(AP)—Federal wildlife officials plan to dispatch armed bird specialists into forests of the Pacific Northwest starting this fall to shoot one species of owl to protect another that is threatened with extinction. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
By LiamK
I have a question on recommended roofing materials for the flat roof, and their sequence. The roof is flat and is 32 squares (including shop and carport), in the rainy Pacific Northwest. Does the following sequence make sense? Or is the sequence wrong? Can I cut anything, to save money? Anything I should add, like Tyvek/Typar — if so, where?? From the top down:
* membrane (probably PVC; or torchdown)
* #30 roofing felt
* peel-stick water-and-ice barrier [GAF or Grace or ??]
* [possibly 1″ XPS rigid foam insulation if I can afford it, to insulate and smooth any rough old deck; R5]
* old tongue-and-groove wood decking (on drip-edge replaced 4′ in, and as needed)
* 2″ airspace
* 5.5″ Roxul rock-wool insulation R22 [more mold-resistant than fiberglass]
* drywall ceiling (probably paperless-drywall, to limit mold; DensArmor or ??)
* latex paint (Kilz II primer)
It’s a very flat roof, a 1:16 slope (too flat) that leaked on and off for years, so there was a very serious mold problem (requiring a complete gut inside of all drywall and trim). I need to tear off layers of old build-up (hot-tar) roofing, and repair parts of the deck, and fix some joists/rafters that are rotted for 3′ on the drip-edge. I’ve read lots of debates about torchdown vs PVC membrane. I’m currently leaning towards PVC, despite the higher cost, as its safer for me to install myself (no flame), and white is better in summer (I’ve no A/C). I worry about condensation if I use PVC, though I’ll add at least two 2-way vents (kitchen and bath) and the soffits have vents.
I really appreciate any sound advice, especially from those who’ve been around long enough to see fads come-and-go. Many thanks in advance!
Source: DoItYourself.com
Nighttime heat waves are becoming more frequent in western Washington and Oregon. And if you don’t sleep well in hot weather, this might be a good time to buy a fan, since records show that on average heat waves tend to strike around the last week of July. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
CONSIDER THE CLEAR CONTRADICTIONS: FACTS JUST DON’T MATTER.
Millions of self-identified Jihadists chant “death to the west!” for decades citing the Koran: not Islamic terrorists.
Three Christian theocrats found on some bogus website: global Christian Taliban conspiracy!
Decades of developing poison gas and biological agents, along with efforts to develop nuclear weapons and actual use of gas to kill thousands upon thousands of people in Iraq and Iran: not WMD.
Pressure cookers: WMD.
War on Terror: America’s fault.
War on the West: America’s fault.
Public education: academic freedom.
Homeschooling: indoctrination.
Wringing the necks of full-term newborns: not murder.
Legally carrying out the death penalty, or defending yourself on the battlefield: murder.
Defending citizens by securing borders and enforcing immigration laws: discrimination.
Forcing people to pay for abortion against conscience and forcing support of same sex marriage against conscience: not discrimination.
Debating the Left: censorship or hate speech.
Actually silencing the Right: public service.
Taking money from one citizen to give it to another citizen or illegal alien: not stealing.
Working hard and saving your earnings to invest and retire comfortably: stealing.
Embracing the Founders’ vision and speaking out for liberty: racism.
Telling whites to ride at the back of the bus: justice.
Ignoring 1,300 years of Islamic aggression: multiculturalism.
Excluding Christians from equal protection: diversity.
Raising taxes in a recession and increasing spending and debt: economic development promoting recovery.
Cutting taxes, reducing spending and lowering debt: imperialism, colonialism, racism, exploitation of the masses by the crass bourgeoisie.
Expanding massive central government and increasing bureaucratic power to arbitrarily regulate private lives: liberty and justice for all.
Limiting government and empowering private citizens: tyranny.
Confronting enemies and supporting allies: mindless nationalism leading to war.
Surrendering to enemies and throwing allies under the bus: enlightened foreign policy.
Man-made global warming: science.
Intelligent design: religion.
Rule of law: tool of tyrants.
Political correctness: law that rules.
Constitution: outdated, inflexible, irrelevant.
Rules for Radicals: gospel.
Guns: killers.
