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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Rdio continues its plans for world domination, focusing on Europe
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'Wrath Of The Titans': Five More Hair Styles For Sam Worthington
When the trailer for "Wrath of the Titans" dropped, it seemed like everyone couldn't help but comment on Sam Worthington's hair, of all things. In the ten years that passed between the events of "Clash of the Titans" and "Wrath," Perseus must have been looking for something new in the hair department and decided to [...]
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
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(BOSTON, MA | March 28, 2012) ? Fisher College is pleased to announce that Heidi DeMello of Fisher College has recently been voted President of the Ten Mile Chapter of Business Networking International.
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Business Networking International is the world?s largest business networking organization. BNI?s method and mission is built on the power of ?word-of-mouth? and the philosophy that ?Givers Gain?. BNI works to increase business for its members through the exchange of quality business referrals. This network of diverse business professionals passed out 6.5 million referrals just last year, generating over $2.8 billion in business for BNI members.
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Heidi DeMello is the Site Coordinator for the North Attleborough division of Fisher College. Currently, she is the President Elect of the Ten Mile Chapter of BNI in North Attleborough and will officially take over the position in April. Ms. DeMello will be responsible for managing weekly meetings, event planning and coordination, monitoring member attendance and productivity, as well as new member recruitment, induction, orientation, and training. Ms. Heidi DeMello is from Fairhaven, MA and currently resides in Fall River.
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?We are very proud of Heidi for this incredible professional accomplishment,? states Dr. Thomas McGovern, President of Fisher College. ?Heidi?s experience will allow her to make significant contributions to the BNI. I am sure her interpersonal skills, professional accomplishments, and ability to communicate will only add to her success in this new role. The entire Fisher community joins me as we congratulate Heidi.?
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About Fisher College
Located in the historic Back Bay of Boston, Fisher College is an accredited, exceptional four-year college that takes pride in providing an affordable education that prepares students to achieve their career goals and compete in today?s challenging economy. Fisher believes that college is more than just an education?it?s a life changing experience. Since 1903, Fisher has been providing life-changing educational opportunities to students by focusing on the three most important aspects of a college experience: education, dedication, and life. Classes are small and provide a personalized educational experience. Fisher College is devoted to assisting students with the transition into real-world careers. Our dedicated faculty and staff work diligently to ensure students have the tools they need to grow, learn, and succeed during and after college.
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Fisher College?s ?Military to Management? program proudly offers special military benefits and comprehensive support to veterans and active military personnel seeking higher education. For more information about Fisher College, please call 1-617-236-8800 or visit www.fisher.edu.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Google Apps Debuts Archiving And Records Management System For Businesses, Vault
For a company facing litigation or even strict compliance guidelines, saving and organizing online records can be a challenging task. Today, Google is debuting a new archiving, records management and e-discovery solution for Google Apps for businesses called Vault. Google Apps Vault, which is priced at $5 per-user, per-month, allows businesses to reduce risks and costs associated with litigation, investigation, and compliance audits by providing an in-depth archiving system in the cloud. So all emails, documents and chat messages from Gmail can be accessed in one place. Businesses can define what needs to be retained for Gmail and on-the-record chat messages based on content, labels, and metadata.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/oiOPoIC_pdo/
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Monday, March 26, 2012
10 Ways To Beat Cat Allergies
"If I know I'm going to somebody's house who has a pet, I just take a pill 20 minutes before I go," says Alejandra Soto, 36, who has been allergic to cats, dogs, horses and pretty much any animal with hair since childhood.
Because she doesn't always know whether someone has a pet before she visits, Soto adds, she always has an antihistamine in her purse.
"It's really rare that I'll be exposed and it will catch me by surprise," says Soto, who directs communications and outreach for the New York City Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence.
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Because she doesn't always know whether someone has a pet before she visits, Soto adds, she always has an antihistamine in her purse.
"It's really rare that I'll be exposed and it will catch me by surprise," says Soto, who directs communications and outreach for the New York City Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence.
