Archive for October, 2006

Africa: New Film on the Plights of Ethiopian Coffee Growers is … - AllAfrica.com

Posted in Coffee Info on October 31st, 2006

Aroma of success surrounds tsunami survivor&’s coffee shop - Reuters AlertNet

Aroma of success surrounds tsunami survivor&’s coffee shop
Reuters AlertNet, UK - 13 hours ago
Maryam Pahang&’s coffee shop is busy. It&’s the lunch the customers. But it&’s not just the coffee the locals come here to enjoy. It&’s

Delocator Anticorp Coffee Location Locatin&’ Locator - Gridskipper

Delocator Anticorp Coffee Location Locatin&’ Locator
Gridskipper, NY - 2 hours ago
Delocator is an anti-corporate coffee shop finder, specifically meant to counter the influence of everyone&’s favorite punching bag, Starbucks (and other
Parisian Coffee? Starbucks, Naturellement Gridskipper
Places Not To Get Lattes: Union Square Starbucks Gridskipper
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Oregon woman sues hospital for ingesting coffee pot cleanser - Seattle Times


Mail Tribune
Oregon woman sues hospital for ingesting coffee pot cleanser
Seattle Times, United States - 19 hours ago
An Eagle Point woman who ingested coffee pot cleaner at Rogue Her lawsuit claims the coffee pot cleaner burned her throat, esophagus, mouth and stomach.
Issue of safety Mail Tribune
Eagle Point woman sues hospital for ingesting coffee pot cleanser OregonLive.com
Woman drinks chemical, sues hospital The Register-Guard
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Coffee quality drops off alarmingly - Viet Nam News


Viet Nam News
Coffee quality drops off alarmingly
Viet Nam News, Vietnam - 3 hours ago
HA NOI €” Coffee quality is becoming a hot issue after a Viet Nam Coffee and Cocoa Association (VICOFA) representative revealed a staggering increase in

Africa: New Film on the Plights of Ethiopian Coffee Growers is … - AllAfrica.com

Africa: New Film on the Plights of Ethiopian Coffee Growers is
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 21 hours ago
The subject of this documentary are the unfair profits that coffee growers in Ethiopia get in relation to to the huge profits multinationals like Nestle
East Africa: UK Film Criticises &’Big Four&’ of World Coffee AllAfrica.com
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Ethiopia: Ethiopia, Starbucks At Loggerheads Over Coffee Trademarks (AllAfrica.com)

Posted in Coffee Info on October 31st, 2006

Oregon woman sues hospital for ingesting coffee pot cleanser (Seattle Times)
An Eagle Point woman who ingested coffee pot cleaner at Rogue Valley Medical Center is suing the medical center, saying she wants people to know they aren’t always safe in a hospital.

Drinking Coffee May Lower Diabetes Risk (WIFR-TV Rockford)
Drinking coffee may help protect you against Diabetes. That’s the conclusion of a medical study published in “Diabetes Care” Journal.

East Africa: UK Film Criticises ‘Big Four’ of World Coffee (AllAfrica.com)
A low budget film about the iniquities of the international coffee trade in East Africa has put the big multinational companies involved in the trade on the defensive.

Three cups of coffee a day can hit men’s sperm counts (China Daily)
Most of you may be addicted to your morning cuppa coffee, but a new study has revealed that your favorite brew may reduce your ability to father normal children.

Ethiopia: Ethiopia, Starbucks At Loggerheads Over Coffee Trademarks (AllAfrica.com)
The Ministry of foreign affairs yesterday accused Starbuks, a US global coffee giant of blocking Ethiopia’s trademark specialty coffee names that could have generated estimated annual revenue of $ 88 million to the country.

Take-Two dealt setback with Hot Coffee lawsuit (Ars Technica)

Posted in Coffee Info on October 30th, 2006

Lunch at Montevallo€™s Eclipse Coffee and Books (The Shelby County Reporter)
Lunch at the Eclipse Coffee & Books is a real Montevallo €ścommunity experience.€ť We meet there often for a good soup-salad-sandwich lunch seated on the wonderful front porch overlooking Main Street.

