Cocoa prices have reached their highest levels for 33 years, increasing 150 per cent in the last 18 months,
Cocoa crop failure in the Ivory coast the worlds top grower, is partly the cause, but some experts are blaming the London commodity market where cocoa is traded Speculation is now so rife that a group of European cocoa trading companies have taken the rare step of making public a complaint about the extent of the speculation on the London cocoa market
and demanding tighter regulations. In a letter, leading cocoa industry figures claim there is clear oemanipulation
which is bringing the London market into disrepute. They accuse the market of lacking oetransparency and control.
if this supports cocoa farmers in poor countries to improve their own standard of living. But consumers would be very angry
He warned that market instability affects farmers in developing countries, particularly in West Africa, the dominant cocoa-growing area by making it harder to plan.
The London cocoa market operator, Liffe, said it was aware of concerns about the market
#Melon Sells For $57, 000 At Auction One Sweet melon! A melon rated the sweetest in the world has been sold for a mouth-watering $57, 000 at auction.
Chinese businessman Yu Lin, 47, bid the astronomical price for the single piece of fruit at an annual melon festival in Turpan, Xinjiang, China.
Experts there gave it an official seal as the worlds sweetest. Honeydew melons like this have a sugar content of 20. 2g per 100g of fruit.
The award-winning melon was selected for its sweetness, colour and form. And that is a sweet success story for Chinese farmer Lu Tan, who normally earns just over £300 a month.
He said: oei will not be giving up my farm but I plan to buy more land and next year have an even bigger and better melon to sell. via Arbroath Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati h
#Grocery stores Closing in Record Numbers Grocery store finding it hard to compete with big box discount stores Craig Chancellor tried everything he could,
but crops grown in those communities are often commodities like cotton, not fruits and vegetables,
but crops grown in those communities are often commodities like cotton, not fruits and vegetables,
Anyone who thinks it would be easy to get rich selling marijuana in a state where its legal should spend an hour with Ravi Respeto, manager of the Farmacy, an upscale dispensary here that offers Strawberry Haze, Hawaiian Skunk and other strains
with a chalkboard announcing the days offerings in colors reminiscent of Starburst Fruit Chews, as well as a stereo playing reggae.
Prohibition also enriched adventurous sorts at every level of booze production and consumption, from grape farmers and distillers to the owners of speakeasies.
While the endangered animal would have lived for about three months on a liquid diet before switching to bamboo and fruit,
In the future, the square fruit in the grocery store will be found next to the square vegetables and the square poultry sections...
while the two daughters sit in the dust, peeling mangoes. The father and the son talk about the future.
The courtyard contains a swimming pool surrounded by papaya and palm trees. The oldest student is 18
whether they were considering buying an Apple ipad. Almost a third said they would be interested in buying one,
Kelkoo said that the Apple brand was respected well by those they had surveyed. When asked why they liked Apple,
34 per cent said it was because its products were innovative, 27 per cent said they believed Apple offered the best products on the market,
a quarter said the ease of use of Apples gadgets was appealing, while 15 per cent just thought the Apple brand was cool.
However, a fifth of those surveyed said they would wait for Apple to release its second-generation ipad before buying the device
and 32 per cent of people said they didnt have need any for an ipad at the present time. oeapple undoubtedly has the Midas touch,
said Bruce Fair, managing director at Kelkoo. oethe ipad could certainly turn around the fortunes of the struggling TABLET PC market by redefining the category as a premium, multitouch entertainment gadget,
The mortar was stronger and more resistant to water than pure lime mortar, and what Zhang termed one of the greatest technological innovations of the time.
the scientists prepared lime mortars with varying amounts of sticky rice and tested their performance compared to traditional lime mortar. oethe test results of the modeling mortars shows that sticky rice-lime
In the nectar of grapefruit flowers, however, caffeine is present in much higher concentrations, reaching 94.2 milligrams per liter The results showed that bees clearly prefer nectar containing nicotine and caffeine over the oeclean nectar.
#Apple Trademarks Their Retail stores And idisk Icon Watch out, Joes Bait and Tackle, you better not have a big,
Apple has that entire color scheme and layout, so dont even think about it. Thats right: Apple trademarked their retail stores.
Heres the skinny The correspondent listed for is LISA G. WIDUP of APPLE INC.,1 INFINITE LOOP, MS 3tm, CUPERTINO, CA 95014.
