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MOBILE, Alabama -- A west Mobile lawyer and his neighbors appear to have blocked, at least temporarily, a multimillion-dollar apartment development under construction near their subdivision, according to a ruling filed in Mobile County Circuit Court this week.
In the process, the neighbors may have overturned three decades worth of precedent in interpreting subdivision rules.
Don Beebe, a lawyer for The Atchison Firm and a resident of The Preserve, an upscale subdivision off Girby Road, has led the charge against the Gates at the Palms, a 180-unit apartment complex that abuts the single-family homes.
Up until Tuesday, Beebe's nearly 18-month-old fight had gained little legal traction.
He sought to block the Atlanta-based developers, Roland Francis Properties, as they worked to have their site plans approved by the Mobile Planning Commission. He lost.
He then sought to have the Planning Commission's approval overturned by the City Council and lost again.
Ultimately, Beebe appealed to Circuit Court Judge Joseph Johnston who, after months of debate, depositions and delay, sided with the neighbors and revoked the developer's permits.
Construction on the apartments began shortly after Beebe's early defeats and is now 70-75 percent complete, according to Doug Anderson, who represents the developers. He estimated that the company has sunk about $12 million to $15 million into the project.
Anderson pointed out that Johnston did not order the developer to cease construction.
Beebe countered that the order unequivocally voided the site permits, which clearly implies that construction must stop. If work is not halted, Beebe said, he would seek a court order to that effect.
The crux of Beebe's argument was the development's potential traffic impact on Knollwood Drive, which drivers would have to navigate as they turned onto Southland Drive, the dead-end street that provides access to the apartments.
Essentially, Beebe argued that the intersection of Southland and Knollwood was incapable of safely handling the additional traffic.
The city's own traffic engineer at the time, Bill Metzger, agreed, testifying as much during a deposition.
The Planning Commission ordered Roland Francis to make significant improvements to the intersection and a stretch of Knollwood.
But the commission allowed Roland Francis to proceed with project construction, with the understanding that the apartment complex couldn't open until the improvements were accomplished.
Beebe continued to fight the development, however, on the grounds that the company should be forced to make the improvements before receiving approval for its site plans.
Johnston's order justified Beebe's position, essentially saying that promising to make improvements required by the Planning Commission was not good enough.
Anderson said the ruling sets an ominous precedent by requiring Roland Francis to invest heavily in improvements to a site on which the company is not even technically permitted to build. Future developers could be required to build sidewalks, drainage and other infrastructure without a guarantee that their plans will even go forward.
"It's a tremendous disincentive to development," Anderson said. "It requires the developer to spend money, large amounts of money, before he knows whether the city is going to allow him to build the buildings. In essence, the court order says that the way the city has interpreted the (site approval) ordinance and the way it has approved (multi-building developments) for the last 30 years was incorrect."
Under the ruling, Roland Francis can resubmit its site plans to the Planning Commission once the required improvements are complete.


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ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) — The summer beach season is over, and it didn't end too soon for public safety officials who say they saw an increase in the number of tourist deaths along Alabama's coast this year.
Five people drowned on the Alabama coast this summer, the Baldwin County coroner's office said, and three more died in falls off condominium towers.
The number wasn't large compared with the millions of people who visited the state's prime beaches from Memorial Day through Labor Day, yet it was unusual enough to get authorities' attention.
Police Chief Billy Wilkins of Orange Beach, where two Louisiana tourists were killed after plunging off condominium buildings, said summer 2013 will stand out for the number of fatalities.
"It's been a problem this year," he said.
In Gulf Shores, safety officials had to briefly close the beaches in mid-June after four tourists from Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky and Louisiana died in rip currents following a run of bad weather.
"I don't remember that happening before," said Grant Brown, a spokesman for the city. "We were spending so much time in the water trying to save people rather trying to keep them safe."
The coroner's office said the number of tourist deaths seemed slightly higher this year than most, but historical statistics weren't immediately available.
Problems began in June when four men died the surf just off the coast in Gulf Shores. Two of the victims drowned within just a few miles of each other on the same day.
In July in Orange Beach, a teenager fell 16 stories to his death off a condo tower, where his body was found in the swimming pool, and another person died two weeks later after falling off the fifth floor at another condominium.
Both of those deaths were considered accidental, Wilkins said, but authorities have yet to receive the results of laboratory tests that could show whether alcohol or drugs were involved.
"It's always hard to say exactly what the cause is," Wilkins said.
A third person, a 48-year-old woman from Baldwin County, died after falling from a condominium tower in Gulf Shores. That case was ruled a suicide, authorities said.
The deaths do not appear linked to a surge in tourism numbers.
After having record numbers of tourists and revenues in 2011 and 2012 following the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the number of coastal visitors appeared to moderate this year, based on preliminary numbers.
June lodging revenues were slightly lower this year than in 2012, according to Gulf Shores and Orange Beach Tourism, but statistics from the entire season are not yet available.

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Myrtle B. Kjonaas, 88, Minot, died Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, in her home.
Myrtle was born April 11, 1924, near Souris, to Iver and Berdine (Walland) Gravseth. She grew up in Scandia Township and was educated in country schools until graduating with the class of 1941 from Souris High School. She completed her education at Minot State Teacher's College, earning her standard teaching certificate.
Myrtle taught school for three years in Bottineau and McHenry County. She was joined in marriage to Kermit Kjonaas on June 18, 1944. They made their homestead in Chatfield Township, near Glenburn, farming together, for 54 years until moving to Minot in 1998.
She was a member of Hope Lutheran Church, formerly known as Our Savior's Lutheran Church, of Glenburn, where she held various offices within the women's organizations of the church. She also held memberships in the Magic Square Dance and Round Dance clubs. Myrtle was a charter member of the Busy Fingers Homemaker's Club and a 4-H leader for 10 years. She became a member of Christ Lutheran Church after their move to Minot.
Myrtle enjoyed quilting, hardanger embroidery and other handiwork. She and Kermit traveled to all 50 states and their most memorable trip was to Norway in 1982, when they visited relatives from both sides of their respective families.
They became residents of the Wellington Assisted Living in 2006. Kermit passed away on Sept. 26, 2007.
She had a vibrant quality of life marked by a community of friends, both residents and staff, and she also enthusiastically engaged in as many activities as possible.
Myrtle's loving family includes: her children, Curtis (Pam) Kjonaas, Kindred, Donna (Murray Smith) Kjonaas, Fargo, Merle (Eileen) Kjonaas, Iowa City, Iowa, and Bette (Hal) Tarvestad, Lansford; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and a wide circle of extended family.
Myrtle was preceded in death by: her parents; granddaughter, Billie Jean Kjonaas; brothers and sisters-in-law, Harold and Helen Gravseth, Reuben and Martha Gravseth, Ernest and Margie Gravseth; sister and brother-in-law, Adeline and Henry Erickson; and sister-in-law, Crystal Kjonaas.
Funeral Service: Monday, Dec. 3, at 10:30 a.m., in Christ Lutheran Church, Minot.
Interment: Sunset Memorial Gardens, Minot.
Visitation: Today, Sunday, from noon to 5 p.m., at Thomas Family Funeral Home, Minot.
Memorials are preferred to Trinity Hospice.
Those wanting to sign the online memorial register or share memories and condolences are invited to use the expressions of sympathy section at (www.thomasfamilyfuneralhome.com).


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For all the explosiveness of this Cathedral Prep offense, one quarter of lights-out football was just enough Friday night.
