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|The first U.S. Hispanic Magazine Summit convened over the weekend at the Conquistador Resort & Spa in Puerto Rico.
Judging from the 140 participants at the gathering in the Wyndham el Conquistador Resort & Spa, many more Hispanic magazine launches are on the way. The summit was sponsored by the Magazine Publishers of America and Advertising Age.
Small part of media spend
Hispanic magazines received just 2.9% of total Hispanic media spending, compared to 17% for magazines in the general market, attendees were told. Eduardo Michaelsen, the keynote speaker and CEO of Editorial Televisa, said some Hispanic titles discount up to 30% or 40% off rate card prices. Publishers estimated total spending on U.S. Hispanic magazines is about $140 million a year.
Advertisers who have declined to buy into Hispanic magazines often cite too few titles, tiny reach, not enough accountability, and even the common refrain: "We don't use print."
One challenge, for instance, is that U.S. Hispanic magazines rely on data from Simmons Market Research Bureau, which has been a leader in including Spanish-speaking consumers, although many would like to use other research sources.
Competing with Hispanic TV
Hispanic media, after all, emerged in the U.S. primarily as the province of Spanish-language TV. While print preceded TV in the U.S. for general-market audiences, Hispanic publishers are now trying to build a revenue base for Spanish- and English-language and bilingual magazines from advertisers and agencies more accustomed to spending money on Spanish-language TV network Univision.
Panelists warned that lack of research on Hispanic magazines prohibits some big advertisers from getting more fully in the game.
Sonia Green, director of diversity marketing and sales for the Hispanic market at General Motors Corp., said many Spanish-language or Hispanic-focused publications cannot pass the prerequisites of GM's media-buying unit, PlanWorks, such as minimal circulation levels, membership in the Audit Bureau of Circulations or in BPA Worldwide, and independent readership studies from MRI or elsewhere. That's where savvy Hispanic marketing directors often come in. Ms. Green sometimes relies on her knowledge of Hispanic consumers to direct a media buy that doesn't meet circulation or audit criteria but brings in Hispanic car buyers nevertheless.
GM is No. 2 Hispanic print buyer
Other titles, like Meredith Corp.'s women's magazine Siempre Mujer, launched last month, and Time Inc.'s market-leading People en Espanol, both earned GM advertising on the strength of their franchises and publishing companies' track record, Ms. Green said. GM was the No. 2 Hispanic magazine print buyer last year after Procter & Gamble Co.
P&G is less flexible on metrics. Fina Di Salvo, U.S. ethnic communication planning and media manager, said, "We really believe in accountability."
In one accolade to Hispanic print, Bob Corscadden, senior VP and chief marketing officer of Tyson Foods, said his company spends more than $1 million a year, about 20% of its Hispanic budget, on Hispanic magazines, divided among seven titles. Citing some of the added value Tyson gets from Hispanic titles, Mr. Corscadden said the mother of People en Espanol publisher Jackie Hernandez-Fallous still keeps on her fridge Tyson's useful tear-out seven-day menu planner from that magazine.
Language debate
Although it's pretty clear that the future of Hispanic media includes both Spanish and English, every Hispanic ad gathering sparks a debate about language.
Nancy Tellet, VP-director of strategic planning and media services at Siboney USA, chided other speakers: "It is about readers; language is a tool."
Manny Gonzalez, brand director, Scotch, Diageo North America, said, "It's not about language, it's cultural relevance."
But for Rick Marroquin, director of Hispanic marketing for McDonald's USA, the unexploited niche is titles for young, Spanish-dominant Hispanic males.
"For our marketplace, Spanish language is the homework," he said. "You've got to do the homework before you do the extra credit of English."
Big Mac's 'default agency'
He noted that Spanish is finding its way into ads done by his general market agencies, while McDonald's Hispanic shop, Del Rivero Messianu DDB, has become the "default agency" on the Big Mac brand.
"That's not by accident but by design," he said. "Hispanic consumers overindex on Big Macs. [At Del Rivero Messianu DDB] they do the English, the Spanish, the Spanglish."
Like many other marketers, Mr. Marroquin notices an increase in Hispanic titles.
"I feel like I get a new Hispanic magazine that is launching across my desk every week," he said.
A few of the publishers roaming the Hispanic Magazine Summit included:
- 4 M Cuatro Media plans a February launch for a Spanish-language sports magazine using the Fox Sports name, which it has licensed. That magazine will compete head-on with ESPN Deportes La Revista, introduced earlier this year as part of a multiplatform brand that started with a TV channel and added radio this month. Further competition comes from Sports Illustrated, which will publish four Spanish-language issues this year distributed as controlled circulation to Time Warner's Hispanic database.
- Executives from Emmis Publishing's Tu Ciudad (Your City), an English-language lifestyle magazine for Hispanics about Los Angeles that is four issues old, estimate it will take three-and-a-half years to break even but they are already scoping out other cities like New York and Miami to extend the Tu Ciudad brand.
- Miami-based Spanish-language celebrity title Fama hopes to spin off two regular inserts into separate magazines, starting with Viviendo (Living), followed by Mujeres al Volante (Women Behind the Wheel), which is targeted at female car buyers and featured GM's Ms. Green on a recent cover.
Concluding the summit, Wayne Eadie, senior VP for research at the Magazine Publishers of America, pledged a portion of the MPA's Future of Magazines ad campaign to educate media buyers about Hispanic print.
"It doesn't take too many percentage points moving one way or another to make it a good day for all of us," he said.
Mr. Eadie also described a research program in the planning stages that would demonstrate the higher pass-along rate, the powerful relevance and other advantages owned by the Hispanic press. With funding in place from a number of publishers, and cooperation from the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies, the hunt is on for a brand that is willing to participate.


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The experimental performance of the phase modulated decoupling schemes SDROOPY-1 and SPINAL64 is investigated for heteronuclear dipolar decoupling in solid-state magic-angle-spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), in comparison with existing decoupling methods. It is found that both sequences perform well over a range of spinning rates from 0 to 35 kHz, with linewidths that are virtually independent of the spinning rate. The signal intensity is found to diminish with increasing spinning rate, and this behavior is compared qualitatively with theory. It is also demonstrated that decoupling sequences strongly influence the refocused linewidths observed in solid-state NMR, and that SDROOPY-1 and SPINAL64 both yield particularly long dephasing times. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.


