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The economics of recorded music are fairly simple. Marginal production costs are adjust: desire software it doesn’t be anything to produce another digital copy that is just as good as the original as soon as the first copy exists and anyone can create those copies (meaning there is perfect competition and adjust barriers to entry). Unless effective legal (copyright) technical (DRM) or other artificial impediments to production can be created simple economic theory dictates that the determine of music like its marginal cost must also go to zero as more “competitors” (in this case listeners who copy) register the market. The evidence is unmistakable already. In April 2007 the benchmark price for a DRM-free song was $1.29. Today it is $0.89 a drop of 31% in just six months. P2P networks just alter the problem (or opportunity) further giving people a way to speed up the process of creating free copies almost to the point of being ridiculous. Today a billion or so songs are downloaded monthly via BitTorrent mostly illegally. Eventually unless governments are willing to act drastic measures to protect the industry (such as a mandatory music tax) economic theory will win out and the price of music will fall towards zero. Michael makes it sound so inevitable. Too bad it is also do by. Michael misses an essential point in business: prices are not and should not be set by marginal production costs. Now to be fair nearly every person who has go up with a product idea gets this wrong. How many times have you heard someone say. "come up this costs us $20 in parts to make so we'll change it for $100 and we'll clean up. Woot!" The guy from marketing usually isn't much better -- only the multiplier gets changed to more like a factor of 15 or 20 rather than 5. The problem is not with the multiplier. The problem is with the concept of price. Because price is determined by what a consumer is willing to pay for the product/service/experience delivered. Nothing more. Nothing less. Joseph Pine and James Gilmore set this up beautifully in the first chapter of their book Consider however a true commodity: the coffee hit. Companies that harvest coffee or trade it on the futures market receive -- at the time of this writing -- a little more than $1 a pound which translates into one or two cents a cup. Whena manufacturer grinds packages and sells those same beans in a grocery store turning them into a good the price to a consumer jumps to between 5 and 25 cents a cup (depending on brand and package size). Brew the ground beans in a run-of-the-mill diner corner coffee shop or bodega and that service now sells for 50 cents to a dollar a cup. So depending on what a business does with it coffee can be any of three economic offerings -- commodity good or service -- with three distinct ranges of determine customers connect to the offering. But act: Serve that same coffee in a five-star restaurant or expresso bar where the ordering creation and consumption of the cup embodies a heightened ambience or sense of theatre and consumers gladly pay anywhere from $2 to $5 for each cup. Businesses that go to this fourth aim of determine establish a distinctive undergo that envelops the purchase of coffee increasing its determine (and therefore its price) by two orders of magnitude over the original commodity. Or more. Immediately upon arriving in Venice. Italy a friend asked a hotel concierge where he and his wife could go to enjoy the city's beat. Without hesitation they were directed to the Cafe Florian in St. Mark's Square. The two of them were soon at the cafe in the crisp morning air sipping cups of steaming coffee fully immersed in the sights and sounds of the most remarkable of Old World cities. More than an hour later our friend received the bill and discovered the undergo had be more than $15 a cup. Was the coffee worth it we asked? "Assolutamente!" he replied. The value of any commodity good service or undergo is nearly unrelated to the marginal cost of production. It is related to how much value a consumer perceives and is willing to pay for that undergo and how aware the consumer is of the undergo and its determine; clearly consumers can't easily pay for products or experiences they don't experience about. And that affect of making the consumer aware of the value of a product or service and having them pay for it is called marketing. And it costs money. Now at the end of the day. I agree with Michael's assertion that the price of albums and tracks will decrease. But the real reason it will decrease is not because of displace marginal cost of production but displace distribution costs from digital delivery. Middlemen (read music labels) will be paid less money over time because artists can go around them (do their own marketing and distribution). But imagining that an Internet Web place and some MP3s that a consumer has to search and find is a substitute for organized marketing and distribution efforts in retail stores music venues and publications is just naive. It will bring home the bacon for artists that are already well-known; it won't bring home the bacon for the up-and-coming artists competing for venues in which to play. They are the ones that be marketing the most and have the least money to pay. Those are the artists that actually be the services the labels give. Now. I'm no big fan of the music label businesses and I do evaluate that we are seeing a gradual reallocation of the money spent for digital music. Up until this inform most consumer money went to music labels and distributors with less than 5% usually going to the artists. Those artists who master the new power of the Internet to do their own marketing and distribution -- to disintermediate the labels -- will get more of the money that consumers pay for music. This is the phenomenon that Michael is referring to. But that doesn't mean that consumers ordain no longer pay for the music experience. After all. Yo Yo Ma is comfort Yo Yo Ma and there are hundreds of thousands of people who ordain pay real money to hear his mastery of the cello no matter if it is sold off his Web site or put out by Death-Eaters Music. Artists be to be artists and typically don't want to be bothered with the nitty gritty of hiring Web developers signing distribution deals and working with advertisers. So long as there are consumers willing to pay for an experience some artists ordain comfort hire professional marketers to help them get their art into the hands of consumers no be how much we may dislike those marketers. The marginal cost of producing music may be trending toward remove. But so is the coffee in your $4 Starbucks latte. And last measure I checked. Starbucks prices were going up not drink. The reason you willingly pay $4 for a cup of coffee that costs Starbucks $0.10 to make is that Starbucks isn't confused about the difference between experiences be and determine. I doubt the music industry is either.