Abortion doctors: health practitioners.
Terrorists: freedom fighters.
American soldiers: terrorists.
Israel: police state run by genocidal lunatics.
Iran: center of culture, art, learning, and spirituality.
God: fantasy.
Man: god.
Thank you for clarifying matters for us, Mr. Holder and Mr. Obama.
Allan Erickson enjoyed an 11-year career in radio, television and print journalism as a reporter, talk show host, and operations manager. He then turned to sales and marketing for a decade. Ten years ago he started his own training and recruitment company in the Pacific Northwest. Allan & wife Jodi have four children and live in California. He is also the author of “The Cross & the Constitution in the Age of Incoherence,” Tate Publishing, 2012. Available for speaking engagements. allanlerickson@gmail.com
Superstorm Sandy didn’t just rattle the East Coast, it also jiggled the ground across the country ever so slightly, scientists reported Thursday.
Earthquake sensors located as far away as the Pacific Northwest detected the storm’s energy as it surged toward the New York metropolitan region last year. The network typically records the sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust, but it can pick up shaking triggered by ocean waves, mine cave-ins and tornadoes.
As Sandy lashed at New York City and New Jersey, the force of waves slamming into other waves shook the seafloor, which was recorded by the system of 500 sensors.
The energy generated by Sandy was similar to small earthquakes between magnitudes 2 and 3, seismologists at the University of Utah estimated.
While they did not track Sandy’s strength last October, they went back and analyzed seismic data before and after the storm churned ashore. The findings were presented at a meeting of the Seismological Society of America in Salt Lake City.
Sandy, which started off as a hurricane that later merged with another storm system, caused widespread property damage, swamping homes and businesses along the jersey shore and parts of New York City.
Sandy wasn’t the first storm to be sensed by quake stations. When Hurricane Katrina took aim at New Orleans in 2005, instruments in California tracked the path of the punishing waves.
Other events also have been captured by seismic sensors in recent years. A deadly coal mine collapse in Utah in 2007 registered as a magnitude-3.9 quake. Earlier this year, a meteor that exploded over Siberia’s Ural Mountains sent rippling shock waves that were detected by ground instruments.
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Online:
Seismological Society of America: http://www.seismosoc.org/
From: http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/national/~3/fmJ-LFwTKTI/
The Seattle Marinersand the MLB team’s television rights holder, DIRECTV Sports Networks (DTVSN), today announced a new regional sports network partnership in the Pacific Northwest. The Mariners hold a majority stake in the new venture.
TUMWATER, Wash., April 11 (UPI) — Olympia Beer in Washington state is offering a $1 million reward for the “safe capture of Bigfoot,” the legendary creature said to roam the Pacific Northwest.
From: http://pheed.upi.com/click.phdo?i=443b53388322384ac83afc60fd230649
By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool
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HollyFrontier and Holly Energy Partners Announce New Mexico Crude Oil Rail Project
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– HollyFrontier Corporation (NYS: HFC) and Holly Energy Partners, L.P. (NYS: HEP) announced today that the companies are collaborating to construct a rail facility that will enable crude oil loading and unloading near HollyFrontier’s Artesia and/or Lovington, New Mexico refining facilities. The rail project, which will be connected to Holly Energy‘s crude oil pipeline transportation system in southeastern New Mexico, will have an initial capacity of up to 70,000 barrels per day and will enable access to a variety of crude oil types including West Texas Intermediate (WTI), West Texas Sour (WTS) and Western Canadian Select (WCS). The project will provide both additional crude oil takeaway options for producers as crude production in the region continues to grow, and an expanded set of crude oil sourcing options for HollyFrontier. Project completion is expected by early 2014.
About HollyFrontier Corporation:
HollyFrontier Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent petroleum refiner and marketer that produces high value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and other specialty products. HollyFrontier operates through its subsidiaries a 135,000 barrels per stream day (“bpsd”) refinery located in El Dorado, Kansas, a 125,000 bpsd refinery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a 100,000 bpsd refinery located in Artesia, New Mexico, a 52,000 bpsd refinery located in Cheyenne, Wyoming and a 31,000 bpsd refinery in Woods Cross, Utah. HollyFrontier markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and in other neighboring Plains states. A subsidiary of HollyFrontier also owns a 39% interest (including the 2% general partner interest) in Holly Energy Partners, L.P.