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HomeFootballFirst TeamNews13 years since Andrés Iniesta's debut in Bruges
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[[DES_1]]It was Tuesday 29 October 2002, thirteen years ago today, that Andrés Iniesta made his first team debut for FC Barcelona in a Champions League match against Bruges. And the rest, as they say, is history. The 18-year-old would go on to be one of the artifices of the greatest Barça team ever assembled, as well as being one of the finest players ever to wear the Spanish national jersey. First team captain following the retirement of his long-term colleague in midfield, Xavi Hernandez, it was Iniesta who lifted the last of many trophies that he was won over the years – the European Super Cup in Tbilisi.
Andrés Iniesta has scored 59 goals in 558 games for Barcelona in that time, putting him behind only Xavi (767) and Puyol (593) in the all-time ranking for appearances. He has played a huge role in the many successes that the club has enjoyed in recent years, perhaps the most outstanding memory of all being his last second goal at Stamford Bridge that ensured passage to the 2009 Champions League Final.
Carles Naval: 'Van Gaal just told him to get out there and play!'Iniesta hails from the village of Fuentealbilla in Castile la Mancha, but at the age of just 12 he left his family to become a resident of La Masia at FC Barcelona. He rose up through the youth ranks and on 5 February 2001 was invited for the first time, by then manager Serra Ferrer, to join a first team training session. A year later, with Louis Van Gaal on the bench, his big chance finally arrived. As he remembered in an interview published several years later in Barça Magazine, "I felt very comfortable that day. A lot of B players went on that trip because the team had already qualified for the next round. It was a dream come true to make my first team debut and I thank Van Gaal. I had been training with them for most of the season, and I think I did pretty well in that game".
He was named in the starting line-up and was an immediate hit as he helped Barça to a win in Belgium thanks to a goal from Riquelme. "He wore the number 34 and the boss just told him to get out on the pitch and play' remembers FCB delegate Carles Naval. And Iniesta did what he was told and came very close to marking his debut with a goal from a fine strike that hit the Bruges crossbar.
Iniesta was not the only youngster on the field that day. Van Gaal also handed a debut to Tortolero, while also opting to field Sergio Garcia and David Sánchez. And the team also included a number of fellow ex-residents of La Masia, namely Puyol, Gabri, Fernando Navarro and the current manager of Barça B Gerard López, who recalls how "there were a lot of homebred players that day and that was good for him. And we won the game, which was important too."
Iniesta celebrated his 13th anniversary as a first team player by joining the squad for Thursday's training session following their 0-0 draw in Villanovense. He suffered a hamstring injury in the Champions League game with Bayer Leverkusen, but is back playing football again and should be declared fully fit very shortly.
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Launching the Linux Foundation Open API Initiative to Help Drive the Web of APIs
We're proud to be supporting the launch of the new Linux Foundation collaborative effort for Web APIs: the Open API Initiative (see the announcement here). The initiative will take forward the great foundational work done under the Swagger banner by Tony Tam and others to create a new, more formal description format for Web APIs, provisionally called OADF – Open API Description Format.
At 3scale, we strongly believe that description formats such as this – specifically shared open description formats – are a fundamental cornerstone of API development and adoption. They enable tooling innovation, adoption, clarity of API specifications, and help guide design.
It's a great sign that key industry players such as ourselves, Apigee, Capital One, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Pay…
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New eBook – The API Owner's Manual: Best Practices of Successful API Teams
There have been some great pieces written about APIs and API management over the year (many of them listed on our API Codex). There have also been influential books – from Richardson, Amundsen and Ruby's RESTful Web APIs book to Jacobson, Brail and Woods' APIs: A Strategy Guide. However, there have been few books that give you a view of the whole API operations development, operations and retirement lifecycle. As APIs become more complex and intertwined with critical business functions within a company, clarity of focus for an API program becomes even more important.
So today we're happy to announce our contribution to this with the release of "The API Owner's Manual: Best practices of successful API teams". The book draws on our observat…
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Updated Tutorial: How to deploy an NGINX API gateway on Heroku
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At 3scale, we recommend using NGINX as an API proxy for several reasons, including its outstanding performance and extensibility, thanks to the Lua scripting support. When used with the 3scale API Management Platform, it's hands-down the best way to add an access control layer to your existing API.
The following tutorial describes the required steps to deploy NGINX as an API gateway on the Heroku platform. Heroku provides a fantastic, fully managed platform as a service for your application, so the required maintenance effort on your part will be minimal. Since NGINX is so lightweight, the free offering from Heroku will be enough for most cases.
High-level overview
We'll create a Heroku application with a custom buildpack, including Lua and LuaRocks, and deploy the OpenResty distribution of NGINX using a rock especially tailored for Heroku. We will then use th…
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3scale Copyrights Database Store API
In response to today's Supreme Court decision not to rule in the Oracle v. Google case, 3scale has decided to reconsider its previous position on copyright and APIs and is today announcing its copyright ownership over the newly developed Database Store API.
The API has been under secret development for over 18 months by a crack team of engineers, locked away from their families for the duration of the project. The result represents the pure distilled essence of an API to facilitate the browsing, licensing and purchase of database products.
The excerpt below shows the inspired design of the API itself:
A full Swagger specification is also available:
We're particularly proud of the GET Database function and the intuitive use of the label "Db" when referring to ID's in DbID. Thes…
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Updated Tutorial: How to deploy an API on Amazon EC2 for AWS rookies
At 3scale we find Amazon to be a fantastic platform for running APIs due to the complete control you have on the application stack. However for people new to AWS, the learning curve is quite steep. So we put together our best practices into this short tutorial. Besides Amazon EC2, we'll use the Ruby Grape gem to create the API interface and an Nginx proxy to handle access control. Best of all everything in this tutorial is completely free.
For the purpose of this tutorial you'll need a running API based on Ruby and Thin server. If you don't have one you can simply clone an example repo as described below (in the "Deploying the Application" section). If you're interested in the background of this example, the Sentiment API, you can see a couple of previous guides which 3scale has published. Here we use version_1 of the API ("
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APIs.JSON: Bootstrapping The Web of APIs
It's been a year since we first published APIs.JSON together with Kin Lane and APIEvangelist and the idea has taken hold in all sorts of ways – not least in the 900+ APIs now listed on APIs.io using the format.
