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a small bottle of Momspit each, to lace and I am just the Mother. A large bottle of Momspit to Mommyknows. Winners, please email me at crabmommyatgmaildotcom (which I am spelling out to confound the spam robots) and I will have the good peeps at Momspitdotcom ship your prizes to you.
Crabtot and I were dying to give the spit to the commenter who posted as "anonymous" and begged for to be picked as the winner, but fate played a different hand. For those disappointed entrants, Momspit may be offered again in an August drawing. So keep reading and you might find yourself the proud owner of green tea & fig-scented spit before the summer is over!
In other news: after the recent inflamed conversation on this blog about my Crabmusings re. the recent ethnic diversity of Crabtown, some of you may be glad to know that I got my comeuppance at Albertson's yesterday. I went to buy tacos only to be confronted with a threatening mob of angry Eastern Europeans, who had read my blog and apparently understood it (There I thought their English was so bad!). They were pretty angry at what they considered to be ethnic slandering and stereotyping on my part. So they came at me, brandishing kielbasy! And then one of them hurled a jar of beets! I should have brought some tampon wieners to set upon them but I hadn't anticipated the attack.
I ran. Down the aisles. Until I found the one labeled "Hispanic foods." And I grabbed a box of Old El Paso taco shells. They were very stale and hence made quite a good shield, deflecting the various pickled and root-vegetable-based foodstuffs that were being thrown at me.
At a certain point, though, the mob just stopped and then we all just started talking. And I heard them out. And then I explained also that as a South African of many generations my cultural traditions involve a certain amount of ethnic stereotyping and slandering, and I asked everyone to just be sensitive to and cognizant of that fact, and not to attack me for my particular belief system and the ways of my people. And we all nodded and realized that, in fact, we are all alike. We all eat food. We all feel pain. We all have feelings. We all have red blood (even people of color and Eastern Europeans have red blood and so do Red Indians! I mean, Native Americans). Then they invited me to their youth hostel for a party.
As with the Wendy's cowboys, I left Albertson's knowing that new friendships had been forged in the unlikeliest of ways and with the most unlikely people, some of whom had really pretty eyes.
But God knows I'm not going to their party. Who wants to listen to that Slavic rock music! No thanks!
To sum up this episode in Cmom history, dear readers, I have definitely learned something and I hope everyone else has too. I have received a lot of mail about this post. Yes, I have offended some. And yet others feel I should not have apologized. So I thought about apologizing for apologizing. Then I realized that while things get complex and tricky when you are writing satire, you can stick to one simple code: be funny. Thus, my apology stands; I wasn't funny enough in my posting about Crabtown and its European Invasion. The writing was sloppy and not properly contextualized. Mostly, it just wasn't as good as it needed to be. I am certainly sorry for that.
Happy weekend, and thanks everyone for posting your thoughts and reading my blog. You are dang fine people, each and every and all of you. Even those of you from other countries!
Friday, July 27, 2007
Momspit Competition: And the Winners Are
Posted by Crabmommy at 8:56 AM
Labels: Crabtown, Random Silliness
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- Inky Ink Inc. said...
In the immortal words of Rodney King, I ask "Can't we all just get along?" And I really do believe that the answer is "Yes. We can." It may not be easy—it may, in fact, require considerable effort—but all we have to do is to look to the Crabtots of the world to realize how effortless it can be. Like most vices, intolerance is a learned behavior. Good on yer, Crabmom.
- July 27, 2007 at 2:31 PM
- LizLSB said...
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Yeah! I just sent you an email. I can't wait for some momspit to arrive in my mail.
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Jumbled Mess of Yankee and Non-Yankee Thoughts
Last night's game was a marathon for no reason whatsoever. On several levels, it hurt my brain. And then the whole Michael Jackson thing added to the confusion. It's so weird to see multiple generations have such vastly different memories of a performer.
