Marley looking to expand coffee business

Rohan Marley, the son of reggae legend Bob Marley, has his sights set on new and emerging regions, including Asia, for his successful Marley Coffee.

Fans of the coffee include golfer Giulia Molinaro, Chilean surfer Isidora Ureta, Kirstie Alley and Lennox Lewis.

Marley's coffee success was not initially a firm plan. He was considering growing apples to make jam when he bought a pristine 52-acre estate in Jamaica for $200K at age 27.

"I wasn't really sure what I'd do with the land but I saw some apples on the ground and thought that might be good," said Marley, 42, who followed the local community's advice and grew Blue Mountain coffee instead.

Last year, sales were $6 million, up from $1.8 million a year earlier. This quarter, sales were $2.3 million for all of its businesses, including licensing fees.

The average price for Blue Mountain coffee is about $24.99 for an 8 oz. bag, while the average price for Ethiopian blend is $9.99 for that size.

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Museum features largest Bruce Springsteen exhibit — online

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July 5, 2014 | 10:29pm

If you can't make it down the Jersey shore for the holiday weekend, perhaps the next best thing could be a cyber-trip to BlindedByTheLight.com, an online museum that features the largest Bruce Springsteen exhibit ever collected.

The webseum — founded by Michael Crane — just launched in commemoration of the 30th-anniversary release date of "Born in the USA" — the most successful recording in Springsteen's career.

Some of the items on digital display include:

• Bruce's 1957 Chevy Bel Air in which he wrote the album "Born To Run."
• An early address book with phone numbers of bandmates along with lyrics to "Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?"
• A rare photo from 1972 of Springsteen and his father dressed up as "Cisco Kid" and "Pancho" taken in Tijuana, Mexico.
• His 8th-grade report card from St. Rose of Lima Catholic School (with a surprisingly low mark in music).

An "All-Access" monthly subscription charge is $9.99.

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Ex-‘Scandal’ star arrested for public intoxication

DALLAS — Former "Scandal" actor Columbus Short has been arrested in Dallas for public intoxication.

Dallas police said the 31-year-old Short was arrested at 2 a.m. Saturday at the Katy Trail Ice House, a popular beer garden and restaurant.

A message left at the restaurant on Saturday was not immediately returned.

It is not the first time Short has had trouble with the law.

In May, he pleaded not guilty to felony battery for a fight that seriously injured a man at a West Hollywood restaurant. And he faced a misdemeanor spousal battery case.

Short announced in April that he wasn't returning to the hit series "Scandal" for its fourth season.

The actor's agent, manager and lawyer did not immediately respond to messages Saturday.

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Wright’s return can’t help Mets in loss

The Mets got David Wright back Saturday night, but it didn't put an end to their losing ways.

With the team on the edge of irrelevance, the Mets lost 5-3 to the Rangers at Citi Field and have dropped eight of their last 10 games as GM Sandy Alderson weighs what approach to take as the non-waiver trade deadline nears.

Bartolo Colon had his second straight shaky outing and the Mets fell a season-high 11 games out in the NL East, giving up four runs in the first, including a three-run homer to Robinson Chirinos.

Adrian Beltre added a solo shot with two outs in the third for a 5-0 lead before the Mets rallied in the bottom of the inning, scoring twice thanks to a run-scoring double by Curtis Granderson and an RBI single by Bobby Abreu.

The Mets added another run in the fourth with Travis d'Arnaud's leadoff homer, but they never got closer, even after drawing a pair of walks to start the bottom of the eighth.

A healthy and productive Wright figures to help the Mets, but he clearly isn't completely pain free after missing seven games with a bruised left rotator cuff.

"It's definitely much better," Wright said before going 1-for-4. "One thing to judge it on is going out there and doing things I'm comfortable doing and I can do things that I definitely couldn't do a week ago."

A day after Alderson said he didn't think the Mets were far from being playoff contenders, Wright said he hoped tht remained the case to prevent a sell-off.

"As far as I'm concerned, Sandy's the general manager, but my thoughts are this is something that I knew — and I think we all knew — was going to be difficult," Wright said. "It wasn't going to be, snap your fingers, and overnight we go out there and win 100 games. It's a process and we're obviously trying to win now, but I'm sure Sandy has his thoughts on the future, too. Whatever he decides to do I'm sure guys will accept, but you never want to be sellers at the deadline because that pretty much means you're rebuilding for the next year or the future."

