July 18, 2008

French Beans,Anyone?

[Virtual Health Guide] Methods: Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.Blanch the string beans in a large pot of boiling salted water for just four minutes.Drain immediately and immerse in a large bowl of ice water to stop the cooking.When they are cool, drain and set aside.Meanwhile, in a large bowl toss the onion and bell peppers together with two tablespoons of olive oil and sprinkle generously with salt and pepper.Place in a single layer on a baking sheet and roast for about 15 minutes, tossing with a spatula from time to time to be sure the vegetables roast evenly.Just before serving, reheat the string beans in a large saute pan drizzled with a little olive oil.Sprinkle with salt and pepper and arrange on a platter.Spoon the roasted vegetables over the string beans and serve hot or at room temperature.

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Posted at July 18, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

My conversion to dried beans

[Slashfood] Several times a month I make a pot of beans overnight, put half back in the pot with meat and veggies for chile or beans and rice or something similar to cook during the day, then put the rest in the fridge to use later in the week in a lighter dish. The crockpot method takes a lot of the nuisance waiting time out of the process!

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Posted at July 18, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

July 15, 2008

Organic and Fairtrade Cotton Clothes

[Clothing] Baby clothing or bedding that has been manufactured with conventional cotton fabric will trap moisture next to baby's skin which can cause a rash. Many babies have sensitive skin so providing them with more breathable clothing is a simple and effective way for parents to minimize skin irritation.

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Posted at July 15, 2008 09:05 AM | Comments (0)

World of difference for Fairtrade as credit crunch takes its toll ...

 [icanews.coop - the global co-operative news centre] "They call this Fairtrade," says Anthony Blay of Vrel, a Fairtrade co-operative with 250 hectares of banana and pineapple plantations in Ghana.

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Posted at July 15, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

July 11, 2008

Introducing small/medium espresso Sabrina!!

 [The Purse Forum - Coach] The bottom strap thing confused me for a minute, but then I attached it to the proper place, and it can be worn over the shoulder as well. I still prefer it as a satchel, but will keep the strap on just in case I need to be hands free quickly.

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Posted at July 11, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

Espresso Glasses

[Petunia Bloom] Yesterday I was still bummed about breaking my espresso shot glasses.  Ryan wanted me to run to Starbucks and get him a little afternoon treat.  I went to the location on Memorial and 71st.  When I went through the drive-through I ordered and then asked if they sold espresso shot glasses.  The employee said they would check.  When I pulled up to the window, a man peeked his head out holding an espresso shot glass that they use in the store and claimed they didn’t sell any retail but they would sell me some the use in their store.  I asked how much, and he said $1 per glass.  OMG–First of all, that was the type of glass I wanted in the first place; Second of all, if you are to buy espresso shot glasses anywhere else for retail you are likely to pay around $10.  I was so excited!!  That is what I should have done in the first place- try to buy them from Starbucks.  FYI if you make espresso at home!

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Posted at July 11, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

July 08, 2008

Fair Trade - For a Change

 [Care2 News Network - Newly Submitted] Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) is part of a worldwide network of Fair Trade organizations actively involved in supporting producers, awareness raising and campaigning for changes in the rules and practices of conventional...

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Posted at July 08, 2008 09:03 AM | Comments (0)

School Fete and Fairtrade

 [Life in Hay] After being dropped off at the school, one box of leaflets was put out when they were setting up, where the Fairtrade stall was going to be - and then the heavens opened, and in the confusion, they were left outside and got soaked. No-one knows where the other box is.

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Posted at July 08, 2008 09:01 AM | Comments (0)

July 04, 2008

Starbucks and Store Closings: How will it affect the experience?

 [Untitled] It remains to be seen whether these closures will impact the customer experience in a negative way.  If going back to the customer experience is really what the Starbucks “Transformation Agenda” is about, then one wonders where increasing the number of store closures fits in.  If the stores that remain open are staffed to the proper levels so customer service doesn’t suffer, this may help the experience in the long run.

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Posted at July 04, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

Starbucks or Bust?