The Ramblers' defense took it the rest of the way home.
Cathedral Prep threw up 17 second-quarter points to create some space, then held off defending state champion Archbishop Wood down the stretch to become the first District 10 team to win a pair of PIAA championships with a 24-14 victory in the Class AAA final at Hersheypark Stadium.
"Our team is known for our offense, but I like to say the character of this team is our defense," said Cathedral Prep coach Mike Mischler, whose club gave up 305 rushing yards to Archbishop Wood but surrendered only two touchdowns.
"They are just tough kids up front. We were outsized and a little outmanned up front actually. They have been jamming the ball down people's throats. These kids gave every ounce they had on the defensive side of the ball."
Each club did exactly what they wanted in the early stages and the opening 12 minutes played out to a 7-7 stalemate.
Then Cathedral Prep (16-0) senior quarterback Damion Terry, a Michigan State recruit, took over.
The 6-4, 220-pound Terry threw for a touchdown, rushed for another and guided Prep to a 24-7 halftime cushion by throwing for 215 yards and a pair of touchdowns by intermission.
"Last year we lost in the District 10 championship and it was a shock for us," Terry said. "This year with the crew of seniors we had coming in we had a chip on our shoulders and felt we could accomplish something like this."
Terry finished with a PIAA Class AAA championship game record 317 yards through the air without either of his top two targets for the season on the field.
Last week the Ramblers lost widout Brendan Kelmensic to a broken wrist and in the first quarter Friday night receiver Alex Greenwalt broke his collarbone making a diving catch.
"The thing about Damion he doesn't pick out one or two guys as his favorite. He picks them out because they're open," Mischler said. "When you have the kind of talent he has, you just keep sending guys out there and he'll find them."
Archbishop Wood (12-3) moved the ball on the ground all night. Andrew Guckin and Josh Messina each went over 100 yards and combined for 302 on 47 carries.
But after Guckin made it interesting with a 5-yard touchdown run with 2:58 to play in the third quarter, the Prep defense bent at times but slammed the door on the Vikings with a fourth-down stop and an interception by Felix Manus-Schell in the end zone.
Wood run 65 offensive plays, piled up 345 total yards and lost by 10. That's not something you see very often.
"They have some big boys over there and it was just a matter of our kids showing some toughness and making the stops," Mischler said. "When they run that kind of offense, you just have to dig in and decide who wants it. Our guys battled and found ways to get into the right holes at critical times."
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The Merrifields of Parkrose can't help it. Pass by a restaurant and they'll peer into the kitchen, checking what the chef is whipping up. With one of their products.
John and Glennis Merrifield, along with their son Kyle, are proprietors of Best Manufacturers Inc., which bills itself as the last U.S. maker of cooking whisks.
That may seem the narrowest of niches. But it's worked for 53 years, and the company these days generates $2 million in sales on about 250,000 wire whisks a year, ranging from the standard 8-inch egg whipper to the four-foot-long kettle-stirring model.
Customers include anyone looking for a stainless steel, professional-grade whisk, with bonus points for being American-made. Seventy percent of the product line goes to upscale kitchen stores such as Sur La Table, which stocks 18 sizes for serious home cooks. Most of the rest is sold through distributors to restaurants, hotels, schools, military bases and prisons.
Giving a tour of the Best Manufacturers plant, John Merrifield spreads his arms and announces, without a trace of irony, "This is it, the kitchen whisk capitol of the world!"
The company occupies a 15,000-square-foot manufacturing and shipping plant on Northeast 92nd Drive in Portland. Its not far removed from the Parkrose neighborhood where Merrifield grew up and where his entrepreneurial father, Joe, bought a two-person kitchen-implement business in 1959.
John Merrifield and his brother, Jeff, bought out their father about 15 years ago, and John later bought out his brother.
The business took off with an expanded product line and held on through the decades even as most small-item manufacturing moved to Asia. Best Manufacturers whisks and potato mashers, the company's second-leading product, are sold in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and elsewhere.
In many ways, the company epitomizes Portland's surprising manufacturing base, which includes multiple specialty metal companies and accounts for 11 percent of the area workforce, according to a recent study commissioned by the business group Value of Jobs Coalition.
About 70 percent of the area's manufacturing companies have fewer than 20 employees. Best Manufacturers has 15, not counting Brandy, the Merrifield's Australian cattle dog, who often accompanies them to work.
To compete with the cheaper labor costs of Asian companies, Best Manufacturers adopted Toyota-style Lean manufacturing techniques. Among other things, the company keeps very little finished inventory on hand, and aims to nimbly go from taking an order to shipping it in three days.
"We've had to get smarter," Merrifield says. "The recession has been a little bit challenging."
The company received help from the Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a publicly funded non-profit that helps manufacturing companies innovate, improve and stay on their feet. Merrifield said OMEP's Mark Biederbeck, a former Boeing and Daimler Trucks engineer, was particularly insightful.
With Biederbeck's help, the company found and purchased a custom-built machine that cuts and bends the wires that make up the whisk head. Biederbeck says some small, family-owned specialty manufacturers wait too long before making changes that will keep them competitive. Best Manufacturers avoided that mistake, he says.
"Lean manufacturing has driven out a lot of waste, and they've done a more effective job of building to order quickly, so they don't need to carry a lot of stock," Biederbeck says. "That saves cash. The other thing they've done, to go along with that, is they've made careful, cost-effective investments in technology."
Standard wire-bending machines were available, for example, but they cost more because they included more options than Best Manufacturers needed, Biederbeck says. Also, Merrifield picked up a used handle-cutting machine for $3,000. It needed an adjustment, but new models cost ten times as much.
The process is basic. Workers cut steel tubes for the handles, and insert wires to form various styles of whisks: flat, French or balloon-shaped heads are most common. The handles are soldered water-tight and the wires, which bear the brunt of back-and-forth mixing motion, are held in place with epoxy.
"If the wires break at the handle, we've done our job," Merrifield says.
The company competes with whisks, sometimes called whips, made in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and India. "They're all sold on price, not on quality," Merrifield says. "We've maintained our quality."
Portland's emergence as a foodie city hasn't necessarily led to increased local sales, because the city doesn't have many gourmet cooking shops, Merrifield says. But national concern about food safety and healthier eating is helpful, he says, as more people return to cooking at home. A surge in desire for American manufactured goods has also helped.
"We're ambassadors for that," Merrifield says. "We don't leave the sales meeting without letting them know they had an opportunity to buy American-made and at a competitive price."
The company also is stepping up its marketing and branding, he says. Soon, for the first time, it will imprint its name on its stainless steel kitchen tools.
"We were alive when frozen foods were new," Merrifield says, "and now we're alive when quality food and homecooking is new again."


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as an associate professor of accounting. He strives to encourage
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an Associate in Applied Science (AAS) degree in Accounting from NRCC,
and a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Business with an option
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from Radford University. He has pursued additional graduate
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Office: 227 Rooker Hall
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Jay joined the faculty of NRCC in January of 2005. He has been an adjunct faculty member in the accounting department for 5+ years, and also teaches for Radford University and the University of Phoenix Online, with over 19 years of classroom experience. He is very excited to enter the teaching field full-time, and very much enjoys interacting with students in the classroom.
Jay completed his B.A. degree in Accounting at Radford University , and later completed his M.B.A. (Tax and Accounting Specialization) through Old Dominion University. He continues to pursue graduate education through Madison University, with hopes of completing a second Master's Degree in Information Systems. He is also licensed as a Certified Public Accountant.