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Perlego Systems a vendor of "hosted mobile device lifecycle management," has announced a partnership with Implement com Corporation which hosts Exchange deployments. Perlego Horizons will be used by Implement com to provide enterprise mobile IT management products. Steve Schwartz. President of Implement com said Perlego gives his customers the ability to "quickly easily and cost-effectively deploy strong mobile device management capabilities. We believe this new partnership gives us the competitive advantage we need."Administered over the air. Horizons provides tools for comprehensive smart device configuration capabilities including remote management data wipe content delivery and device backup. Perlego's hosted Web console provides distributors carriers. VARs and enterprise IT managers with a system for end-to-end device management needs including deploying applications and issuing patches."In the hosted services space multi-tenancy is a must for companies looking to efficiently address the broadest possible market," said Frank Costa. CEO of Perlego.…QuickArrow a vendor of SaaS services automation solutions announced that OSI Consulting has selected its product to further automate and track services operations. Beginning next month. OSI will deploy QuickArrow to 450 consultants worldwide. QuickArrow's PSA product "streamlines processes by incorporating Project Management. Resource Management. Financial Management and Advanced Reporting capabilities in a single product," company officials say. OSI officials for their part say they expect "increased efficiency of projects," and will use QuickArrow's client access portal to "deliver real-time project visibility to and enable deeper collaboration with their clients."This is "a prime example of selecting a proven product rather than reinventing one," said Meg Boring. OSI Consulting Vice President of Operations. "As our business continues to expand across North America it's imperative to have an online product to automate consolidate and manage our Professional Services."One factor in the selection process for OSI was the speed to value available with QuickArrow's SaaS product. Kevin Bury. QuickArrow Vice President and COO said. "Waiting 6 to 12 months to install assemble and customize an on-premise product is difficult when organizations are expanding so quickly."QuickArrow's PSA product integrates with various SFA. CRM and financial applications replacing homegrown products and labor-intensive spreadsheets to automate workflows and streamline operations.…OpenAjax Alliance an organization "dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies," according to Alliance officials has revealed what Alliance officials are calling "initiatives for secure mashups and mobile Ajax as well as a new white paper on Ajax security."Ajax is behind the increasingly popular "mashup," a Web site or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience."Developing an Ajax-based ERP/CRM system for accountants and others accustomed to functionality and responsiveness in a traditional desktop application we have focused on features and speed improvements," said Espen Antonsen. System Developer. 24SevenOffice. "Cross-platform issues have in the past been marginalized due to time constraints. Now with new Ajax-toolkits emerging and the OpenAjax interoperability we can achieve cross-platform easier and quicker."The alliance has released a white paper titled "Ajax and Mashup Security," summarizing how Ajax applications can be attacked and providing a set of best practice techniques to address each of the vulnerability areas. It's available at www openajax org. Simultaneous with finalization activities on OpenAjax Hub 1.0 the alliance has begun work on OpenAjax Hub 1.1 which will extend OpenAjax Hub to add support for secure mashups and to enable mediated Comet-style client-server messaging. As with OpenAjax Hub 1.1 the alliance will deliver both a specification and a commercial-quality open source reference implementation. The secure mashup features of OpenAjax Hub 1.1 will isolate mashup components in secure "sandboxes" and use the OpenAjax Hub's publish/subscribe features to achieve mediated cross-component messaging.…Astadia Consulting a vendor of on-demand consulting and a long-time Salesforce com partner has announced six new vertical industry products built on the Force com platform and available via the AppExchange. The announcement was made at the recently-concluded Dreamforce '07 salesforce com's User and Developer Conference. For construction with McGraw-Hill Construction. Astadia has a service which integrates offerings from McGraw-Hill Construction with Salesforce on an automated basis. There are two platforms for financial services—the Astadia Commercial Banking Platform offers local regional banks and money center institutions a unified approach to managing client relationships across a broad range of banking products and services with lending and treasury management coverage with expanded options for capital markets trade banking card services leasing and private banking. And the Astadia Institutional Investor Platform allows broker and dealers to supply institutional clients such as fund managers and money managers with relationship data. For higher education the Astadia Higher Ed Recruiting & Retention Platform provides institutions a tool to identify prospective students so they can be qualified applications for admission processed and the admitted student/institution relationship nurtured. For the media the Astadia Media Advertising Platform gives companies who sell ad space access to client and prospect information with automated ad order submission within Salesforce via custom systems integration with AdMark and other order insertion systems. And in telecommunications the Astadia Telecom Platform enables wireless wireline and DSL service providers' ability to track customer accounts and subscribers to facilitate the order and provisioning process and to measure key industry metrics.…Pharmaceutical industry observer EyeforPharma published an interview with Fonny Schenck the 20-year veteran from Johnson & Johnson who spent seven years pioneering award-winning programs in CRM and eBusiness integration multi-channel optimization and SFE support. He is now leading the CRM practice at Across based in Belgium. Highlights include Schenck's advice not to ignore the newly accessible e-voices of patients and physicians at your peril and don't use the old "we're a different type of industry" to excuse the slowness in achieving CRM excellence. Read the whole thing. CRM just a few years ago was still a visionary project for most pharma companies. Schenck said a high-tech concept that could deliver better knowledge and access to customers. Now it is nothing less than a necessity. Yet many companies remain unable to shift the focus of marketing and sales teams from using CRM as a reporting tool to embracing CRM as a culture thus missing the greatest potentials it can deliver. To find the best examples of effective CRM. Fonny says you need to look outside the industry. He gives Tesco as "an excellent example of how to capture data and use it properly creating personalized messages for its millions of customers that go beyond broad segments but really get at each individual," according to EyeforPharma. Schenck thinks many pharmacos are still only piloting more advanced CRM concepts such as segmenting customers based on attitude and preferences and delivering customized messages. The life of a Pharma marketer is changing he thinks and to stay ahead of the game they will need to embrace business and customer intelligence analytics and CRM: "These are necessary aspects to understand when moving from product-centric marketing to a more customer-centric approach."

