The world’s costliest coffee which costs between $120 and $600 USD per pound, is called Kopi Luwak. It is prepared using coffee cherries that have been eaten by Asian Palm Civet and and partially through  their system undigested (which gives a unique palette of taste !!!!!)

Partially digested Asian Palm Civet beans droppings are then hand collected from where they lay on the jungle floor, bagged, and then processed.

This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid) and in East Timor (locally called kafé-laku). Kopi Luwak, also known as caphe cut chon (fox-dung coffee) in Vietnam.

The Asian Palm Civet is also known as the Common Palm Civet or the Toddy Cat, is a cat-sized mammal.

Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee, and luwak is a local name of the Asian Palm Civet. Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for between $120 and $600 USD per pound, and is sold mainly in Japan and the United States.

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Plastic bags have only been around for about 50 years, so there’s no firsthand evidence of their decomposition rate, but the time to degrade a traditional plastic bag represents an estimate anything between 100 and 500 years to dissolve.

Basically, Plastic shopping bags are made of polyethylene, a man-made polymer that microorganisms don’t recognize as food. It is a polymer consisting of long chains of the monomer ethylene (IUPAC name ethene).

In 2007 San Francisco has become the first city in North America to ban the use of traditional plastic grocery bags.

Try to re-use and recycle shopping bags.

Buzzword in the Internet community, nowadays, is VoIP. A VoIP or broadband phone is like a regular phone except it uses a high speed internet to make call at a fraction of the cost or for free.

VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol, which is phone service that uses broadband Internet connectivity to dial. You may be wondering whether or not VoIP is a reliable technology, particularly since it is fairly new.

Reliability

VoIP is just as reliable as the Internet. Conventional phones are connected directly to telephone company phone lines, which in the event of a power failure are kept functioning by backup generators or batteries located at the telephone exchange. However, IP Phones and the IP infrastructure they connect to (routers and servers) typically depend on the availability of mains electricity or another locally generated power source.

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