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Local publishers tended to agree–up to a point. “Independent bookstores are amazing resources; I wish there were more small bookstores,” said Susan Schultz, editor and founder of local publisher Tinfish Press. She noted that larger stores rarely sell books not part of a distributor’s catalog, making the Kahala closure not as harmful to Tinfish’s local editions, such as the recent Jack London is Dead anthology. “Big-box stores tend to be Executive Gift Manufacturer kfea201esv destructive in places where there are also independents”–coming in, selling books the smaller stores sell, and at discounted prices, until those stores go under–“but in Hawaii, they’ve been a good thing.”

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Having the buying decisions of one of the few remaining big-box stores made off-Island only increases the anxiety of authors and publishers. According to Bennett Hymer, his job just got harder. “We will have to work more intensely with the many places that still sell books and find it rewarding to do so,” said the publisher of Mutual Publishing, whose author Chris McKinney won the Ka Palapala literature award for his novel Boi No Good. “We feel for the devoted personnel who have to find employment elsewhere.”

Indie bookstores such as Revolution, Bookends, Jelly’s,Gift And Premium Fair Company R/D at Interisland Terminal and Covenant Books & Coffee can hope for an uptick in sales, but Meyer sounds more interested in the long haul: “Native Books carries on as a place for books about Hawaii and the Pacific, written by Hawaiians and people of Hawaii, and I am only going to recommit to that, and expand that concept of how we exchange knowledge in the year 2013 and beyond, because there will always be a place for Native Books in Hawaii.”

DETROIT, MI - Motor City Wine is moving from the second floor of Foran’s Grand Trunk Pub in downtown Detroit to a 2,000-square-foot spot at 1949 Michigan Ave.,ac motor Model D reports.

According to Model D, Motor City Wine owners David and Melissa Armin-Parcells bought the Corktown property, which currently houses the Express Bar, and plan to open Motor City Wine in its new location this Fall.

In the meantime, they await the transfer of the property’s liquor license, plan to do some renovations, and will also allow non-alcoholic pop-up concepts, Model D reports.

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David Parcells told MLive last July that the business had seen “tremendous growth” since opening.

Parcells told Model D that the space in Foran’s at 608 Woodward Ave. was always meant to be a temporary location. The new space in Corktown is about twice as large.

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If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for just about everything from mosquitoes (West Nile carriers) to hygiene (wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing "Happy Birthday" twice). Dr. Jonathan Fielding heads L.A. County's Department of Public Health, which is bigger than some states' health departments. A pediatrician by training and the head of the county's health programs since 1998, Fielding is such a believer that he and his wife, Karin, turned savvy investments into a $50-million gift last year to UCLA's School of Public Health. Here he takes the temperature of the medical and political aspects of his work.

To the public, "public health" may sound outdated. Do we still need the department?

Clean water, pure foods, safe and effective drugs,gift premium fair gmd685fes substandard housing, occupational safety — those are public health triumphs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but we're now finding them in other forms. Water — whether it's drought or fracking or what's seeping into the aquifers. We've never had a time of more food recalls. What toxins don't we know about? People are not aware [of the risks]. It's a core public health responsibility, to let people know what we know and what we don't know.

Maybe "public health" needs a new name?

People say to me, "Oh, you must be providing a lot of indigent care." We are, but it's not the only thing we do. Maybe it could be [called] the health protector department?

C. Everett Koop was our best known U.S. surgeon general. He was high gift and premium profile to say the least — he even wore the uniform.

Maybe a uniform would be helpful! Chick Koop was amazing. He was a truth-teller at a time when ideology was trumping common sense and knowledge.

What are L.A. public health achievements?

In the county, we're down to 13.1% of adults who smoke. The incredible progress in cardiovascular disease, stroke, lung cancer — a 60% decline in cardiovascular disease, a 40-plus percent difference in stroke. 2006 is the first time we got beyond 80 years life expectancy in L.A. [With restaurant grading], we've shown a 13% reduction in hospitalization for food-borne [related] illness compared to surrounding counties. We inspect multi-unit housing. We're the first public health agency in the country to have an agreement with the FBI; we have [public health] people at the Joint Regional Intelligence Center here. We're a national model for preparations for terrorism.