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More exhibitors, more attendees, more FABTECH
Big Las Vegas show gets bigger
More than 26,000 people affiliated with the metal fabricating industry showed up at FABTECH® 2012 in Las Vegas in mid-November not to lose money, but to learn about new technologies and processes that could help them reduce production costs and put more of their money back into their own pockets.
It was a brisk morning for Las Vegas in November, but Shorty Salzbrun, a veteran of Alaskan winters, could have been wearing shorts. The owner of Shorty's Shop, a four-person operation just outside Bethel, Alaska, specializes in fabricating and welding residential water systems. About 400 miles west of Anchorage and accessible only by boat or airplane, Bethel doesn't have a municipal water system. Instead, each house has tanks for fresh water and sewage, and Shorty's Shop fabricates, repairs, and maintains them. The shop's workers also build or weld anything else that's needed—and in Bethel, Alaska, that's a lot.
Kenneth Gerhart stood outside the Las Vegas Convention Center with Whirlpool on the mind, as well as Electrolux and other appliance-makers around the world. The competition is fierce, and as a manufacturing engineer at GE Appliances & Lighting in Louisville, Ky., Gerhart needs to find ways to get ahead.
"We're looking to see how we can go from art to part faster," Gerhart said. "We want to shorten the amount of time it takes to go from the initial concept to the production floor."
Both Gerhart and Salzbrun were among the throngs of people waiting to enter the exhibit halls at FABTECH®. Show attendance belied the darker mood of the U.S. economy during the fourth quarter. The election had just been decided, and results did not please a business community craving certainty and an end to the battle between the White House and Capitol Hill.
Despite this, the show drew more than 15,000 attendees on the first day alone—a record. Between Nov. 13 and 15, almost 26,000 people walked the more than 450,000 net square feet of floor space, where more than 1,200 exhibitors showed their wares. The event has grown into one of the world's major manufacturing expositions, sponsored by a group of collaborating organizations: the American Welding Society (AWS), the Chemical Coaters Association Intl. (CCAI), the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Intl. (FMA), the Precision Metalforming Association, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
Gerhart and Salzbrun are examples of how diverse the show's attendee base has become, and how far they will travel to visit the exhibit halls. They come from the smallest job shop in the wilds of Alaska as well as from the largest welding, metal stamping, and assembly factories. They may hunt for a small ironworker, a new welding power source, or an automated blanking or stamping line. Still, all essentially want the same thing: a way to produce a product or service faster, better, and for less money.
Industry Voices
Mike Clark, a maintenance coordinator from Lenexa, Kan., works for an organization that, like so many since the recession, has been through some tumultuous times, but is now emerging strong. The company, which produces components for ventilation and air movement systems, was purchased by Systemair in 2009, and this year it is moving ahead with new products and improvement initiatives.
"We're introducing new product lines and bringing in different lines of business," Clark said. "And we're trying to operate smarter and better."
This has become a common postrecession story. The survivors went through hard times, but they are emerging stronger (and often larger) than ever. Not only have their operations improved, but they also have been successful in diversifying while remaining true to their core competencies.
Don Haiker's employer exemplifies this. The quality assurance manager works for Commercial Metal Forming in Orange, Calif., which produces end caps for pressure vessels and tanks. "We don't have trouble finding people, because we have extremely low turnover," he said. "Most people tend to be lifers. We're a good company to work for, and we have had few layoffs."
How has the 50-person shop avoided significant layoffs, especially in recent years? "It's our niche. We're one of the few large tank fabricators west of the Rockies," Haiker said.
The fabricator's work ends up in tanks and pressure vessels used in oil and petrochemical, water filtration, food and agriculture, and other industries. End caps are the company's niche; the tanks and pressure vessels those end caps go on give the company market diversity.
Scott Malkasian also knows his core competency and the importance of market diversity. The owner of Worcester, Mass.-based MicroArc does something that's the polar opposite of large tank fabrication: He welds on the microscopic scale. He pointed to his handiwork on display at the show, including a figurine barely larger than the tip of a fingernail.
His eight-person shop performs micro-GTAW and micro-laser welding. "It's utterly different from conventional arc welding," Malkasian said. "We use wire that's as small as three thousandths of an inch."
The shop got its start repairing tool and dies for plastic injection molding, but today serves industries like medical devices and defense. It turns out that many markets need a craftsperson who can weld in the microscopic realm, wielding a filler wire that's as thin as human hair.
