Friday, April 11, 2008

Cafegrafia: Coffee for Developing Photos


Saul Bolanos invented Cafegrafia, or Coffee Art, the unique process of developing photographs using coffee instead of other chemicals. His photos are of Costa Rican Coffee processing from a century ago.

In this lens you will learn how coffee is now produced at Cafe Britt in Costa Rica. So... pour yourself a cup of Cafe Britt Coffee. Check out the Cafegraphia or Coffee Art that Saul Bolanos produces. Imagine Saul Bolano's Coffee Art on your walls with a copy of Higher Grounds on the coffee table and enjoy a bit of Costa Rica.

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

About FreeRice

FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com.

FreeRice has two goals:

1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.

Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your vocabulary can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself.

Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide. Thank you.

How to play FreeRice:

* Click on the answer that best defines the word.
* If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word.
* For each word you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.

WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance...

How does playing the vocabulary game at FreeRice help me?

Learning new vocabulary has tremendous benefits. It can help you:

* Formulate your ideas better
* Write better papers, emails and business letters
* Speak more precisely and persuasively
* Comprehend more of what you read
* Read faster because you comprehend better
* Get better grades in high school, college and graduate school
* Score higher on tests like the SAT, GRE, LSAT and GMAT
* Perform better at job interviews and conferences
* Sell yourself, your services, and your products better
* Be more effective and successful at your job

After you have done FreeRice for a couple of days, you may notice an odd phenomenon. Words that you have never consciously used before will begin to pop into your head while you are speaking or writing. You will feel yourself using and knowing more words.

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Caffeine May Block High Cholesterol Linked to Alzheimer's

WEDNESDAY, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- A little caffeine every day could offer some protection from Alzheimer's disease for people with high cholesterol.

Rabbits given the daily caffeine equivalent of one cup of coffee and fed a cholesterol-rich diet for 12 weeks suffered relatively little damage in their blood-brain barrier (BBB), which protects the central nervous system from the rest of the body's circulation, new research found.

The findings were published in the open-access publication Journal of Neuroinflammation.

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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Coffee may stop MS developing - study

Article from: AAP

By Tamara McLean

April 08, 2008 06:04pm

COFFEE may help stop the development of multiple sclerosis (MS), experiments on lab mice suggest.
US scientists have found they were able to protect rodents from the animal form of MS by feeding them the equivalent of six to eight cups of coffee a day.

About 15,000 Australians have the disease, caused by immune cells that infiltrate the brain and spinal cord, attacking them and causing damage.

A molecule called adenosine, which is involved in many of the body's biochemical processes, such as energy transfer and the promotion of sleep, is believed to be responsible for this process.

Caffeine is known to block the receptor of the molecule, so the team from Cornell University tested the stimulant on mice.

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Monday, April 07, 2008

Pueblo (CO) Is Home To New Solar Coffee Industry

By Sean Hauser
s.hauser@krdo.com

PUEBLO - A local business has created a way to roast coffee unlike anyone else in the world. They took a simple concept, similar to using a magnifying glass and the heat of the sun to heat things up...and took it one step further.

Much Further.

Two brothers, two different interests...with one big idea. They combined David Hartkops love for solar power with his brother, Michael's love for coffee and created a solar powered coffee roaster. The first of its kind.

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Sunday, April 06, 2008

Opportunity to earn honest day's wages

By Manuel Valdes

Special to The Seattle Times

ALAJUELA PROVINCE, Costa Rica — Mauro Zelaga has been coming to Costa Rica from neighboring Nicaragua for 20 years to pick coffee beans. Last December was his sixth time coming to Rodrigo Vargas' farms.

Harsh economic conditions in his country have fueled a massive migration to the more stable and prosperous Costa Rica. A guerrilla fighter in Nicaragua's civil war as a teenager, Zelaga spent seven years in jail after being captured by government forces.

"It's nice making a living in an honest manner," Zelaga, 46, says as another coffee picking day came to a close.

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Picking coffee beans for Starbucks a family tradition

By Manuel Valdes

Special to The Seattle Times

SAN JOSÉ PROVINCE, Costa Rica — Roberto Naranjo and his wife, Victoria Zúñiga-Naranjo, shake their heads when they remember life during the coffee crisis in the late 1990s.

The Naranjos had to choose between buying farming equipment and paying workers. They had to choose between maintaining their land and buying fertilizer. And debt mounted.

Then Starbucks arrived in the 2000s, and began buying coffee from the cooperative the Naranjos belong to — CoopeTarrazú — and life improved.

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