Minnesota Municipal Beverage Association Newsletter
(November 25, 2012 - December 1, 2012)
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As I See It...

Inventory                     

 Are you on top of your Cycle Counting?

 

After attending a couple of regional meetings it was great to hear about all of the managers who are keeping up with their cycle counting. 

 

In the last few weeks of the year, I try to get in a few more cycle counts to make sure every category in my inventory gets counted one last time before the year ends.  I find this helpful because if something doesn't match I have time to look over invoices, double check my counting or do some investigating to find the error before I print the year end inventory report on December 31st. 

 

When I print the year end inventory report for our city auditor I know it is accurate because I did one last cycle count for the year and all issues have been resolved. 

 

If you do not use cycle counting in your facility my suggestion would be to complete a pre-inventory count to make sure there are no discrepancies with your numbers.  This will make for a much smoother full inventory count with your City Council on January 1st. 

 

Last but not least, if you are not participating in cycle counting, make it one of your New Year's Resolutions to start in 2013. 

 

It is much easier to catch a mistake right away than have to try figure it out at the end of the year. 

 

If you are unsure of how to get started, MMBA Directors are here to help.  Feel free to contact us and we would be happy to get you on the right track.

 

Happy Holidays!

 

Karissa Kurth

Buffalo Lake Liquors

 

 

Whisky Saves Man's Eyesight After Being Blinded by Homemade Vodka
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NZ Herald

November 30, 2012

 

Alcohol doesn't tend to make you see more clearly, but in Denis Duthie's case a bottle of whisky literally saved his sight.

 

The 65-year-old Taranaki man suddenly went blind when vodka he had been drinking reacted with his diabetes medication. He regained his sight only after hospital staff administered expensive whisky.

 

Mr Duthie, a catering tutor at New Plymouth's Western Institute of Technology, had been celebrating his parents' 50th wedding anniversary in June by having a few vodkas from a bottle his students had given him as a present.

 

When he walked into a bedroom in his home everything suddenly went black.

 

"I thought it had got dark and I'd missed out on a bit of time but it was only about half-past-three in the afternoon. I was fumbling around the bedroom for the light switch but ... I'd just gone completely blind."

He thought he'd sleep it off, but the next morning he still couldn't see a thing, so went to Taranaki Base Hospital.

 

"I don't remember much after I arrived in hospital. They put me onto the trolley and into the theatre straight away.

 

"I know the doctor told my wife to say goodbye because they didn't think I'd be coming out again."

 

The surgeon later told him a strong smell like nail polish remover had come out of the incision in his stomach.

 

"They asked me if I'd been drinking that and I said 'Jesus no'. They didn't know what was going on.

 

The doctor thought he might have formaldehyde poisoning, which is associated with ingesting methanol and can be treated by administering ethanol - the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages.

 

There wasn't enough medical ethanol available in the hospital, so the registrar nipped down to the local bottle store and picked up a bottle of whisky.

 

"Johnnie Walker Black Label. It was good whisky, yeah."

 

They dripped the whisky - which retails for about $55 a bottle - into his stomach through a tube, and hoped for the best.

 

"I woke up five days later and I could see as soon as I could open my eyes," Mr Duthie said.

 

He was feeling "good as gold" and was most impressed by the hospital's improvised treatment.

 

"I thought it was pretty bloody good - I'm alive. The hospital was absolutely awesome. Couldn't have been better."

 

Auckland City Hospital intensive care medicine specialist Tony Smith said administering ethanol was a well-established treatment for methanol poisoning.

 

It worked because the ethanol competed with the methanol and prevented it from being metabolised into harmful formaldehyde, which can cause blindness.

 

"There are two potential ways of doing it: one is to give intravenous ethanol through a drip, but that is not available in all hospitals. There is also nothing wrong with supplying that alcohol via the gastro-intestinal tract, which is what they've chosen to do in this circumstance, and that's a well established treatment. If the patient's awake they can just drink it."

 

Dr Smith said methanol poisoning could be caused by home-brewed alcohol which had not been made using the standard process.

 

Mr Duthie was told his condition had been caused by the vodka reacting with his diabetes medication.

 

He had decided to speak about his ordeal to warn other diabetics: "If you're a diabetic, take it easy," he said.

 

He hadn't touched alcohol since being released from hospital.

 
Look Again 
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This is a lesson in why the next time you hear about an eye witness you can't trust them or even your own eyes. 

 

Everyone (???) sees the girl sitting and the boy hugging her neck.

 

Then look carefully again...It is actually the reverse!

 

It is our perception that influences our vision & thinking.
 

Yes, it is true...look at the guy's neck...he is actually the one sitting on the couch
with the girl hugging over him....

 

Can you see both versions now?

 
Future Dates to Remember!!

2013 MMBA Boot Camp 

 

February 19 & 20, 2013

Breezy Point Resort

 

2013 MMBA Annual Conference

 

May 18 - 21, 2013

Arrowwood Resort

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Gary Buysse
Rogers
763-428-0163

Cathy Pletta
Kasson
507-634-7618
  
Vicki Segerstrom
Milaca
320-983-6255
  
Brian Hachey
Stacy
651-462-2727

Nancy Drumsta
Delano
763-972-0578

Lara Smetana
Pine City
320-629-2020

Michael Friesen
Hawley
218-483-4747

Tom Agnes
Brooklyn Center
763-381-2349

Steve Grausam
Edina
952-903-5732

Toni Buchite
50 Lakes
218-763-2035

Brenda Visnovec
Lakeville 
952-985-4901
 
Bridgitte Konrad
North Branch
651-674-8113
  
Shelly Dillon
Callaway
218-375-4691
  
Karissa Kurth
Buffalo Lake
320-833-2321
 
Paul Kaspszak
MMBA
763-572-0222
1-866-938-3925

 
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