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Welcome to Badgett's Coffee eJournal
"All the Coffee That's Fit to Print"TM
Issue No. 66 . . . . . . June 14, 2002
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In This Issue:
1. Welcome
2. Some Words from Our Sponsors
3. Moisture in Coffee Equals Quality
4. A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe
5. Readers' Comments
6. AboutCoffee.net
7. Starbucks the Target of Arab Boycott
8. The Rebbe
9. Ownership of Caribou Coffee
10. Home Roasting Coffee
11. Links to My Friends
12. Feedback
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1. Welcome and thank you for subscribing.
Howdy folks, we're back.
For anyone having trouble getting the links to work in the last
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TV Fix: www.aish.com/societywork/society/the_tv_fix.asp
Doing Business...:
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Espresso Nirvana: www.1st-cup.com/education/theart.html
Thanks to those readers who took the time to send feedback on the
new format. Most were very positive.
I apologize for "teasing" you with an article and then making it
difficult to see the full article. Some of you opted for plain
text and I should have done it right in the first place.
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2. Some Words From Our Sponsors
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Coffee Books
Dozens of great books about coffee. Unplug the TV and open a book.
The coffee world is fascinating and complex and we all have much
to learn. If you have a good book on coffee that should be on
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"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome." Isaac Asimov
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3. Moisture in Coffee Equals Quality
(From the grower to the master connoisseur)
Moisture in coffee beans is frequently a last minute item of
concern. However, it is a significant factor in the quality
and cost of coffee. Beginning at time of harvest, moisture
is a key determinant of the maturity of the bean for harvest.
This maturity has a continuing influence on the quality of the
coffee at each of the next steps. It determines the amount of
drying needed to stand the rigors of shipping. It is a principal
economic factor due to weight loss of the green beans during
storage and roasting.
Understanding moisture is one of the keys to the art of roasting
and allows the maintenance of a consistent roasted product from
batch to batch. It is also a factor in the effectiveness and
efficiency of the final step of the grind. Economics, processing
and in the end, the taste of the brewed coffee result is influenced
by moisture content in the bean, from green to roast to ground.
For full article, please click here: http://badgettcoffee.com/moisture.htmlBack to Top
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"I'll sleep when I'm dead." Warren Zevon
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4. A Daily Dose of Wisdom from the Rebbe
-Words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman
B"H
Inner Peace
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It is the greatest of struggles. But one who makes peace between
his ego and his mission in life, he can make peace between the
world and its purpose of creation. Between woman and man.
Between earth and heaven.
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"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." Aristotle
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5 Readers' Comments
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Hi Robert, Congratulations on 2 great years with Badgett's Coffee
eJournal !! I've been reading it ever since I went online mid
Sept/00, & always look forward to seeing it in the in box.
I love the new look, this first HTML version, & having the links
makes it easier to read. The new fonts with the Brown, Black & Blue
are great & it now has a look & feel to it like your reading a
larger font type book!
All the best,
Craig {;-)
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Hello,
I like the changes you have made to the eJournal. Thanks, and
keep up the good work!
Lin
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I do not like the links to read the rest of the articles. IT's
like reading a magazine article that starts on page 8, goes on
for 2 colums and then sends you to page 182. Sorry, but I just
never get there. Plus the fact that my company monitors which
web site I visit. Can't be jumping all over the net to read an
article. Too bad, I enjoyed your newsletter.
Name omitted by Robert
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HTML email with no text alternative? No thanks.
I've just unsubbed.
Lara
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I absolutely detest HTML e-mail. HTML is for web pages.
E-mail and newsgroups are for text. You've now made it impossible
to read... a teaser paragraph and then a "More" that leads nowhere.
Sorry to be such a downer, but receiving a newsletter full
of teasers with no links to the articles is a bit ridiculous.
Steve
Edited by Robert
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Hi Robert
Just want to say I have long enjoyed receiving your Coffee Journal
and wish to laud you for your efforts in promoting specialty
coffees and the subtleties in appreciating them....
Mark
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RABBI PLISKIN'S DAILY LIFT
Daily Lift #45 Glad To Help
Be grateful to anyone you help. They are helping you fulfill your
life's mission. Be especially careful not to speak or act
condescendingly when you try to help someone. The good you do can
be offset by the damage caused by an insulting tone.
(From Rabbi Pliskin's book Kindness)
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6. AboutCoffee.net
Last issue had an article, "Wanted: A Few Good Coffee Publishers",
and many of you sent messages expressing an interest. Thank you for
your response.
The project and new website are in development, but if you would
like more information, please go to the FAQ's page:
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"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
Bertrand Russell
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7. Starbucks the Target of Arab Boycott
Report: Starbucks the target of Arab boycott for its links to Israel
By Ha'aretz Service
Starbucks is among a list of American companies being targeted in
a boycott campaign being launched in five Arab states, the British
daily The Independent reported Friday.
According to the report, Nestle, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson and
Burger King outlets are also on the list of companies to be boycotted.
The newspaper reported from Beirut that activists handed out
leaflets outside the city's four Starbucks shops, "detailing the
pro-Israeli sentiments of its chief executive, Howard Shultz,
and claiming he is 'an active Zionist'."
