Friday, July 26, 2013

Rockford tattoo artist & piercer breaks down safe ways to pierce ...

ROCKFORD (WREX) -

Euro 2 Tattoo, a Rockford tattoo and body piercing shop is under investigation by the Winnebago County Health Department, after a dozen customers develop serious bacterial infections. We looked into ways to get pierced and stay protected.

When it comes to tattoos and piercings, one Rockford business owner says you get what you pay for. He shares with us the before, during and after of a customer's experience.

"This is a semi-permanent fixture. This shouldn't cost the price of your value meal. You're going to spend more on your shoes, the electronic device that you carry in your pocket and you want to worry about those brands, you want to worry about how great those things are, but you also need to know and understand what you're putting in your body, it needs to be that good if not better." -says Delicious Ink Owner, tattooer and piercer Tim Atwell.

Atwell says the piercing process is all about communication. The conversation starts with where you want your jewelry.

"When you sit down, we're going to clean you, we're going to place a mark on you. We're not going to use a marker or a pen, we want to stay away from those things because it's continuing cross-contamination, so we'll use like a drop of gentian violet, a sterile toothpick, we'll dot the area, we'll mark it, as long as you're okay with it then we're going to talk about piercing it."

He says he'll only use specific kinds of metal.

"I prefer threadless jewelry, like neo-metal brand jewelry, so everything pushes together, that's all Grade 2 Titanium; from what holds the gem, to what travels through your tissue, to what's on the back of your tissue."

His tattoo artists tell you what they're doing while they're doing it and communication doesn't stop after you're pierced.

"We'll go through our whole break down of how we'll take care of it according to season. If it's summertime we've got to talk about swimming, lakes, rivers, we've got to talk about pools and water parks, we've got to talk about interacting with other things." -Atwell adds.

He says the best way to keep from getting an infection, after you're pierced properly, is clean the area with warm water and mild soap in the shower and avoid contact. Try not to touch the piercing or sleep on it.

Source: http://www.wrex.com/story/22937243/2013/07/25/rockford-tattoo-artist-piercer-breaks-down-safe-ways-to-pierce

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A $30 million retail complex with 200 jobs for Pittsfield?

Thursday July 25, 2013

PITTSFIELD -- A Needham-based developer has made a second pitch to put a retail center in the William Stanley Business Park, a $30 million complex that would be slightly bigger than what had been proposed originally.

Waterstone Retail Development has proposed the construction of a 200,000-square-foot building occupied by a single tenant that it says would bring 200 mostly full-time jobs to Pittsfield, create 350 construction positions over a two-year period, and bring $300,000 in tax revenue to the city.

The complex would be located on the same area that Waterstone proposed the first time: A 16-acre parcel commonly referred to as "the teens." The parcel borders Woodlawn Avenue and Tyler Street. Waterstone has developed 37 shopping centers across the country.

It would cost $10 million -- a third of the project's total price tag -- just to prepare the area for a retail complex, said Doug Richardson, Waterstone's vice president of development. Numerous concrete foundations and slabs, remnants of General Electric Co.'s factories, would have to be removed. The land would be capped to prevent remaining underground contaminants from interfering with the above ground construction.

Waterstone's first proposal, announced in December 2011, called for the creation of a 170,000-square-foot multi-tenant shopping center at the Stanley Business Park that could bring 150 jobs to the city.

At the time the first proposal was announced, Waterstone had already signed a letter of intent with the city and was negotiating a lease with the Pittsfield Economic Development Authority, the quasi-public agency charged with the 52-acre business park's development. The business park is on land once occupied by GE factories.

On Thursday, Waterstone Principal Neal Shalom said that the original letter of intent expired "quite a while ago." He said Waterstone has been working with local people since that agreement ended, but that the company currently has no plans filed with the city.

"We're working in good faith with PEDA and the city," said Waterstone Principal Anton Melchionda.

If the proposal does go forward, the next step would be for Waterstone to file plans with the Community Development Board, said PEDA's Executive Director Cory Thurston.