So, all I can really muster this morning is a few random thoughts:
- Happy Birthday, Derek Sanderson Jeter. Even though you have reached the golden milestone of 35 two months and ten days before I will, I get annoyed out of solidarity when people talk about your age. You look just as good to me now as you did in '96. I wish I could say the same for myself.
- I don't know why, but I can't get all jazzed up about A-Rod tying Reggie Jackson in the home run department. Part of it is that I could never get jazzed up about Reggie. I know I should be able to, and I know A-Rod passing him (and the other guys on the list) will be a big deal. But Reggie never really seemed like a particularly fun guy and, as you know, I'm forever ambivalent toward A-Rod.
- Is it wrong that I am simultaneously sad about Xavier Nady's setback and somewhat relieved that it could possibly cut down on the chances that Swisher would be traded?
- In Non-Yankee News, it was reported yesterday that Cubs catcher Geovany Soto tested positive for pot during the World Baseball Classic. The following paragraph appeared in a blog post written by Nick Friedell of ESPNChicago.com:
"In all seriousness, though, this news is embarrassing for everyone
involved, most notably Soto. The Cubs' catcher is hitting just .228 on
the year and looks like a shell of the player that was the NL Rookie of
the Year last season. He doesn't look nearly as powerful, or as fit, as
he did when he clubbed 23 homers and 86 RBIs in 2008. In short, he's
been a disappointment, and now with this news being public plenty of
fans will wonder if all the adulation got to his head."
Everybody who thinks this was the first time Soto ever smoked pot, raise your hands. No one? Good. Because my feeling is that it wasn't. Now, everybody who thinks all this hand wringing over pot use is ridiculous in light of what was happening with drugs in the 70s, 80s and 90s? Aren't we all pretty sure that the entire Mets roster was high as a kite throughout that time. Sure the adulation may have gone to his head, and maybe he thought he didn't have to work so hard anymore, but I would question blaming that all on the pot because you're assuming he wasn't doing it the whole time he was coming up through the ranks.
- Speaking of MLB players you might want to smoke pot with, when we were at Citizens Bank park for the Phillies game, my husband and I got a kick out of noting the batting music of each player. Shane Victorino was rockin' the Bob Marley, forever endearing himself to me. (Disclaimer: this is not to say that I'm speculating about Victorino smoking pot. I have no idea what he does with his spare time. I'm just commenting on the mellow vibe Bob inspires.) Tim decided that he would like to be pals with Chase Utley based on his choice of Led Zeppelin, specifically Kashmir. Good to know. I told him that now he can't turn around and make fun of Utley if I say something about him being an aesthetically pleasing ballplayer in addition to being a very good one.


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The McMillen 3K2 Double Mc, 2-speed auger drive from Attachment Technologies, Inc. has two speeds, which allows the operator to choose high torque for difficult ground or large-diameter bits, or high speed for light/moderate ground or small-diameter bits. The 3K2 auger flow ranges from 10 to 25 gpm at a maximum of 3,000 psi. The unit can easily be fitted up to any existing utility/construction equipment that has adequate hydraulics to operate the unit.
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General Equipment's 471 DIG-R-TACH hydraulically-powered earth drilling attachment system is designed for use with lower-auxiliary hydraulic system flow rates found in models of compact loader backhoes, mini-excavators and compact utility loaders. The system features a universal mounting bracket that readily conforms to a wide variety of loader bucket configurations. Mounted quickly and easily by one person, the 471 DIG-R-TACH requires no special tools, drilling or welding as the supplied bracket grips tightly with a positive locking system. Augers are available from 2-inch to 24-inch diameters.
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Protech Tool Supply introduces the model JL-24 Landscape Auger and the model JR-18 Regular Earth Auger. The JL-24 is 24 inches long, drills holes 1.75-inch in diameter up to 18 inches deep, and fits any ⅜-inch or ½-inch electric or cordless drill. The JR-18 is 18 inches long, drills holes 1.25-inch diameter up to 12 inches deep, and fits any electric or cordless drill.
