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Timber still matters to state, Gregoire tells industry execs

Timber still matters to state, Gregoire tells industry execs.
STEVENSON Gov. Chris Gregoire told an audience of 120 Northwest timber industry executives here Thursday that their industry remains a vital part of the Washington economy and will play a key role in the state’s effort to reduce its carbon footprint.

Washington’s forests store a huge amount of carbon, helping to offset carbon dioxide emissions, she said.

‘In the Pacific Northwest, I think we all just take it all for granted,’ she said. ‘If we go to a cap-and-trade system, thank goodness we are as abundant in forests as we are in this state.’

The governor predicted a bright future for the industry, not only as one of the nation’s largest producers of lumber and paper, but as a major supplier of wood fiber for the manufacture of cellulosic biofuels.

Hard Sailing: Boating industry tries to stay afloat in wake of struggling U

Hard Sailing: Boating industry tries to stay afloat in wake of struggling U.S. economy.
Hunter Scott had made sailboats, powerboats and custom-made lobster boats since 1973.

But he decided to close his Pocasset, Mass., shop in December, lay off half of his staff and switch to cabinetry work as orders for the $300,000 vessels all but dried up.

‘I had a lot of fun in the marine industry,’ he said. ‘But the economy has taken its toll.’

Across the country, the $40 billion boating industry - which includes several makers based in North Carolina - is struggling to weather a season of gloomy news.

A triple threat of falling consumer confidence, rising gas prices and the nation”s economic downturn has pummeled the industry, changing the boating habits of recreational skippers while forcing layoffs, plant closings and corporate reorganizations the likes of which haven”t been seen in nearly 20 years.

A bit about the structure of the Air Freight Industry

A bit about the structure of the Air Freight Industry.

The air freight industry consists of a number of different commercial organisations who provide shippers with through freight services. Such organisations can be found mainly in the private sector and operate in a very highly competitive market. Now lets look at what the air freight industry structure is made up of.

1. Airports
These will generally act as landlords and infrastructure providers. They will charge air freight services landing fees and stand rentals (parking fees), cargo transit sheds along with air craft maintenance workshops. Many air freight companies will now have their own section of the airports that is specifically dedicated to their company requirements and will have a specialist team that is dedicated to dealing with all matters relating to customs etc in order to move goods quickly and efficiently.

2. Airlines
These are the suppliers of air cargo capacity into and out of the UK and are either scheduled operators, charter operator, freight operators or integrated carriers. The air freight operators are those operators who operate freight only aircraft (so do not take passengers).

3. Air Freight Forwarders
They provide a service to shippers and importers which originally involved receiving a consignment of freight and then arranging its routing, transportation, handling and documentation to either the final receiver or another foreign airport. The role of this service has developed over the last few years and the largest forwarders are now describing themselves as logistic providers instead.

4. General Sales Agents
These are normally appointed by some of the airlines (either scheduled or charter) and their job is to sell air freight capacity on behalf of the clients and this allows airlines to avoid the high costs related to sales and marketing.

5. Transit Shed Operators
They will provide a transit handling service to air freight companys and freight forwarders and the sole function is to receive cargo from aircraft then to de-palletise and deliver to a truck or vice versas to put it into a transit shed whilst it awaits customs clearance.

Hopefully the information tha thas been provided above will give you a better understanding of what exactly the air freight industry is and how it works in order to make sure all goods sent by this method arrive safely and quickly at their destinations.

Do You Need a License? Regulated Industries

Do You Need a License? Regulated Industries.

I once knew a guy whose great idea for a “home business” was to run poker tournaments from his house. Needless to say, that didn”t last long once the police heard about it.

If you think you”ve got an idea that”s going to make you big money, there might be a reason why everyone else isn”t doing it - and that reason could be related to the law. Many types of businesses are strictly regulated and controlled by governments.

Gambling.

However fun and profitable it might be to put fruit machines in your house, run a mini card casino or just invite the local old people over to play bingo, it”s almost certainly illegal without a license. Gambling is an industry that”s almost always strictly controlled - it might be fine to gamble privately with your friends (or, depending on where you live, it might not be), but as soon as you start running it as a business you”re on very dodgy ground. You”ll also find that most places have laws against for-profit lotteries - sorry. Applying for a license to turn your home into a gambling premises is unlikely to succeed. If you wonder why, consider what would happen if people in your area could do that. It wouldn”t be pretty.

Alcohol.

Yes, it seems odd to some people that you need a license to serve alcohol - after all, you can invite people round to your own house for a drink perfectly legally, can”t you? As soon as you start charging them for those drinks, though, the nature of what you”re doing changes drastically in the eyes of the law, and you”re going to need a license. If you don”t get one, then you could be heading off to jail for quite a while.

