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	<title>Hot Topics &#187; Vanessa Ho</title>
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		<title>Oops, Starbucks barista writes ‘Vagina’ on customer’s cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s tough being a Starbucks barista who has to write customer names on cups. Is it “John” with an “h”? “Thanh Ha” with three “hs?” It’s all part of Starbucks’ effort to personalize things. But one barista got a little too personal, when a customer named Virginia ordered a drink from a Starbucks in Hong<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/oops-starbucks-barista-writes-vagina-on-customers-cup/15196/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Mad Men&#8217; stars, then and now</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need to get ready for “Mad Men’s” new season? Here’s AMC’s behind-the-scenes look at Season 5:]]></description>
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		<title>Oh no! Christmas tree ‘busts’ through roof</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did Patrick Kruger’s giant Christmas tree really bust through the roof of his low-slung house in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood? Sure looks that way. But a closer a look shows a bit of clever construction. Kruger told KING-5 TV in Seattle that the tree is actually cut in two, with the crown bolted to the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starbucks’ new super-expensive coffee: Worth it?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hottopics/2012/11/28/starbucks%e2%80%99-new-super-expensive-coffee-worth-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until a few weeks ago, Starbucks’ most expensive coffee was the citrusy, milk-chocolatey Jamaica Blue Mountain, available for $30 for a half-pound of beans, or $4.50 for a tall, brewed cup. But that’s small beans compared with Starbucks’ newest premium coffee, the “Costa Rica Finca Palmilera.” Made from a rare, heirloom, hard-to-grow coffee varietal called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for ‘American only’ Costco hours to end</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hottopics/2012/08/16/call-for-%e2%80%98american-only%e2%80%99-costco-hours-to-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was quick. A Facebook page in support of “American only” hours at a Bellingham, Wash. Costco – in response to the store’s many Canadian shoppers – is ending, after attracting 4,600 likes and many heated comments. The administrator of the page, begun in July, said the “negative” comments had gone “overboard.” This was despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costco shoppers want ‘American only’ hours</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hottopics/2012/08/15/costco-shoppers-want-%e2%80%98american-only%e2%80%99-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve ever shopped at Costco on a weekend, you know it’s like an endurance sport, with tough parking, packed crowds and competitive lines for those mini-sausage samples. But Costco shoppers in Bellingham, Wash. have an additional challenge: Canadians. It seems that the store, 90 miles north of Seattle and near the border, attracts flocks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starbucks to drop crushed bugs from drinks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will be a little less protein in that strawberry Frappucino this summer. Starbucks announced Thursday it will stop using insects as a food colorant in their rosy-hued drinks and foods in the wake of protests by vegetarians. “After a thorough, yet fastidious, evaluation, I am pleased to report that we are reformulating the affected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Billionaire’ video mocks lavish fed spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Days after a scandal erupted over a federal agency’s lavish spending on parties, fancy dinners, resort suites and rented tuxes, a music video has emerged by one of the agency’s employees, mocking the spending. The video was made for an employee talent contest for the General Services Administration’s 2010 conference in Las Vegas, reported The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Bezos’ spaceship fails</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hottopics/2011/09/02/jeff-bezos%e2%80%99-spaceship-fails/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hottopics/2011/09/02/jeff-bezos%e2%80%99-spaceship-fails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unmanned spaceship funded by Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos failed during a test flight last week, in a mishap described by the Wall Street Journal as an illustration of “the dramatic risks of private space ventures.” Bezos wrote about the misfire Friday on the website of Blue Origin, the Kent-based company he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant bans young kids, says they’re too loud</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hottopics/2011/07/12/restaurant-bans-young-kids-says-they%e2%80%99re-too-loud/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hottopics/2011/07/12/restaurant-bans-young-kids-says-they%e2%80%99re-too-loud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After suffering through countless meals with whiny, crying kids for years, one restaurant will soon ban kids six and under, a decision that’s drawn cheers and boos from the deep divide between parents and non-parents. The owner of McDain’s Restaurant, an “upscale casual” place in Monroeville, PA, recently told his patrons that the restaurant is [...]]]></description>
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