 [Chris Pirillo] It’s no secret: I’m not a huge Starbucks fan (I’m a Peet’s man, through and through). Still, I wondered what my friends thought of the news:

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Posted at July 04, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

July 01, 2008

Links With Your Coffee - Monday

[onegoodmove] So what, then, is the basis for the almost-unanimously held Beltway conventional view that Democrats generally, and Barack Obama particularly, will be politically endangered unless they adopt the Bush/Cheney approach to Terrorism and National Security, which -- for some reason -- is called "moving to the Center"? There doesn't appear to be any basis for that view.

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Posted at July 01, 2008 09:03 AM | Comments (0)

Our Favorite Local AZ Coffee and Tea

 [AzSustainability.com] Considering Starbucks’ ever growing world domination and it being Independents Week and all, now is as good a time as ever to discover some fantastic local flavor in the aromatic and caffeinated wonder that is coffee and tea.

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June 27, 2008

Starbucks to Quit Music Distribution, Keep Serving Coffee

 [Cult of Mac - News and opinion about the Mac and ipod communities] That’s somewhat unfortunate - Starbucks always had some really good CD collections and compilations to peruse while waiting for your coffee to be prepared. I even admit to buying some of their old Motown and classic soul/r&b compilations, not to mention some of their excellent selection of jazz (folks like Monk and Coltrane lived on Starbucks shelves).

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Posted at June 27, 2008 09:34 AM | Comments (0)

Report: Starbucks scaling back music offering

 [CNET News.com | Tech news blog] Seattle-based Starbucks once fancied itself as an entertainment center where people sipped coffee and grooved to the latest tunes. The company's dreams of branching into music has had a troubled past.

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Posted at June 27, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

June 24, 2008

Starbucks At A Crossroads

 [Bob Phibbs Retail Sales Blog] As reported in the London Observer today, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz acknowledged recently that the company has lost its “edge” after moving from a culture of entrepreneurship and creativity to one of bureaucracy. Schultz is proposing a number of changes. 

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Posted at June 24, 2008 09:05 AM | Comments (0)

Starbucks Card Rewards Program

 [rinzai] As my drink of choice at Starbucks is a Soy Vanilla Latte, and I like to work from there for a bit, I just saved a bunch of money joining this program without it costing me anything really, other than having a balance of greater than $0 on my Starbucks Card.

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Posted at June 24, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

June 20, 2008

Three Bean Salad with Spring Herbs

[Untitled] Thank god my parents weren’t as impassioned about three bean salad as they were about mashed potatoes (a dish I’ll have to revisit here sometime, because even now I gag on it), or I’d still be sitting at that splintered table while a whole new generation of kids went diving into the pool.

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Posted at June 20, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

Delicious, Delicious Pork and Beans

 [On the Tenure Track] There’s nothing trainwreck-of-poor-taste about Pork and Beans. Something tells me that Weezer meant to include nearly every star of the Internet.

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Posted at June 20, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

June 17, 2008

Guest Espresso: Epic Espresso 6/19

[Catalina Coffee Shop] This thursday 6/19 at some point during the day we will be receiving our order of Epic Espresso from 49th Parallel in Burnaby, BC Canada. The guest espresso program is a great opportunity to try different espresso from acclaimed roasters from around the States and Canada.

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Posted at June 17, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

guest blogger: tamara of american girls in moscow (part II)

 [Bleeding Espresso] Given how every single family in Russia suffered during the war, losing sons, fathers, grandfathers and uncles, this park is a very important stop for newlyweds. It gives them a chance to honor the relatives who are unable to attend the wedding festivities.

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Posted at June 17, 2008 09:01 AM | Comments (0)

June 13, 2008

Grand Rapids Starbucks Union and Spanish CNT Announce a Global Day ...

 [Industrial Workers of the World - News - All Departments and Unions] The treatment ofMonica in Spain by Starbucks is similar to the charges of anti-uniondiscrimination being investigated by the National Labor Relations Boardin Grand Rapids, Michigan. This new Grand Rapids investigation comesless than a year since Starbucks signed a settlement agreement with theNLRB claiming they would end intimidation against baristas interestedin joining the Starbucks Union.

