Piquant Blue records 67% sales boost

Hey! We use this stuff:

Australian olive oil company Piquant Blue Ltd has reported first quarter sales of $2.2 million - a 67 per cent increase on last quarter and more than three ...

Jerry is big on cooking with olive oil, and his favorite is the Njoi brand. It is good stuff, maybe they deserve their success.

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Posh pad prices stall as rates rise

Prices are starting to fall all over the world:

British prices will rise 6 per cent next year, down from 9 per cent in 2006, it said.

But, if I have one regret about this recent boom, it's that real estate prices have gone up all over the world. We can't take our profits from our American home and buy a lovely place, say, on the Costa del Sol. And that hurts.

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UK Weekend Soccer Refs Blow Whistle on Abuse by Quitting Game

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... ``There are times when I think, `Do I need to come out here and have all this aggravation?''' the 59-year-old soccer referee said after finishing a game at ...

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ev3 Inc. Reports Third Quarter Net Sales Increase of 55%

I have an ev3 device in my body, and it was indeed expensive. I'm not surprised that they're doing well:

ev3 Inc.
(Nasdaq: EVVV), a global endovascular device company, today reported
financial results for its fiscal third quarter of 2006. ev3's net sales in the third quarter of 2006 increased 55% to $51.9 million versus net sales of ...

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Canadian women's soccer team in turmoil

I haven't shared with you folks yet that I share my husbands soccer addiction. I've been so disappointed with the failure of professional soccer to develop here in the US, which is surprising because youth soccer is so successful. I was saddened to see this article about my hometown team:

On the eve of World Cup qualifying, the Canadian women's soccer team is in turmoil with captain Charmaine Hooper and two other veteran players threatening a ...

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Foreign car sales overtake domestic for first time ever

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... since Russians traditionally make most of their purchases in the last months of the year, it is already clear that 2006 will beat records for foreign car sales ...

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US Producer Prices Fell 1.3%; Core Rate Up 0.6% (Update1)

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By Joe Richter. Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Prices paid to US producers fell last month by the most since April 2003 as energy costs dropped. ...

Link: US Producer Prices Fell 1.3%; Core Rate Up 0.6% (Update1)

Real slip to defeat as Ronaldo sees red

Things are unsettled in Casa Buena! El Marido isn't too happy today. I'm a Barca fan so this news was fine for me:

Fabio Capello's Real Madrid suffered a double blow this morning when they slumped to their first league defeat of the season, 1-0 away to Getafe, and had ...

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Glenn Myernick, 51; Olympic soccer coach

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By AP | October 10, 2006. THORNTON, Colo. -- Glenn Myernick, an assistant coach for the US soccer team and a former head coach of Major League Soccer's Colorado ...

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Suspicion Surrounds Retreat In Gas Prices

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Gasoline prices are down about 75 cents in two months, but whether motorists will see further declines at the pump depends in part on whether the Organization ...

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Papers fund plan to kill estate tax

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An initiative aiming to repeal Washington's estate tax is tugging at the heartstrings -- not to mention the purse strings -- of some of the state's most ...

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Oil prices feed Bush conspiracy theories

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... WASHINGTON — In mid-May, with gasoline prices at $2.95 a gallon and rising, 15 percent of Americans listed high fuel prices as their top concern ...

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Ciao to hoops, Suns take in soccer

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Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns went to Italy for the beginning of their National Basketball Association training camp -- and a soccer game broke out. ...

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EL estate agent barred from selling houses

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... In e-mails to the Border-Kei Chamber of Business, its members and the domestic real estate industry, Kuhlmann has accused Bassingthwaighte, who is also chamber ...

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The case of the shamed judge overshadows a real travesty

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... pool. But the real revulsion against Khan, and the crux of any investigation by the Lord Chancellor, centres on Driza's status. ...

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