Jay's professional experience includes retail, governmental, and health care accounting work. The majority of his career has been devoted to the health care field, where he has worked as a controller for a not-for-profit facility, providing directions and oversight for various accounting processes and systems. He has a strong working knowledge of automated accounting systems and accounting practice, and strives to bring these experiences into the classroom. Jay adds, "While working in practice for over 20 years, I have always looked forward to teaching full-time some day. My dream has come true here at New River Community College. One could not ask for a better place to work!"
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It's National Cheeseburger Day! What is a burger without cheese?
We've teamed up with our friends at BR Guest Hospitality, who are putting Murray's Cheese on burgers at ALL THEIR RESTAURANTS. Nice.
In return, we're giving away 2 seats in a class at Murray's Cheese. To win, say "cheese" on the BR Guest facebook page. If you are a gambling type, you can double your odds by posting a pic of yourself actually eating a cheeseburger at one of their spots.
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MARSHALL, MI – Not only will the series premiere episode of "Dark Horse Nation" air Tuesday, July 29, but so will the second episode.
The new History Channel show on Dark Horse Brewery Co. in Marshall debuts at 10 p.m. Tuesday with the series premiere, titled "Hops to It."
Following at 10:30 p.m., is the second episode, with is called "Shackin' Up."
The History Channel website preview description for "Hops to It" is as follows:
"Tired of seeing thousands of dollars literally go down the drain, Aaron (Morse) dreams up a new brewing device that he hopes will make the brewery more profitable. After years of being the odd man out, Wiggs asks Chappy to give him shooting lessons on the Dark Horse gun range in an effort to be invited on the guy's (sic) hunting trips."
The central storylines for "Shackin' Up" include the guys' going ice fishing, including a "tricked out" mobile ice shanty designed by Aaron, and a bottling machine breakout and repair effort by Cabe.
The History Channel is Comcast channel 38, Charter 46, Dish 120 and DirecTV 120.
Dark Horse Brewing, 511 S. Kalamazoo Ave., Marshall, is planning an opening-night watch party, starting at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The episodes will repeat in back-to-back format again at 2 a.m. Wednesday, July 30; 11 p.m. Thursday, July 31; 3 a.m. Friday, Aug. 1; and 11 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 3.


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Beware the winsome cartoons in "After the Fall." Beware the frothy prose, the child-friendly declarative sentences.
Buzzing beneath the book's simple aesthetic is a tale of our times, in which people who never thought they'd be anything but comfortable find themselves without a roof over their heads.
Have a little anxiety with your light reading, won't you?
Billed as "a picture book for adults," "After the Fall" defies category. Victoria Roberts, a cartoonist for The New Yorker, blends prose and spot illustrations in a fashion common to early chapter books for children.
Unlike a graphic novel, where art does the heavy lifting, here the illustrations play sideman, providing visual punch lines to keep the tone bubbly.
The tale's first-person narrator is Alan, a 10-year-old who arrives home after school to find the mood dour in Penthouse B. His father, a daffy inventor made rich off one of his contraptions, has lost everything "due to the regime change in China."
To the exasperation of Alan's chain-smoking, perfume-spritzing mother, Pops refuses to sell the antique head from the ancient Olmec civilization. And so, as Alan's little sis announces, "We're ruined!"
The next day, Alan and family wake up in Central Park, which becomes home for most of the story. Still, they manage better than your average bench-sleeper.
Accustomed as they are to palatial surroundings, the four family members spread out. Mother keeps her wardrobe on a portable rack with a plastic cover, and passes time "shopping" her own shoe collection. Sis recruits squirrels and raccoons for her impromptu television talk show. Pops keeps inventing, whipping up a device that produces restaurant food in a snap:
"You set the dial to the meal required, then entered the restaurant of your choice, and then the number of people you had to feed. The [Horn of Plenty], through a system of radar and whatnot, extracted a meal from the fumes emanating from French toast, or bacon -- anything on the stove -- and some salads, if they contained onion."
And while the clan's pack of pugs explores the park, the housekeepers, Gudelia and Usvelia, commute from Queens to continue their loyal service to the family.
If life is such a lark in the park, where's the anxiety? You'll find it buried none too deeply in the humor.
Roberts has a sophisticated wit reminiscent of Maira Kalman, that other frequent New Yorker talent who expertly mixes whimsy, reverence, irreverence and keen observation in her bold gouache illustrations for children and adults. Both Kalman and Roberts exude a sly urbane sensibility that recognizes many situations as simultaneously amusing and regrettable.
Roberts adds an absurdist element evocative of magical realism. The family's grandfather clock has been stored in the branches of a tree, "as well as the Frida Kahlo, the Sisquieros, and the Warhol." The obvious questions -- Wouldn't weather ruin their stuff? Why doesn't anyone steal it? -- go adamantly ignored, purposefully leaving the reader unsteady.
The reader asks what will become of Alan and his tribe, but the family never does -- not directly, anyway. While "After the Fall" is entertaining, Roberts slips between her text and art the not-so-funny anxiety we share about our security in these times.
So what will become of us? Alas, Roberts can answer only for her fictional family. And while the ending closes down the story in a satisfying enough way, we can't help but be reminded that our real-world recession hasn't exactly been a fairy tale.
But that's such a down note, and there's much to grin about here. Take this, an early, perfect line: "Mother was in creams." (An illustration shows Mother lying back with straws in her nose to help her breathe beneath the spa treatment.) A chapter devoted to Pop's inventions imagines a pill that helps one to "think like the Chinese."
Likewise, it's impossible not to grin at the illustrations: the three pugs, the image of Mother smoking in her bathrobe while doing petit point, and the diagrams of Central Park designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux spinning in their graves.
So, yes. Beware first impressions that suggest "After the Fall" is merely a confection. But don't be wary. Though Roberts undeniably reflects the lingering malaise -- What will become of us?! -- her book also celebrates creativity and invention.
Karen Sandstrom is an illustrator and writer in South Euclid, Ohio.


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9 p.m. Tuesdays on TLC
Episode June 16 : "Big Family in Big Sandy"
It's nice to watch a big family having fun playing outside and respecting their parents. Last time I enjoyed watching any wholesome family show like this one was The Waltons back in the 1970s. The adventures of the Duggar family is no exception. Michelle and Jim Bob make raising their large brood a picnic in the park. These loving parents never complain about high mortgages, overspending at the grocery store or worrying about paying off exorbitant credit card bills. Believe it or not, the children aren't embarrassed wearing hand me downs in public, shopping for clothes at Goodwill and embrace their parents' Christian values to lend a helping hand to strangers. Large families are rare these days, but the Duggars prove that happiness comes in the large economy size through love and devotion to each other and the world.
In this episode, Jim Bob, Michelle and their 16 children travel to an ATI home school conference in Big, Sandy, Texas. Since they must travel over 10 hours in their family bus, Jim Bob feels they're making good time getting ready for the trip. Although they're running 30 minutes late, this is normal packing up all their children and luggage for their week stay at the conference center. I really like the part when older children JoyAnna, Jason and Josh help their younger siblings onto the bus and don't mind playing games during the long ride. Most children cry and complain, "Are we there yet?" Not them, as a matter of fact all the children look forward to the yearly vacation and can't wait to see their friends again, camp out in the open field and eat grilled hot dogs and hamburgers everyday for lunch. By the way, no video games appear in the children's hands.
