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		<title>Season&#8217;s Greetings Everyone!</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2009/12/30/seasons-greetings-everyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[. Thoughts on business on Slayer on the past and future year. . This post is rather a rambler. . So before going further, I want to thank you all for your support this year.  2009 was an epic year for us.  This was the year we completed designing, and finally introduced, and began building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about the Art, dude!</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2009/06/04/its-about-the-art-dude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading this, I think Ethan makes one good point: no one is perfect and  unfortunately we do live in a time and place where even posting a comment to the Cloud is emitting tundra-melting CO2.  In this sense, we are all hypocrites and posers. However, I also think Ethan misses a larger point. Assume for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCAA 2009: Wanted Missing Coffee Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that the SCAA sponsors a poetry contest each year? It&#8217;s true. I only learned this fact on the last day of SCAA Atlanta, when I happened to overhear an announcement over the din, &#8220;Best Poem of 2009 to be awarded in 15 minutes.&#8221; [Note: Turns out the winner is only announced at SCAA, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slayer &#8211; What it is.</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2009/04/13/slayer-what-it-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Coming to terms&#8211;finding the right words! Espresso machine manufacturers like to lay claim to a tradition of hand-made espresso machine manufacturing.  Maybe you&#8217;ve noticed this too. Such claims can be confusing because they don&#8217;t elaborate on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenwashing with bottled water.</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2008/06/04/greenwashing-with-bottled-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bottled Water redux   Last year I posted on this blog about bottled water.  You can read this by clicking here.  I described a particular phenomena that I find absolutely horrifying.  The so-called Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.  The Patch is a huge mass of plastic crap that is circulating permanently in a natural current called the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barista Champion &#8211; The World Barista Competition Way</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2008/05/28/barista-champion-the-wbc-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 20:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people who are familiar with competitive cooking shows like Iron Chef have a good idea what WBC-sanctioned barista competitions are all about.  They are highly charged extravaganzas where aspiring barista superstars can take on their peers and emerge as the toast of the entire specialty coffee world.  What&#8217;s more, the recognition is there, not just for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity Available! Third Wave Cafe in Seattle.</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2008/04/30/opportunity-available-third-wave-cafe-in-seattle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you opening a cafe or planning to in the near future?  if you are, then I may have the perfect location for you:  right next door to Starbucks!  Pictured here is a location that is actually available right now.  It offers the opportunity to go head-to-head with the industry&#8217;s Goliath&#8211;and your new store is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Specialty Coffee.  Is It Still The Affordable Luxury?</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2008/03/15/specialty-coffee-is-it-still-the-affordable-luxury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me the question of affordable luxury leads down a winding, scrambling, path of discussion around the word &#8220;luxury&#8221; itself. Like any conversation about coffee this discussion is also hopelessly mired in considerations of culture and society.  The United Nations defines the &#8220;forced isolation&#8221; of human beings as a form of torture, in certain cases.  Extended periods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Direct Trade vs Coffee Certifications</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2008/03/13/direct-trade-vs-coffee-certifications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of accompanying my brother (Russ) on a Direct Trade sourcing trip to Nicaragua. Being the espresso machine geek I am &#8211; I&#8217;m generally in Italy, so this was a treat for me. Something that I wanted was a first had experience of Direct Trace sourcing vs Fair Trade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stopping the Madness! Do you ever buy bottled water?</title>
		<link>http://www.slayerespresso.com/2007/11/03/stopping-the-madness-do-you-ever-buy-bottled-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Perkunder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Specialty coffee has long struggled to be a good environmental citizen, notwithstanding the advent of the Solo Traveler cup and lid. One reason is that the industry over time has become uncomfortably connected to a broad range of disposable paper products, items that are likely to end up in landfills and sometimes as litter. It [...]]]></description>
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