The trademark is filed in the category of Advertising, Business & Retail Services. The description provided to the USPTO for is Retail store services featuring computers, computer software, computer peripherals, mobile phones, consumer electronics and related accessories,
if I build my house to look like an Apple store Id sleep on the shelves, probably,
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when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies..Saves on having extra bowls to wash. 21.
Apple is here. HP has been notably absent in the smartphone category obviously, where the buzz has been dominated by the iphone,
The two successful companies in this space are Apple and RIM and they have integrated hardware and software,
HP is looking to emulate Apples success in the smartphone market by building a strong portfolio of applications for the webos platform.
000 apps, compared to almost 200,000 available in Apples App store. LINK Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati r
Along the way, Thangaraj asked the agent about his buzzing Blackberry. oei want one of those for my kids
but the addition of the shriveled little grapes is said to have stunned just and scandalized the housewives of Concord, Massachusetts,
#The Apple Engineer Who Lost the Top Secret 4g iphone Prototype After Celebrating His 27th Birthday Apple employee Gray Powell,
And if so, Apple employee Gray Powell has made just his 27th birthday unforgettable. According to media reports in the U s.
Apple employee Gray Powell apparently left the iphone behind after celebrating his 27th birthday at the Gourmet Haus Staudt bar, not far from the computer giants Cupertino, California headquarters.
The mobile which was left behind on a bar stool by an Apple employee at a German beer garden in California Gizmodo said the person who found the phone claimed it was logged into Powells Facebook account
Mr Lam said the phone was shut down remotely by Apple, adding to suspicions that the phone held secrets the company didnt want exposed.
what sort of punishment the highly secretive Apple bosses might mete out to the software engineer apparently responsible for losing it.
Gizmodo have published the letter they say they received from Apple asking for the prototype device back Photographs posted of the device show a more angular model than the traditional iphone with square corners and aluminum edges.
Apples initial silence over the find only fed the suspicions. But last night Gizmodo said it finally heard from the companys lawyers.
It has come to our attention that Gizmodo is in possession of a device that belongs to Apple,
wrote Apples senior counsel. This letter constitutes a formal request that you return the device the Apple.
Please let me know where to pick up the unit. Mr Lam said the mobile was returned to Apple with a note saying:
I hope you take it easy on the kid who lost it. I dont think he loves anything more than Apple.
Under Californian law Gizmodo could be charged with received stolen goods . While the outer packaging of the phone was rather rough and ready,
but Gizmodo were unable to see how large the memory was as they believe Apple had killed the phones 4. 0 operating system after it went missing.
The good news is that (Apple) is coming out with a new version of the iphone in the June timeframe
Last week Apple announced the UK launch of the long-awaited ipad with Wi-fi would be delayed by a month as demand had outstripped supply in the US.
#Apple Patents oeconcert Ticket+System Patently Apple just dug up an Apple patent for an interesting electronic ticket system.
One of the more interesting features of Apples e-ticket patent is that it includes the possibility of an NFC (near field communication) interface that would allow the iphone to communicate with other NFC enabled devices or RFID tags.
From the business perspective, Apples e-ticket system would allow companies to target the ticket purchaser with live recordings, exclusive content,
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and 3. 6 grams of calcium that has a hint of almond and banana flavoring on a sesame seed bun with exactly 47 sesame seeds on it.
This may seem a ridiculous level of specificity. But in an automated society the process will become seamless and invisible to the end user.
similar to harvesting apples or cherries. Eventually we will be able to oegrow our own clothing,
Caution, very disturbing) Apple today said it sold more ipads on Saturday than it sold first-generation iphones in 2007 over a two-day period.
The 300,000 number that Apple touted included deliveries of pre-ordered ipads, sales at Apples retail stores and shipments to its partners,
The only other retail outlet selling ipads on Saturday was Best Buy in 2007, Apple reported selling 270,000 iphones during the new smartphones first two days of availability.
Apple did not accept pre-orders for the iphone before its June 29, 2007 launch. Instead
Brian Marshall of Broadpoint Amtech estimated that Apple sold closer to half a million ipads over the weekend.
