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Stability is the key word in 2012 when it comes to Colorado�s economy. That was the message from the state�s Department of Labor and Employment when March unemployment numbers were released this month.
It has taken a long time for the state to get to a point where it was regularly adding jobs month after month, and now it seems to have reached that point, said Alexandra Hall, chief economist with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.
But while Colorado and La Plata County steadily added jobs in the first three months of 2012, it hasn�t been enough to budge the unemployment rate. And in La Plata County, job growth has not kept pace with population increases, putting a damper on economic-growth projections.
In La Plata County, non seasonally adjusted unemployment rates hovered between 7.2 and 7.3 percent in the first quarter of 2012. That�s down from 8.1 percent unemployment in January and February 2011 and 7.6 percent unemployment in March 2011.
In non seasonally adjusted numbers, the state�s unemployment rate averaged 8.3 percent in the first quarter. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained flat at 7.8 percent through January, February and March.
From a statewide perspective, stagnant numbers aren�t necessarily negative, but reflect a situation where the labor force is growing at the same pace as jobs are created, Hall said.
�We have people re-entering or entering the labor force for first time over the past six months,� she said.
But looked at through another lens, the picture isn�t quite as rosy, at least on the county level, said Roger Zalneraitis, executive director of the La Plata Economic Development Alliance.
According to employment numbers and population projections, the number of people looking for work or working continues to fall as a share of the county�s population.
That number, called the normal labor participation rate, is 61 to 63 percent in a healthy economy. La Plata County�s rate fell from 57 percent last year to 56 percent this year.
So even though the county is adding jobs, it�s not adding enough of them, Zalneraitis said.
Colorado is seeing the most job growth in education, health care, professional and business services, and leisure and hospitality, Hall said.
In La Plata County, though, so few jobs have been added that it�s hard to see trends in job growth.
Health care and social assistance is one of the only sectors in La Plata County that has added a significant number of jobs in the last two years. That sector added about 160 jobs from 2009 to 2011, according to state wage and employment data.
Looking ahead, economists remain conservative about the state�s growth trajectory in 2012.
The state�s economic growth will be affected by the development of Colorado�s renewable-energy cluster this year, as well as how the summer shapes up in terms of rainfall and wildfires, according to a report by the Colorado-based Business and Economic Research firm. A steadily growing population provides a large base of workers and consumers to boost recovery, the report said.
CBER researcher Gary Horvath predicted job growth will be higher than last year, but he doesn�t expect any significant declines in the nation�s unemployment rate. About 175,000 jobs per month will be added in the country this year, he said.
In her projections, Hall predicted that if Colorado continues to grow at its current rate over the next year and a half, the state would recover all jobs lost from The Great Recession by mid-2013.
But even as the economy grows, it is �quite possible� the state could add jobs and still see the unemployment rate climb, Hall said. That�s because there still are many people who have dropped out of the labor market who may restart their job searches as the economy improves.
�The more positive signs, the more people are likely to enter the job market,� she said.


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In this Cracked article http://www.cracked.com/article_19852_5-famous-movies-that-shamelessly-ripped-off-obscure-ones.html it states that Ridley Scott ripped off two other lesser know movies to make Alien. However according to the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28film%29 Dan O'Bannon takes the credit for stealing from these two movies. So how much influence is from the script and how much is from the director? Also even though it's a comedy site they don't actually say that the director never gave credit to these two movies so has Ridley Scott ever acknowledged these movies as influencing his designs for this movie?
Cracked.com is a great place to find false information. I wouldn't recommend taking them too seriously, but that article is correct about Alien.
"Good artists copy. Great artists steal."
Dan O'Bannon explicitly stated in an essay he stole elements from those movies (it's available on the Alien special features disc). So it is really the script that contains stolen ideas, not the directing. I don't really like using the word "stole" for this, because it seems to me that parts of the script were "inspired" by those movies. Nothing can be completely original--writers are always influenced by others. Dan O'Bannon seemed like a nice, laid back guy, and he intended to create a work of art by writing the script.
With the combined creative genius of Ridley Scott's visionary style, Giger's alien designs, and O'Bannon's script, they were able to create something truly unique, even if it did use some ideas from other films. I would highly recommend watching the Alien special features if you want the full story.


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Upon reading about Michael Vick, we are reminded that there is redemption for anyone who trusts in Christ, and prays for forgiveness. His friend and mentor Tony Dungy modeled how important it is that we strive to Make A Difference in our lives. If you have ever thought that you couldn't make a difference, maybe this paragraph from day 29 of Pastor Rick Warren's book The Purpose Driven Life will encourage you.
Abraham was old, Jacob was insecure, Leah was unattrractive, Joseph was abused, Moses stuttered, Gideon was poor, Samson was codependent, Rahab was immoral, David had an affair and all kinds of family problems, Elijah was suicidal, Jeremiah was depressed, Jonah was reluctant, Naomi was a widow, John the Baptist was eccentric to say the least, Peter was impulsive and hot-tempered, Martha worried a lot, the Samaritan woman had several failed marriages, Zacchaecus was unpopular, Thomas had doubts, Paul had poor health, and Timothy was timid. That is quite a variety of misfits, but God used each of them in his service. He will use you , too, if you stop making excuses.
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For mill workers, a year shaped by loss
Mark Mulligan / The Herald
Mike Ingrum stands on Grand Avenue along 25th Street in Everett on Friday. A year ago, when Ingrum stood in the same spot (below), the Kimberly-Clark mill stood behind him. The empty site bothers Ingrum. "I can't even look at it hardly. It's sickening," he says.
After years spent toiling at Kimberly-Clark on Everett's waterfront, some retired sooner than they wanted. Others found new careers. Some went back to school. The unluckiest ones continue to hunt for jobs and paychecks.
It was April 15, 2012, a Sunday just a year ago, that the last workers finished their final shift at the paper mill. They walked away forever from jobs some had held for decades. Many had family histories at the mill dating back to the days of the Scott Paper Co.
The 66-acre mill site along West Marine View Drive, where pulp and paper products were made, is mostly leveled, except for a warehouse building. Demolition work by Cambria Contracting Inc. is expected to continue through May. The Port of Everett has expressed interest in buying the property.
Today we check in with several former Kimberly-Clark workers. A year ago, they told their stories to Herald writer Debra Smith for her series "The Last Smokestack."
Mark and Annie Mulligan / The Herald
Mike Ingrum stands near the Kimberly-Clark mill in March 2012. Ingrum worked as a boiler operator at the mill for 24 years.
Mike Ingrum ran a huge boiler, the No. 10. His work at Kimberly-Clark was so specialized he worried he wouldn't find work without leaving the Northwest.
A year after the mill's closure, Ingrum tells a success story. He works at the Tesoro Anacortes Refinery. His earnings are equal to his Kimberly-Clark wages, and he expects that pay to rise.
"I was able to take a lot of the job skills from Kimberly-Clark and transfer them," said Ingrum, 45, who has moved from Marysville to Mount Vernon to be closer to work.