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Sunday, March 25, 2012
Autoresponders Enhance The Performance Of One's Online Business
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Lots of people usually complain about the quantity of junk email they get coming from particular web sites once they have made an online purchase. Not surprisingly, auto-generated responses have been helpful in creating more business for online shops. Getting their fascinating news to those who might actually care will be the main goal anyway, and there?s nothing like barraging somebody?s mailbox to really get the point across. Normally, online shops require their customers to sign up for notifications or perhaps updates before the latter might begin getting them in an attempt to be considerate of several customers? need to keep their inboxes free from advertisements and the like.
Many web sites that really wish to benefit from autoresponders try to make their particular messages interesting in content by incorporating functions distinctive towards the real source of the message. Whenever online businesses try this, the recipients are more welcoming towards them simply because they?re attractive to take a look t and they don?t appear too cold, unlike the other auto-generated responses other company emails include. Paying close attention to the content your company sends by way of autoresponders will easily attain your goal of marketing your company efficiently as well as keeping your clients interested.
Autoresponders have also been employed by other services to make sure that certain dealings are legitimate. Popular websites, generally business in nature, utilize them strictly for this specific purpose and it has already been an excellent tool in avoiding internet crimes for example identity theft from taking place.
Online shopping cart systems typically provide an autoresponder as it instantly improves the interpersonal aspect of the company dynamics. Providing buyers consistent attention and all the information which they need in a fast way is usually a good brand of service. If you?re a customer, acquiring quick responses immediately gives you the feeling of being prioritized and also this is really what each customerwants when he or she is purchasing. If you are the business owner on the other hand, you may instantly take advantage of the decreased number of stuff that you can check off your own set of things you can do. You should be able to really give attention to ensuring that the merchandise orders are usually sent for shipping really quickly after the payment transaction has been accomplished. An easy business transaction followed by an extremely fast shipping of purchased and also paid-for items is the profitable formula of internet businesses. Without the help of a reliable autoresponder, this will surely be hard to accomplish.
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Anti-Kony campaign in turmoil after filmmaker's meltdown
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The public meltdown of the man behind the viral Kony 2012 video has thrown his campaign into turmoil even as the film succeeded in turning the world's attention to capturing an elusive and brutal Ugandan warlord.
Jason Russell, whose 30-minute video sensation shone a spotlight on Joseph Kony's use of child soldiers in Uganda, was taken by police to a hospital last week after suffering what doctors described as a brief psychotic break.
Videos posted online showed him pacing back and forth on the sidewalk, naked, in broad daylight, in an episode certain to raise questions over the viability of Russell's Invisible Children group.
"You always hear people say, 'I'm so stressed out, I'm about to go crazy,'" said Robert Thompson, Director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. "Still, the story of all this happening and then he literally is wigging out is very odd."
He said the episode could serve to divert attention from the warlord to Russell: "Now whenever you see a Kony story, it's about the guy, not Kony."
In downtown San Diego, Invisible Children's office, once decorated with loud posters and bustling with activity, has been locked up.
Visitors are now cleared through a newly opened ground floor office unfurnished but for two chairs, a pair of Apple laptops and a table occupied by two polite young women who spend their days pointing to a sign that directs reporters to the email address of a New York-based public relations firm.
The bubbly women said that Russell, whose video has been seen nearly 85 million times on YouTube, was "awesome" but declined to provide their names.
Russell's fellow Invisible Children co-founders, Laren Poole and Bobby Bailey, declined through a spokeswoman to be interviewed, as did the organization's CEO, Ben Keesey.
Keesey has attributed Russell's breakdown to the severe emotional toll of the previous two weeks in which the Kony video went viral. Even as the video drew attention to the warlord, it also sparked criticism over what some called its misleading portrayal of current events in Uganda.
Russell's wife Danica has said that her husband would remain under hospital care for a number of weeks, and might not be able to fully return to his work at Invisible Children for months.