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Seymour Manufacturing produces four types of manual augers with a total of 12 auger models. The Iwan augers are general-purpose design for use in a variety of soils. Seymour has eight Iwan auger models that bore holes from 2 inches to 12 inches diameter to a depth of about 3.5 feet. Adjustable Iwan augers will bore holes of varying diameters and there are two models that bore holes from 4 inches to 6 inches and 6 inches to 8 inches in diameter to a depth of 3.5 feet. The Digwell auger features a telescoping steel handle for a total working length of up to 8.5 feet deep. The square steel extension is dimpled at 7-inch intervals for locking into settings. The Digwell point spread is from 8 inches to 14 inches. The Seymour tree-feeding auger bores a 2-inch diameter hole up to 3 feet deep for applying plant food and water to roots.
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TORONTO - It speaks to Canadian activist Stephen Lewis's influence that when he throws a benefit concert, A-listers gladly join him on stage.
Last year it was Alicia Keys who headlined his inaugural Hope Rising! show in Toronto, and this year Annie Lennox, Sarah McLachlan and Angelique Kidjo joined him to raise money for community-based organizations providing AIDS relief in Africa.
During a press conference in the hours before the show, McLachlan and Kidjo jokingly fought over who was more "madly in love" with Lewis and his tireless work with his namesake foundation.
Lewis returned the favour by pointing out that those who participate in his charity events are kindred spirits.
"The factor that drives us is selflessness. You cannot imagine how many celebrities, forgive me, are prima donnas and martinets and you don't want to spend a whole lot of time with them," he said.
"But you have this wonderful handful of performers and celebrities in the world who give of themselves because they believe deeply in the issues and it means everything to them. And that underlies our choice this year and last year and what our choices will be in the future — people who are so genuine about the causes rather than self aggrandizing."
This year's event focuses on the plight of women in Africa who are living with AIDS, Lewis said.
"The group that has been least well-responded to in the entire pandemic are women, curiously enough, even though they represent 50 per cent of the infections worldwide and 60 per cent of the infections in Africa," he said.
"There has been a lack of urgency and intervention to deal with stigma, to deal with discrimination, to deal with the cultural reality of an absence of sexual autonomy and independence, of all the things that besiege the lives of women in the high-prevalence countries —those things have largely been overlooked in the international community."
Still, as the name of the event suggests, Lewis is optimistic.
"Of course there are serious glimmers of light," he said, pointing to how both U.S. President Barack Obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton have talked of "an AIDS-free generation."
"To be able to talk about that prospect, although it is much further off than people are ready to acknowledge, suggests that we are making some progress."
McLachlan said she planned to perform a new song at the concert, which tied in with the night's theme of rallying around women — both those struggling with the disease and those who offer support in times of crisis.
"This song is sort of indicative of that, the power and the struggle that we will do anything as women, as mothers," she said.
"I think it's profoundly important for all of us to recognize that we are all in this together as human beings, we're all living in this very small planet."


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If there were ever any doubts about the potential for advancement of women in the financial world, recent appointment and confirmation of Berkeley economist Janet Yellen to the Chair of the Federal Reserve Board should put them to rest. Yellen joins her colleague Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, as arguably the two most powerful financial titans on the planet – full stop.
But… the more one digs, the more it seems that there are serious obstacles that confront women trying to climb to the top of the financial services sector today. Specifically, women tend to get weeded out, mid-career, in financial services. Of the women at the very top ranks of the financial services world – including investment banking, traditional banking, securities, accounting, private equity, financial advisement and brokerage services and insurance – a huge percentage of them rose to national prominence outside the financial services industry. They come to prominence in government, law, technology or academia – and then cross over to the financial services world at very senior levels, bypassing women who toiled in these professions their entire careers.
