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buy, donate, caffeinate

Buy or donate books, audio, video materials to The Literacy Group:



In the downtown reviving core, a quick walk is Monigram Coffee Roasters:



Buy coffee then walk 3 minutes to check out books, videos, cds. "Adults who want to improve their reading, writing, math, computer and workplace skills."

perseverance

It took Howard Schultz 242 attempts to get a venture capital deal to start Starbucks.

ingenious

Inventions of the ancient Islamic world here.

Nelson and Wellington

The only thing Napoleon liked about being incarcerated on St. Helena was the coffee.

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Assorted celebrities do the Tim Hortons drive thru in Ferraris here.

15,000 stores

"We willed it ... I had some luck and good timing, but we dreamed big dreams."
- Howard Schultz

a place to have coffee in Venice

www.caffeflorian.com

tip

"Don't drink cappuccino after 11am."

A new web series by Jerry Seinfeld here.

"sparks shoot to the brain"

Honoré de Balzac [1799-1850] consumed forty cups of coffee per day.

coffee

David Lynch makes coffee:
http://www.davidlynch.com/coffee/main2.html

go away

"Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were."
- Garrison Keillor [born 1942]

An earlier reference to Keillor here.

Image source here.

Coffee

Relax - no real side-effects in moderation and considerable benefits:

Recent disease-related findings can only add to coffee’s popularity. A review of 13 studies found that people who drank caffeinated coffee, but not decaf, had a 30 percent lower risk of Parkinson’s disease.

Another review found that compared with noncoffee drinkers, people who drank four to six cups of coffee a day, with or without caffeine, had a 28 percent lower risk of Type 2 diabetes. This benefit probably comes from coffee’s antioxidants and chlorogenic acid.

[Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan]