Professions: Anticipating where the jobs will be.
Vincent Marzigliano sees a significant need down the road for workers in manufacturing as baby boomers retire. So he”s working to help his alma mater, Farmingdale State College, make sure its program is state-of-the-art in its effort to prepare students to fill those jobs.
Marzigliano, 48, president and owner of VM-Manufacturing Co. Inc. in Holbrook, an aircraft parts manufacturing corporation, is an industry adviser for the college”s mechanical engineering technology department. As such, he”s helped organize a forum to be held tomorrow where manufacturing professionals and academics will discuss the school”s programs and applied research.
A 1995 Farmingdale graduate, Marzigliano says one of the aims of the event is hearing from industry professionals about what”s needed to help Farmingdale fine-tune its programs.
Intematix Multiplies Phosphor Manufacturing Capabilities with China Factory Acquisition.
Intematix Corp. a leading innovator of advanced materials solutions and provider of patent-backed merchant phosphor products for solid state lighting applications, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of a key manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China. The manufacturing facility and business unit, designated Intematix Suzhou Lighting Company. Ltd. (ISL), adds to Intematix” overall phosphor manufacturing capabilities as well immediately expands its range of phosphors to include compact fluorescent (CFL) and cold cathode fluorescent (CCFL) product lines in addition to its current LED offerings. This news closely follows Intematix” recent broad-reaching silicate-based phosphor patent award announcement and further solidifies its position as a leading independent supplier to all of the newest phosphor-enabled lighting technologies.
Video about kendo’s bogu manufacturing, found on sc-smn.jst.go.jp, via forum.cnkendo-da.com.
Tite vido qui montre la fabrication d’un bogu, trs intressant pour les kendokas (et pour les autres aussi ;-)) bon visionnage !
Vido trouve sur sc-smn.jst.go.jp, merci au forum forum.cnkendo-da.com
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1992) is a documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, a linguist, intellectual, and political activist. Created by two Canadian independent filmmakers, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, it expands on the ideas of Chomsky’s earlier book, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which he co-wrote with Edward S. Herman.
The film presents and illustrates Chomsky’s and Herman’s propaganda model, the thesis that corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas of the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society. A centerpiece of the film is a long examination into the history of The New York Times’s coverage of Indonesia’s invasion and occupation of East Timor, which Chomsky claims exemplifies the media’s unwillingness to criticize an ally.
Until the release of The Corporation (2003), made by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan, it was the most successful documentary in Canadian history, playing theatrically in over 300 cities around the world; winning 22 awards; appearing in more than 50 international film festivals; and being broadcast in over 30 markets. It has also been translated into a dozen languages.
Chomsky’s response to the film was mixed; in a published conversation with Achbar and several activists, he stated that film simply doesn’t communicate his message, leading people to believe that he is the leader of some movement that they should join. In the same conversation, he criticizes the New York Times review of the film, which mistakes his message for being a call for voter organizing rather than media critique.
Strong euro “suffocating” European manufacturing: Gallois.
PARIS (AFP) - The chief executive of Airbus parent company EADS, Louis Gallois, warned in an interview published Thursday that the high value of the euro threatened European manufacturing.
The high value of the euro against the dollar ‘is in the process of suffocating a good portion of European industry by eating away at its export markets,’ he told the daily Le Figaro.
‘If this continues export manufacturers will flee Europe,’ he warned.
Gallois has repeatedly warned about dangers to the company”s position as the European currency has soared to record highs against the dollar, suggesting moving production abroad to get around the problem and even paying European suppliers in dollars.
The euro rose to 1.5845 dollars on Wednesday in New York, approaching its all-time high of 1.5905 dollars on March 17.
R.I. Loses 500 More Manufacturing Jobs.
More manufacturing jobs are leaving the state of Rhode Island. KIK Custom Products, a Canadian company, announced Monday it will close its Cumberland plant, which employs 400 people, sometime this year. In Bristol, a division of Saint Gobain Performance Plastics is eliminating one of its plastics product lines and about 90 jobs. According to the company, the production of the product is moving to Mexico. The Bristol plant will keep only about 70 jobs in Rhode Island. ‘We expect this move to improve the overall efficiency of our operations,’ said Susan Lindsey, a company spokeswoman. Since the beginning of the year, Rhode Island has lost nearly 3,000 jobs with most being lost in the manufacturing industry. ‘Individuals, companies are struggling. Not just here in Rhode Island. This is happening around the country.
Six arrested in drug bust.
Georgetown County Police Organized Crime Bureau arrested six Georgetown residents Tuesday on charges of manufacturing and distributing crack cocaine near a school.
Police arrested Clay Blake, Julius Hicks, Quentin Moultrie, Shardae Pinckney, Yolonda Dennison, and Joseph Seward after an undercover investigation and surveillance of a house at 2206 Prince St. in Georgetown, about a half mile from West End Park.
“The arrests came as a result of surveillance that we used to obtain a warrant to search the house,”" said Lt. Kelvin Waites of the Georgetown County Sheriff”s Office.
Officers found 23 grams of crack cocaine, 10 grams of marijuana, digital scales and more than $600 while searching the house, according to a report from the Sheriff”s Department.
Professions: Anticipating where the jobs will be.
Vincent Marzigliano sees a significant need down the road for workers in manufacturing as baby boomers retire. So he”s working to help his alma mater, Farmingdale State College, make sure its program is state-of-the-art in its effort to prepare students to fill those jobs.
Marzigliano, 48, president and owner of VM-Manufacturing Co. Inc. in Holbrook, an aircraft parts manufacturing corporation, is an industry adviser for the college”s mechanical engineering technology department. As such, he”s helped organize a forum to be held tomorrow where manufacturing professionals and academics will discuss the school”s programs and applied research.
A 1995 Farmingdale graduate, Marzigliano says one of the aims of the event is hearing from industry professionals about what”s needed to help Farmingdale fine-tune its programs.
May 25th, 2008 by 
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