A spokeswoman would not say how or if Invisible Children plans to proceed with a planned April 20 day of action, in which viewers of the video were asked to paper their homes, lawns and cities with Kony posters to turn him into a household name.
RENEWED EFFORTS TO HUNT KONY
While the fate of the group that brought Kony into the spotlight may be uncertain, experts say that may be largely irrelevant because it has already served the purpose of persuading millions to care, and policy decisions were taking shape.
"It's rare that we have literally millions of Americans calling for more engagement in Africa," Senator Chris Coons, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, told Reuters in an interview, noting that his subcommittee normally received far less attention than it has since the Kony 2012 video was released.
Kony, accused of terrorizing northern Uganda for two decades, is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. He is accused of abducting children to use as fighters and sex slaves and is said to like hacking off limbs.
"I was both amused, pleased and proud that all three of my kids asked me what I was doing to stop Joseph Kony," Coons said.
Attempts by regional forces and foreign troops to corner the fugitive warlord have so far failed. But on Friday, the African Union said it would launch a 5,000-strong force in South Sudan to hunt him.
The African Union move is in addition to 100 U.S. military advisers President Barack Obama sent to the region last year to help Ugandan forces track Kony down.
Coons, who introduced a resolution in the Senate on Wednesday condemning Kony, stressed that any U.S. role would be to support the efforts of local troops.
WRONG TARGET?
But the Lord's Resistance Army is already a shadow of its former self, numbering around 250 members, according to a December 2011 report published by the Social Science Research Council.
Some 200 of those members are with Joseph Kony in the Central African Republic, and another 50 are in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the report said.
The video Russell directed, interspersing shots of his own young son with those of suffering Ugandan children, depicts children walking into the city center of the Uganda city of Gulu at night to avoid capture.
But active violence like that hasn't been seen in northern Uganda in seven or eight years, according to Laura Seay, a professor at Morehouse College who studies conflict and community in central Africa.
"LRA victims are depicted as absolutely helpless," Seay said, characterizing the portrayal as neocolonial and saying the film may have mischaracterized the nature of Gulu, where the number of children taking nightly refuge dwindled after a truce between government forces and the LRA in 2006.
"You have coffee shops and pizza places in Gulu. It's absolutely peaceful," she said.
Seay suggested those whose interest in the region had been piqued by the Invisible Children campaign turn their attention next to more active warlords in the region such as Bosco Ntaganda, nicknamed "The Terminator," who is also wanted by the ICC for war crimes.
Like Kony, Ntaganda is accused of conscripting child soldiers under age 15 to carry arms and fight in open conflict.
"He walks freely," Seay said. "I know where he eats dinner every night."
(Additional reporting by Marty Graham in San Diego; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/anti-kony-campaign-turmoil-filmmakers-meltdown-002248580.html
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
Apartment Careers: Real Estate/Property Management jobs, Las ...
About Pinnacle. Quality people
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Superior systems and support capabilities Address the concerns of current and prospective residents in a friendly and professional manner.
Helps set the standard on how Leasing Agents engage prospective and current residents. Tours and leases apartments as necessary.
Helps with training staff as necessary and models effective sales techniques on a daily basis.
Leads rent collection efforts, specifically with delinquent residents. This may involve lease termination and legal action if necessary.
Assist in managing the propertys budget by making sound fiscal decisions to increase the net operating income of the community.
Inspecting apartments during move-in and move outs, walking apartments and the community as needed.
Fill the role of acting Business Manager when the Business Manager is absent. Business leader
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High degree of flexibility and tolerance for change Minimum of high school diploma, Bachelors degree preferred.
1 to 2 years previous minimum related work experience, property management exp a plus!
General office, bookkeeping and sales skills
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to deal effectively with persons from diverse social, economic and ethnic backgrounds.
Extremely computer literate, including Microsoft office Suite
Previous experience in a supervisory role is helpful.
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We offer a total compensation and benefits package to help with your needs today and build for your future tomorrow. We recognize that each employee is an individual with individual needs, lifestyles, and interests. Our benefits package was created with the flexibility to support employees who are at different places in their lives and careers.