Of course, show attendees aren't ignoring the broader uncertainties going into 2013. Tyrous Ward, CEO of Cumming, Ga.-based contract fabricator Accufab Inc., said that although business has remained strong, work levels had softened a bit by the fourth quarter. "For 2013, there are a lot of unanswered questions that a lot of people can't answer," he said. "I've talked with quite a few of our customers, and many of them are in industries that are heavily regulated. Unless some ideas come through that give relief to the customers we're selling to, they may be cutting back."
Eliminating Information Waste
Gary Conner, president of Lean Enterprise Training (www.lean1mfg.com), Newport, Ore., spoke to a roomful of fabricators. His and other sessions on lean manufacturing were among the best-attended during FABTECH's educational conference.
Conner recalled one manufacturer that had identified several value streams and was well down the road of continuous improvement, but something was missing. The engineers and schedulers who sent work orders to that value stream happened to sit on the other side of the factory. "They started to ask, 'Why is our production planner way over here? Why is engineering over there? Why can't they be right next to the manufacturing line?'" So they moved, and open communication ensued.
During another conference seminar, Dick Kallage, principal at KDC & Associates (www.kdcconsul tants.com), Barrington, Ill., described how such communication can reduce or eliminate one of the most problematic areas in a high-mix, low-volume metal fabrication shop: "information waste."
Reducing that information waste has been an emerging technology trend for years, and it continued unabated during FABTECH. As just one example, Alex Soffritti took out his iPad® and started drawing. The president of Davi Inc. (www.davi.com) in Dallas, home base for the Italian plate roll machine manufacturer's North American operations, showed iRol®, an iPad app.
Say a fabricator meets with a customer to discuss a potential plate rolling job. The fabricator can sketch the job directly on the iPad, then enter specific parameters, including exact radius geometries and material type based on the print. "Then, based on the machines available at the plant, the fabricator can check if the part can actually be made," Soffritti said.
This occurs not after the job has been accepted, but instead during the initial conversations with the fabricator's customer. The goal: A job that can't be rolled should never make it to the shop floor. Instead, any problems or design tweaks should be addressed on the front end, virtually.
Beyond Soffritti's iPad, the show floor was chockful of touchscreens, especially on machine controls. Their implications are especially profound on press brakes. Such controls use 3-D graphics to identify and animate which tools are needed for the setup, as well as the exact bend sequence and material orientation.
These controls connect with shopwide software. As just one example, representatives at Bystronic's (www.bystronic.com) booth showed the 3-D capabilities of its touchscreen control. This in turn is connected to BySoft enterprise software. Such software makes use of translators, so it can communicate with various machine brands.
What was once a harbinger has come true: If a company is in the machine tool business, it is also, directly and/or via close industry partnerships, in the software business.
Changeover Automation
Automation is becoming more prominent than ever, even in the high-mix, low-volume job shop. "On every new piece of equipment we buy, we make sure it's as automated as possible," said Jerry Ward, vice president of Metcam, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based contract fabricator.
One of the most challenging areas for automation, though, has been in the press brake department. If a shop has a blanket order or consistent product of sufficient volume, a robotic press brake can work. But when it comes to high-mix, low-volume operations, many fabricators say they have found that a human operator is far more flexible and efficient than an articulating robot arm.
Changeover does take time and expertise—but what if such changeover were automated on a manual CNC brake? This year Amada (www.ama da.com) and LVD Strippit (www.lvdgroup.com) introduced manual CNC press brakes featuring an automatic tool changer that can remove, insert, and position punches and dies.
While each system takes its own approach, they accomplish the same goal: Operators can bend short runs of parts, while the time between jobs plummets. The bending changeover—one of the most time-consuming activities in the bending department—has become automated, no articulating-arm robot required.
Right-sizing Equipment
The solid-state laser has come of age in sheet metal cutting. Many major machine tool vendors now offer fiber technology. Higher powers are hitting the market, and eye-popping speeds are becoming the norm.
Now the constraint is the machine itself: How quickly can the head travel between the cuts? This matters particularly if a nest has numerous small parts. In these cases, machine tool manufacturers have integrated linear drives and new ways to move the cutting head, all of which attempt to take full advantage of the fiber laser's high cutting speed.
The laser, be it solid-state or CO2, is perfectly suited for high-product-mix production. If given the right sheet size, it can cut profiles and leave a sparse skeleton. In part, advanced nesting engines make this possible. At the show, SigmaTEK (www.sigma nest.com), for instance, released its latest nesting engine that shortens nest-generation time to seconds, according to the company.