And Wright has been through that before.

"It's kind of a delicate balance between trying to win now and also looking forward to the future and trying to build something that's a yearly playoff contender," Wright said.

Wright's return Saturday allowed him to avoid a DL stint. The next step is making sure Wright can stay on the field. He said he would attempt to avoid making any more headfirst dives on the base paths, although that is not a new development.

"I've tried to do that for a few years now," Wright said. "I think I do a pretty good job of it, but you get in a situation like the one where I got injured, there's this sense in your mind that it's a big situation and you get in your mind that you feel like you're faster sometimes and you just don't think about it and you do it. But definitely going forward that's something I need to do a better job of going feet first."

Whatever concerns may exist, Wright just hopes to provide a boost for the offense.

"I'd like to think I make a positive impact on the team," Wright said. "I know it's been somewhat of a roller-coaster ride this year as far as us in general offensively and me in particular, personally with ups and downs. Hopefully I help produce and finish up strong before the All-Star break."

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Daily Blotter

The Bronx

A Claremont man with a long rap sheet robbed a Laundromat and returned home nearby, where he was soon arrested, cops said.

Jerome Smith, 42, walked into 303 Laundromat at East 170th Street and College Avenue at 4:40 a.m. Thursday and demanded cash from the manager, ­according to police.

He pointed to a bulge in his waistband, put the manager in a choke hold, led him to a back room and snatched a cellphone and $60, cops said.

Smith fled the scene but cops ID'd him via surveillance video, police said.

Officers came knocking on his door at 8 a.m. and he later confessed, police said.

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A potato-chip deliveryman was robbed in broad daylight in Castle Hill, cops said.

The 42-year-old victim, who works for Lays, was making a delivery at Randall and Castle Hill avenues at 12:15 p.m. on June 19 when a thug accosted him, reached into the guy's back pocket, grabbed $600 and fled, police said.

Brooklyn

Police believe the man used counterfeit money orders to buy $20,000 worth of slippers and throw pillows in Borough Park.

It wasn't immediately clear where the transaction took place, but investigators believe Zongtai Zhu, 45, met with a 38-year-old Brooklyn based distributor, from whom he purchased 700 pairs of slippers and 100 throw pillows, cops said.

Zhu, of Brooklyn, is believed to be about 5-foot-5 with brown eyes and black hair.

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A hit-and-run driver seriously injured a pedestrian in Williamsburg early Saturday, cops said.

The driver of a white vehicle was traveling south on Bushwick Avenue near Maujer Street when he struck the 36-year-old man at about 2:30 a.m., according to police.

The driver fled the scene and left the victim bloodied with facial injuries and a broken ankle, cops said.

The victim was in stable condition at Elmhurst Hospital.

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A 23-year-old man was fatally knifed in Flatbush early Saturday, cops said.

A thug plunged the knife into the neck and chest of the victim at Utica Avenue and Union Street at 5 a.m.

Emergency responders rushed the man to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, cops said.

Queens

A thief burglarized a Flushing gas-station convenience store, stealing cash from an ATM inside, cops said.

The theft occurred sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday at the Gulf station on Cooper Avenue near 73rd Place, cops said.

A manager opening for business at 9:30 a.m. Thursday realized someone had broken in by breaking a gate lock, police said.

Investigators discovered two drill holes in the ATM's lockbox, which had contained about $2,700, police said. Cops are scouring the area for video-surveillance footage.

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Officer punches woman on Los Angeles freeway

LOS ANGELES — The California Highway Patrol said Friday it is investigating video of one of its officers straddling a woman and punching her in the head as she lay on the shoulder of a Los Angeles freeway.

The woman had been walking on Interstate 10 west of downtown Los Angeles, endangering herself and people in traffic, and the officer was trying to restrain her, CHP Assistant Chief Chris O'Quinn said at a news conference.

Passing Driver David Diaz recorded the Tuesday incident and provided it to media outlets including The Associated Press.

The officer is on administrative leave while the patrol investigates. He has not been identified.

O'Quinn said the incident report listed no injuries for the woman, who would not give her name. She is undergoing psychiatric evaluation, he said.

He said the officer was answering a report of a pedestrian on the freeway. When he found the woman, she started walking down an off-ramp and then turned around, walked back onto the freeway and started wandering into lanes, O'Quinn said. That's when the incident occurred.

