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CONTRIBUTORS PETER AGOSTINELLI is a Pittsburgh-area freelance writer whose work last appeared in Fresh Cup when he wrote about Pittsburgh's specialty scene in the June 2011 issue. Thi s month Agostinelli profiles Café Brioso ("Spotlight," p. 68), a specialty cof- fee roaster and retailer with thirsty fans throughout its Columbus, Ohio, home base and beyond. STEVEN KROLAK is one of those people who can't NOT look at a TV in a café, restaurant or bar. "It's like being controlled by an alien intelligence," he says. "And that's kind of fun." But he has discovered great ambivalence in the industry about the place of television in a coffeehouse setting; he details those thoughts in "Thinking Inside the Box" (p. 48). Freelancer JENNIFER WARD BARBER may live in Southern California, but she's always proud to represent her original home- town of Winnipeg. It's a locale rare- ly associated with premium brews and barista culture. However, this month Ward Barber highlights a shop called Parlour Coffee that opened last fall and is bring- ing a new wave of coffee appreciation to the Canadian prairie ("Spotlight," p. 64). Ohio-based freelancer JESSE REEVES has written for newspa- pers, magazines and businesses. This month the travel-writing spe- cialist takes us inside the long- standing Reykjavik café Mokka Kaffi, which has been open since 1958 and was the first coffee shop in Iceland to feature an espresso machine ("Spotlight," p. 60). RYAN MOFFAT, sales manager of humanitarian group Kabum Coffee, is the author of "A Better Way" (p. 42). The article takes a look at how a driven Ugandan farmer named Janet Chemonges is leading her coffee community into the specialty realm. Nonprofit Kabum works with growers in Uganda to help them boost produc- tion practices and better connect to the world market. JEBRA TURNER is a freelance business writer and native of cof- fee-centric Portland, Ore. Her work tends to center on entrepreneur- ship, careers and the workplace, so we turned to her this month to tackle disaster preparedness, a topic all shop owners should spend some time thinking about (even if they really don't want to). The story, "Protect Your Neck," starts on page 54. 16 COFFEE ALMANAC 2012