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As Sea-Tac grows, Port needs to become a better neighbor | Op-Ed
Port of Seattle Commissioner Hamdi Mohamed reflected recently on a common point of tension between the Port and the cities that surround Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. At a recent candidates’ forum in Burien, Mohamed argued it isn’t enough to say that economic benefits adequately offset the negative impacts, visited with ever-growing intensity, on people who live near the airport.
Wind Blade Safety: The True Cost of Quality
In the wind-energy industry, conversations about safety often center on tower heights, blade lengths, or extreme weather events. But for those in the field — technicians, inspectors, engineers, and operators — safety starts long before a blade ever turns. It begins with decisions made during design, the precision on the manufacturing floor, the hands that install, the eyes that maintain, and the teams who inspect. At the core of every safe wind turbine is one simple truth: quality is safety.
As Sea-Tac traffic grows, so does airport communities' need for relief | Op-Ed
The Port of Seattle has unveiled a new Sustainable Airport Master Plan for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The plan will enable a huge surge in passenger and cargo traffic over the next decade. Great for the Puget Sound economy. Terrible for thousands of people who live under the flight path, whose sacrifices for the sake of growth have been discounted or ignored for decades. We’re not talking about unforeseen consequences.
Non-Compete Ban Litigation Update
Article by Samuel Evans, Esq. and Brian Davis, Law Clerk Chevron Overturned On June 28, 2024, the United States Supreme Court determined in Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo that Chevron deference violates the Administrative Procedure Act. As a result, judges are no longer required to adopt a governmental agency’s interpretation of statutory law.
Curtin v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company et al
Plaintiff: Scott Curtin Defendant: American Family Mutual Insurance Company and American Family Connect Insurance Agency, Inc Case Number: 2:2023cv01525 Filed: October 4, 2023 Court: US District Court for the Western District of Washington Nature of Suit: Insurance Cause of Action: 28 U.S.C. ยง 1332 Diversity Jury Demanded By: Defendant RSS Track this Docket This docket was last retrieved on October 4, 2023. A more recent docket listing may be available from PACER.
Early Union Engagement Key to Offshore Workforce Success
The Inflation Reduction Act, which was signed into law in August 2022, is set to create tens of thousands of new clean-energy jobs by 2030. Labor unions have been broadly supportive of the act, which is hoped to underpin “labor standards that will promote family-sustaining union jobs.” As one of the largest new industries to come along in decades, unions are understandably enthusiastic about the job opportunities presented by offshore wind.
Gone But Not Forgotten
“There’s a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive.” Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away What does a cemetery look like? The answers are as numerous and varied as our vernacular culture. Some cemeteries feature granite and marble markers or concrete vaults to denote and protect the grave. More modern cemeteries may require bronze plaques mounted at ground level, to be a convenience for mowing.
Bay Migrations
Start at the Guard Shore, where a small scrap of beach juts out into the Pocomoke Sound of the Chesapeake Bay. On one side of the parking lot, chunks of concrete debris protect a sandy point just large enough for a truck to turn around, as evidenced by the tire tracks half erased by the high tide. A thousand feet away, the beach ends at a stone groin, a construction that seems to belong to another time. Just offshore are the oyster leases and eelgrass beds.
NCM Brands Receive National & Regional ASBPE Awards - North Coast Media, LLC
Cleveland, OH — May 30, 2022 — North Coast Media (NCM) is excited to announce that Golfdom, Landscape Management, LP Gas and Pest Management Professional were recent winners of the American Society of Business Publication Editors’ (ASBPE) Azbee awards, winning 2 national and 9 regional awards. The Azbee Awards recognize the best in business-to-business media, paying tribute to the outstanding work by B2B, trade, association and professional publications.
What Is Chicago Mild Sauce?
Features What Is Chicago Mild Sauce? Not quite barbecue or hot sauce, "mild sauce" is an indelible part of the Chicago experience. 10-20-2021 Brian Davis Throughout Chicago, the fried chicken chain Harold’s is a civic institution. On the West Side, the same can be said for Uncle Remus. In the Chatham neighborhood, on the South Side, Lem’s Bar-B-Q is so renowned that on certain days you’ll find lines wrapping around the building. What do they all have in common?
In Search of a Rosenwald School
Story and Pictures by Brian M. Davis The Mt. Olive Rosenwald School building in Claiborne Parish. The story of Rosenwald Schools begins with the educator, author, and social leader Booker T. Washington, who saw the need for greater investment and better educational facilities for Black students in rural parts of the South. In the post-Reconstruction social atmosphere, southern states refused to allocate meaningful funds for public education of Black students.
Taiwan Wants Paladins. Congress Should Say No
The Biden administration recently notified Congress of a proposal to sell Taiwan 40 Paladin self-propelled howitzers. As mundane as this announcement might seem, it should be of deep concern to anyone who cares about U.S.-Taiwan relations. Beijing is, after all, ratcheting up its aggression toward the island. A war over Taiwan’s status is a distinct possibility and would prove unimaginably catastrophic for Taiwan.
IoT RF Connectivity Testing
ORDER REPRINTS DOWNLOAD COMMENT DISCUSS SHARE By: Brian Davis The Internet of Things (IoT) can be described as the Wild West of the RF world. It’s a relatively new frontier with an immensely diverse array of technologies, multiple standards from different global organizations, and little compatibility. All are competing for marketshare and not everyone will be left standing.