At the mill, the 10-story boiler burned sugars left from pulp-making. Acid created in the process helped turn wood chips into pulp. Steam from the big boiler also generated power. Now Ingrum is truly in the energy business.
"I'm making gas instead of toilet paper," he said. "I'm an operator in one of the zones, basically taking crude oil and turning it into gas. One of the jobs I do there, when the great big tanker ships come, I go out on the wharf and tie those up."
He works 12-hour days. Like his old job, this one has potential for danger. A 2010 explosion at the Tesoro plant killed seven people. "You can't make mistakes. There's a memorial there, so we're reminded every day," he said.
After the Everett mill closed, Ingrum was out of work almost four months. "It was the first time in my life, since I was 20, that I did not have a job," he said. Ingrum considered moving to Hawaii for a job at a plant that turns garbage into electricity. "I didn't sleep for a week trying to decide," he said.
With a daughter in Marysville and other family nearby, he is happy he didn't go far.
"I'm lucky. A lot of people took pay cuts," he said.
It still upsets Ingrum to see bare land where he once earned a good wage and made close friends. "I can't even look at it hardly. It's sickening," he said.
Mark Mulligan / The Herald
TOP: Sisters Angie Mardesich (left) and Joanne Moore stand on the pedestrian overpass across W. Marine View Drive in Everett last week. The Kimberly-Clark mill once stood behind them. The sisters both worked at the mill and were photographed in the same spot a year ago with their father, Vince Mardesich (bottom). Vince, who had worked at the mill for 32 years, passed away in December just shy of his 85th birthday. Angie Mardesich has taken a job at Boeing in Everett; Moore decided to retire.
Angie Mardesich, 54, Marysville
By the end of his life, Vince Mardesich had seen the shutdown of the mill where he worked for 32 years before retiring in the 1980s. He saw two of his daughters, Joanne Moore and Angie Mardesich, lose their Kimberly-Clark jobs last year.
The Everett man was pictured with those daughters as part of "The Last Smokestack" series. It's an iconic image, the rugged face of a longtime mill worker.
Mardesich died Dec. 18 at 84, less than two weeks after the death of his wife, Mary Harvey Mardesich. He had suffered from lung problems, and had also recently lost a sister.
"That was a tough year," said Angie Mardesich, 54, who now works for the Boeing Co. The Marysville woman started at Everett's Boeing plant in July. Hired for mechanic assembly, she builds stow bins. It's different than at Kimberly-Clark.
"The mill was so fast-paced. It was hard labor. I didn't realize how hard until I went to a different job," she said.
Her sister is retired. At 58, Moore's Kimberly-Clark pension is 10 percent less than it would have been had she been able to work until 60. Even so, the Arlington woman feels lucky. "I could retire. A lot of people still don't have jobs," she said.
Moore, who gets together with Kimberly-Clark friends, said it's hard to see the place where she drove a forklift, and where her dad once had that job. Nothing is left.
"I still have a hard time believing it happened," Moore said. "I wanted to get a job when I left, but my heart wasn't in it. I knew I wasn't going to find another job like that."
Her sister plans to stay at Boeing. "I'm going to buy my father's house," said Mardesich, who looks forward to living in her girlhood home on Rucker Avenue. "He worked so hard. We all just want my dad back."
Mark and Annie Mulligan / Herald file photo
Troy Woodard worked at the mill as a safety specialist. He's now a safety compliance officer for the state. He has work, but has had to take a large pay cut and now has a longer commute.
In his 17 years at Kimberly-Clark, Troy Woodard's favorite job was safety specialist. He's still keeping workers safe -- all kinds of workers.
Woodard, 41, is a safety compliance officer with the state's Department of Labor & Industries. "I go out to job sites and make sure the employer is following the standards, providing a safe workplace," he said. His job covers all of King County.
From a narrower focus at the mill, he has learned about safety in other types of factories, in logging, retail and other businesses.
The father of two feels fortunate to have stable work. His pay, though, is down more than 30 percent from his Kimberly-Clark earnings. Another downside is a commute to downtown Seattle. "Before, I had an 11-minute commute," the Everett man said.
For a time after the mill closed, he worked at United Way of Snohomish County's office with a group helping other mill workers find jobs. "It was fortunate Boeing was hiring at about the same time," he said. About 160 workers from the mill landed Boeing jobs, he said.
Woodard is sad driving past the cleared mill site, but said, "I guess life kind of moves on."
"We all would have wanted to stay," Woodard said. "My family had 80 years of service there, three generations."
He sees positives, especially for people who took advantage of retraining through federal Trade Act assistance. "Some folks are getting ready to graduate. So many thought they were mill workers for life," he said. "That's the silver lining, seeing people do things they would never have done, moving on to all different fields."
Mark and Annie Mulligan / Herald file photo
Ray Jones (back row, second from right, in a photo from last year) spent 36 years at the mill, taking classes along the way and working his way up to a position as a manager. Surrounding Ray are his brother, Ron Jones (far left), who spent 23 years at the mill; Ray's uncle Ernie McClellan, who worked at Scott Paper Mill from 1956-1961; Ray's son, Tyler Jones, who started working at Kimberly-Clark two-and-a-half years before it closed; and Ray's father, Frank Jones, who worked as a journeyman painter for 38 and-a-half years at Scott from 1955 to 1993.
Ray Jones was there with workers on the last shift.
"I did stay until the end," said Jones, 56, who was a manager in human resources at Kimberly-Clark.
He was among those paid by the company to help displaced co-workers find new jobs. Jones worried about finding a job himself after 36 years at the mill. Interviewed last year, he said it wouldn't be easy fighting "the stigma of age."
Yet today, the Lake Stevens man works for Boeing, and he's still in human resources.
Jones is thankful for educational opportunities offered by the Scott Paper Co. during his early years there. A Cascade High School graduate, he said he didn't take school seriously until college, which was paid for by the company.
While working full time at Scott, he went to college. He set his sights on a bachelor's degree in accounting. When he learned he would earn more at the mill, he stayed in school to get a master's in business administration and moved into management at the company.
"I would have stayed through retirement," said Jones, whose father, brother, son and uncle had all worked for Scott Paper or Kimberly-Clark.
Jones learned from the closure that no job is absolutely secure. "We were in an industry that was non-cyclical. The mill hadn't laid off bargaining unit workers in nearly 30 years," he said. Yet all of a sudden, a viable business was being shut down. "Don't ever get too complacent or too comfortable," Jones said.
He is astonished at how quickly the landscape changed.
"Here were 66 acres of brick-and-mortar buildings, and vibrant family-wage jobs," Jones said. "Now it's flat ground. It makes you wonder, was it ever real?"
Mark and Annie Mulligan / Herald file photo
Joe Reed and his wife, Amy Reed, of Everett, on the front porch of their Everett home last year. Joe, a paper machine tender, worked at the mill for 30 years. Amy spent a decade at the mill. Both of their father's worked for at Scott Paper Co. as they were growing up. Joe is still looking for work.
