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Canadian E-Waste Group Crosses Border With New Depots

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market with the goal of making technology more accessible to those in need. The group is focusing its rollout on two of the country’s largest tech hotbeds—Seattle and Silicon Valley. market was in need of a similar service and that it was a dream of his to make the expansion. So why make the move into the U.S.?

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Florist Society’s Solution to Stress: A Little Flower Power

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The Society of American Florists is embracing its product’s ties to ‘60s hippie culture in a new chill-out marketing campaign. The Society of American Florists has a message for America: “Flower power” is back in style. The tour plans stops along the West Coast, including Portland, Oregon, and Seattle.

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Why Tech Marks the Spot When it Comes to Meeting Planning

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Northern neighbor to Silicon Valley and Seattle, Vancouver has also earned a reputation as a tech hub. Last year, Vancouver was ranked the top convention city in Canada and second in North America in Watkins Research Group’s biennial Meeting and Convention Planners Survey. Case in Point: Vancouver.

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Booksellers Association: Membership Grows as Indie Stores Expand Reach

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Teicher admits, however, that the pressure of increased minimum wages in some parts of the country, such as Seattle , are putting pressure on what has traditionally been a low-margin industry. ” Rising real-estate prices in urban markets are adding to the industry’s challenges. It puts us in a peculiar position.”

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The Highs and Lows of Per Diem Rates

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per day topped the charts in America, according to the ranking, while London’s $553.58 in particular, where rates decreased in just 11 of the top 100 markets, according to the index. And those cities that do cost significantly more than average—San Francisco’s $547.34

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Alpaca Association Works to Discourage Get-Rich-Quick Schemes

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“I honestly believe that what may have happened in that ranch in Oregon is that it started off with the best of intentions and then things got out of hand,” Pacific Northwest Alpaca Association President Chris Sturgeon told The Seattle Times in March. Shifting Its Strategy.

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What Smart Associations Do Differently

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The economy, financial markets and labor market are greatly improved (see chart below). Seattle Seahawks. Stock Market #. ” Hillary Levitz , an online marketing specialist at Naylor, agreed with Donovan that a mobile site it a must have. The world’s geography and climate has been changing before our eyes.

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