Tom Haws

This is a 2025 update of my 2014 post about Best Countries. In 2014 took my first impartial look at which countries on earth are doing best...

For the first time in many years, I got a hemorrhoid on Saturday May 3, and it bled more than any before it, so much that I got bloody under...

I am not a vegan; but I lean that way. And thanks to the interest of some friends and family, I immersed myself for the last couple of month...

 This post is a growing collection of the most life-guiding advice I ever received.

The reason I stopped believing 31 days ago (July 11, 2024) that consciousness depends solely on a functioning brain is twofold:  1. There is...

At this point I am maybe an intermediate ukelele player; I can play Sing and Climb Every Mountain poorly in the key of C. These ukelele lear...

I present here the method used by NPS Global Engineers for calculating the post-development water surface increase due to a wall with standa...

About Atlas Land Surveying, Bill Barry, and Tom Haws Bill Barry is the president of Atlas Land Surveying. He is a non-registrant who affilia...

I found today this statute at ARS 32-2181(D) that establishes the liability of Arizona licensed professionals who knew or should have known ...

To my astonishment, I am a good CEO. And my businesses are solvent. Here's my first attempt to explain how I succeed in business. In oth...

Genesis says: The Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and ...

I'm inviting my people to mingle and sing with me at an a cappella doo wop night at City of Mesa Fire Station 202 at 830 S Stapley Drive...

You may have wondered why surveyors in the 2020's don't deliver their dwg files on standard GIS  projection coordinates, whether UTM...

Well-constructed loose riprap beds with proper elevation, gradation, filter layer, and subgrade preparation are a good solution to erosion. ...

Dear top prospective colleagues, We hope for you to be an NPS CEO some day.  Though the  unusual reason NPS has for existing  makes growth f...