Italy University of Coffee to open centre in Bangalore (Deccan Herald)
University of Coffee, a centre of excellence established in Italy, to spread the Italian Coffee Culture internationally, will be opening its Extension Centre in Bangalore to offer courses in basics and advanced technology to Coffee growers in India, according to illycaffe Chairman Dr Andres Illy. Talking to UNI, after distribution of the fourth ‘India Coffee Quality’ awards here, he said, ‘’The

Basque pastries, custom coffee in cowboy country (Billings Gazette)
MILES CITY - Tucked away just off the main street in downtown Miles City, there awaits some baked Basque pastries and a great cup of freshly roasted, freshly ground and freshly brewed coffee.

Coffee shop owners grounded in history (River Valley Business Report)
Todd Ondell has given the same drive and energy to being chairman of the La Crosse Sesquicentennial Committee as he has running the successful business €” Grounded Specialty Coffee €” he and his wife, Deb, own and operate together in downtown La Crosse.

Take-Two dealt setback with Hot Coffee lawsuit (Ars Technica)
Take-Two is still dealing from the fallout from the ill-conceived Hot Coffee action in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. A recent ruling may result in the developers facing a class-action lawsuit.

Rock icons duke it out in coffee table tomes - Vancouver Sun (subscription)

Posted in Coffee Info on October 30th, 2006

The coffee clash between Ethiopia and Starbucks explained - Time Canada

The coffee clash between Ethiopia and Starbucks explained
Time Canada, Canada - 11 hours ago
The coffee chain has said it is against Ethiopia&’s trademark initiative, arguing it will actually harm poor farmers more than help them, but it denies Oxfam&’s
The real price of coffee Belfast Telegraph
Starbucks in Ethiopia coffee row BBC News
Oxfam Accuses Starbucks Of Blocking Ethiopian Coffee Trademarks All Headline News
Infoshop News - UNPO
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Landmarks and Coffee Spoons - SportingNews.com

Landmarks and Coffee Spoons
SportingNews.com - 1 hour ago
We, like Prufrock, measure out or lives with coffee spoons. Or is there any significance at all to the coffee spoons with which we measure our lives?

Take-Two dealt setback with Hot Coffee lawsuit - Ars Technica

Take-Two dealt setback with Hot Coffee lawsuit
Ars Technica, MA - 3 hours ago
A federal judge has handed Take-Two Interactive a setback in its fight against one of the lawsuits filed after the Hot Coffee incident.

Customers forced to wait for coffee - Quesnel Cariboo Observer

Customers forced to wait for coffee
Quesnel Cariboo Observer,  Canada - 6 hours ago
juice, or bottled water. "We couldn&’t sell tea, coffee, cappuccinos or anything with water," manager Debi Mack said. "The city was

Rock icons duke it out in coffee table tomes - Vancouver Sun (subscription)

Rock icons duke it out in coffee table tomes
Vancouver Sun (subscription),  Canada - 6 hours ago
U2 by U2, by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. with Neil McCormick. Band involvement: Full immersion. The four guys

Oxfam Responds to National Coffee Association (Scoop.co.nz)

Posted in Coffee Info on October 29th, 2006

Tempest in a coffee cup boils over (San Francisco Chronicle)
Thanks to some big names and questions about strings being pulled, what started as a little coffee toss in San Francisco’s Marina district has turned into a full-blown police potboiler, with two cops under investigation and a deputy district attorney…

Karnataka Coffee planters win all the 3 ‘India Coffee Quality’ award (Deccan Herald)
Coffee Planters from Karnataka State bagged all the three ‘India Coffee Quality’ awards instituted by Italy based Illycaffe S.P.A, the world’s leading roaster of Espresso Coffee from Italy.

Japanese Buddhists offer coffee with meditation (Tri-Valley Herald)
TOKYO €” The Kamiyacho Open Terrace cafe in central Tokyo has all the trappings of a trendy establishment €” good coffee, homemade dessert, an airy terrace.

Wildcats fall to 1-8 with 14-0 loss to Coffee (The Valdosta Daily Times)
DOUGLAS €” The Valdosta Wildcats€™ season went from bad to downright nightmarish Friday night with a 14-0 loss to the Coffee High Trojans at Jardine Stadium.

Oxfam Responds to National Coffee Association (Scoop.co.nz)
In response to Oxfam’s announcement that global coffee giant Starbucks has opposed a plan by Ethiopia to gain more control over its coffee trade, Starbucks claimed that it has never filed an opposition to the Ethiopian government’s trademark applications, nor claimed ownership to any names used to describe the origin of its coffees.

