keskuslitto (Confederation of Finnish Industries and Employers)
The Association of Thai Computer Industry (ATCI)
Türkiye Isveren Sendikalari Konfederasyonu
Turkish Confederation of Employer Associations (TISK)
Türkiye Ticaret - Sanayi - Deniz Ticaret Odalari ve Borsalari Birligi (TOBB - Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Maritime Commerce and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey)
UK Telecommunications Managers Association (TMA)
UK Telecommunications Users Associations (TUA)
Union Patronale Suisse
Union Suisse du Commerce et de l'Industrie - Vorort
United States Council for International Business (USCIB)
Vereinigung der Österreichischen Industrie (VÖI)
Vereniging VNO-NCW (Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers VNO-NCW)
Vinnuveitendasamband Islands (Confederation of Icelandic Employers)
This Action Plan is supported by:
Alliance for Electronic Business (UK)
Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHT)
Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)
Austria Federation for the Information Industry (VIN)
Canadian Council for International Business (CCIB)
Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic (SPCR)
Confederation of Netherlands Industry (VNO-NCW)
European Association of Manufacturers of Business Machines and Information Technology Industry (EUROBIT)
EU-Japan Industry Roundtable Working group on Electronic Commerce
European Federation of Waste Management and Environmental Services (FEAD)
Federation of European Direct Marketing Associations (FEDMA)
Federation of German Industry (BDI)
Federation of Korean Industries (FKI)
French Freight Forwarders Association (FFOCT)
German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (ZVEI)
German Information Technology Manufacturers' Association (FVIT)
German Retail Federation (HDE)
Global Internet Project (GIP)
Indian National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)
Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC)
International Air Transport Association (IATA)
International Council of Tanners
International Express Carriers Conference (IECC)
International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA)
International Institute of Air and Space Law
IT Association of New Zealand (ITANZ)
IT&C Association of Romania (ATIC)
Italian Association of Internet Providers (AIIP)
Japan Information Service Industry Association (JISA)
Japan-US Business Council
Keidanren (Japan)
Norwegian IT Association (KDL)
Swedish IT-Companies Organisation
Swiss Commission for Fairness in Commercial Communication (Schweizerische Lauterkeitskommission)
The Carribean/Latin American Action
Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD)
Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Maritime Commerce and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB)
Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe (UNICE)
United States Council for International Business (USCIB)
US-Japan Business Council
World Economic Forum (WEF)
World Federation of Advertisers (WFA)
In cooperation with:
Association Européenne pour la Protection des Śuvres et Services Cryptés (AEPOC)
Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS) (UK)
European Association of Advertising Agencies (EAAA)
European Brands Association
Internet Law and Policy Forum (ILPF)
Table of contents
A Global Action Plan for Electronic Commerce Prepared by Business with recommendations for Governments
environment 6
Background 6
This document 7
1. Building trust for users and consumers 9
Protection of personal information 9
Privacy and transborder flows of data 9
Internet privacy 10
Consumer empowerment / marketing and advertising ethics 11
Consumer empowerment 11
Marketing and advertising ethics 12
Issues relating to confidentiality and lawful access to information 13
Promotion of technology development to ensure security 13
Cryptography for confidentiality 13
Access to corporate information by government authorities 13
Access to public sector information 13
Legal interception of telecommunications 14
Legal interception of telecommunications by business 14
Digital signatures and certification authorities 15
Legal validity of digital signatures; interoperability of certificates
Common framework of rules for certification practice 16
Availability of certification practice statement; accreditation 16
Contractual and other legal issues 17
Removing legal/regulatory obstacles 17
Create a uniform legal framework 17
Incorporation by reference 17
Transparency and availability of proprietary and best practice
Dispute settlement 18
Fraud and other commercial crime 18
Liability 18
Taxation and tariffs 19
Customs duties 19
Taxation 19
Trade facilitation and customs modernisation 20
Private/public sector interface 20
Customs modernisation 20
Intellectual property 21
Copyright and neighbouring rights 21
Trademarks 22
Databases 22
Competition and trade-related issues 23
Telecommunications competition 23
IT equipment 24
Trade-related issues relating to electronic commerce 24
Convergence 24
Standards 25
Internet governance 26
Jurisdiction 26
Domain name system 26
Economic and social impacts 29
Small and medium-sized enterprises 29
Skills development 29
Ensuring global participation 30
Infrastructure deployment 30
Government as model user 31
I. Introduction: rules-based commerce in a dynamic electronic environment
The emergence of global networks has already begun profoundly to influence the way individuals interact with each other, businesses conduct their affairs, and governments provide services to their citizens.
As with traditional commerce, electronic commerce requires trust across the whole spectrum of users and providers of services and goods. The radical changes brought about by the emergence of open networks will in some instances require modifications to the existing framework of rules to assure this trust. In some cases new rules will be needed.