Joe Reed is still looking.
He's been to Tennessee, to the Kruger Products tissue mill in Memphis. He's been to a smaller paper company in Arizona. Those trips brought no job offers at pay he seriously considered.
"The moving part would be bad enough, but then to start at entry level -- I'm making that much on unemployment," Reed said.
Reed, 52, isn't sure how long he'll keep receiving unemployment benefits. He and his wife, Amy, also a former Kimberly-Clark worker, still live in their house on Everett's Rainier Avenue.
A former paper machine tender, Reed spent more than 30 years at the Everett mill. He had a good job running machine No. 4, which produced napkins. After seeing that machine dismantled, he said he was told it would be shipped to China.
Lately he has applied for outdoor work. He said he wasn't hired for one job because he lacked "a year's experience landscaping."
"It's frustrating," Reed said. "I've got my name in at Boeing. I've had a lot of interviews. I'm 52. I can understand it to a point -- how long is this guy going to hang around?"
Even after three decades at the mill, Reed said he is too young to qualify now for his Kimberly-Clark pension.
The job hunt is daunting. When he was hired at Scott, he filled out one piece of paper. He now needs a resume, and often an online application.
Still, Reed works at finding work. At 8 a.m. every Monday, he goes to WorkSource at Everett Station for employment networking. He attended a class in how to navigate Boeing's job application process. "It's a lot different. They don't get back to you to tell you no, so you can move on. It's kind of like dating," he said.
Like others who spent decades at the mill, Reed looks at the place now in near disbelief.
"My last four months I worked on the loading dock," he said. He put equipment onto trucks for shipment to other mills. "It was kind of like we were in denial," Reed said.
"Now we go down there, one of our running jokes is 'They must be serious about this.' "
Mark and Annie Mulligan / Herald file photo
Jayne DeWitt of Bellingham was a safety coordinator at the mill. She is now taking an online course in occupational safety and health after recently getting laid off from a job she had after the mill closed.
She's 64, but Jayne DeWitt can't retire, not yet.
"I had only been at Kimberly-Clark about seven years," said DeWitt, a survivor of a previous mill shutdown.
Starting in the mid-1970s, she worked at a Georgia-Pacific mill in Bellingham. In 2001, the Georgia-Pacific Corp. closed its Bellingham pulp mill. Its Bellingham toilet tissue plant shut down in 2007.
Until recently, she had a job at a WorkSource office in Mount Vernon helping others find work. "It was a benefit the union negotiated with Kimberly-Clark. They funded it for six months, and then we were paid through a national emergency grant," DeWitt said. With a house in Bellingham, she had commuted 136 miles round-trip to the Everett mill.
Now she is home. "I just got laid off from that job. I am among the unemployed," she said.
Her last position at Kimberly-Clark was as a safety coordinator. DeWitt is now taking an online course in occupational safety and health through Columbia Southern University.
"It takes work to get a job," she said. "The days of going to work with Dad -- that's how a lot of these people started out. Now you have to have other skills."
Mark Mulligan / The Herald
After 38 years working at the Kimberly-Clark mill, Ruth-Anne Huston decided to go back to school at Everett Community College, where she is studying accounting.
Tools, machinery and the blood and sweat of mill work are memories now. For Ruth-Anne Huston, life revolves around classes, homework and hours in the library.
At 58, the Arlington woman is an Everett Community College student. Like other former Kimberly-Clark workers, she took advantage of education money provided through the federal Trade Act.
"It's paying for my schooling, books and parking. You can't beat it," Huston said. To get the deal, she couldn't just study art or some other personal interest. "You had to choose an occupation in demand in Snohomish County."
Huston picked accounting. "I always liked numbers, and I've done well," she said. She is now in her fifth quarter, on track to graduate in December with an associate's degree in accounting.
School is a big change from running a machine that made paper towels, the kind dispensed "one at a time, like in a hotel bathroom."
Interviewed for "The Last Smokestack" series, Huston recalled starting at Scott Paper when she was 19. She was a hand packer, meaning she spent her shifts packing six of the four-roll toilet paper packages into each case. Suffering a cut hand wasn't unusual.
"It was real heavy work, with long hours working nights and weekends. I'm not so young anymore for all that," Huston said.
Her dream now is an accounting job with a city, county, or for the Boeing Co. "I'm not going to work there 30 years," said Huston, who spent 38 years at the mill. She would like to retire at 65. "It depends on how soon I do things like pay off the mortgage," Huston said.
After high school, she took one college course. "It wasn't for me. Now I have almost all A's," said Huston, whose classes this quarter include one in business taxation.
"Maybe things take me a few minutes longer than for these young kids. But twice I've been on the dean's list for academic achievement," she said. "It's invigorating. I love to learn."
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A Cheboygan woman has waived a preliminary examination in connection with charges that she stole prescription drugs from a co-worker's purse and broke into another teacher's home. Tammy Kay Lafrinere, 31, was bound over to Cheboygan County 53rd Circuit Court on Monday in connection with felony charges that include second-degree home invasion, three counts of larceny in a building and one count of attempted larceny in a building, and a high court misdemeanor charge of possession of a controlled substance/Vicodin. The charges carry penalties of up to 15 years in prison upon conviction. Court documents state that the alleged larceny incidents occurred on May 8 through May 10, when Lafrinere, a former kindergarten teacher, was accused of taking 90 tablets of prescription Vicodin from a fellow teacher's purse at West Elementary School over the three-day period. The home invasion charge involves an incident of two months earlier, when another fellow teacher heard of the school theft and wanted to report that she and her husband had arrived home to find Lafrinere inside their locked residence. The Cheboygan Department of Public Safety investigated the complaint and were shown text messages sent to the teacher from Lafrinere apologizing for the incident. Police later set up a telephone conversation with the teacher and recorded Lafrinere admitting to breaking into the home by using a pass card to slip the lock. Circuit Court arraignment is scheduled for September 3. Lafrinere is free on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond.
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Located in north-west Bavaria, the Spessart Hills Nature Park protects one of Germany's largest and most beautiful deciduous forests. The hills are bordered by the valley of the river Main with its picture-perfect towns and castles.
Situated in the geographical centre of the European Union, the Spessart Hills Nature Park is celebrated for the ancient beech and oak forests that cover large parts of its gently undulating hills, occasionally giving way to clearings, streams and river valleys. Where bandits and poachers used to roam, today you can relax and enjoy the sights and scenery of the Spessart hills in all their natural beauty.
The hiking here is unbeatable, with 4,000 kilometres of trails, three certified long-distance routes and a unique network of European culture routes. Cyclists will enjoy the River Main Cycle Route and the trails in the Bikewald Spessart park. Various trails, two visitor centres and an interactive water exhibition will all help you get the best out of your time in the reserve, as will our qualified tour guides.
Cultural attractions are also on offer. A range of castles and palaces, among them Henneburg Castle in Stadtprozelten, and moated Mespelbrunn Castle, are popular destinations for a day trip. Also worth a visit are the picturesque medieval towns along the Main river, such as Lohr and Miltenberg. Fine food and drink are available at the village inns, beer gardens and wineries, where you can enjoy the diversity of Franconian cuisine, selected wines of the Main valley and locally sourced meat and game.