Consider: Neither Yellen nor Lagarde have had tremendous success in the private sector of the financial industry. Yellen came up almost entirely as an academic and policy wonk, and has been almost entirely on the public payroll her entire career. Lagarde had great success in private practice, but was an attorney before she went into government in France, rather than a financial professional. Her first big public posting was serving as France's trade minister from 2005 to 2007.
The Muriel Siebert Story
Sadly, we lost one of the financial industry's great women pioneers in August of last year, in Muriel Siebert, who was professionally born and bred in the private sector, and all within financial services. Indeed, if the financial services industry ever had anything akin to a Jackie Robinson story, it was Mickie Siebert's. She tried to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1965 that same year – a seat that at that time cost nearly half a million dollars.
Of the first ten men she asked to sponsor her application to become a member of the NYSE, nine of them turned her down. The NYSE itself wouldn't admit her until a bank would agree to lend her $300,000 – an unprecedented demand. Meanwhile, banks wouldn't lend her the money until the NYSE formally committed to admitting her as a member. Siebert was undeterred. It took two years, but she was eventually successful at becoming the first woman exchange member – and was outraged her whole life that the NYSE would not accept another woman member for another ten years. "For 10 years, it was 1,365 men and me," she said.
"I put my head down and charge." — Muriel Siebert, on overcoming obstacles
When she tried to attend a meeting at the nearly all-male Union League Club in Manhattan, Siebert found that as a woman, she was not even allowed on the elevator. She had to go through the kitchen and walk up the back stairs.
Eventually, Siebert testified before a variety of government agencies and committees that the sexually segregated gentlemen's clubs in Manhattan and other centers of commerce were important hubs for networking, and ultimately forced their integration.
Siebert also famously got the New York Stock Exchange to install a women's restroom on the 7th floor, where the luncheon club was – but only by threatening the exchange that if they didn't have it installed by the end of the year, she would arrange to have a port-o-let delivered to the hall.
In 1992, she argued that despite her own terrific success, women were not yet afforded the same professional opportunities as men in the financial services industry. "Firms are doing what they have to do, legally," she said. "But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers, and they still are not making partner and are not getting into the positions that lead to the executive suites. There's still an old-boy network. You just have to keep fighting."
If Mickie Siebert were working today, she wouldn't be the lone woman at the top ranks of financial services, even in the private sector. Abigail Johnson heads Fidelity investments, for example (it helps when your grandfather starts the firm and your father is CEO of Fidelity, of course!) Teresa Ressel, once an assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, is now the Chief Operating Officer of UBS Securities, Americas. You have Dominique Senequier at Ardian, Nicole Arnaboldi at Credit Suisse, each well ensconced at the C-suite level in the banking and brokerage industries. There are more promising women doing great work at the managing director and VP level as well – nearly across the board.
But move down the financial services food chain and it's clear that there's still a problem. The brokerage industry is still reeling from a series of sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits from the 1990s and even well into the 2000s. Last fall, for example, Bank of America agreed to cough up $39 million to women who had filed discrimination claims against B of A's recently-acquired subsidiary Merrill Lynch – capping off almost half a billion dollars that Merrill Lynch has paid out to women complainants over the last 15 years, according to reporting from the New York Times.
Younger women are still struggling, too. Look down the series of photographs of the top 40 independent broker-dealer advisors in WealthManagement.com, and you will find not a single female face (nor African American, for that matter).
Furthermore, a recent survey from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants indicates that women are still underrepresented in senior management in accounting firms. Specifically, while 44 percent of accountants at CPA firms surveyed are women, only 19 percent of partners are women. This is a marked drop of 21 percent from the 2011 survey results.
It seems as though women at the very top end of the bell curve are able to break through the glass ceiling that Muriel Siebert first cracked in the 1960s and 70s. But why don't women seem to be firing on all cylinders when it comes to being fully represented among industry leadership mid-career?