Today's commercial transactions are governed by a mix of laws enacted by government and of business self-regulatory instruments. Governments have long acknowledged the fact that a dynamic trading environment requires a cautious approach to regulation. They have traditionally welcomed business self-regulatory initiatives as the foundation of the rules governing commerce.
Self-regulation is not a new phenomenon. Throughout history, business has set its own standard rules and practices through a variety of organisations to lower transaction costs, to avoid and resolve conflicts, and to create consumer confidence.
The pace of change and nascent state of electronic commerce have heightened the risks associated with premature or unnecessary government regulation. This has increased the responsibility of business to promote a trustworthy environment through self-regulation and technological innovation. Business has a strong market incentive to foster the empowerment of users, but will only make the necessary investments if it can trust that governments will recognise and reinforce the leadership of business in responding to the highly dynamic nature of electronic commerce.
Whereas today's framework of rules has been developed and refined over many decades in an organic fashion, global rules for electronic commerce must be created on an accelerated basis. These rules must take into account the constantly evolving and inherently international nature of electronic commerce. Where government regulation is necessary, it should be internationally coordinated, as internationally incompatible national laws create a fragmented global market with significant uncertainty as to what rules apply. In addition, extraterritorial application of a country's laws - and claims for far reaching application of a country's regulatory schemes - poses a significant problem to business, users and consumers and is a threat to electronic commerce. Therefore, mutual recognition of regulatory schemes affecting electronic commerce (e.g., financial industry including capital and securities markets, financial services, insurance and banking, consumer protection schemes, taxes) is crucial. Jurisdiction, choice of law agreements, and enforcement issues must be dealt with urgently.
This document…
Part II of this document establishes a set of fundamental principles as the basis for the framework in which policymaking for electronic commerce should take place. Part III presents a proposed framework for action that has been agreed by the world's leading international business organisations that are working together to provide business leadership, in cooperation with governments and others. The plan describes business actions and commitments in concrete terms and identifies business expectations of government action. It is proposed as a reference point for all relevant business and government organisations to contribute to the efficient and transparent development of the minimal rules necessary for a stable and predictable electronic commerce environment.
The action plan calls for a "hands off" approach by government on certain issues, whilst recognising that electronic commerce raises many important public policy considerations that may require governmental facilitation. Government intervention may be required in such matters as intellectual property protection, taxation, and the removal of barriers to competition in providing the underlying infrastructure (see Principle 2 in Part II below). However, in such matters as privacy and harmful content, business solutions such as self-regulation and technology tools are the preferred and more effective means than legislation to create trust in electronic commerce.
The objective of the action plan is to provide an inventory of fundamental business views on the issues that government must deal with and to give a clear overview of business action in those areas where market-driven, industry-led solutions are most likely to be found.
The action plan also responds to various high-level statements made by governments in recent years about the need for business to lead the development of electronic commerce. Business accepts this task and proposes this action plan as a mechanism for providing such leadership in a coordinated and transparent fashion.
As further evidence of the efficacy of this approach, Part IV of the document presents a sample compilation of successful self-regulatory solutions currently in use or being developed.
Finally, Part V describes the coalition of business organisations that collaborated in this work and gives a brief overview of each.
It is the intent of the authors that this document be a "living document" that evolves as electronic commerce implementation enfolds and provides experience and new evidence of successful projects. To this end, readers are invited to submit comments for improvement and, where appropriate, endorsements to:
Christiaan van der Valk
Deputy Director of Policy Commissions
and Manager - Telecoms and E-commerce, ICC
Tel 33-1-49532913
Fax 33-1-49532859
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
II. Fundamental principles
Business believes that a number of fundamental principles should shape the policies that govern electronic commerce, if the promises of electronic commerce are to be fulfilled. In this context, we provide the following Policy Principles for Global Electronic Commerce. We expect that these Principles may be extended as additional knowledge and insights are gained.
1The development of electronic commerce should be led primarily by the private sector in response to market forces.
2. Government intervention, when required, should promote a stable, international legal environment, allow a rational allocation of scarce resources and protect general interest. Such intervention should be no more than is essential and should be clear, transparent, objective, non-discriminatory, proportional, flexible, and technologically neutral.
3. Mechanisms for private sector input and involvement in policy making should be promoted and widely used in all countries and international fora.
4. In recognition of the global nature of electronic commerce, government policies which affect it should be internationally co-ordinated and compatible and those policies should facilitate interoperability within an international, voluntary and consensus-based environment for standards setting.
5. Transactions conducted using electronic commerce should receive neutral tax treatment in comparison to transactions using non-electronic means. Taxation of electronic commerce should be consistent with established, internationally accepted practices, and administered in the least burdensome manner.