O'Quinn said the video "only shows a small part of what transpired."

Diaz, a Los Angeles native who now lives in West LA, told the AP in a phone interview Friday that he arrived when the woman was walking off the freeway. He said she turned around only after the officer shouted something to her.

"He agitated the situation more than helped it," said Diaz, who started filming soon after.

When the video begins, the officer already is on top of the woman and delivering blows. She can be seen wriggling and trying to sit up.

A man in plain clothes — later identified by O'Quinn as an off-duty law enforcement officer — then appears and helps the officer handcuff the woman.

The video caught the attention of local civil rights leaders, who expressed shock and outrage at their own news conference.

"Speaking for the women of this community, we are angry, we are upset," said Lita Herron of the Youth Advocacy Coalition.

O'Quinn said he could not say what prompted the officer to act as he did. But he noted California Highway Patrol officers have a heightened sense of the dangers of being on the freeway compared with a citizen "who is not accustomed to the speed and conditions," especially outside of a car.

"The most dangerous thing that we face is traffic," O'Quinn said.

He added the CHP would answer community concerns, and that an investigative team already has been assembled and has begun its work.

"We are known as an agency that really polices itself," O'Quinn said.

Community activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson, speaking at the local leaders' news conference, agreed.

"Over the years, CHP has had a very good track record in terms of community relations," Hutchinson said. "That's why this was so shocking."

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Cancer survivor Jacobs looks for first title

Boxing returns to Barclays Center on Aug. 9 with three world championship bouts.

Danny Garcia (28-0, 16 KOs) of Philadelphia defends his WBC/WBA 140-pound titles against Rod Salka of Bunola, Pa., while IBF 140-pound champion Lamont Peterson (32-2-1, 16 KOs) of Washington, D.C., risks his belt against Edgar Santana (29-4, 20 KOs) of New York, and Brooklyn's Danny Jacobs (27-1, 24 KOs) gets a shot at the vacant WBA middleweight crown challenging Jarrod Fletcher (18-1, 10 KOs) of Australia.

This will be Jacobs' second chance at a world title. He was beaten by Dmitry Pirog for the WBO middleweight crown on July 31, 2010, but subsequently was diagnosed with cancer on his spine that threatened not only his boxing career, but also his life. He was out of action for nearly two years after undergoing surgery and treatment for the disease. Jacobs made a triumphant return to the ring in October 2012 and has won six straight fights to earn this chance at his first world title.

"I remember being on my death bed, and I found out in the newspaper that the Barclays Center was opening and that they were going to have fights here and me not knowing if I would ever be able to box again, let alone perform here," Jacobs said during a press conference this week at Barclays Center to announce the bout, "to be standing here in front of you guys and saying that I'm fighting for the WBA Championship of the world is awesome!"

Fletcher is no slouch. He's a two-time Olympian, whose only professional defeat came nearly two years ago. But this is his first title bout and his first fight in the United States.

"I want to thank my opponent for accepting this fight because he's coming from Australia to Brooklyn to fight in my backyard," Jacobs said. "It says a lot about that fighter and the man that he is and I applaud that."

Garcia might be listed as the main event, but he is left with fighting a virtual unknown after being considered as a possible opponent for Floyd Mayweather. Salka lost a majority decision to Ricardo Alvarez last December. Garcia will be defending his title for the sixth time.

"I've got to show the world why I'm the unified super lightweight champion of the world," Garcia said. "It's going to be a classy performance, but ugly for my opponent."

Meanwhile, it looks as if Mayweather and Marcos Maidana will meet again on Sept. 13 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Mayweather made the announcement during an interview before the BET Awards, though the Maidana camp insists negotiations haven't been finalized. It will be a rematch of their fight held last May, in which Mayweather captured a majority decision in a rugged bout when the pound-for-pound champion took more punishment than he has in recent bouts.

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Nicole Brown Simpson’s father passes away

The father of Nicole Brown Simpson, the slain ex-wife of retired American football star O.J. Simpson, has died, a family spokeswoman said on Friday.

Louis Brown Jr. died on Thursday at age 90, according to attorney Natasha Roit.

Brown, who lived in Dana Point, California, had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease, Roit said.

Along with other family members, Brown became a familiar face at the much-watched trial in 1995 when Simpson, the Hall of Fame running back, was accused of murdering his former wife and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles. Simpson was acquitted.