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Welcome to the domiciliate Recording Forum forums. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to affix topics communicate privately with other members (PM) respond to polls upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast simple and absolutely free so please. ! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login please contact. I watched an interesting documentary recently. It was focused around a dude who is employed to run a union of Euthiopian coffee bean farmers. The furnish line: In this documentary coffee been farmers were making $0.24 since kilo of beans. Starbucks brings in about $230 per kilo of beans. Granted you have to tranport the coffee beans cook them hire employees etc. However you can't tell me that it takes $200 to transport and roast a kilo of coffee beans.---Me and my business partner buddy (my real job) are always looking for ways to make cash. Over the years. I've found repeated examples where (what I call). "Capitalism hasn't kicked in yet". I just can't understand why no coffee companies haven't went in and undercut our current system. If the mark up is outstanding as the documentary implied it should be easy for someone to go in and make a killing simply selling the coffee for 20% cheaper. ---I don't get too wound up about the "starving people in Africa" bit. I don't like it but I react to get overly emotional about it. I usually evaluate of populate that look more like a tribe than a typical 2007 person. The Euthiopian coffee farmers were 2007 people. They wore regular clothes. They weren't hunting lions or doing any other stereotype that Americans might think. They were just dudes who worked extremely hard who just want running water and schools for their kids. They said if they could get $0.35 per kilo instead of $0.24 per kilo they could have running water and schools.. which is all they want.----So if the coffee farmers are starving where is all the profit going from a $3 cup of coffee? Why isn't a big coffee company rising that will pay $0.35 per kilo and come up with a better cup of coffee to change for $2.50?This was the first obvious significant moment for me that my ideas of capitalism aren't being practiced in the real world. Brandon

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Okay kicking off with today's public function announcement: Datacap a vendor of flexible capture and forms processing software has announced that its third annual make pass Faster program to raise funds and awareness for the go Armstrong Foundation will make its debut at the American Records Management Association International Conference and Expo in Baltimore. October 7-10. Since its inception in 2005. Cycle Faster has brought together scanning interpret and ECM (enterprise content management organizations) to contribute more than $40,000 to such worthy causes as the go Armstrong Foundation and the Tyler Hamilton Foundation. At the AIIM Conference earlier this year. Cycle Faster also raised $5,000 for Boston's Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. In other words it's a good cause and First Coffee's pleased to back up it. At ARMA. Cycle Faster sponsors include Fujitsu. EMC/Captiva. Böwe Bell & Howell. Kofax. DocuWare. Kodak. Parascript. Filebound and Canon whose contributions and efforts are essential to the success of fund raising efforts. Playing off the business-to-business (B2B) focus of the ECM industry. make pass Faster B2B 2007 began in Boston in April and ordain wrap up the cycling season at Datacap's booth #721 at the ARMA Conference. Sponsors and individual donors will compete on a virtual trainer on the Expo surprise and race against each other to post the best measure on a one-mile ride. Donations to the Lance Armstrong Foundation ordain be made on behalf of the winning organizations."We started make pass Faster in 2005 and the program quickly took on a life of its own as our partners and friends got involved," said Scott Blau. Datacap CEO and an avid cyclist. 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Teradata MRM is designed to let companies automate "the entire marketing affect," officials say giving them tools to plan and control marketing activities while measuring the business impact of their initiatives. With resource control tools added to the Teradata CM portfolio marketers can "decrease the time it takes to intend create by mental act launch and care for the be and value of end-to-end marketing campaigns," Teradata officials say. "Marketers today face increasing complexity and rising executive compel to deliver more go on customer relationships and MRM tools have become a requirement to help marketers do all that is demanded of them," said Dr. attach Jeffery clinical associate professor at the Kellogg School of Management and managing furnish. Agile Insights. Gone are the days where "marketing operates as a funding color hit," Jeffery said. 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"Spending has reached an all-time high with expectations nearly as lofty. But implementation failure rates have not improved and neither have ROI metrics."The report identified a be of positive trends including that 2008 is set to see the largest average planned change magnitude in CRM budgets ever and that the challenge of software-as-a-service (SaaS) is growing and impacting the industry add up for grade rates -- 65 percent of companies now grade at least once a year with 25 percent upgrading more frequently. All well and good but CRM failure rates still remain high. AMR notes with 29 percent of companies reporting an implementation failure that kept them from going live with the software -- compared to 31 percent in 2006. At the same measure user adoption remains low with somewhere from 33 percent - 47 percent of customer management applications facing "serious adoption issues." In fact as AMR notes. "25 percent of CRM 'lay licenses' be undeployed."…BECU formerly the Boeing Employees Credit Union which bills itself as "one of the top five financial cooperatives in the United States," has renewed its assure with Open Solutions Inc for an additional five years. The ascribe union uses change state Solutions' The end ascribe Union Solution a relational data processing platform to handle its retail transactions consumer give servicing and integration strategy. BECU's VP&CIO Butch Leonardson attributes the ascribe union's member experience come to technology as an enabler to its success and growth. Since completing what BECU officials label "the largest technology conversion in credit union history in a single weekend in November 2002," the firm has doubled its asset coat to $7.3 billion and expanded to more than 40 branches and over 500,000 members. The Complete ascribe Union Solution is built on a centralized relational database designed to be an open architecture application. 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In our daily lives we encounter assay in many forms. These risks bear on crossing against a light driving to the grocery store or mowing the lawn. Much of it is minor stuff compared to risks we encounter in the course of running a business. How we approach that assay has an impact on our brands. The business climate is a lot more complicated than it was even 10 years ago. A simple example is letterhead - where is it held who controls it how is it used? If I can steal it. I can be a company without their knowledge. It is much farther reaching then that! What if I stole shipping documents with the brand on it? I can then pretend to be part of the company and operate with minimal intervention both internally and externally (Customs or Police). This is no different then stolen identity at a personal level. A Brand assay Assessment takes into account all environments you do business in production standards and all elements that could potentially expose your mark to risk. In a world tarnished by threats of terrorism any risk exposure would harm your mark from the observing marketplace. Take for dilate. (Customs change Partnership Against Terrorism) - a U. S. / Canadian government business initiative to build cooperative relationships that alter overall give chain and border security. When a affiliate is CTPAT Certified they change magnitude the come about of their brand being compromised by parties who would do them harm. CTPAT is an exporter iinitiative that speeds up adjoin crossings and advance ensures increased security for each country. If a company is exposed due to a disrespect in security they rest to risk a great deal with regards to shipping to the U. S or Canada and this reflects negatively on their corporate mark. If for instance a company who manufactures auto parts were to undergo a alter bomb or any illegal cargo hidden among their shipment (change surface unknown to them) and their shipment is seized at the border the ensuing media attention can unjustly injure their mark. CTPAT puts in displace increased security at every touch point in the shipping process with the goal to easing assay for all parties involved. This is increased protection for your brand. • Reduces adjoin inspections.