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Posted at June 13, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

Starbucks and T-Mobile settle their Wi-Fi dispute

[Starbucks Gossip] This is good news for Starbucks, because they don't have to go through the trial. Now though, the obligation for free internet is on them whether or not this result gives it or not.

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Posted at June 13, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

June 10, 2008

Bush Beans

 [Lovely Plantings] TIP: I plant the seeds no later than January, and in 5-gallon pots. I water them three times a week, and feed them with MiracleGro Liquafeed once a month. The Liquafeed bottle is attached to a plastic feeder/nozzle device (”Advance Feeder”), and then attached to my water hose.

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Posted at June 10, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

Cambridge Cooks: Howard's Baked Beans

 [Cambridge Buzz] Any combination of beans works so experiment with lots of different combinations. Vegetarians and Vegans can adjust the recipe by eliminating the bacon and using soy butter.

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June 06, 2008

Using Beans Binding to Search in a Table

 [java.net Weblogs] We will create a binding between the rowSorter property of the master table in the example in my previous entries and a text field that I've just added for the search string. For this binding we will need a binding converter so that the table knows how to respond to the search string.

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Posted at June 06, 2008 09:35 AM | Comments (0)

Barbecued Baked Beans

 [BigOven.com - Recipe Raves] To Make Ahead: After cooking, the beans can be cooled to room temperature and refrigerated, wrapping tightly in plastic wrap, for up to 4 days. Reheat over medium-low heat before serving.

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Posted at June 06, 2008 09:34 AM | Comments (0)

June 03, 2008

pork and beans

[sleepinginmyhead] further to my post about weezer, the video for their latest single 'pork and beans' has surfaced and it's a peach. It's a fairly obvious premise and very very weezer, but the execution is brilliant. If you have watched any 'viral' video ...

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Posted at June 03, 2008 09:04 AM | Comments (0)

BBQ rice, beans and chicken dish...a recipe by me.

 [One Mans trip to the Half] most times when I list my meals from the previous day I will say "3oz chicken breast, 3/4 cup white rice, 1/2 cup black beans, broccoli" now that just seems plain to me but its how it gets put into the Excel sheet that I keep because its just to count the calories not really which recipe I ate that particular day. from time to time I will list it how it was eaten and sometimes I get an email or comment asking how to make something, welp here is the BBQ rice and beans with shredded chicken that I have been making lately.

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Posted at June 03, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

May 30, 2008

Why Being Cool Can Drive Sales for Starbucks and Apple

[Boring Market] Consumers are known to surf the web on Apple’s Mac Books, fiddle with the newest iPod and text their friends on Apple’s functional iPhones. Employees are roaming asking questions, always there to jump at the opportunity to help consumers explore their products.

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Posted at May 30, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

Starbucks Korea Sued for Music Copyright Infringement

 [Ask Korea Law] It was reported on May 15 that Starbucks Coffee Korea was sued by the Korea Music Copyright Association for music copyright infringement.  The KMCA alleged the Starbucks played copyrighted music in its outlets without paying royalties.  The KMCA pointed out most Starbucks branches in other countries are paying copyright fees.  Starbucks Coffee Korea said the copyright issue is dealt with by headquarters in Seattle.

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May 27, 2008

Starbucks Pike Place Roast - Update

 [Gourmet Coffee Zone - Daily Blog] We’ve been receiving a fair amount of feedback that customers are frustrated tying to find a bold, strong brew at Starbucks since the introduction of the milder Pike Place Roast as the everyday coffee. We wrote about the introduction of .

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Posted at May 27, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

Welcome To Starbucks [Reader Post]

 [Flopping Aces] Welcome to Starbucks. How may I help you? Do you work here? Yes. Yes I do. Did you have to go to college to get this job? No. No I didn’t. Good. Cuz college sux. ~~~~~. Cuz o’ the student loans. ~~~~~. Cuz you have to pay them back. ...