Mayor Daniel L. Bianchi, who is also a PEDA Board member, has said he would prefer the development of the Stanley Business Park to be limited to industrial concerns. He invited Waterstone to discuss its revamped proposal with PEDA because only one of the current's board 11 members was also on the board in December 2011.

"I am still committed personally to a manufacturing operation over there," Bianchi said following Waterstone's presentation. "But I had heard some numbers about what it might take to get the land to be developed.

"That's what I wanted the board to hear as well," Bianchi said, referring to the $10 million figure. "I was kind of interested in what they had to say in regards to that."

Shalom said Waterstone's first proposal, which was announced to great fanfare, fell through when the proposed anchor tenant halted its national expansion plans due to the economy. After conducting extensive research on the amount of available industrial land in certain areas of the Berkshires this time around, Shalom said Waterstone has concluded that the teens parcel is best suited for retail.

"We'd be happy to do manufacturing or warehousing, we actually do more of that than we do retail," said Shalom. "But we've determined the highest and best use, in our opinion, is a retail development on the site.

"People are interested in seeing manufacturing and that would be great here," he continued. "But there's not a lot of manufacturing companies locating in this part of the country, and there's a lot of competing empty buildings available that have a low cost of entry."

Richardson said there are 10 sites in Pittsfield alone that would be "quicker and cheaper" for industrial firms to develop than the teens parcel.

The project would also include the construction of a new parking area, new signal and turn lights at the intersection of Dalton Avenue and Tyler Street, new sidewalks and walkways on both sides of the roadways, two new public transit stops, and the possibility of extensive landscaping improvements.

To reach Tony Dobrowolski:
tdobrowolski@berkshireeagle.com,
or (413) 496-6224.
On Twitter: @tonydobrow

Source: http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_23732736/30-million-retail-complex-200-jobs-pittsfield?source=rss_viewed

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Monday, July 22, 2013

Hearing scheduled Tues. in state AGs suit against Cumming mayor

CUMMING - A hearing will be held Thursday in Forsyth County Superior Court on a suit filed by the state attorney general against Cumming Mayor H. Ford Gravitt.

Visiting judge Robert W. Adamson of Winder has scheduled the hearing at the Forsyth County Courthouse at 9:00.

The suit was filed last year after Nydia Tisdale of Cumming complained that Gravitt ordered her to stop making a video recording of an April 2012 city council meeting and had her forcibly removed from the meeting room. (See link below.)

The suit alleges violations of the state's open meetings law, which says visual and sound recordings are allowed during open meetings.

The City of Cumming filed its response to the lawsuit last July, denying a large number of allegations made against Mayor Gravitt.

Link: Cumming responds to Attorney General's lawsuit

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Valleybrook Golf Course to be auctioned

File photo 2011 ? David Drake, left, is the president of DASAC, the company that operates the Valleybrook Golf and Country Club, and his sister, Nancy Drake Donelson, is vice president. File photo 2011 ? David Drake, left, is the president of DASAC, the company that operates the Valleybrook Golf and Country Club, and his sister, Nancy Drake Donelson, is vice president.

A family dispute will send The Valleybrook Golf Course to the auction block, officials confirmed on Friday.

In a letter sent to members of the club, part-owner and club operator David Drake admitted that he, along with his two siblings, "are trying to break up the corporation and go our separate ways."

"They intend to auction off all the properties with no regard for the golf course or the tax consequences," Drake wrote.

The contentious legal dispute, which was transferred from Hamilton County Chancery Court to Davidson County Chancery Court in late January, is between siblings Nancy Drake Donelson, Carolyn Drake Snider and David Drake.

The course was founded by father Carl Drake in 1962, pioneering the use of Bermuda grass in the east Tennessee golf community.

A flurry of filings show that plaintiff David Drake was put on the defensive by his sisters' attempts to wrest away control of the family business.