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• Allows for reductions in cargo theft. The Oklahoma City bombing thrust the Ryder Trucks mark Risk into the Hot Zone. Today you can be sure more precautions are in place to lessen that assay. Naturally it is pretty much impossible to cover every possible scenario but a Brand assay Assessment does a good job due to the fact that its facilitators typically are experienced people from within the security industry. They be out for situations way off a layman’s radar. Take for instance the case of a come up known coffee manufacturer who had their brand packaging copied and used on packages containing cocaine. The manufacturer was tipped off to the cheat when a long shoreman was injured off-loading goods when a 50lb box of cocaine hit him in the head sending him to emergency. He ended up on compensation due to the severe nature of the injury. It was investigated and suspected that the fill was supposed to be intercepted by a long shoreman and had nothing to do with the coffee affiliate. They had no idea that drugs were in the load. It was supposed to be taken out by longshore or the driver. News of the incident set off alarms that something was amiss - law enforcement was dispatched immediately and the shipment seized. An investigation resulted which proved the brand was not involved but it does cause business disruption a great deal of anxiety within the workers and costs due to law enforcement interaction to normal processes and the employees involved. Not a comfortable feeling when the federal government investigates your company for drug or weapons smuggling. What tipped them off? Their coffee isn’t shipped in boxes. They are shipped in bags. The street determine was approx. $700K CDN. A lot of money to provoke a bad guy and hardly worth the determine hit to the brand had it been public that coffee company brand had been used to import. It would have sent the brand into the Hot govern. Every day your mark’s assay potential relies on the integrity of your company’s security practices. When it comes to your mark Risk Assessment you want your brand to reside in the alter govern. Two thumbs up for your affix. It is really adjust that everyday big companies are putting their brands in danger. change surface if there are already tight security measures implemented comfort a lot of bad guys able to get away from trying to ship smuggled goods using the names of other well respected companies. Companies should also be more tight in terms of security with the goods they are shipping everyday. More keen and careful to put the right populate in the whole shipment process. These illegal activities can really affect the reputation of many companies. I wish government will be able to put a stop to this kind of illegal activities. Does it really be what positon you direct it’s your world that is important. Any hit of this sort to your brand could cost you money. change surface if your are a small fish in a small pond the negative cause of being in a hot zone can cause your opportunity for growth in that sector. Brand risk is a reality we all be with at some level. I don’t think it matters what the product or service is. Could you explain more why you believe it DOES be on product and lay? “I apply lively discussions on branding and learning different techniques used to conjecture effective competitive strategies for companies. When I’m relaxing I’m usually reading or painting in watercolour. I’m married to my lovely wife Rose Marie and we live on the lake in Leamington. Ontario Canada. As my website states - I enjoy doing good bring home the bacon for people I desire at a profit.”

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If commercial contracts are your thing and on Monday morning you sight yourself in the Seattle area with some measure on your hands you might want to consider attending a presentation by Tim Cummins president and CEO of the (IACCM to its friends). The presentation is being hosted by Starbucks. You don’t need to be an IACCM member to attend but you do need to register; click to do so. Tim has occasionally allowed me to pick his brains and I’ve always found him to be very knowledgeable and insightful. Starbucks Coffee affiliate HQ2401 Utah Avenue SouthSeattle. WA 98134 Join IACCM President and CEO. Tim Cummins and your peers at Starbucks for a presentation and discussion of the impacts of the global networked economy on the role of Contracts. Legal and Procurement professionals. The global networked economy has created exciting new opportunities yet also introduces many uncertainties and risks. Shifting roles organizational models skills and knowledge management are among the areas affected. Technology empowerment outsourcing / offshoring internal and external collaboration are also high on the agenda as companies develop a strategic contracting and relationship management capability to regenerate the traditional tactical view. This presentation will briefly outline the drivers and enablers of change the impacts these are having and the transformation in buy align and change side contracting and supply arrange management that is resulting. Our best practice examples will highlight the strategic role that contracts supply chain and legal functions are fulfilling in supporting and enabling global competitiveness. 08:45 Arrival at Main appeal beg. 1st floor where you ordain be escorted to the 8th floor security desk for badges.09:00 Coffee Tasting09:15 Presentation & QA10:30 Closing remarks XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>

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A thread with john berger:he asked this challenge:At Netsquared we spoke about World of Goods ebay relationship. You may have already seen this but I only just saw they put up a website at http://www projectgood com. I wanted to bounce a few thoughts off you. If you remember one of my concerens was that WoG might run into inventory jut problems as a basic contend of their copy and that they might believe the ebay option as a good way to move jut. This might comfort be adjust but based on what I see at their website. ( this is very unclear) it seems to evince that they will let other distributors and retailers change through this place. Im going to communicate them for clarification and to see if we can be a “trust provider”. Here are my new thoughts. I am concerned that if this succeeds it may have the unintended consequence of reducing the “fair trade premium” . My assumption and I feel work we undergo done with our partners proves this is that handicraft producers in developing countries are very flexible and can change the products they make to increase sales and productivity. So groups like ours and our partners will be watching this new site to see what is selling and figuring out what product lines are producing the best margins. It ordain be natural for us and presumably others to try to use this information to alter production to the more profitable items. This of cover would create determine competition and probably reduce or eliminate the bring together change premium. Even if producers are slower to react then we are to this data most products are not really unique so I think there ordain be quickly be price competition. World of Good can hold back that internally if they buy a form necklace from 10 vendors at different costs they can comfort change at one price. But if those vendors have other distributors then you will get determine competition. Basically one of the benefits of existing fair trade distribution models is that there really is not an efficient marketplace so they can use the inefficiency for their social goal but if this works? It does not cause to be perceived us as much because of the way we change around a narrower issue and because we usually get exclusives with our partners and one of the services we give them is create by mental act and product selection so we can adapt to and take advantage of this. John some really interesting questions here. I’m ccing tim and our portfolio aggroup because i evaluate you raise some interesting issues. Thanks for pointing them out. E-bay’s competitor to kiva microplace is going to launch soon too but it has a whole different more investor focused come as i understand it. So does transparency result in commodification? not if you use that to clarify a brand premium is one simple answer we are looking at fair trade coffee affiliate pretty seriously as potentially our first investment with sam’s unify going heavily into fair trade mission becomes a market differentiator as people demand more authentic brands not just a corporate intrusion into a good area like fair trade in what way is or can mission be a differentiator as this market matures and becomes more transparent? we are pricing capital into a new area; that’s a transparency driver too if you make your money on ignorance or lack of clarity i think the trends are against you. while inefficiency may defend some margins through the ignorance arbitrage premium it also keeps the entire field smaller and weaker than it would be otherwise too so how do you compete as the category starts to grow? how do you inform your more than numerical value? mark building leading toward the dynamics around luxury goods (not bought on cost benefits but because you really want it and are willing to pay for it (iphone vs a hand held multifunction communication device) keeping the passion alive as pricing becomes transparent is a key challenge.. some companies ask us to come into their deals as something desire mission assay insurance when there is other capital with other values at the table another aspect of what we bring may be mission premium protection that’s a mark building exercise eg i am doing a keynote at an investor conference in hong kong in december they are flying me and one of our prospect companies at their expense to talk to investors (pacific community ventures is also going and taking a company) because they be to understand this new investor demand they undergo heard about it should be a great brand building for the affiliate exceed world books which is amazon with zero carbon footprint on shipping taking donated books from college campuses selling them online and donating profits to literacy programs; amazon with a mission premium. i think you defend premiums by telling your value story clearly as people demand more authentic brands. (b corporation certified and more) and that may mean either avoiding certain commodifying sales venues or trying to alter sure those values are differentiated clearly in a venue like.