Still, if a sheet isn't the right size, scrap will result. This is where James Ward, general sales manager at Coe Press Equipment (www.cpec.com), Sterling Heights, Mich., sees a trend. Instead of contract fabricators and job shops purchasing cut metal from a service center, shops may decide to integrate a cut-to-length line of their own. This way, a fabricator can cut just what it needs for every job.
Such technology points to the ideal in high-product-mix manufacturing: a flexible machine that can produce just what a fabricator needs, no more and no less, and change over quickly. These days many machines are helping shops achieve this ideal, be it by cutting with a laser or programming the press brake offline and (more recently) even using a brake with an automatic tool changer. Farther downstream, if fabricators aren't reclaiming powder, even coating lines can be changed over in a few minutes.
But between grinding and painting is a process that remains a challenge for high-mix shops, be they a fabricator or a custom powder coater: parts cleaning. How many cleaning stages will a part need? What are the space requirements? It's hard to know if you don't know what's coming in the door.
To this end, Mankato, Minn.-based Associated Finishing Inc.—itself a custom coater—developed its own modular washing station that can be built for a certain job, then reconfigured for another job by adding or taking away components. The organization launched Pretreatment Equipment Manufacturing Inc. (PEM) to market the product (www.spraywand.com).
"This way, you can start with, say, a two-stage washer for cleaning and rinsing," said Ted Schreyer of PEM. "Then, if you want to go to a three-stage process—say, clean, rise, and phosphate—you add another module."
What About 2013?
Chris Kuehl, economic analyst for the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, was in top form at FABTECH's Economic Forecast breakfast, aptly expressing what was top of mind for many business leaders in late 2012. "Will the good men and women of Congress stop behaving like kindergartners and get organized?"
Despite the mess inside the Beltway, he said, other factors bode well for the manufacturing business in 2013. "The average age of a car is now 10.9 years old," Kuehl said, adding that lending standards are starting to loosen since the credit crunch, "so it's now relatively easy to get a car loan."
Another encouraging factor is the shift in domestic oil production. More domestic oil production brings demand for manufacturing, and attendees at FABTECH are happy to help.
"The U.S. is on track to be the world's largest oil producer by 2020," Kuehl said. Although Saudi Arabia could produce more oil, it won't, because it wants to stabilize prices. Oil remains a globally traded product, of course, so events affecting supply anywhere can still change prices. "But thanks to developments in the Montana region, we are a serious oil player," Kuehl explained.
Relative to those at the 2011 show, Las Vegas attendees and exhibitors seemed to have a more positive view of things to come. After all, they survived the worst recession in a generation, and that itself may build confidence for business owners moving forward. Some consumer markets may be slowing, but manufacturers have a plan of action.
During the State of the Industry keynote panel, Patrick J. Thompson, president of Trans-Matic Manufacturing Co., a Holland, Mich., stamper, described current business conditions and the company's strategy for the year ahead.
"We just finished three solid years of good growth, and we're starting to see things slow down." This slowdown, though, may be mitigated by the company's stamping plant in Suzhou, China, which was set up to serve the local Chinese market. "That market is still growing and is quite strong for us," Thompson said, attributing much of the growth to the emerging middle class in China.
Another panelist, Rick Taylor, president and CEO of Jay Industries, Mansfield, Ohio, saw his company transform since 2009. At that time its metal fabrication business focused solely on the automotive sector. Today that makes up only 60 percent of the business, while remaining revenue comes from the agricultural equipment market. "The agricultural business is growing," he said, "and we have a strong backlog in new orders. So from my perspective, the next 18 months should be pretty steady, unless something really blows up in Washington."
Panelist Gregg Simpson, president of Ohio Laser LLC, Plain City, Ohio, summed up a typical attitude in this business. He's a realist and he's all too aware of economic uncertainty, but he also knows he's more productive than ever, thanks in large part to the technologies on display at the show.
"I feel that there are a lot of good things going on underneath [the surface]. There are a few challenges out there, but we feel that some of the technologies we put in place in 2012 have positioned us to grow."
For information about FABTECH, which returns to Chicago Nov. 18-21, visit www.fabtechexpo.com.
Davis Marquard
SuperFlash Compress Gas Equipment
Cleveland, 44145
Published In...
The FABRICATOR
The FABRICATOR is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The FABRICATOR has served the industry since 1971.


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Skip to comments.Robert Pozen could give Brown run for his money
Posted on 12/23/2010 10:56:03 AM PST by raccoonradio
The biggest question facing Democrats as they head into 2011 is this: Who has the guts, money and potential electability to take on U.S. Sen. Scott Brown?