Before Apples sales announcement, Marshall had issued a research note to clients that put total ipad sales at 525,000 for Saturday and Sunday.
explaining that earlier he had figured Apple would sell two-thirds of the 525,000 on Saturday, one-third the next day.
because some Apple and Best Buy stores were closed yesterday for the Easter holiday. By that calculation, his estimate for Saturday alone 346,000 was about 15%above Apples stated sales number.
Using Marshalls two-thirds Saturday, one-third Sunday formula, Apple would have sold approximately 450,000 ipads total. oein other words,
the launch was great, said Marshall. During the run-up to Saturdays launch, investment blogger Daniel Tello used ipad order numbers submitted by volunteers at Investor Villages AAPL Sanity message board to estimate pre-sales.
was had that Apple taken 240,000 pre-orders, a number that did not account for in store reservations or bulk orders by businesses, schools and other organizations.
According to Marshall, Apple sold more ipads at its retail stores and through Best Buy over the weekend than it did in the three weeks of pre-orders,
unlike during the launch of the first-generation iphone, Apple didnt exhaust its inventory of ipads. oebased on our spot checks, only a couple stores (San francisco,
Marshalls earnings model assumes Apple will sell about four million ipads this year, but as he had previously,
Marshall concluded today in a telephone interview. oeits Apples stepping stone into the living room, and key to its plan to ultimately integrate the home office and the living room.
Apples online store continues to show a ship date for the Wifi-only ipad of April 12,
Apple today said it sold more ipads on Saturday than it sold first-generation iphones in 2007 over a two-day period
The 300,000 number that Apple touted included deliveries of pre-ordered ipads, sales at Apples retail stores and shipments to its partners,
The ipad In 2007, Apple reported selling 270,000 iphones during the new smartphones first two days of availability.
Apple did not accept pre-orders for the iphone before its June 29, 2007 launch. Instead, thousands lined up outside the companys retail stores, some waiting for days,
Brian Marshall of Broadpoint Amtech estimated that Apple sold closer to half a million ipads over the weekend.
Before Apples sales announcement, Marshall had issued a research note to clients that put total ipad sales at 525,000 for Saturday and Sunday.
explaining that earlier he had figured Apple would sell two-thirds of the 525, 000 on Saturday, one-third the next day.
because some Apple and Best Buy stores were closed yesterday for the Easter holiday. By that calculation, his estimate for Saturday alone 346,000 was about 15%above Apples stated sales number.
Using Marshalls two-thirds Saturday, one-third Sunday formula, Apple would have sold approximately 450,000 ipads total. oein other words,
the launch was said great Marshall. During the run-up to Saturdays launch, investment blogger Daniel Tello used ipad order numbers submitted by volunteers at Investor Villages AAPL Sanity message board to estimate pre-sales.
was had that Apple taken 240,000 pre-orders, a number that did not account for in store reservations or bulk orders by businesses, schools and other organizations.
According to Marshall, Apple sold more ipads at its retail stores and through Best Buy over the weekend than it did in the three weeks of pre-orders,
However, unlike during the launch of the first-generation iphone, Apple didnt exhaust its inventory of ipads. oebased on our spot checks, only a couple stores (San francisco,
Marshalls earnings model assumes Apple will sell about four million ipads this year, but as he had previously,
Marshall concluded today in a telephone interview. oeits Apples stepping stone into the living room, and key to its plan to ultimately integrate the home office and the living room.
Apples online store continues to show a ship date for the Wifi-only ipad of April 12
. when the Vikings raised livestock in Greenland and grape vines were cultivated in Scotland, it was in fact warmer than it is today.
a neighboring grove of 1000 olive treesnd they make keeping the land healthy a priority.
But how often do you see a coupon for apples? In my local paper, The Baltimore sun, the vast majority of food coupons are for cookies, cakes, sodas and various forms of packaged goo.
We simply buy whatever fresh fruits and vegetables are on sale that week, then move to the sections offering bulk grains (including rice), canned beans and tomatoes, milk, eggs and maybe a piece of meat or fish.
and also choose snacks like fresh fruit slices, carrots, low fat dairy products, and low fat milk as the main sources.
and Apple a chance to get a leg up on Microsoft, but is also why Microsoft may be able to cement its lead.
Apple, for its part, is equally clear about its aims: it wants to get users into itunes or its App store.
and distribute digital goods. Apples strategy is bidirectional: its Macs drive adoption of iphones, and the iphone drives sales of Macs.
