We have all probably heard about the challenges and problems with plastics breaking down from trash in the ocean. Soda and water bottle containers, plastic bags, and other plastic trash and debris that washes out to see, or worse is dumped there. Terrible stuff, and the environmentalists are right about this one, it's totally unacceptable, and yet, that what humans are doing around the planet. The Atlantic and Pacific Gyre "trash islands" as they are called swirl around and around polluting our sea.

Healthy and vibrant economy goes hand in hand with a solid real estate market and Sonoma County is a good example of such an economic phenomenon as it offers a variety of industries and proudly sustains a low unemployment rate. In fact, Sonoma County has consistently had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the entire State of California and its housing market has always been counted among the most stable.

The extinction of the dinosaurs occurred during then end of the Cretaceous Period, around 65 million years ago, and caused the loss of up to 70 percent of all life on the planet. Although this event was not the only mass extinction in Earth's history or the most severe, dinosaur extinction has spawned a range of theories from the credible to the less than believable.

We've all heard horror stories about staying in cheap hotels; bed bugs, nasty clerks, terrible neighborhoods, and dirty towels...or even worse! It's enough to make even a savvy saver think twice about skimping on the cost of nightly accommodations. However, in times like these, when some are thinking twice about taking a vacation at all, Families are wanting to be a little more careful about where their hard earned cash is going.

Why is it so great? Because on Monday night you could be at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, as your camera zooms in for an extreme closeup of Angelina Jolie; on Thursday night, you could be in Washington D.C., televising a political concert at the White House with your camera fixed on a 2 shot of the President and First Lady; on Saturday, you could be in California on a camera crane 100 ft above the 18th hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links with your camera following Tiger Woods as the best golfers in the world compete...and beyond your camera is the incredible beauty of Big Sur and the Pacific Ocean.

Over the years of being in the coffee industry and hanging around "coffee geeks" I've heard just about every form of coffee misinformation and lore known to man. I'm not exactly sure where it all originated, or why for that matter. These myths always gave me a good chuckle, but as of lately I have been encountering these imaginative illusions on a much more frequent basis. I went from having a chuckle, to being slightly annoyed, to downright frustrated. It's time to set the record straight on some of the most commonly circulated coffee myths.

Let's take a quick look and analyze your position in the Supply Chain. You are either the one driving the truck, the one pumping the gas, or the one paying the other two. It does not matter if you are a vendor, supplier, manufacturer, dealer, service supplier or customer, the cost of freight either impacts the amount you charge, the amount you are reimbursed or the price you pay. It is safe to assume that you are the center of the universe for your personal Supply Chain and that suppliers and customers revolve around your business.

The Russians do quite well in Olympic swimming, and if one notices, it is apparent that while some others are huffing and puffing through their mouths, many Russian athletes appear to practice exercises similar to Buteyko exercises before sports performances. Just as eating a bowl of spaghetti 15 minutes before an event would be detrimental, so is increasing the breathing. The Russian Natalia Molchanova has broken almost all categories of freediving records, and it is interesting to watch her breathing before a dive, as well as after a dive.