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May 23, 2008

Espresso Pots De Creme

[Dessert Recipes] Total preparation time: 15 minutes Serves: 5 Ingredients: 2 cups Heavy Cream 1/2 cup Sugar 2 + tablespoons Espresso Powder 1 tablespoon Vanilla 4 or 5 Egg Yolks Steps: 1. Mix together the first four ingredients in a saucepan, .

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Posted at May 23, 2008 09:37 AM | Comments (0)

Cappuccino & Espresso Machines for Sale - Buy Name Brand Machines ...

[2collab public bookmarks] Description: We offer an extensive selection of cappuccino and espresso machines, all brand names at great prices. You can bid through our eBay auction or buy outright Tags: cappuccino, machines, espresso Sharing: Public .

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May 20, 2008

Fairtrade Hand Knitted Rattle Sets

[Bambino Goodies - The baby products blog] All babies love to hear sound and see bright colours and these Fairtrade hand knitted rattle sets from Bangladesh do it with style and social awareness

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Posted at May 20, 2008 09:07 AM | Comments (0)

Fair Trade Fundamentals

 [Untitled] According to the Fair Trade Federation, the goal of a member organization is “to benefit the artisans they work with, not maximize profits. By reducing the number of middlemen and minimizing overhead costs, FTOs (fair trade organizations) return up to 40 percent of the retail price of an item to the producer.”

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May 16, 2008

Albums by artist Baked Beans

 [Last updates in our music collection - lavamp3.com] Bean Me Up, Scotty Genre: Dance Year: 0 Two Beans Or Not Two Beans Genre: Dance Year: 0 Baked Beans Genre: Dance Year: 1994.

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Posted at May 16, 2008 09:35 AM | Comments (0)

Beans, beans, good for your ...

 [A Man's Gotta Eat] You sometimes hear folks say that pork meat-infused beans and cornbread is "peasant food." Sorry, but I disagree with that assertion. Indeed, when I'm eating a pot of beans, I think of myself as eating like a king.

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May 13, 2008

White Beans Oreganata Recipe @ CDKitchen

 [New Recipes at CDKitchen] Recipe Snippet: Sort and wash beans; place in a large Dutch oven. Cover with water to 2 inches above beans; cover and let stand 8 hours. Drain beans. Combine beans, 6 cups water, and ne... click title to view recipe.

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Posted at May 13, 2008 09:15 AM | Comments (0)

Sakurai to spill beans on what makes games fun

[Nintendo Wii Fanboy] Filed under: News. The obvious choice aside, we can't think of many game designers who are better qualified than Masahiro Sakurai to discuss how to make fun videogames. Which is a good job, really, because the Smash Bros. and Kirby ...

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May 09, 2008

proto-starbucks?

 [The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] proto-starbucks? This mermaid (or whatever she is) looks kind of like the starbucks logo.

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Posted at May 09, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

Play The Subversive Game: Make Starbucks Say “Large”

 [CogDogBlog] This is too funny…I had a side conversation with a group of folks about a month ago during a presentation I was giving about this same idea of using the English language to describe the Starbucks coffee sizes. We were looking at the website “My Starbucks Idea”

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Posted at May 09, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

May 06, 2008

Green Party FairTrade Coffee Break

 [Eventfinder: Latest Events] Join us for Fairtrade Coffee, Tea and nibbles which will be available, koha will be collected for the coffee and donated to Oxfam. Short DVD screening.

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Posted at May 06, 2008 10:14 AM | Comments (0)

Fair Trade

[St Michael's Anglican Cathedral, Wollongong] Many will know I’ve been an advocate of buying Fair Trade Coffee. On my holidays I was again reading James in my ‘quiet times’, and was struck again by chapter 5:1-6.

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Posted at May 06, 2008 09:46 AM | Comments (0)

May 02, 2008

What is EJB architecture(components)?

 [Untitled] Entity beans: Entity beans are enterprise beans that contain persistent data and that can be saved in various persistent data stores. Each entity bean carries its own identity.

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Posted at May 02, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

Modals, Negation, and Caviar and Beans

 [Literal-Minded] The next step in Siegel’s analysis is the observation that you can even coordinate tenseless sentences: Ward eat caviar and his guest eat dried beans?! All that remains is to assign the modal a semantics that applies to entire propositions (not just predicates), and a syntactic category that allows it to be shoehorned in just past the first subject, regardless of whether the clause is coordinated with another one or not.