I'm going to throw out some possible factors as food for thought – without backing any of them. Instead, I'll leave to readers to chew on them and accept or reject these hypotheses:
- Women tend to take more time for family and child-rearing, biasing purely financial or quantitative measures like AUM or client acquisition towards men.
- Women tend to be more risk-averse than men – resulting in more women in the middle of the bell curve but leaving the left and right ends of the distribution to mostly men.
- Women may prefer team-oriented structures to competitive ones, while top rank high profile positions tend to go to more competitive pressures.
- Ambitious women may tend to self-select to other professions outside of the financial services arena.
- Women get led on more by wealthy prospects who simply enjoy their company but do not become clients, leading them to waste time and appointments, where men 'ask for the sale,' get it, and get out.
- Wealthy clients – the kind that build a financial services business fast, simply tend to prefer to send their business to men.
- There is active discrimination in the industry, still, despite the recent lawsuits and settlements, that keeps women in the lower to middle ranks of the profession.
- Mentorship and leadership development programs for women are inadequate.
- Women tend to do better in financial services if they start in law, academia or government and then switch over at more senior career levels, as Yellen, Lagard and Ressel did. Senequier also didn't rise to prominence in financial services, either. She came over to Ardian from Hewlett Packard.
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The New York Mets' owners scored an early-season victory Monday, stabilizing the club's financial future in a deal with a trustee for Bernard Madoff's fraud victims that requires them to pay millions less than they might have — and lifts a dark cloud from a team whose dismal play seemed to mirror its misfortune in the owner's box.
Mets CEO Fred Wilpon and team President Saul Katz, co-majority owners, emerged smiling from a Manhattan federal courthouse after a judge announced the agreement, which makes it likely they'll pay much less than the agreed-upon $162 million, if any at all; guarantees they will owe nothing until the end of four years; and averts a high-profile civil trial.
"Now I guess I can smile, maybe I can take a day off, but I can't wait to get back to our businesses, which I love," Wilpon, sporting dark sunglasses, said outside court as he pledged to rejoin the Mets on Tuesday at spring training in Florida. He stood with Katz, who rested his hand on Wilpon's shoulder under a sunny sky.
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After speaking, Wilpon gave a nod to the sagging faith some have had in recent years with owners who seemed mired in accusations that they knew Madoff was up to no good but kept silent because they were making lots of money on their investment.
"Stick with us," he said.
In a lawsuit that demanded $1 billion from the Mets owners, Picard said Wilpon and Katz had meetings with Madoff in his office at least once a year, a privilege few investors enjoyed, and that Katz at times spoke directly with Madoff at least once a day.
Madoff is serving a 150-year prison sentence after revealing in December 2008 that he cheated thousands of investors of roughly $20 billion for years.
The judge noted the end of acrimony as he read a document that promised neither side will disparage the other or the agreement and that Picard will no longer accuse the Mets owners of being "willfully blind," a legal term central to the civil trial the deal eliminated. The litigation could have forced the team's owners to pay up to $383 million.
"All I have to say is, love is wonderful," U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said, smiling.
The deal was shaped so that the team's owners could owe much less than the $162 million they received in fictitious profits in the six years before Madoff's fraud was revealed.
The agreement calls for the sum to be reduced by money that would otherwise be paid for $178 million in losses claimed on behalf of dozens of accounts held in the name of defendants in the action against Sterling Partners, a business entity that includes the Mets owners, along with real estate, sports media and private equity interests.
David J. Sheehan, the lawyer for trustee Irving Picard, told the judge that $10 million in losses by Sterling Partners that was recovered by the trustee was already set for disbursement, an amount that would reduce the Mets owners' debt to $152 million.
The trustee says he has recovered 52 percent, or $9 billion, of claimed principal losses by all Madoff investors. More than $6 billion more has been identified but not yet secured.
"In a sense, we're now partners," Sheehan said outside court of the trustee and the defendants, whom Picard's lawyers had once criticized as men who turned a blind eye to every red flag of fraud before them as they withdrew $90 million of "other people's money" from the accounts of Ponzi schemer Madoff to cover day-to-day operations of the team.