The most touching part of the journey happens when one of the trailer tires blows on the freeway. While Jim Bob and his son, Josh work to change the tire, Josiah leaps of the bus and picks a bouquet of beautiful, pink wildflowers for his mother and sisters. His face lights up with pride as he presents the huge bouquet to Michelle and a smaller bouquet to Jinger. What a sweet kid. Once they finally arrive, all the children excitedly enter the conference center to hug their friends. No roughhousing or complaints as they branch off to their favorite stations: Jinger, Jessa and Jill to the music area to practice their piece for closing night and Jedidiah and Jeremiah to scale a "cliff mountain" to earn their adventure challenge badge. The happiness on their faces radiates throughout the week as they make the most of being outdoors and making new friends with other home-schooled children some from large families. Finally Jim Bob and Michelle are asked to make a presentation describing the finesse of raising a large family in tricky economic times. I was shocked to learn they don't have any car or mortgage payment and don't own a single credit card. Michelle sums up their family values by telling the eager audience, " We value everything available to us and treat each other with respect and dignity. None of our children are ignored or favored over each other. Our love grows stronger every day by embracing the gifts God presents to us in each other and what we learn from interacting with other people. That is our message to the world." I agree that more families crave this great advice especially during turbulent moments. I can't wait to tune in next week and tag along on their next adventure to a neighborhood public school!


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Toward Greener Manufacturing
Prof. Marek Sosnowki is helping the U.S. Army reduce hazardous wastes generated by the manufacture of weapons.
Improving manufacturing processes while reducing their environmental impact is the goal of research by Marek Sosnowski, associate professor of electrical engineering. Working with NJIT's Sustainable Green Manufacturing Program under a grant from the U.S. Army, he has developed a method to reduce the hazardous wastes generated in the manufacture of military weapons. The technique involves depositing a thin film of tantalum on steel to replace the chromium coating currently used inside gun barrels. Chromium has been found to be a serious environmental hazard, producing highly toxic waste during the electroplating and anodizing process. Tantalum, a very tough metal that has a high melting point and immunity to chemical attack, eliminates environmental concerns and also resolves technical problems of wear and corrosion from new high-energy propellants. The tantalum coatings are deposited by sputtering, a process utilizing electrical discharge in gas at low pressure, or plasma, which does not generate hazardous waste. The sputtering process, developed in the Ion Beam and Thin Film Laboratory, produces superior tantalum coatings on steel. The results are being evaluated by the Army researchers at Benet Laboratories in New York and in the Army Research Laboratory in Maryland.


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Nick McDonald, a former NCAA Division II All-America left tackle at Grand Valley State University, is returning to the Super Bowl this season.
The 6-foot-4, 316-pound reserve center for the New England Patriots has reached the NFL's championship game for the second year in a row. He earned a Super Bowl ring as a backup with the Green Bay Packers after being an undrafted rookie free agent last season.
McDonald, 24, a second-year pro from Sterling Heights, was active for New England's 23-20 victory against the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC championship game Sunday in Foxborough, Mass.
Ravens placekicker Billy Cundiff missed a 32-yard field goal attempt with 11 seconds left in regulation to send the Patriots to their fourth Super Bowl during the Tom Brady and Bill Belichick era.
Joe Staley of Rockford just missed joining McDonald for Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5 in Indianapolis.
The 6-5, 315 starting left tackle for the San Francisco 49ers fell short in a 20-17 overtime loss at home Sunday in the NFC championship game against the New York Giants.
New York placekicker Lawrence Tynes made a 31-yard field goal in sudden death to send the Giants to their second Super Bowl in the past five seasons.
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Common Pleas Judge Christy Lee Peck this morning said Carlisle tax collector George Hicks Jr. can't do his job while his marijuana-selling case works through the legal system.
Carlisle Borough officials will take over tax collecting duties.
Hicks will continue to receive his salary and all commissions and fees.
Hicks said last week that he regularly smokes marijuana medically, to cope with a mood disorder. The 21-year-old contends he sold marijuana only as a favor to a friend. He said he is not a drug dealer and will fight the two felony drug-dealing charges lodged against him in Cumberland County Court.


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Andrew Bogut went through a complete, full-contact practice for the first time in 9 and a half months and is close to returning.
Andrew Bogut went through a complete, full-contact practice for the first time in 9 and a half months and is close to returning.
Lamar Odom has missed two weeks with a bone bruise in his knee, but plans to play in the Clippers' season opener.
I've read in a few places that the minimum amount of time Amar'e will be out is 6 weeks total. He's already been out what, a week or two?
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Did NY already use their amnesty? Refresh my memory.
I'm post this here and in the UGLI forum, but Danny Granger is out indefinitely and will get another opinion on his knee.
Amar'e is having debridement (removal of tissue) done on his knee and will be out 6-8 weeks from now.
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Despite the differences between Democrats and Republicans, there are some things that we can all agree on. One the deficit should be lowered as soon as possible. Most people agree in the polls that the tax rates should be raised on the top 2% and some modifications should be made to the tax deductions for those in the upper brackets.
For instance, keep the home mortgage exemption but limit it to homes under $500,000 and only on one home per family. We should all agree that all entitlements are not the same and we have paid into Medicaid/Medicare and Social Security all our lives. Those need to be worked on but mostly to guarantee them for future generations by strengthening them. They are important security for elderly Americans who are no longer able to work.
Now, there are some other entitlements that we can all agree need changed. I think instead of handing out Food Stamp cards, there should be community Food Banks, run by the government all over the country, where people would go to pick up actual food. These could also be used for disaster recovery by mobilizing them on trucks to get the food where it is needed. Also, we are tired of Corporate Welfare and supporting countries with Foreign Aid that are against us.
The sad thing about Hurricane Sandy, was that people were hungry because they could not get to the food they needed. Let us all write the President, Congress and the Senate and let them know what we need and want! It is easier than you think, go to Congress.org and you can email your letter!
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By Carl Golden
Observing the legislative elections this year was like sitting through a mildly suspenseful movie despite knowing the ending well in advance.
As anticipated, Democrats retained control of the Legislature in a process that left neither side able to claim victory or a mandate.
The outcome was so certain and its impact considered so inconsequential that Democrats spent the days leading up to it reaching deals and accommodations for leadership positions heading into the 2012-'13 session, turning what is normally an uninteresting pro forma exercise into a glimpse into the backroom ebb and flow of political alliances.
For Gov. Chris Christie, the results mean nothing more than his having to deal with a Legislature of the opposite party, something he's been successful at doing.
The governor and party leaders went to great lengths to insulate the administration from any criticism if Republicans failed to make gains in the Legislature. They succeeded in driving low expectations even lower.
Democratic Party leaders tried just as hard to portray the Republican failure to narrow its edge as a repudiation of the governor, but their comments seemed to be more of the "it's what we're expected to say" variety than indications of any heartfelt belief.
The combination of history and a redrawn legislative map that reduced the number of competitive districts to three or four worked in favor of Christie's analysis. Only those who perceive a draw to be the equivalent of a defeat would disagree.
Christie dominated the Legislature in his first two years, securing victories on unprecedented budget cuts and imposition of a cap on property-tax increases.
He succeeded in driving a wedge between organized labor and its long-term Democratic allies with the passage of groundbreaking legislation that requires a half-million public employees to contribute more to their pension plans and medical insurance premiums.
While the Democrats held the numerical majority in the Legislature, it was Christie who held the working majority. That hasn't changed, and as long as the governor's alliance with Democratic Party leaders in Essex and Camden counties remains solid — along with an occasional boost from Hudson County — his agenda will continue to advance.