Simpson, 66, is currently in prison on a 2008 armed robbery conviction related to a robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas hotel.

A businessman, Brown founded the Nicole Brown Simpson Charitable Foundation after his daughter's death to assist victims of domestic violence, the family spokeswoman said.

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Viverito under fire for ‘Palestine’ tweet

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito stepped into a Middle East minefield by referring to East Jerusalem as part of "Palestine" — drawing condemnation from supporters of Israel.

Mark-Viverito, in a July 2 tweet, deplored the killing of a Palestinian teen on the outskirts of East Jerusalem.

"Saddened by the escalating violence in Palestine. We mourn the loss of life and call for an end to this cycle of violence," she wrote.

But New York backers of the Jewish state slammed Mark-Viverito.

"It's not surprising that the speaker would talk in the language of the Pro-Palestinian far left that is led by fellow Democrats, President Obama and Secretary [of State John] Kerry," said Bruce Blakeman, vice president of the American Jewish Congress and a GOP House candidate from Long Island.

Mark-Viverito's camp defended her remark.

"Her only intention was to lament the violence that recently claimed the lives of a young Palestinian in Jerusalem earlier this week and three Israeli boys last month," said spokesman Eric Koch.

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Mo Rocca can do it all

On "CBS Sunday Morning," Mo Rocca is the go-to interviewer of A-listers like Audra McDonald and Melissa McCarthy.

But he's equally happy to chat up unsung matriarchs and patriarchs as host of the Cooking Channel's Emmy-nominated "My Grandmother's Ravioli."

On the show Rocca, 45, crisscrosses the country to quiz grandparents about their family histories and to help cook their favorite multigenerational recipes. The series — an homage to the kitchen creations of his late grandmother, Mary Rocca — returns for a third season on Aug. 6.

"It's just sheer joy to spend whole days with people who have had full lives, who aren't famous and don't want to be famous — and as a result are actually better being on TV than people who need to be on TV," Rocca tells The Post, adding with a laugh. "Which is kind of sad for those of us who actually work in TV."

Rocca — a Harvard graduate and former correspondent for "The Daily Shcolfer With Jon Stewart" — has a relaxed, earnest style that endears him to viewers. He also has his geeky quirks: He is a self-described "history buff" with a fondness for presidential trivia. "Warren Harding had the biggest feet of any president — size 14," he says, without hesitation, when tested.

A Greenwich Village resident, Rocca juggles an active itinerary. One week he's interviewing grandparents in Connecticut and Michigan (and even throwing out the first pitch at a Detroit Tigers game); the next he's doing voiceover work for "Ravioli" episodes, interviewing Hugh Jackman for a "Sunday Morning" Tony Awards segment and appearing as a panelist on the NPR quiz show "Wait Wait … Don't Tell Me!"

"Let's just say it keeps things interesting — until it gets exhausting," he jokes.

Rocca recently found time to grab breakfast with The Post at a Midtown restaurant to talk about his career and culinary skills.

You're often called a humorist. Is that accurate?

"On your tax return where you have to write an occupation, I probably at this point would write, 'Guy who interviews people and interjects humor where appropriate.'"

On "CBS Sunday Morning," you've done everything from a history of work cubicles to a profile of hockey great Bobby Orr. What draws you to a subject?

"I like projects where I can fill in the gaps and learn something. It's like going back to college and taking only electives — which I kind of wish I'd been able to do the first time. I spent two weeks just cramming Bobby Orr, and it was everything I love about the job. "

You've also been a judge on "Iron Chef America" and hosted the Cooking Channel's "Food(ography)." Are you a foodie?

"I'm not a cook — and I didn't cook growing up. It's funny: People are always asking me for restaurant suggestions.

"But I go to the same places all the time. My 'Regal Beagle' is the French Roast on 6th Avenue and 11th Street."

What kind of feedback do you get about "Ravioli"?

"People react pretty emotionally with some frequency now. In San Francisco a guy said his grandmother was in assisted living and he hadn't been to visit her in a while. He watched the show and then brought his girlfriend to go meet the grandmother and take her out to dinner. I thought, all right — if my show is guilting people into visiting their grandparents, that's pretty cool."

Is your grandmother's ravioli still a cherished memory?

"It really is. I made it with Lidia Bastianich a few years ago. She insisted on adding cheese even though my grandmother didn't [add cheese] in her filling.

"But you're not going to contradict Lidia Bastianich."

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