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And the park offers an employee shuttle that hauls staffers from as far away as Eatonville to their posts at headquarters in Ashford and inside the park. PERFORMANCE BIKE Tacoma's Performance Bike recently started Ride with the Wind, a program designed to encourage customers to buy wind energy credits to offset their energy consumption. Customers can pay $5 to $15 per month. As an incentive, participants get a gift card for as much as $50. Also, store manager Joe Flores said 75 percent of employees bike to work year round. Some employees don't even own cars. CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN Crystal started participating in the Ski Green Tag program this year. The proceeds from the $2 tag go the Bonneville Environmental Foundation for clean renewable energy and are designed to offset the emissions from a 150-mile drive.
Judge Allows Abu Ghraib Lawsuit Against Contractor
A federal judge in Washington ruled yesterday that a civil lawsuit alleging abuse and torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq can go forward against a U.S. military contractor, setting the stage for what could be the first case in a U.S. civilian court to weigh accountability for the notorious abuses in 2003. U.S. District Judge James Robertson denied CACI International's motion to dismiss a civil lawsuit on behalf of more than 200 Iraqis who at one time were detained at the Abu Ghraib prison. The Iraqis allege that the contracted CACI interrogators took part in abuses and that the company should be held liable for the harm inflicted on the detainees. Attorneys for the Arlington-based CACI have argued the company should be immune from such a lawsuit because it worked at the behest of the U.S.
Great Cups Of Coffee Can Be Found At Home
"The best cup of coffee has beautiful foam, coffee ground just before brewing, the perfect proportion of espresso, milk, and flavoring, and last but not least, service with a smile," says Rachael Vonhof.
And she should know. Vonhof works as a barista in a coffee shop in Northern California, an area has long cultivated a reputation for satisfying the varied palates of coffee connoisseurs. .
Many County Streams Listed As 'Impaired'
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) has released a new statewide list of streams, lakes and reservoirs that do not meet requirements for fishing, recreation and other public uses. As in past years, Greene County has a large number of streams -- a total of 59 -- listed as "impaired" on the list. The great majority of these streams are "listed" because of siltation, and pasture grazing is listed as the cause. Some of the Greene County streams are listed as having unacceptably high levels of the E. coli bacteria, and again the cause is said to be pasture grazing. Full Listing Available This draft list -- also called the 2008 303(d) List -- is a requirement of the federal Clean Water Act. It can be viewed online at http://www.state.tn.us/environment/wpc/publications/2008draft303dlist.pdf.
RIAA boss: Move copyright filtering from ISPs to users’ PCs
Filtering sounds so wholesome. As with filtered water, Internet filtering backers suggest that their products simply keep the sludge from passing through, and who wants to drink unfiltered sludge? The big difference between the two kinds of filtering is that sludge can't use 128-bit keys and AES encryption to hide its sludgy nature; Internet traffic can. It's a key problem for any Internet filtering regime, including the one being studied right now by AT&T. Once strong encryption is slapped on Internet traffic, the effectiveness of filters drops off dramatically. At a Washington, DC, tech conference last week, RIAA boss Cary Sherman suggested that Internet filtering was a super idea but that he saw no reason to mandate it. Turns out that was only part of the story, though; Sherman's a sharp guy, and he's fully aware that filtering will prompt an encryption arms race that is going to be impossible to win...
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