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Posted at May 02, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

April 29, 2008

No Starbucks in Rome

 [Starbuckcoffee.net] When you order a Cappuccino inside a Starbucks store you will not just get some espresso coffee topped with steamed milk, hell no! What you will get instead is a bit of Florence, a bit of Rome”¦ and the experience will recruit all your senses, making you feel unique and sophisticated.

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Posted at April 29, 2008 09:03 AM | Comments (0)

I’ll Have Starbucks Shares With Room For Growth

 [Main Street Investor] So instead of going an extra mile or so out of my way to the nearest McDonalds for coffee I like better, I buy Starbucks coffee, because the store is conveniently located. Am I lazy?

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April 25, 2008

What to do with too many cans of refried beans?

 [Chowhound's Latest » Home Cooking] I love them at breakfast as in scramble eggs with chorizo, potatoes fried with onions and mild chilis and topped with Mexican cheese, and hot beans in a side dish. Asfor your soup idea, I suppose you could use them as a basis for a bean soup or to thicken a vegetable soup.

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Posted at April 25, 2008 09:37 AM | Comments (0)

Basil Buttered Beans

[RecipeFeed.Com - Beans and Grains Recipes] REVISED: the original recipe called for 2 T butter or margarine melted. In a saucepan, combine beans, onion, celery and water.

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April 22, 2008

Constraints on Beans

 [Middleware Technologies [MCA II Yr, Anna University] by Roy Antony Arnold] EJB cannot start new threads or use thread synchronization primitives. Container is responsible for creating and managing new bean instances.

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Posted at April 22, 2008 09:05 AM | Comments (0)

Basic Bean Soup

[RecipeFeed.Com - Beans and Grains Recipes] 104 mg cal Hint: Pinto, black, navy or other hearty beans may be used. Bouillon, bean cooking liquid or a combination may be used for vegetable stock.

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Posted at April 22, 2008 09:03 AM | Comments (0)

April 15, 2008

Chocolate Cake with Espresso Caramel Frosting

 [Pittsburgh Needs Eated.] Also, Lisa, how do you get your cake not to "hump" in the middle? (In double-layered cakes I usually saw off the bump of one and use it - cut side down - as the bottom layer.) I'd imagine it would be a terror with all those layers!

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Posted at April 15, 2008 09:04 AM | Comments (0)

guest blogger: author cindy lynn speer

 [Bleeding Espresso] I also want to thank Michelle for letting me visit”¦and thank you for reading this post! If you have a chance, please feel free to visit my blog: A Pen and Fire.

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Posted at April 15, 2008 09:01 AM | Comments (0)

April 11, 2008

Time magazine writer: Pike Place Roast is "coffee for people who ...

[Starbucks Gossip] And, there is a way you can tell whether the coffee is getting low, and that's just by looking at the clear glass window on the urn..When the liquid in the window gets low, you move and rebrew another as a backup, or you stage it to where you can start brewing as soon as it runs out(If you are low on urns for whatever reason)..As a partner, I have started to ignore the critics, because most of them are just frustrated that Starbucks won't ever be dead, and that as soon as the recession is over, Starbucks will be positioned for success, becuase we are getting all the kinks out now. No matter what we do as a company, people will whine, because we're a big corporation, and as we all know, big corporations are bad, according the commies in the media, and the "commies" that tend to be the main people critical of the company..When the new changes start to result in more sales, and a higher stock price, you won't see Wall Street saying anything about how the coffee tastes..

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Posted at April 11, 2008 09:34 AM | Comments (0)

Starbucks Now Accepts "Laissez Faire":

[The Volokh Conspiracy] Any good libertarian would say that Starbucks should be free to have the rules say that anyone up to and including Howard Schultz gets a cut of the tips and potential employees are free to decide to work there under those conditions or work at the other stores that would obviously pop up to employee baristas who don't want to share tips if the market really "thinks" that's a superior solution.