About Holly Energy Partners, L.P.:
Holly Energy Partners, L.P., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, tankage and terminal services to the petroleum industry, including HollyFrontier Corporation, which currently owns a 44% interest (including a 2% general partner interest) in Holly Energy. Holly Energy owns and operates petroleum product and crude pipelines, tankage, terminals and loading facilities located in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Kansas and Wyoming. In addition, Holly Energy owns a 75% interest in UNEV Pipeline, LLC, the owner of a Holly Energy operated refined products pipeline running from Salt Lake City, Utah to Las Vegas, Nevada, and related product terminals and a 25% interest in SLC Pipeline LLC, a 95-mile intrastate pipeline system serving refineries in the Salt Lake City, Utah area.
From: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/04/11/hollyfrontier-and-holly-energy-partners-announce-n/
With a population of just 46,000 Hattiesburg, Mississippi is not the type of place you might expect to find a major wine festival featuring a huge array of world class vintners. Nonetheless, this is exactly what will be on tap in Hattiesburg this Friday, when the Purple Parrot Café’s Ninth Annual Wine Festival rolls into town – along with winemakers from California, the Pacific Northwest, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Spain, South Africa and South America. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
By The Huffington Post News Editors
(Adds bar owner comments, governor reaction, details)
By Eric M. Johnson
SEATTLE, April 3 (Reuters) – Washington state will clamp down on bars that have been sidestepping a ban on consuming marijuana in public by converting part of their space into private clubs.
The move comes as the state considers ways to regulate marijuana after voters legalized the drug for recreational use last year.
In November Washington and Colorado became the first U.S. states to approve marijuana for adult recreational use. The Washington law would ultimately permit cannabis to be sold and taxed at state-licensed stores.
The state’s Liquor Control Board, charged with overseeing the move to legal recreational pot use, said on Wednesday that it would crack down on bars that convert into clubs where people can consume marijuana.
“These licensed locations are allowing patrons to either smoke, vaporize or otherwise ingest marijuana on the premises,” the board said in a statement.
Brian Smith, a board spokesman, said the law prevents public display of pot use, including in restaurants and bars, a civil infraction punishable by a $103 fine on the customer.
“You can’t open it up, you can’t show somebody, and you certainly can’t smoke it or ingest it in some way in a public place,” he said. “Bars and restaurants are public places that we license.”
Smith said there were at least two bars in the Pacific Northwest state where patrons were using pot. The Washington state liquor control board “will take steps to prevent that kind of activity from proliferating,” he said.
The Liquor Control Board has until December to set up a system to oversee adult recreational pot use.
Under current law, there are no provisions that tell authorities how to deal with bars or restaurants that allow marijuana on their premises. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post
Underground tanks that hold a stew of toxic, radioactive waste at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site pose a possible risk of explosion, a nuclear safety board said in advance of confirmation hearings for the next leader of the Energy Department.
State and federal officials have long known that hydrogen gas could build up inside the tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, leading to an explosion that would release radioactive material. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board recommended additional monitoring and ventilation of the tanks last fall, and federal officials were working to develop a plan to implement the recommendation.
The board expressed those concerns again Monday to U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who is chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and had sought the board’s perspective about cleanup at Hanford.
The federal government created Hanford in the 1940s as part of the secret Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. It spends billions of dollars to clean up the 586-square-mile site neighboring the Columbia River, the southern border between Washington and Oregon and the Pacific Northwest‘s largest waterway.
Federal officials have said six underground tanks at the site are leaking into the soil, threatening the groundwater, and technical problems have delayed construction of a plant to treat the waste for long-term safe disposal.
Those issues are likely to come up during confirmation hearings next week for Energy Secretary-nominee Ernest J. Moniz. The fears of explosion and contamination could give Washington and Oregon officials more clout as they push for cleanup of the World War II-era site.
Central to the cleanup is the removal of 56 million gallons of highly radioactive, toxic waste left from plutonium production from underground tanks. Many of the site’s single-shell tanks, which have just one wall, have leaked in the past, and state and federal officials announced in February that six such tanks are leaking anew.