Capuano? Khazei? Lynch? Frank? Murray? Setti Warren? As Brown likes to say, give me a break.
Vicki Kennedy? Maybe. She says she has no interest, but shes been acting like a candidate.
Well, heres another intriguing possibility: Robert Pozen.
You may not know him, but Pozen is a legend in the investment world whos made many millions of dollars helping run huge financial services firms such as Fidelity and MFS Investment.
The Herald has learned that Pozen, a Democat, has been seriously talking to party insiders about challenging Brown, although he hasnt made a decision. Pozen did not return phone calls from the Herald left at his office at Harvard Business School.
Pozen is no stranger to the political world. He was one of two token Democrats serving in former Gov. Mitt Romneys cabinet but left after only a year. Yet Romney gives a shout out to Pozen in his book, No Apology, saying hes intrigued by Pozens plan to save Social Security. So Pozen has potential crossover appeal to independents and Republicans.
But Pozens biggest asset in a race against Brown can be summed up in one word: money.
Not only does Pozen know how to make money for people, he has a lot of it to spend in a campaign. Brown will have about $10 million in his war chest even before the campaign starts, and no Democrat can come close to matching that, except a multi-millionaire.
Now for the negatives. Pozen is a businessman and academician, a combination that usually proves disastrous in politics. One political insider describes his personality as Silberesque referring to former Boston University chief John Silber, whose temper undid his candidacy for governor in 1990.
Pozen also lacks in the charisma department. He could make Martha Coakley look like Lady Gaga by comparison.
There is still another Democrat who cant be ruled out of the 2012 mix Gov. Deval Patrick. Yes, I know, Patrick has said over and over he will serve out his next term, but do we really believe that? Bill Weld challenged John Kerry in the middle of his second term. If Patrick knocked the GOPs rock star out of the Senate, he would immediately vault into presidential contention.
By next fall, if the field of Democrats includes a bunch of incumbent congressmen and others who dont have the last name Kennedy, Democratic voters may be begging Patrick to run against Brown.
And he just might do it.
Herald poll currently (Dem candidates only I guess)
Who do you think will take on U.S. Sen. Scott Brown?
10% - Robert Pozen
28% - Vicki Kennedy
27% - Mike Capuano
2% - Alan Khazei
17% - Stephen Lynch
7% - Barney Frank
4% - Therese Murray
4% - Setti Warren
Who would face Brown in a poss. Republican primary?
Jeff Perry? (ran for 10th & lost, scandal in past)
If a more conservative candidate could be found,
would they survive the final? This is Massachusetts.
Replace one liberal with another liberal.
What does it matter?
What we need is a conservative to support.
Brown is a HUGE disappointment!
One comment to article said that it doesn't matter who runs against Brown—if they have a D next to their name, they will win.
Another comment from Kathyf (note: Brown was on Howie Carr's
show last night and defended himself, saying "do you want someone with you 80 per cent of the time or 0 per cent of the time?")
1. His refusal to go along with pro-amnesty DREAM Act
2. Vote against Elena Kagan
3. Pledge not to sponsor earmarks
4. Opposition to the $1.2 trillion spending bill, which helped kill it
5. Vote against Obama's nomination of a radical SEIU lawyer for NLRB
6. Opposition to cap and trade (thereby dooming it)
7. His bill to strip home-grown terrorists of their citizenship
8. His vote to extend the Bush tax cuts (don't forget, 8 of our 10 whacky Dem congressmen voted against the tax cut, even when it was sweetened with an extension of unemployment benefits).
9. His bill to tighten sanctions on Iran until they give up their nuclear weapons program
10. His attack on Harvard elitists for their refusal to allow ROTC on campus
"Brown is a good conservative. Does he vote with Republicans all the time? No, sometimes he will vote off, but he said when he ran for US Senate that he was not going to march in lockstep with either party, and he hasn't." (end of Kathyf's comment. I will add that anti-Brown forces ran an ad just before the election saying "Who is Scott Brown, really? A Republican. Who will vote in lockstep with the Republican party". They were wrong, as he has sometimes voted with Democrats...but take note that he has not voted in lockstep with the Dems, that's for sure.
How would Coakley have voted on these issues?)
Money might not the big issue, because Scott Brown isn't going to see a stinking dime from Tea Party advocates this time around!
Coakley would have become a leader of anti-American and anti-father forces in the Congress.
The (D) nominee in 2012 will be Deval Patrick.
Read the comment by Kathyf in this thread. In those votes he doesn't sound liberal to me.