6. Regulation of the underlying telecommunications infrastructure, when necessary, should reduce impediments to competition, enabling new services and new entrants to compete, globally, in an open and fair market.
7. Participation in electronic commerce should be pursued through an open and competitive market.
8. The protection of users, in particular with regard to privacy, confidentiality, anonymity and content control should be pursued through policies driven by choice, individual empowerment, industry-led solutions, and should be in accordance with law where applicable.
9. Business should make available to users the means to exercise choice with respect to privacy, confidentiality, content control and, under appropriate circumstances, anonymity.
10. A high level of trust in the Global Information Infrastructure-Global Information Society (GII-GIS) should be pursued by mutual agreement, education, further technological innovations to enhance security and reliability, adoption of adequate dispute resolution mechanisms, and private sector self-regulation.
III. An action plan
This chapter aims to provide fundamental business views on:
(a) the main barriers to the development of electronic commerce
(b) solutions already developed by government and business
(c) the respective roles of governments and business, and, within that context –
1. Building trust for users and consumers
The protection of users, in particular with regard to privacy, confidentiality, anonymity and content control should be pursued through policies driven by choice, individual empowerment, industry-led solutions, and should be in accordance with law where applicable.
Business will make available to users the means to exercise choice with respect to privacy, confidentiality and content control.
Protection of Personal Information
Consumer empowerment / marketing and advertising ethics
Within a freely functioning global electronic marketplace, increasingly sophisticated, user friendly tools and business practices for empowerment of consumers are being developed. Those retail Web-sites offering wide ranges of consumer choice and providing individualisation of the consumer experience are succeeding in gaining customer support. Allowing this free market to develop and expand globally, without government over-regulation, is essential to consumer empowerment.
Issues relating to confidentiality and lawful access to information
Lawful access issues should be reconsidered urgently in the broader context of current shifts in the value of information.
Digital signatures and certification authorities
Digital signatures or electronic signatures* are important to ensure proper identification of communicating partners, and authenticity and non-repudiation of messages that they exchange. For this to be realised, a number of international actions need to be taken. Digital certification is an embryonic sector that requires a flexible framework of rules to evolve. Self-regulation should be given preference to avoid the lock-in effect of inflexible and potentially incompatible government regulation. Many countries are developing, or have already implemented, electronic signature laws that include rules pertaining to certification services. Existing national laws range from fairly liberal to extremely detailed and cumbersome. Governments have an important role to play in assuring the legal validity of digital signatures.
2. Establishing ground rules for the digital marketplace
Contractual and other legal issues
In a business-to-business relationship, freedom of contract must prevail as the underlying principle of all efforts to create an appropriate legal environment. Governments can support electronic commerce by enabling electronic contracting and by facilitating the legal recognition of digitally authenticated documents and contracts. Governments should avoid prescriptive and detailed legislation in these areas, but rather develop facilitating legislation, which may assist the private sector in developing self-regulatory solutions.
Taxation and tariffs
Transactions conducted using electronic commerce should receive neutral tax treatment in comparison to transactions using non-electronic means. Taxation of electronic commerce should be consistent with established, internationally accepted practices, and administered in the least burdensome manner.
Trade facilitation and customs modernisation
For business to use fully the benefits of electronic commerce, documentation in electronic form should not be denied legal acceptability solely on the grounds that it in digital form. The handling of customs documentation, for example, will be both faster and more cost effective if it can be made in electronic form. The legal acceptability of auditing records and receipts in electronic form from electronic commerce transactions are other examples that can substantially reduce costs and facilitate and promote electronic trade.
Intellectual property
Adequate protection of intellectual property rights in intangible assets in cyberspace is a top priority.
3. Enhancing the information infrastructure for electronic commerce
Competition and trade-related issues
Open competition in the provision of products and services at all levels of the information society is a prerequisite for the development of electronic commerce. Regulation of the underlying telecommunications infrastructure, when necessary, should increase competition, enabling new services and new entrants to compete, globally, in an open and fair market. The convergence of telecommunications, IT and multimedia raises important questions that require international attention for liberalisation efforts to produce optimum results.
Electronic commerce offers great economic efficiencies, linking all parts of a transaction into one integrated end-to-end chain. Government policies should facilitate interoperability within an international, voluntary and consensus-based environment for standards setting. The market needs a fully interoperable architecture, which is being developed within existing standards-setting institutions or by market forces. In addition to enforcing appropriate competition laws, governments should ensure that standards are accepted by customs, taxation and other relevant governmental agencies. Government should refrain from developing competing standards through procurement mechanisms. Where market mechanisms do not respond to government procurement needs, the private sector and government should work together to develop a responsive, inter-operative interface.