Of course, Apples OS X cant be divorced easily from Apples hardware, making it arguably a much more expensive OS than Microsoft ever dreamed of selling.
Even so, I suspect the future of Microsofts oedesktop OS business is going the same direction as Apples and Googles:
as its Bing search growth on Apples iphone could signal, while simultaneously letting Microsoft experiment with new business models that dont threaten its traditional licensing-based model (as cloud computing does for its server and oedesktop businesses).
and this is equally true for both Google and Apple for their respective environments, mobile allows Microsoft to innovate the Windows user experience.
Apple has started to extend the iphone experience with its ipad, and I suspect well see Microsoft do the same with Windows phone 7. Microsofts consumer
#Underwear Made From Bananas Launched In Australia Australian underwear company Aussiebum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of mens underwear made with bananas.
Aussiebums Lloyd Jones said on Friday that the new eco-friendly banana range of undies incorporated 27 percent banana fibre, 64 percent cotton and nine percent lycra.
He said the banana fibre used in the underwear was made from a bark weave from the banana plant,
which made the underwear not only lightweight but also very absorbent. oenaturally you cant really add any more banana fibre than that
because it might be a bit squishy, said Jones, adding that wearers did not have to worry about real monkeys
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And last March, Apple gave itunes developers the ability to charge subscription fees through their applications
When Research in motion announced a similar initiative last fall at a session of the Blackberry Developer Conference in San francisco,
and Apple does the same with its itunes App store. Amazons Web Services provides developers the cloud-based processing power
Apples itunes and Research in motions payments program reduce transaction fees by bundling a customers purchases before sending them to a credit card company for processing.
And last March, Apple gave itunes developers the ability to charge subscription fees through their applications
When Research in motion announced a similar initiative last fall at a session of the Blackberry Developer Conference in San francisco,
and Apple does the same with its itunes App store. Amazons Web Services provides developers the cloud-based processing power
#International Banana Club Museum For sale Ken Bannister, founder of the International Banana Club Museum, is selling out.
be aware that the museum includes only the banana artifacts but no real estate, as the museum has been housed in rented space.
California where Bannister exhibited his thousands of banana goodies. He did not have another location set up
The Guiness Book of World records says that the museum is the worlds largest collection devoted to any one fruit.
while caffeine is found in citrus flowers especially those of grapefruit. In order to examine whether bees prefer the nectar containing caffeine and nicotine,
from earthy green to lime and dark forest green, she said. oegreens, beiges and warm grays are the popular neutrals.
Theyre getting put together with berry colors, bright blues and violets, along with brilliant yellows and oranges earthy to bright oranges.
Silvery-metallics are also kind of in. Stewart noted that one 2010 color will be rose-pink. oebut were not going back to the grays and pinks of the 80s
a mid-tone orange with a touch of yellow. oesimple Indulgences colors will oedefine luxury.
These include Blueberry and Fools Gold. For more information and views of these colors (and others
She said the oranges and reds go really well with wood tones and other natural materials that are used in interior design. oethe brilliant colors just tend to lift your spirit.
The brainchild of Larry Peterman, 70, HOTLIX have expanded their line to include devilish delights from apple,
lemon and orange flavoured Cricket Suckers to Amber Insectnside and spice-flavoured Larvets. oelarry has
apple peel and banana peel so they are filled clean bugs with nutrients. And like the chocolatier from Roald Dahls hit childrens book, Larry is very protective of the secret process behind making insect candy. oethe owner does not divulge exactly what the process is before they are cooked
it stands to reason that other fruits of the sea would possess similar charms, right? Actually, its been theorized that oysters are considered aphrodisiacs because, evolutionarily,
12 cacao beans (the beans used to make cocoa and chocolate) could purchase the services of a prostitute,
and Montezuma reportedly downed 50 cups of liquid cacao to rev up before conjugal visits to his vast harem.
and mix the meat with honey and the juice of an amalaka (an Asian gooseberry-like fruit).
Fruits and vegetables are needed to ward off a host of ailments, and in times of myriad nutritional deficiencies, it stands to reason that vitamin-rich foods such as figs, grapes,
avocados and carrots would be considered aphrodisiacs. Even today, these foods are seen as great sources of health and vitality.
But of all the foods held in high esteem for sexual enhancement asparagus reigns supreme (its main side effect, strong-smelling urine, notwithstanding.