Nominate a no-name conservative candidate in the GOP primary, have them defeat Brown, then see Vicky Kennedy win 90 to 10.
There, that's better.
he is against obamacare, spending and amnesty. Given this is MA, with zero gop congressmen, I'm ok with him.
This is Massachusetts. Here is a complete list of totally-conservatives:
Brown is significant because he caucuses with the Republicans. This could put Republican chairmen in all the committees, so that the Republicans determine what legislation comes to the floor.
This is far more valuable than any vote on legislation. Anything that doesn't get to the floor won't pass, even if Brown would have joined the Democrats on it.
Scott Brown, like Barack Obama is a perfect example of style over substance.
The only difference is that Obama is dangerous because he is truly evil while Scott Brown is dangerous because he is a spineless idiot.
Absolutely... besides conservatives can't even agree on who is a "totally-conservative". Pfffttttt...
I wonder if Ted will have a nice Christmas with Lucifer.
He has a big war chest though. He may not need the help money-wise. In MA he is counting on independents for support. They helped elect him. However I will admit tea party support helped him get in there, and if that's gone, he might lose.
Who are the tea partiers going to support in the final if it's Brown against one of these candidates? I don't visualize
any "Tea Partiers For Barney Frank" or "Tea Partiers For
Vicky Kennedy" websites going up...
Which "Tea Party" are you talking about?
Brown sounded pretty smart on Howie's show last night, talking about the START treaty etc. He said he reads and studies the bills, etc. He is a Massachusetts Republican which may mean RINO, but note the list Kathyf mentioned.
It's better than nothing.
I don't know if Frank would run—he's getting old, but that hasn't stopped some candidates. Could he win? Yes, this is Massachusetts!
"So if the election were Brown against Frank, whom would you support?"
"I'd just stay home."
"Then get ready to watch Senator Frank's swearing in on TV."
Do you know what Howie and his listener's reaction was to Brown's DADT and START votes?
Sell it somewhere else. This creep has done tremendous harm to our national defense and military while handing Obama unnecessary victories in the lame duck session. All that is unforgivable.
Brown has proven he can't be trusted not to buckle on anything and will cast votes for political expediency. Expect that trend to continue the closer he gets to reelection.
That is the loser's mentality that prevents any real progress from occurring in the nation.
As long as RINOs hold seats there is no chance of a conservative winning the seat. And, Chris Christie in New Jersey has proven it is possible for conservatives to win seats in liberal states.
There are more than enough vulnerable Democrats in red states and states trending Republican that will be defeated to give Republicans control of the senate.
All the presence of RINOs do is force the Republican leadership to cave and pander to them.
Whom would you prefer?
Rich Tisei
Charlie Baker
Bill Hudak
Jeff Perry
Mary Connaughton
Jon Golnik
Those are some GOP candidates on the state level who might possibly run for Brown's seat. (They have one thing in common, though; they all lost last month.) Anyone else?
A Red Mass Group post about Who is MA Conservative/Republican of the year. Many votes for Brown, also Jeff Perry. One
post: "Are we talking ALL Republicans? Or just those that pass the purity test? Cause that will shrink the pool of eligible contenders, much the way it will continue to shrink the party registration. At this rate you can forget the big tent and use a pup tent."
CFBlake writes: "If I was (sic: "were") head of the State GOP I bet party membership would be up alot (sic). When Republicans act like liberals then the numbers go down. When Republicans CONSERVITIVES (sic)(Fiscal and Moral) are running the show membership will go up."
Yes, we need more "conservititives" in this state...
This is a conservative boob bait game. Here's how it works.
Liberal Stuff that is going to pass no matter what.( about 75%) Vote against, no Washington pol will hold it against you, and you get 75% brownie points from conservative idiots right off the bat.
Vote for conservative stuff that is going to pass, and doesn't need your vote one way or another. Get 5%. Now up to Olympia Brown's vaunted 80%.
Vote lefty on the 20 percent of lefty stuff that could go either way, and then go back home and tell the bumpkins you're a Conservative( See Specter, Bennett, Graham, McPain, Romney....et al.)
Maybe conservatives could run their own candidate as a third party. It would divert enough votes away from Brown that the Dem would get in (assuming it were a close election). Won't it be nice to have both Senators be Democrat again? It could be Vicky, carrying on her husband's legacy. Capuano...
Frank...Pozen...maybe Marty Meehan, yeah get Marty to run.
Or Deval. Foolish to think we could get anyone who isn't liberal in the Senate, just get a Dem back in...
