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October 29, 2023

Bullish on Offshore Wind

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Eneti, a company providing offshore wind installation vessel services, said Tuesday its subsidiary Seajacks had signed a contract with an undisclosed client to transport and install wind turbines.

With mobilization starting in the second quarter of 2027, the contract will be performed by one of the company’s two NG16000X Wind Turbine Installation Vessels currently under construction at Hanwha Ocean (ex-Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering) in South Korea.

Including mobilization and demobilization, the engagement is expected to be between 180 and 210 days and generate approximately $73 million to USD 84 million of gross revenue. Project costs are expected to be USD 8 million in aggregate.

https://www.marinelink.com/news/eneti-ceo-bullish-offshore-wind-market-508975
March 30, 2023

Imma plead temporary insaanity here

My wife said she would like a piece of carrot cake. After it was done I tallied the calories...11,000, give or take a couple of hundred in a 9x13 cake. It is tasty, but good lord! Instructions at the website.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/7402/carrot-cake-iii/

Cake:

2 cups white sugar

1 ¼ cups vegetable oil

4 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon dried ginger

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

½ teaspoon salt

3 cups grated carrots

1 cup chopped pecans

Frosting:

½ cup butter, softened

8 ounces cream cheese, softened

4 cups confectioners' sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

May 5, 2022

A Cuban, a Canadian and a white supremicist walk into a bar

Good evening, Senator Cuz, says the barman. Your usual?

December 12, 2021

Federal judge rules in favor of AG, COER on several issues in Navy Growler lawsuit

By Jessie Stensland

A federal magistrate judge ruled in favor of the state Attorney General’s Office and a Whidbey anti-noise group in several critical issues in a lawsuit over EA-18G Growler aircraft stationed at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.

Chief United States Magistrate Judge J. Richard Creatura filed the report and recommendation in the case Friday. The parties have 14 days to file written objections.

In 2019, the state attorney general and Citizens of Ebey’s Reserve filed separate lawsuits, which were later joined into one, in U.S. District Court. They argued that the Navy violated the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, and other federal laws by not adequately analyzing the impacts an increased number of the Navy aircraft would have on the environment and the community.


Creatura did not pull any punches in his report, writing that the Navy selected methods of evaluating data that supported its goal of bringing more Growlers to NAS Whidbey.

“The Navy did this at the expense of the public and the environment, turning a blind eye to data that would not support this intended result,” he wrote. “Or, to borrow the words of noted sports analyst Vin Scully, the Navy appears to have used certain statistics ‘much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.’”

https://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/news/federal-judge-rules-in-favor-of-ag-coer-on-several-issues-in-navy-growler-lawsuit/

January 4, 2020

The Immortal Sydney Bechet

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December 21, 2019

Australia is burning

December 20, 2019

When will the Netherlands disappear?

OVERDIEPSE POLDER, Netherlands — The local phonebook in the Dutch area of Noordwaard is a record of a community that no longer exists: Lists of numbers for homes that have been demolished, leaving just square patches in the grass where their foundations stood.

Once a thriving farming area, Noordwaard is now an expanse of reedy marshlands in the southwest Netherlands, deliberately designed to flood in order to keep nearby Dutch cities dry. "Several years ago, when you came to that polder, big nice farms were there, acres with potatoes and onions," said Stan Fleerakkers, a dairy farmer who lives nearby. "Now when you drive there, there's nothing left of it."

The Noordwaard polder was one of 39 such areas selected for the Dutch government’s “Room for the River” program, in which land was given back to the water. It’s a modern reversal of the centuries-old practice of land reclamation by the famously low-lying country.

It’s also a snapshot of the future the country faces: With unprecedented sea level rise forecast as a result of climate change, the Dutch government is racing against the clock to figure out how to keep one of the world’s richest countries from disappearing into the North Sea.

https://www.politico.eu/article/when-will-the-netherlands-disappear-climate-change/

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