Internet governance
Because the Internet is rapidly becoming the vehicle for global electronic commerce, developing appropriate rules for its governance, including those for domain name management, will be important.
4. Maximising the benefits - economic and social impacts
Electronic commerce is an innovative approach to ensuring future sustainable economic growth. Throughout the world, the profound impact of electronic commerce on the economies of the globe will undoubtedly improve economic efficiency, competitiveness and profitability. Within such an environment countries in all stages of development will have the opportunity to benefit by:
Electronic commerce facilitates established business-to-business commercial relations, sales by companies to consumers, and exchanges between consumers. It affects the business environment at national, regional and global levels, and generates major opportunities, and new challenges, for market growth and development of jobs, industries and services. Consequently, internationally coordinated efforts are essential in order to secure the economic benefits of electronic commerce for both the information "rich" and the information "poor".
Electronic commerce will have a number of positive impacts, including:
Measuring electronic commerce as accurately as conventional commerce is not easy given the difficulty of defining it and adequately capturing the value associated with it. Nevertheless, for policy purposes such data are needed to focus the policy debate so that action is directed towards activities that accurately reflect electronic commerce and its contributions to economic growth and development.
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) represent an increasingly important dimension of the global economy. Particular efforts should be made to promote SME involvement in electronic commerce to ensure that they can take maximum advantage of the ability of telecommunications and information technologies to deliver cost efficiencies, quality control and competitiveness in manufacturing and service industries. As one of the most dynamic features of a growing economy, SMEs play a critical role in creating employment and enhancing GDP. Electronic commerce provides SMEs with lower market entry costs and the ability to extend geographic reach to a much larger market.
Electronic commerce is changing the way we do business. We have moved from an industrial economy where machines dominated productivity, to an information-based economy where intellectual content is the dominant source of value added and which knows no geographic boundaries. In this new environment, education and lifelong learning will be essential not only for workers but for all in society. As industry, commerce, and services are transformed by technology, many skills, not only of employees but also of managers and the self-employed, need to be improved or acquired. Future education will be supporting formal and non-formal learning arrangements and making it available to a much wider range of people, including adults returning to learn. The new information technology, such as interactive media and distance learning, will offer wider access and innovative approaches to education. As future economic prosperity and social and political cohesion depend on a well-educated population, lifelong learning will be essential for everyone as we move into the 21st century.
It is important to recognise the need for global cooperation by both business and governments to facilitate electronic commerce. Otherwise, there is a risk that a large segment of the world's population may not be able to participate in the economic and social benefits that can arise from electronic commerce. The World Bank for example has recently estimated that an investment of $300 billion over the next five years will be required to upgrade the telecommunications infrastructure in developing and emerging economies. According to the World Bank, 55 percent of this investment will need to come from private capital, since public sources of funds are diminishing. Therefore, these countries need to take measures to promote competition and to ensure an appropriate investment climate.
Countries around the world should use electronic means of communications to deliver public services and to make public procurement procedures more efficient. This area requires increased attention to ensure that these processes and services keep pace with global norms. The benefits are government efficiencies, equalisation of service provision to all citizens, and the demonstration of government leadership in the use of electronic commerce technology and services.
IV. Selected industry self-regulatory initiatives
V. The coalition for coordinating world-wide business action on electronic commerce
On the occasion of the Ottawa Ministerial Conference on electronic commerce and similar initiatives taken by governments around the world in recognition of the importance of electronic commerce, the world's leading business organisations decided to create a coordinating coalition to provide business leadership in cooperation with governments and various international organisations, including the OECD, on information society issues and electronic commerce. Jointly, these organisations represent the bulk of electronic commerce in almost all countries in the world.
The Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD
The Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC) is the voice of business from the economically advanced democratic nations of the world. Recognised by the OECD since 1962 as its business advisory counterpart, BIAC has the mission of ensuring that the OECD hears a broad-based, considered business advice on all sectors of activity that it embarks upon. BIAC's membership consists of the principal industrial and employers' organisations of the OECD Member countries. These represent the majority in terms of employment, output, assets and investment by the private sector in the advanced market economies.
Over the years BIAC, its member organisations, and their member companies have been deeply involved in the work of OECD on information and communications and electronic commerce through direct participation in OECD committees as observer and by providing technical and policy advice to various processes that develop OECD instruments such as the 1980 "Privacy Guidelines" or more recent work on cryptography policy.