This cross-party coalition is not rooted in political ideology or philosophy of governance; rather, it is based on attaining power and wielding it to bring about dramatic changes in government's role, from the way it raises and spends taxpayer money to how it oversees public education.
It is based upon a conviction that working at the margins or settling for small incremental changes is no longer sufficient as a long-term solution to intractable problems.
This belief has its downside, often creating political turmoil and pitched battles with entrenched special interests that either resist any change or demand change on their terms.
Christie has not shied away from engaging in confrontation or putting the full power of his office behind his cause. So far, at least, he's won more medals than he has suffered scars.
He sought and received unshakeable discipline from the Republican minority in the Legislature.
Any doubt about the strength of that discipline evaporated with the defeat of Democratic attempts to override the governor's line-item veto of dozens of budget items, including many that Republicans had supported earlier.
Christie is expected to pursue approval of his education reform package in the new session, an effort that once again pits his administration against the New Jersey Education Association — a group he's used as his personal dartboard for the past two years.
His recommendations for a major overhaul of the teacher tenure system, implementation of merit pay, a teacher evaluation system based on student achievement and greater support for charter schools represent perhaps the most sweeping effort to restructure public education ever undertaken.
A few weeks ago, Christie also hinted that he's considering a new aid to education formula, potentially revamping a program that, at some $10 billion a year, consumes one-third of the entire state budget. Further, if he moves ahead, it raises the prospect of more litigation on an issue that's been in the courts for three decades.
Once the corner is turned into mid-2012 — and certainly by the start of 2013 — all policy debate and legislative action will be seen through the prism of gubernatorial election politics.
Christie may encounter more resistance than he has up to this point, as Democrats attempt to position their party more favorably and argue for a change in leadership and a new direction for the state.
At the same time, Christie will seek to establish momentum and a record of achievement while arguing that he deserves a second term to continue what he's begun.
Election Day 2013 won't lend itself to the lack of suspense and predictable outcome seen last week.
Carl Golden is a senior contributing analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Richard Stockton College.


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Sunny skies won't be enough to raise temperatures much above 50 today for Mardi Gras, but the thermometer should slowly return to near-normal mid-60s in the New Orleans area by Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
Cool, dry air accompanying the cold front that swept through the region early on Lundi Gras looks as if it will prevent new showers from being spawned by a weak trough of low pressure that will pass just north of the area tonight.
Expect highs in the lower 50s on both sides of Lake Pontchartrain today and on Ash Wednesday. Temperatures will drop to the mid-30s both nights on the south shore and will drop to the upper 20s on the north shore.
High temperatures edge back into the lower 60s on Thursday and mid-60s on Friday, with lows in the 40s south of the lake and mid-30s to mid-40s north of the lake.
The clouds return Friday afternoon, with a 20 percent chance of rain showers lasting from Friday night until early Sunday, with mostly cloudy skies accompanied by highs in the lower 60s expected Sunday afternoon.
The National Weather Service's long-term forecast calls for below-normal temperatures and above-normal precipitation for Louisiana through the end of February.


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Remember those days when church families got together on a warm Sunday afternoon for a picnic and perhaps a little music?
People don't seem to do that anymore.
Although it wasn't Sunday, and it wasn't warm - it was down right hot - my church family at Westminster Presbyterian Church got together Monday to welcome the Mobile Health Fair Ministries to town.
The group, which includes pre-med and pre-nursing students and other volunteers have been coming to the area for the past 20 years to minister to the migrant families and those without access to medical care.
The group is sponsored by the Lake Huron Presbytery in coordination with the Synod of the Covenant in Michigan and Ohio.
Watch for an upcoming story in The Bay City Times about this group and what they do.
The headquarters for their stay is Westminster.
"We've been coming here for 20 years," said the Rev. Valerie Fargo, leader of this group. "We go out from here to Bay City, Reese, Saginaw, Flint and Imlay City."
Each year we all bring a dish to pass and Hazel Kish and Emily Butts spend the day in the kitchen making ham and scalloped potatoes.
This year, thanks to my suggestion, we decided to do the picnic, complete with hot dogs on the grill, potato salad, macaroni salad, chips, cake with chocolate frosting and lots of watermelon.
After a prayer, about 40 of us sat down to share the meal. Each volunteer also took the time to tell us a little bit about themselves. Many of the volunteers come from the Korean Presbyterian Church of Southfield.
But whether local or out-of-towners, all agreed it was a great end to the holiday weekend.
What makes a good end to a summer picnic? The entire group pitching in to clean up.
Since I only like my own potato salad, I thought I would share it with you. Although I never measure anything, I kept track of what I did when I whipped this up.
By the way, I picked up the potatoes, onion and cucumber at the Corrion Farms booth Thursday at the Downtown Bay City Farmer's Market. All were picked that morning.
And, one more by the way. Jean and Neil Smith have decided to come back to the market on Thursdays instead of Tuesdays.
Pati's Potato Salad
5 pounds potatoes
8 eggs
1/2 medium onion, chopped
1 medium to large cucumber, chopped
1/2 cup mayonnaise (not salad dressing)
1 teaspoon milk
1 squirt yellow mustard
Please feel free to adjust these amounts to your own taste or the number of people you are feeding.
Boil potatoes in skins until fork tender; cool. Boil eggs 8 minutes; flush with cold water.
Peel and chop potatoes into a large bowl. Peel and slice eggs. Add with onion and cucumber; mix thoroughly.
Place mayonnaise in 1 cup measure; add enough milk to make the mixture creamy. Squirt in mustard. The reason I say 1 squirt is I added 2 last time and it was too much. Stick with 1 unless you like that mustard taste.
Pour over potato mixture; mix thoroughly. Season as you see fit.
This recipe fed 40 people with enough leftover for a few more servings, including my dinner tonight.


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Cuban President Raul Castro concluded Saturday his four-day visit to China after signing a number of significant accords, particularly on financial cooperation, and having met with the current leaders and their successors, the Xinhua state-run news agency reported.
Castro, whose next destination is Vietnam, wrapped up his first visit to China as Cuba's head of state with the signing of eight bilateral agreements on financial and technical aid for Cuba.
For some observers, the trip served to build bridges of cooperation between Havana and Beijing, the island's second largest trade partner after Venezuela, in order to find ways for the Asian nation to become a stronger alternative to Cuba's economic dependence on the Venezuelan regime of Hugo Chavez.
The Cuban president kicked off his agenda Thursday at a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao and the country's chief legislator, Wu Bangguo.
Besides meeting with Premier Wen Jiabao, Castro also had occasion to speak with Vice Premier Li Keqiang and Vice President Xi Jinping.
Xi, who in October will be named secretary general of the Communist Party of China and in March 2013 will take power as the nation's president, replacing Hu Jintao in both positions, met with Castro on Friday at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, where a banquet was given in honor of the Cuban leader.
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SNAP Cornwall is hosting an open house on Nov. 22 from 4 to 8 p.m. The agency helps young people who are experiencing behavioural problems and gives them tools to help succeed at home and at school. SNAP is located at 55 Water Street in suite LL50. staff members include, in back from left, Jamie Flaro, Joshua Lepage and Cassandra Roy. In front is Stephanie McDonald and Kelli Shaver.
SNAP Cornwall will be hosting an open house on Nov. 22, from 4 to 8 p.m. at 55 Water Street, Suite LL50.
SNAP (Stop Now and Plan) helps children and parents deal effectively with anger by teaching them how to respond in a way that makes their problems smaller, not bigger. With help and practice, children and parents are able to stop, calm down, and generate positive solutions at the "snap of their fingers."
