INSIGHT NEWS June 27 - July 3, 2011 • MN Metro Vol. 37 No. 26 • The Journal For Community News, Business & The Arts • www.insightnews.com
Resurrecting Dad He’s almost been done in, but data show that families are hurting without him
By Stanley O. Williford Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly “… I came to understand the importance of fatherhood through its absence—both in my life and in the lives of others. I came to understand that the hole a man leaves when he abandons his responsibility to his children is one that no government can fill.”
—President Barack Obama, Father’s Day 2009 A study called “The Meaning of Fatherhood for Men” delivered at the Urban Institute in 1967 reveals that “in the traditional model of fatherhood,” men “played a dominant role in the lives of their children” as well as having “domestic control” in the home. But when the nation’s economy shifted from agrarian to industrial “the
paternal control over children began to erode.” Men were increasingly drawn outside the home to earn a living and the mother’s influence over the children began to increase. The result was a shift in the nature of parenting, as well as the balance of power within the family. The father’s role as a “moral overseer” began to disappear and his emotional bond with the children began
to weaken. Interestingly, with this erosion of the father’s role came a change in “custody practices,” according to the report by Koray Tanfer, of Battelle Memorial Institute and Frank Mott of Ohio State University. “Until about the mid-19th century, custody following marital disruption was typically awarded to fathers; (but) by the end of the century children increasingly
remained with their mothers, when marriages dissolved. “Early in the 20th century, the practice of granting custody to mothers was sanctified in the doctrine of ‘the tender years,’ which held that the children’s interests were best served when they were raised by their mothers, whose parenting skills were ordinarily superior to those of their husbands.”
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Open road to Surly’s ‘Destination Brewery’ By Lydia Schwartz Contributing Writer
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In thirty years HIV/AIDS has gone from a death sentence to a treatable disease, but there is still more that could be done.
Thirty years of AIDS in America By Wyndolyn C. Bell, M.D., FAAP, Vice President, Health Care Strategies, UnitedHealthcare National Accounts Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- HIV/AIDS is not solely an individual concern. It is a family issue that we can’t afford to ignore. It affects not only the person living with the virus, but the entire family and, ultimately, our entire community. “National HIV Testing Day” is June 27 - a good reminder to turn our attention to the ways HIV/AIDS affects our families as well as our community. This month, various campaigns are running across the country to dispel myths, improve education and remind people that HIV has not gone away. But we should not have to wait until June 27 to have a conversation. People should treat HIV like any other disease and incorporate it into their regular dialogue about health. It has been 30 years since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first case of a deadly new syndrome that would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. Over the years, we have made great strides
in preventing HIV transmission and treating people with HIV and AIDS. Prescription drugs, longterm care plans, healthy-lifestyle interventions and innovative treatments are improving. Americans with HIV and AIDS are living longer, healthier and more productive lives. But we still have a long way to go. According to the CDC, more than 1 million people are living with HIV in the United States, and more than 20 percent of them are living with HIV but are unaware of their infection. The CDC estimates that more than 56,000 Americans become infected with HIV each year, and more than 18,000 people with AIDS die each year in the U.S. How AIDS affects African Americans By race/ethnicity, African Americans are severely and disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS in the United States, according to the CDC. African Americans represent roughly 13 percent of the U.S. population; however, they account for almost half of people living with HIV as well as nearly half of new infections each year,
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Surly Brewing Co. has overcome a major hurdle in its plan to construct a new, spectacular brewery somewhere in the Twin Cities. Surly’s proposed $20 million ‘Destination Brewery’ will have a roof-deck beer garden, restaurant, bar, and event center. Under previous law, it was not legally feasible for Surly to own such a facility in the State of Minnesota. The traditional model of governmental liquor regulation is the Three-Tier System for supply and distribution. It is a strict separation between the manufacturers who make spirits, beer, and wine; the wholesalers who distribute them across and within the state to retailers; and the retailers who sell the products to the consuming public. Liquor regulation is a necessary government operation because a lack of control has caused public problems. Liquor
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Omar Ansari, owner of Surly Brewing Company, giving his thank you speech to the crowd at Power of the Pint event.
is also regulated as an industry, both to compel the industry to meet the public goals of the state and to ensure fair competition. Minnesota has a variation of the Three-Tier System. City governments issue liquor licenses to independent businesses. This means that manufacturers, liquor stores, and bars exist solely at the discretion of the municipality. Surly’s founder, Omar Ansari, and beer enthusiasts across the state campaigned Minnesota lawmakers for less stringent business regulations on local breweries in order to make the Destination Brewery dream into a reality. On May 25, MN Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law the State Legislature’s 2011 Omnibus Liquor bill. The legislation, popularly called the “Surly Bill”, includes a revolutionary provision for a new class of liquor license. Local governments in Minnesota are now allowed to issue a “Brewer Taproom License”,
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Obamas visit Mandela
(GIN) - First Lady Michelle Obama accompanied by her daughters and her mother visited the Nelson Mandela Foundation and was given a tour by Graca Machel, Mandela’s wife, of an exhibit chronicling the 27 years Mandela was imprisoned at Robben Island. After the tour, the Obamas went to the official residence of Mandela, who welcomed her entire family, including a niece and nephew travelling with them. Mandela, who turns 93 next month, has received few guests since January when he was admitted to hospital with an acute respiratory infection. Obama met briefly with Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma, one of President Jacob Zuma’s three wives, and a group of about 100
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Michelle Obama and her daughters Malia and Sasha with Nelson Mandela invitees in Pretoria but she did not get a meeting with the President. South African officials insisted that President Zuma was simply busy – but in fact the visit coincides with a cooling in
relations between South Africa and the U.S. Last week, President Zuma issued a sharp riposte to an appeal to African leaders by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to help remove Libya’s Colonel
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Muammar Gaddafi. “We strongly believe that the (UN Security Council) resolution is being abused for regime change, political assassinations and foreign military occupation,” Zuma told parliament the day after Clinton’s speech. Professor Chris Landsberg, head of the University of Johannesburg’s politics department, said even if it was not a snub, it was a “missed opportunity”. “There is no doubt there’s been some irritation on both sides over Libya,” he said. “It might perhaps have been a chance for Mrs. Obama to pass some direct messages from her husband, clarify the position and ease some tensions.”
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