Though a Red Mass Group post about Brown and 2012 may give him hope; it starts by saying that Dems have to play serious defense in Senate Races (I think they have 23 up for grabs,
GOP only 10) and:
>>Over the next few weeks I'll try to point out some other factors Scott Brown has on his side, but this is a major one that most haven't picked up on yet. There is no Democrat who could run against Brown, who would be able to count on national money. It is simply not coming. Not only does it take off the table a possible asset of a would be opponent, it may also thwart a top tier candidate from even considering it. Brown already has a massive war chest and whoever the next opponent will be, they will have a lot of climbing to do. Everyone in the Massachusetts House delegation may think themselves a future Senator and they may also have fund-raised well in the past, but they're about to find out that fund-raising in the minority party and as "Ranking Member" is a lot more difficult than when in the leading party and as "Chairman". Naturally it goes without saying, that their Democratic colleagues in the Senate also won't be so eager to help them when half will have their own hides to save.
>>With this in mind and a dozen other similar factors (that none of the pundits and "experts" are realising), Brown is in a good position for re-election. When the would be top-tier challengers run this math, they may decide to bow out, leaving Brown facing an underwhelming self-funder(and aren't they all) in 2012. I couldn't be happier that the Democrats are so overconfident already, and clearly Scott Brown remembers a time when they were before.
Conservatives should quit wasting money on Republican candidates in Massachusetts. The state is a lost cause. Better to divert our money to candidates in close races in 'purple' states where your money could actually make a difference over the long term.
Brown is about 50/50 which is as good as you are going to get out of Mass. Most anyone else would be 10/90 at best.
Yes, and I'm one of the better to have something rather than nothing folks. If someone more conservative in this state _can beat a Dem_, then great, nominate them. If you saw the election results of last month, you see what many voters can accomplish. "Yes We Can"—if you're a Dem. Having at least a partial conservative in this state is already a miracle.
Conservatives for red states, Conservatives for purple states, and whatever we can scratch out in blue states.
Makes no difference which Dem runs against him, Brown is finished. The seat will go back to the Dems, sure as the sunrise.
We elected Scott Brown hoping for a conservative, or at least a Republican.
Judging by his voting record, we got neither.
And in Massachusetts, it doesn't matter which Dem runs against him. Not at all.
"Money might not the big issue, because Scott Brown isn't going to see a stinking dime from Tea Party advocates this time around!"
Indeed. Personally, Brown has been about what I expected, and while I and many other good conservatives supported him the first time, I doubt he'll receive our support again because he has now conclusively demonstrated he's not actually all that conservative.
However, he's also probably demonstrated he's too conservative for Massachusetts, and by trying to appease everyone, he's simply managed to piss off everyone instead. Without the massive national conservative support he had in terms of money and help, I'll be surprised if Brown is re-elected.
I agree with that sentiment DNME. I would rather have a Dim wit and know what to expect than take it up the you know what by a spineless weasel RINO like Scott Brown.
This Lame Duck was it for me, that freaking food bill SB 510 sent me over the top.
I do not want to feed my family virus/bacteria engineered food grown by Monsanto seeds voted on by one Scott Brown.
George Soros is Monsanto's big investor. This bill is dangerous to the health of all Americans.
Scottie Boy can "read" and "deliberate" all he wants.
I pray to God for my children's sake that the New Congress de-funds this Frankenfood nightmare!!
If he read the whole bill he would "know" that the bill was written by Monsanto!
This is the takeover of the Food Industry.
As that POS Kissinger was wont to say.." He who controls the food...controls the people".. Not an exact quote but darn close.
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"The real 'war on women' is the one being waged against women of faith and conscience," said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. "While this ad uses humor to make a point, the truth is that our rights are at stake. The Obama administration, their allies in Congress and the abortion lobby must end the assault on Life, conscience and religious liberty now."
Thinking for yourself and adhering to your own beliefs and values — the very actions that will get you tossed out of the Approved Womenhood League. The petition mentioned at the end can be found here. At the very least, the video gives us a pretty good graphic to use for "war on women" posts in the future.
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Posted on 02/18/2008 7:37:11 AM PST by captjanaway
In an emergency room in Arkansas, the patient exhibits dark red boils, her skin numb. Another case of leprosy in America. Not far away, a tuberculosis-infected illegal immigrant coughs while on break at the local chicken processing plant spreading his infectious germs across the break room table. His children, also carrying the disease, which had been all but eradicated from the United States years ago, join hundreds of children at the local public school. Crossing the Mexican border, in a pickup truck filled with migrant workers coming to do the jobs Americans dont do in our fields and food processing plants, is the Islamic terrorist who purposefully infected himself with smallpox in order to spread the deadly disease to unsuspecting Americans nationwide.