#Punishment Important in Plant-Pollinator Relationship Charlotte Jander placed either a wasp carrying pollen or a pollen-free wasp in a bag around a fig fruit.
Figs and the wasps that pollinate them present one of biologists favorite examples of a beneficial relationship between two different species. In exchange for the pollination service provided by the wasp,
the fig fruit provides room and board for the wasps developing young. However, wasps do not always pollinate the fig.
Fig trees oepunish these oecheaters by dropping unpollinated fruit, killing the wasps offspring inside, report researchers working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Their results published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, show that sanctions against cheaters may be critical to maintain the relationship. oerelationships require give and take.
We want to know what forces maintain this 80-million-year-old arrangement between figs and their wasp pollinators. said lead author, Charlotte Jandr, graduate student in Cornell Universitys Department of Neurobiology and Behavior,
Jandr evaluated the ability of six different fig tree-fig wasp species pairs to regulate cheating.
into a mesh bag containing an unpollinated The wasps entered the figs to lay their eggs.
Jandr found that trees often dropped unpollinated figs before young wasps could mature. oethis is really about the all too-human theme of crime and punishment.
We found that in actively pollinated fig species when wasps expend time and energy to collect
The governor of the province where the ugly goat was born said that the little goat was the fruit of unnatural relationship between the female goat
He wanted to be able to coat food in ketchup as one coats, for example, cherries in chocolate.
But within nations, the fruits of this global transformation have been shared unevenly. Though China s middle class has grown exponentially
have missed out on the windfalls of this winner-take-most economy#r worse, found their savings, employers,
It s true that few of today s plutocrats were born into the sort of abject poverty that can close off opportunity altogether#a strong early education is pretty much a precondition#ut the bulk of their wealth is generally the fruit of hustle and intelligence (with, presumably,
. and during coffee breaks the lawns are crowded with executives checking their Blackberrys and ipads. Last year s lineup of Zeitgeist speakers included such notables as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, London Mayor Boris Johnson,
Peter Peterson#imself a Republican and former member of Nixon s Cabinet#as spent $1 billion of his Blackstone windfall on a foundation dedicated to bringing down America s deficit and entitlement spending.
Jim Balsillie, a cofounder of Blackberry creator Research in motion, has established his own international-affairs think tank; and on and On it is no coincidence that Bill clinton has devoted his post-presidency to the construction of a global philanthropic brand.#
Over the past year, Google activated more than 255 million devices compared to 105 million Apple activations.
and Apple does. As smartphones and other devices evolve in this exploding market, look for a near-term push into near-field communications, 4g,
Apple s App store currently offers 9, 000 mobile health apps, along with 1, 500 cardio fitness apps, over 1, 300 diet apps, more than 1, 000 stress and relaxation apps,
All Apples stores now carry the Withings Blood pressure monitor, a peripheral device that plugs into the ipad,
#Apple Picks Instagram as the iphone App Of The Year#Instagram is the year end winner.
Apple released its itunes Rewind 2011 and App store Rewind 2011 today, the company s annual lists detailing of the top selling apps, music, TV SHOWS, movies and podcasts for the year.
Apple also selects its own favorite applications, and one of our preferred apps, Instagram, won the honor of being Apple s iphone App of the Year.#
#Angry Birds, which is available on ios as both a paid and free application, not only dominated the year-end lists as the number one download in several cases,
including Fruit Ninja, Cut the Rope, Tiny Wings, Doodle Jump, Plants vs. Zombies and more.
Skype, Kindle, Pandora, CNN and Twitter, plus Apple s own Pages and Garageband, made the list.
As for Apple s editorial picks, it was Instagram as the favorite for iphone, and photo app Snapseed for the ipad.
1. Angry Birds 2. Fruit Ninja 3. Angry Birds Seasons 4. Cut the Rope 5. Tiny Wings 6. Angry Birds Rio
Free 8. Groupon 9. Fruit Ninja Lite 10. Twitter ipad Apps Top Paid ipad Apps:
. Fruit Ninja HD 8. Cut the Rope HD 9. SCRABBLE for ipad 10. Keynote Top Free ipad Apps 1. Angry Birds HD Free 2. The Weather Channel for ipad 3. Netflix 4. CNN App for ipad 5
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