Yesterday's awesome APIStrat un-workshop at Gluecon (80+ people all talking API service definitions) was a great opportunity to reflect on what APIs.JSON really means. Here are the slides from the talk:
Building Effective API Programs: API Operations
This is the sixth part of the Building Effective API Programs blog post series. In the previous parts we covered benefits of APIs, alignment between API programs, strategy and business models and API design and implementation. In this part, we discuss aspects of API operations.
Textbooks define operations management as "the activities, decisions and responsibilities of managing …
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Why mobile first really is API first: McKinsey's South Korean e-commerce insights
According to the very recent McKinsey & Company Insights publication Learning from South Korea's mobile-retailing boom (May 2015), South Korea has a the highest smartphone penetration in the world. What is especially important for retail is that South Korean consumers spend almost equally as much on goods purchased via mobile devices as in actual stores. This naturally makes smartphones very attractive as additional channels for retailers, and retailers more and more are beginning to devise omnichannel commerce strategies.
The authors of the McKinsey & Company article very correctly point out that "although all digital channels might share the same backbone infrastructure […] m-commerce requires fundamentally different approaches to identifying, reaching, and satisfying consumer…
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3scale @ APIDays Mediterranea, May 5-7 and PARTY
Like last year, we are again very happy to be one of the main supporters and sponsors of APIdays Mediterranea in Barcelona on May 6-7. As a sponsor, we can provide a number of 50% discounted tickets. Get them here.
APIDays is a two day conference about the technology and business of APIs. APIDays Mediterranea is the APIDays edition for the South of Europe, which brings together developers, IT managers, startups, corporations and those involved in the API industry to discuss, learn and share about the future and business of APIs. This year, there will be a special track focusing on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the relevance of APIs for the language industry. As always, the conference has a grea…
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New White Paper: The Unseen Enablers Of Platforms
Today we publish a new white paper which I wrote together with Sangeet Paul Choudary. Sangeet is Founder and CEO of Platform Thinking Labs and best known for his work on platform business models and multi-sided network effects. He is also a widely published industry analyst, C-level advisor, educator at leading universities and blog author. It was great to have him share his expertise and we had many fruitful discussions together. The outcome is the white paper:
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The major symptoms of the disease are jaundice, stomach aches, loss of appetite, nausea and fatigue. The easiest way to diagnose the disease is a blood test. With advancement in technology, pills can cure the disease in eight to twelve weeks. This World Hepatitis Day, read below to find out precautions against getting infected with this disease.
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Hepatitis C has been known to spread with sexual intercourse, but the cases are very rare. In monogamous relationships, the one where the couple has sex only with each other have virtually no chance of catching the disease. People who have multiple sex partners are however at an increased risk of getting infected and must practice safe sex.
2. Don't share needles
It is responsible for almost half of the cases of Hepatitis C. Drug users who share needles are at great risk of being infected. Sometimes snorting the drugs, and using the same straw causes bleeding in the nasal page, this also leads to infection.
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There's no evidence of this virus spreading from oral sex. But just to be on a safe side take precautions. Wear latex condoms if you have rough sex, as it might make you bleed.
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text: Beware that doing so (incorporating a "private" GTK+ release intro your installer) will mostly likely BREAK or screw up ANY OTHER GTK+ apps on the box.. I have this problem with my software (MegaTunix). I recommend my users to use the gladewin32.sf.net GTK+ runtime as it has GTK+, glade, and gtkglext, all in a simple 5 click installer. Users report that if they had gaim installed, this breaks things horribly. They can't run my SW with gaim's GTK+ as it is missing gtkglext, and cairo dll.s, and instlaling the sladewin32.sf.net runtime doesn't resolve it as gaim's "privatized" gtk+ screws up the rest of the system except for itself. So adding in your own privatized version is likely to affect other applications. The best "all in one" runtime I have found for me is the gladewin32.sf.net as it keeps it's DLL's OUT of the window's dir (everything goes into C:\GTK) It also includes bits that other GTK+ libs DO NOT have, like gtkglext (openGL extension), glade/libglade, libxml2, cairo, etc. --- Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> wrote: > Bleriot Trece writes: > > is it possible to copy a set of GTK files (DLLs > or whatever) and, > > in this way, make GTK available WITHOUT using an > official GTK > > installer? > > Of course. And anyway, the degree of officialness of > the various GTK > installers out there isn't that clear. > > > what files should be copied, what environment > variables > > modified... and so on? > > I could try to list them, but you learn best by > doing, so I will tell you > how to do that: > > Start by fetching from > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/ > the latest run-time zipfiles (not the *-dev-* ones) > for gtk+, pango, > atk, glib. From the depencensies subfolder get the > latest cairo, > gettext, and libiconv run-time zipfiles. If you know > that your app > will need the libpng pixbuf loader at run-time, also > get libpng and > zlib. > > Unzip all the above in some new empty folder. Add > the "bin" folder of > that to your PATH environment variable. > > Then start removing stuff you think your app and > your customers won't > need. For instance, if you don't have any need for > localised strings from > gtk+ etc, you can remove everything from lib/locale > . If you want localised > strings, but not for some "exotic" languages, remove > the corresponding > subfolders from lib/locale. > > If you don't need pixbuf loaders for "exotic" image > formats, remove > those dlls from lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders . > > If you don't need gtk+ input modules, drop > lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules > . Also, then edit etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules. > > If you want the MS-Windows theme to be the default, > create a file > etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc with the line gtk-theme-name = > "MS-Windows" . Otherwise, > if you don't want the end-users to be able to change > theme engine, drop > lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines and > share/themes/MS-Windows . > > If you don't need the Freetype2 Pango backend (and > you presumably > won't), remove bin/linpangoft2-1.0-0.dll. > > Hmm, that should be about it. If I forgot something > obvious that can > also be dropped, please follow-up... > > Then you add what's left to your application's > installer. > > Don't change the folder substructure. Keep the DLLs > in the "bin" > subfolder for instance. > > It's easiest to put your application's exe file in > the same "bin" folder > and have your Start Menu etc shortcuts point to > that. Otherwise you will > have to make sure that the "bin" folder is included > in PATH when the > end-user runs your app, either by having your > installer modifying the > environment variable, using the App Paths Registry > method, using a tiny > wrapper executable that modifies PATH, or something > else. > > The recommended way (at least if I am doing the > recommentation) is indeed > to install a copy of GTK+ with each application (or > set of applications > originating from the same maintainer / packager) > that uses it. This is > unlike Linux, I know. But attempts to use a shared > GTK+ installation on > Windows between applications developed and > distributed by unrelated parties > have not really been successful. > > --tml > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > -- David J. Andruczyk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com


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Dear Abby: I was buying several bottles of wine and a six-pack of beer along with my other groceries. While I was standing in the checkout line, someone behind me said the predictable, "I wish I was going home with you!"