“The next Secretary of Energy – Dr. Moniz – needs to understand that a major part of his job is going to be to get the Hanford cleanup back on track, and I plan to stress that at his confirmation hearing next week,” Wyden said in a statement Tuesday.
The nuclear safety board warned about the risk of explosion to Wyden, who wanted comment on the safety and operation of Hanford’s tanks, technical issues that have been raised about the design of a plant to treat the waste in those tanks, and Hanford’s overall safety culture.
In addition to the leaks, the board noted concerns about the potential for hydrogen gas buildup within a tank, in particular those with a double wall, which contain deadly waste that was previously pumped out of the leaking single-shell tanks.
“All the double-shell tanks contain waste that continuously generates some flammable gas,” the board said. “This gas will eventually reach flammable conditions if adequate ventilation is not provided.”
All of the tanks are actively ventilated, which means they have blowers and fans to prevent a buildup of hydrogen gas, and those systems are monitored to ensure they are operating as intended, …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox US News
(Phys.org) —Citizen-scientists around the world are poring through digital versions of 19th century logbooks of mariners who sailed from Pacific Northwest and California ports to explore the Arctic and chart the newly acquired Alaskan territories. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
We mourn our country. This society is so desperately ill, so sick and so sad, it feels like a death watch, making funeral plans. Even a trip to the grocery delivers a view to the slog of the disoriented and disheveled.
It’s not just the state of the country, but the state of the world.
Gruesome executions by the state in Arabia and by criminals in Mexico out-terrorize the heinous event at Sandy Hook. Be-headings of school girls in Indonesia and Sri Lanka appear commonplace with so many others worldwide these last 15 years.
And then there are the 55 million Americans who never saw the light of day, a mother’s smile, or a father’s embrace.
The misery of the world increases daily: 70,000 slaughtered here, many thousands more there, children neglected and abused, women mutilated, and boys sodomized. The likelihood of global war is a growing probability on a number of fronts. Restraint is as rare as common courtesy.
In the middle of all this murder and mayhem, what is the top issue for the talking heads on the major networks on Sunday morning?
There are so many important topics to address, but those who control the message choose sideshows and pablum. They smile and deliver their lines as if spontaneous, occasionally revealing deep arrogance behind the façade of gracious concern.
As celebrities lose their grip, lashing out and condemning anyone holding opposing views, heads of state appear wobbly, and others press for control at all costs. There is a general sense things are becoming unraveled, and no one can do a thing about it.
Through it all, there is One who has all power. He reigns as always from the seat of justice, love, mercy, and compassion. His love is so great He willingly sacrificed Himself for us. His grinding torment and humiliation finally ended when His great heart burst under the burden of sin and separation, His crowning joy the resurrection of all things as they were meant to be.
The next time you despair, remember His words and accept His invitation to eternal life.
“Fear not. For I am with you, even to the end of the age.”
Allan Erickson enjoyed an 11-year career in radio, television, and print journalism as a reporter, talk show host, and operations manager. He then turned to sales and marketing for a decade. Ten years ago, he started his own training and recruitment company in the Pacific Northwest. Allan & wife Jodi have four children and live in California. He is also the author of “The Cross & the Constitution in the Age of Incoherence,” Tate Publishing, 2012.
Amanda Knox left Seattle to study abroad in 2007, just another college student pursuing her interests in languages and literature.
Four years later, after she was acquitted by an Italian court of killing her roommate, she returned a famous woman, greeted at the airport by media from around the globe.
Since then, the 25-year-old Knox has tried to return to the life she knew before the murder case.
However, the attempt was upended Tuesday, when Italy‘s highest criminal court overturned her acquittal and ordered a new trial.
Her family spokesman David Marriott says it’s doubtful Knox will travel to Italy for the new trial and instead will continue to attend the University of Washington, where she is a junior.
Since returning home, Knox has largely avoided the public spotlight and is mostly left alone in her Pacific Northwest hometown.
(Phys.org) —Researchers working with the groundfish fishing industry in the Pacific Northwest have tested a new “flexible sorting grid excluder” – a type of bycatch reduction device that shows promise to significantly reduce the incidental bycatch of Pacific halibut from commercial bottom trawl fishermen. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
Filed under: Travel, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Travel Industry, Economy
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
DUBLIN — Ryanair has made the biggest-ever order of Boeing planes by a European airline, announcing Tuesday it will buy 175 aircraft in a major boost for the U.S. aerospace giant.