International Chamber of Commerce
ICC is the world business organisation. With corporate and business organisation membership in more than 130 countries, it is the only representative body that speaks with authority on behalf of enterprises from all sectors in every part of the world. Founded in 1919, ICC's purpose is to promote an open international trade and investment system and the market economy worldwide. Its rules for international trade transactions and trade finance are accepted globally by traders, governments and judges. The ICC International Court of Arbitration is the world's leading institution of its kind. ICC brings together executives and experts from all sectors of business to establish the business stance on broad issues of trade and investment policy as well as on vital technical or legal subjects. The ICC's broad framework of rules for international trade and commerce evolves continuously to take into account changes in business practice. ICC has issued best practice rules for electronic commerce since the 1980s and continues to harmonise business rules and practices to meet the needs of the information society.
Global Information Infrastructure Commission
Launched in 1995, the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) is a private sector advocacy group bringing together 50+ CEOs and Presidents of major international corporations with a stake in the development of the GII. GIIC members are from both developed and developing countries. The GIIC serves as a bridge between diverse players and business communities around the world, thus fostering the global dialogue necessary to address critical issues in building the global information infrastructure. The GIIC has established on-going policy dialogues with governments and international organisations, providing them with pragmatic advice and input as they transition to the new body of policies and laws needed to support a secure, seamless global communications environment and marketplace. Four main thrusts of GIIC activity are: 1) facilitating the creation of harmonised rules to support global electronic commerce; 2) bringing developing countries into the process of building the global information economy; 3) spurring the reform of education systems to prepare for the Information Age; and 4) fostering an open environment for the development of
information infrastructures and services. GIIC membership is representative of all the major elements of the information technology sector, including telecommunications hardware and services providers, computer hardware and software companies, cable, broadcast, and publishing companies, new satellite companies, international organisations, governments, and academics. The GIIC's regional co-chairs are Les Alberthal, (chairman and CEO of EDS), Volker Jung, (executive vice president, member of the managing board, Siemens), and Michio Naruto (vice chairman, Fujitsu). W. Bowman Cutter (managing director of E.M. Warburg Pincus) acts as the GIIC managing director.
International Telecommunication Users Group
INTUG is an international association of users of communications technology & applications. It has an extremely wide constituency. Founded in 1974, it has its Secretariat in Brussels where it is registered as an international non-profit organisation. It meets in plenary session four times a year.
Members include national users groups which represent the interests of users in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Africa. Associate and individual members come from major multinational enterprises, academia, law and other relevant industry sectors. Many of INTUG's member groups have been particularly successful in their interaction with national government policy makers; also in regional economic policy forums.
INTUG itself promotes the interests of all users at the international level and ensures that the voice of the user is clearly heard whenever communications policy issues are addressed.
Its Special Interest Group on Y2K issues has been extremely active and was a specific focus of the INTUG meeting in Brussels in June 1998.
World Information Technology and Services Alliance
The World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) is a consortium of information technology industry associations from economies around the world. Serving as the global voice of the information technology industry, WITSA is dedicated to:
Through its network of 32 national associations, WITSA:
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Changes made by the Abbott government in primary care will stop short of allowing private insurers to cover out-of-pocket GP fees, and most likely be limited to a form of information sharing.
Trials being undertaken by Medibank Private in Queensland, where the insurer has cut a deal with a chain of GP clinics to cover some administrative costs in return for their customers avoiding a so-called "gap" fee, is not being considered by the government as a preferred model. There are concerns that if such a model were rolled out nationwide it could lead to a divided healthcare system, where privately covered patients are treated differently to those on Medicare.
According to senior government sources, any changes made are not likely to require an amendment to the Private Health Insurance Act that prevents insurers from covering services such as GP visits that are already eligible for Medicare rebates.
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"We have no interest in supporting changes that would result in higher premiums and therefore bring pressure to bear in other parts of the network," Mr Dutton said. "Sharing information about the patient with all the usual safeguards has the potential to free up capacity for non-insured patients – not detract from it."
Insurers working with GPs
The chairman of the Australian Medical Association's council of general practice,
"It would be based on the present arrangements of access to another specialist via GP referral. It would be the same process, otherwise we're looking at sort of managed care, looking at the funds dictating the treatment and the access to other treatments. That's just not right."
Dr Morton said he could foresee a situation where private health insurers work with GPs to find appropriate clinicians for chronically ill patients which the fund could then pay for.
But it was important private health insurers did not dictate patient choice.
"We're keen to interact with the private health insurers but it's a new area and it needs to be done very carefully," Dr Morton said.
Government-owned health insurer Medibank Private has been the most vocal in the sector pushing for change.
It is set to expand its Queensland trial from six clinics to a further 30 across the state in the next month. Medibank managing director
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Child injured in drive-by shooting; suspects sought
A 7-year-old was injured in a drive-by shooting in Pleasant Grove on Saturday night.
Police say someone in a white SUV drove down the 10300 block of Chelmsford Drive and shot at a house around 7:52 p.m. The child was struck in the leg and taken to Children's Medical Center Dallas with injuries not considered to be life-threatening.