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I'm buying a new laptop that I'll be using mainly for programming. A couple of options that really intrigue me are the Asus Zenbook UX31A and the new Retina Macbook Pro. It's obvious that the high-resolution displays on these laptops is useful for entertainment, photo-editing, and other things. My question is this: Do these displays provide any benefit for programmers? Do these displays make code any easier to read? Are they any easier on the eyes after a whole day of staring at the screen?
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The benefit to a higher resolution is the ability to fit more on a screen. This may or may not be useful to you as a programmer. Having more lines of code can help you grasp some things better, other times its just more clutter. As for eye strain that depends on what color schemes, brightness, contrast, lighting, test size, refresh rates... Text size is really the only thing that resolution affects and even that is adjustable outside of resolution.
I'm typing this on a Retina MacBook Pro. The biggest improvement of the high-res screen isn't the available real estate but the greatly improved sharpness and clarity of on-screen text. It looks like print. Programming is one of the activities that benefits most from better looking text.
tl;dr = yes; code readability decreases sharply with resolution, and I see no reason why making bugs literally harder to see wouldn't result in...making bugs harder to see.
The stats have it. Reading speed is increased by up to 25% on displays of 300dpi (as opposed to the average resolution of PC desktop monitors.) Or so says usability guru Jakob Nielsen, at least. Comprehension is also up sharply, IIRC.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/web-typography.html is a little OT, but provides excellent context for the somewhat older guidelines at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9703b.html.
I can already hear gruff geeks trying out some tough-guy line about how real coders have so much screentime behind them that they can read code at any resolution. But of course they can't prove it, because they've never benchmarked their own brains. They just have gut-intuition that they read pretty good on a computer, perhaps better than most, and that it comes with the territory. So file this one under other flights of hypermasculinity and cultural egocentrism. (How do you suppose resolution affects a non-native reader of English? How do you suppose that the industry is affected by restricting the supply of coders to those with unusually precise eyesight?)
Yes, resolution matters -- a lot -- and yes, Apple is slaughtering everyone else as usual, because no one else seems to consider the 'U' in UX. Go buy that Retina MBP. I might bump into you in line.
Resolution does matter for development even on a laptop. Try to run Eclipse with the Package explorer open and a source file with the MacBook Pro 13". It is not fun. IDE's are not meant to run on low resolution displays. If you are used to
The next important thing is to make sure all the text is very clear. Nothing worse than a high resolution on a small screen where you cannot read the source code.
Use SetResX to change the Retina Display to effective 2880x1800, it's not worth killing your eyes over. But the default 1440x900 or even the resolution above that gives nice results.
Also based on what I read about the Asus notebook the MBP beats it hands down in every way. So you are really talking about money here. If you are willing to spend the $2400-$3000 ish get the MBP. If you have to stick with something less than $2k your option is only Asus. If you want the most performant machine the MBP Retina Display has fantastic hardware in it.
Generally speaking, increased visual real-estate is a good thing with programming. Most modern IDEs have a number of panels that you'd like to have open and it's nice to be able to see all of that information "at once."
There is a nefarious relationship between resolution and screen size. The easy rule of thumb is "the higher the resolution, the better" along with "the bigger the screen, the better." The problem is when one of those elements becomes fixed. A super high resolution on an itty bitty display will simply be unreadable or will lead to eye strain.
Many developers work with multiple monitors for the above reasons. It's a reasonable way to balance the relationship between resolution and screen size, but still keep adding to the overall real estate.
As others have pointed out, the two systems you mention have significant differences in the display resolution. The Mac will have more effective real estate without venturing too far into too-small-to-read territory.
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My ideal setup would be two or three 24" widescreen displays for coding against. If a laptop was my primary system, I would be happy with one or two 24" widescreens to supplement the laptop display.
Yes resolution makes a big difference, in that you have crisper text. Just open up terminal on a retina macbook, turn the font size down and see how easy it still is to read it.
Now if you are using colorful IDE color schemes in anything from VIM to XCode it also makes a big difference. Fonts are smoothed on most LCD screens using subpixel rendering which takes advantage of the red, green and blue bars in a common LCD pixel, using them as partial pixels, and then compensating for perception of colors at the edge to produce much "clearer" text. This works really well with black and white text, but much less with colored text, especially at low point sizes. As a result a low-res laptop displaying a lot of code in a smallish (9-10px) size, looks pretty bad. Retina displays effectively double the font size and half the screen size (on each dimension) reducing the effects of sub-pixel rendering on color text.
Also, refuting another post, the inverse square law does exactly not apply here - we perceive (size and hence) detail in any given dimension linearly related to our distance from it - this is why we can measure things in minutes of arc/angle in astronomy and marksmanship ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minute_of_arc ). The other post does not actually claim other wise, but may imply that doubling the distance from an object Quaters its clarity, when really its half.
Megapixels in a display, scale in both dimensions (so does cost!) but we can safely consider detail in terms of distance and/or resolution by looking at single dimension proportions. That makes the retina displays about doubly clear, though maybe 4 times more expensive.
Yes, the screen resulution is extremally important thing for programmer. While the quality of the colours is the most important for web developers (for SQL programmers etc. it's a minor issue), everyone will benefit from high resolution.
I'm actually working on laptop with screen resolution 1366x768 and it's a big mistake to buy something like that for the programmer. It's hard to work with Eclipse, because not much code fits on the screen. I need the console which is 200 characters wide and it hardly fits on the screen, the Android simulator doesn't fit at all. Fortunatelly I have external screen, but it's not very comfortable to type on laptop keyboard and look on the screen that stays on the side.
Almost everyone I know uses 2 displays when it is possible, and some use even 3. Generally, they are using the biggest display available, 24'' with full HD. Such resolution makes sense, because you can fit more things on screen - and one use a lot of them - IDE, a few consoles, web browser, skype etc. - and what is worse, everything should be visible at once.
So, if you want to make your developers more productive, don't buy the laptop with low resolution, please!
The higher resolution isn't likely to be particularly useful to you on a notebook. The reason high-res displays look better on tablets is because you tend to hold them a lot closer to your face than a notebook. By the inverse-square law, if you hold something flat twice as close, you see twice as much detail in both the X and Y dimensions.
So having a notebook without an ultra-high resolution display, and keeping it at a normal distance from your eyes, will give you the same experience as an ultra-high resolution tablet display held much closer. Any claims to the contrary (see: MacBook with Retina display) are just marketing hype, and as Kyle pointed out, tend to actually look worse unless they're designed specifically with the ultra-high resolution display in mind.
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I've cooked whole turkeys and chickens many times, but never a whole duck or any other "gamey" meat. Is there a difference in what should be done or technique in general? I've been told by others that duck is "more difficult", but never how or why.
