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From LAX to ONT: The Transfer of Ontario International Airport and its Economic Implications

The Lowe Down

By examining cargo volume, domestic and international passenger traffic, and the resulting financial implications, we show that the Ontario Airport has performed significantly better under local management. Domestic flights make up the majority of all flights across all years between 2002 and 2022.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories. Alexander, D.

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Opposition to affordable housing in Chevy Chase, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But DC Government shows a lot that it's management capacity is weak. Baldwin Apartments on H Street NE; 37 apartments, 100% affordable, over ground floor retail and building amenities. But buildings like The Baldwin Apartments show it can be done successfully, in a manner that improves the range of what's available in a neighborhood.

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Decrease geospatial query latency from minutes to seconds using Zarr on Amazon S3

AWS Public Sector Blog

As of 2002, NetCDF4 uses the Hierarchical Data Format version 5 (HDF5) as a backend, improving the speed of parallel I/O on chunks. ERA5 contains hourly air pressure, windspeed, and air temperature data at multiple altitudes on a 31 km latitude-longitude grid, since 2008. git clone [link] Change to the root directory of the repository.

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Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

Public Policy Blog

The city’s pension boards have accused Emergency Manager Orr’s team of failing to negotiate in good faith over changes to retiree pensions (NPR) which I feel will be the single largest hang-up and possibility for a bailout scenario that Detroit has in order to salvage retiree benefits and incomes. Retrieved from [link].

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

By 2008, the scenario was more or less complete, with the exception of the recovery phase, which has remained difficult to predict ever since (recovery from the 1918-1920 pandemic took about five years, but it included recovery from the First World War and it led into the Great Depression of 1929).