The core components of the SNAP Cornwall program include SNAP Boys, Girls and Parent Groups. Additional components include Homework Club, School Advocacy, Individual Befriending, Individualized Family Counselling, Victim Restitution, Access to Arson Prevention Programs and Long Term Connections. A child and their family may participate in some or all of the components of SNAP (based on risk and need) with the goal of preventing future antisocial behaviour. The additional components are available for as long as there is an identified need and/or interest from the child and family.
The agency is excited to invite the community to attend its our open house in order to provide additional information about the services provided at SNAP Cornwall. This event will provide an opportunity to enjoy a tour of the facility and to meet SNAP staff members. Refreshments will be provided.
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Greenetrack CEO Luther Winn was released after about seven hours behind bars today and charged that Gov. Bob Riley and the state Supreme Court are destroying Greene County.
"The governor of this state combined with the Alabama Supreme Court has devastated Greene County and west Alabama," Winn told a crowd of about 90 people just outside the gates of Greenetrack this afternoon. "We have about 400 who are going to join the unemployment line. We have about 95 students in college who won't receive their scholarships. We have parents who are going to have to go home and tell their children they don't know what they are going to do."
Greenetrack offers $5,000 college scholarships to any student who graduates from a Greene County public or private high school.
Sen. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, joined Winn while talking to the crowd. "While governor Riley is in the Gulf celebrating a national day of prayer for the people of the Gulf, I ask, what about the people of west Alabama? What about poor folk? We went to jail today for poor folk. We went to jail for access to justice, for those who do not have their voices heard by governor Riley and the Supreme Court."
Today is the third day crowds have gathered outside the closed Greenetrack, since the state Task Force on Illegal Gambling raided the bingo casino Tuesday morning. Troopers and other officials are in Greenetrack now awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on whether they can confiscate electronic bingo machines in the facility.
Singleton, Winn and 14 others were arrested by troopers this morning on charges of obstructing justice and interfering with the task force's occupation of Greenetrack.
Winn also was charged with assault and leaving the scene of an accident. Police officials said Winn grazed a trooper with one of the side mirrors on his truck Tuesday. Winn said the charge is bogus.
"They made it up," Winn said. "I have no recollection of grazing or hitting anybody. When they told me I had on Tuesday, I was upset and I apologized to Colonel (Chris) Murphy (director of the Department of Public Safety) and I found the young trooper and I apologized to her."
Winn said Murphy told him the incident would be forgiven if he apologized. He said the first time he heard he was facing assault charges was this morning after he was arrested on the obstruction of justice charge.
While Singleton posted a $1,000 bond, Winn said he was required to post a $2,000 bond. Both men said they have little hope that the state Supreme Court will do anything other than lift an injunction by a local judge that currently is stopping the task force from removing Greenetrack's 825 electronic bingo machines.
"I have no confidence in Bob Riley's Supreme Court," Singleton said. "I think our next fight will have to come at a different level, federal court."
A spokesman for the governor has said the 16 people who were jailed had asked repeatedly to be arrested.
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By Judy Woods
Whenever I hear of Susie Hollenbeck, I picture clean, litter-free parks. Try to think of any small town that does not have a fulltime parks department that has parks and open spaces as clean and beautiful as we do. If Susie is up and about, and she catches you not respecting our open spaces, Heaven help you. You can't go to her superior, because she is a volunteer who loves this town like no other. We, in town, support her.
Susie called yesterday to say how humbled and thankful she feels towards all of the folks in and about this town who have shown such love and support since it was announced that she is so sick. We need to keep up that support both financially and morally. She still has a long way to go. Her first treatment is Monday.
Our very own professional harpist, Bronn Journey, and his wife and accomplice, Katherine, are announcing the upcoming date of their Christmas concert in Everett at the Everett Performing Arts Center Dec. 22, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. If you have never heard Bronn play, you can find him on M.C. Easy Listening, on Comcast music station channel 939. The phone number for tickets is (425) 257-8600.
Sultan should become known as the "big little city." The volunteering that is done without expectation of repayment is huge. Everyone involved has to love and have respect for one another and what they do.
Here is another story on how much impact a single person can have in a community. The problem is that she has done so much it is difficult to list all that she has done. She raised five children and tried foster parenting for a short time but it hurt too much to let the kids go. She contemplated becoming a surrogate mother but decided that that would hurt even worse than giving up foster children.
She has started up and run a food bank with a disabled friend where she also delivered food to shut-ins until she had to have knee surgery. She has been a midwife and has delivered 400 babies. She has cooked meals with her own money to feed the homeless, is a massage therapist, a caregiver and a waitress.
Do you see why she is so hard to write about? A person could write a novel about her! She has two mottoes that she lives by; "Everyone deserves respect," and "There is so much to do and so little life to do it in."
She has three ex-homeless people living with her and her grandson. She has been able to help people this way.
Now she runs Tabitha House at the United Methodist Church. When she went in, she and friends refurbished the whole place and set up displays for the clothing inventory. She washes everything at her house before it goes on display. If she needs something for someone she is likely to buy it with her own Social Security check.
Her name is Donna Rice and she is the youngest 78-year-old I have ever seen.
What a Veteran's Day Celebration this one is shaping up to be! Our own Paula Thomas has agreed to sing, and Congresswoman Suzan DelBene will be in attendance to present Sultan with an American flag that has been flown over the White House.
The next Boom Town meeting is on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at City Hall. This isan important meeting because they are going to set the agenda for the future meetings next spring.


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Corel's painter graphics program has always been about using technology to blur the line between art and reality. Its digital tools simulate real art supplies, from oil paints to felt-tip pens, and it can turn photos into gorgeous paintings. We tried out the shipping version of Painter X, the 10th major edition of the program, and found that this iteration is even cooler than the previous versions, which we liked.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
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Rodger isn't even attractive. He could've been a decent role-model, but his internalized homophobia isn't cool.
The title made me LoL
Dam queerty.
Will ya'll ezz up of this man's balls. Jesus ya'll squeez'en them so hard they gonna pop.
The man is not gay.Let him alone now.
Have mercy. He's not even that goodlooking. He's a bird.
@B Damion:
Not gay…haha. Good one.
From the last article about Aaron
"Bid adieu to your gay rumors," of course, until (and if) any more evidence comes to light."
Is him talking to Taylor Swift for a few moments now considered 'evidence'?
I think he's attractive, gay or straight. I know a lot of guys find Tom Brady attractive but he's never done much for me. Aaron has that goofy eyes look that make him adorable. As for these rumors,I'm wary of anything most gossip sites like to spout so I'll take it with a grain of salt.
@ppp111: Kevin Lanflisi's mom threw shade at aaron on facebook saying she was happy the niners won and "what goes around". i think this is more than just gossip sites. simple reseach will show that. Also, he's a twink chaser and i feel bad for kevin that he used, abused, hung out to dry, then dumped him in the worst way. this is not a man we want to be part of our community.
Taylor Swift is the beard that turns your closet into a glass closet.
@Kane9: what's his mom's name on facebook? im kinda curious.
Come on, aren't we jumping the gun here? Besides, any of the Niner faithful will always diss the other team, it's part of the game. You don't think Seahawk fans haven't done the same since the NFC championship?
@ppp111: Considering that the Niners had beaten the Packers in their last 3 meetings prior to the championship game, writing. "So Happy!!! What goes around…" doesn't make much sense as a sports commentary.