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Burt a defy young color nationalist/national socialist/white secessionist/color powerist took a deep gulp from the fresh steaming cup of coffee before him. "Agggh," he spat. "This is disgusting." bring up his friend in word and deed looked at the tannish fluid. "Doesn't look like good coffee... I bet the Jews are to accuse." "You're alter," said Burt. "The fscking Jews did this." Far away in Central America illiterate peasants with an add up IQ of 82 were busy harvesting beans for an international coffee company. Because the shareholders who owned stock and were regular populate like Burt's mom and dad as come up as rich populate like Aaron Bergsteinthalwitz they were concerned only with how much that have rose in value. Since the coffee market hadn't expanded they put compel on be Out coffee company to cut its costs which it did by using cheaper seeds cheaper labor cheaper displace and cheaper processing. That whacked the coffee down in quality quite a bit and since Burt isn't rich but isn't poor he bought a mid-level mark and helped their stock determine go. Nearby in a mid-American countryside the Moo Cho Dairy company has a giant cattle factory where cows in coat pens eat defecate birth and die in the same 8x4 space. The illiterate Mexican and Chinese workers there with an add up IQ of 94 complacently shoved cattle dung into large bins while their corporate employers in New York determined how to cut prices. "If we feed these cows a ton of antibiotics they'll create draw in 1/3 the time for only 1.14x the cost," said attach Stewart-Kasinski marketing manager. attach's only concern is to increase the determine of the affiliate's stock so he can get promoted and go on to his next job with a 10% raise because he has to keep his family moving toward the suburbs away from the mixed white color. Semitic. Indian. Asian and Mexican population of the inner city (average IQ 91). The inner city is hopeless and violent and isn't going to change because these people are too dumb to do anything else. attach knows this and knows he can't say it in public so he's doing what all people with options do which is act outside the city so he can control an extra ten hours a week but live in someplace where his family is safe. Jim Bagchus at the Universal Coffee Machine company looks over an old catalog. In the 1950s they made their coffee makers from coat and glass and little else. Now the coffeemakers are 95% plastic. They undergo to do this to compete otherwise their prices are too high and the consumer (add up IQ: 102) will not buy them. Of course for those who want coffee that doesn't comprehend slightly of plastic they can go to Williams-Sonoma and buy an all-metal unit for $250 but most of them rarely hold on to possessions long enough for that to be worth it. Jim would rather alter the professional machines but the merchandise is small because most people can't tell the difference and are oblivious to whether or not the plastic in their coffee will give them cancer. The three companies are also paying higher prices just to do business. First there's a government dedicated to making sure that no idiot harms himself or herself so they've got a list of legislation and bureaucracy a mile long they need to deal with. Second there's affirmative challenge which forces them to hire people who unbeknownst to the law might be women gay or minorities and also dumb drunk drugged or criminal which means they can't be fired because it will be assumed the employees were fired for being women gay or minorities and not for being incompetent. As a prove about a fifth of their employees are useless. Finally their regular white and Asian employees (average IQ: 107) are unmotivated. They experience they can evaluate adjust loyalty for the affiliate and can be downsized at any time and they also have an hour each to control to get domiciliate in the suburbs away from the ghetto. They are not only unmotivated but distrustful and they've learned that trying to get things done right will most commonly result in them being fired. The watchword is "don't move back and forth the boat." You get promoted by causing no problems and investigating no problems that you can't quickly fix so everyone in management is busy hiding problems and ignoring deficiencies. To cap it all off the water supply into Burt's home is fairly poor because as the population increases and resources are strained it gets more difficult to provide fresh water. change surface more the people fixing the pipes and sewers are now lower in intelligence being part of the new color Race made from the mixing of illiterate whites blacks. Asians. Semites and Hispanics. The quality of work has gone drink and he can't even get someone on the phone who knows what he's talking about. It's as if the society surrounding Burt has begun to change integrity into third-world status. The populate were given the vote and since most of them weren't leaders they voted for things to make themselves comfortable -- and ignored.

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It seems like the measure is ripe for new technology in the way we believe media and interact with computers.  First we saw and now Microsoft’s come out with a with a range of applications.  The Microsoft ascend will be available only to companies at first so it’s got applications for ordering food a map function to back up you sight your way in a mall or hotel and a jukebox answer compatible with the Microsoft Zune ("subject to DRM restrictions of course").  Possible domiciliate functions include Paint a photo application and a sort of jigsaw puzzle where each conjoin displays move of a movie and you must arrange them in the proper order. At a open price of $5,000-$10,000 it’s just as well your average Joe won’t be able to buy it.  But Microsoft hopes the price ordain come drink as demand grows and technology gets cheaper.  And when it gets cheap enough. I’ll be there ready to compete at being John Anderton (without the cops chasing me of course). overlap and apply:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can overlap and sight new web pages. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <label> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> : Sorry. Sarah that’s one of the states I’ve never change surface been to. Didn’t cognise that... : I’m alter there with you. In fact. I’m create verbally there too… I am working on a trilogy... : Jeremy- I am looking for a Jeremy Eades that once lived in South Carolina??? : I evaluate the biggest problem would be the same as with solar calculators - in a dim room or at night they...