I'm married to an alcoholic, and it makes me sad that people think a lot of alcohol is "fun." It's a tragedy for our family to see a great husband, father and grandfather slip into a stupor each day. It wasn't always this way. Sadly, he has changed so much he is hardly recognizable.
I'm asking those out and about to think before you comment, because alcohol is not something to celebrate.
— Wife of an Alcoholic
Dear Wife: Why are you buying large quantities of liquor for your alcoholic husband? When you do, you enable him to feed his addiction. If I ever heard of someone who should attend Al-Anon meetings, it is you. Al-Anon was started by the wife of an alcoholic who was just like your husband. When you go, you will meet other wives whose husbands' drinking is also out of control.
If you would prefer a secular organization, an alternative program to contact would be SMART Recovery. Its Family and Friends program was created for loved ones affected by someone's addiction. If there isn't a meeting in your area, you can attend one online. Go to smartrecovery.org and click on Online Meetings and Activities to register. Please don't wait.
Dear Abby: On behalf of my fellow museum docents, I'm asking you to educate your readers about how to behave when they visit our nation's historic buildings. The most important rule: Do not touch anything. This includes the walls and woodwork. Do not lean against the walls or doorways because this, too, may damage original paint, wood finishes or carved details.
If ropes are blocking access to part of the room, do not go beyond them. The dirt on your shoes can damage carpets. If a door is closed or only half-open, do not move it.
As a courtesy to your guide and other visitors, cellphones should be turned off.
Guides and docents enjoy sharing our knowledge with guests. So please visit, but while you're with us, follow our guidelines and help us preserve and protect these glimpses into the past.
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Dear Readers: Docents are individuals who study their subjects intensively and then function as unpaid teachers who transmit their knowledge to visitors in such institutions as museums, art galleries and zoos. They perform an important service and should be treated with respect for the time and effort they put forth to prepare themselves for it.
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Council tonight is also expected to approve an application for a fully funded federal program administered through the state that would pay for over $700,000 worth of improvements to 16 city intersections. The project would include Centre Square, where channelization of traffic by painted lines is planned.


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Meet Barb
Barb was first elected to the Minneapolis City Council in 1997 to represent the Fourth Ward in the northwest corner of Minneapolis. She has served as President of the Minneapolis City Council since January of 2006. Barb serves on the Public Safety & Health, Executive and Zoning & Planning committees of the City Council.
She also serves on the Board of Estimate and Taxation, Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee, and the Mississippi Riverfront Partnership. Governor Mark Dayton recently appointed Barb to the Board of PERA, the Minnesota Public Employees Retirement Association.
Barb is a registered nurse. Her background in health has spurred her support for health sector growth in Minneapolis. She has a strong interest in parks due to her 18 years of service on the Metropolitan Parks & Open Space Commission. She also served on the Mississippi National River & Recreation Area Commission, appointed by the Secretary of the Interior. Barb was a founding member of the Victory Neighborhood Association (VINA) and was the Chair from 1994-1997. She is a former Girl Scout leader and community volunteer.
Barb and her husband Duane, an attorney, have three adult daughters and five grandchildren.
Public safety is a serious concern for 4th Ward residents. While the number of property crimes has dropped significantly, the incidents of shootings, shots fired, and aggravated assaults have become intolerable. Barb has met with judges to help them understand the impact of gun crimes on our neighborhoods. She is also a member of the Hennepin County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee, which consists of judges, prosecutors, law enforcement, public defenders, and senior staff from the city and county. This group meets to discuss issues within the criminal justice system, and recommend changes and improvements.
Barb supports increasing the number of officers in the Minneapolis Police Department. More officers on the streets means decreased response times. She is also supportive of the extensive training Minneapolis police officers receive, including Mental Health Crisis Intervention, Implicit Bias training, and training in Procedural Justice. She feels that all residents should receive respectful, prompt and helpful service from our police and follows through when she receives complaints about officers who treat neighbors in an unhelpful manner.
When Minneapolis residents were asked what they value about their city, our park system ranked near the top of the list. In fact, Minneapolis' Convention and Visitors Association has the slogan, "City by Nature." When the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board did an assessment of the needs for operating capital for the system and recommended going to the voters for a levy increase which would have fallen heavily on homeowners, Barb led the charge to find a more practical solution. The result was a 20-year agreement between the City and the Park Board that increases spending for our parks. Northside park facilities will be the first to see improvements due to the equity measurements the Park Board uses in its decision making.
The opportunity to plan and implement the conversion of nearly 50 acres of publicly-owned lands on the banks of the Mississippi River from industrial use to a community-oriented mix of housing, jobs, and great green space, is our most challenging adventure. The Upper Harbor Terminal redevelopment offers a great opportunity for increased green space and aggressive storm water treatment. The developer selected for the Upper Harbor project has extensive experience in storm water management and we will see innovative proposals for a green redevelopment. Please help support the conversion at the Upper Harbor.
Shingle Creek has benefited from active work by the Single Creek Watershed Commission. This year several projects are planned to improve the water quality of this natural resource that winds its way through our neighborhoods.
After hearing complaints about pollution control violations at the site of Northern Metals, Barb worked with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to craft a legal solution that will close the facility and reduce pollution on the Northside.
The 4th Ward is experiencing a housing rebound! We have had much new construction, from the Humboldt Greenway to Green Homes North. Private investment is strong, but the City has been an important partner in supporting this new construction. We also have a new policy that offers incentives to people who build on the vacant lots available on the Northside. New homeowners can receive a subsidy of $20,000 to build homes on the vacant lots. If homebuyers are public safety employees of Minneapolis, or are teachers, they can qualify for $25,000. The City has also supported the renovation of many existing homes, preserving the charm of our wonderful, older housing stock. Housing values are increasing, and we are seeing many new homeowners!
Successful businesses are the lifeblood of neighborhoods, but the Northside can be a challenging place to start or expand a business. The City recently passed a measure which will increase support for small business by hiring "navigators" to help entrepreneurs through the City's regulatory process. However, your support and neighborhood spending are also important to the viability of our business community. We are on the cusp of seeing a new grocery store open in our community, but it will only succeed if we shop there. The 4th Ward has benefited from the private investment of many entrepreneurs, including the owners of The Goddess of Glass, Roots Birthing Center, Webber Mart, and NewHorizons Childcare Center.