Again, you”re going to have trouble getting an alcohol license for your home, unless you”re holding some kind of event there and the drinking is just incidental. Alcohol licenses are usually subject to appeals from people who live near the premises being considered, and you can guarantee that your whole neighbourhood is going to turn out to say what a bad idea it would be.

Medics.

If you plan to do anything medical, then you”ll probably need a license. When I say medical, I mean doctors, dentists, opticians, and even vets. You might think it”d be fine to turn your home into an “animal hospital”, but you need to be qualified and licensed. Of course, if you”ve previously been a doctor, dentist, or whatever, then you shouldn”t have too much trouble getting licensed to do the same thing from home.

Children.

People get jumpy around children, and you”re very unlikely to be able to look after any as part of your business without jumping through all sorts of hoops. Just to be a nanny, there are all sorts of courses to take and regular inspections to go through. If you ever wonder why there”s a shortage of small-scale childcare, it”s because it”s so hard to keep within the rules while making any profit.

Food.

If you”re going to sell food, you usually need to register, for hygiene and safety reasons - imagine if just anyone could sell you food, without any checks! For various reasons most local government agencies are especially strict if you plan to handle raw meat. It”s usually fine to sell cooked meat, but raw meat is considered more dangerous. Food licenses aren”t too hard to get, anyway, provided you have a relevant hygiene qualification and you”re willing to have your kitchen and products inspected at regular intervals.

More.

This list is nowhere near exhaustive - it just covers some of the most common kinds of businesses that people think of. If you”re planning to do something more unusual, then you really need to check your local laws.

Should I Bother?

Most home business owners don”t know about the rules that apply to them, and don”t especially care either. Every day you operate in a regulated industry without a license, though, you risk being shut down, or worse. It”s only going to take one upset customer or neighbour to get you into big trouble - so unless you want to be worrying all the time, make sure you”re properly licensed for whatever you want to do.

Khurram Sheikh of Powerwave Technologies to Participate in “”Evolution of the Mobile Phone and

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Will DRM Save the Record Industry?

Will DRM Save the Record Industry?.

Without a doubt the single most influential agent of change in business trends in the last ten to twenty years has been the internet. There is virtually no business segment or market that has gone unchanged by this powerful force. But of all of the various businesses impacted by cyberspace, the music industry has to the one that has seen the most dramatic change and the greatest challenge to keep up, adapt and survive an onslaught of change unprecedented in its history.

The first major challenge that cyberspace brought to the music business was a complete shift to how music would be sold to music fans worldwide. In what can only be described as an avalanche, the music buying public virtually abandoned conventional record stores and retail outlets and took the majority of their music purchasing business online. But this mass influx of business could not be tracked to any one web site that was executing the revolution. Because of a revolution in how bands and Indie record labels do business online, the music audience followed and began buying their CDs and even concert tickets directly from artists or record labels online and getting those products instantly via downloads.

But as drastic as the market changes this paradigm shift in consumer behavior represented, it was nothing compared to what the internet had in store for the music world. The next wave of change represented a threat to the music business so serious that it had the potential of putting the music industry out of business forever. When music consumers began to share digital music electronically over the internet using file sharing software such as Kazaa, Limeware and BitTorrent, suddenly it was possible for a music customer to access all the music they wanted for free by simply downloading this music from another internet user”s computer.

The plummet in music sales as result of these two forces was drastic and traumatic to the music world in general. At first, the music business executives were at a loss of exactly how to go about stopping the widespread file-sharing phenomenon. They tried to shut down the software services that provided the networks to users with lawsuits and other punitive actions. These litigations took a long time and cost a huge amount of money and all the while the flood of free music going out over the internet continued to increase. Worse of all, when they did slow down one file sharing network, it seemed many more cropped up to replace it which began to look like a nightmare scenario of constant lawsuits against a never-ending and constantly growing enemy.

Public pleas to the music loving public were another attempt to appeal to the conscience of the music world that if artists could not get paid, there would be no more new music. But the opposite seemed to be the case. As more and more Indie musicians began to capitalize on file sharing and using it as a method of marketing, the quantity and quality of good music only seemed to increase in this new music marketplace.

The final attempt seemed to be this technology called DRM. DRM is a digital ‘lock’ that would be required to go on every piece of music released on the internet. Music with DRM would not be playable except to customers who had a legal right to use it. At first, this seemed like a viable solution. But even DRM didn”t stop the flood of lost revenue through file sharing. And hackers seemed more than happy to learn to undo any technical locks the music industry could come up with.

So as we move into the last half of the first decade of this century, the music industry is learning to work with this new music marketplace rather than fight it. And by learning lessons from the Indie labels and how to serve customers in a digital world, there seems to be a new solution on the way but one that is dictated on the customer”s terms rather on the terms of the big music labels. Somehow, that seems like it is the way it should have been all along.