With chicken and turkey, the most important "trick" to cooking it is to make sure the dark meat gets done before the white meat dries out, and to make sure the skin crisps up somewhat.
Duck is all dark meat, and has a thick layer of fat that must be rendered out. There is not a lot of danger in drying out the breast meat like with a chicken.
Like Martha said, it's best to make a few shallow cuts in the skin over the breast (don't go all the way through to the meat) to help the fat render out. A simple (western) roasted bird would be cooked at 350°F for about 1 hour 45 min, with the oven turned up to 500°F for another 15 minutes to crisp up the skin. There is a LOT of fat rendered out, so it's best to roast in a sturdy roasting pan, on a rack (so it doesn't sit in the fat), and drain the fat about an hour into cooking (save the fat, though; it's delicious).
Personally, I think duck is easier to cook, but it's definitely different from roasting a chicken.
Duck is much fattier than either chicken or turkey, so it is particularly important to include steps such as placing the bird on a rack and scoring the skin to allow the fat to escape.
Duck takes a long time to cook, like turkey but longer. You would cook chicken for a shorter time, maybe an hour.


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Earlier versions of Fedora has different loadable kernel modules which includes diffrent congestion control algorithms etc at (/lib/modules/"kernel-name"/kernel/ipv4).These are present in the form of .ko files like tcp_veno.ko , tcp_westwood.ko . But when i started using fedora 17 i found out that these modules are not present at the given location and i want to use different congestion control algorithms.Please suggest me a way for using those algorithms in fedora 17. ??
edit: It appears you need to install the
Leaving the rest, which applies in general, regardless of distro:
They may be built-in, instead of compiled as modules. You can check which congestion control algorithms your kernel knows about:
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The beauty of living, I've discovered, is that you either learn something new every day or you're reminded anew of something you may have forgotten.
Recent weeks have been testimony to that.
Here's what I've learned lately in the Classroom of Life.
1. I occasionally have a "Tugboat Annie" look about me apparently.
I never knew this, not to mention who Tugboat Annie was.
Even so, every time I wear a certain around-the-house outfit, I get this "Hey, it's Tugboat Annie" reaction from Better Half, who gives me one of those fast head-to-toe scans, then a chuckle or two.
The outfit?
Old baggy black sweatpants, a ratty sweatshirt overtop an equally ratty T-shirt and a pair of these funky flat black shoes that zip shut on the top. Oh, yes, and thick white fuzzy socks.
It's not a real feminine looking outfit by any stretch, but it's so comfortable and perfect for those occasions when you want to do nothing, then rest afterwards.
Every once in a while, though, I live dangerously and wear this getup in public with Better Half, when we're off to somewhere super special, like grocery shopping.
When Better Half ventures out in public with "Tugboat Annie," he jokes that I should walk behind him so no one knows we're together.
Better Half is supposed to do the same thing, incidentally, when I'm still in my work clothes, and he's in his "Barn Boy" outfit, suited for equine interaction.
Make way for Tugboat Annie and Barn Boy.
2. I realized I'm not the plant murderer I always assumed that I was.
Sure, I've had plants that don't get to experience longevity in my presence, but I'm starting to blossom when it comes to keeping plants blooming.
The proof is in my Christmas poinsettias - two of them as vibrant as they were on the day they came home from holiday events.
And there are these three huge hanging-basket ferns that decorated the porch last summer and have been adapting well to their temporary home in the "jungle kitchen," as my mother calls it, awaiting their return outside come warmer weather.
3. I'm learning to accept the fact that groundhogs are not the best weather forecasters.
Old Punxsutawney Phil is not to be trusted to tell us when bad weather is going away and good weather is returning.
The groundhog that predicted an early spring needs to go to summer school.
4. I must not be the only female in the news business going through the change of life.
And I take some comfort in that as hot flash misery loves company or at least a little empathy.
Have you noticed how so many female newswomen and commentators on the national and cable networks wear sleeveless dresses all the time, day in, day out, in the fall and in the winter, no matter the temperature reading outdoors?
Not a sweater to be found draped over their shoulders. Not even a scarf.
Just bare arms.
Definitely not a "Tugboat Annie" look.
(Kiaski, a resident of Steubenville, is a staff columnist and features writer for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times and community editor for the Herald-Star. She can be contacted at email@example.com.)


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Be careful which credit card you use when purchasing. I bought this with my Citi card and got slammed with an $8 international use fee.
Other than that, it's great! :)
10 cents more and you can get it from North Carolina on Amazon and shipped a lot quicker with no international worries. Seller is MovieMars.
A few may have pre-ordered this DeLorean Edition AND the collector's tin, because they did'nt know that the DeLorean Edition includes the tin box - that's the reason why you have to pay more for the DeLorean Edition in UK than in France or Germany, where the digipak is included only.
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One local organization combined two of Kentucky's favorite things to raise money and awareness.
The Bourbon and Basketball event at SkyPAC tonight allowed the community to come and eat, drink and watch basketball.
One organizer says it was all to benefit Hosparus, a company that provides end of life care.
"To provide care not only for the patient but for the family as well... to answer those tough questions they may have so it's to comfort the patient and the family," said Hosparus Community Relations Manager Melinda Hill.
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By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Alyssa Jones)
Sunset Speedway Park would host the second race of 2014 for the Northwest Extreme Late Model Series on Saturday May 24th. It would be the first of two nights of the Spring Challenge for the touring organization.
In the feature it was Newberg's "Captain" Jack Marontate, driving his Metposite Flat Panel Wall Systems/Chehalem Sign Company/Turk's Newberg Tire and Auto Repair/Smokercraft Boats #56 Rayburn, seizing the early race lead. Marontate would set the pace in the feature for several laps before Greg Walters of Banks would make the pass on lap nine. Walters would blaze the trail for the remainder of the distance to capture his first win of the 2014 campaign. It would mark the thirteenth career Northwest Extreme Late Model Series win when the series has visited SSP for Walters and his T&G Trucking/Warpaint Motorsport Graphix & Web Design/Duncan Automotive #97 Victory Circle entry.
The big surprise of the night was the second place run by Portland's Phillip Johnson in his Jackhammer Trucking/T&G Trucking #79 Rayburn entry followed by the Schram Brothers Excavating/Century III Stables/Bodies by Steve-O #16 MasterSbilt of Jerry Schram from Vancouver, Washington in third. The balance of the top five would consist of Jacob Myers of Salem chauffeuring the Baxter's Auto Parts/Blasen & Blasen Lumber Corp./Powell Motors #9 Rayburn in fourth and the Ireland & Ireland at Law/Privateer Racing/Applebee Aviation #8 machine of Rob Ireland from Banks in fifth.
Winning the heat races earlier in the night were Greg Walters and the Jackhammer Trucking/T&G Trucking #76 Rayburn of Jason Johnson from Gresham. Johnson would win the trophy dash while Warren's Brad Martin set fast time of the night in his Reser's Fine Foods/Wayne Martin Floor Covering/Alliance Automotive #99 MasterSbilt.
