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At birth, Melinda Star Guido tipped the scales at only 9 1/2 ounces, less than a can of soda. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP2011

Strauss Group Ltd. (STRS) said its coffee
unit has signed a five-year agreement with Viva Coffee GmbH to
operate the German coffee manufacturer, according to a statement
filed today with the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Strauss can extend the agreement for an additional three
years and has an option to buy the company for 53 million euros,
it added in the statement.

The shares rose 0.8 percent to 46.97 shekels at the 4:30
pm close in Tel Aviv, the highest close since Jan. 2.

Strauss also said the German company received a 28.6
million-euro loan from local banks and estimated that it will
need to invest another $3.5 million in Viva’s...

In a bit of foreshadowing, Naked Juice dropped the Hansen name after buying the company.

Recently, Hansen Natural Corp., now in Corona, did the same. The new name is Monster Beverage Corp. and the stock ticker symbol is MNST. It previously had been HANS. Even the website has changed to monsterbevcorp.com. (It still maintains hansens.com.)

Shareholders approved the corporate name change along with a two-for-one stock split.

The name change from the wholesome image Hansen to extreme sports sponsor Monster seems a bit like when 50s singer Pat Boone made a heavy metal album. But as beverage industry website Bevnet.com noted, Considering that the energy drink business...

So it is finally decided. Joe Philbin will be the next head coach of the Miami Dolphins. Thus far the media seems to be positive but perhaps a little reserved on their take of the hire. There is of course the recent death of his son. Will he be able to pour himself in to a huge job after just experiencing such a terrible tragedy in his life? No one knows that and no one can say how that will affect him now or in the future. Will he be able to translate the sort of offense he engineered in Green Bay to the personnel in Miami? A lot of that depends on who the next QB is I suspect. Is he a leader, does he have that aura that makes men follow him? All word so far out of Green Bay says yes but like...

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Proceeds from Rare Find coffee to help save worlds jaguars

About a year ago, The Bee dropped by Rogers Family Co. in Lincoln to check out its coffee operation and learn about its philanthropic efforts in Panama. The coffee company roasts beans under a variety of brand names, including San Francisco Bay Coffee and the Organic Coffee Co.

Now, the companys released Rare Find, a fair trade coffee with proceeds to benefit the wild cat conservation organization Panthera. The coffee costs $11.99 for a 12-ounce bag and $22.99 per pound of whole beans; 20 percent of online sales will go toward Pantheras efforts to protect jaguars. Ten percent of wholesale and distributor sales...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The bottle-deposit issue has bedeviled
lawmakers for more than a decade, and long-timers at the Capitol
joke that a legislative session is not official unless there is a
bottle bill debate.

This time, the Iowa Senate president and a freshman House member
are proposing to allow redemption centers to pay consumers only
four cents of Iowa’s nickel deposit on recyclable cans and
bottles.

Democrats Sen. Jack Kibbie of Emmetsburg and Rep. John Wittneben
of Estherville say the change is needed to keep the redemption
centers — and the entire beverage container recycling system –
viable.

“In 1978,...

Altogether the food and beverage industry has provided him with nearly $400,000 over that time. And in the 1998 election cycle, his last until this year, it gave him $80,000 –more than any other politician.

Last night some television announcer said average womens weight has gone from 140 pounds in 1980 to 160 pounds in 2012. Ill take either weight gratefully. And if anyone wants to know, I have enrolled in a pay-now program using powerful machinery to whip me into shape one way or another. Then my age and back enjoined in marriage, causing my back to hurt whenever it chooses, probably because of friends Mr. Arthur and his horribly cruel friend Mrs. Osto. This occurred during my initial week of exercise possibly because I left the walking machines and decided to work on one to eliminate one of my stomachs. Big mistake.

In 1991, I paid my dues with back surgery for a three-type rupture on the bottom...

Independent staff report

As unrestricted corporate money flows into independent political action committees for the 2012 election season, a Port Orchard man is trying to raise awareness of what was unleashed by the US Supreme Court’s controversial decision in the Citizens United case, and what might be done to counter its effects.

Don Manning has organized a West Sound Coffee Party forum for Monday evening to discuss how the Citizens United ruling that gave corporations “personhood” status has affected the electoral process.

The forum will begin at 5:30 pm Monday at the Kitsap Regional Library branch in Bremerton at 1301 Sylvan Way.

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