The citizens of the 4th Ward are the most frequent users of the City's 311 system. The most frequent calls are to report housing issues. Neighbors want to see properties maintained to neighborhood standards. We have a challenge with a few landlords who do not care for their properties and/or rent to people who have a history of being challenging tenants. Barb has been successful in dealing with a number of these properties and will continue to work with Regulatory Services, Minneapolis Police, and the Hennepin County and Minneapolis City Attorney Offices. Additionally, Barb strongly supports block clubs and encourages residents to start and maintain active communication with their neighbors.
The 4th Ward is benefiting from the opening of the County's first natural swimming pool at Webber Park, and will soon enjoy a beautiful new Hennepin County Library fronting on the refurbished Victory Memorial Drive.


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The next meeting of the Newport County Chapter of AARP will be held on Monday, Jan. 19, at 1:30 p.m. at the Fenner Avenue Hall in Newport.
The guest speaker for the session will be Bob Jackson, AARP regional director. His topic is "Charities before taxes."
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Dr. Call received his doctorate in school psychology from the University of Iowa in 2003, with the mentorship of David P. Wacker, PhD. He completed a predoctoral internship at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Center for Disabilities and Development, and he completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Marcus Autism Center and Emory University with the supervision of Wayne Fisher, PhD, and Henry S. Roane, PhD.
After working as an assistant professor at Louisiana State University from 2004 to 2006, Dr. Call returned to Marcus Autism Center, where he is currently the internim director of all clinical programs. In addition to supervising postbaccalaureate and master's level trainees, Dr. Call has an active research agenda that includes publishing in and serving on the board editors for several journals.
Dr. Call's current research interests include the assessment and treatment of severe behavior disorders. This work led him to primarily work with children diagnosed with autism and other developmental disabilities and their families.
His specific interests include identifying the basic behavioral mechanisms that influence the occurrence and maintenance of problem behavior, and developing clinical methods that incorporate these mechanisms into the assessment and treatment of problem behaviors. He also has an interest in identification and manipulation of the variables that impact the integrity with which caregivers implement behavioral treatment recommendations in the natural environment.
Sean Ahlberg's aggressive behavior was keeping him from enjoying time with his family and getting out into the world. Since beginning his treatment at Marcus, Sean's behavior has changed and he has even become verbal with help from the Language and Learning Clinic.
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Winter 2009 Newsletter - Page 8
KCSDV partners with National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma and Mental Health
The Domestic Violence and Mental Health Policy Initiative (DVMHPI) is a Chicago-based project designed to address the unmet mental health needs of domestic violence survivors and their children. Since 1999, DVMHPI has been working to enhance the collaboration between the mental health system and victim service providers nationwide.
Recently DVMHPI received a grant to continue its work, and the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence was invited to participate in the new grant initiatives. Over the course of the next three years, DVMHPI will assist KCSDV in developing a needs assessment, and providing technical assistance for the development and implementation of a strategic plan, which will provide Kansas survivors with more seamless options for mental health services.
Programs across the state struggle to find local mental health providers that are well versed in the area of trauma as it relates to domestic and sexual violence, so KCSDV is excited to participate in this new initiative,? said Stacey Mann, KCSDV director of advocacy services.
On average, over half of the women seen in a range of mental health settings are either currently experiencing or have experienced abuse by an intimate partner. Many have endured multiple forms of abuse throughout their lives, putting them at greater risk for posttraumatic mental health problems.
A cross section of studies of battered women confirms the following statistics:
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorders ranged from 54-84 percent
- Depression ranged from 63-77 percent
- Anxiety ranged from 38-75 percent
Portions of this article were reprinted with permission. www.dvmhpi.org
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Q: Are there any new books that explain domestic violence?
A: As a matter of fact, there are a few, but one that I highly recommend is "Coercive Control, How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life" by Evan Stark. Stark details how abusive men can use coercive control to extend their dominance over time and through social space, in ways that both isolate and control women?s lives. He analyzes three cases of women who committed crimes in the context of abuse.
While the book is a bit long and can sometimes be an academic read, the manner in which Stark frames coercive control in both the personal and societal spheres is remarkable. Aside from being an author, Stark is an award-winning researcher and founder of one of the first shelters for abused women in the United States.
Glad you asked,
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A young elk learns what it means to go hungry during a particularly harsh winter. While he waits for his father to find food, he meets up with other forest animals and is told about their methods of survival—from the porcupine that eats pine bark to the owl that silently hunts hare. While these animals make due in the wild, Erick's family jumps the fence to Rancher Tom's farm to share in the horse's hay, an abrupt and dissatisfying end.
This story is simplistic and hollow. Erick's meanderings seem artificial, an excuse to teach the reader about the ways of certain wildlife rather than to tell a good story. The tension of hunger is a starting point and yet it feels like cheating to have the Elk family eat the farm animal's food (even if this is what really may happen); it's not enough of a climax to have Erick successfully clear the fence.
Detailed, richly colored illustrations do generate interest, drawing the reader's attention away from the rudimentary text. Reminiscent of the popular work of Jan Brett, attractive borders frame each realistic double-page spread, adding elements of their own. The bottom frame on each page features a different forest creature and the tracks it makes in the snow. A final open page collects these animals in chart form with a few bits of added information included.
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MICHAEL A. SAWYERS | Cumberland Times-News
LaVALE, Md. (AP) — It's a dirty job and Glen Roberts has to do it.
"I couldn't even begin to tell you," Roberts said, referring to the number of deer he has removed from state highways.
Although Roberts isn't counting, Tim Davis is. Davis is the resident maintenance engineer at the State Highway Administration office in LaVale.
"The bulk of the deer we pick up (in Allegany County) are from the middle of September through December," he said. "Usually about 250 or so."
The linear leader of road-killed deer is U.S. 220 between Cumberland and McCoole. Roberts said he has made more carcass-removal trips to that highway than any other in Allegany County. He said hot spots are near the Western Correctional Institution at Cresaptown and the American Woodmark plant between Pinto and Rawlings.
Davis said crews get to the deer as quickly as they can, especially if the carcass is in a travel lane and presenting a danger to motorists.
SHA finds out about road-killed deer from a variety of sources.