The Northwest Extreme Late Model Series is back in action for the second round of the Spring Challenge at Sunset Speedway Park on Sunday May 25th. Pit Gates will open at 2:00 PM, Front Gates open at 3:30, and racing starts at 6:00. Tickets for the event are Adults $12.00, Seniors/Military/Juniors (13-17) $10.00, Youths (Ages 12-6) $5.00, and Children under the age of 5 are FREE and a family pass will be offered for two Adults and up to four Youths for just $35.00. For more information log on to www.sunsetspeedwaypark.com.
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Saturday May 24th, 2014
Spring Challenge
Sunset Speedway Park
Banks, Oregon
Northwest Extreme Late Model Series
A Feature: 1. 97-Greg Walters; 2. 79-Phil Johnson; 3. 16-Jerry Schram; 4. 9-Jacob Myers; 5. 8-Rob Ireland; 6. 20-Josh Sim; 7. 67-Dave Walters; 8. 99-Brad Martin; 9. 76-Jason Johnson; 10. 56-Jack Marontate; 11. 28-Bob Trout; 12. 88-John Gamell; 13. 8X-Daniel Modaff; 14. 18-Kristi Somers; 15. 51-Ryan Bothwell
Dash: 1. 76-Jason Johnson; 2. 99-Brad Martin; 3. 28-Bob Trout; 4. 9-Jacob Myers
Heat 1: 1. 97-Greg Walters; 2. 99-Brad Martin; 3. 8-Rob Ireland; 4. 9-Jacob Myers; 5. 88-John Gamell; 6. 8X-Daniel Modaff; 7. 18-Kristi Somers
Heat 2: 1. 76-Jason Johnson; 2. 67-Dave Walters; 3. 28-Bob Trout; 4. 16-Jerry Schram; 5. 20-Josh Sim; 6. 79-Phil Johnson; 7. 56-Jack Marontate
Qualifying: 1. 99-Brad Martin; 2. 76-Jason Johnson; 3. 9-Jacob Myers; 4. 28-Bob Trout; 5. 97-Greg Walters; 6. 67-Dave Walters; 7. 8-Rob Ireland; 8. 16-Jerry Schram; 9. 88-John Gamell; 10. 20-Josh Sim; 11. 18-Kristi Somers; 12. 79-Phil Johnson; 13. 8X-Daniel Modaff; 14. 56-Jack Marontate; 15. 51-Ryan Bothwell
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RILEY COUNTY, Kan. -- A team of assessors in in Manhattan this week to examine the inner workings of the Riley County Police Department as the agency strives to maintain its national accreditation.
A team of assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) arrived in Manhattan Monday, December 3rd, 2012 to examine all aspects of the Riley County Police Department's policies and procedures, management, operations, and support services.
Verification by the team that the Riley County Police Department meets the Commission's state-of-the-art standards is part of a voluntary process to maintain accreditation – a highly prized recognition of law enforcement professional excellence, RCPD Director Bradley Schoen said. The Riley County Police Department received its initial accreditation from CALEA in 1991, and was re-accredited in 1996, 2001, 2003, 2006, and again in 2009, at which time the received the prestigious award of being a Flagship Agency. The Riley County Police Department takes great pride in being the first Kansas Law Enforcement agency ever accredited.
As part of the on-site assessment, the department employees and members of the community are invited to offer comments at a public information session on Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 at the City Commission Meeting Room, located at 1101 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan, KS. The session will begin at 6:30 PM and continue until all individual's present have an opportunity to provide comments.
If for any reason an individual cannot speak at the public information session, but would still like to provide comments to the assessment team, they may do so by telephone. The public may call (785) 565-4183 on Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 between the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Telephone comments, as well as appearances at the public information session are limited to 10 minutes and must address the agency's ability to comply with CALEA standards. A copy of the standards is available at the Riley County Law Enforcement Center. For additional information or to obtain a copy of the standards contact Suellyn Hooper, the Department's Accreditation Manager, at (785) 537-2112 ext. 2270.
Persons wishing to offer written comments about the Riley County Police Department's ability to meet the standards for accreditation are requested to write to Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA), 13575 Heathcote Boulevard, Gainesville, VA 20155 or www.calea.org.
The Riley County Police Department has to comply with 480 standards in order to gain accredited status, Bradley J. Schoen said. "The bottom line, Accreditation recognizes professional excellence. The Riley County Police Department is a professional agency, staffed with quality personnel. For these reasons, we will continue to work together to maintain accreditation and be a Law Enforcement Agency for others to emulate."
The Accreditation Manager for the Riley County Police Department is Suellyn Hooper. She said the assessment team is comprised of law enforcement practitioners from similar but out-of-state agencies. The assessors will review written materials, conduct individual interviews, and visit officers and other locations where compliance can be witnessed. The assessors are:
• Team Leader: Captain Jeffery Pierce, Oklahoma City Police Department
• Team Member: Lt. Robert Sanders, Garden Grove Police Department
Once the Commission's assessors complete their review of the agency, they report back to the full Commission, which will then decide if the agency is to be granted accredited status, Suellyn Hooper stated.
Accreditation is for three years, during which the agency must submit annual reports attesting continued compliance with those standards under which it was initially accredited.
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Airport will go on ballot
In a four to three roll call vote at last Tuesday's meeting, the Colville City Council opted to put an advisory ballot item in the November General Election concerning the relocated airport project. The measure will ask Colville citizens whether or not they think the City of Colville should proceed with a site selection process for a regional airport. There are certain stipulations though: The vote will only be advisory, meaning the decision to continue with the airport site selection process ultimately rests on the shoulders of Colville City Council. Since the proposed airport's tax base would reside within the City of Colville, and the city would be responsible for any maintenance and repair, only residents within the city limits will be allowed to vote on the measure. The cost for running the advisory vote could take $3,000 to $4,000 out of the city's current expense reserves fund. A controversial move The measure must be filed with the Stevens County Elections Department by Tuesday, August 16. The motion for the advisory vote, which was moved by council member Doug Kyle, was one of controversy among city council and members of the public attending the meeting. Council members Pearl Mance and Terry Foster agreed that allowing the airport project to go on the November ballot would send a mixed message to the Federal Aeronautics Administration regarding the city's commitment to the development of an airport. '…It will just muddy the water.' "If we were going to do this (an advisory vote), we should have done it a long time ago," said Foster. "If we do it now it will just muddy the water." "We already got our hand slapped by FAA when we removed the Aladdin site from the selection process," said Mance, referring to a motion passed last year by city council to remove any site within a mile of the current municipal airport from the selection process. "We were told we had to consider all sites for their potential. If we put this to a vote, what does that tell them (FAA)? We look like a bunch of wishy-washy fools who can't make up their minds." Council member Dorothy Bergin said she couldn't vote in favor of an advisory vote unless all registered voters residing in Stevens County were allowed to vote on the issue. "It's called a regional airport; if it's not a city airport… it should not be a city vote," said Bergin. Nancy Foll countered that since the City of Colville is not partnering with any other regional entity to fund the airport, the vote should only be extended to citizens of Colville. "Before serious amounts of the city's money is spent on this, it's time to make a decision," said Foll. "This (advisory vote) will be a good way to help guide the council in making that decision." Colville Airport Board member Jerry Slater protested the motion, saying that the majority of the public knows very little about the actual facts of the relocated airport project and was more likely to make their votes based on emotion instead of solid reasoning. "The negative hype connected to this project is outstanding next to the actual positive information concerning a relocated airport," Slater said. Mayor Dick Nichols appeared displeased with the motion, alleging that the council was willing to quibble over money to repave city streets, but was willing to spend $3,000 to $4,000 of city funds in economically stressed times on an advisory vote.