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Pinnacle has ongoing employment opportunities at our headquarters in Seattle, our more than 40 branch office locations nationally and our many managed communities throughout the country.
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At Pinnacle, success is about more than having a healthy bottom line. Guided by our principles and values, we are committed to making Pinnacle an amazing and unique place to work for each member of our team.
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As an Assistant Business Manager at Pinnacle you are an important piece of the onsite management team. You help guide the ship, so to speak, of a Pinnacle community under the direction of the Business Manager. The Assistant Business Manager is a business leader who focuses on resident customer service and assists in managing the operations, leasing activity, renewals, collections, financial reporting, supplies, and communications of a multi-million dollar apartment community. This position requires unmatched customer service and individuals who thrive in a customer-centric, fast-paced environment. Be ready to be busy!
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Friday, March 9, 2012
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Business Internships: Software Developer Intern Summer 2012 ...
Primary Responsibilities:
- Requirements analysis
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- Unit testing and documentation
- Utility development
- Programming according to EP best practices with some potential for research and design
- Reporting work status
Requirements:
- Enrolled in a Computer Science program at a recognized university
- Must be maintaining a B average or higher
- Experience with Object-Oriented Programming & Design, Software Engineering, Software Design, Algorithms, or Data Structures.
- Experience with any of the following would also be helpful: ASP.NET, C# and/or XSLT, SQL, Oracle, PERL, Windows 2003.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills are necessary.
- Reliable self-starter who is able to work in a fast-paced and dynamic team environment
EBSCO Publishing is a leading provider of research databases for public libraries, colleges, universities, schools, hospitals, medical institutions, corporations and government institutions worldwide. The EBSCO Publishing Campus is located in Ipswich, Massachusetts along the banks of the Ipswich River. We are just minutes from the MBTA train stop and we provide 100% commuter rail reimbursement. EBSCO Publishing offers a competitive employee benefits package including Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance, dental insurance, vision, short and long term disability, life insurance, and a retirement savings & profit sharing plan. Considered one of the top places to work in Massachusetts, EBSCO Publishing also offers a subsidized cafeteria, free coffee, an on-site fitness center with classes, and tuition reimbursement.
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An Information and Technology Internship will provide you hands on experience in your field and allow you to collaborate with experienced professionals. When you join EBSCO Publishing as a Software Developer Intern, you will contribute your skills to the Information Technology Department in Ipswich, MA. This department consists of the following teams: database design, development & production, product management, services engineering, enterprise architecture, enterprise business intelligence, enterprise systems development, systems & networking, and application engineering. There are many diverse IT job positions within these teams.
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NHS Business Services Authority increases customer service ...
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), which provides critical central services to the NHS and general public, has transformed telephone customer service after implementing a?centralised knowledge management system.
NHSBSA is now benefiting from greater efficiency, improved service levels and increased consistency of answers.?
The?project, known as Sherlock, provides Eptica?s?centralised knowledgebase across the NHSBSA?s three contact centres. This ensures that its 230 agents can access accurate, up to date information in order to deliver fast, consistent answers to the 3 million calls received every year.?
The benefits already delivered by Sherlock in six months have exceeded project expectations. Training time for new agents has dropped by 30% (against a predicted 20%) and the number of staff deployed on the service desk has been reduced by a third. In a recent survey 72% of agents said that Sherlock had made their jobs easier and 62% believed it had added to the customer experience. Sherlock is receiving over 2,000 queries per day from agents and the project is predicted to save ?121,000 in its first year of operation, rising to ?162,000 per annum in the future.?
NHSBSA has grown dramatically in the last six years, expanding from 6 to 230 agents and realised that it needed to centralise knowledge to meet its efficiency objectives. Sherlock therefore replaces a number of different paper-based information solutions across the 11 different workstreams.?
