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...most properties, the value of a birdhouse depends on three factors: location, location, location. Before building one, advises Kok, you must survey the skies for a regular passage of swiftlets. Once constructed - a three-story birdhouse with room for about 40,000 nests costs roughly $100,000 - you must attract tenants. The maker of the Swiftlet Bazooka Tweeter claims it can broadcast "love calls" to birds flying up to a mile away. Humidifiers keep the interior of the house attractively damp like the caves swiftlets prefer. And don't forget your feces powder: bird droppings mixed with ammonium bicarbonate which...
...Even if you build it, they don't always come. Up to two-thirds of birdhouses fail to attract a self-supporting colony of birds, estimates Kok. "We don't really understand them," he says. "They are wild animals. We find that they like to stay in dark areas. But at one hotel in Malacca they are nesting in bright light." Lucky producers can harvest two to four pounds of nests a month, worth up to $500 per pound ($1,100 per kg). Middlemen are buying up all the nests they can source, usually as quietly as possible. "They come...
...Business School has significantly increased its marketing for the 2+2 program, particularly for students in subjects not typically associated with business education. During the past year, the admissions office gave presentations at 58 colleges around the country in an effort to attract students with backgrounds such as science, engineering, and non-profit organizations...
...problem with Libertarians is that they don’t politick. They lecture. Discourses on monetary policy attract audiences, but those audiences consist of other Libertarians. To recruit more troops, conservatives of all stripes must retool their rhetoric. They have a right to be angry—spending is out of control—but in politics you don’t get angry, you get even. You get elected. And to get elected you use humor, to show you’re even-keeled...
...Takarazuka actresses - there are about 400 in five troupes - have been leaving audiences speechless with these marvelous and at the same time overwhelming works for 95 years. Founded in the town of the same name - by Ichizo Kobayashi, a locally born railway magnate who thought that lively entertainment would attract more tourists and thus increase rail traffic - the theater group now averages about 10 major productions a year, each with a lead time of about eight months. Faced with shrinking audiences and increased competition from all forms of digital entertainment, its producers are trying to make the shows more dazzling...