Trademark coffee? Starbucks wonders (Tacoma News Tribune)

Posted in Coffee Info on October 26th, 2006

Oxfam has bitter words for Starbucks over Ethiopian coffee (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The charity organisation Oxfam has accused coffee house chain Starbucks of blocking attempts by Ethiopia to trademark three coffee bean types and thereby denying farmers substantial income.

Starbucks in Ethiopia coffee row (BBC News)
Oxfam accuses coffee chain Starbucks of denying Ethiopia huge earnings by blocking a trademark application.

Starbucks in Ethiopia coffee row (BBC News)
Ethiopian farmers are being denied millions in profits by US coffee chain Starbucks, Oxfam says.

Oxfam bitter toward Starbucks over Ethiopian coffee (Middle East Times)
STARBUCKS: A woman drinks a cup of coffee at Starbucks Coffee in Tokyo October 25. (REUTERS) LONDON — British charity Oxfam accused coffee house chain Starbucks Thursday of blocking attempts by Ethiopia to trademark three coffee bean types and thereby denying farmers substantial income.

Trademark coffee? Starbucks wonders (Tacoma News Tribune)
The Ethiopian government, Starbucks Corp. and a coffee industry association are fighting over whether the coffee names Yirgacheffe, Sidamo and Harar belong to the African nation, or can be used by anyone without restrictions.

Starbucks, the coffee beans and the copyright row that cost … - Guardian Unlimited

Posted in Coffee Info on October 26th, 2006

Coffee May Protect Against Diabetes - CBS News


BBC News
Coffee May Protect Against Diabetes
CBS News, New York - 57 minutes ago
(WebMD) There is more evidence that the American love affair with coffee is helping to reduce the risk of diabetes. Drinking caffeinated
Coffee May Protect Against Diabetes WebMD
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The new coffee connoisseur - Los Angeles Times

The new coffee connoisseur
Los Angeles Times, CA - 21 hours ago
Think you know how to make a great cup of coffee? Think again. After dinner a couple of weeks ago, a friend asked me for a cup of coffee.
A passion for quality gathered steam Los Angeles Times
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Discover America&’s Favorite Holiday Flavors … in Your Coffee Mug … - Earthtimes.org

Discover America&’s Favorite Holiday Flavors … in Your Coffee Mug
Earthtimes.org - 14 hours ago
"With something as simple as a cup of coffee, you can transform an ordinary holiday gathering into something Millstone Coffee also makes a perfect gift.
Discover America&’s Favorite Holiday Flavors … in Your Coffee Mug PR Newswire (press release)
Discover America€™s Favorite Holiday Flavors. . . In Your Coffee PR Web (press release)
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Everyone wins in Tata coffee deal - New Vision

Everyone wins in Tata coffee deal
New Vision, Uganda - 4 hours ago
UGANDA is set to start producing instant coffee, following the signing of an agreement with a multinational company. Tata of India

Starbucks, the coffee beans and the copyright row that cost … - Guardian Unlimited

Starbucks, the coffee beans and the copyright row that cost
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 2 hours ago
Starbucks, the giant US coffee chain, has used its muscle to block an attempt by Ethiopia&’s farmers to copyright their most famous coffee bean types, denying

Houston brews up boost to coffee imports - Bizjournals.com

Posted in Coffee Info on October 25th, 2006

Coffee Farm Brings Hutus, Tutsis Together - CBS News


Christian Science Monitor
Coffee Farm Brings Hutus, Tutsis Together
CBS News, New York - 20 hours ago
Yet Jeannette does, in fact, speak to Anastaz regularly. She even pays him €” along with other Hutus who killed her relatives €” to work on her coffee farm.
Why Jeannette employs her family&’s killers Christian Science Monitor
Beans that grow hope Christian Science Monitor
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Ito En to Become Biggest Shareholder of Tully&’s Coffee in Japan - Bloomberg

Ito En to Become Biggest Shareholder of Tully&’s Coffee in Japan
Bloomberg - 12 hours ago
will spend 4.8 billion yen ($40 million) acquire 36.4 percent of the operator of Tully&’s Coffee chain in Japan, becoming the biggest shareholder of closely