But despite the brightening of skies, the Mets owners are not out of the woods.
They have paid back a $25 million loan from Major League Baseball and a $40 million loan to Bank of America, a person familiar with the team's finances said Monday night, speaking on condition of anonymity because no public statement was authorized. The team also closed on 12 limited partner shares of $20 million each, of which five were bought by newcomers and the rest by the current ownership group and its partners in the SNY cable network.
The team's on-field future remains murky, as well. The Mets have finished with a losing record for three straight seasons, and attendance at Citi Field declined from 3.15 million when it opened in 2009 to 2.35 million last year, the team's lowest home total since 2004.
General manager Sandy Alderson said the team lost $70 million last year, and the Mets' payroll has dropped from $142 million at the end of last season to about $95 million following the departures of All-Stars Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran and Francisco Rodriguez, the largest one-year drop in baseball history. Star third baseman David Wright is entering the final guaranteed year of his contract, and the Mets could listen to trade offers this summer.
Still, the deal announced Monday left Wilpon and Katz, who together personally promised to guarantee $29 million for the trustee, speaking confidently of the team's future.
Katz said outside the courthouse that the Mets were on secure financial footing. "Always was," he said.
Wilpon said: "As we've said from the very beginning when this lawsuit started, we are not willfully blind, we never was, we acted in good faith, and we're very pleased that this settlement bears that out. That's very important to us."
As he stepped into a car, Wilpon declined to discuss how the settlement might affect the club's efforts to raise additional cash. Earlier, he said he was resuming work at "trying to bring the New York Mets back to prominence."
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The road to a settlement may have been paved weeks ago when Rakoff ruled Picard could try to recoup only $386 million from the Mets owners.
Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who acted as mediator, said the settlement lets Picard focus on 800 pending lawsuits against those who profited from their investment with Madoff.
He said Picard and the Mets owners "avoided the risks and uncertainty of ... a long, bitter and expensive trial" in a deal that was fair and reasonable.
"Nobody gets everything they want in a settlement. But both sides helped their causes," Cuomo said.
Dodgers Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax had been scheduled to testify in the trial about the intentions of Wilpon, who encouraged him to invest with Madoff.


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Mexico's president tries to loosen country's monopolies
- One proposed measure would open up telecommunications to competition
- Mexican conglomerates often prevent innovation%2C price reductions and entrepreneurship
- Business exclusivity contracts date back decades in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — Jesús Briseño is a Mexican entrepreneur, brewing craft beers like pale ale, stout and a pilsner named for Jesús Malverde, the patron saint of smugglers and drug dealers.
But often it's not Mexico bars that sell his beer but U.S.-based outlets here like Wal-Mart and 7-Eleven.
The reason has to do with Mexico's system of monopolies that are allowed to secure exclusive rights to major industries and products such as telecommunications, broadcasting, cement, even beer. Mexico's two largest brewers use exclusivity contracts to prevent all products but their own from being sold in nearly all of Mexico's bars and restaurants.
Mexico's new president Enrique Peña Nieto says he wants to grow the economy by loosening the hammerlock that big companies have on markets here. But it won't be easy.
A proposed measure in the Senate would open up telecommunications to competition. The sector, which includes Mexico's cellphone industry, is dominated by the world's wealthiest man, Carlos Slim. The Senate measure would allow foreign competition in the industry and create an autonomous telecom regulator with teeth.
It would also allow for the establishment of new on-air TV channels to compete with broadcasting giant Televisa and TV Azteca, which together control more than 90% of the Mexican market.
"It will arrive to encourage more competition in this sector, in favor of more investment, eventually from abroad," Peña Nieto said recently.
The brewing business is a good example of how Mexican conglomerates often focus on keeping out competition rather than competing for customers, preventing innovation, price reductions and entrepreneurship.