Fact or fiction? Well over 12 million illegal aliens have invaded our country from our southern border, circumventing the strict health requirements that are enforced for those entering legally requirements that include ensuring the entrants are free from infectious diseases. Our own government continues its push to give them legitimacy, in some cases welcoming them with open arms under the guise of they are doing the work Americans just dont do. However, we dont know who they are or what horrific contagions they may have brought with them.
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Someone from India? the Middle East?
Well then thank goodness for John McCain, huh?
Don't forget the little tape worms they're bringing.
An interesting thing about tapeworms - when they lay eggs, those eggs get into the blood stream and some travel to your brain. Once there they grow like a brain tumor.
The surgery is very expensive but if you are an illegal, IT'S FREE!
Probably brought here by some white guy from Iowa. /s
... and do you still get stopped at the California 'border' and made to throw away your oranges?
I have read that part of the reason we have these outbreaks is because our invaders from the south do not practice the same health and hygeine habits we do.
Little worms - how simply GROSS....
Our hero nominee Juan McCain sure doesn't give a rat's ass if the US citizen's get leprosy or TB.
This will be the new plague on the US. Selfish, power hungry people are in charge.
All of us are going to pay as we watch our children and grandchildren die from diseases we had pretty much eradicated.
To think that there are people posting here on this forum who want to try to shame me into voting for a man without a conscience. You can't have a conscience if you can pretend there is something high minded and noble about turning your back on the health and safety of your own citizens.
I am for closed borders as much as anyone, but this is a non story designed to scare people.
The Marshall Islanders are good Christian people who's homeland was used by us to test many dozens of nuclear weapons. Leprosy isn't a threat to the general population and the Marshall Islanders aren't illegal.
Muchos gracias, El Presidente Jorge Bush.
Spoilsport. Boring facts versus prejudice.
I wonder if armadillo tastes like fried squirrel.
All the diseases that my children were inoculated against, and had been eradicated, are now back. Illegal immigration is directly responsible.
When I lived in Yemen I knew of a leper colony founded by the Sisters of Charity of Mother Teresa. It was called the City of Light situated near the town of Taiz.
Just like in biblical times, lepers are shunned by society and have to take care of themselves until they die. These nuns taught them to till the ground and became more or less self-sufficient.
I understand that leprosy is not the dreaded desease it once was - it is not curable but it can be made non-communicable. Yet, the problem in Arkansas is a serous one.
Ah, how wonderful multi-culturalism can be. Thank the feds with their nationally destructive immigration policy.
Leprosy is caused by bacteria. It is cured with antibiotics. The nerve and tissue damage cannot be reversed, but the disease is relatively easy to cure.
My husband recently came down with chicken pox. Everyone in the family has had the disease. Most kids now are immunized from chicken pox. He evidently caught it from someone in a public place. As an adult the disease can be terrible, but he went to the doctor immediately and was given Valtrex which is used for the STD herpes. This drug shortens the duration and the severity of the disease.
I for one welcome the resurgence of once eradicated diseases brought here by our new Hispanic Overlords.
Armadillo has a slightly fishy taste like rattle snake. Just to provide more anti-South, anti-Arkansas ammunition, until a prion disease similar to mad cow disease was traced to it's source, squirrel head stew was a favorite dish in Arkansas. By the way, I would chose squirrel over deer any day.
The Marshall Islands aren't "hispanic".
There was another story on this here a week or two ago. I tried to post an update, but the mods removed it, apparently thinking that it was a duplicate post.
Anyway, these leprosy cases are among a group of American Samoans who are in Arkansas to work in a Tyson chicken plant. The original story was that a group of doctors were questioning why lepers had been admitted to Arkansas and apparently were running around loose.
The Arkansas Health Dept then proceeded to lean on the local TV station that posted the story. They removed it and posted another story, saying that according the the state health department, leprosy isn't dangerous and can't be transmitted to other people, so chill out and forget it.
American Samoa has some sort of deal with the US that allows its people in whenever they like, I gather. Tyson is using that exception to bring in cheap labor.
So, nothing to do with Mexico. What's broken is Tyson, who started out as a drug-smuggling mobster, and the Arkansas Health Department, which is probably still run by the kind of guys who approved of bill clinton's prison blood scheme, which transmitted AIDS to a number of innocent people around the world, notably in Canada. Clinton made money, and Canadian Leukemia patients got AIDS. Since he was clinton, the story was buried by the MSM and the Canadian Liberal government.