Also heres' a photo of her & her husband in Packers Jersey so apparently they were Packers fans at one time at least. https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/45527_558380264180548_757820174_n.jpg
Taylor Swift has no shame…..
@aces1218: i want to say Karen or Kay Lanflisi
Okay, I admit that is curious. Wow that is interesting. I'm more curious about the 'what goes around' comment.
Playing devil's advocate here but if he is gay, and that's a big IF, Lanflisi is a grown man who knows what he was getting into with an athlete. Sorry but if he felt used he was the one who stayed. No one forced him.
@ppp111: thats a really superficial and easy response. these two could have been madly in love, and you dont know what was said, and what promises were made if any. imo you have to examine the relationship in its totality which we obviously cant as much as we'd like. Either way, i often troll Kevins instagram and he doesnt seem to be losing sleep.
@Kane9: thanks. That is interesting. While I don't think they were in a relationships, i definitely think there was a major falling out, likely caused by Aaron.
"That Awkward Moment" – oh, the jokes just write themselves sometimes!
So….in other words, he might be gay, he might not be gay, none of us knows. Glad that's settled.
At this point dating Taylor Swift should be considered official coming out.
She really seems to like gay guys.
Taylor Swift IS a Christian.
That's actually a fact, not just wishful thinking.
I really think it's tacky to keep posting the poor ex-assistant's name all over the damn internet.
Aaron Rodgers is a public figure. The other guy isn't. He didn't sign up to be in the public eye.
I thought his dad said he was with a good Christian girl who was not Taylor Swift?
The song Swift will write about Mr. Rodgers should be epic.
I think that they are each other's beards.
As a hardcore Green Bay fan, I think he's great. If he's gay and decides to come out, great! If he's gay and chooses to keep it private, great. If he's straight, great (as long as he doesn't use his fame to harm the community). He brought my team a Superbowl win. He has won Green Bay 3 consecutive division titles. As a fan, that's all I want from him. If he winds up playing for our team, I'd be thrilled, but he doesn't owe anyone anything but to be a decent human being. It's his life and if he's not harming anyone he should be able to live it however he wants. And yes, even if he played for the dreadful Vikings or Bears I would feel the same way.
@Geoff B: Perfectly said.
@Kane9: Haha. I've "troll[ed] Kevins instagram" too… and that's a good thing. (I hope.)
When this story began percolating in late December, I though Mr. Lanflisi was kinda nuts to rat out Mr. Rodgers in any way, for any thing.
Since then though, I do believe that Mr. Lanflisi – partnered with Rodgers or not (be he gay or straight) – deserves someone as exceptionally beautiful, on both the inside and out, as he is.
@Kane9: Aaron didn't go home with Zac because Zac didn't even turn up because he was feeling ill. Not going to lie though Aaron probably went home disappointed about this.
@ppp111: I agree. I find him attractive as well. But we should keep in mind tht this is a subjective exp. (the eye of the beholder)
We really can't debate it bc each of us has that personal preference…
don't care if he's gay, but i find him hot…
One has to admit not many men his age have roommates. Unless she has a nice B cup at least. Plus the trove that is Twitter. Where ppl post wht they think is not revealing, but in fact is totally revealing.
Check out Matt Harvey and Freddie Freeman from MLB and their tweets that are downright school-girl like. (They could've used DM, but didn't)


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Sunlight slants across a classroom at the Catholic University of Lyon, where the Bible dominates an evening lecture.
The subject may not seem surprising in this ancient city that was once a bastion of French Catholicism and a hub for Christian missionaries. But the dozen or so people jotting notes are not theology students.
One young woman wears a headscarf. A man sports the beard of a devout Muslim. Still others are non-Muslim civil servants working for the local government.
All are enrolled in a program on the French concept of secularism and religious tolerance that is jointly run by two Lyon universities and the city's Grand Mosque. They're the unlikely foot soldiers of a national campaign for "Islam a la Francaise."
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This woman needs to know that it is our tax pounds that pay her salary. If she doesn't understand that, then she should lose her job. Her religious beliefs are personal and therefore should be left at home, not bring them to her place of employment. My advice to her and others like her, get a life, lady, and grow up.
Robert, you display the usual fascist idea shown all too often in the gay community of aiming to destroy anybody who does not agree with you.
Putting it quite simply – this woman should not be forced to do something that goes against her religious beliefs. Plenty of provision is made for Islamics, so why not also for Christians?
Would you like to be married by someone who is bound not to be enthusiastic because she disagrees with your lifestyle, or by a willing participant?
Food for thought.
The registrar is employed to perform civil registrations of partnership, and nothing to do with any form of religion. In any post within government, personal religious convictions are not an excuse for refusing to do your contractually binding job. The next excuse could be to not to save the life of a gay person in A & E because of a religious belief. Such an abuse of her legal post as a registrar is a cause for diciplinary action against her and must be upheld by the council as part of their legal requirement to abide by law. If she has such a problem, then I am sure that she can be accomodated in another cleric posting withi the local council that does not pose a threat to her personal beliefs.
It's a fascist idea to insist that someone employed in a secular job to conduct themselves in a secular fashion, as per their job description? What a strange world you must live in.
By the way who cares if she's enthusiastic? She's not the one getting married. If she doesn't like not being allowed to discriminate in her job, she's clearly in the wrong job.
Bob – the woman is not being forced to do something that goes against her personal beliefs. She is merely being asked to do her job.
A pacifist is not forced to take a job in the army. An anti-abortionist is not forced to take a job nursing in an abortion clinic. If Lilian Ladele really has conscientious beliefs let her do what we all try to do – take a job which she can perform properly and with a clear conscience. She can live by her own beliefs if they are important to her, but she has no right to tell others what parts of her duties she will and will not perform.
Bob,so I'm a fascist? You know NOTHING about me or my political beliefs which most certainly aren't fascist or right wing conservative either as some are who post here. Read Jason's comment and maybe you will find some food for thought. Nobody's religious beliefs and NO denomination should be exempt from or above the law. You want to call people fascists, then take a look at organized religion, all of them, they are all undemocratic and absolute with no margin of tolerance. One's religious beliefs have nothing to do with the workplace, they should be kept in the home, where they belong and definitely out of the political arena.
To the Staff Writer of this article…since when have UK gay couples been allowed to marry? I'm unaware of it. Should not you have said…"as she demands the right not to perform a civil partnershp?" These are most definitely not marriages and should not be referred to as such. So much for accuracy in reporting.
Bob, further to your question, it would not bother me one iota if a registrar performing my own civil partnership disagreed with my "life", NOT lifestyle…sexual orienation is NOT a lifestyle, or sexual orientation. They have a job to do, so they should do it, irrespective of their personal beliefs. I don't think that's very fascist of me either. As I said in a previous posting, there should be no provision for exemption based on one's religious beliefs when it comes to the work place or public duty. NO RELIGION should be exempt or above the laws of the land, that is not how democracy works, everybody is subject to the law.
Bob so where does this stop. A dying gay man not being treated because a doctor is relgious??? She is paid a wage to do a job for every one. I would like to have the option to stop dealing with relious people of all faiths , but I am not aloud and rightly so. We live in a fair and caring society, and this should transend throughout.
just why do the Christians come on hear and spread their hatefilled messages? Anyway…
I see case after case being taken to court and, on the whole, won where Religious types (of any persuasion) seek to gain power and infulance over the Seculer State.
Welcome to the death of the seculer state.