?We pride ourselves on the high levels of customer service we offer to everyone that calls us, both from inside and outside the NHS? said David Roberts, Shared Services Manager, NHS Business Services Authority. ?However our fast growth and the expanding range of services we provide meant that we needed more efficient ways of providing information to agents. With Eptica we now have a consistent, centralised system that agents trust, enabling us to be more efficient while driving greater customer satisfaction. Sherlock has become our internal information network.?
Designed around their needs, agents simply type questions into Sherlock and receive fast, up to date answers. They can flag where extra content is needed and provide feedback with a single click, ensuring answers are always optimised. Sherlock has integral audit trail functions, allowing stakeholders (such as managers within other parts of the NHS) to monitor performance and quality of information.?
Information in Sherlock was collected through agent focus groups and was rolled out with a month of intensive training and feedback before it went fully live. It is now managed by a dedicated team of three staff, who are responsible for updating information and acting on agent feedback requests.
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Skype videoconferencing app and add-on camera roll come to Vizio Internet Apps HDTVs
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Britain's ex-top cop: Too much police-press gossip
FILE - This Thursday Aug. 10, 2006 file photo shows Sir Paul Stephenson, the Deputy Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service, as he reads out a statement outside New Scotland Yard in London. The former chief of Scotland Yard has told a British inquiry into media ethics that there has been too much gossiping between senior officers and members of the press. He said Monday March 5, 2012, there was a tendency on the part of "a very small number" of police officers to gossip or leak damaging information to the press. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori, File)
FILE - This Thursday Aug. 10, 2006 file photo shows Sir Paul Stephenson, the Deputy Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service, as he reads out a statement outside New Scotland Yard in London. The former chief of Scotland Yard has told a British inquiry into media ethics that there has been too much gossiping between senior officers and members of the press. He said Monday March 5, 2012, there was a tendency on the part of "a very small number" of police officers to gossip or leak damaging information to the press. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2009 file photo Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, stands outside New Scotland Yard in London. The former chief of Scotland Yard has told a British inquiry into media ethics that there has been too much gossiping between senior officers and members of the press. He said Monday March 5, 2012, there was a tendency on the part of "a very small number" of police officers to gossip or leak damaging information to the press. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)
LONDON (AP) ? Too much gossip between senior police officials and the press has led to breaches in confidentiality, the former head of Scotland Yard said Monday.
Paul Stephenson, who resigned last year over his force's failure to get to grips with the phone hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News International, testified that relations between a small number of police managers and the media were closer than necessary.
"There was a little too much gossiping about things that ought to have been confidential," he told a judge-led inquiry which is sifting through the scandal's fallout. He called the leaks "hugely distracting" and "unprofessional."
Stephenson didn't go into detail, but his comments are the latest to underline the often close ? and sometimes intimate ? relations between Britain's national press and its biggest police force.
Senior Scotland Yard official Sue Akers testified last week that journalists paid tens of thousands of pounds' (dollars') worth of bribes to serving police officers, and Stephenson's former deputy, John Yates, was thrown onto the defensive Thursday after it was revealed that he'd shared Champagne with one of the many journalists who are now suspects in the scandal.
Elizabeth Filkin, who was commissioned by Scotland Yard to review its relationship with the press, testified that the problems also extended to freebies, noting that some senior officers had received a "very large" number of sports tickets from journalists.
Asked which media organizations were the most generous, she said: "There was certainly a lot of hospitality given by News International newspapers."
The scandal over the systematic interception of voicemails has rocked Britain's establishment, leading to the arrest or resignation of dozens of reporters, public officials, and News International executives.
The saga has laid bare the overlapping links between the press, police, and politicians ? links which critics say nearly allowed Murdoch's British newspaper company to get away with years of wrongdoing.
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Wine industry wants separate liquor license | Kentucky Politics
FRANKFORT? Dan Bryan wanted to open a wine bar but the cost shocked him.
Just to get a liquor license could cost more than $25,000. That?s why Bryan and local leaders support a bill introduced by State Rep. Dennis Keene, D-Wilder, that would create a separate liquor license to sell wine by the drink and by the?package?in wine bars.