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April 08, 2008

Candy Review: Starbucks Chocolate

 [Candy Addict] Dark Chocolate Vanilla Bean Truffles: I assumed this was going to be really sweet, but again I was wrong! The vanilla bean center is creamy and smooth, and this is going to be hard to describe, but it’s like I can taste the extract part of the vanilla extract more than the vanilla bean.

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Starbucks (a rant)

 [things and stuf] Pike Place Roast will be the first Starbucks coffee bearing a new symbol the company created with Conservation International, showing that all beans are purchased from suppliers that meet high workplace and environmental standards, such as paying pickers well and requiring coffee to be grown in the shade without use of pesticides.

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April 04, 2008

Justice for Farmworkers, in the United States too

 [CRS Fair Trade News] As Katy and I hurry to clear off our desks before heading to the Fair Trade Federation conference, I almost forgot this week is National Farmworker Awareness week. Luckily a new report, Children in the Fields: An American Problem, .

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Posted at April 04, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

M&S Organic Fairtrade Milk Chocolate With Rose

 [Chocablog] I don’t know if that’s because I was conditioned by The Chocolate Cellar’s bar or if this M&S bar is actually missing something. The flavours are all so soft and subtle that it doesn’t really give you a satisfying chocolate ‘hit’.

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Posted at April 04, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

April 01, 2008

Beans, Beans, And More Beans

[country-yall.com] At the University of Illinois, Extensions’ Darrel Good says soybean supplies should be able to meet the demand, “If 74.8 million acres are planted, harvested acreage might be near 73.8 million. With a national average yield near 42.5 bushels, the 2008 crop would total about 3.14 billion bushels, 115 million more than the level of consumption expected during the current marketing year.

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Posted at April 01, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

No more ”˜beans in the teens’? US farmers plan more soy, less corn

 [Commodity Corner] American farmers are chilling on planting corn, or at least Monday’s USDA data points to a backlash against the overplanting of corn in 2007. So does this mean the ethanol promise is beginning to fade?

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Posted at April 01, 2008 09:01 AM | Comments (0)

March 28, 2008

Chrysler listens, Starbucks wants ideas.

 [Web Jungle] If the consumer ideas and suggestions are crap, useless, unreal or simply silly, the companies might soon stop asking consumers in this fashion. It would then be much easier to go back to the old fashioned model of focus group research, where the noise to signal ratio is much better.

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Starbucks-like Depth.

 [Musings.] the first being that we change churches more than we change what we order at Starbucks. Sure, you can become a “regular” at one place (Either Starbucks or church), but as soon as the place goes a direction that doesn’t suit you personally its time to find another Starbucks/church to suit our wants.

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March 25, 2008

Breville Espresso Maker

 [Neu Black] We recommend espresso connoisseurs (addicts) keep this next to their alarm clock. Especially useful for those of us who don’t speak Starbucks.

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Posted at March 25, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

Why Cubans drink espresso

 [Beta IA] Its not intended to be funny. But if you think about it, or even better, if you appreciate moments of when you have had coffee and feel asleep right after then maybe you understand.

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March 21, 2008

Beans Family Update!

 [The Adventures of (In)Fertile Frank] on TLC). Our evenings involve a routine of heating pads, ice cream, and the dreaded maternity fashion show as Mrs.

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Posted at March 21, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

Extraordinary Chocolate Covered Espresso Coffee Beans (5lb) By Koppers

[Chocolate Tasting] Perfect for any occasion, Kopper’s Chocolate Espresso Coffee Beans are great on top of desserts and ice cream, in coffee drinks or eaten by the handful! Kopper’s Chocolate Covered Espresso Coffee Beans are Kosher certified and parve.

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March 18, 2008

Triple Espresso

 [Information Fluency] Triple Espresso has been in Minneapolis for 12 years now and it has been the same crew, and the same show every show for the last 12 years. I went this weekend because sadly Triple Espresso is closing down, packing up, and moving to Milwaukee and then moving south to Atlanta.

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Posted at March 18, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

Fantastic New York Mix Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans Cube by ...