Neither side disclosed the purchase price for the 737-800s, but budget carrier Ryanair said it did negotiate a bulk discount off the total list price of $15.6 billion. Industry analysts said Ryanair almost certainly was paying less than half price, meaning a total bill below $8 billion, or $45 million per aircraft.
Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O’Leary and the head of Boeing’s commercial airplanes division, Ray Conner, signed the agreement Tuesday in New York.
The deal was timed to coincide with Tuesday’s visit by Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny to Washington, D.C., to meet President Obama and senior American legislators for St. Patrick’s Day-related events. Kenny plans to visit Seattle and Washington state, the base for Boeing Co. (BA) operations in the Pacific Northwest, later this week.
The move also takes the sting away from Boeing’s loss of a big order on Monday, when Indonesia’s Lion Air gave Boeing rival Airbus an order for more than 200 single-aisle planes.
Ryanair (RYAAY) already operates a fleet of 305 Boeing 737-800 Next Generation aircraft. It is Boeing’s biggest European customer for the model, which launched in 1997 and faces global competition from the Airbus A320. Both are single-aisle aircraft with cabins that typically carry 150 to 200 passengers.
Boeing’s primary 737 assembly line in Renton, Washington, faces a transition to building a newer model called the 737 MAX by 2017. Ryanair’s order represents about a half-year of full-time work for the plant.
O’Leary said about 75 of the new-order 737s would replace older airplanes, but the fleet would grow to 400 by 2019. He said Ryanair expected its passenger volume to grow around 20 percent to 100 million passengers by 2019, by which time its workforce would expand from 8,500 to around 11,500.
O’Leary has spent years playing hardball with Boeing to secure the best possible price for his next bulk order — and even sowed the seeds Tuesday for his next marathon negotiation, noting that his airline was “continuing to evaluate the benefits of Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft.”
The purchase contract for much of Ryanair’s current Boeing fleet was agreed in the months following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when airlines struggled to place new orders, and later Ryanair regulatory filings in Dublin confirmed that it received a 53 percent discount off Boeing’s list prices. In 2009, O’Leary noisily withdrew from talks to purchase more 737s and hinted that Ryanair might turn to Airbus.
But both sides sang each other’s praises Tuesday.<br …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
Wells Fargo Insurance Names John Haskell Managing Director for Pacific Northwest
25-year industry veteran will focus on business growth
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Wells Fargo Insurance, part of Wells Fargo & Company (NYS: WFC) , has named John Haskell managing director for the Pacific Northwest. Haskell will lead business development, client service and sales, and cross-sell strategy for the company’s insurance operations in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Based in Seattle, he reports to Rich Lane, regional managing director for Wells Fargo Insurance’s Northwest region.
“John is a proven leader who brings more than 25 years of industry experience and expertise to his role,” said Lane. “With the strength of our regional team and John’s in-depth knowledge of the market, I’m confident our business will grow as we continue to provide our customers in the Pacific Northwest region with the insurance solutions and support they need.”
Working for Wells Fargo for the past 12 years, Haskell has held several production and leadership roles throughout the company, serving most recently as head of Commercial Lines for the Seattle office. He began his career as an underwriter with Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, and worked at Marsh, a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies. Haskell has a bachelor’s degree in finance from Seattle University.
Wells Fargo Insurance’s Pacific Northwest region includes 11 offices and more than 370 team members who provide insurance services to Wells Fargo‘s business banking, middle market, large corporate, and high net worth customers throughout the region.
About Wells Fargo Insurance
Wells Fargo Insurance1 is the fifth largest insurance broker in the world (Business Insurance, 2012). With 127 offices in 37 states, Wells Fargo Insurance provides solutions for a wide range of customers, including retail consumers, high net worth individuals, small businesses, as well as middle market and large corporate customers. The 7,000 insurance professionals of Wells Fargo Insurance write or place $15 billion of risk premiums annually in property, casualty, benefits, international, personal lines, and life products and also includes the nation’s largest crop insurance provider, Rural Community Insurance Services (RCIS).