"The employees in our district office let us know if they have seen dead deer as they drive to work in the morning," Davis said. "People who live near where a deer has been struck and killed will call us, especially during warm months because of the smell."
In addition, travelers with Internet access often go to the SHA website to pass on the location of a dead whitetail.
State Farm Insurance estimates there are at least 30,000 times each year that a vehicle driven in Maryland strikes a deer, according to Brian Eyler of the Maryland Wildlife & Heritage Service. Maryland has the 14th highest risk among states for striking a deer. West Virginia is No. 1 and Pennsylvania ranks fifth.
Some of Maryland's vehicle-struck deer end up as dinner — for people.
"Folks might be surprised how many times we get a call from a motorist telling us a deer has been struck, but is still alive. Then we send somebody out to take care of the matter and when our people get there the deer is gone. It has been picked up by some other passerby," said Eyler, deer project director for the wildlife agency.
The unsaid aspect is that whoever took the deer likely dispatched it as well.
Actually, it is legal to possess a road-killed deer, but there is a right way to do it.
"We give nonhunting mortality tags to the enforcement agencies in a county and they can fill out the tag and give it to the person who wants to take the deer," Eyler said. In 2012, 66 such tags were issued in Allegany County and 29 in Garrett County.
Many struck deer go uncounted, Eyler said, either wandering into the nearby woods or fields where they succumb or survive.
Allegany County road crews pick up dead deer on county roadways.
Spokesman Paul Goldsworthy said some of those carcasses are taken to the Tri-State Zoo to be consumed by captive carnivores.
Hot spots include Orleans, Cresap Mill and Williams roads, and the Mexico Farms area, he said.
Some of the deer gathered by SHA are used by the Maryland Wildlife & Heritage Service for a project monitoring the presence of golden eagles.
"They are taken to high elevations and put in open fields where they will be very visible," said WHS spokesman Jim Mullan. "We aim trail cameras at the carcasses to get images of the eagles."
SHA disposes of some carcasses by simply moving them to a location in the highway's right of way away from any homes and placing them off to the side of the road. Nature takes over from there.
At times, Roberts has reached the scene of a dead deer and a disabled car before the arrival of law enforcement.
"There have been times we needed traffic control to get the scene cleaned up," Roberts said.
It isn't uncommon, according to Roberts, to find a dead roadside buck that has had its antlers removed by a passerby who prizes them.
Dead critters in the middle of Allegany County roads have included coyotes and bobcats, but not many.
"Coyotes and bobcats seem to have a sixth sense about avoiding traffic," said Eric Minnich, an assistant to Davis.
It is not only wild animals that die on highways. As a courtesy, Roberts and his cohorts will take the tags from a dead pet dog that has been struck and killed to bring closure for the owners.
"We'll move the dog to the side of the road and let them know where it is. Most of the time they come and get it," he said.
Picking up dead and often smelly deer carcasses is just part of the job for Roberts and his cohorts. Most of the time, it is routine, but not always.
"One of our fellows walked over to grab a dead deer and move it into the truck and it jumped up and ran away," he said.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) addresses a wide variety of tariff and non-tariff barriers facing American workers and industries today. The TPP offers benefits to American workers, farmers, innovators, manufacturers, service providers and consumers. How will it impact you, your business and your community?
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"[The TPP is] the highest standard trade agreement in history. It eliminates 18,000 taxes that various countries put on American goods. That will boost Made-in-America exports abroad while supporting higher-paying jobs right here at home. And that's going to help our economy grow. I know that past trade agreements haven't always lived up to the hype. That's what makes this trade agreement so different, and so important…
In other words, the TPP means that America will write the rules of the road in the 21st century."
-President Obama, statement on signing of TPP
"First and foremost, TPP will position Americans to compete and win in tomorrow's global economy. This is the first trade agreement to put a real focus on American small businesses who will gain powerful tools to help them export. This is the first trade agreement to put disciplines on state-owned enterprises to make sure that when they compete against our private firms, there's a level playing field. And this is the first trade agreement to take on the digital economy, ensuring that individual and businesses in America and around the world will benefit from the expanding opportunities offered by a free and open Internet."
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I believe that when you are working then you should work hard to get it done and done right. I have always been told that if it is good enough it to do the first time then it is good enough to do it right. If you are not doing things well then you will probably end up redoing the task that you had to do.
Once before I had to work on a car and I tried to skip some steps to hurry up to get it done so I could go fishing. About a week later the car was back and I was working on it again and it had the same problem. The reason that it broke again is because I skipped some steps to get it done. The only thing that I did not do was put in a few bolts and the part had too much torque and broke off. The car could not run without this part. Just by skipping those few bolts did not save me much time but when I had to redo it the job took twice as long because I had to take out all of the broken parts before I could start on putting in the new part. Another time I was taking my time, not working and it was on something that I could have got done in a few hours but it ended up taking a few days because I was not trying my hardest. These are some examples of why you should work hard and do your best on anything that you do. When you work hard then you can do things quicker than what you ever would have thought that you could. You can get things done faster if you don't complain about them.
These are some reasons on why you should work hard, do your best, and not complain. This is my belief on why you should work hard and do your best. It will always work out better if you try your hardest and do your best. This is why I believe that work hard and do your best. This is my belief on always working hard.
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Delicato Family Vineyards of Napa has made a significant equity investment in Sonoma's V2 Wine Group operated by Dan and Katy Leese, according to a Tuesday announcement, taking over the ownership portion from entrepreneur Pete Knight.
Delicato, the seventh largest winery in the United States, has been on a tremendous growth spurt in recent years, increasing by 1 million cases last year to an overall total of 9.2 million, according to Wine Business Monthly.
The investment gives Delicato a greater toehold into the wine market in which bottles are priced at $20 and more. V2 works with eight family wineries, including Healdsburg's Dry Creek Vineyard and La Follette Wines, to better market and distribute their premium products nationally. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
In return, Delicato — given its size — can help V2 navigate in an increasingly cutthroat wine wholesaling business that makes it hard for small vintners to compete on retail shelves or in restaurants.
Last year, Southern Wine & Spirits of America merged with Glazer's Inc. to create the largest wine and spirits distributor in the country. More consolidation is expected within the industry, making it harder for wineries with small accounts to get noticed.
"These distributors have gotten so big," said Dan Leese, whose company has about 30 employees. "Together we are stronger…. We have a very complimentary portfolio."