[Chocolate Tasting] Each plastic cube contains 1 pound 1 ounces net weight of New York Mix Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans by Koppers. Kosher certified Dairy Manufactured in a plant that processes peanuts, dairy, soy and wheat products.

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Posted at March 18, 2008 09:01 AM | Comments (0)

March 14, 2008

Bikes, Beans & Bordeaux

 [Tasty Fever!] Bordeaux had intrigued me when I passed by the little strip mall the restaurant was nestled in, or rather, going to be nestled in.  At the time I had noticed it, the cafe was still in the process of “coming soon!”, so I was sort of waiting until I had seen it was open for business.  Sometimes, the time it takes for a restaurant to open can be lengthy, but it didn’t seem so with Bikes, Beans & Bordeaux.  I believe it was sometime earlier this week or last week that I had seen its little “Open”

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Posted at March 14, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

Eat Balck Beans

[Everyday health and beauty] Also, black bean soup will nourishes our eyes. On the other hand, growing children and pregnant or lactating mothers will highly benefits from the rich iron and folic acid from this nutritious black beans.

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Posted at March 14, 2008 09:31 AM | Comments (0)

March 11, 2008

Weekly Salads 8 and 9: Fava Beans with Pecorino and Parsley ...

 [Hot.Sour.Salty.Sweet. And Umami] Michigan is great if you don’t like the weather just wait 6 months and your basement will turn into a pool. speaking of flooded basements I was thinking about you and yours last night and I wanted to let you know that if you need help digging a trench this spring let me know, we can do that and plant some veggies too.

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Posted at March 11, 2008 09:03 AM | Comments (0)

Growing Borlotti Beans

[Miles Collins] That was annoying, I love borlottis, the colour of the pods look wonderful in the summer sun and the speckled beans inside are creamy and delicious fresh or dried. I always like to take a basket of them into the summerhouse where I sit and shell them with a fortifying gin and tonic for company.

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Posted at March 11, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

March 07, 2008

French Coffee Press for the Best Tasting Coffee

 [Food Life] Barrel.  It was a great press and made delicious coffee.  However, it had a flaw in design…glass.  Yep, glass, which I broke twice.  The first time, we ordered a new glass piece for about $20.  Then, about a month later it broke again.  That was it, I can’t be replacing the glass for $20 every month.  So, I went on a search for a better press.

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Posted at March 07, 2008 09:34 AM | Comments (0)

LAMILL COFFEE CO.

[la.foodblogging] Our very patient, sweet waitress summoned a guy in charge of coffee creation and he kindly explained that their drinks are made from precise recipes with exact ratios of milk to coffee etc. (BTW there was no attitude while explaining why they are so particular about the drinks ”¦ each person was gracious and sincere.) Much to my surprise, he finally agreed to bring the chocolate sauce and whipped cream on the side.

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Posted at March 07, 2008 09:33 AM | Comments (0)

March 04, 2008

Black Gold Fairtrade Film

 [Anthony's Blog] The showing which had been organised by the South Manchester Co-op Members Group and Withington Co-operative Party had around 100 people in attendance and included visitors from the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa co-operative in Ghana who were over in the UK to promote fairtrade.

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Posted at March 04, 2008 09:02 AM | Comments (0)

Vale is a Fairtrade county

[Barry And District News | Latest news] Fifteen catering outlets and more than 30 retail outlets now serve and sell Fairtrade goods in the Vale and many businesses have signed a commitment to encourage staff to use Fairtrade tea and coffee.

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Posted at March 04, 2008 09:01 AM | Comments (0)

February 29, 2008

The secrets of Starbucks

[The Click - Times Online - WBLG] "It's not as simple as pushing a button," said Ann-Marie Kurtz, Starbucks' manager of global coffee and tea education. But what actually went on behind closed doors as Starbucks addicts went thirsty for a good three hours?

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Posted at February 29, 2008 09:32 AM | Comments (0)

Starbucks = Genius

 [The Employment File] And yet even though I rarely watch the news, I heard at least 4 times in the past 3 days that Starbucks was closed. They may just have pulled