Briseño made beer in his basement before starting Guadalajara-based Cervecería Minerva using the equipment of a failed Philadelphia microbrewery. But he found that most outlets for his products has signed exclusivity contracts with Mexico's biggest brewers in exchange for financial incentives such as free refrigerators and low-interest loans.
Briseño estimates 95% of potential sales points in Mexico are off-limits to his products.
"For small businesses, especially restaurants, this is a very attractive financing method," Briseño says.
He is not the only one to complain.
SABMiller, which produces Miller beer, has been in court for years in Mexico alleging that Grupo Modelo SAB and Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma — Mexico's biggest domestic producers — are illegally blocking consumer choice in what is the world's sixth biggest beer market.
Grupo Modelo, half-owned by Anheuser Busch-InBev NV, produces Corona, Modelo, and Pacifico beers and exports them freely to the United States. So too does Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma, which is owned by Heineken NV and produces Dos Equis and Tecate.
But the brewers have fought the legal attempts to overturn exclusivity deals in Mexico that keep out U.S.-produced beers.
Mexico's competition commission is due to rule on the propriety of the exclusivity deals this spring. Spokeswomen for Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma and Grupo Modelo did not respond to interview requests.
Some stores and high-end restaurants and pubs have been stocking craft beers. But for now, the contracts remain standard practice.
The inducements for signing exclusivity contracts are significant and include signage and furniture. But the most widespread inducement is cash -- no small matter in country where bank lending is low and interest rates for business loans are high.
In some parts of Mexico, money from an exclusivity contract allows bar owners to pay for liquor licenses, says Rick Ortega, export sales manager at Cucapá Brewing Co. in Mexicali — which increasingly sends its beers into neighboring California.
"It's an open enterprise in the U.S.," Oretga says. "You have a lot more points of sale."
Exclusivity contracts date back decades in Mexico, emerging originally in northern states where liquor licenses were scarce and expensive and bought by bar owners with a brewery's financial backing, says Alan Alanis, Latin America food and beverage analyst with JP Morgan.
Such arrangements are not synonymous with exaggerated profits, he says.
"The most profitable beer markets are Brazil and the U.S. and exclusives are less than 5% of the market," he says.
Gilbert Nielsen, director of Cervecería Calavera, a microbrewery in suburban Mexico City, says Mexico's big brewers also maintain dominance the way monopolies in the United States once did - by controlling supplies. In the case of beer, the big chain monopolies own the country's malting companies.
But he insists a culture of consuming craft beer is building in Mexico despite the difficulties. The number microbreweries climbed to 46 in 2012 from just 20 in 2011.
"Public pressure" is changing consumer tastes will eventually put an end exclusivity contracts, he say.
But many bar owners appear indifferent to the complaints.
Umair Khan, co-owner of the Black Horse bar in Mexico City's popular Condesa district, says Mexico's two big brewers must still court bar owners and compete for contracts. And despite the lack of domestic competition he can offer 43 different imported beers.
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Shuttle Endeavour to launch 7.55pm Friday..weather permitting (web cams available)
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The Endeavour space shuttle will be launching at 7.55pm (friday 14th November, 2008), from the Kennedy Space Centre, weather permitting (there's a 60% chance that it will go ahead, as of now).
To see this live, please go to http://www.floridatoday.com/content/maps/spacewebcams.shtml the main one is of course NASA Television link, but there are several to take a look at.
(only a few of the overall webcams available)..
News about this can be seen at florida today (see here).
STS – 126 is to deliver surplies and equipement to the International Space Station (ISS).
Some of the images from the live online NASA channel.
Astronauts getting into the shuttle
All went well, and they are well on course for joining the International Space Station…. I know this has nothing to do with UFOs, but i am still fascinated with space, and all that it entails.
I forgot to also give another link….. see it here . On the right hand side there are alternative views (best for images is windows media player- go to other viewing options, link is there). What's on will show you times of events…. should be good when it gets to the ISS.