COFFEE BREAK CORNER: QUICK QUIZ - Glasgow Daily Record

COFFEE BREAK CORNER: QUICK QUIZ
Glasgow Daily Record, UK - 8 hours ago
of Iraq? 4. Who has been voted top "ambassador of male-kind" in a website poll? COFFEE BREAK QUIZ: 1, Their houses. 2, Hungary. 3
COFFEE BREAK CORNER: QUICK QUIZ Glasgow Daily Record
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Kenya: Coffee Output to Increase in 2007 - AllAfrica.com


Daily Nation (subscription)
Kenya: Coffee Output to Increase in 2007
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 23 hours ago
Kenya&’s 2007/08 coffee production is expected to increase marginally to 53,524 tonnes from an estimated 52,463 tonnes in 2006/07, boosted by improved farming
Govt to initiate more coffee sub sector reforms - Kirwa Kenya Times
Kirwa unveils Sh3.5bn rescue plan for coffee Daily Nation (subscription)
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Houston brews up boost to coffee imports - Bizjournals.com

Houston brews up boost to coffee imports
Bizjournals.com, NC - 22 hours ago
Houston&’s status as a major coffee port continues to percolate, with increased shipments this year, according to a panel of industry experts at the Second

Coffee sales brew up a winner - Albany Times Union

Posted in Coffee Info on October 25th, 2006

Tata to setup coffee processing plant in Uganda - AND

Tata to setup coffee processing plant in Uganda
AND, South Africa - 7 hours ago
By charles kazooba. Kampala (AND) Uganda is soon selling powder coffee after more than a century growing and exporting the raw material.
Tata to setup coffee processing plant in Uganda AND
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Houston brews up boost to coffee imports - Bizjournals.com

Houston brews up boost to coffee imports
Bizjournals.com, NC - 10 hours ago
Houston&’s status as a major coffee port continues to percolate, with increased shipments this year, according to a panel of industry experts at the Second

Coffee fetched $173m in 2005 - New Vision

Coffee fetched $173m in 2005
New Vision, Uganda - 3 hours ago
COFFEE&’S contribution to export earnings increased from $124.2m in 2004 to $172.9m (about sh318b) in 2005 despite a reduction in export volume, a top trade

Coffee Farm Brings Hutus, Tutsis Together - CBS News


ITV.com
Coffee Farm Brings Hutus, Tutsis Together
CBS News, New York - 8 hours ago
Yet Jeannette does, in fact, speak to Anastaz regularly. She even pays him €” along with other Hutus who killed her relatives €” to work on her coffee farm.
Why Jeannette employs her family&’s killers Christian Science Monitor
Beans that grow hope Christian Science Monitor
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Coffee sales brew up a winner - Albany Times Union


Boston Globe
Coffee sales brew up a winner
Albany Times Union, NY - 15 hours ago
VALATIE — Thanks to a McDonald&’s Corp. push into the high-end coffee market, local restaurant manager Gertrude Megyesi is going to Mexico.
Fair to the last drop? Boston Globe
Fair to the last drop? Boston Globe
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Antioxidants in coffee - Manila Bulletin

Posted in Coffee Info on October 23rd, 2006

Coffee carts are on a roll - News & Observer

Coffee carts are on a roll
News & Observer, NC - 2 hours ago
The company is expanding its Calvert Cafe chain, offering gourmet coffee, smoothies, pastries, wraps and wireless Internet on rolling kiosks.

New experience for coffee lovers - The West Australian

New experience for coffee lovers
The West Australian, Australia - 5 hours ago
The long awaited Dome coffee will be available in Bunbury when the coffee house opens its doors on Monday. Owned by the Dall family

Spammer kills coffee shop&’s connection - Ars Technica

Spammer kills coffee shop&’s connection
Ars Technica, MA - 10 hours ago
These days, free or low-cost WiFi is a much of a given at a coffee shop as are double-tall, half-decaf moccachinos with hazelnut syrup (hold the foam).

Sasini seeks $1.4m to boost investment in coffee sector - East African

Sasini seeks $1.4m to boost investment in coffee sector
East African, Kenya - 15 hours ago
Kenyan agrobusiness company, Sasini Tea & Coffee&’s plans to raise $1.4 million from its shareholders this week following the payment of an interim dividend of

Antioxidants in coffee - Manila Bulletin

Antioxidants in coffee
Manila Bulletin, Philippines - 16 hours ago
I read an article that says coffee is rich in antioxidants, which makes it a healthful drink. I always thought coffee is bad for the health.