Police are looking for suspects, and no arrests have been made.
Claire Cardona
DISD trustees to discuss Miles, possible disciplinary action
The school board is scheduled to meet in a closed session Thursday to discuss possible disciplinary action for Superintendent Mike Miles, who was found in an investigation to have violated district policy and worked to publicly disparage the board.
No vote will be taken after the closed meeting. The board is expected to meet on Sept. 30 to vote on any disciplinary actions.
The closed session begins at meeting at 5 p.m. The board will hold its regular meeting at 6 p.m. All meetings will be at district headquarters, 3700 Ross Ave.
Tawnell Hobbs
Dallas council may approve downtown shuttle service
The City Council will consider authorizing the operation of a downtown shuttle service for two years.
The project is intended to give tourists and locals an easier way to traverse downtown. The cost must not exceed $800,000, according to the council's agenda.
The council meets at 9 a.m. Wednesday at City Hall, 1500 Marilla St.
Rudolph Bush
Dick's hosting benefit dinner for Exchange Club
Dick's Last Resort, 2211 N. Lamar St., is holding a charity dinner from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday to benefit the Exchange Club of East Dallas.
The Exchange Club of East Dallas was founded in 1948 and serves local children in need through various service projects.
Tickets for the fundraiser are $35 at the door and can be paid by cash or credit card. All proceeds from ticket sales go to the Exchange Club. The cost includes a full dinner buffet. There will also be live music and an open bar.
Ananda Boardman
Garland ISD trustees support healthy living challenge
Trustees pledged their support for the 2013 Healthy at H-E-B Community Challenge during their Sept. 11 board meeting.
The eight-week challenge pits Texas communities against one another to see which can demonstrate the greatest commitment to healthy living.
Pledges of support and community activities earn points for the city. H-E-B's challenge ends the last day of October, and Garland currently holds second place in the large-city category.
Cities earn points through participation by schools, mayors, organizations and individual residents.
To participate, visit hebcommunitychallenge.com and track exercise online.
Hannah DeClerk
Garland ISD trustees to examine results of assessment
Garland school board members will receive student assessment results and district and campus accountability results at their monthly board meeting.
Trustees will meet 6 p.m. Tuesday at the administrative offices of the school district, 501 S. Jupiter Road.
The district also plans to take campus staff's recommendation to change the name of its Cooperative Behavior Center to the Pathfinder Achievement Center. The intent of the campus 30 years ago has changed drastically, and the task there today is to work with students facing intense emotional problems.
Ray Leszcynski
Filing for election of Grand Prairie District 3 seat ends today
Candidates have through 5 p.m. Monday to apply for a spot in a special election for the City Council's District 3 seat.
The Nov. 5 election will fill the seat of Bill Thorn, who died Aug. 24. Applications can be picked up and filed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the city secretary's office, 317 College St.
Candidates who had filed to be considered for the District 3 seat as of Friday afternoon were Bill Nash, Kurt G. Johnson and Lila Thorn.
Also on the ballot is the Place 7 at-large seat of Ruthe Jackson, who died Aug. 9, but the filing deadline passed earlier this month. The candidates are Charlie Womack, Jeff Copeland, R.J. DiLena and Max Coleman.
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Public meeting to discuss Grand Prairie smoking ban
The City Council Public Health Advisory Committee will hold a public meeting to discuss banning smoking in restaurants and other buildings at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 in the City Council chambers, 317 College St.
The ordinance changes discussed would include banning smoking in city facilities and commercial buildings.
Residents will have an opportunity to speak at the meeting. Residents unable to attend the meeting may submit statements on the issue through Oct. 18 to firstname.lastname@example.com or by mail to Cindy Mendez, City of Grand Prairie, P.O. Box 534045, Grand Prairie, 75053.
For more information, call 972-237-8055.
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Bush Library director to speak to Irving Heritage Society
Alan C. Lowe, director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, will be the guest speaker at the Irving Heritage Society program Sept. 30 at the Central Library auditorium, 801 W. Irving Blvd.
The organization's short general meeting will start at 7 p.m., followed immediately by the free program. The public is welcome, and refreshments will be served.
Lowe has served in various staff positions for many other presidential libraries. In April 2009, Lowe began serving as director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas.
For more information the Irving Heritage Society, visit irvingheritage.com or call 972-252-3838.
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Belt Line Elementary holds party for students, parents
Belt Line Elementary School will host a back-to-school party for parents and students at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the school's cafeteria and library, 1355 W. Belt Line Road.
The free event will include face-painting, a bounce house and a DJ.
The PTA will sell grilled hamburgers or hot dogs with chips and a drink for $5 per person as a fundraiser.
