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Senior Writer
ecently Jerry Eizen, Gil Stebbins
and Gabi Grossbard, all of
Southfield, spent their lunch
hours devouring something they termed
monster burgers!'
After seeing a news story about a
seven-stack hamburger creation being
"
Jerry Eizen, Gil Stebbins and Gabi Grossbard ready to chow down.
Business Offices
sold at Burger King in China, to honor
the launching of Microsoft's Windows
7, Stebbins said, "We had to do our own
kosher version!'
So they approached Rami Mandelbaum
at Rami's in Oak Park with their order.
He cooked up 21 kosher patties and piled
them into three giant sandwiches for the
men's extended meal.
The trio usually dine together as mem-
bers of the MNFBBQ (Monday Night
Football Barbecue) group, but thought
the novel lunch idea warranted a
Thursday afternoon meeting.
For the past 10 years, the group has
been getting together once a month
— on Monday evenings — to watch
football or movies and have a barbecued
dinner. Other members of the group
are Micha Zwick of Huntington Woods,
Aaron Kleid of Oak Park and Arye Zacks,
who co-founded the group with Stebbins,
but now lives in Modin, Israel.
Stebbins admitted that by end of the
unusual meal, all 21 burgers had been
totally consumed. "Not one patty was left
behind',' he said.
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Seeking Due
Process
Attorney Henry Baskin
of Birmingham hosts
Metro Detroit's longest-
running public affairs
show, Due Process,
which began its 27th
Henry Baskin
season last Friday with
an interview with high-profile attorney
Geoffrey Fieger of Southfield.
"We are proud to begin our third sea-
son on Detroit Public Television and first
in our new state-of-the-art studio',' said
Baskin of the Baskin Law Firm, which spe-
cializes in entertainment and family law.
Upcoming Due Process guests include
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks
Patterson and Wayne County Prosecutor
Kym Worthy. The 40-week schedule will
cover such topics as bankruptcy, entertain-
ment law, domestic violence, drug court,
personal injury and consumer protection.
The show airs at 5:30 p.m. Fridays
on WTVS-Channel 56 — part of PBS
Detroit Public Television.
Our JN Mission
Top Workforce
Officer
Gov. Jennifer Granholm
named Andrew
Levin of Bloomfield
Township the chief
workforce officer for
the state of Michigan.
Andrew Levin
His duties as CWO are
in addition to his current responsibilities
as deputy director of the Department of
Energy, Labor & Economic Growth.
"Preparing our workforce for the 21st
century economy is crucial for Michigan's
economic turnaround," Granholm said.
"Michigan's No Worker Left Behind pro-
gram has become a national model for
workforce policy. We must continue to
innovate and provide Michigan's citizens
every chance to succeed — and that's why
I am creating the position of chief work-
force officer!'
Levin's duties as CWO include:
• working to ensure all levels of state
government are maximizing resources to
train and reemploy our workforce;
• working under the direction of the
lieutenant governor to rationalize and
consolidate workforce services in state
government as part of the streamlining
government initiative; and
• leading Michigan's effort to develop
recommendations for national workforce
policy.
In just over two years, Levin has
emerged as a national leader on work-
force policy. He eliminated the outdated
bureaus of workforce programs and
career education and replaced them with
the more strategic Bureau of Workforce
Transformation.
Levin has overseen the implementation
of Granholm's No Worker Left Behind
initiative. Under his direction, No Worker
Left Behind has increased the number and
proportion of workers who get the kind of
long-term training that can change lives.
Levin led efforts to acquire more than
$70 million in additional federal funding
for workforce programs in Michigan.
— notes by Robert Sklar, editor
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