Economic Development Information
Economic Development Council presents Economic Forecast Luncheon with Arun Raha on April 4
What will the economy bring in the next year – both here in San Juan County and on a global scale? Washington State’s chief economist, Arun Raha, will outline the economic climate we face today, during the San Juan County Economic Development Council’s 2011 Economic Forecast Luncheon on Monday, April 4. The event will feature Raha and local economic experts representing industries such as …
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Historic Mining & Blasting Industry Films DVD: Coal, Copper, Salt & Iron Ore Mines, Miners & Mining Equipment Videos $12.99 This visually stunning compilation of historic mining films is the only such DVD available on the market. Each vintage film shows a different angle of the mining industry. Running time 84 minutes. TABLE OF CONTENTS: White Wonder (1958) – 28 minutes running time – This film takes a look at the extraction of salt and its many uses in our culture. Copper Mining and Smelting (1950s) – 11 minutes … |
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Classic Tennessee Valley Authority TVA Film DVD: 1930s New Deal Farm Floods History & Dam Electricity Construction Video w/ Farming & Agriculture Dams from the Great Depression $12.99 The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was started in 1933 and has grown to become the biggest power company in the United States. This film is about the construction of dams in the Tennessee Valley to help farm irrigation and prevent floods. Table Of Contents: (1) The Valley of the Tennessee (1940s) – A very good piece of American developmental history, this film shows the reasoning behind the impl… |
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Minnesota Iron Mining History Film: Iron Country: Iron Ore and Minnesota’s Future (1952) $4.99 This film uses the large crowd at the Minnesota state fair to show how many people are affected by Minnesota’s iron ore mining industry. More than one quarter of a million people in Minnesota are directly or indirectly affected by the iron ore mining industry, which has a strong impact on Minnesota’s economy development and its citizen’s daily lives. The film details the concerns of average Minnes… |
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Axis & Allies $12.95 A Rare Classic WWII SimulationProduct InformationDecide the fate of a nation and the destinyof the world with this historical WWII strategy game. As the world powersbattle for supremacy in 1942 spearhead your country’s military drive.Plan strategic bombing raids sneak submarine attacks hit-and-run infantryattacks and antiaircraft barrages. Move into embattled territories andresolve conflicts. At t… |
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Zero Divide Techno Warrior $4.17 Accompanied by the development of highly sophisticated electronic communication technologies, the “”"Network Space”"”" was reaching the entire world. Accordingly, social structures were about to form within this network along with the principle of law and order, when suddenly the news of the establishment of a mysterious data library called the “”"”XTAL TOWER”"”" struck the world. In that data lib… |
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t $8.33 Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, “Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?” In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their… |
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty $12.99 Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how t… |
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Emotional Intelligence 2.0 $12.45 In today’s fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack. By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introductionâit’s no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are… |