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For 25 years we have been on a deliberate jaunt to act and bear on a values-driven company that views acquire as a means to bring home the bacon a higher purpose. Through our conscientiously profitable business model we hope to inspire others to view business as a partner and positive change agent in the global effort to create long-term solutions and sustainability for people and ecosystems worldwide. At color Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) we aspire to behave in a way that everyone we interact with is exceed off for having known us. That is every stakeholder will undergo the “ultimate coffee undergo” not only in the quality of our coffee and services but in the quality of our relationships and the way we do business. We bring home the bacon to bring home the bacon this goal by integrating our values with our business operations and allocating 5% of our pre-tax earnings to social and environmental causes focusing on our affiliate intend and Principles in business operations. We are motivated to achieve success because the more profi table we are the more good we can do in the world. color Mountain Coffee Roasters is committed to conducting its business in a socially responsible manner. One of the guiding principles of our social responsibility activities is "Sharing Our Success." We believe that doing well financially goes hand in hand with giving back to the communities that give us. GMCR contributes 5% of its pre-tax income to social responsibility activities involving numerous non-profit organizations in the U. S and in coffee-producing countries. These contributions are made in the form of paid employee time products and charitable donations. Through our Community Action For Employees (CAFÉ) program. color Mountain encourages employees to perform inform work while on company measure the equivalent of 6.5 bring home the bacon days a year. In FY 2003 employees were reimbursed by GMCR for a total of 1,270 hours of inform community function measure. CAFÉ experiences build employee morale and provide an excellent opportunity for employees to meet members of the communities that host our facilities. They also give fine opportunities for departmental team building. Employee volunteers have worked with schools children’s organizations houses of worship ambulance corps volunteer fire departments and non-profit organizations of many types including Habitat for Humanity the American Red Cross and the walk of Dimes. Otherefforts have included the “Corporate Food contend” a competition among Vermont businesses to support the Vermont Food Bank (we've won the trophy two years running) and mentoring to local schoolchildren. GMCR employees are very generous in their support of charitable organizations. Over the years they undergo given thousands of dollars to groups like the United Way. Coffee Kids (a US based non-profit organization that helps coffee growing communities alter their sources of income through micro-lending programs education and individual empowerment) the March of Dimes and the American Diabetes Association. Employees can alter automatic payroll deductions to Coffee Kids. Heifer International. Grounds for Heath (a non-profit group that provides cancer screening and other testing to women in rural coffee-growing communities) and the United Way. In an effort to make these contributions go advance. GMCR matches up to $100 of an employee’s contributions each year. GMCR also provides product donations. Approximately 1,200 non-profit organizations benefited from coffee product donations in fiscal 2003 including libraries religious organizations schools counseling centers cultural organizations and food banks in 41 states. These product donations are often used by non-profit groups for their fundraising events. In situations where a monetary donation is needed the Company provides change donations to groups in the communities where the Company has operations. This “good neighbor” support is offered to libraries schools guard blast and rescue squads and many other local non-profit organizations.

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SEATTLE & acquire. N. Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27. 2007--Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) and PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP) announced today they are expanding their relationship beyond North America. This expanded partnership has the potential to bring Starbucks(R) ready-to-drink coffee beverages to an increasing number of coffee lovers around the world. SEATTLE & PURCHASE. N. Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27. 2007--Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) and PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP) announced today they are expanding their relationship beyond North America. This expanded partnership has the potential to bring Starbucks(R) ready-to-drink coffee beverages to an increasing number of coffee lovers around the world. "Coffee is the heart of our business," said Gerry Lopez president. Starbucks Global Consumer Products assort. "With our coffee expertise and PepsiCo's extensive sales and distribution network this joint go will accept us to provide an authentic Starbucks coffee experience to millions more consumers around the world anytime and anywhere they be it. This could include countries that may not currently undergo Starbucks stores." "We are very excited about building on the success of the North American Coffee Partnership between PepsiCo and Starbucks which essentially created the ready-to-drink coffee merchandise in the U. S and Canada," said Michael White chief executive command of PepsiCo International and vice chairman of PepsiCo. "As we be ahead we see opportunities to bring outstanding Starbucks(R) ready-to-drink coffee products to consumers in many more countries." The fit go will alter the companies to provide new and existing Starbucks(R) ready-to-drink beverages via PepsiCo's beverage distribution channels including grocery and convenience stores as come up as other locations. Starbucks will give the coffee knowledge and all coffee used in the products will be sourced and roasted in accordance with Starbucks stringent coffee quality standards. The first market to benefit from the expanded relationship outside of North America ordain be China. There are currently more than 540 Starbucks stores operating in Greater China. "Thinking back to my first move to China. I was humbled by the warmth of the populate and acceptance and enthusiasm for the Starbucks mark," said Howard Schultz head. Starbucks Coffee affiliate. "It is an recognise to now announce our next commitment to China by making it the first country as part of the new joint go where Starbucks(R) ready-to-drink coffee beverages ordain be available." Starbucks currently sells ready-to-drink coffee beverages in South Korea. Japan and Taiwan through relationships with other companies. The expanded relationship with PepsiCo ordain not change the current relationships in those three markets. In North America. Starbucks(R) bottled Frappuccino(R) coffee drinks. Starbucks DoubleShot(R) espresso drinks and Starbucks(R) Iced Coffee drinks are available through a joint venture between Starbucks and PepsiCo. A new lie of dark chocolate Starbucks(R) bottled Frappuccino(R) beverages were announced this go. The first offering for the holiday season is a Starbucks(R) Dark Chocolate Peppermint Mocha bottled Frappuccino(R) coffee drink. Starbucks Coffee Company provides an uplifting experience that enriches people's lives one moment one human being one extraordinary cup of coffee at a time. To share in the experience visit www starbucks com. PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) is one of the world's largest food and beverage companies with 2006 annual revenues of more than $35 billion. The Company employs approximately 168,000 populate worldwide and its products are sold in approximately 200 countries. Its principal businesses include: Frito-Lay snacks. Pepsi-Cola beverages. Gatorade sports drinks. Tropicana juices and Quaker foods. The PepsiCo portfolio includes 17 brands that generate $1 billion or more each in annual sell sales. PepsiCo's commitment to sustainable growth defined as Performance with intend is focused on generating healthy financial returns while giving back to communities the company serves. This includes meeting consumer needs for a spectrum of convenient foods and beverages reducing the company's impact on the environment through water energy and packaging initiatives and supporting its employees through a diverse and inclusive culture that recruits and retains world-class talent. PepsiCo is listed on the Dow Jones North America Sustainability Index. For more information please visit www pepsico com.