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Is there any software (or pseudo-code) which can automatically scan a piece of text (either pasted into the tool, or read from a .doc/.pdf) and identify citation data using standard formats? The data would then be split up into its constituent fields and exported in XML, CSV, or some other structured data format. I have looked at cb2Bib but it was only able to extract the year from Harvard-style references, which is insufficient.
Take a look at this list of Citation Parsers that can generate XML from input text:
With freecite you could use a
Try a tool such as Regex Buddy or Expresso.
If you're not a programmer Regular Expressions may be a bit intimidating, but they're really not that hard, especially with a decent tool like one of the above.
Here's an example of someone using Regular Expressions for extracting citations:
Mendeley should be able to do this. It can import PDFs and then export the metadata to BibTeX, RIS and EndNote XML. It is free to download and is cross-platform.
Edit: I tested this on a few documents. The PDF import does seem to work well for references that are formatted correctly. For a document I created using LaTeX, all of the references with the author in the form "Smith, J." or "J. Smith", etc., were imported fine. If the author is a company (a single word), or the reference is incomplete, it does not work as well. The extracted references can easily be edited and exported to BibTeX, etc.
I've seen a Westlaw program do that for legal citations, but that's probably not what you're looking for. Reference Manager might do something like that for academic formats, but I've never used it.
Try http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/#stqsearch
This one is capable of automatic parsing your reference text and offers a link to an on-line article.
Zotero is a plugin for firefox which does this for web content. Not sure if there is a similar tool for documents/pdfs
This probably belongs more as a comment to @Abhinav, but zotero definitely only handles structured data, as you would find described here:
An interesting hack might be to try to write a program that uses each citation as a search query in your favorite database, then uses something like zotero to generate the ref information. You could also download structured information from services like citeUlike. Let me know if you end up doings something like that! (put it up on github if you do ;).
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About 850 union employees could halt work on June 15 at the 584,000-bpd refinery unless new contract language is agreed to. The USW has raised concerns about safety in Baytown since June 2011, after a worker suffered burns on 25% of his body because of a problem with a steam vent valve.
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Union workers at ExxonMobil's refinery in Baytown, Texas, are
threatening to strike over safety concerns, the United
Steelworkers said Monday.
About 850 union employees could halt work on June 15 at the
584,000-bpd refinery -- the second-largest in
the US -- unless Exxon management agrees to contract language
that the union says would improve health and safety at the
sprawling fuels and chemical plant.
The USW has raised concerns about safety at the plant since
June 2011, after a worker suffered burns on 25% of his body
because of a problem with a steam vent valve.
The union said it proposed health and safety language from
the 2012 National Oil Bargaining agreement but Exxon management
refused to accept it in its final offer given April 15. The two
sides will meet again on May 3, with a strike and management
lockout planned if no agreement is reached, the union said in a
"We're confident that an agreement can be reached with
ExxonMobil and a strike averted," said Richard Landry, a
spokesman for the USW local at Baytown.
An Exxon spokesperson was not immediately available.
The union said the safety language it is seeking is already
in place at Exxon's refineries in Torrance, Calif.; Billings,
Mont.; Chalmette, La.; and Beaumont, Texas.
Exxon has experienced a number of safety problems with its
operations recently, including a major oil spill from a segment
of its Pegasus pipeline in Arkansas and an April 17 fire at its
344,000-bpd Beaumont complex that injured 12 contract workers,
three of them critically burned.
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I have a particle at rest. At $t = 0$ a periodic force like $F_0 \sin\omega t$ starts acting on my particle. Can such a force transport my particle to infinity when $t \to \infty$? Please answer this question without solving the mechanical problem, just by intuition.
Kostya has provided an excellent mathematical proof that it can. I will try to give a more intuitive explanation. Suppose the particle started with zero initial speed. Since the force is given as $F_0\sin(\omega t)$, the time for which the particle accelerates and decelerates would be the same (think about the graph of sin). Therefore for some time, the particle will gain speed. Soon the particle will decelerate and lose speed and instantaneously come to rest, before being accelerated again. Note that the in the whole cycle of acceleration and deceleration the particle doesn't change its direction. Thus the particle can be transported to any distance you want provided you wait long enough.
Here is what my intuition says:
$\dot{x}(t)=\frac{F_0}{m\omega}-\frac{F_0}{m\omega}\cos\omega t$
$x(t)=\frac{F_0}{m\omega^2}\left(\omega t - \sin\omega t\right)$
Hmmmm... Yes it can!
Can and must. The momentum at any given time is $$ p(t)=\int_0^t F(t')dt'={F_0\over\omega}(1-\cos\omega t), $$ which oscillates back and forth between zero and $F_0/\omega$ and averages to a positive value over any whole number of periods.
A particle is transported by the velocity, $ds = vdt$, rather the acceleration, $ds = 1/2adt^2$ and hence force, because of the dt rather than $dt^2$ dependence.


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WEIRTON - Weirton Port Authority Inc. representatives gave a presentation on the organization the Weirton-Wellsburg Chapter of the West Virginia Credit Union League during a meeting Feb. 13 at Undo's.
Chapter President Janet Stagani introduced Chair B.J. DeFelice and General Manager Jim Greco. DeFelice provided a history of the WAPA, from its conception in the late 1990s to its formal incorporation in November 2001 to today's work in the oil and gas, transportation and communications areas.
He joined the authority in late 2009, when the board was reappointed, after six or seven years of stasis.
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WEIRTON PORT AUTHORITY PRESENTATION — Jim Greco, Weirton Area Port Authority Inc. general manager, and B.J. DeFelice, WAPA chair, discussed the port authority's history and future plans during the West Virginia Credit Union League Weirton-Wellsburg Chapter's Feb. 13 meeting at Undo's. Attending the meeting were, front, from left, Scott E. Winwood, First Choice America Community Credit Union president and chief executive officer; JoAnn Kerr, Hancock Schools Employees Federal Credit Union; Greco; and Rick Frey, Eagle Can Employees Federal Credit Union: and, back, DeFelice; Janet Stagani, Tin Mill Federal Credit Union president and chapter president; and Wayne Buxton, Strip Steel Community Federal Credit Union. -- Contributed
The board spent the first year getting the lay of the land, learning the history of WAPA, the purpose for its creation and building the required organizational structure.
The current board has professional experience in civil engineering, chemical engineering, nuclear expertise and business education and professional experience.
