Coffee hits 13-year high; retail prices also up
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Coffee prices hit a 13-year high Wednesday, extending a rally that has sent prices up about 43 percent in the past three months. Sen. Charles Schumer , D-N.Y., says he wants U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to warn some major coffee growers in Brazil and Vietnam not to stockpile their crops. He said that could boost coffee futures contracts even more.
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:50:48 AM
Study Shows Coffee Drinkers Could Have Lower Blood Pressure
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A new report given before the European Society of Cardiology Congress suggests that drinking coffee could help older people who suffer from high blood pressure. According to lead researcher Christina Chrysohoou of the University of Athens in Greece, older people who drink one to two cups of coffee a day elastic blood vessels than those who drink less or more. For the study, Chrysohoou and her team examined 485 Greek men and women between the ages of 65 and 100. They found that 56 percent of the group drank one or two cups of coffee a day and that the...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:50:48 AM
Food And Drink Prices To Soar
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Food And Drink Prices To Soar By Addison Wiggin 08/30/10 Baltimore, Maryland – Today’s report begins with an abominable horror: The world’s most valuable commodity has soared to its highest price in a generation. Coffee futures are approaching a 13-year high of $1.88 today. And the case for more expensive coffee is growing stronger every week: Columbia had a smaller-than-normal harvest last year, and dry conditions in Brazil this year have pinched supply even tighter. Demand for this delicious, addictive stimulant is (naturally) growing. Thus, stockpiles at Intercontinental Exchange-certified warehouses are down 35% this year and swill makers like Maxwell...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:50:48 AM
Art fixture creates a buzz in Waterloo
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There’s an unusual art display in Waterloo’s Public Square. Thousands of coffee-filled cups have been carefully arranged to recreate an iconic image – King Tut’s mask. It took seven hours for artists and volunteers to put together the mosaic.
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:50:48 AM
Mystic Monks Prepare to Build
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Perhaps you've seen the rotating ads on CMR promoting the Mystic Monk coffee. Well, they do more than roast beans. They are a newly-founded energetic community of contemplative Carmelites known as the Monks of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel who are serious about what they do: "strict monastic enclosure, two hours of contemplative prayer daily, study and spiritual reading, and manual labor." While the community is currently still small (under 20) they are being inundated with vocation inquiries and are planning to build a new monastery on a striking site in Wyoming to be known as the...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:50:48 AM
Iran's Oil Mafia (pro-regime Iranian lobby in U.S.)
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Iran's Oil Mafia April 16, 2007 Frontpagemagazine.com Hassan Daioleslam Robert William (Bob) Ney is a current federal prisoner and a former Ohio Congressman from 1995 until November 3, 2006. Ney pled guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Jack Abramoff lobbying and bribery scandal. Ney reportedly received bribes from Abramoff, other lobbyists, and two foreign businessmen - a felon and an arms dealer - in exchange for using his position to advance their interests. Conspicuously missing from this dossier of disservice to the country was Ney’s assistance in the creation of a Washington-based lobbying...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:50:48 AM
Bikini baristas brewing controversy at Wash. coffee stand
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NORTH SPOKANE-- Bikini Baristas in North Spokane are at the center of a clothing controversy. Some locals claim the outfits at Big Shots Espresso at Lidgerwood and Francis have crossed the line. The girls say they’re just trying to have fun at work. In fact, they were comfortable enough to let KREM 2 News videotape them at work. The owner says the girls make up to $19 an hour. But not everyone likes it. One woman says she found it shocking to see the ladies out dressed like “porn stars” and “prostitutes” trying to sell coffee. The baristas say they’ve...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:50:48 AM
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