Re: Covid-19: Reports from Israel suggest one dose of Pfizer vaccine could be less effective than expected
Dear Editor, Extending the time to the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine without the informed consent of the patients is unethical. As this dosage regime was not tested in the Pfizer clinical trials it cannot be licensed by the MHRA. It therefore can only be lawfully adminitered in a clinical trial (ref 1). To conduct a clincal trial, in addition to obtaining approval by MHRA it must be approved by an independent ethics committee which approves the informed consent form.
U.S. Deficit Reaches Seven-Year High During 2019
In the streets throughout nations across Asia, Europe, South America, the Middle East and elsewhere, mobs are demanding change. Will they get it? Mass protests are filling city streets in Hong Kong and Cairo, Santiago and St. Petersburg, Bratislava, Barcelona and Beirut—in Asia, in Europe, in South America, in the Caribbean, in the Middle East. “2019 has become the year of the street protester,” the Washington Post says. The specific reasons for the protests are as varied as the locations.
OPINION: To become caffeinated and cultured, go to the International Coffee Hour
Interested in making new friends on campus but not sure how? Looking to explore new cultures? The International Coffee Hour is a perfect place to do both, with the additional bonus of free coffee. Coffee Hour, which has been running at the University of Georgia since 1972, is held on Fridays from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Memorial Hall Ballroom.
OPINION: Acknowledge the diversity within political parties
Many Americans, including University of Georgia students who possess opinions against the alleged best interests of their party, race, religion or sexual orientation find dissenting increasingly rough in recent years. Due to identity politics, Republicans and Democrats are sometimes raked across the coals if they do not think and vote along party lines.
OPINION: Legalizing marijuana in Georgia would benefit the state as a whole
What if I told you a certain drug was involved in more homicides than any other?
OPINION: Students should open dialogues about race to mitigate Asian stereotypes
East Asians living in the United States are often viewed as the model minority: quiet, nerdy, high achievers in both the classroom and workplace. The submissive Asian woman stereotype remains entrenched in the minds of many American men due to traditional media. By contrast, Asian men are quite often emasculated in the media and commonly seen as unathletic and effeminate.
Do Youth In Taiwan Have The Same Vision For Independence?
Having spent most of his formative youth in countries like Great Britain and Canada, Martin Li, who is originally from Taiwan, chose to settle down in Ningbo – a coastal city in China - in 2005. “(The decision) is not only about money and opportunities. The constantly improving quality of life in China made me and my wife feel like settling down here,” Martin, a university professor, told me. The recent landslide victory of Mrs.
The Dangerous Allure of Being a Cultural Warrior
Many Christians—I assume with good intentions—take up the cultural warrior sword, a bit like Peter in Gethsemane. When their Christian principles are attacked they respond in kind, drawing their weapon and striking their opponent. I think Jesus just might shut down their reckless emotionalism like he did Peter: “Put your sword into its sheath” (John 18:11). There is something tempting about being a cultural warrior.
The Dangerous Allure of Being a Cultural Warrior
Many Christians—I assume with good intentions—take up the cultural warrior sword, a bit like Peter in Gethsemane. When their Christian principles are attacked they respond in kind, drawing their weapon and striking their opponent. I think Jesus just might shut down their reckless emotionalism like he did Peter: “Put your sword into its sheath” (John 18:11). There is something tempting about being a cultural warrior.
It's time to usher in a new era of UX curation
This is an excerpt from "The power of us: Empathy isn’t enough"—watch the full video on O'Reilly's learning platform. In this video excerpt, Brian Russel Davis discusses the power of us.
Housing Investing Markets - What’s Really Going On?
The housing news has sounded awfully schizophrenic recently – it’s up, it’s down, it’s a cause for concern, it’s fueling the economy recovery… what’s really going on? Economists and journalists are paying more attention than usual to housing markets right now, because the real estate sector had been lagging behind the overall economy’s recovery and its strengthening over the last year has led to hope that it will re-energize the anemic overall recovery.
Do Looks Matter in Real Estate Transactions? Apparently Yes - By A Lot
Everyone knows good looks offer a leg up in life, but in real estate that advantage can be quantified with a dollar amount. A recent study co-authored by researchers from three American universities found that physically-attractive real estate agents listed homes that were on average $20,275 more expensive than listings secured by their average-looking counterparts, all else being equal.
On the Panama Canal Expansion
Over the past five hundred years, the Panamanian isthmus has been transformed by a succession of megaprojects: the first colonial European city on the Pacific Coast; the mule trains that moved the plundered silver of Bolivia and Peru to Atlantic ports; the first railroad to cross the continental divide; the failed project to construct a sea-level canal connecting the two oceans; and then the immense complex of locks, dams, artificial lakes, and engineered channels that constitute the Panama...
Investors - Rental Markets Stronger In 2015
The trend away from homeownership and towards renting is still kicking, as the December 2014 data is released and analyzed. Homeownership in the U.S. hit a 20-year low in the fourth quarter of 2014, at 63.9% (down from an all-time high in 2004 of 69.4%). While this may appear bad news on the surface, many economists beg to differ, as renting is actually a better fit for many Americans (remember that research on the correlation between high homeownership rates and high unemployment rates?).
Commonwealth v. J.F. - CourtListener.com
Commonwealth v. J.F., SJC 13334 (Mass. 2023) Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court May 5th, 2023 Precedential None known SJC 13334 NOTICE: All slip opinions and orders are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports.
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