Delicato has been an under-the-radar vintner during its recent run. In 2003, it was the 13th largest domestic wine company through the work of four generations that have operated the company since 1924. The growth has been driven in large part by its Bota Box label, which now accounts for 5 million cases, and has been popular given the wine is sold in environmentally friendly to-go boxes.
It has ventured into the premium market, most notably with the 2010 purchase of the Black Stallion Winery in Napa Valley. In January, it won approval from the Napa County Planning Commission for its proposed Sam Jasper Winery on Silverado Trail, a 10-acre property that will produce up to 20,000 gallons of wine annually.
"Consumers today are more confident in their wine choices, given how fast information flows today. Because they are more confident, they readily experiment and gain wine knowledge quickly," said Chris Indelicato, president and chief executive officer of Delicato, in an email. "As a result those varietal types with pronounced and distinct flavors will do well. We like to call these the sophisticated varietals. Grapes like sauvignon blanc, pinot noir and cabernet sauvignon will outperform."
You can reach Staff Writer Bill Swindell at 521-5223 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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What warrants consideration for a grade promotion? Its really a question of what do you consider to be an excelling students. Its it academics solely or do you factor in athletics? Community involvement? Artistic ability?. Some students have difficulty in core classes and sometimes feel less than equal to students of a higher academic caliber. Yet they thrive in other situations or just simply aren't being challenged in their current classes. All students should be noticed for areas they thrive in and require help in as well and have their courses adjusted accordingly.
The only true measurement of advancing through classes in a public school setting in the United States is the A through F grading system. All-around development, though a part of getting good grades, shouldn't be considered as too many kids will be left behind when their academic prowess is fine. If a 12-year-old can get straight A's in a high school curriculum, go for it.
I understand why people think tests aren't a fair representation of a person's ability. Some people simply may be bad test takers. However, they are a way of measuring intelligence. Measuring "development" may be difficult. What if someone has been promoted based on development, but they cannot excel in higher classes? That can discourage them, and really hinder their development.


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Sometimes I feel like Frodo Baggins. Frodo was on a mission of good versus evil, light versus dark. The battle of light versus dark is also my great conquest. The wee hobbit was on a treacherous journey through the depths of Moria and over the Frosted Flake Mountains. I am on a desperately tiresome journey myself that has led me to underground bars with confederate flags and all-you-can-eat rib buffets to skyscraping clubs wall to wall with Paris Hilton and Vin Diesel impersonators trying to fight and sex each other. Frodo was taking the one Ring of Power to hurl it into the depths of Mount Doom, thus ending the reign of the evil Lord Sauron. I am trying to take the beer culture of our country and flip it like a lead pancake on a magnetic stovetop with a KFC spork. However, as focused as Frodo is on his quest, the lure of the ring's power often throws him off on some faux British-accented, self-loving rant. And just like the ring's power makes Frodo want to forget it all, when I hear someone say "Is that beer light or dark?" it makes me want to live in a box on the street in New Orleans and drink Peppermint Schnapps the rest of my days. Sometimes I feel just like Frodo Baggins … except I don't have hairy feet or a strange uberfriend bond with anybody named Samwise. But you get the point, right?! OK, the Middle Earthish stuff ends here!
If you read the last article (it provides a framework for this one), you know that there is an end goal here. But that question "Is that beer light or dark?" I hear all the time … like, all the time. And I used to ask it myself. Well, babies fall on their faces before they walk. And beer drinkers must start somewhere, too. So here's where we are starting today: When you ask that light or dark question, What do you think you mean? Do you want to know if it tastes light or dark? As if! Do you want to know if the color is light or dark? Do you want to know if there are a lot of calories? Do you believe yourself to be referring to ales and lagers? The frustration on this comes from the injustice of the question. Color and flavor and calories don't mean the same thing at all. So let's break it down like Marvin Gaye — can I get a witness?!
Let's say you're in a band, a garage rock band to be exact. Your influences are The Oblivians and early records by The Kinks. You tell a man that claims to "love" music that you are in a band and he asks you "Is it heavy metal or folk?" Laughing at what you are sure was a sarcastic question, you tell him you are in a garage rock band. He looks at you confusedly and says "Is it more heavy metal … or more folk?" "The Modern Lovers, The Kingsmen, The Black Keys, The White Stripes, Nirvana? Have you heard of them?" The bands ring a bell, but he's never really given them a try because all he really knows and likes is folk music. Everything else is heavy metal.
Of course music can be heavy metal or folk, but those two extremes don't come close to encompassing all that music can be. Music can be electronic and dancy, full of soul and blues, there's acid rock and psychedelic, blues and soul and country and on and on. To simplify your descriptions of music to heavy metal and folk would discount the greats that lie in between — like the Beatles and the Velvet Underground, David Bowie and Otis Redding, Right Said Fred and countless others. Sure James Taylor is good, but there's more to life, people!
This music analogy works well for our first category: flavor. As innocent bystanders lost in beer propaganda, the majority of we United Statesians have been misinformed about what a "real beer" is. Beer was made for thousands of years, full of flavor generally based on that region's materials and its water. This vibrant culture and history, along with good-tasting beer, was lost in post-prohibition America because of macrobreweries, mass production and the economies of scale available in macrobreweries to pair homogenized palates and enormous profit. The end result is generations of people believing beer should taste like nothing.
Just as the misguided music lover is missing out on the universally confirmed greats of music, so have many "beer lovers" missed out. Common folk probably associate the taste of "light beer" with watered down, hopless American lagers. Their sole example of "dark beer" is probably a certain mass-produced stout that only casually hints at what great flavors those styles can have. The absence of discovery from many consumers excludes so much! Lambics are vinous, carbonated and tart. Thirst-quenching wheat beers are generally unfiltered and often have a clove spiciness and bananalike taste from yeast. Citric fruitiness and a blast of floral aromas accompany most pale ales and IPAs. Roasted malts highlight stouts and porters, more than enough to satisfy coffee lovers. And folks, we're just getting started! Beer can be chocolatey, malty, sweet, fruity … and on and on. If Emeril Lagasse was writing this article, he would tell you "Wham! Kick it up a notch! Put some flavor in your beer life!"