For more information, call 972-218-1608.
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QuikTrip application merits special meeting in Mesquite
The City Council will discuss a proposal from QuikTrip in special session at 11 a.m. Thursday at City Hall, 757 N. Galloway Ave.
The convenience store chain seeks a zoning change to allow a store with up to 24 fueling positions on property at 1601 Military Parkway and 1500 Scyene Road.
Ray Leszcynski
Church to hold conference for seniors on Saturday
Pathways to Successful Aging, a conference to prepare people for their senior years, will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at NorthPark Presbyterian Church, 9555 N. Central Expressway in Dallas.
The keynote speaker is James W. Ellor, parish associate for First Presbyterian Church Waco, a professor of social work at Baylor University and the editor of the Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging.
There will also be workshops throughout the day.
For more information or to register for $15, visit northparkpres.org/silvertsunami or call 214-363-5457.
Taylor Danser
Special session to cover Rowlett street, alley conditions
The Rowlett City Council will meet in a three-hour work session Tuesday to discuss alley reconstruction and below-average street conditions.
Funding challenges for alley rebuilds and potential revenue sources will be addressed in the first portion of the meeting. Attention will then turn to the city's approach to streets with a pavement condition index below 40.
The meeting will be 6 p.m. in the Municipal Building Annex, 4004 Main St.
Ray Leszcynski
Joseph Monteyne lecture at SMU rescheduled for Tuesday
Joseph Monteyne's lecture, "The Print Shop Window as Cultural Screen in 18th-Century London," has been rescheduled to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in Smith Auditorium of the Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus.
The talk, which had been scheduled for Sept. 17, examines a number of graphic satires produced in London during this time depicting spectators gathered at the city's print shop windows.
Monteyne is an associate professor of art history at the University of British Columbia.
For more information on this free event, call 214-768-2698.
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Machine Safety: Thinking of bypassing an e-stop? Have you talked to an attorney?
Is it ever permissible to install a bypass switch or to disable an e-stop? For some reason, some Internet "safety forums" have had this continuing discussion. See the one requirement consistently missing from these international discussions. And ask these 4 questions.
Is it ever permissible to install a bypass switch or to disable an e-stop? For some reason, a few "safety forums" on the Internet have had this discussion going for months. These are international discussions, yet one requirement in the analysis is missing consistently.
On this subject, can you actually imagine several engineers corroborating and contributing argumentation on how to install and why not to install a bypass switch on an e-stop circuit. The discussions veer off into SIL levels, PL (Performance Levels), MTTFd (Mean Time To Fail dangerous), B10 values, and more. Sometimes there's even a brief discussion about the Machinery Directive or different standards like IEC 61508-1, IEC 62061, ISO 13849-1, and IEC 60204-1, and different ways to derive calculations based on different interpretations.
Just when it looks like the discussion is about to arrive at a conclusion someone asks something like, "Well, just what is it you're trying to accomplish? And, why is this question on the table?" Then a strategy discussion launches on why and how a safety function can be bypassed.
So, what is the one requirement not even hinted at so far? That's right, the risk assessment!
Why is it that these discussions can go on for months back and forth and no one interjects the "risk assessment" discussion?
4 questions to ask if you're thinking of bypassing an e-stop
Here are some of the questions I can think of related to this topic:
1. Does the current risk assessment allow for a given hazard to become unmitigated?
2. Does your company safety policy allow for a given hazard to become unmitigated?
3. Do machine safety application standards like IEC 60204-1, ISO 13849-1, or in the U.S. – NFPA 79 allow e-stops to be by-passed or disabled?
4. Is there any established and documented compliant basis whereby it is okay to bypass an e-stop?
Well, if the answers to these questions are generally, "NO," then, why would anyone even consider designing and engineering an e-stop bypass?
Additionally, I'd want to know if the individual asking the original question is talking about an application based on international standards or domestic U.S. standards. The answer to that question might then promote discussions involving risk assessment, that is: ISO 12100 versus ANSI B10.0. I'm sure you get the point!
Has this presented you with any new perspectives? Do you have some specific topic or interest that we could cover in future blog posts? Add your comments or thoughts to the discussion by submitting your ideas, experiences, and challenges in the comments section below.
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No standard or group of standards and safety committees can trump expert judgment.
We should look at standards as GUIDELINES. These guidelines could be envisioned as boundary conditions within which good process procedures and operations are expected for normal good operations.
Instead, design and execution of good and safe process control should EXCEED standards - particularly where serious safety factors are concerned.
I am seeing too many cases of XYZ Standard Documents being used in discussion groups to replace expert judgment. We have a plethora of standards piled so high now that we've forgot what trumps all of them. Now you know.