I always get a buzz from watching it live…. great viewing.
For those of you, who missed the liftoff…. below is a 2 min video, by someone who kindly posted it on youtube


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Cubans convicted of publishing "counter-revolutionary" articles on foreign-hosted websites are at risk of serving as many as 20 years in jail. If they connect illegally to an international Internet network, they also risk five years in jail. A planned underwater optical fiber cable linking Cuba to Venezuela is expected to go into operation in 2011.
Reporters Without Borders says that complaints against Internet journalists and bloggers average one each day. It says that Egyptian authorities troll Facebook, on the prowl for activists. Coincidentally, in order to use Wi-Fi, you must supply a real email address. Also, the nation's Telecommunications Law requires Internet service providers to supply the government with surveillance services and equipment.
The government also owns the main service provider, Telecom Egypt, a relationship that lets the state exert control over the international telecom interconnection facilities that provide the physical transport for the international Internet connections, according to MIT Internet expert, William Lehr.
Connections to the Internet are slow while broadband is off limits for cyber cafes and homes. Iran's Cyber Crime Act of 2009 mandates prison terms of up to two years and a fine for anyone found guilty of "disseminating false information likely to agitate public opinion."
The kingdom prohibits access to websites that discuss religion and human rights. Owners of Web sites that support "terrorism" or "pornography" are subject to jail terms. Twitter pages of human rights activists have been blocked. Reflecting the limits of tolerance in this ultra-conservative nation, one blogger, Fouad Al-Farhan, was arrested after discussing the "advantages" and "disadvantages" of being a Muslim.
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In 2006, an online reporter by the name of Djamshid Karimov wound up in a psychiatric hospital after denouncing corruption. The fact that he was the President's nephew didn't make a difference. The takeaway here, in one respect, at least, all Uzbeks are judged equally before the law.


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Advancement: Top five teams and top seven individuals from non-qualifying teams advance to IHSA State finals in Peoria on Nov. 3. If an individual makes the Top 10, they advance no matter the team placings.
Girls teams to beat: Rock Falls, Winnebago, Byron and Ottawa Marquette will be fighting for the team title with Henry/Midland and Rockford Lutheran looking to qualify. Rock Falls won its own regional, and Marquette made off with the St. Bede Regional crown.
Area girls team(s): Hall.
Individual girls to beat: BV soph Regan Weidner who won her first regional title, now runs after her first sectional crown. BV has had just one sectional champion, Jason Bill in 2001, in school history, but coach Dale Donner believes Weidner has a really good chance at getting a second. She will be challenged Saturday by Ottawa Marquette's Dani Aurit, whom she has beat in two out of three races this year, and Fieldcrest's Maria Baldwin, whom she has defeated four out of five times. Aurit beat Baldwin to the finish by 26 seconds at the St. Bede Regional Saturday.
Other area runners: Princeton's Zoe Mead finished seventh at St. Bede and coach Pat Hodge believes she continues to improve as they fine-tune her race. He's hopeful for a top 25 finish. She'll be joined by PHS senior Kathyrn Krieger, who's battled through an assortment of illness and ailments over the years to make sectional in her last run. Also competing are DePue's Velinda Lopez and Amboy/LaMoille's Jennifer Popovich.
Boys teams to beat: The team title should boil down to a tight race between Rock Island Alleman, Winnebago and Byron. The last two qualifying spots should be a very close call between Marquette, Newman, Bureau Valley, Harvard, Rockford Christian and Rock Falls.
Other area boys team(s): Hall, Princeton.
Individual boys to beat: Rock Falls Regional champ Ethan Adlfinger will be favored once again. BV's Ryan Taylor and Hall's Al Baldonado and Joseph Parrochetti will be in the running for Top 10 finishes along with Brandt Cole (Rock Falls), Bryson Reyes (Newman) and Alex Pettis (Henry).
— Kevin Hieronymus


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