We have to stand up against these people – even if the courts and laws of the land are being used to further their ends against us and other groups.
I suppose this was inevitable given Boris's election. Now all the right wing nuts and haters will come climbing up from the sewers to demand their "right" to be bigots. They have no right of course, except in the minds of a few cretins like "Bob" who are consumed by self loathing and internalized homophobia. We can feel sorry for pathetic people like "Bob" but we should never give an inch to their delusional homophobia.
If "Bob" wants to find a real fascist he should book the next flight to the Vatican. Der Pope is an "ex" Nazi who joined the HitlerJugend and was rewarded with a plush assignment to a Luftwaffe flak unit, where he happily tried to shoot down allied aircraft. Or "Bob": could look for fascism in the political descendents of the Tory Clivden Set. He wouldn't have far to look.
Please, "Bob" explain to us why you conservative types think you can get away with slandering honest activists. You raise the most outrageous lies and slanders against us, saying we're racists (me), fascists (Robert), child molesters (those who protest police homophobia) and what you conservatives said about Omar Kuddus when he was giving his all to save Mehdi Kazemi was vile and meant to interfere with his work. Except for the occasional imbecile, no one believes you. You fail to impress, twit.
The truth is that we're queer (and militant) and we're here and take my word for it, we're not going away. Deal.
If this woman has such strong Christian beliefs, the only thing she can do is gracefully resign her position. She clearly can no longer do her job.
Re Bob's comment: "Putting it quite simply – this woman should not be forced to do something that goes against her religious beliefs."
Bob, if that woman who refuses to officiate over same-sex unions wants to hold to a 2000 year old book as her excuse – and she has every right to – then she should be in the home, not out in a man's world and a man's work force…as the good book says, "a woman's work, employment, or task is to be working in, and watching over the home". In my opinion, she can't cherry pick which dictums she wants to use from the bible and which she prefers to ignore. In other words, she can't have it both ways.
Please, religious types listen up. If I was a vegetarian, could I take a job in a slaughterhouse, and when asked to kill a few cows, say, "no, sorry, my personal beliefs do not allow me to kill animals, and I'll go to court if you try to make me".
If this lady was being forced to work as a registrar, and was not allowed to do any other line of work, then yes, of course she would have a point, and I'd agree. But she does not have to work as a registrar, as I am sure there are many other jobs she could do. Besides, if I recall correctly, another council employee tried the same thing, was sacked, and LOST an appeal for unfair dismissal. This lady is free to choose what job she does, just as I can choose not to work in a slaughterhouse.
Typical religious nonsense.
This woman is NOT being FORCED to do anything. She is quite free to go work at something else. Performing civil partnership is part of the job of a registrar, if she doesn't like it, she can do something else. No coercion of any kind is involved.
She should not be forced. The only time she should be forced is if she is the only one able to perform the unions.
We have this kind of nonsense in the Netherlands where "weigerambtenaren" have the right to opt out of performing civil marriages, and have the support of the Christian Democrats and fundamentalist Christian Union parties who are in the Dutch coalition.
Religious fanatics like this silly woman should understand we are governed by English law and not the laws of the bible or any other holy book. Civil marriages are not marriages in the eyes of 'God', or any other fictional celestial dictator. If you cannot do your job according to the law of the land, because of childish superstitions – find another job. You are not forced to be a regsitrar after all. For instance, I do not feel discriminated against because my anti-theism precludes me from a job as a cleric.
Stop all this self-pitying nonsense about being "discriminated against" because you cannot exercise your bigotry.
It would be more than a watershed if this woman won her case: why stop at allowing christians exemption from performing gay marriages? Why not extend this to, say, muslim supermarket personnel from refusing to sell alcohol at the check-out, or pharmacists refusing to sell the morning after pill, or condoms?
Freedom of religious belief is one thing – but that must be matched with the right to freedom from it. Keep your religion inside your church, and stop imposing your superstitions on others who want nothing to do with it. Zero tolerance for intolerance!
Said Adrian:"Freedom of religious belief is one thing – but that must be matched with the right to freedom from it."
Nicely put, Adrian.
This story reminds me of a friend of mine who is a waiter, and a vegan. He has decided that he doesn't eat any animal products, wear leather, etc., but the restaurant where he works serves many animal products–meat, cheese, milk, butter, etc.
Does he threaten not to serve animal products to people who order them because it goes against him conscience. Of course not! Would he be able to sue the restaurant if it fired him over this? Ugh. That's ludicrous.
That would be ludicrous. He's not down with meat, but because he needs a job he keeps his mouth shut and his opinions to himself. He has a right to think whatever he wants, and to do his job as is required of him.
In my opinion, Chris' comment about the vegan waiter really sums it up and although it makes commenting on my part superfluous, I couldn't resist a "Hear! Hear!" :)
Sounds like you're the fascist there Bob, not Robert. The choice of words like "lifestyle" is the give-away.
Let me guess Bob, you're one of these "Christian" twits who thinks everyone should do everything you say to validate your own petty belief system? The word like "lifestyle" gave it away. Do you really think we "choose" this life? Coffee-smelling-moment for you here Bob, we're born gay. Its not a lifestyle. Rather like the way you bigots I assume were born idiots. Now, as we tolerate your ignorance, its time you started doing the same, no?
A big thank you to Bill, Michael, Jason, Anon, Ciaran, Adrian T and to everyone who commented on Bob's misguided view even though I respect his right to say what he believes, please or offend. That's what democracy is all about.
I'm one of the many Christians whose understanding of their faith tradition mandates them to promote the human rights of all people, including LGBT sisters and brothers. Please don't associate Christianity in general with the fears and prejudices of those who decline to bring historical or cultural criticism to their reading of the Bible. There are plenty of Churches that openly challenge discrimination against persons on the grounds of sexual orientation. See Inclusive Church at http://www.inclusivechurch2.net/Gay-and-Lesbian-d455bd9
Robert, I am delighted to hear about your includive church. Though, I wish you more enlightened Christians would be a bit more aggressive in getting your message out. And above all, clearly explain how homosexual relations are fine from a theological, rather than a humanitarian, perspective. Not in gay times, but in rags like the Catholic Herald or the Daily Mail etc.
I have to take my hat off to Christian Voice and others for their media relations skills, always offering press releases and comments to the newspapers etc, and making themselves look bigger and more influential than they are, in the process. Who needs richard dawkins, when you've got the likes of stephen green, joel edwards, cormac murphy o'connor and the bishop of carlisle, to put rational thinking people off religion?
Hold On! This lady is only asking that her Council respects her faith in the way they share ceremonies between registrars. As a retired officer who conducted over 10,000 ceremonies I would have expected the same condieration. Discrimination on religious grounds is illegal – unless I misread it and Christians are not included.
"Discrimination on religious grounds is illegal"
And, Ed B, so is discrimination of gay people in relation to services, or are you saying that its okay to pick and choose the laws that suit you? This small woman is just being asked to do her job within the confines of the law. If she can't so that job, she should quit. Using the bible and "faith" as a means to discriminate is not a valid argument, no more then using the bible to discriminate against black people or women. Time to grow up Ed and realise that your brand of bigotry is illegal, no matter what warped view you think you have of the bible.
I note with interest that the registrar is black. Maybe we ought to tell her to wear a bag over her head so we can't see her "blackness". Maybe then she will understand what it is like to be discriminated against. Honestly, this sort of santimonious attitude makes me feel so angry.
It really bothers me when a black woman is a bigot! Maybe the white registrars need to sue not to marry blacks. See how that sits with her!
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