Some of you South Beach dieters and cage fighters are probably referring to calories when you ask if a beer is light or dark. Beer is a natural product. In fact, the chemicals used when growing the ingredients are usually the only thing keeping it from being organic. Now if you drink a lot of beer a lot of the time, you will of course look like Homer Simpson. But if you practice a healthy enjoyment of beer, eating a bacon and counterfeit egg sandwich placed between syrup-injected pancakes for breakfast is a bigger problem. Seriously, we are 13th on the list of per-capita beer drinking countries, and are easily the most obese nation in the world. Germans and Irish routinely pound "dark" and "heavy" beers like Joe College does Schwag Lite, yet they remain in better shape because they walk places and don't eat pre-hibernation portions at every meal. When it comes to calories, as long as you are not a drunk, I suggest your eating habits and exercise are a greater concern than what kind of beer you are drinking.
The color of beer is almost solely based on the malts used in brewing and is not a direct link to calories. Many beers that are dark in color are actually low in calories and are an easy, non-filling drink. I think people believe dark beers are more filling because of the advertising messages we have received about "less filling" beers. From commercial breaks back to the time of Sesame Street, we have subconsciously drunk the Kool Aid of the big boys, and believe we are fuller from a beer that is darker. The color of a beer does reveal clues to flavor and body, but calories are more dependent on the percentage of raw materials used in brewing each batch.
The great beer journalist Michael Jackson once joked you wouldn't sit down at a restaurant and just order "a plate of food, please." And people do not ask simply for "a glass of wine." But "these same discerning folk often ask for 'a beer,' or brand, without thinking about its suitability for the mood or moment." The minimalist advice from my beer-brewing brother when I was starting this journey was "If you haven't had it before … try it." You'll come across some good and bad. You'll go on kicks and form opinions so strong you would punch a nun in the face over it. You'll think you really like a beer and then discover it was made by one of our country's macrobreweries trying to cut in on craft beer and then denounce knowing it like Peter did Jesus. But if you do take that advice and step forward with courage — away from the 3 or 4 beers you've been sticking to since the night of junior prom — at least you'll be able to have your own opinion. And maybe you can be my Samwise Gamgee … JUST DON'T ASK ME IF A BEER IS LIGHT OR DARK!
Kellan Bartosch is an optimist in pessimist clothes in beer sales in Las Vegas, Nev.
Hops are certainly important in adding bitterness, flavor & aroma to beer but that is not the subject at hand for this article. Different varieties and quantities of hops (a cone like flower cluster) impart different floral, tangy and spicy notes as compliments or contrasts to malt characteristics depending on the style and the brewers desired outcome. Maybe the subject of a future entry for me, but it was not a focal point of this article. My articles have been more of an address to American beer culture and less about the science of brewing. There are plenty other resources and articles on hops if a reader wishes to know more. Also, Ben Franklin preferred wine to beer and that quote is commonly attributed to him improperly: http://readywriters.blogspot.com/2009/06/beer-is-proof-that-god-loves-us.html
Please please please! I am shocked, well calmly amazed that an article on beer barely mentions the much overlooked and underrated hop. Yes Hops my friends, hops are what gives beer that which you can not find in wine nor the harder alcoholic beverage. Hops give you that mellow, that tingle, that buzz in your legs that you don't feel in the yellow mass produced muck. I won't tell you how because I once promoted a certain tea which when demand skyrocketed so did the price. (Don't you dare do the same to hops.) So I will leave it up to you to research what makes hops so wonderful. It is so important the quality and just the right quantity of the hops that are added to the beer. This ancient antiseptic, that prevented beer all over the world from going bad. This ingredient that helps makes beer more than the ordinary beverage that drove Ben Franklin to exclaim, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!"
I applaud you, The selection of beer based on "light or dark" is utter nonsense. Back in my young single days my room mates and I would each pick up a six-pack each week of mixed beer (in our area you could mix n match at certain places) then we would roll dice to determine the beer you got. This led to many great beverages and almost as many unpleasent ones. It took us quite some time to go through all the brands available throughout the world that we could get our hands on. We kept all the empties and shelved them till we ran out of wall space. It was really an eye opener to the great variety of this wonderful libation. Now in my 40's I have started making beer from almost anything that ferments, this seems to be more popular in Europe but I hope someday it catches on here. It would be interesting to go into a bar and order a dandilion and burdock beer or even a citrus mead.


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Three acquaintances lost consciousness after accepting drinks, police say
A Germantown man who allegedly took advantage of female acquaintances he had invited to his apartment for drinks was charged Friday with second-degree rape and other sex offenses, police said.
Eric David Rose, 31, of Germantown, plans to contest the charges, his lawyer said Monday.
The incidents occurred between September and March and involve women who say they lost consciousness after Rose served them drinks. When they woke up, Rose was touching them sexually, according to a statement by Montgomery County Police.
Police are investigating whether the alcoholic drinks were drugged, according to Blanca Kling, a police spokeswoman.
Rose of the 18000 block of Chalet Drive was charged with second-degree rape and two counts of third-degree sexual offense, police said. He lives at the Germantown address with his fiancée and 19-month-old daughter.
On Monday, District Court Judge Barry A. Hamilton set bond at $100,000, put Rose on home arrest and allowed him to continue working at the Lone Star Steakhouse, where he is a manager.
James A. Shalleck, Rose's attorney, said at the bond hearing that Rose will fight the charges.
He contested the prosecution's version of events, pointing out that no drugs were found at the home during the police search and that the accusers had all been at the home partying and consuming alcohol with other friends.
''We question the motivation of some of these statements," Shalleck said, flanked by Rose's fiancée and several of her family members. ''He's not a predator... This is not a serial danger. These people knew my client."
A 24-year-old Montgomery Village woman told police on March 19 that she had been raped by Rose after drinking with him and co-workers at a Gaithersburg bar, police said. The group returned to Rose's apartment, police said, and the woman lost consciousness after drinking a beverage he provided. Rose was having intercourse with her when she woke up on March 13, police said.
Two other women told similar stories during the investigation, according to the statement. A 20-year-old female from Dickerson said she began lapsing in and out of consciousness after drinking a beverage provided by Rose at a party at his apartment in mid-November, police said. She remembered him touching her inappropriately while in a bedroom, police said.
And a 19-year-old woman from Gaithersburg said she became sick and lost consciousness after accepting a drink from Rose at his apartment Sept. 16 after returning from a bar with him and some friends, police said. The woman was being touched inappropriately by Rose in a bedroom when she woke up, police said. She then pushed him away and told him to stop.
Anyone with further information or who believes they were victimized by Rose is asked to call 240-773-5070.
Staff Writer Sebastian Montes contributed to this report.


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