About Wells Fargo & Company
By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool
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SciQuest Strengthens Management Team With Appointments of Product-focused Executives
Company Names Mark Digman as Vice President, Product Marketing & Strategy and Eric Zoetmulder as Vice President, Product Management
CARY, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– SciQuest (NAS: SQI) , the leading provider of cloud-based business automation solutions, today announced the appointment of two key executives to its management team. Mark Digman joins SciQuest as vice president, product marketing and strategy, bringing 20 years of product marketing, product management and sales experience, most recently with SAS Institute. The company also named Eric Zoetmulder vice president, product management. Eric has nearly 20 years of experience in product management, product marketing and professional services, and has been with SciQuest since 2006.
“I am extremely pleased to have Mark and Eric join our management team, as they will be instrumental in shaping our product portfolio and go-to market programs based on market opportunities and customer needs,” said Stephen Wiehe, president and CEO of SciQuest. “Coming off an extremely successful and vibrant company event at NextLevel, we know the expectations of our customers for us to deliver innovative products that meet their needs across all aspects of business automation are higher than ever. Mark and Eric will help ensure we continue our product excellence.”
Mark Digman is responsible for shaping the company’s product strategy, and working with SciQuest marketing, sales and customers to understand the market and develop relevant content and tools to support the buying cycle of SciQuest prospects. Before joining SciQuest, Digman was director of worldwide industry and solution product marketing at SAS Institute, where he was responsible for the planning, positioning, messaging and go-to market approaches of SAS solutions across industries. Digman joined SAS after serving as director of product marketing at ABC Technologies, the market leader in activity-based management (ABM) solutions, which was acquired by SAS. Earlier in his career, he was the vice president of sales and marketing for a leading value-added reseller (VAR) of mid-market enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions in the Pacific Northwest.
Eric Zoetmulder is responsible for product management of the SciQuest business automation solutions. Previously, Zoetmulder held the positions of director of product marketing and director of supplier network services at SciQuest. He was instrumental in driving the company’s market expansion in higher education and the public sector, and was deeply involved in the recent product expansion and acquisitions of Upside Software and Spend Radar. Before SciQuest, Zoetmulder was senior director of information systems at …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool
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Equinix Opens Second Seattle Data Center
SE3 offers a gateway to Asia Pacific and supports growing demand for data center and interconnection services in Seattle metro area
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced the opening of its second International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in downtown Seattle. The new SE3 data center is adjacent to Equinix’s SE2 data center, which is located in the Westin Building carrier hotel, offering a natural expansion space for customers with existing deployments in this location.
Demand for data center and interconnection services is growing in the Seattle metro area from network and cloud service providers, and content and digital media companies. The SE3IBX offers these companies the opportunity to extend their footprints in the Northwestern United States and Western Canada while leveraging Platform Equinix™ to help fuel their business.
“Equinix provides some of the best facilities and operational support out there, which is critical in meeting our customers’ expectations,” said Jesse Proudman, CEO of leading cloud and hosting services company Blue Box. “With our newly deployed infrastructure in SE3, we have no doubt that the network proximity and growth opportunities that Equinix’s ecosystem offers will further solidify our competitive edge.”
The new IBX will add approximately 51,000 square feet of data center space and capacity for more than 1,000 cabinet equivalents to Equinix’s presence in the Seattle market. Among the most connected data centers in the Seattle area, SE3 offers direct connectivity to the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX). SE3 is a purpose-built site that offers 24-hour operations and security as well as physical features such as a dedicated loading dock, freight elevator, and state-of-the-art amenities. SE3 customers will also have access to the Equinix Marketplace to identify potential customers and partners from among the 4,000 ecosystem participants offering a range of services inside Equinix data centers.
“The Seattle market is an important communications hub for the Pacific Northwest and a distribution point for IP traffic to Asia Pacific. With SE3, we can offer the many cloud, network and digital content companies in Seattle the ability to directly connect with their customers and partners in order to improve application performance and generate new revenue opportunities,” said Charles Meyers, president of the Americas for Equinix.
Additional Resources
By Hanzus, Dan Cliff Avril found a home with the Seattle Seahawks, and the former Detroit Lions defensive end strengthens an already strong defense in the Pacific Northwest. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at NFL