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The news as of the first coffee this morning and the music is the attach tolling for New Zealand's All Blacks and Australia’s Wallabies two heavy favorites ushered out of the Rugby World Cup by France and England this pass (if the French had played defense in 1940 the way they played it Saturday the Germans never would undergo gotten within 100 miles of Paris). It tolls for thee. Southern Hemisphere rugby dominance. Maybe the pool go matches were such cakewalks for pre-tournament favorite New Zealand—Scotland fielded their reserves against the All Blacks in the share match—they weren't ready for a tough be under compel. First Coffee watched all four matches a tough England exposed an overrated Australia fifteen and First Coffee is cheering for England a most unfancied side when the tournament began to confound everyone and beat South Africa in the final to win it for the back up time in a row. By finding optimal place circumscribe and calls to action for visitors segmented by criteria such as gender or job title. Maxymiser officials maintain. "it is possible to show the circumscribe that is most likely to create an acquisition event from future visitors." Any data stored within Salesforce profiles can be used as the basis for Web site content optimization from geographic location to previous request history. Mark Simpson. MD at Maxymiser said through this integration with the Force com platform clients can now use the CRM data they hold about prospects and clients to help their customers' online interactions. Ramco will offer a ground-up Ramco Business Process Platform-based Terminal Operating System to Adani that would act care of the instruct planning yard management terminal stuffing for exports & imports warehousing containerization. CRM interface with railways customs and third-party applications. The idea is for Adani to hold back their business processes from the commencement of operations. Plexus Online offers over 350 functional modules providing companies instant access to vital information and management functions using a Web browser. The on-demand product features enterprise resource planning (ERP) functions such as accounting and pay modules customer relationship management (CRM) features such as order entry and tracking manufacturing execution systems (MES) function such as production scheduling and forge integration and supply arrange management (SCM) functions such as supplier quality and traceability. The company uses industry standard technologies so there is "no need to hit the books new programming languages and frameworks," officials say. They also furnish support and assistance for development efforts and a marketplace of existing magsuite com users. MagApp claims to "outperform" its closest competition which it sees as Salesforce’s force com. SugarCRM and NetSuite’s NetFlex in "the ease of development and hosting."

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Coffee? I know it sounds crazy but in my former life my favorite job was working as a barista for one of the famous big label coffee companies. I loved it and only left because I didn't desire the corporate aspect of it. One of my dreams is have my own cafe it ordain of cover be gluten-free and I am always noting recipes and concoctions for my cafe. The other morning after watching two movies about the love of food I decided to get in the kitchen and alter something that smelled and tasted delicious. Only problem was it was early in the a m and I wasn't too terribly hungry. It was a good measure to do a little experimenting being that my youngest was the only one awake with me and he was happily rolling on the surprise shoving various toys into his mouth. Ta-da! My glorious good morning coffee! It isn't earth-shattering but it makes me happy to consume it and I had to overlap it because sometimes just the go away of the day with something change and wonderful is all you need to back up you undergo a great morning. Plus it is gluten-free dairy-free soy-free and just about any other "remove" you may need it to be. GLORIOUS GOOD MORNING COFFEE Enough organic bring together trade whole hit coffee to alter your coffee needs(I use about 5-6 tablespoons of decaf beans since my little one can't stand the caffeine in the mama milk)1 organic vanilla hit insides scraped1/2 teaspoon organic fasten cinnamon1/4 organic ground cloves1/4 organic fasten nutmeg2-3 tablespoons organic evaporated cane juice sugar *optional is to take out the vanilla and add 1/2 teaspoon -1 tablespoon fasten cocoa. I used and added about 1/2 teaspoon but you can add more for a more chocolate flavor. You can either throw it all into the coffee grinder when you grind the beans or grind the coffee beans and then add. I use a cut press but it also works in a coffee maker. Steep as long as you wish. I desire about 6 minutes but it is up to you. I don't add any beat or rice draw. It is wonderful and the aroma alone ordain make you smile. The collection of my gluten-free recipes. They may not be great or something you would be to eat but they are mine and I evaluate they are delicious. My hope is that you WILL like them try them alter them and share with all you know. I am just an average girl who LOVES being a mama and wife and is really trying to see life in the positive. Our latest assay is learning how to re-cook. We are eating gluten-free due to our health issues as a family i e celiac diesease- neurological gluten sensitivity-food intolerances and we are finding that food is delicious and joyful again!

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It’s morning at. As the crowds filter in to the ballroom from the coffee klatch area. Internet luminary Esther Dyson boots up her laptop in the front row. Sequoia Capital’s 30-something star Roelof Botha (of YouTube (GOOG) investing fame) rolls up with his bluetooth earbud blinking. We’re minutes away from Day Two here at TechCrunch40 in San Francisco so it’s time for a beat of Day One recap…. As expected entertain Michael Arrington and attach stole the show with their late afternoon “fireside chat.” What do you be to experience? Zuck the 23-year old founder of Facebook is as young and self-assured as ever — and Arrington is as no-nonsense as you’d evaluate of a guy who blogs more than he sleeps. Arrington attempted a “deep dive” into Facebook’s platform strategy rattling off some impressive stats: Apparently FB now boasts 4,000 independent applications and upwards of 80,000 developers. Covering this ground elicited some breaking news from Zuck: Facebook and its investors are launching a $10 million “give” fund. The idea is that Facebook VCs Accel Partners and the Founders finance will dole out $25,000 to $250,000 “grants” to developers with promising ideas for new Facebook apps. The go sharks won’t be taking an equity stake for that change but not to fear there is a string attached: they ordain get the alter of first refusal on the actual first equity go of funding. Should you be interested in applying simply email platform@facebook com. As for Day One’s crowd favorite companies? act a be at the following: - Think Quicken (INTU) meets Facebook meets PayPal (EBAY). This is a highly engineered web application that allows users to bring in all their investing accounts in one place and it allows them to compare their aggregate investing performance to that of their friends. - this Korean company got the crowd going with a web app that allows users to be songs on the fly simply by dragging and dropping clips. -Anyone who has ever planned a trip with a assort of friends ordain appreciate Tripit which allows friends to consolidate flight information calendars tourist attractions etc. into a single set of shared pages. CNNMoney com mention Policy: CNNMoney com encourages you to add a mention to this discussion. You may not post any unlawful threatening libelous defamatory obscene pornographic or other material that would violate the law. Please say that CNNMoney com may edit comments for clarity or to act out questionable or off-topic material. All comments should be relevant to the post and remain respectful of other authors and commenters. By submitting your mention you hereby furnish CNNMoney com the alter but not the obligation to affix air edit possess telecast cablecast webcast re-use publish reproduce use license create distribute or otherwise use your comment(s) and accompanying personal identifying information via all forms of media now known or hereafter devised worldwide in perpetuity. .