Winemakers hope this will lead to more bars devoted to wine, particularly Kentucky wine. The state?s wine industry has grown in the past 15 years from four wineries to 65 across the state.
Bryan, who has grown grapes in his southern Campbell County vineyard for seven years, wanted a chance to sell local wines alongside international wines.
?It is a place to come in and socialize and taste the quality of Kentucky wines have to offer and compare it to wines around the world,? Bryan said. ?I see the interest and the positive response we get to the Kentucky wine product. We wanted to find a venue or an avenue that would help supply the industry.?
But when he tried to open a wine bar in the Nevada building in Fort Thomas, he found a liquor license hard to come by. The state limits on liquor-by-the-drink licenses meant he would have to buy a liquor license from someone who already held one. That could cost as much as $40,000 depending on the market, said Debbie Buckley, Fort Thomas renaissance manager.
State law limits each liquor-by-the-drink licenses in each county?according to?population. Campbell County where Fort Thomas is located has a limit of 36, but because many predate the quota system, Campbell County has 82 active liquor drink licenses, statistics from the Kentucky Department of Alcohol Beverage Control show. Kenton County has 94 active liquor drink licenses, 31 more than its quota of 63. Boone County is under its quota of 47 licenses with 26 active. Owners of the licenses can sell them on the open market, but laws prevent brokers from collecting them and require a physical building connected with the license.
Bryan?s wine bar had space picked out in the 120-year-old Nevada Building in Fort Thomas? Midway District, Buckley said.
?We had all the components perfectly in place until we discovered that Campbell County had no license available,? Buckley said. ?We were considered the wettest county in the state because we oversold our licenses by 80. You could open a bar as long as you sold food but you could not open a bar here without the food because we oversold them. There were no available licenses.?
Buckley approached Keene who introduced the bill that would provide a separate license for wine bars not limited by the state quotas for liquor drink and package licenses. The bill would limit wine bars to central business districts in historic buildings.
Keene said he doesn?t expect the bill will pass this year but hopes it can next year. By restricting it to historic buildings and downtown areas, Keene hopes the bill will get more support.
?We didn?t want them showing up at shopping centers,? Keene said
Kentucky winemakers hope?the bill will further spur the fast growing Kentucky wine industry. Kentucky wine has climbed the ranks in the United States. While Kentucky ranks 12th overall in amount of wine produced, it has the fifth most wine in bulk storage waiting to be bottled,?2010 statistics from?the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau in the U.S. Treasury Department show. Winemakers say Kentucky may regain the reputation for wine it enjoyed in the 19th Centry when, in 1860, Kentucky ranked third in grape production, according to the Kentucky Vineyard Society.
Kentucky wines now regularly beat California wines in competition, said Bill Wehrman, owner of Seven Wells Vineyard in California, Ky.
?People come in from California, people who know their wines, and we have a lot of them telling us how good our wines are,? Wehrman said.
About 500-1,000 people a month come to Dennis Walter?s StoneBrook Winery in Melbourne, Ky. The Backroads Kentucky Wine Trail of five Northern Kentucky wineries has brought more people to the local wineries since it started in Nov. 2010, Walter said. Kentucky wines, including StoneBrook, have garnered medals in international competitions. ?We?ve produced believers that Kentucky can make a good wine,? Walter said.
Tourism for wine in Kentucky could double in the next five years if the state supports it, said Allen Dossey, vice president of the Kentucky Vineyard Society. Dossey, who works as the president of an insurance company, started Purple Toad Winery in Paducah two years ago and now bottles 55,000 bottles a year. He supports Keene?s bill.
?It will help the wineries with people out tasting their wines in wine bars,? Dossey said. ?It helps the farmer and helps the local businesses. There?s a big trickle down. The more revenue they sell, the more tax revenue the state will get.?
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Source: http://cincinnati.com/blogs/nkypolitics/2012/03/03/wine-industry-wants-separate-liquor-license/
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