Over the past two years the port authority has worked to meet federal, U.S. Coast Guard and State of West Virginia objectives. Board members have sought to raise public and private funds.
Greco spoke about the technology growth the port authority board has encouraged, noting communication is an important part of economic growth.
The pair also spoke about the progress of the marine terminal and intermodal facility, both under construction in the Half Moon Industrial Park.
The port authority has secured a long-term contract with Centerpoint Terminals for support services for their tank farm and has had discussions with Shell Oil regarding intermodal services supporting their local oil and gas interests.
"With proper compliance, controls and infrastructure, this region can attract world class organizations, Fortune 500 companies," Greco said.
"These are the companies that bring long-term secure, high paying jobs and we are only at the early stages. We have always had a geographically strategic location, which we are just beginning to capitalize on," Greco added.


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The State of the Union address was delivered by President Obama on Feb. 12, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
(CBS News) As the Democrat-controlled Senate and Republican-controlled House move forward with rival spending plans, each marking up their budget plans today in the respective chambers' budget committees, President Obama traveled to Capitol Hill this afternoon to catalyze negotiations and attempt to broker a deal.
The president, who has voiced his opposition to the budget recently unveiled by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., but also reinforced his willingness to broker compromise, met Wednesday afternoon with the House GOP conference to continue feeling out the parameters of an eventual fiscal roadmap.
When he arrived at the conference meeting, Mr. Obama received a standing ovation, reports CBS News' Jill Jackson. The House Republicans' leader, House Speaker John Boehner, also received a "rousing" standing ovation, according to a source in the room.
As the president departed the Capitol, he told reporters that his meeting with Republicans was "useful."
"It was good," he said. "I enjoyed it."
After the meeting, Boehner said that the president and House Republicans "had a very frank and candid exchange of ideas," adding, "Frankly, I think it was productive."
"We know, however, that there are some very real differences between our two parties," he said. "Republicans want to balance the budget; the president doesn't. Republicans want to solve our long-term debt problem; the president doesn't."
Despite the differences, Boehner said, "Today was a good start," expressing his hope that "these kinds of discussions can continue."
During the 90-minute meeting, members told CBS News there were no surprises - one said that "everybody colored inside the lines" - but they were glad that the meeting occurred.
Members tried to discuss balancing the budget; Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said the president "never said he wasn't going to, but never said he would" balance the budget.
Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., told Mr. Obama, "I don't know how your math on deficit reduction works."
In an interview with ABC News Tuesday, the president cautioned that balancing the budget within 10 years, as Ryan proposes, is important but must take a backseat to the overriding imperative of economic growth. "We're not going to balance the budget in 10 years, because if you look at what Paul Ryan does to the budget," he explained, "It means you have to voucherize medicare" and "slash deeply" into other important programs.
"My goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance," he explained. "My goal is how do we grow the economy, put people back to work."
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., added, "It was good that the president came. It's something that should have happened many times before.
Still, McCarthy noted, the president was asked, "If we're really going to move forward, when can we see his budget?"
House Republicans, for their part, released their own budget on Tuesday. The blueprint, devised by Ryan, would balance the federal budget in 10 years by restricting future annual increases in spending to a maximum of 3.4 percent, down from the current 4.9 percent. As in his previous two budgets, he would also convert the guaranteed benefits of the Medicare program into a private insurance subsidy for people 55 years old and younger.
Critics have accused Ryan of cutting too deeply into the social safety net, but the House Budget Committee chairman stood by his plan today during today's committee markup, saying it "returns government to its proper limit and its proper focus.
Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced their own plan that would net almost an additional $1 trillion in revenue, secured by closing tax loopholes that primarily benefit wealthier Americans and corporations, while levying targeted spending cuts in roughly the same amount. In her opening statement today before the Senate markup, Murray called the Democrats' plan a "balanced and responsible approach" to deficit reduction that would "protect investments" in a strong middle class and institute "responsible spending cuts across the federal budget."
The Senate also pressed forward with a stopgap spending bill known as a continuing resolution to fund the government through Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year, and to prevent a government shutdown.
The House passed such a bill last week, though Democrats from the president on down have warned that the House bill, which provides increased flexibility to allow defense spending to avert the more pernicious impacts of the sequester but does not provide similar flexibility for non-defense spending, is not an ideal way to keep the government afloat. Republicans, in turn, have warned that any significant alteration of their bill would jeopardize its chance of being signed before March 27, the day on which current government funding expires.
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2 Pack of 300 lb. Paracord Bracelets for $5.99 + flat rate site wide free shipping
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300 British pounds converts to like 480 dollars! That means this is an AMAZING DEAL!
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don't get to choose color?
Wow, those are some heavy ass bracelets. I'd never be able to lift my arm, iif I was wearing one of those.
Nice and also My Two dads 10 Episode DVD - TV Flashback!!!! 2.99?! Lol
Be aware that this is not the usual 550lb test paracord that you would want in a survival situation. These are just "fashion", without leaning how to tie a sennit.
WTF Woot!?? THIS is a related "deal"?!? Look over there >>>>>
@ckeilah: @ckeilah: Yes, 300 lb. test equates to about 150lb. actual weight in real-world tests & recommendations. The whole purpose of having a paracord survival bracelet is performance when it is critically needed. Kinda like buying a $9.95 "survival knife" with all the junk in the handle and then having it fall apart when you try to use it . I won't touch anything less than 500lb. test.
When you need to tie down a tarp in the wind while you are camping, these will do splendidly.
When you need to hang a lantern from a tree, these will be what you want.
Did you want to rappel down a cliff face? Did you want to pull your buddy's four wheeler out of the mud?
Yeah, you're going to need something stronger.
All that being said, they don't say how large these are. As someone with a 9 inch wrist, I doubt they'd fit me to begin with.
Not to mention, they'd probably send me the pink one and the electric blue one. Neither of which I'd even use, let alone wear.
I used these directions to make my own. It's really not that hard, and you get to use high-quality paracord in whatever color you like since you pick it out yourself.
every time i see someone wearing one of these I think to myself "what a hipster fgt"
upvoted 'cuz that's awesome
@katanaryda: I'd bet all the guys around here that wear them when they are out hunting would LOVE for you to call them that!
@kmeltzer: Yeah....or all the Army Rangers and SF guys you see with with them.
@dazoneranger: Its not clear if these are 300 Lb each or combined (2 Pack). Good thing it's FREE Shipping!!
If you want to pick a color, this guy on Amazon will sell you one of the 550lb weight cord bracelets for 50 cents more than getting two random colors at 300lb. It looks like you can even specify wrist size.
Or you can just order the cord and buckles on Amazon like I'm doing after seeing this deal.
@katanaryda: I have to agree with ya. Marine here, and these things are f'ing retarded. It's actually hard for me to think of anything you need LESS in a survival situation than a bunch of line. Do the people who wear these also have flotation devices, bear whistles, and snake bite kits on their EDC lists?
just got mine they say 550 test right on label!


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