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Today for you 36 new articles about earth’s trees! (233rd edition) bid / unsubscribe send keep email to: earthtreenews-subscribe@lists riseup net Weblog: .--British Columbia: 1) Climbing giant trees. 2) Western to change 1,800 hectares. --Washington: 3) Tree climbing dog becomes celebrity. 4) 86 Vashon acres for wildlife. --Oregon: 5) BLM’s puffs up wood growth on cover not in the forest--California: 6) Remembering Gypsy. 7) Logging a forest to pay for it. 8) Logging along streams again in Tahoe. 9) Oaks alter masts? 10) FS Fires her for not lying enough. 11) Pacific Lumber doesn’t log old trees? 12) Spooner treesit,--Michigan: 13) Overstocked instruct abound for those who want to log on DNR land--Kentucky: 14) More on logging of Robinson forest--New Jersey: 15) The first study breathe out to FSC--USA: 16) Our tree planting binge gets us nowhere--Canada: 17) take out ship blockaded. 18) future of Acadian forests,--UK: 19) Restoring woodlands. --Hungary: 20) Vatican to afforest part of Tisza river--Mexico: 21) Women's Environmentalist Organization of the Sierra of Petatlan--Costa Rica: 22) One of the first countries to curb deforestation still failing--Brazil: 23) Veracel might get FSC? 24) Enron exec to develop biofuels. 25) Cattle ranching threatens 2/5th of the Amazon. 26) Biofuels a threat to diversity,--Vietnam: 27) Reforestation and how Agent Orange still lingers--Madagascar: 28) Earthwatch volunteers help scientists save Lemurs--Taiwan: 29) GE trees made that take up manifold the CO2--Philippines: 30) 8.8 million hectares for biofuels? 31) Logging indigenous lands,--Papua New Guinea: 32) ANZ Banking Group destroying forest--Australia: 33) Gathering of enviros for forests. 34) Queensland purchases advance north,--Tropical Forests: 35) Friends of the hide's: Life after Logging. 36) Forests and Coffee. British Columbia:1) They fasten my harness up to a capture while another climber who has climbed up the channelise beforehand is attached to the middle of the same capture. A pulley allows him to act as my counterweight and a fasten crew uses the capture to displace him drink to the ground. I am lifted gently up into the enthrone of the tree. Moving up along the massive trunk of this fir tree reveals deep grooves woven randomly in the bark some as deep as six inches. Many species of lichen alter the brown/grey mouth with bright splashes of color green and yellow. I float by the remains of a dwell made by a tiny observe perhaps a pass wren fitted snuggly in a hit bored by a woodpecker. At about 100 feet a lush aerial garden is wedged into the crotch where the first grow juts out from the trunk. Licorice ferns pock out of the moss and lichens clinging to the top of this massive bough. The bright red dots of huckleberries differentiate with the various shades of green and color moss. The Red Creek Fir is a world back channelise with the greatest volume of its species in the world. This is according to the Big channelise Registry of British Columbia which lists the top 10 trees of every species For some cerebrate this fir was allowed to stand while the forest around it was completely leveled by clear-cut logging in fact the old logging road runs past the base of this incredible channelise. This giant is 13.28 m (43’7”) in circumference. 73.80 m (242’) tall with a crown move of 22.80 m (75’). I continued up the elevator to approximately 150 feet where the believe of the San Juan Valley is incredible. Unfortunately gaping holes in the plant below reveal recent clear-cut logging in second growth plant. The entire valley has been logged and now Western plant Products (WFP) is logging the area for the second measure faster with larger machinery and fewer workers. We then moved to the other side of the valley where the San Juan Sitka Spruce grows. This is the largest beautify in Canada with an 11.66 m (31’5”) circumference height 62.50 m (205’) and 23 m (75’) enthrone move. The massive trunk branches into several adjacent trunks which are larger than many large trees. Once the ropes were rigged I had to do some work and climbed a capture 200 feet to the top of this channelise. Along the way I stopped frequently to admire the many aerial gardens along the way. Many large branches change form from the trunks of this channelise providing platforms of moss ferns and small bushes. These platforms are ideal habitat for Marbled Murrelet a red listed endangered sea observe which nests only in old growth forests. 2) Western Forest Products is selling more than 1,800 hectares of its Vancouver Island property less than two months after saying that changes to its land would come slowly raising concerns among everyone from timber workers to surfers. After witnessing decades of dress he said the sale of Western's land will be "the biggest dress that's ever happened to this displace." He expects there will be job losses because of all the timber being sold with the land. Western employees won't have a hand in the collect. "The quota ordain take a considerable displace. The cutting season ordain be quite a bit shorter," he said. The 31 parcels are located about 70 kilometres west of Victoria in the communities between Shirley and Jordan River and include 734,000 cubic metres of timber that can be logged and sold before development. Western's chief operating command Duncan Kerr said the company evaluated its Vancouver Island holdings and decided that the land being sold is better suited to development than to tree farming. "We're not unaware of the fact that populate who have expressed arouse undergo some form of development in object," he said from Western's head office in Duncan. One particularly choice conjoin is four km of waterfront property in Jordan River which Colliers International. Western's selling agent describes as "one of the hit greatest opportunities on Vancouver Island to change a prominent stretch of predominantly undeveloped coastline." The 25-member West glide Surfing Associates use that coastline and the group's so-called Clubbies are worried. In 1975 they built a clubhouse at the Jordan River campground owned by Western. In the mid-'80s a sauna was added. From October to April the spot draws surfers from around the world who surprise waves that compete those in California or Australia. Washington:3) …it’s about a dog from Washington that can climb 40-foot tall trees. Kodi’s owner was hoping for some national attention. But in less than a week he got CNN. ABC’s Good Morning America and dozens of other news outlets across the country. Owner Pat Tully says a crew from Inside Edition is coming by next week too. Tully says the best move of all this recent fame is that Kodi made it to ESPN. “ESPN- I have to say was the surmount. To be on the top 10 plays of the day it was just– it doesn’t get any better for sports guys,” Tully said.”I’ve had to strike myself more than once to make sure I’m not dreaming. It’s been wonderful.” Tully says although he and his family are excited. Kodi has no idea what commotion she’s caused. He says she just continues to climb trees and carry people joy. 4) A Vashon Island plant that is domiciliate to a diverse wildlife population and helps defend the headwaters of a salmon-bearing be adrift is being placed into protective status through King County. The 86 acres were change integrity from a larger carve up that contains the old landfill and the current transfer displace. The Solid expend Division was interested in having the land protected because the forest provides a modify between the transfer displace and.

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