Kona Coffee & All Things Hawaii

Oh yeah, the economy is improving...

The reality is that any growth recently reported was from businesses restocking their inventories: Here is the fraud report " At first blush, the numbers posted by the Commerce Department for gross domestic product in the last three months of 2011 looked strong.

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New two-million degree laser could unlock the secrets of the universe | The State Column

Two-million degrees Fahrenheit. That is temperature produced by a new laser beam, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Police Use of G.P.S. Is Ruled Unconstitutional - NYTimes.com

The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that the police violated the Constitution when they placed a Global Positioning System tracking device on a suspect’s car and monitored its movements for 28 days. But the justices divided 5-to-4 on the rationale for the decis …

Best Vegetable Seed Companies

It's seed catalog time. I get a lot of them and I love them.

Coffee quarantine proposal comes under fire | West Hawaii Today

The Hawaii Department of Agriculture wants a permanent quarantine to prevent the spread of coffee berry borer, evident by its proposal available until today for comment. However, some Kona coffee growers are questioning the motives behind the proposed amendments, particularly …

Kona farmers want more coffee labeling details

Kona coffee growers want Hawaii's labeling law modified to provide more details on packages of coffee blends that contain Hawaii-grown beans.

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Annie Murphy Paul: The Secret Strategies of Skilled Listeners | TIME Ideas | TIME.com

So what are these listening strategies? Skilled learners go into a listening session with a sense of what they want to get out of it. They set a goal for their listening, and they generate predictions about what the speaker will say.

Taking a crack at roasting coffee beans at home - latimes.com

Raw coffee beans get the do-it-yourself treatment as java aficionados jump at the chance to roast their own blend. Four students are standing over a hot stove in the creamery of the Institute of Domestic Technology on a late-October Sunday at the Zane Grey Estate in Altadena.

Native American Heritage Month goes unnoticed by all the major news networks - why?

President Obama signed a proclamation declaring November as Native American Heritage Month with November 25th as Native American Day.

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Luck Is Just the Spark for Business Giants - NYTimes.com

BETTER to be lucky than good, the adage goes. And maybe that’s true — if you just want to be merely good, not much better than average.

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