For the full article, please click here: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=176572Back to Top
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do
him absolutely no good." Samuel Johnson
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8. The Rebbe
Robert's note: I have been including "A Daily Dose of Wisdom
from the Rebbe" for quite a few months and many readers have
told me they enjoy the articles. One reader said, "I also enjoy
the 'spiritual coffee' you include in the journal." I thought
it was time I gave some background on the Rebbe that many readers
might not be familiar with.
"The life story of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneersohn,
parallels the story of our century. Born in the Ukrainian-Russian town
of Nikolaev in 1902, the Rebbe spent the century's and his childhood
in pogrom-ridden Czarist Russia, the 20's battling the Stalinist
attempt to eradicate Jewish life in the Soviet Empire, the 30's in
Berlin and Paris. In 1941 he escaped Nazi-occupied Europe and settled
in New York, where for the next 50 years he transformed the very
fabric of Jewish life in every corner of the globe."
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"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found
truth without it." Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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9. Ownership of Caribou Coffee
An email is floating around that discusses the ownership of
Caribou Coffee. I have received two of them in the past week.
I sent the message below to Caribou Coffee and asked for their
comment before I published the message in BCE. Their response
follows the email message.
(Beginning of email message.)
As you will see from the links below, Caribou Coffee is owned
87.8% by the First Islamic Investment Bank which, among other
things has the following philosophy:
"Above all, ensuring that all activities conform to
Islamic Shari'ah"
The chairman of their Shari'ah supervisory board is:
Dr. Yusuf Abdullah Al-Qaradawi, Chairman, Seerah & Sunnah Center,
Qatar University; Professor, Faculty of Shari'ah, Qatar University.
As you will see from the links below he is also on the supervisory
board of "Union for Good" which is a charitable organization to
support Palestinians. Nothing wrong with a charity to help
Palestinians, but here is a quote from the Union for Good web site:
'The Al-Aqsa Intifada is the latest of a long line of affliction
faced by the people of Palestine. Its ancestry dates back to the
massacre of innocent men, women and children in villages such as
Deir Yaseen and the illegal occupation of Palestine in 1948.'
http://www.firstislamic.com/sharia.htmhttp://www.firstislamic.com/caribou.htmlhttp://www.interpal.org/web/supervisory.htmhttp://www.interpal.org/web/cbackground.htm
As another follow up, quick web searching confirms that Caribou
Coffee is owned by Crescent Capital, which is a subsidiary of
the First Islamic Investment Bank of Bahrain. Of note, this same
group recently purchased a small airplane manufacturing company in
Duluth, Cirrus Design."
(End of email message.)
Caribou Coffee's reply is as follows:
From: "Caribou Coffee Customer Care" CustomerResponse@Caribou-Coffee.com
To: rb@badgettcoffee.com
Subject: Ownership
Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:32 PM
Caribou is a classic American growth company, founded in Minnesota
and now employing over 2,900 Americans in 9 states. Caribou has
approximately 99 shareholders and option holders, including
management, employees and the original founders John and Kim
Puckett. A majority of our stock is owned by a group of
international investors led by First Islamic Investment Bank,E.C.,
a highly respected and purely financial organization based in
Bahrain and regulated by the government of Bahrain, a strong U.S.
ally in the Middle East and the headquarters of the U.S. Navy's 5th
Fleet. The recent investment by this group has enabled Caribou
to continue expanding its store base in the U.S.
We are extremely concerned about accusations that an outside
advisor to First Islamic has made statements that do not reflect
the views of either Caribou or any of its shareholders, and we
categorically reject any attempt to link such statements to Caribou.
The person in question is not an employee or shareholder of either
First Islamic or Caribou, and neither we nor our shareholders have
any control over this person's political views. We have made First
Islamic aware of the statements and understand that this relationship
is under review.
Any concerns that anyone involved in ownership of Caribou condones
terrorism are totally unwarranted. Our ownership has no political
agenda and is 100% opposed to terrorism of any kind, anywhere - period.
Caribou Coffee Company
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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you
want to do." Jean-Paul Sartre
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10. Home Roasting Coffee
It's amazing how many people do not know that many coffee lovers
roast their own coffee at home. Just recently I mentioned this journal
to a friend and he asked where I bought my coffee. I told him I buy
green beans on the Internet and roast them myself. He asked, "you mean
you grind them yourself." He wasn't asking, he was telling, as if he
was correcting me. I had to do some convincing to make him believe
me. He just couldn't believe that it could be done at home.
Some people ask, "Why in the world do you do that?" My answer is
simple, "because it just tastes better, noticeably better." Then they
ask, "Isn't that difficult?" I tell them it's about as difficult and time
consuming as boiling eggs.
When people discover how much better fresh roasted coffee is and
how easy it is to make a better cup of coffee by home roasting, they
will wonder why they didn't do it sooner. They will wonder how they
were ever satisfied with the swill they made from canned coffee.
I admit, home roasting is not for everyone. It's a little more trouble
than opening a can or a bag and it's a little smelly unless you roast
outside or in the garage. It's hard to believe, but many folks do not
enjoy the full, rich flavor of a fresh roasted cup of good coffee. I don't
understand it, but I know it's true.
A home roaster will never be as common as a toaster or microwave,
but I think there is a tremendous potential for growth.
Robert
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"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met
on the street." Elbert Hubbard
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11. Links to My Friends
You may now add your link to our links page. There are many
categories (including Personal Pages)and you may enter as many
as are appropriate. Check it out now. www.badgettcoffee.com
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"A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire
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