Donelson and Snider filed motions in May alleging that Drake was in contempt of court, and later claimed that he failed to produce corporate information as required. By June, the sisters had filed a flurry of motions calling for a protective order, and accused Drake of not returning equipment.

The court-ordered auction, which will be held at 10 a.m., on Thursday, Aug. 22 at the course, will sell with no reserve, according to the Potts Brothers Land and Auction company.

While some of the equipment will be available in separate parcels, the golf course will be sold all together as a going concern, said Dereck Walker, manager of the course.

"As far as the buildings and golf course, they're going to sell the whole thing as one item," Walker said.

Valleybrook, which was built in the 1960s, is a 6,704-yard Par 71 course with a large brick clubhouse, pool and pro shop.

The former home of the Provident Classic and Red Bud Invitational, auctioneers describe the course as "one of the most historied courses in the area."

Henry Luken, a Chattanooga investor who has purchased a handful of other area golf courses out of financial turmoil, expressed interest in the sale on Friday.

"I'll be at the auction," Luken said.

Contact staff writer Ellis Smith at esmith@timesfree press.com or 423-757-6315.

about Ellis Smith...

Ellis Smith joined the Chattanooga Times Free Press in January 2010 as a business reporter. His beat includes the flooring industry, Chattem, Unum, Krystal, the automobile market, real estate and technology. Ellis is from Marietta, Ga., and has a bachelor?s degree in mass communication at the University of West Georgia. He previously worked at UTV-13 News, Carrollton, Ga., as a producer; at the The West Georgian, Carrollton, Ga., as editor; and at the Times-Georgian, Carrollton, ...

Source: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/jul/20/valleybrook-golf-course-to-be-auctioned/

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Man who battered church organist to death with pick-axe handle is jailed for 25 years

JONATHAN BOWLING, 22, battered Alan Greaves, 68, around the head with a pick-axe handle as he walked to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve last year.

Alan, seen her with wife Maureen, played organ in church and was lay preacher
Alan, seen her with wife Maureen, played organ in church and was lay preacher

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A MAN who battered a church organist to death as he walked to Midnight Mass was yesterday jailed for a minimum of 25 years.

As he jailed Jonathan Bowling, judge Mr Justice Teare told him: ?Why you wished to inflict violence on another human being on Christmas Eve is known only to you.?

The judge made the comments at Sheffield Crown Court as he sentenced Bowling to life in prison for the murder of lay preacher Alan Greaves, 68.

Bowling, 22, battered Alan around the head with a pick-axe handle as the pensioner walked to play the organ for Midnight Mass at St Saviour?s Church in High Green, Sheffield, on December 24 last year.

The father of four suffered catastrophic head injuries and died three days later in hospital.

Another man, Ashley Foster, 22, was found guilty on Thursday of Alan?s manslaughter and was yesterday jailed for nine years.

The judge told Bowling and Foster: ?You chose your victim at random.

?Alan Greaves happened to be in front of you, on his way to serve the community, as he had always done, and you decided to inflict violence on him.?

The judge said the attack took place on Christmas Eve ?on what is usually one of the happiest days of the year?.

He said: ?Neither of you knew Alan Greaves. He had done nothing to provoke the attack on him. He was merely walking to church to help his local community celebrate Christmas.

?His wife, his family and his community have suffered a tragic and horrendous loss.?

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Bowling had admitted murder at a previous hearing.

Alan?s widow, Maureen, said she was ?happy? with the sentences.

Outside court, she said: ?I really am extremely pleased with the result today.

?To think Ashley?s got nine years is the very best we could have got in the circumstances of the manslaughter.

?To think that Jonathan?s got 25 minimum and to think he?ll probably never come out, I really am wonderfully pleased with the result.?

Maureen told reporters she would not read a letter Bowling had written to her.

She said: ?To put it into my hands the day he was going to get sentenced, I didn?t think it was very appropriate.?

Source: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/man-who-battered-church-organist-2068053

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

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Back For Seconds: Cooking Tips No Person Can Resist

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