Carrying the diseases Americans won't carry....
And, by the way, not much changed between when clinton was running Arkansas and Huckabee was running Arkansas. Same Tyson, same cheap alien labor, and same corrupted Health Department.
"Anyway, these leprosy cases are among a group of American Samoans who are in Arkansas to work in a Tyson chicken plant."
That is very heartening to know considering that raw Tyson chicken meat is shipped all over the US and displayed near other meats in the supermarket. Here is a chance for many lawyers to get rich.
AIDS, chagas disease, leprosy ... as if our health care system is supposed to handle this AND all the senior citizens about to retire.
You can't do both.
Close the damn borders once and for all.
The article says that the Arkansas health department has identified a group of Marshall Islanders working in Springdale as the primary source of the leprosy. Are American Samoans also implicated in the leprosy?
Not sure. I can't find the earlier article, but I thought it said American Samoa.
It also mentioned the figure of about 3000 workers at the chicken plant. And some TB as well as leprosy.
From yesterdays measles outbreak thread:
"The first suspicion might be the outbreak is among immigrants and poorer people. It is not. The outbreak is taking place among the well to do. A child on a flight from Switzerland, another child on a flight to Hawaii, other children shopping at Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods."
To me, buying Tyson chicken is as smart as buying chicken processed in China.
another gift from arkansas.
Also another reason to have food plant supervision at the higher government levels run by medical public health professionals familiar with food processing and animals(veterinarians). The Clinton administration put lawyers in charge of much of the public health with a few physicians that specialized in public health and is why many of the requirements for food processing employees were dropped. The Food Inspection service is still reeling from the Clinton Administration actions. No longer do food plant and restaurant workers have the requirement to be screened for TB, infectious diseases and have health exams yearly prior to working in these plants.
"OUTBREAK: Leprosy in Arkansas Brought Here by Whom?"
Not to worry.
At least the illegals/leprosy cases shouldn't be clogging up our
emergency rooms as much.
Seeing how they are now stealing Americans' medical records in order
to get credentials to visit doctors without prior consultation.
(in other words, stealing Americans' idenitities in order to get
Platinum-Class medical coverage).
This reported in USA Today, Friday 15, 2008 in the "Technology"
section on page 4B.
I'm surprised it's not a syphilis outbreak.
"Yet, the problem in Arkansas is a serous one."
Not all that series.
This problem might be an ecomonic-revitalization-shot-in-the-arm for
one Democrat's stompin' grounds! Time to reopen the facilities.
(and yes, I'm being facetious)
I still can't find the story here on FR, but I did manage to find a blog that gives the original story and the curious way that Arkansas authorities managed to suppress it.
It does say Marshallese, so I may have been mistaken about any connection to American Samoa.
Don't be so impatient.
"I for one welcome the resurgence of once eradicated diseases brought here by our new Hispanic Overlords."
Shouldn't you be posting that at Fark? ;)
Hepatitis too... plenty of Canucks got infected via bad blood from Arkansas prison donors... Sold by slick willie and co. to the Libs
We spent years here in FR trying to get that story out to the public, but the press and the Canadian government just caved to the clintons, as always.
"Springdale has become an escape valve for the Marshallese. The small industrial city is host to the largest population of Marshall Islanders outside of the home islands."
"Many islanders call Springdale the land of opportunity, probably unaware that Arkansas license plates once carried that slogan."
Marshallese immigrants benefit from extraordinarily close ties to the United States that were codified when the countries signed the Compact of Free Association in 1986, when the islands gained their independence. Marshallese are allowed to live and work in the United States indefinitely without visas. As a result, few of those who immigrate seek U.S. citizenship."
But it's amazing they all come to Arkansas.
Hmmm, it was on the news all the time back home in BC Canada
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Originally from Bournemouth, Dave Wallace, Kieron Bailey and Brent Newitt have been an integral part of the UK's underground bass scene for fifteen years. As a trio, they've released under the aliases Aquasky, Masterblaster and more recently Black Noise, under which they've had releases on Southern Fried and have since been signed by Lee Mortimer's Wearhouse Music label. Their Black Noise project strays away from the DnB and Breaks that Aquasky's known for, and heads in more of an Electro-House direction. We caught up with Brent to talk Black Noise, Aquasky, and the direction of the UK Bass genres. Here's how it played out:
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