Back to the answer. Instead of worrying about whether a particular e-stop can be bypassed for some special need such as machine setup and whether the risk is acceptable and follows all the XYZ standards -- focus on changing the situation to provide a safe operation. If there is ANY foreseen risk of serious injury when this estop is bypassed (based on Expert Judgment not standards)then work on reducing that serious risk to zero or at the vary minimum to a level where Expert Judgement plus process experts are in conclusive agreement that the risk is now nil and you are safe.
There are the unpredictable risks that must also be dealt with and Experts will spot this. Often the machine and process knowledge and discipline of the operator, setup tech, (or anyone who touches the equipment) is the highest risk after making the control factors safe. Be sure to take care of this safety factor -- no matter what the standards say.
The real solution to this question should not have to consult a single standard document to decide on how to make the required special operation with a bypass of the main E-stop button safe. The solution should please the safety guys as they will find it meets or exceeds all standards.
With greatest respect for all the hard working standards and safety engineers please seek out true hands-on experienced and knowledgeable experts and put Expert Judgement as the first requirement in all safety standard documents and standards as the determining factor - don't rely and piles of standards to guide accepatble safety questions - there are too many variables which no number of documents will cover.
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On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 20:25, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote: > Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of mar mar 01 14:17:30 -0300 2011: > >> > think it's fairly likely that we'd get partial, out-of-date translations >> > anyway, but we don't actually have any history here to speak of. >> >> s/fairly likely/absolutely guaranteed/ >> >> We don't even have the resources to keep up with *moderation* all the >> time. We don't have anywhere near the resources to do near-real-time >> translation. >> >> And IMNSHO, an out-of-date translation is *way* worse than no >> translation at all. > > What do you call an out-of-date translation? If Dave Fetter submits PWN > today, is the site displayed completely in english tomorrow because we > couldn't find a translator? The way it was built before, no, jst that one page. So you got a site that was partially localized, partially not. > Debian handles this nicely: if the original is newer than the > translation, they just display it in english and tell you that there's > an outdated translation which you may want to check. Yes, that's the only way you could do it. > To be honest I had been hoping this feature was going to be available on > the new site. At least that's what I told the people in Cuba: there is > no need to translate the site right now because we're going to migrate, > so lets hold off until the new site is deployed. Oh well :-( Interesting, because in the discussoins that were had, *nobody* spoke up about that. But hey, it's open source. Patches welcome. If someone takes it upon themselves to actually *maintain* code for dealing with it, then we can certainly do it. But people who don't work with translation, can't verify things, or anything like that, aren't going to maintain the code. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
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The NRL said on Tuesday it was investigating new procedures to prevent a repeat of the referee's decision on Monday night that allowed the Melbourne Storm to score a match-winning try against the St George Illawarra Dragons after full-time should have been called.
Referees' boss Tony Archer said a full review of Monday night's dramatic finish using freeze-frame technology showed that the playing of the ball by Storm winger Young Tonumaipea and the full-time siren occurred almost simultaneously.
NRL rules state that end of play is to be called when: "If time expires in either half when the ball is out of play or a player in possession has been tackled and the ball has not been played, the referee shall immediately blow his whistle to terminate play".
Replay of the final seconds of the match show that Tonumaipea had not placed his foot on the ball before the siren sounded, with the clock on the television broadcast expiring a few seconds before he was even tackled.
"The siren and the play-the-ball were all but simultaneous," Archer said.
"But, technically, the siren sounded a split second before the Melbourne player heeled the ball. So, in that sense, the referee's call was wrong and the final play should not have proceeded.
"We were only able to work this out by going through the final moments of the game frame by frame, so you can appreciate how difficult it would be for a referee to make a call with that degree of accuracy out in the middle."
From the final play, the Storm retained possession from a cross-field kick, keeping it alive until the ball eventually ended up back in the hands of Tonumaipea, who crossed in the corner to seal a controversial victory.
"We were courageous tonight, but the footy gods weren't on our side," Dragons coach Steve Price said after the game.
NRL head of football, Todd Greenberg, said it would look at a number of options to prevent a repeat of the incident, including linking the official time clock to that used by the TV networks covering the game so fans had an accurate countdown to the final siren, and the video referee and timekeeper may also give the on-field referees a verbal countdown through their earpieces during the final seconds of the game.


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The Rice Design Alliance, established in 1973, is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to increasing greater public awareness of architecture, design and the environment. By sponsoring lectures seminars, symposiums, exhibits and tours, RDA involves the general public in issues related to the design of public spaces, parks, office buildings, retail centers and residential neighborhoods. Its biannual journal, Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston, addresses design issues in the greater Houston area. Membership in RDA is open to the general public. Excerpted from "Think Big," the 1990 gala invitation from RDA.
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